After hanging up the phone, Director Lian began to arrange overseas translation work.
Although she has different opinions from Mr. Meng in this regard, considering that the other party is a strategic boss, and often takes the wrong approach to achieve success. So even if she has her own ideas, she won't make any decisions.
Everything depends on Mr. Meng’s wishes.
As for Meng Shu, after ending the call with Director Lian, he received a call from Future Studio.
This surprised him, because he contacted this studio before he was looking for a new office, that is, after finishing "Sky Mountain".
The main purpose is to port the three games "Dark Forest", "Blackjack" and "Face" to the console platform.
Its purpose is to allow players who dare not play VR to experience horror games through the screen on other platforms.
After all, not everyone dares to face their fears in VR. In addition, his initial focus was on VR and he did not consider players on other platforms, so now it can be regarded as a remedy.
The reason for choosing this company is also very simple. Although they are small in scale, they are quite powerful.
They are involved in most FPS at home and abroad, and are long-term partners of many game companies.
And because they are good at producing FPS shooting feedback effects, the shooting games they participate in are quite good in terms of combat experience, and they have a good reputation in the industry and among players.
Now that more than half a year has passed, there must be good news about their transplantation work.
Meng Shu answered the phone, not having high expectations about whether the transplant would be completed.
On the contrary, he felt that half a year was too little time.
But things were beyond his expectation.
The first words from the head of Future Studio were good news.
[Mr. Meng, hello, we are from Future Studio. Your transplant project "Dark Forest" has been completed. Now it has entered the optimization stage. If there is no problem in the test, it can be shipped to the factory for disk pressing. ]
[However... I have only completed this small game so far, the other two VR games will take some time... Sorry...]
Hearing this, Meng Shu was stunned for a moment, and then the corners of his mouth curled up slightly.
I didn’t expect it, I really didn’t expect it.
The first step was to ask Director Rei to arrange the overseas translation work of "Dark Forest", and then the news came that the host transplant of "Dark Forest" was completed.
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The timing is coincidental, which is kind of interesting...
In this case, when the VR version of "Dark Forest" is released, with the support of a large number of players at home and abroad, the sales volume may exceed his imagination.
Thinking of this, Meng Shu smiled again and started busy work.
...
Time flies by.
Very quickly, four days flew by.
There's only one day left until the release of The Bloody Scientist.
Players who originally had a wait-and-see attitude began to look forward to it.
The number of players who originally shouted for support gradually increased.
After all, it is a new game. No matter how many people were not optimistic about it before, now they are more or less eager to try it out and unveil the mystery.
According to the previous v-blog announcement, tonight will be the day for the pre-sale preview of "Bloody Scientist".
When the time comes, you will know at a glance whether it is a mule or a horse.
Everything, just wait until night.
This is what the players think, but...
A v-bet notice from Jiyou made them collectively stunned.
A brief summary of its contents is:
Good afternoon, dear players, "Bloody Scientist" was originally scheduled to hold a pre-sale event at 8pm on July 9th. However, due to some special reasons, our company's senior management decided to cancel this pre-broadcast after careful consideration. But please rest assured, players, "Bloody Scientist" will be released on time on July 10th, so stay tuned.
If there are special circumstances, we will notify you separately. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Yours sincerely, Jyouvbo Operation Team, July 9, 2023.
…
As soon as the notice came out, the players were shocked.
This news is no less shocking than the previous reverse bounce operation.
They never imagined that the day that was supposed to reveal Lushan's true face would be canceled so hastily.
If I guess correctly, if you want to promote pre-sales on all platforms, you must spend a lot of money, right?
Assuming that Jiyou really spent money on a pre-release preview, what was the reason for them to cancel it?
For a time, Jiyou’s cancellation notice was widely discussed on all major platforms.
Especially the comment area below the v-blog is full of people talking about anything.
Some are worried, some are questioning, some are concerned, and some are eccentric.
The most popular one is undoubtedly the latest thread on Bihu.
The title is: [How to evaluate the cancellation of the preview of "Bloody Scientist"? 】
Although the name of the post is unremarkable, the number of clicks and replies is ridiculously high.
Especially the comments there are all kinds of things.
"What the hell? Are the pre-broadcasts on all platforms canceled immediately? Don't you have to pay for this? Isn't it too childish?"
"As a blood-sucking company, Jiyou cannot cancel it casually. There must be some reason."
"Is it possible that it has been reported? Or is there some policy issue that prevents broadcasting? Otherwise, there is no reason to cancel the pre-broadcast. All the money has been spent and it is still done like this."
"How could it be a policy issue? There must be something wrong with the content."
"She should have been targeted for tampering with other people's cakes."
"What kind of nonsense conspiracy theory, if it was really targeted, would it dare to be released tomorrow?"
"No matter what, I will always support technology games. Anyway, the game will be released tomorrow, so it won't be missed this night."
"Save it, it's just a game. It requires ratings, but there are no ratings. It says pre-broadcast, but the pre-broadcast is cancelled. Isn't this just an attempt to cover up the poor quality of the game?"
"The king of understanding is here? Do you understand again? Isn't it fun to catch the game every day?"
"I believe that Jiyou is not the kind of company that spends money and does nothing. That is very inconsistent with the blood-sucking nature of Jiyou. Either it is a policy issue, or the content of the game itself is not suitable for live broadcast. It is useless for us to guess."
...
Although there are many users who answered, they are all very subjective.
Among them, only one highly praised answer is more in line with the situation and has been recognized by the public.
"I personally think the biggest reason why tech games cancel pre-broadcasts is the plot of the game. As we all know, other plot-heavy games are always suitable only for playing, not watching. Because if you watch the anchors play, then you know the plot. . Now that you already know what will happen in the game, the possibility of you buying the game will be greatly reduced, or even not buying it. As for "Bloody Scientist", we currently only know that its slogan is "Enjoy the game", which is not very important to the plot. We don’t know anything about it. We don’t even know whether the game is linear or sandbox, let alone whether it has more combat or plot. In this case, if the plot is revealed by the anchors in advance, The remaining homogeneous shooting gameplay is difficult to attract players to pay for it. Therefore, I think the top management of the game took this situation into consideration and made the temporary decision to cancel the pre-broadcast. The purpose is to prevent the plot from leaking and avoid Loss of potential customer sales.”
Although this is a fair statement, there is a certain truth to it.
If a plot-based game is revealed due to a live broadcast, it will indeed be difficult for people to have the desire to buy it.
After all, I already knew what was going to happen with the game, so why did I buy the game? Have time to play? Is it possible that after buying it, I still need to find time to play a game whose plot I already know?
Am I free?
Not everyone can make up for the ticket, and the fun of free prostitution is unimaginable.
And indeed, as this highly praised answer says, if the plot of "Bloody Scientist" accounts for a small proportion, then if it is revealed in advance, the remaining popular shooting gameplay will be really difficult to attract people.
It's not like a horror game, where it's just a thrill. So what if you know the plot? Can you still take care of the ghost? Can you still escape the gloomy and depressing atmosphere?
you can not.
Moreover, in the few works of the only game, random gameplay disrupts the back panel, giving players a sense of freshness, so that players in the second and third games are as novel as the first experience.
Therefore, if it is true, as Gao Zan said in his answer, that the pre-broadcast was canceled to protect the plot from leaks, then players can indeed understand it.
But...what if not?
Thinking of this, the players hesitated again.
...
...
Time flies by again.
Night falls silently.
At 0:00 a.m. on July 10th, "Bloody Scientist", which had canceled its pre-sale preview, was finally officially unlocked on the Xiyou platform!
All of a sudden, some big V blogs and friends began to send congratulatory messages, showing off their connections with major manufacturers.
And as expected, this game is not on the cyber platform.
And the price is...
398 yuan! ?
Good guy!
Seeing this pricing, the players all shouted that it was awesome.
Then they all posted in the Fourth Natural Disaster Club, shouting that I really have you, Jiyou!
The price of 398 yuan is still on the Xiyou platform. In addition, the cancellation of pre-broadcast and other operations has directly turned players who originally had a wait-and-see attitude into waiting parties.
Because no matter how you look at it, it means making a profit.
But other players are not like the waiting party.
Some of them are up owners and some are anchors.
In order to be able to show the game first-hand, they directly paid for it and started to experience it.
Sure enough, after experiencing the game on the first day of release, players were blown away...
Especially on Danmaku.com, a complainer with 900,000 fans even posted a video of "Bloody Scientist".
The title is:
[What a b-game, the producer should go home and feed the pigs! 】
