Losing Money to Be a Tycoon

Chapter 1218: Game Platform’s Critics System

On top of that, they could not recommend the same type of game for two months.

In other words, if a game was always first place by the critics it could not always rely on the best recommendation spots. Instead, it had to be alternated between the top eight recommendation spots.

In other words, if he wanted to get the best recommendation spot on the website, he had to enter the top eight of the entire site.

At the same time, since there were recommendation spots within each game category, some niche games could be found within the sorting board.

In order to allow critics to better predict the results of the current recommendation spots, the platform would have a special preview entrance. It would clearly show how many votes each game would get based on the number of votes the current critics had.

If the critics felt that this result was debatable, they could change their own votes.

While individual votes were not enough to directly change the final outcome of the recommendation spots, the situation of the recommendation spots would change if more people changed it.

Lastly, it was the policy of the critics to use and dismiss.

They would also choose the candidates based on 50% of the number of candidates.

Every player had the right to supervise and report the critic. If the critic was doing something inappropriate, such as arranging recommendation spots for specific trash games for a long time, there would be suspicion of a private transaction, or if he had too strong a personal opinion on the game review. If he could not evaluate the game objectively, players could note down evidence and report it.

Once a certain number of reports were made, and the official platform verified that there was indeed a problem with the reports, the critics would be removed from his position and replaced by a candidate.

Those who were fired from their jobs would have a lot of weight deducted from them. In other words, during the following evaluation, their priority would be lowered. However, they could still participate in the selection by writing more excellent game reviews.

If he was fired multiple times, the deduction of rights would increase until he could not participate in the evaluation.

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Yan Qi could not help but feel emotional after reading the detailed rules of the critic system. It was as expected of Dawn Games platform!

This critic system could be seen as an extension and supplement of rights to players.

Not only would they have the right to take down the game, but they also handed the right to arrange the recommendation spots to the players!

What’s more, this system seemed quite reasonable?

In fact, letting all players control the right to take down the game was to ensure the lower limit of the entire platform. When a game was done badly and was despised by most players, it had to be taken down and modified. This could effectively remove the rubbish games on the platform.

However, they could not rely on this method to raise the upper limit of the entire platform.

This was especially so for recommendation spots. Recommendations could not be the only indicator.

Games were not purely for entertainment after all. They were also a special art form with a certain threshold. Most of the time, games with deep meanings and cumbersome gameplay would not be welcomed by the public in the beginning. A small number of players had to take the lead and critic the game. Only then could the gameplay be gradually accepted by the public.

In the beginning, many of Boss Pei’s games were not understood. Later on, they rose up the pedestal. That was the process.

On the other hand, the recommendation spots represented the taste of the entire platform. If gamers voted one by one, they would definitely vote for popular games. Those with niche and higher artistic value would not be able to stand out.

The critics could achieve a good balance between the taste of the general public and the profoundness and artistry of the game. It was equivalent to raising the standard of the entire platform.

In addition, critics were constantly supervised.

If ordinary gamers felt that a certain critic was biased or received a sum of money, they could write a small essay to report him. Once the number of reports reached a certain level, the official platform would intervene and judge.

That was equivalent to a double insurance: They would only be fired from his job if gamers and the official platform felt that there was a problem with a certain critic. That would minimize the chances of maliciously reporting him.

Of course, Yan Qi also knew very well that there was one thing that was indispensable to make this critic system operate perfectly: the meticulous control of the player’s identity.

There would definitely be players or studios who would see the huge ‘business opportunity’ hidden behind the critics system.

One had to know that the recommendation spots on many gaming platforms were clearly priced, and the price was not cheap. It would definitely be a profitable deal if bribing evaluators could make their own game a good recommendation spot.

Therefore, the platform had to separate every player.

Which real players, which might be small accounts opened by the workspace, and how to maximize the authenticity of the data, were all problems that the staff of the morning exposed games platform had to consider.

This was a little difficult, but it should not be completely impossible. After all, Tengda’s TPDb website had done a very good demonstration.

“It looks like there’s an expert guiding Dawn Games platform.”

“This critic system is definitely not something that ordinary people can think of!”

Yan Qi could not help but silently raise his evaluation of Dawn Games platform.

…

At the same time, Pei Qian was also in his office reading the announcement about the critics system on the games platform.

“Eh? It’s quite efficient. The announcement has been released.”

He had just arrived at work this morning when Li Yada sent him the notice.

Pei Qian took a look and saw that there was no problem. Then, he asked Li Yada to publish it.

Of course, the critics system could not be implemented immediately after the announcement. First, they had to make early preparations, including modifying the game platform’s procedures, optimizing the algorithm, screening the critics, encouraging players to write more game reviews, and so on.

It would take some time before this system was officially released.

However, to Pei Qian, it did not matter how the reviewers chose. The key was whether this system could meet his expectations!

The few critics controlled most of the recommendation spots on the entire platform. Ordinary players, reviewers, and game manufacturers would definitely cause many conflicts for this portion of benefits.

At that time, gamers would fight internally and fall into chaos. Wouldn’t that be able to disrupt the order of the entire Dawn Games platform?

Pei Qian felt that this was simply the same as killing three birds with one stone.

He was looking at the beautiful future of Dawn Games platform when he heard a knock on his office door.

He looked up and saw Yu Fei.

“Boss Pei, the new announcement has been written. Please take a look.”

Pei Qian reached out to take the printed announcement and quickly scanned the entire document.

Yu Fei was a newbie after all. He was not as efficient as Li Yada. The same document would have been vetted by Boss Pei and sent it out when Yu Fei was done with his.

However, that did not matter. Pei Qian liked how unprofessional Yu Fei was.

This announcement was generally written according to Pei Qian’s instructions last Friday. It only said two things: First, due to the mistakes in internal communication and work coordination, the update of Eternal Reincarnation did not achieve the expected effect. It caused the players some trouble and apologized deeply. Second, it would be updating the combat system of Eternal Reincarnation on Friday. The other updates would not change.

This apology was rather vague. He only said that there was a mistake internally. He did not say who made the mistake or where.

Pei Qian had specifically instructed this.

They had to apologize. After all, there were adjustments to the update plan. He had to give players a sincere and reasonable explanation.

Pei Qian was not worried that admitting he was wrong would affect Tengda’s glorious image. It would be better if it was affected.

However, some details did not need to be said so clearly. It was not important whether this blame was on Yu Fei or Meng Chang. Some things involved Tengda’s internal department. It was not appropriate to say it in detail.

Pei Qian did not care about what people were saying about Tengda falling off the pedestal.

He only had one thought: I’ll count on your blessings!

It would be great if they could really fall off the pedestal. Wouldn’t that mean that Tengda Games could finally start to lose money?

Forget it, such a good thing would probably not happen. What was there to think about?

Pei Qian nodded. “No problem. Post it.”

Yu Fei took the announcement and said with some guilt. “Also, Boss Pei, I want to apologize for last week’s work mistake.”

Pei Qian did not care about the negative comments and criticism online at all. He was even a little happy, but Yu Fei obviously did not think so.

He felt that Tengda Games had a reputation and had never had any problems with so many projects. However, something went wrong once he took over. What’s more, he made a relatively stupid mistake. That was really letting Boss Pei down.

Meng Chang had comforted him last Friday but Yu Fei still felt very guilty and wanted to apologize when he met Boss Pei again.

Pei Qian immediately said seriously, “Work mistakes? What work mistakes do you have? That’s all Meng Chang’s fault.”

“His publicity plan was not reliable to begin with. If not for that small flaw to expose the problem of the publicity plan early, the entire plan might have had a more serious impact.”

“Therefore, not only did you not do anything wrong, you also contributed!”

“You don’t have to worry about this. Just follow the previous process. Hmm… I’ll give you a raise later.”

Yu Fei nodded in surprise. “Er… Alright, Boss Pei.”

Yu Fei felt even worse after leaving Boss Pei’s office.

“Boss Pei is too magnanimous. In order to comfort me, he even pushed the blame to Meng Chang.”

“However, this just happened to show the difference in my status with Meng Chang. That’s because Meng Chang is an old employee. Boss Pei felt that he had a stronger tolerance, so he got him to take the blame and take care of my feelings.”

“He did not name me, the person-in-charge in this announcement. Instead, he muddled through it. This is a form of protection for me.”

“My mentality was not right before. I kept feeling like I was a substitute, so I did not work 100% seriously…”

“I cannot let this continue in the future. I cannot let Boss Pei down!”

Yu Fei silently made up his mind.