Tokyo Video Game Tycoon.

"Okay, I will try my best." The young man's eyes shone with excitement.

He now has a very lofty ambition in his heart.

That is, like Cyberpunk 2077 now, to commit to long-term content updates, making the game a long-term project.

Judging from the current prototype of his endless world game, it is actually not quite up to his ideal ultimate form.

But he thinks the game should be able to launch next year without much trouble, as players will likely be captivated by its infinitely random world.

After all, there are so many excellent games to follow, and many players have expressed that they really like this kind of open-world game.

Returning to the topic of oil-based electronic entertainment, Zhuyouxing has completed the tracking work for several projects. The 2020 Olympics is a key focus, but his own games are also a key focus.

Back in his office, he turned on his computer and started browsing Battle.net for some interesting games.

Now, randomly finding interesting games from Battle.net has become part of his job.

He would be happy that the people in this world develop interesting games, and that he can experience video games that are different from those in his previous world.

There's another point he's also planning to learn how people in this world make games.

Although the mainstream game development methods to this day originated from him.

But there will always be some rebels who find alternative paths and discover games that are different from what they imagined.

Even Zhu Youxing himself believed that he should always be learning, rather than remaining stagnant and stuck in the past.

"There are 163 games launched today... Hmm... That's quite a lot."

Zhu Youxing filtered out all the games that were launched that day and then looked at them one by one.

Some games that look obviously carelessly made, like random doodles, will be marked by Zhuyouxing, and then played carefully later. If it is a reskinned game or just a filler game, Zhuyouxing will directly remove it from the store.

Since the last instance of cyberpunk games being removed from app stores, few people have commented on the removal of other games initiated by Zhuyouxing.

Those who make the game can appeal if they disagree, but whenever they hear that the person demanding the removal is Zhu Youxing himself, they immediately shut up.

Just kidding, this is a game that the God of Games personally decided to remove from the platform. That means the God of Games has at least played their games. They know their own games very well. They have no reason to defend themselves when a big shot like him asks them to be removed.

"Just to make up the numbers, just to make up the numbers, just to make up the numbers."

Zhu Youxing began playing the games he had marked.

But after trying them out, he found they were all just filler games.

Some games only have a start screen and no gameplay interface at all; they are completely unfinished, half-finished products.

No, it's not even a half-finished product, since this game only has a start screen and nothing else.

If you had at least included a story synopsis at the start of the game, you could say that at least this game showed some care and attention.

But these guys are really not taking it seriously.

"strangeness."

Zhu Youxing frowned, feeling very puzzled.

There are so many games that lack effort and attention to detail.

In just one day, fifty or sixty games appeared that looked extremely perfunctory at first glance, and they did indeed look very bad when actually played.

The fact that this game was even listed shows that their own review team wasn't putting in the effort.

It seems I should give Belair, the person in charge of the Battle.net platform, a good talking-to.

Matsuhashi Minoru can handle company operations, and Takeyusei will try not to interfere, but when it comes to games, Takeyusei won't hold back.

So Zhu Youxing wrote down Belair's name in his notebook, and decided to call him later to ask what was going on.

But now, Zhuyouxing needs to carefully examine the quality of other games.

Of these 160-plus games, only about a dozen can be considered decent.

Then, among these dozen or so games, you can probably find two or three that are fun.

The probability is really quite small.

The main reason is that there are too many people just filling up the numbers.

No, we need to find Belair right now and ask her what happened.

Not wanting to waste any more time waiting, Zhu Youxing picked up the phone and dialed Belair, the person in charge of the Battle.net platform.

"Boss, what can I do for you?"

Belair answered the phone quickly, even though it was still late at night in the United States.

"Bellad, let me ask you something. What has your game review department on the Battle.net platform been doing lately? Why are there so many games that look really bad?"

"Huh?" Belair was taken aback.

"It seems you don't know what's going on yet. Your management of the Battle.net platform hasn't been very good lately."

"This... Boss, I..."

Belair broke out in a cold sweat.

Zhu Youxing is usually very friendly and often gets along well with his employees.

However, once Zhu Youxing gets serious, the pressure immediately becomes almost unbearable.

"Boss, I don't know much about this either. I'll go investigate right away," Belair said somewhat flusteredly, then immediately hung up the phone to contact his subordinates.

Belair has been very serious about taking charge of the Battle.net platform, but as the platform has grown and expanded, he has had to take on more and more responsibilities.

The PC Battle.net platform is no longer his primary focus.

It's also easier to achieve good results on Battle.net platforms for other game consoles.

Zhu Youxing waited patiently for about ten minutes, during which time he played some of the games from the previous days.

He's been playing some of the recently released PC Battle.net games occasionally lately; he hadn't really paid much attention to them before.

He was a little puzzled to suddenly discover that so many games were just there to make up the numbers.

Chapter 1092 Inventory Collection Maniac

About ten minutes later, Zhuyouxing confirmed that this serious inconsistency in the quality of games wasn't just a one-day occurrence; in recent times, the average quality of indie games on the PC Battle.net platform had been quite low.

That's right, it's an indie game.

In other words, it is developed independently by a small group of people and released independently on the Battle.net platform. There are no publishers or intermediaries involved. It relies entirely on the recommendation of Youxing Electronic Entertainment to obtain more resources and revenue.

Previously, Zhuyouxing provided significant support for indie games, consistently promoting the release of various indie games.

Among them, the games made by Zhu Youxing's three top disciples are the best. Their games have set a benchmark for the average quality of many independent games, and they have made a lot of money as a result, becoming role models in the eyes of many people.

Zhu Youxing believes that this should create a positive cycle.

However, things don't seem to be developing as he had envisioned.

"Boss, I'm so sorry, it's all my fault."

Not long after, Belair called back.

At that moment, his tone was very low, like that of a child who had made a mistake.

Zhu Youxing didn't say much, but asked, "I want to know the specific reason. I don't need you to apologize directly. Let me determine whether it's your fault."

"Um... okay, boss. Actually, this matter is related to a previous department meeting of mine, which is why I said it was my responsibility."

"Tell me the reason!"

"That's right. During the departmental meeting on the Battle.net platform, I and several other managers in charge of different platforms were planning our next goals. For other game console platforms, my goal was to increase resource allocation to games, especially higher-quality ones, in order to increase revenue."

"And then?" Zhu Youxing asked.

"The console gaming platform itself is very profitable, so it's fine for them to follow my target plan. However, the manager in charge of the PC Battle.net platform... I gave him another goal, which is to add as many games as possible to the PC Battle.net platform. According to our research, PC Battle.net players really like to hoard games, which is a characteristic that is different from other gaming platforms."

Upon hearing this, Zhu Youxing recalled his past.

Back when he played on the Steam platform, he genuinely played every game he bought, putting in a lot of effort each time, and completing at least one game.

However, when Zhu Youxing first encountered a game discount event, he suddenly discovered that many of his favorite and high-quality games could be bought at very low prices. As a result, he would buy anywhere from seven or eight to dozens of games during each sale.

With so many games, how could anyone possibly play them all?

Most of them are people who heard about the game from Zhuyouxing, bought it, and put it in their inventory, but probably never opened it to play.

There are quite a few people who behave similarly to Zhu Youxing.

Later, players even joked that Steam itself was no longer a gaming platform.

Steam itself has become a game, known as the Game Collection Simulator.

There's also a very popular internet meme: "I've already paid for the game, why would I need to spend time playing it?"

It seems that once you buy the game, whether you actually play it or not doesn't matter.

This isn't really a very good thing.

Zhu Youxing's expression changed, which, in the eyes of Belair, who was on a video call, clearly indicated that Zhu Youxing was getting angry about the matter.

He never expected that Zhu Youxing was still thinking about his past life.

"I am very sorry, boss. It was because I gave such a wrong goal that the department head began to think that blindly increasing the number of games was a good thing."

How many players bought these games?

"What?" Belair was taken aback.

"I mean how many players bought these filler games."

“This…this number is not small.”

"How many players played the game but never played it again?"

"what?"

Zhu Youxing said, "Didn't you investigate this?"

"We investigated, of course we investigated, boss, please wait a moment."

Two seconds later, Belair replied, "Ninety-nine percent of the players who bought these games never even launched them."

Sure enough, it's pretty much as I imagined.