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In fact, the current black light studio has also changed from a small workshop to a large workshop.

During the period of developing Red Dead Redemption, many single-project contracts were actually signed. Now that the project of Red Dead Redemption has been completed, the contract will naturally end.

Including the subsequent DLC and new content production, in fact, not so many people are needed.

But among them, some outstanding talents will continue to sign follow-up contracts, and among them, the more outstanding ones will directly sign labor contracts and be recruited by Tianhe Network. Today's Black Light Studio has expanded to There are about 120 people.

Except for the original employees, the rest are employees from the Red Dead Redemption project.

The follow-up operations of Red Dead Redemption basically adopt the same method as in China, and even Chuhe dispatched a special team from the headquarters to be responsible for the later online operations of Red Dead Redemption.

Regarding the operation of the game and the follow-up planning, Chuhe dare not say that he is better than the game manufacturers all over the world.

But Chuhe still has self-confidence. Compared with most of the manufacturers, Tianhe Networks has an absolutely excellent conscience, especially compared with its domestic counterparts, its conscience is so high.

There is a saying, whether it is good or not depends on the background of the peers.

Facing the operation of major domestic game manufacturers, Tianhe Network's operation can be said to be thriving. For example, take the most chaotic web game and mobile game industry, including major channels and agents, just as I said before, in order to For rebates and benefits, basically there will be internal discount recharge packages.

Players who know a little bit will know that there is a special profession called dragging.

But in Tianhe Network, all authority is in the hands of the inside, and the supervision of the internal company is also extremely strict.

Of course, this also led to a situation, that is, in the Tianhe network, most people are people who love games, but there are very few talents with outstanding individual abilities.

Because the constraints, rights and interests that can be obtained in Tianhe Network are too small compared with manufacturers such as Penguin and Wangyi in the circle. Even in terms of the company's own benefits and salary, Tianhe Network far exceeds its domestic counterparts. .

However, there are disadvantages, and naturally there are advantages. At least the current Tianhe network is completely developed according to Chuhe's concept. The rating of the media website is still 1 point, Legend of the Red Moon, and the version is still being updated, with the release of new content, even though almost no newcomers have entered the pit.

But even so, the big R who was originally in the legend of the red moon rarely retreated. Even because of the operation and planning team, they always did not launch new krypton gold gameplay to increase combat effectiveness, but came to the door to strongly demand the launch .

Why?

Because originally, as the big R in the game, he charged enough money to be invincible in the world, and with the delay of the version, there was no new krypton gold to increase the combat power. OK?

It sounds like people are stupid and have a lot of money? But it actually exists. (True story ~ not fictional ~ when I saw it for the first time, I was in a bad mood.)

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After leaving the black light studio, Chuhe returned to Jinling with the team of Tianhe Network. Although there is no office building of his own, the employees of Tianhe Network occupy almost one-third of an acre of land in the entire Kirin Park.

After having a meal with Plott and the others in the cafeteria provided by Tianhe Network, Chuhe returned to his office.

At present, the operation of various projects of Tianhe Network can be said to be very good, and the profitability of each project is not bad, especially PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, DNF and the mobile game commander, which can be said to be the three cash cows of Tianhe Network.

The short-term profit is definitely the best in Red Dead Redemption, but in terms of long-term profit, Red Dead Redemption is actually a bit worse than these projects.

Although Red Dead Redemption also has gold coin cards in the online mode, in fact, this kind of thing is really dispensable. For a $15 gold coin card, players only need to spend two hours a day, and the liver lasts a week. You can earn so much in the game.

Unless it is the kind of big R who doesn't care about these little money, but is willing to spend money to buy time, ordinary players are more willing to go to the liver by themselves.

After returning from E3, Zhang Ke and others at Longzu basically kept their ears to the outside world, and only focused on the project. TINGK, who was also in Shanghai, was also engaged in the development of mobile games.

Because it involves the field of ACT mobile games that they are not good at, including the developed engine and technology, they are still co-developing more with the acquired German studio.

In comparison, the QD studio in Paris has the fastest progress. Although the original plan did not land on the Microsoft platform, under the theory that Chuhe is not short of money, in addition to the development of the Sony platform, In addition to purchasing a development machine from Microsoft, they are still working on the technology of the Microsoft platform.

Although they belong to different platforms, everyone is not a student who just graduated from school and has no experience. Before joining QD, many of them have experience in Microsoft platform development. Even if they are different platforms, just give them a little time. , can still get started quickly.

In contrast, the development department of Tianhe Network, which is the studio led by Chu He, has no projects after the end of Red Dead Redemption.

If it is an ordinary company, giving everyone a vacation after a project will definitely make everyone happy, but in Tianhe Network, most people are not very happy.

Because no project means no bonus, and even during game development, Tianhe Network’s working atmosphere is relatively relaxed, at least there will be no mechanical overtime, unless it is really important Sometimes, for example, there is a bug in the game that needs to be repaired urgently, or some other situations.

Simply in order to catch up with the release time, employees are required to work overtime day and night, which is almost nonexistent in Tianhe Network.

DOTA-like game.

In the office, Chuhe noticed one of the categories from the game news statistics below, which brought back some memories.

Excluding the MMORPG trend brought about by World of Warcraft, as well as traditional FPS games, and games such as DNF, a wave of DOTA-like games has emerged in China.

For example, Dream Three Kingdoms developed by Hangzhou Electric Soul, which focuses on the national style of the Three Kingdoms, absorbs the characteristics of RPG in Warcraft, and perfectly distinguishes the casual dungeon gameplay from the competitive confrontation in DOTA, and integrates its own Features, quickly occupied a large number of domestic markets.

Speaking of Hangzhou Electric Soul, it is actually somewhat legendary. Its founders, Hero and Yu Xiaoliang, were high-level executives of Penguin Games in the early days. In a project team, there is a private game group, which is a group of players who like to play DOTA and Warcraft RPG.

For example, Yu Xiaoliang's ID and screen name at that time were called lion, which was a hero in DOTA, and Hangzhou Dianhun's Dianhun was also a hero in DOTA.

After the failure of the Dark Journey to the West project, the entire department was reorganized, and a large number of high-level executives were cleaned and replaced. Among them, Yu Xiaoliang and others left Penguin and rushed to Hangzhou to start a business. After attracting investment, they established Hangzhou Dianhun, and with the help of domestic DOTA fame, Dream Three Kingdoms was quickly developed.

At the same time, DOTA-like games such as Tianyijue and Qifan also have a relatively good momentum.

And Ice Frog, who is called the father of DOTA by the majority of DOTA players overseas, took refuge in 2S and developed a game called HON.

"By the way, I almost forgot about him!"

Suddenly thought of something, Chuhe clapped his hands.

When it comes to MOBA, when it comes to DOTA-like games, many people will say League of Legends, but in fact, League of Legends has indeed become a phenomenon-level game under the operation of Penguin, but in the previous period of 2009-11, domestic DOTA-like games can be described It’s going everywhere, Meng Sanguo, Qifan, and Tianyi Jue later, such as jumping to ZQB, a state-owned enterprise in the online game industry, is a matter of later after LOL became popular all over the world.