Tokyo Video Game Tycoon

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What Changwei Yu said was very straightforward.

In fact, working overtime is also a very normal thing, especially in Japan, it is commonplace to work overtime.

Companies like Midstar Electronic Entertainment in Japan that don't work overtime are the biggest outliers.

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

It seems that people subconsciously recognize the culture of working overtime.

But even a country like Japan, which is used to working overtime, has limits.

These game developers at YOO have reached their limit.

If the game sales are very good, there may be some BUFF bonuses to cheer them up a little.

But now even the sales have been cut in half, which means that I have worked hard overtime for so long but there is no good return, and it will inevitably make people lose their spirits.

Especially when Chang Weiyu said that he could work overtime, the game director felt a little cold in his heart.

How can I work overtime?

Before the game was developed, they were already working at a high frequency for fifteen or sixteen hours a day, and now they spent even more time to remedy the game bugs, which really couldn't be more.

However, Nagao Yu is the president of the company, and here is Japan, where the class relationship is very strict, and the upper and lower levels are just the plot of the cool article.

"I see."

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

"Create at least two maps for me within a week, and more car models. You should have a lot of waste cases in game development before, right? Give me all of them. These resources can't be wasted!"

"..."

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

"You can rest assured that the money will definitely not be small, but I need you to make achievements first!"

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

But YOO hit the street so miserably, and everyone immediately began to frantically research what was going on.

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

In addition to these people, for the purpose of researching competing products, Zhu Youxing naturally also played a number of games recently launched by YOO.

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

Of course, this is viewed from the picky eyes of Zhu Youxing's later generations. For players in this world, it is already a very good game. It can only be said that if you have money, you can do whatever you want. An entertainment product is on the same level as film production, and it is indeed easier to make better works if you have money.

But Zhuyouxing, a bug from later generations, is different.

With the development direction and successful experience of later generations, he can create crushing games, so even if the development cost is lower than other manufacturers, the games of Youxing 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 Zhuyouxing has a very intuitive feeling, that is, this game is obviously not as important as FIFA football games, and can only be ranked second At the first level, the investment in money is also slightly lower.

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

This game can be regarded as learning from each other's strengths and strengthening the refreshing feeling of shooting. The process of playing Zhuyou Xing is still very cool, and it can reach the passing line even if you look at it with your own critical eyes.

But that's it after the game is over, and there is no urge to play again.

If I had played such a game in my previous life, I would have closed the game after clearing the level, and then sold it second-hand.

Then, there is YOO's racing game.

In order not to compete head-on with Youxing Electronic Entertainment, they chose a more professional track racing type, but they authorized very few models, and most of them were their own magically modified cars. While avoiding copyright, they also lacked authenticity. data as the basis.

But these are not too big of a problem. Players in this world don't have a good or bad judgment on racing games. Now they only judge by whether they can make themselves happy to play.

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

But he also has some obvious feelings, the traces of rushing work in this game are very obvious.

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

If there is no licensing cost for racing games, it is reasonable to say that they would not spend too much money. If they spend too much money, they will either burn too much money or have greater ambitions.

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

The first thing Zhu Youxing thought of was that YOO was not making false propaganda.

There is still some possibility of this.

But with Chang Weiyu's temper, 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 made and what achievements he has made. , All his bragging has become a joke.

If 100 million dollars were given to Zhu Youxing, he could do five or six times better than this.

You must know that even his Need for Speed ​​game plus various authorizations, the total development cost is only more than 70 million US dollars, which is the second cheapest among the three games.

The first to save money is Counter-Strike, because there is no need to pay any licensing fees, and the competitive nature of the game itself makes it pay more attention to balanced gameplay. It doesn’t matter if the picture quality is lower, so the development of Counter-Strike took less than three It looks like tens of 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, so the number of employees is much more.

This also invisibly increases the labor cost a lot.

So, why doesn't YOO's racing game look worth $100 million?

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

Game development actually has many problems. Sometimes game development encounters more problems than many film productions.

A slight conflict of ideas will lead to spending a lot of money on insignificant things in game development.

In the previous life, there were many games that constantly adjusted the direction of development. In the end, the progress of the game hadn't advanced much, but the money had already been spent.