With the crazy development of the online game market in previous years, online games have also begun to enter the national sight, this year the Ministry of Culture tried to publish the first batch of 15 online games suitable for minors detailed list, and began to increase the supervision of online games, the General Administration of Press and Publication also announced the "Online Game Anti-addiction System Standards".
On the other hand, in 2005, there were also many classic online games online, such as "World of Warcraft", "Audition", "QQ Hall", etc., and then we will continue to take stock of the online games in the domestic public beta in 2005. (The following are all domestic public beta times)
"QQ Tang": Tencent's first casual game online
Beta: January 2005
In the previous 2003 inventory, we mentioned Bubble Hall, which opened the domestic casual game market. However, I believe that many people have a deeper impression in their memories of Tencent's "QQ Tang".
Although "QQ Hall" has been online for almost 2 years than "Bubble Hall" at night, even the newly launched "QQ Hall" is not as good as "Bubble Hall" in terms of screen and gameplay content. However, with the winning magic weapon of "QQ users directly logging in", "QQ Tang" still won the "Bubble Hall" called the childhood memories of countless players.
As a casual game, the operation of "QQ Tang" is very simple, the left and right arrows on the keyboard control the direction, the space releases the bubble, the number keys use props; after the space releases the bubble, it will explode after 5 seconds, if the character touches the exploded syrup, it will be trapped and die after 5 seconds.
The game has a wealth of competitive mode, normal mode, football mode, mechanical world, grab buns and other ways to play, I believe many players are still fresh in their minds. The most noteworthy thing is that "QQ Hall" has a two-player mode, players can play with their friends on a computer, until now there are few online games that can be played by two people on a computer.
However, unfortunately, "QQ Tang" also encountered the ultimate problem of online games - plug-ins. In the adventure mode of PVE attributes, the problems caused by plug-ins are not obvious, while in the competitive mode of PVP attributes, plug-in problems seriously affect the experience of normal players and destroy the balance of the game.
In addition, with the passage of time, "QQ Tang", which has been operating for more than ten years, has been seriously disconnected from the market in terms of gameplay and screen. Finally, Tencent officially announced that QQ Tang announced that it would be discontinued on April 20, 2022, which also means that this game that accompanies the youth of the 2nd and even 3rd generations of players is about to usher in the end.
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"Jin Orchestra": the first domestic music online game
Beta: March 2005
The genre of music games is no longer unfamiliar to today's players, and there are a large number of music games on the market. But in 2005, when the game genre was still limited to the era of RPGs, many players couldn't imagine what a music game would look like. Is it difficult to play with an instrument? The emergence of "Jin Orchestra" has opened up a whole new world for many players.
In the arcade era before the rise of Internet cafes, Dance Dance Revolution, a somatosensory sound game created by Konami in 1998, can be regarded as the earliest music game that domestic players have contacted. However, with the rise of Internet cafes, arcade halls are also rapidly declining. However, the Korean game company quickly seized the opportunity of the networking of music games, and combined with the popularity of Korean songs that swept the north and south of the river that year, launched the "Jin Orchestra", which became the "hot spicy chicken" in the Internet café!
"Jin Orchestra" innovatively proposes a team ensemble gameplay, and sets a relatively light game background for the music game, players need to use the beat of guitar, bass, drums, electronic keyboard 4 kinds of instruments to defeat the monster "Ohm", so that the people of the entire planet are refreshed. After adding social functions, the music game not only allows players to gather together, but also creates kryptonite points such as music payment and mall props for the music game, and allows the music game's music library to continue to expand according to the current popular music.
However, in the later operation of the "Jin Orchestra" national costume, it failed to dock well with the Hanbok company, and has been lagging behind in the update of the music library, and the "Jin Orchestra" game itself also has a hard injury of "novice retreat", so the domestic agent Jiuyou chose to stop operating in 2008.
The favorite music games of post-90s players ten years ago were cool until the developers went out of business, and some continued to make money
World of Warcraft: The true king of online gaming
Beta: April 2005
There is a Chinese saying called "no one who has never come before and after", which is absolutely the most appropriate to describe "World of Warcraft". Since the launch of "World of Warcraft", there have been new games calling themselves "Warcraft" killers, indicating that they will cut "World of Warcraft" under the horse. However, the final ending is believed to be known to everyone, "World of Warcraft" is still one of the hottest online games, and those competitors have long disappeared into history.
For the entire history of online game development, World of Warcraft is definitely the most colorful in history. This online game made by Blizzard has been loved by players around the world since its launch. I still remember that when the domestic "World of Warcraft" was just launched, many Internet cafes were forced to upgrade the configuration of their own computers for this game, and specially opened up an exclusive "World of Warcraft" area with a high-end computer for players to play.
At any time during that period, as long as you are in the Internet café, you can see many players immersed in the game world of World of Warcraft. The influence of "World of Warcraft" even affected the agent Nine Cities at that time, with the agent "World of Warcraft" Nine Cities became the leading game manufacturer in China at that time, and then when the agency lost the agency, Nine Cities also ushered in its own decline.
Until today, "World of Warcraft" has been operating for 17 years, the operating time has exceeded most of the world's games, although the game operation time is super long, but the popularity of "World of Warcraft" is still high, in the online game industry is still proud, there are few opponents.
After the launch of the nostalgic suit fire of "World of Warcraft" before, it has once again led a new wave of trends, and a large number of games have followed the trend to launch nostalgic clothes, which shows the huge influence of "World of Warcraft".
"Blood Jianghu": Pioneer of domestic online game prop charging
For today's players, online games with prop charges have been everywhere, and even many players have even begun to boycott online games with prop charges, preferring to return to the tradition to play games with time charges. However, in the early years, the four words "prop charges" are unparalleled in their appeal to players, after all, "prop charges" means that the game is "free", and it is "Hot Blood Jianghu" that sets off a domestic "prop charge" boom.
Bloody Rivers and Lakes is an online game developed by Mgame in South Korea and released in South Korea on April 20, 2005. Issued by 17game in China. "Bloody Jianghu" gets rid of the dark and bloody game style of traditional martial arts online games and advocates a "clear and pleasant martial arts" spirit. The picture is not too casual and not too heavy, the picture is clean and clean. Lively and cute character shape, and the appearance of the avatar system, according to the different identities of the change of a variety of clothing and modifications.
The game is divided into decent and evil factions, the two major forces are intolerable, constantly fighting, and finally evolved into a field war, a door war, a siege war, and a force war, so that the player really feels that he is in the "jianghu".
There is no doubt that "Bloody Rivers and Lakes" is definitely a worth writing in the history of Chinese online games, opening up a new operating model for the domestic online game market. "Blood Jianghu" has also won the "Golden Plume Award Player's Favorite Ten Online Games" award, which was voted by the majority of game enthusiasts across the country, with very objective and fair characteristics, and the "Golden Plume Award" is also known as the "Oscar" of the game industry. As you can imagine, this game was very successful in that year.
Unfortunately, perhaps because the new concept of prop charging is not well understood, it gradually evolves into a game that cannot be played normally without krypton gold later in the game. At the same time, the agent 17Ganme has insufficient ability, and even cannot guarantee the security of the player's account, at that time, "Blood Jianghu" can be regarded as one of the most rampant online games for theft, even if your account and equipment are locked, it will still be stolen. For various reasons, it eventually led to a sharp decline in the popularity of "Blood River", and finally cooled down.
Memoirs: 16 years ago, my sister played games so passionately? Fight for 3 hours to defeat the evil faction, the ending is very unexpected!
Audition: Internet Café Keyboard Terminator
Beta: May 2005
For Audition I believe that the elderly players will not be unfamiliar, after all, this game can be said to be popular throughout the country, no matter when you enter the Internet café, you can see that many players are struggling in the game of Audition, and you can hear the sound of players playing Audition banging the keyboard. In the years when "Audition" was popular, I am afraid that it was also the time when the keyboard loss of the Internet café in the country was the highest, and the Internet café owner could say that he loved and was cruel to this game.
In fact, the gameplay of "Audition" is also very simple, the player follows the beat of the music, taps the corresponding arrow displayed on the screen on the keyboard, and after completing the action, the characters in the game will dance differently. Let players experience the joy of dancing through their fingers.
The national costume of "Audition" was released on May 12, 2005. The game just opened up to 80,000 people online at the same time, and the number of game users exceeded 1 million. Full of personality cute 3D character modeling, meticulous character portrayal and coherent body movements, any combination of fashionable personality decorations, players must be attracted by this music and dance online game.
The "Audition Troupe", which frantically slapped the space bar in the Internet café, was no less than the "League of Legends" in the Internet café now. It has become a platform for the "non-mainstream" culture of that year. The existence of "Audition" has greatly shortened the life of the Internet café keyboard, and is jokingly called the Internet café keyboard terminator by players, and even the Internet café will play a slogan to let the player tap the space bar of the keyboard.
However, there are not many people, coupled with the younger age of the player group of "Audition", the more fashion-oriented and more receptive to new things. The popular "Audition" has also been involved in many major events because of fashion. After some non-mainstream players engaged in "thousands of miles", "net deception" and other events that do not conform to the main theme of building a harmonious society, "Audition" has also become a "brain-dead" game in the eyes of the public because of the strange behavior of some player groups.
With the passage of time and many negative news, the popularity of "Audition" has gradually declined. However, "Audition" still retains a group of die-hard players, and "Audition" has always been the hottest in the same type of game, and it is still in operation.
Memoirs: When playing Audition was played by the plug-in to autism, angrily smashed the keyboard and was driven out by the network manager!
Happy Journey to the West: The first self-developed game in the Ninth City
Beta: August 2005
For today's players, the company in Ninth City may be very unfamiliar, and may even be unheard of by many new players. However, for the elderly players, the name Ninth City was once a thunderous and the leading company in the domestic game industry.
After losing the proxy rights of World of Warcraft, the Ninth City lost the "BUFF" bonus and quickly declined, and since then the Ninth City has also tried to proxy a large number of new games to continue to glory. During this period, he even developed a game of his own, that is, the first domestic horizontal-layout online game "Happy Journey to the West".
Since the success of NetEase's "Fantasy Journey to the West" and "Journey to the West", online games with the name of Journey to the West have sprung up like mushrooms, although the result of many Games of Journey to the West is that players are at a loss and gradually lose interest in the face of a large number of homogeneous products. However, it is clear that "Happy Journey to the West" was also a follow-up work aimed at this trend at that time.
Although "Happy Journey to the West" has the name of this first domestic horizontal layout online game, the overall effect of the game after it is launched is not very good.
After all, the entire domestic game circle has always been dominated by NetEase's "Fantasy Journey to the West" and "Journey to the West". Horizontal online games also have the existence of a more classic "Adventure Island", so the launch of "Happy Journey to the West" has not caused much repercussions among the player community. Until 2010, Nine Cities stopped operating "Happy Journey to the West". To tell the truth, the nine cities insisted on five years before stopping operations, which is already very remarkable.
Players' favorite nine-city games ten years ago are now mostly too cold to be cold, and self-research has stopped
"Endless Quest 2": the online game god work of the national service violent death
EverQuest 2 is a sequel to the classic EverQuest developed by Sony Online Entertainment and began operations in North America on November 8, 2004. This game has a super rich race setting, players can choose from a total of 19 kinds, including common humans, elves, dwarves and more strange frogmen, rat people, cave giants and so on, each race has a unique talent skills.
EverQuest 2 is set 500 years after the EQ God Realm storyline. Due to geological changes, the continent of Antonica was torn apart into smaller islands, known as the "Broken Archipelago". The links between the noras sections have been severed by the movement of the oceans. The moon "Lucarin" was also blown to pieces for some reason and could not land.
I believe that everyone remembers the "Endless Quest" mentioned in the 2003 inventory. In 2004, Sony released the Sequel to Endless Quest 2. Obviously, the failure of "Endless Quest" in the national service made Sony grumpy, so in the spring of 2005, Sony decided to authorize the Chinese bay manufacturer game Orange to become the general agent of "Endless Quest 2" in East Asia (including South Korea, Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan), and the original team of SOE developed another set of character modules, called the Oriental version of the model, to enter the domestic market again.
After taking down the agent, the game Tangerine has also set off large-scale promotional activities and localization content improvements, including spokespersons, online and online series of activities; new content that matches the characteristics of the East Asian market, including the addition of some unique tasks in the Eastern version, limited localized voice prompts, and unique items/missions.
However, "Endless Quest 2" still failed to fulfill Sony's desire to enter the domestic market, and the game exposed a large number of problems at the beginning. The game is not fully Chinese, the English that appears from time to time is sandwiched between Chinese characters, and after several patch updates, large sections of English are still everywhere.
At the same time, due to the lack of technical capabilities of the game orange itself, a large number of problems occurred in the later operation process, including the inability to log in the account, server downtime and so on. There has even been a scandal in which the mainland server directly takes the patch of the China Bay server and causes a serious jamming machine.
Finally, on February 28, 2006, Game Orange announced after an afternoon maintenance: on March 30, 2006, all EQ2 related services will cease to operate. In just 8 months, it was announced that it would officially cease domestic operations.
The shortest-lived game ever, shut down in just 26 hours? Oh, Final Fantasy dare to copy!
"Sword Net 2": a classic of domestic stand-alone online games
Beta: September 2005
The success of "Sword Net 1" in 2003 undoubtedly allowed Kingsoft to see the huge benefits of the online game market. Therefore, after a gap of 2 years, Kingsoft launched a sequel "Sword Net 2".
In terms of plot, "Sword Net 2" still revolves around the core of the series "Shan He Shejitu", but the era is advanced from the Southern Song Dynasty to the Northern Song Dynasty. After having the experience accumulated in Sword Net 1, the development team added more brand new content to Sword Net 2, and the gate sect alone planned ten gate schools such as Shaolin, Wudang, Emei, Cai Bang, and Tang Men. The equipment and skill design in the game use a lot of Jin Yong elements, the map also restores the pattern and terroir of the Northern Song Dynasty, and the mission design is richer and more careful.
Influenced by Legends at the time, the PK gameplay was the most popular gameplay at the time. In order to provide players with a more original martial arts embodiment, Sword Net 2 used live-action motion capture technology at that time, and invited martial arts professionals to guide, making the one-move style of "Sword Net 2" more expressive. At the marketing level, "Sword Net 2" invited the popular Chinese action star Zhen Zidan as a spokesperson.
In September 2005, "Sword Net 2" was officially tested, Kingsoft invested a lot of publicity and promotion, in just 16 days at the same time the number of online people exceeded 200,000, in November it crossed the 300,000 mark, players immersed in the "Sword Net 2" strong historical martial arts atmosphere, the game's main PK gameplay is indeed loved by players.
Although in the past ten years, "Sword Net 2" has also experienced many twists and turns, such as changes in charging methods, career balance problems, and even the competition for player users in its own "Sword Net 3". However, compared with other games that have been discontinued at the same time, the operation of "Sword Net 2" can be said to be thrilling.
To this day, Sword Net 2 still has loyal players to stick to it, and Xishanju has not given up the update of content and operational activities.
Standing in the Chinese game market for 20 years, it has not fallen, survived a large number of opponents, and gone abroad to make money from foreigners!
"Three Kingdoms Heroes OL": a large-scale war of ten thousand people
As an enduring theme of game production, the Three Kingdoms theme has been continuously launched since the era of red and white machines. Although most of the Three Kingdoms theme works are produced by Japanese companies, there are also many domestic masterpieces, and "The Legend of the Three Kingdoms" produced by "Odin" in Bay Bay is one of the masterpieces.
Although the overall quality of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" lags slightly behind the Japanese "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" series, the battle between the two armies and the internal affairs of the game content still make strategy game fans regard it as a classic, especially the optimization and upgrading in the 2nd generation, which makes countless players addicted.
In 2000, with the outbreak of the online game market and the blow of piracy to single-player games, Odin merged with Yujun and began to choose to enter the online game market. In 2005, the online game "Three Kingdoms Group British Legend OL" was launched, which was based on the "Three Kingdoms Group English Legend" and made the online game bright at that time, both in terms of gameplay and content, especially in the game "National War", which is a multiplayer PVP gameplay that makes domestic players feel the charm of domestic online games.
It is a little regrettable that a good online game is easy to be born, and it is difficult to run for a long time. "Three Kingdoms Group Of Heroes OL" in the later operation due to the value collapse and about the problem of in-game charges, the official decision has made a big mistake, resulting in a large number of players lost, and this high-quality strategic online game has gradually faded out of the player's field of vision because of high opening and low walking, and the mainland operation is also hastily closed.
This domestic company has made two Three Kingdoms divine works, which have been the youth of countless players, but they are slowly falling apart
"QQ Fantasy": Tencent's first self-developed MMO domestic ethnic online game
Beta: October 2005
Today's Tencent has undoubtedly become the world's leading game company, if you want to review Tencent's game development history, then "QQ Fantasy" this game must not be ignored.
"QQ Fantasy", as Tencent's first self-developed online game, not only has many new and unique game content, but also takes into account the habits of QQ users, and integrates various communication and entertainment functions of QQ software into the game, which will be organically combined with the corresponding entertainment functions in QQ software, making "QQ Fantasy" a game that truly belongs to QQ users and is suitable for QQ users. At the same time, "QQ Fantasy" is also a stepping stone for Tencent to knock on the online game market, so that Tencent can truly gain a foothold in the game market.
In October 2005, QQ Fantasy was officially tested. At that time, the QQ user base has exceeded 450 million, Tencent of course will not let go of such a huge user base, at that time, Tencent's various software, platforms have joined the "QQ Fantasy" advertising and entrance, and even specially added "QQ Fantasy" exclusive QQ avatar. Under this crazy publicity, only 1 month after the public beta, the highest simultaneous online of "QQ Fantasy" reached 660,000, looking at the development history of the entire online game, which is also a big number.
Of course, the popularity of "QQ Fantasy" is not only because of Tencent's huge user base, but also because the game itself is also very suitable for the characteristics and preferences of QQ users. Based on classical mythological stories, the Q version of cute characters, dazzling skills, bright scenes, different styles of BGM, changeable hairstyles and colors and other sensory elements are very much in line with the tastes of young QQ users.
However, it is a little regrettable that in the late 2005, the boom of "prop charging and free operation" began to rise, and the emergence of a large number of free online games made many players choose to give up the games charged by point cards to play free games. This also caused the flow of the number of "QQ Fantasy" players, and later Tencent itself could not resist the temptation of free games, so it launched a free version of "QQ Free Fantasy", giving "QQ Fantasy" a fatal blow, when the game was deserted.
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Perfect World: Perfect World's most famous work
Beta: November 2005
2005's "World of Warcraft" let domestic players really understand what is called the Western magic masterpiece, but in 2005, there is also a domestic online game, so that players around the world understand what is called the Oriental Fantasy, this game is the same name online game "Perfect World" developed by Perfect World.
Perfect World is an MMORPG online game developed by Perfect World in 2005. The game takes Pangu to open the world as the guide, creating a unique historical space based on ancient Chinese myths and legends, with an epic background and a magnificent plot, showing players an ancient mysterious fantasy world full of unknowns.
Compared with other domestic game companies, "exporting overseas" from the beginning has been an important strategy of Perfect World, and even once became the online game company with the largest overseas income among domestic online game manufacturers. In the second year of the domestic launch of "Perfect World", Perfect World launched "Perfect World International Edition" to officially enter the overseas market.
On July 28, 2006, at the 4th ChinaJoy site, Perfect Time and C&C Media, a well-known Japanese online game operator, jointly held a signing conference for the Japanese version of Perfect World International Edition, with a signing amount of up to 2 million US dollars, setting a record for the highest export of original single online games in China at that time.
Subsequently, "Perfect International" has been exported to dozens of countries and regions such as Southeast Asia, the United Kingdom, and Russia, and once became the number one online game in Japan's market share, and the number of registered players in North America once exceeded 2 million.
To this day, the game "Perfect World" is as long as "World of Warcraft", still in operation, and divided into two different versions, "Perfect World 2 International Edition" and "Perfect World Classic Edition". In addition to the terminal game, the mobile game boom has not been missed, and it has also launched the "Perfect World Mobile Game" to continue its legend on a new platform.
Street Basketball: A sports game that competes on the same stage as World of Warcraft
Beta: December 2005
With the launch of World of Warcraft, at the end of 2005, the internet cafes across the country were basically occupied by World of Warcraft. However, in the face of "World of Warcraft" like the king, there is an American hip-hop game that is completely different from MMORPG, which has gradually become popular and entered countless post-8090 youth, that is, the online basketball game "Street Basketball" developed by The Korean JoyCityEntertainment Company, with the theme of street basketball bullfighting, can support 6 players to compete online. The game adopts a 3D cartoon style, the graphics are clean and bright, and the taste of street hip-hop is full.
In that era when street culture and non-mainstream killing Matt were just emerging, even players who had played basketball did not necessarily have access to street basketball. Compared with the decent MMORPG game, "Street Basketball" looks cool, suitable for handsome gameplay, and the slogan of "freedom is the only rule", which immediately attracted a large number of players who pursue fashion freedom, and the registered players reached 5 million on the day of the public beta.
However, "Street Basketball" is still a competitive sports game after all, which is inherently technically advanced. At the beginning of the game, when everyone was still a little white, this problem was not obvious. As the game's operating time passes, the technical gap between old players and new players begins to increase, and the poor game experience brought about by the technical crushing of old players on new players greatly hinders the participation of new players.
At the same time, the proliferation of plug-ins has also made the overall environment of the game not short-term deterioration. The existence of many problems has also made this game that was once able to touch World of Warcraft quickly weaken.
With the debut of "World of Warcraft", 2005 has also become a year that cannot be ignored in the history of Chinese online games. Of course, under the pressure of "World of Warcraft", the games that can still be remembered by players are all classics, such as "Audition", "QQ Fantasy", "Street Basketball" and so on.
In fact, there are more games launched in this year, such as winning the "Best Innovative Game" award at E3, the console version of "Meteor Butterfly Sword" "Iron Phoenix", the first female MMORPG online game "DreamLand" independently developed by Shanda for he and head iron pairs, the first 3D turn-based online game "Legend of Shaolin", South Korea's Blizzard's "Legend of the Silk Road" built at tens of millions of dollars, the domestic martial arts online game "Chivalrous Road" that was once on "We Love Science", and the first online RPG game on the console platform. Dream Star Online Edition), the first work of Daewoo Information on steam (2015) "Xuanyuan Sword Online Edition 2 Flying Adventure", "Super Dancer" developed by Jiuyou Network using dance carpets, and some of the more unpopular ones, such as "RFOnline", "Starry SkyGate", "Digimon" and so on, we will not list them here.