Chapter 1201: An Experiment

The video officially began.

The style of this ‘Young Master Tian’ was obviously completely different from Teacher Qiao.

No matter which series of videos Teacher Qiao made, the beginning would always be a familiar opening speech, a little cheap voice, and greeting the audience.

He would then briefly explain everything that had happened before entering the main topic naturally.

However, this Young Master Tian’s style was completely the opposite. He did not have any preliminary preparations or foreshadowing and entered the main topic directly. Yan Qi, who was used to quickly skipping more than ten seconds in front, nearly missed the key information.

At the beginning of the video was a black screen with regular explanatory words.

“The sociological experiment on Dawn Games platform with huge cost finally came to an end.”

“We don’t know if they have achieved the outcome that they expected. Perhaps this result disappointed them very much. Perhaps this result was within their expectations.”

“However, the final outcome might not be important to them.”

“The important thing is that this experiment clarified one point for us: It is still a luxury to have a portion of the humans maintain their rationality for a period of time.”

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This opening statement stunned Yan Qi.

It was just like the t.i.tle ‘The Trial of Every Player’s Soul’. The opening speech would be eye-catching enough. It would not be an exaggeration to say that it was an alarmist.

Sociological experiments?

Why was it a luxury for humans to remain rational?

The last sentence was something that Yan Qi had seen in a cla.s.sic domestic sci-fi novel before. However, the specific sentence and the scene of the application were different.

Its original sentence should be: “It is indeed a luxury to let humans remain rational forever.”

The original sentence was ‘forever’, and the one in the video was ‘a portion of humans, a period of time’. Obviously, he had lowered his requirements and discounted many things.

In the video, the comments after lowering the requirements were obviously less sarcastic and more helpless.

It meant: Let’s not talk about having all humans remain rational forever. It would be an extravagant wish for some people to remain rational for a period of time!

It felt different especially when it was said in AEEIS’s unique voice.

It was as if there was really an artificial intelligent life standing opposite you, looking at all humans expressionlessly, expressing its helplessness.

Of course, it was hard to say whether artificial intelligence had the emotion of ‘helplessness’ or not.

However, if it did not have the ‘helplessness’ emotion, it might seem even more helpless.

It had to be said that this opening had attracted Yan Qi.

He was a little puzzled. How could there be any sociological experiments on Dawn Games platform? Hadn’t they been playing bad moves one after another and playing bad cards?

Could this be explained away? Really?

Yan Qi continued watching with confusion.

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“If you create a gaming platform to make money, there would be a mature, stable, and perfect template to be used with sufficient funds.”

“Buy traffic from other channels, direct traffic from many users’ APPs, and talk to famous game developers about monopolizing the game… These are all start-up plans with high price-quality ratios and zero risk.”

“On the other hand, placing a lot of advertis.e.m.e.nts online and offline is a method with an extremely low price-quality ratio, extremely low conversion rate, and extremely poor effect.”

“This is common knowledge in the industry. Even some small game companies know of this method.”

“Dawn Games platform is a games platform with sufficient financial resources. The core members should be elites in the industry from the quality of the platform’s program. There’s no reason for such a platform not to understand this content.”

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The video briefly introduced the first few proposals with extremely high price-quality ratios, including the specific process and individual successful cases.

Yan Qi nodded profusely.

That was indeed the case!

In fact, if they wanted to start out with the game channel, it would not be difficult as long as they had money.

Many channels’ traffic was clearly priced. A recommendation spot in a specific area could continuously direct users into a certain APP or game. These traffic might look expensive, but the price-quality ratio was much higher than advertising.

Similarly, they could also spend more money to cooperate with some application stores. They could hang it on the APP’s recommendation list for a period of time. The effect would be far better than advertising.

There was no need to talk about the method that most designers could think of with famous game developers.

In short, insiders who were slightly more knowledgeable would be able to think of at least four or five more cost-effective ways to attract traffic. With enough money, they would be able to make the morning show gaming platform stable, smooth, and without much worries.

However, Chao Lu Games chose the most inefficient and cheapest plan: Advertis.e.m.e.nts!

Of course, it was not impossible to advertise. However, basically only large gaming platforms would reach this stage.

When certain gaming platforms had already developed into very large channels and made a lot of profits, and the previous plans could no longer have too obvious effects, they would then advertise online. They would even do television advertis.e.m.e.nts, seeking to break out of the circle and attract more users.

When were there small gaming platforms which advertised online?

Thus, Dawn Games platform’s behavior was indeed very abnormal.

Previously, Yan Qi had been anxious and angry when he saw Dawn Games’ making bad moves.

However, on further thought, it was obviously unreasonable to attribute this purely to the person-in-charge of the platform as an outsider and too stupid.

No matter how stupid he was, there had to be a limit.

Such a choice was not difficult. As long as he gave a simple explanation, ordinary netizens would be able to distinguish which was more cost-effective and which was cheaper.

He could not possibly say that the boss of Dawn Games platform was a particularly ridiculous layman. He did not care and could not even listen to others’ opinions. He did not even have the most basic logical thinking and understanding, right?

That was too unlikely.

There were a total of four options for a certain multiple-choice question. The other three options could be confirmed to be the right answer with a single scan, but they chose the most ridiculous wrong answer.

Could this mean that there was a high chance that it was chosen wrongly on purpose?

What’s more, after thinking about it, Yan Qi realized that all the employees on Dawn Games platform seemed to listen to the boss.

If it was a layman or an insider, these employees would more or less have some complaints and would not carry it out silently like now.

Thus, there was most likely a problem!

Yan Qi quickly continued watching.

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“Obviously, there is only one explanation for this situation: Dawn Games platform is doing this on purpose.”

“The presentation of the number of bugs in the game on the platform and the various regulations of ‘take the game off the shelves if the recommendation rate exceeds 55% during the probation period’ are actually all special experiments.”

“The verification content is that the gaming platform is focused on providing high-quality content, and the right to screen, judge, and even take down the game is given to gamers. Can gamers maintain their rationality, achieve effective self-management, and use these rights?”

“It’s a pity that the answer is no from the current results.”

“Not only did a small number of players not maintain their rationality, but they also successfully incited most of the players on the platform to join this irrationality. Thus, this right was completely abused, completely opposite to the original intention of the platform.”

“They obviously obtained more rights than other platforms, but these rights caused long-term benefits to be damaged because players placed too much emphasis on short-term benefits. In the end, the platforms that treated players well became worse than other platforms.”

“Is this the sorrow of the games platform or the sorrow of the players?”

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Yan Qi’s eyes widened. The contents were a little too shocking, causing him to fall into a state of confusion.

At first, he wanted to drag the progress bar back and listen to this speech again. However, he found that there was a more detailed explanation at the back.

First, it was the special treatment of bugs on Dawn Games platform.

Other platforms, no matter whether there were bugs in the game or how many bugs there were, as long as they could run normally, they could be released. The bugs could be slowly repaired.

Many players would play semi-finished games with bugs. Some of the bugs would even severely affect the game experience.

Logically speaking, such a situation should not exist at all. That was because gamers would pay to buy game products, not semi-finished products.

If they went to the restaurant for a meal and paid for it in full, only half a cooked dish would be served. Then, even if the chef repeatedly promised that he would add some ingredients after five minutes and stir-fry them, the customers would definitely fly into a rage on the spot.

If a game was filled with bugs that affected the game experience, it should not be released. Instead, it should be continued to develop, fix loopholes, and be released after reaching a high level of completion.

However, what were a few bugs to other platforms and game developers? The earlier they were released, the earlier they could earn money.

Thus, the gamers’ interests were sacrificed.

Unlike other platforms, Dawn Games platform had been very strict with the platforms’ games. It had dissuaded many semi-finished games and given up on the huge benefits brought by these games to ensure that gamers had a gaming experience.

What’s more, in order to improve players’ sense of partic.i.p.ation, everyone could see the bugs in each game in real time.

This was just like the restaurants that had made transparent kitchens. It would not help the taste of the dishes, but it showed a great trust in the customers to be able to see the kitchen.

However, were the gamers grateful?

Not at all.

Not only were they not grateful, all sorts of conspiracy theories had surfaced. Some said that this was a publicity stunt by the platform, while others said that this was fake data.

It was a necessary move and important right, but most people did not care at all. They even suspected the platform’s motives.