The virtual empire starts from the game

Chapter 55: Weekly data, competitors can’t sit still
After confirming that the update would be delayed and having a plan for anti-cheating, although the programmers were still under tremendous pressure, Xu Meng's tension was immediately relieved a lot.

As the saying goes, once the thought of giving up arises, you will suddenly feel the world is wide.

Although the game had to be postponed due to difficulties, it is far from being a bad game.

But after all, there was an extra week, and Xu Meng felt relaxed immediately.

In addition to helping with coding, I can also find time to study the intelligent core and manage the company's business.

Even after get off work, he would join the testing team and play a few games of "Dragon Palace Treasure Hunt" with the employees who were working overtime to play games.

At the beginning, everyone was very particular about workplace etiquette, and bullets went around the boss.

Face to face with a gun, Xu Meng has almost never lost.

Even the most skilled employee can suddenly turn into a master of outlining when confronting his boss.

——Sometimes, for the sake of the boss’s gaming experience, you will shoot him once or twice, but you will definitely be the first to fall.

Those who had a certain level of skill, but not that high, and failed to react in time and accidentally killed their boss, felt very guilty after they realized what was happening.

Helplessly, Xu Meng had to use the name of his young assistant Chen Mengling.

At first he was worried that these people would treat Chen Mengling as a girl.

But he soon felt relieved.

Except for the boss, these people don't care whether you are a man or a woman.

He kills without mercy!
Even when he gets too excited, he will chase him across half the map to kill him, which highlights the fact that no matter who you are, you have to die anyway!

Xu Meng was chased and killed for the entire game, and was so angry that he slammed the table.

It was not until he became completely proficient in the map and mastered the correct timing of paperization, and the hidden point mechanism placed him in the "inferior horse" camp, that he was finally able to fight back and enjoy the fun of the game.

As for company management...

It was so smooth that it was a bit boring.

Although the outside world's public opinion about "Frost and Snow Project" is in chaos, the mall's cash flow has always been healthy.

The total turnover in the first week reached a staggering 7800 million.

Compared to May, it has increased nearly 5 times!
Judging from the situation, the first month's turnover is expected to exceed 100 million.

As long as the [Treasure Hunt in Dragon Palace] gameplay can be launched smoothly and as scheduled, there will be no doubt that the turnover will exceed 100 million.

Now, not only can the monthly active player data catch up with "Bird of Prey", but even the revenue has the hope of catching up.

The peak revenue of "Bird of Prey" was in the month when it was first released, with a global monthly total revenue of 4.8 million.

But that was an achievement achieved with the peak of the server launch + a huge marketing budget and double buff amplification.

Even major version updates since then have never been able to catch up to this peak.

The total turnover in recent months has fluctuated between 9 million and 1.5 million.

It looks like a very exaggerated drop.

But in fact, without huge marketing expenses, the real profit curve may not necessarily become ugly.

Of course, although they can make money, if they are surpassed by "Frost and Snow Project", everyone in Konjac Games from top to bottom will be uncomfortable for a long time.

In addition to the most core transaction data, user growth is also quite optimistic.

The 1000 million mark has been broken, and employees in the operations department have set their sights on the 1500 million mark.

Many two-dimensional games reach their peak upon their debut, and the number of registered users in the first month of launch is the limit - some of them have exceeded 2000 million or 3000 million in the first week, which is an amazing result.

But after that, monthly and daily active users will drop rapidly until they return to where they should be.

Of course, although a decline is inevitable, the total number of registrations in the first wave is still the higher the better!
The ultimate goal of the Dream Building Operations Department is to achieve 2000 million player registrations through the launch of [Dragon Palace Treasure Hunt]!
Finally, there was a small accident——

Two employees in the original painting department resigned.

The reason for resigning is that an elder in the family is ill and needs long-term care.

After careful consideration, I decided to return to my hometown for development.

Then the next day, the assistant Chen Mengling found out that the two of them went to Konjac Games.

Xu Meng was a little speechless.

Just quit your job if you want to. Why are you cursing your elders at home for no reason?
You are neither senior executives nor core technical personnel, and you don't have any non-compete agreements. If you want to resign, isn't it just a matter of a few words?
When he resigned from the big company, he didn't find any reason and told his leader directly:

"Work is boring, I want to make games."

That's it. After being speechless, he put the matter behind him.

The friction between Dream Building and Mokon will not be directed at grassroots workers.

As for the missing original artists, we can just add them.

There is no shortage of original artists for Dream Building right now, and there are still more than ten characters that have been finalized but have not had time to be remade.

This also led to many original artists testing and playing games together as soon as they got off work, and they had a lot of fun.

On the contrary, modelers and animators are still working so hard every day that they are crying.

The first week of June passed by in a flash.
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After entering the second week, Xu Meng looked at everyone's work progress and found it to be very smooth - the progress generally exceeded expectations.

So we planned to update the main game at the same time when we updated [Dragon Palace Treasure Hunt] in the middle of the month.

Why not wait until July 7st?
Because there was an update once a month, that was the normal progress before "Frost and Snow Project".

If the remake remains at the same speed as before, even if the actual output quality is far better than before, it will be difficult for players to truly feel the diligence of the "Frost and Snow Project" project team.

But if there is a major update every two weeks, the feeling is completely different!

When it comes to valuing players, you can’t just say it, nor can you just do it - you have to do it while saying it, so that players will notice it.

Song Zhicheng agreed strongly and immediately adjusted the publicity plan.

Three more days passed like this.

It was not until the evening of that day that Xu Meng saw the clock on the table jump to [18:00].

He skillfully exited the code page and was about to open the "Frost and Snow Project Beta" version to start today's testing work.

He felt that his skills had greatly improved and he was about to enter the ranks of “medium horses”!

But the assistant Chen Mengling was knocking on the door again.

"Boss, something bad has happened!!!"

"..." Xu Meng stopped and looked up at the door speechlessly.

"Come in, what's the matter?"

The assistant quickly pushed the door open and said, "Boss, this is really bad!"

"How did your defense go?"

The defense at Ningzhou University of Science and Technology is quite late. Chen Mengling has not been seen these days. She must be busy with this.

"Um..." The assistant was interrupted by Xu Meng and could only say this first, "It went quite smoothly."

"Oh, that's not important. What kind of surprises can there be in a liberal arts defense?"

"Boss, listen to me. Konjac Games has announced their new game!"

"Oh?" Xu Meng's eyes lit up, "They finally can't sit still anymore?"

That’s right, one week after the remake of “Project Frost” was launched, competitors were all restless after roughly estimating the game’s revenue for that week.

This is especially true for Konjac Games, which already has similar projects under development.

"Let me see what they sent out? Is it the actual game?"

Xu Meng asked impatiently.

He has been curious about Konjac, a game that he had only heard about from undercover agents in the four-dimensional game industry, for a long time.

The assistant handed over the phone and said, "No, there is no real footage."

"They released a concept PV and promoted an artist they invited from Izumo."

"Concept PV?" Xu Meng was disappointed.

"Isn't that just creating a new folder?"

The young assistant opened his mouth as if he wanted to refute, but in the end he was speechless.

I could only sigh and say, "That artist's work is still... uh, pretty impressive."

"Really? Then I have to see it for myself." Xu Meng started to look forward to it as he took the phone.

——Looking forward to the dark sword in the drawer, maybe it will come in handy someday.

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(End of this chapter)