Agreeing to Create Bad Games, What the Hell Is ‘Titanfall’? Chapter 176: 【Fxxk KOMINA】

Whoa—!!!

Although!

The original concept of the journalist Miles was sparked by Yuki's sudden inspiration.

But she never expected that Director Gu could pull such a tiny thread and unravel a huge web, weaving it into a complete ga!

No wonder he was so excited that day!

His mind works way too fast!

Yuki was stunned.

She glanced at Sato and found that Senior Sato had the sa expression.

After all, they were the most direct participants in this Easter egg, so their shock was the deepest.

In fact, according to Director Gu, if this ga Escape succeeds, Miles would beco the key to carrying Golden Wind’s personalized label, woven into their future horror gas!

An extraordinary concept!

Next, Gu Sheng briefly explained the project plan again to make sure everyone was clear and distributed the plan to each person in charge.

“...That’s basically the overview of the ga. Does anyone have any questions?”

Gu Sheng said as he glanced around the room.

The project initiation eting was basically nearing its end.

Everyone, having heard the project introduction, was full of confidence, expressing no doubts and ready to defeat Kora with this ga!

Only Sato opened his mouth but hesitated, seemingly reluctant to speak.

Now!

The developers were confird! The project plan was finalized! The target ga was decided!

But the budget—Director Gu still hadn’t ntioned it.

As an experienced ga planner, Sato was extrely sensitive about budget matters!

Because the planning departnt was a “money-in-charge” unit.

Most of the ti, their job was to balance ‘budget cost’ and ‘effect presentation.’

After all, the ga plan was text-based, but the ga was built on visuals.

How to perfectly transform the text into visuals and playable gas within a limited budget to achieve the best presentation was the planners’ task.

But now!

Gu Sheng had deliberately left out the budget!

This surprised Sato.

Because in his view, Gu Sheng, as an experienced and creatively brilliant ga designer, should never omit such an important piece.

What surprised him even more was—

Not only Gu Sheng!

Jiang Yun, his partner, his superior, and the head of the project planning team, also seed indifferent, as if completely forgetting about the budget issue!

Isn’t this... a bit unprofessional?

Or did they... just forget?

No way!

Sato frowned silently.

Others might forget, but he couldn’t. Since he had joined Golden Wind, he had to consider the company in every aspect. For such a critical step, he was obligated to remind the director!

“Um...”

Sato raised his hand to signal:

“Director, did you perhaps forget to ntion the budget for our Escape ga?”

Sato felt his reminder was crucial.

After all, budget was a serious matter. Once he spoke up, everyone would surely realize and appreciate his ticulous concern.

However!

As soon as he said this, the entire eting room froze!

Then, everyone actually laughed!

Laughed!

What does laughing an?!

Hearing the friendly laughter fill the room, Sato was baffled!

Not only did everyone laugh, even the director chuckled!

As if this matter didn’t need ntioning at all!

“This... this...”

Sato even felt a little creeped out by the laughter:

“What’s so... funny about this?”

“No, hahaha,”

Jiang Yun reached out and patted his confused face:

“I an, at other ga companies, this wouldn’t be funny at all.”

Hearing Jiang Yun’s words, Sato was even more confused:

“So... does Golden Wind have so special budget sche?”

“Of course,”

Lu Bian spoke from across the room:

“Golden Wind’s budget sche is... no sche at all.”

Now!

Sato was completely stunned!

Even Yuki beside him was a little dumbfounded:

“Uh... what does ‘no sche’ an?”

“Literally,”

Gu Sheng saw the two newcors’ puzzled faces, obviously not yet understanding Golden Wind’s bold spending style, so he explained:

“Let put it this way. How much do you think our Escape ga’s developnt cost will be on the Yiyou X2 platform?”

This…

“30 million? 50 million?”

Yuki wasn’t a professional, so she turned to Sato.

“Far more than that,”

Sato shook his head:

“The developnt cost of Silent Hill PT was 2.8 million dollars, about 20 million yuan.”

“Although they could continue to use the Phoenix engine and PT’s engine results for the main ga developnt,”

“Considering Kora’s quick and decisive strategy, they will definitely use a large amount of manpower and outsourcing. The total developnt cost will be around 1500-2000 million yen, about 100-140 million yuan,”

“And if we benchmark against Silent Hill... the cost can’t be less than 60 to 80 million.”

After speaking,

Sato looked at Gu Sheng: “Director, what do you think?”

Gu Sheng fell into thought: “100 million... probably not enough?”

“Look, first of all, we’ll be launching on Yiyou X2. The most iconic feature of Yiyou X2 is full-sensory assistance, and to achieve that, we have to invest heavily in full-sensory tech, which is no small expense.”

Gu Sheng began counting on his fingers for Sato, just like Little Nezha had explained to him years ago:

“Secondly, manpower. Our project departnt only has so many people. For a project like this, we definitely lack staff, so we have to use a lot of outsourcing. Outsourcing teams charge more than in-house employees because they don’t get benefits, bonuses, and so on. That’s another big cost.”

“Lastly, ti. According to Shen’s instructions, we have to launch alongside Silent Hill, but we don’t know exactly when Silent Hill will release, so we must rush to finish before Kora. This ans overti pay for both outsourcing and internal staff, another expense.”

Hissing—

Listening to the director, Sato’s frown deepened.

Right.

Ensuring quality and ti, those all cost money.

Although the overall ga industry wages in China are about 10%-15% lower than in Neon,

To catch up with Kora, at least matching Silent Hill’s level, it would be around 100-150 million.

Thinking this, Sato couldn’t help but frown, looking at Gu Sheng: “So...”

Gu Sheng shrugged:

“So, in conclusion—”

“Just spend freely, I’m too lazy to calculate,”

“Anyway, one ga can’t drain the company’s funds. Besides, we’ve done that before,”

“Just make your ga. Don’t worry about the money.”

What?!

Sato almost couldn’t breathe!

Spend freely!

What the hell does “spend freely” an?!

Originally!

He thought Gu Sheng was calculating all this to tell him the project was tough and the budget was limited, so spend carefully!

But!

Now you tell “too lazy to calculate, just spend freely”?!

What kind of damn budget is that?!

Who the hell has a budget of “just spend freely” in a ga company?!

Seeing Sato’s shocked expression, the eting room burst into laughter, instantly filling the atmosphere with cheerfulness!

“All right, Sato,”

Seeing Sato’s stunned and incredulous face, Jiang Yun was kind enough to pat him and gesture to calm down:

“Golden Wind never cares about budgets.”

“Shen’s consistent policy is to make the ga as good and refined as possible within the company’s affordable financial range.”

“After all,”

“We’re a ga company.”

One sentence!

Sato felt chills down his spine!

“We’re a ga company.”

How long had it been since he felt this way?

A pure ga company, one that always puts ga quality first.

They even loosen the budget completely for the sake of quality!

Shen Miaomiao!

What kind of CEO is this!

Beneath her youthful appearance lies such passionate ideals and deep trust in everyone!

No wonder!

No wonder Golden Wind can release so many gas that redefine the gaming world and create one milestone after another!

No wonder Golden Wind’s team is small but has such strong cohesion and enthusiasm!

No wonder Golden Wind produced a top-level superstar like SamGu!

It turns out!

All of this was because of Shen Miaomiao!

She is the one who truly loves gas, loves this industry, loves this art!

So!

Under her leadership, Golden Wind attracts such elite forces and like-minded people!

“Holy crap...”

Sato suddenly understood, nodding slowly:

“This is...”

It seed!

Joining Golden Wind might be the best decision of his life!

In an instant!

The idealistic fla in Sato’s heart, once nearly extinguished at Kora, reignited!

Once upon a ti!

He also held passionate ideals for gas; he was an idealist and regarded gas as art!

And now!

His fervor surged again, and a broad stage had unfolded before him!

Sato-san!!!

Sato roared silently in his heart!

Now, it was ti to serve his wise leader Miaomiao-san with loyalty!!!

“I understand!”

At this mont,

Sato’s eyes sharpened like never before!

The smart Sato unleashed his full energy!

And Gu Sheng seized the montum!

“All right! Now, I announce—”

“The Escape project,”

“Is officially approved!!!”

Start work!

……

And so!

From Neon’s Kora ca Silent Hill!

From China’s Golden Wind ca Escape!

They started work almost simultaneously in silence.

Kora’s side aid to delay as much as possible, keeping PT’s heat going without announcing anything.

Golden Wind wanted secret developnt, avoiding Kora noticing their upcoming ambush to prevent sabotage.

Thus, both sides quietly began an arms race in this strange atmosphere.

But!

Though both kept silent and avoided talking about Silent Hill,

The players couldn’t wait!

In a blink, the Higashitsu Gaming Festival had closed nearly a week ago!

Online calls for Silent Hill’s official ga surged wave after wave!

Questions and doubts about when the official ga would develop also ca in waves!

‘Strange, why hasn’t the Silent Hill co-developnt been officially announced yet?’

‘Yeah, it’s been so long.’

‘I heard both sides planned to announce the cooperation on the last day of the festival and start developnt, but now the festival has almost been over a week...’

‘Could it be they broke up?’

‘That shouldn’t be. PT is so popular; there’s no way they’d split.’

‘Maybe Golden Wind has other projects? Is this one shelved?’

‘Don’t joke, bro. You might as well guess Kora got greedy and kicked Sam out.’

‘So what’s really going on? Why no announcent?’

"Co out and explain, K Corp @KOMINA!"

‘Urgent urgent urgent urgent I’m urgent king @Gu Sheng Sam’

‘...’

For a ti, speculation ran rampant!

And as everyone knows!

Paper cannot cover fire!

On the third day after all the speculation,

A piece of news exploded in the horror gaming circle!

At first, it was just a normal post from a player in the #SilentHell# topic on social dia:

[According to reliable sources, Komina has already started independent developnt of Silent Hill, with Yamamoto Tsunashiro as the chief director. Yes, Sam was kicked out by Komina because Silent Hill is too hot an IP, and K corp doesn’t want to share with Golden Wind. That’s also why the two senior executives who were lead planner and art director on the PT project have now jumped ship to Golden Wind.]

Originally!

This post was inconspicuous amid all the rumors, with not many likes.

Because recently, posts like this were everywhere, hard to verify!

But!

Sothing miraculous happened.

Just one hour after this post was sent out!

Whether it was a slip or deliberate!

Tetsuya Moriya, then Kora’s Executive Director of Ga Affairs, liked the post!

Although he unliked it within a minute!

But!

It was captured by watchful dia!

Even more provocative, Moriya’s like was in the morning!

At the sa ti,

It was the broadcast ti of the super popular overseas strear Pewdiepie, who has 89 million followers and is one of the world’s top strears!

“What—?!!!”

The network spread so fast that Pew imdiately received this news!

After carefully reading the report three tis over!

Pew was stunned for a full five seconds!

Then he grabbed his phone and called a Kora insider he knew in Neon.

Now, he only needed to confirm one thing—whether Sato and Yuki, the two pillars who participated in PT’s production, had really joined Golden Wind.

After a brief silence, the voice on the other end, disguised by a voice changer, said: “Yes.”

Silence!

Long silence!

Pew was silent.

The live chat barrage fell silent too!

Until!

A dazzling colorful chat ssage slowly floated onto the screen—

【Fxxk KOMINA】

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