August 24th, Friday …
He had worked overtime until 10 PM yesterday and worked until noon today. Blade of the Empire was finally going to be released!
Blade of the Empire Sword was delayed for two whole weeks to be released on the Morning Dew Gaming Platform.
Fortunately, apart from the bug that could not be replicated, the other bugs should be fixed.
Yan Qi was very nervous as he approached the release date.
For a mobile game, the first two days of its release basically determined its life and death to a certain extent.
Mobile games had a unique operating mechanism compared to other games that were heavily invested and produced on a large scale.
Most startup companies that made mobile games did not have many resources to recommend or advertise their games in the early stages. Therefore, the only way to get more recommendation resources was to rely on data.
If the data on the first day of release was good, and the players were active, it would prove that the game had the potential to make money. Then, the platform would naturally be willing to spend more resources to advertise the game.
The better the data, the better the promotion. Only then could a virtuous cycle be formed.
On the other hand, if the data was bad as soon as the game was released, the game would fall into a vicious cycle that was difficult to salvage.
That was because it was difficult to tell which parts of the game the players did not like. Even if the game was modified, it was difficult to guarantee that the players would like it after the modification.
On the other hand, the Blade of the Empire that Yan Qi and the others had developed wasn't as heavy-handed. As an action-type mobile game, even though there were charging points, they still focused on improving the gameplay and quality of the game.
He was worried that this would make the data of the game look bad and drag down the overall performance of the game on the first day of release.
Moreover, the recent series of negative events on the Morning Dew Gaming Platform and the rule that games that were not recommended above 55% would be removed from the platform made Yan Qi even more worried.
Now, everything was finally ready. The status of Blade of the Empire Sword on the Morning Dew Gaming Platform had changed to 'Server Opening Soon'. As long as they waited patiently for a few more hours, they would know the final fate of the game.
But at this moment, Yan Qi suddenly noticed that there was a huge promotional leaflet in an eye-catching position on the platform.
"Find bugs to win a hundred thousand yuan??
"What the hell is this?
"Don't tell me it means what I think it means?"
Yan Qi was shocked when he saw the information on the promotional page. He immediately clicked on it.
It was clearly written that as long as the number of bugs found was the same as the number of bugs recorded on the platform, the reward would be 1,000 yuan. If one more bug was found, the reward would be 100,000 yuan!
However, this activity had a series of additional conditions.
First of all, the definition of "bug" only referred to procedural bugs that affected the normal progress of the game. Mistakes like typos and faulty wording in the text were considered bugs in a broad sense, but they were not included in this event.
Secondly, this event will be based on the game version number recorded by the Morning Dew Gaming Platform. If the game is updated and the content has changed, the number of bugs will need to be calculated again.
Furthermore, players had to provide a recording of the entire process of finding the bug to prove that the game was downloaded from the official platform and that it was a normal version that had not been maliciously modified. Furthermore, the bug that was found could be stably repeated at least once.
Finally, the event would only last for two weeks, and the same bug would only be rewarded once. The order of the reward would depend on the specific time when valid proof was provided to the officials. This event may be held again in the future. The specific time will be announced later.
After reading the rules several times, Yan Qi finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, this rule was quite perfect.
In this kind of event, the most terrible thing was that there were loopholes in the rules, allowing players to exploit the loopholes, and finally wrangling was not clear.
And a series of additional conditions for this event basically blocked most of the loopholes that could be exploited.
The first rule was to prevent players from playing word games and wrangling.
Mistakes in the game, wrong sentences, etc., were inevitable, and most testers would not focus on this aspect. If players clung to a typo and insisted that it was a bug, it would be a little difficult.
Defining it as a procedural bug that affected the normal progress of the game would be clearer and more intuitive, and not easy to blur.
The second rule was to prevent internal fraud by game developers.
What if an employee secretly uploaded a bug and then found it himself to get a bonus?
The method of handling the Morning Dew Gaming Platform was to take the game version submitted to the platform by the game manufacturers as the standard, which was the version that Director Tang had tried.
If the game developers wanted to change this version, they must first obtain the consent of the platform, and secondly, they would leave traces of changes. Secretly modifying it would definitely be discovered.
If it was a normal version update allowed by the platform, then the number of bugs recorded on the platform would naturally change accordingly, and the bug finding activity would be based on this new number of bugs.
Of course, during this event, it was necessary to avoid the version update of the game as much as possible, so that players would not find bugs for a long time, and all their efforts would be in vain.
Although most of these efforts were in vain.
The third rule was to prevent some technical players from cheating by modifying the game's client.
It must be downloaded from the official platform, provide the whole video, and be able to reproduce it twice stably. Moreover, the game on the platform would be connected to the Internet during the whole process, automatically checking the integrity of the client version and detecting whether it has been modified.
In this way, the possibility of players falsifying through technical means has become minimal.
Of course, it is not ruled out that some particularly powerful technical experts can bypass these restrictions and forcibly falsify, but the official platform must also have a way. For example, reimburse his round-trip travel expenses, let him come to the scene with the official machine to prove it, the whole process video, live broadcast, as long as it is proved that the bug really exists, there will be extra bonuses.
If it is a fake person, he will definitely not dare to come. At most, he will make trouble on the Internet.
The fourth rule was to determine the effectiveness of the event. An event like this would require a lot of manpower and resources, and it definitely could not be carried out forever.
Although it was only for two weeks, it would definitely attract a lot of attention.
Moreover, even if someone really found a bug, so what? They could just pay the players normally. From the marketing activities that Chaolu Gaming Platform had done before, this platform did not lack money at all. Giving a few players some money was equivalent to buying popularity, and it was nothing compared to a large sum of money for marketing.
Of course, this was on the premise that there could not be more bugs in the game than the number of bugs on the platform.
Take Blade of the Empire as an example. The platform stated that it was a bug. If there were dozens of bugs in the game, and they could be easily reproduced, then the players would have to exploit these bugs dozens of times. Millions of dollars would be lost, and the game would definitely go overboard.
However, Yan Qi knew very well that this place was a treasure land, and it had been repeatedly verified by the testers of many game companies!
If they could only find one bug in a treasure land, then the possibility of the players finding two bugs was next to nothing.
Even if they really found one bug, the worst that could happen was that they would really pay 100,000 yuan. This 100,000 yuan would be nothing more than a marketing fund, achieving the effect of buying a horse's bones with a thousand gold.
Not to mention the gaming platform, even for some small mobile games that made a few million a month, the 100,000 yuan prize money was nothing.
"This is a good thing!"
"Once this event is released, there will definitely be a lot of players coming to the platform to find bugs for the prize money."
"Our game has just been released, so we will be able to reap the most benefits!"
Yan Qi could not help but sigh. Previously, Chaolu Gaming Platform had made many stupid moves, and now they finally had an IQ online event!
Although this event completely relied on the treasure land and had little to do with the strength of the platform itself, so what? Every platform had to make full use of its own advantages!
"Wait, this isn't right."
"Although this will indeed increase the popularity in the short term, I'm afraid it will still cause controversy after the event ends, right?"
"No, not to mention after the event ends, I'm afraid the controversy will reach its peak in the first week of the event."
Yan Qi analyzed and realized that this matter was not as simple as he thought.
In the early stages, the huge prize money of this bug finding event would definitely cause a huge reaction online and attract a large number of players.
These players would all come with the purpose of finding bugs, and they would definitely be full of confidence.
However, after a few days of intense searching, most of them would not be able to find any bugs at all.
At this time, there would definitely be people who would think of all sorts of tricks, such as falsifying videos, denouncing on the internet, or fishing in troubled waters.
For example, saying that they had already found the bug, but the officials would not give them money.
There might also be people who would say that in fact, some games had already fixed all the bugs, and the actual number of bugs in the program was zero, but Chaolu Gaming Platform had purposely written the bug number as one in order to trick players into finding them.
Even if players really got the prize money, others would suspect that they were paid by the officials.
In short, those players who came to get the prize money would definitely not let it go as long as they did not get the prize money. They would definitely stir up trouble.
What if this group of people flew into a rage because they could not find the bug and disliked the game, causing more games to be taken off the shelves?
Although the event attracted popularity, how were they going to quell the negative public opinion caused by the subsequent anger of some players?
Yan Qi only thought about it for a while, and he felt a headache coming on.
He knew very well that this kind of public opinion was the most difficult to deal with. Once it fermented, many players would be swayed by their emotions. Even if the officials' statements were true, it would be difficult to win people's trust, and it would be difficult to change public opinion.
Once the problem worsened, it would be difficult to properly solve it no matter how much money was spent on publicity.
Yan Qi, who had been quite happy just now, became listless again.
At first, he thought that Chaolu Gaming Platform had suddenly become enlightened and made a good move. However, after careful research, he realized that this move was not good at all!
There were benefits, but there were risks too, and they were huge!
It was like dancing on the tip of a knife, and one careless move could lead to disaster.
Yan Qi could not help but sigh. This Chaolu Gaming Platform was really full of disasters!
Although it was difficult to make a gaming platform, as long as one had money and resources, it was not that difficult.
However, Chaolu Gaming Platform clearly had money and resources, but through a series of tricks, it made it to Hell's difficulty.
With such a good hand, there was no one else who could play four 2s and two kings.
However, Yan Qi had no choice. He could only work on his own game while quietly observing the changes.
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