Number One Game Designer

Chapter Forty-Six

On the morning of the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, Fang Xi returned to Beiyang City.

During the two days in Haifang City, after Fang Xi visited Professor Tao, he also stopped by to visit two of his father's former business partners. After all, it was Chinese New Year, and it would not take much to walk around to pay New Year's greetings.

In addition, the only people Fang Xi in Haifang City is familiar with are the brothers in the dormitory, but now it is the time of the Chinese New Year, even if the senior year does not care about the winter vacation, no one will choose to stay in school at this time.

So after finishing his work, Fang Xi got on the return plane again.

As soon as he got off the plane, Fang Xi received a call from Lu Wanqi:

"Teacher Fang, come to the company quickly, we seem to be targeted by search websites."

Fang Xi was also taken aback when he received the call. He asked Lu Wanqi to explain in detail while directly hailing a taxi. After reporting the company's detailed address to the driver, Fang Xi turned to the phone:

"What's going on? Tell me."

Later, in Lu Wanqi's narration, Fang Xi probably sorted out the context of the matter.

After Hongyi's website was launched, the research and development department also processed the search keywords on the website for "Swallowing Heaven and Eating Earth". Card games, etc., the search results that pop up will point to the official website of Hongyi.

And the search for secondary keywords, such as web games, casual games, the latest games, etc., will be linked to the evaluation of Hongyi by various game websites. Intuitively see the advantages and disadvantages of this game, let you choose, this is the implicit user orientation.

It has always been like this, and the sea is calm, but this morning, Xiao Wu, who is in charge of maintenance at the company, found that after searching for first-level related words, the top three articles that popped up on the search results page were very conspicuous:

""Swallowing Heaven and Earth" has been blown away by players, but is it really fun?"

""Swallowing Heaven and Earth" is very novel and has a lot of attitude, but it is really not very fun."

""Swallowing Heaven and Earth" is a fun game but not recommended!"

Seeing this, Xiao Wu on duty called Fang Xi directly, but Fang Xi happened to be on the plane at that time and couldn't get through, so Xiao Wu called Lu Wanqi again, but this was the first time Lu Wanqi encountered such a situation. He could only appease Xiao Wu and let Xiao Wu contact his colleagues to call the operation side to inquire about the situation, while constantly calling Fang Xi, waiting for Fang Xi to turn on the phone.

It also happened that Fang Xi got off the plane twenty minutes later and received a call from Lu Wanqi.

After figuring out what happened, Fang Xi comforted the chaotic Lu Wanqi:

"Don't panic, don't panic, it's nothing, I'll take care of it."

"Don't, don't, just go on with your vacation and stay with your aunt well. I can handle it well here. Don't be afraid, don't be afraid."

After hanging up the phone, Fang Xi opened the search page on his mobile phone and typed in the four keywords "swallowing the sky and eating the earth".

The search results page that popped up afterwards was exactly as Xiao Wu said, the first three lines were links to three conspicuous articles.

One of the first articles also had a "GAME World" logo behind it.

Fang Xi clicked in directly.

"The game "Swallowing Heaven and Earth", which has been online for less than a month, has already raked in tens of millions of dollars per month.

Even if the editor visits relatives during the Chinese New Year, friends often chat about this game with each other.

In my opinion, it is really excellent, but here comes the problem:

Is "Swallowing Heaven and Earth" really a masterpiece in everyone's mouth?

I only have three words for this: No!

How did "Swallowing Heaven and Earth" become popular?

In the author's opinion, one is the freshness, and the other is the rhythm of the flow report.

But whether a game is good or not, can it be said to be a good game just because it makes money? Obviously not!

The quality and playability of the game itself are the most important!

........."

Looking at the whole article, Fang Xi is a bit dumbfounded,

It can be seen from this article that it was written by an old hand, first raised and then lowered. He pretended to be a player who devoured the world, but later began to criticize that "Swallowing the World" is not a good game, and the technique highlights a sneaky change. Concept, the subject of criticism is "You can't say it's a good game just because you've made a lot of money by devouring the world." If it wasn't for Fang Xi's previous life, who had a lot of experience in tearing up forums, then Fang Xi would probably be According to the reasoning of this article, this is also a routine of tearing and forcing, because this premise is wrong!

It's not that Sky Eater is a good game because it makes a lot of money.

It's because "Swallowing Heaven and Earth" is a good game that it made a lot of money.

A few words are different, but the meaning is very different. This article can be called a master of rhythm.

Fang Xi couldn't help feeling a little headache, and Fang Xi didn't bother to read the next two articles, and he could probably guess from the tone of the first article that he wouldn't say anything good.

Turning off the mobile browser, Fang Xi Fang Xi directly dialed Liu Hai's phone number, the call was connected directly, and Fang Xi also went straight to the point:

"What news do you have about the problem with the search results of "Swallowing Heaven and Earth"?"

Liu Hai's voice remained steady:

"I'm still investigating, but the results should come soon, Mr. Fang, I need a little time."

Fang Xi agreed, "Okay, but as soon as possible."

And Liu Hai's work efficiency is really fast.

As soon as Fang Xi got out of the car and entered the company, Liu Hai called over there:

"I found Mr. Fang.

These three articles are nominally "GAME World" and another media, but I contacted them, and they said they had no knowledge of tweeting negative reviews of our game. "

"With the cooperation of the other party's media, it can be preliminarily determined that it is a search engine company's extortion tweet."

"Extortion tweet?" Fang Xi was a little curious.

"Yes." On the other end of the call, Liu Hai said while looking through the information he had collected:

"Even in foreign Google Google search engines, it is common to spend money to make the search rankings about your company appear in the forefront, which is the so-called bidding ranking."

Fang Xi said in a deep voice: "I know, but foreign countries are relatively restrained in this regard. Even if you spend money to buy rankings, it is basically the icing on the cake. The original tenth place can be bought by some money to become fifth or sixth place. .”

Liu Hai nodded—even though Fang Xi couldn't see it. Then replied:

"Yes, foreign countries are more restrained in this regard, and it has something to do with their legal system."

"But in our country, it's... a bit of a showy operation."

"The BD search engine in China, according to what I know so far, if we don't take the initiative to give them a favor fee, they will insert this negative tweet in front of our normal search results as they do now."

"We went to them because of this, and they would ask for a favor fee, otherwise they wouldn't withdraw it."

"So now this BD search engine is waiting for us to come."

Fang Xi couldn't help being a little dumbfounded: Is there such an operation?

"I see." Fang Xi's voice revealed infinite egg pain: "Let me think about it."