Chapter 228 I guess Cang Xue is in trouble

He took a small sip of coffee to calm his nerves.

He opened the game platform and looked at the download count for Limit Survival.

There were only a few downloads.

Chen Mo was completely relieved; these few downloads were likely from Cangxue Games employees.

Everything was as he had expected; since the game hadn't been promoted, even if it launched, few people would choose to download it.

However, now that he knew Fang Chang's capabilities, the development of the next game couldn't be left to him.

Fang Chang could focus on being a manager and overseeing the Club, while the new game would be developed by other employees.

But who should develop the new game?

Chen Mo fell into deep thought, but soon, he wrote Wei Yan's name on a piece of paper.

Yes, it would be Wei Yan.

After much deliberation, most of the employees in the game Club had some understanding of games.

Only Wei Yan was different; he had been transferred from the Clothing Factory.

He was originally in sales and had barely touched games. Even after working at Snowy Sky for some time, it was impossible for him to know too much about game knowledge.

Having him as the planner for the third game was very reliable.

Additionally, Fang Chang and Zhao Bowen would be told to manage their own game projects and not interfere with Wei Yan's game project.

Also, they wouldn't be allowed to choose the game type themselves; a declining game category must be chosen for them to develop.

A declining game, coupled with Wei Yan, who didn't understand games.

He didn't believe that such a combination couldn't develop a money-losing game.

However, the office building had just been rented and was undergoing renovation, so even if he wanted to invest in a new game, he would have to wait until the renovation was complete.

After all, the current employees of Snowy Sky needed to maintain the two games, Tianlong and Limit Survival, and simply couldn't spare more people to develop new projects.

To develop new projects, new employees needed to be recruited.

And the current workspace of Snowy Sky couldn't accommodate more new employees.

He would have to wait until the office building renovation was finished, move some Snowy Sky employees to the Group headquarters, and then recruit more employees.

Having thought all this through, he decided to temporarily set aside the matter of the new game.

Currently, the system funds still had 5.7 million remaining, with two weeks until settlement. Tianlong still had two weeks of weekly card income and two weeks of daily card income, totaling approximately 8 million in revenue.

Of that, 5.3 million was for employee salaries, taxes, and other expenses.

So, he still had 8.4 million to spend.

If Li Shen hadn't saved 1.1 million in rent, plus the coffee shop's profits during this period, he would only have about 7 million in system funds left.

However, 7 million in system funds could still be easily spent according to his spending plan.

First, there was the employee dining hall next to the office building, which would allow him to spend a large sum of money.

As for the building for the restaurant, he had already asked Li Shen to look for one.

Then there was the employee team-building dinner. It had been almost two months since the last team-building dinner, so holding another employee dinner now was perfectly fine.

These two items alone would pretty much deplete the system funds.

And even if they didn't, he had other ways to spend money, so he wasn't too worried.

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Tiange Game Club,

Chen Cong hung up the phone and turned to Du Ziteng.

"Cangxue called and said the game launched today."

"It just launched like that? Why was there no announcement?"

Du Ziteng was somewhat surprised to hear this. The trial had ended two days ago, and they had thought Cangxue would do some promotion before launching.

He hadn't expected it to launch so quietly.

He opened the game platform in confusion and quickly found the Limit Survival game.

Looking at the mere dozen or so downloads, Du Ziteng's expression grew even more puzzled. "Such a good game, why isn't it being promoted?"

Chen Cong also noticed the game's situation on the game platform at this time, but he didn't think much of it and just downloaded the game directly.

While downloading, he also sent the news of the game's launch to the group chat.

Now that the testing was over, it was time to play properly.

Moreover, during the trial period, he had finally found a way to play longer in this game and had already achieved first place many times.

That was to team up with people who played well.

"Du Ziteng, hurry up and download it. I'll call Jiang Jiu and Su Yibo, and we'll team up for a couple of rounds."

"Hmm, I want to play Ghost Mode."

Du Ziteng glanced at Chen Cong and said flatly.

Ever since playing the Limit Survival trial, he had discovered a problem with Chen Cong: he was truly bad but loved to play.

Playing with him was like carrying a burden.

That was fine, but if they managed to kill someone, this guy would loot the package more eagerly than anyone else.

"Don't be like that, it's more fun playing together. I'll treat you all to dinner tonight."

Chen Cong tried to persuade him.

Without the protection of these guys, he would surely be eliminated early again.

With persistent coaxing and the incentive of a free meal, Du Ziteng finally agreed to play a couple of rounds with Chen Cong.

However, after downloading the game, the two of them discovered a problem.

Since the game hadn't been promoted, very few players knew about it. When they teamed up for a random match, they were actually matched with bots.

It wasn't challenging at all.

"These bots are too weak, it's so boring," Chen Cong said, somewhat bored, after killing a bot with a burst of bullets.

Du Ziteng took off his headphones, his expression helpless.

"This game hasn't been promoted, so the download count on the game platform is probably just us. If we do random matches, 90% will definitely be bots. If we want to play against real people, we probably still need custom Rooms."

"Seriously, I'm going to call Fang Chang and ask him what's going on. Such a fun game, not promoting it is a complete waste."

Du Ziteng saw Chen Cong's action and immediately stopped him from making the call.

"Don't ask. A game this fun, normally, wouldn't go unpromoted. I suspect Cangxue might have run into some difficulties."

"What kind of difficulties could there be?" Chen Cong looked puzzled.

Du Ziteng pondered for a moment, then slowly spoke.

"I guess they probably don't have enough funds for promotion."

"No, that's not right. Tianlong is very popular now, so there shouldn't be a lack of funds!"

"Tianlong is very popular, but Cangxue's boss doesn't just own one game Club; he has several other companies. After signing the contract with Fang Chang and the others last time, I looked into it. Besides Snowy Sky, the other companies under that boss aren't doing very well. I suspect the profits from Tianlong have all been invested in his other companies, but now, the current game has no funds for promotion."