This Is Not a Bug but a Game Feature-Chapter 305 - 198: Hey, Ba! (Happy New Year) _2

But how can this game implement in-game purchases?

"Traffic!"

"In-game recharges can buy a certain amount of data cards to increase the speed and efficiency of gaining followers and quickly become a big influencer."

Yang Dong explained: "Players who spend money can max out their traffic. While other players are still struggling for 100 followers, they will have already gained thousands or tens of thousands!"

"We’ll also appropriately protect the experience of small spenders and zero-cost players. After all, even with high traffic, retention is key."

"Small spenders or zero-cost players, as long as their work’s conversion rate is high enough, can also beat the big spenders, becoming a big influencer ahead of time..."

He gave an example.

On certain online literature sites, large donations can gain high attention, bringing enormous traffic and readers’ collections to novels.

This is the advantage of spending money.

But ultimately, it’s the work that speaks; if the novel is good, pairing it with donations is like adding wings to a tiger. But if the novel is bad, spending money can’t beat those authors who don’t spend.

The spending system in "I Am a Big Influencer" is the same!

Big spenders might start much faster than others, but in the mid to late stages, zero-cost and small spenders might catch up, or even far surpass big spenders.

"It’s fine; that’s no problem."

Chen Ba, who had been silent all along, rarely spoke up: "This in-game purchase plan is indeed good; both zero-cost and big spender players’ experiences are guaranteed."

So that’s settled!

After the seminar ended, Chen Ba allocated a special fund to Yang Dong, then instructed Lu, Liu Jinfu, and Li Qizhen to stay while others dismissed.

"Ba, is there something up?"

"Not much, just wanted to tell you three that you don’t need to participate in Dong’s new project, there’s another arrangement."

Another arrangement?

Upon hearing this, Liu Jinfu and Li Qizhen had no particular reaction, but Lu got interested and couldn’t help asking, "What arrangement? Could it be your new project, Ba?"

"Not a new project."

Chen Ba was speechless, thinking Lu’s intelligence varied significantly at times.

Tianba Studio is not a large-scale game company; how can it simultaneously start multiple game development projects?

Money is not the issue; the problem is a lack of people!

The studio’s personnel are all assigned to develop Yang Dong’s new game, leaving just a few who can start a new game?

"If it’s not a new project, then what is it?"

"A very special task!"

Chen Ba smiled, took out a thick file from the drawer, and distributed it to everyone.

Lu took it and looked.

The document seemed thick, but by its title, it was clear that it was the plan concerning the remastered edition of "Love Advisor Department."

"Remastered edition?"

"Yeah! Remastered is just a nicer term; you could also understand it as a stripped-down version..."

Chen Ba explained: "As an end-game, ’Love Advisor Department’ won countless player praise with its excellent matching mechanism."

But using computers is still inconvenient.

The mobile version of "Love Advisor Department" was launched, but players felt it wasn’t convenient and demanded too much in terms of configuration.

So someone suggested removing all flashy features from "Love Advisor Department," keeping only the core "matching" mechanism to create a small software that can be one-clickly awakened.

"One-click awakening, express your thoughts, the system will match you with the most suitable love advisor!"

Chen Ba demonstrated with his phone: "For example, I’m a travel blogger, and I watched a video about Jiangning; wanting to travel there, I can open the software..."

"I want to travel to Jiangning; any fun spots or tasty food recommendations?"

"Matching nearby love advisors in Jiangning City for you, please wait..."

Unnecessary!

Lu raised an eyebrow and said: "Isn’t this like taking off pants to fart? I could directly ask the AI assistant and get a response, so why add a matching mechanism?"

"Indeed, you can directly ask the AI assistant and get a response, but do you think the AI assistant’s answers are reliable, or those from locals are?"

Chen Ba smiled and said: "Oh, by the way, the local answering you is perfectly aligned with your preferences, knowing you better than anyone."

Lu: "..."

He seemed to understand.

Compared to directly searching online for answers or asking an AI assistant, the "matching" process seemingly adds a step, but significantly boosts the reliability of the outcome.

This was just a travel inquiry.

What if the question is different? Like more profound and professional queries, or even emotional issues?

Obviously, such topics are beyond the scope of AI, and its answers might even be amusingly misguided.

Finding answers online might not work either, after all, if you’re fighting with your girlfriend and hope to find comfort or solutions online, that’s just foolish, right?

As for seeking medical advice online, that’s even more ridiculous; for a small cold, the search engine might just suggest amputation!

In these application scenarios, the magical matching mechanism of the "Love Advisor Department" becomes quite useful.

The matched love advisor is tailored to your likings and shares your interests. Their advice or suggestions, while not guaranteed to be absolutely correct, are far more reliable than others.

"But... can the stripped-down version still have such a magical database matching?"

Lu was somewhat skeptical.

The full end-game version of "Love Advisor Department" could achieve such precise and fitting matching mainly by relying on powerful AI data analysis.

The stripped-down version, limited by software size and insufficient data, might not be as effective, and matched love advisors might not be as accurate or aligned.

"Simply integrate end and mobile games to share data!"

Chen Ba had already prepared a solution: end-mobile integration sharing, allowing the stripped-down version of "Love Advisor Department" to enjoy the most comprehensive AI matching mechanisms.

Right!

The stripped-down version of "Love Advisor Department" can’t retain its original name, since it’s been stripped down so much, keeping the old name is inappropriate.

Let’s call it Ba Assistant!

Awake it with "Hey! Ba", after which you can directly state your request content, the system will match special players for real-time answers.

"Hey, Ba?"

Lu considered the awakening phrase carefully, then jokingly said: "Are we copying Siri?"

"How’s it copying?"

Chen Ba frowned, saying: "Isn’t this how all voice assistants are awakened? If not like this, how would you suggest awakening them?"

"Whoa, Ba!"

Lu proudly said: "Four syllables, catchy, if it’s three syllables, we could set it as ’Whoa, Ba’ for an awakening word."

"Are you sure this is an awakening word?"

Chen Ba rolled his eyes: "If we dare to set it like this, don’t you believe this stripped-down version won’t even be publishable?"

Swearing is definitely not acceptable.

Lu was just joking; awakening words need only be memorable and catchy, and fewer syllables are better.

"That’s not hard..."

After listening to Ba’s description, the three considered it, finding the task simple, taking at most half a month to complete the stripped-down version.

"Alright, then half a month it is!"

"Once you finish this stripped-down version, we’ll hold another meeting to discuss the content of the major update for ’Global Evolution’."

"Major update?"

Hearing this, Lu was stunned: "Didn’t we just finish a round of updates?"

"This time is different..."

Chen Ba rubbed his temples, saying: "This update mainly removes limitations so players can keep evolving without limiting the number of times."

Nine evolutions are too few!

Some players don’t want to start a new file but want to continue playing; reaching the end of the evolution path without further enhancing strength is a bit awkward.

Why not allow infinite evolution?