game trailblazer

Chapter 305 New Legend
"Okay, since everyone is not optimistic about the name "Shushan", I have an idea." Zhang Lexing glanced at Lu Yongcheng and others surrounding him, and said with a smile: "Since this is the first network we developed If it’s a game, then it’s better to call it “Legend.”

"Legendary?" Lu Yongcheng muttered to himself, thinking in his mind how much "Legendary" had to do with the online game that was about to be tested in beta.

"Legend!" Xu Ziqian and Zhao Chang keenly discovered that the name "Legend" is obviously louder than "Shushan" out of marketing instincts, and even the promotional slogans are easy to hook up with "Legend", for example You can use "Fengyun Network, the legend starts from here" to promote, and the faces of the two immediately showed a look of approval.

"Legend." Zhou Haoxuan showed a look of surprise on his face. He didn't expect his boss to think of a pretty good name casually. No wonder he is a senior game producer. Thinking of this, his expression gradually changed from surprise turned into admiration.

"Okay, okay." Zhang Lexing clapped his hands, interrupted the contemplation of Lu Yongcheng and others, and said with a smile: "You can think about the name or something slowly, first let me see what you have developed the game into now. What's it like?"

"Okay, boss." Lu Yongcheng nodded in agreement, and then made a gesture of invitation: "Please follow me."

Lu Yongcheng led the way, Zhang Lexing and others followed him to the front of a workbench.This pure black workbench seems to be made of solid materials, and the surrounding frame is decorated with a few green plants. There are some small-sized game posters on the partition of the workbench, and there are a few seemingly private photos in the middle. thing.A Dell P1110 Trinitron tube 21-inch monitor is placed on the slightly messy table. This thing Zhang Lexing was greedy for a long time before he was reborn, and then it was dragged on until 20, about 2007, and it took more than 2000 oceans to get it. I bought a second-hand one and went home, but the one in front of me is obviously definitely not second-hand.

Lu Yongcheng stretched out his hand and pressed the power switch of the main computer standing next to the Dell P1110. With a sound of "beep~", the system self-test screen appeared on the Dell P1110, and the familiar desktop appeared on the screen again after a while.Lu Yongcheng moved the mouse and quickly clicked on a certain beauty icon on the desktop, and soon the computer screen turned black.Slowly rolling out from the right side of the screen, a red letter "O" stopped in the center of the screen, and then a bouncing red letter "G" jumped out from the right, and accidentally bumped into the letter On the body of "O", the letter "G" took two steps back, and a red "&" mark fell from the sky, just falling in the middle of the letter "O" and the letter "G", a logo of a creative workshop " O&G" appeared in the center of the screen.

As the red "O&G" logo gradually faded, the logos of Fengyun Network, Fengyun Interactive and Fengyun Holdings appeared on the screen successively, and then a vast starry sky appeared on the screen, accompanied by a synchronous voice of a vicissitudes male voice "In the vast universe, the number of stars in the Ganges River is unpredictable and emerges endlessly. According to legend, since ancient times, there have been countless people with great wisdom in the world who have spent their entire lives practicing the way of becoming immortals, hoping to understand the eternal mysteries between heaven and earth and achieve success. The realm of harmony between man and nature...

In the southwestern part of Middle-earth, there is a mountain called Shu. The mountains are winding and undulating, and the sea of ​​clouds is rolling and rushing.According to legend, in the Spring and Autumn Period, there were immortals in the mountains who could absorb the spiritual energy in the mountains, break through the bodies of mortals and fly with swords, and even chase the wind and moon, and fly in the sea of ​​stars..."

Accompanied by the explanation of a male voice, the picture on the screen changed from a starry sky to a mountain with a sea of ​​clouds and a sea of ​​clouds. A few cranes were flying leisurely in the air, and suddenly a figure standing on a simple long sword cut through the sky, as if immediately To pierce through the screen, two big characters "Shushan" written with a brush slowly appeared in the center of the screen, and the entire background also faded into ink.

After the opening animation passed, a login interface appeared from the bottom of the screen. Lu Yongcheng quickly entered the account number and password, pressed the login button, and chose to create a new character instead of an existing one.The character creation screen appeared on the screen again. While making choices, Lu Yongcheng explained: "Boss, look, this is the screen for creating new characters. We originally planned to make it similar to "The Sims", which can be customized by players." Character image, but considering the current network environment, if you customize the character, the system load is too large, so it is changed to the current template selection method. They are sword fairy, knight, and magician, representing kindness, neutrality, and evil Three camps, you can choose two styles of men and women..."

Zhang Lexing nodded after hearing this. The "sword fairy, knight, magician" and so on can be compared with the Taoist, warrior, and mage in "Legend". It seems that it may be what he said about MMORPG at the beginning. The system introduction played a role.

Lu Yongcheng randomly selected a knight, whose gender is naturally male, then entered a random name, pressed the "Submit" button, and the new character was successfully created, and then selected the newly created character, and pressed "Start Game" button, as soon as the screen went black, the male knight he created appeared in the middle of the screen, standing there looking around.

"Boss, this is the Novice Village you mentioned at the beginning. It is specially used to upgrade the level of newcomers. This part is carried by the Novice Village module in the server. In order to avoid newcomers getting together, we set the A maximum of 200 people is allowed, and five places are designed to adapt to the leveling of characters of different levels from 1 to 10. New players will randomly appear in Novice Villages numbered 1 to 5 when they log in. Once the number of people exceeds 1000, they will A new Xinshou Village will be added automatically." Lu Yongcheng controlled his male knight to roam around in the empty Xinshou Village while explaining: "Taking the knight as an example, there are three development directions in the game, one It is to use a knife, and the pursuit is the strongest attack power. The second is to use a sword, which pays attention to the balance of strength, especially the defense ability. Various NPCs and NPC shops can provide game guidance for new players, telling them how to choose their own development direction, and also provide primary training grounds for knives, swords, bows and arrows, and also provide blood supplements, weapons and equipment, etc. Various supplies..."

Lu Yongcheng manipulated the male knight to go around the Xinshou Village, changed to a single sword used by beginners, and after chopping wood for a while at the elementary training ground, he rushed out of the Xinshou Village like a wolf and rushed to the outside of the village. Those wandering pheasants and crazy monkeys quickly raised their level to level 3, and then they did not continue to fight monsters, but called up a small window, quickly entered a piece of code, and the body of the character he controlled immediately rose. One after another white light representing the upgrade, the level quickly rose to level 10.

Zhang Lexing frowned and asked, "Your cheat code should have been blocked in the official version, right?"

"Well." Lu Yongcheng nodded and said: "Yes, boss, this is a debug version we use ourselves, so it is so convenient. In the official version, we have already cut off the part of the cheat code. It's been checked a few times, so it won't be a problem."

Zhang Lexing has heard a lot about the bugs in online games such as swiping money and copying equipment, and even many online games will be on this, so he specifically explained: "Well, I hope so. Online games are no better than In stand-alone games, once you can modify the level and create items through cheat codes or other means, it will almost be a devastating blow to the game, so you must be careful."

"Boss, please don't worry. I heard you introduce the differences between online games and stand-alone games, and the places that may cause loopholes in online games. We are very careful when developing this game. All data processing is It is completed on the server, and the data is exchanged between the server and the client through sealed packets, and only the final screen display is handled by the client, and it has been repeatedly tested by many people, and I believe that there are very few loopholes.”

After explaining, Lu Yongcheng ran back to Xinshou Village with his sword-wielding swordsman. After walking around the center of the village, he stopped in front of an NPC named "Village Guide".He clicked on "Exit Village Guide" with the mouse, and a new dialog box immediately popped up on the screen, which said "...Aha, dear friend, it seems that you are tired of staying in Novice Village, but you have to leave the village Afterwards, you will face more risky challenges, are you ready for...", there are two options in the lower part of the dialog box, one is "I have thought it through, please take me away", the other is It is "I haven't bought all the medicines yet, so I have to think about it again."

Lu Yongcheng stopped at this moment, turned sideways and introduced: "Boss, the character level has reached level 10 now, and you can no longer gain experience in Novice Village. You must use this 'Village Guide' to transfer to a new map. We used to I also considered embedding Xinshou Village on the entire world map, and even considered seamless map stitching technology, but the current network environment is not good. According to the survey, although many places claim to support 56K Modem access, in fact, they often only support 33.6K modem access. It can reach 26.6Kbps, sometimes even as low as [-]Kbps. It can’t support too large maps at all. We can only use relatively small area maps and load them in blocks to adapt to the current network environment. So our novice The village has adopted the current mode of being separated from the main map. In fact, even the main map is divided into nine regions, plus fifteen subsidiary maps. Although it needs to be reloaded when traveling between many regions map, but the area where players can move is still very large..."

While speaking, Lu Yongcheng clicked the option "I've thought it through, please take me away" in the dialog box with the mouse, a white light flashed, and the knight with a knife appeared on a new map, and nearby was a man named Yue The gate of the city.Lu Yongcheng continued to explain while controlling the knights with swords to wander around the city: "Boss, under the current network environment, the number of users that a server group can carry is about 2000 to 3000, and the capacity of our map is based on It is designed on a scale of 20000 people. Before the server and network environment can carry more people, the current map is enough for players to have enough places to experience. We have also made reasonable plans for the distribution of monsters on the map. In general There will be no crowding of players, and I believe that the probability of that kind of meaningless PK phenomenon will be relatively low..."

The relationship between map planning and PK phenomenon mentioned by Lu Yongcheng was mentioned by Zhang Lexing when he first popularized MMORPG knowledge, but they still remembered it quite clearly.Zhang Lexing remembers that the Korean "Legend" was originally popular because of its refreshing PK, but after a long time, many people felt bored because of the monotonous content and simple map. It is normal to think about it. Although PK is very cool, but if You PK the same person in the same place every day, once or twice is still fun, and it’s okay for a month or two, and it’s been like this for a few years. It’s probably not boring to leave, but it’s possible to stay numb.

Zhang Lexing asked Lu Yongcheng and others to develop "Legend", in order to increase the appeal of the game and enrich the gameplay, and did not give up the PK in the game.In addition to setting up safe areas in cities and villages, it also provides many places for PK, including arenas for competitions, large-scale battles in the form of city offensive and defensive battles, and unlimited PK areas in some wild places.Of course, that kind of unprovoked PK will be punished, and it will not be dealt with as lightly as a red name. Once the situation is serious, an official arrest warrant will even be issued, and a hunting team will appear.

Zhang Lexing thought of another key question, so he turned to Zhou Haoxuan who was in charge of the operation and asked, "Is your customer service team ready?"

Zhou Haoxuan smiled confidently and said: "Boss, please rest assured, after these years of operation of "Network Genesis", we have cultivated a professional customer service team. In order to do a good job in this Beta test, we have also specially prepared The 50-person customer service team will definitely be able to do a good job in serving the players. After the official operation, we will increase the size of the customer service staff to handle all kinds of problems that players encounter in the game.”

For the customer service personnel of online games, Zhang Lexing still has some confidence. At least compared to other domestic companies, when it is not clear whether the game customer service should be GM or G, they have been able to correctly position the game customer service. For a period of time, GM was a synonym for game customer service, but it was actually a beautiful misunderstanding.In the era of Mud, in addition to the gods who set up the mud server, there are also a group of guys called wizards. Their job is to help the gods manage the Mud game. They can formulate the rules of the game (of course they cannot jump out of the rules of the gods framework), can modify the game area, create NPCs, manage and maintain some codes of the game, and modify the bugs in the game (sometimes the bugs are often made by them), they are directly facing the game players, known as It's the GM (Game Manager).

The game customer service is different from the Mud wizards. Although many people will misunderstand them as GMs, in fact their authority is very low. Apart from being able to hang out in the game wearing a suit of cool equipment given by others, they may be able to teleport, Spells such as invisibility, more often the game customer service is just a listener and conveyer of opinions.They can't see the source code of the game, can't modify the game, can't create NPC, can't conjure equipment out of nothing, and things like card numbers and bugs are beyond their cognition.

In fact, in essence, game customer service is the most basic level of the service system. Basically, it can only complete the collection of opinions, and most of the processing work must be handed over to other departments.But this does not mean that game customer service is a dispensable department. Because they directly face players, they can often have a great influence on players, and even affect the perception of game companies.A game company that claims to be quite successful is said to be equipped with the largest customer service team in the industry, with more than [-] people. However, it is such a company that many players only hate. Yes, even when private servers appeared, some players gave up the regular official servers and ran to play wild games.

Although the game customer service may be only one of the reasons, it can also be seen that the attitude of the game customer service towards the players will have a great impact on the online games in operation and the operating company.Therefore, from a long time ago, Zhang Lexing has started to arrange game customer service training, let them participate in the domestic operation of "Online Genesis", provide them with opportunities to study and train overseas, and position them as player service providers from the very beginning In addition, they pay great attention to character quality and psychological quality when selecting personnel, and attach great importance to the cultivation of professional quality and work ability during the training period.In order to prevent the game customer service staff from being overly stressed, professional psychological counseling, a vent room, and the best salary level and development space in the industry were arranged for them.

Zhang Lexing remembered that a successful person in the service industry said, "To satisfy customers, you must first satisfy your employees and have no worries." He thinks this statement is very reasonable.Stand-alone game players enjoy the game itself more, but in the era of online games, the quality of the game itself is important, but the service is more important.If the player has worked hard to upgrade the level and put on good equipment, but their account is hacked, if the player has finally created a piece of top-quality equipment, but encounters a reversion when they go offline and come back up again, their The mood can be imagined, but after reporting the problem to the game customer service, all they get is procrastination and kicking the ball. No matter how good the temper is, I am afraid that people will be angry.In this case, even if your game operation is as successful as the imported version of "Legend" from Korea, even if the quality surpasses "World of Warcraft", there may not be many players who are willing to stay and continue to be angry.

According to Zhang Lexing's idea, after the Beta test, "Legend" should take the road of perfect service. On the premise of ensuring the quality of the game (in fact, in this era when the network environment is very general, limited by the network speed, it often needs to be displayed on the game screen. fineness and game delay), and through the most considerate service, players can get the best game experience, including in-game and out-of-game.

(End of this chapter)