A few days ago, Toshio Otsuka finally contacted the Sony Interactive Entertainment Independent Game Development Class, Director Nobuyoshi Oyama.

Both sides had a meal at a high-end restaurant in Ginza. During the meal, Toshio Otsuka revealed his desire to obtain Sony's financial support.

However, Nobuyoshi Oyama told Toshio Otsuka that the support funds for the game development course this year have been decided to invest all the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Entertainment. The two parties have officially reached a cooperation intention and will sign a contract in a few days.

If Chikura Co., Ltd. showed great potential like Terracotta Warriors Entertainment, Koyama Shinyi might be able to apply for an additional support fund from his superiors. But it is obvious that in Sony's eyes, support for this game company is not very meaningful.

After being politely rejected by Nobuyoshi Oyama, Toshio Otsuka was obviously very dissatisfied with this result.

In order to quickly expand its business, Chicago Co., Ltd. borrowed a huge sum of money from the bank.

Now the repayment period is almost here, but the Chicago Corporation store is too big, and most of the working capital is invested in the research and development of new games, and there is no ability to repay.

Toshio Otsuka urgently needed funds, so he focused his goal on Sony's support.

It doesn't matter if it reaches a partnership with Sony or is even acquired as a first-party developer. Toshio Otsuka must achieve this goal in order to keep the company. Therefore, squeezing out his competitor Terracotta Warriors Entertainment has become something he has been thinking about recently.

Now, the Media Art Festival of the Cultural Affairs Department is about to be held. If you can defeat Terracotta Warriors and Horses Entertainment and win a grand prize, then undoubtedly Chikura Co., Ltd. will greatly increase its weight in its negotiations with Sony.

As the assistant to the president, although Ancun Zhangren is despicable and has average abilities, he is first-class in his ability to figure out his boss's thoughts and flatter him.

His eyes rolled and he smiled excitedly: "President, I thought of a good idea that would have the best of both worlds. It not only allows us to win the Media Art Festival Awards, but also destroy the cooperation between Qin and Han Dynasties and Sony. In Chinese terms, this is called killing two birds with one stone!"

"What's the idea? Let's talk about it?" asked Toshio Otsuka.

After receiving the attention of the president, Ancun Zhangren smiled proudly and kept it a secret: "President, although "The Story of the Oriental Fantasy Country" sells very well and can be called a miracle in the independent gaming world, this game has a very fatal disadvantage."

“What are the disadvantages?”

“It’s not politically correct enough.”

"It's hard for you to know the concept of political correctness." Toshio Otsuka said. He didn't expect that this assistant who is full of fat and wants to play with a high school student all day long has this kind of insight.

Atsuto Yasumura was not angry because of Toshio Otsuka's despise. He continued: "Although the protagonist of "Oriental Fantasy Country" can freely customize appearance, name and other content, his gender is fixed and he can only choose men. In the love system in the game, players can only pursue various female characters and marry them. Moreover, as a well-known cartoonist, Qin Han painted those female characters so beautiful and tempting when he was a game character. Although doing so can please otaku players, other game groups may have a lot of opinions. This is the biggest disadvantage of "Oriental Fantasy Country"."

Speaking of this, Toshio Otsuka certainly understood what Atsuto Yamura meant.

Although the historical direction of this parallel world is different, after the World War, with the large number of nuclear weapons installed, the Cold War was still experienced.

It’s just that because the Cold War in this world did not originate from ideological disputes, but a geopolitical game of interests between major powers, the Cold War did not end because of one side’s collapse.

Thirty years ago, after China and the United States signed a treaty on comprehensive nuclear weapons reduction and a memorandum of understanding on peace, the Cold War between the two major military groups in the East and the West ended.

A large number of high-tech technologies have changed from military to civilian use, and the economy has developed rapidly, and the whole world has shown a thriving scene.

After material life was greatly enriched, various new social thoughts naturally emerged.

For example, racial equality, lgbt (collectively known as lesbian, gay, transgender, bisexual) anti-discrimination, feminism, etc., has emerged like mushrooms after a rain. It is especially rampant in European and American countries.

Although female players have grown rapidly in recent years, electronic games are still in the traditional field of male entertainment. Therefore, most of the works of game manufacturers are developed with male players as the target group. Among them, there are naturally some female characters with angel faces, devilish figures and hot clothes, which are specially used to serve male players.

The original intention of feminism was to fight for equal social status and legal rights for women, but today it has gradually deteriorated. It is more appropriate for some extreme feminists to be male-hate. They are like madmen, and whenever they see people or things they think they are "discriminatory against women", they will rush to fight wildly.

Many game companies have suffered losses in this regard.

When a sexy and beautiful girl appears in the game, she is objectifying women.

The plot of men beating women in the game is that it advocates the oppression of men's rights on women.

Remarks like "Women should be virtuous and care for their families" appear in the game, which is to use backward ideas to imprison women.

Faced with these mad-like extreme feminists, game companies either pretend to be deaf and silent and wait for the limelight to pass, or admit defeat and apologize to modify the game content. Few game companies dare to be positive.

Although these social trends are not too rampant in Asian countries such as China and Japan, feminists are very strong and arrogant in Europe and the United States.

"If we make a fuss about feminism, then the reputation of "The Story of the Oriental Fantasy Country" will definitely suffer a big decline. Moreover, for multinational companies like Sony, cooperation with politically incorrect Terracotta Warriors and Horses Entertainment will also affect the company's global image." Ahn Jungun smiled.

"It is indeed a wonderful idea to start with the feminist issue. But how to do it specifically? Buy the game media and criticize "The Story of the Oriental Fantasy Country"?"

"There is a better way!" said Ahncun Jon. "I know an American independent game developer named Zoe Quinn. A month ago, the independent game "Depression Journey" she made was launched on steam at the same time as "The Story of the Oriental Fantasy Country". However, it did not receive any response. We can buy her and ask her to issue a statement claiming that she was unfairly competitive and suppressed due to gender reasons, so the game was ignored. Then guide this matter to the discrimination against women in the game industry..."
Chapter completed!