Otherworldly Architect

Because of this promotion, many people who don't play the game suddenly paid attention to this game, and they all fumbled into the Blue Star forum.

And the hospitable Mingjiao, of course, opened the Amway mode for the first time.

"Friend, have you heard of the League of Legends? You must have heard of it!"

"Then you must have heard of the way of the assassin, right, right, the one that dominated the hot search recently..."

"Come here, look at our teachings, and read to me: Blue Star's products must be excellent!"

"Look at the Knights Card Competition! That's right, it's playing cards. Our capital pool now has more than 800,000..."

In this world, strictly speaking, there is basically no one who has never played games.

The definition of a game can be very broad, of course, including those virtual bubbles on electronic devices, but it can also include competition on the field, and it can also include the glass ball you bounced when you were a child.

The game is a paradise version of life, in which: all efforts will be rewarded, all waiting only takes a few seconds at most, everything revolves around the protagonist, and all regrets can be easily recovered. ...

Nobody dislikes games.

Of course, for the industry, people who have not been exposed to traditional video games can be called "light players".

can you hear me! Still a player!

The only difference is that he has not yet generously opened his e-wallet.

It's not that "light gamers" don't like games, it's just that they lack an opportunity to understand.

In many cases, the first game that leads them into the electronic world will become their "emotional masterpiece" on the top of their hearts.

For example, Dragon Sword Studio's first game "Defying the Sky", although it is a vulgar money-making game, but after six or seven years, the first batch of players are already old, and they begin to spontaneously miss the past. My sweat...and money.

No matter what can be recalled and plated with a layer of gold, this is called feeling.

Now let these players recall it again, then they themselves don't know how they fell into this pit, why are they suddenly fascinated and addicted?

Sure enough, the game is so fun!

Blue Star's games are all masterpieces with full marks or close to full marks, and their inherent attraction is completely beyond other entertainment methods.

As long as "light players" have a little understanding, as long as they have watched the promotional video, and have only entered the game experience for one minute, they will not be able to pull it out at all.

After the advertisement of "Dragon Hunter" went live, in a few days, the sales of the first few works of Blue Star Studio suddenly increased slightly.

Everyone understands it very well: because the new game has not yet come out, hungry players will choose to play other games to satisfy their hunger, which is completely normal.

Moreover, several AR games next door have suddenly increased a lot of registered users.

AR is an old technology after all, and the government has supported such projects for many years.

In this market, there are already several classic AR works.

Because of the government support in the past few years, although these works are not popular, they have a high tax-free threshold, which is equivalent to a good business ability.

For the tax-free quota, there have also been many large companies competing for shares.

The current situation is almost stable, and the biggest winner in the AR game market is cruise capital.

Cruise Capital is also an old acquaintance of Ming Yan. As early as when Blue Star was just emerging, their keen and greedy businessmen's eyes had already fallen on Blue Star.

The way this behemoth does things has always been like this, so it's not surprising that the cruise line has almost acquired AR products, and even swallowed up the production team behind these games.

The current AR game market is dead silent. Even the top-ranked "AR Bee" has a fraction of the number of people online.

When doing market background research, Ming Yan personally played this "AR Bee" and found that it was just a shooting game with forced AR technology.

Its content is basically to let the player hold a gun to shoot various monster targets that randomly appear around, and then calculate the score.

The advantages are lackluster, although having a stereo projection can provide a good sense of immersion, but this is basically completely destroyed by otherworld games;

The disadvantages are numerous, because it has almost no gameplay in itself, it is just a gunfighting simulator, all players can do is adjust the muzzle and press the trigger.

Of course, many games in Star Age are emulators like this.

As soon as the promotional video of Dragon Hunter came out, it suddenly ignited the enthusiasm of many players for AR technology.

Cruise Capital also responded very quickly, and immediately re-promoted "AR Bee" while Dongfeng, which really attracted many players to download and play in a short period of time.

Huge traffic may bring seemingly good results for the publicity department, but in fact these players will not stay in the game for long at all.

After the initial novelty of shooting in reality, they quickly got bored of it.

"It's just a projection advertisement on a treadmill, like hanging a carrot in front of a donkey. Trying to trick me into exercising? It doesn't exist!"

"It's boring, I'm going back to play the League of Legends."

"My hands are sore, just to give me an extra 10,000 points? There is no sense of accomplishment at all, I seem to be insulted!"

"What the hell, there is no VR game stimulation at all, I'm fooled."

Some people uninstalled the game and went back to their old entertainment in disappointment.

Another part of the bored players continued to return to the Blue Star Forum, but their expectations for "Dragon Hunter" were also greatly reduced.

[AR games are not fun at all, tired and boring, let's go back to VR shooting games. 】

【There is a reason for AR's decline! 】

[Don't look at the Dragon Hunter commercials are good, but there is only this rainbow soap bubble, and it's really annoying to play. 】

[I think these companies don't want to make games at all, they just go for the government's tax-free policy! 】

It must be said that the eyes of the masses are sharp.

Cruise capital is for the tax-free policy. They want to buy an AR game studio every year, and then they can sell other products with the policy benefits.

Every year they can make a lot of profits from this, and this year certainly does not want to be an exception-

They directly knocked on the door of Bluestar Studio, wanting to discuss cooperation with Bluestar!

The person in charge from Cruise Capital, as if he didn’t know that the two had ever had a dispute, still smiled and complimented, saying, “We have a lot of experience in the production of AR games.”

On behalf of the cruise line, he wants to invest in the "Dragon Hunter" project.

Blue Star doesn't need to pay anything else, just nod his head, you can get a large amount of money; and the cruise line can get an extra tax-free quota from this AR project as long as you pay the money.

The plan was perfect, but unfortunately, the words were expressionless: "But I refuse."

Of course, the person in charge of the cruise would not give up easily. He started to save the country by curve, and acted as a licking dog.

He gave gifts every day, even to Xixi the golden retriever, to please Horace as he liked, and then followed by a lotus flower, coaxing Ling Xiaoman into grinning.

Ling Xiaoman was shaken, and said in the group, "This seems to be a win-win situation. They won't interfere with our project, just take an extra quota, and this quota was originally wasted."

But Ming Yan still firmly refused.

As the legal person in charge of the studio, his decision was Bluestar's decision, and the person in charge of the cruise could only leave in despair.

Before leaving, he also said to Ling Xiaoman earnestly: "AR game itself is against the needs of players. It forces players to get up and exercise. The final result is of course being abandoned by players and eliminated by the market. AR technology is really dead. It's just relying on government relief to survive. If you have the opportunity, please persuade Chief Master Ming to persuade him. You will really fall for projects that even cruise capital can't save. Don't regret it at that time. "

Only Xia Cheng probably knew what Ming Yan was thinking, and asked him, "Are you worried that foreign capital will affect the quality of the game?"

When speaking, Mingyan is still experiencing other AR games in the world.

He thought about it for a while before saying, "They are operating AR games as commodities, and of course what they make is just a commodity, without a soul. These games... Too bad! It's really too bad, they are overdrafting players. trust!"

He sat down, took off the AR glasses, and drooped his head in disappointment.

Xia Cheng sat next to him, lent his shoulders understandingly, and said, "I know, I know. Only pure gamers can make the best games."

Mingyan leaned on his shoulder and said: "The benefits can overwhelm everything, and make investors get carried away. They force the gamers who are devoted to research to leave, and those who sit in that seat to make games become an assembly line copying machine, and finally they rush to work. Those same products are used to make quick profits, and the most downstream players will suffer."

This process can be as short as a year or as long as decades.

Just like cancer in the past, often when the disease is terminally ill, the end of the nerve will perceive pain, and players will realize that something is wrong, but everything is too late.

Players have long lost confidence in AR games.

Even among the Ming Cult, some people began to post hard-heartedly to persuade:

[Don't invest so much in the new game, please ask the leader to start other projects soon. AR technology is a backwater and cannot be saved. This thing can't be used as a game! 】

[Such a good-looking promotional video, how good it is to use it as a VR RPG game, let's fight the dragon directly! 】

[I estimate from a pessimistic point of view that this game is small anyway, and it can be done quickly. It may really be the worst game of Blue Star. 】

[Brothers, don't be so mourning! Even the sect master, you can't believe it, the blue star's product must be a high-quality product! The new game has at least 9 points. If it is less than 9 points, I will streak upside down, and I will stick to it as an oath! ! ! 】

【It is not that we are mourning. Look at the AR made by Vayela next door. It was well promoted at the time, but it turned out to be a piece of mud. In the end, it was not sold at a low price. Now the number of players can be counted on one hand. 】

For a while, the whole world seemed to be pessimistic.