Game Development: I Built a Game Empire

The RPG map of "Warcraft" is actually not very troublesome, and Chen Xu is responsible for all of the maps.

It will be done in about a week.

But as I said, I still have to take a break when I have time.

And if Qin Yi and the three of them are concerned, they will almost have to find something to do.

Among them, Zhao Shan and Chen Qingzhu are okay, and they are mainly responsible for art.

But whether it is the genre of RPG or tower defense TD in several games, for Qin Yi, how to deal with the values in them is a more important problem to consider.

There is also the question of balance on all fronts.

For RPG maps, some imbalances don't matter.

But after the development of Warcraft is over, no matter what type of game it is, the numerical part is the top priority.

So there should be a workout in advance.

And it's almost a month since Warcraft was launched.

During this period, the total sales of "Warcraft" reached a total of 3.1 million copies, but the sales growth of the latter one was also significantly slowed down compared to the previous one.

In terms of revenue, most of the sales come from the independent Fengyun game platform, and there is no need to take a 3% commission from the official platform.

In addition, today's Fengyun game is still a tax holiday, so the income in hand is almost 260 million.

The development costs of "Warcraft" have long been earned, and it has made a profit of more than 100 million.

However, in Chen Xu's opinion, the current content volume of "Warcraft" can reach 3.1 million copies, which is already very top.

So a follow-up map editor plan is also going to be put on the agenda.

After all, in the previous life, "Warcraft" was able to reach such a height.

It's not just Warcraft's RTS gameplay.

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Fished for a few days.

During this time, Shark TV has also begun to prepare for an event of "Warcraft".

The other party also negotiated with Chen Xu in advance.

The first "Warcraft" competition mainly adopted the mode of offline players and online audiences.

It's not to save costs or anything, but to be able to take advantage of the hottest time of "Warcraft" now.

Chen Xu also agreed.

Offline is indeed very important, but the popularity of online viewing is a fundamental to the promotion of games.

From this point of view, Chen Xu and Shark TV's goals are the same.

In addition, including the Fengyun game platform, Chen Xu also co-organized an event with Shark TV.

Golden Weekend Tournament.

There will be a contest every weekend, sponsored by Shark TV.

Anyone with a Ranked score of 2000 or more in Warcraft can sign up.

The champion has a bonus of 3,000 yuan, the runner-up 1,500 yuan, the third runner-up 500 yuan, and the third runner-up 200 yuan.

In addition to the first edition of Warcraft Esports, invited players will also be invited from the top three winners of the Golden Weekend tournament.

The rest of the contestants need to go to the audition.

Of course, all on the Fengyun game platform.

However, for Chen Xu, this is to strengthen the platform stickiness of "Warcraft" players.

Relying on a Golden Weekend tournament to be able to make the Fengyun game platform fight out of the encirclement, that is too unrealistic.

But relying on "Warcraft" to gain a foothold temporarily, this is not much of a problem.

During this period of time, the success of "Warcraft" also attracted a lot of media who wanted to contact Chen Xu for an interview.

Among them is the former Game Research Society.

However, they were all shirked by Chen Xu.

Now his words, in fact, there is no need for interviews to increase his popularity.

The previous award of "The Shore of the Land", coupled with the success of "Warcraft", now Chen Xu's official blog fans have reached a value of more than 2 million.

Although there is definitely water in it, for example, many players just paid attention to Chen Xu on a whim.

Usually, even if Chen Xu posts an official blog, these players don't necessarily really care.

But anyway, the number is here.

As long as Chen Xu has any news released from the official blog, someone in the game circle will know.

Thus forming the secondary propagation of the message.

So now, Chen Xu doesn't care much about interviews with some ordinary game media.

There's no need to waste this time.

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The next day, Chen Xu drove downstairs to Fengyun Games.

At about eight o'clock in the morning, Chen Xu saw a group of people queuing up at the door to go through the formalities.

"Mr. Chen is here, Mr. Chen is here!"

"Mr. Chen, can you take a group photo?"

Seeing Chen Xu's arrival, everyone was very excited.

And Chen Xu was also speechless.

It was okay some time ago, but after the news of the "Warcraft" tournament was issued, a group of players poured in into the experience store.

Even if Chen Xu told Han Yue to change the rules of the experience store and impose a time limit, it still didn't stop these enthusiastic players.

"I'll notify you of new content on the official blog, and there's no new content for you to experience now. Chen Xu said a little speechless as he opened the door.

"That's different, playing in your experience store is like divine help!"

"Yes, yes, I scored 100 points in the experience store yesterday, and it's almost 2000 points!"

"It's not, I still have an Internet café to play at home, and I don't jump with a fatal blow from the first Sword Saint Learning, but it's a mess in the experience store!"

Everyone found all kinds of metaphysical reasons, and Chen Xu was speechless for a while.

After dealing with these players, Chen Xu didn't care about them.

Anyway, the rules have been set, and if you have to treat the experience store as a two-hour Internet café, then it's up to you.

Coming to the second floor, Qin Yi and Zhao Shan were already working.

The three of them were using the map editor in front of the computer, studying the map plan book that Chen Xu gave them.

Chen Xu came behind the three people, looked at it a few times, and didn't say anything.

Let them do it themselves first, and when the finished product comes out, he will check it and point out the problem.

Anyway, the RPG map is not in a hurry at the moment.

In the planning, at least wait until after this competition.

As for Han Yue, it is an official forum responsible for building Warcraft.

Creating a social circle of players is also what Chen Xu has been emphasizing and doing.

Among them, "Genki Knight" and "Three Kingdoms" are not very successful, mainly because the proportion of casual these two games is too large.

To put it simply, it is not hardcore enough, and the content is not advanced enough.

In the two games "The Shore of the Land" and "Warcraft", the situation of the player's community is much better.

After paying attention to the situation, Chen Xu returned to the office, but as soon as he sat down, he received a phone call that surprised him.

"Warcraft's intentions and plans for overseas release?" Chen Xu listened to the meaning expressed by the other party, and was a little surprised.