On January 23, 2008, a racing game developed by Tencent's Tencent Heavenly Game Studio was born, because the game's community system and game atmosphere coincided with the prevailing non-mainstream culture at that time, thus making this work reach its peak just after its birth. Yes, this time the author wants to talk to you about the past and present life of this popular racing game in China - "QQ Flying Car".
The origin of "QQ Speeding Car" can be traced back to 1992 in the last century, when Nintendo's home console released the first generation of Super Mario Kart, and then successively logged on to Nintendo consoles of different eras. In 2001, South Korean company Nexon copied Bomb Superman to make a game called Bubble Hall. Three years later, Nian used the "Bubble Hall" IP that had already exploded at that time to produce the once popular "Running Kart", and "Running Kart" was born by copying "Super Mario Kart".
In 2000, China was the era when Internet cafes and computers began to become popular, and at this time, Chinese agencies had a distinct competitive relationship, century Tiancheng agent "Running Go-Kart", while the popular Tencent copied "Running Go-Kart" and launched "QQ Flying Car". At that time, Tencent's applications and games almost all started with QQ, such as "QQ Music", "QQ Hall" and the like. The character design of the characters in "QQ Flying Car" can also be traced back to 2002.
At that time, QQ this communication software, it will be based on the user's gender, in the dialog box next to add a portrait, if you do not spend money is very simple, spend money is more beautiful, this thing is called QQ show. Before this, Tencent was still struggling with whether to engage in fee chat on QQ, and if there was no first bucket of gold earned by QQ show, there would be no Tencent now. And QQ show as a life-saving straw to solve the shortage of funds, Tencent also did not forget "gratitude", put the image of QQ show in the game, so in 2008 "QQ Flying Car" was born.
Although the early "QQ Flying Car" is based on racing as the core, this "imitation" is compared with "Running Kart" and "Super Mario Kart", and the overall quality is really not flattering. It must be emphasized that many players play in order to light up the QQ icon, and another point is also very "admirable", at that time Tencent had such an application as "QQ Music", and the music copyright in "QQ Speed" was all authorized from "QQ Music", which was really "high and hard".
The most precious song was "baby" sung by the rising singer "Justin Bieber", which was the highest on-demand rate in the world at that time, and lasted for 2 years, until 2012, this record was broken by Uncle Bird's "Gangnam Style". The popularity of "baby" brought a lot of traffic to this unremarkable game, and more than that, because the aesthetic fit with the teenagers at that time, the operation was proper, the configuration requirements were low, etc., this game also became one of the three giants of Tencent at that time, and "Crossfire", "Dungeons and Courage" sat on an equal footing,
Early games that can fire in China have these characteristics: first of all, the competitive elements must be there, and the second is the young age of the painting style, because at that time, many bloody and violent pictures in China could not pass the review, if these elements are removed, then the realistic style of the game will lose its soul, the competitiveness will be sharply reduced, in this environment, the young cartoon style of the game has become the standard configuration of online games. QQ Flying Car fully meets these requirements, so it is on fire.
In the subsequent update, Tencent did not strengthen the quality of the game, but added other game elements, such as adding a dance play, and a leisure area, pets, couples and other systems. At that time, the direction of commercialization was roughly the same as that of mobile games now, the original C car was a rare car, in order to attract players to play all the time, Tencent did activities to send C cars, and when C cars were popularized, they began to push B cars, and then began to send A cars. In order to attract players, Tencent has become a casual activity to get 300-point rolls.
If "Super Mario Kart" is more family-friendly and fun, then the core of "Running Kart" is competition, and "QQ Speeding Car" can only be regarded as a defective product. If it is biased towards entertainment and fun, it will not be commercialized, and if it has a competitive component, the core is not too strong. Until the emergence of a model called Car God Battle, the "operation" of this game broke through the upper limit, and this breakthrough operation is the classic bug "card drift" of "QQ Flying Car". Car God Battle is to choose their own designated track, and then compete with all the players in the entire server to run the fastest record, where their own running methods and skills will be recorded, unreservedly watched by everyone, no different from the current mobile game.
If you get a good ranking before the end of the month of the model of car god, then for the team, the benefits are quite generous. At that time, for the benefit of the team, basically the first few of each map were using card drift, or it was a plug-in, as long as the forward button was released and then pressed left and right and drift keys at the same time, it would produce a drift that was faster than its own speed, which spread rapidly in the player community, but unfortunately the official fixed it soon after.
The road was one foot high, and after that, there was a second generation of card drift: lock tire card drift, but then it was banned. At the end of 2017, the "QQ Flying Car Mobile Game" developed by Tencent came out, the protagonist of the game is still a small orange, the map is still that smell, and the commercialization is more serious, and the operation on the end game is repeated on the mobile game. But one thing has changed, and that is that we are playing plus.
Nowadays we want not "commodities", but real "games".