Clearly, neither Zhou Yang nor Zhao Haiquan believed a punctation mark of that excuse.
It's indeed possible that a boss might give bonuses because of profits, but to claim all the team building funds were saved up for bonuses is highly unlikely.
The pitch was full of holes!
Why you ask?
The reason is quite simple, even the most generous game companies, even if a game made money, the portion allocated for team bonuses generally wouldn't exceed 10% of the game's profit.
That is to say, if a game earned a million, then it would be good to allocate a hundred thousand for employee bonuses; if it earned ten million, at most a million would be allocated.
There weren't too many reasons, the industry just worked that way.
And that was already very generous compared to some bosses who, even if the game made money, wouldn't give a penny in bonuses, not to mention making good on any empty promises previously made. Do the employees have any complaints? Not one bit.
