August 18th, Saturday …
As usual, Yan Qi went to the office building where the Morning Dew Gaming Platform was located during normal working hours to continue looking for bugs.
To be precise, finding bugs was only his second goal. His first goal was to verify the validity and universality of his speculation about the metaphysical rules from last week.
Does this Feng Shui treasure land not take effect on weekends? Did bugs not work on weekends?
He had to verify this.
Last weekend, Yan Qi asked his testing team to work overtime for two days. In the end, they did not find as many bugs as they did on Monday morning. The efficiency was really worrying. If he had known that working overtime was so inefficient, he would have let everyone rest at home!
Therefore, Yan Qi told everyone to work overtime this weekend. If the efficiency of finding bugs on Saturday morning was still very low, then they might as well take a break for the weekend. They could wait until the Feng Shui Treasure Land returned to normal on weekdays before continuing to find bugs.
At that moment, the Blade of Empire's testing team had basically all arrived. Testing teams from other companies were also moving in one after another.
All the workstations on this floor of the office building had been rented out. Even the upper and lower floors had been mostly rented out.
However, although everyone was having a heated discussion in the group and even attracted many companies from other cities, there were still many companies in the group that did not participate.
Perhaps the people in charge of these companies were more scientifically educated and strong-willed. Therefore, when it came to metaphysical problems, no matter what others said, they would not be moved.
Of course, Yan Qi did not care about these companies.
To him, reminding them was already the best he could do. Whether they came or not, anyone who came would know how efficient it was to find bugs in this place!
The people in charge of the testing teams from other companies basically knew Yan Qi and greeted him.
However, when he passed by the workstations of the other companies, he could clearly see that these testers had doubts on their faces.
"Eh, that's strange. Why are there fewer bugs today? There aren't many bugs left. "
"Are they all done? That's impossible. "
Obviously, they had all noticed the huge difference in the efficiency of finding bugs on Friday and Saturday.
Yan Qi suddenly remembered that he had not told the other companies about this.
He quickly sent a message in the group.
"By the way, there's something I forgot to remind everyone. Last weekend, I found out that this place doesn't work on weekends, so don't worry if you can't find the bug. It will return to normal on Monday."
"I only arranged for them to work overtime for half a day today in order to verify this matter. So far, it seems that this pattern has been fulfilled. So if you guys don't have any other work to do, you can go back and rest. Come back on Monday to continue fixing bugs. "
Soon, the people in charge of the group replied one after another.
"Ah? Bug doesn't work on weekends? This is too illogical! "
"This is not scientific, but it is very metaphysical! A sphere-shaped Fengshui treasure land is already very unscientific, so it's not surprising that this space has a certain pattern of time … "
"I don't believe it!"
"Let's look for more bugs. If the efficiency is really low, then it means that what Director Yan said is true. There's no need for everyone to look for bugs when the efficiency is low. Why don't we do something else?"
This time, the people in the group seemed to accept this setting very quickly.
Although this matter still sounded very ridiculous, after all, most of the companies that moved here had been baptized by metaphysics. They had already objectively acknowledged the existence of this special space, so adding a rule of time did not seem to be something to be surprised about …
Yan Qi sat down at his work desk, took out his phone and ran through his own game a few times.
Yes, as expected.
The bug did not work on weekends!
Actually, before running, Yan Qi was still a little conflicted. Should he hope for a bug or no bug?
If there was a bug, it meant that he had to work overtime on weekends, but the progress of the game could be rushed by a large margin. If there was no bug, the progress could not be rushed, but the weekend could be rest.
Now that the dust had settled, he felt at ease, giving his employees a reason to rest on weekends.
Not bad.
Actually, as a boss, Yan Qi was quite conflicted on the issue of working overtime.
He was not like many unscrupulous bosses who forced their employees to work overtime purely to reduce costs and further squeeze the labor of their employees. But even as a boss with a bit of conscience, it was inevitable that he would ask his employees to work overtime.
After all, as a small company, a start-up company, it did not have that many resources, nor did it have a large number of high-quality employees. Sometimes, if they wanted to rush the progress, working overtime was a choice that they had no other choice.
The gaming industry was an industry that paid a lot of attention to timeliness. If two similar games were released one or two months later than the other, the difference in income could be millions or tens of millions.
And for a small company, the difference in speed was enough to determine the survival of the company.
Therefore, in order to let the company survive, so that his employees would not have to look for jobs again, so that he could get more bonuses in the future, sometimes in order to rush the progress of the development, Yan Qi had no choice but to ask his employees to work overtime.
This point often made him feel conflicted.
Although his employees were very understanding of this behavior and were very cooperative, Yan Qi still felt a little apologetic.
Now, it was all right, there was no need to be conflicted. Since Feng Shui did not encourage working overtime on weekends, and working overtime on weekends was not efficient, he might as well give his employees a break, adjust their state, and continue fighting bugs next week.
At that thought, Yan Qi said, "Alright, I've verified it. Fixing bugs on weekends is indeed inefficient. Everyone, order Fish-Catching Take-Out for lunch today. It's my treat. You can knock off and go home after lunch!
"Of course, if you have an appointment at noon, you can also leave early."
As soon as he said that, the employees cheered.
"Boss Yan is awesome!"
"Thank you, Boss Yan, for your treat!"
Thus, a small portion of the employees who had appointments with friends or wanted to go home for lunch left after greeting Yan Qi. The rest of the employees stayed and left after lunch.
Yan Qi also stopped looking for bugs. Instead, he opened the official website of the Morning Dew Gaming Platform to check the current status of the platform.
He would not have known if he did not see it, but he was shocked when he saw it.
"Huh? The gaming platform had already started trial operations yesterday afternoon? "
"I think it was mentioned before, but aren't everyone still fixing bugs?"
Yan Qi vaguely remembered that the staff of the Morning Dew Gaming Platform had mentioned about trial operations in the group before. However, everyone was busy fixing bugs and was extremely busy. Thus, he subconsciously thought that the trial operations would definitely be delayed.
There were only a few games. How was the platform going to trial operations?
Now, he realized that they really had to try it out!
At first glance, everything seemed normal when he opened the gaming platform.
There were also various recommendation spots on the platform's homepage. There were also different sections based on game types and equipment. Although there was not much content and it could not be compared to hundreds or thousands of games on other platforms, it still looked rather tidy.
Yan Qi habitually clicked on the section for action-type games to check.
After all, he made action-type games himself. He also wanted to see if there were any competitive games on the platform that could directly compete with his own game.
However, when he clicked on it, he realized that there was actually his own game, Blade of the Empire!
"Huh? That can't be. Isn't our game still being modified?
Why is it already on the gaming platform? "
Yan Qi hurriedly clicked on the details page of the game.
The details page had the introduction, information, and promotional images of the game. These had already been submitted to the Morning Dew Gaming Platform, so it was not surprising that it was on the platform.
The original download/start button was not available. There was a special notification bar that showed the current number of bugs in Blade of the Empire!
This number seemed to be directly obtained from the game's testing platform.
Yan Qi asked the testing team leader, "Huh? Did Morning Dew Gaming Platform ask us for the data interface for the testing platform?"
The testing team leader nodded. "Yes, we gave it to them after we signed the contract. After all, they want to know our bug fixing status in real time."
Yan Qi clicked on the other games and found that most of them were also fixing bugs. The only difference was the number of bugs.
Occasionally, he could even see the number of bugs changing. This meant that the company was working overtime. After fixing a bug and submitting it, the testing team confirmed that there were no problems and fixed the bug. Thus, the number of bugs in the backend would also change and be synchronized with the gaming platform in real time.
Most of the games on the Morning Dew Gaming Platform were in this state. They could see how many bugs were not fixed, but they could not be played.
Yan Qi searched for a long time before he finally found a game that he could play. It was an old game that had been released on another platform half a year ago. According to its lifespan, it should be in the middle or late stages of its life.
This kind of game had very few bugs because the version of the game was very stable. At the same time, it also meant that there was no new content, so it was basically not attractive to new players.
Although games like Blade of the Empire were all mobile games developed by small companies, they were at least new games. In the mobile game industry, they were still competitive.
In the end, all the competitive games were fixing bugs, and the uncompetitive games were released, but they did not attract many players.
Moreover, even though the Morning Dew Gaming Platform had made some distinctions between games that could already be downloaded and games that were in the process of fixing bugs, such as a special logo on the game's icon and the ability to filter out playable games, it was not that obvious.
As a result, the players who entered the platform could not find a game to play immediately. They clicked on a game and found a bug being fixed, then another game was still fixed …
One could imagine how painful this feeling was.
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