Losing Money to Be a Tycoon

Chapter 166: Can Teacher Qiao Be Smothered?!

After Tengda’s games were updated, a commotion spread across the internet.

The players of Ocean Stronghold cursed at Tengda’s boss, hoping that he would release the limit on the number of Barrett Doom up for sale. However, all the other players were thankful and touched, excited beyond compare.

The various media outlets naturally reported the commotion as well. Some self-media outlets also jumped on the bandwagon. Take Teacher Qiao for example. After Products of the Gods became successful, Qiao Liang accepted an olive branch from Aili Island. He hopped over to their platform from Potato Web.

He signed an ordinary creator’s incentive agreement with them, under which he would earn about thirty yuan for every ten thousand views. However, Teacher Qiao’s stable fanbase coupled with the website’s recommendation of him as a celebrity UP Master in the gaming area guaranteed that he had over hundreds of thousands of views for every video.

This way, Teacher Qiao no longer had to live a life of instability. His income was more or less stable.

He only needed to produce two videos each month. One of them needed to be popular, and the other needed to have sponsored partnerships. Altogether, he would have about 1.5 million views or so. The remuneration he got from the incentive plan and the advertising fees could give him a stable five or six thousand yuan each month. Compared to his situation before, this was much better.

However, up until now, the second episode of Products of the Gods—which made Teacher Qiao as popular as he was now—was still not uploaded.

People were chasing him to upload more videos every day, but Teacher Qiao’s reply came quickly as well: “I’m sorry. There are no other games in the country that can compare to Game Designer in terms of content and concept. If there are any, this segment will be updated at once. Otherwise, I cannot forcefully update it and ruin my own reputation.”

Qiao Liang’s words were thirty-percent true and seventy-percent false. Actually, he knew that if he wanted to update this segment, he would just have to look for foreign games and classic games. That would enable him to create videos for sure.

However, he could earn five or six thousand yuan each month from Trash Games Diss, New Recommended Games, and other random videos. He had no time or energy to carefully look for new games in order to update Products of the Gods.

After Tengda completed the wave of ‘the kindest updates of downloadable content in history’, Teacher Qiao could not hold back his excitement. He wrote a new article to update his own special column.

“I have also been keeping an eye on Tengda Games’ most recent kind updates. I guessed that Ghost General and Ocean Stronghold would be updated. However, I did not expect The Lonely Desert Road to be updated as well!

“Speaking of this game, many people might have misunderstandings towards it.

“This was Tengda’s first game. I dissed it before. In terms of various aspects, this game looks roughly produced. This seemingly carelessly-produced game has also been viewed by many as a black spot in Tengda Games’ history.

“I once thought that this was because Tengda Games had just started out. It must have been limited in terms of costs and the like; that was probably why this game looked so carelessly-produced.

“But now, I finally understand: I was wrong. Everyone who thought that this was a rubbish game is wrong! If Tengda really took this game to be a black spot in its history, it would have stopped updating it. It would have allowed the game to fizzle out and be destroyed.

“Yet, they did just the opposite. Tengda knew that this game had already lost its popularity. Not many gamers are still playing it. However, Tengda continued to arrange for it to be updated. Not only did they add five times the number of backgrounds, but they also added the Endless Mode and multiplayer function like I suggested in my video!

“What does this mean?

“This means that Tengda does not view this game as a black spot in its history. Instead, it treats this game as seriously as it does all its other games. With utmost sincerity and passion, Tengda gives back to the loyal players of the game!

“Even though they knew full well that the downloadable content would not recover their capital, they continued to provide it without any hesitation, and at a kind price. Even with five times the content, the game is sold at the same price. It’s so valuable!

“This proves that The Lonely Desert Road is also a game that Tengda put effort into creating. It’s the same as Game Designer; a work of dark humor and satire. It’s also a part of Tengda’s performance art!

“The summary of this game and the final line that appears on the black screen show that there is a deeper meaning to it!

“What’s more, Tengda is indeed a company that pays special attention to its players. Here, I would like to show off a little: they really listened to the suggestions I made in my video. I do have some level of influence; hiahiahia!”

Teacher Qiao’s special column was downloaded all over. People liked it, and more and more gamers were praising it!

“Well said! So The Lonely Desert Road has always had such deep meaning!”

“Holy sh*t, this was also in Tengda’s plan, wasn’t it? What a huge plan!”

“I’m more and more interested in Tengda’s boss!”

“From the looks of the situation, we can download any game that Tengda produces from now on. We can also mindlessly buy their downloadable content. They’re persevering with updating such a rubbish game even if they would incur losses doing so. What’s there to worry about?”

…

Pei Qian read Teacher Qiao’s special column in his office and then fell into deep thought.

“System, can I count it as an expense if I hire a murderer?”

After he got a negative response and a light warning, Pei Qian felt sorrowful.

What do I have to do to shut Teacher Qiao up…?

You’ve been haunting me persistently!

Each time I make a new game, you help me blow it up. Now, every time I think about making a new game, I feel worried and scared. As if that weren’t enough, you’re even helping me blow up my downloadable content?

“Can I smother Teacher Qiao…? No. No, I must get him to shut up.”

Pei Qian’s head began to hurt. This hatred he felt towards Teacher Qiao did not develop in a single day. It all began with one dissing video made by the bastard. That video made The Lonely Desert Road popular and dashed Pei Qian’s hopes of losing all fifty thousand yuan his company had.

Game Designer was one step away from complete success, and Qiao-logy was successfully created. Pei Qian had planned to take revenge, but Teacher Qiao flipped the situation around completely.

This time, publicizing the downloadable content would not cause much loss to Pei Qian. At the very most, it would increase their sales volume. However, as the saying went: things could happen once or twice, but they could not be allowed to happen over and over again.

It was too much!

Pei Qian had a feeling that Teacher Qiao would become an obstacle to him in the future. He had to think of a way to deal with the problem as soon as possible. However, how would he do it…?

He could not use the ‘hard’ method so he had to use the ‘soft’ one.

Could he give Teacher Qiao a sum of money and ask him never to talk about anything related to Tengda again?

No, that would be too unreasonable. If news leaked, everyone would praise Boss Pei for not caring about fame and fortune.

Pei Qian could not think of a good solution just yet. He had no choice but to call Assistant Xin in.

“Get two people to look into Teacher Qiao for me. I want a detailed report on him.”

As the saying went: know yourself and your enemies, and you will never be defeated…

Pei Qian planned to research extensively into this enemy of his, who destroyed his plans time and time again. He wanted to find out what his situation was and what his weaknesses were. Then, Pei Qian would hit him where it hurt the most.

If he was greedy and could be easily defeated by material things, then the problem could be easily dealt with.