Almighty Video Game Designer Chapter 520

Chapter 520: Lottery draw

Translator: 549690339

This was because your opponents were all real players, and the distribution of real players was that the gold, silver, and bronze divisions had the most players.

If the ranking compet.i.tion mode was not activated, these players might feel good about themselves and still find some fun in the game.

However, once the ranking compet.i.tion mode was activated, these low-ranking players quickly realized that they were just ordinary people in the game, and their only motivation was to climb up the points.

If they couldn’t climb up, they would soon lose interest in the game because they had lost their goal.

Of course, this wasn’t the case for Warcraft and League of Legends. Many gold and silver players were still playing because these games had rich content and depth, allowing players to learn and grow.

Take League of Legends as an example. Players could practice new versions of powerful heroes, watch G.o.d-like livestreams to learn better awareness, and there was a possibility of improvement in their own operations through constant practice. Such rich content diluted the impact of losing in ranked matches.

The players always felt that there were still many things they didn’t understand and that there was still a lot of room for improvement, so even if they weren’t at a high level now, they felt that they could actually climb higher, and they would continue to work hard to pursue that very illusory goal.

However, for some games with relatively weak content, the ranking compet.i.tion would accelerate the exhaustion of the game content. Once the players found out that they still couldn’t score even after understanding most of the game’s mechanisms and practicing a large number of heroes, they would soon lose interest in the game.

This was the trap Chen Mo had set for Emperor dynasty entertainment. When gunfire decided to start the ranking compet.i.tion, its defeat was already set in stone.

……

Gunfire came and left in a hurry, and this triggered the thoughts of many designers.

Why was it that Overwatch could do the same model, but gunfire couldn ‘t?

It wasn’t like it couldn’t be done. Judging from the initial popularity, gunfire had been developing well, but why did it suddenly die out?

Was it because he didn’t do a good job as a hero?

Was it because of the ranking compet.i.tion mode?

At first, the other gaming companies were gloating, thinking that this was a good opportunity for their projects. They released three or four games similar to Overwatch with a ranking mode, but all of them failed.

The latter few games died out even faster, not only because of the ranking compet.i.tion mode, but also because the players were already tired of Overwatch. With Overwatch as the leading game, these games looked like knockoffs.

For these companies, this was an unacceptable failure, because this was a VR game.

Even though the game itself wasn’t as rich in content as other VR games, it was still a VR game.

The investment in these games easily exceeded 100 million Yuan, and such heavy losses even triggered a turmoil among the higher-ups of several game companies.

The companies that didn’t make similar games were secretly glad and also a.n.a.lyzing the reasons behind this.

At the end of the a.n.a.lysis, everyone came to a conclusion: This path was not feasible.

Chen Mo didn’t activate the ranked mode to cover up the conflicts within the game, but it wasn’t a perfect game to begin with.

It wasn’t that Overwatch couldn’t make a ranking game, but that Chen Mo was doing it on purpose.

As much as they were frustrated, these video game companies also set such areas as forbidden zones, and even the popular FPS games on VR platforms were affected to a certain extent.

……

In the experience store, Chen Mo was looking at his happiness and resentment income happily.

No matter how many times he tricked someone, it would still be very interesting.

Up until now, Chen Mo had gained far more happiness points than resentment points. It had to be said that after super Mali Odyssey was released, the happiness points he gained increased rapidly.

This was still limited by the sales volume. When the second batch of palm phones was sold, the speed might be even faster.

In comparison, the growth rate of the grudges was very slow, almost negligible. So far, the total number of grudges had only just broken through 20.

However, 20 was quite a lot, so Chen Mo decided to finish it first.

He drew five times and got five more hardware design skill books.

Chen Mo was speechless. These five books were really not that useful anymore. He had already successfully made a handheld device, and even if he got more hardware design skill books, he wouldn’t be able to develop new handheld devices or devices.

However, it was not a burden to have more skills, so he would eat first.

After finishing the five hardware design skill books, Chen Mo continued to draw.

The vortex spun rapidly again, and a new skill book appeared on the virtual screen.

Chen Mo was instantly energized. After taking a closer look, it was [specialized knowledge] cold weapon knowledge skill book!

“Eh? This one’s not bad, I don’t think I’ve seen him before!”

Chen Zhao quickly used it.

A lot of knowledge flowed into his mind, including a large amount of knowledge about cold weapons, China, foreign, common, rare, and the shape, appearance, weight, special use of each cold weapon.

“This thing is not bad, it’s very useful.”

Chen Mo was overjoyed. To him, this was much more useful than the hardware design skill book, since hardware design was only useful when creating hardware. However, this cold weapon knowledge could be used in most cold weapon combat games.

“Continue drawing, see if there are any more?”

Chen Mo tried the lottery again. To his disappointment, it wasn’t a cold weapon skill book, but after taking a closer look, Chen Mo was pleasantly surprised.

This time, it was a special item!

[Special item store key]: After use, the mall can be opened for shopping. The mall includes the third stage enhanced version of all the items that have been drawn. They also need to be purchased with happiness points and resentment points. There is no limit to the total amount of purchases at one time. The mall will close after the purchase.

Clearly, this was also a good thing.

There were many special items in the first and second stages, but Chen Mo didn’t get any after that. It was obviously a good thing that he was allowed to open the merchant shop to exchange for items.

However, it seemed that this key was more precious. It would definitely be more cost-effective to use it after he had saved a lot of happiness points and resentment points. He opened the mall and bought it freely. After buying it, the mall would close. He didn’t know when he could open it again.

So, after some thought, Chen Zhao decided not to open it for now and save it for later.

At the very least, he would use it after he had collected more enmity points.