I Made a Game Featuring Constellations - Chapter 30



New Character [Demon King]

New Character

“I want to go too. To an era where peace and harmony are achieved.”

“But if I can only break this chain of hatred. I will accept my fate.”

The king who embraced all the sins and hatred of the world to break the chain of hatred.

[Demon King Perlerina] Released!

As the second act episode comes to an end, a new limited character has appeared.

The Demon King Rina, whom players have raised and taken along throughout the episode.

Although the story of the second act ended somewhat abruptly due to a sudden change in the middle, players shared the entire journey together.

– Rina-chan! Now we’re together!

– 😭😭 So sad, if we draw this, will our Rina come back to life?

– Demon King… now rest in peace

– Hehehe

As a result, players cheered for the release of the new character.

– I’ll hug and cherish her right in the lobby

– I’ll show our Rina the peaceful world

– Come here!

Most players were attracted to the character’s narrative and personality shown in the story and wanted to draw the character.

– If it’s the Demon King, she should be stronger than knights or saints, right?

– A Demon King with the power to destroy half the continent! Of course, she’s a performance character, right?

However, there were quite a few players who had demands, which were the fate of characters in a character-drawing game.

It was performance.

– Guys, I’m doing Saint Ostinato, should I just quit and save for the Demon King?

└ No, first draw the Saint and then save for the Demon King with mining resources

└ A Demon King who destroyed half the continent, definitely a performance character

└Nice to meet you, gamer. I also got Saint Ostinato. We need to clear the mines quickly to get the resources to summon the Demon King.

– Has anyone managed to get both the Knight and the Saint without spending money?

└Yeah, quite a few, thanks to Ostinato.

└If you start without getting both the Knight and the Saint, it’s an illegal takeoff.

– When will the Knight be available again? I’m so sad I started with just the Saint as a newbie and cried.

└Just hang in there. If you have the Demon King, you don’t need the Knight anymore.

└You use both together, what do you mean you don’t need it? That’s sour grapes.

As the number of limited characters increased to three, the proportion of players who did not have all the characters also increased.

Players who were unlucky and couldn’t get [Knight Len] or [Saint Kate] with starting resources or mine resources.

Players who started late and didn’t even get a chance to draw them.

Players who didn’t draw one of the two limited characters because they didn’t like it.

Each had their own reasons for not having all the characters.

The character I don’t have. But that guy has the character.

Players looked at the characters they didn’t have and consoled themselves by dismissing them as not great, like a fox muttering “Those grapes are sour.”

To survive in the harsh community, they had to prove the superiority of the characters they had.

The indicator of a character’s superiority naturally became its performance.

– Look at [Knight Len]’s damage output. It’s on a different level from other regular characters. You can see it in the [Abyss Assassin] speedrun.

– But it’s just single-target damage, right?

– Single-target damage is enough. Do you need to farm weak mobs? Anyway, [Knight Len] has a passive buff for attack speed and movement speed when defeating enemies, so he’s good at farming mobs too.

Superior damage output or not…

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– Of course, [Saint Kate] is the best character. Traditionally, only nobles can be healers. Try catching enemies at the front for a hundred days, can you hold out without a healer?

– But healers can’t do anything alone, right? They can’t even deal damage.

– You haven’t seen the taste of the Saint’s giant club.

A unique position through supporting abilities

Despite the lack of competitive content, players ranked characters to justify their character pool or spending.

Just in time, the newly introduced weekly boss [Abyss Assassin] had a moderately difficult and irregular pattern, and a suitable amount of health, providing a stage to evaluate performance.

In the midst of this, a new character appeared with an intense story.

As the character pickup began, the community descended into chaos.

* * *

“How should we set the performance of Demon King Perlerina?”

I was troubled ahead of the release of the Demon King character.

According to the story setting, Lina has the power of the ancient king.

So to speak, ‘That woman! She has the power to destroy the world!’

It doesn’t make sense to release a character with such great power weakly.

But if we release her strong according to the setting, a new problem arises.

The positions of previously released characters will be threatened.

For instance, the first pickup character [Knight Ren] is a dealer character.

It’s not a problem if other regular 4 or 5-star characters are weaker than the new character. But what if the character I drew is soon overshadowed by a new character?

For example, let’s say there is a character named [Ricardo].

This character deals damage in a normal way and deals 10 damage in 1 unit of time.

And a new character called [King of the Locker Room] was released.

This character deals 20 damage in 1 unit of time using the same method.

[The fun of teasing the old veterans. Suddenly, the game became interesting.]

Players will go crazy immediately.

What happens to my Ricardo that I picked?

Seeing the frenzy of the locker room kings, will you pick a new character?

On the other hand, if [King of the Locker Room] deals 10 damage in 1 unit of time, they won’t pick it because it’s too bland.

From the operator’s standpoint, they need to make players feel new or attractive to make them pick new characters.

And the most effective way is to replace the previous character with a new one that has overwhelming performance.

But like the first case, it will shorten the game’s lifespan along with strong player backlash.

There is a way to achieve this generational change in performance while minimizing player backlash.

Instead of simply dealing 20 damage in 1 unit of time, [King of the Locker Room] consumes half of its HP to enter the [Suction] state, dealing 20 damage in 1 unit of time as a trade-off.

The new character deals more damage at the cost of risk and price, but players will only see it as a better character.

However, compared to existing characters, it has more difficult and complex mechanisms or more difficult controls or risks, so it cannot completely replace existing characters.

Many game companies have released new characters in a similar way, as sidegrades or upgrades that don’t seem like it.

As someone who has seen the precedents of many Earth game companies, I decided to steal the know-how of my seniors.

“[Knight Ren] is a single dealer.”

Then the next dealer can be an area dealer.

It was just right since it was a character using lava.

* * *

A free server separated for the demon god

The release of the beloved master’s character.

“Can I do it?”

The demon god waited, trembling, for the pickup start time.

“I must get it.”

The demon king Rina covered her with a blanket.

Rina’s warm hand melted the demon god’s frozen hand, but the trembling did not stop.

“You’re doing it again. What are you trying to get?”

“That is…”

The demon god stammered, unable to speak properly.

She couldn’t say that she was nervous about not being able to get the master’s character.

Of course, Rina, who had heard everything about the current state of the demon god, just giggled inwardly.

“It’s here!”

After the pickup time passed, the demon god opened the drawing window and ran.

The book of [Archive] appeared, cutting through dimensions.

As the book opened, a rainbow light overflowed.

“Please! Come, master!”

And the character that popped out from inside was

“Let me ask. Are you my master?”

A bald muscular man.

“…….”

The demon god screamed at the result screen.

For a long time, the demon god, unable to accept reality, was out of his mind.

“Nooo!”

Despair set in as reality refused to change no matter how long he waited.

“Why! Why is it not Linaaa!”

Even Lina in reality was dumbfounded by his sorrowful wail.

“Demon god.”

“……What.”

Sniffle

The demon god, who had been secretly wiping away tears, turned around.

“This… if you pay a sufficient price, they say you can get more [Sage Stones]?”

“……What?”

With a blank expression, the demon god pressed the ( ) button next to the Sage Stones.

Then, a shop appeared where he could replenish the [Sage Stones] in exchange for real-world currency.

The demon god’s expression quickly brightened.

“Just wait a little longer, Lina! I will definitely save you!”

The demon god flew off to command the current demon king to offer some sacrifices.

Only the real Lina was left alone, chuckling in disbelief.

“……What an idiot.”

However, the real trial has yet to come.

– Guys, isn’t this Demon King trash? The damage output is so weak.

– It’s an area attack.

– So what if it’s an area attack? It takes longer to catch [Abyss Assassin] than a regular character.

– This is a joke.

– [Knight Ren] seems better than [Demon King].