Chapter 100 Ideal World (Part 2)
According to Ren Pingsheng's idea, the ideal China News Online Game should have these contents:
First, there must be a complete numerical system.
"We must reflect the effects of numerical upgrades in the profession and equipment system. The advantages brought by each level of vocation and equipment must be fully reflected. Players must feel the pleasure brought by numerical growth, and strengthen the added value brought by numerical growth to players in order to drive them to spend more time in the game."
"These titles and achievements do not require much resources, nor do they affect the game experience and economic system, but they can allow players to invest more time, which can be said to be a huge profit," Ren Pingsheng explained.
Xu Tao quickly understood Ren Pingsheng’s meaning, and he responded:
"For example, we can strengthen the numerical prompts and sound effects during upgrades, display them with some prominent fonts and animations, and set some rare titles and achievements, which require players to obtain them through a lot of time, and the recipients can get notifications for the entire server..."
Ren Pingsheng nodded in praise and added:
"Title and achievement names should be as cool as possible, such as the first drop of blood, the big kill, the main game, the killing of people like mahjong... and so on, the particularly awesome ones are called super gods, war gods, death gods, magic gods, etc."
The more he spoke, the easier it was, and he brought out all the DOTA and LOL nouns he had played in his previous life. He stopped until he realized that the eyes of the people around him were a little wrong.
"What's wrong?" Ren Pingsheng shrugged.
"It's okay, it's okay." Everyone shook their heads and said in unison.
But everyone was thinking about it. Mr. Ren, who has always spoken calmly and well-educatedly, could he speak these terms that sounded very second-rate.
But to be honest, these nouns are indeed very loud and are in line with the preferences of the main online game players. They will definitely have a good effect when used in the game.
Everyone thought so, but no one really asked.
If others don’t ask, there is no need for Ren Pingsheng to answer. This matter is just over. However, Ren Pingsheng secretly reminded himself in his heart that he would be famous by directly quoting his previous life.
It is better to do less lyrics, so as not to have any troubles.
In the matter of online games, I play the role of a preacher and a guide, and use my own ideas to inspire others. The specific implementation of the R&D team must solve the problem by themselves.
If it is not necessary, do not intervene more.
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Second, there must be a rich social system.
The biggest feature of online games that distinguishes them from stand-alone games is the interaction and social interaction between players. In Ren Pingsheng’s memory, there are not many people who truly understand social relationships in the market and online games that appear. His ideal online games must create a social system that surpasses other peers.
"Players can get married, have children, have sex, and become disciples in the game... There are other five-flower tours, which are closer to the real world social system, so that players can feel that they are experiencing another life."
"However, the threshold of this social system must be appropriately lowered, so that players can invest and produce rewards, and they must obtain things that are difficult to obtain in the real world in the game."
This concept is difficult to understand. Looking at the confused eyes of others, Ren Pingsheng explained:
"For example, whether it is a house or a city in the game, it can be built by players themselves, and can be bought and sold freely. Houses with good locations can increase their value. Rich people can hoard land as rent collectors, and rich people can buy the entire city as city lords..."
Lin Lisong was also inspired. He added: "The stock market can also introduce games. Players with strength can set up companies to go public. Other players can buy and sell stocks, and stock trading can become winners in life..."
Liu Yijun also participated. She said: "The clothing and beauty can also be added, and a design system can be developed to allow players to design their own clothes, put them in stores to sell, or open an image design company. As long as you spend money, you can make your game characters more beautiful."
Let Pingsheng smile without saying a word, and let his subordinates play freely.
The people in this team are very smart. As long as they master the direction and give a little guidance, they can learn from it and implement the experience and wisdom of Ren's life-sharing people in their lives in game development.
The design system that Liu Yijun just mentioned is actually the "Creative Workshop" and "Community Market" functions launched by VALVE on the STEAM platform later, allowing players to participate in the design and development of game content by themselves, and to activate the entire game's economic system through transactions between players.
The introduction of this gameplay can not only increase the player's sense of participation and strengthen the player's viscosity to the game, but also reduce the design burden of the R&D team. It is an idea that can kill multiple goals in one go.
However, this function is still in its prototype. Ren Pingsheng is not in a hurry to reveal his architecture. He first lets the R&D team make the function, and then slowly guide it to grow in the future.
Xu Tao was thinking about it all the time before. At this time, he raised his head, his eyes flashed with light and said:
"These functions must be done well, and at the same time, they must also open up the entire economic system. The system must charge appropriate rent for real estate, tax transactions between players, and taxes for stock transactions..."
"In this way, players can be driven to spend money in the game, preventing them from hoarding money in large quantities, causing an imbalance in the economic system of the entire game."
"A game with a stable economic system is a game that can last forever."
Xu Tao was very evident, and the people present nodded and praised her frequently.
This time I was shocked to re-election this time. Xu Tao was indeed a capable person, not a false reputation.
Control of the economic system is the difficulty of all online games.
Currency issuance is not only common in reality, but also a common problem in online games. Many game developers can design fun professions, good-looking characters, and touching plots, but they fail repeatedly in the design of the game economic system.
Although the economic system of the game is simpler than the actual economic system, it is not easy to design well.
Because players are increasing, the currency produced in the game will only increase steadily. As more players, the more currencies in the game will only increase. Over time, inflation is inevitable.
However, if it is difficult to design the player's currency, although it can effectively control the surge in prices, it will increase the player's frustration and affect their gaming experience, which will not be beneficial to the game's operation.
Inflation in reality will cause many social problems and endanger the stability and stability of the regime. Although inflation in the game is less harmful, it will not cause any harm to players.
The money that many old players have worked hard to make depreciate quickly under inflation, while new players can get similar income as old players as old players as long as they pay a very low price. Over time, this situation will only make old players lose the motivation to play and prompt them to leave the game.
New players will soon face the same situation. When more new players flock in and show off their equipment for further depreciation of currencies, they who have become old players will follow the footsteps of their predecessors and exit the game.
With such a vicious cycle, the vitality of a game is quickly exhausted.
This is why online games often need to open new servers, while many players only play new servers.
Behind every abandoned old server is a collapsed economic system.
This vicious cycle has developed to the extreme, and in the end players can only choose to give up the old game and devote themselves to the new game.
But if the new game cannot solve this fundamental problem, it will eventually face the fate of being abandoned by players.
Xu Tao also gave his own solution to this.
"In this game, we need to design a random reward. This reward should be the most valuable item in the game, but this reward cannot be bought with money, nor can it be picked up by fighting monsters. Players can only try their luck through mechanisms similar to buying lottery tickets."
Before Xu Tao finished speaking, Ren Pingsheng had already secretly praised in his heart.
Isn’t this the popular (notorious) “opening a box” in later generations? Although Xu Tao used the noun as lottery, the meaning is the same.
Whether it is opening a box or buying a lottery, the core elements are to use the mentality of players to make small profits and big profits to induce players to consume excess currency on random rewards in order to achieve the purpose of recycling super-issued currencies and achieving balance in the economic system.
However, it will take three or four years to truly practice and promote such "unboxing systems" in the gaming field to gradually appear. Xu Tao has now proposed the prototype of this concept, which can be said to be several positions ahead of his peers.
As a rebirth, it is naturally no problem to master these theories and foresights.
Xu Tao did not cheat, but was able to spontaneously understand this system. It was really not simple. This person is indeed a "genius".
The others present had neither cheating nor genius. If they accepted Xu Tao's ideas, they would not be as fast as Ren Pingsheng.
Lin Lisong asked in confusion:
"If players have a lot of money and have a lot of top-notch products, will it affect the balance of the game?"
Xu Tao smiled and said:
"We developed the game, and the winning rate is of course up to us."
Ren Pingsheng added with a smile:
"Have you ever seen a casino that loses money?"
When everyone heard this, they all laughed out loud.
Xu Tao explained well, Ren Pingsheng's sentence was better supplemented. One of them was serious and the other was vivid, and the "unboxing theory" was explained vividly.
"Fuck, you guys who developed the game are so fucking bad." Lin Lisong couldn't help but swear, but judging from his expression, he had accepted Xu Tao's theory.
Ren Pingsheng and Xu Tao smiled at each other, adding a layer of respect to each other.
Ren Pingsheng thought that compared to the hand that controls the real economic system, we are more kind-hearted in developing games.
But I can only think about this in my heart, Ren Pingsheng will not express it.
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This management meeting, with the successive performance of Ren Pingsheng and Xu Tao, developed into a brainstorm for discussing game development.
During the three-hour brainstorming process, everyone's thinking and creativity were fully mobilized and they devoted themselves to this big discussion.
Judging from the meeting process, the core personnel of Wanyou Network have a new understanding and new direction for the new online games under development.
If the results of this brainstorming can be implemented well, the development of this game will definitely achieve good results, and the company's future prospects will be even more optimistic.
However, the content of this meeting was so rich that there were too many golden ideas that everyone had come up with, which was dazzling.
While making records, Liu Yijun complained softly: "Mr. Ren, Mr. Xu, you said it too quickly, and I didn't remember much."
Ren Pingsheng gently patted her shoulder and said, "Don't worry, don't worry, you can't eat a fat man in one breath. You can write down these ideas and summarize them to Mr. Xu, and realize them step by step."
Xu Tao seemed to remember something at this time, and looked up and asked, "By the way, Mr. Ren, our game has not been named yet, so please give it a name."
Ren Pingsheng did not refuse. He had long been confident and said with a smile:
"That's called "Ideal World".
Chapter completed!