1 EP. 1: Shabby Game Store (1)

“So this is an ongoing project. You guys have no objection to steering towards the mobile, right? ”

‘No. Objection. Son of a bitch…’

But I swallow the horse in my heart as I always have. God damn it.

“But this project. How long will the final client last? ”

“Since the beta service is in March next year, shouldn't we at least do it by the end of February? ”

Are you kidding me? You're only giving me six months to overthrow an ongoing project and start over? ’

My insides boil.

The CEO was sitting up there nodding his head as he was snoring. Maybe in his head, the game came out clean in February, marketing for about a month, and then launching the service, he thought the money was just rolling in.

You're welcome.

I'm going to blow up this project, but I can walk all my fingers.

At that time, one of the team leaders stopped looking at me to see if I didn't like my face.

“Joon-Hyuk? ”

“Yes.”

“You got a problem with that? What's wrong with your face? ”

“Hey, Team Leader. This project is so different from the original plan. This is a very serious user billing system, and if you launch the game like this, it's going to buy a lot of rebuttal for the users. It's not good for the company image. ”

Then, Team Leader Han Kyuhyun glanced at me with a frown.

His habit of squinting at one eyebrow is to throw up a little bit on his project.

“That's why you pushed the last project like Joon-Hyuk said. Don't you know better about how that turned out? ”

‘Fuck, you got in the middle of that and you smashed it all up!! ’

I have so many words to say.

But I didn't do anything stupid about it. After all, Lee is not the kind of person who can understand a representative who is digging in a corner, and a team leader is not a big supporter of my opinion.

“As you all know, the game market in my country is now a chicken game. The PC online marketplace, which was supposed to go for 10,000 years, fell, and now it's time to focus on mobile. NetBlue, which used to be the same level of sales as us, is now number five in the industry with one mobile game. Don't you guys feel anything when you look at these examples? Can't you just figure out how to make it work for the company? ”

“Yes, yes. ”

The CEO nodded, confronting the team leader. NetBlue... yes, I copied a billboard into mobile games and swept away a lot of money, but over the years, I ran out of users with dirty billing schemes.

“And Gametown, our subcontractor, has been pouring out new ones every quarter. But our company didn't have anything new until the first half of this year. You think this makes any sense? ”

“Yes, yes. ”

The more I listen, the more I get amazed. So if the original plan had been a target, it would have been complete by April, so we're gonna have to slow it down.

Moreover, this time, we have completely changed the platform itself with mobile, so everything that we have done since November last year has become futile. One team leader was full of strength on his shoulders thanks to the CEO who kept playing the field.

“Speaking of which, I think it would be best if Chief Kang Jun-hyuk, who is in charge of the main director, left out of this project. Why don't we move the department to Customer Satisfaction for a while? You like making jokes with your users. ”

“Yes?”

“Your planning is too user-friendly. I can't make any money. If we're not volunteers, if we can solve the game for free, we have to figure out a way to get the money. I will personally lead this project. You can skip it this time, or you can play with your users for the rest of your life. ”

I mean, it's gonna look like crap, but you want me to clean up your mess? Plus, the head of the design team who doesn't know a damn thing about game planning or programming is the main director of this project... The faces of the project representatives who were gathered in the conference room were dim and distorted.

“What's wrong with your face? If you have a complaint, tell me now. I'll send it to the customer satisfaction team with Joon-Hyuk. Go and leave a comment. ”

The conference room was quiet.

&

“Ah, fuck, chief. I really can't do this. One team leader can't work with him. ”

Time to go home. Usually, this intimate surrogate grumbled and spoke. When I looked at the watch, it was pointing to 10 p.m. one day. Phew... Late night to the last day of department change... I cleared my props in a box on my desk and left the office of the second development team.

“Chief, are you really going to leave without saying anything? ”

“What if I say something? Can you hear me?”

“You should have at least tried. ”

“Enough! I'm tired too. Right now, the Executive Director has a very different mindset than the former President. ”

“You're too much. Chief, if you teased me to make a good game with you, you should have taken me to the end!”

“Would you like to join me on the Customer Satisfaction Team? ”

“That's not what I said!! ”

“I'm so sorry. I didn't think it would come to this. ”

“The chief must be in a bad mood, too, but I think he's over reacting because he's angry. ”

“Still, I'm glad you're still here. I worked well with one team leader to lead the project.”

“Yes, I understand. ”

“Do you want to grab a drink sometime? ”

“Oh, I've been noticing my wife lately. She's a little...”

“Phew. Okay, I get it. Then I'll go first. ”

“Go ahead, chief. ”

When I broke up with this surrogate and left the company, I felt a cold evening air. Is it autumn already? I paused my steps toward the parking lot and looked back at the company building. 34 years old this year. I've only been a developer for 15 years, and I can't believe I'm going to be Chief of Customer Satisfaction Team tomorrow.

I thought that if I joined the game company I would be able to make what I wanted to make, but I was busy making games designed by someone else for 8 years after my first job, and that was the same even now as being the main director. Rather than appealing to what you find interesting about the games you make, you can make this much money with the CEO. "I had to explain, and I had to make a presentation that I could increase revenue several times at the lowest personnel and development costs.

In the end, the game I created did not hit the so-called cool. I had to... I heard the boats were going to the mountains when there were so many things, but the results of the project that he was working on were so different from what he had originally planned.

In addition, games that were not properly tested for rapid fundraising were subject to continuous bug and server instability after release, which is a natural outcome.

The latest trend in mobile gaming is inevitable speed. After a quick launch, I watched for just two weeks, and then decided whether to leave or not, and immediately stopped the service. If you want something to fly, immediately you're busy copying it, and after a slightly different version of the game is released, Abigail said they copied each other's stuff.

Now I feel like I'm watching the Korean edition Atari Shock of mobile gaming.

Atari, who led the US gaming market in the 1980s, is one of the darkest histories of gaming. After releasing the development tool, you created a game, too, and it was also the famous E.T. that came out of the unproven game like a flood, culminating in the year-round low game.

An unidentified monster, created in just five weeks to meet the Christmas season launch that year after E.T. opened, was buried in the middle of the U.S. New Mexico Desert under full recall.

Atari Shock, which reduced the gaming industry to almost $100 million at the time for 3 billion. The mobile gaming market now looked much like it did then.

“If I go home, there won't be anyone around, should I get a drink around the house? ”

I pulled the car keys out of my pocket and headed to the parking lot.

34 years old this year. I'm still single.

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