Tokyo Video Game Tycoon.

"I'm not joking, I'm serious."

"Okay, then bring the food over."

After finishing his sentence, Zhu Youxing hung up the phone and then immersed himself in trying out the game again.

Each game will determine its fate in his hands.

All games marked with an X by Zhuyouxing will be removed directly from the Battle.net platform, and all players who purchased these games will receive a free, unconditional refund. Recovery efforts will also commence.

Zhu Youxing didn't know how long he had been doing this job; he only remembered that he eventually fell asleep on his desk without realizing it.

When he woke up, he found that it was already dawn, and there were several bento boxes next to him, each of which had been partially eaten.

Those were brought by Tsukino Aya. Takeyusei couldn't even remember when Tsukino Aya arrived. It seemed that she saw he was busy and didn't bother him, only saying that she had brought the food before leaving.

Then I would just eat a few bites while playing, and that would count as having finished dinner.

Zhu Youxing couldn't help but sigh.

It seems I'm getting quite old after all. Back when I first transmigrated, I had a hidden perk.

Even without rest for seven days and seven nights, I can still be full of energy.

But now, it's clear that he can't do it anymore; he can barely hold on for another day.

Of course, another reason is that these games are really quite torturous.

If an average person played so many trashy games, they would probably have given up and started cursing long ago.

Is this a game? This is practically torture, like being in prison!

I've never been wronged like this in my entire life!

I guess most people would think that way.

However, Zhu Youxing was quite patient.

Whether it's a good game or a bad game, play it at least once.

He now enjoys not only the quality of the game itself, but also the process of playing it.

Even if the process is really as uncomfortable as being in jail.

So even if Zhu Youxing had a lot of energy, he couldn't withstand the torment of so many bad games and eventually fell asleep from exhaustion.

If it were game development, Zhu Youxing estimates he could work for seven days and seven nights without rest.

Yes, it definitely can...

Zhu Youxing thought to himself with some uncertainty.

Then he threw himself back into playing and trying out these games one by one.

During this period, Zhu Youxing was like a hermit, rarely leaving his office and playing games almost non-stop.

Apart from Aya Tsukino, no one else came to interfere.

Nowadays, most things in the company can be handled by others. In fact, Zhu Youxing could easily be a hands-off manager, and the company would not easily go bankrupt.

However, Zhu Youxing remains passionate about developing games on the front lines. Even now, as the world has achieved his earliest dream—to make this game a mainstream phenomenon and a part of popular culture—Zhu Youxing hasn't given up on game development; he still loves making and playing games.

Chapter 1049 Becoming a Member of High Society

Over the past few days, Zhuyouxing has played more than a hundred cyberpunk-related games.

These games cover almost all game genres available today.

There are also a few cyberpunk VR and motion-sensing games, for which Zhuyouxing specially found the corresponding equipment to try them out.

Then, a week later, he finally played all the games on the list, wrote down the characteristics of each game clearly, and finally made a new list of games and handed it to the department on the Battle.net platform that was usually responsible for game listing and recording.

Right now, this department on the Battle.net platform is busy with the listing and review of other games.

With so many new games being added every year, this department has a lot of work to do.

Just then, the employee in charge of routine game review saw an urgent email from their superior.

He was just reviewing other games when he was slightly taken aback when he saw the urgent email from his superior.

He was just an insignificant employee in the company, and he didn't usually have access to high-level internal emails. Most of the time, tasks were assigned from top to bottom.

This urgent, top-level email was also the first time he had ever encountered one.

He immediately straightened his posture, as if someone were watching him, and then carefully opened the email.

The email content was very simple.

The requirement is for the staff reviewing the email to remove the games marked in the attached form, while games that are not marked can receive some resource allocation based on the recommendation mechanism.

Good games like Bamboo Star should also be supported. When riding the wave of popularity, it should be done seriously, not mindlessly.

The employee looked at the spreadsheets carefully and noticed that they all seemed to contain games related to cyberpunk.

"Hey, what are you doing?"

At this moment, the employee's colleague at the next workstation looked over curiously.

He had just gone to get a coffee and when he came back, he noticed that his colleague seemed to be looking at some emails, so he became a little curious.

This is usually a relatively quiet time for them, so it's quite rare for them to send emails at this time.

"It's an email from... the president. He told me to remove these specific games directly from the platform."

The employee said, somewhat taken aback.

"Hmm? A direct order from the president? Does the president also look at recent game releases?"

"I don't know. I thought the president was too busy to pay attention to things like game approval for release."

While the two were chatting, the department head, who was not far away, vaguely heard something and came over. He then saw the content of the highest-level email sent directly from Zhuyouxing on the employee's computer.

"It was a direct order from the president? How could he issue such a direct order? Was your work not done properly before, and did you release some substandard games?"

"No," the employee said, sounding somewhat aggrieved. "I was just following my supervisor's orders to do a simple review of the game to make sure it didn't contain any overly sensitive content, and then we could put it on the platform directly. Isn't that how we've done it for many of our games before?"

"Huh? That's a bit strange. Does the president think some games aren't up to par this time? Have you even looked at these games carefully?"

"These are all cyberpunk-related games. All of them need to be removed from the platform, while some games can receive some artificial recommendation resources."

The manager thought about it carefully, and the only thing he could think of was that they were also developing a cyberpunk game. Could it be that they were planning to eliminate some competitors?

No, there's no need to do that. Instead, they should exclude some games that are genuinely not very good to avoid affecting their own game sales.

But if the goal is to avoid these games affecting sales, why then allocate more resources to recommending certain games?

I don't quite understand.

I don't understand what the president means.

Within the company, there are indeed very few people who truly understand Zhuyouxing.

Because most people can't have the same pure player's heart as Zhu Youxing.

"Forget it, don't think about it too much. If the president is dissatisfied with us, he will probably say so directly. He is probably just giving orders, so just follow them."

“Okay.” The employee nodded and prepared to carry out the order immediately.

However, during the process, he noticed that each game in the table had been marked and evaluated in great detail.

These evaluations cannot be made casually or based on just watching a trailer.

This is at least based on having seriously played the game before making the most suitable evaluation and suggestions for it.

Did the president make all of these?

Is the company president that free?

The employee was puzzled.

As the president of a club, you shouldn't have that much free time... No, the president should indeed have a lot of free time, but someone at the president's level probably doesn't have time to play games; instead, they should be doing something more classy.

For example, playing golf, meeting with a high-ranking government official, or negotiating a big business deal.

In his opinion, playing games was somewhat of a waste of time for such an important person.

Well, then it must be a team, like a think tank under the president, summarizing the game's evaluation, and then the president personally gave the order.

With this in mind, the employee began to remove each designated game from the platform. As for those games that were specifically marked for resource allocation, he also categorized them separately, preparing to place these games in some better recommendation positions in advance.

After spending about half a day getting everything done, the employee finished his workday and prepared to go home to play games!

Meanwhile, on the other side of the ocean, it was already early morning.

Henridian had a hangover after a night of drinking and had a good time with some friends.

He recently released a game that was actually made in about a week. It basically just stitched together some gameplay elements using the Unreal Engine and then jumped on the cyberpunk bandwagon.

Of course, some copyright infringements are unavoidable.

However, he didn't care about these things; he felt they were all harmless.

Riding the wave of cyberpunk popularity, he also made a lot of money through this game... oh no, he's about to make a lot of money.

Because the official revenue sharing period for the Battle.net platform hasn't started yet, we'll have to wait a few more days.

However, seeing that his back-end account had received nearly $300,000 in commissions, he was quite excited.

In just one week, I easily made over $300,000. Is there anything more profitable than this?

He was very pleased with himself and borrowed money in advance to hold several celebrations. He also planned to hold several more parties after the money actually arrived in his account, so as to fully enjoy the life of the upper class.

Chapter 1050 The Moment Dreams Shatter

"Ugh~"

Henrid woke up with a start.

He couldn't remember what he dreamed about, but it felt really scary.

But what kind of scary dreams could he possibly have now? He didn't take it too seriously, assuming it was just his mind being muddled after a night of heavy drinking.

This is my moment to shine.

Moreover, he had already planned to develop more games like this in the coming period, and then release several similar games while the cyberpunk craze was still going strong, making a fortune.