Chapter 1 Planning

Pei Qian was basically satisfied with this plan.

After all, Lü Mingliang had a key advantage that Huang Sibo lacked: obedience and a lack of overthinking.

Pei Qian told him to do something, and he would do it honestly, not seeking merit, but seeking no fault.

However, this also brought a problem: a lack of initiative.

For example, with this plan, the money spent looked too little no matter how you looked at it.

With the pricing already determined, of course, the more money spent, the better!

Pei Qian pondered for a moment.

"For 'Lonely Desert Road,' adding only three new map scenes is too few, add ten."

"For 'Ghost General,' only ten new generals have been updated, which is also too few. Add fifty."

"For 'Game Producer,' although only one set of scene style is being released, how can it be the same level as the previous set?"

"Ruan Guangjian has to draw the original artwork for 'Ghost General,' so he may not have time. In that case, find another big shot at the same price as him, and then double the working hours. We must meticulously craft it and strive for the new scene to surpass the original version!"

"As for 'Sea Fortress'... hmm..."

"In addition to this new epic weapon, add two more hours to the story mode, add a new scene, and add three new characters and ten new guns."

"That's settled, hurry up and start production, and strive to update it before June 18th."

Lü Mingliang was a little confused.

The reason why he set the update content low was mainly because he was worried that the DLC wouldn't sell enough to support the revenue!

According to Lü Mingliang's plan, there was a ceiling on the investment in update content.

Take "Lonely Desert Road" as an example. At 20,000 yuan per scene template, the original plan was to add three sets of scenes. Since this DLC only sells for one yuan, it would have to sell 120,000 copies of the DLC to break even!

As a result, Pei Qian directly changed it to ten sets. Now it would have to sell 400,000 sets of DLC to break even...

Isn't that nonsense?

The original art design for "Ghost General" was to be done by Ruan Guangjian. Of course, Ruan Guangjian had many friends who could help with the drawings, but no matter what, the price would definitely not be low.

Previously, the original paintings of the generals in "Ghost General" were four paintings per general, for 3,000 yuan. Now that Ruan Guangjian's worth has increased, the fee will naturally be higher. President Pei also insisted not to give a friendship price, and insisted on giving it at the market price, which would have to be 5,000 yuan a set.

Fifty generals would cost 250,000 yuan.

Selling each set of generals for 5 yuan would mean that it would have to sell 100,000 sets to recover the cost.

As for "Sea Fortress," the new story, new scenes, new characters, and new guns were almost all given away to players for free. The only charge was the new epic weapon, and it was still limited!

"President Pei, this... it may not be possible to recover the cost..." Lü Mingliang looked at the numbers he was quickly calculating in his notebook, and felt a little scared.

Pei Qian smiled calmly: "It won't."

"Remember, be sincere with people. If you treat the players with sincerity, the players will naturally reciprocate with sincerity."

"Besides, what if we can't recover the cost? The players have already given us so much money, it's only right for us to appropriately subsidize them with losses."

Lü Mingliang blinked his eyes in confusion, feeling that President Pei's words were particularly righteous, awe-inspiring, and generous.

It just felt like something was wrong.

"Okay, time is tight and the task is heavy, hurry up and allocate tasks and take action. It must be completed before June 18th."

The reason for setting June 18th was mainly because it was the last working day of the second-to-last week before the settlement.

The 19th and 20th were weekends, and from the 21st to the 23rd, Pei Qian planned to set aside three days to deal with emergencies.

Before the 24th, all research and development work must be completed, and all DLCs must be updated, otherwise it would affect the settlement.

Pei Qian left the meeting room with a flourish, and Lü Mingliang hurriedly allocated tasks in a panic.

Although this workload was much larger than the previously planned version, most of the pressure was on the art resources side, so if they hurried, they could still complete it within the deadline.

The only problem was that a little too much money was being spent.

...

May 6, Thursday.

Ma Yang and Zhang Yuan came to Pei Qian's office to introduce several locations they had found for the internet cafe.

Ma Yang's laptop was connected to the projector in the office, and the projection screen showed the location of the internet cafe and some detailed information.

This time, Zhang Yuan mainly contributed, selecting several locations with better locations; Ma Yang also found a few to make up the numbers.

A total of four new stores were to be opened. Pei Qian requested that ten locations be found, and now they had all been found.

This time, Zhang Yuan was also holding his breath.

Why is it that all of President Pei's other projects are thriving, but only Touching Fish Internet Cafe has been losing money?

Too embarrassing!

And President Pei values us so much and trusts us so much, we have to work harder to turn losses into profits!

Opening a branch is a good opportunity.

In Zhang Yuan's view, the reason why the previous store had been losing money was definitely a big problem with the location.

There were no large business districts, no high-end office buildings, and no high-end residential areas nearby.

There were not enough high-end consumers within a few kilometers. Who would support the consumption of this high-end internet cafe?

Could they hope that the local tyrants would drive over one by one just to have a drink at the bar?

Of course, some particularly awesome bars can do this, but Touching Fish Internet Cafe is not a proper bar, it is a hybrid of internet cafe, bar, cafe, small restaurant, and bookstore...

Without outstanding advantages, it is impossible to attract others to come from far away to consume. This is not the way to make a profit.

So after reflecting, Zhang Yuan felt that this time he had to work hard on the location and choose a popular business district!

"President Pei, I especially recommend three places this time."

"Here, the south gate of Handong University, is very close to several boys' dormitory buildings, and there is a high-end residential area opposite."

"Although there are already several internet cafes here, they are still often full. Our Touching Fish Internet Cafe has a good environment and good computer configuration, and it can definitely attract the rich second-generation people in the university students who care about the environment and have a certain economic ability."

"This used to be a coffee shop, and the environment is quite in line with our internet cafe. The place is not small, this is my first recommendation!"

Pei Qian didn't speak. He knew this place too well. After all, he was studying at Handong University, and the house that Assistant Xin rented for him was just across the road.

The internet cafe here is indeed often full, Zhang Yuan is not wrong.

But... Pei Qian definitely wouldn't choose this place.

If you choose this place and really make money, whose would it be?

Seeing that Pei Qian didn't respond, Zhang Yuan had no choice but to continue introducing the next location.

"This is in the largest shopping mall in Jingzhou City, on the ground floor. The disadvantage is that the rent is very, very expensive, but I studied it. There are not many places to rest in this shopping mall. Many men who accompany their girlfriends or wives shopping are too miserable to have a place to sit when they are tired."

"If our internet cafe is opened here, when these successful people accompany their wives shopping, they can come to the internet cafe to surf the Internet and drink coffee when they are tired. Their consumption power is definitely amazing."

"With this traffic, even if the rent is high, we will definitely be able to earn it back!"

Pei Qian still didn't respond.

Zhang Yuan felt even more uneasy and could only continue to introduce them one by one.

As he introduced them later, the locations of these shops became more and more terrible.

There was no way. Pei Qian limited the branch of Touching Fish Internet Cafe to only be opened in Jingzhou City, and there were many restrictions. It was already quite difficult to find so many shops waiting to be transferred.

After introducing all of them, Zhang Yuan looked at Pei Qian nervously.

President Pei didn't say anything, what did he mean?

Was he not satisfied with any of them?

Pei Qian nodded approvingly: "Not bad, thank you for your hard work."

Zhang Yuan breathed a sigh of relief.

President Pei wasn't dissatisfied, that's great!

Pei Qian looked at the projection screen and said approvingly: "I think the last four places you introduced are all good."

The last four places?

Zhang Yuan turned his head to look at the screen, then looked at President Pei, and for a moment he didn't quite understand.

These... were all used to make up the numbers!