Chapter Four Hundred and Nine: Free or Charged?

"Mr. Gao, Mr. Chen of Huanyu Technology will not cheat us, right?"

"Che, your head is so funny, he took money to trick us?"

"Uh... that's true. But, this, this, he pointed us a few days ago, did he imply that we are facing Fantasy Westward Journey?"

"It doesn't matter. We asked and Fantasy Westward Journey is a turn-based game, and there is a competitive relationship in itself. As for the previous few days...don't be surprised, this is what I admire most about President Chen."

"Mr. Gao, what do you say?"

"Do you know the mechanics of horse racing?"

"do not know."

"Let me tell you, the horse racing mechanism is an internal competition mechanism developed by Huanyu Technology. It was first implemented on the YY side. For example, a normal company will hand it over to a team of the company to do it, right? ."

"Yes, Mr. Gao, isn't it?"

"But Huanyu Technology is different. They hand it over to two teams. Whoever does it well will be in charge of the project. Whoever does it poorly will be eliminated..."

"I'm going, this is too scary."

The members of the R&D department of Guangxia Technology breathed a sigh of relief.

They ask themselves that their technology is not bad, but if they really get to Huanyu Technology, the pressure they will bear will be extremely terrifying.

"So, why YY can kill QQ, why Universal Technology's game is the first in the industry, this is not without reason. Even if President Chen personally pointed us, we may not be the opponents of Fantasy Westward Journey. On the contrary, I have a kind of Intuition, our joining, I am afraid it will make Fantasy Westward Journey to a higher level."

"Understood."

This said, everyone's admiration for Chen Yu deepened.

Not to mention anything else, just being able to come up with a horse racing mechanism internally is not something others can do.

You know, the horse racing mechanism looks good, but it's a huge waste of money.

This basically means that a project costs twice as much or more.

"By the way, Mr. Gao, there is one thing we haven't decided yet. If we don't decide now, we're afraid we won't have enough time."

At this time, one of them suddenly asked.

That said, everyone knows what's going on.

"What do you all mean?"

Don't ask, Gao Shuhua naturally knows what's going on.

This thing is about the charging mode of asking.

Before asking, they had a very strong debate on the charging model.

In the beginning, they wanted to do it for free.

Because Fantasy Westward Journey charges, if they do it for free, they can quickly attract the attention of the market.

But in hindsight, free-to-play seemed feasible, but they didn't have much experience with free-to-play games.

Although Huanyu Technology has two free games, both of them are casual games, whether it is Bubble Hall or Run Kart. A pure RPG role-playing game, it still takes the path of charging.

"Otherwise, ask Mr. Chen what he meant?"

"what……"

Saying this, Gao Shuhua also nodded.

Although Doudou and Fantasy Westward Journey are competing products, judging from Chen Yu's attitude, they are quite caring for them.

"Okay, I'll give President Chen a call."

After thinking about it, Gao Shuhua called Chen Yu.

"Free or fee?"

Chen Yu was not surprised when he received a call from Gao Shuhua.

When he visited last time, he knew that Dao Dao didn't seem to have completely set the charging model for the game.

Of course, some people may think that the game is 80% complete, why hasn't it been decided yet?

In fact, this is normal.

The game charging mode, whether it is paid or free, is actually the same as making a game.

He can make it free after it is done, or change it to a fee after it is done.

It's nothing more than doing more game props when it's free.

It doesn't take much time.

Even in the previous life, some game development companies came up with two versions.

One is free and one is paid.

Play for free if you want to play, and pay if you want to pay.

"what do y'all think?"

Chen Yu asked.

"We don't have much experience, and we want to be free, but the purpose of free was to compete with Fantasy Westward Journey on the one hand, and on the other hand, we wanted to take advantage of opportunities and use free to attract popularity. But if we really want to be free, I'm afraid can not do well……"

"In this case, let me analyze these two modes for you."

Past life questions are free.

Although asked has also achieved great success with free.

But seriously, it does have an advantage to be free in the beginning over free of charge.

But to really make money, it's still a fee.

You can imagine how much money can be earned on this day when millions of people are online at the same time all charging.

Although there are many local tyrants who charge money for free, on average it can't compare with the fee.

Of course, this is secondary.

The most important thing is that a game like RPG, once it is free, will inevitably have various props that destroy the balance of the game. Every time the game is updated, new equipment, new props, new babies, new gameplay... are all to attract players to recharge. If you control it well, maybe you can persist in your game for a while, but if the control is not good, it will affect the ecological balance of the entire game every minute.

In the previous life, I asked that the control of the RMB in the early stage was okay, but once it reached the later stage, it completely collapsed.

It's not the strength of the main creative team.

It is true that this kind of free has been carried on all the time, and all kinds of equipment and props that require money are constantly being introduced and new, and even the genius creative team can't hold it.

Strictly speaking, Chen Yu tends to charge fees.

Of course, Chen Yu's tendency to ask about charges is also related to the current network environment.

In the past life, asking for free was after Shanda completely launched its free strategy. At that time, everyone had accepted the concept of free. At the same time, major game companies also have a set of more effective theories for free games. At least, they understand that they can make money for free without particularly disrupting the balance of the game.

But if asked for free now, he will be the first RPG online game to create a free-to-play mode.

Chen Yu doesn't know if Gao Shuhua is a genius or not.

But what Chen Yu knows is that if they do it for free now, it will never be as good as in the previous life.

Of course, there are downsides to fees.

That is, it is more difficult to promote in the early stage.

And it has to face a powerful competitor, Fantasy Westward Journey.

But if a game really has a lot of ways to play, even if it has a strong competitor like Fantasy Westward Journey, it can also make its own name.

It's like a big talk about Journey to the West.

Although the Fantasy Westward Journey is more than the Westward Journey.

But why are there so many people playing the big talk?

It's not that they don't know Fantasy Westward Journey, but that Dahua also has their classic gameplay.

And some of these gameplays, some of the fun, are not in the dream.

"That's it. As for whether it's free or charged, you can decide."

How to choose Supreme Shuhua, Chen Yu only gives advice. Don't help them make decisions. However, after listening to Chen Yu's suggestion, Gao Shuhua already had the answer:

"Brothers, I have decided, we will charge."

This is Gao Shuhua's decision.

This decision changed the existing trajectory of "Ask", and also changed the future of [Guangxia Technology].