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After another two or three days, the players on the computer side continued to clear the level one after another, and different endings were revealed one by one.

After the integration and induction of the players, although the endings and experiences of the six game characters are different, the general direction of the three endings is the same.

There are two major branches when a character chooses a quest orientation.The first big branch is whether to know more secrets of the gang and Gotham, if not, it is divided into two branches.The first branch is to trust the gang, the character will accept the gang's arrangement to become the subject of Bane's venom experiment, and then become a monster; the second branch is to distrust the gang, the character will get to know a character who is both good and evil, in the The ending helps the character to fake death and start over in a new city with a new identity.

If the player completes many difficult tasks to spy on the secrets of the gang during the game, he will enter what the player calls the "true ending".

If the player is controlling a male character, he will be found by the Joker, who will be the boy of the organization and anonymously pass the news to Batman that Bane's weakness is the venom delivery tube behind him.After Batman sends Bane back to prison, he will undergo biological transformation with the help of the Joker's "Arkham friends", become a monster stronger than Bane, and take over Bane gang.

But because of the "little insignificant" problems that some clowns said, the character controlled by the player has psychological problems and becomes a lunatic with high IQ who likes blood and wailing.In the end, he was imprisoned by Batman in the Arkham Mental Hospital. The ending animation was that the clown held a banquet in Arkham to welcome the new "patients", and congratulated Batman in advance for taking another step towards the abyss.

If the player manipulates a female character, because he is afraid to tell Batman everything, Batman defeated Bane, but the female character was tricked by "friends" to go out and meet the clown, and then the ending was similar to that of the male character, except that the female character was transformed The resulting monsters are different.

By the way, the "friend" must be another game character that can be operated, but the player has no choice (see who you finally choose to call to discuss).That character was coerced, and when the character manipulated by the player was transformed, he was killed in revenge.

Except for the ending of leaving Gotham City in a daze, the other two endings are very depressing, making players cry and faint beside the computer, thinking that this anti-crime propaganda is really too powerful.Ignoring the entanglement of the three views during the game can be very exciting.But at the end, I will tell you how cool it is.This kind of strong contrast makes male players use nasty jokes to say that after seeing a beautiful woman/man take off his pants and have a good time, when he pulls up his pants, he finds that the other party smiles at you, and the skin and flesh on his face fall off piece by piece, and it is full of hair. Infested with maggots, I was scared to pee in an instant, and if it was serious, I would not be able to feel happy in this life.

Players are wondering, what kind of grudge do we have with your puppy?Why are you doing this to us?protest!Be sure to protest!

Well, first pass all characters and all endings, and then protest after unlocking the hidden characters.

When the players were excitedly preparing to unlock new characters, they realized that the time of this game is really too long!

It takes about [-] hours for a character to clear the level. Each of the six characters has three endings. How many hours does it take to clear the level?Players report being bald.

Although the same character can be saved at key points, it only takes an hour or two to complete the level.But there are six characters too!It is too difficult to unlock new characters!

If the unlocked new character is also [-] hours of game time, then the content of this game is too rich, right? !How long will it take to play? !

Although some players complained that it was too cumbersome to clear the level, such players were immediately besieged by other players.Ben looked at the puppy's face blog, and they were ready to buy one game and play two games, but now after playing the game, they realized that there are actually two games, but nine games.Even if I speak against my conscience, this is two games plus seven DLCs.Where can I find such a good game?

The players are all crazy, right? !

The players fell into a carnival, and they didn't think there was any problem with the game being too long.Except for the kind of obsessive-compulsive disorder players who have to stay up late and die suddenly if they don't pass the level, players can't wait to buy a game and play it for a lifetime.What's more, although the game time is long, the game content is very rich, and the players don't feel visual fatigue at all.

The "puzzles" of Gotham City given by each character are different. Every time players play a character, they will know more about Gotham City and feel more afraid of this so-called "free" crime city. One point, the teasing of them is one point more distressing than the character cat-eared man Batman.

Now the doubts in the hearts of the players are why Batman insists on the principle of not killing people, why the clown wants Batman to kill people, saying that after Batman kills people, he will become the scariest monster in Gotham City.

This may have to wait until the Batman route to know.

But while the players were partying, the Red Dog faced one of the biggest crises in history.The impact of this crisis on Red Dog may be similar to the crisis in which Red Dog employees were collectively poached during the period of Xianjian.

Although Xiao Gou was vaccinated in advance, and the evaluation team in the United States also evaluated this game, but obviously the evaluation team only played one character. Like the majority of players, they thought that these three characters were the same as ordinary linear games. The so-called character selection is just the player's choice of which character in the team to control.

But what they didn't expect was that Red Dog was so frantic that he designed tasks for each character that fit their identities. Although they were together most of the time, the main tasks were almost all different.In particular, the tasks of male and female characters are almost completely different.

Other games will of course play this way, but this is all follow-up paid DLC.How can there be such a big sale at a loss like Red Dog, making all free content in one go?Even though the price of this game is very high, it is not twice as high as ordinary games. Considering that Red Dog got funds from the state, many game manufacturers, especially foreign game manufacturers, feel very uncomfortable.

Therefore, after the game companies made small reports to their bosses, various groups made efforts one after another. Many countries launched anti-dumping investigations against Red Dog. According to their requirements, in addition to demanding a fine for Red Dog, they also Red Dog is required to lock the three new characters that can be unlocked for free after clearing all the endings of the six characters.

Because there are so many countries involved in this anti-dumping investigation, the scattered fines are added up and converted into Chinese currency, and Red Dog has to pay a total of about 150 billion Chinese currency in fines.

As soon as this incident happened, both Xiao Gou and Qiao Hong were dumbfounded.They never expected that these people would be so shameless.

Anti-dumping is generally used as a means of fighting trade wars between countries. No one can say who is right and who is wrong about low-price dumping. After all, the production costs of commodities in each country are different.But the "investigation" on Red Dog is the world's first "anti-dumping investigation" on non-physical goods.

It is easy to understand that the country will not conduct "anti-dumping investigations" on non-physical commodities before, because the non-physical commodity market is difficult to saturate.Unless the industry in this area is very weak in the country, such as Huaguo, if the market is not protected, it may be difficult for domestic companies to compete, so it will be slightly more difficult in tariffs and approvals.But dumping a certain company is really unjustifiable.

Taking games as an example, even if Gotham City takes a long time to clear the customs, can it be longer than online games and mobile games that require liver?No matter how fun Gotham City is, it is impossible for players to fight and kill in Gotham City all the time to feel the depressing atmosphere.Except for the initial fresh period, players can play in Gotham City for an hour or two at most every day, and then come out to breathe and play other more relaxing games.

Even without a specific investigation, it is known that only one game is installed on the player's gaming device.

Besides, the quality of the Red Dog game is too high, and the content is too much, which seems to be inconsistent with the market value.Huaguo players have the most say.

For commodities such as games, all costs, including time costs and labor costs, are linked to technology.The more advanced the technology, the higher the quality of the product and the lower the price.For example, compared with the games of the same price in the same year, the quality of the games in the Huaguo market is completely incomparable.Are games from other countries dumped at low prices?

Not to mention games, the same is true for other technology products.Needless to say, compared with current mobile phones, mobile phones five years ago have no memory, resolution, etc., but the price is much more expensive than current mobile phones.This is the cost reduction brought about by technology.

Red Dog has advanced game design technology, it makes games with better quality and lower cost, what's the problem?What's more, this low is only in relative terms.The selling price of the Red Dog game has set a new record for the highest selling price in the history of global games. Is it not enough?

The only national investment that can be justified is actually not a problem.This was originally one of the projects based on the global game carnival that Huaguo will hold.Not only China, but all countries participating in this carnival have allocated funds to game manufacturers in their own countries to produce new games with customized content.Other game makers planned to make a game about Huaguo culture, while Red Dog was asked to make a game with pure Western culture.

Moreover, although it was an investment, Red Dog took the initiative to use the investment as a loan because it was too honest. It was also before the game was released that the official media once bragged about Red Dog.

A week after the game was released, Red Dog announced that it had paid off the debt.The official media also ridiculed that you don't want the free money, and you owe the debt yourself, and you make it look like you are under a lot of pressure. How embarrassing you are for the country.

These things happened before the anti-dumping.

The players in Huaguo were outraged.They list out the absurdities raised by the anti-dumping investigation one by one, and they can refute the anti-dumping investigation to nothing without the help of experts and only the half-knowledge of the general public.

Foreign players are also confused.How does this game involve red dog dumping?Indeed, the quality of this game is much higher than other games on the market. Red Dog also set the highest price in history for its own game, but the price is not twice the previous highest price. It seems that The price is definitely low, but you have to see, that game was an old game ten years ago, can it be compared with each other?

Well, even compared with this year's games, the trend of games is getting better and better, and the price is getting lower and lower. Red Dog is just at the forefront.

If the content of this game is too much, let’s not mention Ling Zhan and Endless as half-online games for the time being, Honghuang is always a stand-alone game in the popular sense, right?Although you can form a team, there is no content that you have to form a team to play. Many games can now be teamed up to play stand-alone, right?Isn't there a lot of content in the prehistoric game?There is no so-called customs clearance at all in Honghuang. As long as you are interested in this game, you can keep playing it for ten years, 20 years, 30 years, or even a lifetime.Is Hong Huang's game quality lower than this Gotham City game?

I have no idea what's going on in the minds of those who say Red Dog is dumping.

When the media leaked that this was the pressure exerted by several big conglomerates with game companies on the government, foreign players couldn't help being outraged.

Huaguo's game technology has long lagged behind the world, and now it has reached the same level as everyone else.The game made by Huaguo has been proven by other game companies to follow suit, and everyone can do it now.Since Red Dog can do it, you just follow suit. What's so difficult about it?

Huaguo did invest nearly 3 million in Red Dog, but is this investment more than what you boasted in previous games?Which of your [-]A-level games is not an investment of one or two billion yuan?Moreover, Red Dog sold for a return of its capital a week after it was officially released, and the "arrears" were also paid.It shows that as long as the game is done well, it is still very easy to make money with such a large investment.Does this scare you to put pressure on the government to strangle the red dog in the cradle?

There are also foreign technical geeks and Chinese technical nerds who have joined forces to conduct a cost analysis of the Gotham City game.They compare the games that are currently available on the market.From textures to rendering, from combat system to optimization, in addition to the more vivid expressions on the faces of the character models, including the linkage between NPCs and NPCs, they are all technologies that have been realized in the game so far.Under the premise of the same map, the increased cost of Red Dog should be in the plot.The script of Gotham City this time must be very thick, thick enough to be read as a novel.

The so-called rich content of the game is reflected in the plot.Generally speaking, such a long plot will actually make players feel bored.But Red Dog is very clever in choosing different characters to illustrate the stories they want to tell from various angles.

From this point, it can be seen that Red Dog did have the intention of selling DLC ​​for free when it was first produced.The first six characters can only see a one-sided view of Gotham. Only when players have played the six characters will they have the most basic understanding of the city.As for a higher level of understanding, it is necessary to play three positive roles.This is why Red Dog requires all six characters to be cleared before they can play the remaining three characters.

How can players feel the darkness and helplessness of this city without starting from the perspective of small characters?How can you feel the greatness of the heroes?

Rather than saying that the high quality of the Gotham game lies in the rich plot, it is better to say that the high quality lies in the conception.See the big from the small, and gradually deepen, this idea is very suitable for constructing a world view of a series of games.It can be seen that Red Dog is very ambitious. Gotham City is just the beginning of a game series. In the future, many stories will be staged in Gotham City, and even maps outside Gotham City.

Other game makers get inspiration from the game Gotham City, and when they make games with a grand world view in the future, they will know what angle to start from.

To sum up, the development cost of Red Dog is indeed controlled within the announced [-] million yuan.

"This is still the cost accounting after counting the script, graphics, etc. as additional costs. In fact, the script and art materials are all completed by Red Dog itself, so they should be counted as man-hour costs, not additional costs." These technical geeks also reminded, "However, we consider the research and development costs of new technologies, so these man-hour costs are counted as additional costs."

Players at home and abroad have united, hoping to withdraw the anti-dumping investigation.Some foreign people who are not players first support the country, and then after watching their own people analyze the pros and cons one by one, they can't help feeling that the country has made a bad move.

How many games can Huaguo export?How many games can Red Dog produce each year?But if Huaguo retaliates against this anti-dumping, how many innocent people will be killed by this disorderly punch?Or is the country using this excuse to escalate the trade war, and everyone will fight together in other industries?

Is this a full meal?Isn't everyone in harmony?How much will this cost the business?

After discussing with Qiao Hong, Xiao Gou decided to be tough.It is true that if we lose foreign markets now, Red Dog will lose more than half of its income.But this precedent cannot be set. The 150 billion fine cannot be paid by Red Dog.Even if the country said it would pay for the Red Dog, they would never want the money.

Xiao Gou regretted it very much at first, he didn't expect such a thing to happen.Qiao Hong comforted: "As the players said, is the story of this game too long? Is the game time too long? The number of missions on this map is more than that of many open-map games that follow the trend. Is it? We just designed a few more character models to let them experience different mission plots. For us, including the latter three hero characters, they are all different routes in the same game, and they are not supplementary content at all. , Why split it up and sell it? We can stand up to this reasoning. Their anti-dumping just saw that we could threaten their strength and wanted to put pressure on us to slow down our development."

"There is no this time, there will be a next time. You should be glad that this game is about American culture, which is more in line with the appetite of foreign players than our previous games. Otherwise, the protests this time would not be so loud." Qiao Hong said, " And as you said, after cutting off foreign profits, our company only relies on the market in Huaguo, and we are well fed. Now we have no plans to build factories abroad. As long as we refuse to admit it, they will not be able to freeze it. Our property. Besides, even if we lock the IP, will foreign players really be unable to play the game? I think they will have the perseverance to overcome the wall.”

Xiao Gou was comforted by Qiao Hong, and after meeting with the Tourism Management Committee, he bluntly said that he would never give up this time, even if the overseas market was cut off, he would never give this group of people a penny.When the Tourist Management Committee said that after weighing the pros and cons, the fine could be paid if the fine was reduced, Xiao Gou still refused: "It's not about money. Without the overseas market, Red Dog can still make some money. Director, you have to trust Hua Guo market."

The director of the Tourist Management Committee sighed: "It is profitable, but your profit is at least half."

Xiao Gou pouted his neck and said, "The country does not lack our foreign exchange. Besides, who said that if they banned our games, we would have no income overseas? Now that Red Dog's reputation has been established, players all over the world know it. Red Dog was framed and suppressed because the game was too good to be feared by those game makers who didn't know how to make progress. Red Dog's games are equal to conscience, and there will never be fewer players who overcame the wall to buy our games. And, believe me, Red Dog They can't crack the dog game, they can only buy the genuine version."

Director of the Tourist Management Committee and Xiao Gou made up his mind, and said: "Well, this time there are two opinions. Whichever side you choose is beneficial to the country. The point is what you Red Dog thinks is better. As long as you are good, the country will rest assured. Yes. Then we will continue to negotiate here, and you can release an uncompromising announcement to the outside world.”

When Xiao Gou was communicating with the Tour Management Committee, Qiao Hong was also called by Mr. Zou to have a heart-to-heart talk.When Mr. Zou heard Qiao Hong's determination, he said, "Be tough, like me! Since you can stand it, then bear it first, and the country will not treat you badly."

Qiao Hong thought, no matter how the country decides to retaliate, Xiao Gou has already decided how to retaliate.

Xiao Gou has decided to update the Red Dog game designer and Red Dog server, which are only a little more advanced than the most advanced game designer and server in the world, and only for the Huaguo market.At the same time, he will open the sale of Red Dog glasses-related technology patents to help the domestic smart glasses market upgrade its technology. Anyway, Red Dog has no plans to set foot in the smart glasses market other than gaming equipment, and it can't do everything.

In addition, Xiao Gou said that the holographic technology that has not yet been obtained will be directly donated to the country for free, so that the country will directly lead the world in the core field of the virtual world, assuming the world's first brand new virtual network.

Although it has not been obtained yet, Xiao Gou said that there will be. Qiao Hong, who has probably guessed what Xiao Gou's golden finger is, of course believes that this technology will definitely be available.

When I think that Xiao Gou doesn't even want money, and what he gives to the country is not a weakened version of technology, it can be seen how angry Xiao Gou is.

After communicating with the above, this time Red Dog learned the lesson of the fairy sword encounter, and specially communicated with the employees to strengthen their confidence.

"You have to believe that, excluding the overseas market, Red Dog is still as strong as ever based on the Huaguo market alone. You will not lose your job, and your salary will not be reduced. The loss of Red Dog means that the global expansion plan has failed. You want to go abroad. It is impossible to be the person in charge, although Da Qiao and I haven’t started drafting the global expansion plan yet. So we will give everyone a salary increase as compensation.” Xiao Gou half-jokingly half-seriously said, “Regardless of the results of this anti-dumping investigation How, our Red Dog will not be affected. Even if we close overseas IP downloads, will overseas players really stop playing our games? We will wait and see!"

The employees of Red Dog were full of confidence, and said Mr. Xiao, you talk too much nonsense. We are only worried if you say that Red Dog decides to pay the fine.

Xiao Gou breathed a sigh of relief.It seems that he and Qiao Hong are overthinking. The employees' confidence in Red Dog now is completely different from when Red Dog was first established.