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Fortunately, Zhang Shuo is no longer Wuxia Amon. He usually makes a lot of decisions, and his horizons are naturally wider, and his methods are more flexible. "Look, can Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment set up a transitional game in the beautiful country?" The studio, put all the existing development teams of dota2 in. Then sign a supplementary agreement with Valve Corporation, stipulating that for developers from Valve Corporation, a lock-up period of three to six months can be set. The lock-up period ends Afterwards, these people can return to Valve Corporation."

During the lock-up period, it can ensure that the progress of dota2's internal testing will not be delayed, and at the same time, it will also give Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment time to re-recruit people and re-establish the dota2 follow-up development team.

Two without delay.

"this is okay!"

Cao Yanhua's eyes lit up, "Mr. Zhang is still amazing, I'm almost dying of worry."

"Then hurry up and communicate with V Agency and finalize the contract as soon as possible."

Zhang Shuo is not proud, Cao Yanhua may not have thought of this, but this kind of key decision requires Zhang Shuo to make up his mind.

Isn't that the role of the boss?

.........

Saturday, October 10.

After another round of arduous negotiations, Cao Yanhua finally lived up to his trust and formally signed an acquisition contract with Valve to acquire all the intellectual property rights of dota2.5 at a price of US$2 million.

at the same time.

Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment will also register and establish an independent game studio in the beautiful country, responsible for the follow-up development of dota2.

As for the event management rights of the Dota2 Global Invitational Tournament, it was taken back by Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment in advance, and Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment formed a professional event operation team at the Binhai City headquarters.

Zhang Shuo is not interested in being an angel investor like Tengda. He has already fully owned the fist, but he still handed over the right to run the event.

So what's the matter?

In fact, when Cao Yanhua was negotiating in the beautiful country, Jade Bird Huyu was not idle in China.

With the cooperation of Wu Sheyuan, the selection of suitable developers and event operators has been quietly started, and talent reserves are being prepared for the operation of dota2.

.........

On October 10, Cao Yanhua and his party returned to Binhai City.

Accompanying.

There is also ice frog, the core developer of dota2.

In order to show respect, Zhang Shuo specially met the ice frog in the office, accompanied by Cao Yanhua.

"Boss, I want to know whether the current game studio is fixed or temporary, and whether the follow-up development will be handed over to the headquarters?" Ice Frog was very straightforward.

Talk about the things you care about the most.

"temporary!"

Zhang Shuo's answer was also unequivocal, "The game studio set up in the beautiful country is only a transitional nature. When the development team at the headquarters is ready, it will be based on the headquarters."

There's nothing to hide.

"Then those of us who are not developers of V agency, will we also be fired by the company in the future?" Ice Frog showed an undisguised disappointment on his face.

V agency may not pay much attention to dota2, but dota2 is almost a belief for Icefrog.

When I learned that V Agency was going to sell dota2, Icefrog was about to collapse. Fortunately, a game studio was negotiated later.

This is why.

The Ice Frog Club made a special trip to Binhai City to confirm some things with Zhang Shuo, the big boss.

"No." Zhang Shuo shook his head, "If you want, you can bring your team to work in Binhai City. The headquarters will provide you with the most favorable working conditions, which is no less than that in V Agency."

Although he is not enthusiastic about exploring the international market, it does not prevent Zhang Shuo from hiring global employees.

Buds are very open.

As long as it meets the development needs of Germination and is willing to come, then Germination welcomes it.

"This……"

Ice Frog is obviously hesitant. He is not sure whether he can adapt to work and life in Binhai City. Subconsciously, he still feels that Binhai City is lagging behind the beautiful country.

It's like moving from the city to the countryside.

"The second question, if my team and I are willing to work in Binhai City, can we lead the follow-up development of Dota2?"

The ice frog was still trying to struggle.

"Unfortunately, it doesn't work either."

Zhang Shuo refused again cruelly, "For dota2, the headquarters has its own plan."

"????"

The ice frog couldn't hold it anymore, "Then I go?"

Chapter 274 Nobody Knows Dota Better Than Me!

"why?"

Facing the critical attack from Zhang Shuo, Ice Frog couldn't understand, "Isn't the current Dota 2 not perfect? ​​If it's not done well, then why would Jade Bird Huyu spend a lot of money to buy it?"

From the standpoint of Ice Frog, he originally cooperated well with V Agency, very happy, and even prepared to retire in V Agency, but Blue Bird Interactive Entertainment stepped in and won the love, and bought Dota 2 .

Now it is going to take away the dominance of the development of Dota 2 again, it is driving people crazy.

"Don't be in a hurry."

Zhang Shuo was as calm as ever, "You might as well take a look at this first."

"what is this?"

Ice Frog took a document handed over by Zhang Shuo in doubt.

"These are some major revisions I made to Dota 2. If your team can accept these changes and is willing to work in Binhai City, then you can continue to lead the development of Dota 2 in the future."

Zhang Shuo never fights unprepared battles.

While sending Cao Yanhua to the Beautiful Country to negotiate with V Agency, he was already taking time to write his revisions to Dota 2, hoping to shorten the follow-up development time.

Because from the very beginning, Dota 2 has been a race against time.

In order to make the ice frog understandable, Zhang Shuo even translated into English very intimately. His current English level is sufficient for this kind of daily translation work.

Including communicating with the ice frog now, English is also used throughout the process.

no way.

Who told Wai Guoren that he couldn't learn Chinese?

In the original time and space, there are countless complaints from players about Dota 2, and Zhang Shuo can only make targeted modifications to the main slots.

One is to simplify the registration process.

I don't know how many new players of Dota 2 in China, just about to start playing, were dissuaded by the complicated registration system.

When the original space-time Marubi agent, what Marubi pass, steam account, and then bind it, you may need to go over the wall, so I just persuaded him to quit.

Such a complicated registration system, but it is not bound to the mobile phone number and ID card, leads to the rampant use of trumpets and fish bombs, which further weakens the gaming experience of novice players.

Now that Dota 2 is in the pocket of Jade Bird Interactive Entertainment, it is natural to log on to the steam platform overseas, which is also one of the prerequisites for Valve to agree to sell Dota 2.

Domestically, the registration process can be simplified, and even become its own competition area.

If you want to play with overseas players, you are already an old player. If you bind a steam account at that time, it will not affect the game experience of novice players.

The second is to appropriately reduce the game time.

The specific operation includes introducing the quick mode, compressing the time of a game to about half an hour as much as possible, instead of more than an hour now.

That was simply a torment.

At the same time, the surrender mechanism is introduced, if you can't win, you can gg in advance instead of wasting.

The third is to adjust the number of heroes and game props.

A novice player opens Dota 2 and looks at more than 100 heroes. It is estimated that he will fall into difficulty in choosing. When he enters the game and sees countless items, he is even more confused.

It was so unfriendly.

Zhang Shuo's modification plan is to compress the hero pool in the novice stage. The extra heroes are not meant to be unnecessary, on the contrary, there are many ways to get them.

For example, reaching a certain level automatically unlocks some heroes.

Another example is buying in a mall.

It is also possible to slowly launch some heroes in subsequent large-scale updates.

In this way, it will not be piled up in front of novice players in one breath, and it will not only cater to novice players, but also not be unfriendly to old players.

Proper middle way.

The game props also need to be compressed, but how to compress them is beyond the scope of Zhang Shuo's knowledge, and needs to be carefully studied by the Ice Frog team.

The fourth is to introduce the achievement system.

For example, achievements such as second kill, triple kill, super god, mvp, etc., increase the player's sense of honor.

The fifth is to adjust the ladder matching mechanism.

The most complained about in the original Space-time Dota 2 is the cheating ladder mechanism, which failed to eliminate trumpets, and often matched unsuitable players, cheating time and time again.

It is best to be able to introduce a novice field.

There are other things such as optimizing the novice guide, novice tutorial, and adding a novice training ground. The addition of bits and pieces together is already considered a major change.

but!

Although Zhang Shuo put forward many suggestions for improvement, he did not shake the core gameplay of Dota 2, let alone try to destroy the balance system that Dota 2 is proud of.

Just to do a rebalancing.

"Do all of these have to be changed?"

After reading it, the ice frog's hands were trembling.

This is like a master-level screenwriter who spends years of work and thinks that he has come up with a perfect work, but he has to be instructed by a layman to make changes.

It's just painful.

"It must be changed without compromise." Zhang Shuo was as cold as ever.

He can understand Ice Frog, including some old Dota players' feelings for Dota, but the feelings cannot be used as food, and games that cannot fully win the market are unqualified games.

"I'm going back to discuss with the team."

Ice Frog's current mood is actually very complicated. According to his temper, he should have slapped the table and left long ago, but he really has too much affection for Dota 2 and can't let go.

Just very depressed.

"Yes. In fact, I appreciate you and your team very much, and I look forward to continuing to cooperate with you all the time to make Dota 2 better and better." Zhang Shuo's attitude is sincere.

This is not a cliché.

The fact is that Ice Frog is indeed a god-level developer, and indeed the soul of Dota 2.

It is really hard for Zhang Shuo to imagine, after losing the Ice Frog team, even if he personally checks it, whether Dota 2 can return to the top and overthrow "League of Legends".

Talent is rare.

.........

After meeting Ice Frog in the morning, in the afternoon, Zhang Shuo held a small meeting with Cao Yanhua and Zhao Mingchuan, and the discussion was still about Dota 2.

But it is no longer about the content of the game, but about how to operate Dota 2.

To be honest, in terms of gameplay, in addition to the high entry threshold, Dota 2 actually beats "League of Legends", especially in terms of game balance.

On the other hand.

Whether it is V agency or domestic Marumi, the operation of Dota 2 is a bad batch.

The reason why Dota 2 is getting colder and colder and being crushed by "League of Legends" is not the root of the game content itself, but the huge gap in the operation behind the two.

It can even be said that there is one heaven and one underground.

Tengda may be criticized for its originality, but it is true in terms of operation.

It is worth learning.

Therefore, after buying Dota 2, how to modify the game content is still secondary. The key is to establish an operation plan and act immediately.