Agreeing to Create Bad Games, What the Hell Is ‘Titanfall’? Chapter 401: Start? Start the war!

Peng Qianqian didn't even know how he walked out of the building.

He felt like he was floating.

Six billion!

As the main developer of comrcial residential projects, Pengcheng Real Estate rarely dealt with such massive land plots—not even his father handled deals this enormous!

For such a colossal piece of land, the price alone was astronomical.

Add in infrastructure construction, equipnt procurent, and other costs,

and completing the entire project could easily multiply the investnt three to five tis!

aning this thing could easily beco a twenty to thirty billion project!

Even for Pengcheng Real Estate, this would be considered a "large-scale" project!

Moreover, the joint real estate company he established with Golden Wind, Jinpeng Real Estate, had only handled projects covering a re one hectare.

"...Wait, Sister Miao, our project... this startup capital..."

After exiting the office building,

Peng Qianqian couldn't help but speak up:

"We don't have that much money! Forget construction—we can't even afford the land purchase..."

Jinpeng Real Estate definitely couldn't cover these costs.

As for asking his own father for help, Peng Qianqian didn't believe his dad would approve such a massive sum either.

Shen Miaomiao had anticipated this and chuckled lightly:

"Oh dear, look at you sweating buckets. Don't worry, your Sister Miao has money."

Without hiding anything, Shen Miaomiao explained the origins of the huge funds they currently held.

Of course, she omitted the parts about Neon's underground organizations that couldn't be openly discussed.

In short, one sentence summarized it all—Golden Wind would cover all investnts for this project, from land acquisition to construction.

Money wasn't sothing he needed to worry about, and Pengcheng Real Estate didn't need to get involved either.

Naturally!

Since Golden Wind was providing the vast majority of the investnt capital,

they would naturally take a larger share when it ca to final profit distribution.

So confused friends might wonder at this point—

Why would Golden Wind, with all their financial resources, share part of the project profits with Pengcheng Real Estate and let the joint venture Jinpeng Real Estate develop it?

That's because this project was simply too massive.

Never mind that Golden Wind didn't have real estate construction qualifications.

Even if they did, they couldn't match Pengcheng Real Estate's extensive connections in the local real estate scene.

A project this size couldn't be solved by just hiring a contractor and a couple of construction teams.

First, they needed to reach a cooperation agreent with Binjiang Municipal Governnt, then organize bidding for various aspects including design, construction, supervision, and building services to complete the project together.

Such a massive project basically wouldn't hire—or to so extent, wasn't allowed to hire—small and dium-sized private construction groups for the work.

Therefore, this project couldn't proceed without Pengcheng Real Estate.

Because they had ample experience and broad connections.

Plus, from the earlier conversation, Shen Miaomiao could easily tell that the Party Secretary favored Pengcheng Real Estate.

Their families had good relationships to begin with, Pengcheng Real Estate was undoubtedly Binjiang's real estate leader, and with the municipal governnt's hints and preference.

Both publicly and privately, this project needed Pengcheng Real Estate's support and had to be developed by the joint venture Jinpeng Real Estate.

"Oh—I see—"

Hearing Shen Miaomiao's explanation, Peng Qianqian finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Golden Wind provided the money, their Pengcheng provided the effort.

Okay, okay, that made things much easier to handle.

Moreover, the municipal governnt would issue a key developnt notice for this project later.

With this imperial sword of authority, it would be easier for him to request personnel and leverage connections from his father.

"But..."

After thinking for a mont, Peng Qianqian ultimately couldn't help scratching his head:

"Sister Miao, shouldn't we try a smaller piece of land first? Suddenly taking on such a huge plot, what if we lose money..."

Although according to Shen Miaomiao's description, the three billion dollars in Golden Wind's hands might as well have been blown in by the wind,

Peng Qianqian was an honest kid who ultimately felt such aggressive massive investnt was unstable.

But how could he know.

His Sister Miao's core requirent for this project was one word—loss!

If it doesn't lose money, we're not investing!

Shen Miaomiao chuckled and patted the chubby young man's shoulder:

"Young comrade, you need to unleash your potential to achieve great things! Don't be timid and hesitant,"

"The bigger the project, the bigger the risk, but the greater the profits too,"

"Haven't you heard what Brother Qiang said—"

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【The bigger the storm, the more expensive the fish! As of the day before Cologne Gascom opens, CloudPower Ga Group's market value has increased 8.75% year-on-year...】

【As Cologne Gascom approaches, offline live stream reservations have exceeded 50 million, setting a new historical record...】

【286,000 square ters, nearly 700 ga developers worldwide, over 1,200 exhibition booths, more than 300,000 visitors! This Cologne event will set records for booth numbers, exhibitor attendance, and participating companies...】

【Over forty global gaming dia outlets have given "worth anticipating" ratings—just how captivating is The Lord of the Rings licensed IP's charm...】

...

As Cologne Gascom's opening drew closer!

Reports from various gaming dia outlets beca increasingly frequent!

Among them, as the top executive under gaming capital giant Vivendi that could now be called cross-continental!

CloudPower naturally received the most attention among all gaming companies.

Moreover!

Just as Konik had previously arranged!

To shine brilliantly at Cologne Gascom and completely dominate the marketing resource share, they sacrificed marketing resources for their other gas during the early promotion phase, pushing The Lord of the Rings: Gollum's marketing everywhere!

From Neon to the United States, from Eastern Europe to Western Europe.

You could see CloudPower's Gollum promotional posters in almost every globally famous city.

A gaunt-limbed, sparse-haired, dark-faced figure with cunning eyes occupying one-third of his face appeared on various promotional placents.

Furthermore, promotions for Gollum were as ubiquitous as air in almost every gaming forum and social platform you knew.

Although to this day, CloudPower hadn't released any promotional videos for Gollum,

from various dia reports, players could easily understand the ga's core gaplay and design philosophy.

In this ga, you would play as the little monster Gollum who appears throughout The Lord of the Rings storyline, using your size advantage with various agile jumps and stealth to explore a completely new story never seen in the main Lord of the Rings works.

The tiline occurs after The Battle of the Five Armies, specifically from when Gollum lost the Ring to when Gandalf learned of the Ring's existence in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and went with Aragorn to find Gollum.

In terms of overall gaplay, the extensive platforming inevitably reminded people of the frequently surprising platforming gaplay in It Takes Two.

This ti, CloudPower ingeniously integrated stealth assassination elents into the ga.

Plus, CloudPower claid the total ga developnt investnt reached 500 million dollars.

Major IP! Massive investnt! New gaplay!

All these elents combined sent a very clear signal to all dia and players—

This ti, we're going all out!

Instantly!

Almost half the gaming community's discussions about Cologne Gascom focused on The Lord of the Rings: Gollum.

By comparison!

My World, which had previously amazed players with one promotional video, seed sowhat lacking in staying power.

So said Golden Wind failed to keep up with CloudPower's marketing pace this ti, continuously losing marketing market share and ultimately losing marketing voice.

Others said Golden Wind never intended large-scale marketing this ti, instead planning to rely on the groundbreaking new "sandbox ga" gaplay to win this Cologne battle completely with minimal costs.

But regardless!

My World's marketing was indeed left far behind by The Lord of the Rings: Gollum.

To the extent that based on current market conditions, almost eight out of every ten Cologne Gascom reports ntioned The Lord of the Rings: Gollum.

While My World was typically only ntioned by dia when discussing the "gaming industry's first world war."

Under such circumstances!

"Gathering gaming news, focusing on what players love, hello everyone, I'm Tian Tian, reporter for Daily Gaming News!"

February 25th!

Saturday!

North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany—the huge semi-arc-shaped pure white building was already packed with crowds!

Annually, about 75 trade exhibitions and over 2,000 international conferences are held here.

The total exhibition area of 284,000 square ters is divided into nine major zoned areas.

This is the Cologne International Exhibition Centre.

Cologne Gascom, one of the world's four major gaming exhibitions, would open here today!

Today was opening day, but more importantly—battle comncent day!

"Welco everyone to our special live broadcast today,"

Tian Tian greeted the cara while standing before the crowded convention center:

"As you can see, we've arrived at Cologne Convention Center in Germany,"

"Today, the Cologne Gascom with the most attendees, largest venue area, and most participating companies in history will be held here..."

Checking the ti,

Tian Tian looked up and said:

"There are five minutes until opening,"

"So let's use this ti to interview so visitors here and hear their opinions on which gas they're most looking forward to at this Cologne Gascom..."