Although the group owner repeatedly promised to resolve the issue of players deliberately clicking “not recommend” to maliciously remove games, the CEOs, producers, and lead designers in the group chat were clearly not convinced.
Because no one had much hope for this!
As game designers, most didn’t have much faith in players’ self-discipline.
This wasn’t due to any misunderstanding or stereotype about human nature, but mainly stemmed from experience accumulated during the operation of most games, as well as bloody lessons learned.
After all, games weren’t the real world. Many people, in pursuit of certain special experiences in games, often acted without considering costs or consequences.
Some law-abiding players might try unconventional approaches in games, such as deliberately not following the recommended process to see what differences might occur, or repeatedly pushing boundaries within the rules to see if they could trigger bugs or interesting events.
Some more malicious players might exploit in-game bugs for profit, or even use cheats in online games, sacrificing others’ gaming experience for their own momentary pleasure.
Long-term benefits? Maintaining the gaming environment?
For many players, these simply didn’t matter.
After all, there were so many games on the market. Worst case, they could switch accounts or play different games.
Game designers, as the architects of these systems, inevitably had to find ways to prevent such behaviors at the fundamental design level.
The corresponding constraint mechanisms needed to consider players in extremely negative terms, anticipating the worst possible scenarios in advance.
It was like ancient lawmaking—the maximum penalties certainly couldn’t be omitted.
So, most designers didn’t approve of the Morning Dew Gaming Platform’s approach. It obviously overestimated players’ self-discipline and underestimated how low some players would go.
The Morning Dew Gaming Platform’s current decision merely gave these games a chance to be revived, but this revival had a cooldown period, and a rather long one at that.
Only being able to relist after a month meant the opportunity might have already passed.
This system of letting players decide which games to remove was clearly unreasonable. It obviously gave players too much freedom without corresponding systems and responsibilities as constraints, plunging the entire environment into chaos.
That’s why everyone felt this was something only an amateur would do.
The real boss behind the Morning Dew Gaming Platform probably didn’t understand games at all, just making impulsive decisions that were about to lead the platform into an abyss of no return.
But no matter how much they protested, the group owner remained unmoved.
Clearly, the Morning Dew Gaming Platform had already reached an internal conclusion, likely approved by some big boss or high-level executive.
The designers in the group knew there was no point in pressuring this staff member further, so after complaining for a while, they had to disperse.
The optimistic ones continued fixing bugs in their games, hoping the platform officials would truly handle this issue well; the pessimistic ones had already given up on this platform in their hearts and were planning to seek alternatives.
The group gradually fell silent.
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What these designers didn’t know was that this measure had been finalized after Li Yada consulted with Mr. Pei.
A little earlier, Pei Qian was watching a TV series in his office when he suddenly received a call from Tang Yishu.
“Se-Senior, something bad has happened on the platform!”
“Two games are about to be maliciously removed by players, and the heads of those game companies cooperating with our platform are making a fuss in the group chat.”
“Now there’s all this negative public opinion about our platform online, and Sister Yada is uncertain what to do.”
“Meng Chang said this kind of thing requires a phone call for instructions.”
“Senior, what should we do?”
Tang Yishu briefly introduced the current situation, her tone somewhat panicked.
Clearly, this incident was completely beyond her capacity, and Li Yada couldn’t provide a solution that would solve the problem 100%.
So Meng Chang had Tang Yishu call and ask.
Listening to Tang Yishu’s report, Pei Qian’s face lit up with delight.
Could there really be such good news?
The Morning Dew Gaming Platform had been sending a steady stream of good news lately!
First, many game manufacturers were deterred by bugs; then, the promotional efforts had terrible conversion rates; after that, the number of bugs raised suspicions among players who felt the Morning Dew Gaming Platform was maliciously creating hype.
And now, even malicious removal had appeared?
This was too delightful!
Previously, Pei Qian had thought that even with this system, the possibility of large-scale game removals was extremely slim. Because most players weren’t mindless creatures, and with a weighting mechanism in place, game ratings would eventually stabilize at a relatively reasonable level.
But now Pei Qian realized he had overlooked a crucial point when making this assumption—the issue of player base size!
When discussing probability, one can’t ignore the base number, because the larger the sample, the closer the actual probability approaches the expected probability.
If the sample was small, there would definitely be huge deviations.
As a new gaming platform, the Morning Dew Gaming Platform had attracted a rather special batch of players initially. Most of them didn’t have specific gaming platforms, felt no sense of belonging to any platform, and mostly came with a mindset of getting something for free.
They only cared about enjoying themselves for the first month or two, not about the platform’s overall environment!
Without intervention, this mentality would only worsen.
It was like those “bargain hunters” on shopping platforms, who operated in organized groups. If a store mislabeled a price, these people would immediately swarm in, taking advantage until the store was left in tears.
After these players discovered they could get games at half price through this method on the Morning Dew Gaming Platform, it would attract more players to join the ranks. Over time, the composition of the entire platform’s player base would become increasingly unbalanced.
Happiness came so suddenly that Pei Qian could hardly suppress his joy.
Didn’t this mean that the Morning Dew Gaming Platform, as a money-burning tree, had succeeded?
Given the current trend, they could continuously burn money on advertising, contact other game companies to list games and burn money, and basically find all sorts of ways to spend! After all, players would help remove all these games!
Had the most perfect scenario really happened?
Pei Qian was absolutely ecstatic.
However, he wasn’t carried away by this good news and suddenly realized an issue.
Since the most perfect situation had arisen, the previous measures needed to be slightly adjusted.
That is, the removal mechanism!
The rule Pei Qian had previously set was that games failing the trial period would be permanently removed and could never be relisted.
This rule seemed too harsh on the surface and might wrongfully remove many games that improved later. But on the other hand, it was also a protective mechanism.
Since the consequences of being removed during the trial period were so severe, players would definitely think carefully before deciding to remove a game, objectively raising the threshold.
Currently, the games players were removing were mostly older titles. These games likely wouldn’t be updated anymore or have new players joining, so the impact on existing players after removal wasn’t significant. Therefore, these players were relatively reckless.
But what about a high-quality online game in the future that continued to operate and update, needing version updates and new players to improve the gaming experience? Would players still be so reckless in removing such games?
Probably not.
So, Pei Qian felt that to maintain the current favorable situation, the rules should be loosened even more.
Games would no longer be permanently removed but could be relisted after modifications!
However, this mechanism would have a certain cooldown period.
This way, players would need to consider the consequences even less when removing games, and could mindlessly remove them, knowing they would be relisted later anyway!
By then, a small portion of players might regret it and pay the difference to continue playing, but many would have already enjoyed their benefits and moved on.
Wouldn’t this lead to even greater losses?
And modifying the removal mechanism would appear beneficial to these game companies on the surface, not raising any suspicions.
Yes, perfect!
Pei Qian directly explained this solution to Tang Yishu. The sound of keyboard tapping could be heard from the other end, indicating she was taking notes.
“Let’s proceed with this for now. Is there anything else?” Pei Qian asked.
Tang Yishu hurriedly replied: “Ah, Senior, is that all? This only alleviates the issue of malicious removal. The other problems still haven’t been solved, right?”