Chapter 49: Tianhuo Studio

"Goat City."

"Fire in the sky studio."

"Tengda Network Technology Co.?"

"Come to Goat City and visit our studio for exchange???"

Zhou Muyan felt a little puzzled.

A game company visiting another game company, he had never heard of such a thing before!

Usually, visits to major companies are organized by universities for students to participate in social practice activities and prepare for their careers after graduation.

He had never heard of a game company organizing its employees to visit another company!

At least not in China.

Because most game companies in China need to create profits, it would be a loss to travel such a long distance to visit another company!

If we consider a team of 20-30 people, the cost of round-trip airfare, hotel, and other expenses, plus the lost work time of these employees for a few days, would add up to a significant amount.

Moreover, it wouldn't create much benefit by spending so much effort and money to travel such a long distance.

They claimed it was for learning and exchange, but what could they really exchange?

What game company would be so foolish...

Zhou Muyan instinctively wanted to refuse.

He was the producer of Fire in the Sky Studio, and he was quite well-known in the industry.

Of course, strictly speaking, he was both praised and criticized. Many people criticized Fire in the Sky Studio, and as a producer, he naturally couldn't escape this criticism.

Zhou Muyan was not his real name but a nickname. In some companies in the South, it was also a popular trend to have a nickname, and Fire in the Sky Studio was no exception.

Recently, Fire in the Sky Studio was developing an FPS online game, which had been in development for more than a year and was about to begin internal testing.

In this state of all-nighters and overwork, Zhou Muyan was really lazy to take half a day to receive employees from another game company who had traveled a long distance from Handong Province.

"Mr. Zhou, this company has a successful project, 'Ghost General' is their development. I suggest you take some time to meet them. If you don't have time, you can let Sun go and entertain them in the company. It won't take much effort." The administrative assistant who spoke to Xin Hailu reminded him over the phone.

"They made 'Ghost General'?"

Zhou Muyan was taken aback, then felt that the administrative assistant made sense.

As the saying goes, the more friends, the more roads.

Although peers are enemies, if someone comes a long way to visit your company and exchange ideas, it would be too unkind to refuse them.

Moreover, Zhou Muyan knew about 'Ghost General', which was a recently emerging mobile game. The producer must not be an ordinary person.

It would be nice to meet this person and get to know them.

After all, it was just a day to meet and take them around the studio, and it wouldn't delay much work.

Thinking of this, Zhou Muyan nodded, "Okay, let's agree. Set a schedule in advance, and I will personally receive them."

"Okay, Mr. Zhou. One more thing, the list of new hires who will be eliminated has come out. Please take a look."

Zhou Muyan took the list and glanced at it.

"Except for Lin Wanzhi, dismiss them all according to the rules."

"Okay." The administrative assistant didn't ask any more questions and left with the list.

The elimination system is very popular in many game companies, especially those that recruit a lot of college graduates.

Fire in the Sky Studio also follows this system. Newly hired graduates are evaluated during the first few months of their employment, and the bottom 15% will be eliminated.

After being eliminated, these new graduates will be in a very awkward situation. On the one hand, they are no longer fresh graduates and have completely missed out on campus recruitment; on the other hand, they only have a few months of work experience and have been eliminated by their previous company, so they have no advantage in searching for a new job through social recruitment.

It can be said that Zhou Muyan has added a big stumbling block to the life path of this group of recent graduates who have been eliminated with just a wave of his hand!

However, Zhou Muyan didn't think there was anything wrong with it. Although he knew that those who were eliminated in the last place would definitely curse him and his immediate family in private, he didn't care.

In Zhou Muyan's view, the game industry has always followed the law of the jungle, where the survival of the fittest is the norm!

In this harsh environment, it is impossible to be sentimental.

Of course, there is an exception in this list: Lin Wan.

She is a girl who, like others, was recruited from a famous university in the capital with a high education.

According to the scoring mechanism of the elimination system, she was also within the last 15% of those who were to be eliminated.

Lin Wan and many young people made the same mistake, which was being a bit too optimistic and naive.

For Zhou Muyan, games are a business.

But Lin Wan and many young people, like to think of it as art or a dream, which naturally conflicts with the scoring mechanism of the elimination system.

In other words, she is not actually the talent that Tianhuo Studio needs.

But among all the people who were eliminated at the bottom, Zhou Muyan specifically picked out Lin Wan.

Not for anything else, just because her background is too intimidating...

Her father is the president of the largest telecommunications and intelligent hardware developer in China, Shenhua Group, and Zhou Muyan cannot afford to offend him.

The phrase "cannot afford to offend" may not be accurate. It should be that Zhou Muyan can't even kneel and lick!

Of course, Lin Wan did not know that her identity had been exposed because she entered Tianhuo Studio through the normal campus recruitment process.

But obviously, Lin Wan underestimated her father's level of concern and attention towards her...

On the second day of Lin Wan's normal entry into Tianhuo Studio, Zhou Muyan received a call from the president's office of Shenhua Group.

There were two hopes: first, that Zhou Muyan and Tianhuo Studio could help take care of Lin Wan and not let her exhaust her health; second, that Zhou Muyan could quickly destroy Lin Wan's good impression of the game industry and make her give up this industry!

The phone was very euphemistic, but Zhou Muyan was smart enough to understand it all at once.

The old man did not want Lin Wan to work in the game industry, but did not want to be too tough and ruin the father-daughter relationship, so he took a roundabout way!

For such things, Zhou Muyan naturally couldn't ask for more and immediately agreed.

This is the huge and influential Shenhua Group in China. If they could establish a relationship, it would bring Tianhuo Studio many benefits in the future!

So, those who ranked at the bottom of the list were dismissed, but Lin Wan was still kept.

Zhou Muyan had already considered how to quickly dispel Lin Wan's enthusiasm for the game industry and make her leave as soon as possible.

This is not difficult.

Just show Lin Wan the truth about the game industry.

The game industry, at least in China, is a sweatshop.

Elimination, 996, giving up dreams and pursuits for money, turning art into a tool for making money...

These are not new things in the Chinese game industry.

Of course, these things are not absolute, and there are also genius designers and conscientious studios in China.

But relatively speaking, they are few and far between.

Zhou Muyan believes that as long as Lin Wan sees the truth about the game industry, she will definitely be very disappointed and then leave the industry. This is almost a sure thing!