KR20170087447A - Apparatus, method, medium of indicating price information of online game item - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a system and method for displaying price of an online game item, and more particularly, to a system and method for displaying a game title on a game client screen when a mouse-over event occurs, And displays the price at the time of sale and the price to be traded between gamers in the shop.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD [0001] The present invention relates to an online game item price display system, a method, and a recording medium.

The present invention relates to a method of displaying transaction information of an item that is an object of a transaction between gamers in an online game.

Due to the spread of the Internet infrastructure and the development of hardware technology, stand-alone games, which were conventionally driven in personal computers or home game consoles, are gradually becoming online, Online games that enjoy playing games are gaining popularity.

On the other hand, a role playing game (Role Playing Game), which is performed by operating a player character (player character) by raising the level by accumulating experience points and acquiring an item, has come online, The MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game) boasts the number of concurrent users.

In MMORPG, due to the nature of the game, there exists the mutuality of the player characters, so that a large number of gamers cooperate with each other to carry out the quest, and the game is performed, and the items useful for each player character are different from each other.

Therefore, it is common that items are exchanged within a game or sold at a price of game money.

On the other hand, the items acquired in the online game may be exchanged or sold among the gamers, but may be purchased and sold by a predetermined game money through a non player character (NPC) at a shop located at a specific location in the online game .

However, in the case of an item that can not be purchased at a store in a game, there is a large gap between the price and the price determined when a transaction is made between gamers.

Therefore, in the case of a novice gamer who has not started the online game for a long time, the rare items acquired in the game may fail to adapt to the economic activities in the game by selling the game at a shop despite the fact that the gamer can receive a high price at the transaction This may cause you to lose interest.

Disclosure of Invention Technical Problem [8] Accordingly, the present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a method for displaying price of an online game item for providing transaction information between gamers of items in a game for new users, .

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides an online game server for providing an online game service to a plurality of game clients simultaneously accessed through the Internet,

When the first game client 1 operates the player character, any one of the items in the online game stored in the online game account of the game client 1 in the online game store is paid to the game money In-game shop providing means for allowing exchange with the shop;

When the first game client 1 requests the sales agent by inputting the price converted into the online game money for any one of the items in the online game held in the online game account in the online game, (1 '), which is one of the other game clients, determines whether the second game client (1') is in the online game The game money is paid for the input price instead of deleting the item requested for sale from the account of the first game client (1) 2 The amount of sales or winning amount from the account of the game client Instead, the game sold auction process means paying agency cut the requested items Game Money;

A sales agent information collecting means for collecting sales agent request information about items requested to be sold to the in-game auction processing means at predetermined time intervals; And

If there is a request for sales agency information for an arbitrary item in the online game from the third game client 1 '', the sales agent request information for the item and the corresponding item in the online game store are transmitted to the third client, And item transaction information providing means for providing a predetermined amount of money when exchanging information with the user.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for displaying a price of an online game item, the method comprising the steps of: When the sales agent is requested by inputting the price converted into the online game money and receives a purchase request for the item requested for sale by any one of the other game clients, A step 110 of collecting, at a predetermined time interval, the number of sales agents requested for each item at the auction site in the online game where the requested item and the game money corresponding to the inputted price are exchanged, and the price inputted when the sales agent is requested; And

If there is a request for sales agency information for any of the items in the online game from any of a plurality of game clients accessed via the Internet, the number of sales agents requested to the auction site in relation to the item, And providing the price to the game client requesting the sales agent information, when the price of the item is sold in a shop in the online game in which the item-specific price is predetermined.

According to the present invention, the gamer operates the player character in the online game to search for the sales items registered in the auction house one by one, so that the player can check the price range of each item among the gamers, It is possible to easily grasp a certain degree of approximate value within the game, thereby avoiding the need to pay unnecessary effort to acquire information in the game.

In this way, it is possible to prevent the game player from losing interest in the game by selling the difficult-to-acquire items through the in-game NPC through the in-game game, or failing to adapt to economic activities in the game, It is effective.

In particular, it is possible to intuitively know the price at the time of sale and the price to be traded between gamers by simply hovering the mouse on the item without selecting or operating a separate function to acquire information about each item, Thereby maximizing convenience.

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a relationship between a price display system of an online game item according to the present invention and a plurality of game clients through an Internet network,
FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram illustrating a configuration of a price display system of an online game item according to the present invention,
FIG. 3 is an exemplary screen for explaining how a game auction screen registration number and a sale price of an item are displayed on a screen of a game client,
FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating a method of displaying prices of online game items according to the present invention in a time-series manner.

Hereinafter, a configuration of a price display system of an online game item according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a relationship between a price display system of an online game item according to the present invention and a plurality of game clients through an Internet network, FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a price display system of an online game item Fig.

1, the online game item price display system 100 according to the present invention provides an online game service to a plurality of game clients 1 accessed through an Internet network, similar to an online game server according to the related art do.

The provision of the online game service is to provide the game client 1 with various graphic data, terrain data, and the like for playing an online game so that the game client 1 can download the player character and NPC (Non Player Character) To a plurality of game clients 1 simultaneously accessing the information of the game clients 1, thereby allowing a plurality of game clients 1 to enjoy their online games by encouraging their own player characters.

On the other hand, the game client 1 collectively refers to both the client program of the online game and the hardware on which the online game client program is executed, and the gamer executes the online game through the game client 1, You can enjoy online games by manipulating. The game client 1 can be connected to an online game server through an Internet network, and may be in the form of a netbook, a smart phone, etc. in addition to a personal computer.

Meanwhile, according to the online game item price display system 100 of the present invention, gamers can sell items owned by their player characters in an online game in exchange for a predetermined game money.

In the online game, especially MMORPG, various items can be obtained during the progress of the game. In the case of an item necessary for the progress of the game, it is possible to allow the player character to use it. However, if the item is unnecessary, You can exchange for the game money available within.

There are two ways to sell items. One is selling items at stores in online games. In MMOPRG, a store is a place where a player character can move to a specific place in a game and talk to an NPC to buy or sell items. At this time, the purchase or sale of items is made using game money, and in the case of MMOPRG, the selling price is lower than the price of the item purchased at the store.

The in-game shop providing means 110 allows the gamer to exchange the item held in the account in the online game with the game money by operating the game client 1. At this time, the price converted to the game money that can be received when selling the item in the shop is predetermined.

Another way to sell items is to exchange items between player characters within an online game, or to sell game money. Since the advent of MMORPG, this type of transaction has been around for a long time. It has been a long time since, it has been a long time to exchange items through internet bulletin boards or cafes related to online games, I have been.

In this way, in order to further facilitate the sale of items, the in-game auction processing unit 120, when the gamer manipulates the player character to request a sales agent by selling a price to an item held in his or her account, By registering it in an auction site in an online game, the gamer who is willing to buy the game among other gamers can have the item in return for paying the game money corresponding to the price paid.

At this time, the price may be inputting the confirmed price, but it may be the same as the general auction method, that is, the auction start price or the immediate purchase price.

That is, when the in-game auction processing unit 120 receives a request for sales agency by receiving a price from one of the plurality of game clients 1, The game client 1 registers the information in the auction place in the online game so that information such as the price input from the game client 1 or the current auction price can be known.

On the other hand, if a game client 1 'that has won a prize by purchasing at an input price for an item registered in an auction house, winning a prize through an auction, or presenting an immediate purchase price among game clients is displayed, Sends the deleted item to the account of the purchased game client 1 'instead of deleting the item from the account of the game client 1 that sold the item. On the other hand, instead of reducing the game money corresponding to the sales amount from the account of the game client (1 ') purchasing the item, the game money corresponding to the account of the game client (1) selling the item is paid.

On the other hand, the sales agency information collecting means 130 collects the sales agent request information about the items registered in the auction site in the online game at predetermined time intervals.

At this time, the sales agent request information is information on how many items are requested for sales items in the online game, that is, whether they are registered in the auction house, and the lowest price among items registered in the auction house for each item . That is, it is not necessary to collect price information for each item. The size of the data of the sales agent request information collected can be drastically reduced.

The collected sales agent information is stored in a file.

The sales agent information collecting means 130 collects sales agent request information at a predetermined time interval (for example, one hour interval) in order to prevent the load from being weighted. The collected information is overwritten on the stored file, .

On the other hand, gamers who are not familiar with online games often do not understand the value of items acquired in online games. In such a case, it may be unnecessary to sell the game at a predetermined low price in a game store. If the item is a popular item among gamers, the value at the auction site will be completely different.

Accordingly, in order to know the status of the item being traded at the auction site, the game client 1 '' may request an item of sale agency information for the item by setting an arbitrary item, and the item transaction information providing means 140 may collect sales agency information The means 130 loads the updated file at a certain time interval into the memory, and indicates how many items are registered at the auction site, and the lowest price among them.

On the other hand, the request for the sales agent information does not necessarily have to be explicitly made. The player can operate the game client 1 '', and the item transaction information providing means 140 can be operated by simply placing the mouse cursor on the item on the screen, May provide sales agency information for the item. In order to provide sales agency information by only a mouseover event, the amount of data collected by the sales agent information collection means 130 needs to be kept to a minimum.

On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 3, the game client 1 '' displays a tooltip around the item on the screen in the event of a mouseover event, and displays the sales agency information received in the tooltip.

A tooltip is a commonly used graphical user interface (GUI) element that is often used to display supplemental descriptions that are displayed on top of items in a rectangular shape when the gamer points to it without clicking the mouse cursor.

3, it can be seen that the tooltips are labeled "Store sales price 12", "Auction house registration status 25", and "Minimum selling price per unit 52,000".

The item transaction information providing means 140 may further provide to the game client 1 '' an amount that can be received when the item is sold in the shop so that it can be displayed in this way.

On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 3, when it is mounted in the "Manastone: ATK + 1", "Manastone Type", "Manastone Level 10 Level" Click to activate and select the item to be enhanced "is displayed, indicating that the attribute or description of the item is displayed together.

The item transaction information providing means 140 can further provide information on the description of the item or the attribute to the game client 1 " so that it can be displayed in this way.

Since the characteristics and attributes of the item and the amount of money that can be received when it is sold to the shop correspond to the unchanging data, it does not necessarily have to be provided in real time and is provided and stored in advance in the game client 1 & The game client 1 " may be called up and displayed on the screen.

Hereinafter, with reference to FIG. 4, a process of displaying the prices and the number of registrations in the online game store and the auction house on the game client screen in the price display system of the online game item having the above configuration will be described.

First, the price display system 100 of an online game item collects the number of registered items in the auction place and the lowest price of the registered items for each item in the online game at predetermined time intervals (S110).

The collected information is stored as a file, but existing data is deleted by overwriting the previously stored file. This is to reduce the unnecessary load by keeping the amount of data to a minimum.

Thereafter, if there is a request for sales agency information for any one of the online game items from any of a plurality of game clients accessed through the Internet, the number of the auction house registration items of the item collected in step S110 and the minimum A sales price is provided (S120).

At this time, it is also possible to provide the price when selling the item to the shop. The sales of items in the shops are performed by NPCs, and the prices are predetermined according to the set values of the game. However, since the transactions at the auction sites are values determined by the gamers' intention, Prices can also vary greatly.

The process is as follows.

First, the item transaction information providing unit 140 determines whether there is a request for sales agency information for any one of items in online games from one of a plurality of game clients (S121).

The user can operate the game client 1 '' and judge that there is a request for sales agency information when a mouseover event occurs, in which a mouse cursor is placed on the item and a predetermined time is not clicked.

If there is a request for sales agency information, the item transaction information providing means 140 acquires the registration number and the minimum price of the corresponding item of the auction site collected in advance by the sales agent information collecting means 130, The money information converted into game money that can be received when the item is sold at a shop provided by the in-game store providing means 110 is acquired (S122).

When the information is acquired in this way, it is provided to the game client 1 '' requesting the sales agency information (S123).

As shown in FIG. 3, the game client 1 '' having received the in-game sales agent information for a specific item displays the tooltip. The game client 1 '' displays the tooltip, the number of the auction house registration, The prices that can be received at the time of sale to the shop are displayed in the respective tool tips (S130).

At this time, as shown in FIG. 3, the attribute or description of the corresponding item may be further displayed. For this purpose, it is a matter of course that the game client 1 '' must receive and store information about the attribute or description of the item from the online game item price display system 100 in advance.

On the other hand, the above-described method of displaying the price of the online game item may be performed in the form of a computer program, and may be stored in a computer-readable recording medium and executed in an online game server or a game client.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that the embodiments themselves have been disclosed for illustrative purposes and those skilled in the art will readily appreciate that many modifications, additions and substitutions are possible, , Which should be construed as not departing from the scope of the following claims.

1, 1 ', 1'': game client
110: In-game store providing means 120: In-game auction processing means
130: Sales agency information collecting means 140: Item transaction information providing means

Claims (3)

1. An online game server for providing online game services to a plurality of game clients concurrently accessed via the Internet,
Game in-game providing means for allowing an item in an online game held in an online game account associated with a game client to be exchanged with game money of a predetermined amount in the online game server;
When the winning bid for the item in the online game held in the online game account associated with the game client is made through the auction site, the item is deleted from the online game account and the game money corresponding to the winning bid value is added to the online game account An in-game auction processing means;
A sales agent information collecting means for collecting sales agent request information related to an item requested to be sold to the in-game auction processing means at predetermined time intervals; And
When receiving the sales agent information for the first item in the online game held in the online game account associated with the first game client,
And item transaction information providing means for providing sales transaction request information for the first item to the first game client and game money information exchangeable with the second item in the online game store,
The sales agent information is information for inputting an item to acquire the current status information on the auction site, and the sales agent request information includes the auction house registration number information and transaction price information for each item traded in the online game Featured, online game server. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the sales agent request information collected by the sales agent information collecting means is the lowest price information among the items registered in the auction house. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the sales agency information collecting means collects sales agency request information related to an item requested to be requested for sale at a predetermined time interval and stores the collected sales agent information in a file so that existing data is deleted by overwriting the existing file. Game server.

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