Hello everyone, this is Warcraft Weekly.
[Warcraft Weekly] is mainly composed of three parts: "Warcraft Events", "Warcraft Competitive Product Dynamics" and "Warcraft Game Update".
Let's take a look at the recent Warcraft news that is not unhappy!
【Warcraft Event】
Microsoft is recruiting game managers in China, with an annual salary of 1.394 million
On December 6, Microsoft's job recruitment form in the company was updated to a manager-level job requirements, requiring him to be fully responsible for business development in China, and gave a high annual salary of 1.394 million.
Microsoft needs this manager to build, grow, and maintain a network of existing Chinese partners, new partners, competitors, investors, and community leaders to facilitate Microsoft's future gaming business in the Chinese market.
Although Microsoft did not name names, this new position is prepared for the return of Blizzard's family bucket to the national server.
In terms of competency requirements, this role requires managing all business partnerships in China, including console, PC, xCloud, Game Pass, mobile, and cloud, as well as developing and developing long-term partnership strategies with partners.
Obviously, the birth of this new position is based on Microsoft's dissatisfaction with Blizzard's sudden non-renewal of the national server, and then they selected all the game agency business and integrated it into a new strategic cooperation department, ready to officially finalize the agency situation with the national server.
In addition, Microsoft also noted that this position requires more than 5 years of relevant experience, business-level fluency in Chinese reading, writing and speaking, experience in the game industry and global teamwork across time zones and geographies is preferred.
According to this recruitment requirement, the relevant recruitment website gives an annual salary of $101,200 to $194,800 for a salary reference, which is converted into RMB, which is between 724,000 and 1,394,000 yuan per year, which can easily allow you to achieve a small goal of earning one million a year.
In this regard, many players immediately thought of Zhang Dong, the former head of NetEase who resigned from NetEase: "Isn't this what Zhang Dong is talking about?", "Fast forward to the national service is coming", "This position is a radish digging pit, at least there are already people who are already talking", "Tailor-made for Zhang Dong"...
In short, no matter from which point of view, the possibility of Blizzard's national server is infinitely close to 100%.
The new agent has been negotiated, and Huang Xudong broke the news: two words can't be more!
The well-known poisonous milk anchor Huang Xudong has frequently broken the news recently, first revealing that the national service will definitely return, but the agency situation is very magical. Later, he went straight to the bottom with his friends, saying that the name of the new agent is just two words, and it will not be an agent in the non-game industry.
Based on the prompt of "fantasy" and "two words", many players have opened their brains and put forward speculations such as "Tencent, NetEase, Bytes, and Shanda".
However, there is no one more rebellious than the Nine Cities! In other words, isn't the full name of the people "Ninth City"? How could it be a two-word agent.
Blizzard's new Odyssey is going to be cool?
The new work "Codename: Odyssey", which has been highly anticipated by Blizzard's president, seems to be really cooling, and after art director Samwise Didier announced his departure last month, his younger brother Jamie McNulty also officially announced the news of leaving Blizzard.
Unlike Samwise Didier, who retired after 32 years at Blizzard due to his age, Jamie McNulty was a new employee at Blizzard nine months ago, having previously been working as an art director at Studio 343.
Therefore, his resignation this time was by no means a temporary intention, it should be that the project encountered some great difficulties, or that Blizzard had overtime to catch up with the schedule, so that these art bosses would be persuaded to quit so frequently.
In this regard, many netizens recalled the wave of resignations before the "Titan" project was cut, and the collective resignation of the art bosses before the release of "Diablo 4", and can only say that they hope that the current development progress of "Codename: Odyssey" will go well.
【Warcraft Competitive Product News】
15 minutes of crowdfunding to break one million! The new work of the former interstellar team, "Storm Gate", is scheduled for the summer of 2024
At the TGA 2023 awards ceremony, the latest trailer for the new RTS game "Storm Gate", developed by the former interstellar team and now Frost Giant Studios, was released, and it was announced that the game will be officially launched in the summer of 2024.
In the announcement, the designers showcased a variety of gameplay styles built by Unreal Engine 5, including co-op, campaign, 1v1, and a powerful custom game editor.
Subsequently, "Stormgate" was successfully launched on the crowdfunding platform KickStarter, and it took only 15 minutes to reach the $100,000 crowdfunding goal.
Recently, this game has also opened a closed test on Steam, and a number of interstellar anchors in China have received invitations to test qualifications.
- There are many people who may not be able to get how strong Blizzard's art foundation is, and one point that can be understood by watching the demo of Storm Gate is "the recognition of units", and it is completely impossible to compare to the fineness of the model of Star 2 just by looking at it without filling in art materials, so it is now a stage to look at the gameplay and feel.
- At this stage, the fineness is still not enough, and the fineness in all aspects is not enough, whether it is on the model or in the details of the map, it is very rough.
— Basically not optimistic. Visually, this game may be popular in a small circle for a while, and the best result should be that after a period of good operation, there will be a fixed fan base, and the worst result may be no sound after that while.
It's not as good as the sword spirit? Han You's new work "Kingship and Freedom" thundered
The new MMO "Throne and Freedom", developed by the developer of Sword and Soul, has exploded, and its game quality, operation services, and gameplay innovation are far less than players expected.
On the first day of the open beta, the game exposed a serious lack of optimization, overloaded server debt, and a large number of problems such as no A-card optimization, and computers with non-4090 graphics cards and 32G memory can't play at all.
(Severe stuttering)
Subsequently, players who are still sticking to the game found that in addition to optimization problems, the game's combat experience, dungeon design, and official economic system for selling resources are not good.
- Sword Spirit's combat system has blown it up, and you really can't expect anything from its combat system.
- Objective evaluation is a mobile game, no highlights and no freshness.
—There is nothing new, so the map is relatively large.
The best rework? "Sword and Soul" nostalgic clothing professional preview video exposed
On December 9th, the official Hanbok of the nostalgic service of "Sword Spirit" released a large number of preview news at one time, including the display of moves of swordsman, boxer, qigong master, assassin and other professions, the restoration of the copy of the Red Lotus Cemetery, and the related news of the membership system.
Judging from the released clips, the class of the "Sword and Soul" nostalgic suit will cancel the faction division, and will add a large number of original skills from the "future" version as a supplement, allowing players to freely mix and match a large number of fun BDs to deal with different dungeon needs.
In terms of paid design, the "Sword & Soul" nostalgic service will adopt a monthly card membership system, which provides certain cosmetic rewards for players who purchase monthly passes, but does not involve numerical sales.
In short, the current many changes to the nostalgic costume of "Sword Soul" are still quite good, which has aroused a lot of expectations from netizens:
- Fire Dragon Whirlwind that skill, there was a version of the fire sword that had this skill before, the name may be different, but the actual picture performance is like this, comic skills, I haven't seen anyone use it.
- It was so cool when I fought Artillery Lan and Dongtianba, I took the swordsman infinite block poke and poke, I don't know if there is any more this time.
- A new skill in the monthly card season system, a bit like the origin of Sword Net 3.
【Warcraft Game Update】
No one is playing at all?The Warcraft hardcore suit is already cool
Due to the opening of the Exploration Season, the hardcore nostalgia server of World of Warcraft, which is not played by many people, has cooled down, and the server load during prime time is only low and medium.
Of course, the reason for this is not only the launch of the exploration season, but also the unreasonable design of the hardcore itself, and Blizzard does not give players a lot of novel gameplay experiences and welfare rewards.
In addition, from time to time, the main city enters the red name monsters, and the massacre of the player's small warehouse also makes many people not want to play.
Blizzard Live talks about the follow-up plan of Nostalgic Service Plus
On December 9th, Blizzard conducted a wave of community Q&A on the follow-up planning for the current World of Warcraft Discovery Season, the Nostalgia Plus version. Judging from the designer's ridicule, there is not a lot of manpower in charge of this project in the early stage, and it seems that 2 Xi students (BuShi) do it casually, so everyone has nothing to play in the first stage.
Therefore, Blizzard will learn enough lessons from the second phase of research and development, including but not limited to readjusting the PVP map and events to make these areas truly become a gladiatorial arena, reducing the difficulty of obtaining some runes and increasing the playability of runes, a series of mission designs such as looted goods are very unsuccessful and will be changed in the future, hunter playability will be tried to a greater extent, and the exploration season will most likely stop at level 60.
On the whole, this Season of Exploration is really a pure "monthly card scam", and the other story of the Azeroth universe that everyone wants to play is basically gone.