Chapter 23 Competition: Malicious competition plus poaching?

"Sister Lin," Ye Xuan stood up and looked at the person who walked into his office, "What's the situation now?"

The other party sighed and said, "I'm not optimistic. You know our company is small to begin with, and our investment in the forum is not that big. If something goes wrong at this juncture, there won't be many people who will take responsibility, but..."

Actually, it's not their fault. Who made their opponent too cunning? In a good game market, there should be fair competition. Using such means to maliciously sabotage the competition held by competitors is really not a decent way to see the light of day.

"Youmeng" has ruled out the possible "murderer".

Holographic online games have not yet become popular. The limitations of equipment and high prices have deterred many people. However, as holographic online game arcades gradually appear in cities, game enthusiasts now have a way to play such games at a small cost.

There are not many game companies developing holographic online games, and only a few of them are well-known: Shazhou Company is the largest and has a long-standing foundation, so it should not bother to do such a thing; although Qingyin Studio is small in scale, it is very capable and has accumulated a large number of players by imitating Shazhou's route, so there is no need for this.

The most suspicious one is Wuya Games, which has great publicity but has difficulty retaining users. Their new players come and go quickly, and it is estimated that many of them will follow the trend and play "Dream Game" this time.

So they became thorns in Wuya's eyes and flesh.

After some analysis and reasoning, it turned out that what Sister Lin said was almost right.

She told Chao Yexuan a lot of this and that, then rushed out to attend the meeting again in a hurry.

He didn't want to sit there and do nothing. This was a very critical moment. As a member of the company and a well-known "public figure", he should do his part.

But what could he do? He didn't really understand what everyone was doing, let alone help.

So he is really not suitable for working in a game company.

This is not the time to be discouraged. Some things were caused by him. The most important thing is to try our best to overcome the difficulties together with everyone.

Ye Xingqiang cheered himself up and nervously opened a "well-known" forum.

There will probably be discussions about this incident on the Internet, and the direction of public opinion is very important. If there is a negative impact on "Dream Travel"...

He stared at the screen intently, and just as he expected, the related discussion thread had become a tall building, and the popularity was constantly rising.

Chit-chat: Discussion on the collapse of the Dream Travel forum [explosion]

1L LZ How many of you here are Dream Game players? You know that your official forum is broken, right? Why don't we chat about it?

2L This is suspected of provoking conflict. I have reported it. Please ask the administrator to lock the post in time.

3L LZ Oh, what's the matter with such a cold-blooded report? I'm just curious. After all, the game Youmeng seems to be quite popular now. Even the official game forum is not well maintained. Will the game be prone to bugs?

4L It's none of your business! You don't play my games, so why are you being so sarcastic here?

5L To be frank, the person above speaks in rhyme (emphasis on ~)

6L I am also a player of Youmeng. The forum is now under repair. Staff members are answering questions on the official social media accounts, and the progress is being broadcasted. If you really want to care about Youmeng, please move on.

7L LZ Is the guy above really a pure player? It doesn't look like that. I just want to ask everyone's opinion on this matter, I don't mean to pay attention to your progress of repairing the wall.

8L Repair the wall? Why use this word? I'll go check it out -

27L I am on the 8th floor, I am finally back! The firewall was forced down? It is not an accident, it is definitely a man-made measure, but why did they do this?

Is 28L a competitor or something? Malicious competition? Instead of making games properly, why are they always making trouble?

30L The popularity of "Dream Travel" came too suddenly. Some people said it was deliberately hyped. It's funny. The great god's post last time also pushed out Dream Travel. Do you also say he is just making money?

34L Before we knew it, the official side had been repairing it for nearly three hours. It wasn’t easy.

35L LZ But Youmeng is still a waste. He can’t even fix a forum in half a day. It really affects the user experience.

36L Lu Zhu, don't go too far. Can you now directly call a game company that has nothing to do with you "rubbish"? Do you understand the rules? Where is the administrator? Why is this post still here?

37L LZ Hehehe, you can't control me. Freedom of speech, I can say whatever I want, if you don't want to hear it, you can choose to leave tactfully.

…

Ye Xuan held his head with his hands, what the hell was going on. He took screenshots of several floors and sent them to Sister Lin, hoping that it would be helpful to them.

This thread has been discussed for thousands of times, and the popularity is still rising. He is not in the mood to read on, so he closes the interface and prepares to log into the game.

The phone rang at this moment, and he had just put one leg into the game cabin, but had to pull it back.

"Hello," Ye Xing answered the call, "Sister Lin, what's the matter? Hmm? I've contacted Wuya... and they're trying to put the blame on me?! This is such a sudden disaster, why should I take the responsibility? I'm just doing my job. What? Just asking me to go to their company and stop? Is there something wrong with Wuya Games? What kind of operation is this?"

He was still confused even after hanging up the phone. Could he have given some warning in advance about this sudden turn of events?

Obviously not, but fortunately Youmeng has no intention of selling him out, otherwise he might really blacklist the entire gaming industry for life and never engage in related work again in his life.

Ye Xuan found that he had received an email from Wuya Games. He could roughly guess the content from Sister Lin’s words, so he simply ignored it and lay down in the game cabin.

…

Not all game users use the official forum, so the atmosphere in Dream Game is relatively peaceful.

The preparation of the medicine was almost finished, and it was almost time to let the volunteers conduct the experiment. Various reports were piled on a table in the laboratory. Director Qin took out one and looked at it, frowning.

"Xiao Fang," he turned to look at his assistant, "this part is not right. The budget cannot exceed this much. Ask the finance department to reorganize it."

Assistant Fang took the A4 sheet and nodded without even looking at it, "Okay, Director. I'll tell them to send it quickly. After all, the experiment is already in the final stages, but the subsequent funding."

"Tsk," the boy's expression became even more irritated. "When they invited me here, they kept saying that I only needed to focus on my research. Now they want me to go and get sponsorship myself, but they don't approve the funding for me. What does that mean?"

"Director Qin, don't be angry. There have been too many things happening in the institute recently. It will be fine after a while." A slightly older researcher came out to comfort him.

Ye Xuan was still standing beside them like a ghost, watching them. Didn’t the system say that the previous story was over? What were these?

Then he thought that it might be because his character appeared too late, but it was not easy to let him skip this plot directly, so he could only leave him here to accompany the players through the plot.

[One week later]

He looked at the prompt box, and the scene in front of him seemed to be played at double speed. By the time the flow of time returned to normal, a week had passed.

Ye Xuan had nothing to dislike about this "time method", but the picture made him dizzy. He went back and gave the planners some suggestions for changes.

A week later, the atmosphere in the laboratory became even more tense. As the drug trial progressed, many volunteers showed reactions that were not expected.

Director Qin's temper cannot be said to be good. During this period, everyone has been scolded by him to varying degrees. Even those who admired him very much at the beginning gradually began to complain.

He still goes his own way. It seems that some things are indeed fair. Giving you a super high IQ will lower your EQ.

Although Ye Xuan didn't realize how smart Director Qin was, the setting clearly stated that he was a genius.

The genius's sense of superiority might be stronger. Even though the boy is not particularly arrogant, his usual tone is still somewhat offensive.

Most of the people in this laboratory are more experienced than him. It's good enough that they don't take advantage of their seniority. Instead, they are ordered around by this young boy. They are resentful but dare not say anything.

Director Qin's interpersonal skills are not very good, but his abilities are obvious to everyone:

He accepted the project, which was originally scheduled to be completed in half a year, and finished it in three months, doing it quickly and efficiently without any procrastination.

It’s just that the medicine this time is very special, and there is no similar successful experience in the world.

If you want to achieve world-renowned results, you must have innovative breakthroughs. Director Qin disdains to further study the things that his predecessors have been pondering for most of their lives. He focuses on a brand new field and hopes that the success of this research and development will take his "realm" to a higher level.

Ye Xuan came to the table and looked at the current situation of the volunteers with others. It did not deteriorate and everything was moving in a relatively good direction. So why were they so uneasy?

"Something definitely went wrong during the initial experimental phase," the young man shook the report in his hand, "which caused the volunteers in the experimental phase to experience conditions that we had not predicted. This is not an isolated case, and I hope it will draw your attention."

"Understood, Director Qin." Everyone except Assistant Fang answered in unison.

The assistant suddenly asked, "Director, I see this is progressing very well, the effect is better than expected, could this be a bad thing?"

The atmosphere in the laboratory has been very low in recent days, and even Xiao Fang has been more obedient, but now she can't hold it back anymore. The curious expression on her face is exactly the same as that of the middle school students who come to visit the institute every year.

Several researchers took two steps back and began to look at the two people in front of them with an attitude of watching the fun.

Ye Xuan also followed the crowd and retreated to the "audience seats", and even picked out a bag of caramel-flavored sunflower seeds from the mall to eat.