The virtual empire starts from the game

Chapter 254: Offense and defense reversal! You are not correct enough!
To combat user churn.

It is also to defend the company's performance and the year-end bonus of his own department.

Various game companies have taken action and released news about New Year's Eve events in advance.

For second-tier games, this often means new characters, new skins, benefits, promotions, false promises, and empty promises...

This is an annual feature.

Now, due to the strong impact of the rampant city, the news has to be released more urgently and fiercely!
There were signs of crowding together, which made the players very excited.

Of course, in addition to being earlier than in previous years, there is also a new trend this year -

The characters are all wearing less and less.

The "bad" atmosphere brought about by "Frost and Snow Plan" in order to survive has spread rapidly in the past six months and affected a large number of second-hand game companies.

After everyone tried it, they found that the water flow had indeed increased significantly.

Even though we know that this move will have consequences, it is difficult to stop under the pressure of performance.

Especially when your peers are following suit, if you don’t, your users will be lost.

So everyone started to fight inward, and their roles became more and more awkward.

Even though Konjac Games suffered a severe setback and was warned by higher authorities, which explicitly mentioned words such as "vulgar values" and "not conducive to the healthy physical and mental development of young people", its peers did not stop.

Even Konjac Games itself did not stop, and the information about the new character of Shenniao has surpassed "Frost and Snow Project" in terms of sexiness!
——On the contrary, after the sudden death of "Frost and Snow Project" in "Mirror World Story", the artists, at the suggestion of Xu Meng, restrained themselves a lot and explored more gorgeous costumes and sexiness with more depth and layers.

These measures taken by peers have achieved good results in curbing user churn.

Even Lu Ming had to admit:
Although he was very dissatisfied with Fei Zhiyuan's approach, when he saw that the background data stopped falling and the daily active data began to rise, he had to admit the short-term effectiveness of this tactic.

But this is just a commercial recognition.

He always believed that this was not the right way to operate a game and it would backfire in the future!
But things in the future will only happen in the future.

At this moment, he had to face a reality——

These data gave the boss greater confidence.

Fei Zhiyuan therefore convened a meeting to determine the future development plan for "The Divine Bird" - to continue along this path and squeeze out more profits.

He also comforted Lu Ming privately:
"With the current development trend of Dream Building, most second-hand travel companies will not be able to survive."

"The only way to survive is to cooperate with DreamWorks and develop a version of the game that is compatible with the somatosensory synchronization suit and holographic display devices."

"But others can take this path, but we, Konjac, cannot."

"It's impossible for Dream Building to cooperate with us."

“The best approach is to realize the commercial potential of Bird of Prey as soon as possible while the player base is still there.”

This is almost a broken jar approach.

In front of his boss, Lu Ming could only nod.

But after the meeting, he finally couldn't help but find Xu Meng's phone number and pressed the dial button.

The first time I called, the line was busy.

The second time I tried it again, the line was still busy.

Lu Ming blinked and suddenly felt a little panicked.

"Could it be that I didn't respond for too long and was blocked by Xu Meng?"

……

……

Lu Ming was worrying too much.

Xu Meng was simply answering the phone.

The first time Lu Ming called, he received a call from Wu Shuang.

Wu Shuang told him: "Xiaguo's Ministry of Culture and the General Administration of Press and Publication will issue an [Opinion on Regulating the Management of the Online Game Market] tomorrow to conduct a centralized rectification of all illegal and irregular behaviors and bad content in the industry."

"All online games with large numbers of users and great social impact will be subject to key inspections."

"We will also urge all game companies to conduct self-examination and self-correction, and remove violent and pornographic content, as well as vulgar and borderline behavior."

Apparently, it's not just gaming companies that are doing New Year's Eve activities.

The official is also doing it.

"So..." Xu Meng blinked, "Does the Frost and Snow Project also need to be revamped?"

Xu Meng felt a little regretful, but not surprised.

In his earliest prediction, if "Frost and Snow Project" survived for more than three months and gave Dream Building a chance to catch its breath, it would be a great success.

Up to now, "Frost and Snow Project" has not only survived successfully for half a year, but has also climbed to the position of industry leader.

There has also been strong support for the gameplay for a long time.

It's not just [Treasure Hunt in Dragon Palace].

After the dream was built with enough money, the development team of "Frost and Snow Project" was also greatly strengthened, and the conventional second-game open world map design, combat, decryption, etc. were significantly improved.

Even if rectification is required, it will not be a major overhaul.

Besides, there is a little trick that was prepared long ago - a one-click anti-harmony mechanism.

There's really nothing to panic about.

But Wu Shuang shook his head and denied his guess, "No need."

"The purpose of this action is to care for the physical and mental health of young people. There are no underage users of Project Frost and Snow, so it is not included in the rectification."

"I just suggest that the Frost and Snow Project keep a low profile and not make any big moves to avoid inflaming public opinion."

"If you have any big job, wait until after this period of time."

"Oh, no problem. The next big move of Project Frost and Snow will be in January, and the content is not sensitive." Xu Meng reassured her.

But as soon as he finished speaking, he subconsciously emphasized again: "It should not be sensitive."

Wu Shuang didn't care. "It doesn't matter what happens in the game. Now let's get down to business."

"The sleepwalking agent has entered the clinical trial stage. Do you want to come and see it in person?" The production method of the sleepwalking agent is more complicated than that of the holographic medium.

Thanks to the help of Xiao Meng, who has achieved academic success, the work of drug molecule model prediction, protein simulation prediction, signal pathway analysis, etc. has been greatly accelerated, at least dozens of times faster than human labor.

This is how the finished product was produced in such a short time.

But after it is produced, the steps to verify its safety and effectiveness are equally troublesome.

The effectiveness of holographic display media is extremely easy to verify - the effect can be seen with the naked eye.

Safety isn't hard either - just throw some lab monkeys in there.

But for sleepwalking drugs, the effectiveness verification and safety verification of this thing are tied together.

Monkey verification alone is not enough.

They must also pass more rigorous drug safety tests and undergo clinical trials.

Thanks to the support from higher-level authorities, [Sleepwalking Agent] quickly completed all previous processes and entered the human testing stage.

Xu Meng was a little hesitant.

But thinking about the pile of things on hand, he refused: "I won't go, you can just do the experiment normally."

"Tell me if you encounter any problems, and if there are no problems, proceed as planned."

"Okay, that's it. I'll contact you if you have anything else." After Wu Shuang finished speaking, he hung up the phone.

Xu Meng looked down at the report submitted by Song Zhicheng in front of him.

This report counts the data change trends of "Frost and Snow Project" in the past week, and also mentions the Christmas or New Year's Eve activities of fellow gamers.

Xu Meng couldn't bear to look at it.

He had seen a storm a day in advance...

But before he could think about it, his cell phone rang again.

The person calling was still not Lu Ming, but Song Zhicheng.

"Why, you got the news too?" Xu Meng asked.

"News? What news?" Song Zhicheng was a little confused by Xu Meng's question.

Xu Meng then told him about the incident that was going to happen tomorrow.

Song Zhicheng was still frightened.

But he didn't forget the main thing: "Shengcai Entertainment, the first-party studio under Sony Game Station, contacted us and found me."

"Shengcai Entertainment?" Xu Meng was a little surprised. "Why did they come to us?"

If it was Sony Game Station, Xu Meng could still understand it.

They probably want "Monster Hunter" to be available on their platform, but what can they do if a first-party studio, Shengcai Entertainment, comes to them?
"This..." Song Zhicheng felt that it was a bit outrageous and hesitated to speak, "They hope that their game can be listed on the Dream Building Game Platform."

"?"

A question mark popped up in Xu Meng’s head.

If you are a third-party studio, DreamZhu will welcome you to join.

But you, a studio bought by Sony Game Station, come over and say you want to be on the Dream Building platform?

A month ago everyone was still fighting, and three months ago your boss was still saying that the Dream Building Game was incorrect, not inclusive enough, and did not respect sexual minorities enough!

Just pretend nothing happened?

Ok.

Also.

If your game is really awesome and can compete for the game of the year in the minds of players, then Xu Meng can also let go of the grudges with a smile.

"So... what game is it?"

"Dreadwolf." Song Zhicheng said the name of the game, and added, "It should be translated as "Dread Wolf"?

"Wait a moment." Xu Meng looked at Xiao Meng.

Xiao Meng raised her hand without him having to speak.

Information and images about this game immediately appeared in front of Xu Meng.

Xu Meng looked at the extremely ugly "pure passerby" protagonist on the poster and instantly gave this game a cross in her mind.

After watching the promotional materials of this game three months ago, I was so shocked by the characters' weird self-perception and sexual orientation that my face was wrinkled.

He told Song Zhicheng without hesitation——

"Promise them."

"Ah?" Song Zhicheng was very surprised.

In his impression, the boss should be very vindictive.

"What?" Xu Meng continued, "After they submit all the information needed for listing, tell them no, the game cannot be listed."

"Ah?" Song Zhicheng screamed even louder, "Why?"

"Because their character design is not [correct] enough, it failed the [correctness review] of the Dream Building Game Platform."

“Do we have this review?”

"It didn't exist before, but it exists starting today!" Xu Meng said simply.

"Okay! Haha." Song Zhicheng hung up the phone with a big laugh.

When he was seeking to bring "Frost and Snow" to the console, he was the one who contacted Sony Games.

At that time, the other party asked him to change his character to a [non-binary gender] and also asked DreamCraft to add more diverse content to the game, which made him very disgusted.

Now we can finally get back the lost ground!

Feel proud!

(End of this chapter)