Yun You Ji had thought that after being washed away by the players, the production team of "Ghost Valley Eight Wilds" would eventually open the Steam Workshop, but judging from the latest apology statement, their mouths seemed to be as iron as their heads.
These days about the "Ghost Valley Eight Wilds" fraud players things are boiling over, as early as the game was first released, the official release of the post-update plan, it is clearly stated to launch the workshop, the result of the recent official really launched the mod editing tools and the workshop only to find out that they said "workshop" refers to the non-Steam third-party platform.
Regarding this part of the content, Yun Youji has explained in more detail in the article "Players use more than 10,000 bad reviews to exchange for the creative workshop of the Eight Wilds of the Ghost Valley", which is briefly summarized here.
Players originally thought that the official workshop refers to the Steam workshop with a relatively high degree of freedom and ease of use, and as a result, the game production team itself has a whole community on the fanbook, and a web page named "Workshop", and then the player wants to install the mod, he needs to register to download the platform, download the mod and unzip it into the game folder, and the mod author uploads the mod when he also passes the review of the production team, the standard is very harsh, even, a xiuxian game, Some netizen mods did not pass because of the feudal superstition review
Countless players feel that they have been deceived, and have asked the production team to give an explanation, and the producers do not know what they think, blatantly live broadcasting and players contradict each other, giving various strange theories to prevaricate players.
What "worried about the game open Steam workshop will appear illegal political remarks", "Steam workshop can only be on the trial first, so it is not easy to control" cloud, in short, the workshop you don't have to think, fanbook to use it.
How can this argument cope with Chinese players? "Ghost Valley Eight Wilds" is not the first single-player game for Chinese players, before "Ghost Valley Eight Wilds", "The Great Xiu Xian Simulator", "Tribe and Machete" did not all open creative workshops? Although there are also some astringent mods in it, they are quickly removed by the management, which does not prevent the launch of the mobile game of "The Great Xiu Xian Simulator"? How did you get to this thing so much?
Seeing that the production team did not admit mistakes, angry players have expressed their opinions with bad reviews, the game has recently evaluated more than 20,000, the praise rate is only 5%, and the number of bad reviews in a single day continues to reach a new high.
Under the attack of the player's bad reviews, the production team still surrendered, and recently issued an apology letter.
Yun You Ji thought that the official had realized her mistake and was ready to accept the player's opinion with an open mind, but after carefully reading the apology letter, she found that the official attitude was still very ambiguous.
Producer Zhang San first apologized for the mistake he made at the beginning of the apology letter, and said that because of this mistake, he and the people around him were under great pressure and hurt the player's heart.
Subsequently, Zhang San once again stressed that the reason why he did not use the Steam regular creative workshop was that he was worried that the mechanism of first going to the trial and then reviewing was used by people with ulterior motives, and he later learned that the Steam workshop has a connoisseur model, supporting the first trial and then going up, although there are still some troublesome problems that need to be solved, but they are already communicating with Steam.
The apology letter is still normal until here, but then, Zhang San's attitude is somewhat ambiguous.
A large part of the reason why players give the game a bad review is this fanbook platform, and according to Zhang San, he does not intend to close the fanbook, and then the production team will close the jump fanbook, and focus on optimizing the platform mod experience, such as download automatic installation, game built-in download web page and so on.
As for why Zhang San is unwilling to give up fanbook, the apology letter makes it very clear that they want to establish their own official community, so even if they spend money to buy servers and invest a lot of manpower and material resources to do community maintenance, they must persist in doing it.
These remarks are similar to what Zhang San said before, but they are not so rational, this kind of insincere apology, naturally it is impossible to get the understanding of the player, and the comment area is still full of scolding.
Can Ghost Valley Eight Wilds open up real creative workshops? This is not easy to say, although the selection of creative workshops can be reviewed first, but need to approve items one by one, very troublesome, and the production team obviously does not intend to give up the fanbook, only by the size of the production team, whether it can pull out manpower to manage the two platforms, to play a big question mark.
However, after opening the Steam Workshop, it is not without its own entire platform, and P Society's "King of crusaders 3" is like this.
However, the size of Oni Valley Studios, which only has a single game product, may not have the ability to build its own player community, and their player loyalty is not enough to offset the problems caused by the use of fanbooks.
Things have been fermenting for so many days, Yun Youji has long been no longer angry, but others will not just let Zhang San go, this apology letter is not enough to calm everyone's emotions, at least until the workshop really comes out, it is expected that the next few days the game will only be a lot more bad reviews.