Tokyo: Being coveted by my wife, I just want to play games

Holy Light Society's first new game launch conference was very successful.

However, everyone knows in their hearts that all Fuyukawa Che's speeches are still in the conception stage. After all, the industry insiders present could probably estimate the amount of dividends Fuyukawa Che received from NTsoft last year, and this amount of money was far from being able to cover the US$100 million starting cost of Elden Ring.

What's more, these are just R&D costs.

Even if Toru Fuyukawa does not do the normal 3:1 promotion of AAA masterpieces, he will definitely have to spend 1 to million US dollars in promotion expenses. Added up, Fuyukawa Cheru needs to prepare million US dollars and billion yen. .

The cost can buy twenty red buildings!

"Everything still depends on the sales performance of FATE and Stardew Valley. Otherwise, what he just said will probably become the laughing stock of everyone."

"It's good for young people to be motivated, but he is too ambitious and too ambitious."

"Yes, yes, he is leaving no way out for himself. Hey, it's great to be young. I remember when I first entered the game industry, I also dreamed of making a cross-generational game, but Now I just want to make a living and not go bankrupt like SAGE.”

"Senior Xiaolin is too humble."

"Haha, the future belongs to you young people. Hey, this Dongchuan's speech rendering ability is so strong. I felt the passion of youth just listening to it. How about it, do you want to go have a drink?"

"Everything is subject to senior arrangements."

As the press conference ended, the guests chatted about everything that had just happened at the conference and left under the leadership of the staff.

It was obvious that those who were willing to attend the press conference did not have much hostility toward Fuyukawa Che. Even if many people are not very optimistic about Haikou, which Fuyukawa Che praised, they are not overly yin and yang, but what they say is not unreasonable.

Ability, ambition, and capital: if grassroots want to succeed, these three are indispensable.

Fuyukawa Che now has the first two items, and the third item is not yet strong, but... this is only temporary.

"Stardew Valley has sold more than 30 million units in eight years, but the vast majority of sales are in the early stage. One or two million units sold in a year in the later period is considered too much. FATE does not have a global game platform like OTTO. In this case, it sold for 200,000 yuan, and the price was high. The Xuanfa was not as good as me, and the materials were not as good as mine."

"If we follow the normal results, the sales volume of these two games will be enough to support the entire research and development of Lao Tou Huan, and there will also be dividends from NTsoft. However, we must prepare for the worst in everything."

Looking at the guests who were chattering away, Fuyukawa Che kept thinking in his mind. I am very confident in the improved FATE and Stardew Valley, but I can be optimistic and positive when doing things, but I must prepare for the worst when making decisions.

But there's no rush.

Now that a new game is suddenly developed, people from the production team of Laotou Huan must be recruited. Although it often happens in the game industry that employees from project A are suddenly transferred to project B to help out, and then returned to project A, it will definitely take more time to reintegrate into the production team of Laotouhuan, and it may even Produces some tearing sensation.

This is why games that take too long to develop and constantly change development teams and developers midway are generally crap.

As long as FATE and Stardew Valley are released, he can recruit new employees while maintaining cash flow. When the time comes to recruit a team of 100 people to develop small-scale [independent games], the efficiency will not take off immediately.

Thinking of this, Fuyukawa Teru, whose throat was filled with smoke after talking for most of the day, walked into the backstage, took the mineral water from the hands of the excited Sayoko, turned to look at Miyano Miwa, "The development of the old bracelet can start tomorrow. . You have emphasized employee benefits.”

"There is no problem with the development tonight, but Qianhua is responsible for employee benefits. Ask her for details." Miyano Miwa said with a smile. As one of the company's "three giants", she naturally takes care of such a critical matter as employee welfare, but this area is strictly within the scope of the Finance Department Chika Ohara's responsibilities.

Chika Ohara is not the type who has little ambition and wishes her colleagues would do more. If you rashly interfere in the field where Chika Ohara is responsible, or in other words, where Chika Ohara is in charge, even if you are your best friend for many years, you will easily get into trouble, so there is no need.

The three best friends have always believed in the principle of doing things according to their own abilities in the workplace.

Chika Ohara also understood Miyano Miwa's little thoughts.

She threw the lunch box she had just finished into the trash can, then pushed up her elegant glasses, without wiping the oil stains on her mouth, and nodded calmly: "I have confirmed it three times. Overtime work is voluntary, and overtime pay is 1.5 times. , 3 times on holidays, calculated on an hourly basis. In addition, the game sales bonus starts at 0.3 million, and for every million sales level, the team leader will increase his salary for three months, plus a maximum of % bonus for ordinary members. Two months’ salary.”

"How did the team leaders react?"

Dongchuan Che drank water and raised his eyebrows slightly.

To be honest, the 0.3% dividend given to the team leaders is actually not low. Not only because he knows that the sales volume of the old ring is high, but also because these team leaders are not like the chief game producer when he was surrounded by beautiful women. He is not even a core producer, and there is a more special reward mechanism within the company.

He, Cheru Fuyukawa, is also a human being, and it is impossible for one person to lead several studios at the same time, but he also does not want to be like NTsoft, which established too many studios internally, and ended up being too big and causing internal struggles.

All team leaders who have worked on more than two works under him and have shown their talents can go out alone to set up their own studios, and these team leaders can also get a lot of investment funds from him.

Of course, when Fuyukawa Che gave the money, he must get shares, but don't think that this is Fuyukawa Che taking advantage.

Raising investment is a very, very, very difficult thing. Larian, the production team of Baldur's Gate 3, had no money to develop the game because it couldn't get investment, even begging grandpa and grandma to do so. It was disbanded twice and reorganized twice. It can be said that it was a very miserable life. .

As for Holy Light Society, the current salary is high, and there will be opportunities to start a business on his own in the future. It can be said that Fuyukawa Cheru has maxed out the benefits. However, if you stand at a different angle, you will see different things.

It’s like some professors and experts would suggest that young people rent out their vacant houses or drive private cars to solicit customers, thinking that this can solve the employment problem of [low-income people].

Are they stupid?

It may indeed be due to lack of intelligence, but it is mostly due to the fact that life is too rich, and I have been separated from the bottom for a long time, so isolated that I am not even willing to inquire more, and finally such a thing happened.

Obviously, Fuyukawa Che didn't want to make such a stupid mistake, and he was definitely right to listen more to the demands of his employees.

Chika Ohara also understood his thoughts. She glanced at Fuyukawa Che with appreciation and said, "No problem. Our overtime pay is much higher than other companies. Although the dividend is only the average level in the industry, your name is so famous that the team leaders didn't say much."

"That's good. You have to pay more attention to this aspect. I don't mind giving them more overtime pay, but I need to mobilize their enthusiasm."

The original work of Old Touhou took four years to develop, but Fuyukawa Che wanted to compress this time to less than two years, or even about one year like Sekiro.