At the meeting, someone else said, "With ICQ leading the way, they have already explored the trend of customizable skins, avatars, and cartoon characters for QQ."
"Now, by imitating the functions of ICQ and creating a skin set exclusively for QQ, we don't need much technical investment or in-depth market research. This is indeed the most worry-free and effortless approach."
Boss Ma remained silent, but more technicians stepped forward to agree with the decision.
"Yeah, boss! We're not saying we're going to copy them, we're just imitating them. We don't need to make a dress-up game, just change the skin, change the avatar, change the color."
Many people in the office began to agree with Zhong Xinxin's idea.
It started with the marketing department, which was particularly sensitive to product download numbers and user numbers, followed by the project department:
"Our second phase of advertising on QQ is already underway. If the promotion data doesn't show a significant improvement soon, we'll be going against the current, and if we don't move forward, we'll fall behind."
The pressure on the engineering department is even greater, since it involves the transformation, upgrading, and optimization of QQ.
Although reluctant, Manager Zhao Nanzhou still said to Boss Ma, "ICQ Show is now profitable. Longteng Company has earned back the entire cost of the ICQ development process with just this one project."
He has extensive experience in this field, and once he has a few data points, he can easily calculate the development cost of the ICQ project, including the revenue from the ICQ Show add-on project.
"Do you all agree to develop new skin features?" Boss Ma looked at everyone in the conference room.
Two weeks have passed, and QQ's data is still not good. There is pressure from investors at the front and pressure from several departments within the company at the back.
Mr. Ma finally asked the company's employees this question.
“Alright, since you all agree,” Mr. Ma turned to Zhao Nanzhou and continued, “You are the chief engineer of QQ, so the skin feature development project will be assigned to you.”
"ICQ Show is already online, although it's still a test version, but it still poses a great threat to us. The skin feature project... needs to be launched as soon as possible."
After the meeting ended, Mr. Ma left QQ headquarters alone.
In a quiet tea restaurant, Mr. Ma met the person he had arranged to meet over the phone.
Yu Wei'e
"Mr. Yu," Mr. Ma stepped forward to greet him.
Yu Wei'e shook hands with Mr. Ma very politely, and then said, "You ordered your favorite Xinyang Maojian tea."
"You remember I like this kind of thing, don't you? The company only has coffee and green tea, so I can't very well ask my secretary to go out and buy some alone," Mr. Ma sighed.
"How have you been since you left the company?"
Yu Wei'e nodded, his face filled with sorrow.
"Greater" is always his nickname at Tencent, because his name is Wei E, which means "big," so people jokingly gave him the nickname "Greater."
Later, Yu Wei'e became the chief engineer of QQ network communication software, and Zhong Xinxin and Liang Huihong added "chief" after the word "greater than".
From then on, the nickname "Greater Than General Manager" came into being.
When the news spread, people at Longteng Company followed suit and began calling him General Manager Yu.
But every time Yu Wei'e heard others call her by her nickname, she felt uncomfortable.
He felt that the nickname no longer had the familiar feeling he had when he was with the penguin.
"Mr. Ma, what brings you here today?"
Mr. Ma took a sip of Xinyang Maojian tea but did not answer directly.
"This Xinyang Maojian tea is different from the one we drink at roadside stalls. It seems that times have really changed."
At this point, Da Yu felt a chill in his heart. Looking at the dejected Mr. Ma in front of him, he thought back to when Mr. Ma was so smug before he left the company.
"It's not that time has changed, it's that you have changed."
Mr. Ma sneered and then said, "I called you here to ask if you'd still like to come back to Tencent Technology."
Da Yu subconsciously shook his head, and then he heard Boss Ma continue:
"Recently, ICQ launched a dress-up game called ICQ Show. Were you in charge of developing it?"
Seeing that Mr. Da nodded, Mr. Ma continued, "You've certainly put a lot of effort into ICQ."
"Boss, since I've already left my former company, I can't say anything bad about it anymore. It's just that I feel I didn't realize my value when I was at Tencent."
Mr. Da pushed the teacup away from him. “But when I joined Longteng, my colleagues and I developed ICQ Show. The boss trusted me a lot, and my colleagues didn’t ostracize me.”
"Actually, I don't have high requirements for salary and work environment. At first, I just wanted to do a good job on the product." When Da Yu said this, he was thinking about the scene of him being ostracized by Zhao Nanzhou and his group.
Actually, he thought he had long since let go of the matter of being kicked out of the project, but every time he thought about it, it felt like a nail was stuck in his heart.
"Because my feelings for Penguin are not only for the QQ product, but also for Mr. Ma, for Zhong Xinxin, and for every employee who was in the company from the very beginning."
"I put my heart and soul into it, hoping to make a name for myself at Tencent, but I never expected..."
“It’s all my fault,” Mr. Ma bravely admitted. “When I received the investment from Dailusi Media, I was a bit unstable in my mindset.”
After a few minutes of silence, Da Yu said, "It's alright, it's all over now."
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