Chapter 229 227. Sniper Steam

Now there is a lot of stand-alone game, and the "Shan Hai Jing" will be developed. The remaining half will be completed first, which is the version of "Shan Hai Jing·Breath of the Candle" which will be launched at the end of the year.

It can be purchased on the game platform.

Then develop a subsequent sequel.

As for Bomi Company's online game content, the only one that is closest to being launched is the "Fantasy Westward Journey" game led by Ding Yingfeng.

I still feel a little bit unattached.

It is difficult to develop sequels for online games, and generally sequels mean stopping the original old version of the game.

For example, the Sword Net series of Xishanju, when Sword Net 3 appears, there will actually only be this Sword Net game on the market.

In online games, players play social and emotional things. If you stay in a game for a long time, you don’t want to leave. If you tell the sequel, for players, the sequel is another game, which is very unfamiliar.

This is why after Fantasy Westward Journey came out, it was still the same version until 21 years ago, but the subsequent iteration was based on the old version.

When Cao Yang went to the fantasy project team in his previous life, he found that the development tool used for the game was so primitive that there was no feeling of a new era at all. However, the old man told him that this is feelings, and if you change it, it will not taste like this.

Therefore, Jin Dance Troupe and Three Kingdoms Online have no idea of ​​2.

Compared with Three Kingdoms Online, Jindian Troupe can try to make the second generation to improve the picture quality.

Because Three Kingdoms Online is not only a strong social game, but also a strong numerical game. Unless you can transplant all the data of the original old players when you develop the second generation, players will definitely not buy it.

After transplanting, it would be better to iterate on the existing Three Kingdoms Online.

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Therefore, new online games have to be developed within the company.

Li Lanyun has two more capable plans. They have their own ideas. Li Lanyun thinks it's OK, so she lets them set up a project first.

This time Cao Yang happily agreed.

If the company wants to develop, it is impossible for the boss to establish every project. What if the boss is gone one day? Or is he hospitalized after being sick?

Adopting the studio system must reflect the advantages of the studio system. In more cases, the studio should initiate the project I want to do, rather than Boss Cao’s decision.

If Cao Yang had always been to establish the project, then the people below would not be able to be tempered.

What Cao Yang hopes is that employees can come up with their own ideas, Cao Yang sees the final results, and then make appropriate corrections in the general direction.

Only the game he particularly wants to make will be the boss’ project establishment.

Since there is a planner who wants to establish a project, Cao Yang is of course happy, at least it means that some employees within the company still have their own ideas.

Two plans of Guofeng Studio, one is called Wang Yuelong and the other is called Xu Qin.

Wang Yuelong wants to make a fairy tale mmorpg, which is similar to the sword net 2 of Xishanju, but change the packaging to make the game character image more fairy, and then enrich the profession.

The plot can also be done more.

Xu Qin wanted to make a game that was more similar to the Three Kingdoms Online, but she used the background of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period.

After reading the planning case, Cao Yang asked Li Lanyun directly, "What do you think?"

Li Lanyun replied, "I don't think there is much problem, it should be relatively stable."

Cao Yang felt the same way.

Although there are no major breakthroughs and are all reference prototypes, it is actually very stable to do the game like this.

This approach is also a model that many major manufacturers are good at later. They dare not try things that have not been verified by the market. If they have been verified by the market, they can be used as a reference and change some of the settings in it.

Actually, it’s right to think about it. Cao Yang thinks that you can’t expect people from this era to come up with too many things that transcend this era. This is how domestic online games have developed step by step.

If you can see the future, you will either be a genius or a time traveler.

If a genius is said to be a person, it may not be believed by anyone unless he starts his own company.

Since Li Lanyun had no doubts, Cao Yang also agreed happily.

After talking to Li Lanyun last time, Boss Cao felt that his soul had been hollowed out now and it would take some time to give his brain a holiday.

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However, Cao Yang was about to take a few days off and took his wife and children to Sanya to play in the water, but he received a big news.

Epic people called Cao Yang to notify him, "Steam game platform, Half Life 2 is going to be on the shelves."

Damn it!

This news is simply a bombshell.

Because Cao Yang had been waiting for this day for a long time.

Since the release of the Frozen Throne in August, the number of Aier game platform has been increasing until now.

Recently, Liu Zhiping has achieved a lot of achievements in the United States and has successfully convinced many game manufacturers to join the Aier game platform. It can be said that it is the rise period of AIR game platform.

Cao Yang has always been paying attention to Steam's updates, so he specially instructed Epic that once he heard the news that Half Life 2 was going to be put on the shelves, he would notify him as soon as possible.

I didn't expect that this day would come so quickly.

In my previous life, Steam relied on Half Life 2 to make a comeback. Before Half Life 2 logged into Steam, this platform was almost in a state of dying. The platform itself has many bugs, slow internet speed, and often has problems. There are no masterpieces worth buying by players.

It was not until the appearance of Half Life 2 that the life of V Society was completely changed.

Because this work is strongly bound to the steam platform, whether it is installed through CD or downloaded by Steam, the game must be played through Steam, which has attracted a large number of players.

"Half-Life 2" is a shooting game that tells the story of the interstellar joint army of the multidimensional space empire, which caused the high-tech alien evil colonial force, to invade the earth, and all mankind was forced to surrender under the rule of the interstellar joint army.

The player once again plays the protagonist Gordon Freeman in Half-Life 1, and will lead humans to overthrow the tyranny of the United Army.

The game uses the new Source engine for the first time, and the scene is relatively realistic. At this time of 2004, it is definitely a first-class picture quality and has a great shooting sense. Coupled with the success of the previous work, it has accumulated a lot of popularity.

So once the news that Half Life 2 was about to log in to steam was released, it immediately attracted a lot of attention from players.

The steam platform in his previous life was relying on the exclusive half-life 2 to barge the first wave of loyal users, laying a solid foundation for future growth.

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Fortunately, Cao Yang also held a trump card in his hand—

The "Shan Hai Jing" has not been published for a long time, and it is used to deal with Steam's "Half-Life 2".

The game "Shan Hai Jing" has been fermented for 10 months, and the English version of the promotional video is constantly released in the Ome region, which has fully aroused the appetite and interest of Ome players.

In addition, there are many players on the Internet, especially island players, who praise this game, and some American players have bitten the bullet and play the Chinese version of "Shan Hai Jing". After playing it, they also have a very high evaluation of this game.

Therefore, the English version of "Shan Hai Jing" has been waiting for a long time in the Ome region.

Now it's just right, while Steam is going to have half-Life 2, you can snipe it.

So Bomi also sent the advertisements simultaneously-

The English version of Bomi's world-class game "Shan Hai Jing" has been completed and will be launched on the AIR game platform soon.

It is exclusive to the AIR game platform.

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This time, Cao Yang adopted the same strategy. He released game CDs offline and could be downloaded online directly. The game CDs were bound to the game platform and needed to use the game platform to start the game.

The English version of Bomi's "Shan Hai Jing" is about to be launched in Omi. This news came out and directly triggered a tsunami.

"Wow, I have been following this game for a long time. I feel like I have spent a long life. Do you know? This game is amazing. After watching the promotional video released last year, I just wanted to buy it. But I don't understand Chinese or Japanese, so I just waited for the day of Englishization. I didn't expect this day to come."

"Really, I agree, this game is really great. As long as you watch others play this game, you will have an impulse: I must get it, I must get it.

The game's graphics are great, one of the best in the world, and it's really great to fight against mysterious monsters in the East.

I was attracted by that mysterious oriental island. The entire island's ecological chain is quite real, giving you the illusion of being in it and feeling that this island really exists.

Anyway, my friends in the island country highly recommend playing this game.

I just hope it can be a little cheaper.”

Unfortunately, this player didn't understand Boss Cao's thoughts at all. This wave cannot be cheap. If it is cheap, Omi players will look down on it.

You should know that the price of a game is not based on the development cost of the game, nor does it mean that the more time, money and manpower you spend, the more expensive it will be.

It has nothing to do with this half of the cent. The only thing that determines the price of the game is the player's psychological expectations. The higher their psychological expectations, the more valuable the game will be.

There are no 3A works that are less than $60, and there are many 3A masterpieces that can be sold for $100.

In this wave, Cao Yang priced at US$79, which is considered a high-end positioning.

Mainly, since its release, Shanhaijing has been building momentum in the United States and around the world, fully mobilizing players' expectations, so if the sales are low, it will not meet other people's expectations and may also bring negative effects.

Just like a store selling clothes, people say a pair of Kuchi's pants, which sells you for 20 yuan, you will say it is a fake, but others say that this pair of pants is sold for 4,800 yuan, you will think it's really worth it.

This is the psychological price given to you by the brand. Below this psychological price is counterproductive.

Therefore, the price of Bomi's Shanhai Jing this time is not randomly determined, but the result of research by colleagues in the US market.

$79 is in line with the identity of the Shanhai Jing masterpiece, but it is not that expensive, and it is still a little cheaper than the $100 masterpiece.

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November is simply a season of fighting gods.
To be continued...