Chapter 83 Found a bug
On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth lunar month, Tianba Studio was closed for holiday.
Chen Ba also packed his luggage and boarded a flight to go home for the New Year. He stayed at home with his old father for nearly half a month.
No pretense or face-slapping, no relatives to borrow money from...
nonsense!
The villagers had no idea what Chen Ba was doing outside. He didn't come back for the New Year last year, and the villagers thought he had gone to be a live-in son-in-law.
It's not like no one came to inquire about it. After all, the Chen family was going to build a new house after the Chinese New Year, and the news had spread throughout the village. Everyone was curious about what kind of business Chen Ba was doing outside. It seemed that he was making quite a lot of money. "It's just an online store!"
"I thought you were running a company, but it turns out you're running an online store! So what do you sell in this store?"
"Sell some American specialties, 3090, 4090..."
Most of the uncles and aunts in the village have never been to school. A few of them have only primary school education or above. They have never used a computer and they don’t understand when you talk to them about graphics cards (GPU).
Chen Ba simply said that it was a specialty of the United States, and everyone could understand it this way.
The young people in the village knew what the 3090 and 4090 that Chen Ba was talking about were, but these things were too high-end and they had no use for them and could not afford them.
The guy from the Chen family… opened an online store outside. I heard that he sells local specialties from the United States! It’s delicious. Have you tried it? Facing these people in the village, Chen Ba only said that he opened an online store and did not disclose the information of Tianba Studio.
It’s not that wealth should not be shown off.
The main problem is that it is difficult to explain clearly, and in the eyes of these villagers, electronic games are something that harms people, and if not handled properly, it may even affect their father's reputation.
Most importantly, if he revealed that he had opened a company outside, what would happen if the villagers came to ask for a job? "You did the right thing!"
When Chen Ba returned to Jiangning after the Chinese New Year, Yang Dong, who learned of his experience, laughed and said, "It's useless to tell them that. Just say that you opened an online store outside."
This is the truth!
Isn't Xianyu Digital an online store? Isn't Chen Ba the owner of this store? As long as these are true, then it's not a lie!
"Okay, let's not talk about this."
After finding a place to put the bacon, sausages, and glutinous rice cake peppers that his father had forced upon him, Chen Ba presided over the studio's first meeting after the new year.
The content of the meeting was simple.
The development progress of the new game "Land of Divine Grace" needs to be accelerated, and we will strive to release an early trial version next month.
The second is game promotion! For previous games, including Star Emperor, there was basically no publicity or promotion before the game was released because the studio was short of money.
Even if there is, we just ask a few anchors to help try it out, and the coverage is not wide.
This time we’re going to get serious!
Thanks to the continued sales of previous games and the extra income from Xianyu Digital, Tianba Studio has money in its pocket and doesn't have to be as frugal as before.
"Steam will recommend our new games once, but subsequent recommendations will depend on the number of people on the wishlist."
A round of recommendations is a face-giving act.
As for subsequent recommendations, it depends on the number of people who add it to the wishlist. The more people add it to the wishlist, the more interested players there are, and the more recommendations the platform will give.
It is worth noting that "Divine Grace Continent" is now available on the Steam platform, but it cannot be purchased and can only be added to a wishlist. This is why Chen Ba is particularly concerned about the number of people on the wishlist.
Because the number of players who add wishlists can basically reflect the popularity of the game and its expected sales data.
“After the early access version is released, place some advertisements on short video platforms, live broadcast platforms and major game information websites.”
Chen Ba said with some pain: "Don't sign a too big contract. Just try the promotion effect a little bit. If the effect is not good, we will withdraw. There is no need to invest all the money..."
It's not easy to make money either.
Xianyu Digital deals in graphics cards, and although business is okay, the store has been open for only a short time, so it hasn’t made much money.
Just these few advertising spots would cost at least half a year's profit for Xianyu Digital. Although Chen Ba was not stingy, he couldn't help but feel distressed.
He hasn't bought a house or a car yet!
It would be fine if "Divine Grace Continent" made money, but if it didn't, it would be terrible. Tianba Studio would not go bankrupt, but it would have to go through at least half a year of hard times before it could recover.
“How was the testing session?”
After talking about the follow-up arrangements, what Chen Ba is most concerned about is the game testing.
New games are bound to have bugs!
This is inevitable. He just hopes that there won't be too many bugs and that they are easy to fix without adding too much workload.
"Fortunately, there are about 17 verified game bugs during the testing phase, of which 12 simple bugs have been fixed in a timely manner..."
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
At this point, Xiao Lu scratched his head and said, "But the remaining five bugs are a bit difficult to fix and cannot be solved in a short time."
"Are there any more serious bugs? For example, the cattle-herding incident in "Study Simulator", which is enough to change the nature of the game!" Chen Ba asked.
"There is one!"
Xiao Lu said thankfully: "It's a bug in the favorability system. Under special circumstances, wild monsters can actually be captured by players and then follow them."
"If this bug continues to spread, even the Demon King might not be able to escape..."
Chen Ba's eyes lit up.
Good, good, Xiao Lu, you did a great job! He guessed that the system was not honest and must have buried a trap for him, so he did not dare to relax for a moment during the New Year, and often stayed at home thinking about the possible bugs in "Shenneng Continent".
Don’t ask, the reason you ask is that you are scared of being cheated by the system.
As the saying goes, every failure makes you wiser. Chen Ba has been tricked so many times by the Iron-Han-Han System. If he doesn't learn his lesson, is he still a normal person? Now he can rest assured.
Chen Bachang breathed a sigh of relief and said, "This bug...is of a very bad nature. It must be fixed and adjusted in a timely manner. It must not appear in the early access version."
Finally I can have a good sleep.
Before, he had always been worried whether the new game would hide malicious bugs, and what kind of landmines the Tiehanhan system had secretly buried?
Well done, Lu!
This bug is extremely bad. If even the Demon King is included in the harem by the Hero, then is it "The Hero Fights the Demon King" or "The Hero Seduces the Demon King"? If Xiao Lu hadn't discovered...
Chen Ba secretly felt lucky that it was thanks to Xiao Lu's sharp eyes. If he had not discovered it in time, the consequences would have been disastrous.
"Xiao Lu's bonus will be doubled this month!"
"As everyone knows, Xiao Lu has been working diligently since he joined the company. He gets up earlier than chickens and goes to bed later than dogs, so it's time for his salary to increase..."
Chen Ba waved his hand and not only gave Xiao Lu a double bonus, he also praised his hard work in public and said he would give him a salary increase.
This bug was discovered just in time.
As a hero, he must of course be rewarded. Without Xiao Lu's help, how could he have seen through the system's conspiracy?
(End of this chapter)