Chapter 473 - Bow Down To Reality’ Game: Struggle (1/2)

Chapter 473 ‘Bow Down To Reality’ Game: Struggle

April 4th, Monday…

Pei Qian adjusted his targets at work for the next two days when he woke up.

First, he would make arrangements for the profitable Tengda Games and Shang Yang Games gaming departments!

Shang Yang Games would be pushing for the IOI domestic server with all their might.

Pei Qian would also find something for Tengda Games to work on. Otherwise, IOI might really not be able to beat GOG if Hu Xianbin continuously updated GOG, created new heroes, and increased their publicity efforts.

GOG had been working well on the domestic server after all. IOI had to think of a way to snatch all the players from GOG.

As to what kind of jobs should he give to Hu Xianbin…

Pei Qian decided to learn from his experiences to create a standalone game that no one would like!

The success of Tomorrow is Beautiful was a very hard hit on Pei Qian. It made him doubt life. Why wasn’t the audience angry even though he seemed to think that it would infuriate them? It wasn’t even reasonable!

Pei Qian came to a comprehension after deep thoughts.

It was his way of expression! If the audience were to put themselves in the shoes of the protagonist of Tomorrow is Beautiful, they would definitely feel sad and frustrated that they would rather die.

However, this was a movie.

Zhu Xiaoce used a special method to enable the audiences to maintain God’s view. None of them could feel the way the protagonists felt. That led them to be unable to read more into it and be more empathetic.

Therefore, the meaning changed immediately.

That was the greatest failure of Tomorrow is Beautiful to Pei Qian. There was just a thin line between making huge losses and making huge profits.

Therefore, Pei Qian concluded that giving poison to the audience itself was not a wrong view. Otherwise, no one would say ‘bow down to reality’. He had to be tactical about how he fed the poison.

He had to make the feeling very strong! As long as he could bring everyone into the tragic character, then it would definitely bring about his desired effect.

Pei Qian felt that he had found the crux of the problem why Tomorrow is Beautiful was profitable. He just needed to test his theory out.

However, how should he test it out…?

The Fei Huang Workspace was taken out by Pei Qian. Moreover, he would not want to touch movies again in the short term. Once bitten, twice shy. In comparison, games were a form of art to bring into! Some suffering in the movies would not arouse too much resentment. However, it would be different if the protagonist were to be bullied as the player.

Of course, some people might say that Repent and be Saved had not aroused the resentment of players but made the players very happy instead.

That was a complete misunderstanding.

Repent and be Saved was a game of suffering, but what players liked was not the feeling of suffering but the feeling of becoming stronger after suffering. In the end, it was the sense of accomplishment to overcome difficulties.

In other words, such players were not extreme masochists. On the contrary, they were extremely sadistic.

Almost all the games in the world had to give players enough positive feedback to have fun.

Pei Qian had already decided that this game would not give any players positive feedback. He would just pass on completely negative energy!

Wasn’t this ‘bowing down to reality’?

He had to make an extremely realistic game this time and definitely make it so that he had no friends!

This time, Boss Pei decided to do it personally or to write the story outline of the game himself to prevent Hu Xianbin from misinterpreting his intentions. He had to give the players a clear understanding!

Of course, Pei Qian also knew that it did not necessarily mean that this game would be able to make a loss. The failure of Game Designer was a very deep lesson to him. Pei Qian also thought that the narrative of Game Designer was abusive to the players, but the players were not angry at all. It became a huge plus.

Things spiraled out of control after Teacher Qiao over-interpreted it.

Pei Qian had thought of a countermeasure for these. He would never repeat these mistakes again, let alone fall twice into the same puddle!

In short, Pei Qian learned the experience and lessons of Tomorrow is Beautiful and Game Designer. He had to pin it all on this one!

In the guest room of the gaming department…

Hu Xianbin was obviously nervous. Pei Qian called Hu Xianbin to the guest room individually to tell him about the concept of this new game. Pei Qian did not call for the other more senior staff like Li Yada and Bao

Xu.

That was because these people had participated in the development of Game Designer and had a deep level of understanding of its success. Pei Qian was afraid that their participation would cause this new project to go wrong. Pei Qian, therefore, decided to isolate these senior staff.

He would get these seniors who had participated in the development of the Game Designer to maintain the GOG casually. He would then bring the new group of employees like Hu Xianbin who had no experience in standalone game development to be in charge of the new game. To ensure that the project could reach the level he expected, Pei Qian would explain everything to Hu Xianbin clearly this time to prevent him from using his imagination.

Pei Qian took a few sips of tea and started to talk about his idea.

“The name of this game is called ‘Struggle’. It will be an interactive game with realistic themes. All characters have to be made in high-definition motion capture, and the quality of the drawing should be in line with SA masterpieces.

“Of course, due to the short process of the game, it probably would not cost a lot, perhaps… prepare 40 million yuan first. I’ll add more if it isn’t enough.

“Temporarily set the development period to be five months. Let’s try to get it going on 1st September.”

Hu Xianbin was at a loss.

What was that? Interactive movie game with a realism theme? What kind of godly combination was this?