Chapter 273: Soul Formation and Monster Hunter Formation? League or Online Game?

"What, transformation?"

While a number of players such as An Bixin chose to transform and strive for a second spring in their careers, some others were also discussing the issue of transformation.

Codick looked at Todd, who was carefully studying the wording in front of him, with his eyes slightly narrowed. A vague sense of crisis suddenly made Todd shudder.

But now that he was here, he could only bite the bullet and continue:
"Yes, based on our current research, the positioning of the game Honor of Kings does need to change to a certain extent."

Todd actually didn't want to come. If he had any choice, he wouldn't want to face Cordick, a guy with no brains but a bad temper.

But who asked him to reject Aonuma's genius plan with just one sentence?

During the final round of modifications to the new Honor mode, Aonuma proposed a modification plan that already had the prototype of a battle royale mode.

But in the end, it was rejected because Todd was unwilling to take risks at this time.

The reason Todd gave at the time was that a model that even Pei Yunteng didn't dare to sit in could definitely not be a good model.

As a result, more than ten days later, Tenghai released the complete version of the battle royale mode.

Looking at the numerous designs that were basically consistent with his own ideas, Aonuma felt dizzy.

After he realized what was happening, he immediately drew out his family heirloom samurai sword, shouted "God will punish the traitor," and challenged Todd to a samurai duel.

It took a long time for the other members of the group to persuade him to give up.

But after this incident, Todd's position in the group naturally became "younger brother".

Naturally, he is also responsible for such dirty and tiring work.

This time, the reason for coming to Codick to discuss the transformation was that the production team discovered an incredible "unexpected phenomenon" during the operation of the new version of Honor.

First of all, the new version of Honor, although immature, although it is not the same, although it is very discouraging for newcomers,

But as of now, both the daily active data and the number of newcomers are unexpectedly good.

Not only has it reached the level before the Great Depression, it has even slightly improved.

However, during a specific investigation, the production team discovered that the PVP part, which they thought should be the most discussed and popular, actually had very limited popularity.

On the contrary, the boss battles, which they thought were a bit cumbersome, were unexpectedly popular.

When you open a Honor of Kings discussion community, all you see are guides to clear certain BOSSes.

Especially the Dark Night Cat Demon who is known as the Cat God. Every day new members come to the community to cry about their painful experiences of being taught a lesson by the Cat God.

At first, the strategy team thought that this situation occurred because PVP, as an old project in Honor of Kings that has existed for many years, no longer needs so much discussion.

But in the game, PVP should still be the mainstream.

Until they discovered, in the new mode peak showdown, the emergence of a strange phenomenon called "Peak House".

What is a bungalow?
To put it simply, at the beginning of a peak match, one side typed "Peace?" on the public screen.

If the other party responds "arrange", then the game will enter a strange stage of peace.

Even if the two sides meet, they will not fight. They will just look for the BOSS they want to challenge on the map and fight each other.

Even, due to the randomness of the equipment dropped by the boss, sometimes you can't get the equipment you want.
Since non-bound equipment in Glory does not distinguish between friend and foe, the two sides will even exchange equipment to achieve better results.

The production crew couldn't understand this strange sight, but they were deeply shocked.

After working overtime for several days to study this phenomenon, they finally came to a rough conclusion:

For current Honor of Kings players, PVP is indeed far less interesting than PVE.

For them, the PVP mode has been around for more than ten years, and apart from new levels and new skills, the main theme has not changed at all.

No matter how passionate you are, you will get tired of it after more than ten years.

On the contrary, the boss battle improved by Miyazaki Laozei was unexpectedly fresh to these players.

Maybe he was really beaten badly when he first fought, so much so that the official came up with modifications to adjust the BOSS mode.

But as the players played for a while, they became really addicted.

This BOSS battle... seems a bit fun, huh?

Although Miyazaki's boss battle is painful, the production level is absolutely impeccable.

Players who can play into Glory and reach level 70 are basically not the type who will be discouraged by the difficulty.

After suffering a few times, many of them couldn't help but fall in love with the feeling of dancing on the edge of a knife.

Especially the non-humanoid BOSS in Glory, which gave them the pleasure of hunting monsters.

So, after the initial resistance, players began to rush in large numbers, one after another, to attempt the most difficult soul-based boss battles.

It is said that if the heads of the players who were scratched to death by the cat god every day were strung together, they would run through the map of Glory.

After their suffering was filmed and posted on social media and video sites, it attracted the attention of the outside world from a whole new perspective.

After all, many people may not be willing to suffer themselves, but watching others suffer is definitely a good thing!

Taking all these factors into consideration, the obviously immature Honor unexpectedly found a new track and received considerable discussion and popularity.

But the PVP mode, which was originally the core of Honor, now seems to be unexpectedly a bit of a hindrance.

Many players have called for the release of a copy that is purely for fighting these high-difficulty BOSSes, or simply adding a suffering mode to the BOSSes in the original copy.

Even if the production team quickly added ladders and ranking points to the peak showdown mode, there was no way to draw players' attention back to PVP. Faced with this magical situation, Todd and others were also confused.

The carefully prepared main course was not popular, but the small desserts before the meal had good traffic.

In that case, why not go with the flow and correct the content of the boss battle?

The more Todd, Aonuma and the others discussed it, the more they felt that this idea seemed promising.

Honor of Kings itself is a very pure MMORPG online game, and the e-sports content seems to be forced in.

Changing it back to a mode that focuses on boss battles, especially high-difficulty boss battles, is not only not heresy, but rather a return to the original intention.

Moreover, if we wanted to make such a change a year ago, we might have to worry about whether the original e-sports ecosystem would suffer a devastating blow.

But now, the market ecology of Honor has collapsed long ago, and there is no need to care about these things at all. The league has almost completely collapsed.

In that case, why not just switch back to a pure MMORPG and stop getting involved in the muddy waters of e-sports?

This is a good opportunity to avoid the genius Pei Yunteng who once educated this group of historical game producers one by one.

Anyway, to operate this kind of groundbreaking MMORPG, as long as the profit model is clear and the krypton gold content or transaction tax is better,
As long as you have your own unique competitive advantages, you will never have to worry about making money.

Maybe, you can earn more than from e-sports.

If Pei Yunteng saw their new idea, he would probably be amazed. Isn’t this just a high-end version of Monster Hunter?
Even compared to the Monster Hunter system, with the foundation of Glory, it might be able to do better.

So, after systematically organizing their ideas, Todd took the lead and went to report to Codick.

Sure enough, after listening to Todd's report, Codick was a little embarrassed for a moment.

Market performance doesn't lie. After listening to Todd's explanation, he subconsciously felt that if Glory were to transform into an online game based on PVE, it might indeed be a way out for Glory.

But after struggling for a long time, the fat guy shook his head and said, "Let's put this plan on hold for a while, and the league will continue."

Todd was stunned and looked at Codick as if he were a stranger.

This fat guy who has always thought about making money, actually became stubborn when faced with money that can be seen with the naked eye?
Why is he always thinking about that damn e-sports? Is it because he is the president of that e-sports association?

Kotick was really a little bit drunk.

In the past few years, his life, which had been going smoothly and without any restrictions, was completely changed by Teng Hai.

The happy life of making money by doing nothing from e-sports is gone forever.

As a squid known for its pettiness, it is impossible for Kodick not to bear a grudge.

He knew clearly how terrible the technological gap was between Glory and he firmly believed that one day, he would make the damned Teng Hai and Pei Yunteng pay the price.

So when Tencent took the initiative to extend an olive branch of cooperation after the internal testing of the new version of Honor, he thought he was very close to this goal.

But now, Todd actually suggested that he give up e-sports and turn to online games?

Kotick felt that his dignity was insulted, so much so that, as a profit-seeking squid, he put making money at the back of his priority list.

“Improvements can be made in online gaming to make players further attracted to our games.”

"But at the same time, the preparations for the league must not be interrupted. On the contrary, we must continue to intensify our efforts!"

"Tenghai wants to take away our power to set standards? They are dreaming!"

Codick slammed the table hard with his short, greasy hands, with an indescribable cruel look on his face.

Todd was startled by his sudden outburst, and after a moment, he replied timidly, "I understand, sir."

At the same time, I kept sighing in my heart.

The future will be tough.

……

"Oh? You didn't run away? You didn't choose to retreat, but instead you actively prepared for the league and challenged us?"

Pei Yunteng found the system's report interesting.

"It's clear that those talented producers worked very hard to find a relatively bright path for Honor's transformation."

"In that case, let's continue!"

Pei Yunteng couldn't help but let out an evil smile.

The more stubborn Kotick was, the happier he was.

If he really gave in and started playing online games to make money, Pei Yunteng wouldn't be able to do anything to him in the short term.

But now...

"Increase the publicity for the reopening of the Glory League, and by the way, tell those players who are ready to join us that they are allowed to continue to participate in the Glory Professional League before our league starts."

"We must make the scene lively!"

"Give Honor a decent funeral!"

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(End of this chapter)