This time the FV team’s championship skin is a bit strange.
For example, for junglers, last year’s champion skin was Storm Swordsman, and this year’s champion skin is Storm Swordsman-Void Hermit!
The Storm Swordsman is a normal human figure, wearing a storm-surging armor all over his body and holding a long sword in his hand, while the Void Hermit is a Void Zerg that looks more like a humanoid, and its weapons are two front claws.
The two images themselves are quite different and not very comparable, but they still managed to come together.
The finished Storm Swordsman-Void Hermit skin, the action module is still the original Void Hermit module, but it is put on the Storm Swordsman's armor. The original Zerg claws become two daggers, and the whole body still has
Storm surge special effects.
Movement, attack actions, skill actions, etc. still retain the characteristics of the Void Hermit as much as possible, but they are closer to the Storm Swordsman in appearance.
It is very reasonable not to change the action module, after all, players must be able to tell which hero it is.
In addition, there is the animation of returning to the city: the armor of the Storm Swordsman's body was shattered, the sword was thrown to the ground, and the Void Hermit emerged from it and escaped into the void.
The skin of the other four people is also the same,
In fact, this approach is quite common. Ioi has also released skins with the theme of "element swap" before, which means to swap the elements of the trainer and the pet. The response at that time was not bad.
But after the skin came out, I discovered that it was not the case at all.
The players are all so imaginative that they are completely wrong!
Players have speculated that this champion skin contains at least three levels of meaning.
First of all, this shows that compared to the Void Hermit, the Storm Swordsman is the true love of the players. Choosing the Void Hermit as the skin is out of necessity. The official forcefully strengthened the Void Hermit, so that it could only be used in the finals.
What can be done?
But no matter what, the hero in my heart will always be the Storm Swordsman.
Secondly, the Storm Swordsman was dead, his armor was broken, and his sword was thrown on the ground. Was he killed by the Void Hermit? Of course not, he was killed by the Finger Company. The Finger Company chopped off the Storm Swordsman with one blow and let him
There was no point in continuing to survive, so the Void Hermit was forcibly replaced.
In the end, is the end of the Void Hermit? Maybe this time the Void Hermit will emerge from the Storm Swordsman's body, and next time another hero will emerge from the Void Hermit's body. This time, Finger Company has cut off the balance of the game.
The Void Hermit has actually foreshadowed such an ending.
To sum up, this skin is to remind everyone to remember the good things that Finger Company did during the two World Championships. Anyway, every player has his own way of interpretation, and everything is self-explanatory.
Think about the scene of the FV team in the first ioi global finals, using their own heroes to kill everyone.
Think again about the scene where the FV team struggled to win the championship in the ioi second global finals with the powerful heroes they had worked so hard to train.
Behind this, everything is filled with the dirty behind-the-scenes operations of Zhidou Company!
Pei Qian looked at the discussion among the players and had mixed feelings.
He also wants to cry out for the Finger Company!
In fact, can all of these blame be placed on Zhidou Company? No, some things may not be Zhidou Company’s original intention, and may be due to limitations of some objective factors, or simply being misunderstood by players.
But the problem now is that players no longer have any trust in Zhidou Company!
This is the so-called "Tacitus Trap": once the emperor becomes the object of people's hatred, then whether he does good things or bad things, it will equally arouse people's hatred of him.
In other words, once an organization loses its credibility, no matter whether it is telling the truth or lies, everyone will think it is telling lies; no matter whether it does something out of goodwill or malice, everyone will think it is a lie.
Out of spite.
Take this event as an example, what would happen if GOG had the exact same event?
No problem, everyone will happily try out the New Year skins, Valentine's Day skins and championship skins.
As for the championship skin, everyone will never interpret or speculate so maliciously, but simply regard it as a complete job.
There is no way, this kind of differential treatment is the result of previous reputation accumulation, and it is useless to do anything.
In short, the various comparisons between GOG and ioi's New Year activities made Pei Qian feel that something was wrong.
"Wait, something's wrong. This ten million... Why does it seem like I gave it to GOG personally?"
Pei Qian felt that this New Year red envelope event looked familiar. If he thought about it carefully, wasn't this the 10 million profit quota?
At that time, Pei Qian also asked each department to submit a report explaining how the 10 million profit quota would be used. As a result, GOG did not submit an application, and it felt like it did not need the 10 million.
So Pei Qian forced the 10 million to go.
As a result, I never expected it to be used here!
In fact, without GOG's red envelope event, ioi's Spring Festival event wouldn't have been so scolded. With GOG's comparison, ioi's players immediately couldn't stand it anymore and ran away one after another.
It can be said that GOG’s 10 million has completely added fuel to the fire!
But can we blame Eric and Zhao Xuming? It seems... we can't blame them either.
Pei Qian has given these ten million to them, what can they do with it? Holding a Spring Festival event and handing out red envelopes seems to be a reasonable choice...
"What should I do? Ioi can still withstand it..."
"Let me take a look at the official website of Longyu Group. Brothers, you must not lose confidence. I am still counting on you to give me a hand..."
Pei Qian opened the official website of Longyu Games, but when he saw the homepage, he was dumbfounded.
The big banners on the homepage of the official website are basically all kinds of games represented by Longyu Group. ioi has always been the first one before, and it is also promoted as a key game.
However, now the most important game on the homepage has changed hands!
Finger Company's ioi has suddenly been pushed to the back, and its first game has become "Bullet Marks 2"!
"What's going on? Even ioi's recommendation position has been withdrawn??"
"The tea is cold when people leave! This is it! Longyu Group is too unloyal. Isn't this adding insult to injury to ioi?"
"This is too much! Condemn, must be condemned!"
"Uh... something's wrong, wait a minute."
"What is being promoted now is "Bullet 2"? This game has already been developed?"
"I get a share of the money made by "Bullet 2"... That's okay, please increase your efforts!"
Pei Qian was still complaining about ioi, after all, he had high hopes for ioi. If ioi couldn't stop GOG, then it would really have to dominate the BA circle, which Pei Qian definitely didn't want to see.
When the time comes, GOG will have no final opponent, and it will really make money even while lying down!
If you want to burn money and fight a price war, you will have no rivals!
Although skins are cheap, there are many players! And in addition to skin fees, various derivative industries including the e-sports industry are also making money. This is a very complex chemical reaction that Pei Qian cannot bear.
Now it’s not just the recommendation position of ioi on Longyu Game’s official website that has been changed.
Because this shows the attitude of Longyu Group, the subsequent publicity resources will naturally be reduced!
Isn't this shocking news?
But then Pei Qian thought about it, that's not right, Long Yu Games is promoting "Bullet Marks 2", and as the designer of "Bullet Marks 2", he can get a 4% bonus from this game!
Of course, this 4% refers to 4% of the net profit obtained by Tianhuo Studio from this game, but that is still a lot!
When Pei Qian first started developing "Bullet Marks 2", he was trying to make a loss. He mainly wanted to test the waters. If he could sum up his failure experience, then Tenda might be able to use it.
But after learning that he also received a share of the bonus, Pei Qian completely changed his mind.
If this game loses money, the money comes from Tianhuo Studio and Longyu Group, and Tenda has no share in the loss, but if it makes a profit, it is a real bonus!
The key point is that as a direct competitor to "Sea Fortress", it may be able to reduce the income of "Sea Fortress", which is quite good.
"Give me fire! The hotter the better!"
"Although Tengda gets a 30% share of the money I make, I can bear it! For the sake of the bonus, I am willing to spend more brain cells thinking about how to spend the money!"
Pei Qian instantly forgot his previous unpleasantness and clicked on "Bullet Marks 2" to start playing.
"Min Jingchao, I have placed all my hopes on you. You'd better design this game for me better. If you don't get the bonus, you'll have to wait to go to the VIP travel class!"
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At the same time, among many FPS game player groups, news of the official launch of "Bullet Marks 2" spread like wildfire.
There are also many people discussing in Chen Sha's fan group.
Chen Sha's online name is "Failed and Sinful". He is a very experienced player of FPS games with good skills. He was originally a well-known figure in the "Counter-Terrorism Plan" circle.
When Tianhuo Studio was developing "Bullet Marks" before, they asked him to experience the game as an opinion leader among the player groups. Later, through Lin Wan's matchmaking, he made great contributions to the publicity and promotion of "Sea Fortress".
Of course, gradually he stopped playing "Counter-Terrorism Plan" and "Bullet Traces" and focused on "Sea Fortress".
Later, with the rise of live broadcasting, Chen Sha also signed a contract with Langya Live, and is now considered one of the top anchors in the "Sea Fortress" section.
In fact, Chen Sha also considered Tuwei Live Broadcasting at first, but he had no choice. Langya Live Broadcasting offered him a big contract, and it was better to make money.
His fan group is basically all loyal players of FPS games. In addition to playing games together every day, they just chat in the group.
And recently, everyone’s gaming time has been significantly shortened.
This is mainly because the game "Sea Fortress" is indeed a bit old. It was a game in 2009 after all, and it is now 13 years old. Although the content of DLC and daily updates are also good, there are also some new epic weapons.
, but declining interest is something that cannot be avoided for you.
But in the past two days, the players in the group have obviously found a new focus for discussion.
Because Chen Sha, as an old friend of Tianhuo Studio and Tenda Group, and also a senior player of FPS games, participated in the internal test of this new FPS project some time ago!