Xu Meng's doubts had just emerged when new information surfaced once again--
Owned Company: Dream Building Game Network Technology Co., Ltd.
Employee Count Over One Hundred, Task Over-completed
Task Complete!
Basic reward: 2 Million Cash Value Cryptography
Bonus reward: Intelligent Collaboration Development Tool
Issuance complete
Task Update--
Fortunately, you picked up a company; unfortunately, this company is about to go out of business.
Task: Turn Crisis into Safety
Task Objective: Reverse the deteriorating word-of-mouth and revenue of Frost Snow Project, and extricate the company from the crisis of bankruptcy
The light curtain vanished.
Xu Meng was stunned for a moment, and then wanted to slam the table in disappointment--
Wasn't this completely useless?!
2 million was not a small sum.
If he were still in his original world, he would have been happy for at least a month.
After all, building a game company from scratch was mostly in a studio model, with at most no more than 10 people.
2 million was enough to pay a year's wages.
But at Dream Building, it could only extend life by one more month.
More advanced development tools were the same, merely improving work efficiency.
Yet the problem facing Dream Building right now was simply not something that could be resolved in a month or two--elevating a failing shooter game to a first-rate level within two months?
Wasn't this a joke?!
The media and industry peers had already sentenced Dream Building to death, and even the players had started lighting candles for it.
Assistant Chen Mengling saw Xu Meng's ugly expression and assumed he was angered by the trending search, so she quickly comforted him:
"Boss, don't worry for now. There are only two or three people secretly submitting resumes, and most of them are still very loyal!"
Xu Meng looked up at this assistant, a question mark slowly popping up over his head.
If you don't know how to talk, you don't have to speak!
Even you, the general manager's assistant, have heard the rumors, so the actual situation can only be much more severe!
"Got it, got it. Go ahead and get busy with your work." Xu Meng waved his hand.
"Oh, right." The little assistant looked full of misgivings, but could only leave the office.
As for Xu Meng, he opened his computer with a headache to study their in-house Frost Snow Project, wanting to see what the situation actually was and whether there was still any saving it.
From the perspective of the initial project approval, Frost Snow Project had taken a fancy to the market's lack of 2D plus shooter-type games, wanting to seize this still-blank track.
The idea was good, but the final product...
Neither 2D nor a shooter.
As for being a shooter game, it didn't do multiplayer or confrontation, nor did it seriously study the shooting feel.
It single-mindedly researched how to trap player resources and how to design boss and firearms numerical values to force players into pay-to-win mechanics.
As for being 2D, it didn't put effort into bishojo character designs and appearances, instead messing around with a bunch of random plots and shipping the male and female characters in the game...
The three female characters with the heaviest starting roles--Tong Que, He Yin, and Xiao Ningxi—actually had obvious affection dialogue with male characters in two cases!
Only Xiao Ningxi escaped disaster simply because she was young.
--Even so, Xiao Ningxi had an intimate male master, Yun Fei.
This left Xu Meng with his head full of question marks:
Are you out of your mind?
Whose 2D game is designed like this?
Other people make games by playing to their strengths and avoiding weaknesses, but you play to your weaknesses and avoid your strengths, using whatever dregs you can find, right?
Who are you going to fail if not you?!
Xu Meng only felt his blood pressure rise and a splitting headache.
He suddenly understood why the game he developed to ride trending topics in his past life managed to break through.
--Although he rode trending topics, he always stood in the player's perspective when designing games, studying how to design fun and how to bring surprises to players.
As a result, there were actually so many game designers who didn't care what players thought at all?
What was even more magical was: right now, everyone under his command was a crouching dragon or fledgling phoenix of this caliber!
Xu Meng was utterly speechless and even felt like laughing.
"Good, good, good... So that's how you want to play..."
The orthodox way to reverse game word-of-mouth--relying on hard strength to improve game quality--was simply out of the question; it was completely impossible in a short time.
"Then we can only... take an unorthodox path."
He had seen cases of 2D shooter games coming back from the dead before.
Although the methods were a bit unpresentable and inevitably subject to abuse for vulgarity by some moral guardians, it was still better than the company going bankrupt, employees losing their jobs, and him carrying tens of millions in debt.
Therefore, he logged into the official account of Frost Snow Project and began writing an announcement while thinking.
10 minutes later, Weiguang social platform.
The official account of Frost Snow Project published an announcement.
Because Game Observer's bankruptcy prediction surged onto the trending searches, a massive number of media outlets and netizens were waiting for Frost Snow Project to respond.
A mutual online flame war between Game Observer and the target of their bankruptcy prediction was also a retained program, always able to attract a massive number of netizens to watch the drama unfold, and this time was naturally no exception.
Now that Frost Snow Project had finally taken up the challenge, the drama-hungry netizens swarmed over instantly.
Then, they saw something that completely exceeded expectations--
"Thank you for everyone's concern regarding Frost Snow Project and Dream Building Game.
However, such a small matter is truly not worth beating drums and gongs to summon everyone here.
Yet since you're already here, to make sure your trip wasn't in vain, we might as well take this opportunity to announce a few things.
Frost Snow Project has officially initiated the remake process, and some of the disclosable changes are as follows:
1. Plot Modification:
All character shipping settings are deleted, and such content will no longer be produced in the future.
(Remarks: The writing team will be replaced with fresh blood, and we sincerely recruit game scriptwriters as well as male-oriented harem web novelists to join the writing team.)
2. Character Costuming:
All female characters will receive a comprehensive wardrobe change, and more outfits capable of fully showcasing character figures and individual aesthetics will continue to be launched in the future.
Male characters unrelated to the main storyline will be deleted, and relevant characters will undergo gender swaps into female characters.
(Remarks: We sincerely recruit concept artists. All employees of Dream Building warmly welcome bishojo H-artists to come ashore!)
3. Rating Upgrade:
We deeply regret to announce--
Due to issues with character figures, clothing, and action scales after the remake, the rating for Frost Snow Project will be upgraded from the original [12+] to [18+].
Starting from today, users under 18 years of age will no longer be able to register.
After the version update, registered users under 18 years of age will also be unable to log in.
The minor refund channel will be launched within a week.
More modification intelligence will be gradually disclosed hereafter, so please stay tuned!"
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Everyone who saw the announcement--whether they were Game Observer editors, industry peers, Frost Snow Project players, or purely drama-watching netizens--was stunned stupid.
Rolling through all of their minds was the exact same sentence--
"What kind of operation is this???"
Incomprehensible!
Completely incomprehensible!
Shouldn't you fiercely refute Game Observer's views, angrily denounce their data as inaccurate and baseless rumors, demand that Game Observer apologize for their erroneous remarks causing losses to Dream Building Game, and threaten to resort to legal means, while actually doing nothing except making harsh threats?
--Netizens could see similar plots seven or eight times a year, and had long since grown skillful through practice!
How come when it came to Dream Building Game, they suddenly stopped playing by the book??
Not only were you not angry, but you even took the opportunity to issue an announcement?
And furthermore...
Would you take a look at what on earth you just published?!
Once the netizens recovered their wits, the comment section directly exploded:
"The scriptwriting group is being sacrificed just like that?"
"Well deserved! Such a satisfying moment! But what is the meaning of recruiting harem novel authors?"
"Is this implying we can open a harem in the game from now on!?"
"I know a guy who writes harem novels, writes brilliantly, but three consecutive books bombed and he's almost starving. @Wheel Turner, come beg for food quickly!"
"Character gender swaps? Awesome! I can only say it's truly awesome!"
"Wardrobe changes, 18-restricted, H-artists... Is this going all out to shed the armor? Things are looking up, brothers!"
"Genius! 2D games should have learned from hentai long ago."
The uproar was not limited to the internet.
Just a door away from the general manager's office where Xu Meng sat, the open-plan office area also rapidly grew noisy.
And the most bustling place among them was undoubtedly the writing team, who were slacking off at work and scrolling through Weiguang.
As they scrolled, they suddenly discovered that they had been fired...
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