In Hu Xianbin and Min Jingchao’s view, this was a natural progression.

It was just a mere 20% increase in income, which they presumed wouldn’t cause much fluctuation in Mr. Pei’s heart.

So they only mentioned it briefly in the work report, without making a big deal out of it.

Pei Qian’s heart indeed didn’t experience much psychological fluctuation—because he nearly suffered cardiac arrest instead.

Twenty percent more income!

You bunch of fools, do you know what an extra 20% income means to Mr. Pei?

It means the difficulty of losing money has climbed up not just one level!

The key issue was that the official platform was simply too massive. It would affect all of Tenda’s past, present, and future games, treating both single-player games and online games equally by increasing income by 20%.

The specific increase ratio should be 2/7, which meant that compared to Tenda’s original income, it had increased by nearly 30%!

This was no joking matter!

Pei Qian was completely unwilling to accept this painful reality, so he logged into the official platform, which he hadn’t visited for a long time, to check.

The result was that the situation was even worse than he thought.

The official platform had not only changed all of Tenda’s games to a 10-90 revenue split but had also bundled all of Tenda’s games into a collection, creating a special feature to heavily promote them, publicly praising Tenda as an excellent game development company!

Pei Qian silently closed the official platform and pulled over a small blanket to cover himself.

Today’s air conditioning was really cold…

“I really can’t take it anymore.”

“The official platform is too oppressive!”

“I need to think of a solution; this can’t continue!”

The last time they changed to a 30-70 split was already outrageous, but now they’ve directly changed it to a 10-90 split—isn’t this going to kill someone?

When they previously changed to a 30-70 split, Pei Qian was already very unhappy, but he had no choice and could only accept it passively.

But a 10-90 split was truly unbearable; he had to resist!

Pei Qian immediately began to consider countermeasures.

The difficulty of this matter lay in the fact that the other party was the official platform.

If the official platform gives more money, what reason is there to refuse? There’s no reason!

He couldn’t exactly tell the official platform, “I don’t want a 10-90 split; change it back to 50-50 for me,” could he?

That would be too absurd.

Since this revenue split couldn’t be changed… could he try a different approach?

For example, what if their games weren’t listed on the official platform anymore?

That seemed impossible too.

Because the full name of the official platform was the ESRO Official Platform, which meant the platform also managed game reviews, ratings, and a series of other matters. If a game wanted to be officially released, it had to be on the official platform; this point couldn’t be changed.

But…

Besides the official platform, they could also be listed on other channels!

Pei Qian seemed to have found a breakthrough.

Currently in China, besides the official platform, there were many other channels, such as Shenhua’s application market.

Once a game passed review and was listed on the official platform, it could also be freely sold on other channels. The official platform placed absolutely no restrictions on this.

After all, multiple sales channels could, on one hand, increase the game publisher’s income, and on the other hand, promote healthy competition. Complete monopoly was detrimental to industry development.

For instance, many of Tenda’s games were also available on other platforms.

The official platform stipulated that these channel merchants, that is, other gaming platforms, could independently discount games for sale or even give them away for free.

“Could I do it this way? Although Tenda’s games would still be listed on the official platform, I could cooperate with other platforms and encourage players to buy games from those platforms instead?”

“Free giveaways are unlikely; the system has restrictions on game pricing, and giving away games for free has very strict prerequisites. But other platforms don’t have as many rules as the official platform, so there’s naturally more room for maneuver.”

“But there’s a problem with this approach: other platforms might not be so compliant.”

“So why not just create our own gaming platform?”

After thorough consideration, Pei Qian felt that creating his own platform was better than cooperating with others.

Because other gaming platforms also wanted to make money, which was inconsistent with Pei Qian’s goal. What if these platforms aggressively promoted Tenda’s games? That would be disastrous!

With his own platform, how to price and what promotions to run would all be under his control.

Of course, pricing would still be subject to system restrictions; the pricing on the official platform was already the lowest pricing allowed by the system.

But since it would be their own platform, not needing to share money with others, the lowest pricing allowed by the system should be slightly lower.

Moreover, since it would be their own platform, running more frequent promotional discounts to attract more players would be a very reasonable thing to do, right?

The system’s bottom line for discount promotions would definitely be different between the official platform and their own platform.

Discounting games on the official platform, to the system, was merely “low profit, high volume” without other benefits, so naturally, there were more restrictions.

But running promotions on their own platform, besides “low profit, high volume,” could also “attract users to the platform.”

Taking this factor into consideration, the discounts or even free activities that could be conducted could naturally be more frequent.

Furthermore, creating their own platform and bypassing the official platform might even anger the official platform, causing them to remove all of Tenda’s recommended positions!

Although this possibility was slim, if it could happen, that would be great!

The more Pei Qian thought about it, the more necessary he felt it was to create their own gaming platform.

The main issue was that now his life and fortune were all in the hands of the official platform. They kept creating special features, giving recommendations, and increasing commissions, leaving Pei Qian furious but unable to speak out, which was too frustrating.

Time to make a stand and challenge the official platform!

Moreover, if this gaming platform was operated properly, maybe it could even lose some money?

Of course, running a distribution channel and making money effortlessly was a common consensus.

But things could be changed through human effort.

With some creative operations, maybe they could change this situation?

Pei Qian fell into deep thought.

Just as he was thinking, there was a knock on the door outside.

Pei Qian looked up and saw it was Meng Chang.

“Mr. Pei, I’m here to receive this month’s assignment.”

Meng Chang looked much more energetic, clean-shaven, with a neat hairstyle and proper attire. The calm and composed demeanor he once had seemed to have returned.

Pei Qian was pleasantly surprised.

It seemed Meng Chang had truly recovered?

Getting him the minimum commission earlier apparently was of great significance. After such a long adjustment period, Meng Chang’s mental state seemed to have fully recovered.

This was good news, indicating that Meng Chang could now put more energy into his reverse promotion work.

But…

There weren’t many promotional tasks to give him lately.

Pei Qian coughed lightly and said, “Uh… most projects are still in the development stage and haven’t been completed. It seems a bit premature to create promotional plans now.”

“However, since you’ve actively requested it, let me give you a few options.”

Pei Qian also knew that Meng Chang’s commission was calculated monthly, and resting for a month meant giving up the opportunity to earn commission for that month, which Meng Chang would certainly not accept.

Since Meng Chang was being so proactive, Pei Qian decided to forcibly find something for him to do.

Pei Qian flipped through the current projects and said, “Against the Wind Logistics is about to start their shipping service—air freight—which should be up and running this month.”

“Bao Xu is opening a new travel agency, which will not only be responsible for Tenda company’s internal employee travel but will also serve external customers. It’s still in preparation, probably will take about a month.”

“GOG will have some regular updates, which can also be promoted.”

Meng Chang remained silent for a moment: “Mr. Pei, are there any other projects?”

He immediately passed on Against the Wind Logistics and GOG.

Because he knew well that the key step in the Pei-style promotion method was to separate the project being promoted from Tenda Group as much as possible.

But Against the Wind Logistics and GOG were too well-known; they were already deeply associated with Tenda. It would be difficult to achieve the third rule of Pei-style promotion: “separating reputation and disassociating relationships.” Naturally, Meng Chang wouldn’t choose these.

Bao Xu’s travel agency could be considered, but after all… Traveler Bao Xu was also quite renowned, so it would still be difficult to complete the third rule of Pei-style promotion.

If there were no other options, Meng Chang would have to choose Bao Xu’s travel agency.

But there might be other projects.

Pei Qian remained silent for a moment: “Wait, let me think again.”

He also realized that these three projects were indeed too difficult for Meng Chang.

Even if Pei Qian handled them himself, success wouldn’t be guaranteed.

Meng Chang had just adjusted his mindset; hitting him with an extremely difficult task now might knock him out and discourage him completely.

So, Pei Qian needed to arrange a slightly easier project for him.

After considering for a while, Pei Qian said, “I do have an idea—to create a gaming platform. However, at the moment, it’s just the embryo of an idea; I haven’t thought through how to actually implement it.”

“What do you think of this?”

Meng Chang’s eyes lit up, and he immediately nodded: “Then I’ll choose this!”

“But…”

Meng Chang paused slightly and said, “Since you haven’t figured out how to implement it yet, could I help give some advice?”

Pei Qian was a bit surprised but also pleased: “Of course you can.”

Well done, Meng Chang! Your level of thinking has indeed improved; you now know to take initiative to share my worries!

Pei Qian knew that probably only Meng Chang in the entire company was truly on the same page as him.

Previously, Pei Qian only had Meng Chang handle promotional work, mainly because promotion was his strong suit.

But if Meng Chang could actively give him ideas to increase the failure probability of new industries, that would certainly be a good thing!

Seeing Mr. Pei agree, Meng Chang was also very happy.

Because his guess had been confirmed!

The second rule of Pei-style promotion was to “deeply understand and fully control” the project.

Personally participating in project planning was, of course, the best way!

Moreover, Meng Chang felt that after Mr. Pei personally demonstrated the “Pei-style promotion method,” he surely wanted him to learn it quickly.

So this time when Meng Chang proposed to help advise on this gaming platform, Mr. Pei didn’t refuse, which meant their brainwaves had successfully connected!

“Come, sit down, let’s talk slowly.”

Pei Qian invited Meng Chang to sit on the sofa, then poured some tea, drinking and chatting.

“How do you think this gaming platform should be created? Feel free to express your thoughts.”

Pei Qian only had the idea of creating his own platform because he felt too betrayed by the official platform.

But as for how to actually do it, he was still clueless.

He needed some inspiration and insights.