Chapter 151 Open the Server and Test Waters

A week later, on May 18th, Tuesday…

Shang Yang Games…

The edits on the earliest version of the games were already completed, but Ye Zhizhou still could not bring himself to submit them and update the game. Just the thought of changing Shang Yang Games’ fate and moving it towards an entirely new direction with just a single command from him made Ye Zhizhou’s hands tremble.

A full week after the meeting, what had to be edited was already edited.

According to Boss Pei’s instructions, all the purchase options in Romantic Taoist and Bloody Battle Song were wiped clean. Each of those games only had one purchase option left.

Romantic Taoist was an RPG[1]. There was no competition between players. That was why it was much easier to edit the game. Ye Zhizhou kept the most basic accelerator card as the only purchase option. After all, this game could be withdrawn at any time. It was no longer the company’s main focus.

The main focus was Bloody Battle Song.

After much consideration, Ye Zhizhou and Wang Xiaobin decided on the only purchase option to retain in the game: the strength potion. They increased the price of the strength potion. Each person would only be able to spend a maximum of a hundred ingots every day. That was equivalent to ten yuan.

In order to achieve the aim of retaining only one purchase option, Wang Xiaobin practically redid the entire game’s level design. The other plans were edited according to these changes as well. They also introduced new functions as substitutes, such as the ‘Chosen One system’, which Ye Zhizhou suggested a while ago.

After making the changes, the game still appeared the same on the outside, but it was completely different at its core.

Wang Xiaobin sat down next to Ye Zhizhou and asked, “Are there any other problems?”

Ye Zhizhou shook his head and said, “No other problem. I am… just worried.

“We made huge changes. What’s more, we don’t have any successful games to refer to. We’re completely dependent on ideas that we thought of. I don’t know what the outcome will be like. I am putting myself out there completely.”

In the old Shang Yang Games—if a new idea was raised at a meeting, Old Liu would always ask, ‘Are there other games that have done this successfully?’ If the answer was no, the idea would be thrown out most of the time. Ye Zhizhou was already used to this way of thinking. That was why he was completely lost now.

“Brother Wang, you have a lot of experience. Do you think we’ll succeed?”

Wang Xiaobin sighed softly and addressed Ye Zhizhou seriously. “Little Ye, you are the chief planner now. You have to make these decisions. You cannot ask others anymore. Whether these changes succeed or not, the glory and responsibility will both be yours. As the chief planner, these are things that you have to be prepared for.

“Do you remember Game Designer? Everybody else’s opinions are just voice-overs in the game. Apart from throwing you off, they have not much effect.” Ye Zhizhou nodded slightly and sighed. “That’s right.”

Game Designer was a game that Ye Zhizhou played many times before. He already knew many options and outcomes like the back of his hand.

He could ignore the voice-overs completely in the game and choose all the right answers. However, although he understood all of these principles, he could not confidently ignore all the comments in reality.

Wang Xiaobin stood up and added, “It’s normal to feel confused. You just have to remember that you are doing the job that Boss Pei asked you to do.”

Ye Zhizhou’s eyes brightened.

That’s right. No matter what anyone else says, this was what Boss Pei asked him to do! Whether he succeeded or failed, it would be alright as long as he was following Boss Pei’s instructions, right?

At that thought, Ye Zhizhou hesitated no more. He quickly checked the games once more and sent a message to the group.

“Update the games.”

A few hours later…

Bloody Battle Song became a large-scale chat room for people.

Huge groups of gamers on various servers gathered in the city plaza of the main city to discuss the latest announcement about the update.

Ever since Bloody Battle Song was published, it had been updated tens of times. Each time, they would make an announcement about the updates. However, the announcements had never drawn a reaction such as this one before.

Gamers were no longer interested in fighting or leveling up. All of them were discussing the latest update.

“Which big boss can explain to us what the announcement means? The shop is only going to have the basic strength potion from now on? The others… are not going to be up for sale?”

“I think they said that they’re giving the others away.”

“Giving… away? Is this game going to be withdrawn? Is this the final revelry?”

“The moment that 888-yuan sword was put up for sale the last time, many people quit the game. I guess the game is going to be withdrawn sooner or later. We’ll play as long as it remains.”

“I feel like something is amiss. Are they