Compared to Nagao's high-profile responses, Gastar Electronic Entertainnt was also not lacking.
Takayuki remained calm, not planning to make any response. After all, everything would be proven with results. Since Nagao had been constantly mocking them, it would be best to wait and see whose ga would be more attractive in the end.
Use reality to slap your face.
Not aiming for a small victory, but when soone's already aggressively challenging you, Takayuki wouldn't hold back. He decisively made the developnt of the football ga the top priority. Resident Evil, Monster Hunter 2, and other gas that he had been supervising were temporarily put aside. The next day, he flew back to the U.S. to et with his team.
He was going to personally supervise the developnt of the football ga.
Since they didn't have FIFA's authorization, Takayuki simply used the unified brand na from their sports series.
There was "Super Baseball League" for baseball, "Super Basketball League" for basketball, and now, the sa for football.
But their previous football gas were rely testing the waters, filling a gap and allowing the team to familiarize themselves with the sports ga developnt process.
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Now, it was different. Now, he had to show his real skills.
Upon arriving in the U.S., Takayuki went straight to the developnt team for "Super Football League."
There were a few team mbers with experience in developing football gas, and now they could finally put that experience to use.
Originally, the team planned to give Takayuki a warm welco when he arrived, but as soon as Takayuki entered the company, he simply told them to get to work and not waste ti on any formalities.
The employees looked at each other in confusion.
They had never seen Takayuki so serious before.
They realized that this developnt project was clearly different.
"Everyone, this ga developnt will be slightly different from before. In addition to developing the ga, we'll need to use outsourced teams to handle repetitive and simple programming tasks. Our focus will be on these specific gaplay elents."
After sending everyone off to work, Takayuki held a small eting with a few key mbers of the developnt team.
He was going to directly explain the developnt concept for the future ga. He wasn't going to give these people the chance to slowly grow; now was the ti to show results. If they didn't defeat YOO now, more people like Nagao would keep provoking them.
This wasn't just because of Nagao's provocation—Takayuki had recently noticed that YOO seed to be experiencing significant financial fluctuations. It looked like YOO was heading toward a collapse.
He didn't mind giving YOO a push toward a faster demise.
As long as Nagao remained CEO, this impulsive person would surely respond with the sa strategy—spending more money to fight back.
But now, Nagao couldn't afford to spend recklessly anymore.
In fact, this seed to be the case.
Not long after Nagao had loudly announced his plans to invest huge sums to develop the FIFA football ga, he was called by several major investors and had a brief eting.
What exactly happened in the eting wasn't clear, but what was evident was that Nagao looked rather displeased after it was over.
When he ca out, he gritted his teeth and instructed his subordinates to maintain FIFA's investnt, but to monitor the flow of funds and keep records of every transaction to avoid unnecessary expenditures.
Previously, he hadn't cared much about such things, but it seed that the investors behind him had finally had enough. Nagao had been spending recklessly for a long ti, and although the company's valuation kept rising, there was little profit to show for it. So investors had lost patience. They needed so guarantees.
But now this was starting to affect Nagao's developnt plans.
He had more grand plans for his dia group, intending to consolidate multiple channels to expand YOO's influence.
But now, the investors were starting to slow him down.
Of course, it wasn't the investors' fault. Ultimately, they wanted to see their investnts generate returns.
Several large investnt firms had already injected nearly $20 billion into YOO, artificially pushing YOO's stock price to over $50 billion, making it a leader in the internet industry.
But this leader still had very few sources of profit, which was frustrating.
They didn't want to continue being a money-losing machine. They wanted to see at least so signs that YOO could generate profits.
All of this matched Takayuki's guess—YOO was spiraling out of control.
If Nagao didn't take action soon, YOO might completely collapse.
Of course, that was business. Takayuki just needed to influence YOO within his limited scope of control.
And that scope of control was the football ga.
"Super Football League" was the na Takayuki had decided to use.
Thanks to Matsubashi's later cooperation and licensing agreents with several European events, Takayuki could easily secure the rights to use multiple league brands. The lack of FIFA was really no big deal.
FIFA sounded nicer and would provide long-term benefits, but that was all.
But that didn't matter. Long-term benefits could co later. For now, he needed to focus on conquering players with the gaplay of the football ga.
On Takayuki's whiteboard, he forcefully explained the basic developnt rules for the football ga to the team.
"Our football ga isn't really about letting players play actual football, so we can't just copy the real-world football gaplay. Instead, we need to make the ga more aggressive—shorten the original 90-minute football match to under 10 minutes, and make every player's abilities stronger than in real life. They should be able to kick the ball harder, and the goal rate should be higher. Also, for special shots, I want to add a slow-motion feature, just like in real football broadcasts. This will significantly increase imrsion."
"These are the basic rules of football, but beyond that, there are so equally important details. We need to make every football player co alive in the ga. They should show frustration or anger when the referee gives them a yellow or red card, and even their performance on the field should affect their efficiency and goal-scoring ability."
"Also, we need professional voice actors. We need to record professional football comntary and try to get as many different comntary audio clips as possible, leaving nothing out."
Takayuki explained every detail, and the team mbers' eyes were lighting up.
This was content they had never had the chance to experience before.
Takayuki had previously wanted them to figure things out on their own, but now he was directly laying out the perfect version of the football ga.
As long as they followed these rules, the football ga wouldn't have any problems.
This was Takayuki's confidence.
anwhile, Nagao and his developnt team seed very amateurish by comparison.
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