The price of the unpopular game is booming.
Editor’s note: This article is from WeChat public account “Telephone” (ID :chuappgame), author Niu Xu.
In the 1930s, in order to get rid of the economic downturn brought about by the Great Depression, the Nevada State Assembly passed the gambling legal bill and took the opportunity to become a “gambling city” in the oasis city of Las Vegas in the center of the desert. At that time, most casinos were only for the rich, and Las Vegas was more focused on attracting ordinary tourists. At that time, each casino would offer a chicken package of no more than $2, and visitors would only have to win a gamble. Guaranteed to have chicken to eat.
A long time later, the story about the winner became an American slang – “Winner winner chicken dinner.”
In 2017, the shooting game “Jesus Survival” used this slang as the slogan displayed on the winning screen. Now almost all video game players around the world have met this sentence. In foreign countries, “Jesus Survival” has an English name “PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS” which is neither easy to understand nor convenient to spread. Foreigners refer to it as “PUBG”.
In the country, the proverb was translated into “big luck, eat chicken at night.”
So, people began to call it “eat chicken.” “Eating Chicken” sounds as badly understood as “PUBG”, but at least the name is very grounded.
Great luck, eat chicken at night
Like the gambling city in the construction boom, when the “eat chicken” game proved its worth, countless games began to learn its gameplay, trying to divide the already formed cake in the market. Domestic players habitually call them “something to eat chicken”. Now, the “eat chicken” boom has passed three years, and there are still variousThe style of “eat chicken” is constantly offered to the players.
If you compare the game list to a menu, then a wonderful “100 chicken feast” is formed, and many new “dishes” are constantly being added.
Unpopular games made by military fans
As its name suggests, the main gameplay of Jedi Survival was inspired by the Japanese film The Great Escape. In The Great Escape, a group of students were forced to exile the island, pick up randomly distributed weapons, and flee from the restricted area while killing each other. Only the last survivor won.
The “armed raid” series of player-made mods is the most well-known origin of this type of game, “DayZ” and “H1Z1” are the successors of similar games. Before the launch of “Jesus Survival”, in addition to “H1Z1” buried itself under the repeated death of operators, most other games still maintain a relatively small identity.
Brendan Greene is an Irish game designer. In the English name of “Jesus Survival”, the long list of people who are unclear is the English “PLAYERUNKNOWN” is his screen name.
Green’s home was once near an Irish military base. When he was young, he often watched the soldiers for various trainings, which eventually gave him a natural interest in weapons and military-themed games. Because of color blindness, he had no chance. When the soldiers did not set foot on the battlefield, those passions for military subjects were cast on military games such as the US Army and Armed Assault.
The “Armed Assault” series and the “US Army” series have complex military simulation elements
Before working in the game industry, Green worked as a DJ and photographer, and also participated in the production of the “big escape” mode Mod of “Armed Assault”. When the “armed raid” zombie theme Mod “DayZ” became an independent project production. After that, Green saw the opportunity, so he accepted the invitation of the Korean company Blue Hole and planned to develop his own “Big Run” game.
The original “Jesus Survival” is full of Green’s personal style. He likes the wide and exquisite large-scale field map of the “Armed Assault” series. He also likes to highlight the real-model weaponry and also likes the realistic style of combat. These elements constitute the basic appearance of “Jesus Survival”.
In the game, players are going to take the C-130 transport plane to air on a huge island. There are all kinds of vegetation and terrain on the island, and there is onePile of Soviet-style buildings. Players can also use a variety of weapons, including the HK416 assault rifle, the most popular Western special forces in the 21st century, or the Kar.98k short carbine, the most representative individual weapon in World War II. The Blue Hole fully satisfies Green’s idea, although the wide map makes the game run more challenging.
The huge map of Jedi Survival highlights the problem of insufficient optimization of blue holes. Many players and machine configurations in Internet cafes can barely run games. This demand has prompted technology media and hardware vendors to use “Jesus Survival” and “Tomb Raider: Rise” as a model for hardware scoring.
In order to meet the “chicken” configuration conditions, many players have also figured out how to change the game settings to reduce the pressure on the operation
And “garbage optimization” together with the netizens took the “garbage network”. In the days when “Jesus Survival” has just become an explosion, go to the Internet cafe and turn around. You will see the screen of the whole row of computers flashing the picture of “Jerg Survival” players waiting outside the hall to enter the game. Dropped, delayed, server full… After all, Blue Hole didn’t know that the game would be so hot, I didn’t expect to have so many servers.
Even if there is a “preemptive experience” prompt, people will criticize the incompleteness of “Jesus Survival”
Surprise and pain in live drainage
Despite the awkwardness, with the popularity of the live webcast, “Jesus Survival” is still on fire, just like Las Vegas after the gambling is legal, “Jesus Survival” has poured into a large number of players. People are attracted by the strange experience that the anchors encountered in the game, not only the “accidents” who were killed by the pans for dozens of minutes, but also the flying motorcycles flying into the air, killing the enemy with a falling volley The highlights, even those strange bugs and network delays caused by the jokes have become a selling point.
Video broadcasters have taken the fun of Jedi Life to the extreme. Selling cute, ugly, show technology, gender big, and encountering “stupid foreigner”… inside the game, playThe family jumped off the plane again and again. In addition to the game, the Blue Hole forced the game to push the game to the direction of e-sports. The more and more activities, the game itself has been frequently rated badly.
The “eat chicken” itself is like a big stage, and tragedy comedy can be performed
There is only one mainstream mode, the special mode is only available for a limited time, and the test suits are constantly emerging with new ideas and new ways of playing.
“It is not a complete game.” When “Jesus Survival” gradually entered the e-sports industry, most of the players and anchors reached this consensus. The “big escape” type is actually not a game mode for the people. The resources collected by the players may be lost in an instant. The behavior of escaping from fighting sometimes occurs, and the withdrawal is obviously not the favorite bridge segment of the e-sports audience. The big map that Green loved was narrowed down in various “non-physical ways” in the subsequent improvement of Blue Hole. The speed of the poison circle is getting faster, reducing the time for players to hang out; reducing the resources of non-hot places and making the conflict more concentrated.
In the process of change, not being pleasing is not just casual players, but also some core players who are used to the original rhythm.
If the change mechanism is easy to cause players to get bored, then the proliferation of plug-ins is the pain of every ordinary player. After all, the Blue Hole is just a small “small workshop” in Korea. The game itself is not prepared for cheating. The related detection and labeling methods have not yet been established. The capacity and creativity of the plug-in producers are not restricted.
In the same kind of game, traditional cheating methods such as see-through, wall-to-wall, bullet tracking, etc., most of the users need to cover up to prevent being reported, and there is no need to worry about it in “Jesus Survival”. When the plug-in is the most rampant, “Jesus Survival” is like stepping into “Fairyland”. On the leaderboard, there are always some names to advertise the accounts of the plug-in group. Blue Hole pampers them for some strange reasons. This caused the player’s anger.
In the game, players record several layers of guns and grenades, four-wheeled cars flying in the sky, and even deserted walls, as depicted in the series “The Matrix.” Savior Nio, plug-in users can distort existing rules. What is stronger than that of the Bigo is that the plug-in also has the ability to infect the Smith detective. The player with weak willpower will see the plug-in, and the bottom of his heart will be ready to join the cheating team.
Plug is always bizarre
The proliferation of plug-ins leads to emotional tension among players. Ordinary cheaters can change their names. Cheating frequently will be banned, and the anchors will not be the same. If they are involved or suspect cheating, they will be remembered for a long time. In China, the “real hammer” anchor has become a source of inspiration for video creators. People’s grievances have always required an exit, and those who make money because of live games have become targets.
Before the “Jesus Survival” was hot, the threshold for live broadcasts had dropped to “only need a good computer for the anchor.” When “Jesus Survival” achieved a batch of anchors, more people joined the live broadcast team and began to fish. As more and more people joined the live broadcast industry, the “cakes” of the anchors naturally became insufficient.
The easiest way to get more attention from your live broadcast is to eat more “chicken” in the game. After all, in “Jesus Survival”, technology is a hard currency to ensure the effect of the program, so in a section In the time, the anchor continued to contribute to the video of “eat chicken” and strong killing, and a large number of strong people emerged. It’s not just fans who stare at these highlights, but some people have discovered new opportunities.
In November 2017, the videocaster with the name “Squirrel Cannot Hit the Hamster” uploaded multiple videos in the B station. The content was mainly based on the video material analysis of the popular anchors, and judged whether they might cheat. The anchors mentioned by the hamsters have a lot of fame, and the whole “real hammer” process and subsequent development jumped to the topical events in the game circle that year.
At first, the anchors did not learn to be low-key. The audience complained about their operation. They rushed back in the live broadcast, and the act of revealing the abuses was ignored by the netizens. A large number of anchors, fans, and “real hammer” supporters have witnessed a war of words. Some people became popular because they stood up to accuse the anchor. Some people were blocked because of fierce counterattacks. Some people were cast aside because their accounts were banned.
In the final analysis, if the blue hole is sufficiently sensitive and effective for the investigation of cheating, all these quarrels should not exist, but the blue hole can’t be done, or no one can do it.
There is a fat chicken, and there are also bones that can’t move.
“Jesus Survival” has been tossed by the “improvement” of the plug-in and the blue hole to reveal the trend. The “Fortress Night”, which was once sued by the Blue Hole and accused of plagiarism, is still operating stably. Two years ago, it didn’t have a “big escape” mode. It was just a third-person shooter game that built architecture and resisted zombies. After joining the “eat chicken” element, development and operator Epic Games was more than half. Ten million players were harvested in the month.
The Fortress Night was launched in July 2017 and joined the “Big Run” mode two months later Every season, “Fortress Night” will have a new theme, and there will be some details on the map of the “Great Escape” mode. Operators will use the changes in the game to spread some hints with social media, and at a fixed point in time, there will be a big change on the game map, allowing online players to watch the big scenes such as “robot wars” or rocket launches. This kind of scene is called “big event” by the players. If the large-scale interactive scene is not enough for the players to satisfy, “Fortress Night” also captures the popular culture and continues to launch linkages with amazing efficiency, such as linkage trend shoes and boots, popular film and television dramas, and then launch features. Mode and characteristic skin, if not the cartoon style of the game itself and the realistic style of “Jesus Survival” are completely opposite, the core gameplay is more complicated and requires more operational ability, then “Fortress Night” directly pushes the latter out of the market. possible. There are a lot of eggs and new content, and the price is naturally exhausted. According to Polygon’s report, Epic employees work more than 70 hours a week, even up to 100 hours, and they are happy and painful. The recent “Fortress Night” In February 2019, when the players thought that the “eat chicken” battlefield would be two giants fighting each other, EA’s “a dish of hot dishes” disrupted the entire holiday arrangement. 24 hours to attract 2.5 million players, 72 hoursAttracting 10 million… The “Apex Hero” developed by Rebirth Studio has shown terrible data. “Apex Hero” may be a strong shot, so that the state of the player and the anchor will return to the state of “Jesus Survival” when it is popular, perhaps it is not the same as the last time, the people who invested in it are more enthusiastic. “Apex Heroes” has made many interesting improvements based on the “Big Run” gameplay. The game itself has a faster rhythm, and the battle link meets both the enjoyment and the gameplay, and has unlimited potential. Regrettably, it was a step away from “God” and was pulled to the edge of the cliff by the plug. “Auxiliary, Perspective, Self-Aiming, Adding QQ Groups…” was recorded manually, and the “Robot” re-reading voice began to appear in the ears of “Apex Heroes” players. This is really ironic, especially in the context of the future worldview of the game itself, which is “scientific as the top”, the irony is more intense. At the same time, the external vendors of Jedi Survival are also using the same means to promote A month has not passed, “Apex Hero” has been overwhelmed by the plug-in, limiting the way three people close the team, unable to communicate with the outside world should limit the problem of voice abusive or plug-in propaganda, but by establishing a robot trumpet, In the way of exiting before the war, the plug-in vendors let the players who failed to complete the game feel the “voice harassment” that is almost attached to the ear. It’s not just the game experience that is affected. Players start to hang up or not, and no one can tell the difference between right and wrong. Only anger is the most direct reflection. Players can’t effectively resist the hang-up makers, and they have no choice but to sacrifice the most vicious curse to the user. Although it is a bit shameful, many of the plug-ins that flood the game come from China. “Apex Heroes” was just over a month after the launch, and the reborn employee raised this issue. If you continue to play the game during that time, you will also find that foreign friends’ attitude towards the Chinese people has become very irrational. “Chinese Hacker?” When you hear a question from a foreign passerby, it doesn’t feel comfortable. “I have no face to say” For plug-ins, operators have limited impact, and sometimes the proportion of plug-ins is reduced, which is accompanied by the loss of players. But then, who can fully control the plug-in? The VAC that comes with the Steam platform has a strict manual review mechanism. The auditors are responsible for reviewing the video. This is still not enough to completely eliminate the plug-in. The EAC built in “Apex Hero” and the BattlEye built in “Jesus Survival” are all anti-cheat software trusted by mainstream manufacturers, but these two games are still the hardest hit areas, as long as the plug-in makers think, they It can still be bypassed. Maybe you think of “Fortress Night”, after all, the news about its proliferation is not always seen, in fact, those resident players will tell you that it is also contaminated by the game environment like most shooting games. It’s just that it’s not very popular in China, and not many people often hang this on their lips.
