“Sea Fortress” also hadn’t had version updates.

But “Sea Fortress” had the 888-yuan Fire Kylin, and it had only been open for a little over a month, so players there didn’t have such strong opinions yet.

The players of “Ghost General” declared that they had never seen such a pure and unaffected game developer!

Other developers were all dolled up, constantly shouting, “Come on in, dear customers!”

Tenda was precisely the opposite—not only did they present themselves without makeup, they were constantly pushing people away!

“What exactly is Tenda thinking! Why won’t they open new monetization points? Do they have a grudge against money?”

“After buying the lifetime card, there’s nowhere to spend money even if I want to!”

“Could it be that this company made their money and ran away?”

“I’ve only heard of bankrupt game developers running away. Making money and still running away—unheard of!”

Many people couldn’t stand it anymore and could only go AFK temporarily.

There was nothing left to play!

After buying the lifetime card, players got extra daily card draws. After more than two months, most of the rare cards had been obtained, and now it was just about upgrading these cards.

Most players logged in every day just to draw some cards and play through story levels—they had nothing else to do!

Over time, quite a few people went to play other games.

However, most people didn’t delete the game.

Because this was the most conscientious mobile game with the most unique art style on the market! As soon as a new version came out, they could immediately happily play again!

Delete the game? How could they bear to?

At this point, a new post appeared on the forum.

“Touching! The Game Updated Secretly!”

Looking inside:

“Today, I accidentally discovered that the heavily criticized problem of Guan Yu’s consecutive slash damage being too low has been fixed! Now Guan Yu’s consecutive slash has been strengthened and is playable!”

“Also, the issue of Zhao Yun’s rear attack trigger probability being too low seems to have been fixed, too!”

After careful observation, players found that this was the case!

Many of those previously existing minor issues in the game had all been fixed!

There was no version update, no announcement, and no one knew exactly when these small modifications had been completed.

Other game companies would list bug fixes in detail in their announcements, afraid that players wouldn’t know about the designers’ hard work.

Tenda was completely the opposite, seemingly not caring about this at all, extremely nonchalant.

The entire forum instantly boiled over!

“Tenda hasn’t abandoned ‘Ghost General’!”

“Other companies all prioritize monetization activities and spending events over bug fixes, but Tenda does the opposite? No monetization activities at all, optimizing the game first? I’m dead!”

“Doesn’t this mean there’s hope for a new version?”

“Suddenly motivated again!”

“The officials are truly sincere, I’m touched!”

“As long as Tenda doesn’t give up on ‘Ghost General,’ we’ll stay with it!”

“Let’s get ten thousand people to sign in blood, begging them to open new payment options!! (1/10000)”

“Please, officials, make some money! We have money!!”

…

…

March 7th.

“What?!”

“The players of ‘Ghost General’ have flooded the customer service lines, and the forums are full of demands for new monetization points???”

“Are you sure you haven’t got it wrong? They’re demanding that we open new monetization points?”

Sitting in the car, Pei Qian incredulously tapped his phone screen, replying to Lin Wan’s private message.

Originally, his mood today was quite good because the Moyu Internet Café renovations had been completed.

A large sum of money had been spent from the company account on purchasing computers, tables and chairs, alcohol, and so on, and some new staff had been hired.

Thinking about the bright prospects of Moyu Internet Café, Pei Qian was in a good mood, so he had Assistant Xin drive him to take a look at the café.

He wanted to inspect the work of Ma Yang and Zhang Yuan and correct any errors promptly.

But on the way, he unexpectedly received a private message from Lin Wan, discovering that the players of “Ghost General” were organizing some kind of ten-thousand-people blood signature campaign!

Currently, the only channel for players to communicate with the officials is through customer service.

Previously, to lose money, Pei Qian had deliberately found an outsourcing company with first-rate tai chi skills.

Simply put, customer service was completely outsourced and knew nothing about the development team’s situation. No matter what questions players asked, customer service couldn’t answer them.

They could only repeat a few polite phrases to try to appease the players.

“We’ve received your suggestion and will faithfully relay it to the design team, dear!”

“We’re very sorry for the inconvenience caused, we’re working on it urgently, dear!”

Things like that.

Originally, not many people called customer service.

Most players who encountered some minor issues in the game didn’t bother to specifically call customer service to report to the officials—such enthusiastic players were a minority.

Usually, it was only when encountering payment problems that they would scold customer service.

And “Ghost General” only had one payment-related feature: the lifetime card.

Such a simple feature couldn’t possibly have bugs.

So, the customer service team originally had nothing to do.

But in the last two days, for whatever reason, players had been frantically calling customer service!

With just one request: please quickly open new monetization points!

And they kept calling continuously, with different players taking turns!

Other places, like forums and message boards, were also full of discussions about this, with many people bump-posting threads!

Pei Qian was dumbfounded.

His first reaction was to think that players were demanding a new version with new gameplay.

This would be normal, after all, “Ghost General” had been online for three to four months, and players were tired of the old game content.

But the players were demanding new monetization points???

Pei Qian was confused and asked Lin Wan, “Do you know the specific situation? Why are players demanding new monetization points? This doesn’t make sense?”

Lin Wan replied: “It seems the players are worried that ‘Ghost General’ might shut down and hope to provide some financial support.”

“Hiss…”

Pei Qian drew in a cold breath.

This… were the players all crazy?

Originally, Pei Qian had planned to continue not updating the version, letting “Ghost General” fend for itself.

As long as the players didn’t make a fuss, “Ghost General” would continue operating like this, never adding new content, with popularity and sales naturally declining rapidly.

The players had been quite cooperative initially.

After all, players gathered together to play games, and without special reasons, it was difficult to generate much cohesion.

But what was going on this time???

It was as if they had received some kind of calling!

Pei Qian considered for a moment and replied: “Tell customer service to uniformly respond that a new version is already being planned! It should be ready to meet everyone around… hmm, May or June!”

Lin Wan: “Huh? It’s already in development? How come I don’t know about it?”

Pei Qian: “Please don’t misinterpret my words. What I said exactly was ‘being planned’!”

Planning in my head counts as planning, too!

Lin Wan: “…Yes, Mr. Pei.”

Pei Qian felt like he was truly cursed.

How was it that ever since he started making games, everything was bizarre!

It defied common sense!

He had originally wanted to brush it off, but the players weren’t so easily fooled and had started making a fuss…

Now, Pei Qian couldn’t pretend not to see it anymore.