How long does it take to "port" a AAA masterpiece to a mobile phone platform?
For copycat manufacturers, it may only take a few days.
Today, the national AppStore has a mobile game called "Eldon Ring", which can be seen by clear-eyed people - this is a kryptonite mobile game that wants to borrow the popularity of "Eldon Ring".
It is a great "honor" that the introduction part of this cottage mobile game directly copied the general evaluation of the "Eldon's Law Ring" review of The Nomad Starry Sky
Although the AAA masterpiece "being transformed by Krypton gold mobile game" is not a new thing, the emergence of "Eldon Ring" seems to confirm to some extent a recent magical event - "Eldon's Ring of Law" is really becoming a "krypton gold game".
Krypton gold in The Eldon Ring of Law can really get stronger
"Luen special price big release, the first preferential gift gift".
"Safe and reliable does not ban machines, does not affect online games."
"Weapons, equipment, resources, attributes, online seconds without queuing".
"Real hands, not modification; spot trading, online guidance".
Nowadays, casually open an e-commerce platform to search for "Eldon Legal Ring", in addition to selling the game itself, this "Lune sale" type of selling game resources has a considerable number of stores, and various advertising slogans can be seen everywhere. People who don't know the situation also think that Eldon's Circle of Law is a massively multiplayer online game.
The Loon Sale
Like FromSoftware's last game, "Only Wolves," Eldon's Ring of Law is also out of the loop. A variety of in-game or "highlight" or "retarded" clips looped on the short video platform; many silent and long-term game groups began to discuss their experiences and adventures in the game at the intensity of "99+"; friends who usually knew nothing about the game suddenly sent a video of "Eldon's Circle of Law" and asked: "Where is this game?" ”。。。
Judging from the super popular online number of "Eldon's Legal Ring" and the posture of dominating the sales list of major platforms and regions, this wave is the classic "players are numb to death, but Miyazaki Hidetaka has won (physical)".
Tough online data for Eldon's Ring of Law
We don't know if FromSoftware will add a dish to its own programmers at noon, but the fire of "Eldon's Ring of Law" also made the "Lune traitors" who sold game resources at the beginning of the article also eat a mouthful of oil.
From the performance point of view, "Eldon's Legal Ring" has just been released for a little more than a week, and a considerable number of these stores have thousands of transactions, and 5,600 "received" are also many. Although the e-commerce platform brush list is prevalent, but a careful look at the various fancy sunshine in the product evaluation, drying equipment, "thank the boss for letting me take off" buyer messages, have to admit that these profiteers seem to have indeed earned.
"Finally put the big tree guard dry, thank you boss"
This really makes a lot of hardcore players who are crawling in the ring and dying and living a little crying. First of all, the sale of stand-alone game resources can be described as a no-cost, the PC version of its own next modifier can be done, pay is not the "IQ tax"; second, the "soul" game has always been based on "honing technology, so that players become stronger", up to give millions of Loon blood abuse bad omens, I am afraid it is difficult to experience the essence of the game.
Who is giving Krypton gold to Eldon's Ring of Law?
From another point of view, it is precisely because this wave of "Eldon's Ring of Law" has reached the outside of the circle, attracting many marginal players who usually rarely play games and lack basic software common sense, and the high difficulty of requiring them to adapt to the "soul" game is indeed difficult for strong people. If they themselves are willing to spend a cup of milk tea money to solve some troubles that they are not good at, it seems that there is nothing wrong with experiencing the vast open world of the game "before there is a great scene". And modifying the single-player game data will not have much impact on other players.
Regardless of the difficulty of the game, the open world of Eldon's Ring of Law is worth lingering in
It is a pity that the profiteers are not so kind, and this is not a problem that can be solved by "a cup of milk tea". On the surface, the price of selling Loon in the rape shop is very cheap, basically 9 or 10 yuan, but in fact, the profiteers who enter the store will come up with the real pig killing package:
"20 million Loon 100 yuan, full level full attribute 1800 yuan";
"Arms, armor, talismans, ashes packages, ranging from 200-300 yuan";
"Full level, full equipment 2688 yuan packed away!"
A complete price list
From Loon to weapons, armor, props, and ashes, all the game resources that can be thrown out and traded have been sold by the profiteers. The details of the price list, the variety of packages, and the high price make a simple player like the author who is shy in his pocket sigh his imagination.
At the same time, it can also be seen that Miyazaki Hidetaka, as the president of a company, also has no business acumen, "squeezing" employees for five years to make a game but only selling 298. If you learn the advanced business concepts of these profiteers, give the majority of "suffering" players one more choice, give many bosses a chance to re-employ, the whole point "ten consecutive draws", "weapon package", "can't beat the BOSS? Let's have a 648 Loon combination", FromSoftware is afraid that it is not already a world game company that punches Hydai Namco and kicks Japan's Nintendo.
In the cliché with the profiteer, the author also put forward the "PC version can not use the modifier, how to sell so expensive" doubts, the answer is "we sell the basic host version, PS5 version sells the most, are hand-beaten will not be BAN, so so expensive", "we are professional, you can rest assured, pro".
"Aren't you afraid of the official BAN?" "We are professional, pro."
Although most of the resources of "Eldon's Circle of Law" are not difficult for skilled players, it is unrealistic to let the profiteers fight tens of millions and hundreds of millions of Loon and then sell them. In fact, although it is not as convenient as a PC on the console to use the modifier, because "Eldon's Law Ring" also left behind the "Dark Souls 3" ancestral online item copy bug, the profiteers can take advantage of it. The use of bugs is also no secret, and there are detailed demonstrations on many domestic and foreign websites.
If you have the heart, you can easily find the specific use of the BUG
Dark Souls 3 is an old game from six years ago, and bugs that have been affecting Eldon's Circle of Law have indeed exposed The Shortcomings of FromSoftware. Because their own programmers have been inactive for many years, the profiteers have the opportunity to take advantage of them, and the profiteers use routines and information cocoons to harvest the small white players who have just entered the pit to make a lot of money. So who won this wave?
In fact, illegal trafficking in digital resources for huge profits has always been a persistent disease in the gray area on the mainland. Today, there are profiteers who make a lot of money by selling "Eldon's Ring of Law", and there are also many platform sellers who make a lot of money by selling pirated game digital resources, game modification archives, modifiers, etc., and the impact is even worse.
Selling pirated single-player game resources has become a stable income for profiteers
For example, last year, hundreds of domestic independent game developers jointly issued the "Joint Statement on Anti-Piracy", which reprimanded the platform party for its inaction in censorship and has caused a considerable impact on the domestic independent game industry. At that time, the major domestic game media also followed up with a large number of reports and disseminations, hoping to play a role in safeguarding the interests of the industry. But to this day, all kinds of "offline genuine", "stand-alone collection", "thousands of mobile games" are still purchased casually on major e-commerce platforms. There are even profiteers who easily share their "monthly income of 30,000" business experience between online conversations and laughter, which makes people sigh.
The situation in Europe and the United States is actually not optimistic, and foreign profiteers are not vegetarians, so there is no reason to let go of the opportunity to ring wool. Search for The Ring of France on ebay and you will find that there are also a large number of profiteers selling Lune, and there are not a few buyers. This gray trade phenomenon has also attracted many foreign media reports, fortunately, the eBay official has not acted inactively and has been tracking down these stores.
There are also a large number of sellers selling Loon on eBay
But as of now, these shops that sell Loon on eBay are basically in a precarious but inexhaustible state. It will be removed from the shelves in a few days, but soon more new shops will appear, and there will be enough oil and water to make the profiteers desperate. It can be seen that if there is no sufficient effective legal provision to be restrained, relying only on the internal review and appeal of the industry, everything is empty talk.
Foreign game media are paying attention to the phenomenon of "Lune Sale"
In this regard, Japan, as a major power in video games, has played an exemplary role, and has long regarded acts such as "providing others with game modification tools", "helping others to modify games", and "selling cracking software through the Internet" as illegal, and has been written into Japan's Unfair Competition Law.
In 2019, a man was arrested by the police for modifying the Pokémon Day/Month and Monster Hunter 4G archives for selling to other players. Last year, a Chinese man in Japan was also arrested by the local Japanese police for selling a modified archive of "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wilderness".
There have been many cases of arrests in Japan for revising archival records
In fact, in Japan, where the game industry is developed, the phenomenon of modifying game archives and making profits has always existed, and even after the Unfair Competition Law officially listed this behavior as illegal, many Japanese people continued to seek profits with a fluke mentality. It was not until the police officially began to arrest the verified prisoners that people believed that the regulation was not a child's play, and the profiteers who modified the archives quickly dispersed. This is because according to the punishment standards of the Unfair Competition Law, a criminal with serious circumstances and repeated corrections can be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years.
However, so far, the punishment for those arrested by modifying the archives is mainly based on fine education
For domestic players, whether modifying the single-player game archive to make a profit is a violation of the law is not a definite conclusion. After all, this kind of "self-interest but not harm" behavior has not violated the players' scales; as consumers, players do not have enough positions and capabilities to complain for game developers. The only thing you can do is probably to persuade your friends around you to stay away from this kind of behavior that is dangerous to be banned, and really experience the fun of the game with the player's mentality.