Restart the Gaming Era

Although the new version has been vigorously promoted by Zhou Zhen and Xiong Kai, for others, the new version is equally important.

Why?

Because this new version consumes a lot of manpower, material and financial resources, the design team, art team and program team have been working overtime recently, and everyone has worked hard.

If the new version is successful, the revenue of the project increases, and everyone can share the bonus, then everyone is happy; but if the new version is not successful, and the revenue of the project continues to decline, it means that all the efforts of everyone are in vain.

Moreover, there is basically no possibility of reusing the written program, the original painting drawn, and the written design document, which means that everything is in vain.

Therefore, everyone in the design team looked unhappy, and the atmosphere in the program and art teams was not bad for the time being, but that was only because they didn't know the news yet.

Zhong Ming was still flipping through the design documents, as if what was happening in the project had nothing to do with him.

The matter of the new version was enough to worry Xiong Kai, so he was not in the mood to talk to Zhong Ming any more, but kept swiping the data, hoping for a miracle to happen.

When it was time to get off work in the afternoon, Zhou Zhen and Xiong Kai were called away, apparently to Liu Yuxin's office.

By this time, the trend of the data has basically become clear, and it seems that there is no turning point, and there is no turning point.

Zhou Zhen and Xiong Kai wouldn't necessarily be scolded if called, but they certainly wouldn't be praised either.

After all, the entire new version was decided by Liu Yuxin. From the perspective of the company, the failure of the new version is the responsibility of Liu Yuxin, the supervisor; but from Liu Yuxin's point of view, this responsibility should be Xiong Kai.

About tomorrow, the new version will have to be told to other people in the project, and even if they don't, everyone will know about it, and it's impossible to hide it.

These two people went there for more than an hour, and they didn't show up until after get off work, so they probably got criticized a lot.

Zhong Ming still carried on his fine tradition, and never stayed for an extra minute when he got off work.

On the way back, Zhong Ming opened the official forum of "Mech Age" to check the players' comments on the new version.

After all, it is a project that is about to die, and there are not many posts in the entire forum, and there are several posts that are event posts sent by the administrator, and they are still on the first page after two or three weeks.

However, Zhong Ming still found a few comments from players, which can basically represent the players' attitudes towards the new version.

"I logged in in the morning and took a look. I was looking forward to the new version, but after it went online, I realized that it was boring! What the hell are these updates!"

"It's a good thing to launch a new mecha, but it really doesn't work anymore. There are only three or five living people in the guild now. Who will I show the new mecha to? I asked the design team to use their brains and make a Save it with events like the return of old players?"

"It feels like this game is really going to be cold, and this feeling is more obvious after the updated version."

"The background story of the mecha has been added? Is this shit here to be funny? Who the hell wants to read the background story, the key point is that your writing is rubbish!"

"Hey, now the updated version is all recharge and krypton gold activities, and I almost wrote 'I want to make money' on my face. I feel that the design team is in the same place. The current mentality is to get the last penny and run away. Don't expect Alright, let's leave early, everyone."

Most of the players' speeches are relatively restrained, but there is only one atmosphere overall: Disappointment!

Players were looking forward to the new version, but after seeing the new version, there was a huge psychological gap, and this gap will further prompt more players to get out of the pit.

Moreover, in this new version, in order to increase income and increase profitability, the two new functions are related to krypton gold. The cool new mecha also needs krypton gold to obtain, which further stimulated the rebellious psychology of players.

Now "Mecha Era" has inevitably fallen into an endless loop, and the income is not good. The design team wants to increase income by joining the krypton gold activity and strive for more resources from the company, but the krypton gold activity further discourages players. Retirement, causing income to fall again...

Moreover, once the trend of players withdrawing collectively appears, it is like an avalanche, and it will be very difficult to recover.

Back home, Zhong Ming made some dinner by himself, then opened the hand-painted board, and continued to complete the original painting that he was busy during the day.

In fact, many design ideas already exist, but they need to be turned into specific solutions.

...

The next day, Zhong Ming had breakfast at home and arrived at the company on time.

Lightwing Interactive Entertainment has a staff restaurant here, and the price is much cheaper than eating in restaurants outside, but it is still a bit expensive for Zhong Ming. Therefore, Zhong Ming still cooks two meals at home in the morning and evening, and eats in the staff canteen at noon.

A lot of people came this morning because today is Friday and there is a regular meeting.

The regular meeting is an internal regulation of the company, which is different for every company, even for different projects.

The regular meeting of the "Mecha Era" project that Director Liu is in charge of is divided into two sessions. From 10:00 am to 12:00 am is the regular meeting of the person in charge. Some macro issues; 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. is the regular meeting of each department, which is held separately in each department, mainly for the department heads to assign departmental tasks.

The regular meeting on Friday is equivalent to summarizing the work of the week. Everyone has to submit a work report before the meeting. After that, the heads of each department have to make a work plan for the next week. No one is allowed to be late.

Of course, the regular meeting of the person in charge in the morning was not for Zhong Ming, so he continued to busy himself with his own affairs. Xiong Kai, as the world architect, is also going to attend the regular meeting of the person in charge, and it happens that no one bothers the bell, which is very comfortable.

Until lunch, the regular meeting was not over yet.

Between last night and this morning, Zhong Ming had almost finished the drawing and planned the rest of the content. He looked up at his watch, and at 12:10, he got up and went to the staff cafeteria for lunch.

After returning from lunch, the door of the meeting room was not opened until around 1:50, and the people in charge came out.

It can be seen that each of these people has a bad complexion, which may not be all because of being scolded, but partly because of starvation.

The regular department meeting will be held at 2 o'clock, and these responsible people can only continue to be hungry. It's even worse for someone like Xiong Kai who doesn't like breakfast. He feels so hungry that his face turns green, but he dare not say anything.

Other members of the project can tell from the look of the person in charge that the new version must have failed!

In fact, everyone could feel this cool atmosphere from the game and forums before, but now that the data comes out, it is the last glimmer of hope that has been extinguished.

Needless to say, the regular meeting of the person in charge must have turned into a pot-sharing meeting, but I don't know what the regular meeting of various departments in the afternoon will look like.