Losing Money to Be a Tycoon - Chapter 60
Chapter 60: 888 Epic Weapon?!
Huang Sibo could not help but feel both elated and amused.
So, that was why!
He had nearly forgotten that Lin Wan was working on Bullet Hole, a FPS game, when she was at Sun Strike Studios!
Back then, Lin Wan was just an intern with not much working experience. That was why Zhou Muyan arranged for here to merely be a liaison with the FPS game testers.
Those testers did not have to work physically at Sun Strike Studios. All they had to do was receive the test kit from home and experience the game.
Next, they would detail out their experience of the game and send it to Lin Wan as a suggestion where she would arrange them and redirect it to the project team.
Through those opinions, the project team would work on improving Bullet Hole.
Naturally, since Sun Strike Studios was so rich, they would pay a testing fee unlike at Tengda where Huang Sibo was trying to get it for free.
As she reined in the suggestions, Lin Wan would chat with them from time to time and before long, they were acquainted.
In other words, the people that Tengda required right now were practically the fruits of labor planted by Sun Strike Studios…
The only thing Huang Sibo could say for such an effortless reward was…
Great!
“Please help to contact them! If possible, try to get more of the gamers who like FPS games to come and test. Every tester will receive a limited edition Desert Eagle as an in-game reward.”
“Also, we’ll consider giving better rewards for those gamers that manage to introduce the game to others. If they can pull 100 gamers in, we can give them a permanent epic weapon!”
“Or maybe you can pick out some of the exceptional testers to give them the epic weapons as a reward.”
Huang Sibo was already being conservative about it.
Even though he did not give cash as a reward, he had management authority of the backend as the chief planner to give gamers guns and rewards.
Even though the epic weapons were expensive at 888 each, they were nothing but in-game data for the gaming company.
If those gamers could get 100 other gamers each or manage to test out some game-breaking bug, it was only right to give those people a permanent epic weapon.”
“Alright, leave it to me!” Lin Wan agreed to it right away.
This was the first task she received at Tengda and it wasn’t difficult. Therefore, she had to try her best!
Lin Wan contacted those group leaders right away.
The first group leader’s online nickname was Buried Halberd
His original name was Chen Sha and he was a veteran of FPS games. Within the circle for Counter Strike, he was quite a famous figure and was the leader of a gamer group(Or rather, that was a group of his fans).
His group had over 2,000 people and many of them were extremely active.
Sun Strike Studios valued Chen Sha’s opinions highly and he had personally recommended many of the changes.
However, Lin Wan only knew of his name and a gut feeling that he was someone who did not lack money in real life. Other than that, she did not know the details of his life such as what job he held and whatnot.
“Old Chen, stop lurking around and help me test a game!” Lin Wan was closer to Chen Sha and thus she got right into the topic without any polite exchanges.
Before long, the other party replied.
“Isn’t Bullet Hole already done with its testing and is about to be published? They’re asking for more stuff to be tested?” Chen Sha asked casually.
Lin Wan explained herself, “It’s not Bullet Hole, it’s another game. Right, I forgot to tell you but I resigned from Sun Strike Studios.”
“… What kind of a show are you putting on by quitting right as the game’s about to be published? I heard that employees of the development team get a lot of reward money after a game gets published. Aren’t you pitting yourself against money?”
“The reward money’s not important. Let me tell you… the company I’m at is much better than Sun Strike Studios! Alright, enough with the nonsense. Help me test this game I have!” Lin Wan pushed.
“Alright. Is the price still the same as Sun Strike Studios at 500 yuan per round of testing?”
“Oh, not really. After the testing, we’ll give you a limited edition in-game Desert Eagle as a reward,” Lin Wan replied matter of factly.
The other party did not reply for a long time.
Chen Sha was stumped.
‘What’s the meaning of this? Isn’t the difference way too great?’
‘Aren’t you just trying to make use of me for free?!’
When Chen Sha helped Sun Strike Studios to test their game, it did not matter how many issues he listed out per testing. As long as there was even a single issue, he would get 500 yuan of reward money.
He was a god tier player after all and could sense the differences in hand sensitivity that normal gamers could not; his opinion was invaluable.
Bullet Hole was a game that was made for veteran players and Chen Sha was almost the representative of that group of players. As such, it was only normal for him to be slightly more.
Of course, 500 yuan WAS slightly expensive. It was understandable if this new company was not willing to pay that amount.
But there should at least be a token sum of 400 or even 300?
Yet, the only reward was an in-game limited edition Desert Eagle?!
Was this a joke? Who would care for that lousy Desert Eagle?!
That was nothing but made up in-game data!
Even though Chen Sha was slightly annoyed, he did not blow up in anger due to his ties with Lin Wan.
“Say, isn’t this new company way too stingy? They’re not even giving me a single cent for the testing? Aren’t they just trying to get free labor?” Chen Sha was speechless.
“Stingy? No, no! I guarantee with my character at stake that this company’s definitely not stingy. Not only are they not stingy, they are incredibly generous!”
“Ugh… I know that it may not be really convincing right now, but I’m definitely not trying to scam you!”
“How about this? As long as you’re willing to test it seriously, I’ll apply on my side to give you a permanent epic weapon on top of the limited edition Desert Eagle as a reward. How about that?” Lin Wan was trying her best to persuade Chen Sha.
He was still totally unmoved. “Are you crazy? Who cares about a weapon for this game? Besides, how much can a permanent epic weapon cost? 200 at max? That’s still way too far from my expected rate! I’ll tell you right now that you can forget about anything below 300.”
“From what I know, the permanent epic weapons are selling at 888 in game…” Lin Wan thought for a moment before replying.
Chen Sha: “?”
“??”
“How much did you say it was?”
“888? Is it in-game currency or yuan?”
Lin Wan replied, “Yuan, of course!”
Chen Sha inched closer to his computer screen and checked through things properly.
Indeed, there was no decimal point between the 888!
Nuts! These guys are nuts!
Selling an epic weapon at 888 yuan?
This was just daylight robbery!
Which idiot would buy them at such a high price?!
Why did it seem as though the company that created this game was getting less and less trustworthy…
Chen Sha did not reply for a long time.
Two minutes later, he replied, “Send the game to me. I’ll take a look at it. Let me tell you first, don’t blame me for not being a friend if the game is truly too trashy and I refuse to help.”
In truth, Chen Sha was not convinced by Lin Wan’s words.
He was just purely curious as to what an epic weapon that cost 888 would look like…
“The game’s name is called Ocean Stronghold and you can already download it from the official games platform,” Lin Wan was filled with confidence. “Don’t worry. Even though I haven’t tried it myself, I’m sure that it’ll be an extremely successful game because the person who created it is the most ambitious and talented designer domestically!”
Chen Sha: “…”
He was skeptical about the description ‘most ambitious and talented designer’.
Most of all, he was speechless at the name of that game – Ocean Stronghold.
The moment he saw that name, there was an ominous feeling that the game would be extremely lousy…
