Chapter 1198 It looks good at first glance, but there are many problems
Friday, August 24th.
I worked overtime until 10 o'clock in the evening yesterday, and I continued to work until noon today after going to work. "Blade of the Empire" is finally going to be online!
In order to launch the Chaolu game platform, the game "Blade of the Empire" has been postponed for two weeks.
Fortunately, except for the bug that cannot be reproduced, all other bugs should have been fixed.
As the launch approached, Yan Qi was very anxious.
For a mobile game, the data in the first two days of launch basically determines life and death to a certain extent.
Unlike those PC games that require large investments and large productions, mobile games have a relatively unique operating mechanism.
Most startups that make mobile games cannot get many resources for recommendation or game promotion in the early stage. Therefore, the only way to get more recommendation resources from channels is to rely on data.
If the data on the day of launch is good and players are active and recharging, which proves the game's potential to make money, then the platform will naturally be willing to devote more resources to promotion.
The better the data, the more promotion you can get, and the more promotion the better, the better the data. Only in this way can a virtuous cycle be formed.
And if the data is not good as soon as it goes online, it will fall into a vicious circle and be difficult to save.
Because it is difficult to tell which part of the game players don’t like, and even if it is modified, it is difficult to guarantee that players will like it after the modification.
The "Blade of the Empire" developed by Yan Qi and the others is relatively not that serious and deceptive. As an action mobile game, although there are charging points, the main focus is still on the gameplay and quality.
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He was worried that this would make the game's recharge data look unsightly, thereby dragging down the overall performance of the game on the first day it was launched.
Coupled with the recent series of negative events on Chaolu Game Platform and the rule that it will be removed from the shelves if the recommendation rate exceeds 55%, Yan Qi feels even more worried.
Now, everything is finally ready, and the status of "Blade of the Empire" on the Chaolu Game Platform has changed to "Serving Soon". As long as you wait patiently for a few more hours, you can know the final fate of this game.
But at this moment, Yan Qi suddenly noticed that there was a huge promotional page in a prominent position on the platform.
“Find bugs and win 100,000 bonus??”
"What the hell is this!"
"Isn't that the literal meaning I understand?"
Yan Qi was shocked when he saw the information on this promotional page and quickly clicked in to check it out.
The result is true. It is clearly written on it that as long as the same number of bugs are found as recorded on the platform, a reward of 1,000 yuan will be given, and if one more is found, a reward of 100,000 yuan will be given!
However, this activity comes with a series of additional conditions.
First of all, the definition of "bug" only refers to procedural bugs that affect the normal progress of the game. Errors such as typos and grammatical errors in the text, although they are also included in the category of bugs in a broad sense, are not included in this event.
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Secondly, this event is based on the game version number officially recorded by Chaolu Game Platform. If the game is updated and the content changes, the number of bugs needs to be re-counted.
Thirdly, players need to provide a full video of the process of finding the bug, proving that the game was downloaded from the official platform and is a normal version without malicious modifications, and that the bug found can be stably reproduced at least once.
Finally, this event only lasts for two weeks, and the same bug will only be rewarded once. The order depends on the specific time when valid proof materials are provided to the official. The event may be opened again in the future, and the specific time will be notified separately.
After reading the rules several times, Yan Qi finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, this rule is quite complete.
When engaging in this kind of activity, the biggest fear is that there will be loopholes in the rules, allowing players to take advantage of them, and end up making things unclear.
And the series of additional conditions for this activity basically blocked most of the loopholes that could be exploited.
The first rule is to prevent players from playing word games and wrangling.
Typos, incorrect sentences, etc. in the game are inevitable, and most testers will not focus on this aspect of testing. If a player insists on a typo, it will be a bit difficult to deal with unless it is a bug.
Limiting it to procedural bugs that affect the normal progress of the game, the definition will be clearer and more intuitive, making it less likely to be blurred.
The second provision is to prevent internal fraud among game developers.
What if an employee secretly uploads a bug and then finds it himself to collect the bonus?
The processing method of Chaolu Game Platform is to base on the game version submitted to the platform by each game manufacturer, which is the version that Director Tang has tried.
If the game developer wants to make changes to this version, he must first obtain the consent of the platform, and secondly, traces of the changes will be left. Secret modifications will definitely be discovered.
If it is a normal version update allowed by the platform, then the number of bugs recorded on the platform will naturally change accordingly, and bug-finding activities will be based on this new number of bugs.
Of course, during this event, we must try to avoid game version updates as much as possible, so as to avoid the bugs that players have been looking for for a long time and all their efforts will be in vain.
Although this effort is mostly in vain.
The third provision is to prevent certain technical players from cheating by modifying the game client.
It must be downloaded from the official platform, which provides full video recording and can be stably reproduced twice. Moreover, games on the platform will be connected to the Internet throughout the entire process when played, automatically verifying the integrity of the client version and detecting whether it has been modified.
In this way, the possibility of players cheating through technical means becomes extremely slim.
Of course, it is not ruled out that some particularly powerful technical experts can circumvent these restrictions and forcibly commit fraud, but the official platform must also have methods, such as reimbursing him for round-trip travel expenses, asking him to come to the scene to use official machines to prove it, and videotape the entire process.
Live broadcast, as long as it is proven that the bug really exists, an extra bonus will be given.
If it is a fake person, he will definitely not dare to come. At most, he will mess around on the Internet.
The fourth provision determines the timeliness of the activity. An activity like this will consume a lot of manpower and material resources, and it is certainly impossible to continue it forever.
Although it only lasts two weeks, it will definitely attract huge attention.
Moreover, even if someone does find the bug, so what? Just pay them normally. Judging from the previous marketing activities of Chaolu Game Platform, this platform is not short of money at all. Paying some money to a very few players is equivalent to
If you buy popularity, what does it mean compared with the huge amount of publicity funds?
Of course, this has a premise, that is, there cannot be far more bugs in the game than there are on the platform.
Take "Blade of the Empire" as an example. What is written on the platform is a bug. If there are actually dozens of bugs in the game, and they are easy to reproduce, then how many times will players find these dozens of bugs?
Ten times, if you just lost millions, you must have lost money.
But Yan Qi knew very clearly that this place was a geomantic treasure, and it had been repeatedly verified by testers from many game companies!
Only one bug can be found in the Feng Shui treasure land, so the possibility of players finding two bugs is very slim.
Even if they really find it, the worst they can do is give them 100,000 yuan. This 100,000 yuan will be nothing more than a publicity fund, achieving the effect of buying a horse bone for a thousand dollars.
Not to mention for game platforms, even for some small mobile games with monthly sales of several million, a bonus of 100,000 yuan is nothing.
"This is a good thing!"
"Once this event comes out, there will definitely be a large influx of players on the platform looking for bugs for the bonuses."
"Our game has just been launched, and we are the ones who can reap this wave of dividends the most!"
Yan Qi couldn't help but sigh, Chaolu Game Platform had frequent fainting attempts before, but now it finally has an online IQ activity!
Although this activity completely relies on Feng Shui treasure land and has little to do with the strength of the platform itself, but so what? Every platform must make full use of its own advantages!
"Wait, that's not right."
"Although the short-term popularity has indeed increased by doing this, it will probably still cause controversy after the event is over, right?"
"No, don't talk about it after the event. I'm afraid the controversy will reach its peak in the first week of the event."
As soon as Yan Qi analyzed it, he found that this matter was not as simple as he thought.
In the early days, the huge bonus for this bug-finding activity will definitely trigger an enthusiastic response online and attract a large number of players.
These players all came with the purpose of finding bugs, and they must be full of confidence.
But after several days of intense searching, they probably can't find the bug at all.
At this time, some people will definitely think of various tricks, such as fake videos, or online denunciation, fishing in troubled waters.
For example, you say you have found a bug, but the official won't give you any money.
Some people may also say that in fact, some games have already fixed all the bugs, and the actual number of procedural bugs is zero, but Chaolu Game Platform deliberately wrote the number of bugs as 1 in order to trick players into looking for them.
Even if a player does get the bonus, others will question it as official trust.
In short, those players who are rushing to get bonuses and plunder wool will definitely not give up and will cause trouble as long as they don't get the bonus.
What if this group of people gets angry because they can’t find the bug, and they go crazy and don’t recommend the game, causing more games to be removed from the shelves?
Although the event attracted popularity, how to quell the negative public opinion caused by the subsequent anger of some players?
Just thinking about it for a moment, Yan Qi felt like his head was spinning.
He knows very well that public opinion incidents like this are the most difficult to deal with, because once they ferment, they will be overwhelmed by the emotions of many player groups. Even if the official statement is true, it will be difficult to win people's trust, and public opinion will be difficult to reverse.
Once the problem worsens, it will be difficult to properly solve it no matter how much publicity money is spent.
Yan Qi, who was quite happy just now, languished again.
I originally thought that Chaolu Game Platform suddenly enlightened and made a good move, but after careful study, I found that this move was not good at all!
There are benefits, but there are also risks, and they are huge!
It's like dancing on the edge of a knife. If you are not careful, you will get burned.
Yan Qi couldn't help but sigh, this Chaolu Game Platform is really in trouble!
Although it is difficult to build a gaming platform, it is not that difficult as long as you have the money and resources.
The Chaolu gaming platform obviously has money and resources, but it just managed to reach hellish difficulty level through a series of cool operations.
No one can do this kind of operation where a good hand can forcefully play four doubles and two kings.
But Yan Qi had no choice but to wait and see what happened while he was busy playing his own game.