Few domestic games can trigger phenomenal discussions in less than a year and a half after they have been online.
"Ghost Valley Eight Wilds" did it.
The first explosion was after the launch, with a staggering data of 153,000, breaking the record for the number of people online at the same time of steam national travel; the second fire, but because in less than 20 days, it increased by nearly 50,000 bad reviews, and won the throne of the game with the lowest recent game praise rate in Steam's domestic games.
Everyone who understands it understands that the root cause of bad reviews is this cottage version of the "creative workshop". Boss Zhang played a word game for the majority of tourists, but the price was very painful. Why would developers rather offend players than go to the Steam Workshop? Is it really to purify the mod environment or to squeeze the surplus value? Is the businessman "Boss Zhang" still the ghost valley Zhang San who thinks about the player everywhere?
Express anger with a 5W bad review
I believe that many players are interested in "Ghost Valley Eight Wilds" because of its title of "Light of Domestic Goods". Many game friends uphold the love and support for domestic games and buy games out of their own pockets. The content of the game itself is beyond reproach, beautiful standing painting, mature system, but like this "brush" game played for a long time, it will inevitably be boring.
At this time, the two main points that can attract players to go down are game updates and mods. But on these two points, "Ghost Valley Eight Wilds" completely broke the player's heart.
The official studio has almost never released the promised weekly and monthly changes since the beginning, and the content in the subsequent updates has been seriously "paddled". But instead of giving up on the game, players pinned their hopes on the mod.
This idea is not the other's idea
At this time, there were already many well-received mod versions, and under the strong recommendation of players, the developer launched the "Workshop" on April 18. But as everyone knows, this is just a word game played by Boss Zhang for everyone.
This Workshop does not refer to the "Steam Workshop", but rather a third-party mod platform called "Workshop" with the same name and surname. This trick "Tanuki For Prince" completely angered the player, and the mod system that was regarded as a life-saving straw was "copied" in broad daylight. So the players attacked it in groups, expressed their anger with bad reviews, and nailed "Ghost Valley Eight Wilds" to the shame column of domestic games in less than 20 days.
Fanbook is a fake Lee ghost
At one point, I couldn't understand why Ghost Valley Eight Wilds would humiliate players in this way.
As the saying goes, one wrong step is wrong step by step, but if you don't do it, you won't be wrong. "Ghost Valley Eight Wilds" can be said to have perfectly met the expectations of the development team, and the sales of this game in 2021 reached 250 million, and the sales volume of domestic games was the second, which was already a hemp for the independent game production team. Taking a step back ten thousand steps, Boss Zhang can open the "pretend death" mode after the success of the game, after all, there are such rotten development teams in China.
The reason why I don't want to mess up, I guess there are two points. First, the mechanism of the game leads to the player's interest in the game is weak, so there is a strong demand for the mod, from the conscience, the development team is not willing to fall into a "ignore the needs of users" reputation; second, the follow-up maintenance can not "power generation for love", "Ghost Valley Eight Wilds" IP still has residual value, so the development team decided to cooperate with Fanbook, squeezed to the end.
At present, although the studio has temporarily closed the Fanbook Workshop, the implication is not "permanent", but "further optimization", so why can't this strange Fanbook make players stand it?
You know, Steam's Workshop is very simple to operate, as long as you subscribe to it, it can be automatically downloaded and installed, and it will also be updated with the version.
But Fanbook can be much more troublesome, want to download the MOD normally, not only to register an account, but also to add another software group. The software is stuck, the MOD is not automatically installed after downloading, and the player has to put it into the game directory by himself. This is more troublesome than getting it yourself from 3dm.
Not only that, the degree of review of the platform is also difficult to say, not only pictures, even the text in the mod has the restriction of blocking the font library, and what is more funny is that some players are harmonized because the mod "involves feudal superstition", this TM is a xiuxian game!
In addition to this Fanbook parent company's black history is also quite a lot...
This is just one of them
Of course, even if Fanbook is more convenient and more humane to modify in the future, not many players will buy it. Because in the end, fans are entangled in the matter of "being deceived", you use Li Ghost to play Li Kui, that is, the grave burns the newspaper - fooling the ghost, even if the change is crazy, the change is more like a creative workshop than the creative workshop, and the players still can't calm down.
Unless...
Is it really online Steam Workshop?
Can a Workshop be more than that?
OK.
Dare to go up?
Can't.
Why? For now, Boss Zhang is likely to plan to use "Ghost Valley Eight Wilds" to apply for a version number and launch it on the domestic platform. And there is news that at present, Ghost Valley Studio has applied for the copyright of mobile games, expanded the number of teams, and the investment is almost the same (gossip). And it is said that whenever you go to the Steam Workshop, it is even more difficult to apply for a version number.
The space and profit of the domestic mobile game market are known to everyone, and mobile games and terminal games are two different groups of people, relying on old word of mouth with new traffic, and then pulling a wave of new players, think about it can be beautiful. Therefore, in order to prevent the "bad content" of "Ghost Valley Eight Wilds" from appearing on the market, Boss Zhang grasped the mod in his hand at the beginning to prevent it from happening.
But in fact, there are also domestic games that have applied for a version number in the creative workshop, such as "The Great Xiu Xian Simulator" and "Machete and Tribe", which makes the above statement a bit far-fetched. Smart players immediately guessed the second point of the move: just the right amount of money.
Here we will mention Fanbook again as a third-party software, first look at his harsh user agreement:
Take a screenshot of the player's interpretation of their rules:
Boss Zhang said that "Ghost Valley Eight Wilds" will definitely not charge a mod fee, but this does not mean that Fanbook will not.
To tell you a story, the father of Fanbook: Shenzhen Dream World Technology Co., Ltd., there is a very powerful black history, the company represented the "Terraria" mobile game version, such a buyout system fee small cost independent game, he agentd the national mobile phone version but it was made into a kryptonite game, and then operated for a short time directly to run away.
Chuangmeng eventually failed by terminating the operation of the game, but it seems that this incident did not teach the leaders much lessons, and their focus was on "making money in the wrong way" and did not particularly care about the feelings of players and the consequences of chicken feathers. Therefore, it is highly likely to guess that this third party was born to suck the blood of "Ghost Valley Eight Wilds", and when the mod author is squeezed, enough money is collected from the player, and the ass is patted and left.
Before I didn't understand, if the IP of "Ghost Valley Eight Wilds" stinks, how can there be anyone to play in the mobile game and the 2nd generation behind him? But now I realized that Mr. Zhang really looked at the game and couldn't make much money, and began to squeeze the surplus value. I made up his mind that he negotiated a good price with a third party, and divided it into future shares, and backhanded the players who supported him and sold them to the workshop.
As for mobile games and follow-up games, first cold treatment, after three or five years, change the name and identity, I am afraid that no one will remember these pickled things.
Taken together, the most likely way to defuse fan anger is that it is impossible to go to the STEAM Workshop. If the fundamental problem is not solved, we may see more information about "the bad review of "Ghost Valley Eight Wilds" exceeded 80,000" and "The bad reviews of "Ghost Valley Eight Wilds" increased to 100,000", but what is the use of more bad reviews and more anger?
Zhang San has become "Boss Zhang".