Chapter 46 (1/2)
Chapter 46: Double the Budget Estimate!
November 18th, Monday.
A new Monday, a new set of worries for Pei Qian.
He summoned the system and checked on the System Funds.
Pei Qian always felt as though he had to rethink life each time he saw the difference between the huge figure of his System Funds and the miserable 1,000 odd yuan on his Personal Wealth.
Why were things as such?!
The last he checked, he had already reduced the System Funds to a mere 20,000 yuan or so.
Why had it increased once again?
His gross income for the two weeks ranged around 900,000. After it was topped up into the System Funds, Pei Qian could not manage to spend much of it despite massive purchases of snacks, coffee, useful and useless office stuff!
That gave him a headache.
Was it truly so difficult to lose money?
He wished that he could take Ghost General off the market so that it could stop earning him money!
However, there was no way he could do that due to the existence of system violations. As such, he could only suck it up.
Thankfully, there were still two more months till the next settlement date – there were many ways for him to spend money in the two months.
Come month end, he would have to pay off his apartment rental as well as employee salary and overtime pay – that would cut off another chunk from the System Funds.
Other than that, starting that week, they would be embarking on massive purchase of resources for Ocean Stronghold.
That included art resources, programming functions and sound effects et cetera – all of them would be c.
Since this was a client-side game unlike Ghost General which was a mobile game, they had to follow the strict requirements of client-side games!
Pei Qian could not want more than to have higher requirements so that he could spend more money!
He wondered how much resources they would have to purchase based on Huang Sibo’s requirements and how much money they would get to spend.
The thought had him brimming with excitement.
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“Boss Pei, this is the current list of resources that we have to purchase. Please take a look.”
Huang Sibo handed the long list over to Pei Qian.
Reaching over, he browsed through it briefly before eyeing the final price.
670,000.
He could not help but frown.
That frown caused Huang Sibo to feel nervous from head to toe.
‘Does Boss Pei feel that we’re being too wasteful? It can’t be that, right?’
‘I’ve already calculated our budget with serious restraint!’
Pei Qian did not say anything and Huang Sibo could only wait.
Those figures displeased Pei Qian immensely.
It was too little!
This was a client-side game, but they were only spending 700,000 for the game resources and custom-made functions? What was this? Giving scraps to a beggar?
This was way too stingy!
How was he going to lose his System Funds with such watchful spendings?
Pei Qian did not reply right away and instead continued looking through the details of the price list.
Shooting games basic template (Precise modification version) – 120,000
Settings template, secret base style – 50,000.
Three differing styles effects and various degrees of destruction within the settings – 50,000
Character, zombies and mercenaries universal models including movements and minor custom-made modifications capabilities – 80,000
Little girl model including custom-made movement modifications – 60,000
Various gun models including trajectory and casing visuals – 90,000
Various game mode functions and employing of 5 programmers for 2 months – 70,000
Other than that, there were other expenses for sound effects and commonly used character dialogue et cetera.
The usage of rental cloud services was not included into the calculation – that would be an issue to consider depending on the game’s popularity post production.
Pei Qian was completely dazed.
What was going on?
He felt that 670,000 was too low of a price based on the figures alone.
But, through the checklist, the prices seemed to be within a reasonable range albeit slightly lowered.
They had not decided on cheap resources to purchase intentionally either – why was the expended sum so low then?