Restart the Gaming Era

Game company employees are also people, and they also need to rest.

This is especially true for companies that have been operating stably.

During the development stage, game company employees often have to work overtime often. Some companies engage in 996 or 9117, which is to catch up with project progress. Once the project is stable and profitable, even the people in the project team have nothing to do even if they work overtime.

Even if there is a new version of development, you don't have to be so anxious as before, you can do it slowly; if there is no development plan for the new version for the time being, it will be more leisurely.

As a game that has already achieved great success, the new version of "Summoner of Souls" has just been tested and launched on schedule. The whole company is in a short rest period after overtime. Everyone goes home for the weekend.

It stands to reason that at least a few people in the entire company need to pay attention to the situation of the game at all times, or enter the game to play it heavily and collect player feedback at any time.

After all, Hongguang Games is a "upstart company". At first it was just a small studio. After making "Summoner of the Spirit", it can be said that it is a step up. Although the company has more money and a larger body, it has a lot The process is not very standardized. This bug did not have employee feedback until work on Monday, and on Tuesday it began to stop service for repairs!

But on Saturday and Sunday, there are already players who have brushed a lot of high-level equipment and character-specific weapons through various means!

You know, the acquisition of high-level equipment is very difficult, the local tyrants need a long time, and the character exclusive weapons, local tyrants and gold may not be drawn.

So there was an incredible scene in the game. In the guild battles on Saturday and Sunday night, several trumpeters dressed in high-level equipment holding character-specific weapons, blocking the opposite local tyrant players directly at the resurrection point repeatedly. The scene was very chaotic!

On Saturday night, a lot of players have feedback to the official customer service, and the customer service is still a very official response: "The problem you reflected has been received and reflected to the staff, the development team is in the process of verifying and verifying Thank you for your support to Spirit Summoner! "

But in fact, the customer service team of "Summoner of Spirits" is outsourced. The outsourced team is basically just a megaphone, and basically has no right to speak to the research and development team, and even the customer service does not have the viciousness of this bug. A very accurate estimate, simply following the work flow, forwarding the email of related issues, naturally did not attract any attention from the research and development team.

On Saturday, many players have been stricken with fire. Many people brushed up immediately after they knew about this bug, and some people were smarter. They organized to build a trumpet and unified and quickly upgraded. In this way, even if there is a danger of being blocked in the future, they will all be trumpeted.

There are also some heavy players who even use their own large size to brush directly, because they ca n’t play the small size to make them feel angry. They choose this method of violence and violence, and they have no worries about their account being blocked because According to past experience, game companies dare not suspend these heavy gold accounts, after all, there is a cash cow behind these accounts.

In the end, the guild war on Sunday turned into a big bug battle, and a large number of trumpet staged a stunning matchup of fairy. Each of these trumpet has a combat power comparable to that of a regular tyrant player, wearing advanced equipment, and holding character-specific weapons , The entire game became smoggy, the forum scolded.

The afterglow of Hongguang Games is also a model for the industry. It was not until Tuesday that the emergency shutdown was repaired, but at this time, most of the players who brushed the bug had all the high-level equipment installed, killing a lot of ordinary Players.

Hongguang Games soon announced a return plan and announced a batch of title lists. The number of permanently closed accounts reached hundreds, while more than 400 accounts were temporarily frozen and continued to be verified. But this has not extinguished the anger of the players, because returning to the file means going back to Friday or even earlier, and the normal gains of many players in the three days of the game will also be missed and all return to the file.

Although the official promised that the return would compensate the gift package, it is clear that the strength of this gift package cannot be compared with the loss of the players.

What makes the players even more angry is that these hundreds of closed accounts are far from all the bugs, because from the players ’feelings in the guild battles, the number of bug accounts is obviously much more than this number. In addition, some players who reported bugs also claimed that they had not been officially banned and were still playing well.

Some local tyrants say that they are indeed "specially cared for", and the bugs are only backed up and warned, probably because they charge more.

Other local tyrants have stated that during this period of time, the high-level equipment that they normally recharge and copied from the liver copies have also been officially recovered. Instead, the equipment brushed by some bug players has not been recovered, and is still in various PVP activities Doing the last madness.

This bug caused a large-scale retreat of players. On Weibo, the official blog of Hongguang Games was arranged so plainly that it was scolded for thousands of floors and became a beautiful landscape.

As for other mobile game companies, it ’s natural that they are happy and pleasing. After all, as a popular game, "Summoner of the Spirit" has such a huge, low-level and incredible operation accident, which is a great thing for other game companies. , The lost players in "Summoner of the Spirit" will more or less enter other mobile games.

A local tyrant scolded on Weibo: "Are the current mobile gaming companies even missing their **** tricks ?!"

"Gambling with mobile games is normal operation. The problem is that you **** made me feel comfortable with gold, but I spent money on it? I spent money to hang people who did n’t spend money on bugs. Hit? Give feedback to your customer service and ignore it? The traditional industry still knows that the customer is God. What do you think of the customer as Hongguang Games? It ’s not a treat to give you money? I ’ll leave it here, in my life I wo n’t play this kind of spicy chicken and gold mobile game again! "

This vicious bug incident greatly annoyed the senior management of Hongguang Games. It is said that the relevant personnel were directly punished with a bonus of half a year. The operation director and a few related personnel even demoted and were criticized internally.

This incident is not alone, not just Rainbow Light Games, other mobile game companies, similar operating accidents also frequently occur.

In fact, in the final analysis, it is because the mobile game market has low thresholds and is a wild market!

A low threshold means that a few million can enter it, and success or failure is often not directly related to investment. There are a lot of hot mobile games, the monthly flow of water easily breaks through tens of millions, and the investment may be only a few million; there are also some mobile games, which have invested hundreds of millions of dollars, but it is very cold after the test.

This is not the same as console games. Console games are a high-input industry. A masterpiece is made by experienced developers and invested tens of millions. Under the premise of guaranteed quality, selling content alone is sufficient. Starting sales; but mobile games are limited by the function of the bracelet, mainly by gameplay to win, but the gameplay thing is really bad.

Therefore, the entire mobile game market is full of a mentality of staking money and quick success, even those projects that have been successful are difficult to escape.

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Here at Tianji Studio, the development of The Dawn Age is progressing steadily.

Zhong Ming is holding a test bracelet to experience the demo of the game.

At this time, the virtual bracelet worn on Zhong Ming's left hand projected a holographic projection above his left arm. This was a horizontal plane, not a vertical plane. On the horizontal plane, different look and feels are generated according to the changes in terrain. For example, the plane at this time simulates a platform on a stone mountain, the ground is rugged, and there are a few clumps of grass in the cracks in the stone.

There are two projection methods for this horizontal holographic projection. One is to follow Zhong Ming's arm, which is relatively fixed with Zhong Ming's left arm, but this method is not commonly used; the other is relative to the ground and the player's head. The position is fixed so that when the player raises his arm, the holographic projection will always be displayed at the optimal position slightly lower directly opposite the player.

Of course, both methods require the player to point the holographic projection lens on the ring to a specific orientation, and the holographic projection image presented is not large. In order to save performance, the holographic projection image in the standard mode It's probably about the length of the player's forearm, which is basically similar to the size of a normal tablet.

It's tiring to hold your hand all the time, but it's not as tired as you think. Many people in Zhong Ming's previous life held mobile phones to read novels and videos. They also kept their hands up, but they could also watch for hours.

Of course, there are also non-tiring methods, as long as you buy a special peripheral, a miniature Bluetooth projection device is worn on the ear and automatically projects in front of you.

However, the projection must not be used in some highly crowded places, and it must be ensured that there is no foreign matter in the projection area.

The normal display mode of the bracelet is to project a vertical projection surface, it feels like holding a very thin small LCD display on the hand, most of the apps on the bracelet are displayed in this way, and this This kind of holographic projection display method is a new thing that has just risen recently. Once it appeared, it was adopted by many bracelet game developers.

On the screen is Takeshita Takeshita, one of the rare characters in the game. She was wearing a combat suit decorated with blue and black flowers, and was decorated in a neon style on some decorations. She had a long, shining knife in her hand, full of technology.

Of course, the most striking thing is her figure, tall figure, long pony tail **** to the calf, a proud bust, and a **** waist-to-hip ratio, plus beautiful body and movement From the perspective of the movie, just watching the automatic operation of AI has made people very addicted.

There are more than twenty male and female characters like her in the game, and less than half of them are available for free by players. The difference is only the degree of luck and liver, while the other part requires a little bit to be faster. To obtain.

Of course, this is not so absolute. After all, ordinary players are allowed to earn wages by working in the game. Compared with a player with a light liver, there may be no difference between the two.

After that is the basic battle screen of the game. In the level, various intelligent weapons, robots or institutions of different shapes and different attack methods are constantly refreshed. Takeshita Ayako is walking through the monster pile like a butterfly. The long knife in his hand either chopped or exploded a wave of energy, and large enemies fell like mowing and burst.

Holographic image technology was first introduced into mobile games, and the impact on mobile games was subversive. Its revolutionary is roughly equivalent to 3D movies compared to 2D movies.

It can't be replaced completely, but there is definitely a significant leap in visual effects.

It is conceivable that most of this holographic imaging technology will gradually expand to the PC side and the host side when the technology matures in the future, but it is unlikely in the short term.

The reason is very simple, mobile game investment is small, the boat is easy to turn around, and the mobile game manufacturers have a more sensitive business sense, so they seized the opportunity earlier, while the traditional game manufacturers on the PC side and the host side are relatively backward.

Zhong Ming roughly experienced the operation in this mode.

Overall, it is not particularly comfortable, but it is not completely unacceptable after getting used to it.

The operation method of the bracelet is virtual keys, of course not all on the virtual projection: the bracelet will read the relative position of the player's left wrist (the position of the bracelet) and the left thumb, and determine the player's left thumb gesture What exactly do you want to do with the virtual joystick?

The right hand clicks the corresponding button directly on the holographic projection to trigger skills and other operations.

This feeling of "lighting the air" makes Zhong Ming feel very uncomfortable. The lower left part of the previous mobile phone is also called a "virtual joystick", but there is still a screen to touch, and the bracelet is not even a physical screen. , Is just rubbing air.

Although I am able to play smoothly after getting used to it, Zhong Ming always feels that this operation is not as good as letting the AI ​​to do it by himself. After all, the current AI programs are so developed. "Hosting" is no longer a derogatory term. In many cases, the performance of hosted AI is even Even better than some rookie players.

Fortunately, for a bracelet game, these aspects are not too important, the screen is dazzling.

Then ~ www.readwn.com ~ Zhong Ming took a look at the combat-derived systems in the game, including equipment, exclusive weapons, energy cores, and so on.

These systems are called "pits" in some industry parlances, that is, things that players can fill in, are often directly linked to combat power. This is the numerical impetus that drives players to work hard. "Dawn Age" is very different from previous games, that is, most of the combat-related materials can be "losslessly converted."

The so-called lossless conversion, for example, the player spends a lot of money to cultivate A character, but suddenly for various reasons, it may be because he suddenly does not want to play this character, or he is drawn to a better B character and wants to change the character. Play, then most of the things he consumes when developing A character can be transferred to B character losslessly.

A relatively simple example is the enhancement of equipment. Players can return the enhanced equipment to level 1 by returning to the furnace. The system will return 100% of the strengthening materials, unlike many games, only 80% or even 60%.

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