This is Central China, not Northern Europe.
The so-called high-intensity preparation mainly refers to playing games.
Yes, that's right, it's playing games.
It's still high-intensity work, starting the moment you sit down at your workstation and continuing until you leave at the end of the workday.
People who aren't in the industry might not understand how outrageous this is.
Isn't this a game company?
So playing video games should be a perfectly normal thing, right?
That's not actually the case. Game companies make games, not play them. In fact, many game companies explicitly prohibit playing games during work hours, regardless of the specific rules or regulations.
However, research on various successful games on the market is never lacking.
You should know that your boss still pays you for the time you spend playing games at the company.
No one has yet been able to understand President Jiang's intentions.
But the work content was still carried out very well, mainly playing games. Those who can work in this industry are all game lovers.
Now someone is paying you to play games.
Why not?
These games that you would normally have to pay for yourself, you can now play for free at the company.
However, there were some people who were not willing to just lie down and give up like that—to be precise, these "some people" were the vast majority of the first-generation development team of Zhixing Games.
There's only one reason: Jiang Chuan really gave too much.
It's not that I developed feelings for my boss after only a few days at work, but rather...
This is, after all, a startup. If such a good company goes bankrupt, they will have to find new jobs, and where will they find such good new jobs?
After these past few days at work, I really don't want to leave.
Who wouldn't want to dedicate themselves wholeheartedly to the cause of knowledge and action?!
Zhuang Xu was particularly surprised when he first saw that the work schedule involved playing games all day...
He was completely lost. He was full of ambition to serve his boss and had even considered that he could accept working 996 or 007 during the game development phase.
Come on, capital, bosses, whip me to my heart's content.
He sat at his workstation, looking left and right.
I noticed that everyone around me was playing the game seriously, without any sign of slacking off. Especially the lead game planner, who was clearly completely absorbed in the game, not even looking up once.
No wonder he's the lead planner...
Even if you're just a lowly executive planner, you can't slack off at work, even if you're just playing games.
Zhuang Xu immediately reminded himself that he needed to have the right work attitude, and he quickly opened the game folder on his computer.
Little did they know...
Even in the comfortable greenhouse environment of Zhixing Games, a "catfish effect" has emerged... In fact, all members of the development team felt guilty playing games, after all, they were there to work...
My boss is so nice, I really have to work hard!
How could one not feel guilty when leisure and work are completely unrelated?
Zhuang Xu's mental journey was roughly as he imagined, mainly involving a self-strategy: he felt that everyone else was working so hard and seriously playing games, so he also needed to work hard.
So these past few days at work, everyone has fully experienced the joy of working at a startup company, or rather, at Zhixing Games.
Because there are few people, the social interactions are not complicated—it's comfortable.
The project hasn't been officially approved yet, so there's little work, clear management, and well-defined division of labor, leaving no room for disputes—it's great!
No overtime work—that's great!
Whether it's the lunch break after the morning work hours or the end of the workday in the afternoon, everyone immediately stops what they're doing once the break is over.
Because if you don't stop, someone will urge you to stop.
The mastermind behind it all is President Jiang, whom I have never met before.
No one would want to engage in involution.
The benefits mentioned during onboarding have been provided to all employees from the very first day, without any deception or trickery—it's truly excellent.
Even the social security transfer, which is usually troublesome, was handled directly, whereas in other small companies it would have been a long and complicated process.
It's to the point that if the company goes bankrupt, I feel like I'll never find such a good job again in my life.
"Brother Yu, our company is on TV!"
It was during the break between games when someone suddenly shouted out, their voice filled with surprise and delight.
"What is that?" Yu Yue asked curiously, turning his head to look.
"Everyone, open Weibo and look! We're currently in the top 10 on Weibo, with that hashtag: 'Socially Anxious Friendly Company Making Big Promises'!"
It wasn't explicitly stated, but it's my workplace after all, how could I not recognize it?
Everyone opened their Weibo accounts.
Then I saw a series of envious, jealous, and resentful comments in the Weibo comment section...
For no apparent reason, a sense of superiority arose in my heart.
Most netizens think this is a small company making empty promises, but in reality, who among us hasn't actually received a share of the profits?
We're already used to your envious, jealous, and hateful reactions! The group looked at each other, all with a proud and joyful air about them.
At this moment, the sense of belonging to Zhixing Games Studio reached its first peak in history.
"To be honest, even if you told me, I wouldn't believe it either. If I didn't actually work here, who would have thought that there's a company like this in China!"
"This is Central China, not Northern Europe."
"To be honest, when I first signed the labor contract, I really took it back and looked at it for a long time before I was sure it wasn't fake, or that there was some kind of trap hidden in it before I dared to sign it."
"Is 'The Survival Diary of Contemporary Migrant Workers' the show Zhuang Xu was recording?"
Zhuang Xu nodded somewhat embarrassedly; he had already told his colleagues about this beforehand.
I never expected the show to be so popular, and I never expected that someone as ordinary as me would be selected.
He's now receiving a salary from his company and a fee from the TV show production team. Life couldn't be better. Who would have thought that just a few days ago he was unemployed?
"Great job, you've really done a great job of promoting our company spirit and corporate culture!"
"Well, I'm actually a little glad it was anonymous, otherwise our company's doorstep would have been worn down by people."
A sense of pride welled up within me.
After chatting for a while, the group stopped discussing "The Survival Diary of Contemporary Working People" and consciously continued playing games.
This is the kind of scene that many bosses dream of seeing—employees wholeheartedly dedicating themselves to their work...
Jiang Chuan was unaware that his employees had once again ignited their goodwill towards him as their boss. He was always on time for work, home, meals, and sleep.
During a disciplined day, I actually spend very little time surfing the internet.
In other words, he is a native of a remote mountain village who has no internet access in this internet age.
It's not just the house he lives in; it's extremely minimalist. Jiang Chuan's lifestyle, in the eyes of many modern young people, is so dull and monotonous that it could be associated with asceticism.
He knew about Zhuang Xu's recording of the show beforehand, but he didn't pay much attention to it.
After all, there are so many ordinary people participating in the recording of the show, and Zhuang Xu may not necessarily be chosen. Even if he is chosen, it doesn't matter, since he doesn't appear in the footage anyway.
He was confident that his company was in charge of human resources and that he wouldn't be criticized.
Jiang Chuan is currently working on getting the game project approved.
The attitude towards games in this world is completely different from that in the world Jiang Chuan lived in before.
In the world before Jiang Chuan, the government adopted a hands-off approach to games, allowing them to develop freely without providing support and imposing various policy restrictions.
Therefore, in that world, the game industry in China was very chaotic. Despite being a huge game market, it never produced any AAA titles.
The term "AAA game" originated in the United States and refers to high-cost, large-scale, and high-quality single-player games produced by major studios.
In China, game developers are always going to great lengths to get players to spend money, especially on mobile games.
This also has historical roots.
In the past, China also had excellent, even world-leading, game works.
But that was just a fleeting moment.
The fundamental reason why China has no AAA titles is the weak copyright awareness of the Chinese people. During the era when China's games were booming, rampant piracy and the weak copyright awareness of players led to the bankruptcy and closure of all the conscientious single-player game companies in China.
To give a more intuitive example: you invest tens of thousands of dollars in developing a game, and soon there are pirated copies. You sell it for ten dollars, and someone else sells it for five dollars.
You reluctantly lower your price, but he goes even further, pushing it down to two dollars and even throwing in a free CD.
Which one will consumers choose?
Even if the quality is slightly worse than the genuine product, it's still good value for money.
The games they painstakingly created were tragically destroyed by piracy, making it impossible for that generation to convince themselves to continue investing time and effort in making good games with the same conscience.
If the game fails, it means you can't recoup any costs. It's just a bunch of code; who would want it secondhand?
As time went on, if piracy was the funeral pyre of game developers, then the emergence of online games sealed the coffin tightly for the future of Chinese AAA single-player games.
The trend of forcing players to spend money and deceiving them into spending money began from this point, as did the trend of "heavy on social interaction and light on gameplay" in low-quality games.
There's a saying in the film industry: "Why kneel when you can make money standing up?"
In the gaming industry, this means that if I can make money while lying down, why should I work?
They could simply repackage successful foreign games and put them into a pay-to-win mechanic.
The game made a fortune.
The market has become increasingly distorted, to the point where it's difficult to reverse the situation.
And in the world where Jiang Chuan is now.
Although nothing has changed in the past, the authorities have now established a complete ecosystem and introduced specific copyright protection regulations.
Although the market trend has not changed much, at least the foundation is already good.
The future is promising.
As a game enthusiast, Jiang Chuan couldn't help but feel emotional when he saw his dream scene become a reality.
While searching for information on the official game platform, I happened to be pushed an information push for "The Survival Diary of Contemporary Working People".
If we don't count that dream, because he's been away from the workplace for many years, the life of a corporate slave is actually a bit unfamiliar to Jiang Chuan.
Considering that his own company was inside, Jiang Chuan clicked in and took a look.
Then, for some reason, I'm particularly prone to getting distracted by other things at work, and before I know it, it's almost time to leave the workday...
Jiang Chuan was also once a corporate slave, and although it was a long time ago, he could still empathize with these things.
Well, this is an effect that's hard to avoid.
This is similar to a movie theater where the people in the front row stand up to watch the movie, blocking the view of those behind them. As a result, the audience in the back rows also have to stand up to have a good viewing experience.
As a result, everyone in the movie theater was standing to watch.
You can't see it if you're not standing.
To put it more bluntly, they were eliminated.
This applies not only to individuals, but also to companies and the business world as a whole. It's difficult to judge who is right and who is wrong, but...
Companies in a dominant position often engage in relentless pressure and exploitation, forcing the relatively weak working class to retreat step by step.
Moreover, this kind of thing is difficult to regulate with laws, and the more specific and in-depth aspects cannot be clearly stated.
But that's just how things are.
Then the situation becomes increasingly vicious cycle.
If you want to change...
Jiang Chuan thought about it and realized that he had stayed at the company past the end of the workday, which was a rare instance of him not working according to the scheduled time.
He might have to make a life-changing decision—to do this? Jiang Chuan didn't know; he hesitated, and he was afraid.
Therefore, no amount of careful consideration is too much.
The Earl, who also came to work today, keenly noticed the shift in Jiang Chuan's thinking regarding his KPIs. However, he didn't understand why Jiang Chuan had suddenly changed his mind after watching a variety show.
"What did you connect this to?"
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