Chapter 102 Game MOD

Chapter 102 Game MOD

DaRenShuo has no moral integrity and secretly sponsored a Tongtian generation-level player, while other graphics card manufacturers sponsored account owners.

Ba Renshuo was so happy to win this championship!

As soon as the competition ended, BaRenShuo released the good news on its official website, public account and short video platform, "We are the champions! BaRenShuo 4090 Raptor Sacrifice Battle won the championship."

Other manufacturers were furious.

Okay, okay, this is how you play, right?

If you are unkind, don’t blame me for being unjust! Barenshuo can sponsor technical masters, so why can’t they?

Isn’t it just money?

In the first Sacrifice Battle, everyone was not well prepared, and the bitch named Ba Renshuo missed out on the championship. This was undoubtedly a loss of face for many manufacturers.

Face is more important than money.

Moreover, the "Battle of Sacrifice" is not only a battle over the fate of graphics cards, but also involves the brand's image and reputation in the eyes of players.

When it comes to high-end graphics cards in the future, when the price difference is not big, players will definitely give priority to Renshuo. After all, this is the champion brand that emerged from the battle of "Star Emperor"!

Beat Renshuo: What kind of champion are you?

You say you are the world's number one 4090/7900, but why don't you win the championship? Being number one in the world without a championship, wouldn't that be a shock wave?

"Video card manufacturers such as Shrinking Star, Qimenhong, Duodetai and Sapphire have already set up special e-sports divisions to search for and sign suitable e-sports players for "Star Emperor"."

Yang Dong explained: "Instead of making steamed buns to fight for publicity, in addition to advertising, they also want to take revenge and beat Renshuo to prove that their graphics cards are not bad."

Lies won't hurt, the truth is the sharpest knife!

The words "What a champion you are" are so hurtful, especially to peers. Because it’s a fact and you can’t refute it at all.

"E-Sports Division?"

Chen Ba frowned and said: "In that case, do we have to form a league? Otherwise, we can only compete once a year in the Dao Sacrifice Battle, which would be too few games."

"sure!"

"Let's play for a while. We don't pay for it anyway. If these graphics card vendors want to play, then we can set up a league framework for them to play." Yang Dong said nonchalantly.

To put it bluntly, although this war of worship is over, many graphics card manufacturers cannot swallow the sigh of their hearts and are eager to take revenge against Renshuo.

But the first Sacrifice Battle has just ended, so it’s impossible to hold the second one right away, right?

This is inappropriate!

Judging from the moves of these graphics card manufacturers to sign professional players and form e-sports divisions, it is more reasonable to establish a professional alliance and form a professional league.

"What about the league?"

Xiao Lu, who was sending a message to his girlfriend, couldn't help but interject after hearing this: "How to coordinate the two camps of A card and N card?"

"They can do it themselves!"

Chen Ba thought for a moment. A card and N card represent different hardware platforms. It would be unfair for the officials to force players to use which platform.

Just let them do it themselves.

Tianba Studio is only responsible for providing event-related services, including competition referees and live broadcasts, etc.

As for the equipment used in the competition, these clubs can just save it themselves. As long as you don't go too far, like general overclocking and cooling changes, game officials won't care.

I just want to take this opportunity to promote the game "Star Emperor" and see whose hardware is the strongest when combined.

"Then you go and notify..."

"The league is tentatively named Golden Age, with a minimum of 15 seats guaranteed. The first opening match will begin after the National Day and will continue until June or July next year to determine the league champion."

There is still plenty of time.

As for the tournament bonus, Chen Ba went back to communicate with Lao Huang Suma and Intel before making a decision.

“Why Intel?”

"It's okay if they don't sponsor, but the consequence of that is that the league is not allowed to use their platform, and they will all use AMD."

Chen Ba thought for a while and then said: "Besides, advertising expenses are so high every year, so spending some money to sponsor us can be considered a way to advertise."

The attention paid to the Battle of Sacrifice is pretty good!

Although various data such as the number of game video views and the number of live broadcast viewers are not comparable to top e-sports events, such as League of Legends, CSGO, and DOTA2.

But the most valuable thing about the Battle of Sacrifice, including the upcoming "Golden Age" league, is that the audience for the game are all "high-net-worth individuals."

What are high net worth individuals?

To put it simply, although the game does not attract much attention and not many people watch the game, 99% of them are product consumers. Advertising here may have a more reliable effect than sponsoring other e-sports events.

Intel has already invested heavily in advertising in the field of e-sports, so it would not be a problem to sponsor another "Star Emperor".

That's what Chen Ba thought, and that's how he went to talk to them.

But he never expected it!

After hearing the basic situation of the "Golden Age" league, a representative from Intel's marketing department immediately reported to the leadership and then made a surprising decision.

Not only do they want to sponsor the league, they also want to win one of the 15 seats and establish a team belonging to Intel.

"Huh? But you don't have a graphics card... Oh! Sorry, my, my, my!"

Chen Ba originally wanted to say, a bunch of graphics card vendors are putting this competition aside, and you, Intel, are not a graphics card vendor, so why are you here to disrupt the situation?

But it suddenly occurred to him that Intel seems to have GPU-related businesses and products...

It’s interesting!

After learning that Intel was also going to participate in the "Star Emperor" Golden Age League, Chen Ba thought of something.

After Intel enters the market, it will definitely keep the good stuff for its own use, so its CPU must be very top-notch. The GPU is a bit worse, but there is still the possibility of an upset.

Lock in a luxury seat.

As for the other giant in the league, of course it is AMD. There is a CPU and a GPU. If it is overclocked, get a dedicated driver for "Star Emperor", and it will be a proper Galaxy Battleship!

As for teams such as Beat Renshuo and Shrinking Stars, there is nothing special about them at first glance, but if you think about it carefully, their strength should not be underestimated!

After all, the performance of a computer cannot just be determined by the CPU or GPU. The combination of other hardware can also determine the upper limit.

"Okay, okay!"

"Let's stop calling this league the Golden Age. Let's change it to the PC Hardware Battle."

Chen Ba couldn't help but laugh and said: "As the league continues, these companies won't get angry and cut off the other party's supply, right?"

For example, Intel's GPU performance is too poor. In games like "Star Emperor", it must be a disadvantaged team.

What if you lose too much and get so angry that you directly cut off supply to other teams and don’t allow them to use your own CPU?

…

In Jiangning in September, the temperature difference between day and night is a bit large.

There will be a slight chill in the evening and early morning, but at noon it will be so hot that you will sweat all over. If you are not careful, you will get sick like Zhong Shengwei.

"Is Xiao Zhong okay?"

"fine!"

Chen Ba waved his hand and said, "I'm just feeling a little unwell. I prescribed medicine at the hospital and then went home to rest."

He went to the hospital.

Although Zhong Shengwei's face looked a little bit different, overall there was no big problem, it was just a common cold and fever.

This is a matter of personal constitution.

Some people are just fine when they get sick and have a cold, but people with poor physical constitution like Zhong Shengwei are in a very bad mental state when they get sick.

Xiao Zhong came to work as normal today, but everyone noticed something strange as soon as he came to the studio. Finally, Chen Ba sent him to the hospital and told him to go home and have a good rest.

While work is important, good health is even more important.

In game development, progress will not be delayed just because one or two people are missing from the studio. Unless there are some special circumstances, such as there are only six or seven people in the studio, and four people take pregnancy leave...

That does have a bad impact.

Tianba Studio has no new game plans yet. The current work content is mainly focused on updating and maintaining several old games.

Among them, "God's Grace Continent" is the focus.

As the studio's most profitable game, subsequent major version updates and DLC will definitely be needed, and a creative workshop will also need to be opened.

However, before deciding whether to open the creative workshop, a very thorny problem needs to be solved: if the MODs produced by players are used commercially, how will the profits be divided?

If "God's Grace Continent" opens a creative workshop, many players will definitely use their creativity and imagination to come up with various game modules with great "commercial value".

Players refer to each other, that is, the part that does not involve commercial profit-making, so naturally there is no need to worry about it, and there is no need to worry about it.

But "God's Grace Continent" is so special!

The special thing is that in addition to being an RPG adventure game, "God's Grace Continent" is also an excellent AI animation production software.

This also means...

Some excellent game modules will inevitably have commercial value and will be favored and cited by animation producers.

How will the resulting income be divided?

Moreover, if the creative workshop is opened on the steam platform and sold publicly, the steam platform will definitely take part of the revenue. This is something Chen Ba does not want to see.

"Then let's do this..."

"The creative workshop will be opened on our official website, and players who need it can come to the official website to download game modules." Yang Dong explained.

"Ordinary players can download and use it for free, but if it is to be used for commercial profit, we need to sign a licensing agreement with the original author and collect 30% of the revenue from the game module."

30% is considered.

If it is too high, players may not be very motivated to create MODs. After all, if you create an excellent MOD, you will only be working for Tianba Studio in vain.

If the price is too low, Tianba Studio will also suffer a great loss. After all, their games and the platform they provide will only get a small piece of the cake. Who would be happy with that?

"Okay, let's do it!"

Chen Ba thought about it and felt that it would be a good idea to open the creative workshop on his own official website.

In this way, you can not only avoid being charged channel fees by the steam platform, but also attract traffic to the official website to increase its popularity, and can better manage game modules, all without any harm.

The only drawback may be that if players buy the game on the steam platform, they have to go to the Tianba official website to download and install the game modules. Isn’t it a bit troublesome?

"No trouble!"

Xiao Lu chuckled and said: "We are adding a MOD-related service to the game. Clicking on this service will jump to the Tianba official website."

"Moreover, games including "God's Grace Continent" are not exclusive to the steam platform! We can completely sell games on the official website."

The official website sells games?

Chen Ba had never thought of this idea before.

But when he thought about it carefully, he found that it was indeed feasible. After all, the games under Tianba Studio are basically covered by all platforms and are not exclusive to a certain platform.

Since it’s not exclusive, why can’t it be sold on both the steam platform and Tianba’s official website?

Although the number of users on our own platform is small, it is still a fraction of that of a platform like Steam.

But the advantage is that you get as much money as the game sells, and you don’t have to pay channel fees to other platforms.

"Then it's settled."

"Work hard these two days and strive to launch the creative workshop of "God's Grace Continent" as soon as possible..."

Creative workshops are not difficult.

It just depends on whether the game developer is willing to give permission. If you are willing to give players permission, then the game MOD will be easy to make, and the creative enthusiasm will be high.

If you are reluctant to give permission, it will be difficult to make a MOD, especially a MOD with a lot of modifications. Without sufficient game permissions, it is really impossible to do it.

The open permissions of "God's Grace Continent" are basically open except for the automatic generation of NPCs.

To put it bluntly, apart from the fact that players cannot modify NPC-related game content, other props, weapons, enemies, events, maps, modes, plots, etc. can all be modified.

This degree of freedom is very high.

After all, there is so much room for modification. With players’ whimsical ideas, it is not difficult to make game MODs that are eye-catching or blinding.

“Remember to make it clear to the MOD creators in advance that commercial use of all MODs related to “God’s Grace Continent” requires the advice of Tianba Studio and our authorization.”

Chen Ba said seriously: "If you violate this clause, secretly engage in commercial use, or make profits from game MODs, then don't blame us for being ruthless."

Again.

The special nature of "God's Grace Continent" determines that many MODs can be sold for money.

In the face of huge interests, someone may go astray, so it is necessary to take precautions in advance.

at the same time.

All "God's Grace Continent" game MODs can only be released to the special area set up by Tianba's official website after production is completed, and cannot be released to other platforms for players to download.

It’s not just sharing without making a profit from it.

This is a matter of principle!

If the above terms are violated, Tianba Studio will never be lenient and will sue and claim damages.

Never doubt whether Brother Ba can find you, he is a cheating man. As long as this game MOD is played on the game "God's Grace Continent", he will definitely be able to find it.

Any evil will eventually be brought to justice!

"Speaking of which, is our MOD community still called a creative workshop?"

"Otherwise, what would it be called?"

Chen Ba curled his lips and said: "If you think it doesn't sound good, or you are afraid that the steam platform will ask for copyright fees, then change the name. How about Tianba Workshop or Creative Factory?"

It's not a big deal.

Whether it is a creative workshop or a creative factory, in the final analysis they are just aliases for a MOD sharing community.

If it's not embarrassing, it would be okay to change it to Qin Nu's Home...