Chapter 1196 Looks Good at First Glance, but Actually Has Many Problems

Friday, August 24.

I was busy working overtime yesterday until 10 o'clock in the evening, and I have been busy until noon after going to work today. "Blade of the Empire" is finally going online!

In order to launch the Chaolu game platform, the game "Blade of the Empire" has been postponed for two weeks.

But fortunately, except for the bug that can't be reproduced, all other bugs should be fixed.

Yan Qi was very apprehensive as the launch was approaching.

For a mobile game, the data of the first two days before its launch basically determines life and death to some extent.

Different from those end games with large investments and large productions, mobile games have a relatively unique operating mechanism.

Most mobile game start-up companies do not have much resources for recommendation or game promotion in the early stage. Therefore, the only way to get more recommendation resources from channels is to speak from data.

If the various data on the day of launch are good, and the player activity and recharge are relatively positive, which proves the potential of the game to make money, then the platform will naturally be willing to spend more resources to promote it.

The better the data, the more promotion you can get, and the more data you promote, the better. Only in this way can a virtuous circle be formed.

And if the data is not good as soon as it goes online, it will fall into a vicious circle and it will be difficult to save.

Because it is difficult to tell which part of the game the player does not like, even if it is modified, it is difficult to guarantee that the player will like it after the modification.

The "Blade of the Empire" developed by Yan Qi and the others is relatively less serious and deceptive. As an action mobile game, although there are charging points, the main energy is still put on the gameplay and quality. Sand the top.

He worried that this would make the recharge data of the game not very good-looking, which would drag down the overall performance of the game on the first day of launch.

Coupled with the recent series of negative incidents on the Zhaolu game platform, as well as the rule that if the non-recommendation rate exceeds 55%, it will be removed from the game, which makes Yan Qi feel even more worried.

Now, everything is finally ready, and the status of "Blade of the Empire" on the Zhaolu game platform has also changed to "coming soon". You only need to wait patiently for a few more hours to 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 place on the platform.

"Find bugs to win 100,000 bonuses??"

"What the hell is this!"

"Could it be the literal meaning I understand?"

Seeing the information on this promotional page, Yan Qi was shocked, and hurriedly clicked in to check it out.

It turned out that it was clearly written that as long as you find the same number of bugs as the number of bugs recorded on the platform, you will be rewarded with 1,000 yuan, and if you find one more bug, you will be rewarded with 100,000 yuan!

However, this activity has 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. For typos and language errors in the text, although they also belong to the category of bugs in a broad sense, they are not included in this event. .

Secondly, this event is based on the game version number officially recorded by the Zhaolu game platform. If the game is updated and the content changes, the number of bugs needs to be counted again.

Thirdly, the player needs to provide a full-process video during the process of finding the bug, proving that the game is a normal version downloaded from the official platform and has not been maliciously modified, and that the found bug can be stably reproduced at least once.

Finally, the event only lasts for two weeks, and the same bug is only rewarded once, and the sequence depends on the specific time when valid proof materials are provided to the official. The event may be re-opened 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 fairly perfect.

When engaging in this kind of activity, I am most afraid that there are loopholes in the rules, allowing players to take advantage of the loopholes, and in the end they can't figure it out.

And the series of additional conditions of 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, bad sentences, etc. in the game are inevitable, and most testers will not focus on this aspect. If the player insists on a typo and insists that it is a bug, it will be a bit difficult to deal with.

It is limited to procedural bugs that affect the normal progress of the game. The definition will be more clear and intuitive, and it will not be easy to blur the past.

The second rule is to prevent internal fraud by game developers.

What if an employee uploads a bug secretly, and then finds it out to claim the bonus?

The way the Chaolu game platform handles it is to use the game version submitted to the platform by each game manufacturer as the standard, that 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, he will leave traces of the changes. 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 the bug hunting activities will be based on this new bug number.

Of course, during this event, it is definitely necessary to avoid updating the game version as much as possible, so as to save players from finding bugs for a long time and all their efforts being wasted.

Although such efforts are mostly in vain.

The third regulation is to prevent some technical players from cheating by modifying the game client.

It must be downloaded from the official platform, provide the whole process video, and be able to reproduce it twice stably. Moreover, the games on the platform will be connected to the Internet throughout the entire process, 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 very small.

Of course, it is not ruled out that some particularly powerful tech giants can circumvent these restrictions and forcibly cheat, but the official platform must also have a way, for example, reimburse him for the round-trip travel expenses, let him come to the scene to use the official machine to prove, video the whole process, Live broadcast, as long as it proves that this bug really exists, an additional bonus will be given.

If it is a fake person, they will definitely not dare to come, at most they will mess around on the Internet.

The fourth regulation is to determine the timeliness of the activities. Activities like this will consume a lot of manpower and material resources, and it is certainly impossible to carry on forever.

Although it will only be held for two weeks, there will definitely be a huge amount of attention.

Also, so what if someone actually found the bug? Just pay normally. Judging from the previous marketing activities of the Chaolu game platform, this platform is not short of money at all. Sending some money to very few players is equivalent to buying enthusiasm. What is it compared with a large amount of publicity funds?

Of course, there is a premise that there can be no more bugs in the game than the number of bugs on the platform.

Take "Blade of Empires" 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 these dozens of bugs will be exploited by players several times. Ten times, and just squeezed out a few million, that must be a joke.

But Yan Qi knows very well that this place is a treasure land of geomantic omen, and it has been repeatedly verified by the testers of many game companies!

Only one bug can be found in Feng Shui Treasure Land, so the possibility of players finding two bugs is very small.

Even if they were found, at worst, they would be given 100,000 yuan. The 100,000 yuan would be nothing more than publicity funds, and the effect of buying horse bones with thousands of dollars would be achieved.

Not to mention the game platform, even for some small mobile games with a monthly turnover of several million, a bonus of 100,000 yuan is nothing.

"This is a good thing!"

"As soon as this event comes out, there will definitely be a large influx of players on the platform, looking for bugs for bonuses."

"Our game has just launched, and we are the ones who can enjoy this wave of bonuses the most!"

Yan Qi couldn't help but sigh with emotion, the Chaolu game platform used to do tricks frequently, and now it finally organized an IQ online event!

Although this event is completely dependent on Feng Shui treasure land and has nothing to do with the strength of the platform itself, so what? Each platform must make full use of its own advantages!

"Wait, no."

"In doing so, although the short-term popularity has indeed risen, after the event is over, I'm afraid there will still be controversy, right?"

"No, let alone after the event is over, I'm afraid that the controversy will reach its peak in the first week of the event."

After Yan Qi analyzed it, he found that this matter was not as simple as he thought.

In the early days, the huge prize money of this bug-finding activity will definitely trigger a warm response on the Internet and attract a large number of players.

These players are all here with the purpose of finding bugs, and they must be full of confidence.

But after a few days of intense searching, they probably couldn't find the bug at all.

At this time, some people will definitely think of various coquettish operations, such as fake videos, or denounce and fish in troubled waters on the Internet.

For example, saying that I have found a bug, but the official does not give money and so on.

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 writes the number of bugs as 1 in order to trick players into finding them.

Even if some players do get the bonus, others will question it as an official trust.

In short, those players who are rushing to get bonuses and collect cash, as long as they don't get bonuses, will definitely not let it go, and will definitely make trouble.

What if this group of people becomes angry because they can't find the bug, and they give the game a crazy point and don't recommend it, causing more games to be taken off the shelves?

Although the activity has attracted enthusiasm, how to calm down the negative public opinion caused by some players becoming angry in the follow-up?

Yan Qi just thought about it, and felt his head was getting bigger.

He is very clear that this kind of public opinion incident is the most difficult to deal with, because once it ferments, the emotions of many player groups will be engulfed. Even if the official statement is true, it will be difficult to win people's trust, and it will be difficult to reverse public opinion.

At that time, once the problem worsens, it may be difficult to properly solve it no matter how much publicity funds are spent.

Yan Qi, who was quite happy just now, became listless again.

At first, I thought that Zhaolu Game Platform had suddenly become enlightened and made a good move, but after careful study, I found that this move was not good either!

There are benefits, but there are also risks, and they are huge!

It's like dancing on the tip of a knife, and if you are not careful, you will be burned.

Yan Qi couldn't help sighing, this Chaolu game platform is really full of disasters!

Although it is difficult to be a game platform, as long as you have money and resources, it is not that difficult.

The Zhaolu game platform obviously has money and resources, but it has become difficult to play through a series of coquettish operations.

This kind of operation with a good hand and just playing four second belts and two kings is no one.

But Yan Qi had no choice but to watch the changes while busy working on his own game.