Another quadratic mobile game of Shuang Yao Company has stopped serving! On April 26, the second tour of the mecha girl, "Refit My Concubine", was officially suspended.
The work was released on July 18, 2019, and the last content update was carried out on June 29, 2023. On February 26 this year, an announcement was issued:
The game will be officially suspended from 12:00 on April 26, 2024, and the full platform installation package will be taken off the shelves, game recharge and new user registration will be stopped from February 26. After the game server is closed, players will not be able to log in to the game, and all account data, character data and other information in the game will be cleared.
It has been running for about four and a half years since it was released in 2019. For a second tour with no minor defects, this performance has been quite good, even more than many second tours with a life span of only one or two years today.
As a mobile game with the theme of mecha girls, it was born in the mobile game boom in 2018. It could have gone further like the collapse, the blue route, and the ark of tomorrow. Why did it fall to today's level? In this issue, let's talk about the story of "Refitting My Concubine".
Similar to the popular Second Tour, the story background of the game is still the familiar waste soil, science fiction and salvation style.
In 2110 years of the old calendar, the impact of meteorite caused the surface to become waste soil, and human beings were almost destroyed. The remaining human beings began to rebuild the continent, revive scientific and technological civilization, and developed a mobile armored force - "FinalGear", and formed three major forces: "KGaya", "Ereta", and "Hexel".
Later, the war of aggression launched by Imperial KGaea failed and entered a short period of peace, when the wartime mercenary group "Black Ark" of the Republic of Ereta was forced to disband. The player will play a young man who has inherited his adoptive father's career and is eager to take a free adventure through the mercenary regiment.
The plot is very conventional, but there is no problem.
As a two-dimensional mobile game, the role formation and card drawing must be essential. In terms of card drawing, the game's pilots and mecha are divided into two pools, that is, the pilots are the role pool, and mecha is equal to the equipment pool of ordinary second tour. Two card pools will be opened for each activity, among which pilot training, like other second tours, needs to break through star promotion, pilot skill upgrading, etc. The mecha is divided into five different parts, which are the main and auxiliary weapons, mount, leg armor and chest armor. In addition, mecha attribute still has the same method of playing entries as other games. The bonus difference between the lowest value entry and the highest value entry is about 1.5 times.
In terms of battle play, the game combines the map encounter the enemy+horizontal version combat pass play, that is, after entering the map, the player needs to move the protagonist to encounter the enemy NPC to trigger the battle. When entering the battle mode, the player controls the mecha to advance, and after killing all the enemy teams, it is considered as completing an encounter.
It is well known that mecha and girls are hot topics in the second dimension mobile games. Who wouldn't like girls driving a Gundam? It is not difficult to find that today's mobile games that can explode have more or less the shadow of some mecha girls.
Some have combined ship and machine outfits into the second tour of ship, machine and mother, and some have "business trips" in the form of mechanical exoskeleton in the major mmo mobile games, etc., and the mecha girl is always an enduring topic.
In addition to the traditional character formation, the "free combination of mecha" method of play that was publicized during the launch of "Battle Maggie" has also been realized. The five mecha parts mentioned above can be combined at will, and the official propaganda has tens of thousands of free collocation methods.
In addition, this work is also the first batch of games that use full live2D vertical drawing. At the same time, the background wall of the main interface can also be changed according to the players' preferences. The character vertical drawing, such as the future SSR Nova of cos, and the gel coat mask lady SR Ilisis, are very good.
The voice actors are not personally impressed, but according to the encyclopedia, a large number of popular Japanese CVs were invited to dub, which is also the selling point given by the official when it was announced.
Then the problem arises. Based on the above settings, the game seems to have the necessary elements of a qualified second tour. Why is it still not popular until the final choice of customs service?
As we mentioned earlier, the free combination of mecha is a major feature of the game, but when players enter the game, they find that the so-called "free combination" is just a cover.
Because there are "suits" and "exclusive suits" in the game, the parts of different suits can be combined freely, but after the combination is completed, it is extremely ugly and ugly:
The exclusive suit is the suit corresponding to a pilot. For example, pilot A has an exclusive suit. After matching the exclusive suit, not only the body can be deformed (players call it an all-in-one machine), but also an additional numerical bonus.
(This body's facial comparison is understandable)
So the so-called "free collocation" is just a gimmick for players just entering the pit: won't your hard working wife arrange an all-in-one machine for her? Want to arrange? Krypton gold pump A, you!
Some players have made statistics on the opening of the server, and a single 648 is only enough for players to play ten roles twice. This is not the end. Compared with the expensive character ten companies, the machine armor parts pool is a real nightmare.
Isn't there five parts in the game's mecha? The exclusive mecha can't fall and can only be drawn through the limited time card pool. However, the mecha card pool does not have a repeated acquisition mechanism. For example, you are very likely to lose a leg of the exclusive mecha, but lose a breastplate crazily.
In sharp contrast to the card drawing system, it is extremely stingy game benefits.
The player's mail box is often empty. The monthly card of 30 yuan per month is rewarded with 30 crystal 5000 gold coins every day. However, 3200 crystal coins are required for a 10 company visit, which means that the player can only carry out a 10 company visit once in three months with the monthly card.
Although the character shipping rate of the game is high, the demand for fragments needed for the same character breakthrough is quite outrageous. The three to four SSR fragments need to be 20 pieces, that is, four pieces of the body, while the character needs six stars to break.
As one of the playing methods, the entry of machine armour can only be obtained by krypton gold. The entry of special machine armour also has random value, which leads to great difference in the value of the same all-in-one machine between players.
In addition, due to the lack of physical strength, the acquisition of game materials is not proportional to the duration of the game. The average clearance time of a book is 10 minutes. Many players say that they cannot complete daily tasks five hours online every day.
I went back to the pit in the Jiutiaolin version for a while. Only two months later, I found that the role intensity of the original T0 had generally declined to T2. For example, during the service opening period, the T0 assistant Mao Mei, today's PVE intensity is not even ranked at level B. You can see the comparison of the values of the pilots in WIKI.
He has both liver and krypton. I'm afraid that even the first emperor of the second time mobile tour dare not be so confident!
Another point is that the UI accuracy and power consumption are not proportional. The UI of "Re installing My Concubine" is quite strange. The UI interface is jagged and has a strong sense of pixels, which is quite retro. However, this classic UI is reported by players to consume more than 30% of electricity at every turn, and the mobile phone is very hot.
At that time, it was inevitable to make a comparison with Tomorrow's Ark, which had a unique UI style.
So now it seems that the customs uniform of "Re equipping My Concubine" is not surprising.
It can last for five years. In addition to the "Tianshi", the first wave of second tour craze at that time, all the feces that broke down at that time were able to catch fire. It was the big painters who most needed the manufacturers and planners to kneel down and thank. They contributed to the high-quality creation of paintings. All LIVE2D character animation also played the first group of loyal fans for the game.
In terms of gameplay, the planner actually wants to screen out two game groups through the design of excessively high Krypton gold pricing, excessively high formative elements, and excessively low game returns. First, the Zero Krypton Party, which hangs up every day to brush its books, can only collect the integrated machines of a certain pilot half a year; The second is Kryptonite players with four or five digits of Kryptonite gold. All the mecha pilots are fully loaded for each activity.
However, he obviously ignored the game group of Micro Krypton, Little Krypton, and Monthly Card Party. Please, this is not a roll on online game. Only a few clothing bosses can cut leeks all the time! The player base is very important for the sustainable operation of the second dimension mobile game. Only when the base is large enough can it be hot and hot enough to attract all kinds of big men to generate power with love and produce peer works, increase the stickiness of existing players and attract more players into the pit, so as to form a cycle of conscience. Moreover, the project team overestimated the freshness of the game of "Refit My Concubine", which can be said to be a second tour with insufficient polishing accuracy.
In addition, we have to mention the replacement of the game management. The external reason for all this is that there is no perfect solution to the problem of exploding servers. Therefore, in the public beta in June, a large number of elements of mecha linkage and skill matching in the internal beta were recalled, so that a severely emasculated version of "Battle Maggie" came into the players' view.
However, according to the statement at that time, it was actually that the investors changed their minds and reorganized the management after the public beta. The old planner originally intended to continue to optimize the values during the public beta, and add more details to the playing method to achieve the balance of values from the game mechanism. The new executives listened to another group of new plans, that is, to simply balance by strengthening the system monster and weakening the value of the existing pilots, which will also play a role in boosting the entry of powerful new roles in the future.
Whatever the reason, it directly led to the great change in the way of playing and the adjustment or weakening of the values of some characters after the public beta of "Battle Maggie". In addition, the system monster with increasingly absurd intensity at that time made the "value inflation" and "tears of the times", which originally existed in the second tour after two to three years of operation, appear in "Battle Maggie" only a few months ago.
In fact, the core subjective reason behind the downfall of "Battle Concubine" is the production team's failure to deal with the playing methods of mecha girls, which is also the failure of the design of the game framework.
The production team obviously underestimated the size of the game, or looked up to their own production level. Aren't mecha and girls popular themes? Is not the joint of both water and daily life * 2? However, some things are not as simple as 1+1>2.
There is nothing wrong with the combination of the beauty girls' cultivation play method and the mecha play method of the two-dimensional game. Although it seems that Azumi likes girls and mecha, if he can't grasp the focus of the product, he will fall to the level of "two different", the so-called "you can't have both fish and bear's paw".
Therefore, most of the topics of mecha girls in the past two years do not separate mecha and girls, or just like the Aita Era, girls=mecha. More ways to deal with mecha are to use it as equipment to enter the card pool, such as Collapse 2 in the year, or like the Nangong Dream's Daredevil, the pilot is a small player, reducing the proportion of either.
Because of this, the customs service of "Re equipping My Concubine" became inevitable. Even if there was no roll back event in the public beta, with the content of the game in the internal beta at that time, I didn't think clearly where my game focus was at first, and it was only a matter of time when it fell.
Today's 2D mobile games have become more and more popular. From the beginning of the roll drawing and L2D, to the current plot, staffing, and even the start of competing with the manufacturer's service attitude towards players, perhaps we will see more secondary games eliminated from the market in the future, and of course, will witness the birth of more new kings. However, for the work of "Re equipping My Concubine", which has only done a good job of publicity and drawing, failed to make fun of it and has obvious intention of cheating Krypton, it may not be such a pity that it can continue to operate for five years.
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