Tokyo Video Game Tycoon

  Chapter 1169 Salvation of Word of Mouth

  In one of the ending stories of Final Fantasy 13versus, completing many pre-tasks in the early stage will lead to a new branch plot in the main story.

   Later, the branch plot will become a new ending, and this new ending is considered an officially announced happy ending.

  The prince and princess lived happily together, and then governed the re-established new country together.

   Kazuo Murakami was somewhat surprised when he reached this ending.

  Because in the past, the Final Fantasy series never had an official happy ending.

   It is as difficult as heaven to let Youxing Electronic Entertainment give a happy ending.

   And this time Yuxing Electronic Entertainment has a sudden change of sex, so that Final Fantasy can finally have a perfect ending.

   Kazuo Murakami was even a little moved, and at the same time quickly announced the strategy method of this perfect ending on his own evaluation website.

After the announcement, many players who had already cleared the level found that there was a new ending story, and it was a perfect ending. They couldn't sit still, and opened Final Fantasy 13versus again, at least to complete this perfect ending. Only at the end is he willing to give up.

   Obviously, many players in this world still prefer a perfect ending.

  They will feel that the story of this game will at least have a beginning and an end, rather than the kind of tragic open ending that makes people scratch their heads.

  There are still people who are already suffering enough in real life, so they don’t want to experience some bad plots in the game.

  So when Final Fantasy 13versus was released, these players didn't even think about it. Thinking that Final Fantasy has a tragic ending, it would be really annoying to play.

  Then it’s better to wait for a while, don’t rush to play this game now, when it’s on sale, play this game when you’re in a better mood.

   But now seeing the perfect happy ending of this game starting to circulate on the Internet, these players can't sit still, and they are ready to spend money to play.

  The officially certified perfect ending is quite rare in Final Fantasy, and it would be a bit of a loss not to play it.

  Then, the popularity of Final Fantasy 13versus has been maintained for almost a month, making other game companies very aggrieved.

  You say your game is fun and fun, let the players play enthusiastically for a week or two.

But Yuxing Electronic Entertainment is obviously not satisfied, and will always come up with some new tricks, which keeps the game's popularity. In the end, the sales of Final Fantasy 13versus have soared to more than 10 million and have not stopped. Other game companies are looking at it. Nausea.

  How can you play like this, how can we mess around if you play like this?

   Fortunately, the popularity of a game will gradually decline after all. Youxing Electronic Entertainment is not a god, and there will always be an end, and other game companies will not really be able to survive.

  After one and a half months of heat, the sales volume of Final Fantasy 13versus has been fixed at 17 million, and it will continue to flow steadily for a long time to come.

   Wait two years for another wave of big discounts, sales can continue to increase, and there is no problem with making a lot of money. The rest is to continue to expand its influence.

   As soon as Final Fantasy ended, Zhu Youxing followed and supervised the development of Rogue 5 non-stop.

This is a game developed almost at the same time as Final Fantasy 13versus, but obviously the development of this game is more difficult. Open world games also added some sandbox construction functions in the later stage to further expand the scale of this game, and then calculate the release It is estimated that we will have to wait until next year.

   But it’s okay, there are still many other games on hand, and the rhythm of game releases will not stop. Every game is a cash flow, and you can eat a lot of oil.

   While Zhu Youxing was supervising Grand Thefte 5, the Infinite World development team that he had previously recruited suddenly brought him a piece of news.

   Their infinite world can already release a new big update, this update can increase the richness of the gameplay itself to a certain extent, making this game at least worth the ticket price.

  Zhu Youxing was somewhat surprised by this news. He thought it would take at least one or two years for these people to develop the society to roughly make up for the previous shortcomings.

  But now it seems that some regrets have been made up in advance.

"Boss, this is the Infinite World version 1.1 update we just completed. This time we have added richer construction functions to the game, as well as online functions. I think these two functions should at least solve the initial problems of the game. Too little content."

"Let me see." Zhu Youxing talked with the person in charge of the team through a video call. At this time, the brand new test version had been sent to Zhu Youxing. Zhu Youxing opened the game interface, and then the game screen changed. In a flash, the character appears outside a wilderness with unlimited materials, where you can use your imagination to create a city.

   Developed a sandbox construction mode for the infinite world, which is a stroke of genius.

  In the previous life, No Man’s Sky also modified the core gameplay of the game initially, adding sandbox construction, which greatly increased the overall playability of the game.

From the beginning, Zhu Youxing suggested to the team to give priority to the development of online mode and construction mode, and the rest can be taken slowly, don't worry, after all, you can't eat a fat man in one sitting, anyway, the reputation of the game is already rotten to the bottom, so just break the jar Po Wow, try your best to make this game a good one, it's impossible to be worse than before, isn't it?

  Perhaps because of this more desperate attitude, the vitality of this development team is stronger than ever.

  The development team members brought by the producer before were full of enthusiasm, combined with the internal Unreal Engine of Youxing Electronic Entertainment, this game has become a brand new form.

   "Very good." Zhu Youxing nodded.

   This is the highest evaluation he can give.

  There are very few games that he can call very good.

   Needless to say, there are not many games that he can call good in this world.

   Very good. This definition is probably the top works of the previous God of War series, Dark Soul series, etc.

   Now the team has worked so hard to make several gameplays that are quite exquisite.

   "Did you also rely on other people's help?" Zhu Youxing asked.

The game producer said with some embarrassment: "Yes, I specifically asked people from Benedy AI Lab to help us improve the mechanism of AI creating planets and civilizations, and then borrowed 'our' Stanford Legion to temporarily let them Helped solve a lot of technical problems, the boss, our team is really amazing."

Zhu Youxing automatically ignored those bragging words, then nodded and said: "This version is really good, and it can be released, but the promotional resources I will give here will not be too many. Help promote it, other promotional platforms still have their own tasks to do, as for other ways to improve the reputation of your game, it can only be up to you.”

  Zhuyouxing has provided a lot of help to this development team.

  From human and material resources to financial support, if even this is difficult for them to restore their game’s reputation, it can only prove that they are still not suitable for the game development industry.

  Then Zhu Youxing would not be polite, so he simply let them do the low-level work obediently, and leave the professional work of game development to other people.

   As for publicity, they can only work **** their own, and Zhuyouxing can only help so much.

  But Zhu Youxing believes that this game should be able to restore word of mouth.

  Just judging from the current state of this work, it is already playable, and it will not make players feel bored after playing for a while.

  The players should spontaneously promote the game.

   "Okay, I will work hard for the boss, and the publicity will not bother our company, we can handle it ourselves."

  The producer is also very sensible.

  Youxing Electronic Entertainment has indeed helped them enough.

  If there is no Youxing Electronic Entertainment, their team may have been disbanded long ago, and he may obediently go to a humble small company as a programmer, and then retire for the elderly, without any disturbance.

  But the emergence of Youxing Electronic Entertainment is equivalent to giving them a chance to rise again.

  If they can’t do well even in this way, they will take the initiative to withdraw from the game development circle.

   At least it will not enter the mainstream development circle again, obediently be a low-level little transparent.

   "Do you have a plan for the launch of this new version? When the time comes, you can contact Bell Ryder of the Battle.net platform, and he will give you a recommended slot on that day."

   "So... how about a week later? It's just around the corner for Christmas, and I want to give the players, and ourselves, a present."

"good."

  Zhu Youxing agreed to come down.

  Youxing Electronic Entertainment itself will not release any major titles this Christmas, so it is no problem for the development team to recommend their own game works.

  The team immediately sharpened their swords, and they have already begun to look forward to a good fight during the critical time of Christmas, which is the game's release.

  However, they are also well aware that their game has a bad reputation at the beginning, and it has natural disadvantages.

  So... as long as at least another three to five million sales are added... No, the expectations are too high, and another one hundred or two hundred thousand sales will be enough.

   "The boss has agreed to release our version 1.1 Infinite World on Christmas Eve just one week later!"

  Hung up the phone with Zhu Youxing, the young producer of Unlimited World couldn't wait to rush out of the office to announce the good news to his people.

  Everyone immediately cheered when they heard it.

   They have been waiting for this news for quite a long time.

  Before they talked to Zhu Youxing, they were a little worried that their new boss would be critical.

  Because they have heard that Zhu Youxing is a very strict person, the games he supervises and develops must be of high quality to pass his level, especially the games he personally supervises are even more strict.

  Although there is no precedent for game works like theirs who came to seek refuge halfway, they still have preconceived assumptions that Zhuyouxing will treat them equally strictly.

  Perhaps the new boss will feel that the content of this game is not enough.

   But now that Zhu Youxing agreed very happily, they all cheered happily.

  In fact, Zhu Youxing was quite surprised by the development efficiency of these people, and although he himself has strict control over the quality of the game, it is not a game.

  If some games are born with a bad reputation, they cannot be understood with normal game development thinking.

  Works whose reputation has collapsed do not need one or two expensive repairs, but need a steady stream of water.

  Major investment in repairs will make the game development time longer. Maybe players who had a little expectation for this game before will eventually get impatient and give up this game.

This kind of word-of-mouth game has to interact with players all the time, telling them: Look, we are still working hard, we haven't run away yet, we are still using the latest technology to improve this game, don't run too fast, I There are more abundant four dishes and one soup waiting for you to taste.

   After the announcement is over, serve a bowl of soup first to stabilize the morale of the army. This is probably what it looks like, so Zhu Youxing will agree to update the new version only by adding sandbox construction and multiplayer game modes to Infinite World.

   Zhu Youxing is also looking forward to it. He wants to see if most players are still interested in this kind of word-of-mouth recovery game, or if they will be completely heartbroken and unwilling to touch this kind of fraudulent game again.

  One week later, Christmas is coming, and most countries have entered a festive atmosphere and state.

  Especially in western countries, most countries celebrate Christmas.

  Among these people, there is a veteran gamer at home playing the latest game.

  He is a game fan and also a well-known game critic on the Internet.

  The birth of self-media has given ordinary people in this world more channels to speak out.

  Even an ordinary person can become the media and express his opinion on certain things.

  Game critics like him came into being in such an environment.

   Their professionalism may not be comparable to Kazuo Murakami, but they are also faithfully serving some players with special hobbies.

  Serve these players, step on the pits for them in advance, and tell them what kind of game is fun and what kind of game is rubbish.

  In his Battle.net platform, there are now as many as thousands of various open world games.

   Among them, Infinite World is a very inconspicuous one of these games.

  At this moment, he was a little idle and bored, casually flipping through some news information recently updated on the Battle.net platform.

   While he was browsing, the Battle.net platform suddenly popped up a new recommendation message on the homepage.

   "The latest version of Unlimited World 1.1 is officially launched, adding new gameplay functions, players are welcome to experience it"

  (end of this chapter)