Chapter 196 Healthy Game, Time Lock!
As time approaches the end of the year, Tianba Studio has also carried out a round of routine updates and maintenance on its games.
Among them, "Global Evolution", as a new game, has the most updated content.
Next is "Don't Leave After School!" As a casual game that uses marbles and reminisces about childhood as its selling point, the number of players has surged again since it became a free game.
Don’t ask, the only thing you need to know is to get paid!
Ever since this game entered the advertising era and people could earn money by watching ads, "Don't Leave After School" has become the first choice for countless players to hang out or even for entertainment.
Do you understand the value of earning two incomes from one job?
When Chen Ba heard about this for the first time, his expression was as shocked as everyone else's.
Is it still possible to play like this? Playing "Don't Leave After School" during work hours, in addition to the salary paid by the boss, you can also receive an additional share of the advertising fees of the server in the area, the main theme is "time management"! The premise is not to be discovered by the boss...
Otherwise, you will be in trouble! If your boss knew that you played "Don't Leave After School" during work hours to earn advertising fees, fines and salary deductions would be minor matters. In serious cases, you may even be fired directly.
According to several players in the Tianba community, their companies have strictly prohibited the installation and playing of the game "Don't Leave After School" on company computers.
Once discovered, they will be fired immediately! Even if they are playing Landlord during work hours, or watching videos or browsing Weibo, the management will turn a blind eye and pretend not to see it or not punish them.
But playing "Don't Leave After School" during working hours is different. Bosses generally cannot accept their employees "working part-time" during working hours.
"part time?"
"That's right! Many companies have such regulations. Playing "Don't Leave After School" during work hours is not considered as being lazy or slacking off, but rather as doing a part-time job."
Chen Ba explained: "But as for company rules, it's up to the employees to follow them. Anyway, as far as I know, many people will still slack off and play "Don't Leave After School" during work hours even if the company has rules."
This can be seen from the average online time of players of "Don't Go After School: Marble Storm"! This game is amazing! The amazing thing is that the players who play this game are very enthusiastic about playing. Except for a few inappropriate time points, the number of online active people is very high at other times.
"Which time points?"
Xiao Lu was very curious. Wasn't it said that the player activity of "Don't Leave After School" was very high? There was no fluctuation throughout the 24 hours. At which time points would there be abnormalities?
"On weekdays, between 7am and 9am, 5pm and 6pm, and midnight and 6am, the number of people online will plummet!"
Chen Ba explained: "Except for these special time points, the number of online users of "Don't Leave After School" is very stable and strong during the rest of the time."
"Ah? Why?"
Xiao Lu was a little confused. Could it be that there were so many people online playing the game in the middle of the day?
“Of course it’s high!”
"From 12am to 6am, that's when everyone goes to sleep and rest, so it's normal that activity levels are low."
"Between 6 and 7 o'clock, when people get up, wash up and eat breakfast, the number of active people rises slightly, and then drops again between 7 and 9 o'clock... that's when people go to work."
Chen Ba smiled and said, "When I got to the company, I dealt with some important work, and then started to slack off. I played "Don't Leave After School" in the background, and when no one was paying attention, I played a few games."
It lasts until the end of the working day.
After get off work, the number of active online players of "Don't Leave After School" reaches its peak. Almost 98% of the players will go online after dinner and log off before going to bed.
From this online population change curve, it is not difficult to infer the daily life of most "Don't Leave After School" players.
I get up at six in the morning, and while I wash and eat, I quickly log on to play a few games of "Don't Leave After School", then slack off at work, and then play crazy games after get off work...
Before going to bed, I was still calculating how much advertising fees I earned from the game today. Should I buy a new graphics card next month?
"Are you so obsessed?"
After listening to Brother Ba's description of the lifestyle of most "Don't Leave After School" players, Xiao Lu couldn't help but hesitate and asked, "Is it really worth it to squeeze out all the rest and entertainment time?"
"How should I put it..."
Chen Ba knew what Xiao Lu wanted to say, and sighed, "It's not worth it for you, because your income is very high, you can enjoy life to the fullest, and you don't care about that little advertising fee."
"But for those who earn less than 10,000 yuan a month, the temptation to earn enough money for rent in a month by playing games is still quite strong."
And there is one more thing! Everyone has a different definition of rest and entertainment. Maybe for Xiao Lu, this is not a rest, but a job for himself.
But for 99% of people, playing games is a great way to relax and have fun, and you can also make money at the same time, so why not do it?
"But you're right!"
Chen Ba also admitted that this lifestyle would be detrimental to physical and mental health if it continued for a long time.
So he planned to add a "time lock" restriction to the game "Don't Leave After School: Pinball Storm" -
Minors are not allowed to play! Adults can play the game for 40 hours per week! Once this time is exceeded, you will not be able to get any advertising revenue from the game that week.
At the same time, the game will also give various warm reminders, warning everyone not to be too addicted to the game, and to go out for a walk when you have nothing to do, bask in the sun, and walk on the road...
[No matter how fun the game is, it can't compare to the scenery outside the window! Sitting for a long time is harmful to your health, go out for a walk! ]
"Yes, it is time to put some restrictions on it."
Huang Qing walked in and handed a report to Chen Badao: "We have received the official letter from the higher management department!"
The meaning of this official letter is very clear. In response to the popularity of the game "Don't Leave After School: Marble Storm", Tianba Studio is required to provide "health reminders" and "standardized guidance".
This game is too easy to get addicted to.
For many people, this model of getting money by playing games is completely irresistible, and it gives them a sense of absurdity, as if to say, "Ah Zhen, are you serious?"
It's okay if you have a little self-control.
Some players, since they have made money in this game, have become really crazy and would like to spend the whole day in the game except for eating and sleeping.
The higher management noticed this situation and naturally warned Tianba Studio to impose more restrictions to avoid bad things from happening.
Thus, time lock came into being.
40 hours a week is not a short time and is more than enough for an adult.
If you feel that it is not enough, then you are really treating playing games as a profession. This behavior is definitely not good for your physical and mental health, so there is nothing wrong with imposing restrictions.
"Then make an announcement!"
Chen Ba decided to edit the relevant content of the time lock into an announcement to inform the players.
It doesn't matter whether the players accept it or not.
It is obvious that players will oppose this measure. They think that they are adults, have enough judgment and self-control, and do not need this time lock.
But even though they oppose it, Tianba Studio has to make its attitude clear.
If it doesn't adjust its attitude, Tianba Studio will probably be criticized, and even the game "Don't Leave After School" will have to be removed from the shelves.
But what he didn't expect was...
After the announcement was made, most players seemed to have expected it and were not too excited or even opposed.
The few voices of protest came from a few middle-aged men working as security guards !
An uncle who claimed to be a security guard at Huafu Junyuan said that he could not accept the time lock and believed that it was a weakening of him by the authorities.
Due to the special nature of his job, this 48-year-old uncle spends more than 12 hours a day playing games.
With salary and advertising revenue, I can easily make tens of thousands of yuan a month! Now it’s good…
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
"Don't Leave After School" added a time lock, and there is no income after 40 hours. His monthly income has dropped sharply, and his monthly income may be only 7,000 or 8,000 yuan.
"Fuck, you're still protesting?"
Xiao Lu really admires this uncle. As a community security guard, he can earn seven or eight thousand yuan a month, and he is still not satisfied and wants to get more?
That’s enough!
It was not difficult to tell from his words that the uncle's intention was to show off rather than protest. Chen Ba ignored him and said with a smile: "He is just showing off that he earns 8,000 yuan a month as a security guard!"
Are you envious? Of course you are! Being a security guard can earn 7,000 to 8,000 yuan a month. Who wouldn't be envious of such a good thing? It really saves you 20 years of detours! As soon as the security uncle made this statement, the entire Tianba community was instantly boiling.
Many young men saw a bright future ahead of them and developed an unprecedented yearning for the security job.
Before the game "Don't Leave After School" was launched, people mostly made fun of the job of security guard. After all, as we all know, the salary of security guards is really not high, and it is difficult to support oneself.
But now it's different.
Since the release of the game "Don't Leave After School", the income of security guards is no longer low, and it can even be compared with that of white-collar workers sitting in offices. It is not surprising that everyone is interested in it.
But my heart is still moved...
The basic salary for security guards is still too low! Even with the income from the game "Don't Leave After School", it can only barely support a family.
Is there any job that is equally relaxed, with time to play games, but with a slightly higher basic salary than security? It turns out there is! When Tianba Studio announced the time lock for "Don't Leave After School", the security guard protested openly but actually showed off his income, and the entire Tianba community seemed to be in an uproar.
What is this evil wind? Of course, players from all walks of life came out to express their opinions and introduce the "slacking off" positions in their respective industries.
The security guard's speech changed the job-seeking intentions of many people, especially young people.
In the past, everyone yearned for units and companies with better salaries and benefits. It didn’t matter if they were a little bit tired or hard-working, as long as they were paid enough.
After all, you are young, you can work hard and save up for a house and a car in a few years, or at least get married. Many people can accept this.
But since visiting the Tianba community and discovering that the security guard can earn tens of thousands of yuan a month just by drinking tea and playing games every day, everyone's mentality has changed.
A bit harder and more tiring?
Fuck you! If you want to find a job, look for one that is easy and has few things to do. It doesn't matter if the salary is low or not, anyway, I have Brother Ba to back me up, as long as it's easy, that's fine.
Unfortunately, Brother Ba added a time lock to "Don't Leave After School"!
If there were no time lock, everyone would be more enthusiastic about this low-paying but leisurely job.
There is still a 40-hour limit per week.
According to data analysis by well-known top players in the community, after the 40-hour limit per week, the revenue brought by a single advertisement increased, but the number of advertisements that players could watch decreased.
In general, if you play for 40 hours a week and are in an area with a lot of ads and higher advertising fees, you will probably make about three to four thousand yuan a month.
This is totally different from the past! In the past, there was no limit on the length of time, and some people did not go to work, and made a legendary monthly income of over 10,000 yuan just by playing games.
It doesn't work now.
Everyone has understood that Brother Ba is more inclined to encourage everyone to treat "Don't Leave After School" as a side job rather than a main job.
People like security guards are the most suitable. They can earn two salaries by doing one job and double their income every month.
Other jobs are also fine.
Anyway, you can't just sit around playing games every day and expect Brother Ba to share money with you. That's impossible, and Brother Ba doesn't want anyone to become that kind of person.
“That’s right…”
Chen Ba liked a post and commented below: "'Don't Leave After School' is very popular now, and many advertisers are willing to sponsor it, but what about the future?"
"If people get so into the game that they lose their jobs, and the game doesn't work anymore and advertisers withdraw their money, what will they do?"
This is also his core point.
"Don't Leave After School" can be a game that gives free benefits to everyone, but it cannot become a way for everyone to make money.
After all, this channel is unstable. If you make money today, you will be happy, but if you don’t make money tomorrow, you will starve to death, right?
"By the way, I hope everyone will support those businesses that place advertisements in 'Don't Leave After School'! Because every sponsor is giving real money, and it's only right to serve people and give them a smile..."
Picking up the bowl to eat and putting the bowl down to curse is not only disrespectful to the financial sponsor, but also cuts off your own source of income.
Chen Ba hopes that every company that places advertisements in "Don't Leave After School" will receive the proper courtesy and respect from players.
After all, they really paid! You can't say that they paid the advertising fee and then the players who received the money turned around and said that XX products are not good and don't buy their products? It's okay once or twice.
If this continues, who will sponsor "Don't Leave After School", who will put ads in this game, who will be stupid enough to give everyone money? Fortunately, the players are sensible.
Everyone told Chen Ba that they would not do such a stupid thing that would harm the collective interests of the "Don't Leave After School" players.
As long as there is an advertiser, he is a VIP. Players actually buy his products and share them with their friends after buying them...
When you are paid to do something, you must do your best! (End of this chapter)