Moyu Games, Chairman's Office.
"Bang!"
Fei Zhiyuan slammed the table like a head of state!
He almost shouted, "How dare he!"
But he held back.
Not because Gong Feng, the project manager of "Mirror World Tales," and Lu Ming, the chief planner of "Divine Bird," were standing in front of him, but because that behavior was too much like impotent rage.
He could hire online trolls and create trends to make trouble for Zhumeng.
Zhumeng, of course, could also turn around and make him uncomfortable.
This was not difficult to understand.
But what enraged him was—
Zhumeng's chosen method was too blatant!
Xia country businessmen value harmony for wealth. Even if they hate each other to the core in private, stabbing each other in the back until blood is drawn, they are still amiable on the surface, at most subtly mocking each other in games or announcements.
Who would set up their battle lines like this, directly confronting each other?
Aren't you afraid of losing face in the Pacific if you lose?
Do you really think you've got me beat and can't possibly lose?
Then you underestimate me too much!!
The more Fei Zhiyuan thought about it, the angrier he became!
After slamming the table, he subconsciously wanted to smash something.
But looking at the two capable subordinates in front of him, especially Lu Ming, who was diligently managing "Divine Bird" and was still unclear about this sudden confrontation, he finally held back.
From beginning to end, only Lu Ming was the most wronged.
He hadn't been having a good time lately.
Originally, "Divine Bird" was operating well. Although it couldn't beat "Abyss of Gods," it was on par with "Warring States."
Although there was competition, it wasn't intense, and everything was stable.
But suddenly, the "Frost and Snow Project" came like a thunderclap from a clear sky, directly ascending to second place.
Even if it took the spot, "Divine Bird's" daily active users also began to decline.
In Lu Ming's view, the situation was still under control.
The next update could offer more benefits, add some interesting activities, and invest more in marketing expenses, and the data would rise again.
But at this time, the boss suddenly had a strange idea and insisted on adding scantily clad characters to "Divine Bird."
He felt that this was a completely foolish move!
Sexy characters were completely incompatible with "Divine Bird's" consistent cute style and would send a very bad signal to the players.
Lu Ming was very clear: When a successful game is running well overall, without any problems.
Then the most the development team should do is "governance by inaction"—adhere to the core gameplay, maintain the community environment, and introduce new content with consistent tonality.
There shouldn't be any major directional changes at all.
Otherwise, it could backfire!
But boss Fei Zhiyuan forcibly demanded it, and he could only agree.
In order not to seem abrupt, he designed a background story for the character, living on a tropical sky island, so that the character could justifiably wear less clothing.
He even had a big argument with that Izumo artist named Okamoto Yoshimori for this.
It was not easy to finally finalize it.
Then, turning around, he found that "Divine Bird" was being targeted by Zhumeng, and he immediately became furious.
He didn't know why, but he could guess that it must be related to the new project, so he went straight to the boss's office to demand an explanation.
Just as he reached the door, he ran into Gong Feng, who had also rushed over, which further confirmed his guess.
At this moment, the boss was slamming the table in front, and he was glaring at Gong Feng behind him.
—Couldn't afford to offend the boss, so he could only glare at the boss's lackey.
"Boss, what should we do? Should we respond?"
Lu Ming really couldn't stand the boss's performance of "I'm so angry, but I'm very cultured so I can endure it," and asked for a countermeasure.
"No!" Fei Zhiyuan immediately refused.
He instinctively resisted this kind of public face-tearing gameplay, which he felt was very undignified.
It was like street thugs fighting, not a proper business competition.
"Then what about the release time of the preview trailer?" Lu Ming didn't ask the reason and continued to ask the next question, "Still on the 18th? Or one day later?"
The 18th was the originally scheduled time, and also the time mentioned by Zhumeng in the announcement.
Lu Ming was sure that there was no point in announcing it one day later. Zhumeng would definitely be able to nonchalantly skip a day as well and then wait for Moyu to announce the time.
But he also knew that he had to leave this decision to the boss.
"Everything as usual," Fei Zhiyuan replied as expected.
"Don't worry," he comforted Lu Ming instead, "This time, we will invest more marketing resources anyway. Now that Zhumeng is provoking us like this, the attention to the preview trailer will only be higher."
"Even if we really lose in terms of popularity, the absolute amount of attention will be higher than usual, which is not a bad thing for 'Divine Bird.'"
"It's all beneficial for the sales of La'erna's banner next month."
"At most, we'll just be mocked by the players for a while. Only I will be mocked, so you can rest assured."
"And don't worry about me, I don't care at all."
What Fei Zhiyuan said was actually quite convincing—
Which ACG company boss would take the players' ridicule to heart?
Unless the stock price is scolded down, or the game is scolded with bad reviews to affect sales, they will break defense and respond.
Ordinary verbal attacks are painless.
Only targeting from peers like Xu Meng would hit his sore spot.
He used this attitude of being selfless and shouldering the ridicule for the "Divine Bird" project team to appease Lu Ming to go back to work.
But after only Gong Feng was left in the room, his expression changed, and he quickly arranged:
"Tonight, send La'erna's pictures to the 'Divine Bird' internal spy group to test the players' reactions and see their attitude."
"And contact the online trolls and the Bilibili live streaming promotion department to prepare for buying traffic and boosting popularity."
Lose?
Impossible to lose!
And I won't accept losing!—
The players waited and waited, but didn't wait for "Divine Bird" to reply, so they were greatly disappointed.
The troublemakers who were keen on fanning the flames fanned the flames everywhere, hoping that the two sides could fight.
Especially in Moyu Games' own player community, posts fanning the flames were rampant:
[Can you even tolerate this? They're jumping on your face!]
[I'm not trying to stir up trouble, but if this happened to me, I couldn't stand it!]
[If you're looking for a husband, you should look for someone like the Moyu boss, who can endure!]
[Are you so chicken after losing the rankings once? Are you guys even capable?]
… …
Most of these posts, eight or nine out of ten, would specifically name Fei Zhiyuan as a softie.
The administrator was almost scared to death when he saw this situation, frantically deleting posts and adding blocked words to barely control the situation.
But elsewhere, Fei Zhiyuan's reputation quickly deteriorated.
Gong Feng had to mobilize online trolls to refute from various angles and try to clear the boss's name.
The situation finally improved after spending a lot of real money.
… …
In the following days, both sides were having a great time.
And the instigator—Xu Meng, jumped out of these noises and went to raise his daughter and develop games with peace of mind.
In the process of raising his daughter, he also came up with a great idea.
—He believes this method is very helpful for stabilizing the team!
He vaguely remembered: He had seen a news report about a very imaginative company that would assign a cat to new employees when they joined the company.
This cat would go to work, work, and live with the new employee.
Under normal circumstances, the cat completely belongs to the new employee. The employee can raise it however they want, and the company will not interfere in any way.
The company will also prepare cat food and toys, and the medical expenses will be reimbursed if the cat gets sick.
Everything looks very thoughtful!
However, if the employee wants to resign, then the cat must be returned to the company.
How could the employees be willing to do this?
With this trick, this company has captured a group of cat-slave employees.
Coincidentally, when Zhumeng's employees use the [Intelligent Collaborative Development Tool], the development tool will also remember the employee's work habits, and will cooperate with the user more and more tacitly, with higher and higher efficiency, and ultimately form a certain degree of differentiation.
Isn't this also a kind of development?
In that case, why not customize a simple cartoon image for all employees, so that the [Intelligent Collaborative Development Tool] is no longer just a tool, but becomes a pet or partner that the employee gradually familiarizes themselves with?
Anyway, Zhumeng is not short of art resources.
At that time, new employees will be given "Pokémon" when they join!
The process of working with the development tool is the process of raising "Pokémon", which is full of a sense of accomplishment!
When working, you can also get more fun and reduce the pressure and irritability of tedious labor.
The only problem is…
Want to resign in the future?
No problem! It's just that your pet or partner will be formatted!
How is it?
Do you still want to leave now?
Of course, directly formatting it may be a bit harsh, and it may turn into hatred.
Then…
Turn it into a domestic pet release ceremony?
Or indefinite hibernation?
This is not important, you can think about it later, anyway, the wording is different, but the essence is not much different.
The effect that can be achieved is the same.
Xu Meng was full of motivation and wanted to talk to Ding Nian on the spot.
—Although he is on the new office building side, and the "King of War" project team also has artists, these people are more inclined to realistic, hardcore styles, and the workload is very large, this project may not be very suitable for them.
If it is really handed over to them, then these straight men will make a bunch of "cute rubber shoes", "handsome Mosin-Nagant", "sexy Tiger tank", "infinitely charming Damascus knife"…
That would be too strange!
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