Losing Money to Be a Tycoon

Not long after sending Meng Chang away, Pei Qian received a phone call.

It was a call from Chang You.

"Mr. Pei, uh ...... has slightly encountered a slight problem."

"I've already given feedback on your request for the Fitness Battle mall and lottery system, but the reply I got from the development team was that these features can be done, but there are slight changes compared to the original design."

"So the game may have to be slightly delayed for a few days, after all, the features will have to be made and tested over and over again to avoid some vicious bugs from the game going live."

"But then, the time of the game's launch won't match the time of the launch. Originally, the game launch and the launch were both scheduled for this Sunday, and both came out at the same time, and now the game launch is a few days later than the launch."

"Now there are two ways: either the launch is postponed along with the game, and we can hold it after the game is done; or we can mention a mouthful at the launch and say that the game will go live in the next short time, OMG."

Pei Qian was silent for a moment and asked, "Isn't there a third option? Like ...... not mentioning the game at all during the launch?"

Changyou was stunned, "Huh?"

It was something he hadn't expected at all.

Fitness Battle is a game tailored with the Smart Fitness Drying Rack, which can also be said to be the biggest advantage over other fitness equipment, and even about a third of the top of Chang You's original PPT was devoted to introducing this game.

With this game, many people have a reason to buy the smart fitness drying rack, and if we don't mention this game, we may have to think that the smart fitness drying rack is a harmonic product.

Changyou confirmed again, "Mr. Pei, are you sure you don't mention the game at all?"

Pei Qian said in a serious manner, "Of course!"

"The time of the launch can definitely not be postponed, all the preliminary work has been prepared and the invitations to the various tech media have been sent out, a temporary change of heart to jump the vote is definitely not appropriate, it appears that we are not keeping our word."

"But since the game isn't completely finished and there's still the possibility of modifications, it's better not to talk too full of it yet. In case the finished product doesn't match everyone's expectations when the time comes, wouldn't that be disappointing to the customers!"

"Our Tengda's style of doing things has always been honesty, not saying unsure words or fighting unsure battles."

"So don't mention this at the launch, there's always a chance to let customers know afterwards, well!"

Pei Qian's fiddling, however, didn't have much effect.

It wasn't very convincing ah!

Chang You hesitated and said, "Uh ...... Pei, actually the consumers aren't that fragile, and the general framework of our game is already set, so it's unlikely that too many changes will happen ......"

"Of course, if you think it's more appropriate not to mention the game at the press conference, then don't mention it."

Pei Qian: "Don't mention it."

Changyou nodded: "Okay Mr. Pei, then do as you say."

After hanging up the phone, a smile appeared on Pei Qian's face once again.

Good news really comes one after another!

If the launch of the smart fitness drying rack never mentions the game, then the appeal of this fitness equipment to the average consumer is very small.

After the launch, the heat of the Smart Clothes Rack will go down, most people will not remember such a fitness equipment, and even if the news of "Fitness Battle" will pop up again, the impact will be greatly reduced.

Of course, it's impossible to say that no one will buy it, there will always be a few curious rats, but heat is something that can go down a little bit!

Pei Qian is very happy, can't help but think of the wonderful scene of the intelligent fitness drying rack can't sell, stockpiling all piled up in the warehouse ......

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Thursday, May 10.

Magic City, Longyu Group.

Eric had just finished a phone call, and seemed to have a rather heated argument with the person on the phone about certain issues, but in the end he seemed to have failed to convince the other party, and nodded his head somewhat reluctantly, agreeing to the proposal.

Zhao Xuming was also beside him, and although his English level was also okay, but Eric's speech speed was too fast, and Zhao Xuming couldn't hear what was being said on the other end of the phone, so he couldn't know the full content of the call based on these only a few words, and could only vaguely hear a general idea: it seemed to be related to the ioi handheld version.

This made Zhao Xuming feel slightly worried.

It was because according to Eric's arrangement, today, the Long Yu Group and the Finger Company were going to jointly hold a conference.

In this conference, the two sides would jointly announce a series of initiatives regarding the ioi national service, including the news of the launch of the ioi hand game, the new hero Yunxiang Dragon that ioi came out with in order to take care of the domestic market, the full set of national style skins for the domestic market, as well as a series of subsidies and burnout policies, and so on.

It can be said that today's press conference is the beginning of the official large-scale declaration of war against Tengda Group by Long Yu Group and Finger.

For this day to come, Erik was actually brewing for a long time.

From the day Eric was removed from his position, he had been carefully preparing today's plan, wanting to defeat Head Pei in one fell swoop by burning money.

After Eric retook the reins of ioi national service, he was also making preliminary preparations and patiently observing the timing while doing so.

Now the time has finally arrived.

Eric has been carefully observing the various industries of Tengda, and believes that now is a perfect time.

Mission and Choice had invested heavily in the movie and game, and now, while it was a word-of-mouth success, it would be a long cycle to get its money back.

Initial sales of the G1 phone were good, and the ensuing massive stocking would certainly hold down a large sum of money.

And according to the grapevine, there is also a new technology product released by Goutu Technology, according to Pei's character, this product will certainly also be heavily stocked.

This all means that Tengda itself is somewhat tight capital chain is under greater pressure.

At this juncture of the burning war, the amount of money Pei has at his disposal should not be much, which is very favorable to Eric!

Although this kind of thing can be done secretly, but in order to achieve the best effect, it is necessary to hold a conference, as high-profile as possible to "announce the world".

Because only the publicity out, most players will know the news, fresh blood will be attracted to the game.

This move will trigger the attention of Tengda, and even let Tengda quickly counterattack, but this is exactly the effect that Eric hoped to achieve.

Because winning or losing a burning war had nothing to do with how fast or slow the reaction was, but only with the number of bullets in hand. And bullets, in fact, is to see who has a healthier cash flow and who has a stronger family base.

Tengda early attention, early money to burn to meet the war, although the early stage is easy to withstand the pressure on the side of the finger company, but the backbone is bound to lack.

Therefore, today's conference was also carefully prepared for a long time, how influential it is, directly determine whether the start of this burning war will be smooth.

Seeing that Eric had already hung up the phone, Zhao Xu Ming asked probingly, "What's new? It won't affect today's launch, will it?"

Erik shook his head slightly, "There's a little bit of a problem on the hand side, but it shouldn't affect today's launch."

"Previously, the hand game was made into a form where the end game and hand game were not interoperable, and after I protested to the top management, this practice has been dismissed."

"But just now, the head of the hand game project called and said that although the hand game is now designed to be in the form of end game and hand game data interoperability, some different fee points from the end game have been added to the hand game."

"For example, there are individual exclusive skins, exclusive gift packs, special icons and emotes in the hand games, etc."

Zhao Xuming was stunned, "This ...... doesn't seem right either, does it? If we're going to do data interoperability, then let's do it simply and make it exactly the same, right? Save the bullshit."

Erik shook his head somewhat helplessly, "That's true."

"But there's also profit pressure on the hand game project side. If the content of the hand game and the end game are exactly the same, then the hand game's ability to generate revenue is too weak."

"There is also a special project team for maintenance and development of hand games, and with so much input, the top management also has to consider the input-output ratio. Data interoperability is already making a lot of concessions in terms of benefits, and if you don't want to point some other way to return the blood, the hand game project side will never agree."

"But the person in charge over there has also given a compromise solution."

"Although the Hand Tour has some spending points for exclusive skins and gift packs, we will give players some tokens at the beginning of the launch so that they can use them to get most of the exclusive skins and gift packs for free."

"After that, when the player base of the handheld game has stabilized, it will slowly return with new exclusive skins and gift packs."

"That's a barely acceptable compromise."

Zhao Xuming nodded slightly, "Well ...... that's all it can be."

Apparently, Eric, as the head of ioi's national service, had a certain amount of say over the top of the Finger Company, but he wasn't so big as to say one thing or the other.

The people in charge of developing the ioi hand game are the other project teams at Finger Company, and Eric wants the ioi hand game to be completely data interoperable with the end game and not make a penny more, but there are some people in the top management of Finger Company who don't agree with this idea, and think that why can't they make money after working so hard to make a hand game?

The result after the game of several factions of forces, is that each step back: hand out some exclusive packages to make money, but to do a little more subtle, the first to send more tokens, disguised as these exclusive content can be obtained for free, after a period of time and then slowly sell exclusive content back to the blood.

This is relatively easy for players to accept emotionally, ioi hand project team side can also make more money.

Although Eric was still slightly dissatisfied with this approach, he was also a smart man and knew that it was unrealistic to let ioi hand tour completely follow his will, so he knowingly stopped insisting.

Zhao Xu Ming suddenly thought of a question and said, "What about ...... the afternoon press conference?"

"But the press conference has handheld game related content, our slogan is 'handheld game and end game data interoperability, content is completely consistent', now this situation, I'm afraid it can't be considered 'completely consistent', right? "

Eric said after considering for a moment, "It can be introduced without being so clear and vague."

"If we were to be honest at the launch and tell the truth about the handheld exclusive package as it is, it might put us in a disadvantageous position in terms of public opinion from the start."

"Just because we hinted at the press conference that the game is still in development doesn't mean the end result, and when the game comes out and we give away more tokens, the players most likely won't hold onto that."

Zhao nodded, "That's right, as long as we give away enough tokens, the players will definitely have collective amnesia and pretend nothing ever happened."

"There shouldn't be much of a problem."

Eric stood up, "Alright, this matter is settled, there's a press conference coming up this afternoon, so hurry up and get ready, we're going to declare war on Tengda!"