Chapter Ninety-Six: The Dilemma of the Video Game Alliance
The headquarters of the video game league next to the Dongli building has been quite oppressive for the past few days.
The main reason is, of course, because of the recent tragedy, and the secondary reason comes from the derivative development of this tragedy, they were stabbed in the back by Chiba Games.
After this incident, all the companies in the Japanese video game industry were a little panicked, but everyone was not too worried.
Because, most manufacturers are small factories with small families. The sky is falling, and there is no tall person on top.
Tall, of course, refers to the troika of video game leagues, Chiba games, and Ren Hell.
Ren Hell has already given up the arcade department and devoted himself to the research and development of home consoles. What happened had little to do with them.
Chiba Games also announced through a press conference that it would disband the arcade game part, and the picker quit.
As a result, the spearhead of all public opinion is pointed at the video game alliance.
From Shiraishi to Nagasawa, from the directors to Katsukuro Yano, no one has a good-looking face, and everyone has a tiger face.
The meeting was held one after another, but no good solution was discussed.
The main profitable division of the video game league is the arcade department. Although, the quality of the game is getting worse day by day, but after such a long period of recuperation. Their in-house training system has finally cultivated a group of talents who can make arcade games well.
However, these happy news, in their eyes now, do not mean much joy. Their faces are not very good. Or rather, very poorly.
Because, although the arcade has improved. However, the home machine market. But he was still half dead. Because of functional limitations, the video game talents they have cultivated cannot develop a fun game for their home consoles.
Such a reality also makes the video game alliance have no way to pick and choose, and there is no way to give up the arcade market like Chiba Games.
If Chiba Games abandons the arcade market, it's like cutting the appendix. It hurts, but it's fine. For video game leagues, it's a bit like removing the heart.
Can a person live without a heart? Apparently not.
So, the video game league, it is impossible to give up the arcade market. I can only say some polite words on the scene, I should donate money, I should buy the newspaper, I should buy the newspaper. As for other more in-depth initiatives, they don't have them.
And because of this. They were severely reprimanded by public opinion.
Although they tried to do public relations, it didn't have much effect. As a result, they can only play dead and stop answering all the information outside.
So close your eyes. A two-handed strategy is definitely not a good solution. Many video game leagues run their own arcades. The people who are angry, and the people who love to join in the fun. Surrounded by groups, it was impossible to open.
Such a fight down. In the end, all the arcade halls opened by the video game alliance were closed, which caused unspeakable huge losses to the video game league.
Although Lin Yan is still a shareholder of the video game alliance, he does not pay much attention to the video game alliance.
These days, he is working on "Doctor Mary" with many game designers in Chiba Games.
In fact, in the process of video game development, if nothing goes wrong and everything goes according to plan, in fact, it will not be too difficult to develop a game.
However, this is unlikely.
Just like the development team of "Doctor Mary" at this moment, although Lin Yan has pointed out a broad road, many staff members still make many, many mistakes.
These mistakes surrounded Lin Yan, waiting for him to solve them, making his head as big as a space pumpkin, and he couldn't do it.
In such a position and work intensity, it is very obvious for the exercise of people.
Lin Yan's organizational and management ability has been greatly improved in these days. He also understands that it is a very abnormal thing to let everyone avoid mistakes, and can only push the progress of the project and cultivate their abilities over time.
Twenty-five days after that incident, Doctor Mary was finally made into a complete version of the game.
Then, all the employees, together with their colleagues in the quality assurance team, began the process of catching insects and began to repair the game.
However, this is a matter that affects the whole body, and often a mistake is corrected, and a new mistake is generated.
Another five days passed.
Finally, on the thirtieth day, the perfect version was made.
Next, it was time to start arranging the factory and start producing game cartridges. On the other hand, the sample of the cassette was handed over to the media, and they were allowed to try it out, and then they wrote down their experience of playing it. Players will decide whether to buy the game or not based on what they see about it.
The number of copies issued per issue of "Game Pass" is about 300,000 copies. In other words, at least 300,000 people in Japan have subscribed to Game Pass.
If you put these subscribed players, all of them are classified as core players.
Then, this part of the core players is the most important person for game manufacturers.
They will choose whether or not to buy a game based on the magazine's recommendations and ratings. In addition, millions of players will choose whether to follow the trend and buy because of the influence of these core players.
There is a saying in the industry, "Whoever occupies the magazine owns the world." That's kind of what it means.
Lin Yan is quite satisfied with this "Doctor Mary", which is a little different from his memory. Especially the guy in charge of the voice, he was very impressed.
The eight-bit sound source of the red and white machine, if there is no good arrangement, it will sound like noise. And this young man from the music department wrote the music very powerful, not only good, but also in line with the "Doctor Mary", light game style.
Lin Yan memorized the name of this person, and promoted him to become the head of the sound effects department.
He is not alone, he remembers all the people who performed well in the production of "Doctor Mary", and he has promoted these people.
Since they are capable, let them take on a bigger task.
Lin Yan thought very simply, and he didn't talk about seniority. In addition, the time to enter all the employees and enter the Chiba game is not too much, so there is no big problem. (To be continued......)