Chapter 189 April 18th, Monday

The matter of the Jinyiwei had already been handed over to Xiao Tang. He wondered what kind of people she would find.

Tengda now had quite a few departments. Even if they placed one loss-generating trainee in each department, they would need more than a dozen people, and it wouldn't be possible to gather them together in a hurry.

Pei Qian's requirement for Tang Yishu was to have the people gathered by the Saturday of the following week.

When Saturday came, he would secretly hold a small meeting while the company was empty to assign tasks. The thought of it was strangely exciting.

Pei Qian still woke up naturally today. After eating, he went to the company to take a turn around, just to show his face.

However, before he could even open the Aili Island website to catch up on dramas, he heard a knock on the door from outside.

"Hmm?"

Pei Qian couldn't help but frown. What was so urgent?

He had only been in the office for less than two minutes when someone knocked on the door, obviously having been waiting for a long time.

"Come in."

Outside the door, Hu Xianbin pushed the door open and entered.

"What's wrong? Is there a problem with the development of 'Struggle'?" Pei Qian couldn't help but feel a little expectant.

Hu Xianbin shook his head, "No, the development of 'Struggle' has been going smoothly so far. It's about GoG!"

Pei Qian couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.

On the one hand, it was because the development of "Struggle" was going smoothly, and on the other hand, it was because Hu Xianbin was still worried about GoG, which was very inconsistent with the Tengda spirit.

Pei Qian cleared his throat twice, "Don't rush to talk about GoG first."

"There are some problems with your work approach."

"People's energy is limited. You can only do one thing at a time. How can you manage both the research and development of "Struggle" and the operation of GoG?"

"Hurry up and hand over the operation of GoG."

In any case, Hu Xianbin was also a researcher in the latter half of GoG's development and was responsible for the launch of the mobile and PC versions. He knew the GoG project very well.

Pei Qian asked Hu Xianbin to be in charge of the development of the "Struggle" project to prevent him from managing GoG, but he actually wanted to do both jobs at the same time, which was too much.

Hu Xianbin was stunned for a moment, "Uh, okay, President Pei, I'll go back and hand over the work to Min Jingchao."

"But... I do have something very important to report about the GoG project!"

Pei Qian nodded, "Okay, tell me."

Hu Xianbin seemed very eager, "President Pei, I hope to make an exception and urgently recruit more people for Tengda's game department!"

Pei Qian couldn't help but frown.

Make an exception?

Recruit more people?

Little brother, that's a very dangerous idea!

The various departments and positions of Tengda are recruited uniformly, only twice a year, in May and November respectively.

The main reason for setting this time was to avoid the peak season for recruitment.

Since the recruitment steps are more complicated, and new employees are given sufficient time to complete resignation procedures and hand over work, the actual entry time will be another month later.

But Pei Qian looked at the date. It was already April 18th today. What urgent matters could there be on the GoG side that they couldn't even wait for more than a month?

There must be a problem here!

Pei Qian attached great importance to this in his heart, but on the surface, he asked calmly, "Why are you in such a hurry to recruit people?"

Hu Xianbin said, "President Pei, because IoI is going to have an 'arms race' with us, and the GoG project urgently needs to expand manpower! Otherwise, our initial advantage will be gone!"

Pei Qian couldn't help but feel happy.

Although he didn't understand what "arms race" specifically meant, one thing was very clear: Lin Wan had begun to take action!

The domestic server of IoI should have been prepared almost during this period, and a series of publicity strategies should have been formulated to start grabbing GoG's market.

He didn't know where Hu Xianbin got the news from.

However, considering that Tengda Games and Shangyang Games are brother departments, it is not surprising where the news came from.

With the mentality of not being afraid of making things worse, Pei Qian said with a smile: "Is that so? Tell me in detail."

Hu Xianbin hurriedly said: "IoI's strategy is to update desperately and win by quantity. According to the current plan, they will update two new heroes a month, which is too fast!"

"The number of heroes in GoG is already slightly less than that of IoI, but it is still within an acceptable range."

"Once IoI updates new heroes at such a rapid speed, and we still slowly update one new hero every two months, we will definitely be left behind quickly. By then, GoG's first-mover advantage will be gone!"

Pei Qian nodded frequently as he listened.

Not bad, Finger Company and Lin Wan are both very reliable!

As expected, the script is still developing as I imagined. I am really resourceful.

Pei Qian's expression became more and more calm: "So, you want to recruit more people to compete with them in speed?"

Hu Xianbin nodded: "Yes, there is no reason for us to lose to them in speed! Whoever updates faster can better maintain the stickiness of players and the popularity of the game. The advantage in this regard is too great!"

"The current situation is that the brave win when they meet on a narrow road, and GoG must not give in!"

Pei Qian was silent for a moment: "I don't agree with your opinion."

"It's definitely not possible to recruit people in advance. Even for the recruitment next month, I don't recommend the game department recruiting too many new people."

Hu Xianbin was stunned: "W-why?"

Pei Qian leaned back on his boss chair and said seriously: "It's not about quantity, but about quality."

"With more people, the speed will become faster, and more ideas will come out. This seems like a good thing."

"However, more people may be a treasure, or they may be a cage."

"Don't always think of this stupid method of human wave tactics when you encounter problems. It will lower your thinking limit and wipe out your inspiration."

"In short, don't recruit more people."

Hu Xianbin was a little anxious: "But President Pei..."

Pei Qian emphasized again: "Don't recruit more people."

Hu Xianbin had nothing to say. He didn't dare to let President Pei repeat it a third time, so he could only sigh and silently walked out of the office.

Pei Qian revealed a satisfied smile.

Lin Wan, I can only help you to this point. Be sure to complete the task as soon as possible!

…

Hu Xianbin returned to the floor above with his head down and sat down at his workstation.

Min Jingchao saw Hu Xianbin coming back and immediately came over.

"How is it? Did President Pei agree?"

Hu Xianbin shook his head: "No, President Pei refused."

Min Jingchao was stunned: "Refused? That can't be, right? President Pei has always been generous with the company's expenses. How could he not allow a few new designers to be recruited? That's a little unscientific."

Hu Xianbin sighed: "Hey, I don't know what President Pei is thinking, but his attitude is indeed very firm. He said that not only can we not make an exception to recruit in advance now, but we can't recruit too many people in the recruitment a month later."

Min Jingchao frowned, confused: "Why would President Pei say such a thing for no reason? Did he say anything else?"

"Generally speaking, there will be some hidden clues in President Pei's words."

Hu Xianbin tried hard to recall: "Let me think..."

"He seemed to say, 'More people may be a treasure, or they may be a cage.'"

"But, this sentence doesn't seem to have any deep meaning..."

"Why don't we ask Sister Li and Brother Bao?"

Min Jingchao shook his head: "I don't think we should always throw analytical questions to Brother Bao. At Tengda, reading President Pei's intentions is an essential skill, and we have to practice more."

Hu Xianbin thought for a while: "That's right. But, what President Pei said this time doesn't seem to have any deep meaning? I still have no clue at all."

Min Jingchao frowned tightly and fell into deep thought.

After a long time, his brows relaxed slightly.

"From the original meaning, this sentence means that each designer's ideas are different. More people can indeed provide different perspectives, ideas, and concepts, but so many angles, ideas, and concepts are all mixed together, it will become a cage."

"Other people's angles, ideas, and concepts will in turn limit your thinking. Similarly, your ideas will also limit other people's thinking."

"If everyone does their own thing, it will drag each other down and reduce efficiency."

"Therefore, making new heroes for GoG is a tiring job and a technical job that requires continuous output of creativity. The key is not how many people there are, but whether the chief designer can accurately grasp the direction of the game."

"No matter how many designers are recruited, in the end, only one person can make the final decision and unify the style, while carrying out overall planning for the game's balance. Otherwise, this game will become a Frankenstein."

Hu Xianbin was no stranger to this way of interpreting things and immediately understood: "Yes, that makes sense!"

"But that still doesn't solve the problem."

"Everyone's ability to produce ideas is limited, and there are too few people, not enough inspiration at all. You can do the overall planning, but providing inspiration and designing different new heroes still requires manpower."

Min Jingchao fell into deep thought again, this time thinking for even longer.

After a long time, he slowly opened his mouth: "It seems that it's not necessarily the case."

"It's true that everyone's inspiration is limited and the ideas they produce are limited. However, it's not only designers who can provide inspiration and design new heroes."

"What President Pei is expressing is a dialectical way of thinking. He didn't deny the power of many people. His original words were 'may be a treasure, or may be a cage.' We only analyzed the 'cage' side, but didn't delve into the 'treasure' side."

"How can recruiting more designers compare to the wisdom of the vast number of players?"

"Designers are just a small treasure, while players are a big treasure."

"President Pei doesn't want us to recruit designers because this move cannot fundamentally solve the problem and is inefficient."

"In other words... we can let players also participate in the hero design of GoG!"

"Even if IoI's hero research and development is faster, so what? If we can really fully mobilize the enthusiasm of players, then inspiration and ideas will be inexhaustible!"

Hu Xianbin suddenly realized: "That makes sense!"

"So that's what President Pei meant?"

"Indeed, fully mobilizing the enthusiasm of players, letting players provide ideas and content, and then our designers only need to be responsible for screening, modifying, balancing and other work, which perfectly solves the problem!"

Min Jingchao suddenly stood up: "I'm going to make an event plan right now!"

…

After getting rid of Hu Xianbin, Pei Qian chased dramas for a while.

Looking at the time, it was already three o'clock in the afternoon.

"It's been a long time since I saw Old Ma, let's go to Round Dream Ventures."

Pei Qian then remembered that he had always wanted to go to Round Dream Ventures to ask Old Ma which projects he was optimistic about investing in, but he forgot in his busyness.

The weather was nice today, so he could go out for a walk and see what the recent situation of Old Ma and Round Dream Ventures was.

Pei Qian had agreed with Old Ma before to let him notify himself as soon as possible when he found a suitable project.

However, so much time had passed, and there was no movement from Old Ma.

Pei Qian couldn't help but wonder, what was Ma Yang busy with?

He wasn't worried about Ma Yang secretly spending money, because since the last incident of investing in Finger Company, Pei Qian had required that all investments of Round Dream Ventures must be approved by himself.

Now that no one was asking for instructions, it meant that Round Dream Ventures hadn't spent a penny.

Then the question came, since Ma Yang hadn't spent money, what was he doing?

[GoG's hero design, everyone in this chapter, please start your performance]