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The employees of game companies are also human beings, and they also need to rest.

This is especially true for some companies that have already been operating stably.

During the development stage, employees of game companies often have to work overtime. Some companies engage in 996 or 9117, which is to catch up with the project progress. Once the project goes online and is profitable, the project team has nothing to do even if they work overtime.

Even if there is a new version of the development, there is no need to be so anxious as before, you can do it slowly; if there is no new version development plan for the time being, it will be more leisurely.

"Summoner of the Spirit" is a game that has been a great success, and the new version has just been tested and launched as scheduled. The whole company is in a period of rest after short-term overtime. Everyone has gone home for the weekend.

It stands to reason that at least a few people in the entire company should pay attention to the game situation at all times, or enter the game to play heavily by themselves, and collect player feedback at any time.

But Hongguang Games is an "upstart company" after all. It was just a small studio at the beginning. The process is not very standardized, this bug, there is no feedback from the staff until Monday at work, and the emergency shutdown of the server is started on Tuesday to fix it!

However, in the past two days of Saturday and Sunday, some players have obtained a large amount of high-level equipment and character-specific weapons through various means!

You must know that it is very difficult to obtain high-level equipment, and it takes a long time for local tyrants, and such things as character-specific weapons, even local tyrants may not be able to draw money.

So an unbelievable scene appeared in the game. In the guild battle on Saturday and Sunday night, several trumpets wore high-level equipment and held character-specific weapons, directly blocking the rich players on the opposite side at the resurrection point repeatedly. Hack and kill, the scene was once very chaotic!

On Saturday night, many players have already sent feedback to the official customer service, and the customer service is still very official: "The problem you reported has been received and reported to the staff, and the development team is nervously verifying and verifying. , Thank you for your support of "Spirit Summoner"!"

But in fact, the customer service team of "Spirit Summoner" is outsourced. The outsourced team is basically just a sounding board, and basically has no right to speak to the R\u0026D team. A very accurate estimate, simply forwarding the emails of related issues according to the workflow, naturally did not attract any attention from the R\u0026D team.

On Saturday, many players were already full of anger. Many people started to brush immediately after knowing this bug, and some people were smarter. They built trumpets in an organized way, and after a unified and rapid upgrade, they started to brush. In this way, even if there is a danger of being banned in the future, those who are banned are all trumpets.

There are also some heavy krypton players who even use their large account to swipe directly, because they feel very angry because they can’t beat the small account. According to past experience, game companies dare not suspend these heavy krypton gold accounts, after all, behind these accounts are cash cows.

In the end, Sunday's guild battle turned into a big bug battle. A large number of trumpets staged a jaw-dropping fairy duel. Each of these trumpets has combat power comparable to that of regular rich players. They wear advanced equipment and hold character-specific weapons. , the whole game became a mess, and the forum was full of curses.

The Hongguang game's hindsight is also a model in the industry. It was not until Tuesday that the server was urgently shut down for repairs. player.

Hongguang Games soon announced the rollback plan and a list of banned accounts. The number of permanently suspended accounts has reached hundreds, and there are more than 400 accounts that are temporarily frozen and continue to be verified. But this did not extinguish the anger of the players, because resetting means going back to Friday or even earlier, and the normal income that many players have obtained from the game in the past three days will also disappear and all be reverted.

Although the official promised that there will be a compensation gift package for the rollback, it is clear that the strength of this gift package cannot be compared with the losses of the players.

What makes the players even more angry is that these hundreds of suspended accounts are far from all the bugs, because judging from the feelings of the players in the guild battle, the number of accounts for bugs this time is obviously far more than this number. Moreover, some players who brush bugs also blew themselves up that they have not been banned by the official at all, and they are still playing well.

Some rich players said that they have indeed been "specially taken care of", and that they are only reverted and warned if they encounter bugs, probably because they charge too much money.

Other rich players said that during this period of time, the high-end equipment that they normally recharged and brushed from the liver dungeon was also recycled by the authorities. On the contrary, the equipment brushed by some bug players was not recycled, and they were still used in various PVP activities. doing the last madness.

This bug caused players to withdraw from the game on a large scale. On Weibo, the official blog of Hongguang Games was even more clearly arranged, and it was scolded thousands of times, becoming a beautiful landscape.

As for other mobile game companies, they are naturally gloating. After all, "Summoner of the Spirit" is a popular game, and it is a great thing for other game companies to have such a huge, low-level and unimaginable operational accident. , The lost players in "Spirit Summoner" will more or less enter other mobile games.

A rich player scolded on Weibo: "The current mobile game company doesn't even have the fucking technology to cheat Krypton?!"

"Mobile game krypton gold is a normal operation, the problem is that you can make me krypton gold krypton a bit more fun, but I spent money here to buy sin? I spent money to hang those who didn't spend money to get bugs Call? Feedback to your customer service is ignored? Traditional industries still know that customers are gods, but what do you think of customers at Hongguang Games? Is it unacceptable to send you money? I will never play this kind of spicy chicken krypton gold mobile game again!"

This vicious bug incident made the top management of Hongguang Games furious. It is said that the relevant personnel involved were directly fined half a year's bonus, and the operation supervisor and several related personnel were even demoted and criticized internally.

This incident is not an isolated case, not only Hongguang Games, but also other mobile game companies, similar operational accidents frequently occur.

In fact, in the final analysis, it is because the mobile game market has a low threshold and is a wild market!

The low threshold means that you can enter with just a few million dollars, and success or failure is often not directly related to investment. There are many popular mobile games, the monthly turnover can easily exceed 10 million, and the investment may only be a few million; there are also some mobile games that have invested hundreds of millions of funds, but they quickly become cold after the test is launched.

This is different from console games. Console games are a high-investment industry. A masterpiece is made by an experienced developer with an investment of tens of millions. On the premise that the quality is guaranteed, selling content alone is enough to support the game. However, mobile games are limited by the functions of the bracelet, and they mainly rely on the gameplay to win, but the gameplay is really hard to say.

Therefore, the entire mobile game market is full of a mentality of misappropriating money and eager for quick success. Even those projects that have already been successful are hardly immune.

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On Tianji Studio's side, the development of "Dawn Era" is progressing steadily.

Zhong Ming is experiencing the demo of the game with a test bracelet.

At this time, the virtual bracelet worn on Zhong Ming's left hand projected a holographic projection above his left arm, which was a horizontal plane, not a vertical plane. On the horizontal plane, different impressions are produced according to the changes of the terrain. For example, the plane at this time is simulated on a platform of a stone mountain, the ground is rough, and there are a few clumps of grass in the crevices of the stones.

There are two projection methods for the holographic projection of this horizontal plane. One is to move with Zhong Ming’s arm, that is, it is relatively fixed with Zhong Ming’s left upper arm, but this method is not commonly used; the other is to be relative to the ground and the player’s head. The position is fixed so that when the player raises the arm, the hologram will always appear in the sweet spot directly opposite the player and slightly below.

Of course, these two methods require the holographic projection lens on the player’s wristband to be aligned with a specific orientation, and the holographic projection images presented are not too large. In order to save performance, the holographic projection images in standard mode It is about the same length as the player's forearm, basically similar to the size of a general tablet computer.

Holding your hands up all the time is tiring, but it’s actually not as tiring as you imagined. In Zhong Ming’s previous life, many people held up their mobile phones to read novels and videos. They also kept their hands up, but they could watch for hours.

Of course, there is also a way to not get tired, as long as you buy a special peripheral, a miniature Bluetooth projection device is worn on the ear, and the projection is automatically placed in front of you.

However, the projection must not be used in some highly crowded places. When using it, it must be ensured that there is no foreign matter in the projection area.

The regular display mode of the bracelet is to project an upright projection surface, which feels like holding a very thin small LCD screen on the hand. Most of the apps on the bracelet are displayed in this way, and this This holographic projection display method is a new gadget that has just emerged recently, and has been adopted by many bracelet game developers as soon as it appeared.

Pictured is Saeko Takeshita, one of the rare characters in the game. She was wearing a battle uniform decorated with blue and black floral decorations, some of which were decorated with neon styles, and she held a long knife that shone with light, full of a sense of technology.

Of course, the most eye-catching thing is her figure, tall stature, long ponytail tied up to the calf, proud bust, and blood-spitting waist-to-hip ratio, coupled with graceful figure and movements , from the perspective of the movie, just watching the AI ​​automatic operation of the fight is already very addictive.

There are more than 20 good-looking male and female characters like her in the game, and less than half of them can be obtained by players for free. obtained.

Of course, this is not so absolute. After all, the game allows ordinary players to earn wages through part-time jobs. There may be no difference between a player who pays more attention to liver and less krypton than a player who despises krypton.

After that is the basic battle screen of the game. All kinds of omnics, robots or organs with different shapes and different attack methods are constantly refreshed in the level, while Saeko Takeshita walks through the pile of monsters like a butterfly wearing flowers, The long knife in his hand either slashed or burst out an energy wave, and a large number of enemies fell down like mowing grass and exploded.

Holographic imaging technology was first introduced into mobile games, and its impact on mobile games is subversive. It's revolutionary, roughly equivalent to 3D movies to 2D movies.

It can't be said that it is completely replaced, but there is definitely an obvious improvement in visual effects.

It is conceivable that this kind of holographic imaging technology will gradually expand to the PC side and the host side when the technology matures in the future, but it is unlikely in the short term.

The reason is simple. The investment in mobile games is small, the boat is easy to turn around, and the business sense of mobile game manufacturers is more sensitive, so they seized the opportunity earlier, while the traditional game manufacturers on the PC side and console side are relatively late.

Zhong Ming roughly experienced the operation in this mode.

Overall, not particularly comfortable, but not completely unacceptable once you get used to it.

The operation method of the bracelet is a virtual button, of course not all on the virtual projection: the bracelet will read the relative position of the player's left wrist (bracelet position) and the left thumb, and determine his position according to the gesture of the player's left thumb. What kind of operation do you want to make on the virtual joystick.

And the right hand directly clicks the corresponding button on the holographic projection to trigger skills and other operations.

This feeling of "pointing the air" made Zhong Ming feel very uncomfortable. The part on the lower left corner of the mobile phone in the previous life was also called the "virtual joystick", but there was still a screen to touch, and the bracelet didn't even have a physical screen. , It's just rubbing the air.

Although he can play smoothly after getting used to it, Zhong Ming always feels that it is better to let the AI ​​operate by himself. After all, the current AI program is so developed that "hosting" is no longer a derogatory term. Even better than some rookie players.

Fortunately, for a bracelet game, these aspects are not too important, just a dazzling screen.

Then, Zhong Ming checked the combat power derivation system in the game, including equipment, exclusive weapons, energy cores, and so on.

These systems are called "pit" in some industry terms, that is, things for players to fill in, and are often directly linked to combat power. This is the numerical motivation that drives the player to play hard. "Dawn Age" has a big difference from previous games, that is, most of the materials linked to combat power can be "non-destructively converted".

The so-called non-destructive conversion, for example, the player spent a lot of money on cultivating character A, but suddenly for various reasons, it may be because he suddenly doesn’t want to play this character, or he has drawn a better B character and wants to change it. Play, then most of the things he consumed when cultivating character A can be transferred to character B without loss.

A relatively simple example is the strengthening of equipment. Players can return the strengthened equipment back to level 1 through remelting, and the system will return 100% of the strengthening materials, unlike many games, which only return 80% or even 60%.