Losing money and becoming the richest man starts from the game Chapter 355 President Pei intends to speculate on the difficult version (6000-word chapter)
Chapter 355 President Pei intends to speculate on the difficult version (6000-word chapter)
While the interview at Tenda Network Technology Co., Ltd. was going on.
Dream Venture Capital.
Mr. Ma still didn’t come today.
Although Mr. Ma's whereabouts have always been erratic, and the company has indeed had no money to engage in new investment projects recently, the fact that Mr. Ma did not come still made He Desheng and others feel a little worried.
If Mr. Ma loses interest in the "nine guarantees one" game, many people may lose their jobs on the spot!
Even if you don't lose your job, but just fall out of favor, it means that your future career prospects are bleak.
Therefore, these masters who play games with Mr. Ma professionally and engage in investments as a side job are a little anxious.
After going to work, the first thing He Desheng did was to open his mailbox and check his emails.
I sent the game modification suggestions to Zhidou Company last Friday. I should have received a reply today Monday, right?
Sure enough, there was an unread email from Zhidou Company.
He Desheng briefly browsed it.
All I can say is that he is worthy of being a shareholder.
Zhidou Company had already responded to the email on Saturday. However, Yuanmengchuang was on vacation during the weekend, no one worked overtime, and He Desheng did not check the email on the weekend, so I only saw it today.
But no matter what, the reply was given within just one day, which is enough to show that the company attaches great importance to shareholders and domestic agents.
The email contains a lot of content, the tone is very polite, and it uses enough respectful words.
It's just that although the tone is euphemistic, the subtext is very clear.
Translation is nothing more than the following three points:
Thank you very much to Dream Venture Capital for your support and love for ioi games.
I am very grateful to Yuanmeng Venture Capital for their valuable opinions on the game, which are very inspiring for our game design.
However, due to some reasons that are difficult to express clearly in the email, Zhidou Company cannot promise to make changes in this way, because game design is a very overall issue. Of course, if conditions permit, these modifications are not completely impossible to consider.
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After reading this rather official reply, He Desheng sighed silently and closed the email.
There is no way, this attitude is already very clear and cannot be changed.
Although Yuanmeng Venture Capital has shares in Zhidou Company and has obtained the exclusive agency rights in China, with this small amount of shares, it is impossible to point fingers at Zhidou Company.
What's more, Zhidou's attitude towards investors has always remained unchanged, and its determination to remain independent is quite firm.
It is great to receive such a polite reply in such a short period of time. If other companies had raised these opinions, Zhidou Company would probably not even pay attention to them.
If you think about it carefully, this is normal. On the surface, Yuanmeng Venture Capital is an investment institution. How could Zhidou Company change the content of its game that has been acceptable so far just because of the advice of an investment institution?
Even though Dream Ventures is behind Tenda, but Tenda’s influence abroad is not that great, Zhidou’s answer will probably be the same.
In short, this road will not work.
If it's something else, then giving up means giving up.
But considering everyone's jobs, He Desheng felt that he must use games to regain Mr. Ma's trust.
Since ioi is not good, are there any other similar games?
He Desheng thought about it for a long time and suddenly remembered.
"Is Tenda also developing a similar game?"
"The brother department should be easier to talk to than the Zhidou company, right?"
He Desheng did not have Li Yada's contact information, but he was able to contact Assistant Xin.
So, after asking Assistant Xin for Li Yada's contact information, He Desheng sent the revised plan.
As for the person in charge of Tenda, will Li Yada accept this plan?
He Desheng had no idea.
Although they are brother departments, Tenda also makes games to make more money.
If this modification plan is contrary to Tenda's previous design direction, it is impossible for the person in charge at Tenda to completely violate their own design concepts and make major changes to the game just because of favors.
But anyway, let’s ask first.
Maybe the person in charge there is very interested in this modification plan?
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Tenda Network Technology Co., Ltd.
"Mr. Pei, I take the liberty of disturbing you."
"Regarding this haunted house, can Mr. Pei briefly explain the specific requirements?"
"Although Hao Qiong and I have some ideas, we are worried that we will not be able to meet your expectations."
Looking at the message sent by Chen Kangtuo, Pei Qian fell into deep thought.
Still haven't fooled me.
These two people took the initiative to ask, what should I do?
Pei Qian didn't want to "point the way" to Chen Kangtuo and Hao Qiong, because he felt that his mouth had been opened, and whatever he said would come true.
Every time I give someone a bad idea, it turns out to be a golden idea.
This made Mr. Pei feel very confused and troubled.
So this time, Pei Qian didn't say too much to Chen Kangtuo and Hao Qiong. He just let them figure it out on their own and tried to fool them.
As a result, these two people probably figured out that something was wrong, so they took the initiative to ask after a weekend.
Pei Qian didn't want to "point the way" to them, but it seemed a little inappropriate if he really didn't say a word.
Well, just say one thing.
Pei Qian thought for a while and typed a reply: "Let the brave people have nowhere to spend money, and let the timid people stay away."
Less than two minutes later, Chen Kangtuo replied.
"Mr. Pei, can you explain a little bit..."
Apparently, after he carefully thought about these two sentences, he thought hard for two minutes.
However, he still couldn't understand the meaning of this sentence at all, so he had no choice but to ask again.
Although this may make Mr. Pei feel like a waste, considering that this is a big project worth 10 million, Chen Kangtuo doesn't dare to execute it in such a hazy way.
Pei Qian chuckled.
explain?
It's very simple. It means that people who are brave enough to come and play can play at will, and the fees are low and they don't make money. People who are timid will not dare to come and play at all, and naturally there is no way to contribute income to the haunted house.
If the timid dare not come, if the bold come and it doesn’t cost much, wouldn’t this haunted house be properly compensated?
However, these words cannot be said clearly.
Pei Qian didn't dare to explain more, for fear that if he said something wrong, it would trigger crazy speculation between the two of them.
At this time, silence is better than sound.
Therefore, Pei Qian simply replied with three words: "Enlighten yourself."
Chen Kangtuo: "...Okay Mr. Pei, I understand."
He handed the phone to Hao Qiong.
The two of them looked at the three words "Enlightenment by yourself" written by Mr. Pei on the screen, and were speechless for a moment.
A good one to realize...
Just a reminder, isn’t the difficulty of this enlightenment too high?
Hao Qiong had heard that the general directions proposed by Mr. Pei before were often three to four points, and they were all relatively clear-cut.
But now, it’s highly condensed into one point, and it looks too confusing!
Teacher, this question is out of scope!
Chen Kangtuo felt a little pain in his head: "How...how do you understand this?"
Hao Qiong took a deep breath: "Calm down, calm down."
"Director Lin once told us how to analyze President Pei's intentions. Please wait a moment while I recall the knowledge points first."
"The first step is to first clarify a belief, that is, no matter how unreliable Mr. Pei's words are, they must be correct..."
Hao Qiong began to analyze the profound meaning of Mr. Pei's words according to the method taught by Lin Wan.
Bold people, timid people.
This should be all potential customers of the haunted house.
The attitude of these potential customers towards the haunted house directly determines the success or failure of the haunted house.
According to common sense, both bold and timid customers should have fun and spend money obediently.
However, the demands of these two types of customers are different.
Courageous customers will need a more thrilling adventure experience, for example, the staff will act as ghosts and scare them at close range.
Customers who are timid can easily be dissuaded by such an overly thrilling project. They may not dare to enter at all, and naturally they will not make any purchases.
So, how should we bridge the demands of these two different customers?
Chen Kangtuo felt that there must be an answer hidden in Mr. Pei’s words!
Let the brave people have nowhere to spend money, and let the timid people stay away.
Do you mean to make the haunted house extremely scary and then set a low ticket price?
In this way, those who are timid do not dare to enter and will naturally be deterred, and the ticket price is very low, and those who are brave have nowhere to spend money...
It seems that this is indeed consistent with Mr. Pei's statement.
But the problem is, this doesn’t make money and it doesn’t make sense.
Why should we scare away the faint of heart? Why not let them consume as much as possible? Why should we scare them away?
It's definitely not that simple.
Therefore, this idea must be overturned.
Let’s rediscover the deep meaning in Mr. Pei’s words!
The two of them thought hard for a long time.
Chen Kangtuo suddenly had some ideas, slapped his thigh suddenly and said, "Yes! I suddenly thought of it!"
"I'll simply tell you what I think. Listen and see if it makes sense."
Hao Qiong nodded and listened carefully.
Chen Kangtuo said with excitement: "The idea we just had, to put it bluntly, is the model of high horror effect + low ticket price, which will inevitably lead to huge losses for the haunted house. It is definitely a dead end."
"I definitely misinterpreted Mr. Pei's meaning."
"I wonder if we missed some key information?"
"Mr. Pei deliberately concealed a key piece of information. This is likely to be a test for us."
"Mr. Pei never said that the haunted house can only have one project?"
Hao Qiong's eyes widened instantly, showing a startled expression.
Yes, these two sentences are not necessarily about the same project!
The initial investment in the entire haunted house is tens of millions, and additional investment will be needed in the future. Moreover, it is built in such a remote old industrial area. It is inconvenient to go anywhere. The only advantage is that there is a lot of land, and the factory buildings can be used at will...
So, why did Mr. Pei choose a location here?
Obviously, he never intended to do just one project from the beginning!
Chen Kangtuo continued: "What if we open two or even three large projects to meet the demands of different consumers?"
"Let the brave people have nowhere to spend money, that is, find ways to collect money from the timid people."
“To keep away those who are timid, it means to satisfy those who are bold with a very exciting experience.”
"However, we certainly can't really scare the timid people away. Let the brave people blow up our haunted house, and let the timid people stay away from the haunted house, but keep looking at the door, hesitating... and eventually turn into courage.
Big people."
"This is Mr. Pei's ultimate goal!"
Chen Kangtuo and Hao Qiong continued to analyze, and Mr. Pei's goal finally became clear.
These two simple sentences can be broken down into the following points.
For brave players, this place should be very scary, and at the same time, the cost is very low for them. In this way, they will praise this place, recommend it to their friends, and take them to play again and again.
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For timid players, they will have a fear because this place is very scary, but they must not be completely scared away by this fear.
Even, we have to find ways to make more money from timid players!
So, how to charge less for bold players and more for timid players?
It's easy, with discounts and refunds!
For example, the longer you stay in the haunted house, the cheaper the ticket will be. If you can pass the level, you can consider directly refunding 70% to 80% of the ticket price, or even waive it depending on the situation.
In this way, Mr. Pei’s requirements can be well achieved!
However, this situation is a bit too idealistic and has some loopholes.
Timid players stay away and wait outside the haunted house, provided they come to the haunted house.
If they didn't even consider coming here to play, then naturally it would be impossible to achieve this effect.
Therefore, the haunted house must have a program suitable for those who are a little timid.
In this way, while these timid people are doing less scary things, they will also see the bolder people doing very thrilling things.
Moreover, this thrilling project will also be reduced or reduced based on the length of clearance time.
In this way, these timid people will try it, but because they will not insist on completing the whole journey, the price of tickets or additional consumption will be higher.
For example, you can sell something similar to the Buddha statue in "Return to the Shore" at the door. Taking this thing can not only provide lighting, but also reduce the fright of the staff playing the ghost.
This is equivalent to a value-added service in the game.
In this way, both consumer experiences can be taken into consideration!
A less scary but fun project to attract the faint of heart.
A very scary project designed to attract those who are brave enough.
After the timid people come, they will become curious about this scary project and generate additional consumption. In this way, the income of the haunted house will definitely be much higher than simply selling tickets, and the profitability will naturally be guaranteed.
Thinking of this, the two people who were originally confused felt suddenly enlightened.
"I see!"
"Then our mission is very clear now."
"This haunted house must have at least two to three major projects. It must have a low level of fright, but strong social attributes, suitable for multiple people to play repeatedly, to attract timid consumers."
"There must be a project with a high level of scares that horror fans across the country will flock to. Tickets will be reduced or reduced based on the length of time."
"As for the third project... it can be a transitional project. After all, the jump in horror factor from the first project to the third project is too great, and some timid consumers may still not dare to participate."
"Let them go to the second event to practice their courage, and then they can go to the third event to continue the challenge."
The more the two of them discussed, the more excited they became, and they immediately started writing a planning document!
Hao Qiong sighed while typing: "Don't tell me, the analysis method Director Lin mentioned is really easy to use."
“So many things were analyzed at once!”
Chen Kangtuo nodded: "Yes. But having said that, the guidance given by Mr. Pei is more important."
"It seems that Mr. Pei has already made plans for this project."
"Not only did he predict the ultimate form of this project in advance, but he also extracted the key points for the success of this project and gave us a hint in such a short sentence!"
"Mr. Pei is really awesome."
"In that case, what else do we have to worry about?"
"There will be absolutely no problem if you just follow what Mr. Pei told you to do!"
The two of them were very unsure and worried that they would mess up.
But now, both of them are full of confidence and full of expectations for the haunted house to be built in the future!
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night.
Tenda Group’s first recruitment has come to an end.
Although there will be a Tengda Spiritual Compatibility Test later on, it won’t have anything to do with the examiners and staff.
Those who participate in the interview have been strictly screened, and the length of each person's interview will be strictly controlled. Although the time is slightly longer, it is not much different from the estimate.
However, this time the work continued until after 5 p.m.
Because after the interview, the examiners and all staff have to calculate and weight the scores of all interviewees, sort out the final shortlist, and notify the interviewers.
This time, various departments have recruited a large number of new members.
There are key employees with rich experience who have been in the industry for many years, as well as college students who have just graduated or will graduate next year.
Although cross-interviews prevent each person in charge from directly interviewing job applicants from their own departments, the final selection results can basically satisfy everyone.
After all the work was done, the heads of each department happily went to have a meal to express their gratitude to each other.
After eating for more than an hour, we were ready to go home.
Li Yada took the opportunity of the dinner party to ask Huang Sibo and Lu Mingliang some questions.
Although the two people had different ways of understanding Mr. Pei's intentions, the results seemed to be the same.
It wasn't until the party was over that Li Yada found the opportunity to take out his mobile phone and saw He Desheng's friend application and the suggested game improvement plan he had sent.
"This plan... seems very risky."
Although Li Yada's understanding of similar games is not as deep as Bao Xu's, she has been leading the development of gog for so long, and she can clearly explain the pros and cons of most designs.
In the eyes of most people, the 5v5 confrontation game represented by "Shenqi" is undoubtedly a fair competitive game.
Since it is a competition, the higher the difficulty, the clearer the distinction between expert players and novice players.
However, too high difficulty will also lead to too high game thresholds and discourage some handicapped players.
Lowering the difficulty will indeed make the game experience better for novice players, but for many experts, "the game is easy to use" may also be one of the reasons why they lose their sense of superiority...
In short, these suggestions seem to make sense, but they also have certain dangers.
It was difficult for Li Yada to decide how to choose.
After thinking about it for a long time, I still couldn't make a decision.
Originally, she wanted to ask Bao Xu or Mr. Pei for advice, but then Li Yada remembered what Lu Mingliang had said at the dinner party.
At that time, Li Yada asked Lu Mingliang what he thought was the most important quality of a game designer.
Lu Mingliang thought about it and said that the most important quality is not to be too confident in yourself.
Li Yada didn't understand, so Lu Mingliang explained a little more.
According to Lu Mingliang, most designers are very confident in themselves.
Because before becoming a designer, most people must first become a game enthusiast and experienced game player, and then they can join the game industry and work their way up step by step.
If they were not confident in themselves, many designers might not have entered this industry.
Therefore, most designers are full of confidence in themselves.
This kind of self-confidence is certainly a good thing, but sometimes it can make you blind.
Every player is an individual, with vastly different tastes and preferences.
And the game is bound to be impossible to satisfy everyone.
A good game only needs to meet the tastes and needs of the target player group, and that's enough.
So, what should we do if what the designer likes is completely opposite to the target player group of this game?
Many designers will fall into blind self-confidence, and the games they create will fail without players.
On the contrary, designers who are not so confident in themselves will listen to opinions with an open mind and make the game more in line with the taste of most players and achieve success.
Therefore, the meaning of not being too confident does not mean that you have doubts about yourself, but that you should not blindly believe in yourself or blindly follow others.
Observe players from an objective perspective as much as possible, and find a balance between personal preferences and player demands.
Thinking of this, Li Yada couldn't help but reflect on herself.
She does not have blind confidence herself, but...
Isn’t it inappropriate to blindly trust Bao Xu?
Although Bao Xu is indeed experienced in similar games, he may have made the mistake of "overconfidence" as Lu Mingliang calls it...
After much consideration, Li Yada decided.
There is no need to ask Bao Xu or Mr. Pei for this plan, just make a new version!
Among these changes, the last-hitting economy, head bounty and other game mechanics are relatively easy to do; the map shrinking is a little more troublesome, but it can be corrected within a few days; the more troublesome content, such as designing some
Heroes suitable for novices or experts need to be considered in the long run, but there is no need to rush.
In the early stage, you can completely change these basic mechanisms first, make another version, and update it to Moyu Internet Cafe at the same time.
After waiting for a period of time, just compare the player data of these two versions, wouldn't it be clear which version is better?