To become the richest man from the beginning of the game

Chapter 475 Take the road of Qiao Laoshui, leaving him nowhere to go

October 4, Wednesday.

After two days of struggle, Pei Qian finally wrote the general plot outline of "Struggle".

The plot of the game can be roughly divided into several major stages: birth, school, exam, work, love, marriage, house purchase, childbirth, midlife crisis, etc.

This is an overall big process. Although the poor and the rich have the same stage, the things they experience are completely different.

For example, from birth to school, the children of the rich have a nanny to take care of them. When they grow up, they can play happily in a mansion. The toys they buy are very expensive, and they can hire very high-end tutors to get a good preschool education;

Children from poor families do not have these conveniences at all. They can only watch TV and picture books at home, and their parents can only entertain themselves and play alone after going to work.

The other big stages are similar. In short, you can imagine what kind of plot it will be.

Everything goes wrong for the poor, but nothing goes wrong for the rich.

In order to let players feel the gap between the two more clearly, Pei Qian also considers adding some quantifiable data into the game, such as the player's current knowledge (professional knowledge, financial awareness, etc.), emotional intelligence (people, friends, etc.) , mental health, specific material wealth and so on.

On the surface, these data will affect the player's game options. For example, a rich person's financial awareness can speed up his accumulation of material wealth, his emotional intelligence can make him more likely to make friends with noble people, and his mental health can make it easier for him to adjust his mood at work. There will be problems due to excessive pressure...

But that's only scratching the surface.

In fact, they only affect some insignificant sidelines, not the final ending at all.

The reason why Pei Qian did this is very simple. If the gameplay can reflect the final ending, how can you disgust the players?

If the poor can counterattack and the rich can avoid the fate of being killed, wouldn't it be a fun tour?

Absolutely not!

Moreover, the setting of "on the surface you can choose, but in fact you can't choose" is considered a failure in the game industry. Most games will be scolded for doing this.

The progress in the game only reaches the prime of life, that is, about 50 years old.

According to the Analects of Confucius, at thirty one is established, at forty there is no confusion, at fifty one knows the destiny.

For Pei Qian, if he chooses a time point for rich players to be killed, 50 years old is the most suitable.

Too early, the game content is not enough; too late, disgusting people.

The 50-year-old rich man is in the prime of life when his career is taking off. He has obtained a very good living environment, and most of them have a good marriage and promising children. Death at this time should be the most unacceptable time for players.

And the poor...at the age of 50, their life is basically finalized, and the characteristics similar to their parents have already appeared in their children, and this cycle of poverty has also begun to emerge.

In short, it is just right to end the game at this age.

Of course, in addition to these fixed life processes, some emergencies will also be added during the game.

For example: car accidents, illnesses, school bullying by children, cheating on buying a house, natural disasters, etc.

These emergencies will also slightly change the flow of the game, and at the same time clearly show the gap in the ability of the poor and the rich to resist risks in the face of these emergencies.

Having learned the lesson of "Game Producer", Pei Qian does not plan to do any narration this time.

All content in the game does not contain any emotional color, all dialogues and behaviors are as objective as possible, and will never induce players to have rebellious psychology.

In addition, in order to prevent people with "ulterior motives" from forcibly deepening their thinking, Pei Qian set the rich and the poor as two individuals who have no intersection at all.

In the end it was a tramp who killed the rich man, who had nothing to do with the poor.

Even the tramp himself is not the simple, kind, poor man that most people imagine. He has hands and feet but is idle and lazy. He kills the rich just because of money, not out of any noble reason to resist oppression.

The rich people that the poor can get in touch with, such as his superiors and bosses, are completely irrelevant to the protagonist in the rich man's version, and he has never had any thoughts of rebellion.

Try not to give rise to the easily misunderstood ideas of "the rich oppressing the poor" and "the poor rebelling against the rich".

In addition, there is another most important issue, which is how to prevent the confidant Qiao Laoshi from over-interpreting the game.

Regarding this point, Pei Qian thought hard and finally came up with a solution.

Officially forced to kill colleagues!

I read it in advance, so if you read it, no one will listen to it?

How can you backstab me when no one is listening?

Pei Qian can roughly guess from which angles Qiao Laoshi might interpret it. It is nothing more than the gap between the rich and the poor, the Matthew effect, the unreasonable distribution of social wealth, and the solidification of classes. If the brain circuit is more peculiar, maybe it can be analyzed Poor people have no awareness of financial management and are short-sighted. Why don't rich people eat meat and can't understand the vicious circle of life after falling to the bottom...

In short, the topic of the gap between the rich and the poor has been discussed badly all over the world. If you think about it, there are still many topics that can be brought up.

Pei Qian decided to expose these problems in advance as soon as the game is released.

Follow Qiao Laoshi's path, leaving Qiao Laoshi nowhere to go!

Of course, Pei Qian was not stupid enough to stab himself in the back. Although he wanted to expose these problems officially, he was definitely not doing it like Qiao Laoshi.

In the same way, the key is how to say it.

Like Qiao Laoshi, quoting extensively from sources, citing classics, and forcing value and depth, it will definitely appear particularly bluffing and easy to resonate.

And Pei Qian planned to say all these points in plain language and in a simple way, no matter how dry it was.

It is even possible to induce players to have some erroneous views in the game, for example, use two fixed endings to induce them to have misunderstandings such as "the producer has a wrong idea that 'classes can never be crossed' and 'fatalism'".

This principle is like telling a joke.

Qiao Laoshi told jokes, danced and danced, and created enough suspense first, and then after the burden was shaken out, the audience exploded, producing excellent effects.

Pei Qian, on the other hand, didn't lay the groundwork at all, and just came up and threw the burden on the ground.

In this way, the audience has long known what this burden is, no matter how you Qiao Laoshi create atmosphere, create suspense, no matter how much you talk about it, this burden is impossible to ring!

Pei Qian felt that his behavior was like marking "This person is the murderer" directly on the first page of a comic book, and it would definitely make it impossible for Qiao Laoshi to make a new series of videos of "The Work of the Gods" !

The more Pei Qian thought about it, the more satisfied he became, and he felt that he was a genius!

After everything was completed, Pei Qian sent the outline of the game's plot to Hu Xianbin for him to expand.

At the same time, different characters in the game need to use different motion capture actors, all of whom must be foreigners, and they must be scouted in advance.

Pei Qian didn't bother to take care of these things, and handed them all over to Hu Xianbin. Anyway, it would be better if things go wrong when the time comes.

It's done beautifully... That's okay, as long as you firmly grasp the plot of the game and don't go astray!

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October 4th, Thursday.

Pei Qian came to the office on time after lunch.

Yesterday afternoon, he had already sent Hu Xianbin the plot outline of "Struggle", and sent a message to Lin Wan about the ioi national server, asking her to meet He Desheng.

Pei Qian didn't have any good ideas about what to do with the ioi national server.

The possibility of making changes to the game is almost non-existent, and it is difficult to lower the pricing of heroes and skins. After all, Yuanmeng Ventures only holds [-]% of Zhitou’s shares and does not have that much say.

From the point of view of the game's charging model, ioi is indeed less friendly than GOG. After all, GOG is free for all heroes, and the price of skins is several times lower than ioi.

However, Pei Qian felt that this should not be a big deal. There are quite a few people playing ioi in China now, and they already have a certain player base.

The biggest problem for them is not the selling price, but the network problem.

Using the accelerator to connect to the international server of ioi is too slow, and it is impossible to communicate with foreign teammates in the game.

As soon as the national server comes out, these people will definitely switch to the national server as soon as possible, so there is no need to worry about the start of the ioi national server version. With the ability of the group of people from Shangyang Games, they can take off with a little operation.

Having settled the two game departments for the time being, Pei Qian felt that the pressure on him was greatly relieved.

However, even so cannot be taken lightly, because there are still many things waiting for him to deal with.

"Tuk Tuk Tuk."

There was a knock on the door outside the office, it was Assistant Xin.

"Mr. Pei, this is the survey report on the fitness industry in Jingzhou City that you want. If you don't want to read the data, you can turn to the last page directly, and there is a conclusion."

Pei Qian nodded and took the investigation report from Assistant Xin.

I casually flipped through two pages, and there was indeed a lot of data and technical terms in front of it, which I really couldn't understand.

Pei Qian turned to the last page very calmly, and asked while reading the survey conclusions: "So, overall, are the gyms in Jingzhou making money or not?"

Assistant Xin thought for a moment: "It also makes money, and it doesn't make money. The key depends on how it works."

Pei Qian: "Huh? Tell me in detail."

Assistant Xin obviously has some understanding of the current situation of the fitness industry. In the past few days, he has received the task of Mr. Pei and conducted an in-depth investigation of the fitness industry in Jingzhou. He is completely familiar with these contents.

"To put it simply, due to the current level of economic development in our country, most people do not have the habit of going to the gym regularly. Even those who have the habit of exercising often cannot afford the expenses of those high-end gyms."

"The super-first-tier cities have a lot of white-collar workers, and the situation will be better. Jingzhou is a second-tier city, and this problem is especially obvious."

"Considering the expenses of venue rental, equipment, labor, water and electricity, heating and cooling, fire protection and other aspects of opening a gym, the low-cost membership strategy adopted by many gyms for Dora customers is difficult to support daily operations, let alone create enough Much profit."

"From this point of view, gyms don't make money. Many closed gyms closed down because they couldn't make ends meet. The greater the investment, the greater the marketing pressure."

"However, gyms that really make money also earn a lot. The main way is to find those high-net-worth clients to sell private lessons. The more you sell, the more you earn."

"The primary task of personal trainers in most gyms is not to teach students well, but to sell more classes. The internal group of private trainers is similar to the marketing group. Whoever sells more classes will be sought after."

"In short, the gym model that makes money now is to apply for more cards, especially for newcomers to apply for annual cards. Newcomers have no fitness habits at all, and it is difficult to stick to it. If you do not get a card, the gym will only make money."

"At the same time, the low-cost fitness card attracts as many customers as possible, and then the personal trainers start to show their talents, find high-net-worth customers and trick them into offering private training classes, and earn the bulk of the profits from here."

"There are other tricks, such as a free test for the first time. Modern people have health problems to some extent. Private schools deliberately exaggerate these health problems and take the opportunity to sell courses."

"In short, I don't deny that there are more conscientious gyms in this industry, but generally speaking, there are chaos and not very standardized."

"Many consumers who go to the gym are also extremely disgusted with these chaos, but the reasons for this situation are more complicated and cannot be changed in a short time."

"Boss Pei, if you want to enter this industry, it is of course a good thing for the industry itself, but these objective problems must be given more consideration."

"Even for you, it is not so easy to start a high-end and conscientious gym brand from scratch."

(End of this chapter)