Chapter 118 IOI's Situation

Pei Qian was quite concerned about the situation with IOI.

As GOG's main competitor on a global scale, IOI's actions directly determined whether Pei Qian could continue to burn money on GOG, which was very important.

Since Eric left, the person in charge of IOI's domestic server for the Dayak Corporation and Finger Company had become a "successor" named Kledian. Therefore, the policies for promoting IOI would likely change.

Pei Qian was looking forward to Kledian bringing some new changes to IOI's domestic server and creating some challenges for GOG in the domestic market, although this possibility was not high.

Lin Wan handed over a report. "President Pei, these are the known measures that Kledian has taken for IOI's domestic server."

"Compared to Eric, he has focused his work on modifying the game content, which can be seen from the test server update plan."

"The game map has been relatively reduced in size, last-hitting allied creeps will provide the opponent with 70% of the experience and a small amount of gold, the bounty for killing a player decreases after multiple deaths and there are extra bounties for ending kill streaks, and some map resources have been enriched…"

"In addition, he seems to be planning to turn IOI's domestic server into a low-price region. The prices of heroes and skins will be reduced to 12% to 13% of the international server price, depending on the situation. This is a feasible method that has been preliminarily verified by many game platforms."

"Furthermore, there is news that Finger Company seems to be in contact with some major domestic game companies, hoping that these companies will promote the game's localization work. However, the specific company to cooperate with has not yet been finalized, and I will continue to monitor it."

Pei Qian flipped through the report that Lin Wan handed over, his expression as usual.

Logically speaking, he should be overjoyed, after all, these measures seemed to be going in the right direction.

Previously, Shang Yang Games and Eric had used different methods to promote IOI's domestic server, but they had not been successful. The root cause was the game itself.

GOG was Tengda's own game, and it could be modified in a timely manner according to player feedback during the promotion process. They could even play around with soliciting hero ideas from players.

However, the authority to modify IOI was with Finger Company. Finger Company's main target was the European and American markets. In the early stages, it was not directly impacted by GOG, so they felt that IOI was perfect and were unwilling to accept the modification suggestions submitted by Shang Yang Games.

Therefore, GOG continued to evolve, while IOI remained stagnant. The gap between the two in terms of gameplay widened, IOI players were snatched away by GOG, and GOG players would not even glance at IOI. Over time, the power comparison between the two was completely on different levels.

This time, the person in charge, Kledian, was a senior executive of Finger Company, had a high degree of say in modifying the game, and was also a person who truly understood the design concept of MOBA games.

Moreover, GOG had now entered the overseas market, rapidly eroding IOI's market share. Even if Finger Company was slow and arrogant, they should have reacted a bit.

What Kledian was doing was actually narrowing the gap between IOI and GOG from the bottom up.

Modify the game mechanics to make IOI more in line with the game habits of general players, in order to attract more players; turn IOI's domestic server into a low-price region, so that IOI would not have too much of a price disadvantage compared to GOG; cooperate with major domestic companies, use the resources of these companies to promote the game, and launch more and more appropriate local promotion strategies.

It was hard to say whether these changes were right or wrong. After all, changing the game's gameplay to please some people would inevitably offend others, and it was impossible to be perfect.

Every change carried a huge risk. Sometimes, the starting point of certain changes was good, but the final result was completely unexpected.

But in any case, these changes at least proved that Kledian and Finger Company had gradually realized the root cause of IOI's domestic server failure and had begun to try to save it.

Of course, Kledian was relatively restrained when doing these things and did not overcorrect all at once.

The difficulty of the game had been reduced to a limited extent. Last hitting was not directly canceled, but the benefits of last hitting were reduced.

The prices of heroes and skins were not lowered to rock bottom all at once. Even if the domestic server was designated as a low-price region, the price was not as low as GOG's, which fully took into account the feelings of players in other regions. If the effect was good, the price could be further reduced.

Moreover, these changes were first tested on the test server to test the players' reactions. If the feedback was good, they would be truly used on the official server.

After all, IOI was already a mature game, and any changes were a risk and had to be cautious.

If the pressure from GOG was not too great, Finger Company would definitely not have made such a risky move.

In short, being able to recognize the gap between IOI and GOG in terms of game foundation and price, and being determined to modify it, this should be good news for IOI's domestic server. It was much more effective than simply burning money before.

But Pei Qian didn't feel very optimistic.

Because GOG's domestic market share had completely crushed IOI, even if IOI made changes, would there necessarily be an immediate effect?

Pei Qian not only had no confidence in IOI, but also had no confidence in his own luck.

Lin Wan asked, "President Pei, do we need to take some countermeasures to nip the hidden dangers in the bud?"

Pei Qian hurriedly raised his hand to stop her. "No need!"

Don't be ridiculous. They finally wanted to make some noise, and we were going to snuff it out directly. Was that appropriate?

Quickly give them some space to recuperate. It would be best to raise a tiger and cause trouble later. When IOI recovered and developed, everyone could burn money together happily.

Lin Wan nodded. "Okay, President Pei, then we will proceed with GOG's overseas promotion work according to the original plan. I will continue to pay attention to IOI's movements."

…

At the same time, in the Human Resources Department.

"Tengda Group has no need for spiritual construction?"

"Don't worry about what other departments are doing, just strictly follow President Pei's instructions in your own department?"

"This…"

After listening to Hao Yun's introduction of yesterday's dinner, Wu Bin fell into deep thought.

Wu Bin was not a department head, so he didn't go to the dinner yesterday with all the department heads.

But after all, President Pei mentioned the matter of the Tengda spirit during the dinner, and the department heads couldn't figure out President Pei's true thoughts, so Hao Yun specifically told Wu Bin about this matter after work today, so that he could help analyze it.

Although President Pei said, "You don't need to understand, you don't need to understand why, just resolutely execute," how could these person in charges not be curious?

What President Pei wanted to do must have a deep meaning!

These department heads were all very good at answering President Pei's intentions, how could they willingly give up interpreting and be a tool person?

Therefore, everyone still conducted an in-depth analysis and interpretation of President Pei's words, and even analyzed and interpreted the deep meaning behind "President Pei believes that everyone does not need to understand."

As a result, they didn't figure it out.

The person in charges all felt very uncomfortable.

Behind President Pei's seemingly ordinary request, there was likely to be a new grand strategy hidden. This grand strategy might affect the future development of all departments, but everyone was completely unaware of it. How could this be allowed?

A strong desire for knowledge troubled the department heads, and so did Hao Yun.

Therefore, Hao Yun secretly shared this matter with Wu Bin.

After all, this was not confidential information. President Pei had not required confidentiality. Wu Bin was a core employee of the Human Resources Department with a certain amount of experience and had made outstanding contributions. It was reasonable for him to obtain this information.

Wu Bin frowned and fell silent.

In the past few days, President Pei's attention seemed to be focused on the Tengda spirit!

First, he changed the Tengda spirit test questions, adding the answer explanation section; then, at the department head dinner, he asked all the department heads to talk about their understanding of the Tengda spirit; and finally, he said that Tengda does not need spiritual construction and that each department should not influence each other…

There must be something behind this!

Wu Bin's brain worked quickly, analyzing President Pei's intentions through his own deep understanding of the Tengda spirit.

"First, let's start with the most unreasonable point: President Pei said that Tengda does not need spiritual construction."

"How could we not need spiritual construction? Other companies dare to make employees memorize a few slogans, but Tengda clearly has such a good corporate spirit, but it doesn't promote it. Is this reasonable?"

"By promoting the Tengda spirit, we can improve employee work efficiency, promote company development, obtain more income, and also contribute to society. President Pei has no reason to refuse such a good thing, right?"

"Shaping corporate culture and promoting company spirit is not wrong in itself. President Pei is opposed to it, which must mean that there is a problem with the process. The best efforts have not been made at the implementation level!"

"Combining this with President Pei's previous behavior of modifying the Tengda spirit fit test… I boldly speculate that our current interpretation of the Tengda spirit has deviated to a certain extent, which makes President Pei dissatisfied!"

Hao Yun was stunned. "What makes you say that?"

Wu Bin explained, "We all know that the questions on the Tengda spirit fit test change randomly. Under the conditions of meeting President Pei's requirements, there is actually no need to specifically modify it."

"But President Pei still took the time out of his busy schedule to modify it, adding a subjective explanation section to each question."

"This shows that President Pei is dissatisfied with the high pass rate of the Tengda spirit fit test! He believes that although some employees have chosen the right answer, they have not actually truly understood the Tengda spirit, but have taken shortcuts. Therefore, President Pei added the subjective question section, wanting to find out where the problem lies."

Hao Yun's expression became serious, and he nodded.

Indeed, this was a problem.

At present, the elimination rate of the Tengda spirit fit test was too low. The heads of each department were reluctant to let the employees they had worked so hard to recruit be eliminated, so they would more or less hint at them, making it easier for them to pass the test.

But in this way, many people passed the test not because of their own feelings about the Tengda spirit, but because of the cramming from the department heads.

President Pei was obviously aware of this, so he required new employees to explain why they chose this option when taking the test.

In this way, it seemed to make sense!

Hao Yun hurriedly said, "Then how do you explain what President Pei said at the dinner?"