The virtual empire starts from the game

Chapter 88: Outrageous Frustration
Aren’t the rewards for the No Game No Life development system just technical information?

Xu Meng realized it later——

The development system of No Game No Life does not provide simple "information", but pieces of "knowledge"!
In the process of "decompression", he has been given the ability to understand this knowledge.

He has become an unorthodox, somewhat eccentric mechanical engineer.

Therefore, the process of reproducing technical data is so smooth.

And it doesn't stop there!
The technical information includes not only hardware, but also a lot of programming and algorithm knowledge.

It's not just this time's [War Simulator], but also the previous [Intelligent Collaborative Development Tool], which is a complete programming technology.

His programming skills should also improve by leaps and bounds!

That’s why he was able to “pick out” the [intelligent core] and cultivate Xiao Meng, an artificial intelligence, so smoothly.

In the past, when the programming department encountered difficult problems, as long as he joined in, the problem could often be solved quickly.

But after all, he had to control the overall situation and coordinate the development progress of all departments, so he did not stay in the programming department the whole time.

In addition, this kind of "enlightenment" type of improvement is somewhat biased and cannot solve all problems, so this feeling is not particularly prominent.

But now, having realized this, he can completely study with Xiao Meng, find out the gaps and make up for the shortcomings, and become a real mechanical engineer!
Of course, he didn't intend to do that for the time being.

It would be great if Xiao Meng could do this.

As for him, it depends on whether the future rewards of the [Game No Life Development System] are good enough.

If you can be lazy and eat nothing, why do you have to push yourself too hard?
At this time, Xu Meng thought back to the 200 million cryptocurrencies given by the system...

It's just too awesome!!

Looking at the young assistant's admiring eyes, Xu Meng felt a little guilty.

So she was sent to find a patent agency to cooperate with to work on the patent application.

When everything was almost sorted out and Xu Meng was thinking about whether to play with Xiao Meng for a while to relax, there was a knock on the office door.

"Come in."

He thought the assistant had forgotten something.

But the person who pushed the door open was Song Zhicheng.

"What's wrong?" Xu Meng asked.

"Boss." Song Zhicheng looked unhappy. "The landing of "Frost and Snow Project" on the host is not going smoothly."

"Really?" Xu Meng was not very surprised. After all, "Frost and Snow Plan" was quite special. "Tell me more about it."

"The first step of the Rentian arcade game console got stuck."

"I sent the email and they replied the next day saying that "Frost and Snow Project" did not meet the review standards of their platform."

“I proposed a version with the [Harmony Switch] turned on and asked them if the harmonized version would work.”

"The result is still not good." Song Zhicheng looked frustrated.

Xu Meng nodded calmly, and comforted Song Zhicheng: "It's okay, it's expected."

"Anyway, with the current performance of the Rentian Game Console, I don't think it's possible to play Project Frost and Snow."

"Uh..." Song Zhicheng was choked by these words.

The hardware of the Nintendo game console is indeed a big problem, and its performance is even worse than the latest generation of mobile phones on the market.

Playing "Dragon Palace Treasure Hunt" on a mobile phone is already stressful enough, and playing it on a Rentian game console is simply torture.

Of course, given the number of users of Nintendo's game consoles, it is not impossible to make special optimizations if we can log in.

Since it doesn’t work now, forget it.

"Then, Sony Game Station..." Song Zhicheng's face turned ugly again, "Their attitude is rather strange."

"Strange? How is it strange?" Xu Meng still attaches great importance to this family.

"They said at the beginning that Frost and Snow Project seriously lacks respect for women and that this kind of game has a high risk of public opinion, so they would not consider it at first."

"Originally?" Xu Meng caught the key point in Song Zhicheng's words.

"Yes, originally." Song Zhicheng said in a subtle tone.

"And then, before I could explain, they said—"

"'But the multicultural elements of Project Frost changed our minds.'"

"???" Xu Meng was stunned. "Multicultural elements???"

"In our games, there are only sexy beauties with slim waists and long legs. Where is the multiculturalism?"

He doesn't understand.

"Boss, have you forgotten?" Song Zhicheng carefully reminded him of a key word -

"Feiyun."

"Feiyun?" Xu Meng repeated the name and suddenly remembered something important -

[Feiyun] was originally [Yunfei], he switched gender from a male character!
From his and the Xia country's players' perspective, this is a sex change operation, which carries a somewhat negative connotation.

But in the eyes of the other side, this seems to be a very good thing?

People call this the "sexual minority" that "embraces diversity"!
"Fuck!" Xu Meng couldn't help but spit out a dirty word, "Can you still do this?"

"Isn't this a bit too outrageous?"

Song Zhicheng obviously also felt it was outrageous: "Yes, it is indeed outrageous."

"But if it weren't for this reason, our last hope would be gone."

"The last hope?" Xu Meng was a little surprised. "Soford Game Box also rejected it?"

"Yeah." Song Zhicheng simply nodded in affirmation without further explanation.

But Xu Meng could easily see the hesitation on his face.

"what happened?"

Song Zhicheng hesitated for a moment, but finally said frankly: "The discussion went smoothly at the beginning. We even talked about them sending people to help us with special optimization for the game box."

"But then the DEI department within Sofort somehow noticed us and intervened to stop the cooperation."

“They not only refused to cooperate, but also denounced Project Frost as a bad game, citing [incorrect values], [single gender identity], and [lack of inclusiveness] as reasons.”

"He took his anger out on all the employees of Dream Building Company and even threatened to call on everyone to boycott us on social networks."

The more Xu Meng listened to this passage, the more his brows furrowed.

When I heard the last sentence, my whole face almost wrinkled.

"Is he crazy?" This was his first thought.

But soon he felt that it seemed normal - the current public opinion environment in the West, especially the online public opinion environment, is somewhat extreme.

wrong.

Not [somewhat] extreme, but [very] extreme.

It is only natural that "Frost and Snow Project" is targeted like this.

"Frost and Snow Project" has been criticized by a bunch of female boxers and moral guards in Xia Country. It is not uncommon for it to be treated like this in overseas countries where the political correctness is even more extreme.

The only weird thing is:
It is obviously the same game, but on one hand it is considered "inclusive of sexual minorities" by Sony Game Station, and on the other hand it is considered "not inclusive to diversity" by Softpedia Game Box.

This is nonsense.

Even a little disgusting.

Xu Meng had thought of many reasons for being rejected before, such as the game quality not meeting the console standards, the game being too explicit and not passing age review, or the card-drawing game not meeting the platform's concept...

He can accept all kinds of reasons.

But he really found it hard to accept such ridiculous reasons as "not diverse enough".

You might as well say that our games are too pornographic and affect the physical and mental health of teenagers!

"So, our only option left is Sony Game Station?" Xu Meng concluded, "or relying on character transformation?"

"It hasn't been fully finalized yet, and they asked us to make some changes to a few characters."

"What changes?" Xu Meng had a bad feeling.

Song Zhicheng sighed and said:
“Mark the gender of the gender-transformed characters like Feiyun and Taotao as [non-binary] in the game, and make it clear when promoting them. It would be best to also include relevant elements when developing invitation tasks later.”

Xu Meng: “???”

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