In the Internet age, who still makes traditional games?

The rewards from the Game Life Development System weren't just technical data?

Xu Meng belatedly realized—

The Game Life Development System didn't just provide simple 'data,' but rather 'knowledge'!

During the 'decompression' process, he was also granted the ability to understand this knowledge.

He had become a somewhat unorthodox, specialized mechanical engineer.

That's why replicating the technical data was so smooth.

And it didn't stop there!

The technical data didn't just contain hardware information, but also a wealth of programming and algorithmic knowledge.

It wasn't just the current [War Simulator]; the previous [Intelligent Collaborative Development Tool] was entirely programming-based.

His programming skills should have also made leaps and bounds!

That's why he was able to 'extract' the [Intelligent Core] and cultivate the artificial intelligence, Xiao Meng, so smoothly.

Previously, when the programming department encountered difficult problems, he could often quickly resolve them simply by joining in.

But after all, he had to control the overall situation and coordinate the development progress of all departments, so he didn't stay in the programming department full-time.

Moreover, this 'enlightenment' style of improvement was also somewhat specialized, so he couldn't solve all problems, and this feeling wasn't particularly prominent.

But now that he had realized this, he could completely learn with Xiao Meng, identify gaps and fill in weaknesses, and become a true mechanical engineer!

Of course, he didn't plan to actually do that for the time being.

It would be good to have Xiao Meng do it.

As for himself, he would just wait and see if the [Game Life Development System]'s future rewards would be powerful enough.

If he could be a lazybones, why force himself to work hard?

At this moment, Xu Meng thought back to the 2 million encrypted currency given by the system…

It was simply too weak!!

Looking at the little assistant's adoring gaze, Xu Meng felt a little guilty.

So, he sent her to find a cooperative patent agency to handle the patent application.

When things were almost settled, Xu Meng was wondering whether to play with Xiao Meng for a while to relax, but the office door was knocked on.

"Come in."

He thought the little assistant had forgotten something.

But the person who came in was Song Zhicheng.

"What's wrong?" Xu Meng asked.

"Boss," Song Zhicheng's expression wasn't very good, "The [Frost Snow Project]'s landing on consoles isn't going smoothly."

"Is that so?" Xu Meng wasn't very surprised. [Frost Snow Project] was quite special after all. "Tell me the details."

"The Nintendo console side got stuck at the first step."

Xu Meng nodded calmly and comforted Song Zhicheng, "It's okay, it's expected."

"Anyway, with the current performance of the Nintendo console, it probably can't run [Frost Snow Project]."

"Uh…" Song Zhicheng was directly choked by this sentence.

The Nintendo console's hardware was indeed a big problem, its performance even inferior to the latest generation of mobile phones.

Playing [Dragon Palace Treasure Hunt] on a phone was already stressful, playing it on a Nintendo console would be torture.

Of course, given the Nintendo console's user base, if it could be released, dedicated optimization wouldn't be impossible.

But since it didn't work, then forget it.

"Then, Sony Game Station…" Song Zhicheng's face became somewhat ugly again, "Their attitude is rather strange."

"Strange? How so?" Xu Meng valued this one quite a bit.

"They initially said that [Frost Snow Project] severely lacked respect for women and that the game's public opinion risk was very high, so they originally wouldn't consider it."

"Originally?" Xu Meng caught the key point in Song Zhicheng's words.

"Yes, originally." Song Zhicheng's tone was subtle.

"Then, before I could explain, they said—"

"'But the multicultural elements in [Frost Snow Project] have changed our minds.'"

"? ? ?" Xu Meng was directly stunned.

"Multicultural elements? ?"

"Our game is full of slender-waisted, long-legged, sexy and alluring beauties, where is there multiculturalism?"

He didn't understand.

"Boss, have you forgotten?" Song Zhicheng carefully reminded him of a keyword—

"Feiyun."

"Feiyun?" Xu Meng repeated the name and suddenly remembered an important thing—

[Feiyun] was originally [Yunfei], he was sex-changed from a male character!

From his and the Xia country players' perspective, this was a sex change operation, with some negative connotations.

But in the eyes of the other side, this seemed to be a very positive thing?

They called this "embracing the diversity" of "sexual minorities"!

"Fuck!" Xu Meng couldn't help but utter a curse word, "It can be like this?"

"Isn't this a bit too outrageous?"

The latest novel is at 69shuba! First release!

Song Zhicheng obviously also felt it was very outrageous: "Yes, it is indeed quite outrageous."

"But if it weren't for this reason, our last hope would be gone."

"Last hope?" Xu Meng was a little surprised, "SoftWare Game Box also rejected it?"

"Yes." Song Zhicheng simply nodded in affirmation, without explaining further.

But Xu Meng could easily see the hesitation on his face.

"What's wrong?"

Song Zhicheng hesitated for a moment, and finally said frankly: "Initially, the negotiations were going smoothly, and they even talked about sending people to help us optimize specifically for the game box."

"But later, SoftWare Company's internal DEI department, I don't know how they paid attention to us, strongly intervened and stopped the cooperation."

"They refused to cooperate on the grounds of [incorrect value orientation], [gender homogeneity], and [lack of inclusiveness], and even angrily denounced [Frost Snow Project] as a [terrible] game."

"They vented their anger on all employees of the Dream Building Company, and even threatened to call on everyone on social networks to boycott us."

The more Xu Meng listened to this passage, the tighter his brows furrowed.

By the end, his entire face was almost wrinkled together.

"Are they crazy?" This was his first thought.

But soon he felt that it seemed normal—the entire Western public opinion environment, especially the online public opinion environment, was somewhat extreme now.

No.

It wasn't [somewhat] extreme, but [very] extreme.

It was too normal for [Frost Snow Project] to be targeted like this.

[Frost Snow Project] was being chased and scolded by a bunch of female rights activists and moral guardians in Xia Country, so it was not surprising to receive this treatment overseas, where the political correctness trend was even more extreme.

The only bizarre thing was:

It was clearly the same game, but Sony Game Station considered it to be "inclusive of minority groups", while SoftWare Game Box considered it to be "not inclusive enough of diversity".

This was very absurd.

Even a little disgusting.

Xu Meng had thought of many reasons for being rejected before, such as the game quality not meeting console standards, the scale being too large to pass the age review, or the gacha game not meeting the platform's philosophy…

He could accept all kinds of reasons.

But he found it difficult to accept such an absurd reason as "not diverse enough".

You might as well say that our game is too lewd and affects the physical and mental health of young people!

"So, we only have Sony Game Station left as an option?" Xu Meng summarized, "Still relying on character sex change?"

"It hasn't been completely negotiated yet, they require us to make some modifications to several characters."

"What modifications?" Xu Meng had a bad feeling.

Song Zhicheng sighed and said:

"Label the genders of Feiyun, Tao Tao, and other sex-changed characters in the game as [non-binary gender], and emphasize this during promotion, preferably adding relevant elements when developing invitation tasks later."

Xu Meng: "? ? ?"

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