Chapter 437 Fang Mo's thoughts
Following Fang Mo and talking about the launch date, Zhou Kai thought about what the company is missing now: "Boss, to a certain extent, the company has developed to this level and is supported by us with abundant funds.
But the biggest problem is that we have fewer projects now. Teams of hundreds of people in other companies are eager to open more than ten projects, but our company currently only has the PUBG project, so I wonder if the boss should reorganize the department now?
Promote more outstanding talents to start orderly diversion of department personnel, forming multiple departments responsible for their respective projects and each is responsible for their own profits and losses."
Looking at the employees who are modifying the game gun model in the employee office area, the restructurings Zhou Kai said sounded quite useful to Fang Mo. After all, isn’t Xunten’s game department like this?
However, under the pressure of performance KPI, its employees are likely to become profit-oriented and lose their dreams when entering the game industry. This is not a good thing for Fang Mo, who does not expect the company to have a big profit goal.
The original dream of establishing a game company was to allow China to have good games, so that Chinese players could one day proudly say: "Look at our China's 3a productions at this time!"
So after listening to Zhou Kai’s restructuring, Fang Mo decided to reserve some room for each group: “If it were all based on the market theory, would it be a good game?
At least in China, the skin-changing game takes less time and less money but has great profitability. If we really take KPI theory, will the employees of its employees think all day long and no longer how to make a good game but how to take more money from the players' pockets?”
What Fang Mo said made Zhou Kai a little embarrassed, but when he thought about it carefully, what Fang Mo said was indeed the truth. Moreover, this is a common problem in the current game industry. All the planning is not about how to make a game more fun, but how to take more money from the player's pocket.
In such a big environment, even if a good game is really made, it will sooner or later deteriorate under the pressure of KPI!
"Then I wonder if you have any good suggestions, boss?"
Listening to Zhou Kai's inquiry, Fang Mo replied with a smile: "It's not possible without KPI. It's related to whether the company can survive, but overemphasizing KPI is not possible. This is very unfair to excellent games, especially those that are single-player games.
So why can't we establish a more humane mechanism to maintain the development of the company?
Every year, one or two projects are released, regardless of the profit, and only focus on the exploration of gameplay and game technology. One of the annual project quotas is determined by the group with the highest KPI that year, and the other is discussed and decided by the game designers of the entire company."
Zhou Kai could only face the idea of the boss's utopian nature. Not to mention the special support of KPI No. 1 group, after all, this is a reward for outstanding people.
But for the second point, Zhou Kai, who is also a game designer, saw the problem at a glance: every designer is arrogant, and what an excellent design idea is it to make them choose works that are inferior to others?
If you don’t agree with me, I don’t agree with you. Can you finally choose excellent works to form a group?
Before Zhou Kai could express his opinion, Fang Mo continued: "We can also learn Xunten's arrangements for the game department. All those who have ideas hand over their ideas to their superiors and let their superiors decide who can set up a group.
Each game department has ratings for each other, and you will eventually supervise them. However, all employees who have not joined the department are placed in the public office area, and only when each department selects people, they are asked to select talents to enter their own department.
In this way, for managers in various departments, selecting the right talents without wasting them becomes a compulsory course, and it is also motivated for employees in public groups. Simply put, as long as you have the ability, you will definitely benefit."
Listening to the boss talking more and more, Zhou Kai had to stand up and interrupt Fang Mo's thoughts, "Boss, we will consider what you said, but I don't know if the boss can solve it? How to adjust the only quota problem."
Regarding Zhou Kai’s question, Fang Mo walked in front and said a few words without looking back: “Is this question difficult? Excellent people will naturally move closer to excellent people, and excellent game design plans will naturally be recognized by the same game designer, right?
As for how to improve and avoid the evil side of human nature, shouldn’t these things be done by you, the manager?”
After saying that, Fang Mo turned his head to look at Zhou Kai, and tidied up Zhou Kai's slightly sloppy shirt in front of the employees: "As the boss, I can't think of how bad my employees are, but as a manager, you need to add to the side I overlook, right?"
Listening to what the boss said, Zhou Kai nodded in a hilarious way. Although things should be done, they were awkward to think about it. He seemed to be pushed to the opposite of the employee by the boss.
The first thing I think about in the future is my manager, and I will not think about the boss who caused that situation.
It was time for lunch at noon, Fang Mo took Zhou Kai and several other bigwigs downstairs to have dinner together. At the dinner table, several people talked about their views on the Chinese game industry. Fang Mo, sitting in the main seat, was listening quietly to the people below talking about the current form.
Until one of the original art paintings of the big giant suddenly asked Fang Mo: "The boss doesn't know if our company will make some derivative products of the game besides games?
Just like the figures of World of Warcraft.”
Fang Mo was stunned for Daniu’s sudden speech. After all, he has not even had a single word of his game, so he started to think about something longer?
However, Fang Mo soon came to his senses: "You can do it. Whether it is a stand-alone game or a mobile game, as long as the game sells a lot, it will definitely strengthen the development in this area. At that time, I will ask Lao Feng, you guys to improve it!"
Although Fang Mo believes that they will have the opportunity to surpass Blizzard in the next ten years, everything is just starting now. If Fang Mo really said that, it will be easy for employees to have unreliable ideas about their bosses.
"When the PUBG is launched this time, we can try to make the guns, pans, and characters in the game into models to try the initial acceptance of our game by the figure market.
Chapter completed!