Rebirth of the big era of online games

Chapter 393 Reference is a tribute
One of the important reasons why "My World" became popular all over the world in the previous life is that the MOD port was opened, so that players can not only experience the genuine game, but also transform it into their own game.

The so-called MOD is an integrated combination of game templates, including object templates, character templates, map templates, setting templates, etc., referred to as modules.

Of course it will be the same in this life, but Fang Jie has added some money-making routines into it.

He was the first to open the server-side MOD port in the online survival mode.

In layman's terms, in fact, the private server is released, but this private server must be authorized by the official, and the port connected to the official server can run normally. The profits are distributed to private server operators.

The profit distribution ratio between the game official and the private server operator is not fixed, it depends on how much sales the private server operator can create. You can get 30%, but generally you can get 70% as a well-run private server.

Of course, if you count the server rental fees for private servers, there are not that many, but anyway, this is always a profitable thing.

For the game official, it saves a lot of rental server and game maintenance costs, both of which are assigned to the private server operator to be responsible, so the game official actually has nothing to lose, just wait for the money to be collected.

The point is, in order to make money, private server operators will naturally advertise everywhere to attract players into their private server games, so the game official also saves a lot of game advertising costs, and the game is easier and faster to promote.

Another point is that the private server operators will not be as cryptic as Fang Jie misappropriating money, but how to make money. Selling resource packs is only the most basic, and all kinds of game props may be sold.

Don't think how noble the morals of foreigners are, as long as they are given the opportunity, all kinds of dirty things can be done, such as finding game trustees to stimulate players to spend money, or taking proper care of their relatives and friends, using GM status to give The other party brushes something or something, this kind of thing is the same all over the world, and it is not a patent of any country.

In this case, the word-of-mouth of the private server will definitely not be very good, but it is definitely more profitable than the official server. While the game official shares the profits of the private server, it does not need to bear the responsibility for these unlimited behaviors, and it can also reflect how bad the official server is. "purity" and justice.

With the launch of private server MOD, many players naturally discovered the business opportunities.

These players are basically already masters in the game, either they are the leaders of the player guild or team, or they have extensive human resources in reality, so they look at the problem differently from ordinary players, or the realm of the game has changed. no the same.

Players have five different game stages or realms from low to high.

The first level is to play for the sake of fun. I didn’t play games at first, or I don’t know how to play games at all. Because my classmates, friends and neighbors are playing games, in order to make myself more social, I had to join in the fun and get into the pit. .

The second stage is to play for the sake of playing. At this time, players already have their own game ideas and game pursuits. In addition to being addicted to the gameplay itself, they will also actively look for some games they are interested in to experience.

When you reach the third level, you play for the sake of pretending to be aggressive.

At this time, the player has already had a wealth of game experience and has become a game master. He is no longer satisfied with the pleasure of the game itself, but looks forward to acting aggressively in front of others, becoming the leader in the game, or becoming a server master.

However, it is difficult for most players to break through the third stage. After all, not everyone can become the boss. With krypton gold, you can be the king in the ghost suit.

And if you can reach the fourth level, because you have already pretended to be aggressive in the game, you will pursue a higher level, that is, combine the game with reality, and start thinking about how to make money through the game, such as becoming a professional player or setting up a game studio. , or open a private server.

As for the fifth level, it is Fang Jie, who regards games as a career and starts making games.

The social environment and economic conditions determine that foreign players are generally higher than domestic players in terms of game realm, especially those foreign players who are already team bosses and are currently in the fourth stage, so it is easy to accept MOD private servers like this things.

So soon, a large number of private servers appeared on the "Minecraft" online platform for players to choose to enter.

The game settings of these private servers can be described as strange, and there are many players. Many of them are very thoughtful and more interesting than the rigorous and formal official servers.

In terms of analogy, just like the various "Legend" private servers in the previous life, some gameplay and creativity even surpassed the official server, attracting a large number of players to settle in.

With the emergence of a large number of private servers, in order to make their servers stand out and be more attractive, private server operators also have a demand for supporting MOD value-added services.

So Fang Jie further opened up the "Minecraft" MOD development tools and ports, that is, opened up some systems of the boiling game engine to the outside world.

Some self-taught or professionals from game production companies took these open source system programs and started to make various personalized MODs.

For example, the replacement of game props and character skins is just like changing the skin of the private server of "Legend" in the previous life. The original, old-fashioned and simple skin has been replaced with a variety of fancy special effect skins, and the names of the props have also been changed to be very coquettish. wind.

The blocks in the game are no longer pixels, but more realistic textures. The weapons and C4 explosive packs in the game have been replaced with the weapon explosive textures in "CS".

What's more, in the modified "Minecraft", there are abnormal props such as bombers, tanks, and missiles!
In the private server, players no longer use explosives to raid their homes, but use RPG rocket launchers, tiger tanks, bombers and even missiles to bomb their homes long-rangely, while the defenders are equipped with various automatic anti-aircraft guns, anti-tank rocket launchers, Missile weapons, drones, mechanical dogs, etc., have changed a game in the original world into a modern or even sci-fi war game.

In the end, someone even developed a MOD version that can manufacture atomic bombs. When a nuclear bomb goes down, all creatures and buildings within a certain range in the game world will be destroyed instantly...

Of course, such a perverted suit naturally also provides the function of unlimited basic resources. Even if the nuclear explosion occurs, players can still quickly rebuild their homes in a short period of time, and then continue to compete for the only area in the game that has "uranium" resources, and then continue to build Nuclear bombs, the ultimate game goal is to instantly clean up the opponent.

Such a server, compared to the "Legend" private server, is like someone who opened the "one knife 9999" kind of perverted server, and also opened the "GM clear screen" skill. Everything you see, even yourself.

But do you think the nuclear bomb is over?
Actually not.

The imagination of foreigners is very rich, and most of them are sand sculptures. Some private server operators use the nuclear bomb MOD version to attract players, and some people continue to modify the game version, directly jumping out of the land range, and rising to the Star Wars version.

If you use nuclear bombs, then I will build my own starship, fly away from the planet, and then attack your planetary base for dimensionality reduction!

Other private server operators took a look: Damn, since you are so shameless just to grab players' customers, then I will use magic to defeat magic!
As a result, all kinds of magic, abilities, warcraft, black technology, alien creatures... the messy objects and species that can only be seen in science fiction films also began to appear one after another...

Of course, these are all things to say later, the versions of Star Wars and Magic War have deviated from the basic framework of the original version of "My World", which was the version that was only available after a major upgrade of "My World" several years later .

In the short term, private servers are still based on land warfare, including the atomic bomb version, which is also a relatively late MOD version, and there are still many evolutionary versions between the interstellar war version, such as the laser weapon version and the satellite version. If you fail to reach your destination, you will be shot down by the opponent.

All in all, the opening of the private server MOD is equivalent to allowing players and other small workshop game producers to participate in the game development process of "Minecraft". Every version update of the official server is based on the popular The private server version has been revised.

In other words, by adopting the form of private server MOD, Fang Jie even saved the cost of developing subsequent versions of the game. Since all private server MOD versions are based on the official server version, no matter what version, the intellectual property rights are always owned by the official .

Moreover, many private server MODs are only customized by Boiling Games according to customer requirements after the private server operators provide an idea or demand. The intellectual property rights of these MOD versions belong to Boiling Games.

For any customized MOD version, Boiling Games will charge an additional customization fee. This is like the previous "Legend" private server, which separates game production from game operation. The private server manager is only responsible for game promotion and operation. Technical matters are generally entrusted to professional companies to complete, and of course they have to pay.

In addition to boiling games, there are also many private game production studios or small game production companies involved in the development and production of MOD. Once they develop a very creative and popular version, they will make a lot of money. A version can be sold to many private servers for operation, or it can make money by cooperating to get a commission.

Gradually, the game "Minecraft" has broken away from the original operating framework. Instead, it has formed official servers, private servers, and MOD developers to jointly provide players with personalized and creative service models, and rely on games to form formed a huge industrial chain.

And these different game modes also attract players with different pursuits and game preferences, so that there is such a classic saying that Fang Jie once said to players in "My World": "There is always a MOD that is What you like, if you don't like it, it must be because you haven't found it, not because we haven't."

"My World", worthy of its name, finally enables every player to find their own world in the game!
This is also the reason why "My World" was later rated as one of the greatest games in the world!
Many games in later generations have more or less borrowed from different versions of the MODs of "Minecraft".

When game makers are interviewed by the media, they often say the same thing - the creation of this game is inspired by "My World", and the XXX gameplay is a tribute to "My World"!
For example, it is also an open sandbox game "EVE". After "My World" quickly became popular in overseas game circles, the game official carefully studied the gameplay routines in "My World", and then made a major upgrade to its own game. A new game version has been released: EVE: War of Factions!
Ordinary players usually don't pay attention to which company developed "Minecraft", but the Icelandic game company is different. Fang Jie was still stirring up trouble in the game some time ago, so I pay special attention to his every move with Boiling Games.

So I immediately noticed that this guy quietly released the game "Minecraft" on STEAM after making a fuss in "EVE" for a while.

This made the Iceland game company have to worry about whether Fang Jie was aiming at their "EVE", or maybe plagiarized some of their "EVE" gameplay.

Sure enough, "My World", like "EVE", is also an open sandbox game!

What the hell is a game that can be full of square pixels?

That's it?

Can such a mentally handicapped style game be compared with our hard science fiction?

But the fact is unexpected, "Minecraft" quickly became popular. On the first day of its launch, the game was downloaded more than 10 times. One month later, the number of registered players exceeded one million, and the average number of online players exceeded 30 per day. , the player rating on STEAM is: rave reviews!
Looking back at my own "EVE", it has been more than half a year since it was released, and the number of online users is still only over 1...

The two really cannot be compared, not that "My World" is inferior to "EVE", but that "EVE" is far inferior to "My World".

The so-called existence is reasonable, which forced the top executives of the Icelandic game company to enter "Minecraft" to experience the game in person.

As a result, this experience was out of control. After several company executives were copied home several times in the online survival mode, they were so angry that they started the krypton gold mode and spent more than 10 US dollars. Finally succeeded in becoming the existence of server master.

Then they woke up suddenly!
FUCK!

I actually spent more than 10 US dollars on this "mentally handicapped" and "free" game!
They realized the true excellence of "Minecraft" after waking up from a dream, and quickly grasped the core essence of the game's durability!
What makes "My Game" better than "EVE" is that, in addition to being easy to use, it also successfully provokes conflicts between players' forces, and the emotions generated by this struggle also have an impact on reality!
Since it is someone else's advantage, we must learn from it!

Don’t think that foreigners scold Chinese people for piracy all day long, so they don’t plagiarize themselves. For example, before the development of science and technology in the United States, in fact, most of the intellectual property rights were copied and copied from European countries, especially those from the United Kingdom and Germany, without paying a fee. Intellectual copyright fee of cents.

Including their immigration policy, it is actually a strategic means to plunder the intellectual property rights and talents of other countries, but the routine is deeper, and it is the kind that draws salary from the bottom of the pot. It would be too naive to think that this is just a country's unique culture that is tolerant and inclusive. , Otherwise, how did the "Chinese Exclusion Act" come about?
The same is true in the game industry, but at the same time as reference, it is often shamelessly added: This is a tribute to XXX games!

Lo and behold, a sense of moral nobility has been copied!
Iceland Games decided to pay tribute to Minecraft.

The difficulty of "EVE" can't be greatly changed. At most, it can supplement and improve the novice task process, but the power struggle mode between players can still be learned from.

The 00 area in the previous version of "EVE" was only used as an area where firing is not restricted, that is, a pure PK area, to distinguish it from low-security areas with restricted firing areas and high-security areas where firing is strictly prohibited, and did not consider the presence of legion forces The problem.

In other words, the player legion can control a certain 00 area, which means that the player legion has more frequent activities in this area, which is their sphere of influence, but this is only symbolic control, and does not actually control the territory.

And "Minecraft" gave them a huge inspiration: to stimulate players' consumption, there must be players' homes!
And this home must consume a lot of resources to build, and it is allowed to be demolished by other players!

Once such a mechanism is in place, house guarding and house raiding become a way to intensify the conflict between players, just like "Minecraft", it is easy to make a real fire, forcing players to increase investment in the game , or bring more relatives and friends into the game to help.

Previously, "EVE" was too peaceful. Although many players acted as pirates and robbed passing ships, most of them belonged to the nature of stragglers.

Since the player legion does not have its own legion base, they all rely on the NPC space station in the game as a temporary base. They will not fight to the death for a certain star field.

But as long as there is a home built by the player, and there is a possibility of being demolished, then...

That's it!

"Minecraft" is such a routine that has achieved great success, so can "EVE"!

So the new version of "EVE: War of Forces" is launched. The update content is mainly to encourage the war between the players' legion forces. Corresponding adjustments and settings have been made, and the legion base construction method and the sphere of influence competition method have been added.

The general routine is: player legions can build their own space fortresses in the 00 region as a base, or they can build temporary space stations on the orbits of planets in each galaxy. Of course, this requires a lot of mineral resources, and even some only A rare mineral produced in a galaxy in a specific 00 area.

Then, if the player army wants to dominate one side, it must occupy one or more 00 regions that produce rare minerals, build their own space fortresses in these regions, and establish space stations and production and R&D bases in nearby galaxies.

Naturally, this will trigger a war for resources between different player legion forces.

In addition, to control these areas, you must first control the adjacent galaxies, that is, to plant flags at specific locations in the galaxies, and build a special force device to allow the defenders to have some defensive bonuses. Once the force device is destroyed, the galaxy It becomes an ownerless public galaxy.

Therefore, the faction war between player legions started with the scramble for galaxies. The gameplay is similar to the grid capture the flag game. Once these grids or galaxies are controlled, they will gradually extend to the enemy's core area, and their space cities and even space fortresses will be destroyed. Destroying them all is tantamount to annexing the opponent's territory.

Of course, this process will involve a lot of overall planning and arrangement of manpower and material resources, involving resource collection, home construction, weapons and ammunition production, scientific and technological research and development, human resource management, encirclement of Wei and rescue of Zhao, long-distance and short-range attack, guerrilla harassment, counter-intrigue and other tactics.

But the core gameplay is actually the one in the online survival mode of "Minecraft". It became a starship and replaced the island map with a star map.

What I have to say is that this trick is very effective, and it immediately activates those players who want to retire in the game.

The player legions used to be relatively loose pirate organizations, not very organized legion forces. Now, under the stimulation of the "war of forces" version, they had to organize seriously and began to carry out purposeful land reclamation in the 00 area and building.

After all, no legion is willing to be controlled by others. Controlling a certain 00 area is equivalent to controlling the rare minerals there. The stability of logistics production.

Naturally, this also includes legion benefits such as free recharge game point cards, which further increases the appeal of the legion to recruit new people, and then a virtuous circle, the legion gradually grows and becomes a server master.

A few months ago, there was a commotion in the game world because of Fang Jie. During this period, he was busy with Tencent’s listing, the WPGA competition, and then he was busy with managing "Minecraft". Then it happened to be Chinese New Year, I spent some time relaxing at home, wrote a few game plans, and basically didn't play "EVE" much.

Without him, the shit-stirring stick, the game has been relatively calm recently, but after the update of the game version of "War of Powers" in March, the originally peaceful world of "EVE" suddenly became chaotic, and almost all older players Legion, all began to staking land.

Once the enclosure starts, there will inevitably be conflicts. Two player legions or even multiple player legions have taken a fancy to a geomantic treasure land, and they all want to dominate it as their own, so it is natural to fight.

In this war, a huge amount of game resources were consumed by the players, causing the prices in the game to skyrocket, and severe inflation occurred. Everyone had money, but they could not buy cheap resources, and there were not too many during the war. More time to engage in production.

Coincidentally, Fang Jie was almost busy at this time. Hearing that the game version was updated, he went in and glanced at the content of the version update, and immediately realized that another wave of futures could be operated.

The resources in the legion have been accumulating in the past few months. All the resources produced are stored in the warehouse and there is almost no consumption. Because the boss is not around, no one dares to use them. The most is to convert these resources into finished starships or weapons and equipment. ,in case for need.

The only consumption is the monthly card money of 500 Chinese miners, but that is only a few dollars. Before that, the Legion had millions of game recharge points in their hands. Even 1000 accounts would not be used up in 10 years, right?
So after the version was updated, the first thing Fang Jie did was to sell off the inventory of the past few months, and sell it for a good price while the price was right.

His shipment volume is very large, but he didn't throw out a big sell order all at once, but used the routines similar to the dealer's shipments in the stock market, such as first placing a big buy order underneath, but in fact, He is secretly shipping out small orders.

Originally, speculators in the market who had learned from the previous experience thought that this game revision was an excellent opportunity to stockpile goods for sale, and some people were sweeping up large orders below, thinking that this is a hero Seeing the same thing, it is natural to rush to eat a lot at the top.

As a result, needless to say, these speculators ended up crying in the toilet like retail investors who built positions at high positions in the stock market, because they found that the seller seemed to have an endless supply of goods, and prices never skyrocketed again, at most they just didn’t make it. Xiadi remained there, and suddenly one day, the big order for the lower price just disappeared, completely disappeared...

At the same time, the Chinese player corps led by Fang Jie also started a horse racing operation.

(End of this chapter)