So, original post mumbles something about this being a "realistic" game. I've only played up to the first client encounter and am forced to call bullshit on a couple of things. Correct me if I'm wrong here, but this is some sort of technical sales based situation, possibly an enterprise client-server sort of product? I know everything is supposed to be "in the cloud" nowadays, but tell that to an oil refinery where they update the hardware maybe only every 20 years and can't trust their operations to an outfit like google from pulling the rug out from under them by turning off unprofitable products.
It's been a dogs life since, but I actually was on two person regional sales team for such a product back around the time when Sun MicroSystems was purporting to put the "dot" in ".com" around the late 90's, early 00's. I'm actually an engineer by degree and had been hired away from a large defense contractor where I had been rolling out the product which I would end up selling. Your first dose of reality is that companies like this will bring "domain experts" like me in and train them on how to sell these complicated systems using techniques like
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. We do not have business degrees and generally consider MBAs as the source of all that is evil as they tend to come in and turn fine engineering companies into cost cut, laddered, flaming dumpster fires. Just ask whatever aerospace engineers might be left at
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Marketing majors usually have nothing to do with sales and generally limit themselves to ad-buys, materials generation, "strategic" research of the products and the markets, etc. From the sounds of it, our intern got put into an inside sales slot where she would call into the client base to see how things were going, take additional orders, update customer contacts, pursue new contacts from sources like trade shows, etc. She would live at HQ and NEVER go into the client. That task is left to the field sales force where folk like me and possibly our MC would be. In my real life example, I was on the east coast with my account exec (AE) while HQ was actually out on the west coast of the US. I was called an SE or Sales Engineer, but we joked that it was actually called Sherpa Engineer because we would have to drag all of the shit around (including video projectors) to do demos and pilots.
All of the above brings up the reality check for this so-called meeting. The intern never would have been there in the first place. It would have been much more likely that a nice looking AE with possibly mc as the SE would have gone in instead. The "client" is probably what solution selling would call a power sponsor, but he would only have been a middle level management type with a budget to spend and not somebody in the c-suite. They would have been reported to the c-suite for their grabass unprofessionalism and likely fired to avoid the litigation that would be inbound if not. If this clown was the actual CEO, President or CTO of an outfit, they would have been surrounded by other minions at the meeting. If the outfit was too small to have minions it would have been dumped. This was an official sales meeting, not a little friendly get together for lunch or whatever.
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Ok, I see mc is flogging flavored, doctored sugar water. Objections removed. Carry on. Just another post-capitalist company in a post-capitalist industry. It might have been more appropriate to have them selling products like predictive dialers into grifter inside sales boilerrooms or copyright scanner bots into rent seeking DMCA loving corporate parasites, but whatever.
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Doesn't this guy ever take a shower or bath? I know this dev is probably French, but that sort of thing will never pass the sniff test for a sales critter.