“Mr. Ma, my name is Sun Yaosheng…”
He had only been speaking for two minutes when Little Ma abruptly stopped him.
"Stop, stop, stop! We have other important matters to attend to right now. Go to the Human Resources Department and explain the situation you've described to them. Let them handle it first. If you're not satisfied with their handling of the situation, then come back to me. Is that alright? After all, you know I'm quite busy."
"Okay, Mr. Ma, I'll be there in a bit."
Brother Ma silently mourned for his HR colleague for three seconds.
"Okay, I'm here. I'll promote you first and make you the leader of the 'Honor of Kings World' project team as compensation."
Unexpectedly, upon hearing this, Sun Yaosheng burst into tears on the spot.
"Mr. Ma, thank you so much! This is the first time in all these years that I've felt such warmth and kindness at Tencent. Waaah!"
Upon hearing this, Little Ma's face darkened even more. "What are you saying? I've been the boss all these years, okay? Are you implying that I've been doing a bad job all these years?"
If it weren't for the current problems with the "Honor of Kings World" project team, I wouldn't have promoted you. Once this crisis is over, I'll just assign you to manage all the company's toilets.
"Ah, hehehehe, no need to get so excited, calm down, let's have a meeting first, important business comes first."
"Oh, okay, okay."
"Oh, by the way, what's your name?"
"Mr. Ma, as I just said, my name is Sun Yaosheng!"
"Oh, well, I guess I'm getting old. Um, did you all understand what Team Leader Sun just said?"
"Understood, Mr. Ma!"
"Alright, next, you guys focus on two keywords: skins and pay-to-win! Figure out how to make money off the players!"
"Understood, Mr. Ma!"
After the meeting, as Pony Ma walked out of the conference room, he suddenly felt that what he had just said seemed familiar.
Soon after, Honor of Kings World adjusted its operation strategy and launched a second round of card pools.
This round of card pools is completely different from previous ones.
Instead of releasing only one character per gacha pool, several characters will be available together.
Sun Yaosheng understood perfectly: Genshin Impact only releases one character at a time, isn't that because you design characters slowly? But it's different with Honor of Kings World. My characters are compatible with those in Honor of Kings, so I don't have that problem.
So this season's card pool features some handsome men and beautiful women, including Li Bai, Galo, Lan, Jing, and Zhao Yun!
After seeing that "Honor of Kings World" had updated with a new card pool, Dawei came to find Lin Chen again.
After watching it, Lin Chen remained expressionless and continued playing his Minesweeper game.
"Hey boss, stop messing around. Aren't you worried? Tencent has clearly changed their planner this time. This plan is much better than the last one."
Lin Chen accidentally clicked on a bomb, and then started a new round of Minesweeper.
He then spoke softly.
"Indeed, this planning is much better than the last one, but it's still just so-so."
"Huh? What do you mean, boss?"
"Think about it, if he releases so many characters in one gacha pool, how much money would players need to spend? In our Genshin Impact, as long as you spend enough time, you can save up enough Primogems to pull for a new five-star character before the gacha pool updates. Of course, if you get a different character, you might need to spend some money, but that's just because you're unlucky."
Dawei's lips twitched.
"Boss, does that odd percentage you set have anything to do with luck? Eight out of ten people will probably have it wrong."
"Sigh, as the boss, it's not easy for me either. I have to support such a large group of you. I remember someone once said something like, 'If everyone could give a little love, my life would no longer be dark.' I just accepted the love they offered."
"Boss, your comprehension skills are absolutely top-notch!"
"Ahem, keep it down, let's get back to the main topic. Think about it, if Tencent released an ugly character in the last gacha banner, and then suddenly released so many good-looking characters in this one, what will the players think?"
After thinking for a moment, Dawei replied, "Players will think, 'I need to hurry up and draw a good-looking character, otherwise I'll have to draw another character next time.'"
"Yeah, but with so many good-looking characters, even if you never get the wrong character, how many times would you need to pull? The in-game currency you save up isn't enough at all. So what can players do? They can only rely on spending real money! But who can afford to spend that much? The gacha pool only updates every two weeks, so only a minority of players can afford to spend that much each time."
"Uh, Tencent must be obsessed with money."
Sun Yaosheng wasn't actually obsessed with money; he simply hadn't considered that point. His idea was simply to fully execute Little Ma's instructions.
Change the skin! Spend money!
Then I'll release five characters at once, each one a handsome man and a beautiful woman. These skins are pretty good, right? And if players want to get them all, they'll have to spend a lot of money. Wouldn't that fulfill all of Mr. Ma's requirements?
However, reality slapped him hard in the face.
After the new card pool was released, the number of players and game downloads not only did not increase, but actually decreased.
Sun Yaosheng panicked upon seeing the result and immediately convened a meeting with the project team.
"What do you all think is the reason for this?"
However, no one in the project team answered his question; they all lowered their heads and pretended to be dead.
Looking at the crowd below, Sun Yaosheng seemed to suddenly see his past self, and for a moment he was in a daze.
He slammed his hand on the table.
"Whoever can find the cause will become the deputy team leader!"
He just happened to get promoted, and the position of deputy team leader became vacant.
A generous reward will surely attract brave men.
Sure enough, as soon as Sun Yaosheng said this, the people below started talking all at once.
Sun Yaosheng pointed to someone: "You tell us."
"Mr. Sun, is it possible that this is a feng shui problem? Should we find a master to perform a ritual?"
Sun Yaosheng was speechless. "Are you related to Fatty?"
"Next!"
"Mr. Sun, is it that players don't like the characters we release? How about we start a poll?"
This answer is slightly more plausible.
"Next one!"
"Mr. Sun, could it be that players feel they need to spend too much money, so they don't want to play anymore?"
Sun Yaosheng said speechlessly, "Do you know how much money the player who has spent the most in 'Fantasy Westward Journey' has spent? Over 60 million! Can you imagine the potential of players? As long as you make a good game, you will never lack wealthy players. Go on, next one!"
"Mr. Sun..."
In this way, Sun Yaosheng perfectly avoided the correct answer.
Indeed, there are wealthy players, but they are not the majority of players; they are only a very small number.
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