《暗黑破坏神3》GC 2008: Jay Wilson 访谈录 (共7篇)

One of the keys is that every region is different, and we are an international company now. We sell games in Asia, Europe and North America, and we just now released WoW in Russia and Latin America. Were going to try and hit as many markets as we can, and were going to look at each one of those markets and try and decide a financial model that works. So, if we were to say, for example, that were not going to have any subscription fees for Diablo, that may not be true in some markets, so we cant really say that.
翻译：关键之一是世界上每一个的区域都是不同的，而我们现在是一个跨国公司。我们在亚洲、欧洲、北美洲卖游戏，并且我们刚刚在俄罗斯和拉丁美洲推出了WoW，我们将会尝试并冲击尽可能多的市场，我们将会关注我们的每一个市场并尝试确定一个有效的经济模型。所以如果我们要我们表态的话，我们将不会为暗黑系列收取月费，但是在某些市场里可能不是这样（译者：也许中国就要收费），所以我们不能真的这么表态。

Is our intent to make a subscription-based game like World of Warcraft? No. Were not an MMO. Thats not our goal. So we are leaning towards more of a boxed product. Would we consider microtransactions? Yes, we would -- if it was right for the game. Would we consider some kind of subscription-based, or pay-to-play? Maybe in some regions. Or maybe for North America, if it was right for the game, and if it felt like a "win" for the fans. We want to make money, obviously, were in business for that, but we dont want to gouge our customers, we dont want them to have an experience that feels worse. What we prefer is to offer them a service that they feel is worth paying for. And thats how we tend to approach things: "This is a service that we want to offer. How much is it going to cost us? OK, its going to cost us this much, so we do need to supplement. Is it something we feel is worth paying for?" And if the answer is yes... obviously, no one likes paying for anything. Id love to get everything for free. That would be awesome, right? But the truth is, we wouldnt ever get anything.
翻译：我们有意向将在D3中实行WoW的收费制度？绝对没有。D3不是网游。这不是D3开发的方向。所以我们将更倾向于将D3作为单机游戏售卖。我们会考虑“微交易”吗？是的，我们会——如果它适合游戏的话。我们会考虑某种点卡收费，或者其它付费游戏模式么？也许在某些地区我们会这么做，也许是在北美，如果它适合游戏并且对玩家有利的话。显然我们想赚钱，我们就是为了钱做生意的，但我们不想欺骗我们的客户。我们想让他们有更好的体验。我们希望我们可以提供给顾客物有所值的服务。这就是我们的处事之道：“这是我们想要提供的服务。这个服务会花费我们多少钱？好吧，这将会花费我们这么多，所以我们确实需要经济上的补充。这就是客户觉得值得花钱的理由吗？”如果答案是肯定的……很显然没人愿意花钱买任何东西。我希望所有的东西都是免费的，这将会非常的伟大，对么？但事实是，天上不会掉馅饼。

 

Jay Wilson: Wed like there to be a dedicated PvP mode, and wed like to move away from [how it worked in previous Diablo games] where players just enabled PvP. We dont have any specific plans yet because we havent really made any active decisions. The only real PvP-oriented decision that weve made and announced is that we do not allow the "hostility mode" that Diablo II had where you can go into town, go hostile, pop back through a town portal, and insta-kill your friend. That just makes people not want to play the game. I know some people say, "Oh, youre taking the teeth out of Diablo." I understand why they feel that way, but making people not want to play together does not make for a better game. Thats our feeling.
翻译：我们想让D3有一个专用的PvP模式，同时我们也想改变前作中可PvP区域中的PvP模式。我们还没有什么特别的计划因为我们还没有做出合适的决定。唯一一个真正被我们做出和公布的新版PvP决定就是我们不允许“敌意模式”。在D2中你可以进入城镇，激活敌意模式，通过传送门回到野外，然后立即杀死你的朋友。那只会让玩家放弃游戏。我知道有些人说，“嗯，你在菠萝口拔牙。”我知道为什么他们会那样想，但是让玩家放弃多人游戏并不能做出一个更好的游戏，这是我们的想法。

We definitely want there to be a PvP mode for PvP players, and we would like that mode to be a really serious, skill-based, very strong [aspect of the game]. I feel that on the side of all our games, we really try to make PvP games that cater to a competitive player, first and foremost. We dont try to dumb down or tone down our PvP games. We make [them] good, strong competitive games. StarCraft is one of the best examples. But in terms of what our actual plans are for Diablo III, we dont have anything to specifically announce right now, mostly because were still messing around with a bunch of different ideas.
翻译：我们绝对希望能有一个专为PvP玩家设计的PVP模式，我们想让这个模式非常严谨，让这个模式以玩家的技巧为基础，让这个模式成为游戏很出色很重要的一个方面。我觉得我们的每一个游戏都适合这种系统，我们真的在尝试做出迎合竞技玩家需要的PVP游戏，这是最重要的。我们没有搞砸我们的PVP游戏，我们把它做得很好，竞技性很强。星际是最好的例子之一。但是依据我们为D3准备的实行计划，我们现在没有任何特别要公布的信息，这主要是因为我们正在忙于应付一堆各不相同的想法。