On June 21st, Fei Huang Workspace's documentary, Coming Out of the Cocoon as a Butterfly, was officially released on Aili Island's website!
As a documentary, Coming Out of the Cocoon as a Butterfly did not have any advertisements and did not receive any special sharing agreements from the website.
According to Aili Island's normal incentive plan, even if it had more than a million views, it would only earn a few thousand yuan. That was a drop in the bucket.
Therefore, Huang Sibo and Zhu Xiaoce had more or less given up on this idea. They would just treat it as generating electricity out of love.
Fei Huang Workspace had already released a series of short videos called Boss Pei's Daily Life and already had a large group of fans. Therefore, once this documentary was released, it immediately attracted a lot of attention!
In the video, Li Zhengwei faced the camera and talked about his journey over the years.
"After my father left, I kicked the door open and ran to Shanghai alone to start my professional career.
"Now that I think about it, I don't regret this choice. I feel that I was born for eSports. If I had followed the normal path of working, getting married, and having children, I would probably spend my entire life regretting it.
"I'm not like those second-generation rich kids who were born with a silver spoon in their mouths. I was unlucky and was born into a poor family. However, looking at it from another perspective, I was lucky as well. I chose a career that I liked and made a name for myself.
"However, I don't recommend children to follow my path.
"After I became famous as a professional, many people would ask me questions about playing professionally.
"My answer would always be the same.
"If you had really made up your mind, you wouldn't have asked me this question. You would have kicked the door open and left just like I did in the past. From then on, you would have believed that this was your dream and that I would fight for it for the rest of my life.
"If you need my advice before you can make up your mind, then my advice is to figure out one thing first: Are you afraid of learning and trying to escape? Or do you really understand the price you have to pay for choosing to become a professional gamer?"
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Soon, many players left comments in the video's comments section.
"Sofa!"
"I was wondering why Fei Huang Workspace stopped filming Boss Pei's Daily Life. It turned out that they had been holding back a big move!"
"This documentary looks very classy. It's going to be a big production!"
"It's actually a documentary about my favorite professional gamer. I have to support it!"
"I didn't expect the life of a pro player to be so bitter … Kicking down the door to play pro is too miserable. Luckily, my parents approved of my results."
"Brother Li's every word is very sincere."
"This documentary is really meaningful. I have a younger brother who doesn't do well in school. He skips classes every day to play games online. He even says that he wants to play professionally. I think Brother Li is right. He didn't really love it, and he didn't consider whether he had the talent. He just wanted to escape. "
"That's right. This documentary doesn't just promote passion, struggle, and esports spirit. These have already been filmed too many times. To young people, this is a form of misdirection. What's valuable about this documentary is that it also shows the hardships and sorrows of this industry, especially letting us know that there are so many pro players who haven't made it to the top. It can be said to be very objective. "
"I didn't expect Fei Huang Workspace to come up with such realistic content. I support it!"
The players' comments below the video were full of praises!
Coming Out of the Cocoon as a Butterfly very quickly entered the popular ranking of the gaming region. Then, it appeared on the front page of Aili Island. Its popularity remained high!
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June 23rd …
In Fish-Catching Internet Cafe, Pei Qian switched off the documentary on his cell phone and took a sip of the coffee in front of him. His heart, which had been hanging in the air, was finally at ease.
"Phew … the atmosphere is finally normal for once.
It really didn't make any money. It wasn't easy! "
Coming Out of the Cocoon as a Butterfly had been released for three days. In these three days, Pei Qian had been on tenterhooks.
He was afraid that Huang Sibo would suddenly call him and say, "Boss Pei, the documentary has made money again!"
The good thing was that such a scenario did not happen.
Pei Qian confirmed again and again that although Coming Out of the Cocoon as a Butterfly had achieved nearly two million views in three days and was in the top three of the rankings on the website, it really did not bring in any profits.
According to the incentive plan, the final profit of this video would only be a few thousand yuan. It was a drop in the bucket.
This was completely in line with Pei Qian's previous predictions.
"Not bad. I've gained valuable experience in incurring losses.
"The facts have proven that filming documentaries that don't make money is indeed a good choice.
"I feel like I can continue to invest in Fei Huang Workspace."
Pei Qian suddenly realized that after Fish-Catching Internet Cafe, he seemed to have found another good way to incur losses.
That was to film films that were good but not popular!
After so many failures, Pei Qian realized a problem: incurring losses was not as simple as he had imagined.
The System had many restrictions to prevent Pei Qian from incurring losses on purpose. For example, the System stipulated that he could not produce shoddy products or pass them off as good ones. The games he produced had to be profitable, and so on.
In other words, the products that Pei Qian released had to be of high quality. He could not purposely mess them up.
However, Pei Qian realized something now: in the System's judgment, 'high quality' obviously did not refer to earning money. It also included reputation!
For a documentary like Coming Out of the Cocoon as a Butterfly, the possibility of recouping its capital was already very low. However, the System did not stop him.
That included Pei Qian's Fish-Catching Internet Cafe. The possibility of incurring losses was very high, but the System did not stop him.
This meant that in the System's judgment, 'reputation' was also a very important indicator. As long as he could obtain a good enough reputation, the System would also recognize this product. It would not think that Pei Qian was incurring losses on purpose.
Pei Qian had vaguely sensed this before, but he did not dig deeper. The main reason was that games and films had different ways of earning money.
In the gaming industry, a good reputation often meant high sales. Under the premise of the system's mandatory inclusion of profit points, the possibility of a reputable game losing money was extremely small.
Although there were games in history that were good but not popular, there were far too few of them compared to movies.
However, videos were different. No matter how good their reputation was or how many views they had, they might not be able to cash in. For example, this documentary.
"Therefore, as long as I continue to let Fei Huang Workspace shoot these films that are not popular, I can steadily incur losses!"
Pei Qian immediately found the direction that Fei Huang Workspace was heading in.
The next time he saw Huang Sibo and Zhu Xiaoce, he would think of a way to trick them so that they would never return from the path of the documentary. That way, he would be able to create a stable source of losses. How great would that be!
However, Huang Sibo and the others probably wouldn't be filming an esports theme in the future. As for what they would be filming, that would have to be discussed again.
There was only one week left until settlement. They couldn't afford to have any unannounced products.
In other words, there was not much that Pei Qian could do now. He could only spend as much money as he could while praying that nothing would change.
Pei Qian looked at the System Funds. It was currently incurring losses.
"What needs to be done is more or less done. The problem now is how to maintain this loss-making state."
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