Chapter 9: 9
"It's on fire!"
"Boss! It's on fire!!!"
At that time, the first sentence John Doe heard when he came to the company in the morning, seeing the expressions of the employees, he almost thought the company was on fire.
"Fire? What fire?"
Alex Lee looked excited: "The game, our game is popular! Last night, Kelly broadcasted our game live and directly put our game on the hot search. Now the hot search has not fallen, and players are discussing our game!"
Hearing this, John raised his eyebrows: "Oh, this is not unexpected. Why are you so excited?"
"Ah?!!"
John said calmly: "You know the quality of our games, you know it, and it going viral was expected."
Although he didn't expect it to explode across the entire network overnight, it would reach the level of Genshin Impact sooner or later.
John thought about it, and Kelly should have put in a lot of work last night.
He planned to thank her later.
Seeing John's calm reaction, as if everything was expected, Alex opened his mouth.
Recalling from the game project to the game's public beta.
Including the previously proposed free games, card draw fees, and independent construction of web pages for players to download.
The boss showed a very confident attitude.
On the contrary, it was Alex's own general strategy that showed a little calmness. When the game first went online yesterday, he even complained about the boss in his heart.
"Boss, I'm too young."
Alex said sincerely: "It turns out that everything is in your expectations, including free games, including independent download channels. I'm sorry, boss!"
"Um?"
Why are you still apologizing?
"Yesterday, when the game was just in open beta, I actually questioned you and even complained about your actions in my heart. I feel guilty for this kind of thinking!"
After Alex finished speaking, all the employees in the office looked apologetic and apologized to John.
From start to finish.
Whether it was the idea of the game or the various detailed designs, it was proposed by John, and they were only responsible for the execution.
Including adherence to the system of free games and card-drawing fees.
Now it has been proven that John's insistence was not wrong, and they had doubts about the boss in their hearts, which was really not right!
John waved his hand: "After all, it is an operation model that has never existed before. It is normal for you not to understand it at first. In short, you only need to know that it is right to do what I think."
"It's the boss!!"
"The boss is awesome!!"
"Boss, if you have me, I will definitely be your faithful supporter. If you let me go east, I will never go west!!"
"Alright, alright."
John waved his hand and said, "The game is on fire now, and there are still a lot of things waiting for you to do. It's better to work hard instead of bragging about me here."
"Okay, boss!"
A group of employees went back to work laughing.
After going through this, everyone was more convinced of John, and they were more determined to follow the boss and have success.
"Alex, how's our first day's data?"
Alex said: "There are still a few minutes left, boss. I think our first day data will definitely not be bad, and even our free game, the card-drawing fee system, will become an epoch-making innovation in the game industry!"
There were still a few minutes before the end of the calculation on the first day, and John didn't go back to the office at all, just waited for the results there.
The other employees looked up occasionally as they worked.
They also wanted to know what the first day of the game would be like. According to the current popularity on the Internet, it would definitely not be bad.
Waited a few minutes.
Soon, the results of the game's downloads and the first day's turnover came out. When he saw a series of numbers on the report, Alex took a deep breath.
Eyes full of shock.
"How many?"
Alex regained his composure and swallowed: "The number of downloads on the first day... 12 million, and the revenue on the first day was... $30 million!!"
"Well, it's a lot higher than expected."
There were a lot of influences from Kelly's live broadcast. John thought that he would have to thank her later.
John said calmly: "But this is still far from the potential this game should have. The results came out on the first day. Our company has ample funds. You can increase the promotion of the game in the next few days."
Alex nodded while watching John's reaction.
As expected of the boss.
Hearing this statistic made him numb, but the boss seemed to have expected it long ago, and even felt that the game had more room for development.
Alex's confidence in John's vision increased by another point.
"The door to the domestic market is now open, but our focus should not only be on the domestic market. There is still a large market to open up abroad. Next, your work will be to expand overseas markets, such as the foreign language dubbing of games. The foreign language translation of the game, you should focus on these."
John explained: "Then there is the BGM in the game. We didn't do it carefully enough before. In the past two days, you will go to some professional music teams in our country to re-record the previous background music in every detail."
As the work requirements were issued, Alex listened carefully, took out a small notebook, and wrote it down meticulously.
When he heard that John was going to develop overseas markets, he couldn't help but be surprised.
What followed was a frenzy.
Doesn't this mean that they really want to make a domestic game that can represent Eastern games for the world? A domestic game for the world...
Excited to think about it!!
Sure enough, following the boss really has benefits, this idea is not only Alex's, but also all the employees in the studio.
It was really right to stick with the boss at the beginning!
Now, they are also a part of this game company that represents domestic games. This is a unique honor!!
...
After explaining Alex's next work arrangement, John returned to the office.
Thinking of the benefits that Kelly's live broadcast brought to the company last night, he called Kelly.
The voice on the phone took a long time to respond before someone answered.
"Hey..."
There was a soft, sleepy voice on the other end.
John raised his eyebrows and glanced at the time: "It's twelve o'clock, aren't you still awake?"
"I played games all night last night..."
"Um."
John said, "In order to express my gratitude, I'm going to invite you to dinner tonight. Do you have time?"
There was a moment of silence on the other end of the phone.
"Send me two $99 gift cards and I'll come."
"..."
"No $99 gift cards, but there's a special illustration of Klee, would you like to see it?"
"Um?!!"
Kelly, who hadn't woken up a second ago, immediately perked up and her voice was full of interest.
"Are you sure?!"
"Certainly."
"Come, I have to come. Can I refuse the boss's invitation to eat?"
Although she had dubbed Klee before, Kelly never knew what the character she dubbed looked like.
Now John actually took the initiative to show her?
Having spent the whole night playing Genshin Impact last night, she was already very addicted to this game and even more curious to see what her dubbed character looked like.
She immediately agreed.