Game Making: Start By Healing the Player

The promotion of "World of Warcraft" continues.

All kinds of information are released little by little.

Including the official website, there are also more and more sub-categories under "World of Warcraft".

Although Nebula Games has not publicly acknowledged anything.

But players have a feeling.

That is the day when "World of Warcraft" is officially launched, and it is not far from them.

Nebula game.

Today, Chen Xu, Qin Yi and others are also finishing some details of "World of Warcraft".

As a large-scale MMORPG, it is impossible to test everything.

There are bound to be some omissions, that's for sure.

However, Chen Xu is not worried about this, because the operation of the entire early game is three shifts.

There will be people watching 24 hours a day, and some simple bugs will be accumulated and repaired through online hot patches.

As long as some problems with a relatively large impact, the downtime update is required.

In addition, after the birth of the relevant race, the upgrade planning route brought by the system diving guide.

These are crucial for MMORPGs.

As for the dungeon and the balance of various professions, Chen Xu does not have a perfect balance, he can only adjust it as much as possible.

And balancing this thing is not only a designer's problem, but also a player's problem.

For example, a profession is designed, including his gameplay and routines, which are 55 open to other professions.

But players are obviously not clear, and it takes a long time to develop.

But this development cycle is obviously not the designer's final decision, and it is impossible for every update, the designer to teach the player how to play, although the previous life Blizzard often did this kind of thing.

So sometimes some characters seem to be too strong, but the players at the time didn't understand it, but they had to strengthen each value, or they would just become a sewer, and players would complain that they were not strong enough.

This is caused by the gradual accumulation of players' understanding of the game.

Therefore, it is only possible to balance the values ​​of the game a little bit according to the actual progress of the players, and as long as the game is still in operation, the so-called perfect balance is impossible.

"Mr. Chen, when players can play these contents, it is estimated that there will be a lot of time!" In the project testing room, Qin Yi chatted with Chen Xu.

Countless online players are excitedly waiting for the launch date of "World of Warcraft" released by Nebula Games.

In the major community forums, these players have fantasized about leading the Alliance and the Horde to overturn the dream of Frostmourne from the Lich King.

It's just that Qin Yi, who is a development member, is very clear that he is currently promoting CG.

Although the animated CG of the awakening of the Lich King Arthas was released, the story of the Lich King is after N multiple versions.

"World of Warcraft is a long-term project that we will run in the future. As the big boss in the Frozen Throne, the Lich King, of course, can't be seen by players so early." Chen Xu said with a smile.

"But Mr. Chen, the classic characters like Arthas and Illidan have all become dungeon bosses. Can this player accept it psychologically?" Qin Yi asked Chen Xu.

Such concerns are not unreasonable, because these are the protagonists that the players once thought.

Although "Warcraft" has never had a fixed protagonist, and these characters have done a lot of bad things, it does not prevent players from substituting themselves.

"So these characters are all their own version of the big BOSS, and the drops are all good things."

"Dandao, Wudi, even if players like these characters, they will brush him thousands of times with tears in their eyes." Chen Xu smiled slightly.

Favorite characters enter this book, is this a problem?

Egg Knife and Invincible, isn't it fragrant?

………………

Nebula world.

Song Ren, Zhang Yi, Wang Han, Wang Yifan and Qiao Yi were hanging out in Stormwind City

During this period of time, they were simply looking through the autumn waters, and they had to check Chen Xu's official blog almost every once in a while to see if there was any new content.

"Mr. Chen, this old bakery master!" Song Ren couldn't help but sigh.

"It's not the first day, but it's been a while!" Zhang Yi nodded in agreement.

"I don't know when it will be officially launched!" Wang Han was also full of resentment. .

‘It should be soon, the official website of “World of Warcraft” has not been updated in recent days. ’

‘Indeed, so I feel like it should be online soon. ’

Wang Yifan and Qiao Yi next to them also spoke.

Not just them, including many players.

From the excitement at the beginning, and then to the resentment that only saw the CG output, but did not see the game content.

Under the official blog of Nebula Games, there are countless players full of resentment.

Just the "World of Warcraft" promotional video released by Nebula Games, players don't know how many times they have watched it.

"By the way, the game seems to be able to choose the Horde and the Alliance, both of which are hostile camps. Which one shall we choose?" Song Ren asked.

Although the game has not been released, some related information has actually been announced on the official website of Nebula Games.

For example, the choice of camps.

"It must be the Alliance! Kill the orcs!" Zhang Yi said decisively.

"I said so." Wang Han spread his hands, expressing that he was following the crowd.

"Whatever." Wang Yifan and Qiao Yi also said they didn't care.

"Then listen to Lao Zhang, let's start the alliance at that time." Seeing his companions, Song Ren also made a decision.

"Come on, hurry up and watch the official blog, Mr. Chen has finally laid his eggs, the opening time of "World of Warcraft" has been announced, and it can be pre-loaded in advance." At this time, Zhang Yi found something and said quickly.

"Let me see!"

"what's going on?"

Everyone heard that they quickly opened the built-in browser, and saw that the latest online time had been announced on the official website.

Two weeks later, at 12:00 noon on Saturday, the global server will be launched simultaneously.

Points are not required for the first ten hours of the game, and points will be calculated after ten hours.

At the same time, the time this time is not according to the region, but the same time zone.

Therefore, there is no area with a late time difference, and the actual combat super-temporal magic enters the game in advance.

"My God! It's so big! I have to uninstall several games from this hard drive." Zhang Yi looked at the capacity of "World of Warcraft" and could not help but let out a surprised sound.

Because the capacity is so large, it is larger than any previous Nebula games, even twice as large.

"Yes...Yes...too...too..." Along with Zhang Yi's words, Song Ren next to him nodded.

But the voice of the speech was stuttering, including the head lowered and then raised back suddenly.

In Zhang Yi and Wang Han's dazed gazes.

In the game, Song Ren froze in place and repeated the nodding action of ghosts and animals.

Then after two or three seconds, his body turned into an afterimage and disappeared, and at the same time, there was a notification from Nebula World that he had been disconnected.

"Fuck! Lao Song's B is already being downloaded!" Zhang Yi immediately understood when he saw the notification that Song Ren was disconnected.

This is the network speed used to run game resource downloads, and then dropped the card for myself!