This Is Not a Bug but a Game Feature-Chapter 159 - 125: Dating Sim? Business War! (Part 2)

Chapter 159: Chapter 125: Dating Sim? Business War! (Part 2)

Chen Ba hadn’t spoken yet when Lu nodded and said, "When I went to the Neon Gaming Expo before, I encountered a player in a similar situation."

"He claimed to be a long-time fan of a Galgame, really liked a certain female character in it, and is 34 years old this year and unmarried..."

The virtual world is so beautiful.

Especially this kind of illusory, bubble-like love, which satisfies many people’s needs and desires for love on a spiritual level.

It’s understandable that some people would become addicted to it, and even feel despair towards the real world!

"What can I say..."

Upon hearing Yang Dong’s question, Chen Ba gave a wry smile and said, "If you’re not the person involved, you really might not know what they’re thinking."

From an outsider’s perspective, hearing about it would certainly be surprising, wondering how there could be such foolish people in the world? Playing games to the point of obsession, actually acknowledging a paper character as a wife?

But only the person involved knows what they’re really thinking.

"They just had a connection."

Zhong Shengwei leaned in to join the discussion and said, "Maybe it was just a single line, maybe it was just a brief moment, but suddenly, they fell in love with a virtual character."

"Of course, a bigger possibility is still despairing towards the real world, so they escape into the virtual game world to numb themselves..."

"It shouldn’t be like this!"

After listening to everyone’s explanation, Yang Dong understood the situation and couldn’t help but complain.

"I can understand other people, but you say this player called ’Love Driving the Cullinan’ is dissatisfied in real life?"

What an international joke?

This successful and wealthy middle-aged man, living such an exciting life in reality, surely wouldn’t lack women around him, so how could he be infatuated with a game character?

"I know about this!"

Lu had watched Guo Mo’s livestream and knew some inside information, so he explained, "It’s said that it’s due to a failed relationship when he was young, with the blessing of a first love as pure as white moonlight, you know?"

"Huh?"

Yang Dong didn’t understand, but he was greatly shocked.

What’s the situation? Did he rediscover the feeling of first love in the game? Or did he meet a female character in the game that was very similar to his first love?

"He said that earning a few thousand dollars a month, then after work meeting up with the girl he loves to watch a movie, eat, and shop, racking his brains to save money to buy her gifts, was an experience he hadn’t felt in many years."

Lu scratched the back of his head and said, "The main reason is probably that the character in the game doesn’t care about his money, it’s all about pure love, right?"

As soon as he said that, Tianba Studio fell silent, you could hear a pin drop.

Everyone was taken aback.

My goodness!

This person is addicted to games because he misses the feeling of a poor guy chasing a girl, willing to do anything for love.

It seems reasonable, but when everyone thought about the character he was experiencing, it seemed to reflect their own real-life situation, and they couldn’t hold back their expressions anymore.

"Ahem!" 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

Even Chen Ba was convinced by this powerful reason.

Admittedly, the man is indeed wealthy, but such pure love, untainted by financial or material concerns, can indeed only be experienced in a game.

Ask him to experience it in real life?

Experience what, exactly?

With his status and position, how could he possibly find that feeling? The bright and beautiful women around him, which one isn’t after his money?

"This is a special case."

"Let’s not discuss this wealthy guy’s exclusive troubles, let’s talk about the game itself. During the Demo trial phase, I also discovered a few issues..."

Chen Ba furrowed his brows and said, "We’re making a love-simulation game, so how did it turn into ’Business War’?"

He noticed this while watching a video.

A Thunderbolt content creator, whose real-life occupation is unknown, but seems to be quite knowledgeable and versatile.

He first landed a job with a monthly salary of 5K, then ignored everything else and, after accumulating work experience, changed jobs multiple times.

Each time he succeeded!

That’s no small feat, considering in ’Love Advisor Department’, high-salary jobs generally require answering questions.

Moreover, the higher the salary, the more professional the questions from the system become!

Yet this content creator managed to change jobs successfully several times, eventually becoming the general manager of a chain restaurant company and starting to play business wars.

His resume was incredibly illustrious.

In game world time, it took him only three short years to rise from a bottom-level worker to a ’work emperor’, and even began the ’entrepreneurship’ side quest.

After watching his Demo trial process, Chen Ba had only one feeling, is "promotion and salary raises" too easy?

It seemed he got promoted so easily!

When Chen Ba designed the career path, he initially intended for players to struggle in the game world for at least ten years before they could complete a career path.

Only after the path was completed could they start entrepreneurship.

Then it’s another ten years of game time, with all the dating in between, the entire game process was supposed to take over 20 hours.

But he didn’t expect the career path to be completed so quickly.

Dude, aren’t you going to date?

If you’re not dating, what are you doing in a dating game? If you don’t look at the game title, do you think you’re playing ’Monopoly’?

"It’s not the difficulty of the career paths, I looked at it, it’s the job-hopping mechanism that’s the issue."

Worked as an insurance salesperson for two years and then switched to becoming a surgeon? Then spent two years as a doctor and switched to being a financial investment expert?

Don’t laugh!

In ’Love Advisor Department’, there’s a problem with the design of job-hopping between different career paths.

Yang Dong felt that there should be no restrictions on the first job, but after getting one job, the difficulty of ’cross-industry’ advancement should increase.

One moment you’re in a massage parlor giving massages, the next moment you’re holding a stethoscope treating patients, that’s such a bizarre and disharmonious style.

"Indeed!"

Lu also agreed, "It’s not that you can’t change jobs or pursue cross-industry development. But it can’t be straightforward or result in a promotion."

To put it simply.

Players can switch from being a massage therapist to being a doctor. But it can’t happen that before job-hopping you earn five thousand a month and after job-hopping you still earn five thousand or even six or seven thousand...

What gives?

While giving people massages, did you somehow learn the Taiyi Divine Needle technique?

"Cross-industry job-hopping should involve a pay cut, even a significant one! Even if you pass the quiz assessments, a loophole allowing cross-industry salary increases shouldn’t exist," Chen Ba decided.

There are examples of this happening in reality.

But reality is reality, and games are games. In reality, some people achieve great success by crossing industries, but games should not be designed this way, or it will become chaotic.

Cross-industry is possible.

If a player feels that following a steady path to become a store manager is too slow and wants to be a doctor or teacher, that’s entirely possible.

But the premise is that you’re willing to give up your accumulation and experience in the original career path and choose to start from the bottom.

In terms of the game’s mechanisms, that means a massage professional switching to become a doctor would have to start from scratch as an intern, regardless of previous level or salary.

"Then the first job is very important."

Zhong Shengwei said thoughtfully, "The first job doesn’t have to be high-paying, but it should have a large potential for advancement and a high career ceiling."

"Exactly!"

Chen Ba nodded.

The first job in ’Love Advisor Department’ is really important, otherwise, after playing for a while, if you regret it and want to switch to something else, it would waste a lot of time.

Especially for being a security guard...

Many players see the low barrier to entry and the package that includes meals and accommodation and are immediately tempted.

It sounds great to skip decades of effort and have meals and accommodation covered.

But the price might be, while other players become CEOs and marry their dream girls, you’re still taking home a monthly salary of eighteen hundred, happily smiling every day!

But back to the point.

In ’Love Advisor Department’, career choice is not the most important thing. If you don’t want to think too hard or plan a career path, taking the job as a security guard works just fine.

There’s nothing wrong with that.

Whether the salary is high or low doesn’t affect your strategy with game characters, since this game doesn’t have a standard victory route. Who says marrying a good wife and being a security guard for decades isn’t a form of winning?

Eighteen hundred a month, so what? Marrying a wife who earns eighteen thousand a month is a different kind of success!