Chapter 155 - Giving Brother Qian a Surprise (1/2)

Afternoon…

“Ah-chu!”

In the office, Pei Qian was just enjoying his air conditioning when he sneezed.

“This is weird; is there too much cold wind blowing at me?”

Pei Qian tugged at the small blanket on him as he turned off the drama he was watching and was intending to take a nap on his office chair.

A knock rang out; it was Lu Mingliang. “Boss Pei, I have a few things to report to you.”

Pei Qian nodded, “Speak.”

Lu Mingliang saw that Pei Qian was wrapped in a blanket and looked about to fall asleep as he felt a little touched.

Boss Pei looked like he wasn’t feeling well; he could go home and rest but was still remaining at work to work alongside us!

Indeed, no matter how much success one had, maintaining a fighting spirit was important!

Lu Mingliang was afraid he was interrupting Boss Pei’s rest as he hurriedly reported.

“First is regarding the new edition.

“Everything is going according to plan. However, for some reason, when the news regarding limits on the sales of Ocean Stronghold’s epic weapon was spread, all the existing players started to protest violently.

“Boss Pei, should we relax the quantity restriction on this epic weapon a little? Say… to five thousand?”

Pei Qian adamantly shook his head, “No.”

Five thousand weapons a month? What a

joke!

5000 x 888 was how much; do you know how to count?

Pei Qian said with a straight face, “A limit has been set for a reason. If it becomes so widely available, why would it be called a limited sale in the first place? Don’t bother with their grumblings. Five hundred will be five hundred; we will not sell even one more.”

Seeing Boss Pei’s determined expression, Lu Mingliang couldn’t do anything as he nodded, “Alright, Boss Pei.

“Second is regarding Ma Yiqun’s responsibilities.

“He has already given feedback to me many times that he strongly wishes to take part in the development of the new editions for our existing games. I thought for a while, and for Ghost General and Game Designer, their new editions really needed an expert at synopsis like him to do the work.

“Could we let him try it out and polish his skills?”

Pei Qian did not reply immediately. He could not think of any good reasons to reject. However, if he didn’t reject, Pei Qian was very reluctant to let Ma Yiqun take care of these synopses.

Ma Yiqun’s expertise in this area was outstanding. The few synopses he had done for Shang Yang Games’ games had been very well done. If he did a great job for Ghost General and Game Designer, the consequences would be dire!

However, how could he reject this?

Ma Yiqun had entered the company in March; it had been two months already. If he asked to continue to understudy, that was a little too much. Even if Ma Yiqun was not allowed to touch the games synopses, he had to be given some order work to do.

Send to Huang Sibo to film short videos? That didn’t seem right. His writing prowess could probably also be fully used in the short videos.

Sent to Fish-Catching Internet Cafe? This was not a bad idea. However, Pei Qian did not have a suitable reason to just suddenly send Ma Yiqun away.

After thinking for a while, Pei Qian really didn’t have any good suggestions. He could only begrudgingly nod. Pei Qian said unwillingly, “Alright; he has already understudied for so long. Ask him to be responsible for some basic tasks.”

Lu Mingliang hurriedly nodded. “Alright, Boss Pei. Do continue to rest; I’ll go and work

now.”

Pei Qian leaned into his chair as he tugged at his blanket again. Somehow, he was a little restless; and he couldn’t seem to fall asleep.

“This is strange; where is this feeling of danger coming from all directions coming from? It can’t be Shang Yang Games, right?” Pei Qian speedily reviewed each of his projects in his mind.

For Tengda, the new editions would probably make money. However, this was controllable; and it wasn’t that big an issue. As for Fei Huang Workspace, they said they wanted to film a documentary; but there have been no updates yet.

The Fish-Catching Internet Cafe was in a traditional position of strength; two new branches have just finished renovations and were preparing to open. As for the flagship store, he had gone over to take a look slightly more than a week ago; and there had not been any lurking dangers.

Thinking more about this, it seemed like the risks at Shang Yang Games were still the biggest! Pei Qian had requested for them to remove all their purchase options for their existing two games, leaving only one such purchase option. This was indeed a risky

move.

Removing the purchase options would definitely be beneficial for the game’s reputation; this was given. However, reputation and income were two separate matters.

For a game like Bloody Battle Song that had trashy graphics and ordinary gameplay; its only selling point had been that ballers could whack and kill people within the game. In other words, this game’s core selling point was in ‘revenge buying’.

After one hacked another, the latter would immediately top up more money to hack the first person back. This was a core attraction of this kind of game.

Precisely because these games had a ‘revenge buying’ mentality that triggered the negative emotions of players—no matter how bad the graphics were and how inferior the gameplay was, people would still play this game.

If Pei Qian didn’t change anything about it, this game might still have a chance of making a comeback; this chance was not small at that.

As long as Ye Zhizhou did a little promotion here and there to bring back old players, this game might actually return to its previous profitable state; Pei Qian would no longer be able to incur losses from it.

Hence, Pei Qian had decided to remove the purchase options in the game.

Bloody Battle Song had no other selling point when it came to graphics or gameplay in comparison to other games; it was a pipe dream to think of attracting new players.

Even if the game became fair and its reputation became good, so what? As long as it didn’t earn money, Pei Qian was fine with that.