Chapter 100 - 96: Personal Edition and Professional Edition (Part 2)

This is the professional version pricing, and on top of the professional version, there’s a personalized service priced as "X".

Simply put, meet to discuss details, determine personalized NPCs, maps, or other needs, and then quote individually based on their needs.

Too expensive?

Then don’t use it!

Those professional animation production software are also quite expensive; why don’t you complain about them? What! Don’t consider Divine Grace Continent as a productivity tool?

"Productivity tool? It really is!"

Lu laughed and said, "So what we’re selling is not a game, but a third-party animation production software?"

"Absolutely!"

Chen Ba nodded and said, "Compared to other professional software, Divine Grace Continent is simple to use and powerful. You only need to add voice-overs and some scripts to make an animation."

That’s really strong!

Just using it to watch animations, like a video player, is definitely an underutilization.

...

Early in the morning, Qian Xin got out of bed.

He’s been very busy recently.

The popularity of Jen’s Adventure allowed him to successfully transition into an animation producer, establishing "Jen" Studio, with his career flourishing.

He’s so grateful to Ba!

If it weren’t for Ba, he wouldn’t have seized the opportunity to rise to his current stature.

Unfortunately, Ba himself didn’t agree; otherwise, his photo would have been hung on the wall by Qian Xin, offered incense day and night.

"Huh! Divine Grace Continent updated?"

Just after washing up, about to go out for breakfast, Qian Xin suddenly received a message from a friend.

The friend told him that Divine Grace Continent was updated, releasing a more powerful, more detailed graphics "Professional Version" available by monthly subscription.

Kicking it with this news, Qian Xin couldn’t even bother with breakfast and quickly turned on his computer to log onto the Steam Platform to check the details.

It really was like that!

The details page of Divine Grace Continent, the previous official version and deluxe version suddenly renamed to the Personal Version and Flagship Version.

The prices remain unchanged.

However, below these two versions, a Professional Version and a Customization Version were added.

The Professional Version is described as being aimed at enterprise-level "players," greatly enhancing the game’s graphics and shadow details, enriching character personalities and expressions. The price for the national region is 999 yuan/month, with an annual package at 10,000 yuan.

"So expensive!"

Even though Qian Xin earned quite a bit from Divine Grace Continent, he thought the professional version’s pricing was overwhelming.

The customization version has no listed price.

But based on the description, this service is definitely more expensive than the professional version, as this version requires offline negotiation for customizing details, including maps, NPCs, and building models, all capable of being personalized.

If you have the strength, you can even customize a "modern urban background" version of Divine Grace Continent and then produce an urban romance comedy animation.

"Can’t afford customization..."

After some calculations, Qian Xin felt that his financial capacity would be looked down upon by Ba; discussing customization would be self-humiliating.

Then let’s try a professional version!

One thousand yuan a month is quite expensive, but if the effect is really great, it’s still worth it considering the current revenue from Jen’s Adventure.

Thinking about this, Qian Xin immediately called all the studio members to use his account to purchase a Divine Grace Continent Professional Version.

"Whoa!"

Upon entering the game, everyone was amazed.

The graphics have greatly improved!

This one thousand spent was worth it; even though it’s the same game, just this graphics enhancement is worth the investment.

After all, for an animation, the most criticized aspect of Jen’s Adventure was the rough and blurry graphics.

Using the professional version resolved this problem and even brought more surprising gains...

That is, in the professional version, the facial expressions of NPCs have finally been optimized to resemble anime characters more.

Not only that!

The professional version also provides "Screenwriter" mode and "Director" mode; entering screenwriter mode allows you to import audio files and text modifications for game characters.

In director mode, you can use features like "Time Rewind" and "State Adjustment."

For instance.

If you think Jen’s NPC performance isn’t dramatic enough, you can use Time Rewind, like a film retake, to reshoot continuously and then select the most suitable part.

State adjustment is even more powerful.

In this mode, players can modify an NPC’s base state, similar to having opened GM backstage, or even define some hidden attributes, with strong scalability.

"This money was worth spending..."

After experiencing the professional version’s features, Qian Xin couldn’t help but exclaim how powerful Ba was; the professional version was simply too robust.

If the personal version of Divine Grace Continent is at most an Otherworldly New Releases player, with a "watch animation" function greater than "make animation,"

Then in the professional version, the "make animation" function is maximized, allowing everyone to use Divine Grace Continent to produce their desired otherworld animations.

One thousand a month is expensive?

Even at ten thousand a month, hiring a professional animator is difficult, and they might even complain about too low a salary.

But for one-tenth of the price, you don’t have to hire an animator; you can let your creativity loose in Divine Grace Continent, freely expanding your imagination to create excellent otherworld toilet paper animations.

Now do you still think it’s expensive?

The features of the Divine Grace Continent Professional Version are already so powerful that Qian Xin finds them unbelievable.

He doesn’t dare to imagine what the "Customization Version," which costs more and requires offline negotiation of cooperation details, might be like — surely even more amazing?

"Quick, quick, quick!"

"Hurry and inform the audience that Jen’s Adventure will adopt the professional version of Divine Grace Continent for production, bringing a complete upgrade."

Qian Xin instructed, "Wang, go import the saves, let’s work overtime today to rush out an episode of Jen’s Adventure."

"But we only bought one professional version!"

Wang timidly raised his hand and said, "The other computers still have the personal version of Divine Grace Continent, the 68-yuan one."

Qian Xin: "..."

Oops, forgot about that!

There are five people in the studio, and excluding post-production editing and track mixing, at least three copies are needed for use, at 1000 yuan/month each.

Is Ba just robbing us?

...

Chen Ba didn’t expect that the professional version would be so well-received and praised by so many animation professionals after its release.

Although the professional version’s sales weren’t even a thousand, compared to the personal version’s nearly 2 million sales, it’s indeed a bit underwhelming.

But a professional version sells for 1000 per copy, and it’s billed monthly, with monthly income; this money is much easier than the personal version.

"Ba, I don’t want to make games anymore."

"Me neither..."

How much money can be made from game development? Selling software would’ve made me rich long ago! Look at the professional version’s sales — less than a thousand copies, yet contributed nearly a million in revenue.

And the money is recurring monthly, so it really pays off!

Chen Ba realized more and more that stepping into the game industry in the beginning was a mistake.

If he had known developing software was so lucrative, he should’ve just gone into software development instead of messing with this damn game production.

But one is to love what they do; the path is chosen by oneself, and you have to keep going no matter what.

The most important is...

The full name of the Iron Fool System is the Hardest Core Game Producer System, can this thing even be used if I switch to another field?

There’s already so many bugs in game development; if used for software development, the consequences are unimaginable for Chen Ba.

Moreover, without Tianba Studio, wouldn’t it be a huge loss for the gaming industry? Players wouldn’t get to play all the fun games either.

How regrettable that would be!

"By the way, has no animation company purchased the customization service?" Chen Ba asked.

"Not yet,"

Lu shook his head and said, "Everyone seems very satisfied with Divine Grace Continent’s Professional Version. As for the customization, they think you’ll make outrageous demands and extort them mercilessly."

Chen Ba muttered to himself, "How did they guess?"

It shouldn’t be like this!

He hasn’t even begun his slaughter, yet all the fat pigs were scared away; who will replenish the nutrients he’s missing now?