Game development begins with destroying Girls' Frontline.

This means that if you do well, the boss will see it; if you don't do well, the boss will also understand it!

Imagine this: when you're feeling lost at work, you just go and ask your boss, and they'll solve all your problems, then smile and pat you on the shoulder, asking if you have any other questions.

No? If not, then go to work!

Goodness, thinking about it carefully, it's actually quite scary.

Anyway.

After Tomohiko Deguchi joined Spark Games, Lin Li had more people available to play.

Lin Li then temporarily split Japan's Spark Games into two parts, with the majority of the work being a remake of FGO.

The person in charge was Shiokawa, who was a fan of FGO and was at the peak of his passion for the game at that time. He brought a group of employees who were also FGO enthusiasts.

They've been working almost overtime to optimize FGO.

Originally, the first chapter was not planned to have the new battle system before the Chinese server launched this month. It was only due to Shiokawa's hard work that a portion of the new battle system for FGO was implemented ahead of schedule at that point.

Lin Li even tried to persuade him at the time.

As a result, Shiokawa retorted with a sentence.

"I can't let the FATE fans down."

He then showed Lin Li the fans who left encouraging messages on his blog.

Lin Li could only sigh after reading it.

For game developers, working out of passion is the true source of motivation.

Besides the FGO development team led by Shiokawa.

Lin Li then established a development team for Destiny's Trajectory.

Yes, two demos have already been released, but in reality, the Destiny Trails development team has only just been established. Even the initial development requirements document was not completed by Lin Li until mid-October.

This part was temporarily handed over to Tomohiko Deguchi.

It's only temporary.

The reason is that, for Lin Li, Tomohiko Deguchi is not very suitable for the Destiny's Path project, and he has other plans for Tomohiko Deguchi's future.

Lin Li envisions that once FGO gets on track this year, the best course of action would be to pull someone out of the existing projects to take charge of its operation.

Shiokawa was transferred to develop Destiny's Path, while Deguchi Tomohiko, the producer who developed Great Knight Chronicles, was sidelined by Lin Li for other purposes.

In short.

For Lin Li, October was an extremely fulfilling month.

So much so that when he returned to Shanghai and sat down to rest, he discovered that Spark Games hadn't joined this "revenue war."

Public opinion has begun to shift to a very delicate situation.

For this reason, the people from Honghu even wrote a special report for him.

It is said that during this period, some competitors took advantage of Xinghuo Games' failure to release revenue announcements to start spreading smear articles.

The exact origin of the leak is still being investigated, but what is certain is that someone had so much money they didn't know what to do with it, so they started doing shady things.

Then the operations department also has a report.

Some people are saying that the atmosphere in the community has been a bit off lately, with some deliberately mentioning that Xinghuo Games didn't release its October revenue figures because its revenue is poor and it can't compete with miHoYo and Onmyoji.

This viewpoint initially came from only a small group.

But soon, Spark Games’ “no response” began to become more and more widespread.

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penguin

Sunburst Studio.

Yu Zhong was sitting in his office, discussing the latest progress of the studio's construction with Zhao Ming.

Because they had been defeated by Lin Li once before, many of the original members of Girls' Frontline had already left.

Most of them are art and programming.

However, with the integration of Penguin, these vacant positions were quickly filled.

As for the previous copy, everyone except Xing Shan, who has already been dismissed, is still there, and some additional information has been added since then.

The last Girls' Frontline issue stemmed from a problem with the writing.

Therefore, before the new project started, the HR team of Sanbao, under the supervision of Tencent, specially issued a promotional message for the copywriting team.

We hope to bring in a capable copywriting manager to properly oversee the process.

The cover of this poster is titled "Undefined".

Some of the original quotes are like this.

"In Sunburst, there is a mysterious organization. They are wordsmiths, creative geniuses, game creators, and game themes. They create worlds in their respective fields of expertise, unbound by preconceived notions or worldly definitions, and stick to their original aspirations."

"They are undefined women, undefined gamers."

"Let's get to know this team of beautiful female copywriters together."

This promotional copy has the feel of a big company.

Yu Zhong didn't see any problems with it, so he adopted it directly and started expanding the copywriting in the gaming industry.

However, now that Yu Zhong and Zhao Ming have finished discussing business, they are no longer talking about the personnel issues of the Scattered Bomb, but are talking about other things.

"Ming-ge, did your smear articles last time actually work? I haven't seen much activity on Xinghuo Community, just some mockery on other forums. It doesn't seem like it's been very effective."

Zhao Ming glanced at Yu Zhong with some surprise and pushed up his glasses.

"How do you know that our PR team published smear articles?"

"Hey, you really released them?"

Yu Zhong's tone became noticeably excited, and he smiled as he marveled at his own intelligence.

"I had a feeling that someone had been stirring up trouble and saying bad things about Spark Games lately, and it turns out it really was you guys. I have to say, you Tencent did a great job! It's gratifying!"

"What do you mean 'you penguins'? We are penguins. Don't forget that you are a penguin now too."

Yu Zhong didn't care about any of that; he just kept asking how the black draft was doing.

Will the dosage be increased further?

He was completely crushed by Spark Games.

I have two wishes now: one is to make Girls' Frontline 2 to pay back the money, and the other is to see Spark Games go down in trouble.

These two wishes.

The latter is even superior to the former.

After all, the Girls' Frontline 2 project has just been launched. Even if we follow Tencent's approach, this project should learn from Girls' Frontline in all aspects and be launched directly after the framework is completed.

There's no need to wait until it's completely finished; the goal is to quickly monetize it and use the resulting resources to complete subsequent development.

Even so, Girls' Frontline 2 will take at least a year to complete.

And even if they make money, the lion's share will go to Tencent.

After deducting the debts, Yu Zhong wouldn't have much money left.

Therefore, Yu Zhong is more excited about Xinghuo Games' misfortunes than about the progress of the project.

Chapter 118 700 million?! 700 million!!

"Alright, we're investing all these resources in this project."

"Putting aside Brother Zhao, I just want to ask, is it really because Xinghuo Games' revenue isn't good that they don't publish their figures?"

Zhao Ming smiled and nodded.

"Nonsense, Xinghuo Games is just a small company. To put it bluntly, it's all luck. If they were really that capable, would they be releasing their revenue figures while we're spreading these smear articles all over the place?"

No sooner had he finished speaking than a commotion erupted outside the conference room.

Zhao Ming frowned and waved.

"Go and see what's going on outside."

The assistant returned shortly afterward.

"Nothing, Mr. Zhao. They're just discussing a news story."

"What news?"

"Oh, I heard that Spark Games' revenue was nearly 7 million last month..."

Zhao Ming didn't react at first, and after a few seconds of stunned silence, he asked in shock.

"How many!!?"

"7 billion."

Yu Zhong slammed his fist on the table and shouted angrily at his assistant.

"Do you know how much 7 million is? Onmyoji only had 5 million, how could Xinghuo Games have 7 million? How is that possible?"

The assistant felt somewhat confused, as it wasn't him who said it, but rather what the news media reported.

However, he was just a junior assistant after all, so what could he say at a time like this?

After all, the two people in front of him were both big shots to him.

It's not easy to argue with them.

I could only silently think to myself, "What a nutcase. I'm not a journalist."

Fortunately, Zhao Ming wasn't as emotional as some people think.

After waving his assistant out, he picked up his phone and started searching for information. The headlines appeared right away.

"This is official news! But how is this possible?!"

No matter how hard Zhao Ming and Yu Zhong found it to be, that was the truth.

It's clearly stated in the news.

In October, the Japanese version of FGO generated nearly 10 billion yen in revenue, directly topping the charts. The Chinese version of FGO was not far behind, reaching 1.1 million yen in less than 20 days.

Adding both sides together, let's calculate FGO's global October earnings at the current exchange rate of 100 yen to 6.12 yuan.

The Japanese server's revenue is approximately 6 million, and adding the Chinese server's 1.1 million, the total is over 7 million.

This doesn't even include the fact that the revenue for the new version of Battlefront Girls exceeded 40 million in October.

If you add it.

With just two games, Xinghuo Games' revenue reached nearly 800 million RMB in October.

Even disregarding the staggering billions in revenue of the Japanese server, just looking at the 1.1 million in revenue of the Chinese server, it is second only to Onmyoji, and even stronger than Honkai Impact 3.

And since it's about watching the flow of water...

Global revenue must also be compared.

Just like many FGO fans who instantly turned their fortunes around after getting the news said.

"What else should we look at if not global financial flows?"

"If you're so capable, why don't you open a Japanese server and see if you can reach 10 billion yen?"

It can be said.

Faced with the answer sheet submitted by Spark Games.

This instantly broke many people's defenses, and filled them with envy and jealousy. All the smear articles that Tencent had previously paid for were naturally useless in the face of this undeniable fact.

On the contrary, it became a laughing stock.

some of.

The one who was most vulnerable was Akihito Shoji, the former boss of DEworks.

He was already unhappy to see Spark Games making money, and then a group of media outlets started analyzing the situation online.