Game company goes bankrupt? I backhand cyberpunk!

In Nanxing, any order given by Lin Yuan would be acted upon as soon as possible.

It will be treated as an imperial edict by everyone in Nanxing.

The main thing that Nanxing employees focus on is their skills - just listen to Lin Ce's words!

Lin Ce can't make any mistakes!

On the third day after the meeting, Lin Yuan also wrote the outline of the newly purchased game on his computer, hoping that when Li Lin felt more relaxed, he would let him start making the game.

Luoyang was already ready to go to the Magic City to establish a branch. After handing over the integration of the games he was running to his capable generals, he set off for the Magic City to prepare to contact the people from the Magic City Tianyou branch. , and then established a branch of Nanxing in Magic City.

The reason why he was able to take action first is because the games that Luoyang is responsible for are all stand-alone games. Unlike Overwatch, which Xu Xiao is responsible for, small maintenance updates are carried out every week, and a major update is carried out every one or two months. .

For PC games like Stardew Valley, Night of the Full Moon, and Pokémon, the updated content is prepared in advance. If there is a need to update it temporarily, it means there are bugs in the game after updating the content. Well, there are bugs in updates. If you don’t update, there won’t be bugs. If you don’t update, there will always be no bugs!

Oh, of course, it's just a joke.

Therefore, it is not surprising that Luoyang was the first Nanxing person to set off.

Secondly, the Pokémon Go League has also begun its preliminary development. Li Lin is currently responsible for this project. Pokémon League Gyms will be established in various cities, which requires a lot of time and energy. Of course, Li Lin will not be able to do it all the time. Follow-up, after the Pokémon Go league function and ladder function are completed, he will lead the team to separate from Pokémon Go, and then hand over the project to the lower-level team.

As for the controller device, Feng Shuyun personally followed up, not only to prove that he was not a useless mascot, but also to be able to play new games as soon as possible.

As for what kind of controller it is, I’m not ready to think about what kind of controller to make right now, because what Nanxing needs to do right now is to find a peripheral manufacturer, acquire it, and then tune it! Let it gradually become like the southern star!

Not only did Feng Shuyun go there, but Lin Yuan also followed.

Because controllers and new games complement each other, this set of controllers from Nanxing is specifically designed to serve new games. Therefore, many detailed and small functions in the controller must be slowly synchronized with the game and experiments can be carried out in the game.

Lin Yuan and Feng Shuyun arrived in the capital on the 7th. They visited the capital again. As a passer, Lin Yuan took Feng Shuyun to eat a lot of delicious food.

Well, it’s the menu recommended by Li Lin and Shu Shu.

After dinner, at two o'clock in the afternoon, Lin Yuan and Feng Shuyun went to a well-known peripheral manufacturer in China. This manufacturer mainly makes mice and keyboards, followed by gaming headsets, and finally Made into a gamepad.

Their controllers are mainly used for playing car games and fighting games. Many domestic Street Fighter players use their joysticks. The buttons have long life, high feedback, and are quite comfortable to use.

The most important thing is that the price is moderate, but the lack of good looks is a problem, but overall, it is a very cost-effective peripheral manufacturer on the market.

The stores operated by this manufacturer are all online, such as Baobao and JD.com, and there are almost no offline physical stores. In addition, except for the peripheral stores of several major domestic brands, There are indeed few offline physical stores for peripherals. After all, you can buy them online with one click, so why bother to buy them offline?

The peripheral equipment factory named Nantong was very frightened by the arrival of the two top executives from Nanxing.

Ah, the same person who was frightened was Lin Yuan.

When he learned the name of this manufacturer, Lin Yuan's first reaction was - oh, cowhide, is there a manufacturer with such a name?

The next reaction is that Feng Shuyun is very impressive for being able to find such a name for acquisition.

Doesn’t she know what Nantong means? A homophonic joke, isn’t that the male ketone joke that the Internet likes to play these days? Or is it that this girl just saw the word nan and felt that she was very destined and kind? So you selected it?

Lin Yuan couldn't guess what Feng Shuyun was thinking. They had been together for more than two years and had been together for a while, but Feng Shuyun's brain circuit always gave Lin Yuan a big answer inexplicably.

Nantong's boss, a forty-year-old middle-aged man, was extremely enthusiastic about the arrival of Lin Yuan and Feng Shuyun. After all, Nanxing's team had contacted him before and discussed the acquisition. Therefore, when welcoming Feng Shuyun and Lin Yuan, He had already prepared the agreement.

Welcome to Nantong, both of you.

Thank you, Mr. He.

Good afternoon, Mr. He.

Mr. He, will you take us to the workshop first?

After a brief exchange of greetings, Feng Shuyun said directly.

Mr. He nodded and personally took Lin Yuan and Feng Shuyun to see the Nantong workshop.

It's not a fancy place. In the bright and dazzling workshop, a group of assembly line workers are standing there repeating boring tasks, such as putting stickers on buttons or inserting electrical boards into equipment.

Hmm. Assembly line life. This is what is called entering the factory, right?

Our workshop has a total of 200 employees, which can handle general-scale operations. In addition, we often cooperate with some electronics factories. In our industry, it is common to cooperate with third parties because of the optical Just these two hundred people cannot satisfy the huge game market. Mr. He looked at this place full of memories with emotion in his eyes.

How many people in the field of peripherals dare to recruit people aggressively? Aren’t they all collaborative designs? Are there really many factories under the peripheral equipment factory?

And starting from today, he finally doesn't have to worry about these nonsense!

The fixed price is 470 million. This is the money Nanxing spent to buy Nantong, and this is far more than Mr. He is satisfied with. Nantong’s valuation fluctuates greatly. The valuation is said to be 500 million, but in fact Profit flow and fluctuations are very unstable. After all, there are too many people in the peripheral industry.

The most annoying thing is that some small stores will close down from time to time. They have seriously damaged the peripheral market. Once the reputation of a store has problems, users will come to ask for explanations. If they can't be fooled, these small stores will delete their accounts and run away. Then after a while, the e-commerce software provider will have a new peripheral store name.

One is that they are disrupting the market, and the other is that peripherals are not necessary for most users. For older users, a mouse and keyboard can last five or six years, but young people are more adventurous and like e-sports. Keyboard and gaming mouse, but you won’t have to replace them every year, right?

Computer peripherals are just like home appliances. Once purchased, they can be used for several years.

Besides, Nantong is not the best peripheral manufacturer on the market, but is wandering in the middle, unable to get up or down. Therefore, Mr. He is actually under a lot of pressure.

But now, Nanxing is here to relieve him.

Therefore, the transaction was extremely smooth, and it was so smooth that Feng Shuyun felt a sense of accomplishment again.

He thought it was due to his own charisma, but Lin Yuan could only say, It's not how charming you are, boss. In fact, it's the effect of money, my treasure.

Arriving in the capital in the morning, Lin Yuan and Feng Shuyun booked a flight back to Los Angeles at eight o'clock in the evening. They did not go to see Shu Shu during this period. It was already after one o'clock in the evening when they got home.

After going to the company with Feng Shuyun the next day, Lin Yuan officially started work again, continuously inputting the new game information collected in his mind into his laptop and integrating the details.

Well. Seeing how serious Lin Yuan was, Feng Shuyun didn't bother Lin Yuan. She sat in front of her computer, looking at her phone, wondering where she was going to catch Pokémon in Los Angeles this afternoon.

To be honest, Lin Yuan was really speechless because of his addiction to Feng Shuyun's Pokémon Go. He told Feng Shuyun to give him an internal account. Anyway, as long as Feng Shuyun didn't touch the ladder, no players would find out if he played it as a stand-alone player. But what did Feng Shuyun say?

She wants to enjoy herself with the people, not through the back door.

Damn, is it weird for your boss to open a test account to play games? As long as there are restrictions, it will not affect the game environment at all. What the hell is having fun with the people?

Oh, forget it, when the new game is released, Lin Yuan can guarantee that a serious game enthusiast like Feng Shuyun will definitely stay in the air-conditioned room and play hard!

Ah, having said that, many people must already know what game Lin Yuan bought.

The controller is suitable for console games and can also be played on PC. It is also known as a god-like existence in the gaming world.

So besides Lao Ren, which other game manufacturer can be hailed as a god-like existence in the gaming industry?

Yes, Lin Yuan chose Nintendo games for his new game. As Nintendo continues to define games and explore new game directions, their games will always bring different shocks to game producers.

Before getting into this industry, all Lin Yuan knew about Nintendo was nothing more than Super Mario, controllers, family fun, consoles, etc. However, after getting into this industry, and after two years of officially making games, Lin Yuan realized the importance of Nintendo in the minds of gamers. What kind of existence is it in.

Let’s not talk about Nintendo saving the game market before 2000, but let’s talk about Nintendo’s long-standing game policy. They have really achieved how to make games fun.

If Lin Yuan were asked to classify the game companies on earth in his previous life.

First of all, there are some game companies that you have no idea what they are doing and they don’t know what they are doing. Anyway, they just make some stupid stuff and then make money and that’s it.

Then there are some game companies that are quite satisfactory and can stably produce 3A works with good game quality but fluctuating. They are sometimes ghosts and ghosts, and they will feed players shit from time to time. This is most obvious after the intervention of capital.

Then there are some game companies that are above average. Even people who don’t play games often may know their names, such as Sega, and Blizzard in the past. These game companies sometimes mess up things. Yes, but it can be remedied, well, except for Blizzard.

Then there are some fantasy god manufacturers, V Club and Rockstar are the most typical examples. Is there anyone who doesn’t love GTA?

And ranking above these game companies is Nintendo.

If we only talk about existence, Lin Yuan thinks it is too much to discuss Nintendo and other game companies together, because Nintendo exists beyond the discussion and is outside the scope of the discussion.

This is not Lin Yuan's blind praise. It is precisely because of making games, and precisely because he has slowly integrated into this industry and become a game producer that Lin Yuan respects Nintendo more and more.

Can you believe that until now, Nintendo still has fun as its core?

It sounds strange. If the game is not fun, can it be called a game? But in fact, the funny thing is that most games are not fun. The way to play is the same. Changing the template is like serving it hot and cold. In most games, you can't see any changes at all.

After the intervention of capital, the direction of most game manufacturers in producing games has changed. From the purpose of fun to the purpose of making money. It's not shabby to make money, but it's shabby to go against the players and make money by cheating them.

But Nintendo is different. Innovation is their greatest strength.

A genius like Miyazaki Hidetaka was also impressed by Uncle Cat's talent. Many players once compared the Souls series with Ocarina of Time, thinking that the Souls series is the textbook for 3D action games, but Miyazaki Yinggao felt very inappropriate after hearing this. He thought it was unfair to Ocarina of Time and thought it was not worth it at all.

He personally said that Ocarina of Time is his favorite RPG game, and it can also be called a textbook for 3D action games.

This is nothing more than a slap in the face to some stupid and dutiful son.

Listen to what your master said, does this slap on the face hurt?

And having said all that, what game did Lin Yuan buy?

As I said before, the purpose of making new games is not to make money or anything like that. At present, Pokémon GO is enough for Nanxing to make money. The purpose of making new games is to stop Feng Shuyun from being everywhere all the time. Running around.

This is Lin Yuan's little idea.

Therefore, the most important thing for a new game is that it is fun, durable and playable.

And what Lin Yuan chose was - The Legend of Zelda.

In a word, if Lao Rennb is a god, then Zelda is the sky!

Although there is no series to pave the way, any one of Zelda's two works, Picnic and Kingdom, can shake up the gaming world.

As the pinnacle of open world games, Picnic tells all game manufacturers what the true definition of open games is.

Is it a pursuit of the real world? Is it imitating the real world?

No, it’s precisely because most developers who make open worlds always want to pursue reality, which leads to a drawback in open games - that is, the game is fun at the beginning, but in the later stages, the content is repeated. Boring.

The complexity of the real world cannot be smoothed out by game manufacturers using a lot of code and logic. On the contrary, excessive pursuit of reality and making the game world environment real will only alienate players and make them not know what they should do. What to do in the game, because the real-world sensory experience will dilute the gameplay and characteristics described by the game itself.

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild teaches a lesson to all gamers.

Fire can keep out the cold, metal can conduct electricity, and it can cause thunder when it rains.

Integrating some simple rules into the fantasy world, players can quickly integrate into the game and feel interesting quickly.

It sounds obviously very simple, and it is a truth that everyone understands, right? But it’s such a simple truth, but many game manufacturers don’t understand it.

In an open world, exploration is not an accessory. Exploration can become the core concept of the game.

So

Should I choose Tears of the Kingdom or Breath of the Wild?

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Lin Yuan had been worried about this for some time before.