Chapter 325 A Loophole Discovered?

Even though anyone could see that IOI was using the rewards from other activities to compensate for the "Gods' Fantasies" event, for players, why wouldn't they take double the rewards?

So, some players came up with a rather devious plan:

First, register an account on GOG, which was equivalent to giving up the "IOI to GOG" reward, but that was fine, as that reward was pretty trash anyway.

Then, link the account in GOG to the old IOI account, which would be judged by the system as "old IOI players lost to GOG," because the system would not compare data such as account age to comprehensively judge and analyze the player's specific identity.

After all, under the urging of Dayak Corporation and Long Yu Corporation, the event was prepared in a very short time, and there was no time to do such a complex function.

In this way, old IOI players could get all the rewards in the IOI game, which was simply double the happiness!

But the only problem was that new GOG players had to go through the newbie tutorial and several games, and level up a bit, to participate in various fancy activities.

This was not a design specifically for the "Gods' Fantasies" event, but rather the original underlying design of GOG, which treated all events equally.

In fact, most games have such regulations, mainly to protect the gaming experience of new players, so that they would not be exposed to too many things at once and become confused.

So, those who already had GOG accounts were fine, they could just link them directly; while IOI players who did not have a GOG account could only re-register one and play for a while to get these rewards.

Pei Qian was shocked.

He was even a little dizzy from the players' devious maneuvers!

Now Pei Qian finally understood why GOG's online data had fluctuated despite the continuous diversion of traffic from the event.

Because some IOI players had discovered this loophole, but they didn't have a GOG account themselves, so they created a new account on GOG!

"Damn it! What a lousy teammate!"

"How can players find a loophole in an event?"

Pei Qian was speechless. He felt like two swordsmen were dueling, and he was about to offer his neck to the opponent's blade, but the opponent suspected a trick and dodged!

It was simply inexplicable!

After silently freaking out for a while, Pei Qian picked up his coffee, took a sip, and calmed down a bit.

"Let's wait and see, things may not be completely hopeless."

"After all, these IOI players are coming to GOG to play, in the final analysis, to get the rewards from IOI."

"After they finish the newbie content, successfully bind their accounts and get the rewards, they should go back and won't be delayed for too long."

"Hopefully, Long Yu Corporation can do something..."

Pei Qian didn't have any good solutions right now. After all, Tengda was already on vacation, and this loophole had nothing to do with Tengda, but was created by Dayak Corporation and Long Yu Corporation themselves.

He only hoped that they could discover this loophole as soon as possible and fix it!

...

At the same time, Zhao Xuming had just rushed to Long Yu Corporation and entered the conference room.

Eric had already arrived, and other people in charge of the "Gods' Fantasies" event arrived one after another.

In theory, it was a statutory holiday, and problems were generally communicated and resolved through conference calls.

But this matter was obviously not something that could be explained clearly in a few words over the phone, so they held an emergency meeting and called all the relevant people in charge.

Before rushing to the meeting, everyone basically had a grasp of the current situation.

In short, it was not optimistic!

It was difficult to verify which player was the first to discover this operation, but now a large number of IOI players already knew about this operation and had taken action.

This had led to many IOI players flocking to GOG for rewards.

And from the current situation, this was just the beginning, and the situation might become more serious later.

After all, for these IOI players, what's not to love about registering an account on GOG and getting new rewards?

Although the IOI official had already given rewards through other activities, no one minded having more rewards. Even if it was just a few more chances to win prizes, it was very tempting for players!

Moreover, this was not just happening in the Chinese server, but in other servers all over the world.

Although the data did not seem particularly serious at the moment, both Dayak Corporation and Long Yu Corporation were highly vigilant about this event, so they dared not be the slightest bit negligent.

They were afraid that President Pei was secretly hiding a trick, and now it seemed that there was indeed a trap!

So the purpose of this meeting was to urgently discuss countermeasures.

Obviously, Dayak Corporation headquarters and Finger Company headquarters should also be discussing or about to start discussing.

Zhao Xuming looked at Eric and said indignantly, "Your hunch was right, President Pei is insidious and cunning. He hid a bad idea in this place. The people at headquarters were thinking too simply. They were indeed tricked!"

"President Pei's suggestion seemed to be casually thrown out after being questioned, but this was obviously a deliberate pose, creating a camouflage effect!"

By speaking first and shifting the blame to President Pei, he could avoid getting into trouble himself.

Anyway, if there was a problem, it must be because President Pei was insidious and cunning, definitely not because he was stupid.

Zhao Xuming had a wealth of experience in shifting blame, and he managed to extricate himself from the situation without even realizing it.

Eric nodded and then shook his head slightly. "The direct cause is indeed President Pei's suggestion."

"But what President Pei said actually made a lot of sense. If we hadn't adopted his suggestion, there would have been other problems."

"It can only be said that it's all smoke and mirrors, making it difficult to distinguish the truth from the falsehood!"

Back then, Dayak Corporation headquarters had proposed many very excessive proposals, and President Pei seemed to accept them all without even thinking about it.

Eric was afraid that he would go back on his word, so he asked him to look at it again.

As a result, President Pei casually made a small suggestion: Considering that most GOG players have registered IOI accounts, it seems inappropriate to only allow new accounts to enjoy event benefits and the scope should be expanded to all accounts.

This suggestion directly led to IOI players exploiting the loophole to register GOG accounts to farm rewards!

Moreover, this event very accurately targeted those die-hard IOI fans, that is, those players who had never really played GOG before.

Because players who had already played GOG had accounts, and if they wanted to register new accounts, they had to bind new mobile phone numbers, which was more troublesome.

But for players who had never played GOG, it was quite convenient to register.

As a result, this group of the most determined IOI players also tried to register GOG accounts and play the game. It could be said that a small crack appeared in the solid dam.

The effect seemed insignificant, but the impact was very far-reaching and very targeted!

But then again, if they hadn't accepted this suggestion, it would have had serious consequences.

Many GOG players had played IOI and registered IOI accounts. If President Pei's suggestion was not adopted, and only new accounts could get rewards, then it could indeed prevent this operation by IOI players, but the problem was that it would create huge difficulties for the diversion activity!

GOG players originally wanted to participate in the event, but found that old IOI accounts could not be used and they had to register new accounts, and also get a new mobile phone number...

Many players would definitely be angry, give up the rewards, and not bother with it.

In this way, the effect of the event would be greatly reduced.

There would be problems either way!

Of course, if these two aspects of the problem were foreseen in advance, there would still be a solution, such as creating a specific program to assess the status of each account based on data such as game duration and recent online time, and taking different measures for different accounts.

But in that case, the workload would be too large, and it would not be possible to launch it before the holiday.

Moreover, in order to catch up with the progress, everyone was already a bit unclear-headed and did not think about this matter so deeply and seriously.

So this awkward situation appeared!

Eric's attitude was very calm and he did not fly into a rage.

On the one hand, the blame was not his. He was just a mouthpiece and a tool, and there was nothing to be angry about. On the other hand, he had long had a bad feeling and had made some psychological preparations.

"Let's still think about how to solve this problem," Eric said.

The conference room was silent for a while, and then everyone began to share countermeasures.

Someone suggested, "Let's hurry up and develop a software to detect accounts and block this loophole?"

But this statement was immediately opposed.

"Definitely not! First of all, this will inevitably affect players who want to take advantage of this rule to profit, causing their resentment; secondly, the construction period is not allowed, and after the development and testing are completed, more than half of the event will be over."

Although this was indeed a loophole, it was a benign loophole that could be exploited by IOI players, and the official announcement did not say that it was not allowed to register new accounts on GOG.

At most, it could only be regarded as exploiting a loophole, which was fundamentally different from cheating or maliciously exploiting bugs.

Even if the impact was eliminated to some extent through apologies and compensation, they would inevitably be scolded, not to mention that it was currently impossible to make an accurate estimate of the construction period, and the event might be about to end after the update.

Someone else said, "How about...let Tengda cooperate and do a screening..."

Eric immediately shook his head, "Impossible, first of all, these contents are not agreed upon in the contract; secondly, Tengda never works overtime, even when they were so anxious that they almost sold the building, they didn't make an exception."

The conference room fell into a temporary silence. Obviously, hearing the words "Tengda never works overtime" inexplicably generated some very sour emotions.

Zhao Xuming thought for a while and said, "This matter is really difficult to handle, because we definitely can't make any adjustments to the reward content, on the one hand because of the existence of the contract, and on the other hand because we will be scolded by the players."

"The only way is to screen and segment the players, but we are back to the original problem, the development period is not enough, and there is no time."

Eric nodded helplessly.

That was really the case. This was a dead end!

It seemed that every road had been perfectly blocked by President Pei.

The unprecedented eight-day holiday was the opportune time;

The constraints of the agreement were the geographical advantage;

The players' mentality was naturally the human harmony.

They originally thought that the two sides were competing in internal strength, and it was a ten-point force against a three-point force, and the outcome was unknown.

But now, IOI players had also gone to GOG to play, and GOG was no longer a three-point force, but had become a five-point force, a seven-point force, or even more!

It couldn't be contained!

Eric thought hard for a long time, and finally let go, "Let's just leave it at that. Everyone go home and continue to rest."

Zhao Xuming was stunned.

Huh? Just pretend nothing happened?

That wasn't very good!

Eric continued, "This matter is not something we can solve. I will report the relevant situation. I believe the senior management at headquarters will definitely give a proper solution."

Eric also had something to say. I am now just a mouthpiece. What do you expect a mouthpiece to do!

Have you ever seen a mouthpiece jump out and save the world?

Moreover, Eric's attitude was not entirely a matter of attitude. In the current situation, he really didn't have the ability to solve this problem.

The situation was what it was, stuck here, so what could he do?

He could only let nature take its course.