At that moment, he was standing in the studio of the Dragon Slayer Sword, having a small meeting with several designers and operations staff.
This incident came as a surprise; it involved a "cooking incident" related to the new game "Idle Heroes".
The cause is as follows:
A player with the ID "逍遥精" (Xiaoyao Jing) found that he often needed to perform certain actions at fixed times and locations while playing the game, including collecting treasure chests, upgrading heroes, and selling items.
These operations are inherently quite mechanical.
So he had a sudden inspiration, summoned his AI cooking robot, set up a few timed "click" operations for it, and then attached his phone to the cooking robot.
Then something amazing happened!
Every time it's "mealtime," the robot starts swinging its "spoon" and tapping on the phone in a fixed posture to perform the actions the player wants.
Originally, this outrageous move was just that—outrageous—and hadn't yet reached the point of alarming the Dragon Slayer Sword Studio.
But this player quickly became dissatisfied, and he began to manually modify his cooking robot to perform more complex operations, including drawing cards...
Then, in order to test the card-drawing function, the player bought five or six ten-draw gift packs, spending several thousand yuan, just to successfully make his robot draw cards mechanically.
This player was originally a free-to-play player who never spent a single penny on games!
In a way, that's quite a feat.
The deputy chief engineer remarked expressionlessly, "He's quite a talent."
It's important to know that gacha pulls are a crucial part of the monetization process, and the Dragon Slayer Studio has always been strictly monitoring them.
The server immediately sensed something was wrong when it detected that this player was clicking the card draw button at very precise intervals of 5 seconds, and each time it was clicking on the same pixel.
This player was immediately put on the "suspected cheater" list and handed over to the operations staff, which finally drew their attention.
The Dragon Slayer Sword punished the player by banning their account for seven days.
But unexpectedly, during those seven days, this comrade felt extremely lonely, so he started modifying his cooking robot again...
But he doesn't have an account to log in and conduct the experiment. What should he do?
So he created a chat group and lent his cooking robot to other friends who played "Idle Heroes" for free.
After everyone tried it out, they were all overjoyed: "Wow, it works so well!"
The cooking robot quickly became so popular that the person who created it had to work overtime until midnight to rush out another one.
...
A few days later.
All of these people were put on the "suspected cheaters" list and their accounts were banned for seven days.
Chapter 66 The Little Knife Elf
A few days later.
All of these people were put on the "suspected cheaters" list and their accounts were banned for seven days.
Upon hearing this, Mingyan nearly burst out laughing and said, "They didn't cause trouble for this person?"
The deputy chief engineer said, "We did find them, and I heard we even beat them up, which made it into a local small newspaper."
That newspaper was really interesting; it had a picture of that cooking robot in it…
The round little thing waved its rice spoon, staring very seriously at a mobile game.
The image caption reads: [A chef who doesn't want to play games isn't a good robot!]
After the incident was eventually revealed on the forum, it was dubbed "Cooking Gate" by some busybodies, and it quickly sparked heated discussions among players.
They spontaneously formed two factions.
The affirmative side argues that this is cheating, stating, "A robot is ultimately a tool, and using a third-party tool that is not permitted by the official authorities is cheating."
The opposing side argued that this was not cheating, and the strongest rebuttal came from a prominent figure.
The big shot said, "I hired three people to play this game for me in three shifts. Does that mean I'm cheating? What if I hired three artificial intelligences? What if I hired three intelligent mechanical life forms from the next galaxy?"
Clearly stated: "..."
The deputy chief engineer said with a headache, "We conducted some internal data analysis and found that there are quite a lot of players exhibiting similar behavior..."
It's worth noting that the Dragon Slayer Sword Studio is known for its ability to "make money".
Its player base is cone-shaped.
There are the fewest free-to-play players. Generally, those who play for a while will get so badly beaten that they don't want to continue. There are even jokes on the forums that "free-to-play players are part of the gaming experience for whales";
Light and medium spenders make up the largest group, accounting for about 80%. These players only buy bundles that offer exceptionally high value for money, and they are usually very frugal with their in-game currency.
There are very few heavy spenders, but everyone has invested at least several hundred thousand yuan in the game.
They are the type who want everything that's available in the mall, and they also need to have it themselves.
It is this group of people who like to hire others to help them complete some mechanized tasks.
For example, when he spends tens of thousands of yuan and can draw cards hundreds or thousands of times, he has to click every time he draws a card, which would take at least an hour. How could a rich person do this tiring work himself?
Of course, I'll leave it to my assistant.