“You got the desired end-product you guys wanted; what’s there to be bitter about?”
Huang Sibo felt a little warmth in him, “Boss Pei, thank you…”
The two of them couldn’t help but sigh with emotion. If these words had come from someone else, they might have thought that the words were rather fake. However, when it came from Boss Pei, it felt so earnest and real!
Perhaps this was what distinguished Boss Pei from other bosses. He really had a heart bigger than ordinary people and great foresight and wide horizons!
Pei Qian smiled slightly, “Don’t doubt yourselves.
“So what if you guys were doing something you loved without looking forward to gaining? As long as this documentary can gain enough traction and a consensus from players, that would mean that Fei Huang Workspace was on the right track!
“Are you guys out of a filming budget for the next piece? Don’t worry, just tell me how much you guys are lacking!”
Pei Qian was delighted with his unexpected good fortune.
Huang Sibo and Zhu Xiaoce had probably almost used up the profits from before to film this documentary; they didn’t seem to have much left.
Pei Qian could use this as a reason to give them more money, for them to continue to spend!
Of course, this would be during the next cycle.
“Boss Pei, it’s not only that we don’t have a budget anymore for filming.” Zhu Xiaoce sighed slightly, “Actually, we had used all our existing funds and even our own money first; but we realized it wasn’t enough. We actually still owe our employees a month’s worth of pay…”
“Good!” Pei Qian said loudly.
Zhu Xiaoce was stunned, “?”
Pei Qian coughed two times. “You guys have done well. This shows that your employees are of one heart and one mind with you two! Under this tough situation, no one had thought of quitting. This shows that Fei Huang Workspace has become a mature team that can withstand challenges!
“You guys shouldn’t use your own money first at all. Go look for Assistant Xin. However much you guys are lacking or need to be repaid, it will all be given.”
“No, wait. That might not be sufficient. Delaying the payment of wages is not a good thing; we’ll pay them their wages with interest as well. We cannot mistreat our supportive brothers!”
Huang Sibo was stunned. “Boss Pei, this isn’t appropriate, right? I have never heard of people paying late wages with interest before…”
Pei Qian shook his hand, asking Huang Sibo to stop talking
“Huang Sibo. What films you guys want to shoot or how you guys want to fight and challenge yourselves, I do not care. However, I cannot allow anything that might sully the image of our company!
“For employees that went through hard times together with Tengda, we cannot allow them to be discouraged, understand?”
Boss Pei spoke so righteously.
Huang Sibo was so touched tears welled up in his eyes.
This was… the warmth of a family!
Regardless of how much one might have suffered or how many setbacks one might have experienced outside, returning to Tengda was like returning home. One would never need to worry; Tengda and Boss Pei would be their backing!
Seeing Boss Pei looking and not seeming to mind that they had used up so much money, Huang Sibo and Zhu Xiaoce felt like a huge burden had been lifted off their shoulders.
Pei Qian asked, “Are you guys still intending to do a documentary for the next project?”
Huang Sibo shook his head, “As for this, we haven’t decided yet. We’ll wait for this documentary to be uploaded and see the response first. However, we probably wouldn’t continue with this theme. It’s not because we can’t make money from this but because we have already shot many things we wanted to showcase.
“We might change a new theme to shoot.”
Pei Qian nodded, “En, go ahead and experiment. If you guys are out of money, just say the word.”
After chatting for a while longer, Pei Qian suddenly thought of something.
“Oh, right, how’s Chen Lei doing?”
Although Pei Qian had already sent Chen Lei to Shanghai, Pei Qian was still a little worried. Chen Lei was really talented and Pei Qian was very afraid that he might pull a stunt, and so he thought of asking.
“I’m not so sure. As per your request, I have helped him to settle his food and accommodation. However, as we have been busy shooting and he had been running around in Shanghai, we haven’t interacted much.
“We had wanted to ask him to sing the closing song for the documentary. However, as we didn’t have enough budget and couldn’t find an appropriate song, we didn’t raise this up with him.”
Huang Sibo tried to make conversation as he elaborated.
Pei Qian’s heart had skipped a beat, and then it went back to normal very soon.
That scared me a little!
Fortunately, Huang Sibo had not discussed with Chen Lei to pay him to sing the closing song. If Chen Lei had really done so, there might have been trouble!
Although this documentary wouldn’t make money, its theme and the effort put into the filming were definitely going to attract many viewers!
If that happened and Chen Lei suddenly grew famous over the web and was talent-scouted and that had a positive effect on Fei Huang Workspace…
The consequences would be unimaginable!
Luckily, none of this had happened.
Of course, it wasn’t that Pei Qian didn’t want Chen Lei to do well. He just wanted Chen Lei to wait a little while and not become famous in this cycle, so that Chen Lei wouldn’t implicate Pei Qian.
You can become famous in your own time and on your own; please do not bring that fame to me!
“How about now?” Pei Qian continued to ask.
Huang Sibo thought for a moment, “He is probably still looking for opportunities now in Shanghai. If Boss Pei wants to know more, I could call him to ask.”
Pei Qian raised his hand, “There’s no need for that; I’m just casually asking.”
As long as Chen Lei wasn’t going to affect the settlement this time, everything else was fine.
On the side, Zhu Xiaoce sighed with emotion.
Boss Pei was really so caring for each of his employees!
Regarding Chen Lei, Zhu Xiaoce had heard some things about him.
Chen Lei had been a resident singer in Fish-Catching Internet Cafe; he had actually generated much profit for the cafe. If it was any other boss, they would have kept a firm hold over Chen Lei, treating him like a chicken laying golden eggs and not allowing him to leave.
However, Boss Pei had done the exact opposite. He had not restrained and stopped Chen Lei from pursuing his dreams by keeping him at Fish-Catching Internet Cafe but had forked out money to send him to Shanghai so that he could look for better opportunities on a bigger stage!
This probably would not benefit Boss Pei at all in any way; it was completely altruistic.
Even now, Boss Pei still cared about Chen Lei who was far away in Shanghai; what a caring
spirit!
Boss Pei was always so heartwarming.
Chapter 174 - Nearing Settlement, a Scare Turned out to be Nothing
On June 21st, Fei Huang Workspace’s documentary Coming Out of the Cocoon as a Butterfly was officially released on Aili Island!
As a documentary, Coming Out of the Cocoon as a Butterfly had not been embedded into any commercials and had not been entered into any profit-sharing agreements with any sites. If it was based on Aili Island’s ordinary incentive plan-even if the viewership hit a million, income earned would only be a few thousand; that was peanuts.
Hence, Huang Sibo and Zhu Xiaoce had more or less given up on this idea and had just gone ahead doing something they loved without looking forward to gaining from it.
As Fei Huang Workspace had previously released the Boss Pei’s Daily Life series and already had a huge group of fans-once this documentary was released, it immediately a
ttracted wide attention!
In the video, Li Zhengwei faced the camera as he talked tirelessly about his life journey over so many years.
“After my dad left, I kicked open the door and ran away. I went to Shanghai alone to start my career proper.
“Coming to think of it, I did not regret this choice. I felt that I had been born to compete online; if I had followed life’s course and went to work, got married, and had kids; I might be living my entire life in great regret.
“I’m not like those second-generation people born with a golden spoon in their mouths. My luck was not so good, and I was born in a rather poor family. However, from another perspective, my luck wasn’t bad. I chose something that I liked and had made a name for myself.
“However, I do not recommend for youngsters to follow in my footsteps.
“After I started my career and became successful, many people actually asked me regarding this. My answer has always been the same…
“If you have really decided, then you shouldn’t ask me this question. You would be just like me at the beginning, kicking open the door and living. Also, you would firmly believe without a doubt from then on that this was your dream; and you would fight for it till the end.
“If you need my advice before you can make up your mind, my suggestion would be to first make sure of something: Are you afraid of studying and so you want to escape that by doing this; or do you truly understand the price you have to pay by choosing to become a professional gamer?”
Very quickly, a huge number of players started to leave messages in the comments section.
“So fast!”
“I was still asking why Fei Huang Workspace had stopped filming Boss Pei’s Daily Life. They actually had this lined-up!”
“This documentary seems to be very classy; it seems like it was a massive production!”
“It actually is a documentary about the professional gamer I love the most; I must support this!”
“I have not thought that a career gamer’s life is so bitter and tough. To kick open the door, leave, and try to be a professional gamer. Fortunately, he had managed to gain his parents’ approval after he made it big.”
“Brother Li’s every sentence is so earnest and honest.”
“This documentary is really meaningful. I have a brother whose results aren’t good and is always truant to play games online; he is also always talking about becoming a professional gamer. I feel that Brother Li’s words are very true. My brother isn’t that passionate about gaming, and he also hasn’t thought about whether he has this flair or not; he just wants to escape from studying.”
“Indeed, this documentary isn’t trying to encourage people to fight on, be passionate, or about eSportsmanship. These themes have been covered so many times and are actually misdirection for youngsters. Why this documentary is a gem is because it also portrays the hardship and pain professional gamers go through. It also wants us to know that so many people wanted to become career gamers but failed. This documentary is very objective.”
“I did not think that Fei Huang Workspace could actually produce such realistic and meaningful content; I support this!”
The comments left behind by players were pretty much all positive ones!
Coming Out of the Cocoon as a Butterfly soon became a new hot topic in the gaming world; it also was featured on the front page of Aili Island and grew even more popular!
June 23rd…
In Fish-Catching Internet Cafe, Pei Qian turned off the documentary playing on his cell phone as he sipped the coffee in front of him. He finally managed to put his heart at ease.
“Hu… things have finally become normal for once. It actually really didn’t make money; that’s a mean feat!”
Coming Out of the Cocoon as a Butterfly had been launched three days ago. In these three days, Pei Qian had been on tenterhooks.
He was very afraid that Huang Sibo would give him an ominous phone call saying, “Boss Pei, the documentary has made money!”
Fortunately, nothing of the sorts had happened.
Pei Qian had double- and triple-checked. Although Coming Out of the Cocoon as a Butterfly had more than two million views in just three days and was among the top three most popular videos on the site, it had not brought in much income.
Based on Aili Island’s incentive plan, this clip would at most bring in thousands of yuan; that was nothing.
This was in-line with Pei Qian’s prediction.
“Not bad, I have learned well from my loss-making experience. This proves that choosing to film documentaries like this would not make money; this was a good choice.
“I think I can continue injecting money in Fei Huang Workspace.”
Pei Qian suddenly realized that after Fish-Catching Internet Cafe, he seemed to have found yet another decent loss-making avenue.
Making films that had rich value but brought in little in monetary benefits!
After experiencing so many failures, Pei Qian now knew something: making losses was not as easy as he thought.
The system had many restrictions in place to prevent Pei Qian from maliciously creating losses. For example, the system mandated he could not produce anything of slipshod quality or anything shoddy, the games he created had to have selling points, etc.
In other words, the products that Pei Qian launched had to be quality ones; he could not purposely make them badly.
However, Pei Qian had realized something else: the system actually didn’t only consider ‘quality’ to only mean profitability; it also included reputability!
For a documentary like Coming Out of the Cocoon as a Butterfly-although the probability of it making money was very low, the system had not stopped this.
Also, when Pei Qian had started the Fish-Catching Internet Cafe business, although the chances of losing many were high; the system too didn’t put a stop to this plan.
This meant that ‘reputation’ was a very important benchmark for the system. As long as a gain in reputation could be actualized, the system would recognize products of the sorts and would not think that Pei Qian was purposely trying to make losses.
Pei Qian had vaguely gotten an inkling of this before but had not delved deep into this. The ways of making money from games and videos were very different.
For games, if one had a good reputation, that normally meant huge sales. As the system mandated that games had to have a selling point, the odds of games with good reputation making losses were very low.
Although historically, there have been games that were of great quality but of little monetary value; compared to videos and films, they were very few and apart.
However, videos were different. Even if one’s reputation was good and viewership was high, that might still not translate into profits. This documentary was a case in point.
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“Hence, as long as I continue letting Fei Huang Workspace film this kind of clips, I could steadily create losses!”
Pei Qian instantly found a new direction for Fei Huang Workspace.
The next time he saw Huang Sibo and Zhu Xiaoce, he had to think of a way to bait them into continuing on this documentary path and not turning back at all. This way, he would have found a steady loss-making source; how good would that be?!
However, Huang Sibo and the others probably wouldn’t be shooting this eSports genre anymore; as for what theme they should do next, this still required further discussion.
During the final week before settlement, there couldn’t be any unannounced and unreleased products.
In other words, Pei Qian couldn’t do much now; he could only continue embarking on a spending spree by shopping or increasing benefits and pray that there wouldn’t be any sudden developments.
Pei Qian looked at the System Funds; it was still in a state of losses.
“I have done more or less everything I could. The only problem now is how to maintain the existing state of losses.”
Chapte
r 175 - Who is Causing Unnecessary Trouble?!
Pei Qian took account of the current situation:
The response to the games’ downloadable contents had been rather good. Although Ocean Stronghold had been scolded a little, a new patch had been speedily released these two days. An account credit system had been established, using different credit ratings to sell the epic weapons in batches.
Five hundred epic weapons were on sale monthly while there were three different credit ratings for players.
The rating assessment was done using multidimensional criteria. Gamers’ activeness in playing the game, their contributions to the game, etc. were all used to create a concrete credit value that divided players into three credit ratings.
The epic weapons sale would be done in three batches.
Players with credit rating 3 would be able to purchase the first hundred weapons; credit rating 2 players would be allocated the second batch of another hundred weapons; credit rating 1 players would then be able to purchase the remaining three hundred weapons.
Within each credit rating, there were also extremely minor differences in one’s odds of successfully purchasing an epic weapon. Every minor increase in one’s credit value would slightly increase the chance of purchasing an epic weapon.
As the ratio of players for the three credit ratings was 1:2:10, the higher one’s credit rating, the higher the chance of getting a weapon.
As for some new players with relatively low credit rating and values, it wasn’t that they didn’t have the chance to grab one epic weapon; the chance was just much lower.
Besides this, the game also had a credit o rating for scalper accounts. As they didn’t play the game normally, they were not qualified to get any epic weapons.
After releasing this credit system, scalpers no longer had as high of an impact on the game.
On the other hand, it was impossible to stop people from selling their accounts. Many players would actually sell their credit rating 2 and 3 accounts at a high price. However, it was no longer possible for scalpers to get a huge haul just based on the fastest fingers anymore.
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