In addition, there are environmental concerns.

Souls-based games weren't very successful at the beginning, and they went through a process of selling from low to high.

From the earliest "Demon's Souls", to "Dark Souls", "Bloodborne Curse" to "Dark Souls 3", and finally to "Wolves", overall, the difficulty is gradually decreasing.

While retaining the essence of the souls-based game, the difficulty is gradually decreasing, but the sales are steadily increasing.

This shows that increasing the difficulty can indeed reduce sales.

Moreover, the success of the Souls game is regional.

"Demon's Souls" is a game that was completely contrary to what the publisher requested, and Miyazaki Thief was careful during the development and did not make it exactly according to the above requirements, but made a game of his own style.

By the time the higher-ups discovered this problem, the Demon Souls had been largely completed, and the people above were furious, but there was nothing they could do but to die and become a live horse doctor.

At first, even the publisher was not optimistic, but if it weren't for the repeated insistence of the project leader, Ken Kajii, maybe the game would not have been able to meet players.

On the eve of the release, the famous video game magazine FAMI-pass gave it a low score of 29 out of 40.

The game was quite popular in China, and Miyazaki went to great lengths to contact European and American publishers, but it turned out to be an unexpected hit!

The key factor in this is that the Souls series of games happens to meet the tastes of European and American hardcore single-player players.

And the Souls series of games really became popular in China, basically until about 15 years ago.

At present, the domestic game environment is generally consistent with Pei Qian's memory, and difficult games are relatively niche games and are not popular.

In that case, wouldn't it be okay to make a difficult souls-based game and only release it in China?

Moreover, in order to prevent this game from being discovered by European and American players, it was deliberately made with a Chinese background to add a cultural barrier, so that European and American players could not understand if they wanted to play it!

Pei Qian couldn't help but feel very proud, sure enough, people's creativity is infinite.

If it weren't for the loss, he didn't know he could come up with such a good idea!

……

Pei Qian told everyone very concisely about the positioning of this game, which was summarized as a total of five requirements.

First, this is a game with a Chinese background, which should be filled with a lot of puzzle-solving elements, and a lot of puzzles and text content should be written in ancient Chinese.

This is mainly to prevent this game from being discovered by European and American players and becoming popular.

When the time comes, solving the puzzle requires excellent ancient literary skills, which will definitely make those foreigners unable to play for a minute!

And this game is mainly sold in China, even if it is not available in other languages, it will not be judged as a violation by the system.

Second, it's a super difficult game.

Pei Qian asked Bao Xu and Lu Mingliang to rack their brains and do everything possible to make the player fail.

Convincing as many players as possible is their first task.

Thirdly, it's an action game with big scenes.

There must be a large number of models, actions, scenes, and a budget for all art resources in the game!

Do whatever it takes to spend more!

Of course, this so-called extra money is considered based on the previous investment in Tengda games, in fact, Pei Qian's psychological limit is only 20 million.

If there is more, he still wants to spend it, but the system funds may not be enough.

If it is compared with the super large foreign R&D funds of tens of millions or hundreds of millions, it cannot be compared. However, compared with the investment of these domestic manufacturers, it can still be called a big production.

Fourth, the game will have the longest refund window.

According to the requirements of the official platform, the games on the platform can be refunded within 3 hours of the actual game time, which can only be long, not short.

In fact, the vast majority of game providers hope that this time can be shortened, and it is good to cancel, how can it be actively extended.

But Pei Qian decided that this game will use the longest refund time limit on the official platform, 5 hours!

For many mini-games, the total game duration is only three or four hours, and if you get a 5-hour refund, it's crazy, and it's basically no different from free.

But in Pei Qian's opinion, 3 hours is actually not too long, some people unknowingly died for 3 hours at the gate of Guda when they played Soul 3, and the refund period passed.

And Pei Qian decided that his game can be refunded within 5 hours, and there will be a line of prompts in the upper right corner of the game when there is a difference of 10 minutes to 5 hours.

Absolutely every player who wants a refund will not miss the time.

Fifth, about the name of the game.

In order to avoid the impact of the game name on players and prevent some innocent people from entering by mistake, Pei Qian decided to make the game name as straightforward as possible.

The game is called "Turning Back to the Shore", which contains Pei Qian's sincere advice to players.

After listening to Pei Qian's five-point request, even Bao Xu was stunned.

In Pei Qian's memory, "Demon's Souls" was a game in 09, but there was no "Demon's Souls" in this world, so even a well-informed player like Bao Xu had never heard of such a heart-wrenching game.

Of course, there are some hardcore games that are known for their high difficulty, but it is really rare to find a game like Pei Qian, who directly requires "doing everything possible to make the player fail......

Everything else is easy to understand, but this is the difficulty, Lu Mingliang and Bao Xu both feel a little blind.

"Mr. Pei, can you talk about this difficulty in detail? For example, the boss of the last level, how many percent of the players should be stuck? Bao Xu asked.

Pei Qian subconsciously wanted to say, 99.9999% of the players are carded!

However, in his field of vision, a line of words appeared in an instant.

【Warning! A game in which the vast majority of people have no possibility of clearing the game is a violation, and the highest difficulty of the game is subject to the host's ability to get through. 】

Pei Qian's smile froze on his face.

The system I tony horse almost blurted out.

What if I can get through? I'm so handicapped!

I was abused when I played "Sea Fortress", and you actually asked me to open this kind of game, and you just told me that I couldn't do it, and it was over!

However, Pei Qian did not panic, after all, he was well-informed, and this little problem would not bother him.

What if I can get through?

That's easy, I'll just sneak something in the game......

I set up that there is a particularly strong weapon in the game, and this weapon can only be obtained by triggering a very complex hidden plot and advancing along a completely unreasonable game route.

After that, with this powerful weapon, my understanding of the souls-based game, and the level map that I knew in advance, it shouldn't be a problem for me to get through it in two or three weeks.

In order to lose money, I suffered this!

After this idea appeared, the system did not warn again, indicating that it was feasible.

Pei Qian smiled slightly, and said to Bao Xu: "We will not card any players in the design, theoretically speaking, the vast majority of people can clear the level, but it takes some skills." ”

The implication is that I am not to blame if they give up on their own.

"You just do it with the highest difficulty imaginable, and I'll fix it myself in the end."

When the time comes, when this weapon is added, Pei Qian will set the game to the extreme difficulty that he can use this weapon to clear the level, so that he will not be warned by the system.

At that time, players will not be able to get this weapon, but it will be in hell mode, plus 5 hours of unconditional refund, which will definitely make most people retreat!

Lu Mingliang asked: "Mr. Pei, this game is called "Turning Back to the Shore", and it is a traditional Chinese background...... What does the specific worldview look like? ”

Pei Qian smiled and said, "This kind of trivial matter, you can just decide." ”

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