Game Design: Players are moved to tears

Chapter 125 Confused Zhang Quan
As a designer, Zhang Quan has never felt anything like opening a card pack.

Having developed many card games, backpack retrieval and secret change probability are commonplace and trivial matters.

But opening a physical card... this was Zhang Quan's first experience.

For some reason, Zhang Quan was a little nervous and looking forward to it.

"It must be due to hostile relations."

Picking up a card package, Zhang Quan was slightly dazed.

"There's something wrong with this weight. It seems a little too light."

Use the provided scissors to cut along the dotted line, and Zhang Quan counts the number of cards.

One, two, three, four, five...

"There are only five cards? According to the price on the official website, this card is a bit expensive..."

"No, the price seems a bit cheap, but why do I feel a bit expensive?"

Zhang Quan suddenly found a blind spot.

Card games on the market now cost 6 yuan to draw once, but the cards of "Yu-Gi-Oh" are actually [-] yuan each.

Compared with the virtual card games on the market, it is cheaper.

“Maybe it’s because I don’t feel comfortable spending money online, so I have this illusion.”

After Zhang Quan opened it, he carefully looked at the original painting of the card.

Since Liu Wei made card games popular, all manufacturers on the market have been researching card games.

At the beginning, all manufacturers were copying Liu Wei's gameplay. The strange thing is that some games were very successful in copying, but some games were so popular that they couldn't make any money back.

In the end, after a lot of research by these designers, they discovered that whether a card game makes money or not has little to do with the gameplay.

The main thing is the original painting. As long as the original painting of the card is good, no matter how backward the gameplay mechanism is, you can make money.

Although the card in Zhang Quan's hand is only a two-star miscellaneous card, all the details have been handled very well.

And in order to express the monster's attributes more clearly, the composition design of the entire card is also very reasonable.

The name, attributes, and level of the monster are written above the original painting.

Below it is written the monster race, effect and attack and defense value table, and there is a small line of code at the bottom.

Compared with the realistic style in anime, the style of physical cards is more anime-like, but it doesn’t look childish.

Zhang Quan became more comfortable with the composition of this card.

Even though he was his opponent, Zhang Quan couldn't help but clap his hands and applaud, and even wanted to come to thank him——

"Who designed the composition? This is too good for obsessive-compulsive disorder."

Moreover, the touch of the card is also very high-end, and the card itself is very hard.

But it doesn't feel like playing cards, but a special soft diaphragm.

The contrast between hardness and softness made Zhang Quan unable to stop.

"It also comes with a card holder? This is too conscientious." Zhang Quan suddenly found a stack of card holders in the box and immediately put them on.

Although it was only the lowest-grade transparent card holder, Zhang Quan still felt a sense of comfort.

This is a feeling that is difficult to describe in words, as if Fumei Technology has already known what you want, and has prepared everything step by step in advance, just waiting for you to discover the little surprises yourself.

After opening the card package, Zhang Quan was completely convinced.

No wonder Fumei Technology's incident has developed like this in just two years. It's really normal for this pair of players to control their hearts.

But after looking at the remaining card packs, Zhang Quan hesitated and finally decided to open them all.

But he didn't expect much.

First of all, this is a bonus card pack. According to the general behavior of game manufacturers, it will give you at most one or two rare cards to whet your appetite.

It may look good to newcomers, but within a week, this card will be a piece of shit, and even dogs won’t use it!

Although this is a physical card, Zhang Quan estimated that there would not be much difference.After pouring out the remaining four cards all at once, he was stunned.

Among the five cards, there was one card that was different from the others. The font exuded a light silver light.

Regarding the value of rare cards, Zhang Quan thought he knew better than Liu Wei.

After all, Liu Wei has not made card games for a long time, but Fujii Technology is developing new cards all the time.

How to use new cards to attract old players has become a must-have topic in the weekly council.

But now, he directly drew a card that was obviously a rare card.

"Maybe I was lucky enough to draw the guarantee right away on the first card?" Zhang Quan said a few words without any other thoughts.

But then, something even more outrageous happened.

In the second pack of card packs, another silver card came out.

Not only that, each of the remaining card packs will have a silver-lettered card, and there is also an individually wrapped card in the innermost part of the card box.

Zhang Quan tore it open and saw that it was a card with a dazzling luster from head to toe.

Although it is no different from other cards except for the text description and monster image above, this card exudes the nobility of a rich man from head to toe.

Zhang Quan was surprised——

Just from the appearance of this card, you can tell that it is definitely not cheap.

The minimum cost is more than one yuan and five yuan... You must know that the price of a card is only two yuan, and all kinds of fees such as shipping, storage, and dealer fees must be removed.

"Is there something wrong? That's why you put this kind of card in?"

"This is impossible. You can tell by looking at the packaging that this is intentional."

Zhang Quan was stunned.

But what surprised him the most was when he went to the official website to check the price of the cards with suspicion.

At first, he thought that the silver words included in each card pack were equivalent to the blue cards in the card game, which were dog food cards.

But after checking the price, I realized that this thing is extremely valuable.

The most expensive blue-eyed white dragon with silver characters is as high as 8000, and it is still expensive but not marketable.

But this is not the most outrageous thing. The most outrageous thing is that the cheapest silver card is worth [-] cents...

There are even some silver cards that have never appeared in the anime, but are worth as much as ten yuan.

Don't underestimate the fact that it is only a few cents, but in the eyes of professionals, this is an extremely dangerous signal.

This means that these cards have begun to break away from IP value and create their own value.

In other words, there are brick-breaking parties in some large-scale games, but these people are based on the reasonable operation of the game.

Once the game is closed, all resources will be turned into fly ash.

But the cards of "Yu-Gi-Oh!" are different. It has shown signs of breaking away from the anime IP.

This means that if the IP of "Yu-Gi-Oh!" continues to operate smoothly for a period of time.

At that time, the value of its own cards can ignore the anime IP.

No matter how bad the painting style of "Yu-Gi-Oh" is in the later period, or how stretched the plot is, it will not affect the price of the physical card.

And during the inquiry process, Zhang Quan even discovered that some flat cards were worth more than silver or gold.

This completely blinded Zhang Quan.

"This, this is wrong, why are the rarer cards not as valuable as some ordinary cards?"

"This is completely inconsistent with the market rules of card games!"

"Have a meeting, have a meeting now!"

(End of this chapter)