My Attic Connects To Other Worlds - v2 Chapter 155
The game “Doom” is far from popular in China, after all, it only sold more than a hundred thousand copies.
In foreign countries, according to Wang Huan’s estimation, it should take half a month to a month for the word of mouth to slowly ferment before it can become popular.
The release of the current stand-alone game masterpiece is actually similar to the movie promotion.
If it is a well-known big IP sequel, it’s okay, or it is a hot developer, but even if it is both, it needs to be promoted one or two years in advance.
Propaganda through omnidirectional channels.
Print ads, game media, video platforms, game magazines, etc.
Publicity and marketing costs are very staggering.
For example, the two super masterpieces “Red Dead Redemption 2” and “Cyberpunk 2077”, the marketing costs are more than 100 million US dollars.
Basically, one or two years before the release, the publicity has already begun.
And Wang Huan’s “Doom” is a typical product of the Three Nothings.
No IP, no reputation, no publicity.
Suddenly, it was put on the shelves on all major platforms.
The most funny thing is that there are no distribution agents in Europe and America.
In this era, most European and American players still buy game disks and install them at home. Online downloads are not mainstream.
So when it was first released, it was completely cool.
In the first week, the combined sales of all foreign platforms did not exceed 1,000 copies.
Because no one knows this game.
There are still many black powders of Imperial Technology in China, but in foreign countries, there are almost no black powders.
Almost everyone didn’t know the existence of Imperial Technology, nor the relationship between it and Wang Huan.
The parrot translator is indeed an artifact, but so far, the sales volume of this thing has not exceeded 150,000.
The group that buys parrot translators and plays stand-alone games does not have a high degree of overlap.
And this group of people, when they saw a game released by Imperial Technology, they bought it directly.
Then, the painful download process began.
The whole 39G, where the Internet speed is not good, it will take almost a day to download.
After this play, he immediately knelt on the ground.
Of course, this group of people is too small to have the right to speak.
There are two reasons why this game has really exploded.
The first one is game media.
The second is the gaming platform, and there are other gaming giants.
There are relatively developed game media in Europe and the United States, which will score each masterpiece, and this score is relatively fair.
Of course, it can only be said to be relative.
Because where there is capital, there will be benefits, and there will be good food.
In another world, in 2020 alone, the ratings of major game media have been questioned by authority twice.
Once was “The Last of Us 2”, almost all mainstream game media scored super high scores.
Players looked forward to it, but when they bought it home and played, they were filled with shit.
The second time it was “Original God” scored high scores, this… I won’t talk about it.
However, most of the time, these game media are still very authoritative.
IGN, EGM, GameInformer, Eurogamer, GamesRadar, etc.
Editors of these media, their job is to play games, then write evaluation articles, and make final scoring.
Of course, basically all masterpieces have to be sent over in advance for evaluation before they are released.
But Imperial Technology did not.
These game editors are also a circle.
Suddenly one day, someone said: “Look at STEAM, and there is a Chinese game with 39G.”
Then, everyone’s chat became enthusiastic.
“Is it a Chinese stand-alone game? Is it a fairy sword again? Xuanyuan sword or something? To be honest, I’m a little tired of aesthetics, what theme?”
“For the end of the world, looking at the introduction of the game, it means that a few decades later, China and the United States broke out in a war, and the third world war broke out. Nuclear bombs were shot at each other and the world was destroyed.”
“Wow! This theme can pass the review in China? No way, who is the game manufacturer? Is it from Taidao?”
“No, it’s a developer from mainland China, whose name is Imperial Technology.”
“Imperial Technology? Never heard of it. It seems to be the first time to play a game.”
“The first time I make a game, I want to make a 39G capacity? A company with no development experience wants to make a 3A masterpiece the first time I make a game. That is a huge disaster.”
“And it actually sells for $99? It’s crazy, almost more expensive than all 3A masterpieces. God knows where the courage of this company comes from?”
“Which one of you wants to comment? If you don’t do it, then I will give it a try.” “Guardian” editor Qiao La said.
“Wow, Mr. Jora really likes to eat shit.”
“Mr. Qiaora is really amazing. He took the initiative to taste this game junk from China for us, hoping not to have indigestion.”
The editors of various media are joking. They are the most experienced people in the game industry. They know the current situation of Chinese games. At least for stand-alone games, it is an absolute desert.
It’s not that there are no good products, but almost no products.
Stand-alone game companies can’t survive in that land.
But I heard that the online games there are very crazy, and many junk games can make more than one billion US dollars a year.
“Let us mourn the silence for the Chinese players and for Mr. Qiao La.”
“It’s really hard for me to imagine, what does this imperial technology rely on? A game is stuffed into 39G, is it stuffed with botched videos?”
“It’s very possible. In fact, I have downloaded many Chinese games, such as “Legend of Ximen Qing” and “Meirou Hengxiang”. The capacity is not small, but there is almost no game process. You show the kind of movies shot in Hong Kong, sometimes it is level three, and the most excessive is level four.”
“Really? Where can I download these games? I want to appreciate them.”
Then, the topic successfully diverged, and it went directly to some other masterpieces, such as “Following”, such as “Sexy Beach” and so on.
Chora, the editor of The Guardian, waited for a few hours and finally finished downloading The Doomsday.
99 dollars!
The first game developed by a Chinese game company that has never heard of the name, sold for $99.
This world is really crazy.
Jora clicked on the game!
Then……
He was completely stunned.
From the beginning of the CG began to exclaim.
Has been exclaimed until the start of the game.
“OH, maygod!”
“Impossible!”
“Amazing!”
He is really going crazy, his scalp is numb.
He is the most professional game editor, he is not an ordinary player.
So the subversion brought to him by this game is unprecedented.
Because for him, the level of development of the game world is there, just like the truth.
It is 2012, and most of the game levels are basically the level of 2011.
If there are works beyond one or two years, they will give out huge praise.
The “Doomsday” game is directly ahead for more than 15 years.
Therefore, they directly doubted life.
where am I? who am I? What should I do?
He even went to look at the calendar specifically, wondering if it would be more than ten years later.
Or is this an illusion.
He felt that his entire three views were directly shattered.
This is roughly equivalent to a mobile phone reviewer. In 2002, everyone still used Nokia’s black and white screen phones, just texting, and the polyphony was not popular. Someone directly gave him a 2020 full-screen phone.
At that time, he probably felt that the world order had collapsed.
Next, he began to continuously explore the underground refuge in the game.
“My God? My God?”
“This…what level of modeling is this? How many triangular planes are there?”
“This color rendering, this light rendering, is not at the level of this world?”
“God, what happened?”
After several hours of exploring, I still haven’t played seriously.
Next, he frantically called the editor-in-chief.
“Editor in chief, leaving the largest section, leaving the most important section, I found a game that shocked the world.”
“This game will destroy all existing orders and completely overturn the entire game industry.”
“This game is a terrible revolution. For the entire game industry, it may be God’s gospel, but it may also be the destruction of Satan.”
Next, he began to focus on playing this game.
In one breath, I played for twenty hours.
Two days later!
“The Guardian” published a large line in the most prominent page.
“The God of the game world has come to the world!”
In this report, the editor expressed the entire play experience in a tone of extreme horror.
“This game leads the world for at least two decades.”
“I don’t know if this is reality or a game.”
“I don’t know if he is the **** of the game world or Satan.”
“But I know that for the game industry all over the world, the catastrophe has come, and the day of destruction has come. I suggest that all game producers go to China for a pilgrimage immediately, otherwise they will die without a place to be buried.”
“This imperial technology holds the key to the new world. All game manufacturers in the world can survive through this gate. Those who can’t get past this gate are doomed to perish.”
“As a player, I don’t know if I should persuade you to play this “Doom”. It will bring you an unprecedented experience and shock, and it can’t even be described as the top level. Its existence is to destroy you The cognition of the game, it seems to tell you all the time, this game is a gift from God to you, please kneel on the ground to play, don’t make irresponsible remarks to him.”
“I want to tell you that once you play this game, you may no longer tolerate any other games. Because all previous games, even the best-picture “Crysis”, will become unsightly.”
The Guardian is also one of the authoritative media in terms of games.
As soon as this report came out, it immediately caused a huge response.
Because it is too horrible and too exaggerated.
Many people want to buy this game one after another, and then find that almost all the stores are not on sale.
Can only be purchased on the gaming platform.
39G games? My goodness, when should this be downloaded?
Many people wonder if the Guardian is making a joke on April Fool’s Day? But April Fool’s Day has passed.
But then…
Other game media have also published gaming evaluation reports.
Almost all media titles are very scary.
“The game of “Doomsday” brings not revolution, nor earthquake, but complete destruction.”
“The old world of the game is completely destroyed.”
“Single-player games all over the world have ushered in a new king, Empire Technology!”
“Players all over the world, please be prepared, the emperor is down!”
IGN full marks.
EGM full marks.
Eurogamer has full marks.
Almost all mainstream game media in the world scored full marks.
Immediately!
On the STEAM platform, a huge pop-up advertisement was directly given, and after entering the homepage.
It’s still a huge format advertisement.
This advertisement is the cover of “Doomsday”.
This kind of advertising is very expensive, but Imperial Technology did not pay a penny.
After clicking in, the boss of this platform wrote a long game review.
Is this G fat? The owner of STEAM, the owner of V, one of the gods of the game world.
This is a very complete review.
From the game screen, to the game operation, to the plot, there are reviews.
The content of the previous evaluation is relatively restrained.
In the back, it seemed extremely excited.
“This is an epoch-making product, this is almost a game that does not belong to this world.”
“I can’t imagine how this game was developed.”
“In my imagination, this kind of divine work should be born more than ten years later.”
“I don’t know whether its appearance means a revolution in the game industry or the destruction of the game industry.”
“In the Tang Dynasty in China, Master Xuanzang traveled to India to learn the scriptures. By this time, I had already made a pilgrimage to China’s imperial science and technology.”
G Fat’s speech was just the beginning.
Next, the gods of the world game spoke one after another.
From Japan, to Europe, to the American game giant BOSS.
From B agency to R star, from Capcom to Polish dumb donkey.
From Sony to Microsoft.
All the giants have published shocking and praiseworthy articles.
Even, Sony directly announced that in order for players to get the best gaming experience, they will release the next-generation console PS4 in advance.
Then, Microsoft also announced that they would also release XBOXONE in advance.
Next!
It is a feast for all players in the world.
The sales of major game platforms have skyrocketed.
Several major agents in Europe and the United States have gone to Imperial Technology to seek agents, and they have said that the share price is very low.
It directly stated that even if it doesn’t make money, it will publish the game as an agent.
In this kind of sales skyrocketing.
Countless players around the world are intoxicated.
There is no English dubbing for this game, only Chinese dubbing.
But there are English subtitles.
It doesn’t matter, we can watch the subtitles.
Most players in the world don’t even know where Hangzhou is in the game.
It doesn’t matter, we can check the bone song map.
The shock of this game to players all over the world is completely unparalleled.
The more experienced the player, the stronger the shock.
This is the first time I saw a game character that looks like a real person.
It’s the first time I saw a game character can wear clothes.
The first time I saw such a three-dimensional lifelike, even if I squat down, I could see the three-dimensional leaves and petals clearly.
After pulling it in for the first time, you can see the clear texture of the stone.
For the first time, I felt cloudy, rainy, and different light effects.
The first time I saw a hot day, the sweat on the face was dripping, and when it was hot, there were wet spots on the hair.
Playing, playing, just want to kneel on the ground.
Next, is the player’s video carnival.
Countless players have recorded the game screens and put them on major video platforms.
Then, Wang Huan enjoyed the numb feeling of making money.
Almost every minute, every second, money is constantly credited to the account.
In the beginning, there were only a few million dollars a day.
Later, it was tens of millions of dollars a day.
At most, tens of millions of dollars a day.
The sales of this game are skyrocketing every day.
But this kind of money is just the beginning.
Because the world’s major game giants have all gone to China to negotiate with Imperial Technology.
Everyone has only one goal.
Purchase Imperial Technology’s game production engine.
The current situation is very clear.
Either buy a new engine or die!
If “The Doomsday” is only three to five years ahead, then there is no problem. Everyone can work hard to catch up.
Suddenly leading for more than ten years, it is impossible to catch up.
Of course, if only Imperial Technology has such a powerful game screen, then there is no big problem.
But if you don’t buy it, other game manufacturers will definitely buy it.
The screens of other people’s games are so awesome, and you just rubbish, then no matter how good your game is, you won’t be able to sell it.
Unless you are like Nintendo, walking in a different style. When 3A games are rampant in the world, Mario, Zelda, and Dongsen still sell wildly. The game graphics and thick cartoon style have nothing to do with lifelikeness.
But…not every company can be Nintendo.
Any hell, there is only one family.
Fortunately, Imperial Technology is always willing to come.
Moreover, the conditions are very transparent. For games made with a fantasy game engine, Imperial Technology must get 5% of the sales.
Obtaining this ratio, the global gaming giants breathed tightly, but also breathed a sigh of relief.
It’s not too dark.
If they have such a game engine, it will definitely kill the opponent.
So how much is 5% of sales?
In this world, the total global sales of single-player games in 2012 was about US$50 billion, which of course covers all platforms.
Of course, it is impossible for all game companies to use Imperial Technology’s engine.
For example, Ren Hell didn’t pay much attention to it, although they also came and signed the contract.
But in fact, the games they developed are basically not used. For at least the next ten years, their cartoon-style games will continue to ramp up the world.
But other 3A-level game developers must use it.
They have actually operated this development engine, and then they were pleasantly surprised to find that paying this 5% of turnover not only did not lose money, but also made a lot of money.
Because with this engine, the development cost will be reduced, and the development cycle will be shortened.
This is definitely a revolutionary product.
However, some of the following clauses seem to be a headache.
Because the contract states that all games that are to be developed using Empire Technology’s game engine must first be sent to Empire Technology for review and can be developed only after being passed.
This… is too hegemony clause.
Many game manufacturers have protested against this article, and they are a little frightened about the review of China.
Later, the explanation from Imperial Technology made them feel at ease.
This review clause actually has only one purpose and cannot infringe on China’s core interests.
For example, there should be no insult to…Hua content in the game.
Moreover, as long as the map is related to the territory of China, the integrity and unity of China’s…territory must be guaranteed.
Especially in disputed territories, it is absolutely necessary to follow China’s territorial classification standards.
Several gaming giants went to investigate and found that the biggest obstacle may be India.
Then I checked the sales of my game in India and the expected sales for the next ten years, and then passed quickly and happily.
Even if some of the executives in these companies are of Indian descent, they did not raise any questions.
Then a game manufacturer asked, how can it be considered an insult…Hua?
For example, I want to develop a game where a world war breaks out between China and the United States and destroys each other. Is this an insult…How about China?
Imperial Technology replied very happily, it doesn’t count.
Many manufacturers feel relieved that this scale is still very wide.
The Imperial Technology side once again made clear terms. Specifically, in the game, the image of China and the Chinese people cannot be demonized, and the relevant systems of China cannot be demonized. In the game, China can even be regarded as an enemy, but cannot be demonized, such as describing China as Germany in World War II.
The entire negotiation process is not very long.
Moreover, the state department did not send anyone to supervise the entire negotiation.
Because there is no need at all, many senior executives of Imperial Technology are directly transferred from relevant departments and from leadership positions.
In the end, more than a dozen game developers around the world signed a cooperation with Imperial Technology.
Moreover, there are related projects immediately.
Within three years alone, more than a dozen 3A masterpieces will be developed with the engine of Imperial Technology.
There are even several giants that have released news and will use a brand-new dream engine to remake the 3A masterpieces that are on sale.
For example, “The Witcher 2”, “The Elder Scrolls 5” and so on.
At a glance, you can tell that it is the old circle of money.
The sales of these games are already against the sky.
After remake with a new engine, the project is not very big, but the sales volume is absolutely guaranteed.
Players who bought it once before will definitely buy it again.
In another world, Ka Bitch has long proven to the world that we are professional and very profitable.
so!
How much money do you make by selling games?
Selling engines makes money.
Empire Technology estimates that in the next few years, the Dreamland game engine will contribute about $1 billion in profits to Empire Technology every year.
Several major game giants around the world have also estimated that the use of the Dreamland game engine will reduce their development costs by more than one billion US dollars each year.
And according to conservative estimates, the new engine will once again detonate the global game market.
In two to three years, the global stand-alone game market may exceed 70 billion U.S. dollars.
This is a real win-win situation. Almost everyone can get huge benefits from this cooperation.
This is the power of science and technology, the power of productivity.
In fact, according to the prediction of Imperial Technology.
In the future, once the virtual reality technology is fully mature, the annual global sales of games alone may exceed four to five hundred billion U.S. dollars.
However, some people have rejected this prediction.
And there are two extremes.
At one extreme, the ceiling of the global game industry is about more than 200 billion U.S. dollars.
At the other extreme, once virtual reality and artificial intelligence are fully mature, the entire society will undergo unprecedented drastic changes, and the gap between rich and poor will further worsen. Astronomical numbers of people will be addicted to virtual reality and escape from real life.
So by that time, the game industry is not hundreds of billions of dollars, nor one trillion dollars, but several trillions.
But everyone agrees that virtual reality is the ultimate state of entertainment.
This ultimate state is divided into two stages.
The first stage is the absolutely mature VR.
The second stage is brain intubation.
In fact, Wang Huan’s Tower of the Last Days also saw the future of another world. Seriously, it’s not beautiful.
With the development of science and technology, people may not become more and more decent. Even in many cases, it becomes less and less human.
Because they found that human beings can be gradually replaced as productive forces.
Once there is no value, people will of course become less and less like people.
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“Game of Doomsday” exploded abroad.
In the country, it also exploded!
The core players in China are not fools, and the word of mouth is very amazing.
With the fermentation of word of mouth, sales are also skyrocketing.
However, domestic sales have a ceiling.
After many calculations, Empire Technology has calculated that the ceiling number of “Doomsday” sold in China is 2 million copies.
And the global sales really don’t know.
It may be thirty million or fifty million.
But whether it is 30 million or 50 million, it will bring amazing profits to Imperial Technology.
It’s 99 dollars a piece, and it’s not discounted.
Regardless of whether it is sold on the platform or sold by agents, the net profit of Imperial Technology will exceed 60%.
In one fell swoop, it was billions of dollars in profits.
Of course, this is only the major media, as well as the predictions of Imperial Technology.
None of this has happened yet.
After all, game sales also need cycles.
So the Imperial Technology is so awesome, do people in China know it?
Uh? !
Very embarrassing, many people don’t know, or most people don’t know.
First of all, Imperial Technology is very low-key and never promotes itself.
He will not promote that he has signed a hegemony treaty with the world’s game giants, and will not promote the world’s game giants to worship.
It will not be publicized that the world’s major game giants will depend on the face of Imperial Technology in developing games from now on.
I will not publicize that from now on, the world’s super masterpieces will not discredit China.
I will not publicize that this cooperation has brought huge benefits to the country, especially cultural benefits.
So far, “Doom” has sold millions of copies abroad.
But, do you promote these millions of copies useful?
Those who understand, of course worship.
But many more people don’t understand at all. They don’t have any idea about millions of copies or tens of millions of copies.
“The Doomsday” game screen is very against the sky.
But… they have no idea about the game screen itself.
Many people don’t even know what is good and what is bad in the game screen.
You open the “Doomsday” game and tell them how awesome the picture is, how awesome it is.
They glanced at it, completely disapproving, this…isn’t it the same as a movie and TV show, what’s so strange?
The biggest sorrow is not not choosing the good ones, but choosing the bad ones.
The biggest sorrow is that I can’t even distinguish between good and bad, and I don’t even know what is good.
Because… I haven’t seen it.
The public opinion environment in 2012 has been slightly better than it was a few years ago.
But…mainstream public opinion is still the same.
Playing games is not doing business properly.
Who turned a genius into a Warcraft? CCTV has just finished broadcasting news.
For Chinese gamers, Imperial Technology has already gone to the altar, and it definitely wins glory for the country.
But for the vast majority of people in China, what wins glory for the country? nonexistent.
How can you win glory for the country by making games?
This is spiritual opium, this is what poisons young people, and it should be completely blocked.
The vast majority of people in China still focused on May 29th.
Brother Hammer, as well as hundreds of people on the imperial technology blacklist, brought imperial technology and Wang Huan to court.
On this day, the court officially opened.
As the defendant, Wang Huan still did not appear in court.
The younger brother Wang Xin went to court on behalf of Imperial Technology.
Because of the public’s concern, several media outlets were officially allowed to shoot during this trial.
This day!
Under the lens of many media, Imperial Technology sat in the dock of the court.
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