Jialian has finally released its review report on "Xia Ke Xing"!
Upon hearing the news, Mingyan was somewhat alarmed, saying, "Has a month already passed without me noticing?"
Based on past experience, the reaction time of the League of Legends is always so long. After a new game is released, it takes at least two months for their testers to slowly experience it before they carefully release their evaluation report.
For some games that are quite large, they have to assign several testers to experience them together;
Some games have very high ratings, so they will enter the second round of testing phase by the League of Legends, or they may simply gather multiple testers to vote.
But the games on Earth are often the latter...
The scale of "Xia Ke Xing" is quite large. So far, no player has reached the maximum level of 60 in the open beta. The game content has only been consumed by these hundreds of millions of players.
So when Mingyan heard that the A-League had already released a report, he subconsciously assumed that the public beta had been going on for about three months.
But actually, this is right in the middle of the fifth season of League of Legends, which means it's the end of November, just over two months ago.
The secretary said, "It seems that many testers in the Jia League Association have already started experiencing the game..."
Well, Mingyan didn't know that even before the Jialian Association had assigned any testing tasks, many reviewers had already submitted reports hoping to review Lanxing's new game.
The reason is simple: they started playing on the very first day of the public beta.
Since I've already experienced it, I might as well give a review.
How many jobs in the world can bring both happiness and fulfillment, while also earning fame and fortune? Reviewing games on Earth is definitely one of them!
In fact, some of the reviewers even went anonymous and tried to draw their own spots for the first round of closed beta testing on Blue Star back then, but unfortunately they weren't so lucky.
This time, the rating given to "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" by the Jia League was quite interesting, with a score of 9.5.
A score of 9.5 definitely places it in the game's platinum hall of fame, and it has the potential to compete for Game of the Year...
However, looking at all the games on Earth, apart from Minecraft and League of Legends which also have a score of 9.5, Earth's End and Mortal Souls are all famous "perfect masterpieces".
If I told you this, many people would probably be shocked.
The 9.5 rating, which is highly sought after by other manufacturers and is a top-notch evaluation that many excellent game designers strive for with half their lives, has become a score that requires a meeting to review at Blue Star Studio.
The designers on Blue Star were heartbroken; the atmosphere in their office had never been so heavy.
"Why did our game 'Xia Ke Xing,' which took the longest to develop, receive the lowest rating? Where exactly did we go wrong?"
Hmm...that's right.
A score of 9.5 is truly one of the lowest ever ratings ever given to Blue Star Studio!
At this point, Mingyan also read the evaluation report from Jialian, whose title was as follows:
[Review of Blue Star's New Theme Online Game "Xia Ke Xing": 9.5 points, promising future.]
[Visual presentation: 10/10, impeccable]
[Music and sound effects: 10/10, absolutely amazing]
[Story Experience: 8.5/10, looking forward to the next development]
[Game Fun: 9.5/10, Innovative and Refreshing]
[Content Depth: 10/10, Exotic Flavor]
Blue Star Studio, which is known for its storytelling, surprisingly lost 1.5 points in the "story experience" category, significantly dragging down the overall score.
This made the planners responsible for the plot design lower their heads in shame.
However, Mingyan did not blame them. Instead, he looked at the detailed contents of the evaluation report and fell into deep thought.
This is partly because the planners are obviously also interstellar people, and their understanding of the ancient culture of Earth is limited to the fact that they have studied it for two more months than the players. Of course, we cannot have too high expectations for their results.
In fact, the main storyline of "The Smiling, Proud Wanderer" contains many elements of explicit personal assistance.
However, he is not a professional screenwriter and has limited time to participate in the work, so this is indeed a weak point in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes".
However, in terms of weaknesses, the plot of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" is actually extremely rich.
The reason the reviewers gave it an 8.5 score is largely because the current version of "Xia Ke Xing" doesn't give players any room to participate!
The current game setup is as follows: level 10 is a complete novice, level 20 is a low-level player, and level 30 is barely considered a third-rate expert...
Only players at level 60, the maximum level in the public beta version, can be considered top-tier masters in the martial arts world.
However, the NPCs in "Xia Ke Xing" are not like that. First of all, the leaders of each sect are all grandmaster-level experts ranging from level 70 to 80, and there are also top-ranked experts of level 80 or above living in seclusion in various parts of the map.
This results in players being able to participate in many storylines, but unable to significantly alter the overall situation of the martial arts world, since their strength is limited! There isn't even a single player at the maximum level yet!
This feeling of "being unable to participate in the main storyline" is the biggest reason why the reviewers ultimately gave it a score of 8.5 after discussion.
After analyzing the underlying reasons at the planning meeting, Mingyan quickly led everyone in a discussion about the next round of updates.
Blue Star Studio has always been fair in its rewards and punishments, but it never spends too much time criticizing employees' mistakes.
Mingyan is a forward-looking person. When he encounters any problem, his first instinct is not to blame or assign blame, but to find a solution.
"Let's release the expansion pack 'The Rise of the Mohist School' in the next version, which will raise the player level cap to 70."
"Yes, the new expansion introduces a lot of random encounters, allowing players below level 60 to level up faster. Once they reach level 70, they should be able to participate in the main storyline."
As mentioned earlier, Blue Star has actually been preparing for the development of a new expansion pack.