Li Changwei has never been able to figure it out.

How did I get to where I am now?

His family is a film family.

His grandfather should be regarded as one of the earliest film projectionists, walking the countryside to show movies in the open air.

His father was affected, and after graduating from high school, he didn't go to college, learned some skills, and went to the cinema to work as an electrician.

So Li Changwei has been watching movies since he was a child.

He also likes to watch movies very much, and after graduating from university, he naturally entered the film industry.

I wandered around the major theaters for a while, sold popcorn and ice kuoluo, watched the men and women in the theater in the monitoring room, and finally worked as a marketing assistant and director of film scheduling and operations.

Later, when I was working, I met Tian Dazhuang, who didn't know anything about movies.

At that time, Tian Dazhuang was inspecting various places, and then looking for some suitable theater managers.

The two of them have a good conversation - don't worry about how to talk to someone who doesn't like to talk.

Tian Dazhuang can see Li Changwei's love for movies.

No matter what the ability is, this kind of love can't be performed, whether Tian Dazhuang is sincere to people, whether he has an almost instinctive sensitivity in performance.

As a result, Li Changwei became Tian Dazhuang's subordinate.

Li Changwei did not look down on Tian Dazhuang.

No matter why Tian Dazhuang sat in the position of general manager of the theater line, he is a good leader.

Knowing how to make good use of people, that's enough.

I am most afraid of those who rely on nepotism, who obviously don't understand anything, and prefer to point fingers.

Don't be surprised, after scientific research, the probability that you meet such a leader is 10,000 times greater than the probability of a nest of cockroaches living in the sewer of your kitchen.

Tian Dazhuang never pointed fingers at the business of the cinema chain.

Full decentralization.

As long as you do well, he will be rewarded, not only to divide what you deserve, but also to take out your share in many cases.

It will also actively help you fight for promotion opportunities.

Li Changwei almost became the general person in charge of the meowtail cinema line in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai.

If it weren't for the chief helmsman inserting a bar horizontally.

What Li Changwei couldn't understand was here, he received the chief helmsman to inspect the rudder, and he didn't seem to have done anything out of the ordinary.

Why did you just transfer him away from Meowtail Cinema.

Stuffed directly into the Strategy Department.

And that Mr. Pei was also very unreliable, let him do this and that, and transferred directly without waiting for him to familiarize himself with the environment, saying that he couldn't do it.

He has worked on publishing, improving the user experience for live streaming platforms, and organizing events on shopping sites......

Now it has been reduced to a dry juicer, and by the way, to the point of skewering skewers.

Don't say anything else, even if you squeeze the juice, why do you say that he can't skewer well.

And he doesn't have to do it in a row.

Does the company need such an all-round talent?

"Manager Li, come to my office."

After receiving Pei Qianlong's call, Chang Wei sighed, skewered the skewers in his hands, said hello to the people in the canteen, and took off his work clothes to wash his hands.

Based on past experience, he is likely to start a new job soon.

I don't know what exactly.

"Sit down, has Manager Li been exposed to games?" Pei Qianlong took off his glasses and rubbed his eyebrows.

"No, never play games." Shouldn't it be to let yourself be a game booster, I heard that some bosses use public weapons for private use, and let employees help them open up dungeons.

"I mean you've been exposed to game development?" Pei Qianlong couldn't understand what Mr. Lin liked about this Manager Li.

Let him hone this buddy and beat his arrogance.

That's why he arranged all kinds of jobs for Li Changwei, and denied him without giving him a chance to get started.

In the end, even the work of serving tea and pouring water was arranged.

"Nope!" Li Changwei shook his head decisively.

However, he knew that it was useless for him to shake his head, and he would ask every time he arranged work, but this kind of conversation had no impact on the work arranged by Mr. Pei.

"That's right, the company has a new arrangement for your work." Pei Qianlong said.

"Oh, what should I do?" Curious, Li Changwei is really curious, should he be asked to go to the toilet, or go to the company's community to be an aunt in the neighborhood committee.

"The company will set up a game division, which is a first-level department, and you will serve as the general manager, congratulations, when Mr. Lin comes back next time, you can go to the round table." Pei Qianlong looked at Li Changwei's face with interest.

Every time he arranges a new job for Li Changwei, his expression is wonderful.

Li Changwei looked straight at him, his eyes were dilated and weak, and he was no longer focused.

He suspected that he had a hearing problem.

also suspected that Pei always deliberately made fun of him.

However, the game division, the first-level department, the general manager, the round table, so many keywords, it can't all be auditory hallucinations.

And it's not something that can be joked about casually.

"In view of your current work ability, I will follow up for a while, this time will not be too long, so you have to make some achievements as soon as possible, in principle, if you don't ask me for help, I won't care about any work in your game division."

Li Changwei is still in a daze.

No way, if you are a canteen skewer, and suddenly someone asks you to be the president, what is your reaction?

"Everyone calls us cat factories.,Most of our departments also start with meow.,The distribution department is planning to change its name to meow distribution recently.,So you can't use this.,I personally suggest you can choose meow or meow pee......"

"Can you call it a meow nest?" Li Changwei finally came back to life.

"The members of Station M are used to calling Station M a cat's nest, so ......" Pei Qianlong shook his head.

Li Changwei tried hard to think about a few, but none of them seemed to be suitable, and this way was a good way to alleviate the huge impact of this appointment.

"Is it okay to call it a meow meow game?"

"This seems to be okay, the name is not important, the important thing is not to live up to Mr. Lin's expectations." Pei Qianlong saw that Li Changwei had returned to normal, and then began to say: "I personally am not very optimistic about this appointment, but Mr. Lin trusts you very much, so you are very lucky." ”

"I ......" Li Changwei wanted to say, in fact, I would like to stay in Meowtail Cinema even more.

But the workplace is ruthless, and it's not like you can do whatever you want.

"I thought about it carefully later, and I understood a little bit of what Mr. Lin meant, your advantage lies in your attitude towards users." is as conceited as Pei Qianlong, this time he also pondered for a long time before he realized why Mr. Lin chose Li Changwei.

Li Changwei values users too much.

This is a user-first person, and the gaming industry seems to need such a person.

Gaming is an industry that purely serves users.

Unlike Meow Claw, there are consumers on one side and consumer suppliers on the other; The same is true for Meow Ya live broadcast, users, anchors, audits, various factors are combined, and it is impossible to blindly cater to the user experience.

And games, especially the initial games, can really win the living space if they can do a good job in the user experience.

Li Changwei walked out of Mr. Pei's office in a daze, and then followed the administrative staff to the office arranged for him by the company. 、

Yes, he also has his own office.

At the Kleist Headquarters Building.

As one of the new roundtable executives, the temporary worker who had been hanging out half an hour ago suddenly became the owner of this spacious and bright office.

Li Changwei, General Manager.

The nameplates were all made and sat on his empty desk.

But how exactly do you make the game?

Li Changwei was confused.

I couldn't figure it out even if I thought about it, so he could only recruit a few knowledgeable people to assist him according to Mr. Pei's suggestion.

"Brother Fu, what are you doing?"

The first person Li Changwei thought of was his middle school classmates, classmates in junior high school and high school for six years, and they had a very strong relationship.

This person's real name is Yang Baofu.

The name is a bit earthy, but it also carries the full expectations of other parents.

Later, his classmates nicknamed him Laifu, and he happened to be with Chang Wei.

After graduating from high school, we went our separate ways, but we still connected with each other occasionally.

Yang Baofu's work is barely related to games.

Don't get me wrong, it's definitely not game planning, game design, or game development.

He's just the boss of a game boosting studio.

Yang Baofu is a veteran game fan, he likes to play games since he was a child, and he has even intensified his efforts when he went to college, he studied in a four-year college for five years before he took credits, and half of his classmates have never seen him.

Because the truancy rate in college is as high as 95%, even if he is sent out of school by the school, he is not aware of the talent market.

Naturally, it is impossible to get a job.

In desperation, he set up his own game boosting studio, whose main business is Sword Three Warcraft boosting, barely making ends meet.

It wasn't until the last few years that esports got better and better, and his studio slowly gained a foothold.

Not only did he solve the problem of food and clothing, but he even got a team.

In the circle of old classmates, Laifu and Chang Wei are both successful people.

"I didn't do anything, I just talked to the owner of the Internet café about business, and the Internet fee is getting more and more expensive, so I can't wait to open my own Internet café." Yang Baofu sighed over there.

"Opening an Internet café these years, you are a little irrational." Even if you don't know about this market, you know that the Internet café is finished.

When I first went to school, there were Internet cafes everywhere near the school, one piece of five an hour, one hundred and one hundred free, full of people, waiting in line to get on the plane.

However, time has passed, and in just a few years, the living environment of Internet cafes has undergone tremendous changes.

"Let's just say, how dare you, you can't stand the toss." Rifle said.

"Brother Fu, are you interested in making games, I'm short of people here." Li Changwei stubbornly spoke.

He really has black eyes, even darker than Tian Dazhuang, who took over the baton of Meowtail Cinema.

After all, many of the people Tian Dazhuang came into contact with at that time were people in the film industry.

At least I'm no stranger to movies.

But Li Changwei is different, except for people who have been in contact with games in his life, he has no intersection with games.

He hadn't even played Tetris or Matches.

"Viagra, don't you work in a movie theater, why did you get involved in making games." Yang Baofu's biggest regret is that he failed to bring Li Changwei badly, Amway has hundreds of games, and he has never succeeded once.

"It's hard to put into words, it's a job transfer, I know someone who understands games, and that's you." Li Changwei seemed to grasp a life-saving straw.

"Viagra, don't be kidding, this can't be casual, I also have a mess here, although I don't make much, but at least it's enough to pay off the mortgage......"

"I will give you 30,000 a month and 20 salaries, and if our brothers can make the game in the future, the annual salary of one million will not be a problem." Li Changwei actually didn't understand his authority.

However, when he was first recruited by Tian Dazhuang, the salary was at this level.

Before becoming this general manager, his monthly salary had risen to 70,000, and I don't know if this promotion will increase his salary.

For the sake of conservatism, he only promised others 30,000 yuan.

is still shallow, the general manager of Kleist, and his annual income has not been less than five million for a long time.

Some can even take tens of millions.

"Poof, viagra, you're not kidding, are you?" Yang Baofu still thinks it's a joke.

"Big brother, who would joke about this kind of thing, I really need someone who understands the game to help, whether you are here or not, in a word, don't say that I don't care about you in the future!"

When we went to school together, I said the words "Don't forget each other".

If neither of them has achieved much, this is the second disease, but if one party is really prosperous, this is a promise.

"I'm your uncle, do it, give me an address, and I'll buy a ticket now."

The boosting studio gave it directly to someone else.

He worked hard and was busy, sometimes he had to roll up his sleeves and go into battle in person, and he would get 10,000 yuan every month, and pay off the mortgage in second-tier cities, basically there was not much left, and he couldn't even afford a girlfriend after a few years of graduation.

Li Changwei met Yang Baofu who rushed to the capital the next day.

Pei Qianlong heard that someone was recruited here, so he fulfilled his responsibility to help take care of it and came over to greet him.

If Lin Dong hadn't asked him to help take care of the game division, he would rarely have asked about this kind of entry.

Even if he supervises the game division, he will only focus on the big and let go of the small, and control the general direction without problems.

"This is Mr. Pei." Li Changwei made a small introduction.

"Hello boss!" Yang Baofu, who was still the small boss of the boosting studio yesterday, hurriedly stood up.

"I'm not the boss, I'm the vice president of the company's strategy," Pei Qianlong leaned over and shook hands with him and said, "But you can tell me if you have any questions, the boss doesn't show up." ”

"I just want to ask, is there really 30,000?" Yang Baofu asked very directly.

He didn't learn anything in college, and he didn't mix in the workplace after graduation, and the small circle of game leveling basically went straight to the point, bargaining for three or five yuan at every turn, so don't expect him to have any special performance.

"Mr. Li gave you 30,000, it's less, after all, you were the first to recruit it, if you are positioned as a deputy, 30,000 is too little, as for how much, you go back and discuss it with the people on Mr. Chen's side."

Kleist's compensation levels are far higher than those of his peers.

Li Changwei recruited a deputy and gave 30,000 yuan a month, which was too petty.

Mr. Chen refers to Chen Xiaoman, she is now the company's administrative vice president, it is impossible to care about such a trivial matter, and there will be people under her who are responsible.

"What do you want me to do?!" Yang Baofu grinds his fists.

He Nana's, let it go.

I never thought that he would be able to find a serious job in his life, and the salary he was given was so high.

Chang Wei shouldn't want to work hard, and then fall in love with a rich woman.

"Do you know anything about our company?" Pei Qianlong asked.

"I've seen the information on the plane, it's really too good, but the information is less." But Yang Baofu at least knows Meow Ear Music, Meow Tooth Live Broadcast, and Meow Claw Net.

He only learned today that they were all family.

And the meow game he wants to join is a new department of this cat factory.

"Just know a little bit, that is, we ...... Our company wants to make a game, starting from scratch, and the three of us are all the people in the current project, I don't know much about the game industry, and Mr. Li is the same, what do you think? ”

"You can act as an agent." Yang Baofu blurted out: "For example, ARK: Survival Evolved, a 3A masterpiece released on June 2, our people here call it Ark Survival Evolved, if you can get it, you can definitely occupy a place in the domestic game market." ”

What a mess, Pei Qianlong and Li Changwei are confused.

Pei Qianlong shook his head and vetoed: "No, recently we have acted as an agent for an FGO ......"

"Fate? Yes, that's a good start, though probably not as good as the upper boat. ”

"Listen to me first!" This guy is too talkative, Pei Qianlong slapped the table, and continued: "This game is operated by Station M, and it has little to do with us, and the boss doesn't like agency games, so the task for us is to make Huaxia's own game, that is to say, let's give up the agency road." ”

"Huaxia's own game ......" Yang Baofu was a little confused.

"Money is not a problem, the company has prepared a billion for the game project." Pei Qianlong didn't have time to talk to Li Changwei, the new general manager of the game division.

"A billion!"

The two dirt buns gasped together, indirectly contributing to global warming.

"In this case, we have two choices," Yang Baofu, who came back to his soul, thought about it and gave two plans: "One is for us to recruit people to form a team for development and design, and the other is to see if there is a suitable one on the market and buy it directly." ”

A billion that.

is so wealthy, you can have whatever you want.

What is the concept of billion in game development?

Take Blizzard's Daddy's Warcraft as an example.

World of Warcraft is undoubtedly successful as the world's most popular online game to date, especially in China, where its status in online games has not changed for many years.

The game began to be developed at the end of 2000 and took almost 5 years to build, with an investment of about 40 million US dollars, equivalent to about 270 million yuan.

But this is only the pre-launch R&D expenses, if you count the expansion packs such as Burning Crusade, Wrath of the Lich King, and Cataclysm...... Blizzard's dad probably spent 700 million.

The production cost is also around 700 million, as well as "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2".

"Tomb Raider 9" cost 800 million.

It is also not the most expensive, "Total War: Three Kingdoms" is 100 million more expensive than it, reaching 900 million in production and development costs.

Compared to "Final Fantasy 7: Core Crisis", these are all drizzles, because Final Fantasy smashed two billion into it this time.

Well, it's not the most expensive either.

The most expensive is Red Dead Redemption, which cost six billion.

Going back to business, it took 40 million dollars to develop from World of Warcraft, even if it was fifteen years ago, when the money was a little more valuable.

It is enough to show that Kleist's billion investment is really not small.

And the game has just been established, and he smashed so much into it without trying the water, which made Yang Baofu feel that he had come to the right place.

He was now only worried that he would not be able to take on such a heavy responsibility.

"Two choices," Pei Qianlong thought for a while and said: "R&D must be developed, but there is no result in three or five years, and it is difficult to explain to Mr. Lin, so my idea is to acquire a game to learn and study first, and then develop a new game while operating, what do you think?" ”

Yang Baofu was immediately impressed by Pei Qianlong, the vice president of strategy.

Looking back, his two choices were really too naïve.

"Then we still have to recruit people." Li Changwei was very worried.

Looks like we'll have to ask the HR department for help.

"When you buy a game studio, you basically have everything you need, and then you can fill in the position." Pei Qianlong once again suspected that Lin Dong had chosen the wrong person, and felt that this Yang Baofu was more suitable than Li Changwei for the position of general manager of the game division.