The system does not allow full refunds to previous players. After all, "Return to the Shore" only reached the free standard this month.
But in order to take care of the players' emotions and maintain the company's reputation, partial refunds are still okay.
As the saying goes, if you buy early, you will enjoy it early. If you buy late, you will get a discount. If you don’t buy, you will be in vain.
Games are always the most expensive when they first come out, and then the discounts become more and more intense. This is not only a promotional strategy for merchants to maximize profits, but has also become a habit and consensus among players.
Many e-commerce companies have also introduced price guarantee policies. If the price of purchased goods drops significantly in the short term, the price difference will be refunded.
Of course, there are many reasons here. Pei Qian can't tell them exactly, and he doesn't care. He just uses this excuse to refund players.
Being able to send back the money that has been put into the system's pocket, is there anything in the world that makes people happier than this?
Yu Fei couldn't help but show a shocked expression.
So conscientious!
Mr. Pei is indeed Mr. Pei, he is always so extraordinary!
In fact, most players are very receptive to the fact that the game is free. Even if they just bought the game at the original price and it is free, even if the manufacturer does not provide any compensation measures, most players will not cause trouble because of this. At most, they will not.
I just go online to make a few comments and laugh at myself about my luck.
After all, manufacturers offer discounts or free games, which is a good thing for the player community. It is a bit excessive to demand that manufacturers compensate players who have purchased the game before.
But Mr. Pei took the initiative to give refunds and compensation without the players having to say anything!
As an old game, "Return to the Shore" still often appears on the best-selling list of official platforms, and it is also a frequent visitor to the best-selling list of action games.
So many players are wondering, is there anyone who hasn't bought "Return to the Shore"?
Such a game itself is a stable source of profit for the company.
What's more, the great success of "Eternal Fall into Reincarnation" and the original version of "Return to the Shore" are a perfect match. Most players have already reached the consensus that "they must be packaged and bought together."
Needless to say about the old players, the key point is that for those new players who have recently entered the game, why don’t they also buy “Return to the Shore” as a package after buying “Eternal Fall into Reincarnation”?
This is another huge amount of income!
As a result, Mr. Pei actually gave him free of charge at this key point in "Return to the Shore"?
It can only be described as awesome.
Yu Fei nodded immediately: "Okay, Mr. Pei, don't worry, I will definitely arrange this matter!"
He thought that although he was leaving soon, if he could facilitate this matter before leaving, it would be a great favor for the players by lending flowers to Buddha.
This brief experience of my guest role as chief designer at Tenda can be regarded as a perfect ending.
Pei Qian nodded with satisfaction: "Well... the second thing is, go and call everyone here, and let's have a meeting to talk about the new game."
"ah?"
Yu Fei was stunned for a moment, a little confused.
After a while, he said: "Mr. Pei, there is no need to rush this matter, right?"
"Hu Xianbin will be back soon. Why don't you wait until he comes back to hold this meeting, otherwise I will have to hand over work to him by then, and many design intentions may not be conveyed well."
"Hey, why is this scene so familiar..."
Yu Fei suddenly remembered that something like this happened at the beginning of last month.
Mr. Pei asked Yu Fei to cooperate with Meng Chang on the promotion plan of "Eternal Reincarnation". Yu Fei originally wanted to wait until Hu Xianbin came back, but he didn't expect that Hu Xianbin didn't even arrive at the company. He was pulled away halfway and never saw him.
.
But Yu Fei can only work hard for another month.
Then this time...
Yu Fei's eyes were suddenly full of vigilance, and he realized that something seemed wrong.
"Mr. Pei, will something happen to Hu Xianbin again? Didn't we agree to a month of special training? I won't be able to see him at all this time, right?"
Pei Qian thought for a while: "Ah, that's not the case."
The implication is that we should still be able to see each other once.
It is said that Bao Xu arranged a three-day holiday for these responsible persons to take care of the funeral arrangements. Oh no, before embarking on the journey to Shennongjia, they could return to their respective departments and briefly handle related work.
After all, I have been away from my respective department for a while, so it is only human nature to go back and take a look.
Therefore, Yu Fei will definitely be able to see Hu Xianbin, and he won't be unable to meet him at all.
But after seeing it... it's hard to say.
Hearing what Mr. Pei said, Yu Fei breathed a sigh of relief.
It's okay, okay, I almost imagined the terrible scenario of having to work on my behalf for three consecutive months.
Pei Qian continued: "The main reason is that there are often some changes in the schedule of the special training class. It is normal to be two days ahead or two days behind. But the work of the game department cannot be delayed, especially for new games.
Creativity must be met early and the plan determined early, otherwise it will easily drag down the entire development cycle.”
Yu Fei nodded, feeling that what Mr. Pei said made sense.
Tenda's game department has always been famous for its divergent thinking, wide-open imagination, and strict control of the development cycle. This is a tradition left over when Huang Sibo was the first person in charge, and it is also the purpose of the entire Tenda Group.
The premise of divergent thinking is that you must first have a meeting to finalize the general direction of the new game, so that everyone can brainstorm and design game prototypes in the same direction and within a certain broad framework.
To strictly control the development cycle, you must also cherish every working day. After all, if you cannot work overtime, every working day is precious.
So just to save time for the handover of work, waiting for Hu Xianbin to come back before holding a discussion meeting on this new game is obviously very irresponsible and not in line with the spirit of Tenda.
Yu Fei once again felt ashamed of his unprofessionalism.
Hey, this kind of work attitude is wrong!
Mr. Pei trusted me so much that he asked me to take over.
I thought very well at the beginning and wanted to stand on the last duty.
As a result, in the end, I still naturally felt that "more things are worse than less things". This really failed to live up to Mr. Pei's expectations of me!
Thinking of this, Yu Fei stood up and said, "Okay, Mr. Pei, I'll call them all here."
…
Soon, all the core members of the game department arrived and took their seats in the conference room.
I’m making a new game again, so happy!
When we were developing "Eternal Reincarnation" before, although we were very excited, we also knew in our hearts that this was just a DLC, and after all, it was a little bit boring.
Now it’s finally time to develop the next big game!
I wonder what kind of fantastic ideas Mr. Pei will come up with this time?
Pei Qian was very worried when he saw the expressions of the people in the game department looking like they were waiting for food.
It’s so tiring to rack your brains every time to fool this group of people!
Moreover, even though they have succeeded in fooling them, it is precisely because they have fooled them that they often complete the game with confidence.
Over time, it fell into a vicious cycle.
So what game will the game department make this time?
Pei Qian has tried too many directions before, some popular and some unpopular.
But whether it is popular or unpopular, it all succeeds in the end!
This is so fucking outrageous.
So now Pei Qian has almost figured it out. Whether the game is successful or not may not have a lot to do with his own choices. It is better to regard it simply as a matter of luck and do whatever he wants.
When Pei Qian held a meeting with Yangyang Games before, he actually kept a plan.
At that time, everyone worked together to figure out the types of games that Tenda had not yet made, and summarized some, such as fighting games, audio games, sandbox games, etc.
In the end, I chose "Safe and Civilized Driving", a racing game for Yangyang Games, mainly because "Lonely Desert Highway", which Tenda had previously made, was not actually a racing game, and there was another chance of failure in this direction.
It is difficult to lose money in audio games, and the risk of sandbox games becoming popular is too high, so Pei Qian doesn't want to do it for the time being.
In the end, the option of fighting games was retained.
It just so happens that Tenda Game Department spent some time developing "Eternal Falling Reincarnation" this time, and there is not much time left in this cycle.
Wouldn't it be nice to arrange a niche game to play casually in this small amount of time?
Of course, Pei Qian still has no idea how to make this fighting game, because he is not a fighting game player at all, and he has never even memorized the move list.
But so what? Anyway, the games that Pei Qian plays relatively well are just like that...
Let everyone brainstorm thoroughly first, and then start messing around. A very weird game should be born, right?