Game development begins with destroying Girls' Frontline.

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Fortunately, Chen Wenbin is an omnivorous player and plays all sorts of games.

He also loves anime and manga games, and has played quite a few games from Spark. In order to satisfy his fantasies, he has also played a lot of fantasy games in recent years.

But I can usually only play the beginning of each game before giving up.

After all, what he wanted was to fall in love with a fairy, not to play cricket fighting with numbers. Therefore, many characters in Xianxia online games really appealed to his tastes. But when he thought about how these characters were just byproducts of playing cricket fighting with numbers, he realized that they were just byproducts of the game.

Then I suddenly felt bored and tasteless.

Chapter 453 China Manufacturers' Special Sale

The release of the PV for Chinese Paladin 7 caught his eye.

I casually browsed the news and found that this game only switched to the Starfire engine in April of this year. Since then, the official Weibo account has been posting a lot of recruitment information, but there hasn't been much information about the game's content.

It seems there's still a long way to go before it goes live.

However, the word-of-mouth seems to be quite good, especially in the comments section of the character short film released this time, where most players expressed their anticipation.

In fact, after so many years, the popularity accumulated by the original Legend of Sword and Fairy series through several highly acclaimed works has long since dissipated.

The poor reception of the fifth and sixth installments of the Legend of Sword and Fairy series severely damaged the Legend of Sword and Fairy IP, especially with the emergence of the new IP, Gujian.

In this timeline, the appeal of the Legend of Sword and Fairy IP has actually been further diluted.

Thanks to its low price and promotion by Xinghuo, Gujian 3 from Aurogon sold quite well, and they announced early on that they would be using the Xinghuo engine to develop Gujian 4.

Following the Summer Games Festival, the two single-player games that Spark helped create were frequently mentioned by players.

Let's talk about the Legend of Sword and Fairy again.

It looks like a work from ancient times.

Moreover, its tragic performance style doesn't seem to be as popular in contemporary times.

The original version of Legend of Sword and Fairy 7 didn't achieve any breakthroughs in either the storyline or the gameplay. Although the graphics were better than its predecessor, it also came with a lot of optimization issues.

The core plot of the Legend of Sword and Fairy series is rather bland and uninteresting. For completely new players, it's not so much that they're completely confused, but at least they won't know what it's about.

For veteran players, the storyline of Sword and Fairy 7 can only be described as bland.

Yes, it's bland, neither good nor bad. As many core fans of the Legend of Sword and Fairy series have said, it's good enough that it was made at all.

The original version of Chinese Paladin 7 that truly gained some popularity was actually the female lead, who was criticized by many for her "internet celebrity" face, but attracted a lot of attention with her white-stockinged legs.

When Sword and Fairy 7 was first released, the most popular video was the female lead's bare legs MOD.

Lin Li naturally didn't have the energy to care about the plot of Legend of Sword and Fairy 7, nor did he have time to care about their production. After all, logically speaking, after Xinghuo acquired the Legend of Sword and Fairy IP,

After Beijing Softstar finished making Legend of Sword and Fairy 7, whether or not they could make Legend of Sword and Fairy 8 was entirely up to Xinghuo.

The reason for acquiring shares in Beijing Softstar was simply that Spark wanted to preserve some of its flame.

Beijing Softstar was aware of this. They knew very well that if Sword and Fairy 7 was successful, they could retain the IP and continue making Sword and Fairy 8.

But if it fails, then the Spark will definitely be taken back.

After all, this IP still has appeal in the country.

Therefore, Lin Li was only responsible for putting pressure on the production team of Legend of Sword and Fairy 7 and providing technology. As for what product they could ultimately produce, that was completely beyond Lin Li's control.

All I can say is that if Chinese Paladin 7 still fails under these circumstances, then the creative team is truly incompetent.

Chen Wenbin, of course, was unaware of the inside story.

What he saw was just the character images released by the Legend of Sword and Fairy production team. The character designs in the seventh installment were quite good, especially with the support of Starfire Technology.

This version of Yue Qingshu is indeed a refreshing sight.

In the comments section, some people even said...

"The graphics are so high-definition, the details are so detailed, it's almost unbelievable that this is a game from the Legend of Sword and Fairy series..."

As mentioned before.

Chen Wenbin was completely powerless against the "fairy" attribute, so when he saw Yue Qingshu, he felt as if she had stepped on his heart.

I immediately purchased a pre-order gift pack for 9.9 yuan.

This gift pack contains a white dress skin for Yue Qingshu, which will be available after the game officially launches. This version of Yue Qingshu is already more fairy-like.

After changing into white clothes, that feeling became even stronger.

Moreover, Chen Wenbin doesn't consider a skin set to cost 9.9 yuan at all.

When he bought it, he also glanced at it and saw that the skin had already sold hundreds of thousands of copies, so it seemed to be quite popular.

I've bought the skin.

Chen Wenbin returned to the homepage of the Spark platform.

"Holy crap, they're giving away platform skins? Is the developer really going all out with this event?"

In the past, the Spark platform's special sales for manufacturers usually involved placing ads in various ad slots on the main page and replacing the major news on the splash screen with event information.

But this time, after Chen Wenbin joined the Xinghuo platform...

The first activity Chen Wenbin discovered was a notification that the Spark platform had launched a new skin-changing function. Chen Wenbin went in to take a look and tried out the free skin called "Spark of Fire".

Soon, the entire platform's homepage changed, and many interfaces featured the Spark Games' mascot.

To be honest, the platform's functionality has been somewhat compromised after the skin was changed, since some items have become harder to find in order to improve the aesthetics.

But the novelty brought by this skin change is overwhelming.

Moreover, Chen Wenbin soon discovered that in addition to the free Starfire skin, his skin collection also included some platform skins from games he had previously spent money on.

Click on the China Manufacturers' Special Sale Festival again.

Well, almost all games have similar events, such as buying event packs and receiving platform skins as a reward.

"Okay, okay, Xinghuo really knows how to make money from the anime and manga community..."

It has to be said that Chen Wenbin originally had no intention of participating in this event, but now he was actually somewhat tempted.

Let's take a look at the details pages of these skins.

Surprisingly, some players even commented below, showing off the effects of their skin change, and there were quite a few comments.

Chen Wenbin shook his head.

I stopped myself from buying the gift package.

"No, I can't spend any more money on in-game purchases, or I'll really be eating dirt this month..."

As a recent college graduate, Chen Wenbin is a typical spendthrift. His meager monthly salary is further reduced after deducting rent, utilities, and daily expenses.

There won't be much left, and besides, it's only the beginning of December, and it's still a long way from the 15th when we get paid.

Poverty limited his spending on in-game purchases.

However, this doesn't stop him from browsing the events, since browsing doesn't cost any money.

"This promotion is really generous..."

"No wonder so many bloggers are making videos..."

This year's Spark China Game Manufacturers Special Sale Festival started its promotion at the end of last month, with many video bloggers releasing previews and even shopping guide videos in advance.

It's actually quite outrageous.

There was an event, and there were also product recommendation videos, and these videos had pretty good view counts.

This is mainly because there are many games participating in this event, so these product guide videos are, to some extent, also game introduction videos.

Chapter 454 Returning to the Bright Moon

This type of video is even more noticeable on YouTube, because many overseas players' understanding of Chinese games is mainly limited to Spark Games.

Therefore, many overseas bloggers also introduced the games on sale at this Chinese game developer sale, mainly focusing on single-player games.

Games like Naraka: Bladepoint and Conqueror's Blade, which appeared in previous summer games, were frequently featured.

Especially Naraka: Imperishable

This game, which started pre-orders at the end of November and officially launched today, is also offering a launch special price thanks to the manufacturer's sale. The original price was 98.

The limited-time special price of 78 is not expensive even for domestic players, and it's even less of a problem for overseas players.

If you look at Naraka: Bladepoint now, overseas players have given it a nearly 90% positive review rating, with many overseas comments saying it's incredibly good value for the price.

That is indeed the case.

With the added benefit of the Starfire engine, this version of Naraka: Bladepoint, while retaining the same content, boasts excellent server stability and graphics.

The price is still available.

It sold over a million copies in just three hours after it went on sale.

Subsequently, as word-of-mouth spread, sales continued to climb rapidly.

The tens of millions of sales achieved in 10 months in the previous game's Eternal Calamity might come even faster in this timeline.

Compared to the explosive sales of Eternal Calamity.

Another game released at the same time, Conqueror's Blade, was slightly weaker, but its sales quickly exceeded 50, including a large number of purchases by fans of Mount & Blade games worldwide.

It can be said.

The improvements in gameplay between these two games are not significant compared to their predecessors; the only difference is that the graphics are better.

The reason why such a sales boom has occurred is...

This is because Spark has already opened up two avenues for them. One is that it has given a large number of Chinese PC gamers their own base.

Secondly, its global influence has become stronger.

Putting aside everything else, even if Eternal Calamity were to become incredibly popular, Steam would never do a separate promotion for it. But at Spark, this is something Spark has always been doing.

Let more people see the excellent games from China; this is what Xinghuo's operations department has always been doing.

Another change in Spark is the global server.

Taking Nāgataḍālā as an example, once you enter the game, you can choose from multiple servers, such as the Chinese server, Asian server, Southeast Asian server, European server, American server, Middle Eastern server, and African server.

Thanks to Spark's global coverage, server data can be shared.

Although there will definitely be some delay for players when going to other servers, even so, when Chinese players enter the game, they see all servers are at full capacity.

When you can see the number of players on the corresponding server, you get a strange sense of identification.

Spark also built an "International Brawl" server on its existing foundation, which allows players worldwide with sufficient network latency to enter.

These factors all contributed to rapidly expanding the influence of Eternal Calamity to some extent.

However, for Chen Wenbin...

What interests him most about Naraka: Imperishable is not the gameplay, but the female character skins, which he had already pre-ordered last month.

This time, I just bought an extra 68-yuan all-character and all-skin selection pack.

He didn't want to buy it at first, but this full skin selection pack was amazing, and he really loved one of the skins in it.

Until payment is completed.

Chen Wenbin suddenly woke up! He immediately closed the Eternal Calamity event interface.

"I really can't buy any more, I really can't buy any more... Rational consumption, rational consumption..."

The event details for Eternal Calamity have been closed.

Chen Wenbin also breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, Xinghuo was not included in this domestic game event, otherwise he might not have been able to protect his wallet. Just as he breathed a sigh of relief...

He caught a glimpse of the new image that had just appeared on the event's homepage.

The homepage of this domestic game special sale festival featured a constantly looping poster on the front page, and what Chen Wenbin saw was none other than the poster for "Return to the Bright Moon".

In the poster, a fairy sits quietly by a pond.

She wore a flowing white dress, her face was exquisitely beautiful, her eyebrows were like distant mountains, her eyes were like autumn water, her lips were red without any makeup, and the hairpins and earrings, the layered details made her even more ethereal.

Of course, what's even more striking is her sitting posture, with one foot gently dangling in the pond, causing ripples to spread across the water beneath her feet.

His other leg was bent and placed on a stone by the pond.