Haicheng, Pokémon R&D center.
"Brothers, please work hard these days!"
Lao Hu's broken gong voice sounded in the card laboratory: "As long as we can complete all Pokémon cards before next Friday, let's go have a good meal together!"
As a person who comes from the Taoist community, Hu Siyuan is somewhat of a "brotherly spirit", and his shouting is "dark and dark".
In this kind of brotherly relationship, the project team often invites the director to treat team members to a big meal after working overtime.
"Director Hu, do you think this project can really make money?" asked a young man from Jiwotou. "The investment of Carp Star Card House in Pokémon is simply outrageous. If the sales are not good, we will still have money for a good meal. of?"
"Yes, yes, it's hundreds of millions of dollars." Another young man with dark circles agreed, "If you give it to me as much as you want, I can retire on the interest and sleep peacefully."
"Hey, don't think blindly. It will definitely be fine. The place where we stay is the best gaming company in the entire federation." Old Hu looked relaxed on the surface, but he was pounding in his heart.
However, as the boss of the entire project team, he cannot show any worry, as this will cause the entire team to lose fighting spirit.
Hu Siyuan walked through the busy crowd and walked to the end of the research room.
There, there is a small cubicle made of soundproof glass, in which a young man is concentrating on painting on the card.
Lao Hu walked into the cubicle quietly. After the other party stopped writing, he patted the young man's shoulder and said with a smile: "Xiao Lu, you have worked hard during this time. If you need anything to supplement your star power and mental power, just Just tell me, I will make a reservation with the Star Card Association right away."
The young card maker in front of him was Lu Xinzhi, the only card maker in the entire project team who followed Lao Hu to the Pokémon Research and Development Center.
As a valuable asset of a company, card designers are managed independently from the project team.
In other words, if you want to buy a card maker from Xinghao Company, that is a different price.
In view of Lu Li's card-making skills, Anonymous randomly picked a second-level card-making master in case of emergencies. This person was Lu Xinzhi.
"No problem, Mr. Hu, I can just buy these things myself." Lu Xinzhi raised his head, grabbed a piece of paper and wiped the sweat on his forehead.
Xiao Lu's card-making talent was average. He was nearly thirty years old before he could reach the threshold of a second-level card-making master.
Fortunately, he is relatively down-to-earth and has accumulated rich theoretical knowledge, which makes him very suitable for developing life star cards.
"Okay, come on!" Lao Hu didn't say much, patted Lu Xinzhi's shoulder again, and left.
After walking out of the laboratory door calmly and calmly, Lao Hu frowned for a moment, filled with sadness, and trotted back to his office.
Sitting in front of the computer, Hu Siyuan glanced at the time in the lower right corner of the screen and said to himself worriedly: "The live broadcast is over, pre-sales should have started."
Lao Hu was extremely nervous.
You know, the entire project team did not receive wages after arriving at the Carp Star Card House.
The one billion star coins invested in the early stage may be the result of Lu Li's all-in, and a lot of it may even be foreign debts.
If the game fails, Carp Star Card House may go bankrupt, let alone pay wages to the project team.
Lao Hu clicked on the browser, controlled the mouse, and moved to the hyperlink of "Pokémon Game Console Pre-sale Page".
This line of small blue characters seemed to have infinite magic power, causing Lao Hu's fingers to freeze, and he did not press the mouse for a long time.
"The courage of young people..." Lao Hu Dian let go of the mouse, lit a cigarette, shook his head and complained, "Charging according to props, he really dares to think about it."
Hu Siyuan did not think that the games produced by Lu Li would have quality problems.
Even he personally feels that Pokémon is an epic game that can leave its name in history.
However, Lu Li used an item charging model that "seemed to cost a lot of money" for this innovative game. As a result, the sales volume of the game was hard to predict.
"Jingle Bell."
At this moment, Lao Hu's cell phone rang.
He clicked the connect button: "Hello, Brother Chen?"
"Hey, Siyuan, how is your game?" Chen Nianjin asked straight to the point, "I watched the live demo. It's a very good game, but..."
"It's just that the charging model is very discouraging, right." Hu Siyuan was not stupid and immediately guessed what his old friend meant.
"Well." Chen Nianjin asked, "How is the sales now?"
"call--"
Hu Siyuan exhaled two clouds of white mist from his nostrils, grabbed the mouse again, and opened the Pokémon pre-sale interface.
Under the Pikachu pattern, there is a line of small words: "There are still 7 days, 10 hours and 49 minutes until Pokémon is officially released, and the current sales volume is 20,921."
"Huo, in just over an hour, it's already over 20,000 copies?" Chen Nianjin apparently also opened the Pokémon pre-sale page, "At this speed, it feels like it can break the three-day sales record."
The last record was 510,000 copies of "Mario Brothers". With the sales growth rate of Pokémon, there is no problem in breaking the record again.
"There is definitely no problem in breaking the record." Lao Hu said helplessly, "But the problem is that the Pokémon dream can't be solved by breaking the record... It can even be said that the revenue of this game is not at all It cannot be calculated by the number of copies of the game sold."
"That's right...your investment must be doubled several times to get back your investment."
Chen Nianjin pondered for a moment and then said: "I always feel that Lu Li is a good card maker and a good gamer, but he is not a good businessman.
His large-scale business, at best, is courageous; at worst, he is too impulsive.
I think you can definitely follow the old path of virtual pets, cross the river by feeling the stones, first test the market with a small investment, and then increase investment step by step after getting satisfactory feedback..."
Hu Siyuan didn't hear a word of what Lao Chen was talking about in his ear.
How could he not know this?
But now, all he can do is pray for Pokémon to be a hit.
...
Like Hu Siyuan, there are many people who always pay attention to sales.
For example, city agents who join the Pokémon League are always paying attention to the latest trends in Pokémon.
They even formed a small group in private, where they were chatting animatedly.
[Qiantu Wuliang]: "Is it so lively at night?"
[Run, don’t play games]: “Hey, the money will come eventually, Pokémon has already started pre-sale.”
[Qian Tu Liang]: "Huh? How much is it? I just got off work from the Forest Park."
[Tai Turan]: "More than 20,000 per hour, worthy of the Carp Star Card House. It's so cruel. We have never seen such wonderful data."
[Asking for investment]: "But what can I say... Even if he achieves a sales volume of two to three million, the profit seems to be not enough for our more than 60 branches."
"really."
"really."
"really."
"..."
(Anyway, these "really" haven't reached the charging point, so it shouldn't be too much to ask for a few more water.)
