What makes you think I will always like you?

"The effect of the announcement is not very satisfactory." Peng Leyun adjusted his glasses and spoke in a low voice.

Chen Lu's expression didn't change much, "What's an unideal idea?"

"The response from the players who participated in the closed beta test has been particularly good, but the popularity cannot be increased no matter what."

Peng Leyun let out a sigh of relief. He had planned to report to Chen Lu today anyway, so he just gave up on it all at once.

"Our current investment in advertising and distribution is basically all negative returns... After all, "Gate of the End" is the only mobile game on the market with this kind of gameplay. If you create a sect, some players will not There must be motivation to take the initiative.”

Seeing Chen Lu's cold expression, he paused for a moment, and then quickly comforted him: "Actually, it's not bad. The heat of this warm-up is much stronger than our previous two games."

That means it is popular but not popular.

Chen Lu murmured in his heart and couldn't help but smile at Peng Leyun.

Peng Leyun's words were too much to comfort Jiang Chao, but he actually wanted to comfort him. How pessimistic the situation is, no one in Polaris knows better than him, the founder.

There was no money for publicity before. The popularity of the first two games was already low, and it was always because of his splashy work when they were officially launched that they became popular.

Putting aside the difference in publicity and distribution costs, how much did the first two games cost in total?

When "Tower of Killing" was made, Polaris was just a small studio, and it only cost more than 200,000 yuan from start to finish.

"Regenerative Cell" had Penguin's capital injection, and the funds were relatively rich, but only two to three million were used.

But the initial production budget of "The Gate of the End" was 60 million, and with the subsequent investment, it has already passed the 80 million threshold.

The development cycle alone is longer than the previous two games combined.

Therefore, this game has not been able to follow a satisfactory path since its inception. If the popularity is slightly lower, it will definitely not be able to recover.

Although the feedback from Xuanfa was not good, this kind of thing could not be hidden from these investors, so Peng Leyun still reported everything at the meeting.

"Mr. Chen dares to use a small amount of 100 million to waste money at such a young age. I don't know how many times better than those of his peers."

"Mr. Chen was so confident back then, I thought this game would be so popular in the future, haha, but it turned out to be a squib that didn't gain much popularity after spending so much money on advertising."

At this time, several of those investors suddenly spoke.

These people who follow the trend, even if they say they have only a little knowledge of the industry, are not as patient as those who choose to invest from the beginning.

I found that I might not get back the money I invested, and I couldn't help but feel weird.

"Isn't that what young people are like these days? The thunder is loud and the raindrops are light. I have noticed this a long time ago, so I didn't invest much at all." A middle-aged man with a round face agreed after hearing this, and then looked up again. Looking at Yu Chunlan who was sitting not far away, "Mr. Yu, we have known each other for so many years, this is the first time I have seen you see the wrong person."

Yu Chunlan clasped her hands and just returned a polite smile, then turned her head and continued to observe the current situation with a smile.

Looking sideways again, Chen Lu's expression remained calm, sitting quietly in the main seat with his head slightly lowered, as if nothing happened.

She was satisfied.

Chen Lu didn't know that Yu Chunlan was observing so much. He was staring at the mobile phone under the table the whole time.

Chen Lu: What are you having for dinner?

Liang Zhirou: It’s only the morning...

Chen Lu: I'm a little bored, so I want to chat with you for a while.

Liang Zhirou: scratching her head with question marks.jpg

Liang Zhirou: By the way, I was halfway through the painting when I suddenly saw Mu Xue standing up holding on to the bed railing...

Chen Lu: Didn’t you take a photo?

Liang Zhirou: I forgot about it when I was excited.

"I can only say that Mr. Chen is really not an ordinary person."

The left side of the conference table was still noisy.

Several veterans of Polaris raised their heads and wanted to say something, but the results of the internal beta test, which they spent money to announce, were a little shaky.

If the current momentum continues, "Gate to the End" will only be unable to make ends meet, and Polaris will be dragged into bankruptcy.

The hard work of a group of people over the past few years has been wasted.

At first, they were even a little worried that Chen Lu would be confused.

Bang!

The table in the conference room was suddenly tapped hard, and the muffled sound echoed in the conference room. Everyone was stunned for a moment, and the surroundings were silent.

Chen Lu looked up and realized that the voice came from Lin Miaomiao.

Holy shit, this guy actually came to the meeting.

This was his first reaction.

Lin Miaomiao secretly hissed in pain, quietly shook the hand she had just used to slap the table under the table, and continued angrily: "There are a total of 80 million projects. If I were like you and only invested two Millions, I am definitely too embarrassed to even attend the meeting, but Mr. Li can still talk endlessly here. Regardless of whether you are an ordinary person or not, you will definitely give in!"

The man was so stunned that he didn't react for a moment, and subconsciously glared at her.

Unexpectedly, Lin Miaomiao was not frightened at all and looked back with a cold face.

She said to herself that I am not even afraid of Chen Lu, how can I be afraid of you?

She is the only one who can fight against the two dog bosses of Polaris!

Chen Lu, who remained silent throughout the whole process, tapped the table twice, attracting everyone's attention.

Seeing that the conference room fell silent again, he finally said: "Although the contract states that the capital cannot be withdrawn when investing, we can draft a new contract to allow you to withdraw the money."

"Of course, it will have nothing to do with you when the dividends are distributed in the future."

Seeing that Chen Lu's face remained calm, the round-faced man was suddenly shaken. For a moment, he doubted whether he had not understood the situation, or whether Chen Lu really had something else to do.

But he was surrounded by peers, and he shrank in front of a young man in public, fearing that he would be the butt of laughter.

And deep down in his heart, he didn't feel that a game with such low popularity could make any splash, so he thought Chen Lu was just being tough.

He snorted coldly, "Mr. Chen is so kind-hearted. Please hurry up. If it's too late, I'm afraid Polaris, which is about to be acquired, won't be able to afford the two million!"

"No problem, Leyun, give it away."

After speaking, Chen Lu continued to look at everyone with calm and soft eyes, and said with a smile: "Seniors, if you want to divest your capital, hurry up. If you wait for Polaris to go bankrupt later, you really can't afford it."

He was joking, but his fingertips were tightly holding the carbon pen in his hand, which was slightly white.

One or two is fine, but if there were a little more people withdrawing their investment, Polaris really wouldn't be able to afford that much money now.

It's purely a bet that this matter can dazzle all these people at once. Otherwise, if these people continue to chatter and chatter, affecting the morale of their own people when the server is about to be officially launched, then everything will really be over.

Fortunately, he won the bet.

Yu Chunlan, who had invested a total of 40 million yuan, had a smile on her face that was inexplicably wider. The other investors looked at Chen Lu and then at her, but they hesitated and did not speak.

"Polaris has grown from a small studio with only a dozen people to what it is now, and has encountered countless setbacks, big and small, including this one."

"Leave it to me, that's all."

Chen Lu left a message, announced that the meeting was over, and left first.

Peng Leyun immediately followed and asked quickly: "Brother Lu, have you thought of a way?"

"No, I'm still thinking about it."

"Then you just..."

"Seeing how dejected you all are, if I, the backbone, say in public that there is nothing you can do, wouldn't it be the end of the world?"

Walking to the window, Chen Lu saw a few scattered raindrops falling on it, and suddenly stopped and stared at it quietly for a long time.