Game development begins with destroying Girls' Frontline.

Under this series of tug-of-war.

The two initially refused to sell, but now they are willing to negotiate the price.

A significant shift has occurred in their fundamental mindset.

It's almost the end of July.

Following Lin Li's instructions, Yao Meng gave DEworks a final offer of 60 billion yen, and during the communication, he said that if the other party did not accept the offer, then Spark Games would consider investing the money in its own new game.

At the time, Shoji Kenji thought the other party was just using an excuse.

Moreover, Spark Games made consecutive offers over a period of more than a month, which made him feel that the other party was determined to acquire the FATE IP.

So after communicating with Koji Yoshizawa, Akihito Shoji chose to refuse and demanded an exorbitant price of 100 billion yen.

to be frank.

Looking back from the experience of later generations, this price of 100 billion is not entirely unacceptable.

After all, in 2017, the Japanese server of FGO generated approximately 982 billion yen in revenue.

But in the world today.

Given that FGO's monthly revenue is only 2 million yen, this price seems inflated.

Moreover, Lin Li doesn't have that much money to spare right now.

Moreover, even if Lin Li grits his teeth and pays the money, Shoji Kenji is very likely to raise the price further, and may even turn against him.

You're so optimistic about FGO, I must be misjudging it!

For example, if someone wants to buy land in your hometown, and the land is originally worth 50, you might be tempted if the person offers 100 million, but if the offer is 300 million.

Then you might actually decide not to sell it.

You might think, "Wow, he can even come up with 300 million!"

Could there be some treasure I recognize buried in the ground?

This is human nature.

Unpredictable, illogical.

Lin Li dared not gamble with 10 billion yen, because such a gamble could very well cause the deal to fall through.

They're not selling anymore.

This is why Lin Li insisted on making this demo.

With this demo in hand, Lin Li essentially has an extra trump card.

By the end of July, after making his final offer, Yao Meng stopped making offers.

As a result, the situation has changed significantly.

Now it was Shoji Kenji's turn to be anxious.

Until the end of August.

Although Shoji Kenji and Yoshizawa Koji kept quiet and didn't ask Yao Meng directly.

But looking at FGO's revenue of just over $2 million in August, the result was a share of 100 million yen.

Consider again the 60 billion yuan offer from Spark Games.

how to say...

I'm still really torn.

Just then, Lin Li unleashed his ultimate move.

A work with a world view extremely similar to FATE, and also supervised by Kinoko Nasu, appeared before them.

That afternoon, the video surfaced.

Public opinion among players has surged once again.

The massive movement to stop spending money on FGO has begun.

Players who were already dissatisfied with FGO chose to rebel after being incited by some people.

The Japanese market for FGO responded immediately.

If you pull out the hourly timeline for this day, you can clearly see that it started after Spark Games released the video in the morning.

The originally slow and steady curve dropped by more than half almost immediately.

at this time.

Shoji Akihito and Yoshizawa Koji were really anxious.

Their previous composure was based on the expectation that FGO's monthly revenue could be stabilized at 2 million yen.

But now, that expectation is beginning to crumble.

As expectations crumble, fear follows.

Chapter 89 This is truly a critical moment of life and death.

Just like the stock market, the scariest thing is when bad news comes out and the stock price suddenly starts to fall, because you don't know how low it will fall or how much you will lose.

That's why many people panic and flee as soon as bad news comes out.

As the first wave of people sold off their shares, the price dropped faster and faster, eventually leading to a complete collapse.

For Shoji Akihito, at this moment, it was as if he saw a scale.

Like the two ends of a balance scale.

On one side is FGO's monthly revenue, and on the other side is 60 billion yen in cash.

Previously, when the monthly revenue was 2 million.

The scales are still perfectly steady.

But when this news came out...

Even this month's revenue has not yet been determined.

The mere fact that their daily revenue was halved was enough to break the defenses of Shoji Akihito and Yoshizawa Koji.

Koji Yoshizawa, disregarding all pride, went directly to DEworks for a face-to-face confrontation.

The two started arguing right there in the office.

Under these circumstances, how could Shoji Kenji possibly be in the mood to answer Chen Rui's call?

He didn't even bother to come up with an excuse; he simply told the receptionist to hang up the phone.

"How about we call them ourselves?"

"Once Spark Games' new game is released, given the current public opinion situation, what should we do?"

"You can hit me if you want, I won't."

Shoji Akihito clearly still had some lingering doubts.

On the other hand, Yoshizawa Koji didn't have that much pride to hold him back.

He was a businessman to begin with.

A businessman won't turn down money.

After their discussion, Yoshizawa Koji picked up the phone and called Yao Meng.

As for Chen Rui...

What time is it? Why are you still concerned about Chen Rui?

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And the other side.

Although Chen Rui didn't know what had happened, his intuition told him that it probably wasn't anything good.

So he made several more phone calls that day.

No one answered.

So a day later, he called DEworks again.

This time it was even more decisive than last time.

After receiving the call, the receptionist told him directly that the company president was out.

nobody.

This time, Chen Rui really couldn't sit still any longer.

The main reason was that the next day, major domestic news media outlets began to frantically report on Xinghuo Games' new game.

Some busybodies even took it out directly.

The headline reads: "For the official FATE mobile game, look no further than Xinghuo."

The key point is that players are still celebrating along with these news articles.

In addition, because Spark Games' new game has a strong FATE vibe, the media often adds a sentence at the end of their reports.

"Time is running out for FGO."

or.

"This may not be good news for the Chinese version of FGO, which has not yet been launched."

Chen Rui felt a chill run down his spine.

Do I need you to tell me?

Besides the overwhelming media coverage, what bothered Chen Rui even more was the public opinion among domestic gamers.

Starting last night, some players began reposting posts from Japanese game forums to the Chinese community.

The content of those posts was extremely simple.

It means "purging the court of corrupt officials."

A very strange comment appeared on a Japanese community forum after watching the promotional video.

I don't know who started it, but they've been calling on everyone to stop spending money on FGO and wait for the Starfire game to launch in October.

There are two reasons.

Firstly, the current developer of FGO, DEworks, is inhuman and completely misunderstands FATE.

The current FGO storyline is rambling and disjointed, the gameplay is fragmented, the character models are poor, and even the Servant illustrations lack consistency in quality.

They earn hundreds of millions of yen a month, but they're unwilling to use that money to improve the servers. The server has been running for almost a year, and it still crashes every few days.

There's no pity system for gacha pulls, and with new banners being released, you might not even get a single card after spending real money!

How could a game developer like that possibly make a good FATE game?

Secondly, if DEworks continues down this path, it will not only fail to promote FATE, but will also lead to a large number of players having misunderstandings about the FATE series after playing FGO.

to the opposite.

Spark Games' new game clearly has a stronger Fate style.

The combination of Gen Urobuchi and Kinoko Nasu is the core of the orthodox Fate series.

Moreover, the Spark Games development team is the same team that developed Girls Frontline, and their operation and product quality are highly regarded.

If no one spends money on the game, DEworks will surely die.

Even if everyone is still going to spend money on FGO, please wait until the new game from Spark comes out in October.

I'll make the comparison before spending money!

These posts offer extremely detailed viewpoints.

The various misdeeds of DEworks were reported as if they were a treasure trove, and this quickly became mainstream in Japan.

It's important to understand that DEworks has actually accumulated countless negative consequences during its year-plus of operation.

These things that Cai gradually eliminated in his previous life through the Yanchuan Reforms over a year are now being ignited like a powder keg.