Chapter 645: The Follow-up Popularity of "Monster Hunter" (I made a mistake in the last chapter, but the content is fine)
The popularity of "Monster Hunter" continues to rise, and unlike the previous "Witcher: Wild Hunt" developed by Nebula Games, the popularity of "The Witcher: Wild Hunt" exploded mainly from the first month when it was launched.
And after the beginning of the month, its popularity basically continued to decline, that is, in the follow-up Lin Jiayi and his team, "Heart of Stone", "Blood and Wine", and the release of the DLC about how Geralt met Triss "King Assassin", which set off a wave of enthusiasm again.
Players are eager to discuss Geralt's story in the game, as well as the battle between the two major factions of Yennefer and Triss.
Originally, before the release of the 'King Assassin' DLC story, although Triss and Yennefer were in the game, most of the players actually belonged to the Yennefer party.
On the one hand, from the timeline, it is true that Yennefer arrived first, and then in the order of appearances in the game, Yennefer far surpassed Triss from the beginning.
Finally, there is the shaping of the character, compared to Trissy, who is a bird, the queen's Fan-like Yennefa obviously makes it easier for players to be conquered.
However, in the DLC plot of "Assassin of Kings", players have a more complete understanding of the game "The Witcher: Wild Hunt" and the story about Tris.
The shadow of the hunt looms over the world; The northern nations were completely torn apart, peace ceased to exist, and the southern Nilfgaard was eyeing the enemy; The Warlock Secret Society, the Squirrel Party, although it has been hit hard, still survives; Meanwhile, Geralt recovers his lost memories and embarks on a journey.
If players who originally only played "The Witcher: Wild Hunt", it was always Yennefer who had the advantage.
After the 'King's Assassin', more players have come to know Triss, in fact, she will only become a bird in front of Geralt, and she is just like Yennefer in normal times, full of charm and personality.
The story of this DLC is to make Triss's votes also skyrocket, and she has a 55 open with Yennefer's supporters.
As for the other handful of ghost fathers who support Heary and Geralt, they are automatically expelled from voting.
Unlike "The Witcher: Wild Hunt", which is a plot-oriented game that has rapidly declined in popularity after the player has played the plot, "Monster Hunter", as a fighting game, although it has a blue star plot that seems to be a tool man, but in fact it is not the main one, and even many hunters may not be able to tell what the plot of the game is in the end.
At the same time, unlike most games, Monster Hunter only starts the most interesting journey after clearing the story.
With a more challenging combat system, more unique equipment, and loadouts combined with beads, after understanding the combat system of "Monster Hunter", it can be said that you really began to become a qualified blue star.
At the same time, compared to games like "The Witcher: Wild Hunt", it is necessary to mobilize the enthusiasm of players again, and a new story version update must be carried out.
For Monster Hunter, new monsters, new gear, and even a cool enough event are a heat stirring for players.
And compared to games like "The Witcher: Wild Hunt", "Monster Hunter" even if it is a single-player game, but because of the setting of online fighting, it also has some social attributes.
Compared with pure single-player games, games with social attributes can be said to have a much higher lifespan.
For the next period of time, as long as the DLC is slowly advanced and there are new ancient dragon content updates, it will be enough.
However, the only thing that surprised Yang Chen was that the player's ability to progress was much faster than he thought.
Although there are still many players who are still suffering madly in front of the Horned Dragon, the Exterminating Dragon, and the Steel Dragon, these ancient dragons.
But more hunters seem to have really become blue stars.
After mastering the attacks of each boss, the related equipment has also been crafted, and players are not only pursuing to defeat dragons.
How to destroy the parts of the boss as quickly as possible, get better materials, and reduce the time to kill the boss has become the main theme.
Especially in matchmaking mode.
Some new players fired their first support flares after getting stuck in places like the Brute Jaw Dragon and the Ceratosaurus.
Then the match was successful, different from the previous Taidao Three Heroes, this time it was three macho men who fell from the sky.
When the new hunter players were still investigating the BOSS traces step by step and collecting materials on the way, the big guys had already knocked out the boss who had stuck him before.
Until they returned to the Star Base, the new players didn't even see the faces of the Jaws and Horns.
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It is different from Yang Chen and Nebula Games after the success of "Monster Hunter", which focuses more resources and attention on the "Iron Man" project under development, as well as some other content.
Some game manufacturers at home and abroad, such as NetDragon and UEgame, are focusing on "Monster Hunter".
Unlike ordinary single-player games, when sales began to decline after the first month of popularity, the sales of "Monster Hunter" appeared to be very strong.
It's no surprise that Monster Hunter has been at the top of the game's sales statistics since the game's release day.
After all, this is a product of Nebula Games.
But after the sales concentration period passed, "Monster Hunter" was unexpectedly strong.
Although there are some game manufacturers in the middle of the release of new works, in the daily sales list of "Monster Hunter" successfully pulled down, but on the weekly sales list, "Monster Hunter" still firmly occupies the first place, you must know that before "Monster Hunter" "The Witcher: Wild Hunt" Although it is also on the weekly sales list, it is only hovering in the mid-range, and it was not until the subsequent expansion release that it regained the list.
In this case, the main reason is that "Monster Hunter" is a game with online attributes, as well as mod attributes, and liver brush elements.
Unlike stand-alone games such as "The Witcher: Wild Hunt", where the follow-up sales rely more on discounts and new content after the peak sales period ends, the co-op elements of "Monster Hunter" are already an attraction in themselves.
For example, when playing "The Witcher: Wild Hunt", you feel that it is fun, and you recommend it to a friend, then even if he wants to buy and want to play, most of them will wait until the discount period to come back, after all, Nebula games are often discounted, because of the lack of temptation, you can only play alone, for players who do not have a starter, in fact, there is not much difference between playing early and playing late.
Monster Hunter is different, with the attribute of online co-op, which has an additional social element than the game itself, which is a little more tempting than ordinary single-player games.