Game Development: Starting with Recreating the Anime Game Style

Chapter 245 Only by becoming strong can one withstand the blow.
His voice wasn't loud, but it carried weight in the quiet office.

"But this breath will eventually dissipate."

"As the company grows bigger and richer, and employees realize that they can live a very comfortable life even without doing anything, just by receiving project team bonuses, how many of them do you think will be able to maintain their initial drive?"

"Comfort is the grave of heroes, and gentleness is the butcher's knife."

"This applies to individuals, and even more so to companies. When everyone rests on their laurels and lives off past achievements, the company is not far from decline. Isn't Wanmei a living example?"

Chu Chen's words make a lot of sense, although Li Yifeng hasn't reached that level yet.

But he could understand that. When you've made a certain amount of money, the only people who can keep working are doing it for something beyond money, like Messi and Ronaldo, players of that caliber.

It's hard to say whether they play football for money or for something else...
"I thought about it for a long, long time, and I finally came up with a way to keep the company vibrant."

At this point, a sharp glint flashed in Chu Chen's eyes.

"This method is the platform."

He stood up, walked to the huge floor-to-ceiling window, and looked down at the crowds coming and going in the industrial park below.

"We should learn from Tencent in this respect."

"Tencent?"

"That's right, I personally still have a lot of affection for Tencent. When I was poaching people from Tencent last year, I spent a lot of time hanging around their company..."

"If you ignore the quality of Tencent's games and only focus on profitability, you'll find that Tencent became number one in China because their company itself is a giant breeding ground for venomous insects."

"It treats the company as a platform and its various studios as subsidiaries that fight each other on the platform."

Li Yifeng felt a chill run down his spine upon hearing this, as he was certainly familiar with Tencent's internal horse racing mechanism.

"But, Mr. Chen, this kind of internal competition mechanism is hard for other companies to replicate. The reason Tencent can do this is because it has two huge, free traffic entrances: WeChat and QQ."

"It can disregard the promotional costs of one or two projects and give each studio a relatively equal initial traffic to try and fail."

"but"

When Li Yifeng got to this point, he froze and stopped talking. He suddenly realized why Chu Chen had said that.

Chu Chen turned around and gave him an approving look.

Yes, the reason Tencent was able to succeed was because they had an extremely low-cost distribution channel; they could easily throw traffic at QQ and WeChat.

By conducting a test, you can discover that a game is not profitable, and the promotional cost of launching ten games may not be as much as the promotional cost of a single game by other companies.

Without this channel, how can you cooperate with Tencent?

This is why Chu Chen insisted on building his own platform and controlling the channels himself. With these channels, Chu Chen could also achieve "low-cost" publicity and distribution.

In this way, a "horse race" system can be implemented within Starry Sky, coupled with the profit-sharing system implemented by Chu Chen, just like the people in the A2 and A3 studios now.

They were really envious of FGO and Final Battlefront.

You want to make money? Then do a good job with your project.

"This is just the first step."

“My ambition is not just to make the interior of the stars ‘swirl’.”

"Once our platform is strong enough and our model has been proven successful, I want to expand this 'battlefield' to the entire Chinese gaming industry."

"I want all Chinese game companies to come to my platform and 'compete,' and I want to set the rules."

"The reason why Tencent can't compete with Steam overseas is because they are the only channel in China. So they can make a fortune by releasing games that are rated 5 or 6 out of 10."

"What if China has two channels?"

"I want to use my platform as leverage to shake up the entire industry. I want to force everyone to focus on refining their products. I want to make Chinese games a constellation of stars, truly standing at the top of the world in terms of quality."

Chu Chen sat back down in his chair and spoke slowly and deliberately.

"Now, do you understand? PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is the first fire I lit in this giant furnace." Li Yifeng felt his throat was a little dry.

He suddenly understood why the Germans were so easily fooled by the mustachioed man. Damn, was this guy really that charismatic when describing his ideals?!
He opened his mouth, his mind racing for a long time before he suddenly realized what was happening.

its not right! ! !
I'm here to ask about game licenses!
"I understand, Mr. Chu."

Li Yifeng swallowed hard.

"However, regarding the game license..."

Faced with Li Yifeng's final question, Chu Chen's smile only grew more relaxed.

"Brother Feng, we at Xingchen are the elephant in the room right now. All our previous preparations were just self-deception, so don't be afraid. What's coming will come."

"What we need to do is not to dodge. The more you dodge, the less likely you are to avoid this knife when it comes down."

"Do you know what the first question they asked me was when I reported to the provincial authorities a few days ago about the gaming platform?"

"what?"

They asked us what the platform's estimated annual revenue was.

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Li Yifeng was a shrewd person, and he immediately understood what Chu Chen meant. The leaders of Suzhou and Hangzhou Province were ostensibly asking about revenue, but in reality, they were asking about tax revenue expectations.

This was something he had overlooked before.

It's important to know that although Starry Sky Games sells its games worldwide, the taxes on those sales are levied in the respective territories.

To put it bluntly.

Every penny Chu Chen earned came from Su Hang. This was in 17, and there were still more than two years before the country implemented unified regional GDP accounting in 19.

The pressure on local GDP growth has not yet disappeared.

If you shift your focus away from the gaming industry, you'll find that at this point in time, there are countless outrageous things that the whole country is willing to do in pursuit of GDP growth.

Selling games without a publishing license in the country?

It may indeed be a problem, but at least the leaders of Suzhou and Hangzhou were thinking about how much money Xingchen made, how much tax it could pay, and how much GDP it could generate.

"But if the other party reports it, the provincial authorities probably won't be able to suppress it."

Li Yifeng knew that Chu Chen's former boss, the former deputy mayor of Yufeng, had become a provincial leader, but he still wasn't sure.

Chu Chen nodded. He judged that the State Administration of Radio and Television might not pay much attention to this matter due to departmental reforms.

It can be judged as it is.

Preparation is preparation.

Before the "iron fist" comes down, no one can guarantee what the final outcome will be.

"Precisely because what is bound to happen will happen, what we need to do now is not to hide, but to become stronger at an even faster pace."

"Brother Feng, instead of worrying, we should prepare for the upcoming final battle: Tracing the Source, and the anniversary celebration."

Only by becoming strong can one withstand the blows.

　Alright, that's finally all the setup. Tomorrow it's game time again.
　　I know that many readers don't really want to see the setup.

　　When I write, I write faster when it comes to the game development parts because I genuinely enjoy thinking about these things. And the writing flows much more smoothly then.

　　However, it's really hard to balance the filling. It's like eating steamed buns; if you only eat the filling, you'll get tired of it quickly. Of course, if the bun skin is too thick, it becomes a steamed bread. So I will definitely pay attention to this in the future and try to make the skin as thin as possible with a lot of filling.

　　In addition, I've been stockpiling drafts and organizing my thoughts for the future, so updates have been stable at 6-8 words. Once I have enough drafts, I'll be updating more frequently.

　　Finally, the author would like to express his sincere gratitude to all the readers who have subscribed to his book. Thank you!
　　
　
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