This Is Not a Bug but a Game Feature-Chapter 135 - 113: Winning Hurts More Than Losing (Part 2)
This skill can be used not only on oneself but also on enemy targets.
Then Zhang Jianhua had bad luck.
During the PK, as long as Old Wang saw an opportunity, he used the skill on him. Zhang Jianhua, not keeping up with online news, saw Old Wang rearrange the blocks for him, making them easier to eliminate, and mocked him for not knowing how to play the game.
"Ding ding ding!"
The pleasant sound of elimination sounded, and Zhang Jianhua achieved a 10 combo, clearing ten blocks at once, with his score skyrocketing.
Just with that, he cleared nearly 10G of junk files.
"Old Wang, you’re no good!"
Zhang Jianhua, already prepared with his victory speech, was completely oblivious to the problem and kept taunting, "Are you sending me warmth? Why do you keep using skills on me?"
"Just helping you out!"
Old Wang, unfazed by the taunts, cheerfully replied, "My character is awesome, rearrange, and then clear a dozen blocks at once."
"Indeed awesome, but I was the one who cleared the blocks, what’s there for you to be happy about?"
Zhang Jianhua shook his head and said, "Are you getting senile? The PK is almost over, and you’re still gifting me points?"
Points delivered, why wouldn’t he take them? Once again, with a rearrangement, Zhang Jianhua, with Old Wang’s assistance, cleared another large area of blocks of the same color.
"PK Victory!"
With the countdown ending, this Garbage Disposal Fun match also concluded.
Zhang Jianhua achieved ultimate victory, clearing a total of 24.7G of junk files. Old Wang, due to his fiddling around, regrettably lost this PK.
"Why are you laughing, what’s so funny?" Zhang Jianhua was puzzled.
Clearly, he was the winner, so why is Old Wang laughing happier than he was? Did he get it wrong, isn’t he the loser?
Forget it; it doesn’t matter.
Too lazy to think about what medicine Old Wang’s gourd holds, Zhang Jianhua glanced at his watch and decisively exited the game.
Lunchtime was almost over.
He wanted to go to the bathroom and ask a fishing friend he just met a few days ago if they’d go fishing after work.
But just as he exited the game and stood up to head to the bathroom, he saw the main page missing the short video app and WeChat, leaving him stunned.
"Hahaha!"
Old Wang, who had been watching Zhang Jianhua, burst out laughing when he saw his dumbfounded expression.
"This was your doing?"
Zhang Jianhua, angry, turned to question Old Wang, "Aren’t you too old to be playing such childish tricks?"
"Your phone’s been in your pocket, how could it be me?"
Old Wang denied it, "Think carefully, what did you just do? How much junk did you clean up?"
How much junk did he clean up?
Upon hearing this, Zhang Jianhua immediately recalled.
During the PK just now, he indeed hadn’t paid attention. Now, thinking back, cleaning up 24.7G of junk in one shot seemed off!
After so many rounds of thorough cleanups on his phone, how could there still be so much junk? Where did this 24.7G of junk come from?
Recalling the short video app and WeChat that vanished from his phone, Zhang Jianhua exhibited a shocked expression and asked, "Are you saying this game uninstalled WeChat and the short video app?"
"What else could it be?"
Old Wang couldn’t hold back his laughter, "I told you my character is awesome, but you didn’t believe it. Now do you see why I spent money?"
Zhang Jianhua: "..."
Oh no, he was tricked!
No wonder Old Zhang kept showing off his new character. No wonder he was happier losing the PK than winning; it was all part of a plan.
How could this happen?
...
Thanks to Huazi’s app market recommendation and traffic-driving advertisements, Garbage Disposal Fun’s download volume wasn’t low.
However, this software’s reputation was quite polarizing.
Initially, when it was revealed that the game would uninstall target software when ten same-colored blocks were eliminated, few took it seriously.
After all, it’s tough to clear ten blocks at once in such match-three games. And naturally, once everyone knew about it, they’d be cautious and not recklessly use character skills.
But when a player accidentally discovered that character skills could be used on both themselves and PK opponents, it turned into a trap-setting tactic.
Many uninformed players, seeing their opponent use skills on them, thought they were benefiting and cleared the blocks without much thought.
That clearance led to trouble.
Although they won the PK, it left their phone empty. Was it really worth it?
Besides...
Knowing that the opponent using skills on you was a deliberate trap with hidden malice, but seeing those connected blocks, could one really resist not tapping to clear a large piece?
Impossible, completely impossible!
It’s like a Yasuo player seeing five phantom lines, knowing using the ultimate will get them killed, but finding it hard to resist their hand.
Though software can be re-downloaded after being uninstalled, the temptation to clear ten same-colored blocks at once is so compelling that if you don’t tap, you’d lose sleep at night.
Because of this, Garbage Disposal Fun’s players have a peculiar mindset.
The blocks may be cleared by oneself, but Tianba’s official announcement made it clear what consequences would follow from clearing them...
Yet the urge to tap won’t go away!
After tapping, they regret it, and then run to curse Tianba Studio, shouting that Garbage Disposal Fun is a veritable piece of "garbage".
Clear blocks?
Wrong! This isn’t clearing blocks; it’s like a one-click phone format!
To win this PK, the price players might pay could be that after the game ends, their phone only retains Garbage Disposal Fun—nothing else.
Oops, wrong...
If they’re unlucky, even Garbage Disposal Fun might be gone alongside other software.
"Can’t be fixed."
Chen Ba had become accustomed to the game’s bugs.
He had thought of other ways to reduce this bug’s impact on the game environment, like weakening certain character skills, or making character skills unusable on enemies, etc.
But Lu’s words made him change his mind.
"Since this bug appeared, the number of players spending money has multiplied several times, it’s really weird..."
Eh?
Realizing that this bug made certain characters highly popular, with players rushing to spend money on cards, Chen Ba was stunned.
Should the character skills be nerfed or not?
Nerfing character skills would prevent so many "ten combos", minimizing the bug’s impact.
But doing so might also reduce the number of players spending money on character cards.
After much thought, Chen Ba believed the key issue was whether players could accept the special bug where Garbage Disposal Fun uninstalls some software after a ten combo elimination.
If they can accept it, then there’s no need to worry, and they might even release some more outrageous characters in the future to make ten combos more frequent.
If not, for long-term benefit, they indeed need to control it by weakening character skills and adjusting probabilities to prevent multiple blocks from being eliminated simultaneously.
Chen Ba went to check the backend.
The unexpected result was that this match-three game, originally targeting the middle-aged and elderly, actually had a high proportion of young players.
Most of these players were specifically downloading it to try after hearing about Garbage Disposal Fun’s software-uninstalling anecdotes.
In other words.
After this bug appeared, instead of decreasing, Garbage Disposal Fun’s players increased.
All for the fun!
Betting on a mobile formatting PK, it sounds intriguing; everyone wants to experience the thrill of outsmarting others during PK.
Using the skill, tapping to clear a large section of blocks to win, but as a price, the software represented by those blocks gets uninstalled...
If it were you, would you tap?
Since software, even if uninstalled, can be re-downloaded, many, faced with this choice, wouldn’t hesitate to tap to clear it.
Of course, it depends.
If the connected blocks represented insignificant, infrequently-used software, then clearing them wouldn’t matter much, and they could simply be re-downloaded.
But if it’s WeChat QQ, pink risk software, or unhealthy video software...
Then it needs determination!
Some would rather lose the PK than risk losing those apps and won’t let the opponent’s plot succeed.
Others, wiping away tears, painfully tap to clear, winning the PK but looking worse off than if they’d lost.
