The main storyline of Final Fantasy 7 takes about ten to twenty hours, of course excluding text dialogue time.
This was not a long main process in previous role-playing games.
But if you do some side quests and play some mini-games, a role-playing game can be played patiently for sixty or seventy hours.
This is now considered the standard length of a role-playing game.
In the past, some game companies wanted to increase the overall length of the plot, but the final results were not very good. Many reviews thought that such a long story made people feel sleepy.
However, the real reason is not that the main line of the game is too long, but that the content is too repetitive.
Developers who want to deliberately lengthen the game have not been able to find more elements to add in a short period of time, and they have simply added repetitive content to the game itself.
And this time Zhuyouxing will open up the entire worldview.
gs1 is the door to a new era, and Zhu Yusei hopes that Final Fantasy 7 can be that key.
Faced with Yuki Uesugi's question, Takeyusei directly answered that it was not enough, which made everyone stunned.
The gameplay, world map size, content, plot, etc. proposed by Zhuyouxing in the project have directly raised a dimension, which was something that was not dared to be imagined in the past.
And they just imagined that the investment cost of such game development would not be low. The labor cost of a team of four to five hundred people alone is a huge amount, not to mention the investment of other resources.
This is more or less a huge gamble.
In the past, game development was always controlled within a certain range. Generally, the investment for a game was less than five million US dollars. Only a few of Youxing Electronic Entertainment's top series of games cost tens of millions of US dollars to develop.
This has also led many people in the industry to believe that game development is of this magnitude and the cost investment will not be too exaggerated.
Although it is not that no one has thought about big investments and big returns, no one dares to be the first to eat crabs, because the cost is a bit high. Once the big investment fails to recover the cost, the entire company may be dragged down immediately.
collapse.
Moreover, there are not many companies that have the ability to make large investments to produce games. They are still in the exploration and exploration stage, so they are naturally more cautious in terms of capital investment.
The larger the company, the less likely it is to take risks.
In the film and television industry, it is not uncommon for a film and television company to go bankrupt due to a large-scale investment movie.
What's more, the video game industry is still in its infancy.
"President, isn't this enough? Then we can make the game even bigger in the future?"
"Yes, this is just a tentative start. I have already prepared 100 million US dollars to invest in this game, and I will have at least 50 million in reserve funds at any time."
This is a verification of his company's game industry system. After so many years of experience accumulation, Zhuyouxing believes that his company still has the strength and will definitely be able to develop excellent enough games. Now it is just one chance away. Final Fantasy 7 is like this.
a chance.
The initial investment of 100 million US dollars really surprised everyone. This directly increased the maximum cost of game development in the past to ten times. This sounds no different from gambling.
At this moment, Tsukino Aya came to the conference room at some point and sat alone in the corner of the conference room listening to Takeyusei drawing pie.
When she heard Zhu Youxing talk about development investment, she was also a little surprised, but soon she also showed a look of longing.
With such capital investment, the manpower and material resources that can be mobilized will be unimaginable. If it is really successful, this will definitely be an opportunity to detonate the industry.
It's a pity that she doesn't have that much money, nor that much manpower and material resources to mobilize, otherwise she would really like to be the first to eat crabs.
From Zhu Youxing's point of view, this 100 million yuan investment in the Academy of Fine Arts is actually just a small spectacle.
Which of the later large-scale AAA games will require investment of hundreds of millions of dollars?
Big investment will bring big returns, but the risks are also extremely high.
However, with the mature game templates of its predecessors, the risks taken by Zhuyouxing are naturally infinitely reduced.
Even if we really lose money, we can still afford to lose 100 million U.S. dollars. Now the company has 780 million U.S. dollars in reserves. It will be no problem to burn three or four more games of this size. This means that we don’t panic when we have money in hand, and even
Dare to have a good time.
Yuki Uesugi obviously wanted to say something else, but Takeyusei raised his hand to interrupt him: "I know what you want to say, so I'll answer you directly. I can afford the money, and the company won't have any problems because of it."
, you just have to give full play to your creativity, you only need to worry about your lack of creativity now and don't have to think about other issues."
After saying that, Zhu Youxing looked at everyone seriously, with sincere eyes.
"In the past, we were limited by the capacity of game cartridges and the performance limitations of game consoles, which prevented us from making better games. This has always been a regret of mine, so this time, I think it should be possible
Trying to expand will also prove the development strength of our company. In the past, we have always led the industry. This time the new era comes, I hope the same."
To once again lead the industry, these words are very grand.
But Zhu Youxing does have the confidence to say this.
Because he has been leading the development of the industry in the past.
Yuki Uesugi said nothing more, and the other two also remained silent.
But there was excitement in their eyes.
It was the excitement of finally being able to go all out and do something big.
Since the president has said so, the only thing they can do is to do the best they can in what is required.
On the one hand, this meeting is to issue general tasks to everyone, and on the other hand, it is actually equivalent to a mobilization meeting.
Mobilize everyone to join in this gamble.
If successful, participants like them will also receive huge benefits, a substantial increase in game development experience, and an increase in fame.
The heads of the three major game development teams will inevitably become more famous, and their industry status will rise accordingly.
Especially Yuga, he has just become the head of the development team, and this game development may make him a blockbuster.
The only regret is that this is not a game development that he leads alone, otherwise his fame and status should be even higher in the future.