Game Design: Is that okay, CaiGou?

Chapter 346 Tactical Team: No rush, play with him (Subscribe)
The end of this year's Journey Cup awards ceremony should have been the end of a carnival.

But this year is completely different. For players, this is the beginning of another carnival.

Everyone is looking forward to the launch of the Taipingdao holistic virtual game platform, and is even more looking forward to the launch of two new games, [Tactical Squad] and [Minecraft].

For the gaming industry, this will be the beginning of a new era.

While the players are waiting for an eternity, Taiping Dao is also making intensive preparations.

All the employees at the Taipingdao headquarters were extremely busy.

Cai Gou was also in the office, planning and calculating the annual plan.

"Knock knock!"

Cai Gou heard a knock on the door and looked up, seeing Lanny walking in with an anxious look and a hint of panic on his face.

"Lenny, what's wrong?"

"I just got the news that after Jones left and returned to the headquarters, Leon will be the next in line to take over as the head of the Steam platform country."

"Oh?"

Cai Gou walked to the water dispenser, took a glass of water, handed it to Lanny and asked, "Does this person have anything to say?"

"He has a strong working ability and will not give up until he achieves his goal. He is very energetic and can often work overtime for a project and stay up for days and nights." Lanny said while holding a cup of tea:

"But that's not the point. The point is his work ideas, which often lead to unexpected actions. He has made great contributions on the Steam platform over the years and is the person that senior leaders value the most, no doubt about it."

"This time, the Steam Platform headquarters sent Leon to replace Jones. In order to maintain the current situation in the Steam Platform country, they will definitely attack us. This is because it is the most in line with their interests."

Cai Gou nodded thoughtfully.

"Drip..."

Lanny's phone beeped. He opened the chat app, checked the message, raised his head and said awkwardly:

"It's over. I was hiding in the Chinese area of ​​the Steam platform, but was discovered by Leon. He said Leon wanted to talk to you on the phone..."

Backhand?

Cai Gou looked at Lanny in confusion.

Lanny smiled bitterly and said:

"In fact, I successfully poached more than 49 employees this time. I also poached an employee who was not from my faction. But I deliberately asked him to stay in the company temporarily so that we can have an insider."

"Of course, given his personality and position, he wouldn't do anything illegal or criminal. He stayed in the company just to be my eyes. Unexpectedly, Leon arrived at the post yesterday, stayed up all night, and found my man today."

“He is in Leon’s office now. He just sent me a message saying that Leon wants to video call you and talk.”

Cai Gou felt mixed emotions after hearing this. He was a little annoyed by Lanny's unauthorized behavior, and at the same time, he became a little wary of Leon.

"You, you, since he has been discovered, let him return to the company and arrange a position for him. Next time something like this happens, inform me in advance."

"Okay...ok." Lanny asked, "What about the video call?"

"As he wishes." Cai Gou nodded and said, "I also want to see what the newly appointed Leon has to say."

"Okay, I'll send the message right away."

Lanny told all this to his insider. After a while, a video call came in. After the call was connected, Lanny handed it to Cai Gou immediately.

Leon on the other end of the video call is a man in his thirties who is at the peak of his career.

His facial features were as if carved by a knife or an axe. He was strong and muscular, with a head of blond hair. He looked more like a fitness coach than a company executive, and he showed a strong desire for control.

"General Tiangong? Cai Gou? Hello! I'm Leon."

"Hello Leon, I'm Cai Gou, sorry to embarrass you."

"No, no." Leon said with a smile: "If it weren't like this, how would I have the chance to contact you?"

"Oh? It seems that you have other intentions?" Cai Gou asked, "Tell me, what do you want to talk to me about?"

"Talk about cooperation!" Leon said word by word: "Talk about cooperation with you."

"What kind of cooperation method?"

"We at Steam Platform want to invest in Taipingdao, or as a second choice, invest in a virtual gaming platform. We don't ask for a controlling stake, we just want entry. Please name your price."

"It can't be opened." Cai Gou said: "We don't want to bring other people to play."

"..." Leon was silent for a long time: "What about re-listing all the Taipingdao games on the Steam platform?"

"Sorry, from now on, Taipingdao games will be exclusively available on the All-Sense Virtual Game Platform."

"So there is no room for negotiation?"

"Of course." Cai Gou nodded and said, "We Chinese have an old saying: A good horse never turns back to eat the grass it has left."

Leon said: "But you also have to know that technological explosion is never limited to one company. We have been developing the holistic gaming cabin for no less than ten years, and it is almost reaching the stage of producing results."

"Lanni beside you also knows this. You don't have much time left. I also know this old saying you said, but I always like to let good horses go back to eat grass again."

"Then let's wait and see!"

After hanging up the video call, Cai Gou looked at Lanny and asked, "Is what he said true or false?"

"It's half true and half false..." Lanny said after a moment's hesitation:
"The holistic gaming cabin has always been the goal of the gaming industry, especially gaming platforms. Steam did set up a relevant research team ten years ago to start research and development, but progress has been limited."

"But now the emergence of the standard answer of Fenghuo No. 3 holistic gaming cabin will definitely be of great help to the research and development of Steam platform's holistic virtual gaming platform."

Cai Gou smacked his lips and said, "It seems that this new Leon is indeed here with bad intentions."

Cai Gou said so, but he was not in a hurry.

After all, it is not that easy to master the technology given by the system.
The scientific research team of the Steam platform can at most draw on some ideas from Beacon Fire No. 3, and the time left for Taiping Dao is much longer than they imagined.

As expected, this negotiation failed, and Leon was not surprised at all.

The most important purpose of his visit is to maintain the Steam platform's market share in China's game market.

When the virtual gaming platform with a sense of wholeness is about to be released, under this kind of dimensionality reduction attack, the only way to deal with the troubled times is to use severe punishments.

Fortunately, this time, the senior leaders of the Steam platform gave him full authority to handle these matters.

On the day the negotiations broke down, Leon held a press conference and announced that from today onwards, the revenue sharing ratio for all games listed on the Steam platform in China would be adjusted to 30:70.

The game manufacturer takes 70% and the game platform takes 30%.

In addition, from now on, the Steam platform will hold various activities and promotional discounts almost continuously, and the official subsidies are so huge that it is astonishing.

Even for some games that were only released this year, players only need to spend one-tenth of the amount to purchase them.

This set of moves started from both the players and the manufacturers, using real money to pave the way and forcibly seize the momentum and public opinion.

Not only that, Leon has also formed an alliance with other domestic game platforms to jointly launch discount activities and form a united front.

Because the launch of the Taiping Dao virtual game platform would cause immeasurable losses to these vested interests, they agreed decisively.

As a result, the entire gaming industry was like a raging fire, and players were caught in a weird carnival. Leon, a new official, started with three fires, and they burned very quickly, one after another, using human nature and interests to label Taipingdao as a minority, standing on the opposite side of most gaming platforms.

The direct consequence of this is that even if the Taipingdao holistic virtual game platform is launched, it will only have games released by Taipingdao and no games from other manufacturers, so its scale will not increase.

If the gaming platform maintains a small size, its market competitiveness will naturally not be strong. To put it bluntly, the big pie of the gaming market is still in the hands of old gaming platforms such as Steam.

Lanny has always been concerned about what Leon did. After learning what he had done, he hurried to find Cai Gou and asked for countermeasures.

"Cai Gou, what should we do? Our game platform has not even been launched yet, and we have already encountered targeted sniping. The situation is very bad now. It is very disadvantageous to us."

After listening to Lanny's anxious words, Cai Gou comforted him:
"Lanni, you just joined the Taiping Dao, so you may not understand the situation. Don't worry, he has a plan, but I have a way to get over it."

"Then..." Lanny asked, "Do you have a solution?"

Cai Gou smiled and said, "No hurry... just play with him!"

At 1:30 in the afternoon, Cai Gou took Wu Xiu to the game office of the Cultural and Entertainment Bureau.

At the same time, the official Weibo account of Taiping Dao released the latest promotional video of the tactical team.

Douyu live broadcast platform, game area.

Eggplant sat in the live broadcast room, telling stories and telling everyone about his heroic performance in Resident Evil Village.

The viewers in the live broadcast room, listening to Eggplant's endless and eloquent praises, felt helpless and smiled bitterly in their hearts.

They had already heard the story of Eggplant's adventure into the Resident Evil Village eight hundred times, and their ears were almost callused from it.

Eggplant nowadays is like a cyber Xianglin Sao!
Tell me, who can withstand this?

"No, Master Eggplant, don't recite it anymore. There's no way to recite the Tightening Curse like this, right?!"

"My head hurts so much, what the hell! I really want to smash Eggplant's head!"

"No... Eggplant, why are you getting more and more exaggerated? Your performance in this version of the story is too outrageous, isn't it?"

Eggplant turned a deaf ear to it. What's the matter? He finally had his moment of glory, but he wasn't allowed to brag about himself?

But just when he wanted to continue speaking, the viewers in the live broadcast room collectively swiped the screen:

"General Liu Peijia, the first promotional video of the tactical team has been released!"

As we all know, Tactical Squad is a civilian commercial version of the virtual military training software system. This type of game is inseparable from FPS.

As a leader in the broadcast of shooting games, Eggplant naturally attaches great importance to and pays special attention to the tactical team that Pacific Avenue is about to launch.

Compared to the promotional video of Tactical Squad, what are the highlights?
"Dear godfathers!" Liu Peijia asked, "Is it true?"

After receiving unanimous affirmative responses from netizens, Liu Peijia hurriedly clicked on Taipingdao’s Weibo homepage.

[Taipingdao - Tomorrow at 8 am, the tactical team overall sense mode will log in to the Taipingdao virtual game platform. Players can log in to receive it for free]

After so many days of waiting, players finally see the dawn of victory.

There’s only one day left, and it’s free. It’s really nice.

Of course, if players want to fully experience the tactical squad game with a sense of teamwork, they must use Beacon Fire No. 3, but this is not a problem at all for Liu Peijia.

He clicked on the video link with great interest to watch the tactical squad promotional video.

Before the picture appears, the passionate background music starts to play.

The screen lit up, and the camera locked on the English wording of a grenade launcher lying across the battlefield gate.

As the camera gradually zoomed out, two trucks full of soldiers drove away from the base, kicking up clouds of dust and heading towards an unknown distance.

The fully armed soldiers ran forward at a rapid speed in the battlefield filled with smoke and explosions.

The desolate city, dilapidated buildings, and the surrounding scenery are lifeless, with only billowing smoke.

The mighty and majestic tanks advanced along the main roads of the city, followed closely by rows of soldiers holding various rifles and aiming carefully in all directions.

"boom!"

An RPG shell hit the tank, the explosion was deafening, and the broken shrapnel flew in all directions.

At this moment, the rhythm of the background music suddenly changes from soothing to sonorous, with various terrain environments and various battle scenes.

Bullets, pistols, rifles, landmines, grenades, trucks, tanks, helicopters, these common elements on the battlefield appear one by one, combining into a blood-pumping song of battle.

On the deserted and chaotic streets after the war, five fully armed soldiers walked towards the camera with firm steps.

With every step forward, the equipment of the five soldiers changed until the camera moved up to the blue sky.

In the cloudless sky, a helicopter flew by at high speed, and the soldiers' conversations were heard from the troop transport truck below.

“Anyone want to be fire chief?”

"where?"

"We're going straight to a place where supplies and tanks are being shipped back and forth!"

"…or should I say head towards me and the hangar!"

"... attack my boots and shut off your engines when you get there."

The conversations on the communication channel vary depending on the map scene and the soldiers being talked to.

Just as Liu Peijia was still thinking about this conversation.

"boom!"

An RPG exploded in front of the camera again, and viewers quickly appreciated the adrenaline-pumping battlefields through the promotional video.

When the bombs stop exploding, when the rifles stop firing, when the fighting falls silent, when everything disappears into thin air.

The promotional video came to an abrupt end at the climax, the screen went dark, and a line of large words appeared in front of everyone:

[Tactical Squad - Taipingdao]

eggplant:"!!!"

Water friend: "!!!"

The promotional video ended and the live broadcast room fell silent.

This picture quality!
Such realism!

This is so hardcore!
In one word – absolutely amazing!
Liu Peiqie can be sure from the content given in the promotional video that Tactical Squad, Armed Assault, and Digital Combat Simulation World are all civilian commercial versions of virtual military training software systems.

However, the focus of the tactical squad is different from the air combat of various types of fighter jets in the digital combat simulation world and the squad-level tactical main perspective modern military simulation of armed raids.

Tactical Squad should be a first-person shooter game. As the name of the game suggests, the focus should be on the tactical coordination of team members.

On the battlefield filled with smoke, fully armed players are galloping in the hail of bullets, and in an all-round mode. What is the difference between this and cyber warfare?
It’s really... exciting just thinking about it!

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