Cai Jiadong nodded thoughtfully, "I see. Thinking about it that way, there are actually quite a few gameplay options we can explore?"

"This game might seem huge and overwhelming, but in reality, we only need to create various house models, exterior views, and different customer models. The development resources required are completely controllable."

"And the depth of the game can also be guaranteed. In the early stages, the focus is on evaluating the quality of the current house type, selecting different customers based on the decoration style, and providing accurate information about the customers, accumulating some knowledge about the house types."

"In the mid-stage, players can make minor repairs and adjustments themselves, replace mismatched furniture, and make simple renovations to the house."

"In the later stages, they can customize everything, even creating bizarre house types, customizing full sets of furniture, and decorating the rooms to their liking."

"Moreover, this game can also collaborate with real-world brands to promote Sloth Apartments and partner furniture brands. For players, they can also plan their home decoration in the game—provided their game progress has reached the later stages."

"Most importantly, this is indeed a relatively suitable theme for VR games."

"Players don't need to move around frequently, it's relatively casual, and they only need to use the controller to interact with the elements in the room and make modifications."

"It should be considered a simulation management game, but compared to simulation management games on computers, its advantage is that players can be immersed in the room and see the results of their room arrangement."

"As expected, it's unconventional, which is very much in line with President Pei's consistent style!"

After analyzing it, Cai Jiadong realized that this *Real Estate Agent Simulator* seemed to have potential!

Real estate agents in real life are indeed quite boring, spending their days searching for properties and taking customers to view them, which is very tedious.

Changing the structure and layout of houses, or even designing buildings from scratch, are definitely not tasks that real estate agents can get involved in.

But the game is different.

In the game, all elements related to houses can be added for players to choose from!

Thinking about it this way, the game content doesn't seem monotonous anymore, and it suddenly becomes rich and varied!

Lin Wan nodded, "Okay, let's research it further and officially launch the project next month."

"The second game of Chi Xing Studio will be *Real Estate Agent Simulator*!"

...

After leaving Chi Xing Studio, Pei Qian returned to the company.

Chi Xing Studio should be fine for the short term. Real Estate Agent Simulator? It's bound to lose money!

He needs to start planning how to spend money in the last week.

At this time, Pei Qian was very grateful that he had been forward-looking and set a very high budget limit for the roller coaster project: one hundred million.

In fact, when the roller coaster project was finalized, the system had just finished settling, and Tengda Group didn't actually have much money in its company accounts.

But Pei Qian still directly set a budget of one hundred million for the roller coaster, just to be prepared and prevent earning too much money and not being able to spend it in the future.

Now it seems that this was simply too wise!

If the budget had been set lower at the beginning, the scale of the entire amusement facility would definitely have been smaller, and it would have been difficult to add more money later.

Either the money couldn't be added, or adding money would lead to project delays, which would be very awkward.

Now, spending an extra twenty or thirty million on top of the one hundred million budget doesn't seem wrong at all.

This cycle, many projects were popular, but they didn't make a lot of money. For example, the box office revenue from the *Mission and Choice* movie hasn't arrived yet, and although Doubt VR glasses and *Animal Island* are selling well, they are still a long way from recouping the huge investment of tens of millions.

In addition, the continuous money-burning activities of the 515 Game Festival and the Summer Promotion have created a relatively optimistic situation.

Of course, if not so many projects had unexpectedly made money, Pei Qian's situation would be even more optimistic, and he might even achieve the ultimate goal of losing money while lying down.

Unfortunately, there are no such ifs.

With many projects becoming hits, Pei Qian could only once again use his intelligence to find ways to reduce the system funds as much as possible before the system settlement.

The first thing to do was to pour all the planned excess funds that couldn't be spent into the roller coaster project.

As the saying goes, wonders ruin a country, and such large-investment projects can burn through any amount of money. Eating up a little bit of funds is no big deal, as long as it can be completed before the next cycle's settlement and doesn't affect the settlement.

As for how well the project is being built...

Sorry, although this project has been in preparation since February, it has been half a year, but Pei Qian doesn't even know where the roller coaster is being built, and he hasn't even been there.

This is quite normal. Pei Qian hadn't even looked at the big project *Mission and Choice* for several months back then.

He's too busy with the projects in this cycle, so he doesn't have time to worry about the projects in the next cycle!

Anyway, the general direction has already been pointed out, so there shouldn't be any major problems.

Pei Qian still remembers that he had made a few requests for this roller coaster: it should be far away from the current three projects of Thriller Paradise, it should be short in height, and it should have multiple routes planned.

He thought to himself, as long as Chen Kangtuo strictly follows his requirements, he will definitely create a roller coaster that is located in a remote location, not at all stimulating, and has built many useless routes.

Such a roller coaster will not only fail to recover its costs, but it will probably not even earn enough to cover the daily maintenance costs of the equipment.

Secondly, there's the new money-burning plan.

His good brother Eric has been silent since returning to the Dayak Group headquarters, which makes Pei Qian miss him very much.

Although there's no one to accompany him, the money that needs to be burned still needs to be burned.

After two rounds of money-burning activities at the 515 Game Festival and the Summer Promotion, the amount of money the system allows to be burned has been greatly reduced.

Organizing money-burning activities for three consecutive months in May, June, and July is already dancing on the system's bottom line.

Fortunately, Tengda's profitability is good, so it can still burn a little more in the end.

This time, Pei Qian plans to use his 100,000 special quota as well, together with the regular money-burning activities, to make a perfect ending for this cycle!

The 515 Game Festival and the Summer Promotion have already exhausted all the tricks, so there are not many money-burning options left.

The 515 Game Festival activities included randomly giving away in-game items upon login, a certain chance of getting a refund when purchasing single-player games, and cashback for accumulating game time on Rabbit Tail Live.

In short, it was mainly about giving things away for free.

The Summer Promotion activities included discounts on all skins, accumulating points for spending on GOG to exchange for avatars and avatar frames, and subsidizing operators with half of the activity funds when promoting GOG in overseas markets.

This time, it was mainly about discounts and promotions.

So many tricks have already been tried, making Pei Qian feel a little exhausted.

But in order to lose money for the settlement, Pei Qian still has to continue to work hard and stimulate his intelligence.

Since this time he is going to use the 100,000 "pure giveaway" quota, he naturally has to carry out related promotional activities around this quota.

First of all, according to the system's regulations, he spends 100,000 out of his own pocket in exchange for 10 million of unconditional money-burning quota, and selects GOG as the money-burning target.

There's no way, he has to trouble GOG again.

This can't be blamed on President Pei for targeting them. Who told GOG to make the most money and have the most players? Burning money in other industries wouldn't have this effect.

Although there's no need to find a reason to spend this 10 million, there needs to be a reason to convince the system for the other money spent in conjunction with this 10 million.

Pei Qian quickly found a good reason: a few days ago, GOG's global daily active users just exceeded 10 million!

The monthly active users also exceeded 28 million.

This data is slightly lower than the data of LOL in early 2013 in Pei Qian's memory, but it is already very impressive.

Shouldn't there be an activity to celebrate the global daily active users exceeding 10 million?

Coincidentally, the special activity funds for the pure giveaway are also 10 million.

Pei Qian decided to select 1000 koi and lucky winners from so many active users on GOG.

All players who have logged in to play the game within the past month and whose level and online time have reached a certain limit can participate in the lottery.

During the lottery, different servers will be allocated corresponding shares based on the number of players.

For example, there are obviously more players on the national server than on other servers, so naturally more winning spots should be arranged.

After the lottery, these 1000 koi from all over the world will share 10 million.

When sharing, it's not that each person gets an equal share of 10,000, but it fluctuates up and down according to certain random rules, with a minimum of 1,000 and a maximum of 100,000.

This money is given directly in cash, which is quite crude.

After all, it's an unconditional money-burning quota given by the system, so it has to be a little more crude.

Ordinary money-burning activities are also centered around this.

These 1000 koi can spread good luck to the surrounding players. The number of people spread at the first level = the amount of money the koi received divided by 100.

That is to say, if a certain koi gets 1,000, they can share good luck with 10 players; if they get 100,000, they can share good luck with 1,000 players.

There is a prerequisite for sharing good luck, that is, the two players must have already established an in-game friend relationship before this event.

Temporary additions after the event don't count.

This is to prevent some people from deliberately selling spots online and distorting the event.

The first-level lucky players shared by the koi will receive 30 unrestricted coupons worth 10 yuan, with which they can purchase any GOG in-game items and deduct 10 yuan. It can be stacked with any other discounts.

Then, the first-level lucky players can share with the second-level lucky players, the rules are the same, each player can share with 10 second-level lucky players.

The second-level lucky players will receive 10 unrestricted coupons worth 10 yuan.

Following the same rules, it will be spread to 10 third-level lucky players, who will receive 5 unrestricted coupons worth 5 yuan.

Pei Qian does hope to give more, but the system won't budge, so it can only be like this.

In fact, these unrestricted coupons are already equivalent to giving them away for free, because GOG's skins are already dirt cheap.