Chapter 360: A Decade-Spanning Obsession

"Yun Teng, what's next——"

Young Zhang Yuanfang strode in, holding a file bag. He was about to say something when he suddenly paused, then a sly smile appeared on his face.

In the middle of the plain room, behind the broken desk with four legs of different heights that was brought from some office,

Pei Yunteng was 23 years old at the time and had just graduated. He obviously didn't know how to take care of himself.

They are simply wearing a big T-shirt and shorts, with messy hair and a tuft of hair standing high on their heads. Even the big headphones can't suppress their pursuit of freedom.

At this moment, he was staring at the computer screen intently, holding the mouse in one hand and typing on the keyboard with the other. Judging from the movements and positions of his hands, he was obviously not working.

Zhang Yuanfang quietly walked around to the office and, as expected, found Pei Yunteng playing games.

The game I was playing was the one that caused a huge earthquake in the gaming circle before it was even released, and has now become a phenomenal masterpiece, Honor of Kings.

Good boy, as the boss you are the one taking the lead in slacking off during work hours, right?

Zhang Yuanfang put down the stack of documents and suddenly took off Pei Yunteng's headphones: "What are you doing?"

Pei Yunteng was playing PVP when he was frightened by Zhang Yuan's noise. His whole body trembled, his right hand trembled, and his vision suddenly drifted to an unknown place.

"Oh my god, don't--" Pei Yunteng still wanted to make amends, but his opponent no longer gave him a chance. Before Pei Yunteng could find the viewing angle, he was taken away with a series of small combos.

"No, what are you doing--" Pei Yunteng had just finished complaining when Zhang Yuanfang suddenly took a deep breath and shouted to the outside of the door:

"Brothers! Mr. Pei will take care of tonight's supper!"

Suddenly, laughter came from outside the door: "Thank you, President Pei! President Pei is so generous!"

"I wish Mr. Pei will get some legendary equipment every time he goes to a dungeon! And win ten consecutive games in the arena!"

Only at this time, these guys are willing to call Pei Yunteng "Mr. Pei".

"No! Stop it, brother. If you do this, I will have to eat instant noodles for another week!" Pei Yunteng let out a shrill scream that was not like a human.

"You said it yourself. As a boss, you should set a good example. If anyone takes the lead in slacking off, you should treat everyone to a midnight snack. I'm just supervising you." Zhang Yuanfang pretended to be innocent.

"Am I slacking off? I'm investigating the market!" Pei Yunteng pointed at the game screen that had gone black and said unhappily.

"This game is destined to lead the trend of the game market development in the next ten or even several decades. What's wrong with me doing some research on it?"

Pei Yunteng spoke with confidence.

"Okay, okay, let's do some research. Then my dear Designer Pei, have you found any useful insights from this round of research?" Zhang Yuanfang smiled as he looked at Pei Yunteng's stubbornness.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he said this, Pei Yunteng's face really changed, and his whole body of energy suddenly focused.

Zhang Yuanfang knew that Pei Yunteng was serious, so he perked up and prepared to listen to his analysis.

But he was a little confused. He was clearly trying to experience "Honor of Kings", which was predicted by almost all game-related media and even mainstream media at home and abroad to be a groundbreaking game.
Why does Pei Yunteng's face seem to show no excitement, but instead... some contempt?
"Experience? The experience is what I just said, it's bullshit!" Pei Yunteng said unhappily.

"What do you mean?" Zhang Yuan became interested. He knew that his old classmate had a vicious vision, but he still couldn't help but be curious and questioning.

Pei Yunteng actually seemed to dislike that god-level game whose trailer stunned all the brothers and was so perfect that there was no flaw at all?
"The technology is definitely beyond reproach. The engine, the graphics, the feedback, the interaction are outrageous. It is no exaggeration to say that it is 1930s-level worse."

"But I just don't understand. With this technology, why can't they do anything else? Why did they have to make the most traditional and conservative MMORPG?"

Pei Yunteng first affirmed Glory's technical strength, then seemed to get angrier and angrier as he spoke. He slammed the table and began to speak eloquently.

"Is MMO not good? Aren't all the mainstream online games doing this now?" Zhang Yuanfang was stunned.

MMORPG, at least in China at this time, is considered the main trend in gaming.

Various MMOs are flourishing, but basically they either imitate the Western fantasy works of certain foreign giants, or take advantage of the four great classics.

Isn't making an MMORPG the most reasonable choice?
"I know MMORPG is the mainstream now, but with Honor's technology, as long as they are willing to do it, even a fishing simulator will be able to sell well, right?"

Pei Yunteng spread his hands.

"Shouldn't a game of this level of technology be a trendsetter and a benchmark for guiding the direction of the trend? But the result is a most conservative and rigid game!"

"I won't say anything about them making an MMORPG, but can they add more systems, like farming, fishing, mining, etc., to make the gameplay more diverse?"

"Why do you always think about the old three things of going to dungeons and fighting for bosses in the arena?"

……

As if he had opened a dialog box, Pei Yunteng began to talk incessantly to Zhang Yuanfang about Rong Yao.

From the basic design to the detail polishing, it was done without leaving any flaws.

Pei Yunteng spoke eloquently for a long time until his mouth was dry. He then picked up his thermos and drank half of it. Then he finished his speech gloomily:

"In my opinion, Honor is a typical example of using their heart to make the engine but their feet to make the game, which is a complete waste of talent."

"Okay, okay, it's a waste of glory, okay." Zhang Yuanfang echoed his complaints, and after thinking about it, he advised:

"After all, Glory's technology belongs to them. They can do whatever they want. Getting angry like this will only make you angry, which is useless."

"Yeah, it's useless, but I'm still very unhappy..." Pei Yunteng also knew that his anger was purely incompetent, and his momentum suddenly wilted, and he sighed angrily:

"How can such a boring game have such incomprehensible technical support?..."

In the face of glory, Pei Yunteng felt a huge sense of powerlessness and a strong sense of unwillingness.

As a time traveler, his mind was filled with the development context of games over dozens of years in his previous life, as well as the sharp thinking and sense of smell he had developed from analyzing and studying hundreds of popular games before traveling through time.

He believed that as long as he could implement those creative ideas and plans, he would be able to carve out a niche for himself in the gaming industry and even the Internet field.

But the problem is that he can't do it.

After traveling through time, I found myself to be a young man who had just graduated a few years ago and was struggling to start a business in the Internet field with a group of brothers. I had no money and no skills, so I could only do some outsourcing work for others in order to pay their salaries.

I don’t know when I will be able to recreate those legendary games and modes from my past lives.

That damn system is so disappointing. It's been a month since I came here, and the installation progress bar is not even 1% complete. At this rate, it will probably take at least ten years to complete the loading.

Ten years later, maybe I'll be working as a screwdriver on a construction site somewhere. What's the point of having a useless system? But what about Glory? They have a technical advantage and a marketing campaign that shows they have no shortage of money, but they made a mediocre MMORPG.

Moreover, according to the records in the novel called "The King's Avatar" in Pei Yunteng's memory, in the future, the Glory company will actually use this MMO to organize an e-sports league?
No, there are ten thousand ways to make money with Honor, but you don't use them, but you insist on thinking about the income brought by professional players?
Is there something seriously wrong with the company?

On one side, there are those who want to make good games but don’t have the capital, while on the other side, there are those who have plenty of capital but don’t take the game seriously at all.

This gap is a bit too cruel.

Pei Yunteng looked at the formulaic game that was obviously designed without any thought, and couldn't help but grit his teeth again.

"If I can get the development and operation rights of Honor, as long as I don't get hit, I can dominate the gaming industry within three years!"

That day, Pei Yunteng, who was in his early twenties, said these bold words in his shabby office.

"Okay, you're still trying to dominate the gaming industry, but let's first think about when we can launch our first project." Zhang Yuanfang scolded with a smile.

"Instead of this, I'd better think about how to feed you animals tonight." Pei Yunteng felt his heart bleeding when he thought about another expense to his already thin wallet.

That night, he was forced to treat his friends to a meal at a food stall because they had slacked off at work, and then he ate instant noodles for an extra week to save money.

Although he did have the intention to study Honor and the gaming market, he did play games for half a day while his brothers were working overtime to catch up on the progress.

……

Time flies, and more than ten years have passed in the blink of an eye.

The former young entrepreneur sat at the top of the empire he had built, looking at the system panel in front of him in a daze.

The moment he reached an agreement with those representatives, even though Honor was far from being officially handed over to Teng Hai, Pei Yunteng's overtime system had already consciously begun to help him research Honor's technology.

Although according to the system, it is extremely difficult to completely disassemble and absorb its technology in a short period of time and then feed it back to other games for some reasons.

However, if Tencent is allowed to use Honor's engine smoothly to reshape Honor, it won't take long for people to start work.

"...Finally." Pei Yunteng, no longer young, looked at the panel and murmured.

Over the past ten years, he has grown from a young man who was full of enthusiasm and started a business with his brothers to a gaming legend who can completely shatter Honor.

Logically speaking, when his games, which were far inferior to Honor in terms of technology, pushed that behemoth into a desperate situation, he had already proved the correctness of his understanding of the game.

But when his original wish came true and glory was truly within his control, he truly had that feeling.

That feeling of having accomplished something big.

"Don't dwell on the past! I, your brother Tong, am dying of exhaustion! Instead of wasting time, you might as well think about what to do once you've mastered the technology!"

The system's obviously weak voice sounded in Pei Yunteng's heart.

There is no doubt about the difficulty of digesting Glory, and only the system can complete it with quality, quantity and efficiency, so there is no need for Pei Yunteng to fool around, the system took on the task very consciously.

But it is estimated that it will be able to continue to rot openly for a while.

"Yes, what should we do?" Pei Yunteng nodded and began to daydream.

At that time, he didn't think too much when he made such a bold statement. He just felt that if those creative gameplay ideas from his previous life were implemented using Glory's technology, the effect would be explosive.

But the fact is that over the past decade, without the technology of Honor, he has led his brothers to realize most of those original ideas and established today's great cause.

Nowadays, if you just make a remake of the classics you have created in Honor, it would be a bit vulgar.

Ten years ago, Pei Yunteng was still an ignorant boy who could only rely on the memories of his previous life and stand on the cultural shoulders of the entire world to accumulate his own strength.

But now, even though his original memories can hardly provide much guidance for his new project, Pei Yunteng has grown into a legend qualified to lead the trend in the gaming industry.

Thinking about the characteristics of the Glory Engine, he soon had countless ideas for developing it from different angles.

They are all good ideas, but it seems unrealistic to do them together.

So where do we start…

Well, ask them.

Pei Yunteng stood up and walked towards the door slowly.

When the door opened, the noise outside suddenly stopped. Pei Yunteng looked carefully and couldn't help laughing.

A dozen or so old fellows in their thirties and forties, dressed in suits and leather shoes and having held high positions for a long time, were now red-faced and twisted into a ball.

Almost every one of them had a project plan that had been prepared long ago in their hands. As soon as the news of the end of the Honor negotiations reached the company, they all rushed to Pei Yunteng's office without any prior arrangement.

Then they met at the office door and started arguing.

Seeing Pei Yunteng come out, they couldn't wait to wave their project books and start recommending themselves:
"Old Pei! The League is the leader of our e-sports industry, and we need to maintain its popularity! Is it not too much for our team to be responsible for the early linkage with Honor?"

"No, your Alliance team has already taken so many resources, don't you still need the popularity of Glory? Can you leave some meat for our Eternal Tribulation team?"

"Boss, you can't just focus on e-sports projects. We also need to operate our old standalone IPs..."

"Yun Teng, you can't just ignore short videos and live broadcasts, right? The virtual concert you discussed with me last time is a good idea. How about implementing it in Honor of Kings first?"

They were all in their thirties or forties, but now they were quarreling without any manners in order to gain an advantage.

They are all veterans who have worked with Pei Yunteng for many years, and each of them has his own ideas about the reuse of glory.

"Look, I don't need to worry about how to use Glory." Pei Yunteng smiled to himself in his heart.

“Glory is a priceless gem. It has lost its original brilliance only because of improper use and careless maintenance.”

"It only needs a little polishing, and its light will be enough to illuminate the darkness."

The final resources are in place, and now it’s their turn to get to work!

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(End of this chapter)