freenovelworld #236 - Cat Girl Paradise DLC [Midnight Coffee and Encounter in Another World]
#236 - Cat Girl Paradise DLC [Midnight Coffee and Encounter in Another World]
“Open, develop a data pack?”
Not only the employees of the cat cafe, but even the employees of the cat girl project team were dumbfounded.
But Wan Xiaotong obviously had her own ideas, she said:
“Quickly find two otherworldly beauties for me to favor.”
Xu Qin translated: “Miss Wan means, please ask Boss Lin to find two of the most representative signature cats from our store.”
“???”
Although Lin Ming didn't know what Wan Xiaotong was up to, she had no choice but to do as she was told.
After a while, she walked over with a Persian cat in her arms.
“This Persian cat is called 'Kemeng', it is a veteran cat with meritorious service in our store, but sometimes it has a bad temper and often fights with me…”
Wan Xiaotong bent down to observe. Kemeng was covered in a layer of soft white fur, like a little lion, and its heterochromatic pupils shone with intelligent and agile light.
Kemeng's eyes revealed a kind of arrogance and self-confidence, like a dancer in the center of the theater, giving people a sense of mystery.
Those eyes seemed to be saying "You stupid humans" at any time.
Then, the clerk next to Lin Ming walked over holding a Persian cat.
“This Persian cat is called 'Linghua', she is the second signature of our store, sweet and very good at pleasing customers.”
Linghua's long hair is as soft as snow-white feathers,
Her eyes are deep purple, her face is sweet, her nose is straight, and her small ears are slightly tilted back, occasionally revealing a hint of playfulness.
Seeing these two cats, Wan Xiaotong's eyes were sparkling, and her thoughts were flowing, and she began to record quickly in her notebook.
Soon, Xu Qin translated the design plan written by Wan Xiaotong to everyone:
The name of this DLC data pack for Cat Girl Paradise is "Midnight Coffee and Otherworldly Encounters".
The story of this data pack takes place after the encounter between Hamster John and the cat girls, but before John discovers the conspiracy of his father, Old John.
In the story of the data pack, John will discover a strange cafe called "Cat's Tea" while exploring the wasteland paradise.
John realized that the atmosphere of this cafe was out of tune with other places in the paradise,
Because it's too new, it's like it's been transported from another parallel world!
But John and his cat girl partners were hungry, so they decided to stay overnight in this empty cat cafe.
However!
When the ancient clock pointed to 12 o'clock at midnight, John woke up from his sleep and suddenly found that all the cat girls had disappeared!
Everything became empty, and the warmth in the cafe seemed to disappear with it.
Soon, John found a letter left on the counter. The mysterious person who wrote the letter mentioned a portal that only appeared at midnight.
After John found the portal, he was transported to a mysterious other world.
In order to get the cat girls back, players must explore this mysterious other world and solve a series of difficulties, including jumping, puzzles, collecting items and other elements.
Of course, during the exploration of the other world, John also encountered two newly debuted mysterious cat girls—
Night Sky Dancer - Kemeng:
Kemeng is a cat girl wearing a shiny star dance dress. She is good at night sky dance and can use the power of stars to perform unique attacks.
She will guide players through the starry sky maze and use special dances to unlock the way forward.
Time Traveler - Linghua:
Linghua is a cat girl wearing a veil. She has the ability to travel through time. In the game, Linghua will lead players back to the lost time of the cafe to reveal the reason for the disappearance of the cat girls.
However, after revealing the identities of the two cat girls, John discovered that there was a shocking secret hidden behind this mysterious cafe…
……
After listening to Wan Xiaotong's introduction, everyone was stunned.
“How, how should I put it, it feels… pretty good?”
The employees of the Cat Girl Paradise team looked excited.
After that, Wan Xiaotong continued to spout out cheesy lines, and Xu Qin hurriedly translated:
“Miss Wan means that the main purpose of this game data pack is to promote the cat cafe Cat's Tea,
So, it's definitely not enough for Cat's Tea to appear in the game alone!
Players must leave their homes and go to the real Cat's Tea while playing the game.
So, we must launch some joint activities outside the game at the same time:
“Special Item Drop Rate Increase Day”
On the promotion day and anniversary day of Cat's Tea, the drop rate of the special item "Cat's Tea Discount Coupon" will be increased when players grind monsters in the game, and there will also be a chance to drop a Cat's Tea coffee enjoyment coupon.
At the same time, if players come to Cat's Tea to spend money, they will randomly drop item redemption codes in the game, which can be used to redeem rare equipment production materials.
“Limited Appearance Unlock”
Purchase a designated cat stroking package at the Cat's Tea physical store to unlock limited cat girl fashions and accessories in the game.
Moreover, these accessories cannot be obtained through other game methods, and can only be consumed at Cat's Tea.
In addition, after defeating the hidden BOSS in the high-difficulty maze level of this data pack, you will also get a peripheral item redemption code,
With this redemption code, you can redeem limited gashapon figures of "Kemeng" and "Linghua" at the counter of Cat's Tea!
“Otherworldly Encounters, Enjoy Delicious Food”
Cat's Tea will launch a theme package related to the wasteland paradise. Players who come offline can exchange for posters, keychains and acrylic pendants limited to this collaboration by shouting the mysterious password "Otherworldly Encounters, Enjoy Delicious Food" at the counter.
“Offline Check-in”
During this joint event, the Cat Girl Paradise game official will put a large number of offline billboards for publicity in the Jiangdong District and University Town commercial area of Jianghai City,
Players only need to find any offline billboard, take a photo with it and upload it to the Weibo super topic to get a limited joint avatar frame from the Peach Blossom Spring Illusion game platform.
“Permanent Achievement Wall”
This data pack will have an extremely difficult maze. The Peach Blossom Spring Illusion game accounts of the first batch of players to clear the maze will be permanently displayed on the store achievement wall of Cat's Tea for players who come to the store to worship.
……
After Wan Xiaotong's series of planning proposals were said, the entire Cat's Tea fell into a long silence.
Whether it was the cat cafe staff or the project team staff, the first thing they were worried about was—
This battle feels a bit big.
Originally, the task they received was to come up with some clever ideas to increase the popularity of Cat's Tea,
They never expected that a data pack would be specially released for it in the game, and even advertisements would be placed in most of the city.
Qu Cheng, the business girl from the Cat Girl Paradise team, calmly analyzed:
“Although Sister Tongtong your idea is very good, I am a little worried,
First, Cat Girl Paradise is a work from the early days of Boss Lu and Boss Liu's entrepreneurship. From our current perspective, it is already a very simple old game, using ready-made materials from Youyi Workshop.
Moreover, her plot has already ended.
How many players can be attracted to play again is a question mark.
Secondly, as you all know, many of today's players are autistic otaku and otaku women, and they all have a bit of social anxiety.
If they are unwilling to go out, what should we do? Wouldn't our early investment be in vain?
Product Manager Yao Huina nodded in agreement:
“Indeed, this plan boils down to a question of "cost performance\
,"The development of an online data pack is a big deal in itself,
In addition, the geographical location of this Cat's Tea is still too remote. Many players may not be willing to participate, and even more so for players from other places.
So I am very worried that the investment and output of this event are unbalanced and may not be able to obtain sufficient returns.”
Server programmer Wang Heng also raised his hand and said:
“This joint project involves a lot of online and offline data synchronization. Our company's platform may not be able to carry a large number of users participating at the same time due to technical problems…”
As soon as the development team's employees finished speaking, the employees from Cat's Tea also raised their hands:
“Um… can I talk about what our store employees think? First of all, the joint process sounds too complicated. We are very worried that we will make mistakes during the execution.
Then, this joint event may bring some unknown cost pressures, such as advertising boards, production of physical props, event organization costs, etc…”
Of course, the main reason why everyone is not optimistic is that this plan itself was made by Wan Xiaotong, this chuunibyou.
Chuunibyou may have advantages in game creativity and brain holes, but when it comes to commercial plans in reality, whether it can be successfully implemented is probably a big question mark.
“……”
Wan Xiaotong fell into a brief silence.
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Just then, Lin Ming stood up:
“Everyone, listen to me first. I don’t think Miss Wan’s plan… is completely without merit.
Why don't we do this? After all, the investment scale of Miss Wan's plan is too different from the original plan. I will call Boss Lu directly to report the situation?”
After Lin Ming finished speaking, she dialed Lu Yu's phone.
A leisurely and contented voice came from the other end of the phone. Lu Yu seemed to have just woken up from his afternoon nap.
“Um… Boss Lu, regarding the operation of Cat's Tea, Miss Wan Xiaotong has proposed a very bold plan. The investment required for this plan may exceed expectations.”
Lin Ming was about to report this plan to Lu Yu in detail, but Lu Yu interrupted her directly:
“It doesn't matter, money is not a problem. Whatever Wan Xiaotong wants to do, you cooperate with her and there are no taboos.”
After hanging up the phone, the employees of the Cat Girl team had no more doubts and began to perform their respective tasks.
Since the company's boss and producer have completely let themselves go, what else can they say? Let's accompany the gentleman to the death!
However, the expressions on the faces of the Cat's Tea staff were still a little worried.
Having just joined Peach Blossom Spring, they don't seem to be used to Peach Blossom Spring's all-in corporate culture.
……
However, Liu's Commercial Company did not give Cat's Tea any time to hesitate.
In the gap between the Cat Girl Paradise team's full development of this DLC, Liu's Group stepped up its siege of Cat's Tea.
First, Liu's Commercial Group began to renovate and renovate its directly-operated coffee shops under its jurisdiction to attract more consumers.
Then, the price war started at the same time!
Several nearby directly-operated stores jointly lowered the prices of common drinks that overlapped with Cat's Tea, forcing Cat's Tea to follow suit, resulting in further compression of profit margins.
In addition, the stores in the commercial plaza launched unique drinks and desserts that Cat's Tea did not have based on Cat's Tea's shortcomings, and sold them at ultra-low prices, attracting a large number of customers who only wanted to drink coffee.
Moreover, these stores launched more discounts during Cat's Tea's peak business hours to intercept Cat's Tea's customer traffic.
At the same time, the company began to place a large number of advertisements, occupying the eye-catching advertising space in the commercial street in advance.
After using all the tricks within the company, the tricks outside the company were not idle either,
Their human resources HR secretly talked to the employees of Cat's Tea, promising to provide higher salaries and benefits, trying to poach Cat's Tea.
Under this rapid offensive,
The faces of the Cat's Tea staff gradually showed fatigue, their eye bags were obvious, and their expressions were heavy.
Their efficiency also decreased significantly when working in the store, and they looked like they were flustered and unable to concentrate.
They also neglected many details when working, and some detailed errors that would not normally occur happened repeatedly.
The employees' expressions also began to become worried.
Can this store really survive?
……
At this time, across from the cat cafe, President Cao of Brilliant Investment Fund stood on the busy pedestrian street, watching Cat's Tea from a distance.
Seeing the tired faces of the Cat's Tea staff, the obvious decrease in customer traffic, and the desolate business scene, President Cao frowned slightly, and doubts arose in his heart.
As an investor who considers himself shrewd and wise, the scene in front of him made him feel confused.
He held the folder in his hand, which was filled with market research and analysis reports on Cat's Tea.
At this time, an employee of Cat's Tea hurried past, his face full of fatigue.
President Cao quickly stopped him and asked: “Hello, what's wrong with this Cat's Tea? Why is business so bad recently?”
The employee raised his head, saw President Cao's attire, and thought he was a customer who came to the store, so he sighed:
“Hey, the competition has been fierce recently, and Liu's Group has taken many measures, so we are under a lot of pressure.”
President Cao frowned and muttered.
The current situation made him feel confused. Cat's Tea was a project that Lu Yu had just invested in, and he had high expectations for Lu Yu's investment.
Is this Boss Lu's investment method failing?
……
In the headquarters of Liu's Commercial Company, in Manager Sun's office.
He picked up his phone and dialed the number of the chairman's office.
Liu Lan was busy in the office and answered the phone expressionlessly.
Manager Sun's tone was excited:
“Boss Liu, regarding the Liu's Commercial Plaza plan in Jianghai City, the project is currently progressing smoothly.”
Liu Lan said in a deep voice: “You must pay attention to this special project, because this is a model project for us to promote commercial plazas nationwide. Any potential risks must be reported to me, understand?”
Manager Sun hesitated for a moment. He knew that nothing could escape Liu Lan's eyes, so he said in a low voice:
“There are no major problems with the project at present, only a few nail households have not signed a transfer agreement with us,”
Among them, the one with greater influence is a coffee shop called Cat's Tea. We have already used negotiation methods to put pressure on the owner,
"However, CEO Lu from Peach Blossom Land intervened and snatched it away by offering a higher price..."
Upon hearing this, Liu Lan's beautiful eyes widened in surprise. Peach Blossom Land again?
Why are you guys everywhere?
"But don't worry, CEO Liu, the store's operation is already unsustainable, and it's only a matter of time before it closes down and is transferred."
Liu Lan nodded slightly. Manager Sun had been her old subordinate for many years, especially with his profound experience in the operation of physical stores. She trusted him to handle matters.
"Manager Sun, continue to keep a close eye on the commercial plaza project, maintain constant sensitivity to the market, and ensure that everything is foolproof."
He nodded solemnly: "CEO Liu, rest assured, I will do my best."
After hanging up the phone, he felt extremely pleased.
It seems like this promotion and salary increase are guaranteed!