Losing Money to Be a Tycoon

There are also environmental issues.

The soul game was not very successful from the beginning, it also experienced a process from low to high sales.

From the earliest "Devil's Soul", to "Dark Soul", "Bloodborne Curse" to "Dark Soul 3", and finally to "The Wolf", overall, the difficulty is gradually decreasing.

While retaining the essence of the soul-based game, the difficulty is gradually reduced, but sales are steadily increasing.

This shows that adding difficulty can indeed reduce sales.

Moreover, the success of soul-based games is divided into regions.

"Devil's Soul" is a game that was completely contrary to what the publisher requested. The old thief of Miyazaki took care during the development and did not fully follow the requirements above, but made a completely own game. Style game.

When the senior executives discovered this problem, the demon souls were almost finished, and the people above were angry, but there was nothing they could do, so they had to be dead horse doctors.

At first, even the publisher was not optimistic. If it wasn't for the project leader Kenji Ken repeatedly insisting, perhaps this game would not be able to meet the players.

On the eve of the release, the famous video game magazine FAMITong gave it a low score of 29 points (out of 40 points).

This game is quite street-bound in the country, and the old thief Miyazaki tried to contact the European and American publishers, but the result was unexpectedly hot!

The key factor here is that the soul series games just fit the tastes of **** stand-alone players in Europe and the United States.

The soul series games are really on fire in China, basically it will be about 15 years ago.

At present, the domestic game environment is generally in line with Pei Qian's memory. Highly difficult games are relatively niche games and are not popular.

In this case, to make a highly difficult soul-based game, only released in China, isn't it enough?

Moreover, in order to prevent this game from being discovered by players in Europe and the United States, it has been deliberately made into a Chinese background and added a cultural barrier so that European and American players ca n’t even understand how to play!

Pei Qian couldn't help being very proud. Sure enough, human creativity is endless.

If it was not for a loss, he would not know that he could come up with such a good idea!

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Pei Qian told the crowd very concisely about the positioning of the game, which summed up five requirements in total.

First, this is a game with a Chinese background. It should be filled with a lot of puzzle elements, and a lot of puzzles and text content should be written in ancient Chinese.

This is mainly to prevent the game from being discovered by European and American players and getting hot.

At that time, excellent ancient writing skills are required to solve the puzzles, and those foreigners will definitely not be able to play for a minute!

And this game is mainly sold in China. Even if it is not available in other languages, it will not be judged as illegal by the system.

Second, this is an extremely difficult game.

Pei Qian demanded that Bao Xu and Lu Mingliang should rack their brains and do everything to make the player fail.

Persuading as many players as possible is their first task.

Third, this is an action game with big scenes.

There must be a large number of models, actions, and scenes in the game, and the budget of all art resources is full!

Do everything you can to spend more!

Of course, this so-called extra money is considered based on the previous investment in Tenda Games. In fact, Pei Qian's psychological limit is only 20 million.

More, he still wants to spend, but the system funds may not be enough.

If it is compared with the super huge amount of tens of millions and hundreds of millions of foreign R & D funds, it cannot be compared. However, compared with the investment of these domestic manufacturers, it is still called a large production.

Fourth, the game will use the longest refund period.

According to the requirements of the official platform, games on the platform can be refunded within 3 hours of the actual game time. This time can only be long and not short.

In fact, most game companies hope that this time can be shortened. Cancellation is better. How can it be proactively lengthened?

But Pei Qian decided that the game will use the longest refund timeline on the official platform, 5 hours!

For many small games, the total game time is only three or four hours. If a 5-hour refund is made, it is crazy, basically no different from free.

But in Pei Qian's view, 3 hours is not really long. When some people play Soul 3, they unknowingly die at the gate of Guda for 3 hours and the refund period has passed.

Pei Qian decided that this game can be refunded within 5 hours, and there will be a line of prompts at the top right of the game when there is a difference of 10 minutes to 5 hours.

Absolutely so that every player who wants to refund will not miss the time.

Fifth, about the name of the game.

In order to avoid the influence of the game name on the players and avoid some innocent people entering by mistake, Pei Qian decided to make the game name as straightforward as possible.

The game is called "Back to the Shore" and contains Pei Qian's sincere advice to players.

After listening to Pei Qian's five-point request, even Bao Xu was stunned.

In Pei Qian's memory, "Devil's Soul" is a game in 2009, but there is no "Devil's Soul" in this world, so even a knowledgeable player like Bao Xu has never heard of such a demented game.

Of course, there are some hard-core games known for their high difficulty, but like Pei Qian, games that directly ask for "every way to make players fail" are rare ...

The others are well understood, but it is just this difficulty that Lu Mingliang and Bao Xu both feel a little blind.

"General Manager Pei, can you elaborate on this difficulty? For example, the boss of the last level, how many percent of the players should be blocked?" Bao Xu asked.

Pei Qian subconsciously wants to say that 99.9999% of the players are stuck!

However, in his vision, a line of words appeared instantly.

【caveat! A game that most people do not have any possible clearance is illegal. The highest difficulty of the game is based on the host being able to get through. 】

Pei Qian's smile froze on her face.

System I tony horse almost blurted out.

Whichever I can get through? Why am I handicapped?

Playing "Fortress at Sea" was abused, and you even let me get through this kind of game, you just told me you can't do it or you're finished!

But Pei Qian didn't panic. After all, he was well-informed, and this small problem couldn't help him.

Whichever I can get through?

That's easy, I just secretly hide something in the game ...

I set that there is a particularly powerful weapon in the game, and this weapon can only be obtained by triggering a very complicated hidden story and advancing in a completely unreasonable game route.

After that, with this powerful weapon, understanding of the soul-based game, and level maps that I knew in advance, I could get through the liver for two or three weeks. It should not be a problem.

In order to lose money, I suffered!

After this idea appeared ~ www.ltnovel.com ~ the system did not warn again, indicating that it was feasible.

Pei Qian smiled slightly and said to Bao Xu: "We will not get any players stuck in the design. In theory, most people can pass the level, but only need some skills."

The implication is that they blame me if they give up on their own.

"Just do it at the highest difficulty you can imagine, and in the end I'll modify it myself."

When this weapon is added, Pei Qian will set the game to the extreme difficulty that he can use this weapon to clear the level, so that he will not be warned by the system.

At that time, players will not be able to get this weapon, but in **** mode, plus 5 hours of unconditional refund, it will definitely make most people retreat!

Lu Mingliang asked: "Mr. Pei, this game is called" Turning Back to the Shore ", and it is also a traditional Chinese background ... What about the specific worldview?"

Pei Qian smiled: "Such a small matter, you decide."