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—【Mr. Xia, are you trying to surprise us by keeping this so secret? I admit you succeeded.】
—[Think back to a little over a month ago when CEO Xia bought a bankrupt game company, how many people in the industry laughed, thinking he was crazy? They thought he should have just registered a new game company instead. Now everyone's dumbfounded. Every game under CEO Xia's banner is a hit. Mihoyo, except for Golden Garden, didn't invest in any other games, and now they can't even get on board. Those investors are probably kicking themselves.]
……
—【This drama is absolutely amazing, I wonder if it could be nominated for this year's top ten films and television series?】
—【The main problem is that there are less than three months left until the end of the year, so it feels a bit difficult.】
—【Those animated films generally perform poorly at the box office, with very few even grossing over 100 million, so how could they possibly be nominated?】
— [Indeed, there were quite a few good films released in the first half of this year.]
—[This year might be difficult, but I should be 100% nominated next year, as long as animated films are among the award-winning categories.]
—[Actually, based on this year's performance, if "Your Name" surpasses 6 million yuan at the box office within a month, it still has a very good chance of being nominated.]
—【Holy crap, really? Then I have to contribute even more.】
—【I'm also gathering some friends to contribute; if this film doesn't make the top ten films of the year, I'll seriously question the award's prestige.】
—【Tsk tsk tsk, other people's movies have the lead actors and directors begging fans to come see them, but Xia's fans are begging and still can't get tickets. The difference is too big.】
—【Sigh, we fans are also having a headache, because I'm afraid this scoundrel really has no interest in being on the list.】
—【Yeah, which movie release doesn't involve going on variety shows, meeting friends, and promoting it everywhere, hoping no one will know? But the limited promotion for "Your Name" was mostly done by Tencent and Wanda. Honestly, if someone hadn't pointed it out, I wouldn't have known it was Xia Zong's movie.】
— [Damn, Xia just commented that he forgot the movie's release date, and then got busy with promotions and forgot too.]
——【？】
--【ah?】
—【This is incredible!】
——【666】
—I'm truly impressed.
—【Wow, that's incredible! How could he forget that? Why doesn't he just fly to the moon?】
— [Games are the favored child, movies are the adopted child, right?]
Countless viewers who witnessed this scene were devastated.
They thought Xia Yu was deliberately hiding something to surprise his fans.
Unexpectedly, it turned out that the other party had simply forgotten to advertise.
How awful! I was just being delusional.
……
Longteng Technology Company Building.
At this moment, several of the company's managers were sitting on one side of the conference room.
They discussed the Pokémon-related works brought by the outside professional planners, each holding their own opinions.
The third manager, who was relatively quiet.
At this moment, he was staring intently at the top-ranked games on the leaderboard, Honkai Impact 3rd and Pokémon.
My feelings were complicated.
Since the start of the Game Developers Festival.
His life seemed to have mysteriously taken a downhill turn, with everything going wrong.
It's like being demoted at the beginning.
The company encountered a minor controversy.
There were also people insiders gossiping and pointing fingers at him behind his back.
His superiors also treated him coldly.
And the reason for all this.
It was because he learned a few days ago that Honkai Impact 3rd ranked last on its first day of performance that he made the decision to withdraw his investment in Honkai Impact 3rd.
Who would have thought.
The truth of the matter turned out to be an unspoken rule created by senior executives of Tencent and Orange platform.
In reality, Honkai Impact 3rd is the true number one on the overall leaderboard for this event.
After this news came out.
Longteng Technology is like a clown, ridiculed by fans and peers online.
The official Weibo account and website were also flooded with messages from fans.
Many people even directly stated that they were quitting the game and gave negative reviews to all the games under their brand.
However, the losses were quite severe.
Given the severity of this accident...
He should have been fired.
If it weren't for his superiors recognizing his numerous significant contributions to the company over the years and forcibly protecting him, he wouldn't have survived.
Otherwise, he might not have been able to stay at the company.
……
now.
He wanted to make amends for his mistakes.
He is tentatively appointed as the project manager for the new project, the "Pokémon series of games".
We are currently meeting with visiting professional planners in the conference room.
To determine whether the other party's work is worth investing in by one's own company.
However, a morning passed.
These managers don't have a single project that they're passionate about; either their ideas are mediocre, or they're blatant plagiarism.
Some games go too far, directly anthropomorphizing elves and allowing players to control the protagonist to have children with them.
It's touted as letting players experience the joy of having many children and many blessings.
Upon hearing this, the managers exchanged bewildered glances.
Then he turned around and threw the troublemaker away.
"Can't you come up with something more decent?!"
The project manager was at his wit's end.
He called out in a somber tone, "Next person."
The person who walked in was a bespectacled, well-mannered young man who looked like a college student.
The managers' impression of him has dropped considerably.
College students are too young; they probably don't have any good ideas.
After all, they had already encountered quite a few college students of this type during the interviews.
After the bespectacled boy came in, he gave a stammering self-introduction.
Only then did he submit the project he had in hand.
When the managers took a look, they found that there were quite a few projects.
But after a brief glance around...
He immediately frowned.
The secretary next to him gestured for the boy to explain the specific rules of these activities.
"Don't worry, leaders. These ideas are the result of my hard work over the past few years, and their quality is definitely not bad."
"If I don't become famous, I will definitely commit suicide by swallowing feces."
The first manager pointed to a texture with curved lines and asked, "What is this?"
The boy with glasses was very excited.
"Boss, this is how I designed this game."
"A group of little elves lived carefree on the island. Suddenly one day, a group of ferocious bee-like creatures invaded their homeland and abducted the offspring of the island elves."
"In retaliation against Beedrill, the island sprite will use its own body as a weapon, attacking the swarm of Beedrill like a cannonball."
"I named it 'Angry Little Elf'."
The first manager's cheek twitched.
……
"And this one?"
The second manager inquired.