Tang Yishu returned to her desk after sending Old Liu off.
"How's the situation?" Li Yada asked.
Tang Yishu hesitated for a moment. "There are a lot of bugs in this game … so I asked him to go back and fix them before coming back."
Li Yada was a little surprised. "Huh? Isn't the game already online? Why are there still so many bugs?
That doesn't make sense, right? "
Tang Yishu crossed her fingers. "This … I-I'm not sure either."
Li Yada nodded. "Perhaps the other companies are not as good as Tengda in all aspects, so the testing team is not very good. Don't worry, you did the right thing.
"It's normal for the game to have one or two bugs, but if there are so many bugs that it affects the normal game flow, it only means that the company is not doing their job well. The testing department is not doing their job well, and there are problems with the internal management.
"If there are so many bugs that it affects the players' normal experience, then the game should not be released. It should only be released after the bugs are fixed. It was right to dissuade them.
"Don't worry, it's just one company. Let's look at the other one."
Although she said that, Li Yada had an inexplicable bad feeling.
That was because the first company had a game that had already been released. Logically speaking, there should be fewer bugs.
The second company's game was still in development.
The game called Blade of the Empire was almost done, and only the finishing touches were left. Testing was definitely in progress, but it was definitely not as complete as the projects that had already been released.
There was a high chance that it had more bugs than the previous Bloody Battle Song, Heroes' Battle Song.
Here came the problem.
Was she unlucky to have encountered a game with bugs, or was this a coincidence?
Or were all the other games companies like this?
Li Yada had joined Tengda not long after entering the industry, so she did not have much experience working in other companies.
As far as she could remember, Tengda's games had never been troubled by bugs.
During every development period, bugs would appear like mushrooms after the rain. The testing department would keep mentioning bugs, and the development department would keep fixing them. Usually, the bugs would be fixed before the game was released.
Even if some follow-up modifications were needed after the game was released, the workload was usually not that big.
Therefore, she had always felt that fixing bugs was nothing more than physical work. If the bugs were not fixed by the time the game was released, it could only mean that there was a problem with their attitude.
If he couldn't even do this kind of physical labor well, what else could it be other than an attitude problem?
But now, it seemed that the companies outside were really not very good.
"Forget it, let's not think about this anymore. Maybe it was just a coincidence. How can every company not be able to fix the bug? "
Li Yada felt that she was thinking too much, so she shook her head and stopped thinking about it. She continued doing her own things.
…
Tang Yishu waited at her desk for more than an hour before the boss of the second company arrived on time.
Tang Yishu followed the procedure and invited him to the conference room.
"Hello, Director Tang."
"My name is Yan Qi. Information about my company and my personal resume have already been sent over."
Tang Yishu nodded. "Yes, yes, I have. Please take a seat."
After Old Liu left, Tang Yishu carefully read through the information Li Yada had given her. He had plenty of time this time, so he memorized everything.
Yan Qi and his company could basically be seen as the epitome of many mobile game startups.
He used to be the chief planner of a game company in Shanghai. The project he led was considered a success, but the boss was too stingy. He earned six to seven million yuan a month, but the entire project team did not receive a single cent as a bonus.
The boss glorified it by saying that he had to use the money earned to advertise and earn more money.
He even drew a pie in the sky and said that the money earned by the game might multiply after a few months of advertising. At that time, everyone would be given a huge bonus.
Yan Qi had been in the workplace for two to three years. How could he not know how much the pie was drawn? So, he decisively ran away.
He knew that he did the right thing the day he resigned because the boss only asked him to stay verbally. He did not even mention a raise or bonus.
It was obvious that the boss did not care whether the employees left or not.
This was normal. After all, the game had already been created. It could earn a few million a month with stable operations. Did it matter whether the employees left or not?
If the chief planner ran away, he could just hire someone else in the future. There was no shortage of people in this industry anyway.
After resigning, Yan Qi did not want to work for someone else anymore. So, he had the idea of starting his own company.
He was from Jingzhou. He heard that Jingzhou had been developing very well in the past two years. The environment for game startups was also good. So, he roped in a few friends in the industry to Jingzhou and set up a new mobile game company. He also received a few million in venture capital from some local investors in Jingzhou.
After working for half a year, the game was created.
The game he made was called Blade of the Empire. It was an ARPG mobile game, which was an action game.
Logically, the threshold for such a game was relatively high. It was not suitable for a startup. However, thanks to the official game editor and Yan Qi's previous work experience, the development was rather smooth.
Of course, due to the limited investment, it was definitely not outstanding. However, Yan Qi felt that the quality of his own game was still acceptable. It should not be a problem for him to make some money after it was released.
For most mobile game startups, the idea of getting rich overnight was too unrealistic. They should first consider how to survive.
The game was almost completed. Yan Qi had also contacted many game channels.
For small companies, the more channels they had, the better. As for the percentage, there was no need to think too much about it. They would take whatever they were offered. Small companies basically did not have much say.
Therefore, when he heard that there was a new game platform in Jingzhou, and it was quite close to his company's office, Yan Qi was very happy and immediately came.
"This is the closed beta version of our game. Currently, only a small number of players are playing it. However, Director Tang, don't worry. There are very few bugs, and it will not affect the normal game flow. "
Tang Yishu nodded and took the phone.
"Alright. Boss Yan, this is the agreement. Take a look.
"If you are satisfied with the conditions of the agreement and the number of bugs in the game within half an hour does not exceed three, we can sign the contract today."
Yan Qi took the agreement, feeling a little surprised.
It was that simple?
He had also discussed with other channels. In fact, each of them was more arrogant than the last.
Some of them offered very low profits, and some asked for major changes to the game. Anyway, all of them had made their conditions. However, some were very excessive, and some were relatively acceptable.
He had never seen a channel like Morning Dew Gaming Platform, which only required no more than three bugs to appear within half an hour.
Half an hour? Three bugs?
Yan Qi did not think there would be a problem, right?
Although the Blade of the Empire Sword had not been officially released and there were many bugs, these bugs were basically concentrated in some large stages and in-depth gameplay in the middle and late stages.
Half an hour was basically the early stages.
During development and testing of the game, many changes were made to the content in the early stages to optimize the novice guide. Therefore, there were the least bugs.
Yan Qi felt that as long as he was not particularly unlucky, he should not encounter three bugs in half an hour, right?
One of them tried the game while the other looked at the terms of the agreement. The guest room was temporarily quiet, and only the sound of the battle in the game could be heard.
Yan Qi had just looked at the beginning and saw that the two sides were splitting the profits 50-50. Tang Yishu had already encountered the first bug.
The novice guide was stuck. There should have been a gray mask on the screen during the guide process, highlighting the place that the player wanted to click and pointing with an arrow. However, after clicking the button, the mask did not disappear as usual. The screen remained gray and translucent.
"Ah, this …"
Yan Qi was a little embarrassed.
It was not that there was anything strange about encountering bugs, but the key was that it was too f * cking fast!
Moreover, he had never encountered a bug in the novice guide. Even his company's testing team had never encountered such a situation.
Before Yan Qi could explain, Tang Yishu had already turned off the game process and re-entered it.
"It's okay. Just continue reading the agreement."
Yan Qi had a vague ominous feeling, but there was nothing he could say. He could only continue reading the agreement seriously.
…
Half an hour later, Yan Qi had read the agreement carefully twice, and the number of bugs found by Tang Yishu was finally settled.
Tang Yishu found a total of twelve bugs of various sizes within half an hour!
Four of them were very serious. Once they appeared, the game process would not be able to proceed. As for the remaining bugs, although the consequences were not that serious, they would still have a very bad impact on the game experience.
Yan Qi was a little embarrassed.
There were too many bugs. What was going on?!
He even suspected that he had installed the wrong program on his cell phone. He did not install the stable version but brought the development version.
Otherwise, why would there be so many bugs in the early stages of the stable version?
That did not make sense at all!
Tang Yishu seemed to have expected such an outcome. She handed the cell phone back. "It's okay, Boss Yan. It's very normal to have bugs in the game. Go back and modify it. As long as you can control the number of bugs within half an hour to three, we will sign the agreement.
"By the way, have you read the contents of the agreement? Are you satisfied? "
Yan Qi nodded. "I'm satisfied. What can I not be satisfied with? These conditions are already very good for us.
"Don't worry. I've already remembered the bugs you encountered. I'll ask them to hurry up and modify them when we get back!
"Modifying bugs is our duty. We even have to thank you. If we had not coincidentally encountered these bugs, we might not have known that there were bugs in this place.
"If these bugs only appeared after the official launch, it would be a huge loss."
Yan Qi thanked Tang Yishu profusely and left with his cell phone.
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