I Just Want Players to Save Money, They Insist on Giving Me!
Chapter 449 - 156: The Players Are Blown Away! Does this damn game company really hate seeing us spend money?_2

Chapter 449: Chapter 156: The Players Are Blown Away! Does this damn game company really hate seeing us spend money?_2

After everything was done, the great task was complete.

He stretched languidly.

"I’ve got material for the next short video. I can post a video of a 100 or 200 gacha pulls emptying the store, a light release for one episode."

"I’m a genius, hehe."

"Why not strike while the iron is hot? Let’s record it now."

"That way I can take my wife and kid out next week for some fun."

With all plans set, Zhang Heng rubbed his hands together, ready to get to work.

But the moment he switched to the "Cloud Top" client, he was stupefied.

"No way..."

"This is..."

Why hasn’t it loaded yet?

Dude! It’s been half an hour since I edited the video!

"Could it be the network fluctuating at night?"

After several unsuccessful refreshes, Zhang Heng went to check the forums on Number One Player Company’s website.

Sure enough.

He wasn’t the only one.

It was already three or four in the morning, but there were quite a few active users on the Number One Player forums.

Many players were posting threads asking, ’Why can’t I open the store interface?’, ’Did the server crash?’, ’How do I get the fastest connection to the school network?’

Zhang Heng also asked a question in the forum.

Instantly, a bunch of players exploded.

"Second Generation, hey!"

"Second Generation, you’re still not sleeping this late?"

"Second Generation, your store crashed too? Looks like it’s not an issue with my network."

"How do we solve this, big shot?"

"Damn it, I really want Little Gwen! I won’t be able to sleep tonight if I don’t get her!"

Faced with a crowd of people seeking his help.

Zhang Heng thought for a moment and then picked his words carefully.

"If it’s a server fluctuation, you might consider connecting through a VPN to speed things up."

"Maybe ’Cloud Top’ is just too popular, and too many players rushed in all at once. Number One Player Company probably didn’t anticipate this."

"If all else fails, just go to sleep. You can play again tomorrow just the same."

Unable to find a solution, Zhang Heng did what he could to calm the anxious players waiting to spend their money.

He then exited the app and tried using a VPN to connect.

Typically, if server lag is caused by an excess of players,

using a VPN can force a priority entry.

However, what surprised Zhang Heng this time was,

this server fluctuation seemed a bit different...

Even his annual membership VPN was completely stuck.

Even though he could access other foreign games with no issues, the "Cloud Top" store simply wouldn’t load.

This situation usually meant that the server had crashed completely.

No response from the backend port, so no matter how fast your VPN is, it’s useless.

"My goodness, how many people got in here, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands? So many players wanting to spend money in the middle of the night..." Zhang Heng muttered.

He thought to himself it was pointless.

He also went back to the forum and added a note.

"I just tested it, the server must have crashed. You guys should just go to sleep. Crashing wasn’t part of the plan; Number One Player Company certainly doesn’t want to crash. Probably, their people are already working on fixing it."

"Wait until tomorrow."

...

"Wait until the day after."

...

"Wait one more day."

...

On the fourth day,

even Zhang Heng became restless, too scared to express any opinions on the forum.

No need to even check the forum; it must be blown up.

No way.

Number One Player Company! What on earth are you guys doing!

The server has been down for four days, and no one’s dealing with it???

If it’s too much trouble, at least check the trending searches!

Other companies get on the hot search because their games are good or bad, getting praised/criticized.

Only your company is unique!

Your server crashes land you on the hot search!

As for Number One Player Company’s response,

it’s not that there has been no movement.

It’s just that, it’s of no damn use.

On Weibo, the official account of Number One Player Company is apologizing every day.

"We apologize profoundly, we’re doing our best to fix it."

"We are deeply sorry for another server outage, and have decided to send 2,000 Points to each player’s inbox as compensation."

"We deeply apologize..."

The comments under the official Weibo account were nearly broken by the players’ responses.

"2,000 Points isn’t too bad, pretty decent of you, but there’s a problem... Have you seen if I can even spend these Points you’re giving me?"

"Every day it’s either a server crash or on the way to one, I like your compensation, but is your server being turned off every damn second?"

"Did you hire someone specifically to shut down the server? I really can’t understand it!"

"Others have various game BUGs that they won’t optimize; but their stores are stable every day. How come with you it’s the opposite? The game’s perfectly stable, but the store refuses to optimize?"

"Baby Ke really doesn’t want us to spend money, does he!"

"Hurry up and open the spending interface! I want to max out your store!"

...

Not just the major community platforms were exploding.

Inside Number One Player Company itself, it was quite a mess.

The executives held meeting after meeting, discussing solutions and even repeatedly liaising with Tianci Company to inquire about the situation.

Tianci was also in a panic.

They had finally managed to arrange a collaboration with a big gaming company like Number One Player, and a fiasco like this happens right at the start.

The company president was sweating bullets, almost wishing he could stay up all night, every night, to hover over the servers, ready to fix them the moment they crash.

Only Ke Jin... oh, Ke Jin looked worried on the surface.

Every day he was almost laughing out loud from anxiety in his office.

He even personally posted the apology statements on the official Weibo account in these past few days.

Whenever he saw the stream of curses from the tycoons under the official Weibo, the way they were all anxious and frustrated about being unable to spend their money,