You said you were going to make games, how did you become the richest man without doing anything?

Chapter 278: Reviewing the previous rounds of gains and embarking on a new journey in the VR era (2-in-1 order required)
However, before officially starting, Lu Yu plans to take stock of the gains from the previous cycles and see what resources he has available.

In the first four cycles after obtaining the system, Lu Yu produced a total of 5 games.

The total sales of "Cat Girl Paradise Adventure" has exceeded 500 million.
The monthly active users of "My Leisurely Island Owner Life" exceeded 450 million, and the maximum number of concurrent online users reached 150 million.

The monthly active users of "Free and Easy Talk Life" exceeded 600 million, with a maximum of 220 people online at the same time.

"Feast Eating Simulator" has sold a total of 380 million copies.

"Super Time Space Moe Girl" has accumulated 800 million monthly active users, with a maximum of 300 million online users.

In addition, there is the animation licensing fee from Taoyuan Huimeng, the annual fee from Taoyuan Kaiwu Engine, the gift income and business order income from Taoyuan Guangnian.

Taoyuan Township achieved a revenue turnover of 6.5 million yuan last year.

There are currently 140 employees. Originally, he wanted to recruit some talented people to work with him, but unexpectedly, by mistake, the people he recruited were really talented people in some sense.

Thanks to the efforts of these little scroll kings,

Now, there is a total of 3 billion yuan left in the company's account!

Lu Yu was thinking about how to spend the money and convert as much leisure points as possible.

The first thing is to find ways to continue to recruit outstanding talents who can produce.

Because Lu Yu is still burdened with a new cycle of system tasks:

[Surprise Mission 1: The More the Better]

[Task Requirements: During the new settlement cycle, the host must earn points from no fewer than 300 Taoyuan Township employees, with each employee earning at least 100 points.]

[Task Success Reward: 30000 Leisure Points]

[Mission Failure Penalty: Deduct 30000 points from the host]

[This task has been automatically accepted and cannot be abandoned]

In other words, these hundreds of newly recruited employees must be able to live a leisurely life and continue to contribute points to him.

Earning 3 points at once is secondary. The difficulty of this task lies in the fact that he must treat everyone equally and ensure that no one gets left behind.

Therefore, Lu Yu recently took advantage of his vacation to investigate the gaming and technology industry news in this world.
He therefore made up his mind to find a way to acquire a VR hardware development team and develop a VR gaming device from scratch.

In fact, according to his experience in his previous life, the safest way is definitely to find an outsourced design team and do OEM production.

In this way, Taoyuan Township only needs to focus on developing VR games.

But he chose to do the opposite!
The reason why he wanted to directly acquire the hardware team was very simple.
If it is just brand cooperation, then the team's daily work will not be under his supervision at all.

Considering the overall context of this world, I'm afraid that in order to live up to his sponsor and other investors, those hardware teams will definitely fight hard.

Moreover, Moore's Law in this world has become invalid. The world is now in a stage of technological explosion, especially in the field of virtual reality. New technology news makes headlines almost every day.

Lu Yu felt that it would not be long before something like a virtual gaming cockpit would appear.

However, precisely because technology is developing so rapidly, the possibility of entrepreneurial teams creating hit products is also magnified!

If the team is under his control, he can lead them to play badly and produce a mediocre product.

What cutting-edge technology? He insists on doing the opposite!
Anyway, his purpose in recruiting these people was just to earn leisure points.

Thinking of this happily, Lu Yu first called Li Hongmei over:

"Sister Li, the company is going to expand its staff to 300 people. You might have to work a little harder in the next few days. We need to prepare some new interview questions and methods..."

"..."

Li Hongmei nodded silently.

As an old employee of Taoyuan Township, she has become accustomed to Mr. Lu's strange interview methods.

Originally, she also thought that this interview method was a joke, but she didn't expect that Mr. Lu could always recruit outstanding talents unexpectedly. She couldn't help but admit it.

"Oh, by the way, Mr. Lu, there are two new people joining us soon. One is for the game development business line, and the other is for the live broadcast business line. Mr. Lu, please take a look."

Li Hongmei handed over the resumes of the two.

There are two names above:
万嘉
Liu Ying (stage name: Candy)
Lu Yu touched his head and said, "I think these two people are pretty normal. Why do you want me to review them?"

Li Hongmei:
"Actually, I'm just asking you if you want to do a back adjustment.

This Wan Jia is Miss Wan Xiaotong's brother, and that Liu Ying used to be a trainee colleague in the same idol group as Miss Tang Wanru.

After all, my previous company's business practices required us to investigate this situation."

Lu Yu waved his hand: "It doesn't matter. The company treats all outstanding talents equally."

Originally, he was worried that this Wan Jia, who was previously the planner of Mileyou, was going to start to make trouble, right?

But now when I heard that he was Wan Xiaotong's brother, I felt relieved.

He believed that the power of genes was strong, and this brother was probably not a normal person.

It will definitely not disappear if you put it in.

After giving Li Hongmei instructions on her work, Lu Yu called Xia Shangyu over.

Xia Shangyu has been idle for more than a month since she switched jobs from Liu Group.

Every day she either tastes Teacher Fan Jing's cooking in the restaurant or goes to the underground hot spring to stay healthy. Lu Yu doesn't give her any tasks, but she still gets her salary and year-end bonus. This kind of fairy-like life has made this girl plump and white.

"Sister Xia, I have an important task for you. This task is related to the future development of the entire company. After much thought, I think only you are qualified for it."

Seeing Lu Yu raise the pitch so high, Xia Shangyu instantly became serious.

"Mr. Lu, don't worry. I will definitely use my years of professional experience and connections to recruit outstanding talents for our company."

After joining the company, this girl has been eating and drinking for free for more than a month. Now, it's time for her to return the favor and show herself.

Otherwise, she was really afraid that she would become completely lazy and gluttonous.

"Hi, Sister Xia, don't be so nervous. This is actually a small task. It's very simple. The company is planning to enter the VR gaming field, and we want to set up a VR equipment development team.

You know, we used to make game software and knew nothing about hardware, so it was best to directly acquire an existing team.

So, I hope you, the ace headhunter, can help me find the mediocre startup teams that are half-dead in the VR industry..."

"??????"

Xia Shangyu suspected that she had misheard and quickly interrupted, "Mr. Lu, did you make a slip of the tongue?"

"I didn't make a mistake. This is exactly what I needed."

Lu Yu smiled and emphasized:

"You have to make sure that the team you find doesn't go to extremes. It can't be too good, but it can't go bankrupt right away. The best team is the one that's half-dead and just messing around with investors' money.

Moreover, the products they produce are almost visibly mediocre and awful...

The more the team you find meets my above requirements, the more performance and year-end bonuses I will give you.

Please don't find me a team with great potential. If the team you find looks like a bunch of involuntarily motivated entrepreneurs, I might even deduct your performance. "..."

Xia Shangyu fell completely silent.

She has been working in the human resources and business headhunting industries for many years, and she has never heard of such a bizarre request.

Lu Yu felt that recruiting such a team was the safest option.

It is even better to recruit new people than to recruit such old losers, because new people are fearless and might create a hit product by working behind closed doors.
It is this kind of experienced team that keeps trying and failing, and finally becomes completely discouraged and muddles through the days, that is most suitable!
He could almost imagine that if he recruited this group of people into the company, they would definitely think of ways to make up stories on PPT to fool investors every day, and then slack off during work.

If it were him in his previous life, he would have hated such employees and would have wanted them to work overtime until they vomited blood, so that they would realize the dangers of society.
But now, everything has changed. He hopes that these people can slack off, the more comfortable the better!

The plan goes through!
"??????"

Xia Shangyu was shocked. "Mr. Lu, to be honest with you, I don't understand..."

"I have my own plans, just follow them."

Lu Yu smiled without saying anything, leaving the other person with a deep back.

……

Xia Shangyu left the company in a daze to complete her task. After Lu Yu returned to his workstation, Liu Mengyuan asked curiously:

"Is the company hiring new people?"

"Yeah." Lu Yu nodded. "First of all, we need to recruit more people in these old business lines, otherwise the old employees will be too tired. Secondly, I also want to try a different kind of lying... Oh no, I mean, a different field."

He coughed dryly. Oh my god, he almost let the cat out of the bag.

Liu Mengyuan nodded slightly.

It should be said that Lu Yu's round of recruitment is exactly what she wants!
Because at this moment, she also had a system task on her:

[Surprise Mission 1: Day Day Up]

[Task Requirements: During the new settlement cycle, the host must earn work-related proficiency points from no fewer than 300 Taoyuan Township employees, with each employee earning at least 50 points.]

[Task Success Reward: Energetic Girl]

[Reward Description: This buff lasts for 120 days. During this period, the host will only awaken skills related to career development, and their confidence in career development will increase.]

[Penalty for Mission Failure: Dark Succubus]

[Reward Description: This debuff lasts for 120 days. The host will only awaken skills related to combat. When alone with the target, the probability of the two sides starting a war increases significantly.]

[This task has been automatically accepted and cannot be abandoned]

In other words, these hundreds of newly recruited employees must ensure that they can work hard and continue to contribute proficiency points to her.

Earning 3 points at once is secondary. The difficulty of this task lies in the fact that she must treat everyone equally. She must ensure that everyone can work hard in the company. If there is one who slips through the net, the mission will fail.

She opened the document and saw the company rules she had drafted earlier and smiled slightly.

Lu Yu will definitely be very happy with my hard work in management.

……

After the Spring Festival, the industry developed as Lu Yu expected.

The VR equipment development industry has entered a golden period of vigorous development, with market demand increasing significantly.

The technological explosion has brought about the rapid development of virtual reality technology.
Technology giants around the world, such as Google, Facebook, Apple, etc., have invested in the research and development and production of VR equipment, creating fierce competition.

Some emerging technology companies in Silicon Valley have also emerged.
Even some new products that seem to have no sense of design have become hot commodities in the market because they can bring amazing VR experience.

Some domestic players even ask scalpers to buy high-end head-mounted displays from overseas.

Seeing that the market is so hot, domestic investors can no longer sit still and they almost flock into the VR equipment industry.

Many media and experts have begun to issue forecasts:
VR is likely to be the beginning of a new era for mankind

If you haven’t started using VR yet, you’re likely to be left behind.

Confessions of a high-end player: After trying VR, I no longer want to stay in the real world

In the stock market, all VR concept stocks are rising across the board, and some newly issued stocks are even hard to come by!
This VR whirlwind soon spread from the technology field to the gaming field.
Many game developers are enthusiastically investing in the development of VR games and are beginning to try new ways of playing by combining game mechanics with VR devices.

Shortly after this whirlwind started, Liu Group publicly announced that it would enter the VR field with a large amount of capital.

As one of the Fortune 500 companies, Liu Group's move into VR has been so large-scale that it has stunned the entire industry.

Liu Group invested 100 billion yuan in advance to establish a VR R&D industrial base in Shenzhou City.

And through the layout of vertical integration of the industrial chain, it covers the entire industrial chain from hardware manufacturing to software development and content production.
The group also announced that it has reached a strategic cooperation with a technology giant in Silicon Valley to share patented technological achievements.

In order to highlight its wealth, the Liu Group also followed the practice in the gaming industry and launched an internal horse racing mechanism.

The group invested in a large number of VR startup studios at one time, allowing them to compete freely in the incubation base!
Until someone can develop the most advanced VR headset.

In the gaming sector, the Liu Group also had all the major studios within Youyi recruiting talent and engaging in internal competition until they could produce a new hit VR game.

……

Just when everyone in and outside the industry thought that the Liu Group was about to be invincible, a new behemoth appeared.

The Longteng Group, controlled by the Pei family, announced its entry into the VR equipment field and will compete head-on with the Liu Group!

First, the group spent 200 billion to acquire a piece of land in the vicinity of Jianghai City that is several times larger than Liu Group’s VR base, as its own industrial incubation base.

Afterwards, the group's spies began to roam around the country, buying all the companies without thinking, regardless of whether they looked reliable or unreliable, as long as they involved design business, trying to buy up the entire industry at the bottom.

Soon after, news spread online that Longteng Group was poaching Liu Group's core VR technical talent with high salaries.
After obtaining the land and people, Longteng Group began to suppress the supply chain of Liu Group. By cooperating with supply chain companies, it restricted the supply of hardware equipment to Liu Group and increased its production costs.

The group even announced that it would take the lead in establishing an industry association and formulating industry standards in order to take the initiative in the standard-setting process and leave the Liu Group with no way out.

Afterwards, it launched an international patent war with the Liu Group.

Finally, Longteng Group resorted to the price war tactics used in traditional industries. Before the product was even produced, it announced in advance that it would launch an ultra-low-priced VR device, calling it "the first VR for young people."

This fierce business war in the VR field has shocked the entire industry and beyond.

Wow, tens of billions of dollars were invested in just a few days. It was really like a fight between gods.

But these news did not cause any ripples in Lu Yu's heart.

You guys go ahead, I’m different from you, I’m here to ruin the track.

……

A few days later, Xia Shangyu happily came to her workstation:

"Mr. Lu, I mobilized my connections and finally found a team that meets your requirements. Don't worry, they are absolutely mediocre, the most mediocre one can be."

When Lu Yu heard this, he was extremely happy: "Hurry up and bring the person up so I can see him!"

(End of this chapter)