Chapter 36 He seems like a human being.
One month after the launch of "King's Dungeon", a big news came out from Kongkong Studio.
The PVP system of "King's Dungeon" is also going online.
As the countdown begins, various advertisements begin to run, various activities begin to warm up, and real money turns into a pool of money and traffic, allowing some players who have abandoned the game and those who have never played "Princess Dungeon" to enter the game and start playing again. Increased the number of daily active users of the game.
At the same time, the atmosphere in the empty studio became increasingly depressing.
Kong Kong, who took over all Huang Ping's work, was finally no longer as comfortable as before.
He did both big and small things at the same time, and the severe overtime work caused his bloated body to lose weight, but his anger became more and more intense.
I don’t know if it’s because I’ve been away from the production job for too long, but Kong Kong’s skills in all aspects seem a bit raw, making it even more troublesome to cooperate.
What makes the employee even more headache is that he has to participate in every process, but he feels indifferent to every process. He will go back and revise an ordinary three-dimensional drawing more than ten times, and finally leave only one sentence: "Still. First edition."
While smoking, other fellow smokers complained about Kong Kong more and more often, but Huang Ping just laughed it off.
He has already seen what consequences this PVP will have after it goes online.
Fortunately, he had a backup plan.
The previous completely fair playing field is almost complete. When necessary, the fair playing field can be turned over, modified and put online, which should be able to recover some of the losses.
After that, the gifts will be full and gift packs will be distributed like crazy to ensure that players will say "nothing happened" afterwards.
In this way, although the impact cannot be said to be completely eliminated, it can at least restore some of the reputation. This is the best effort that he, the former chief planner, can make.
Finally, the day it went online.
When the loyal fans of "King's Dungeon" completed the update and entered the game with great interest, ready to experience PVP, they were stunned.
Some people said nothing after experiencing it, quit and deleted it, and ran away. Some people went to the forum and turned into Tieba brothers, saying that this was a disaster.
The arena and the PVE outside are two parts, and the two parts have no connection. The weapons and characters in the arena actually have to be purchased again.
All weapons and characters are time-sensitive, and a useless costume actually costs two 648?
Only after purchasing the pass can you play PVP for a season, but a season only lasts for two short weeks, which means that players have to be cut off twice a month.
There are no rewards in the arena. Even if you are first, you can only get a useless title of champion of a certain season.
What's even more detestable is that the so-called "punch to the flesh, blow to the flesh" arena in the advertisement turned out to be just an automatically calculated animation of competing values!
Whoever deposits more money will be more powerful, and then he will be ranked higher. In the end, he will get something that fools fools, and then he will continue to be fooled.
The expectations before entering the game turned into disappointment, and the disappointment further turned into anger!
When extremely angry players started calling customer service, Kong Kong Studio’s giant blog posted a light announcement: “We are different from some low-cost dungeon meat pigeon games. If you don’t want to play it, don’t play it.”
Although he didn't name him by name, anyone with a discerning eye could tell that there was only one "low-cost dungeon meat pigeon game" the other party mentioned, and that was "Princess Dungeon".
At this moment, even the most loyal fans were angry.
Many small factories don't bother to do things like stepping on one and giving one a thumbs up. You, a dignified Tianyi, actually engage in such despicable operating methods?
Many players began to log in to Station B and posted various comparison videos on Station B.
Post the animation of the auto-battle competition and say it belongs to the king.
After that, he posted an exciting video of a fierce battle, like a fight between gods, and said that this video belongs to the princess.
The former has a pass every two weeks,
priced at 328 each. The latter can be bought out for 68 yuan and is fun to play.
So please tell me, who is the low cost!
The overwhelming roar caused the already precarious reputation of "Dungeon of Kings" to instantly collapse.
The phenomenon of quitting games and refinancing accounts is common on Bilibili. Many heavy-players have displayed their accounts and then destroyed them in public.
The number of daily active players in the game has been cut in half again, and the PVP system, which had been given high hopes, actually does not even have a single living person, only a group of robots constantly playing the game.
It is indeed a digital life. After checking the current number of people online through the background, Huang Ping stared at the screen, feeling a little happy.
This happiness comes from a kind of schadenfreude, and there is a vague feeling like "you deserve it for not listening to me".
But while he was gloating over his misfortune, he sorted out the previous documents from the Fair Playground and sent them to Kong Kong.
It wasn't until the afternoon that Kongkong called Huang Ping to the office.
I thought this would be a long discussion, where everyone would re-discuss the development direction of the game, eliminate conflicts, and start over.
But what surprised Huang Ping was that not only Kongkong was present, but also Zhang Ping, the boss of Tianyi.
The appearance of the other party instantly raised what was supposed to be an internal discussion in the studio to a higher level, leaving Huang Ping with some bad premonitions.
As soon as he walked into the office, Huang Ping heard Kong Kong say sincerely:
"Originally, I meant to create a fair playing field. You see, I have sorted out the planning and all the environments are ready. But the chief planner Huang Ping said that increasing revenue is the most important purpose of the game, so payment points must be increased. The final effect is this."
Seeing Huang Ping who was stunned at the door, his expression did not change at all, and he naturally said to Huang Ping: " Xiao Huang, you came just in time. Explain to Mr. Zhang, what did you think at first?"
"I..."
"It's okay, just tell the truth. Although it caused a major operational accident, it doesn't matter. As long as you confess Admit your mistake, and then let's seize the time to make corrections, and we can eventually save a lot of the impact."
Hearing Kong Kongtian's shameless words, Huang Ping's ears were buzzing, and his mind went blank.
How could there be such shameless people in this world!
Although he wanted to get angry, Huang Ping could only smile bitterly when he thought of the various loans and gifts he was burdened with.
"Old Huang."
There is no other way. Taking the blame is also one of the planner's obligations, and the salary they give includes this.
"Old Huang! Did you hear that?"
He lowered his head as usual, admitted his mistake, and then continued to receive his salary and continue working on The Walking Dead.
"Old Huang, let go! You can't fight anymore! If you fight again, someone will be killed!"
Huang Ping finally came to his senses and found that he was riding on Kong Kong's body, his hands full of blood.
The two colleagues pretended to pull him, but Huang Ping clearly felt nothing.
Below, Kong Kong had been beaten to the point of unconsciousness, and nosebleeds continued to pour out of his nose, like a faucet that was not turned off.
After realizing what he had done, Huang Ping felt peaceful inside.
All the emotions were vented just now, making Huang Ping extremely rational now.
Wiping the blood from his hands, he stood up and said to Zhang Ping, who was in the corner with a pale face: "Mr. Zhang, check the emails between Kong Kong and me, and you will know what Kong Kong and I really think."
"It's my fault for Kong Kong, but I believe you can find out how he was forced to work overtime before. I have preserved the evidence of forced overtime, and I also have records of Kong Kong's insults to employees. Even if today's incident is retribution, everyone Let's all take a step back and forget it." After a pause
, Huang Ping looked around at the people around him, lowered his head and said, "Thank you for your companionship over the past nine years. I'm deeply sorry for doing such an irrational thing in the end. My job this month is Just treat your salary as medical expenses. Thank you again for your support and encouragement during this time. I'm leaving."
After saying that, he turned and left.
His pace is slow but steady.
The back that was already stooped straightened step by step, and finally stood up straight like a human being, and strode out of Tianyi.
Thanks to Qianguhenhun for the 500-point reward, and book friend 20220807132859889 for the 100-point reward, thank you.
(End of chapter)