Bao Xu looked at Pei Qian's office: "Is President Pei in?"

"No, he hasn't been in for the past two days," Lu Mingliang said.

Lu Mingliang's side had already completed the voice acting.

They started recording on the 25th of last month and finished intermittently on the 1st of this month. The efficiency wasn't fast, but it was still acceptable.

After all, Lu Mingliang wasn't a professional voice actor. Even with a voice acting teacher guiding him, he often had to NG (no good) dozens of times before he was satisfied with a single sentence at the beginning.

Now that the voice acting was complete, he could focus all his efforts on making the game.

"Brother Bao, I've sent you the design documents for the new game. Can you take a look and see if there's anything that needs to be changed?"

Lu Mingliang still had a lot of respect for Bao Xu.

After all, Bao Xu was the source of the idea for *Fortress at Sea*. In the entire company, he was second to none when it came to understanding President Pei's intentions!

Bao Xu opened the document and glanced through it.

"It was all decided by President Pei himself, so I won't look at it. I might not even understand it if I did."

Game design was something that was best not to be messed with.

Everyone had their own ideas. Many times, there was no absolute right or wrong. The key was to have one person in charge, so that it didn't become a mishmash of different ideas.

As soon as Bao Xu heard that it was a project that President Pei was personally handling, he knew it couldn't be wrong.

He just needed to study it carefully and learn from it. How could he possibly find fault with it?

This was exactly the plan that Pei Qian had in mind.

The game had already started development, so it was impossible for Bao Xu to intervene even if he came back.

If Bao Xu couldn't interfere with work, he would definitely bury himself in playing games.

In this way, the probability of the new game succeeding would be reduced by another point.

Mission accomplished!

...

Sure enough, it was as Pei Qian had expected.

Bao Xu flipped through the design draft and looked at the working state of the others, feeling that the new game didn't seem to need his help.

So, he turned on his computer and started playing *Fortress at Sea*.

He hadn't played games much for a month, and he was going crazy!

As the saying goes, absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Bao Xu felt that the company was simply heaven, and he didn't want to go anywhere else!

As he played, Bao Xu felt that something was wrong.

The feel didn't seem so perfect?

A month ago, Bao Xu felt that the feel of *Fortress at Sea* was already very perfect.

But after a month, when he played it again, he had a new feeling.

"I have nothing to do anyway, so I'll just optimize *Ghost General* and *Fortress at Sea* a little bit."

...

Bao Xu casually grabbed a notebook and started recording the content to be changed as he played.

Since the release of *Ghost General* and *Fortress at Sea*, not a single new version had been updated.

Didn't the players have any opinions?

Of course, they did!

But... Pei Qian couldn't hear them, so let's just pretend there weren't any!

It had been nearly four months since *Ghost General* was released, and a month since *Fortress at Sea* was released.

Some game companies that updated faster released a new version every month.

Those that took a little longer released a new version every three months, which was also acceptable.

But for a game that was still making money, with a high level of popularity and earning a lot, yet hadn't had any new content updated for four whole months, that was absolutely unique!

Pei Qian didn't want to update the versions at all.

Because these two games were a little too popular!

Looking at the lifetime card sales of *Ghost General*, and then looking at the Qilin sales of *Fortress at Sea*...

According to the system's requirements, a new version had to have new payment points. He couldn't just throw money into it without making a profit.

Pei Qian estimated that if he released new payment points, the players would spend even more!

So, he had been pretending that nothing had happened and buried himself in developing a new game.

Not updating could greatly reduce the popularity of the game!

The others in the R&D team were busy as dogs making *Game Producer*, so naturally they didn't have time to care about these two stable old games.

But...

Bao Xu happened to have nothing to do!

If he couldn't interfere with the new game, then he would just modify the old games as much as he could.

Bao Xu first carefully adjusted the feel of *Fortress at Sea*.

Then, he opened *Ghost General*.

Relatively speaking, the problems with *Ghost General* were actually much bigger than those with *Fortress at Sea*!

Because *Fortress at Sea* was created by Huang Sibai and a group of designers together, and it had undergone repeated testing, so the design was relatively mature.

As for *Ghost General*, Pei Qian had completely taken a ready-made template and forcibly grafted it onto the game!

Many of the texts inside were very detailed, all written (fabricated) by Ma Yang in a serious manner.

But the combat system and some basic functions inevitably had some minor flaws, because the template that Pei Qian bought was originally a failed project. Maybe it didn't have any bugs, but there was a lot of room for improvement in the functions.

Of course, the impact wasn't too big.

After all, it was a mobile game, and the players' requirements weren't that high. It wasn't unplayable, so they could just make do with it.

Bao Xu played it for a while and felt that there were quite a few small problems that could be fixed.

Then, he would just fix them!

Soon, Bao Xu's notebook was densely filled with modification items.

There was no new game content to be made, so it wasn't considered an updated version. At most, it was just optimization and repair.

Bao Xu looked at his notebook.

"Well, it should be fixed in about three or four days."

"Just a small effort!"

...

Three days later.

The *Ghost General* Tieba (online forum).

Compared to some popular mobile game Tiebas, the layout here seemed a bit messy.

Because the official side didn't manage it!

For games like *Q Meng San Guo* (Cute Three Kingdoms), the official side would cooperate with the Tieba, parachuting in Tieba owners and assistant owners, and staff would also regularly post to discuss things.

But here in *Ghost General*, there was none of that!

It was completely in a state of free range.

Some people had run for Tieba owner, but they were all very Buddhist, just deleting any illegal posts or advertising posts that they saw.

However, because there were many members, it was very lively.

Starting a month or two ago, various complaint posts began to appear in the *Ghost General* Tieba, and recently, these complaint posts seemed to have increased.

"Can you still update the version???"

"I've graduated a long time ago... I've almost collected all the rare cards. Can someone tell me what's left to play in this game..."

"Envy *Q Meng San Guo*, they update the version once every two months, and they are all mid- to late-game content..."

"So annoying, at least other games have a long-term goal that you can spend money on. This game is good, you can't even spend money! What should I do if I feel like I don't have any pursuit!"

"The first time I've seen such a Buddhist company. It stands to reason that *Ghost General* is ranked very high on the charts. It should be making a lot of money. Why don't they update the version!"

"I'm not even counting on you to release new gameplay. You can release a new general, or a new spending point!"

Many players who hadn't played *Ghost General* would have a misconception when they entered this Tieba.

Did I enter the wrong Tieba?

This is not what a game Tieba should look like!

In the *Q Meng San Guo* Tieba, there would be posts every day scolding the game company, the designers, and the event planners.

The event is a money pit!

The new content lacks sincerity!

If you don't see this kind of post for a day, you suspect that the Tieba has crashed.

As a result, when you look at the *Ghost General* side, it's all reversed!

The players are all looking forward to it, hoping that *Ghost General* will quickly open up new payment points!

Some players are even discussing in earnest what kind of new payment point should be opened.

The most common suggestion is to sell new general packs.

There are also some other suggestions, such as opening some recharge events with very low limits, such as a minimum recharge of 1 yuan and a maximum recharge of 50 yuan to get some special materials, etc.

This situation where players are looking forward to the official side adding recharge points, but the official side is completely ignoring them, only happens in *Ghost General*!

It has formed a unique landscape!