Game Design: Players are moved to tears

Chapter 163 "League of Legends" is completely cool

After listening to Zhao Hao's speech, everyone couldn't help but nod:
"So it is."

"It makes expert players feel no sense of accomplishment, while blindly increasing the vanity of novice players. This game is so unfair that it's hard to tolerate it!"

"I just told you why I stopped playing even though I was playing. It turned out to be because I am a master." Ling Jingwen said, patting her chest.

Liu Wei glanced at it coldly and complained silently in his heart.

No, you are just a dish.

"Then what is the reason for the third failure?" Zhao Hao asked.

Others also looked at Liu Wei with interest.

Now their inner views have changed for the second time.

At first, they were more skeptical about Liu Wei's statement.

But after Liu Wei gave a reasonable and well-founded explanation, everyone's eyes lit up and they felt like they had a new understanding.

Naturally, I will also look forward to the next explanation.

Liu Wei drank a cup of tea leisurely and slowly raised his third finger in front of everyone's expectant eyes:
"Third, and most importantly, immobilization!"

"The core gameplay of "League of Legends" is too rigid and not innovative!"

"Oh no, boss, please wait!"

Chen Yaohui immediately interrupted: "Boss, you said that "League of Legends" has no innovation? Is it too rigid?"

If Chen Yaohui's expression at this time had to be described in one sentence, it would be -

Are you kidding me? !
"Uh-huh!" Liu Wei nodded very confidently.

"But..." At this time, Zeng Meixue also joined in, "Senior, didn't you still say that this game is very innovative?"

Liu Wei shook his fingers and smiled.

"What I said at the beginning is that this game is very bold and innovative. Mechanical innovation is not the same as the rigid core gameplay."

With that said, Liu Wei showed everyone a screenshot.

"League of Legends" high-ranking T0-level hero selection.

Tank girls, plaguebringers, protoss reconnaissance aircraft, and even a small murloc.

None of these heroes are good at combat, and some are even weak heroes in the version.

The only advantage is that it clears lanes and jungles very quickly.

Everyone looked at each other.

What's going on? I can understand every word the boss says, but why can't I understand what they all mean?

"When it comes to core gameplay, we have to talk about several other moba games."

""ioi" relies on players' personal strength to fight against each other. When the players are at the same level, they can gradually snowball through operations and eventually end the game."

"Although the other "data" is more difficult to get started, it also uses the economy to support the big brother and ends the game."

"As for "League of Legends", if you want to end the game, you must have an advantage. What is the advantage of "League of Legends"?"

"Level!" Zeng Meixue raised her hand and said.

"Yes."

Liu Wei smiled and rubbed her forehead, "That's great."

"Hey~" Zeng Meixue was like a little cat being caressed by its owner, with an intoxicated expression.

"The advantage of "League of Legends" is level, but the experience only needs to be gained by you, and there is no need to replenish troops at all."

"In other words, heroes who can clear the line faster, run the map first, and defeat neutral monsters are more powerful."

"You must know that in "League of Legends", defeating neutral monsters will transform them into your own combat units."

In an instant, the experienced people understood what Liu Wei meant.

"League of Legends" has canceled the economic system, so level becomes the only place to widen the gap in the early stage.

In terms of gaining level experience, in addition to the fixed online experience gained by both parties online, there is only the additional experience provided by neutral monsters.

After all, the gap provided by increasing the level of this game by one level is even more outrageous. If it is level [-] versus level [-], one side will be better than the other, and the result is self-evident.

Then, a hero who can push the lane faster and harder is undoubtedly the best choice.

Not only that, in order to push the line faster and provide roaming support, the hero's upgrade skills will also become fixed.

Everything is moving in the direction of pushing the line faster.

On the contrary, the personalized gameplay of "League of Legends" has become a point of laughter.

And it causes more than one disadvantage.

If you are a purely entertainment player and don't score points every day, you want to go online to entertain yourself.

When you choose your favorite hero and prepare to kill everyone.

However, you find that the opponent disappears immediately after clearing the line. Just when you are doubtful, you find a lot of neutral units transforming into [-] units and stabbing them in the back like crazy.

In another ten minutes, when you see the enemy hero again, you may already be in the miserable situation of level [-] fighting against level [-].

Then, there may be a series of unbearable tragedies.

Once or twice is fine, but once this happens too many times.

Then there will only be two situations for the general public.

One is to be disgusted by this kind of out-of-line gameplay and quit playing.

The other is to join if you can't beat them, and choose the same gameplay to disgust the opponent.

In both cases, the results of promoting birth are very obvious.

The first type is when players quit the game, the daily activity of the game drops, and GG is announced.

Another way is for players to join if they can't beat the game, which will speed up the withdrawal of other players, further reduce the daily activity of the game, and announce GG in advance.

It's nothing more than the difference between one word "miserable" and a series of "miserable" words.

And what’s even scarier is that League of Legends can’t make changes because the reason for this is their gameplay.

Even if the tank girl and Plaguebringer's wave clearing ability are weakened.

There will also be the next batch of strong line clearing heroes coming on stage.

No solution at all!

After trying to understand this point, Chen Yaohui couldn't help but nodded: "So that's the case, I just said why I was still in line a few times, and the game was over."

Suddenly, Zhao Hao stood up and quickly opened a computer.

Everyone was very confused: "What are you doing?"

Zhao Hao turned around and showed a bright smile: "Take this opportunity to do evil quickly... No, hurry up and get points!"

Everyone was stunned for a moment, and then they came to their senses.

That's right, with such a disgusting gameplay, why don't we let players experience it more?
Moreover, this is still the opponent's game, so there is no need to worry about the loss of players as a result.

Maybe after the players of "League of Legends" lose, they will go to "ioi".

"Add me one!"

"I'm coming too, I'm coming too."

"Let's make an agreement first and choose all the heroes that push the lane,"

"Come on, choose a little fishman. The little fishman can bribe wild monsters and speed up the level improvement."

Liu Wei couldn't help laughing when he saw the excited employees.

In fact, there are many shortcomings of "League of Legends".

Like if there are too many hero skills upgrades, the cost for ordinary players to get started will increase.

Expert players cannot bring girls, and they cannot fight against each other five (because the levels are shared.)
The appearance of krypton gold eating is too ugly.

But the core reasons that led to the decline of "League of Legends" are still those three!

……

A few days later, the official discussion forum of "League of Legends".

"Is there anyone from the official department to come out and take care of it? Tank girls, murlocs, and plaguebringers are all over the ladder. It's impossible to play the game properly!"

"Forget it, the rankings on the ladder are overflowing. I can get into the ban position anyway. I play all the horses in a match and it's all this shit."

"We can't play anymore. The lineup of these dogs is not in line at all. After clearing the soldiers, they will run away. When they come back, there will be a large number of mercenaries behind them!"

"Level [-], fight level [-], beat me!"

Calls for official action to weaken it are growing louder.

But the official website of "League of Legends" seems invisible, posting new posts every day. “This week’s new mechanism map is online, and you will get a treasure chest for your first win...”

"Winter is approaching, the ancient roar is heard, and the winter skin of the little murloc has been launched..."

It's like you tell me, I'll give you my skin, don't delay my making money.

And at the Blizzard headquarters, the "League of Legends" game team.

"fxxk!"

"If these heroes are not revised, the Xia Kingdom market will be completely gone."

Bir Khan was arguing angrily, surrounded by trembling aides.

Standing opposite Bill Khan was an uncle wearing glasses and a thick beard.

He is Blizzard's person to connect with Bill Khan, Powell.

Powell spread his hands: "I don't care about it, anyway, I can't modify the mechanism, this will make these heroes lose their characteristics and become not cool at all~~"

After saying that, Powell put his hands in his trouser pockets and walked away.

Only Bill Khan was left shouting angrily:

"fxxk!"

"fxxk!"

"You guys, first weaken the values."

After some yelling and scolding, Bir Khan had no choice but to give orders.

Because these heroes are positioned as line-pushing heroes, weakening their values ​​means fundamentally denying the design inspiration of these heroes.

Looking at the busy people, Bill Khan not only did not feel happy, but felt uneasy in his heart.

Why do you always feel that something more terrible will happen next?

Sure enough, after the tank girls and several heroes had their values ​​reduced, players had a carnival.

But the carnival was extremely short-lived, just one week later.

Another brand-new wave-clearing lineup ascended to the T0 throne, making players even more miserable.

Officials had no choice but to repair it, but it only took less than a week after the repair was completed.

The new wave clearing lineup is back on the throne.

This time, even the officials didn’t bother to fix it.

"What's going on? It's rat shit, isn't it? It's endless, isn't it?"

"The official display is broken, and the game is out of date."

"You won't fix it, right? Okay, from today on I will play this lineup in matching mode. If you don't fix it for a day, I will play for a day and see who is disgusted!"

"Me too, don't you advocate personalized gameplay? I just like to play this way!"

"Add me one, don't let anyone think twice!"

"..."

Half a month later, the number of shouts and curses in the official forum has decreased by half.

Another half month passed, and there was no comment in the official forum except for a few likes on the update announcement.

Occasionally a newbie posts asking how to play the game.

It would take a long time before someone would slowly reply:

"Stop playing, run away and go next door to play "ioi"."

Just such a reply to persuade others to leave, even received more likes than the official post.

On the new January game report.

The daily active volume of "League of Legends" is only [-], which is not even as good as some garbage-for-pickup card games.

"League of Legends", which once had high hopes, fell behind in the game report statistics three months later.

……

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, I didn't expect it to get cold so quickly." Chen Yaohui sighed while looking at the report.

Liu Wei was also slightly surprised: "This is indeed getting colder."

In his expectation, this game could last for more than half a year before seeing results.

I didn’t expect it to be sent in just one month.

Of course, "League of Legends" will definitely be popular.

No matter how much efforts Bir Khan made to modify the numerical balance, it was to no avail.

Because the reason for this situation is that "League of Legends" canceled the money system and redone the experience system.

If you want to make the "quickly advance into the jungle" gameplay disappear, you can only add another system to the game to limit players' mindless wandering.

For example...you can only gain experience if you kill minions for the last hit, or denying them can make the opponent lose experience.

But in this way, "League of Legends" is equivalent to a new version of "ioi" and "data", and it is no longer its original self.

So no matter what, "League of Legends" will become popular, it's just a matter of time.

Next, there is the preparation for the S competition and...

"Damn it, I got the beta number of "Super God Alliance"!"

Suddenly, Chen Yaohui's roar sounded like a frying pan in Liu Wei's ears, and then a black shadow quickly struck towards the VR cabin.

Alliance of Super Gods, that VR version of "ioi"?
Has development been completed?
Why didn’t I receive a beta test number? Fujii’s work is unethical!

I'm not afraid of you copying it. Why don't you give me a closed beta to make me feel better?

Liu Wei followed to the VR cabin and grabbed Chen Yaohui who was about to get in.

Chen Yaohui: "???"

"Boss, what are you doing?"

Liu Wei: "Let me play first."

"Why?!" Chen Yaohui clung to the hatch, as if you won't let go until you give me a reasonable explanation.

Liu Wei heheed and showed a smile that made Chen Yaohui's hair stand on end: "Just because I am the boss, I will pay you. Is this reason enough?"

Chen Yaohui instantly let go of the hatch, his hands drooped down weakly, and he said in a hateful tone:

"Dog, such a dog."

hum!

Liu Wei smiled and stretched out his hand: "Give me the beta test code, and I'll treat you to hot pot tonight."

Chen Yaohui: "..."

Seeing Chen Yaohui reluctantly handing over the beta code, Liu Wei suddenly felt a sense of satisfaction.

So...is this the benefit of being a boss?

This is too cool.

I have a chance to try it on my senior sister.

……

The hatch is closed.

Before closing, Liu Wei seemed to see Chen Yaohui muttering something under his breath.

When it lit up again, Liu Wei found himself in an ancient building.

Full of Tang Dynasty style.

At this time, the settings of "Super God Alliance" appeared in front of Liu Wei.

["Super God Alliance" is a VR version of MOBA game based on historical figures of Xia Kingdom.

In this game, you can follow Qin Shihuang to conquer the world, or you can possess Master Guan and be heroic...]

The game settings are exactly the same as "ioi", with defense towers, grass, wild monsters on the map...

But this is not outrageous. What is even more outrageous is that the heroes in this game are the same as "ioi".

The skill mechanics and descriptions are the same.

Just changed the hero's name, and left the rest unchanged!
"This is too shameless!" Liu Wei was very angry.

Then, a man wearing a raincoat came to Liu Wei, and a low voice came from the straw hat: "You are the newcomer, come with me."

Liu Wei looked at the man leaving and whispered to himself: "Is this... a novice guide?"

(End of this chapter)