The Rebirth of the Male God Starts From Playing Games

Vol 2 Chapter 464: 462. Is this appropriate?

Chapter 464 462. Is this appropriate?

Dota has accumulated more than 200,000 users in less than one hour after it was launched.

In the following few days, the user growth rate of dota is still very fast. In addition to the core users, there are many new players coming in continuously.

In less than a week, the download volume of dota has exceeded 2 million.

The number of simultaneous online users has exceeded 200,000.

This has exceeded Meng Xiao’s expectations, but it is far from enough for Cao Yang.

Because the number of lol players in the previous life is calculated in 100 million.

Light competition, especially this moba type of battle game, has very high requirements for the number of players, because you have to ensure that the players have a good experience, as well as the matching interval and quality. When the number of players is too small, the match As long as the time exceeds 30 seconds, it will cause a sense of discomfort.

Fortunately, the number of users has reached the basic requirements, and Cao Yang has no worries in this regard.

The only concern is--

Acquiring a large number of users is only the first step. It is estimated that it will take some time to accumulate to earn money.

Because dota is taking the route of selling skins, the player's willingness to pay and the depth of payment are not very high. Only when the base is large enough can selling skins really make money.

……

The dota game quickly swept the world and became the most popular game in the spring of 2009.

Dota itself has its own extraordinary charm. It condenses the long-term confrontation of mmo into a game. Every player can find his own position and exclusive hero in it. At the same time, the hero operation is better than the traditional e-sports war3. The game is simpler and will not cause dizziness like shooting games. It can also meet the individualized and diversified needs of players, so as long as the players can settle down, it is easy to be attracted by this game.

In addition, Bomi is now not only the largest game manufacturer in China, but also the best game publisher in the world. Through its own channels and advertisements, it can instantly promote and promote dota games in the largest range, so that more People learn about this game.

Bomi’s publicity is faster and better than previous Dota relying on word-of-mouth and players’ spontaneous publicity, so it is easy to get a large number of users.

Dota itself has a certain user base, for example, there are more than 600,000 old dota players worldwide.

The people in this part can guarantee a foundation for dota.

So the users of Bomi’s new dota have grown very fast in the past few days because of the core players of dota.

However, for them, the biggest threshold for playing the new dota is [not adapting]. The game UI, game screen and hero image have all changed. Generally speaking, it is more refined and high-end atmosphere, but it also brings a certain degree. Cognitive difficulties. Fortunately, Bomi has done a good job in this area. Boss Cao had anticipated this from the beginning, so he asked the artists to optimize as much as possible on the basis of maintaining the characteristics of the original hero.

World of Warcraft view, coupled with a sense of characteristics, it is easy to identify this hero at first glance.

Players will be familiar with it after playing a few times.

So although there are still a small number of players on the forum who are not used to it, it is better to play the original old dota, but as time continues to change, more and more players still choose to enter the new dota.

The user pool of the old dota keeps decreasing, and finally everyone accepted the new dota happily.

When you accept the new dota, you will have the feeling of [fuck, this is really amazing].

"I found that as long as you accept this setting, you will open the door to a new world. The dota made by Bomi is really fun." A dota player couldn't help but after playing Bomi's new dota. I sighed after posting on the Internet.

"Yeah, and you have found that none of them, Bomi officially designed a set of old dota hero skins for us very intimately. You can get them as long as you go online. If you think these heroes are unfamiliar, it doesn't matter. You can use these. The old version of the skin will bring you back to the familiar dota environment.

It’s just that when you see other people’s heroes are so mad and cool, don’t you feel a little bit of jealousy?

Hahaha, anyway, after using the classic skin for a day, I decisively abandon the hero skin of the old dota and turn around to embrace the new hero image.

Look at this white tiger, isn’t it bigger than the original one?

Isn’t this Windrunner’s arrow more silky and cooler than the original? "

"Fuck, there are even Dota classic skins, I can only say that the official thoughts are really thoughtful."

"Huh? What is the skin?" Someone quickly captured the key information.

"This is the skin.

Shadow Demon·Lord of Shadows.jpg

Have you seen it? This is an official skin specially created for the hero of Shadow Fiend, and it can be seen that it is Shadow Fiend, right? But suddenly it became a lot taller, right?

And there are specific new special effects in the game. "

"In fact, the so-called skin is the same hero but there are many different images to choose from, but some of them are not available now. I think the official description seems to be probabilistic when doing activities in the future. Some skins can be purchased."

"Fuck, it's amazing. Bomi really knows the players' thoughts thoroughly, and even thought of these details. Seeing the skin of this Shadow Demon, I have an impulse to want it."

"Huh? It's free forever?" Someone found a blind spot.

" is free. If you don’t want to spend money on skins, you can play this game for free, because heroes are given to you for nothing and will not affect the game in any way. These skins are all decorative.

At first, I thought it was impossible to play this hero without a skin, but after studying it carefully, I thought it was okay. "

"Oh, that's good, scare me."

"This way of making money is very conscientious. Not buying skins will not affect playing games at all. After all, Bomi is also a commercial company, and it is impossible to use love to generate electricity.

Skins are just like shopping for clothes. If you like a certain hero's skin, you can just buy it directly. Others will not force you. It is entirely your own preference. "

"Well, this method is quite acceptable."

……

Bomi’s new dota actually relies on selling skins to make money, and there is no rpg content other than that. The game is very streamlined and it is entirely for light competition. This is something that peers did not expect.

"Fuck, I thought Bomi would play some tricks, but I didn't expect that it would end up selling avatars?"

"Although it is also an avatar, it is officially called a skin."

"Will anyone really pay for this decorative thing?"

"The payment rate is definitely not as good as selling the attributes directly. It depends on the number of players in the final dota game. Only when the base is large enough can there be profitability. Otherwise, I think Bomi is the bandwidth consumed by the game every year. And the server costs tens of millions. I don’t know if they can get back their costs."

In fact, at this time, no matter who is a big game player, he will not think that the game users of Dota can exceed tens of millions, because it still has a certain threshold, but it will not underestimate this game.

According to their ideas, the final number of players in dota can be maintained at around 3 million to 4 million.

This number is already a very high number of online game players, but this number may not be enough for the skin to make money by charging.

Cao Yang knows that moba games are the future online game kings. Millions of millions are just a trivial number. His goal is to increase the number of Dota players to 100 million within 5 years.

……

The future will be a period of rapid growth for dota, or moba, for a long period of time.

So what Cao Yang has to do is very simple, that is, let the dota team continuously optimize the content, and at the same time carry out long-term publicity, and organize the content of the competition.

In addition to the old marketing methods, this time Bomi adopted a new marketing plan led by opinion leaders.

In other words, let some more authoritative professional players or powerful dota anchors live broadcast on station A, or publish related videos. Under the leadership of these opinion leaders, many people also inexplicably follow the trend and enter the pit of dota, and It's the kind that you can't extricate yourself once you enter it.

The dota game also has its own shortcomings. For example, the threshold is very high, and it is not friendly enough for novices. Many novices who have not played dota or combat games can easily be killed in the early stage.

So this time, Bomi has done a lot of novice protection and optimization on dota, the most obvious one is the design of the rank——

When players have rank points, many old Dota players can easily put their scores up because they have experience in Dota games, thus leaving the lowest novice stage. Then after the newcomers enter Dota, the players who are matched in the early stage will follow their own. The level is almost the same, and there is no chance of being killed off.

The reason why competitive games are fun is that you can match up to equal opponents and teammates every time you match.

It is meaningless if you keep winning and losing.

In order to make it easier for novices to learn and adapt, Bomi also specially developed many novice levels and tasks this time.

And when the players' level is lower, the official will let the robots to send warmth.

For example, if your level is relatively low, and you have lost several times in a row, then the next time you may be matched against is a robot.

The robot will take the initiative to deliver the door to the head, and will pretend to be [mistake] at the appropriate time, allowing you to escape to the limit.

This is the benefit of Cao Yang's vigorous development of AI.

After all, the competition between players is a zero-sum game, which means that as many players win, as many players lose.

The experience of losing is not necessarily completely negative, but the experience of losing consistently is definitely completely negative.

So when robots are added to match, the players’ winning rate increases. At this time, it is no longer a zero-sum game process, because your opponent may be a robot, and you can win when facing a robot.

When the AI is smart enough, the player may not actually be able to discover this.

Especially in 2009, many game manufacturers have not yet understood this truth, so Bomi’s new dota is very friendly to players, and the reputation of players is also bursting.

……

Thinking of game AI, Cao Yang suddenly thought of Liu Guangran and the others.

It has been almost two years since the establishment of the Bomi research department. Although the research on artificial intelligence and cloud computing carried out by Liu Guangran’s team does not produce results overnight, it may even take a lot of time to have a chance. Little progress, but Cao Yang still cares about the progress of the project.

So this afternoon, he was on his way to the National Tsing Hua University to pick up Miss Mining from work. He stopped by the nearby Bomi Science and Technology Research Institute to see Liu Guangran, and asked him to have a meal and chat or something.

After dota went live, the results are good, so Cao Yang is in a particularly happy mood today.

The scientific research institute is now a rented office building with a total of 14 floors. Bomi has rented 4 to 14 floors for development.

The bottom 1 to 4 floors are the storefronts, such as Lanzhou Ramen, McDonald’s...

The next few floors are the computer room used by Bomi to stack servers. The best servers in the world are used here, and Liu Guangran and the others are provided for research by stacking servers.

For example, cloud computing is to allow multiple servers with super computing power to operate at the same time to achieve ultra-fast computing results.

Just these equipment, Bomi has invested several hundred million.

There are similar computer rooms in Qingbei and other universities. These are research projects in cooperation with Bomi.

……

Cao Yang pressed down the elevator in a familiar way, all the way to the 14th floor, which is the area where Liu Guangran and the others are located.

There are gates that need to be swiped, but Cao Yang's work card has the highest authority, and he is usually very high-profile in front of the media. Almost no one does not know him.

The first day security guards enter the company, they must learn to know the bosses of the president's office, especially their own boss, so if Boss Cao is stopped in the middle, it can only show——

The security guard is really blind.

So Cao Yang went to the 14th floor unimpeded all the way. After swiping his card to enter the office area, he found that Liu Guangran was not in his seat.

Not only is he not in the seat, but there are many people around him.

asked casually, a younger brother next to him said that Liu Guangran was having a meeting in the middle large conference room. It seemed that there was a breakthrough in AI technology, so everyone gathered in it to discuss.

When he heard this, Cao Yang immediately became excited.

Yes, Liu Guangran, he has achieved results.

Is it too sorry for yourself if you don’t listen to it?

"Boss, or I'll tell you something?" The little brother stood up tremblingly.

Although he was recruited by Liu Guangran, everyone knew that the boss’s boss was the unusually young teenager in front of him.

"It's okay, I want to hear it too, I can just go by myself."

Cao Yang patted him on the shoulder, motioned him to sit down, and then walked towards the middle conference room.

……

As soon as I walked to the door, I heard cheers from inside.

"Wow!"

"Ahh!"

This is Liu Guangran’s voice, "Are you right to put the boss's face up? Hahahaha."