Chapter 337 Arthur starts the money printing machine
Arthur, who was drinking fried liver, was seen by the people around him, but Arthur didn't care and missed this mouthful for a long time.
However, Bell and the others who were by the side were helpless. They were very difficult to accept for foreigners who never ate internal organs. The fried liver is mostly made of pig's internal organs and a secret sauce. However, because the internal organs always have a bloody smell, Bell and the other ones looked disgusted without even trying it.
Arthur did not blame them. After all, for the liver-fighting, even people from other provinces of the Celestial Empire could not accept it. So Arthur understood how helpless Bell and the others were and expressed sympathy for them.
After finishing the meal and paying the bill, Arthur was satisfied with the gaze of strange eyes, and with two cold-faced and tall bodyguards, Saran smiled, leaving behind a novel discussion. Perhaps this scene that happened today would become a topic of bragging for many people.
For Arthur, it doesn’t matter whether it is a French meal or a roadside stall. As long as it tastes good, he will not be picky about food. He can drink coffee, garlic, and British afternoon tea, and he can also love snack boxes. Of course, there are also unacceptable things. For example, you must drink salty braised braised food. As for the sweet ones, you can only laugh...
Back at the Beijing Hotel, Arthur, who had fried liver instead of afternoon tea, drank coffee, turned on his laptop, connected to the Internet, and prepared a video conference.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, around nine o'clock in the morning, London time, the video window lit up, and Arthur's figure appeared on the projection screen of the London Game Studio Conference Room.
"Happy New Year, everyone."
"Happy New Year, Boss."
After the video was connected, Arthur greeted with a smile on his face, and everyone in the conference room also greeted the boss far away in the sky in unison.
After the greetings, Edward smiled excitedly and reported the good news to Arthur, "Boss, good news, so far, "Fruit Knight" has sold more than one million copies, which is simply a miracle!"
"Yes, it's incredible. We check the Apple rankings every hour and appreciate the Fruit Knight's record. We're really excited..."
Before Arthur could come and admire him happily, the other "designers" in the conference room started to feel excited and talked, making the meeting a little noisy.
However, Arthur was not angry about this, but instead watched it happen with a smile. He only spoke after his feelings and discussions became smaller, "Congratulations, everyone, you have made a popular mobile game!"
"This is all your creativity, boss..."
"It's still the boss that your plan is excellent."
Everyone in the conference room naturally knew that the excellence of "Fruit Knight" was mainly because of the boss's creativity, so they naturally would not think it was their credit.
As the first mobile game to make full use of Ai Ceng Mobile Special. It seamlessly connects game formats and content. Some media and players even call it a touch screen. It is reasonable that it can create a small miracle in the history of game design as soon as it is launched.
"Strike while the iron is hot, promote and marketing must keep up. There are not many game apps like "Fruit Knight" that are suitable for players over 2 years old. We must make good use of this hot situation and strive to make it a must-have game for users on iOS platform.
At the same time, we must also launch Android versions, Microsoft versions, etc. as soon as possible. We want to make it a real national game in smartphone games. Are you confident?" Arthur asked with encouragement.
"have!"
Hearing his subordinates answered in unison with confidence, the smile on Arthur's face became brighter and brighter. One million copies sold in such a short time is definitely a big number for the current mobile game market. And everyone, including Arthur, believes that the sales of this game will grow more rapidly in the next time.
As a paid mobile game, the price of $0.99 is definitely a conscientious price for less than one dollar. Although the price is cheap, Arthur has placed the profit of "Fruit Knight" on in-game purchases from the very beginning.
Perhaps when you collect money from both ends, some people will think that Arthur is too dark. Well, Arthur admits that he is just dark.
However, in order not to make players disgusted, the game's in-purchase mall was stolen by Arthur and turned into a value-added service. For example, the sword with special functions is more gorgeous and distinctive background scenes, rather than the purpose of selling gold coins and special props that are very obvious...
In this way, players really didn't complain too much about the game's money, because whether it is in-app purchase or not, it will not affect the game's playable xing at all.
"Boss, our in-app purchase mall sales have exceeded 300,000 US dollars, which means that 20% of the players have purchased props or backgrounds for one million downloads.
"Fruit Knight" currently has a profit of $1.1 million. "The Stupid Bird Fly" has a profit of $5.63 million. After deducting the cost of signing celebrity endorsements, North American publicity costs and the cost of British Christmas advertising, our studio's profit in 2009 was $2.73 million."
Edward smiled and reported to Arthur with great joy and emotion. As these numbers were reported, the people in the conference room were even more happy. They never thought that such a small newly established game studio could make so much money.
Arthur was not surprised by this. He was there. Whether it was the game studio where Zombie or Angry Birds were, the market value soared over 100 million after it became popular?
"Haha, soon, since you have made money, let's celebrate... This way, I'll add a year-end party for everyone. All the staff in the studio went to Fiji Island to prepare a week off. Everyone drinks happily, eats iron forks and roasts pigs, and relaxes well!"
"Long live!"
"Boss, I love you!"
"Long live the boss!"
As soon as Arthur finished speaking, everyone in the conference room cheered excitedly. Arthur saw the happy and excited people, and also had a bright smile on his face.
Although the game studio is currently developing successfully and the games being developed are all based on his creativity, although the group of people under him are young, they are very outstanding, and they are very focused and hardworking when working. Overtime is the norm, and they have never even heard of complaints and are full of vitality.
Arthur knew that what they wanted most was creative freedom and a work environment full of genius. Arthur wanted to build his studio into a holy land in the entire game world, so the organizational structure of the studio has always been flat and there was no intermediate management. Except for the only person in charge, Edward, everyone else was treated equally.
Because once middle-level management has been established, these "designers" who are full of genius ideas and need to be motivated to create need to endure the middle-level point of fingering at the project, and the middle-level is often airborne. The endless meetings will cause designers to suffer and limit their thinking. Arthur knows more than anyone else. Now, perhaps he can rely on his foresight to come up with some game planning, but one day, his own thinking cannot keep up with the pace of company development and the times.
In the end, he still has to rely on his professional talents to help him make money, so Arthur decided to build his game studio into an open company from now on.
"I am going to implement the "producer-specific team" policy in the company! Since the beginning of the studio, I have wanted to build the studio into a designer-driven company.
What I want is that the production team has more control over the game, rather than being held by a few people. Because I believe that good ideas may come out from anywhere, I hope to promote this atmosphere.
We must focus on the future. We cannot just stick to the past." Arthur said a decision that surprised everyone in the conference room, but soon fell into a fanatical situation.
Chapter completed!