Almighty Video Game Designer - Chapter 114
Chapter 114: Chapter 113: No Conversation To Be Had
Zou Zhuo also decided to watch Chen Mo play two rounds, and despite having a better knowledge of the game, he couldn’t understand what was happening either!
As Chen Mo knew what he was going to do before he executed them, he could manage just fine despite all the quick changes in the screen.
Zou Zhuo on the other hand, having no idea what Chen Mo was going to do, was really confused as Chen Mo would sometimes mine in the middle of an intense battle.
Moreover, Chen Mo was cruising through the games. What was a bit crazy was that the enemies called GG and Chen Mo would move onto the next game without looking at the end screen.
Zou Zhuo would usually spend twenty-five minutes per round, and forty-five when it was close. However, Chen Mo would usually finish under twenty minutes!
It’d be amazing if you could learn anything from this!
Although Zou Zhuo understood the situation better after watching two games, he stopped because of how much he struggled to keep up.
He just felt that the speed of his hands was too fast to be human!
Zou Zhuo conceded.
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Within the group.
Xue Kai wanted to stream his ranked games when he got home at night, only to discover that someone @ him in the group.
He was the friendly type, otherwise he wouldn’t have released so many educational videos and sent feedback to the developers.
Kaiser: “@Zzz what’s up?”
Zou Zhuo replied in two minutes, “K-god, I met a god in the internet cafe and was completely destroyed. Take a look at the replays I sent to the group and give me some guidance!”
Xue Kai was surprised. He knew that Zzz’s elo was around twenty eight hundred from the information from the group chat. How was he bullied when he wasn’t that bad?
His opponent must be insanely good then?
With some suspicion, Xue Kai opened the replays and started watching the matches.
It only took about half an hour as the games weren’t long.
Xue Kai was shocked to see that he was actually crushed in the game!
Moreover, this Silent guy played random in both games, how confident was he?
Xue Kai watched the first game once again.
He was an Orc main himself. Although he liked the story of the Undead more, he felt most comfortable with Orcs after playing through all the races.
The first match of Orcs vs Undead was good enough to be textbook examples!
No matter early game harassment, killing neutral creeps, or mid game skirmishes, the tempo that the Orc player was playing was impeccable. Every single mistake the Undead player made would be capitalised on and taken advantage of.
The Orc player started to gain advantage after gathering all these small advantages, and defeated the Undead in one final push.
Xue Kai knew that this Orc player wasn’t an ordinary Joe.
Although others couldn’t tell, Xue Kai knew that his hand speed, micro-management, and the ability to manage the tempo of the game was the best of the best, with no noticeable weaknesses.
Xue Kai could feel that perhaps this person was better than him?
Kaiser: “This Orc player is playing at a top level, it’s normal that you can’t beat him.”
Zzz: “Huh? Top level??”
As Xue Kai replied, a bunch of lurkers showed themselves.
Some of them didn’t watch the replay, and some didn’t notice how good Zou Zhuo’s opponent was, so none of them truly knew how serious of a matter it was.
And following Xue Kai’s reply, they took this matter seriously.
Xue Kai was one of the early adopters of Warcraft from Legion Conquest, and currently had thirty-seven hundred points. He was easily top five in the game. Players that he’d approve of must be really good!
“Really, K-god? Is that guy that good?”
“Honestly, I couldn’t tell how good he was. But if K-god said so, could there be anything else?”
“K-god, did you notice that he randomed both rounds?”
“Oh my, could it be a smurf of some high ranked player? @Zzz, why didn’t you invite them to this group?”
Zou Zhuo replied, “I did, but they didn’t want to join.”
The others weren’t taking it, “Man, fatty you sure are a piece of garbage. Why didn’t you get on your knees and begged for him to join? Grab onto his leg and don’t let go until he joins. Go now!”
Zou Zhuo was speechless, “Shut up! Anyways, he left ages ago.”
Kaiser asked, “Left?”
Zou Zhuo replied, “Yeah, he left around 7PM.”
Again, the group was disappointed at that response, “Wow, how could you give up an opportunity of inviting another pro into the group. You should commit seppuku as an apology!”
Zou Zhuo replied, “What! I sent the replay ages ago, but nobody said anything back then. But you blame it on me now?”
“Don’t care! You have to camp at the internet cafe from now on, until he shows himself!”
Xue Kai looked up Silent on Warcraft. The account was indeed created today, and looking at the match history, he won all ten of his placement matches in a row, placing at twenty-four hundred.
Although it wasn’t bad, it was still quite far away from Xue Kia’s thirty-seven hundred. At fifteen points a match at 90% win rate, he would still need to win over one hundred matches, and shouldn’t be reaching the top of the leaderboards anytime soon.
Xue Kai was saddened, “That’s too bad, I looked forward to playing against him.”
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The next day, Chen Mo discussed shipping Warcraft overseas with the representative form Meteorite Technology.
No matter overseas or in China, there were plenty of these companies. They didn’t make their own games, but would scout out popular games to work with, no matter if it was porting overseas games into China, or Chinese games overseas.
Obviously as Warcraft was doing so well, being so popular in China as well as being set in a Western Fantasy world, it would naturally do well if shipped overseas.
Chen Mo had thought of this already, and asserted the three points he was after during the meeting.
First, any changes made to the game would be managed by him, and they had no rights over making any changes to the game.
Second, Chen Mo would have the final call of translations and overseas operations.
Third, the cut was negotiable, but it must be higher than any other Chinese game on the market.
With the three points on the table, there was barely anything left to discuss.
In truth, it wasn’t an easy task to ship the game overseas. It wasn’t as simple as translating all the Chinese text into English.
The most important part was the promotional strategy. It wasn’t like the game was going to be profitable once it was present on the market. Other than the usual texts and images that needed to be translated, social media pages needed to be built, the news needed to be shared, as well as localization operation strategies.
The distributors would be more familiar with overseas markets during the promotional period, and more often than not there needed to be some changes to make it more localised. For example, Vietnamese users usually like winged characters, and Japanese players trusted loot box mechanisms more.
The distributors required rights to change these points and had to work together with the developer to make suitable changes.
However, Chen Mo asserted himself that Meteorite Technology would only be responsible for distribution and was unable to make any changes to the game, which was the lowest of privileges. Not only that, Chen Mo wanted the highest authorities even on things like translations, and wanted every single thing to be approved by him first.
There’s no conversation to be had!
