July 8th, Friday …
As usual, Pei Qian had breakfast at Fish-Catching Internet Cafe and drank his coffee while perfecting his mind map.
"Eh, Boss Pei, isn't today the opening day of the Thriller Hostel? Aren't you going over there? "Xiao Peng could not help but ask curiously when he saw how calm Boss Pei was.
Pei Qian sipped his coffee and laughed. "Not going."
What was so interesting about the opening?
It was obvious that there would be a lot of people!
With Tengda's reputation in Jingzhou, with the publicity from the shared phone booths, 'Top Student, Come Quick', and other investors, and with Tengda Games and Quanmin Reviews … it would be too good for Pei Qian if no one showed interest in Thriller Hostel on its first day of business. It would be too good to be true.
Therefore, Pei Qian did not think that it would be a good thing at all. He would just lie flat for the first few days.
The key was to see how things would develop after the first wave of excitement passed.
Pei Qian had not given up on the Thriller Hostel project yet, mainly because there was one last line of defense for the project, which was the original line of defense: the charging model.
Of course, the Thriller Hostel originally had three or four lines of defense, such as its remote location, inconvenient transportation, lack of surrounding facilities, insufficient publicity, and so on. However, these lines of defense had collapsed before the Thriller Hostel opened. That was a very sad thing.
However, he could still count on the last line of defense.
Pei Qian's pricing strategy was: the first multi-player project would be extremely cheap; the second project would be more frightening and moderate, but one would have to memorize the specific process and operation of each project in order to pass it; the third project would be more expensive, and one would have to pass the second project to be qualified to challenge it.
That way, most people would be attracted by the first project and stop at the second. Very few people would really enter the third project to spend, and most of them would not go a second time.
The construction and maintenance of the Thriller Hostel were very costly. The first project's space was limited, and it would not make much money even if it was operating at full capacity all day long. The Thriller Hostel would not be profitable if tourists did not enter the second and third projects on a large scale and spend crazily in the Golden Maze.
In any case, the first wave of tourists would be the most dangerous. There would be haunted house enthusiasts from all over Handong Province, Tengda's old customers, and even Tengda Games enthusiasts from all over the country.
However, it was impossible for them to visit the haunted house every day. The Thriller Hostel would be safe after the craze passed.
Thus, Pei Qian decided to lie low for the next two days. Nothing good would come out of going to Thriller Hostel now.
However, Boss Pei did not seem to care at all. He just drank his coffee silently and typed on the computer. Xiao Peng inexplicably felt like Boss Pei was devising strategies.
Boss Pei was actually able to hold himself back from attending the opening of such a huge and time-consuming project?
What kind of great willpower did he have?
In fact, this was not something that could be achieved with perseverance alone. One also needed absolute confidence in the Thriller Hostel project and a calm mind.
Xiao Peng could not help but feel emotional. Boss Pei was no ordinary person!
Inspired by Boss Pei, Xiao Peng also quietly found a quiet corner and began to seriously think about the next work for Fish-Catching Internet Cafe, including how to arrange the specific location of a large number of new shops.
Pei Qian was organizing his mind map when his cell phone rang.
"Ding."
Pei Qian frowned. Could there be bad news from the Thriller Hostel?
That couldn't be?
He picked up his cell phone and looked at it. Pei Qian's expression was first happy and then shocked. He almost blurted out 'holy sh * t'.
He was happy because the income from Ruan's skin had been received!
Ruan's hero was released at the beginning of last month. It was exactly one month.
Of course, it was definitely not distributed separately.
It looked exactly one month. It was just a coincidence that such a sum of money had to be checked before being distributed. Thus, it was delayed from the beginning of this month to this Friday, which was the 8th.
However, this efficiency was already quite high. There was nothing to be dissatisfied with.
The reason why Pei Qian almost shouted 'holy sh * t' was that he did not expect this sum of money to be so little.
The information clearly stated that this sum of money was a total of 41366.4 yuan, and there were even small ones.
Pei Qian did not see it clearly at first. He carefully counted the digits before confirming that it was really a five-digit number of forty thousand yuan.
"Could it be that someone is embezzling my silver?"
Pei Qian instinctively thought so. It was not that he did not trust his finance department, but the key was that this was much less than he had imagined, right?
Pei Qian quickly opened the platform to check the data. After checking, he realized that he had not been wrong …
At the moment, GOG had more than 1.7 million concurrent users. It had more than 60% of the domestic MOBA game market. This figure was not much different from what Pei Qian remembered from the first half of 2012 for LOL's domestic server.
In other words, there were already a lot of players.
LOL could become so popular mainly because it had been developing for a few years. It had expanded the boundaries of MOBA game players and caused many players of other genres to fall into the trap.
At the moment, GOG, which had been around for less than a year, obviously could not reach that level of popularity. More than a million concurrent users on the domestic server was already a miracle. There was still a lot of room for development in the future.
Of course, these more than a million concurrent users meant that the real number of players was much higher. Some only came online once every two or three days, and they would buy skins.
More than four hundred thousand players bought Ruan's skin. This was Ruan's first skin, an epic skin that cost 18 yuan.
This skin only went on sale two weeks after Ruan went online. That was because GOG's project team was doing their best to develop new heroes. The creation of new heroes was a much higher priority than skins. Thus, it was not easy to squeeze out this skin two weeks later.
Pei Qian had set the price of the skin himself. The Hero skin was free, the epic skin was 18 yuan, and the Legendary skin was 45 yuan.
If it was 400,000 x 18 x 5%, that would be 360,000 yuan. However, the problem was that there was a rule when GOG's creative community was recruiting heroes: once a player participated in the design of a new hero, the first skin would be 10% off, the second skin would be 50% off, and the third skin would be 20% off. All players would be able to enjoy this benefit for a month.
If one was an active user in GOG's community, there would be other benefits.
In other words, players actually bought this skin for 1.8 yuan.
It was no wonder that so many people bought it based on the ratio. Many players might not even play Ruan. In fact, they would ban it every time they played a ranked game. However, because the skin was so cheap, many people bought it for the sake of collecting it.
GOG's main source of income still depended on the skins of heroes that were not designed by players. Those skins would not participate in the benefits of GOG's creative community and would not be shared with players.
Pei Qian had mixed feelings.
Logically speaking, forty thousand yuan was quite a lot for his current income, but why did he still feel a faint sense of melancholy …
Was this how it felt to shoot oneself in the foot …?
Pei Qian had previously set the price of all the skins as low as possible in order to reduce the game's income. Min Jingchao had obviously implemented this idea. In order to get players to actively participate in GOG's game design, he offered unprecedented benefits.
In the end, Pei Qian realized that the first month's share was only 40,000 yuan. He had to admit that this was all because of the karma he had planted previously …
Pei Qian took a sip of coffee and calmed himself down.
"Calm down, stay optimistic.
"40,000 yuan is actually quite a lot. What's more, it will increase in the future.
"Actually, if I think about it carefully, I won't lose out no matter what.
"GOG is burning money to expand its market share now, which is beneficial for me to take advantage of the System while incurring losses. If GOG really becomes popular in the future, each of Ruan's skins would bring me hundreds of thousands or millions of yuan.
"Therefore, it's good to treat this money as pocket money in the short term. In any case, I will have this money every month."
Indeed, Pei Qian felt much more comfortable thinking about it from another perspective.
"The first batch of tourists should have entered Thriller Hostel, right?"
Pei Qian looked at his watch. "I wonder what's going on over there."
…
At the same time …
At the entrance of Thriller Hostel …
Qiao Liang got off the bus of Thriller Hostel and looked at the bustling crowd. He had the illusion that he was visiting an amusement park.
Er, that was not right. Thriller Hostel was an amusement park, but it only had a haunted house at the moment.
"Jingzhou! I, Teacher Qiao, am back again! "
For some reason, there was a familiar sense of intimacy when he stepped onto Jingzhou's soil again. It was as if two old friends who had not seen each other for a long time had met again.
Qiao Liang took out his cell phone and clicked on his fan group. New messages quickly popped up.
"Brothers, gather at the entrance!"
"I'm on the next bus. I should be arriving soon. Wait for me."
"Where's Teacher Qiao? Come and lead the team! I'm under this tree next to the parking lot! "
Qiao Liang quickly found his fans and successfully met up.
"There seem to be fewer people than I imagined. I remember when I went to Disney and Universal, there were so many people that they had to queue to death," a fan said.
Qiao Liang smiled. "What are you thinking about? How can it reach the level of Disney and Universal? Disney invested billions of US dollars in an amusement park. How much did they invest? Just think of it as a bigger haunted house. "
"However, I believe that Boss Pei will definitely surprise us as always!"
For some reason, Qiao Liang felt that he always had a kind of trust in Boss Pei.
The news of the opening of Thriller Hostel had long spread in Qiao Liang's fan group. As an old friend of Boss Pei, there was no reason for him not to come and take a look, even if he was afraid of haunted houses.
Of course, he could not come if he was just a customer of Tengda. However, since he was Boss Pei's friend, how could he not come to support Boss Pei's haunted house?
Qiao Liang cherished his friendship with Boss Pei very much.
As for what to do if the haunted house was too scary … he would just follow his heart when he arrived and see the situation.
Soon, Qiao Liang's fan group gathered.
These people came from all over the country. They usually chatted online and did not have the chance to meet each other. This was a good opportunity for them to meet.
However, Qiao Liang soon discovered a sad fact: he did not seem to have any female fans.
A group of men walked into the Thriller Hostel together.
"To be honest, the scale is not small, and the supporting facilities are not bad. There are restaurants, hotels, shops, and parking lots. It would cost at least two to three hundred million yuan?"
"I heard that Boss Pei is not the only one paying. Many local investors in Jingzhou are paying together, and each is responsible for a portion. I'm afraid it would not be easy for Tengda to bear such a huge cost. "
"Yes, Boss Pei has to consider sharing the risk after all."
"Eh? Are there no tickets at the entrance? We've already walked in. "
"It seems that each project has separate ticket sales and ticket checks. There are joint tickets, but I didn't buy them because they cost two hundred yuan. It doesn't seem much cheaper … "
"Let's go in and see which project is fun before deciding how to buy tickets."
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