Chapter 237
After the new game launch conference, many media have successively exposed the latest news about the game "Minecraft".
"The latest news of Chen Moxin game, called "Minecraft"
"Chen Mo's first VR game is fully exposed"
"Minecraft: Pixel-Wind Building Blocks"
"Minecraft and Thousand Prison Generals are online at the same time"
"Chen Mo praised Qianzhu at the new game press conference"
These press releases basically disclosed some details of the press conference in all aspects, including the gameplay, characteristics of "Minecraft" explained by Chen Mo, as well as some live videos.
Soon, this news spread among the player group. Those players who were looking forward to Chen Moxin's game responded inconsistently, but were somewhat surprised.
The first VR game Chen Mo made was actually built with building blocks?
Players can basically understand the core fun of the game "Minecraft" as long as they study these press releases carefully.
Essentially, this is a game with "creation" as the core element. Like "Famine", it takes the open world as its main selling point and supports a relatively complex networking model.
But even the players of "Famine" are skeptical about the game.
"Famine" is very popular because it is a small-produced game that can be played on both PC and mobile phones, and it is priced at only 20 yuan, which is very cheap.
However, "Minecraft" is a VR game. Generally speaking, VR games on the market are very expensive. For example, "Earth OL" is priced at US$399, while these domestic VR game masterpieces are basically hovering between 1,000 and 2,000 yuan.
For example, some domestic MMORPG games are relatively low on VR platforms, some are sold for 500 yuan, but they basically have subsequent charges, such as selling game point cards, value-added services, etc. Otherwise, it will be difficult to recover the cost based on the price of the game itself.
Although VR games are all high-income groups, let them spend 1,000 yuan to buy a game of building blocks?
It’s not that bad to have money, right?
Players are discussing it on the forum.
"What did Chen Mo think? During the critical period of entering the VR platform, he actually made a puzzle game with building blocks? To be honest, I have never seen a puzzle game on the VR platform make a lot of money."
"According to Chen Mo's statement, this game cannot be simply regarded as a puzzle game. It is also a sandbox game, similar to "Famine"."
"But the core fun is creation! Besides, VR games are so expensive, how many copies can "Minecraft" be sold? Can it recover the cost?"
"I think it's definitely okay to recover the cost. This game is pixel style. Many of them are built by themselves. All the materials can be reused. How much research and development funds can be spent?"
"If it is a mobile or PC, it will definitely not cost much, but if you change VR, it will definitely be a little investment. Moreover, if you look at the real scene of the game on the video, the stickers are very delicate. I guess Chen Mo has spent a lot of money in art, otherwise it would be impossible to make the pixel style so beautiful."
"I think it may be a few million, no more than 20 million at most. Hey, for Chen Mo, it's a drizzle."
"Just counting at 20 million, this is already very low for the R&D cost of VR games. Chen Mo can completely adopt the method of small profits but quick turnover. At that time, a game will be sold for 200 yuan, which is not a pleasure? Who would care about the 200 yuan for those players who can afford the VR game cabin?"
"Hey, that's not the case. Will Chen Mo be worried about not being able to make money? So what if he throws these 20 million away in vain? He won't care much. The problem is that this is his first VR game. If it is broken, it will be embarrassing!"
"And it was launched at the same time as Yan Zhenyuan's "Thousand Prisons". If sales and revenue were crushed to pieces, how ugly would it be?"
"Hey, even if you are crushed by that time, you can say that you are doing puzzle games, and there is no comparison."
"Look, I'm a poor person anyway, and I can't afford the VR game cabin. If the game is done well, I'll go to the VR Internet Cafe to support it..."
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Soon, "Thousand Prisons" and "Minecraft" began to frequently expose various detailed information. Although these two games did not mention each other's names in promotion, the people who were obsessed with the two games could see that both games were secretly treating each other as their competitors.
Especially in "Thousand Prisons", various original paintings of characters, original scenes, skill effects, story background, and real scenes of the game are exposed. The picture is extremely accurate and the game is full of fun, which makes players feel excited.
On the forum, players' expectations for "Thousand Prisons" continued to rise, and even the activation code for the internal test was hyped up to two or three thousand, which was higher than the price when it was officially released.
On Chen Mo's side, it's a bit tepid.
On the official website of "Minecraft", some basic information was disclosed very early, but they did not deliberately make some very large-scale promotional materials. The only thing they could do was the CG video at the press conference.
Players' reaction to this CG video is also mediocre, because CG is the easiest thing to fake. There are so many games that CG is so exciting, and the real scenes of the game are not that true.
What's more, compared with the CGs of "Warcraft" and "Diablo", the CG of "Minecraft" is like a graffiti of kindergarten kids, and it's really not attractive.
The players were also very confused.
Chen Mo has many ways to promote games. When promoting "My Name is MT", he makes his own animation, when promoting "Warcraft", he releases Alsace line-up, when promoting "The Legend of the Martial Arts", when promoting "The Legend of the Martial Arts", when promoting "The Legend of the Martial Arts", when promoting "The Sword and Sword" and when promoting "Onmyoji", he releases "The Pure Land of Bliss"...
Why did you get to "Minecraft" and nothing is left?
Just promote it perfunctorily. How many people will pay attention to this game by the day of release?
Amid everyone's doubts, Chen Mo finally took action.
At noon that day, Chen Mo suddenly posted a new Weibo post: "Minecraft: Forbidden City. Note: All the pictures in this video are real scenes of the game."
The people who were eating melons were all confused, what the hell?
Forbidden City?
Could it be that Chen Mo used building blocks to pile up the Forbidden City in "Minecraft"?
Players clicked on the video one after another.
Although there were many games before, some real-life scenes were created in the game, they were all made by professionals, and many of them only have a layer of skin on the outside, which looks good, but in fact they are not useful.
Chapter completed!