mesbooks #278 - Review the gains from the previous rounds and start a new journey in the VR era (2 in 1 order
#278 - Review the gains from the previous rounds and start a new journey in the VR era (2 in 1 order
However, before officially starting, Lu Yu planned to take stock of the gains from the previous cycles to see what resources he had on hand that he could utilize.
In the first four cycles after obtaining the system, Lu Yu had created a total of 5 games.
《Neko Paradise Adventure》 has exceeded 5 million in total sales.
《My Leisurely Island Life》 has surpassed 4.5 million monthly active users, with a peak concurrent online of 1.5 million.
《Carefree Trash Talk Life》 has surpassed 6 million monthly active users, with a peak concurrent online of 2.2 million.
《Banquet Simulation》 has sold a total of 3.8 million copies.
《Hyperdimensional Moe》 has accumulated 8 million monthly active users, with a peak concurrent online of 3 million.
In addition to the animation licensing fees from Peach Garden Dream Painting, the annual fees for the Peach Garden Kaiwu Engine, and the gift and commercial income from Peach Garden Light Year,
Peach Garden Village achieved a revenue of 650 million yuan last year.
There are currently 140 employees. Originally, he wanted to recruit some 'hidden dragons and crouching phoenixes' to slack off with him, but unexpectedly, he actually recruited 'hidden dragons and crouching phoenixes' in a certain sense.
Thanks to the efforts of these little try-hards,
the company now has a cumulative balance of 350 million yuan!
Lu Yu was thinking about how to spend this money and convert it into as many Leisure Points as possible.
The first thing to do was to find a way to continue recruiting outstanding talents who could generate points.
Because Lu Yu still had a system task hanging over him for the new cycle:
【Surprise Mission 1: The More, The Merrier】
【Mission Requirements: In the new settlement cycle, the host needs to earn points from no less than 300 Peach Garden Village employees, with each employee earning at least 100 points】
【Mission Success Reward: 30,000 Leisure Points】
【Mission Failure Penalty: Deduct 30,000 points from the host】
【This mission has been automatically accepted and cannot be abandoned】
In other words, these hundreds of newly recruited employees must be able to live a leisurely life and continuously contribute points to him.
Earning 30,000 points at once is secondary; the difficulty of this mission lies in the fact that he must treat everyone equally and ensure that no one gets caught up in the rat race.
Therefore, Lu Yu recently took advantage of his vacation to investigate the gaming industry news and technology industry news in this world.
As a result, he was determined to find a way to acquire a VR hardware development team and develop a VR gaming device from scratch.
In fact, according to his experience in his previous life, the safest way would definitely be to find an outsourced design team for OEM production.
That way, Peach Garden Village could just focus on developing VR games.
But he insisted on going the other way!
The reason he wanted to directly acquire a hardware team was simple:
If it was just brand cooperation, then the team's daily work would not be under his control at all.
Considering the background of this world, in order to live up to him as the financial backer and other investors, those hardware teams would probably work their lives out.
Moreover, Moore's Law has failed in this world. The whole world is now in a stage of technological explosion, especially in the field of virtual reality, where new technology news headlines are appearing almost every day.
Lu Yu felt that it wouldn't be long before things like virtual game cockpits would appear.
However, precisely because technology is developing too fast, the possibility of startup teams creating hit products has also been magnified!
If the team is under his control, then he can lead them to slack off and make a mediocre enough product.
He insists on going against the grain when it comes to cutting-edge technology!
Anyway, his purpose in hiring these people is just to earn Leisure Points.
Thinking of this happily, Lu Yu first called Li Hongmei to him:
"Sister Li, the company will be expanding again soon. We need to expand to 300 people. You may have to work a little harder in the next few days. We need to prepare some new interview questions and methods..."
"..."
Li Hongmei nodded silently.
As an old employee of Peach Garden Village, she was already used to President Lu's bizarre interview methods.
Originally, she also felt that this kind of interview was simply a child's play, but she didn't expect that President Lu could always unexpectedly recruit outstanding talents. She had to admire him.
"Oh, right, President Lu, there are two new people joining the company recently, one from the game development business line and one from the live broadcast business line. Please take a look, President Lu."
Li Hongmei handed over the resumes of the two.
The names on them were:
Wan Jia
Liu Ying (stage name: Jellybean)
Lu Yu rubbed his head: "I think these two people look quite normal. Why do I need to take a look?"
Li Hongmei:
"It's just to ask you if you want to do a background check.
This Wan Jia is the brother of Miss Wan Xiaotong, and that Liu Ying used to be a trainee colleague in the same idol group as Miss Tang Wanru.
After all, according to the business habits of my previous company, we would do some investigation in this situation."
Lu Yu waved his hand: "It doesn't matter. We should recommend people without regard to their personal connections. The company treats all outstanding talents equally."
Originally, he was worried that this Wan Jia used to be a planner at Mi Leyou. Was he going to start the rat race?
But now, after hearing that he was Wan Xiaotong's brother, he felt relieved.
He believed that the power of genes was strong, and this brother was probably not a normal person either.
There's definitely no problem letting him in.
After instructing Li Hongmei on her work, Lu Yu called Xia Shangyu over.
This girl, Xia Shangyu, had been idle for more than a month since she jumped ship from the Liu Group.
Every day, she was either tasting Teacher Fan Jing's cooking in the restaurant or going to the underground hot spring to take care of her health. Lu Yu didn't have any tasks to give her, and her salary and year-end bonus were still paid as usual. This kind of fairy-like life had already made this girl plump and fair.
"Sister Xia, I have an important task to give you. This task is related to the future development of the entire company. After thinking about it, only you can handle it."
Seeing Lu Yu raise the tone so high, Xia Shangyu instantly looked serious.
"President Lu, don't worry, I will definitely use my professional experience and connections over the years to recruit outstanding talents for our company."
This girl had been eating and drinking for free at the company for more than a month. Now, it was time to return the favor and show herself.
Otherwise, she was really afraid that she would become completely lazy.
"Hey, Sister Xia, don't be so nervous. This is actually just a small task, very simple. The company is going to enter the VR gaming field, and we want to build a VR device development team.
As you know, we used to make game software, and we don't know anything about hardware, so directly acquiring an existing team is the best.
So, I hope you, the ace headhunter, can help me find mediocre startup teams in the VR industry that are half-dead..."
"??????"
Xia Shangyu suspected that she had misheard and quickly interrupted: "President Lu, did you make a mistake?"
"I didn't make a mistake. This is exactly what I need."
Lu Yu specially emphasized with a smile:
"You must ensure that the team you find doesn't go to two extremes. They can't be too good, and they can't go bankrupt immediately. The best is the kind of team that is half-dead, taking investors' money and slacking off.
Moreover, the products they make are almost visibly mediocre and lazy...
The more the team you find meets my above requirements, the more I will give you performance bonuses and year-end bonuses.
Don't find me very promising teams. If the team you find looks like they're all hyped-up, try-hard entrepreneurs, I might deduct your performance bonus."
"..."
Xia Shangyu was completely silent.
She had been in the human resources industry and the commercial headhunting industry for so many years, and she had never heard of such bizarre requirements.
But Lu Yu felt that recruiting this kind of team was the safest.
It was even better to recruit these old failures than to recruit new people, because new people were fearless and might create a hit product while working behind closed doors.
It was this kind of old, slick team that kept trying and failing, and finally became completely disheartened and mixed days, that was the most suitable!
He could almost imagine that after recruiting this group of people into the company, they would definitely be thinking of ways to make up stories on PPT to fool investors every day, and then secretly slack off when they were at work.
If it were him in his previous life, he would hate this kind of employee and wish they would work overtime until they vomited blood, so that they could realize the dangers of society,
but now, everything has changed, and he wishes these people would slack off, the more comfortable the better!
Plan complete!
"??????"
Xia Shangyu was shocked, "President Lu, to be honest with you, I don't understand..."
"I have my own plans, just do as I say."
Lu Yu smiled without saying a word, leaving the other party with a deep back view.
The latest novel is first published on Liu Jiu Shu Ba!
……
Xia Shangyu left the company in a daze to complete the task. After Lu Yu sat back at his workstation, Liu Mengyuan asked curiously:
"Is the company recruiting new people?"
"Yes." Lu Yu nodded, "First of all, our old business lines need to be replenished, otherwise the old employees will be too tired. Secondly, I also want to try a different way of lying... oh no, I mean, a different field."
He coughed lightly, good fellow, he almost let it slip.
Liu Mengyuan nodded slightly.
It should be said that Lu Yu's round of recruitment was exactly what she wanted!
Because at this time, she also had a system task hanging over her:
【Surprise Mission 1: Study Hard】
【Mission Requirements: In the new settlement cycle, the host needs to earn work-related proficiency points from no less than 300 Peach Garden Village employees, with each employee earning at least 50 points】
【Mission Success Reward: Energetic Girl】
【Reward Description: This buff lasts for 120 days. During this period, the host will only awaken skills related to career development, and confidence in career development will be improved.】
【Mission Failure Penalty: Dark Succubus】
【Reward Description: This debuff lasts for 120 days. The host will only awaken skills related to combat, and the probability of war between the two parties will be greatly increased when alone with the object.】
【This mission has been automatically accepted and cannot be abandoned】
In other words, these hundreds of newly recruited employees must be able to work hard and continuously contribute proficiency points to her.
Earning 30,000 points at once is secondary; the difficulty of this mission lies in the fact that she must treat everyone equally. She must ensure that everyone in the company can devote themselves to work. Once there is a fish that slips through the net, the mission will fail.
She opened the document and smiled slightly when she saw the company system she had drafted before.
If I manage so hard, Lu Yu will be very happy, right.
……
After the Spring Festival, the development of the industry was indeed as Lu Yu expected.
The VR equipment development industry ushered in a golden period of booming development, and market demand increased substantially.
The technological explosion brought about the rapid development of virtual reality technology,
and technology giants around the world, such as Google, Facebook, and Apple, have invested in the research and development and production of VR equipment, forming fierce competition.
Some emerging technology companies in Silicon Valley have also emerged.
Even some new products that seem to have no design sense have become hot commodities on the market because they can bring amazing VR experiences.
Some domestic players even asked scalpers to buy high-end headsets from overseas.
Seeing that the market was so hot, domestic investors couldn't sit still. They flocked to the VR equipment industry almost like a swarm of bees.
Many media and experts have begun to publish forecast articles:
《VR is likely to be the beginning of a new era for mankind》
《If you haven't started to get in touch with VR now, then you are likely to be eliminated by the times in the future》
《A high-end player's confession: After trying VR, I don't want to stay in the real world anymore》
On the stock market, all VR concept stocks are all red, and some newly issued stocks are even hard to find!
This VR whirlwind quickly spread from the technology field to the game field.
Many game developers are enthusiastic and invest in the development of VR games, and begin to try new ways to combine game mechanisms with VR equipment.
Not long after this whirlwind hung up, Liu Group publicly announced that it would enter the VR field with a large amount of funds.
As a world's top 500 company, the Liu Group's move into VR was so large that the entire industry was stunned.
Liu Group invested a huge amount of 10 billion yuan in the early stage to establish a VR research and development industry base in Shenzhen.
Through the layout of the industrial chain vertical integration, it covers the entire industrial chain from hardware manufacturing to software development and content production.
The group also announced a strategic cooperation with technology giants in Silicon Valley to share patent technology results.
In order to highlight that it is not short of money, the Liu Group also imitated the practice in the game field and launched an internal horse racing mechanism.
The group invested a large number of VR startup studios at one time, allowing them to compete freely in the incubation base!
Until someone can develop the most high-end VR head display.
In the game field, Liu Group also let the major studios within Youyi recruit troops and conduct internal horse racing, until a new hit VR game can be rolled out.
……
Just as everyone inside and outside the industry thought that Liu Group was about to be invincible, a new behemoth appeared.
Longteng Group, controlled by the Pei family, announced its entry into the VR equipment field and competed head-on with Liu Group!
First, the group splurged 20 billion to acquire a piece of land around Jianghai City, several times larger than the Liu Corporation's VR base, to serve as its own industrial incubation hub.
Subsequently, the group's scouts began traveling around the country, buying up companies regardless of whether they seemed reliable or not, as long as their designs involved related business, in a mindless buying spree, attempting to bottom-fish and monopolize the entire industry.
Soon after, news spread online that Longteng Group was aggressively headhunting with high salaries, trying to poach the core VR technology talent from Liu Corporation.
With land and personnel secured, Longteng Group began suppressing Liu Corporation's supply chain, collaborating with supply chain enterprises to restrict the supply of hardware equipment to Liu Corporation and increase its production costs.
The group even announced that it would take the lead in establishing an industry association to formulate industry standards, in order to seize the initiative in the standard-setting process and leave Liu Corporation with no way out.
After that, it even launched a patent war against Liu Corporation internationally.
Finally, Longteng Group brought out the price war tactics from traditional industries, announcing in advance, before the products were even made, that it would launch ultra-low-priced VR devices, claiming to be "the first VR for young people."
This intense VR field business war stunned the onlookers inside and outside the entire industry.
Good heavens, hundreds of billions were invested within a few days, it's truly a battle of immortals.
But these news did not cause any ripples in Lu Yu's heart.
You big shots continue, I am different from you, I am on the slacking track.
......
A few days later, Xia Shangyu happily came to the workstation:
"President Lu, I have mobilized my contacts and finally found a team that meets your requirements. Don't worry, they are absolutely mediocre, the most mediocre you can find."
Lu Yu was overjoyed upon hearing this: "Quickly bring them over, let me take a look!"