Losing Money to Be a Tycoon

Chapter 197 This Game is Really Unbelievably Lousy…

“What game did I just play…?”

Lin Wan closed her laptop and fell into deep thought.

This game was called Bloody Battle Song. It had completely changed what she thought had been the bottom line of games.

Did such a trashy game really exist in the world?!

Although it had already been updated, these changes were mainly made to the gameplay and design.

No matter what changes were made, Bloody Battle Song was still going to be a web-based game. From the moment she entered the game, she found countless reasons to stop playing

The graphics were lousy. They were still filled with the arts and style that belonged to the last century. The characters in the game were all dressed in bits and pieces of decorative patterns, and armors that completely lacked style. The golden special effects wrapping their bodies all looked exaggerated and vulgar. Each of them also had multi-colored wings on their backs.

The background was a mess as well. This was especially true for the main city where most players gathered together. Each person was dressed in multi-colored equipment. A lot of information could be found above the characters’ heads, including their IDs, their guilds, their nicknames, and the like. The entire scene looked extremely messy and unnecessarily complicated.

The game very considerately allowed players to screen others. Once the player entered the game, they could also very easily locate themselves on the map.

However, by allowing this, the game was exposing the ugly truth. It looked cold and deserted. The less beautiful locations were also made very clear to the players.

The vibes of the game’s music made one feel like they had been transported back to ten years before. It did not sound bad, but it was hindering players from being immersed in the game.

The most important thing was that it was a web-based game. That meant that most of its art resources had to be downloaded online.

Each time they entered a new map with a new background, a little progress bar would appear on the screen because the art resources had not been fully downloaded. This progress bar would say ‘downloading resources’.

All the players would also become black, silent figures. The map’s background only appeared after a while.

In places where the background would frequently change, players would experience a meltdown each time it did.

The gameplay was even tackier and simpler. All players had to do was kill beasts, level up, and complete missions. ‘Tired and old’ would be an overstatement for the game.

Lin Wan’s nose was practically scrunched up throughout the entire five minutes that she played the game. During this time, she only felt one thing.

Low-class!

Even if someone paid her to, she would never play this game.

Lin Wan was beginning to regret it. She had too much trust in Boss Pei. That was why she accepted the task without considering too much. She vaguely knew about Shang Yang Games’ situation. She also knew that this company had produced a game that was quite a failure.

However, she never expected that the game would be this bad!

In Lin Wan’s mind, this failure was probably several tiers worse than Sun Strike Studios’ Bullet Hole.

After trying Bloody Battle Song, she finally realized that this was not a matter of several tiers. It was practically years off! This game made her feel like she had been transported back in time by ten years.

After playing the game for a while, Lin Wan not only felt uncomfortable, but she also developed suspicion and confusion towards Pei Qian’s decision.

Why… did Boss Pei buy this game company over?

No matter what angle she looked at this from, there seemed to be only one outcome that this game company deserved: being eliminated from the market.

This company should have gone insolvent. The designer who created this game should have looked for another company to work at. If no company wanted to accept him, he should have changed industries altogether.

From this game’s situation alone, Lin Wan could tell that its designer should not remain in the game industry!

Yet, Boss Pei bought the company over. What’s more, it was said that he personally groomed a newbie and made several suggestions to revamp the company.

The game that Lin Wan had just played was the result of the changes Boss Pei implemented. However, it was obvious that it was far from being a profitable game.

Lin Wan was beginning to shrink back. She did not want to go over anymore. How good would it be if she could research and develop Repent and be Saved in Tengda Games?

Boss Pei was there, overlooking the entire company. That meant that the game would likely be well-praised. Sales would go through the roof. Then, as a member of the production team, Lin Wan could feel proud of herself.

However, now, she had been transferred to Shang Yang Games and made to research Bloody Battle Song. The plot was completely different!

She was not even thinking about whether she could successfully produce the game or not. Even if she could, the game would probably end up being dissed by mainstream gamers!

Lin Wan would be embarrassed to tell her friends and classmates that she was responsible for creating a game like that.

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However, after recalling that Boss Pei had been behind this arrangement, Lin Wan felt that there was a deeper meaning buried in it.

After all, when he had been briefing her on this task, Boss Pei seemed to have high hopes for her. Not only would she be a ‘communications button’, but she would also be the ‘carrier of Tengda Games’ spirit’.

If she gave up just like that, perhaps she would never understand Boss Pei’s true intentions. This arrangement could contain the key to her becoming stronger.

Lin Wan considered all of these for a long time. Finally, she made up her mind.

In any case, Boss Pei was going to leave her work desk in Tengda Games empty. She could go back whenever she wanted. She would take this opportunity to challenge herself in Shang Yang Games. This was quite a rare chance to do so after all.

At Shang Yang Games…

In the conference room…

Ye Zhizhou, Wang Xiaobin, and the others secretly and apprehensively sized Lin Wan up as she sat on the other side of the table. Lin Wan had just arrived at Shang Yang Games. She was holding onto a little book and playing the part of a guilty intern.

However, to everyone else, Lin Wan was stressing them about by furiously writing notes in her notebook. As for this leader that had been parachuted in from Tengda, everyone felt apprehensive and uneasy.

The main problem was that they could not guess what Boss Pei was thinking.

Did Boss Pei trust Shang Yang Games or not?

They couldn’t say he did not. He had left it completely up to Shang Yang Games to come up with a design plan for the new game. The new chief planner was also a newbie groomed from within Shang Yang Games. The company’s framework had not been changed, too.

Yet, they also could not say he did. Why else would he have parachuted someone from Tengda in now that they were on the brink of producing the new game?

According to Boss Pei, Lin Wan was going to be the new Development Director. In essence, she was going to be like a creator. However, it did not seem like someone in a position like that would be able to manage everyday operations. She would probably be more of an overseer.

One could say that there were three key roles in Shang Yang Games now: Ye Zhizhou, who was in charge of the creation and general planning of games; Wang Xiaobin, who was in charge of systems design and administration; and Lin Wan, who had veto power over every important decision made in the company.

Before this, Ye Zhizhou and Wang Xiaobin could take charge of all game planning in the company. They reported to Boss Pei directly.

Yet, now, between Ye Zhizhou and Boss Pei, there was Lin Wan—the Development Director.

Many people were even guessing whether Ye Zhizhou had lost Boss Pei’s trust because he had not managed to turn their losses into profits ever since he took over as chief planner. Was that why Boss Pei was parachuting another leader from Tengda into Shang Yang Games?

At that moment, the entire Shang Yang Games was covered in a shadow of confusion.

At first, Ye Zhizhou and Wang Xiaobin wanted to hand over all their work to Lin Wan. However, Lin Wan unexpectedly shirked away from them.

She said very little in front of everyone as well. She only said several perfunctory things to pacify everybody and calm them down. Then, she stayed by the side and listened quietly.

Thus, the meeting continued as per usual. Ye Zhizhou began explaining the design of Bloody Battle Song: The Powerful Version to everyone.

As Lin Wan listened by the side, she took notes down in her book. Then, question marks began to appear in her mind. What is this? And what is this?