Sothing this outrageous was beyond what most people would even dare to imagine.
How could Takayuki alone handle so many problems?
The reason was simple—he had a fundantal understanding of every one of those gas.
If other developers saw those gas, they would probably be driven away imdiately.
Players who lacked the ability to judge quality might be fooled, only to regret it later when the two-hour refund window passed and refunds were no longer possible.
But ga developers understood quality best. For trash like this, they wouldn’t even bother to take a second look.
Yet Takayuki had actually sat down and patiently played through them.
For gas like these to be personally ordered off the platform by Takayuki—it really wasn’t unjust at all.
And then there was the developer behind one of them.
Hanladi.
Everyone present had now firmly rembered that na.
They silently decided to be wary of him in the future—blacklist him outright. If he ever tried to join their teams, he would be rejected without hesitation.
"This Takayuki... he’s ruthless."
The entire exchange eting was being livestread.
Which ant everything Takayuki was doing was being broadcast live to the entire internet.
As an industry competitor, Uehito Hayakawa made ti to watch the stream despite his busy schedule.
He wasn’t expecting to learn anything about ga developnt—he didn’t need that. He was a boss, after all.
What he wanted to see was how Takayuki would respond to the backlash from forcefully removing so many gas.
He wanted to see how Takayuki would face those who had tried to attack him.
And then he saw that.
Takayuki was ruthless.
He had actually played every ga he removed, then ticulously annotated their strengths, weaknesses, and provided suggestions. The level of effort was downright absurd.
Soone of Takayuki’s stature was already on the sa level as him.
People like them were supposed to be doing more "high-level" things—certainly not wasting ti on a single diocre ga.
But Takayuki wasn’t like that.
His seriousness toward this kind of matter far exceeded anyone’s expectations.
Uehito Hayakawa suddenly realized that perhaps it was precisely this attitude that allowed Takayuki to dominate the video ga industry for so long.
Of course, the tradeoff was that Gastar Electronic Entertainnt found it difficult to expand beyond gaming, participating in other industries mostly through investnts.
Companies like Suri Electronics and Mickfow, on the other hand, could expand into other industries as they grew.
Each path had its own advantages. Everyone was making their mark in different ways.
Still, Hayakawa had one lingering question—
Had Takayuki played every ga he ordered removed?
If that were the case, Hayakawa was willing to offer him the highest level of respect.
A rival that ruthless toward himself was worthy of respect—and fear.
His question didn’t linger long.
In the following monts of the livestream, Takayuki began calling out each removed ga one by one.
"Cyber Supre—an interesting na, but the ga itself falls far short. It’s obvious that neither the title nor the ga design was thought through seriously. But that’s not even the main issue. The problem is that this is a puzzle ga, and both the puzzle images and background music are cobbled together from random sources. Take the third puzzle of level seven, for example—it’s just a simple portrait with zero cyberpunk elents. There isn’t the slightest trace of cyberpunk in it. All I can say is that this ga was made with zero care."
The developer of Cyber Supre bowed his head in sha, not daring to look up. He even wanted to leave imdiately.
But he couldn’t.
If he left, he’d beco the laughingstock of everyone present, mocked even more rcilessly.
"Cyber Paradise Journey. This is a driving ga. Just like the previous one, it has no cyberpunk elents whatsoever. You’re simply driving an old car down an endless road. This is actually the ga I played the longest—I spent seventeen hours on it, almost without stopping, and still never reached the end. I strongly suspect the ga doesn’t even have an ending. Frankly speaking, this is a half-finished product."
The ga truly had no ending.
The developer had made it while drunk—started coding, fell asleep mid-way, and upon waking, uploaded it straight away. He’d never even thought about adding an endpoint.
He’d assud no one would be bored enough to drive for that long. To him, it was just a joke project, sold cheaply. A bit of a prank on players, without much regard for their experience.
Now, his mind was completely blank.
Soone like Takayuki had actually played his ga for a full seventeen hours just to see the ending.
That was insane.
He’d never seen anything like it.
Others were equally stunned. Takayuki’s Battle account clearly showed seventeen hours logged on that ga.
If it were them, they’d have quit after ten or fifteen minutes.
With that, what excuse did you have left?
If you were so capable, why didn’t you play it for seventeen hours?
And more importantly, this wasn’t about playti—it was about attitude.
Takayuki’s attitude toward every single ga was enough to earn the admiration of everyone present.
Watching the livestream, Hayakawa muttered to himself, "Seventeen hours... that’s enough ti for to play several rounds of golf, or negotiate one or two investnts with business partners. This Takayuki..."
Takayuki continued, one by one, to go through every ga he had removed.
For each one, he could clearly explain what was wrong.
So gas only took one or two hours—or even just minutes—to finish, so there wasn’t much to say. Takayuki could clear them quickly.
But for longer gas, or those with no defined endpoint, he had spent at least three to five hours playing them.
Most of the hype-chasing reskin gas were short anyway, which was why Takayuki could finish over a hundred gas in about a week. Otherwise, it would’ve taken twice as long.
In so cases—like Hanladi’s ga—Takayuki understood the ga better than its own developer.
Whenever that happened, the crowd would erupt in boos, mocking those who made gas without any care.
People like that were essentially finished in the ga developnt world. No company would be foolish enough to hire them.
And now, they had no grounds left to attack Takayuki.
Everything he said was reasonable.
So tell —
What right did they have to accuse him?
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