Chapter 1180 Persuading Another Company to Quit (Ask for a Monthly Ticket!)

After seeing off Lao Liu, Tang Yishu returned to her work station.

"How's the situation?" Li Yada asked.

Tang Yishu hesitated for a moment: "This game has a bit too many bugs...so I asked him to go back and change it, and come back after fixing the bugs."

Li Yada was a little surprised: "Ah? Isn't this game already online? Why are there still so many bugs?"

"Isn't that reasonable?"

Tang Yishu pointed her fingers together: "This, I, I don't know either."

Li Yada nodded: "It may be that the companies outside are not as good as Tengda in all aspects, so the testing team is not very strong. It's okay, you did the right thing."

"It's normal for a game to have one or two bugs, but if there are so many bugs that affect the normal game process, it can only show that the company's work is not in place, the testing department is not doing its job properly, and there are also problems with internal management."

"If there are so many bugs that affect the normal experience of players, then it really shouldn't be put on the shelves. Instead, it should be modified until there are no bugs. It is right to persuade them to quit."

"It's okay, this is just one company, let's look at another one."

That being said, Li Yada somehow had a bad premonition.

Because the first company has a game that has already been released, logically speaking, there should be relatively few bugs.

The game of the second company is still under development.

Although this game called "Blade of the Empire" is almost done, only the final finishing work is left, and the testing work is definitely in progress, but the completeness is definitely not as good as those projects that have already been launched.

With a high probability, there are more bugs than "Battle Hymn of Heroes" of the previous copycat "Battle Hymn of Blood".

So here comes the problem.

Is it just bad luck that the game I encountered happened to have a bug? Is this an accidental phenomenon?

Or is it the same for other game companies?

Li Yada started working in Tengda not long after entering the industry, so she doesn't have much experience working in other companies.

In her impression, Tenda's games don't seem to be bothered by bugs much.

During each R&D period, bugs spring up like mushrooms after a spring rain. The testing department keeps raising bugs, and the development department keeps fixing them. Generally, bugs are basically fixed before the game goes online.

Even if some follow-up modifications are required after going online, the workload is often not very large.

Therefore, she has always felt that fixing bugs is nothing more than a physical effort. If the bugs are not fixed after the game is launched, it can only show that there is a problem with her attitude.

If you can't even do this kind of physical work well, what is it if it's not an attitude problem?

But now it seems that these companies outside seem to be really not good enough?

"Forget it, I don't want to think about it. It might have been just a coincidence before, how could every company fail to fix the bug."

Li Yada felt that he was worrying too much, so he shook his head and stopped thinking about it, but continued to do his own thing.

...

After Tang Yishu waited for more than an hour, the boss of the second company arrived on time.

Tang Yishu still followed the previous procedure and invited him to the conference room.

"Director Tang, hello, hello."

"My name is Yan Qi. Information about our company and my personal resume have been sent over before."

Tang Yishu nodded: "Yeah, I've read it, please sit down."

After Lao Liu left, Tang Yishu carefully read the information given by Li Yada again. There is plenty of time this time, so remember everything.

Yan Qi and his company can basically be regarded as the epitome of many mobile game startups.

He used to be the chief planner in a game company in Shanghai before, and the project he led was considered a success, but the boss was too stingy, with a monthly net income of six to seven million, but the entire project team didn't even pay a penny of bonuses.

The boss euphemistically said: use the money you earn to advertise and make more money.

By the way, he also drew a cake, saying that after a few months of advertising, the money earned from the game might be doubled, and everyone will receive a large bonus at that time.

Yan Qi had been in the workplace for two or three years anyway, so he didn't know how overdone the cake was, so he ran away decisively.

On the day he resigned, he knew he was doing the right thing, because the boss only verbally persuaded him to keep him, and he didn't mention the salary increase or bonus.

It can be seen that the boss doesn't care whether the employees leave or not.

This is a normal phenomenon. After all, the game has already been made, and stable operation can earn millions every month. Does it matter if employees run away?

After running a master planner, just recruit later, anyway, there is no shortage of people in this line of work.

After resigning, Yan Qi no longer wanted to be a high-level wage earner for others, so he had the idea of ​​starting his own company.

He is from Jingzhou himself. He heard that Jingzhou has developed very well in the past two years, and the environment for game entrepreneurship is also good, so he recruited a few friends from the industry to Jingzhou, established a new mobile game company, and started from Beijing. Some local investors in the state have received millions of venture capital.

After working for half a year, the game was made.

The game he made is called "Blade of the Empire", which is an ARPG mobile game, that is, an action game.

It stands to reason that this type of game has a relatively high threshold and is not suitable for start-up companies, but benefiting from the official editor and Yan Qi's previous work experience, the development has been smooth.

Of course, limited by the investment, it can't be said to be particularly good, but Yan Qi feels that the quality of his own game is not bad, and it shouldn't be a problem to make a little money after it is released to support the company.

For most mobile game start-ups, the idea of ​​getting rich overnight may be too unrealistic. The first thing to consider is how to survive.

The development of the game is almost completed, and Yan Qi also contacted many game channels.

For small companies, the more online channels, the better. As for the sharing ratio, don't think too much about it, just take as much as they give. Small companies basically have no say.

So, when he heard that there was a new game platform here in Jingzhou, and it was quite close to his company's office, Yan Qi was very happy and came here immediately.

"This is an internal beta version of our game, and only a small number of players are currently playing it. But Director Tang, don't worry, there are very few bugs, and it will basically not affect the normal game process."

Tang Yishu nodded and took the phone.

"Okay. Mr. Yan, this is an agreement, you should read it first."

"If you are satisfied with the conditions of the agreement, and if the number of bugs in the game does not exceed three within half an hour, then we can sign the contract today."

Yan Qi accepted the agreement, feeling a little surprised.

It's that simple?

He has also discussed with other channels, and even these channel providers are more than one uncle.

Some give very low points, and some require major changes to the game. Anyway, all of them have conditions, but some are particularly excessive, and some are relatively good.

He has never seen a channel like the Zhaolu game platform that requires no more than three bugs within half an hour.

half an hour? Three bugs?

Yan Qi thinks there should be no problem, right?

Although the game "Blade of the Empire" has not yet been officially launched, there are many bugs, but these bugs are basically concentrated in some large-scale levels and in-depth gameplay in the middle and late stages.

Half an hour, basically hit the early stage.

During the development and testing of this game, because of the need to optimize the novice guide, the content in the early stage has been revised many times, and the bugs are the least.

Yan Qi felt that as long as he wasn't particularly memorized, he shouldn't encounter three bugs in a row within half an hour, right?

One of the two tried the game, and the other looked at the terms of the agreement. The reception room fell silent for a while, except for the fighting sound effects in the game.

Yan Qi had just read the beginning, and saw that the two parties split 50/50, and Tang Yishu had already encountered the first bug.

The novice guide was stuck directly. Originally, there would be a gray mask on the screen to block the guidance process. The place to be clicked by the player was highlighted and indicated with an arrow. After clicking the button, the mask did not disappear normally, and the screen remained on. In a gray translucent state.

"Ah this..."

Yan Qi was a little embarrassed.

It's not that it's strange to encounter bugs, the key is that this is too fast!

Moreover, the novice guide pointed out bugs, not to mention that he had never encountered them, even the testing team of their company had never encountered them.

Before Yan Qi explained, Tang Yishu had already closed the game process very skillfully and re-entered.

"It's okay, just continue to read the agreement."

Yan Qi vaguely had an ominous premonition, but he couldn't say anything, so he could only continue to read the agreement carefully.

...

Half an hour later, Yan Qi had carefully read the agreement twice, and the number of bugs found by Tang Yishu was finally settled.

Within half an hour, Tang Yishu found a total of twelve large and small bugs!

There are four very serious bugs. Once they appear, the game process cannot continue to advance. The remaining bugs, although not so serious, have a very bad impact on the game experience.

Yan Qi couldn't hold back a little.

There are too many bugs, what's the situation!

He even wondered if the program on his mobile phone was installed wrongly. Instead of installing the stable version, he brought the development version.

Otherwise, how could the stable version have so many bugs in the early stage?

This is not reasonable at all!

Tang Yishu seemed to have expected such a result long ago, and handed the phone back: "It's okay, Mr. Yan, it's quite normal for the game to have bugs. You can go back and modify it, as long as you can fix the bug within half an hour. If the quantity is controlled within three, we will sign an agreement."

"By the way, have you read all the content of the agreement? Are you satisfied?"

Yan Qi nodded: "Satisfied, what is there to be dissatisfied with? This condition is already very good for us."

"Don't worry, I have memorized the few bugs you encountered, and let them hurry up and fix them when I go back!"

"It's our job to fix bugs, and we even have to thank you. If we didn't happen to encounter these bugs, we might not know that there are bugs in this place."

"If these bugs come out after the official launch, the loss will be great."

Yan Qi thanked Tang Yishu a thousand times and left with his mobile phone.