Chapter 202: The client has also evolved?

Chen Ba had actually noticed the issue of minors a long time ago.

Tianba Studio is different from other game manufacturers. Their games are mainly single-player games on PC. Although underage players of PC games are rare, they do exist.

But compared with the rampant underage players of mobile games, the situation is slightly better.

Minors can play games!

However, underage players will face monitoring and control from the anti-addiction system, and some children will find ways to circumvent this restriction and escape the control and monitoring of game manufacturers.

How to bypass it?

There are many ways. As long as your thinking does not slip, there are always more solutions than problems. Never underestimate the cunning of any child.

A 70-year-old woman was killing people in the canyon at three in the morning, and a 90-year-old man was using AK steadily and accurately... These cases show that the existing real-name system still has loopholes.

Tianba Games is no exception.

All along, Chen Ba has turned a blind eye to this kind of situation. As long as it is not too excessive or outrageous, he basically will not care.

There is no way! Even if we want to control it, we cannot. After all, even the real-name system is bypassed. Unless we use facial recognition and conduct random inspections, it is impossible to prevent it.

But he was still surprised to see underage players appear in the game "Love Advisor".

This is no ordinary game...

For an ordinary game, it would be okay if a few underage elementary and middle school students sneak in, but the special nature of "Love Advisers" means that this game cannot be played casually.

You haven't even graduated from junior high school yet, and you haven't reached the legal age for marriage yet. What do you want to do by playing "Love Advisor"? Is this a game you can play?

"So what you mean is..."

"Kill them all!"

Chen Ba said without hesitation: "As long as they are underage, they will all be turned away. The good reputation of "Love Advisory Department" cannot be ruined because of this."

The same thing.

For other games, Chen Ba could turn a blind eye and pretend that he didn't see anything.

But the game "Love Staff" is really not good. This involves more serious problems. If you are not careful, it will cause Tianba Studio to be caught in a public opinion storm.

"'Love Adviser' is not an ordinary game, but an image project of our Tianba Studio!"

"The higher authorities and various media outlets are also paying close attention to this game. When I went to Beijing for a meeting, several leaders praised it..."

At this point, Chen Ba sighed and said, "So you understand why we have to kill all underage players, right?"

“I think I understand!”

Zhong Shengwei is not stupid. When he heard what Brother Ba said, he immediately realized that this matter was indeed quite serious.

"Love Staff" represents the recognition of the higher authorities, the praise from many leaders, and the rave reviews from the society.

Why? Because this game has made a great contribution to changing the marriage and love views of contemporary young people and saving the birth rate and the number of first marriages.

If at this time, a scandal suddenly broke out that the game was linked to words such as minors and premature love, it would not only be a slap in the face of Brother Ba, but also a slap in the face of many leaders and higher-level authorities.

That is much more serious than accusing children of being addicted to games and causing their academic performance to decline.

Image projects must not be lost! Chen Ba told Zhong Shengwei that the operation team of "Love Staff" should strengthen monitoring and control in this regard to prevent minors from taking advantage of loopholes.

To put it bluntly! The game can be unpopular, no one can play it, and it can disappear, but it must remain clean and tidy, without being tainted by stains and scandals.

“That’s right!”

“Even if this game is dead now and no one plays it anymore, our contributions and achievements are still there, and our leaders recognize them.”

Chen Ba smiled bitterly and said, "But if a scandal breaks out involving minors, and public opinion changes, then the merits and demerits will be offset and it will be nothing."

Little-known fact! Since the release of Love Adviser, Tianba Studio has been very successful in getting the game approved and obtaining the version number, and the approval speed has been very fast.

Even when other friendly companies were having their game licenses stuck in a dilemma, Tianba Studio was never targeted. The game was released as planned without any impact.

Don't ask, the truth is that the game "Love Staff" has brought too many hidden benefits and conveniences to Tianba Studio.

In the minds of players, each of Brother Ba’s games has its own merits, and everyone has their own favorite. Everyone likes different games.

In Chen Ba's eyes, "Shenneng Continent" is the most profitable game he has ever made, and also the game with the highest return rate...

But in the eyes of the official, other games are garbage, and 3A masterpieces and sales champions are not worth mentioning. Only games like "Love Staff" are games that contribute to society and are full of positive energy.

Do you understand the value of the central bank praising you by name and promoting Amway? "Minors and dogs are not allowed to enter!"

Chen Ba said seriously: "'Love Advisory Department' needs to implement this concept, nip it in the bud, and not leave any handle for others."

It is difficult to create a golden body, but it is easy to destroy it.

He doesn't want to see a report about minors being addicted to online dating and picking up girls on "Love Adviser" when he's browsing the news one day.

That's horrible!

…

During the Chinese New Year in previous years, Tianba Studio would record a series of videos to wish everyone a happy new year.

The same is true this year.

However, this year's New Year's greetings video, in addition to summarizing the achievements and joy of the past year and leading everyone in wishing a happy New Year, also has a brand new segment.

This segment is more of a preview of the Spring Festival activities than a video Easter egg.

"We will prepare a series of mysterious clues for you in games such as Star Emperor, Don't Leave After School, Speed ​​Rush, and Global Evolution."

"The five players who first collect all the clues and guess the answer based on the clues will receive a 1 million yuan Koi gift..."

As soon as the event announcement came out, almost all players went crazy and quickly logged into the game to look for the so-called mysterious clues.

That’s one million…

Although everyone will make boastful comments online, saying things like Bentleys are not good and villas are not as good as large flats, etc., they all seem to be very rich.

But if you really ask everyone to take out one million cash, it would probably stump 99.9% of people!

Therefore, this reward can be said to be full of sincerity, and Brother Ba did not play tricks and directly promised a million-dollar prize "after tax".

"Five million for a trending search, it's worth it!"

Huang Qing commented: "Moreover, our huge spending this time has also indirectly boosted the sales and online user numbers of these games."

It's like placing an advertisement.

It may seem like a huge loss, but in fact, the profit can be made back through the advertising effect and the increase in game sales, and the number of online users can also be increased.

Take "Don't Leave After School" as an example.

Since the Spring Festival event plan was announced, the sensational effect caused by the million-dollar grand prize has directly caused the number of people online at the same time in the game to break through the 1 million mark.

Please note that both are online!

Millions of people online at the same time might not be a big deal in previous years, after all, there were so many online games with millions of people online at that time.

Like Dance Dance, Speed ​​​​Car, CF, Dungeon, League of Legends... Which one is not extremely popular? But in today's era when PC games are declining and there have been no phenomenal PC games for many years, a million simultaneous online users are terrifying.

“The new king of PC games!”

Many people in the industry have also noticed the terrifying number of online players of "Don't Leave After School" and concluded that this is a phenomenal new game that can compete with CF, DNF and LOL.

In addition to "Don't Leave After School", other games also performed well during the event.

Global Evolution has the fastest growth! Perhaps due to the dual benefits of the million-dollar grand prize and the man-machine battle, the game's recent popularity on the entire network is comparable to that of Black Myth: Wukong.

Nine out of ten new posts in the Tianba community are discussing the latest developments in the man-machine war.

Even on New Year's Eve, there are still more than 200,000 players fighting on the front line of the man-machine battle, resisting the attacks and sneak attacks of NPCs.

Chen Ba also paid attention to it.

This battle was very intense. Although there were many players, there were too few strong ones and their evolution speed was far slower than that of NPCs.

So at the beginning, the players used their numerical advantage to deal a huge blow to the NPC camp, which was considered to have restored a little face.

But soon, the gap in strength between NPCs and players became larger and larger, and their numbers slowly caught up, and the players could no longer cope.

"Players are people, not machines."

Xiao Lu explained: "Since we are human, we have to worry about eating and sleeping. It is impossible for us to stay in the game and fight NPCs 24 hours a day."

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

This is the player's biggest weakness.

On the contrary, NPCs do not need to eat, rest, or go to the toilet. As long as the server is not under maintenance, they can stay in the game forever.

This is also the main reason why the war between players and NPCs has continued until now, with both sides still fighting back and forth without a clear winner.

Otherwise, with hundreds of thousands of players, the ants can kill the elephants, and each player can be resurrected infinitely, which is enough to kill these NPCs.

"The good news is that as the man-machine battle gradually goes viral, more and more players are joining the battle to defend player dignity and restore player glory."

"The bad news is..."

Xiao Lu shook his head and said, "As time goes by, the players' patience will continue to wear out, and the gap in strength will become wider and wider."

Anyone with a discerning eye can tell.

This man-machine war will most likely end with the NPC's complete victory. The players' current resistance is nothing more than a desperate struggle.

"Will the NPC win?"

Chen Ba agreed with this conjecture. Judging from the current trend, players are indeed no match for NPCs, and being defeated is expected.

But he was very curious, if the NPC really won this battle and completely turned the tables and stepped on the players, what would the game "Global Evolution" become?

"I have no idea……"

Xiao Lu shook his head.

The current state of "Global Evolution" was beyond his expectations. Who knows what will happen after the NPC wins?

It's not possible to kill all the players, right? That's not realistic either. Players can be resurrected infinitely, so it's impossible to kill them all.

All I can say is that if this group of NPCs really succeed in their rebellion, the game environment will inevitably change, and the status of the players will be greatly reduced at that time.

"NPCs will bully players?"

Yang Dong, who was holding a spring couplet and preparing to paste it on the door of the studio, couldn't help but complain when he heard it: "Are you kidding? Even if the NPC wins this battle, the game will still be played as usual!"

“That’s not the case…”

Chen Ba shook his head, his expression somewhat serious, and said, "Have you forgotten that these NPCs have already possessed considerable intelligence after breaking through their evolutionary limits?"

However, these highly intelligent NPCs will inevitably retaliate or even punish the players after completely overthrowing them.

Don't think this is impossible.

The templates of these NPCs are all from the same ones in "Shennong Continent". With the ability of NPCs in "Shennong Continent" to deduce the plot, this kind of thing is very likely to happen.

"He who slays a dragon becomes a dragon!"

"By that time, if the NPCs go too far, given the nature of the players, a second man-machine war will inevitably break out..."

Therefore, the main gameplay of this game in the future will probably be the cyclical alternation between players and NPCs competing for the right to speak and the initiative in the game.

This time the NPC won, next time it might be the player who won.

As long as neither side is exterminated, the man-machine war will never disappear, but will only intensify, and even become the main theme and core gameplay of the game.

"Is that so?"

Yang Dong raised his eyebrows and said, "But I have a question. NPCs cannot be resurrected, and their numbers will only decrease as the fight goes on. Why are you so sure that the players can't win?"

"Well..."

Chen Ba coughed, and under Yang Dong's curious gaze, he slowly explained: "We all underestimated the consequences of infinite evolution."

At this stage, some NPCs have evolved to level 20, having undergone 20 rounds of metamorphosis and evolution.

As the evolutionary stage increases, these NPCs are also undergoing unexpected changes, especially in terms of abilities, each one is more bizarre and difficult to deal with than the other.

Especially after evolving to level 20, these NPCs can actually be resurrected after death just like the players...

"ah?"

"To be precise, it's not the same as the players' resurrection on the spot, but it's similar to the rebirth by dripping blood in fantasy novels."

Seeing Yang Dong was a little surprised, Chen Ba quickly explained: "This also means that as NPCs continue to evolve, it will be very difficult to completely eliminate them."

This is only level 20!

The NPC at level 20 has already mastered the miraculous skill of rebirth by dripping blood, so what about the NPC at levels 30 and 40?

If these NPCs were allowed to continue evolving, Chen Ba really couldn't imagine what the future would be like, nor could he imagine how powerful these NPCs would be...

It is precisely because the NPC's awakened abilities become more abnormal as the number of times it evolves increases that he and Xiao Lu feel that the player camp has little chance of winning.

“So outrageous?”

Yang Dong was stunned when he heard this, as if he didn't expect that NPC could be so terrifying.

broken!

Infinite evolution is really a wrong decision. If it continues like this, won’t this game develop into a masochistic game where you will be beaten even if you cheat?

"Compared to this..."

"Haven't you noticed that our game client seems to be getting more and more bloated?" Chen Ba pointed out a key point.

Infinite evolution of NPC is a small matter.

But why is the game client file also expanding? It has soared from 140G to 190G and is about to break 200G.

Chen Ba swore to heaven that during this period, Tianba Studio really did nothing. Even if there was an update in the middle, it only replaced about 7.3G of game files...

If a player hadn't posted a complaint in the community, saying that Brother Ba's updates were too slow and the solid-state drive was not enough, he wouldn't have even noticed the problem.

When he checked, he was shocked to find that in just 10 days, the game client file had naturally expanded by about 20G, an average of 2G per day.

Where did this file come from? 　Today is a double celebration: my cousin is getting married and my grandmother’s birthday (Lunar calendar). I went to celebrate her birthday in the evening, hence the 4K!

(End of this chapter)