Game designer: I am making games, not charity

It has to be said that the current Platinum Company has fully understood in terms of publicity.

An excellent game, coupled with a lot of publicity, players will naturally pay for it.

As Platinum began to fully promote the two gunfight games, the number of reservations for the two games on the official website continued to rise.

A week later, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive had 8.5 million pre-orders.

Although the number of reservations for "Cross Fire" is slightly smaller, it has also exceeded 5 million.

Combined, the number of pre-orders for the two games has reached 13.5 billion!
This is a very scary data.

Because since Platinum Corporation produced "League of Legends", the number of reservations for each game launched by their company has reached more than 3 million.

Before Platinum Corporation appeared, looking at the world, if the number of reservations for a game exceeded [-] million each year, that was already an extremely terrifying statistic.

But now, every game of Platinum Corporation has reached this data!
Moreover, what makes Platinum great is not only the high number of reservations, but also the retention rate of their games.

Take "Black Myth: Wukong" as an example. According to Platinum's background server statistics, after one month in a row, the number of daily online users of "Black Myth: Wukong" was more than 1000 million at the beginning, but there were still more than 900 million at the end of the month. , the retention rate reached over 60.00%.

This is beyond the reach of many game companies.

Such good data will naturally arouse the jealousy of other game companies.

For example, Disney Games.

Looking at the number of pre-orders for Platinum's two gunfight games announced in the news, a layer of frost appeared on the face of Dini's vice president Emma.

In the past year, Platinum Corporation first produced an epoch-making game like "League of Legends", which directly crushed "Warcraft Battlefield" designed and produced by their subsidiary Eternal Company in terms of statistics and word of mouth.

After that, their "Black Myth: Wukong" almost completely surpassed their own company's "Western Cowboy".

Today's "Black Myth: Wukong" is still popular, and players are even urging Platinum to make a sequel.

However, "The Cowboy of the West" on the side of Dini's company almost died because of too few online users.

If President Ma hadn't proposed to make a comprehensive change to the game operation and game content, I'm afraid the game "Western Cowboy" would have been cold.

Throughout the past year, Platinum Corporation has been thriving, and it seems to have become the number one game manufacturer in the Great Xia Kingdom, and even started to occupy the position of the world's number one game company.

And what about Disney?The game engine that he used to rely on for a living was blown up by Platinum, and the games he produced were also blown up by Platinum.

If this continues, Emma will have no way to explain to the shareholders.

Looking at the handsome appearance of Zhang Jiafei carrying a gun on the computer screen, Emma pondered for a moment, picked up the phone on the desk, called the office area, and asked Andre to come in.

When Andre got the news, he put down his work and rushed over quickly.

Emma didn't talk too much nonsense, and went straight to the topic: "How is the hunting map doing? Is the content of the gun battle ready?"

Andre nodded: "All the work has basically been completed, some bugs have also been fixed, and it can go online at any time."

Emma frowned: "I have an idea, see if it works, connect the hunting map with the whole map. Make the manor and town into a dungeon map, and make the hunting map into an open world map. "

Hearing what Emma said, Andre's face immediately became serious, and he asked with some doubts: "Miss Emma, ​​isn't our game a farm game? If we replace all the big maps with hunting maps , then the nature of our game will change."

Emma shook her head, she actually didn't care about the type of game at all.

What she cares about is the popularity of Platinum Company's publicity.

In her opinion, the two games of Platinum Corporation can have such a good number of reservations, all because of the gimmick of the first gun game.

Just like the original "Legend", it became popular all of a sudden, thanks to the gimmick of the world's first computer game.

Therefore, if this gimmick can be snatched away this time, then their "Western Cowboy" may be able to use this gimmick to explode again!
In fact, there are some games that did not become popular all of a sudden when they were first launched.

In many cases, it was because of the second operation that it became popular again, and finally became an epoch-making classic game.

For example, Goose Factory's "Legend of Warriors" was not popular when it was first launched. Later, relying on Goose Factory's operating methods, it was able to break the world's point card online game sales record at that time.

Emma wanted to improve the game so that their company's "Western Cowboy" could also take advantage of the gimmick of the gun game to become popular again.

So Emma asked directly: "You just say, can it be changed, and how long will it take to change it?"

Andre was a little hesitant: "Miss Emma, ​​it can be changed, there is the original foundation, and it doesn't take too much time, but... since we want to change "Western Cowboy" into a brand new firearm For shooting games, do we have to start changing the shooting physics engine as well?"

After all, the physics engine used now was modified from Dini's previous game "Bow and Arrow Simulator".

If it is only used for a hunting map, it is not a big problem if you play casually, but if you want to make it into an open world and use it as the main content, this kind of physics engine is not enough.

Emma frowned and asked, "How long would it take to redesign the shooting physics engine?"

Andre thought for a moment and said, "I'm not sure, if it's quick, it will take half a year..."

Emma waved her hand and interrupted Andre: "That's no need, just use the current physics engine, and I'll give you a week to change the map. Alright, go get busy."

Andre's face was full of embarrassment. It was not a perfect gun shooting game at all, it could only be regarded as a suture.

Players probably won't pay for something like this.

Andre wanted to persuade Emma a few more words, but seeing that the other party had already picked up the phone and started calling others, he had no choice but to turn around and go back to his work station...

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Dini company official website released the news.

["Western Cowboy" has been updated, and the new big world map has been opened.This game is the world's first gun battle shooting game. It is open for a 1-hour limited free trial activity. The limited free activity will end in three days. Players are welcome to register to play. 】