Let the facts speak

During the time when Super Baseball Tournament was criticized from all sides, Takayuki did not change the release date at all.

Many critics felt that the company's unrepentant attitude, wanting to continue releasing this game, was ridiculous.

If I were the president of this company, I would immediately stop this project and publicly apologize to regain society's forgiveness. This way, the company could regain social acceptance, making people think they were just momentarily confused.

But those commentators never expected that this game would still be released on time.

Such an unprofessional game could never be accepted by people. This company is really disregarding everything for the sake of money, even if they know that releasing it will ruin their reputation, they still want to make up for the losses through release?

Such a short-sighted company, not considering the future at all.

It must be because they made too much easy money in the past year and have become arrogant.

Recently, four TV stations specifically invited such commentators to occasionally criticize Gamestar Entertainment in their TV programs.

Takayuki seemed to have no reaction to this, just continuing to do his own thing methodically.

But in fact, he had already taken action in secret.

Just before the game was released, a mysterious person suddenly contacted Takayuki on the internet, offering to help, but the condition was that Takayuki had to develop a game specifically for him or her, a game that belonged exclusively to this mysterious person and had to be innovative and interesting enough.

Takayuki found this request strange, but he also understood that people like this usually had peculiar ways of thinking, which was normal.

Many of these people who operated in the gray areas were oddballs in real life, and their thinking was different from ordinary people.

Takayuki readily agreed to this request.

The other party wanted a game that was interesting enough? Alright, he also had an idea in mind and was planning to implement it anyway.

It just so happened that he could also develop a game for the other party.

This deal was completely beneficial.

After agreeing to deliver the game in three months, the other party disappeared immediately, leaving no trace of the conversation with Takayuki on his computer, already concealed to a certain extent.

Now Takayuki just needed to wait patiently and then deliver a fatal blow to these guys.

During this process, he could continue to release his games methodically without worries.

He actually understood best what players wanted. The criticisms from society could not affect the release of his games at all.

If he were to be influenced by these people and make games that were fundamentally not fun to play, that would be a real failure.

Just when those voices were loudly proclaiming that this baseball game would definitely fail, the game was officially released.

And the result they got was that the game was still popular, seemingly unaffected at all.

No, maybe it was still affected a little.

The number of adults purchasing the game this time had obviously decreased, with the majority being children or middle school students.

Children often didn't care about public opinion.

As long as the game was fun, that was enough.

The NES and Super Famicom were originally targeted at children, which meant that Takayuki's customer base was almost unaffected.

In some families, if fathers disliked the Super Famicom, but if their children liked it, for the sake of family harmony, they had to spend money to buy it for their children.

After all, family harmony was more important.

It seemed unnecessary to cause disharmony in the family just for a game.

This baseball game was already very interesting. With a basic introduction to baseball rules, it added more fun to the game and even some satire. In short, the overall enjoyment of the game was maximum.

Moreover, this game was directly made by the national team.

Children especially liked to use their national athletes to defeat athletes from other countries one by one, feeling a sense of accomplishment.

As for the professionalism of the game itself, they didn't care at all.

In this regard, Takayuki keenly grasped the pain points of the players, making it impossible for them to refuse this game.

Furthermore, besides these children, there was another group who also liked this game.

That was the working class.

Their day's work was already very hard, and they just wanted something that could make them happy.

Before, it was TV dramas, later, drinking alone, and then, electronic games.

They just wanted to seek pleasure in electronic games.

As for whether this baseball game was professional or not, it had become secondary.

As long as this game could make them smile occasionally, that was enough.

Those who claimed that the game would definitely fail were silenced on the first day of the game's release.

Because Tokyo TV reporters directly went to various sales venues for on-site interviews.

Almost every authorized store had long queues, just like the release of popular games in the past.

They shouted loudly in TV programs, but players seemed to ignore them completely.

This made those commentators very embarrassed.

Of course, they were not the most embarrassed, because they were just hired by TV stations to criticize Gamestar Entertainment.

The most embarrassed were still those four TV stations.

They spent money, spent energy, and even invited real baseball players to come forward, just to make Gamestar Entertainment, the culprit of the low ratings, pay the price.

Last time, the unexpected failure didn't hinder the development of Gamestar Entertainment. This time, they put in extra effort, even occupying several prime time slots, just to expand their influence.

But it had no effect.

At least, it had no effect on the players.

Why can't you guys listen to reason?

Damn it, if you can't listen to reason, then all our previous investments would be in vain, wouldn't they?

But soon, the commentators on TV continued to argue stubbornly.

The Super Baseball Tournament was only hot in sales for a short period of time. After many players found out about the unprofessionalism of the game, they would definitely be angry and accuse Gamestar Entertainment.

And then, a week passed, and nothing happened.

Only occasional players raised questions about the professionalism on the internet, but that hardly caused any waves.

A week after the game was released, Takayuki gave them a return gift, which was Takayuki's first return gift to them.

Super Baseball Tournament: Blood League's first-week sales exceeded two hundred thousand, officially entering the ranks of popular games.

See that? You idiots from the TV stations, do you think you can really affect anything by suppressing us through public opinion?

Let me tell you with facts, completely... useless!

And this was just the first return gift that Takayuki made them uncomfortable with.

Next, there would be a second return gift.