The project team responsible for "Metropolitan Sprawl" had already expanded from its initial 10-person team to 40 people.
This was still due to the current tight labor market, making it difficult to recruit.
Dream Architect's employee benefits and salaries were top-notch, indeed very attractive to professionals.
But alas…
Even Lu Ming couldn't resist having wicked thoughts after the "The Ocean" project was officially launched—
He had previously resolved to say "farewell and good riddance" to Moyu Games and "never see each other again."
But now, he was starting to get the urge to poach people…
Recruiting from the outside was time-consuming and laborious, and it was hard to know the ability and character of the candidates.
How could it compare to having old subordinates who had been used for several years?!
But after all, "Divine Bird" was also half his child, embodying several years of his hard work.
Turning around to poach from his old employer wouldn't sound good.
This made him very conflicted.
Until half of the 11 old subordinates who came to Dream Architect with him approached him privately, saying that old colleagues they were close to had reached out, hoping to get an internal recommendation.
They couldn't refuse the enthusiastic requests, so they came to ask for Lu Ming's opinion.
Lu Ming closed his eyes.
"Why are you asking me?"
The subordinates looked at each other in dismay.
"For this kind of thing, you have to go to HR first according to the process."
"Oh~~" The subordinates nodded knowingly, no longer hesitating.
Lu Ming's mental exhaustion also healed itself.
…
However, this situation wouldn't last long. Dream Architect's HR department was already gearing up to show their skills in the post-New Year recruitment season, giving various departments and project teams a solid boost in manpower.
Before that, they could only make do for now.
The cooperation between the marketing department and Remington was quickly negotiated, with the only point of contention being—
Remington Arms Company hoped that this gun store would also become an online store.
Allowing users in the United States to place orders in this gun store, purchasing real guns, ammunition, or accessories.
What exactly could be bought depended on which state the user lived in, and whether the state's laws on residents' gun ownership were lenient or strict.
The other party's experts patted their chests and guaranteed:
"You can leave the specific operation to us."
"Rest assured, we know the laws of each state like the back of our hand, and we will definitely not violate the laws of any state."
The employees from Dream Architect who attended the meeting were dumbfounded on the spot.
—These wage earners never thought that they would become arms dealers in their lifetime?
They quickly paused the meeting and ran to report to Xu Meng.
Xu Meng was also stunned when he heard this idea—it actually coincided with his own?
Originally, in his plan, the virtual stores in "Metropolitan Sprawl" would also be connected to real-world goods.
But the problem was: he was thinking of daily necessities, not firearms!
The risk of firearms was too great.
If one day a serious campus shooting occurred in the United States, and the police traced it back and found that the murderer bought the gun from "Metropolitan Sprawl"…
Remington Arms Company might be able to solve the legal issues.
But Dream Architect's image in the hearts of players and users would be greatly reduced!
In the end, the number of users was the key interest of Dream Architect.
There could be no compromise on this.
"Tell them, no."
The employee conveyed Xu Meng's opinion to the experts from Remington Arms Company.
The other party expressed incomprehension, but respected it.
Instead, they proposed another request:
To build a large CQB arena, allowing players to conduct highly realistic tactical confrontation activities inside.
"Metropolitan Sprawl" already had a similar arena.
The Ningzhou Army Push Club organized by Qin Chao had moved many activities to this virtual arena.
But the experts from Remington Arms Company believed that the existing arena was too amateurish and the scale was too small—to achieve the tactical training effect, it would have to be at least tripled in size!
Dream Architect had always respected expert opinions, and this request was immediately approved.
The subsequent communication progressed very quickly.
An agreement was signed in a few days, entering the substantive promotion stage.
Thus, this project team of only 40 people, which was already very busy, added two more tasks to its work schedule.
And they were urgent tasks—
To cooperate with Remington Arms Company to open a themed gun store and build a large indoor CQB arena.
This put a lot of pressure on them.
After all, they were about to have a vacation.
Not to mention, they still had other work on hand—
They had to finish the Spring Festival content before the holiday.
To do a good job of the Spring Festival content update, they had pushed all the cooperative brand stores like clothes, shoes, drinks, and snacks to after the New Year.
They were wholeheartedly creating a Spring Festival atmosphere for the players.
The newest novels are first published on 69shuba.!
Now that there was suddenly one more task, time immediately became tight.
They had to divide into two groups, one half continuing to work on the Spring Festival content, and the other half going to work on the gun store and gun battlefield arena.
Fortunately, two days later, Xu Meng pulled the employees from the overseas studio into this project team.
They didn't need to celebrate the Spring Festival and had more ample working time.
—Of course, due to Xu Meng's personal preference, he would still give all employees around the world a day off on the day of the Spring Festival.
Just consider it company culture.
With this operation, the employees of the "Metropolitan Sprawl" project team breathed a sigh of relief.
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…
During this time, every department of Dream Architect was busy preparing for the Spring Festival holiday.
"Monster Hunter" had to prepare for the internal beta test, so naturally, there was no need to say more.
"Frost Snow Project", as a once pure, now not so pure, ACG game.
Originally, it was going to update the major version in February, and on top of that, there was the Spring Festival, a major event in the ACG circle, so the amount of content was even greater—far exceeding the "Metropolitan Sprawl" project team.
However, they had been preparing for this for several months, whether it was the New Year decorations of Silver City, the characters' themed costumes, or the new gameplay that the boss had come up with again, which could make obsessive-compulsive disorder explode in place—[Confetti War], it had all been completed early.
Now, they just needed to do more testing to avoid serious bugs after the gameplay went live.
"War of Kings" was also going to have a Spring Festival update.
[Rampage Mode] added a behemoth—[Year Beast].
This was not the opinion of Xu Meng or the development team, but the opinion of the players.
—I don't know how the rumors started, but suddenly many people said that Dream Architect would update [Year Beast] during the Spring Festival.
At first, the development team didn't take it to heart.
But as the news spread, more and more people believed it, so much so that almost everyone believed it to be true.
Then, the call from the big boss Xu Meng came.
After that, there was nothing to say…
"What players need, Dream Architect will do."
[Year Beast] was put on the agenda just like that.
In addition to this, several other modes were also going to be updated.
Only at first, everyone's idea was to add some Spring Festival elements to the battlefield, or open a Spring Festival special battlefield.
But as soon as the plan was submitted, Xu Meng added a bunch of props into it.
—What [Firework Gatling], [Congratulations and Get Rich Grenade], [Firecracker RPG], [Dumpling Submachine Gun], [Sunflower Seed Blowgun]…
They were all outrageous things.
The development teams were stunned for a while when they saw these things.
After reacting, while complaining about the outrageousness, they enthusiastically threw themselves into work.
At the same time, they also began to ponder even more outrageous props, wanting to prove their creativity to the boss.
…
Amidst the busyness, more than ten days passed quickly.
The New Year's gifts that Xu Meng had prepared for the players finally arrived when they were made public.
The first one—
Holographic display equipment, suddenly launched!
