Chapter 2 Box System
If you talk about advantages, both have their own advantages.
Although "Counter-Strike" is charged, it can be played locally and online in the LAN, which means that it can play many scenes.
Although "Counter-Terrorism Operation" must be played online, it is free! No need to spend more money!
If there are two similar games in front of you, one costs one or two hundred yuan, and one does not have to spend a penny. Which game would you try?
Unfortunately, this free game cannot be played anytime and anywhere. You cannot play locally when you are bored, nor can you use the LAN to connect to your friends at close range.
Even if two people are face to face and want to play together, they need to walk around the Internet.
Many people think that Wanhu does this and is taking off his pants and farting.
However, Wanhu wanted to make free games, but had no choice but to do so.
The profit point of free games has always been clear, that is value-added services.
The value-added service of the game is actually an added value to virtual data. Simply put, it is to add a series of virtual items to the game.
If a software can run off the server, then there is a problem, that is, the game manufacturer has no way to ensure that virtual items are released from it.
As long as people with a little skill, they can modify the program to add the game content.
This results in a consequence, that is, the paid content is no longer attractive to players, and players will not choose to pay, but will choose to add content themselves.
Therefore, games must always be under the control of manufacturers, in other words, they must be connected to the Internet all the time.
However, forced internet connection has always been a matter of unwillingness to players in the United States.
Let’s not talk about the last influential real-time strategy game "StarCraft 2" when it was released, and it said that it had cancelled the LAN online function and the local game function.
Even the game console wants to stay online forever, players will be criticized for being completely useless.
Why?
This is a pure dispute over interests.
Although online guarantees the interests of manufacturers, it is the interests of players that are harmed.
If I had to go to very few Laolin for vacation, and I brought a game console with me and there was no internet there, would I not be able to play electronic games?
Can't play the game I obviously bought with money?
If my home is out of the internet, can I not play games?
Therefore, the policy of forced networking of game consoles is cancelled if it cannot be implemented.
When the Internet is already very popular in the future, there will still be such problems, not to mention that the Internet has not been particularly popular in the early 21st century and the cost is still relatively high.
Although "Counter-Terrorism Operation" is free, it did not gain much obvious advantage in the installation volume in the initial competition with "Counter-Terrorism".
After all, without overwhelming advertisements, the buyers of a game are always those veteran players at the beginning.
Senior players generally don’t care about money. Whether they spend money or not, is it not much worse for them if they say twenty dollars.
The reason why the installation volume is almost the same is because everyone needs to evaluate and compare the differences between the two games, which one is more fun, and which one is slightly worse.
In fact, what is even worse is Wanhu's "Counter-Terrorism Operation".
It’s not that Wanhu is not attentive, but that he still lacks experience in making three-dimensional shooting games.
It's like a slight difference in feel. During the game design process, it may be just a small change in parameters, but when playing, the feeling you experience is completely different.
However, although the feel is not good, the picture of Wanhu's "Counter-Terrorism Operation" is much better than that of "Counter-Strike".
On the one hand, this is because "Counter-Strike" uses the old engine of "Half-Life", and on the other hand, it is because Wanhu itself has launched three-dimensional graphics cards, which is better at optimizing three-dimensional displays than other manufacturers.
After comparing each project in detail, I really found that these two games are really comparable opponents.
Even relatively speaking, "Counter-Terrorism Operation" has more advantages.
Although the feel is slightly deficient, the picture is good!
For veteran players, perhaps they can also treat them as full screen mosaics.
But for the vast majority of novice players, good picture is the most important thing.
If the pictures of a game are not good-looking, just like a girl’s face is not good-looking, is there any possibility of in-depth understanding?
Therefore, as the influence of the two games gradually generalized, the download volume of "Counter-Terrorism Operation" began to far exceed the sales volume of "Counter-Strike".
"General Manager, the number of downloads of "Counter-Terrorism Operation" has exceeded one million! At the same time, the number of online users has exceeded one hundred thousand!"
You should know that although the number of users on the 10,000 battle platform has been increasing, the number of online users has remained at more than 100,000 at the same time, and has not increased much. Now, a game has increased the number of online users at the same time by 100,000 at once. This... This is simply amazing...
As the operation of the Wanhu battle platform, they know how valuable the number of people online at the same time is.
They were originally worried that free games would lose money, but now it seems that the number of online users is 100,000, so they won’t lose money!
Nick also felt admiration in his heart. When he heard the free game, he thought Takahashi was blinded by the free security software, but now it seems that it is not.
"Open the box system!" Nick said calmly.
"Yes!" The operator pressed the button, and after several confirmations, the command began to be implemented.
This is a hot update system, which means that the system can change the game content in real time without players launching games.
With Nick's command just now, the box system in the game was opened.
The so-called box system is the same as the item drop system in StarCraft.
However, when it falls, a box will be brought out instead of an item. Give the player the pleasure of opening the box by himself.
During the process of unpacking the box, all kinds of precious things will appear like a revolving lantern.
For the time being, these boxes can only be obtained through random explosion rates, but it won’t take long to open the box system for charging.
At that time, players can spend money to buy boxes themselves.
However, in order to avoid some legal problems.
Chapter completed!