Chapter 82 Bug’s Weekend

August 18th, Saturday.

Yan Qi arrived at the office building where Chaolu Games Platform was located at the usual time for morning work, to continue looking for bugs.

To be precise, finding bugs was only his secondary objective. The primary objective was to verify the authenticity and universality of the metaphysical pattern he had guessed at last week.

Was this feng shui treasure land ineffective on weekends? Did the bugs not work on weekends?

This question had to be thoroughly verified.

Last weekend, Yan Qi had his testing team work overtime for two days, but the number of bugs they found was less than what they found on Monday morning. The efficiency was truly worrying. If he had known that the overtime efficiency would be so low, he might as well have let everyone rest at home!

Therefore, Yan Qi told everyone that they would work half a day this weekend first. If they found that the efficiency of finding bugs was still very low on Saturday morning, then they might as well take the weekend off and continue looking for bugs after the feng shui treasure land returned to normal on weekdays.

At this time, most of the members of the "Blade of Empire" testing team had arrived, and the testing teams of other companies were also moving in one after another.

The workstations on this floor of the office building had all been rented out, and even the two floors above and below were almost fully occupied.

However, although everyone was discussing it enthusiastically in the group chat, even attracting many companies from other cities, there were still many companies in the group that did not participate.

Perhaps the people in charge of these companies had a stronger scientific literacy and a more determined will, so when it came to such metaphysical issues, they remained unmoved no matter what others said.

Yan Qi certainly didn't care about these companies.

For him, giving a reminder was already the best he could do. It didn't matter whether they came or not, because anyone who came to this place would know how high the efficiency of finding bugs was!

The people in charge of the testing teams from other companies basically knew Yan Qi, and they greeted him one after another.

However, when passing by the workstations of other companies, it was obvious that these testers also had some doubts on their faces.

"Hey, that's strange, why are there fewer bugs found today? There are not many bugs left."

"Have they all been found? That's impossible."

Obviously, the huge change in the efficiency of finding bugs on Friday and Saturday had made them all aware of it.

Yan Qi suddenly remembered that he had not told other companies about this matter.

He quickly sent a message in the group chat.

"By the way, there's one thing I forgot to remind everyone. Last weekend, I found that this feng shui treasure land seems to be ineffective on weekends, so don't worry if you can't find any bugs. It will return to normal on Monday."

"I only arranged for the test to work half a day today to verify this matter. It seems that it does conform to this pattern. So if you don't have any other work, you can go back and rest, recharge your batteries, and come back on Monday to continue fixing bugs."

Soon, the people in charge of the group replied one after another.

"Ah? Bugs don't work on weekends? This is too unscientific!"

"This is unscientific, but it's very metaphysical! A feng shui treasure land that presents a spherical shape in space is already very unscientific, so it seems not surprising that the existence of this space has a certain time rule..."

"I don't believe it!"

"Let's look for bugs again. If the efficiency does decrease, then it means what Yan Zong said is true. There's no need for everyone to look for bugs in an inefficient situation. It's better to do something else."

This time, the people in the group seemed to have quickly accepted this setting.

Although this matter still sounded very absurd, most of the companies that moved here had been baptized by metaphysics, and had objectively recognized the existence of this special space, so adding a little time rule didn't seem like something to be surprised about...

Yan Qi sat down at his workstation and pulled out his mobile phone to run his own game a few times.

Well, sure enough.

Bugs really don't work on weekends!

In fact, before running the game, Yan Qi was a little conflicted. Did he want there to be bugs or no bugs?

If there were bugs, it would mean working overtime on weekends, but the progress of the game could be pushed forward a lot. If there were no bugs, the progress couldn't be pushed forward, but he could rest on weekends.

Now that the matter was settled, he felt relieved and had a reason to let the employees rest on weekends.

Not bad.

In fact, as a boss, Yan Qi was more conflicted about the issue of overtime.

He wasn't like many unscrupulous bosses who forced employees to work overtime for free simply to reduce costs and further exploit their labor. But even as a boss with a little conscience, it was inevitable to ask employees to work overtime.

After all, as a small company, a startup company, there were not many resources, nor a sufficient number of high-quality employees. Sometimes, in order to catch up with the progress, overtime was a last resort.

The game industry is a very time-sensitive industry. If two games of similar types are released one or two months later than the other, the difference in revenue may be millions or tens of millions.

And for small companies, this difference in speed is enough to determine the life and death of the company.

Therefore, in order for the company to survive, so that employees would not have to look for new jobs again, and in order to get more bonuses in the future, Yan Qi sometimes had to ask employees to work overtime in order to catch up with the development progress.

This made him often feel conflicted.

Although the employees were very understanding and cooperative with this behavior, Yan Qi still felt a little sorry.

Now it was fine, no need to be conflicted. Since the feng shui treasure land did not advocate working overtime on weekends, and there was no efficiency in working overtime on weekends, it was better to give employees a holiday to rest, adjust their state, and continue to fight bugs next Monday.

Thinking of this, Yan Qi said: "Okay, it has been verified that there is indeed no efficiency in fixing bugs on weekends. Everyone can order takeout for slacking off at noon today, and I'll treat you. After eating, you can get off work and go home!"

"Of course, if you have an appointment at noon, you can leave early."

As soon as he said this, the employees cheered.

"Yan Zong is awesome!"

"Thank you Yan Zong for the treat!"

So, a small number of employees who had an appointment with friends for lunch or wanted to go home to eat left after saying hello to Yan Qi, while the other employees stayed and waited to leave after lunch.

Yan Qi no longer looked for bugs, but opened the official website of Chaolu Games Platform to check the current status of the platform.

He didn't know until he looked.

"Ah? The game platform has already started trial operation yesterday afternoon?"

"It seems like they mentioned it before, but aren't we all still fixing bugs?"

Yan Qi vaguely remembered that the staff of Chaolu Games Platform had mentioned the trial operation in the group chat before, but everyone was burying their heads in fixing bugs and were so busy, so they subconsciously thought that the trial operation must be postponed.

There were not many games, so how could this platform be in trial operation?

As a result, he now found that it was really a hard trial!

Opening the game platform, everything seemed normal at first glance.

The platform's homepage also had various recommendation slots, and it also made different partitions according to game types and devices. Although the content was not very rich, and it could not be compared with those game platforms with hundreds or thousands of games, it looked quite tidy.

Yan Qi habitually clicked on the action game section to check.

After all, he himself made action games, and he also wanted to see if there were any competing games on the platform that directly competed with his own games.

However, when he clicked in, he found that there was actually his own game, "Blade of Empire"!

"Ah? That's not right, isn't our game still being modified?"

"How did it get on the game platform already?"

Yan Qi quickly clicked on the game's details page to check.

The details page had the game's introduction, information, and promotional images, which had been given to Chaolu Games Platform before, so it was not surprising that they appeared on the platform.

And the original download game/start game button was in an unavailable state. There was a special prompt bar that showed the current number of bugs in the game "Blade of Empire"!

This number seemed to be data directly extracted from the game's test backend.

Yan Qi asked the test team leader: "Hey, did Chaolu Games Platform ask us for the data interface of the test backend?"

The test team leader nodded: "Yes, we gave it after signing the contract. After all, they also need to know our bug fix progress in real time."

Yan Qi also clicked on other games and found that most of the games were also in the state of fixing bugs. The only difference was the number of bugs.

Sometimes, he could even see the changes in the number of bugs, which meant that the company was working overtime. After fixing a bug and submitting it, the test team tested and confirmed that there was no problem and the modification was completed. The bug was eliminated, so the bug number in the backend would also change and be synchronized to the game platform in real time.

And most of the games on Chaolu Games Platform were in this state: you could see how many bugs were left to be fixed, but you couldn't play them.

Yan Qi spent a long time searching before finally finding a game that could be played. It was an old game that had been launched on other platforms half a year ago, and according to its lifespan, it should have entered the middle and late stages of its life.

This kind of game had very few bugs, because the game version was already very stable, but at the same time, it meant that there was no new content, and the attractiveness to new players was basically zero.

Although "Blade of Empire" and other games that were not launched were all mobile games developed by small companies, they were at least new games, and they were still competitive in the mobile game circle.

As a result, all the competitive games were fixing bugs, and the uncompetitive games were launched, but they could not attract many players.

Moreover, although Chaolu Games Platform made some distinctions between games that could be downloaded and played and games that were being debugged, such as making special marks on the game icons and filtering out playable games, it was not very obvious.

As a result, players who entered the platform could not find a playable game in the first place. They clicked on one and found that it was being debugged, and then clicked on another and found that it was still being debugged...

It was conceivable that this feeling was quite painful.