“The fireworks are so beautiful. By the way, did you say something just now?” Ling Cheng vaguely heard Hua Manyue say she liked him amidst the chaos.
As a former chuunibyou teenager, he had memorized some quotes from the Great Teacher.
To avoid that this was just wishful thinking, he had to pretend nothing was wrong and ask again.
At the same time, if it was real, this would give her some breathing room, otherwise it would make his client too embarrassed.
“Just now, just now… I was saying, ‘Senior, help me!’ I was a bit scared.”
Hua Manyue patted her chest. She really had been scared just now. She really thought she was about to die, and wanted to confess to her senior before dying.
Luckily, it seemed her senior really hadn’t heard clearly.
“Yeah, the fireworks are really beautiful. Watching them from the Ferris wheel feels… really romantic.” Hua Manyue quickly shifted the topic back to the fireworks outside.
Unfortunately, they didn’t get to enjoy the private Ferris wheel time for long before the wheel stopped spinning, and the two successfully returned to the ground.
“Senior, thank you. I will never, ever forget today.” When the amusement park was about to close, Hua Manyue was still tightly holding Ling Cheng’s hand.
“I had a great time today too. Be careful on your way back.”
Just after the two waved goodbye, Chu Xiaoxiao and Su Qingwan stepped out from the shadows.
Chu Xiaoxiao gazed infatuated at Ling Cheng’s retreating figure, and couldn’t help murmuring to herself, “What a pity. There are so many people around, otherwise I would have had a chance to catch him~”
“Miss, it’s better not to have such dangerous thoughts.” Su Qingwan felt cold sweat break out on her forehead. How had her young lady become like this?
Su Qingwan wiped the nonexistent cold sweat from her forehead, and seriously considered the possibility of re-inviting Ling Cheng.
After all, as long as the young lady remained in this state, she was really worried that one day she would do something irreversible.
However, the specific implementation and how to invite him still needed to be carefully discussed.
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The next morning, Ling Cheng returned to campus after a long time, but this time it was different—he was sitting alone in the last row of the classroom.
The classmates next to him thought he had a fight with his girlfriend, because before, no matter rain or shine, as long as Ling Cheng came to class, An Xin would be there.
But actually, recently An Xin had been frantically drawing manuscripts, saying that May was coming soon and she was under a lot of pressure.
Just as Ling Cheng was idly scrolling through videos, he received a video forwarded by Yun Ziyu.
The content of the video was related to their own anime game, about a very serious bug in the game.
This bug was about the in-game welfare lottery spin count. Someone discovered that by modifying the phone’s time, they could repeatedly spin multiple times.
Most critically, after the time was corrected, they could still claim the normal number of pulls the next day.
The spin event already gave generous pull counts, but with this trick, players got hundreds of extra pulls.
Such a powerful buggy benefit naturally caused quite a stir.
Yun Ziyu had seen this video early this morning and anxiously sent it to Ling Cheng, after all, this kind of bug had a big impact.
Too many game welfare rewards would inevitably affect the game’s revenue.
Especially for this kind of gacha mobile game, the revenue was completely tied to the gacha system.
Even if the spin wheel’s welfare could only be used on the standard banner, an extra few hundred pulls could make that player lose motivation to grind the game for months.
The game had just started to improve, and now this incident. If not handled properly, it would both shrink the game’s revenue drastically and ruin its reputation.
Ling Cheng also fell into deep thought. Should he roll back?
In theory, a quick rollback would yield the highest benefit, because a timely rollback could limit the bug’s impact and prevent it from spreading further.
But human nature isn’t like that. Losing 100 dollars is far more memorable than finding 100 dollars.
Because human nature is loss-averse.
Just as Ling Cheng was still thinking of a solution, Yun Ziyu sent a message: “President Ling, how about we immediately recover the pull counts obtained from abusing the bug, and then recover the characters that were pulled?”
Yun Ziyu: “Or should we also punish the players who abused the bug?”
Ling Cheng took a deep breath and didn’t answer immediately. Instead, he thought about what he would do if he were a player of this game.
If they punished, the bug users would feel that they abused the bug with their own skill, so why should they be punished?
If they didn’t punish, the players who didn’t abuse the bug would regret it. ‘They didn’t get punished this time, so I’ll abuse the bug next time.’
So the optimal solution was to reward the players who didn’t abuse the bug, while not punishing the bug users too harshly.
Finally, frankly admit the mistake and take responsibility as the game’s operator.
Compared to an operator that just deals with players coldly, Ling Cheng thought most players would definitely prefer an operator with a sense of responsibility.
Thinking of this, Ling Cheng immediately replied: “First, immediately fix this bug so that no one can continue to abuse it.”
Ling Cheng: “Also, don’t recover or punish the players who abused the bug, but mark them.”
Ling Cheng: “After fixing the bug, immediately release a notice, give 500 pulls to all players who didn’t abuse the bug, and frankly admit that it was our own problem.”
Ling Cheng: “Finally, give a special title to those who didn’t abuse the bug, thanking them for sticking to their principles when encountering a severe bug.”
Yun Ziyu saw Ling Cheng’s approach and couldn’t help replying to remind him. She not only considered herself his employee, but also his friend.
Yun Ziyu: “But if we do this, the bug users get about 300 extra pulls, and the non-bug users get 500 extra pulls.”
Yun Ziyu: “With this many extra pulls, combined with the already generous welfare, it might lead to very few players spending money for the next two versions, unless we release super power-crept characters.”
Ling Cheng naturally thought of this too, but he still didn’t regret this action.
Ling Cheng: “I know. But rather than making players bear the responsibility, I prefer to reward them. And it’s just a loss of one or two versions, right? It’s fine, I’ll cover it.”
With the 5 million system reward, Ling Cheng could speak boldly. What were the profits of one or two versions? No big deal.
Then he didn’t forget to remind Yun Ziyu to remember to explain properly to the players after posting the notice and completing the compensation.
He believed that player trust and confidence far outweighed the economic gains of one or two versions.
Although Yun Ziyu still couldn’t understand Ling Cheng, she would trust him unconditionally. After receiving the message, she immediately called a meeting.
The matter was quickly pushed forward under the team’s highly cohesive atmosphere. In less than an hour, the bug was fixed and compensation was distributed.
Although the action was efficient, many employees still felt it was unreliable.
After all, this kind of operation was unprecedented. What did it mean to give players who didn’t abuse the bug double the welfare that the bug users got?
Did this game really not want to continue operating?
Thinking this, Bian Lian Ge couldn’t help scratching his head. Soon he realized he had even more difficult things to deal with.
Yun Ziyu said today’s apology also needed to be livestreamed, and he would be the main guest star?