Is it not a galgame?

Chapter 554 458. Half a step is enough

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However, the meeting was not over yet. Qing Zhiyuan thought about it carefully and decided that it would be more stable to make two sets of currency mechanisms for safety reasons.

The dandelion coins that players recharge are bound to their accounts and become the bound currency. The currency used for gaming in the game lobby is then changed to happy coins. Happy coins can be exchanged for dandelion coins, but cannot be exchanged for happy coins. Dandelion coins.

Then there will be no problem.

This is not to say that the previous currency strategy was illegal, but that it was not robust enough.

For example, in previous lives, there were some real game platforms in China. You could play fishing or Landlords, and the virtual coins you earned could be exchanged for character avatars, skins, etc. in the game. These skins and avatars actually had For anchored value, the official selling price may range from a few yuan to several hundred yuan.

But it would not be considered a gambling game either.

Some platforms are even bolder and can be exchanged for physical prizes, such as furniture, TVs, mobile phones, etc., thereby stimulating players to consume.

In many online games, Happy Beans can be used to purchase various in-game items or services.

According to what Qing Zhiyuan knows, there are several such platforms.

[Equipment] is produced in the game, players can trade [Equipment], and the official recycles [Equipment]:

Not only can currencies be produced in the game, but players can also trade currencies. The official also recycles currencies and provides currency exchange services.

Qing Zhiyuan agrees with part of this theory.

Equipment = currency.

It looks like it, but it's actually legal.

Players can place bets with Happy Beans to win more Happy Beans or other rewards.

However, this tip of the iceberg is completely enough in this era.

Some games allow players to use Happy Beans to participate in gambling or competitive activities, such as poker, mahjong, etc.

So what path does the official provide?

But has Legend been sanctioned?

nor.

But does it have anything to do with pokeni?

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This game is essentially a carefully packaged gambling game.

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So what happens when a player has enough Happy Coins and deliberately loses them to others in order to sell them at a lower price than the official selling price?

In fact, the law stipulates that as long as you do not conduct two-way currency exchanges and the government does not actively provide currency exchange channels, there will be no problem at all.

Later, Tanwan Blue Moon, Legend Gold Fighting Server and so on were essentially gambling games.

But do you think Penguin Platform will be punished by law?

Neither will it.

It seems a bit counter-intuitive, contrary to human cognition and intuition, but it is clear after just a noun conversion:

Are they illegal?

Because the official provides [Equipment Recycling]

In fact, in the previous life, many people could not guess the most covert gambling game. Only some experienced game planners could understand it. The name of that game was "Legend"

For example, in the official selling price, 1 yen may be exchanged for 10 Dandelion Binding Coins, and one Dandelion Coin may be exchanged for 10 Happy Coins. This will give players an intuitive feeling:

Happy coins themselves are a valuable feeling.

So far, what he has popularized among pokeni members is just the tip of the iceberg.

On some platforms, users can redeem accumulated Happy Beans for physical prizes or electronic gift cards.

Speaking of the battle of wits and courage between these game manufacturers and the officialdom, Qing Zhiyuan, as a veteran in this industry, could tell it for three days and three nights.

Qingzhiyuan can probably maintain the previous currency strategy, but it is certainly not as stable as using dual currencies.

But is it gambling?

Being able to exchange for physical goods is indeed considered gambling to a certain extent, and it can only be said to be a gray area.

But even so, players can still make money by reselling Happy Coins or even selling accounts.

In previous lives, Penguin's Happy Beans could also be purchased at low prices. As for how the seller obtained them and how they sold them, it is not convenient to say in this book.

Thinking of this, Qing Zhiyuan couldn't help but laugh.

That is, some good genes will be retained, but it is relative.

At least that will be the case in 2023.

So in the previous life, when Qing Zhiyuan was working at Penguin, a senior told a story called "Darwin Theory of Games":

If games are like other forms of life, they must undergo survival of the fittest from birth to development.

The reason why the games we see today are like this is because unadapted games have been eliminated in the long history of history, and only the more adaptable genes will remain.

Or even more extreme, what if a player with billions of Happy Coins directly sells his account?

These are actually problems.

For example, players can use Happy Beans to purchase game characters, equipment, props, etc. to enhance their gaming experience.

You must know that these things are the system rules that were finally formed after decades of accumulation by countless game manufacturers in previous lives. Without stepping on enough pitfalls and how many game companies died along the way, it would be impossible to make it. Like this.

Even if it is a physical reward, it will not be sanctioned.

At least in 2023, China has not introduced relevant laws to determine whether they are illegal.

These prizes can include everything from electronics to homewares to fashion apparel.

Darwin's theory of evolution can only explain part of the phenomena of life, but cannot explain all.

When the general environment of the times undergoes earth-shaking changes, this set of theories no longer applies.

And according to Qing Zhiyuan’s idea, some game genes may not be good genes now, but that doesn’t mean they won’t be good genes in the future. Everything actually depends on the environment of the times.

To put it most simply and straightforwardly, if Qing Zhiyuan directly copied the game genes of 2023, he might have failed miserably in 1999.

From an evolutionary perspective, future creatures should be eliminated by the survival of the fittest, right?

But they may not be able to adapt to this environment.

Because players have not experienced the baptism of time, this environment may not allow future games to survive.

Therefore, Qing Zhiyuan agrees even more with what a Huawei senior said:

What the times need is not particularly advanced products, but products that are half a step faster than the current ones.

Now, even if Qing Zhiyuan has understood the future game system model in 2023, what he has to do is only half a step faster than the current era.

Only half a step faster can you be invincible.

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After Qing Zhiyuan made the two mechanisms of binding dandelion coins and splitting the joy coins in the game hall, the rest was left to Shinji Mikami to perfect and set up, and then the programmers continued to implement it.

The system is not very complicated, but the official announcement will have to be re-explained when the time comes.

The Dandelion Coins of existing players will remain unchanged as Dandelion Coins, and channels for exchanging Happy Coins will be provided.

When they saw the official announcement, existing Dandelion game platform players were a little confused at first, but they quickly came to their senses.

"What does this mean? There are more currencies in my original game?"

"There are so many disguises, right? It looks like you can convert dandelion coins into happy coins."

"Isn't that just increasing?"

"Why would pokeni do such a strange thing?" "Who knows, maybe there is some big move?"

"Is it related to the digitalization that pokeni mentioned some time ago?"

"Yeah, it's possible, but wouldn't it be a good thing to have more game currency? I suddenly have ten times the game currency."

Players were a little surprised at first when 1 Dandelion Coin was exchanged for 10 Happy Coins, but they quickly accepted this change and behaved very happily.

The only trouble is that every time you buy Happy Coins in the future, you have to perform a two-step operation. The first step is to buy a point card to recharge Dandelion Coins, and the second step is to exchange the Dandelion Coins into Happy Coins.

But if you want to go the other way and exchange 10 dandelions for 1 happy coin, I'm afraid the players will scold you to death.

Therefore, you must be very cautious when doing currency strategies.

If you don't do it well at the beginning, it will cause a lot of trouble in the future.

Many games prefer to set higher prices for in-game props and virtual goods at the very beginning. This is actually for similar reasons.

Because if you set the price low in the early stage, you will face great resistance if you want to increase the price later.

In the minds of players, a virtual product of yours can only depreciate in value, so how can there be any reason for it to appreciate in value?

Unless the currency is powerful enough to give players an expectation that the virtual goods in the game will be valuable enough to appreciate, it will be really difficult to increase the price of goods in the later stage, and it will be difficult to make welfare concessions. For example, giveaways from events or something.

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Players applauded the dual-currency reform this time, largely because they felt they had taken advantage.

Fortunately, there are no virtual products in the game hall yet, and it is just used as a pure entertainment platform for players to play.

From a game design perspective, making the currency exchange rate of Happy Coins higher will also help expand players’ enjoyment of the game, while also increasing the output and release space of the game lobby.

A small value of currency will make players feel more distressed and more sensitive, while a large amount of currency will, on the contrary, stimulate players to spend more.

This set of models has been clearly studied in the past.

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By the way, there is another mechanism:

CD activation code mechanism.

This activation code is different from the activation code for ordering cards or purchasing games online. The CD activation code is a hard activation code burned into the CD hardware. It can only be read by a machine, not manually. You cannot see it with the naked eye. to this activation code.

The game disc is put into the CD player and is read and activated by the corresponding reading program. Players can choose whether to transplant it to the game console.

Choose porting, and you can then play the game without a disc.

The price is that it takes up a certain amount of hard drive space.

And after activation, it will be bound to the current machine. Each game console officially has a special verification method, so there is no possibility of fraud.

But you can put the disc into other game consoles and play it, there is no problem.

I just can't activate it a second time.

Because the activation data is recorded in pokeni's official server, when a code is activated, it will naturally be removed from the activation list.

Of course, this is a benefit that pokeni gives to players. Qing Zhiyuan’s original intention is to allow players to use the game more conveniently after purchasing the disc, instead of having to replace the game disc every time.

And once you have this activation code, even if the disc is lost, you can still download the game back.

Qing Zhiyuan also created an additional new game mechanism: only an activation code can use the online game function. For example, if friends play Monster Hunter together, you can connect with each other if you have an activation code. Without activation code, you can only play single-player. Strengthen activation The importance of codes.

In the future, some people may act like "activating the game locally and then selling the game discs", but these pokeni won't be able to control that much.

Because players who bought such game discs actually suffered damage when they lost the opportunity to activate the activation code. They will also understand that they will try not to buy such second-hand discs in the future, and it is better to buy genuine ones.

The market will naturally eliminate some inferior merchants.

What we can think of in the future is: In the new era of popular online shopping, if players come back after buying a game disc and find that the activation code has been used, they will definitely give the merchant a negative review and refund the money.

Of course, there will also be some players who may just be looking for a bargain and just want to buy CDs to play.

Next is the development process of the program, and coordination with pokeni branches in other countries to ensure that the Dandelion platform will be changed uniformly.

Qing Zhiyuan has other things to do.

In the evening, he made an appointment with Hattori Hiroyuki to have dinner with him.

"This time our new game will be entrusted to President Hattori."

Qing Zhiyuan handed the new game gift box to Hattori Hiroyuki.

The latter looked at it and saw the words "Journey to Seek the Dragon" written on it.

"It looks like another big-budget game." Hattori sighed.

"Well, it has been developed for almost two years. It is considered a large-scale action RPG game."

"Looking forward to it. It will definitely sell well."

Hattori Hiroyuki laughed.

The two drank some wine with each other, and each other's faces were a little red.

"In North America, we will digitize new games, which means players can buy discs offline or buy games online."

Qing Zhiyuan said straight to the point.

"Huh? So fast?"

Although Qing Zhiyuan was talking about the northern rice area and it didn't seem to have much to do with Hattori Hiroyuki, Hattori Hiroyuki's heart also trembled a little.

Who knows whether Bei Mi’s today will be Neon’s tomorrow?

However, Hattori Hiroyuki thought about what Qing Zhiyuan analyzed for him last time, and his floating heart was suppressed again.

If the Dandelion gaming platform becomes more popular in the future, does it mean that whether it is a point card or a game disc, it will actually sell quite well?

For him, he didn't seem to have lost anything. Instead, he got his first bite of cake because he reached a point card sales agreement with pokeni at the earliest.

"Then, I'll leave it to President Abdomen for "Journey to the Dragon."

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After dinner and wine in the evening, the two said goodbye to each other.

Hattori Hiroyuki got into his own car, and the car was updated once. It is now the latest Toyota Century. This car is worth 30 yuan and is considered one of the most luxurious cars launched by Toyota at the moment.

Although the car has changed, the driver has not.

Driver Sang stopped at a familiar roadside and waited patiently for Hattori Hiroyuki's actions.

Hattori got out of the car and put the "Dragon Quest" game disc into the trash can.

“God bless the trash can.

I hope "Journey to the Dragon" will be a big hit! "

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