In the traditional game industry, it is a very common method to send games to the media for evaluation in advance.

However, in the previous era of television and paper media, this approach had the greatest significance. Because this behavior is actually an invisible exchange.

Don’t think that public opinion wars only exist in the Internet age. In fact, after the media, disputes of public opinion have always existed. Every media wants to be the "brighter" in its related industry, so it follows the trend in the cultural media industry at that time. , Under the impetus of the media, a large number of commentators were born.

There are film critics who are more familiar with the evaluation of movies, and the less popular ones are those who evaluate music, those who evaluate books, those who evaluate comics, and of course there are those who evaluate games. In the adult world or the world of capital, this is essentially an exchange. You give the other party the right to evaluate you, and in exchange, the other party must build momentum for you.

It sounds fair, but it's like there must be shadows under the light. If you want to promote your work vigorously, what should you do if the work itself is too shining? What if the quality of your competitor's work is very good and it is easy to squeeze and you have no market space? The answer is self-evident. In this process, the media has become a character full of food.

So in fact, one of the advantages of the Internet age is that everyone can comment, so the black-box operation of collecting money is meaningless. In the past, when the media was relatively single, the authority of those comments returned to the hands of the people in the Internet age.

A fan of games or comics, as long as he is interested, he can write a detailed text evaluation within an hour. If he loves the work more, he may use a camera or two pictures to fix it, even if Even with dim sum, I can spend a week's spare time to make a simple and simple video to show people who don’t know Amway’s favorite literary works.

These can be posted online within a few minutes for everyone to see. In this case, using some media's black-box operations to score false scores can only be self-defeating.

After the Huaxia District arrived at Hongyi, this symbolic deal was abandoned. All of Hongyi’s previous masterpieces, in terms of making all the media burst into tears, all the previous beta versions they received were sold in the game. It was decided afterwards. In this case, all they could do was to give Hongyi the icing on the cake.

For example, after the release of Hongyi's "Legend of Survival", the online situation is very good. This kind of exciting four-person team to fight zombies, so that everyone's adrenaline soars, and they still promise to always update the dlc game. Players have already It sets the tone of the game. If ign and "Game World" jump out at this time and say that the defects of this game are very serious, and it is not a god, balabala, it is to look for death, and Hongyi does not need to come forward. The player himself will first Will question their aesthetic level.

And follow the public opinion to blow the corners, the result is that no one remembers you, just like the rating of the game media "Left to Survive", it will also be used when players use it to benchmark other shooting games. , I forgot about the rating at other times.

In other words, in his own games, Fang Xi minimized the media's right to speak, but relied on the Honghu platform to create a new evaluation system operated by the players themselves.

Under this circumstance, Fang Xi sent a demo version for the first time when the game hadn't even been announced. It was enough to be pleasantly surprised, and it must be the same on IGN.

I set up the camera, and then returned to the table. First, I showed the fine workmanship of the box in detail. Although it is a small box, the pattern on it is definitely game-related. After more observation, it is possible to enter the game. There will be surprises.

After the display is finished, open the box, with a silk cloth bottom inside, a small depression in the middle, and a delicate small USB flash drive.

Shui Ran professionally wore a plastic glove, picked it up and put it in front of the camera for a full display.

The USB flash drive adopts a minimalist design. There is no complicated pattern on the black base. Instead, it is a very simple Hongyi logo. At the back, the words "Eight Direction Traveler" are written in a cartoon font. After rubbing it twice, I found it. The position of the corner was a bit wrong, and I picked it up and took a look at the light, and found that there was a line of plain text inscribed here.

ID: 003

The simple meaning is, it should mean that this USB flash drive is a limited edition, maybe the number is less than a thousand, but out of a woman’s intuition, Shui Ran’s first concern is: the USB flash drive sent by IGN. Is the number on the 002 or 004?

001 certainly belongs to Fang Xi, even if it is not Fang Xi's, it must be from Hongyi's internal executives, and the number sent by Shui Ran feels that it represents the degree of importance this is attached to them. Which one of "GAME World" or ign important?

But Shui Ran immediately thought that he was impatient now: he received Hongyi's package only today, and IGN was in America, and they might get it a day later than him.

One day late?

There was a smile at the corner of Shui Ran's mouth. Although he did not have the full right to comment, this time, among the two media facing Hongyi, "GAME World" was one step ahead in time, saying that it had sent invitations to the two major media. , But who makes it slower to receive invitations in the weekly ign?

Thinking of this, Shuiran speeded up his hand movement.

After displaying the box and the USB flash drive, what is left is an invitation card, and Hongyi has also taken care of this invitation card.

It's not an invitation in the ordinary sense. I opened the title page and presented a three-dimensional invitation card before my eyes. After opening it, a small forest was erected between the two invitation pages. Eight protagonists stood in it, or curious, or Offensive or defensive, to face this dark jungle.

"It looks like an unusual RPG game."

Shuiran naturally still has two brushes, so I started to analyze this invitation card;

"It shows eight characters, which can be made like this, which shows that these eight characters are very important in the game. We know that the most important thing in an RPG game is a success story. In this, the player control is generally the protagonist team. , But even the protagonist group often has a primary and secondary distinction. But in this invitation, the eight characters do not prominently highlight one of them, so either the protagonist is not on it, or...In short, we can see an invitation So many have arrived, not much else, I'll open the game and take a look at it in detail!"

"Then the video can only be shown here. The rest of the content will not be disclosed because it involves the principle of confidentiality. We will confirm with the Hongyi official one by one what we can show you. If we can tell you Yes, we must inform as soon as possible."

I made a playful ending, and then naturally it is the content of the main course of this test. It is what Shui Ran expects most, and it also needs to be kept secret from the players.

Evaluation of the new game.