Though Wrath of the Lich King was an older game, the buzz it generated was enormous.
Players and countless gaming media outlets across the industry were all focused on this brand-new World of Warcraft expansion.
Professional guilds both domestic and abroad had thrown themselves into the race for the first clear of the new expansion's raids.
Meanwhile, a meeting was underway within Nebula Games.
"Bringing together major IPs from Nebula Games and other publishers?"
"Making something like DOTA?"
"It sounds pretty promising, but wouldn't that compete with our own games?"
Inside Nebula Games' conference room, the core development team murmured among themselves.
Those seated in the room were essentially all key employees of Nebula Games, so they naturally knew about the company's recent moves.
Nebula Games had acquired IP Licensing for quite a few well-known franchises from various publishers.
Before this, the company had also assigned a rather unusual task: experience these classic game series and fully complete them, including every collectible and every story route.
Combined with the direction of this meeting, it was clear that this would be a game bringing together many major IPs.
That was no small matter.
"Neither."
Chen Xu, seated at the head of the table, smiled faintly as he listened to their quiet discussion.
Then, a brief proposal appeared on the large screen behind him.
Qin Yi, Yang Xin, and the other members of the core development team all revealed expressions of surprise and bewilderment as they read the words on it.
Because the title displayed on the screen was extremely simple.
FTG, or competitive action games. Of course, players had an even simpler and clearer name for them: Fighting Games.
Everyone stared at Chen Xu in confusion.
The reason was naturally the genre itself.
If horror games were considered niche—
Then Fighting