Game Design: Players are moved to tears

Chapter 45 The game is online
Apart from the reduced difficulty of getting started due to special units and resource compression, the confrontational nature of the game itself is also quite interesting.

Although Liu Wei cut off part of the CG due to unknown reasons, the existence of its own three-point confrontation element is still a lot of bonus points.

……

Three days later.

"Red Alert" is officially launched.

After Liu Wei uploaded the game to the official platform, he also commented directly on the platform.

""Red Alert" is online today. It is a World War II universe in a parallel world, a new RTS game, and it only costs 88."

As soon as this message was posted, those who had previously been interested in melons clicked on the official platform and started downloading.

The positioning of the Luopan platform is similar to that of 'Steam' in its previous life, and both have free refund functions.

But the refund function of the Luopan platform is more user-friendly.

Any game with a buyout system must first release part of the game content so that players can experience it for free.

This content is determined by the designer, and is usually Chapter 1 or two hours of play time.

The same goes for "Red Alert."

Liu Wei has released two story modes for free, namely the Allied forces' protection of the Statue of Liberty and the Allied forces' destruction of the Pentagon.

He is confident enough that as long as players play these two modes, they will definitely choose to buy it.

As for the encounter mode and online battle mode, they must be purchased before they can be turned on.

But even so, everyone in the experience store is still not optimistic about the sales of "Red Alert".

Ling Jingwen said venomously on the side: "You dare to sell this for 88, you are really crazy about money!"

Chen Yaohui opened and closed his mouth on the side, but in the end he did not express an opinion.

That's right, in this world where VR and AR games are popular, PC games generally sell for around 60 yuan.

Although VR and AR games often cost hundreds or thousands, players feel that the money is well spent and they just buy them without thinking.

When it comes to 88's PC games, players will struggle for a long time and may even give up.

It's like being a shopaholic who buys thousands of dollars worth of clothes in the mall without blinking an eye.

As a result, when faced with shopping bags that cost [-] cents each in the supermarket, I feel distressed for a long time.

Liu Wei was at the side with a hint of laughter on his face: "Would you like to make a bet?"

Ling Jingwen asked curiously: "What kind of bet? Let's talk about it first, and then I will decide whether to play or not."

Although she has a sharp tongue, Ling Jingwen is very calm and will not make rash judgments based on her own speculations.

Mainly because I was fooled by several original paintings by Liu Wei before.

Liu Wei smiled and said, "Let's bet on whether the sales of "Red Alert" can exceed one million."

"Okay, I bet!"

Before Liu Wei finished speaking, Ling Jingwen interrupted him and agreed confidently.

"If you lose, become my maid, wear a maid outfit and call me master to serve me, hahahahahaha..."

Facing the bad taste from Ling Jingwen, Liu Wei twitched the corners of his mouth and agreed:

"What if you lose?" Liu Wei asked.

"Impossible!" Ling Jingwen held her waist with both hands, her face full of confidence and an expression of 'you are destined to lose'.

Liu Wei said: "So it's what if."

"Then you can make any request and I will grant you anything."

Liu Wei silently glanced at Ling Jingwen from top to bottom.

She has a nice face, nice skin, straight and slender legs, and a... great figure.

Liu Wei nodded, tacitly agreeing.

On the other side, Ling Jingwen narrowed her eyes and looked at Liu Wei with a strange look. While a pool of saliva flowed from the corner of her mouth, she also murmured:

"Hey, junior maid outfit, hey..."

"Boss..." Chen Yaohui's worried voice sounded.

Liu Wei raised his big hand to stop him: "Believe me."

His tone was calm with a hint of maturity and confidence.You must know that before this, any domestic PC game that sold over one million copies would be a B-level designer at worst.

Still the kind that almost got promoted to an A-level designer.

Now Liu Wei, a mere D-level designer, brazenly said that sales exceeded one million, making everyone suspicious and even laughing at it.

But Liu Wei didn't panic at all.

Come on, this is "Red Alert"!

When black Internet cafes were popular in the previous life, "Red Alert" and "CS" were two-piece sets installed in black Internet cafes.

Breaking one million downloads is a low-hanging fruit.

"No." Chen Yaohui scratched his head with an embarrassed look on his face: "Boss, can you help me refund "Red Alert"? I also want to see you wearing a maid outfit."

Liu Wei's proud and confident expression was instantly embarrassed.

The enemy agents are by my side?
……

On the other hand, in the domestic rts (short for real-time strategy game) group, there are also a large number of players discussing this game.

Moreover, the direction of these people's discussions is obviously different from the focus on the Internet.

Compared with the online analysis of whether "Red Alert" may be an RTS on the surface, but actually a card drawing game.

The discussion in the group was even more interesting:
"Hey, have you heard about a new domestic RTS game?"

"'Red Alert', who hasn't heard of it? Why is your home disconnected from the Internet?"

"...I heard that it is an RTS game with World War II as the background. What do you think?"

"How do you watch it? Sit down and watch it, lie down and watch it. You can't watch it lying down."

"Hiss, World War II background, RTS game, this reminds me of a certain shit-poetic 'masterpiece' in China that has never been done before or since!"

"Blood Lion: Are you polite?"

"Polite: Are you a blood lion?"

"What's the plot of "Blood Lion"? I just joined the industry and haven't heard much about it."

"It's nothing, it's just a game that is epic in both horizontal and vertical comparisons."

"If a game can make the entire domestic gaming environment stagnant for more than ten years, I would like to call it a killer!"

"Is this game so boring?"

"If there is a milestone in the history of bad games, the first one is "ET", and the second one must be "Blood Lion"."

"What if, I mean what if this game is good?"

"In case the game is really bad, I'll just blow it up, but unfortunately I can't, because I haven't heard of either 'Fumei Technology' or 'Liu Wei'."

"Fame in one battle?"

"Then I will live broadcast eating shit, and I will bring a fan on stage five every day."

"The brave man is brave, oh no, the martyr is brave!"

……

Most of the rts group views this game with ridiculing content.

It’s not that they look down on domestic RTS games.

On the contrary, they are a group of people who hope for the rise of domestic RTS games more than anyone else.

Unfortunately, time passes by.

One rubbish game after another, using the sentimental card of 'domestic games', consumes the enthusiasm and efforts of these people.

Whenever a 'domestic RTS game' comes out, these people are often the ones who curse the most harshly, but are the most honest physically.

The day the game goes live, these people will buy it without hesitation.

Then the heart full of hope gradually turns cold and desperate during the game.

……

Wuhu, Wuhu, Wuhu.

Where are your tickets?

(End of this chapter)