Chapter 1790 I'm Too Difficult
Facts have proved that since the deputy secretary-general dared to make such a promise, he was indeed a bit brave and capable. On the day of the press conference, he started to transfer people directly from the company and transferred more than 100 programmers in one breath to join the development project team of the Box Games Online Store.
Because Microsoft attaches great importance to this project, the letters from the deputy secretary-general transferred people are always good. Although the number of 100 programmers does not seem to be large, they are all the most elite programmers from Microsoft. They have experienced various network projects such as Windows systems, WPSs, and MSN. They have a lot of experience. Some people can even evaluate themselves and create a decent portal or large forum in just ten days.
Anyway, these are Microsoft's absolute elite power. Even Daqian doesn't have this power. I can only look at it. It is precisely because of this power that the deputy secretary-general dared to speak verbally for 20 days and set up an online game store.
Then the deputy secretary-general took out a series of methods, various bonuses, various pie promises, and various thoughtful services. He even directly cleared an office for a temporary rest room, allowing programmers to have a short sleep in the rest room, so that the rest of the time can be devoted to development.
To cheer for these programmers, the deputy secretary-general even found some beauties, one by one, and asked these beauties to work with these programmers and cheer them on.
These are not women from certain industries, but real models and high-end products.
The Deputy Secretary-General even promised that whoever can complete the task ahead of time can spend the rest of the night with these beautiful models in the rest room.
From this we can see that the deputy secretary-general's ability is indeed amazing, and Microsoft is determined to win this project. Otherwise, Microsoft's senior executives would not agree to such an exaggerated matter.
This made Tony even hesitate. Could it be that the deputy secretary-general is really a fierce man from the sky and can complete the task?
Later, Tony received an order from Bill Gates to inspect the progress of the project team every day. Tony realized that the deputy secretary-general was too hard.
Although the deputy secretary-general is very confident and the strength of this team is indeed very strong, various problems continue to emerge during the actual research and development process. The facts are much more difficult than he imagined. Otherwise, he would not have made any trouble in the end to invite beautiful models to motivate programmers.
As a result, on August 25, the deputy secretary-general said that the website still could not function normally in mid-August. Fortunately, Bill Gates was mentally prepared for this and did not criticize anything too much. Instead, he gave encouragement to the opponent.
However, in the market, seeing that Microsoft's box game online store was obviously about to quit, the stock price, which finally rose a little, began to fall again. Just when the shareholders were about to get angry, the deputy secretary-general finally announced that the website had been developed successfully.
Bill Gates took a look at the time. It was August 30, 2000, just in time to catch up with the end of August.
Well, who can say that August 30 is not mid-August? There is another August 31st later!
If time has barely caught up, then the negotiations with game developers are not so qualified.
According to the future described by the Deputy Secretary-General in the plan, they can win over a large number of new games that will be launched by the game companies and become the trump card of the box game online store.
So while the deputy secretary-general was directing the website construction, he also directed Microsoft people to continue negotiating with various game companies.
The Deputy Secretary-General knows that having milk is a mother, so he will continue to draw big cakes for these game companies. Isn’t the steam game store a maximum share of 70%?
We give 90% of the time, and we only need 10% of the time!
In the view of the deputy secretary-general, although the proportion is very exaggerated, it is not impossible. First of all, Microsoft no longer expects the Box Games Store to make money. They hope to borrow Box Games to stabilize the stock price, so the best result is to make money online stores and make the online store listing explode. Let's talk about it later...
So there is no problem with the share ratio of 1:9, and the deputy secretary-general, or the senior executives of Microsoft, all think that even if it is only a 1:9 ratio, this game store can make money.
After all, there is only one website in the entire store, and there is no need for the cost of burning the CD before. Franchisees can also remove it. At most, the remaining one will require some logistics costs, so the cost of the store will be compressed to a very terrible level.
Even if the share is only 10%, you can make a big profit. After all, 10% of 10 billion is 1 billion US dollars!
Not to mention, with the 9-component ratio, many game companies were really tempted and agreed to let the new work cooperate with the box game store to see it. Anyway, if it doesn't go well, it will not be a problem to sign a contract with Steam Games in the future.
So far, the negotiations went smoothly.
But when the 30th approached and all the games were about to be launched, the deputy secretary-general discovered that 90% of the games that had been signed were still under development and could not be sold in the game store.
In the final statistics, except for Nintendo games, there are only more than 200 games that can be listed as products, and there are almost 6,000 games in the Steam Game Store, which is no longer on the same level.
I have to say it here. Anyone who hires a game industry will understand how unreliable it is to sign contracts with these games for sale. After all, if all game companies do not miss the ticket, it is a magical company. It is simply a daydream to expect their unreleased games to be put on the store in a short time.
In desperation, the deputy secretary-general could only negotiate with some small game companies that had not yet signed contracts with Daqian, and at least signed some of their old games, barely allowing the opening of the Box Game Store to have a scale of 800 games.
Just when the deputy secretary felt that he could finally take a breath, bad news came from the program and the website found a huge bug. The bug was very serious and had to be fixed, so the original date of August 30 could only be delayed until August 31.
In the middle of August, it turned out to be late August. The Deputy Secretary-General looked at his own scalp that he had vomited in his mirror and could only cry in tears.
Chapter completed!