Number One Game Designer

Chapter 156: Four or two

According to the market data of the Honghu platform in late July detected by the IGN crawler, they were surprised to find that in the community market of the Honghu platform in late July, more than 100 million orders were transacted, and the total transaction amount was more than 20 million US dollars. The community trading Hongyi will take a 5% commission, that is to say, in addition to the game of survival, Hongyi has already obtained a net profit of 1 million US dollars in half a month by relying on commission extraction alone.

For half a month, Hongyi did nothing. Hongyi made a million while lying down. This is a performance that many companies cannot achieve by selling games alone. Hongyi once again used actions to make surrounding companies. Square inch chaos: Can you make money without relying on games? Many companies have been studying the operation mode of the Honghu platform overnight, and it seems that they will have to make a similar one in half a month.

Hongyi's own executives were very moved when they saw this change. Fang Xi had been tireless in previous meetings and didn't know how many times he had told them: Hongyi should be a first-class company that sets standards. They all believed that Hongyi's previous success was due to Fang Xi's unique vision in the game, but until now, they did not know what it means to plan ahead, what it means to plan for a rainy day, and what it means to make a fortune.

It can be expected that the data of the Honghu platform community market of $1 million in this half month is far from the limit. Hongyi will have many other games in the future. The more games, the more players and the larger the transaction amount, the Honghu platform is a real reality. A real hen who can lay golden eggs.

However, Fang Xi and other executives only stayed on the community market of the Honghu platform for a short time before moving away, because another masterpiece of Hongyi will be launched in August:

"Eternal" is officially in the global synchronous public beta!

At the last two stations at the end of July, Lu Tao suffered from insomnia.

Why did Lu Tao first come to Hongyi? Lu Tao himself almost couldn't remember, he just felt that he who stayed at Yinling seemed to be slowly decayed all the time, and he played one game after another, and the preparation work was the same every time: refer to the previous year's work. For successful games, refer to the successful games of the previous year, and then refer to the successful games of the previous year. It seems that the game names of Yinling have become more dazzling in the past few years, but after tearing off the coat, the internal things are the same. It's nothing more than the suit of grievances and hatreds and then put on a game, Lu Tao has not been moved by playing a new game for the first time for a long time.

Until the graduation design competition unit of Haifang University, Killing Planet, a game of only 64KB, gave him a bright feeling. Later in the conversation at the cafe, Fang Xi later said that this game was just for social protection. There is no plot, no options, and some just choose all the enemies that social security appears in front of you. Concise, refreshing, venting the gloom in my heart, really friendly to Lu Tao.

Later, he watched this young man take over the company by himself, quickly traveled out of the web, and then collected money. He also had a feeling of no surprises about the success of the web game. He first saw his confident speech at Haifang University. At that time, he There is an illusion that this person will change the game world, and now I know that this is not an illusion.

So he did not hesitate to change jobs, seeming to be reckless, but in fact, Lu Tao had been fighting for a long time, and finally he chose to respect his interest in games, and he even felt that his time in Yinling had been wasteful in the past few years. Nothing new at all.

Fang Xi was very good. Meeting Fang Xi gave him his trust, and then he was entrusted with an important task: to develop a moba game that is unfamiliar to everyone. In this process, Lu Tao also gradually understood why Fang Xi so smart.

In addition to the endless creativity in his head, his biggest feature should be to put himself in the position of the player. Every game demo is the first time to check, and any bugs have repeatedly asked to put himself in the player's position. , And think about when I was in Yinling, I was the director at the time. Above me, no one was in contact with the game every day. For the group of people in the office of the board of directors, the president, and the general manager, for them, the game was really just a tool. Financial reports, dance parties, bars, and golf are what they care about. The country is like a leek field. Old players are tired of the game and can’t make money. There will always be a new crop of players who will grow up and be famous by them. The sickles of "old company" and "masterpiece of feelings" have been harvested time and time again.

It was also at Hongyi that I found the feeling that a group of people optimized the game time and time again just to make the experience a little bit better.

But in the process, Lu Tao slowly panicked instead.

When he was entrusted to "Eternal", Hongyi only had three page games at the time, and he seemed to be Fang Xi's biggest trump card at the time.

At that time, Fang Xi also said that one of Hongyi's main projects in the future of "Eternity" will take on the main role of Honghu's global game layout in the future.

But at that time, Hongyi didn’t even have a formal end game. Fang Xi said that it was more like a future goal. Of course, Lu Tao was full of confidence, but in the past year when Lu Tao devoted himself to the development of "Eternal", Hongyi games have become too many. Up...

At the San Francisco Game Show, Lu Tao first saw Fang Xi’s calling ability in Europe and the United States and his popularity in Chengdu. Subsequently, the portal was praised as a work of art by many game media. "Road to Survive" has created a myth in China, and it seems that it cannot be surpassed in the short term.

At E3, Lu Tao once again saw the appeal of Hongyi, or Fang Xi, a company that has just embarked on the international market for half a year. The game project was used as the finale of the third day by E3, and it was because he made an exception for the first time at E3 to allow an introduction. Two software.

In this case, as the launch time of "Eternity" approaches step by step, Lu Tao is anxious like a mouse on the stove:

When the company was founded, what Fang Xi said can be used as a slogan, as a ten- to twenty-year goal, the slogan is the same thing.

But now that a year has passed, Fang Xi tells him: What I told you was true, come on!

How to play this way is like when everyone said when I was young, I want to go to Tsinghua University and he wants to go to Peking University.

As a result, the next day after you said this, your parents sent you to the examination room and told you: After you have said you will go to Tsinghua University, you can’t go back, come on~

In this case, Fang Xi also told Lu Tao that he had other things at the beginning of the month and asked Lu Tao to host the press conference of "Eternity."

Lu Tao sweats like rain.

Caring for chaos probably refers to his mentality. If after coming to Hongyi, Lu Tao's "Eternal" is the first online end game, then Lu Tao will not worry about his achievements.

But now there is Fang Xi Zhuyu ahead, and compared with Fang Xi, he is still a veteran producer. What if "Eternity" hits... Lu Tao dare not think.

However, no matter how Lu Tao is tossing, time is still going bit by bit. On the last day of July, the public beta launch of Hongyi's Heart Game "Eternity" is still here!