Losing Money to Be a Tycoon
chapter-1263

At that moment, everyone felt like Boss Pei was a master.

The disciples asked, “Master, what Kung Fu did you teach me today?”

Boss Pei replied: What do you want to learn?

That meant that he would teach them whatever they wanted to learn!

Otherwise, if his disciple said that he wanted to learn swordplay while his master said that he did not know how, he would change to another.

How could this be?!

He must know everything they wanted to learn so that he could ask so confidently.

Thus, Boss Pei’s question stumped everyone.

The designers who had been rubbing their hands together earlier had temporarily lost the courage to stand up and fell silent.

That was because they had never thought that they could participate in the discussion.

According to the normal process, the producer should first decide on a game type or even a rough prototype of the game. Then, on this basis, everyone would start discussing and expressing their opinions.

They were even discussing the game genre now?

Everyone did not know what to say about such a huge and vague topic.

Coupled with Boss Pei’s invisible pressure, everyone was afraid that they would say something wrong. It would be even harder for them to speak.

Pei Qian was a little confused. Why was this question too much?

I was just asking what game genre you wanted to create, just say what you want!

Why were none of them speaking? Some even lowered their heads in shame?

He could not help but look at Zhou Muyan, thinking to himself, ‘Are you sure that these are the best designers that Sun Strike Studios has selected?’

Zhou Muyan cleared his throat. “Boss Pei, let’s just follow Tengda’s process. Don’t worry about our opinions.”

Obviously, Zhou Muyan had some misunderstanding of Tengda’s working model as well.

No matter what, the game genre should have been decided from the beginning, right? It would be too strange to only discuss it at the meeting.

Pei Qian said, “This is Tengda’s process. Everyone has their own opinions towards the game type. You can say whatever you want to do. It doesn’t matter if you say something wrong.”

Everyone was even more certain of their previous guess after hearing Boss Pei’s words.

Boss Pei could really design anything!

Such a talent could only be described as awesome…

Obviously, it was not a coincidence that Tengda made games that did not overlap.

Zhou Muyan was silent for a while before he recovered from his shock. He could only speak when he saw that no one else was too embarrassed to speak.

“At the moment, our studio has three main categories of games: the first two are more traditional. They are MMORPGs and shooting games. They have all been successful projects. The last one is a mobile game.”

“There are many types of mobile games here. There are projects that were previously modified, card games that were developed independently, and mobile games of war.”

“It would be best if Boss Pei can choose from these game genres so that we have some experience of so we won’t be too blind.”

Zhou Muyan was also afraid that it would be a little strenuous if Boss Pei were to come up with a design plan for action games like Repent and be Saved.

It was not that he could not make it, but he was worried that it would not be good.

Pei Qian nodded. “Alright, since that’s the case, let’s make a shooting game.”

He also felt that it was best not to make standalone games, but the reason was completely different.

The main reason was that he felt that standalone games did not have much difficulty. The more outstanding and niche a game was, the more likely it would be to make people feel like they had successfully broken out of the circle.

On the other hand, Sun Strike Studios had the experience of the failure of Bullet Hole first. At the same time, they had strong competitors like Ocean Stronghold on the market. The chances of failure were greatly increased.

Of course, if he was more ruthless, he could ask Sun Strike Studios to develop a MOBA game to compete with GOG.

However, Min Jingchao was GOG’s chief designer… of course, this plan was a no-go.

All in all, shooting games fit the requirements of Sun Strike Studios and Long Yu Corporation. The chances of success were not high, but this probability still existed. Pei Qian felt that it was the most suitable choice after considering it all.

Zhou Muyan perked up the moment he heard about FPS games.

This was a unique skill that belonged to Sun Strike Studios!

Bullet Hole might not be able to make it anymore but it was still popular for a period of time when it first came out. It would not lose money.

What’s more, Sun Strike Studios had a huge pool of talents in the FPS genre. Boss Pei also had a proven idea like Ocean Stronghold…

Wouldn’t that be almost 100% success?

Pei Qian pondered for a moment and said, “I remember that you used to have a game called Bullet Hole. Don’t waste the good IP. Let’s call the new game Bullet Hole 2.”

Zhou Muyan: “…”

His enthusiasm was instantly doused with cold water.

Wasn’t that name a little unlucky?

Even though Bullet Hole did not lose much money back then, it was not considered a successful project! It was completely smashed by Ocean Stronghold and could not move.

Was there a need to continue using such an IP?

Couldn’t he use something better?

Zhou Muyan looked at Min Jingchao and realized that Min Jingchao did not say anything and was just recording.

Could this be Tengda’s workflow?

Zhou Muyan pondered for a moment. He had already said that he would not ask too many questions and would fully cooperate. It would not seem appropriate for him to raise the topic now because of the name. Thus, he could only silently accept it.

Pei Qian was not used to seeing no one raising opinions.

Say something!

You have to reject my proposal!

If you don’t speak, where would I get my inspiration?

How can I design if I don’t have the inspiration to reject your rejection?

At that thought, Pei Qian said again, “If you have any questions, feel free to ask them. Don’t be embarrassed or afraid of saying something wrong. I’ll make the decision for everyone. Don’t feel burdened.”

“Min Jingchao, demonstrate to everyone.”

Min Jingchao, who had been keeping his head down, nodded. “Alright, Boss Pei.”

“Is Bullet Hole 2 still going to follow the same design as Bullet Hole?”

“For example, hand sensitivity, art style, charging mode, and so on?”

This question stumped Pei Qian on the spot.

It was not that he did not know how to decide. There was nothing in the world that Pei Qian did not dare to decide on. The key was that he had forgotten what kind of game Bullet Hole was…

It was more than two years ago after all. How could he remember it so clearly?

However, he could not express it, much less ask Zhou Muyan directly. Otherwise, how could he want to make Bullet Hole 2 without knowing what kind of game Bullet Hole was?!

Pei Qian fell into a short period of silence. He was trying hard to recall what kind of game Bullet Hole was.

Hmm… I remember when I came to Sun Strike Studios, Zhou Muyan seemed to have introduced the design intentions of Bullet Hole.

When Pei Qian had been listening to the comments, he had felt confident that Ocean Stronghold would definitely incur losses.

In other words… it should be the opposite of Ocean Stronghold.

Oh, I remember now.

Bullet Hole had maximized the replay of Counter Strike’s hand sensitivity and achieved an 80-90% similarity. The art style was realistic and definitely replicated the weapon. The charging mode seemed to be using MMORPG, free + props.

Bullet Hole would indeed incur losses now that he was wiser after the fact.

They did not do a perfect job of imitating Counter-Strike. Instead, they dissuaded some rookie gamers because of the high difficulty. The realistic style was not as cool and pleasing as the Red Kilin. The charging model looked like it had a conscience but it was much worse than the Ocean Stronghold…

It was a pity that Zhou Muyan had already used such a perfect loss-incurring model once. It was no longer usable.

How about Bullet Hole 2 continue that trajectory?

Pei Qian glanced at Zhou Muyan silently. He dismissed this idea silently seeing his hopeful expression.

It would be too obvious if he were to continue with the setting of Bullet Hole. Zhou Muyan would probably be the first to raise his knife and fight him.

Thus, it would be best to keep the most critical parts of Bullet Hole’s failure as much as possible and only make some adjustments to the irrelevant parts.

It was a sequel to the spirit after all. It was reasonable to continue the previous settings.

Pei Qian quickly thought about it and said, “Since it’s a sequel, of course, we have to inherit a portion and modify a portion.”

“In my opinion… we can inherit the hand sensitivity.”

“We have to change the style.”

“The charging mode… sells some very cheap skins. Don’t sell them at a high price.”

The hand sensitivity of Bullet Hole was similar to Counter-Strike, but it could not be that perfect. Thus, it did not please either side. The core players felt that it was lacking, and the rookie players were dissuaded.

To Pei Qian, this was obviously the core element of the failure of Bullet Hole. No matter what, he could not change it. It had to continue.

In terms of charging mode, even though props would be scolded more, they would still make a lot of money!

Players in the gaming circle would scold as they spent money. He could not let their guard down.

What’s more, there was a precedent for the success of the Red Kilin. The spending power of ballers in FPS games could not be underestimated.

Therefore, like GOG, they would definitely make less money if they made it into cheap skins.

Of course, GOG earned quite a bit. However, that was only because there were many players. That was why it had a thin profit and quick turnover.

There were only so many FPS gamers. A large number of them were still at Ocean Stronghold. If Bullet Hole 2 sold the skins cheaply, it would be difficult to make money.

A good-hearted game might not be able to generate small profits and quick turnover. It could also be possible that the income would not be enough to support the cost. Game Designer had already introduced such a way of dying.

Of course, these two changes were still too little and not obvious enough.

In the end, he only changed the charging mode. How was that any different from not changing it?

The same dish was only sold at a different price?

That would not be able to confuse an old fox like Zhou Muyan. It would easily make him doubt his motives.

Thus, Pei Qian decided to go all out with the packaging in order to shut Zhou Muyan up.

In any case, it was just packaging. It would not affect the core of the game no matter how it was changed.

This was a huge change. It looked like a huge change, but in fact, it was a change in soup but not the medicine. That was perfect.

Min Jingchao lowered his head and quickly recorded it down.

Zhou Muyan and the other designers looked at each other.

At that moment, they had many questions in their hearts.

Boss Pei, you did not do that when you designed Ocean Stronghold!

We now highly suspect that you have deliberately avoided Ocean Stronghold’s design. You are trying to lead us astray so that Ocean Stronghold would continue to make money!