Old Zhou laughed. "The H4 Club will be doing extra training soon. None of you will be able to escape if we follow DGE's model."
Huang Wang: "I'm happy! You don't know how uncomfortable I've been without working out these few days. I'll take the initiative to do extra training tonight! Also, my teammates' physiques are too weak. I must ask Coach Yaling to arrange them well! "
DGE's new mid-laner and the members of the H4 Club all looked like they were in trouble after hearing this short conversation.
Pei Qian watched everything silently from the side, completely at a loss.
What was going on?
The H4 Club's GOG team had moved directly to Jingzhou?
I did give you money to provide a better training environment for Huang Wang, but I did not allow you to come to Jingzhou!
I sold a team member and ended up bringing back a club!
Team Leader Su came to Boss Pei and sighed. "Boss Pei! I haven't had the time to thank you. If you had not generously provided us with the funds, we would not have made up our minds to come to Jingzhou. In short, please take care of us in the future! "
Pei Qian: "…"
What the f * ck? It's my fault again?!
However, Pei Qian could not say anything and could only force a smile.
Zhang Yuan called out. "Everyone, don't stand outside. Come in and sit. Jiang Huan, give me a hand and help with the luggage."
Everyone entered the DGE Club. Zhang Yuan greeted Manager Cui of Ming Yun Villas and asked him to help them find another vacant villa to rent.
There would definitely be no discount in terms of price, but it would be cheaper for the H4 Club than in Shanghai even if they rented it at the original price.
At the same time, the H4 Club would pay for the furniture, ROF computers, gym, and the like. However, Boss Pei had specially given them 2.2 million yuan to 'improve training conditions', so they had plenty of funds.
Pei Qian realized that a large part of this money seemed to have returned to his pocket …
Apart from renting a house, the H4 Club's gym, computer, take-out, and the like were all earned by Tengda!
"You guys take your time. I'll leave first." Pei Qian could not bear to watch such a lively scene and chose to leave.
Team Leader Su waited for Boss Pei to leave before speaking to Zhang Yuan. "Why do I feel that Boss Pei doesn't seem very happy?"
Zhang Yuan was stunned. "Really? Oh, you might be mistaken. Boss Pei has always been a shrewd person. He doesn't show his emotions. "
"Actually, Boss Pei attaches great importance to esports. Although he doesn't say it, you can tell from his actions.
"Let's take today as an example. He heard that we recruited a new member, so he took some time out of his busy schedule to come and take a look. He's afraid that the new member won't fit in well with the team."
Team Leader Su was enlightened. "I see! Manager Zhang, we've just moved to Jingzhou, and we're not familiar with the place and the people. We still need you and Boss Pei to take care of us. Also, you have to share more information about Boss Pei with me. "
Zhang Yuan patted his chest. "Of course!"
"By the way, Team Leader Su, what do the other clubs think about your move to Jingzhou?"
Team Leader Su smiled. "They're still observing."
"Actually, these clubs are all paying attention to our movements. They are all looking forward to playing mock competitions with us."
"They want to see how effective it is after we buy people and change the training method. They will only follow up after they find that it is effective."
"That's good. We can take advantage of this time to train and open up the gap between us and them! Let them observe. The gap between us and them in the next mock competition will be so big that it will shock them! "
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August 28th, Sunday …
In a cafe near Handong University, it was Qiu Hong's last class.
"Boss Ma, I've basically taught you everything I know about failure. Uh … there's one last thing."
Qiu Hong paused. He seemed to feel that there was something wrong with the phrase 'teach everything I know', but it seemed like there was no more appropriate way to put it.
"This last one might not be right, but it is indeed the last thing I can say."
Pei Qian nodded. "Please go ahead."
Qiu Hong was silent for a moment before saying, "Persevere in your dreams."
Pei Qian was stunned. "This is … failure experience?"
Qiu Hong nodded, his voice a little melancholy. "Yes.
"Boss Ma, have you seen my resume? My resume can be found on the Internet now. My earliest resume was in 2001. I worked as a systems designer in a xianxia themed game with paywalls.
"Boss Ma, don't you find it strange? Why did I have to worry about the main systems designer of a large-scale client-side game when I just entered the industry? "
Pei Qian recalled that it did seem a little problematic.
That was because Tengda had always promoted newcomers from the bottom, be it the systems designer or the chief planner. Therefore, Pei Qian did not feel that there was anything wrong with Qiu Hong's resume at first.
However, now that Qiu Hong took the initiative to mention it, Pei Qian thought about it carefully and realized that it was indeed unscientific to be a systems designer in an ordinary game company ten years ago.
In domestically-produced games with paywalls, systems designers were second only to the chief planner because the most important parts of the game: the combat system, paywalls system, game experience, and so on were closely related to systems design.
Systems designers could be seen as the right-hand men of the chief planner. Many chief planners or producers were even promoted from systems designers.
Generally speaking, even a graduate of a top university in mathematics could only be an ordinary executive planner and a systems designer when he first entered the job. He could only be responsible for filling out forms at first. He could only be promoted to the main systems designer of a game after one or two years or even longer.
This situation would be even more obvious in large companies and projects.
Qiu Hong was a systems designer in a large company and project when he first entered the industry. He was fully in charge of the game's systems. Excluding the possibility that he might be related to the boss of the company by blood, the most likely possibility was that he already had work experience before.
Even if his previous work experience was not successful enough, he could still fight for the position of chief systems designer in a new company as long as the part he was responsible for was good enough.
Pei Qian thought about it and said, "So, you actually did not enter the industry in 2001. You actually entered the industry earlier than that."
Qiu Hong nodded. "That's right. In fact, I entered the industry two years earlier than that. "
"It was the golden age of domestically-produced standalone games when I entered the industry. 'Illusory Sword Immortal Fate' sold 300,000 copies and earned 10 million yuan. The much-anticipated 'Dark Age 2' also sold for about the same amount of money. Although it can't be compared to overseas, it's already a record-breaking figure. 'Heroes' also sold quite well. "
"In that era, all the gamers who entered the industry at the same time as me had dreams. They all felt that we had to sell domestically-produced standalone games to the entire world. One day, we would also win enough awards in various international games."
"However, just a year or two later, the situation changed dramatically."
"At that time, I was lucky enough to meet the president of a domestic standalone game company. He told me that there was no hope for standalone games and that we should quickly turn to online games. I didn't listen to him, and neither did the producer of our project at that time.
"Later, in 2001, all the standalone games could not be sold. The first game that we worked so hard to develop was not even on the market.
"The company could not pay us. We hung on with the company for more than two months. In the end, our producer gave up first.
"That was why I went around submitting my resume. Many companies accepted my resume because I was in systems. However, the first thing they asked during the interview was: Do you have experience in online game development?
"Why did this happen? Why did domestically-produced standalone games die out in just two years? "
Pei Qian felt a little confused. "Die out? That can't be, right? Aren't the standalone games still doing well now? "
He was a little puzzled. If standalone games were really dead, then there was no reason for him to make so many standalone games to make money, right?
Qiu Hong smiled. "Boss Ma, you're still young. You might not even be ten years old at that time, so you wouldn't know these things.
"In those few years, domestically-produced standalone games did indeed die out.
"The reason why domestically-produced standalone games are doing well now is because ESRO was established around 2006. Piracy was strictly prohibited in various fields, so domestically-produced standalone games slowly regained their vitality.
"However, even so, that vacuum period of about five to six years still caused a huge gap between our game industry and overseas. Until now, we have not been able to catch up.
"Why was it that when domestically-produced standalone games were the golden age when I entered the industry, all standalone games projects died out just two years later?"
Pei Qian thought for a moment. "That period should be the period when online games were rapidly popular and occupied the standalone game market. A large number of game companies transformed."
Qiu Hong nodded. "That's right. A large number of standalone game manufacturers transformed into online games, which was the direct reason for the demise of domestically-produced standalone games. Then, the question is: why didn't foreign standalone games die out under the impact of online games?
"Moreover, even if online games made more money than standalone games, it would not cause standalone games to die out because not all companies were good at making online games.
"As long as there was money to be made from standalone games, there would always be companies doing it even if it was a little less.
"In fact, this is a very complicated problem. It is not just caused by a single reason. It's just like the demise of a dynasty is not just because of a flood, a plague, or a war.
"All disasters happen to happen at the same time."
"That era happened to be the era when overseas game consoles were flourishing. Our country did not have home consoles, only personal computers. Computers were a platform that could easily write and modify software. Therefore, including the operating system, very quickly entered the era of piracy.
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