Game Design: Players are moved to tears

Chapter 81
Qian Musi studied it until most of the night.

When he woke up, he suddenly realized that he had unknowingly charged hundreds of dollars into it.

"Let me go, what's going on? Why did I just top up the money?"

"Why can't I control my hands?"

Qian Musi looked confused.

This time he put aside the designer's ideas and experienced it from a player's perspective.

then……

Unknowingly, I charged six yuan and got the golden general Zhao Yun.

Because I recharged [-] yuan, my VIP level increased.

As the VIP level increases, the stamina gained increases, and the dungeon advances faster. The strength of the generals cannot keep up, so they have to continue to recharge.

Because he recharged money, his VIP level increased again... and the cycle continued until Qian Musi reached v4.

"Hey, I feel like there's something wrong with this game!"

"I seem to have understood something, but it is very vague and intangible..."

"No, I want to play for a while longer. If not, I will study it carefully."

Qian Musi continued to be immersed in the process of pushing pictures and drawing cards.

……

On the other side, experience the inside of the store.

"Wow, why is it a gold card again? This is the No. 12 card." Yu Xinqi was a little sad.

Chen Yaohui rolled his eyes: "Tch."

Then he silently turned over the phone screen, which was filled with blue sky, white clouds and purple.

What's the arrogance? Could it be that Ou Huang can do whatever he wants?

Ling Jingwen, on the other hand, held Yu Xinqi in her arms with a doting look on her face: "She's so cute, I really want to take her home and play with her."

The people next to him looked at Yu Xinqi with pious expressions.

Ever since the physique of Yu Xinqi, the Goddess of Fortune, was exposed, players of "Girls in the Three Kingdoms" have been coming to the experience store to worship her devoutly.

Trying to change your luck!

It seems that Yu Xinqi really has a lucky buff, and three out of ten players who come to worship her have fulfilled their wishes.

In order to ensure that players can pray anytime and anywhere, Liu Wei specially arranged a room for Yu Xinqi.

Of course, it is not without exception.

Liu Wei once saw Chen Yaohui quietly guarding the door of Yu Xinqi's room in the middle of the night.

Under the dim screen light, Chen Yaohui's extremely vulgar face was reflected.

Liu Wei almost thought that Chen Yaohui was a perverted voyeur.

The result was found out later.

Chen Yaohui wanted to secretly absorb a wave of Yu Xinqi's European spirit in the middle of the night, and prepared to change his luck to draw cards.

When Liu Wei saw this unusual idea, he could only give it a thumbs up.

There is also a slightly smaller circle in the store.

That is the bond group with Li Qishan as the core. These people like to piece together all kinds of strange lineups by studying bonds.

For example, a lineup that is competitive in actual combat, but has an inflated combat power.

It's an absolutely disgusting lineup.

The optimal solution position under the same lineup.

as well as……

Liu Wei went over with a few bottles of drinks and said, "If you guys are thirsty, you can drink whatever you want in the store."

After all, everyone is still a college student, and some small favors and favors are not enough.

"But the next krypton gold strategy will depend on everyone." Liu Wei said.

These people are not only responsible for the matching strategies for the lineup, but also serve as the strategy guides for each event of "Girls in the Three Kingdoms".

For every event, Li Qishan is the leader and comes up with various recharge strategies for players to use. "No problem, but boss, does this count as inducing players to earn money?" Li Qishan still had some doubts.

Liu Wei smiled brightly and shook his head: "How can there be? The money is not all in the players' hands. The krypton gold is their voluntary idea."

"And you are just announcing the optimal solution to krypton gold for current activities. This is a good thing for the benefit of the public!"

Li Qishan nodded as if he understood.

He continued to lower his head to complete his strategy, and the name of this strategy was surprisingly——

[How to get the highest value for money with the least money, Issue No. 17. 】

Before this guide, when players saw that if they wanted to get the full amount of the event, they would need tens of thousands of dollars, they would immediately have no idea of ​​making money.

But under Li Qishan's strategy.

Use the simplest mathematical relationship to illustrate a simple cost-effectiveness issue.

It's probably similar to 'You can only get a rebate of ten yuan if you charge five yuan, but if you charge 68, you can get a rebate of 288. '

This kind of strategy seems to be for the sake of the players, but in fact it directly and subtly affects the players' expectations for gold.

Many players didn't plan to krypton gold at the beginning, but because they saw this strategy, they chose krypton gold one after another.

It's like ordinary people go to the supermarket and only buy one roll of toilet paper, but suddenly one day the supermarket holds an event where you can buy ten rolls of toilet paper at triple the price.

At this time, most people will think, 'If you buy it early, you have to buy it later. It won't break if you leave it alone, but if you don't buy it, you will lose money.' ' mentality, buying without considering actual needs.

The role of Krypton Gold Strategy is the same.

Let players form a subconscious mind of "gain money if you buy blood, lose money if you don't buy blood" to lure players to spend money.

But Liu Wei will never admit this behavior.

……

Time passes day by day, and the end of the month is approaching.

Qian Musi looked at the data of "Dungeon Adventure" - monthly revenue of 2300 million.

In the PC gaming world, this can already become an independent IP.

If it runs better and doesn't make any fatal mistakes, Qian Musi may even become an A-level designer with this game.

But now Qian Musi is not happy at all.

He is now looking at the phone screen with surprise and disbelief.

The number one game on the best-selling list - "Nianghua Three Kingdoms".

"Fuck! How is this possible!"

Qian Musi immediately cursed and even refreshed the interface several times in succession, but the result was that the statistics of "Girls in the Three Kingdoms" were getting higher and higher.

"Impossible, impossible!"

"How could such a piece of garbage with a rating of only 2.9 reach the top of the best-seller list? It's a shady story. It's a shady story."

Qian Musi cursed in disbelief.

But he knew in his heart that the data from the official platform was absolutely infallible.

And there is no possibility of swiping tickets...

Liu Wei's backing is not a large company, and he simply doesn't have the financial resources to buy votes. Let's take a step back.

Even if you want to swipe tickets, why should you swipe them for a game that looks like garbage at first glance?

Doesn't this make it clear to everyone that I have inside information?

But that's what it is.

On the best-selling list, the daily sales of "Girls in the Three Kingdoms" are even higher than those from the second to tenth places combined.

But the score doesn't even count as making people lift their pants.

This is certainly the reason why VR and AR games are not included in the list, but it also has nothing to do with their own strong ability to attract money.

"It's unreasonable. It's so unreasonable."

Qian Musi was puzzled, especially when he saw the score of 2.9, and Monk Zhang Er was even more confused.

"Why can a game with such a low rating make money? Why on earth is this?"

(End of this chapter)