I Just Want Players to Save Money, They Insist on Giving Me!
Chapter 450 - 156: The Players Are Blown Away! Does this damn game company really hate seeing us spend money?_3

Chapter 450: Chapter 156: The Players Are Blown Away! Does this damn game company really hate seeing us spend money?_3

Ke Jin felt a wave of reassurance in his heart.

This time, the server had been personally modified by him with a custom loading program.

He separated the mall from the game itself.

The actual details of the backend server were visible only to him.

Due to a confidentiality agreement, Tianci could only see the users’ activity level but not whether the server was for the mall or the game itself.

Tianci had thought that the top player was using a small, private server to create an internal partition to dilute and divert some of the players.

When the main server was under too much pressure, it would automatically activate the secondary server, allowing a portion of the players to flow into it, thus relieving the pressure.

It’s just that "Cloud Top" was so explosive that even the partitions couldn’t withstand the pressure, and so they crashed.

For this, Tianci expressed deep apologies.

And they offered a solution.

"Isn’t your company saying ’Cloud Top’ is so hot that there aren’t enough servers?"

"Then, I will add another main server for you!"

They were even willing to sign a contract for another main server with the top player at a very low price.

It would be used to divert traffic for "Cloud Top," in order to compensate for the shortcomings of their own immature server system.

As the mastermind behind the entire incident and the only person who was aware of the full picture, Ke Jin,

was naturally not going to cheat Tianci.

Signing for a main server was fine, but the price had to be at the original rate; he would not accept their extremely low offer.

Because Ke Jin was clear.

Never mind adding another main server, you could add a hundred and it would not make any difference.

The real issue lay with that secondary server.

It was not, in fact, a transitional server meant to alleviate traffic.

Instead, it bore the weight of all of Cloud Top’s players’ spending pressure!

Taking such a minor advantage really wasn’t worth it.

Especially when the other party was in the dark, Ke Jin couldn’t reconcile it with his conscience.

After signing another contract with ’Tianci,’

Ke Jin was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief.

Good days were truly on their way!

At least on the surface, he was impeccable!

Even the company employees couldn’t detect anything amiss.

After all, when the upper management discussed adding a main server,

he immediately agreed, saying, "Add it! We must add it!"

This decisiveness touched the employees deeply.

Mr. Ke truly regarded the gamers as he would himself! He couldn’t bear to see them suffer the slightest inconvenience!

With such a boss like Mr. Ke, not only the regular players were happy, but the tycoon gamers must have been overjoyed as well!

However, when the new main server was delivered,

the mall interface continued to crash as before, exploding every few minutes with stability.

This completely baffled the employees of both companies.

Especially those from Tianci, who were exasperated daily.

What the hell is going on!

And why is it that only the mall is crashing, and not the game itself?

What kind of BUG is this?

We’ve never seen this before!

Could it be that your top player’s mall technology isn’t up to scratch?

The top player’s staff were numb.

"Our mall tech department has been working overtime these past few days, really scrutinizing any potential data set that could cause a server crash."

There’s no problem!

Everything’s stable!

Finally.

After a few more days passed.

The persistent issue with the mall interface always crashing has not yet been resolved.

The fury of the players has begun to spread toward Tianci.

They are suggesting en masse that the top player should change this server collaboration partner!

If you can’t even run a server properly, don’t run it at all!

Tianci is just a small company that has only just started to improve over the past two years.

How can they withstand such pressure from the vast number of players?

After several intense meetings,

the sweaty general manager of Tianci, Qin Xiong, finally realized a problem.

"That secondary server! Is there a possibility that it’s not being used as a buffer to offload traffic from the main server, but instead has been used for something specific? Like the mall that keeps crashing?" During a meeting, Qin Xiong expressed his suspicions.

Unfortunately, he couldn’t access the backend data of the top player, as that stuff is considered a business secret and is quite sensitive. He could only speculate.

Hearing this, the employees in the meeting room shook their heads: "That’s unlikely. The top player couldn’t possibly be using it to just handle the mall server, right? If players crash the server every time they spend money, what would they get out of it... just for fun?"

"Indeed..." Qin Xiong stroked his chin, feeling that the employee made sense.

All motives for action are related to self-interest.

Letting the server crash every time a player spends money obviously hurts the top player’s greatest interest.

If that were true, their head honcho, Mr. Ke, would definitely be the first to object.

"What should we do..." Qin Xiong looked troubled: "Are our servers really that bad?"

They had been hoping that collaborating with the top player would help them make a name for themselves and aid in their expansion, getting more game developers to recognize their company and take on more projects.

After all, before this, ’Connection’ had started this way and was now flourishing.

But if they start having frequent problems right after the collaboration.

Not to mention other companies... They might not even be able to keep the top player...

"What to do..."

As Qin Xiong paced back and forth in the meeting room with his hands behind his back,

suddenly, in the large meeting room, a nondescript employee slowly raised his hand and said loudly.

"Mr. Qin, I have a strategy!"

Qin Xiong stopped in his tracks.

All eyes in the meeting room turned to the young man.

Qian Cheng.

He had some impression of this young man.

He had joined the company not long ago.

Before that, Qian Cheng had interviewed at Cloud Top, hoping to join their tech department.

But for various reasons, he didn’t get the job.

Later, he sent out his resume on job sites and was spotted by their company, who then recruited him.

Although Qian Cheng didn’t get a job at Cloud Top,

the friendly HR from Cloud Top had left him with a good impression, and the two even added each other on WeChat, becoming fairly good friends.

In fact, it was because Qian Cheng had learned in a casual conversation that Cloud Top needed a server collaboration partner,

he immediately relayed the information back to his company.

Only then did Qin Xiong volunteer, promptly sending a proposal for collaboration to Cloud Top.

In the end, they really did manage to establish a partnership.

It can be said that landing this big project owed much to Qian Cheng’s contribution.

Qin Xiong had already been considering promoting him.

And who would’ve guessed that now this young man even had a strategy?

You must be destined to be a strategist, with so many ideas?

If he could really solve this pressing issue, it wouldn’t hurt to give him another promotion!

"Speak," Qin Xiong, filled with anticipation, urged him to continue.

The whole meeting room fell silent.

All listened as Qian Cheng stood up and spoke in a steady voice,

"Since adding more main servers doesn’t effectively alleviate the crash pressure, and we can’t find the specific cause, why don’t we dig into our own pockets and help Cloud Top upgrade this secondary server to a main one?"