Gastar Electronic Entertainnt’s official exchange eting.
An event inviting ga developers.
The developers invited were not already well-known figures, but rather people still struggling at the grassroots level—young drears, or newcors to ga developnt who still held onto their dreams.
Of course, this also included those who had previously accused Gastar Electronic Entertainnt of unfairly taking down their gas.
This was a rare chance to confront Takayuki face to face—how could they possibly miss it?
Moreover, they believed that if they handled this properly, their own reputations might rise as well, and that their future gas could attract much more attention.
With those thoughts in mind, Hanladi and several others followed the instructions and arrived in Silicon Valley, USA.
This was the current U.S. headquarters of Gastar Electronic Entertainnt.
To prepare for this eting, Gastar Electronic Entertainnt had specially borrowed a lecture hall from its partner, the Morgan Group.
The Morgan Group was imnsely wealthy, and the scale of its office spaces far exceeded what ordinary people could imagine.
Gastar Electronic Entertainnt was praised as the best ga company and one of the best companies to work for—and the Morgan Group was hardly inferior.
The entire hall covered roughly ten thousand square ters and could easily accommodate two to three thousand people.
For Hanladi, this was his first ti entering a place like this, and he was quite astonished.
In the past, soone like him wouldn’t have had the qualifications or ans to step into such a venue.
But now he did—and if he had to say, he even owed Gastar Electronic Entertainnt a bit of thanks for that opportunity.
Still, that didn’t change the fact that he intended to criticize Gastar Electronic Entertainnt.
After all, they had cut off his source of inco.
If Gastar Electronic Entertainnt failed to give them a satisfactory solution today, they had decided they simply wouldn’t leave.
After about half an hour, the venue had filled with seven to eight hundred people.
All of them were ga developers from around the world.
Gastar Electronic Entertainnt had publicly announced this event as a et-and-exchange session for independent ga developers.
Takayuki himself would attend as a special guest, personally discussing ga developnt details with the developers present.
With Takayuki’s participation, the value of the event imdiately skyrocketed, and a large number of people signed up.
Normally, it was extrely difficult to see a "god of gas" like Takayuki in person. Now that such an opportunity had finally co, independent developers were naturally thrilled.
"Hanladi, over here!"
Hanladi entered the venue and looked around, when soone suddenly called out to him.
He recognized the person as another developer whose ga had also been forcibly taken down.
Like Hanladi, he had made a ga riding on the cyberpunk hype.
But unlike Hanladi, he wasn’t as flamboyant—or as unlucky.
He hadn’t made much money, but at least he hadn’t gotten carried away and thrown celebration parties before the money actually arrived.
"Didn’t expect to et you here. It really isn’t easy—developers like us rarely get chances to exchange ideas," the man said.
Hanladi sighed. "That’s true. But now that we’ve t, we’re acquainted. If there’s a chance in the future, we should et more often."
"Definitely. Let’s stay in touch!"
After so small talk, Hanladi began speaking with clear intent. "By the way, what Gastar Electronic Entertainnt has been doing lately is really outrageous. I ca today mainly to demand an explanation. I wonder if you all feel the sa..."
"We do too. Our gas were taken down for no reason at all, and we heard it was personally ordered by that so-called ’god of gas,’ Takayuki. I bet he saw that we were making money off cyberpunk while his own ga hasn’t even been released yet, so he got jealous and lashed out."
"Hmph. Cyberpunk is a cultural concept that everyone should be free to use. But clearly, Gastar Electronic Entertainnt is trying to treat cyberpunk as its private property. I’m already prepared—I’m going to question Takayuki face to face later."
Hanladi sneered and pulled out a thick stack of prepared docunts from his backpack.
To attend this eting, he had painstakingly written a long manuscript, just waiting for the mont to confront Takayuki directly.
He had consulted various sources—laws, regulations, industry rules, ethical standards, and more.
And his article was packed with emotional appeals.
A ga he had worked so hard to develop was suddenly taken down as if it were worthless, without any explanation at all. Takayuki was nothing less than an unforgivable devil!
While this group gathered to discuss angrily, elsewhere in the venue, other people were talking about entirely different things.
These were developers whose gas had not been ordered taken down by Takayuki.
Strictly speaking, the quality of their gas wasn’t outstanding either, but each of their cyberpunk-style gas had its own characteristics. At most, they were riding the trend—but they hadn’t crossed the line into shaless reskinning.
Among them were even one or two gas that had genuinely impressed Takayuki.
They were the ones who had actually benefited from the cyberpunk boom.
"My ga was inexplicably placed in a really good recomndation slot on Battle, and my sales skyrocketed."
"Sa here! My cyberpunk text-based adventure was just a spur-of-the-mont idea I turned into a ga. I never expected Gastar Electronic Entertainnt to officially recomnd it—it completely caught off guard."
These developers felt both flattered and excited.
Thanks to Gastar Electronic Entertainnt’s official recomndations, they had earned hundreds of thousands—or even over a million—dollars on the Battle platform, with sales surpassing ten thousand copies.
For independent developers like them, this was an unbelievable windfall.
So while many people online were accusing Gastar Electronic Entertainnt of taking down gas, these developers were also doing their best, in their own way, to defend Gastar.
At least from their perspective, Gastar Electronic Entertainnt had treated them extrely well.
And then, aside from these groups, there were also independent developers who had co purely out of admiration.
Among them was the trio of Kazu-mi, Otone, and Aiko.
As Takayuki’s legendary top disciple, Aiko had indeed once considered riding the cyberpunk trend to make a ga. She had even drawn up plans—once her current project was finished, she intended to start developing a cyberpunk-style ga.
However, Gastar Electronic Entertainnt’s swift and ruthless removal of many cyberpunk gas had made her cautious.
She worried that Takayuki might now dislike anyone trying to ride the cyberpunk wave, so she had co today hoping to confirm that for herself.
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