Game designer: I am making games, not charity

free?

Mr. Chen, are you joking?
The employees were in shock.

They imagined that Chen Feng would have various answers.

Even if Chen Feng said that the point card price remained at one yuan, they didn't find it strange.

But this release of 4 characters for free is indeed something they never imagined anyway!

Luo Zhonghao squeezed out a smile on his stiff face: "Mr. Chen, don't joke around at a time like this."

Chen Feng shook his head helplessly, and said seriously: "I'm not joking with you, this game will be released for free after it goes online! We don't charge a dime. Players only need to have a computer with Internet access and are willing to play." Play our game!"

Hearing such a sentence came out of Chen Feng's mouth again, all the employees in the company were dumbfounded.

They have been completely stupid!
In this world, there has never been a game that is free.

Free games, so how do you make money?
When they heard Chen Fenggang say this before, everyone was at a loss. They only thought that Mr. Chen said it purely on a whim.

Just to have a joke with them.

But now, looking at Chen Feng's serious and determined face, it seems... Chen is always serious!

Is it possible that the next game of our platinum game company will really be released for free?
What is it called a game?
Isn't that doing charity?
Does Mr. Chen not want to make money at all?

The air in the conference room froze somewhat.

Chen Feng immediately explained: "The free I said is not completely free, but players can play for free, but we can use items to charge!"

Zhang Mengyao thought about it for a while, and then asked: "Senior, if the game is made free, and then we charge for items as you said, can we really make money?"

Zhang Mengyao has always been very supportive of Chen Feng.

But now also made some comments a little bit.

It is really the concept of free games, which is too shocking in this world!

Chen Feng smiled helplessly and shook his head.

He understood the worries of Zhang Mengyao, Luo Zhonghao and others.

After all, they are all from this world and have never seen the charm of free games.

When they heard the word "free game", the first thing they thought was that the game company was losing money.

But what they don't know is - the free one is the most expensive!

The previous "Dungeon and Warriors" was a completely free game.

However, after the game was launched, various holiday sets and various weapon boosts completely made players addicted to it.

The players are just like Chen Feng who engages in dozens of games every day, completely intoxicated by it.

Some people feel uncomfortable even if they don't charge a little bit a day.

Of course, this is only a small number of players, and there are also a large number of civilian players who may not recharge a large amount of money.

However, products such as the one-dollar resurrection coin and the monthly membership card are also difficult for them to refuse.

Don't look at the fact that one dollar is less, but if there are 100 million people, 1000 million people charge one dollar? !
Even if someone really didn't charge a dime.

But as long as these players enter the game, they will also be a huge fortune!

The existence of civilian players can make krypton gold players have stronger krypton gold motivation.

Whether it's in terms of appearance or fashion, or in terms of attributes and combat effectiveness.

The existence of these civilian players can allow krypton gold players to recharge more and faster!
all in all.

As long as the game is free, the player base that can be attracted will increase significantly.

By that time, the money that can be earned will also increase exponentially!

But Chen Feng couldn't explain these things clearly to these people for a while.

Tell Luo Zhonghao and others at this time that ordinary players will let paying players charge more money.

They may feel that they have heard the heavenly scriptures.

It is completely incomprehensible.

Therefore, Chen Feng could only pick a few key points, and briefly talked about resurrection coins, fashion and other things.

But Luo Zhonghao, Zhang Mengyao and others were still in a daze.

In the end, Chen Feng could only wave his hand and say, "I've already decided on the payment model, so I won't discuss it for the time being... Believe me, there will never be any problems!
Let's talk about the next production plan of this game first! "

Although everyone still had doubts, Chen Feng's prestige in the company was extremely high.

When there were countless disputes with everyone, Chen Feng always stood up to everyone's opinions and insisted on his own ideas, and the final results were very good.

Therefore, the employees' trust in Chen Feng is also extremely strong.

Now that Mr. Chen had already said that, they could only nod in agreement.

In the next meeting, we began to discuss the game structure and some work arrangements.

Although the system gave Chen Feng all the game data, the original dungeons and warriors were not what Chen Feng really wanted.

He wants to make the dungeons and fighters he made even better!

The arena is more balanced, version iterations do not need to be so fast, and the economic system can be more stable.

Let the life of the entire game be extended a bit more...

And these are all things that can only be achieved through the joint efforts of him and the employees of the company!
……

Just when Platinum Games was discussing the design and production of the next game.

As for Goose Factory, there is also a lively discussion about the next game, the first computer game of Goose Factory.

Xu Chen, who was assigned a heavy responsibility by President Ma, sat in the first seat with a serious face.

Looking at the employees who followed him originally and were just transferred from other departments, they had some knowledge and interest in computer games.

He said lightly:
"After these two days of high-level discussions, we already have a design plan for this computer game, and we have decided to adapt "Legend of Warriors" into a computer version!"

As soon as Xu Chen said this, the surrounding employees all showed shock on their faces!
Immediately afterwards there was great excitement!
You know, "Legend of Warriors" can be said to be one of the most successful online games of Goose Factory in the past few years!
Not only has it occupied the top record in point card sales in the world, but it has also won the Pangu Game Award with this game!

It is completely a double harvest in terms of sales and word of mouth.

Now it has been completely completed, and it can be regarded as one of the best games of Goose Factory.

It can even be recorded in the company's history.

If it is said that a brand new computer game is going to be made again, maybe everyone really has no confidence.

After all, Platinum Games has been working in the computer game market for quite some time.

Both experience and market judgment are better than them.

But if they adapted "Legend of the Warriors", then they would have more confidence!

After all, he is proficient in business, it's just a different way.

It used to be modified by others, but now it is modified by myself, and there is no need to worry about plagiarism at all...

Seeing the excited faces of the employees, Xu Chen was also quite satisfied: "Besides, there is another piece of good news to tell everyone, before adapting "Legend of the Warriors" into a computer game, our own film and television department will also adapt this This game has been adapted into a TV series!

That is, before the game is released.

We can take advantage of the previous popularity of "Legend of Warriors" and the popularity of TV series to stir up the popularity of "Legend of Warriors Computer Edition" together!
It can be said that this game has not been played yet, we have won half of the game! "

Having said this, Xu Chen's face was full of complacency.

Last time, Goose Factory's "Xianxia Simulator" lost to Platinum's "Legend of Sword and Fairy", but it was because the VR platform was not as good as the computer platform.

But this time, they simply discarded the VR platform, and fought against Platinum on the computer platform!
And there is also the strong support behind Mr. Ma and the entire company.

Mr. Ma also promised him that as long as the game is done well enough, he doesn't need to worry about the promotion at all, and the company will take care of it all.

And it is the top publicity resource.

Fill up directly!

Before, he only lost to the opponent in one department.

But now, the whole goose factory is helping him.

Can Chen Feng's little platinum company compare to their goose factory?

Thinking of these, Xu Chen felt excited.

Last time, he was severely slapped in the face by Platinum Games.

All the time in his mind he wanted to take revenge.

"The next step is to discuss the production schedule of the follow-up games and the payment model of the game. After collecting everyone's opinions, I can report directly."

Xu Chen suppressed the excitement in his heart, finished speaking lightly, and looked at everyone in the audience.

A group of employees immediately began to discuss in full swing.

Soon, they listed the production schedule of some games.

Because it is version porting.

They don't actually need much re-development work either.

It is estimated that it will only take four months to complete the game.

Coupled with some test situations, half a year is more than enough time.

After discussing the game production schedule, the next step is to discuss the payment model of the game.

For the discussion of this issue, the employees are obviously more active and proactive.

An employee stood up and spoke first, and said: "Director Xu, since our goose factory is going to make computer games this time, we should follow the example of Platinum Company and lower the point card fee. In my opinion, how about point card The fee is just... 3 yuan an hour?"

The employee had just finished speaking when several employees stood up and reprimanded him.

"Our Goose Factory's games are comparable to his Platinum Company? Their own games are cheap, so the prices are naturally low. Our games are good, so we have to set an appropriate price!"

"That's right! Besides, "Legend of the Warrior" won the Pangu Award. If our price is too low, we will definitely be laughed at by people in the industry!"

"But we can't use the price of VR games to compare, right?"

"That's right, it's definitely going to drop, and now we'll see how much we want to drop!"

"I think we mean it, let's reduce it to 20 yuan!"

"That's too high. Do you think anyone will play that? The people who play computer games are people with no money!"

……

Soon, employees were arguing about it.

Xu Chen sat on the stage, and after listening quietly for a long time, he patted the table.

"Okay, I heard what you said, and it makes sense. After all, it's the first time we've made a computer game, so we still have to learn from others.

Our point card charges must be reduced, let’s reduce it to 10 yuan an hour!

Of course, this must be a bit too low, so I have another idea here.

In fact, I have been paying attention to Platinum's "Legend of Sword and Fairy". Their model has been very successful, and we can also learn from their payment model.

Point card charges + information sheet charges! "

At this time, an employee in the audience whispered: "Director Xu, there is no charge for the expansion pack of "Legend of Sword and Fairy", it seems that all the players completed the task together..."

Xu Chen frowned: "We just learn his essence, he doesn't charge for it, that's because their expansion pack is not good enough!
Our "Legend of Warriors" is an award-winning, award-winning expansion pack, can't it be charged?
Well, that's it, 10 yuan an hour for the point card charging model, plus the follow-up expansion pack charges ranging from tens to hundreds. "

After finishing speaking, Xu Chen glanced at the employees below again, curled his lips and said with a smile: "Some of you, don't think our price is too high.

Do you really think that Platinum can succeed because of the low price of point cards?
Let me tell you this, in order to fight us, Platinum must have given up a lot of benefits. Although this "Legend of Sword and Fairy" has good grades, I guess, he may not have earned any money at all!

Doesn't game development cost money?

No cost?

Invite that garbage internet author called Chenxi, don't you need money to write plots for them?

A small game company, if they continue to lose money like this, can they make money?Can survive?
Therefore, Platinum and the others are definitely just using a low-price model to accumulate user groups, and when the user group is sufficient, they will increase the price once to make a profit.

If not, they still insist on such a low price and continue to do so, and they will go bankrupt sooner or later!

Of course we cannot follow in their footsteps! "