9 Unsatisfactory Data

"President Xu, it's not ideal. Only 100 people downloaded it."

"100 people?"

Xu Zhi leaned towards the computer screen in disbelief. It was just as the staff had said, only 100 people had downloaded the resource pack for Jumping the Line of Fire.

There were only two hours left before the closed beta. If only 100 people had downloaded it, many of the game modes in the game would not be able to proceed.

Moreover, just because someone downloaded it did not mean that they would definitely play it. In other words, there would be even fewer people in the game.

In Xu Zhi's heart, he needed at least four digits of players in order for the closed beta to continue. However, there was still a long way to go.

Although he had expected that the closed beta would be conducted in a hurry and that there would not be many players, such a small number of people was really out of Xu Zhi's expectations.

After waiting for a while, the company's employees came to the company one after another.

Xu Zhi called a few employees from the operations department and asked them to increase the player threshold for Jumping the Line of Fire.

Players who played the other games like Real Battlefield 1 also received invites for Jumping the Line of Fire's closed beta. They also increased the rewards for participating in the closed beta. At the very least, they had to ensure that the beta test was successfully conducted.

After a multi-pronged approach, at 9:59, the number of downloads finally exceeded 3,000 people. Xu Zhi heaved a sigh of relief.

At this time, it was already 10 o'clock sharp. He was currently in a small meeting room with a few of the company's Directors, closely monitoring the situation of the upcoming closed beta.

"Director Xu, is it time to launch the servers for the closed beta?"

On the side, the research and development Director, Wang Kewen, saw that the time was up and asked.

"Do it!" Xu Zhi did not hesitate at all. 

With Xu Zhi's order, the closed beta server for Jumping the Line of Fire fire was officially opened. Players could now enter the game to try it out.

There was also a computer in the small meeting room. At this time, Xu Zhi did not sit idle. He sat in front of the computer and quickly created an account to enter the game.

In the game, there was a chat channel. As soon as Xu Zhi entered, there was a post in the chat channel that was repeatedly flooding the entire screen.

"This stupid game is so trashy. The moment I entered, the quality of the graphics gave me a shock. I seem to have traveled 10 years back in time."

"This stupid game is so trashy. The moment I entered, the quality of the graphics gave me a shock. I seem to have traveled 10 years back in time."

"This stupid game is so trashy. The moment I entered, the quality of the graphics gave me a shock. I seem to have traveled 10 years back in time."

...

The few Directors behind Xu Zhi could also see the game. In the small meeting room, following the continuous spamming of the comments, there was complete silence.

At this time, it had not even been three minutes since the game was launched.

After spamming for a whole minute, this person did not stop. Ding Xiaomei could not help but whisper behind him, "President Xu, do you want to ban his account?"

"No need."

After saying that, Xu Zhi controlled the mouse and entered a game room.

This was a team competition room. There were already five people in the game. Xu Zhi had joined the game at this time.

As this was a closed beta, there were no restrictions to all the guns. Xu Zhi equipped one of the three hero weapons that was on the shelves, the 'AK Kylin'.

He entered the game, and a variety of shooting sound effects immediately sounded.

Bang! Tatatata! Bang!!

Tatatatata! Boom!

Xu Zhi did not immediately shoot, but first opened the settings system to adjust the speed of the mouse.

After getting the settings that he was satisfied with, Xu Zhi's character equipped a gun and started to move around on the map called the 'Transport Ship'.

"Headshot!"

"Double kill!!"

"Triple kill!!"

Xu Zhi's skills were much better than those of the players who had just entered the game. He could casually kill three people with a single hit.

While Xu Zhi was killing, the Directors behind him looked at each other, their eyes filled with confusion.

It was as if they were saying 'President Xu doesn't care about the statistics of the closed beta. Why is he still playing the game?'

Xu Zhi did not care what the Directors behind him thought. He controlled his character to fight two rounds in a row before stopping. At this moment, the closed beta had already been going on for more than fifteen minutes.

"How many players are there in the game?" Xu Zhi turned around and asked.

"President Xu, there are only 652 people," Ding Xiaomei hurriedly reported.

"Okay. I'll have to trouble all of you with the beta testing in the next few days."

After Xu Zhi finished speaking, he left the meeting room and returned to his office. In the meeting room, the few Directors who were left behind looked at Xu Zhi's back and were trying to figure out Xu Zhi's thoughts.

'Could it be that President Xu has given up after seeing this data?' Ding Xiaomei could not help but think in her heart.

After all, there were 3,000 people who had downloaded the game. 15 minutes later, there were only 600 players. This data was too bleak.

Ding Xiaomei had a good impression of Xu Zhi over the past month. However, she did not really agree with the fact that Xu Zhi had stopped developing Real Battlefield 2. It was just that she was cautious and did not say anything. At this moment, looking at Xu Zhi's performance, Ding Xiaomei felt a little glad. Perhaps Real Battlefield 2 could be re-developed again. After all, the company needed a new realistic game.

He Wei was very confused. He had learned a lot from Xu Zhi in the past month. In his opinion, this game could be successful, but Xu Zhi's performance made him doubt himself.

"Okay, okay. President Xu has returned to the office. Let's go back to our posts."

Wang Kewen said as he walked out of the meeting room. His tone was very serious, but he was already disdainful of Xu Zhi.

Following Wang Kewen out of the meeting room, the Directors started to get busy. No matter what they thought, they still had to continue with the closed beta test.

Returning to his office, Xu Zhi still had a lot of things to deal with. Not only did he have to deal with Jumping the Line of Fire, but he also had to make decisions for the previous three games.

After working for a while, Xu Zhi leaned back against the sofa and closed his eyes.

Unlike the other Directors, he had more confidence in Jumping the Line of Fire.

Although the data was not good, in Xu Zhi's heart, he felt that statistics and data of the closed beta were not very important. After all, the maximum number of people in the closed beta was only 10,000. What was important was the small retention rate.

When he entered the team competition just now, the Directors might not have noticed the details about the two rounds he played, but he saw that not a single player had left the game early. All of them had fought until the end of the game.

This was enough to explain the situation.

When the time comes for them to release open beta, the game modes would be attractive enough, coupled with a large amount of publicity, this game would become a snowball-like existence.

Xu Zhi did not panic at all.

After working in the office for an entire morning, it was time for lunch. When Xu Zhi was having lunch, he felt that there were a lot of gazes looking at him. He knew this very well.

The news within the company spread very quickly. In just one morning, the fact that the big data of the closed beta test of the Jumping the Line of Fire was not ideal had already spread throughout the company. These gazes were definitely not out of concern for him, but they were all waiting to see him become a joke.

Xu Zhi lowered his head and did not say anything. He picked up a chicken drumstick and chewed it vigorously.