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Chapter 173 The weather is so cold
The speed of Mantiantian is faster than Baichuan imagined.

While Bai Chuan was still thinking about how to find a new backer for the company in a reasonable way, version 1.0 of "Zhengtu" had already been released.

Without Naido Electronics, the troublemaker in the public opinion field, all major media have given high praise to this game that was released less than two hours ago.

There is even a vague intention of breaking out of Japan and going global.

Shirakawa also took the time to buy a copy of the game to play. Perhaps the Tokiwa Group provided a certain amount of subsidies. Although the price of Mantiantian's "Journey" is not low, the various exemptions and lottery activities add up to win this The total cost of the game is less than 1000 yen, which is definitely an extremely low price.

As for game content.

The overall framework completely follows the "Zhengtu" semi-finished product that Yuan Jiaming took away from the company, but a lot of things have been changed.

For example, the background setting of the game is no longer a mixture of Eastern and Western fantasy, but has been changed to a more traditional Japanese style. All the monsters and bosses in the game have been changed to evil ghosts and big monsters.

As for the original core gameplay - monster siege, it has also become a hell hungry ghost breaking through the seal and causing harm to the world.

It can be said that this game has surpassed the original "Zhengtu" in some aspects, successfully integrated localization, and even performed a bit better than the "Legend" once produced by Shirakawa.

However, Japanese players did not buy into this. With the support of various promotional activities, the total sales of the game only exceeded 10.

For any game, it is worth celebrating if it has achieved a score of 10+ in less than half a day after its release.

But this is not the case for Mantiantian. Even the company's main leaders felt their hearts froze when they saw this number.

They are now completely making money at a loss. Every time a game is sold, not only can they not make a dime, but they also have to pay part of it.

If Tokiwa Group hadn't promised a substantial subsidy, and the game would be able to earn some card money to make up for the losses, Mantiantian would not have agreed to the low price anyway.

This is not the scariest thing. Getting subsidies from the Tokiwa Group is not something that can be done just by talking about it.

According to the agreement between the two, Mantiantian must ensure that it sells at least 80 copies of the game and maintain more than 8 online game users. Otherwise, the subsidies it can receive will continue to shrink, and it may not even get a single point.

On the first day of the game's release, it only sold 1/3 of the original plan despite a massive promotional offensive. Once it loses the large subsidies, the game's sales are expected to be cut in half or even cut by a quarter. three.

As a result, if you want to complete the goal of 80 copies, you will probably have to wait until the Year of the Monkey and the Horse.

Things were even worse than Mantiantian's executives expected. On the second day of the game's release, sales were barely able to maintain around 10 copies, and on the third day, there were less than 8 copies left.

By the time the promotion ended on the fourth day, the sales of the game dropped off a cliff, from 8 to 8!
Not only that, the number of people online in the game has dropped again and again. Two of the seven servers have been completely reduced to ghost servers. At its peak, the number of people online did not exceed 7. During certain periods, there was even a server with only one person in it. Embarrassing scene.

This is something even more unacceptable than a drop in sales.

It is truly unheard of and unheard of for a brand new game that has been launched for less than three days to become like this.

"The more localized it is, the less hope it has." Shirakawa looked at the obviously Japanese-style samurai characters in the game, shook his head slightly, and interrupted Tokura Saradaira's report.

Yuan Jiaming only knew that the company was going to produce an MMO game. He had no idea that the game was an 'overseas special'. He had no intention of releasing it on a large scale in Japan, and many of the game's mechanics were not in line with the gaming habits of local players. .

The most obvious of these is the friendship system.

In order to meet social needs, "Zhengtu" goes further on the basis of "Legend" and creates many tasks or gameplay that must be carried out in groups.When challenging the hidden dungeon, you must have a full team of six people, and the team cooperation time of the six-person team must be greater than a certain level. For example, the team time of a level 10 hidden dungeon team must not be less than 60 minutes, and the team time of a level 20 dungeon must not be less than 240. minute.

Unlocking advanced stores requires more reputation points, and the source of fame points is closely related to the number of your friends and their level.

If you want to have your own stronghold in the main city in the game, you need to show a marriage certificate first. If you want to get a marriage certificate, you must get married. The prerequisite for marriage is that you must team up with a character of the opposite sex for more than one month, and you must also interact with each other every day. Send a Gift.

These features with strong social attributes are very popular in China, South Korea and even some Southeast Asian and Middle Eastern countries, but in Japan they are purely side effects.

Even in the most popular servers, almost no strangers will team up with each other. Most of them are people who already know and are familiar with each other in real life and form a team to play the game.

But such a combination is not without any contradictions.

According to the information Shirakawa got from Officer Megure.

Yesterday, Kogoro Mouri solved another case of an employee poisoning his boss. The motive was that the boss was obsessed with the game "Zhengtu" and required several of his employees to play with him online from 7:30 to 12:30 every night.

This makes a social worker who doesn't like to socialize and still needs to do odd jobs during his breaks very dissatisfied. In addition, he needs to consume electricity and point card fees in order to travel.

So the fearful employee pushed his boss's head into the monitor in anger.

Although this example does not explain anything, it is an indisputable fact that "Zhengtu" has serious acclimatization reactions in Japan.

At this time, as the chief designer of the game, Yuan Jiaming seems to have recalled the example of "Legend" having flowers blooming inside the wall and outside the wall, and began to promote the overseas version of the game.

Unfortunately, this matter did not go smoothly.

Hara Jiaming is an employee of the Tokiwa Group. Although he is the main contact person with Mantiantian who is responsible for game sales, marketing and subsequent maintenance, he only has the power to make suggestions and cannot force orders.

And Mantiantian is now focused on how to stop losses. Without knowing whether the overseas version can bring a lot of benefits, it is absolutely impossible to take any more risks.

Therefore, the release of overseas versions still remains on paper.

It can be said that "Zhengtu", a game that Mantentian and Tokiwa Group had high hopes for, has completely gone cold, and it is still the kind of corpse that is frozen solid.

"What is Ms. Atsuko Degawa doing during this time?" After confirming the sudden death of "Zhengtu", Shirakawa would not let go of the opportunity to beat up the lost dog like this.

"Are you talking about the daughter of the Degawa Group who is very good at using public opinion to stir up trouble and confuse right and wrong?" Tokura Sarahira was naturally very impressed by such a killer in the field of public opinion.

"Since you previously ordered that she not be allowed to participate in the propaganda war against "Zhengtu", she was temporarily transferred to the secretary's office. Now she is probably looking for someone to vent her anger on the Internet, right?"

Tokura Sarahira gave a somewhat uncertain answer.

"Transfer her back, and she will take over all the announcements in the next few days."

Baichuan put his hands behind his back, facing the cold wind outside the window, and said calmly, "It's getting cold, Mantiantian should go bankrupt."

(End of this chapter)