This Is Not a Bug but a Game Feature-Chapter 186 - 139: Cowshed Watcher

The development of the new game did not start immediately.

Because Mid-Autumn Festival had just passed, and the National Day was right around the corner, with only a short span of eight days in between.

Moreover, the game "Speeding Frenzy" required a lot of car model licenses, which would take time to negotiate and secure, not something that could be settled in a few words.

You can’t rush good things!

Chen Ba wasn’t in a hurry. He even had the leisure to visit nearby Zhonghai to attend a collective wedding of ten players from "Love Advisor Department."

Getting married as a group is so cool!

As of now, the total number of players on all platforms for "Love Advisor Department" had exceeded 1.5 million.

Today, the ten players getting married just happened to all live in Zhonghai. Following a suggestion from Tianba Studio, the five couples decided to register their marriages on the same day and hold a wedding at the same hotel.

I must say, it was so romantic!

It was Chen Ba’s first time attending such a collective wedding, and it was the first time he realized that a wedding could be so lively. Over a hundred tables were filled with the couples’ friends and family, colleagues, and classmates.

The scene was truly spectacular...

At the wedding, Tianba Studio had meticulously edited a short blessing video for the five couples. As a special guest, Chen Ba even went on stage to say a few words.

The atmosphere was harmonious.

Until a certain groom cluelessly asked, "Ba, when are you getting married?"

Chen Ba’s face turned black as ink instantly. The speech he had prepared, which was ten thousand words long, was cut down to just over a thousand before he found an excuse to escape.

How infuriating!

He had specially come to enjoy the banquet and prepared a lengthy speech, and this was how they repaid his hospitality?

It was simply too cruel.

Of all the things, why ask when Ba would marry? Wasn’t that just rubbing salt in his wounds? If he had found someone, he would have posted about it in the Tianba Community long ago to show off.

But unfortunately, he hadn’t...

Speaking of rubbing salt in wounds, the players in the Tianba Community are surely pros at it.

While Chen Ba went to Zhonghai for the collective wedding, a veteran Tianba Fan compiled all the bug records from Tianba Studio’s history, with facts and evidence that amused everyone.

Wow!

You don’t know until you see it; it’s shocking once you do.

We’d always heard Ba bragging, making everyone believe his nonsense. After reading this post, it became clear that every game under Tianba Studio had bugs?

Having bugs isn’t the worst part.

The problem is that Ba is always stubborn, insisting his games are perfect and free of any bugs...

Now that all the evidence is laid bare, surely Ba can’t keep denying it, right?

That’s what everyone thought.

Little did they know they underestimated Chen Ba’s thick skin. Just because you say it’s a bug doesn’t mean it’s a bug, right? This is clearly a pre-designed hidden feature!

"Ba’s only tough spot is his mouth!"

"Alright, alright, hidden feature! But if it’s a hidden feature, why suppress the Cowherding Sect? @GameBugs"

"Absolutely! The Cowherding Sect is so unfortunate, this once mighty sect has declined so much now..."

"A thousand voices demanding updates for ’Cold Window Study Simulator’!"

How come the Cowherding Sect still isn’t extinct?

Sitting in the business class seat back to Jiangning, Chen Ba looked at the discussion threads in the community, filled with curiosity.

"Cold Window Study Simulator" as his first game didn’t have great sales, only a fraction of "Divine Grace Continent" and "Love Advisor Department."

Not just that.

After nearly three years, most of the original players of "Cold Window Study Simulator" had quit the game.

Logically...

With low sales and players continuously quitting, the decline or even extinction of the Cowherding Sect seemed inevitable. 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

But to this day, the community still had many active members of the Cowherding Sect. Although their numbers had dropped, the decline wasn’t significant.

This is quite abstract!

Were the original Cowherding Sect followers really that loyal? Or were they genuinely convinced by the philosophy of "herding equals cultivation"?

To better understand how many people still played "Cold Window Study Simulator" and to get a sense of the Cowherding Sect, Chen Ba called Wang Kun.

As a core member of the Cowherding Sect and the first real player of "Cold Window Study Simulator," he had a lot to say about this.

"There aren’t many players left..."

"No new players are joining, and active players have decreased significantly compared to the previous two years."

On the call, Wang Kun told Chen Ba that there weren’t many active players left for "Cold Window Study Simulator."

About twenty to thirty thousand?

This was an optimistic estimate. The actual number was likely lower, considering it’s a single-player game, making it hard to pinpoint the exact number of active players.

"Still so many?"

Chen Ba was greatly shocked, not expecting that after such a long time, so many players still persisted in playing "Cold Window Study Simulator."

What are they after?

After all this time, their gameplay time must be at least several hundred hours, possibly over a thousand hours?

Such a long duration, they’d surely be bored of "Cold Window Study Simulator" by now. In Ba’s view, playing this game over 100 hours would be considered a miracle.

After all, the game content was really minimal.

The experiences to be had were no more than limited, a dozen hours at most dedicated to earning achievements and saving progress, but besides that, what else was there to do?

He thought the number of active players might only be in the thousands, or even just a few hundred...

Unbelievable!

To this day, "Cold Window Study Simulator" still had ten to twenty thousand players sticking with it.