457 Boss Pei's Skill in Turning Stone into Gold
Pei Qian fell silent after watching the video. Philosophical questions circulated in his mind.
Who am I? Where am I? What am I doing?
Teacher Qiao's words echoed in his ears.
The pain and pride of a top game designer? The fortune of domestic players? The shudder from the soul? Another wonderful world?
Muddled!
It was a misunderstanding, a total misunderstanding!
Dear Audience, please don't listen to the deceitful words of this wretched fat pig. Buy fewer copies of this game, please, I beg you!
However, the feedback from the bullet screen comments shattered Pei Qian's fantasy ruthlessly.
"That makes sense!"
"Indeed, it's impossible for a developer to do such complicated steps just to dissuade players. Thinking about it now, it really has the effect of purifying the game environment."
"I can understand even if I still find it unacceptable."
"It sounds interesting! I really want to try it now!"
"I have been playing this game for several days. It is really interesting to play with a few masters who know how to play! I hope that Old Qiao can post the strategy and walkthrough live soon so that more people can feel the charm of this high-end game!"
"I'm going to complete the prerequisites, buy it, and play it!"
Pei Qian sighed helplessly and turned off the video silently.
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At Shang Yang Games…
Ye Zhizhou and Wang Xiaobin were watching Teacher Qiao's live stream at the same time. Both of them nodded gratefully after watching it.
"The master is in the ordinary folks, and Teacher Qiao is worthy of being Boss Pei's confidant. He truly understood Boss Pei's true intentions," Wang Xiaobin said with emotion.
Ye Zhizhou smiled. "It's really amazing. As the game producers, we only realized it after Boss Pei made the ARG. He's not that far behind us. How commendable for Teacher Qiao to understand Boss Pei's intention to this extent as a player.
"We originally thought that this game was completed when it had no bugs and had excellent horror experience. However, it was far from completion.
"That was because it was a game with such complicated gameplay. It might not be able to become a big hit immediately so the key is in how to allow it to operate in the long run!
"The game Be Quiet requires the player to be patient and willing to use their brains to delve into the settings of the game. Everyone will get the best gaming experience only when everyone is proficient in the game.
"We all knew this at the beginning of the game release, but we did not do anything. Perhaps we have not realized the importance of this matter or that we felt that this was an unsolvable problem.
"Fortunately, Boss Pei saw through this and helped us make up for it!"
Wang Xiaobin nodded. "En, using ingenious ARG and the eye-tracking game as the precondition for the purchase is indeed a good way to screen and train the players well.
"However, what I'm worried about is if there are hidden dangers in such a form of screening.
"No matter what, this sort of screening would definitely wipe out a lot of new players who had fallen into the pit. Moreover, this is an online game. In the long run, there might not be fresh blood, and I'm afraid it will slowly become a ghost server…"
Ye Zhizhou smiled while shaking his head. "No! Do you think Boss Pei won't think of the problems you have thought about?
"In actual fact, Boss Pei's actions are not screening. You've misunderstood!"
"Old Qiao is just a UP Master after all, not a professional game designer. He only saw the current effects of screening on the players, not the future in the long run!"
Wang Xiaobin was taken aback: "Oh? What do you mean?"
Ye Zhizhou said confidently, "According to my understanding, Boss Pei's entire strategy should be divided into at least three stages!
"The first stage was a preliminary screening of players. It is to ensure that the first batch of players entering Be Quiet will be elite players who have the patience to study the gameplay and for higher IQ game.
"Sales volume would be lost in initial stages, but keeping Be Quiet small and beautiful is more conducive to maintaining the player experience to a minority group and enhancing the reputation of the game.
"The reputation of the game would continue to improve at the second stage, and there would be a continuous influx of new players.
"Before these new players enter, they will also go through this simple 'training'. Moreover, since the number of new players entering is small, they will quickly figure out the gameplay and integrate with ease under the leadership of the old players.
"New players will quickly transform into experienced players in the process. Therefore, this third stage will maintain the reputation of the game and the environment while attracting even more new players in!
"On the contrary, if many players were allowed to enter at will in the beginning, it would make the gaming environment chaotic. Novices would not be able to get the traditional excitement, and the masters would also be imbalanced by the novices. The whole game would be trapped. The heat would drop quickly in a disorderly state.
"In other words, Boss Pei didn't just sacrifice game sales to ensure the game environment but really achieve both! It just delayed the explosive growth of game sales in the early stage and spread it evenly every month after that!"
Wang Xiaobin suddenly replied, "That's it! Sacrificing this month's income to allow subsequent months' income to continue to increase; what a good 'delayed gratification' scheme!"
Ye Zhizhou turned his head towards the window and sighed, "Boss Pei might not personally participate in the development of the game, but he achieved the effect of turning stone into gold after playing the ARG for a few days. This skill is really amazing and hard to handle…
"We'll have to continue working hard behind Boss Pei!"
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March 17th, Thursday…
Pei Qian stayed asleep until noon before getting up. That was because his Otto E1 phone arrived last night. He had to say that Chang You knew a lot about it. He sent one to Boss Pei as soon as the new batch of goods arrived.
Pei Qian played GOG until 2am before sleeping as a result.
Pei Qian only had one feeling when he woke up in the morning. Gaming was really harmful to his body! Especially for his liver!
MOBA games were worse.
However, the feeling was still rather impressive to play a game 'made by yourself with your exclusive skin on a cell phone made by you'.
Pei Qian could understand now why a certain designer used the Blade Dancer several times a month and why some producers were so loyal to the Sledgehammer. When the designer himself was also playing a certain profession or hero in the game, it was difficult to design without partiality.
Of course, he did not intend to strengthen the hero Modest.
It would probably be snatched up if it was strengthened. Otherwise, it might be banned the second they went for ranked games, and he wouldn't be able to use it. It was best to maintain the current state.
He had to say that the coin-scattering effect was great. Pei Qian could intuitively feel more players. He needed to queue for about four to five minutes yesterday. Today, it had been shortened to about a minute or two. Sometimes, he could even enter in 20 or 30 seconds.
Of course, this was just an ordinary match. He would probably have to wait if he actually went for a ranked match.
Even Pei Qian himself was greedy for the 100,000 yuan bonus.
However, he knew that it was impossible. Boss Pei knew very well that he could not be ranked as a Great Master. On the other hand, it was because his company would make heaps of money if he were to concentrate all his time in ranking.
Therefore, Pei Qian still felt that losing money was more important after weighing! Playing games could only be regarded as a hobby after all. Losing money was his business.
As for losing money…
Pei Qian opened the platform and took a look at the data of Be Quiet. He found that while the sales volume was rising within an acceptable range even after Teacher Qiao's video was released.
However, the scoring of this game on the TPDb website has been rising and has almost reached 9 points.
Pei Qian originally thought about taking some remedial measures. However, it seemed as though it was not necessary, seeing how the sales volume did not skyrocket.
As for the word of mouth, let it grow. It would not bring about an additional burden anyway.
Pei Qian strolled to Fish-Catching Internet Cafe near Handong University. He planned while having lunch. He should have a quick treat—no, he should hold a celebration party.
He would bring the staff who worked on the successful projects to Boss Li's Ming House to eat every day for at least a week without repeated dishes. They had too many successful projects so new reasons could be found every day.
Ming Yun Private Kitchen was available on the 20th of this month, which was a Sunday.
Pei Qian felt a little melancholy thinking about this. His staff might be big eaters, but they were better at making money! Counting on them to spend all the money from the profits of the projects would be like waiting for a cold day in hell.
Despair…
The waiter came over to clean up all the tableware after the meal. Pei Qian looked up at the sky sadly while sipping his coffee. He was feeling more inadequate as he realized that his knowledge could not match the losses required.
Someone suddenly sat down in front of him. It was Boss Li. They usually bump into each other in this store so Pei Qian did not feel strange at all. However, Boss Pei was in a bad mood recently so he just nodded casually without saying anything.
Boss Li's first few sentences shocked Pei Qian.
"Boss Pei, Dream Realization Ventures' taichi is really too good. You're too clever. All the investors, including me for Top Student, Come Quick are really ashamed of ourselves!
"Therefore, I've decided. Even though I do not see any possibility of profitability in the Thriller Hostel, I'll invest a sum into it! The others will follow me into it if there is no accident.
"You won't mind, will you, Boss Pei?"
The hand holding Pei Qian's cup of coffee froze in midair, his whole being dazed.
"Huh?"
