The overall developnt cost for Dead or Alive was only about $10 million.
More than half of that was spent on developer salaries, with the remainder going toward the use and developnt of the Unreal Engine.
For Gastar Electronic Entertainnt's current ga developnt capabilities, creating a ga like this was incredibly easy—there was no difficulty at all.
Originally, the developnt team had been quite free-spirited.
When they first received the developnt plan for the ga from Takayuki, they were a little confused, not understanding why their president would want to create such a ga.
But once they learned that they, as developers, would have the freedom to unleash their imaginations and design the female characters' costus, they stopped being confused.
Don't get wrong.
The ga developnt team wasn't full of perverts.
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In fact, there were at least twenty female ga developers among them.
Within Gastar Electronic Entertainnt, the number of female developers was no small group.
However, they were actually the ones who loved designing the most beautiful female characters in the gas.
Their mindset was very simple: they wanted the female characters in the ga to be as beautiful as possible, like the dolls they had played with as children, such as Barbie dolls, giving them a sense of accomplishnt in "nurturing" these characters.
This wasn't the sa as regular gars playing gas.
These characters were created through their hard work, and the sense of accomplishnt from nurturing them was beyond words.
When Takayuki gave them the freedom to design the outfits for the female characters in Dead or Alive and promised them 5% of the revenue for every outfit they created, these female ga developers worked even harder.
Designing female characters as sexy as possible beca their goal.
Only won truly understand won, and this was fully reflected in these female ga developers.
In terms of beauty, n simply couldn't compare to them.
And on the day of Dead or Alive: Xtre Beach Volleyball's release, the ga sold 400,000 copies both online and offline.
Internally at Gastar Electronic Entertainnt, this number wasn't considered that high.
However, at $60 per copy, that ant more than $20 million in revenue.
On the first day, the ga had already recouped its costs.
This was even more efficient than so top-tier gas in terms of cost recovery.
Additionally, the ga featured in-app purchases.
Moving forward, this ga would continue to generate more revenue.
For the LSP (Lecherous Simpletons) who enjoyed the ga, they didn't mind occasionally spending $10, $20, or $30 to buy outfits for their favorite female characters.
Even though these outfits were just strings of 0s and 1s, they were very happy with them.
"President, you were right! The U.S. region sales have exceeded 150,000 according to the latest statistics! This is incredible!"
Yamaguchi Yasunori ca into Takayuki's office, holding the latest sales report, his expression full of astonishnt.
"There's nothing surprising about it. They were always going to buy this ga. It's indisputable."
Takayuki had always wanted to play this ga, and that made him understand how much people in this world wanted to play such a ga.
It was the purest form of human sexual desire, and he had essentially exploited so of humanity's weaknesses.
But entertainnt is like Doom—as long as the players are happy, the form of expression doesn't matter.
Of course, making money along the way is also great.
Takayuki said, "Alright, stop worrying about the ga sales. It's already recouped its costs. Now I need you to do sothing else."
"What's that?"
"Increase the promotional efforts in the U.S. Of course, we can change our approach a little this ti."
"How will we change it?"
"Promote it through a contest. In simple terms, we'll recruit players who like the ga and give them the freedom to design outfits for their favorite characters. The most popular designs will be implented in the ga, and they will receive additional rewards and a share of future sales. This way, they can experience a little bit of the joy of ga creation."
"Huh? Is that considered ga creation? It's just designing outfits."
"Of course, it counts as creating the ga," Takayuki said with a natural expression. "Any creative act related to the ga counts as ga creation. Even if it's just adding a bit of special effects to a character or giving a character new outfits."
"Oh, and by the way, get Bellard from the Battle platform over here. I need to speak with him, and you'll need to work with him from now on."
"Got it."
Yamaguchi Yasunori was now greatly impressed by Takayuki.
He had always respected him, but this ti felt a little different.
The U.S. had already officially banned the sale of the ga.
It seed like the troubleso human rights activists had won.
Yamaguchi thought they should lay low—after all, it was just a ga not being sold in the U.S. It wasn't that big a deal.
But Takayuki had found a way to still sell the ga in the U.S.
If the human rights activists found out about this, they would probably be furious.
And that's exactly what had happened.
In the U.S., a certain human rights association had just received so not-so-pleasant news.
Dead or Alive had been released.
But it was only banned in the U.S. region.
It was still available in other countries.
That was a success, of sorts.
However, they hadn't enjoyed the fruits of their success for long before they received another piece of news that wasn't so pleasing.
The ga, which was banned from sale in the U.S., still hadn't stopped its promotional efforts.
"Why is this ga still being promoted? Isn't it banned in the U.S.? Continuing to promote it there doesn't make any sense!"
"We're investigating..."
"No need to investigate, just now, Gastar Electronic Entertainnt launched a new event."
"What event?"
"They're recruiting designers for Dead or Alive's outfits. The winner will get a $100,000 reward, plus additional sales royalties from future outfit designs."
"What? A $100,000 reward?"
Among the people in the association, so were imdiately drawn to the $100,000 reward.
$100,000 wasn't small change for an average person in the U.S.
But Gastar Electronic Entertainnt, with its massive wealth, was offering this money for a contest. What was this all about?
So of the people started thinking: If I won that $100,000, what would I spend it on...?
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