Chapter 104 - Improving Office Locations (Three Changes)
Hearing this, Zhou Yang tentatively raised his hand: "Mr. Li, I think the character design of this heroine is not very pleasing?"
"Didn't you just step on all the pits of the 'Holy' we discussed yesterday?
"I think it's better to give the player another choice, which is to develop her into a 'true virgin', or an 'egoist', or something else in a specific way.
"It might be better to let the players decide for themselves how to train."
Lilith smiled, "Well, that sounds like a good suggestion. ”
A trace of joy flashed on Zhou Yang's face in an instant, who said that Li always didn't listen to people's persuasion? Isn't that something you can listen to?
Sure enough, Mr. Gu still didn't master the way and method.
However, in the next second, Lilith continued to smile and said: "But my design has its own national conditions, and many details are affected by the whole body, so they can't be changed."
"I've taken note of your suggestion, and I'll consider adding it to the game design plan if I have the chance.
"The game still hasn't changed to be wonderful."
The corners of Zhou Yang's mouth twitched slightly, yes, Bai was happy!
Sure enough, it's all an illusion, and Li can always listen to a ghost!
Lilith stood up: "Very good, since you have no other opinions, then the design draft is finalized, my design is interlocking and exquisite, if you don't understand something, you can understand it yourself, or ask Gu Fan, it is strictly forbidden to change it!"
"Also, Gu Fan, you will take everyone to test it a few more times this time, and you will definitely nip all possible bugs in the bud, understand?"
Gu Fan nodded: "Of course!" ”
Lilith finished her work and left confidently.
Gu Fan looked at the people with different expressions: "Okay, let's break up?" I'll still be at work next Monday, and I'm almost ready to work on the development of the new game.
"Oh, by the way, there are some things to discuss with you about the company on Monday, but next week's things will be talked about next week, let's get off work!"
After saying that, he also briefly packed up his things and slipped away at the speed of light.
Zhou Yang was silent for a moment, looked at Zhao Haiquan and whispered: "I understand Mr. Gu completely now, with this kind of investor who can't communicate at all, if you want to save the game and save the player, you can really only stuff bugs into it!"
"It's better to take care of Mr. Gu, even if you have something, you can leave it until tomorrow's work time.
"Why is the gap between people and people so big?"
"Shh Zhao Haiquan glanced at him, and everyone understood it, and they packed up their things and went home.
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Monday, September 9th.
When Gu Fan came to the company, he first called Xiao Mingyu over.
"Have the sales data of each game and the company's revenue been counted?" Gu Fan asked.
Xiao Mingyu nodded: "Of course, it's already been calculated, and the form has already been sent." ”
Gu Fan clicked on the table, and the data was clear at a glance.
Sure enough, this is the importance of having a finance, before he had to hold a calculator to calculate there, and the calculation was too big, now he can directly hand it over to Xiao Mingyu to do.
So far, sales growth for Helltracks, Sisyphus, and Counterheaven Cubes has largely stalled.
"Hell Tracks" is in the early millions, "Sisyphus" is about 740,000, and "Blocks Against Heaven" is 150,000.
These three games have been out for a long time, and the gameplay mechanism itself is not complicated, and I basically bought all the games I liked, and there should not be much room for sales growth in the future.
And "The Legend of the Mandate of Heaven" has been on sale for more than two months so far, and the sales volume has come to 300,000!
may be due to the relatively high price, the initial sales explosion of "The Legend of Destiny and Sleeping Dragon" was not as fast as the previous games, but its advantage is that it is full of stamina, and the subsequent sales growth is relatively stable.
As for "Fire Stealer", the game was released on September 1st, and now 8 days later, the sales have reached 120,000 copies!
If you just look at the sales volume, you can't see much, but there are two other stats that are quite outrageous: it has a peak of 30,000 concurrent online users, and the positive rating is as high as 95%, which undoubtedly goes from "bad reviews" to "rave reviews"!
This proportion of people who are online at the same time can be said to be quite exaggerated.
Generally speaking, a good party game with a 20:1 ratio of sales to concurrent users is quite good, but Fire Stealer can reach 4:1.
Of course, a large part of this is due to the fact that the sales of "Fire Stealers" are actually on the low side.
According to the data of Gu Fan's previous life, the sales of "Deadly Company" exceeded 4 million copies in a month and a half after its release, and each $9.9 game directly earned $32 million.
And the sales of "Fire Stealer" are obviously much worse.
There are many reasons for this, such as:
The follow-up announcement of this game actually didn't cost too many resources;
At present, anti-heaven games are only released in China, and there is no global distribution, and most of the players of this type of game are abroad;
The trigger conditions of the hidden mechanic are not very friendly to lone wolf players, and some people are dissuaded;
The game costs 98 yuan, which is higher than the 9.9 dollars of "Deadly Company", which is actually a bit expensive......
All of these have limited its sales to a certain extent.
But the number of people online against the sky can still show the horror potential of this game.
The game's sales momentum should remain stable in the coming months, and there is even room for it to continue to grow!
In this way, these games brought about 28 million net income to Reverse Heaven.
Of course, Gu Fan took 5% of himself from it for the first time, and his personal savings also came to 2.1 million.
After this replenishment, after deducting the expenses for the development, operation and promotion of "Fire Stealer", plus the remaining funds in the company's previous account, the funds for game development and promotion are about 24 million, and the funds for the company's operation are 8.7 million.
In fact, there was originally a sum of money to give out bonuses to the players, but that money came from Lilith's small treasury, so the financial situation on the side of Reverse Heaven was not affected.
Gu Fan looked at Xiao Mingyu: "Do you have any ideas for the next development of the company?" ”
Xiao Mingyu thought for a while: "The current financial situation of our company ...... It's a little too healthy.
"In general, there is too much money on the books.
But it's a common problem for some successful game companies.
"I think that in terms of the success rate of our company's games, the top priority is to expand production, and we can consider speeding up the development of game projects, or we can consider starting multiple projects.
"But in either case, we will be required to continue to expand our recruitment efforts.
"And the premise of recruiting a lot of people is...... We really need to change our office space. ”
Obviously, the second floor of this café can accommodate so many people at most that it is a bit difficult to stuff people into it.
Moreover, the game company with a monthly turnover of tens of millions is nested in a café, which is indeed a bit of an overstatement.
Gu Fan nodded: "Well, I think so too, it's really time to improve the office environment."
"Alright, let's pause what we're doing.
"Let me tell you about the current situation of the company.
"Thanks to everyone's efforts, the previous games have made good profits, so the company's current books are relatively abundant. In order to expand production and recruit more employees in the future, we will almost need to improve the office environment.
So, what are your requirements and suggestions for the new office environment? You can speak your mind. ”
As soon as they heard this, everyone came to their senses.
All right! Finally changing office locations?
During this time, everyone has been working in this small café, and it is indeed a little aggrieved. At present, there are not many people in the company, but the company continues to develop, and it must continue to recruit people, and it can't be nested in a café for the rest of its life, right?
Everyone began to speak freely.
Zhou Yang took the lead and said: "There is an office building of the science and technology financial center relatively close to us, which is about 13~15 yuan/square meter/day, which is very magnificent!"
"Although our company doesn't need much of a place for the time being, the transportation is convenient, the scenery is good, and it is more in line with the style of our company, I think it's good!"
Guo Hongyu thought for a while: "Although a place like a science and technology financial center is magnificent, the cost performance is inevitably a little poor.
"Actually, we can just find it according to the standard of 6~8 yuan.
"Based on the per capita office area of 5 square meters, plus the necessary areas such as conference rooms, we can rent 200 square meters is very sufficient.
"In this case, the monthly rent is about 50,000 yuan. I feel that the price is perfectly acceptable for our company. ”
(End of chapter)