Game Development Giant - Chapter 863

c857 Tigul and Flor

There’s a reason why Flor spoke so violently.

During this period, SOE was also complaining about being poached by Mars Entertainment, but there was nothing they could do. People went to higher places and water flowed to lower places.

As a game developer, Mars Entertainment’s invitation is difficult to refuse. If you add Jester’s next game, then for a person working in the game development industry, it is almost impossible to refuse.

Because Jester is a legend in this industry.

With his legendary experience, many people who came out of his development team have now become famous producers. Even if these people leave Mars Entertainment, they will be hired by many game companies with high salaries.

Therefore, SOE also understands the thoughts of people who resign.

Although they can’t stand Jester’s behavior of poaching people from them while saying their game is not good, all they can do now is to make the game better and correct all the things in the game that players are dissatisfied with. Only by making the game perfect can we see how Jester will end up when his version of “World of Warcraft” comes out.

After all, you still need to be strong to make iron.

However, due to being poached by Mars Entertainment, they are now also facing a shortage of manpower.

Fortunately for the technical staff, Mars Entertainment does not seem to be too interested in technical personnel. What they are interested in are career and system content designers, which are also the core of an RPG game development team.

If there are fewer people like this, there will be no way to develop RPG games.

Therefore, SOE was also trying to recruit suitable personnel during this period. Later, they discovered that in terms of understanding of games, high-end game players may have a deeper understanding of games than designers like them. It is said that Mars Entertainment has previously There is a precedent for recruiting people from experts who play their games to carry out subsequent design of the games.

So, they want to try it too.

then. They contacted several very famous players in EQ and wanted to inquire about their attitudes.

Of course, many gamers are happy to work for their favorite game company, for example. In the world where Jester lives, if Blizzard wants to recruit a few people from their players to work at Blizzard, I think there won’t be many people who can refuse.

Flor is such a person.

He is not a fan of SOE, he just likes RPG games, and he feels that EQ is the kind of RPG game he has been looking for for many years. Therefore, when someone from SOE contacted him and asked if he was interested in coming to SOE to be responsible for some content design work of EQ, Flor almost just thought about it and agreed in his heart. Of course, he did not agree on the spot. .

He simply replied that he would think about it carefully.

Then he went to the forum and posted that post, mocking Mars Entertainment and Jester’s previous statements that EQ had many unsatisfactory aspects.

After all, he was going to work at SOE soon, so of course he had to make his attitude clear.

Just as he was about to open another post. Let’s talk about it. When he might go back to SOE to work next, he suddenly saw a prompt appearing in his forum text message, which was a private text message.

After hesitating for a moment, Flor clicked on the text message. He originally thought it was just a message sent to him out of boredom by a fan, but when he saw it, he was surprised.

The other party left a phone number in the text message, and then explained his identity. He was from Mars Entertainment. He wanted to talk to himself about something, which left Flor in a daze. When he looked it up, he found that the phone number was really that of Mars Entertainment. He was even more confused. He really couldn’t understand why the other party was looking for him.

After much hesitation, Flor made the call.

When he revealed his identity, the operator of Mars Entertainment immediately said to wait a moment and wanted to switch the line for him. He waited for about thirty seconds before a slightly magnetic, hoarse male voice came over.

“Sorry to keep you waiting.”

The voice on the other end of the phone first apologized, and then continued with a smile: “I’m Jester Lee, nice to meet you, Mr. Flower.”

In fact, Flore is just his name in the game. His real name is Alex. When he heard the other end of the phone call him Flore, and heard the voice on the other end of the phone say he was Jace. When meeting Te Li, he was even more surprised – because he really didn’t expect that the person Mars Entertainment wanted to see him was actually this legendary person who could not be in the legend.

For a moment, he didn’t even reply.

“What? It’s unexpected? In fact, I am also an EQ player, so it should be a great honor to chat with a star EQ player… Then can you give me a moment and come to Mars Entertainment to talk to me about EQ? What about this game?”

Then, Jester’s voice sounded again.

Before Flor could answer, the voice came over again: “Oh, by the way, I’m also very interested in meeting your good friend Tigul. I wonder if I have this honor?”

Hearing Jester’s humble words, Flor was a little at a loss. In fact, his usual personality is not like this. His personality is very flamboyant. Ever since he took the initiative to post on the forum to ridicule Mars Entertainment. We can know his character. In fact, because it may be related to the fact that Jester is his favorite designer, his words are already very restrained.

If he followed his previous habits, there would be at least five fakeyous in one sentence.

“I think……”

Flor wanted to say something, but suddenly he found that he didn’t know what to say instead. After all, Jester Lee was his idol, and “Planescape: Torment” was his favorite game and also The greatest PC game and the greatest RPG in his opinion.

“You can say whatever you want. I really want to talk to you and your friends about the game EQ. As a player, I even want to ask you if you would design a game. What would you do with such a game? If possible, there are still a few talented designers in the design team of “World of Warcraft” who are full of passion for MMORPG.”

Jester’s voice came again.

But after hearing what Jester said, Flor became even more excited.

Get the qualifications of a “World of Warcraft” developer!

This is for him, an ordinary player who has an incomparable love for RPG games! I actually had the opportunity to participate in the production of a very ambitious game!

This is simply something I dare not even think about!

“I will contact Tigule right away… In fact, the two of us also have some opinions on SOE. Some of their settings are really annoying, and we are preparing to report this to them…”

On the phone, Flor suddenly talked about some of his bad views on EQ.

Jester was also listening quietly.

It’s actually quite simple.

According to domestic parlance, Flor and Tigul are the kind of loyal fans who believe in war and the warrior profession. They believe that MTs should be made by warriors. Other professions, especially Paladins, are not worthy of being warriors at all. However, during this period, SOE’s changes to the game have been to strengthen the Paladins’ T capabilities, which makes Fu Lore and Tigul, two famous warriors in the game, were extremely dissatisfied.

Therefore, they have many opinions on SOE.

Of course, SOE contacted Flor. Flor is of course happy because he feels that he can correct these mistakes by entering SOE.

Yes, strengthening the Paladin is an intolerable mistake in his eyes.

After Jester finished talking to him on the phone, Jester also smiled.

Of course he knows how later generations of players called Flor and Tigul, and their opinions on the Paladin profession have been around for a long time, starting from the DND game era, and even in EQ. They both also declared that they would never choose Paladin, of course. In EQ, he is called MONK and is his main profession.

Later, these two people were hired by Blizzard and went to Blizzard to design WOW.

Tigul was one of the main designers of the first version of WOW and was responsible for level design, while Flor was initially responsible for the design of equipment and items. Later he became the production director of WOW.

Just like Flor is just a game name, Tigule is actually a name in the game. The real name of this equally legendary player is Kaplan. WOW gave two exclusive interviews to Time Magazine, both of which were conducted by him. ongoing.

Tigul is a relatively elegant person, both in his actions and in his speech.

certainly. In addition to being a veteran player of RPG games, he is also a loyal fan of FPS games. Later, Blizzard prepared to enter FPS games, and he was the production director of “Overwatch” compiled from the scraps of the “Titan” project.

He talks very fiercely, and it is common for him to make several fakeyous in one sentence. In Tigul’s words, that guy pulls as much as 258,000 yuan every day, thinking that he is the most powerful player in the world—— In fact, when he was in EQ, Flor was indeed the best player in the world.

Of course, almost all talented designers have this problem, because they feel that they are the creators of the game, and their ideas and opinions are absolutely correct.

For example, the influence of Tigul and Flor on WOW.

Especially Flor, when he was a player in EQ, he made a fuss over SOE’s ability to improve Paladin’s T ability. He even directly attacked SOE, saying that he would boycott your game forever if you didn’t weaken Paladin. He called on others to boycott, and claimed that the ability of warriors to tank should be ten times that of Paladin, and that Paladin would only treat warriors.

In the end, SOE had no choice but to modify Paladin’s abilities.

Of course, these things have not happened yet.

Soon, Flor took the initiative to go to the forum to edit the post he had already posted, although Jester did not ask him to do so. In fact, Jester didn’t really care about the content of the post.

Because he knows what kind of game he is going to make.

He is not just imagining things blindly. He has a very great game in front of him as a reference. He has played this game for ten years and has an extremely clear understanding of this game.

It can even be said that he has seen almost all MMORPG methods in the next ten years.

Be it good or bad.

all.

Therefore, it is not difficult for him to make a game that completely explodes EQ. The financial investment is much stronger than SOE, the technical support is much stronger than SOE, and it is even much stronger than SOE. For this type of The predictions about the future of the game are enough to make Jester so confident.

It didn’t take long for someone to notice Flor’s move.

You know, Flor is a person who never thinks that he is wrong. Even if sometimes he really doesn’t think carefully and speaks imperfectly and is caught by others, he will scream in pain. He would not take the initiative to correct this loophole, let alone take the initiative to edit the content of the post himself.

Soon, people were asking what was going on in the post that Flor had edited.

As a result, Flor said for the first time that what he said before was not very comprehensive, so he edited it out. This behavior was even more shocking.

Soon, he contacted Tigul. The two of them worked in a labor union and had a good relationship. Tigul was even more surprised when he heard that Jester wanted to talk to him about how to design an MMORPG.

A legendary BOSS wants to discuss how to make a game with an ordinary gamer like him? How can this be!

If Tigur was in Jester’s position, he would definitely not do this.

But such an idea of ​​changing places made him admire Jester’s humility even more. Therefore, within a few minutes of Flor telling him about this matter, Tigul agreed without hesitation. , and immediately discussed with Flor the time to go to the Mars Entertainment headquarters.

Of course, Mars Entertainment will be responsible for all expenses incurred to go to Mars Entertainment headquarters, including transportation and accommodation expenses.

All you need to do is confirm it and tell Mars Entertainment, and Mars Entertainment’s logistics staff will take care of it all. (~^~)