NIP #165 - I think, just smile.
#165 - I think, just smile.
Lu Yu listened, feeling the bitterness of the wine in his throat, his heart aching.
Listen to this, just listen! Complaining about how to choose a celebration method because of being too successful,
This is just too much of a Versailles flex!
Liu Mengyuan retorted, "Why is your face frozen too?"
Lu Yu smiled bitterly inside: "You just stabbed me full of holes, and now you're asking me why I'm frozen?
Why don't you ask the Magic Conch?"
Liu Mengyuan thought for a moment, then suddenly understood.
Lu Yu must have foreseen the success of the game.
Actually, thinking about it now, a mere 500,000 concurrent online players is nothing much; she was indeed too excitable.
Lu Yu must be telling her that Peach Blossom Village's ambition is far more than that,
Peach Blossom Village is destined to become a dark horse that will dominate the industry!
Yes, Liu Mengyuan, you can't be arrogant. You are going to become a powerful businesswoman that will impress the entire board of directors of the Liu Corporation!
She typed on the keyboard with relief, privately messaging Lu Yu through the chat software:
"That's right, we're still laughing too loudly.
Don't worry, this is just the beginning.
Through the previous games, our team has accumulated enough experience and methodology.
The achievement of 500,000 online players is just a small test of our skills.
Now, everyone has ignited their fighting spirit. Even against opponents like Youyi and Tenghui, we are confident that we will eventually crush them to death.
Since we haven't reached that point yet, I think we can just smile for now."
The way she typed those words sent chills down Lu Yu's spine in the sweltering heat.
It's already this competitive, and it's just the beginning?
Girl, how can your 37-degree hands type such icy words!
Liu Mengyuan continued typing:
"Of course, now we need to hurry up and deal with the matters at hand. I estimate we'll be busy for a while.
After all, with a project that has 500,000 concurrent online players, various problems and challenges, and matters to be dealt with, are constantly emerging. The work pressure has suddenly increased, and it's too much for a small team of only 10 people to handle.
We're probably going to have to squeeze out rest time and work overtime to solve it."
Lu Yu's heart skipped a beat.
The past weekend was just a prelude to the rat race. Judging by this, these little workaholics are going to continue burning the midnight oil for quite a while?
The thing he was most worried about had happened.
The game's excessive success and the influx of massive numbers of users meant a sudden increase in work pressure.
If he didn't want things to continue like this, he would have to recruit new employees to share the pressure, but that would mean losing control of the team size.
With just these 30 people, he was already full of loopholes and couldn't monitor them all.
Who knows if new workaholics would join if the team size continued to expand.
This is truly, what has been will be again, what has been done will be done again.
Seeing that the cycle of leisure points he had constructed was about to be destroyed, and he could no longer continue to drain the pond to catch all the fish sustainably,
Lu Yu, who had already become path-dependent, decided to use the old method first:
Everyone immediately stop the work at hand and start a team-building vacation!
Although he hadn't thought about the destination of the trip yet, he couldn't care less. He had to take a vacation first, and immediately interrupt this trend of internal competition!
However, as soon as he had this thought, the system popped up a warning:
[Currently, it is the critical maintenance period for the game's launch. Employees maintaining the game during working days is a normal scope of work]
[The host's act of forcibly taking a vacation, rudely interrupting the company's normal operation, is considered malicious shutdown and passive work]
[Furthermore, the last team-building vacation has just ended, and the host is providing vacations too frequently. This is a warning]
[If the company does indeed produce verifiable passive work, then the system will deduct a large number of the host's leisure points. Please pay attention]
Lu Yu sighed.
The system's warning did make sense. Without passive work restrictions, as long as the company's coffers were thick enough, he could keep letting employees take vacations to earn points.
Sure enough, the system wouldn't let him exploit any loopholes.
It seemed that this round of the cycle was a tough battle. He still needed to figure out more ways to enjoy life and extract points from his employees.
As for now, he could only stabilize the employees with the company's internal welfare facilities, and minimize the loss of leisure points as much as possible,
Then, he would take it one step at a time.
He continued to scroll down the system light screen record and found that the branch company, Peach Blossom Dream Painting, had been quite stable recently, continuously contributing new points, and had not been affected by this round of internal competition in the head office.
He breathed a sigh of relief,
Fortunately, he didn't put all his eggs in one basket,
How clever of me!
Everyone in the animation team, you are the last bastion for me to earn points. You must hold on!
……
At the same time,
Jianghai City Art Museum, Hall 3.
"We must live up to President Lu's expectations and make this test screening a success, pushing the quality of the animation to new heights!"
Gong Qijun looked at his employees, their eyes blazing with fervent fighting spirit.
Today was the day of the test screening for the "NekoPara Adventure" animation.
Not long ago, Tenghui Intertainment released the news of the anime adaptation of Dog Paradise.
Just as Gong Qijun's team was at a loss, Liu Mengyuan conveyed Lu Yu's business hint to Gong Qijun:
"Respond to all changes with constancy."
Everyone, through brainstorming the deeper meaning behind Lu Yu's words, decided to stabilize the basic market of picky game fans by holding an animation test screening.
Therefore, Gong Qijun specially selected the largest outsourced exhibition hall of the Jianghai City Art Museum to hold this crucial event.
Gong Qijun continued to give the animation team employees a pep talk:
"Everyone, from the start of the test screening to the official launch of the animation, everyone may have to work a little harder.
Everyone has also seen that the company's newly launched game, 'Carefree Trash Talk Life', has achieved unprecedented new success under President Lu's wise leadership.
And the various old games under the head office have also ushered in a second spring, with sales and online numbers soaring to new heights.
We, as the company's youngest project, must not hold the company back, and must not fail President Lu's expectations.
The Chinese animation industry has been stagnant for many years. It's time for a catfish to stir up the water!"
The employees under the stage, including Xin Haicheng, were equally excited.
As the saying goes, an army is raised for a thousand days, to be used for one moment.
Looking back on this recent period, President Lu not only saved their company and continued their dreams,
But also provided them with such heaven-defying benefits, and even gave them extra pocket money from time to time,
And was infinitely tolerant in terms of work schedule, never asking questions,
It could even be described as doting!
They had never encountered such a benefactor investor in all their years in the industry,
So, it was time to repay President Lu.
And the best way to repay President Lu was to start an era of animation arms race with their peers!
Everyone was enthusiastic and shouted:
"Peach Blossom Dream Painting, race to be number one!"
"Peach Blossom Dream Painting, race to be number one!"
"Peach Blossom Dream Painting, race to be number one!"
……
After this, the audience attending the test screening began to line up to enter.
In front of the outsourced exhibition hall of the Jianghai City Art Museum, crowds surged, forming a long queue.
Male players wore game-themed T-shirts printed with cat girls, female players wore cat ear cos headwear, and everyone looked excited and expectant.
And this had also become a large-scale social event, with everyone taking photos with each other.
There were restrictions on the qualifications to participate in this test screening. These players who passed through layers of selection were all hardcore players who had cleared the game more than once, collected all kinds of hidden elements, and achieved all kinds of difficult challenges.
But, even if selected by qualification, the scale of participants still far exceeded the organizers' expectations, and the queue circled the art museum.
The museum had to dispatch security guards to maintain order on the scene.
In addition to the players, there were also some invited animation media and UP masters,
Among them, including the 5.5 million fan D station animation area UP master: Fan Style.
At this time, Fan Style was holding a mobile phone for live broadcast, sharing the event with the audience.
The barrage was also quite lively:
"Damn, the atmosphere is so good on the scene, but unfortunately I only cleared the game once, and I'm not qualified."
"I'm qualified, but I didn't grab the high-speed rail ticket."
"Guangdong people express envy, when will this kind of event be held in my hometown?"
"Damn it, why is this kind of event always held in Jianghai City? Can't you give other cities a chance?"
"As we all know, there is only one city in China, Jianghai City, funny.jpg."
After the team entered the art museum, a huge poster of "NekoPara Adventure" was placed in the exhibition hall,
The huge Ilya smiled charmingly at the players, and the players took photos and souvenirs.
Before entering the screening hall, staff began to distribute limited edition peripheral items, including animation posters, postcards, badges, etc.
Fan Style's live broadcast room was filled with screen swipes: "Damn, even more sour, sour to death, wuwuwu!"
The art museum's security guards patrolled back and forth, and suddenly, a strange person was found in the field of vision.
He was wearing a large trench coat, wrapping himself tightly,
Wearing a wide-brimmed hat, and a mask covered most of his face, only revealing his eyes, peeking around suspiciously.
He staggered, carrying a faded tote bag, and when he walked to the huge poster of Ilya, he took out his mobile phone to take pictures, making a slightly hoarse voice:
"Ilya is cute ~"
The more the security guard looked at this guy, the more suspicious he became, so he stepped forward and said, "Hello, I need to verify your identity, please take off your mask."
The man hesitated for a moment, and with wrinkled hands, slowly took off his mask.
And he was Dong Bian - Wuya, one of the [Central Plains Five Editors]!