The main storyline of Final Fantasy 7 typically takes around ten to twenty hours, excluding ti spent on text dialogue.
In previous role-playing gas, the main storyline wasn't considered too long. However, by engaging in side quests and playing mini-gas, players could easily spend sixty to seventy hours on a role-playing ga. This is now considered the standard length for role-playing gas.
So ga companies in the past tried to increase the overall length of the story, but the results were not great. Many reviews criticized the lengthy story for making players feel bored.
However, the real reason wasn't that the main storyline was too long, but rather that the content was too repetitive. Developers who tried to deliberately lengthen the ga couldn't find additional elents to add in a short period of ti, so they simply increased the repetition of the ga's content.
This ti, Takayuki wants to expand the entire worldview.
The GS1 is the gateway to the new era, and Takayuki hopes that Final Fantasy 7 can beco the key to that gateway.
In response to Uesugi's question, Takayuki directly answered that it's not enough yet, leaving everyone stunned.
Takayuki's proposed gaplay, world map size, content, and plot in the developnt plan have all been elevated to a new level, which was unthinkable in the past.
Moreover, just imagining it, the cost of developing such a ga would probably be high. The labor costs alone for a team of four or five hundred people would be considerable, not to ntion other resource investnts. This is akin to a gamble.
Previously, ga developnt was always kept within a certain range, with the investnt in a typical ga being around five million dollars or less. Only a few top series of gas from GaStar Entertainnt had developnt costs reaching tens of millions of dollars.
This made many industry insiders believe that ga developnt was confined to this scale, and that the investnt costs wouldn't be too extravagant.
Although so people had thought about making large investnts for big returns, no one dared to be the first to try it because the cost was quite high. If a large investnt didn't pay off, the entire company could collapse imdiately.
Moreover, there are few companies capable of making large investnts in ga production at the mont. They are still in the exploratory stage, so they naturally proceed with caution when it cos to investing.
The bigger the company, the less likely they are to take risks.
In the film industry, it's not uncommon for a movie's large investnt to directly lead to the bankruptcy of a film company.
Furthermore, the video ga industry is still in its infancy.
"President, isn't this enough? Can we make the ga even bigger in the future?"
"That's right. This is just an initial experintal attempt. I've already prepared a hundred million dollars for the investnt in this ga, and there will be at least fifty million dollars in reserve funds at any ti."
This is a validation of their company's gaming industry system. After so many years of experience accumulation, Takayuki believes that their company still has the strength to develop outstanding gas. Now they just lack an opportunity, and Final Fantasy 7 is that opportunity.
The initial investnt of one hundred million dollars was truly surprising to everyone, as it directly raised the upper limit of past ga developnt costs by ten tis. This sounded more like gambling than anything else.
At this mont, Ayano Tsukino didn't know when she had also arrived in the conference room and was sitting alone in the corner, listening to Takayuki's ambitious plans.
When she heard Takayuki ntion the developnt investnt, she was also sowhat surprised, but soon she showed a hint of longing as well.
Such a capital investnt would mobilize unimaginable manpower and resources. If it really succeeded, it would definitely be an opportunity to ignite the industry.
It's a pity that she didn't have so much money, nor did she have the manpower and resources to drive it. Otherwise, she would really want to be the first to take the plunge.
In Takayuki's view, the one hundred million dollar investnt was actually just a small scene.
In the future, large AAA gas would easily have investnts of over a hundred million dollars.
Big investnts bring big returns, but also co with extrely high risks.
However, with mature ga templates from predecessors, the risk Takayuki was taking was infinitely reduced.
Even if it failed, one hundred million dollars was affordable. The company's reserve funds were already seven to eight hundred million dollars. Burning through three or four gas of this scale was not a problem at all. This is having money and being unflustered, even daring to have so fun.
Uesugi clearly wanted to say sothing more, but Takayuki raised his hand to interrupt him. "I know what you want to say. Let answer you directly. I can afford this money, and the company won't have any problems because of it. You just need to unleash your creativity to the fullest. Right now, you only need to worry about your lack of ideas, and not about anything else."
After saying that, Takayuki looked at everyone solemnly, his gaze sincere.
"In the past, we were limited by the capacity of ga cartridges and the performance limitations of ga consoles, which prevented us from creating better gas. This has always been a regret of mine. So this ti, I think we should try to expand and prove the developnt strength of our company. In the past, we have always led the industry, and with the arrival of this new era, I hope we can do the sa."
Leading the industry again, this statent was grandiose.
But Takayuki indeed had the confidence to say such words.
Because he had always been leading the industry forward.
Uesugi didn't say anything more, and the other two also remained silent.
But there was excitent in their eyes.
It was the excitent of finally being able to go all out.
Since the president had said so, the only thing they could do was to do their best to et the requirents.
This eting not only assigned tasks to everyone but also served as a rallying call.
Rallying everyone to join this gamble.
If successful, all participants would reap huge benefits: significant growth in ga developnt experience, as well as an increase in fa.
The leaders of the three major ga developnt teams would undoubtedly beco even more famous, and their industry status would rise accordingly.
Especially Haga, who had just beco the head of the developnt team not long ago. This ga developnt might make him shine.
The only regret was that this wasn't a ga developnt he led alone. Otherwise, his fa and status would be even higher in the future.
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