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Chapter 199 Protest of the Producer

Chapter 199 Protest of the Producer

"Journey" is a success on both console and PC platforms.

Linmu Studio's new game is a big hit overseas.

Greenlight has completely established its reputation.

The number of users of Vaporwave game platform has increased.

All these factors have put Linmu Studio directly at the forefront of the game industry.

Players and game media have begun to speculate on the purpose of Linmu Studio and Lin Yao, and the direction of Vaporwave game platform.

However, Linmu Studio did not take any action on this.

It was as if these things had not happened at all.

Neither did they say anything, nor did they intend to launch new works.

Instead, it seemed to be silent.

Apart from updating its three games, it did nothing.

Oh, and did one more thing.

That is to relax the restrictions on games landing on the Vaporwave game platform, but third-party games that want to land on the Vaporwave game platform must be reviewed. Although the review speed is not slow, it is not fast either.

This week, Vaporwave game platform has successively launched three games that are not part of Greenlight and have nothing to do with Linmu Studio.

These three games have their own shining points.

But it is indeed a bit small.

The players were fine, but Lin Yao's colleagues were very puzzled. They

even sneered at the mechanism of the Vaporwave game platform to review and log in the game, and were very impatient.

In their opinion,

now is a great opportunity.

At this time, the Vaporwave game platform only needs to relax the restrictions and allow everyone's games to log in to the platform. Linmu Studio can make money to expand the game library and seize the market, and everyone's games can also rely on this wave of popularity to sell. It

's obviously a win-win situation!

But Linmu Studio doesn't!

What kind of review is it? The game can't be released, and now the popularity is almost over!

It's very annoying!

...

"What the hell! Are they really going to make a high-quality game? Are they sick?"

In Pengcheng, not far from Linmu Studio, there is a studio called Conggu.

The boss Du Kaiding was cursing.

He was a former Tianhu employee who left and founded this studio two years ago. At first, he wanted to make the game he wanted to make.

But he obviously underestimated the difficulty.

After experiencing various ups and downs,

he finally deceived an investor and made the game.

But the distribution became a problem again.

The domestic environment is hard to describe for independent games and stand-alone games.

After Du Kaiding did some research, he felt that he was finished.

But at this moment.

Linmu Studio and Tianhu, which have been in the limelight recently, announced at the same time that they would make game platforms.

And Linmu Studio's Vaporwave game platform was really made for them. Although the results were not very dazzling, the success of the two Greenlight Project games made Du Kaiding see the light.

He quickly terminated the cooperation with Tianhu and wanted to put his game on the Vaporwave game platform for sale.

But just when he was excited and thought that he only needed to wait for the game to be sold.

Linmu Studio said that it would be reviewed.

And it was clearly stated that even if the game passed the review, it could not be sold immediately, but would stay in the "coming soon" column for one to two weeks.

Seeing such a reply, Du Kaiding's mentality collapsed instantly.

He was originally anxious to get his funds back.

He thought that Linmu Studio would accept everyone, but he didn't expect this to happen.

After a week of tug-of-war.

He finally lost his patience and cursed.

"What on earth is Linmu Studio thinking? Such a good opportunity for expansion! They don't want to take the pie that's right in front of them, how cheap!"

Du Kaiding punched the table: "Does Lin Yao really think that she can build a platform with the games in the Greenlight plan and three games a week?"

The employee replied helplessly: "There's nothing we can do. The other party replied that all games must be reviewed in the early stage."

"Bullshit!"

Du Kaiding was a little manic: "Go ask them again. If they say something about review again, then we will talk to Tianhu again! What the hell! Abandoning such a good opportunity! Vaporwave game platform is doomed! They don't take advantage of the popularity to expand, but instead make so many rules and regulations! Stupid! If Vaporwave game platform was given to me, it would have become the number one in China by now. These idiots who only know how to make games! If they continue like this, there's no need to cooperate. Just wait for them to be beaten to the ground by Tianhu game platform!"

Employee: "..."

Du Kaiding's idea, in fact, to a certain extent, is also the idea of ​​many game developers who failed to land on Vaporwave game platform, but not as radical as him.

They are also puzzled by Linmu Studio's strategy.

And I am a little disappointed with the Vaporwave gaming platform.

I feel like it is a pill.

In fact, this situation, to put it bluntly, is a struggle between the gaming platform and these game developers.

The two sides have different positions. They just want to sell their games from their own perspective.

But Linmu Studio is considering another issue.

As for the outcome of this struggle,

it has not been revealed yet.

Although Linmu Studio appeared calm,

it was actually quite busy inside.

Because Linmu Studio currently has eight games under intense production at the same time...

Yes, you heard it right, eight.

Although most of the games are relatively simple and the graphics are not excellent, Lin Yao did not even have any requirements.

But with this number, even if the difficulty is not great, the workload is not small.

In addition, the production staff of Linmu Studio are actually arrogant. Although Lin Yao did not specifically require the graphics,

they still want to make the graphics the best with limited human resources.

Everyone is busy.

Lin Yao is also busy.

She is busy testing the game.

After the preliminary preparations and planning work are completed, she is tracking the progress of the game production while playing the semi-finished game.

Because only she knows best how the game should be made, and others may not know better than her.

So every time the game reaches a certain level, she will play it for a while, and if there is a problem, it can be modified early.

On this day,

Lin Yao took the handle and played Mario...

It felt quite wonderful.

Playing Mario in a different world.

Lin Yao was even a little dazed.

"...I'm sorry, the studio doesn't have a direct distribution channel for the time being. Thank you for your support."

Mu Wanqing answered the phone and politely replied to the producer who called, while walking towards Lin Yao.

She controlled her steps, and when she came behind Lin Yao, she just hung up the phone.

"Lin Yao."

She put away her phone and was about to tell Lin Yao about the opinions and protests from the producer.

But as soon as she called out her name, Mu Wanqing saw Lin Yao's profile.

Lin Yao's eyes lit up, her body leaned forward, and she was looking at the computer screen with an interested expression.

That was the game that the studio made recently.

Mu Wanqing looked at Lin Yao's profile, and the words that came to her lips suddenly couldn't come out.

She closed her mouth, stood behind Lin Yao, chose not to say anything, and watched her play the game silently.

It was rare to see Lin Yao so happy.

Mu Wanqing didn't want to disturb her. She

didn't want to think about anything big.

(End of this chapter)