Permanent Removal Announcement

In Xu Meng's impression, channel distributors were all outrageously tough.

Whether it was the impression he got from exchanges with peers in his previous life, or the impression from his predecessor's memories in this world, channel distributors were the kind of super tough, unyielding, and extremely difficult to deal with characters.

--For game developers and teams who needed to reach mobile users, facing channel distributors who could reach users on a large scale at extremely low cost, they really didn't have the capital to be tough.

So Xu Meng didn't quite understand: channel distributors who aligned everything with profit, wouldn't budge an inch for profit, and could ruthlessly exploit all game development companies, actually conceded so easily?

With the current popularity and revenue of Frost Snow Project, the share they could get each month, while not a huge sum, was still very considerable—not to mention that the revenue was still on the rise.

So much money, and they just said they didn't want it?

They couldn't just pretend it didn't exist because it hadn't arrived yet, right? That wasn't scientific! "When they took down Frost Snow Project, did they say anything else?"

"They only sent notification emails and in-site messages." Song Zhicheng's expression wasn't good either.

"They asked us to deal with the problems reported by users as soon as possible, make harmonious modifications to the game, and relist it after they have reviewed and approved it. If we don't modify it for a day, they won't relist it for a day."

Song Zhicheng was a little aggrieved: "I called them just now to communicate, but they said it was lunchtime, and they would talk about it in the afternoon if there was anything, and then hung up the phone."

Xu Meng was instantly speechless.

The lunch break for working people was indeed precious, but he had never encountered such an arrogant act as hanging up on a partner company directly.

"What is our revenue share ratio with these three channels?" he asked.

Song Zhicheng knew that Zhang Yang, the former boss, was responsible for this aspect of the work, while the current boss, Xu Meng, was more responsible for game development, so he patiently explained to Xu Meng—

"Three-seven."

"We get seven?" Xu Meng asked.

"We get three, and the channels get seventy percent."

Xu Meng was speechless again, and even felt the veins on his forehead throbbing.

70%!

That was too damn outrageous.

People back home all said that mobile channels were inhumane and bloodsucking, but even there, they only sucked 50%, with the channels and developers splitting it evenly.

But here, it was directly 70%?

Were they crazy?!

"The channel distributors don't just take 70% for nothing, they have to do some other work besides listing the game, right?" Xu Meng tried to find some psychological balance.

"Uh... in theory, that's how it is."

"When we signed the agreement, we required the channels to assist in completing all the preparation work for listing, and to formulate corresponding promotion plans for the channels when the game was listed and updated, to help maintain the game's display page, discussion area environment, and abnormal data cleaning..."

"Wait a minute." Xu Meng raised his hand to stop Song Zhicheng from continuing, "What do you mean by 'in theory'?"

"It means... in theory, our game is being maliciously given low scores—those accounts have never even downloaded the game, they need to deal with this kind of abnormal data to ensure fair scoring, and malicious reports are even more so."

Song Zhicheng was a little embarrassed.

Xu Meng then guessed: "But in reality, they didn't care at all, and just let Frost Snow Project be maliciously reported and given low scores until there were enough reports, and then they took down our game without any regard?"

"Yes." Song Zhicheng lowered his head, a little ashamed to look at Xu Meng.

"Before it was taken down, the user ratings for Frost Snow Project on these three channels had dropped to the 2s."

"I started communicating with the channels yesterday—not just these three, asking them to stop this organized smear campaign, reporting, and low scoring behavior, but the communication was very unsuccessful."

"These three channels were the most perfunctory, and they were impatient even answering the phone, which made several employees very angry."

Song Zhicheng said that his employees were very angry, but Xu Meng could tell at a glance—

He was also very angry.

The little assistant Chen Mengling on the side was also glaring angrily.

So Xu Meng thought for a moment and then asked a key question: "Do we have the player data for the channel servers?"

"According to the agreement signed by Boss Zhang, the player data for the channel servers is jointly owned by both of us. But in reality, most of the channel staff don't care at all."

"So these channels really just provide a channel and a server, and then lie down and collect money, without caring about anything else?"

Song Zhicheng was silent for a few seconds, "Pretty much."

This answer helped Xu Meng make up his mind.

"Then forget it."

"?" Song Zhicheng didn't understand, "Forget what?"

"Didn't they say: if we don't modify and censor, they won't relist it?" Xu Meng said slowly.

"Then forget it, we won't change it, and if they don't relist it, we won't list it."

"Go and issue an announcement, saying that Frost Snow Project will be permanently removed from these three channels, and the player data of the corresponding servers will be merged into the official server."

This decision actually has many drawbacks.

But Xu Meng's personality determined that he couldn't be a pure businessman.

He left the big company and ran out to develop independent games because he couldn't stand this kind of stifling feeling.

If he's unhappy, he wants his opponents to be unhappy with him.

If the opponent is even more unhappy than him, then he's happy.

If this process can make his own people happy too, then it's a huge profit! Song Zhicheng wanted to persuade his boss, but looking at Xu Meng's expression, thinking about the anger he had suffered at the channels and the more anger he would suffer if he compromised, and listening to the joyful laughter of his colleagues outside the office...

He suddenly didn't want to persuade him anymore.

Let it be.

"Understood, I'll go write the announcement now."

"Hurry up! Everyone's waiting to go to dinner!" Xu Meng urged.

Five minutes later, Song Zhicheng showed Xu Meng the announcement he had written.

Xu Meng shook his head as he read it: "It's too serious and lacks explosive points."

"It's a pity not to take the opportunity to stir up trouble and get on a trending topic, and let the players have some fun."

"Ah?" Song Zhicheng was dumbfounded.

"Forget it, I'll revise it." Xu Meng took the tablet from Song Zhicheng and started revising.

A few minutes later, Frost Snow Project released an emergency announcement personally polished by Xu Meng—

[Statement on the permanent removal of Frost Snow Project from Le Shang, Yun Zhi, Bear Paw Phone Assistant and other three channels] Dear players: Hello everyone.

At noon today, three channels, including the Le Shang App Store, the Yun Zhi App Store, and the Bear Paw Phone Assistant, suddenly removed Frost Snow Project without any communication.

Without any verification, they adopted abnormal complaint data and ignored the voices of real players, demanding that Frost Snow Project make crude modifications to the costumes of some characters in the game.

And they declared that Frost Snow Project would not be relisted until the modification was completed.

Zhumeng expresses its incomprehension of this.

Even more unacceptable.

Every character is the hard work of the Concept Artist, Animator, Modeler, and Programmer.

We deeply love the characters we create and cannot accept them being slandered and vilified with malicious language because of their dress.

Game characters also have the Freedom to wear what they want! The creative team of Frost Snow Project will continue to adhere to this creative concept in the future, and continue to bring players beautiful and moving girls who can make people blush and their hearts beat faster at first glance.

In order to realize this concept, we have made a difficult decision:

Effective immediately, Frost Snow Project will be permanently removed from the Le Shang, Yun Zhi, Bear Paw Phone Assistant and other three channels.

Players who play the game on these three channel servers don't need to worry, Zhumeng has properly saved all your data.

Just wait patiently for a few days, and you can directly use the official launcher to enter the game and continue your adventure in Arda.

We sincerely look forward to meeting you again in the world of Arda.

Zhumeng Game Company, June 2, 2025—After sending the announcement, Xu Meng put the matter aside and went to meet up with his little assistant and Song Zhicheng and the employees, and set off for dinner together.

But the entire ACG community became completely lively because of this announcement! Asking for monthly tickets, asking for follow-up reading, asking for recommendations!