Tokyo Video Game Tycoon

  Chapter 1115 Making money is king

   "Indeed, it is really like what the president said, this world is very empty, it seems that there are infinite exploration possibilities, but it is very boring."

  Mickford's follow-up press conference is no longer paid attention to by everyone. The games that will be released later are relatively standard. Obviously, the focus of this press conference is this infinite world game.

  On the Internet, this game also had a very good response because of the promotional trailer.

  Many players have exclaimed that once it is released, it may become a masterpiece.

   Infinitely exploreable world, how attractive is that?

  The human genes seem to be deeply engraved with the spirit of adventure and exploration.

  From ancient voyages to modern space exploration, human beings have been on the road of external exploration.

  The charm of this kind of game lies in this, the infinite possibilities.

  However, after the game department of Youxing Electronic Entertainment got together to study, they found that this kind of random world is really not very fun.

   At the launch event, the game’s teaser demo looked scenic and the randomly generated creatures looked cool.

  But if you really let the computer run the infinite world by itself, you will find a problem. Sometimes the randomly generated things may not necessarily conform to human aesthetics.

   Sometimes there will be some very strange landscapes.

  You may be able to explain it with different cultures in different worlds, but this is a game, and the purpose of the game is to serve the players.

   A game that makes the player feel bad has its problems.

   What's more, this is something that is randomly generated. I am afraid that even the game developers themselves may not be able to accept those randomly generated art styles.

   "If the AI ​​iterates a few more times, wouldn't this random generation be better?"

"No, the amount of calculation required is much larger than that of simple calculations for some character NPCs. It is simply not something that commercial products can do. At least it must be an enterprise-level supercomputer. That thing costs several million dollars a piece. Can you afford it?"

   "Then use AI to calculate some planets in advance and put them into the game file?"

   "This is even more impossible. Think about how many art resources and content a planet may contain? Hundreds of millions of planet data may blow up any storage device."

   "...So, is there no solution?"

   "It's not impossible to solve it. We can only wait for the production cost of the current supercomputer to be reduced in the next few decades, and it can be truly used by civilians. At that time, it is indeed possible to present a colorful infinite world."

  These ministers got together to study the possibility of making such an infinite world game.

  Finally they came to a unified conclusion.

   It is almost impossible to realize the content of the game conference.

   Even Zhu Youxing’s reversal of No Man’s Sky reputation in his previous life did not change the problem of space holes in the entire world.

   It's just that the developer has added more playability through subsequent content updates, covering up the original empty world problems.

   But this can be regarded as putting the cart before the horse in the direction of the original game development.

  Originally, the direction of this game development is to give players countless colorful worlds, and each world will have new and interesting things.

   But in the end, the game just becomes a hodgepodge game with many kinds of gameplay mixed together.

   Presumably the game developers of No Man’s Sky are also suffering.

  The gap between their original dreams and the final presentation of the game is too far away, and seeing that the solid scientific and technological barriers cannot be broken through, they can only do what they can do silently, trying to make up for the mistakes they have made.

   Fortunately, their subsequent compensation did work, and the reputation of their production team gradually recovered.

   "So, isn't this game suspected of fraud?"

   "It seems... a little bit."

   "How dare Mickford do this? Aren't they afraid that this incident will completely destroy their game industry in the end?"

   "I don't think that's the case. This is just a game development team they invested in. At worst, it will be discarded in the end."

   "Hey... It's a pity. The idea of ​​this game is quite good, but it was born at an untimely time. If this game is developed more than ten or twenty years later, it should look different."

  Everyone can't help but sigh.

   At the same time they also feel worthless for those game developers.

  The idea of ​​a game like this is really, really novel.

  They have indeed created a nearly infinite world, but because the current technical capabilities are not up to the mark, the effect that this game should have been presented cannot be presented.

   Seriously, they want to help out if they get the chance.

   But this is competition.

  But they are very happy to see the troubles that their competitors may encounter, they just need to eat melons and watch the show in silence.

  Mickford's side has been very hot lately.

  Many players have shown great interest in the game Infinite World, which has also caused the stock price of Mickford to rise by more than ten percent.

  Through the explosive popularity of a game, it directly affects the company's stock price, which Myron Case himself did not expect.

  So it turns out that video games have such a big influence?

  So many players are optimistic about this game, which will greatly boost the confidence of investors.

  Then if I launch a few similar hit games, wouldn’t it just skyrocket?

  Of course he knew that this was just his own whimsy.

  This kind of game is rare, and Youxing Electronic Entertainment has only appeared a few times.

   And this time, he was standing on the cusp of the wind.

  Myron Keith no longer hesitated, and immediately invested more money in the young man with afro and his team, adding an additional budget of 50 million US dollars.

  50 million US dollars is enough for a general game manufacturer to make a medium-sized or even a large-scale 3A game, and Myron Keith has obviously raised the importance of this game to a higher level.

  But not everyone will be dazzled by this sudden success.

  The young man with an afro expressed his concern about the infinite world he developed.

  He doesn’t think that the games he makes are not good, he is a game developer with a technical background, and he knows best where the technical bottlenecks lie.

   This is not something that can be done simply by throwing more money at it.

  Because of the popularity of Infinite World, Mickford has also stepped up the promotion of this game. He wants to promote this game as a masterpiece. If he doesn't play it, he may regret it all his life.

  The young man with an afro wanted to go to his boss, Myron Keith, to explain it several times.

He thinks that the boss should be calmed down. The games he makes have limitations, and there are still many gameplay functions that were originally planned that have not been arranged. This will also consume a lot of time. It is best to delay the release date. .

   "You'd better not tell the boss about this kind of thing. The boss will be unhappy when he hears it. In the end, he may give up investing in you in a fit of anger. Is this what you want to see?"

  The young man with the afro just wanted to go to the boss, when the person in charge of the game development department found him and gave him a warning.

"The momentum is so good now, even if the final product of this game is not good, you can still make a lot of money just by relying on this popularity. You don't really need to care about whether the game can achieve the original effect. In this world, making money is king ,Do you understand?"

  (end of this chapter)