"Zou Tao, how's the progress of the three games?"
"Boss Chen, the development of House of Bubbles is the fastest. It will be completed in about three months. Fantasy Journey to the West is also progressing very quickly. I learned from Xu Bo that it can be released in half a year. "
"Fantasy Journey to the West can be released in half a year? So fast?"
"It's mainly because Xu Bo and Wu Yunyang are working so hard when it comes to games. In addition, they are very familiar with Journey to the West. In terms of planning, Xu Bo alone can take care of the entire team. "
"That's true."
Chen Yu nodded.
Xu Bo was previously in charge of customer service for Journey to the West. Although it was customer service, he had basically encountered all kinds of problems.
In addition, Wu Yunyang was the creator of the Wind Spirit Engine. It was not difficult to develop it.
The main difficulty was the production time.
Whether it was the art design, the 2D modeling, or the setting of the plot, it all required time.
"As for our 3D game, the engine is still being developed. The entire world background is still being perfected. As for the development period, it will be about two to three years. "
"There's no rush for the 3D game. We'll do it slowly."
Chen Yu nodded.
He called Zou Tao over not to ask about the progress of the three games, but for something else.
"Zou Tao, competitive games have been very popular recently. Have you been paying attention?"
"Haha, Boss Chen, although Haofang is on the YY side and I'm not in charge, how can I not be paying attention? I even went online to play a few rounds. "
"Oh, what did you play?"
"Counter-Strike and Warcraft."
Zou Tao was a veteran gamer. Naturally, he was very interested in Counter-Strike and Warcraft.
"How is it? How do you feel?"
"One word, awesome."
"What do you think if we also create a competitive game?"
"This …"
Zou Tao had not considered this before.
Chen Yu asked all of a sudden, but Zou Tao did not understand.
However, he was still very knowledgeable in this field. After thinking about it, Zou Tao said, "It can be done, but it might not be as profitable as our online games."
Competitive games were not bad, but to be honest, competitive games were the worst in terms of profitability.
In particular, competitive games were mostly free, and for the sake of game balance, they could not produce items that would destroy the balance of the system.
He could only use the membership model, and the membership model had to provide more services, such as increasing the internet speed.
Other than these, there were very few places to make money.
"You're right. If we're talking about making money, we should focus on online games."
Of course, competitive games were also very profitable.
However, they were making money by selling the original CDKEY.
Just like Warcraft, if you want to play Warcraft, you can only buy Blizzard's cdkey. Huanyu Technologies wasn't as good as Blizzard at the moment, and they couldn't make games like Warcraft.
"However, even though competitive games don't make money, their influence is still quite big. In particular, Korea organized an international eSports competition last year, and eSports has received a lot of attention. If we can support them in this area, it will be very beneficial for Huanyu Technologies's image. "
How should he put it?
Although Huanyu Technologies was making a lot of money by making online games, it was still very profitable.
But at the same time, they were also under a lot of pressure.
For example, not long ago, there were media reports about the dangers of online gaming.
This made people very depressed.
However, Chen Yu couldn't run over and say, "Hey, you're wrong. Our online games aren't as bad as you think."
However, if they were to establish a positive image of eSports, this kind of thinking would be reduced a lot.
At the very least, everyone would try to understand.
Everyone would think that gaming wasn't necessarily a scourge.
Gaming could also be seen as a profession.
"Boss Chen, what you said makes sense."
Zou Tao agreed with Chen Yu's words.
As the person in charge of the game, he had been attacked a lot since he joined Huanyu Technologies.
Who asked him to make the Legend of Mir world so popular?
Who told him to advertise in various places so often?
A black-hearted capitalist like him had to be criticized from time to time.
"According to media reports, the General Administration of Sport of China may approve eSports as the 99th sports event."
"I saw this report too."
"I think this is an opportunity. If we can have our own competitive game, and our competitive game can be on the world stage, don't you think this is something very exciting?"
"Boss Chen, but we don't have any experience in competitive games."
Although what Chen Yu said made Zou Tao very excited, after a while, he smiled bitterly.
"Experience is built slowly. Blizzard didn't have any experience in competitive games back then, but they still became the best game company in the world."
"Boss Chen, what do you mean?"
Zou Tao didn't know what Chen Yu meant, so he asked.
"How about this, I'll give you an idea. By the way, Zou Tao, don't you play World of Warcraft? Don't you think World of Warcraft is actually very difficult to control? "
"Difficult to control?"
Zou Tao blinked and said, "I think it's quite easy."
"F * ck, that's easy?"
Chen Yu wanted to cry, "It's more complicated than playing online games."
"Compared to that, it's much more complicated."
In online games, players only needed to kill monsters to level up. Although there was a certain level of skill, it was too ordinary.
But World of Warcraft was different.
It was a multiplayer strategy game. It not only tested the player's strategy, but also their tactics, skills … etc.
This was why World of Warcraft was the most popular game in eSports competitions.
The reason was that it had extremely strong skills and skills.
However, although World of Warcraft was a classic, it also had its weaknesses. It was too complicated to control.
Normal players couldn't control it at all.
In World of Warcraft, one player had to control multiple heroes, or even dozens of heroes. Could you control them?
Not to mention multiple heroes, even one or two heroes might not be able to control them.
"I think it's not good for the promotion of the game if it's too complicated. We can make it simpler. For example, we can only control one hero. "
"Only control one hero?"
Zou Tao was a bit confused and asked, "What's so fun about controlling one hero?"
"There is."
Chen Yu added, "I mean, we can split it.
In a 5v5 match, there will be five people on each side, and each person will control one hero to fight. This way, there will only be ten people playing the game. "
"FE map?"
"Yes, it's the Aeon from StarCraft.
It's similar to the Stride map. "
FE was a StarCraft map.
This map was created by a player called Aeon64 using the StarCraft map editor.
This map allowed players to control a hero unit to fight against a computer team.
It seemed like Zou Tao was indeed an ancient grey level player. He even knew about the StarCraft FE map.
Since he knew, it was easier to explain.
Chen Yu continued, "But our game isn't StarCraft. At the same time, the battle is between players, not players against computers. We can use the most popular World of Warcraft as a platform to create a map that belongs to us. Then, we can set our settings on this map and create …"
According to Blizzard's rules.
The copyright of a map created using Blizzard's map editor belonged to the editor.
It was like how a spreadsheet created using Word belonged to the author.
Therefore, even though they were still using World of Warcraft as a platform, there wouldn't be any copyright issues with Blizzard.
Of course, Blizzard didn't do this out of generosity. They did it for their game.
The more people used the map editor, the more popular their game would be.
Unfortunately, they went overboard in the future.
They didn't think that a map created by players would be more popular than their own game.
This was truly an awkward situation.
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