Chapter 32: The Cowherd Cult that Everyone Hates

Chen Ba commissioned a fan to design the studio's logo.

Core players, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon! When Chen Ba revealed in the fan group that Tianba Studio was about to change its logo icon and wanted to ask everyone for suggestions, he unexpectedly found a design master.

In addition, there are many big guys hidden in the group.

There is an employee who works in a mobile game factory. He plays "Living under Someone Else's Roof Simulator" during work hours and even joins the group to play with others at night.

A low-key man who drives a Cullinan asked in the group carefully whether his computer configuration can run the highest picture quality? Then everyone looked at it and said, um... 3090?

The identities of these players who like to play single-player games are really diverse.

Chen Ba was deeply touched by this.

If the other party had not confessed it voluntarily, he might never have thought that the core player group he created included not only employees from QQ but also an employee from Tencent.

"Think about it seriously!"

The identity of this Tencent employee is unknown, but he told Chen Ba that Tianba Studio has attracted the attention of Tencent and they might contact him in two days.

Don't get me wrong! We are not directly talking about acquisition or investment.

Tencent sent people to contact Tianba Studio, simply wanting to bring "Study Simulator" and "Living Under Someone Else's House Simulator" to their Wegame platform.

"I think it's good."

Yang Dong and Lu Jing both expressed that they could accept this matter.

Wegame has a very bad reputation among players. That is the players' perspective. From a game developer's perspective, why not accept the invitation? It's a waste of money, right?

Although Wegame was once jokingly called an online game launcher, most players only play the online games on it, and few people buy stand-alone games.

But the user base is still quite large. With such a terrifying user base, some stand-alone games can still have good sales performance.

The most important thing is that neither of the two games under Tianba Studio are "XX platform exclusive" games.

Since it is not an exclusive product, selling on one more platform means one more source of income. As long as the commission ratio is acceptable, why not do it?

People from Tencent came very quickly.

Perhaps because they often discuss this kind of thing, after understanding the situation, both sides had basically no disputes and quickly reached an agreement.

Before leaving, the Tencent executive also left his contact information.

He told Chen Ba that he could contact him at any time if he encountered any difficulties, and Tencent was happy to invest in a "promising" studio like Tianba.

"As expected of a rich goose!"

After seeing off the guests from Pengcheng, Chen Ba looked at the business card in his hand and couldn't help laughing out loud.

Tencent remains the same as always, casting a wide net.

No matter whether we can catch big fish or not, we have money anyway, so we just need to cast our nets everywhere. A blind cat will catch a dead mouse, and as long as we invest widely enough, we will always be right once or twice.

They were not willing to miss out on even a fledgling small workshop like Tianba Studio, and became the first investor to extend an olive branch to Chen Ba.

It’s good to have money!

After casually putting the business card into his pocket, Chen Ba didn't have any other thoughts.

If you meet an extreme person, he might get excited and feel that he has dirty hands by taking Tencent's money, and throw the business card into the trash can immediately.

But he won't lose it, and he doesn't reject this kind of goodwill.

It is always a good idea to leave yourself a way out. No one can guarantee that the future will be smooth sailing. Since life is full of uncertainties, why bother to make too many promises? What happened to Tencent's money? When life is really hanging by a thread, whoever gives money will be the boss! ...

In addition to Tencent's platform, Chen Ba also moved his games to several other PC gaming platforms.

The host platform is also available.

However, Tianba Studio did not make any optimizations for the host platform, which also resulted in the gaming experience being completely incomparable to that of PC.

Especially Nintendo's Switch.

Although this thing is playable, don't expect the experience to be very good or smooth. Anyway, Chen Ba didn't optimize it, and few Switch players bought and downloaded it, so it doesn't matter.

PC is currently the optimization focus of Tianba Studio.

There is no way, who let PC players account for 99%? If you don't take the feelings of PC players into consideration, are you expecting bad reviews?

Chen Ba gets very angry when it comes to bad reviews.

On the Steam platform, the reviews for Study Simulator have gone from "overwhelmingly positive" to "mostly positive."

The reason is very simple.

Many old players who bought the game early felt like they were backstabbed after seeing the latest discount on the game, so they changed their positive reviews to negative ones.

"I bought it at the original price. I'm Shabei!"

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

The entire review section is filled with this sentence, along with a red thumbs down sign, meaning “not recommended.”

In addition to the 50% off promotion and negative reviews from backstabbed players, some of the negative reviews for the game also come from the hateful "Cowherding Cult".

Because the Cowherd Cult is so rampant, the player community and official fan group will immediately expel and ban Cowherd Cult members as soon as they are discovered.

So they rebelled.

At the call of the Cowherd Sect leader, countless Cowherd Sect followers flocked to the game review page and gave the game negative reviews.

This is not the end. If they were just posting bad reviews, Chen Ba would not think that the Cowherd Sect was annoying and would just ignore them.

But this group is so abstract! They not only recruit followers in "Study Simulator", but also go to other games' videos, comment areas or fan groups to spread their teachings and recruit followers.

This kind of behavior is commonly known as provoking a fight! Fans of other games are not vegetarians. If they are provoked by the Cowherd Cult, they will definitely retaliate, but they can't do anything to ordinary players of the Cowherd Cult.

What should I do then?

Of course, they came to give bad reviews to "Study Simulator", criticizing it as a crappy game and asking everyone to punish them for letting the cowherds be slaughtered.

"I really cried to death..."

Chen Ba wiped away the non-existent tears from his eyes and pretended to be moved: "Why are they working so hard to attract traffic to their beloved game?"

"Yes! I'm already in tears."

Yang Dong also said with a smile: "It is not necessarily a bad thing to be able to make everyone hate you! Look at it in a positive way, at least this has nothing to do with us. We have been fighting against the Cowherding Sect."

Those who don’t know would think that the so-called Cowherd Cult was a group of water army deliberately bought by Tianba Studio. After all, this kind of traffic-generating method is really too low-level.

Fortunately, Tianba Studio released the Holy Sunderer early on and cut off this group in advance, otherwise they would have been criticized even more severely.

Oh, navy...

Chen Ba thought of someone.

"Brother Ba, don't worry. I will help you promote it in the comment section of each game video and attract more players to join the game..."

Thinking of what Wang Kun had said, Chen Ba fell silent for a moment.

Could it be that the leader of the Cowherd Cult, who has a mysterious identity, speaks nonsense, and does things in an unconventional way, is his good brother? (End of this chapter)