Agreed to make bad games, What the Hell is Titan Fall 33
by admin“How much?!”
With a snap, Shen Miao Miao withdrew her legs from the office desk.
She looked at Chu Qingzhou with surprise.
“The… 428th place.”
Chu Qingzhou repeated it again.
Shen Miao Miao was dumbfounded.
Wait a minute?
“I remember there were less than 600 entries, right?” Shen Miao Miao asked.
Chu Qingzhou nodded: “There are 582 games participating in the event.”
“We’re 428th?” Shen Miao Miao was baffled.
But Chu Qingzhou nodded again, very certain.
Hiss—
Shen Miao Miao couldn’t help but gasp in her heart.
Logically speaking, her first reaction upon hearing such a ‘pleasing’ terrible score should be “yay!”
Because the voting results, in theory, are directly linked to future sales.
Such a pathetic last-place ranking would mean that they would inevitably suffer a setback in sales later.
But!
Shen Miao Miao instinctively felt something was wrong.
You see, she had been keeping an eye on the popularity of Vampire Survivor among the player community.
According to the current situation, with the help of streamers and word-of-mouth players, the first round of votes for their game should not have been this low.
It might be an exaggeration to say that it was a surefire first place.
But in Shen Miao Miao’s eyes, it should be no problem at all to get into the top ten in terms of votes.
“Over four hundred places…”
Shen Miao Miao’s brow furrowed slightly as she looked at Chu Qingzhou:
“Is this data accurate?”
“It’s hard to say, Boss,”
Chu Qingzhou shook her head:
“Our backend here doesn’t see the daily vote summary, so we can’t check.”
“But…”
Then, Chu Qingzhou changed her tone:
“There is another issue with evidence.”
“Tell me.”
Shen Miao Miao turned serious and waved her hand for Chu Qingzhou to sit down and talk slowly.
It has to be said, Chu Qingzhou, as a mature and top-notch assistant, has extremely high professionalism.
During this time, she had been doing data aggregation and statistics on Vampire Survivor every day.
This includes the number of reports from mainstream game media, the frequency of players mentioning the game on forums, and the number of times their game appeared on the Art Joy platform’s random homepage leaderboard at different times.
“There’s something wrong with Art Joy’s random leaderboard refresh,”
Chu Qingzhou said:
“According to Art Joy’s official announcement,”
“This development festival’s game leaderboard uses a pseudo-random method, with 50 games per page and a random refresh every hour,”
“The intention is to ensure that every game receives equal exposure,”
“This is to ensure fairness in game promotion.”
Hearing this, Shen Miao Miao nodded: “I know that.”
She had actually thought about messing around and trying to contact people at the Art Joy platform to ask them to hide their game.
Proactively playing hide-and-seek with players, reducing exposure, and lowering sales.
However, this idea only flashed through her mind.
After all, Art Joy’s determination to ensure fairness seemed resolute.
Shen Miao Miao was afraid of messing things up.
“But,”
At this point, Chu Qingzhou changed her tone, opened her laptop, and said:
“According to my statistics, over the past week,”
“Our game, Vampire Survivor, has been on the top ten of the first page of the random leaderboard zero times,”
“The number of times it has entered the first page of the leaderboard is zero,”
“The number of times it has entered the top five pages of the leaderboard is zero,”
“The number of times it was on the ninth page of the leaderboard is 130,” “The number of times it was on the tenth page of the leaderboard is 30,”
“The number of times it was on the last page of the leaderboard is 6.”
Having said that!
Chu Qingzhou looked at Shen Miao Miao.
“It refreshes once every hour, 24 times a day, 168 times a week,”
Shen Miao Miao’s face visibly darkened:
“That means, in these 168 refreshes, we haven’t even entered the top five pages, let alone the first page, right?”
Gulp.
Seeing Shen Miao Miao’s gloomy expression, Chu Qingzhou couldn’t help but swallow.
She had never seen the young lady look so grim!
She nodded: “Uh… yes.”
“Heh.”
Shen Miao Miao nodded.
She opened the drawer of her desk, unwrapped a lollipop and put it in her mouth, as if trying to suppress her emotions:
“Let’s assume that this is a system glitch in the random leaderboard,”
“Then how did this 428th place vote ranking come about? Is that a glitch too?”
“I’ve been paying attention to the discussion about our game these days,”
“Every ten posts, one is a discussion, almost half of the streamers on the three major live streaming platforms are broadcasting it, plus a 98% approval rating,”
“This is clearly blatant trickery under my nose?”
Right!
Shen Miao Miao is a lazy person, and has always considered becoming a top-level lazy person as her life goal.
But that just means she’s lazy!
It doesn’t mean she’s stupid!
Double-first-class university, finance engineering major, her father’s group spans dozens of industries, she has been exposed to it since childhood, how could she be a fool!
She immediately concluded that there must be something wrong with the leaderboard!
Shen Miao Miao’s anger flared up!
Dare to screw me over?!
Are you guys not awake yet?!
Not only did you deliberately suppress my ranking on the random leaderboard, but you dare to steal my votes?
Yes, I want to be a lazy person, a hands-off manager, and make it my mission to intentionally fail investments.
But that’s because it’s my own choice!
Shen Miao Miao’s life creed is this – I can choose to be a waste, but you can’t actually think I’m a waste and think that I’m easy to bully!
Treat me like a soft persimmon to squeeze?
You’re goddamn fed up with living?!
“What the…”
With a crunch, Shen Miao Miao bit the lollipop into pieces:
“You guys really don’t know how powerful the Horse King is with his three eyes.”
As she spoke, Shen Miao Miao waved her hand: “Go book train tickets, we’re going to the Capital, I’ll personally ask Art Joy what they want to do.”
Binjiang and the Capital are not far apart, the high-speed train gets there in forty minutes.
“But…”
Seeing that the young lady was truly angry, Chu Qingzhou bit her lip and reminded her cautiously:
“Miss Shen, the random leaderboard issue is fine, but the voting board…”
“We don’t have any real evidence to prove they’re stealing votes.”
Chu Qingzhou’s worry was normal.
Logically speaking, if you accuse the organizer of being opaque, you need to provide solid evidence.
However, Shen Miao Miao just scoffed at this.
She pulled the lollipop stick out of her mouth, flicked it with her fingertip into the trash can, and a cold gleam flashed in her eyes.
“I’m Shen Wanlin’s daughter, do I need evidence to say they’re cheating?”
Upon saying this, Chu Qingzhou couldn’t help but tremble.
That’s right.
Previously, Shen Miao Miao always had the appearance of a lazy girl, carefree and nonchalant, smiling at everyone.
She was completely a lovely little girl with a touch of stubbornness.
It seemed to make people forget that, apart from being a lazy girl.
She was also the daughter of Shen Wanlin, who had made her fortune in the business world, possessed astronomical capital, had a strong wrist, and used ruthless methods.
Shen Miao Miao’s words may sound arrogant to outsiders.
But Chu Qingzhou, who was personally assigned by Old Shen, knows.
Let alone the Art Joy platform, even the Art Joy headquarters, if they really angered Old Shen, they would have to change their board of directors tomorrow!
“Book the tickets!”
Shen Miao Miao wouldn’t waste any more time, and threw a lollipop at Chu Qingzhou.
Chu Qingzhou took the lollipop, gave her a thumbs-up:
“Right away!”
啧啧, Chu Qingzhou booked the tickets and couldn’t help but mutter to herself.
Someone’s kicked the iron plate!
(End of chapter)
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