The Rebirth of the Male God Starts From Playing Games - Vol 2 Chapter 458

Chapter 458 456. Boss Cao is the eternal god

On the Internet, things about Bomi’s ugliness quickly fermented. Many small game production teams are preparing to wait to see Bomi’s profit and take over the war3 dota map to update them in order to earn fan traffic, even if they play Under the banner of free and for users to use love to generate electricity, but these people can also understand the truth that as long as someone can make money.

But the next day, Bomi officially released a message that surprised all Dota players, including those who follow Dota.

In this official announcement, Bomi promised to——

The   dota game will be free forever. The game only needs to be downloaded to play. You don’t need to recharge to enjoy the same fun as the original dota map in war3.

The right to use the hero is open to players, and there will be no inequality and difference between people.

Bomi’s official description guarantees two points:

First, it’s free forever, which means you don’t need to pay a cent for it to download and play as you would buy any stand-alone game owned by Bomi.

Second, absolutely fair. Anyone can get the right to use all the heroes, and the maps used and played by everyone are also universal, which means that there will be no charging behavior that affects the fairness in the game and leads to differences in values ​​between players.

As soon as this announcement came out, the entire game circle was boiling.

“Fuck! Brothers, look at what I found. Bomi officially announced that dota will be free forever after being made into an independent game. Fuck! Is this true? I can’t believe my eyes at all. ”

“Niu Pian. I can only say that Boss Cao is Niubi. Boss Cao is the eternal god. Those who questioned Boss Cao’s motives can shut up.

People just want to make this game well and give us a better gaming experience.

Look at you one by one. It’s the industry’s conscience for people to make games by Bomi. It’s good now, and you will be forced to make it free forever. ”

“Yes, what about the people who said that Bomi Company is popular and ugly? See what you guys say?”

“Boss Cao is really an eternal god, always thinking of the players. Now the official has issued an announcement that the dota game will be free forever, and it is absolutely fair. If this is not a power generation, I really can’t find it. What kind of words can be used to describe it.

Now I really admire Boss Cao in my heart.

This is a real gamer, many times stronger than those companies that get into the eyes of money and want to drain the players’ blood. ”

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Those who were going to speculate to take over the war3 version of dota left by Bomi were all frightened by Bomi’s act of killing 1,000 enemies and destroying 10,000.

“Is Boss Cao crazy?”

“I really can’t figure it out, so what else do they use to make money?”

This behavior is really hard to understand.

“Is it just to hit us and don’t want others to get dota’s old player resources? It’s too scary to do so, right?”

“Bomi’s free and absolutely fair trick is totally detrimental to others. Doesn’t it need money to develop games? Where do the employees of the dota project team come from?

After Dota goes online, what about bandwidth and server operating costs? ”

“Is Boss Cao really planning to use his love to generate electricity, not only does he not make money, but he also plans to subsidize the players with a loss of millions or even tens of millions each year, so that dota players can enjoy the best service?”

“There is no reason, I can only say that Boss Cao is really a lunatic.”

“Yes, it’s really terrible. In order to monopolize the dota game and do this kind of loss, I can only say that Bomi is really rich.”

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In this, many people did not want to understand what Bomi could rely on to make money after making these two promises. Although there have been [free games] like Audition before, everyone knows dota well. This game is very different from Audition.

Dota players’ combat attributes and desire to win are obviously higher than those of Audition players. Audition is not so much a dancing game as it is a social game.

A game with social as the main attribute, showing off and interaction have naturally become the core of the game. This is also a very important reason for the industry’s distracted Absolute Audition to rely on selling fashion to make money.

Except for Audition, all subsequent games that want to make money from fashion are basically dead, or fashion revenue only occupies a small part of the overall income.

Many games finally returned to the selling value, which means that players can spend money to obtain stronger attributes and equipment.

And this method has been tried and tested repeatedly.

Now dota’s combat attributes are very strong. It is obviously a weakly social or even non-social game, because the social attributes of dota come from real life, that is, social acquaintances.

Many dota players play together with acquaintances, and rarely meet other friends through online platforms to expand Dota’s social circle.

In other words, as a competitive game with strong combat attributes, dota is fundamentally different from social games such as Audition. Therefore, industry insiders generally remain pessimistic about whether Dota can make a profit by selling appearance.

And another very important reason is that the heroes of Dota are not beautiful at all, such as tide hunters, poison dogs, shadow demons… These heroes are non-human, and even some evil can make children have nightmares at night. That kind of new fashion developed by these heroes is certainly far less attractive to players than Audition.

Audition’s fashions are in line with the mainstream aesthetics, and the wearers are all humans. Even if there are some dolls or fashion linked with other two-dimensional animations, players can feel the gorgeous and cool of these clothes.

And you want to make a shadow goblin different in fashion…

No one can imagine what the **** it should be.

It is still unknown how many players are willing to pay for these weird hero costumes.

In fact, even in Bomi’s internal questionnaire surveys of players, 80% of players would not choose to purchase the corresponding hero skin.

Because for them, these heroes are really [too ugly]

If it were not for Boss Cao’s insistence, the dota team would not be determined to take the commercial route of skin.

It can be said that it is free + absolutely fair. All the money made by selling skins in the future comes from the personal will of Cao boss.

However, the planners of the dota team seem to have nothing to do. It doesn’t make sense, and the data can’t shake the boss’s determination, so you can only do what the boss says.

……

In short, after the announcement of this announcement, Bomi was equivalent to a powerful response to the doubts in the world, just like those who wanted to see Bomi jokes before, waiting to see how the capitalists were shameless. [Kill] The person who made money by killing the game that the players liked hits back.

So now players on the Internet have a high voice for Bomi, and Bomi has once again become a representative of the [industry conscience].

Many players said that they were moved and cried. This is really the best time for them to meet a company like Bomi, think about what players think, and provide players with the best service from the perspective of players. , Even at the expense of their own income to use love to generate electricity must be implemented free of charge to the end.

This kind of spirit is really admirable.

When he saw the comments from the players, Cao Yang smiled embarrassedly.

These silly children have not realized that free is the most expensive truth.

Yes, the right to use the hero itself cannot be sold for a few dollars. The income of the previous life lol is mainly derived from the skin. Many heroes are given to the player for free, mainly to increase the online time and allow the player to maintain the game for a long time. That’s why the heroes are gradually unlocked.

But if you play the game long enough, you can basically unlock the right to use all heroes.

In addition, the official also provides weekly free heroes for players to use.

The so-called free heroes of the week is to select a part of the heroes from the hero pool and open them to players every week. Even if you have not purchased these heroes, you can still use the free heroes to compete.

Weekly free heroes have many benefits:

The first is to allow players to experience different heroes, thereby increasing the demand pool of heroes.

If you have never played this hero and have not been abused by this hero, then you will not have a desire for this hero and want to buy it and make it available forever.

Second, let the heroes have the opportunity to play. In the game of League of Legends, as the number of heroes continues to increase, the change of version will definitely lead to some heroes being stronger, even if this is strong, it is relatively speaking, not It will be too strong.

Ke will definitely give birth to some unpopular bench heroes.

The biggest advantage of   Weekly Free is that it allows those unpopular heroes to also have the opportunity to appear and be used, allowing them to re-enter the player’s field of vision——

Oh, it turns out that there are such heroes. Although they are not very strong, their skills are very interesting.

Or the appearance and story of the hero itself are attractive, and it can also make players have enough interest and desire to buy.

……

But in fact, the income from the right to use the heroes only occupies a small part of the League of Legends.

Most of the income comes from skin.

The skin reflects the differences in appearance between players, but it satisfies people’s pursuit of personalization and visual effects.

It is in such [absolutely fair] competitive games that the value of art is brought to the fullest.

Of course, this is not only the contribution of art, but also the role of planning to a large extent.

After adding special effects to the skin, high-tech and fantasy elements, there are several other things that are used to compare and increase the value of the skin:

1. Official pricing.

Players tend to have skins with high official prices in their subconscious minds, the rarer they are.

2. Official classification.

For example, classify according to common, rare, legend, epic, and limited.

Then players will naturally think that the higher the official level, the more precious the fashion.

3. Things are precious.

For example, limited skins will only be allowed to be purchased during a certain limited period of time, and some fashions are even not available for purchase but as lifetime achievements. For example, after IG won the championship, it was tailored for several heroes of the IG team. The hero skin of the League of Legends is exclusive.

The value of this kind of skin is very high. When the players get them, the proportion of artistic value is already negligible, mainly because of the story behind these skins and their symbolic meaning.

……

In short, Cao Yang is confident enough to make money with this product by making fashion alone.

And it’s a lot of money.

……

Now with an official [free forever] announcement from Bomi, the enthusiasm of dota players is once again ignited.

On the day of February 11, 2009, it was burned to its highest point.

This day is the day when dota is about to go online. Countless players are looking forward to it. Countless people in the industry are waiting for it to launch and want to find out its business model.

On the night of February 11th, before Dota is about to go on sale, Bomi officially held a special [dota pre-release exhibition game] at Wukesong Stadium.

There were crowds of spectators at the scene. At least 50,000 enthusiastic Dota fans came to watch the scene. Even outside the stadium, there were many people watching. Although there was no way to enter the stadium, they could pass outside the stadium. The big digital screen provided by Bomi watched the game on the spot.

In order to maintain order on the scene, the Imperial Capital dispatched a large number of police and security guards.

……

At 7pm, the exhibition game is about to start.

The familiar host’s voice sounded in the gymnasium.

“Welcome everyone to the [dota game pre-release exhibition game] held by Bomi. Hello, everyone, I am the BBC.” A magnetic boy said.

Cheers immediately rang out on the scene.

BBC can be regarded as the first professional host to explain the game.

Attention, professional refers to his Mandarin and hosting skills, and does not represent his level of game competition.

Actually, the BBC game can only be played in general, even in the passerby bureau.

BBC has joined and acted as a host since 2005 in the initial stage of the game Fengyun channel under Mordu Media Interactive TV.

BBC is affectionately called Uncle B by many players who like him.

Next to him is a former professional cycling player who has been partnering with him for a long time and has a deep understanding of dota and strong operation ability.

“Hello everyone, I am a bicycle.”

Compared to the BBC, Cycling’s face looked unusually delicate. He pushed the glasses on his face and smiled shyly.

“Hello everyone, I am cold.”

In addition to the two veteran dota hosts, today’s dota exhibition game also invited a few in the dota world, or even the only professional commentary girl at present.

Leng Leng, Leng Yuxuan, with the screen name Pc Leng Leng, is a DOTA commentator, with a witty and lively style, fresh and natural voice, and has a high popularity in the DOTA circle and is loved by many players.

So when these hosts gathered together to make a sound, the scene exploded.

The thunderous cheers, like an annual celebration.

BBC hurriedly smiled and stopped the scene, for fear that it might explode if this continues.

So everyone was quiet again.

They turned their eyes to the top of the stage. Behind the host, there are two rows of professional players sitting in several transparent rooms. These rooms are equipped with soundproof glass, so the outside sound cannot be heard from each other. The soundproof room is to ensure the competition. The fairness of the game is also to prevent the hosts from interfering with the game due to the commentary when they are conducting the game commentary, and to provide off-site information to the players.

The war is about to start. This time, the exhibition match is unprecedented, even more lively than the war3 finals held by Bomi.

After the scene returned to calm, the BBC introduced in an orderly manner:

“In this exhibition match, Bomi invited two very famous teams in the Dota world to come to the scene and use the new Dota game to compete.

Welcome to EHOME, and LGD team! ”

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