Losing Money to Be a Tycoon

Wednesday, November 30.

All the employees are busy in the game.

Wang Xiaobin took a sip of coffee, and then posted a message on the company's internal chat software: "Check out several new DLCs and they will be online soon. Finally, check if there are any bugs!"

Wang Xiaobin is mainly responsible for developing DLC ​​for some old games, including "Lonely Desert Highway", "Game Producer", "Lonely Desert Road", "Lonely Desert Road", "Returning to the Shore" and "Sea Fortress".

Among them, "Looking Back on the Shore" and "Sea Fortress" have undergone major changes. The DLC has too much content to be completed, so it cannot be completed in a short time. It will be delayed until the end of this month and the beginning of next month, respectively.

However, the DLC of the two games "Lonely Desert Road" and "Game Maker" is relatively easy to do. The development work has been completed, and the official update can be made when the bugs are tested.

Although the current bugs have been almost changed, Wang Xiaobin did not dare to take it lightly. Let everyone play more games and test more, for fear of encountering various hidden problems after the game is released.

This is actually because of a relatively metaphysical problem.

After the new game or the new version of the demo of the previous Wangyang game is made, go to see Mr. Pei, and the previous test is good. As a result, various incomprehensible mystery bugs will appear in Mr. Pei's hands.

So much so that Wang Xiaobin wondered whether Pei always has any special means to find bugs, or Pei is a bug himself.

Therefore, every time the game is updated and the DLC is developed, the test is always improved, and the test is repeated many times before daring to go online, for fear of missing some fatal bugs.

The updated DLC of the two games "Lonely Desert Road" and "Game Maker" are priced at 5 yuan and 18 yuan respectively.

For "Lonely Desert Road", the body sells for 1 yuan, and the first DLC also sells for 1 yuan, and it is now free.

This time the new DLC is priced at 5 yuan, which was set by Wang Xiaobin himself, which is a historic breakthrough.

Because the content of this DLC update of "Lonely Desert Road" is much richer than the game itself.

On Wang Xiaobin’s computer, the DLC update announcements for the two games have been written.

"Lonely Desert Road" DLC update announcement:

1. New networking mode, networking mode support: invite friends to play together (support up to 8 people), randomly match players to play together (start from the starting point, support up to 8 people), random encounter (random encounter other players in the process) .

Text or voice chat can be used in the networking mode, and various detailed settings can be adjusted in the setting interface.

After the player turns on the networking mode, if the vehicle breaks down on the road, he can take another vehicle on the side of the road as a passenger to continue the journey, and after an hour of riding, he can continue to drive at the current location.

2. Newly added random scene function, driving for a long time in the desert may see mirages and various scenery all over the world, including relics such as pyramids in the desert.

When checking in at various scenic spots, there is a certain chance of triggering the easter egg "Traveler Bao Xu": a lonely traveler in the desert asks for a ride. After arriving at the destination, he will get a new appearance of the vehicle and a new scene.

"Game Maker" DLC update announcement:

1. New game function: message board.Players can leave a message on the ground, doorway, wall and other places of each level, and the message will be generated using a fixed vocabulary combination to enhance the player’s interactive experience.

2. Newly added gameplay: lever precision mode.Players will get a little assistant to let the narrator choose a route, and the player can mock the narration by raising the little assistant.

3. New gameplay: new player care mode.Old players who have passed the game can enter the game of new players who have not passed the game through the random matching system, and guide new players to make choices by freely typing in text chat.

The art materials of these two games have not changed much, but some more interesting online gameplay has been added.

Moreover, Wang Xiaobin deliberately buried the easter eggs on the "Fortress on the Sea" DLC and the new game "Mission and Choice" in both games for pre-publicity and warm-up.

In fact, at the very beginning, Wang Xiaobin didn't have too much clue as to what the DLC of these games should do. He just wanted to do some conventional gameplay as much as possible to complete the task.

But Huang Sibo found him and asked him to cooperate with "Mission and Choice" and add a pre-story of "Mission and Choice" to the DLC of "Sea Fortress" to promote the warm-up.

When Wang Xiaobin heard this, of course he readily agreed.

He didn't have any clues, but Huang Sibo directly sent the ready-made game plot content to his door. Is there any reason to do it?

After planning the DLC content of "Sea Fortress", Wang Xiaobin thought about it. In that case, he put all the DLC of the old game on top of the new game.

The content of the game has been updated to find something for the old players to do, and it has also played a role in publicity and warm-up. It can increase the pre-sale sales of "Fortress on the Sea" and "Mission and Choice". Why not?

So there is the updated content of "Lonely Desert Road" and "Game Maker".

Wang Xiaobin checked it again and then arranged to send the update announcement regularly.

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Thursday, December 1.

Since moving to Jingzhou in mid-October, Qiao Liang has lived in Jingzhou for a month and a half.

In this month and a half, he has completely adapted to life in Jingzhou, and some changes have taken place in his daily life.

The first is that the schedule of work and rest has become regular, meals are also healthy, and the original dark circles and puffiness have improved a lot.

Moyu Waimai recently launched a "monthly package" specifically for takeaway parties like Qiao Liang and office workers.

To purchase this "monthly package", the first is to choose your own take-out time in advance. For example, office workers can choose noon from Monday to Friday according to the situation, and those who work overtime can choose noon and evening from Monday to Saturday; secondly, you can choose in advance. Acceptable tastes and dishes.

After purchasing the package, you can deposit the money into your personal account, choose automatic deduction, and you can owe one meal at most.If you have already owed money for a meal, the customer needs to pay the last meal within 2 hours before the delivery of the next meal, otherwise the order will be cancelled.

When the meal delivery time is reached, Moyu takeaway will automatically deduct the fee and deliver the meal, and arrange the dishes according to the taste selected by the customer in advance and the recent meal record to ensure a variety of tastes and balanced nutrition.

If you don’t need to deliver food temporarily, customers only need to cancel it in advance on the "Meal Delivery Calendar" interface of the APP.

This monthly package is a boon for otaku like Qiao Liang and some office workers.

Because ordering takeout is a kind of enjoyment in a few cases, but in most cases it is a torture.

Qiao Liang often has this kind of experience. Sometimes when he gets busy, he forgets to order takeaway, but when he is busy, he looks up and sees that it is already 1 o'clock in the afternoon; sometimes he picks up his mobile phone at 11 o’clock to order takeaway and goes through more than a dozen stores. I didn’t find the one I really wanted to eat. I wasted fifteen minutes just to order a takeaway, and I still didn’t pick one that was particularly satisfactory. Sometimes I accidentally ordered a takeaway during peak hours, but I waited for more than an hour because the delivery staff broke the order. It was just delivered and the food was cold.

At present, the domestic food delivery industry is still in a period of barbaric growth, so there are often some unpleasant dining experiences.

For those who have been eating takeout for many years, the "monthly package" offered by Moyu takeaway is that on the one hand, they don’t have to worry about what to eat every day. The randomly delivered meals give them a feeling of "personal management". On the other hand, it can also guarantee the delivery time and experience.

Because this "monthly package" is like another form of advance reservation, because Moyu takeaway stores have already estimated the order volume in advance, and can guarantee the cooking and delivery time of most meals, so in terms of taste and The dining experience will also be improved.

The "monthly package" set by Qiao Liang is lunch and dinner every Monday to Friday.

At present, his life is, every morning after getting up, go down and stroll down, go to the nearby steamed bun shop for breakfast, stroll around, and after returning, cut videos or play games, lunch and gameplay can be delivered to the door on the hour. .

On Saturday and Sunday, sometimes I go out to find fans or friends to play, and sometimes I order some other takeaways at home, such as fried chicken, milk tea, roast duck, etc., to improve the taste.

Today at noon, Qiao Liang is still doing the same as usual, reading the latest news while eating fish takeaway.

A lot of things have happened in this more than a month, and Qiao Liang's most concern is obviously the GPL league that will be held in Jingzhou.

He even went to the familiar place of Mingyun Villa to get to know the gates of various home appliance competition clubs, and broadcasted it to fans by the way.

Recently, various live broadcast platforms have emerged one after another, and more and more money has been spent. As a UP owner with his own fans, Qiao Liang will naturally not miss this outlet.

It's just that there is still a big difference between being an UP host and being an anchor. Most of the audience of Qiao Liang's live broadcast is his own die-hard fans, not very popular.

However, for Qiao Liang, he can also live stream to earn some gift money while watching the video. This life is already very good.

"Huh? What is this?"

"The update announcement of "Lonely Desert Road" and "Game Producer"?"

"These two games are still being updated???"

Qiao Liang saw the discussion in his fan group, and immediately thought it was everyone joking.

How old is this game, is it still being updated?

Wouldn't it be a good idea to let them get into the soil with peace of mind?

Qiao Liang couldn't help sighing that Tenda is definitely the most unique one among so many game companies he has seen at home and abroad.

Obviously there is a dominant online game like GOG, and new games are still under development. The priority of these development work must be much higher than updating old games, right?

As a result, President Pei insisted on mobilizing manpower to maintain these old games that had almost no heat and not many people were playing, which was very outrageous!

Don’t give up or give up?