Chapter 120 An Opportunity

After Tian Mo left, Pei Qian briefly considered the matter of this store.

The purpose of this store must be differentiated from the functions of Moyu Internet Cafe and other stores, so the specific layout of the store needs to be carefully planned.

The sales in the store are also very important. They cannot follow Tengda's unified recruitment process, because those people are too skilled.

He must find a way to screen out a group of people with roughly the same level as Tian Mo.

Recruiting people is not urgent for the time being, but the store decoration will take some time, so it must be arranged as soon as possible.

Pei Qian thought for a while and called Liang Qingfan, asking him to come to the office tomorrow afternoon to finalize the details of this store.

After arranging everything, Pei Qian breathed a sigh of relief, casually opened the webpage, and looked at the current situation of *Mission and Choice*.

It was still not optimistic!

From the release of the movie and the game, the overall evaluation and reputation have been rising all the way, and it has always occupied the hot topics on the Internet.

The game and the movie influence each other. While the game sales are increasing, the film schedule in theaters is also increasing.

Although it has only been less than a week, the situation is already very bad. After this weekend, the sales of the entire life cycle of the game and the box office of the movie can be roughly inferred through a week's data.

Pei Qian looked at the rainbow farts of various media, players, and audiences on the Internet and felt very tired.

It was like pouring poisonous milk into his mouth, one mouthful at a time. He couldn't drink it anymore, but they kept pouring it, and finally, it flowed down the corners of his mouth...

Just as he was worrying, Pei Qian suddenly had an idea.

Because he saw discussions about Rabbit Tail Live on the forum!

Pei Qian opened Rabbit Tail Live and took a look. As expected, he found that while he was busy discovering Tian Mo as a diamond in the rough these past two days, Rabbit Tail Live's "mandatory one hour" function had already been launched.

This was the first time Pei Qian had logged into Rabbit Tail Live after the version update, so a dialog box popped up, briefly introducing the various rules after the version update, especially a detailed explanation of this "mandatory one hour" function.

After officially entering the Rabbit Tail Live website or app, a one-hour countdown will appear in the upper right corner of the interface. Before the countdown ends, you can only browse the content in the study area or use the focus mode to AFK (away from keyboard).

Of course, there are loopholes to exploit. If you leave the Rabbit Tail Live webpage open on your computer for an hour, you can indeed get away with it.

The key is not in this one hour, but in "creating additional trouble for the audience." The audience can indeed solve the problem by leaving the webpage open for an hour, but compared to those live broadcast platforms that have no restrictions and all content can be watched casually, it already has a natural disadvantage.

Pei Qian looked at the feedback online and finally smiled, and the worried mood was swept away.

"Is Rabbit Tail Live crazy? It was a good live broadcast platform, and it was thriving because of esports competitions. Why did they forcibly come up with this to disgust the audience?"

"I only have one or two hours of rest a day. If I want to watch live broadcasts, I have to watch learning videos or AFK for an hour? Isn't that too much? It's fine to manage teenagers, but adults too?"

"It's okay, I'll just AFK for an hour before watching the game in the future and do something else."

"The key is that you have to remember to AFK for an hour every day? Watching live broadcasts is supposed to be for fun, isn't this tiring?"

"Goodbye, Rabbit Tail Live. So many platforms are broadcasting the game; I don't have to watch it on your platform."

"It's a pity. I've always thought that Rabbit Tail Live's viewing experience was the best, but now I can only switch platforms."

"You can tell from the number of viewers in the live broadcast rooms. Rabbit Tail Live's data is all real. Recently, the number of viewers in major live broadcast rooms has plummeted by at least two-thirds, to the point where even their own mothers wouldn't recognize them."

"I don't believe that Rabbit Tail Live is so stubborn. The data has dropped more severely than being cut in half. Won't they quickly cancel this restriction?"

"It's useless to cancel it. The audience who have left will never come back. And according to the official meaning of Rabbit Tail Live, they should be prepared to go all the way to the dark. There are a lot of curses on the Internet, but the official has not come out to give an explanation."

"Alas, courting death."

"I guess the bosses of other live broadcast platforms are all kneeling and sliding in the living room, right?"

"I have to say, Rabbit Tail Live made a really bad move this time! The previous decisions were all quite wise, and I felt that other live broadcast platforms were a little overwhelmed. How could they suddenly give them a breather at this critical moment?"

"I think Rabbit Tail Live is just inflated and thinks that the audience can't live without them, so they started to do this fancy stuff. It's quite disgusting."

"President Pei, please do something, President Pei! Don't let those people at Rabbit Tail Live mess around! I just want to watch live broadcasts and have fun, but you still want me to learn knowledge. Is that something a human would do?"

"Do you think President Pei doesn't know? President Pei is all-knowing. How could he not know about such a big thing? In my opinion, this is very likely his own decision!"

The netizens' opinions varied, but the tone was generally unkind.

This was also very understandable. After all, most people watch live broadcasts for fun. Since they are watching live broadcasts, why would they care about wasting time?

Moreover, if it is said to be wasting time, how many things in life are not wasting time?

Therefore, Rabbit Tail Live's behavior of restricting users is bound to cause dissatisfaction among most people.

What's more, other live broadcast platforms will never ignore this.

Rabbit Tail Live is courting death and has already offended its own platform users to some extent. Other live broadcast platforms suffered a lot of hidden losses when Rabbit Tail Live was first established. With this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, they will definitely buy some trolls to secretly step on it online.

The number of viewers in Rabbit Tail Live's live broadcast rooms are all real data, so it looks particularly obvious after the number of viewers has sharply decreased, which can also be regarded as evidence of the public's doubts on the Internet.

In short, no matter how you look at it, Rabbit Tail Live's current behavior can be regarded as "enraging both gods and men" and "besieged on all sides."

But the more Pei Qian looked at it, the happier he became.

This showed that his purpose had been achieved!

It was good news to be able to curb the popularity of Rabbit Tail Live in the early stage. If Rabbit Tail Live really develops and becomes an industry giant that monopolizes most of the industry's streamers and resources, then when this method comes out, most users can only hold their noses and accept it, and it will not be easy to use.

It must be nipped in the bud!

Pei Qian felt that he was simply prescient and couldn't help but feel a little smug.

He would observe for a while longer, and when he was sure that the popularity of Rabbit Tail Live was under control, he could invest more money in it and turn it into a ruthless money-burning machine.

Pei Qian's mood was not very good at first, but after seeing the comments from enthusiastic netizens, his mood improved greatly.

Sure enough, enthusiastic netizens are the real family!

Pei Qian was browsing the comments from netizens who were infinitely bearish on Rabbit Tail Live with great interest when his phone rang. It was Lin Chang calling.

"President Pei, the game department has completed the preliminary preparations. I wonder how A Wan's handover is going? When can she come here to formally start working?"

Pei Qian was a little surprised. "Oh? So fast?"

It hasn't been a few days, and the efficiency is too high.

Lin Chang smiled. "The main reason is that when I told the old man, the old man felt that your method was particularly good and very supportive! So it went very smoothly."

"Besides, there's nothing to prepare in the early stage, it's just preparing the office space, as well as the company's investment, registration work, and so on. According to your previous plan, President Pei, the recruitment of the core members of the entire company has to be personally responsible by A Wan. We can't interfere with the later project establishment and development."

Pei Qian was also very happy. "That's good. I've already arranged for her to go to work for the handover. It should be quite fast, right?"

"I also think that the sooner the better. How about this, let's meet tomorrow and finalize the project."

Lin Chang was stunned for a moment. "Ah? Finalize the project? Isn't this a bit too hasty?"

Pei Qian: "It's not hasty, the sooner the better. The sooner the project is finalized, the more time we have to prepare."

Lin Chang thought for a while. "Alright, then let's meet tomorrow morning? How about 10 o'clock?"

Pei Qian: "Uh...where is the address? If it's at Shenhua Group headquarters, I'm afraid I won't be able to make it."

Lin Chang: "It's in Jingzhou, about fifteen minutes' drive from Shang Yang Games!"

Pei Qian was stunned for a moment. "Ah?"

"That's not right. Since it's Shenhua's game department, shouldn't it be opened near Shenhua Group headquarters? That way, it's closer to the old man and can let Lin Wan Chang go home to see him?"

Pei Qian originally thought that he could send Lin Wan away, far away. He didn't expect to send her to a place only a dozen minutes' drive from Shang Yang Games, which was a bit discouraging.

Lin Chang said, "Of course the old man hopes A Wan will go back, but this matter can't be rushed. If A Wan hears that she is leaving Jingzhou, she will definitely be very resistant."

"Moreover, after this company is opened, it will have to communicate more with Shang Yang Games and get some help from there. It won't be convenient to communicate if it's too far away."

"It just so happens that Shenhua Real Estate has several office buildings in Jingzhou besides Shenhua Haoting. It's more convenient to find a suitable office space."

Pei Qian thought for a while, and it made sense. If he was too anxious, Lin Wan would suddenly become wary and not leave, which would be counterproductive.

"Alright, then see you tomorrow at ten in the morning."

…

After hanging up the phone, Pei Qian stroked his chin and began to prepare for tomorrow's meeting.

The reason why he was anxious was that he was afraid of delays.

The matter of recruitment was easy to handle. Anyway, both Shenhua Group and Tengda Group were not short of money. If this new company wanted talents, they could directly poach or recruit people. There was also plenty of time, and it was not a problem to continue recruiting people during the project development process.

But the establishment of the game project was a big problem, and this could not be solved with money.

Pei Qian was worried that Lin Wan would not be able to decide what project to do. If she hesitated, she would retreat.

Therefore, Pei Qian felt that he had to help Lin Wan build confidence, help her finalize this project, and allow her to leave Shang Yang Games with peace of mind.

But what kind of game should she make?

Pei Qian had not thought about it yet, but he still had a few hours to consider it, which should be enough.

"On the one hand, it is best if the game barely recovers its costs or even loses money, otherwise, if it makes another big profit, I really won't be able to handle it."

"On the other hand, it can't be too outrageous, so as not to arouse Lin Wan's suspicion and scare her away."

"The second point is easier to say, the key is the first point, how can I make this game fail, this is more difficult..."

"Of course, the best result is that it is well-received but not popular, with a good reputation, but only able to recover costs or make a small loss, which is the most perfect."

Pei Qian thought about it and could roughly guess the attitude of Lin Chang and Lin Wan tomorrow.

These two people would definitely hope that the new game department would continue Shang Yang Games' successful experience, and the first game would be based on stability.

In other words, they wanted to establish a project that Tengda Games or Shang Yang Games had done before, with a successful project as a template, which would have a higher chance of success.

But Pei Qian definitely couldn't allow this to happen.

Shenhua Group was a behemoth with too many resources. Not to mention anything else, the mobile phone department could easily give a recommendation on the mobile phone market and make a mobile game popular.

Moreover, Lin Wan was not a rookie. She had already hosted the development of several successful games. Even if she changed companies and recruited people again, it would mostly be a matter of time before she could make a successful game.

Pei Qian was so busy that it was impossible for him to keep an eye on her at all times and nip the signs of success in the bud.

Therefore, Pei Qian must do a good job in the project establishment and arrange for Lin Wan a game project with an extremely low chance of success, which Tengda's current successful game experience could not be used, and everyone still thought had a certain chance of success.

"So what kind of project should I do..."

Pei Qian leaned back in his boss's chair and fell into deep thought.