Chapter 345 MOBA Game

"I find that you don't understand the current status of Naughty Cat. As long as you seek help, there are many channels that can help you."

"I understand, but if I want to solve this problem completely, I still need to do it myself."

Wang Zhicheng shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Hey. I guessed this result before I came, and it's true. I'm really afraid that you are too confident and get stuck in a dead end."

Lin Mo smiled and said: "Believe me, I really have a solution."

"You are not planning to build a host, are you?"

"Oh? How do you know?"

Wang Zhicheng was stunned for a moment, his eyes full of disbelief.

It was just a casual remark, but I didn't expect it to be true?

After pondering for a while, he sighed and said: "I don't think this is a good decision. But it must be useless to persuade you, right?"

Lin Mo nodded.

"In that case, I promise you that your new console will receive the greatest preferential treatment in terms of tax rate and other policies."

"That's great."

"But distant water cannot quench immediate thirst. How are you going to survive during this period? You have bid farewell to the sales in the console market. You need a PC game that attracts money to support such a big stall. What are you going to do?"

"I have my own way."

"Okay. Then I won't stay for long. You must have a lot of things to do recently."

"I'll see you off."

At this time, people in Naughty Cat were panicking.

"It's too risky to do this. The sales of the game have been reduced by half out of thin air. What can we do?"

"I won't lay off employees because of the reduction in income. I don't want to be optimized."

"Mr. Lin is still too impulsive. Although he is a genius, he is still young and not very steady in doing things."

"People are already scolding us online. Many players are criticizing our actions. It's over. Isn't this reputation ruined?"

This is the relatively idle stage after a game has just been completed.

No matter the company, almost no one has the heart to work, and they are all discussing this matter.

Especially the update teams of many projects, everyone is in danger.

For example, "Be Prepared".

This game was once very popular because it was too hardcore, but it was just popular. It was one of the worst in the company in terms of sales.

Even so, Naughty Cat did not give up, but regularly updated new maps and campaigns.

The employees in the group were already relatively inferior because of this production team. When this happened, they wanted to cry without tears, fearing that they would be laid off.

Another example is the update team of "Warcraft".

The game is a good game, but because of the difficulty of getting started, many players use it as a launcher for various self-made maps.

The work of team members is almost to maintain the community environment, select potential maps and negotiate cooperation with authors.

In addition, make some minor balance updates.

The work is very leisurely, and many employees even make community maps by themselves, trying to seek extra income outside of work.

"What should we do? If there are layoffs, I feel our team is in danger."

"It's over, it's over. I still want to win the annual best award with the company."

"Hey, Zhang Chengbo, you are about to lose your job and you are still making your map. You will have plenty of time after you lose your job."

When his name was called, a slightly fat, about 185 cm tall, wearing glasses young boy raised his head.

"Wait a minute!"

Save the modification log of a map, check it once and find no problems, upload it, and update it.

Then he joked: "It doesn't matter. First of all, the company will not lay off employees, you can rest assured. Secondly, even if I am laid off, I can return to work at Naughty Cat with this map, and maybe Mr. Lin can even form a development team for me."

Hearing this, everyone suddenly burst into laughter.

"Hahaha, we'll build a development team for you? Do you think you're Wang Yi? Or Du Rui? Neither Liu Zichen nor Zuo Xuming got this treatment."

"You don't really think you can become popular with just a map, Left 4 Dead is a low-probability event, forget it."

"Although you've always been very accurate in judging whether a community map will become popular, it doesn't mean you can do it yourself, right? You forgot that you were rejected by several companies. If the company's HR hadn't inherited Mr. Lin's unconventional recruitment style, you wouldn't have gotten in."

There was some teasing in the words, but no one had any malice.

Zhang Chengbo said indifferently: "Before founding Naughty Cat, wasn't Mr. Lin also a UP master? Why can't I create a map with classic gameplay?"

"The question is, can you compare with Mr. Lin? That's Mr. Lin, the Wenquxing from heaven, who may be an unprecedented figure in the history of games." He joked and then urged several male colleagues, "It's not a good thing to be so anxious, let's go for a walk and have a cigarette."

Without saying anything, he pulled several people downstairs.

Zhang Chengbo couldn't resist and had to follow them downstairs.

"You always smoke downstairs, aren't you afraid of meeting the leaders?"

"What are you afraid of! You won't meet them, let's walk."

Arrived downstairs.

It was November at this time. The weather was good today, the sun was shining, and it was much more comfortable outdoors than indoors.

In the smoking area, several people lit a cigarette and continued to talk about what happened just now.

"Chengbo, tell me about your map? What is it like? What is your design idea?"

Zhang Chengbo exhaled a puff of smoke and said, "When I was playing Warcraft, I didn't like controlling the soldiers. I always felt that the operation was cumbersome and difficult to get started. So I was thinking, can I design a game map that only controls heroes to fight."

A colleague asked in confusion, "But aren't there many maps like this? What's the difference between what you do and others?"

"No. In my map, the economic system will become the most critical factor for winning. Players need to defeat the soldiers refreshed on the three roads and compete for neutral resources on the map to obtain gold coins and BUFF. In this way, they can buy equipment, improve their characters' abilities, accumulate advantages, and finally win."

Several colleagues who were smoking looked at each other, and from their expressions, they were not very optimistic about this idea.

"Why does it feel no different from other maps?" "That's right, you can't get your own production team with this." "It's better to make a tower defense map to make some money."

Zhang Chengbo didn't show it on his face, but he was still a little frustrated in his heart.

"I think my map is quite interesting, right? And the first version has been released, and players like it quite a lot. There are also several thousand people online during prime time."

"Hahaha, several thousand people? You also say you like it quite a lot?" "Yes, many maps have tens of thousands of people online." "There is still a long way to go, but it is not bad."

Even though Zhang Chengbo has a good temper, he is a little unhappy.

He spent so much time and energy on this map, which is like his child.

Being criticized by so many people, he felt very dissatisfied.

Just when he was about to refute, he suddenly saw a colleague suddenly change his face, the whole person became nervous, his face turned pale, and he threw away the cigarette in his hand and stomped it out, looking behind him nervously.

Others also looked in the same direction, all of them looked like they had seen a ghost, threw their cigarette butts on the ground and stomped them out, and looked at his back nervously.

Everyone was like a primary school student who had made a mistake and was caught by the teacher.

What's going on?

Thinking about it, Zhang Chengbo turned his head and took a look, and a puff of cigarette almost choked in his throat.

He coughed violently, and in a panic, he quickly put the cigarette butt into the ashtray of the nearby trash can.

Then, he swallowed nervously, looked at the person walking in front of him, and stammered, "Lin, Mr. Lin."

Everyone wailed in their hearts, saying that they were finished.

How could they be so unlucky?

They also knew recently that Mr. Lin often did not return to the company, and he was busy outside.

I didn't expect that he was in the company today, and he was not in the office, but in the park, downstairs.

Is he taking a walk because he was in a bad mood?

It's over, it's over.

It just so happens that the company has encountered so many things recently, people are panicking, and the capital chain is likely to have problems.

At that time, layoffs are the most likely thing to happen.

At this juncture, the boss caught not working properly, but smoking in groups of three or five downstairs.

Isn't this sending your head over to chop it off!

Several people were so scared that their faces turned pale.

What you fear is really what you get!

It's a prophecy.

Everyone was panicking. Who wants to be unemployed if they can work well?

Zhang Chengbo was keenly aware that the boss's eyes fell on him, and he smiled bitterly in his heart.

He was ready to be judged.

Lin Mo glanced at him and asked, "What's the matter with the map you just mentioned?"

Zhang Chengbo said nervously, "Well, it's a map I made in my spare time. It's my hobby. I didn't take up much time from work, really!"

Several colleagues behind him couldn't help but cover their faces.

Not taking up much, isn't it still taking up? Isn't this saying leading yourself into a pit?

Lin Mo looked at the quail-like employees in front of him and felt a little funny. He could guess what they were thinking.

He didn't expect that when he went out to send Wang Zhicheng off, he heard something that concerned him on the way back.

"Tell me about your map. The more detailed the better, every detail should be explained clearly, including the equipment system, economic system, combat system, hero design, map design, etc."

Map?

Zhang Chengbo didn't expect the topic to shift to this, but since the boss wants to listen, then just say it, what else can he do.

Then, he dragged out all the designs he made on the map.

He was a little stuttering and a little unconfident when he spoke.

When talking about the map, his speaking speed became faster and faster, and his thoughts became clearer and clearer. Compared with just now, it was like a different person.

He talked nonstop for twenty minutes before he finished.

". That's it. Uh, Mr. Lin, am I talking too fast? What didn't you understand? Let me repeat it again?"

Lin Mo nodded and said, "Good design. With the current design, the average time for players to play a game should be 46 minutes, right?"

The colleagues behind him looked at each other in surprise.

Zhang Chengbo himself was stunned for a moment, and he doubted his ears for a while.

Good design?

Being praised?

Being praised by Mr. Lin for a good design!

Overjoyed, he suppressed his excitement and pounding heart and said, "The average duration is a little over 45 minutes. But Mr. Lin, how did you know? Have you played it?"

"I haven't played it, but it's not difficult. Just do a simple calculation." Lin Mo said calmly, "The attributes you designed for the hero in the early stage are quite conservative. The strength of neutral resources is not low, and it is difficult to kill the opponent's hero. There are fewer variables. Simply calculate the number of gold coins that increase over time and the number of gold coins brought by the last hit. It can be inferred that the time node for the initial formation of the player's hero level attributes is about 15 minutes. At the same time."

This calculation made everyone except Zhang Chengbo confused.

This, not difficult?

The people in the Moyu group were all numb and messy in the wind.

They are still proud of being able to join Naughty Cat.

In front of their peers, when they say that they are employees of Naughty Cat, they will raise their proud heads and listen to the people around them calling them big bosses.

But at this time, the previous pride is gone.

When the people in the Moyu group didn't understand anything, Mr. Lin could actually calculate the various data of a map he had never played.

It's like you can know what kind of map this is just by the description.

Even doubting, has Mr. Lin played this map?

Zhang Chengbo was also stunned, and even had an illusion that the boss understood it more deeply than him, the map author.

Although he knew it was inappropriate to ask questions after being caught for slacking off, he couldn't help but ask: "The feedback from players is that the map is very interesting, but the game time is too long. Does Mr. Lin have any suggestions?"

"There are many solutions, but one move affects the whole body. For example, some strategic neutral resources that can be defeated in the early stage and cannot be refreshed repeatedly can give the whole team money, props or BUFF, forcing players to fight for it in the early stage."

"I thought about this change, but the problem is that if the design is not appropriate, it will cause the snowball to roll too fast, making the strong stronger and the weak weaker, and it will be difficult for the disadvantaged party to turn the tables."

"Yes, this involves the strength of the hero in the early and late stages, the benefits of neutral resources, and so on. Zuo Xuming is an expert in this regard, I will let him help you."

Hearing this, Zhang Chengbo's heart seemed to skip a beat, and he couldn't help licking his dry lips.

Although he was very excited, he was still a little nervous and asked, "Boss Lin, this is just a map. Isn't it bad to make such a big fuss?"

Lin Mo shook his head and said, "It's a map, but it has unlimited potential. It is a mature game mode that can be verified as an independent game and gain tens of millions of players."

Such a high evaluation made everyone in the fishing group feel numb.

If others said so, even Zhang Chengbo said so, they might not care.

But Boss Lin has never made a wrong judgment.

If he said tens of millions, it means tens of millions, no more, no less, no one.

Zhang Chengbo's face was a little red with joy. For the first time, he felt that his dream was not a dream.

I couldn't help asking, "Mature game type, what kind of game is this?"

"Multiplayer Online Battle Arena, that is, multiplayer online tactical competitive game. In short, MOBA game." (End of this chapter)