This Is Not a Bug but a Game Feature-Chapter 316 - 204: Fake Influencers, Real Sponsored Deals!
This Spring Festival, Tianba Studio offered a five million prize, attracting countless players to participate in the treasure hunt.
The process was full of ups and downs.
Worried that the clues were too straightforward and the puzzles too simple, making it too easy for players to find the treasure, Chen Ba buried the clues deep.
As a result, he hid the clues so well that by the second day of the New Year, no one had gathered the clues to solve the puzzle, and Chen Ba became anxious.
No rush, no action!
The community players started to suspect whether Ba Brother didn’t want to give the money, hence hiding the clues so deeply.
Chen Ba didn’t want everyone to misunderstand; a mere five million is not much for him and he wouldn’t default or create any foul play.
Seeing the suspicions in the community growing louder and no first lucky player appearing, he had no choice but to give a hint.
With his hint, things quickly took a turn for the better.
The first lucky winner was born!
He successfully deduced from the found clues that the answer to the puzzle was hidden inside a red abandoned SUV car in a garage in the eastern map of "Speeding Frenzy."
After searching, he found the garage and the abandoned red SUV hidden with the treasure, dragged it back to the game’s workshop for dismantling, and discovered a mysterious code.
The code was the phone number Chen Ba had prepared.
Upon successfully dialing the number and leaving the bank card number and real name, this player became the first lucky winner and received a one million cash prize from Tianba Studio.
After the news spread, other players were also highly motivated and frantically searched for clues in Tianba’s games.
Second place, third place...
In just three days, by the fifth day of the New Year, five lucky winners had emerged.
It’s worth mentioning that one of the five players was Chen Ba’s acquaintance, who he frequently interacted with — Jiang Bin, an editor from Game Starry Sky.
This surprised Chen Ba.
But upon reflection, Jiang Bin, who loves playing games and often spends a whole day playing, finding the treasure was surprising, but there was no problem.
Moreover, he could disclose Jiang Bin’s identity to prove to the players that Tianba Studio did not conduct a rigged event, as any rigging would not favor an outsider like Jiang Bin.
"This is a rigged event!"
"Definitely rigged, I don’t accept it; this dude must have some collusion with Ba Brother!"
"Laughable! Jiang Bin writes articles bragging about Tianba Studio and Ba Brother every day, and you tell me there’s no rigging? I don’t believe it, it must be a dirty sex deal!"
"Don’t blind hate; Editor Jiang has posted an article on Game Starry Sky, with detailed explanations of his treasure hunt process; how could it be rigged?"
"Anyway, I don’t believe it..."
Chen Ba initially thought that publishing Jiang Bin’s identity as a winner could dispel doubts about this event and demonstrate its fairness.
However, Jiang Bin was too famous.
As an editor for [Game Starry Sky], he often writes various column articles boasting about Tianba Studio and Chen Ba, earning the nickname "Ba Brother’s bootlicker" for himself.
His winning did not prove the event’s fairness; instead, it confirmed suspicions of rigging by Ba Brother.
"I am wronged!"
Chen Ba rolled his eyes furiously: "Claiming I’m rigging is bad enough, but suspecting I have a secret underground affair with Jiang Bin, is that even human talk?"
Damn it, Jiang Bin is old and ugly; are all these players blind? How do they pair him with Jiang Bin in a CP relationship?
"Sometimes don’t blame the external rumors being too absurd; reflect on yourself!"
Yang Dong earnestly said: "If you had a partner, if you were married, would such rumors still spread?"
Chen Ba: "..."
It’s quite reasonable, and he is left speechless.
All said and done, it’s because he is still single that everyone thinks he likes men and would fancy someone as ugly as Jiang Bin?
"Don’t blind hate; I’m not the only one pairing up with you; there’s also me!"
"You?"
Glancing at Dong Brother, this old rascal, Chen Ba sarcastically said: "Why you? Do they see my taste as heavy?"
"Who else but me?"
Yang Dong rolled his eyes: "In the whole studio, only the two of us are single; who else could they concoct rumors about?"
"Got it, I should keep my distance from you, lest I get caught up in rumors; I don’t want to pair up with you in a CP..."
Chen Ba stealthily backed away two steps, looking at Yang Dong as if seeing a plague.
Dong Brother indeed seems not right!
Long suspecting Yang Dong harbors ill intentions towards him but lacking evidence, hearing these words from Yang Dong, his whole body got goosebumps.
"Alright, enough mutual harm."
Gesturing for Chen Ba to avoid discussing such heartbreaking topics, Yang Dong switched to talking about the new game he was developing.
"I Am a Big Influencer," a simulated development online game, has set up its general framework to date.
Only the content needs filling in.
Although Chen Ba repeatedly emphasized he wouldn’t interfere with the game’s production or release, Yang Dong, being his first time leading a game’s development, hopes to hear his suggestions.
"My suggestions?"
"Actually, what you’ve done is quite good; there’s no issue. If I have to nitpick, it might be the game’s numerical system being too conservative."
"Game numbers?"
Upon hearing this, Yang Dong was somewhat surprised: "Can you be specific? Which numbers make you think it’s too conservative?"
