I just want players to save money, but I was made the richest man.

Chapter 60 New game with normal pricing?

Make a card game!
This was the first reaction in Ke Jin's mind when he received this special task.

Although the first few games have made some money, the current available funds in the company account are only 2000 million.

But this amount of money is just a drop in the bucket for a game of some magnitude.

Let’s not talk about the classic 3A-class products from the previous life. Any one of them would cost an investment of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Even for some high-quality 2D plane games, if you want to polish them to perfection, tens of millions of dollars of investment are often thrown into them.

Although high-quality independent games such as "Hollow Knight" and "Stardew Valley" can be completed by one or a few people, the research and development cost is only a few million, which seems to not cost much.

But you must know that the corresponding price paid by a production team of several people is a lengthy time cost.

It took several years of hard work to make such a 2D game.

With so much IP in hand, it is impossible to wait for several years to make a game.

Otherwise, when you are [-] or [-] years old, there will be very few games that you can play on Blue Star.

If you want to move out quickly in a short time, you will need a lot of manpower.

When it comes to making games, apart from necessary hardware and equipment expenses, the most expensive thing is human resources.

Even if one employee costs three thousand a month based on the discounted price of the cotton machine, a slightly higher-end 3A would still require a team of at least 500 people.

The salary of a cotton machine alone is 150 million per month.

But it is actually impossible to pay people like this. Now the employees in the company who are responsible for the program have their basic salary increased to more than 7K, and other departments also have salary increases.

Not to mention motion capture equipment, off-site guidance, outsourced art, sound effects, etc. (Baidu checked, if outsourcing is not considered, it is theoretically very difficult for a team of 500 people to be a 3A. Here is a reference data: Big table The production team of Brother 2 has a full 3000 people, and it took eight years to develop and invested nearly 55 billion yuan.)
As the system level increases, the quality of subsequent games released becomes higher and higher.

High-quality games are generally released together with design plans, and there are almost no finished games.

Therefore, Kejin needs to prepare a sum of money and keep it here first.

So that when we really want to make a large-scale game in the future, we will have sufficient capital and no need to ask for help everywhere.

So with the temporary relaxation of system restrictions, card drawing games are obviously the fastest way to recharge.

Highlight the production speed and efficiency, and focus on a smooth flow.

However, there are also considerations when choosing which card-drawing game to put into production.

First of all, the degree of overlap cannot be the same as the type of Blue Star's hot hits.

Blue Star players have long been saturated with aesthetics in popular game types.

The turn-based system is an extremely popular game, and Blue Star designers have used it in every possible way.

To grab this track is basically asking for death. Even if you take out the best turn-based products on the planet, you may not be able to make any waves.

There are also many people working on match-[-] and other puzzle genres. Without differentiation, we cannot win the favor of players to the greatest extent.

Also pass it.

Then the answer is ready to come out.

Original……

It turns out to be Arknights!

The reason for choosing it is simple.

It's cheap.

When Yingjiao started Arknights, it had a total registered capital of 1000 million, which was even smaller than its current number one player.

The appalling illustrations at the beginning and the almost unreadable dubbing.

Especially Amiya's outrageous leg shape is the best evidence of this poor little workshop.

Later, after it slowly became popular, I started to invest more, and everything became better and better.

If I get the project of Arknights, I will naturally have a series of exquisite sketches of it under the current fourth anniversary version.

Having a draft for the artist to follow and polish will naturally save a lot of time.

Secondly, Porridge (short for Arknights) is a tower defense game.

There seems to be no tower defense games on Blue Star at all.

To be on the safe side, Kejin searched online.

The result was as he expected.

Not at all, never heard of it.

If I have to tell you, there was an interview transcript 30 years ago, which Ke Jin dug out.

There is an old game designer in China who once mentioned a concept when conceiving the concept of future game types.

'We can design an offensive and defensive game similar to building the Great Wall and defending the Great Wall. It is similar to the ancient military formations. Players, as the party that defends and consolidates the Great Wall, need to constantly allocate troops and resources to resist the Huns outside the Great Wall. attack. '

This should be the oldest tower defense game concept on Blue Star that Kejin can find.

It’s just that the old man’s statement sounds like it requires a lot of investment in production. It was difficult to bring equipment in that era. Later, the development of the game industry was somewhat distorted, so that the inspiration for the tower defense genre did not emerge at all.

Before, whether it was a goose-duck killing or a brother-playing game, there was almost no publicity, and so many people bought into it.

Now that he can do it freely, Ke Jin will definitely put all his efforts into the propaganda area.

Excluding production costs, invest as much as you have.

Let Blue Star players see the charm of tower defense games!
After finalizing the general idea, Kejin originally wanted to try upgrading the system to see if he could increase the upper limit of blind box entries.

But unfortunately, after the system level is raised, the required experience points are also getting higher and higher.

After charging 10000 exp, it only increased half of the experience bar of the level 6 system.

It looks like it will take another game to reach level 7.

Forget it, just open the blind box.

Two platinum-level blind boxes, two resets.

It's equivalent to having four chances.

In the first blind box, Kejin tried to enter the entry [card draw].

[Congratulations on successfully winning the D-level card drawing game - Fantasy Magical Girl! 】

what... what?

Ke Jin was stunned.

Is this thing a product of the earth?

But then I thought about it, there are so many games on the planet, and the system covers them all.

It’s normal that I haven’t heard of it myself.

However, since the rating is only D, it is basically not considered.

reset!

[Congratulations on successfully obtaining the B-level card drawing game - Fgo! 】

Emmmm......

Neither does this.

The gameplay is almost 0, and it all depends on the player's cooking skills.

Furthermore, Fgo's popularity at the time was largely related to the anime IP it was backed by.

The system gave me a total of two months of indulgence.

In two months, let yourself operate such a huge worldview IP of the Fate series into the hearts of every Blue Star player.

It would be better to let all Blue Star players believe that it is more likely that he is Qin Shihuang.

The first blind box was scrapped directly.

However, FGO can also be used as fragments and thrown directly into the fusion table to randomly smelt new games, which is not without gain.

Put it in your inventory.

Immediately take out the second blind box.

Ke Jin felt that he needed to change his thinking.

The terms for drawing cards are still too broad, and it is easy to draw what you don’t want.

"Try tower defense."

After entering the term, you will quickly get a system prompt.

[Congratulations on successfully acquiring the B-level tower defense game - Defend Carrot! 】

Looking at the young-looking game in front of him, Ke Jin fell into deep thought.

This doesn't seem to be impossible...

If you need to do a challenging low-krypton mission, Kejin would really choose it.

But now it’s indulgent meal time.

"Then..." Looking at the last chance left.

Ke Jin swallowed, and a bold idea suddenly came to his mind!

Quickly enter the word 'yuzu' on the system panel.

Click to confirm! [Congratulations on winning the A-level game project - Arknights! 】

Neck Mom!It really came out!

Moreover, my entry seems to have been silenced by the system.

When playing other games, HiLo will also show you an XX type.

As a result, when it comes to Arknights, the game type is not displayed directly.

I guess the system has been thinking about what kind of game Yuzu is.

After an intensive search, it may be possible to barely connect to [Arknights]

Well, it’s in line with porridge etiquette.

I didn’t expect you, Brother Tongzi, to be the same...?
……

In the end, I successfully selected the game I wanted to make.

This shows that an entry is still not stable enough, and the probability of something going wrong is quite high.

It seems that if you want to obtain the game accurately, you have to continue to complete tasks to improve the system level.

After making up his mind, Ke Jin called Gou Chehua.

The position of secretary is temporarily vacant, so now all the big and small things can only be left to Gou Chehua to take care of. Fortunately, he has been doing his best and kept busy, which made Ke Jin feel a little bit sorry.

During this period, Kejin also tried to post secretary recruitment posts and used the system's [Assistant Search Function] to find suitable secretarial assistants.

But it has been unsuccessful.

During the interview, I met some secretaries who seemed quiet and pretty on the surface.

There is no problem with conversation and communication.

But when I opened the system and took a look at her personal introduction, I was speechless.

Almost all her thoughts are on how to dress up every day to make the domineering president fall in love with her, and how to seduce the president.

Together, you are doing things every day, but you are just doing things, right?

Just sit on the promotion tool and start shaking, and that's it.

I have no choice but to suffer Hua Zi Ge for a while.

"Mr. Ke, have you finished the planning of the new game?" As the saying goes, "Once a person is born, he will become familiar again." Gou Chehua discovered that the CEO of his company was not very concerned about performance, revenue, and the like.

Every time I call him into the office, [-]% of the time it's to discuss a new game.

The king of ideas belongs to yes.

But it’s not enough if you don’t accept it.

Every game conceived by Ren Ke is extremely exquisite.

Take the last "Journey" as an example.

Originally, Gou Chehua thought that this game would be absolutely useless once it was developed.

It’s a drama, and dogs won’t even play with it!

The result was unexpected. In just 10 days, it directly detonated the gaming circle. Not to mention the popularity, it also sold 15 copies.

If this trend continues, it shouldn't be a problem to sell around 25 copies in the first month.

This directly gave the company more than 2000 million yuan in blood!

With no channels and no publicity, a story-based game can pay back 2000 million in one month?
It is a natural contrast to the story-based game that only sold for 1800 yuan last time.

It has even led a small group of companies to start working on the drama track. As far as Gou Chehua knows, at least five or six companies have started to establish projects.

Mr. Ke was simply born for the gaming industry!
"Well, this time we will play a card drawing game. This is the plan, take a look." Ke Jin pushed the plan for "Arknights" over.

"Draw a card?" Gou Chehua was stunned.

I'm still thinking about it.

Has Mr. Mo run out of inspiration?

Drawing card games don’t seem to be the style that Ke always makes.

Furthermore, card-drawing games are so popular nowadays... even if Top Player has accumulated a lot of players through word-of-mouth in the past few times.

But if you can't make differentiation, it will be difficult...

While thinking, he took a thick stack of planning documents and quickly flipped through them.

After touching it for a few minutes, the look in Gou Chehua's eyes changed from confusion to shock.

The whole person was almost petrified on the spot.

What the fuck?

What kind of unheard-of game type is this? ?

I would call it an idle game, but it depends on the player's decision-making. It's not like a traditional placement game, where you can hang up and wait for benefits.

In this game, you need to kill monsters and defend against enemies.

It's not like the turn-based game either. The damage settlement between both sides is done in real time.

action?Players don't need to operate the character...at most they can just charge up the skill bar and click on it.

Daguai upgrade?
There is a way to defeat monsters, but the dropped characters will not be upgraded...

This is this...

Even Gou Chehua, a veteran player with three years of planning experience, had to sigh inwardly.

I've never seen this type before!

How on earth does Mr. Ke have such a big brain...

Why do we all grow up under the same sun? As the saying goes, there is nothing new under the sun.

Can Ke always give me some fresh and unique tricks?
"This game... can be done!" With Gou Chehua's many years of work experience, he could tell at a glance that this game would definitely be a hit once it was made!
Even in the gacha market, which is booming, it still belongs to a category that can stand firm!

However, after thinking about it, Gou Chehua cautiously asked one more question.

"Mr. Ke...there shouldn't be anything special about the pricing of this game, right?"

Please stop, sir!Collect more! !
Don’t do any more one-dollar purchases, unconditional refunds, or advertising-blocking in-app purchases!

If you throw your idea king's idea to a company like Tengjing Netcom, as long as they can make it happen, they will have at least hundreds of millions in revenue.

But why does this idea fall into the hands of the number one player? We can’t make much money every time...

Gou Chehua now has more and more self-doubts. Is there something wrong with him as a planner that makes the company make too little money?

I'm guilty, I deserve to die...

Fortunately, Gou Chehua breathed a sigh of relief at Ke Jin's answer the next moment.

"Well, the pricing of this game is on the normal side."

call……

Gou Chehua wiped the sweat from his forehead, and finally let go of his worries: "At that moment, sir, do you think we should adopt the current average price of 50 yuan per draw from medium-sized manufacturers, or move closer to the big manufacturers and move towards three-digit prices?" To set the price? In my opinion, our game’s fresh gameplay can even try to get closer to the charging standards of major manufacturers..."

"Fifty yuan a draw? Three digits?" Ke Jin frowned slightly when he heard this: "It's too high. Five yuan a draw is about the same."

"what?"

Gou Chehua stood messy in the wind.

No, are you really just making games for fun? ? ?

"But it's 5 yuan a draw... We don't make money... Last time I priced it at [-] yuan a draw... I didn't get much back in the end."

Ke Jin shook his head: "No, no, no, the goal of our game is not to earn five yuan a draw."

"Uh...what is that?"

"Yueka." Ke Jin smiled.

"Yueka?" Gou Chehua was confused again.

What is a monthly card?

Similar to being a member of the video website next door?After being a member for one month, can I draw cards for free that month without any conditions?

When Gou Chehua thought of this possibility, his vision went dark.

Damn it... isn't this more outrageous than five yuan a draw?

what! !

Mr. Ke! !
You can turn me on! !

If you can’t make money from this game, my hands will feel hot when you pay me my wages! !
　Let me start by saying that the second game should only be a game called Arknights. There may be other games. Either they are too small and lack a sense of immersion, and not many readers know about them.It's not appropriate to brag about it. After all, the essence of attracting players in the second game is to draw cards and choose a wife, and the gameplay is not enough.I wrote Porridge because it is a tower defense game. Take out Porridge's character attack mechanism, remove the card draw and change it to a single player. Even if it is all replaced with stickman portraits, it can still be played. However, if some second games use card draw and If the selling character is removed, it will really kill him instantly, which is enough to show that the gameplay is too poor.

　　I initially considered Plants vs. Zombies, a classic tower defense game, but I always felt that the payback speed of this game was a bit slow. The price was too high and the protagonist seemed a bit of a loser. The price was too low and I couldn’t make much money.After much thought, I chose porridge.

　　As for the Mijia game, I'm sorry, I really don't dare to touch it... Whoever touches it will die, because it's really wrong no matter how you write it, and something will happen no matter how you write it, so let's just let it live honestly within the plot of this book.

　　In terms of online games, we will continue to make some more classic and well-known online games in the future, interspersed with other games (online games will also not be too small in size, too low-profile, without a sense of substitution, and not particularly awesome. If the awesome gameplay and plot support it, it’s really not as easy to write as a stand-alone game)

　　Anyway, this book mainly focuses on high-quality stand-alone games.

　　After the report, let’s continue coding!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)