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Chapter 140 Is it a success?
"Hey, it's really nothing. Two-five-eight is two-five-eight. The domestic console circle is so big. If it can sell 100 million units, it will be the sky. It doesn't matter." Although Pei Guangming was the first to question, he also The one who got the hang of it first.

Pei Guangming's forecast of 100 million domestic sales is indeed sky-high. After all, it is pitiful to say that the domestic circle is very small.

The sales volume of a AAA-level game like "Legend of Chang'an" is probably about this, and even if it explodes again, it will not be more than 3.

In contrast, Chen Tiancai admired Lao Ren very much. Many of their games had out-of-the-box effects, such as Animal Crossing the year before last, which made a big splash in China and sold quite a lot.

Domestic players are extremely sensitive to the price of stand-alone games. Unless it is a game that has become popular across the country, they will stare at the price and think for a long time before buying.

Buy early to enjoy early, buy late to get a discount, and don’t buy for free.

The thrifty consumption habit is still a virtue of domestic players. Even when buying games, they will shop around, and some players will even take risks to buy games in low-priced areas.

Seeing that the three capable generals had no idea, Chen Tiancai used internal emails to inform the employees that the pricing was confirmed.

250 is actually the price of the main body, and there will be a large number of DLC updates in the future, as well as the income of the DLC season ticket. In fact, there are still many places to earn.

The reason why the price of "Legend Chang'an" was set right after it was finished is because this time the game will be sold in advance pre-orders, including all platforms that can be logged in, and the specific time should start next month.

In the beginning, Chen Tiancai actually intended to release "Legend Chang'an" in the way of early access, so that he could test and modify it at the same time, and get back part of the funds.

But later, with the olive branch extended by Suo Dafa, this idea had to be abandoned. In addition, "Legend Chang'an" is not a strategy game. If players know the plot in advance, it will definitely not be sold on PS5.

Since "Anthem 1", the games of Anthem Network have impressed players with their good localization experience. Although most of these are done by Chen Tiancai using the world editor, a small part still has to be handled in the form of outsourcing .

Compared with the relatively simple text of "Hunting Crisis", the localization of "Legend Chang'an" is much more complicated. Just the translation of various official positions in the Tang Dynasty, or the translation of poems can be done by outsourcing companies. Life.

Translate Li Bai's poems into eight languages?
Chen Tiancai felt his teeth ache just thinking about it. In the past few months, he spent most of his work time communicating with outsourced translation companies.

The island country area is better, but they can understand most of them when they switch to traditional characters. As for the specific meaning, there is an unexpected solution.

Until 100 years ago, many people in the island country were still accustomed to Chinese characters, and even their poetry culture from ancient times to the present was born in China, with only some local transformations.

Therefore, Chen Tiancai asked the person in charge of the island's Mandarin language to translate it according to their poetry style, which was a perfect solution.

As for the areas with Latin letters, Chen Tiancai couldn't think of any tricks, so he could only paste the original Chinese poems on it, with a simple translation in their language next to it.

Of course, Chen Tiancai is very confident about his own country's writing, especially Tang's poetry, which is the best of the best, the best of the best.

Since the Miyazaki old thief let players all over the world know how to write the word "death", Chen Tiancai felt that it would not be a problem for him to use "Legend Chang'an" to let foreign players learn a few Tang poems.

Making games is just like other cultural industries, the creators will inevitably bring some private goods, and these Tang poems are Chen Tiancai's private goods. In other respects, Chen Tiancai has held his own and has not made any more excitement.

Compared with the wild era 30 years ago, the current game industry is a very good era, because after so many years of development, all the game development experience is very mature, as long as you follow these paths well, you can make Produce qualified or even excellent games.

After all, 30 years ago, the classification of all games was not yet clear, and game developers in that era were crossing the river by feeling the stones. This is why there was a golden age, which completely determined the structure of today's game industry.

Including "Legend Chang'an", all the games of Zange Network are actually following the path of the predecessors, and there is not much innovation, but it is Chen Tiancai's down-to-earth that has brought Zange Network to where it is today.

It wasn't that Chen Tiancai didn't have ideas, but he knew that this path was the safest and least risky.

As for the imagination of future games, Chen Tiancai has already handed over to 'Shimmer', he believes that this little thing will completely amaze the world in his own hands.

Counting the latest exclusive game development department, as well as the various administrative, financial, and human resources departments led by Xu Le, the total number of employees of Chant Network has exceeded [-], even more than the only Chaoyang Network where Chen Tiancai has worked in his life. There are even more employees.

You must know that Chaoyang Network has developed for nearly ten years to achieve this scale, while Zange Network has not spent more than three years.

"Consider it a success?"

Chen Tiancai stood in front of the glass window of the office, looking at the scenery in the distance.

People in the university town can be seen in the distance. It is lunch time and the students are rushing to the cafeteria like ants. Just over three years ago, Chen Tiancai was one of them.

In the past two years, Chen Tiancai also contacted his old boss, Liu Cheng, his guide, and asked about the situation of Chaoyang Network.

After more than a year of hard work, Zhang Yang still relied on his charisma to attract an investment, which was able to revive Chaoyang Network.

Many old projects that did not make money were cut off, so Chaoyang Network also fired a group of people, stabilized the daily operation, and slowly persisted with the few remaining profitable projects.

Perhaps inspired by Chen Tiancai's experience, Zhang Yang reorganized the game development project team since last year, assigned an independent game development team of about 50 people to Liu Cheng, and began to try to go another way.

Last month, Chen Tiancai asked Liu Cheng about the progress of the development. According to him, it will be released in the second half of this year.

Chaoyang Network's independent game is a soul-like action 2D horizontal version game. The overall development difficulty is not high, mainly in the design of weapons, skills, and background stories.

But Liu Cheng is an old man and an experienced player himself. He has long been familiar with these things and can do most of the work with ease.

However, Liu Cheng was not polite to Chen Tiancai, and whenever he encountered a problem, he would come back and ask Chen Tiancai.

Chen Tiancai naturally knew everything, and the people of Chaoyang Network were actually very good. He was very happy to see that this company could get out of the predicament.

(End of this chapter)