PixelPioneers: The Birth of a Gaming Empire

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"Okay, okay, don't play, is the one-hour sales high?" John listened to the renewed knock on the door, letting go of Luna's eyes, and stood up and opened the door and said with a smile.

Evelien at the door still had an excited expression, but her eyes were low on the table beside John and Luna, burying her head on her arm, glancing back and forth.

"Yes, President John, Social Tap has already sent us the statistical report, and the total sales volume of the entire platform in one hour is 30,000!" Evelien said very excitedly.

"Okay, okay, I know, but there is no drama at this time of the celebration feast. When the game situation stabilizes, I will book a bar to take you all." John smiled and said.

In the game industry, the initial period of game release is the most difficult, because it is necessary to continue to observe the feedback of players after the game is released.

For example, where the numerical difficulty is too high, and then where there are BUGs, these must be followed by patching to repair. Then we have to notice a problem, that is, whether the subsequent patch will invalidate the player's archive.

"30,000 sales in an hour? Is this number high or low?" After Evelien left the office and closed the door, Luna stopped pretending to be an ostrich, raised her head, and looked at John with big eyes.

"It's fair, quite satisfactory." John walked to Luna with a smile and squeezed the other person's face gently.

***

At midnight, they fixed some details such as the BUG patch, and handed it over to the staff who were still on duty on Social Tap. John and Koch also finished their work and got off.

Although it was already early in the morning, they were still very excited, and the whole person was very excited.

This is not the first project they have done, but it is the happiest project they have done. There is no need to change the content of the game because the directors of the business department are pointing their fingers, and there is no need to make the game into something they don't want for other reasons.

"Okay, there should be nothing else for the time being. Everyone should use the company for a day off tomorrow, take a good rest at home." John looked at everyone and said with a smile.

After talking to John, they left the office one after another.

After everyone left, John walked into the office and watched Luna, who was asleep on the table, walk over and patted her face gently: "It's time to wake up and go home to sleep."

"Woo... is it over?" Squint opened her eyes, sat up, and rubbed her eyes, Luna muttered.

"Let you go back first, you have to do it." Turning off the computer, John put a glass of warm water in front of her.

"Everyone is in the post, how can I be embarrassed to go alone," Luna said with a lip.

"From the perspective of sales and ratings on the first day, the success of the project is affirmed, depending on how many copies can be sold in the end, and their bonuses will be issued together at the time of the celebration," John said towards Luna.

It is a normal thing to issue bonuses at the end of the project. Of course, some small companies will never issue them.

As for dividends, there are almost none. There are only some projects that are not small, and there will be dividends. However, only the core producers, lead planners, and lead programs are involved in the dividends. For general positions, there is only a bonus at most.

"Good!" Luna nodded.

They turned off the light and locked the door to leave the company.

Although it is already early in the morning, many of the buildings in the entire area are lit, and many people who have just left work leave the building.

***

Octopath Traveler sold 150,000 on the first day. This result is already very good, but compared with the first-day sales of Space and Time, it is still more than three times worse. In a flash, many people who watched the Octopath Traveler in advance jumped out.

"Sure enough JRPG and pixel games, there is no market at all."

"150,000 sales on the first day? All of them were crushed by Space and Time."

"Just telling a joke, someone said that although ARPG is the trend of technological development, the traditional JPRG type is not the end. Players don't dislike RPG, but the producers have not made the RPG they want."

With the sales of Octopath Traveler released on the first day, a group of people who did not like this game immediately showed up in various posts. However, there are still a lot of players who bought Octopath Traveler to assist the game.

"A group of people who probably haven't played the game are talking blindly here?"

"Octopath Traveler is one of the most interesting JRPGs in recent years!"

"Oh? The most fun JRPG? 150,000 sales on the first day? I heard that the cost alone is in the millions. If you count the cost of advertising, don't even get the cost back!"

"You need to acknowledge that it is not as good as Space and Time."

Faced with the netizens who support Octopath Traveler, it is that the sales of Octopath Traveler are not as good as Space and Time and at the same time in Mercury Studio, Martel also sat in front of the computer and experienced Octopath Traveler.

"Watching a competitor's game?" The office door was pushed open without knocking.

In the entire Mercury studio, only Malcolm, who is an old partner of Martel, would be like this.

"Well, by the way, what's the first-day sales of their game?" Martel smiled and asked, looking at the already downloaded game.

Although it is said that there is no conflict with John, the relationship between the two sides is not bad. Space And Time and Octopath Traveler have no hostile relationship.

But Martel was quite dissatisfied in his heart, especially since the previous Space-Time Wheel was surpassed by Binding of Isaac, and later in the Independent Game Conference, he just said that JRPG is a legacy of the past. The product, ARPG was the mainstream of the future and then was slapped. It is impossible to say that there is no tempting heart in his heart.

"Listening to what others say is 150,000, JRPG games can achieve this result is quite good, this should be the best in recent years, but it is still a lot worse than our Space And Time," Malcolm said with a smile.

Recently, he has been busy updating the follow-up content of Space And Time, and he doesn't know much about this game.

"Then they are in trouble." Martel couldn't help but smile when she thought of the previous words.

But soon, the smile on his face disappeared, because he had entered the game.

"This screen and UI!"

After entering the game, confirming the characters, and looking at the official game scene, Martel, sitting in front of the computer, felt a shock, as if there was a current rushing into his body.