Chapter 80 Companion DLC

Chapter 80 Companion DLC

Xiao Lu's idea is very bold.

Although this kind of scumbag behavior of forgetting the old love after having a new love is not worth advocating, Chen Ba did not deny it.

to be honest.

Once the game mechanics are designed, it is up to the players how they play. Even if it is inconsistent with the original design intention, it should not be dismissed easily.

Trying to teach players how to play a game?

But pull it down! Any game designer who has this idea is basically scolded by players.

For example, a League of Legends designer!

Whether the hero is a scumbag or a good person, these are the choices made by the players. As a game developer, Chen Ba will not express his opinion.

He only cares about the game itself.

This time, "God's Grace Continent" was not produced using the DreamBuilding 5 engine, and it was mainly not used.

Regarding this news, many players who have played "Star Emperor" have expressed disappointment. They thought that Tianba Studio would develop a new game with exquisite graphics and gorgeous special effects.

Little did you know that the main focus of the new game is not the graphics...

"Want to eat shit?"

Facing a crowd of disappointed "Star Emperor" players, Chen Ba was speechless and said: "The game graphics of Star Emperor will not be outdated for at least five years, so why should there be a sequel?"

The iteration of digital hardware is quite fast, but no matter how fast it is, it can't beat Lao Huang's knife skills and toothpaste squeezing.

If nothing unexpected happens.

The game "Star Emperor" will not be able to lift the risk warning of "the road to immortality" for at least the next three years. The hardware of most players is still unable to support high-intensity extreme sublimation.

In this case, there is no need for Tianba Studio to make a second-generation sequel and develop a game with more exquisite graphics and more gorgeous special effects.

After all, at this time, most players were still using graphics cards like 1060.

One version of Star King is too much for everyone. If there is another version of Star King ProPlus, how many players will meet the recommended configuration?

This is also the reason why Chen Ba resolutely developed 2D turn-based games such as "God's Grace Continent" after the release of "Star Emperor", regardless of the game graphics.

He wants sales!

Without strong game sales, a team like Tianba Studio may one day have its capital chain broken and suddenly announce its disbandment.

This is the frustration of a small team.

Why does everyone want to go to a big factory?

In addition to high wages and good benefits, the most important thing for a large factory is its strong ability to withstand risks and stable work. As long as you don't make any big mistakes, you won't suddenly lose your job.

There are also a lot of people in Tianba Studio, including the customer service and packaging and shipping specialists of "Xianyu Digital" next door, a total of sixteen people.

The monthly salary and bonus alone are two to three hundred thousand, not counting rent, water, electricity, office supplies, Internet and other miscellaneous expenses. If you count them all, at least 400,000 is enough.

This amount of money could buy a house with three bedrooms and one living room in Chen Ba's hometown in the small county.

"Spending money is like running water!"

After sighing, Chen Ba suddenly remembered the previously released Decoration DLC of "The Home Simulator", so he asked: "How many copies of the DLC have been sold?"

"Nearly 100,000 copies!"

Yang Dong, who was pondering the game values ​​​​in front of the computer, raised his head when he heard this and said: "It is selling very well. On average, one in seven players bought the DLC. This ratio is very good."

Not bad indeed!

Upon hearing this, Chen Ba couldn't help but nodded.

The DLC sales data of 7:1 is not low when looking at the entire game industry. You know, many games sell tens of millions of copies, while DLC only sells hundreds of thousands.

Of course, not the best.

The best DLC sales data is said to be infinitely close to 1:1, which means that the vast majority of players who buy the main game basically buy a copy of the DLC.

This is outrageous!

Not to mention 1:1, even if it is 2:1 or 3:1, that would be amazing. If the main body can sell 1 million units and have a few more DLCs, the money earned will be no less than the main body.

I heard that someone said...

For games like "European Truck Simulator", the cumulative sales of DLC can even be several times higher than the base game. After all, it’s really not that enjoyable to just play the base game without buying the DLC.

The sales volume of decoration DLC is close to 100,000 copies, and the sales data is 7:1, which makes Chen Ba a little moved.

Old games will not be considered for now.

As a new game from Tianba Studio, can "God's Grace Continent" be made into a "companion DLC" and released together with the official version?

"sure!"

Yang Dong agreed: "Many games will launch one or two companion DLCs when they are released. We can also make one."

"But, what content should the accompanying DLC ​​contain?"

The accompanying DLC ​​is nothing to be surprised about.

After a popular game is released, one or two companion DLCs are basically released. For example, when the famous "Forza Horizon 5" was released, there was accompanying DLC ​​containing special vehicles.

Brother Ba wants to make a companion DLC for "God's Grace Continent". This is a very normal idea.

But what content should be included in this companion DLC stumped the two of them.

After all, it is a companion DLC, and the content must be unique and attractive. It cannot be like ordinary DLC, where you just add a few skins and make do.

"Let's just make a batch of new NPCs!"

Chen Ba thought for a while and realized that elves, dwarves and orcs alone might not satisfy the appetite of the brave, so he might as well add a few special NPCs like dragons, slimes, undead, and goblins into the companion DLC.

This will enrich the harem of the brave, and also have a certain degree of attraction, inducing players to buy the DLC.

"you sure?"

Yang Dong's mouth twitched and said: "Forget about the giant dragon, the undead, slimes and goblins look so strange, who would buy them and raise them as wives?"

"You are right. There are indeed very few players with this special hobby. Most players should prefer human characters."

Chen Ba did not deny this, but he added: "But there is a saying that is good, as long as the strength is high enough, no matter how ugly you are, you can be a wife."

The undead and slimes are a bit ugly, but they have a kind of "numerical beauty"!

What's more, there are not as few players who like to hunt for novelties as Yang Dong thought.

Who can say no to a skeleton soldier wife? Who could resist having a slime and goblin as a pet?

OK OK!

Even if none of these are of interest, what about the dragon? No one would object to raising a handsome and powerful dragon, right?

"That's okay..."

Brother Ba has said so, and Yang Dong has no reason to object.

And when he thought about it carefully, he found that what Chen Ba said made sense. There are still many players interested in this special NPC.

Mainly because of curiosity!

Most of the NPCs in the main game are humans. Even special races such as orcs, elves and dwarves look similar to humans.

I'm tired of seeing normal humans, so raising a few weird NPCs is quite nice to be honest...

The intensity value comes second.

The main thing is a sense of freshness. If you can’t keep it as a wife, then keep it as a pet!