Chapter 13: Jiali has to watch online games!
The popularity of an independent game often comes and goes quickly without external interference.
The so-called external force is naturally promotion and marketing and other off-site means.
The same is true for [Hanchuang Kudu Simulator]. Although it became popular for a while due to various reasons, this kind of popularity is rootless water and cannot last long.
Even if Chen Ba went out to find two big anchors to help with live broadcast promotion in order to continue the popularity, this method could not change the general trend of the game's daily decline in popularity.
Another week passed, and as we entered mid-July, game sales could no longer rise.
The average daily sales growth of several thousand has become a thing of the past. With the sharp decline in popularity, it is now difficult to maintain even three-digit average daily downloads.
The popularity has declined, resulting in a sharp drop in game downloads...
The sudden drop in game downloads caused a chain reaction of Chen Ba's income plummeting, and his previous daily income gradually became dispensable.
This is what a stand-alone game looks like!
Although his income has gone through a round of ups and downs, Chen Ba's mood is still very stable, at least he has no regrets or thoughts.
He had anticipated this situation since he chose to make stand-alone games.
Single-player buyout games are all one-time purchases, right?
Even for those 3A masterpieces, the popularity and sales volume will plummet when the game is first released and the number of returning players becomes saturated.
"It's no wonder that online games are so popular. This kind of one-time deal is far inferior to the sustainability of online games."
Chen Ba sighed.
Manufacturers that make stand-alone games only make money when the game is first released. They can earn as much as they can. Unless they engage in low-price promotions, it will be difficult for their revenue to improve significantly.
On the other hand, when it comes to online games, the operation planner can just think of an event, get some game values, skins and props to sell, or create a new card pool for players to draw, and the money will flow into their pockets, which is a huge profit.
The key is that core players who like to play online games are just like leeks.
Have you been cut off this month?
fine! My salary will be paid next month, so I can start cutting again.
What excellent leeks!
Unlike single-player players, when buying a game, you have to go to the website to check the "record-low" price. If you don't give the record-low price, you are not sincere. If you don't have sincerity, we won't buy it.
After buying it, you have to check whether it is fun or not. If it is not fun, poorly optimized, or has bugs, you can directly leave a negative review. You will be left with all kinds of insults and curses that will make you unable to hold your head up.
Finally, a refund is issued so that the manufacturer does not get a dime.
The more he thought about it, the more he realized that the saying "It's hard to make money and hard to eat" was the ultimate truth. Chen Ba secretly made a decision that when one day he was too poor to eat, he would also start playing online games.
With his technical strength, coupled with his keen market sense, and... a system that is not worth mentioning, it should not be a problem to be popular and popular, not to mention making a lot of money.
Speaking of the system, Chen Ba suddenly became very angry.
Although he did not intend to fix the "cow herding" bug that appeared in [Hanchuang Kudu Simulator], he did investigate the specific cause of the bug.
The result left him speechless.
This bug actually comes from the "core code" provided by the system. The key is that he cannot move this code. If it is moved, the entire game framework will collapse and be unable to respond to user instructions.
"It's not that I'm lazy and don't want to fix the bug, it's that I can't fix it even if I'm asked..." Chen Ba thought, dumbfounded.
To this day, he still doesn’t know where the [most hard-core game producer system] came from, let alone parsing the code it provides.
Isn't that stuff really a holy book?
Chen Ba once suspected that the core game code provided by the system should be some kind of extremely special programming language that human programmers would never understand.
It was strange that he could understand that string of things that were like ghost drawings.
He also checked the information on the Internet and was very sure that this was not a text that existed in human beings or had ever appeared in history.
Isn't it an alien story?
It was normal for Chen Ba not to be able to understand a computer program derived from mysterious words, but what he couldn't understand was that such a science fiction thing could actually have bugs?
"I can't understand it, but I'm shocked.jpg"
Sure enough, even in distant alien worlds or higher-dimensional worlds, programmers are still producing bugs and writing mountains of shit code that others can't understand!
After lamenting the waste system, Chen Ba thought of another question.
Since bugs are caused by the system, will the new game developed this time also have some vicious bugs?
"No, absolutely impossible!"
Chen Ba felt that the reason why the bug was not discovered last time was mainly because he trusted the system too much.
As the saying goes, one learns from every experience. This time, he will conduct multiple rounds of high-intensity testing before the game is officially released. He does not believe that there is such an outrageous bug!
"Actually it's not bad..."
Seeing that his boss had a grudge against bugs in the game, Xiao Lu said with a smile: "Isn't it common for games to have bugs? A certain major manufacturer even buys bugs and gives away games!"
"Hanchuang Kushu Simulator has been released for so long, and apart from the conflict bug in the cattle herding incident, there have been no other bugs. This performance is already very good."
"really!"
As the total game time exceeds 50 hours, and he is one of the first batch of veteran players to buy it, Yang Dong has a strong say in this.
"Although the cowherding bug is very abstract and ridiculous, apart from that bug, I haven't encountered a second bug yet, and there are no new bugs reported by players on the forum..."
This is already amazing!
You know, for a game of this size, it is impossible not to have bugs. The only difference lies in the number and severity of bugs.
[Hanchuang Kudu Simulator] is an independent game, and it was completed by Chen Ba alone. As of now, only a bug has been discovered, which is already a very bad sign.
If you look at other games, there are dozens or twenty small bugs popping up at every turn, a repair patch is released every three days, and several major bugs are fixed regularly every week...
In comparison, Hanchuang Kudu Simulator is almost too perfect to be an independent game.
"If I hadn't eaten, slept, and lived under the same roof with you, I would have doubted whether you were an alien!"
Yang Dong joked: "It's such a perfect game, can it really be made by one person?"
"As long as you have enough time..."
Chen Ba did not tell them how long it took him to develop [Han Chuang Kudu Simulator]. On the one hand, it was not necessary, and on the other hand, he was worried about scaring them.
Three and a half months, a hundred days!
To create an independent game with such a high degree of completion in such a short period of time, no one would dare to believe it.
Just don't say it anymore.
When people asked him later, he would say that it took him two and a half years, so that it wouldn't sound so incredible.