Reboot the age of gaming

Chapter 177 Cover Party, Title Party

After hearing Lao Zhao's words, Li Meng's first reaction was to be confused.

How can this be?

The recommendation slots of "Latent Red Journey" have been deleted, how can there be such good-looking data?

But the fact is here, Li Meng went to look through the comment area of ​​"Latent Red Road", and found a large blockbuster of praise, even saying that it is not an exaggeration!
He blew it so hard that Li Meng almost thought these were sailors.

But when I clicked on a highly praised user page, I found that it was a serious paying player.

Then click on the second one, it's still a normal player...

All are normal players, no signs of navy!

Li Meng was silent for 5 minutes, and said to Xiao Feng: "Give me the best recommendation for text adventure games, and inform the art team to give them special promotional pictures and slogans, and replace the current promotional materials. Let’s try a common recommendation on the homepage first.”

Xiao Feng ran to inform the art team, and silently sighed that the data was different, and the degree of emphasis was completely different.

The Zhongyou game platform has a dedicated art team, but this art team does not draw original paintings, only publicity pictures.

In other words, this group is dedicated to serving game promotional materials. When some game promotional materials are not up to standard, Zhongyou will arrange its own art group to make them.

Of course, most games that do not meet the standard are sent back and modified by themselves, and only a few games can enjoy this privilege.

After notifying the art team, Xiao Feng returned to his station and hurriedly contacted Zhong Ming.

"The data of "The Lurking Red Path" is very good! I can give you the best recommendation on the text adventure category, as long as the lowest price is 1 yuan, and there is also a popular game recommendation on the homepage. It's one yuan and five, if you have no problem here, then go on."

This is a routine notification for Xiao Feng, because even if the data is good, the recommended position cannot be free...

The recommended slots on the platform are all clearly priced and charged per play. Even if there are some good games suitable for promotion, they can only be given at low prices, not free.

Of course, being able to get a recommendation position at a low price is already something that most companies dream of. How can they expect to be free?
Zhong Ming replied: "Li Meng doesn't feel disgusted this time?"

Xiao Feng was a little speechless, and held a grudge: "In short, if there is no problem, I will recommend it to you."

Zhong Ming replied: "The recommendations for text adventures will no longer be available. If you want to be listed, just go to the recommendation on the home page."

"Ah?" Xiao Feng was taken aback, "Is it too much to recommend you?"

"It's not too much. "The Lurking Red Path" has reached the top of the list of text adventure games. What's the point of being recommended? It's a waste of money. Just click on the homepage."

Xiao Feng was very helpless: "Did you know that this recommendation is the best recommendation on the text adventure list? How many games can't be listed at all!"

Zhong Ming replied: "Then let it go to those games that want to play but can't."

"...That's fine."

Xiao Feng silently said that this person is calm enough, or is careful enough to calculate.

Other R&D companies would like to get a few recommended slots, the more the better, but this one is good, but they dislike the poor effect of text adventure recommendation slots, and they are not willing to use them.

Since Zhong Ming was unwilling to join, Xiao Feng had nothing to do with it. After all, each recommended position had to be charged after being accepted, so if he didn't want to join, he couldn't force him to pay, right?
……

"Wow, it was recommended on the homepage! It's a pity that the location is not very good, it's a bit lower."

Jiang Wanna flipped through the Zhongyou game platform, and found the promotional position for "Latent Red Path" in the lower middle of the homepage.

This recommendation is not bad, with a picture, it is easier for players to click in than the position with only one icon or only one sentence.

"Okay, it feels like our game is really going to be popular! Hey, wait, why did the promotional image use planes and tanks... what the hell."

Seeing this recommendation, Zhou Sen was instinctively stunned.

This recommended position has a promotional picture similar to a banner, with the artwork of "Latent Red Road" on it, but the key point is that the base picture is actually a war scene with aircraft and tanks!
Zhong Ming: "..."

I went in silently and took a look, and found that the promotional images and slogans on the game details page had also changed.

The promotional pictures have become planes, tanks, cannons, and soldiers. These are basically common materials for war and strategy games.After all, there are many developers in this world making war games during World War II, and these promotional materials are not difficult to find.

And the promotional words have also been changed. The previous promotional words were written by Zhong Ming himself, basically talking about spy wars, lurking, etc., but now the promotional words seem large and empty, and it is obvious that they are directing players to war themes. misleading.

"Through history, experience the passion and blood of world war!"

"In the battlefield of iron and blood, can you be the last survivor?"

And so on.

"Bullshit!"

Zhong Ming was speechless.

He didn't want to change the promotional material, but Zhongyou changed it for him!
This is also a consistent trick of many channel operators, that is, to play headline party!
Obviously, compared to text adventure games, war-themed games are relatively more popular genres.

In the war theme, you can also make strategy games, real-time strategy games, and shooting games. These are the types of games that players prefer, and the player base is much larger than that of text adventure games.

Therefore, the biggest advantage of this promotional material is that it can attract a large number of players who like strategy games, real-time strategy games, and shooting games, and let them click and download.

Of course, after downloading it, they found out that this is a text adventure game. Would they be so angry and scold their mothers?That's hard to say.

But Zhongyou doesn't care, even if there is a suspicion of peddling dog meat, which affects the game's reputation and ratings, it doesn't matter, anyway, if players are tricked into it, even if only a small number of people find that the game is really good and pay for it , that is also a big profit.

Zhong Ming knows the way here very well, but he doesn't like this way, because it is essentially a kind of deception to the players!

In other words, this is exhausting the water and overdrawing the players' trust in the game and the platform.

If it's a company that only makes quick money, then it doesn't really matter. Anyway, if you make money and run away, it doesn't matter if you have a good reputation or not.

But Zhong Ming and Weiguang Studio are not here to make quick money. They want to make high-quality games and make Weiguang Studio a golden signboard. As a result, they play this kind of title party as soon as they come up. Wouldn’t this person’s design collapse? ?

Zhong Ming found Xiao Feng: "What's the matter with the promotional materials???? Before too many players noticed, quickly change back!"

(End of this chapter)