Chapter 296 Last Day Before the Holiday

After seeing Meng Chang off, Pei Qian checked the time, and figured that he was just about done with work for the day.

He would have to come in again tomorrow, which was Saturday, due to the special arrangements for this year's National Day holiday.

This year's Mid-Autumn Festival was on September 30th, a Sunday two days from now, conveniently coinciding with the subsequent National Day holiday.

As a result, the holiday schedule for this year was a rare eight-day vacation. He had to work tomorrow, Saturday, and then the holiday would run from Sunday, September 30th, all the way to Sunday, October 7th.

He wouldn't officially be back to work until October 8th.

Originally, Pei Qian hadn't planned on coming in tomorrow either, wanting to give himself a nine-day vacation to properly rest and relax. But he couldn't skip it, because according to the original plan, the "Fantasy of the Gods, United at the Peak" event in collaboration with IOI was officially starting tomorrow.

The timing was quite opportune, coinciding with the Golden Week holiday.

In fact, Pei Qian had initially felt that there was no need to rush this matter, suggesting that if there wasn't enough preparation time, it could be postponed until after the holiday.

However, IOI disagreed, clearly feeling that the Golden Week holiday could create a better synergy with the event, and that they could seize this opportunity to gain more popularity. They didn't want to give up so easily.

So Pei Qian had no choice but to cooperate with them, making his employees work a little harder to get the event launched by tomorrow.

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September 29th, Saturday, the last workday before the holiday.

This time, Pei Qian didn't go to his own office. Instead, he came to the floor of Tenda Games, preparing to find Min Jingchao to understand the preparations for the "Fantasy of the Gods, United at the Peak" event, and prevent any accidents from happening in advance.

Although Pei Qian felt that the risk of this event was very low and that there probably wouldn't be any accidents, it was always necessary to observe more.

After all, the employees were about to go on vacation, and even if something really happened during the long holiday, it would be too late to modify it.

As soon as he walked into the game department's office area, he saw Yu Fei.

At this time, the former online novel author and current acting main designer of Tenda Games was looking at the design draft on the computer screen with a complex expression, earnestly studying relevant knowledge.

Clearly, the dismantling of *Eternal Reincarnation* had still had some impact on him.

Although President Pei had repeatedly emphasized that this wasn't a major mistake, and that it was a blessing in disguise in terms of results, Yu Fei obviously still couldn't completely let it go.

He felt that his position was very important, and that if he didn't do well, it would affect others, and even waste his colleagues' efforts. So he had been working hard to cram relevant knowledge recently.

However, it could be seen from his expression that things weren't going smoothly.

After all, game design was a relatively professional industry. People like Huang Sibao and Min Jingchao basically had work experience as a grassroots implementation planner before being promoted to main planner. Although they were promoted a little fast, at least they were already in the industry before, so it wasn't too outrageous.

And Yu Fei could at best be considered a game enthusiast!

Forcibly arranging him in the position of main designer meant that simple problems were easy to solve, but it was difficult to deal with situations that were slightly more complicated.

The only good news for him was that Hu Xianbin would be back soon if he persevered for a while longer.

Seeing Yu Fei's current situation, Pei Qian was very satisfied.

This was clearly the scene he was hoping to see!

He was saying that the Tenda Games department had changed so many main planners, was it useful? It was just the same old wine in a new bottle!

No matter how the main planner changed, whether male or female, no matter where they were promoted from, the game would always become popular in the end. Who could he reason with!

President Pei also had his reasons. What kind of people were they that he had to lead? Huang Sibao, Bao Xu, Lü Mingliang, Li Yada, Hu Xianbin... each of them was a brain-supplementing monster, all of them were multi-talented treasure employees who hadn't shown their true colors before, and looked like just an ordinary implementation planner.

Did he deserve this ordinary position? He didn't deserve it, he was too capable, you know.

Pulling out any one of them to be the main planner could make a good game that would go down in history. Why were they all clustered in the Tenda Games department?

But now it was good. After replacing them with Yu Fei, the script was finally normal.

But Pei Qian also had some worries.

The main thing was that Hu Xianbin would be back in another month, and then he would lose Yu Fei's talent.

Let him go back to writing novels?

That wouldn't do. He was making money for Qidian Chinese Network over there, and Hu Xianbin was making money for Tenda Games here. For President Pei, the losses were really heavy.

In fact, according to the speed at which the main planner of the Tenda Games department had been updated and replaced before, Hu Xianbin should have taken the Dream Fund and run away long ago.

But last time, there was a bit of a snag in the voting, and his position was inexplicably switched with Bao Xu's.

Pei Qian thought about it. The next vote would have to wait another half a year, and even if there was a vote, it wouldn't necessarily be for Hu Xianbin.

He could only manually correct it.

Find a reason to send Hu Xianbin away, and wouldn't Yu Fei stay?

Of course, Pei Qian could guess that Yu Fei would definitely decline. But this was also easy to solve. Pei Qian only needed to tell him that the matter of choosing the main designer was very important and had to be considered carefully, using the tactic of "delaying" it, and that would be fine.

Let Yu Fei continue to act as the main designer, don't ask where the new main planner was, just say that they were still being screened, and that he should hold on for another month, and someone would come to replace him soon.

Yes, this plan was good!

Pei Qian walked past Yu Fei, who was frowning and racking his brains over the design draft, with satisfaction, and went to find Min Jingchao.

And Yu Fei didn't know that his fate had already been decided, and was still looking forward to Hu Xianbin's return after the holiday, so that he could return to the Inspiration Class for Authors at Qidian Chinese Network, and happily write his new book that he had been conceiving for a long time.

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Seeing President Pei coming, Min Jingchao quickly got up.

"How are the preparations for the event with IOI going?" Pei Qian asked.

Min Jingchao truthfully replied, "The preparations are almost complete. The relevant functions have been completed, and the rewards for the event have also been finalized. We'll be issuing an announcement on the official website in a while."

In fact, when he first learned about the specific content of this event, Min Jingchao was also very unhappy.

Many things might not be felt when spoken verbally, but once they were put on paper, and each clause was clearly sorted out, it became very obvious.

It could be clearly seen in the terms of cooperation between the two parties that Tenda's terms were a long string, and each clause was stipulated very clearly, making it difficult to blur over; while the terms of the Dayak Corporation and Longyu Group were only three or four simple clauses, and they were all written vaguely.

It was even more obvious from the number of pages. Tenda had four or five pages of related requirements and restrictions, while the other party only had one page.

In this kind of contract, the more vague the content, the more room there was for interpretation. Even if there was a lawsuit, there would be a lot of room to maneuver.

Min Jingchao's first impression of this contract was very bad, and he even felt a little inexplicable.

GOG's development situation was very good now. They could just carry out activities to expand the user base. Did they need to get involved with IOI?

It was normal for the two games to never interact with each other, right?

But after hearing that this was President Pei's request, Min Jingchao calmed down and thought about it again, feeling that President Pei must have a deeper meaning.

So he did it without any objection.

Pei Qian was very satisfied with Min Jingchao's attitude, and simply went through the announcement of this event again, and didn't find any major problems.

After all, this unequal treaty was signed by President Pei himself, and its main purpose was to transfuse blood to IOI, so how could there be any major problems?

"Okay, then issue the announcement."

"By the way, you should also keep an eye on the trends of this event during the holiday. If anything happens, report it to me as soon as possible."

"We'll give you three times your salary for working overtime during the holiday."

This job wasn't big, and it wouldn't have any impact on profits. It would help to discover problems as soon as possible, and it could also pay out more wages, which could be said to be a win-win-win situation.

Min Jingchao nodded, "No problem, President Pei, this is my job!"

After President Pei left, Min Jingchao arranged for his subordinates to issue the announcement, and communicated with Zhao Xuming of Longyu Group, preparing to officially update the client tonight to start the event.

After all these things were arranged, Min Jingchao took a look at the players' reactions to this announcement.

Sure enough, the GOG players also felt quite puzzled.

"Huh? Did I see it right? GOG and IOI, these two mortal enemies, are actually doing a联动 (*lián dòng*, linked marketing campaign)?"

"Shocked! And they're encouraging us to play IOI? This event is probably arranged by an internal spy in the company, right?"

"Heh, IOI is already on the decline, do they need to do a 联动 with them? With this money, it would be better to cooperate with other types of game manufacturers."

"I'm not going! I'm a loyal GOG player, how can I be a traitor? You want me to play IOI? No way!"

"But, the rewards are too generous, and there are even skins to give away."

"Ah? Is that so? Where? They're really giving away skins! I'll download the IOI client right away..."

Although some players expressed incomprehension or even dissatisfaction with the GOG and IOI 联动, as soon as they heard that there were generous rewards, they immediately said "It smells so good!" and went to download the IOI client.

On the other hand, the style of the IOI players was quite different.

"Hmm? There's actually a 联动 event with GOG? But they're only giving this little bit of stuff? It's too perfunctory!"

"Obviously, the official didn't plan for us to play GOG at all..."

"Then what's the point of this event?"

"The point is very big. GOG players come to play IOI, the number of players will definitely increase. We have so few players in our domestic server, and we have to queue for more than three minutes to match. Now the matching is faster, and there are more newbies to meet, so the game experience will definitely improve!"

"From a long-term perspective, it's obviously beneficial to IOI!"

"But I'm a bit confused. The two games are said to be cooperating, but judging from the rewards, it's like they're trying their best to lure GOG players to our side? Logically, the rewards on both sides should be about the same, right?"

"I'm so envious of GOG players... they can earn skins by playing IOI!"

"But we can get rewards without going over there!"

Obviously, the IOI players were in a state of happy confusion.

According to the rules of the event, it was definitely encouraging GOG players to come and play IOI, which would inevitably improve the game experience for IOI players. Because the more players there were, the livelier it would be.

At the same time, GOG gave rewards, and IOI also gave rewards!

The difference was that GOG had to come to IOI to play for a certain amount of time and games to get rewards.

The IOI players were different. Their rewards were divided into two types.

The first type was the reward obtained by going to GOG to play, which was very perfunctory;

The second type was the reward that could be obtained without doing anything, and its richness was similar to that of GOG.

This was obviously the little trick of Dayak Corporation and Longyu Group.

The second reward was not in the content of the event, but it was opened at the same time as the event, just to tie up the IOI players through rewards, so that they would not be envious of the rewards that GOG players obtained in the event.

And the first reward was purely to fulfill the contract.

In other words, this event had the following types of rewards:

For GOG players, going to play IOI, first of all, they could receive a newbie reward on the IOI side, which was IOI's way of retaining these new players; secondly, when they returned to GOG, they could receive a reward, which was to induce players to play IOI.

For IOI players, going to play GOG, whether in GOG or IOI, the rewards were very general, and there was not much attraction.

But outside of the event, IOI players could also get a reward from other events, which was unrelated to this 联动 event, but the rewards were very generous, obviously a consolidation measure to prevent the loss of personnel.