Chapter 1559 The Significance Behind the Escort Game (Extra Update Seeking Monthly Tickets!)

After this analysis, the confusion and incomprehension on everyone's faces turned into excitement and anticipation.

"So President Pei really is far-sighted. Letting us develop an exclusive game wasn't a spur-of-the-moment decision, but a result of careful consideration?"

Thinking about it carefully, this game really is best suited for the designers at the Independent Game Incubation Base because it's different from the typical AAA blockbuster model.

AAA blockbusters mainly focus on the performance of gameplay, plot, and game mechanics, requiring the cooperation of various departments to perfect every detail.

But this game, the launch escort game for the Ruyi Machine, is more like a hodgepodge of indie games.

Because it needs to project onto multiple devices simultaneously, the required performance and overall picture quality naturally won't be too high. Otherwise, the host's performance might not be able to handle projecting onto multiple devices at the same time.

Connecting the entire game with various small gameplays, allowing multiple people to experience the fun of these small gameplays together – this is exactly similar to indie games!

Each small gameplay is an idea, relying on the creativity of indie game designers.

It would be too difficult for just one designer to come up with so many ideas. But if it's many designers brainstorming together, or even everyone coming up with a plan and then choosing the best few, that can guarantee the game quality of each small game and segment!

In addition, having the developers from the Independent Game Incubation Base make this escort blockbuster has a special meaning.

Everyone knows that this is Tenda Games' first game console. If Tenda Games personally makes the escort blockbuster for this console, then players won't find it very surprising, but will instead have too high expectations for it.

But a game console definitely can't be supported by just one company!

The advantage of a console lies in its game ecosystem, in its vast and excellent game library.

A new console may not have such a vast game library yet, but it must create an expectation for players: that many excellent game companies will join this platform in the future, and that players can play many excellent blockbusters on this game console.

Only by establishing this expectation can players' purchasing power be fully stimulated!

Many large foreign console manufacturers may not have many excellent games when they release a new console, but players still buy them like crazy because they know that this console will definitely launch many excellent games in the future.

So, if the developers from the Independent Game Incubation Base jointly create such an escort game, it can convey a special concept to all players: This console is not only Tenda Games' backyard, it is also the common stage for Chao Lu Game Platform, all cooperative game developers, and all developers from the Independent Game Incubation Base!

Since indie game developers can work together to develop such an excellent escort blockbuster, they will naturally develop more excellent games to provide to players in the future.

As for Tenda Games, it goes without saying that they will also launch on this game console.

In this way, players will have very high expectations for this game console. Once this expectation is established, there will naturally be no need to worry about the console's sales!

Wu Zhicheng said very excitedly: "This project is very meaningful, I've decided to join!"

Other indie game developers also nodded in agreement.

"We've received a lot of favors from President Pei. If President Pei and Manager Qiu hadn't found us and provided us with funding, we might have already been unable to hold on, forced by life to leave the game industry. President Pei allows us to continue to persist in the indie game industry and also provide better works to players!"

"Now that President Pei has a need, we are of course duty-bound!"

Previously, the game developers hesitated mainly because everyone was unsure and felt that they lacked the ability to handle this kind of project, and would end up ruining Tenda's reputation, which would be very unfair to President Pei.

But after this analysis, everyone felt that this game really was only suited for them!

Moreover, after having a clear direction, these developers' imaginations were stimulated, and all sorts of game ideas emerged in their minds.

They couldn't wait to create these ideas!

Qiu Hong said very happily: "Very good, everyone is very motivated! However, although President Pei has given us clear direction, we still can't take it lightly. We must treat it seriously and carefully do every detail well."

"Like this, Xi Hao, you and Wu Zhicheng first simply sort out the game's general framework, and think about the game's background story and general art style."

"Then, we will publicly solicit ideas from designers in all the Independent Game Incubation Bases, and integrate the ideas and gameplay that we think are suitable into the general framework."

"After we roughly finalize the game's design draft, I will uniformly lead the development of the underlying architecture and the finalization of the game's art style. The independent game developers who are selected by us can uniformly develop different gameplays on top of this general framework and piece them together into a game."

"Finally, optimize its streaming split-screen function so that it can better adapt to the usage of this console!"

"If we can achieve these goals and perfectly complete President Pei's requirements, I believe President Pei will be proud of us!"

The independent game developers were all very excited, even eager to try.

Most of them currently didn't have any projects at hand and were worried about what their next indie game should be.

Indie games themselves rely heavily on creativity. Without a suitable creative idea, indie games have no advantage.

But now, President Pei has given them an idea, and everyone can fully unleash their abilities within the framework of this idea. How could that not make people feel excited and excited?

The designers immediately took action, starting to collect materials, conceive ideas, and stride quickly in the direction that President Pei expected!

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April 9th, Tuesday.

At Tuowei Livestream, Qiao Liang slammed the table angrily: "Why are Waiwai Livestream and Langya Livestream still going at it? They're not done poaching our streamers!"

When organizing the Safe and Civilized Driving Racing Competition last month, Qiao Liang, as per President Pei's request, expressed to the outside world that Tuowei Livestream would not engage in a poaching war, nor would it restrict other platforms from streaming Tenda Games' games.

Originally, this was a magnanimous act that garnered praise from netizens, but he didn't expect that Langya Livestream and Waiwai Livestream would take this as a safety declaration, and instead began to poach Tuowei Livestream's streamers even more aggressively!

This week had just started, and Qiao Liang had already discovered that three streamers from his platform had been poached, and they were all streamers who had just begun to show promise.

Compared to the previous frequency, it had actually accelerated!

Qiao Liang said very angrily: "These two platforms are really shameless! I really think President Pei is too benevolent to them!"

"We should directly ban all Tenda games on these rogue companies, and not give them any face!"

As angry as he was, Qiao Liang didn't dare to disobey President Pei's orders.

After all, President Pei was the helmsman of Tenda, and making different decisions from him was often out of consideration for the overall situation and had deeper intentions.

Qiao Liang calmed down a bit and felt that as one of the heads of Tenda Group, he should earnestly follow President Pei's requirements and strive to analyze the deeper meaning behind them. Or, he could find another way, and come up with some other solutions outside of President Pei's restrictions.

Qiao Liang looked up at the work station opposite him.

Manager Ma hadn't come yet, so it seemed that the closed-door session hadn't ended yet.

Qiao Liang heard that Manager Ma's thesis submission time was probably around the 10th, which meant that Manager Ma might come to inspect the work this week, so he couldn't continue to be so unproductive!

Although what he was doing now was all required by President Pei, Manager Ma might not think so.

In the workplace, not only must you satisfy the requirements of the big boss, but you also can't ignore the requirements of your direct supervisor, otherwise you'll definitely end up in a bad situation if you antagonize one of your leaders!

Qiao Liang felt that he should do some substantive work before Manager Ma came back, otherwise it would be difficult to explain when Manager Ma asked.

But what could be done in this situation? Many paths had been blocked by President Pei, he couldn't fight a price war with other platforms and poach those streamers who were burdened with huge liquidated damages, nor could he have any ideas about the games and ban the two livestream platforms from streaming Tenda games.

What cards did he have to play? The entire Tuowei Livestream didn't have any good means of attack.

Qiao Liang opened his computer and simply searched for news about livestream platforms.

He didn't have much expectation, after all these big platforms weren't stupid and shouldn't leave any direct handles.

But as Qiao Liang looked, his eyes suddenly lit up.

He saw a news article about a livestream platform! It was about a major streamer's sky-high liquidated damages event!

Waiwai Livestream and Langya Livestream had been in competition for a long time, so naturally there were frictions.

The cause of this incident was that a major streamer jumped from Waiwai Livestream to Langya Livestream. After the transfer, he was burdened with as much as 100 million in liquidated damages.

However, Langya Livestream didn't intend to pay this money for him, and Waiwai Livestream had a contract in black and white, so they directly filed a complaint and banned this major streamer.

Although Langya Livestream wanted to protect him, there were clear legal provisions, so they could only patiently wait for the court hearing. And judging from the current situation, the possibility of Langya Livestream paying 100 million in liquidated damages for this streamer was very slim. Once the court hearing began, this major streamer would most likely lose the case.

So this major streamer became unhappy and began to complain to the onlookers on the internet, especially inciting his fans to put pressure on Waiwai Livestream.

But Waiwai Livestream wouldn't be affected by this small scene. They had seen many big storms, so what waves could an ordinary streamer stir up?

Encouraging fans to give the App bad reviews? Waiwai Livestream wasn't afraid of that.

So according to this script, the final result would most likely be that Waiwai Livestream made a fortune of 100 million.

The streamer might not have money to pay, if he had money to pay, he would pay, if he didn't have money to pay, he would become a deadbeat and wouldn't be able to continue to livestream and earn money on Langya Livestream. He could only return to Waiwai Livestream to work and pay off his debts.

Of course, don't think that Langya Livestream would lose out, because Langya Livestream also had a list of streamers who had been poached by Waiwai Livestream. As long as they filed lawsuits one by one, they could get a lot of liquidated damages as well.

The two platforms sued each other's streamers, each earning liquidated damages, wouldn't that be great?

Logically speaking, this matter had nothing to do with Tuowei Livestream, because Tuowei Livestream's contracts didn't restrict streamers from switching platforms, so Waiwai Livestream and Langya Livestream were able to poach them easily.

But Qiao Liang suddenly realized that this seemed to be a good opportunity!

The two platforms' poaching war was indeed very fierce, it looked like gods were fighting, but in reality, it was just chickens pecking at each other!

It looked like gods were fighting because the amount of money for poaching was very high, often millions or tens of millions in annual salary and tens of millions in liquidated damages, which sounded scary.

In reality, it was just chickens pecking at each other because this kind of poaching was completely based on忽悠 (hū yōu, to con/dupe)! If the streamers had a little legal awareness and studied the clauses in the contract more, they wouldn't be fooled and counted the money for the people who sold them.

But the key was that the streamers really didn't have any legal awareness!

As soon as the platform people忽悠 (hū yōu, to con/dupe) them, without obtaining a clear written agreement, they would be忽悠 (hū yōu, to con/dupe) to the other platform, and would be wishfully thinking that the other party would really solve the problem of the contract for them.

As a result, all the liabilities for breach of contract had to be borne by themselves.

Originally, they thought their annual salary was very high, but when something really happened, they realized that it wasn't even a fraction of the liquidated damages!

Qiao Liang suddenly thought of Lu Mingliang's method from before.

Back then, Lu Mingliang had severely criticized Nie Yunsheng in the livestream, exposing the inside story of Sheng Yun Group, which aroused a strong reaction from the majority of netizens.

Everyone stood on Lu Mingliang's side, and it could be said that he had achieved great success in the public opinion war, immediately putting Reverse Wind Logistics on the high ground and firmly suppressing Sheng Yun Group.

Since Lu Mingliang could do it, why couldn't Qiao Liang do it?

The livestream industry also has inside stories that can be properly dissected!

Moreover, after Lu Mingliang conducted this debate, Meng Chang even took the lead in making a program called "Head in Charge Speaks," which was specially used for fighting public opinion wars.

Guo Licheng released a video about the fitness model, which was also very popular. Later, Rui Yuchen also released an analysis of Touching Fish Takeaway and the takeaway business model, which also triggered a good response.

Facts proved that the "Head in Charge Speaks" column was indeed effective!

However, it happened to clash with the activity planned by President Pei for the person in charge to go to the grassroots level, so the "Head in Charge Speaks" column naturally stopped.

Because the people in charge had all gone to work at the grassroots level, those who should deliver express delivery delivered express delivery, and those who should be internet café managers were internet café managers. Where would they have the energy to record this kind of program again?

What's more, after they went to the grassroots level, their identity was no longer that of the person in charge. They were not responsible for the direct business of the department, so they couldn't record "Head in Charge Speaks."

Qiao Liang felt that this should be a coincidence, but in any case, the "Head in Charge Speaks" column was the key weapon for Tenda to win the public opinion war and couldn't be stopped like this!

He was now the acting head in charge, but the acting head in charge was also the head in charge, and he could also record this program!

Thinking of this, Qiao Liang immediately called Meng Chang.

It was a bit strange that Meng Chang, as the department head of the Advertising and Marketing Department, didn't go to the grassroots level like other department heads. It seemed that President Pei had given special permission, and he didn't know what the special meaning was behind it.

Soon, the call connected.

Qiao Liang briefly told Meng Chang about his idea, hoping to record such a video and continue it as a follow-up column to "Head in Charge Speaks," so as to properly dissect the routines of Waiwai Livestream and Langya Livestream, especially the poaching routines.

Because so far, most viewers and streamers haven't understood the real problem with this routine, Qiao Liang felt that as the acting head in charge of Tuowei Livestream, and also as a Tuowei Livestream streamer, he had the responsibility and obligation to popularize it for everyone!

On the other end of the phone, Meng Chang was silent for a while before saying: "I also think that the 'Head in Charge Speaks' column can't be stopped. I was originally thinking about whether to let the acting heads in charge participate in the recording as well. Now that you've taken the initiative to come to me, we've thought of the same thing!"

"Like this, prepare a bit, and I'll do a general video plan."

"I feel that this time we can't just talk about it dryly, because simply having the person in charge speak may not be very convincing. I'm also considering letting a few Tuowei Livestream streamers talk about their personal experiences, so that combined with your analysis, it will be more convincing."

"We'll start recording soon, and try to release the video this Thursday!"

Qiao Liang nodded, completely agreeing.

Of course, the faster this video came out, the better, after all, every day that was delayed could mean that a streamer would be poached by the other two platforms!