Friday 7 February, 6 p.m.

The heads of various departments of the game gathered in the conference room on the first floor of one of the villas, ready to have a meeting.

Wei Chengjie was a little puzzled, why did he have to choose to hold the meeting after work?

If it's for another company, that's normal.

But with the intensity of the work against heaven, there is no problem with meeting during the day, right?

To this, Zhou Yang replied like this.

"Don't ask, you just remember anyway, but any meeting held at night is a meeting for investors! Just give some face and cheer for it, as for what was said, you can listen to it or not. ”

Wei Chengjie was confused.

Although he had been studying the anti-heaven urban tales repeatedly before, and had memorized these rules of conduct by rote, after all, he had not fully understood its internal logic, and many details were still doubtful.

In particular, the complex relationship between investors and companies has not been fully understood.

However, Wei Chengjie didn't bother to think about these problems, strictly speaking, his position at this time is "executive plan", that is, he is not responsible for the functional design of the game, but only needs to manage the project and ensure that the game is developed on schedule.

With Mr. Gu and Zhou Yang here, Wei Chengjie can just do his own work without caring about those trivial issues.

While everyone was chatting with each other, Lilith arrived.

As soon as she sat down on the chair at the large conference table, she spoke in astonishment.

"Today's meeting is not particularly important, the main thing is to adjust the organizational structure of our company.

"As you can see, with the continuous development of the game against heaven, we have more and more funds on our books, and the original small workshop-style structure is naturally not very suitable.

"Mr. Gu also mentioned to me before that I hope to appropriately take out some of the excess funds for investment, right, Mr. Gu?"

Gu Fan didn't quite know what kind of medicine Lilith was selling in this gourd, but he still nodded: "Yes." ”

Gu Fan did briefly mention this point to Lilith before, but at that time, Lilith showed a lack of interest, and obviously didn't take it to heart.

Why is it that the old thing is brought up again at this time?

Quite strange!

As a game company that can make money, Reverse Heaven Games has encountered the same problem as many successful game companies, that is, there is too much cash on the books, and I don't know how to spend it!

Although 70% of the company's funds were originally designed to be used for the development of the next game, this allocation was okay in the early days, and now it will be found that this 70% of the funds are significantly higher than the funds needed to develop the next game.

Take the current situation of the game against heaven as an example, before the development of the game "Ascension", the development and operation expenses of the game against heaven had reached 53 million.

The cost of the game "Ascension" is about 37 million, which means that the original cost has a balance of about 16 million.

And with the popularity and hot sales of "Ascension", its sales have exceeded 100,000 in the first week of its release so far!

Based on the price of 138 per copy, this game has brought in more than 8 million revenue in a week.

According to this data estimate, the sales of "Ascension" are likely to exceed 500,000 in the first month, and it is not too much of a problem for the cumulative sales to reach one million in the future.

In other words, the cost of 37 million can finally obtain more than 80 million or even more than 100 million in revenue.

In addition, other games are also contributing revenue one after another.

In this way, if the next game of Reverse Heaven is developed for three months, then according to the calculation of 70%, there will be at least more than 56 million R&D funds!

What game can cost so much money?

Of course, there is no cap on the cost of the game industry, and if you are really willing to engage in those super big productions, it is not difficult to smash hundreds of millions.

Reversible Heaven has its own national conditions, and Lilith is eager to get a lot of negative emotions in the short term, so she doesn't accept too long a development cycle, at most three or four months, and the game has to be released.

Even if you are crazy about recruiting people in the short term, it is unlikely to greatly improve work efficiency, which is not a simple 1+1=2 problem after all.

Therefore, it is basically impossible to spend so much R&D funding.

So what about these R&D funds? I'm going to have to think of other ways to spend it.

Of course, the signed contract cannot be violated, saying that 70% is used for game promotion and research and development, then it can only be used for game promotion and research and development.

But the problem is that "game promotion and development" itself is a very broad concept.

Buying volume counts as publicity, so does buying a building to advertise the game count as publicity?

Everything related to the content of the game is considered R&D costs, so is the physical disc of the game considered R&D costs? Are the peripheral products that come with the physical disc count as the R&D cost of the game?

For these contents, Lilith's contract does not make detailed provisions, if you have to pick out the words, in fact, the content that can be related in a broad sense can be forcibly summarized.

This money is lying on the company's account, and it is better to spend it to exert some residual heat.

This was Gu Fan's suggestion to Lilith, and at this time, Lilith obviously adopted this suggestion.

But why exactly? Gu Fan was still a little confused.

Lilith clapped her hands: "So, I decide!" Some adjustments have been made to the company's current organizational structure.

"Led by Mr. Gu, we will explore new business areas and expand our territory for Paradise Games!

"The real industry, investment, or gaming peripherals...... As long as the industry is directly related to the main business of our game, you can try to set foot in it! ”

Hearing this, everyone's eyes couldn't help but light up.

Mr. Li, you, as an investor, have finally done a job of personnel!

However, in the eyes of several old employees such as Zhou Yang and Zhao Haiquan, in addition to surprise, there was also a strong suspicion.

They looked at each other, and they both saw the same confusion in each other's eyes.

This is completely inconsistent with Mr. Li's style of acting! Is this still the stupid producer? Why did you suddenly start working on personnel?

There is a problem, there must be a problem!

Sure enough, Lilith changed her words: "So this is the ...... Mr. Gu is busy with the development of new fields, so naturally he can't take care of the development of games.

"So, Paradise Games will make regular personnel adjustments.

"In order to let Mr. Gu work with peace of mind, Zhou Yang! Wei Chengjie! The two of you will take over the banner of Mr. Gu and be fully responsible for the development of the game!

"Especially Zhou Yang, I will hand you the design concept draft of the new game later, and give you three days to refine the detailed game design draft. This game is also Mr. Gu's creativity, you have to change it seriously, not perfunctory. ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone was shocked: "Then what does Mr. Gu do?" ”

Lilith explained, "Didn't you say that before? Mr. Gu will be mainly responsible for the development of new business and the management of our portfolio company, Hell Front.

Of course, Mr. Gu is still the president of Paradise Games, and when the company needs it, he can still come back at any time to take charge of the business of the game department.

"Of course, under what circumstances is it necessary...... I'll be strict. ”

But these words apparently did not convince the employees present, and they immediately boiled.

"After all, Mr. Gu is still not in charge of the game department?"

"That's not going to work, that's absolutely not going to work!"

"If the game department doesn't have Mr. Gu, then there is no soul! Think twice! ”

"If Mr. Gu is not here, the game department will collapse immediately! At that time, even if we develop new business, the game business is the lifeblood of our rebellion! ”

The crowd was so excited that they couldn't accept such an arrangement at all!

Because everyone knows very well that the game of anti-heaven can survive to this day, Mr. Gu has definitely played an irreplaceable role!

Without Mr. Gu's constraints, the devil knows what Mr. Li, an investor, will do.

Although the current financial situation of Paradise Games seems to be very good, the game industry itself is a high-risk industry, as long as one game fails, it will be a big loss, and two consecutive games may fail directly bankrupt.

What will happen to everyone's winnings then?

It's not that you can't get along with Mr. Gu, it's that you can't get along with the net worth of all employees!

Therefore, this resolution was immediately unanimously opposed by everyone up and down the company!

Lilith's eyes narrowed slightly, and her expression became very dangerous.

Clearly, she became more and more aware that there seemed to be something wrong with the company. And these problems will obviously hinder her great cause of collecting negative emotions!

Now these employees only know Mr. Gu but don't know Mr. Li, is this okay?

I didn't expect to give a lot of bonuses to these employees before, but I couldn't buy people's hearts......

Seeing that the contradictions between the two sides gradually became acute, Gu Fan spoke.

"Mr. Li, and everyone, calm down first.

"For this matter, I fully support Mr. Li's decision!"

This made everyone stunned.

Lilith, in particular, raised her eyebrows and made a "Huh? The doubts were obviously somewhat unexpected.

Gu Fan looked at Zhou Yang and the other responsible people of the company: "I believe that after working together during this period of time, you have a full understanding of the game design concept of Reverse Heaven, even if I don't interfere in the development of the game, you will definitely be able to complete the work properly!" ”

(End of chapter)