Be reborn and be happy to the fullest

After receiving strong support from the Academy of Drama, "The Invisible Guardian" immediately broke out of the school and began to be promoted in other universities.

Nowadays, most games are promoted online, and offline means of promotion and marketing are to give some rebates to Internet cafe alliances based on monthly activity. Because Shuoguo Culture is a local company in Lenghai, it has made many moves among local universities, such as organizing activities on the campus network, even hiring people to set up game clubs on campus, and even distributing flyers, etc.

Because colleges and universities are closed and decentralized, information can only be disseminated through this kind of situation, and the feedback received is almost instantaneous...

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After "paying public grain for two days", Li Shuo arrived at the Shuoguo Hongqiao headquarters on the third day. Yes, it was not a temporary headquarters, but the newly built headquarters building.

"Boss, have you seen the headquarters that has been tiled? Do you want to go take a look?"

Wei Shuting greeted Li Shuo downstairs, then pointed to the building in the distance and gave Li Shuo a suggestion that suited his heart.

"I read a lot of reports before coming here, but I didn't expect the construction team to be so efficient. Let's go and take a look..."

For the boss, the company's headquarters office building is like his own residence. This building also carries some of Li Shuo's emotions, mainly the feeling of "I never thought that one day I would own an office building like this."

Wei Shuting also sighed and said to Li Shuo as they walked:

"The headquarters building is divided into three parts. The main building will be completed in 12 months, which is still a long way off. However, the 8-story auxiliary building on the left was built first, so the construction speed is very fast. Not only has it been completed, but it has also been partially renovated. Moreover, the people from Shuoguo Internet can't wait to move in..."

Li Shuo was stunned: "No way? You moved in right after the renovation?"

"You may not know that the number of employees in our Shuoguo Group is much larger than before, especially Shuoguo Internet, which has more than 200 programmers alone, but its office area is only 300 square meters, which is really not enough to accommodate them..."

"I see. But won't there be any health or environmental problems if we do this?"

"Don't worry, the construction team is our own, and we use the best materials. In addition, relevant post-completion inspections have also been completed."

"The fact that the project was completed so quickly is also due to your contribution. I will prepare a bonus for the relevant personnel later..."

"Ok"

Because the completed building was the auxiliary building near the temporary headquarters, in order to ensure the passage of both sides, the construction team also hardened the ground between the two buildings and paved a two-lane road. So the two of them walked directly and arrived at the completed auxiliary building in a short while.

There were not many tall buildings in Hongqiao in 11. The temporary headquarters that Li Shuo had previously rented had a total height of only 16 floors and was located in a wilderness that was about to be developed. It seemed lonely. Now that the auxiliary building has been completed, this place seems a little more "lively".

The auxiliary building has only 8 floors. If the parking lots on the first floor and the basement floor are counted, its actual ground height is even lower. According to Li Shuo's idea, before the main building is completed, it will serve as a green leaf to set off the temporary headquarters, but when he actually saw the auxiliary building, he found that this was not the case.

Because the tiles have just been pasted on and there are large areas of floor-to-ceiling glass on the exterior, the auxiliary building looks sparkling as a whole. Even though it is relatively low, it is more dazzling than the old building, and it has a full modern urban feel, which immediately sets off the old building behind the two people!

After arriving downstairs, the two of them went directly to the top floor from the suspended glass elevator outside. According to Wei Shuting, this was where he was given the CEO's office: "Because Shuoguo Internet was the first to move here, the office was supposed to belong to Liu Wei, but I asked him what to do with those who were still in the old office, and he immediately gave up the place..."

Li Shuo smiled and said, "I'm not in a hurry to move offices. How about this, if The Invisible Guardian can make a difference in the gaming industry, I'll give this office to Liu Wei."

"This is not easy. The promotion has started for three days, and the sales of the game are not very good..." Wei Shuting's face became more serious, and then she added: "Of course, the results are completely above the standard. How about we go to the Shuoguo Internet office to see the situation?"

"Um"

In the past three days, Li Shuo has been busy with his duties and doesn't know much about the company's affairs. When he heard what Wei Shuting said, his expression became more serious.

Although they were going to Shuoguo Internet first, the elevator had already reached the eighth floor, but Wei Shuting still took Li Shuo for a tour of the top floor. Because this was an office building designed specifically for Shuoguo, the layout here was naturally very appropriate. Except for many necessary supplies that had not yet been purchased and the details of the office environment that had not yet been optimized, everything that should be here was available.

After wandering around here for more than 20 minutes, Wei Shuting took Li Shuo to take the indoor enclosed elevator down to the second floor, which is the main working area of ​​Shuoguo Internet.

"Hello Boss, Hello Mr. Wei!"

"The Boss is coming..."

The two men got down from the elevator. The people from Shuoguo Internet who had already received the news were naturally already waiting there. Li Shuo also saw the company's two managing directors, Chen Yu and Hang Bin, in the crowd.

"Boss Hang is here too..."

"Hello, Mr. Li. The company is moving, so I naturally came to take a look. I didn't expect that our Shuoguo Internet has only been established for a short time. We can actually move into a building of this scale and grade. Mr. Li has made an indispensable contribution..."

"No, no, it's all thanks to you guys... please"

Although Hang Bin said he came for the company's relocation, Chen Yu sent a text message to Li Shuo, saying that Hang Bin was very concerned about the company's performance, especially the performance of "The Invisible Guardian" after its release...

Li Shuo read the text message and knew what was going on...

"Mr. Li, Mr. Hang, Mr. Chen, this is our new office area. Here are the members of the operation team. They are... They are currently responsible for the operation of "The Invisible Guardian"..."

Soon, Liu Wei led everyone to an office area and pointed at several employees to introduce them to the three CEOs. Hang Bin asked with a smile: "The game has been online for a few days, right? Is there any new data? It happens that our CEO Li is here too. You should quickly summarize the results so that our CEO Li can give you bonuses..."

As soon as these words were spoken, the people in the operations team fell silent, as if they didn't know what to say for a moment.

We are all smart people and we immediately realized that the game’s publicity and promotion results did not seem to be very good.

Seeing this, Li Shuo said bluntly: "Report the current achievements as they are. Don't exaggerate. Just show the truest side of our company's performance."

Liu Wei coughed and then reported:

"Our online promotion is very effective. At least the game is very popular. The game forum with the same name hosted by us has more than 10 followers and more than people online every day..."

"However, the offline publicity effect is not ideal. Except for a few colleges and universities such as drama academies and communication universities, those who like to play games have mixed opinions on "The Invisible Guardian", while those who have never played games just regard it as a movie..."

Li Shuo raised his eyebrows and smiled: "Not bad, at this stage there aren't many games that can reach 10,000 active followers per day..."

"Yes, for example, the peak number of online users is World of Warcraft developed by Blizzard, with more than 30 daily active users. For ordinary domestic games, as long as the real daily active users reach more than 10, they are considered a hit... Because ours is a stand-alone game, there is actually no concept of daily active users, so we observe the performance from the number of active users on Tieba..."

Liu Wei made a simple summary, but he actually replaced some concepts in his words. In fact, it is simpler to calculate the performance of stand-alone games. You only need to show the daily sales data.

But he didn't explain, and Li Shuo vaguely heard something different. However, since Hang Bin was present, he didn't say much and instead began to pay attention to the details.

"Is there a review summary? Let me see what this year's high school students think of our game..."

"Ok"

Soon, someone opened a computer document and posted some popular comments from the campus network and forums:

"A real-life interactive game? And it's all photos? What the hell is going on here..."

"Who is the male lead, Li Jiulin? I've never heard of him. There are a lot of beauties on the poster, but I don't recognize any of them."

"How can real people make a game? They are just minor roles..."

Li Shuo only took two glances and his face instantly turned dark. How could these guys be so honest and put the bad reviews at the top?

The staff member seemed to be aware of this problem. While frantically adjusting, he explained: "This is the data from Fudan University's campus forum. It only represents the attitudes of some offline universities. The reputation of "Invisible Guardian" on Tieba is much better..."

Switch the mouse and you will directly come to the "Invisible Guardian" forum.

"Junko, my Junko..."

"Counting how many times the male protagonist has died..."

"Zhuang Xiaoman is such a bad woman, but I really like her..."

Although people who spend time to follow the forum must be die-hard fans of the game, such a real-time refreshed page of real player comments still made Li Shuo, Hang Bin and others feel relieved, and Liu Wei and others also breathed a sigh of relief.

What followed was a series of routine inspections and concern for the employees. Li Shuo had finally come to the company, so naturally he had to fulfill his obligations as the boss.

At around 11 o'clock, Li Shuo and Hang Bin made an appointment to have lunch together, and then Li Shuo took his people back to Liu Wei's office first!

"Sit down first and tell me carefully, are your results good or bad?"

Li Shuo sat down in Liu Wei's boss chair and finally asked the question that concerned him the most - since Hang Bin was there just now, he naturally would not really let Liu Wei report his results, but many of the problems he had just encountered were actually kept in mind.

Liu Wei was well prepared. He placed a document in front of Li Shuo and introduced:

"As of 10 a.m. today, the cumulative sales of The Invisible Guardian on the entire network has exceeded 10 copies, with sales of 550 million yuan..."

After hearing the first set of data, Li Shuo's originally gloomy face relaxed instantly. He raised his hand to stop Liu Wei from continuing to report, and asked in confusion: "This data is very good, why didn't you dare to say it just now? I thought the data was very bad, so I didn't dare to ask you directly in front of Hang Bin!"

Liu Wei touched his head and said, "But our initial publicity and promotion costs have exceeded 800 million, not including the production costs. All the production costs combined, "The Invisible Guardian" has currently cost more than 2000 million. I am worried that at this rate, the game will only barely make back its investment."

That's why! Because The Invisible Guardian is a real-life interactive game, its production cost is actually higher than that of ordinary 2D games. And because it is a groundbreaking game, its failure to become a big hit at the beginning seems to mean failure.

Li Shuo tapped his fingers on the table, looking thoughtful:

The performance of this game is neither good nor bad. Liu Wei said that the cost cannot be recovered, but in fact it has only been online for 3 days and the cost can be recovered within 1 month.

This speed was even better than Li Shuo expected, and the game data was not bad either, it was even a big hit. After all, it was 11 now...

As soon as he thought of this, Li Shuo thought of something and asked, "You just said that many people watch games as if they were movies. Is the subtext...piracy?"

Liu Wei smiled bitterly and nodded: "That's right, the game was only released for three days, and a studio cracked it. We took over the forum to block some of the pirated distribution channels..."

So that's how it is. Li Shuo understood: "Historically" the data of "The Invisible Guardian" was good because piracy was being banned and killed in the general environment, and the two major online platforms S and E had been widely recognized by domestic players, so it was able to generate sales of millions.

Now that the S platform's Chinese server area has not yet been approved, rampant piracy has a terrifying destructive power on stand-alone games. Under such circumstances, "The Invisible Guardian" sold 3 copies in 10 days, which is actually very good.

"I understand. We'll do the promotion as we wish. Also, report this report to Mr. Hang and his team... Well, after the performance of The Invisible Guardian stabilizes, I plan to separate the Wolf Group from Shuoguo Internet and establish Shuoguo Games..."

Liu Wei was a little confused and didn't understand what Li Shuo meant. The Wolf Pack Department was able to be independent, so they must be satisfied with the gaming results, right?

The next moment, Li Shuo patted him on the shoulder and dropped a big bomb on him: "Do a good job. When Shuoguo Games becomes independent, I will allocate you some original shares. Then you can also join the Shuoguo Group's board of directors and be responsible for the overall layout of the Internet..."

Liu Wei felt a "boom" in his head, and he was stunned for a moment. When he first joined Wolfpack Network, he was still Le Chengzhi's younger brother. Now Le Chengzhi's studio is affiliated with the Wolfpack Department, and he has been promoted one after another, from the head of Wolfpack Network, to the head of the Internet, and finally to holding shares in the game company and joining the board of directors?

"Brother Shuo! I...thank you for your kindness. I will definitely work hard and serve you till my death!" Liu Wei's words were a little disordered due to his excitement, but his eyes were firm. At this moment, he had been completely conquered by Li Shuo.