Number One Game Designer

The second month of the "Eternal" league has already passed the halfway mark. The waves and discussions among the audience have really made the merchants see the potential of this competition. Really big brands such as Nike are still hesitating whether to join it, and many small and medium-sized enterprises have been unable to hold back. For them, this is a young market, and it is not very expensive to promote.

In the middle of the month, Zhou Heiya first announced the establishment of the Zhou Heiya team, aiming to win the championship next month and win glory for the country in the subsequent intercontinental competition.

Although it was still early for the intercontinental competition, and even Team Zhou Hei Ya was still far from the championship—it was not until the 20th, and Team Zhou Hei Ya hadn't qualified yet.

But this does not prevent Zhou Heiya from shouting the new slogan "Glory for the Country". This trick was also very effective. In the next half month, Zhou Heiya's sales increased by nearly 20%, which also strengthened their determination to continue investing in e-sports:

Now that he has improved so much just after entering the arena, what if he really wins the Intercontinental Championship? Zhou Heiya didn't dare to think about it internally, and some people even suggested whether to go to Hongyi headquarters to discuss cooperation and poach the player whose id is faker? Afterwards, people around him popularized that this is Hongyi's boss, so he gave up.

Hong Yi also cared about Zhou Hei Ya's income. As the old saying goes, money touches people's hearts. As Zhou Heiya was the first medium and large enterprise to enter the market, the increase in turnover directly determined how many equally interested medium and even large enterprises he could attract. Of course, judging from the later results, Zhou Heiya was a very good example.

For Eternal players, Zhou Heiya's end game will be just after dinner at most. What really aroused their eager discussion is the preview of Hong Yi's skin that started in the middle of the month. There are more than 40 anchors and more than 40 exquisite models. Their skin made them unable to move their eyes away.

Among them, the most amazing thing is the five ultimate skins.

The most popular is the Dragon Fist Blind Monk shown by Afeng, the anchor of Douyu, during the live broadcast.

The biggest special effect of the Jinghong engine is the support for textures, which allows Fang Xi to make the models of heroes and skins, not to say 100%, but at least it can guarantee that the difference from the original painting is not too big. Because this is a 2.5D game modeling, it was done hastily. What Fang Xi has always asked for is to be as detailed as possible while ensuring performance.

A detailed skin modeling is very helpful for skin sales. For example, Afeng also showed this part to fans during the live broadcast.

"This skin is enlarged to the maximum, and we can see that there is a very detailed golden dragon embroidery on the back of the blind boy of this skin. You can see the unevenness of the knitting embroidery."

"I bought other things, leggings, hand guards, and simple wrist guards. They are all made in detail. You can even see that this blind boy is wearing a very fashionable dragon carving bracelet, which is very powerful. Other than that Besides, let’s not talk about the sound effects and special effects of this skin, if you are satisfied, please mark 1 and let me have a look, okay?”

"This skin is so powerful, will the anchor draw a thousand?"

"This skin is so powerful, will the anchor draw a thousand?"

Hmm... Ah Feng's live broadcast today is the festival of repeaters.

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Looking at the world, since E3, the game rhythm of the whole world has been firmly controlled by Hongyi.

The Battle Royale DLC launched in July pushed the purchase volume of Left 4 Dead to a new high, completely establishing the No. 1 position in FPS games.

Although Fang Xi thinks that the OB guide system of this game is a troublesome thing so far, it does not affect the players' liking for this game, and some players also cited the biggest advantage of this game: there is no Grandpa Lu.

We will not go into details about the working principle of FPS games. In short, in order to require speed, most FPS games complete part of the calculation on the player side. This part of the calculation data is easily tampered by plug-ins. This is also FPS. It was a common problem, but until the Battle Royale, many players suddenly discovered that the cheats that were like gangrene in other shooting games in the past completely disappeared. Feedback can be obtained within five minutes, and the game experience improves, and the word-of-mouth of the players naturally increases.

There are many speculations from the foreign media about the crackdown on cheating, but Fang Xi just wants to say to his golden finger silently: Reaper server cow beer.

July belongs to battle royale, and August belongs to MOBA game eternity.

The first team-based competitive game, the first official game to lead the establishment of a global league, and the first game with more than 25 million players worldwide.

Needless to say, the eternal excellence, the players are playing happily, the official pushes vigorously, especially when the bonus of 6.5 million US dollars is released, the players are crazy. A huge bonus that you never thought of before? This is too happy.

Regarding Hongyi’s operation, other companies can only keep silent. According to an unnamed company executive interviewed by IGN:

"Hong Yi has started to snatch players from himself, do we still dare to speak up?"

The free DLC of Portal in September brought back the popularity of Hongyi Universe. Players happily shared their knowledge and collected information about this universe in the community. Although only two days later, the popularity resumed again. For eternity.

Consumer goods such as hero skins once again filled the enthusiasm of players. Many players waited for the mall to open, and then bought a favorite skin for their special heroes.

Regarding the changes in these four months, IGN made a special report, and the point of view continued the unnamed company executives interviewed before, saying:

Hand over several good works to the players, and then the works that can be killed out of them can be called great works, and Hongyi's Eternal is such a game, but the difference is that in the above situation, people often It is believed that several companies are competing for the market, but Hongyi’s Eternal is a game war with its own company. Regarding the battle royale game that has achieved good results in July and has been overwhelmed by Eternal, some game critics I think that if it is not because of the appearance of Eternity, this battle royale game should have been the most dazzling game this year, and since Hongyi decided to launch the excellent work of Eternity this year, why not hide the battle royale until next year's release ?

There are only two possibilities:

The first is that Hongyi believes that even in the past year, Eternity can still maintain the dominance of terror, so it makes no difference whether Battle Royale will be released this year or next year.

The second is that Hongyi believes that there may be more excellent works next year. Even if the battle royale is excellent, if it is not released this year, this game may encounter a greater Waterloo next year.

No matter which possibility it is, it does not prevent us from looking forward to Hongyi, a game production company.

In addition, our Chinese editor of IGN also put forward an interesting concept: In the legend of China, there is a kind of existence called Gu. The specific method is to put several kinds of poisonous insects in a bowl and let them fight each other, and finally survive. It is Gu King, the strongest poisonous insect.

He also believes that Hong Yi allows its own products to compete with each other, which is a bit like raising Gu.

In any case, let us keep looking forward to this game company.