"Livestream Harmony Function?" Xu Meng couldn't help blinking, reading it over once more.
He felt rather surprised.
"That's right," Song Zhicheng affirmed.
"Currently, outside of that Dreamjin post, the highest player demand is for a harmony switch in the game, similar to the breast-tearing switch."
"That way, streamers can enable this feature during their broadcasts and no longer worry about getting their livestream rooms banned."
"This feature has high demand not just from streamers, but ordinary players as well."
To prove this point, he even took out his phone to show Xu Meng a screenshot.
It was a reply from a player on P Station under a streamer's dynamic update: The streamer's room getting banned really maxed out the broadcast entertainment value, but without a livestream to watch, I feel like a thousand ants are crawling all over my body, it's so agonizing! This reply received several thousand likes.
Clearly, many people felt the same way.
"Considering that livestreams help the game's popularity a great deal, I think it's best if we add this feature, and the sooner the better," Song Zhicheng added.
Xu Meng nodded, agreeing with his assessment.
In fact, this feature was already in Xu Meng's plans to begin with.
It was just that time was too tight, and he preferred that the employees focus all their energy and use every means possible to make the characters sexier.
Instead of demanding they make the characters as sexy as possible on one hand, while simultaneously demanding they figure out ways to modify the characters to be less sexy on the other.
That would drive people into a schizoid state! Even if it didn't cause a mental split, it would severely stifle creativity and work efficiency, ultimately impacting the sexiness of the characters.
At the same time, he did harbor a somewhat mischievous intent—
He hoped streamers would broadcast the unadulterated visuals, allowing viewers to directly experience the sexiness of the characters through the screen, which was the only way to maximize player acquisition.
If streamers used the harmonized version for their broadcasts right off the bat, the visual and user-acquisition effects would evidently be greatly diminished.
As for streamers accidentally getting their livestream rooms banned by the platform...
This was indeed rather unfriendly to streamers, but for Frost Snow Project, it might just count as an alternative form of promotion.
So after comprehensive consideration, Xu Meng pushed back the development schedule of the harmony switch.
Of course, he wouldn't forget the "sacrifices" streamers made for this.
Once the Dream Builder funding issue was resolved, he would roll out an incentive plan for streamers and UP hosts, and those banned streamers would receive some extra perks as compensation.
"I'll arrange this as soon as possible. Let's talk about the other issue," Xu Meng said. "Players want bugs fixed?"
He actually found it a bit hard to believe.
As expected, Song Zhicheng shook his head as well. "Players' views on bugs are actually somewhat divided."
"Some people think Dream Builder should fix them as soon as possible, but others don't care, and a few even think these bugs are fun and hope they never get fixed."
"Especially the bug for lasso-taming monsters; they generally think it's a lot of fun, and some people worry that if it gets fixed too fast, they won't get to play with it at home."
"However..." Song Zhicheng changed the subject and continued, "Bugs are also the areas where internet trolls attack us the hardest and most effectively."
"If we don't deal with them promptly, it could seriously affect our impression among casual players, which is extremely unfavorable for attracting new players later on."
"That's true too." Xu Meng nodded in agreement.
In the eyes of players, bugs were divided into [Benign Bug] and [Malicious Bug].
But in the eyes of a game company, a bug was a bug, and they weren't divided into benign or malicious—only by the scale of their hazard level.
Even bugs that temporarily seemed harmless, if left unattended, were very likely to cause other major troubles down the line.
Not to mention that the presence of a massive number of bugs would imperceptibly form an impression of "this company is unprofessional" in the hearts of players and passersby.
This kind of impression would have a lasting impact on all aspects of a company's work.
Game promotion, review scores, player confidence, and even talent recruitment would all be affected.
Especially now, with many bloggers launching tirades against Frost Snow Project, coupled with the organized and planned smears from a massive army of trolls...
Let alone leaving them unaddressed, even delaying for a bit too long might cause the public opinion landscape to take a nosedive and turn entirely against Dream Builder.
Fortunately, Xu Meng wasn't unprepared.
--With schedules this tight and so much content, bugs didn't surprise him in the least; what was surprising was just how many bugs there were, and how bizarre they were.
However, the preparation he made was that no matter how many bugs there were, and regardless of whether they were malicious or benign, or what the players' attitudes were, he could deal with them all in one fell swoop!
"I'm going to go solve this issue right now."
Xu Meng nodded to Song Zhicheng and Peng Linmu, turned around, and left the Programming Department.
Song Zhicheng looked dumbfounded at Peng Linmu. "Shouldn't solving bug issues be your job? Why did the boss leave?"
Peng Linmu: "If you ask me, who do I ask?"
After returning to his office, Xu Meng didn't bury his head in fixing bugs.
He completely ignored the bugs and directly opened the official accounts of Frost Snow Project on Weiguang, P Station, and Dreamjin, publishing an announcement—
[Thank you everyone for feeding back the bugs present in the game to us. We deeply apologize for bringing you a poor experience.]
[Upon receiving bug reports, we arranged for specialists to handle them at the very first moment, and we have now locked onto the source of the bugs.]
[Please wait a moment, we will give everyone an explanation very soon!]
The attention received by Frost Snow Project was no longer what it used to be.
Judging by follower counts, P Station followers had increased to 3.8 million, and Weiguang had also climbed to 1.7 million.
It looked like less than a doubling of growth, but the attention level had more than doubled—not only was there a massive amount of external interest, but a large portion of the original "zombie followers" had also been activated.
Thus, as soon as the announcement was published, a large number of netizens eagerly left comments:
"No!! I haven't off work yet!"
"Don't rush, don't rush! I'm currently leading my pet army to sweep across the grand world, fix what fix."
"These are all game features, no need to fix them."
"Locked onto the bug source this fast? Such high efficiency?"
"Although I'm not too happy that you're fixing features, Daddy is quite satisfied with this attitude and speed."
"Hurry up, if you don't fix it soon I worry your game will go under sooner or later."
"Stop bragging. How long has it been since the bug was discovered? Not only did you lock onto the source, but you're about to fix it and give an explanation immediately? You gotta draft a rough copy even when you're bullshitting."
"Truth be told, doing it this fast doesn't really seem real. Aren't you guys just fobbing us off?"
"If you can really pull that off, that would be amazing!"
Netizens had mixed opinions, and faint traces of trolls could still be seen.
Overall, however, players approved of the attitude of not playing dead and responding in a timely manner.
It was just that they generally didn't quite believe Dream Builder could lock onto the sources of all problems so quickly.
Xu Meng didn't try to build suspense either. After waiting a few minutes for netizens to focus their attention, he suddenly posted a P Station livestream link.
Netizens quickly clicked to jump over.
In just a brief moment, nearly 100,000 people flooded into the livestream room.
At first it was a black screen, with only strings of question-mark bullet comments drifting across the visuals.
Two minutes later, the screen lit up.
In a large office, employees were all working away, the clicking of keyboards ringing out incessantly.
Everything was very normal, and extremely similar to the daily work environments of the netizens.
Hence the bullet comments stopped typing question marks: "Where is this? DreamBuilder's office?"
"Are they going to fix bugs for us to watch live?"
"Cloud supervisor?"
Naturally, no one could answer.
However, the camera quickly cut, starting to follow behind someone's back from an over-the-shoulder perspective as they walked forward, arriving in front of a workstation.
The employee at the workstation wore a grid-pattern outfit and seemed quite solidly built, stretching the clothes tight, and was currently working with intense concentration.
Netizens leaned in close to the screen, wanting to see the work content on his screen.
Yet they saw this person who had just walked over pull out a bottle of "water," unscrew the cap, and splash it all over the employee.
--Most players didn't recognize Xu Meng; only a few people from industry peers and media recognized him, but they didn't post it in the bullet comments.
After all, this scene didn't look like anything good.
The four words "workplace bullying" surfaced in everyone's minds.
But before they could even type it out, they saw Xu Meng throw away the empty bottle, pull out a box of matches, and take one out to ignite it.
Without any hesitation afterward, he casually tossed it away.
The next second, with a bang, flames immediately roared to life all over that employee! "Ahhhhh!!"
Terrified, the employee screamed and leaped to his feet, running away from Xu Meng.
The camera closely followed behind this person burning all over with fierce flames, and netizens then saw that during his frantic dash, everyone terrifiedly stayed away, making way for him.
Some people didn't have time to get up, tumbling over together with their chairs, and even knocking office desks out of alignment.
Succeeding waves of startled cries, the crashing sounds of desks and chairs colliding, and people frantically shouting for emergency services echoed throughout the entire office.
Finally, this employee trapped in the blaze screamed as he threw himself into a flying leap out the office door, disappearing from the camera's view.
The next second, the screen went black once again.
The brief livestream came to an end right there.
Yet the people in the livestream room didn't decrease in the slightest; instead, they grew more and more numerous! Asking for monthly passes, asking for reads, asking for recommendations!
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