This is not a BUG, this is a game feature

The fact that "Pinball Storm" was completely entrusted to the players caused a sensation in the entire gaming circle.

What followed was everyone's curious eyes. Everyone was looking forward to it. They were looking forward to what changes would happen after the game "Don't Leave After School: Pinball Storm" was completely taken over by players.

Is this a good thing or a bad thing?

As a popular game with an average daily active player count exceeding one million, if the daily activity suddenly plummets after the game committee takes over and the game is on the verge of shutting down, then whether it proves that professional matters still have to be left to professionals. ?

"Think about it from another perspective."

"If after the Game Committee takes over, the daily activity of "Pinball Storm" continues to rise and the game becomes more popular day by day, it will prove that we have done something right."

Chen Ba explained: "You have to believe in the players, especially in this group of "Pinball Storm" players who are good at scheming in palace battles."

If other games implement similar measures, they will most likely end up in a mess.

The reason is simple. Players are always players. They may be very good at playing games, but if you ask them to make games or operate a mature game, they may not be able to get started.

At this point, "Pinball Storm" is a little different.

First of all, most of Pinball Fengyun’s players are office workers, and they are mainly in the IT and Internet industries. They are not ignorant in this aspect, and there are also many technical experts among the players.

Secondly, the players of Pinball Fengyun have been tested for a long time. What battles have not been seen before?

The previous Tu-Emperor era has come to an end, and now there is a "play committee" as a means of checks and balances, so the possibility of causing big trouble is very low.

"That's true..."

Yang Dong, who had just returned to the company after getting married and didn't even bother to go on his honeymoon, nodded immediately when he heard this: "The existence of the play committee can indeed make us feel more at ease."

Without a play committee, there is an imbalance of power.

The result of the imbalance of power is naturally that the local emperors in each district make a comeback and return to the time when the game was first launched.

But with the play committee, the earth emperors will never be resurrected, and today's game environment does not give these earth emperors room to play.

Think about it too.

Forget it if you didn’t have this kind of awareness before, but after the establishment of the Play Committee, players have generally awakened to the sense of "ownership". Who wants to have a father on their head when playing a game?

"Permission marbles are now more of a symbolic prop."

Yang Dong said with emotion: "I think back to the time when whoever got this marble could command the entire district and the server. We can't go back."

Permission marbles, this is the core prop that creates the current game environment of "Don't Leave After School: Pinball Storm".

At that time, whoever gets this marble will be able to establish a huge dynasty in the local server, which is simply more majestic than the leader of the martial arts league!

But not anymore...

The existence of the play committee greatly checks and balances the performance of authority marbles. Only with the approval of the play committee can you use the permissions of the permission marbles, and the permission marbles can play their due role.

But if you fail to get the approval of the play committee, then even if you get the permission marble, it will be of little use in the end.

Why do you say that?

Because the Play Committee represents the common will of all players in the district, if you are not recognized by the Play Committee, it is equivalent to standing on the "opposite" of everyone in the district.

If it were ancient times, it would be like an emperor succeeding to the throne, but the ministers in the court do not recognize him, the common people do not recognize him, and even the eunuchs and maids in the harem do not recognize him as the emperor...

Then here comes the problem!

Standing on the opposite side of the world, even if you hold the imperial seal, you are not the emperor and cannot be a real emperor.

After all, there are people who support you, so it is necessary to inherit the throne. If no one supports you, or even everyone opposes you, then even if you sit on the throne, you are just a clown playing house!

“It’s really become a symbol.”

Chen Ba nodded and affirmed: "Now each district has detailed the election and nomination regulations for the bead bearers. Only the bead bearers elected through election have the authority to lead the entire district."

No one would think that the "bead holders" of these district servers could reach this position only because of the authority marbles in their hands, right?

First the chicken, then the egg!

Become the person holding the beads first, and then receive the authority marbles to become the de facto talker in the area. Instead of getting the permission marble first and then becoming the talker in this area.

Once you understand this causal logic, you can understand why Yang Dong said that the current authority marbles have lost their original meaning and become a spiritual symbol.

I am a doctor, and I can become a doctor because I can treat diseases!

You don’t think that if you take away my white coat and stethoscope and put it on me, you will cure diseases and save people, and you can replace me and become the new doctor, right?

Do not make jokes!

Everyone wants permission marbles. The difference is that in the past, I wanted to grab them myself, but now I can’t. I can only rely on slowly working hard to win the recognition of the players in this area step by step.

"Under this model or system, the final bead holder will not be too stupid, at least he will not suddenly become ill, causing the game to become cold."

"Is such that……"

"So I'm looking forward to the day when these players will unite and work together to develop "Pinball Storm" into the world's number one online game!"

Chen Ba full of longing said: "It doesn't need to be too much. A daily income of 5 million should be enough."

"5000000?"

Yang Dong smiled: "You don't need that much, 3 million is enough! In the current online game market, 3 million daily users is already the ceiling level."

League of Legends is currently the most popular online game, and it has remained unchanged for so many years!

But even League of Legends has gone downhill for so many years. The number of daily active users has dropped again and again, and it has long lost its former glory.

In the past, the national server alone had millions of daily active users. Counting overseas, the daily active users around the world would be in the tens of millions!

But after so many years, League of Legends’ current global daily active players can only remain at a few million levels, and the national server is even more rubbish among rubbish. Except for old players, few people are willing to go online.

Therefore, if "Pinball Storm" can achieve more than 3 million daily active users, it can really be said to be "the world's number one online game".

"its not right!"

Seemingly thinking of something, Chen Ba asked curiously: "Why is the ceiling so low? I remember last year, didn't the League of Legends MMO game still have four to five million daily active users?"

"You said it was last year..."

"Can last year be the same as this year? Besides! This is not the first time I have heard that the daily activity ceiling of PC games has been declining year by year."

Yang Dong said helplessly: "Our "Cultivation Fantasy" and "Star Emperor 2" are relatively good online games, right?"

"But even so, the daily active users of these two games are slowly declining after experiencing their peak period."

"Star Emperor 2" is okay. After all, it is a new game. The number of online players is still stable and will not drop too much.

"Cultivation Fantasy" is miserable.

I had hit one million daily active users before, but now let alone one million, being able to retain a basic base of half a million is already considered a great effort by a "merit monk".

I really have to thank the meritorious monks.

If it weren't for their support, checking in the merit card on time every day, and determined to be the first to "merit and become a saint", the daily activity of the game would have been in the pants.

"What about "Once Upon a Time in a Mountain Village"?"

Chen Ba was very curious. As "Once Upon a Time in the Village" was released around the same time as "Cultivation Fantasy", was it affected?

"The past in the mountain village..."

Yang Dong thought: "How should I put it? In terms of daily activity, this game is actually not particularly high. After all, the total player base is not large."

"But, this game has one statistic that is definitely among the best, and that is the average number of starts per day..."

So perverted!

There really aren’t that many players in “Once Upon a Time in a Mountain Village”. After all, it’s a single-player story-based game, so we can’t expect strong daily activity.

Those who are particularly superstitious about the "divination" system will log in and clock in on time every day. Most players rarely open this game after completing the plot or getting tired of playing it.

but! Here comes the point!

It is this group of players who are superstitious about the "divination" system that has created the industry's number one average number of daily launches for "Once Upon a Time in the Village".

The first thing you do when you wake up in the morning is to do a divination for yourself to see what your fortune will be today.

After washing up, having breakfast and getting ready to go out, I did some divination for myself to see what would be suitable for me today.

Go home and play games, and do some divination again. The characters in this issue’s UP pool have already received forty rounds. Let’s see if they can be shipped in the next ten consecutive rounds...

Before going to bed at night, I still do some divination, nothing else, just for peace of mind. If the hexagrams are not displayed well, I may not be able to sleep well.

This is the daily life of many players of "Once Upon a Time in the Village".

The divination system has been completely integrated into their lives. It has become a habit just like changing shoes when going out and taking off shoes when entering the house.

Why is this so?

On the one hand, the divination system of "Once Upon a Time in a Mountain Village" is indeed amazing. After all, it is a divination calculated based on big data. If big data understands you, don't you have an idea in your own mind?

On the other hand, using this thing to calculate good and bad luck in reality may seem like a "feudal superstition", but in fact it is a trend popular among many young people.

That’s right, trendy!

Everyone knows that the divination system can only measure good and bad luck in the game and cannot be used in reality, but this does not affect everyone's use of this divination system in reality.

Don't ask, the question is that in the cyber era, everyone must have a "pocket gold finger"!

A small program that knocks wooden fish can get millions of downloads, and the accumulation of merits in "Cultivation Fantasy" can make so many players addicted to it. Why can't cyber fortune-telling become more popular?

Although it's very abstract.

But this thing is more reliable than knocking on wooden fish to earn merit, burning incense and worshiping Buddha.

After all, although the divination system in "Once Upon a Time in a Mountain Village" only measures good and bad luck in the game, when used to measure reality, there is a "certain probability" that the calculation will be correct.

"Ah this..."

Chen Ba complained: "Isn't this just like guessing the heads and tails of a coin? I say you will have good luck or bad luck today. This kind of ambiguous hexagram language can always be correct several times."

The predictions of good and bad luck in the divination system, even if the results are "completely random", can predict how many times a blind cat will be right when it encounters a dead mouse. This has nothing to do with metaphysics, it is purely a matter of probability.

So what's the point of this thing?

Anyway, we are looking for psychological comfort, why not throw a coin? The effect of tossing a coin to guess heads and tails is the same as this, but it is more trouble-free and convenient!

"Haha, this is like knowing it's fake, but I hope it's true."

Yang Dong explained with a smile: "It doesn't matter whether the hexagrams produced by divination are accurate or not. The important thing is that in the fast-paced and high-pressure life, players hope that it is accurate, just like in the game..."

Rather, it is precisely because the divination system of "Once Upon a Time in a Mountain Village" is so magical on the Internet that people are so obsessed with it, hoping to predict their future fortunes and misfortunes in real life.

This hope is crucial!

When Chen Ba used to eat instant noodles in a rented house, the computer wallpaper he used was a picture of "The God of Wealth is Coming".

His behavior is actually similar to those players who believe in divination. They all know that it is unreliable, but they hope it is reliable and really useful.

"correct!"

Yang Dong said smoothly: "WeChat has launched a small program. By binding your Tianba game account, you can perform divination in real time on your mobile phone..."

Is there such a thing?

Chen Ba was surprised when he heard this, and then asked with confusion: "No, where did the divination result come from? Isn't it randomly generated?"

"of course not!"

Yang Dong himself is using this small program and understands its principles. He explained to Chen Ba: "He binds the player's account, starts the game divination calculation in the cloud, and then transmits the divination results to the player."

To put it bluntly, this small program is a "cloud computer".

When players are outside and do not have access to a computer and it is inconvenient to start "Once Upon a Time in a Mountain Village", they can use the mini program to log in to their account in the cloud to perform divination.

Chen Ba: "..."

Hold the grass! Whoever developed this small program is really good at looking for business opportunities, right?

It made him want to use it.

After all, anytime, anywhere, you can just take out your phone and make a divination for yourself, and the divination results are consistent with the divination results of "Once Upon a Time in the Village". Who doesn't like this kind of small program?

Cyber ​​fortune telling version 2.0!

Chen Ba was really convinced by these people. After hearing that millions of people had used this small program, he admitted that he was jealous.

But he was jealous, and he really didn't dare to let Tianba Studio imitate this small program and make an "official version" to seize the market.

after all……

The game "Once Upon a Time in a Mountain Village" has always been on the verge of being banned. Didn't you see that he didn't even dare to pursue the infringement of the character "Hu Xi"?

What he is more worried about than profit is that this small program is so popular. If someone reports it as engaging in feudal superstition, will Tianba Studio be implicated?

Don't do it!

This is "scientific prediction" and not "metaphysical divination". Did Brother Ba agree with the name of this small program "Daily Divination"?