Under the umbrella of Tianba Studios, there is a very special game.

How special is it?

It's special to this game, as an online game, there is no dedicated operation planning team, or the planning team of "Star Emperor" next door is a part-time job!

Usually, in addition to daily shutdown to maintain the server and brush up on the sense of existence, the entire project team has not done anything, except for drinking tea and chatting, it is and playing with the mobile phone......

Of course!

Anyway, there are few people in the project team, and it is estimated that they will have to be laid off by Brother Ba after a while, so it is normal to fish and paddle.

And this magical game is "Don't Go After School: Marbles", which is famous in the game circle and has a good reputation, which is simply a reverse example of "Three Kingdoms"!

Pinball is an online game with multiple servers.

So far, the total number of servers in the game has exceeded 10, and the average total number of online players has stabilized at around 1.5 million.

Let's not talk about overseas.

In China, "Pinball" is already one of the "Big Three Online Games" alongside popular games such as "League of Legends", "CrossFire", "Dungeons & Warriors", and "Naraka: Infinite".

What?

Why are there five of the Big Three?

This is an old stalk in the game circle, and there are indeed only three of the Big Three at the beginning, CF, LOL and DNF can't be beaten.

But later games such as PUBG, Naraka, and Pinball Storm will always be very popular for a while, and if you don't add them, you always feel unfair, so the number of the Big Three has become an "unknown".

It could be three, it could be four, it could be five......

The specific number of the three giants of online games depends on the fact that in addition to CF, LOL and DNF at that time, there were several games that were comparable in popularity and popularity.

"Don't Leave After School: Pinballs" is definitely one of them, after all, the number of people online and word-of-mouth popularity may not be as good as LOL, but it is more than enough compared to CF and DNF.

But it's such a popular online game that ranks among the top few in China, but the operation team only has two or three big cats and kittens, can you believe it?

Outrageous, but it's true!

As the developer of the game, Tianba Studios' support for the game "Pinball Storm" is limited to providing one server, as for the rest of the work?

Excuse me!

Don't bother me, if you have any questions or needs, it is recommended to contact your server's "game partner" directly.

In the game, each district has one or more game partners, who are the real "operation planners" and "event planners" of the game "Pinball".

These game partners had the reputation of "server emperors" in the feudal era in the first two years, and for this reason, each server set off rounds of dynasty changes.

However, with the development of the times and the progress of the players' thinking, the earth emperors were gradually overthrown, and the players spontaneously organized and established the "Player Autonomous Committee" of each district server, referred to as the game committee.

The establishment of the game committee marks the beginning of a new stage in the operating environment of the game "Pinball", which is also called the "era of co-governance" by community historians.

What is co-governance?

Co-governance here has two meanings, on the one hand, it refers to the governance of each regional server, which is no longer dictated by the Earth Emperor, but that every player can make suggestions and participate in the governance and maintenance of the server.

On the other hand, the so-called era of co-governance is also known as "players and tyrants share the world"!

That's a bit more damaging......

But even Brother Ba himself has never denied this in public, and even in the community, he has said that half of today's "Pinball Storm" belongs to the majority of players.

The organization of the play committee was quite a grass platform team at the beginning, a bit like the "owners' committee" made up by some communities.

It seems to be a little useful, but in fact it is similar to the nature of "playing house"!

But that was only a temporary embarrassment, and soon the committee developed and expanded, with a formal structure and activity charter, and the staff was replenished, and the responsibilities of each department were clearly divided.

It's not surprising at all.

After all, there are 120,000 active players in a single district server in the popular district server of "Pinball", which is almost catching up with the number of people in some small counties.

In other words, the number of people in a small remote county town is not difficult to put together the framework that a game committee should have.

In this process, certain talents in the system and legal administration have also emerged to help the establishment of the game committee......

Interestingly, more than seventy percent of the players of Pinball are office workers, mainly men over the age of 30.

It's not surprising that there are a few civil servants, lawyers, general managers, CEOs, or something in this!

All in all.

The game committee was full of talents, and soon pulled out a set of proper frameworks and teams, and elected the so-called "pearl bearer", that is, the general leader of the play committee in the district.

The Grand Commander then appoints a special mediator for player disputes, as well as candidates for positions such as event planners and advertising specialists, and combined with the members of the game committee, a set of management teams is released.

The birth of this management team has greatly relieved the operational pressure of Tianba Studio.

After all, from now on, Tianba Studio can let it go, and only needs to carry out daily maintenance on the server.

Everything in the game is the responsibility of the game committee and the management team led by the pearl holder.

This is the era of co-governance!

I have to say that "Don't Go After School: Pinballs" really made many players experience the feeling of "turning over and calling the shots" for the first time.

Playing other games, it is all up to the planner or designer, and the player can only play what the planner makes, and there is no choice at all.

But this is not the case with Pinball, the right to operate and manage is in the hands of the game committee, which is elected by the players, representing the common will of the players, and the players can finally choose what to play for themselves.

Man's ambition is endless......

After experiencing the taste of being in charge of the games they play, players are not satisfied with this and begin to seek greater autonomy and freedom.

The era of co-governance?

No, no, no!

Players don't want to share the world with Brother Ba, and the thought of having a Brother Ba on his head who can launch "Heavenly Punishment" at any time makes players feel inappropriate.

Since they have come to this point, why do they still have to endure the existence of the emperor "Brother Ba"? We have all overthrown the Emperor of the Soil of the District, can't we still push over the Emperor of the Soil?

The players' thoughts, Chen Ba realized early on.

He's also thinking about it.

What do you mean by that?

He can use strong means to stop the players, if it's a big deal, stop serving, anyway, the final decision is in his hands.

But isn't everything that's happening right now the result of what he single-handedly facilitated?

In other words, he foresaw this scene from the very beginning when it was revealed that a bug in the game would cause players to usurp the game's administrator privileges.

He didn't stop it at that time, and naturally he won't stop it at this time!

"I can tell the players to shut up, and if you go down with a big ban, the whole region and the whole server won't be able to speak."

Chen Ba asked Luo Ji rhetorically, "But what's the use of that?" Can I stop the players' minds from progressing? Why should I stop it? ”

"Think about it from another angle, have we lost anything? No! The game still belongs to Tianba Studio at the legal level, but it is just entrusted to the game committee to operate it on its behalf......"

There are no losses.

After all, even if the game is handed over to the game committee, the server is also maintained by the other party, so no one can take away the game income whether it should be Brother Ba's or Brother Ba's.

On the contrary, when you put a server at the player's disposal, you lose direct jurisdiction over the game, but you also save yourself the expense of maintaining the server and day-to-day operations.

In short, the pros outweigh the cons!

Regarding this matter, Chen Ba's only concern is that it is no problem to hand over the server to the game committee, but does the game committee really have the ability to do daily maintenance?

The daily maintenance of the server side is not such a simple job, and it requires at least a certain amount of manpower to complete.

In addition to this, the data security of the server is also worth putting a question mark!

Tianba's games, especially online games, often encounter various hacking attacks and intrusions, as well as various cheats such as plug-in scripts.

These problems, with the current technical strength of Tianba Studio, are naturally a piece of cake to solve, and the world's top hackers, with the assistance of Tianba Studio's "machine spirit", are all in vain!

However, after the server is handed over to the gaming committee, how can the gaming committee ensure data security if it lacks the corresponding technical strength?

……

In the face of the two questions raised by Tianba Studio, the representatives sent by the various district service committees discussed it and gave a relatively clear answer.

The first problem, that is, the daily maintenance of the server, they will allocate special funds to hire 3-5 server-side development engineers to ensure that there are no problems.

As for where the earmarked funds come from?

There's no need to worry about it, "Don't Go After School: Pinballs" doesn't have much else, but there is never a shortage of advertising sponsorship, and a little squeezing out a little advertising money is enough to spend.

The second problem, that is, the data security of the server, they really don't have a good solution, so they can only "store" the server in the Tianba computer room and protect it by Tianba Studio.

"So be it......"

"Anyway, you don't plan to move the server, or stay in the computer room of our studio, so the maintenance personnel are simply the same people, what do you think?"

Chen Ba proposed: "It is equivalent to saying that although the server has been handed over to you, the existing maintenance and data security protection mode has not changed, and even the server is still maintained by the people of Tianba Studio." ”

That way it's less of a hassle.

It means that nothing has changed, only those employees have changed, and their salary source has become paid by the "play committee", not by the bully.

But they are still Tianba employees, but they don't have a salary......

"What about the cost of daily maintenance and operation of the server?"

"We count miscellaneous expenses such as electricity bills and bandwidth fees, and submit a bill to you once a month, and you just need to settle it on time."

Chen Ba made arrangements.

The server is left in the Tianba computer room, which is also convenient to protect the game data and save it from being snooped on by boring hackers.

But the cost of the server side, then it has to be one yard to one yard, at least the electricity bill and labor wages or something, can no longer be borne by Chen Ba, and he has no obligation to bear it, after all, the servers are resold to the game committee.

"Yes, that's it!"

The game committee was also very satisfied, and turned around and sent this preliminarily negotiated agreement to the Tianba community to inform all players of "Don't Go After School: Pinballs".

The players were excited.

Servers all taken down?

Hold the grass! This is simply a miracle in the history of online games, and there has never been an online game like "Pinballs", which dares players to control the life and death of the game!

However, the joy is good, and soon the players are faced with a slightly awkward problem, which is to scrape together the money to buy the server.

That's right!

Although Tianba Studio promised to transfer the ownership of the server, including the game data in the server, etc., this is not free......

It's given to players for free, so Chen Ba is not Shabi, how can he do such a thing?

It must be spent on it!

The amount is not excessive, it is almost the cost price, plus a small premium.

"Pinball Storm" has a total of 10 regional servers so far, and each regional server needs to make up money separately, and then pay it to Tianba Studio, and take the ownership of the server in the name of the game committee.

Where does the money come from?

Some district servers choose "fundraising", that is, each player gives a little charity, anyway, there are 200,000 players in a district, and a few pieces per person will be quickly gathered.

There are also some district services that choose to raise funds by "temporarily withholding advertising fees".

That is, in this area, if ten ads are placed, then only eight of these ten ads will be distributed to the players, and the income from the other two ads will be misappropriated to buy servers.

Regardless of whether it is the former or the latter, in short, the ten districts have scraped together the funds and bought the ownership of the servers in their districts.

At this moment, the community of players desperately posted to celebrate this historic moment, and various media also reported it, calling it "the freest group of players in the history of the game"!

This also aroused heated discussions among other netizens.

[Meng Xin doesn't understand much, is it possible that how the game will be changed and operated in the future will be up to the players themselves? ] 】

[More than that! From this moment on, the game completely belongs to the players, Brother Ba? It's just a rubber stamp, you know the royal family, right? 】

[Don't be embarrassed, the server is still in the Tianba computer room, and Brother Ba can still control the player, but it's not good for him. 】

[Who says it's no good?] Believe it or not, tomorrow Brother Ba will make an announcement saying that the electricity bill has risen? 】

[You know Brother Ba too well hhh]

[Anyway, now that you have won the ownership of the game, should you change the name of the game?] I proposed to call it "Marbles Bo Man", and the brothers liked it and sent me up! 】

[It doesn't feel as good as "Rebirth: I Am the King of Pinballs"......]

Looking at the posts of players in the community, Chen Ba couldn't help but complain: "How did they guess that I was going to find an excuse to increase the electricity bill?" ”

Damn, it was prejudged!

This trick can't be used, otherwise it will be too obvious. To put it another way, the server has been hacked too many times, and the price increase of the "protection fee" next month is not too much, right?

(End of chapter)