Chapter 1580 You Should Still Find Min Jingchao

May 25th, Saturday.

General Manager Ding arrived at his office with a gloomy face and summoned his assistant.

"Get Jin Yong for me."

The assistant looked troubled and said, "General Manager Ding, it's Saturday today. Jin Yong isn't in the office."

General Manager Ding was momentarily stunned.

Did this scene feel like it had happened before?

Since Min Jingchao arrived, Jin Yong was no longer the workaholic of the company.

His working hours became regular, like other operations managers. He left immediately after work, never staying a minute longer.

General Manager Ding was silent for a moment, his voice rising eight octaves: "Then get General Manager Kang!"

He was puzzled as to why Jin Yong was never around whenever he looked for him!

Actually, this was quite normal, because General Manager Ding always chose to look for him outside of working hours.

For senior executives, specifically choosing to find subordinates during their rest time was a common tactic.

During working hours, employees were working diligently, so they certainly couldn't be disturbed.

But during lunch, evenings, and weekends, many employees might sneak off, so finding employees at these times could both check up on them and not interfere with their daily work. This was the favorite thing for senior executives and bosses to do!

Many bosses even formed a special working schedule.

The boss certainly wouldn't come in the morning. Whether he was resting at home or out discussing business, the company had a clock-in machine monitoring employees, so the possibility of absenteeism was low.

But when it came time to get off work, these bosses would all come in, pretending to work overtime late into the night.

The reason was simple: they wanted to see which departments weren't actively working overtime!

General Manager Ding followed the same pattern. On the surface, it seemed that he worked overtime at the company until after ten o'clock every day, but in reality, he was absent most of the day.

Only he knew what he did during the day!

Once Jin Yong strictly followed Min Jingchao's requirements and went to and from work at normal times, wasn't it impossible to find him?

General Manager Ding could only summon General Manager Kang.

Strictly speaking, Human Resources Director Kang was in charge of human resources matters, and he didn't have a particularly good understanding of game operations.

But there was no other way; the people who understood weren't at work!

General Manager Ding was just venting his anger and pouring out his grievances to General Manager Kang; he didn't expect him to solve any substantial problems.

"Old Kang, the operational improvement plan has been released, the new version has been launched, and the data is already out. But all the data is declining!"

"There must be something wrong!"

"Putting everything else aside, no one came to work on the second day after the new version was launched. This is too much!"

General Manager Kang rolled his eyes inwardly, preparing to pass the buck: "General Manager Ding, why don't you give Min Jingchao a call and have him call everyone back?"

General Manager Ding's mouth twitched, and he was choked back by the buck that General Manager Kang had passed over.

Because he knew very well that calling Min Jingchao was a waste of effort, and would even be self-humiliating!

"But we can't... just sit idly by!" General Manager Ding's arrogance refused to dissipate so easily.

Seeing that General Manager Ding had also chickened out, General Manager Kang laughed inwardly and patiently said, "General Manager Ding, since this matter has been handed over to Min Jingchao, he must have his own plans. Short-term data doesn't show much. After all, it's only been two weeks. Let's wait and see."

General Manager Ding nodded helplessly again, waved his hand, and signaled General Manager Kang to leave.

General Manager Kang hadn't even taken two steps when General Manager Ding called him back.

"Wait, Old Kang, I think something's not right," General Manager Ding pondered for a moment. "Why do I feel like you guys are working together to sideline me?"

General Manager Kang was stunned for a moment. "Why would you think that?"

General Manager Ding said angrily, "No matter what I say, whether I find you or Jin Yong, you directly push the problem to Min Jingchao."

"Are you listening to me or listening to Min Jingchao? Or do you think I'm afraid of Min Jingchao?"

General Manager Kang smiled slightly: "Of course we're listening to you! Otherwise... you can just fire Min Jingchao, then we can change things however we want. It's all up to you!"

General Manager Ding was speechless: "I..."

Actually, there was no need to fire him. He just needed to terminate the cooperation agreement with Tengda.

However, terminating the agreement required the unanimous approval of all senior executives. General Manager Ding couldn't make the decision on his own!

The key was that the current rate of data decline and the resulting changes in the financial report were not enough to convince all senior executives to make this decision.

General Manager Ding could only shift his personal anger to the overall situation, pretending to be heartbroken and saying, "Alas, this won't work!"

"I said before, Min Jingchao is inflated now. This is like carving a mark on a boat to find a sword, blindly copying! He doesn't understand the objective situation of Longyu Group, so he forcibly implements Tengda Group's set of rules for going to and from work on time."

"Just watch, many players are two-faced. They say they welcome it, but in reality, they still prefer gameplay that forces them to grind and pay!"

"I dare say that within a week, this data will definitely continue to decline! Because after the initial wave of improvement enthusiasm passes, most players will start to lose their freshness, and simply relying on conscience won't retain players!"

"I'm also afraid that President Pei's undefeated myth will be ruined by Min Jingchao, so I want to remind him!"

"But he's doing great! He's as stubborn as a hammer and won't listen to a word of advice. I asked you to pass on the message to him, but you're also procrastinating. If this continues, who will be responsible if this messes up?"

General Manager Kang smiled slightly: "Don't worry! If it really messes up, President Pei will be the one who loses the most. What are you worried about?"

General Manager Ding sighed helplessly: "Alas, okay, we'll see next week!"

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May 27th, Monday.

General Manager Ding came to the company in the morning for the first time ever.

Before, he would only come when it was almost time to get off work, but he always missed everyone.

This time, he deliberately came in the morning to see what these employees were doing!

Whether Min Jingchao's plan could actually work!

At the company entrance, General Manager Ding saw everyone clocking in for work in an orderly manner, precisely at nine o'clock.

General Manager Ding shook his head slightly, sighing inwardly: There's no saving this kind of work attitude!

He was now a little regretful that inviting Min Jingchao seemed to not have been the right choice.

If Min Jingchao only gave ideas for changing the operation plan, then there would be no loss. But now, Min Jingchao had messed up the entire company's working atmosphere!

When Min Jingchao leaves, wouldn't he, General Manager Ding, have to clean up this mess himself?

Thinking of this, General Manager Ding felt a little uncomfortable.

Despite feeling uncomfortable, General Manager Ding didn't immediately erupt. He just came to his office and drank tea gloomily.

Before he could calm down with the tea, there was a knock on the office door.

Jin Yong came in from outside the door.

The breath that General Manager Ding hadn't smoothed out completely rushed into his chest!

Good heavens, it was really hard to see Jin Yong!

He sent Jin Yong to assist Min Jingchao because he felt that Jin Yong was a down-to-earth and hardworking person. He was an old employee of the company and trustworthy.

Letting him go over was hoping that he could restrain Min Jingchao, at least so that he wouldn't be completely led by the nose by the other party.

This Jin Yong was doing great, directly turning his elbow outwards, wholeheartedly messing around with Min Jingchao!

As Jin Yong's direct leader, General Manager Ding couldn't even find him, let alone give him tasks.

This was the first time Jin Yong had taken the initiative to report to General Manager Ding since Min Jingchao came to Longyu Group.

General Manager Ding assumed that Jin Yong was mostly here to explain because the data was not good.

Thinking of this, he instantly put on a straight face and struck a pose, "What's the matter?"

Jin Yong naturally didn't know what General Manager Ding was thinking, and directly cut to the chase: "General Manager Ding, I would like to report to you in person about the recent operational data issues of our games."

General Manager Ding's expression didn't change, and he sneered in his heart, "Mm, tell me."

Jin Yong handed over the report that he had prepared in advance: "From the situation last weekend, the player online time and average recharge consumption data of these games have all slightly declined."

General Manager Ding nodded slightly, a sneer on his lips. This was completely in line with his expectations.

But what Jin Yong said next made General Manager Ding unable to laugh.

"But the new player growth, discussion, and retention rates of these games have all increased significantly!"

"And the scores of all games in the game store and app store have all obviously increased."

General Manager Ding was stunned: "Huh??"

He incredulously opened the report, carefully checked the relevant data, and found that every word Jin Yong said was true!

What did this mean?

Although the player's online time and average recharge consumption data had slightly declined, the game's reputation had obviously improved. With the improvement of the reputation, it drove the influx of new players and the retention of old players.

In other words, the game had become more vibrant!

In General Manager Ding's understanding, this situation was too unscientific!

Because after players have become accustomed to grinding and paying, they may not be able to stand it if they are suddenly given a lighter burden.

Players have become accustomed to playing for 10 hours a day, but now it is suddenly changed to 6 hours. What should they do with the remaining 4 hours?

They can only play other games!

Wouldn't it be easy for players to be taken away by other games if this continues?

It was even stranger that the game's reputation could be improved.

Because Longyu Games had long been scolded, but being scolded didn't affect making money. This bad reputation had been with Longyu Games for a long time. How was it possible to turn it around in the short term?

The only explanation was that the influence of Min Jingchao and his plan was much greater than General Manager Ding had imagined.

This set of improvement plans not only reversed the impression of Longyu Group's games in the minds of players, but also developed in a good direction!

General Manager Ding couldn't help but think of the complaints he made to General Manager Kang last Saturday.

At that time, he was very sure that the data would continue to decline within a week. He also said that Min Jingchao was like carving a mark on a boat to find a sword, forcibly applying Tengda's work mode to Longyu Group, and it would definitely be incompatible!

But now, the newly released data slapped him in the face!

Although a small part of the data was still declining, most of the data was rising, and with the influx of new users, the revenue level would sooner or later rise back to its original height.

For a continuously operating game, what is the most important? Of course, new players are the most important!

Without new players, this game is like water without a source, a tree without roots, and dying is only a matter of time.

Moreover, according to the report, this set of improvement plans was not only effective for those popular games.

Several games that were about to cool down had also seen obvious data improvements under the sweeping reforms.

General Manager Ding was very dissatisfied with this result, always feeling that something was wrong, but he couldn't find a reason to refute it, because the data would not lie!

When he used data to choke the neck of operations and make them change the game to be more grindy and pay-to-win, he didn't think that today he would also be choked by the neck by operations with data, telling him: We changed it right!

This made General Manager Ding a little at a loss for a while.

He originally wanted to take advantage of the opportunity of the data decline to teach Jin Yong a lesson, but in the face of such data, he could only hold it back in his throat.

He looked at Jin Yong, and then at the data report in his hand. The fluctuations in his heart made his expression very wonderful.