Hire ......

Lin Yan wanted to have a decent interview, preferably with 1,800 people, everyone lined up, entered the small room one by one, and asked him to interview one by one. Ask a strange question, and finally, put a piece of shredded paper on the ground and see how these people react.

Such a thing full of abusive pleasure, Lin Yan really wants to do it.

Lin Yan told Chiba Yuki about this idea. It was denied by Chiba Yuki's words. She said that people like you who come to the interview are the kind of newcomers who are not easy to use. It takes a little bit of tuning to make them grow slowly, just like your electronic pet machine, these guys, it's like eggs. It's not that the eggshell is good-looking, but it can hatch elite rare monsters. They take a lot of time to grow.

Different people, the limit of growth, is also different. Some people, perhaps for a lifetime, are only a unit chief, while some people can become directors in a humane middle age.

In Japan, a country with a seniority sequence as the core corporate system, there is actually a big difference between seniors and juniors. However, this difference is only in the case of the same level. It is not uncommon in Japan for juniors to be promoted and reprimanded for juniors. Even, some people watched their juniors raise their voices, and they were reprimanded by their bosses who were more than 20 years younger because of some small things. This kind of life, although it is not a failure, is not easy to say.

"I suggest you hire someone with experience directly and at a high salary." Yuki Chiba suggested holding a retro-style, walnut microphone.

"Okay...... Then you can hire one for me. By the way, there's something about Atari, and if you have any latest news, let me know. "Lin Yan's nature suddenly declined.

Originally, he only regarded the matter of hiring people as a fun event that could make things difficult for people, but now Chiba Yuki suggested that he invite a professional manager to come over. A professional manager at this level is not just the boss who wants to pick him. Or he's going to pick the boss.

Although, any company, when hiring, has said that it is a two-way selection process. It is the company that selects employees. It's the employees who are choosing the company again.

However, in most cases, employees are not chosen. Because, they are the weak side, while the business is the strong side.

After a few words. Lin Yan put down the phone, he was also a little curious, what kind of person would be to come to his company with almost nothing.

When the time comes, it will be interesting to look at the expression of the goods.

Lin Yan's itinerary today is probably to go to the arcade hall for a while before going to bed. The reason why he went to the arcade was not so much to play games, but to feel the atmosphere. Moreover. In the words of the players, know what they need.

In the real arcade environment, the demands heard are far more reliable than the questionnaire. Because, they say it unconsciously. They may not know that this is what they think, and they may turn their heads and forget what they said.

This kind of feedback, which has not undergone any processing, is reliable. And the questionnaire, this kind of thing to be honest, the kind of multiple-choice questions that quantify the items. It's not too realistic. Perhaps, for various reasons, the player will choose the option that he does not like.

It's like a big boy. What he likes is a dress-up game where beautiful girls change their clothes. However, when filling out the questionnaire, his good friend is by his side, and at this time, he may change to a shooting game that he is not interested in.

Of course, the questionnaire was definitely not as bad as it was supposed to be. There is always a reason for it to exist. A company that faces the majority of consumers, if it does not listen to the demands of consumers, will definitely die.

However, the questionnaire may be constrained by various conditions. It's the best way for businesses to understand their consumers.

After all, arranging a "spy" like Lin Yan's current appearance, lurking among consumers all the time, is a very costly thing.

After all, there will always be differences in the needs of consumers everywhere. It can't be that there are so many employees all over the country and all over the world for a long time, and it seems that there is "nothing to be used indiscriminately".

The reason why Hayashi did this is because Akihabara is the center of video games, or the center of otaku culture. Now, in so many electrical stores, there are already a small number of people who have started to sell some animated characters on a part-time basis. Like, those robots that look cool and deform. Or Ultraman, who can sparkle and pop up warning lights.

Lin Yan didn't know when Chiyo would come up with the kind of robot toy that could fit together. However, what he knows is that this kind of toy is not an ordinary "pit", because such a toy, if you buy one, the player will not enjoy it. Buy and buy, and the whole series is gone.

Later, even this toy model gave birth to a subculture.

Under the impetus of this subculture, there are some people who are not recognized in the mainstream society.

They love clay figurines, plastic figurines. And the skirts of these clay villains, plastic villains are very short, and if you change the angle slightly, you can see the blue and white stripes under the skirts, pure white, pink strawberries, and things that can't be said about the recent crackdown.

"You're perverts, aren't you?" Some people who don't touch this circle will make such a sound.

"There's nothing down there, it's perverted." This is the answer of the people in the circle.

Looking at the two sentences, you can understand that these are two worlds. And how deep the generation gap between these two worlds is, it can be called a chasm.

As for the girl idol group that was born in such a novel cultural atmosphere. And, that group is the most outstanding, and it looks like Atsuko Maeda, who just looks like an ordinary person. Perhaps, it is this culture that has developed to the extreme.

These ordinary girls even look like girls who have a Japanese aesthetic problem. It is through these people who like to collect plastic villains, like video games, and like animated comics, that they have grown up little by little.

In a word, which is more common in Japan, it is that these girl stars and their audiences are more deeply bonded. The feelings for each other are also deeper.

Even, in Atsuko Maeda. This person with the nickname "A-chan" retired when he left the group. Almost all newspaper headlines and covers are her, and some fans want to die or live. Kill yourself by seppuku at the door of the company.

Lin Yan doesn't have such a deep experience of chasing stars, so he doesn't know what kind of feelings or even feelings this is. However, he didn't think he would set out to create an organization that was a bit of a cult like this.

Even the fat guy who started this group hasn't done that kitten club yet. This group had a lot of ups and downs in two years, and finally disbanded. It was only established in 1985.

Twenty years later, the big fat man who learned enough lessons and thought about and perfected the whole set of ideas came up with the national girl idol group that shocked the Japanese entertainment industry and even the world entertainment industry.

Lin Yan had carefully studied the experience of this fat man, from his experience. Lin Yan knew that if he wanted to make a thing successful, it would take a long time to polish it.

Like, he launched a video game arcade without any setbacks. The one who became popular directly. Almost, there is not too long to go.

Because, it's just a serendipitous success. It can be said that it is a person who happens to stand on the pulse of the times, and does the right thing at the right time to achieve results.

And when this luck drifts away, all that is needed is strength. In Hayashihiko's original world, he was the game planner who produced "Space Invaders" and "Pac-Man". Later, it was not launched either. Also such an influential work.

The tastes of video game players are changing too quickly, and these game pioneers who have not had time to adapt to it have quietly disappeared in the sea of people.

In another world. Shigeru Miyamoto, who produced the Mario series that sold against the sky, was once the most admired game maker and was Toru Iwatani, the author of "Pac-Man".

"Where did you play "Iron Plate Formation"?" One player next to Lin Yan asked, another player.

"I've played the second level, but at the bottom of the second level, I can't beat it." The other player said with a frown.

"Yes. The king of the second level is a little too difficult. However, I've heard that as long as you add a hidden item, it's good to play......"

"Got hidden props? Where is it? Another player's eyes widened.

"It seems to be here...... I've seen it in someone else's notebook. The player, drawing in the air with his hand, wanted to illustrate something.

Actually, many players who have not experienced the early days of video games. Look at those popular games in the early days. There will always be a feeling that someone will play such a difficult game. At that time, the people who played the game were all masochists?

At that time, the game was really difficult, but it was necessary for him to be difficult. You know, at that time, there was no Internet, only TV and movies, and reading, which was a relatively boring way of entertainment. So, at that time, after the advent of video games, a lot of people flocked to them and started playing games.

At this time, the player, because there is a lot of time, is relatively idle, so the mental power is very focused, if, a game, there is no difficulty, one time to clear the level, although it feels okay. However, such a game has no sense of accomplishment and no value for discussion.

At this time, video games, in addition to the publicity in magazines, also have a large part of the word-of-mouth publicity of players. A game that has no discussion value, does not allow players to study the style of play, and discusses skills, how can it have a reputation.

Even if someone mentions it, another person will say, that game is okay, I played it all over the time, and it's not interesting.

Therefore, video games in this era have strong social attributes. Although, its social method is not the familiar screen-to-screen online social interaction of later players. However, this kind of face-to-face person-meat offline social interaction seems to be more textured.

In this era, perhaps the magazine will come up with a game clearance method that shows all the hidden elements. But not every player can afford to buy magazines. Originally, playing arcade machines was enough to burn money, and the money used to buy magazines could be used to play arcade machines many times.

Therefore, at this time, many hidden elements of the game, and some tips, are passed on from player to player, word of mouth.

Lin Yan once remembered, when he was a child. There was a kid in their class who bought a game strategy magazine, and he became the star of the class, and everyone revolved around him. And in this magazine, when it was circulated in the class, it became as thick as bread, and when the corners and corners became very buried, everyone still regarded it as a holy object and read it over and over again.

Although it is said that watching is just too dry and too addictive. But it's also a very interesting thing. After all, Lin Yan's income in China when he was a child was generally not high, and before the advent of the Chinese version of the arcade machine, the price of playing a genuine arcade machine was no longer expensive, and in the eyes of primary school students at that time, it was enough to be called a sky-high price. At that time, anyone who could play two arcade machines a week was a little local tyrant, just like a primary school student in a remote mountainous area with an Apple mobile phone in his class. It's a tyrant, it's a tyrant.

Although, this kind of local tyrant may be everywhere in relatively large and economically developed cities.

Lin Yan smiled and greeted everyone who had greeted him, while listening to the players, either a little interesting, or unnutritious gossip. A little bit of understanding their needs so that you can determine what kind of game you should go up against.

However, after listening to it for more than half an hour, the word that entered Lin Yan's ears the most was Xiao Fatdun's "Iron Plate Array". It's super popular, and you can see it not only by the large number of queues around the arcade machine. And you can know it in everyone's conversation.

Lin Yan smiled, according to the characteristics of video games that like to follow the trend, I believe that in less than a month, vertical scrolling shooter games will be able to flood the arcade market.

Seeing that "Iron Plate Array" was so popular, Lin Yan was also relieved. He didn't have to worry, Super Mario was launched too much earlier. Because, it is not in line with the taste of the current players and is eliminated.

It's not uncommon in the history of games to have an advanced idea, but a game that dies because it's too advanced. For game planners, it is best to launch a game that does not look old-fashioned, but is not too advanced, and makes players feel fresh again.

Of course, there are not many people who have such talent and can control it well. (To be continued.) )