Reboot the age of gaming

Chapter 180 Reject the headline party! (add 12 to the memory heap)

During the period when Li Meng was in charge, he basically never encountered such a situation.

The game disappears out of thin air, often because ESRO's rectification opinions are sent to the game platform, or other infringement lawsuits are involved, and the platform removes the game.However, before the game is removed from the shelves, the platform will definitely change all the recommended positions of the game, and the game details page will also write a rectification notice to appease the players, and arrange all aspects before removing the game.

However, I have never heard of anyone suing "Latent Red Road", and Li Meng has not received any notice from the superior department at all!
The recommendation slot for "The Lurking Red Path" is still there, but I can no longer see the game details page after clicking on it.

Li Meng hurriedly asked the program to check what was going on, was there a bug in the platform, why did the game disappear?
"...The developer took the initiative to take it down." The program quickly found out the reason.

"What? Take it off the shelf?!" Li Meng almost thought he heard it wrong, "Are you sure? Take it off the shelf???"

The program nodded: "OK, it was taken off the shelves voluntarily."

Li Meng was dumbfounded at the time, what do you mean, the developer of "Latent Red Path" has lost his mind, right? ?

Now that "Latent Red Path" is on the leaderboard, recommended, and earning money every minute, the developer took the initiative to remove the game without any reason at all?Is it because you think you are making too much money and you are in a panic? ?

Li Meng, holding back his anger, found Zhong Ming's Linking account again.

He found out that during the two days since the game was released, he had been holding back his anger when communicating with Zhong Ming.

It's so annoying!Obviously making a game with such good data is considered outstanding among all independent studios, with good reputation and sales. By now, normal people should be happy to count their money from ear to ear, right?

This one is good, trying his best to make trouble, is this intentionally disgusting? ?
Li Meng: "You took the game off the shelves????"

Li Meng has no other choice but to ask Zhong Ming, because there is no provision in the platform's default agreement that it cannot be removed from the store. This general agreement for all games has no restrictions on this aspect at all, and games are free to come and go.

After all, if it is restricted and cannot be removed from the shelves, it means that it is a relatively strong binding clause, and the platform often has to transfer more benefits. It is really unnecessary for ordinary small games. They are all key games that have received attention. Enjoy this kind of treatment, such as unique generation games and the like.

After a few minutes, Zhong Ming replied slowly: "I told you that I don't accept promotional materials to cheat players with headlines. I don't think you have any intention of changing it, so we terminate the cooperation."

Li Meng was dumbfounded.

"Just because of this? Just because of a few promotional pictures, you took the game off the shelf??" Li Meng was inconceivable, "You are a rich second generation worth tens of billions who came out to play games? Don't you care about money?"

Zhong Ming: "I hope so."

"Still, if you are really a rich second generation worth tens of billions and don't care about money, then I have nothing to say. But do you know how much the so-called 'title party' and 'cover party' can bring you? This set of Promotional materials can bring you at least 40% more new players, even if only one-fifth of them stay and pay, your monthly income can increase by hundreds of thousands! Hundreds of thousands a month! You Can a game producer not understand this??"

The more Li Meng talked, the more angry he became. In his opinion, these are some very basic concepts. Zhong Ming must have worked in other game companies before to make a successful game like "Latent Red Path". How could he even do such a thing? Do not know at all?
Or, he knows, but he just doesn't like the hundreds of thousands?
Zhong Ming asked back: "Is there a lot of games with 500 million monthly turnover?"

Li Meng was taken aback: "Many."

Zhong Ming asked again: "Are there many games with an average score of 9.5?"

Li Meng: "...very few."

Zhong Ming said: "So, if "Larking Red Path" just made some money, what is the difference between it and other games? The score of 9.5 is the biggest difference between it and other games."

Li Meng was speechless: "Rating? If you want, I can change the rating to 9.8 now. This thing is just background data. Do you think players will really read this rating?"

"Can you change the ratings on the platform, can you change the word-of-mouth of the players?" Zhong Ming asked back.

"... Your focus is poisonous, right? Word of mouth? Isn't word of mouth just a rating? Besides, what kind of impact can such a false thing have on you and the game?"

Zhong Ming shook his head, it seemed that Li Meng could not understand what he said.

Li Meng has been in this industry for so long, and his thinking has been completely transformed by the set of ideas of the channel business. He only has "quantity" and "income" in his eyes, and he has completely lost some more important things.

For example, forgetting that honesty is the foundation of one's life.

Another example is forgetting that water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn it.

Of course, he is not alone. It should be said that most of the distributors in this world and even Zhong Ming's previous life have forgotten these things.

"Since that's the case, forget it, there are many channels for "Latent Red Path" to be released, and there is no shortage of your platform." Zhong Ming replied.

Li Meng was silent for a few seconds, and finally compromised: "Okay, just use the previous promotional image, can you not change it this time? The recommendation position is still the same as before, as long as you upload the game, we will Absolutely no longer change anything. You also think about the players, many players who have downloaded but have not paid for the purchase will not be able to buy it now, and they have to go to other places to toss, isn’t that good?”

Zhong Ming was very speechless, some people really had to go this far before they could pay any attention to it.

When I talked to you before, wouldn't it be over if you just exchanged the promotional materials back?You have to wait until I really take the game off the shelves before you take it seriously?
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In the end, Zhong Ming re-uploaded "Latent Red Path" on the Zhongyou platform, mainly because he didn't want to cause trouble to the players.

There are a large number of players who have downloaded the game but have not yet paid for it. If it is taken off the shelves, these people will have to find the game on other platforms.Zhong Ming didn't want the unhappiness between himself and the distributor to cause trouble for these players.

However, the Zhongyou game platform has been blacklisted in Zhong Ming's mind.

Of course, this cannot be entirely blamed on Li Meng, and it is not his problem alone, but all distributors basically have this idea.If "Latent Red Path" is released on other platforms this time, it is likely that similar problems will still be encountered.

"So, it's better to make your own channel."

Zhong Ming felt a bit of a headache, all kinds of things, so many things, he didn't know which one to take care of first.

Of course, this is also an annoyance for most independent game studios. The resistance from the outside world is always more than the motivation. If it is not for nerves as hard as steel, most people really can't persist.

(End of this chapter)