In recent years, with the increase in the number of single-player games on the PC platform, players are increasingly not limited to the concept of "some play", but have begun to pursue "more happiness in the most cost-effective way". However, there are many pc platform games, coupled with the different concepts of game manufacturers in each region, the quality and pricing are also uneven, for players, if you want to find a suitable game to start with, you still have to think about the process.
For a game, the cost of the developer's investment is generally proportional to its pricing, but there are also some old six manufacturers who like to backstabbing players, such as SE, which is a strange flower in the pricing industry:
(Pictured: At that time, Miss 2b was priced at more than 400, and was once suspected that the temporary worker changed the wrong price)
In fact, in terms of pricing, the Japanese factory will never let players "disappointed", since the 90s, SE's Final Fantasy series has been in high prices for a long time, and Capcom's arcade cold rice series is called "selling feelings" by countless players, the glorious Romance of the Three Kingdoms series, although famous, still can not escape the end of being criticized by players, take the recent one, SE has repeated the same technique, and launched a live-action interactive movie game "Spring Death Centennial Copy" on Steam, and priced it at 298 yuan.
In fact, the pricing of such live-action interactive movie games is higher than that of general games, players can understand, after all, in addition to the cost of game production, it is also necessary to invest additional investment in the cost of performing actors and the cost of shooting film and television, but the pricing can be so high that it is still very rare, referring to the previous "Neil Mechanical Age", many fans who intend to buy the game are directly dissuaded by the high price, and turn to watching videos and other ways to "cloud through" the game, which shows that the Chinese players are not the main "people are stupid and have more money" in the eyes of the Japanese factory. Many players still have some judgmental ability.
The interactive film game "Detroit Change", which swept the anchor circle in the past few years, also invited live actors to capture and model, and the cost will not be less than that of pure real people, but its national pricing is more than 100, which is still within the acceptable range of players.
Similarly, as a well-received movie game "Invisible Guardian" in the domestic game, its full set of pricing is only more than 60, plus a discount of about 50 can also be taken down, privately think that this is a more standard pricing.
Recently, another movie game "Shendu Bad Detective", which is about to launch Steam, has also aroused heated discussion among many players in terms of pricing.
Some radical players think that no matter what the final quality of a movie game, he is after all film and television, lack of gameplay, can not be on the table, it is not worth the player's money to buy; some players think that the movie game is actually equivalent to spending money to buy movie tickets, and can enjoy the power that normal movies can not experience - a click of the mouse can easily affect the direction of the plot, as long as the plot design is reasonable, then also willing to pay.
In fact, although only the content of the first four chapters was revealed during the first test of "Bad Detective", the grand world view it showed, as well as the smooth plot design, and the professional performances of the actors, all won unanimous praise from players.
(Picture: B station well-known up trial, won nearly 20w play)
The "full video" work concept revealed during the first test of "Divine Bad Detective" has also aroused the interest of countless players and media.
A few days ago, the well-known game media [Game Inn] posted that the development team of "Divine Bad Detective" did not make the film and television clips corresponding to the interactive link into a static transition mode, but let the actors shoot continuously, and then achieve a perfect connection effect through post-production, such shooting requirements, not only in the workload is a great challenge, there are also high requirements for the actor's acting skills - the player's interaction is only a few seconds, but the actor needs to maintain the consistency and stability of the emotions, so that the player's "perception" and "body feeling" are seamless.
At the same time, many players also think that this design of "Divine Bad Detective" stands on two different levels with the game "Invisible Guardian", to paraphrase a sentence in the three-body is to eat a two-shot two-way foil, forming a dimensionality reduction attack.
(Pictured: Screenshot from a player group discussion)
And the author who is more interested in "Shendu Bad Detective", early through the steam store page information into the official exchange group dived a wave, after the official official release of the price, the group players for a time for the specific price is also talking about, the vast majority of group friends think that if the follow-up plot is the quality of the first test, then the overall pricing fluctuations in about 100 are acceptable.
(Pictured: Screenshot from a player group discussion)
Considering that "Shendu Bad Detective" is ready to dismantle the body and DLC two parts to sell, then as the main body of the first 1 to 5 chapters, the author believes that the pricing may fluctuate around 30, and DLC because it involves a relatively long chapter, the pricing should be around 60 fluctuations, if it is the overall bundle, there should be a small discount, it is expected to be around 10%. To sum up a little, buy the body 30 alone, buy DLC60 alone, bundle 81, I don't know if this price will be different from the official final price?
Author's words
Finally, the author wants to say that whether it is the discredited "Neil", or the continuation of se's consistent pricing style of "Spring Lost Centenary Copy", it is not difficult for us to find that game manufacturers want to do their own games perfectly, sometimes not only from the quality, pricing is also a crucial factor affecting word of mouth, if the spirit of "players buy one I will return to the cost, buy a pair I will make money" Attitude to pull the price up to an unprecedented point, it is bound to trigger the player's rebellious psychology, thus spawning a large number of " The birth of the cloud player.
In the author's opinion, game pricing is really not necessarily a matter for game manufacturers, and it may be better to listen to the voices of players just right and achieve a win-win situation. Readers, what do you think about that?