Chapter 187 Finding Bugs

August 27th, Monday.

Pei Qian arrived at the company as usual and checked on the situation of each department.

"Huh? The Dawn Games platform actually held a bug-finding contest over the weekend?"

"And got scolded?"

Pei Qian glanced at the online discussions and was surprised to find that the Dawn Games platform was being scolded again.

Huh, why did I say 'again'?

Clearly, Pei Qian had lost count of how many times the Dawn Games platform had surprised him this month.

And the fuse for this scolding was the Dawn Games platform's bug-finding contest.

According to the rules, anyone who found the same number of bugs in a game on the platform as marked on the platform would receive a prize of 1,000 yuan, and for each additional bug found, they would receive a prize of 100,000 yuan.

The event did trigger a very enthusiastic response.

Because players had never seen such an event before!

Players were already used to bugs in games. But now a game platform was saying that they wanted players to find bugs on the platform at will? And they would give a prize for finding them?

Moreover, they were offering a sky-high prize!

There were very few games on the platform at the moment, only ten or so in total, all of which were mobile games. These games were submitted to the Dawn Games platform around the same time as *Empire of Blades*, and had just been fixed and officially launched not long ago.

The number of bugs in these games basically ranged from one to three.

Individual old games that had been running for a long time and had 0 bugs recorded on the platform also participated in the event, but players would not be able to get the 1,000 yuan prize, only the 100,000 yuan.

Being able to get 100,000 yuan for finding one or two bugs in a specific game was a huge temptation!

So, the news spread quickly, and a large number of players flooded into the Dawn Games platform, wanting to get a piece of the pie.

Pei Qian looked at the time. The event had officially launched on Friday, and a weekend had already passed.

And this event had caused some chain reactions.

For example, the negative review rate of the previous two games had stabilized!

Originally, the negative review rate of these two games had reached the edge of being removed from the shelves, and the growth rate was still accelerating, but after the start of this bug-finding event, they had managed to survive.

Even the positive review rate had increased significantly.

However, this was not because the players on the platform had a change of heart, but because... the players wanted to keep these two games to find bugs!

These two games were both old games that had been running on other platforms for a long time, and the number of bugs was already very small. For players, the fewer bugs a game had, the more cost-effective it was to find them.

According to the platform's rules, if a game had 0 bugs marked, then the player would get 100,000 yuan for finding just 1 bug; while another game had 3 bugs marked, then the player had to find 3 bugs to get 1,000 yuan, and 4 bugs to get 100,000 yuan.

In the players' opinion, there was obviously a big difference in the difficulty of finding bugs in these two types of games.

As a result, these games with fewer bugs naturally became popular, and many players ran in to experience the games, and even spent a little money to unlock specific gameplay in the games, just to search every corner of the game and find bugs!

This weekend, the Dawn Games platform launched a new batch of games, including *Empire of Blades*, all of which had been fixed to meet Tang Yishu's standards.

And among these games, those with fewer bugs naturally became key targets, and players instantly flocked in, filling all the new servers that had been opened.

On the surface, this seemed like a good thing, after all, it brought a lot of attention to the Dawn Games platform.

But after two days of fermentation over the weekend, things slowly changed.

The tone of online discussions was a bit off!

"Liar! This game platform is a complete and utter liar! I clearly found a bug, but after submitting it, the official didn't reply to me at all!"

"Big Brother 666! Upload the video to the Aili Island website, we'll give you likes and let the official have no way to pretend to be deaf and mute!"

"This platform is really too bad, why pretend if you don't have money? You bragged about a reward of 100,000 yuan, but you're stingy and unwilling to give it, are you trying to have it both ways?"

"Huh, you all found bugs? I played for two days, day and night, without sleep, how come I didn't find any bugs at all..."

"I did find a few grammatical errors, but the official is cunning, saying that this doesn't count as a bug! It must be a program bug!"

"Never mind, everyone scolds them to death, this platform is completely playing tricks on people, they don't plan to give money at all!"

The people who were scolding online were basically divided into two types. The first type said that they had found a bug, but the official didn't reply, obviously wanting to deny the claim; while the other type said that the official was simply maliciously hyping things up, writing a bug number at random, deceiving players into finding bugs, and using this gimmick to hype up the popularity.

And the latter was basically brought up by the former. Many people scolded without having found a single bug in the game, but were incited by seeing others scolding.

Pei Qian was both surprised and delighted.

Who came up with this event?

Most likely Meng Chang!

Li Yada was so simple-minded, only knew how to design games, probably couldn't come up with such a bad idea.

Moreover, this kind of event that looked good on the surface but was actually full of traps was very much in line with Meng Chang's personality and motives.

This event was quite successful, at least it had brought up all the negative publicity.

The only bad thing was, how could they not give people money?

They had to give money! No matter how many bugs they found, they had to pay up!

Thinking of this, Pei Qian immediately called Meng Chang.

"Hello? President Pei?" The sound of keyboard tapping came from the other end of the phone. Meng Chang seemed to be busy with something.

Pei Qian was 120% satisfied with Meng Chang's work attitude.

Having Meng Chang help keep an eye on the Dawn Games platform was really reliable! So reassuring!

"Did you come up with this bug-finding event?" Pei Qian asked.

Meng Chang: "Yes, President Pei, what do you think?"

"It's great! It's a genius idea!" Pei Qian didn't hold back his praise. "But there's one problem, we still have to keep our word. We have to give as much money as we said we would, we can't go back on our word."

Meng Chang said as a matter of course: "Of course, President Pei, how could we go back on our word?"

"But we didn't work this weekend, we only started processing these players' submitted videos this morning."

"We will record all the content one by one and publicize it on the official website. If someone really finds enough bugs, then we will definitely pay the full amount, we won't save on that."

Pei Qian was a little surprised: "Since you didn't plan to go back on your word from the beginning, why didn't you tell the players in advance that you were off work on the weekend?"

Meng Chang smiled: "Of course, it's for some special purposes, President Pei, you definitely understand."

Pei Qian immediately understood: "Oh! That's for sure."

"Very good, now that you have a very deep and thorough understanding of your work, I'm relieved."

"The momentum of the publicity work this month is good, keep it up!"

"It's almost the end of the month, hold on, the commission is waving at you!"

Meng Chang was very excited: "Okay, President Pei!"

……

After hanging up the phone, Meng Chang was greatly encouraged.

Sure enough, no matter how unexpected the plan he gave, President Pei could see the intention behind it at a glance.

This showed that the publicity plan he had racked his brains to come up with was still within President Pei's plan.

Meng Chang looked at the current public opinion online and shook his head with some regret.

"It's a pity, the timing wasn't well-grasped."

"I thought these players would at least wait about a week before making a fuss, but I didn't expect them to be so impatient, they couldn't wait after two days."

"At least seriously look for a few days before making a fuss, right?"

Meng Chang had originally planned it perfectly. He would start this bug-finding event last weekend, for a period of two weeks. He estimated that the players would completely lose patience this weekend, which was the end of the month, and the negative public opinion on the Dawn Games platform would reach a peak.

In this way, the commission that Meng Chang received could be maximized.

However, because the players on the platform were very impetuous, they lost patience in two days and started making a fuss.

This had slightly affected Meng Chang's plan. It was impossible to drag it out for another four or five days.

The main thing was that he was afraid that if he didn't respond, the players would stop scolding, and the negative public opinion would not be able to continue to grow.

In that case, it would be a bit too late when the video came out next month. This publicity plan would be equivalent to being interrupted for three or five days in the middle, which was very imperfect.

And to continue to maintain the heat of this matter, he could only clarify it first.

Meng Chang had already written a new official announcement and sent it to Li Yada.

This announcement responded to the players' current doubts, stating that the reason for not replying on the weekend was because the company was normally off work and resting, and that all the bugs submitted by the players would be checked and replied to one by one next.

And he reminded again that the video sent by the player must comply with the rules, must be the official platform's game version, must not have been maliciously modified, the video must not have been maliciously edited and produced, and must be able to be reproduced twice.

If a player was not satisfied with the result, they could come to a specific location in Jingzhou to demonstrate, and the Dawn Games platform would broadcast it live on the entire network. Once verified, not only would the round-trip travel and accommodation expenses be reimbursed, but the bonus would also be doubled.

Of course, when players came to Jingzhou, they would definitely not be arranged to test it in the Dawn Games platform's "feng shui treasure land", but would be arranged in a hotel venue, far away.

After arranging everything, Meng Chang leaned back in his chair and sighed softly.

"I still haven't mastered the Pei-style publicity method well enough, I can't achieve President Pei's feeling of being able to handle everything with ease and freedom."

"I feel that although my plan is developing according to the expected plan as a whole, many times the rhythm is still disrupted by some unexpected situations. Although it can be remedied, it's not so natural after all."

"But... it's still much better than before."

Meng Chang recalled the time when he made plans and got commissions before. He was so worried. He was afraid that he would not pay attention to something by accident, and the project would become popular ahead of schedule, and his commission would be completely lost.

But now, Meng Chang no longer had this feeling at all.

Because he had already mastered all the details of the entire project, and he had already predicted when the project would become popular and how it would become popular, so naturally he would no longer worry.

Now Meng Chang had only one feeling, that he was already a little impatient and wanted the end of the month to come quickly!