In the first half of 217, Tencent doubled its growth at an alarming rate, achieving an impressive achievement of $7.4 billion, consolidating its position as the world's largest game company. This figure increased by $2.4 billion compared with the same period in 216. Tencent's smartphone games showed more benefits than PC games for the first time in the second quarter of 217.

It is worth mentioning that Tencent's revenue is almost twice that of Sony, the second-ranked company, when the revenue of Supercell, a game company acquired by Tencent, is included. Tencent's strong growth is driven by the national game the glory of the king, with 2 million players in China alone. Tencent is seeking to maintain its growth in various ways, including promoting the glory of the king in Europe and the United States, launching the "WeGame" game platform, and launching the free version of Rocket League in China.

Netease's performance in China still lived up to expectations, and its turnover increased by 53% in the first half of 217. Last year, most media predicted that Netease would become a seed player and squeeze into the top five in 217. Although the company is not as expected at present, the first and second generations of online games "Fantasy Journey to the West", together with the good results of the new editions of "Ghost of a Lover" and "Master of Yin and Yang", may help it board the top five positions in the world at the end of the year.

but in the end, the life of the game is very worrying. Few games can last for a long time, and substitutes are constantly flooding the market. More advanced game engines and bigger brain holes can be said to be a fatal blow to old games.

Recently, there is such a game that has been praised by major game platforms and players-Jedi Survival: The Great Escape.

Survival of the Jedi is an open-world strategy shooting game co-produced by Bluehole and Playerunknown, the producer of "H1Z1" and "armed assault 3". It is made by Unreal 4 engine. It is a type of escape game. Each game will involve 1 players, who will be dropped over the Jedi Island. When the game starts parachuting, everyone will have nothing.

The way the game is played is: players are distributed in every corner of the island with their bare hands, using various weapons and props on the island. With the passage of time, there are fewer and fewer safe zones on the island, and explosions will also occur in certain areas. In the end, only one person or one team will survive and win.

every game of the game will randomly change the safety zone, so that the player's sense of freshness and tension will be stronger.

as early as August this year, it was reported that Tencent would act as the national costume of Survival of the Jedi, but this news was later denied by Blue Hole, the developer of Survival of the Jedi. However, the fact that Tencent acted as the agent for eating chicken did not end there. Shortly after Blue Hole denied that Tencent acted as the agent for Survival of the Jedi, Tencent's "Pocket Escape" APP began testing. It is well known that Tencent's "Pocket" series is for. For example, Pocket Crossing the Fire Line, Pocket League of Legends, etc., after the release of Pocket Escape, the majority of netizens further affirmed that Tencent has won the agent of the national costume of Survival of the Jedi.

Tencent released a game-related questionnaire survey to players a week ago, which involved the recent hit "Survival of the Jedi", and revealed in it that they planned to launch a mobile game with a similar theme.

The questionnaire begins to ask whether the players have played games such as Survival of the Jedi and H1Z1. Let players choose the attractive highlights and shortcomings in this kind of game.

Then directly ask the players' attitude towards the escape-killing mobile game, and ask the reasons for those who are not interested. It also provides the selection of game icons and slogans to ask why you are attracted.

After that, I asked the players in detail about the expected single game duration, matching, map, equipment operation, function, artistic style, shooting method and the fun they hoped to get. It also investigated the game habits and game types of players in the last three months, and listed some games to ask whether players have played, as well as commonly used websites and apps.

This morning, Weibo, the official of Tencent WeGame, officially announced that he had won the Jedi Survival: The Great Escape.

although the official launch date has not been announced, it has started from "Good luck, _ _ _ eat chicken? Stay tuned! " From the point of view, Tencent's national service "Survival of the Jedi" has been nailed down.

as the hottest game of Steam, the global sales of "Jedi Survival: The Great Escape" has exceeded 1 million copies, and the online peak number of Steam online is nearly 1.5 million.

"Survival of the Jedi" has become a phenomenal game that has made the limelight this year. It not only has a high popularity on major live broadcast platforms, but also triggered a "eat chicken" craze all over the world. After the first experience in the development of Steam platform, the popularity of Jedi Survival even beat the classic brands such as Dota2 and CS:GO, and the game sales exceeded 13 million sets. The market value of Blue Hole Studio, a developer of Jedi Survival in South Korea, has quintupled in three months, reaching 4.6 billion US dollars.

it's worth mentioning that according to the statistics of SteamSpy, the purchase volume of China players for "Survival of the Jedi: The Great Escape" has reached 26.8%, ranking first in the world, and the number of players also ranks first with 31.41%.

Recently, in an interview, Chang Byung-gyu, the founder of Blue Hole Company, the developer of Jedi Survival, said: "Tencent may become our very important partner."

But when we went to see it, this Weibo had been deleted for unknown reasons.

However, "Survival of the Jedi" will land on Xbox One, and the official has been prevaricating about whether to monopolize the Xbox. In a recent interview with Bloomberg, Chang Byung-gyu, the founder of developer Bluehole, revealed the possibility of the PS4 version.

In an interview published by Bloomberg, Chang Byung-gyu said that the company has held talks with "all major host manufacturers" to promote Survival of the Jedi to more players. Microsoft will launch Survival of the Jedi on the Xbox later this year, and "Bluehole is negotiating with Sony about the Playstation version of the game".

Except Tencent, Netease is quite ahead in both pace and strategy. While Tencent is still waiting to see, Netease has already made a mobile version of Terminator 2: Judgment Day, which is still in the testing stage.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day, a mobile version of Chicken Eating, is both a survival fps game, and the game screen is mainly in a closed wild environment, and random props and vehicles are also added to increase the playability of the game. Similarly, in the mobile version of eating chicken, players can team up with two or four people and can treat seriously injured opponents.

These two games are very similar in terms of gameplay, screen and system settings. Netease's goal is obvious, that is, we know that the end-game chicken eating is very popular and will continue to be popular. We just want to make a mobile game version of chicken eating to occupy the undeveloped mobile game chicken eating market.

On the one hand, the end-game is a paid game, on the other hand, it requires very high computer configuration because of its poor optimization, and many friends who want to try it are discouraged, so it is impossible to become a popular end-game like League of Legends for a short time at present. At this time, the mobile game version developed by Netease has solved the two problems of end-game well, and it may be the next the glory of the king? Of course, Netease also used the IP of Terminator movie to rationalize the concept of escape and avoid infringement and other issues.

At present, in the main battle field of the Great Escape Mobile Games, the killers are a group of small and medium-sized manufacturers and independent developers, and the masterpieces of big manufacturers have not yet participated in the war on a large scale. This can be seen from the TapTap platform mobile game reservation list: there are several escape-type games in the top ten of the list, and most of these game developers are small and medium-sized manufacturers. However, limited by R&D ability and R&D duration, most of the escape mobile games on the market are not outstanding in terms of gameplay and game quality.

since August, the mobile game of escape and killing has started the testing stage one after another, among which there are many works with acceptable reputation. However, most of them have been online, and the big escape games that have entered the testing stage have received bad reviews from players.

Most of these game developers are studios or independent game developers with less than five people. Take Battlefield Survivor: The Great Escape as an example, players' dissatisfaction mainly focuses on the low quality of the game, the poor quality of character models, map models and maps. This also exposes the inherent disadvantages of most small and medium-sized manufacturers and independent developers in the great escape and chaos: the limited research and development ability and funds, coupled with the short research and development time, lead to the inherent lack of game quality.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day is adapted from the movie of the same name. It is reported that its wild escape mode supports as many as 48 people to participate at the same time. In order to better adapt to the escape environment, the protagonist will have more exterior changes. The combination of gray military vest and light camouflage trousers can make the character hide himself better in the scene, while accessories such as backpacks with varied styles can provide better protection and auxiliary functions.

The map of "Terminator 2" escape mode is larger than most of the escape mobile games on the market, and the details are well displayed in dock cities, rural towns, waste factories and barren hills.

In Terminator 2: Judgment Day's escape mode, players not only need to defeat all their opponents in the battle, but also avoid the unexpected high-altitude bombing by shrinking the electromagnetic laser circle. In addition, vehicles, firearms, skydiving and other elements are no different from other escape games.

generally speaking, Tencent's methods have changed a little compared with the past. It turned out that he made a similar game when it was popular. Now, what game is hot, he will invest in shares. In short, even if you are not from my family, you have something to do with me.

Netease, as always, is still like that. Fill the money, as long as you are happy, it's just as difficult to play anyway. The game between the two families has been continuous, although they take different routes. In the case that Steam is getting more and more popular, I don't know what tricks these two companies will come up with to fight. We will wait and see.

(content source: aesthetics of science and technology)