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Chapter 237 - 101: Clearly heaven is helping me complete my mission! But how can there still be someone who can defy destiny even a little?_2

Chapter 237: Chapter 101: Clearly heaven is helping me complete my mission! But how can there still be someone who can defy destiny even a little?_2

"Please have the China Broadcasting Bureau take extra care of the little brother that is the gaming industry, issue a few more game licenses each year."

"For those in the gaming industry, the topic of game licenses is inescapable."

"To facilitate market supervision and prevent games from leading players astray, only games with a license can be made available for sale."

"Issuing licenses is managed by the Game Supervisory Bureau, and for games without major issues, Director Chang usually turns a blind eye."

"But the number of licenses issued each year is determined by last year’s market conditions and decided by the China Broadcasting Bureau."

"Previously, only about 1000 licenses were issued annually (on Earth, it was 500+ last year, but as the fictional gaming industry has a stronger investment presence and higher revenue, the quota is larger)"

"This means that there are only a little over 1000 games that can be launched in a year."

"Additionally, some major factories like to hoard their licenses."

"Take applying for a project – once it passes the initial review and gets a license, development begins."

"Yet, due to market fluctuations or other reasons, game development might temporarily halt or even be scrapped, but they cling tightly to their licenses."

"Effectively, they are hogging the toilet without doing their business."

"Many major factories play this game, hoarding dozens of licenses at once."

"Medium to large factories might hoard about seven to ten or more licenses, keeping them in reserve for emergencies."

"Once the trend of hoarding licenses spread, what seemed like a decent number of 1000 licenses left very few available for grassroots designers once it trickled down to the market."

"Chang Detai discussed with the old Director about making some slight adjustments to gaming laws to curb the hoarding of licenses."

"But no matter how they changed it, it wasn’t satisfactory."

"These major factories would still find loopholes to exploit."

"And you can’t just mandate that a company can only work on one game at a time."

"Some wealthy major factories might have dozens of games, big and small, under development simultaneously."

"In the end, the only solution Chang Detai could think of was to expand the limit on licenses."

"It’s usually hard to speak up, but taking advantage of this quarterly meeting, with agriculture assistance performing quite well, and the gaming industry actively responding to the national call,

"Maybe if we push a little on top, we could get a few more scraps."

"Soon, the taxi stopped at the entrance of the China Broadcasting General Bureau."

"Director Chang had been to the China Broadcasting Bureau more than once or twice, so after getting out of the taxi, he made his way inside with ease."

"Upon pushing open the conference room door, he immediately noticed many familiar faces."

"The meeting had not yet started, and everyone was chatting in low voices in groups of two or three."

"’Director Chang is here today as well?’ someone said after Chang Detai had just sat down."

"The speaker was an old acquaintance of his, one of the deputy directors of the neighboring Advertising Administration Bureau."

"The advertising industry, being larger than the gaming industry, has three deputy directors, all of whom were present for the meeting."

"’I’m just waiting to receive my reward,’ Chang Detai said with a smile."

"’If I remember correctly, this is the first time this year that games have participated in the agriculture assistance theme, right?’ a dignified elderly lady on the other side joined the conversation."

"Chang Detai was equally familiar with her."

"She was the deputy director of the Film and Television Bureau."

"The Film and Television industry is vast, with its annual GDP contribution being significant within the entertainment and culture sector."

"Even those at the bureau director level hold positions equivalent to department chiefs and thus do not need to attend such quarterly meetings in person."

"’Chang, how many do you reckon you’ll sell? A hundred thousand?’ another person asked."

"’Yeah, about that number.’

"’Not bad at all. The gaming industry is quite a small pot, but selling a hundred thousand units a month means you’ve exceeded your goal. Unlike our department, we might sell about a million this year, but the requirement is one million exactly. It’s tough,’ sighed another person, responsible for managing the fields of livestreams and short videos."

"Upon hearing this, envy arose among the others.

"Though agriculture assistance is merely a theme, the outcome of this initiative reflects each industry’s market influence. The extent of this influence is a direct determinant of whether the China Broadcasting Bureau will give the green light to further industry development."

"This is why so many had gathered here.

"We indeed responded positively.

"But after answering the call, the upper echelons should also provide us with some benefits conducive to industry development, right?

"’It feels like we’re almost entirely in the era of livestreams and short videos now. Our traditional film and TV are becoming increasingly difficult to manage. Our influence is waning year by year. The agriculture-themed short film we produced this year didn’t do too badly, but I guess we’ll barely manage to sell sixty or seventy thousand units,’ one person commented."

"’Big brother is joking. Film and TV have always been the cornerstone of cultural entertainment; they’re not in decline. On the contrary, it’s our music/audiobook sector that’s plummeting. This time we found a few good singers for endorsements, and if we can sell thirty thousand units, that would be an achievement,’ another remarked."

"’We’re doing slightly better, I guess we might have...’"

"As sales data was kept tight by the China Broadcasting General Bureau, everyone could only guess."

"However, the more they guessed, the colder Chang Detai felt..."

"He had thought selling a hundred thousand units was already decent and was prepared to discuss with the higher-ups about increasing the number of licenses."

"But looking around,

"All the complaints about thirty thousand being too few, five hundred thousand not enough, six to seventy thousand barely acceptable, and even those who sold more than a million were still unsatisfied.

"Why is everyone showing off, leaving just me, the honest one?

"If you don’t want them, I do. Since you’re all so discontent and dismissive,