Free cards have always been a very important part of Japanese card drawing games.
The reason is simple. Not every player will spend a lot of money to form a team.
Compared with all players, the number of heavy paying players should always be relatively small.
Most players will basically focus on spending money on a few of their favorite cards, and then draw from a special pool, such as a lucky bag.
Another feature of Japanese card drawing is to ensure that every player has a normal gaming experience.
The pVP part is naturally the stage for the big spenders, there is nothing much to say about it.
But in most PVE games, game designers need to ensure that no player gets stuck due to reasons other than insufficient training.
The free card exists to ensure this situation, which is what we often call the lower-level replacement card.
The simplest example is that the initial characters in most games have the characteristics of low development cost and high cost-effectiveness.
For example, Tamaki in "Magic Record" and Mashu in FGO.
On the other hand, the positioning of these cards is mainly auxiliary.
This ensures that players must draw cards in order to achieve their output needs.
As long as the players click the card drawing button, they have no control over what happens next.
The statement that drawing cards will give pleasure to the prostate is not just talk, it is something that really stimulates people's instinctive desires.
But at the same time, game planners also need to have corresponding replacement plans to ensure that most players can continue to play the game even when they are unlucky.
The minimum guarantee mechanism has been designed for this purpose from the very beginning.
In fact, Nanaya has always felt that it is a very unhealthy development for a game to have more gold cards than silver and bronze cards.
This kind of game is obviously designed to drain players' wallets.
"Because players have to invest a lot of money in pay-to-win games, any player who has spent money will have a high cost of abandoning the game."
Nanaya explained to Yakumo Mitama.
"So as long as the game can proceed normally, they will not say they must quit. Because they all have the same idea: since I have spent so much money, and this game is not completely unplayable, then of course I have to continue playing, otherwise I will lose the money I paid before."
"Plus, as the characters become stronger little by little, players grow with them, follow them to the end of the story, and get a great sense of satisfaction from it. These are the most attractive aspects of card drawing and development games."
Yakumo Mitama was shocked. She opened her mouth and couldn't say anything for a long time.
She found that the gap between herself and the director was really too big.
When doing the planning, Yakumo thought about how to maximize the benefits and made a lot of designs for this purpose.
But after talking with the director, she realized that she had thought too simply.
She only thought about how to get money out of players' pockets, but the director was thinking about how to retain players while cutting meat with a blunt knife.
To use the analogy of slaughtering a pig, I am like a person stabbing the pig in the stomach with a knife.
This may indeed kill the pig, but it is also likely to cause it to escape.
However, what Kiryu Nanaya did was to make an incision on the pig and kill it by slowly bleeding it.
As expected, an expert is an expert...
Yakumo Mitama looked at Nanaya with admiration.
Nanaya was not too proud, after all, he had played too many similar games in his previous life.
Therefore, he already had a rough plan on how to operate a pay-to-win mobile game.
But just like business operations, Nanaya only knows a general direction at most, and many specific operations can only be done by professionals.
"In short, we can't operate the game with the mentality of making a quick buck and leaving. We must operate the game as long as possible."
"Hmmmm!"
Yakumo Mitama began to write furiously, writing down everything Nanaya said.
"Your idea is good, but the actual implementation is still a little bit short."
Nanaya continued, "I need you to follow the "Magic Record" operation team for a while and learn the specific process of mobile game operation."
"I see."
Yakumo Mitama was very excited, thinking that she was going to be reused.
Over the following period of time, Nanaya and Yakumo Mitama worked together to perfect these drafts.
Of course, most of the time it was Nanaya who did the talking and Yakumo who did the writing.
According to Nanaya's arrangement, in the next 2-3 months, Yakumo Mitama will be fully involved in the game operation of "Magic Record".
After the New Year of 2011, she will start to set up the FGO game operation and officially prepare for the game.
"Besides."
Nanaya paused, staring at Yakumo Midori for a while and then said, "During this time, you have to learn how to get along with your colleagues and how to build good relationships with them."
When making the phone call in the morning, Nanaya could clearly hear the gloating tone in the voices of Yakumo Mitama's colleagues.
This shows that the relationship between Yakumo Mitama and her colleagues is definitely not good.
Otherwise, how could there not even be the most basic cover?
Although leaders and employees should keep a distance, they must never be completely disconnected.
Otherwise, it would be annoying if the people below you pretend to obey you but actually disobey you.
Especially for mobile games, the programmer deliberately modifies a parameter causing problems with the card draw delivery rate, and you don't even have a chance to cry.
"I see."
Yakumo Mitama nodded carefully.
Although Nanaya did not tell her the consequences of not changing, Yakumo Mitama could guess it herself.
The two chatted for a long time, and by the time they were finishing the draft, Nanaya found that most of the afternoon had passed.
Nanaya picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea to moisten his dry throat.
Then he said slowly: "Keep these things for now. If you encounter any problems during operation, you can always supplement them."
"Wait until February and submit the complete plan to me."
Nanaya held his chin and said seriously.
"I'll try my best."
Yakumo Mitama did not give a definite answer. After several hours, this newcomer to the workplace already looked very tired.
According to the time given by Nanaya, it is very tight.
She will hand over her work tomorrow and join the "Magic Record" project team.
Then she would move through all operations roles in just a few weeks.
This is not to make her a jack of all trades, but to realize the role of each position in the project team through personal work.
Nanaya has always disliked the leader of the airborne parachute.
If they were transferred from other project teams in the same company, it would be fine. However, leaders who were parachuted in as an exception often made misjudgments and made blind decisions.
Because he did not actually experience the actual role of each position in the operation of the company, as well as the precautions.
The information asymmetry can easily lead him to make wrong judgments when making decisions.
Therefore, Nanaya always felt that leaders should at least do every position once, even the lowest-level specialist.
It doesn't mean that leaders must do better than ordinary employees in every aspect. That is not realistic either.
What he needs is for the leader to know clearly what each position is used for and why the company has set up such positions.
Nanaya's management thinking for the team comes from his own job.
The profession of director is open to everyone except very few people.
Most directors start from the lower levels of a crew and only dare to sit in the director's chair after having performed most of the duties in the crew.
Even directors who started out as independent directors are no exception.
The budgets of those directors making their first independent films are usually very tight, and they often have to take on multiple roles in order to reduce costs.
All the work of screenwriting, photography, acting and directing needs to be done.
Yakumo Mitama is now facing the same situation.
Even though Nanaya asked for the report to be submitted next year, the task is very heavy for Yakumo Mitama.
Therefore, Yakumo Mitama did not give a positive answer because she was not sure.
"Well...then finish it before March. I remember there will be a shareholders' meeting in early March, so you must finish it before then."
Nanaya also knew that Yakumo's workload would not be light, so he didn't make things too difficult for her.
"I see."
Yakumo Mitama breathed a sigh of relief, packed up her things and prepared to leave.
"Don't leave so quickly, there's one more thing."
Nanaya said suddenly.
"What?"
Yakumo Mitama thought that Nanaya had something to add, and just as she was about to take out a pen and paper, she heard Nanaya say with a smile.
"What do you think about you skipping work early to buy the game?"
"Forehead..."
Yakumo Mitama seemed to be suddenly stunned, and the expression on her face kept changing.
From excitement, fear, embarrassment to the final resignation.
Yakumo Mitama expressed almost all the negative emotions that everyone has.
"I'm sorry. I was wrong."
Yakumo Mitama replied with a tearful tone.
In the next half hour, Miss Yakumo OL received special care and "education" from Nanaya Kiryu.
Yakumo Mitama felt what it was like to be scolded by the director and suffered a huge psychological trauma.
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"Nanaya, do you like gray hair?"
During dinner, Shion suddenly asked Nanaya a question.
"It's just so-so. I don't have much requirements for hair color. Why do you ask?"
Nanaya answered indifferently while chewing his steak.
"I heard that you called a white-haired girl to your office today and she was crying for the whole afternoon. When she came out, she was in tears."
Shion had a teasing smile on her face: "And then the girl was promoted. Can you explain the connection?"
"I...I'm not, I didn't!"
Nanaya thought about what Shion described, and then immediately refuted it.
"Sera, please explain it to me!"
Nanaya quickly sought help off the field.
The maid who was named said calmly: "Indeed, Nanaya did something very excessive to that girl."
"…"
[Sera, you are obviously not a pink-haired girl, why are you so sinister! ]
In the end, Nanaya had to spend the entire night proving his innocence through physical actions.
So much so that when Nanaya went to work the next day, he went out rubbing his waist.
But that's another story.