Chapter 442 Spy?
He Jinrui stood in front of the whiteboard, his confident temperament exuding from the inside out, and he endlessly explained the various design ideas of "Warring States Online".
“Please look at the whiteboard. We start by dividing the target user groups with different levels of paying ability and launch different gameplays for them.”
“We only focus on players who do not recharge. Players who make money by spending time online We call them free players. ”
“Those who spend a few thousand yuan on the entire game are called small R, medium R refers to those who can spend tens of thousands of yuan, and large R ranges from hundreds of thousands to hundreds of thousands. Those with a level of over one million are called super R!”
“Within a single server, the ecosystems of free players and small R, medium R and large R are different.”
“…When we design the values, we will consider that at a certain stage it will start to become invisible. "Compulsory payment stage."
Ji Xuewei suddenly raised his hand and asked: "What does this mandatory payment mean? Does it mean that players must pay to continue playing?"
"No, we are free. game, There will never be a design like the one you mentioned." He Jinrui replied, "Our players will encounter a bottleneck period after the novice stage of the game, which is as short as two or three days and as long as one month, which is the free stage. "< br>
“This is what we call invisible mandatory payment. At this stage, the benefits obtained through levels, main tasks, etc. are reduced, the benefits of equipment are increased, and the difficulty of obtaining equipment is increased.”
"Before this, one or more paid entrances were generally provided during novice guidance. Players could choose to pay or not to pay. However, players who did not pay had to spend a lot of time and energy to repeatedly work to obtain equipment. And this kind of repeated work, many It’s outrageous. In most games, even if free players play the game 24 hours a day, they can only be compared to paid players.”
Ji Xuewei frowned, thought about it carefully, and suddenly realized: This is. Isn’t it similar to our game design?
The so-called free games are just a gimmick. Those things in the early stage are just benefits provided by the game manufacturers to lure players into the trap.
After reaching a certain stage, free players will find that their income suddenly decreases, or even becomes unbearably low. In some cases, they cannot continue playing without spending money.
This stage is where players begin to be screened. Players who cannot tolerate it will either pay or leave the game.
As for the players who can bear to stay, they are completely reduced to a companion tool and game atmosphere set for paying players, providing emotional value to paying players.
Be aware that emotional value is also value!
Many games are designed to provide emotional value rather than pure game values.
Items for showing off such as skins and mounts.
Hearing the word emotional value, Lin Haixiao and Ji Xuewei looked at each other, feeling a little shocked.
Unexpectedly, Qin Shaoyan's research and understanding of free online games had reached this point, and he was already several steps ahead of them.
At this time, He Jinrui was speaking more and more proudly on the stage. He was still a little guilty when he first came on stage, but the crowd became quiet as soon as he started speaking.
Mr. Qin is really incredible, what he teaches is real!
“The important timing for the transition from the novice stage to the bottleneck stage is that the novice stage needs to cultivate the player’s behavior pattern, that is, through the player’s repeated operation-reward-operation-reward cycle, the player Enter the Skinner Box
In other words, the purpose of card points is to first make players addicted, then make players withdraw from the game, then make players pay to regain their behavioral habits, and then induce players to make continuous small payments, and then continuously increase the payment amount. ”
“The lottery mechanism in the game does not provide lottery probabilities, and lottery props are generally paid props, and you can even pay directly to purchase the lottery.
Not only do we not provide probabilities, we also try every means to prevent players from obtaining such probabilities, thus using information asymmetry to give players the illusion that their consumption is cost-effective, further inducing players to pay.
We provide a variety of different equipment development modes, including various probability fuzzy methods, such as equipment damage if development fails, blessing value if development fails, high probability of success if development, experience value if development etc., thus confusing players and preventing them from calculating the final expected value of each equipment development material. ”
At this point, He Jinrui suddenly noticed that everyone below was looking at Shi Yuzhu, who was sitting in the front row, with strange expressions on their faces.
He Jinrui was a little confused and continued talking.
"Mr. Qin...Qin Shaoyan proposed a hidden function, which is to adjust the probability of a player's enhanced weapon individually in the background, so as to better serve certain VIP customers..."
Before he finished speaking, the atmosphere in the conference room became increasingly weird, and the faces of the "Journey" R&D staff looked particularly strange.
Shi Yuzhu stood up immediately and asked with a sullen face: "Wait a minute, what did you just say? Can you adjust the success rate of players' enhanced weapons in the background?"
"Uh, "Yes." He Jinrui didn't understand why Shi Yuzhu was so excited, but he quickly answered, "This is a design specifically for VIPs. Qin Shaoyan said that some players are unlucky and can manually improve their enhancement success rate in the background. ”
Shi Yuzhu gritted his teeth and asked: "Can it also be adjusted down?"
"Of course, if it can be adjusted up, it can be adjusted down." He Jinrui laughed, "How the operation department uses this function is up to them. "
Shi Yuzhu was so angry that he gritted his teeth now. He now understood why his weapon could never be strengthened.
However, this kind of thing cannot be mentioned again. Shi Yuzhu quickly calmed down his expression and looked at the others, "We also need this function, please remember it."
"You should study hard and see how Qin Shaoyan designs. Consider any possible way to increase payment. This idea will be one step ahead of you."
Lin Haixiao was a little speechless. What's so good about this thing? It's just being shameless.
However, he also admitted that Qin Shaoyan's moral bottom line was lower than they imagined.
He Jinrui didn't know what happened. In order to ease the awkward atmosphere, he could only continue talking.
"Mr. Qin...Qin Shaoyan once said that free online games are essentially numerical games, and we are selling numerical values."
"So we should leave as much room as possible in numerical design to avoid Investing too much in a certain gameplay will lead to a pit that is too deep, which can easily arouse players’ resentment.”
"So Qin Shaoyan proposed a method of opening more pits. In addition to strengthening weapons and equipment, there are also refining, inlaying, gem synthesis, and inheritance."
"In terms of attributes, in addition to attack, defense, and blood volume, there are also Attributes such as critical strike, toughness, puncture, and solidity. "
"Due to the combat formula, when the attack and defense values are stacked to a certain extent, The numerical benefits of these attributes are no longer cost-effective, and it is difficult for paying players to continue paying for these attributes."
"So we will introduce new attributes, such as critical hits."
" The advantage of this is that the new attributes are equivalent to smoothing out the attribute effects that the player has previously accumulated. After a critical hit, no amount of defense will have any effect.”
"While opening up a new gameplay, it very covertly makes the players' previous investment in vain."
"After the critical hit attribute is turned on, we will add new critical hit resistance attributes, such as toughness."
"So paying players have to Re-entering the attribute arms race, your opponent is stacked with critical hits, and you can't defeat him without stacking up toughness."
"..."
Everyone is getting more and more frightened. While lamenting that Qin Shaoyan was a genius in planning, he secretly scolded him for being shameless.
But these designs did open up new ideas for them. As long as they lowered their moral bottom line, they found that their ideas suddenly became clear.
They originally thought that the design of "Zhengtu" was dark enough, but they didn't expect that their opponent was even darker than themselves.
Of course, Qin Shaoyan’s design cannot be blamed for this. He is just standing on the shoulders of giants.
Free online games have just started in the domestic online game market, and some things have not yet been born.
The things he created are things that have been evolved from generation to generation by domestic online game developers. In this early start-up era, others are still in the exploratory stage. He directly came up with the complete system in one step, and it naturally formed A dimensionality reduction attack.
After listening to He Jinrui's lecture, Shi Yuzhu was the first to stand up and applaud, praising: "Mr. He is indeed an elite that Qin Shaoyan values and has a very good understanding of the game. With your help, he is even more powerful!"
< br>He Jinrui smiled a little reservedly, "Mr. Shi has given me the award, I just know a little bit about it."
"From today on, Mr. He will temporarily serve as the executive director of our "Journey" project. " Shi Yuzhu announced to everyone, "He is mainly responsible for providing opinions on the next version of "Zhengtu". He Jinrui hesitated, "Mr. Shi, my project is also very tight, so I can't work all day." How about I stay with "Zhengtu" for only half a day?"
Shi Yuzhu thought for a while, "That's okay, it depends on how you arrange the time. We will fully cooperate with you."
He Jinrui said happily: "Then I'll come after six-thirty in the evening."
"Huh?!" Lin Haixiao was shocked, "Six-thirty in the evening? What kind of half-day is this? We are about to get off work. "Hey, do you get off work so early?" He Jinrui was a little surprised, "I don't know much about your working hours. Anyway, at our place, work is very efficient at six o'clock in the evening." "
Shi Yuzhu was shocked, "Do you all work until 12 o'clock?"
" What's the matter? We often work all night long," He Jinrui said proudly, "How can we complete "Warring States" in a short time without working hard?"
Shi Yuzhu nodded, "This spirit is worth promoting."
Lin Haixiao, Ji Xuewei, Yue Tao and others looked bitter, thinking that the revision of "Zhengtu" was already very happy, but they didn't expect that the big one was still to come. Woolen cloth.
But Lin Haixiao and others found that they still did not know enough about the hardships of working as a working cow and horse, and He Jinrui taught them a good lesson.
This man will only appear in the "Zhengtu" research and development project team after six o'clock every night, and then start to open the game and play a round.
Drafting suggestions for modifications while playing, listing a lot of things and asking for modifications immediately, euphemistically called "rapid development and rapid iteration."
Faced with this foreign monk and Shi Yuzhu's personal supervision of the battle, Lin Haixiao and others had to bite the bullet and start making modifications.
From then on, the rhythm of intensive overtime research and development began. It would not be until two or three in the morning before everyone started to go home one after another.
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But He Jinrui was even more ruthless. He simply refused to leave and played "Zhengtu" in the company all night, and then waited for Shi Yuzhu to submit a report at work before leaving. .
After just one week, the developers of the "Journey" project team showed signs of collapse.
I started working during the day and worked overtime until midnight. Apart from sleeping and commuting, I spent the rest of the time in the company, just like going to jail.
Lin Haixiao was a little confused, why could He Jinrui work at Ju Rui Company during the day and still be energetic enough to come to their place for guidance at night? Didn't this person even sleep?
The answer is of course that He Jinrui went home directly to sleep during the day, and came here to give advice when he woke up.
Under the continuous guidance of He Jinrui, "Journey" soon changed drastically!
But Ji Xuewei's face became paler and paler. He was in charge of numerical values and his work intensity was the highest. He walked a little shaky.
He quietly found Lin Haixiao and asked: "Do you feel that our game is getting more and more wrong?"
Lin Haixiao thought for a while, "It is indeed a bit messy, but the changes have not been completed yet. It should be much better after this."
"I think it's quite annoying." Ji Xuewei frowned, "I always feel like this. Something isn’t right with what Jin Rui gave me.”
“What?” Lin Haixiao was stunned, “What’s wrong?”
“It’s the battle formula he gave me. Those props and experience investment values." Ji Xuewei rubbed his hair, "It seems that our game output is not right on the third day."
"Huh?" Lin Haixiao also frowned, "What exactly is wrong?"
"It's just...it seems like the values have collapsed..." Ji Xuewei was a little unsure, "The players have gained too many things, and the monster strength and The experience output cannot keep up with the player's growth, and by the seventh day, the player can no longer fight monsters."
Lin Haixiao was shocked, "Have you not checked it? Did you fill it in wrong?"
"How is this possible? I also checked carefully with He Jinrui and he said that the value he gave is fine." Ji Xuewei Some looked bitter, "What should we do?"
"Have you told Mr. Shi about this problem?" Lin Haixiao asked seriously.
"I can't say. There's no big problem with the values He Jinrui gave on the first and second days." Ji Xuewei was a little helpless, "I can't force Mr. Shi to play our semi-finished version for three days. He only plays a few I left when I felt that the experience was good."
Lin Haixiao suddenly had an ominous premonition, but he quickly suppressed the feeling in his heart, "You should explain this matter clearly to He Jinrui and ask him to do it. Give me an explanation.”
Ji Xuewei quickly went to make a call. After a while, he rushed back with a strange expression, "He Jinrui insisted that the values he gave were fine, saying that there was a problem with our game and it had not been completely corrected. Wait. Revision completed The values are right."
Lin Haixiao's expression changed, "Then how much is the change considered to be good?"
"He said it would be right to change it to "Warring States OL". Yes." Ji Xuewei replied.
"Fuck!" Lin Haixiao couldn't help but swore, "Then why are we still making "Zhengtu"? Let's just make "Warring States" instead."
"This idiot can't be from Qin Shaoyan's faction He's a spy, he's here to cause trouble for us, right?"
"No way. , It won’t do him any good.” Ji Xuewei shook his head, “What should we do now? Should we continue to change it?” Lin Haixiao said angrily. Now that the changes to "Zhengtu" are neither fish nor fowl, we can only bite the bullet and continue to change them.
As for returning to the version before He Jinrui came, it is no longer possible. Now the situation is that changing it back is too difficult, and we can only go down.
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The "Journey" project team was struggling with intense overtime work, but Shi Yuzhu was in a good mood.
Wu Lian reported to him happily, "There are already five plug-ins for "Warring States Online" on the market, including acceleration plug-ins and auxiliary plug-ins. They have begun to distribute them in large quantities."
"That's so unfortunate." There was no sympathetic expression on Shi Yuzhu's face, "Isn't that very unfortunate?" "Warring States" cheats will soon be everywhere. "
"In another month, everyone in Warring States will be cheating," Wu Lian agreed with a smile, "Now the Warring States side is operating. There was an announcement saying that cheating will be banned, but I think it will have no effect. Which game doesn’t cheat now? ”
"The plug-in is still too slow to take effect." Shi Yuzhu suddenly asked, "Where is the expert I asked you to contact?"
"He has already started to take action. He just paralyzed a server today." Wu Lian said quickly. , "He has now found the server vulnerability."
"Then what are you waiting for?" Shi Yuzhu frowned.
"He said that the risk of this job is too high, so we need to pay more." Wu Lian carefully looked at Shi Yuzhu's expression, "He said that it costs one hundred and fifty US dollars to paralyze a server."
"Okay, promise him." Shi Yuzhu said without hesitation.
Wu Lian was overjoyed, turned around and walked out the door to make a call.
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Campus network.
Fan Xiaoqian is showing Qin Shaoyan several plug-ins on the computer, "The most common ones are auxiliary plug-ins. These are not threatening at all, they are just automatic hang-ups to fight monsters."
"We Several so-called offline plug-ins found so far have been confirmed to be account-stealing Trojans and cannot be used at all." Fan Xiaoqian smiled helplessly, "I was defrauded of hundreds of dollars."
Qin Shaoyan smiled, "Selling cheats is even darker than us now."
"We are still checking the acceleration cheats." Fan Xiaoqian continued, "But I don't see anything abnormal now, what they call The acceleration plug-in is only displayed locally Acceleration, but the server verification cannot pass at all. I have added protection measures to the server. If this kind of acceleration plug-in appears, the account will be kicked offline directly. "
"In fact, only auxiliary plug-ins can be used. "?" Qin Shaoyan asked.
"That's what it looks like so far." Fan Xiaoqian casually opened an auxiliary plug-in, "But this thing also has a hacking Trojan, and it's not as well made as ours."
"Then There is nothing to say. For the sake of player account security, this kind of auxiliary cheats must be banned." Qin Shaoyan said directly, "With the announcement, all players who use cheats will be banned from today, regardless of whether they are paid players or not."
"If there is a problem, ask them to contact customer service. Don't be lenient."
"Our plug-in is ready to be launched."
Fan Xiaoqian nodded, "We have already prepared the new version, just wait. It took effect after the update.”
“Thank you, Teacher Fan,” Qin Shaoyan said. Patting Fan Xiaoqian on the shoulder, "It's up to you to deal with the hackers who attack the server."
"I borrowed two security experts from NetEase, and they are working on a solution." Fan Xiaoqian said with a grimace. "But their endless harassment is so annoying."
"It'll be over soon." Qin Shaoyan glanced at the calendar, "Give me another two days and I'll make him completely quiet."
(End of this chapter)
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