Agreeing to Create Bad Games, What the Hell Is ‘Titanfall’? Chapter 335: A Situation More Terrifying Than [Moriya's Resi

Stardew Valley!

That's right. The special invited competition project Gu Sheng prepared for the Mini Ga Festival was none other than Stardew Valley, hailed as a masterpiece in his previous life!

Of course.

The mbers of Golden Experience Studio knew nothing about this and were even quite unfamiliar with it.

"What is this...?"

As all mbers of the Golden Experience team gathered and looked at the ga cover on the big screen, team leader Jiang Yun spoke up with keen interest:

"Pixel style?"

Pixel style held extraordinary significance for Golden Wind.

Back in the day, when Golden Wind was still a tiny studio, they dominated the Mini Ga Festival with a pixel-style ga (incidentally knocking out Jiang Yun's ga too).

So for Jiang Yun, pixel-style gas were truly a blessing in disguise.

After all, if Golden Wind hadn't defeated his Fantasy Domination with Vampire Survivors back then, there wouldn't have been the subsequent vote ranking manipulation incident.

Without the ranking manipulation, he wouldn't have eventually joined Golden Wind and beco the leader of Golden Experience.

And now, when a pixel-style mini-ga was placed before him again, the person steering the ship had beco himself.

To be honest, this feeling was quite marvelous.

Jiang Yun was very interested.

"Exactly,"

Gu Sheng nodded:

"A pixel-style role-playing casual ga, or... it has another not-so-professional ga classification na—"

Stardew Valley.

Theoretically speaking, it should indeed be classified as a role-playing ga.

In this ga, players would portray a young person crushed by the "996 blessing" who one day unexpectedly receives a letter from their grandfather.

In the letter, the grandfather writes: "By the ti you read this letter, you must be desperately in need of a change. Long ago, the sa thing happened to , and I forgot what the most important things in life really were..."

The grandfather leaves a dilapidated farm to the protagonist, claiming it will be the perfect start to their new life.

Thus, the protagonist ultimately can't endure the dark, endless corporate drone existence, packs their backpack, and cos to Stardew Valley town to begin their pastoral life.

The ga is overall relaxed and fun—planting vegetables, fishing, quarrying stones, and mining are quite delightful. Moreover, during festivals, the town holds unique fun activities.

The noisy pressure and decadent distractions of concrete jungles seem to vanish completely here.

Here, there are only carrots growing from the soil, truffles dug up by pigs, sweet and delicious starfruit wine, and amusing gossip about the mayor that makes people smile knowingly.

Just as the poet Haizi wrote—

From tomorrow on, be a happy person

Feed horses, chop wood, travel the world

From tomorrow on, care about food and vegetables

I have a house, facing the sea, with spring blossoms...

But rather than calling it a "role-playing ga," Gu Sheng preferred to call it—

"A farming ga."

"Farming ga?"

Hearing this, Jiang Yun, Kailing, and Jiang Shan exchanged glances, clearly not understanding.

You have to understand!

In this world, while there were many ga genres, they ultimately couldn't escape having an ultimate mission objective.

Like scores in sports gas, kill counts in shooting gas, rankings in racing gas, etc.

Even gas like Tetris and Mario ultimately had final mission objectives—

Eliminate blocks to accumulate points, and pass difficult levels to rescue the princess.

But "farming"...?

What was the ga's purpose?

The growth of crops?

Once a batch of crops grew, was the mission accomplished?

For a mont, the Golden Experience studio mbers looked at each other, completely unable to understand what gaplay elents President Gu's "farming ga" could possibly have.

However, under everyone's questioning and puzzled gazes, Gu Sheng's answer was even more astonishing:

"The purpose of this ga... is to have no purpose."

After saying this.

Gu Sheng thought for a mont, then shrugged with a smile:

"Or rather, the ultimate purpose of this ga is to let players feel relaxed and live life well."

The joy of spring planting and autumn harvest could be the ga's purpose.

The fish kings of four seasons could be the ga's purpose.

The dals from various activities could be the ga's purpose.

The combat of mine exploration could also be the ga's purpose.

Our purpose is to have no purpose.

Because life is never asured by scores and rankings to determine success or failure.

Of course! Kill counts are even less valid!

Perhaps in real life, due to various reasons, we can't live the carefree life we want,

But in gas, Golden Wind is willing to provide everyone with such a spiritual harbor, to heal pained and weary souls, giving players a mont of pause and respite on their life's journey.

This is the charm of farming gas.

Wow—

Hearing President Gu's words, the Golden Experience employees couldn't help but murmur inwardly.

Our president really knows how to spin a tale.

He really understands how to tug at players' heartstrings.

Simple words, like Zenyata activating his ultimate, instantly made people ["Experience Tranquility"].

The key was!

Thinking according to the president's logic—being able to return ho after work, hold a controller, grow so flowers, tend so plants, feed so chickens, pet so sheep, and exchange warm greetings with neighbors.

Even just fishing as the sun sets in the west—

Co to think of it, that did seem like a pretty good experience.

There was a feeling of being both boring and fun.

After all, no one had ever made such a ga before.

Not just never made—they'd never even heard of it!

But that being said!

Such a pixel-style mini-ga probably wouldn't cost much money—at most 1.5 million dollars would be completely sufficient.

After all, Plants vs. Zombies only cost 1.15 million dollars.

The production costs of these two gas were probably quite similar.

Thinking of this!

The Golden Experience designers looked at each other, then smiled and nodded one after another:

"Then leave it to us!"

A casual mini-project!

Entrusting it to the current Golden Experience Studio was simply most appropriate.

After all, they had been working intensely for over half a year previously, pouring their hearts into the globally popular Overwatch.

Now, making a mini-ga for fun could also count as a form of vacation.

Moreover, Gu Sheng didn't have particularly high expectations for Stardew Valley's sales.

Yes.

He didn't think Stardew Valley could recreate the legend of Plants vs. Zombies from back then—it might not even surpass Overcooked.

And such concerns naturally had their basis.

First, as the first casual pixel mini-ga in this world with elents like "farming, fishing, and mining," players might not accept it.

Second, and most importantly—

Stardew Valley's release date would clash with Resident Evil 7.

Yes.

I'm crashing into myself.

Very awkward.

But also helpless.

Because Resident Evil 7's release date had long been determined. This ti, they were confronting Kora again, with both sides standing firm against each other, setting the ga release dates for the sa day.

And the day after Resident Evil 7's release!

The Yiyou Mini Ga Festival would open. Then, Stardew Valley would beco the flagship title of the Mini Ga Festival, leading Huaguo's various mini-ga developers and their works overseas for the second ti.

When Resident Evil 7 ets Stardew Valley?

Which one had higher topicality was obvious at a glance.

Moreover!

Currently, almost all of Golden Wind's promotional focus was on Resident Evil 7!

Because this round of Resident Evil 7, Shen Miaomiao absolutely had to make it profitable!

It didn't matter how much profit, but it absolutely could not lose money!

Why?

Because she needed Resident Evil 8 to lose money!

As everyone knew!

Currently, Resident Evil 7, strictly speaking, wasn't yet "Golden Wind's Resident Evil."

Shinji Mikami had only licensed the Resident Evil IP to them at the price of one dollar, giving them a chance to prove themselves—to see if a return to horror with Resident Evil 7 could turn the tide and reverse the IP's previous decline.

And if they could pass this test successfully!

Only then!

Would Shinji Mikami engage in negotiations with them to sell the copyright in his hands to Golden Wind.

That would be a huge expense!

According to Old Gu, if the super IP Resident Evil were sold externally, the starting price would be 500 million dollars.

500 million dollars for IP acquisition, plus Resident Evil 8's related production costs...

Total costs easily reaching 600-800 million dollars.

Forget the maximum four-week settlent period—even if you gave them another four weeks, such an enormous cost absolutely couldn't be recouped in a short ti!

And she!

Shen Miaomiao!

At that ti, she only needed to keep an eye on her man to prevent this spendthrift from coming up with sales models like "dual platforms" again, while also supervising XunTeng and Yiyou, these two whales, to prevent them from arbitrarily reducing their commission rates,

Then everything would be accomplished perfectly, and she could just sit back and wait for the 100x return inherited from Resident Evil 7.

Yes, Shen Miaomiao's ambition lay with Resident Evil 8.

Thus, Resident Evil 7 beca the second work after Sekiro that Shen Miaomiao seriously supervised promotions for.

Speaking of which, Kora was really quite unlucky.

The last ti Shen Miaomiao used her [Serious Promotion] power, it was also directed at them.

But the difference was,

Last ti, they fortunately had Moriya Tetsuya holding the fort. Although they ultimately failed because of Uekoe Kagemasa's stubbornness and self-importance, throughout the entire pre-release promotion battle, Kora never fell behind and even subtly held the initiative.

But this ti!

Kora not only lost Moriya.

What was even more terrifying was—

"...Now Moriya firmly stands on Golden Wind's side, launching promotional attacks against us that have us completely overwheld!"

Actually, originally, Nakamurai was quite confident about this confrontation.

Although theoretically, Golden Wind now had the "Resident Evil IP" as backing, and the demo quality seed slightly better than Silent Hill 2's.

But Kora had massive financial resources!

With total investnt reaching 350 million dollars, Nakamurai had ample confidence to battle Golden Wind.

However!

As the E3 exhibition closed and the promotional war between both sides officially began, upon first contact!

Nakamurai was dumbfounded.

Originally defense-oriented Golden Wind actually took the initiative this ti, directly breaking through with high prices, once again securing the huge billboard advertising space at Ginza Shopping Center not far from Kora.

This ti, even advertisents for Yiyou X2 and Polar Bear third-generation motion-sensing pods joined the battle, taking two-thirds of Ginza's main shopping street and seizing the most advantageous promotional positions.

Moreover, according to Nakamurai's understanding, Golden Wind's bids this ti were quite high, but the penalty fees for breach of contract were similarly astronomical.

aning, these advertisents related to Resident Evil 7 and Yiyou XunTeng motion-sensing pods, once put up, would never co down again.

Unless Kora was willing to pay those dizzying sky-high penalty fees to force Ginza Shopping Center to breach contract.

But that was impossible.

aning, right from the start, Golden Wind occupied advantageous positions within Neon's dostic market, implenting a dostic erosion plan against Kora.

That wasn't all.

So said Kora didn't respond because they planned to delay release to avoid Golden Wind.

The very next day, because Kora didn't promptly respond to Golden Wind's large-scale Neon promotions, countless related dia and forum headlines were filled with theories about "Kora surrendering without a fight."

Others said Kora had huge internal funding gaps, and the demo shown at E3 was their developnt result, with all subsequent content being rushed half-finished products.

Various opinions abounded, with all sorts of negative theories.

And while they were still overwheld dealing with negative news, Golden Wind retracted their targets. Leveraging Tiansi Bull's headquarters in Thailand, they planted flags at key promotional positions across half of Asia, using this convenience to extend into Europe while deploying heavy forces in the western United States to massively seize market share!

For a ti!

West with Huaguo, south with Thailand, east with the western US.

It seed now, the closest promotional channel to Kora was only Siberia.

Hiss—

If mory served, the last ti Neon set foot in Siberia was during World War II when they went there to plant potatoes.

A blitzkrieg promotion without any Poland!

Golden Wind didn't spend too much money, but through their connections and first-mover advantage, used high penalty fees to solidify their promotional shares in important locations worldwide.

And all of this!

Couldn't have happened without one person's behind-the-scenes manipulation.

This person not only had extensive connections.

But also significant influence within Neon's dostic market.

Otherwise, Golden Wind's blitzkrieg wouldn't have proceeded so smoothly, nor would Kora have been plunged into a surrounded predicant so quickly.

Moriya Tetsuya.

Yes.

A situation more terrifying than "Moriya's resignation" was—

Moriya being on the opposite side!