Game Design: How did I become the richest man?

Chapter 186 Is this just lying down and winning?

Now if you search any post forum, you will find countless memes and rumors.

Because the reputation of "Cyber ​​Era" has dropped significantly before, coupled with the rhythm of the marketing account, many players have no idea to follow the trend and just have fun.

But now, the reputation of "Cyber ​​Era" has improved, and those die-hard fans immediately jumped out to post and modified the memes.

Most of them are secondary creations based on the original mocking memes.

For example, change the pictures of Arkanoid and Cyber ​​Age, or change the text.

But there are also a small number of interesting memes, such as "The folk customs of Niujia Village are simple and hospitable," "This is an enchanted dung fork - licking action" "Technique (crossed out)" The golden hoop is the best in the world! '

'The other side doesn't want to talk to you and throws a golden hoop at you'

These pictures are full of magic, and coupled with the excellent models of "Cyber ​​Era" itself, these memes are directly out of the circle and widely circulated.

When Liu Wei saw this scene, his hands and feet were cold, and his hangover head ached.

"No, I hid it so deep, how did they find it?"

[Golden Hoop] As a hidden weapon that comes with the game, it is only a matter of time before it is discovered.

But according to Liu Wei's plan, even if he is discovered, it should be a few months later.

After all, in order to conceal this weapon, I lowered the three attributes of the stone stick by one level, and also specially placed the three welfare weapons in very conspicuous positions.

Unless you know it in advance, [Golden Hoop] will probably be discovered by experienced players who have repeatedly cleared the level when they start a new challenge.

But now...

Liu Wei looked at the higher and higher floors of the post, and was a little at a loss.

"Deleted it for him with administrator rights?"

As soon as this idea arose, it was immediately dismissed by Liu Wei.

The method of obtaining hidden weapons has been spread out. Even if the post is deleted, it will not help, and it will not affect the final consequences at all.

Liu Wei shook his head and frowned.

The biggest problem now is not the post or [Golden Hoop], but the game "Cyber ​​Era".

As a hidden weapon made based on his own clearance, Liu Wei is very aware of its power.

To put it bluntly, Wu Da’s mouth is fine.

After all, Wu Dazui was the one who cleared half of the level in the closed beta.

But I couldn't even defeat the first mob.

Originally, "Cyber ​​Era" had a bad reputation because of three problems.

They are 'plot', 'difficulty' and 'aesthetic'.

Not many people complain about "aesthetic", because the games released by Ultimate Technology before are more healing and warm.

Therefore, the painting style of this game, which obviously depresses players, was criticized at first.

And 'plot' is linked to 'difficulty'.

After all, this is a 'linear action game', and players need to defeat the previous plot boss before they can open the next area.

Therefore, no matter how good the plot of "Cyber ​​Era" is, players will not be able to experience it normally under the influence of 'high difficulty'.

The ratings for the plot are naturally not much higher.

But now...this situation is unfair and broken.

The golden hoop was found, and handicapped players can easily pass the level.

Those players who chose to quit the game because of the difficulty chose to buy it again.

There is even a slight trend of improvement in ratings.

How can this be done?
Liu Wei's whole body is in bad shape!
……

At this moment, the ultimate corporate office area.Chu Yun was sitting at the computer desk, laughing so hard.

While refreshing the forum, he spread the good news in the group.

"Brothers, the reputation of "Cyber ​​Era" has picked up, the refund rate has also been reduced, and everything is moving in a good direction."

Of course, he didn't forget to specifically @刘始.

And the reply given by Mr. Liu is very consistent with Mr. Liu's personality - haha.

If this were any other boss, Chu Yun would definitely guess whether he had done something wrong or something that needed to be corrected.

But it was Mr. Liu who said this... That means Mr. Liu is afraid that we will be proud!
At first, when Chu Yun saw the game’s ratings and comments, he was extremely worried about the future of the game.

At first, Chu Yun thought that the hidden weapon was too difficult. When ordinary players found the easter egg, the game would be cold.

But today's reality proves that Mr. Liu's decision was wise and powerful.

This shows that Mr. Liu has fully grasped the psychological activities of domestic game players.
Of course, this is partly related to the fact that domestic sand sculpture players always don’t like to take the right path.

Domestic gamers have developed a unique style under the influence of major online games.

The complex mechanism is not to give players a sense of achievement in clearing the level, but to deceive them.

In this case, the lower limit for domestic players’ acceptance of game difficulty is very low.

There are often games with difficult mechanics. Players’ first reaction is not to follow the mechanics and practice skills to slowly kill the boss.

Instead, we directly look for loopholes and bugs, trying every second.

This is the reason why the word-of-mouth of "Cyber ​​Age" deteriorated at the beginning, and it is also the reason why the word-of-mouth is improving now.

and,

Chu Yun specifically checked the game data in the background.

When there is no [Golden Hoop], the number of player deaths is once every 2 minutes on average.

But after the [Golden Hoop] was introduced, the frequency of player deaths increased significantly, from once every 2 minutes to twice every minute.

Chu Yun found out after in-depth understanding.

The fundamental reason is that [Golden Hoop] only provides high damage, but the character is still squishy.

The difficulty of the game changed from 'Hell Mode' to 'Very Hard' at best.

But the strange thing is that the frequency of player death increased, and the average online time of players was higher.

Chu Yun knew very well that this was all because Mr. Liu had extremely precise psychological control over the players.

First, a 'Hell Mode' is thrown. Players cannot deal damage, die easily, suffer in various ways, and have various psychological explosions.

The [Golden Hoop] was then thrown, which seemed to reduce the difficulty, but in fact the fault tolerance rate remained unchanged.

Originally, three swords would kill the player, but now even two swords will kill the player.

This is because the increase in attack power makes players subconsciously frugal.

In the original Gua Sha situation, the player's blood volume should always be kept above 80%.

But now, the player just thinks, "One more chop and he will die, and he can save a bottle of medicine, so be happy", but he is directly sent back to his hometown with one knife, and the coffin is saved.

When players find that they have obtained stronger weapons, they die more and become more useless.

It also completely stopped insulting "Cyber ​​Age".

'It's not that the difficulty of the game is too high, it's that I'm too bad at it. I'm sorry about Ultimate Technology, I was wrong.' Comments like this can be seen everywhere on the forum.

Chu Yun's face was filled with emotion.

"Is this what it feels like to lie down and win?"

"Isn't this so exciting? Just follow Mr. Liu's instructions, play the game, adjust the difficulty, and a successful game will come out naturally?"

It’s great to be able to work with a boss like Mr. Liu who is strategizing and has a long-term vision! ! !
(End of this chapter)