Chapter 1088 "Eternal Fall Into Reincarnation" DLC Design Planning

Everyone hurriedly got up and welcomed Mr. Pei in. Hu Xianbin gave Mr. Pei the most central position.

After Pei Qian took his seat, he glanced around, but didn't see Bao Xu.

"Bao Xu went on a trip again?" Pei Qian asked casually.

In his impression, Bao Xu is indeed not often in the company, either traveling or on the way to travel.

But after thinking about it, there seems to be no tourism activities recently?

The selection of outstanding employees takes place in February and August, and there are still two months before the next selection, and there is no such event as the annual meeting in the near future.

What about Bao Xuren?

Hu Xianbin quickly explained: "Mr. Pei, Brother Bao has been helping at the snack market recently. I don't know the specific situation. Does he need to attend this meeting?"

Pei Qian shook his head immediately: "No, I'm just asking casually."

This Bao Xu, what are you messing with at the snack market?

Pei Qian was a little confused about Bao Xu's motivation for this behavior. It doesn't look like he is the kind of person who likes to meddle in other people's business?

But it doesn't matter, Bao Xu is not a gourmet.

Letting him go to harm the snack market would be less harmful than harming the game department.

Anyway, in the next selection, it is estimated that Bao Xu will still not be able to escape the fate of being an escort. He is already like this, so he can do whatever he likes.

Everyone took their seats and the meeting continued.

Hu Xianbin said: "Mr. Pei, after we received the task of adapting "Eternal Fall into Reincarnation", we immediately organized the designers of the department to read the original novel, and now we specially invite the author here to roughly finalize the DLC. specific content."

"However, everyone's opinions are not particularly unified, and the specific form of this DLC has not yet been finalized."

"It's just right, Mr. Pei, please come and give us some guidance! How should this DLC be suitable?"

Everyone looked at Mr. Pei eagerly, their eyes full of hope.

"Return to the Shore" also developed DLC before, and some new weapons, new props, and reincarnation mode and random mode were released, but the situation at that time was different from now.

The previous DLC only added some gameplay, the content was not particularly rich, and the price was set at a very low price, just to find something for the old players of "Return to the Shore".

And this time the DLC involves the copyright development of the book "Eternal Fall into Reincarnation". Judging from Mr. Pei's meaning, it is obviously to show the essence of the novel as much as possible. To make a DLC with a lot of weight, it is impossible to simply fool around .

But the problem is that if you want to change the content of fan fiction into the game, you not only need to thoroughly understand the plot of the novel, but also need to make a special design corresponding to the plot in the game.

These changes may conflict with the original gameplay of the game and require trade-offs.

In this way, everyone will not be able to reach a consensus quickly.

Just in time, Boss Pei is here!

As the father of "Return to the Shore", Mr. Pei will definitely come up with a perfect solution!

Pei Qian pondered for a moment: "Uh... Before talking about the game, let me briefly emphasize two things."

"The first thing has been notified before. Everyone must keep the copyright development of the works of the inspiration class confidential and not leak it."

"The second thing is that within two months, that is, before August 1st, everyone can make preliminary preparations for DLC development, but do not formally establish a project for development."

Preliminary preparations are not equal to project development.

The concept of pre-preparation is relatively broad. For example, thinking about the specific methods of DLC in your mind, or making several drafts, or even making minor repairs and supplements to some art resources in advance, this is considered pre-preparation.

Just in this case, it will not be regarded as a new project by the system, and will not affect the settlement.

But once the project is officially approved, the development schedule is set out, and the release date of the game DLC is clearly planned, it will be regarded as a new project, which will affect the settlement.

Pei Qian emphasized that this is mainly to ensure that the settlement is not affected.

Hu Xianbin nodded: "Understood, Mr. Pei. What you mean is that the large-scale DLC of "Eternal Fall into Reincarnation" needs to prepare a lot of content, so we must dig deep into the inspiration and prepare fully, after two months of precipitation, and then start Formal development, don't be too impatient, right?"

Pei Qian: "...about the same."

Obviously, the understanding of Hu Xianbin and others deviates from Pei Qian's original idea by a billion points, but since the result is not bad, it's fine.

Pei Qian added: "As for the design of the DLC...uh, how did you discuss it?"

"I can give you some advice as appropriate, but in the end it's up to you to decide."

Originally, Pei Qian didn't intend to get involved in the design of the DLC. He has a lot of things to do now. It doesn't matter whether he pays attention to the DLC of a mere game.

But Pei Qian suddenly thought of one thing and changed his mind.

Up to now, "Return to the Shore" has not been free yet!

According to the regulations of the system, a stand-alone game can be free if it has been released for more than 10 months, and the income of the current month has fallen to less than one-fifth of the income of the next month.

But the problem is that the income of "Return to the Shore" is still very strong until now. Every time it seems that it is about to drop to one-fifth of the next month's income, it can always rebound miraculously!

In this way, the sales of "Return to the Shore" are always jumping repeatedly, but no matter how much they jump, they just can't jump to the standard that can be free!

This made Pei Qian very painful and puzzled.

Who is still buying "Return to the Shore"!

This game has been released for two years, how can it still make money?

If you want to be free, you can't avoid it, it's too cheating!

Pei Qian felt that the reason these people continued to be abused was because the difficulty was not set high enough.

It stands to reason that with the difficulty of "Return to the Shore", it should be able to dissuade a large number of players. But after Qiao Laoshi released a very detailed and detailed strategy video, many people can always pass the level after a little suffering as long as they follow the video and move forward steadily.

Many new players came here especially for the name, relying on these strategy videos, insisted on playing until they cleared the level, and continuously contributed to the sales of "Return to the Shore".

This situation can no longer continue, and the difficulty must be adjusted higher!

Pei Qian planned to engage in a show operation.

For other games, the DLC is placed behind the main body. Players generally experience the game content of the main body first, and then experience the DLC.

But this time, Pei Qian wanted to put the DLC before the main body.

It does not affect the players who have already cleared "Return to the Shore", but if it is a player who has not played "Return to the Shore", after entering the game, he will first experience the content of the DLC, and then experience the main content of "Return to the Shore".

The DLC has a special screening mechanism: you must get through the contents of the previous chapters before you can pay to buy the DLC; and if you get through the DLC, you will get a 30% discount when you pay for the main body of "Return to the Shore".

It does not affect old players, but for new players, they will definitely be greedy for this 30% discount, which will lead to a decrease in the number of people who buy the main body of "Return to the Shore", so that the sales of "Return to the Shore" can be reduced to meet the system requirements Is it free after that?

Free one month earlier, how much less money will be earned!

Of course, in order to take care of the players' emotions, there will be corresponding instructions before the main body of "Return to the Shore" is free, and players who spend money to buy in a short period of time can get a guaranteed price refund service.

This plan is perfect, but there are two main problems facing Pei Qian at present.

The first is the difficulty issue. The difficulty of "Turn Back to the Shore" is already very high for him, and he can only beat it with the "Purdue" weapon. If the difficulty is increased, how will Pei Qian pass the game by himself?

The second is the plot issue. If you want to put the DLC before the main body, experience the DLC first and then experience the content of the main body, you must have a convincing reason.

And these, Pei Qian hasn't thought about it yet.

He has never read the plot of the book "Eternal Fall into Reincarnation".

Therefore, Pei Qian intends to ask everyone about the discussion first, and then put forward his own views as appropriate.

Hu Xianbin handed over a document: "Mr. Pei, here are the ideas we sorted out earlier and the outline of the story of "Eternal Fall into Reincarnation". Please take a look."

"What we are currently considering is to start with the identity of the protagonist."

"According to the story background of "Eternal Fall into Reincarnation", the whole story takes place in the period when the world of "Return to the Shore" has not yet collapsed. The protagonist is a powerful warrior in the world. A generation of warriors."

"But no matter how powerful a person is, he will also face death. In his later years, he tried every means to avoid the fate of death, and forced a skilled craftsman to create a magic sword that can kill souls for himself, and it was covered with the blood of the eminent monk. , and let the witchcraft create a kind of pill that can make oneself enter the dying state and float in the two worlds of yin and yang."

"When Black and White Wuchang came to claim his life, this Valkyrie killed Black and White Wuchang with a magic sword, and driven by the magic sword, he slaughtered all the ghost messengers who came to arrest him, stepped into the underworld, and made the entire Six Paths Samsara collapsed."

"But at the last moment, he woke up and realized that he had made a big mistake driven by the magic sword. The monsters in the whole hell were about to wake up. So he went deep into the hell, joined the Tao with his body, and became The first jailer."

"Our current idea is to arrange an NPC in the initial village. After the player witnesses and kills the prisoner in a week, he will get an item, and after handing it to the NPC, he can travel to the DLC and experience the story content of "Eternal Reincarnation" .”

"The combat system of the game is still used, but some new weapons and props are added, such as special combo skills, execution skills, etc., highlighting the identity of the protagonist 'Wu Sheng', which is different from the weak character of "Return to the Shore". The main characters contrast."

Pei Qian pondered for a moment, but did not respond immediately.

It can be seen that for Hu Xianbin and others, such a level of change is quite "bold".

After all, this is just DLC, not a sequel, nor a new game.