Mickford's split of the game development department was quite sudden.
No one in the industry expected it.
Originally, Mickford's game department was still developing well, at least it was breaking even and occasionally making a small profit.
Why do you want to disband suddenly?
Myron Keys is obviously a little bit off guard, and the comments on the Internet still have some impact on him.
In addition, the game business department did not seem to be as profitable as he initially expected.
This made him start to flinch a little.
Zhu Youxing also thought about it for a long time, but he didn't quite understand the reason.
But it's also a good thing for other companies.
Mickford's game industry has developed to a certain status, second only to Youxing, Brown Entertainment and Surui Electronics.
It can be considered as having some background.
If the split is suddenly announced, it means that the game business will not receive large-scale financial support from Mickford.
The game department has to start thinking about its own profit and loss issues, as well as various technology research and development and purchases.
Prior to this, many technology R&D and purchases were made by the Mickford headquarters.
Now they have to spend some money on it.
Under such circumstances, it is a question whether Mickford's gaming department can maintain breakeven.
First of all, the current number of people alone cannot sustain the development of three large-scale games in a row.
They don't have that much liquidity.
For more than a month, people have been discussing this big shock in the gaming industry.
Of course, at the same time, there were also some people who were beginning to make moves and extend an olive branch to the talents in Mickford's game department.
Mickford himself wanted to split up the game department, so they were no longer secretive. Some game companies directly called Mickford's game department and threatened to split Mickford's game department.
All game department employees were taken away together.
Employees only of course.
Game copyrights, resources, data, etc. other than those owned by employees are not required.
Because these game companies have different areas of expertise, they do not need the assets left by other game companies. They only need people, not resources.
These companies own the copyrights and so on, so there is no need to taint the unclear copyrighted games of other companies.
Moreover, Mickford's reputation in the eyes of players is not good now, and the value of their copyright has also been greatly reduced.
Now everyone in Mickford's game department is in a very low mood.
Their development has not been too smooth since joining Mickford.
Now that I have achieved certain results, my reputation has been ruined due to a series of things.
Then Myron Keys seems to have broken the defense and no longer wants to directly participate in game development. Instead, he opens the platform resources to all game companies and encourages these game companies to put their games on the Mickford platform.
However, there are obviously not many game companies willing to do this.
The performance of the hardware of Mickford's electronic products cannot be said, but Mickford's own game department has not made any waves, and it is even less likely that these game companies will make much money.
Only those who have a low development difficulty and have the mentality of having more platforms and more money will consider putting the game on it.
Most of these are independent games and low-budget games.
All of this was seen by Zhu Youxing.
Ever since Mickford announced that he would split up the game department, he has been paying attention to the whole thing.
More than a month later, Mickford's game department team has almost become a mess. Many people have already thought about changing jobs. It's just that they are still bound to Mickford's headquarters and have to wait for another one.
It will take about a month to complete the department split and make the game department an independent company, and these talents can regain their true freedom.
Now they seem to have the attitude of being in Cao's camp and in Han's camp.
Three large-scale games under development have completely stalled, and I am afraid that these three games will also come to an end.
Once the split was completed, many game companies were like vultures eating up the entire Mickford game department.
"Boss, are you looking for me?"
The producer of Infinite World came to Zhu Youxing's office with some restraint.
Normally, this producer lives in seclusion. After coming to Japan, he devoted most of his time to the continuous development of Infinite World.
Although all game updates so far are free, subsequent increased revenue cannot cover the cost of subsequent development.
But Zhuyouxing has been very patient in providing them with technical and resource support.
The producers of Infinite World are very grateful for this.
I am grateful that there is such a person in this world who is willing to give a game a chance, a chance to be recognized again.
Just recently, sales of Infinite World have begun to rise rapidly.
This is different from the sales increased by previous major version updates.
The game is not currently on discount, but tens of thousands of people buy this game every day.
And the money is slowly adding up, and the total sales of the game have finally reached the tens of millions level, entering the tens of millions sales base in the world.
All of this is really the result of the God of Games, Takeyusei.
"Sit down wherever you want, I just want to confirm some things with you."
"You can ask whatever you want."
"You should be familiar with Mickford's game department, right? I want to know the ability of the people in this department to develop games."
Why would the boss suddenly ask this?
The producers of Infinite World have some doubts.
And Zhu Youxing didn't suddenly want to ask this question.
In just over a month, he spent most of his time playing and learning about some of Mickford's previous classic games.
Nowadays, there are more and more games in this world, and Zhu Youxing can no longer play them. Mick Fu's side has been subconsciously ignored by him.
It wasn't until he saw Mickford's sudden announcement of the split that he remembered this fourth-largest game development company that was still somewhat famous.
Since he can be called the fourth largest in the world, he must have the ability.
It's just that I have been sniping at Mickford intentionally or unintentionally in the past, making their game products always tepid.
Just like Titanfall in the previous life, a game of excellent quality was scheduled near the release date of its own and competitors' top shooting games.
Then players obviously don’t have to hesitate too much and will definitely choose more well-known games to buy and play.
And Titanfall became cannon fodder.
Many of Mickford's games are in this state.
Now, Zhu Youxing finally thought of playing Mickford's games and found that the games they made were actually quite good.
Both the level design and plot gameplay are above the passing mark, and there are occasional highlights.
It can only be said that Mickford's game department is in a miserable state and has been attacked by himself and other game companies so badly that this game development team has always been tepid.