"There are companies that stick to their traditions and never change. Although the market has been shrinking, it can at least maintain a stable result by relying on those die-hard fans, and it seems that there is no risk and no need to worry about it. But this kind of barely maintained, and most of them themselves know that it is one day at a time. Except for a very small number of people who suddenly become nostalgic and pop up the old things of the past after reincarnation and bring them back to life. Otherwise, the only thing waiting ahead is that the die-hard fans will slowly disappear, and in the end, the company will be finished. ”

Kaguya said and took out his phone and searched for a name in the browser on it, and the game on the picture displayed was also a long-lasting RPG series that Levi was familiar with.

"The first work in this series has been almost fifteen or sixteen years since it came out. ”

As a barely loyal RPG and SLG enthusiast, this series of games is not Levy's favorite, but because it has always adhered to tradition, it is one of the few series that still makes Levi enjoy it to this day.

"Fifteen years, this year is the fifteenth anniversary. ”

"Oh, so the company doesn't have a 15th anniversary celebration or something? I don't think I've heard anything like that. ”

Although Levi uses his mobile phone to surf the Internet every day to browse various news. However, as an incompetent and unprofessional non-otaku, he rarely pays attention to game news. Only occasionally when I think about it, I will run to see if there is anything I care about.

"It doesn't seem to be there for the time being. Although everyone is looking forward to it, this is not the only series that the company is doing. It's a small company on its own, and it can't afford the stress of working on two or three games at the same time. Even if you do it reluctantly, most of them are perfunctory and cheat money. Instead of smashing your own signboard like that, it's better to just celebrate a little bit around the release point. ”

Levi felt a little sorry to hear Kaguya say that. After all, it's a series that I've been playing for fifteen years. Think about it, if it weren't for a non-human like yourself with an unscientific lifespan, how many fifteen years would an ordinary person have in his life? If he had been in contact with this game since he was fifteen years old and had just entered high school. By now, he is also a mature social person who has been in the workplace for many years at the age of 30. Thinking about it this way, I suddenly felt that it was rare for a game series to last so long. In particular, this series is not like Levy's favorite one before, just a 'spiritual series' with an 'idea' and some settings running through the series, and each of them has little to do with its predecessor. It's not like this series, it's a story that takes place on a continent and continues at the same point in time.

It's been fifteen years of telling a story that has been going on, and it doesn't look like it's going to end at all...... Come to think of it, this is not easy for the company or for the players who have persevered.

"In fact, even this company is constantly trying to develop new types of games on the premise of continuing the series to guarantee the bottom line. For example, in the last two years, they have come out with a new game with an overall concept that is very similar to the set, but with a very different way of fighting. Regardless of the evaluation of the new work, it is also an attempt by their company to pave the way for their own future. It's better than doing this fixed series all the time until the players are old, but there is nothing else that can make money, so they can only die slowly. ”

Kaguya was also quite emotional when he spoke. As a family squatter who is more passionate about games than Izumi, sometimes Kaguya makes people feel that they really have a sincere love for the game market and the industry. Not only does she like the developers of the games she is interested in, but even if the games she develops have always been unpopular with the game companies, Kaguya can always give a very objective evaluation, and will never point fingers at the other party's games that don't suit her taste.

Maybe most people who really love the same thing are like this, right? It's like Izumi, who likes animation and beautiful girl games more than Pengraiya. She also never made Levi feel emotionally targeting a work she didn't like. Even if some animation companies are now making shoddy and ruined works that even laymen like Levy have heard of, Izumi can often understand the objective reasons why the production company has become such a thing in addition to criticism. It is precisely because of this sanity and fairness that the remarks made by Izumi on the Internet will have such weight among his fans. Unlike some emotional comment articles that simply vent their dissatisfaction, except for a few people who happen to need to vent in their hearts, most people just look at it casually as a joke.

"No matter what the industry, running a company and doing a business is not an easy task. Especially now, new platforms such as mobile phones have an increasing impact on traditional game companies. Although I heard that the sales of home consoles seem to be quite high in the past two years, it is impossible for those game companies to really not be interested in the mobile phone platform market because of this. ”

Levi is also a serious social person. Even if he doesn't usually pay much attention to the aspects himself, he doesn't look at it himself, but there are also those gossipy colleagues in the office who help him popularize science. In fact, the so-called human beings are social animals, which are embodied in these places. Some people always say that staying at home for a long time is out of touch with society, in addition to the fact that rarely communicating directly with people does affect the ability to communicate with each other, that is, the 'knowledge side' will become narrow because they only care about what they care about, so that people seem to be unable to keep up with the social changes around them.

"Of course, it's so good to watch those startups who make a lot of money by casually playing a little game on their phones that don't have any technical content at all. Even if you are not jealous and envious, do you think that a person who finds that his peers are far inferior to his own but relies on his inferior craftsmanship to cheat money and deceive people in the New World, can he not despise and scratch his ears and cheeks and want to let those natives of the New World who have no knowledge see his true technology?"

Kaguya is probably talking about the mentality of those traditional game manufacturers towards those small game manufacturers that suddenly popped up with the development of smartphones on the mobile phone platform. Although by now, especially after many established manufacturers have tried and hit a wall, they must have long understood that those seemingly non-technical small games on mobile phones also have their own uniqueness, and they cannot be imitated and created casually. Otherwise, those large companies will not need to spend huge sums of money to acquire small game companies that focus on mobile platforms in the near future.