The Rebirth of the Male God Starts From Playing Games

Chapter 356: 353. The new competitive era? !

Chapter 356 353. The new competitive era? !

"Congratulations, this time the Bomi World E-sports Competition is quite successful." Early the next morning, Cao Yang called the war3 project leader Meng Xiao into the office.

And sent them sincere congratulations.

In the boss’s office, there are Cao Yang and Li Lanyun sitting.

There are also major planners Lao Yang and Ma Tianyuan.

"Yesterday's game was really exciting," Cao Yang said with a sigh, "I haven't seen such a good-looking war3 game for a long time. It's really exciting. I still feel unsatisfied when I think about it now.

We will have to hold more competitions like this in the future. "

Cao Yang is telling the truth. He hasn’t watched war 3 professional games for a long time. In his previous life, probably after the rise of LOL in 11 years, Cao Yang didn’t pay much attention to war 3 games.

Now plus the 7 years after rebirth, it has been more than ten years.

It's so emotional.

Meng Xiao smiled shyly after receiving compliments from the boss.

"It's all the boss's creativity," Meng Xiao said with a smile, "And if the boss didn't give us this opportunity, let's try it. We simply cannot make Pandaren out of it."

"Yeah, it's really too difficult, I think it makes my head bigger." Ma Tianyuan shook his head and said.

Lao Yang's mouth was pursed with a smile, and his face was also bitter.

During this period of time, they have really worked very hard. They want to recreate a new race based on the 4 races originally designed by Blizzard. They have to be different from the previous ones, and at the same time have characteristics and balance. It is very difficult.

It took a lot of time to repeatedly test and adjust in the middle.

If there is no encouragement and support from Cao Yang, Meng Xiao feels that he would definitely not be able to do it.

……

After two years of debugging, "Warcraft 3: Mystery of Pandaren" was officially released in December last year. Once it was released, it achieved unprecedented success.

And there is no decline in reputation due to poor balance or poor creation.

On the contrary, Warcraft players in different parts of the world gave the expansion piece of this game a high evaluation.

believes that Bomi is now able to successfully inherit Blizzard’s will, and that Warcraft is really a lucky thing in Bomi’s hands.

From the very beginning of Bomi’s release of "Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne", they have shown the power of Bomi to the world——

A company like can not only do general games and 3A-level stand-alone game products, but also achieve complex real-time strategy games like war3, and balance e-sports games.

This is very rare.

After the release of Pandaren Mystery in December last year, Bomi showed the world their understanding of the war3 game, and also demonstrated Bomi’s strong creative ability.

Up to now, the World of Warcraft series developed by Bomi has been widely recognized in the world, so Cao Yang is not worried about the future of this project team at all.

In the war3 finals last night, Sky used the Pandaren to play the same match with Moon, and finally won with a slight advantage. This suffices to show that in the game design, whether it is Pandaren’s heroes, races, arms... And the related balance design has reached a very high level.

Cao Yang hopes that they can keep it up and create more and better competitive games for players.

……

From this incident, Cao Yang also realized a little--

The game should be updated.

Otherwise, it will go downhill.

DOTA map update frequency was very high in the previous life. ICEFrog basically maintained a weekly version of the map update before the dota map was fully mature.

At the same time, it will fix various bugs in the game, creating a good game environment for players.

Furthermore, dota’s hero creation is also very frequent, almost in a short period of time, according to the frequency of one hero a month, or even a new hero a week.

Every time a new hero is born and appears, players can have a sense of anticipation and freshness, and it can also bring great enrichment and changes to the game.

"So we still have to keep the continuous update of war3 in the future," Cao Yang said, "this is conducive to the continuous development of war3."

After entering the Frozen Throne in previous life war3, basically no new content has been updated. Some are just adjustments to balance and numerical adjustments, which have little effect on the overall.

Over time, with the rise of Dota, the number of players playing war3 is also decreasing.

On the one hand, it is because of the charm of Dota itself, and on the other hand, because there is nothing new in the war3 map, it is better to watch the players' games directly.

It’s just these old people who slapped around, and they rarely see new faces.

By 2019, you can still see moon and infi vying for the championship on wcg, and these people are old people for more than ten years.

For a game, without the injection of fresh blood, it will actually enter a decline, just like death.

And those who sit in front of the screen and watch the war3 game are basically middle-aged people in their 30s. Because they are getting older, they have no good hands and feet, so they can only watch the people who have admired themselves fighting in the game. By the way, pay a memorial to my lost youth.

It sounds a little sad, but it is true.

Later, Blizzard released a reset version, but there was no sincerity at all, and even the screen and the shape of the character itself did not change much. War3 is really a ghost if it does not decline.

Fortunately, now Warcraft 3 is at its peak, as it is in the midst of the sky, it is estimated that there will be more fire for a few more years.

And DOTA is just now emerging, and it has not yet threatened the status of Warcraft 3.

Now that Cao Yang continues to develop it, it should last longer.

……

"Okay," Meng Xiao nodded. He very much agreed with Boss Cao's words, "We will definitely continue to update, so let's improve the Pandaren version first.

It hasn't been a few months since Panda Talent was released. This is also the first professional level competition in the Pandaren version. Many problems have been exposed during the competition. "

Meng Xiao said, "The variance of the Pandaren is a bit too big, that is, the advantages and disadvantages are obvious. Either a big victory or a big defeat, and we are still considering how to adjust so that the Pandaren itself can have a slightly weaker purification ability. ."

"Well, you can." Cao Yang said, "You will keep the Pandaren adjustments in the future to make this version more complete, and then my idea is to take a relatively long period of time, such as one year or two years, when the players After digesting the content of the current version, we can add some new neutral heroes or add some new props in the store when we enter the end of the game's bonus period.

It is best to bring freshness and tactical changes to professional players. "

Of course, the update cannot be blindly updated. You have to see what needs to be updated and when to update according to the development law of the game itself.

Sometimes it’s not a good thing to update too quickly, like this time Bomi just released the version of "Warcraft 3: Pandaren Mystery", players need to be familiar with it for a while.

When everyone is getting bored with this version, it will be possible to withdraw from the larger version later, otherwise the player has not had time to absorb and understand, your next version will come, which will cause the player to not have a good acceptance and The digestion process will also make the game look cloudy.

Players don’t know how to evaluate the game and the performance of the players.

For example, after the release of "War3: The Frozen Throne", it will take a lot of time for everyone to be familiar with this game version, and then it will be fully used as a professional game version for a while. Players of various races are studying new games. Version and updated routines and styles in actual combat, which will take a while.

Until it is fully mature, after players and professional players have reached a relatively high level of gameplay, this version can probably remain unadjusted for a long time, and used to hold two to three years of competition. This is the only one. A more reasonable and mature real-time strategy game cycle.

Now the Frozen Throne has been in service for more than 3 years. Except for the World E-sports tournament held by Bomi, the map of the Frozen Throne is used in other types of war3 competitions. It is expected that these events will be held by this time next year. The organizer will adopt the new version of Pandaren's Mystery as the main version of the game.

After the new version is produced, it is not only the routines and strategies that will bring new changes, but also many map makers will make new maps around the new version, so that new maps in the future will be produced after the Pandaren race is added. More updated changes, while also ensuring balance.

So after a pandaman mystery comes out, the next 2 to 3 years may be a period of enrichment and perfection.

So what Cao Yang thought was--

After this version comes out, it will take at least 2 to 3 years of service, or even longer, before there will be major version changes.

For a long period of time in the future, there will be minor updates and modifications, but it is certainly impossible not to update at all. At least every other year or a half, you can add a new hero or something in the neutral tavern, and at the same time, it can bring careers. Changes in players' tactics.

"This is ok." Meng Xiao said with a smile, "I think the two new neutral heroes we developed this time are really very wise. The use of frequency, because the two heroes are very different in themselves, and at the same time have their own characteristics, which can bring a lot of tactical changes, so I interviewed Moon and Sky yesterday after the game.

They said that the neutral hero this time was really a surprise, giving people a bright feeling, and surrounding the new hero brought many different changes from the past.

Sky said directly that he didn’t know how to fight when he returned to the version without Pandaren in the future. "

After Meng Xiao said these words, everyone laughed.

It’s cute to think about it. Sky finally won the championship this time, but after leaving the BEWC held by Bomi, the war3 version used by other organizers is still on the Frozen Throne, which means that Sky has to turn back. Practice his human race.

For professional players, adapting to different versions, switching back and forth between the two versions is actually a very painful process, because it is possible that a little difference in values will cause your feeling to go wrong.

For example, in the Pandaren version, the Panda Wine Fairy is obviously weakened, but in the Frozen Throne version, the Panda Wine Fairy is even stronger.

If you make a mistake during the game, you may lose the game.

……

Everyone sat in the boss meeting room, drinking tea, chatting, and talking about topics related to Warcraft.

After a while, Cao Yang spoke accurately and asked, "By the way, have you played the map of Dota recently?"

"DOTA?" Meng Xiao felt tight.

He looked at each other with Lao Yang and Ma Tianyuan, and everyone had the same doubts in their hearts——

Could it be said that the boss knew about our secretly hitting Dota?

"Boss... listen to my explanation." Meng Xiao opened his mouth.

Who knew that Cao Yang took the lead and said, "I think this game seems to be very interesting. There are a lot of people who should play it now? It will be popular in the future."

"Eh?"

A few people were taken aback.

Li Lanyun didn’t sit still, he was such a smart person, he could tell from the reactions of several people——

Okay, these guys are probably secretly playing other games that have nothing to do with work during working hours.

"Are you going to play this or something during work time?" Li Lanyun was a little anxious, and even said nothing.

In fact, he just looks like in front of the boss.

Li Lanyun has scolded in advance, then the boss will forget the blame, if Li Lanyun still protects them, maybe even he himself will be scolded together.

Cao Yang looked at them calmly and rolled his eyes in his heart.

These foxes...

is still acting in front of me, thinking I can’t see it?

But I am not so scary, am I?

Cao Yang thought, I’m not a black-hearted capitalist. As long as employees can complete their work, Cao Yang doesn’t care what they do at work.

There was a technical man who came to the company for an interview before, and Liu Guangran interviewed him. Later, in the final HR interview session, the technical man named Guo Weijia gave HR a memorable one for her. Later, he had to declare to the boss. one question--

Guo Weijia asked, "Can I watch Ivy movies at the company? I wear headphones and don’t disturb other colleagues."

When HR talked about this, Cao Yang almost didn't laugh.

Later, after Cao Yang asked seriously, he determined that this was his hobby and habit, so he was specifically allowed to watch Ivy films during the break without disturbing other colleagues' work.

In general, Boss Cao is still a very tolerant person.

"I think it is a good thing to play games and like games." Cao Yang took a sip of tea silently, "Otherwise, where do we get the inspiration, how can we make the game well if we don't play games?"

"Uh..." Li Lanyun suddenly felt a little pain in his face.

He looked around and found that he was caught between the boss and several developers, very uncomfortable.

The blame is too fast if you blame yourself, you should wait a while.

"However," Cao Yang turned around and exhorted, "It is possible to play games in the company, but I only have one premise——

That is to ensure that you have what you are doing, and you can’t delay your progress due to playing games and affect work efficiency and quality.

In that case, I must ban it. "

Everyone was taken aback again.

It seems to be petrified.

Boss Cao, your reversal came too fast, right?

None of us are happy for a few seconds.

"Uh-huh."

Several people nodded with lingering fear.

"We promise that we will definitely not play games during working hours. After doing our best, use the rest time to play."

"If it is out of work needs, such as checking information, or finding some useful games for your project to experience and research, this is no problem." Cao Yang laughed.

eased the tense atmosphere.

……

"Uh-huh."

Only the voice of everyone in the meeting room.

When several people heard what Cao Yang said, they immediately relieved.

The expression on 's face is much easier.

Meng Xiao said excitedly, "Boss, don't you know that although this DOTA game has not yet become popular, it is really fun. Many of our friends from the World of Warcraft guild are now in addition to doing weekly weekly routines. Except for graduation from the next group, I play DOTA games all the time.

This game has high requirements for players' competition and cooperation between players and players. "

"Yes." Lao Yang nodded beside him, regarded as a man standing behind Meng Xiao and supporting him.

The more they talked, the more excited they became.

Meng Xiao also gave Cao Yang a detailed introduction to the gameplay, as well as the hero skills in it, and what equipment...

The current version of DOTA is still relatively early, but you can already see what it will look like in the future.

Cao Yang smiled at the corner of his mouth and listened to them silently.

Rolled his eyes in his heart.

I've played Dota for more than ten years in my previous life, do you still want to teach?

This game really carried forward the 5v5 competition. The later LOL and later the glory of the king on the mobile phone were all changes based on the DOTA model.

Although they cannot be completely equated, it is an indisputable fact that at least DOTA has created a new era of 5V5 competition.

Cao Yang patiently listened to their explanation, and then pretended to nodded deeply.

"So, it seems that DOTA is a very promising game map, it can even be said to be a new game category, right?" Cao Yang raised his head and looked at them.

Meng Xiao was taken aback, then exchanged glances with Lao Yang and Ma Tianyuan, and the three nodded at the same time.

"DOTA is really a competitive game in terms of team cooperation, operational requirements and situation changes."

Lao Yang said, “Maybe DOTA can create a new era of e-sports.”

The new era of e-sports?

When Lao Yang said this, everyone present except Boss Cao was taken aback.

Although everyone thinks it is fun, but they don’t seem to think that Dota can reach such a height.

After all, it is still the peak period of war3.

RTS is the game that best expresses the player's competitive level.

Cao Yang laughed happily.

His goal today has finally been achieved.

These words came out of Cao Yang's mouth, and the effect is definitely not more effective than that from the mouth of the WoW development team.

If Cao Yang came to make this judgment, then they would have a little resistance—

Mr. Cao, you rookie, you don’t understand e-sports, any war3 planner can single you out, and you don’t play Dota, and there is no comparability. How can you be qualified to speak and judge that dota represents the future of e-sports? ?

But Lao Yang is different. First of all, Lao Yang is a professional player. Although his hand speed is not good now, he is first-class in tactical thinking. Many genres were created by Lao Yang.

He has a natural keen intuition and judgment for competitive games.

On the other hand, Lao Yang has been planning war3 for such a long time, so he has a deep understanding and judgment ability for e-sports, especially new games developed on the war3 map.

So when Lao Yang said that DOTA could create a new era of e-sports, everyone was surprised at first, but soon followed his thinking to analyze and find answers.

In the end, you will find that it seems to be really like this——

Judging from the fact that the planners play dota especially, they never sleep, and even have to open it during the company's lunch break, this game really has great potential.

So Cao Yang's goal was achieved, and he was very happy.

"Well, I believe in Lao Yang's judgment," Cao Yang said, "Although I am not a professional player, I have recently heard many friends mention the game Dota.

I later went to find related videos and watched some, and I found it really interesting. "

"Well," several people nodded in agreement.

"So my thought is-since Lao Yang just said it, DOTA may create a new era of e-sports.

means that this game represents the future of e-sports.

So, why don’t we take it out and make it a separate game? "

"what?!"

"My idea is to invite the ice frog over and let him work with you. As for you, you will be responsible for the development of this new project and make the DOTA independent game."

Mom! ! !

Meng Xiao was frightened stupidly.

He never dreamed that the game he played with his friends would eventually return to him because of a word from Boss Cao.

Moreover, Meng Xiao himself likes and admires ice frogs very much.

It’s really not easy for this foreign **** to develop and perfect the DOTA game map to where it is today.

Moreover, the DOTA team has an unconstrained imagination, which makes full use of the hero's characteristics, and can design so many completely different heroes, which is really admirable.

At that time, Meng Xiao and Lao Yang were really exhausted (dānjīngjiélǜ) for the heroic design of war3. They racked their brains and their heads were big.

"If we can really develop DOTA, that would be great."

What's more, Meng Xiao didn't even dare to dream about how Bing Frog could become his colleague in the future?

"Uh-huh."

Lao Yang and Ma Tianyuan also nodded.

They seemed extremely excited.

Who is not excited?

After all, they all like this game, and when they think of developing this game soon, they can also invite the Ice Frog to come to Bomi to communicate and create, just like the deer in their hearts.

Cao Yang looked at them, thinking that this group of unpromising looks, isn’t it just a DOTA development?

Are you as for?

"The war3 editor itself has certain limitations," said Cao Yang, "Blizzard's technical capabilities are better than me. Before our company's improvement, the underlying network architecture can really be described as a disaster.

Wild authors certainly have their advantages, such as wild imagination and super creativity.

But I think from the results, the Ice Frog team is definitely not more professional than ours. "

Cao Yang said with a smile, "Since everyone recognizes Dota and thinks this is a good game, I don't think it should be buried outside, or it should be brought back to a more professional team like us for production, and after it is made into an independent game, The effect will definitely be better."

"Bomi is now the world leader in technology and graphics.

And war3 is now developed by Bomi. Maybe when we find the ice frog team, they will feel flattered. "

……

Cao Yang laughed silently, "Have you never thought about it? Maybe you are the ice frogs they can't climb, and they are envious of the great gods."

"what?!"

What? !

Several people lowered their heads silently, considering the situation that Cao Yang just said.

It seems to make some sense.

I think that although Lao Yang and Ma Tianyuan were already quite famous in the professional player circle, many employees of Bomi Company regarded them as idols, but when Lao Yang they heard that they could come to Bomi to produce "Warcraft 3" "When I was very excited.

Because in their minds, being able to do "Warcraft" is a kind of glory.

Probably few people in this life can do this.

There are tens of millions of professional players in the world, and many new stars emerge every year.

But there are only a few people who make Warcraft. From this perspective, maybe they will think that it is a great thing to be able to make DOTA in Bomi?

Everyone looked at each other, and then laughed happily.

It’s really surprising to be praised by Boss Cao continuously today.

Meng Xiao felt that he could play for a lifetime when he returned.

At night, you can dream of being praised by Boss Cao.

"If I contact the ice frog team, I will find Liu Zhiping to solve it at that time." Cao Yang said.

The current dota production team is basically made by enthusiasts, and it is not large at all. It is not even a studio. If you hire them directly to work at Bomi, the only problem may be language and geographical barriers.

However, Cao Yang felt that as long as they were willing to pay, it should not be difficult for them to solve the corresponding language and environmental problems.

After all, when Cao Yang worked in Penguin in his previous life, he also saw many foreigners come to work in China. Except for overtime, they all agree with him.

Now Bomi does not need to work overtime at all.

Cao Yang also does not advocate overtime.

"Good boss." Meng Xiao said, "I'll make preparations when I go back."

……

Everyone was drinking tea in silence and thinking about the DOTA topic discussed earlier.

Even Meng Xiao himself is a little unbelievable, how did you talk about yesterday’s war3 finals, and finally made a game more inexplicably?

What is wrong with ?

"Oh, by the way, the boss, I remember one thing," thinking of war3, Meng Xiao asked, "Then, what about the previous war3?"

"Hmm..." Cao Yang thought for a while, and responded, "It would be good to leave a few personnel for maintenance. Anyway, for a long time in the future, the update will not be too frequent."

A few people lowered their heads and thought silently.

The main reason is that the scale of the Western Fantasy Studio is too small, and Meng Xiao still has a little difficulty adapting to it for a while.

The entire Western Fantasy Studio Group, although in terms of organizational structure, is at the same level as the Wangzhe Studio Group, Guofeng Studio Group, and Westward Journey Studio Group, but the Western Fantasy Studio Group now has only one war3 project, and the project’s Developers add up to 20 people.

is similar to a small workshop.

Cao Yang smiled and said, "By the way, Meng Xiao, you should also be promoted,"

"Huh?!" Meng Xiao raised his head somewhat unexpectedly.

Next to Li Lanyun looked at him amusedly, thinking that this young man is really too bad, right?

Boss Cao’s meaning is quite obvious.

Cao Yang was amused. Meng Xiao, a high-achieving student in the mathematics department, is sometimes quite dull, and he hasn’t even figured out his position.

"Western Fantasy Studio Group, can't there be only one project, right?"

Cao Yang smiled and said, “After all, this is a large studio group, and will have to take on very important tasks in Bomi Games in the future. So now is a good time——

In addition to the war3 project, don’t you have another DOTA project? "

"Hmm." Meng Xiao nodded fiercely, and it was true that the small team had been with him for a long time, and there was really no response for a while.

……

"If the Western Fantasy Studio Group had only one project before, and you were the person in charge of the project, then you will now be responsible for more projects."

Cao Yang continued to say to Meng Xiao, “You can arrange the personnel of these two projects.

War3 continues to update and improve the existing version. According to the content we just discussed, some props or new heroes that can change strategy and tactics will be added over a period of time, and the updates will be made according to market feedback.

But as the person in charge of the Western Fantasy Studio Group, you have to check it out.

And you have to give me a copy of the list of people left by war3 and the person in charge in the future.

No, you can give it to Brother Yun directly. Just make arrangements. I mainly look at the final result. "

"Hmm." Meng Xiao nodded.

"In the next year or two, I hope you will focus your work on Dota, and we will work hard to make this game a good one. Just tell Brother Yun what kind of people you need, and let him coordinate. To ensure the quality of the game.

If there is someone who does not cooperate, you can let him come to me. "Cao Yang said solemnly.

His remarks were actually equivalent to giving Meng Xiao considerable authority.

also shows that Cao Yang attaches great importance to the game Dota.

"Okay, I will definitely try my best to make DOTA well." Meng Xiao said seriously.

……

Cao Yang is still full of confidence in Dota.

After all, this is something that has been certified by the previous market.

Recalling when I first took over Bomi, I heard that my reborn father was going to be the king of glory on the computer. It was really amazing.

Now, he is getting closer and closer to his goal.

DOTA is available, so the MOBA competitive game on the mobile phone——

Is the glory of the king still far away?

……