Agreeing to Create Bad Games, What the Hell Is ‘Titanfall’? Chapter 398: Unprecedented! A Sandbox Game!

Eyes opened!

With Golden Wind’s My World trailer released, the entire industry couldn’t help but exclaim that today they had their eyes pried wide open.

From almost all players having no expectations,

to public opinion flipping overnight—everyone was stunned by how groundbreaking this ga was.

Never before had a ga trailer achieved such an effect!

After the trailer dropped, the whole gaming world was stunned!

Players widened their eyes and stared in disbelief at that blocky world, at everything that exceeded the limits of their imagination—

“So this is a world where I can do whatever I want?”

“Holy crap… the freedom here is unimaginable.”

“I can’t even picture how fun exploring this block world would be.”

“Chicken? I dare to imagine it! (dog head)”

“Rather than calling this a ga, it’s more like a giant Lego sandbox for the ga world.”

“The key part is, you can fight monsters, mine, and even farm and cook!”

“I thought Stardew Valley was the ceiling for casual gas—who made this?!”

“And that final clap Alex does in the trailer to boost the graphics—wow, that was stunningly beautiful.”

“I see a lot of people analyzing that it hints at graphics mods. Golden Wind might open a Steam Workshop this ti.”

“Makes sense. After all, the ga’s core is creation.”

“Can’t wait…”

“……”

On social dia and ga forums at ho and abroad, players fervently discussed the miraculous world shown in My World!

And while laypeople watched the spectacle, industry insiders were left speechless with awe!

In developer forums, peers’ surprise was no less than the players’—

“No wonder Golden Wind dared to insist on going to Cologne without an engine.”

“The creativity here is simply undeniable.”

“This company is outrageous: when others reskinned gas they studied levels; when others studied levels they studied gaplay; when others studied gaplay they just handed players a sandbox to create their own gaplay…”

“As much as I hate to admit it, Golden Wind is genuinely pushing the entire gas industry forward.”

“Not to exaggerate, but their Vampire Survivors alone supported how many small indie teams?”

“That’s not even the craziest part. Look at the horror market now—eight out of ten have scrapped weapon systems and gone the psychological horror route.”

“Hey… don’t point fingers. CloudPower, Golden Wind’s nesis, is selling The Lord of the Rings: Gollum as a platforming puzzle like It Takes Two.”

“I don’t know what the next wave in gaming will be after My World launches.”

“To be honest, if Golden Wind weren’t so stingy about hiring, I’d quit and go try for myself.”

“Nonsense—who wouldn’t want to try? They’re the only developer that’s built sothing massive on a zero-budget model.”

“Hard to imagine how happy Golden Wind’s staff must be every day…”

“……”

Shock rippled across and beyond the industry!

This was a genuinely unprecedented ga!

Although Golden Wind had invented many gaplay elents that are still popular now.

Like the “Vampire-like gas” spawned by Vampire Survivors, the “psychological horror” branch extended from Silent Hill PT, or the “wolf-type” genre nad after Sekiro.

But!

Those kinds of gaplay, to so extent, were evolutions or refinents built on existing genres.

Vampire Survivors evolved from bullet-hell gas into a mash-up of multiple chanics.

Silent Hill PT was a branch extension of horror gas.

As for Sekiro, strictly speaking, it still belongs to motion-sensing action RPGs; “wolf-type” gas are just a label tied to Gu Sheng’s design style and have gradually co to an “high-difficulty ARPGs.”

Their pioneering contributions are unquestionable.

From a distance, players may see them as giants towering above others.

But in truth, they only stood on the shoulders of giants.

However!

My World was different.

It was neither a simple extension of a single genre nor an assembly of various genres!

Its unique gaplay and worldview, and the core of “creation,” were things that had never appeared in the long history of global ga developnt!

Is it a casual farming ga like Stardew Valley?

Yes, and no.

Is it an RPG like Sekiro?

Yes, and no.

Is it a construction sim like brick-building simulators?

Yes, and no.

It seed to include everything, yet it was so distinct!

Because its ga core wasn’t about making players complete goals or perform tasks.

It was simply offering an infinitely open sandbox, allowing players to live out an entire virtual life inside this sandbox.

And it!

Truly established an entire genre in gaming history!

Golden Wind’s president Gu Sheng Sam called it—

……

“A sandbox ga?”

Konik looked at the tablet Vice President Betang handed him.

On it was the tweet Golden Wind president Sam had just posted.

In that tweet, Gu Sheng personally gave the most fitting na for this unprecedented ga type—

[Sandbox Ga]

If!

The person reading this news were a veteran who had worked in the industry for years, they would admire how apt the na was!

A fully open ga focused on creation—what else is that but a virtual big sandbox!

But sadly!

The person seeing the ssage now was Konik.

He could not grasp the naming’s precision or cleverness at all.

All he knew was—

“The entire internet! All dia! The whole world is talking about this ga!”

Konik seethed, his teeth grinding!

Golden Wind hadn’t even launched a full-scale marketing campaign!

Not to ntion that their PR could never rival large franchises like Call of Duty, Resident Evil, or Sekiro.

Even the European Truck release that had recently defeated them had more marketing channels than My World!

Golden Wind had just tossed out a casual tweet and done a little promotion in so diocre ga outlets!

That was it!

Yet the sensation had spread globally and had already buried their painstakingly prepared next-gen masterpiece The Lord of the Rings: Gollum into oblivion!

Konik could never accept this!

Why had he insisted on splurging to secure The Lord of the Rings license in the first place?

Wasn’t it because that globally renowned fantasy blockbuster could make his ga explode in popularity and secure a dominant position in initial marketing, crushing Golden Wind?

And now, the team who should’ve had the upper hand was being trampled by Golden Wind’s crude block people!

Konik refused to swallow that humiliation.

Even if he could hold it down, his boss at Vivendi wouldn’t let him take it lying down!

No way.

Spending big on IP rights only to have marketing do nothing? What were they paying for? Free money?

Capital groups like Vivendi weren’t afraid to spend, but they hated seeing money with no return.

If Konik didn’t want to get fired, he had to do sothing!

“With the Cologne Gascom approaching, ramp up the marketing,”

Konik’s mouth twitched as he instructed Betang:

“We must ensure The Lord of the Rings’ marketing montum drowns out My World.”

“Uh…”

Betang hesitated briefly after hearing that:

“But the funds application needs ti. If we wait for the money to be approved before marketing… it might be too late.”

After all, they were up against Golden Wind.

And Golden Wind’s marketing tactics were notorious in the industry.

Kora had already learned that lesson through several crushing defeats.

So even though there was still a full month and a half before Cologne,

if they wanted to compete with Golden Wind for market share, they had to expend full force, seize every marketing channel they could in the shortest ti, and not give Golden Wind even a mont to breathe.

Naturally, that would be extrely costly.

“We still have other projects,”

Hearing that, Konik hardened his tone:

“Since our main push this ti is The Lord of the Rings: Gollum,”

“For this focus battle, we’ll have to temporarily sacrifice so marketing resources from other exhibitor projects,”

“You should apply for marketing funds imdiately. Right now, transfer all other project resources to Gollum,”

“We must, as fast as possible, reverse the current disadvantage in marketing,”

“Otherwise, the situation will only worsen for us.”

“Don’t forget, Golden Wind is holding the $3 billion they squeezed out of Kora,”

“Right now they are…”

……

A ga windfall!

Shen Miaomiao watched as thirty billion dollars suddenly appeared in the company accounts!

A no-effort, free windfall!

Ultimate middleman trick!

Yes.

Now Uekoe Kagemasa had been safely sent thousands of miles away to Northern Europe to live out his retirent incognito.

As the price, Uekoe’s 7.85% stake had been handed over without compensation, becoming the key to Kora’s power transfer—and Golden Wind’s unexpected windfall.

Confident and flush with cash, Shen Miaomiao, sitting beside Peng Xiaopang, felt energized and radiant.

“Xiaopang.”

“Hey, Sister Miao.”

“Tell again—what kind of eting is this? I don’t know much about these industry things.”

“The Binjiang City major project construction mobilization eting—well, basically it’s about developing the southern district…”