“This…”

Seeing the comments from netizens, Meng Chang was quite surprised.

The people cursing at him weren’t as many as he had imagined?

Those commenting below were clearly divided into two camps. Some people refused to believe Meng Chang would ever do anything good and continued to criticize him as before, though there were noticeably fewer critics compared to his previous Weibo post.

Meanwhile, others had begun speaking up in Meng Chang’s defense!

Evidently, the promotional strategy for Doubt VR glasses had been a great success. The final twist had changed many people’s stereotypical impressions of Meng Chang, making them believe that he might have truly reformed.

After all, his offenses weren’t unforgivable crimes. If he genuinely changed his ways and contributed to society, forgiveness could be considered.

Of course, whether to forgive him or not would depend on the extent of his contributions.

Although these people were still in the minority, at least their voices now existed and could be heard.

This left Meng Chang feeling very disappointed.

He even had the illusion that he might have paid for water armies.

It wasn’t that he was a masochist or wanted his reputation to be completely ruined. But in the face of commission, everything was sacrificial!

For the sake of commission, he would rather be despised by everyone, because the more they despised him, the greater the possibility of earning commission.

“Oh well, it’s good that the mainstream voice is still criticizing me. That’s enough.”

“The basic goal has been achieved. I should focus my main energy on the subsequent operations.”

Meng Chang stopped paying attention to Weibo and instead opened the videos in his favorites folder, watching Qiao Laoshi’s videos again.

He was primarily studying the concepts of “performance art-style promotion” and “breaking the fourth wall” from these videos!

Although Meng Chang already had a general idea for this promotional strategy, he still felt that the entire plan lacked a very important focal point!

What was a focal point?

According to Meng Chang’s own summary, the basic process of the “Pei-style promotional method” was rise-fall-rise, with corresponding methods supporting each step. But the most important part was the core—that critical step from “fall” to “rise.”

How to change everyone’s perception?

It required a very convincing concept as support.

The concepts of “performance art-style promotion” and “breaking the fourth wall” that Qiao Laoshi summarized in his videos, analyzed from the two games “Game Producer” and “Turn Back to Shore,” were very convincing.

Once these two concepts were presented, they instantly achieved a turnaround.

And Meng Chang also needed to find a unique concept for Morning Dew Gaming Platform—one that could turn the tables as soon as it was revealed.

This was the final step, and also the most difficult one.

Although he had been thinking for a long time without any clues, Meng Chang firmly believed that this unique concept definitely existed.

The reason was simple.

Since Mr. Pei had given this task, it must be completable using the Pei-style promotional method!

It was like the homework assigned after a teacher had explained an example problem—it must be related to what was taught, right?

The teacher wouldn’t teach addition and subtraction within ten during class and then assign calculus as homework, would they?

So, the standard answer was there; the question was whether Meng Chang could find it.

Meng Chang frowned, deep in thought.

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……

August 13th, Monday.

On the same floor as Morning Dew Gaming Platform, the testing team for “Empire Blade” was busy working.

Yan Qi was also there, overseeing the testing and bug fixing work to prevent anyone from slacking off.

“This is weird. We worked overtime for two days on the weekend, ran the game many times until our hands were sore, and only found five or six bugs that were easy to fix. How come we’ve already found five bugs in just half an hour this morning?”

“It really is strange. Could it be that bugs also take weekends off? They don’t work on weekends?”

“Damn, don’t say it like that. It makes us sound even more miserable—we’re living worse than bugs…”

“Well, working overtime now isn’t so bad. Once all the bugs in the game are fixed, we can rest well!”

“Boss Yan, it’s a good thing you came on the weekend too. Otherwise, you would have thought we were slacking off, and we wouldn’t have been able to clear our names even if we jumped into the Yellow River!”

The members of the testing team chatted as they tested for bugs.

With the launch approaching and so many bugs still present, Yan Qi had required everyone to work overtime on the weekend—testers continued to find bugs, and developers continued to fix them.

After all, having found such a feng shui treasure spot with such high bug-finding efficiency, they should make full use of every minute.

However, unexpectedly, when they came to find bugs on the weekend, the efficiency suddenly reverted to what it was before!

They had Sunday afternoon off, and in a day and a half, they only found five or six bugs, which was quite bizarre.

Some people naively thought: had all the bugs been found already?

But when they returned to work on Monday, they were immediately proven wrong.

With just a bit of testing, bugs sprang up like bamboo shoots after rain!

Fortunately, Yan Qi was a leader who led by example and had come to work overtime with everyone on the weekend.

Otherwise, the testing team would surely have been blamed.

How would they have reported to Yan Qi?

Only finding five or six bugs in a day and a half on the weekend, but finding so many in less than an hour on Monday?

It clearly would have seemed like they were slacking off excessively on the weekend!

And it would have appeared that the entire testing department was slacking off together.

Luckily, Yan Qi had also worked overtime on the weekend and witnessed the very strange process, allowing the testing team to clear their names.

Yan Qi was also very puzzled. Do bugs observe weekends too?

Do they pick specific times to make an appearance?

This was too unscientific!

But then he realized that from the moment he decided to move the testing team to this building, he had already abandoned science and bowed to mysticism.

Having chosen mysticism, the idea that “bugs don’t work on weekends” didn’t seem so unacceptable anymore.

After all, the only rule of mysticism is that there are no specific rules.

“Everyone, please work diligently. This weekend we’ll only work half a day. If we still can’t find many bugs by Saturday morning, then we’ll take the weekend off,” Yan Qi said.

The game development was already complete, with only bug fixing remaining. Overtime was for the sake of expediting development progress.

If they couldn’t find bugs during overtime, what was the point? They might as well take time off to rest.

Everyone immediately cheered: “Boss Yan is awesome!”

Although it was a small company and their game might not be exceptional, and like other game companies in the industry, they couldn’t avoid overtime, most employees still considered Yan Qi a good boss.

He couldn’t compare to Mr. Pei at Tenda, but compared to the bosses of other mobile game companies, Yan Qi was quite conscientious.

Seeing that the testing team was finding more bugs again, Yan Qi felt more at ease.

He had been worried over the weekend—what if the mysticism wore off this week and they couldn’t find any more bugs?

Wouldn’t the money spent renting these workstations be wasted?

Now that the bugs were appearing again, he could finally relax.

Yan Qi continued with his work.

While working overtime last weekend, he had also caught up on recent hot topics, with many noteworthy events.

First, Morning Dew Gaming Platform had started advertising!

The overall promotional strategy seemed conservative, focusing mainly on online web and video advertisements, supplemented by sparse offline advertisements. It looked quite substantial and had probably cost a considerable amount.

Logically, Yan Qi should be happy, as the more advertisements Morning Dew Gaming Platform ran, the more players they would attract, and the more money they would make after their game was listed on the platform.

But the problem was that Yan Qi found the actual conversion rate of these advertisements seemed very low!

Up until now, not only were there no games on Morning Dew Gaming Platform, but even the platform software itself hadn’t been developed yet.

Even if players clicked on these advertisements, they could only be redirected to Morning Dew Gaming Platform’s official website and couldn’t play any games.

How could there be any conversion rate?

Although Morning Dew Gaming Platform allowed login with Tenda accounts, there were many apps that supported Tenda account login.

Almost all companies invested in by Yuanmeng Venture Capital supported Tenda account login, and even many companies unrelated to Tenda allowed Tenda account login.

While this might barely count as an advantage, it wouldn’t play a decisive role.

After all, how many good games were on the platform—that was the key.

But nonetheless, spending money on promotion was better than not spending money.

Although the efficiency of this spending was very low, it at least made them familiar faces and conveyed a message to all players and game developers: though they were a new platform, they were relatively well-funded and welcomed cooperation.

Yan Qi was still hoping to rely on Morning Dew Gaming Platform’s influence, so he couldn’t say much under the circumstances. He certainly couldn’t teach them how to create promotional strategies.

He could only wait and see.

Secondly, Headwind Logistics could now deliver packages.

Living in Jingzhou, Yan Qi inevitably interacted with Headwind Logistics. This kind of information could be learned from a simple flyer.

According to Headwind Logistics’ official announcement, cross-regional transportation would exclusively use air freight. The benefit was speed, while the drawbacks were that it was limited to certain specific areas, the types of goods that could be shipped were limited, and the prices were relatively high.

Yan Qi didn’t currently have any packages requiring urgent air freight, so he didn’t pay much attention to this matter and only briefly familiarized himself with it.

Lastly, there was one more thing—”Eternal Cycle” had officially begun development!

As a developer of ARPG mobile games, Yan Qi had played many action mobile games due to work requirements.

“Turn Back to Shore” was naturally one he wouldn’t miss.

He had always considered “Turn Back to Shore” to be the best action game in China and was naturally looking forward to the appearance of new DLC.

When he first heard about “Eternal Cycle,” he was quite excited, but later, the official clarification stated that “Eternal Cycle” would only begin formal development in August.

This left Yan Qi somewhat disappointed, as starting development in August meant that, at the normal pace of development, it would be completed at the end of the year or even next year at the earliest.

However, having some news was better than having none. He had been waiting for this large-scale DLC for over a year now, so what did a few more months matter?

Right now, he needed to focus on his own project and fix all the bugs properly.

Yan Qi noticed that in the new week, there were noticeably more people coming and going at the entrance of Morning Dew Gaming Platform, many of whom seemed to be there to discuss cooperation.

With advertisements going out and the business department continuously contacting game companies, those coming to discuss cooperation were certainly coming in an endless stream.

“Could these people, like us, also encounter a bunch of bugs?”

Yan Qi inexplicably had such a mystical thought.

But then he reconsidered and felt that such a possibility was unlikely.

“We’re a startup company with limited development experience, so having so many unfound bugs is mostly due to our insufficient capabilities. If these companies have more development experience, they shouldn’t encounter our situation… right?”

Yan Qi didn’t think too much about it and went back to his work.