Chapter 74 It’s so cool! Mr. Chu is so powerful that I can feel so happy at the age of my life!

Whether it is Magic, Yu Yu, or the Pokémon series' trading card gameplay.

They all have one characteristic.

A long history!

Magic's development even dates back to the late 1990s.

Over the years, according to the latest official rough statistics, the total number of tens of thousands of cards has even reached.

Even if players use cards frequently, they have reached 2,000+

If you want to build a suitable card system, you need to choose from these 2,000+ commonly used cards, as well as more than 8,000 unpopular cards, and then build them yourself.

Of course, you need to understand the effects of so many cards.

The more complex and huge the total number of cards, the less friendly it is to newcomers.

Yu Yu and Pokémon have more or less this tendency.

There have been thousands of species of Pokémon, not to mention that the elves have their own evolutionary forms, each of which can produce a corresponding effect card.

The new players came in and saw:???

What's this!

I can't understand it!

Are the cost of playing games so high these days?

Forget it and don't play anymore.

A summary of one sentence: the total number of cards exchanged in the collection is too large to attract new players.

This is also the biggest common problem of trading cards.

In addition, they have another disadvantage.

Burn money!

Extra cost money!

The money burns, your relatives and friends mistakenly think that you are sucking alone.

The mainstream gameplay of Magic and Yu Yu-Gi are usually offline. Pokémon's exchange card gameplay, in the early millennium, the development direction was mainly concentrated offline, selling card bags, random flash cards, cosmic cards, etc.

No matter which of these three exchange card giants, their classic gameplay tends to be offline board games.

When the number of cards is small in the early stage, this disadvantage is not obvious.

You can wait until the total number of cards in the later stage is up.

How to collect the cards you want becomes a big problem.

As for offline board games, if you want cards, you must buy them right?

Especially when participating in some official official competitions, the cards you take out must be genuine officially printed, or the ‘individual cards’ made by the official designated painter. Even the cards must be taken off during the competition.

The official number of cards printed in each version is only within a period of time, and there will be no more after time.

There are also some scammers.

The incident of "the court auction of sky-high blue-eyed white dragon cards" that was a hot topic a while ago was a card speculator who interfered in it.

Some cards are out of print, and the number of circulating on the market is sparse and very expensive.

At this time, if you want to collect a set of specific decks to participate in the competition, the difficulty will undoubtedly deepen sharply and you will have to burn a lot of money.

So the title of "card guy" was derived.

At the beginning, it refers to the player giant who spends a lot of out-of-print decks.

As the title spreads, it gradually evolves into the self-proclaimed card players when facing other players.

But it is not difficult to see from this point that the exchange card has a threshold requirement for players.

It almost clearly stated on his face: I don’t have money to play with you.

This was the case in the prosperous era of the global gaming industry in the past.

What's more, this barren Blue Star world, which can only be considered a niche, is that how many people will buy and play cards, even Chu Jun is unsure about it.

In short, the risk is very high.

In contrast, the advantages of online exchange cards such as Hearthstone were instantly reflected.

First of all, there is no card wear problem, and there is no card out of print.

If it is out of print, no one can use it.

This eliminates card speculation and controls the price of cards to a situation where players can buy it.

Secondly, Hearthstone itself has excellent gameplay.

Even if you take it off as the title of "Warcraft", the big IP derivative.

In other words, players do not need to understand the background of Warcraft. As long as they understand the rules of Hearthstone, they can still get started.

Finally, Hearthstone has a pretty excellent mechanism.

Elimination system year by year.

A series of new decks are regularly released every year, and the old decks released the year before are eliminated.

You can only use cards made in the past two years to participate in the standard qualifying competition.

In just the last two years, the commonly used cards have been limited to a certain range.

In this way, new players will be eliminated from seeing thousands of cards when they enter the pit, and thus they will have the idea of ​​"Do you play with me, say goodbye!"

The numerous optimizations have made Hearthstone the largest online exchange card game in its previous life.

"However, in terms of pricing, we cannot completely adopt the price of the previous life." Chu Jun thought to himself.

The game industries in the two worlds are of different sizes, and the price of games that players can accept is also different.

According to Chu Jun’s observations over the past few months.

Players in this world's willingness to spend money is only about 10% of that in their previous lives.

Previous puzzle games were able to sell at high prices of 50 million, purely because of their low price and the promotion of billboards throughout the city.

But in this world, if a game company dares to launch a 648 recharge activity, it will be a player who presses his head and squirts. It is the kind of game planner who can't lift the bloodline no matter how many resurrection armors he wears.

In previous lives, Steam would charge different fees for the same game based on the per capita consumption level of each country.

Simply put, a game in the United States may sell for $100, which is equivalent to a exchange rate of about 600 or 700 yuan.

But in the Steam national area, this game does not require six or seven hundred at all, only two or three hundred to get it.

The extremely low-priced Argentina region has been named a game holy place by players from all over the world.

The West cannot be without Jerusalem, just like the 3D area cannot be...ah, just like steam cannot be without Argentina.

This was the case in the previous life, and there is no need to say more about this life.

"Director Ling, you can draw up a plan for the pricing of Hearthstone, make a report based on the average market consumption price, and then hand it over to me." Chu Jun asked Ling Tianhang.

Ling Tianhang said confidently: "Mr. Chu, according to the current preliminary framework of this game, I think there is no problem with the price of this game at 199! Its quality and gameplay innovation are worth this price!"

"Is 199? Will it be too expensive?" Chu Jun rubbed his chin and thought deeply.

Unexpectedly, Ling Tianhang, the old guy, was even darker than himself.

How dare you sell a pack of cards for 199?

"Is 199 still expensive? It's no longer expensive. Your creativity is very novel! If I'm a player, I'll buy 299!" Ling Tianhang said with a smile.

I wondered when Mr. Chu became so unconfident?

Logically speaking, he is the main creator of this game, and he should know more than anyone else what this game represents.

A new concept of exchange!

Plus the ultimate gameplay experience!

199 can definitely sell!

"No, no, I mean." Chu Jun suddenly realized that the conversation between the two people might not be on the same channel, so he looked straight into Ling Tianhang's eyes: "I mean, a pack of cards is about five, how much should it be sold. Instead of this game."

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"Secretary Xu, some of the sound effects of the basic card have been completed, but I feel that it is necessary to introduce dubbing now." An employee who is temporarily in charge of the sound effects department shouted Xu Nianqing who was passing by in a hurry.

He also said: "According to Mr. Chu's design philosophy, his idea is that each card should have exclusive lines, appearance lines, offensive lines, and death sound effects. So I think that if I can make some card dubbing in advance, I can also use it for reference when I make the attack sound effects."

"Okay, I understand. I will report to Mr. Chu." Xu Nianqing took the opinion letter handed over by the employee and responded with a chuckle.

I just turned around and was about to go to the office.

Suddenly, a scream of surprise was heard, penetrated the door panel of the general manager and spread to the entire company.

"One pack of cards????"
To be continued...