When I write a bug it becomes the core gameplay

Lilith took a few steps in the living room and began to seriously think about the feasibility of this matter.

"Hmm... mmorpg is indeed more suitable for collecting negative emotions in some aspects.

“First of all, the player stickiness of this kind of game is very high. After all, it is a strongly social-driven game. Even if you are abused, you will not quit quickly like ordinary stand-alone games.

“This is definitely good news for collecting negative emotions.

“Secondly, there are two main types of high-difficulty challenges in this kind of game, one is large-scale PVE multiplayer groups, and the other is PVP battlefields and arenas.

“These two difficult challenges are also very suitable for collecting negative emotions.

"Large-scale multiplayer groups require good cooperation. If there are one or two people who don't know how to play, a major boss mechanism will very likely destroy the group, directly doubling the negative emotions; and being abused in the PVP battlefield is also very dangerous. May trigger negative emotions in players.

“In addition, poor MMORPGs can cause players to have all kinds of negative emotions.

“Whether it’s network lag, vicious bugs, career imbalance, mission reward mismatch, city massacre... these problems will make players lose their temper without even realizing it.

“Ah, it’s best not to have vicious bugs, but the more other problems the better!

"But here comes the problem...

"Gu Fan, with the current development capabilities of our Nitiantian Games, can we make such a large-scale MMORPG game?"

Lilith pondered carefully for a while, and she really felt that mmorpg was very interesting!

But in the end it came down to the demonstration of feasibility.

After all, the size of Nitiantian Games at this time is still relatively small compared to those large game companies.

Gu Fan looked at her: "I told you that I am only responsible for one type of game! As for whether you can do it specifically, that is your business."

Lilith was a little discouraged: "Okay!"

It has to be said that she has gradually become accustomed to frequently asking Gu Fan's opinions when developing games, especially when encountering game areas that she is not familiar with.

Now that Gu Fan was suddenly acting out, she was really uncomfortable with it.

Fortunately, the Internet is relatively developed now, so Lilith took out her phone and did a simple search, and got a rough understanding of the relevant data.

In China, a very important reason why many companies make two-dimensional games and mobile games instead of MMORPGs is that costs are controllable.

In theory, an excellent two-dimensional game can be made well with a cost of about 20 million, but if you switch to mmorpg, the cost will be ten times higher, starting at 200 million.

It’s not surprising that even some popular MMORPGs have investments of 500 million or 700 million.

Of course, with the development of technology in recent years, the templates on the official platform have gradually matured, and development costs have also dropped slightly.

But no matter how much the investment is reduced, tens of millions are still necessary, and this is still a situation where the quality of research and development cannot be guaranteed.

Money is not a big problem for Nitian Games. Currently, there is enough research and development funds. Even if the budget is really exceeded, Lilith is not willing to use her own small treasury.

The bigger problem is people and time!

Since mmorpg has been deteriorating in recent years, there are basically not many companies producing it, so we can only find data from a few years ago. At that time, the situation of mmorpg was not as bleak as it is now, and there were several popular works.

Generally speaking, if it is a relatively successful MMORPG game, it will basically require a large R\u0026D team of about 400 to 600 people in China, and these are all regular employees, not counting various miscellaneous outsourcing employees.

If all are included, it would not be surprising if the number exceeded 2,000.

The research and development time starts in one year, and three years is not too much.

Regardless of the number of people or the time, it is currently not affordable for Nitian Game.

Of course, if there are not enough people, we can recruit. With the current salary package and reputation of Nitiantian Games, recruiting more people is not a problem at all, but the problem is that recruiting more people may not necessarily solve the problem.

The company's recruitment expansion is just like the army's recruitment expansion, and it requires careful management.

Management is a science. If you want to recruit a team of hundreds of people and manage the team in an orderly manner, you need a large number of middle-level backbones to perform their duties and effectively complete top-down management.

If recruitment is expanded blindly and there are insufficient middle-level backbones, then this huge company is likely to fall into paralysis and be unable to use its strength in one place.

It is even less reliable to directly recruit middle-level backbones from outside. After all, before the actual cooperation, no one knows what the abilities of these people are. Are they really capable, or are they just deceiving the boss and investors? Woolen cloth?

If there is a problem in any link, the loss in salary will be small, but the project progress will be affected in a big way.

Taking into account the various possible problems, if Ni Tiantian really plans to develop a decent MMORPG game on its own, it will be a blessing to be able to make it in more than a year.

Can Lilith wait a year? She can't.

She hopes that a new game will be launched every two or three months to help her collect a wave of negative emotions.

More than a year is enough for her to make four or five stand-alone games that disgust players. Maybe there will be a money tree in it that continuously collects negative emotions?

All in all, it doesn’t seem like a good deal!

Lilith was in a dilemma. She lowered her head and thought for a while, then looked at Gu Fan, wanting to say something but stopping.

Gu Fan sighed silently, and seemed to be a little soft-hearted in the end: "Boss Li, what do you want to say?"

Lilith just went with the flow: "Time! What I want to say is time! Making this kind of game takes too much time, I can't wait."

Gu Fan was silent for a moment: "Boss Li, the problem of time is not completely unsolvable."

Lilith was puzzled: "Huh? How to solve it? Directly expanding the team may not necessarily speed up!"

Gu Fan was a little speechless, so he had to remind her more clearly: "Boss Li, if you eat a meal, you can choose to raise chickens and grow vegetables yourself. However, you can also go directly to the farmers' market to buy slaughtered chickens and vegetables grown by others. Even more, you can directly..."

Lilith's eyes lit up: "Order takeout!

"Oh, you mean, let me eat ready-made food directly?

"Games can also be like this?

"We go to acquire a game that has been made almost? Hey? This is a good idea! ”

Lilith instantly felt as if she had opened the door to a new world, and all the problems that existed before naturally disappeared!

What if there are not enough people?

Buy ready-made ones, and Nitiantang Games will only be responsible for subsequent updates and maintenance!

If the development team of an MMORPG game has only dozens of people, it sounds unreliable, but if the subsequent operation team of an MMORPG game can still have dozens of people, it feels that there are plenty of people.

What if the development time is too long?

Or buy ready-made ones!

At that time, Nitiantang will spend two or three months to make a surprise attack and make minor repairs to the game. As long as the special requirements given by Lilith can be met, the game can be launched as scheduled.

Thinking about it this way, it is indeed quite suitable!

"Okay, in this case, I will immediately find out if there are similar game projects on the market and discuss the acquisition!

"Gu Fan, you have worked hard during this period. Take a good rest first. After I roughly screen out a few games, you, the president, will check it!"

After Lilith finished speaking, she disappeared happily.

Gu Fan laughed in his heart, what do you mean by taking a good rest? Obviously, Lilith still doesn't trust him.

In the matter of finding a ready-made MMORPG, Lilith obviously intends to do a double insurance: first find someone to conduct a nationwide screening to find some suitable ones, and then let Gu Fan conduct a second round of screening.

Gu Fan and the people in the first round of screening are completely unfamiliar, so the probability of screening out problems is naturally greatly reduced, and it is even more difficult to have a trick.

But Gu Fan doesn't care. With Lilith being wary of him, he can't really be 100% sure of success every time, and can only take one step at a time.

I just don't know what kind of MMORPG game Lilith will find?