I’m Almost Losing to a Muggle

Li Changwei couldn't figure it out.

How did I get down to this point.

His family is a movie family.

His grandfather should be regarded as one of the earliest film projectionists, showing films in the open air in the countryside.

His father was affected. After graduating from high school, he failed to go to university, learned some skills, and entered a movie theater as an electrician.

So Li Changwei has been watching movies since he was a child.

He also likes watching movies very much, and he naturally entered the film industry after graduating from university.

I wandered around in various theaters for a while, sold popcorn and ice cubes, guarded the monitoring room to watch men and women groping in theaters, and finally worked as a marketing assistant, film arrangement and operation supervisor.

Later, when I was working, I met Tian Dazhuang who knew nothing about movies.

At that time, Tian Dazhuang was inspecting various places, and then looking for some suitable theater managers.

The two have a great time talking - don't worry about how to have a good time with someone who doesn't like to talk.

Tian Dazhuang can see Li Changwei's love for movies.

No matter what his ability is, this kind of love cannot be acted out. Whether Tian Dazhuang is sincere about people, whether he has an almost instinctive sensitivity in acting.

Thus, Li Changwei became Tian Dazhuang's subordinate.

Li Changwei did not look down on Tian Dazhuang.

No matter why Tian Dazhuang took the position of general manager of the cinema, he is a good leader.

It is enough to know people and make good use of them.

I am most afraid of those people who rely on their nepotism, who obviously don't understand anything, but insist on pointing fingers.

Don't be surprised, after scientific research, you are 10,000 times more likely to meet such a leader than a nest of cockroaches living in your kitchen sewer.

Tian Dazhuang never dictates the business of the theater chain.

Fully delegate power.

As long as you do well, he will reward you heavily. Not only will you share what you should, but in many cases, you will even give what you deserve.

It will also actively help you fight for opportunities for promotion.

Li Changwei almost became the head of the Miaowei theater chain in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai.

If it wasn't for the chief rudder to insert a stick horizontally.

This is what Li Changwei couldn't understand. He received the chief helmsman to inspect the sub-rudders, and he didn't seem to have done anything out of the ordinary.

Why did he just transfer him away from Meow Tail Theater?

Straight into the strategy department.

And that Boss Pei was also very unreliable, he was asked to do this and that, and he was transferred away before he was familiar with the environment, saying that he couldn't do it.

He has done distribution, improved user experience for live broadcast platforms, and organized events on shopping websites...

Now it has been reduced to a dry juicer, and by the way, it is the point where it is skewered.

If nothing else, just squeeze the juice, so why say he can't skewer well.

Moreover, he doesn't need to do line by line.

Does the company need such versatile talents?

Manager Li, come to my office.

After receiving a call from Pei Qianlong, Chang Wei sighed, stringed up the skewers in his hand, greeted the people in the cafeteria, took off his work clothes and washed his hands.

According to past experience, he is likely to start a new job soon.

Don't know what exactly.

Sit down, has Manager Li ever played games? Pei Qianlong took off his glasses and rubbed between his brows.

No, I've never played games before. Could it be that I'm using myself as a game booster? I heard that some bosses use their official equipment for private use, and ask employees to help them open up wasteland and download dungeons.

I mean, have you ever been in contact with game development? Pei Qianlong couldn't figure out what Mr. Lin liked about Manager Li.

Let him hone this buddy well and get rid of his arrogance.

That's why he arranged various tasks for Li Changwei, denying him if he didn't give him a chance to do it.

In the end, even the work of serving tea and pouring water was arranged.

No! Li Changwei shook his head decisively.

However, he knew it was useless to shake his head. He would ask every time he arranged work, but this kind of conversation had no effect on the work arranged by President Pei.

It's like this. The company has a new arrangement regarding your work. Pei Qianlong said.

Oh, what do you want me to do? Curious, Li Changwei was really curious, should he be asked to clean the toilet, or go to the company's community to be an aunt of the neighborhood committee.

The company will establish a game business department, which belongs to the first-level department. You will be the general manager. Congratulations. When Mr. Lin comes back next time, you will be able to participate in the round table meeting. Pei Qianlong looked at Li Changwei with interest s face.

Every time Li Changwei was assigned a new job, his expression was wonderful.

Li Changwei stared straight ahead, his eyes were loose and powerless, and he couldn't focus.

He suspects that he has a hearing problem.

I also suspected that Pei always made fun of him on purpose.

However, there are so many key words, such as game business department, first-level department, general manager, and round table meetings, it's impossible for them all to be auditory hallucinations.

Moreover, this kind of thing is not something that can be joked casually.

In view of your current ability to work, I will follow up for a while, and this time will not be too long, so you should make some achievements as soon as possible. In principle, if you don't ask me for help, I won't care about it. Any job in your game business department.

Li Changwei was still in a daze.

There is no way, if you are a canteen, and someone suddenly asks you to be the president, how will you react?

Everyone calls us Cat Factory, and most of our departments also start with the word meow. The publishing department plans to change its name to Miaomi Publishing recently, so you can't use this. I personally suggest that you can choose Meow Shit or Meow Urine……

Can I call it Meow Wo? Li Changwei finally came back to life.

Members of Station M are used to calling Station M a cat's nest, so... Pei Qianlong shook his head.

Li Changwei tried hard to think a few things, but none of them seemed to be suitable. This method well alleviated the huge impact of this appointment.

Is it okay to call meow meow game?

This seems to be okay. The name is not important. The important thing is not to disappoint Mr. Lin's expectations. Seeing that Li Changwei had returned to normal, Pei Qianlong began to say: Personally, I am not very optimistic about this appointment, but Mr. Lin treats you very well. Very trustworthy, so you are very lucky.

I... Li Changwei wanted to say, but in fact, I would rather stay in the Miaowei Theater.

But the workplace is ruthless, it's not that you can do whatever you want.

I thought about it later, and I finally understood what Mr. Lin meant. Your strength lies in your attitude towards users. Conceited like Pei Qianlong, this time it took him a long time to think about why Mr. Lin chose Li Changwei.

Li Changwei values ​​​​users too much.

This is a user-oriented person, and the game industry seems to need such a person.

Games are an industry that purely serves users.

Unlike Miaozhao.com, which has consumers on one side and suppliers on the other; the same is true for Miaoya live broadcasting. Users, anchors, audits, and various factors are combined together, and it is even more impossible to blindly cater to user experience.

And games, especially early games, can truly win the living space if they can improve the user experience.

Li Changwei walked out of Boss Pei's office in a daze, and followed the administrative staff to the office arranged for him by the company. ,

Yes, he has his own office too.

In the Crest headquarters building.

As one of the newly-promoted executives of the round table conference, the temporary workers who were in the string half an hour ago suddenly became the masters of this spacious and bright office.

General Manager Li Changwei.

The nameplates were all made and placed on his empty desk.

But how to make a game?

Li Changwei was confused.

He couldn't figure it out after thinking about it, so he could only recruit a few knowledgeable people to help him according to Mr. Pei's suggestion.

Brother Foo, what are you doing?

The first person that Li Changwei thought of was his middle school classmates. The six-year classmates in junior high and high school had a very close relationship.

His real name was Yang Baofu.

The name is a bit earthy, but it also carries the full expectations of the parents.

Later, his classmates nicknamed him Laifu, and he happened to be paired with Chang Wei.

After graduating from high school, we went our separate ways, but we still keep in touch once in a while.

Yang Baofu's work is barely related to games.

Don't get me wrong, it's definitely not game planning, game design or game development.

He is just the boss of a game power leveling studio.

Yang Baofu is a veteran game fan. He has loved playing games since he was a child, and it became even worse when he went to college. He took five years in a four-year university before he finished his credits. Half of his classmates had never seen him.

Since the skipping rate in the university was as high as 95%, even if he was sent out by the school, he would not know anything about the talent market.

Naturally, it is impossible to find a job.

In desperation, he set up his own game power leveling studio, whose main business is sword three Warcraft power leveling, barely making ends meet.

It wasn't until the development of e-sports in recent years that his studio slowly gained a firm foothold.

Not only did the problem of food and clothing be solved, but he even created a team.

In the circle of old classmates, Lai Fu and Chang Wei are both successful people.

I didn't do anything. I just talked about business with the owner of the Internet cafe. The Internet fee is getting more and more expensive, which makes me wish I could open an Internet cafe myself. Yang Baofu sighed over there.

Laifu is a bit irrational to open an Internet cafe these days. Even if you don't know the market, you know that the Internet cafe is over.

Back when I was in school, there were Internet cafes everywhere near the school, one yuan for five an hour, one hundred for one hundred for one free, full of people, waiting in line to get on the plane.

But time has passed, and in just a few years, the living environment of Internet cafes has undergone tremendous changes.

That's just to say, how dare you, you can't stand the toss. Lai Fu said.

Brother Fu, are you interested in making games? I'm short of people here. Li Changwei bit the bullet and said.

He really has black eyes, even darker than Tian Dazhuang, who took over the Miaowei theater line back then.

After all, many of Tian Dazhuang's contacts at that time were people from the film industry.

At least I am not unfamiliar with movies.

But Li Changwei is different. Apart from meeting people who play games in his life, he has never had anything to do with games.

He hadn't even played Tetris or Match 3.

Brother Wei, don't you work in a movie theater? Why are you involved in making games? Yang Baofu's biggest regret is that he failed to bring Li Changwei down. He has amwayed hundreds of games, but he has never been successful.

It's hard to say. It can be considered a job transfer. I know people who understand games, and you are the only one. Li Changwei seemed to have grasped at straws.

Brother Wei, don't be joking. This matter can't be taken lightly. I also have a lot of things here. Although I don't make much money, at least it's enough to pay off my mortgage...

I'll give you 30,000 a month and 20 salaries. If the two of us can make the game, the annual salary of one million won't be a problem. Li Changwei actually didn't understand his authority.

However, when he was first recruited by Tian Dazhuang, his salary was at this level.

Before becoming the general manager, his monthly salary had already risen to 70,000 yuan, and he didn't know if this promotion would increase his salary.

To be conservative, he promised only 30,000 yuan to others.

He still has little knowledge. The general manager of Kleist has never had an annual income of less than five million.

A few can even get tens of millions.

Pfft, Brother Wei, are you kidding me? Yang Baofu still thought it was a joke.

Brother, who would joke about this kind of thing? I really need the help of someone who understands games. Will you come or not? In a word, don't say I didn't take care of you from now on!

When we went to school together, we said the words Don't forget the riches and honors.

If both of them don't achieve much, this is the second disease, but if one of them really makes it big, it's a promise.

I am your uncle, do it, give me the address, I will buy the ticket now.

The power leveling studio can be given to others directly.

He works so hard, and sometimes he has to roll up his sleeves to go to battle in person. He only gets tens of thousands of yuan a month, and he pays off the mortgage in the second-tier cities. Basically, there is not much left. Even a girlfriend can't afford it.

Li Changwei met Yang Baofu who had rushed to the capital the next day.

Pei Qianlong heard that this place was recruiting, so he performed his duty of helping to take care of it, and came to greet him.

If Lin Dong hadn't asked him to help take care of the game business department, he would rarely have asked about this kind of employment.

Even if he supervises the game business department, he will only focus on the big and let go of the small, and control the general direction without any problems.

This is Boss Pei. Li Changwei gave a brief introduction.

Hello, boss! Yang Baofu, who was the little boss of the power leveling studio yesterday, stood up quickly.

I'm not the boss, I'm the vice president of the company's strategy, Pei Qianlong leaned forward to shake his hand, and said, But you can talk to me if you have any questions. The boss doesn't show up.

I just want to ask, is there really 30,000? Yang Baofu asked very directly.

He didn't learn much in college, and he didn't work in the workplace after graduation. The small circle of game power leveling is basically straight-forward, bargaining for three or five yuan at every turn, so don't expect him to have any special performance.

Mr. Li gave you 30,000 yuan. It's a little less. After all, you were the first to recruit. If you are positioned as a deputy, 30,000 yuan is too little. As for how much, you can go back to Mr. Chen's side. Let's discuss it.

Kleist's salary level far exceeds that of his peers.

Li Changwei recruited a deputy and gave 30,000 yuan a month, which was really petty.

Mr. Chen was referring to Chen Xiaoman. She is now the executive vice president of the company. It is impossible for her to take care of such trivial matters. Someone under her will be responsible.

What do you want me to do?! Yang Baofu gritted his fists.

He was naive, so he went all out.

He never thought that he could still find a decent job in his life, and the salary he paid was so high.

Chang Wei probably didn't want to work hard, and then went to the rich woman.

Have you known about our company? Pei Qianlong asked.

I read the information on the plane, and it's really awesome, but the information is a little less. But Yang Baofu at least knows about Miao'er music, Miaoya's live broadcast, and Miaozhao.com.

He only found out today that these are all from one family.

And the Miaomiao game he wants to join is a new department of this cat breeding factory.

It's enough to know a little bit, that is to say, we... Our company is going to make a game, starting from scratch, and the three of us are all the manpower for this project. I don't know much about the game industry, and so does Mr. Li. What do you have? What's your idea?

It can be an agent. Yang Baofu blurted out: For example, ARK: Survival Evolved released on June 2, a 3A masterpiece, people here call it ARK Survival Evolved, if you can get it, you can definitely occupy a place in the domestic game market .”

What a mess, both Pei Qianlong and Li Changwei were at a loss.

Pei Qianlong shook his head and vetoed: No, we recently represented an FGO...

Fate series? Not bad, this is a good start, although it may not be as good as Ark.

Listen to me first! This guy was talking too much, Pei Qianlong patted the table, and continued: This game is operated by Station M, and has little to do with us. The boss doesn't like agency games, so give us The task is to make Huaxia's own game, that is to say, let's give up the way of acting as an agent.

Huaxia's own game... Yang Baofu was a little confused.

Money is not a problem. The company has prepared one billion yuan for the game project. Pei Qianlong didn't even have time to tell Li Changwei, the new general manager of the game business department, about this matter.

One billion!

Two bumpkins sucking in air-conditioning together indirectly caused global warming.

In this case, we have two choices, Yang Baofu, who came back to his soul, thought for a while and gave two plans: One is that we recruit people to form a team for development and design, and the other is to see if there are suitable solutions in the market. Yes, buy directly.

One billion.

So rich and powerful, you can get whatever you want.

What is the concept of one billion in game development?

Take Blizzard's Warcraft as an example.

As the most popular online game in the world, World of Warcraft is undoubtedly successful, especially in China, where its status in online games has not changed over the years.

The game has been developed since the end of 2000, and it took almost 5 years to build, with an investment of about 40 million US dollars, equivalent to about 270 million yuan.

But this is only the research and development expenses before the launch. If you include the subsequent expansion packs such as Burning Crusade, Wrath of the Lich King, and Cataclysm... Blizzard's father probably spent 700 million.

Also with a production cost of around 700 million is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.

Tomb Raider 9 spent 800 million.

It is not the most expensive either. Total War: Three Kingdoms is 100 million more expensive than it, reaching a production and development cost of 900 million.

Compared with Final Fantasy 7 Core Crisis, these are all drizzle, because Final Fantasy has invested 2 billion in this time.

Well, it's not the most expensive either.

The most expensive is Red Dead Redemption: Redemption, which cost 6 billion.

Long story short, back to the topic, World of Warcraft was developed at a cost of 40 million U.S. dollars, even if it was fifteen years ago, the money at that time was more valuable.

It is also enough to show that Kleist's investment of one billion yuan is really not small.

Moreover, the game has only just been established, and so much has been poured into it without trying the water, which makes Yang Baofu feel that he is in the right place.

Now he is only worried that he is not capable of taking on such a heavy responsibility.

Two options, Pei Qianlong thought for a while, and said, Research and development is a must. However, if there is no result in three to five years, it is not easy to explain to Mr. Lin. Therefore, my idea is to buy a game first to learn Research it, and then develop new games while operating, what do you think?

Yang Baofu immediately admired Pei Qianlong as the vice president of strategy.

Looking back, his two choices were indeed too naive.

Then we still have to recruit people. Li Changwei was very worried.

It seems that we must ask the personnel department to help.

If you buy a game studio, you basically have everything you need, and then you can fill in the seats. Pei Qianlong once again suspected that Lin Dong had chosen the wrong person, and felt that Yang Baofu was more suitable than Li Changwei for the position of general manager of the game business department.

This chapter is 5,500 words, almost can be counted as three chapters, haha, try to add more tomorrow