Pei Qian clicked to open the files and saw that there were both men and women, about twenty people in total. Since they were from liberal arts majors, there were more women.

Most of their resumes were quite blank, with barely any honors listed, and many didn’t even have special skills.

As for appearances, to put it politely, they were all very ordinary.

This was normal. If they were pretty girls, even without much ability, some company would be willing to hire them for administrative positions as eye candy.

Those who remained until July had the following advantages:

Poor grades, unable to secure postgraduate recommendations;

No connections or background, unable to arrange jobs through relationships;

No experience in student work or part-time jobs, unable to find employment on their own.

In short, they were perfect!

Hmm, this time he should truly be receiving a group of slackers, right?

Pei Qian was particularly satisfied. After casually flipping through the resumes, he decided to take them all!

As the saying goes, there’s no such thing as trash in this world, only resources in the wrong place.

For Pei Qian, these people were resources that had been in the wrong place!

“However, I need to consider what work to arrange for them.”

Pei Qian thought about the job positions currently available to him.

Assign them to the gaming department?

Not appropriate.

The gaming department’s framework was already well-established and running without any issues.

At most, these people would only do odd jobs in the gaming department. Even if their work abilities were particularly poor, it wouldn’t be enough to ruin the games.

Pei Qian couldn’t possibly let them parachute into management positions in the gaming department either. That would be too unreasonable and would arouse suspicion.

Send them to Slackin’ Internet Café?

The positions there mainly involved physical labor, like waiters or delivery personnel. After all, these people were his seniors from university. Arranging for them to wipe tables didn’t seem appropriate and would be difficult to explain.

Moreover, anyone could do this kind of physical work. It wouldn’t fully utilize these people’s value.

“Why not set up a new company for them?”

A flash of inspiration hit Pei Qian.

Open a new company, arrange for all these people to work there, and let them shine to their fullest potential. How perfect!

Of course, the boss of this new company would have to be one of his people.

On one hand, this boss couldn’t engage in underhanded activities like tax evasion. Although these students were his seniors, they were still strangers, and Pei Qian couldn’t trust them.

On the other hand, directly making them the management would be illogical and could arouse suspicion.

Pei Qian would first find a lucky person from his own company to open a new company, equipped with finance and administrative personnel, and then recruit all these people. This would be much more reasonable.

Afterward, the company would operate normally and start losing money. Everything would be perfect.

After considering for about two minutes, Pei Qian immediately had an idea.

Wasn’t there still an unresolved problem?

Perfect, he could solve it all at once!

That Ma Yiqun guy was still writing copy and storylines in Tenda Games.

When he was hired, he was only meant to be a mascot, to counterbalance Pei Qian’s good luck.

But later, it seemed unreasonable to let Ma Yiqun do nothing, so Pei Qian reluctantly arranged for him to be responsible for game storylines.

As a result, Ma Yiqun turned around and beautified the copy, significantly boosting the text content scores for several games.

This kind of person needed to be dealt with!

This time, the opportunity was perfect.

As for what he would do…

Pei Qian already had a plan.

Start an online novel website!

First, this was Ma Yiqun’s dream. Helping employees achieve their dreams had always been President Pei’s principle.

Second, Ma Yiqun had repeatedly failed as a writer, proving he wasn’t cut out for this line of work. Pei Qian felt confident letting him be responsible for this company.

Finally, in the online literature industry, it was relatively easy to lose money.

This world already had a very mature online literature website called Infinite Chinese Network, which had developed into a large-scale website. Some capital had also tried to enter this industry, but only a small portion succeeded, while most failed.

Pei Qian’s current venture would be like playing around. Invest some money, support a group of editors and authors, and under Ma Yiqun’s leadership, they would definitely lose money!

Thinking about it now, starting an online literature website could have been done much earlier.

The specific investment required for this industry varied greatly. One million had its approach, and one hundred million had its approach.

If one wanted to poach big-name authors from various websites, pay high prices for exclusive rights, establish sales channels, manage copyright operations, etc., the required funds would be substantial.

But if one simply wanted to set up a regular website, recruit editors, acquire works from unsuccessful writers at low prices, symbolically provide full attendance bonuses, buy cloud server services and domain names online, about a million yuan would be sufficient to operate.

Pei Qian considered giving Ma Yiqun a bit over one million to play around with. If it actually started losing money, then he could increase the investment.

Thinking of this, Pei Qian felt great.

……

……

In the afternoon, Pei Qian arrived at the company.

First, Pei Qian needed to arrange work for the gaming department.

After updating the DLCs, the gaming department had been coasting for a while. Now that a new cycle had begun, Pei Qian needed to get everyone busy again.

After all, the system stipulated that they couldn’t slack off or go for extended periods without products.

Everyone was eagerly waiting for the development plan for the next new game.

However, Pei Qian didn’t call everyone to the meeting this time, since there were too many people now and the meeting room couldn’t accommodate them all.

He only called Lü Mingliang, Bao Xu, and a few key members from each department.

This time, Pei Qian would share his general ideas with them and set the direction for the game. As for the specific details, he would let them use their creative freedom.

Mainly because even if Pei Qian wanted to specify details, he couldn’t. He didn’t have that ability…

Soon, everyone arrived.

Lin Wan was also there, holding a small notebook, ready to take notes seriously.

Ma Yiqun was also present. Although he didn’t have a notebook, he was also particularly attentive.

Pei Qian thought silently, “After the meeting, I’ll arrange for both of you!”

Regarding what kind of game to make this time, Pei Qian had considered it for a long time and had a rough idea.

Based on previous experience, mistakes made before definitely couldn’t be repeated.

Due to the system’s existence, Pei Qian couldn’t make a bad game and sell it at a high price to scam money. Although prices could fluctuate within a certain range, overall, pricing had to roughly match the investment.

At the same time, with the influence of previous hit games, many players were watching Tenda’s new game.

This new game would likely be popular before it was even made. It couldn’t be like “Lonely Desert Highway” and “Ghost General,” where there was hope it wouldn’t be promoted and would remain obscure and unknown.

Given that, they had to make a niche game, a game with a good reputation but massive investment, a game that even if players knew about it, most wouldn’t buy or play!

Pei Qian knew many such games.

Souls-like games, or some extremely difficult side-scrolling platform games, were of this type.

Pei Qian didn’t plan to make a side-scrolling platform game, mainly because the investment would be too small, and there wouldn’t be much loss.

If they were going to make something, it should be a big production with a lot of money spent on art resources.

Of course, Pei Qian also knew that Miyazaki’s Souls-like games were very successful with high sales, definitely not the kind of games that would lose money.

But when considering a problem, one had to consider multiple factors.

Any type of game could be a hit or a flop; the key was in the details.

Many developers wanted to copy Souls-like games, but how many succeeded?

In the end, they all flopped, proving that only Miyazaki could pull off this approach.

Pei Qian didn’t think he had Miyazaki’s skills.

Moreover, he couldn’t perfectly recreate the Souls series even if he wanted to. He didn’t have that much money.

Counting the system’s original 8 million, plus the income from several games and miscellaneous sources, minus various expenses…

Now, Pei Qian could squeeze out about 20 million yuan for this new game at most.

With just this amount, it wasn’t enough to make a true AAA title.

They had enough development personnel, considering that games like “Metro 2033” were made by 30 people. Pei Qian now had 60-70 development personnel, and he would recruit more later.

But considering that the development time was only four months in total, this number of personnel would still be tight, and the game content would need to be further compressed.

In other words, they could only make a miniature version, with much less game content.

This further increased the chances of failure!