Why the bug I wrote became a core gameplay mechanic?!
Chapter 370 - 379: The Most Nitiandang-Style Game Mod?

Chapter 370: Chapter 379: The Most Nitiandang-Style Game Mod?

"Crack," Lilith crushed the Coke can in her hand.

"Gu Fan!!!"

Following her Great Summoning Technique, Gu Fan, who had just finished dinner and was strolling back to the villa, was startled and hurried over.

"President Li, what’s wrong?"

Lilith was fuming with anger, "Look at this person! Look at him!"

Gu Fan struggled to keep a straight face, but he managed to barely maintain an expression teetering on the verge of collapse, and, fortunately, he did not give away his true feelings.

After all, Lilith was in the heat of her anger, focusing all her rage on Gan Di and Chen Tingquan, and did not pay much attention to Gu Fan’s subtle expressions.

"Gu Fan! What do you think I should do now!"

Seeing Lilith so angry that her chest was heaving, Gu Fan wasn’t sure what she wanted to do and could only say, "President Li, there’s probably nothing we can do now... you’re not planning to?"

Lilith nodded, "Yes, I’m going to withdraw this mod’s recommendation slot! Just delete it from the backend!"

Gu Fan was silent for a moment, "President Li, are you sure you want to do this? I’m afraid that it might not only be unhelpful but could also have an even worse effect..."

Lilith frowned at Gu Fan, "A worse effect? How could it be! Could it possibly be worse than it is now?"

Gu Fan was also uncertain, and could only vaguely say, "Well... President Li, I can’t say for sure, it’s just a kind of instinct that humans have."

"Hmph, keep your instincts to yourself, I have to take this mod down!

"This cannot be tolerated!"

Saying this, Lilith directly selected the "Master Mod" in the backend, and then proceeded to take it down.

She was logged in with the game developer’s account and had the highest authority, so all mods in the workshop could be freely manipulated.

Just as it’s possible to fail a mod in the approval process, it’s also possible to take down a mod that has been approved.

After refreshing the page and confirming that the mod had been completely removed, Lilith’s anger finally began to subside a little.

"Hmph, the game can’t be taken down due to contractual issues, but a mod dares to overstep its boundaries, Lady Lilith will not indulge you!"

Gu Fan promptly nodded, "Indeed, President Li is wise and valiant. Such a minor mod doesn’t deserve your concern!"

"Hmph!"

Lilith still was not completely satisfied, even after deleting the mod. She felt it wasn’t enough, but after thinking it through realized there was little else she could do. She sighed and looked through other mods, when an unrealistic fantasy crossed her mind.

"Players were just enjoying the Master Mod, and now it’s suddenly gone. They must be unhappy, right?

"So they should contribute some more negative emotion, right?"

With this fantasy in mind, Lilith continued to search the mod library for high-difficulty mods that could replace the "Master Mod" in hopes of recovering what had been lost.

As for whether she would be scolded...

One could only say that if Nitiandang had already reached this point, whether she was scolded or not wasn’t really an issue, was it?

...

Not long after Lilith took down the Master Mod, the viewers in Chen Tingquan’s livestream room had already noticed.

"Hey? What happened to the Master Mod?"

"Yeah, I just saw the host play Trapping Beast Cage, and wanted to try it out, but I can’t find the mod at all in the official workshop!"

"What’s going on? Isn’t the streamer still playing?"

The players were all a bit puzzled.

Chen Tingquan also felt something strange; he was currently sweeping through Beast Gods on the map. He’d fought a few Silver Beast Gods and wasn’t satisfied; he was still looking for Golden Beast Gods. He was even considering how to use the materials surrounding him to optimize his Trapping Beast Cage to further enhance the efficiency of harvesting Beast Gods.

Wasn’t he playing just fine?

"Hang on a second, let me check."

With a puzzled expression, Chen Tingquan exited the game, only to see a game update progress bar and a dialog box appearing below the official platform’s details page.

"Game content update detected, do you confirm?"

Chen Tingquan almost clicked confirm subconsciously, but rationality snapped him back to his senses.

"Damn! Nearly fell for it!

"What the hell is the official doing, deleting the Master Mod again!"

Chen Tingquan felt a bit relieved; if he had really clicked confirm, it’s possible that the system would have automatically detected the integrity of the game files, deleted the mod, and restored the original files.

If that had truly happened, Chen Tingquan couldn’t be sure if the Beast God materials he had worked so hard for would still be there.

After calming down a bit, Chen Tingquan opened the Creative Workshop, only to discover that the "Master Mod" which used to be featured in the homepage recommendation slot had indeed disappeared, replaced by a blank space!

"What the heck is Nitiandang doing! The Master Mod was finally getting fun to play, why did they delete it!!

"But don’t panic, everyone. We can definitely download the mod again."

After all, Chen Tingquan had been through a lot; he immediately opened the NEXTMOD website and smoothly found Gan Di’s latest version of the Master Mod uploaded there.

Mods are something you can download anytime, and although the official deludedly deleted the mod from the Creative Workshop, players could still play by downloading the mod through other channels.

"Alright, I’ve sent the mod file to the fan group. Everyone can go download it from the group files themselves!"

The crowd breathed a sigh of relief; that was a close call!

This was mainly because there weren’t many players proficient in mods among them, especially Chen Tingquan’s audience. Many began downloading mods from the Creative Workshop only after seeing Chen Tingquan’s playthroughs, and they felt a bit panicked when the mods were suddenly deleted.

Fortunately, a simple online search quickly solved the problem, and it didn’t cause much trouble.

But as people calmed down, anger naturally started to rise.

"I mean, what right does Nitiandang have to delete this mod? It was finally enjoyable to play and then they deleted it, are they starting to act up again?"

"Yeah, it was bad enough when they intentionally filtered out some annoying mods before, but now that a fun gameplay mod has been developed, they delete it, feels like they’re entering a rebellious phase again!"

"Quick, go on NEXTMOD and back up all the mods; this official Creative Workshop is completely screwing us over!"

Unable to burst out at Nitiandang’s employees, everyone could only vent their anger in the live stream chat.

Chen Tingquan was also puzzled; the official selection mechanism for mods in the Creative Workshop has always been a mystery. From the beginning, everyone had been criticizing it, seeming like the officials only approved mods that increased the difficulty, and not a single functional mod that was practical.

And now, the officials had gone even further, deleting the enjoyable Master Mod.

What did this imply? Did the officials resent players having fun?

That seems... unreasonable, right!

Could it be...

Chen Tingquan suddenly had an idea: "Hey, could it be that Nitiandang is using this method to filter out mods that best fit the ’Nitiandang style’?"