Rebirth of the big era of online games

Chapter 363 "The Legend of Jin Yong Qixia"

(There is something at home today, the update is a little late)
Choosing to launch the game on June 6 is not a gimmick.

If it had to be, it might be that the veterans of Boiling Game knew that Fang Jie didn't like birthdays, and it wasn't a good time to get together to be lively, so they decided to celebrate Lord Tianshen's birthday in this way.

Now Boiling Group no longer needs to use various means to promote it as before. "Boiling products" and "Fangjie products" are the biggest selling points.

From June last year to June this year, Fang Jie and his boiling group made too many big moves in one year, and any one of them is something that people talk about, and this is the best publicity.

For example, "Super Girl" by Boiling Entertainment has become a phenomenon-level variety show that the whole people carnival. The 50 singles released by Boiling Music swept the entire Chinese music scene. A financing case, online shopping gradually became a new fashion, Fang Jie became the richest man in the country, donated 1 million yuan, Boiling Chinese opened a new era of online literature... and so on.

During this year, especially in the second half of last year, all kinds of news headlines about the Boiling Group kept swiping the screens of the major media. As long as Fang Jie did something, it would definitely be on the headlines.

Now his every move has become a kind of entertainment news, rather than commercial or social news. The public likes to pay attention to everything about him and is willing to pay for such news, so the media likes to report these things even more. Greater traffic and performance.

This also led to many young people at home and abroad, after some exaggeration and praise, regarded him as a role model and idol, and called him the Bill Gates of Huaguo. focus on.

So not to mention the graphics "The Legend of Jin Yong" was originally a key game product project launched by Boiling Games, Fang Jie's current aura alone is enough to attract countless players into the urn.

Before the launch of "Net Gold", the domestic online game structure can be described as a "3+2" structure.

The "3" in it refers to the three online games "Legend", "Miracle MU", and "A Chinese Journey to the West II" running side by side.

Although "Legend" has been in operation for almost two years, it is still strong, and the number of online players has gone out of a wavy line that opened up and went down, and then went up again.

Of course, even the initial high drive and low move are not comparable to other online games, and the minimum is more than 30 people online at the same time.

Later, with the efforts of Fang Jie, the number of netizens increased by leaps and bounds, and the number of concurrent online players gradually increased to more than 60. There was no one in the whole country who could play.

Even though "Miracle MU" and "A Chinese Journey to the West II" had a big impact on "Legend", there are still more than 40 players online.

This is the effect brought about by the number of Internet users across the country breaking through 1 million more than a year in advance. After the cake is bigger, although the variety of games has increased, the number of players has increased even more. After the split, the impact is not great. To a certain extent Formed a win-win situation.

Therefore, the two games "Miracle MU" and "A Westward Journey II" now have a maximum number of concurrent online users of more than 30, forming a three-legged rivalry with "Legend", each with its own different audience groups.

When it comes to the audience, the "3" in "2+2" is a typical representative.

One is Lianzhong Games, which I don’t need to explain much. It is the favorite of middle-aged and elderly people. Young people will go up to play LAN battle games for a while when they have nothing to do. It is the best casual game platform and is very suitable for gamers with fragmented time. .

The other is "Strong Band", which is the favorite of young players and girls.

The audiences of these two games or platforms are different from those of traditional online game players. The overlapping users of the two sides are not large. The nature of the games is also mainly leisure, and they are free games, so they have to be distinguished separately.

But don't think they don't make money.

In fact, whether it is Lianzhong Games or "Jing Orchestra", the monthly turnover is higher than that of traditional online games, and the total number of players far exceeds that of traditional online games!
In fact, you only need to go to an Internet cafe to see what games everyone is playing on the Internet, and you will know the truth. At least one-third of them are playing CS battles on the LAN, and some people are constantly tapping the space bar on the keyboard. , the remaining less than half of the people are playing "Legend", "Journey to the West II" and "Miracle MU"...

The player base is there, how can it be possible not to make money, but the outside world doesn't know much about it.

In addition to "3+2", many online games have also been launched in the past year, such as "Angel OL", "Peacock King", "Rhythm Master", "Forgotten Legend", "Paradise" and so on.

However, compared with "3+2", these online games cannot be played, and they are even terrible.

"Angel OL", almost no players have heard of this game, let alone mention it.

"The Peacock King" is mentioned because it is even less worth mentioning, because it is the first online game in the history of online games in Huaguo to shut down its server.

"Master of Rhythm" is actually "Jin Band" in the previous life. After the name was robbed by Fang Jie, it was changed to a more straightforward name. However, in this life, "Jin Band" is blocking this game, and this game has not been represented in China. It's just that the game is played online through the international server, so naturally there are no waves.

"Forgotten Legend" is actually not bad, but it is too similar to "Wulin", and it is not as good as "Wulin". news about the game.

"Paradise" is an online game that was launched at the same time as "Forgotten Legend". It was very popular at the beginning, because players heard that it was the most popular online game in Korea, so I believe the quality of the game must be fine.

But things in the world are so wonderful. Games that are popular in South Korea may not be popular in Huaguo, such as "Paradise". On the contrary, games that are not popular there, such as "Legend", can be popular in China. , there is no reason to go, it can only be attributed to acclimatization.

In short, after playing the game for ten days and a half months, the players felt uncomfortable, and returned to the relatively simple operations of "Legend" and "Miracle MU", while those players who stayed...

Find out more about plug-ins?
You must know that in the past 1 or 2 years, overseas game studios have been using the simple plug-ins made by Fang Jie to make money in the Korean server "Paradise", and they are still incubating game studios, and now they have formed a large-scale industry.

Compared with this industry, the money earned by Fang Jie's fully automatic cheat money-making account is nothing compared to this industry.

But other game studios in China are not as far-sighted as he is. After using the simple cheat, they found that it was profitable, so they paid someone to make a special money-making cheat, even offline cheats.

Of course, Fang Jie stood at the upstream of the entire industry chain, no matter what he did below, it would not hinder him from making money.

With the proliferation of cheats, Hanbok started to delete a large number of accounts and even ban IPs belatedly. However, the game currency market of Hanbok "Paradise" was almost killed by domestic game studios in just over a year.

Now the game currency exchange rate in the Hanbok "Paradise" has dropped from 1 game currency to 12 RMB to only 0.2 RMB, and the price is only one-sixtieth of the previous price.

Of course, the output of game currency has also increased dozens of times due to cheating, as long as it is not blocked, it is still profitable.

But then again, how is it possible not to be titled, the title is inevitable, it's just a matter of sooner or later.

People can’t block cheats, but checking the game data is still a no-brainer. Among other things, as long as you find out that a certain game account trades millions or even tens of millions of game coins every day, it must be a money transfer account. Blocking the account and the associated account must be accurate one by one!
As for the chaos in the game studio on the Hanbok side, Fang Jie was able to control it at the beginning, but even he couldn't control it later.

Mainly because I don't want to control.

Because he himself was one of the money-swipers, he was safe at first, but later he was dragged down by other game studios and all accounts were blocked, so he instructed Kaiwu to do the last big deal.

Well, all kinds of plug-ins and packages were put into battle, and they were sold to other domestic game studios, which directly turned the Korean server "Paradise" into a garbage game, causing a large number of players on the Korean server to be dismissed.

But the Koreans are also smart. If the game is dead, then sell it to Hua Guo’s agent and continue to make money. Don’t you guys like to use cheats? Then let you taste the pain yourself.

Therefore, "Paradise", which was agented in China, had cheats almost from the first day. Such a game would naturally not last long, and Fang Jie didn't bother to care about it and let it perish.

Although the Hanbok "Paradise" is almost dead, overseas game studios have nothing to do. The so-called old ones will not go and new ones will come. The Hanbok "Paradise 2" will be released soon. The current announcement is the next It will be launched in South Korea on the 9th.

So recently, a group of people from overseas game studios are recuperating and gearing up, waiting for "Paradise 2" to go public.

This time, I believe that Korean game developers and operators will strictly guard against cheating. It is unlikely that there will be fully automatic cheating in the short term. After all, it takes time to make cheating, and the technical barriers are higher. Even if it appears, it will be seized The intensity is definitely unprecedented.

Of course, the so-called technical barriers are nothing to Fang Jie, or to the programmers of Boiling Software. For technical support, there is no need to worry about output and profits.

All in all, "Paradise I" may be a good online game, but it is not acclimatized, and it has been ruined by the game studio long ago. It was actually brought to China to earn the last sum of money. The players are not stupid. When something goes wrong, quickly get out of the way.

So before the launch of "Net Gold", "Paradise I" was already disabled, not even as good as "Forgotten Legend".

It is also worth mentioning that "Wulin" under Boiling Games announced that it will be permanently free on New Year's Day 2003. At the same time, the game has also been specially revised to improve the game's in-game hooks, which is convenient for players with fragmented time to hang up and continue to search. The pleasure of accumulating.

This also makes "Wulin" completely become an official private server.

There is no way if it is not free. There are a lot of private servers outside the game, and the hardcore players inside the game are getting numb. You must know that this game was launched on New Year's Day in 2001. It has been two full years, and it is time to finish it.

But even if it is the end, it has been closed for more than ten years.

After all, free routines are quite useful. Although the number of game players has not been too many, they have continued to collect money.

Many years later, some old players started working or started a family. They couldn’t play games anymore. They just like to nostalgia for old online games with built-in cheats. Although these players have no time, they are financially free, so the game is still very profitable. .

In any case, this year, compared with the previous two years, the domestic online game industry can definitely be regarded as prosperous.

The success of "3+2" proves that other online games can't be played, they just conform to the 3th rule. It is already a miracle that "2+[-]" can fight against each other at the same time.

Moreover, among them, "Miracle MU" is an online game agent from overseas, and the others are domestic online games. It can be said that Fang Jie has changed the pattern of the domestic online game industry to a large extent almost by himself.

This also makes domestic game operators and capital who want to get involved in the game industry realize that foreign games seem to be the same, and may not be as good as the games developed by the Chinese themselves, or it may be unacceptable.

So they had a lot of worries before acting as an agent for overseas games, and they began to invest in the establishment of their own game production departments, cultivate and absorb talents related to the game industry, and further promote the development of the domestic game industry in a good direction.

This time "The Legend of Jinyong" is launched, all manufacturers and people in the industry are staring at Fang Jie and his boiling game. If this game can be successful, it will further prove that domestic games must be judged by the Chinese themselves.

In fact, for other game manufacturers, investing in games is very similar to investing in making movies. In most cases, it is a gamble. Before the product comes out and undergoes market testing, no one knows what the result will be.

But these people may have overlooked one point: there is a kind of movie called sentimental movie, as long as the sentimentality sells well, as long as it is not too hip, there are also countless people paying for it, such as "Wolf Warrior 2".

Jin Yong's novels are precisely one of the martial arts feelings of the majority of Chinese people. "The Legend of Jin Yong" is obviously a sentimental online game. As long as the production level is acceptable, the results will definitely not be bad!

On the morning of June 6, "The Legend of Jin Yong" was officially launched.

Fang Jie, who is still an otaku at home, did not sit in the Boiling game himself this time, but just entered the game for the first time as an ordinary player to experience it.

After all, the company is now so big and full of talents. If he has to personally operate the game's launch, wouldn't all his hard work in the past three years be in vain?
After being reborn, the biggest pursuit is to play the game of your dreams with peace of mind. Now that you have been busy for 3 years, it is time to enjoy it.

Today is his birthday, on this special day, it is very meaningful to play the online game that he made.

Not only that, Li Qing also entered the game with him.

Li Qing knew that Fang Jie didn't like birthdays, so she didn't hold any special activities. Playing online games with him was the best birthday celebration.

One of Fang Jie’s dreams in his previous life was indeed to do nothing all day and play games with his girlfriend or wife. This is a fairy life, and now it has finally come true. This is what he feels is the happiest thing in his life , nothing else matters.

The two are now living in a large mansion near the Shanghai Opera. The environment is pleasant and the transportation is convenient. Usually, there are assistants to help with everything, and the office can be done through the computer network.

The network cable at home is capriciously connected with two gigabit optical fibers. Each person has a computer with performance comparable to a server and matching tables and chairs. Then all kinds of snacks and drinks are piled aside. Playing games is really cool!

At 10 o'clock, the two who had been waiting in front of the computer entered the game immediately.

After the game is opened, there is a CG game special effect animation of about 1 minute produced by Boiling Digital.

Since it was a game experience, Fang Jie didn't directly skip the animation to log in to the game and level up, but enjoyed this CG animation with Li Qing.

In fact, he had read the sample draft earlier, but his mood was completely different at the moment.It was work before, but now it is a game, and it is a game developed and produced by myself. The mentality is different, and I treat it as my own son.

CG animation is mainly composed of three parts in terms of content and picture.

First, the representative characters of each faction appear on the stage pretendingly, and then a special voice actor will match each character with a line.

In the picture, first a resolute and capable Shaolin disciple slowly walks out of the gate of Shaolin Temple with a stick, pulls out a stick, and says with a righteous face: Amitabha, if I don’t go to hell, whoever goes to hell!

Immediately after that was a stunning female disciple of the Emei Sect with fluttering dress, standing on the top of Mount Emei, facing the rising sun in front of her, under the shining light, she had a compassionate expression on her face: when the heart moves, things move; when the heart calms down, things move. quiet.

But immediately the style of the picture dimmed, and it jumped to a huge Buddhist altar with strange mountains and rocks and a strange atmosphere. A monk from the Western Regions, wearing a red pointed gauze hat and a scar on his face, sat cross-legged, and suddenly grinned: I am a blood knife , do whatever you want, dare to act!
Then, in a ghostly palace, a flirtatious woman with scantily dressed clothes and a charming smile walked towards her while twisting her waist, and said with a grinning smile: , no man...

Subsequently, representative characters of the Beggars' Gang, Wudang School, Mingjiao, and Baituoshan Schools also appeared on the stage, showing players the temperament and style of the current eight schools and their disciples in this game.

The reason why the game is still in public beta is because "The Legend of Jinyong" is currently only open to the eight sects of Shaolin, Wudang, Beggars, Emei, Mingjiao, Xuedaomen, White Camel Mountain, and Lingjiu Palace. The other sects will be discussed later. .

This is mainly due to professional balance considerations. Too many sects are easy to mess up, making players at a loss. Secondly, it is also a strategy for the game release, so that this game always maintains a sense of expectation.

The second part of the CG animation is the scene animation of the eight sects, which fully displays the style and characteristics of the eight sects to the players, and also shows the exquisite textures of the game to attract the players' attention.

The third part is the essence of this CG animation, that is, the fighting scenes of the disciples of various factions. There are heads-up and chaotic fights. The scenes are quite gorgeous and shocking, which makes people excited!

Unfortunately, "The Legend of Jin Yong" is just a 2D online game, and this CG fighting animation is just a conceptual animation.

It is impossible to have such a wonderful 3D fighting scene in the actual game. It should only appear in "The Legend of Jin Yong II". At present, Boiling Games is fully developing the 3D game engine. "Cross Fire" is their practice work , is about to be developed.

After the game CG animation, the game login screen appeared.

The background of the picture is a conceptual high-resolution Mingjiao Guangding majestic scene, with strands of petals floating in front of it, and the interface style looks very ancient, which makes people feel infected by a martial arts atmosphere at first glance.

At this time, the background music also sounded, which was "Sword and Sword Like a Dream" by Zhou Huajian.

Zhou Huajian is a signed artist of Rolling Stone Records. Rolling Stone Records and Boiling Entertainment have already launched a comprehensive cooperation, so it is not a big deal to get the copyright of this song.

The reason why he chose this song instead of carrying other songs from later generations is mainly because Fang Jie felt that since it is "The Legend of Jin Yong", it is better to use this familiar song to sell his feelings, while other songs and soundtracks in the game, All are "original".

For example, log in to the account, choose the game name, and when choosing the game camp, if you choose the decent camp, it will be "Down the Mountain" sung by An Youqi.

"If you want to practice peerless martial arts, you have to endure unbearable pain for ordinary people... I do Taijiquan with my left hand, and stab the body with a sword with my right hand. My God, let me be righteous in the world, get rid of the violence and make my wish come true!"

In the previous life, "Down the Mountain" was written and composed by Zhu Binyu, and sung by Do you want to buy vegetables? It was released on November 2019, 11. It was later adapted and used as the theme song of Fangcunshan in "Fantasy Westward Journey".

The reason why Jinshi chose this song is mainly because the game is for entertainment, not to make it as high as the movie. This song is more cute. It is a typical novice song, which is a kind of ridicule.

After all, players are novices when they enter the game, and when they actually enter the game, they will know that it is not so easy to eliminate violence...

In the game "The Legend of Jinyong" planned by Fang Jie, it is very important to choose a camp. There are 4 sects for evil and decent. Once you join a certain camp, you cannot join the four sects of the other camp.

Fang Jie, who is purely a game player, naturally chose the evil faction, because since he is a player, he doesn't think he will be an upright gentleman, and it is better to be a real villain than a pious one.

Since he chose the evil faction, Li Qing had no choice but to choose the same faction and join the Vulture Palace.

And Fang Jie, needless to say, of course chose the Blood Knife Gate.

Why choose so?

Well, anyone who understands understands.

(End of this chapter)