Soon, an offer from the Dragon Slayer Studio will be sent to Yu Bing's email address.
Today he can freely tour Earth—of course, without being able to see his work computer.
Blue Star's secrecy measures are quite effective, especially in the early stages of developing a new game.
Yu Bing seized this opportunity for a "one-day trip to Blue Star".
You should know that such an opportunity can fetch an astronomical price on the Blue Star Forum.
He excitedly went to check out the areas he was allowed to enter, and even shamelessly asked a few long-time employees for their autographs.
—Lord Wrynn!! The prototype for the first Swordsman skin in League of Legends, and the current head of the art team, is a veteran in the industry!
—Your Excellency Schrödinger! The head of the programming team, a tech guru who spares no effort in combating cheating and is revered by players!
—Senior Ling Xiaoman…Wow, she's so pretty! 0.0
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As autumn deepened, time gradually passed.
The controversy surrounding IPP's first Star Talent Competition quickly subsided.
The champions all joined well-known companies in the industry, which attracted considerable attention.
Yu Bing, who won third place, was also on the same team—
Because of Mingyan's prior positive assessment, many teams preferred to believe it rather than dismiss it, and out of their unconditional trust in Mingyan, they all extended olive branches to Yu Bing and others.
Unfortunately, Yu Bing went directly to the Dragon Slayer Sword Studio for an internship.
This studio is renowned for its deep financial resources. Therefore, its competitors, seeing this, had no choice but to slink away.
Meanwhile, Zhu Wenshu's collaboration with IPP has been temporarily suspended.
Because he announced his departure from his original company and joined a new studio with his new work.
Let's not mention the studio's name, but it was directly funded by Cruise Capital!
That evening, Zhu Wenshu sent a very long email to Xia Cheng's inbox.
In the letter, he wrote: "...Just wait and see, I will prove myself! Given the same resources and fair treatment, my talent and my future far surpass those parasites on Earth! I will prove myself in the next game! And he will be nothing!"
In reality, Xia Cheng only glanced at the email title, confirmed it was a private matter, and then threw it directly into the trash.
Just kidding, Zhu Wenshu only has Xia Cheng's work email address.
During work hours, there's not enough time to check a bunch of official emails; who has the time to read a petty person's incessant chatter?
However, Zhu Wenshu's former superior, out of a sense of regret, offered him a few words of advice.
—Although Cruise Capital is a large and powerful company, it basically doesn't get involved in the gaming industry. They just treat games as ordinary virtual commodities to be sold, without any emotional investment!
—Game developers who truly want to make good games will not choose to join large corporations like Cruise Capital unless absolutely necessary, just like Lanxing once did.
However, when the words "Blue Star" were mentioned, this superior did not utter a single word of praise for the other party's pride.
Zhu Wenshu had exploded, angrily saying, "It's Lanxing again! It's Mingyan again! What's so great about him? He just makes games, I can make those too! I can make them a thousand, ten thousand times better than him! You all just wait and see, don't underestimate a young man's potential!"
Then he blocked everyone who tried to persuade him.
This means they want to stick to one path to the end.
No one else could say anything about his choice. Perhaps with the cruise line's substantial financial resources behind him, Zhu Wenshu could really pave a way out?
The boss thought to himself: "Being like the Dragon Slayer Sword Studio might not be such a bad thing."
Contrary to what most players think, the Dragon Slayer Sword is actually highly regarded in the industry.
After all, experts see the details.
Looking at the games released by Tulongbaodao since its inception, one of them is "Nitianjue", a fast-paced numerical game that became famous in the martial arts world for its "earning money so fast it's more like robbery".
First is "Card Alliance," a brand-new game category. Although it was co-developed with Bluestar and has excellent game content, the card-drawing model alone is a new profit model that has impressed professionals!
Whether this profit model was developed by the leader of Blue Star or by the person who wielded the Dragon-Slaying Saber remains to be seen.
However, regardless of the circumstances, the Dragon Slayer Sword remains a pioneer of a major genre, opening a new world for many game developers struggling to make money from their games.
The editor at Atlas is already a well-known "dragon-slaying fanatic" in the industry.
He previously published a long blog post defining the "item-based monetization" model of Dragon Slayer Sword as a major milestone in the game industry's profit model, ranking it alongside "buyout" and "time-based subscription" as one of the three major profit models.
Games like "Against the Heavens" have almost died out after two years because they don't have much content and are not worth promoting in their eyes.
However, their profit-making strategy is worth learning from.
For example, there are shiny mounts, weapons that can be upgraded in various ways such as enchanting, strengthening, synthesizing, and socketing, as well as some simplified privileges in the game process, and special title certifications for server rankings... These things are essentially designed to make the game more enjoyable for players!
This kind of game is fantastic for paying players; it's truly the most enjoyable game tailor-made for them.
When the game was released, it was a groundbreaking event.
Looking back now, I realize there are still so many things I can learn from this.
The most regrettable thing is that the people in the Dragon Slayer Sword Studio are all very "reclusive".
Their leader has never shown up. They decline all invitations whenever possible, and if they can't decline, they send their deputy chief engineer instead.