Chapter 22 Special Buff: -50%!
The work of adjusting the values and modifying the plot text took five full days.
During these five days, Chen Ba, Yang Dong and Lu Jing were busy from morning till night, and the abandoned plot text alone amounted to 200,000 words.
"I won't make such a plot-heavy game next time!"
"If we really want to make a game with such a strong plot, we must hire a professional plot planner."
Leaning back on his ergonomic chair, Chen Ba sighed and said, "I'm laying my cards on the table. I'm a loser!"
"Me too!"*2 Lu Jing and Yang Dong hung their heads in dejection.
None of the three of them are professional plot planners, and their brains are about to explode with thinking about modifying the original main plot line and optimizing emotional resonance events.
This is really not a job for humans!
Yang Dong acted as if he was writing a love letter to his goddess, Lu Jing acted as if he was writing an essay for an exam, and Chen Ba... Brother Ba used his invincible hand speed as he had been roaming the canyon for many years and his parents were still alive.
All in all, they tried their best.
Hard work pays off. At least on the system's secondary page, Chen Ba saw that the plot score of "Living Under Someone Else's House Simulator" increased from 78 points to 85 points.
I really can’t lift it…
If they want to get a higher plot score, it is definitely not possible for the three of them alone. Without professional plot planning, 85 points is already good enough.
Chen Ba was very satisfied with this result.
There is no way to change the result even if you are not satisfied, unless you immediately hire a plot planner whose plot writing level cannot be too low.
The good news is that while they were busy adjusting the numbers and changing the plot, the "Bug Bounty" campaign initiated by Chen Ba finally made some progress.
A netizen from Ice City encountered a bug while playing the early access version of "Living under Someone Else's Roof Simulator"!
The bug comes from the trash can.
In the map scene of "Living Under Someone Else's House Simulator", there are hundreds of trash cans of various sizes scattered around. Players can rummage through the trash cans to pick up waste and get a certain amount of "pocket money" after recycling.
This Ice City player accidentally triggered a bug while rummaging through a trash can next to a grove in the park, causing the game to get stuck on the interactive page and the program to be unable to continue running.
After investigation, Chen Ba finally determined that the bug was caused by a logical error in the trash can interaction program, which led to a failure in calling map resources.
This is Yang Dong’s fault!
After all, he was the one who invented the trash can and wrote the code, so he just needs to rework and modify the interaction logic related to the trash can.
If the bug is real, I will give you a reward of 1,000! Since this player has reported the real bug to the studio, Chen Ba will not break his promise.
Not only did he give a reward to the player, he also shared the matter with the game community to encourage other players to work harder and find more game bugs in the early access version.
Unfortunately...
Although the reward of one thousand dollars for a bug was very tempting and the players were very motivated, no new bug feedback appeared in the next few days.
The only valuable player feedback was that there was a typo in the "game dialogue text", with [一丘之貉] being typed as [一丘之貂], and it was obvious that the producer had never been to college.
“This…I really didn’t go to college!”
Xiao Lu frankly admitted his mistake to the player and said that he would deepen his learning in this area in the future and not make the same mistake again.
Such a sincere speech was beyond the commotion of this complaining player.
Bro! I was just complaining, but you took it seriously?
…
In the blink of an eye, more than a month passed.
With the arrival of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Chen Ba felt that the time was ripe.
So far, they have conducted 42 days of extreme high-pressure testing on "Living with Other People Simulator" and mobilized thousands of players to find 13 bugs in the game.
10 of the bugs were found by their own testing, and only 3 of them came from player feedback.
There is no point in continuing the test.
The early access version has been released for a long time, and the game is not the initial semi-finished product. Players have been urging the official version to be launched as soon as possible.
In addition, the development work lasted from June to October, and Tianba Game Studio was almost out of money.
Although there are players who purchase games in the early access stage, most players will choose to wait and see and buy them after the official version is released.
This means that if "Living with Other People Simulator" wants to truly recoup its investment and achieve profitability, it has to rely on the official version, rather than the so-called early access version.
“Let’s release the official version next Saturday!”
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
"We have almost found all the bugs. Even if there are some that we haven't found yet, I don't think they will have much impact."
Chen Ba thought about it and decided to release the official version of "Living under Someone Else's House Simulator" next week.
The official version is priced at 25 yuan! Compared with the early access version, it has increased by 7 yuan.
This pricing is reasonable. After all, the price for the early access version is about 30% off, and the price will inevitably increase when the official version is launched.
Another reason for the price increase of games is the increase in production costs.
There are games that "increase quantity without increasing price", but as a small workshop, Tianba Studio obviously has to survive first before considering providing benefits to players.
This price has also been supported by most community players, with only a few complaining that Tianba Studio has learned bad things and only followed others to raise prices! But regardless of support or complaints, since the price has been determined, Chenba will not change it even if the players are complaining.
The price of "Study Hard Simulator" can be reduced!
As a game launched during the summer vacation, it has not been discounted since its release.
Counting the days, it’s time to reduce prices and have promotions.
There were no discounts before because the prices of new games are generally not easily changed to avoid players who purchased the games early from suffering losses.
Moreover, the sales of "Study Simulator" were very stable at that time, and there was no need to rely on discounts and promotions to increase sales.
As time went by , especially with the launch of the new game "Living under Others' Fence Simulator", the sales of "Study Simulator" have fallen to the bottom, less than one-tenth of the previous few months.
In this case, whether it is to boost sales or to celebrate the release of Tianba Studio's new work, this game should be discounted and cannot maintain the original price.
Chen Ba pondered and said, "Give it a 50% discount!"
Buy early and enjoy early, buy late and get discounts, and if you don’t buy, it’s free! Although it’s not yet at the stage of “free gift”, this is the first discount after all. If you don’t show some sincerity, it will be difficult to impress those players.
Then just be straightforward and give it a 50% discount.
The "Study Simulator", which originally cost 18 yuan, now has a "-50%" green status box and can be purchased for only 9 yuan.
Nine dollars! This is why Chen Ba offers a 50% discount. Single-digit and double-digit prices are completely different concepts visually.
This is just like those shopping malls that like to mark promotional prices like 9.99 yuan or 99.99 yuan.
Even though it’s only a penny difference, consumers’ visual perception and purchasing desire are completely different from 10 yuan or 100 yuan! I wonder if anyone is reading this, if you are, can you please make a sound? (End of this chapter)