By the time he returned to Jingzhou City, it was almost New Year's Day 2010.
Everything was going well in the company. Salaries and rent were paid on time and the System Funds were sufficient to cover all expenses. As long as he lost all his money and the game flopped, Pei Qian would be able to earn 500,000 yuan.
It was exam week in school. In order not to fail any subjects, Pei Qian rarely went to the company.
In any case, he did not care about how the game turned out. It would be best if it made a loss …
January 7th, Thursday …
Pei Qian finished another exam and returned to his rented apartment near the school. He laid down on the sofa, feeling indescribably relaxed.
Seeing that the settlement date was nearing and that he had achieved his goal of making a loss, Pei Qian's tensed nerves relaxed slightly.
As usual, he called the system to check on the System Funds.
Very effective!
Finally, he had spent almost all of it!
Pei Qian was so touched that he wanted to cry. With his hard work, he had finally achieved a balance of income and expenditure and was gradually making a loss!
Now, Tengda's monthly expenses were roughly the following: office rent, employees' salaries and overtime, utilities and daily expenses, various company supplies, etc. Every now and then, he would organize team-building dinners to spend as much money as he could.
With this series of operations, he had finally spent most of the money that Ghost General had earned. There was not much left in the System Funds!
At this point, the System Funds was in a state of loss compared to the initial 500,000 yuan.
Next, Pei Qian only had to do two things.
He had to release Ocean Stronghold online these two days. That way, he would be able to fulfill the System's requirement of having no unreleased products in the week before settlement.
After that, he had to spend as much as he could to spend the remaining 100,000 yuan!
After that, he just had to wait for the system to collect the money during settlement!
As for how he was going to promote Ocean Stronghold …
Pei Qian had no intention of promoting it at all. He wanted to release it on the official platform and be done with it. It would be best if no one found out about it!
His original intention was to lose money. He had to try his best to prevent gamers from finding out about the game!
"Just in case, I'll organize a team-building dinners after the game is completed and spend the remaining 100,000 yuan as much as possible. The less money left, the better.
"Everyone has worked so hard to develop the game. It's not too much to watch a movie, eat, and sing karaoke together, right?"
At that thought, Pei Qian called Assistant Xin.
"Assistant Xin, make arrangements to celebrate the completion of Ocean Stronghold's development this Friday night. Arrange a team-building activity. First, they would watch a movie, then go to dinner, and finally go to karaoke. Book as many places as you can! "
"That's right, it's Friday night."
"Saturday and Sunday are rest days. How can we use our employees' rest time to do team building? Isn't that bullying?"
"Yes, Friday night."
"Alright, send me the itinerary after you've decided on it. The requirements are the same as before. It has to be of high quality, understand?"
Just as he was about to hang up, Assistant Xin said, "Hold on, Boss Pei. There's something else."
"Do you remember the lady who asked you a question when we went to Sun Strike Studios in Guangzhou? She's Lin Wan. "
Lin Wan?
Pei Qian had some impression of this name, but it was not a deep one.
"What happened to her?"
Assistant Xin said over the phone, "She has come to Jingzhou City and wants to join our company. She is very determined. She even said that she doesn't want any salary."
Pei Qian was stunned. "Huh? Where is she now? "
Assistant Xin replied, "She's in the office. She just arrived not long ago and I've just received her."
She's doing fine in Sun Strike Studios. Why is she here in Jingzhou?
She wants to join our company and doesn't want any salary?
How can that do!
Pei Qian pondered for a moment before asking, "Assistant Xin, what do you think of her?"
Xin Hailu went silent for a moment before replying seriously, "Boss Pei, I think this lady has quite a background. She should be a rich girl from a wealthy family. I noticed that her clothes and bag are all famous overseas brands. Her entire outfit would cost at least tens of thousands. "
"She doesn't put on airs and has a good personality. However, I'm a little worried that she's too naive and naive. She might not be suitable as an employee. Of course, it's up to you whether or not you want to accept her. "
Naive and naive?
Doesn't that mean that she doesn't have any working capabilities?
Alright, that's the type of employee I like!
Pei Qian felt that this Lin Wan seemed to fit his recruitment criteria perfectly!
Wasn't it great that she was a pampered rich girl who basically had zero working ability?
"Alright, hire her then! Salary … I'll give her 4000 a month for now, and then I'll raise it later. Just sign the contract with her. As for work … oh, I don't think there's much work to be done recently. Don't assign her anything for now. Let her do whatever she wants. That's right, count her in for Friday night's event! "
Pei Qian instructed casually and did not take it to heart. Instead, he continued thinking about his 500,000 yuan.
…
On the company's side, Ocean Stronghold's research and development was in its final stages.
Bao Xu did not go to Guangzhou. For the past few days, he had been trying out Ocean Stronghold's story mode repeatedly, recording down all the parts that he felt were awkward and handing them to Huang Sibo to fix.
Bao Xu did not know much about those deep game design theories and only trusted his instincts.
Whenever he felt that something was wrong, he would record it down and hand it to Huang Sibo.
On the other hand, Huang Sibo would rack his brains to analyze where the problem was. Most of the time, he would be able to find a way to fix it!
Huang Sibo knew that the story mode was the highlight of Ocean Stronghold. It was the key to elevating the game and he had to make it perfect!
Of course, other aspects were important as well. For example, the feel of shooting, the models and actions in the game, the other modes apart from the story mode … all of these affected the player's experience.
Bao Xu basically took care of all of these. After all, Bao Xu was a hardcore gamer. Right now, he was just playing his own game instead of other games.
Bao Xu did not find it tiring at all. Instead, he was enjoying it!
When he was playing other games, Bao Xu would feel helpless whenever he encountered something that he did not like.
That was because submitting customer service feedback was basically a waste of saliva. He would not be able to get feedback from the project team. Even if he did, the project team would probably not make any changes.
However, Ocean Stronghold was different. If Bao Xu felt that something was wrong, he would tell Huang Sibo and fix it at the speed of light!
The major changes in the early stages were more or less done. All that was left was to slowly adjust the minor details such as the trajectory of the guns and the collision boxes of the characters. Although these were important to the game experience, they could be completed with just a few changes.
As the deadline neared, Huang Sibo finally heaved a sigh of relief.
He did not fail his mission!
Ocean Stronghold's development was completed on time and the quality was guaranteed. He had not let down Boss Pei's trust!
However, Huang Sibo did not know anything about how to advertise and market the game.
He did not think too much about it. After all, these were all decided by Boss Pei.
If Boss Pei was in charge of the marketing plan, what could he do wrong?
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