Video Game Designer

Otherwise, EA also set up a large-scale 3A game?

An idea was born in Charles' mind.

A successful 3A large game, the impact on EA is self-evident.

Before EA hooked up with Tianhe Network, it spent a total of 850 million US dollars to acquire Elevation Partners. Among them, as a subsidiary of Elevation Partners, BioWare, which was once a dominant presence in the RPG field, also became a member of EA. It's just that unlike other EA studios, BioWare still maintains its independent company brand after being acquired, and also has independent distribution rights, which can be said to be quite nourishing.

At the same time, including the Dragon Age series, it is also an extremely ambitious move by EA. Although the investment is not as large as that of Red Dead Redemption, it can definitely be regarded as the mainstream investment in the current game industry.

If it was EA before, facing the achievements of Dragon Age and Battlefield series at that time, EA would still be very happy.

But the key point is that under Charles's suggestion, EA hooked up with Tianhe Network, and the two parties also jointly developed a FPS game that looked quite different, and succeeded in becoming a multi-player game that is a phenomenon worldwide in one fell swoop. People online game: PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds.

In terms of game quality and development funds, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is actually far from 3A.

The only thing worthy of praise is probably the gameplay characteristics of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds and its excellent operation.

A game occupies the market in the first time, as long as the operation is not really bad, or the game quality of the latecomer appears to be against the sky, otherwise it can basically be firmly on the throne.

Feelings and habits, whether they are domestic or foreign players, are actually universal.

The great success of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, of course, made EA very happy, but after all, this thing is not his own son, and it is always a little awkward to think about it.

Especially when the son of someone else's family is better than his own son, the sense of shock is even greater.

In addition, Tianhe Network’s new game Red Dead Redemption, because I have money, I don’t bring EA to play. Although the cooperation relationship between EA and Tianhe Network is still very close, it is only because the price given by EA is more appropriate, and now The distribution channel is no longer the stage where EA can cover the sky with one hand.

If Tianhe Network is really willing to spend money, it is not difficult to spread out a distribution channel.

Even EA internally proposed to carry out an equity swap with Tianhe Network, and gave a high market value estimate, but in the end it was rejected by Tianhe Network.

Because the other party is not short of money at all, and the development status can be said to be thriving.

Especially this Red Dead Redemption, although it is only a trial version for review and rating, Charles can still feel the quality of the game shown.

This is a game comparable to Halo and God of War.

EA needs a triple-A game that is truly their own, not the son of another game developer.

Thinking about PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, Red Dead Redemption, and even not long ago because of the great success of God of War and Halo, the performance of their respective game departments has risen sharply, which eventually led to a slight increase in the company's overall stock price, which strengthened Charles. the idea.

You must know that even a 1% increase is terrifying to the market value of Microsoft and Sony.

"With enough development strength, coupled with classic predecessors and popular IPs, perhaps BioWare's Mass Effect series is a good choice." A game name emerged in Charles' mind.

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Compared with Charles in the EA headquarters, who has already thought of making his own 3A game, Chuhe, who is still at Tianhe Network, is working with the team on the post-production of Red Dead Redemption, and is also thinking about whether to go to TGA or not.

If you go, it's just a soy sauce, it seems meaningless to go.

No, it can't be said to be meaningless, at least PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has also been nominated for the best operation game.

Of course, in addition to the nomination for the best operation, Tianhe Network also has a nomination that players are most looking forward to.

But none of them seem to be of much significance, because none of them are particularly important awards in themselves, and the opponents nominated for the same best operation are not weak.

Warframe Tiannuo Hamster, as well as V Agency's Counter-Strike, are very strong opponents. Last year's PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has already won the title of best multiplayer game, and this year only one PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds won the best operation Nomination, TGA probably won't award this award to itself.

If you go, the only benefit is to promote Red Dead Redemption.

But with the current popularity of Tianhe Network, there is no need to catch the popularity of TGA. Red Dead Redemption itself is a popularity.

After thinking about it, Chuhe already had an idea in his heart. Let the operation director in charge of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds participate in the TGA. He will still be in charge of polishing Red Dead Redemption with Gabriel and the others in the Black Light Studio.

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After giving the TGA official a clear answer, Chuhe took the time to go back to Tianhe Network in Jinling to deal with the company's affairs, and then put all his energy on Red Dead Redemption.

At the same time, EA, which is responsible for the later release of Red Dead Redemption, has basically completed the rating review of the submitted version, and basically all ratings are for players above 17.

A small number of countries need to make changes to the game in accordance with the local legal review system.

But in Huaxia, they encountered a lot of problems. After the game's evaluation test play version was sent to the domestic evaluation agency, they encountered difficulties.

Because domestic review agencies are different from those in foreign countries. Foreign countries can implement a grading system, but in China, they are two extreme regions.

Pass or fail.

Although Chuhe is very aware of the scope of the domestic review, the entire Black Light Studio specially made a special domestic version, such as Chinese dubbing and subtitles, some curse words are as tactful as possible, and there will be no genitals and the like vulgar language.

But in the game, there is no way to change the violence, blood, exposure, and gangs.

In the Jinling Bureau, Qian Yang, the leader in charge of the review, was a little at a loss as to how to make a judgment at this moment.

If it's just a game of an ordinary small company in China, it must be killed with a wave of a big hand.

However, the game is produced by Tianhe Network, and it is released by EA, so it needs to be carefully considered.

And as a person in the system, there is still some news. For example, the top has recently started to promote the game support plan, including the China Star support plan of Tianhe Network and Penguin Lane. .

But typical is typical. As far as the game is concerned, there are too many violations in it. This is not something that can be passed by turning a blind eye.

"Collect the illegal content in the game, and then report it for processing." Qian Yang said to the auditors in the bureau.

After thinking for a long time, Qian Yang resorted to a unique technique, Tai Chi.