The next day, Xu Zhi arrived at the company early in the morning to prepare for the open beta of Jumping the Line of Fire.
Today was Sunday, and the open beta time was set at 10 am just like the closed beta. Different from the closed beta, there were advertisements of all sizes starting from the wee hours of the morning. All the promotion was to build momentum for the open beta of Jumping the Line of Fire.
At 10 am, there were several large-screen advertisements for internet cafe management software, and this was aimed to heavily impact internet cafe players.
In just one morning, Xu Zhi had spent nearly 20 million on 30 million worth of advertising fees. It was not an exaggeration to say that he had spent a lot of money.
At this time, it was only eight o'clock in the morning. Xu Zhi was not working, and his thoughts were straying from time to time. It was not that he did not have a good rest last night, but the information he learned last night made him unable to calm down.
After returning home last night, Xu Zhi thought about it again and again. He was really worried about Huang Meng.
She was the company's finance director and could be said to be the true core of the company. The open beta test was tomorrow. If anything happened to her, neither the company nor Xu Zhi could afford it.
For this reason, Xu Zhi specially asked Qin Zishu about Huang Meng on TT.
Huang Meng was recruited by Qin Zishu, so she should know a lot about this person.
At first, everything was normal. According to Qin Zishu, before she hired Huang Meng, Huang Meng was the deputy finance director of a Fortune 500 financial company. It was more than enough for her to be hired as the finance director of a Dream Game Company. It could even be said to be the perfect role for her.
Qin Zishu also told Xu Zhi not to worry. There should be no problems with Huang Meng's work.
However, after listening to Qin Zishu's explanation, Xu Zhi could not understand one thing. Huang Meng was only 33 years old this year, but she was already a deputy director of a large company. Moreover, her salary was higher than that of the Dream Game Company, why did she come here? What did she see in the Dream Game Company?
Under Xu Zhi's questioning, Qin Zishu said shyly that Huang Meng might have a good impression of her.
Xu Zhi did not understand what a good impression was at first, but when he recalled the piercing gaze Huang Meng gave him in the meeting room, Xu Zhi immediately understood what Qin Zishu meant.
It seemed that Huang Meng liked Qin Zishu and treated Xu Zhi as her love rival.
In that case, everything made sense.
However, after understanding the whole story, Xu Zhi was even more confused about Huang Meng.
Usually, in the company, Huang Meng would always dress appropriately at all times. Her lips would always be covered in bright lipstick. She was already beautiful and had a good figure. When she dressed up, she looked like a movie star. Such a person... How could it be...
Could it be that his wife was too charming?
Without waiting for Xu Zhi to think further, Qin Zishu assured him that there was absolutely nothing going on between her and Huang Meng. She assured Xu Zhi that the two of them had shaken hands at most.
As for work matters, Xu Zhi was equally assured. Huang Meng had never made any mistakes, and there was no problem leaving work to her.
As for his wife, of course, Xu Zhi was reassured. The night of their wedding had already proven everything.
However, when Xu Zhi saw Huang Meng when he came to work this morning, she stared at him as if Xu Zhi had slept with her lover.
Cough!
Looking at the documents in front of him, Xu Zhi suddenly came back to his senses. The open beta was about to begin. What was he thinking?
...
The open beta was about to begin.
In Bluestar's Xijing City, it was the same as the year 2009 or 2010 in his previous life. This era was the time when internet cafes exploded in popularity. There were at least three or four internet cafes on a street.
If a university was close by, or places where people gathered, there might even be more.
During the holidays, the internet cafes would be bursting with customers. There was no chance of getting a computer if one was late. One had to wait behind the person to get on the computer.
This was not strange at all. In the short few years after entering the new era, everyone had slowly become rich. With money on hand and the absence of smartphones, the internet cafes were naturally a good place to relax.
Whether it was the young people working in factories or the university students who had taken a week of classes, they found the time and went to the internet cafes.
In groups of three or five, they would turn on their computers. Regardless of whether it was playing games or chatting in the TT platform, they would all be having a great time.
Today, as usual, the internet cafes were packed with people of all kinds. The smell of cigarettes, buttocks, and sweat was all present.
However, what was different from usual was that whether it was opening the web page or watching videos, there would be an advertisement for Jumping the Line of Fire frequently appearing from time to time. After the advertisement was closed, it would appear in other places again.
Xu Zhi had spent a lot of money on Jumping the Line of Fire's advertisement. He might have spent 30 million yuan just to have a fun time in his previous life, but at this time on Bluestar, it was not a small sum of money. It was enough for him to do a lot of things, especially after making the internet cafe the focus of the game's publicity.
This included adding the advertisements into many of the internet cafe's software.
In the internet cafe.
"Boss, there's something wrong with your computer. Why can't you turn off this advertisement? I'm already in the game, why is there still this advertisement for Jumping the Line of Fire?"
"Yes, boss, please swap another computer for me."
Regarding these criticisms, the internet cafe owners naturally did not care about them. In their opinion, they could not be bothered to deal with some advertisements.
"There's no time to play. Whether you like it or not, there are too many people waiting to play. What's the big deal about an ad? Just don't look at it, and it will end by itself."
This situation was not limited to the internet cafes in Xijing City. It was similar to the situation in all the internet cafes in the country. At 10 o'clock in the afternoon, the management software of the various internet cafes even launched large-screen ads about Jumping the Line of Fire.
With so many advertisements and notifications, naturally, people clicked on them out of curiosity.
Although Jumping the Line of Fire had just come online, it was already pre-installed in the game menu of the internet cafes. Xu Zhi had spent a lot of money to arrange for this.
However, it was all worth it.
The game had only been released for less than 10 minutes, and more than 300,000 players had already logged into the game. Similar to his previous life, Xu Zhi also divided the servers of Jumping the Line of Fire into different regions. Therefore, most of the players in a server were in the same region, and this ensured that there were low levels of delay in the game.
As time passed, the number of people online in the game increased.
In the meeting room of the Dream Game Company, Xu Zhi smiled as he looked at the ever-increasing number on his computer screen. This number signified the number of people on the game server.
Clap clap clap!!
Zheng Quan took the lead in clapping, and the applause in the conference room continued without end.
On the side, Wang Kewen looked at the number of people online that had already exceeded 700,000 in just half an hour. Although the applause did not stop, his thoughts were completely different.
"This game... We must not just look at the number of people online at the beginning. The important thing is to look at the final retention rate. If the retention rate is not high, everything will be for naught. And the retention rate of this game will definitely not be high. President Xu, let's see how this will play out for you."
Just as Wang Kewen was muttering to himself, the door to the conference room suddenly opened. It was an employee of his.
"Not good, sir."
"What's wrong?"
Seeing that the employee entered the room, Wang Kewen immediately stopped clapping his hands and asked, "Could there be a problem?"