Chapter 197 Yes.

Li Guangsheng's question about how much money the Vaporwave gaming platform could make if it really became a success.

It's not rigorous to say that no one can answer it.

Lin Yao can answer it.

After all, she had a living example in her previous life.

Gabe Newell, who made money by the wind, is that example...

But even if she can answer it, the Vaporwave gaming platform is still a little bit inferior to Steam, and Lin Yao is aware of this.

The current Vaporwave gaming platform is at most a "Battle.net" that launches its own games, and then adds a Greenlight program.

And the games in the Greenlight program are highly bound to Linmu Studio.

So rounding it off, in fact, the Vaporwave gaming platform is the "Battle.net" of Linmu Studio.

Fortunately, this situation has undergone fundamental changes with the release of the Greenlight game "Journey".

Some games have come to the Vaporwave gaming platform to be released.

These games have little to do with Linmu Studio. They are not bound to Linmu Studio, but they actively find Linmu Studio, which is a very obvious progress.

But progress is progress.

Lin Yao was not carried away.

She accepted all kinds of games.

The Vaporwave game platform is still in its infancy, and there is no benefit in throwing all kinds of games on the platform.

When the Vaporwave game platform is really as big as Steam, it doesn't matter. Lin Yao can even adopt the direct release model, because players will find the games they want to play by themselves.

But doing so now is courting death. On the one hand, it is because of domestic policies. If some sensitive topics appear, it will be GG directly.

On the other hand, it is reputation.

Now the main focus of the Vaporwave game platform is a boutique.

Whether it is an online game or a stand-alone game, it has a good reputation. If it puts in some games of poor quality, it will destroy its own brand.

So although Lin Yao really wants to, really wants to, especially want to directly accept all the games that want to land on the Vaporwave game platform to enrich the game library and develop a wave.

But in the end, she still held back.

In the early stage, reputation and cultivating player habits are still the most important.

So for those games that want to land on the Vaporwave game platform, she adopted a review system.

For this reason, she specially asked Mu Wanqing to expand a department to be responsible for reviewing the games sent to her, and established a set of rules for recommending games for the new department. The final review was still hers.

This was not cheap.

At least the salary expenditure would be much higher.

She would also become busier than before.

But stability was the most important thing.

There were advantages to doing this.

But there were also disadvantages.

That was that the Vaporwave game platform would be forced to slow down.

Not enough games in the game library meant that the user growth of the game platform would slow down, because after all, the most important thing for the game platform was the game.

But now, because of the release and popularity of "Journey", it just happened to attract a wave of traffic to the Vaporwave game platform.

Lin Yao was a little unwilling to slow down like this.

So she wanted a solution.

A solution to the current situation.

...

The new conference room of Linmu Studio in Founder Building was much more spacious than the previous one.

But the people remained the same.

And the whiteboard behind the first seat at the conference table.

"How about...we make another online game ourselves?"

Facing Lin Yao's unwillingness,

the old minister Zhong Xiu first made a suggestion.

Linmu Studio will make another online game to attract traffic.

Lin Yao nodded, then picked up a marker and wrote the word "online game" on the whiteboard.

Then, she thought for a moment and said, "It feels incompatible. Although there is overlap between online game players and stand-alone and independent game players, they are essentially two types of players. Online games can make money, but they are not good enough to attract users. Now that we are building a platform, the most important thing is to attract the latter. These are two directions. Making online games cannot solve this problem. Moreover, although the number of online game users is growing rapidly, it has not yet reached its peak.

Now the online games under Linmu Studio have already taken up a large market. I plan to make new online games after a while, when the number of online game players has grown to a certain level and the volume has reached a certain level."

"Then make a stand-alone game? Just like "Breakout", supplemented by a promotional video offensive, make a stand-alone game that is enough to shock all players!"

Noob... No, another old minister Qi Jianhua also made a suggestion.

Lin Yao nodded, then turned around and wrote down the stand-alone game on the whiteboard, saying, "This method is feasible, but shocking all players... requires an environment. The Vaporwave game platform is not good enough now, and it's too slow to make stand-alone games. By the time we finish, this wave of craze will have passed."

"Then why don't we increase the investment in the Greenlight Project?"

"Hold a competition? Battle Royale is very popular now, and Zhang Jianghu also wants to hold a competition."

"Increase publicity."

Next.

Almost everyone in the conference room put forward their own opinions.

Various opinions.

But Lin Yao always felt that their opinions were not good enough.

It can be implemented.

But according to her prediction, the effect should not be too good.

Looking at the girl sitting in the first seat, she lowered her head and fell into deep thought.

Everyone in the conference room knew that she was not very satisfied, so they could only scratch their heads and continue thinking.

But there was really no good way. It

was indeed a difficult problem to consolidate the brand of the Vaporwave game platform and speed up the pace of development.

Either Linmu Studio could do it by itself, make stand-alone games, and then slowly accumulate reputation, but this was destined to be slow.

Or they could relax the restrictions and let all the games that wanted to log in to the platform log in, but the brand of high-quality games would not be preserved.

As for finding large overseas manufacturers and asking them to sell their games on the Vaporwave game platform, it was a good choice, but the problem was that the attraction of the Vaporwave game platform was not strong enough. The first problem to be solved was development, and the problem was going back again.

So... the problem seemed to have no solution.

Gradually, everyone in the conference room frowned.

It seemed... there was really no good way.

Until.

"In fact, you, including Mr. Lin, are thinking too far ahead."

Chen Qiuwen, the person in charge of the "Fantasy OL" project, suddenly spoke and successfully attracted everyone's attention, including Lin Yao.

Facing Lin Yao's gaze.

Chen Qiuwen smiled and continued, "Everyone knows the reasons why the two games in the Greenlight Project were successful. So why can't we make some small-scale games ourselves, increase the game library, and cultivate players' paying habits? Our studio should not be too slow in making small-scale games, right? After all, the most important thing about this kind of game is creativity and gameplay, which is the most time-consuming part, but we have President Lin."

"..."

Hearing this, the people present looked at Lin Yao.

After a moment of hesitation, Lin Yao's eyes lit up and said, "Yes!"

(End of this chapter)