"Have you considered launching this ga on GS1?"
During the conversation, Takayuki asked the question he wanted to ask the most.
Burn was taken aback, then sighed and said, "Of course we've considered it, why wouldn't we? GS1 currently has the largest user base. If we could launch our ga on that platform, it would definitely attract more attention. But the licensing fee for GS1 is not sothing we can afford right now."
If a ga developer wants to launch their ga on a gaming console, the biggest barrier is the licensing fee, also known as the patent fee.
This is essentially the entrance fee to join a gaming console.
And this entrance fee generally cos with a high price tag, making it difficult for small ga studios to afford.
Unless their work becos famous later on, it's only then that they might be able to use the money earned to expand their influence by launching on other platforms.
Launching on PC, on the other hand, doesn't require these fees. You just need to publish the ga on the PC platform, and naturally, players will download and play it.
However, PC gaming also brings about another issue: piracy.
Gastar Entertainnt doesn't really care about piracy. Even if Doom is cracked on PC to a scale exceeding tens of millions, it doesn't really affect Gastar Entertainnt's user base.
Takayuki himself started playing gas from pirated copies, so he maintains this tolerance towards newcors.
And for a large company, cracked gas might not always be a bad thing.
It ans these players are still focused on their product, and sotis, the number of users is also a considerable wealth.
Estimates from external sources suggest that the total number of users of legitimate and pirated copies combined for Gastar Entertainnt might have already exceeded around 130 million.
This massive user base is sothing that ordinary companies cannot reach.
Just the valuation brought by this user base has already exceeded tens of billions of dollars.
Now, as long as Takayuki is willing to loosen his stance, countless capital investors will imdiately clamor to join in with money.
And they would all value Gastar Entertainnt at least $20 billion.
Even if Takayuki sells one percent of the shares externally, that's $200 million, which is the budget for a large-scale production similar to FF7.
However, for Takayuki, piracy is not an issue, but for small studios like Burn's, they might be dragged down by piracy.
They might end up bankrupt because they sold one or two fewer copies of their ga.
Looking at this post-apocalyptic role-playing ga, Takayuki quite likes it.
It reminds him of the feeling he had when he played Fallout 2.
If he misses out on this ga, he would definitely regret it.
However, people in this world are not very familiar with this form of gaming, and cautious investors, seeing that it's not a popular ga, would definitely demand a lion's share of the studio's stocks, or they would choose higher-quality ga studios.
Even though the gaming industry is booming, investors are still very cautious.
This seems to be the norm for investors in this world.
At this point, Takayuki said, "The patent fee is indeed quite troubleso, but I've actually heard recently that Gastar Entertainnt is carrying out a new plan. The goal is to unearth more potential electronic gas and offer patent fee discounts to early ga studios with little capital, such as only charging the patent fee after selling a certain number of ga copies."
Burn was stunned, "Really? How co I haven't heard of this?"
This thing does not actually exist, but Takayuki is the boss of Gastar Entertainnt, so if he says it exists, then it must.
But this was just a sudden whim of Takayuki.
He had been wanting to recruit so gaming developnt talents, but he also forgot that not everyone is willing to work for a company. Many geniuses hope to go independent and beco a ga developnt group under their own control.
Even though Gastar Entertainnt's position itself is enough to attract quite a few talents, these more independent geniuses are not easily attracted.
He had been so imrsed in the gaming developnt environnt that he had overlooked this.
But it's not too late to make ands now.
Takayuki nodded, "Indeed, there is. I'm sowhat of an industry insider myself, and... Gastar Entertainnt has had so dia interviews and exchanges. The interview a few days ago did indeed reveal that Gastar Entertainnt has this plan. Honestly, I think your ga is quite good. Perhaps you can take the initiative to contact Gastar Entertainnt. Even if that plan hasn't been officially announced yet, if you have a high-quality ga, they probably won't mind giving you the green light in advance."
Takayuki's words imdiately livened up Burn's thoughts.
The opportunity to log on to GS1 for free?
That's quite rare.
In the early days of the FC era, Gastar Entertainnt naturally wouldn't charge too much for patent fees, with the bulk of the revenue coming from revenue sharing.
Later, as more ga companies joined, Gastar Entertainnt naturally needed to make so changes, needing to kick out so people who were only looking to fish in troubled waters, not wanting to affect its own developnt.
But now it seems that this strategy is not entirely correct, because it did block a lot of people just looking to fish, but at the sa ti, it also discarded these ga developers with great potential.
After Takayuki finished speaking, Burn's attitude towards him completely changed.
"Sir, may I ask for your na?"
"You don't need to ask for my na. I'm just lending a small hand. Right now, I'm just a player."
"Well... I really want to thank you because you've revealed this information to , which is really important to and Dainley. If not for you, we might suffer heavy losses."
Takayuki smiled, "There's no need to be so exaggerated. Anyway, even without saying it, in a few days, maybe even at this expo, Gastar Entertainnt will announce the new plan. But even so, I'm still very grateful to you."
Burn thought for a mont, then imdiately took out a notebook from the side and wrote down his na and a paragraph of text.
'I, Burn Stamper, and Tim Dainley, owe you, sir, a favor now. If there's anything you need from us in the future, please feel free to use this to find . I'm willing to do whatever it takes to repay you.'
Because Takayuki was wearing sunglasses and a mask, Burn could only roughly guess from his accent that he wasn't Arican.
He also respected Takayuki's choice not to reveal his identity, so he ca up with this way to record Takayuki's favor.
Then, he tore the paper off very seriously and handed it to Takayuki sincerely.
"Sir, please accept this. Perhaps this thing doesn't have much value, but I hope that in the future, I will still have the chance to repay you. Even if our ga developnt ultimately fails, even if nobody cares about our work, and we both have to go work odd jobs, as long as you use this to find anyti, I will repay you imdiately."
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