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There is a game called Pick me up.
It is a mobile game launched by Mobius Co., Ltd. two years ago, and has the subtitle Hyper Roguelike Summoning RPG.
Today, in celebration of the 2nd anniversary of Pick Me Up and the 100 million DL breakthrough, I am writing an honorable special article. I wish you well.
Pick Me Up is already a popular game boasting 100 million users worldwide, but I would like to introduce the game once again for those who may not know.
When the game called Pick Me Up first appeared on the storefront, many people questioned it.
Isn’t this a common mass-produced star game?
However, Pick Me Up gradually started to gain popularity through word of mouth, and now it has become a national mobile game enjoyed not only in Korea but also around the world.
What is the reason that Pick Me Up was able to become the world’s No. 1 mobile game? Let’s look at the attractive points.
First, Moebius Summon.
It is a key point system that was completed after about 5 years of development. The point of the system is to randomly mix thousands of patterns to create infinite heroes.
In other words, whether you pick me up hundreds of times, thousands of times, or tens of thousands of times, the possibility of duplicate heroes is almost zero. It doesn’t make sense in terms of common sense, but Pick Me Up broke that common sense and appeared.
However, a revolutionary system was waiting to the extent that this was nothing more than a minor change.
Second, Quantom AI.
Several years ago, a match between a world-class Go player and artificial intelligence drew attention. The battle of the century ended with the victory of artificial intelligence.
The reporter also imagined while watching the historical scene. In the not-so-distant future, isn’t it the appearance of super-high artificial intelligence that we only saw in movies?
Ironically, such an artificial intelligence revolution started with a game company.
The secret to cultivating tens of millions of pick-mees (short for pick-me-up) is right there. Mobius, the developer, applied ultra-high artificial intelligence, which was thought to have happened decades later, to a mere mobile game.
The heroes of Pick Me Up each feel and think. When each hero is put on the stage, a hundred different reactions come out. Heroes demand and assert their masters, sometimes refusing or obeying orders.
When it comes to the battle, which is the core of the game, it shows even more astonishing results. Even if the master does not give orders, the heroes take their own effective tactics and use different tactics and formations for each battle.
Also, even though they had the same training, their growth values were different, and even though they were at the same level and grade, the battle process and outcome were different.
Therefore, there are no hero rating tables and fixed training methods that are common in other games. This is because each of the thousands and hundreds of millions of heroes in Pick Me Up reminds us of a single human being.
This is the biggest reason why Pick Me Up is called ‘the devil’s game’.
Because it’s too realistic. The heroes in the game are just products of data, but they are so real.
Still, the developer, Mobius, has not revealed the detailed algorithm.
A while ago, a Chinese giant tried to acquire a developer by investing hundreds of billions of dollars, but it failed.
Third, Roguelike.
Oh, I have nothing to do.
content is lacking
The above two sentences are a lament representing the feelings of hard users who exist in any game. This also proves that the development speed of most games cannot keep up with the speed of content consumption.
A Moebius employee said in an interview.
‘A user who spends tens of millions of won on nuclear billing, a super hard user who only plays games all day? Give it a try.’
When the above interview first came out, many users snorted. However, until now, two years after its release, not a single user has reached the end of the main dungeon of Pick Me Up.
In the current situation, there are many users who pour hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars, let alone tens of millions of won, and users who invest more than 18 hours every day in Pick Me Up.
Pick Me Up adopted a rule called hardcore.
When it was first revealed, users reacted somewhat ridiculously. Hardcore meant that when a hero died, it would disappear as it was.
A hero who spent millions of dollars and invested hundreds of hours disappears in just one battle? In the early days of Pick Me Up, this was pointed out as the biggest drawback of the game and it also bought the complaints of many users.
Of course, Moebius did not revise this rule at all, and rather, as time passed, more and more people began to regard it as an attractive point.
One enthusiast claims.
The heroes of Pick Me Up are programming puppets with precision enough to be mistaken for humans.
If so, wouldn’t it be natural for there to be death as well as birth through summoning?
Also, the stage of Pick Me Up changes randomly, and no one can predict what kind of mission will come out. The battle is handled by artificial intelligence, so there is little room for the master to intervene once the mission begins.
In addition to this, there are dozens and hundreds of variables that cannot be predicted. Sometimes a party sent in a desperate manner clears a dungeon of transcendental difficulty, and sometimes an elite 6-star party is wiped out in a dungeon of lower difficulty.
Everything in Pick Me Up is not fixed.
It constantly changes and flows.
Someone criticizes Pick Me Up like this.
Then what is the significance of the player’s existence?
Are you a spectator? Anyway, it’s a luck X mess game, but what does it mean?
Isn’t it a mangem game with no control or strategy, where if you select a hero who fights well with a high star and send it out by luck, you win on your own?
To such a person, I would like to introduce a master from Korea.
His account name is Loki.
He is the only Korean top ranked player in the world and a leading user called the Master of master.
Even so, it’s not number 1.
That’s right. Rocky is only fifth in the world rankings.
Looking at the rankings alone, it’s a bit ironic to be called the world’s best master.
However, he is mentioned more often than number one, and is the only one of them to have earned the honorable title of Master of Masters.
The reason is simple.
Because he was terribly unlucky.
Pick Me Up’s summoning system is classified into different grades.
The free draw ranges from 1 to 3 stars. Paid draws range from 3 to 5 stars.
The condition for becoming a top ranker in Pick Me Up, which is often discussed in the community, is at least 5 native 5-star heroes. Heroes with higher stars usually fight much better than heroes with lower stars.
It is possible to evolve a 1-star hero into a 5-star by gathering materials, but people say that it is lacking compared to the original 5-star.
Here, there is a master named Loki.
He has played about 4,500 paid draws, but there is not a single 5-star born.
Compared to the 4th and 6th places in the world distributed in front of and behind him, dozens of people who were born with 5 stars have poor results.
He has only one 4-star high-ranking hero.
However, he proudly maintains his position as the No. 1 player in Korea and the No. 5 player in the world. This proves that Pick Me Up is not a luck x mangem game, and that there is ample room to compete with skill and management.
Although Masters cannot directly intervene in battle, they can develop heroes in other ways. Determine the talent and value of heroes that cannot be converted in the status window, designate an efficient training method, and form a party optimized for each individual performance.
Loki proved that although born 1-star heroes are generally weaker than higher-rank heroes, they are ‘generally’ weaker and not ‘unconditionally’ weaker.
It is no exaggeration to say that the meta of Pick Me Up is divided into before and after Loki posted a strategy post.
In addition, to list the revolutionary changes that Loki brought to Pick Me Up… … .
… … (omission).
▼ [Comments – 3135]
[Lv.51] Dawwww11
Agree 8742, Disagree 6644
– No, why did this reporter go well and go over to the mountain? Does it make sense to praise a single user in a game feature article? Did you tell me to be a reporter because Loki is fast?
└[Lv.17] Long live Loki
Agree 513, Disagree 672
– All Hail Loki!
└[Lv.3] Fluffy
Agree 13, Disagree 5
– Among the reporters on this site, there is an excellent member of Ragnaroki. Isn’t this the person? What does the boss do without firing him?
[Lv.21] Diorama
Agree 11, Disagree 13
– I honestly don’t know if Loki deserves that much praise. Isn’t it just a common biller 1?
[Lv.76] Become a dragon
Agree 3, Disagree 5
– What else is Ragnaroki?
[Lv.31] Kwack Kwack Kwack
0 likes, 0 dislikes
– This is a Loki fan site. They say you need a signature to be promoted as an excellent member.
└[Lv.76] Become a dragon
Agree 4, Disagree 3
– It’s ridiculous.
[Lv.7] Sirisjang
Agree 1132, Disagree 2564
[This is a blinded comment.]
– I want to lick Sirisjang’s ass! Licking!
[Lv.22] Wallet King Kim and Geum
Agree 811, Disagree 532
– Apart from the fairness of the knights, the influence Loki had on Pick Me cannot be ignored. Before the release of the Loki account, no matter how good the game was, wasn’t it just a common pay-to-win? It’s not an exaggeration to say that the meta has changed since then.
└[Lv.15] From ancestors to generations of scholars
Agree 4, Disagree 9
– Here’s the Rockistance again!
[Lv.22] Wallet King Kim and Geum
Agree 321, Disagree 157
– Did I say something wrong?
Seriously, didn’t you hit all the foreign rankers except for Loki last time? Right now, the only Korean ranker left is Loki. Korean Pixie is Rocky, and Loki is Korean Pixie.
To put it bluntly, even if Loki only had 7 stars, it would have been worth aiming for world number 1.
[Lv.7] Sirisjang
Agree 325, Disagree 1132
[This is a blinded comment.]
– I want to lick Sirisjang’s armpit!
Licking!
└[Lv.15] Electronic Anklet
Agree 913, Disagree 132
– This idiot gives a shit about every article related to Pick Me, but why doesn’t he get suspended?
[Lv.1] Isel0479
Agree 13, Disagree 11
– All Hail Loki!
All roads lead to Loki!
… … (omission).
