Chapter 271 The greatest game of this century!
"Love Staff" optimized the real-name authentication information database. At the beginning, many people were very excited and rushed to upload information such as property certificates and vehicle driving licenses as soon as possible.
What they thought was that they were so capable in real life, but they couldn’t show it in the game before, so now they finally had the chance to show it!
But soon, they found something wrong...
How come after uploading these information, nearly half of the relationship advisors matched by the system are gigolos and gold-diggers?
On the contrary, those who have no car, no house, and not much savings, and focus on being a sincere poor buddy, although they have not uploaded the so-called "financial" proof, their matches are still as reliable as ever.
Damn! With such a sharp contrast, the rich men and women finally reacted and chose to "hide the information" and not allow anyone to view it.
I originally wanted to show my strength, but now it seems that the more financially capable a player is, the higher the probability of being matched with a gold digger/giant male, which has become a bad thing.
Rich men and women are just naive, not fools. If they really want to find a gigolo or a pretty girl, why bother playing the game "Love Advisers"?
Isn't the purpose of playing this game to find "true love"? If you upload too much information, it will make you look rich, but you can never find true love. It's better to go to a bar or KTV to find two girls or boys offline.
Chen Ba also didn't expect that the rich guys and girls who were supposed to take advantage of this mechanism to show off their power in the game would instead be the main force resisting this mechanism.
Aren't they the beneficiaries?
Since you are a beneficiary, why should you oppose this mechanism?
"Beneficiary? Victim!"
Yang Dong said speechlessly: "Have you forgotten that our "Love Staff" has an extremely magical matching system?"
"Under this mechanism, most of the romantic advisors they match have gold-worshiping traits. It's okay once or twice, but who can stand it if it happens all the time?"
The poor buddy wins!
He has nothing in reality, is repeatedly rejected on blind dates, and is even disliked by girls. He is a complete loser.
However, in the game "Love Advisor", thanks to the excellent matching mechanism, they will meet girls with "light in their eyes" who believe that love is more important than anything material.
Zhuo! Brother Fu wants to curse...
With this broken mechanism, whoever wants to upload can do so! Anyway, they have made up their minds that they will not upload any proof of "financial resources" anyway.
Not only did he not upload the information, he also pretended to be poor! The poorer the better! "I understand!"
Chen Ba just didn't understand it at first, but he soon realized it.
After introducing the new mechanism, the matching system of "Love Staff" will give priority to the "compatibility" of two players.
How to judge compatibility? If you are a poor guy, and the matching system recommends you a materialistic love consultant, can you two really get along?
In other words, for players with poor material conditions, the matching system automatically filters out players of the opposite sex who are "money worshippers" or have certain pursuits in material life.
Based on this filtering mechanism, the dating consultants recommended by the matching system to poor guys will meet two conditions:
First, we have similar interests and compatible personalities!
This is where the matching mechanism of Love Adviser’s game becomes truly powerful, and it is also the main reason why two people can be matched together.
Secondly, based on "condition one", we will screen again and recommend those opposite-sex players who don't care much about material conditions and have bright eyes! If there is no opposite-sex player, we will recommend the same-sex love consultant. In a word, if you don't even drink Snow King, you won't be matched with the Starbucks love consultant...
Why does rich guy pretend to be poor?
Because they have figured out the operating logic of this matching mechanism, they know that the more information is exposed and the stronger the financial resources are demonstrated, the less reliable the love advisor matched by the system will be.
Of course, nothing is absolute!
Overall, the system matching mechanism is still based on whether two people can "get along" with each other. In other words, under this mechanism, there is always a probability of meeting reliable people.
But how to tell the difference? Reliable love consultants and unreliable love consultants all have the same interests and hobbies.
The difference is that the former is a passion that comes from the heart, while the latter is just a disguised interest and hobby in order to hook up with rich men.
Rich men and women are too lazy to distinguish who is reliable and who is not. In order to pursue true love, they simply pretend to be poor. This is easier and the probability of the matching system cheating them is the lowest.
"So, our real-name information upgrade actually does more harm than good?" Chen Ba said thoughtfully.
"That's not the way it should be..."
Yang Dong shook his head and explained: "The players who play "Love Advisor" are basically here to find a partner."
Since you are looking for a partner to fall in love with, whether it is online or not, it is always right to be honest with each other! Before, when the real-name information was not rich enough, many people chatted in the game for a long time and felt that they were quite compatible, but ended up failing when entering the real world, wasting time and feelings in vain.
After real-name information becomes more abundant, it seems that the disadvantages outweigh the advantages, but in fact it saves time for many players and reduces the cost of "trial and error".
"Let's not talk about the long-term, let's just talk about the matchmaking success rate! Previously it was around 27%, which means that out of 100 couples, about 27 can get together."
Yang Dong smiled and said, "After upgrading the real-name database, the success rate of matchmaking should be able to reach more than 40%! It is not impossible to even reach a success rate of half..."
Is it really that high? Chen Ba was a little skeptical about this statement. After all, a matchmaking success rate of nearly half was not a very reliable number just by hearing it.
With this success rate in reality, she can’t even be called a matchmaker, she should just be called “Yue Lao”.
But what Dong Ge said is not without reason! After upgrading the real-name information, the trial and error cost of players is reduced, and the success rate of matchmaking is also increased in disguise.
After all, when you fall in love in the game, you still have to step into reality and understand the other person's real situation...
Most cases that fail to reach an agreement fail at this step.
After all, the online world is virtual. No matter how well it fits into reality, it still faces a series of material problems.
Now I save a lot of energy!
If the chat goes well and after obtaining the other party's consent, you can take a look at each other's certification information and have a certain understanding of each other's material foundation, then you can decide whether to have further contact.
"Speaking of which..."
Chen Ba seemed to have thought of something, and said thoughtfully: "So far, in the game "Love Advisor", have there been 10,000 players who met and fell in love through the game, and finally got married?"
“Got it!”
Yang Dong affirmed: "There are more than 10,000 people. To be precise, there are 10,000 newlywed couples!"
"So...are there any divorces?"
Chen Ba hesitated and said, "Among the 10,000 couples who met and fell in love through Love Adviser, it's not necessarily true that every family is harmonious, right?"
"have……"
Although Yang Dong really hopes that this will not happen, it is impossible. No matter what, there will be divorces. After all, every family has its own problems.
But having said that.
Compared with today's high divorce rate, the number of couples who got to know each other and fall in love through "Love Advisor" who divorce is still very small. So far, only seven couples have divorced.
"good!"
Chen Ba nodded.
Among more than 10,000 couples, seven get divorced. This ratio is very low, even shockingly low.
However, he also understood that this was because the game "Love Staff" had only been out for a few years, and these young couples had not been married for a few years, so the data must be very good.
It may not be the case in a few years!
Taking the "seven-year itch" as an example, Chen Ba believes that in five or six years, this proportion may rise to more than 20%.
“That’s pretty impressive too!”
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
Yang Dong disagreed: "The current divorce rate is over 60%. If we can get it below 20%, I will declare Love Adviser the greatest game of the century!"
"I declare your proclamation valid!"
Chen Ba suppressed his laughter and said, "The greatest game of this century is a bit far-fetched. The 21st century is not even halfway through. Who knows what kind of games will appear in the future?"
However, if Love Adviser can really do this, then it deserves the title of "the greatest game in the past 20 years"! After all, it has changed young people's views on love and marriage, increased the marriage rate and birth rate, and greatly reduced the divorce rate. If this kind of game is not considered great, then what is a great game? You don't want to say Star Emperor 2, do you?
Forget it!
As the main producer of this game, Chen Ba knows better than anyone that "Star Emperor 2" is destined to be just an "entertainment" game and is unlikely to be as great as "Love Staff".
"It's not clear whether it's great or not..."
"But I know that Star Emperor 2 is definitely the most profitable game of our studio this year, no doubt about it!"
Yang Dong said dimly, "He embezzled hundreds of millions of dollars in one go. This is a typical example of not opening a business for three years, but making enough money for three years after opening it."
Just thinking about it makes him admire Brother Ba!
How did he trick those GAL League teams into investing in him, acknowledging that he embezzled production funds, and investing hundreds of millions of dollars at a time? Could it be that these companies had some leverage in Brother Ba's hands, so they had to give him money? "Greedy is greedy!"
"They voluntarily gave me the money to take. I didn't force them."
Chen Ba couldn't hide his smile when he said, "If you really want to be serious, I'm the poor one who was forced! If they hadn't forced me to make "Star Emperor 2", do you think I would really want to take advantage of the money?"
Yang Dong: “…”
Doesn't your conscience hurt when you say this? What does it mean to be forced to take hundreds of millions? Your grinning face reveals everything. You are obviously very happy, but you still pretend to say "I don't love money" and "get away from you damn money".
Hypocrisy, really hypocritical! That's hundreds of millions of dollars. Tianba Studio has never fought such a rich war. This also led to the money lying in the account, but Chen Ba and Yang Dong didn't know how to spend it.
“More advertising please!”
Yang Dong suggested: "Star Emperor 2 is about to be released, we can promote it in advance to make it more lively and grand."
"That won't cost much..."
Chen Ba agreed to run the advertising campaign, but he also said that hundreds of millions of dollars were a huge sum of money that could never be spent on advertising, and he had to think of other ways.
Why spend it all?
Because this is a "dedicated" account, under normal circumstances, Chen Ba cannot transfer the money in this account to his own bank card, which is illegal.
However, although the money in this account cannot be transferred away, you can spend it at will!
In short, there can be no surplus funds! If the project ends and the money has not been spent, then unfortunately, the remaining funds must be returned to the investors.
This is just like the “scientific research funds” applied for in many scientific research projects. In the last period of time, one must find a way to “spend money quickly” so that there cannot be too much surplus funds.
If you have too much surplus in funding, it will not only embarrass you, but also the people above you. After all, the money is allocated to you to spend. If you can't spend it all and there is still a large amount left, then why did you apply for so much funding in the first place?
The same is true for the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on Star Trek 2.
After the money is spent, no one will say anything in the end, including the companies that paid for it. They won't think there is a problem, because the money is for Brother Ba anyway.
But if there is still a lot of money left after spending it , it will be a bit difficult to deal with! It is impossible to return it. After eating the fat meat in Chen Ba's mouth, there is no reason to spit it out? And whether the other party wants to return the money is another matter! Developing games, acquiring Mirage Electronics, and early publicity and promotion...
After completing the whole operation, less than 50 million US dollars was spent, and there was still a lot of money left. Chen Ba had to find a way to squander it as soon as possible.
"How about this!"
Yang Dong came up with a good idea to spend the money to the greatest extent possible and gain maximum benefits for Tianba Studio while preventing others from finding fault and gossiping.
Hardware subsidies!
Released along with the game "Star Emperor 2" is a set of dedicated somatosensory gaming equipment, which are the peripherals developed by Mirage Electronics.
The cost of this set of peripherals is slightly high, and it is estimated that when it is released, few people will be willing to try it out. This will undoubtedly be a huge test for "Star Emperor 2" and Mirage Electronics.
That being the case.
Why not use this money to subsidize the hardware costs, sell the equipment at a price below cost, attract as many players as possible, and quickly occupy the market?
This is just like the rampant "XX" taxi-hailing apps in previous years, which started a subsidy and money-burning war, all of which were about burning money to occupy the market and consolidate the user base.
Mirage Electronics' dedicated peripherals for "Star Emperor 2" can also be sold at a subsidized low price, so that more players can use this equipment in the early stage.
As for what's the point of doing this? Of course there is!
Once a large number of players use this equipment and experience the ultimate gaming experience of "Star Emperor 2", they will naturally recommend it to others.
Moreover, these devices are not indestructible. Once they break down, accessories and repairs, including other software services, can also be ways to make back the investment.
If you want this peripheral to quickly occupy the market and attract the attention and purchase of players, early subsidies and promotions are a very efficient means.
(End of this chapter)