Game Design: Players are moved to tears

Chapter 124 Equipment goes online
Other ways to make money?

Everyone looked at each other.

Just kidding, the equipment originally priced at [-] yuan was sold at a reduced price of [-] yuan, which meant that Liu Wei had to earn at least [-] yuan in profit from other aspects to recoup his capital.

But how is this possible?
"This is simply impossible!" Chen Hao immediately concluded, "Domestic players have to struggle to buy a 3A-level masterpiece that costs two to three hundred yuan. How can they spend extra money, and spend so much?"

Liu Wei smiled softly.

Chen Hao is right. It is easy for domestic players to make money, but there are prerequisites.

Generally speaking, the higher the game threshold, the lower the player's tolerance, and the lower the desire to make money.

After spending money to buy a game, a thought will naturally arise in the player's heart... I have already spent money to buy the game, and you still engage in in-app purchases. Aren't you disgusting?

But if it is a free game, players’ tolerance will be greatly increased——

It’s a free game anyway, so isn’t it normal for people to charge more money than me?
Nowadays, a new game costs 500 yuan just for the equipment. How can any player be willing to spend more?
But Liu Wei is not worried about this at all.

Picked up a card and said: "Let's sell cards!"

"Selling cards?"

Everyone was a little confused. This new game just sells drawing cards. Is the boss (junior) confused or something?
Seeing everyone's expressions, Liu Wei knew that everyone had misunderstood, and explained with a smile:
"What we sell are not ordinary cards, but cards with collectible value."

Hearing this, everyone looked at the cards in their hands and became even more confused.

Collection value?
Is a piece of paper also valuable for collection?
Who would spend money to collect a piece of paper? Isn’t it possible to print as many copies as you want?
But then, Liu Wei explained his thoughts.

"First of all, players who purchase our equipment can unlock some basic decks in the game."

"Not only that, when players complete teaching tasks and decryption tasks, they can also unlock other card groups."

"Moreover, we also give away card sets for free. Players who purchase equipment will put a physical card pack worth [-] yuan in the package."

Hearing this, everyone felt that Liu Wei was crazy.

It's outrageous enough to reduce the price of equipment, but now it's even more outrageous, and they actually give away a hundred physical cards for free. Isn't this a huge loss?

But... Chen Hao seemed to understand something.

He asked tentatively: "Brother Liu, how much does our card package cost?"

Liu Wei stretched out a finger: "Ten yuan, five in a pack, two yuan each."

Everyone couldn't help but clicked their tongues when they heard the price.

It's two yuan a piece, why don't you grab it?
If Liu Wei knew what they were thinking, he would definitely say: "It's so tiring to rob, and it's illegal, but selling cards is different. Players are vying to give themselves money. How cool that is!"

Chen Hao asked again: "Is there anything special about this card pack?"

Liu Wei said with a smile: "That's right, physical cards are graded according to rarity, temporarily divided into seven grades according to flat card, silver lettering, surface flashing, gold lettering, silver fragments, three-dimensional, and holographic."

"Cards with different rarities have different values, and their performance in the game is also different. The rarer and more expensive the card, the more amazing the performance."

"Generally speaking, a pack of cards must have a silver word as a guarantee, and a large box of cards ([-] cards) has a guarantee of silver chips."

Liu Wei was very detailed and comprehensive.

Chen Hao recorded it very seriously.

But in the eyes of others, this is just two psychopaths communicating about their condition.

……

As the game approaches its launch, the promotion of "Yu-Gi-Oh!" has also begun.

The scale can be said to be overwhelming, and all the publicity positions that can be bought with reasonable prices and money have been purchased.

One hundred million has been spent, and Liu Wei is not short of this money.

However, in the eyes of other game manufacturers and players, it seems very scary.

"If it's so outrageous, the bus stop sign when I went home last night was Union Hospital, and this morning it turned into "Yu-Gi-Oh!"

"It's the same here, the subway stations have been changed."

"It can only be said that Liu Wei is determined to engage in Boda this time." Although it is said that the publicity is strong, the scope is very small. Liu Wei only bought a few days of advertising space in some first- and second-tier cities.

But even this was enough to cause an uproar.

Although those game companies feel that the scale is too outrageous, they are not too nervous.

Because this matter has long been expected by them.

According to their speculation, Liu Wei's new game is most likely to be a card-drawing story-based game.

It has the same nature as "Nianghua Three Kingdoms", it is nothing more than changing from a mobile game to an ar.

And because ar is a game with a disguised buyout system, everyone estimates that Liu Wei's new game will not make much money.

Relatively speaking, everyone thought this was Liu Wei's temptation.

Spending a large amount of money to move from PC mobile games to the virtual market is a step-by-step test. If it succeeds, this [-] million spent will not be a loss.

If you fail...you will have to pay tuition.

Zhang Quan thought so too, so he placed an order for the AR device of "Yu-Gi-Oh!" as soon as it was launched on the official website.

He was going to experience it himself to see what trouble Liu Wei wanted to pull this time.

As the phone rang, the courier reminded him that his equipment had arrived downstairs.

……

The express box is not big, only about the size of a helmet, but it feels heavy in the hand.

"Well, that's not right. Why is it so heavy?"

Weighing the weight in his hands, Zhang Quan was very confused.

The original intention of AR equipment is to facilitate virtualization, so the design principle is generally that the lighter the better, why is Liu Wei's device so heavy?
Could it be because of technical problems... It can't be, this is not some advanced technology.

With doubts, Zhang Quan opened the box.

The cool-looking duel plate comes into view instantly.

"This is too big. Can this be used?"

Zhang Quan complained while fixing it on his wrist according to the instructions, and then...

He played with it up and down: "Don't tell me, it looks pretty good in my hands."

"It's very similar to the anime." Then he picked up the glasses and put them on, and didn't take them off after trying them for a while. "The materials are also quite high-end."

"Huh? What is this?"

Suddenly, Zhang Quan found a box of two palm-sized black boxes inside the box.

Pick it up and take a look.

"The physical card of "Yu-Gi-Oh!"... Hey, is this also a free gift?"

Zhang Quan went to the official website to check and found that the value of the gift cards was as high as one hundred yuan.

"Holy shit, what's the idea? Just sell the equipment for [-] and get a [-]-yuan physical card for free. How can you make money?"

After some complaints, Zhang Quan was even more certain that Liu Wei did not want to make money from this game at all.

Instead, I want to use this game to try out the market prospects of ar games, which is equivalent to asking for directions.

After all, you can’t make any money this way!

Zhang Quan was just about to turn on the device to try out the game, when his eyes inadvertently glanced at the dark card box.

"How about... open the box and try it first?"

"I heard that there are physical cards in here, and the special effects of the monsters summoned by the physical cards will change."

(End of this chapter)