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Chapter 258 Buy ready-made!

Lilith took a few steps in the living room and began to seriously think about the feasibility of this matter.

"Hmm... mmorpgs are indeed more suitable for collecting negative emotions in some aspects.

“First of all, the player stickiness of this kind of game is very high. After all, it is a strongly social-driven game. Even if you are abused, you will not quit quickly like ordinary stand-alone games.

“This is definitely good news for collecting negative emotions.

“Secondly, there are two main types of high-difficulty challenges in this kind of game, one is large-scale PVE multiplayer groups, and the other is PVP battlefields and arenas.

“These two difficult challenges are also very suitable for collecting negative emotions.

"Large-scale multiplayer groups require good cooperation. If there are one or two people who don't know how to play, a major boss mechanism will very likely destroy the group, directly doubling the negative emotions; and being abused in the PVP battlefield is also very dangerous. May trigger negative emotions among players.

“In addition, poor MMORPGs can cause players to have all kinds of negative emotions.

“Whether it’s network lag, vicious bugs, professional imbalance, mission reward mismatch, city massacre... these problems will make players lose their temper without even realizing it.

After all, the size of Nitiantian Games at this time is still relatively small compared to those large game companies.

But in the end it came down to the demonstration of feasibility.

“Ah, it’s best not to have vicious bugs, but the more other problems the better!
"But here comes the problem...

In theory, an excellent two-dimensional game can be made well with a cost of about 20 million, but if it is replaced with an mmorpg, the cost will be ten times higher, starting at 200 million.

It has to be said that she has gradually become accustomed to frequently asking Gu Fan's opinions when developing games, especially when encountering game areas that she is not familiar with.

Money is not a big problem for Nitian Games. Currently, there is enough research and development funds. Even if the budget is really exceeded, Lilith is not willing to use her own small treasury.

Fortunately, the Internet is relatively developed now, so Lilith took out her phone and did a simple search, and got a rough understanding of the relevant data.

The bigger problem is people and time!
Since mmorpg has been deteriorating in recent years, there are basically not many companies producing it, so we can only find data from a few years ago. At that time, the situation of mmorpg was not as bleak as it is now, and there were several popular works.

Lilith pondered carefully for a while, and she really felt that mmorpg was very interesting!

If all are included, it would not be surprising if there were more than 2000 people.

But no matter how much it drops, tens of millions are still necessary, and this is still a situation where the quality of research and development cannot be guaranteed.

Of course, with the development of technology in recent years, the templates on the official platform have gradually matured, and development costs have also dropped slightly.

Gu Fan looked at her: "I told you that I am only responsible for one type of game! As for whether you can do it specifically, that is your business."

In China, a very important reason why many companies make two-dimensional games and mobile games instead of MMORPGs is that costs are controllable.

Lilith was a little discouraged: "Okay!"

"Gu Fan, with the current development capabilities of our Nitiantian Games, can we make such a large-scale MMORPG game?"

The research and development time starts in one year, and three years is not too much.

Now that Gu Fan was suddenly acting out, she was really uncomfortable with it.

Generally speaking, if it is a relatively successful MMORPG game, it will basically require a large R&D team of about 400 to 600 people in China, and these are all regular employees, not counting various miscellaneous outsourcing employees.

It’s not surprising that even some popular MMORPGs have investments of 500 million or 700 million.

Regardless of the number of people or the time, it is currently not affordable for Nitian Game.

Of course, if there are not enough people, we can recruit. With the current salary package and reputation of Nitian Games in the industry, it is not a problem to recruit more people, but the problem is that recruiting more people may not necessarily solve the problem.

The company's recruitment expansion is just like the army's recruitment expansion, and it requires careful management. Management is a science. If you want to recruit a team of hundreds of people and manage the team in an orderly manner, you need a large number of middle-level backbones to perform their duties and effectively complete top-down management.

If recruitment is expanded blindly and there are insufficient middle-level backbones, then this huge company is likely to fall into paralysis and be unable to use its strength in one place.

It is even less reliable to directly recruit middle-level backbones from outside. After all, before the actual cooperation, no one knows what the abilities of these people are. Are they really capable, or are they just deceiving the boss and investors? Woolen cloth?
If there is a problem in any link, the loss in salary will be small, but the project progress will be affected in a big way.

Taking into account the various possible problems, if Ni Tiantian really plans to develop a decent MMORPG game on its own, it will be a blessing to be able to make it in more than a year.

Can Lilith wait a year? She can't.

She hopes that a new game will be released every two or three months to help her collect a wave of negative emotions.

More than a year is enough for her to make four or five stand-alone games that disgust players. Maybe there will be a money tree in it that continuously collects negative emotions?

All in all, it doesn’t seem like a good deal!

Lilith fell into a tangle. She lowered her head and thought for a while, then looked at Gu Fan and stopped talking.

Gu Fan sighed silently, and seemed to finally relent: "Mr. Li, what do you want to say?"

Lilith was just walking down the slope: "Time! What I want to say is time! Playing this kind of game takes too much time, I can't wait."

Gu Fan was silent for a moment: "Mr. Li, the issue of time is not completely unsolvable."

Lilith was a little confused: "Huh? How to solve it? If we directly expand the team, it may not necessarily speed up!"

Gu Fan was speechless, so he had to remind him more clearly: "Mr. Li, if you want to have a meal, you can choose to raise your own chickens and grow your own vegetables. However, you can also go directly to the farmer's market to buy killed chickens and other vegetables. Plant vegetables. What's more, you can directly..."

Lilith couldn't help but her eyes lit up: "Order takeout!

"Oh, you mean, let me eat ready-made food directly?

"Can games be like this?
"We're going to acquire a game that's almost finished? Huh? That's a good idea!"

Lilith instantly felt as if she had opened the door to a new world, and all the problems that existed before were naturally gone!
What should we do if we don’t have enough manpower?
Buy it ready-made, and Nitian Games will only be responsible for subsequent updates and maintenance!

If the development team of an mmorpg game only has a few dozen people, it sounds unreliable. But if the follow-up operation team of an mmorpg game can have dozens of people, then it feels like there is plenty of manpower.

What should I do if the development time is too long?
Or buy ready-made!

When the time comes, Nitiantian will spend two or three months on a surprise attack to make minor repairs to the game. As long as the special requirements given by Lilith can be fulfilled, the game can be launched as scheduled.

Thinking about it this way, it is indeed quite appropriate!

"Okay, if that's the case, then I'll immediately find out if there are any similar game projects on the market and talk about the acquisition!

"Gu Fan, you have worked hard during this time. Take a good rest first. After I have roughly screened out a few games, you, the president, will take care of them!"

After Lilith finished speaking, she disappeared happily.

Gu Fan was wondering in his heart, why should he take a good rest? Obviously, Lilith still didn't trust him.

When it comes to finding ready-made MMORPGs, Lilith obviously plans to do a double insurance: first find someone to conduct a nationwide screening to find some suitable ones, and then ask Gu Fan to conduct a second round of screening.

Gu Fan didn't know anyone in the first round of screening, so the probability of problems in the screening was naturally greatly reduced, making it more difficult to find tricks.

But it doesn't matter to Gu Fan. With Lilith wary of him in every possible way, he can't really be 100% sure of success every time, so he can only take it one step at a time.

I just wonder what kind of mmorpg game Lilith will find?
(End of this chapter)