MTL - I Develop Battlefield To Drive Global Players Crazy-Chapter 108

For the sake of Wonderland and Garden of Eden, Gabe Newell, York Lennon and others who were in charge of technology also came to Nebula Games headquarters from overseas branches to participate in this meeting.

"The experience of the mall will be our cornerstone, which must be strictly controlled." Chen Xu said to Gabe Newell.

In the short term, there is definitely no way to compare the game library with those game manufacturers that have developed for many years.

For the current Wonderland game mall, the main core advantages are that Nebula Games' games are cheaper than other malls, as well as a good player community environment and a unique creative workshop.

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"Don't worry, Mr. Chen! There is absolutely no problem with technology, and our operations customer service team has also been expanded!" Gabe Newell pushed his eyes, showing a seemingly simple and honest smile, and said very confidently.

"In terms of game content, there will be about 60 games in the early stage, including 5 medium-sized games. As for the follow-up of large-scale games, we can only rely on Chen you." York Lennon said to Chen Xu.

Compared with before, today's Liger Entertainment has begun to slowly transform, and the personal connections accumulated in the past have at least allowed the initial lineup to be viewed temporarily.

But as a card, it is obviously only Nebula games.

"The next game will be the exclusive game of Wonderland Mall." Chen Xu nodded.

It has already officially competed, so attracting players with exclusive use is a very normal business method, after all, it is also used by the other party first.

"As soon as possible, "Monster Hunter" is a long-term game that can maintain players' usage time in the Wonderland mall, but for the mall, it needs head games to stimulate players' consumption." York Lennon reminded.

"Don't worry, I will try to make a small and medium-sized game next. On the one hand, it is a platform for the game mall, and on the other hand, it is also to test the players' acceptance of this type of game."

The people present were all his own people, and Chen Xu didn't hide anything, he told the plan that he had already prepared.

"Acceptance?" York Lennon looked at Chen Xu.

"Yeah." Chen Xu nodded, and handed a piece of news collected on his mobile phone to the other party.

After opening it, I glanced at it. This was a news from half a month ago, and there was a wave of discussion around the world at that time.

The main reason is that it is too special. The news content is: a bank in Delos was robbed. Four gangsters used firearms to hold staff hostage. The robbery plan was successfully implemented in only 5 minutes.

Of course a few days later, the gang was arrested.

The reason why there was a storm of discussion was that the actions of this group of robbers were simply too professional. Judging from the surveillance released by the bank, it was even more professional than some movies.

"This is...?" York Lennon had some conjectures.

"Let the player play the bad guy, the real bad guy! Robbery is one of the main gameplay points, so I want to test the player's acceptance of this first, and also because the game is too large, we need to make super Huge art content, so it is possible to overdo it, and use some leftovers to make a game first." Chen Xu said.

"From a personal point of view, I think this type of game is simply too cool!" York Lennon's eyes lit up instantly, and the side of his player's soul was clearly awakened.

Chapter 150 Grand Theftist Project and New Game

After the meeting, Chen Xu himself sat in the office and filled in the contents of the planning plan.

The next Chen Xu needs a subversive game to completely stop the Wonderland game mall.

And this game is "Grand Theft Auto", GTA.

As a classic that cannot be ignored in the history of games and a masterpiece of open world games, there is no need to repeat how awesome "Grand Theft Auto" is.

For many players in the past life, it is a childhood memory. When facing a sin city without Sinicization in computer class, even if half a word is not understood, they can play happily in it for 45 minutes.

And things like cheat codes are much smoother than English words. The meaning of the word panzer can be said to be clear in my heart.

From a technical point of view, it is not so difficult to develop GTA with the technology of the parallel world.

The only difficult point for Chen Xu is that its content is too large.

In the previous life, it cost nearly 300 million US dollars, and 2,000 outstanding game producers from all over the world gathered together. It took five years to find the traffic data of Los Angeles in the real world as a statistical model. to make it more real.

Of course, the 300 million US dollars includes the "May 10" publicity expenses, and more than 2,000 game producers are also not all responsible for the content of a GTA project.

But it also reflects the size of the game.

With the industry and technology level of the parallel world, many things that were time-consuming and labor-intensive in previous lives can be compressed.

But it also takes a long time, and Chen Xu will definitely outsource most of the content for this game, or let Ruan Xue and the others in the art department do it, it will take too long.

But for Chen Xu now, money is not the biggest problem, but the real biggest problem is time.

Because Chen Xu couldn't let Nebula Games have such a long period of time, there was no vacuum period for new games.

Therefore, while developing "GTA", Chen Xu was also preparing to use his leftovers to make a game with robbery as the gameplay.

This is also considered to be a momentum for the follow-up "GTA" launch.

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In the Nebula game, Chen Xu's side was perfecting the planning draft little by little.

Countless people are also closely watching the performance of the Wonderland game mall. After all, other than Chen Xu's works, can they have a better result in the mall?

This is something that everyone in the industry is concerned about.

If it fails, there's not much to say.

The layout of the major channels for Nebula games must be scattered.

If it is successful, it will be completely different, because the game industry has a new place for aspiring manufacturers.

On the third day, Gabe Newell, who was in charge of the Wonderland (Eden) mall, immediately used the official blog and some professional exchange forums in the industry to announce the latest data. After all, more people in the industry paid attention to these.

Aside from the many games under Nebula Games, as well as the recently launched "Monster Hunter"

The best-selling game is a game called "Game Empire", produced by an independent game studio invested by Liger Entertainment.

A business simulation game, the main gameplay is that the player acts as a game producer, recruits various employees, and then designs the game to establish the goal of a game empire.

The game is priced at 15 yuan and sold 70,000 copies on the first day, which is one of the highest-selling games.

Secondly, if the sales ranked second, it is a shooting game called "Ninja Asagi". Players need to play a beautiful girl ninja and fight against the monsters invading the world in the dark.

In terms of gameplay, it doesn't have much features, it's just an ordinary horizontal shooting game.

However, the conscientious price of 30 yuan, as well as the excellent character design and shaping, still attracted the attention of a group of LSP players, and won high praise, ranking second with 67,000 copies.

Although the sales have not played "Game Empire", but the sales have exceeded a lot.

In addition, there are 4 games that sell more than 50,000 in a single day, and 31 games that sell more than 10,000 in a single day.

And of these games, many of them are also available in other channel malls, although the sales on the first day are 10 or 20% higher than that of the Wonderland mall.

You have to know one thing, that is, the share in the fairyland mall is 30%.

Before that, many game manufacturers and designers were most worried that players in Wonderland Mall would not buy games other than Nebula games.

But now, this data says it all.

It's true that some of these games are underperforming, but that's also because of the quality.

And none of these game makers are stupid. Seeing this situation, they all contacted the Wonderland (Eden) operations department on Gabe Newell's side and started their own promotions.

There are not many false routines, and the discount mode is directly activated to attract more players to come to Nebula Games to buy games.

After all, even if it is the profit from the purchase after the discount, it is 50% or even more profitable than other channels.

And if the players who purchased at the original price before that, the difference will be directly transferred back to their respective payment accounts, and will never be backstabbed.

Even some game studios that are more courageous and have confidence in themselves have directly removed games from other malls and dedicated themselves to Wonderland.

A series of combo punches gave Wonderland a good start, at least at this stage.

In this regard, many designers in the game industry, including various small game manufacturers, hope that Chen Xu can build Wonderland Mall.

Because in that case, it is foreseeable that in the future, whether domestically or abroad, the era when channel giants are king will no longer exist.

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The Internet is still surging.

But to be honest, Chen Xu really didn't care.

Channel dealers are very good at him, and some game designers praise him.

In fact, Chen Xu himself didn't care.

Just like when he painted cakes for York Lennon, Qin Yi and Gabe Newell.

For Chen Xu, in fact, money is not the main fun for him.

What he really wanted was a sense of spiritual satisfaction, a sense of spiritual accomplishment.

Launching a game that excites players is what makes Chen Xu happier.

Of course, it is also interesting to see the expression of the player crying and scolding him as a thief occasionally, isn't it?

However, after the two consecutive releases of "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare" and "Monster Hunter", players will need to slow down for a while, but don't play it badly.

In the conference room, Ruan Xue, Yang Xin, Qin Yi and others watched Chen Xu's arrival, all in high spirits and full of expectations......

On the one hand, it's because the Wonderland Mall has opened up well, and on the other hand, it's also because they have long heard that Chen Xu will have a super-large project next.

Even when Qin Yi and the others inquired about it, Chen Xu also used the title of "creating a new type" and "epoch-making" to describe it.

How can this not make them excited.

You must know that so far, the only game that has truly made the industry call Nebula Games' brand and created a new genre is "Minecraft".

As for "Ayrden's Circle", the industry more often said that this is a game with a pioneering style in terms of style. To put it bluntly, it has that kind of meaning, but it is not very good.

And "Battlefield", "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare" and "Monster Hunter" are more like masters in a certain field.

"Okay, I believe everyone knows what we have done recently." Chen Xu smiled, looked at the excited crowd, and then continued.

"Maybe we did change some things in the gaming world, but I want everyone to remember that the most important thing for us is to make games that make players happy, and our purpose is to allow players to bloom A happy smile."

Listening to Chen Xu's words, everyone's expressions became very serious, but at the same time they were a little weird.

Make players feel happy and have a happy smile?

Big tree guards, parting kitchens, the death of soap ghosts, and monster abuse... I don't know if the players are happy or not, but they must have put on a mask of pain for a while.

"Okay, everyone, don't be so serious, play games happily, and get bonuses happily, don't think too much." Chen Xu clapped his hands.

"In addition, everyone was not curious before, what is our new work in the future?"

"Now I'll tell you the bottom line."

As Chen Xu's words fell, a plan appeared on the big screen behind him.

It has three letters written on it: GTA

However, this is not a complete planning plan, but only involves the background 1.5 of the game: Los Santos.

For Chen Xu, the most important thing in the early stage is to build the stage frame of Los Santos.

As for the content of the script and gameplay, it can be slowly filled in the follow-up, this one is not urgent.

Because 50% of the engineering volume of the entire game is almost all on the huge stage of Los Santos.

"This... this!" Qin Yi was shocked.

Although it is not a complete version of the plan, it also shocked everyone.

Incomparably huge modern city map, as well as the mentioned main line content, the game will have three protagonists and three quest lines.

The details of the gameplay and the details are unclear, but the amount of engineering on this stage is too exaggerated!

"Yes, this will be the largest game we have ever made, an open world game. What we want to create is not just a game, but a living world!" Chen Xu said with a smile.

"Certainly, this is a work that requires a lot of our time."

"So while doing the pre-work of this game, some of the materials in it are the games we will warm up to the players next."

Looking at the crowd, Chen Xu temporarily moved the "GTA" project aside and opened another prepared proposal.

Chapter 151 President Chen, you are really punishing!

"Robbery... robbery game!?"

If it was said before, the project called "GTA" shocked them purely because of its size.

Now, this planning book is what shocked them.

Because the core gameplay of this game is one: robbery!

Players take on the role of cute and charming villains, then travel to high-value objectives around the world to loot!

"That's right! This will be a crime-themed game." Chen Xu nodded with a smile.

"But... President Chen, is this subject too sensitive?" Qin Yi was a little worried.

After a brief surprise, everyone is in the game industry. In fact, if you think about this kind of crime-themed game, there is still a relatively large market.