The Rebirth of the Male God Starts From Playing Games

Vol 2 Chapter 457: 455. Has anyone come to dig a corner now?

Chapter 457 455. Has anyone come to dig the corner now?

Dota’s promotional video has been viewed more than 2 million times in just one day.

Although there may not be so many players' attention, there are still hundreds of thousands of real players.

And the majority of game colleagues naturally also paid attention to this publicity.

It’s just that their reaction to Bomi’s upcoming Dota indie game is not as strong as the previous game.

It's not that the game of dota is not good enough, but that they have not yet figured out how to make money in this game.

After watching the promotional video of dota, the colleagues of Jianwang 3 in Xishanju were stunned for a long time, and no one spoke.

After a while, an artist said, “As expected of Bomi, after dota has made it, the map on war3 is not of the same quality level at all, and it will be up immediately.”

"Yes, people's technical and artistic strength lies here."

"The most rare thing is that the quality has been improved several levels, but you can see at a glance that this hero corresponds to the original version. This skill is really rare, especially worthy of our reference and learning."

It’s actually very easy to draw like, or not at all. In the game industry, the most difficult art requirement is——

【I need to improve the quality on this basis】

In other words, it is necessary to maintain the original heroic image, but also to make you obviously feel the improvement in quality. This is simply the death of art students.

And this time, Bomi’s new dota is equivalent to submitting a perfect answer to the industry.

A collection of textbook-level hero designs.

"It's amazing. Bomi is worthy of being a world-class game company. It is really not easy to achieve this level."

While the artists are discussing art-related topics such as the game screen and hero design of the dota game, the planners are concerned about another issue.

"Bomi actually made dota an independent game, but how does this thing make money?" a planner asked.

Yes, how does this game make money?

The senior executives of Xishanju haven't considered the game of the dota category, but they have not yet thought of a suitable commercialization model.

"Traditional numerical games are sold by numerical values, such as heroes, equipment, gems..." Guo Weiwei, the chief planner of Jianwang III, also feels a bit difficult. "But if the dota game sells numerical values, it is easy to lose balance. .

Loss of balance may drive a large number of gamers.

It is difficult to have a good charging model if you don’t sell money by value.

This is actually a very contradictory thing. "

Everyone is still stuck in the current mainstream game profit model design. After all, these are market-proven, and the planners have spent a long time studying and playing things that are clear.

For example, the equipment upgrades and dungeon strengths of various sects in Jianwang 3...

These are all based on the numerical framework constructed by numerical planning. At different levels, every point of attack power is marked with a price, and they also calculate inflation based on time, such as a point of attack value at level 60 100 yuan soft sister coin, but at level 90, the value of a little attack power becomes 50 yuan.

There is also diminishing marginal effect...

The length of a round of the game of dota is so small, and every time everyone starts to return to the starting point and compete at the same starting line, this makes traditional MMORPG designers feel an unusual headache.

"There are so many dota players, as long as you make it, you will definitely not worry about making money?" An art student said with a smile.

The planning classmates looked back one after another, looking at him like an idiot.

The art classmate lowered his head in shame, although he himself did not understand what he had said wrong.

Guo Weiwei smiled contemptuously.

This is the difference in thinking between art and planning.

The artists consider that a beautiful game with [quality] and [artistic sense] is bound to make money.

Like many painters, they think that paintings with artistic value will naturally have people who know how to appreciate them bid for it.

The planners know that all values are after being [artificially designed].

Gold itself has no value, and because people give it value, it becomes expensive.

All virtual games are of no value in themselves, they are all values assigned and designed by planners.

Now the planners just want to find the value that can be carefully designed in the game of dota.

But it’s a pity that they didn’t find it for a while.

"But now there are so many players in Dota, I just don't know how to make money from them."

"Can't the selling value work?"

"No way, didn't you listen to what the boss just said? If the selling value, this game is not fair competition, and it is likely to cause the loss of a large number of players."

"Will it be like Audition?" A planner suddenly remembered something, "Audition also has no value. Officials make money by selling fashion."

"Fashion? These heroes are all weird and not beautiful at all. Where can fashion be done?"

"Moreover, I think dota is very different from Audition. Audition is a purely operational game. Dota also has numerical growth in it, although this numerical growth will return to zero after each game. In a single game, the value has indeed grown. It is more like a combat game, a condensed RPG team battle."

"Well... Indeed, for games with combat, numerical attractiveness is definitely far greater than appearance attractiveness. If it was me, I would not be willing to spend money on fashion or something."

"Hahaha, really, isn't it bad for a blank ticket?"

"What about the free advertising model?" said a planning classmate. "There are only several ways to make money, one is e-commerce, and one user pays. Now it seems that the value of user payment is not great. Maybe it can be used for e-commerce Advertising or something."

"Um……"

Everyone fell into deep contemplation.

But they quickly gave up thinking.

"Forget it, let's see how Bomi did it later. Since they made dota a separate game, they must have thought of a way to make money."

……

After Bomi’s DOTA game-related publicity was released, it immediately became a hot spot in the gaming circle. Many people did not know the game and map of Dota before, but they started to pay attention after this publicity.

Many people even downloaded the current war3 game and played the dota game map in order to wonder why such a 10-player battle map can be favored by Bomi.

In this year, Dota was originally a minority game, and the circle was so big, but it suddenly became popular. Even though the Dota independent game has not yet been launched, a large number of new players have poured into the Dota map. .

Although many people were attracted by curiosity at the beginning, after playing for a while, they were immediately attracted by this new competitive mode.

"Fuck, this game is too top."

"I didn’t understand why Bomi chose such a game for a new independent production until I played this game.

I finally understand now, this map is really a god. Several of my roommates and I started playing this game last week, and now I can’t stop playing it. I have to win every night to sleep. The result is...

Sorry, it’s dawn, I have to go to bed after typing these words, otherwise I can’t bear it. "

"Hahaha, this is too real, to be honest, I am the same. Since playing the game of dota, I feel that every day is passing very fast, and I can't stop at all, I always want to win again."

"Yes, the dota game is obviously not as rich in content as other large-scale games. Basically, there are no growth lines, mission lines, and social interactions, but it is such a game that is played on a small map. There is a kind of game. The super magic power is really amazing."

Dota is a milestone competitive game. Its appearance successfully opened up a new game type. After Dota, many games are called "dota games", and it is not until a few years later that dota games will be moba. Replaced by words, one can imagine how good this game is.

Now that the game has been developed for many years, there have also been countless game types. Many game segments are already quite mature, and it is even difficult to create new games, but dota can break a blood path from such an environment. It is not easy to become synonymous with the new game genre.

In the dota game, there will be a total of 10 players participating in the game, divided into two camps, near-position and natural disasters. There is a base in each of the two camps. Each player can choose a hero to control. This hero has unique skills. , In the end, whoever destroys the opponent’s base first wins.

A map that looks very simple, but because of the complexity and changeability of the hero design, this game becomes exciting. In addition, the players cooperate and fight each other, and the opponents encountered in each round are different, so It has produced a huge change and attractiveness.

For players of World of Warcraft or Warcraft, the game dota will be more substitutable because it continues the world view of Warcraft, allowing them to experience a new kind of thrill of leaving the official history of Warcraft.

Many players who are familiar with Warcraft actually want to see how the familiar heroes fight, and what kind of experience it would be like if these heroes were separated from the original camp and combined into a new team. .

This feeling is very much like the fans of the Three Kingdoms always like to discuss, in the end, the military commander in the Three Kingdoms period is the best in the world. If Sima Yi joins the Liu Bei camp, or the Three Emperors form a team, what changes will happen.

Just imagination can make people boil in the skull.

And dota is such a game that brings together the well-known heroes of different positions and let them decide the outcome.

Different heroes have different skill designs. At the same time, these skill designs are also in line with the characteristics of the heroes themselves. When they fight against each other, they will reflect colorful stories.

Although the duration of a game is not very long, it may only last from half an hour to an hour, but it feels as if you have experienced a new life and experienced a new story, and the protagonist of this story is yourself.

The dota game is equivalent to condensing a traditional pk team battle-based mmorpg into a small map battle. In this process, players are not without growth. For example, you need to continue to make money to obtain better equipment. Need to upgrade to improve the attributes and skills of your hero...

These are actually elements very similar to mmorpg, but in traditional mmo, the process is infinitely stretched. It may take one to two years for you to experience the happiness of a relatively high-level and high-equipment. In the game, this time is compressed infinitely and turned into a half-hour experience.

When all this is overturned, and players repeat growth and fighting joy again and again, they will be infinitely addicted to this cycle.

In addition, the dota game has its own powerful charm, which is mainly reflected in the complexity and change of each game, and the design of different hero skills, as well as the seemingly simple but actually has a very deep game depth.

Playing this game, players will have a similar experience of gambling. If you lose, you want to win, and if you win, you want to win more.

And this game itself is a model of zero-sum game. The so-called zero-sum game refers to the confrontation between players. If one side wins, the other side loses, and there is almost no tie.

It is difficult for gamblers to quit drugs, not because of long-term losses or long-term wins, but because there are losses and losses. In this situation of alternating wins and losses, talents will continue to indulge in them.

……

And dota also has a very important and excellent gene, which is that it fully meets the needs of players for personalization and dazzling skills.

Although winning or losing is a result, it is very important. In addition to winning or losing, in this process, everyone can basically find their own value and fun in the game.

For example, a supporting role, well inserted, can successfully reverse the opponent's field of vision, can successfully help teammates, protect their core, and gain considerable happiness.

The players of main C, play money fast, can kill people in the game, and get more intense pleasure.

These all happen in a very short period of half an hour to an hour, so every confrontation, every hit, every impact will make players deeply addicted to it.

This is the charm of dota games.

……

Discussions about dota games on the Internet are very lively. After watching the video, many core users of dota expressed that they are full of expectations for the new game, and Bomi did not disappoint them. It is expected to be launched in February 2009. dota game.

After the last trade-in of the Three Kingdoms online2, this time the Bomi game department is well-known for its operation.

However, this wave of Bomi’s operations is not without negative word of mouth. It mainly focuses on one problem-

Bomi’s food is particularly ugly.

"Don’t you think that Bomi’s behavior this time is a bit too much? Although it is for the good of the players, as a Dota player I also hope that Dota can make higher-quality games, but I am also very worried that Bomi After making Dota an independent game, will this game start charging?"

"Isn't this obvious? Bomi is not specialized in charity. Is it because people spend money to make games for you to play for free?"

"It's over, my beloved Dota, will it be charged in the future? I am a poor student and I feel unable to afford it."

"Bomi's food is too ugly, right? Just because the dota game is hot now, I want to use it alone to collect money, and what is called "optimization", to send players full of sincerity. Benefits?

You can’t believe a word of capitalists. "

"I wouldn't be able to play dota if it charges anyway."

"Bomi Company is digging its own grave."

"Hey, isn't this ruining a good game? Ice Frog will not update the dota map on war3 in the future. Do you have any choice?"

"If the ice frog doesn't update at that time, we will update it ourselves."

"Brothers upstairs can come and see this link of mine. It is a Dota-like map made by a few of our friends. If Bomi does not update it in the future, you can come and play our Dota. We will do it regularly. updated."

……

Tsk tsk.

Is anyone thinking about digging Bomi’s corner now?

The little secretary saw this and raised her head to look at Boss Cao sitting in front of the window.

"Boss, it looks like someone is deliberately arguing."

"Um?"

Cao Yang frowned twice.

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