Chapter 366: Chapter 232: Can’t Fix the Bug? Then Fix the Bug Finder! (Part 2)

Chen Ba went home to sleep.

After that, Yang Dong took on the heavy responsibility of monitoring the real-time situation on the second day of the second test of "Cultivation Fantasy".

He was very worried.

He was worried that the same situation Guo Mo encountered might happen again on the second day of the second test, so during this time, he was on edge, constantly paying attention to the game situation.

Guo Mo was equally worried.

He still couldn’t figure out the reason for what happened yesterday. He told Ba, but Ba couldn’t explain it clearly either.

This is so amazing!

Ba advised him, hoping that when he streamed playing games today, he wouldn’t have any strange thoughts, just play normally like usual.

It’s best to recreate yesterday’s scenario.

Play for as long today as he did yesterday! Play with the same people today as he did yesterday! Do the same things in game today as he did yesterday...

Ba’s core message was one sentence: Whatever happened yesterday, make it happen today, don’t go changing your schedule!

Following Ba’s instructions, Guo Mo was very disciplined today, getting up on time, starting his stream on time, entering the voice channel on time, and calling Pan Yang to grind experience points and kill monsters together on time.

"What’s going on with you today?"

Pan Yang was very puzzled; why was Guo Mo acting so strangely today, like a robot, playing the game so rigidly and stiffly?

Listen to what he was saying.

Like saying he’s going to grind for 1 hour and 24 minutes and then take 19 minutes for individual activities, then continue the group grind for 38 minutes at the scheduled time?

Hey, hey, hey!

Is it really necessary to control the time so strictly when playing a game? Will grinding one more minute kill you?

"It will!"

Guo Mo said seriously, "You might be fine changing the plan, but I seriously might get killed offline by Ba."

Pan Yang: "..."

Is it really that scary?

Never mind, since this is Ba’s request, just do as he says. After all, both of them are game streamers, and the game they’re streaming is from Tianba!

To put it bluntly, the audience is only half their bread and butter. After all, they’ve signed the usual popularity/viewership duration contract for game streamers, not a gift revenue contract.

Ba is their true bread and butter!

If Ba gets angry and prohibits them from streaming games under Tianba, and prohibits streaming platforms from streaming related Tianba games, that could truly cost them their livelihoods.

Don’t assume that game streamers can’t be "banned", that they can just stream whatever game they want.

Fun fact!

Streaming platforms also need authorization from game developers to conduct game-related streaming business on the platform.

Take, for example, a few of Penguin’s popular games when short video platforms were booming in the beginning, why couldn’t they stream related games?

It was all because they didn’t have authorization!

If Penguin wanted to be more extreme, they could even ban related game videos, or even the mere mention of the game.

Of course!

In general, even with commercial competition, they wouldn’t go so far, as making things too extreme could be troublesome even if they held the copyright.

Almost all platforms have authorization to stream Tianba Games, and Chen Ba hasn’t really restricted this aspect.

But not managing doesn’t mean he can’t manage.

After all, many game streamers are making their living off Tianba. If he gets serious, he can indeed make some people lose their jobs and can’t stream related games in the future.

Don’t think that this "ban" doesn’t have much impact, that it’s just a matter of switching games to stream.

For a diverse game streamer like Guo Mo, he can indeed switch games to stream; after all, his fanbase is diverse and not tied to one game.

But Pan Yang can’t...

Most of his fans are players of "Star Emperor". If he switched to streaming other games, his popularity wouldn’t completely disappear, but at least 90% would drop.

So, whether it’s a business collaboration or event invitation from Tianba Studio, Pan Yang is always at the ready.

The amount of money doesn’t really matter; the key is to make a good impression on Ba, and be affiliated with Tianba Studio, which is very beneficial for his career development.

But Guo Mo doesn’t really care.

At worst, he’d switch to streaming APEX again; after all, he was originally an APEX streamer, returning to his roots could be considered staying true to his original intentions.

However, Ba’s advice is still quite intimidating; mainly because Ba himself doesn’t play by the rules, who knows when he might come and kill him offline.

Saying this, Guo Mo felt speechless.

Through the game "Don’t Leave After School", Ba truly opened everyone’s eyes. While everyone was denouncing the tyrant in-game, fighting for the throne, he went offline and literally killed the tyrant.

Dammit, someone cheated!

The player who got killed offline by Ba and kicked off the throne is still posting in the Tianba Community, angrily denouncing Ba’s shamelessness and baseness.

If you think I’m not worthy, then take my throne in the game! How could someone not handle it and resort to "Celestial Punishment of the Tyrant"?

Cheater!

Ba’s shamelessness and baseness truly lowered the bar for game developers, and from that day, a famous saying began circulating in the Tianba Community.

GameBugs: "I can’t fix game bugs, but I can fix players who find bugs!"

With such an outrageous Ba, who wouldn’t be afraid of him?

Anyway, Guo Mo is quite scared; he doesn’t want to be casually ’fixed’ by Ba as a game bug for "refusing to cooperate".

Actively cooperating is a must!

Whatever Ba says goes, it’s just following his words; play the game exactly as yesterday, that’s simple enough.

Though many details are blurry, there’s a great invention in this world — replay!

Based on yesterday’s replay, Guo Mo can easily recreate yesterday’s gaming actions and state.

Grinding monsters, running maps, doing quests, gathering materials...

Every move is tightly controlled by time, the stream content is exactly a replica of yesterday; nobody can pick a fault with it.

However, even though he replicated yesterday’s gaming actions, the scene he imagined didn’t occur, his karma still remained at 10 points, neither increasing nor decreasing.

"Time’s up, end the stream!"

After streaming till the same time as yesterday, Guo Mo ended the stream on time and went into the kitchen to fry up a bowl of scrambled eggs with tomatoes exactly like yesterday.

Oops, too many eggs today!

After frying, he realized he didn’t pay attention and fried one more egg today, regretting his carelessness and forgetting Ba’s advice.

"No, wait!"

While feeling regret, Guo Mo suddenly realized that adding an extra egg to his cooking had no relation to "Cultivation Fantasy".

He was truly PUA’d by Ba!

Having realized the truth, Guo Mo finally returned to normal, not feeling as nervous as before.

He had a meal, and after eating, he went for a walk by the river.

Although he usually didn’t go out often, occasionally getting out to breathe some fresh air was necessary after staying home for too long due to his special job.

So long as he comes home to start his stream on time, it won’t disturb Ba’s plans.

What’s the big deal?

Ba might control everything in the game, but can he control whether or not he takes a walk after a meal?

Guo Mo thought there wouldn’t be any problem; after all, at this time yesterday, he wasn’t playing games either, so whether at home watching videos or going out for a walk, there’s no essential difference.

The computer was on the whole time, the internet stayed connected, and the game was running in the background. Yesterday it was like this and today it’s the same.

Guo Mo was also curious if, after coming back from his walk, he would find his karma had increased from 10 to 20 points?

Should be, right?

After all, he inexplicably gained 10 karma points this way yesterday, so today with the same actions, he should logically gain karma too.

But if he gains karma, where did it actually come from?

The more he thought about it, the more he anticipated, trying to suppress his curiosity and waited until the same time, then he went home and entered the game, eager to open the character information panel.

Unfortunately...

The character panel still showed the same number of karma points as before, 10, with no increase or decrease.