diskusbooks #359 - Lu Yu shocked Liu Lan, and Fan Langtao was on his way to the end (2 in 1 order)
#359 - Lu Yu shocked Liu Lan, and Fan Langtao was on his way to the end (2 in 1 order)
Buzz… Buzz… Buzz…
Buzz, buzz, buzz…
Buzzzzzzzzz!
The buzzing in the room grew more intense, and Liu Lan's body gradually tensed up.
Suddenly, a knock came from behind –
Knock! Knock! Knock!
Then, the female secretary's voice sounded from outside the door:
"Chairwoman? Are you there, Chairwoman?"
The secretary who was knocking also heard the buzzing sound in the room, and thought to herself, 'I need to get the property management to inspect the air conditioner external unit again; can't disturb the Chairwoman's rest.'
At this moment, Liu Lan's eyes were gradually becoming blurred.
Hearing the knock, her eyes instantly widened!
This Secretary Xiao, she had clearly told her specifically not to disturb her during this time.
Already at the critical point, coupled with the momentary fright and nervousness, Liu Lan lightly covered her lips with her hand.
Secretary Xiao faintly heard, in addition to the buzzing of the air conditioner, a new noise in the room—
Pfft!
Whishhhhhhhhhh……
……
After a moment, Liu Lan's voice sounded: "Come in."
Secretary Xiao thought something had happened to the Chairwoman and was worried, so she quickly pushed open the door.
She saw Liu Lan holding onto the corner of the desk, holding a watering can, watering the flowers on her desk.
Secretary Xiao breathed a sigh of relief, 'So she's watering flowers, I thought the air conditioner external unit was leaking.'
She hurried forward: "Chairwoman, why do you have to do this yourself? Let me help you."
After walking forward, she was stunned.
It turned out that on the carpet in front of the sofa, a lot of water droplets were scattered, crystal clear under the reflection of the sun.
Liu Lan raised the watering can in her hand: "I didn't hold it steady and spilled a lot while watering the flowers."
The secretary nodded and quickly picked up a paper towel to wipe the carpet.
Sure enough, the Chairwoman is a rich person; even the water for watering flowers is different, with a strange fragrance.
After wiping the carpet, Secretary Xiao got up and glanced at Liu Lan again, and was stunned again.
Liu Lan's attire today was the same as usual, wearing black silk stockings with rose edges, paired with high heels and a pencil skirt.
But… how should I say it, the Chairwoman always pays attention to her appearance, but today, one of her stockings had slipped halfway down.
Moreover, probably accidentally while watering the flowers, the stockings were also covered with water, flowing down in a crisscross pattern.
No wonder the Chairwoman's face is red; she must have caught a cold from the water.
"Chairwoman, are you feeling unwell? Do you need a doctor?"
"It's okay."
Liu Lan waved her hand, and said calmly:
"Speak, what's the matter?"
"Stone Manager from Youyi Company has come on a business trip from Jianghai City temporarily, saying that there is an emergency to report to you."
"Let him come up."
After Secretary Xiao left, Liu Lan calmed down and sat back at her desk, taking out a tissue to wipe her stockings.
She glanced at the wallpaper on her phone, which was a photo of her and her husband, Pei Yu, from more than ten years ago.
Liu Lan's eyes dimmed for a moment, and she said to herself, "Wild man, where have you gone…"
……
5 minutes later, Shi Yi arrived at the office.
"Chairwoman, I'm sorry to disturb you; I'm here to plead guilty."
Liu Lan said coldly: "Is it about 'Wilderness Survival: Redemption'?"
She had already seen Youyi's revenue report for last month this morning.
Shi Yi:
"Yes, originally, I was planning to resolutely implement the task you gave me, Chairwoman, to cooperate with Peach Garden Township, to integrate the VR business line resources, such as conducting joint development of some host technologies.
As a result, it's all my fault for employing the wrong person, sending a newcomer named Wu Liang to negotiate with Peach Garden Township, and that person misunderstood my intentions, creating many misunderstandings with Peach Garden Township, and intensifying hostility and competition.
This also led to the obstruction of the development of our flagship masterpiece, and the final listing effect was not ideal, affecting the brand image of Youyi Paradise.
However, Chairwoman, please rest assured that I have resolutely fired this ignorant newcomer!"
After that, Liu Lan continued to ask about the details of the technical cooperation, and Shi Yi had to repeat the whole process.
Of course, in order to clear himself of responsibility, he blamed everything on Wu Liang, saying that he was unaware of many decisions.
Liu Lan rested her chin in her hand and pondered for a moment, then sneered:
"That Wu Liang of yours is probably not at the level of Lu Yu.
Carefully review the various details since the cooperation; do you really think that the other party doesn't know Wu Liang's little tricks?"
Shi Yi thought about it carefully and also felt that something was wrong.
Thinking about it carefully, such an important matter as the cooperation between the two major host manufacturers, President Lu's performance was too Buddhist.
President Lu used to have the title of "God of Management" in the game field; logically, he shouldn't…
Suddenly, a jolt went through his mind, like a bolt from the blue!
That's right!
So that's how it is! President Lu must have seen through Wu Liang's little tricks long ago, and then used a trick, using the low-tech dimensional technology to exchange for Youyi's core technology in FPS.
Even!
Even the previous kind of embarrassing live-action drama promotion was probably intentional by President Lu, just to attract Youyi to take the bait and fan the flames, to do free forwarding for them!
Unexpectedly, he was once again set up by President Lu with a series of traps!
At this time, Shi Yi truly developed a heartfelt respect, and… fear, for Lu Yu.
What a terrible decision-maker!
This kid, no matter how thick the multi-layered cake is, he calculates deeper than you; developing a game with a hundred tricks!
This feeling of being completely seen through by the other party made Shi Yi's hair stand on end.
Seeing Shi Yi's reaction, Liu Lan sneered:
"In the future, know that you are not Lu Yu's opponent, and tell your people to cause less trouble for him and get burned."
This was both a reminder and a threat.
Shi Yi naturally understood what Liu Lan meant; she had asked to cooperate with the other party, but unexpectedly, her own people had caused trouble for this prospective son-in-law of the Liu family again.
He quickly nodded and vowed: "President Liu, don't worry, next time, we will definitely find a cooperation opportunity sincerely!"
Liu Lan waved her hand: "Don't rush, the next step is for the entire group to seek stability."
"Ah, this… President Liu, what do you mean?"
Liu Lan's eyes gradually sharpened: "I think the Longteng Group is probably going to have some big moves; you first stabilize Youyi's market base."
After Shi Yi left, Liu Lan walked alone to the glass curtain wall and looked at the night view outside the window.
After this round of FPS flagship battle, Liu Lan completely understood that Lu Yu was by no means something ordinary.
Liu Mengyuan's father left home and disappeared when she was six years old; if she could have a reliable man to take care of her, Liu Lan could also safely focus her energy on the upcoming industry changes.
As if to cooperate with her idea, the night sky in Shenzhen City, which was originally cloudless, was now covered with dark clouds, and a storm was brewing.
……
At this time, the online reputation evaluation of the game 'CrossFire: Reverse War Heroes' also showed a straight downward trend,
Even not better than the Youyi products in a bad state.
Currently, the game development team seems to be caught in an endless battle with nightmare-like bugs.
Maps cannot be loaded, models clip, characters move sluggishly and drift, clients crash, invisible walls, game resources are lost, server connections are abnormal...
Moreover, fixing bugs is like pressing down on a gourd and another scoop floats up.
It's hard to fix a bug, and another bug reappears; the team is simply entering an infinite loop of hell.
What made Fan Langtao vomit blood the most was that, according to Jiang Lei, originally, these bugs should have been the means for their team to attack Peach Garden Township, but unexpectedly, they all came true on themselves.
This… who can he reason with?
At this time, in the game store interface, major game forums and video websites, the entire network is full of overwhelming bad reviews:
The latest novel is first published on Liu Jiu Shu Ba!
"Are you guys making a game on bugs? After playing for a while, you will find a bunch of problems; the developers are really unscrupulous!"
"It freezes after playing a few times; RNM refund!"
"This game is simply a mess; you want to do everything but you can't do anything well; it's really speechless!"
"In terms of the feel of FPS, you can't compare to Youyi; in terms of gameplay, plot, and rubber clothing technology, you can't compare to Peach Garden Township; I ask, what else can you come up with? Oh, your bugs are unparalleled, haha."
"Putting aside the bugs, I was amazed when I first saw your promotional CG and looked forward to the subsequent stories of the FireWire Corps and Reverse War Heroes. As a result, I didn't expect that these camp settings were just a background board; I was really disappointed; you didn't seriously polish the world view and plot at all; it's not comparable to 'Final Defense Line'!"
The player's bad reviews also caused many game review media to come down.
IGN directly gave the game the lowest score of the year, 3.8 points.
IGN explained:
"This may be the most anticlimactic game of the year; the so-called FPS flagship battle has allowed us to see the true strength of various manufacturers; it is a pity that the strong alliance between Longteng and Tenghui can't even come up with a work above the passing line.
I really want to seriously play through this work and give a more comprehensive evaluation, but unfortunately, the bugs I encountered in the game directly stuck the process completely and turned into a dead loop.
Let's put aside whether the game is fun or not; such an attitude towards making games is worth the lowest score of the year!
Especially when compared with Peach Garden Township's 'Final Defense Line', the difference in attitude will be more obvious."
The large number of bad reviews from the media to the players led to a direct collapse of the game's reputation,
A large number of players began to unsubscribe, refund, and even the refund rate was more exaggerated than the previous 'Wilderness Survival: Redemption'.
After peaking at 18.9 million sales, 'CrossFire: Reverse War Heroes' began to decline in sales due to a large number of refund orders and channel returns.
Soon, the game's sales fell by more than 6 million, even less than Peach Garden Township's VR small-scale games.
This also affected the hardware sales of Longteng Fantasy, a year-on-year decrease of 30%.
In the [Game Gossip Incident] section of the NGA forum, an employee of the Dimei Studio Group, who claimed to be, published an exclusive breaking post:
"Let me talk about the inside story of this cooperation with Longteng"
"The outside world says that we are a strong alliance this time, with both Tengs combining. But in fact, the cooperation between us is not as miraculous as the media has hyped up.
The producer from Longteng, named Fan Langtao, is headstrong and cannot listen to other people's suggestions at all.
As a partner, we put forward many suggestions for the development of CrossFire, but Longteng ignored them all, only throwing us a sentence, 'You are only responsible for IP authorization; don't worry about the rest.'
Later, the boss of our studio also got angry and completely stopped caring.
That Fan Langtao, I heard that he was a discarded pawn dismissed by Youyi; I don't know how, he transformed and became a producer with great power.
A dismissed person is destined to have work stains; Longteng is such a big company, didn't they do a background check?"
This post quickly caused quite a stir in the game circle.
The reason why Dimei employees posted this breaking post at this time was precisely because 'Reverse War Heroes' affected the brand image of CrossFire and Dimei itself.
Therefore, this post can be regarded as Dimei's move to actively clear the relationship.
……
At this time, in the Longteng Group Jianghai City Building, Fan Langtao's office.
Staring at the computer screen, Fan Langtao's face was pale, his fingers tightly grasped the edge of the desk, and shock was revealed in his eyes.
He was shocked by the dismal sales of the game, shocked by the overwhelming bad reviews, and even more shocked by Dimei's eagerness to shirk responsibility and kick him when he was down.
The corners of his mouth twitched slightly, his expression distorted, and extreme frustration and a sense of failure had made him unwilling to be angry anymore.
He tiredly rubbed his face, which had become earthy gray from staying up late to work overtime, and sighed to the sky!
Obviously, he had begun to completely doubt his life,
He had lived for nearly thirty years and had never doubted his life like he did now!
What exactly is going on?
Why?
Why is all this different from what he planned?
Obviously, Peach Garden Township's several promotions were all in a mess, and the abstract degree of that small embarrassing drama was not too much to get a Golden Raspberry!
Obviously, the Internet is full of news about Peach Garden Township not doing their job properly and going out for team building and tourism everywhere; that group of people does not intend to make games properly, either going to press the road or going abroad to fool around!
That's not all,
In order to completely defeat Lu Yu in this round of the duel, Fan Langtao added another layer of insurance, allowing the group's elite hacker team to hack the other party's server!
In terms of public opinion warfare, Fan Langtao not only spent money to let the "Central Plains Five Editors" come out in full force, but even contacted Hollywood film directors.
It can be said that whether it is a clear conspiracy on the surface or a dark trick in the dark, Fan Langtao has done everything he can!
What about now?
All the tricks have been countered by the other party in a more violent way!
Lu Yu… what exactly are you thinking?
This is simply like this kid is opening a big move against himself.
Thinking of this, Fan Langtao suddenly shuddered!
That's right!
This Lu Yu is intentional; from the beginning, he had calculated all this, just waiting for Fan Langtao to jump into this pit!
Thinking carefully, with Taoyuan Village's current scale, if they wanted to make a good promotional video, wouldn't they be able to?
But Lu Yu just wouldn't!
It was as if he was deliberately telling Fan Langtao in this way:
Even if I make the promotional video into such a lackluster live-action skit, the final sales will still crush you!
As for the public opinion war launched by Fan Langtao, why didn't Lu Yu respond?
Because he simply disdained responding!
Lu Yu knew that the game launched by Taoyuan Village would completely shut up clowns like Zhongyuan Five Edits and Andrew.
As for Fan Langtao himself,
How did Lu Yu view himself?
Fan Langtao had probably already guessed the answer.
That was disdain, a genuine disregard!
In fact, Fan Langtao had realized it long ago.
Ever since the game research club in university, this kid had ignored his authority everywhere.
He effortlessly won over the woman the entire club secretly admired.
He easily obtained the game development award the entire club coveted.
Even after failing in the previous confrontation with Lu Yu, Fan Langtao saw Lu Yu and Liu Mengyuan showing affection in public on the car leaving Jianghai City!
This was probably Lu Yu's deliberate humiliation towards him.
Whether in women, career, or even his entire life, Fan Langtao had been completely defeated in his confrontations with Lu Yu!
The other party didn't even bother to mention him in any public setting.
Being ignored is the greatest contempt!
Thinking of this, Fan Langtao was overwhelmed with anger, and with a 'poof,' he spat out a mouthful of blood!
He collapsed wearily in his office chair, rubbing his temples with both hands, his eyes revealing utter dejection.
The office was empty, and his figure appeared extremely lonely.
Now, he could only put this frustration aside for the moment. He had to find a way to survive first before he could make a comeback.
However, the sound that rang at the office door made him feel like he had fallen into an ice cellar:
"Fan Langtao, right? We are from the internal audit and control department of Longteng Group. We suspect you of violating laws and company regulations, illegally bribing senior executives of the group, and tampering with your personnel information."
"Now, please cooperate with the investigation and come with us."