Since moving here, the working habits of Yan Qi and his employees have also undergone certain changes.
Mainly because when fixing bugs in Feng Shui treasure land, the efficiency gap between different time periods is too big!
If working overtime all day on weekends doesn’t lead to as many bugs as one hour on weekdays, then why is there any need to work overtime?
Of course, it is not ruled out that some bosses are evil-minded and force them to continue working overtime even though they know that their presence will not be of any help to the project.
But Yan Qi is obviously not such a person.
After moving here, he also discovered that the rules of this Feng Shui treasure land are not static, not just "no work on weekends" and "spherical range", but sometimes there are some exceptions.
For example, individual working days don't work either.
At first, Yan Qi was thinking hard about what was going on, but he and other designers in the group searched for the reason for a long time, but to no avail.
I had no choice but to give up.
After all, in things like metaphysics, even if you can find the rules, you can only rely on guessing. If there is really no trace, you can only leave it to fate.
So Yan Qi no longer worries about this. Anyway, the game is already guaranteed to make money, so there is no need to be so impatient. Work when the efficiency is high, and do other things when the efficiency is not high.
Today happens to be the day of the first update of "Eternal Fall into Reincarnation". Yan Qi had already pre-ordered the game when the announcement came out, and was waiting for the time to download the content and experience it.
After all, it was only 30 yuan. In Yan Qi’s opinion, it was just like giving it away for free.
After all, in mobile games now, 30 yuan is just a monthly card.
""Eternal Fall into Reincarnation" is the DLC of "Return to the Shore". Logically speaking, the gameplay should be similar. But I heard that Mr. Pei personally wrote it and also let the author of the original novel participate in the development, which is worth looking forward to."
Yan Qi looked at the time and started downloading the game content.
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At the same time, a humble little cafe.
At the table in the corner, Pei Qian, Li Yada and Tang Yishu were looking at each other with big eyes and small eyes.
"Sir, your coffee has arrived... Oops!"
The waiter came over with a tray on which were the coffees ordered by three people. But as soon as he reached the table, he stumbled and was about to fall forward.
Pei Qian and Tang Yishu, who were close to the waiter, took action almost at the same time and held the coffee cup on the tray.
It's just that Tang Yishu's movements were hurried and she almost knocked the chair over when she stood up, while Pei Qian's hands were weak and he was calm.
The three cups of coffee were saved, but because the third cup of coffee was not directly supported, it slightly collided with the other two cups and spilled a little.
Pei Qian calmly took down two complete cups of coffee and handed them to Li Yada and Tang Yishu.
The waiter quickly apologized: "I'm sorry, sir, I'll give you another drink right now."
Pei Qian waved his hand and sent him away.
Oh, fortunately, I have eyes and ears in all directions, and I have a premonition that there will be problems.
Pei Qian took out a paper towel from the side and wiped a small amount of coffee stains on his hands. He looked at the two people sitting across the table and felt a little emotional.
How do you meet your own employees? It's like being a contact with the underground party...
Ever since the Chaolu Game Platform turned a corner, Pei Qian has been thinking about how to turn it back.
After thinking about it for a few days, although I haven't come up with a good solution yet, I finally have some ideas.
Therefore, I just wanted to meet Li Yada and Tang Yishu and have a little chat.
Pei Qian thought about it, and it seemed that it was not very safe whether he went to Chaolu Game Platform himself or asked Li Yada and Tang Yishu to return to Tengda. There were many people, and if the secret was leaked, something big would happen.
So, I had no choice but to find a café on the roadside to have a secret chat.
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"Mr. Pei, let me first report on the specific situation of Chaolu Game Platform during this period..." Li Yada had already made preparations for the report before arriving.
Pei Qian shook his head: "No need, I already understand everything I need to understand."
Li Yada nodded slightly.
Sure enough, Mr. Pei still attaches great importance to this game platform! He is always paying attention to every move of the platform!
This further confirmed her and Meng Chang's guess: Chaolu Game Platform is obviously a large-scale experiment and an innovation in the game platform model. Once successful, it will be fully integrated with Tenda Games and soar into the sky!
Pei Qian didn't know Li Yada's psychological activities. He was just smoothing out his own thoughts and thinking about how to get the Chaolu Game Platform back.
After all, the current situation of the platform is just a lucky escape from danger. Although there is no sudden death, it is still far from a real full-scale explosion.
There is still room for redemption.
Soon, a new cup of coffee was brought over, and this time there was no problem. Pei Qian took a sip of the coffee and asked, "How are the current recommendations on the Chaolu Game Platform... arranged?"
After Li Yada was stunned for a moment, she felt secretly happy.
Sure enough, Mr. Pei saw that the first phase of Chaolu Game Platform was a success, so he had to start arranging the work for the second phase!
She immediately answered truthfully: "It's similar to other game platforms, with manual review and data screening."
"For games that have passed bug testing, we will first give a rough rating based on the quality of the game. The higher the rating, the better the initial recommendation position."
"After entering the initial recommendation position, you can see the corresponding data, such as click-through rate, retention rate, payment rate, etc. We will then make subsequent arrangements based on these data. If the data is good, we will continue to the next round of recommendations.
If the data is poor, we will recommend it after a while.”
"Of course, we will also give certain preferential treatment to particularly excellent games. For example, those excellent stand-alone games and independent games in the Endgame Project will be tilted in the recommended resources."
Pei Qian took a sip of coffee and was noncommittal.
Obviously, this is the recommendation mechanism currently used by most mainstream platforms, including official game platforms. Some websites, video websites, etc. basically have similar recommendation mechanisms.
Various data can be relatively comprehensive, objectively reflect the popularity of a certain game, and are not easily affected by too many subjective factors.
On the basis of objective data, combined with the judgment and analysis of professionals, and corresponding intervention where the data is inaccurate, a better result can be achieved.
Of course, different platforms have different emphasis on "data" and "artificial intelligence".
Some platforms trust data more and are completely data-only. No matter how good the reputation of a game is, as long as the profit data is poor, it will not recommend resources. The advantage of this is that it can improve performance, make more money, and avoid errors caused by people's subjective judgment errors.
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Some platforms will give a lot of weight to the staff, and which recommendation position will be determined entirely by internal arrangements. Sometimes after a deal with the game developer PY, a not-so-good game occupies the best recommendation position for a long time.
This is also a common thing.
After all, the ultimate goal of the platform is to make money, so it’s not shameful to clearly mark the price of recommended positions. As for the impact and losses it may bring to the platform...it’s actually not that big. As long as the developer gives you more money, then everything will matter.
Easy to discuss.
For Pei Qian, this matter seems to be a bit of a dilemma.
All dependent on data?
But many times the data is indeed quite accurate. Although a small number of good games will be buried, overall this is a very fair system.
Not to mention anything else, regardless of the quality of games that are pushed to the forefront by data, most of them are very profitable games nowadays. With a 50-50 split, the platform will definitely make less money.
But it’s not appropriate to rely entirely on manual labor.
Because Li Yada understands games, not only she understands it, but many people on the entire platform understand it.
Even if Pei Qian assigns a few people who don't know much about games to take care of this matter, they will inevitably be influenced by Tengda's spirit and receive guidance from other employees, and they will eventually select some better games.
Combining data and humans?
Wouldn't that be back to the original starting point...
Pei Qian thought for a moment and said: "I think... all the recommended arrangements should be left to the players!"
Li Yada was stunned for a moment: "Leave it to the player?"
Pei Qian nodded: "That's right."
"What I am considering is to use a certain mechanism to select a small group of players among the players as opinion leaders. These people will have a special label on the platform, which can also be called 'connoisseurs'."
"Connoisseurs have the power to decide where games are recommended."
"Which game is on which recommendation position does not depend on the specific data of the game at all, but depends on the thoughts of these connoisseurs."
"Of course, there is a certain screening and removal mechanism for connoisseurs. Please think about this carefully and come up with a plan for me to see."
Pei Qian's idea is very simple. He deliberately uses this system to induce civil strife among players!
If all players openly vote, it will actually be just a more powerful scoring system.
Most of the games selected for recommendation are games that have a lot of players and make a lot of money, but they simply cannot achieve the results.
Therefore, we have to find a way to divide the players so that a small number of players can become connoisseurs and have the right to recommend games, while the majority of players can only watch.
Among connoisseurs, there are also different preferences, and they will definitely fight to compete for the recommendation position.
And various game companies will also find ways to curry favor with these connoisseurs and exert influence on them; ordinary players will also find ways to pull down existing connoisseurs and move up themselves.
In short, for other platforms, the right to recommend is in the hands of the platform itself. No matter how it is arranged, the final result is probably to make money. It is just a matter of making money with this game or making money with that game.
After Pei Qian did this, the recommended spots on Chaolu Game Platform were actually given to a few players in a very irresponsible manner.
Nowadays, many players seem to be upright and righteous, saying that they want to judge these games fairly.
But if a few people become connoisseurs and gain the power to manipulate recommendation positions, will they still stick to their previous ideas?
Can those who become connoisseurs stick to their true intentions?
Can those who have not become connoisseurs accept it calmly?