Game development begins with destroying Girls' Frontline.

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but now...

Zhao Ming, however, was unsure of himself.

the reason is simple.

No matter how bad the Spread Out was or how slow the development of Girls 4 Frontline 2 was, within Tencent, it was Zhao Ming who made the decisions.

All you need to do is report the progress and documents to your superiors.

Since it's a report, there are naturally many things that can be done in the process.

But now..

Suddenly, the handover process began.

Zhao Ming was naturally unsure, especially since there was an unwritten rule within Tencent.

If the performance is good, many things can be handled more leniently.

But what if the performance is poor...

Think of this.

He glanced again at Yu Zhong, who was staring blankly at the dismissal notice.

It hurts, it really hurts so much.

~~~

"Which is more fun, Frontline Girls or Bakery Girls? When you ask that question, I think you have something wrong with your head."

"Didn't you watch those videos of streamers suffering yesterday? That kind of trash game, I wouldn't play it even if you paid me."

"Of course it's Battlefront Girls, version 1.5 is so impressive."

"Bakery Girl? What's that? Oh... you mean the game where the female protagonist ends up with a perverted villain? Sorry, I'm a pure love type, I don't like NTR..."

"It's definitely Girls on the Frontline. I was really moved to tears during the '95 part."

"Oh!? How did you know I won a free 95-piece figure in the Spark official store?"

"The plot of episode 95 is really good, I love it, give me more... What!? You're calling back from 'The Bakery Girl'?"

These past two days have been very fulfilling for the reputation investigators at Tencent Games.

In the minds of many people.

Big companies seem indifferent to players, and development teams don't seem to care about player feedback.

But this is not the case.

Counterintuitively, large companies often place the greatest emphasis on player reputation.

However, this emphasis does not mean listening to the players.

Instead, these manufacturers highly value data statistics on the overall market reputation.

Tencent and NetEase, these established companies, not only frequently send out various questionnaires.

Some people even made special phone calls to follow up.

Although, given the current popularity of "Battlefront Girls", it has an overwhelming amount of discussion on both Bilibili and other larger gaming platforms.

Many of the questions these investigators asked actually had answers that were obvious without even being asked.

But work is work, and it is never measured by whether it is useful or not.

Moreover.

Since the company is paying them and it's an urgent task, they naturally have to do their best.

The final result is clear: Battlefront Girls has received excellent reviews, with over 90% of players expressing great satisfaction with the game.

The storyline, gameplay, combat experience, and server smoothness all met players' expectations.

On the other hand, the reviews for "Girls' Bakery" were abysmal.

It was truly a terrible sight.

The two sets of data differ significantly.

Even the Penguin Analytics team began to doubt whether they had collected the wrong data.

It's important to note that this time, their follow-up data included players who purchased "Bakery Girl"...

In other words.

In surveys and follow-up interviews, most of the players who purchased "Baking Girls" indicated that they had played Battlefront Girls before or recently.

They also gave the frontline girls a good review.

It's like.

McDonald's sent out customer feedback questionnaires asking, "Do you think our food tastes better, or KFC's?"

The survey results showed that all the responses were positive: KFC is delicious, but McDonald's is not.

That's a bit outrageous.

It's quite astonishing that "The Girl from the Bakery" received such poor reviews.

~~~

That night.

Penguin Games headquarters.

Yao Xiaodong's secretary walked into a spacious conference room carrying a stack of documents.

The front row of the conference room.

Yu Zhong was nervously presenting his PowerPoint presentation in front of the projector.

To be honest, he didn't know.

Why should someone who has already been dismissed from their post according to the news stand here?

But Zhao Ming pulled him over.

He had to come.

Fortunately, when he arrived, he found that the atmosphere in the conference room was not too oppressive.

Yao Xiaodong, who chaired the meeting, did not make things too difficult for him.

Instead, they agreed to Zhao Ming's suggestion that Yu Zhong should report the situation.

even so.

Even now, Yu Zhong still feels weak all over when presenting PowerPoint slides.

"Overall, as of this morning, Bakery Girl has sold 43 orders, and many customers have opted for refunds."

"Based on our understanding, most refunds are due to procedural issues."

“We have already arranged special activities and follow-up visits for this.”

"Currently, the retention rate is over 90%."

"Many players chose to cancel their refunds after returning to the site."

"This is enough to prove that there is nothing wrong with the content of our game, and the overall reputation is good. It's just that the program is unstable, which is holding us back."

Zhao Ming sat in the back, listening to Yu Zhong's report, and nodded repeatedly.

Chapter 183 Shocking Data

The reason he asked Yu Zhong to present the PPT was because...

Naturally, it's because he knows very well that the higher the rank of a leader, the more they like to hear frontline staff talk about their work.

Yu Zhong is considered a top-tier player to some extent.

He's at least a cut above Zhao Ming.

Therefore, it is quite appropriate for him to present this PPT.

Don't be fooled by Yu Zhong's dismissal.

However, his dismissal was due to his inappropriate remarks, not his work performance.

At least for now.

Those above are still unaware of Yu Zhong's true skill level.

In addition, although Yu Zhong has a somewhat strange way of thinking and poor management skills, he still has a certain understanding of game production.

Many of the things I told were quite convincing.

~~~

You have to admit, PowerPoint presentations can be incredibly harmful.

If you only look at Yu Zhong's PPT.

It seems that although the Bakery Girl project failed, it had its highlights and even sold quite well. Although the refund rate was high, it seems there is still a possibility of recovery.

However in reality.

Zhao Ming knew perfectly well that everything on the PPT was fake, except for the sales figures.

However, with sales of 43, nearly 90% of the orders were refunded.

The actual sales volume was less than 5 units.

The idea of ​​a refund after a follow-up visit is even more absurd.

In order to maintain sales and make the data look better.

Yu Zhong and Zhao Ming discussed and came up with a solution after an afternoon of discussion.

They call players who want a refund and tell them that the refund process is complicated and the refund will take at least a week.

If the player cancels the refund, they can arrange for 60 Q coins to be credited to their account immediately.

That means the main body only costs 9 yuan.

Sometimes, they don't even want the 9 yuan, and just refund 69 Q coins.

Essentially, it's just a refund; they're just playing with words.

However, this action did indeed reduce the "refund rate" and made the PPT presentation look less bad.

In addition, they shifted all the blame to Wang Wei, who had already resigned.

We should be able to minimize the impact of this situation.

~~~

Just as Zhao Ming breathed a sigh of relief, Yao Xiaodong's secretary walked into a spacious conference room carrying a stack of documents.

"Mr. Yao, here are the documents you requested!"

"OK, thanks."

Yao Xiaodong sat in the front row of the conference room and immediately began flipping through the documents.

After flipping through two or three pages, Yao Xiaodong interrupted Yu Zhong's speech.

"Yu Zhong, wait a moment. Xiao Li, project a digital copy of this data onto the big screen and explain it to everyone."

"Okay, Mr. Yao."

The secretary, surnamed Li, simply plugged in the USB drive and retrieved some data.

"This is a statistical survey we conducted from yesterday afternoon to this morning. We made 1000 follow-up phone calls to users, collected 5000 questionnaires, and gathered 1 data points from our partners..."

When I heard the words "survey data".

Yu Zhong and Zhao Ming's hearts sank immediately.

Especially Zhao Ming.

He never expected that Yao Xiaodong would actually send someone to investigate the data.

Data doesn't lie.