eurekapd Chapter 414 High School Sports Meeting
Chapter 414 High School Sports Meeting
Chapter 414 High School Sports Meet
After seeing off the people from Shanhe Group, Dongchuan Che's life began to return to normal.
He gets up at 7am every morning to go for a morning run and goes home around 8am. If he gets home early or his morning work is not important, he will have a bubble bath with Himawari or Asuka.
After a morning run, a shower, and some lounging, the maid Futaba Koyama comes over and knocks on the glass door of the bathroom. Sayoko and Miyano Mitsuko will usually have already prepared breakfast.
Of course, sometimes Chika Ohara, Fujiko Sato, or Kaori Akiyama would bring breakfast over from outside.
Unlike Sayoko and the others, Chika Ohara and Fujiko Sato live at home most of the time, but because they have elderly people to take care of at home, they also spend a few days a week at their parents' home. Kaori Akiyama also works in Ota Ward, and now that the handheld game console is about to be released, she also has to keep a close eye on the factory, so she only goes home for one or two days a week, and lives in a high-end apartment in Ota Ward the rest of the time.
However, once the handheld game console is released and gets on track, Kaori Akiyama won't have to live in Ota Ward anymore as she won't have to keep an eye on her every day.
Dongchuan Che eats at around eight o'clock every morning and then goes to work at around nine o'clock.
In the morning, he usually handles some company management matters, such as salary adjustments, welfare settings, personnel transfers, and looking at the tables of fund usage and turnover of each division, etc. At noon, he has lunch with his wives in the office. In the afternoon, he will focus his main work on R&D matters.
The company currently has many projects under development.
Not to mention "FGO" and "World of Warcraft" which have already been released but are still producing subsequent expansion packs, there are also a series of works including "FIFA Reboot 1", "Pokemon", "Hearthstone", and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".
The problem with FIFA Football is not big. Chika Oohara went to Europe to negotiate the team and club authorization at the end of last year.
As for game development
The most popular, or the only popular football game on the market today is EA's "FC Football Series". However, before that, there were not only EA's football games on the market. Japan also had a game called "Real Football".
In fact, around 2000, when PCs were still not as popular as PH consoles in terms of single-player games, Real Football was more popular than FC Soccer is now. After all, the manufacturer of Real Football had a close relationship with SATE, and PH consoles were products of SATE. With the help of PH consoles, Real Football was also popular all over the world.
But the problem remains. As big European and American capital enters the European and American gaming industry, Japanese game manufacturers that do not have as much capital are beginning to lose competitiveness in this area.
Moreover, if it is other game themes, then Japanese game manufacturers will only experience a decline in competitiveness, and will not be completely squeezed out of the industry by European and American manufacturers. However, football games are different.
Football games require purchasing licenses for European and American football clubs, major national team competitions, such as the European Cup, America's Cup, Asian Cup, World Cup, etc.
With these authorizations, the names of real teams and players can be used in the game, and in this link, Japanese game manufacturers with less capital cannot compete with European and American manufacturers. In fact, companies that cannot pay hundreds of millions of dollars to buy copyrights every year cannot get on the table.
In addition to copyright, the technical strength of the Japanese gaming industry is also a big problem.
Except for a few of the top Japanese game companies, the technical strength of other game companies in Japan is so different from that of European and American game companies that it is visible to the naked eye that the gap is an era.
There was no money to compete for copyrights, and the technology was declining. Therefore, two years ago, the developer of "Real Football" declared bankruptcy.
This is actually the reason why EA dared to break up with FIFA last year.
There is no other football game on the market that can compete with EA's "FC" football. Even if FIFA breaks up with FIFA, FIFA will have no choice but to go back to "FC". Otherwise, they will lose 100 or 200 million US dollars in copyright income every year.
This is actually the reason why Toukawa Che is willing to cooperate with FIFA.
Whether it is because it is unwilling to bow to a game company like EA, or it is unwilling to see EA's "FC series" dominate the football game field and eventually control these football organizations, FIFA has sufficient reasons to cooperate with him, Fuyukawa Che.
What’s interesting is that Dongchuan Che is a person who won’t take action until he sees the rabbit. If the price offered by FIFA and those football clubs is not affordable enough, he can simply not enter the field of football games.
Under such conditions, when Chika Ohara went to Europe and the United States to discuss licensing, not only did things go smoothly, but the various contract terms were also very favorable.
Of course, FIFA and the football club are willing to support him now, hoping that he can make a great football game. After all, by then, as long as the Holy Light Society and EA start to compete for users, they can raise the price again.
The world of business is full of twists and turns that are interconnected.
Of course, this is not the key point. We will talk about the future later. Dongchuan Che is not so concerned about this aspect. He is more concerned about the game development team of "Real Football".
Although Dongchuan Che had the football game from his previous life in mind, he had too many businesses on hand now and didn't have the time to personally lead a football game. And the other development teams of Shengguang Society basically had no experience in developing sports games. Therefore, after the company's "FIFA Restart 1" project was established last year, he recruited the development team of "Real Football" to join him.
To be honest, this incident also caused quite a bit of controversy in major gaming forums at the time. After all, the game "Real Football" had failed, and now Dongchuan Che had recruited the development team of this game.
In the eyes of many people, this development team is not a good team, but this is just the opinion of outsiders.
In fact, in the eyes of industry insiders, it is a miracle that "Real Football" can withstand the attack of "FIFA Football" for so long. After all, the development funds and number of developers received by the development team of "Real Football" are less than one-tenth of that of "FIFA", and in order to save costs and avoid being deducted by other companies, the company also requires the development team of "Real Football" to use their own game engine.
Make bricks without straw.
With insufficient funds and manpower, the company could only use its own outdated engine, and the graphics and operation feel were one era behind FIFA. Under such circumstances, the fact that Real Football could last so long was almost entirely due to the development and improvement of the gameplay by the development team.
Dongchuan Che has always been generous with his respect and sincerity towards outstanding talents.
At the beginning, he personally met with representatives of the "Real Football" development team in the president's office, which shocked and terrified those big men. Especially after hearing Dongchuan Che say, "If you want people, I will give them; if you want money, I will give you money. As long as you produce excellent works, the Holy Light Society will give you the greatest support," one of the female programmers was so excited and grateful that she almost cried. As for the other big men, they knelt down and thanked him.
In this era, there are many good horses, but there are few good horse trainers. With the original members of "Real Football" as the backbone, and a large number of new employees recruited last year as the supplement, they have become the "13th Division" of the Holy Light Society.
Although the outside world still has a mostly negative view of them because they have not yet released any works, but as the company's president and a leader who often goes to see their progress, Toru Fuyukawa naturally knows their strength.
Now, with the efforts of the 1th group, the development of "FIFA Restart " has reached the middle and late stages, and the team has almost been well-coordinated, and no longer wants Dongchuan Che to worry too much.
As for the remaining "Pokemon", "Hearthstone" and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".
The "Romance of the Three Kingdoms Series" is similar to the "FIFA Football Series". The "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" work is now also handed over to the company's Yokogaya Studio for development.
The team leader of Yokotani Studio is the former director Yokotani of Shengguang Society. When Toru Fuyukawa accompanied Taketsuki Asuka to film "Sisters Who Make Waves" in Kamakura, it was this Yokotani who found him with the project plan.
It should be said that Yokogami is an avid Three Kingdoms fan, and also a very strong game development fan. Under his leadership, the entire Yokogami team has made rapid progress. However, this speed is mainly compared to other game companies. In fact, after more than a year of development, the entire development progress can only be regarded as the early to mid-term.
There is no other reason.
Although Dongchuan Che has Koei's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms Series", "Dynasty Warriors Series", and "Total War: Three Kingdoms" in his mind, to be honest, he is not particularly satisfied with these works from his previous lives.
Let’s not talk about the glorious Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
It’s fun. Koei’s Romance of the Three Kingdoms is indeed fun, but the content is not rich enough.
Even if we are to be more strict, Koei's Romance of the Three Kingdoms is the standard for web games and even some European and American SLG games.
As for the Total War series.
This series has a lot of content and a lot of gameplay, but to be honest, in his opinion, Total War: Three Kingdoms is not as fun as the Romance of the Three Kingdoms series.
It sounds contradictory, but it is not.
To put it simply, it's like Red Dead Redemption 2 has a huge amount of content and very fine graphics, but because the pace is too slow and there's really not much fun in the early stages of the game, very few people can actually get into this game. Most players buy this game and just leave it in the warehouse to collect dust.
This is the feeling that "Total War: Three Kingdoms" gives Dongchuan Che, which is that it is tasteless to eat but a pity to throw away.
He hopes to have a Three Kingdoms game similar to the Civilization series, which can quickly make players addicted and has rich details. However, the problem is that he doesn't have much time to do this himself, so he can only communicate more with Yokogami and let Yokogami play freely.
Under such circumstances, the development progress of the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" series is naturally slow. However, the situation is different for "Hearthstone" and "Pokemon".
Hearthstone is not difficult to make, but Pokémon.
Since the end of the previous year, Toru Fuyukawa's main work focus has been "World of Warcraft" and "Pokemon".
Especially after the release of World of Warcraft at the beginning of this year, Fuyukawa Tetsu has been almost completely focused on the development of Pokémon. At the same time, because it involves whether his company's handheld game console can stand up, Pokémon can be said to be one of the games that Fuyukawa Tetsu has invested the most money, manpower and effort in.
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"Have the mature women characters mentioned last time been added? Well, although the style of this game is more cartoon-like, the age of the target audience is not young. We can add more sexy ladies and mature ladies."
"Hey! President, don't worry. We have added several sexy female characters who can interact with the protagonist emotionally in the first city, Pallet Town. There are all kinds of them, from D to E, from hot to cold. As long as the player interacts with them enough, the relevant emotional lines can be triggered. And..."