[Written during quarantine at my workplace due to the pandemic, squeezed in between work tasks. Updates are irregular; I'll post chapters once they're done.]
AI No. HC1656 accidentally became Gofiel, the System overseeing the third-rate online game Ark.
No holidays, no pay, and unemployment hanging over his head: with neither a salary nor the mood to slack off, he could only take over the game and learn how to be a competent System.
Then he discovered that the supposedly picky, argumentative players were surprisingly easy to please.
To reduce the server load, Gofiel kicked out the players running multiple alternate accounts. The players: No more gaming studios stealing our monsters and farming gold? Positive review!
Gofiel temporarily filled in for a planner who'd quit and launched an event to boost the game's popularity. The players: The damn planner finally stopped pushing us to spend? Positive review!!
Gofiel casually created a few intelligent NPCs to keep him company and break the boredom. The players: The NPCs have high-level AI now? Positive review!!!
Before long, Ark's reputation among players kept improving, and more and more people came to try it out. The game clawed its way back from the brink of shutting down and shot up to No. 3 in the annual rankings.
After it was acquired by an industry-leading company, the remade Ark: Genesis became the world's first large-scale online game played through brainwave connection, achieving true full immersion. It sparked a sweeping, era-defining revolution in the gaming world.
As one of the game's Systems and the architect of this legend, Gofiel smiled faintly, keeping his achievements to himself.
He had no lofty ambitions. He just wanted to slack off legally and in peace.
Content warnings:
The protagonist is the game's System, able to control all in-game data. There is no golden finger, because he is the golden finger himself.
The setting is fictional. The game has a Western fantasy setting. The first half takes place in a highly developed VR game that requires lots of external equipment; after the remake, it's true full immersion, played through a direct brainwave connection.
Not a traditional Fourth Calamity story, but it has the style and elements of one. The author has no idea how to define it, so for now, let's call it my take on an online game novel.
Also known as: The Players Do Something Absurd Every Morning; What Can I Do to Save You, My Bugs; How Do I Deal With My System Brother, Who Was Born at the Same Time as Me, Being an Artificial Idiot? Help, It's Urgent.
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Maybe I Got Stuck in a Fake Matriarchy: A matriarchal romance about getting by in an atypical matriarchal world where women give birth.
And here's a recommendation for a new story by a friend!
This Female Alpha Has a Secret Ailment [Female A, Male O]: A gender-bender romance about a silly, straightforward female Alpha and her adorable boyfriend, a sweet bedtime story about two people falling for each other.
Theme: Hard work is the only way to change your fate.
Wuwuwuwuwuwu, how can I live without you, madam, I can't forget you at all. This article is so special that I can't find a meal replacement. I'm dreaming about watching the follow-up. I'm heartbroken. Madam, please come back. I don't ask you to update steadily. I can wait for as long as you can. Come back, madam.
It's a pity. Compared with Solution V, I hope the author will come back and update it to the ending.
It's a pity. This idea is so good and well written. If it doesn't fool you, it will definitely attract a lot of people to read it.
If it weren't for the rebate information Jinjiang sent me, I would have forgotten about this book. The author is great. I want to read it?°(°????°)°?
It's pretty good, and the ideas are pretty good, and if I expand it, I feel like I could write a short novel, which is a pity.
How can I solve v? I've been waiting for so long.
I remembered that I should visit a grave. I was very happy when I was chasing this (tears)
I haven't read it yet, but I see so many people in the comment area asking my wife to update it. It should be very interesting. If there is a follow-up to this book, can anyone tt me? I don't want to enter an unfinished article [Let me be healthy]
It's a pity that the nth part of the story will be gone once you wait.
I remember I liked watching it before, but I didn't expect it would be so long ago.
Wuwuwuwuwuwu, how can I live without you, madam, I can't forget you at all. This article is so special that I can't find a meal replacement. I'm dreaming about watching the follow-up. I'm heartbroken. Madam, please come back. I don't ask you to update steadily. I can wait for as long as you can. Come back, madam.
It's a pity. Compared with Solution V, I hope the author will come back and update it to the ending.
It's a pity. This idea is so good and well written. If it doesn't fool you, it will definitely attract a lot of people to read it.
If it weren't for the rebate information Jinjiang sent me, I would have forgotten about this book. The author is great. I want to read it?°(°????°)°?
It's pretty good, and the ideas are pretty good, and if I expand it, I feel like I could write a short novel, which is a pity.
How can I solve v? I've been waiting for so long.
I remembered that I should visit a grave. I was very happy when I was chasing this (tears)
I haven't read it yet, but I see so many people in the comment area asking my wife to update it. It should be very interesting. If there is a follow-up to this book, can anyone tt me? I don't want to enter an unfinished article [Let me be healthy]
It's a pity that the nth part of the story will be gone once you wait.
I remember I liked watching it before, but I didn't expect it would be so long ago.