Chapter 1 Watching the Video

After watching the video, Pei Qian fell silent.

Some philosophical questions kept swirling in his mind.

Who am I?

Where am I?

What am I doing?

Qiao Laoshi's words in the video kept echoing in his ears.

The painstaking effort and pride of a top game producer?

The good fortune of domestic players?

A shiver from the soul?

Another magnificent world?

Enough already!

Misunderstanding, this is a complete misunderstanding!

Dear viewers, please don't listen to this fatso's nonsense. Buy a few less copies of this game, please!

However, the feedback from players in the comments and bullet comments mercilessly shattered Pei Qian's illusions.

"That makes sense!"

"Indeed, it's impossible for the developers to be so bored as to create such complex steps just to dissuade players. Thinking about it now, it really has purified the game environment."

"Although I still can't accept it, I understand it."

"Sounds interesting, I really want to try it!"

"I've been playing this game for several days. It's really fun to play with several experts who understand the gameplay! I hope Lao Qiao can release strategy videos and game walkthroughs as soon as possible, so that more people can experience the charm of this game's high-level gameplay!"

"I'm going to complete the prerequisite tasks and buy it to play!"

Pei Qian sighed helplessly and silently closed the video.

...

Shangyang Games.

At this time, Ye Zhizhou and Wang Xiaobin were also watching Qiao Laoshi's video.

After watching it, the two couldn't help but nod in satisfaction.

"There are experts everywhere! Qiao Laoshi is indeed President Pei's confidant. He really interpreted President Pei's true intentions," Wang Xiaobin said with emotion.

Ye Zhizhou smiled and said, "He's really amazing. As the creators of this game, we only realized this after President Pei made the ARG game. He's not much slower than us."

"And Qiao Laoshi, as a player, can comprehend President Pei's intentions to this extent. It's really commendable."

"We originally thought that completing the development of this game, without bugs, and with an excellent horror experience was enough, but it was far from complete."

"Because for such a complex game, temporary popularity is nothing. How to operate it for a long time is the most important thing!"

"The game *BeQuiet* requires players to be patient and willing to use their brains to study the game's settings. Only when everyone in the game is proficient in the gameplay can everyone have the best gaming experience."

"At the beginning of the game's release, we were all aware of this, but perhaps because we didn't realize the importance of this matter, or because we felt it was an unsolvable problem, we didn't do anything."

"Fortunately, President Pei saw through this and helped us mend the fold!"

Wang Xiaobin nodded: "Yes, using the ingenious ARG game and the eye-tracking game as prerequisites for purchase is indeed a good way to screen and train players."

"But what I'm worried about is, will this kind of screening also have certain hidden dangers?"

"In any case, this kind of screening will eliminate a large percentage of new players, and this game is an online game. In the long run, if the game can't get new players, it may slowly become a ghost server..."

Ye Zhizhou shook his head with a smile: "No!"

"Do you think President Pei wouldn't think of the problems you can think of?"

"In fact, President Pei's behavior is not screening at all. You've fallen into a misunderstanding!"

"Qiao Laoshi is just an up-loader after all, not a professional game producer. He only saw the current screening effect on players, but he didn't see the farther future!"

Wang Xiaobin was stunned: "Oh? What do you mean by that?"

Ye Zhizhou said with a smile and confidence: "According to my understanding, President Pei's entire strategy should be divided into at least three stages!"

"The first stage is to ensure that the first batch of players who enter *BeQuiet* are elite players who are patient in studying the gameplay and have a high gaming IQ through preliminary screening of players."

"Of course, a large number of game sales will be lost in the initial stage, but keeping *BeQuiet* in such a 'small but beautiful' state is more conducive to maintaining the player experience of niche groups and improving the game's reputation."

"In the second stage, as the game's reputation continues to increase, there will be a continuous stream of new players starting to pour in."

"And before these new players enter, they will also go through this simple 'training'. And because the number of new players entering is small, under the leadership of old players, they will quickly figure out how to play this game and quickly integrate into it."

"In this process, new players will quickly transform into old players, so in the third stage, this game will attract a large number of players to enter as much as possible while maintaining its reputation and game environment!"

"On the other hand, if a large number of players are allowed to enter at will from the beginning, it will make the game environment chaotic. Novice players will not be able to quickly escape due to the lack of traditional pleasure, and expert players will also have their mentality unbalanced by novice players. The entire game will fall into a state of disorder, and the popularity will quickly decline!"

"In other words, President Pei is not only sacrificing the game's sales to ensure the game environment, but he has truly achieved both! It's just that the explosive growth of game sales in the early stage has been postponed and spread out over the following months!"

Wang Xiaobin suddenly understood: "I see! Sacrificing this month's income, but allowing subsequent income to continue to increase, what a 'delayed gratification'!"

Ye Zhizhou turned his head to look out the window and said with emotion: "Although President Pei doesn't personally participate in the game's development, he can achieve a miraculous effect by casually making a few ARG games in a few days. This kind of skill is really beyond our reach..."

"We still have to follow behind President Pei and continue to work hard!"

...

...

March 17th, Thursday.

Pei Qian didn't get up until noon.

Because his ottoe1 phone arrived last night.

I have to say that Chang You knows what's what. As soon as the new batch of goods arrived, he sent someone to deliver it to President Pei as quickly as possible.

As a result, Pei Qian played GoG until after 2 a.m. before going to sleep.

When Pei Qian woke up in the morning, he only had one feeling.

Games are really bad for the body!

Especially for the liver!

MOBA games are even worse.

However, using the phone I made to play the hero in the game I made, which is based on myself, and then changing into my exclusive skin, this feeling is quite addictive...

Pei Qian can now understand why a certain designer nerfed Irelia n times in a month, and also understand why a certain producer is so fond of Reinhardt. When the designer himself is playing a certain class or hero in the game, it's difficult not to design with any subjective color...

Of course, Pei Qian doesn't intend to buff Modest.

Because once he's buffed, it's estimated that all four teammates will grab him, or he'll be instantly banned as soon as he enters ranked, and he won't be able to play him at all...

So, it's good to keep the current state.

I have to say that spending a lot of money works very well. Pei Qian can even intuitively feel that the number of players is increasing.

When I played yesterday, I often had to wait in line for four or five minutes. Today, when I play again, the waiting time has been shortened to one or two minutes, and sometimes I can get in in twenty or thirty seconds.

Of course, this is just a normal match. If you want to go to a high-scoring ranked game, you still have to wait patiently for someone to match.

Even Pei Qian himself is envious of the 100,000 yuan prize.

However, he also knows very well that this is impossible. On the one hand, President Pei knows himself and doesn't think he can reach the master rank. On the other hand, if he spends all his time playing ranked games, the company will likely make a lot of money if no one is in charge.

So after weighing it again and again, Pei Qian felt that losing money was more important!

After all, playing games can only be regarded as a hobby, while losing money is his main business.

Speaking of losing money...

Pei Qian opened the backstage and took a look at the data of *BeQuiet*. After Qiao Laoshi's video was released, the game's sales were also increasing, but the increase was within an acceptable range and not particularly exaggerated.

On the other hand, the game's score on the tpdb website has been rising, and it's almost at 9 points...

Pei Qian was originally thinking about whether to take some remedial measures, but seeing that the sales hadn't exploded, it didn't seem necessary.

As for the reputation, let it rise, anyway, it won't bring any extra burden.

Pei Qian strolled to the Moyu Internet Cafe Handong University branch, and while eating lunch, he was planning that it was time to eat and drink, oh no, hold some celebration banquets.

Calculating the time, the employees of these successful projects now go to President Li's Mingfu Family Banquet for a meal every day, and they can eat for at least a week without repeating the same dishes.

Because there are too many successful projects, there is a new reason for the meal every day...

On the 20th of this month, which is Sunday, we can open up and eat another meal at Mingyun Private Kitchen.

Thinking of this, Pei Qian felt a little melancholy.

Although his employees can eat a lot, they can also earn more!

Relying on them to eat all the money earned from their respective projects would take until the year of the monkey...

It's really despairing.

After finishing his meal, the waiter came over to clean up the tableware. Pei Qian was drinking coffee and looking up at the sky in melancholy.

He increasingly felt that his shallow mathematical knowledge could not meet the ever-increasing needs of loss accounting.

Suddenly, someone sat down opposite him.

It was President Li.

The two often met in this store, so Pei Qian didn't find it strange.

However, President Pei had been having bad luck recently and was in a relatively down mood, so he just nodded casually and didn't say anything.

However, President Li's first sentence stunned Pei Qian.

"President Pei, the combination of punches from Yuemeng Venture Capital is really brilliant. I and all the other investors who invested in the *Xueba Kuai Lai* (Study God is Coming) project are willing to admit defeat and feel ashamed!"

"So, I've decided that although I still don't see any possibility of profit from *Chilling Labyrinth*, I've decided to invest a sum of money around *Chilling Labyrinth*! If nothing unexpected happens, others should follow suit."

"President Pei, you shouldn't mind, right?"

Pei Qian's hand holding the coffee stopped in mid-air, and his whole person was instantly in a daze.

"Huh?"