This Is Not a Bug but a Game Feature

Chapter 482 - 294: It Hurts, It Hurts So Much! (2)

"My parents were initially worried that my sister might meet someone undesirable and that online dating wasn’t reliable, so they wanted to intervene, but who would’ve thought..."

At this point, Liu looked very frustrated: "Who would’ve thought that at their age, my parents would become so obsessed with a game that they couldn’t even eat or sleep?"

What shocked him even more was that, due to experiences in the game, his parents, in their fifties, were demanding a divorce, completely ignoring their children’s protests.

The pain, oh, the pain!

His parents found new love interests in the "Love Advisor Department," each having their own twilight romance and breaking up joyfully.

His sister also found in the "Love Advisor Department" a blond guy who understood her, and before long, she bought a ticket to meet him in person.

His girlfriend, who he had introduced to the game, played the "Love Advisor Department" more and more, and her feelings for him gradually faded. Compared to the "him" in the game, Liu was flawed and unromantic in reality—why keep such a boyfriend around?

After recounting his experiences, Liu regretfully said, "If I had known... If I had known, I wouldn’t have recommended the ’Love Advisor Department’ game to them."

Liu initially couldn’t figure out why. He just felt everything was the fault of Tianba Studio and Chen Ba. If it weren’t for the "Love Advisor Department," he wouldn’t be in such a mess.

So he came, with a protest banner in hand.

Upon arriving, he clashed with the people at Tianba Studio. After all, anyone could see he was there to cause trouble, and they couldn’t just leave it alone, right?

This was the reason Chen Ba heard the argument over the phone. When Liu first arrived, he indeed had a heated argument with Yang Dong and others.

But as they argued, Liu became overwhelmed with emotion and sat down on the ground, crying.

Seeing him cry, Yang Dong and the others lost interest in arguing and quickly asked what was really troubling him. Once they heard the truth, no one had anything to say!

What could they say?

After hearing Liu’s story, how could Yang Dong and Lu still blame him for causing trouble? They sympathized with him and advised him to stay strong and avoid being so pessimistic.

This was also why, when Chen Ba returned to the company, he found that the argument was over and the atmosphere was harmonious.

"Alright, I roughly understand the situation now."

Chen Ba pondered for a moment and then replied, "In theory, this matter isn’t directly related to us at Tianba Studio, nor should we be responsible for it."

"However, having said that, we at Tianba Studio also didn’t intend for such things to happen. The main purpose of the ’Love Advisor Department’ was marriage and dating..."

This violated Chen Ba’s original intention when designing the "Love Advisor Department" game.

All along, he and Yang Dong’s focus had been on how many couples the "Love Advisor Department" successfully matched and how many players found true love.

Not many noticed the family conflicts, romantic crises, and other negative impacts caused by the "Love Advisor Department."

This served as a wake-up call.

In a sense, the "Love Advisor Department" was indeed a game of tremendous merit, as it benefited so many singles and greatly contributed to the marriage rate and birth rate.

But he couldn’t only see the positive side; he had to consider the negative aspects as well.

Among the players of the "Love Advisor Department," how many are married? How many have a partner in reality but still come to the "Love Advisor Department" to find another? This is hard to assess!

The love advisors matched in the "Love Advisor Department" are incredibly spot-on, and because of this, many players subconsciously compare their game "lovers" to their real-life spouses or partners.

This comparison creates problems!

Compared to understanding personal interests, complementary hobbies, personalities, and temperaments, real-life spouses or partners often fall short.

This contributed to Liu’s tragedy.

His parents divorced for this reason, and his girlfriend broke up with him for this reason.

As for his sister being wooed by a blond, that wasn’t a big deal—just her having unique tastes.

"We need to strengthen regulation to prevent such incidents from happening!"

"That’s difficult..."

Yang Dong shook his head and said, "You can’t know a person inside out. If someone deliberately wants to hide that they are married or have a partner, we simply can’t detect it."

Indeed!

Chen Ba agreed with Dong. If players truly want to hide such facts, there’s no way to detect it with the current means.

Even tapping into the civil affairs database wouldn’t help. Not to mention that Chen Ba doesn’t have the power to access nationwide "marriage" data for one of his games.

Assuming he has such extraordinary abilities and made it possible for the "Love Advisor Department" to verify every player’s marital status, then what?

At most, it would exclude some married people. But those who aren’t married, just dating, this database wouldn’t reveal, would it?

"It all depends on effort!"

"Look at Liu’s situation—I can’t just stand by. Regardless of whether we can prevent it, we have to fulfill our regulatory responsibility."

Chen Ba sighed, "Regarding this, I’ll upgrade the matching system later."

He planned to use the Iron Fool System’s "point-to-point" optimization features to conduct a large-scale upgrade and review of the "Love Advisor Department."

This upgrade would mainly classify existing players!

Players who the AI determines are "highly likely married or have a real-life partner" will all be thrown into a separate matching pool, preventing them from interacting with regular players.

Meanwhile, those slick, uncommitted, sweet-talking players deemed "unreliable" by the AI will also be placed in their own matching pool to harm each other, keeping the broader environment clean.

This way, while it might not completely prevent such incidents from recurring, it can prevent the vast majority of them.

At the very least, situations like Liu’s "a loyal family ruined" likely won’t happen again.

"By the way!"

After discussing the enhancements and regulation of the game, Chen Ba turned to Liu and awkwardly said, "We’ll also offer you appropriate compensation, hoping you can quickly move on and embrace a new life."

"How about this..."

When discussing Liu’s compensation, Yang Dong had a better suggestion. He believed the "Love Advisor Department" needed someone like Liu as an "artificial inspector."

Relying solely on AI might miss some, but with human inspectors, that problem would largely be resolved.

"Artificial inspector?"

Chen Ba repeated the term twice and looked at Liu’s utterly devastated expression, his eyes showing a trace of oddness.

It’s not that Yang Dong’s suggestion was unreasonable. In fact, the "Love Advisor Department" could use a few human inspectors to check situations the AI couldn’t handle.

But then again...

Letting Liu Junqun, the "King of Decay" himself, be a human inspector—Dong, are you really joking?

This guy was so devastated by the "Love Advisor Department"—his parents, girlfriend, and sister all affected. Even Foyego would defer with his sword; and you want him to be an inspector?

The Minotaurs and unreliable players would suffer!

Chen Ba dared not imagine, if Liu caught someone "very suspicious," like the blond who wooed his sister, how ruthless Liu’s methods would be...

"Alright, it’s you!"

Chen Ba raised an eyebrow, saying, "With no woman in your heart, your sword will be sharp! Go for it, Liu. I believe that after this setback, you’ll definitely do a good job and cleanse the ’Love Advisor Department’ of its vices."

"Aren’t you going to ask if I agree?" Liu Junqun asked with a face full of grievance.

"No need to ask!"

Chen Ba gave a thumbs-up and said, "You’re made for this—naturally born to do it. Trust me, you’ll definitely do well."

Joking aside!

Not everyone has their parents, girlfriend, and sister taken by a game and its blond seducers. With such a unique experience, he’s too suitable for the artificial inspector role; a million annual salary wouldn’t be excessive...