Chapter 317: Battle Royale outside the game, the chicken-eating world is about to explode

After receiving Pei Yunteng's instructions, Feng Xianjun left satisfied.

Although he didn't quite understand why Pei Yunteng chose to remain silent in the face of such a powerful enemy, he firmly believed that President Pei's judgment would not be wrong.

There have been more outrageous decisions before, like taking the initiative to promote others when their reputation in Glory is at its highest, and didn’t they prove their ingenuity in the end?
It will definitely be the same this time.

But perhaps he would not have thought that this sudden incident really shocked Pei Yunteng.

“Although I expected that there would be copycats of battle royale games, I didn’t expect that someone would have produced a finished product so quickly.”

Pei Yunteng covered his face lightly, feeling a little emotional.

"Now, we will have a truly wildly growing opponent."

Although Tenghai's legal department is quite strong, not to mention being on par with Nanshan Pizza Hut, it is at least not a soft persimmon that can be bullied by anyone.

However, the problem of this Jedi Gun God that suddenly appeared was not something that the Ministry of Justice could handle.

When the Battle Royale mode appeared, it was destined that it could not be a competitive mode unique to a certain game.

Art materials can be protected, codes can be protected, plots and the like can be protected, but gameplay, especially gameplay that can only be said to have the same general idea, is impossible to protect.

Battle Royale, after all, is just an idea, where dozens or hundreds of people are put on a battlefield, picking up trash, fighting each other, and deciding the last person standing.

It is unrealistic to want to protect your rights for a game that can be explained in a few words.

In Pei Yunteng's previous life, there were many cases where a similar way of playing became popular and there were many followers.

From the distant past like Chicken Dinner and Rookie of the Week to the recent one like Survivor, they all use a set of gameplay templates with countless different styles and types that can be played to death.

That is to say, Naraka: Bladepoint has only been announced for two months, and it is difficult for followers to copy the game in batches in such a short period of time, otherwise it would have been a household name long ago.

If Jedi Gun God is just a pure follow-up game, that would be fine.

The key is that the developers have a very smart brain. They combined TPS and Battle Royale to create a fundamentalist version of Battle Royale.

Does it have the potential to become a hit? Absolutely.

"Am I digging a hole for myself?" Pei Yunteng suddenly thought of something and laughed.

At the beginning, he chose Naraka: Bladepoint between the two options of Apex and Naraka: Bladepoint because he didn't want to affect his own FPS game project.

The result is that the huge market for gun battle-type chicken-eating games has been leaked out.

"Well, let's see how far this game can go."

"If it can really figure out how to play chicken, it might be a good thing."

Pei Yunteng was really curious about what this chicken-eating game, which was turned against the sky by his own Eternal Tribulation, would look like.

The rules that Naraka: Bladepoint could give them for reference were nothing more than the most basic rules such as shrinking the circle, picking up trash, and one out of a hundred people surviving.

As for the rest, it depends on the spirituality of the manufacturer.

In the field of PUBG, except for people like Pei Yunteng who have opened their eyes to the sky, whether the PUBG game can become popular depends not only on the time of its release.

The first mature games released in the chicken-eating PC game category were DAYZ and H1Z1, but it was not until PUBG that the set of rules was truly perfected and, with the help of the live streaming platform, it began its road to explosive popularity.

Pei Yunteng was quite curious about how far this game could go.

If he could really achieve the same level of popularity as PUBG, Pei Yunteng wouldn't even mind giving him a little help.

You don’t have to master the game to make money.

Pei Yunteng picked up the computer again and opened the video of the Jedi Gun God press conference. He had not yet looked at the content of the game in detail.

Now is a good time to study it.

As soon as I opened it, I saw a familiar fat face.

Codick changed his depressed look after being marginalized by the people behind him, and gave a beaming speech at the press conference as the president of the World Esports Association, saying that he would fully support the e-sports career of Jedi Gun God.

Looking at the pig's face with a beaming smile, Pei Yunteng couldn't help but start to have a headache.

Well, there's no way I'll let this go.

Maybe we will even have to fight to the death.

“…It’s a bit troublesome.”

However, seeing that Codick's words implied that he was going to go all out and make Rise of Gunslinger an e-sports game that could compete with Tenghai and Naraka: Bladepoint, Pei Yunteng was a little stunned.

"...No, this guy doesn't think that it's a good idea to go all out for eSports in Battle Royale, right?"

"Is this because I have led you astray?"

Using the battle royale mode to engage in e-sports was not a good idea in the previous life, and it is no exception in this life.

The two attributes of randomness and multiplayer melee are almost inherently in conflict with the three values ​​of competition.

Not to mention randomness, even the latest generation of battle royale games such as Naraka and Apex, which try their best to maintain a balance between randomness and fairness, cannot escape the accusation of being a game of luck.

As for the multiplayer melee, this has nothing to do with fairness, it just makes the director a bit useless.

Although pure gunfight to win the game may seem more intuitive compared to the close-range skill special effects flying all over the place in Naraka.

However, the combat distances of tens or hundreds of meters are really eye-watering for the audience.

The director of Honor headquarters doesn't have the habit of putting a data column for everything like Tenghai does...

Why Pei Yunteng wanted to organize the Naraka: Bladepoint competition has nothing to do with Naraka: Bladepoint itself.

It's purely because of Naraka's many characteristics that it is very suitable to receive the remaining players of the Glory League and help them complete the transformation, that's all.

It is to customize a fairly playable e-sports game for these players.

And with the qualifications and technical strength of the Jedi Gun God, to fully compete...

"Well, let's see what they can accomplish. This is one of the few contributions that Kodick has made to the gaming industry."

At this point, he suddenly remembered something and made a phone call.

"It's me... Yes, the idea for the project development can be decided... Just like that, we will completely abandon the competitive aspect and turn the game into an entertainment one!"

……

While Pei Yunteng chose to remain inactive, the outside world was in an uproar because of the sudden appearance of the Jedi Gun God.

For those domestic and foreign manufacturers who are working overtime to develop Battle Royale imitations, it feels like the sky is falling at this moment.

No, everyone is plagiarizing... No, it's a tribute, why are you so fast?

EC is definitely not the only smart person.

In fact, almost all manufacturers with some strength and no other projects on hand, immediately thought about trying out one of their own after Tencent announced the concept of the battle royale.

According to incomplete statistics, the number of battle royale projects launched at home and abroad in the past two months is conservatively estimated to start in the three digits.

However, due to the high homogeneity of the gameplay of the chicken-eating games, it is destined that only two or three of these games will survive in the end.

It is no exaggeration to say that the game is a battle royale, and outside the game, it is a life-and-death battle royale between manufacturers.

But now, you tell me, we haven’t even boarded the plane yet, and someone has already parachuted?
These manufacturers know one thing:

In the absence of a decisive difference in product quality, whoever acts quickly enough will be able to gain an absolute advantage in the market.

But the speed of the Jedi Gun God will definitely go down in the history of counterfeit goods.

All of a sudden, many manufacturers were vomiting blood, secretly hating that they had been overtaken by others in the market, but they could only work overtime to accelerate development.

Even if they can't snatch meat from EC, at least they have to beat other imitations and try to get a bite of soup. Among the player community, it is even more explosively popular.

Speaking of which, Gunslinger probably knew that it could not compete with Naraka: Bladepoint, which has the aura and cultural advantages of a domestic game, in the Chinese region, so it completely gave up on its promotion in China.

The Chinese people knew about this game after some old friends who played in the Traditional Chinese area and rarely played against each other discovered it by chance and then spread it back to China.

But even so, it was enough to make the Chinese players excited.

How long has the concept of battle royale been around, and there are already competitors?

"Fuck! Such a fast copy!"

"Copying the battle royale mode, cooperating with Kodick, and also wanting to do e-sports... This is a fight with Tenghai!"

"That cowardly Cordick, is it really impossible to kill him?"

In domestic forums, public opinion is naturally one-sided.

If you don't support Tenghai, the pride of Chinese tourism, are you going to support Codick, the leader of match-fixing?
Speaking of which, what Kotick did is particularly unforgivable in the eyes of domestic players.

The gambling game was fake, the game was zzzq, and the fight for IP was infighting, which ruined the Honor Professional League...

Now we have to add plagiarism and closed-region issues.

Just these revelations are enough to make Kodick's domestic reputation catch up to that of his previous life.

Naturally, he didn't have a good face towards the Jedi Gun God who announced his cooperation with Kotick in a high-profile manner right at the beginning.

Many players have already shouted slogans to support domestic products and resist plagiarism.

However, although the slogans are shouted loudly, many people are still wavering in their hearts.

Gunfight plus battle royale...it seems really interesting...

I kind of want to play.

Domestic players are shaken, and foreign players are even more so.

Their love for shooting games is ingrained in their bones.

Moreover, foreign players have always been much more tolerant of imitations in gameplay, or in other words, XXXlike has always been an important part of the gaming community.

For a game like Jedi Gun God, which even has innovative gameplay modes, it doesn't even need to be accused of plagiarism.

Although there are doubts about the cooperation with the World Electronic Sports Association, after all, Kotick is one of the sponsors behind many notorious zzzq organizations in the gaming circle.

But overall, players are still looking forward to it.

"Goddamn! Finally there's a competitive game that isn't developed by Chinese people. Our useless game manufacturer has finally done something good."

“I heard it’s a mode where 100 people fight to the death on one map! How exciting!”

What is contrary to Tiangang is that some foreign players have been dissatisfied for a long time with the current situation in which the gaming industry, especially the e-sports gaming industry, is absolutely dominated by Tencent.

Although Tencent Games has always done a good job in localization and cultural integration, it does not prevent traditionalists in various countries from thinking that it is a bad thing for the market to be monopolized by the Chinese.

Some manufacturers are even considering whether to find an opportunity to launch an antitrust investigation against Tenghai.

But now the emergence of Jedi Gun God has given them hope that their own e-sports games can compete with Tencent and Hai.

So much so that people are no longer so anxious to shout anti-monopoly slogans.

Kodick probably never imagined that the project on which he gambled everything in the hope of overthrowing Tencent Competition would actually provide disguised protection for Tenghai.

In addition to the significance of Jedi Gun God to the market, some of the gimmicks currently revealed in the game itself have made players feel great expectations.

For example, online time.

"I can't wait to start playing! When will it be online?"

“It seems to be next week!”

"Oh my god! So fast? Are these guys on drugs?"

In order to gain as much time as possible for development under the pressure from Tencent and other "friendly competitors", EC was quite anxious about launching the game.

It was just announced that it would be launched next week, even without the concept promotional video being completed.

What about the one-side second test, internal test, and outer closed test? All of them will be cut off!

If there are any bugs, we will fix them after the release!

It feels like the operation of the game has been turned into a beachhead landing battle.

It can only be said that Tencent’s reputation in the gaming industry was too great, which made EC and Kotick feel very insecure.

If it were put in any other time, this mode would definitely be a death sentence.

But who says they have no competitors now?

EC's decisive action of risking everything bought them at least one to two months of gaming vacuum.

During this period of time, there will basically be no second game that can launch its own battle royale gameplay.

Even if there are small companies that dare to do this, the quality of their games will definitely not be as good as the relatively complete Jedi Gun God.

For foreign players, this unconventional and extremely bold way of releasing the game, although controversial, has also aroused great interest among them.

Countless players are already eagerly waiting to see what surprises this new battle royale game will bring them.

Of course, it could also be a shock.

All in all, at least in terms of popularity, Jedi Gun God has unsurprisingly reached its maximum.

This made Kodick very proud.

Even without relying on sentiment and IP, the popularity of Jedi Gun God still surpassed that of the new version of Honor, giving him hope of giving Tencent a heavy blow.

He was looking forward to taking this as a bit of revenge.

By the way, what was Tenghai doing when the outside world was in an uproar?
Tenghai did everything, yet achieved nothing.

Game versions will continue to be updated, activities will continue to be held, and new projects will continue to be advanced as usual.

But the reaction to the Jedi Gun God was basically none.

They did not denounce the other party's plagiarism, nor did they make any official statement.

On the Tencent Esports side, the league continues to advance, and the Eternal Tribulation League is being steadily built up bit by bit, with no intention of starting the season early because of the Jedi Gun God.

It's like not even a glance was given.

This purely Buddhist attitude caused a lot of discussion among the outside world.

Is Tenghai helpless and lying down? Or is he planning something big?
no one knows.

However, just because Tenghai headquarters does not move does not mean that others will not move either.

Over the years, many people have been tied to the Tenghai ship for various reasons, such as the unscrupulous operations of a certain president.

Tenghai headquarters is not in a hurry, but they are.

As a result, a lot of big things happened without Teng Hai knowing it...

　The first update is here, and there will be more later.
　　Because there was a sudden power outage in the dormitory, I was very worried for a while, so the update is late.

　　Slide on your knees.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)