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Chapter 381 - 390: The Game Company with the Best Security Measures!

Chapter 381: Chapter 390: The Game Company with the Best Security Measures!

During the early stages, Heartbeat Dream’s official game was also being feverishly developed while the publicity had produced great results.

Waiting for the game to be released always felt like an agonizing time, but compared to the players who were burning with impatience to start dating those beautiful girls, some people were in even more of a hurry.

Such as... Zhang Qifeng.

At the moment, he was quite distressed, tugging at his hair, worried about his KPI.

"Damn it, there’s nothing to write about!"

As the content manager at Play Less Games Network, Zhang Qifeng scratched his head daily for new content.

His responsibilities were diverse, encompassing written interviews, video interviews, drafting press releases, as well as managing social media and video platform accounts, among other things.

But overall, as a content manager, Zhang Qifeng’s KPI ultimately boiled down to one word: popularity!

Without popularity, no matter how well the job was done, it wouldn’t be recognized by the leaders.

Conversely, even if many tasks were not done perfectly, as long as there was popularity, bringing sufficient traffic to Play Less Games Network, that would still be considered a great achievement.

Although Zhang Qifeng was already the content manager, in the workplace, it was like rowing upstream, not advancing meant retreating. If he couldn’t perform the tasks assigned by his leaders well and maintain the site’s popularity, the position of content manager might be handed over to someone else at any minute.

Lately, Zhang Qifeng was really distressed because there weren’t many significant articles to write.

The gaming circle itself seldom had too much big news, and the really popular games emerged by chance, it might take half a year or even a year to produce one with high enough popularity.

And even when such hot topics did arise, many gaming media would swarm over them, and Play Less Games Network might not get much of the share.

Recently, the popularity of Shadow World and "World of Star Spirits" had caused a craze of "full-profession gameplay" in the local MMORPG circle, and later, the creative workshop incident in Legend of Infinity Fantasy also stirred up a sizable controversy.

Play Less Games Network certainly followed up with coverage, but the effect wasn’t good, after all, they weren’t the only media outlet covering these events.

So, at this time, Zhang Qifeng, after reflecting deeply and learning from his lessons, gradually reached a crucial conclusion.

To catch a hot topic, it seemed two conditions must be met!

First, it was best to keep in stride with Heavenly Games.

It had to be said, Heavenly Games was indeed an anomaly; ever since its inception, it always managed to ride the waves of popularity.

No, to put it more accurately, many hot topics were actually created by Heavenly Games.

In this era, where many gaming companies were just lazing around making money, only Heavenly Games managed to consistently surprise the players, which made being the topic of conversation and debate inevitable.

What? No surprises, just shocks?

Anyway, close enough.

In terms of popularity, keeping a close watch on Heavenly Games was never wrong.

Second, just keeping an eye on Heavenly Games wasn’t enough, exclusive content was also needed.

After all, countless other media were also monitoring Heavenly Games. When news emerged, everyone swarmed in, and the story just sat there; thinking about standing out with only writing style and content was impractical.

Solid, exclusive content was still necessary!

Like the article from Play Less Games Network before, which achieved high popularity because it interviewed President Gu of Heavenly Games, even before the game became popular, and even the official platform reposted it.

This perfectly validated Zhang Qifeng’s speculation about traffic.

Unfortunately, afterward, when Zhang Qifeng wanted to try for a second success, arranging more interviews with President Gu, they were all rejected.

Moreover, President Gu wasn’t just refusing his interview alone; he was rejecting almost all media interviews, which, sadly, was a great pity.

Zhang Qifeng had privately asked Zhao Haiquan why President Gu no longer accepted exclusive interviews?

Zhao Haiquan sighed and said, "President Gu feels that you media always take things out of context, leading to damage to his reputation, which almost resulted in serious consequences. Therefore, he has decided not to accept any exclusive interviews from now on."

Zhang Qifeng was still perplexed. How had his reputation suffered?

Are not all my writings good and without fault?

If one really wrote as President Gu had said in the interview, that might actually damage his reputation!

But, worrying about these issues was meaningless now, since President Gu was inaccessible for interviews. To stir up some buzz, one had only to find another way.

"Forget it, if I can’t interview President Gu, I’ll just try to interview someone else.

"As for the content of the interview...

"Yes, that’s it. Let’s interview about the new game ’Heartbeat Dream’!

"Just introducing some specific content of the new game; there shouldn’t be any problem in doing that."

Zhang Qifeng thought long and hard and finally settled on this interview goal.

He indeed wanted to interview about more sensational topics, such as what the current welfare benefits at Nitiandang were, what kind of thrilling business warfare took place when they poached staff from Shengjing Group, and whether mod authors like Gan Di had some special relationship with the official figures?

But Zhang Qifeng was also well aware of his limitations; he knew that these topics mostly involved business secrets and even if he asked, the other party would likely not answer.

Comparatively speaking, from the perspective of promoting and warming up the new game, perhaps asking some simple questions about the new game was feasible.

Although these contents were definitely not explosive, at least during this quiet period with no major news, stirring up some buzz was still feasible.

With this in mind, he immediately called Zhao Haiquan.

Zhang Qifeng thought, even if Zhao Haiquan did not accept the interview, getting someone else to take it could work. If he could get the game’s producer on board, that would be even better.

...

"President Gu, Play Less Games Network wants to arrange an interview with us. They said anyone will do, as long as it’s a developer from ’Heartbeat Dream’."

Right after receiving the call, Zhao Haiquan went to Gu Fan for guidance.

Deciding whether to accept the interview and specifically what could and could not be discussed were best clarified through consultation. Saying the wrong thing could lead to big news, making things quite awkward.

Everyone still valued their jobs greatly.

Zhao Haiquan also knew that Gu Fan had by now almost refused all interviews directed at him, so he did not hold much hope for this request.

If President Gu said not to let anyone take the interviews, then they could just let the matter drop; it wouldn’t be a big problem.

However, after a moment’s thought, Gu Fan said, "Then let Zhou Yang do it. After all, he is currently the producer of ’Heartbeat Dream’.

"As for specifically what can be said and what cannot be said...

"I won’t make any strict rules about that; I believe he should know the boundaries."

Gu Fan smiled slightly, his eyes filled with a profound meaning.

Zhao Haiquan was somewhat surprised. "Would that be okay, President Gu? There’s still a lot to keep confidential about the new game before its launch, aren’t you afraid he might slip up?"

Gu Fan smiled slightly, "No worries, I believe our Nitiandang has the best confidentiality measures of any game company!"

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