Breaking the industry's "short-life curse" and making players miss the game that has been missed for fifteen years is here today!

Feb 20 2025

At the beginning of the new year, looking back at the years of the game industry, prosperity and fighting coexist, new games emerge in a large number of ways, and the waves wash away the sand.

In the first half of 2023, the domestic game market ushered in a booming period of new games. At the most lively time, as many as dozens of new products were queued up for online in a single month, setting a new industry record. However, after the craze subsided, there were very few games that could stay at the top of the best-selling list for a long time. Many games failed to withstand the test of the market and players and gradually disappeared from the players' vision.

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Coincidentally, there is such a game that allows players to remember for fifteen years. In the era of PC games, "North of Dragons" established a classic position with its super high popularity. After entering the mobile game era, the "Dragon Valley Mobile Game" released in 2017 is not inferior. The number of registered users in the first month easily exceeded 10 million, and the turnover in the first month was as high as 1 billion yuan, once again proving its strong market call. force. As soon as the release was announced some time ago, it received considerable discussion.

Just today (February 20), "Dragon Valley World" independently developed by Shengqu Games and jointly released with Kaiying Network was finally officially launched. Those players who can't forget the past finally welcomed their gifts. Faced with the ever-changing industry environment, as a classic replica version of Dragon Valley World, how can it last forever?

First be awe

How long does it take to go back to Altria? The Dragon Valley World Project Team answered this question in five years.

Whether nostalgic games are new wines in old bottles or classic restorations have always been an unavoidable question in the industry. For game manufacturers, nostalgic games are full of opportunities. It can not only attract a group of loyal old players steadily, but also acquire users at a lower cost. Old players who once paid often make consumption decisions more easily.

But at the same time, there are often challenges behind opportunities. Whether a classic action game fifteen years ago can adapt to the market environment fifteen years later is the first question that the world of Dragon Valley has to face in development. Standing on the shoulders of the Dragon Valley in the past to make the Dragon Valley world, the primary goal of the R&D team is not to exceed expectations, but to find out what players expect. Judging from the external interviews of the development team, the ultimately established research and development ideas for classic reproduction originated from the past of Dragon Valley and the awe of players' love. I believe that Dragon Valley is fun across time. Only with enough respect can we generate enough respect and deliver enough answers to restore youth.

Respect the first principles of action games

The most praised feature of Dragon Valley back then was its high freedom of operation and depth of combat. In the era when most PC online games were locking enemies to release skills, or even mouse control movement, a mechanism for players to move freely and without locking combat was designed. At the same time, the enemy would be knocked away and floating in the air, so players could connect and connect. Recruiting. This made the players of that year experience the fun of action games in a 3D online game.

According to the producer Journey in the open letter of the player, the reason why the Dragon Valley World was overturned and remade was that after reviewing the player's feedback, the original version of "Dragon Valley World" was discovered after reviewing the original version of "Dragon Valley World" It cannot meet players' combat standards for the IP "North of Dragons". The first thing to do is to play the action game is to be enjoyable. The punch to the flesh is the level that the world of Dragon Valley should have. Therefore, they decided to adjust the research and development direction of "Dragon Valley World" to restore the classics of the PC game, such as canceling the original dual weapon system, and striving to achieve 1:1 restoration in combat strike sense. Players can control character movement through the left joystick, while the right roulette is used to release a variety of skills and special attacks, while retaining the classic combo and strike mechanisms in the PC game. In order to make the combat experience closer to the end game, the production team carefully polished the release effect of each skill and the enemy's impact feedback. Old players can relive the combat experience in "Dragon Valley" as soon as they got started.

It is the world where players form the Dragon Valley

Long before the release date, the Dragon Valley World Development Team talked about the importance of players. The Dragon Valley World should be an adventure world created by developers and players. During the three tests, the production team widely absorbed player opinions.

The classic gameplay that old players have called out is carefully restored to the world of Dragon Valley. For example, the 4V4 fair competition gameplay, the system randomly designates the captain. The team members need to protect their captain and kill the enemy captain, winning two games in three games; the 1v1 ladder gameplay, players experience the most real sense of blow by matching opponents with similar scores to the game. ;Level 24 can unlock the nest dungeon, such as the classic lion scorpion nest and Apocalypse nest. In addition, the Dragon Valley World has also added attribute balance and season system, reduced numerical crushing, and emphasized technical dominance, allowing every adventurer to experience the fun of action competition.

It can be said that the Dragon Valley World uses its love for IP and games to write a law that is obvious and anti-industry common sense: in the context of the ever-changing and fierce fighting in the game industry, as long as you respect the products and players enough, Even if the game IP has been around for more than ten years, it can still last forever. Dragon Valley World is online today. If you are looking for a game worth investing in time and relive the simple and happy time of playing games back then, you might as well give it a try.