"Wait a minute, a very strange thing happened!" Ishidai's assistant suddenly said nervously: "A player has completed the level! And he has given a complete guide to the level!?"
"What!?" Ishida was startled, grabbed the assistant's tablet in his hand, and said in a hoarse voice: "It has only been an hour, and someone has passed the level!? Impossible! There is no way such a master exists.
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"Not only cleared the level, but also completely cleared it! He cleared all of our 1,627 hidden Easter eggs and 81 hidden levels!" the assistant said anxiously.
Ishidai's face turned ashen immediately.
Burying Easter eggs and designing hidden levels in games has always been the only way for game companies to attract players. Back in the days of the Famicom, there was a legend that a game called Contra had eight hidden levels.
This news has been rumored among game fans. Countless players have been working hard to find the eight hidden underwater levels. Some people even still miss it when they are about to enter the coffin.
This is the secret of the game's hidden levels. It is like a little roundworm in the player's stomach, always tempting the player to continue playing.
One hour, only one hour!
The Easter eggs and hidden levels that the Space Pac-Man team designed for three full years have all been solved! What an incredible speed!
After this guide comes out, it will greatly reduce players' expectations for Space Pac-Man. There are no secrets anymore, so what else can attract players to play over and over again? Pay over and over again!
I skipped through the 1.5 million-word guide, and Ishida almost fainted on the spot!
"Minister, a colleague called and said that even the cheat for Space Pac-Man has been released! It is spreading like crazy!" Ishidai's assistant answered the call and hurriedly reported the report.
If someone finds out all the Easter eggs and hidden levels, it will be like a bomb, which will greatly reduce the player's interest in the game.
Then game cheats are nuclear bombs! They will completely end any game, no matter how good it is!
Ishidai was stunned. With his many years of experience in the game industry, he realized that his space Pac-Man would probably fail completely!
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Just as Ishida was shocked inside and out by the bad news one after another, Li Yi and Coke were enjoying themselves at home, eating chocolate and browsing the Starlink network.
The so-called super game expert who can clear the game within an hour and give detailed game strategies is none other than this little guy Coke.
Coca-Cola has 16.8 million processing cores. No matter how complex the game is, he can't be stumped. It only took him one minute to complete the analysis of Pac-Man in the universe and write out 1.5 million.
A super strategy for words.
It was Li Yi who asked him to delay the release for an hour, otherwise the guide and cheats would have been all over the Internet.
"Master, I still don't understand, can we defeat Namco by doing this? I see that the number of downloads of their Space Pac-Man on all major mobile game platforms is still very strong. In just one hour, the number of downloads has already reached
Three and a half million times." Coke said in confusion.
Li Yi said with a bad smile: "Who said I want to defeat them? I want to drag them down. There is a big difference."
Coke shook his head stupidly.
Li Yi said with a smile: "The first step we took was to completely crack the Easter eggs and hidden levels of Pac-Man in the universe. The reason for doing this is to make this game completely free of secrets. Without the Easter eggs and hidden levels, the universe
Pac-Man loses player stickiness very quickly."
"The second step is to release the key source code to hacker websites. Hackers will use these codes to develop plug-in software to make the game more unfair. Once the game loses its fairness, the losing party will soon leave the game, and
The winner will also lose the thrill of the challenge and leave immediately."
"And after the source code is leaked, free plug-ins will be derived, making those props that should have been charged free! This is even more important. It is a free game to begin with. Once the props are no longer charged, Namco will not only stop charging.
Space Pac-Man makes money and loses money too!"
"Don't look at how many downloads it has now, but these players will not pay after downloading! The more they download, the worse their deaths will be!"
"Facing hundreds of millions of customers, Namco is definitely not willing to give up. If it doesn't give up, it will continue to invest money in operations. Due to the existence of plug-in software, the longer the operation lasts, the more money they will lose!"
After a pause, Li Yi continued: "Your detailed power plus part of the game's source code came out too fast. No player in the world can do it, so they will only suspect that it is someone in the company."
The insider will definitely launch a large-scale investigation within the company, causing people to panic."
"This is called internal and external troubles. I don't want to see Namco collapse overnight. What I want is to cut the flesh with a dull knife, drain their blood one by one, and let them die on their own."
Cola took a breath, and he suddenly felt that his master was evil...
"Master is so awesome!" Cola admired: "I suddenly discovered that anyone who becomes your opponent will suffer. According to the earth language I learned, this means digging a row of pits and waiting for them to jump in one by one."
Li Yi couldn't help but said: "I am just making use of your abilities. When you learn to use your abilities, I will be relieved. Although the civilization level of this place on earth is not high, it is still very dangerous.
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Cola was slightly startled, thinking in his mind, "Does the master want me to learn how to deceive people..."
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As expected, things did not go as Li Yi expected. That night, Namco began to catch the mole. All the big and small bosses in the company were called for questioning, which made people panic.
There was no mole in the first place, so their investigation cost a lot of time and money and naturally led to no conclusion. This approach only aroused the resentment of employees. Who wants to work in an environment where they are suspected of being an mole all day long?
The unity within the company is gone, and everyone begins to make plans for their own future. Colleagues always have a cold face when meeting each other, and people begin to be suspicious of each other.
In the end, the board of directors gritted their teeth and fired one-third of the employees of the Space Pac-Man project team with the idea that they would rather kill a thousand by mistake than let one go.
Such a cold-blooded approach aroused great anger among employees. In just one month, more than half of the technical backbone voluntarily resigned.
Yamato Culture has always been known for its unity, and Namco is also a very united company. Others who want to poach their talents cannot. Now that they have destroyed the Great Wall, rival companies have naturally seen the opportunity and are desperately poaching people from their company.
At the same time, under a fierce publicity campaign that cost 50 million earth dollars, Space Pac-Man became popular around the world with a download speed of more than 30 million times a day.
Namco was surprised to find that there were many players downloading the game, but few actually paid for the props.
Those hacker groups obtained the game source code sent by Coke and created countless various plug-ins, which completely made the game lose its fairness and wore away the players' patience.
Game operation has costs, including marketing expenses, customer service expenses, and technical support expenses.
Namco found that not only could it not make any money operating this space Pac-Man, but it was constantly losing money! The more players it has, the more it will lose!
From the launch of the game on September 1st to the withdrawal of Namco from the operation of the Pac-Man game on October 1st, Namco created the most painful history in the gaming industry in the past 30 years and completely became the laughingstock of the industry.
The company's stock price fell to the bottom, and all stock rating companies classified Namco's stock into junk status without exception.
Correspondingly, Memory Mania was named the best mobile game of the month in September.
The creator of this game, Exorcist, was named the best individual mobile game developer of the month.
Coke is very happy to win the title of the strongest hardcore gamer of the month.
Cracked the Pac-Man game within an hour and provided an extremely detailed guide. I can’t say that such an achievement is unprecedented, but at least it is unprecedented.
At exactly midnight on October 1st, The Exorcist’s second game, Interstellar Amusement Park, was quietly launched without any promotion.
The game adopts a paid model, charging one yuan for each download. In just 24 hours, the number of downloads of Star Playground exceeded five million...