Chapter 257: Resurrection! My butt!
Let’s do something that can lose money!
Shen Miaomiao shouted in her heart.
Please just pity me!
Yes, in the past I was always looking forward to making trouble, hoping to suffer a huge loss.
That’s because our company was weak, small in size, with low investment and insufficient number of players!
For example, the total investment of our first game "Cat Rio" was only 10,000 yuan, and the loss of ten times was only 100,000 yuan.
Only if one copy is not sold can I get the full rebate and make some money.
But now!
Our situation has improved!
The company has grown into a medium-sized company, with more players and higher investments.
With an investment of hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars, I don’t need to suffer huge losses or lose all my money in the game, and I can still get massive rebate funds!
Like Garden Warfare.
Sales in a single week were 718,900 units, just a little less than the expected 731,000 units, but I got a rebate of nearly 10 million!
Although everyone says that you have fallen from grace and your former glory is gone, everyone knows that it is just a joke from the players.
After all, look at some games that can easily pay back their investment in half a month, or even a week!
In terms of sales volume and capital recovery speed, we are already in a unique league in the world!
I, Shen Miaomiao, am not making this up. You can go and check. Since the concept of "game company" came into being, which company can grow its start-up capital from 500,000 to 1 billion in disposable net assets in just three years?
This is why we don’t go public, otherwise our market value would have been in the billions or even tens of billions.
And this time!
I hold a card with a thousand-fold rebate, and my goal of financial freedom is right in front of me.
With a quick calculation, even if we only produce a game with an investment of 100 million yuan, I will lose one-tenth of it within the specified time.
Ten million, times a thousand.
That’s 10 billion!
Ten billion!
Spend three or four billion to buy a private luxury yacht, and the remaining money will be enough for the two of us to eat and do as we please for several lifetimes!
not to mention!
This will not have much impact on your reputation as an old supernova and the company's reputation for quality!
Even after getting the money, I can just tell you directly that I don't want this system anymore and you can produce whatever works you want in the future!
Let’s do publicity and marketing with great fanfare and loud drums and gongs!
Isn’t it fragrant?!
Isn’t this a win-win situation?!
Lose some money! Lose some money! Let you be cute and kind-hearted, just want to lie down and be a beautiful and salted fish boss Lose some money!
Thinking of this, Shen Miaomiao took a deep breath and prayed that Lao Gu could give her a satisfactory answer.
Her so-called "satisfactory answer" was nothing more than picking out one of the five loss-making games to develop a spin-off sequel.
And among these five games, there is only one that she likes the most.
That is——
“I’m going to make a first-person shooter game based on the Garden Warfare prototype.”
Gu Sheng said.
good!
Gu Sheng had already made preparations for the next game he was going to develop.
Even Garden Warfare was created as a preliminary experimental version of it!
In Garden Warfare, Gu Sheng specially arranged two innovative FPS competition modes: "Pushing Cart" and "Capturing Points".
This is to pave the way for the next game.
It is worth mentioning that in Garden Warfare, Gu Sheng also experimented with an alternative second-generation FPS design——
Also cancel the virtual crosshairs and shoot with fun-like mechanical aiming.
For example, the pea shooter's pea sprout anvil hole and Captain Corn's corn leaf-shaped optical sight.
but.
It turns out that this type of game is not suitable for mechanical aiming after all.
After all, everyone has a variety of firearms. Rifle-like firearms can be aimed with machine guns, but grenade launchers and the like are not so easy to aim with machine guns.
It will affect the overall smoothness of the game and the immersiveness of the fun experience.
If you want players to better experience the feeling of combining skills and shooting, it is definitely not enough to just stick to the "second-generation FPS" setting that you have created in this world.
Although Golden Wind's shooting games have never adopted the 'virtual crosshairs' setting.
Even in the eyes of outsiders, the "virtual crosshairs" of Golden Wind are just remnants of the old era, and are not worthy of boarding the new era of somatosensory cabin games.
But this time!
Gu Sheng groaned and said:
"And this time, in order to balance the gameplay and the player experience, I am also going to cancel the second-generation FPS machine aiming setting that we have always used, and enable the virtual crosshair design to make the game rhythm smoother."
Shen Miaomiao is going crazy.
This means that Gu Shengyuan is in Japan and not with her!
Otherwise, she would definitely have to jump on the horse on the spot!
What a lucky general!
Isn't this the result of telepathy?
good!
The loss-making sequel that Shen Miaomiao has always been fond of is "Garden Warfare"!
After all, this was the project that had caused her the most losses in history.
The net loss within the specified time of a single week was 617,200.
Moreover, in terms of rebates, it is also the second project with the highest loss rebates since she obtained the system!
Although in comparison, whether it is the final rebate amount or the basic multiplier of the invoice, "Left 4 Dead" has more. ("Left 4 Dead" lost 10 million and the multiplier was 100 times).
But the problem is, considering the current status and reputation of Left 4 Dead in the gaming circle.
If Lao Gu really wants to release "Left 4 Dead 2", the sales of the game will probably be unstoppable!
Let’s look back at Garden Warfare.
You know, this is the work that made Lao Gu be ridiculed as "falling from the altar".
It is also the only game in Golden Wind that is not [highly praised] !
The most important thing is!
This time, Lao Gu is actually going to give up the second-generation FPS setting that he has always been best at and is also the best setting of their Golden Wind!
What is this called, guys?
Shen Miaomiao almost laughed out loud!
You are destroying your own martial arts!
If the shooting game of Golden Wind does not adopt the second-generation FPS setting, it would be like Xiao Li Tanhua losing his sword, the one-armed Guoer losing his eagle, Guo Jing forgetting the Dragon Subduing Palm, and Boss Qiao forgetting to bring the big speaker!
Re-enable virtual crosshairs?
Fortunately, they are not a listed company.
Otherwise, just this piece of news would cause the company’s stock price to plummet!
After all, ever since their Golden Wind launched the second-generation FPS and became a hit, until now!
Over the past three years, there are fewer and fewer virtual crosshair games on the market. Except for games like "Crossfire", the first generation of FPS has basically been eliminated by the market.
But Old Gu is so good!
It was clearly his own innovative model, but now he is abandoning his strengths and highlighting his weaknesses!
God helps me, if I don’t suffer any loss, who will?
"Okay! Okay, okay!"
Shen Miaomiao was overjoyed, Shen Miaomiao was overjoyed , Shen Miaomiao gave a thumbs up and praised repeatedly:
"That's a great idea! Get up where you fell!"
"Moreover, this decision to re-enable the virtual crosshair fully demonstrates that we at Golden Wind are not bound by conventions and are brave enough to break the inherent prejudices of the market, so as to let the gaming community see that the fun of a game is not determined by the game mode, but by creativity and playability!"
Tsk tsk tsk!
Hearing this, Gu Sheng was shocked!
Look, look at our Mr. Ou!
This consciousness, this awareness, this thought and open attitude!
During these three years, he saw the improvement in little Nezha's knowledge of games.
From knowing nothing at the beginning to knowing everything now.
Now, Shen Miaomiao was able to say something like "Whether a game is fun or not is determined by its creativity and playability", which really made Gu Sheng happy.
Our Mr. Ou has grown up. Although he is not smart and capable, he has at least made great progress in his understanding of the game market and the origin of games.
"Mr. Shen is righteous!"
Gu Sheng clasped his fists and bowed:
"So this project is decided?"
Of course!
Shen Miaomiao nodded repeatedly, fearing that Gu Sheng would go back on his word: "It's decided! It's decided! When you come back, we will start the project immediately!"
I can't wait even one more minute!
Loss! This time I'm going to lose a lot!
"Please be nice to you!"
Gu Sheng nodded seriously!
After that, the two hung up the phone, and Gu Sheng was excited!
Although Kotick's Blizzard is one of the best in the world, no less than Konami and Vivendi!
But there is no doubt that Blizzard's games in the past were absolutely outstanding when looking around the world!
Especially in today's world, the market for motion sensing cabin games is booming.
With the support of full sensory assistance and upgraded motion assistance, Gu Sheng was genuinely excited at the thought of being able to touch his own butt in the game... no, being able to dodge and fight fiercely in the game!
"call--"
Thinking of this, Gu Sheng couldn't help but take a deep breath and said:
"System, help me unlock Overwatch"
[Didi, the emotion value is insufficient, 168992 emotion points are still missing]
Gu Sheng: ...
Okay, not much worse.
I guess it will be enough when players defeat the red ghost...
…
《Golden Wind booth reaches new high in popularity! 》
"Gaga, gaga! The number of somatosensory cabins at the Golden Wind booth is still in short supply after three rounds of replenishment!"
"'Wolf Games' has become the hottest game buzzword this week"
"Many well-known game review media have given "Sekiro" a score close to full marks!"
"Tori Gate" cannot guarantee safety, "Sekiro" breaks out of the siege! "
《……》
Two days passed in a flash.
As said before.
Ever since the incident on the second day of the exhibition, no one dared to cause trouble at the Golden Wind booth.
Even the queuing of the players has become more conscious.
As various data continued to rise, the terrifying "heat index peak: 277%" at the end undoubtedly made Golden Wind the most dazzling new star at this Tokyo Game Festival.
The calls for "falling from the altar" are getting louder and louder.
The media named Sekiro as "the most anticipated game of the year, comparable to or even surpassing A Way Out."
Review media were busy experiencing and praising how amazing, complete, and fascinating this game's action system was.
Players, on the other hand, shouted " MAGA (Make ARPG Great Again)" and regarded it as another comprehensive innovation of the somatosensory cabin game mode after "Left 4 Dead".
The calls for the [Wolf] game were overwhelming.
It seems to be just as Pew said in the tweet when the event started on the first day.
What "Sekiro" pioneered is definitely not an Action Role Playing Game that can run smoothly in a somatosensory cabin and perform more actions.
Its levels, its narrative, its combat logic and the way the game is presented are all unprecedented in this era, or even throughout history.
It is the future of motion cabin action games.
And now, the future is here.
"'Wolf' games will surely become a major development branch of motion cabin action games."
At a small teriyaki eel rice restaurant not far from Konami headquarters, Toru Moriya took a sip of oolong tea and said:
“I hope Sekiro will be a big hit, and that Gu Sang and Golden Wind will make further progress.”
"Thank you Moriya-san,"
Gu Sheng smiled and nodded:
"But speaking of which, this time we really have to trouble Moriya-san. Not only did he help us contact the motion capture team, but someone was causing trouble at the exhibition..."
"Oh, don't talk about that, don't talk about that,"
Moriya waved his hand to indicate that you’re welcome:
"Gu-san trusts me and is willing to tell me such an important plan, so I will naturally do my best."
"As for the exhibition..."
Speaking of this.
Moriya sighed, obviously still upset and helpless:
“That’s what I should do, and that’s what I have to do.”
"To put it bluntly, even out of consideration for Konami, I had to take action at the time to prevent this vicious incident from happening."
"Speaking of which, I have to thank Gu Sang for not holding a grudge and letting us off the hook."
"Haha," Gu Sheng waved his hand: "Other people can be called villains, but Moriya-san cannot be classified as such."
As they finished eating and drinking, the two stood up and walked out of the restaurant side by side.
Moritani suggested taking Gu Sheng back to the hotel, but Gu Sheng politely declined.
He lived not far from here, so he thought he could get there by just taking a short walk.
So the two shook hands and said goodbye.
"Take care, Gu-san, and be sure to call me when you come to Japan again."
Moritani shook Gu Sheng's hand.
Gu Sheng also laughed:
"Of course, of course. Come visit China when you have time, and come and inspect our Golden Wind."
"Okay," Moriya seemed very interested. "After this period of time is over, I will apply to the company for an on-site visit in the name of inspection, and also learn from your management experience and work model."
"Then I will wait for good news?"
"good!"
After saying that.
The two waved goodbye.
Moritani started the car, and Gu Sheng strolled towards the hotel.
However.
What they all don't know is.
At the same time, in the coffee shop across the street, a man wearing a black windbreaker and with an ordinary and unremarkable appearance quietly put away his mobile phone.
Before the screen was locked, Gu Sheng and Moriya were standing on the street, shaking hands and saying goodbye, laughing harmoniously...
