Friday, March 4th.
Pei Qian came to the company early and opened the backend to check.
The purchase data of "BEQUIET" is still zero!
Obviously, in just one day, the players did not make any breakthrough progress.
Of course, this is all part of Mr. Pei’s plan!
This password is hidden in "The Lonely Desert Highway" and can be found by driving for three hours. If one person can find it, everyone can participate in solving the puzzle.
If you simply want to dissuade players, requiring all players to complete the eight- or even sixteen-hour journey of "Lonely Desert Highway" seems to be a more effective method, but the system is obviously not allowed.
Therefore, Pei Qian must pay attention to the difficulty when setting these difficult problems.
The difficulty is too high and not reasonable enough, so that players cannot obtain the purchase conditions at all, and the system will not allow it;
The difficulty is too low, and it cannot form a threshold, and players will soon be able to If you start buying, Pei Qian's work will be in vain.
Pei Qian’s main goal in setting up this filter is to reduce the number of players who are eligible to purchase as much as possible before the settlement of this cycle, that is, in less than a month, thereby reducing game sales.
As for what to do in the next cycle, let’s talk about it in the next cycle.
Pei Qian’s ideal situation is that this puzzle can delay players for a month, so that there will be no sales this month.
The game is already online. Players cannot buy it because they have not solved the puzzle, not because Mr. Pei’s game has not been completed, so it does not count as an unfinished project and will not lead to delayed settlement.
Even if it cannot be delayed for a month, it is better to delay it for two or three weeks than to open it up and let players buy it!
Players on the forum have come up with many solutions to this string of passwords, and a number of big players have emerged.
The solutions include grouping, converting English to numbers, converting numbers to nine palaces, reverse order, crossover, sequence, ASCII, hexadecimal, etc., which is dazzling.
In fact, Pei Qian is just an ordinary person. He has never learned those very complicated encryption methods. The solution ideas he uses are entirely based on relatively simple puzzles that can be seen in daily life.
It’s just a little more steps.
The correct ideas did appear in the players' solutions, but because the last step of the decryption method is relatively unpopular and magical, some players mistakenly thought it was a dead end after solving this step and stopped going. Investigated further.
As a result, this correct solution path has not received much attention.
GAICCCCCCACBIADBHCEA
After observation, you can see that ABC appears very frequently, and the letter at the bottom of the order is I. According to the alphabet, A=1, B= 2 are arranged in this way, I is exactly equal to 9, indicating that this string of English originalIt is converted from a string of numbers.
71933333313291428351
If you continue to observe this string of numbers, you will find that every other digit has a pattern.
71/93/33/33/31/32/91/42/83/51
The last digit does not exceed 4. This is a very common mobile phone. Nine palace grid.
71 represents the first letter of the 7-button in the nine-square grid of the mobile phone, which is P. In the same way, all subsequent letters can also find the corresponding letters on the nine-square grid of the mobile phone.
PYFFDEWHVJ
But there seems to be no pattern at this point, so players who thought of this path before can not continue to deduce it, but from the posts and comments of other players It seems that many people obviously do not realize that this is the correct solution.
This step is actually not a complicated password. Its broad categories are very common in reality, but this branch is extremely rare, so the number of people who understand it is too small.
Pei Qian also accidentally learned something out of interest, so he used it in the password on a whim. Unexpectedly, the effect was unexpectedly good.
Moreover, even if the code is solved, only one-third of the process of solving the puzzle has passed.
"Everyone, keep working hard. If you can't figure it out, I'm going to lose money this settlement cycle!" Pei Qian couldn't help but squealed.
OTTO mobile phone will hold a press conference this weekend. Pei Qian has to go to the press conference to take a look to make sure everything is safe.
But before that, Pei Qian sent a message to the programmer responsible for solving the puzzle.
"The clue in "The Lonely Desert Highway" has been found, and the time required to find the clue can be adjusted from three hours to 15 minutes."
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Sunday, March 6th.
Oasis Four Seasons Hotel, the largest five-star hotel in Jingzhou City.
Many of Tengda's previous activities, including high-standard business receptions, personnel recruitment and entry examinations, annual meetings, etc., were all cooperated with this hotel.
This press conference is also held in the banquet hall of this hotel. Many technology media have been invited in advance and rooms have been reserved for them. Food, accommodation and round-trip transportation are included for the day.
As for the others, they directly approached customers of Moyu Internet Cafe, Headwind Logistics and other businesses for free tickets.
Anyway, there is no problem filling the entire venue.
The press conference officially started at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Pei Qian quietly walked to the hotel venue at around 2 o'clock, and then found a corner seat and sat down.
If he wants to, he can sit in the first row, but this press conference is arranged for cameras to be broadcast live. If Pei Qian wants to sit in the first row, he will definitely be on camera. Wouldn't it be exposed?
So, Pei Qian told Chang You that he would come, but did not tell him exactly where he would sit.
With so many people at the scene, it would be extremely difficult to find Mr. Pei.
In this way, Mr. Pei will not expose himself, but also achieve the effect of supervising the battle in front of the formation. It can be said to kill two birds with one stone.
The venue was filled with soothing and soft music and was crowded with many people entering the venue.
Maybe I arrived a little early and the big screen was still dark.
If it were a press conference for other mobile phone brands, some short videos would be played on the big screen to warm up the show, and then promotional pictures of the spokespersons would be shown.
But Pei Qian thought about it and realized that OTTO phones don’t seem to have these things?
Chang You seemed to have asked about the spokesperson before, but Pei Qian didn't think about it at that time, so he didn't tell Chang You about it.
I think Chang You must have forgotten about this matter, right?
If there isn’t even a spokesperson, then there shouldn’t be a warm-up short film, right?
Well, that’s good too. Just talk dryly about the shortcomings of mobile phones for an hour, and then get off work at the speed of light, which is very much in line with Mr. Pei’s wishes.
Pei Qian was thinking happily when the lights suddenly dimmed.
The big screen lights up!
A logo full of technology appeared slowly on the big screen, just like the rising sun dispelling the darkness, instantly attracting everyone's attention.
The camera gradually zooms out, the logo becomes smaller and smaller, and a back figure appears in front of the camera, which just blocks the bright light and outlines a handsome outline.
Then, he stretched out his right hand and grabbed the ball of light in his hand.
A ray of light instantly burst out from his hand, and the logo was shrunk and engraved on the back of the phone, giving off a faint breathing light effect!
The back figure also turned around at this time. The handsome Lu Zhiyao looked through the screen at the venue, holding a very majestic-looking mobile phone in his hand, with the logo flashing on the back. It's full of technology.
This is not over yet, there are two more advertisements after that, including an advertisement for "drone delivery".
Finally, the picture was fixed on the promotional picture. Lu Zhiyao was holding an OTTO mobile phone with a faint smile on his lips.
Pei Qian was stunned in his seat, forgetting to drink the mineral water he had just unscrewed in his hand.
"What the hell..."
"Isn't this an advertisement from "Better Tomorrow"???"
Pei Qian couldn't help but think of the previous Watching "A Better Tomorrow" in the cinema.
This moment is just like that moment.
Same caught off guard, just as confused!
When Pei Qian was watching a movie before, he did see the advertisement and logo of this mobile phone, but it was different from the logo of OTTO Technology in his impression.It's not the same, so I don't take it too seriously.
As a result, how did the OTTO mobile phone copy movies?
Buying the popularity?
How shameless!
Furthermore, when did Lu Zhiyao come to endorse?
Now Lu Zhiyao can be said to be very popular. After the release of "Better Tomorrow", his status as a "box office poison" was instantly cleared. And with his breakthrough acting skills and his already good popularity, he has regained his popularity. Strongly ranks among the first-tier niche students in the country.
It would be even more incredible if I win another award.
Considering the achievements of "Better Tomorrow" for Lu Zhiyao, it seems reasonable for him to reciprocate and come to endorse OTTO mobile phones...
For Pei Qian , this should also be a surprise.
However, Pei Qian feels no surprise at all now, only fright!
This opening is much better than the ordinary warm-up video, because "A Better Tomorrow" is still in theaters and is quite popular, and many people present have already watched it.
These advertisements all appeared in "Better Tomorrow". They were carefully shot and had a distinctive style, which is obviously different from most of the current mobile phone commercials. When the audience saw this commercial, they naturally thought of the futuristic mobile phone brand in "Better Tomorrow".
Chang You had not disclosed this in the promotional materials before, so the audience at the scene was obviously surprised!
The originally somewhat lifeless venue suddenly became lively!
The reporters from the technology media sitting in the front row were all whispering to each other. Obviously, just this commercial + Lu Zhiyao’s endorsement was already a good gimmick.
Pei Qian was on pins and needles, panicking.
The start of this press conference is far from what I imagined. This does not seem to be a good sign...
Unscrew the bottle cap and take another sip of mineral water. The water pressure was overwhelming.
"Calm down, calm down."
"The situation should not be as bad as I thought."
"A good opening may not necessarily be effective. Maybe it will lead to the effect of suppressing the desire before promoting it."
"As long as Changyou makes a PPT according to my request and completely goes against other mobile phone manufacturers, he will definitely be scolded later. The louder it gets.”
“What started out so cool will turn into a black spot.”
“So, don’t worry too much now, everything will be fine. ”