Chapter 45 The decision of overseas game companies to rush to the list]
"You have all read the relevant information, now you might as well talk about your views on this Phantom Star engine."
Warsaw, Poland, inside the headquarters of a well-known game company.
At the ongoing core technology meeting, Mikal, the founder of the company, pointed to the paper documents in front of everyone and asked in a deep voice.
Their company has always maintained the concept of making games with care, and has an excellent reputation among users around the world. The new game Cyberpunk, which is currently in the production stage, is also scheduled to be released in two years.
According to the original plan, the company's focus should be entirely on this new game.
Ensure that there will not be too many bugs to disappoint users after the official release.
But plans can't keep up with changes.
No one thought that at this time, a stand-alone game developed by Yanguo Game Studio would suddenly become popular.
And it has aroused hot discussion among many overseas players.
Faced with this kind of abnormal market reaction, any game company with certain strength will conduct a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the game to find out why it is so popular.
And this naturally includes their company.
After the technical staff evaluated and analyzed Godless World, they were shocked to find that the production technology level of this game has far exceeded any of their company's high-quality games, and it also uses a brand-new game engine.
This aroused their strong curiosity.
I think this engine might be able to bring the quality of the game Cyberpunk I'm currently making to a higher level.
In the end, after careful understanding, Future Technology and Magic Star Engine gradually came into their company's sight, and the basic situation and charging standards were made clear.
After practical testing, the data of the Phantom Star engine in all aspects far exceeds that of the current mainstream engines.
In this way, they are faced with a choice.
That is whether we should use the Phantom Star engine to develop our own games.
Although Mikal hoped that Cyberpunk could have better quality, due to the higher charging standards of the Phantom Star Engine, he had to convene an impromptu core meeting to make a decision.
As for why the Phantom Star engine is only known to them now, it is mainly because the engine licensing market is already stable.
Who would have thought that a company in Yanguo would develop a new game engine and achieve such great success, directly transforming the original engine from being monopolized overseas into the real engine hegemony now.
In addition, domestic well-known game companies such as Penguin Network1 joined forces to boycott the Magic Star Game Engine, which limited the speed of the spread of popularity. Therefore, it was not until Godless World became popular on YouTube that they noticed that there had been such a big breakthrough in the field of game engines.
As Mikal's words fell, the conference room fell into a brief silence.
It took about half a cup of tea before someone took the initiative to express his or her views.
"Our new game has been partially completed. If we change the engine and remake it at this time, all the previous efforts will be in vain."
A dull voice sounded in the conference room, successfully opening up everyone's conversation.
Immediately afterwards, someone took up the conversation and expressed different opinions.
"I don't agree with this. The detailed data of the Phantom Star engine is recorded in the files. With this kind of game development efficiency, even if we start over, our game will only be released ahead of schedule."
"Although I am very reluctant to admit the achievements of this Yanguo company in the field of game engines, using this Fantasy Star engine will indeed make our games better."
"Other engines only charge 5% of the royalties, but they actually charge 25% of game sales. It's really greedy."
"I just got the latest news. Unreal Engine officially announced that it has canceled copyright fees. Any company or individual can use their engine to develop and produce games."
"It seems they have realized the impact that the Phantom Star Engine will have."
"Using the Phantom Star engine, we can not only complete the Cyberpunk project in a short time, but also start a new game simultaneously. This is definitely a good deal."
Listening to the people who were about to quarrel, Mikal's brows furrowed involuntarily.
After so many years of managing the company, this was the first time I saw such chaos in the conference room, and I immediately understood that it would be difficult to achieve a result if the discussion continued like this.
He simply patted the table to silence everyone's voices temporarily.
"Stop arguing."
"Starting from today, we will scrap the previous progress of Cyberpunk and re-develop and produce it using the Phantom Star engine."
In the end, Mikal had no choice but to make the decision directly. In addition to wanting the game to have a higher quality, it was also for the future development of the company.
If future technology develops a game engine with such powerful functions, it will inevitably lead to the rapid rise of Yanguo's game industry.
In the past, their games were able to thrive in the Asian market because they really couldn't find any opponents to beat. However, if they encounter a game of the level of Godless World, they will be upset and suppressed.
By then, other companies will use the more superior Magic Star engine to develop their own games. If they still choose traditional engines, they may not be able to sell their games.
Therefore, while the industry is not so busy at the moment, timely deployment is a very correct choice.
Other game engine development companies have begun to make their own engines free, hoping to resist the market encroachment of the Fantasy Star Engine, which is enough to explain any problem.
Unfortunately, in the face of absolute technological advantages, price wars have no effect at all.
This is the same as mobile phones. When smart phones with powerful and complete functions come out, no matter how cheap the button phone is in the past, not many people will buy it.
After all, the levels are completely different.
And with Mikal personally confirming the decision, others naturally had no other objections.
Deployment operations began immediately after the meeting.
When this news spread to the Internet, netizens were shocked and it also made the game engine development company even more uneasy.
In just half a day, several emergency meetings were held to discuss how to ensure that the engine licensing market share in their hands would not be seized by the Magic Star engine.
But once this hole is opened, it is extremely difficult to seal it.
For example, other well-known overseas game companies began to get ready to take action after learning that Mikal was willing to use the Phantasmal Star engine at the expense of scrapping the project and starting over.
But I have to say that when something like this happens on an external network, the most excited people must be domestic players.
Almost immediately, these news were passed back to China over the wall, and I was once again proud that Future Technology had broken the overseas technology monopoly and forced overseas game companies to use domestic game engines.
It’s just that this sudden situation made Penguin 1M Games and other companies that had previously refused to use the Magic Star engine very angry.
No matter what, I never expected that overseas game companies, which have always been arrogant, would be so active in this matter.