Monday, January 24.
Pei Qian came to the company with a black face and entered the office.
For two days on the weekend, he ran all over the mall where the twenty-one telephone booths were located, and his heart was broken.
Among the twenty-one phone booths, the one on Huanyutian Street was made by Zhang Wang, and the other twenty were made by manufacturers.
Now, all the phone booths have been painted with gog's original hero paintings, and they are filled with various things that Pei Qian thinks have nothing to do with phone booths, such as beverage machines, jukeboxes, gashapon machines, and so on.
A good phone booth has been transformed into a small multi-functional entertainment room!
Moreover, there were long queues at the entrance of all the phone booths, and there were even a lot of people running all the way here, just to take a photo and get a stamp inside!
Pei Qian found Zhang Wang speechlessly, and before he had time to question, Zhang Wang proudly began to report the results of the shared phone booth.
The cost of each phone booth is about 10,000 yuan, plus the various equipment and aeds inside, plus the rent ranging from 500 to 1,000 yuan, the initial investment is probably less than 40,000 yuan.
If you count the original paintings above, it's 70,000.
And now the daily use time of the phone booth is about seven or eight hours on average.
40 yuan per hour, plus the additional income of beverage machines, gashapon machines and other equipment, I can earn more than 300 yuan per day, which is 10,000 yuan a month. Even after deducting maintenance costs and other expenses, I can earn seven or eight thousand a month. No problem either.
In this way, the phone booth can recover the cost in one year, and it will be pure profit after one year.
At that stage, only the current 20 phone booths can earn Pei Qian hundreds of thousands of dollars every month!
Of course, for President Pei, who has experienced many battles, this mere hundreds of thousands is just a trivial burden.
The reason why Pei Qian felt very sad was mainly because of the serious frustration that the project itself brought him.
"Can you make money by investing in such an unreliable project???"
On a spiritual level, Pei Qian was hit harder than the previous lucrative projects...
Therefore, until he came to the company this morning, Pei Qian still felt a little dazed.
"Mr. Pei, gog is about to officially start the test."
Pei Qian looked at the information on the phone and simply replied "I know".
After thinking about it, Pei Qian sent Lin Chang a message and made an appointment to meet at Moyu Internet Cafe near Handong University.
Pei Qian has been busy sharing the phone booth this weekend, and the time to meet Lin Chang has been delayed again and again, and it has been reluctantly delayed until this morning.
Coincidentally, while meeting with Lin Chang, I also went to the fish Internet cafe to see the real situation of gog.
The so-called "official start of the test" is to officially release the test version of the game to the official game platform, allowing players to freely download and experience it.
Of course, considering the server pressure, so many test account qualifications will not be issued in the early stage. It must be easier for the core players of Tenda Games to obtain the qualifications.
Through the trial play and feedback of this group of people, we can better find out bugs and problems in the game and fix them.
The version during the beta period is definitely full of bugs, but players who like to play the beta version are generally more forgiving. They have an early adopter mentality and don’t care so much about these bugs.
And Pei Qian felt that it might not be possible to see the real situation of gog just by relying on online comments.
…
The final author's class is also known as the "Little Black Room" by readers.
At noon, everyone sat down at the long conference table, chatting while eating.
They do not go to work on Saturdays and Sundays. Some of these authors rely on the previous manuscripts to make up for the two-day updates, while others continue to use their own notebooks in the hotel to code words.
Therefore, Mingyu and Cui Geng, who were named by President Pei, have not seen each other for three days.
"Hey, Mingyu, Cui Geng, what are you two doing on Friday? Let's talk about it." Someone was very interested in the whereabouts of the two of them.
Mingyu coughed twice and said in a low voice, "I went to a nearby Internet cafe with a high configuration, secretly coded three chapters in the morning, and then saved them. I played games for a while in the afternoon."
Someone was stunned for a moment: "Didn't you say no code words?"
Mingyu smiled: "Yeah, but no one cares. I just need to spread these three chapters into the update on Saturday and Sunday. Who knows?"
Everyone couldn't help but sigh, it really is a model worker! I was forced to take a holiday, and I didn’t forget to secretly save manuscripts!
In the absence of Zhu Xing'an, these authors can speak freely.
Previously, Zhu Xing'an was sent by a group of horses to supervise these authors, but after Mr. Pei visited him last time, he took Zhu Xing'an away and let these authors manage themselves.
Mingyu looked at Cui Geng again: "How about you, Brother Cui? Shouldn't you really go to receive a day of Tengda spiritual education?"
Another author replied: "Yes, Brother Cui, was the ending notice made out of anger?"
In the eyes of these authors who do not know the truth, Cui Geng's behavior can be said to be very confusing.
I went to Tenda's headquarters on Friday, and in the evening issued an end notice, which scared the readers enough.
I thought this book was cut like this, but on Saturday, Cui Geng updated it again, and updated four chapters!
On Saturday, Sunday, and Monday morning, Cui Geng was still writing this book seriously, and the number of updated words was not at all, and there was no sign of cutting it at all.
This is very confusing.
What the hell happened on Friday? Is Cui Geng still writing this book
You know, among all the authors who participated in the study class, Cui Geng's grades are also very high.
For many new writers, five or six thousand books can be written to the end of the day.
In the face of everyone's questioning, Cui Geng smiled slightly: "Friday, I have indeed been educated in the spirit of Tenda. It's just not as boring and boring as you think, but an ingenious form."
"You will know when you go. This way is really interesting!"
"As for the book, I do plan to finish it quickly, but that's because..."
"I'm suddenly enlightened. I want to quickly finish this book and write a better one!"
Cui Geng's eyes lit up.
During this time, he was also constantly thinking about the big framework of "Butterfly Game", and he was waiting to collect enough materials in various departments of Tenda, and he was almost ready to start writing!
Mingyu was a little curious, he felt that Cui Geng's mental state was different.
Previously, Cui Geng had serious procrastination, was a bit salty, and was more or less hypocritical.
To be honest, Mingyu always felt that Cui Geng was a bit of a waste of his talent.
If you write casually, you will subscribe to five or six thousand words. If you don’t update it properly, you will always cut it randomly. If you write seriously and earnestly, and update six or eight thousand words a day, this subscription will not exceed 10,000
But looking at his expression this time, why does it seem like he is about to change his mind
Could it be that this Tenda spiritual education is really so successful
Cui Geng continued: "Moreover, participating in Tengda's spiritual study this time has made me understand a truth, that is, don't resist, reject rest and entertainment, and you should use them to better maintain working conditions."
"The number of updated words should not be the only indicator, but should guarantee the quality of the book."
"Mr. Mingyu, don't you keep asking me how to write to 5,000 average subscriptions? I think it is the most urgent thing for you to shorten the number of updated words and further improve the quality."
Ming Yu was thoughtful when he heard this.
"Hmm... that sounds reasonable."
"Why don't I have a little more today and learn the spirit of Tenda?"
Although he got a day off, Mingyu was not interested in it.
As the most motivated author of the class, he is more concerned about how to write more and better content.
Seeing Cui Geng's reborn new look after a Tenda spiritual study, Mingyu also had the idea of learning.
Another author said: "Well, I want to go too."
"I want, too!"
More than half of the people at the table wanted to see what kind of training was the Tenda Spiritual Training that would allow the legendary "Pigeon Essence" to get rid of their inner demons.
However, so many people want to go, how to arrange it
Mingyu thought for a while: "In this way, everyone can update as much as they can, and update the least. If you have been there once, you should consciously write more and stop participating."
"If there is a situation where multiple people break off, they will all order the lowest one."
Everyone thought about it and thought that this was a good method, and nodded.
Cui Geng does not need to participate anymore, because he will rectify a little in the past two days, leave the study class, and go to various departments of Tenda Group to start a new job (from materials).
…
Touch Fish Internet Cafe.
Pei Qian arrived earlier than Lin Chang. He didn't sit down to drink coffee, but walked around the internet cafe's internet area.
The situation was not as optimistic as he had imagined, but it was still acceptable, not bad.
In his original vision, gog should be very aggressive.
In Internet cafes, gog not only has to face the influence of traditional online games such as "Sea Fortress", but also directly compete with similar games such as ioi and "Shen Qi".
"Shen Qi" has a large and loyal player base, while ioi is rapidly becoming popular abroad, and the popularity has also been passed to China.
Like other Internet cafes, Moyu Internet Cafe has already installed ioi's international server and Chinese package for customers. Although the delay is slightly higher, Internet cafe customers can now play ioi.
Therefore, Pei Qian originally thought that there would not be many people playing gog.
However, when I arrived at Moyu Internet Cafe, I found that there are a lot of people playing gog, which completely formed a three-pronged trend with "Shen Qi" and ioi!
Of course, only from the perspective of the screen and game completion, ioi is still better.
After walking around, Pei Qian fell into deep thought.
"Well... it seems that ioi should be stable at the moment."
"Because the current Internet cafe's ioi is still the external server version, the delay is very high, and it is difficult to communicate with teammates because of the language barrier in the game, so there is a natural disadvantage."
"Even so, ioi is more popular than gog in Internet cafes, and the number of people playing is a little more."
"If ioi officially goes out of the national server and solves the problem of delaying communication with teammates, it will definitely be more popular than gog, right?"
"So, gog should still be cold, and my judgment should be correct."
Pei Qian thought about it carefully and felt that the current situation is not bad, it should be said that it can be cautiously optimistic.
Just as he was thinking, Lin Chang arrived.
"Mr. Pei, long time no see." Lin Chang smiled.
Pei Qian felt that Lin Chang's smile seemed to have a deep meaning, as if there was some hidden information.
"Mr. Lin is also busy with work recently?"
Lin Chang chuckled: "It's a small matter, the main thing is to build bridges, and I'm already busy."