Otherworldly Architect

This year's New Year's Day is coming quite fast, and the holiday has already started at the end of January.

During the holiday, the most eye-catching news is that Hunter World will be released on Valentine's Day, February 14th!

In addition, there is also a piece of news that makes people in the industry quite emotional: Cruise Capital has disintegrated.

Since the year before last, Chaoyang League's game distribution policy has been tightening. From the initial era when the number of version numbers was almost unlimited, it has subtly transitioned to the era of strict auditing today.

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

After all, they didn't come from a professional background in making games, they were just making a commodity!

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

In this case, everyone said that the game circle has entered a cold winter this year.

But this winter is relative.

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

Although it seems like a big move like the sky is falling to many people, it is only a period of shock to the market. Thousands of people will still work steadily, and the industry chain will eventually stabilize. run.

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

——Now is not the era when some garbage games can make money by giving some traffic! !

Like a cruise ship, acquiring studios + imitating market hotspots + promoting through paid channels + consuming game life and quickly monetizing...

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

But if it is still expected to be used for profit, the final outcome is complete bankruptcy.

Facts have proved that players are all tasteful and judgmental, and netizens are not all fools who are easy to fool.

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

In mid-January, several bigwigs sensed the trend of the policy and withdrew from cruise capital, which soon announced the disintegration into several consortiums, dividing their own industries into several parts.

This giant consortium has given up its absolute dominance in many fields, and has dropped from the alliance T0 level to the T1 echelon.

Among them, the game business part has also been downgraded in many regions.

Of the more than a dozen internal studios, three of them have invested in buybacks to declare 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 makes their influence in the game industry drop directly to the level of second-class enterprises.

——The people in the industry are celebrating with the whole world! !

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

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

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

They finally don't have to look at the face of the channel to eat. Now everyone has no injection of traffic, and they have to rely on strength to fight hard, why can't they be happy?

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

Sure enough, it was Blue Star who was not bad at all, and the platform was just used to play. They were convinced by the sound of "Dad".

After the Bluestar platform went online, it quickly grabbed the market share, and it quickly reached the level of 20% in two months, and it is still growing rapidly.

Many people who are digital distribution platforms exclaimed in fear: the wolf is coming.

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

——For the babies in Morningstar Incubation Garden.

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

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

On the other hand, it was also a bumper harvest for the Morningstar Incubation Park last year. A large number of independent games took advantage of the collapse of the cruise capital, and the Morningstar Incubation Park lost about 2 billion in cash for publishing and publicity—

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

This charity was done, and the gamers suddenly became awe-inspiring when they heard Ming Yan's name, and wished they could take off their hats and salute.

In fact, during the interview, they also asked Mingyan: "I heard that your personal expenditure on charity every year is close to one billion yuan, is this true?"

Ming Yan nodded in acknowledgement.

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

Ming Yan smiled and said: "Money, if you keep saving it on your body, is equivalent to death, and you can only live with the money you spend on it. If that's the case, let's just take it out to help out and solve other people's urgent needs. If I make a small contribution to the development of the game industry, it will help me again."

After thinking about it, he added: "Actually, every dollar spent on 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 return in the world!

However, for some unknown reason, they began to look at Ming Yan with reverent eyes!

Ming Yan: "..." I'm not, I don't, Blue Star really didn't lose money...

Listen to him explain!

Why from many years ago, everyone thinks that Lan Xing is an immortal sister who is indifferent to the world!

On the cover of "People" magazine, Ming Yan is not in suits and leather shoes like other bigwigs.

He still dresses very casually, with a plaid shirt on the top and jeans on the bottom, the kind that maybe not many people will notice when walking on the street.

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

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

As long as he is doing what he loves, pure joy and contentment fills his life.

Even with such an honor, Mr. Ming still commutes to and from get off work happily every day, and even takes the initiative to lock himself in a small dark room.

Because February 14th was Valentine's Day, he was pulled by Xia Xiaocheng 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.

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

On February 14, many players lined up directly outside the experience hall to buy the physical version of "Hunter World", and the team has been winding around seven streets.

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

It's Valentine's Day!

It's okay for single players to say that they must have been looking forward to this day early;

Players who have objects are more entangled. Some people ask their girlfriends for leave in advance, and some people go bankrupt and buy bags to coax their wives;

Some people simply play with their girlfriends, buy two copies of "Hunter World" in one go, and teach 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 to me", with red marks on their faces that have not disappeared, they started to download the game...

The small media on the side of the road also interviewed one of them: "Excuse me, did you answer that the game is important, or is your girlfriend important?"

The answer: "Nonsense! Of course, the game is important, not to mention the new game of Blue Star! If you lose your girlfriend, you can find another one, but the physical version of "Hunter World" will only be released once, so if you miss it, it will be gone!!"

This sincere young man, although he lost his girlfriend just like that.

But he was on fire.

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

[Just kidding, this is a top masterpiece led by Chief Master Ming, the figure of the year, which took the top team Bluestar Studio for nearly a year, spent hundreds of millions, and used countless resources. I invested so much to make me have the best game. The experience is what makes me happy! ! That being said, I am a god, and 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 pieces of linkage information.

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

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

——The players of "Xia Ke Xing" will be presented with a set of antique hero costumes when they enter.

All of the above linkages are also given to a small gift bag, which contains the food, medicine, whetstone and other materials needed by the hunter.

"Did you send so many things when you came in? As expected of Blue Star, he has a lot of money - hahahaha, I'm invincible!!"

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

After that, he didn't see the novice hunter training camp on the roadside at all, and he rushed to the door of the hunter camp...