Chapter 581 Extra 1 Game Public Beta
The second part of "The Twenty-one Cases of Da Zhao" started filming in early June, and until September, Liu Wangxue traveled all over the country with the crew to shoot on late September, Jingshan Technology held a press conference and the PC game officially entered the public beta stage.
This press conference was quite grand.
At the beginning of last month, Mu Jingsheng's Wanjun Technology and Xu Han's Lumen Technology held press conferences one after another, and their PC games started public testing first.
Du Yunkai and Xu Qingsong didn't take Xu Han seriously at all. They were unhappy with Mu Jingsheng.
Du Yunkai and Mu Jingsheng have similar family backgrounds and are of similar age. They attended the same school from kindergarten to high school, and would even meet each other occasionally when attending summer camps or extracurricular interest classes.
But the two of them had been at odds since kindergarten, because Mu Jingsheng was outstanding in everything. Not only Du Yunkai, but even other children of the same age in the circle were outshined by him. Everyone could always hear praises about this "old Mu family child" from their parents.
Du Yunkai and everyone except Mu Jingsheng's lackeys have a common understanding that the reason why Mu Jingsheng has such a good reputation among the elders is largely due to his hypocrisy and pretense. He is well-behaved and sensible in front of others, but is simply too despicable behind their backs.
In Du Yunkai's view, the first time he felt proud in his life was when he worked hard and was admitted to Jingshi University after being mocked by Mu Jingsheng's lackeys that he could only go to a third-rate university in the country. The second time was the success of the stand-alone game "The Twenty-one Cases of Dazhao".
However, strictly speaking, there is not much pride in the success of the stand-alone game, because the game and Mu Jingsheng are not on the same track, and Du Yunkai no longer cares about the things in adolescence. He can't think of this person, and he can't meet him, otherwise he will still say a few words.
Coincidentally, when Du Yunkai decided to develop a PC game, Mu Jingsheng founded Wanjun Technology and also wanted to enter the game market.
Afterwards, in order to improve his technical level, Du Yunkai tried every means to seek cooperation with foreign countries but to no avail. Especially after the cooperation talks with D&L Game broke down, he met Mu Jingsheng by chance on the golf course and was ridiculed by Mu Jingsheng. However, at that time, Mu Jingsheng had already spent a lot of money to poach an entire game production team from Country M.
Du Yunkai was very angry at the time and really wanted to pin Mu Jingsheng to the ground and beat him up.
Du Yunkai originally wanted to make "The Twenty-one Cases of Da Zhao" into a PC game, just with the idea of making money with his passion, but after returning from the golf course, he no longer thought so. He wanted to step on Mu Jingsheng's head and feel proud.
Xu Qingsong and Du Yunkai had the same idea. Before, he just wanted to save face for his buddy, but later he just wanted to vent his anger because of Liu Wangxue.
Xu Qingsong knew that Mu Jingsheng and the things that happened before had long become a thing of the past in Liu Wangxue's mind, and she didn't care at all. But Xu Qingsong didn't think so. He didn't know the whole story before, but when he did, he was really angry.
So this battle must be fought.
The PC game team conducted an internal test in March, and another one at the end of May after Liu Wangxue and Xu Qingsong’s wedding. The third internal test was at the end of July.
With their level, after three internal tests were completed, the game was basically ready to go online, so Du Yunkai held an internal meeting to discuss it, also hoping to take advantage of the popularity of the dating variety show - after all, he had asked Xu Qingsong to participate in the recording in the first place with the slogan of promoting the game, and this goal was perfectly achieved, with expectations online being quite high.
As soon as the meeting of Jingshan Technology was over, everyone got the news that Wanjun Technology was about to hold a press conference. After discussing with each other, Du Yunkai and Xu Qingsong decided to postpone their own press conference to see what the other party was like. They also paid attention to the other party when it released PV before. In terms of PV alone, it was also quite good.
Unexpectedly, as soon as the time of Wanjun Technology's press conference was officially announced, Xu Han's Lumen Technology's game press conference was also put on the agenda, and it was on the same day as Wanjun's.
Du Yunkai and Xu Qingsong laughed so hard, it was a fight, it was going to be a good show. Especially Du Yunkai and Richard, they always remembered the grudge against D&L Game.
When Du Yunkai was discussing cooperation with D&L Game, the other party made an exorbitant demand and the talks eventually broke down. The visiting team from D&L Game then turned around and hooked up with Xu Han.
Needless to say, Richard was able to come to work for Du Yunkai thanks to D&L Game. It was also because of working here that he found his lost family.
In short, the press conferences of Wanjun and Liuming were quite impressive. Du Yunkai joked: "I don't know who wrote this speech, it was so exciting. After listening to it, I felt that domestic 3A games have reached the top of the world."
Xu Qingsong was just as happy: "Wait until they come online and create an account to play with."
Not only them, but everyone in the PC gaming group downloaded the games from these two companies on their personal computers. They didn't just play for fun, they also made tables and rated the games very strictly from all aspects. The summary results were written on the whiteboard in the conference room.
There is no need to talk about Lumen Technology. If you give him a look, it can only be an expression of disgust.
At first, everyone really couldn't understand why a game that promotes Chinese style and traditional culture could inadvertently reveal the Western stereotype of the East. Even if the game team has foreign parties involved in the production, your company is a domestic company and the team leader is also Chinese.
Soon after the game was launched, it sparked public outcry.
Everyone discovered that the reason for this was because the main market for the game was in the West.
In addition, some people have found out that a foreign organization called Salty Baby had contacted the main creative team of this game.
Some people refuted that the news was false because no one found any elements related to "minority groups" in the game.
But this does not stop the public from cursing, because those in the know understand that this organization is already notorious abroad. They do some "privileged" things under the banner of "equal rights", and ultimately it is those dirty politicians who are manipulating them behind the scenes.
[Salty Baby, written as SB, pronounced as Shabi] As soon as this incident happened, many netizens @ the National Security Bureau, saying that there must be someone with a crooked butt in the management of Lumin Technology, and called for an investigation, maybe there really are 500,000 walking dead.
Lumen Technology suffered from bad PR and its stock price plummeted.
It is said that Xu Han was so angry with his father that he kicked him out of the company.
Relatively speaking, the game produced by Wanjun Technology is much better than that of Liuming Technology. First of all, they did not desperately market it under the banner of "national style", because the game is indeed not completely national style, it can only be said to be a mix of national style and Western fantasy.
The feeling of colleagues from Jingshan Technology's PC game group after playing the game is that the art design is very good, the combat is very smooth, and the skills are particularly cool, and that's all.
Jin Zhaofei commented: "This plot is a piece of shit."
Zheng Zhou said: "But they don't serve story-based players. Didn't you see that the main focus of the promotion is on various battles?"
Gu Zicheng said disdainfully: "Then we win!"
Xu Qingsong joked: "Not necessarily. Your boss wants both. Our game is not as accurately positioned as theirs."
Indeed, the positioning of Wanjun's game was extremely precise and clear, and coupled with the comparison with Lumen Technology, it became extremely popular throughout August.
Du Yunkai glanced at Xu Qingsong and said, "If you have the ability to pour cold water or throw hailstones, don't encourage others to lose your own prestige." He then rubbed his hands and said, "The public beta will show the truth."
In early September, the popularity of Wanjun Games began to decline. Jingshan Technology waited for a while and finally scheduled the press conference for the end of the month.
The press conference was a grand one, broadcast live all day, and invited the heads of the leading forum websites in the gaming industry, as well as reporters from major news websites. In addition, Du Yunkai also invited his parents to the event, and of course Du Yunxiang and Wenxi were also present.
Du Yunkai spoke on behalf of Jingshan Technology, while Xu Qingsong led the main persons in charge of each item in the PC game group to introduce the game and explain how to play.
After the speech, several big-name stars from Yunxi Entertainment came to experience the game on site, and a well-known game blogger also led the way in playing.
The content of the PC game is particularly rich. In addition to the original detective storyline, it also adds martial arts settings and combat systems. In addition, it divides many different professions into the four major categories of "scholars, farmers, merchants and artisans".
In short, if the player only wants to play farming at the beginning, he can choose the identity of "farmer". The starting location is in a small village, where he can fully experience the field life of "working from sunrise to sunset".
Still taking "farmer" as an example, players can choose to be an ordinary farmer forever. When they get tired of playing, they can also choose to make changes and find their own way to grow and upgrade.
Every profession in the game can be converted into each other. A "farmer" can find ways to do business and become a "merchant", or he can study to take the imperial examination or the martial arts examination, or he can develop various skills.
In short, how far the character can go and where he can reach depends on how many ideas the player has.
Just from the big screen of the live broadcast, we can see that the game graphics are much more exquisite than the stand-alone version, and there is basically no difference with the PV graphics released before. At that time, there were still people who were pessimistic, saying that the PV and the real machine are different, and the real machine experience must be discounted, but now they have shut up.
In addition to the graphics, the battle scenes are not inferior to those of Wanjun Technology's games. When the game blogger finished, the supporter introduced that the configuration of each computer is different, and even if the configuration is slightly lower, the fluency is still the same.
Everyone at the scene wanted to experience it for themselves.
Developing a large interactive game like this is not an easy task, so the team worked diligently for more than two years, but only developed the territory of Dazhao. The territories of surrounding countries will have to be developed slowly in the future.
After the presentation, there will be an interview and question session. After this session is over, everyone will be invited to the comic convention venue.
The comic exhibition was also planned by Du Yunkai a long time ago. It was hosted by Jingshan Technology, and Wenxi's "Chunjian" brand was the largest partner.
The main exhibition area is definitely "The 21st Case of Dazhao", where costumes, accessories, and other peripheral products of the characters in the game are sold, and dozens of devices are provided for everyone to try out. Other exhibition areas are other games produced by Jingshan Technology, and each exhibition area invites famous COSERs in the circle to come and help.
However, the comic convention was only open to the public on the day of the press conference to facilitate live coverage.
Before the release was over, various related reports were already flying around. Netizens were frantically @Jingshan Technology's official Weibo account, demanding that the game be open to the convention, especially some game fans who had been following the PC game from the beginning, who were itching to rush over to try it out.
Jingshan Technology lived up to expectations and the comic exhibition opened on the first day of National Day.
During holidays, the flow of people is bound to be huge. Many tourists on site posted on Weibo that although there are dozens of devices, there are extremely long queues for each one, and it takes at least three hours to get one, and they can only play for ten minutes. Everyone hopes that the game will be launched online as soon as possible.
After the National Day, on October 10, the PC game was officially launched for public beta testing. The number of downloads on the first day exceeded two million, and the various data for one week completely exceeded the cumulative monthly figures announced by Wanjun Technology.
Du Yunkai and Xu Qingsong were so happy: "Complete victory!"
The second part of "The Twenty-one Cases of Da Zhao" started filming in early June, and until September, Liu Wangxue traveled all over the country with the crew to shoot on late September, Jingshan Technology held a press conference and the PC game officially entered the public beta stage.
This press conference was quite grand.
At the beginning of last month, Mu Jingsheng's Wanjun Technology and Xu Han's Lumen Technology held press conferences one after another, and their PC games started public testing first.
Du Yunkai and Xu Qingsong didn't take Xu Han seriously at all. They were unhappy with Mu Jingsheng.
Du Yunkai and Mu Jingsheng have similar family backgrounds and are of similar age. They attended the same school from kindergarten to high school, and would even meet each other occasionally when attending summer camps or extracurricular interest classes.
But the two of them had been at odds since kindergarten, because Mu Jingsheng was outstanding in everything. Not only Du Yunkai, but even other children of the same age in the circle were outshined by him. Everyone could always hear praises about this "old Mu family child" from their parents.
Du Yunkai and everyone except Mu Jingsheng's lackeys have a common understanding that the reason why Mu Jingsheng has such a good reputation among the elders is largely due to his hypocrisy and pretense. He is well-behaved and sensible in front of others, but is simply too despicable behind their backs.
In Du Yunkai's view, the first time he felt proud in his life was when he worked hard and was admitted to Jingshi University after being mocked by Mu Jingsheng's lackeys that he could only go to a third-rate university in the country. The second time was the success of the stand-alone game "The Twenty-one Cases of Dazhao".
However, strictly speaking, there is not much pride in the success of the stand-alone game, because the game and Mu Jingsheng are not on the same track, and Du Yunkai no longer cares about the things in adolescence. He can't think of this person, and he can't meet him, otherwise he will still say a few words.
Coincidentally, when Du Yunkai decided to develop a PC game, Mu Jingsheng founded Wanjun Technology and also wanted to enter the game market.
Afterwards, in order to improve his technical level, Du Yunkai tried every means to seek cooperation with foreign countries but to no avail. Especially after the cooperation talks with D&L Game broke down, he met Mu Jingsheng by chance on the golf course and was ridiculed by Mu Jingsheng. However, at that time, Mu Jingsheng had already spent a lot of money to poach an entire game production team from Country M.
Du Yunkai was very angry at the time and really wanted to pin Mu Jingsheng to the ground and beat him up.
Du Yunkai originally wanted to make "The Twenty-one Cases of Da Zhao" into a PC game, just with the idea of making money with his passion, but after returning from the golf course, he no longer thought so. He wanted to step on Mu Jingsheng's head and feel proud.
Xu Qingsong and Du Yunkai had the same idea. Before, he just wanted to save face for his buddy, but later he just wanted to vent his anger because of Liu Wangxue.
Xu Qingsong knew that Mu Jingsheng and the things that happened before had long become a thing of the past in Liu Wangxue's mind, and she didn't care at all. But Xu Qingsong didn't think so. He didn't know the whole story before, but when he did, he was really angry.
So this battle must be fought.
The PC game team conducted an internal test in March, and another one at the end of May after Liu Wangxue and Xu Qingsong’s wedding. The third internal test was at the end of July.
With their level, after three internal tests were completed, the game was basically ready to go online, so Du Yunkai held an internal meeting to discuss it, also hoping to take advantage of the popularity of the dating variety show - after all, he had asked Xu Qingsong to participate in the recording in the first place with the slogan of promoting the game, and this goal was perfectly achieved, with expectations online being quite high.
As soon as the meeting of Jingshan Technology was over, everyone got the news that Wanjun Technology was about to hold a press conference. After discussing with each other, Du Yunkai and Xu Qingsong decided to postpone their own press conference to see what the other party was like. They also paid attention to the other party when it released PV before. In terms of PV alone, it was also quite good.
Unexpectedly, as soon as the time of Wanjun Technology's press conference was officially announced, Xu Han's Lumen Technology's game press conference was also put on the agenda, and it was on the same day as Wanjun's.
Du Yunkai and Xu Qingsong laughed so hard, it was a fight, it was going to be a good show. Especially Du Yunkai and Richard, they always remembered the grudge against D&L Game.
When Du Yunkai was discussing cooperation with D&L Game, the other party made an exorbitant demand and the talks eventually broke down. The visiting team from D&L Game then turned around and hooked up with Xu Han.
Needless to say, Richard was able to come to work for Du Yunkai thanks to D&L Game. It was also because of working here that he found his lost family.
In short, the press conferences of Wanjun and Liuming were quite impressive. Du Yunkai joked: "I don't know who wrote this speech, it was so exciting. After listening to it, I felt that domestic 3A games have reached the top of the world."
Xu Qingsong was just as happy: "Wait until they come online and create an account to play with."
Not only them, but everyone in the PC gaming group downloaded the games from these two companies on their personal computers. They didn't just play for fun, they also made tables and rated the games very strictly from all aspects. The summary results were written on the whiteboard in the conference room.
There is no need to talk about Lumen Technology. If you give him a look, it can only be an expression of disgust.
At first, everyone really couldn't understand why a game that promotes Chinese style and traditional culture could inadvertently reveal the Western stereotype of the East. Even if the game team has foreign parties involved in the production, your company is a domestic company and the team leader is also Chinese.
Soon after the game was launched, it sparked public outcry.
Everyone discovered that the reason for this was because the main market for the game was in the West.
In addition, some people have found out that a foreign organization called Salty Baby had contacted the main creative team of this game.
Some people refuted that the news was false because no one found any elements related to "minority groups" in the game.
But this does not stop the public from cursing, because those in the know understand that this organization is already notorious abroad. They do some "privileged" things under the banner of "equal rights", and ultimately it is those dirty politicians who are manipulating them behind the scenes.
[Salty Baby, written as SB, pronounced as Shabi] As soon as this incident happened, many netizens @ the National Security Bureau, saying that there must be someone with a crooked butt in the management of Lumin Technology, and called for an investigation, maybe there really are 500,000 walking dead.
Lumen Technology suffered from bad PR and its stock price plummeted.
It is said that Xu Han was so angry with his father that he kicked him out of the company.
Relatively speaking, the game produced by Wanjun Technology is much better than that of Liuming Technology. First of all, they did not desperately market it under the banner of "national style", because the game is indeed not completely national style, it can only be said to be a mix of national style and Western fantasy.
The feeling of colleagues from Jingshan Technology's PC game group after playing the game is that the art design is very good, the combat is very smooth, and the skills are particularly cool, and that's all.
Jin Zhaofei commented: "This plot is a piece of shit."
Zheng Zhou said: "But they don't serve story-based players. Didn't you see that the main focus of the promotion is on various battles?"
Gu Zicheng said disdainfully: "Then we win!"
Xu Qingsong joked: "Not necessarily. Your boss wants both. Our game is not as accurately positioned as theirs."
Indeed, the positioning of Wanjun's game was extremely precise and clear, and coupled with the comparison with Lumen Technology, it became extremely popular throughout August.
Du Yunkai glanced at Xu Qingsong and said, "If you have the ability to pour cold water or throw hailstones, don't encourage others to lose your own prestige." He then rubbed his hands and said, "The public beta will show the truth."
In early September, the popularity of Wanjun Games began to decline. Jingshan Technology waited for a while and finally scheduled the press conference for the end of the month.
The press conference was a grand one, broadcast live all day, and invited the heads of the leading forum websites in the gaming industry, as well as reporters from major news websites. In addition, Du Yunkai also invited his parents to the event, and of course Du Yunxiang and Wenxi were also present.
Du Yunkai spoke on behalf of Jingshan Technology, while Xu Qingsong led the main persons in charge of each item in the PC game group to introduce the game and explain how to play.
After the speech, several big-name stars from Yunxi Entertainment came to experience the game on site, and a well-known game blogger also led the way in playing.
The content of the PC game is particularly rich. In addition to the original detective storyline, it also adds martial arts settings and combat systems. In addition, it divides many different professions into the four major categories of "scholars, farmers, merchants and artisans".
In short, if the player only wants to play farming at the beginning, he can choose the identity of "farmer". The starting location is in a small village, where he can fully experience the field life of "working from sunrise to sunset".
Still taking "farmer" as an example, players can choose to be an ordinary farmer forever. When they get tired of playing, they can also choose to make changes and find their own way to grow and upgrade.
Every profession in the game can be converted into each other. A "farmer" can find ways to do business and become a "merchant", or he can study to take the imperial examination or the martial arts examination, or he can develop various skills.
In short, how far the character can go and where he can reach depends on how many ideas the player has.
Just from the big screen of the live broadcast, we can see that the game graphics are much more exquisite than the stand-alone version, and there is basically no difference with the PV graphics released before. At that time, there were still people who were pessimistic, saying that the PV and the real machine are different, and the real machine experience must be discounted, but now they have shut up.
In addition to the graphics, the battle scenes are not inferior to those of Wanjun Technology's games. When the game blogger finished, the supporter introduced that the configuration of each computer is different, and even if the configuration is slightly lower, the fluency is still the same.
Everyone at the scene wanted to experience it for themselves.
Developing a large interactive game like this is not an easy task, so the team worked diligently for more than two years, but only developed the territory of Dazhao. The territories of surrounding countries will have to be developed slowly in the future.
After the presentation, there will be an interview and question session. After this session is over, everyone will be invited to the comic convention venue.
The comic exhibition was also planned by Du Yunkai a long time ago. It was hosted by Jingshan Technology, and Wenxi's "Chunjian" brand was the largest partner.
The main exhibition area is definitely "The 21st Case of Dazhao", where costumes, accessories, and other peripheral products of the characters in the game are sold, and dozens of devices are provided for everyone to try out. Other exhibition areas are other games produced by Jingshan Technology, and each exhibition area invites famous COSERs in the circle to come and help.
However, the comic convention was only open to the public on the day of the press conference to facilitate live coverage.
Before the release was over, various related reports were already flying around. Netizens were frantically @Jingshan Technology's official Weibo account, demanding that the game be open to the convention, especially some game fans who had been following the PC game from the beginning, who were itching to rush over to try it out.
Jingshan Technology lived up to expectations and the comic exhibition opened on the first day of National Day.
During holidays, the flow of people is bound to be huge. Many tourists on site posted on Weibo that although there are dozens of devices, there are extremely long queues for each one, and it takes at least three hours to get one, and they can only play for ten minutes. Everyone hopes that the game will be launched online as soon as possible.
After the National Day, on October 10, the PC game was officially launched for public beta testing. The number of downloads on the first day exceeded two million, and the various data for one week completely exceeded the cumulative monthly figures announced by Wanjun Technology.
Du Yunkai and Xu Qingsong were so happy: "Complete victory!"
