Chapter 1269 Are GoG Skins Increasing in Price?

On the afternoon of the 23rd, Pei Qian had already returned to Jingzhou.

Since it was still early before quitting time, and Pei Qian was sitting in business class, he wasn't too tired. So he decided to sit in the office for a bit and see how the various departments were doing recently.

Not long after arriving at the office, someone knocked on the door.

Pei Qian looked up and saw Assistant Xin.

"Hmm? What's up?" Pei Qian asked.

As Tenda Group's scale continued to grow, the role Assistant Xin played in the company was also constantly changing.

In the beginning, Tenda was just a small company, and Pei Qian directly entrusted Assistant Xin with many of the trivial matters of daily operation. So, at that stage, her job was indeed mainly as an assistant.

But as Tenda's scale grew larger and the Human Resources Department's recruitment exams became more standardized, professional teams with large numbers of personnel had been formed in areas such as human resources, administration, and finance. Naturally, Assistant Xin no longer needed to concern herself with these trivial matters.

Thus, her job naturally transformed into coordinating and connecting the various departments, as well as higher-level resource allocation issues. In reality, she was doing the work of a vice president, and her benefits and treatment were also that of a vice president.

It was just that Pei Qian was too used to her, so her nominal position was still assistant. Of course, everyone in Tenda knew that she was definitely more than just an assistant.

Generally speaking, because everyone assumed that President Pei had a clear understanding of the entire Tenda Group, reports were only made on relatively important matters.

Assistant Xin's arrival this time was likely due to some key issues that needed Pei Qian's approval.

Assistant Xin took out a document and handed it over, "President Pei, this is the activity plan for this year's 1024 Digital Festival."

"The overall activities will continue the consistent style of the past, with slight upgrades in benefits."

"However, this year's activities on the GoG side are a bit different from the past. I think it's necessary for you to confirm it."

Pei Qian reached out and took the plan, "Hmm?"

The 1024 Digital Festival was a traditional program retained by Tenda, held every year.

But after all, it was a promotional event, and there were only so many tricks that could be played, making it difficult to come up with new ideas every year.

For most people, tangible discounts were much more important than fancy activities. Making the activities too complicated would be counterproductive.

Since the first year had a good response, Pei Qian had treated this as a routine way to spend money, maximizing the benefits as much as possible, making it even more generous than last year.

After all, it was already a relatively stable activity, so Pei Qian hadn't paid attention to it for a while.

The 1024 Digital Festival involved many departments of Tenda. According to the normal procedure, these departments would first formulate their own activity plans and then summarize them to Assistant Xin.

Now, Assistant Xin had noticed that the GoG activities had changed significantly compared to last year, so she came to ask for instructions.

Pei Qian quickly flipped through the plan and soon found the location of GoG.

The entire plan had a lot of words, giving Pei Qian a slight headache.

After all, the 1024 Digital Festival was held every year, and the activities had to be slightly more diverse than last year, so the content of the activities gradually became richer.

Although Pei Qian had repeatedly ordered that the activities should not be too complicated, that players should not waste too much effort distinguishing how to get the best deals, and that price discrimination should not be used, the accumulation of activities still inevitably led to more content.

The activities on the GoG side were clearly written longer and more complicated than those of other departments.

"This Eric, what is he doing."

"The activities are written so complicated, wouldn't it hurt to look at them? I've already told the people in charge to write the activities simply. This three-page content is too much trouble to look at."

"Oh, you're new here and don't understand the rules, then never mind."

Pei Qian felt a bit of a headache looking at the dense text and clauses.

He even felt like sending it back to Eric to rewrite it, to streamline all the activity clauses.

But on second thought, he dismissed the idea.

Why did he dig Eric over?

Wasn't it because he valued his abilities in this area!

If he dug someone over but didn't let him continue his own way of working, but instead subconsciously used Tenda's set of things to transform him, what was the point of digging him over?

If Eric really "deteriorated" like the others, wouldn't that be a huge loss?

So Pei Qian thought about it, Eric seemed out of place compared to other managers, but that was a good thing.

This meant that Eric was still continuing the tradition of failing before, and had not been assimilated by Tenda. It was only meaningful to dig him over.

Thinking of this, Pei Qian didn't say anything, and forced himself to continue reading.

"Hmm? The price of the activities skins has doubled?"

Among the vast number of clauses, numbers were obviously the easiest to catch the eye, so Pei Qian saw the change in skin prices at a glance.

GoG's skin prices were always consistent: Brave skins were given free after the hero reached the top level of proficiency, Epic skins were 18 yuan, Legendary skins were 45 yuan, and there were also some limited skins with various ways to obtain them.

Later, Min Jingchao created a creative community. For every hero whose creation was officially adopted from players, the first skin was 10% off, the second skin was 50% off, and the third skin was 80% off, valid for one month from the date the skin went on sale.

From then on, GoG skins fully entered the era of bargain prices.

And every time there was an event, these skins were often discounted, 50% off was commonplace, and sometimes even 30% off, so many players felt that skins were so cheap that it was inhuman not to buy them.

Under such a pricing strategy, in fact, the bulk of Tenda's profits were all on some of the hero's legendary skins and limited skins.

Brave skins were all given away for free, not recovering the cost of skin production, completely spending money to attract customers. But at Pei Qian's request, Brave skins were not made less, and would not be only one or two to fool people just because they didn't make money.

Epic skins didn't make much money either, and if they were used to subsidize the cost of Brave skins, they were still basically losing money.

Profits were basically concentrated on some of the popular hero's more cool legendary skins, as well as limited skins during events.

Although Tenda's events were very frequent and the intensity was very high, it did not affect the enthusiasm of players to buy the first release.

Because the intervals between these events were still relatively clear, such as the 1024 Digital Festival was a traditional reserved project, players knew that there would inevitably be an event on this day, and would wait until this day to buy skins.

Tenda's strategy was that if the price of the skin was discounted within a short period of time after buying it, the difference would be refunded. Of course, if the time was longer, it would not be refunded.

So for players, on the one hand, they could be optimistic about buying at each event node, and on the other hand, it was because buying early was to enjoy it early. Even if they bought it a little more expensive, they could either get a refund of the difference, or enjoy it early.

Especially the limited skins of the events, because they were all launched during the various events, there would be no new activities in the short term, and they would not be discounted. When the next event came, it would basically be past the time to make up the difference, so they basically sold for 45 yuan, and the profit was good.

In short, these skins were specially prepared for those players who didn't care much about the price, but liked to buy new skins as soon as possible.

They didn't care about the discount, only cared about getting the latest skins as soon as possible and looking comfortable.

The theme skins for this 1024 Digital Festival had already been completed when Min Jingchao was still there, and had not been announced, just waiting for the 1024 Digital Festival event.

The theme of the skin was "Light and Darkness", one side was an angel theme that looked bright and righteous, and the other side was a dark and evil demon theme.

The theme itself was relatively versatile, and it was easy to make it colorful with some specific heroes, so there was definitely no problem with the quality of the skin.

The problem was the price.

Pei Qian found that the price of the skins had actually increased, from the default cap of 45 yuan to 68 yuan!

Moreover, Tenda usually offered a first-week discount for new skins, although it wasn't very high, it was basically 20% off, which was 36 yuan.

Calculating it this way, the price of the 1024 Digital Festival skins this year was almost doubled!

Pei Qian's first reaction was displeasure.

Wasn't this nonsense!

Selling these skins would all be profits, and if the price increased, how much more money would I make!

The scale of this event was already large, and the GoG event was synchronized globally. Making this money would make me restless...

Pei Qian was about to tell Assistant Xin to send the plan back to Eric to redo it, but on second thought, he once again realized the previous problem.

On the matter of failure, Eric and Zhao Xuming, this golden duo, were professional.

I have to respect the professional opinions of professionals!

It was easy to cut the price back now, but if that happened, the situation of GoG would not change in any way. What was the point of digging Eric and Zhao Xuming over?

Maybe this cut would affect Eric's original thinking and make him fully transform to Tenda's way of working...

No, no, can't do that.

Pei Qian felt that he had to support and encourage Eric's ideas.

Although there would be some pressure to make money in the short term, maybe slowly, Eric could really ruin GoG?

Of course, ruining it would be too optimistic, not very likely, but getting scolded a little and freeing up some living space for IoI, wouldn't that be great?

Thinking of this, Pei Qian decided to spoil Eric this time.

I'll earn this money with tears in my eyes, I hope you don't disappoint me in the future!

"There are no major problems with the plan, let's do it according to this." Pei Qian handed the plan back.

Assistant Xin nodded, not asking too much, "Okay, President Pei."

Today was already the 23rd, and the content of the event would be revealed to players at zero o'clock on the 24th.

Pei Qian decided to stay up a little later tonight to see how the players reacted, and how harshly they scolded.

Of course, even if he was scolded, Eric and Zhao Xuming would probably take the blame.

Because since Eric and Zhao Xuming joined the company, some rumors had been circulating, but some players were unwilling to believe that President Pei would actually dig up such a pair of treasures.

What's the point of digging up a defeated general? It sounds a bit absurd.

But in fact, the rumors were true...

Pei Qian was quite happy instead. If Eric and Zhao Xuming's bad reputation in IoI could help GoG, that would be great!

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October 24, zero o'clock.

The official website of GoG had just refreshed the event, and Pei Qian immediately clicked in to view it.

The name of the event was slightly different from what he had seen on the plan before. The theme written on the plan was "Light and Darkness", but the name of the event on the website for players was "Light Descends".

Perhaps it was because "Light and Darkness" was a bit too straightforward and not suitable as the name of the event, while "Light Descends" sounded more imposing.

The specific description of the event seemed to be about the same as the content of the plan Pei Qian had seen before, but there were big differences in the description.

This was also normal. After all, the plan written for internal use was not the same as the instructions written for players to see. The former was definitely relatively concise and straightforward, while the latter needed some textual modifications to bring players a more polite and respectful feeling.

In addition to the skins, there were some other activities, but these activities were relatively conventional, so Pei Qian directly scrolled down and found the relevant content of the new limited skins.

Price, 68 yuan!

Looking at the comments and feedback from players, as expected, most people's attention was mainly focused on the price of the skins.

And the reaction was quite intense!

"What's going on with the price of these skins? 68 yuan? It's almost twice as expensive as the previous event skins!"

"Could it be that this time the skins are made more cool? Oh, it seems that these skins also have some exclusive in-game activities, but these activities are not considered rewards! I spend money to buy a chance to work hard on the activities? Are you crazy!"

"It's really unreasonable. Isn't the cap for GoG skins 45 yuan? I've never heard of a higher-level skin above the legendary skin?"

"Well, now you've seen it."

"If the quality of the skin is very good, it's okay if it's a little more expensive."

"That's not how it works! If the skin adds some special effects and sells for double the price, wouldn't it be the same as IoI? Before, IoI had a skin price increase that was resisted, wasn't it scolded badly enough? How come GoG is also starting to play this trick?"

"That's right, add some special effects and the price doubles? It's really ugly!"

"You really guessed it right, familiar? This is IoI's set of operations! Rumors have long said that the GoG project team dug up Eric, the original head of IoI. Now it's normal to do some IoI operations, isn't it?"

"Damn! Isn't that a fake melon? Originally, everything was good in the GoG project team, why dig up Eric, this piece of trash? If it weren't for him, could IoI have gone bankrupt so quickly?"

"It's really not a fake melon, many channels have verified it, Eric was indeed dug up by Tenda!"

"This is courting death!"

Many players couldn't calm down, and were even a little indignant.

The price increase of the skin was only one of the reasons, but the main reason was that they didn't trust Eric at all.

Originally, there had been rumors online about Eric taking over as the head of GoG, but most players didn't believe it much, and didn't even pay much attention.

Because they subconsciously felt that this was nonsense?

Dig up this person, are you afraid that your company won't cool down fast enough?

President Pei must know about this level of digging.

With President Pei's brilliance and martial arts, how could he make such a foolish move that players think is unreliable?

But after the 1024 Digital Festival event came out, players began to discuss this matter again.

After the discussion, they found that this melon seemed to be real!

Many channels could verify each other that the head of GoG had indeed been replaced!

Considering IoI's previous series of crazy operations, as well as Eric's not-so-good reputation in the player community, coupled with the fuse of this skin price increase, this contradiction was immediately triggered.

Some players even protested on the forum while calling on everyone not to buy skins, and to resist with practical actions.

As long as the official sees that the players are resisting, and the sales of the skins do not reach expectations, the skins will naturally return to the normal price!