Chapter 1455 So It Turns Out I, Yu Fei, Have Top-Tier Talent?

"In other words, to make 'Eternal Reincarnation' and 'Ghost General 2' good games, the story has to be prioritized, and the story designer's say must outweigh other designers. Therefore, Yu Fei is indispensable as the main designer for this project."

"Some might ask, why not just give Yu Fei the highest authority as a story designer?"

"That won't work."

"A story designer is just a story designer. If Yu Fei takes on the role of story designer, he won't consider the issues that a main designer needs to consider. Then the story he designs will still be a reskinned story, unable to truly unleash his potential."

"Others might ask, why not let other excellent main designers lead this project?"

"My answer is still: It still won't work."

"This isn't to say that Tenda doesn't have excellent game design talent. On the contrary, Tenda has an overabundance of excellent game design talent compared to other game companies. But the problem is, some abilities are innate, and no amount of resources can create or nurture them."

"Even the most excellent game designers are only specialized in their areas of expertise."

"Can you create an excellent director, writer, or cartoonist just by throwing enough money and resources at them? Obviously not. It requires talent. Only with talent is further cultivation possible."

"Full talents like President Pei are very rare in this world; most people are seriously unbalanced talents."

"Therefore, to diversify games and complete different development tasks, different people must be responsible for different projects to achieve excellence!"

"President Pei's unconventional promotion of Yu Fei to main designer is precisely because his talent is highly compatible with the characteristics of the games Tenda will be developing next. That's why I say this is President Pei's display of knowing and employing people well."

"I hope the keyboard warriors online will refrain from commenting if they don't understand. You think Yu Fei isn't important in the project team, just a story writer? Do you know better than President Pei? Why would President Pei repeatedly retain a story writer? Is he just bored? It's simply because of two points: First, the story is important; second, not just anyone can write this story!"

"If there were better options, why wouldn't President Pei change people? When did Tenda become such a sentimental place?"

"Obviously, it's because Yu Fei does have a high level of talent in game story design. President Pei saw this talent and felt it would be a waste to lose it, so he repeatedly retained him, hoping he could achieve something in game design and take a different path from Tenda's previous main designers."

"So, I hope Yu Fei won't underestimate himself. Don't just look at the sales of 'Ghost General 2'; it has a greater significance in other aspects. And your role in this game is not dispensable, but irreplaceable!"

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After reading He An's long Weibo post, Yu Fei silently deleted the second Weibo post he had edited earlier.

Not posting it!

If Qiao Laoshi's video before only made him secretly happy, then He Laobei's Weibo post could be described as thunderous, enlightening, and answering his long-standing confusion.

He clearly didn't have any special abilities, so why did President Pei repeatedly retain him?

Now he understood, it turned out he was quite talented and quite important! President Pei really couldn't find a more suitable candidate, so he kept retaining him!

It had to be said that President Pei was indeed the most outstanding game designer now; his vision was indeed sharp.

He An was also worthy of being a senior industry expert; he saw things so thoroughly, completely unlike the keyboard warriors online who were just giving pointers!

Since that was the case, there was nothing to say.

Not leaving for now!

Leaving now would be letting down the players' expectations and President Pei's cultivation.

Although Yu Fei still preferred writing books compared to designing games, he thought about it carefully. There were so many excellent authors on Qidian Chinese Network, but he was the only author who was valued by President Pei and made a main designer!

Yu Fei felt that his talent in online novels was not bad, belonging to the upper-middle level. But it seemed that his ability in game story design was definitely top-tier!

With this kind of talent, it was obviously not to be wasted casually.

Yu Fei no longer hesitated and posted another Weibo post.

"Thank you, everyone. I've decided to continue staying in the Tenda game department. I've read all of your messages and I'm very touched. I will definitely continue to make more excellent games to give back to everyone in the future!"

...

At the same time, Pei Qian was in the office, watching Qiao Laoshi's video while trembling with anger.

"This is really..."

This Qiao Laoshi was hopeless, completely hopeless!

How many days has it been since he returned from the suffering trip? He's making videos and causing trouble again!

Pei Qian calculated that this video was likely planned from the first day after returning from the suffering trip and was released today!

Strictly speaking, this video should have been released before Yu Fei came to Pei Qian.

If Pei Qian could have seen it earlier, he might have agreed to Yu Fei's request!

But at that time, he was racking his brains in the office to conceive his thesis, not browsing Aili Island website, so naturally, he didn't notice that the heavily guarded Qiao Laoshi had updated.

"Ghost General 2" was only released two days late, and Qiao Laoshi caught it again!

It seemed that he still miscalculated; the grasp of time was not in place. This wave of suffering trip and new game release was not well coordinated.

After watching this video, Pei Qian suddenly doubted whether his repeated retention of Yu Fei was the right choice.

If he stayed, as everyone said, Yu Fei did have a knack for story design.

If he didn't stay, who could guarantee that randomly transferring someone from the game department to be the main designer would work? What if it made even more money?

At least "Ghost General 2" so far was famous but had average sales. What if the next main designer came up and the new game sales exploded too?

This was really a difficult choice.

"Forget it, let's talk about it after the New Year. There's no use in rushing this matter; it still needs to be considered carefully."

"We must not make a bigger mistake because of a momentary impulse, just to fix a mistake!"

One of the eight great forgivenesses, it's almost the New Year.

It was indeed almost the New Year, and the company was about to go on vacation. There was no point in continuing to worry about work in the last two days; it was better to sort out the thesis as soon as possible.

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February 7th, Thursday evening.

In Zhang Yan's live broadcast room on Rabbit Tail Live.

After two weeks of hard training, Zhang Yan finally achieved the standard score in the rally race!

Although there was still a considerable gap compared to those excellent racers, this was already a huge improvement for Zhang Yan.

Of course, continuously running the track was also very expensive. Although Zhang Yan had been driving carefully, she still accidentally had a few minor scratches during the period, plus the tires and various normal wear and tear, the repair costs were still very considerable.

If she hadn't saved a considerable fortune from her previous long-distance travels, she really couldn't afford to spend so much.

It cost so much to drive carefully, let alone those who were careless and drove recklessly.

Every once in a while, people on the internet would post their car accidents, some crashing in the city, some crashing during long-distance travel, and some crashing during rally races and track races. Anyway, the results of the crashes were varied.

Some people were furious and scolded the game development team, while others were very calm and posted their miserable situation to "share the fun with the people."

The attitude of the netizens also changed from unlimited sympathy at the beginning to a schadenfreude.

This mentality was a bit like seeing many tycoons spend tens of thousands of dollars in card games but getting nothing in return. Although it was indeed miserable, everyone liked to watch this kind of entertainment.

Look at the name of the game? Who told you not to drive safely and civilly?

Zhang Yan looked at the number of people in her live broadcast room, which had decreased compared to before.

One aspect might be that the traffic of the live broadcast website was naturally decreasing as the New Year approached, and another aspect was that Zhang Yan's car racing really didn't have much entertainment value.

Because car racing required too much concentration, and Zhang Yan's level on Rabbit Tail Live was not top-notch to begin with.

In terms of top-notch driving skills, there were some very powerful experts on Rabbit Tail Live, some were car gods in simulation games and got started very quickly, and some were simply professional drivers in reality. These people were much better than Zhang Yan in terms of skills.

But Zhang Yan's previous live broadcasts, whether it was taking driving tests, ride-hailing, or long-distance travel, all had good entertainment value because she was a female driver, and it was relatively boring during the long-distance travel, so she could chat with the audience and liven things up, so she gained fans quickly.

But recently, for the past two weeks, Zhang Yan had been practicing on the track as soon as she started the live broadcast, practicing on the same track for several hours at a time, and even after these several hours, there might not be any obvious progress.

In addition, because car racing required a high degree of concentration, Zhang Yan was basically unable to watch the comments and communicate with the comments, the live broadcast effect deteriorated, and the number of people in the live broadcast room naturally decreased.

However, Zhang Yan didn't care too much about this, because her primary goal was to hone her driving skills and become a true car god. As for the live broadcast, it was just a side thing.

If she was counting on making a lot of money from live broadcasts, she might have already run to other platforms. At that time, she could create a gimmick of being a female driver, put on heavy makeup, find a guild to boost her ranking, return the money of the tycoons in full, and split the audience's money in a 3-7 ratio. Wouldn't that be great?

Therefore, Zhang Yan didn't care too much about this situation. She was already very satisfied that she was able to become a small and well-known streamer in the "Safe and Civilized Driving" section of Rabbit Tail Live by taking advantage of the trend of the "Safe and Civilized Driving" simulator.

"Oh? The 'Safe and Civilized Driving' New Year version is being pushed for update tonight? And it's a free update."

Zhang Yan was a little surprised.

Because "Safe and Civilized Driving" was a single-player game and had no additional value-added services.