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Filling out the questionnaire is hard work, so players who fill it out incorrectly will be disqualified.

For those who fill out the questionnaire carefully, regardless of whether the feedback is positive or negative, they will receive a certain number of points after manual review. These points can not only be used to upgrade the evaluation title, but also to redeem currency for Spark's first-party games.

In addition to rewarding users with points, which is more materially oriented, these reviews also have the opportunity to be featured on a new game show produced by Spark.

The King of the Black Box

The "King of Black Boxes" refers to the fact that Spark releases several games that are in black box testing every week.

Find some content creators (UPs) to try it out.

Then try to guess the game's rating in the dark, and guess the ten most positive reviews and the ten most negative reviews.

It's somewhat similar to an American program.

The idea is to ask a question, collect answers from 100 people on the street, and then have the show's guests guess the most frequently answered question.

However, Spark transformed this collection of answers into player evaluations.

After hearing the entire black box test plan, David could only keep praising it.

Lin Li has truly taken the gamification of life to the extreme.

This approach, on the one hand, can help developers collect valuable information to the greatest extent possible.

On the other hand, for players, the triple incentive of having new games to play every day, points, and the opportunity to appear on TV shows is indeed enough to make them serve as free labor.

Especially those college students who are bored out of their minds, they might even log in every day to check in in order to get a higher evaluation title...

What's even more amazing is.

Since the allocation of test slots is in the hands of Spark, Spark can adjust the number of test slots allocated based on the current number of active test players.

When there are fewer people, issue more qualifications.

If there are too many people, we should control the situation a bit.

Lin Li estimated the base number to be between 1 and 2 people.

At the same time, the black box will also perform screening.

If players blindly fill in positive and negative reviews, they will be disqualified from the black box operation.

Finally, Xinghuo also connected with Douyin's big data platform.

By analyzing player surveys, we can determine the types of games players prefer, create a database, and then have the game, operating in a "black box," interact with players from different databases.

This ultimately results in a relatively clear data analysis for developers.

Knowing which group of people like your game and which group doesn't can greatly help developers understand what stage their game is at.

Black box systems, besides helping developers complete games.

On the other hand, it can also help solve puzzles in the program and help developers complete their first initial promotion.

no doubt.

These things will become the moat protecting the future Spark platform.

After all, this is all there is to it.

Spark will only be available to games that are exclusive to the Spark platform.

Besides miHoYo, many other people received calls from Lin Li.

However, on the surface, the gaming market suddenly became much quieter in June.

In this silence, July arrived.

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November 10st

Summer Spark event day

Early morning

A bus stopped at the Qiongzhou International Hotel.

quickly

A group of girls filed out of the hotel and boarded the bus.

If someone were nearby at this moment, they would have noticed that these girls were none other than strangers.

It is a subsidiary of Sony.

Members of Nogizaka46, who are quite popular in Japan and even worldwide.

Not just one person, but the entire group, including all the TOP members.

It is clear.

This is a group performance.

According to the plan, they will perform three songs as surprise guests this afternoon, after which...

Although the performance was in the afternoon, they set off earlier because they also had to record a special program.

However, compared to activities in Japan.

With only two events scheduled today, it's a rare break for the Nogizaka46 members in 2018, especially for the TOP members.

Chapter 461 Pulling Pulling Pulling!

That's no exaggeration at all.

In particular, in 2017, "Mirage" not only sold more than 100 million copies for the first time, but it also performed at the Tokyo Dome.

Their individual resources exploded, and the top members of the group were unparalleled in terms of advertising and variety shows.

At this time, Nogizaka46 was somewhat similar to AKB48 in 2012.

Driven by capital, the members wished there were 48 hours in a day, and their schedules were almost non-stop.

In this situation.

Today's itinerary was absolutely fantastic.

One day in advance, we took a direct flight to Qiongzhou and checked into a five-star hotel.

The fact that they had no scheduled activities last night and were able to rest was unprecedented for the members of Nogizaka46.

Moreover, they were very excited about today's itinerary.

The sea, the beach, the festival.

It feels like a paid vacation, which makes me look forward to it.

Even after they boarded the bus, the surprise and excitement still filled their hearts.

The girls on the bus were extremely excited, constantly expressing their joy at the day.

"Wow, it's shipped! Spark! Hooray!!"

Right on the bus.

Sitting in the back row, Saito Asuka exclaimed, attracting the attention of another member next to her, Yamashita Mizuki.

The two had recently participated in a Pokémon GO commercial shoot together, where they exchanged ideas.

We discovered that the other person also played mobile games, so we chatted for a long time.

"What? What came out? A card pack? How much can it sell for?"

Along with Mizuki Yamashita, Sayuri Matsumura also came to watch. She doesn't play games, but she watches anime, so she was very interested in Spark's card packs.

In fact, it's not just these three people.

Most members of Nogizaka46, like ordinary Japanese people, have been exposed to manga and anime to some extent.

in the country, the world of anime and manga is a small community.

But in Japan, it's a much larger circle.

According to a survey, 87% of Japanese people have read manga and 84% own merchandise related to anime characters.

Of course, the vast majority of them are casual viewers.

I usually only watch popular anime series like Naruto and One Piece.

Seasonal anime series are something I only watch after certain series become popular, like Attack on Titan.

Even so, their acceptance of anime-style games is generally quite high.

This is also reflected in Japanese girl groups, although Nogizaka46, unlike AKB48, did not start in Akihabara.

However, idol otaku and anime otaku are highly overlapping.

They naturally know more or less about their fans' preferences and talk about them.

In this situation.

As the most mainstream game developer in the entire Japanese anime and manga game industry, Spark Games also has a considerable number of players within Nogizaka46.

There are also people who don't play games but are very interested in [Spark Collection].

For example, Sayuri Matsumura.

That's why she's interested.

It's because of what's been happening on Japanese social media lately.

It stirred up a strange wave.

It's a "gacha challenge".

The general idea is to use the money you would spend on breakfast, lunch, and dinner to buy three packs of "Spark Collection" cards.

Then sell all the cards you drew.

Use this money to get by for a day.

This challenge is quite dramatic; if you're unlucky, you might not even get the package delivered under warranty.

It's very dramatic.

If the goods are shipped, the drama will be even more intense.

The most popular post online is about a Japanese guy in the UK who went to the filming location of the Fate anime to draw cards.

I actually drew a rare Saber card.

A classic scene from the Fate anime.

It's the scene where Saber is bound while wearing her wedding dress.

This card is rare because, after the initial edition, it was reportedly censored and almost never reprinted.

Because of its rarity, it has high collectible value.

In the normal secondhand market in Japan, it can easily fetch 10 to 20 yen.

This young man became an internet sensation because of this somewhat fantastical stroke of luck.

Sayuri Matsumura really enjoyed watching these; she even tried smoking 10 packs of them when she was in Japan.

I also frequently visit Xinghuo Japan merchandise store to buy related daily necessities.

It's all for the sake of drawing cards.

Therefore, once you arrive in China...

Just then, a summer-themed photo album appeared, and she bought some more. This time, she was incredibly lucky.

I won a card that can be sold for about 1 yen on the second-hand market.

Well known.

When someone in a circle wins a prize.

Next, everyone in that circle will be infected.

In particular, the gacha system for this summer event, which uses an online pack opening model, spreads even faster.

The so-called online pack opening is a limited-time card drawing method specially launched by [Spark Collection] to match the [Summer Spark] event.