Tokyo Video Game Tycoon

   Chapter 585 What is the reason?

  584

   Nagao Rain said it very succinctly.

   In fact, working overtime is very normal, especially in Japan, where working overtime is commonplace.

  Companies that do not work overtime like Midyou Star Electronic Entertainment in Japan are the biggest outliers.

   In general Japanese companies, if you don’t work overtime every day until nine o’clock, ten o’clock or even one o’clock, you are embarrassed to say it.

  It seems that people subconsciously recognize the culture of overtime.

   But even a country like Japan that is used to working overtime has its limits.

These game developers of   YOO have reached their limits.

  If the game sells very well, there may be some BUFF bonuses to make them a little more excited.

   But now even the sales volume has been cut in half, which means that you have worked overtime for so long but there is no good return, and it will inevitably make people uneasy.

  Especially when Nagao Yu said that he could work overtime, the game director felt a chill in his heart.

   How do you have to work overtime?

   Before the game was developed, they were already working at a high frequency for fifteen or six hours a day. Now it takes more time to remedy the game bug. This really cannot be more.

   However, Nagao Yu is the president, and here is Japan again. The class relationship is very strict, and Xia Keshang is just a plot in the cool article.

"I see."

   The person in charge opened his mouth, and finally swallowed a lot of words he wanted to say.

   "Make me at least two maps within a week, and there are more models. You should have a lot of game development waste cases before, right? Give them all for me to use, these resources can't be wasted in vain!"

  “…”

   The person in charge finally nodded and stood up silently, but he still remembered one thing: "President, about the salary..."

   "You can rest assured that there will be no shortage of money, but I need you to get results first!"

  …

YOO's racing game has encountered a waterloo, and many people who are already in the industry are a little puzzled. It stands to reason that a large investment should be able to have a better return. Many previous game development has received corresponding returns. Even if the return is not high, at least it can be repaid.

   But YOO just hit the street so miserably, and everyone immediately started frantically researching what was going on.

   After playing this game, most people feel that there is nothing wrong with it, but it is not popular.

   In addition to these people, for the purpose of researching competing products, Zhuyouxing naturally also experienced and played a number of YOO's recently launched games.

Like FIFA football games, YOO has invested a lot of money, and the results are the best. The quality of the game is not a full score, but it can also achieve a middle-to-high quality in football games, and it can probably reach a rating of about three-and-a-half stars. .

Of course, this is viewed from the critical perspective of Zhuyouxing's later generations. It is already a very good game for players in this world. It can only be said that if you have money, you can do whatever you want. This kind of entertainment product is on the same level as the production of movies, and it is indeed easier to make better works with money.

   But the BUG from the later generations is different.

   With the development direction and successful experience of later generations, he can completely create a crushing game, so even if the development cost is lower than other manufacturers, the game of Yuxing Electronic Entertainment will be more fun.

As for the first-person shooter game that came to YOO, the quality of this game is also very good, but Zhu Yuxing has a very intuitive feeling, that is, this game is obviously not as important as FIFA football games, and can only be ranked second Level 1, the investment in money is also slightly lower.

   However, under the word-of-mouth effect of the previous football game, it also obtained more than 800,000 sales in the first week, and the results were also very good.

  This game can be regarded as learning from each other's strengths and complementing its weaknesses, which strengthens the refreshing feeling of shooting. The process of playing Zhuyouxing is quite refreshing, and it can also reach the passing line with its own critical eyes.

   But this is the case after the game is over, and there is no urge to play again.

   If you played this kind of game in your previous life, it is estimated that the game will be closed after customs clearance, and then sold second-hand.

   Then, it's YOO's racing game.

In order not to compete directly with Youxing Electronic Entertainment, they chose a more professional track racing type, but they authorized very few models, most of which were their own magic-modified cars, which avoided copyright and lacked authenticity. data as the basis.

   However, these are not too big problems. Players in this world have not yet judged whether racing games are good or bad. Now they will only judge whether they can make themselves happy.

   In terms of whether this game can be fun to play, Zhu Yuxing thinks it is more interesting.

   But he also has some obvious feelings, and the traces of the game's rush to work are very obvious.

   And it stands to reason that the investment has already exceeded 100 million US dollars, so it seems that many places are still rough.

   If there is no licensing cost for a racing game, it stands to reason that it will not spend too much money. If it spends too much money, it will either burn too much money or have greater ambitions.

   But this game is not at the level of development cost of hundreds of millions of dollars.

   Take Yuxing's first thought was that YOO was not doing false propaganda.

   There are still some possibilities.

But with the temper of Nagaoyu, he is not the kind of person who likes to brag about this kind of thing. He likes to show off how much investment he has spent and what kind of achievements he has made. If he falsely promotes it. , all his boasting became a joke.

  If you give 100 million dollars to Take Yusei, he can do five or six times better than this.

   You must know that even his Need for Speed ​​game plus various licenses, the total development cost is only more than 70 million US dollars, which is the second most cost-effective among the three games of Guns and Balls.

The first thing that saves money is Counter-Strike, because there is no need to pay any licensing fees, and the competitive nature of the game itself makes it more focused on balanced gameplay. It doesn’t matter if the picture quality is lower, so the development of Counter-Strike only took less than three Looks like millions of dollars.

More than 70% of the   30 million is labor costs. Because Zhuyouxing does not like to put pressure on employees to work overtime, the number of employees is much larger.

   This also increases the labor cost invisibly.

   So, why doesn't YOO's racing game look like it's worth a hundred million dollars?

   Could it be that the game took a lot of detours during development?

  There are actually many problems in game development. Sometimes game development encounters more problems than many movie productions.

   A slight conflict of ideas can lead to a lot of money spent on unimportant things in game development.

   In the past life, there were many games that constantly adjusted the development direction. In the end, the game progress had not advanced much, but the money had already been spent.

   (end of this chapter)