After the Game of the Year awards, Overwatch grew in popularity.

As the first free-to-play VR game in China, and won the honor of Game of the Year, "Overwatch" has swept the entire VR side has been unstoppable.

After the award ceremony, many designers of Imperial Entertainment and Zen Entertainment were writing design concept drafts, hoping to make a game that surpassed Overwatch.

"Overwatch is really popular, a game like this that is applauded and acclaimed, and has been approved by the game committee, it seems that there is only "Wolf Soul" in the past three years, right? Looking at the current trend of "Overwatch", is it to surpass the dominance of "Wolf Soul" in FPS games back then? ”

"Now the domestic FPS games are basically "Wolf Soul", "Fire Assault" and "Overwatch".

"But the biggest advantage of Overwatch is that it's free! Those two have to cost more than 1,000 yuan to play, this one is directly free, and the threshold is too bad! ”

"It's okay, for those players who can afford to buy the game cabin, "Wolf Soul" is only a few hundred yuan when it is discounted, and you can buy everything you want."

"Overwatch is very popular in VR cafes."

"Indeed, you can play directly in a VR Internet café, which is also a great advantage!"

"The main reason is that "Overwatch" is still in the development period, according to Chen Mo, the number of heroes in the future of this game will reach sixty, and there will definitely be qualifying matches and competitions in the future, and it is possible to hold the world finals like "League of Legends", and the future prospects will be better!"

"Fortunately, Chen Mo hasn't started the qualifying and professional competitions yet, and we still have a chance."

"My design draft has been handed in, I don't know if I can stand out within the imperial dynasty, but I hope I can get this project."

Many designers of Imperial Entertainment and Zen Entertainment are writing design concept drafts, and they all want to use the idea of "Overwatch" as a prototype to create a game that can approach or even surpass "Overwatch".

This kind of thinking is actually very normal, in Chen Mo's previous life, when MOBA games were popular all over the world, in addition to DOTA and LOL, there were many other MOBA games; After eating chicken became popular, a large number of terminal games and mobile games have launched battle royale modes.

And many of them have been successful.

It can be seen that in the game industry, copying is no problem, the key is to copy well.

Many designers feel that "League of Legends" can beat COG because the game is updated faster, the promotion methods are better, and at the same time, it has been optimized in all aspects.

And now all aspects of "Overwatch" are still not perfect, especially the competitive mode has not been launched, as long as they do it seriously, they can still catch up.

Especially Imperial Dynasty Mutual Entertainment and Zen Mutual Entertainment, Lin Zhaoxu and Liu Yuanfeng themselves are more optimistic about the game mode of "Overwatch", and these two companies have successful FPS project experience, so they are more handy to do.

After "Overwatch" won the honor of Game of the Year, the wind of the domestic game industry was also silently deviated.

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On the Overwatch forums, players rejoiced that Overwatch had won the award, and the call for qualifying became louder and louder.

"Overwatch is so popular now, hurry up and start qualifying! What the hell was Chen Mo thinking? At that time, the first version of League of Legends had a qualifying match, right? ”

"Warcraft seemed to be in ladder mode as soon as the game came out."

"Maybe Chen Mo is thinking about letting everyone familiarize themselves with the game mechanics first, and then start a qualifying match later, so as to save novices from pitting people?"

"Well, that makes sense! But the mechanism of qualifying can be released first, I'm afraid that novices can add proficiency restrictions. ”

"Go to @ Chen Mo on Weibo, let him hurry up and open the qualifying match of "Overwatch", I want to climb directly to the strongest king!"

"That's it, I'm so good at showing off that I can't pretend to be forced, hurry up!"

On Weibo and forums, many people are @Chen Mo, asking him to hurry up and update the version of "Overwatch" and start the qualifying match.

After going through the two games "Warcraft" and "League of Legends", players have long been very clear about Chen Mo's routines.

Especially "League of Legends", for many players, the biggest pursuit of this game is qualifying, and the rank has become a sign of a player's level, prompting players to continue to work hard to climb the score.

Everyone knows that "Overwatch" is going to start the qualifying tournament sooner or later, and there is only one reason why it hasn't opened now: Chen Mo is too lazy!

So, a lot of players are urging.

Not long after, Chen Mo responded on Weibo.

"Regarding Qualifying: Due to the busy schedule before the Chinese New Year and the relative saturation of work, many optimizations and changes may be postponed accordingly. At present, there is a hidden scoring mechanism in Overwatch, and high-level players will be matched with players of the same high level, and the win rate of all players is basically floating around 50%, so even if there is no ranking mechanism, you can improve your level by constantly practicing. As for what the hidden score is, it will be considered to be displayed in the game in the future, so don't be impatient. ”

Chen Mo's words did not respond positively to the players' questions, but there were many hints.

Chen Mo didn't clearly say when the qualifying competition would be held, or even whether it would be opened, he just said two points, one is that the current work is saturated, and many contents will be delayed; The second is that "Overwatch" has a hidden point mechanism.

Players are smacking the meaning of this Weibo.

"Chen Mo said that he was busy? In other words, the qualifying match will come out, but I don't have time to do it now! ”

"Is there a hidden point mechanism? Does that mean that after the qualifying system comes out, everyone will be matched and graded directly according to the hidden points when they play the rankings? ”

"Huh? It's a possibility! Chen Mo thought about it quite thoughtfully, so in this way, it doesn't matter if it opens a few days late, now let's play hard first, hit the hidden score higher, and then directly grade it to diamonds or even higher, isn't it beautiful? ”

"Makes sense, then wait!"

This Weibo dispelled the doubts of the vast majority of players, and everyone continued to play happily.

……

In fact, Chen Mo's Weibo is completely bluffing, just to appease those players who strongly demand to start a qualifying match. But in fact, Chen Mo didn't make any promises at all, and he didn't even mention whether he would have a qualifying match.

In fact, if there are no other considerations, Chen Mo can now tell players that the qualifying match will not be opened, because it will damage the game life of Overwatch.

But now Chen Mo can't say it yet, because Imperial Entertainment and Zen Entertainment are holding back their efforts to copy "Overwatch", if Chen Mo now announces the fact that "Overwatch can't do qualifying", it will definitely arouse their vigilance, and then they will have doubts about the entire game mode.

Once they decided to slow down and wait and see, after a long time, the various shortcomings of Overwatch slowly became apparent, and they came back to their senses.

In that case, wouldn't Chen Mo's flickering be in vain?