Chapter 43: Kafka's Ladder

"Pokémon: Advance" is a game, although it was popular at the beginning, but after a few months of precipitation, there are actually not many players left.

Because, for many die-hard players who are not part of the pocket series, this game is a force for action.

It's very different from traditional games in that you can walk for a few afternoons and meet a few new friends.

After this momentum has passed, it will be a little hesitant to let people open this software.

This is the pinnacle of what augmented reality mobile games can do now, it just shows the latest side of it to the player, allowing the player to see the world with another feeling.

What this game doesn't show players is the traditional sense of the story. High-frequency human-computer interaction.

There was no counterattack from a small event at the doctor's house next door all the way to the tyrannical world champion to win glory.

There is no elf center, always sweet smile, chic Miss Joy.

There is no hungry old sailor who sighed at the kindness of the player and helped the player clear the island.

Mountaineers who are not filled with various varieties of small fist stones and supersonic bats, and fishing masters who take the king carp to the sea.

There is a lot of pride in not defeating an entire Team Rocket and Galaxy to save the whole world.

Didn't pass through a turbulent remaining, excited at the bottom of the sea ruins, try the newly learned routines, and then, fly around the world to capture the mysterious excitement of the Three Pillars of God.

All of this was the essence of the Pokemon series in the past, but in Pokémon Advance, it has disappeared without a trace.

After the initial enthusiasm, what remains will be an endless cycle of infinite farming values, boring hatching eggs, hundreds of searches, and putting it in the gym for a monster with a value of more than six hundred, and never remembering it again.

All the excitement that this game brings is basically just a craze under new technology. Hooked countless players, handheld memories in a certain summer, that's all, nothing more.

If you want to play this game, let this game drain all your enthusiasm in one go.

Because, as soon as we met for the first time, time was running out.

Of course, even so, the game still hasn't made it to China.

Even, before the game entered China, someone had already made such a picture.

"Report information:

Type reported: mobile phone software

Software name: Pokémon Advance

Download source category: Chiba Games Mobile Store

The section where the reported app is located: Games

Reported version: one

Report content: Under the banner of the game, this app uses the global positioning system to drive various information on the mobile phone map of players in various countries to be uploaded to overseas servers. Among them, the location of China's party and government, as well as various military restricted areas, are all on the map, so this software seriously endangers China's national security, seriously undermines the security of China's information field, in order to protect national security, as well as the security interests of various military forbidden places. We strongly demand that this software be banned and that our citizens who disseminate this software be arrested in accordance with the law.

Hazard Type: Attack on the Party and the Government

Annex: Figure I. Figure II. Figure III.

Captcha: It's really patriotic"

This report template is basically changed from the previous person surnamed Liu who reported the Chiba game console.

Some people take him as an example and say that the current China-love-country-righteousness has become a pig-pen of love-country-sovereignty.

It is said that there are many people who hold high the banner of patriotism and use this flag as a weapon to kill themselves.

In fact, the map information on this software comes from information that can be made public. The problem of maps is not a big problem.

After all, now the street view car of Chiba Games has been running on the roads of many countries. Even if you want to see anything, you can see it.

Even, there are street view cars, and when you take a street scene, you can see an open and avant-garde young couple in the field, or peeing on the side of the road or something like that.

Of course, in order to avoid trouble, Chiba Games basically put these people on a mosaic. Even, there are some areas that are really not particularly good, and they will be collected again.

In fact, the budget of the entire project team of "Pokémon Advance" is not very large, because this is an attempt at new technology.

Before the implementation of this new technology, no one knew whether the game would be popular or not, and how popular it would be. Therefore, the budget of the whole game is not very high, and the plot or anything is not added.

Because, such a game, if you want to add a plot, it is very troublesome. The route of the whole game will not even be linear. It won't be like the original Pokemon game, where the protagonist can fly around the world. Because, most players don't have the financial situation to fly around the world just to play a game.

Of course, there are so many people in the world, it is inevitable that some people will use their brains. You know, in the past, there was software that generated addresses at will.

After all, many times, people have to lie and hide where they really are. And this technology of this software has recently had a new application. It is applied to Pokémon Advance.

The appearance of cheats is naturally unfair to players who don't use plug-ins. Because, for players who don't have cheats, they want to get a Pokémon, but they really have to go over mountains and go through a long, long distance to get a rare Pokémon.

And that's not the case for these players, who, at home, with the flick of a finger, get something that someone else might have worked hard for a week to use.

In fact, Pokémon Advance is a game that does not charge players and is a completely free game. And its way of making profits is mainly to cooperate with some companies. For example, airlines, for example, various travel companies, food companies.

These companies advertise to Chiba Games in the form of sponsorship, and Chiba Games provides some services accordingly.

Even, it didn't take long for some tourist attractions to start looking for Chiba Games to contact and cooperate.

After all, this game of Chiba Games is very attractive. Chiba Games, also because of this game, has developed some business in terms of travel and food.

The online service framework of the entire Chiba game has also become more complete because of this game.

Lin Yan sometimes feels that he has done a good job.

You know, in another world Japan. Don't look at how developed Japan is, but they have missed the entire Internet era, and their services in the Internet age can be said to be a mess.

In Japan, another world, their online store is not only messy, but even on the product page, you can't see the whole product display picture. Often a product has only one angle of the picture.

As for the clothing model, there is no such thing, they are all directly thrown on the renderings of a dress. It's like another world, the male god of digging treasure in China's treasure digging network or something, there is no such thing.

Not even an online customer service. There are only two ways to contact the seller, one is to call and the other is to send an email.

In many cases, this method of calling does not work, and most stores cannot receive calls.

And replying to emails is even slower, a short day or two, a long one, or even three or four days, four or five days.

And in this world, because of the powerful power of the entire platform of Chiba Games, there have been many merchants stationed in the shopping malls of Chiba Games.

Although because labor in Japan is very expensive, it is impossible to do it very cheaply. However, Chiba Games has designed a scientifically efficient delivery network using state-of-the-art mathematical methods. So, although the salary of each courier is not low. However, the cost of the entire system can be better controlled.

Of course, things like the free shipping area still happen. This is because the Tokyo area is home to almost 50% of Japan's population.

The population density is high, and the cost of unit express delivery is naturally low. In this case, it is natural that such a thing as free shipping in the greater Tokyo area has developed.

For remote areas such as Hokkaido, most items are also free shipping. However, from the purchase to the delivery of the product, the time is very poor.

Of course, Chiba Games didn't let go of Pokémon Advance on the issue of couriers, and if you use this software to look at the package, you may see a Pokémon from an email address.

As a result, in many remote areas, areas where people don't go out, there are many people who buy goods just to get a rare Pokémon.

For example, ice Pokémon from Hokkaido, Pokémon from mainland specialties, and so on.

In a way, this game has allowed most players and merchants to get what they want.

Even, some players joked. Look at your "Hearthstone", "Counter-Strike", the boxes opened are all fake. You can see that the box we opened is real.

Really open the box, really unpack. Although, the heat has decreased slightly. However, with the magical influence of Chiba Games, the number of people online at the same time in this game of Chiba Games still remains at about one million.

This is already a great achievement for a new game in a new category.

Of course, follow-up updates are also in the works. Because of the success of this game, Chiba Games has given the project team more budget, more manpower, and the entire project team can be said to be in the limelight for a while.

Of course, for many old people of Chiba games, it is no longer strange. After all, in every era, there will be a game that dominates.

Therefore, the popularity of this game is just another reincarnation. Most Chiba Games employees, even those on the project team, don't take this as a big deal.

Because I was fluttering in the project team, I regarded myself as a character and looked down on other members of the project team in the company.

Although the entire company of Chiba Games, the company has more than 6,000 regular employees, plus the remaining thousands of labor dispatch employees. A company with more than 10,000 people is considered a large company.

However, as long as he is an employee who has been in the company for more than a year, Lin Yan remembers his name.

It's not that he has a good memory, it's that he learns from Satoshi Iwata and talks to every employee on time. Reach out to frontline employees to understand what they want and what they want.

In addition, Lin Yan is very popular in the company and is very kind. Therefore, the employees also love to talk to Lin Yan. Lin Yan has drafted and found many problems and solved many problems.

Of course, it is inevitable that some employees will be dealt with. After all, no company can stand the kind of people who eat inside and out. 、

In fact, the benefits of Chiba games are among the best in Japan and even on the planet.

Because, on the one hand, Chiba Games is highly profitable, and on the other hand, the management knows to give ordinary employees enough money as motivation for work.

After all, the company has been in business for so many years. The management has a turnip and a pit, and there is no way to let it out again.

Then, how to make an employee willing to work on the front line and work hard has become a very complicated problem.

After all, as people get older, not only do wages become higher, but in fact, most people are less productive.

After all, an old man can't compete with a young man.

If it is a low-profit company located in China, then most employees, as long as they pass a certain age, will be forced to dismiss.

Unless there is something very special that the company is reluctant to let you go. You can continue in this company. Otherwise, it is absolutely impossible to work in a low-profit company for a lifetime.

Of course, for ordinary Chinese people, being fired is not a big problem. After all, China's current economic environment is harmonious and progressive.

Since the whole environment is thriving, it is natural that after being fired, you can still find a job.

It will not be like some people in Japan, who were dismissed, first wearing a suit and holding a briefcase every day, and meditated in the park, and after everyone in the family knew about it, some of them might look for jobs, and some of them simply committed suicide.

This is because Japan's economy is already in a stable phase. They were fired, their age and technology, and they didn't have much advantage, and they wanted to find a new job, which was a very difficult thing. 、

There is a special word in Japan to describe a person's life slipping step by step, and finally becoming a beggar, or even committing suicide.

This term is called "Kafka's Ladder". (To be continued.) )