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The script for "Lost in the End of Time" is pretty good. As long as you don't get carried away like you did in your previous life after making some money, and don't fall into a mental rut, making tens of millions in the first month shouldn't be a problem in the current market environment.

That being said, if the Wuqi Misguided Project team dared to act up in this world, Lin Li would be able to beat Chen Anyu to death without the fans even needing to do anything.

Of course, just as Chen Anyu said.

"Lost in Time" is a relatively niche work.

Therefore, Lin Li himself did not intend to use the "Indefinite Lost Path" to compete in the Penguin Crazy Play Festival, which features a large number of games such as Fortnite and PUBG.

However, when talking about the endless journey into the unknown, Lin Li also thought of The Wandering Earth.

"Shiyu, how did you finalize the things I told you about The Wandering Earth last week?"

The target audience for "Lost in Time" is primarily anime and manga fans.

But The Wandering Earth is a work aimed at the general public, and the movie is about to be released, so it's good to start generating buzz for The Wandering Earth.

Song Shiyu nodded.

"I've already added that feature back then, and it's working and effective."

After saying that, Song Shiyu thought Lin Li was going to bring forward The Wandering Earth, so he added: "Our current DEMO is quite complete. If it goes online, there won't be any major problems. It's just that the original plan to promote it in conjunction with the movie may have to be changed."

Lin Li shook his head.

"No need to make any changes, and no need to launch it ahead of schedule. Just release a gameplay demo in November. The specific marketing and promotion work will start in January along with the movie. Starting it separately now might not be very effective."

Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Breakthrough

Several suggestions yielded no results.

Sitting on the other side, Wang Wei, who was in charge of the Gundam Battlefield project, proposed another idea.

"How about we hold another press conference?"

His suggestion was supported by many people, but Lin Li still shook his head.

"Making promises once or twice a year is fine; it can definitely attract players' attention. But this year, Spark has made quite a few promises. They just finished making promises at E3, and if they keep feeding players more promises, won't they get sick of it?"

After Lin Li said that, everyone thought about it.

It seems so.

This year, Xinghuo has been feeding us a bit too much.

"We can try a different approach."

Qin Nan from the Seven Days Capital continued the conversation and made a new suggestion.

"What Tencent calls the Crazy Play Festival is just an enlarged version of a product testing event, isn't it?"

"It's just about giving away a paid game like PUBG for free to players for a trial. We could do that too, right? How about a black box test festival? Let all players join a black box test for a limited time?"

"In this way, not only will our popularity increase, but we will also get a lot of test feedback data."

Hear the offer.

Lin Li finally perked up a bit.

"If we wait another two months, until next year, we can complete this proposal by building the server matrix big data center in Guizhou, but right now, we can't do it technically."

This is true.

This Penguin Crazy Festival seems to lack any real technical sophistication.

But that's not actually the case.

They released over a dozen games at once, removing all restrictions, attracting hundreds of millions of players to join.

Looking across China and even the world, there are very few companies that can do that.

Penguins can do this because they have accumulated experience.

Accumulation of technology, equipment, and personnel.

And for all of this, the sparks have only just begun.

Xinghuo, which has been around for 18 years, has only just completed the initial transformation from a game developer to a game platform operator since April.

Even though Xinghuo's first-phase server matrix in the suburbs of Shanghai has been completed, freeing them from the predicament of renting servers.

However, the server's capacity is insufficient to handle such a large-scale trial activity.

As for renting a server...

If you have enough money, you can rent one.

The problem is that servers are not like computers that can be used right out of the box; they involve many different things.

Otherwise, so many large companies wouldn't have chosen to build their own servers.

Not to mention that if Spark were to do it, it would definitely be a global effort.

That would make things even more difficult, as the current server level and specifications of Spark are only sufficient to maintain the operation of its own platform.

Several suggestions and methods were proposed in succession.

They were all proven to be dead ends.

The atmosphere in the meeting room gradually quieted down.

However, Lin Li was actually in the midst of these exchanges.

I have a vague idea.

Thinking of this, he stood up.

I strolled over to the whiteboard.

He picked up a pen and drew several red circles over the names of Red Alert Online and a few other games:

"The enemy is very strong; the penguin's revenue is several times that of ours."

"Their infrastructure is far ahead of ours."

"But that doesn't mean we're helpless."

"We can find a breakthrough point."

Lin Li tapped the whiteboard.

From a macro perspective, the penguins' attack is indeed quite aggressive.

But if you scale it down.

This attack was also full of flaws.

Lin Li's greatest skill is finding weaknesses.

"Often, we don't need to destroy the whole network to break through a large network; we only need to break through one point."

After Lin Li finished speaking, he turned his head, wanting to hear what others thought.

When I turned around, all I saw were blank faces.

Okay, stop asking.

Let's continue.

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About ten minutes later, amidst applause from the crowd.

Feeling quite exhausted, Lin Li adjourned the meeting.

The meeting ended, and I sat on the sofa.

Lin Li was still thinking.

He didn't think about management issues because they weren't problems at all.

You can't expect everyone to have a strategic perspective.

It's good to have it, but we can't force it if we don't.

Moreover, Hai Mao, Chen Anyu, Song Shiyu, and many other people were all people who were propelled to success by the wind in their previous lives.

Lin Li would be very pleased if he could make the game well and avoid any mishaps.

Therefore, Lin Li was not thinking about this.

But he was thinking about another problem.

He just proposed a solution at the meeting.

However, this solution is not perfect either.

Even if it's a point that breaks through the surface, it still manages to destroy Red Alert Online.

It can indeed remind players of the awful things that happened with the penguin to some extent.

But doing so will at most weaken the influence of the Penguin Fun Festival.

To launch a counterattack.

Attacking only one point is not enough.

The problem is that Lin Li really couldn't come up with a solution other than making empty promises.

"Everyone says that penguins have path dependence, and my pie-in-the-sky approach is about to become path dependence as well."

Lin Li sat on the sofa and made a self-deprecating remark.

Just talking.

“Our empty promises are not the same as Penguin’s plagiarism.”

Su Shanshan walked in with a cup of green tea.

"You looked pretty tired after the meeting, how about having something to drink?"

Lin Li looked up at the green tea in Su Shanshan's hand, smiled slightly, took the cup, and took a sip. He immediately felt a refreshing tea aroma lingering in his mouth, and his fatigue seemed to dissipate a bit.

While Lin Li was drinking tea, Su Shanshan was not idle either. She moved behind Lin Li and massaged his shoulders with her hands.

"When did you learn this trick?"

Lin Li felt Su Shanshan's massage. At first, it was a little itchy, and he tried to move away, but Su Shanshan pressed him back into the chair.

So I accepted it calmly.

"How was it? Not bad, right? Yan Qin taught me this from the internet."

Su Shanshan asked softly.

"She still watches this?"

"They said they were learning the postures from the movie because they felt they could use them."

"Artists really have to learn everything when they're doing field research."

After saying this, Lin Li closed his eyes, and the two of them fell silent, enjoying the moment of tranquility.

About a few minutes.

There was a knock on the door.

Both of them were startled.

As Su Shanshan was massaging, Lin Li pulled her into his arms.

I heard a knock on the door.

Su Shanshan quickly stood up, straightened her clothes, and walked out.

"Someone's here, I'm going back to work. Don't overthink it. People are like computers; sometimes when you can't figure something out, a good night's sleep will do the trick."

Lin Li nodded and reached out to pull him.

"Thank you."

Su Shanshan scratched Lin Li's palm, winked playfully, and waved goodbye.

Lin Li took a moment to react.

Then he laughed and patted his face.