Losing Money to Be a Chapter 696 - Investing in Cherry Workspace

Chapter 696: Investing in Cherry Workspace

Liang Qingfan was taken aback.

Who would pick houses without appreciation potential to buy?

Could it be...?

Boss Pei actually ant to buy a popular property in the city center?

Popular real estate had been speculated at very high prices so the room for growth was relatively small. To say that the appreciation potential was lower seed to be right.

Liang Qingfan instantly understood and nodded quickly: “No problem, Boss Pei!”

He obviously also noticed that Boss Pei’s attitude towards ‘buying building’ had changed dramatically.

Before, he kept picking up rubbish. Buildings with bad layouts, remotely located buildings—buying all types of comrcial and residential buildings.

However, now, they have to buy buildings with little potential for appreciation; that was so popular properties in the city center.

Why was that?

Liang Qingfan combined this with the Sloth Apartnts 2.0 model to speculate that this should be a strategic transformation.

He started to pick up rubbish mainly to highlight the core concept of the Sloth Apartnts.

For example, in the promotional video of Sloth Apartnt, the two buildings in Binhu District were completely renovated from garbage buildings that no one cared about... beca livable. This created a huge topic and attracted a lot of attention.

Now that the Sloth Apartnts has gained attention, they must continue to explore and establish a higher brand value.

Therefore, Liang Qingfan supported Boss Pei’s idea with all his heart.

Pei Qian suddenly felt guilty for no reason, seeing Liang Qingfan’s face of ‘great minds think alike’ expression.

However, after thinking about it, it was useless to keep picking up trash. When the ti cos, the value would rise wildly, and he would be back again when it ca to settlent.

It was the lesser of the two evils. Pei Qian thought for a long ti and decided to stick to his current idea.

Let’s try the Sloth Apartnts 2.0 model first; he would think of other ways if it didn’t work.

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October 21st, Friday...

Beijing, Cherry Workspace...

“Quickly, quickly, everyone clean up your work stations; don’t leave a bad impression.”

A tall and thin young man, who looked less than 30 years old, was cleaning up his ssy desk full of books while instructing the other three people sitting next to him.

The other three people looked younger than him. One boy was round and looked a bit naive, the other boy was slightly fat, and there was a girl with glasses and a single ponytail.

There were many such small independent ga studios in Beijing.

Three or four people could develop an independent ga by finding an incubation space.

The tall and thin young man was the owner and producer of Cherry Studio, nad Jiang Fan.

The guy who looks a bit naive was Yang Liang, the main designer of the ga; the fat boy and the girl with a single ponytail were the chief systems designer and the art designer of the ga, respectively.

Moreover, everyone was actually a part-ti function designer, and everyone knew how to use the ga editor to make gas.

The girl was in charge of art, but she drew a few art resources by herself. Most of the ti, she would be communicating with people on the resource station, give her demands, and accept art resources.

Such a small team of four was the current standard team of independent ga studios in China.

Any smaller, and the developnt cycle would be longer. Moreover, it would be difficult to guarantee the quality of the gas made, and it would be based on pure luck. However, the company might not survive if there were more people.

Independent ga companies must be stretched in terms of funding. Every di was precious.

Even if there were an official editor and an official platform to match the search for art resources, costs still existed in developing an independent gas platform.

Rent had to be settled, staff salaries had to be paid, and art resources had to be bought.

The official gas platform might have preferential policies for independent ga producers, but all that would amount to nothing if the gas could not be sold. The investnts would have been lost.

The na??ve chief designer Yang Liang cleaned up a little reluctantly: “Brother Fan, let’s not clean up; I think it’s useless. Several investors ca to ask questions before. No one really wants to invest in a risk like us.

“The probability of failure in independent gas is too high after all so they are not willing to invest.

“We should fix one or two more bugs during this ti.”

Jiang Fan was also a little helpless: “There is no other way, Old Liang. The financial situation of the studio is too bad now. We will last a month at most if no one invests in us. We won’t even be able to pay the salary then. I can’t let it all work for nothing. Let’s try again.

“I asked a few friends in the industry and verified that Boss Qiu, who is coming today, is indeed a well-known figure in the industry. While he has not invested in any company, he did get in touch with a few of them, showing that he has this intention.”

Yang Liang continued to pack things up: “Really? Brother Fan, do you think we have a chance to get the investnt?”

Jiang Fan shook his head. “I can’t tell either.

“This Boss Qiu used to make gas with paywalls, but I don’t know why he suddenly contacted dostic standalone ga companies since last week, especially independent ga studios like ours. I know that he had spoken to three in Beijing alone.

“They said that he seems to be investing in dostic standalone gas and independent gas. For us, the probability of being invested is much higher than that of other investnt companies.

“However, none of the three companies I heard received any investnt.

“It is understandable that the first two did not pass. They seed to be too unreliable, but the third one is very reliable. The frawork of the ga has been completed, and the ga content is quite good. They needed one last spur before the final release. However, Boss Qiu did not invest in them either.

“I don’t know exactly what his requirents are.

“But anyway, this is a good opportunity for us. Try to seize it.”

The four people in the studio took the ti to tidy up the workstations a bit while waiting for the arrival of Boss Qiu.

Jiang Fan looked anxiously at the ti on the phone.

Jiang Fan’s cell phone rang two minutes before 2 pm.

Jiang Fan hurriedly picked it up: “Boss Qiu, are you here? Wait a mont, I will bring you up right now!”

Jiang Fan gave everyone a look before he left. Everyone imdiately sat upright at the workstations and began to work seriously, waiting for Boss Qiu’s arrival.

Jiang Fan brought Qiu Hong to the workspace several minutes later.

Ever since Qiu Hong accepted the mission of the ‘Destitution Plan’ from Boss Pei, Qiu Hong settled his personal affairs and rushed straight to Beijing.

Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou were places where ga companies gathered so Qiu Hong chose Beijing as his first stop.

Qiu Hong’s mission was to invest in standalone ga companies and independent ga studios across the country, but he did not need to fly between cities every day.

The most efficient way would be to stay in Beijing for a month, inspect one company every day, and choose the companies in Beijing before changing to another city.

Qiu Hong had visited five companies but only invested in one.

Three companies looked like very unreliable small workshops. The bosses themselves don’t know the ga very well, and they are a bit of an insider guiding the insider. Qiu Hong felt that they might have the tendency to defraud investors.

Boss Pei said no investnt if they were not reliable.

There was a company that was good in all aspects and had a high degree of completion of the ga. Qiu Hong tried it and felt that the probability of success was high.

However, Boss Pei also said no investnt if the company seed too reliable.

Therefore, there was only one that was well-regulated and obtained the investnt of Qiu Hong’s ‘Destitution Plan’.

Today, Qiu Hong ca to Cherry Workspace to continue his inspection.

In fact, his job was the easiest and least stressful. When he was a ga producer, he had to rack his brains to think about the gaplay. He was afraid that one wrong decision would ruin the whole project, but now, he doesn’t need to do that anymore. He could just look at the company’s situation and decide whether to invest or not.

Moreover, the bonus now has nothing to do with whether the investnt was profitable. The more he invested, the more bonus he could get. Where else could he obtain such a good deal?

Without stress, he needed not to worry about gains and losses, and he was more rational and clear-headed when making decisions.

Jiang Fan moved a chair to Qiu Hong from the side and took a cup of hot water from the water dispenser next to him. He then began to introduce the basic situation of Cherry Workspace.

Qiu Hong listened while drinking his water.

According to Jiang Fan, Cherry Workspace was basically a standard ‘doing sothing from the heart’ story.

Jiang Fan originally worked in a law firm, and his profession has nothing to do with gas. Starting to make gas was only because of the existence of official platforms and editors, which greatly lowered the barriers to ga production and gave him the idea of trying out making a ga after work.

Jiang Fan usually worked very slowly and could only spare one hour a day to make gas with the official ga editor.

In this way, he spent two full years on his own making an Interactive Fiction based on a Defense Lawyer, and it turned out to be quite well-received after it went live.

The sales volu was not very high; after all, indie gas did not cost too much. It sold nearly 200,000 copies for five yuan each. After taking into account various preferential policies of the official platform for indie gas, he made about 600,000 yuan.

Therefore, Jiang Fan made a very important decision in his life. He gave up his job as a lawyer and decided to set up Cherry Workspace to make independent gas full-ti.

The other three employees were also found by Jiang Fan through his own player group. They went through simple interviews. These three also voluntarily gave up their previous jobs and ca to Cherry Workspace to receive wages that could only guarantee basic living standards.

It was not that Jiang Fan was stingy. The key was that there was only 600,000 yuan in total, and he had to pay for the rent of the office space and the purchase of art resources. There is really no way to pay more salary.

The ga they were developing now was called ‘Survival Guide for Working Adults’. It was much bigger than the ga that Jiang Fan developed before, but it was precisely because the size exceeded Jiang Fan’s ability to control that Cherry Workspace had not enough money to sustain.

In a little more than a month, he might not be able to pay wages, and the ga had yet to reach the level to be launched.