This is not a BUG, this is a game feature

The sales of "God's Grace Continent" come from many sources, with domestic sales only accounting for about 60%.

The rest are all from overseas players.

Among them, the personal version priced at 68 yuan with a permanent buyout and the flagship version priced at 88 yuan including accompanying DLC ​​accounted for the absolute majority of sales.

As of the end of July, the total cumulative sales of the personal version and flagship version across all platforms have been approaching 2 million copies, making it the best-selling game in the history of Tianba Studio.

But we’re almost at the top!

According to data provided by Xiaolu, when the sales volume of "God's Grace Continent" exceeded 1.8 million copies, the average daily download and installation volume fell off a cliff.

This also means that the potential of the game has been almost exhausted, and subsequent sales will be increased purely through discounts and hard work.

The professional version is stable.

The sales volume of the professional version, which is priced at 999 yuan/month, is not the focus. After all, it is not even a fraction of the price of the personal version, so there is no need to mention it specifically.

The key is stability!

Except for some individual players who spend money to try out new products and are unable to take advantage of the advantages of the professional version, the professional version is mostly purchased and used by enterprises and studios.

These people use the professional version and after experiencing the full functionality, they almost renew the subscription for a whole year without hesitation.

In the short term, the professional version does not generate as much revenue as the personal version. After all, the personal version sells too much.

But in the long term, the professional version of "Shen's Grace Continent" will be Tianba Studio's second largest source of sustainable income after "Xianyu Digital".

"It's a pity that personalized customization has not been launched yet..."

Chen Ba sighed.

The original intention of launching personalized customization services was to take advantage of those animation companies, but who knew that everyone was so clever that they couldn't take advantage of it at all.

There are companies that have asked about personalized customization services, but they are all tentative inquiries and not very sincere...

The so-called sincerity, of course, is the price.

Chen Ba feels that an animation can easily cost millions and tens of millions, and the production is most likely to be shit, so it shouldn’t be too much for me to charge a part of it, right?

But the animation company couldn't accept it.

This is a conflict of ideas. The animation company is reluctant to accept the plan proposed by Tianba Studio and believes that the fee is too expensive.

The service was attentive though.

In the personalized customization plan, they only need to provide insignificant content such as character design, background setting, script and dubbing, and the rest is packaged by Tianba Studio.

The biggest selling point of personalized customization services, and what these animation companies value most, is the intelligence and real-time deduction of "NPCs".

In traditional animation, except for the protagonist and a few characters around the protagonist, all other passers-by are just background panels.

This also leads to the world created by animation being very "fake" and not realistic enough!

But with the help of the intelligent NPC deduction of "God's Grace Continent", the world created by the animation suddenly becomes "vivid" and more realistic.

"They need a reason."

Yang Dong explained: "No one took the lead. Everyone was hesitant and doubted whether "God's Grace Continent" could achieve the results we promised."

"you mean……"

Chen Ba frowned and said, "We need to build a model house so that others can see the finished product, so that there will be no easy prey?"

"That's right!"

Yang Dong nodded affirmatively.

The reason why no one is willing to pay for the personalized customization service of "God's Grace Continent" and it has not been launched yet is mainly because of the lack of "actual cases".

If it sells for such an expensive price, it must give everyone some confidence, right? But on the market, there is simply no animation produced using the personalized customization service of "God's Grace Continent"!

There is no precedent, and it involves such a large amount of investment, it is normal for animation companies to choose to wait and see.

"Then we do it ourselves?"

Thinking of the industry tradition that real estate developers usually decorate a model house themselves in order to sell their houses, Chen Ba suddenly had an idea.

Since everyone is so hesitant, Tianba Studio might as well take the initiative and prove with practical actions that the personalized customization service of "God's Grace Continent" is indeed very good!

"sure!"

Yang Dong has no objection to this, but he still has a doubt: "However, we can only make games, not animation..."

Yes!

Chen Ba's expression froze.

Although their Tianba Studio is involved in all kinds of businesses, they have never done animation and no one has relevant experience.

This is different from ordinary animation.

Ordinary divine grace animations are the same no matter who makes them, but Chen Ba wants to build a model house. Since it is a model house, it will definitely be better than ordinary divine grace animations.

In this case, just a few people from Tianba Studio really can't make a good "model house".

"I have an idea……"

"Tell me!"

"Weren't there some animation companies that were interested in our personalized customization service for "God's Grace Continent" before?"

Yang Dong slowly explained: "We can choose one of these interested animation companies to cooperate with. We will not charge them money, but only get a share of the profits, and set an example for other companies."

Get your reputation out first!

After this "model house" was built and everyone saw the power of the personalized customization service of "God's Grace Continent", business naturally came to the door.

"That makes sense!"

"Then you go ask and see who is willing to cooperate with us and become the first warrior to eat crabs..."

Chen Ba had no objection to this.

Although he doesn't know much, he also knows that if you don't want to let go of your children, you won't be able to trap the wolf. Everyone who engages in pyramid schemes knows that you need to give people a taste of something sweet before they fall into the trap.

In order to promote the personalized customization service of "God's Grace Continent", you can indeed make less money in the early stage, but you can't kill it too hard.

The question is, who will be the first warrior to dare to try "new technology"?

penguin!

That’s right, the first animation company to take the bait was Penguin.

Penguin holds many popular web IPs waiting to be developed, including animations adapted from web texts.

One of the major difficulties in adapting online novels into animations is that they are “long in length and have many characters”.

Among them, the length is the most difficult to solve. As we all know, online articles usually start with a few million words, so it is very laborious and laborious to adapt.

Fans of the original work are dissatisfied with too many cuts.

If you don't cut it, the budget won't support it, and if you really follow the rhythm of the original novel and make the animation, the look and feel won't be very good to be honest.

After all, one or two episodes are updated a week. As a result, the plot content of these two episodes of animation only adds up to one or two chapters of the original work. Who can withstand this?

But Divine Grace animation is different!

Shen'en Animation's main focus is "large quantity and sufficient management". It uses "Shen'en Continent" to produce an animation adapted from a web text. Relying on powerful real-time calculations, the update speed may be faster than the original novel.

The novel also mentions the Sanshang Yunlan Sect, and the animation has reached the whole world. You didn't expect it, right?

But there will be a problem with the personal or professional version of "God's Grace Continent"...

NPCs are so smart!

Because they are too smart, they will not follow the routine, that is, there are too many random events, which deviates from the original intention of "adapting the original work".

Therefore, Penguin places its hope in the personalized customization service provided by "God's Grace Continent".

They hope that through personalized customization, they can solve the problem of NPCs not playing according to routines and not following the plot lines of the original novels, and adapt well-known Internet masterpieces.

A solution to this problem has already been found during the communication stage.

As long as the original online novel is provided, Tianba Studio can let the NPCs of "God's Grace Continent" change their identities and deduce the plot according to the plot route.

That’s right, it’s still a deduction!

It's impossible to follow the plot completely. After all, these NPCs don't really listen to Brother Ba.

However, through time and space retrieval, modification tools, etc., the extent of plot deviation can be controlled within an acceptable range.

for example.

The protagonist is a hero who saves a beautiful girl. In the original novel, he fights ruffians and saves a wealthy lady. In the Divine Grace version, the ones who are beaten are the rich kids and the ones who are saved are the common people...

This error or offset can just be fooled by "adaptation", so Penguin can accept it.

Only on the price, the two parties did not reach an agreement.

This time, Tianba Studio proposed a "model house" plan, providing free personalized customization services and only charging a portion of the proceeds from the animation, which made Penguin very interested.

As a result, the two sides hit it off immediately.

After careful screening, an online novel named "This Brave Man is Too Stable" finally stood out and became the target of the first personalized customized "God's Grace Animation".

First of all, although the original novel is classified as a "light novel", the subject matter still belongs to the Western fantasy genre that "God's Grace Continent" is best at.

Secondly, the most essential and biggest highlight of this novel is the solid character design of the protagonist "Paz". The supporting characters and other branch plots are secondary.

That is to say...

Even if the NPC acts as a monster and causes the animation plot to deviate slightly from the original route, as long as the protagonist's character is still strong, there will be no problem.

For other animations, it takes a long time from preparation to production to broadcast.

But this is a divine animation!

After discussing the details of the plan on the first day, the next day we made a customized NPC for the protagonist "Paz", introduced the background of the novel, and started the plot deduction in the afternoon.

On the third day, the animation started.

In fact, if Penguin hadn't been very cautious and repeatedly checked the completion quality of the animation, a 25-minute animation episode would have been checked no less than ten times, and the animation would have been launched the next day.

Ten episodes are updated a day. This is only the limit of voice actors and editors, not the limit of "God's Grace Continent"...

If it weren't for the voice actor's poor voice and the editor's direct cry of "spare me," Chen Ba would have wanted to update a hundred episodes a day.

"This Brave Man is Too Steady" is an online novel that became popular last year and has a high reputation and fan base across the Internet.

After learning that the novel was adapted into an animation, many fans were looking forward to the final product, and even had a little doubt, questioning whether Penguin could do a good job as the protagonist "Paz".

As a result, once the animation "This Brave Man is Too Steady" jointly produced by Penguin Animation and Tianba Studio was broadcast, everyone was immediately relieved.

Not just relieved.

Simply overjoyed!

The animated version of "Paz" is more afraid of death than the original novel, and he has the word stability engraved in his bones.

Although the adapted plot is slightly different from the original novel, everyone understands that this is a "divine grace animation" after all, and it is already amazing to restore it to this.

The most important thing is... the animated version is updated ten episodes a day. Do you understand what this concept is?

So happy!

In fact, the completion quality of "This Brave Man is Too Steady" is not very high. Compared with those top animations, it can only be regarded as an above-average level.

But it’s better to have more than enough and control enough...

Ten episodes are updated in one day. The audience has not finished the update of the previous day, and ten more episodes are added the next day.

According to Penguin Video officials, the number of registered episodes of this animation is as high as 1,074, and it is expected to be completed before the end of the year.

Yes, you heard it right.

An animation with 1,074 episodes, regardless of season one, two or three, can be broadcasted in one go, and it only takes three months!

Good guy.

The audience laughed from ear to ear, and the video membership was directly renewed until next year. Brother Ba also laughed very happily, because with the model house, there will be no shortage of business in the future.

Only those friends who had new works aired at the same time, looked at the update progress of "This Brave Man is Too Steady" with ten episodes a day, and their faces turned green with anger.

An animation of this quality can be filmed and broadcast at the same time. You tell me, ten episodes can be updated a day? A thousand episodes in three months?

Chen Ba, you deserve to die!

Some people were so angry that they were dizzy and felt that their future was bleak. Some people joined because they couldn't beat them, and then they contacted Tianba Studio.

all in all……

The impact of "This Brave Man is Too Steady" is actually even more exaggerated than the original "The Adventures of Jayne".

Because "The Adventures of Jayne" and other Shen'en animations are all mass-produced works on the assembly line.

The lower limit of this kind of animation is very high, but the upper limit is also very low, because it lacks a magical plot and interesting characters, and the graphics are also rough.

And "This Brave Man is Too Steady" fills this gap.

As long as there are suitable characters, backgrounds and creativity, combined with the personalized customization services provided by Tianba Studio, animations with a quality of 80-90 points can be produced.

And the output is extremely high, and 1,000 minutes of finished feature film can be produced in one day.

Although the picture quality is not up to the top, it is not much worse than ordinary animation. It just depends on the audience's aesthetic preference.

How does this work?

Ordinary divine grace animations can only cover the theme of "different worlds". But Tianba Studio’s personalized customization has covered 80% of animation themes.

The good news is…

"God's Grace Continent" is limited by the turn-based game itself. The fighting cannot be done well, and the animation with more gorgeous special effects cannot be done.

Plot-oriented and daily-life animations are what "God's Grace Continent" is best at.

But this is also terrifying!

We can't just stop doing daily and plot-oriented animations and rush to watch passionate battle series like "Dragon Ball", right?

Considering the general trend of future development, many people thought about it and finally decided to join if they can't beat it!

At present, Shen’en animation has not yet become mainstream. After all, divorced from another world, other themes are not easy to develop...

But moving in this direction, it would definitely be right to make more divine grace animations. Not only to accumulate experience for the future, but also to save costs.

Divine Grace Animation is so cheap!

Not to mention the 68 yuan personal version and the 1,000 yuan professional version. Even the most expensive personalized customization is actually very cheap compared to the labor cost...