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Compared with the popularity of "The Last Survivor" before, the popularity brought by "Civilization" is much less.

Similarly, the sales volume is much lower than that of "The Last of Us", but this is also a normal situation. After all, strategy games have a relatively small audience, and there is a certain threshold for getting started. Even if it is two games of the same quality, the other Sales are definitely not comparable to mainstream games such as open world or FPS, even though "The Last of Us" is a movie-immersive linear adventure game.

But its subject matter and its own gameplay also have more advantages than "Civilization".

This is a reasonable thing.

But for most players, "Civilization" still provides them with a lot of fun.

Especially with the understanding of most players on the "Civilization" game, some game mechanics and content that they didn't understand before can be understood through slow contact.

For example, the wonders in the game, all kinds of different wonders, have very large benefits, and also have very large attribute bonuses for various genres.

But if you don’t understand something, and you come up directly to beat the spectacle, then the end of monarchs like Shah Jahan and Nero ruling the country will be the most realistic portrayal for players.

Of course, it is more popular to say, that is: the spectacle misleads the country.

There is also about the victory of faith in the game. The seemingly ordinary AI forces are simply weak. When you pacify the north and march south, the color of the city under your banner has slowly become lush. green.

In addition, there is Gandhi, the nuclear peace messenger who loves nuclear peace.

As a great man who loves peace the most in the introduction in the game, Gandhi's performance in the game is not peaceful at all.

If you, as a player in the game, drop a nuclear bomb on a country without declaring war, and when civilizations all over the world condemn you, only Gandhi will applaud.

Of course, there is also the "next round" that players are most familiar with.

Round after round, so many rounds

Countless players played around and found out that it was one or two o'clock at night for some reason, and some players who liked to stay up late even found out that it was dawn when the lights were on.

However, as far as players are addicted to the content of the game itself, other game companies are more concerned with studying why "Civilization" can be so successful.

Although its sales volume is compared with the sales volume of the previous open world games of Xingyun Games, "Civilization" can be said to be a little hip in comparison, but considering the game type of "Civilization" itself, and compared with other games of the same type, This sales volume has simply exploded to the extreme.

And regardless of the VR version of Xingyun game, judging from the quality of the PC version, although it is indeed excellent, it is not impossible for other strategy game manufacturers to make it.

If Civilization is just rave reviews and magic in VR, then so be it.

The key is that in addition to many players giving praise to "Civilization" in VR mode, "Civilization" on the PC platform also received rave reviews.

Obviously this is the unique charm of the game itself.

Similarly, how "Civilization" can make players like it is also the focus of many strategy game manufacturers.

After all, for strategy games, it can be said that the road has really narrowed down a bit in recent years.

Other types of games, especially open world and sandbox games, even Hakoniwa games, have also become popular since "Super Mario: Odyssey" developed by Nebula Games.

But strategy games are really getting narrower and narrower.

And no strategy game dares to test the waters on VR. Although from the perspective of attributes, the special perspective of VR has a high degree of matching with the God’s perspective of strategy games and the big sand table, but there are still no manufacturers. Even though VR-related industries have begun to show their prominence, hardware capabilities and low-end product lines are slowly becoming popular, there are still no manufacturers to try.

The main reason is to worry about the sales volume. Even if the sales volume of the PC platform is not good, it will not lose much.

After all, the art of most strategy games will not be changed for several years. From one generation to three generations, a slight change will be a complete effect. However, the new architecture of the VR platform, coupled with the new learning costs for employees, There are also game development resources.

If the sales are not good, it will explode.

But "Civilization" has opened up a way for many strategy game manufacturers.

The sales of strategy games can be so high! That's what strategy games can do.

For a long time, major strategy game manufacturers have basically added new elements to the reform of their games, and then increased the complexity in order to please hardcore old players.

It's not that no manufacturers have thought about simplification, but none of them have had any good results. Not only have sales not increased, but word of mouth has even suffered a bad reputation.

But the current "Civilization" of Nebula Games undoubtedly showed them a direction, a direction of how to simplify the entry threshold of strategy games.

Although the explosive sales of "Civilization" among strategy games is related to the appeal of the Xingyun game itself, even if it is cut in half, the sales are really amazing.

Study the reason why "Civilization" can sell so many. When a game of the same type is released after a while, even if the sales volume is only a quarter, it will be a big profit.

Countless strategy game manufacturers have set their sights on "Civilization".

Compared with many strategy game manufacturers at home and abroad who pay attention to the game "Civilization", Yang Chen did not pay attention to the sales in the follow-up. Yang Chen paid more attention to the "Civilization" brought to the players on the VR platform. experience.

Through the background data display, there are also some related player feedback, which can bring a lot of data feedback to Nebula Games.

There is no doubt that any game company has its own big data.

The habits of players and users, and what direction they prefer, are very important.

For example, the reason why "Civilization" is so good, apart from its own gameplay, is the magical experience brought by its unique fluency.

This fluency, in addition to the X club team, also has the effect of dream memory, and the big data of Nebula game itself is also quite important.

"Civilization" itself is also responsible for the task of Nebula Games to explore the new platform of VR after "The Last Survivor".

Of course, in terms of strategy, "Civilization" undertakes the task of a tentative work, but there are follow-up content updates for the game itself, and it is impossible for Nebula Games to ignore it.

It is inevitable to form a content team for its follow-up, and Yang Chen originally planned to conduct an assessment and selection within Nebula Games before selecting the candidates.

But now he has a more suitable candidate.