This game is awesome

Half a month later, there will inevitably be another small sales boom.

A low-desire otaku like her spends most of her money on electronic products and entertainment products such as games and comics. Her annual consumption is at most 70,000 to 80,000 yuan. What does she do with the rest of the money?

Keep it?

What a joke, can the bank’s interest rate keep up with the depreciation?

As for investing in fund securities, a conservative like Gu Qingshi would only take out 5% of her savings at most. Moreover, with the tens of millions she invested in fund stocks, it was not certain that she would make much of a splash. She had no feeling for the financial market.

It would be better to develop some real industry than this...

What else can we do?

All that’s left is to invest in new industries and continue to expand the scale of the gaming industry.

Gu Qingshi has not yet decided on the topic of the new game.

This is not a no-cost business, and it is necessary to conduct market research before investing funds.

In fact, Gu Qingshi is also doing it.

The current domestic PC market environment is very similar to the period from 08 to 14. The once popular buyout games are now declining, and free-to-play online games are becoming increasingly popular and occupying the mainstream of the market.

But the speed of development on the mobile terminal is very fast. Because many themes are restricted by website policies, krypton gold games with "characters" and "values" as the core have developed rapidly and have been in existence for 20 years.

Gu Qingshi also thought about making a krypton gold mobile game or online game, but the problem is:

The threshold of this industry is too high, and the stars can't get in...

This threshold is not a technical threshold, but a market competition threshold.

As we all know, the spending power and entertainment time of an online game player, especially a second-rate game player, are mostly limited.

If a player spends 30 minutes a day playing "Arknights", 30 minutes playing "Genshin Impact", and 30 minutes playing "Honkai Impact 1999", and also plays FGO, Star Railway, Azure Files, ...

So, I would like to ask, what can a new mobile game manufacturer use to compete with the above games for players' limited attention?

And why would players give up their accounts/wife/husband/social circles that they have cultivated for months or even years to play your new game?

There aren’t too many companies on the planet that entered the secondary travel market with envy and ended up dying suddenly.

This is even more obvious in MMO online games.

The market for games with a continuous operation model is completely different from the market for one-time paid buyouts. Its total market size is relatively limited. Most players will not complete a game in a dozen days or a month and then start the next one like they do with single-player games.

Fanxing also faces this problem when he wants to enter the market.

The market is saturated.

Unless you want to make a quick buck and leave the market forever, it is indeed very difficult to enter the market.

So what to do now?

If we follow the previous online novel routine, then the best thing to do next would be to develop "Hearts of Iron", which is consistent in time and can just make money from the fan base created by "Victoria". Gu Qingshi indeed thought so.

But it's not the right time.

Because the environment does not allow it.

The reason why "Victoria" can be released normally is that Gu Qingshi cut out a lot of war content, shortened the timeline to avoid World War I, and then used "Industry: 1800" to go public through a backdoor listing.

But even so, it did not get any direct promotional and recommendation resources from any platform.

If you make Hearts of Iron or similar games that place great emphasis on "war" and "military" gameplay now, you will most likely be hit by Iron Fist...

So either we have to wait until the environment changes itself, or Fanxing changes the environment itself, so that the society, or at least the players, can accept games like "Hearts of Iron".

Gu Qingshi thought about it for a long time and found that there was only one way to pass the review.

That is: using war themes to express the anti-war core.

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"I'll say it again, Editor-in-Chief, we are first and foremost a gaming news column. As long as the game is legal and compliant, why can't we report on it?"

"Old Lin, you are too idealistic. You are not afraid of reporting controversial topics. I am not afraid of it either. The people at the top are not afraid of it either. But those people on our company's board of directors who are neither up nor down are the most afraid! Don't you understand why the platform recommends these topics in a one-size-fits-all manner?"

"Editor-in-chief, just be honest. Can this be done?"

"Fuck you, you stubborn ass, get out of here!"

"okay!"

Editor Lin left the NGI headquarters building with his bag.

Le'an City, Longxiang Jiayuan.

This is a villa area in the north of Le'an City, which is mainly inhabited by retired old men and women.

At this moment, a man in casual clothes, about thirty years old, carrying a lot of things, walked into the community.

Editor Lin had just arrived at the community and didn't know the way, so he found an old lady who was taking a walk and asked:

"Grandma, do you know how to get to No. 115?"

"What, young man, what did you say?"

"I asked how to get to No. 115."

"Oh, Wu Laogou, over there."

The old lady showed the way, and Editor Lin thanked her quickly and walked forward.

Editor Lin had not walked far when he saw the number 115 stuck on the grass in the front yard of the villa.

Editor Lin was stunned. He saw a parasol on the lawn, a gaming chair and a mobile grill under the parasol. An old man was lying on the gaming chair with a handheld game console, playing it happily. He didn't notice the black smoke coming out of the grill next to him.

Wow, this old man, he may be old but his heart is young.

Editor Lin laughed, but before he went over, he saw an old man passing by, shouting and cursing.

"Old Wu, please don't burn my stove!"

Old Man Wu got up reluctantly and put out the fire in the stove.

When I turned around, I saw Editor Lin looking at me.

Editor Lin hurried over and asked, "I'd like to ask if Miss Gu Qingshi lives here?"

"What are you looking for?"

"Gu Qingshi."

"What poem?"

"Gu Qingshi."

"What Qingshi? Oh, Gu Qingshi! The girl who designed the painting, right?"

Old Man Wu muttered, "Could it be that some grudge bought 1800 and wanted to take me offline? No way, I transferred the studio to that girl... Even if I take this to court, I'm still right..."

Editor Lin was almost getting impatient, but when he heard Old Man Wu's direct answer, he finally perked up.

"Yes, Miss Gu from the Star Studio."

Old Man Wu looked at Editor Lin suspiciously and asked, "Who are you?"

Editor Lin was stunned.

"Uh, I'm the editor of the gaming information column..."

Old Man Wu's face changed, and he immediately turned around and left, "Go away! Get lost, I don't know any Gu Qingshi!"

With a bang, Old Man Wu slammed the door, leaving Editor Lin in the air in a mess.

Chapter 33 [Third Party]

An anti-war game?

There are many games that are highly associated with the label of "anti-war", such as "Brave Heart" and "This War of Mine", but in addition to them, there is another big guy.

"Battlefield".

To be precise, it is the story mode of "Battlefield 1".

The story mode of "Battlefield 1" is a stroke of genius, using the dead soldiers on the battlefield as a perspective to explain the evil and horror of war.

In addition to its anti-war core, another reason why Gu Qingshi was interested in "Battlefield" was its FPS theme.

As the saying goes, the three most common male games are cars, guns and balls. Guns have supported countless game companies around the world. The FPS games on the market are not yet mature, and most of them remain at the level of 05. Many new gameplays have not been developed. This is a huge blue ocean market.

But Battlefield is a big project. The amount of work required to develop Battlefield 1 and Victoria is incomparable. Art resources such as textures and modeling are needed, as well as fine-tuning of gun data and feel...

These are what Fanxing Studio does not have.

And this game is expensive.

DICE claims that the development of Battlefield 1 cost a full $1.3 million. Although this is most likely nonsense, it shouldn't be too far off.

Although in this world, AI has optimized a large number of work processes and greatly improved efficiency, to make a 3A-level large-scale battlefield FPS, it still requires a team of at least 12 to people to carry out at least months of development.

Just counting the labor costs, the money would be more than tens of millions.

This does not include the investment costs of art resources, various hardware equipment, venues, and the bulk of the cost: publicity and promotion.

The total investment may be as high as 300 to 400 million.

Even if Victoria can squeeze out another 10 or 20 million, the investment cost is too high for Fanxing.

This is equivalent to betting on the fate of the country. Gu Qingshi is not from the next island, and she doesn't like to play a zero-sum game with others by betting on the future.

If it is just a funding issue, it can be solved by attracting investors. The bigger problem is:

No people, no technology.

FPS games like Battlefield and Call of Duty require much more technical skills than grand strategy games.

Money is easy to talk about, but where do the technical guys get it?

Domestic FPS is not very popular, and there is no technical accumulation. Maybe all the big guys with 3A-level FPS production experience in the country can't even put together a 20-person studio...

Foreign big guys... emmm, can they look up to the stars?

The only way is to cultivate it from scratch.