Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

Curve to save the nation.

During the National Day this year, "Watch Pioneer" and "return" (hereinafter referred to as OW2) was officially launched, and Blizzard chose a time that was very friendly to Chinese players, calling on everyone to enter the game to fully experience the new content.

But for players, the experience doesn't seem to be perfect-paid design and nurturance rewards for games, for example, have sparked controversy in gaming communities around the world.

Last week, for example, a Reddit netizen found that the Onion Little Squid pendant sold on OW2 costs 700 gold coins, or $7. The onion squid pendant in Blizzard Mall sells for only $5, which is $2 cheaper than the exact same virtual props.

To be fair, this comparison is not very fair, but this is only the tip of the iceberg that OW2 paid designers are complaining about, and various problems are troubling the player community. Many players are helpless about the unattainable items in the mall, so they try to find ways to fight against the pricing system.

For example, some people have found that in the case of "zero krypton", the most economical way to get as many OW2 props as possible is--

To play World of Warcraft next door.

1 on what exactly is the relationship between World of Warcraft and OW2, let's not press the table for the time being, we might as well talk about the paid design of OW2 first.

Before the official launch of OW2, the expectations of the player community are still quite high. After all, many people still remember the well-made CG animation at the Blizzard Carnival in 2019, which made people forget the shivering feeling in the voice of "Upper Hook" and the ranking experience with lower and lower fault tolerance, and began to look forward to a new vanguard of keeping watch.

In fact, it has replaced the old version of "return" and has indeed made a lot of improvements: 6V6 against local 5V5, forced restrictions on the location of tanks, new maps, new heroes, and the addition of free and "war orders" (that is, passes), which also marks that OW2 has completely embarked on the route of service-oriented games.

OW2 completely abandoned the old version of the upgrade box reward, replaced by a single season of nearly two months of war orders, the current upper limit of 80 levels, including each season of war order reward items.

However, apart from the war order reward, the characters who used to rely on gold coins to unlock the skin have now entered the mall and can hardly be obtained for free. What is more difficult for players to accept is that the orange skin in the past is now worth more than 100 yuan.

The dissatisfaction of the players is immediately ignited. The above-mentioned "Onion Squid" incident received a lot of attention, but the recent OW Halloween event once again led to a decline in official reviews. The new hero's Halloween skin suit costs 2600 gold coins, US $26, and national service costs nearly Rmb180, which is still at a 30 per cent discount. High pricing plus bundling has become a reason for players' dissatisfaction.

There are some players horizontal comparison, next door's free game "Fortnite" a 13 pounds Halloween skin has hundreds of custom options, in contrast to the OW2 mall activities, cost-effective almost at a glance.

The controversy about the price is more than that. Five days after the launch of "return", a Reddit netizen posted a post claiming that while typing in the chat box, a BUG caused his input process to be mistaken for an operation instruction, and the system directly helped him buy the skin of the Queen of Slag Town in the mall.

"Blizzard refused to give me a refund" as a result, the comment area reported bad news one after another, and many players have been "paid out of their own pocket" by the system BUG. The news reached Blizzard, and officials quickly said they had repaired the BUG. However, as for the refund applications issued by these players, they explicitly rejected them.

From the game's official point of view, there may be reasons for refusing a refund in the user agreement, but for the player community, this attitude seems to be highly consistent with the previous charge of "greed" caused by high pricing. At this point, some players began to find their own way out, trying to make the "Watchman Vanguard" development team suffer a bit-they found a "more efficient way."

Of course, 2OW2 also gives players the opportunity to win props by relying on the liver-a season order of 60 yuan, which unlocks a good skin for every 10 command levels, which seems reasonable.

As for the war order, the skin in the mall can only be bought with gold coins. Players can indeed accumulate gold coins for free through the game, but they can earn only 60 gold coins, or 60 cents, on weekly tasks. The orange peel, which is coveted by all players in the mall, sells for about 1900 gold coins, which means it takes 32 weeks for players to get an orange skin with zero krypton.

The so-called "more efficient approach" was proposed by an ID Everdale player on Reddit. He calculated that the "World of Warcraft" gold coins were exchanged for the "Watchman Pioneer" gold coins, so that the "liver" skin could be more efficient.

A very important part of the World of Warcraft economic system is the auction houses that exist in most cities and towns. Auction houses exist to encourage players to sell excess materials or props to create the circulation of gold coins.

In 2015, Blizzard officials added a token called "time badge" to auction houses in order to easily and safely switch between gold coins and game time. Players can buy time badges through the built-in mall. Use it to get gold coins in the auction house, or in turn buy it with gold coins from the auction house, exchange point cards, to achieve zero krypton play effect.

Unfortunately, this method is not applicable to the national service without two-way exchange in American service. The time badge can be used in a richer way, and it can also change the Blizzard game's universal battle network. In a sense, it brings the value of gold coins in the game to reality.

This attribute once contributed to the American service "gold" gray industry chain, but for most ordinary players, the price of a time badge is generally in the hundreds of thousands of gold coins, it is not easy to liver.

Everdale means to get the battle network in this way, and then convert it into gold coins from the Vanguard of Watchmen, so that you can buy expensive skin in the mall in a cheap or even free way.

Soon netizens began to talk about this way of making money, and some players who had never come into contact with World of Warcraft tried to learn more details and tricks from veterans, only to find that it was not very fast. First of all, the threshold is quite high.

You need to recharge some cards to enter World of Warcraft, and so on, after you have a deep understanding of the game, you will be subject to the price and price of the auction house after figuring out the whole trading rules. Whether in terms of time cost or upfront investment, the difficulty of this approach does not apply to light players.

But it's more attractive than brushing a set of orange peels in 32 weeks-an old Warcraft player did a rough calculation of the auction house's current prices and thought he could earn a time badge in 10 days or so in exchange for $15 worth of outlets, meaning he could buy the skin in the mall in OW2 in less than 20 days.

At present, the community has a complex attitude towards the only way of whoring high-grade skin. Some people think that this is just what the capitalists want, and in essence it has even "drained" another game of Blizzard. More people beg the landlord to delete the post, hoping that the "back door" will not be discovered by the authorities, and then be "blocked" by every means, at least leaving some hope to the players who are not afraid of the liver.

Maybe they all worry too much-at least so far, Blizzard has not responded to the mall's high pricing, nor to the so-called "whoring" that is popular in the community.

(3) being justified in the price of the mall does not mean that the government is "laying it out". In today's OW2, there may be too many problems to deal with.

From the beginning of the launch of OW2, the related vicious events can be said to come one after another. First, the server was unable to log in properly due to a DDoS attack, and then a large number of BUG appeared seamlessly-for example, "unlimited firepower fortress" and "unlimited overload Tobian" appeared just five days after the launch, and officials hastened to temporarily disable patching BUG for the two heroes.

The out-of-control fortress storm is not over, and there are veteran players who "like to mention" the lowest Rank Bronze 5 after winning seven in a row in eight grading matches. Blizzard quickly admitted that there was something wrong with the scoring system and promised to revise it soon.

The two heroes who are repairing BUG on this side have not been released yet, and the new hero fog over there can be transferred out of the map with the help of Xiaomei's E skill ice wall. As a result, Xiaomei has been temporarily banned as soon as the fortress is released from prison. Now, some people have found that there is a suspected unlimited shield BUG in Brigita.

Picture from bilibili user @ quiet DVA, for players, this seems a little helpless: no one knows when this "your turn" will end. There are constant complaints from the player community every day: mismapping, demo BUG; sound effects are not as good as the previous ones, lack of special effects, and excessive shooting judgment. OW, which is constantly making up the homework that should be done, should not be the game that everyone wants.

Compared with the launch of OW in 2016, OW2 is clearly off to a bad start, and there are a lot of problems waiting for Blizzard to solve. Many people are still waiting to see whether the game will recover with the version update and BUG fix.

The only good news may be that Blizzard unveiled its new hero Ramasha at the recently concluded OWL Finals, just a month after the last new hero was announced. It seems that, at least in terms of content update efficiency, Watchman will not repeat the mistakes of the original generation. Sooner or later, this may give players hope to get the game back on track.

New hero Ramasha article from the official account of Wechat: game Research Society (ID:yysaag), by Pearl

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