Chapter 3: The Waves of Youth Should Crash Even Harder!

Two hours later.

Qin Qin Xiaoyu, who had been speaking eloquently, stopped, reached for the water cup on the bedside table, and took a gentle sip.

His gaze shifted from the shocked faces of Cai Qiu and Chen Wei to the city outside the window.

Over the past two hours, he had roughly outlined the concept of the game "Genshin Impact" and some of its Core Gameplay to these two best friends.

Now, the choice was up to them.

Leave.

Qin Qin Xiaoyu would not force them to stay.

Stay.

And he would welcome them.

At this moment.

Cai Qiu and Chen Wei exchanged a glance; neither spoke first.

They could tell that what Qin Qin Xiaoyu had said earlier was a brilliant game concept.

If it could truly be realized.

Whether it could make them rich and lead them to the peak of life, they dared not be sure.

But at least living a moderately well-off life should be no problem.

Of course.

This premise was that the game could be released and operated, and to achieve this step, undoubtedly required a massive capital investment.

Most crucially, this was a 2D anime-style game.

Within the borders of Xia Country, games of this model probably couldn't even attract angel investment.

"Brother Yu, your creative idea is absolutely the best I've ever heard, but the investment from concept to game operation is probably astronomical; funding will be hard to solve."

Cai Qiu didn't want to discourage Qin Qin Xiaoyu, but simply described a fact.

"Let's not talk about the map for now; just the modeling for a single game character probably won't get done without a million or so!"

Chen Wei, sitting nearby, rubbed his chin and after a long pause chimed in with a sentence.

"It's not that exaggerated; with a few hundred thousand, it's completely enough for us to get the game up and running."

Qin Qin Xiaoyu spoke with certainty.

In his previous life on Earth, the initial investment for the game "Genshin Impact" was indeed astronomical.

Just the Mondstadt map, the story, and the characters.

Cost nearly one hundred million US dollars.

Of course.

This included some promotional and marketing expenses, but the production cost alone reached at least fifty million.

But that was the previous life.

Now, in this Parallel World, with that external hard drive, the initial design expenses had all been omitted.

The only place needing money was renting servers and then promotion and marketing.

These costs could be fully controlled.

The rich have their methods; the poor have their tricks.

So.

With a few hundred thousand, Qin Qin Xiaoyu was fully confident he could release and operate the game.

The hesitation and concerns in the hearts of Cai Qiu and Chen Wei.

Qin Qin Xiaoyu could naturally see them; after pondering for a moment, he withdrew his gaze from outside the window and fixed it on their faces:

"I know you are torn; as brothers, I won't put you in a difficult position. Whether to go or stay is entirely up to you.

But the waves of youth should be bigger to be exciting!"

The persuasive words were only spoken to the point.

From Qin Qin Xiaoyu's heart, he hoped the two would stay.

But he was unwilling to force them or morally blackmail them.

"To hell with the blind date! Only kids like women; adults know to protect their kidneys! I don't care how Ah Wei chooses, Brother Yu, I choose to stay!"

After hearing Qin Qin Xiaoyu's words, Cai Qiu fell silent for a few seconds, then resolutely made up his mind.

"Old Cai, you're a ruthless person! If you don't mind, tell me the contact info for your blind date partner! I have two kidneys; losing one doesn't matter..."

"Get lost!"

Cai Qiu disdainfully retorted at Chen Wei and continued asking, "Ah Wei, what's your choice?"

"What choice? You can even give up a girlfriend; what the hell can I say? Let's do it! Worst case, we grab a bucket and go to the factory to screw bolts!"

Chen Wei's second half of the sentence was spoken with some excitement; to match his determination, he suddenly raised his left hand and forcefully slapped it onto the bed.

"Holy crap..."

The falling palm landed squarely on Qin Qin Xiaoyu's injured leg, instantly causing a wail of agony to echo through the hospital room.

Although there was no fracture, the scab had broken open again.

At that moment, Qin Qin Xiaoyu almost fainted directly from the pain.

"Um... Brother Yu, sorry! I was infected by your words just now, got so excited I forgot you were still a patient..."

Chen Wei awkwardly scratched his head and explained with an apologetic smile.

"You're paying for lunch today; remember to bring me back a bottle of Happy Water, or this isn't over!"

Qin Qin Xiaoyu scolded him with a grimace.

He knew in his heart that Chen Wei hadn't done it on purpose, but extorting a lunch was unavoidable.

After all.

Four days of coma without food; even an iron man can't take it!

"Fine, fine, fine! I'll go buy food with Old Cai right now..."

Chen Wei nodded.

He then pulled Old Cai and left the hospital ward together.

After the two left the hospital ward.

Qin Qin Xiaoyu was not idle; instead, he carefully considered the details of launching the game.

Although the ready-made "Genshin Impact" game was already in the external hard drive.

There were still many things that needed to be done before the official launch.

First.

Was the matter of applying for the game license.

In this Parallel World, applying for a game license was not particularly complicated.

As long as the game's content did not show serious value distortion, most cases could smoothly obtain the license.

The most critical point was that the waiting time for review would not be as long as on Earth in the previous life.

After the data submission was completed.

Within at most seven working days, the approval could be smoothly granted.

This matter.

Qin Qin Xiaoyu planned to hand over to Old Cai to handle.

Second.

Was the matter of finding a game publishing platform; there were many platforms in Xia Country capable of launching mobile and PC games.

The commission rates also varied from high to low.

For popular platforms, the commission rate could even reach an outrageous 30-70 split, with the game platform taking seven and the game developer taking three.

Although it was cruel, this was the fact.

Qin Qin Xiaoyu definitely could not accept such a ratio, so this matter needed to be negotiated.

He thought for a while and decided to hand this matter over to Chen Wei to handle; the acceptable bottom line was a ten percent commission on revenue.

Besides these two matters.

The rest was to consider the details regarding the beta test and promotion.

Due to limited manpower.

For these tasks that did not require running errands, Qin Qin Xiaoyu could only do them personally.

Although the game license had not yet been obtained, this actually did not affect the launch of the beta test.

Many game platforms provided beta test services.

One only needed to spend ten thousand Renminbi, rent a cloud server, and then upload the game data to conduct the beta test.

Of course.

This beta test mode was generally chosen only by small studios like Qin Qin Xiaoyu and his team.

The limitations were very great.

After all, the number of beta test players it could accommodate was extremely small, which was a huge drawback.

However.

After Qin Qin Xiaoyu pondered for a while, there were currently no better alternatives...