MTL - Underworld Game Producer-Chapter 120 Escape Three: From Pleasure Paradise to Hell on Earth

Shenming game sold 300,000 copies on the first day.

The game received mixed reviews.

After all, the beautiful girl is used as a gimmick. When the player enters to play, they find that the beautiful girl has no role in it. The proportion is too low, and there is no sense of existence.

Coupled with the serious lack of intelligence of friendly npcs, they are still at the old platform level.

If every game in the Shenshen game is not really good, the game content is very rich, and the gameplay is also very novel, otherwise this game may not even surpass the sales of Death Soul.

The first-day sales of 300,000, coupled with the behavior of deceiving players to buy, the overall sales volume of the game is estimated to be not very good.

Compared with another zero of the same type in Happy Paradise, which sold more than 3 million on the first day, the difference between cloud and mud can be said to be a disastrous failure.

Fang Hong's mood is very complicated. He obviously put a lot of effort into the game, but he didn't expect that the sales volume didn't even reach the passing mark.

As I said before, because there are so many games in this world and players have a lot of choices, it is unlikely that a game will be a hit for a long time.

The sales volume of a game on the first day can determine whether the game will win or lose.

There are very few games that can turn the tide by relying on the quality of the game when the sales volume on the first day is low.

Examples are few.

The vast majority of games are basically based on first-day sales.

The first-day sales of 300,000 copies, according to the sales forecast under normal conditions, there must be no problem with the final 2 million copies. Although it will not be a huge profit, it can at least make money.

However, the situation in Shenshen games is different. Players who bought it for the beautiful **** the first day called it a scam.

Even if there is a big anchor like Ye Zi to warm up the live broadcast in advance, the sales will definitely not be good, and it is estimated that the sales of 500,000 copies will be the best.

500,000 copies.

After removing game production costs, labor costs, company operating costs, and all other costs.

Not only did the cost not earn back, but it even lost money.

The net profit calculation of other game companies is not the same as that of Happy Paradise.

Happy Paradise only counts the cost of the game, other staff costs, neural adjustment equipment, and engines that have already been purchased, etc. will not be counted in the cost.

Of course, if the engine is purchased during the game development process, it will be counted in the cost.

For example, the budget of this game is 50 million, and the production cost is also 50 million, so the final calculated cost is also 50 million.

A profit of more than 50 million yuan is considered pure profit.

Other companies will basically include the use and maintenance costs of neural adjustment equipment, labor costs, etc. in the game cost.

A game with a budget of 30 million may cost hundreds of millions or even more.

This is how the cost of Dawn Light is calculated.

The 500,000 copies of the game, after deducting platform fees and taxes, made a huge loss.

The only good thing is that the players didn't look forward to this game too much. With Ye Zi's live broadcast warming up in advance, the game still has some popularity.

Belonging is the kind of thing, but not much.

As Li Wen said, the game of gods has not found the right direction from the beginning.

In order to cater to the market, beautiful girls are forced into the game, which makes the game full of fraud.

Most of the players are almost here for the five beautiful girls with different personalities.

However, the roles of the five beautiful girls are pitifully small, and they have no sense of existence at all. How can players buy it in this way.

Gamers buy games for fun, not for charity.

"If there is a chance, let's make an appointment with Fang Hong again."

Li Wen has quite a lot of staff in the company now, but there are very few producers who can carry the banner to independently produce games.

Although many manufacturers are now beginning to develop into a model where European and American games do not require producers.

However, he feels that the soul of a game is given by the game producer.

Those assembly-line games made without producers lack soul.

It was like the most notorious potato assembly line factory in Li Wen's world.

Assassin's Creed, The Division, Far Cry and all other games have become assembly line works.

For a game with a producer, the game style will change with the characteristics of the producer.

The most famous producers are Miyazaki, Shinji Mikami, Kojima and so on.

The games they produced all have their own characteristics and are very easy to identify.

As long as you can match the soul of the producer, the game will become more fun than you can imagine.

A week passed.

The production of Resident Evil 2 is also in the late stage, and it will take at most two weeks to meet with the players.

Escape 3 has also officially confirmed the launch time.

After the Escape production team completed Escape 3, they immediately began to prepare for the production of Resident Evil Battle Royale.

On the other hand, the battle royale production team has already started making the battle royale game after the team was formed, and half of it has been completed in four days.

The main reason is that the battle royale game itself is very simple, and there are no difficulties, making it very easy and efficient.

The biggest work is still building the map.

Compared with the original version, this battle royale has richer map details and more interactions, and the playability is naturally improved.

Give the battle royale a week at most, and the game will be officially completed, and the current budget of the game is only 50 million.

A budget of 100 million is simply not enough to spend.

The sales of new games are more dramatic.

Zero broke through 10 million sales in a week, which is a normal performance and is still selling.

The members of Zero's production team also received a very high bonus, each of whom received a full three million bonus.

Although the game only sells for 249 yuan, it's not considered the biggest hit of the game. The biggest hit of the game is on the clothing dlc, which is really hot.

Seventy percent of the players who bought zero will continue to buy clothing dlc, and even one percent of players will pack all the clothing dlc home.

With a bonus of 3 million, the zero production team became the most watched production team in the company.

Although it is named on the New Moon Company, the zero production team also belongs to Happy Paradise.

In the entire Happy Paradise, every member of the zero production team has smiles on their faces, can you not be happy?

Three million!

This is not the three million that Tiandi Bank used to burn.

It's three million real money that can be consumed all over the world.

Many employees have never seen so much money in their lives, how could they be unhappy.

Because of this game, Happy Paradise has a working capital of 5.3 billion.

If Li Wen quits now, he will be able to rely on these more than 5 billion yuan to eat and drink hot food for the rest of his life.

He owns 100% of the shares of Happy Paradise and Crescent Games.

Logically speaking, he can take away all the dividends from these pure profits.

But he didn't.

He, like other employees, just gets a bonus.

But, after all, he is the boss, and he participates in every game, so he can get dividends for every game.

Is the richest person in the company.

After all, Chen Xin only belonged to the head office of Happy Paradise, and she couldn't participate in Xinyue Games.

Therefore, this time, the reward of zero missed her.

However, Xiaotian also received enough publicity expenses, and every beneficiary who participated in the zero game took off happily.

As for another game, Dead Souls.

As expected, Li Wen did not expect it.

Players in this world can't accept this kind of game with backward mechanics, and the sales are extremely dismal.

In the end, even 300,000 copies were not sold.

After the platform sharing and taxes are removed, it still loses money.

No way, this is Li Wen's first failed game.

It's not that the game Dead Souls isn't fun or scary, it's just that the game mechanics are really outdated.

In addition, the game is still very scary, which makes it impossible for many players to enjoy the little details in the game.

Only a small number of players praised Death Soul song.

No way, it has completely become a niche game.

In Li Wen's previous world, when the song of the dead soul was born, the excessive force was very terrifying, coupled with the high difficulty, it dissuaded countless players.

The TV commercial of Death Soul was once ordered to be taken off the shelves because it was too scary. The decayed rural scenes in the game are matched with dark tones.

And an ominous folklore soundtrack.

It's a **** of a game.

Horror games themselves are niche games, and stealth games are also niche games.

Dead Souls is even more exaggerated, and horror games plus stealth games belong to the niche among the niche.

I thought it might be because of a different world, maybe players can accept such a game, and a miracle will happen.

The bet failed.

And the other zero is also a niche game, because of the next generation of games, and the focus of the game is on beautiful girls.

Zero is already a completely different game from the original.

Neither can be regarded as a serious underworld game.

But the sales of this game are really good, and it also made a lot of money for Li Wen.

Let him already have enough funds to develop Demon's Soul.

If nothing else, after training the new producer of Resident Evil, he will start recruiting people to develop Demon's Souls.

Demon's Soul, as the old thief's first release, actually has many unreasonable things.

Li Wen will definitely not serve the original Devil's Soul to the players.

Instead, the shortcomings will be corrected, and the advantages will be strengthened, and then the game will be brought up to the players.

And it will also perfect the giant waste that was cut off, so that the ruined keystone can be seen again.

Because of the second world platform, the game will also be adjusted and changed in terms of gameplay.

This is a huge project. Li Wen estimates that it will take at least a year to make the Demon Soul in his mind.

The Soul series game is also made into a New Year's game.

At that time, there will be Battle Royale and Resident Evil Battle Royale, the support of the two Battle Royale games.

The company does not have to worry about funding issues at all.

Judging from the players who buy zero games, the market for fee-based items is actually not small at all.

Because of the large player base of free games, the number of krypton gold players will also increase a lot, so there is no need to worry about no one paying for the game.

...

Outlast 3 will be officially launched in three days.

As the game preheating publicity envoy, Xiaotian, started the live broadcast with a red face today.

She was very excited. In the past few days, she had a lot of fun playing the song of the dead soul. She played and played for many weeks without getting tired, and finally connected the whole plot of the song of the dead soul together.

Although the game is very scary and it is difficult to decrypt the game, she likes this kind of game very much.

The audience loves to watch, and she loves to play, win-win.

It's just that the sales volume of the game Death Soul is dead, there is a high probability that there will not be a second generation, and she still regrets it in her heart.

But she also knew that if a game couldn't make money, even Li Wen wouldn't continue to make sequels.

After all, the purpose of making games is to make money, and it is impossible to continue making games at a loss.

The day before yesterday, she was also very happy to receive news of the release of Survival 3. Although Dead Souls is gone, there are other horror games, such as the Escape series.

And the plot of Escape 3 took place in a certain barren mountain in China.

Domestic players will have a strong sense of substitution when playing.

She is looking forward to a different horror experience that Escape 3 will bring her.

And the audience is also looking forward to the game quality of Escape 3.

‘Did Escape 3 happen in China? I have seen the trailer, there are no foreigners in it, and the architectural style is similar to the rural style of the 1970s and 1980s. '

'I'm still looking forward to it, but I don't know how scary Escape 3 is. It is said that it happened in a barren mountain village in China. It's a bit scary to think about it. '

'Hurry up, sweetie, what are you talking about, we want to watch the game! We want to see escape 3!

! '

Most of the bullet screens from the audience are urging Xiaotian to start the game.

But she calmly introduced the game mechanism, "Escape 3 will be completely different from the first two escape series, although it is under the same world view."

"After all, the previous two escapes were based on the old platform. Even after the remake, only some game content has been changed."

"Escape 3 is a next-generation game developed based on the second world, so in terms of gameplay and plot, it may be quite different from the previous two games."

"The game is about a small crew filming a documentary, because I heard that strange things happened in a deserted village far away in the mountains."

"Driven by curiosity and interests, the crew embarked on the road to the barren mountain village to shoot a documentary."

"The game is an open world, players can freely explore the entire Barren Mountain Village, and the condition for clearing the game is to escape from the Barren Mountain Village."

"The barren mountain village is divided into two worlds, daytime and nighttime."

"I don't know the specific difference between the two worlds. I can only find out after playing."

While explaining the background she knew about Escape 3, she put on the second world calmly.

If it weren't for the fact that there were too many barrages from the audience, otherwise she would have continued to introduce for another half an hour...

enter the game.

It is still the familiar Happy Paradise logo.

Enter the game interface.

The interface is a conceptual map of the barren mountain village in the dark night. If you look closely, you can see the shadows of many model lakes in the dark night.

After taking a look at the concept map, Xiao Tian chose to enter the game.

The game is still divided into simple mode and normal mode.

Although she has already cleared the normal mode of Death Soul, but because Escape 3 is a new game, she still chose the easy mode.

She is no longer the fool who had no brains and was just in normal mode.

If you want to clear the normal mode, you must at least be familiar with the entire game first.

Moreover, Escape 3 is still a next-generation game based on the second world. It has a completely different play style. Isn't it fun to choose the normal mode?

Escape 3 has pinch option.

Xiaotian didn't think too much, and directly applied her own data, which was also her gender.

After all, this is not a beautiful girl game...

enter the game.

A line of subtitles appears on a black screen.

"You are the videographer accompanying the documentary filming. After untold hardships, you finally obtained the exact location of the barren mountain village. You don't know that the barren mountain village has become a purgatory on earth..."

'You are not a fighter, if you want to survive, you have to escape...',

After the subtitles disappear, officially enter the game.

"Is this the Barren Mountain Village?"

A familiar male voice sounded, and Xiaotian also recovered her vision at this time, and saw the game world clearly.

She was at the entrance of the village, looking at the dilapidated but still inhabited Barren Mountain Village.

It was Li Wen, the director of the documentary who spoke just now.

This is an npc made completely according to Li Wen's information, and Zhang Chunsheng was originally in charge.

But later, after a unanimous decision by the escape team, Li Wen's information was finally used.

Of course, Li Wen also knew, and agreed with them without saying anything.

The crew was poor and there was not enough funds, so there were only five entourages.

The other three npcs also used the information of Happy Paradise employees.

In doing so, one is for fun, and the other is for convenience and saving money. After all, you have to pay for hiring people.

Originally, Escape 3 only had a budget of 50 million.

But during the production process, Zhang Chunsheng let himself go more and more, and made the budget to 200 million.

Besides Happy Paradise~www.novelbuddy.com~ which game production team can let themselves go so freely?

Make a game with a budget of 50 million to 200 million...

no.

Fortunately, it is a happy paradise.

Although Li Wen was very surprised where the funds were spent, he still agreed with Zhang Chunsheng's increased budget.

Xiao Tian always felt weird looking at Li Wen's face.

The other three npcs are also her old acquaintances.

Li Xin, although she has not cured her social phobia for so long, is a taciturn girl.

But the two communicated through mobile phones and gradually became good friends.

Becoming an NPC is also Li Xin's own request, the reason is very simple, she wants to see what a self without social phobia is like.

Xiao Huang, as a veteran employee of the escape production team, is not a strange thing to become an npc.

This is also what he strongly requested to become an npc, and Zhang Chunsheng didn't agree at all at first.

However, Xiao Huang's attack power is really too strong. In the end, Zhang Chunsheng was completely defeated and made his npc.

It's just that the chatterbox attribute has been cut off, isn't that nonsense?

If this guy keeps nagging, nagging, and nagging in the game, the player will collapse?

Zhang Chunsheng, that's right! The last npc is exactly himself, and this was made under the strong request of all members of the escape production team.

He was speechless, but he followed most people's advice.

This is the friendly NPC of Escape 3.

As for the villagers of Huangshan Village, yes! All of them were played by the staff of the escape production team, and even Chen Xin, who played soy sauce, was also assigned a role.

Instead of calling this game Escape 3, it is better to call this game a purgatory on earth created by Happy Paradise!