Lu Ming hadn't expected Xu Meng to suddenly rattle off such a long string of names.
These were clearly not normal game titles.
They seemed more like game collaboration expansion packs or something.
He quickly reacted, "Boss Xu, have you not decided on a name yet?"
It's not uncommon in the gaming industry for games to not have a name at the beginning of a project, only a code name, and for the name to be decided in the middle or late stages of development—or even for the name to be changed midway through early promotion.
On the other end of the phone, Xu Meng sighed: "Alright, you guessed it."
"I have a bit of trouble coming up with names, 'Sea of Thieves', 'Pirates of the Caribbean', 'Black Sails', 'Air Pirates'…"
"They all seem similar."
"Once the project is officially approved, let the development team discuss it, or hold a vote."
After speaking, he quickly skipped over the topic of names—
"After seeing the floating island you designed for the priestess Larna, I felt that you were very suitable for this project!"
"Zhumeng's cloud gaming technology is advancing by leaps and bounds, and players can also use PC games, with performance far surpassing mobile phones. You can let go and do whatever content you want to do."
"It's just changing from designing a [Floating Island] to designing a real island! I believe this won't be difficult for you."
"What do you think? Do you want to take on this job?"
Lu Ming was already excited, "One last question: the monetization method for this game, it's not gacha, is it?"
"Of course not, it's still a buy-to-play game," Xu Meng reassured him.
"At most, when we update the large map later, we will consider releasing paid DLC."
"That's great!" Lu Ming's last doubts were also dispelled.
"Boss, please be sure to give me this project!"
"Give me some time, I will definitely bring over the best level designers!"
Lu Ming was surging with excitement, already calling him boss.
He no longer mentioned taking a break or going back to work after the New Year.
If he didn't still have to finish up the work on 'Divine Bird', and if it didn't take time to persuade his subordinates to leave together, he would have started packing his things and started work immediately!
"I will definitely be as soon as possible!"
"There's no need to rush, you should collect your year-end bonus first."
Then he would take the last year-end bonus first!
After hanging up the phone, Lu Ming immediately opened the office software, looked at the employee list, and began to think about who he could take with him.
He still had feelings for 'Divine Bird', and had spent the most important years of his life at Moyu Games, and was grateful in his heart.
So he didn't plan to dismantle the 'Divine Bird' team and accelerate the game's and the company's collapse.
—Although he had the ability to do so.
He only planned to take away 6 to 8 developers.
According to Fei Zhiyuan's current thinking, these level design talents, even if they didn't leave, would gradually be marginalized.
Even if they were lucky enough not to be marginalized, they would no longer have the opportunity to design freely.
Rather than that, it would be better to follow him to pursue their dreams!
And they would definitely be willing!
—Everyone in the domestic game industry envied Zhumeng!
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The next day, Lu Ming's plan encountered a setback.
It wasn't in terms of manpower—he was recruiting people very smoothly.
The setback came from the year-end bonus.
—In short, he felt that the year-end bonus was probably going to be gone.
An administrative document jointly issued by the Xia Country Ministry of Culture and the Press and Publication Administration was born!
Yesterday, the second-tier game manufacturers were still lively, competing with each other, you released a character PV, I released a Christmas costume, but they instantly fell silent.
It was almost like ten thousand horses were all muted.
The most miserable was a studio called Qinghu.
Just one minute before this document was released, they had just released their new product—
[New Year's Limited Special—Double Sweetness on Christmas Midnight!]
This was an audio work.
They found two voice actors to play the characters in the game and recorded the sound using a dummy head microphone.
They simulated the effect of waking up in bed on Christmas midnight, with lovers whispering sweet nothings in their ears.
This was originally just a little risky.
After all, even purely clean companionship ASMR had been cracked down on by bilibili, to the point where all keywords could not be searched.
It's just that the demand was still there, and after the storm passed, audio content quickly came back to life.
However, the scale has been consciously reduced a lot, and the review has become stricter—if you want to listen to something more explicit, you can only use a proxy to buy it on the Izumo Internet.
Manufacturers are naturally more careful when producing this type of content.
But unfortunately, after the peers started competing, in order to increase revenue and year-end bonuses, Qinghu Studio couldn't help but take a small step forward—
This time, two characters appeared at the same time.
It was a binaural version with voices speaking from both the left and right ears at the same time!
Now, that's good, audio is already sensitive content, and it still takes place "on the bed at midnight."
There are still two people.
This risk is a bit high.
Unfortunately, they had just released it for one minute, and the joint document [Opinions on Regulating the Management of the Online Game Market] came out of nowhere.
Qinghu Studio reacted extremely quickly—
They deleted the just-released dynamic at the speed of light!
Some players saw the fleeting promotional text and ran to ask Qinghu Studio what was going on.
But when they opened the homepage, they found that Qinghu Studio had simply closed the comment section and started playing dead.
It wasn't just Qinghu Studio that was reacting.
The smaller the company, the more aggressive it is when there is no supervision, and the greater the reaction when supervision comes.
Not a few companies suddenly started checking the content they had released in the past few days, urgently deleting or editing and modifying it.
Lu Ming also subconsciously became nervous for a moment.
But that was just for that moment.
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Looking back, he didn't bother to think about how to deal with it, and directly opened the office software, found Fei Zhiyuan, forwarded the document and left a message to ask for instructions:
"Boss, how should this be handled?"
Whoever caused the trouble should clean it up!
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With this document issued, it undoubtedly set off a review storm, and almost everyone began to self-examine themselves.
The game circle was in chaos.
I don't know how many people's year-end bonuses vanished into thin air.
In this storm, of course, there are companies that hold themselves upright and sit firmly on the Diaoyutai.
However, among these companies sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai, Zhumeng's figure is particularly eye-catching!
—Others are fine, but your 'Frost Snow Project' is the one who took the lead in making sexy content!
Why are you so calm?!
The peers didn't understand and privately messaged acquaintances working at Zhumeng to inquire about the situation.
But no matter who they asked, the response they got was only eight words—
"Everything is normal, nothing happened."
This made the peers extremely envious.
It also made it a lot easier for Lu Ming to coax his subordinates to transfer with him.
In just three days, he persuaded all 8 people to leave with him.
Even in the process, others accidentally discovered it, causing the list to expand to 11 people.
After that, Lu Ming no longer hesitated and decisively took the resignation report to Fei Zhiyuan's office.
Fei Zhiyuan was in a panic because of the sudden review storm. When he saw Lu Ming coming in, he thought he had a countermeasure.
As a result, Lu Ming not only didn't have any countermeasures.
He also handed in a resignation report!
Looking at the resignation report in front of him, Fei Zhiyuan's face was full of disbelief—
"You want to leave?"
"Now! ?"
He couldn't accept it and tried to keep him.
But it was too late to think of this now.
Lu Ming was determined to leave.
That afternoon, the two chatted in the office for a long time.
But when Lu Ming walked out of the office, he only had one thing in mind—
[Resignation countdown: 30 days]
These 30 days were just enough to hand over the work of 'Divine Bird', and he could also take more time to study Mansheng City and conceive the future pirate project!
It was really wonderful to start chasing his dreams again at the age of 33.
He couldn't wait!—
Also on this day, Zhumeng released the second gameplay trailer for 'Monster Hunter'.
The 10 million views of the first video were easily completed.
On the day of completion, the official 'Monster Hunter' account released the second trailer.
That trailer announced the [Hunting Manual] gameplay.
The monsters that players have hunted will be recorded in the physical book of [Hunting Manual].
—Players can really see and touch this book in VR view.
And every page of the book is a record of when they hunted that monster.
At the same time, the names and some habits of the monsters that appeared in the first advance trailer were also announced.
After that, Zhumeng took advantage of the situation to release the second challenge:
15 million views on the entire network, and the second gameplay trailer will be released.
And guarantee that it will be more important than this time!
Now, the 15 million goal has been reached, and the official 'Monster Hunter' account has released the third trailer—
['Monster Hunter' Multiplayer Gameplay 丨 Eternal Hunting Ground]
Huan Yue ran to watch it as soon as possible.
He still remembered his highlight performance in [Chaotic Era], thinking that this multiplayer gameplay should be an improved version of the giant beast hunting gameplay in [Chaotic Era].
Everyone forms a team to hunt monsters together.
He was looking forward to this.
But less than 30 seconds into the video, he was dumbfounded—
Two hunters meet on a narrow road, one of them charges up his great sword and slashes out!
The hunter on the opposite side raised his spear and made an accurate block at the moment when the great sword was about to hit him!
Accompanied by a crisp "clang" sound.
The great sword was knocked away on the spot!
The hunter who lost his weapon looked down in shock, looking at his empty hands.
When he looked up again and wanted to say something, he was pierced through the chest by the opponent's spear!
