As "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" officially ended its public beta, it entered a three-day shutdown period to make preparations and debugs for setting sail again.
At the end of the public beta, "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds", as the first battle royale game in China, also handed over a considerable amount of public beta data to the entire game market.
In the office of the vice president of the Yangcheng Pig Factory Game Headquarters.
Wang Yi held the hot public beta data of "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" in his hand and couldn't help laughing, "I really didn't miss it. The public beta actually exceeded one million players online in real time. The potential is endless!"
It’s no wonder that Wang Yi, as the vice president of the pig factory, is still so excited. It’s just that the decline of the PC game market has already been recognized. It has been a long time since a new game has reached the level of millions of players online at the same time.
For game companies, the data that players are online in real time can be said to be the most valuable and authoritative data for evaluating a game.
How popular a game is and how popular it is with players can be clearly seen by looking at the real-time online data.
As for gimmicks such as 300 million registered players and tens of millions of player reservations, they are basically only used as press releases for external publicity and cannot be used as persuasive data as a reference.
In the golden age of PC games, the data of millions of players online at the same time was not that valuable. In that golden age, it was a standard achievement for almost all popular games.
If this achievement is not achieved, then this game is basically no different from playing on the streets, and whether it is a goose factory or a pig factory, getting this achievement is like picking something out of a bag.
In that golden age, World of Warcraft, which created a record of tens of millions of players online at the same time around the world, also became the undisputed king of the golden age of PC games.
At that time, countless players, including game professionals, were still thinking about the future, feeling that the glory of World of Warcraft was just the beginning of the online gaming era.
Unexpectedly, World of Warcraft suddenly became a high mountain in the online gaming era. Climbing this mountain also means the decline of the PC gaming era.
However, the currently popular League of Legends game has a chance to break this record, but it is just a one-man show and cannot save the decline of the PC gaming era.
In the era of PC games, only a group of old kings are left guarding the glory of the past, and the number of PC game players has gradually declined. On the contrary, mobile game players are increasing day by day, becoming another battleground for military strategists in the game industry.
Both the Goose Factory and the Pig Factory have invariably tilted their game research and development centers towards mobile games, which is evident from this.
When it comes to the domestic PC game market alone, except for a few old-school games that dominate one game, how long has it been since there was a game that could achieve the achievement of "millions of players online at the same time"?
The last game to achieve this achievement was the game "Blade and Soul" that Goose Factory introduced as an agent 2 years ago. It created a real-time online record of 1.5 million players and brought an end to the domestic PC game market.
In the domestic PC game market, Goose Factory is still the well-deserved overlord, whether it is Cross Fire, Dungeon & Warriors, or League of Legends.
Each of these three games maintains a record of millions of players online at any time. With the support of these three phenomenal online games, Goose Factory almost single-handedly dominates the domestic online game market.
As for Pig Factory, which ranks second, there is only one Fantasy Westward Journey Enclosure that is cute.
It is precisely because of Goose Factory's unshakable dominance of PC games that other game manufacturers, including Zhu Factory, have focused on the mobile game market, an area of rapid growth and uncertainty.
If there is only one possibility to overthrow the rule of Goose Factory, then this path must be in mobile games, not PC games.
As the number one challenger, Pig Factory launched three mobile games in one fell swoop last year. It not only transformed its two ace Westward Journey IPs into mobile games, but also took out the Land Coast. It can be said that it has made its ambitions clear.
exuberant.
However, the moves that Pig Factory can use can also be used by Goose Factory, and the arsenal is far richer than that of Pig Factory, especially with the social power that can be used all over the world with one move, who can say that Goose Factory is in the mobile game
What if there is no advantage in the field?
Therefore, although Wang Yi is the vice president of the Pig Factory, he does not think that he can surpass the Goose Factory by completing the difficult operation of turning the drainage channel with the help of mobile games.
However, the performance of the game "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" is indeed surprisingly good. Even due to hardware constraints, it still achieved the achievement of millions of players online at the same time.
If the optimization is better, or as the hardware improves, what potential will "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" have after it is officially launched?
Wang Yi is full of expectations for this, and according to the feedback from the studio that is docking "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds", their team has prepared an overseas trial version and is ready to test the water and launch it on overseas platforms.
"Such an excellent game should not be limited to the domestic market, and this type of game will definitely be more popular in overseas markets. "h1z1" is an example..."
"In comparison, the gameplay of Battle Royale is exactly the same. After all, they are all created by Brandon Green, but the quality of the game is undoubtedly better, not to mention we have the huge advantage of being free..."
"For overseas markets that are accustomed to the buyout system, this is bound to be a dimensionality reduction blow. That is, the early investment is a bit stressful. Fortunately, Mr. Zhou should be the owner who is not short of money."
Thinking of this, Wang Yi couldn't help but smile, even though he had learned through the short video that Zhou Dongsheng was not the illegitimate son he imagined.
But that somewhat legendary resume also made Wang Yi understand why Ding Sanshi was so optimistic about this young man and was willing to donate generously to this game project.
Investing in stocks with such amazing potential is undoubtedly a good thing with huge profits.
In this regard, Wang Yi is naturally prepared to implement this policy to the end, not to mention that "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" can reverse the decline in the PC game market and hand over the results of the public beta with millions of players online at the same time.
It is worthy of more resource allocation, and Pig Factory has the confidence to belong to a major company in both the domestic game market and external game channels.
Although Pig Factory is the second-largest player behind Goose Factory in China, it is still the top game company "under one person". If it really wants to promote a game, it can still easily create an overwhelming publicity offensive.
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"Moreover, this novel battle royale gameplay seems to still be extremely playable on the mobile game platform. However, before that, it is natural to accumulate a sufficient player base for this gameplay and increase efforts.
Just publicize and build momentum..."
As the vice president in charge of Pig Factory Games, Wang Yi's shrewd calculations have already begun.
You can grab mobile games at the same time, and only children can make choices. If you can want them all, it will definitely be a no-brainer.
Even if he personally prefers the PC gaming market, what he needs to consider when sitting in this position is rational interests, not emotions.
Emotions are obviously something that only Ding Sanshi, the pig factory boss, can consider.
And such a game that still shows great potential in the current PC game market has naturally attracted Tenda's attention.
After all, the domestic PC game market, from the perspective of Tenda's game department, is completely Tenda's private territory, no different from the back garden.
Naturally, nothing beyond the control is allowed to happen, and when dealing with thorns, Tengda's usual tactic is to use a big stick in one hand and sweet dates in the other.
Either they were recruited, or... they were copied, and then they were crushed by Tengda's social advantages and became the dust of history.
