Game Making: The Latest Chapter Begins With Healing the Player

The promotion of "World of Warcraft" is still going on.

Various information is slowly released bit by bit.

Including the official website, there are gradually more and more sub-categories about "World of Warcraft".

Although Nebula Games has not publicly admitted anything.

But players all have a feeling.

That was the day when "World of Warcraft" was officially launched online, and it was not far away from them.

In the Nebula game.

Today, Chen Xu, Qin Yi and others are also finishing some details of "World of Warcraft".

As a large-scale MMORPG, it is impossible to test everything.

There will definitely be some omissions, that's for sure.

But Chen Xu is not worried about this, because the entire early game operation is done in three shifts.

Someone will be watching 24 hours a day, and some simple bugs will accumulate and be fixed through online hot patches.

Only problems with a relatively large impact require downtime for updates.

In addition, there are upgrade planning routes brought about by the system's hidden guidance after the relevant race is born.

These are crucial for MMORPG.

As for the balance of the dungeon and the various professions, there is no perfect balance for Chen Xu, so he can only try his best to adjust it.

And balance is not just a problem for designers, but also a problem for players.

For example, a profession is designed, including its gameplay and routines, which are all 55 compared to other professions.

But players obviously don't know, and it requires a long period of development.

But this development cycle is obviously not the decision of the designer, and it is impossible for the designer to teach players how to play every update, although Blizzard often did this kind of thing in the previous life.

So sometimes some characters seem to be too strong, but the players at the time don't understand, but each value must be strengthened, otherwise they will become a sewer, and players will complain that they are not strong enough.

This is caused by players slowly accumulating understanding of the game.

Therefore, the values ​​of the game can only be balanced bit by bit based on the actual progress of the players. Moreover, as long as the game is still operating, there will be no so-called perfect balance.

"Mr. Chen, by the time players can play these contents, it will probably take a long time!" Qin Yi was chatting with Chen Xu in the project testing room.

Countless players online are excitedly waiting for Nebula Games to announce the launch date of "World of Warcraft".

In major community forums, these players have already dreamed of leading the Alliance and Horde to overthrow the Lich King and unleash Frostmourne.

However, Qin Yi, as a development member, clearly knows that he is currently promoting CG.

Although the animated CG of the Lich King Arthas' awakening has been released, the story of the Lich King is still many versions later.

"World of Warcraft is a long-term project for us in the future. As the big BOSS in the Frozen Throne, the Lich King certainly cannot be seen by players so early." Chen Xu said with a smile.

"But Mr. Chen, classic characters such as Alsace and Illidan have all become dungeon bosses. Can this player psychologically accept it?" Qin Yi asked Chen Xu.

Such worries are not unreasonable, because these are the protagonists that players once considered.

Although "Warcraft" has never had a fixed protagonist, and these characters have done a lot of bad things, it does not prevent players from taking on the role themselves.

"So these characters are all their own version of the big boss, and they all drop good things."

"Egg Knife, Invincible, even if players like these characters, they will play them thousands of times with tears in their eyes." Chen Xu smiled slightly.

Is this a problem if my favorite character is included in the book?

Egg Knife is the same as Wudi, isn’t it delicious?

………………

In the nebula world.

Song Ren, Zhang Yi, Wang Han, Wang Yifan and Qiao Yi were wandering around in Stormwind City

During this period of time, they were simply looking through the eyes. They would check Chen Xu's official blog almost every once in a while to see if there was any new content.

"Mr. Chen, what an old pastry master!" Song Ren couldn't help but sigh.

"This is not the first day, but this time it has been a little longer!" Zhang Yi nodded in agreement.

"I don't know when it will be officially launched!" Wang Han was also full of resentment. .

'It should be soon. The official website of "World of Warcraft" has not updated information in recent days. ’

‘Indeed, so I feel like it should be online soon. ’

Wang Yifan and Qiao Yi, who were next to them, also spoke.

Not just them, but many players as well.

From the excitement at the beginning, to the resentment of seeing only the CG output and not the game content.

The official blog of Nebula Games is filled with countless players full of resentment.

Players have watched the "World of Warcraft" promotional video released by Nebula Games so many times.

"By the way, it seems that when the game comes, you can choose between the Horde and the Alliance. They are both hostile camps. Which one should we choose?" Song Ren asked.

Although the game has not yet been released, some relevant information has actually been announced on the official website of Nebula Games.

For example, the choice of camp.

"It must be the alliance! Kill the orcs!" Zhang Yi said decisively.

"That's what I said." Wang Han spread his hands, indicating that he was following the crowd.

"Whatever." Wang Yifan and Qiao Yi also said they didn't care.

"Then just listen to Lao Zhang. Let's start the alliance when the time comes." Seeing his companions, they didn't have any objections, and Song Ren also agreed.

"Hurry up, hurry up and read the official blog. Mr. Chen has finally laid an egg. The opening time of "World of Warcraft" has been announced, and it can be pre-loaded in advance." At this time, Zhang Yi discovered something and spoke quickly.

"Let me see!"

"what's going on?"

After hearing this, everyone quickly opened the built-in browser and saw that the latest launch time had been announced on the official website.

Two weeks later, at 12 noon on Saturday, the global server will be launched simultaneously.

No points are required for the first ten hours of the game, and points will be calculated after ten hours.

At the same time, the time this time is not based on region, but in the same time zone.

Therefore, there is no area with a later time difference, and actual time-space magic enters the game early.

"Oh my God! It's so big! I have to uninstall several games from this hard drive." Zhang Yi looked at the capacity of "World of Warcraft" and couldn't help but let out a surprised sound.

Because the capacity is so large, it is larger than any previous Nebula game, or even twice as large.

"Yes...yes...too...too..." Following Zhang Yi's words, Song Ren next to him also nodded in reply.

But the voice of the speaker was stuck, including the head that was lowered and then raised back suddenly.

Zhang Yi and Wang Han looked at each other in confusion.

Song Ren in the game froze on the spot and repeated the weird nodding action.

Then after two or three seconds, his body turned into an afterimage and disappeared, and at the same time, a notification came from the Nebula World that he had been disconnected.

"Fuck! Old Song B is already downloading!" Zhang Yi understood instantly when he saw the notification that Song Ren was offline.

This is because all the network speed is used to download game resources, and then it gets stuck and disconnected!