This Is Not a Bug bu Chapter 15: Still Herding Cattle? Still Herding Cattle!

Chapter 15: Chapter 15: Still Herding Cattle? Still Herding Cattle!

"...I don’t understand."

"Why would anyone be obsessed with herding cows? And they’re cyber cows at that, played for over a hundred hours; isn’t he sick of it?"

Zhang Xiaojun, who routinely maintains the ga community at Tianba Ga Studio, rolled her eyes wildly as she looked at the post with the most replies on the forum.

"What’s up?"

Hearing her complaint, Chen Ba got up and walked over to ask, "What happened?"

"Chen, take a look for yourself."

Pointing at the computer screen, Zhang Xiaojun said helplessly, "There’s a player nad ’Cowherding Sect Leader’ who posted in the community about his cowherding insights and even released a dedicated tutorial."

Is there even a tutorial for this?

Chen Ba was greatly shocked and montarily doubted the authenticity of his identity as a ga developer.

This is absurd!

Even he, the ga creator, didn’t know there were so many tricks to cowherding. Is this guy just rambling?

[Tribute to Every Cowherder]

The title was quite sothing, but the content was even more explosive.

According to this player, nicknad ’Cowherding Sect Leader,’ he initially learned about the ga Cold Window Study Simulator through Qian Duoduo’s video.

The bug in the video, where after three years of cowherding, there’s a sudden revelation leading to the top score in the entrance exam, left him bewildered.

So he bought the ga, intending to personally experience three years of cowherding, read no books, but still manage to get into his dream high school, feeling so surreal.

In the process, he gradually beca healed by the ga.

Though the ga’s graphics were rough and abstract, during cowherding, one could not only see scenery but also enjoy lodic chord sounds, feeling the harmony between man and nature.

One hour, two hours...

As the ga ti increased, he suddenly understood!

The main character leading Old Huang the cow, leisurely strolling alone on the hillside, made his anxious heart gradually calm and enter a state of so-called "sage ti."

What exams? What school?

When all these thoughts were pushed out of his mind, and he thought only of this land, only of the cow, he finally found where his soul belonged.

Then, he founded the so-called "Cowherding Sect" to tell others through his own experience, what relentless studying? What ga chanics?

Don’t bother with any of those.

Just regard this ga as a tool to cultivate one’s mind and heal the soul.

"Cowherding is not rely cowherding, but a practice; what we herd is not cows, but our own hearts!"

"Co, join the Cowherding Sect!"

"From now on, break free from the shackles of ga chanics, step into the gates of practice, let the exhausted soul find redemption..."

Banging cyber wood fish, herding cyber cow, hinting at a bit of brain trouble.

The tutorial actually exists.

But this tutorial, it really has nothing to do with the ga, saying it’s the "core doctrine of the Cowherding Sect" isn’t too much.

So instructions like empty your mind while cowherding, choose a comfortable sitting or lying position, turn up the headphone or speaker volu, close your eyes to feel the non-existent Old Huang cow, then try to lead it away...

It’s practically toxic!

The most outrageous part is that beneath this post, there are actually hundreds of players expressing belief and actively signing up for the sect.

So even proposed organizing offline gatherings, everyone leading a cow, striving for each sect mber to have cows to herd and grass to cut...

Still herding cows? Still herding cows!

The more Chen Ba looked, the more speechless he beca, imdiately using admin privileges to highlight and pin this "preaching post."

After Tianba Ga was established, Chen Ba also built an official player community, with a website link embedded in Cold Window Study Simulator, akin to a forum.

Benefiting from Cold Window Study Simulator’s popularity, the community had quite a few registered users, and many people posted daily discussing ga content.

However, quality content posts rarely erged in the community; most are aningless water posts.

It’s rare to see an experienced player sharing insights, no matter how absurd the Cowherding Sect he started is, at least from a content perspective, this post deserved to be pinned and highlighted.

Of course!

Chen Ba didn’t quite endorse the Cowherding Sect Leader.

He spent effort designing so much ga content, and this guy didn’t play any of it, spending all his hundreds of hours of ga ti herding cows.

Anyone normal probably couldn’t understand his peculiar ideas.

Finding insights and enlightennt from cowherding?

Just saying, isn’t there a possibility the ga is called Cold Window Study Simulator rather than Cow Herding Simulator?

"At this rate, it will truly beco Cow Herding Simulator." Chen Ba sighed.

When creating the ga, he never thought that the storylines, chanisms, and nurical challenges he painstakingly devised would all pale in comparison to a cowherding event...

Why is it like this?

Chen Ba analyzed and thought, on one hand, it’s because the cowherding event has a bug, attracting many players who are interested in it.

On the other hand, things like cowherding, cutting pig grass, picking corn... these are routine for rural kids, but quite novel for many, especially those grown up in the city.

"And there’s another reason..."

Lu Jing, who had unknowingly arrived behind Chen Ba, smiled and said, "The events added in the ga were just to highlight the hardships of relentless studying, but they also evoke childhood mories for many."

"Makes sense." Chen Ba nodded.

Considering these reasons, that’s why players can’t stop thinking about cowherding, even playing it into "Cow Herding Simulator."

You could only say Cold Window Study Simulator is a bit unfair.

Despite the gaplay being so strong and the storyline written so inspirational and touching, with all other aspects well executed except the graphics. Yet, after the ga caught fire, the players’ first impression was actually Cow Herding Simulator...

Success due to a bug, failure due to a bug!

Without that cowherding bug, Cold Window Study Simulator wouldn’t have exploded in popularity, reaching such high download numbers.

But due to the cowherding bug, many players have overlooked the playability and completeness of the ga itself.

"Cow Herding Simulator!"

This nickna online was even more popular and famous than the real na "Cold Window Study Simulator," known by more people.

When you say Cold Window Study Simulator, perhaps few players rember, but if you say Cow Herding Simulator, others would definitely respond: I know that one, it’s quite fun...

Chen Ba was almost at his breaking point.

Could everyone please stop herding cows? Gentlen, may you follow the main storyline, check the ga plot, and experience the authentic gaplay?

Among players with over 50 hours of ga ti, eight out of ten are cowherding folks, going through the second and third rounds all herding cows, not sure where they find the patience.

Repeating the sa event endlessly, and it’s a cowherding event which is extrely boring, aren’t they sick of it?