"Teacher He, please tell me about this quickly, I want to hear it very much!"
He An was a little surprised: "Why, is Mr. Ma a senior RTS game enthusiast?"
Pei Qian thought for a while: "Well... almost."
From now on, I can barely count myself as a senior in my hobby, right?
Why do I like RTS games? Maybe because it can help me lose money?
He An thought for a moment: "That's okay. RTS games and today's course are not off topic, so I'll just talk about them briefly."
"RTS games, that is, real-time strategy games, have indeed been brilliant in the past and were once the pillar game type of the e-sports industry. Moreover, when it comes to RTS games, "Fantasy Battle" and "Star Ocean 2" cannot be avoided.
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"Last year, "Star Ocean 2" was released and was a great success."
"But this has not changed the industry's disapproval of the RTS game type, because it is more like a retrospect. The success of this game will hardly change the decline of the entire game type."
"In fact, this is indeed the case. Nowadays, except for a few established companies with established backgrounds and well-known IPs, almost no one is willing to touch this game type."
"Even major manufacturers don't seem to be planning to invest too much money and energy in this game type."
"The decline of this type of game is very directly related to the rise of new game types."
"RTS games have too high requirements for players' operation. Most players cannot reach the minimum operation threshold, and naturally they cannot enjoy the fun of the game."
"At the same time, in the single-player game mode, it is difficult to blame teammates. The frustration after losing is too strong, which makes RTS games a very high-end and highly enjoyable e-sports project, but it is difficult to continue as a
It remains a popular game because the threshold is too high.”
"The mainstream of mass games in the future should be games like gog, especially the interoperability between client games and mobile games, which gives it unique advantages..."
Pei Qian's mouth twitched, why did he come back to the topic of gog?
Quickly think of a way to change the subject.
"In short, at this point in time, if a manufacturer without IP accumulation makes RTS games, it will be a dead end?"
He An nodded slightly: "Well, you can think so."
Pei Qian couldn't help but feel happy.
I think so too!
Finally, I met Teacher He’s radio wave once.
Pei Qian did consider the RTS game type before, but the reason why he didn't do it at that time was because this type didn't seem to be dead yet.
Although it has declined, there are still many old players who like this game type at that time, and their general purchasing power is amazing. If they are targeted, the consequences will be disastrous.
But more than a year has passed and the situation has changed!
The release of "Star Ocean 2" last year made RTS games experience a wave of comeback, almost sucking away all the remaining RTS player groups.
And gog and ioi are fighting so fiercely that even "Shenqi" can only tremble, let alone a new rts game?
Well, just do this, it feels foolproof!
Unfortunately, it is too late in this cycle and we have to wait until the next cycle to consider it.
He An lamented: "Hey, actually I decided to retire partly because my vision can no longer keep up with the pace of game development in this era."
"Before, I thought that the game type of "Shenqi" would only become a small and beautiful type at best, and no matter how mobile games develop, they will not be able to have a strong impact on PC games."
"Now it seems that they are all outdated ideas."
"So Mr. Ma, this is why I put this lesson in the second lesson. I hope you can always take a long-term view and find out the development context of the game. Every time you make a game, you will catch up with the trend.
You can win now!"
Pei Qian: "..."
Teacher He, you gave a good lecture, why are you cursing me?
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10pm.
dge esports club.
It's time to turn off the lights, and all team members' cell phones have been taken away to ensure adequate sleep.
Mingyun Villa is originally a group of villas far away from the downtown area. The light pollution outside is very weak. Even if the curtains are not drawn, you can only see the faint moonlight and starlight.
This is the team member's dormitory, a two-person room.
In the darkness, the figure slumped on the bed in the shape of "big" spoke.
"Lao Zhou, could you please help me get the water glass? I'm thirsty."
Lao Zhou, who was sleeping in the other bed, was obviously not asleep either: "Hey, what did you do before going to bed? Besides, why didn't you get it yourself?"
The paralyzed figure said feebly: "I can't move."
Lao Zhou: "Huang Wang, you sound like you can move me."
Huang Wang: "Don't pretend, Old Zhou. You can definitely move. Please, if I die of thirst tomorrow, I will lose the training match and have to practice extra at night!"
Lao Zhou: "Call daddy."
Huang Wang: "Dad!"
Lao Zhou: "...what the hell are you? This captain is so unruly that I won't let you down."
Lao Zhou had no choice but to stand up from the bed, walked to the table next to him in a weird posture, took Huang Wang's water glass and handed it to him by the bed.
Huang Wang: "Ah..."
Lao Zhou's face darkened: "You're going to die! Drink it yourself, or if you don't drink it, I'll just throw it on the ground!"
Huang Wang quickly sat up from the bed with difficulty: "I'll drink, I'll drink, give it to me."
Lao Zhou lay down on the bed angrily.
Huang Wang took a sip of water, pursed his lips and said, "Old Zhou, we can't go on like this, we have to find a way. The man named Jiang on the opposite team is definitely an old silver coin!"
"We have been training for a week straight. If we continue to lose like this, we will all be ruined!"
Lao Zhou was speechless: "Isn't it because of your command as the captain! Jiang Huan always comes up with tricks to hang us up and beat us. Compared with the opponent, our team is simply a mess! Especially you.
, you said that you play as a mid laner and your support is always slower than others, so why don’t you just play ball!"
Huang Wang expressed his dissatisfaction: "Shit, isn't it because of the conjoined twins in the middle and jungle on the opposite side? In short, this is all about routines. We also have to think of new routines. Otherwise, if we lose the training game, we will practice more. Who the hell can withstand this?
ah!"
"If you keep practicing, you can really become a fitness instructor!"
Lao Zhou chuckled: "It's okay. Before we switch careers as fitness instructors, we can find a real person to compete with. I can feel that my muscles have grown a lot."
Huang Wang: "In this way, we will also consider a few sets of tactics tomorrow. If the opponent does not play according to common sense, we can only play negative. I can finally see that this game is all about routines..."
Suddenly, the light outside the door turned on, and the light shone through the crack in the door. The two people quickly shut up.
Zhang Yuan stood at the door for two minutes before turning and leaving.
During this period, the daily training of the dge club was simply difficult to describe.
After Mr. Pei made the training schedule, Zhang Yuan was a little worried, but he still strictly followed the schedule.
Sure enough, these Internet-addicted teenagers were thoroughly trained on the first day.
It was originally planned to jog in the morning, but this group of people quickly changed from jogging to brisk walking, from brisk walking to slow walking, and finally from slow walking to standing still and panting.
I arranged strength training in the evening. I didn't feel anything after the day's training. I just felt that my body seemed to be hollowed out. As a result, I slept hard and almost couldn't get out of bed the next day.
Fortunately, coach Yaling is a professional and always pays attention to everyone's physical condition during the training process. Moreover, whether it is nutritional supplements, warm-up before practice, or stretching after practice, it is very professional, so there is no serious problem.
But even so, these people were still trained hard. In the first week after starting to exercise, the quality of solo queue training and the effectiveness of training matches in the game plummeted. Each of the ten team members dropped one rank in high-segment solo queue.
By the second week, things began to change subtly.
The team members who were originally as thin as bamboo poles began to gain significant muscle mass, and the bloated team members became visibly thinner. As they gradually adapted to the amount of fitness exercise, everyone's game state was slowly restored.
Then, one of the teams got the idea first.
Jiang Huan's team began to use various tricks in the training matches, winning seven games in a row and blowing the heads off Huang Wang's team.
As for why you work so hard...
The reason is very simple, those who lose need to practice more!
If the loss looks good, then the captain and the scapegoat in the team will practice together; if the loss looks ugly, the whole team will practice together.
After a few days of extra training, Huang Wang, the captain, almost didn’t have the energy to get up to get a glass of water.
Because as the players' physical fitness improves and they gradually adapt, coach Yaling has been increasing the amount of training for them.
Zhang Yuan originally sympathized with these team members, but after observing them for a while, he found that if he continued doing this, it seemed to have some effect!
He had heard before that in some clubs, the first and second teams practiced against each other. There were no punitive measures at the beginning, and then everyone started doing all kinds of nonsense, and no one took winning or losing seriously. Later, the team leader decided that each member of the losing team
They gave 100 yuan to buy cigarettes and snacks for the winning team, and both parties immediately became serious.
And the punishment measure of extra practice seems to be even more effective than this.
Both teams are racking their brains to study tactics and think of new routines, and they are playing more and more seriously. New gameplay methods discovered in various ladders can be used in training matches on the same day.
Moreover, the customized exercises specially arranged after the morning run also had an effect.
At the beginning, the team members were very confused. There was no one to compete with them in customization. What was there to practice?
But there is nothing else I can do during this time, I can only practice the basic skills of some heroes over and over again in customization and study the hero mechanics.
After working hard to perfect the operations of the familiar heroes, you can only continue to study the heroes you are not familiar with.
Then it was time to study the soldier lines, wild monsters, and various deeper game mechanics in the game. The more I studied, the more data I kept in my mind.
After all, for two hours, just practicing muscle memory is too boring, and it will more or less make you think about the game mechanics.
Obviously, Huang Wang's team's performance in training matches has been getting better and better recently, and they are also studying various tactics desperately. Maybe they can win a victory soon and regain their place.
When Jiang Huan and the others practice one more time, they will study new tactics, chasing after each other, and forming a permanent movement.
After all, GoG is an emerging game. Those who understand the game the most are these high-level players. Let them think about tactics. They are not necessarily worse than coaches who have transferred from other sports.
Zhang Yuan couldn't help but sigh, could it be that Mr. Pei's training plan was really well thought out?