"Take them away, take them away."
"Hey, manager, please cooperate with us a little."
Under the strong urging from the organizers, more than half of the booth babes of Plants vs. Zombies were withdrawn and only some girls with attires that could pass the regulations were left behind. The video game company's staff felt very down, but could not do anything about it since it was the official authorities who asked, so they could only do as they were told.
As a result, after those booth babes left, a majority of the people who had gathered at this unusually popular booth started leaving in an instant. Everyone was saying "how boring" as they walked away.
As for the game?
What sort of crappy game was that?!
Plants vs. Zombies? When have plants ever been able to fight zombies?!
There was hardly anyone who could understand the casualness of the game's name and felt that it wasn't very attractive. In addition, when the visitors saw the banners introducing it as a puzzle game, many of them lost their interest immediately. Since they had spent a lot of money to come to this expo, if they were to find something, they would rather look at those large-scale RPG games or MMO games made by the huge video game companies. Who would come here to play some puzzle games, especially a demo version of it? As a result, without the gimmick of the booth babes, the crowd naturally dispersed with only a few of them remaining behind.
Zhang Ye hated this greatly!
Little Wang, who had also lost her interest, remarked, "Director Zhang, let's go too."
Ha Qiqi turned and pointed to a booth. "That's the display booth for Fishing Master 2. Let's go and have a look?"
This was the game that their entire program team was playing in the office.
However, Zhang Ye said, "Go on ahead by yourselves. I want to walk around on my own."
Ha Qiqi looked at him and said, "Alright. We'll come look for you in a bit."
She walked off with Little Wang and the others.
Zhang Ye remained standing where he was. He was still thinking about the promotion of his game with a heavy heart. A promotional event filled with positive energy and booth babes was spoiled by the organizers just like that. Their attire has violated the regulations? Bullshit! For show! This is all for show! If they only did things for show every day, then over time the nation would be in crisis!
The crowd dwindled in numbers with many of the gamers going over to the surrounding booths. Gradually, the game booths nearby regained some popularity.
Zhang Ye heard some of the staff at the booth behind him saying things.
"Hmph, such dishonest methods!"
"It's a good thing that the organizers cleared up this mess in time."
"What plants and what zombies? They were just depending on their booth babes showing some skin to attract people, so how can their game be any good? If they have the time to plan that, they should be spending it on making the game instead!"
"That's right. Just look, everyone has left after the booth babes left, right?"
Those staff were talking loudly without reservation.
When he heard that, Zhang Ye got frustrated. He turned around and strolled over to that shooter game's booth and glanced at the screen of the demo. He grunted, "What lousy game is this?!"
When a female staff member heard that, her eyebrows twitched but she still greeted him with a smile. "Sir, you can try out the game first before giving your evaluation about it."
Zhang Ye glanced at the screen again and snorted, "What lousy UI is this!"
The female staff member's eyebrows twitched again as she forced a smile and said, "Although the UI is an extension of the design theory in a traditional shooter, our game's graphics are the industry's…"
Zhang Ye snorted again, "What lousy graphics are these!"
The female staff: "…"
Seeing the booth of his game still lacking visitors, Zhang Ye could not help but feel a sense of anger and injustice. So he decided to stand around longer at this shooter's booth, one moment walking to the #1 demo console to make some insulting remarks and the next moment strolling to the #3 demo console to say a few words of criticism.
The staff were driven mad by this!
Big Bro! How did we offend you?! What was all that about? Why did you trample on us the moment you got here?
Suddenly, Zhang Ye, having seemingly sensed or heard something, turned to look behind him. He frowned when he realized that his staff members had bumped into the staff of Central TV Department 1 and were in the middle of what looked to be an argument. Isn't that person the secretary of Central TV Department 1's deputy director, Jiang Yuan? Not knowing what was happening over there, Zhang Ye headed over immediately.
In front of him.
Dozens of the Central TV Department 1 staff were gathered at the booth. Some of them were playing games inside the booth, while the others stood there looking at the group consisting of Ha Qiqi, Wu Yi, and the others.
Jiang Yuan's secretary said, "You all had better pay attention to who's around you!"
Ha Qiqi retorted, "Why should we pay attention to that?"
Little Wang said angrily, "Today's a day off and we bought the tickets by ourselves, so why can't we go around as we like? Do we still have to get approval from the station?"
The secretary said angrily, "So you guys still remember the station? In the whole of Central TV, who doesn't know that you people have all been playing games during working hours! Those who don't know better might even think you all are working on the development of games!"
A veteran Central TV Department 1 staffer said, "Little Ha, your group is indeed in the wrong."
Another middle-aged staff member in the Central TV Department 1 group said with a grave tone, "Your program team has caused big trouble this time. Just because of a small issue, it has damaged our Department 1's reputation, yet you all are still not working diligently to make up for it, but instead playing games or watching movies during office hours every day. And now, you all did not greet us after seeing us here and just pretended not to see us? It's not that I want to tell you people off, but I can't bear to see things go on like this any longer."
Another person reprimanded them, "It's only because Director Jiang is taking his kid around the front that he did not see this. If he was here, he would definitely be angry at you all!"
It was clear that these fellows were determined to follow along in their leaders' footsteps.
Ha Qiqi, Little Wang, and the others got a little bit angry, but as they were still considered inexperienced at Department 1, there were certain things they could not say nor was it good for them to sass too much.
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