You said you would make games by yourself, but how did you become the richest man by doing nothing?

Next Monday.

Today is the 15th, and it's the monthly settlement day again. Youyi Company's new payment has arrived.

In the past month, the total sales of 'NekoPara Adventure' soared to 250,000, bringing in an additional income of 350,000 yuan.

And 'My Leisurely Island Life' has exceeded 1.3 million monthly active users, with a peak concurrent online of 190,000.

After deducting Youyi platform's share, the game's revenue is 15.6 million yuan.

Recently, the island development team, for some reason, has been working with increased efficiency, so the speed of updating small patches for 'Island Life' is quite fast, which has been well-received by many players.

Last month, the company's total expenses, including salaries for 30 employees, rent, utilities, property management, business operations, shopping benefits, and other expenses, amounted to 5.2 million yuan.

So, adding the previous balance, the company now has a cumulative balance of 25.8 million yuan in its account.

The amount of money in the company's account is increasing.

Lu Yu felt an itch in his heart looking at these 20 million yuan.

However, various employee benefits have already reached the bottleneck of the company's current capabilities. For example, team-building vacations or shopping benefits require logical and reasonable reasons, otherwise, it will trigger the system's warning for passive work.

Therefore, Lu Yu is considering spending this money on other avenues to continue expanding the income of Leisure Points.

Then, the users of Togen Village are a very reasonable choice.

Lu Yu flipped through the system interface and found that, up to today, he has accumulated 565 Leisure Points from the users of Togen Village in this settlement cycle.

This is thanks to the relatively thorough updates of the two games under his banner, which have caused critical hits and resonance effects for many players.

The points provided by users are much less than those provided by employees, after all, the rebate ratio on the user side is only one ten-thousandth.

But fortunately, the scale of potential users is large enough, and accumulating it can result in a considerable income.

Therefore, for the remaining time of this cycle, Lu Yu plans to start fulfilling the various expectations of users.

However, there is a prerequisite, which is not to cause fatigue and involution among employees, otherwise, it will become a case of picking up sesame seeds and losing the watermelon.

Just as he was rubbing his temples, pondering what to do, Liu Mengyuan came to his workstation.

"Lu Yu, take a look at the official D station feed for 'Dog Girl Paradise'."

"Dog Girl Paradise?"

Lu Yu was taken aback, he hasn't paid attention to this game for a long time.

"Speaking of which, is this game still alive?"

Liu Mengyuan smiled: "Of course, the game data isn't something you can look at, with less than 5,000 concurrent online, but the game's popularity has soared today."

Lu Yu suspiciously opened the latest video from D station's official account.

A huge title came into view: "Major Announcement: 'Dog Girl Paradise Adventure' Manga Adaptation Launch!"

"Presented with honor by Tenghui Interactive Entertainment."

"The manga serialization of 'Dog Girl Paradise Adventure' officially debuts!"

"Professional manga masters create with passion, sketching a colorful adventure world for you."

"From wasteland to paradise, from mist to light, this is a fantastic journey to unleash wisdom and courage, are you ready? Wander the ocean of adventure with Dog Girls and start your own paradise legend!"

"Coming soon, stay tuned!"

Lu Yu looked at the manga page screenshots in the video.

This manga is not a dynamic webcomic, but a serious long-form serialized comic.

There are quite a few comments in the video's bullet screen:

"Hahaha, the official has new actions, super happy! Will there be new Dog Girls joining in the manga? I'm exploding with anticipation!"

"Tenghui Interactive Entertainment, I'm giving you one more chance, hurry up and serve it up for me to taste, I can't sit still!"

"Hurry up, I've been refreshing this official account's feed every day since yesterday, just to know the news about the manga as soon as possible!"

"Although your game is terrible, I still support you for supporting domestic animation."

"I have no other requirements, the Dog Girls must be sexy!"

And in the comment section below the video, the top-voted comment is:

"Quickly delete that Earth Super Energy Combat Team from the manga plot, and we can still be friends!"

The official replied to this comment:

"Little friends, please rest assured, this manga adaptation is a faithful restoration of the original version of the story, and it will definitely allow everyone to find the initial feeling of excitement!"

Liu Mengyuan said, holding the documents in her hand:

"Recently, this game adjusted its operating strategy, canceled many of the paid item store's pay-to-win items, and changed to distributing them to players for free. So the downward trend in its active users has stopped, and with the release of the manga adaptation news, its popularity has rebounded."

Lu Yu nodded slightly.

The game's operating data is ugly, Tenghui Interactive Entertainment has adjusted its strategic thinking, from preserving revenue to preserving the IP.

This is about tapping the remaining value of the 'Dog Girl Paradise' IP.

Although the game collapsed, the story still has some value to extract.

After all, the story is indeed a good story, although they didn't write a single word of it.

Lu Yu sneered.

However, he doesn't really care about this news. So what if you release a manga? It won't affect me anything.

It's originally a game that's about to flop. Not to mention 'Island Life', the monthly revenue of 'Dog Girl Paradise' probably can't even beat the single-player 'NekoPara'.

Liu Mengyuan said:

"Actually, the reason I came to you is that Tenghui's manga adaptation news has caused a chain reaction. Take a look at the NekoPara's Tieba forum, there's a post that has already reached 100,000 replies, and its popularity is still rising rapidly."

Lu Yu opened that post.

Title: [Urgent] Petition for NekoPara Manga Adaptation! Please Save the Crude Game Graphics!

"I went to the neighboring Tieba forum today, and it's like a New Year celebration over there.

The newest novels are first published on 69shu8!

Several 'Dog Girl Paradise' fans who couldn't win arguments with me before and slinked away, are now jumping in my face again.

Because their 'Dog Girl Paradise' is getting a manga adaptation! Yes, a MANGA adaptation!

I didn't expect that the game is half-dead, and Tenghui can still stab Togen Village in the back from this angle.

We all know very well that NekoPara is the game from Togen Village's startup period, so the production cost is low, and the graphics look very rudimentary.

I'll give myself a disclaimer first, I'm not saying it's not fun, but the graphics are indeed unplayable now.

Imagine, if it could be adapted into a manga, wouldn't the interaction between John and Ilya be more vivid? The story's quality would instantly explode!

The copycat next door is getting a manga adaptation, and we, the original, are still standing still, with crude resolution textures, it's really a bit unconvinced!"

2nd floor reply:

"Strongly support the poster, those people at Togen Village should understand our petition, right? I have no other requirements, the manga must try to restore the plot as much as possible, I want to see sexy white silk cat girls in the manga!"

3rd floor reply:

"The domestic animation industry is lifeless now, I heard that Togen Village has made a lot of money from Island Life! Please save the entire manga industry, we are completely looked down upon by Japan now!"

Below, they started frantically bumping the post:

"Everyone, forward and spread it, let the CEO of Togen Village see it!"

"Manga adaptation! Manga adaptation! Manga adaptation!"

...

Seeing this petition post with explosive popularity, Lu Yu smiled slightly.

He was just worried about not being able to spend money and find a channel to earn points, and someone is sending him a pillow when he wants to sleep.

Manga?

Why bother making a manga?

Since you want to spoil users, then go one step further and directly make an animation!

Whatever users want, Togen Village will provide!

Moreover, it must be provided in a way that far exceeds user expectations, so that it can steadily create critical hits for users.

...

Afterwards, Lu Yu spent a day specifically investigating the current state of the animation industry in this era.

After the investigation, he summarized two keywords.

The first word is: "Industry is Doomed."

The domestic animation industry is facing unprecedented challenges, and the overall situation is not optimistic, filled with a decadent atmosphere.

First of all, in order to compete for good original scripts, various companies compete fiercely, and the auction prices of scripts continue to break new highs. In order to have profit margins, animation production costs are constantly compressed, and involution is serious.

Many animation studios that can't handle the involution have transformed and are looking for ways to survive, and have begun to take on game CG and outsourcing from advertising companies.

In addition, animation production talents are constantly being lost, pouring into the more profitable film and television industry, and some have been poached by major game companies to make PV promotional videos for national war games.

This leads to the second keyword, which is a meme circulating among animation fans, called "Tragically Animated."

Because the phenomenon of talent loss is serious, the creative ability of animation companies that originally had some foundation and accumulation has declined sharply.

In order to bid for good scripts and IPs, animation companies have invested heavily, but the scripts they bid for simply have no ability to restore.

Not only are the graphics crudely made, but also the story rhythm is chaotic, and the character settings deviate from the original.

This has caused a chorus of scolding from fans of the original story, and has made the situation of animation companies even worse.