In the long history of Chinese online games, the sophisticated games developed in South Korea have left a strong mark and become the youth memories of many post-80s and post-90s. "Legend", "Red Moon", "Legend of Wonderland", "Adventure Island", etc., have all been popular in Chinese mainland, but one of them has an online game that makes Chinese players excited, but its fate is extremely bumpy, and it has fallen to the point where it is still fried cold rice - "The Ancient Century" Have you ever played?
Around 2010, Tencent announced a heavyweight MMORPG "The Ancient Century", just the picture has made Chinese players amazing, at the beginning of the promotion said to become a classic beyond the world of Warcraft, but this online game has gone through several ups and downs, under the joint research and development of Tencent and Korean manufacturers, this drag is 5 years, until 2015, the national uniform was officially tested, at this time the end of the game has gone downhill, replaced by the mobile game tide, "The Elder Century" due to the gameplay is too complex by Tencent strategically abandoned, Since then, he has become a passerby.
In 2020, when there are only two servers left, Tencent launched the classic service version of "The Ancient Century", although it returned a wave of blood, but soon ghosted, after two years, Tencent's packaged "Ancient Century 2" fried cold rice again, claiming that it will become a meta-universe game, players are shouting: I read less books, don't lie to me!
Recently, XLGAMES, the developer of "The Ancient Age", said that another new work "The Elder Age 2" that the company is developing plans to create a meta-universe game. For this operation, players immediately quarreled into two factions, supporters believe that "The Ancient Age" itself is a good game, mainly the national service operation is too pit, if you change the operator, "The Elder Century 2" may be able to make a big difference.
Opponents feel that now the meta-universe is just a concept, XLGAMES is estimated to be just through this heat hype, or old bottles of new wine, there will be no new ideas, not to mention, meta-universe games are Chinese game manufacturers play the rest, Korean games may not be able to play any flowers.
At the time of the launch of the meta-universe concept, Chinese game manufacturers with a keen sense of business began to rub the heat, for example, the "Fantasy Journey to the West" mobile game invited well-known anchors to join the game as a virtual identity to carry out activities such as grabbing joy sugar, dragon and lion dances; NetEase's "Celestial Oracle" mobile game held the world's first "meta-universe" investor conference, not only in the virtual world, but also investors also attended the meeting with their own avatars, which was more energetic than "Ready Player One".
And NetEase's other game, wuxia MMO "Against the Cold Water", is even more extreme. As early as 2020, the second international distributed artificial intelligence academic conference DAI was held against the water cold, in order to respond to the call and avoid the epidemic, the entire conference was held in the game scene, the participants entered the conference with virtual roles, and the gender, image, and clothing of the characters could be customized, which was really at the forefront of the times.
With the update of the first expansion film "Destroying the World" in 2022, the martial arts version of the open world gameplay is all the rage, and careful players will also find that in this gameplay, the reverse water cold is also integrated into the concept of "metaverse".
It is reported that the open world gameplay against the cold water is very rich, whether it is the most basic exploration of the rivers and lakes, or full of various characteristics of the game mode and the big world gameplay, players can break the boundary between virtual and reality in the open world in the future, and the equipment and mounts explored may be able to connect with reality.
The reverse water cold production team also said that it will gradually realize such as virtual performances, virtual reality, player co-creation, virtual economic ecology or open world in its own open world... The basic gameplay of these metaverses allows players to find the thrill of "Ready Player One" as the protagonist in the open world of mountains and seas.
In short, Chinese game manufacturers have made various attempts in the metaverse, and the rest can be handed over to Korean friends to see if "Ancient Century 2" can walk out of a vast world in the metaverse of the game field, let's look forward to it first!