In the past ten minutes or so, Zhuyouxing has determined that it is not just one day's games that have such serious unevenness. In the recent period, the average quality of independent games on the PC Battle.net platform has not been very high.
That's right, it's an indie game.
In other words, it is independently developed by a few people and independently published on the Battle.net platform. There is no publisher or middleman in the process. It relies entirely on the recommendation of Youxing Electronic Entertainment to obtain more resources and profits.
In the past, Zhuyouxing had a strong support for independent games and has always strongly recommended various independent games to be launched online.
Among them, the games produced by the three disciples of Zhu Youxing are the first. The average quality of their games is the benchmark for many independent games, and they have also made a lot of money and become role models in the minds of many people.
Zhu Youxing believes that this should be able to achieve a positive cycle.
But the reality doesn't seem to be developing according to the development trajectory he expected.
"Boss, I'm really sorry. It's all my fault."
Not long after, Belred called again.
At this moment, his tone was very low, like a child who had made a mistake.
Zhu Youxing didn't say anything more, but asked: "I want to know the specific reason. I don't need you to apologize directly. Let me determine whether it is your fault."
"Um...Okay boss, actually this matter is related to a department meeting I had before, so I said this is my responsibility."
"Tell me why!"
"It's like this. At that time, in the department meeting of the Battle.net platform, I and several other managers in charge of different platforms were planning the next goals. The goal plan I gave for other game console platforms was to increase the resource allocation for games.
Resources will be allocated to higher-quality games to increase revenue."
"Then what?" Zhu Youxing asked.
"The benefits of the game console platform itself are very good, so it is no problem for them to follow my target plan, but the director in charge of the PC Battle.net platform... I gave him another goal, which is to absorb as much as possible
More games should be added to the PC Battle.net platform, as many as possible. According to our survey, players on the PC Battle.net platform now like to hoard games, which is a different feature from other game platforms."
When Zhu Youxing heard this, he recalled his past.
Back when he was playing on the STEAM platform, he still played every game he bought sincerely, paying great attention every time, and would at least pass every game.
But when Zhu Youxing came into contact with the big game discount event for the first time, he suddenly discovered that many high-quality games that he liked very much before could be bought at very low prices.
When I was there, I would buy as few as seven or eight games, and as many as dozens of games.
With so many games, how is it possible to finish them all?
Most of them are people who heard about the game and bought it and kept it in their inventory, but they may hardly open it and play it.
There are not a few people who behave the same way as Zhu Youxing.’’
Later, players even joked that Steam itself is no longer a gaming platform.
Steam itself has become a game, and its name is Game Collection Emulator.
There is also a very popular meme on the Internet: I spent money to buy all the games, why should I spend time playing them?
It seems that as long as you buy the game, it doesn't matter whether you play it or not.
This is actually not a very good thing.
Zhu Yuxing's expression changed. In the eyes of Belaid who was on the video call, Zhu Yuxing was obviously angry because of this incident.
He had no idea that Zhu Youxing was still thinking about things from his previous life.
"I'm very sorry, boss. It was precisely because I gave such a wrong goal that the department head began to think that blindly increasing the number of games was a good thing."
"How many players bought these games?"
"What?" Belred was stunned.
"I'm talking about how many players bought these make-up games."
"This...this number is not a small number."
"How many players have played the game but haven't played it yet?"
"ah?"
Zhu Youxing said: "Didn't you investigate this?"
"I've investigated it. Of course I've investigated it. Boss, wait a minute."
Two seconds passed, and Belred resumed: "Ninety-nine percent of players have never started these games after buying them."
Sure enough, it was pretty much what I imagined.
Zhu Youxing sighed in his heart.
Some players have really begun to regard the Battle.net platform itself as a game. Collecting enough games on this platform will also become an achievement.
Zhu Youxing remembers that he was similar in the past. At that time, he would be secretly happy because he had hundreds of game inventories of various types. He felt that it was a very proud thing.
But then he gradually began to feel that adding too many junk games to his inventory was contaminating his game inventory. Later, he simply deleted those junk games from his inventory account one by one. Out of sight, out of mind, it was like starting anew.
Back to square one.
"Boss, do you need me to refund all these players?"
Zhu Youxing came back to his senses and said: "Let's not talk about this for now. I want to know what you plan to do next. Will you continue to use this kind of goal to increase the inventory of PC Battle.net?"
"No, of course not, absolutely not. I will follow your previous instructions, boss, to increase the size of the game review team and make our Battle.net platform develop in a high-quality direction in the future."
"There is no need to pursue excellence too much. I just hope that there will be no such boring games in the future. As for other games that are boring in themselves but have complete content, there is no need to remove them from the shelves, as long as they do not involve plagiarism or other bad things.
Behavior."
"Okay, I'll do it now. As for the players who have purchased the game..."
Zhu Youxing thought for a moment, and then said: "Issuing an announcement to these players, telling them clearly which games are included in the game, so that they have the right to know, and the rest is up to them to decide whether to keep these games.
"
"Ah? Boss, I don't understand. The quality of these games is very bad, why would they still want to keep them? If they knew these games were just junk games, wouldn't they be angry?"
"Well... I can't explain it clearly for now. Anyway, just do as I say and don't worry about anything else."
"good."
Although Belred couldn't understand it, it was the boss's request and he had no choice but to implement it.
"Oh, by the way, the average quality of independent games recently is not very good. Have you investigated the specific reasons?"
"I will investigate as soon as possible and try to give you an answer to the boss within today."