The virtual empire starts from the game

Chapter 108: Get a "Pokémon" as soon as you join the company!
Konjac Games, Chairman's Office.

"Peng!"

Fei Zhiyuan slammed the table fiercely!
I almost shouted "How dare he!"

But he endured it.

It was not because Gong Feng, the project manager of "Mirror World Story", and Lu Ming, the chief planner of "Divine Bird", were standing in front of him, but because this behavior was too much like impotent rage.

He can buy some internet trolls, set the tone, and cause trouble for Dream Building.

Of course, dream building can also cause him unhappiness.

This is not something difficult to understand.

But what made him furious was——

The way of choosing dreams is too naked!
Merchants in the Xia Kingdom believe in making money through harmony. Even if they hate each other to death in private and stab each other with knives behind their backs, they will still be friendly on the surface. At most, they will say a few negative words to each other in the game or in the announcement.

How can you arrange your chariots and horses like this and snipe through the middle gate?

Aren’t you afraid that if you lose, you will lose face in the Pacific Ocean?
Do you really think you have me beat and there is no way you can lose?
You look down on me too much!!

The more Fei Zhiyuan thought about it, the angrier he got!
After slamming the table, I subconsciously wanted to throw something.

But looking at the two capable subordinates in front of him, especially Lu Ming who was conscientiously working on running "Divine Bird", and who was still confused about this sudden confrontation, he finally held back.

From the beginning to the end, Lu Ming was the only one who was wronged.

He hasn't been having a good time lately.

Originally, "Bird of Gods" was operating well. Although it was not as good as "Abyss of the Gods", it was on par with "Nation".

Although there is competition, it is not intense and everything is stable.

But suddenly, "Frost and Snow Project" came out of nowhere and directly rose to the second place.

It would have been fine if it had just grabbed a spot, but the daily active players of "Bird of Divine Bird" also began to decline.

This is very fatal!

Fortunately, "Bird of Prey" is only a top-tier second-tier game after all, and the loss is much smaller than those mid-tier games.

In Lu Ming's opinion, the situation is still under control.

Give more benefits in the next update, add a few more interesting activities, and invest more in publicity and promotion, and the data will go back up.

But at this moment, the boss suddenly couldn't think straight and insisted on casting a scantily clad character in "The Divine Bird".

He thought this was a completely stupid move!
The lewd characters are totally inconsistent with the cute style of "Bird of Prey", and will also send a very bad signal to the players.

Lu Ming knew very well: when a successful game runs well as a whole and without any problems.

The most important thing the development team should do is to "rule by doing nothing" - stick to the core gameplay, maintain the community environment, and launch new content with a consistent tone.

There shouldn't be any major changes in direction.

Otherwise, if you are not careful, you will end up making things worse!

But his boss Fei Zhiyuan insisted, so he had no choice but to agree.

In order to avoid appearing out of place, he designed a background story for the character about living on a tropical sky island, so that the character could justify wearing less clothes.

Because of this, he had a big quarrel with the Izumo painter named Yoshimori Okamoto.

It took a lot of effort to finally finalize it.

Then he turned around and found that "The Divine Bird" was targeted by Dream Building, and he was immediately furious.

He didn't know why, but he guessed it must be related to the new project, so he went straight to the boss's office to ask for an explanation.

As soon as he reached the door, he bumped into Gong Feng who was also running over, which further confirmed his guess.

At this moment, the boss was banging the table in front, and he was glaring at Gong Feng from behind.

——If you can’t afford to offend the boss, you can only glare at the boss’s subordinates.

"Boss, what should we do? Should we respond?"

Lu Ming couldn't stand his boss's "I'm so mad at you, but I'm well-mannered so I can hold it in" performance anymore, so he asked for a solution.

"No!" Fei Zhiyuan refused immediately.

He instinctively resisted this kind of open quarrel, which he felt was extremely disgraceful.

It's more like a fight between street thugs than a serious business competition.

"What about the release date of the preview?" Lu Ming did not ask the reason and continued to ask the next question, "Is it still on the 18th? Or a day later?"

The 18th was the originally scheduled date, and it was also the date mentioned by DreamBuild in the announcement.

Lu Ming was sure that there was no point in announcing it one day later. Dream Building would definitely delay the announcement by one day without caring and then wait for Mo Kon to announce it.

But he also knew that he had to leave the decision to his boss.

"Everything remains the same." Fei Zhiyuan replied as expected.

"Don't worry." He also comforted Lu Ming, "We will invest more resources in publicity this time. Now that DreamWorks is provocative, the preview trailer will only attract more attention."

“Even if it does lose in popularity, the absolute amount of attention will be higher than before, which is not a bad thing for ‘Bird of Prey’.”

"It will be a huge boon to the water flowing into Laerna's pond next month."

"At most I will be laughed at by the players for a while, and the one who will be laughed at will be me. You can rest assured."

"Don't worry about me, I don't care at all." Fei Zhiyuan's words are actually quite convincing.

How could the boss of a second-hand game company take the players’ ridicule to heart?
Unless the stock price falls due to criticism, or the game receives so many bad reviews that its sales are affected, they will break down and respond.

Ordinary verbal attacks, not harmful at all.

Only targeting from colleagues like Xu Meng would hit him where it hurts.

With this attitude of being righteous and taking the ridicule on behalf of the "Divine Bird" project team, he comforted Lu Ming and asked him to go back to work.

But when Gong Feng was the only one left in the room, he changed his expression and quickly made arrangements:

"Send Laerna's picture to the Shenniao Insider Group tonight to test the players' reactions and see their attitudes."

"Then contact the Internet trolls and the Pili Pili live broadcast promotion department, and prepare to buy traffic to increase popularity."

lose?
Impossible to lose!

I won't accept losing!
The players waited and waited, but received no reply from "Divine Bird", so they were very disappointed.

Those who are keen on adding fuel to the fire are fanning the flames everywhere, hoping that the two sides will fight.

Especially in the Konjac game's own player community, posts that add fuel to the fire are flooding:
[How can you tolerate this? The other party is getting angry!]
[I'm not trying to cause trouble, I just can't stand it if it happens to me!]
[When looking for a husband, I want to find someone like Boss Konjac, I can bear it!]
[You're so scared after losing a ranking? Is that okay?]
……

Nine out of ten of these posts will specifically call Fei Zhiyuan a wimp.

The administrator was almost scared to death when he saw this situation. He frantically deleted posts and added blocked words before he was able to control the situation.

But elsewhere, Fei Zhiyuan's reputation quickly deteriorated.

Gong Feng had no choice but to mobilize his online army to refute from various angles and try to clear his boss' name.

After a lot of real money was spent, the situation finally improved.

……

For the next few days, both sides were having a great time.

However, the instigator, Xu Meng, jumped out of the noise and focused on raising her daughter and developing games.

While raising his daughter, he also came up with a great idea.

——He thinks this method is very helpful in stabilizing the team!

He vaguely remembered that he had seen a very creative company in the news that assigned a cat to new employees when they joined the company.

The cat will go to work, work and live with the new employee.

Under normal circumstances, the cats belong entirely to new employees, and they can raise them however they want without any interference from the company.

The company will also provide cat food and toys, and reimburse medical expenses if the cat is sick.

Everything looks so thoughtful!

However, if the employee wants to resign, the cat must be returned to the company.

How could the employees be willing to do this?

With this trick, the company has captured a group of cat-loving employees.

Coincidentally, when the employees of DreamBuild use the [intelligent collaborative development tool], the development tool will also remember the employees' work habits, and will cooperate with the users more and more tacitly, become more and more efficient, and ultimately form a certain degree of differentiation.

Isn’t this also a kind of cultivation?
In this case, why can’t we customize a simple cartoon image for all employees, so that the [Intelligent Collaborative Development Tool] is no longer just a tool, but a pet or friend that employees can gradually cultivate?

Anyway, there is no shortage of art resources for building dreams.

At that time, new employees will be given “Pokémon” when they join the company!
The subsequent process of running in with the development tools is the process of raising a "Pokémon". Just thinking about it makes me feel a great sense of accomplishment!
You can also have more fun while working and reduce the stress and irritation of boring work.

The only problem is...

Want to quit your job in the future?

No problem! Only your pet or friend will be formatted!
how about it?
Do you still want to leave now?

Of course, direct formatting may be a bit harsh and may even lead to enmity.

Then...

Become a domestic pet release ritual?

Or hibernate indefinitely?

This is not important, you can think about it later. Anyway, they are just different ways of saying it, and the essence is the same.

The effects are the same.

Xu Meng was very proactive and wanted to talk to Ding Nian right away.

——Although he is in the new office building, the "Lord of War" project team also has artists, but these people prefer realistic and hard-core styles, and the workload is huge, so this project may not be suitable for them.

If we really leave it to them, these straight men will make a bunch of "cute rubber shoes", "handsome Mosin-Nagant", "sexy Tiger tanks", "charming Damascus knives"...

That's so weird!

　Asking for a monthly ticket!

　　Thanks to [Mason 2nd] for the 1500-point reward.

　　Thanks to [我是靖人] for the 100-point reward.

　　Thanks for the support!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)