Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 280: 278: Do I Really Need to Teach You How to Slack Off?

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“No way!”

“Please, boss!”

“We beg you! You have to leave your name on it!”

The girls from the development team all shouted for Lincoln not to touch their share, and begged him to spare them!

If the frightened players got angry and berated the designers, they, with their small arms and legs, couldn’t bear it!

You have to know, the daily active player count for “Light Encounter” reached more than 20 million!

Even just saliva from every person could drown them!

Only Lincoln, with his big heart, dared to provoke them like this…

Lincoln blinked; why wouldn’t they be happy with one less person to share the money with?

Under Lincoln’s management, Dream Cloud Studio didn’t just give employees a fixed salary.

Apart from the huge bonuses after each game release, the production team also had a small percentage of profit-sharing.

Of course, this percentage was very, very small, similar to a previous Hollywood system where scriptwriters received a certain percentage of net profit from the movie release in addition to their script salary.

But in Hollywood, “net profit” was often manipulated, and although a movie could be a big hit with millions at the box office, the distribution company would claim it was a loss without any “net profits”!

So even though the profit-sharing was a very small percentage, the scriptwriters often received nothing.

But under Lincoln, such a tragedy wouldn’t happen, and the money would be distributed as it should.

Although the percentage was very low, between 1% and 3% depending on the scale and duration of the game production, and had to be shared among all members of the production team, the sales of the games were really good!

Take “Assassins’ Alliance” for example, at the end of August, the sales reached 15 million copies and topped the world charts.

This generated a revenue of 7-5 billion!

As two of the original founding members of Dream Cloud Studio, Randall and Little Chun each received 1%.

The remaining team members who joined later also shared 1% together.

At that time, the financial side was just starting to be handed over to the new finance staff, while this portion was still managed by Lincoln and Mavis.

Lincoln was too lazy to look at all the messy numbers and simply removed all costs to distribute the bonus based on the sales revenue, treating it as a welfare for the founding team.

In the end, Randall and Little Chun each received 75 million!

Fred and the other 22 later joiners split 75 million, with an average gain of 3-4 million per person!

In Xiajing City, this amount was still some distance from financial freedom.

But don’t forget, this was just the one-week sales!

This week was the last week of September, and the sales of “Assassins’ Alliance” continued to rise with the sales pace of the Mirage Console.

By the end of the month, their share would basically double!

And it’s still not the end!

When the Mirage Console is released overseas, the game will bring even more revenue, and their share will keep coming.

This was Lincoln’s reward for the early employees who joined him.

There will also be bonuses from the release of future games, stacking on top of each other!

And of course, Lincoln’s huge bonuses for every game release.

From this point of view, is financial freedom getting closer?

That’s why these people work so hard, not only putting in their all in their work scope but also actively learning more knowledge and technology during their leisure time to improve their overall ability.

And they are absolutely loyal to Dream Cloud Studio.

With enough respect and money, the effect is truly amazing.

This system was a fixed policy set by Lincoln, and all new employees could also enjoy this benefit with the deserved share they should have.

However, as more people were recruited and the team scale expanded, the money to be shared would naturally be diluted.

— Another advantage is that employees won’t complain about the team being split and the number of people decreasing, because after all, the fewer people there are, the more money they divide!

Plus, a professional accounting team will also take into account the development costs — although compared to the profit, this part of the cost can be said to be almost negligible.

Making money will not be as fierce as when the team was first established.

Under this circumstance, not having Lincoln’s name on the credits is to make it clear to them that he won’t participate in splitting the money because of designing this content.

Who knew they all thought of the part where they get scolded by the players…

“Fine, fine…” Lincoln sighed helplessly, “When the time comes, I’ll post directly and say I’ve prepared a surprise for the players, alright?”

Being a game planner, how can you be afraid of getting scolded by players?

It’s just a matter of time…

The girls breathed a sigh of relief, and Little Chun also relaxed and asked

Lincoln, ‘When would be a better time to release this season’s map update?”

“According to the plan, your team will be split into two groups. One group will continue to produce seasons, and operate “Light Encounter” in the long term, while the other group will produce new casual games.” Lincoln explained to her.

“Considering that the speed of producing new maps will inevitably be affected after the team is downsized, my idea is to update the seasonal maps every 45 days. According to this pace, this update should be set in the second week of

October. What do you think?”

Little Chun nodded her head without objection.

In some ways, Little Chun is actually somewhat laid-back.

As long as the core needs are met, she rarely opposes in matters that aren’t very important.

But the girls around them were a little different, saying one after another: It’s so long! If it’s only going to be released in the middle of October, what are we supposed to do for this half a month?

Lincoln was speechless: “Just walk around the new map you guys designed, join in the fun and see what other groups are doing, learn something new, watch some shows, read some books, and daydream.”

“Please! You guys are all adults! Do you still need me to teach you how to slack off?!”

Everyone looked at each other: Oh my God, the boss is asking employees to slack off in front of them!

Lincoln didn’t care about their reactions, lowered his head and operated the panel to open a teleportation gate.

“This is the next development plan; those who are interested can come and join the fun.”

After that, Lincoln took the lead to step through the teleportation gate.

The group of girls behind him didn’t want to be left out and followed one after another to join in the fun.

[Ancient Architecture Recording and Protection Foundation Special Map]

From its official establishment to the present, the Ancient Architecture Recording and Protection Foundation has been around one and a half months.

This originally empty map has completely changed.

At first, everyone was just fulfilling their tasks and would record the ancient architecture in the virtual world as they investigated it. Some even felt that it was an additional workload.

However, since the investor was so generous and the funding was sufficient, everyone did their jobs diligently without any complaints.

But that was it. The buildings inside were all independent and scattered on a huge brick square, with various ancient buildings scattered around.

There’s no need to mention the richness of the types.

But it was disorderly and inevitably looked messy without any planning.

Old Man Leonard was caught up in the bits and pieces of the Foundation’s affairs in reality and had no time to organize it.

Until one day, a graduate student named Randolph, who was conducting field research with his mentor, had his obsessive-compulsive disorder act up and could no longer stand the chaotic situation. On a whim, he started adjusting the scattered buildings one by one and beautified the layout.

His actions quickly attracted several people who, like him, had a bit of an obsessive-compulsive disorder.

They began to cooperate in organizing the building layout, even adding ancient-style houses, introducing bridges and flowing water, flowers and ancient trees, and cobblestone roads.

They enriched the details bit by bit, even adding the intricate texture of wind and rain erosion…

Finally, they organized three intertwined old streets that were not only very beautiful but also had real historical basis for all the buildings!

These few old streets soon attracted even more people who joined in their spare time, began moving more ancient buildings over, and carefully adjusted the positions to blend into the environment as harmoniously as possible.

— So, the “great construction” era of this map began..