Game Design: Players are moved to tears

Chapter 161 Is "League of Legends" going to be popular?
Although the national service experience server will take a few days to play.

But the almighty Xia players can always find various ways to play international servers.

"League of Legends" is a new MOBA game developed by Bill Khan with the strong support of Blizzard.

“With copyright you can do whatever you want.”

Liu Wei drooled as he looked at the hero selection interface.

The heroes in the entire game all adopt the characters of Blizzard's major IPs.

Things like Bloodhoof, Elf, Star Scout, Lich King...all are loaded into this game.

With such powerful IP capabilities, "League of Legends" can spontaneously attract a large number of fans to play without any special promotion.

Moreover, "League of Legends" borrowed part of the operating model of "ioi"——

Free to play plus in-app purchase value-added services.

And there are more replaceable aspects, not just limited to skins, but also hero actions, hero voices, system voices, etc.

Players can mix and match freely to form completely personalized heroes.

This is also very cool~~
Different from "ioi", the in-app purchases of "League of Legends" still inherit the old problem of Blizzard's 'cool'.

Except for some color-changing skins that players can purchase directly with money, the remaining skins must be obtained by opening boxes——

The chance of opening a box is completely random.

In other words, whether it is good or bad depends entirely on your face, and you may fall into the soul at once.

But it is also possible to open dozens of boxes in a row, and the guarantee is crooked.

According to Bill Khan, this completely random feeling is very coooool~~
In terms of game playability, "League of Legends" has also boldly made innovative improvements.

The fixed confrontation map of the original moba game has been completely redone.

The position of wild monsters has been redone, the mechanism has been redone, and the blind spots in the field of vision have been redone...

Not only are the maps reworked, each map also has a unique way to win.

For example, in the picture 'Death Town', players cannot directly attack enemy crystals.

But players can collect souls and make their 'Death' attack the enemy base.

But if the player carrying the soul dies, all heroes on the map can pick up the dropped souls, increasing confrontation.

In the 'Angel Demon' map, players need to help their own 'Angel/Demon' fight and try their best to weaken the enemy general's bloodline.

If one side's general's health line reaches zero first, then the other side's general will turn into a friendly force and join the battlefield to attack the city and defeat the enemy.

There are eight different maps, so every new player will shout 'cooool! ! ! '

Moreover, "League of Legends" very boldly and innovatively canceled the 'gold coin system and equipment system'.

Instead, it is a more novel 'team experience sharing and unique upgrade program. '

The so-called team experience sharing means no matter where the hero you control is, what he is doing, or even whether he is alive or not.

As long as your teammates gain experience, you will also gain experience year-on-year and upgrade together with your teammates.

And in "League of Legends", the upper limit of the hero's level is level [-], and you can learn three small QWE skills as soon as you go out.

Of course, in order to give each hero more 'coooool~' personalized characteristics.

Players will have three skill bonus directions after upgrading.

It is roughly divided into three directions: burst, endurance and agility, but there are also some 'mission upgrades'.

For example, how many times you hit the enemy with the xx skill, or how many enemy soldiers you kill, you will get another kind of enhancement after completing the task.

Players can focus on choosing one skill to strengthen and take the path of "one-stop gameplay".

You can also strengthen them separately and adopt a balanced style.

At the same time, "League of Legends" has increased the learning time of the ultimate move from level six to level ten, and players can choose to learn one of the two ultimate moves.

Increase playability.

At the full level of [-], players' upgrade talents will be richer and more varied.

You can choose to give the ultimate move special effects, or choose some special gameplay.

Like invincible return to the city, instant resurrection after death, teleportation, etc.

What excites players the most is the scoreboard of League of Legends.

Different from the KDA (kills, deaths, assists) scoreboard of traditional MOBA games, "League of Legends" only has a kill scoreboard.

In other words, death will not be recorded, and as long as you participate in the kill, even if you just restore blood to your teammates, it will be regarded as one kill.

Liu Wei scrolled through the comment area for a while, and all kinds of compliments came out one after another:
"Bloodhoof vs. Templar...the dream has come true. The dream has come true."

"This game is so fun. It has a novel map and a new mechanism. It is a hundred times more fun than all MOBA games on the market!"

"I dare to say that "League of Legends" will be the benchmark for MOBA games in the future, and all future MOBA games may have to use "League of Legends" as a template."

"This scoreboard is great. I play as a support and take the blame for various things in "ioi", but in "League of Legends" I am the best in the game every time. Support Wanaki is saved!"

At the same time, Liu Wei also noticed that these people were not only praising "League of Legends", but even belittling "ioi" in various ways.

"A hero has a hundred ways to play with different upgraded skills, which is countless times better than "ioi"."

"The gameplay of a hero in "ioi" is just that way. You can't play the game without some equipment."

"It's time for Liu Wei to learn what a truly good game is!"

Seeing these comments, Liu Wei just smiled and didn't bother to argue.

The backhand opened the game.

Ten minutes later, Liu Wei looked at the settlement interface with a puzzled look on his face.

He plays Templar, a hero that integrates life preservation, displacement, output, and continuous damage.

Under his dazzling operation, several people on the opposite side were defeated by him, and there were even several famous scenes of extreme counterattacks.

But the final MVP went to a hammer-wielding dad.

In his impression, this nanny should be a role that combines control and treatment.

But apart from adding blood to his teammates, this dad basically didn't control him a few times.

There were even a few times when I was caught by the opponent while strolling and focused on killing him instantly.

If Liu Wei's Templars hadn't rushed into the crowd and forcibly replaced the big core on the opposite side, they would have lost two or three times.

But even so, the MVP was still given to his dad. What made Liu Wei collapse the most was that this man even had more kills than himself.

Liu Wei was so angry that he almost turned the table over.

"This is too friendly to novice players, and expert players have no sense of accomplishment at all!"

Liu Wei played a few more games, then slowly shook his head and closed the game.

……

The time has come to November 23rd.

The "League of Legends" experience server was officially launched, and anchors from major live broadcast platforms did not miss this opportunity to gain popularity and ran to experience it one after another.

Emperor C had just finished a game and pointed to the man of the match on the screen and said:
"Did you see it? Did you see it? He is the best in the game."

"Injuries account for 30%, building damage accounts for 47%, and kills account for 23. Let me ask you how the gold content is?!"

But the comments in the live broadcast room all expressed disdain:

"Haha, I keep dying all the time when I'm alone. It's strange that my damage tolerance is not high."

"If I were your teammate, I would throw up. Every time I throw poison before dying, it would be a mixed hit, right?"

"Obviously, Brother Bloodhoof traveled three ways to save the world, but the MVP was given to a bastard. I guess Brother Bloodhoof is about to retire." Seeing these barrages, Emperor C frowned and said in a serious tone:

"What are you talking about? Don't I c? I involve at least three people on the other side every time I solo, and you are still here squirting."

A Liang comforted him on the side: "Don't worry, Emperor C. The barrage is just a bunch of cloud players who can't understand the game at all."

Despite A Liang's comfort, Emperor C still felt uncomfortable.

He started another game: "You guys have a good time watching this game, I'll show you a little bit."

Twenty minutes later, Emperor C looked at the settlement interface with a proud face, and complimented each other with A Liang next to him:
"Wow, I made a great contribution in the last wave. If I hadn't killed the opponent's big core to the limit, I might have lost this game."

A Liang kept nodding: "You were so handsome in the last wave."

"The main reason is that the support is too bad, like a bad dog, he will die in various ways, otherwise he would have won long ago." Emperor C said.

At this time, the barrages were surprisingly unified:

"That's right, that assistant is too mentally retarded. He won't follow even if you ask him to, and he will die in various ways."

"Four on five, we won!"

"It's obviously four versus six, and the support is on the opposite side."

Seeing this, Emperor C also showed a proud face: "Hey, Ji Cao, Ji Cao..."

By the way, Emperor C also released the classic song waiting for mvp.

But... just when he looked at the settlement interface, everyone was killed.

The best player in the game turned out to be the support who died countless times.

The team killed a total of 34 heads and assisted 30 kills, with a single-group rate as high as 89%.

And Emperor C can only find his heroic figure in the corner.

Emperor C was dumbfounded: "Hey, it wasn't the last wave of heaven-making power, but you gave the mvp to that bastard. It's a stupid game, no more!"

Not only King C, but also other live broadcast rooms have severely polarized opinions on the game "League of Legends".

Those highly skilled anchors basically criticized them, thinking that the rules for the best selection were unreasonable.

And those female anchors who are not very skilled are the best in every game and receive all kinds of cheers.

But no matter what, the popularity of "League of Legends" in China has remained high, even overtaking "ioi".

……

In Blizzard headquarters, Bill Khan sat on a chair and looked at the data.

An assistant trotted over and shouted excitedly: "It's broken, it's broken, it's a record."

Bill Khan stood up quickly, his eyes flashing: "What record?"

The assistant said excitedly: "League of Legends broke the record for the number of people online on the first day in Xia Kingdom. Before that, it was the record after the rework of "ioi"."

There was unconcealable joy on Bir Khan's face.

Although the first-day data focuses more on early publicity, breaking this record is enough to illustrate the excellence of "League of Legends".

Moreover, "League of Legends" broke the record set by "ioi", which has a higher gold content.

This shows that in the field of moba, "League of Legends" has already suppressed "ioi".

"I thought the man named Liu Wei was such a genius, but I didn't expect it to be anything more than that."

Bir Khan was elated with joy.

Before the "League of Legends" came to Xia Kingdom, there were various gossips.

What "ioi" has been revised in the country;

Having half the number of people online as "ioi" is already a success.

but now……

Bill Khan's lips curled up: "Reality has proven that I am the key to success. "ioi" would not be popular without me."

"Chinese people will never be able to match us in terms of creativity."

"but……"

At this moment, the assistant was a little vague and hesitated.

"But what?" asked Birhan.

"It seems that they have a lot of negative reviews on "League of Legends", and now the positive rate of "League of Legends" is only 72%."

72%?

You must know that in the international server, the praise rate of "League of Legends" is a full 91%.

Why did it fall so much after arriving in Xia Kingdom?

Bill Khan thought for a while and came to a conclusion:
"It may be that the people of Xia have played too many junk games and their thinking has become fixed. This kind of creative and innovative game is not popular with them."

"But it doesn't matter. After all, the Xia people are stupid and have a lot of money. As long as we get a few skins, we can harvest like crazy."

What Bill Khan said is also the stereotype of countless overseas designers towards Xia players.

Compared to games that are full of creativity, Xia people prefer 'numerical games', and it is best to use buy, buy, buy to solve problems.

After speaking, Bill Khan began to prepare for the updated version of the international server and the first global competition.

You must know that the internal beta of the national server is not over yet.

As a result, the international server has already started planning the competition.

……

Experience the store.

Liu Wei was leaning on the sofa, looking at the laptop in front of him leisurely.

At this time, Chen Yaohui walked out from the side with a sad look on his face and said, "Boss, what time has it been? Why are you still here so leisurely?"

It has been less than half a month since the launch of "League of Legends".

The current daily activity of "ioi" is less than half of its usual volume.

This is extremely heavy news for any employee of Fumei Technology.

But Liu Wei didn't even raise his head, just said "Oh" and continued busy with the work at hand.

Just kidding, what is he going to do to League of Legends?
When he first started playing, Liu Wei felt that the game looked familiar, but he still couldn't remember which game it was.

It wasn't until two days later that Liu Wei suddenly slapped his forehead and found this legendary game from the depths of his mind.

Isn't this an alien version of "Heroes of the Storm"?

Boy, the storm is coming!

Thinking of this, Liu Wei stopped caring about "League of Legends" and focused on rectifying his official "ioi" competition.

But Liu Wei thought this official event was very simple at first.

But as he learned more about it, Liu Weiyue felt that this event was very complicated.

Liu Wei decided to first follow the scale of his previous life, from small to large:

Internet Cafe League/Campus Competition, Secondary League, Division Main Tournament, MSI World Finals, S Tournament World Finals.

And the event officials will give different rewards according to the scale of the competition.

The lowest league reward may be a set of skins, but the champion of the S-League can have an exclusive customized skin.

In this way, even ordinary public players can participate in the game and experience the speed of the game.

(End of this chapter)