Almighty Game Designer Chapter 292: The importance of fish pond depth
The so-called locked perspective means that the hero is always in the center of the screen, and the screen perspective moves with the hero.
Obviously, for games that need to keep an eye on the overall battle, such as "Warcraft" and "League of Legends", this is simply self-poke.
There are related teaching content in the beginner's tutorial. Just click the [Y] button, you can freely switch between free view and locked view.
The default perspective after the novice is guided is the free perspective.
In other words, Wen Lingwei and Chang Xiuya both voluntarily chose to lock the perspective to play the game.
Jia Peng is a little puzzled: "Don't you feel uncomfortable after locking your perspective?"
"Huh? Why?" Chang Xiuya asked, "Isn't this very comfortable? You will never find where your hero is. Just like "Diablo", it feels very convenient."
Wen Lingwei also said: "Yes, it's much more reasonable than "Warcraft"."
Jia Peng: "..."
He watched these two men's operations for a while, and it was a bit horrible.
Chang Xiuya played very conservatively. Ga Lun was obviously a tank-shaped hero, but she was played as a live support. When he had half his health, he wanted to turn around and run away. She even bought three defensive outfits. , But completely afraid to enter the attack range of the defense tower.
So, the progress of these two people was very slow, and they didn't even push down the Highland Tower.
Jia Peng can only explain to them patiently.
"Galen can move after using the E skill to make a circle. Always make sure that his E skill can touch the enemy hero."
"The damage of the defensive tower can be properly handled twice, and will not be killed in a second, as long as you exit in time."
"Galen's ultimate is a beheading effect, don't throw it around as soon as you meet."
"Why can't you buy two pairs of shoes? Because the effects of two pairs of shoes will not overlap. Oh, I know your hero has two feet, but the shoe is a pair of equipment instead of one. Look at the icon ."
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The most basic and basic knowledge in "League of Legends" is as simple as eating and drinking for players like Jia Peng. You don't need to teach at all, you can guess it by yourself.
But for Chang Xiuya and Wen Lingwei, they knew nothing about it, and even made a lot of jokes.
In fact, many players will make the same mistake as Jia Peng, that is, overestimating the game IQ of the handicapped party and sister players.
Everyone knows that if a game wants to become popular, it must be "easy to use, difficult to master".
There are many games that are difficult to master. Anyway, it is difficult for players to master what they don’t understand, or what they can’t understand.
However, different players have different standards for what is "easy to use".
For players like Jia Peng, "Warcraft" is not easy to use, "COG" is relatively easy to use, and "League of Legends" is very easy to use.
For players like Chang Xiuya, "Warcraft" and "COG" are completely inaccessible, "League of Legends" can barely be used, and "Happy Match" is better.
If you limit your horizons to the RTS circle, or confined to the circle of male players and normal operation players, the novice guide of "League of Legends" is too mentally retarded, it is like taking off your pants and farting.
For such a simple concept, click to move, move A, and replenish soldiers. Just use a few lines of text to remind you.
But what if we expand this scope to include handicapped players, elementary school players, and female players?
Bronze and silver players are properly considered "pits" and fish pond players. Not to mention heroes like Jie, Yasuo, and Wayne, most of them even play against heroes like Wine Barrel and Card Master.
Take the card master as an example, let alone those high-end skills, just talk about the basic operations, cutting cards, playing Aces, and always paying attention to the battlefield situation. This is very difficult for most bronze and silver players to do. .
And how many of the bronze and silver players account for the number of players?
According to the data of Chen Mo's previous life, this figure is 37% stifling.
Yes, half of the players in this game are so-called "pits".
If you add players in the golden segment, the figure is about 59%.
The diamond and above segment players only account for 5% of the entire player group.
(14% of platinum segment players, and nearly 20% of players have minor accounts.)
The data of different seasons are different, but the overall difference is not too much.
This data does not mean that there is a problem with the game "League of Legends", but reflects an objective fact: the domestic player groups are basically distributed in this proportion.
Players like Jia Peng may not understand the meaning of this data at all, and they will be very shocked: "WHAT??? You told me that half of the players are hand disabled? And there are many people who play completely. Why not come to such a simple game?"
But this is the fact. For many players, "League of Legends" can be regarded as a difficult game to play, let alone DOTA and "Warcraft" which are more difficult than it?
So, "League of Legends" will do such a meticulous novice guide, and even make people feel a little verbose.
This kind of overly meticulous novice guidance will not dissuade those masters from leaving, but it will allow the handicapped party and sister players to stay.
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Why is "easy to use" so important?
Because all confrontational games, including "League of Legends", their core is "selling gameplay" rather than "selling content."
Like those stand-alone game masterpieces, they are selling content, experiencing a brand-new plot and world, and you can put them aside after you get it through.
However, the core of games such as "League of Legends" and "Overwatch" is "selling gameplay". They are a replayable game. Every match is a brand new opponent and brand new Fighting, playing for several years is not tired of playing.
For this kind of game, the most critical factor to ensure its vitality is the depth of the fish pond.
In other words, there are enough rookies.
Because all the fun of this kind of game comes from victory. For most players, it is cool to play a certain hero and show five in one show, but the real coolness comes from the crystal burst of the opponent. A moment.
Whether it’s Carry or lying down, it’s fun to win anyway.
If you lose, whether it is a pitfall, a lying loss, or a desperate loss afterwards, you will be very upset.
If you are all rookies on the opposite side, you will have a good time playing. But if there are no rookies on the other side, all masters, how about you being abused every time?
A small number of players will work hard.
But most players will choose to abandon this game.
After all, it's just a game. It's used for entertainment. Work is tired enough, but the game is still tired?
Moreover, for most players, hard work can improve your level, but what is more important is your game talent, reaction and hand speed.
A player who is not born to play this kind of game is born to be a pit, just like some people are born poor, you have to accuse him of not working hard enough to be poor, why not eat meat.
If the depth of the fish pond is not enough~IndoMTL.com~, a newcomer encounters various opponents who are obviously higher than him before playing, and is always abused, then it is impossible for him to have fun in this game.
Speaking of which, how does the depth of the fish pond come from?
It still depends on a large group of players.
How did the huge player base come?
Relying on "easy to use", so girls like Chang Xiuya can also play.
So, if "League of Legends" wants to expand the player base, it must simplify the operation in an all-round way.
Only the fully simplified "League of Legends" can attract such a large user base.
If the previous "League of Legends" did not have this feature, even if it was promoted by Penguin, it would be useless.
Don’t you see that Penguin has picked up so many game agents, most of the games have died of internal competition, how many games can really enjoy the penguin channel resources?