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Chapter 249 I'm so hungry!
After getting off the bus, Qin Nan turned off her phone.
The news from earlier is still lingering in my mind.
"I wonder if our game will be able to generate over 100 million in revenue after it goes live."
Upon arriving at the Spark Games building, Qin Nan was already expressing his feelings while still downstairs.
Looking outside the building, there are several huge paintings.
It doesn't seem like much in the pictures, but up close, wow, it's really big.
The size 95 stockings are really beautiful.
"Brother Qin? What are you looking at? Let's go."
Following Qin Nan were the main creators of Seven Days City.
They came along today too.
Upon entering the Xinghuo Building, the first impression is its sheer size.
The lobby on the first floor was bustling with people—those discussing business, conducting interviews, and even reporters.
Of course, most of the passengers were staff members going up and down the elevator.
Actually, if Qin Nan had come at a different time, he probably wouldn't have seen this scene, but the employees of Xinghuo Games had only recently moved into this building.
Therefore, there are a lot of people coming and going.
"Hello, we are from NetEase's Seven Days Studio, and we have made an appointment with Mr. Lin in advance."
"Okay, Xiaowen, please take him up to the 6th floor."
The receptionist's response reassured Qin Nan.
It seems that President Lin did indeed give prior notice.
Afterwards, Qin Nan called the other main creators to take a group photo with the Xinghuo Games logo.
Xiaowen, the receptionist who was leading the way, looked at Qin Nan with a puzzled expression.
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"Oh, don't mind it, we're just recording today's itinerary."
Qin Nan is quite shameless.
Or rather, people who manage to get to the position of producer can't be too thin-skinned, otherwise the job simply wouldn't be possible.
Follow the receptionist upstairs.
When they arrived on the 6th floor, the receptionist found an empty office area for them to sit and rest, and then went to find Lin Li.
The people from Xinghuo left.
Almost instinctively, the main creators of Seven Days City began to wander around the office area.
It is clear.
The project team has not yet moved into this office area.
"This office is really spacious."
After finding a seat, Jiang Nai's first thought was about the space.
The entire office area, like a coffee shop, was divided into two large areas.
To the left is the office area, with rows of neat desks. Although no one is working there yet, each desk is equipped with a high-performance computer.
The right side contains the meeting area and rest area.
The meeting area includes several meeting rooms of varying sizes, while the lounge area features plush sofas and a local bar for making milk tea.
Someone went to take a look.
I discovered that the milk tea here is about half the price of what you'd find elsewhere.
I had to ask a few questions to find out.
The people making these milk teas were recruited by Xinghuo from outside milk tea shops.
The person who made the milk tea also said that at first, Mr. Lin planned to provide the milk tea as a free benefit, but later, considering the health of the employees and to avoid waste, he changed his mind.
In the end, it wasn't made free.
Otherwise, after a few years, the company's obesity rate will probably exceed the standard...
There are many more humane things like this.
The creators of Seven Days City were increasingly moved as they watched the series.
What an amazing company!
"This place is huge! There are eight elevators! That's incredible!"
"Yeah, I just took a look. One floor must be almost two thousand square meters. Wow, the decoration is really good."
"Hey, I just noticed, do you guys know what graphics cards these computers are using?"
What graphics card?
"If I'm not mistaken, it's a ROG 1080TI!"
"Holy crap, is this for real? All of them?"
"Not only that, look at that rest area, it even has a bed!"
"The tea break area also has milk tea and snacks."
"Working here would increase efficiency by at least 10%."
"Yes, yes, this place has a really nice environment."
Looking at the group of employees wandering around, Qin Nan felt that he was not leading the project's main creators on a visit, but rather leading a group of elementary school students on a spring outing.
The people behind them kept saying increasingly outrageous things.
He quickly coughed twice.
However, the people behind him didn't seem to notice at all.
Instead, he said something else.
"Brother Qin? Is your throat bothering you?"
Just as Qin Nan was about to say something, Lin Li appeared with a smile.
"Mr. Lin!"
"Mr. Lin!"
"welcome."
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This meeting, or rather, visit.
In reality, it's more hype than substance.
The reason Qin Nan brought people to visit was quite simple.
With the launch of Seven Days City approaching, Spark Games has been gaining increasing popularity since Gamescom.
As a result, NetEase's marketing department recalled an incident from several months ago.
Didn't they say they would send someone to learn from us?
So they quickly dispatched a team.
When Qin Nan left NetEase, Lei Peng, the head of Lei Huo Studio, specifically instructed him to take more photos and talk less.
But since we're already here...
Qin Nan still prepared a document.
The main content of this document is the in-game purchase system of Seven Days City.
There was no content related to game development; it was purely a discussion of business models.
Spark Games has been quite successful in this area.
After Lin Li sat down in the conference room.
He glanced at the in-game purchase system in Seven Days City and said with a smile.
"Are you really planning to commercialize this system?"
The moment those words were spoken, the atmosphere in the meeting room, which had been quite pleasant just moments before, suddenly became awkward.
Clearly, no one expected Lin Li to actually make a comment.
Moreover, the evaluation was so direct.
"Mr. Lin, what do you mean? Is there a problem with this model?"
Qin Nan was somewhat puzzled, and then asked.
"This model isn't bad, it's just too disconnected from your core game."
A sense of disconnect?
"Yes, to sever."
In Lin Li's view.
The biggest problem with the pay-to-win system in Seven Days is the sense of disconnect.
This sense of disconnect stems from two aspects: one is that the game's content quality is visibly higher than that of similar domestic games.
A game based on the seven-day cycle theme could have its storyline updated for several years.
Over the years, the plot has continued to develop and evolve.
There are also occasional plot twists.
Few project teams in the entire industry can achieve this.
During the current period of rapid development of Spark Games, Lin Li is very interested in the team behind Seven Days City.
I'm really craving both the copywriting and the art direction.
If we can poach the core members of this team, the core framework will be completely secure if we want to create another story-driven game in the future.
of course.
It will be very difficult to poach this team from NetEase.
But for Lin Li, it wasn't that difficult.
It only takes three steps.
First: Praise the game content of Seven Days of the City as excellent, but predict that Seven Days of the City will fail due to its pay-to-win nature.
Second: Send the Seven Days City project team back to NetEase.
Third: By offsetting the release schedule, put pressure on the city before and after its launch to make the prophecy come true.
Finally... let's look at today's PUA...
No, the question is whether today's meeting will leave an impression on the creators of Seven Days City.
Chapter 250 The Great Prophet
"I also played your beta version. The story is great, the presentation is great, and the art is great."
"If I were to rate it, I would give it an 8 out of 10."
"Unfortunately, these advantages were ruined by the pay-to-win system."
"If we follow this line of thinking, your game will have a hard time surviving until the third month..."
Lin Li didn't hide anything; he drew his assessment of the Seven-Day Capital on the whiteboard.