Chapter 165: Revision

"Right."

Lin Xiaoxiao nodded, though this still came as quite a blow to her.

After all, she had known Sword Qi for several years.

His actions made her feel that she was an utter failure as an operations manager.

Seeing Lin Xiaoxiao's expression, Yu Jia did not quite know how to comfort her.

She could only mutter a curse under her breath at Sword Qi, and then opened the group chat to mute him.

(Administrator 'Stone' muted 'Sect Master of Sword Qi' for seven days)

Divine Phoenix: What's going on?

Eggs Oh Eggs: Probably that time of the month, I guess [Dog Head]

Grey Wolf Great King Who Loves Frying Pans: Did you guys see the review ban issued by the Cyber Administration this morning?

Happy Afro: Saw it, but it doesn't have much to do with us bottom-feeders.

Grey Wolf Great King Who Loves Frying Pans: Everyone on the forum is losing their minds, and some are even saying virtual gaming is finished.

Eggs Oh Eggs: Finished my foot, at most it just adds a little extra hassle when developing games now, small matter.

Green-Hatted Landlord of Wind and Moon: But this is indeed a fatal blow to the newly thriving virtual gaming industry; the virtual gaming stock market index dropped six points directly.

Divine Phoenix: Does it affect the Game Contest? The number one spot doesn't even meet the review standards—eighty billion favorites, oh my goodness. If that gets banned, just think about how huge of an impact it will have on this contest.

You Guys Force Me: Ban? Where is it, let me take a look.

Realizing that it might affect the Game Contest, Yin Jian instantly perked up and typed out his question.

Eggs Oh Eggs: Right there at the top of the forum, click into it and you can see it.

Seeing the reply from Eggs, Yin Jian thanked him, closed the chat group, and opened the Qi-You Forum.

Sure enough, just as Eggs had said, as soon as he entered the forum, he spotted the prominent pinned post titled:

[Regulatory Management System for Published Virtual Game Content]

1. Virtual games published on the platform must comply with national laws and regulations and must not contain the following content:
1. Violating the basic principles established by the Constitution;
2. Endangering national security, leaking state secrets, inciting the subversion of state power, or undermining national unity;
3. Damaging national honor and interests;
4. Inciting ethnic hatred or ethnic discrimination, or undermining ethnic unity;
5. Undermining state religious policies, propagating cults, or promoting feudal superstitions;
6. Fabricating false reality content, disrupting social order, and undermining social stability;

7. Spreading obscenity, pornography, gambling, violence, terror, or instigating crimes;
8. Other contents prohibited by laws and regulations.
...

Yin Jian read through it from top to bottom, going through all twenty-odd points without missing a single one.

He read every single word carefully.

And upon finishing this ban decree, he could not help but swallow hard.

If the requirements of this ban were strictly enforced,

probably seventy percent of the games on Qi-You would be taken down for revisions.

"I wonder how Qi-You's review team is reacting."

"And whether it will affect the progress of the Game Contest."

Thinking of this, Yin Jian closed the ban post and began searching through the forum,

wanting to see if Qi-You had already taken action.

[Where is Qi-You Headed in the Face of This Crisis?]
[Is Virtual Gaming Really Going to Die?]
[Ten Reasons Why I Beg You Not to Ban Hentai Games.]
[Qi-You hasn't taken action yet, are they planning to go toe-to-toe with the Cyber Administration?]

Seeing this latter post, Yin Jian clicked straight into it.

He quickly scanned the content and then frowned.

According to the post, Qi-You seemed intent on sitting tight and making no moves for now.

But anyone with eyes could tell this was not a wise choice.

For a corporation to stubbornly clash with state organs was simply overestimating its own strength.

This explained why some people were posting that Qi-You was doomed.

However, for such a massive enterprise, the boss certainly wasn't an idiot.

Therefore, many people also felt that Qi-You's decision this time might not be as simple as it appeared on the surface.

Consequently, people were leaving their thoughts in the comments below the post.

One particular comment caught Yin Jian's attention:

Seeking Joy: Have you guys noticed that the games in the top twenty fixed recommendation slots for the Game Contest no longer match the rankings on the leaderboard? I looked closely, and the algorithm-driven recommendations for the top thirteen games that fail to meet the review criteria have all disappeared.

Seeing this reply, Yin Jian narrowed his eyes in thought for a moment, then directly opened the Qi-You platform to check.

And sure enough, he found it was just as the person had said.

The twenty fixed recommendation slots had essentially been shuffled entirely.

Meanwhile, his own game, *Infinity*, ranked thirty-second, happened to land right at the tail end of these fixed recommendations.

A trace of joy appeared on Yin Jian's face.

Previously, he had been worried about whether he could break into the top twenty, but unexpectedly, he had now been bumped straight up.

"In that case, with the promotional push from those media hosts, it's not impossible for *Infinity* to secure an advancement spot."

Reaching this conclusion, Yin Jian breathed a sigh of relief.

Yet, soon enough, he furrowed his brow again, beginning to ponder the reason behind Qi-You's somewhat ambiguous approach.

After all, they hadn't touched other games, yet they specifically took action against the games participating in the contest.

No matter how one looked at it, this seemed a bit contradictory.

Although he didn't understand Qi-You's intentions, Yin Jian's intuition told him he had to do something right now.

Exiting the analysis post and returning to the forum homepage, Yin Jian clicked on the ban decree at the top once more.

Taking out his notebook, he began mapping the content above onto his own game.

He soon discovered that a great deal of content, strictly speaking, did not meet the review requirements.

And these problematic pieces of content that he uncovered were recorded down one by one.

An hour slipped by in the blink of an eye. By the time Yin Jian finished cross-referencing, his palm-sized notebook had several pages filled.

It was entirely composed of areas he felt were problematic after comparing them against the ban.

He was marking these issues out one by one because he intended to revise them immediately.

This suddenly descended ban made him feel as though someone was targeting Qi-You.

He certainly did not want to miss out on the chance to advance simply because his content failed the review.

At this thought, Yin Jian glanced at the current follower count of *Infinity*.

Thanks to the recommendation slot and the fact that certain hosts had already begun promoting *Infinity* for him, his followers had grown a bit more since yesterday, reaching around two billion.

However, his overall ranking had only climbed by one spot.

The foundational follower base of *Infinity* still lagged quite a bit behind the games ahead of it.

Even so, with the fixed recommendations now and media helping to promote it, he believed it was only a matter of time before he surpassed those games ahead of him that lacked algorithm recommendations.

"Next up is modifying the bloody and violent content to avoid any accidents."

With that thought, Yin Jian stopped paying attention to the rankings and focused wholeheartedly on modifying the dungeons of *Infinity*.