Chapter 550 Bad games are free and no one is playing
Many people may know about steam, the largest gaming platform in the world on this PC, but many people may not have heard of gog, this platform.
This is a drmfree platform.
In other words, as long as the game is sold on this platform, it must be anti-drm, and it must be drmfree. In other words, as long as the game is purchased on this platform, the buyer can spread the copy of the game at will. These copies are all genuine, and this platform is the number of users. In the entire PC game platform, the share is second only to steam, which is much more than ea's rotten oranges.
And the owner of this platform is cdpr.
The game "Witcher 3" sold four million copies in two weeks, of which the PC platform sold a total of 1.2 million copies, and the gog platform accounted for half of the sales. It has to be said that cdpr has attracted a lot of new users for its platform through "Witcher 3".
Jester is precisely because of the incredible success of the Wizard 3 worldwide.
I only felt that the so-called so-called domestic games cannot go to the world. The biggest reason is that cultural barriers are the so-called cultural ones. Foreigners do not understand our culture at all. How can they understand the plot of our martial arts fairy tale game?
And the favorite saying of the immortals.
That is, "How many plots are there in our Fairy Sword 1, and how touching. If foreigners can understand it, they will definitely say that Fairy Sword 1 is made of a magical one."
When I encountered this statement in the past, although Jester did not agree with it, he would not absolutely deny it.
He does think the plot of Xianjian 1 is quite acceptable.
It is said that the immortal grandsons cannot be called the unparalleled, but it is indeed very qualified.
The reason why Jester did not make domestic-style games before was just using this kind of thinking. He was worried that if he tried his best to make it, but the players would not accept it. This would have a big blow to him. According to his current status, for games, he is not afraid of low sales, but what he is worried about is that his reputation is bad.
This is also why he dared to produce "Exotic Soul-Supering Song", because he is not worried about sales at all.
There is no sales option in the evaluation criteria for the annual game.
But just consider it from the game itself.
Of course, generally speaking, the sales of good games will definitely not be bad, but not all good games can achieve sales that match their reputation and evaluation. First, there are gta5, works such as the US Doomsday and the Patriot's Gun, which have perfect sales, are hard to come by.
Games like "Exotic Soul-Supervised Song" have perfect reputations, but not without low sales.
Jester was worried about this, not only failed in sales, but also suffered a Waterloo in reputation, which he could not accept.
However, life still requires adventure.
Especially after Jester remembered the incident of "The Witcher 3", he did give him a lot of confidence.
Think about it. Before the release of the game "The Witcher", the influence of the novel "The Witcher" was limited to local Poland, and outside of Poland. No one else would read this Polish martial arts novel, but after the game "The Witcher", more and more people were interested in Polish martial arts novels.
Millions of people even read this Polish martial arts novel.
Although I don’t want to admit it, Jester must admit one thing, which is the so-called cultural appeal.
If you want your culture to infect others, then your culture carrier must be interesting, fun, and people must be interested in your culture. This is something that is impossible for the so-called theme.
As for why Jester firmly believes that although there are differences in the cultures between the East and the West, the difference between them is far less than some people think—at least from the perspective of the plot expression of the game, the reason is because of the real example of "The Witcher 3".
In fact, before "The Witcher 3", Jester thought, since Europeans and Americans can accept Japanese culture, why can't they accept domestic ones?
Such things do not exist if you can accept ninjas but cannot accept martial arts.
The "Ninja Dragon" series is praised by European and American players as the greatest act. Ninja is regarded as a culture that humans take for granted. Even Batman's teacher is also called Ninja Master. The Tintographs of the comic studio under Jester also have ninja-themed ninjas.
These things are not accepted by European and American players from the beginning.
In order to promote these things and to allow them to take over their own culture, the Japanese have made a lot of subtle influence over the past few decades.
The so-called national is the world. If you don’t work hard to promote your national things in the world, how can you become the world?
It is useless to rely on Confucius Institutes.
The masses are universal. Why can universal values be supported by most people even if they have loopholes? Because in the eyes of the majority of groups, they think universal values are good, at least on the surface. As for the inner things, they don’t care about so many.
Only when it is accepted by the public can your culture be accepted by others.
Only playing with mountains and flowing water, spring and white snow, there is no use at all. Europeans and Americans can accept Ninja Dragon, but they probably cannot accept the same truth as the story of Genji.
As for why Jester firmly believes that the cultural differences between the East and the West are not as much as some people say.
It's because of the plot of "The Witcher 3".
If the brief plot of "The Witcher 3" is changed to another layer of skin, it will become like this.
At the beginning of the game, the male protagonist Jie Xiaoyao, who is superb in swordsmanship, left Kelmohan Village where he grew up in order to find his beloved girl, Xi Ling'er, a descendant with powerful "Elder Blood", and was helped by the powerful royal sister Ye Yueru and the energetic girl Te'nu on the way.
After suffering and missed the target several times, Jie Xiaoyao finally found Xi Ling'er and learned the truth of the whole incident: it turned out that the leader of the Wild Hunting God Sect, Ai Baiyue, who wanted to abduct Xi Ling'er.
This Ai Baiyue was cruel and sinister, and he designed to poison the king of the White Elf Clan, and monopolized the power of the Elf Clan, and sent Elder Yile to arrest Xilinger.
Avarojiao of the elf tribe was dissatisfied with Ai Baiyue's rule and also helped Xilinger fight against the Wild Hunting God Cult. After a fierce battle, Jie Xiaoyao and his group finally killed Ai Baiyue, but this did not stop the arrival of Baishuang, which was enough to destroy the world.
For the sake of the Dawn, Xi Ling'er finally decided to face the fate of the descendant of the elders, sacrifice herself to fight against Bai Shuang, and lose Xi Ling'er, Jie Xiaoyao was discouraged. Although he was called the strongest demon hunter in the world, he still had the rest of his life of loneliness and frustration.
The above is the outline of the story of the famous Polish RPG game "The Witcher 3".
Do you think this plot has a sense of déjà vu? In fact, the original novel in the "Witcher" series is just a Polish martial arts that only Polish people can read.
Is it strange why European and American people accept such plots without any difficulty? Do you think that the so-called fans of some games and the so-called foreigners cannot accept our fairy tale and martial arts culture because cultural barriers are just a skin that hides one's incompetence and shame?
Once revealed, there is no place to live.
In fact, the plot in the game "The Witcher 3" is no different from the mainstream game plots in China.
When Jester thought of this, he couldn't help but think of an interesting thing about this.
At that time, the amazing quality and sales of "The Witcher 3" caused a frenzy of discussion on some domestic forums, including this. Some players of a certain sword insisted on shouting that it is precisely because of the differences and barriers between Eastern and Western cultures that our swordsmen cannot go abroad.
But the opponents naturally dismissed them.
They took "The Witcher 3" as the core and launched a series of well-founded rebuttals, directly debating these sword players with nothing to say and could only continue to make unreasonable trouble.
For example, there is a post that Jester has a very deep impression.
The name of the post is 'From the success of "The Witcher 3" to see the differences in cultural differences between the East and the West'. If we look at the name of this post alone, almost everyone may think that this is a post that shouts for a certain sword, and the content of the post is also written very obscure and humorous.
Finally, this post has really caught a lot of knowledge that there is a difference between brain circuits and normal humans.
Of course, these understandings are usually players of a certain sword.
After all, if your brain circuit is normal, even if you endure a piece of shit, you will not spread the delicious comments everywhere, and you will not yell at the shit for the shit you eat.
Actually, there is another thing worth mentioning.
Just after Yang Yuansheng, the main planner of the "Xuanyuan Sword" series, made his remarks about "The Witcher 3" for me, after the Immortal Bird also sprayed Yang Yuansheng with blood, 3dm released the perfect cracking patch for "The Dome of Dome" as soon as possible. Of course, the reason for doing this is not to prove how harsh the domestic stand-alone environment is.
Just to prove that even if there is a perfect crack, no one will download and play your ** game.
In fact, it is indeed the case.
Chapter completed!