Rebirth of the Game Pioneer

Chapter 270 Host and Controller

"Overwatch" has achieved obvious success in the management of the game environment. After seeing other games that have been complained by players for a long time, they immediately followed suit and copied the answers on the spot, striving to improve their own game environment. .

Most of these games naturally received applause and praise from players. For a time, trolls and individualistic players were immediately punished by the collective sanctions of online games. These people either quit the game in anger, were forced to change their ways, or were cursed. Switch to stand-alone gaming.

For the entire game environment, this wave of frenzy to improve the game environment started from the original intention is like a storm of anti-crime attacks on online games, giving the entire online game environment a completely new look in a short period of time.

But what is a good thing for most games does not apply to all games. Some games with few live players still have some popularity boosted by Oatmeal Brother, but they imagine that they will be rejuvenated after rectifying the game atmosphere. The second spring, but after the rectification, the second spring has not been rejuvenated. On the contrary, even the only Oatmeal guy in the world chat is gone. In the end, although a large number of Oatmeal guys are unemployed, it can be regarded as a contribution to purifying the game environment. But his own game couldn't even hold on to his last breath, and he died together with Oatmeal Brother.

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After the release of Overwatch, the company once again shifted to a defensive position.

In the Internet industry, popularly speaking, whether it is developing new software or new hardware, it is called conquering the country. If it is involved in a field that the company has never been involved in, this is also called breaking the ice or conquering difficulties. On the contrary, it is already facing the market. Releasing projects that require continued operation and maintenance is called defending the country.

Although the old saying goes that it is difficult to conquer a country and even harder to defend it, in fact, in the Internet industry, most of the time, it is more difficult to conquer a country than to defend it.

The reason for this is that in reality, there are only a handful of opponents, even if they are as chaotic as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. But in the Internet industry, the same country will often encounter countless opponents who only have technological advantages. , service advantages, and creative advantages have just had the opportunity to occupy a place in the Nuo Dajiangshan, and defending the country is nothing more than the process of clarifying one's own advantages, holding on to them, and expanding them. The former is laborious and has an unknown future, while the latter is steady and steady, not seeking merit but seeking success. Ask for nothing.

Just like the current state of Chuxin, the games are very successful. All the employees need to do is to maintain this success. They often pay attention to player feedback, fix bugs in a timely manner, and update from time to time when necessary. New content comes out to keep the game alive.

If the game is too bad, such work will naturally be boring and boring, and employees will have no goals. They will just muddle along and be able to hold their breath.

But if the game performance is good, it will be completely different. Work is easy and enjoyable, there is a sense of glorious mission in whatever you do, and everyone has a bright future.

Gu Feng has always been different from those bosses who don't want their employees to have any leisure time. He relaxes when defending the country to recharge his energy, so that he can respond with a more perfect and positive mental state when fighting for the country.

However, although Gu Feng intended for everyone to take a break, most of the employees were still very crisis-conscious. After finishing the work at hand early in the day, many people would take the initiative to learn new knowledge and techniques to enrich themselves.

Take developers as an example. Many of them are already learning VR-related technologies in advance. After all, it is only a matter of time before they start making VR games. Compared with being left behind in projects that protect Jiangshan due to lack of ability, of course they still want to He has been following Gu Feng everywhere to conquer the country.

In such a dark environment, the entire company is in a state of healthy competition, and employees will be surprised when they tell their friends.

Of course, Gu Feng has not been idle during this period. The Chuxin Building is under construction in an orderly manner, and he has also begun to make plans for the company's large-scale expansion in the next year.

According to his idea, there are currently three main areas where the company needs to expand.

First, console games are not only games, but also hardware.

Second, VR games, similarly, are not just games, but also hardware.

Third, game engine development.This is very necessary. A mature and advanced game engine can save a lot of time and cost for the development of a new game. The manpower and time saved in this way can be used to do more things. In the long run, it is beneficial A great deed that brings no harm at all.

Regarding the hardware, whether it is a gamepad or a VR game cabin, Gu Feng’s plan is to provide ideas from Chuxin, and then outsource it to other companies for R&D and production.

Perhaps it is not impossible to build a technology R&D team yourself in the future, and you can also build a production line, but if you want to get usable products in a short time, it is definitely best to directly outsource it to a company with mature technology and mature production lines.

In recent days, Gu Feng has been busy looking for partners to make controllers and handheld consoles.

There are two types of controllers he wants to make, one is a controller designed to imitate Microsoft's Xbox, and the other is a design imitating the NS Joy-Con controller and the host that can be disassembled and assembled.

In fact, for players, the independent mouse is naturally better than the Joy-Con handle, but the handle is actually the same as a toothbrush. Some people like hard bristles, some like soft bristles, and some people like toothbrushes. Some people like narrow ones, some people like wide ones, some people like hand-brushed ones, some people like electric ones, there is no distinction between good and bad, the one that suits you is the best.

The xbox and Joy-Con handles are designed for different audiences. Some people pursue comfortable playing, some pay attention to economic benefits, some want to use the best ones, and some only care about being usable.

Xbox has the advantages of Xbox, and NS also has the advantages of NS. There is no need to have a high or low score.

In the last few days before the National Day, Gu Feng led people to inspect more than a dozen domestic gaming hardware companies, and finally decided on two companies to be responsible for the development of two products.

Of course, other people at Chuxin also knew about Gu Feng's actions. Regarding Gu Feng's outsourcing to a company to make console hardware, everyone was mostly curious, but no one found it strange.

After all, Gu Feng made animations and wrote novels specifically to make games. Now that he designs his own hardware, he is still in the gaming field, so it is not worth making a fuss about.

In contrast, everyone is very interested in the field of console games that Gu Feng seems to be planning to get involved in. Recently, most of the topics after dinner are speculations about this aspect.

This can actually be regarded as a traditional entertainment of Chuxin. Not only players will be curious about Chuxin’s next game, but Chuxin’s employees will also be curious about what game Gu Feng wants to play next.

But even though they are full of confidence in Gu Feng, everyone still has no idea about making console games.

It’s not like others have never tried making console games, but except for the first ones who tasted a little sweetness, most of the people who tried it were completely cool.

Not to mention people in the industry, even if you grab a player on the street and ask them, they will know that console games are a pit, a deep pit!Not only the console is a pitfall, but the game is also a pitfall!

(End of this chapter)