Game Development: Starting with Recreating the Anime Game Style

Chapter 241 You say you'll stab me, so I'll just do it?
However, in terms of personal opportunities, Tian Chenghan has had a pretty good time lately. He was the first person in the entire WEGAEM operations department to compile a marketing path report for the "Endgame Survival Guide".

He received a very special "preferential treatment".

It's not a raise, nor a promotion...
Instead, every time Starry Sky Games made a move, he had to write a report for Zhao Ming, the "boss" of WEGAME.
Tian Chenghan didn't know if this was a good thing or a bad thing. All he knew was that he had been working himself to the bone for this matter.

Because of those "dog money" stars.

The variety of topics changes daily; his report-writing speed can't keep up with the pace of trending events.
Originally, he should have handed over the "Public Opinion Monitoring and Data Analysis Report on 'PUBG'" that he had hastily compiled to Zhao Ming, who was in a meeting in the conference room.

However.
He dared not push the door open, nor did he dare knock.

Because there was an argument going on inside just now. He recognized one of the voices; it was Zhao Ming, the person in charge of WEGAME. But he wasn't familiar with the other voice.

But that doesn't matter, because in their argument, Zhao Ming was the one being argued with.
So, Tian Chenghan, standing at the door of the conference room, dared not knock or leave. He simply stood there like a door god, holding the report, wondering whether to wait for someone to come out or go back to his workstation to wait.

Just as he was hesitating, another suppressed, rising sound came from behind the heavy soundproof door of the conference room.

"Stop talking to me about strategy!! The Last Survival Guide sold seven million copies in a week, and PUBG sold over a million copies globally in five days. And you're still here talking to me about the Android ecosystem."

"Zhao Ming! You are the person in charge of WEGAME, not the person in charge of WEGAME Android!!!"

"You're a senior executive from the overseas investment department! Don't you have any strategic thinking at all?!"

The glass doors of the conference room divided it into two worlds.

Zhao Ming sat in the chair, but felt his back stiff. Fine beads of sweat trickled down his face from his forehead. He subconsciously raised his hand to wipe them, and his fingertips felt a little cold.

There were only two people in the huge conference room.

He and Leng Zefeng.

Just as his subordinates had to report to him, he also had to report to his superiors, and the person he had to report to was naturally Leng Zefeng.

Before Tian Chenghan arrived at the meeting room, the two were discussing nothing else.

This is precisely what Starry Night Games is doing on the PC platform.

No one in this world is a fool. Others may not know what the stars are doing, but how could those in the know not know?

Oh, so you, Stellar Tap, changed your name overseas to Stellar Game Store, and just because you're a different person, I don't recognize you anymore?

Impossible.

Initially, Tencent was quite surprised after confirming what Chu Chen was going to do.

"You mean Starry Sky wants to use this overseas version as a pretext to bypass domestic game license and censorship restrictions, and sell games without licenses in China's gray area? Is he crazy!?"

This is no small matter.
However, Tencent soon discovered that Chu Chen's plan didn't seem to be as crazy as it seemed.

So very quickly...
Tencent Games executives began to consider whether Tencent could also try to follow Chu Chen's path. Indeed, Tencent's first thought was not how to stab someone in the back.

Ultimately, this world comes down to who's boldest.

Fujiko, who once wanted to pay salaries with QQ coins, must have been quite audacious.

In fact, WEGAME did something similar in the future. When WEGAME introduced Monster Hunter, it used a beta version of Monster Hunter World to obtain the qualification for operation and testing from the State Administration of Press and Publication.

Note that Tencent obtained the qualification for operational testing, but not the game license.

Then they started selling openly and legitimately in China. Their audacity far surpassed that of Chu Chen now.

At least Chu Chen still knows to "keep it to himself".

So when Tencent saw Chu Chen crossing the sea, Tencent's first thought was whether they could follow the path if Xingchen succeeded.

This is not some kind of fantasy.

In terms of overseas influence, Tencent is now far stronger than StarCraft. Therefore, two ideas quickly emerged within Tencent: one was to stab StarCraft in the back, a stance held by figures like Zhao Ming.

He believed this was a golden opportunity.

After all, in Tencent's established evaluation system, single-player games are completely obsolete... a niche market that is not worth spending time paying attention to.

Even though they themselves are promoting Don't Starve Together.

Conversely, it is precisely because they themselves are promoting "Don't Starve" that they don't pay much attention to single-player games, considering the amount of promotion they put into "Don't Starve".

If you used that to promote an online game, it would have become a huge hit long ago.

The nature of single-player games means they lack sustained monetization opportunities, social sharing features, and long-term operational value.

If Tencent hadn't wanted to promote WEGAME, they wouldn't have been able to release Famine.
Since I'm not going to take this path...

Zhao Ming's idea was to give Xingchen a ruthless blow. For the past year or so, he had hated Xingchen so much that he would dream about WEGAME beating the Xingchen gaming platform.
However, Leng Zefeng didn't see it that way.

As a senior executive at Tencent Group, his daily work involves "strategic adjustment" and "strategic planning," and he may not be very good at game development.

However, they do have a strategic vision.

"You're right. Single-player games are a niche market. They don't generate continuous revenue, have poor social sharing, and have short-term operational value."

"But have you ever thought about why we still need to promote 'Don't Starve'? Why we still need to develop the WEGAME platform? Why we also need to develop an overseas strategic reserve?"

Zhao Ming opened his mouth, but no sound came out.

"Because we are Tencent."

"Tencent's strategy has never been about choosing one particular path, but rather about having our vehicles running on all roads. The single-player game market is small now, but who can predict the future?"

"If StarCraft wants to create a Chinese version of Steam, why can't we?"

Since Leng Zefeng has already said that, what else can Zhao Ming say?
"How about we try developing an international version of WEGAME?"

"No, let's see if they can withstand this blow first."

"What? If someone stabs them in the back, will they even survive?"

Leng Zefeng looked at Zhao Ming as if he were a fool.

"Do you think Chu Chen is as stupid as you? Do you know how much revenue Xingchen generates in a year? Do you know how much tax they pay to Suzhou and Hangzhou every year?"

"Do you know that if Xingchen continues to develop at this pace, and its annual revenue exceeds 150 billion yuan, it could boost the GDP growth rate of Suzhou and Hangzhou by 0.8 percentage points, helping Suzhou and Hangzhou rise from 3rd to 2nd in terms of growth rate among sub-provincial cities?"

"Do you know how much pressure Xingchen's successful overseas expansion has brought us, and how many propaganda leaders have added to their overseas strategic achievements?"

"Do you think Xingchen is the same Xingchen as last year? You think you can just stab her like that?"

"So, according to you, no one will stab Xingchen?"

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Leng Zefeng rubbed his forehead.

"You should really think about WEGAME."

He glanced at Zhao Ming, who was still in a daze, and finally sighed.

"There must be someone who's stabbing us in the back, but let's wait and see."

(End of this chapter)