Everyone stood up quickly and welcomed Mr. Pei in. Hu Xianbin gave up the central position to Mr. Pei.
After Pei Qian took his seat, he glanced around, but did not see Bao Xu.
"Bao Xu is traveling again?" Pei Qian asked casually.
In his impression, Bao Xu was indeed not in the company often. He was either traveling or on his way to travel.
But then I thought about it, there seems to be no travel activities recently?
The selection of outstanding employees takes place in February and August. There are still two months until the next selection, and there are no annual meetings or other events in the near future.
What about Bao Xuren?
Hu Xianbin quickly explained: "Mr. Pei, Brother Bao has been helping out at the snack market recently. I don't know the specific situation. Does he need to attend this meeting?"
Pei Qian immediately shook his head: "No, I just asked casually."
This Bao Xu, what is he going to the snack market to mix up?
Pei Qian was a little confused as to what the motivation behind Bao Xu's behavior was. He didn't seem like the kind of person who likes to meddle in other people's business?
But it doesn't matter, Bao Xu is not a gourmet.
Let him harm the snack market, which is less harmful than harming the game department.
Anyway, I guess Bao Xu won't be able to escape the fate of being a traveling companion in the next selection. He's already like this, so he can do whatever he likes.
Everyone took their seats and the meeting continued.
Hu Xianbin said: "Mr. Pei, after we received the task of adapting "Eternal Fall into Reincarnation", we immediately organized the designers in the department to read the original novel. Now we have specially invited the author here just to roughly finalize the DLC.
The specific content.”
"However, everyone's opinions are not particularly unanimous, and the specific form of this DLC has not yet been finalized."
"Just in time, Mr. Pei, please come and give us some advice! How should we make this DLC?"
Everyone looked at Mr. Pei eagerly, their eyes full of hope.
DLC has been developed for "Return to the Shore" before, with some new weapons, new props, reincarnation mode and random mode, but the situation at that time was different from now.
The previous DLC only supplemented some gameplay, the content was not particularly rich, and the price was set very cheaply, just to find something to do for the old players of "Return to the Shore".
This DLC involves the copyright development of the book "Eternal Fall into Reincarnation". Judging from Mr. Pei's intention, it is obvious that he wants to show the essence of the novel as much as possible. To make a substantial DLC, it cannot be fooled easily.
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But the problem is that if you want to change the content of fan fiction into the game, you not only need to understand the plot of the novel thoroughly, but also need to make a special design in the game that corresponds to the plot.
These changes may conflict with the original gameplay of the game and require some trade-offs.
As a result, everyone will not be able to reach a consensus quickly.
Just in time, Mr. Pei is here!
As the father of "Return to the Shore", Mr. Pei will definitely come up with a perfect solution!
Pei Qian pondered for a moment: "Uh... before talking about the game, let me briefly emphasize two things."
"The first thing is that we have been notified before. Everyone must keep the copyright development of the inspiration class works confidential and not leak it."
"The second thing is that within two months, that is, before August 1, everyone can make preliminary preparations for DLC development, but do not formally initiate the development project."
Preliminary preparation is not equivalent to project development.
The concept of early preparation is relatively broad. For example, thinking about the specific methods of DLC in your mind, or making several drafts, or even making minor repairs to some art resources in advance are considered early preparations.
If this is the case, it will not be regarded as opening a new project by the system and will not affect settlement.
But once the project is formally established, the development schedule is set, and the release date of the game DLC is clearly planned, it will be considered a new project, which will affect the settlement.
Pei Qian emphasized that this is mainly to ensure that settlement is not affected.
Hu Xianbin nodded: "Understood, Mr. Pei. What you mean is that the large-scale DLC "Eternal Fall into Reincarnation" requires a lot of preparation. Let us make sure to dig deep into the inspiration. After being fully prepared, after two months of precipitation, we can
Don’t be too impatient when it comes to official development, right?”
Pei Qian: "...Almost."
Obviously, the understanding of Hu Xianbin and others is slightly different from Pei Qian's original idea, but since the results are basically the same, that's fine.
Pei Qian added: "As for the design of the DLC...well, how did your discussion go?"
"I can give you some advice as appropriate, but in the end it's up to you to decide."
Originally, Pei Qian had no intention of getting involved in the design of DLC. He has a lot on his plate now, and he doesn't care whether he pays attention to the DLC of a mere game.
But Pei Qian suddenly thought of something and changed his mind.
Until now, "Return to the Shore" is not free!
According to the system's regulations, a stand-alone game can be free if it has been on sale for more than 10 months and the current month's revenue has dropped to less than one-fifth of the revenue in the month following the release.
But the problem is that the income of "Return to the Shore" is still very strong up to now. Every time it seems to be about to drop to one-fifth of the next month's income, it always miraculously rebounds!
In this way, the sales of "Back to the Shore" are always jumping horizontally, but no matter how much they jump, they just can't jump to the standard of being free!
This makes Pei Qian very painful and confusing.
Who on earth is still buying "Return to the Shore"?
It’s been two years since this game was released, how come it’s still making money?
You can’t avoid it even if you want it to be free, it’s so cheating!
Pei Qian felt that the reason why these people continued to be tortured was because the difficulty was not set high enough.
It stands to reason that the difficulty of "Back to the Shore" should be able to dissuade a large number of players. But after Qiao Laoshi released a very detailed and detailed strategy video, many people just need to follow the video, move forward steadily, and get a little bit of training.
Suffering will always make it through.
Many new players come here because of the game, and rely on these strategy videos to continue playing until they pass the level, continuously contributing to the sales of "Return to the Shore".
This situation cannot continue, the difficulty must be adjusted higher!
Pei Qian plans to make a cool move.
Other games put DLC behind the main body. Players usually experience the main game content first and then experience the DLC.
But this time, Pei Qian wants to put the DLC before the main body.
It will not affect players who have already cleared "Return to Shore", but if they are players who have not played "Return to Shore", after entering the game, they will experience the DLC content first, and then experience the main content of "Return to Shore".
The DLC has a special screening mechanism: you must clear the content of the previous chapters before you can pay to purchase the DLC; and after clearing the DLC, you will get a 30% discount when paying to purchase the main body of "Return to the Shore".
It will not affect old players, but for new players, they will definitely be greedy for this 30% discount, which will lead to a decrease in the number of people buying the main body of "Return to the Shore". This will not be able to reduce the sales of the main body of "Return to the Shore" and meet the system requirements.
Will it be free after that?
If you get one month early for free, how much less money will you make!
Of course, in order to take care of the players' emotions, there will be corresponding instructions before the main body of "Return to the Shore" is free, and players who spend money to purchase it in the short term can get a guaranteed refund service.
This plan is quite perfect, but there are currently two main problems facing Pei Qian.
The first is the difficulty issue. The difficulty of "Return to the Shore" is already very high for him, and he can only defeat it with the weapon "Pudu". If the difficulty is increased, how will Pei Qian pass the game by himself?
The second is the plot issue. To put DLC before the main body, experience the DLC first and then the main content. There must be a convincing reason.
And Pei Qian hasn't thought about these yet.
He has never read the plot of the book "Eternal Fall into Reincarnation".
Therefore, Pei Qian plans to ask everyone about the discussion first, and then put forward his own opinions as appropriate.
Hu Xianbin handed over a piece of information: "Mr. Pei, here are the ideas we compiled before and the outline of the story of "Eternal Fall into Reincarnation". Please take a look."
"What we are currently considering is to start with the identity of the protagonist."
"According to the background of the story of "Eternal Fall into Reincarnation", the entire story takes place in a period when the world of "Return to the Shore" has not yet collapsed. The protagonist is a powerful human warrior. His skills are extraordinary and holy. He walks around the world, hone his skills, and becomes
A generation of martial gods."
"But no matter how powerful a person is, he will face death. In his later years, he tried every means to escape the fate of death. He forced a skilled craftsman to build himself a magic sword that could kill the soul, and let it be stained with the blood of the eminent monks.
, and asked the witchcraft to create a pill that would allow him to enter the world of Yin and Yang before he died."
"When Black and White Wuchang came to claim his life, the god of war used the magic sword to kill Black and White Wuchang. Driven by the magic sword, he slaughtered all the ghosts who came to arrest him. He stepped into the underworld and let the entire six realms
Samsara collapses."
"But at the last moment, he woke up and realized that he had made a big mistake under the power of the magic sword. The demons in the entire hell were about to wake up. So he went deep into the hell, combined his body with the Tao, and became
The first prisoner."
"Our current idea is to arrange an NPC in the initial village. After the player witnesses the killing of the prisoner for a week, he will get a prop and give it to the NPC. Then he can travel to the DLC and experience the story content of "Eternal Reincarnation"
.”
"The combat system of the game continues to be used, but some new weapons and props are added, such as special combos, execution skills, etc., to highlight the identity of the protagonist 'Martial Saint', which is different from the weak character of the main body of "Back to the Shore"
The protagonists contrast.”
Pei Qian pondered for a moment and did not respond immediately.
It can be seen that for Hu Xianbin and others, such a degree of change can be regarded as quite "bold".
After all, this is just DLC, not a sequel or a new game.
