Chapter 97 Investors want to inspect (ask for subscriptions, ask for monthly passes!) )
As we all know, the game has a well-developed build system, but this is a ready-made template, and although it is as high as 750,000, there are not many companies that can afford it.
If it's just such a system, it doesn't actually motivate players to buy.
But on top of this perfect construction system, "Fire Stealer" has added two key elements: "Heartbreaker Part-time" and "God's Kingdom Team Adventure", which really has a wonderful chemistry with the construction gameplay, making players want to stop!
In fact, the original exploration of the kingdom of God is also a good way to play.
Players team up to steal things, dodge monsters, and especially the unique voice system, which is very show-effective.
But the problem with the original gameplay is that the difficulty is too high, and the pressure to steal materials is too great!
The monsters are too densely distributed, and the player mortality rate is too high.
If you take a normal risk, except for those who are particularly skilled craftsmen, the speed at which ordinary players steal materials simply cannot keep up with the consumption of the outside world.
But now, the player can control the Heaven Guard, which has become a "game balance mechanic".
For the more rookie players, they can completely turn all five people into Heaven Guardians, and then go directly to the kingdom of God to rampage and sweep wildly.
If you want to keep some adventurous excitement alive, you can just take one Heaven Guardian and play "Butan Synergy" like Instructor Ding and them.
If you want to take it a step further, you can give yourself a challenge, or you can experience the original difficulty without the Heaven Guard at all.
All in all, after a series of bugs, Zhou Yang was surprised to find that "Fire Stealer", which originally had fatal flaws in the two fields of "survival" and "construction", not only inexplicably made up for the shortcomings, but even extended the shortcomings and turned them into longboards!
Especially when playing in a team, it's fun and perfect for making video slices!
These factors have made the popularity of "Fire Stealer" rise under the spread of various anchors and up masters, and it has reversed the wind almost overnight!
Feng Hui's expression was complicated: "So, there are a lot of bugs in our game, but none of these bugs are vicious bugs?" Instead, are they all bugs that are beneficial to the gameplay? ”
Zhou Yang thought for a while: "This ...... How to put it, it depends on how we define a bad bug.
"If we follow the standards of a general game, our design draft clearly states that players can't climb over the wall, but players flip out, this must be a vicious bug.
"But who made our design unreasonable from the start...... So from the player's point of view, this is a very benign bug, and even without this bug, the game is completely unplayable. ”
At this time, he suddenly saw Gu Fan walking up to the second floor with coffee.
"Mr. Gu, don't get me wrong! I'm not saying there's a problem with the design, it's just ......."
He scratched his head, and for a while he was a little short of words.
So far, Gu Fan has not publicly said the source of these design drafts, so everyone still thinks that these design drafts are from his own design.
Zhou Yang openly said bad things about Mr. Gu in front of the whole company, although it was unintentional, but it was enough to be put in small shoes.
But Gu Fan didn't care, the design draft was Lilith's, what does it have to do with me?
What's more, he has done so much foreshadowing before, just waiting for this day.
Thinking of this, Gu Fan came to everyone, raised his hand and pressed it gently, signaling everyone to be quiet.
"Everyone, be quiet, I have something more important to say.
"I would like to ask you to work overtime until 9 o'clock tonight, because a very important investor of our company is coming to inspect, and I may ask you some questions."
As soon as this remark came out, everyone was surprised.
Overtime is nothing, the game has magically come back to life, and it will probably get more and more popular in the next month, what is working overtime until nine o'clock?
It's all night long!
But...... What the hell is an investor?
It turns out that there are still investors in our company?
Before that, all the employees thought that Reverse Heaven Games was a wholly-owned company that Gu Fan paid out of his own pocket.
Zhou Yang subconsciously looked at Su Tong.
Su Tong nodded: "Our company does have an investor, and he has been here." But...... I don't have a very good impression of her. ”
Everyone looked at Gu Fan again, and from the atmosphere at this time, they keenly sniffed out a trace of strangeness.
Gu Fan coughed lightly: "I'm sorry, I haven't explained it to you before, but the situation of our company is indeed very special."
"In the early days of the company, before the launch of the first game, I had a very demanding investment agreement with this investor.
"So strictly speaking, this investor has absolute control over the game against heaven, and I, strictly speaking, am just a senior worker.
"It's just that she doesn't usually show up because she's busy with other things."
Gu Fan paused for a moment and continued: "What you have seen so far is that all the ideas of our company's games are from this investor.
When it comes to game design, she has her own unique set of ideas and ideas and is rarely open to other people's opinions.
"Even I can only give her very limited advice, and it doesn't necessarily take it into account.
"She's very confident in her ideas and can't change them.
"So, once our design is finalized, we can't make any changes. Especially for the core concept of this game, there must be no deviation.
"When she comes to the company this time, she will talk to you alone and ask some questions about the development of the project. Of course, there are also questions that may be asked about me.
"Now we don't have any work at hand, so I have a day to think about how to answer.
"Okay, that's all I have to say, let's do it free."
After Gu Fan finished speaking, he returned to his seat and swiped the webpage casually.
Everyone looked at each other, completely unable to understand the intention of Gu Fan's words.
All the current designs are from this investor?
Mr. Gu is just a tool man?
What questions do investors ask us? Why do we need to spend a day thinking about how to answer?
Odd.
Mr. Gu's words were not shocking at first glance, but the details seemed to hide a mystery.
Everyone continued to be busy with their own things, but they were all a little absent-minded, and subconsciously thought about Gu Fan's question.
……
Midday.
Zhou Yang and Zhao Haiquan went to eat together.
The situation of "Fire Stealer" has improved, and the popularity has continued to increase, the initial sales were good, and now it is expected to reach a new high, and everyone's worries have naturally disappeared.
It's just that the words Gu Fan said still linger in everyone's hearts and linger.
You said...... What did Mr. Gu mean by those words?
"I can hear that Mr. Gu attaches great importance to the fact that investors want to ask us, but what do investors want to ask? What does Mr. Gu want us to answer? Zhao Haiquan looked puzzled.
At this time, if you want to say that the entire company is the most loyal to Gu Fan, I am afraid it is Zhao Haiquan.
This bonus is smashed down, who is not confused?
Then you must throw your head and spill blood for Mr. Gu!
Mr. Gu's problem, that is our problem, this can't be solved well, is it still worth eating this bowl of rice rewarded by Mr. Gu?
But Zhao Haiquan himself was really unhappy, so he wanted to ask Zhou Yang if he had any ideas.
Zhou Yang grabbed a pickle from a chopsticks restaurant for free, and said quite seriously: "I really have a guess, but I'm not sure if it's right." ”
Zhao Haiquan raised his eyebrows: "Huh? You talk about it. ”
Zhou Yang thought for a while and said, "Don't you think it's strange? It's a whole five games. Five! Each one is in a lot of condition when it is released, and it is scolded by players to the blood, but each one will have one or several bugs.
"It's all design loopholes and unexpected situations, but in the end, they all become the core gameplay, bringing the game back to life!
"If this problem occurs in one or two games, it can be said to be pure luck, after all, who doesn't win five dollars for a scratch ticket? It is not surprising that there is a European emperor in this world.
"Can five games in a row have this bug? How can this be explained? There's no way to explain it!
"If I want to believe that this is all a bug, then I'm a der!"
Zhao Haiquan's eyes were a little confused: "This ...... This is outrageous from a purely code and probability point of view, but is there a more plausible explanation than a bug? ”
Zhou Yang nodded: "This question has been bothering me for a long time, and I can't figure it out from the first day I joined the company."
"Anyway, I think that there must be demons when things go wrong, and there must be ghosts if things don't go wrong. What the heck? Someone must be behind it!
"Most of these bugs were deliberately written and stuffed into the game code.
"There is so much code in the game, as long as you hide it carefully enough, it is normal for our company's testers to not be able to find it. With millions of players playing our games, the probability of finding bugs is much higher. ”
Zhao Haiquan was even more surprised: "Someone deliberately stuffed bugs into it?
"It's impossible, our company has two front-end programs, one is Brother Da Hui and the other is Mr. Gu! Brother Dahui came in halfway, it was definitely not him, so couldn't it only be Mr. Gu?
"But didn't Mr. Gu take off his pants and fart? He's the boss, so how can he just make these mechanisms generous? ”
(End of chapter)