Although Lin Wan couldn’t describe the differences between browser games and client games with perfect accuracy, she could generally understand the problems with this approach.

Client games and browser games were two completely different types of games.

Their traditional gameplay, core mechanics, and target player groups were entirely different.

If anyone thought a browser game could be easily converted to a client game, they would be a complete novice who knew nothing about games.

Porting could only be done from top to bottom, such as porting client games to browser games, or browser games to mobile games.

And even then, it required the game’s inherent characteristics to support such a transition.

If done in reverse, like porting from a browser game to a client game, there would be far too many things to change. The difficulty would be essentially no different from developing a new game from scratch.

But Shangyang Games had already determined they would develop “Hot-Blooded Battle Song: Power-Up Version,” and even the design document had been finalized. This was Mr. Pei’s decision, and they definitely couldn’t change it arbitrarily.

Given these constraints, to spend such a large budget, creating a micro-client became the only solution.

But as Wang Xiaobin said, making a micro-client carried enormous risks.

A miniature client required players to download fewer resources than a full client game while offering better graphics than browser games, seemingly a perfect compromise.

But from another perspective, it was a solution that satisfied neither side.

For client game players, its graphics quality wouldn’t match regular client games.

For browser game players, they would still need to download the micro-client rather than enjoying instant play, which was troublesome.

It could potentially lead to players from both sides disliking it, which would be a complete disaster.

Everyone looked at Lin Wan again.

This decision still needed to be made by her as the Director.

Lin Wan felt a little nervous.

Previously at Tenda, although she had been responsible for some work, she had never made such key decisions.

It was important to recognize that this single decision could directly impact everyone’s work for the next few months, as well as several million yuan in funding.

If successful, there was nothing to worry about.

If it failed, everyone would have worked for nothing, and all the money would be wasted.

This heavy responsibility made Lin Wan feel quite pressured.

She instinctively wanted to consult Mr. Pei.

But after a second thought, she felt that wouldn’t be right.

Mr. Pei had sent her to be in charge of Shangyang Games because he had high expectations for her!

If she went to Mr. Pei for instructions on everything, wouldn’t she just become a mouthpiece? That would completely disappoint Mr. Pei’s good intentions.

Lin Wan fell into deep thought.

“What would Mr. Pei do in this situation?”

“Hmm, stay calm. Mr. Pei often makes unexpected decisions, but upon careful consideration, they always make sense.”

“Would Mr. Pei cut the budget? Absolutely not.”

“Then would Mr. Pei care whether players accept the micro-client or not? It seems he wouldn’t.”

“Mr. Pei would probably make choices on behalf of the players, without caring whether players initially accept them.”

“So… what Mr. Pei would do becomes very clear.”

After considering for a moment, Lin Wan decisively said, “Make the micro-client. Don’t change any of the design content, just fully upgrade the art resources, from 2D to 3D.”

Lin Wan’s expression was extremely confident.

Her confidence didn’t come from herself, but from her precise interpretation of Mr. Pei’s intentions.

This was the self-cultivation of a Tenda employee!

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After the meeting.

Ye Zhizhou returned to his workstation and began modifying the budget and requirement tables.

Although doubling the budget was a good thing, for Ye Zhizhou, modifying various requirement tables was still quite a headache.

Fortunately, this could be considered a sort of pleasant trouble.

While he was busy, his phone screen lit up. Looking at it, he saw a message from Mr. Pei.

“How’s the progress?”

Ye Zhizhou’s spirits lifted. Great! Mr. Pei had asked proactively!

Ye Zhizhou was still a bit worried about Lin Wan’s decisions.

Doubling the budget and changing from a browser game to a micro-client game were rather risky decisions. Without Mr. Pei’s approval, Ye Zhizhou still felt uneasy.

But he couldn’t report this matter to Mr. Pei directly, as that would make it seem like he was tattling.

Now that Mr. Pei had asked proactively, it was perfect.

Ye Zhizhou hurriedly explained the meeting results, focusing on the budget and micro-client issues.

He thought that if Mr. Pei had any questions about this, he would answer them.

Two minutes later, Mr. Pei replied.

“Very good, proceed with this plan.”

“If you encounter any problems you can’t decide on in the future, just listen to Director Lin.”

Mr. Pei had no questions at all and completely agreed with Director Lin’s decisions!

Ye Zhizhou couldn’t help but marvel—indeed, a Design Director parachuted in from Tenda would not have an undeserved reputation!

Actually, during the meeting, Ye Zhizhou had harbored slight doubts about Lin Wan.

After all, Lin Wan hadn’t raised any questions about the details of the design document and had directly approved such major changes, giving Ye Zhizhou a feeling that she was being somewhat hasty.

But now, with Mr. Pei’s confirmation, all doubts vanished like smoke.

How could anything Mr. Pei approved be wrong?

And indeed, just as Director Lin had said, Mr. Pei unhesitatingly approved the 5 million yuan budget. Even the risky decision to make a micro-client raised no questions from him.

It seemed Director Lin’s understanding of Mr. Pei was indeed several levels higher than theirs!

With this outcome, the busy Mr. Pei could probably rest assured about Shangyang Games, right?

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Pei Qian put down his phone, feeling pleased.

Lin Wan’s performance had been even better than he had estimated!

Pei Qian had mainly been concerned that Lin Wan would be overly cautious at Shangyang Games, afraid to do anything, and end up being marginalized as a figurehead.

If that happened, Lin Wan wouldn’t experience enough frustration and might blame others, unwilling to return and inherit the family business.

But now it seemed Lin Wan had adapted to her role very well!

She had unexpectedly arrived at the same thoughts as Pei Qian.

Not only had she increased spending, but she had also changed the originally safe browser game into a micro-client.

Pei Qian knew about micro-clients, but he also knew this model had never become mainstream for browser games.

It wasn’t now, and it wouldn’t be in the future.

Some browser games did have micro-clients, but this was just an added bonus, and most games’ micro-clients were controlled to be under 50MB, with none larger.

Shangyang Games’ current approach would raise the computer configuration requirements for this game on one hand, and increase the size of the downloadable client to at least 200-300MB on the other.

Many people who played browser games on company office computers or old machines might be deterred outright!

Simply put, this game now couldn’t please client game players or browser game players. It satisfied neither group, and they were spending more money—simply perfect!

With this kind of browser game, spending 5 million yuan on initial production, and then another 2-3 million on promotion, depending on the situation, the development progress should be even faster than “Turn Back to Shore.”

It could launch more than a month in advance, confirming losses ahead of schedule—delightful!