The meeting ended for more than two hours.

Everyone left the conference room one after another, and Li Ang returned to his compartment, printed out the documents saved on the computer, and walked towards the manager's office.

Dong, Dong, Dong

The office door was knocked, and the voice of Director Liu came from inside: "Come in."

Li Ang opened the door and walked in.

"Oh, Li Ang, is there anything wrong?" Director Liu was holding a cup and a small bag of coffee in his mouth and was picking up water by the water dispenser. He raised his head, looked at Li Ang, and asked.

Li Ang put the paper he had just printed on his desk and said, "Supervisor Liu, this is my resignation report, I want to resign."

"Resign? Why?" Director Liu was stunned and asked in confusion.

Li Ang is an old employee under his command. He has been working in the company for many years. He has always worked diligently and is very low-key on weekdays and has a very ordinary performance. Why do you want to quit? Could it be that you bought a lottery and won the jackpot?

Manager Liu asked with confusion: "Is there another company that poach you?"

"No, no." Li Ang waved his hand repeatedly and explained: "I just felt a little tired and tired. I wanted to take a break and do something I like."

"Tired? Why are you tired of working overtime for a while last month?" Manager Liu took the cup back to his seat and sat down while stirring with a spoon, saying, "Hey, you know that the game market now looks hot, and it seems that everyone has food to eat, but the competition in secret is very fierce! If you slow down, you will fall behind! You will be beaten! For the sake of efficiency, overtime is also impossible. Besides, the company has paid everyone overtime pay, and there are bonuses."

He paused and then said, "I think it's okay to resign. In this way, isn't it useless for you to have a day off? I'll take your leave today, so that you can take four days in a row, come to work again on Monday, want to travel, do something, etc., and you can also use this time to do it. You have always done a good job. I've seen all the previous planning plans, and I still have a lot of ideas. The company is optimistic about you, so there is no need to quit."

"No, it's not that I think it's hard to work overtime, I want to do my own thing." Li Ang said seriously.

"Are you going to start your own business?" Manager Liu became interested and put down the spoon in his hand.

"Yes." Li Ang confirmed.

"Entrepreneurship is not an easy thing..." Manager Liu took a sip of coffee: "Of course, people go to high places and water flows to low places. You can't stop companies if you want to start a business and make big money. But I think you should think carefully and don't be impulsive. It's true that starting a business can make big money, but you can't just see those successful examples. There are many examples of failure, and there are still risks of entrepreneurship."

After taking another sip, he continued, "Let me give you an example. Minister Zhou Gang of the Operations Department. Before he came to our company, he started his own business and became the boss. He opened a health care product factory with his brother. His brother was responsible for production and he was responsible for marketing. But what happened later? The competition in the health care product industry was too fierce. The naked Red Ocean market was in the dark. The factory went bankrupt after a few years. The two of them owed a lot of debts. His brother ran away to Southeast Asia, and Minister Zhou had to sell his house to pay off his debts. His wife divorced him. Do you think this kind of entrepreneurship is interesting?"

Manager Liu put down the cup and continued: "Although our company is not as good as a large company like a penguin or a pig farm, it is already good in other game companies. The benefits are at least considered to be moderate and superior. It is not worth making a lot of money, but it is still OK to buy a house and settle down in Pengcheng. By the way, did you go to the last time Minister Zhou’s wedding?"

"Go." Li Ang nodded, and gave out five hundred yuan gifts. Wouldn't it be a loss if he didn't go for a big meal?

"Then you tell me, why is a beautiful female college student who just graduated, willing to marry Minister Zhou, an old man in his thirties and with a burden to the air?" asked Director Liu.

"Because of true love?" Li Ang's tone was not very certain.

"Damn true love!" Manager Liu's voice suddenly rose by eight degrees: "It's because Minister Zhou can make money! He can buy a house in Pengcheng! He can make the family settle down in Pengcheng! He is young, beautiful and educated, and has seen the prosperity of the big city. Are you willing to go back to her poor and bad hometown in Xiangxi? As soon as you graduate, you still have to find ways to stay? I remember you also came from the countryside, right? Don't you want to settle down in Pengcheng? If you fail to start a business..."

"I understand what you said, but I really thought it through and made up my mind." Li Ang interrupted his persuasion, but his tone was very light and he maintained a certain respect. After all, Director Liu treats everyone well on weekdays and is considered a good leader: "I can hand over the work after I leave to the new Xiao Wang, Wang Wei. He has been in the company for almost a year, and I have been taking care of him. He is already very familiar with the work of the planning department and is very diligent in daily life. He is fully qualified for my work."

"That's it..." Manager Liu took another sip of coffee: "Would you mind tell me what you plan to do in the future?"

"I plan to play an independent game." Li Ang did not hide it and told him bluntly.

"Independent game? Stand-alone?" Manager Liu asked, sipped the coffee in his cup.

"Yes." Li Ang confirmed.

"Hey, why do you say to me? You are an insider in the industry. You know, stand-alone games are not easy to make." Manager Liu advised: "The most profitable thing now is online games! Online games! The most popular ones are mobile, mobile, followed by computer and web. Although the stand-alone game has a better reputation, they can't make much money."

"But..." Li Ang opened his mouth and was about to refute, but was interrupted by Manager Liu.

"Nothing but!" He drank the coffee in the cup in one go, put it down, and said with a splash of mouth: "If you start a business and do something else, then I wish you on behalf of the company! I can say anything I can help with. But if you want to do a stand-alone game, as a person who has experienced it, I have to persuade you once. Well... do you know the Arrow Studio?"

"Arrow Studio?" Li Ang thought the name sounded familiar, but he couldn't remember it for a while.

"Have you ever played the game "First Emperor"?" Manager Liu continued.

"Oh, I've played, I've played." Li Ang suddenly remembered. Isn't this magical arrow studio the developer of "First Emperor" and hurriedly said: "It's "First Emperor", of course I've played it. This is a classic work in the domestic stand-alone machine back then."

"Then are you playing genuine or pirated?" Manager Liu looked smiling.

"This..." Li Ang was speechless for a moment. He was downloaded on the Internet. The so-called hard disk-free version of the game was undoubtedly a pirated version.

"It's a pirated copy. So, let me tell you a story about my past..." Manager Liu's tone was a little depressed. He took out a box of cigarettes from the drawer, took out another one and lit it. After taking a deep breath, he said: "That's almost eighteen years ago. I was like you, and I went to the Shanghai Stock Exchange alone. I happened to be recruiting people at the time. I was also young and ignorant at that time. I felt that I could program, had some skills, and liked to play games, so I joined in."

He vomited a smoke ring: "The working environment at that time was not comparable to that now. I remember that at that time, our Divine Arrow Studio was opened in a three-bedroom apartment. At the most, there were sixteen people in the studio, sixteen big men, in the summer, they were shirtless and coded codes. The electric fan was blowing over and it was hot. The whole house was stuffy and hot. At that time, the R&D funds were tight. In order to save money, let alone meat, they couldn't even afford instant noodles. Everyone ate the cheapest bulk rice, drinking porridge in winter, soaking rice in summer, and eating 50 cents a pack of pickled vegetables in three days..."

Manager Liu took a deep breath of cigarette: "But at that time everyone was happy, everyone was full of passion, and they were full of anger! We want to prove that we Chinese can also make world-class computer games! But development has been bumpy and not going well, with little funds, and it is difficult to do the technology... The best technology in the studio is Brother Niu. He refused the opportunity to study overseas and led everyone to work day and night... The studio owner is Mr. Zhang Hao. In order to make the game, he went out to run funds all day long, and borrowed all relatives and friends... Later, because the 2D game could not keep up with the situation, he also pushed down the original development plan and changed to 3D. The efforts of more than half a year were wasted..."

The cigarette butt was pressed into the ashtray: "But no matter what, in more than two years, in nearly three years, finally, "The First Emperor" was completed! We can proudly say that "The First Emperor" is definitely not inferior to any game in the world at that time, in terms of playability, picture quality or other aspects! It is not inferior to the classic masterpieces of those big foreign companies at that time!"

Manager Liu looked sad: "It was so happy at that time. Mr. Zhang sold his house and raised money to carve the game plate. Then everyone went to the channel and sold. We calculated that as long as we sold 150,000 sets, our early investment could be recovered, 200,000 sets would be profitable, and 300,000 sets would be able to support us in continuing to develop "First Emperor 2" or other games. Everyone was optimistic at the time because a game of quality like this could easily sell more than 500,000 copies abroad! One million copies might not be necessary... But do you know what the final result would be?"

"How is it?" Li Ang seemed to know something and swallowed.

"The pirated version was released the next day after the game was released. It was sold everywhere for five or ten yuan. The genuine versions on the counter, which cost 69 yuan per set, only 8,000 sets were sold in total! However, what is even more ironic is that among these 8,000 sets, the simplified versions sold in mainland China only account for 3,000 sets! And the traditional versions represented by Xiangjiang, Xiangshan Ao, and Baodao sold in total 5,000 sets!" Manager Liu's tone seemed angry and sad: "You also know later. The Divine Arrow Studio went bankrupt and disbanded, Mr. Zhang went south to do business, and now the boss of Starry Sky Entertainment, Big Niu Ge went abroad, and now he is a senior technical director of Milijian's Gugou Company, and the others are also going their separate ways. Do you think this is a satirical?"

"But, the environment is different now." Li Ang reluctantly defended: "Now everyone's authenticity has improved, and various channels have been formalized."

"Yes, the environment is better now, but so what? Nowadays, independent games and stand-alone games are still niche! There is not even one-tenth or even one-percent of online game players! There is no money for you." Manager Liu continued: "I'll analyze it for you! The most popular domestic stand-alone game now is called "The Legend of the Demons", right? It was put on the fat g Stim and made a mobile version. The two versions combined, and sold one million copies in a year, and the reputation is also very good. It is considered the best among domestic stand-alone games."

He spread his hands: "But so what? It's just a small production, priced at only 38 yuan per piece. If you sell one million copies, it's only 38 million! If you deduct the publicity fee and channel fee, you can get 20 million. But how long has it been developed? It's nearly three years! With the year of release, how much does it take to make 20 million in four years? This still doesn't count the R&D and labor costs!"

After a pause, he continued: "The new "City War God (Mobile Game Version)" in our company is a transplantation of the original computer-sided work to the mobile phone. The entire development time is only two and a half months. Its monthly turnover is now more than 28 million! The net profit is 14 million! One is 5 million a year, and one is 14 million a month. I don't need to talk about the gap between them."

The so-called monthly flow of games refers to the total sales of this game on various platforms in a month. Generally speaking, for a mobile game, the revenue that game companies can earn from various channel merchants is equivalent to 70% of the monthly flow of games. Then, the cost of R&D, maintenance, publicity, etc. is removed, and the net profit is generally about 40% to 50% of the monthly flow of games.

Manager Liu pushed back the resignation letter and finally said, "I have told you so much today. I hope you can think about it carefully. It is not too late to resign. In this way, I will take your leave. You go back and think about it carefully first. If you insist on resigning and starting a business on Monday, then I promise not to keep it anymore, okay."
Chapter completed!