Publicly declaring that Finger Company would be transformed into an independent studio structure, cutting all previous redundant personnel and maintaining this small scale indefinitely!
Moreover, after the game merger, only 30% of the profits would be allocated to Finger Company. And from this 30%, Finger Company’s employee salaries and various expenses would be deducted first, before shareholders received any dividends!
This was quite excessive, because Tenda was Finger Company’s major shareholder, so these dividends would ultimately end up with Tenda anyway.
Of course, Tenda could distribute however they wanted, that didn’t matter. But the key issue was that Finger Company only received 30% of the profits, with the majority returning to Tenda—how much profit could really remain?
After all, GOG had always been a game with very affordable skins from the beginning—that was tradition.
After merging the two games, would Tenda dramatically increase skin prices? Not necessarily!
Initially, people didn’t believe Tenda wanted to destroy Finger Company, assuming these personnel changes were part of some special arrangement.
But after observing for so long, they discovered there was no special arrangement at all. It seemed like Tenda simply disliked Finger Company and wanted to discipline it, completely transforming Finger Company into an ordinary overseas development team dependent on GOG!
Consequently, evaluations of Finger Company’s stock price naturally plummeted.
After all, no matter how much money Tenda made, it had nothing to do with Finger Company anymore!
This situation was similar to a listed gaming company with only one pillar game, then losing that pillar game’s revenue with no possibility of recovery in the foreseeable future.
Under such circumstances, the stock price would definitely crash.
Finger Company’s stock price hadn’t crashed that dramatically, but a continuous decline was inevitable.
Regarding this, Pei Qian could only say: Well done!
After so much effort, he finally convinced everyone that he truly intended to undermine Finger Company and prevent it from continuing to make money!
Pei Qian had no choice but to do this. Otherwise, if the stock price soared and made a huge profit right after acquiring Finger Company due to capital market optimism, that would be disastrous.
He had to make Finger Company’s stock price fall, ensuring Tenda’s invested money went down the drain—that was Pei Qian’s ultimate goal.
After reading the report, Pei Qian was very satisfied with Finger Company’s current status. He briefly replied, praising Eric for his hard work during this period and encouraging him to maintain this course. The goal was to completely transform Finger Company into an overseas R&D department subordinate to the GOG project team as soon as possible.
Just after responding to Eric, there was a knock at the office door.
Pei Qian looked up and saw Old Song, the acting head of Outu Technology.
“Hmm, is there a problem with the new product development?”
Pei Qian was slightly surprised, especially since he had just finalized the new products with Old Song at the end of last month.
It had been less than a week, so why was he here again? Had Old Song realized there were problems with the overly outlandish designs Pei Qian had created for the two new products?
If that were the case, he’d need to deploy his grand deception technique.
Old Song cleared his throat and said, “Mr. Pei, it’s like this—there’s been a small oversight in my work. So I’ve come specifically today to seek your guidance on another matter.”
“Last week, you finalized the ultimate form of the two products, but there’s one thing: doesn’t the gaming router need to come with a launch game?”
This wasn’t really Old Song’s fault, as he was a product manager without deep knowledge of the gaming industry.
He hadn’t seen any issues at the time, but after discussing with several managers afterward, Old Song realized the problem.
As a gaming console, it definitely needed a launch game as a flagship title!
They couldn’t just release the console and simply port all Tenda games over, could they? That would show a complete lack of sincerity and fail to drive sales.
But the launch game wasn’t a small matter. Tenda had so many excellent games—which one should they choose?
This definitely required Mr. Pei’s decision.
“You’re right,” Pei Qian nodded and asked, “Do you have any thoughts about this launch escort game?”
Old Song had clearly already given it some consideration and said, “Mr. Pei, my understanding of the gaming industry isn’t particularly thorough, so I’m just thinking out loud. Please correct me if there are any issues.”
“In my view, there are basically two options for this flagship game. First, we could port one of Tenda’s most classic games as the flagship title. For example, the game ‘Struggle’—we could create a console-exclusive remastered version, launch it with the router, and give it to players for free. This would give the gaming router certain collector’s value.”
“The second option would be to choose an unreleased new game as the console’s launch title. For instance, wouldn’t the game ‘The Future You Choose’ that Tenda’s gaming department is jointly developing with Shangyang Games be quite suitable?”
“If it could be an exclusive game, that would be even better—it would certainly ensure our console sells well!”
Pei Qian didn’t immediately respond because he sensed the situation was problematic.
The router would launch with all of Tenda’s games and most console-compatible games from the Morning Dew gaming platform—that was undisputed.
Under these circumstances, the gaming router’s success already carried significant risk.
If they added a substantial exclusive game on top of that, what would happen?
Both solutions Old Song proposed were dangerous.
The first suggested selecting one of Tenda’s classic old games and creating a remastered commemorative edition as the launch flagship. These classic old games were characterized by having stood the test of time and being deeply loved by players—they definitely wouldn’t fail, making this a very safe choice.
The second option was to use Tenda’s new game, the genuine AAA title “The Future You Choose,” as the launch flagship, preferably as an exclusive.
If made exclusive, wouldn’t this create a situation where people buy the game and get the console free? That was very possible!
So, it would be best to choose neither option!
Pei Qian shook his head and said, “I don’t think either is particularly suitable.”
“Modifying an old game into a commemorative remastered edition as the launch flagship shows too little sincerity! Tenda Games hasn’t reached the point where we need to rehash old content.”
“As for ‘The Future You Choose,’ while the game itself is substantial enough to serve as a launch flagship, the timing probably isn’t right.”
“According to the initial schedule, the gaming router would launch more than two months before ‘The Future You Choose.'”
“There’s no point in waiting over two months to release it.”
“Besides, our gaming console is just launching, so it’s not appropriate to immediately make important major titles exclusive. That wouldn’t be friendly to many players who have supported us all along.”
“They would feel we’re forcibly promoting the console, with suspicions of coercive selling.”
“I think ‘The Future You Choose’ should still be released on all platforms, and there’s no need to affect the gaming router’s release because of this game.”
Old Song looked confused: “So, Mr. Pei, are you suggesting the gaming router shouldn’t have a launch flagship game? Just port the games from the Morning Dew gaming platform and that’s it?”
Pei Qian cleared his throat: “That’s not what I mean either. For an exclusive game, we can just develop a new one.”
“And since it’s an exclusive game, we should develop it specifically for the gaming router’s features, truly matching hardware with software. That’s the most sincere approach for players.”
Old Song was stunned: “Develop another game? But as far as I know, all of Tenda’s gaming departments already have projects, right? We don’t have extra development resources—do we really have the energy and manpower to develop a new exclusive game?”
Pei Qian thought about it, and it did seem to be the case.
Tenda Games, Shangyang Games, Chi Xing Studio… currently all gaming departments directly related to Tenda Group had their own game development tasks.
They couldn’t put their current projects on hold to develop an exclusive game for the gaming console, could they?
But this didn’t stump Pei Qian. After a bit of thought, he already had an idea.
“Who says we don’t have extra development resources?”
“You’ve forgotten one department.”
“The Desperate Path Plan and the Independent Game Incubator!”
“With so many producers, how can you say we don’t have extra development resources? We have plenty!”
Old Song was completely shocked, his eyes slightly widened, his expression full of disbelief.
He never imagined that Mr. Pei would include those independent game producers from the Independent Game Incubator within Tenda’s development resources!
Even as an outsider, he knew these were completely different things!
What the gaming router needed now was a substantial AAA flagship escort game. And a so-called AAA title definitely required many people working together with different responsibilities to produce it collaboratively. It not only needed a strong lead designer for leadership but also an entire mature design team for support.
The Independent Game Incubator certainly had some excellent producers with both ideas and capabilities, but the production processes for independent games and AAA titles had enormous differences.
To make an analogy, if independent game producers were special forces, suitable for executing specific missions in small units, then AAA production teams were like regular armies, fighting large-scale regimental battles.
If you gathered all special forces together, would they achieve the same effect as a regular army? Definitely not.
These independent game producers might all be skilled at designing games, but they each had their own ideas—how could they be integrated together? This seemed like an impossible task.
Let alone developing a AAA flagship that could escort the gaming router—it was questionable whether the game could even be successfully completed.
Old Song advised, “Mr. Pei, perhaps you should reconsider? I think whether this console launches two months earlier or two months later doesn’t make much difference. Let’s just wait for ‘The Future You Choose.’ Even if it can’t be an exclusive, at least it’s substantial enough and unlikely to encounter unexpected issues.”
Pei Qian chuckled: “Don’t worry about this. Go find Qiu Hong to handle it.”
Pei Qian didn’t want to argue with Old Song any further—no matter how much he explained, Old Song wouldn’t understand.
Better to hand this matter over to Qiu Hong. After all, Qiu Hong had a background as a game producer and should be able to infer Mr. Pei’s intentions, at least ensuring the game was successfully developed.
Besides, the Independent Game Incubator issue was already exposed, so there was no need to hide it anymore.
Of course, what state this escort game would ultimately be in was hard to say.
It might well become a deformed product combining many producers’ ideas stitched together.
But that was exactly what Pei Qian wanted. He didn’t want the gaming router’s launch game to be too excellent, otherwise wouldn’t it definitely become wildly popular?
Even if the gaming router was destined to be successful, Pei Qian didn’t want it to happen this cycle—it would be better to wait until next year.
After all, by then Pei Qian would have already made a big profit, so he wouldn’t care so much about these things.
Old Song looked like he wanted to say something more but ultimately just nodded: “Alright, Mr. Pei. I’ll go discuss this with Qiu Hong right away.”