Chapter 327 The idea of ????DLC
Of course, this style of picture will naturally offend some people.
Back then, because the child and her husband were addicted to DND PC games, some housewives united to form an organization that boycotted DND. This organization was very popular and even for a period of time, it was isolated from some towns. For example, in a small town in Texas, it was once the core of this organization's activities. DND games were not allowed to be sold until the milk was laid.
And the bloody style of "Thor's Hammer", naturally someone will stand up and boycott it.
But these things cannot be paid attention to by Jester. What Jester really cares about is the players who are besieging his company headquarters.
The reasons for these players are very strange, and even made Jester a little amused. They didn't come to siege because the game was not good. Although he did not add the online system in the starting version, in terms of the plot in the starting version, it is already a very outstanding game, which is what these players admit.
However, he was wrong. He added an online system to the trial version of the carnival. Although this system still has some shortcomings, it is really a great setting. This is not Jester's self-proclaimed self-proclaimed evaluation of the online system by people who have played this system. Originally, they kept boasting to their friends about how great this system is. However, when the game was released on the first day, they queued up for the whole day to get the game, but found that they could not find the option of the Thor Arena they had seen on the carnival in this game.
They will naturally become angry and embarrassed.
Although the plot is also very good, some players who have never played the contact system have nothing. They think it is very fun to rely on the plot. As for the online system, although their friends, various game programs, game newspapers and magazines have blown them to the sky, they are indeed very interested and want to try it out, but relying solely on other people's descriptions, it is difficult to have an accurate understanding in their minds.
In other words, they heard others say that the online system is great and fun, but no matter how great or fun it is, they just listen to what others say. As for how fun it is, they don’t have an accurate description in their minds, so when they learned that there was no Thor Arena in the first version, although they were a little disappointed, they didn’t feel that it was.
But those who have played it are different. During this period, they have almost thought about the kind of game that connects and kills each other day, and finally waited until the game was released. As a result, there was no Thor Arena inside. How could they bear it? Under the imbalance of their mentality, they will naturally be dissatisfied with Mars Entertainment.
Although it was because Thor Arena did not achieve perfection. It was not that it was released to the release level, so this function was removed in the first release version, but there was also another meaning in it, that is, this time Jester was preparing to make a dlc attempt. Although dlc had proven to be a very good idea in later generations, especially for game companies.
But in this world, it is hard to say about this period. In the original history, there is no such game that has ever made examples similar to DLC for reference.
And when Thor Arena is turned into a DLC in "Thor Hammer", and then it is sold for money once. Jester really wants to see how many people are willing to buy this DLC, and whether players nowadays accept this sales method.
Therefore, Mars Entertainment directly announced that they will hold a brief press conference to announce the issues about the Thor Arena online battle system that players are very concerned about now.
It's just three days later.
Once this news was released, it also made the players temporarily quiet.
This time, the meeting was held in a hurry, and many invited media rushed to Los Angeles. This time, the press conference of Mars Entertainment was held in Los Angeles. The location was chosen in the conference room of a hotel. Although it was just a very hurrying press conference, the number of reporters here was still very grand. Even the media that were not invited came to join in the fun.
And Mars Entertainment also accepts everyone and releases it unanimously.
Anyway, free media resources are useless, so why not do it?
"How will you solve the problem in Thor Arena?" At the beginning of the press conference, a female reporter first asked the most important question of this press conference, which is also a question that everyone is concerned about.
This time, Jester was also attending the press conference. This is rare in the history of Mars Entertainment. Generally, Mars Entertainment has its own community manager, responsible for managing its own community. Generally, the community managers who have been trained in professional nonsense and clichés to answer various tricky questions from these media.
Because generally, these trained community managers can expand a worthless sentence into a large paragraph, which seems to have a lot of information, but after careful analysis, they are also worthless nonsense to answer. The example at this point is still Blizzard Entertainment, which attaches great importance to their community culture. They have special community managers on their forums to answer various questions from players.
But generally speaking, their answers are just nonsense.
But this nonsense can still make those players inexplicable, which is incredible to Jester.
"The question about Thor Arena is why I held this press conference today. I know that many players are very angry that we did not add Thor Arena that they played at Carnival in the first release, but there is no way to do that. We are a game company and we are selling a product as perfect as possible."
As he said that, Jester paused a little, glanced at the audience slightly, and saw that everyone was listening carefully, he smiled and continued.
"But, because the game is well known, it is a program composed of segments of code. Since it is a program or code, it will not be perfect. In other words, there are some vulnerabilities that we ignore when designing. Before we release, we need to fix these bugs or vulnerabilities as much as possible. You also know this process, called debug, generally speaking."
"For example, this time our Thor Arena - in fact, in the original plan, the development plan of the Thor Arena is not in the development list before the Carnival. Its development priority is not the highest. However, considering the characteristics of the Carnival, I wanted to surprise the players, so I advanced the development plan and priority level of the Thor Arena."
"In this regard, our chief programmer of this game, the second producer of this game, and the author of the 3D engine of Unreal i, Mr. John Carmack also complained to me, meaning that according to our current work progress, it is almost impossible to complete the Thor Arena before the Carnival. However, because of my persistence, our entire "Thor Hammer" development team started working overtime for three months. Finally, we completed this game a week before the official opening of the Carnival. The Thor Arena in the online battle was just a prototype. To be precise, the Thor Arena you have seen and played at the Carnival was just a matter of how long we had done at that time, and the thing we made up for numbers was not the final appearance of this system."
Jester's answer surprised the reporters present. This was a new information that had never been revealed. Someone wanted to continue asking another question just now, but Jester seemed to turn a blind eye and spoke directly and continued.
"And, those who have participated in the Carnival should know that even the online system launched by this temporary emergency has many loopholes in it because of the hasty production. Fortunately, it was at our Carnival, and there would be a technician to solve the problem immediately. But what if it weren't for Carnival? We just released such a bug and loophole. I'm afraid that players are not scolding us for not adding Thor Arena to the first release version, but are directly criticizing us for having such a bad thing to cheat players."
As he said that, Jester chuckled, and then with his chuckle, he seemed to have some inexplicable reaction, and the reporters present also laughed.
What Jester said is indeed good. If Mars Entertainment really made such a game, then they are now criticizing Mars Entertainment and beating the dogs in the water.
Seeing that someone wanted to raise his hand to ask a question, Jester waved his hand and said with a smile.
"No need to ask questions. I will finish everything I need to say here. Next, let me talk about when Thor Arena will meet players. Regarding Thor Arena, it can be said that we only do the core of the game "Thor Hammer". In other words, online battles are the main game we promote this game. We attach great importance to it. After the carnival, our development team has been improving Thor Arena. I can now reveal a very accurate news..."
Chapter completed!