Chapter 481 President Pei's Vision and Gu Raising Tactics
Monday, April 11th.
Yangyang Games.
Lin Wan was in her office, worrying about recent work tasks.
She found that the tasks assigned by Mr. Pei were becoming more and more challenging.
Previously, I was developing an online horror game that was very rare on the market, and was also responsible for the development of a mobile phone. Now, I am operating the national server of ioi, a successful foreign game project.
Directly compete with GoG of Tenda Games in the domestic market!
Logically speaking, it is much more difficult to develop a new game and then be responsible for a mobile phone than to be an agent for a game.
Because agent games do not require your own research and development, you only need to think about operation and promotion strategies, which seems easier.
But Lin Wan's pressure at this time was even greater than before.
Because she thinks this is a very difficult task!
Much more difficult than the previous task!
As soon as she received the task, she called Ye Zhizhou and Wang Xiaobin for a meeting to discuss the plan for the task.
Some conventional plans were quickly finalized, such as opening the official website of the Chinese server, translation and dubbing for the Chinese server, renting cloud servers, outsourcing customer service teams, opening and operating promotion activities for the Chinese server, etc.
These are the most basic. Even if Lin Wan doesn't care, Ye Zhizhou, Wang Xiaobin and others can complete them.
But the problem is, how can it compete with gog with these alone?
Lin Wan recalled that when Mr. Pei handed over the task before, his words seemed to have great expectations for ioi's national server.
But Lin Wan herself doesn’t think that ioi can compete with gog in the Chinese server.
Because the quality of gog's games is not inferior to that of ioi, and the most critical issue is that gog has seized the market through the interoperability of client games and mobile games, and has attracted a large number of players through cash rewards settled in four seasons every year.
At present, both players who are originally "Shenqi" and ioi, or players who have never been exposed to similar games before, have a natural affinity for gog.
We have already lagged so far behind at the beginning. It is not easy to turn the situation around!
What made Lin Wan most speechless was that it was herself who gave Li Yada advice and asked her to use the mobile version first...
Of course, this idea was proposed by Mr. Pei, but Lin Wan interpreted Mr. Pei's intention.
Lin Wan now feels a little bit more like what it feels like when other companies compete with Tenda.
Completely speechless!
Tenda Games can be said to be Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and it can also get guidance from Mr. Pei, making it an absolutely difficult enemy.
While I was worrying, there was a knock on the door outside the office.
Lin Wan looked up and saw that it was Ye Zhizhou.
"How are the preparations for the opening of the national server?" Lin Wan asked casually.
Ye Zhizhou held a document in his hand and sat down across from the desk: "Everything goes well. Our department has always had experience in operating "Blooded War Song". Although operating ioi is much more difficult, it will not be a rush."
Lin Wan felt a little melancholy: "I don't know what Mr. Pei is thinking this time."
“I don’t want to compete with Tenda’s gaming department at all.”
"But looking at Mr. Pei's attitude, it seems that he encourages us to spend money on marketing and promotion, so that the ioi national server version can seize the gog market."
"I always feel weird when I hit myself, especially since I'm so familiar with people from the Tenda Game Department, so it's even weirder."
"Besides, I really don't think I have any chance of winning."
Obviously, for Lin Wan, these two games are very different.
Gog is a game developed by Tenda itself, and there is a hero based on Mr. Pei; while ioi is not bad, it is not that friendly after all.
What's more, Tenda only has the right to operate ioi, but cannot interfere in research and development, which makes Lin Wan feel very uncomfortable.
Ye Zhizhou was silent for a moment and said, "I think Mr. Pei may be using a gu-raising tactic."
"The development of gog has been too smooth, but it is easy to fall into slack and be overtaken by latecomers. As for similar game types, most players can only play one at a time, and the winner takes all."
Lin Wan thought for a while: "I have thought so too, but... where is the evidence?"
Ye Zhizhou said: "The evidence is time."
"The first investment after the establishment of Dream Ventures was to invest 20 million in Zhidou Company and obtain the agency rights of ioi for the national server. Immediately afterwards, Mr. Pei began to ask Tenda Game Department to immediately start developing gog. Is this just a matter of time?
Is it a coincidence?"
"Obviously, Mr. Pei has foreseen the huge potential of this game type in the future."
"For most games, you can choose either agent or self-development, but Mr. Pei obviously attaches great importance to this game model, so he will work with both hands, one agent and self-development at the same time."
Lin Wan nodded, feeling that it made sense.
Mr. Pei has always given people the impression of being well-planned and exhaustive.
When making games, once a certain type of game is successful, you will never redo a second game of the same type.
However, gog and ioi are obviously the same type of games, but they are laid out at the same time. Whether they are betting on both ends, or whether they allow the two projects to encourage each other, it shows that Mr. Pei attaches great importance to this.
Lin Wan thought for a while: "So, our primary goal now is to complete President Pei's mission and seriously grab gog users, right?"
Ye Zhizhou nodded: "I agree. Although we cannot 100% guess what Mr. Pei is thinking, it should be certain that Mr. Pei asked us to grab gog users."
"But..." Lin Wan frowned slightly, "Maybe it's because I have a very subjective view of gog. I really don't think there is anything about ioi that can definitely beat gog."
Ye Zhizhou handed the document in his hand to Lin Wan: "I think this may be one of the trump cards in our hand."
Lin Wan reached out to take it, flipped through it quickly, and found that it was a development schedule for new ioi heroes.
Throughout this year, ioi plans to update 24 new heroes, averaging two new heroes every month.
"So fast?!" Lin Wan was stunned.
Because she roughly understands the complex processes required to make a new hero, including hero creativity, appearance design, original painting, modeling, action, special effects, numerical balance...
These tasks are very tedious.
This kind of update speed can be called a model worker.
As the saying goes, in martial arts, only fast is the best, and the same is true for games. Even if a game manufacturer's game is not perfect, as long as it continues to update, improve, and provide new content, it can maintain enough player stickiness.
On the contrary, even if a company's game is doing well, but the updates are too slow to meet players' needs for new content in a timely manner, the popularity of the game will quickly decline.
Zhitou Company's ioi itself is a well-made game. If it can be coupled with such a super-fast update speed...
Definitely very competitive!
Lin Wan thought for a while: "Gog...it seems impossible to maintain this update speed. It would be great to be able to make a new hero in more than a month."
Ye Zhizhou nodded: "Yes, we all know the situation of Tenda Games."
Now Tenda's game department is divided into two groups. Hu Xianbin leads a group of people to be responsible for the research and development of "Struggle", while Min Jingchao and Zhang Nan lead another group of people to be responsible for gog's version update, new hero design and skin design.
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Obviously, there is a big gap between the number of people and Zhitou Company, and there will naturally be a big gap in the speed of developing new heroes.
If ioi's hero update speed is much faster than gog's, it means that ioi can provide players with more game content, which is a huge advantage and can even out the early popularity gap.
Lin Wan thought about it for a long time and said, "Okay, let's start from this point."
"Since President Pei wants our two projects to encourage each other and make progress together, there is no reason to talk about favoritism. Let's all rely on our own abilities!"
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At the same time, Pei Qian was in the office, checking the data of Moyu Takeout.
Rui Yuchen, the person in charge of Moyu Takeout, stood aside with a very worried expression.
Moyu Takeaway has been an ancillary industry of Moyu Internet Cafe since its inception. The person in charge of Moyu Internet Cafe changed from Ma Yang to Zhang Yuan, and then from Zhang Yuan to Xiao Peng, and has always been Rui Yuchen's direct superior.
When Moyu Takeout was founded, Lin Canrong was originally in charge. However, due to Lin Canrong's outstanding loss performance while in charge of Moyu Takeout, Pei Qian was transferred to take charge of Mingyun Private Kitchen.
So Rui Yuchen stepped into this gap and has been responsible for taking out food until now.
Pei Qian has never met Rui Yuchen before, because the Moyu takeout business is affiliated with Moyu Internet Cafe. If you have any needs, you can just ask the person in charge of Moyu Internet Cafe directly.
And the reason why Pei Qian called Rui Yuchen here today is of course...
To promote him.
It's just that Rui Yuchen doesn't know Mr. Pei's true intentions yet, and is worried that Mr. Pei will be punished this time, so he is very nervous and feels uneasy.
So far, Moyu Internet Cafe has been losing money and has no profit. On the other hand, other related businesses: Moyu Internet Cafe, ROF installation, Mingyun Private Kitchen... have all turned losses into profits, and have even opened branches in Lincheng.
The only one that can compete with Moyu Takeaway, which continues to lose money, is Headwind Logistics.
The person in charge of Reversible Wind Logistics is Mr. Pei’s loyal supporter. Lu Mingliang made great contributions to Mr. Pei in the game department. How can it be compared?
Rui Yuchen felt that if Mr. Pei wanted to find a loss-making department to take action, then Moyu Takeout seemed to be the most reasonable choice.
Thinking of this, he became even more nervous.
Pei Qian read all the data on Moyu Takeout and was very satisfied.
It is not difficult for a business to lose money for a while, but what is difficult is to keep losing money, and no matter how other businesses turn losses into profits, no matter whether the person in charge is changed or not, they will still lose money!
Lin Canrong made Mingyun Private Kitchen popular, which is enough to prove his ability.
But even Lin Canrong couldn't turn Moyu Takeaway into a profit.
This is enough to show that Moyu Takeout is a good department that can withstand the test!
Thinking of this, Pei Qian knocked on the table gently: "What do you think... the main reason why Moyu Takeout is still not profitable?"
Rui Yuchen felt a thump in her heart and thought to herself that it was not good.
Mr. Pei is really going to call an army to hold him accountable!
Rui Yuchen had the answer in his mind. He felt that taking out food was not profitable, mainly because of the operating model.
But I can’t say it!
The operating model was set by President Pei. If there is a problem with this model, wouldn't that be a slap in the face to President Pei?
Rui Yuchen pretended to think hard, and finally shook her head: "I don't know."
Although this answer will make you look incompetent, at least it is much better than slapping Mr. Pei in the face...
Pei Qian was stunned for a moment, a little surprised by this young man's uprightness.
But he quickly smiled because he was very satisfied with the answer!
He seems to be a malleable talent.
In this case, you can let him take on more responsibilities!