Losing Money to Be a Tycoon

Chapter 1161: Brainstorming

< Next Settlement: Seven months later. >

< System Funds will be topped up. Target amount: 60,000,000 >

< Topping up 53,280,000… >

<System Funds topping up completed.>

< System Funds: 60,000,000+32,030,000 >

< Fixed Assets: 320.28 million >

< Infrastructural Projects: None at the moment>

< Personal Wealth: 2,725,000 >

< Detailed Permanent Reward regulations: >

< Additional 10% increase in the original conversion amount. >

< 50% of the starting sum in the current cycle can be used for charity. >

< If you convert more than 800,000 yuan per cycle, you will receive a mysterious reward with a huge impact. >

< You can consume a certain amount of Personal Wealth and increase a certain amount of income from a certain industry. The ratio is 1: 100. It can be used once in the current cycle. The amount of Personal Wealth consumed cannot exceed 100,000 yuan. >

< Unfinished project for now: Thriller Hostel’s roller coaster project. It must be officially opened for business during the next cycle. >

The System listed out all the existing rewards that were still in effect. Apart from that, there were some one-time rewards. For example, the System Funds would be deducted after completing the learning mission, random technological breakthroughs, and so on. These were not included.

Pei Qian finally heaved a sigh of relief after completing the settlement once again.

He finally relaxed.

On the other hand, Pei Qian would sleep until he woke up naturally every day. He would also eat Fish-Catching Take-Out. It was nutritious and healthy.

However, Pei Qian could not rest immediately. In order to ensure that the various projects before the next cycle would be completed smoothly, he had to assign tasks to the various departments first.

After that, Pei Qian would have one to two months of rest where he did not have to worry at all.

Pei Qian was a little emotional. Time passed really quickly.

In the blink of an eye, this was the 10th settlement of the system.

Pei Qian felt that his growth and improvement were rather obvious. He had been helpless when he made money at the beginning of the settlement. Now, he could steadily incur losses and obtain special rewards.

Obviously, as Tengda Corporation continued to grow, the system would make some adjustments to the rules.

However, he did not know when the next system update would be.

Pei Qian felt that he had to grab more advantage of the system before it was updated.

Otherwise, Pei Qian would not be able to take it if the System were to upgrade based on the Matthew effect.

In terms of the specific management model of Tengda Corporation, Pei Qian was completely different from before.

At first, Pei Qian only wanted to incur losses. He did not have a specific plan. Once an industry earned money, he would open a new one.

In the end, the various departments joined forces for no reason.

There were too many departments in Tengda Corporation now. Pei Qian could no longer manage them. Most of the time, he would let the departments that he could not care about free.

Pei Qian’s current approach was to take things as they come.

Previously, he had always wanted to court death and turn his already profitable businesses into losses. However, he had found that the effect was not good. Not only did he not lose money, he had earned even more.

Thus, Pei Qian felt that he should not touch the profitable industries unless he had good ideas.

It would be better for them to earn money slowly than for his guidance to suddenly become popular.

He had to focus on the new industries that had higher chances of incurring losses. He had to finish them in one go and lose all the money earned by the other industries. That would be more practical.

On top of that, Pei Qian could not be bothered with industries that involved the people’s livelihoods, such as Sloth Apartments, Fish-Catching Take-Out, and so on. It would be good if he made a loss. If he made a profit, he would not make a lot of money. He would take it as his contribution to society.

There were many things to do during this cycle. Pei Qian had even found a small notebook to write down previously, afraid that he would forget.

“Where should we start?”

“Hmm… let’s start with the games department.”

Pei Qian took out his small notebook and flipped through it. At present, Tengda Corporation actually has three games departments. They were the original Tengda Games department, Shang Yang Games, and Slow Movement Studio.

Tengda Games had already decided to develop Eternal Reincarnation. Slow Movement Studio had also confirmed that they wanted to make the real estate intermediary simulator.

However, he had not confirmed what Shang Yang Games wanted to do.

“I have to make a project with a very low chance of success this time!”

Pei Qian flipped through the game genres that Tengda had already created while thinking about what kind of new project he should arrange for Shang Yang Games.

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August 1st, Wednesday…

In Shang Yang Games’ conference room, Pei Qian was prepared to lead everyone to a brainstorming session.

That was because he had thought hard for a long time yesterday and had not thought of a good idea.

He could only say that a person’s wisdom was limited.

What if he brainstormed with everyone today and came up with a good idea?

Ye Zhizhou, Wang Xiaobin, and the other core members were all present. Everyone was obviously looking forward to the new game that they were going to create.

Tengda Games had already decided to make Eternal Reincarnation. It might only be Repent and be Saved’s downloadable content, but anyone who understood the game mechanism would know that it was not just a downloadable content.

It was only slightly smaller in size. In fact, the game mechanism has been greatly improved. It was not a problem to say that it was a sequel to Repent and be Saved.

Shang Yang Games and Tengda Games had always been competing intensely. Since Tengda Games was going to create an outstanding game, Shang Yang Games must not fall behind!

With Boss Pei around, this would definitely be a classic work. There was no doubt about that.

However, the new project this time was different during the establishment stage.

In the past, Boss Pei had pointed out a few directions to everyone. These directions looked a little blurry but they were all puzzles given by Boss Pei. In fact, Boss Pei had already thought of the ultimate form of this game.

Everyone just had to follow the clues given by Boss Pei and work hard to restore the complete form of the game in Boss Pei’s mind. Then, the mission would be completed.

However, the situation this time was slightly different. Boss Pei did not seem to have a very definite idea. Instead, he asked everyone to brainstorm and confirm the general direction of this game.

Obviously, this would allow everyone to think more about the game design plan.

Ye Zhizhou and Wang Xiaobin were both guessing if it was because Shang Yang Games had already produced many successful games and the entire workspace’s design and production standards had improved. Was that why Boss Pei was consciously asking everyone to advance towards higher difficulties?

Was Boss Pei not trying to reduce Shang Yang Games’ reliance on his own ideas? Was he trying to make Shang Yang Games leave his ideas so that it could continue to produce outstanding works that were universally appreciated?

That should be the case.

Thus, everyone braced themselves, hoping to keep up with Boss Pei’s train of thought.

Pei Qian looked around at everyone at the conference table and felt that the atmosphere was a little subtle.

What was wrong with these people’s expressions, as if they were on steroids!

Was there a need to be so excited over a new project?

Forget it, so be it.

Remember the expression you are looking forward to now because it will become confused in a few minutes!

Everyone was almost here. Pei Qian decided to officially start.

“Today’s meeting will be to brainstorm. It will be used to decide what our new game will be. Everyone can speak freely and have a chance to speak.”

“It doesn’t matter even if you feel that your ideas are immature. Don’t feel embarrassed. Many outstanding designs were born from these seemingly unreliable ideas.”

“First…

“Everyone, think about what type of game you should create first.”

Obviously, the first step was to confirm the game type.

Even though it was made blindly with the aim of losing money, the game genre had to be clear. If the game genre was not clear, Ye Zhizhou and Wang Xiaobin would have a lot of imagination. The final game might be too different from what Pei Qian had expected.

To other games companies, this often meant that projects would fail and lose money. However, to Tengda, this most likely meant making a killing.

Thus, Pei Qian had to try his best to eliminate these uncertainties.

Everyone looked at each other and quickly raised their hands to speak.

“I think action-based games are not bad!”

“Doubt VR glasses are selling very well. The Fitness Battle VR version is also very popular. How about taking the opportunity to develop a VR game masterpiece?”

“I think we can create an FPS game with two endings.”

“MMORPG, can you consider it?”

Everyone was talking at once.

Everyone present might be designers, but different designers had different game preferences. Under such unrestricted circumstances, everyone’s speech would obviously be affected by their own game preferences.

Say whatever you can think of.

Pei Qian listened quietly, his already messy thoughts getting even messier.

Such a discussion method would not do!

That was because everyone present was a core member of Shang Yang Games. They had been in the game development for so long and were very good at business. Their proposals might be influenced by their personal preferences but they were basically reliable proposals.

Even if there were some proposals that seemed to have a chance of failure, such as making a relatively retro time charging MMORPG game, the chances of failure were still not high enough.

Even if the game was created step by step, people would probably buy it.

Thus, he had to think of a way to guide everyone back to the right discussion.

Pei Qian gently knocked on the table. “Please hold on.”

“Everyone has their own thoughts. That’s a good thing, but it’s difficult to form a unified opinion in such a discussion.”

“How about this? I’ll give everyone a simple direction.”

“Which genre do you think is the game that our company has produced so far where our foundation is relatively weak?”

“It would be best if it was a standalone game.”

The reason why he added the last sentence was mainly to be safe.

Indeed, Tengda had not done a large-scale multiplayer online role-playing game – MMORPG – so far. However, the risk of success was still too high if they were to develop this.