Good weekend everyone, I'm Dr. X.
The new version of [Hot Game Information] will consist of three parts: "New Game News", "Global Popularity" and "Classic Games".
I can't say it clearly in a sentence or two, but let's talk to Dr. X about what hot information this week.
【New Tour News】
Highlights: NC Open World MMO End Game "LLL" announced will achieve maximum freedom of play
Recently, NCsoft released an interview video of the developer of its new shooting MMO "LLL" for PC and console platforms under development, in which the development team answered some questions raised by players about this new game.
According to the game developer, LLL will combine elements such as MMO, open world and tactical shooter to create a new shooter online game with a high degree of freedom, and the effect of the game may be similar to "Destiny 2" or "Anthem" based on these content elements.
On the issue of launch time and optimization, the production team said that it is too early to talk about release, this work is still in the Alpha Build development stage, including optimization, combat experience, multi-element content fit and other issues are still being solved, so the release problem has not been carefully considered.
The game's project director said that under an ideal situation, they expect the game to be launched on both PC and console in 2024.
Focus: The Next Generation Version of "The Witcher 3" is online in the Middle Ages but all members of the country
Recently, the next-generation upgrade version of "The Witcher 3" has been officially launched on GOG, Steam, Epic, Xbox, PS and other platforms, and the game has undergone a series of picture enhancements such as light tracing, and the excellent upgrade effect of the game can be visually felt.
However, this is not the focus of everyone's attention, because the version has been upgraded to add Chinese dubbing, so during this journey, players can hear the most authentic medieval Chinese words, and can also truly experience the discrimination faced by demon hunters in the world.
To say an interesting thing, this time the new version of "The Witcher 3" is still looking for the famous Haitian Studio, which is the team that matched "Cyberpunk 2077", originally thought that 2077 was enough quality, but I didn't expect to find that Night City has converged after listening to this version.
Dr. X will not put too many examples of swear words here, and it is recommended that players relive Geralt's journey with antihypertensive drugs, and this experience will definitely have many surprises.
Focus: The 2.4th anniversary version of "Tower of Fantasy" is online, the first domestic underwater open world
Since "Tower of Fantasy" 2.0, this game seems to have "opened the ropes", and there are many big moves. In this week's 2.4th anniversary version of "Tower of Fantasy", "Tower of Fantasy" launched the first underwater world gameplay of the domestic open world.
From the current experience, the activities and return rewards of this anniversary version are very friendly, at this time, the return can not only get a large number of draws, but also experience the content of the new version, except for the early guidance is worse, the rest is not a big problem.
In terms of content, although the new version of the underwater world is not as stunning as expected, the experience is definitely not bad, and many gameplay such as combat and exploration are combined with underwater scenery, but it has a special charm.
From the perspective of data, the anniversary version has indeed brought a lot of new traffic blessings to "Phantom Tower", and each list has returned to the top 100. Even if it is not a particularly bright record, it is a good recovery for the Phantom Tower that once fell out of the rankings.
Highlights: Hogwarts Relics releases its second live demo video to show how to play like broom flying
This week, Warner Bros. Games released the second live demo video of Hogwarts, which lasted more than half an hour, and the developers explained and showed players the game's open-world content, using elements such as broom flight, Room of Requirement, arena battles, and seasonal changes.
As far as the effect shown by the current game demo is concerned, the combat part of this game may have major problems, the main reason is that it is difficult to balance both magic restoration and combat strike.
Due to the limitation of the game IP, players can only use the staff to shoot spells to attack in battle, the lack of blow sense of long-range spells and the lack of operation experience of continuous long-range combat will be amplified in the game, which will inevitably affect the game combat experience, if this game wants to be recognized by players, combat problems must be solved.
In addition, Warner announced that the PS4 and Xbox One versions of the game will be postponed to 4/4/23, and the NS version will be delayed until July 25, but the next-generation version and PC version will not be postponed, and players can experience it on February 10.
【Classic Games】
Focus: "Guild Wars 2" 2022 Winter Festival is officially launched
As the end of the year approaches, many games will release their event versions in advance closer to Christmas, and Guild Wars 2 launched its annual Winter Festival event this week, which will run until the beginning of January, allowing players to enjoy the winter atmosphere.
This year's Winter Festival, players can play classic activities such as Jingle Bell Orchestra, Mount Race, Snowball Smash Bros., Snowman's Secret Lair, Tix's Endless Labyrinth, Toy Riot, Winter Wonderland, and other classic activities, as well as new mini pets and guild hall decorative lamp gifts.
Interested players should not miss it.
Focus: Shanghai aunt linked "Love of Light and Night" and was "spit on" by employees
As the linkage between games and consumer brands has become more and more enthusiastic in the past two years, the beverage brand Hushang Auntie is also ready to carry out a wave of linkage with Tencent's popular game "Light and Night Love", but who thought that this news has not been officially announced, Hushang Auntie smashed the brand first because of the employee's commotion.
Since the brand linkage was known by players, there have been many bad rhythms on the Internet, and many stores have not only openly insulted the game, but even some employees have posted to spit into milk tea.
This is not only a problem of linkage, but also caused a crisis of trust in milk tea shops, so this activity, which should have been extremely beneficial to stores in the difficult era of physical stores, was duly yellowed by this wave of turbulent operations, and the brand side estimated that people are numb now.
Dr. X believes that the reason for this cooperation accident is mainly due to the difficulty of managing such franchised milk tea shops, and the brand and store operators cannot effectively communicate and declare the interests of linkage in the first time, resulting in the discrimination of its staff against the "Goose Krypton Golden B Tour" and spreading to the player group.
Focus: The year-end bonus is gone! A large number of games were out of service at the end of the year and failed to carry the New Year
As the cold snap gradually hit, the days of the game circle have become more and more frugal, and in the environment of major factories cutting projects, many games have been completely cool this week.
First and foremost is Tencent's "Xuan Zhongji" co-operated with Kaiying Network, which was publicly beta in February this year and stopped operating at the speed of light after less than a year of operation, which is really surprising.
This "Xuan Zhongji" not only touches the porcelain "Genshin" during the promotion, the content advertises itself as an open-world MMO, in fact, it is a shoddy page game quality krypton game, a large amount of krypton gold content and rough gameplay make this game difficult to be recognized by players.
Coincidentally, another discontinued is also Tencent's work, this "Walnut Diary" cooperated by Giant Network and Tencent has closed the recharge and new user registration window on the 15th, and will be officially closed in 2 months.
This niche game released by Tencent is not expected to have a good life in the future.
In addition, the Hanbok of the classic racing online game "Run Go-Kart" has also announced the news of its imminent discontinuation, and in order to make way for the new work, this version update in December will be the last update of Run Hanbok.
However, Century Tiancheng issued an article publicly stating that the national service "Running Go-Karting" will not stop serving because of this, but choose to continue to operate.
Although many players are more worried about what to do with the subsequent updates of the game, Dr. X reminded everyone that the national server game can update the game version through "expansion packs" and "large version updates", such as "Overwatch: Return" and "Road of Exile 4.0" that may be launched in the future.
There is also an overseas mobile game suspended this week, and the battle royale game "Final Fantasy 7: First Warrior" cooperated by SE and Ateam announced the suspension this week, according to the official summary of lessons learned, the main reason for the suspension may be due to "insufficient krypton gold content in the game".
Dr. X can only say that if you reflect well, reflect a few more times in the future, SE can go out of business.
【Global Popular】
Focus: Blizzard China said it is in talks with new agents about the release of World of Warcraft national servers
On December 13, Blizzard China's official Weibo today released a letter from John Hight, general manager of the Warcraft production team, to all World of Warcraft national server players.
The letter mentioned that Blizzard is already negotiating with some new potential distribution partners in the national service region, and this process will continue until Blizzard finds an appropriate solution.
The World of Warcraft team is also looking to develop a feature that will allow players to moop their characters, items, and progress onto players' personal devices before the game stops on January 23.
To translate, we can't afford a server, and we can't find the receiver to store your data, so we are using all players' computers to store data for us.
In addition, Dr. X suggested that Blizzard talk to the Ministry of Culture first, if you can solve the version number problem yourself, then others are not rushing to agents.
Focus: Former Blizzard designer Mason returns again Can he save World of Warcraft?
In 2016, Chris Mason, the former creative director of World of Warcraft, announced his retirement after 23 years at Blizzard, but now the latest news is that he will return to Blizzard.
This week, World of Warcraft general manager John Hight officially announced that Chris Mason will return to the Warcraft team as a creative consultant. Mason is said to have an initial focus on World of Warcraft, and then his work will expand to other projects in the growing series.
However, Dr. X wants to say that "World of Warcraft Chronicles" was revised by this buddy, and it is the "culprit" of a large number of background setting changes in Warcraft, and it seems a bit foolish to expect him to save Blizzard.
Focus: "Eternal Disaster" will be linked with the "Neil" series 2B will be added soon
A few days ago, at the "Yongwu Sword Fighting Conference - Update Face Meeting", "Eternal Calamity" officially announced that it will be linked with the SE "Neil" series, and released a promotional video. [2B] is about to join the battle of immortal masks, and the new content in this linkage is inspired by the characters and weapons of the world of "Neil", which is worth looking forward to.
In addition, "Eternal Calamity" announced that it will launch a new weapon, the chopping knife, and a new hero Shen Miao, the chopping knife will be launched in February 2023, and Shen Miao will be launched in January 2023.
Focus: AI painting suffers great controversy Painters around the world resist AI painting
Since the advent of AI painting, it has been subject to great controversy, on the one hand, the problem of the loss of the painter's job, on the other hand, many people now take advantage of the unsound laws in this field to infringe on the rights and interests of other authors, and now the contradiction between the two sides has reached the point of irreconcilability.
(Well-known overseas painting websites and social media have begun a crusade against AI)
Dr. X believes that it is already a commercial infringement for AI companies to take the source of images shared by online artists and feed them to AI for learning, and then shamelessly use the AI completed by learning to inflict on the artist, imitate the artist's style creation, and squeeze the living space of the artist.
Dr. X believes that although the current AI technology can indeed create eye-catching things, in fact, the AI that relies heavily on the output of feeding pictures can still only be regarded as a relatively accurate imitation of paintings, which is far from creation and even art.
I believe that the art of painting should not be replaced by AI, nor will it be replaced by AI, and that the unique imagination and creativity of human beings are the root of the charm of art.