Chapter 374: Arios Desktop Companion
Chapter 374 Arios Desktop Companion
Obviously, Zhuge Jun, who thought he knew the game against heaven very well, guessed completely wrong and did not correctly understand the implication of Gu Fan's words.
But you can't blame him, after all, this is a shameful deception, and Gu Fan not only failed to give him the right hints, but also deliberately led him astray.
It’s not just Zhuge Jun, almost all the players present feel that Nitiantian’s next game is a two-dimensional game.
It’s just that the style of painting is different.
Of course, the two-dimensional game that most players currently generally think of is no longer a broad concept, but a narrow concept.
Broadly speaking, any game with a two-dimensional style can be regarded as a two-dimensional game, or second game for short. Therefore, action games produced by some popular animation-derived IPs, or text-adventure cartoon-style love games, can also be regarded as second games in a broad sense.
In a narrow sense, second games are often specifically referred to as two-dimensional mobile games, which mainly use various combat forms (real-time combat or turn-based combat) to advance the main plot, draw cards to obtain characters, and various daily activities as filler specific game types.
Why do you think of the second game when you see the figures?
Because judging from the current market, the derivatives of two-dimensional games are the most mature, and the figures are also the best-selling.
Although other games, such as moba games or action games, also have extremely large player groups and a relatively mature figure industry, when it comes to copyright derivation, there is still a big gap with second games.
Since Nitiantian has made such a sophisticated figure and is planning to promote it as an important part of the game's early promotion, making a second game that is interoperable with multiple devices such as PC and mobile phones is the best choice.
At least from a business model perspective, this is the most profitable way.
If the painting style is also a two-dimensional painting style, it will be a surefire success. I just don’t know why Nitiantian still insists on making a three-dimensional realistic painting style.
Judging from the style of this figure, the art is still as good as ever, but it ultimately lacks a bit of the hazy beauty of the two-dimensional figure.
“How to sell this figure?”
There were players at the scene who were fans of figurines, and although Arios’ figurines did not have any IP added value for the time being, the fine workmanship and beautiful styling were enough to tempt their wallets. .
Gu Fan explained: “The figures are not sold individually, but are sold in bundles.
“After purchasing the figure, you will automatically receive a game activation code for the official platform. The total price is 598.”
Zhuge Jun guessed: "A gift of game activation code for the official platform? In other words, the next game will still be a buyout fee, not a free game + card draw model?"
Gu Fan nodded: "Yes, it is still a buyout fee. Although there are some characters that can be drawn, there is no need to recharge to draw these characters.
“Players can use game currency to extract these characters, and the time and energy consumed to extract all characters is similar, it is just a matter of order.”
These words made everyone more certain that this is really a second game with a three-dimensional painting style.
After all, you have to draw a character!
It’s just that the charging model is different.
Traditional second-tier games sell characters. If players want to quickly acquire a favorite character, they must either play for a long time or recharge in a short period of time.
Free players spend time, paying players spend money.
The charging model of Nitiantian seems to be more conscientious. Pure buyout charging will inevitably reduce the income of Nitiantian, but if the game itself is popular enough, it should still be enough to recover the cost.
Zhuge Jun simply counted: "The total price is 598. If the game is of normal size, the standard price is about 198. In other words, if this figure is sold alone, the price is about 400 yuan? 399?"
Gu Fan nodded: "Yeah, almost."
Zhuge Jun couldn't help but feel a little surprised: "The price is not expensive. A figure of this quality sells for 399, which is relatively cheap.
"Hey, store manager, why are you smiling strangely? Am I wrong?" Gu Fan tried his best to smile: "In general, there is no problem."
In fact, the cost of this figure is indeed not low. After all, Nitiantian’s customized figure cannot yet be shipped in large quantities to spread the cost evenly. If you really want to calculate it, the cost should be higher than 399.
However, these are also included in the marketing expenses, so it is not a big problem.
More importantly, the price of 198 for the main game should actually include the mental damage caused to the player, so the current price of 598 is just right.
Lilith has said before that the game will be charged on a buy-out basis and will not launch a collector’s edition or a deluxe edition gift pack.
So whether you buy the figure or not does not affect the content in the game. This can only be regarded as a bundled sale voluntarily chosen by the player, which is still different from the collector's edition or deluxe edition of the game.
Everyone carefully picked up the figure, observed it carefully, and were full of praise.
Some people already want to scan the QR code to pay directly. After all, they are all old players of Nitiantian games and they still trust the quality of Nitiantian’s new games.
“You don’t have to rush to place your order now, we have also prepared a series of pre-publicity activities for the new game.
"It won't be too late to decide after everyone has participated in the activity." Gu Fan persuaded him a little hypocritically.
“There are still promotional activities? It seems that Nitiantian really attaches great importance to this new game!”
Everyone was a little surprised, because although Nitiantian would do some promotions for new games before, and there were some very disruptive marketing cases, in general, there were not many such activities.
Gu Fan turned on the computer and entered a website address.
Everyone came over to take a look, and saw that the web page that opened was a download page for a certain program, and it was divided into different download channels such as mobile phones and computers.
On the background of the web page, there is actually a dynamic video of Alice.
Like the figure, she is sitting lazily on a chair reading a book. From time to time, she turns the pages, stretches, or raises her head to look in the direction of the screen, with a slight smile on her lips.
The scene suddenly became a little quiet. It must be said that when an originally beautiful virtual character changed from an immovable figure to a movable image, the impact it brought to people at first sight was still very strong.
“This is...a dynamic wallpaper?” Hou Ji asked.
"No." Zhuge Jun corrected, "This is the desktop...oh, mate!"
In fact, his first reaction was to say "desktop pets". After all, programs like desktop pets have a long history. However, this is a person after all, not a pet. It is inappropriate to say this.
It is more appropriate to call it "Desktop Wizard" or "Desktop Companion".
However, their functions are similar.
They all add an additional moving image to the desktop, give feedback to the user on certain operations, and even allow for a certain level of communication.
Judging from the introduction on the official page, Arios, which can be installed and placed on the desktop, is obviously very powerful.
Of course, such a program requires a lot of resources.
So when it is run on the computer, it may have certain requirements on the computer configuration and may cause lag. On a mobile phone, you have to enter a separate program.
(End of this chapter)