The Solution to the Problem

"Live stream Harmony Function?" Xu Meng couldn't help but blink, reading it again.

He was a little surprised.

"That's right," Song Zhicheng affirmed.

"Currently, the biggest demand from players, besides that post on Dream Ferry, is the hope to add a Harmony Switch like the Clothing Destruction Switch to the game."

"This way, streamers can turn on this function during live streams without worrying about getting their channels banned."

"This function isn't just highly requested by streamers, but also by ordinary players."

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 post: '[The streamer's channel getting banned is indeed full of entertainment value, but without the live stream to watch, it feels like a thousand ants are crawling on my body, so uncomfortable!]' This reply got several thousand likes.

Clearly, many people felt the same way.

"Also, considering that live streaming greatly helps the game's popularity, I think it would be best to add this function if possible, and the sooner the better," Song Zhicheng added.

Xu Meng nodded, agreeing with his view.

In fact, this function was originally in Xu Meng's plan.

It was just that time was too tight, and he hoped that the employees would concentrate all their efforts and do everything possible to make the characters more erotic.

Instead of asking them to make the characters as erotic as possible, while also asking them to find ways to modify the characters to be less erotic.

This would drive people crazy! Even if it didn't cause mental breakdown, it would seriously stifle creativity and work efficiency, ultimately affecting the erotic level of the characters.

At the same time, he also had a bit of mischief in mind—

He hoped that the streamers could broadcast the original, unadulterated scenes, so that the audience could directly feel the erotic level of the characters through the screen, so as to maximize the attraction of new players.

If the streamers directly used the harmonized version for live streaming, the visual effect and the effect of attracting new players would obviously be greatly reduced.

As for the streamers accidentally getting their channels banned by the platform...

This was indeed not very friendly to the streamers, but for the Frost Snow Project, it might not be a bad thing as an alternative form of promotion.

So, after comprehensive consideration, Xu Meng postponed the development schedule of the Harmony Switch.

Of course, he would not forget the "sacrifices" made by the streamers for this.

Once Zhu Meng's funding problem was solved, he would launch an incentive program for streamers and content creators, and those banned streamers would also receive some extra benefits as compensation.

"I will arrange this as soon as possible, let's talk about another issue," Xu Meng said, "Players want to fix bugs?"

He actually didn't quite believe it.

Song Zhicheng also shook his head as expected: "Players' views on bugs are actually a bit divided."

"Some people think Zhu Meng should fix them as soon as possible, but some people don't care, and some people even think these bugs are fun and it's best not to fix them."

"Especially the bug of taming monsters with lassos, they generally think it's very fun, and some people are worried that it will be fixed too quickly and they won't be able to play it when they get home."

"But..." Song Zhicheng changed his tone and said again, "Bugs are also the strongest and most effective point for the water army to attack us."

"If we don't deal with it as soon as possible, it may seriously affect our impression among casual players, which is very detrimental to attracting new players in the future."

"That's true." Xu Meng nodded in agreement.

In the eyes of players, bugs are divided into Benign Bugs and Malicious Bugs.

But in the eyes of game companies, bugs are bugs, and they are not divided into benign or malicious—only the degree of harm.

Even if a bug doesn't seem to be a big problem for the time being, if it is ignored, it may cause other big troubles in the future.

Not to mention that the existence of a large number of bugs will subtly form the impression of "this company is not professional" in the minds of players and passers-by.

This impression will have a long-term impact on all aspects of a company's work.

Game promotion, word-of-mouth scores, player confidence, and even attracting talents will be affected.

Especially now that there are many bloggers attacking the Frost Snow Project, coupled with a large number of water armies with organized and planned smear campaigns...

Not to mention ignoring it, even delaying it for a while, the public opinion situation may take a sharp turn and completely fall to the side that is unfavorable to Zhu Meng.

Fortunately, Xu Meng was not unprepared.

——With such a tight schedule and so much content, he wasn't surprised that there were bugs, but he was surprised by how many bugs there were and how bizarre they were.

However, his preparation was to deal with all bugs, regardless of how many there were, whether they were malicious or benign, or what the players' attitudes were!

"I'll go solve this problem now."

Xu Meng nodded to Song Zhicheng and Peng Linmu, and turned to leave the Programming Department.

Song Zhicheng looked at Peng Linmu in confusion: "Shouldn't we be looking for you to solve bug problems? Why did the boss leave?"

Peng Linmu: "You're asking me, who should I ask?"

After Xu Meng returned to his office, he didn't bury himself in fixing bugs.

He didn't care about the bugs at all, but directly opened the official accounts of Frost Snow Project on Weiguang, P Station, and Dream Ferry, and released an announcement——

[Thank you all for reporting the bugs in the game to us. We are very sorry for the bad experience caused to everyone.]

[After receiving the bug feedback, we have arranged for someone to solve it as soon as possible, and now the source of the bug has been locked.]

[Please wait a moment, and we will give you an explanation soon!]——

The attention of Frost Snow Project is not what it used to be.

In terms of the number of fans, P Station fans have increased to 3.8 million, and Weiguang has also risen to 1.7 million.

It seems that the increase is less than double, but the attention has more than doubled—not only is there a lot of attention from outsiders, but also a large number of original "zombie fans" have been activated.

Therefore, as soon as the announcement was released, a large number of netizens actively left messages:

"No!! I haven't gotten off work yet!"

"No hurry, no hurry, I'm taking my pet army to sweep the big world, why fix it."

"These are all game features, no need to fix them."

"Locked the source of the bug so quickly? Is the efficiency so high?"

"Although I'm not happy that you want to fix the features, Dad is quite satisfied with your attitude and speed."

"Hurry up, if you don't fix it, I'm worried that your game will be gone sooner or later."

"Stop bragging, how long has it been since the bug was discovered? Not only has the source of the bug been locked, but it will be fixed and explained immediately? You have to draft your bragging, right?"

"To be fair, it doesn't seem real so quickly, is it a lie?"

"If it can really be done, then it will be amazing!"

Players have different opinions, and there are faint traces of water armies.

But overall, players recognize the attitude of not pretending to be dead and giving timely responses.

It's just that they generally don't believe that Zhu Meng can lock the source of all problems so quickly.

Xu Meng didn't keep them in suspense either. After waiting a few minutes for the netizens to focus their attention, he suddenly released a P Station live broadcast link.

Netizens quickly clicked to jump.

In just a moment, nearly 100,000 people poured into the live broadcast room.

At first, it was a black screen, and only strings of question mark barrages floated across the screen.

Two minutes later, the screen lit up.

In a large office, employees were all working, and the keyboard was clicking non-stop.

Everything was very ordinary, very similar to the daily working environment of netizens.

So the barrage stopped asking question marks: "Where is this? Zhu Meng's office?"

"Is this going to fix bugs live for us?"

"Cloud Supervisor?"

Naturally, no one could answer.

However, the camera quickly shifted, starting to follow the back of a person from an over-the-shoulder perspective, as they walked towards a workstation.

The employee at the workstation was wearing a checkered shirt, and seemed to be quite robust, stretching the clothes to the point of bulging. At this moment, they were concentrating on their work.

Netizens crowded closer to the screen, wanting to see the content of their work.

But they saw the person who had just walked over take 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 in the industry and the media recognized him, but they didn't reveal it in the comments.

After all, this scene didn't look like anything good.

The words "workplace bullying" appeared in everyone's minds.

But before they could type it out, they saw Xu Meng throw away the empty bottle, take out a box of matches, and light one.

Then, without any hesitation, he casually tossed it out.

In the next second, with a "whoosh," raging flames immediately erupted on the employee's body! "Aaaahhhh!!"

The employee was terrified, screaming as they jumped up and ran away from Xu Meng.

The camera closely followed this person engulfed in flames, and the netizens saw everyone around them moving away in terror, giving them way as they ran.

Some people didn't have time to get up, falling over with their chairs, even knocking the desks out of place.

The entire office was filled with overlapping exclamations, the sounds of colliding tables and chairs, and people screaming in panic, calling for emergency services.

Finally, the employee engulfed in flames screamed and dove out of the office door, disappearing from the camera's view.

In the next second, the screen went black again.

The short livestream came to an end.

But the number of people in the livestream room didn't decrease at all; instead, it continued to increase! Asking for monthly tickets, asking to follow the updates, asking for recommendations!