Xing Shanhu: Mercenary World is the second pioneering work of excellent games.

On September 12, Xing Shanhu, CEO of Zhuoyue Games, held a media exchange meeting in his new home, where he was interviewed by many scientific and game media, and had in-depth exchanges with many journalists about his company's upcoming new game "Mercenary World". In recent years, excellent game movements have been frequent, which has aroused great concern in the industry. The news from the outside world that it will invest huge sums of money to represent mobile games, the exposure of the new mobile game version of Mercenary World, and other new measures all indicate that the company actually has more goals under the seemingly calm appearance.

At present, "Mercenary World" is another masterpiece after the excellent game "My name is MT", and it is a work with the same name as the novel "Mercenary World", which was planned by him personally. What is the significance of this to the master himself and even the excellent game itself?

Reporter: "My name is MT" is your company's main product at present. I heard that your company is going to launch the second heavyweight mobile game product "Mercenaries in the World". Can you tell us about the differences between the two products in positioning and gameplay?

Master: Let me talk about our position first. In the future, we will make a variety of products with my name MT and mercenary world as two targets, each with two product clusters. It's like South Korea's Nexon, including go-karts and foam fighters, or Blizzard, including World of Warcraft and Warcraft. Eastern and western themes, internationalization route. We gave Mercenary World to some big foreign game companies, including the CEO of Unity3d, and they all thought it was good.

As for the gameplay, as we all know, "My name is MT" once set off a wave of card mobile games in China. Now that the tide has receded, "My name is MT" is still popular among players. At present, there are more than 30 million players and 2.3 million daily active users, which is still the goal that other mobile online games in China are struggling to catch up with. Of course, the dream of excellent games is not only to keep MT, we should not only keep MT, but also tap the new demand of users' mobile games in combination with the current market trends.

Mercenary World is a 3D horizontal SLG+RPG mobile game, which can be said to be a heavy game with high playability. There are not a few mobile phone players who like this kind of games at present, but the research and development threshold of the product itself is relatively high, so the market for this kind of games is still blank. Our commitment to players is that excellent games only produce excellent quality games, even if the research and development cost is higher.

Reporter: Mercenary World has been adapted into different game products for many times, such as large-scale end-game and page tour, and Huang Yulang, a famous cartoonist from Hong Kong, also created a cartoon version of Mercenary World. Will the adaptation of mobile games be different from before? Compared with the previous products, will ARPU decrease?

Master: At present, we have done a lot of numerical optimization in the mercenary world, and the ARPU value has finally come down. It can be said that it is a game with very low ARPU value. My position on the mobile version of the mercenary world is that you can play well without spending money. Spending money can speed up your progress at a certain stage of the game, rather than making you invincible. At the same time, we will also give players a lot of gold coins in the game, which is different from the high ARPU value of page games.

The mobile game version of "Mercenary World" adopts the horizontal version of 3D, with the picture style of western fantasy and slightly Q characters; The content of the game is based on the original novel, and several copies based on the original scene are opened. At the same time, protagonists in original works such as Amy, Daqingshan, Chi, Ying, Shang, Sharon and Hoorns will all appear in the game.

Reporter: What aspects of the performance of the "Mercenary World" mobile game satisfy you? Is it the picture, the gameplay, the connotation of the game or other aspects?

Master: The game is very good. Mercenaries play RPG+SLG, in which SLG elements are reflected in the horizontal map, while RPG elements are reflected in the role development and the management of lords' mansions, houses, pubs and other buildings. Mercenary World adopts automatic combat mode, and players can recruit characters from the novel to become members of their own mercenary group. In addition, there are many gameplay modules to expand the game content, such as the elf system, the magic beast system, the mercenary system, and the achievement medal system.

In terms of pictures, we are one of the few 3D mobile games in China, and the pictures are very good. Mercenary World creates a very strong world atmosphere of dragons and magic. Using Unity3D and dynamic streaming screen technology, the scene, characters and combat special effects of the game are described in detail. Can bring fantastic visual experience to players. As far as domestic 3D mobile games are concerned, the picture is really first-class! All the original paintings, icons and characters are redesigned and developed without any cost, which is different from the previous end-game page tour.

Reporter: The world view and story of the mobile game "Mercenary World" comes from the magic novel of the same name created by the master. Many readers think that the novel Mercenary World can be compared with The Lord of the Rings. Can you introduce the creativity and distribution of the novel?

Master: When I started writing the book Mercenary World in 2002, I never thought that this book would be published on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, and it would be adapted by the famous cartoonist Huang Yulang. Here, before the world mercenary mobile game version goes online, I would like to thank these dear readers. From 2002 to 2007, no matter whether friends subscribe, praise, criticize or even insult this book, your concern is the only motivation for codewords in the long night.

Reporter: Mercenary World has been adapted into different game products for many times, such as large-scale end-game and page tour, and Huang Yulang, a famous cartoonist from Hong Kong, also created a cartoon version of Mercenary World. Will the adaptation of mobile games be different from before?

Master: The mobile game version of "Mercenary World" adopts the horizontal version of 3D, with the picture style of western fantasy and slightly Q characters; The content of the game is based on the original novel, and several copies based on the original scene are opened. At the same time, the protagonists Amy, Daqingshan, Chi, Ying, Shang, Sharon and Hoorns in the original work will all appear.

Reporter: You put a lot of effort into the book Mercenary World. Have you personally participated in the product development of Mercenary World, a mobile game product?

Master: Now the company's R&D team is very mature, and many colleagues have come from other first-line game companies to start businesses together. Mainly to communicate with you the understanding of the nature of the novel in the planning process of the game, and to help colleagues better present the most wonderful stories and plots in the novel world to readers.

Reporter: What kind of success and recognition do you expect Mercenary World to achieve in the market? Is it possible to surpass the glory of your card game "My name is MT"?

Master: To tell you the truth, it is impossible to surpass my name MT. My hope is more realistic. I hope there are some favorite players in the mercenary world. Just as MT players like MT, mercenaries can bring them happiness, then we will succeed! Just like the slogan I posted in the company, we want to sell happiness to the whole world!

Reporter: Many players are very much looking forward to seeing the famous heroes in the novel, such as Amy and Daqingshan. In what form will these well-known novel characters be presented in the game?

Host: In terms of character setting, the famous heroes in the novel, such as Amy, Daqingshan and Chi Hanfeng, will run through the main task of the player's game to help the protagonists tide over the difficulties together.

Some well-known novel characters will be openly recruited, such as more than 60 legendary mercenaries, such as Qianlixue, Baron Minas and Chi Changyun. The character setting is 100% to restore the original work. The occupation, skills and even attributes of mercenaries in the novel will be perfectly presented in the game.

Reporter: What do you think is the reason why the life span of domestic mobile games is generally too short? The mobile version of Mercenary World is based on the novel and has a relatively complete world view. How to give full play to its advantages and improve the life of mobile games?

The world view of the mercenary world itself is complete, and how the world is formed and destroyed is described in detail. The reason why we choose mercenaries is largely because the phenomenon of serious lack of connotation and poor sustainability of mobile games in China is very common. For the mobile version of Mercenary World, these can be well solved. Based on the world view of the novel, the mercenary world has launched various new copies and activities, which constantly bring new ways of playing to players, which other games lack.

Reporter: What do you think is Le Tong's outstanding core competitiveness under the background of the booming mobile games and even the bubble speculation in the capital market?

Master: Our trained talents and excellent gamers are our core competitiveness. Excellent talents can bring good products and development strategies to the company. With the support of players, our excellent games can go further.

Reporter: If the most important thing for a mobile game company is whether the games you play are fun or not, how do you maintain this innovative ability in management? What operational experience does Le Tong Zhuoyue have?

Master: In the management mechanism of the company, we encourage innovation and employees to seek change. ? Loyalty, willingness to learn, willingness to work, coordination and change? This is the slogan of the company. Actually, it is forcing employees to think independently. Many employees sent me emails asking about some project decision-making issues. If they are basically in the right direction, our management will let them make their own decisions and respect the employees' ideas and decisions.