Chapter 1 Becoming the Richest Man Starts With Losing Money in Games

April 27th, Wednesday.

Shang Yang Games.

Pei Qian made a special trip to Shang Yang Games today, intending to get a brief understanding of the promotion of the IOI national server.

Since entrusting this easy win task to Lin Wan at the beginning of the month, Pei Qian has been very relieved and hasn't asked about it.

After all, IOI's momentum abroad can be said to be advancing by leaps and bounds. According to this script, it's only a matter of time before the IOI national server and the international server have a victorious meeting.

Moreover, Pei Qian was secretly helping Lin Wan.

After learning about IOI's crazy update plan, Hu Xianbin anxiously found President Pei, hoping to increase manpower, but was politely refused.

"With the ability of Shang Yang Games and Lin Wan, as long as I help them a little bit, it should be enough, right?"

Pei Qian is very clear about the principle of "all martial arts techniques emphasize speed." In his memory, Riot Games relied on its crazy update speed to quickly expand its market share, and at the same time, it ensured quality while updating rapidly, which is why it achieved such great success.

Now Finger Games is also following this path, and the effect will definitely be immediate.

Pei Qian can't say he's pleased. After all, whether GOG or IOI is popular, Pei Qian has to make money. He just feels that the world is normal and developing in the direction he expected, so he's a little happy.

As soon as Pei Qian arrived in the office area, he was discovered by the employees.

"President Pei!"

"President Pei, why are you here?"

"Please have a seat."

"Sorry, we're busy launching a new hero."

The office area seemed very busy. Ye Zhizhou, Wang Xiaobin, and others were all busy with their own affairs. They just greeted Pei Qian and continued to stare at the computer screen and type on the keyboard.

Pei Qian didn't mind: "You guys do your thing, I'm just here to take a look."

Lin Wan came out of her office with a document in her hand, looking efficient and capable: "Rewrite the update announcement. I've circled a few places that aren't smooth enough. Also, be sure to emphasize that this is the first synchronized update between the national server and the world server. We're no longer playing the old version of the world server. This is very important!"

"...President Pei, why are you here?"

Lin Wan's expression was slightly surprised, after all, President Pei didn't come to Shang Yang Games often.

Although President Pei often gave guidance to Shang Yang Games, it was often when they encountered some major difficulties that they would ask for advice. President Pei would give a few words of guidance, and whether they could understand it depended on their own comprehension.

Situations like today, where he came in person, were rare.

Seeing Lin Wan's current appearance, Pei Qian couldn't help but smile, very satisfied.

Well, she has quickly grown from a newbie who didn't know anything to an independent department head and excellent designer!

Seeing Lin Wan so earnestly promoting the IOI national server, when IOI successfully becomes popular worldwide in the future, Lin Wan should be able to prove her ability and return to Shenhua to inherit the family fortune, right?

Although the process is very different from the script he envisioned, the result is the same.

Speaking of which, Lin Wan is now one of the few employees who works hard without making President Pei uncomfortable.

"It's okay, I'm just here to take a look and get a feel for the IOI national server," Pei Qian said.

Lin Wan nodded: "Okay, then President Pei, please come to the reception room, and I'll give you a brief report."

Pei Qian: "Go ahead and do your work first."

Lin Wan smiled: "It's okay, the work has already been arranged. Besides, the report won't take a few minutes, it'll be quick."

Pei Qian nodded and followed Lin Wan to the reception room.

"President Pei, not long after receiving the task of operating the IOI national server, we found IOI's trump card compared to GOG, which is the speed of updates. Therefore, our operational activities are mainly to cooperate with Finger Games to integrate the promotion of new heroes with the promotion of the game."

"Take this promotion event as an example. The new hero that Finger Games gave us is 'Bloodthirst Lone Shadow · Shalege', a dual-form werewolf."

"Finger Games provided the promotional animation for this hero. We have already updated it to the client for the national server login, and we have also bought some video and website advertisements to promote this new hero."

"There will be a promotional offensive for new heroes every two weeks, which can ensure that IOI's popularity can always be maintained at a high level."

"At the same time, we argued with Finger Games, asking them to seriously consider the situation of the national server, and update it simultaneously after the national server review is completed, realizing the same version for the national server and the foreign server. In this way, one of IOI's major shortcomings has been made up!"

"If there are no accidents, GOG shouldn't be able to produce a new hero within the next month. Compared to each other, many people will definitely switch to IOI because of the update problem."

"President Pei, you said to go all out, we definitely don't have any mercy on GOG!"

After listening to the report, Pei Qian nodded repeatedly.

Good, reliable!

This group of people at Shang Yang Games, especially Lin Wan, are using the energy to stab me in the back to stab GOG in the back. The effect is indeed excellent!

Previously, Pei Qian didn't have a very in-depth understanding of the IOI national server. After listening to Lin Wan's report, he realized that Shang Yang Games had done a lot of work in less than a month!

Not only did they complete the most basic work of opening the server, maintaining it, and updating the version, but they also promoted the version synchronization between the national server and the world server, and they also seized the weakness of GOG's slow update of new heroes and beat it hard.

Perfect!

Pei Qian couldn't help but nod slightly, praising: "You've done a good job, but you must not take it lightly. You must guard against arrogance and impetuosity, understand?"

It wasn't that he thought of any way for GOG to make a comeback, but purely from experience, he felt that things wouldn't be so simple.

After all, he has too much experience fighting with this group of people, and he knows that these people are best at making a comeback from desperation, suddenly reversing the situation completely when President Pei thinks it's "stable."

Lin Wan nodded: "Of course! President Pei, I think the battle with GOG will be a long-term process. So far, I only have a 50% chance of winning."

Pei Qian was a little speechless: "50% chance of winning?"

Although caution is necessary, it shouldn't be so low, right?

It should still be 70%.

Lin Wan was stunned: "What, President Pei, did I overestimate? Could it be that you think I don't even have a 50% chance of winning?"

"Uh..." Pei Qian was very speechless. The two people's thinking wasn't on the same channel again.

Why don't my employees have any tacit understanding with me?

Pei Qian was about to explain, but at this moment, there was a rapid knock on the door outside the reception room.

Lin Wan was stunned and looked at Pei Qian.

Pei Qian nodded, signaling that she could open the door.

Lin Wan quickly came to the door and found that the person knocking on the door was Ye Zhizhou.

"It's not good, GOG has updated its official website!" Ye Zhizhou's face was serious, as if facing a formidable enemy.

A question mark couldn't help but float out of Pei Qian's head.

?

Updated the official website?

It's not like updating the game version. Just updating the official website, what's so fuss about?

It can't be that just updating the official website can overwhelm the popularity of the new heroes on the IOI side, right?

Impossible, right?

Lin Wan and Pei Qian came to the office area with doubts and checked on Ye Zhizhou's computer.

They saw that in the conspicuous position on GOG's official website, there was a banner with large artistic characters: "GOG Creative Community Online, Every Player is a Hero Designer!"

Below, there was a line of small print: "If your idea is adopted, you can get 5% of the profit from all skins of that hero as an indefinite cash reward!"

There were many rules for the event, including opening several special sections on the official website, players can submit ideas, participants can like the submissions, and the official will select ideas regularly, etc.

Ye Zhizhou had obviously just discovered this matter, and his face was solemn: "Min Jingchao really has a way! I never thought that he would use this method to mooch off the players' ideas!"

"In this way, they can save a lot of creative work, and they can directly screen according to the players' preferences. The design team is only responsible for making part of it, which can save a lot of time!"

"Not only that, this event seems to have caused an uproar in the GOG player community, because the rewards are too generous!"

"As long as you participate in this forum, whether the idea you provide is adopted or not, or even just a bystander who enthusiastically likes it, you can get rewards!"

"Although GOG hasn't launched any new heroes yet, the players' attention has been completely taken away by this event!"

"Our new hero 'Bloodthirst Lone Shadow' is launched, I'm afraid it will be difficult to grab the players' attention in this situation..."

Lin Wan's expression also became serious.

"I see... what a brilliant counterattack."

"Sure enough, the most difficult opponent is your own people."

"In this way, not only can they fully mobilize the wisdom of the players and speed up the production of new heroes, but they can also use a part of the profits to tie the players to the GOG chariot and prevent them from defecting. The most important thing is that this trick can only be used on the premise of having a large player base, and GOG just happens to have the advantage in terms of numbers in the previous competition."

"They didn't even launch any new heroes, just simply made an event page and posted an announcement on the mobile client, PC client, and official website, and immediately mobilized the players' emotions..."

Ye Zhizhou was a little unconvinced: "Then can we also..."

Lin Wan shook her head: "We can't."

"We can't interfere with Finger Games' research and development. Even if we solicit opinions, Finger Games will probably not adopt them."

"What's more, we are just operating it. The pricing strategy must be roughly the same as the international server, and it is difficult to give players such generous rewards, so naturally, we can't fully mobilize the players' enthusiasm."

"I originally thought I had found GOG's weakness, but I didn't expect that the other party had found IOI's weakness..."

"I heard before that Li Yada stepped down and gave way to someone more capable, and Hu Xianbin was busy making a new game. I thought Min Jingchao wouldn't be so difficult to deal with."

"It seems that I underestimated the enemy. Everyone in Tenda Games can stand alone, and any newcomer who can be promoted to chief designer should not be underestimated..."

Lin Wan looked at Pei Qian and sighed: "President Pei, no wonder you think my current chance of winning is less than 50%."

"Indeed, with this move from GOG, our chance of winning is probably only 40%."

"Sure enough, when masters compete, one wrong step leads to another. It's really difficult to catch up if you're one step behind at the beginning."

They saw that President Pei had no expression at all except for blinking slightly.

Lin Wan couldn't help but show a look of sudden realization: "President Pei, could it be that you had already thought that they might adopt such a strategy, so you were already mentally prepared?"

Pei Qian: "..."

After reacting for a few seconds, a question mark floated out of Pei Qian's head.

???

What the hell is this!

Pei Qian really had no expression, but it wasn't because he was calm, but because this matter came too suddenly, and his brain's processing speed couldn't keep up for a while.

So...

I didn't let Tenda Games recruit people, so they came up with the idea of crowdfunding from players and mooching off hero ideas?

Shameless!

As a designer, you don't use your brain to design heroes, you just want to plagiarize players' ideas. Is there any justice, is there any law?

Finger Games is seriously designing heroes properly, but you're just copying homework!

Too shameless!

Pei Qian was almost trembling with anger. This feeling was like preparing to run a marathon, and after warming up, he saw the player next to him suddenly lift up a motorcycle, twist the throttle, and disappear.

Although they gave a lot of profits to the players, these money are all commissions, which means it doesn't help with the losses at all!

Huh? Give a lot of profits to the players?

Pei Qian suddenly realized that he seemed to have ignored some very important information.

"Wait, you just said that the highest reward after the idea is adopted is?"