The fact that the "True Otherworld" development team was quick to fix bugs was already common knowledge on the forums. This was especially true after the number of players participating in the tests had grown and the story had expanded to cover all of Transia. By then, Brother Fa posted an update announcement almost every week.
After the assistant Little Cui appeared and became active on the forums, she occasionally took charge of the updates herself.
Most of the time, the announcements covered minor tweaks to various gameplay features. Occasionally, they also provided an overview of developments in Scarlet Castle and Transia. Because of this, many veteran players jokingly called the weekly updates "work reports" from the development team to the testers—the "Alpha company shareholders."
However, observant players who were good at reflecting on and summarizing things could easily tell that the development team was constantly using announcements and version updates to subtly adjust and guide players' in-game activities.
Today's announcement was an especially typical example.
"True Otherworld" 43rd Online Update Announcement:
This online update makes appropriate adjustments to some "discordant elements" that emerged during the "Hundred-Day Construction Campaign." The widespread slave-catching in Transia has caused Scarlet Archon Mirian and her administrative team to worry about the situation in the surrounding regions.
She and her team agreed that now was not a good time to provoke the "bad neighbors," so they urgently contacted the development team to patch the current situation.
That's awesome!
My little players!
I've been doing testing work for quite a while, but this is the first time I've seen players' overly hardcore spontaneous actions force the development team to change the quest mechanics. All I can say is, you guys are something else.
Here are the details of this update:
1. To refocus players' attention on