The virtual empire starts from the game

Chapter 42 Permanent Delisting Statement
In Xu Meng's impression, channel dealers are ridiculously tough.

Whether it is the impression gained from exchanges with peers in the previous world or the impression in the memory of this world's predecessor, channel dealers are those who are super tough, never back down, and extremely difficult to get along with.

——For game producers and production teams that need mobile phone users, they really don’t have much capital to fight against channel providers who can reach users on a large scale at extremely low cost.

So Xu Meng didn't quite understand:
Everything is based on profit. The channel operators who will not give up an inch for the sake of profit and can ruthlessly exploit all game production companies, actually give in so easily?

Given the current popularity and revenue of "Frost and Snow Project", the share they can get every month is not a huge sum, but it is also very considerable - not to mention that the revenue is still on the rise.

So much money, and you just say you don’t want it?

You can't just pretend it doesn't exist just because it's not in your hands yet, right?
This is unscientific!
"When they removed Project Frost and Snow from the shelves, they didn't say anything else?"

"We only sent a notification email and a private message." Song Zhicheng's face didn't look good either.

"They asked us to deal with the issues reported by users as soon as possible, make harmonious modifications to the game, and put it back on the shelves after they passed the review. If we don't make the modifications, they will not let us put it on the shelves."

Song Zhicheng was a little frustrated: "I just called them to communicate, but they said it was lunchtime and we can talk in the afternoon, and then they hung up the phone."

Xu Meng was speechless for a moment.

Workers' lunch break time is indeed precious, but he has never met anyone so arrogant as to hang up the phone of a cooperative company directly.

"What is the revenue sharing ratio between us and these three channels?" he asked.

Song Zhicheng knew that this aspect of the work was previously handled by his former boss Zhang Yang, and his current boss Xu Meng was more responsible for game development, so he patiently explained to Xu Meng -

"Three-seven."

"Seven of us?" Xu Meng asked.

"We are 30 to 70 percent channel."

Xu Meng was speechless again, and even felt the veins on his forehead throbbing.

70%!

This is too fucking outrageous.

People in my hometown say that mobile phone channels are unkind and suck people’s blood, but they also suck 50% there, and the channel and the developer split it in half.

The result is directly 70% here?

Crazy? !

"The channel dealers don't get the 70% for nothing. Besides getting the game on the shelves, they also have to do other work, right?" Xu Meng tried to find a psychological balance.

"Well... in theory, that's right."

"When signing the agreement, I asked the channel to assist in completing all the preparations for the game launch, and to formulate a promotion plan for the corresponding channel when the game is launched and the version is updated, and to help maintain the game display page, discussion area environment, and abnormal data cleaning..."

"Wait a minute." Xu Meng raised her hand to stop Song Zhicheng from continuing, "What do you mean by theory?"

"What I mean is... Logically speaking, our game was maliciously rated low - those accounts have never downloaded the game at all. They need to deal with this kind of abnormal data and ensure the notarization of the ratings, not to mention malicious reports."

Song Zhicheng was a little embarrassed.

Xu Meng speculated: "But in fact, they didn't care at all, and just let "Frost Project" continue to be maliciously reported and rated low, until the number of reports was enough, and then they took our game off the shelves without a care?"

"Yes." Song Zhicheng lowered his head, feeling a little embarrassed to look at Xu Meng.

“Before it was removed from the shelves, the user ratings of Project Frost and Snow on these three channels had already dropped to a level starting with 2.”

"Yesterday I started communicating with the channels - not just these three, asking them to stop this organized bad reviews, reporting, and low-scoring behavior, but the communication was not smooth."

"These three channels were the most perfunctory. They were impatient when answering the phone, which made several employees very angry."

Song Zhicheng said that his employees were very angry, but Xu Meng could see it at a glance——

He was also very angry.

The assistant Chen Mengling beside her was also glaring with anger.

So after thinking for a while, Xu Meng asked a key question: "Do we have the player data of the channel server?"

"According to the agreement signed by Boss Zhang, the player data of the channel service belongs to both of us. But in fact, most of the channel staff don't care at all."

"So these channels really just provide a channel and a server, then sit back and collect money without doing anything else?"

Song Zhicheng was silent for a few seconds, "Almost."

This answer helped Xu Meng make up her mind. "Then forget it."

"?" Song Zhicheng didn't understand, "What do you mean?"

“Didn’t they say: If it’s not modified and harmonized, it won’t be put back on the shelves?” Xu Meng said slowly.

"Forget it then. We won't change it and we won't put it on the shelves if they don't allow us to do so."

"You should make an announcement and say that "Frost Project" will be permanently removed from these three channels, and the player data of the corresponding servers will be merged into the official servers."

This decision actually has many disadvantages.

But Xu Meng's personality determines that he cannot be a pure businessman.

He resigned from the big company and went out to develop independent games because he couldn't stand this kind of suffocating feeling.

When he is unhappy, he wants to make his opponent unhappy with him.

If his opponent is uglier than him, then he will be happy.

If this process can make others happy, then you will make a lot of money!
Song Zhiben wanted to persuade his boss, but when he looked at Xu Meng's expression, thought about the humiliation he had suffered at the channel and the more humiliation he would have to endure if he compromised, and listened to the cheerful laughter of his colleagues outside the office...

He suddenly didn't want to persuade her anymore.

So be it.

"Understood. I'll go write the announcement right away."

"Hurry up! Everyone is waiting to go to the dinner!" Xu Meng urged.

Five minutes later, Song Zhicheng showed Xu Meng the announcement he wrote.

Xu Meng shook her head as she watched: "It's too serious, and there's no explosiveness."

"It would be a shame if we didn't take the opportunity to stir up trouble and make it a hot topic to liven up the players."

"Ah?" Song Zhicheng was confused.

"Forget it, I'll make some changes." Xu Meng took the tablet from Song Zhicheng and started to make some changes.

……

A few minutes later, "Frost and Snow Project" released an emergency announcement edited by Xu Meng himself:

[Announcement on the permanent removal of "Frost and Snow Project" from three channels including LeShang, Yunzhi, and Mobile Assistant]
Dear players and friends:
Hello everyone.

At noon today, three channels including LeShang App Store, Yunzhi App Store and XiongZhua Mobile Assistant suddenly removed "Frost and Snow Plan" from their shelves without any communication.

They accepted abnormal complaint data without any verification and ignored the calls of real players, demanding that "Frost and Snow Project" make rough changes to the costumes of some characters in the game.

They also stated that "Frost and Snow Project" would not be allowed to be put back on the shelves until the modifications were completed.

Zhumeng expressed his incomprehension of this.

Even more unacceptable.

Every character is the result of the hard work of original artists, animators, modelers and programmers.

We deeply love the characters we created and cannot accept that they are slandered and defamed with malicious language because of the way they dress.

Game characters also have freedom to dress however they want!
The creative team of "Frost and Snow Project" will continue to adhere to this creative concept in the future and continue to bring beautiful and moving girls to players who can make people blush and heartbeat at first sight.

To achieve this goal, we made a difficult decision:

Starting today, "Frost and Snow Plan" will be permanently removed from three channels including LeShang, Yunzhi, and Mobile Assistant.

Players who play games on these three channels don't have to worry, all your data has been properly saved.

Just wait patiently for a few days, then you can directly use the official login tool to enter the game and continue your adventure in Arda.

I sincerely look forward to seeing you again in the world of Arda.

Dream Building Games
June Second, 2025
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After issuing the announcement, Xu Meng put the matter aside and met with the employees with her assistant and Song Zhicheng to go for dinner together.

But the entire second-hand travel circle became completely lively because of this announcement!
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