“Schrodinger’s 3A masterpiece” is finally coming.

It was recently discovered that the tactical shooting game “Rainbow Six: Siege” developed by Ubisoft in France (below) Referred to as: Rainbow Six), it has been put on the shelf in the bilibili game center, but the page does not display any information about the national service. Relevant personnel at station B said that the national service of Rainbow Six was not issued by station B.

Screenshot from the B station App

The first release of Rainbow Six was in December 2015. Distribution platforms include Steam and Ubisoft’s self-developed Uplay platform. This latest work from the famous military novelist Tom Clancy’s “Rainbow Six” series of IP was not optimistic at the beginning of the market, the game ranking system was chaotic, 3D bugs were frequent, and server delays were unstable Waiting for the question, once let players vomit countless.

But Ubisoft did not give up this product, the production team constantly updated and optimized the game, and the score of the well-known game media IGN also increased from the initial dissatisfaction 8 points to 8.5 points, making Rainbow Six among the first-line shooting games. Ranks.

According to Ubisoft’s latest financial report, the number of registered users of Rainbow Six has exceeded 60 million, and the records of 50 million and 55 million users were set in September 2019 and February 2020, respectively. From the side, it shows that this game, which has been on sale for nearly 5 years, is full of stamina.

The success of Ubisoft and Rainbow Six also attracted the attention of Tencent and Chinese players.

In March 2018, Ubisoft and Vivendi reached an agreement to repurchase the 27.3% stake held by the latter, in order to rely on the previous acquisition crisis. Subsequently, Ubisoft announced that it has become a strategic partner with Tencent. Tencent acquired a 5% stake in Ubisoft and promised not to transfer its shares. Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot and Tencent President Liu Chiping said after the announcement that the two parties will work together to bring the top gaming experience to Chinese players.

“Rainbow Six: Siege” (picture from the Internet)

At that time, Rainbow Six attracted a lot of attention among the Chinese player community. The number of domestic Rainbow Six players also ushered in the same period (game purchase channels are mainly concentrated on the Steam platform), and major live broadcast platforms Started to recruit excellent players to become its anchor.

If all goes well, Rainbow Six will become the second top-level first-person shooter game after the introduction of “CS:GO” (IP redo products such as “Call of Duty Online” are not included), and its emphasis The characteristics of tactical simulation and testing strategic thinking ability will also bring players a new experience different from traditional shooting games. At the same time, Ubisoft’s “Assassin’s Creed”, “Ghost Action”, “Watch Dog” and other series 3A games are also expected to land in China in the future.

However, the suspension of the domestic game version number at that time cast a shadow on the introduction of the game. The major live broadcast platforms also stopped the live broadcast of Rainbow Six around May of the same year. The PC version of Jedi Survival has also become endless. In June of the same year, introduced the 3A game “Monster Hunter” represented by Tencent : World” was removed from the market in less than 5 days, which made domestic players shout that this is the “darkest moment in the Chinese game market.”

Image source: Ubisoft

For more than two years so far, Tencent and Ubisoft have never given up on the introduction of Rainbow Six. Ubisoft has also stated that, in order to Rainbow Six in the Asian market Smooth promotion, will change the art design in the game, remove the disharmony involving gambling, pornography, violence, etc. elements (as shown above), and may even change These changes are applied to versions in other regions, which is also caused by the global player communityThere is no small controversy.

As a “ninth art”, games are not only digital entertainment products, but also carry the mission of cultural transmission. Cross-transmission of different cultures often brings cognitive differences, which is also the meaning of the domestic game review system. China’s game review system is stricter than other countries and lacks a rating system, which makes most 3A games that display political, economic, and social issues in an all-round manner seem unsuitable for domestic game developers, which also hinders self-developed 3A games to some extent. Footsteps.

“Area F2” (picture from the Internet)

China’s self-developed 3A games still have a long way to go. Domestic game manufacturers are still constantly catching up with the production levels of top overseas developers. Tencent Northern Lights Studio led the development of the quasi-3A-level competitive shooting game “Infinite Rule”, and won a good reputation in overseas markets.

Of course, in addition to some successful self-developed games, there are many cases of “overturn” in domestic masterpieces-Ubisoft recently accused Apple and Google of online stores of selling mobile games suspected of plagiarizing “Rainbow Six: Siege”, this work This is the “Area F2” created by Jianyue team (developer of “Three Kingdoms · Strategic Edition”) under Alibaba Game Ecosystem. Eventually, “Area F2” announced that it would stop operations and stop the service. The announcement showed that the service was stopped because of the problem of too high a threshold to get started in the current version of the game, and Ubisoft subsequently withdrew the lawsuit.

For Chinese players, it may be an extravagance to play an overseas 3A game locally, but with the gradual improvement of the copyright and review system, I believe that in the near future, Chinese players can have a justified experience More excellent imported works, “Rainbow Six: Siege” is one of them.

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This article thanks senior analyst Zhang Xinyu for his help.

I am analyst Liu Shiwu, who is concerned about the game industry and e-sports. WeChat: liushiwude, please indicate your identity for the exchange, thank you.