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Chapter 326 Another FPS!

Especially in online battles, Mengxin, who is a little weaker, may not even see a few enemies after playing for an afternoon, but he has been dying.

If you can't kill people but keep dying, this is devastating to the game experience of the newbies.

Therefore, "Red Orchestra" is destined to be impossible to be popular all over the world like the carefree "Call of Duty".

Liu Xiong himself has experienced this point, and he is also fully prepared psychologically.

In its first week of release, "Red Orchestra" sold 1200 million copies.

It's a pretty good score, but it's not as good as Call of Duty.

Moreover, judging from the daily sales volume, the downward trend in the sales data of "Red Orchestra" will be more obvious in the second and third weeks.

Actuarial experts in the industry have given their own estimates: the sales volume of "Red Orchestra" in the second week is likely to not exceed 800 million sets.

The cumulative sales of "Red Orchestra" should not exceed 3500 million sets.

How about this result?

If "Red Orchestra" is the work of a medium-sized game company, then it should be regarded as a success.

But for a company like Feimeng that has produced many hit games in a row, 3500 million sets is definitely a failed number.

Consider that the actual development cost of "Red Orchestra" is not even lower than that of "Call of Duty", reaching 3.7 million US dollars.

The price of "Red Orchestra" is only 199 yuan.

It is not an exaggeration to say that "Red Orchestra" suffered a commercial failure.

Although there is no loss, but also did not earn any money.

For Fei Meng, if he didn't make any money, it would be a huge loss.

Liu Xiong didn't care much about the failure of "Red Orchestra" to make a profit this time, but Liu Xiong still called a meeting and explained his views.

"Red Orchestra is a hardcore game, even if we use more mature next-generation technology, the picture of "Red Orchestra" is very good."

"But hardcore-oriented games cannot be saved by just one screen."

"Hardcore FPS is not impossible to succeed, but "Red Orchestra" is to some extent too unfriendly to players, especially novice players."

"It is very normal to be unsuccessful in business."

"Well, I admit that the degree of failure is slightly more than expected, but it is not unacceptable."

"It's reasonable. It's impossible to say that every game is a big hit."

"And "Red Orchestra" at least didn't lose money, didn't it? The word-of-mouth of the game is also very good, and it has become one of the benchmarks of historical World War II games."

After knocking on the table, Liu Xiong said to everyone and himself: "The Red Orchestra is definitely not a failure."

"And..." Liu Xiong showed a sly smile.

"Our new game is currently developing very well, and my confidence in this game is very high."

"If this game doesn't blow up, you guys take my head off!"

Xiaokui looked at Liu Xiong's head, and said hesitantly: "Boss... After reading the information you gave us, I am very confident about the new game."

"At least from the data, it will be a super awesome game! I think it is a very, very, very fun game."

"But now... after seeing the unsatisfactory results of "Red Orchestra", I can't help but have some doubts about the three consecutive FPS games."

"Although the main game mode of the new game is not the No.1 shooting game, in the final analysis, it is still a shooting game."

"The game is a good game, but with three consecutive next-generation FPS games, I feel that it is really possible to hit the street!"

"Besides us, other companies are also making FPS games!"

"Either such a unique game, because the timing of its release was not very good, failed to succeed in the end, and was submerged in the vast ocean of games, that would be a pity!"

The new game plan given by Liu Xiong was unanimously optimistic at the discussion meeting a few weeks ago.

Everyone thought at the time: Even if it is a continuous FPS game saturation attack, considering that the new game is not an FPS game in the traditional sense, and that the new game will be launched on the two platforms of Titan and PC at the same time.

Of course, the most important thing is the super high potential of the new game in terms of playability.

So everyone thinks that there may be a little impact, but the problem of launching a third FPS game in a row is not too big.

But now, "Red Orchestra" hits the street.

Several people represented by Xiaokui couldn't help but doubt the new game.

Were previous estimates too optimistic?
After Xiaokui's speech, Yuzu, who usually doesn't like to speak proactively, also raised her hand and said: "For the new game... that, my expectations are also very high..."

"Boss, why don't we change the development plan a little?"

"Now change to another game development for the time being, wait...wait for this wave of FPS craze to pass a little bit, and then we will go public on a staggered peak."

"Otherwise, it would be a pity if such a good game goes to the street."

Seeing that the employees seemed a little lacking in confidence, Liu Xiong couldn't help but smile——Fei Meng hasn't played the game of hitting the street for a long time.

It seems that although the "Red Orchestra" hit the streets, although it didn't affect Feimeng's financial situation, it affected the confidence of the employees to some extent.

But Liu Xiong has absolute confidence!

Because whether it is Xiaokui or Yuzu, they don't know the craze this game has caused on the earth.

The peak of this craze is the existence of breaking records, and at the same time, the rise of this game has profoundly changed the pattern of modern games.

It can cause such an upsurge on Earth, triggering countless similar games to follow suit, even Earth's "Call of Duty" must follow suit.

Coupled with the meticulous crafting and creation by Feimeng, there is absolutely no reason for the new game to be unsuccessful!
He was about to speak, but Hi Dog spoke first.

"Xiaokui, Yuzi, don't worry, I'm still very optimistic about the prospects of the new game "PUBG Mobile"."

"First of all, FPS games are the largest game market. It makes sense for guns to rank first."

"Let's not talk about "PUBG Mobile", even with the addition of several next-generation FPS games from other companies, and even Feimeng will soon have a sequel to "Call of Duty" or "Left [-] Dead."

"The FPS game market is still not saturated. The commercial failure of "Red Orchestra" is more due to the fact that "Red Orchestra" itself pursues authenticity too much."

(End of this chapter)