Tao Liangchen
Chapter 444 Game Development Department
After chatting with the CEO, Su Yehao informally invited several senior executives to chat.
He quickly and efficiently completed the task of pacifying the staff, promising to give out an extra month's salary as a bonus if the weekly active users exceeded 700,000 before the Chinese New Year.
It's only mid-January now, and there are still a few weeks before the Spring Festival.
With tAt's current scale, reaching 700,000 weekly active users is a bit difficult, but as long as they plan some small activities, such as signing in to get space decorations or rare farm seeds, they should be able to achieve it.
This is equivalent to finding a reason to give them benefits. In fact, it doesn't matter if the number is slightly smaller. Su Yehao has already told the CEO that after the Spring Festival, he will ensure that the minimum annual salary for employees, excluding interns, cleaners, front desk staff, security guards, etc., reaches 80,000 yuan, in order to maintain the company's advantage in attracting talent.
Eighty thousand RMB is nothing in Silicon Valley, about one-tenth of the average salary there.
However, in Pengcheng, it is definitely considered a high income. A construction worker on a construction site, working himself to death for a month, can only earn about seven or eight hundred yuan, and ordinary office workers may not even get that much.
Although the income is high in Silicon Valley, the cost of living is also staggering.
In terms of actual purchasing power, it means that the formal employees of tAt next year will be able to buy about three square meters of commercial housing in Pengcheng with one month's salary.
There's no need to ask Su Yehao why he is so generous, suddenly raising the average salary of Internet companies.
The answer is to spend big to attract talent. It is expected that the company will face a large shortage of talent this year, and Su Yehao hopes to bring all the top domestic Internet talents under his control.
Instead of slowly raising wages, it is better to do it all at once. At worst, the wage increases will be slower in the next few years, as long as it is ensured that they are higher than those of their competitors.
Relying on his financial strength, Su Yehao is really not afraid of burning money now...
He found a computer and tried out the company's games such as "Happy Landlords," "Super Earth Tank," "Joyful Link," "Happy Elimination," and "tAt Gold Miner." Some of the ideas were provided directly by Su Yehao, some were thought up by the employees themselves, and some were directly acquired for money.
Gradually, the company has accumulated more than thirty mini-games, most of which are web-based. It is not technically difficult to jump from the personal space game interface to the web page.
After searching with tot, he found that the two most popular games in the mainland recently are "The Legend of Sword and Fairy 98 Soft Love Edition" and "Swordman Love Story," followed by Red Alert and so on, mainly single-player games.
Speaking of "Swordman Love Story."
This game is also related to Su Yehao because it is a product of Yinhai Group. It was launched as early as 1997. The game company is called Xishanju, which is one of Yinhai's subsidiaries.
As early as February 1996, Yinhai also completed the first simulation management game in the mainland, called "Zhongguancun Revelation." Its simulation of reality is very realistic, including stocks, loans, research and development, and even poaching.
"Swordman Love Story" was released the year before last, but only sold more than 30,000 copies, not even recovering the cost. Therefore, Su Yehao has always paid little attention to Xishanju under Yinhai, only knowing that there is such a small company.
Until last year, the environment for computer games in the mainland was not good. Yinhai, with the financial support of Su Yehao, modified the game again in order to develop the Yinhai portal website and made it a small online game for free download.
Unexpectedly, the effect was surprisingly good, and Yinhai finally tasted the sweetness of making games.
The market is surprisingly small, and the bullets have to fly for a while.
Compared with so-called "big productions," Su Yehao still prefers to play his own company's mini-games, especially tAt Farm. Those with internet can steal vegetables, and those without internet can play single-player and grow their own vegetables.
It's just a pity that his vegetable garden seems to have been targeted by Jiang Yu, who comes to fleece him from time to time.
But it doesn't matter.
Maybe that girl is just harassing him, trying to get his attention. Su Yehao has already experienced her cold exterior and warm interior.
Employees kept coming to chat with Su Yehao, so he didn't chat with Jiang Yu to avoid leaking privacy.
Moreover, "tAt Technical Director Xiao Batian" is now at tAt headquarters. There is no such person in the company. Once the news spreads and the technicians follow the clues to find Jiang Yu, wouldn't she be mortified on the spot?
Thinking of this, Su Yehao casually talked to people about the importance of protecting user privacy, especially his own and his friends', and that chat content must not be leaked.
The real technical director in the company has to listen obediently in front of him, and immediately agreed.
It was okay not to remind him, but after the reminder, Su Yehao was even more worried. What if he offended an employee and someone overturned the table?
Thinking of this, Su Yehao plans to privately register an iCQ account to argue with Jiang Yu and the others online...
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After chatting with Su Yehao, Ma Zong was in a daze.
Not long after Su Yehao left tAt, he was called to the office by CEO Lin Wei, who said that he planned to integrate the various game development teams and set up a network game development and agency subsidiary. He asked Ma Zong what he thought.
Having been in a daze until now, what could Ma Zong possibly think?
Facing Lin Wei, he racked his brains for a long time and came up with an idea, saying that he would follow Su Yehao's instructions to investigate popular games abroad and strive to come up with a planning proposal as soon as possible.
Lin Wei didn't know why Su Yehao was optimistic about Ma Zong, but after looking at the information, he found that he had experience as a supervisor, so he was considered to be winning at the starting line. Therefore, he was relatively relieved and let him try it first. If he did well, he would be promoted.
Originally, Lin Wei thought that tAt's work was relatively easy, but after chatting with Su Yehao, he found that the little boss had great ambitions, and he was also aroused by the desire to climb up.
He was planning how to take the mainland market, and he didn't care about Ma Zong at all. After chatting casually for a few words, he let Ma Zong prepare first and come up with a development plan for the online game department.
Ma Zong, who has no experience in games at all, is both excited and worried.
He has no experience in borrowing ideas at all. He is simply worried to death, afraid that he will not do well and lose the great opportunity he has finally seized.../
As soon as Su Yehao left tAt, he immediately threw the company affairs to the back of his mind.
In a relaxed mood, he took a car to the World Garden community, where he had invested in more than a hundred apartments. He went directly to the property management office and asked someone why there were conflicts during the period when the migrant workers were living there.
Although the staff of the property management office were worried about angering Su Yehao, they finally met Su Yehao, the person in charge, and complained on behalf of the other owners, saying that more than a thousand outsiders had moved in, which had a particularly large impact.
They learned that twenty or thirty people lived in one apartment, and there were more tenants than residents going to and from work. It was like being on a construction site, which made it difficult to sell the other apartments.
Su Yehao was embarrassed.
After all, he underestimated the black-heartedness of the contractor, who probably stuffed all his men into the sixty apartments he lent to his father...