Otherworldly Architect

This year's New Year's Eve schedule comes quite quickly, and the holiday has already begun at the end of January.

During the holidays, the most eye-catching news, of course, is that "Hunter World" will be released on Valentine's Day, February 2th!

In addition, there is another piece of news that makes people in the industry quite emotional: the disintegration of cruise capital.

Since the year before last, the Rising Sun Alliance's game publishing policy has been tightening. From the initial era when the version number was almost unlimited, it has subtly transitioned to the current era of strict review.

As the weight of various channels becomes more and more important, such as cruise ships, which mainly rely on traffic to promote games, the profits are gradually becoming thinner and thinner.

After all, they are not professional gamers, they are just making a product!

Compared with commodities, their games are not irreplaceable, and their channels cannot compete with Atlas and IPP, two market monopoly companies. Even when it comes to brand trademarks, they are notorious in the industry...

Under such circumstances, everyone said that the game circle has entered a cold winter this year.

But this cold winter is relative.

It is not always a bad thing for the state to take action to rectify an industry.

Although it seems to many people that the sky is falling, it is only a shock for a period of time to the market. Thousands of people will still work steadily, and the industrial chain will eventually be stable. run down.

This two-year-long rectification has directly led to the verge of bankruptcy of many "gu-raising" game companies in the market.

——Now is no longer the era when you can make money by giving some traffic to some junk games! !

Like a cruise ship, acquiring a studio + imitating market hotspots + promoting through paid channels + consuming game life to realize quick cash...

This series of classic techniques is also quite applicable in other related fields such as film and television, animation, and news media.

But if you still count on it to make a profit, the final outcome is complete bankruptcy.

Facts have proved that players are all tasteful and judgmental, and netizens are not all fools.

Those who dare to fool others will eventually be abandoned by fate.

In mid-January, a number of bigwigs sensed the direction of the policy and withdrew their capital from the cruise ship capital. The latter soon announced its disintegration into several consortiums and divided its own industry into several parts.

This giant consortium gave up its absolute dominance in many fields, and dropped from the alliance's T0 level power to the T1 echelon.

The game business part of it has also been downgraded in many regions.

Of the dozen or so internal studios, three of them have invested in repurchases and declared independence;

There are 11 projects in progress in the remaining studio, and after a series of "reviews and reviews", they were cut off in half.

This made their influence in the game industry directly fall back to the level of second-rate enterprises.

——People in the industry are all celebrating! !

With the general implementation of policy changes, channel people shouted "winter is coming", but indie gamers are shouting "spring is here".

In the past, 60% of the success of a game depended on the traffic, that is, it was controlled by the channel person.

But now that the policy is adjusted and the channel is cold, 60% of the success of the game has returned to the hands of pure gamers.

They finally no longer have to look at the face of the channel to eat. Now that everyone has no injection of edge-to-edge traffic, they have to rely on strength to head-to-head again. Why can't they be happy?

What's more, they now have the Blue Star platform, and the channel fee charged by Blue Star's father is more than half that of the other two...

As expected, Blue Star was not short of money at all, and the platform was just for fun. They were convinced by the "Dad".

After the Bluestar platform was launched, it also quickly seized the market share, reaching 20% ​​within two months, and it is still growing rapidly.

Many people working on digital distribution platforms exclaimed in fear: Wolf is coming.

It's just that Bluestar doesn't do much market competition, and even maintains a good cooperative relationship with a number of distribution platforms. At first glance, it looks like a real Buddhist system, and the platform is purely to meet its own needs.

——For the babies in the morning star hatchery.

In fact, at the beginning of the year, "People", one of the most influential publications of the Chaoyang Alliance, selected Mingyan as last year's "Person of the Year".

On the one hand, last year's "lost horse" incident really spread the word Mingyan throughout the entire league, and anyone with ears has heard of his deeds;

On the other hand, last year's Morningstar Incubation Park had a bumper harvest, and a large number of independent games took advantage of the collapse of cruise capital to emerge, and Morningstar Incubation Park lost about 20 billion cash in order to carry out distribution and publicity——

Now, everyone in Interstellar knows that the cash came from Tulong Baodao Studio, which is of course equivalent to Mingyan himself.

This charity work, when the players heard Mingyan's name, they immediately became awe-inspiring, wishing they could take off their hats and salute.

In fact, during the interview, they also asked clearly: "I heard that your annual personal charity spending is close to 10 billion yuan. Is this true?"

Mingyan nodded in acknowledgment.

"Such a large sum of money is unimaginable for ordinary people. How did you make the decision? Have you ever felt distressed?"

Ming Yan said with a smile: "Money, if you have been saving it on your body, you are dead. Only the money that is spent and circulated is alive. If this is the case, just take it out and do a little favor to solve other people's urgent needs. If I make a small contribution to the development of the game industry, it will help myself again."

After thinking about it, he added another sentence: "In fact, every dollar used for charity will eventually turn into two dollars and return to Blue Star."

In fact, what he said is the truth, charity is the cause with the highest rate of return in the world!

However, for some reason, they started to look at Mingyan with reverent eyes!

Mingyan: "..." I'm not, I haven't, Blue Star really didn't lose money...

Listen to his explanation!

Why from many years ago, everyone thought that Lan Xing was a fairy sister who ate wind and drank dew, aloof from the world!

On the cover of "People" magazine, it is clearly stated that he is not in suits and shoes like other big shots.

He is still dressed very casually, with a plaid shirt on his upper body and jeans on his lower body, the kind that not many people will pay attention to when walking on the street.

In front of him, there was a whiteboard with a half-written draft of the new game design on it.

Looking at Mingyan of the game, there is a natural focus and enthusiasm in his eyes——

As long as he is doing the career he loves, pure happiness and satisfaction have filled his life.

Even after receiving such an honor, Mr. Ming still went to and from get off work happily every day, and even took the initiative to shut him up in a small dark room.

Because February 2th is Valentine's Day, Xia Xiaocheng dragged him out to travel.

So a few days before the release, he paid close attention to the current situation of the project, and after confirming that everything was ready, he let go of the spacecraft.

The person of the year, Boss Ming, ran away, and the remaining employees were lying in the Big Blue Star Building waiting for the sale.

On February 2th, many players lined up in the experience hall outside to buy the physical version of "Hunter World". The team has been winding around seven streets.

The local police station began to help people help out again, and even restricted the traffic in several nearby blocks, barely able to control the situation on the scene.

It's Valentine's Day!

Fortunately for the single players, they must have been looking forward to this day;

And the players who have a partner are more entangled. Some people asked for leave with their girlfriends in advance, and some people went bankrupt and bought bags to coax their wives;

Others simply took their girlfriends to play together, bought two copies of "Hunter World" in one go, and taught them how to play the game;

There are still a small number of people who are more miserable. After experiencing a series of questions such as "the game is more important or me", with red marks on their faces that have not gone away, they started to download the game...

The small roadside media also interviewed one of them: "Excuse me, do you answer whether the game is important or the girlfriend?"

The answer was: "Nonsense! Of course the game is important, not to mention it is a new game from Blue Star! You can find another girlfriend if you lose your girlfriend, but the physical version of "Hunter World" is only released once, and if you miss it, you will lose it!!"

Although this honest young man lost his girlfriend just like that.

But he was on fire.

Even under the interview video, there are very popular forwarded comments:

[Just kidding, this is a top masterpiece led by Mr. Ming, the person of the year, which took the top team Bluestar Studios nearly a year, spent hundreds of millions, and used countless resources. I invested so much just to let me have the best game. Experience, that is, make me happy! !In this way, I am simply a god, no one is worthy of me! (Akimbo.jpg)]

Of course, most players are still immersed in the game of "Hunter World" at this time.

The first time they logged in with the Bluestar platform, they also found several linkage messages.

——Players of "Dragon Hunter" can directly import the data of their own dragons. When selecting and catching pets in "Hunter World", they can directly choose their own dragons.

——Players of "League of Legends" can choose to import a profession that they have obtained an S-level evaluation to obtain the appearance of a special weapon and improve their proficiency in weapon skills by one level.

——Players of "Xia Ke Xing" will be given a set of antique hero outfit as a gift.

With all the above linkages, a small gift bag was given for nothing, which contained the food, medicine, whetstone and other materials needed by the hunter.

"Did you just send so many things when you came in? As expected of Blue Star, rich and powerful—hahahahaha, I'm already invincible!!"

Zhou Liye excitedly pasted the appearance of the weapon on his beginner's double knives, and then put on a bunt and a hero's cloak (Note: the appearance with a defense of 0).

Then, he didn't see the novice hunter training camp on the side of the road at all, screamed, and rushed to the gate of the hunter camp...