"Awesome."
"I like such a bright and bright system!"
After slowly understanding the system's temper, Pei Qian felt that he was getting better at making use of the system.
Would this special mission be difficult?
Yes, but it was still within an acceptable range!
Furthermore, even without the system's special mission, Pei Qian already had similar thoughts.
Pei Qian knew very well that one of the most important trends in the next ten years would be for physical shops to go from bad to worse!
There were two main reasons for this.
First, the increase in rent and the increase in the cost of renting a shop.
Second, with the rapid development of online shopping and delivery platforms, more and more people preferred to stay at home.
In the past, opening any shop at the entrance of a university would be profitable.
Even if he opened a small store or a printing shop, he could still make a lot of money.
If it was an internet cafe or a reputable restaurant, it would be even more profitable.
However, as time went by, more and more physical shops started closing down.
That was because the functions of many physical shops had been replaced by e-commerce platforms!
In the past, many university students went to nearby computer malls to buy computers and ended up being scammed.
Later on, everyone went online and no one went to computer malls to be scammed.
Some people went to supermarkets to buy daily necessities but some chose to have them delivered directly to their doorstep.
More and more people ordered delivery for meals. At most, they would go to high-end restaurants during holidays and would not go to small restaurants by the roadside.
All in all, no matter what kind of physical shop it was, it was getting worse and worse. It was truly a sunset industry.
That was exactly what Pei Qian liked!
However … why should he open a physical shop?
The system did not specify what it was but it was fine as long as it was a physical shop. The only restriction was that it had to be in a busy city or near a school.
Even small shops, bookstores, printing shops and the like would be fine.
Pei Qian fell into deep thought and analyzed the chances of success.
Although physical shops would continue to deteriorate in the next ten years, would they definitely make a loss by opening one at this point in time?
That might not be the case …
That was because it was 2010 and online shopping and delivery were still in their infancy. Physical shops were still quite profitable!
For example, bookstores, small supermarkets, internet cafes and the like in front of schools were doing very well.
Even a random printing shop in a corner would make a lot of money …
Students usually had to go to a printing shop to print papers, print homework, make photocopies of documents, and so on. This was a necessity.
Ten years from now, physical stores would most likely incur losses.
But in the short term, there was a high possibility of profit.
What's more, Pei Qian was conflicted. How was he going to open this physical shop?
If he invested less, he would lose less. If he was lucky, he would earn a little, but he would not be able to lose anymore.
If he invested too much money, what if the quality of his shop was much better than the other shops and it became popular?
This was a technical job, and it had to be considered at length!
However, before opening a physical shop, Pei Qian decided to implement the 'first place elimination system' that he had been planning for a long time.
Originally, he only wanted to recruit a bunch of hooligans, but in the end, all of them had great potential. How was this acceptable?
It was especially so for Bao Xu and Huang Sibo – there would be endless trouble if they were left alive!
With the two of them around, it would be difficult for Tengda's games business to incur losses!
As for Lin Wan … he could observe her for a while longer.
After all, the reason why she could contact those players previously was because she happened to be in charge of such work when she was in Sun Strike Studios.
If it was another project, her connections would be completely useless.
Therefore, Pei Qian was thinking about how he could arrange for Bao Xu and Huang Sibo.
He definitely could not fire them on the spot, nor could he demote them.
Without any evidence and without a reasonable reason, the system could not agree to it.
Pei Qian fell into deep thought.
…
February 1st, Monday …
In the office …
"Brother Huang, look, there are many people discussing our game on the internet. It seems like there are many industry insiders?"
Xiao Lu was browsing the web as if she had found some big news.
Huang Sibo nodded. "Got it, I've been watching."
Huang Sibo looked at Bao Xu. "Brother Bao, what do you think?"
Bao Xu's expression was calm. "What has it got to do with us?"
Huang Sibo thought about it. That's right, what has it got to do with us?!
There were indeed many people discussing Ocean Stronghold on the internet. This topic had been trending for almost half a month, and it had not stopped since the game was released.
At first, it was just Ocean Stronghold and Bullet Hole's players scolding each other. However, as they argued, the topic became more and more popular for some reason …
At the start, everyone was debating whether Ocean Stronghold or Bullet Hole was better.
After arguing for a while, Bullet Hole was no longer a topic …
Everyone started debating whether Ocean Stronghold was the conscience of the industry or the cancer of the industry.
There were many employees from other games companies who participated in the discussion.
Just by clicking on a random thread, one could see two groups of people arguing endlessly.
"Ocean Stronghold is most likely the one who started the 'paywalls' era of domestically-produced games!"
"Selling a permanent weapon for 888? That's an unprecedented price! What's more, as an FPS game, they actually sell attributes? Does this company even have a little bit of passion and integrity for games? "
"Other games would be scolded like dogs by you guys when they make in-game purchases that cost two to three hundred yuan. Why are you guys still sucking up to this game when it makes an 888 yuan weapon?"
"Also, this game's server is always full and lagging. Rubbish!"
"How many fake reviewers did this game actually buy? It's clearly a trashy game with heavy paywalls, and yet it's being touted as the light of domestically-produced FPS games? "
However, these views would soon be refuted.
"A trashy game with heavy paywalls? Hehe, looks like you've never played it before! "
"That's right, I'm Ocean Stronghold's fake reviewers. What's wrong with that?"
"Let me emphasize, why do I say that this game has a conscience? That's because it only sells a weapon that costs 888 yuan, and everything else is free! You other games that make in-game purchases have already flipped the pages of the products. How can this be the same? "
"This game's story mode has a lot of AAA masterpieces in it, and it's done very well. AAA masterpieces would cost you at least two hundred yuan, right? It's reasonable to cut it in half and sell it for a hundred yuan or even fifty yuan. "
"But this silly company is completely free of charge! They even let people experience the story mode for free! If this isn't conscience, what is it? "
"The 888 yuan weapon is nothing more than transferring the money that everyone originally had to pay to the local tycoons. Moreover, the local tycoons are willing to buy this weapon. Isn't it a win-win situation?"
"As for the person who said that the server is lagging, I'm sorry, but Ocean Stronghold is no longer lagging! They must have rented a new server and expanded the bandwidth! "
"Sigh, some people these days just don't know what's important and what's not. This company develops games and provides services; they can't possibly use their love to generate electricity, right? They exempted you from the entry fee and transferred it to ballers. Yet, you're still unhappy? "
…
In the end, no one could come to a conclusion as to whether this was a cancer of the industry or a conscience of the industry.
But no matter what, everyone was arguing, but the popularity of the game had increased!
The key was that the 888 yuan Red Kilin was too much of a topic. Many passersby who did not care about the game at all would subconsciously remember the name of the game when they heard that a weapon was being sold for 888 yuan.
Therefore, Ocean Stronghold's statistics continued to rise!
Huang Sibo was initially worried that the argument would affect Ocean Stronghold's reputation.
But from the looks of it, not only did it not affect its reputation, it even had an objective effect!
Huang Sibo was relieved. It seemed like everything was going according to Boss Pei's plan!
At that moment, Pei Qian walked out of his office.
Wearing a new pair of spectacles (frames), Boss Pei looked more confident and confident. Huang Sibo admired him from the bottom of his heart.
"Everyone, take a look at the internal chat group. I've started a poll.
"This is an anonymous poll. Everyone, please choose who you think is the best employee.
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