Chapter 22: Cutting Flesh with a Blunt Knife

"Wait, something very strange happened!" Ishidai's assistant suddenly said nervously: "There are players who have completed the clearance!" And gave a full strategy for clearing the customs!? ”

"What!?" Ishida Jing was stunned, grabbed the assistant's tablet in his hand, and said in a hoarse voice: "It's only been an hour, and someone has cleared the customs!?" No way! There can never be such a master! ”

"Not only clearance, but complete clearance! He cleared all of our 1,627 hidden eggs and 81 hidden levels! The assistant said anxiously.

Ishidai's face was immediately like ashes.

Burying easter eggs in the game,Designing hidden levels,It has always been the only way for game companies to attract players,Think it was still the era of red and white machines,Legend has it that there is a game called Contra Douluo that designed eight hidden levels。

This news has been rumored among fans of the game, and countless players have been trying to find the hidden underwater eight levels, and some people are still obsessed with it when it comes to fast-forward the coffin.

This is the secret of the game's hidden levels, he is like a little roundworm in the player's stomach, always seducing the player to keep playing.

An hour, only an hour!

The Easter eggs and hidden levels that the Cosmic Pac-Man team has designed for three years have all been solved! What an incredible speed!

After this strategy comes out, it will greatly reduce players' expectations of Pac-Man in the universe, there are no secrets, and what will attract players to play over and over again? Pay over and over again!

I jumped and read the whole strategy of 1.5 million words, and Ishida almost fainted on the spot!

"Minister, a colleague called and said that even the cosmic Pac-Man plug-in has come out! It's currently spreading like crazy! Ishidai's assistant answered a phone call and hurriedly reported.

If someone finds out all the easter eggs and hidden levels like a bomb, it will greatly reduce the player's interest in the game.

Then the game plug-in is a nuclear bomb! It will put an end to any game, even the best!

Ishida was stunned, and with his years of experience in the game industry, he realized that his cosmic Pac-Man was probably going to fail!

……

Just when Ishida Jing was scorched by one bad news after another, Li Yi and Coke went to eat chocolate comfortably at home and browse the Starlink network.

The so-called super game master who clears the customs within an hour and gives detailed game strategies is the little guy Coke.

With 16.8 million processing cores, even the most complicated game can't stump him, and it only took him one minute to complete the analysis of Pac-Man in the universe and write a super strategy of 1.5 million words.

It was Li Yi who asked him to delay the release by an hour, otherwise these things would have been flying all over the Internet long ago.

"Master, I still don't understand, we can bring down Namco by doing this? I see that their cosmic Pac-Man is still very popular on major mobile game platforms, and in just one hour, the number of downloads has reached 3.5 million times. Cola said puzzled.

Li Yi smiled evilly: "Who said I was going to defeat them?" I'm trying to bring them down, there's a big difference. ”

Cola shook her head stupidly.

Li Yi said with a smile: "The first step we did was to completely crack the easter eggs and hidden levels of Pac-Man in the universe, the reason why we did this is to make this game completely free of secrets, without easter eggs and hidden levels, T-Man in the universe will soon lose player viscosity." ”

"The second step is to release the key source code to the hacker website, and the hackers will use the code to develop plug-in software to make the game more unfair, once the game loses its fairness, the losing party will soon leave the game, and the winner will lose the thrill of the challenge, and then leave."

"And after the source code is leaked, free plug-ins will be derived, so that those props that should be charged will become free! This is even more important, it is already a free-to-play game, and once you lose the item charge, Namco will not only not make money from Tec-Man in the universe, but will also lose money! ”

"Don't look at the number of downloads now, but these players won't pay for it! The more downloads, the more miserable they will die! ”

"In the face of hundreds of millions of customers, Namco is definitely not willing to give up, if you don't give up, you have to continue to invest in capital operation, because of the existence of plug-in software, the longer the operation, the more money they will lose!"

After a pause, Li Yi continued: "Your detailed power plus part of the source code of the game came out too fast, and no player in the world would be able to do it, so they would only suspect that it was a ghost in the company, and they would definitely carry out a big investigation within the company, which made people panic." ”

"This is called internal and external troubles, I don't want to see Namco fall overnight, what I want is a blunt knife to cut the flesh, one by one, to drain their blood, and let them die by themselves."

Cola gasped, and he suddenly felt that his master was evil...

"The master is amazing!" Cola admired: "I suddenly found that anyone who is your opponent is very painful, according to the language of the earth I learned, this is called digging a row of pits and waiting for them to jump into it one by one." ”

Li Yi couldn't help but say: "I'm just using your ability, when you learn to use your ability, I will rest assured, although the civilization level of this place on the earth is not high, it is still very dangerous." ”

Cola was slightly stunned, and pondered in his heart, "Does the master mean to let me learn how to trick people..."

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As Li Yi expected, that night, Namco began to arrest the ghosts, and all the big and small leaders in the company were called for questioning, which made people panic.

There are no internal ghosts in the first place, and their investigation consumes a lot of time and money, and naturally they can't reach a conclusion, which only provokes the resentment of employees, who wants to work in an environment where they are suspected of being internal ghosts all day long?

The unity within the company is gone, everyone begins to plan for their future, colleagues meet each other with a cold face, and people begin to be suspicious of each other.

After the last board of directors, gritted its teeth, and in the spirit of preferring to kill a thousand by mistake rather than let go of one, it fired one-third of the employees of the Cosmic Pac-Man project team.

Such a cold-blooded approach aroused great anger among employees, and in just one month, more than half of the technical backbones voluntarily resigned.

Big Culture has always been known for its unity, and Namco is also a very united company, others can't dig their talents, and now they have self-destroyed the Great Wall, which naturally makes rival companies see the opportunity and desperately poach people in their company.

At the same time, under the fierce propaganda campaign costing 50 million Earth Dollars, Pac-Man has become popular around the world with a download rate of more than 30 million times a day.

Namco was surprised to find that there were many players who downloaded the game, but few actually paid for the props.

Those hacker groups got the source code of the game sent by Coke and made countless kinds of plug-ins, which made the game completely unfair and wore out the patience of players.

There are costs to game operations, such as marketing expenses, customer service expenses, and technical support costs.

Namco found that not only did it not make money, but it was constantly losing money! The more players you have, the more you lose!

From the launch on September 1st to the withdrawal of Namco from the operation of the Cosmic Pac-Man game on October 1st, Namco created the most painful history in the game industry in 30 years and completely became a laughing stock in the industry.

The company's share price has hit rock bottom, and all stock rating companies, without exception, have classified Namco's stock as junk.

Correspondingly, Memory Maniac was named the best mobile game of the month in September.

The game's maker, The Exorcist, was named the best personal mobile game developer of the month.

Coke is happy to win the title of the strongest hardcore gamer of the month.

Cracking the cosmic Pac-Man game in an hour, and giving a detailed and incomparably detailed strategy, such an achievement dare not say that there is no one in the future, but at least there is no one before.

At 0:00 a.m. on October 1st, the Exorcist's second game, Interstellar Playground, was quietly launched without any promotion.

The game adopts a charging model, charging one yuan per download, and in just 24 hours, the number of downloads of Interstellar Playground exceeded 5 million...