Losing Money to Be a Tycoon

term goals, Pei Qian had to keep the shares and exclusive agency rights.

If it generated profit for him in the short-term, he could think of other ways to spend the additional money.
He could spend it on logistics, warehouses, or charity.
In any case, he would just have to think of different avenues to spend money in order to do his part for society.

When he thought about things from this angle, the situation did not seem so bad.

He still had hopes of incurring losses.

What’s more, the more Pei Qian thought about it, the more inspired he became.
Suddenly, a good idea surfaced in his mind.

“Just as well.
I’ll use this opportunity to take more risks! Since IOI already exists in this world, it means that the future winner has already been set.

“If I create a MOBA game as well, isn’t it guaranteed to fail?

“It would become like a bottomless pit.
I’ll be able to pour as much money as I want into it without seeing any returns!”

All of a sudden, Pei Qian found a new opportunity to spend money.
One could say that every cloud did have a silver lining!

The future IOI was destined to become popular around the globe.
A good-quality game like Gods Rising could still survive, but other client-side MOBA games would probably die a horrible death or be chucked to the back of gamers’ minds.

Since that was the case, Tengda Games could create a MOBA game and guarantee failure, right?

Pei Qian would invest fifty million yuan in the game first.
If the situation looked negative, Pei Qian would invest another fifty million yuan into it.
Ultimately, the game should not be able to compete with IOI and end up failing.
That would make ducks and drakes of Tengda’s investment.

It would be the perfect scenario, right?

The more Pei Qian thought about it, the more reliable the plan seemed!

He had intended to give Tengda Games a budget of fifty million yuan, but he had no idea how they could spend it.
Now, he no longer needed to worry.
He had an aim!

At that, Pei Qian quickly called Li Yada in.

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“I have an idea for a new game.
Take some simple notes.”

Li Yada quickly retrieved her little notebook from her pocket.
“Alright, Boss Pei.
Please go ahead.”

Pei Qian pondered for a moment and asked, “Have you played Gods Rising before? Make something similar.
The new game will be of the same genre.

“The name would be… GOG, which will stand for Glory of Gods.”

Since LOL, IOI, COC, and WOW already existed; Pei Qian realized that not many English alphabets remained.

That was why he chose GOG.
There was no special meaning: he just wanted the game to quickly go GG[1].

Li Yada waited.

A minute passed.
Puzzled, she asked, “That’s it?”

Pei Qian nodded.
“That’s right.”

We’re just creating this game to spend as much money as possible.
You all would be free to do whatever you want with it.

After some thought, Li Yada said, “Would it be… inappropriate if we just follow Gods Rising? Gameplay cannot be patented, but I think we’ll be cursed at for sure.”

Pei Qian nodded.
“Yes, that’s logical.”

Boss Pei’s aim was only to lose money and not to destroy his or his company’s reputation.
There was no need to attract unnecessary criticism.

“Since that’s the case, all of you can make amendments as you wish.
Just make sure you amend it so that it becomes unrecognizable.
Players should not think of us as copycats after playing the game.

“The first version will have about twenty-odd heroes.
We’ll aim to release it in four months.

“The budget would be fifty million yuan.
Work as hard and spend as much money as you need.
If you don’t have enough, I can provide more.”

Li Yada was stunned.
“Huh? That much? I don’t think we’ll be able to spend it all.”

You won’t be able to spend it all?

Pei Qian was unhappy that his own employees were not taking the initiative to think of creative ideas.

As if he had expected better from her, Pei Qian asked, “Do you need me to teach you how to spend money? Buy more art resources, models, actions, story backgrounds, and other details…”

Embarrassed, Li Yada looked down at her notebook.
“But… Boss Pei, if we only need one image and twenty-odd heroes, we would not need that much money for art resources…”

Pei Qian was speechless.
“…”

On further thought, that seemed true.

Thanks to the official website for resources, ESRO, the capital required for researching and developing games was now much lower.

It would indeed be quite difficult for them to spend fifty million yuan in just four months on one image and twenty-odd heroes.

What should he do, then?

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Pei Qian fell into deep thought.
Could he lend the experience of other MOBA games?

Many MOBA games had failed.
Yet, did they fail because of poor gameplay, bugs in the system, or bad advertising?

Pei Qian really could not tell.

After much contemplation, Pei Qian finally thought of a decent way out.

He thought about games continually being tested after being produced and were never officially released because of the creator’s fears.
That happened because those creators would be pronounced bankrupt once their games were released.
Pei Qian thought that there was much to learn from their experience!

Of course, he could not steal their copyrights without paying

If he did that, he would not be allowed to release the game.
If he failed to settle for two cycles, the System would shut down on Boss Pei.

However, what if he bought the copyrights? How much would that cost?!

He would not have to worry about not being able to finish spending the System Funds! As long as he kept purchasing copyrights, he could spend as much money as he wanted.

This was a good idea to Pei Qian.
“We’ll buy

IP!

“Be it domestically or overseas, we can buy any character IPs we find suitable.
Even if they’re expensive-as long as we can insert them into our game, we will do so.

“Oh, forget about the popular IPs worth more than a million US dollars.
We’ll just buy more cheap IPs.”

Purchasing expensive character IPs would allow Pei Qian to spend more money.
Some especially famous IPs could not even be bought with money.

However, such IPs also had a strong attractive force.
What would Pei Qian do if they brought loads of fans with them and made the game extremely famous?

What’s more, the bigger the IP, the more trivial matters the holding company would have to take care of.
Pei Qian did not want to discuss details of contracts with large overseas companies all day.
It would be a waste of his time and effort.

Thus, Pei Qian aimed to pick up as much trash as he could.

Be it domestically or overseas, he would find outdated or unpopular character IPs and buy them all with the aim of collecting rubbish.
He would then insert them into the game and design special functions based on these characters.

If the ones he found were different in style from the game, he would engage in discussions with the creators first.
Then, he would spend another sum of money hiring a professional artist to recreate the characters.

This way, he could spend money very quickly.

Moreover, rubbish IPs would prove utterly useless.
They would not bring much traffic to their game, and their price-quality ratio would be through the roof.

Li Yada had many questions.
After all, this was her first real project as the chief planner.

However, Pei Qian waved his hand.
“Alright, that’s all for now.
Go and have a think about it.
Don’t ask me everything.
I don’t want to influence your thought process.”

Li Yada pressed her fingers together and said, “Alright… alright, Boss Pei.”

She turned around and walked out of Boss Li’s office.
Li Yada felt that this mission was too heavy, particularly because games like Gods Rising were not her forte.

The more she thought about it, the more impossible it seemed to improve a game like Gods Rising in such a short amount of time.

It looked like she had to consult Bao Xu in secret.

[1] This is an acronym for ‘Good Game’, which usually signifies the end of something.