Losing Money to Be a Tycoon

Chapter 1237: Event Announced!

Pei Qian looked at the time after sending Meng Chang off. His work for the day was almost done.

He had to come again tomorrow even though it was a Saturday because of the special arrangements for the National Day holiday this year.

This year’s Mid-Autumn Festival was September 30th, which was the day after tomorrow. It was just as well as the National Day after that.

Thus, the schedule for this year’s holiday was a very rare eight-day long holiday. They had to work normally on Saturday tomorrow. The rest would be from September 30th on Sunday to October 7th.

He had to wait for October 8th before he officially started work.

At first, Pei Qian had decided not to come tomorrow. He would give himself a nine-day long holiday to rest and relax. However, it was impossible. That was because, according to the original plan, the “Gods’ Fantasy, Coexistence At The Peak” event that he had worked with IOI would officially begin tomorrow.

Coincidentally, it was the long weekend of Golden Week.

In fact, Pei Qian had originally thought that there was no need to rush this matter. He had suggested that if there was not enough time to prepare, he could postpone it until the holidays.

However, IOI did not agree. Obviously, they felt that the long weekend could produce a better chemical reaction with the event and could use this opportunity to gain more popularity. They did not want to give up so easily.

Thus, Pei Qian could only cooperate with them and ask his employees to work harder so that the event would be released tomorrow.

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September 29th, Saturday, the last working day before the holidays.

This time, Pei Qian did not go to his own office. Instead, he came to Tengda Games’ floor and prepared to find Min Jingchao to understand the preparation of the ‘Gods Fantasy and the Summit’ event. He wanted to prevent any accidents from happening.

Pei Qian felt that the risk of this event was very low and that there would not be any accidents but it was necessary to observe more.

After all, the employees were about to go on holiday. Even if something really happened during the long holiday, it would be too late to fix it.

He saw Yu Fei first when he walked to the office of the games department.

At that moment, the former web novelist and current head designer of Tengda Games was looking at the design manuscript on the computer screen with a complicated expression, seriously learning the relevant knowledge.

Obviously, the disassembly of Eternal Reincarnation previously had a certain impact on him.

Boss Pei had repeatedly emphasized that this was not a huge mistake and that it was a blessing in disguise in terms of the outcome, but Yu Fei obviously could not completely let it go.

He felt that his position was very important. If he did not do it well, it would affect others. It might even make his colleagues’ efforts go to waste. Thus, he had been working hard to supplement the relevant knowledge recently.

However, he could tell from his expression that things were not going well.

Game design was a more professional industry after all. Huang Sibo, Min Jingchao, and the others basically had basic administrative planning experience before being promoted to chief planner. They might have been promoted a little quickly but they were industry insiders after all. It was not ridiculous.

Yu Fei was at most a game enthusiast!

It would be easy to arrange for him to be the chief designer. However, if the situation was slightly more complicated, it would be very difficult to deal with.

The only good news for him was that Hu Xianbin would be back soon after persevering for a while.

Pei Qian was very satisfied with Yu Fei’s current situation.

This was obviously what he was looking forward to seeing!

Tengda Games has changed its chief planner so many times. Putting old wine in new bottles?!

No matter how the chief planner was changed, male or female, no matter where he was promoted, the game would still become popular. Who could he reason with?!

Boss Pei had his reasons as well. What kind of people were they? They were Huang Sibo, Bao Xu, Lu Mingliang, Li Yada, Hu Xianbin… all of them were imaginative freaks. They were all multi-talented and valuable employees. Previously, they had not shown their talents and looked just like ordinary executing planners.

Was he worthy of this ordinary position? He wasn’t worthy. He was too capable, alright?

Any chief planner would be able to create a good game that would be recorded in history. Why should they all be gathered in Tengda Games?

However, it was great now. The script was finally normal after Yu Fei was replaced.

However, Pei Qian was also a little worried.

Hu Xianbin would be back in a month. Then, he would lose Yu Fei’s talent.

Send him back to write novels?

That would not do. He would make money for the Zhongdian Chinese Network while Hu Xianbin would make money for Tengda Games. That would be a huge loss to Boss Pei.

In fact, according to the previous rate at which Tengda Games’ chief planner was being updated, Hu Xianbin should have left with the Dream Fund long ago.

However, something went wrong with the voting last time. His and Bao Xu’s positions were switched for no reason.

Pei Qian pondered for a moment. The next vote would take another half a year. What’s more, even if they did vote, they might not be able to vote for Hu Xianbin.

He had no choice but to manually correct the mistake.

Wouldn’t Yu Fei stay if he found a reason to send Hu Xianbin away?

Of course, Pei Qian could guess that Yu Fei would definitely decline. However, this was very easy to solve. Pei Qian only had to tell him that the selection of the chief designer was very important. He had to think about it long-term and use the word ‘drag’. That would be enough.

Let Yu Fei take over the job. Don’t ask where the new chief planner is. If you ask, it means that he is still screening. You can last for another month. Someone will replace you soon.

Yes, that was a good plan!

Satisfied, Pei Qian walked past Yu Fei, who was frowning and thinking hard about the design manuscript, and went to look for Min Jingchao.

On the other hand, Yu Fei did not know that his fate was already decided. He was still looking forward to Hu Xianbin returning after the holiday. He would also be able to return to Zhongdian Chinese Network’s inspiration class to write his new book happily.

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Min Jingchao quickly stood up when he saw Boss Pei.

“How’s the preparation for IOI’s event going?” Pei Qian asked.

Min Jingchao answered truthfully. “It’s almost ready. The relevant functions have been completed, and the content of the event has been finalized. They will announce it on the official website in a while.”

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

He might not be able to feel the content verbally, but it would be very obvious once it was put on paper and everything was sorted out.

It could be seen clearly on the terms of the cooperation between the two parties. Tengda’s terms were long, and every one of them was stipulated very clearly. It was very difficult to muddle over. On the other hand, Dayak Corporation and Long Yu Corporation’s terms were only three or four simple ones, and they were written in detail.

It was even more obvious from the number of pages. Tengda’s relevant requirements and restrictions were four to five pages, while the other party only had one page.

In such a contract, the more vague the content, the more room for explanation. At that time, even if it was a court case, there would be a lot of room for improvement.

Min Jingchao’s first impression of the contract was very bad. He even felt a little strange.

GOG was developing very well now. He could organize his own activities to expand the user base. Did he need to get involved with IOI?

It was normal for two games to never interact, right?

However, after hearing that this was Boss Pei’s request, Min Jingchao calmed down and thought about it. He felt that Boss Pei had other intentions.

Thus, he had no objections.

Pei Qian was very satisfied with Min Jingchao’s attitude. He briefly went through the announcement of the event again and did not find any major problems.

After all, Boss Pei had personally signed this unfair agreement. His main purpose was to transfuse blood to IOI. What big problem could there be?

“Alright, let’s make an announcement.”

“By the way, keep an eye on the movements of this event during the holiday. Report to me immediately if anything happens.”

“I’ll give you three times the salary if you work overtime on holiday.”

This job was not big and would not affect profits. It would help them to discover problems immediately. What’s more, they could distribute more salary. It was killing three birds with one stone.

Min Jingchao nodded. “No problem, Boss Pei. This is my job!”

After Boss Pei left, Min Jingchao arranged for his subordinates to make an announcement. He also communicated with Zhao Xuming from Longyu Corporation and prepared to officially update the client tonight to start the event.

Once everything was arranged, Min Jingchao glanced at the gamers’ response to the announcement.

Indeed, GOG’s gamers were confused.

“Huh? Am I seeing things? GOG and IOI, these two arch-enemies, actually organized a combined event in their lifetime?”

“Shocking! They are even encouraging us to play IOI? This event was probably arranged by the company’s mole, right?”

“Heh, IOI is already on the decline. Do we need to work with them? We might as well work with other game manufacturers with this money.”

“No! I’m a loyal subject of GOG. How can I be a traitor? You want me to play IOI? Dream on!”

“However, the reward is too generous. There’s even skin to be given.”

“Huh? Really? Where? They really gave me skins! I’ll download IOI’s client now…”

Some gamers did not understand GOG and IOI’s combined event and were even dissatisfied. However, when they heard that there was a generous reward, they immediately expressed ‘great’ and downloaded IOI’s client.

On the other hand, IOI’s gamers looked very different.

“Eh? There’s actually a combined event with GOG? But that’s all? That’s too perfunctory!”

“Obviously, the official platform did not intend for us to play GOG at all…”

“What’s the point of this event then?”

“It’s very meaningful. If GOG’s gamers come to play IOI, the number of gamers would definitely increase. Our local server has very few gamers to begin with. Even if we want to match them, we would have to wait in line for more than three minutes. Now, the matchmaking queue is even faster. If we meet more new players, the game experience would definitely improve!”

“It’s obviously beneficial to IOI in the long term!”

“However, I’m a little confused. The two games said that they were working together. Why does it look like they were trying their best to lead GOG players to us from the rewards? Logically speaking, the rewards from both sides should be similar, right?”

“I’m so envious of GOG players… they can earn skins by playing IOI!”

“However, we will be rewarded even if we don’t go!”

Obviously, IOI’s players were in a state of bliss.

According to the rules of the event, GOG players would definitely be encouraged to play in IOI. It would definitely improve the gaming experience of IOI players. That was because the more players there were, the more lively it would be.

At the same time, IOI would also reward GOG!

The difference was that GOG had to play at IOI for a certain period of time before it could be rewarded.

On the other hand, IOI’s gamers were different. There were two types of rewards.

The first was to go to GOG and obtain rewards. It was very perfunctory.

The second was a reward that could be obtained without doing anything. It was similar to GOG’s reward.

This was obviously the careful plan of Dayak Corporation and Long Yu Corporation.

The second type of reward was not in the content of the event but was opened at the same time as the event. That was to tie up IOI players through the reward so that they would not be greedy for the reward GOG players obtained in the event.

The first reward was purely to fulfill the contract.

In other words, there were a total of several rewards for this event:

For GOG players, they would first be able to receive a new reward from IOI if they played IOI. This was a way for IOI to retain these new players. Second, they would be able to obtain a reward when they returned to GOG. This was to induce players to play IOI.

To IOI players, the rewards for playing GOG, be it in GOG or IOI, were very average. They were not very attractive.

However, outside of the event, IOI players could also obtain a reward for other activities. It had nothing to do with the combined event this time, but the reward was very generous. Obviously, it was to prevent people from disappearing.