This Is Not a Bug bu Chapter 13: The Best Way to Milk Players Is Still Online Gam

Chapter 13: Chapter 13: The Best Way to Milk Players Is Still Online Gas!

The popularity of an indie ga, without external interference, often rises quickly and dissipates just as fast.

So-called external interference naturally refers to promotional marketing and other strategies beyond the ga itself.

[Cold Window Study Simulator] is the sa; although it beca a sensation for various reasons for a while, this kind of popularity is like rootless water, impossible to last long.

Even though Chen Ba specifically sought help from two major strears to extend the popularity, this thod could not change the ga’s overall trend of declining daily popularity.

Another week passed, and as ti entered mid-July, ga sales could no longer rise.

Daily sales growth of a few thousand has already beco a thing of the past, with the sudden plunge in popularity, now daily download figures struggle to maintain even triple digits.

The drop in popularity leads to a sharp decline in ga downloads...

And this sharp decline in downloads results in a chain reaction causing Chen Ba’s inco to plumt, transforming from gold flow to almost negligible.

That’s the way it is with single-player gas!

Although inco has witnessed a roller-coaster experience, Chen Ba’s mood remains stable, at least not provoked by thoughts of regret.

From the ti he chose to make single-player gas, he anticipated such a situation would occur.

A buyout model for single-player gas is always a one-off transaction!

Even those 3A masterpieces have limited popularity and sales only when first released; as players saturate, the popularity and sales too decline sharply.

"No wonder online gas are so popular; this one-off deal is nothing compared to the continuous harvesting in online gas."

Chen Ba sighed.

Developers for single-player gas earn just at the wave of ga release; how much they earn depends, and unless they slash prices for promotions, revenue flows rarely see any big change thereafter.

On the other hand, with online gas, whenever operation planners co up with new events, release so new ga trics, skins, and items for sale, or introduce a new draw pool for players, money flows directly into their pockets, a near crazy profit.

Crucially, core players fond of online gas are like being harvested one crop after another.

A wave harvested this month?

No worries! When next month’s salary is out, another wave can be harvested.

What premium crops!

Not like single-player ga players who after buying a ga must go online specially to check ’lowest price in history,’ without it there’s no sincerity, no sincerity ans no purchase.

After buying, they still have to check if it’s good; if not fun, poor optimization or has Bugs, they send direct negative reviews with flowery curses that make you unable to lift your head.

And finally request a refund, leaving developers with zero money.

The more he thought about how "money’s hard to earn and shit’s tough to eat," the more Chen Ba saw it as the ultimate truth, he secretly decided that should the day co he’s close to starvation, he too would go into online gas.

Given his technical prowess, keen market senses, and... trivial system enhancent, while not promising big fortunes, having plenty and living well shouldn’t be an issue.

Speaking of the system, Chen Ba instantly felt angry.

He didn’t plan to fix the "Herding Cows" Bug found in [Cold Window Study Simulator], but still looked into the specific causes of the Bug.

His findings left him speechless.

The Bug was actually rooted in the "core code" provided by the system, and importantly, this code couldn’t be modified, any attempt would collapse the entire ga frawork, making it unresponsive to user commands.

"It’s not that I’m lazy and don’t want to fix Bugs; it’s that even if I wanted to, I couldn’t..." thought Chen Ba in resignation.

To this day, he still doesn’t know how [The Hardest Core Ga Producer System] ca to be, let alone interpret the code it provides.

That stuff is really like scripture, isn’t it?

Chen Ba has suspected for a while that the core ga code provided by the system might be so extrely special programming language, definitely beyond human programrs’ comprehension.

That string of symbols resembling ghost pictographs, wouldn’t it be bizarre if he could understand them.

He also checked online for related information, confirming this wasn’t written in a language known to humanity or ever existing historically.

Could it be alien script?

Derived computer programs in mysterious script, it’s normal that Chen Ba can’t understand, but what he couldn’t grasp was how sothing so sci-fi could still have Bugs?

"I can’t understand, but I’m deeply shocked.jpg"

Indeed, whether in distant alien worlds or higher-dinsion universes, programrs are still creating Bugs, writing incomprehensible mountains of garbage code!

After lanting about the useless system, Chen Ba considered another issue.

Since the Bug was caused by the system, could the new ga under developnt also have so nasty Bugs?

"No, impossible!"

Chen Ba reasoned that the Bug from the last ti hadn’t been detected primarily because he trusted this system cheat too much.

As the saying goes, wisdom grows with experience, he would conduct multiple rounds of intensive testing before the ga’s official release this ti, he refused to believe there could be such absurd Bugs!

"Actually, it’s not that bad..." See his boss had a lingering worry over the ga’s Bug issue, Lu smiled and said: "Aren’t Bugs common in gas? A certain major studio even bundles Bugs with gas!"

"Since the release of [Cold Window Study Simulator], except for the conflict Bug from the Herding Cows event, no other Bugs have occurred, this performance is already very good."

"Indeed!"

As an old player with total playti over 50 hours, and also one of the earliest buyers, Yang Dong has a right to speak on this matter.

"While the Herding Cows Bug is abstract and ridiculous, aside from that Bug, I haven’t encountered a second Bug so far, nor have players reported new bugs on the forums..."

This is already amazing!

Consider that for gas of such scale, Bugs inevitable; the difference lies only in their quantity and severity.

[Cold Window Study Simulator] as an indie ga, and completed by Chen Ba himself, discovering only one Bug until now shows quite a remarkable performance.

Look at other gas, casually spouting ten or twenty small Bugs, issuing a patch every three days, weekly massive Bug fixes...

Comparatively, Cold Window Study Simulator is almost perfectly unlike any indie ga.

"If it weren’t for

eating and sleeping under the sa roof with you, I would suspect you might actually be an alien!"

Yang Dong joked: "Is it possible a single person made sothing so perfect?"

"If ti is adequate..."

Chen Ba never disclosed to them how long he spent developing [Cold Window Study Simulator], partially because there was no need, and also to avoid frightening them.

Three and a half months, about a hundred days!

Creating such a highly complete indie ga in such a short tifra, likely nobody would believe repeating it.

Might as well keep it quiet.

If people inquire later, he’ll say he spent two and a half years, so it doesn’t sound oddly impressive.