No Pain No Gain Episode 20

Pei becomes a real CEO

For the first time ever, Tengda is underperforming and truly losing money. In this circumstance, Pei doesn’t want his people losing by doing their best and producing a good product. With Xin getting approval, Divine mountains and seas gets an unlimited budget to fix the problem. At first the staff was hellbent on revenge and they were getting more and more stressed trying to outwit Zhou’s sneaky tactics. Pei reminded them what their job really was—to make the game fun to play. So instead of trying to out maneuver negative ad campaigns and online blocks, they fixed what annoyed players and used their talents to make the game be fun with max reward systems worked in. I liked that Pei focused on them getting meals and taking care of themselves. He is not stressed by his salary and wants what is best for the company. He has embraced being their benefactor for the project rather than saboteur to gain income. They have become his work family and he wants them to do well. When Zhou wanted to know the difference between him and Pei, he saw it with a bunch of employees circled around Pei having fun and enjoying each other’s company. While Zhou had made definite improvements in employee workspace, etc he really wasn’t concerned if the game was of good quality just that it looked like it was. He spent to beat Pei, not to improve the quality of the game. He lost again to his temper and even the guy that has stuck with him for years isn’t friends with him. I am not sure if the grin he had was seeing the difference in work family attitude or plotting the next way to take Tengda down. He is at least accepting responsibility for his behavior so baby steps in right direction.

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