This Is Not a Bug but a Game Feature-Chapter 183 - 137: Love Advisor? Universal Advisor! (Part 2)

Chapter 183: Chapter 137: Love Advisor? Universal Advisor! (Part 2)

The comments section was filled with laughter.

"Well, well, well! You call this a love advisor, huh?"

"Love Advisor? More like a Universal Advisor!"

"’Love Advisor Department’ really has you guys putting it to good use, if in doubt just consult the love advisor, right?"

"I’m really curious, before Ba develops a new game, will he also consult the love advisor?"

"Selling you this game for 68 bucks, what a huge loss that was!"

There’s no denying it.

The players’ wild imaginations truly opened Chen Ba’s eyes. He probably never dreamed that the voting feature of ’Love Advisor Department’ could be developed for such strange uses. 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

But he had to admit.

Even though this use was not the game feature’s original intent, it was really effective!

Not only effective, but really useful.

The love advisor was initially a position set up to offer advice and help players strategize with various NPCs.

But after players misinterpreted the love advisor’s original intent and found odd new uses, even Chen Ba agreed with these love advisor abilities.

The person who understands you the most, who knows you the best, who fits you most... Are the suggestions they give really unreliable?

That depends on the situation!

Except for a small number of extreme or special cases, in the vast majority of situations, the advice given by these love advisors is reliable, and quite reliable at that.

For instance, there’s the player of the second-dimension mobile game drawing characters, does he really not know if he prefers long legs or beauty in strength?

The love advisors unanimously voted for long legs, advising him to draw the XP characters, was this advice reliable? Absolutely, it was perfect!

Let’s just say, the love advisors he matched with completely understood what he wanted!

Beauty in strength is temporary, once nerfed it’s no fun. But long legs are forever, once drawn, there’s no regret!

"So, can we really still call our game a love simulation game?"

Chen Ba felt depressed.

When ’Love Advisor Department’ first revealed that players could woo other players and brought together a bunch of couples, he wasn’t this upset.

After all, even though players falling in love with each other sounds a bit absurd, it ultimately stayed on theme with the ’Love’ in ’Love Advisor Department’.

But now, what’s the situation?

Does the current ’Love Advisor Department’ even have any love elements? Removing the word ’Love’ seems more appropriate, right?

"It’s okay, Ba!"

Seeing Ba looking a bit down, as if he’d been hit by something, Lu quickly comforted him: "Even if a bit off-topic, but... but our game sells well!"

"And this isn’t the first time it’s happened, you’ll get used to it."

Lu’s consolation didn’t make Chen Ba feel any better, in fact, it made him feel worse.

What do you mean, you’ll get used to it?

Lu’s subtext might be that he’s already accustomed to the bizarre occurrences with the studio’s game releases?

Lu, wake up, have you been twisted by the Iron Fool System, falling into a state of confusion?

Chen Ba turned his head to look at Yang Dong and Zhong Shengwei.

This is bad!

It seems not just Lu, but others have also had their perceptions distorted, thinking that these kinds of things happening in Tianba Studio are utterly normal.

"Am I the only one clear-headed? Or am I actually the source of this perception distortion?" Chen Ba pondered with dread.

...

Whether Chen Ba likes it or not, the reality is that ’Love Advisor Department’ has nothing to do with ’Love’ anymore.

Oh wait!

There are still love elements, at least some players have successfully found their desired partners through the game.

So the name ’Love Advisor Department’ is accurate for the game.

’Love’ means players can strategize wooing other players and find true love through the game.

’Advisor Department’ means players can match with advisors who fit them best through the game, allowing them to strategize and resolve various life challenges...

So, here’s the problem!

In the elaborate design and strenuous efforts they put into creating a ’pseudo-open world’ with roguelike NPC generation, what purpose did it ultimately serve?

"Don’t just dis it, it serves a huge purpose!"

Yang Dong earnestly said: "Without these game maps and NPCs, could the game files of ’Love Advisor Department’ have reached 15GB?"

Chen Ba: "..."

It sounds so rational that he couldn’t even think of a rebuttal.

Although their developed open-world big map and roguelike random NPC generation are rarely seriously experienced by players, the updates still need to be rolled out.

Otherwise, what could they do?

Sit around doing nothing, like Ba leisurely filling the desk with peanuts and seeds, kicking back to watch shows and videos?

That’s utterly unacceptable!

There can only be one idler in Tianba Studio, and that’s Ba. Apart from Ba, others can’t just idle time away, they have to find things to do.

Game updates are inevitable.

Not only does ’Love Advisor Department’ need updates, but the old game ’Garbage Disposal Fun’ also needs updating, adding the latest pay-to-win projects.

As a match-3 mobile game, ’Garbage Disposal Fun’s microtransactions are singular, you can only recharge diamonds and then use them to draw characters.

This time they plan to roll out a monthly pass.

Not just ’Garbage Disposal Fun,’ the free online game ’Star Emperor’ also plans to add monthly passes and ’Battle Orders’ as new pay-to-win items.

The monthly pass isn’t much...

Mainly because players generally are unwilling to accept these Battle Order/Pass items, finding them too grindy.

"Then let’s make it not grindy!"

Chen Ba’s aim in doing these things is just to make money, he’s not concerned about the game’s daily active users.

If players generally feel the Pass is too grindy, takes too much time, then lower the threshold, make it so you can complete it after a few random matches.

Chen Ba explained: "The Pass is set up to earn money on the one hand, and for the GAL prize pool on the other!"

Making money is the main goal.

But he’s not that shameless, anyway, the main profits of ’Star Emperor’ rely on Xianyu Digital, so in-app purchases aren’t critical.

The Pass is genuinely for the sake of the GAL League.

Because a vast number of ’Star Emperor’ players generally pay a lot of attention to the GAL League, have a high enthusiasm for watching matches, and are very attentive to the games.

So he plans to enhance participation, where 50% of the Pass revenue will turn into champion prizes for the GAL League.

"How much can it sell for?"

Yang Dong thought that not many units of the Pass would sell, and Ba must be overestimating it if he’s counting on it to raise the prize pool.

And why insist on a high prize pool? If the champion reward is just a single dollar, would teams not compete?

"It’s for the sustainable development and health of the League, we can’t subsidize it forever, otherwise over time, some teams won’t be willing."

Chen Ba explained: "Hefty tournament prizes can at least ensure the survival of champion teams, and motivate other teams and players to engage more actively."

To increase the prize pool, he’s also planning to talk to companies like NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, and jointly set a standard.

What standard?

Related ’GAL’ collaborative hardware peripherals from these companies, including memory modules, graphics cards, CPUs, and hard drives etc., whenever marked with ’GAL’ co-branding should contribute approximately 1 US Dollar to the prize fund.

US Dollar isn’t much.

But those big manufacturers, especially with so many categories in hardware, have a considerable yearly output.

If agreements are made, perhaps next year’s GAL League champion prize might exceed ten million US Dollars, maybe even tens of millions!

Put simply, it’s somewhat like a wager.

Some profits from the GAL-branded hardware are allocated to the prizes, if they win, not only can they reclaim the stake but also earn a big gain.

If they don’t win, then they’re just doing favors for their competitors.

This is fiercer than stock price battles!

After all, the amount might be nominal, but it comes directly from individual hardware manufacturers. Winning the championship essentially means commanding tribute from other companies.

Even though the sum might be small, it holds significant meaning!

If AMD wins, included in the prize pool would be 2 million US Dollars from NVIDIA’s contribution, is 2 million a lot?

Not at all!

But since this money comes from Old Huang, its nature becomes completely different for AMD.