Tokyo: Being coveted by my wife, I just want to play games

Chapter 354 Explodes!

R&D costs of $200 million.

"FGO" is the biggest and only nuclear bomb this year, or since the birth of the mobile game industry!
However, mobile games of this size require very high technical skills.

Before today, most people thought that this nuclear bomb was just a facade, with nothing but a shell made with 200 million US dollars. Therefore, before the game was released, major game manufacturers were afraid but also wanted to see the good show, and of course many of them directly hired water army to lead the rhythm.

The game is very afraid of being led by the rhythm. When Black Monkey was first released, various public opinions about the rhythm of the plot also scared away some passers-by, but public opinion is also a double-edged sword.

If the game quality is really not good, it will be defeated by public opinion, and finally both sales and reputation will plummet.
Strictly speaking, it's hard for most people to have a strong sense of belonging to a game.

It's like many people usually don't have a strong sense of belonging to their class or school, and they usually complain about it. But if outsiders come and criticize their school, and their school has achieved outstanding scientific research results at this time, the situation will be different.

Human psychological changes are a very wonderful thing.

As long as the game quality of "FGO" is high enough, all kinds of public opinion pressure before the game is released will become fuel that makes the flame burn more vigorously after the game is released!
All the peers in the gaming industry in Japan and even the world are paying attention to the quality and revenue of FGO! And just like the reaction of the Akiyama family, after seeing the almost epoch-making graphics of FGO, everyone took a deep breath, especially NICO and Kondo Ryūmenomiya, who are the sworn enemies of Fuyukawa Tetsu. Their internal employees were playing FGO on their mobile phones with their brows twitching!
A slap in the face!
The picture quality is already far superior to all other mobile games on the market!

Whether a mobile game can make money or not, the graphics are only one aspect. If we only look at the graphics, then the European and American companies have long dominated the mobile game industry. There are two other extremely critical points for mobile games - whether the content can retain people, and whether the operation method can make players willingly pay!
"Will it be a guaranteed pool of 180 draws?"

"Probably not. The strategic positioning of the Holy Light Society for this game is to stabilize the daily activity of the GOGO platform. The ambitious guy Dongchuan Che will definitely give concessions to the players."

"That's right. Moreover, the pool with a guaranteed 180 draws has already made many players feel resistant. I don't think Dongchuan Che will continue this! What?! No guarantee???"

"What's the meaning?!"

"Team leader! Come and see! This FGO pool does not have a guaranteed minimum amount mechanism!!!"

"Is Dongchuan Che crazy?!"

“No guarantee?! Not only will the players be scolded to death, but it will also greatly discourage players from drawing cards! Is he crazy?”

"Too arrogant, too arrogant, this Dongchuan Che! He must think that the production cost of 200 million US dollars can make the players give in!"

"Hahaha, that's great! What did I say before? I said that people who make stand-alone games can't make mobile games. You all said I was too optimistic. Hahaha."

Today's mobile game industry has not only not developed towards 3D modeling, but even the content has not developed much, and the plot is just a gimmick. Therefore, many game manufacturers' staff did not read the plot after entering "FGO", and went straight to see the card drawing mechanism. When they saw that "FGO" did not set a guaranteed card drawing mechanism, some people were stunned, while others were ecstatic and laughed at Dongchuan Che!
The guaranteed mechanism is the most critical mechanism in the card drawing process.

This has nothing to do with the manufacturer's conscience.

There are no white lotuses in the capital world. Even the Western world is willing to promote the eight-hour work system and increase residents' wages and social welfare. There may be a little humanitarian spirit in it, but it is mainly because of [overcapacity] and [insufficient consumption]. Otherwise, why didn't the West promote the eight-hour work system for more than a thousand years before the Industrial Revolution brought about a leap in productivity? Because there was insufficient production at that time.

Overcapacity will make it impossible for capital to sell its goods, and if everyone can only work eight hours, more jobs will be vacant, including very high social welfare. All of this is to give residents the money and courage to consume.

But the essence of all this is to allow capital to make money and survive, and conscience is not the dominant factor. But no matter what, objectively speaking, ordinary residents have indeed benefited from this behavioral logic.

By the same token, the guaranteed mechanism for mobile game card draws is not a conscientious measure, but a means to allow mobile game manufacturers to survive longer, prevent players from developing resistance to spending money, and avoid squeezing players too much at one time, causing them to quit the game.

All in all, a guaranteed card pool is something that every mobile game must have, but now it is not available in "FGO"!
Many people think Dongchuan Che is crazy!
But not everyone thinks Dongchuan Che is crazy!

Who is Dongchuan Che?

In just two years, he has grown from a grassroots entrepreneur to a powerful figure in the gaming industry!
The ability is absolutely beyond doubt!
What's more, even if Fuyukawa Tetsu himself has no knowledge of the economic and social fields, his finance minister, Ohara Chika, is also an internationally renowned industry elite. Even big companies like Juyin and NICO tried to poach Ohara Chika!

How could this combination make such a low-level mistake? !
There must be a demon in the abnormal situation!
For a while, some arrogant colleagues in the industry laughed at Dongchuan Che, but those with sharp minds had already begun to study "FGO" carefully, looking for the reason why Dongchuan Che dared to do so. As they studied the plot more deeply, as time passed, a piece of explosive news spread throughout the industry in an instant - 90 draws guaranteed!!!

Yes, FGO has a guaranteed minimum of 90 draws!

There is no guaranteed mechanism in the FGO card pool, but as long as you complete the story of the corresponding character, you can get a medium to summon the hero! And this medium will be completely filled with energy at the 90th draw!

shocked!
Everyone was stunned!
What does a 90-draw guarantee mean?

Nowadays, most mobile games have a guaranteed minimum of 200 draws, and some games with relatively low single-draw prices even have a guaranteed minimum of 200 to 300 draws! However, Dongchuan Che directly reduced it to 90 draws!
shocked!
After the stagnation, more practitioners in the mobile game industry felt a chill rushing from behind to their foreheads!

Ninety draws, this is definitely great news for players, but for game companies, it is no less than the sky falling!
From ridicule and stupor to horror and fear.

The change in emotion took only a few seconds! Then, the entire mobile game industry was mobilized.

There is no other reason, just to hire some navy to deal with Dongchuan Che.

Destroying someone's wealth is like killing one's parents!
Even if they reduce the draw rate to 90 in the future, they can still make money. The top mobile games have a monthly card pool turnover of hundreds of millions of RMB. Even if the revenue of this scale is cut in half, they can still make a lot of money.
Why lower?
Nowadays, players on the market have become accustomed to the large guaranteed bonus of around 200 draws.

Isn't Dongchuan Che just hurting himself by doing this? !

A total worker and a total business thief!
Needless to say, after discovering that FGO had a 90-draw guarantee, the power of the online troll army suddenly skyrocketed! All of a sudden, negative news about FGO was everywhere, and even because the graphics on the mobile version were different from those on the PC version, it was exaggerated to "Dongchuan Che did not respect mobile phone players" and so on.

There was a lot of buzz.

FGO was released at 6pm, and within half an hour, it completely ignited the entire gaming community. Even many anchors with millions of fans took money to discredit FGO, but...
Useless.

In the gaming industry, quality is king.

Many people always like to say that [XXX game is hyped], but this kind of talk is actually quite funny. The gaming industry is a content industry. Even if it was Cyberpunk 2077, which spent more than million US dollars on publicity and promotion, and Starfield, which was used by Microsoft to support the scene and spent a huge amount of publicity and promotion fees, in the end, the quality was not good, but the reputation still exploded.

On the contrary, before and after the release of Black Myth: Wukong, many media both at home and abroad were trying to stir up trouble. But in the end, the game was of good quality and sold more than 20 million copies.

Not to mention the gaming industry, back then the mobile phone industry was full of high-priced, low-spec copycat phones. The price of Xiaomi 1 at 1999 offended countless competitors, but with its excellent price-performance ratio, it eventually made a fortune and established a good reputation.

The water army is indeed powerful, but the number of water armies can never be more than the real players. All the water army can do is to find faults and then lead some simple-minded fools.

Moreover, the 90-draw guarantee did not completely kill other game manufacturers. It just turned the profits from the blood mother into huge profits, which did not directly destroy the pot of bread and butter. The peers would definitely resist at the beginning, but as long as the quality of the game is good and the players are willing to pay for it, the other peers would have no choice but to accept it.

However, the premise of all this is whether the quality of "FGO" is good enough, and the best way to reflect the quality is to look at the revenue!

No need to talk about artistry.

No need to talk about the gameplay content.

In modern society, if you can get more players to spend money without breaking the law, it means the quality is high! And there is no doubt that Dongchuan Che has never disappointed the world in terms of game sales!
As global peers, including SATE's Senior Managing Director Kuriyama, Kondo Ryomeniya's Sojiro, and NICO's Senior Managing Director Hashizume Kenta, were anxiously waiting; as Kaori Akiyama was anxiously expecting; as the entire Seiko Company was extremely excitedly expecting, the first day's revenue of "FGO" was revealed on Kawaguchi's social media account at six o'clock the next evening!

Forty-seven million dollars!
The first day's turnover was close to 50 million US dollars!
The whole world is shocked!

shocked!
All peers around the world, including gamers, were shocked!
Mobile games are the most profitable gaming field in this era, but even so, the most popular mobile game before, China's "Fighting Warriors", only had a first-day turnover of 30 million US dollars! And "FGO" directly rushed to nearly 50 million US dollars!

What a concept!
Although the turnover is not pure profit, after deducting the commission from the mobile platform and taxes, and not counting the costs, this figure is probably 40% off. But even with a 40% discount, the profit on the first day was still more than 100 million RMB!

One hundred million a day!

Too exaggerated!

But this is just the beginning!
The revenue of mobile games is usually the days when the new card pool is launched. However, the guaranteed media of "FGO" can only be obtained after the story of a certain character is completed, so many players do not directly draw the card pool, but play the story first. However, the amount of story of "FGO" is very, very large!
The plot of the first two chapters of the original "FGO" is not very good, and Fuyukawa Tetsu made major changes to the plot of these two chapters. If you have to say, the content of the main storyline is even richer than that of stand-alone story-oriented games such as "Darara 5". In addition to the main storyline, because the entire game is oriented towards an open world, side quests and various exploration elements are also fully utilized!

Players simply cannot finish playing all these stories just by playing on the first day.

and!

Dongchuan Che placed "Black Saber", "R Sister Medusa" and "Zhuge Kongming" in the first card pool!
Black Saber and Sister R are already very popular characters in the original work, and as for Zhuge Kongming, there is no need to say more.

Many Japanese are very interested in the Three Kingdoms theme. Although their favorite character of the Three Kingdoms is generally Lu Bu, because Lu Bu is very strong and is known to be unparalleled in the world, and Lu Bu always [overthrows the superiors], which is in line with the tastes of Japanese players, Zhuge Liang is also a character who can rank among the top three in popularity!

Moreover, this time, Dongchuan Che also made extensive descriptions of Zhuge Liang in the plot.

Although Fuyukawa Tetsu made major changes to the plot of the first two chapters of FGO, the overall storyline has not changed much. Black Saber is still trying to destroy the world, and the protagonist and the eggplant girl Mashu are trying to save the world.

However, if you follow the main storyline completely without exploring any side plots, unless you go on a monster-killing spree in the early stages and act like the [Sword God of Shilipo], otherwise, according to the normal rhythm of the main storyline, the protagonist group will definitely be wiped out in the end!

The protagonist must find Zhuge Liang in school one afternoon. Zhuge Liang, who became a Chinese teacher and a tea ceremony club instructor because his Master was too lame, will join the protagonist only if the protagonist answers Zhuge Liang's questions correctly. Zhuge Liang, who has no interest in the Holy Grail War because the Han Dynasty has fallen and only wants to drink tea and watch anime every day, will join the protagonist.

And with the addition of Zhuge Liang, not only the ending of the main storyline will change, but the main storyline of the entire story will change!
This is why Tohru Fukawa spent nearly 200 million US dollars on FGO. This is not only because of the picture quality and modeling, but also because he put a lot of effort into the plot!
Every plot choice made by the player, even the completion and exploration of some so-called [side quests], will affect the direction of the overall plot later!

This is already an extremely popular character, and with such terrifying game content and graphics, it would be strange if "FGO" created by Toru Fuyukawa is not popular!
And although the card pool of "FGO" has 90 draws, Dongchuan Che is not a white lotus. He has made a set of high-quality skins for each character in this card pool.

For example, Black Saber is wearing a bunny girl outfit, and Sister R is wearing a nun outfit.
The original skin of the character Zhuge Liang is [Wolong·Zhuge Kongming], in which he is dressed like a suave and elegant civil official with a feather fan and a Chinese costume. The new skin is [Black Butler·Zhuge Kongming], in which he wears a black suit, his long hair is casually tied behind his head, and he wears gentle glasses on his handsome face, which is more of a lazy gentleman style!
Sold out!

Zhuge Liang is a Three Kingdoms character that is extremely popular in both China and Japan. His skin is so exquisitely made. In addition, Zhuge Liang is still a tragic character in the plot of the first chapter.

The essence of the Fate series is a magical modification of historical figures. Toru Fuyukawa can accept this kind of magical modification, even the gender change, but he feels that the essential character of these great historical figures cannot be changed.

In his writing, Zhuge Liang suppressed the black mud in the Holy Grail to save the world, and finally achieved unity between man and nature and passed away.

The plot content of this section is extremely large, and the character arc is very full.

From the lazy and carefree tea ceremony teacher who had no interest in the world when we first met, to the arbitrary one in the end. Although he did not die in the style of Jiraiya, a heroic story with sadness and carefreeness, his ambition to establish a mind for the world, to establish a destiny for the people, and to make everyone in the world like a dragon is still very touching.

Sold out!

A total sell out!
Although the character Zhuge Liang did not appear in the Fate anime, he is the character with the highest second-day revenue in "FGO"!

One person contributed 30 million US dollars in daily turnover, and skin care products sold for more than 10 million US dollars!
One person generated a turnover of 40 million US dollars, and with the addition of Black Saber and Sister R, the second-day turnover of "FGO" directly exceeded 80 million US dollars!

Daily turnover, 600 million RMB!
The whole world was truly shocked! After the money was collected, Chika Ohara, Miyano Mitsuko, and Fujiko Sato did not let the money just lie there, but directly converted a large part of it into a publicity campaign!
All of a sudden, the entire Akihabara, the entire Chiyoda Ward, and even Shibuya, Shinjuku, Ginza, and Minato Ward, the entire Tokyo was covered with "FGO" advertisements!

When people go out in the morning, the bus stop will display a huge poster of Zhuge Liang. When the bus arrives, Sister R in a nun's uniform will be seen on the side of the bus. As for people who take the subway to work, they will be completely surrounded by posters of Black Saber in a bunny girl costume inside the car!

In fact, it's not just Japan.

Various billboards on the streets of New York are completely filled with FGO; on the Thames River in London, the famous home football player David Ham drove a yacht across the bridge with flags printed with "FGO" and the characters Black Saber and Zhuge Kongming; in China, the LED exterior wall of the Bund Tianzhong Building is mosaic-shaped with the word FGO!

This time, "FGO" is not only popular in Japan and parts of Europe and the United States, but it is also extremely popular in China!
"FGO" was very popular in China in its previous life. Some people even said that Bilibili was able to go public because it was the agent of "FGO" back then. In this life, Dongchuan Che brought a more well-produced "FGO", and its domestic partner was a super giant like Shanhe Group.

It would be strange if it didn’t become popular!
What’s even more interesting is that although “FGO” is priced relatively low and has offended many of its peers, “FGO” has not just offended people.

One of the main reasons why the gaming industry is valued is that good games need good hardware to support them. In other words, the gaming industry can promote the development of the hardware and even chip industries.

When Genshin Impact became popular, many mobile phone manufacturers also used slogans such as "Play Genshin Impact" in their advertisements. When Black Monkey became popular, many hardware manufacturers also used "Play 2K Black Myth" as their advertising slogan.

There is consumption only when there is demand, and sometimes, demand does need to be created artificially.

This is not a bad thing. Just like if people just want to live, they don't need to watch TV or read novels. TV and novels, even various football and basketball games are created by humans, but who can say that these entertainment programs are bad things?

If you take away the person who said this, and ask him not to watch short videos for two days, he will immediately behave himself.

One reason.

Many mobile phone manufacturers actually hope that they can release some mobile games that require players to buy high-end mobile phones, and FGO perfectly meets this requirement.

Where there is common interest, there is cooperation.

Mobile game manufacturers all hope that FGO will die suddenly, but mobile phone manufacturers hope that FGO will be as popular as possible. What's more, Shanhe Group, which owns the largest short video platform in China, has a great influence in China.

Explosive!

China and Japan, the two largest mobile game markets, are both booming!

On the third day, FGO's daily revenue exceeded 100 million US dollars!
numb!

Dongchuan Che was actually shocked when he saw this data. To be honest, after seeing those who made a lot of money in the mobile game industry in his previous life, he had certain psychological expectations for FGO.

In the previous life, the mobile game DNF had a revenue of over 300 million RMB on the first day. Genshin Impact also created a myth that some card pools had a daily revenue of over 300 to 400 million RMB. He was confident that his FGO was better, but this miracle of a single-day revenue of over 700 million RMB still shocked him.

Dongchuan Che himself was shocked, let alone his colleagues.

If the first two days of FGO could still make those peers feel resentful, even resentful, and thus hire trolls, then on the third day, when the revenue of FGO came out, no peers talked about hiring trolls anymore, and they just held a few meetings a day to discuss how the company's future products should be transformed.

At the same time, along with the explosion of FGO, Toru Fuyukawa's name became known all over the world!
Whatever you do will become popular!
This is so fucking exaggerated!
Before FGO came out, people like Matteli of Giant Silver and Senior Managing Director Kuriyama of SATE didn't actually put Toru Fuyukawa on the same level. They just thought that he was a junior with great potential.

This is not just what they think, other colleagues in the gaming industry think so too, they just think that Fuyukawa Che is a very fierce tiger coming down the mountain, but not one of the top ones. Otherwise, Fuyukawa Che would not have needed to invite Granny Inuzuka to come out to calm the situation at the dinner on the top floor of SATE.

But now that FGO is out
Although it is true that a single-day revenue of over 100 million yuan will not last long, after all, the most profitable time for mobile games is when new card pools and new skins are released. After that, the revenue will drop, but even so.
It is not a problem for Dongchuan Che to earn 600 to 700 million US dollars in revenue per month from FGO. And as long as there are no major problems with FGO in the next few years, it is very likely that the monthly revenue will remain stable at 200 to 300 million US dollars!
With capital of this scale, this phenomenal game, and his past experience, in everyone's mind, Toru Fuyukawa can be said to have truly reached the TO level in the Japanese industry!

Some people are envious, some are jealous, and the employees of the Holy Light Society are naturally having a party!
There is no other reason. Although the Holy Light Society has never emphasized corporate culture, because it pays a lot of money and almost completely eliminates bureaucracy within the company, the atmosphere of free creation is very strong. Therefore, the Holy Light Society itself has a very strong appeal to employees. Although many employees have not met Dongchuan Che many times, they still admire Dongchuan Che.

Now that they see Dongchuan Che has reached a higher level, they are also happy and proud from the bottom of their hearts, but this is only one side of the story!

On the day when the revenue of FGO exceeded 100 million, Dongchuan Che announced that he would take out 50 million US dollars to give bonuses to the production team! And not only the production team of FGO received bonuses, but also other staff, including the front desk lady, the parking lot security guard, the chef uncle in the cafeteria on the first floor of the company, and even the cleaning lady who swept the floor also received bonuses!

Although this bonus is definitely much less than that of the members of the production team, it is still several thousand dollars per person. Moreover, how many companies will give bonuses to these non-core employees!

Needless to say, that night when Dong Chuan Che was about to drive his family out to eat something delicious to reward themselves for their hard work during this period of time, a group of old ladies and old men spontaneously stood on both sides of the parking lot.

Some of them were wearing chefs' white coats, some were wearing security uniforms, and some had just placed their brooms and mops against the outer wall of the company building. Their expressions also seemed a little reserved as if they had met the company's boss, but when Dong Chuan Che held a cigarette, turned the steering wheel, and drove the silver Land Rover out of the parking space, they all bowed silently.

Although the bowing movements were not as uniform and imposing as in TV dramas, Dongchuan Che wrinkled his nose when he saw them like this. Then he didn't say anything, but stepped on the brakes, got out of the car, and took out a box of expensive cigarettes from the trunk that he usually used as gifts.

The box was placed in front of an old lady who had worked as a cleaner in the Holy Light Society for three years. Dongchuan Che glanced at everyone, and after feeling the grateful gazes, he didn't say anything. He just smiled, flicked the ash from his cigarette, then waved his hand, got in the car, and drove away.

It was not until the taillights of his silver Land Rover completely disappeared around the corner that the old people who were bowing in the parking lot slowly raised their bodies.
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"FGO" became a huge hit.

Although the revenue began to decline after breaking the 100 million US dollar mark on the third day, no one doubted the quality of "FGO" anymore. After all, this is the rule for card-drawing mobile games.

This game not only allows players to experience affordable and high-quality mobile games, but also affects the landscape of the mobile game industry, but also affects other things.

On the eighth day of the explosive popularity of "FGO", which was also the day when the daily turnover stabilized at more than 10 million US dollars, a low-key yet luxurious Audi appeared downstairs of the crowded Holy Light Society.

"The game has been out for more than a week, and there are still so many players coming to check in. That little man is really good at it."

Seeing them waving their hands and shouting at the door of [Holy Light's House], they were yelling [Give me back Kong Ming!] [Kong Ming brother can't die!] [Old thief Dongchuan, do you have any heart!] [When will Zang Yan enter the game!!!] [Shinji is still alive?!!!]

While happily drinking the free tea brought by the waiter of "Holy Light House", and then lustfully asking for the contact information of a few girls who were "marching and demonstrating" with her, Kaori Akiyama, who was wearing sunglasses, closed the car door.

I have to say, maybe she was in a good mood these days, or maybe it was because she was going to meet Dongchuan Che today. Although she was still wearing an OL uniform today, it was not the usual old-fashioned style.

She was wearing a slightly tight white shirt that perfectly showed off her belly and curves. The collar was open, revealing her fair neck. She was wearing a black fabric skirt that was not fancy but perfectly showed off her big fat buttocks and small waist. Her straight and slightly fleshy legs were wrapped in delicate black stockings, and she was wearing a pair of sharp black high heels.

This outfit is still relatively ordinary and not fancy, but a mature and sexy woman doesn't need too many decorations.

Intellectual style is the most powerful killer weapon for women in their thirties.

Obviously, the routine works.

As soon as Akiyama Kaori got out of the car, she felt the gazes of many passers-by. Some men were even punched by their female companions because they were too fascinated by her.

It was an interesting scene, but Kaori Akiyama didn't care about the looks. She just closed the car door, glanced at the red building in front of her, and then walked towards the gate of the Holy Light Society with confident but weak steps.

"Is this the base camp of that guy's harem?"

"Hmph, he's very capable. But... Tsk, he's too lustful."

(End of this chapter)