Pei Qian is very envious of Eric's "achievements" in the past few months.
Obviously, it has been burning money, but after burning for a long time, let alone making money or seizing market share, it didn’t even make a splash. It can be said that it burned silently.
This kind of state is beyond the reach of Pei Qian.
Pei Qian had the idea of poaching Eric, but this idea was quickly abandoned.
Can a person who can reach a high level in a multinational company be a loser with nothing to do?
The possibility is actually very low.
Then why did Eric fail completely after he came to China to take charge of the ioi national server?
Pei Qian feels that this probably has nothing to do with his personal ability, but mainly depends on the current market situation.
The current situation of the ioi national server is beyond hope.
When Yangyang Games was operating the ioi national server, wasn’t it also beaten to pieces by GOG? Even Pei Qian himself rolled up his sleeves and went into battle. Lin Wan and Ye Zhizhou racked their brains and tried their best to launch a series of marketing activities, but in the end it was still useless.
The root cause of the failure is that the ioi game itself has lagged behind GOG, and GOG has occupied most of the domestic market share. In this case, no matter how good the marketing plan is, it The law goes against heaven and changes fate.
This cannot be roughly attributed to Eric's incompetence.
What if after digging, all Eric’s pent-up energy is released and out of control?
Besides, Eric is a senior executive of a multinational company. Dayak Company has an absolute advantage in salary, shares, non-competition agreement, cultural background, etc., and the possibility of poaching him is extremely high. Low.
So, Pei Qian did not plan to poach people, but had other plans.
Eric is just no longer in charge of the ioi national server. With his qualifications and status, he will not be beaten to the end after returning. He will still be the top executive of Dayak Company, responsible for the operation of ioi It still has a high say in the issue.
When he goes back this time, he will definitely report his work to the top management of Dayak Company, and he may also be held accountable.
No matter what, Eric will definitely report all the situations during his time in charge of the ioi national server, including the intelligence collected on GOG and Tenda.
In this way, wouldn’t Eric be equivalent to a messenger between Pei Qian and the top management of Dayak Company?
Before Eric left, he made a special trip to Jingzhou to take crazy photos at the GPL league venue. He was obviously collecting information to use as a bargaining chip for his comeback.
The richer and more complete the information he collects from Tenda Group and GOG promotion, the more he can reduce his responsibilities, and even influence the decision-making of Dayak's senior management.
Pei Qian thinks that in this case, why not use Eric to help him send a message to Dayak's senior management?Woolen cloth?
He is now worried about Dayak Company’s hindsight.
Not to mention the domestic market, the ioi national server is almost out of business, and the few remaining players are still losing every day; the overseas market GOG is also advancing by leaps and bounds, if Pei Qian hadn’t deliberately put Yang Yang The division of half of the game's people has slowed down the expansion, and the situation of overseas ioi should not be optimistic either.
From Pei Qian's point of view, ioi's situation is already very dangerous, which makes him very worried.
But even so, Dayak Company was still slow to respond and did not provide any reliable solutions.
In the final analysis, it is because Dayak Company is too arrogant and looks down on Tengda, a "small company" in China, just like Eric did when he first came to Jingzhou.
The difference is that Eric has been beaten to wake up, but the top management of Dayak Company has not yet.
Therefore, Pei Qian hopes to use this dinner to make Eric his own mouthpiece.
Eric frowned slightly, his brain working rapidly.
On the one hand, he felt that as a winner, Mr. Pei’s motive for treating him to dinner was probably to take the opportunity to humiliate himself;
On the other hand, he also had some I was worried that if I actually ate this meal, if the news spread, it would have any negative impact on me.
If the top management of Dayak Company knew about this matter, would those people feel that their inability to run the ioi national server was because they were bought by Tenda, or was there any interest in it?
Will Tenda take the initiative to leak the news about this meal, creating a so-called "killing with a borrowed knife" effect?
However, after Eric thought about various possible business conspiracies, he decided to gain wealth through danger.
Although Mr. Pei may have bad intentions in inviting this meal, for the sake of intelligence, this risk must be taken!
So, Eric hesitated for a few seconds, then immediately put on a smile and nodded: "Of course, it is my honor to dine with Mr. Pei."
Pei Qian was very happy Happy: "Okay, let's eat somewhere else?"
Although there is no place at Wuming Restaurant today, you can go to Mr. Li's Mingfu family banquet and spend more money.
Eric waved his hand quickly: "That's no need. I have a flight this afternoon and don't have much time, so I just want to eat something simple in this mall."
Hurry up. The plane was just an excuse. In fact, Eric was worried that there might be some conspiracy in Tenda due to the large number of people here, so he rashly went to a restaurant he was not familiar with to eat, so he was still a little wary.
Pei Qian nodded indifferently: "Okay, let's eat in this mall."
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Ten minutes later, everyone arrived at the mall A high-end restaurant.
Although Yuanda Tiandi is a large shopping mall in the core area of Jingzhou, the overall price level of the restaurant is still far behind that of unknown restaurants or Mingfu Family Banquet.Large and expensive restaurants only cost over 100 per person.
After all, this is 2011, and the overall price level has not inflated so much. For ordinary people, this price is already very high.
Pei Qian took the menu from the waiter and handed it to Eric, who declined.
Pei Qian just glanced at the menu twice and handed it back to the waiter: "Just order some special dishes according to the number of people we have, and choose the most expensive ones."
Turn to After the drink page, he said: "The most expensive bottle of XO."
Hearing that Mr. Pei actually ordered wine, Lin Wan, Zhang Yuan and others were a little surprised, while Eric Was unaware of this.
Old employees all know that Mr. Pei is not a teetotaler. He often drank cocktails when he was at Moyu Internet Cafe. However, Mr. Pei is very averse to drinking at the dinner table, especially he does not like toasts. and other behaviors of a social nature.
This dinner is obviously of a social nature.
But Mr. Pei took the initiative to order high-alcohol wine. What does this mean?
Eric did not know these ways, but was only wary of "wine".
What does it mean? You want to get me drunk and get this set of information from me?
Although Eric is relatively confident in his drinking ability, after all, it is one against many, and the other parties are all young people, so the situation may be very disadvantageous.
But fortunately, Mr. Pei ordered XO instead of white wine, and there was only one bottle. Eric thought there shouldn't be any big problem.
After drinking, Eric would feel more relaxed. Eric felt that it would be easier for him to spy on information, so he did not refuse.
The waiter quickly brought special brandy glasses and poured about 30 ml of wine for each person.
Pei Qian has already raised his glass: "Mr. Ai, our two companies have had a little friction in the past, but that has passed. I personally still admire you very much. Come on, let's work together Raise your glass, it's all in the wine!" Pei Qian raised his head and drank the wine in one gulp.
When the others saw that Mr. Pei had done it, of course they did not dare to neglect it and hurriedly followed suit.
Eric was a little confused.
What does it mean?
Although the drinking habits of different countries are different, when it comes to the Chinese wine table, it is not Eric's decision how to drink.
He originally thought that Mr. Pei would probably take turns toasting to him with others and get himself drunk, but it turned out that Mr. Pei didn’t seem to have any intention at all?
Instead of "doing it first is a sign of respect"?
This made Eric feel confused, and he drank the wine after being stunned for a moment.
I feel like things are going so smoothly, even a little beyond my expectations.
Mr. Pei seemed to be in high spirits. After taking two bites of the food, he said, "Mr. Ai, do you know where you lost in the process of promoting the ioi national server?"
p>Eric, who had just finished drinking, was stunned again.
He was still struggling with how to change the topic to the issue of GOG and ioi, but Mr. Pei actually took the initiative to bring it up?
Eric thought for a moment and said, "It's because of my lack of ability."
Pei Qian smiled: "No, no, no, it has nothing to do with ability. Mr. Ai, you are purely It's because the senior management of Dayak Company is holding us back."
"In fact, there is only one reason why the ioi national server cannot be promoted, and that is money! How can you recruit players if you are reluctant to spend money?"
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Eric was a little confused: "Mr. Pei, don't lie to me. I have done a lot of investigations and research."
"We have invested a huge amount in the operation and promotion of the game. How can you say you are reluctant to spend money?”
“What’s more, as far as I know, GOG’s success is not just due to spending money through Internet cafe activities, purchasing IP, and crowdfunding heroes. This is not a problem that can be solved by spending money alone." Pei Qian smiled and shook his head: "Your understanding is too superficial."
< p>"Do you think that only spending money to hold competitions and activities is considered a waste of money?""GOG's heroes are all free, and the skins are all cheap. On the other hand, the cheapest skin on ioi costs three or four dollars." Ten yuan, is this a waste of money?"
"In order to promote GOG, we have opened a 3.0 model of Moyu Internet Cafe. Is this a waste of money?"
"You just They saw that we acquired Hurricane Comics and went to Times Square to advertise, but they didn’t see that even though GOG already dominates the domestic market, we have no plans to raise prices. To put it bluntly, it’s still a waste of money! ”
“Making less money means burning money.”
“When you promoted the ioi national server, you didn’t burn as much as we did. ioi’s heroes and skins still maintain the original charges. , how can you win?"
"You want to burn money to expand market share, but you are not determined and decisive enough, so the money you burn is in vain."
Ai A flash of shock flashed across Rick's expression.
He has actually thought about these things for a long time, but he is unable to change it, because the price of skins in the ioi national server must be linked to that of the world server, and they cannot be the same skin. The world server sells it for 10 dollars, and the national server only sells it. 10 yuan, right?
In that case, the players in the world server will rebel.
But if GOG changes all skins to cabbage prices, it will be unacceptable to both Zhidou Company and Dayak Group.
So, even if Eric wants to lower the price of skins in the ioi national server, Dayak Group executives will not agree.
And this is indeed a key reason why ioi cannot beat GOG.
Eric was a little confused: "Mr. Pei, why are you telling me this? We are still enemies, so you are not afraid that I will use this information.Will it threaten GOG's market share? "
Pei Qian smiled: "Of course I'm not afraid, because your Dayak Group doesn't dare. ”
“You are too concerned about the cost-effectiveness of burning money, and you don’t dare to spend money that is not cost-effective. So, even if I tell you, there is nothing you can do. ”
“Do you dare to spend tens of millions to buy an IP? Do you dare to open Internet cafes on a large scale to promote games? Do you dare to lower the price of skins to the same level as GOG? Do you dare to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to organize e-sports competitions? "
"If you don't dare, what can I do if I tell you? "
"Besides, GOG now has a dominant position and is already confident of winning. It is only a matter of time before it gets the remaining market share. "
"Mr. Ai, we have already won. ”