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

Chapter 384 Buy a plane?

The first-day sales of "Don't Starve" exceeded two million, which shocked the entire gaming industry, but not too much.

Don't Starve sold so many copies on the first day. On the one hand, Fuyukawa Che is now the most popular player in the global gaming industry, with strong market appeal. On the other hand, the refund service of the GOGO platform is very good. As long as the game is less than two hours, you can get a refund without any reason. This also dispels many players' concerns when buying games. In addition, the video incident of the female employee of the Holy Light Society also had a very large impact.
These three points led to the pre-sale sales of "Don't Starve" exceeding one million before its release.

Therefore, in the eyes of industry peers, although small-scale works such as "Don't Starve" had explosive sales on the first day, it was mainly because the wave of enthusiasm was too big. The subsequent momentum should not be too strong, and at most it will be a work with sales of tens of millions.

Sales of tens of millions of units would be a sure-fire hit if it were put in the eyes of the outside world. Even most game studios have been established for decades and still cannot produce a game with sales of tens of millions of units. But there is no other way. Since his debut, Fuyukawa Che has not only sold 30 million units of "Old Man Ring" and "Stardew Valley" after the establishment of Holy Light Society, but also sold over 10 million units of "Surrounded by Beauties" and "The Binding of Isaac" made in the early days of NTsoft after various discounts and promotions in the past two years.

The sales of each game have exceeded 10 million!
This kind of result is so incredible that many of my peers have become numb to it. However, two weeks after the release of "Don't Starve", when the popularity has reached its peak, my peers in the global gaming industry are stunned!

There is no other reason.

Less than two weeks after its release, Don't Starve's sales have exceeded 10 million!
Generally speaking, the first month of a single-player game’s release is the peak sales period. Moreover, as word of mouth spreads and the Internet environment stirs up public opinion, more people pay attention to the game and are influenced by the general environment that everyone around them is playing the game. Driven by impulse consumption, the sales volume will increase faster and faster.

This is heading for sales of 20 million!
Or is Dongchuan Che going to create another god-level game with 30 million sales? !
Thinking of this possibility, game colleagues around the world were both speechless and excited! But at this moment, another explosive news came out from the Holy Light Society!

【Fuji News: Our reporter interviewed Mr. Kawaguchi, a senior executive of Shengguangsha. Mr. Kawaguchi said that President Fuyukawa’s current work focus is no longer on “Don’t Starve”. President Fuyukawa is currently developing another low-cost game called “Minecraft”.】

explosion!

Don’t Starve has only been out for less than two weeks, and Toru Fuyukawa has already started working on a new project!
Upon hearing the news, other companies in the industry immediately held company meetings! There was no other reason, just to find out what kind of game "Minecraft" was, and at the same time, to try every means to avoid Dongchuan Che's work!

It's like when "Phantom Beast Palu" was released, there was actually another game called "Mist Lock Kingdom", which was also of excellent quality. However, under the overwhelming public opinion of "Phantom Beast Palu", although the sales of "Mist Lock Kingdom" were still good, it did not drive the public opinion market at all, and not many people discussed this game, which also led to the sales of "Mist Lock Kingdom" being suppressed a lot at the beginning of its release.

By the same token, no game manufacturer in the world is willing to have its work collide with that of Toru Fuyukawa!
All the game manufacturers around the world that have games to be released this year are holding internal meetings. Even SATE's Executive Director Kuriyama called Fuyukawa Tetsu to discuss the release date of the game. SATE will also release a game in the second half of this year.

Dongchuan Che naturally did not refuse such a thing. After all, although he was very confident in "Minecraft", a super monster with sales of over 300 million copies in the previous life, if he encountered other top IPs of other big companies, it would also affect the sales in the initial stage.

No need.

If they can come to an agreement, there is no need to go crazy and cause both sides to suffer losses. What's interesting is that Dongchuan Che's non-stop production of "Minecraft" has not only caused a lot of waves in the industry, but also set off a wave of discussion among the player community.

To be honest, because the first few works he made were either too difficult or had very difficult plots, Dongchuan Che was always jokingly called "Dongchuan Old Thief" by players. But to be honest, there is no other game producer as prolific as Dongchuan Che in the entire gaming industry.

Which game producer can produce three or four works a year?

In addition, in order to deal with the video controversy surrounding the female employee some time ago, Miyano Mitsuha and others announced Toru Fuyukawa's daily work schedule. He goes to work at around nine in the morning and goes to bed at two or three in the morning. He is definitely a model worker.

So, all of a sudden, Dongchuan Che's nickname gradually changed from "Dongchuan Old Thief" to "Oxen Horse Dongchuan".

To be honest, these nicknames are not nice, but players are the bread and butter of game manufacturers, so as long as they are not personal attacks, Dongchuan Che doesn't care. He still lives in his own small circle, working on time every day, developing games, and hanging out with the wives when he gets home.

Of course, although his workload is very intense, he is now the president after all. When he feels really stressed and doesn't want to work, he can be lazy.

At times like this, he usually takes Sayoko and the others out to sea on a luxury yacht to relax. It's summer now anyway, so playing in the water at the beach is the best option, and you can also have a party on the yacht.

The scene of a group of beauties wearing sexy swimsuits barbecuing, drinking and having sex on a yacht was very beautiful, so Xiao Dongchuan had no rest during that period.

As for yachts and the like, buying these things is now easier for Dongchuan Che than buying clothes for ordinary office workers.

Of course, Toru Fuyukawa doesn't go out to sea with Sayoko and Miyano Miono every time he has a break. Occasionally, he will go to Ota District to look for Akiyama Kaori.

It must be said that Akiyama Kaori's business ability is indeed very strong. With the sales of "Don't Starve" exceeding 20 million, Akiyama Kaori has also selected a location for the factory in Ota Ward, and has also negotiated with various suppliers. In addition, Fuyukawa Tetsu established a handheld system department in the company a long time ago, and the handheld system and appearance have been almost done, so the handheld can be produced soon.

but
Although my career has developed smoothly, the work pressure is also very high.

The two have known each other for almost half a year, and Akiyama Kaori and Sayoko are already very familiar with each other. She occasionally stays overnight at home without feeling awkward. But there is no other way. The work pressure is too great, and the early stage of factory construction needs someone to watch over it. Therefore, Akiyama Kaori still lives in an apartment building in Ota District most of the time these days, which is convenient for work.

Knowing that she was under a lot of pressure, whenever Fuyukawa Che got off work early, he would come over to pick her up and take her home for dinner. As the saying goes, a short absence is better than a new marriage, every time Fuyukawa Che went over, Akiyama Kaori would act even more eager than he was, and often when he entered the apartment door, he would be pressed against the wall by Akiyama Kaori, and then he would watch this woman with angry eyes squatting down in a hurry.

Runrun.

Then, this sexy and bright beautiful woman will be pressed at the entrance by Dongchuan Che.

What’s interesting is that she seemed to know that Dongchuan Che sometimes prefers to wear clothes, so every time she wears a hip skirt, she pairs it with a crotchless suspender lace.

Very convenient.

They stayed in the apartment together. If there was a big progress at the factory, she would take the initiative to invite Dongchuan Che to visit the factory. If it was a normal day, they would go shopping in Shinjuku, buy some food on the way, and then go home together. Their life was harmonious and nourishing.

As for Yuezhu Asuka, Ohara Chika and Izumi Himawari.

Since Yuezhu Asuka filmed "Sisters Riding the Wind and Waves" last time, she has indeed developed some interest in film and television works. In addition, Dongchuan Che had talked to her a long time ago about wanting to make a live-action drama of "World of Warcraft", so she also got a class attendance certificate at Tokyo University of the Arts during this period. Every day, she either reads books and materials at home, or goes to Tokyo University of the Arts with Izumi Himawari, who is already a junior this year.

Quite funny.

Back then, Tsukitake Asuka was the vocal teacher of Izumi Himawari, but after a few years, the two became classmates. But... that's also good.

Izumi Himawari is a college girl, so she looks pure and lively in a JK uniform. As for Yuezhu Asuka, although she is no longer a student, the mixed-blood beauty looks unique in a Japanese JK uniform. Her long legs look very slender and sexy against the pleated skirt.

Sometimes when he picks them up from school, after returning home, Dongchuan Che can also experience the joy of two JKs kneeling on the sofa in a row. But he doesn't just stay there to chat. After each conversation, the three of them will squeeze on the sofa and chat about some of the content of the "World of Warcraft" live-action drama. To be honest, Dongchuan Che's work intensity is indeed very high during this period, but the psychological pressure is not too great. This is mainly because both "Don't Starve" and "Minecraft" are already very mature works with very few flaws, and he has also opened a creative workshop on the GOGO platform, allowing players to freely create MODs.

So when he was making these two games, he just worked very hard and did not need to make too many changes to the games, but World of Warcraft was different.

"World of Warcraft" is a super big IP, but to be honest, the strength of "World of Warcraft" lies in the gameplay, and the plot is relatively weak.

The reason why characters like "The Filial Son" Arthas, Sylvanas, Thrall, Jaina, and Illidan became so popular is largely because there were very few games in that era and most players were new to games, so they had no criteria for judging the games. In addition, "Warcraft" was indeed too popular and the game mechanics were too strong, so the flaws in the plot were covered up.

In fact, the plot of "World of Warcraft" is really average.

Most of the characters are very stereotyped, such as the Lich King Arthas, who is a typical prince who is seduced by the devil, becomes bad, and finally wants to destroy the world.

Another example is Thrall. Thrall is the key figure who leads the orcs and the Horde to rise. This character is indeed deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, but the problem is that this character is a typical great saint.

Ultimately, this is because the worldview of World of Warcraft is a very childish binary opposition between good and evil.

In fact, with the power structure of the Alliance and the Horde, power struggles are absolutely inevitable, because the leader of each race must seek benefits for his own race, otherwise he will step down. In such an environment, there can be no real good people, because good people cannot climb up, and good people cannot balance the internal power struggle.

In fact, there is nothing wrong with this way of handling the world view. Many players do like this simple, easy-to-understand and intuitive plot, and even many players don’t care about the plot. But the problem is.
In the context of this juvenile version of the world view, it is difficult for characters to stand out and the story cannot retain people.

The previous version of World of Warcraft started to decline after the Wrath of the Lich King. A large part of the reason was indeed due to the development of smartphones, but it was also because World of Warcraft could not attract new players or retain old players.

The strength of World of Warcraft is its gameplay, but no matter how strong the gameplay is, after ten years or so, people will get tired of it. You have to know that games with highly random gameplay such as League of Legends and Dota will also cause old players to leave as time goes by.

Dongchuan Che can't do much in this regard. At most, he can optimize the gameplay of life content such as fishing and archaeology. In terms of the dungeon experience, "World of Warcraft" has already reached its limit. In the late stage of the game, it is difficult for him to retain players by changing the gameplay. So what he can do is to try to attract new players, and the best thing to attract new players is the plot.

Players who have never played World of Warcraft will not be drawn to the game just because they have watched a boss battle. They just don't understand what it is all about. But the plot is different. When I Am MT appeared, how many new players did it bring to World of Warcraft?
For example, in the game "Genshin Impact", are newcomers mostly attracted by gameplay such as elemental reactions, or are they interested because of those secondary creation videos and high-energy story shorts?
To put it bluntly, the plot is the key factor to attract players to try World of Warcraft, but the previous World of Warcraft did not do well in this aspect. Obviously, Blizzard also discovered this problem in the later period, and they tried to make some adjustments in the plot, but it should be said that Blizzard is really not good at making plots.

"World of Warcraft", "Hearthstone", "StarCraft", "Overwatch", "Diablo", almost none of Blizzard's works are known for their plots, all of them focus on gameplay.

That does not work.

Nowadays, mobile games are the mainstream. Although Dongchuan Che is confident that the attention paid to World of Warcraft will definitely not be bad due to its market appeal, it is still not enough.

For him, World of Warcraft is a key game to attract online gamers to the GOGO platform. He must make this game known to more people and arouse their interest. Moreover, if the plot is well written, the decline of the game will come more slowly.

Therefore, he wanted to make major changes to the plot of World of Warcraft without changing the overall plot direction. And the direction of the change was also very clear, which was A Song of Ice and Fire.

In his "World of Warcraft", the political framework of the Alliance and the Horde will be more complicated, the characters will no longer be so clearly divided into good and evil, and occasionally the motivations for the characters' actions will no longer be simply "for the Holy Light" or "for the Horde".

Although there will still be heroes like Thrall, King Var, and Uther who sacrifice everything for the cause of their race and the justice in their hearts, these characters will be made more complex, allowing players to resonate more and thus have more expectations for the plot of "World of Warcraft."

This is a very, very large project, not to mention that Dongchuan Che is also planning to add a dragon tribe into it.

They are not the dragon people from the previous life, but the dragon people based on Chinese civilization and Chinese aesthetic style. They usually look like Asians, but when fighting, certain parts of their bodies will be transformed into dragons.

In Dong Chuanche's conception, the dragon people still live in Pandaria, and the pandaren still exist, but in the previous versions, this map will not appear, and there will only be many dragon people scattered all over Azeroth. And all this is because the dragon people living in Pandaria, in order to prevent Y'Shaarj from wreaking havoc on the world, sacrificed themselves and trapped Y'Shaarj in Pandaria with a barrier.

At the same time, the dragon-man emperor Dong Chuan Che is also preparing to be portrayed as a tragic hero who will rule the world forever, perish together with A'Shaarj, and become a dragon totem to protect Pantaria. Players will learn more about the past of this dragon-man emperor in the Pandaria expansion pack.

All these major plot changes added together are a huge workload. Even though Seikosha is one of the top five light novel websites in Japan, with a large number of authors and a very large screenwriter team, it is still a huge workload. Moreover, this is the first time to make such a huge plot change, and Fuyukawa Che is under great psychological pressure.

Fortunately, although Yuezhu Feiniao is not very talented in creativity, she really has a super brain and can remember everything she sees. Every time he chats with her, Dongchuan Che can always hear some niche but very interesting stories from her that he has never heard of before, and these stories occasionally inspire his inspiration.

Good.

You can do both the gunning and the work at the same time.

Dongchuan Che often went to Tokyo University of the Arts during this period, but
I don't go there every day.

In addition to the handheld sector, game production is also a rather troublesome matter for FIFA. Not only is the negotiation troublesome, but more importantly, the five major football leagues are all in Europe, and now these five major leagues have licensed EA's FC Soccer. In order to continue to obtain the license, Chika Ohara, who is in charge of this area, has been flying back and forth between Europe and the United States recently.

Feeling sorry for this woman who usually doesn't talk much, Dongchuan Che sometimes would work overtime in advance and then take two days off to fly to Europe to be with her.

Honestly, even when she saw Toru Fuyukawa taking time out of his busy schedule to come to Europe to see her, Ohara Chika still had that elegant and dignified expression of a noble lady. But it was obvious that she was just a little tsundere.

Whether it was a luxurious hotel next to the Big Ben in London, England, the home of the Premier League, or the romantic Paris in France full of black people, or on a yacht along the long coastline of the Spanish port city of Barcelona, ​​this beauty was very proactive. Several times, before the yacht went out to sea and Dongchuan Che was still standing there starting the boat, she couldn't wait to get under Dongchuan Che's crotch.

The blue sea and sky, a luxurious yacht, a man wearing sunglasses and a floral shirt and shorts, and a beautiful woman stammering under the rudder.

Everything is so beautiful.
Europe is quite far from Japan, and a one-way flight takes about 14 hours.

It doesn’t matter if you take a plane, since you’re always in first class and sleeping is quite comfortable, but catching the plane is quite troublesome.

"After you go back, take some time to buy a plane."

Sitting in the first-class cabin of a plane flying from Spain to Japan, Dongchuan Che ignored the passionate glances of the beautiful stewardess, put on an eye mask, thought casually in his mind, and soon fell into a deep sleep.

(End of this chapter)