Chapter Seventy-Six: I Didn't Want to Leave for a Long Time

"Gamer's Heart" is broken, and those video game manufacturers are certainly not happy.

However, when "Gamer Heart" refused, there were also people who saw business opportunities.

As a result, a large number of video game magazines have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.

These game magazines, maybe the content is not good, maybe the paper is rough, and they don't even care if anyone reads them.

What they care about is the top-up money of game manufacturers who have been rejected by Gamer Heart.

They accept top-ups and then rate the game by the extent of the top-up. A magazine that was supposed to be for players turned into an advertising brochure.

Thus, we entered an era of chaos.

After a while, magazines that had no skill at all began to withdraw from the market.

Because players are sometimes blind, but they are not stupid.

Why can't we vote with our feet and not buy your magazines at all and send you out of the market.

However, some of these magazines remained. It's not that these magazines don't accept top-ups, but they have mastered the art of language.

It's like there will be a car media person surnamed Yan in China, whose programs are recharged every time, but he can use the art of language to curry favor with the owner of the car company at the same time, without making the audience too disgusted, and even in some cases, some whites will be moved by the "sincerity" of this media person.

It is also in this melee that "Player's Heart", which does not only care about immediate interests, has become the first choice of the vast majority of players.

However, despite the increasing popularity of video games in the book of Yue, it is desirable that every 10 people have a red and white machine.

But in fact, most people buy red and white machines to follow the trend, and the choice of games is those classic games. I don't always pay attention to new games and buy them.

Therefore, the sales volume of "Gamer's Heart" magazine is at most 300,000 units.

And after that, why did the sales of Gamer Heart start to decline?

This is because the economy has begun to decline, and it is basically impossible to maintain the original level of wages, and even to do everything in order not to lose their jobs.

At this time, although there is still a demand for entertainment, there are new choices for the choice of games.

In the past, whether to choose a game or not was to see if the game was fun and how long it could be played.

Now it's a game that just relaxes me, and it's best not to make me too tired, and I don't really want to play if it's too hard.

Therefore, the quality of the game, the difficulty of the game, and the need for game strategies have been reduced to varying degrees.

In other words, if the previous players paid more attention to cost performance, the current players are more focused on relaxation.

Game manufacturers have also discovered this problem, and the difficulty of new games is constantly decreasing. The difficulty of reducing is even cleared by letting a dog come over and gnaw on the handle, and at this time the strategy has no meaning of existence.

In general, players' demand for a game to be fun has decreased, which has also reduced the need for ratings.

How can they, who are starting to feel troubled even when playing games, be able to buy "Player's Heart" one issue after another as they did before?

As a result, not only did the sales of Gamer Heart begin to shrink, but all video game magazine sales began to lose weight.

Even, because the quality of "Player's Heart" is the thinnest one.

And Takahashi's return to the book is to decide the direction of "Takahashi's Party" and "Player's Heart" in the future.

Where is the road, this is where every game media person pays attention.

After Takahashi came to the book, he did not rush to the editorial office or other places to have a meeting, but began to walk the streets and alleys.

Although the video game market has shrunk a little, the volume is still huge.

The Electric Town in the Akihabara area has been transformed into a kingdom of video games and anime.

Almost all the games that could have been played are available here.

Even, because of the large number of players here, it has become an online mecca like Pokemon, which requires online games.

On the benches next to the street, in the shade of the trees around the flower beds, countless players of all sizes gather here to exchange pets in the game and exchange life experiences outside the game.

For example, someone like Takahashi, who is not very dressed in a game and does not have a game console, is actually a bit out of place to appear here, but not too many people pay attention to it.

After all, big cities are so fast-paced that countless strangers pass you by every day. How can you care about what everyone who passes by, what is going on?

However, suddenly, a player holding a game console leaning against the back of a bench casually glanced at Takahashi and quickly straightened up and stood up.

He walked up to Takahashi with trembling hands, and said in an excited voice, "You...... Are you Takahashi?"

Although Takahashi knew that he was recognized, he was still surprised. Because he hasn't been in public for a long time.

Even, he felt that maybe he had long been forgotten, and the young players would not know who they were.

And now he is not as active as he was on the front line of the media more than ten years ago, both in terms of clothing and temperament, so he is not as fully armed as before.

He thought he might be recognized, but he didn't expect to be recognized as soon as he arrived at the first place.

"I am. Takahashi said with a subtle smile.

"You—do you remember me? I—I've competed in your races!" said the chubby man with the console.

"In 1986, I won a place in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area in that competition, and you gave me a prize with your own hands!" the fat player rubbed his sweaty palm on his pants and stretched out his hand to shake Takahashi's hand.

Takahashi's hand shook with him, and he listened to the player talk about his years of playing.

Gradually, more people recognized Takahashi and gathered around him.

Not long after, the patrolling police came over and wanted to evacuate the crowd that was affecting the normal traffic.

You know, the Akihabara generation was very crowded, and many years ago, it was converted into a pedestrian street, and cars could not enter.

But, even so, it's still crowded here.

And when they heard Takahashi appear here, even if there were police officers who were evacuated, even if they couldn't hear anything on the periphery, they were still reluctant to leave.

Because, Takahashi represents the memory of a generation of Yuben gamers, and also represents an era of Yuben video games.