Game designer: I am making games, not charity

The Gun God event has officially come to an end.

The professional league of "Counter-Strike: Global Offensive" has officially started.

First, each competition area will conduct a bo1 round-robin match and a bo3 knockout match. The final two teams will enter the world championship and compete with teams from other competition areas.

Compared to League of Legends games, CS:GO matches are much faster paced.

Therefore, in addition to arranging the highest gold content and the most official World Championship, the Platinum Corporation also arranged different title cups for each competition area.

As for the naming rights of the competition, it is natural for the advertising agencies in each competition area to bid for themselves.

At the same time, according to the situation of different competition areas, different numbers of cups will be opened. For example, some small and medium-sized competition areas have a small domestic user base and small agent manufacturers, so the number of cups that can be held in their competition areas will naturally be less. , the scale will be much smaller.

But in big competition areas like Great Xia Country or Pretty Country, it is naturally different.

For example, in Great Xia Kingdom, Platinum had originally only set up three small cup matches in domestic divisions, but it caused dissatisfaction among many agents and clubs.

Because there are too few cups!
After only three cups, the naming rights were taken away by domestic first-tier companies, while some first-tier group companies like Chenghui Group didn't even drink the soup.

In addition, each club has invested tens of millions of dollars in order to form a team. If there are too few games to play, the popularity of their clubs and players will not be able to be played out.

Therefore, the Platinum Company specially opened four or five new cup places for large competition areas such as the Great Xia Kingdom. In addition, it also set up some second-tier competitions, so that the second-tier players of various clubs can also have games to play.

After finishing the matters related to the "Counter-Strike: Global Offensive" game, the diamond game platform also launched dozens of small games that were previously outsourced in batches.

If we say that the only criticism of the previous diamond game platform is that the number of games on the platform is too small and the types are too single.

However, with the entry of various domestic game companies, the number of games has increased significantly, but the quality is uneven. This has caused many players to play other games except for one or two specific games of Platinum Company. Play on other game platforms.

Since Platinum's "Legend" was launched, many companies imitating the games produced by Platinum have emerged in China.

Because these companies are small in size, and the imitated games are basically shoddy, Platinum has never cared much.

But this time, after Platinum Company launched these small games on the Diamond Game platform, Zhang Mengyao, the company's vice president, began to cooperate with the Great Xia Game Administration to focus on rectifying these companies that imitated and plagiarized Platinum games.

Today's Daxia Game Management Bureau attaches great importance to the plagiarism of Platinum's games. The entire unit is busy with this matter, not only strengthening supervision, but also focusing on screening and interrogating those repeat offenders who like to imitate other people's games.

Sure enough, after a few days of focused investigation, a total of more than 300 game companies that specialize in imitation and plagiarism were found.

Although their plagiarism is not as strong as before due to the promulgation of the Game Supervision Law, but more or less, they all use the gimmick of other people's games to make profits.

There are not only plagiarized and imitated games of the Platinum Company, but also some plagiarized and imitated games of other companies that the Diamond Platform is stationed in.

They were also screened out together. For example, there was a game called Flying Man, which copied "Chasing Light" by Li Xinghan, a well-known game designer of "Diamond Game Platform".

The Great Xia Kingdom Game Management Bureau also showed no mercy in this regard, directly banned all these games with a wave of their hands, and the relevant game companies would naturally have to report criticism and fine them.

The joint action between Platinum Corporation and the Great Xia Game Administration this time can be regarded as a real cleanup of the game industry.

This also conveys a message to the domestic game industry. In the past, the game management bureau mostly supervised those large and medium-sized game companies. Once they found that they plagiarized games, they would focus on cracking down.

But now, even for a small company with little profit, as long as plagiarism is involved, they will be treated equally and all games will be destroyed!

Many game designers who are really working on games are naturally very happy, because from another perspective, this is the Great Xia State Administration, which encourages innovation and encourages game companies to design high-quality games.

After this wave of crackdown was over, Platinum's several small games also achieved very good results.

The data of the three games "Metal Slug" and "Ice and Fireman" and "Gold Miner" are the best.

"Metal Slug" attracted 679 million platform VIP players to register to play, and 192 million non-VIP players to play.

"Forest Ice and Fire Man" attracted 323 million VIP players on the platform to register to play, and 75 non-VIP players to play.

"Gold Miner" attracted 190 million VIP players on the platform to register and play, and 1983 million non-VIP players to play.

From the data point of view, "Gold Miner" does not attract many VIP players, but it is very popular with non-VIP players.

Regarding the data, Chen Feng also modified the payment mode of the game, changing the small games such as "Gold Miner" that are more attractive to non-VIP players to completely free.

That is, regardless of whether they are VIP players of the diamond game platform, they can play this game for free. In addition, those players who bought this game before can naturally receive a refund from Platinum Company.

Although this kind of small game costs only a few yuan or a dozen yuan, it is still a lot of money when there is a large enough player base.

Therefore, Chen Feng's wave of refunds and changing the game to free naturally aroused the incomprehension of some employees and executives in the company.

However, Chen Feng added a mechanism of playing advertisements to this small game
As long as the player's playing time exceeds 5 minutes, the game will pop up a 20s~30s advertisement pop-up window.

Players need to watch the advertisement before continuing to play.

Of course, VIP players naturally don't need to watch advertisements.

As the game became free, the number of game players also increased rapidly. In just two or three days, the number of users of more than a dozen free mini-games exceeded 3 million!

In the forum, there were also many players who had very heated discussions on these mini-games.