《Almighty Video Game Designer》 Chapter 1

Chapter 1: Chapter 0: Please Call Me a Videogame Designer

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth As a videogame designer, Chen Mo thought that his life was already perfect. All the games that Chen Mo had designed went into video game history. ¡°Journey¡± had received seven awards at the Global Game Developers Conference, including Best Visuals, Best Design, Best Sound Effects, and Most Innovative Game of the Year. League of Legends was now seven years old and still held the throne of PC gaming. The League of Legends World Championship finals continued to break viewership numbers. The Last of Us, Uncharted, and GTA5 were popr all around the world, selling tens of millions of copies, breaking many records in the process. Oust, Tales Of Glory, and Thriller Paradise had revolutionized the VR gaming industry. Many video game designers considered them ssics as they studied them repeatedly . Even mobile games, such as Honor of Kings and Onmyoji, were always at the top of mobile games ranking, barely threatened by theirpetitors. Don¡¯t even get him started on the money tabletop games made in just two months. That was really easy money. And then there¡¯s also RapeL... Nevermind, that genre hadn¡¯t really been explored. If Chen Mo had any regrets, it was probably the fact that he still hadn¡¯t fixed his habit of daydreaming while on overtime. That¡¯s right, all of the above were just Chen Mo¡¯s daydreams. He was actually the main producer in a mobile gamespany from China. It was inevitable that he would start daydreaming after two months of gruesome overtime. Just like other video game producers, Chen Mo entered the industry filled with hopes and dreams. However, after a few years of overtime, the dreams he once had were drowned out by harsh reality. However, Chen Mo still liked calling himself a video game designer despite being a video game producer. That might be all that remained of his hopes and dreams. Chem Mo looked at the table next to him, which still had a cup of noodles from yesterday on it. It belonged to a software developer with messy hair and massive eye bags. Can¡¯t help it, the software developer had stayed back longer than Chen Mo did. Perhaps software developers were aliens. Chen Mo felt like the extra five minutes of overtime might kill him, but the software developers seemed to be able to maintain this zombie-like condition for months. Even when more bugs appear after they say ¡®it¡¯ll be online after this bug¡¯s fixed¡¯, they still have enough energy to fly to the moon. s, that is the life of hard workers. ¡°This is so boring! I can¡¯t take this anymore, I¡¯m gonna take a nap.¡± Not knowing if he wasying down or had passed out, he felt his vision going ck. It didn¡¯t matter as long as he was unconscious. Perhaps it¡¯s just a part of his imagination, but Chen Bo heard a sound in his dream. ¡°Game downloading... ¡°Main Objective: Be the best video game designer in the parallel world. ¡°Side Objective 1: Get over an ie of two billion from a game in one month. ¡°Side Objective 2: Get over 10 million active yers in one game in a month. ¡°Side Objective 3: Create games on PC, mobile and VR, and have ¡®ssics¡¯ on each of the tforms. ¡°Side Objective 4: Be famous, reaching the level of a tier-one celebrity. ¡°Newbie bonus: None. ¡°Game difficulty: Max. ¡°Game tutorial: Closed. ¡°Switching to parallel world in... ¡°3... ¡°2... ¡°1... ¡°Game start!¡± Chapter 2

Chapter 2: Chapter 1: The World with a Misclicked Tech Tree

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth The Imperial Capital... Chen Mo woke up. ¡°I feel like I might die any moment now... ¡°No more, I must go to bed earlier tomorrow...¡± While heading his temples to soothe an intense headache, Chen Mo sat up on his bed. ¡°I¡¯m so sleep-deprived that I¡¯m hallucinating. I was fine with daydreaming, but dreaming like that during my sleep? Stop messing with my sleep quality, please...¡± Chen Mo hadn¡¯t gotten over his terrible rest. But the next moment, he was stunned, and unable to recover his wits for a long time. ¡°What the! Where am I? Did I transmigrate?¡± Chen Mo looked around his surroundings. He was in an unfamiliar room, which looked like a twin room in a hotel. However, his twin room didn¡¯t look like the luxurious type. Other than being barely considered clean, nothing else was noteworthy. There was arge luggage bag next to the table in the room. There was a strangeptop on the table. It was as thick as a brick and had a massive screen. It looked heavy but intricate, like nothing he had seen before. Chen Mo had never seen aptop like this in his previous world, but after a reality check he noticed it looked expensive. Chen Mo proceeded to enter the bathroom to wash his face. Looking into the mirror, he saw that his appearance was the same, but just slightly younger.. He looked like himself four to five years ago, just after he had graduated from university. Slowly but surely, Chen Mo gained memories about this parallel world. This world was ny percent simr to the one Chen Mo was used to. The only difference was that the gaming industry he was ever so familiar with was vastly different. All this stemmed from the difference in technology. In this world, a string of technological booms had happened for some reason. Perhaps it was the doings of aliens, or even a transmigrator like Chen Mo, but the speed of the advancements inputing were beyond belief. The changes happened very rapidly, faster than a rocket.. Before personalputers were evenmon, top researchers had already invented supeputers that could make trillions of calctions a second. Halfway through the development ofputer technology, VR technology experienced a huge breakthrough. The dream of a virtual world was achieved using personal gaming pods. In three to five years, this world had achieved what Chen Mo¡¯s previous world had only achieved half of in over seventy years. Of course, the technological boom was beneficial, but it had directly resulted in the stalling of the gaming industry in this world. Before PC games were invented, they had entered the VR era. Of course, the gamingpanies spent all their resources on VR game development. As a result of that, the gaming industry didn¡¯t have the experience of making PC games. Although VR games had great engines, theories in video game design felt like they were stuck in the Stone Age. However, there was an upside to all this: this world viewed the gaming industry very highly! Video games here weren¡¯t viewed as gues on society or an online drug, but viewed as the ninth art form, respected and even promoted by certain governments. Furthermore, video game designers weren¡¯t the IT workers of Chen Mo¡¯s previous world. As it was considered a highly technical job, video game designers had gained respect simr to doctors,wyers, or even a culturally impactful artist! As for the original Chen Mo of this world, he was just an ordinary fresh graduate who was ready to devote himself to the gaming industry. Oddly enough, this world¡¯s method of ¡®devoting oneself to the gaming industry¡¯ also differed from his previous world ¡ª¡ª Chen Mo wiped his face down with a towel, then went to the windows and opened the blinds. Bright sun, clear skies... The Imperial Capital was usually quite hot during August. Seeing the sun made him feel like he was melting, despite being in an air-conditioned room. Chen Mo had a feeling that the people walking by would turn into human-shaped pools of liquid, slowly evaporating in the sun like they were candy. He stepped over to the table. The massiveptop was the highest spedptop in this world, starting at twenty thousand RMB. Being a poor fresh graduate and noting from a rich family, why did he choose to starve himself for the better half of a year to buy such an expensiveptop? It was because Chen Mo wanted to use thisptop to design games! That¡¯s right. That was another difference in this world. Here, a programmer wasn¡¯t required when a video game designer designed a game! Then... who did the coding? Answer: There wasn¡¯t a need for coding! This world had the best video game engines. All a videogame designer had to do was to storyboard the game and assemble it using the engines ording to the documentation. Vi, the idea can now be a reality! From minigames, that were just a couple megabytes, to VR games that required tens of terabytes, everything could be done using a game engine. Of course, the time and effort required were definitely different! Unlike his previous world, where video game designers were just workers in the production line, the video game designers here were extremely rich with great personal charisma, having status simr to sessful artists. Another difference was that in Chen Mo¡¯s previous world, video game designers would be assigned different parts of the game: coding, storyboarding, levels, etc. However, in this world, one had to know everything. A game designer that only understood the system, but not the plot would be disdained by others within their circles. It was to the point where some video game designers were also top-notch writers and artists, masters of all trades, just like how Michangelo was a sculptor, artist, architect, and poet! Of course, forrge scale VR games, the main designers would also hire assistants. However, the words of the main designers were absolute, controlling every detail of the game. The assistants were less like co-workers than interns. As mentioned previously, Chen Mo was a young man who wanted to devote his life to the gaming industry. However, the way to devote oneself wasn¡¯t to apply for jobs at video gamepanies, but through other means. All video game engines in this world were open to the public though rights and essibility may differ, depending on the designer . Entering the video game industry required one to design aplete game. It also had to pass through a board of professionals for review. The Chen Mo of this world was already qualified to be an entry-level video game designer. He just needed to design a simple mini-game to be a D-grade video game designer. As for the reason Chen Mo was staying in a hotel, he had registered himself for a video game design contest in the Imperial Capital. He needed a quiet environment for two days to finalize his designs. Unfortunately, perhaps because of stress or too manyte nights, he suddenly died! ¡°Pulling twote nights and suddenly dying? Man, my body is weak despite being so young,¡± muttered Chen Mo. Perhaps it was normal to have so much stress. Even in this world, the road of a video game designer wasn¡¯t easy. It had been almost a year since the Chen Mo of this world graduated, and yet he hadn¡¯t gotten off on the right foot. None of the games he made got past the review. Despite being entry-level in every aspect, he was unable to break through to being a D-grade video game designer. If this continued, Chen Mo would be out of money. He¡¯d be left with three choices: starve, go back and depend on his parents, or change career paths. Hence, Chen Mo had done his best, hoping he could get a good ranking in this video game designingpetition. However, before he could finish his product, it seems that he had been ¡®finished¡¯ first! After sulking for a couple more seconds, Chen Mo calmed down. ¡®Isn¡¯t it just designing video games? That¡¯s right up my alley! If I don¡¯t make waves in the current video game industry, I would really be a waste of resources.¡¯ Chen Mo turned on theptop. However, before he did anything, he decided to order some food. Chen Mo¡¯s stomach was growling. Not wanting to be the first transmigrator who died of starvation after the original¡¯s sudden death, Chen Mo picked up his phone. Indeed, the lifestyle apps werergely simr. Chen Mo noticed that other than the higher specs, mobile phones werergely simr to those of his previous world. After ordering a rice bowl and milk tea on an app called ¡°Hungry?¡±, Chen Mo fully calmed down, and opened the game engine on hisptop. Chapter 3

Chapter 3: Chapter 2 Can Money Change Fate?

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth After finishing his meal, Chen Mo looked through hisptop in a dissatisfied manner while sipping on his milk tea. His heart was racing, and his breath was heavy. Chen Mo felt frustrated. He almost choked on a pearl from his milk tea as soon as he got angry. Why was he angry? Because when Chen Mo turned on hisptop, he grew happier and happier after he confirmed the games in this world. VR games dominated the scene. PC gaming was pathetic, simply dismal, as the main purpose of PC¡¯s was for work. The mobile games market was filled with casual games. Not a single one of them was targeted at hardcore gamers. Moreover, most of them were made by C or D-grade designers as practice, resulting in few being profitable. There weren¡¯t any browser games, nor console games. It was obvious that video gamepanies had rushed towards developing VR games. Nobody cared about the PC side of things, and there was apleteck of people for consoles. Thinking it was a great opportunity for him to show his abilities, Chen Mo was quite happy. But when he saw his personal savings ount, his happiness had turned into anger. At that moment, Chen Mo almost choked on the pearls in the milk tea. Chen Mo realized that the game engine he was currently using was called ¡°Illusion Game Engine¡±, an invention from maind China. There was also another engine from outside China called ¡°Reality Game Engine¡±. They were mostly simr, although Reality had a slight edge in VR games. However, video game designers in China usually preferred Illusion Game Engine in order to ess publicly avable resources and upload their games. The information of the designers was also stored here, therefore Chen Mo had also chosen to use Illusion. Opening the editor had revealed a number of statistics to him. Chen Mo: Video Game Designer (Entry Level) Creativity: 7 System: 8 Coding: 3 Level Design: 4 Story Design: 10 Concept Art: 7 3D Art: 1 Monthly Quota: 294MB/300MB The numbers in his ount must¡¯ve been the overall score the system had given Chen Mo for his previous games. Storyboarding was rated the highest, probably due to his major in literature. As for the pathetic 3D arts, it¡¯s because Chen Mo had never touched any games rted to 3D. -Oh, right. All the statistics are rated out of 100...- What angered him weren¡¯t the tragic statistics, but the ¡°Monthly Quota¡± at the bottom. This suggested that every designer could use the free resources online for their games, but the quota would differ ording to their levels. For a video game designer like Chen Mo who doesn¡¯t even have his foot in the door, 300MB could be considered quite a bit. But the real problemy in the fact that he had used 294MB, with only 6MB left! This was only the middle of the month. It wasn¡¯t realistic to wait until the next month, as the due date for thepetition¡¯s final submission was in two days! -Even the gods are tormenting me!- After a big gulp of milk tea, Chen Mo opened his save file in the video game engine. ¡°There¡¯s nothing I can do other than take a look at this save file and see if it¡¯s possible to salvage it...¡± ¡ª After one minute and forty-three seconds, Chen Mo silently pressed the ¡®X¡¯ on the top right. -Man, that was unsightly.- It was a 2D martial arts game. It had basicbat and some simple moves, along with dozens of lines of dialogue. As to the resources used... it was probably spent on the ten backgrounds and the seven or eight bosses... In Chen Mo¡¯s opinion, this game had no potential at all. The mechanics,bat, graphics, scenes, all of them were beyond saving. But... restarting? What could he possibly make with 6MB of resources? Minesweeper? Sure, he could. But even if something of decent quality was made with the 6MB, it would be impossible for it to win a prize in thepetition! -Pain in the ass! -How could I get myself caught up in this sort of problem?- Chen Mo felt like he had swallowed a big chunk of ice. Not only did it feel terrible, but he also felt a cold spot in his heart. He extended his hand and shut the lid of hisptop. -It¡¯s hopeless!- At that moment, Chen Mo noticed the bracelet he had on his wrist wasn¡¯t quite normal. The bracelet was bought by the original Chen Mo. Its effects were simr to the fitness tracker of his previous world, heart rate tracking, sleep quality, etc. He hadn¡¯t noticed it before, but could now see that the bracelet was in fact extraordinary. Chen Mo tapped the bracelet, invoking a virtual disy. ¡°What the... what is this?¡± Chen Mo was shocked. Initially, he had thought that it was some sort of ck technology[1]¡¯ from this world. But after scouring through his memory from this world, he realized that bracelets weren¡¯t supposed to have this feature. Chen Mo examined the simple virtual disy, only disying 2 messages. A string of numbers and a virtual wheel. The string of numbers: 597,340. Almost sixty thousand credits... The virtual wheel had three distinct areas. The green one had ¡®Designer Skill Book¡¯ written on it, the blue had ¡®Rare Skill Book¡¯ written on it, whereas the purple had ¡®Special Equipment¡¯ written on it. The green area was thergest, and the purple the smallest. The wheel also had a big ¡°Spin to Win¡± button in the middle. Underneath the text was a small row of text, 100,000/spin. Seeing this string of numbers made Chen Mo enter deep into thought. After giving it some thought, Chen Mo finally understood. As a transmigrator, this was probably his artifact from the previous world. It appeared that it was an artifact that he had gotten through lucky draws. However... what did the 597,340 mean? Why was there a zero at the end? Like performing an autopsy, Chen Mo dissected his memory for numbers, remembering all the way from when he was young to now, before he finally pped his forehead and figured it out. This number was the amount he had spent on video games in his previous life, multiplied by ten. Approximately sixty-thousand RMB. This included money spent on RPGs, original AAA titles, and a bunch of equipment in some crappy Chinese game. Thinking back, he had indeed spent no less than sixty-four thousand four hundred eighty RMB! ¡°Damn, I should¡¯ve spent more, had I known!¡± Chen Mo felt some regret. Had he known earlier, he would¡¯ve dumped his hundreds of thousands of life savings into games when in his previous world. Although, it still hurt to look at the 100,000/spin. That¡¯s really expensive. This would be 10,000 RMB cash per spin! However, since he couldn¡¯t cash it out, Chen Mo decided to just spin and see what happened. Chen Mo pressed the button as he muttered. ¡°ording to the usual plot logic, shouldn¡¯t I be receiving some unique item plus some resources in order to create a new game?¡± Swish, swish, swish... The wheel had started spinning. Special equipment! Special equipment! Special equipment! Chen Mo was hoping loudly to himself. Although Chen Mo didn¡¯t ¡®know¡¯ which prize was the best, it was obvious that it was purple. Its area was the smallest, it must mean that it must be the rarest prize! With a cking, the wheel had finally stopped. The pointernded on the green area: Designer¡¯s Skill Book! ¡°It¡¯s fine, it was unlikely tond on the purple first time around. It¡¯s perfectly normal! Rx, rx...¡± Chen Mo discovered that a book had appeared on the virtual disy, with a notification saying: ¡°Designer Skill Book: Coding +1¡± Chen Mo tried tapping it with his finger. The book turned into sparkles, flowing into his fingertip! ================ [1] As in illegal technology, banned by the government Chapter 4 - A Simple Game that Leaves a Deep Impression

Chapter 4: Chapter 3 ¨C A Simple Game that Leaves a Deep Impression

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth A few numbers flickered inside Chen Mo¡¯s mind, bing part of his memory. He could feel that his coding skills did improve a tiny bit. ¡°That¡¯s not so bad! Wouldn¡¯t consuming a hundred of these books mean that my coding skills would be maxed out? A hundred of those just adds up to a hundred thousand RMB, what a great deal... of rubbish! That¡¯s just in robbery! ¡°Ten thousand to buy one point of Attribute! What am I, stupid? ¡°Rx, rx... ¡°It¡¯s just small money. If I make a hot trendy game, it could be raking in millions a month. Enough for me to be spinning this wheel for a while. Chen Mo consoled himself, continuously pressing the ¡°spin¡± button at the same time. ck, green. ck, green! ck, green!! Chen Mo was ready to throw a fit. Four spins, four hundred thousand credits, 4 Designer Skill Books! That was equivalent to four hundred thousand cash! With only a hundred and ny thousand credits left, he had enough for onest spin. Of course, next to the wheel was a thoughtful ¡°top up¡± web portal. Chen Mo opened it and closed it after looking at it for half a second. Cash to credit ratio was 1:10. There weren¡¯t any discounts, not even a first time double credit bonus! ¡°Just my luck, huh. Even QQ games[1] have better luck.¡± If Chen Mo wanted to spend all his points, he¡¯d have to top-up another three thousand points, meaning three hundred RMB. Currently, he was struggling to fill his stomach for another few days. Chen Mo was struggling to justify the three hundred RMB. ¡°Last time, I¡¯m giving up if nothinges up. Worst case scenario, I¡¯ll just opt out of thispetition, and design another one next month. I¡¯ll still get my D-grade certification...¡± Gritting his teeth, Chen Mo hit ¡®spin¡¯ onest time. Though he kept saying no, his body behaved otherwise. He could feel his heart jumping out of his chest and his hands trembling. At this moment he understood what went through the hearts of men with gambling addictions. If it happened to be another green book, he was ready to jump off the balcony. ck, the wheel had stopped once again. Purple area! Special Equipment! Chen Mo was shocked. Finally, he¡¯d been given a lifeline! A chest had appeared on the screen. Chen Mo tried tapping it with his finger. The chest opened with a click, rays of golden lighting out of it. Chen Mo nced at the screen, which read Special Equipment: Super Focuser. It even had a description! ¡°Super Focuser, one time use. Duration: 10 minutes. After using, gather the attention of 500 people to any local. The effect starts immediately after use and cannot be moved.¡± Chen Mo scratched his head, not quite understanding the current circumstances, reading the description again. -I kind of understand, but this thing doesn¡¯t seem to have anything to do with video games?- Chen Mo thought for half a day, scratching his chin. The only use he had for this was during thepetition, attracting the audience and the judge¡¯s attention to his game. But... then what? The effect onlysts for ten minutes. Furthermore, it only attracted attention, it didn¡¯t change their opinions on his game. Forcing others to y his game, especially when it¡¯s not good, might make the situation worse! ¡°Keep thinking, there has to be some way.¡± Chen Mo wasn¡¯t giving up. Wouldn¡¯t it be a great prank if he couldn¡¯t use his purple equipment after trying so hard to get it? Chen Mo now required a game like this: Not tooplicated. Resources are within 6MB. The audience will love it after ying it for ten minutes. Even if they don¡¯t love it, it should at least make a longsting impression. There has to be something special to get people to talk about. It was the only way to win first ce in the video game designpetition! ¡°It seems like this impossible task wasn¡¯t so impossible for me after all. Luckily, I¡¯ve had a lot of experience in my previous life, and seen all types of games. ¡°Alright, let¡¯s get to work!¡± ¡ª¡ª With a new target in mind, Chen Mo once again sat in front of hisptop andunched the video game engine. Originally an impossible task, but now with the ¡°Super Focuser¡±, this task now had a sliver of hope. Furthermore, it was a rather big sliver. Of course, before starting, Chen Mo consumed the rest of the green tech books first: three Coding books and one Level Design book. It probably wasn¡¯t doing much, but better have it than not! The video game engine wasn¡¯t hard to use at all. It took Chen Mo no time to get used to it. After downloading the remaining 6MB of resources, Chen Mo started writing the design document. As the game wasn¡¯t big, the document only required a few hundred words. Resource usage was minimal, mostly utilizing the free shared resources on the engine, which were usable after a few small tweaks. The foundation of the game was finished within the night. The next day, after he woke up, Chen Mo added some simpleworking and leaderboards to the game, and considered it done. After finishing, Chen Mo did some testing. The game felt simr to his work in his previous life. After making an instation package, Chen Mo submitted the game to thepetition officials. As to whether the game would gain any recognition, he¡¯d only find out on the day of thepetition. ¡ª¡ª On the day of thepetition... Chen Mo put on his only suit, readying himself to attend the video game designpetition The Imperial Capital was usually quite hot in August. Chen Mo felt stupid in formal wear. Fortunately the venue was air-conditioned, cooling him down after a short time. Under the guidance of the officials, the judges,petitors, and audience were led to their seats in an orderly manner. The preparations for thepetition were underway, all that was left was for thepetition to start. It wasn¡¯t a small audience, with at least six hundred people. Thispetition was no ordinarypetition: not only was there a live broadcast and full recording of the event, but they had also managed to invite three fairly famous video game designers as the judges. The prizes for thepetition weren¡¯t small, either. The first ce would receive three hundred thousand RMB for video game research and development, a D-grade video game designer certificate, and a personal video game experience store. Not much needed to be said about the three hundred thousand RMB. The most attractive part was thest prize, a personal video game experience store! Video game experience stores were ces where video game designers disyed their works: a gallery. Video game experience stores came in various sizes; SSS-grade video game designers had entire towers for their video game experience store. Sometimes it became a Ma of gamers, somewhere they must visit once in their lives. In terms ofyout, video game experience stores were like inte cafes, but served a different function. Experience stores weren¡¯t for profit. First, they mainly served as a workce for designers. Second, they were a tform for the game designers to interact with the gamers.. Gamers whoe to experience stores have opportunities to speak with the designers, to give suggestions and test out theirtest creations. Once the designer thinks the game is about done, the game will then be released. Of course, testing can be done online in the form of alphas, but the designers in this world preferred using experience stores. As everyone in their store was a tangible, personable human, it filled the designers with ideas. As such, experience stores had slowly be the symbols of a video game designer. A video game designer without their own experience store was a designer that was looked down on. Chen Mo also knew the value of an experience store. If he wanted to open a store on his own, the money he would spend on rent wouldn¡¯t be small, not to mention equipment, none of which he could afford as of now. Therefore, Chen Mo had to grab hold of the opportunity when it came! =================== [1] QQ games are known for freemium, pay to win, or gacha heavy games. Chapter 5

Chapter 5: Chapter 4 ¨C The Competition Rules

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth After grabbing his seat, Chen Mo started to observe the situation around him. The audience had already been seated, around seven hundred people. Some of them were making conversation and others were ying on their phones. The telmunication technology in this world was very advanced. A normal sim card would have mobile data upwards of hundreds of gigabytes. Furthermore, the amazing signal strength and coverage was more than enough to watch videos or live streams. Chen Mo had felt that this was a reason that mobile games hadn¡¯t taken off. Most would be ying VR games when they reached home. Mobile games were usually yed when people were bored. Moreover, there were movies, TV series, variety shows, live streams, news, and social media, so it was unlikely one would be ying mobile games to pass the time. Entertainment in the parallel world was also very developed, meaning that video game alternatives were also quite abundant. Combined with the fact that mobile data cost barely any money, so movies were at anyone¡¯s fingertips, and many opted to not y mobile games. Of course, the majority of the audience were gamers, in particr mobile gamers. Only mobile game lovers would attend an event like this! After all, thispetition was for amateurs. There were barely any D-grade video game designers among the participants. What kind of game could they possibly design? At most, there would be a few simpler casual mobile games. Most of the audience probably entered with a free ticket, not bearing high hopes for thepetition. There were also the three judges who had just arrived at the venue. The three judges had their names on tes in front of them on their table. Using his phone, Chen Mo did a quick check on their identities. Shi Huazhe, forty-seven years old, B-grade video game designer. Used to work at Emperor Dynasty Entertainment, but had since retired and is now a professional video game critic. Lin Hai, thirty-nine years old. B-grade video game designer at Zen Entertainment. Now working in management and no longer working in video game R&D. Video game reviewer. Qiu Hengyang, twenty-seven, B-grade videogame designer. Founder of . The judges were coincidentally about 10 years apart, in their twenties, thirties, and forties, covering the golden ages of a videogame designer. Although it might seem like they are all B-grade video game designers, in reality, there was still a gap in their abilities. Emperor Dynasty Entertainment and Zen Entertainment were the two bestpanies in video game R&D on the maind. Combined they took up around eighty percent of the video game industry here. Most video game designers like to work there to improve their CVs. However, just because they came out of thosepanies didn¡¯t mean they were good. For example, Shi Huazhe might have worked at Emperor Dynasty and had a few decent games, but in reality, it wasn¡¯t because of skill or knowledge, but purely due to years of effort. As for Lin Hai, his design skills were much better than Shi Huazhe, but ever since he entered a managerial role, his abilities had been getting rusty. Under these circumstances, it seemed that twenty-seven-year-old Hengyang was the best in terms of video game design. A B-grade video game designer at a young age and the founder of , his future seemed brighter than the previous two. ¡°Hopefully the three judges will go easy on me. At the very least, one of you will pass my game...¡± Chen Mo prayed quietly. The other contestants were also quite nervous. There were a total of twenty contestants, but the highest prize was only given to the first ce. Although the certification of a D-grade designer was more important, clearly the ones who had entered were after the three hundred thousand cash and the experience store. Most of them had the mentality of first ce or bust! Soon after, thepetition started. ¡ª¡ª Emcee hyping up the crowd. Leader¡¯s speech. Judges¡¯ introduction Judges¡¯ speech... After the long forey, the main event finally came. The MC saw the audience dozing off. Four hundred of the seven hundred were on their phones, another two hundred of them were whispering to one another, and some of them even fell asleep in their seats. It couldn¡¯t be helped, these were essential parts of an official event. ¡°Ahem.¡± The emcee cleared his throat, hinting at the audience to wake up for the main event. ¡°Alright, up next is the highlight of thispetition, the selection round! Allow me to reiterate the rules! ¡°Everyone in the audience should have received a tablet for testing. Theye with the games of all the contestants preinstalled.¡± Chen Mo looked over; everyone in the audience had a tablet on the table in front of them. As the emcee finished his sentence, all the tablets turned on automatically. ¡°For the next hour, everyone in the audience can test out any game of their liking on theptop. At the same time, we will put up a short introduction for each of the games on the main screen. ¡°When you quit the game, you can either choose ¡®rmended¡¯ or ¡®not rmended¡¯. Rmended means you are willing to share this game with your friends. ¡°Our judges will test out these twenty games within the time limit as well. ¡°After an hour, we will gather the ytime and the number of rmendations from everyone, which will decide the rankings. ¡°After this will be the discussion round for the judges. After getting to know the opinions of the judges, everyone in the audience will get another chance to either rmend or not rmend each of the games. ¡°Finally, the designer who designed the game that tops the charts with thebined score after considering the ytime and the number of rmendations will be crowned the champion!¡± The emcee changed the topic, emphasizing, ¡°Please take note! Even after first ce has been chosen, the judges have the power to veto the decision. This will require unanimous votes from all three of them. In that case, second ce will take the first spot, so on and so forth. ¡°Everyone understand? Alright, the one hour starts now!¡± Without needing the announcement of the MC, the audience excitedly started ying. Chen Mo had known the rules beforehand, which is why he was so worried about the judges. In the first round, the audience yed a huge role, as the ytime and their rmendations directly influenced the rankings. However, the judges were even more important! Firstly, there was the discussion round, and the audience would receive another vote after that. That meant the judges could influence the decisions of the audience. If the first two performers were neck and neck, and the judges praised one of them, obviously the results would be influenced. Secondly, the judges had the ability to veto. If a unanimous decision was reached by the judges, failing the game, achieving first ce would mean nothing. This was probably due to the respect this world had towards video game designers. But in Chen Mo¡¯s opinion, these rules werepletely meaningless and incredibly stupid. In the end, he was only apetitor. All he could do was suck it up. At the same time, Chen Mo¡¯s game introduction had appeared on the screen! Chapter 6

Chapter 6: Chapter 5 ¨C Can¡¯t Help but Tap on this Game!

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth Most of the gamers didn¡¯t immediately start ying, but instead looked at the main screen. They waited for the introductions, only ying a game when they felt it was interesting enough. The deep voice of the male emcee boomed throughout the venue. ¡°Contestant number Seven, entry: ppyBird! ¡°In this game, the yer controls the flight of a bird through tapping the screen, navigating obstacles. For every obstacle you clear, you gain one point. ¡°The game also has online capabilities and a leaderboard. Um, yes. Leaderboard?¡± the emcee stuttered during his delivery. He was in the middle of trying to make the game sound impressive, but s he had failed. Even a well-known professional emcee couldn¡¯t find other parts of the game to be praiseworthy. All he could do was awkwardly repeat its online capabilities and its leaderboard. Yep, it was an online game, to some extent. Snickers came from the audience. Sure, there were a few more simple games among the earlier entries, but they were not this simple! Judging from the screen, this barely passed as a game, by just a hair... It was so simple it was an eyesore. There were no other mechanics in sight. There was only one boring ystyle. Who¡¯s gonna y this? Looking back at the three judges, Shi HuaZhe looked pale. Lin Hai was shocked. Qiu HengYang felt that there was more to it and was trying to confirm on the tablet if the game really was that simple. It was obvious that all three judges were thinking the same thing: Game mechanics like this still exist? How did the game designer clear the preliminaries with such a game? The contestants also sniggerred, their stress and anxiety from before had been relieved. Many were trying to scope out who designer number Seven was. Were they not afraid of bing theughing stock of the video game industry if this got out? Chen Mo remained calm and collected. Nobody could tell that he was the designer number Seven they were looking for. The contestants did not have their entry numbers on them. This was to prevent cheating or prejudice from both judges and the audience because of the contestant¡¯s identity. The emcee continued to introduce the other games. This incident had be an interlude, passed off as a joke by many. Chen Mo felt that the time was right. He discretely turned on the virtual disy from his bracelet and activated the super focuser. Chen Mo had already tested it before. Only he could see the virtual disy, therefore he was able to use it in crowds at any time. After that, Chen Mo had the attention of the judges and the majority of the audience, exactly five hundred people, all focus on his game. A countdown timer had appeared on his virtual screen, showing ten minutes. For the next ten minutes, all their attention would be on his game. After it had was done, Chen Mo stayed on his seat quietly, waiting. As they say, do one¡¯s best and leave the rest to fate. This was the time to leave it to fate. ¡ª¡ª Among the audience, a student turned on their tablet, ready to try out a game. Originally, he never even considered touching a game like ppyBird, but for some reason, he involuntarily tapped on it¡¯s icon. ¡°Huh?¡± He was a bit shocked, but he could feel a voice inside him, strongly cheering him on, chanting: Try it out, try it out... ¡°Wasn¡¯t this that extremely simple game... doesn¡¯t look like it¡¯ll be any fun. ¡°... Whatever, I¡¯ll just try it out.¡± The student tapped the screen in the end and started the game. ¡ª Another couple was ying a two-yer online dogfight game, but the woman felt a sudden disinterest. ¡°It¡¯s so boring, let¡¯s try another one,¡± said the woman; The man nodded, ¡°Alright, I also found it boring, but what¡¯s next?¡± The couple looked through the twenty games and somehownded on the fat and ugly bird icon of ppyBird. The woman said, ¡°I think this game has online capabilities and a leaderboard. Why not try this out?¡± The man hesitated, ¡°Alright, but is this game fun?¡± ¡°We¡¯ll know when we y. Wasn¡¯t there an online leaderboard? Let¡¯s see who gets the higher score,¡± replied the woman. ¡°Alright!¡± the man replied with a nod. The couple both tapped on the bird icon of ppyBird. ¡ª The effect of the Super Focuser was seen immediately, as five hundred people opened ppyBird for some unexined reason and started ying. This included the three judges! Shi Huazhe was still furious. Upon seeing the introduction for ppyBird, he¡¯d almost stood up and requested they cancel designer number Seven¡¯s entry. After all, Shi Huazhe was the oldest of the three judges. People tend to be a stick in the mud when they get older. ording to him, this wasn¡¯t considered a game, a joke maybe, and most definitely brought shame to video game designers. -How can someone like this get past the preliminaries? Did the organizers not review their abilities properly? -Or perhaps... family connections? -Evenpetitions like this have a shady side. What a shame!- Shi HuaZhe was still angry, but he found that he couldn¡¯t control himself. Out of the twenty icons on the screen, he felt that the stupid fat bird the mostpelling, as if it took up the entire screen. ¡°... I do want to find out how crappy it can be.¡± Shi Huazhe tapped the stupid bird icon and started the game. He still didn¡¯t feel too good about ying it, as if it was degrading him. When he finally nced at his fellow judges, they also had ppyBird on their screens! ¡°...¡± It looked like he wasn¡¯t the only one. The other two judges, Lin Hai and Qiu Hengyang were also ying ppyBird! ¡ª Qiu Hengyang wasn¡¯t ying because of the influence of the Super Focuser. He had noticed a problem when the emcee was introducing the game. Why would anyone spend the time and effort to add online and leaderboard functions to such a simple game? It feltpletely unnecessary. Why not design a few new levels, or a new character with the extra effort? With this question in mind, Qiu Hengyang tapped the stupid fat bird icon. The initial image was very simple, telling the yers to tap on the screen to make the bird fly upwards. Other than that there weren¡¯t any other hints. On the top of the screen was a zero, probably referring to the score. The graphics of the game were exactly the same as the one shown on the main screen, so simple it was offensive. The bird looked like a ball, along with two emotionless eyes and hotdog lips, and two small wings. No matter how you look at it, it just looked stupid. Furthermore, there was another point of interest. Qiu Hengyang tapped the screen while trying the game. The stupid bird flew like a drowning salted fish, flying slightly upwards just a tiny bit. Then it immediately took a nosedive, dying once it hit the pipes. Qiu HengYang, ¡°...¡± -What is this even?!- Chapter 7

Chapter 7: Chapter 6 Infectious Game

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth His first attempt resulted in a score of 0. This was the first time Qiu Hengyang had encountered a situation like this. After the bird died, a Game Over ovey appeared, along with Qiu Hengyang¡¯s current and best scores... both of which were zero. Underneath that was the leaderboard, disying ¡ª where his current rank was supposed to be. It was likely that his score was too low to be entered into the leaderboards. Other than that, Qiu Hengyang had noticed the upper fourth of the screen was nk, and had the words Ad Space written on it. Qiu Hengyang nodded: these words had changed his opinion of designer number Seven. Qiu Hengyang was the founder of , and had been actively researching video games. Therefore, he valued themercial model and value of games. Many entry-level video game designers who have not been in the industry have the quirk of not considering themercial model of their game during design. In reality, a designer should think of the bestmercial model for their game from the beginning. As for casual games like this, they could consider between making it a paid app or serving advertisements. Different ways of profit could greatly affect the performance of their game on the market. This designer had left a space for ads, showing that they knew the importance ofmercial value, much better than designers who spend their time on insignificant problems... Tapping the screen again restarted the game. This time Qiu Hengyang prepared himself, tapping on the screen non-stop. However, the flight path of the stupid bird was too hard to control. Qiu Hengyang managed to clear two pipes before crashing head first into the third one. ¡°Freaking damn it!¡± Qiu Hengyang was not willing to give up, so he went for another attempt. After five minutes, Qiu Hengyang had already restarted dozens of times. As expected, it was easy to die in this game. Even if they put all their concentration in the game, it was possible for them to die within a few seconds. Furthermore, after dying, another tap would restart the game. There wasn¡¯t any need to consider if they wanted to, before they knew it they had yed many rounds. Qiu Hengyang¡¯s best score was 12, a score that he had achieved by giving his all. After trying a dozen more times, he finally managed to push the score up to 14, feeling like he was unable to think straight. Qiu Hengyang noticed that after that attempt his ranking on the leaderboards had moved up to sixth at the end screen. He tapped on the ranking and out came a leaderboard, sorted by highest to lowest score. Of course, the names on the leaderboard were all in the format of ¡®GuestXXXXX¡¯. Chen Mo couldn¡¯t have everyone create an ount, as it would adversely affect the gaming experience. However, the yers were allowed to change their names freely on the leaderboard. Qiu Hengyang scrolled down and was shocked to find out the leaderboard had five hundred and forty-three people on it! -Five hundred yers out of seven hundred in the audience? No way! How is that possible?- Qiu Hengyang thought that the majority wouldn¡¯t find a game like this interesting. The number of people interested in a simple tapping game like this had exceeded his expectations. Qiu Hengyang couldn¡¯t help feeling satisfied, ranking sixth out of five hundred or so people. This was a result to be proud of! Qiu Hengyang tapped on his ount name and changed it to his real name. But before that, he scrolled down the leaderboards again, noticing that it was constantly shuffling. It looked like it was updated quite frequently, possibly every five to ten seconds. After seeing the shuffling of the leaderboard, Qiu Hengyang couldn¡¯t help but feel that the game was quite lively. Scrolling upwards shocked him, it revealed the first ce yer with a score of forty-seven! -Holy shit!- Qiu Hengyang felt like dying. How did they do that? What kind of psychopath got a score of forty-seven? Did they cheat? The top yers hadn¡¯t changed their names, likely because they hadn¡¯t discovered the feature. Qiu Hengyang wasn¡¯t happy with his measly fourteen. He was in sixth ce for now, but he could be knocked down at any time. ¡°I¡¯ll y for another five minutes. Then I¡¯ll try the other games.¡± After closing the leaderboard, Qiu Hengyang was ready to y hard. ¡ª¡ª Ten minutes passed quickly and the effects of the Super Focuser ended. ¡°What an unexpected game... How did I spend so much time on that? Damn it.¡± A middle-aged man with sses closed ppyBird. A popup had appeared: Would you rmend this game to others? The man hesitated for a bit and pressed Rmend. It was hard to exin objectively but it was probably an ¡®I can¡¯t be the only one going through this torture¡± mentality. Up till now, ppyBird had five hundred and eighty-nine people on its leaderboard and had no signs of slowing down. This was because of the inherent crowd mentality of humans. Some of them saw their friends or family ying it,peting to get a high score. Furthermore, upon seeing that many others in the audience were ying the game, others feltpelled to try the game out, even without the effects of the Super Focuser acting on them. After the effects of the Super Focuser expired, the majority of yers quit the game. However, a small portion of those chose to not rmend the game;The remaining others rmended it. As for the yers still ying, they were still trying to grind out their high score. Lin Hai noticed the Shi Huazhe didn¡¯t look too well, asking out of concern, ¡°What¡¯s wrong, feeling unwell?¡± ¡°Oh, it¡¯s nothing,¡± he replied, shaking his head. Lin Hai noticed that Shi Huazhe¡¯s eyes were glistening, and he was trying to hide it. Lin Hai couldn¡¯t help but be curious. In the end, he nced at Shi Huazhe¡¯s screen. On it was the results screen of ppyBird: Score: 4, High Score: 4. Lin Hai quickly looked away, barely holding in hisughter. It seemed that Shi Huazhe was angry because of that. Fair enough, he had been ying for ten minutes to achieve a high score of 4. That score wasn¡¯t even in the top two hundred, anyone would be mad! Sensibly, Lin Hai chose to not pry into it... ¡ª¡ª The game experience round continued. The whole round was an hour long, and only ten minutes or so had passed. Of the seven hundred people in the audience, almost six hundred of them had yed ppyBird. However, only a small portion of those were still pushing on; others chose to y other games. Chen Mo wasn¡¯t worried. When the emcee was introducing the other games, he learned the abilities of hispetitors, and most of them were barelypetitive. Other than a handful of works that were passable, the others weren¡¯t evenparable to his ppyBird. Put it this way: the games had better graphics, resources, and contentpared to ppyBird. But in terms of gamey and speed of spreading? -I¡¯m not targeting anyone specifically, but what I¡¯m saying is that everyone here is garbage!- Indeed, when trying other games, most of the audience quickly closed them, and reopened ppyBird. Not saying that the game was fun, the most important part was grinding the high score! Why not say that the game was infectious. It did get stale after ying for a while. It was also quite boring, and most importantly, torturous! But after just closing it for five minutes, the desire to reopen the game came back. Chen Mo knew this from the reactions of the audience. Now, he only worried about the judges. If the judges all rejected the game and disqualified him, it would still be over! However, as long as one of the judges acknowledged his game, first ce would definitely be his! Chapter 8

Chapter 8: Chapter 7 ¨C Is this Even a Game?

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth The hour for the video game experience round had ended. The emcee walked to the front of the stage. ¡°Alright, the video game experience round has ended! Did you guys manage to find a game you like? ¡°Let¡¯s move onto the next stage, but first, let¡¯s look at the results these twenty games have achieved so far. Please look at the screen.¡± The audience shifted their gaze towards ytime and the number of rmendations for the twenty games, disyed on the main screen. The audience let out an audible gasp. ¡°What the... No way!¡± ¡°T-that game¡¯s so nonsensical. This is crazy!¡± ¡°How could the gap be that big?¡± ¡°I thought there were standards! Emcee, are there cheaters?¡± Everyone was drawn to the numbers ppyBird managed to achieve: a total ytime of 349 hours, 544 rmends! On the other hand, the second ce Hunter Ind only had 92 hours of ytime, with only 330 rmendations! The emcee was also shocked, as it was his first time seeing the numbers. He also had the same thought as the audience: the numbers must be wrong! The judges were also at a loss, finding the numbers unbelievable. How was this possible? There were a total of seven hundred people in the audience, meaning that they all averaged half an hour on this game! Five hundred and forty-four out of seven hundred people were willing to rmend the game to others. These numbers defied logic! Chen Mo wasn¡¯t too surprised, as the numbers were within his calctions. In reality, ppyBird wasn¡¯t some kind of alluring game; it was the exact opposite¡ªtorturous. If this game was put onto the market, the majority of yers would close it after five minutes. However, the target audience was in a video game designpetition, meaning that thepetition for ppyBird wasn¡¯t mature, well-developed games, but instead disastrous entry-level games. The other works weren¡¯t able to hold the audience¡¯s attention for long. Therefore, a majority of them chose toe back to ppyBird to grind out their score. The more stubborn among them spent all their time grinding ppyBird. With that in mind, ppyBird achieving so much ytime was quite normal. The emcee held his earpiece and whispered for a few moments before raising his head and telling the audience, ¡°I have just confirmed with the technicians, the numbers are indeed correct. These are the final scores of the twenty games.¡± There was still a lot ofmotion going on among the audience. Many in the audience refused to believe that ppyBird could achieve that result, especially those who felt nothing for games like this and had only yed the game for a few moments. However, most of the audience epted it as the truth. ¡°Is this game actually that great? It looks so simple it hurts, the game mechanics are incredibly shallow. How could it be in first ce, and be that far ahead of second ce?¡± ¡°What¡¯s so strange about that. Just think about it, how much time did you spend on it?¡± ¡°...at least forty minutes.¡± ¡°I spent nearly an hour! My head is still hurting from all that grinding.¡± ¡°Right? When I close my eyes, all I see is that stupid bird bobbing up and down, I can¡¯t help but y...¡± ¡°Look, there¡¯s nearly six hundred people on the leaderboards. The top two hundred are all over twenty and many of them over forty-five. Think about how long you yed to get to twenty.¡± ¡°Right... It was at least twenty minutes. If you didn¡¯t get the feel for it you might not even get there at the end of the hour.¡± ¡°Exactly, the numbers work out.¡± ¡°But still... That¡¯s insane...¡± The deniers were now starting to question their beliefs. The emcee lets out a cough to alert the audience, ¡°Alright, since the technicians have confirmed the numbers, currently in first ce is ppyBird, by designer number Seven! ¡°Up next is the judges evaluation round. After the evaluation is over, everyone in the audience will participate in the rmendation round after that.¡± After a pause, the emcee continued, ¡°As a reminder, so far, ppyBird leads in both ytime and rmendations. ording to the rules, each rmendation is worth thirty minutes of ytime, meaning if Hunter Ind in second ce gets at least 128 rmendations more than ppyBird, it has a chance of taking first ce! ¡°Alright, up next will be the judges¡¯ review.¡± The emcee raised his hand, gesturing at the judges to start their reviews. The judges looked at one another. Then Qiu Hengyang said to Shi Huazhe, ¡°Perhaps the eldest among us should speak first.¡± All the judges were B-grade video game designers. They weren¡¯t working in the samepany, therefore there wasn¡¯t any difference in position. As Shi Huazhe was the eldest, Lin Hai and Qiu Hengyang were being respectful by letting him speak first. Shi Huazhe paled, moving the mic closer to him, and cleared his throat. ¡°Is this even a game?! I¡¯ll be the first to disapprove of it! If this can be considered a game, then wouldn¡¯t just anyone be able to make a game?! ¡°Is a street artist who sings a pop star?! ¡°Is a graffitist an artist?! ¡°Hitting enter ¡°a couple more times when writing prose, is that a modern poet?! ¡°Garbage! Shi Huazhe was visibly angry, and he even gave the table a good hit with his knuckles. ¡°First, this game has no story, the ystyle is mundane, the graphics are simple, and the controls are terrible! This thing doesn¡¯t match the criteria of a game at all! ¡°Second, this game was a cop out. It takes advantage of yers trying to beat each other¡¯s score in order to artificially inte the ytime! ¡°All the stats that you see, no matter the y time or rmendations, are all pointless! Why? It¡¯s because it¡¯s unorthodox! ¡°Therefore, as you can tell, I¡¯m strongly against this being in first ce!¡± After finishing, Shi Huazhe pushed away the mic, breathing heavily. ¡°Yeah! Mr. Shi said it well!¡± Someone yelled out, and the audience followed it up with roaringughter. It was from apetitor, most likely the designer of Hunter Ind. Chen Mo calmly twisted open the cap of his water bottle and took a sip. Hepletely expected such a reaction from Shi Huazhe. Obviously, Shi Huazhe strongly disliked games like this, because he wasn¡¯t good at them and didn¡¯t enjoy grinding his score. Moreover, Chen Mo¡¯s Super Focuser had forced him to torture himself in the game for ten whole minutes; all this pent up anger was normal. The emcee had obviously not expected Shi Huazhe to be so furious, and quickly changed the topic, ¡°Alright, Mr. Shi Huazhe had expressed his opinion! Next up, Mr Lin Hai.¡± Lin Hai looked at Shi Huazhe, then back at ppyBird. Stuck between a rock and a hard ce, he hesitantly turned on his mic. ¡°This game... I think Mr Shi Huazhe raises good points, the game is indeed quite shallow and has some pretty basic mechanics. In terms of quality, it doesn¡¯t quite fit to be the champion of thispetition. After a pause, Lin Hai said, ¡°However, I think if it¡¯s able to get a result like this rtively high score in both ytime and rmends, it means that the yers think it¡¯s worthy. Therefore, I maintain my stance: I¡¯ll leave the final decision to the audience.¡± Chapter 9

Chapter 9: Chapter 8 ¨C Is This the Reason you Grind your High Score?

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth Lin Hai¡¯s speech was much more thought out, not offending either side. In truth, he didn¡¯t have a clear stance on the matter. Whispers starteding from the audience. Shi Huazhe¡¯s speech still made an impact. A senior designer having such a strong opposing stance on a video game all the while providing valid arguments caused some of the audience to waver on their stance, wondering if a game like this was really worth rmending. On the other hand, Lin Hai was just trying to be neutral. In reality, it made no difference, the words had left the audience as soon as he said them. In contrast, Shi Huazhe¡¯s speech had made a deep impression. Chen Mo still managed to heave a sigh of relief. If Lin Hai turned out to be against ppyBird, he would be stuck in an awkward situation. The attitudes of the two judges would affect a majority of the audience. While Lin Hai staying neutral wasn¡¯t good, it wasn¡¯t bad, either. However, Chen Mo didn¡¯t let his guard down. The youngest judge, Qiu Hengyang, was up next. One of the two judges opposed strongly and another remained neutral, his thoughts on the game decided the fate of the game to a certain extent. Qiu Hengyang turned on his mic, speaking after some thought, ¡°About this game, I actually have a different view than Mr. Shi Huazhe.¡± Chen Mo was shocked. ¨CWhy is this guy helping me? Could it be that his tastes were more unique than the previous two, and he could see the good sides of this game?- Shi Huazhe also showed surprise, staring at Qiu Hengyang, wanting to see what Qiu Hengyang was going to say. Qiu Hengyang said, ¡± This game... before I saw the numbers, I gave it an eight, but after I saw the statistics, I think it deserves a nine. Of course, this score ispared to the other neen games. ¡°That is to say, this game is truly deserving of its first ce status.¡± The audience let out a gasp. What the? Nine? Maybe out of a hundred? However, based on Qiu Hengyang¡¯s tone and expression, it was obviously nine out of ten! Many in the audience liked ppyBird. Sure they might like it, but they knew that the game was rough around the edges. A seven out of ten would¡¯ve been quite good, but nine out of ten was a bit too much? Qiu Hengyang ignored the surprised audience and continued, ¡°Please don¡¯t think it¡¯s weird. This is the difference in perspectives of a video game designer from normal yers. ¡°You guys see a minigame with simple graphics and a monotonous ystyle, but in my eyes this was a carefully crafted, carefully thought out game made genuinely. ¡°Why do I say that? Let me exin.¡± The audience was drawn in by Qiu Hengyang, many of them curious about the praises he was singing about the game. What was so good about it? Thepetition was also being live-streamed and recorded. If Qiu Hengyang was talking rubbish, it would be detrimental to his image in video gaming circles! Qiu Hengyang said, ¡°Next up, I¡¯ll ask you guys a few questions. Don¡¯t worry about answering, just think about it. ¡°First question, you guys said that the game looks so simple it¡¯s an eyesore. Let me ask, do you guys really think the bird is ugly? Or do you think that the bird looks kind of dumb, but the flying and dying animation is still quite amusing? ¡°Second question, did anyone attempt to calcte how fast the bird falls? Or how much it moves up when you tap? ¡°Third question, why does the game restart with one tap after gameover? Why does a simple minigame need a leaderboard and online functions? ¡°Fourth question, did you guys notice the ad space on the topside of the Game Over screen? ¡°Please think seriously about these questions.¡± After Qiu Hengyang finished, he intentionally turned off the microphone to allow some time for the audience to think. The audience immediately started discussing. These were all gamers, so they were naturally interested in the video game meta and trying to dig into the reasoning behind it. Furthermore, most of the audience was addicted to ppyBird, so the questions Qiu Hengyang asked raised plenty of discussions. Chen Mo felt quite shocked, because the questions Qiu Hengyang asked were right on the key points of the game, leaving him quite surprised. After all, the video game design ideology in this world wasgging behind and filled with prejudice. Qiu Hengyang was quite incredible. He could put aside his biases and dig deeper into the factors that make a game sessful whilepletely disregarding the idea of blind luck... something Chen Mo valued highly in a video game designer. Just from this quality alone, Chen Mo was confident that even in his previous world, Qiu Hengyang would have still been an extraordinary video game designer! Once Qiu Hengyang decided that the audience had plenty of time to think about it, he continued, ¡°Everyone should have some ideas now. Congrattions on taking the first step into the world of a video game designer¡¯s thoughts. ¡°First question, were the graphics of this game really that bad? ¡°When you look at this bird, what was the first thought that went through your mind? Stupid? Immature? Silly? Make no mistake, this may seem like a graphically simple game; the bird was drawn using simple colors and lines, but the big eyes, sausage lips, and small wings immediately invoke an image of a stupid bird. It¡¯s no simple task! ¡°Moreover, the looks of the bird match quite well with the contents of the game. The silly look of the bird takes the edge off the disappointment and the failure from the game. It even makes you feel that it¡¯s the bird that¡¯s stupid, not you, right?¡± As Qiu Hengyang finished,ughter came from the audience. Qiu Hengyang continued, ¡°Second question! Why did I ask about the falling and flying speed? Simple, these were key factors of the code, directly impacting the difficulty of this game. ¡°If the falling speed was too high and the speed of flying back up was also too high, the game would be overly difficult. Most people wouldn¡¯t reach two digits. This means that the game would be too punishing, and most wouldn¡¯t y this game for longer than they have to. ¡°In the opposite case, the game would be too easy, most would be able to reach double digits. The yer would then feel that the game was incredibly stale and boring; also ending in the yer quitting. ¡°Therefore, in my view, the game¡¯s design was carefully thought out. It was able to get the right bnce of being difficult and torturous while giving you hope, constantly giving you wishful thinking, driving you to try again and again! ¡°Third question! The game intentionally made the game design simple, restarting on a tap. This was to reduce the number of unnecessary steps and allow you to start the next round quicker. During the numerous attempts, the yer grows numb to the Game Over screen, even making the yer lose their sense of time. ¡°As for leaderboard and online capabilities, I think it was the finishing touch. Without the online function, its results might be a third of what it is now, possibly even less. ¡°Why? Because in these types of games, it¡¯s the climbing of ranks that makes your result meaningful. Otherwise what¡¯s the point of trying to get 100 or 1000 points if you can¡¯t brag about it? ¡°I say brag; not by showing others your phone, but you are able show other yers how good you are through the leaderboards! It is like saying, Look, see how incredible I am! How many of you were grinding out your high score? I did!¡± Arge portion of the audience raised their hands. Qiu Hengyang nodded, ¡°That¡¯s what I¡¯m saying! The online connectivity and leaderboard were vital finishing touches to this game!¡± A member of the audience in the front row shouted ¡°Mr Qiu, is that why you ground out a score of 39 and signed your name?¡± Hugeughter came from the audience. Chapter 10

Chapter 10: Chapter 9 A High Opinion

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth Qiu Hengyang didn¡¯t mind. After theughter from the audience died down, he continued, ¡±As for thest question, the ad space at the top of the gameover screen! ¡°Many entry-level video game designers share amon shoring: not paying enough attention to the profit model,pletely disregarding it at the start of the design process. ¡°For example, Hunter Ind, the game in second ce. It is a rtively mature adventure game. However, the designer hasn¡¯t thought of the profit model, which I think is a shame. ¡°It¡¯s not that you¡¯ll seed after silently finishing a game design. Just like directing a movie, even if you get good reviews, if the seats to your movies arepletely empty, that wouldn¡¯t be sess! ¡°If you haven¡¯t considered the profit model, you can only put your game on the market and sell it for some standard price. ¡°Let¡¯s say that a game like Hunter Ind sells for ten RMB. So far there¡¯s three hundred and thirty rmendations. Say that eighty percent of the three hundred and thirty are willing to pay, a pretty generous estimate, then the profit of Hunter Ind would be two thousand six hundred and forty RMB. ¡°On the other hand, if ppyBird also based its profits from purchases, I can guarantee you that it¡¯ll fail badly! ¡°Obviously the designer has thought of this, making it free to pay and profiting through ads. This was an excellent move and suits the game¡¯s special characteristics very well. ¡°The total time you guys spent ying was three hundred and forty-nine hours. Lets say that on average each runsts for ten seconds, a generous estimate, and most probably don¡¯t evenst for three seconds. ¡°That works out to one hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred and ten deaths, meaning that within the hour of testing, this game has shown a hundred and twenty thousand ads! ¡°Moreover, the reasoning behind the ad cement is quite explicit. As the yers who like games like ppyBird are definitely mobile gamers, and more intensive users at that, it means the yers that stay are the more patient yers! ¡°Therefore, if I was the designer of another mobile game, I would consider buying this ad space. Let¡¯s say one in every thirty people engages with the ads in ppyBird and one in every ten of those would make a purchase. Therefore, if I bought the adspace, I would¡¯ve gotten four hundred eighteen and eight-tenths purchases. ¡°If every purchase was ten RMB, the profit I get from buying the adspace is 4,188 RMB. I would be willing to invest at least three thousand RMB for the ad space... already surpassing Hunter Ind! ¡°There¡¯s another point of note! Hunter Ind uses a single-purchase model. The number of yers who like these types of games are already small in the first ce, and they certainly wouldn¡¯t buy it a second time, meaning that the profit over time decreases. ¡°As for ppyBird, because it spreads like an infectious disease, its user base could experience explosive growth. Moreover, the adspace can be changed on a fixed-time basis. I¡¯ll buy it this month, and next month will be bought by someone else, this way the future profit is guaranteed to a certain extent. ¡°Therefore, the gap in profitability of ppyBird and Hunter Ind is actually massive! ¡°The above points are why I think a game like ppyBird could seed. Most importantly, the author managed tobine all the points, basically making the best decision for every single aspect. That¡¯s what¡¯s most surprising to me! ¡°To be honest, if you gave me six megabytes of resources to make a game that has a higher profitability than ppyBird, I don¡¯t know what else to say than... I can¡¯t do it! ¡°That¡¯s all I have to say, emcee.¡± Qiu Hengyang turned off his mic and gestured for the emcee to move on to the next round. The audience was so shocked that no words came out. Maybe that was too much praise? Qiu Hengyang wouldn¡¯t be able to do it to this level using 6 MB of resources? Didn¡¯t that mean that the ability of the author in mention surpassed a B-grade video game designer? There had to be some sort of threshold for this kind of praise, right? However, the words of Qiu Hengyang did have evidence backing up his ims and provided plenty of insight to his analysis. Many of the audience following the thought process of Qiu Hengyang also agreed that ppyBird might seem simple, but it had a lot of minute details. Obviously this designer number Seven had nned all parts of it from the start. Perfect bnce between self harm, bragging rights, and ad revenue. This was a nearplete game that was also very profitable! As they said, professionals have a different perspective. After some analysis from Qiu Hengyang, a majority of the audience also thought that ppyBird was quite impressive. Chen Mo couldn¡¯t help but look at Qiu Hengyang when he opened his bottle and took a sip of water. In truth, Qiu Hengyang came up with the reasoning for the adspace profitability by himself.. Obviously he hadn¡¯t researched too deeply into the statistics of games. Evidently it wasn¡¯t a big concern for video game designers in this era. ording to statistics in the previous world, ppyBird had more than fifty million downloads. The maker, Nguyen Dong, had fifty thousand USD, or three hundred thousand RMB, going into his bank ount every day, just from the adspace. ording to the rate of banner ads at that time, every thousand ad views would result in 0.15 US dors, or about one RMB, meaning that ppyBird would show three hundred million ads a day. Using the same rate of one RMB per one thousand views, the ppyBird that Chen Mo disyed a hundred and twenty thousand times, amounted to about a hundred twenty RMB. Even if it was a slightly more expensive pop-up ad, increasing it tenfold to twelve hundred RMB, Qiu Hengyang had obviously overestimated. However, Qiu Hengyang was correct about one point: the biggest advantage this game had was the potential explosive growth! This was especially so with the online leaderboard function added to further increase its growth. That was its basis of guaranteeing ie. Obviously, Chen Mo didn¡¯t want to argue against Qiu Hengyang, and he didn¡¯t even have time to celebrate. He knew that his champion position in thepetition was secured after so much praiseing from Qiu Hengyang. Moreover, Qiu Hengyang was able to make all that analysis within an hour of y testing, including the rough estimate for ie, which Chen Mo thought was very impressive. Compared to the other judges, it was obvious that Qiu Hengyang¡¯s skill level blew Shi Huazhe and Lin Hai out of the water. -This world still had some geniuses, not all of them are mindless ves like Shi Huazhe.- Shi Huazhe¡¯s expression looked unsightly. Qiu Hengyang¡¯s analysis basically asserted that he was wrong in front of everyone, embarrassing him. How good could he feel after that? Among the two judges, one said that it¡¯s garbage and worthless, the other praised it as a genius invention. Obviously, only one of them was right. In fact, most of the audience were on Qiu Hengyang¡¯s side! Chapter 11

Chapter 11: Chapter 10 ¨C Decisive Victory!

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth Shi Huazhe remained silent. Although Qiu Hengyang was his junior, they were both B-grade video game designers. Moreover, Qiu Hengyang remained active in the cutting edge of research. It wouldn¡¯t look good if they were at each other¡¯s throats. Furthermore, Shi Huazhe felt that he had no chance of winning an argument against Qiu Hengyang. Therefore, he chose to swallow his pride and keep his mouth shut. The emcee could also feel that the atmosphere surrounding the judges wasn¡¯t quite right, and quickly diverted attention away from them. ¡°Alright, thanks for the insightful reviews by the three judges. Personally, I don¡¯t think there is a game that pleases everybody. It¡¯s quite normal to have people who dislike your game. There isn¡¯t an objective of good or bad. In the end, the decision still lies in the hands of the audience. Up next is the second rmendation round!¡± Shi Huazhe had calmed down a bit after the mediation by the emcee. The audience was once again given the chance to rmend a game in the next round. However, it was obvious that the focus was on ppyBird and Hunter Ind. It was impossible for the other games to overtake ppyBird. The key factor became how many rmendations Hunter Ind was able to achieve in thisst round! The audience was also hesitant. ¡°Which one are you voting for?¡± ¡°I think Mr. Shi made sense, isn¡¯t ppyBird too simple? Does it deserve to be crowned champion?¡± ¡°So you¡¯re voting for Hunter Ind?¡± ¡°Umm, I can¡¯t say for sure. Although it felt like more effort was poured into Hunter Ind, it wasn¡¯t as fun as ppyBird.¡± ¡°Then why are you still hesitating? Qiu Hengyang also made sense. I¡¯m voting for ppyBird no matter what.¡± ¡°Then I¡¯ll also vote for ppyBird.¡± ¡°Let¡¯s get it over and done with, I can¡¯t be the only one to have endured the torture.¡± Soon thereafter, the updated statistics were shown. ppyBird had one thousand and thirty-seven rmends! Hunter ind had five hundred and thirty-seven rmends! Hunter Ind needed to get a hundred and twenty eight votes more to take first ce; it was obviously hopeless at this point. Moreover, ppyBird received nearly five hundred votes in the second round; you could say it was a crushing defeat! The emcee said, ¡°Alright, the final results are out! ording to the rules, ppyBird has proven itself to be the favorite by ytime and number of rmendations. However, we still need the approval of the three judges. If they reach a unanimous decision that the game isn¡¯t worthy, unfortunately it will have to be disqualified. ¡°The three judges, what are your thoughts?¡± The emcee looked in the direction of the three judges. Shi Huazhe and Lin Hai were silent. It required a unanimous decision for the game to not be recognized. Qiu Hengyang¡¯s stance was obvious. Even if Shi Huazhe and Lin Hai asserted that they were against it, it would end up fruitless. Therefore both of them kept quiet. Qiu Hengyang took control of the mic. ¡°I approve of this game. I think it fully deserved to take first ce in thispetition.¡± The emcee nodded in agreement. ¡°Alright! That means the champion of the video game designpetition has been decided: ppyBird of designer number Seven! ¡°May designer number Seven make their way up the stage to receive their prizes. They have received three hundred thousand RMB in research funds, qualifications to be a D-grade video game designer, and their very own video game experience store! Congrattions!¡± Chen Mo got up from his seat and walked towards the stage. The audience and thepetitors wondered what kind of person had made such a sadistic game. Perhaps half of the audience wanted to take a peek inside his mind. Are you antisocial? Why would you make a self-torturing game like this? Why? Of course, it was just in their minds. Surprisingly, Chen Mo had a disinterested expression, without a hint of celebration, as though he had known that this would happen from the start. To him, going up stage to collect his prize was just a necessary part of the unnecessary ritual. ¡°Congrattions!¡± The emcee shook hands with Chen Mo, then handed over the trophy to him. ¡°After you get off stage the staff will contact you in order to transfer the money into your ount. As for the experience store, discuss it further with the staff involved.¡± Chen Mo nodded in reply. The emcee said loudly, ¡°Well, let¡¯s give another round of apuse to designer number seven, Chen Mo!¡± Thundering apuse came from the audience, shes came from the surrounding journalists. Chen Mo was being quite cooperative and made a suitable pose while holding the trophy. At this moment, someone spoke up. ¡°Um, emcee, can I have a word?¡± The emcee was shocked to see Shi Huazhe when he turned around. -What¡¯s the meaning of this?- The emcee thought for a moment. ording to the event structure, thepetition had ended, the reviews were given, what else was there to say? However, since Shi Huazhe had presented himself, it wouldn¡¯t make sense to cut him off. Therefore the emcee replied with a nod, ¡°Of course, go ahead.¡± The apuse from the audience slowly died down, wondering what Shi Huazhe had to say. Shi Huazhe cleared his throat and said, ¡°First, congrattions on winning.¡± Chen Mo replied with a nod, ¡°Thank you.¡± Shi Huazhe continued, ¡°As someone from the past, I¡¯d like to share some of my experience from the past. Would you like to listen?¡± Chen Mo nodded with a smile. ¡°Of course.¡± Shi Huazhe said, ¡°I think, young man, that your views are indeed unique. The thought process for designing the game was also very different, I¡¯m thoroughly impressed. However, you can¡¯t get by making games just by having great ideas. It maye back to bite you when your ideas are too great. ¡°When making games, it¡¯s best that you stick to the norm without being too fancy. It¡¯s impossible to keep finding opportunities like this. You might be able to do it once, but you can¡¯t keep this up forever. ¡°Let¡¯s use your game for example. I still stand by my words, you haven¡¯t moved the audience or brought them happiness. You triggered their negative emotions in order to keep them ying. It¡¯s something I strongly disapprove of. ¡°Hopefully you can leave the path you¡¯ve strayed onto. Please do not continue on that path just because you¡¯ve won this time. It¡¯ll only do you bad, understood?¡± After the words had left Shi Huazhe¡¯s mouth, the atmosphere became odd. Although in essence it was congrattory, what was implied was plenty obvious: Chen Mo had achieved this result through a loophole, fooling around, and pure luck. Making another game like this would only lead to a dead end. Obivously Shi Huazhe hadn¡¯t swallowed the insult from Qiu Hengyang. He couldn¡¯t say that to Qiu Hengyang himself, and obviously epting that he was wrong was off the table. That¡¯s why he chose to ¡®advise¡¯ Chen Mo. Shi Hua Zhe knew that confronting Qiu Hengyang had its risks. If Qiu Hengyang got angry and the two of them started quarrelling, there would be no benefit to anyone. However, confronting Chen Mo was risk free. As a video game designer that had just entered the industry, all he could do was nod in agreement, ¡°Thanks for the guidance!¡±. Any opinions would be kept to themselves. How could Qiu Hengyang have not understood the intent of Shi Huazhe? However, as Shi Huazhe wasn¡¯t targeting Qiu Hengyang himself, he couldn¡¯t retaliate. All he could do was to watch Chen Mo swallow the insult! Chapter 12

Chapter 12: Chapter 11- Most Important Quality of a Video Game Designer

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth The emcee also noticed the intent behind the words. Being afraid of confrontation, the emcee quickly said, ¡°Alright, thank you, Mr. Shi for your rmendations. I¡¯m surepetitor Chen Mo will take the important lesson passed down by his predecessor. Up next...¡± Before the emcee could finish, Chen Mo was speaking into the mic, ¡°I disagree.¡± The emcee was shocked, while Shi Huazhe was stunned! Qiu Hengyang and Lin Hai were also surprised. What¡¯s going on? Was apetitor going to confront one of the judges? The emcee panicked slightly, but it was toote to stop Chen Mo from speaking. The emcee could only allow Chen Mo to have his way and continue. ¡°Mind your words, this is being live-streamed!¡± the emcee whispered to Chen Mo, reminding him of the circumstances. Ignoring the emcee, Chen Mo continued while holding the mic, ¡°Everyone, when you guys were ying ppyBird, did you guys have fun when you beat your high score? Raise your hand if you had fun.¡± After a few moments, a majority of the audience put up their hands. ¡°When you climbed up the leaderboards, did you have fun? Raise your hand if you had fun.¡± Again, a majority of them raised their hands, albeit less than before, but still quite simr. ¡°When you beat your friend¡¯s high score when ying together, did you have fun? Raise your hand if you had fun.¡± There were even more who had their hands up, this time arge majority of them agreed. ¡°After failing, did you guys choose to give up or try again? If you gave up, please put up your hand.¡± Hardly anyone raised their hands. ¡°After trying so many times, raise your hand if you think that was meaningless.¡± A few of the audience members put up their hands. However, after noticing nobody doing the same, they put them back down. Chen Mo continued, ¡°Obviously, the audience thinks that my game has brought them happiness. ¡°The purpose of the game is to control the yer¡¯s emotions. Sometimes the negative emotions may deceive you, but think about it. If a game only gave you negative emotions, would you continue ying it?¡± Many of the audience members shook their heads. Chen Mo continued, ¡°As long as a game keeps you ying, it brings you happiness... unless you are just a in masochist.¡± The audienceughed in agreement. Chen Mo looked at Shi Huazhe. ¡°Just because you don¡¯t enjoy a game, doesn¡¯t mean there¡¯s nothing to enjoy. It¡¯s quite the opposite! My yers think it¡¯s a good game, it doesn¡¯t abuse negative emotions by trapping yers.¡± The corners of Shi Huazhe¡¯s mouth were twitching. Chen Mo continued, ¡°I think the most important trait to have as a video game designer is objectivity. Being able to look at games objectively, regardless of liking the game or not... that¡¯s a trait that qualified video game designers should have. ¡°A food reviewer who doesn¡¯t like spicy food. Every time he has Szechuanese food, he gives them the lowest rating. Would that make him a qualified food reviewer? ¡°Simrly, if you don¡¯t like a game, you think it¡¯s garbo. What¡¯s the difference between you and the food reviewer? ¡°That¡¯s all I have to say, thank you.¡± Chen Mo shoved the mic into the hands of the emcee, and turned around to get off the stage. He didn¡¯t want to put in the time and effort to get into a full blown debate with Shi Huazhe. ¡°You...¡± Shi Huazhe¡¯s eyes were filled with rage, so angry he almost stood up and mmed the table. Lin Hai, who was sitting next to him, quickly tried to calm the situation. ¡°What would a kid like him know? Don¡¯t bother with him.¡± Shu Huazhe was pent up with rage, but remained in control. It was not that he didn¡¯t want to let his anger out, but he couldn¡¯t think of anything to say in retaliation. Getting the audience to raise their hands and a food reviewer metaphor, all without stuttering. There wasn¡¯t much he could do other than make up some nonsense. Qiu He couldn¡¯t help butugh. He didn¡¯t think he could silence Shi Huazhe as thoroughly without any hesitation Chen Mo¡¯s performance on stage just now wasn¡¯t typical of an entry-level video game designer. Straightforward, good delivery, clear speech. It was better than some seniors who had been to many press conferences! Moreover, Shi Huazhe had also noticed Chen Mo¡¯s eyes. It might be too much to describe it as ¡°looking at an idiot¡±, but it was basically like an adult looking at a rowdy, troublesome child. This was shocking to Qiu Hengyang. He came to realize that this guy might be more of a thinker than he had imagined. Qiu Hengyang stood up and followed Chen Mo down the stage. ¡ª¡ª Chen Mo left the mess for the emcee to clean up. All that mattered was that he got first ce, and got what he wanted. As he got off the stage, Qiu Hengyang came up to him. Qiu Hengyang stepped in front of him. ¡°Mr Chen Mo!¡± Chen Mo was a bit surprised. ¡°Hi, is there something you need?¡± Qiu Hengyang said, ¡°I really admire your work. I was just wondering if you were interested in joining and bing my assistant. The pay will be as generous as can be. Chen Mo shook his head, ¡°I appreciate the gesture, but I have my own ns.¡± Qiu Hengyang nodded, understanding the meaning behind it. Obviously he didn¡¯t want to work for someone; he must be looking to start his ownpany, and make his own games! ¡°Alright, I wish you good luck and I hope that we will have opportunities to work together in the future,¡± said Qiu Hengyang. Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Alright, I hope we meet again in the future.¡± The two of them shook hands. Qiu Hengyang didn¡¯t want to speak too much, leaving after exchanging contacts. To others it might seem like an irresistible temptation, but it waspletely unattractive in Chen Mo¡¯s eyes. Even if the CEO of a bigpany, such as Emperor Dynasty Entertainment, invited him personally to be their main designer, it would be a no deal. There would always be constraints when working for someone, and Chen Mo didn¡¯t like being constrained during the design process. ¡ª Soon thereafter, Chen Mo found the staffers he was looking for. The man said, ¡± We have your bank ount information, and the three hundred thousand RMB will be transferred to your ount within two or three business days. Please look for it. ¡°Also, here¡¯s the keys to the experience store; write down this address. When the timees, there will be professionalsing to help you decorate. If you have any problems, please call me. You can decorate however you want, but there is a budget. We can discuss that in detail near the end of the fulfilment period. Chem Mo nodded, ¡± Alright, thanks.¡± ¡ª Everything after that went ording to the formalities. After the hand-over wasplete, Chen Mo left the site of thepetition by taxi. It was quite warm and Chen Mo still had a suit on. Just the thought of being crammed into public transport made him shudder. Moreover, he just won three hundred thousand RMB, may as well treat himself! ¡ª As there wasn¡¯t much traffic on the roads, Chen Mo arrived at his hotel after half an hour. Back in his room, Chen Mo changed out of his suit into shorts and a T-shirt, then packed his luggage. Chen Mo lived on the outskirts of the Imperial Capital some distance away, requiring nearly an hour by train. Not much could be done, as the rent was quite high closer to the Imperial Capital. He couldn¡¯t afford to rent houses in the third ring. However, after winning the experience store, Chen Mo could cancel the lease on his previous rental home! There wasn¡¯t much to pack. Everything could fit in one luggage bag, including hisptop. Chen Mo checked out with his luggage in hand, taking a taxi to the experience store right away to check out the state of the store. Chapter 13

Chapter 13: Chapter 12 ¨C Experience Store

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth The experience store was located northeast of the Imperial Capital around the fourth ring. It was within a middle-upper ss area. It was slightly off the beaten track, but this also meant that it would be quiet. Chen Mo stepped out of the taxi and walked in front of the experience store with his luggage trailing behind him. The experience store was a two-story building. The store wasn¡¯t big, there were no signs outside, and the door was locked. Chen Mo unlocked the door and carried his luggage inside. ¡ª From the inside, it seemed very spacious. Every floor had about two hundred square meters and a few pieces of furniture, such as a sofa. ¡°It¡¯s quite spacious.¡± Chen Mo was quite surprised. He thought that an experience store with a hundred square meters would be impressive; he wasn¡¯t expecting it to be so big. Two hundred square meters. If it was decorated like a normal (non-VR) inte cafe, it could probably fit thirty to fortyputers. The extra space could be used for sofas, nts and a drink dispenser. Basically, the first floor was decorated in the style of an inte cafe, to allow yers to try out games, whereas the second floor was used as an office space and a resting area. The first floor was still mostly empty to cater to the different ns a designer might have for this space. Video game designers that focused on VR games would obviously have VR gear set up on the first floor, therefore the organizers could only start renovations after confirming things with the designer. Chen Mo was quite satisfied by the interior and the cleanliness of the building. ¡ª All of the second floor was the designer¡¯s own personal space. The designer¡¯s office had standard VR gear, a high endputer, and many different brands of mobile phones. There was also a professional gradeputer for designing games with the video game engine preinstalled. Video game designers drew inspiration from yingrge numbers of games. Therefore an office space equipped with all three main modes of video games ¡ª VR, PC and mobile ¡ª was included with the experience store. The resting area contained a desk, a bookshelf, and arge bed for a minimalistic look. There were also some basic home appliances, so living here long-term wasn¡¯t a problem. At least the living area was much better than his rental house! Many video game designers in this world were workaholics, therefore a resting area next to the office space was a must. The decor in the entire experience store was customizable. The staff members from thepetition might help with small tasks. Large tasks required money out of his own pocket and required the approval of the staff from thepetition. Chen Mo only had the right to use the experience store,he didn¡¯t own it. After all, it was a massive property in a ce like the Imperial Capital, wherend was expensive. Buying the property would easily surpass eight digits, with another million for the procedures required. It was highly unlikely that the organizers would give the rights to the property away, even if they felt extremely generous. Of course, just the right to use it was saving Chen Mo a huge sum of money at the end of the month, so Chen Mo wasn¡¯t ungrateful. ¡ª¡ª After checking out the building, Chen Mo gave the staffer from before a call to ask him about the decorations. After half an hour, the staffer arrived. ¡°Two-thirds of the main hall will be forputers, the rest of it will contain massage chairs and equipment for mobile games. There will be a bar installed over here. As for the drinks, we¡¯ll use a vending machine for now. ¡°A fridge over here, and a snack bar here. ¡°And put a bookshelf over here. I n to buy some gaming-rted books and magazines. ¡°Build a divider around the sofa and put a small meeting desk and a projector there. ¡°Could I get some nts on the second floor balcony? ¡°And over here...¡± The staffer was jotting down notes as Chen Mo threw out his requests. The first floor was basically an inte cafe, although theputers weren¡¯t as tightly packed. ording to Chen Mo¡¯s requests, there would be eighteenputers and ten massage chairs on the first floor. The massage chairs were there for mobile gamers. Every massage chair was equipped with a high sped phone and a tablet. The second floor was decorated to Chen Mo¡¯s liking. Chen Mo didn¡¯t have many requests, as he could always add to in the future, changing it to his heart¡¯s content. After all the ns have been made, the staffer nodded: ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll arrange for some people toe over, It should be done by this afternoon, the evening at thetest.¡± Chen Mo replied, ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll leave it to you. I¡¯ll need to go back to pack my stuff tonight anyways, so I¡¯ll be back here tomorrow.¡± The staffer nodded. ¡°Leave it to me. There aren¡¯t any big changes and the orders are pretty simple, just moving stuff around. It¡¯s guaranteed to be done by tomorrow morning. ¡°Also, I have sent the license agreement to you. Just look over the main points, we can discuss the details some other time.¡± Chen Mo nodded. ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll look through it in detail.¡± Chen Mo trusted the staffer, leaving them in the experience store while he took the train back to his house he had rented. ¡ª While on the train, Chen Mo read through the license agreement several times. Basically, Chen Mo only had the right to use the experience store, with no right to own it. The store was fully owned by the organizers. Of course, Chen Mo could buy it, but it was basically based on market price with barely any discount. It was impossible for Chen Mo to bring out such a huge sum of money right now. Everything in the store, such as theputers and VR setups, did not belong to Chen Mo, he only had the right to use them. These things were spelled out in the contract. Anything that was lost or damaged had to be paid back. Chen Mo didn¡¯t need to pay rent or any other fees for using it, and didn¡¯t have to worry about the utility bills, either; everything was covered by the organisers. However, this didn¡¯t mean Chen Mo could stay there indefinitely, there was a quota! The games that Chen Mo released must hit a certain threshold, otherwise the rights to the experience store would be revoked. Moreover, the profit target wasn¡¯t a constant amount, but increased over time. The experience store was basically an investment by the organizers. If the champion designer was able to keep a high standard on a game, the organizers would continue allowing them to use the experience store, just giving and taking. If the video game designer wasn¡¯t able to maintain their standards, the experience store would be repossessed. Chen Mo thought that wasn¡¯t bad. At least they weren¡¯t after cash. In addition, Chen Mo didn¡¯t even entertain the thought of not being able to hit the target. In this world, in terms of profitability of the game, if Chen Mo imed himself to be number two, nobody was willing to im first ce! ¡ª¡ª After leaving the train station, Chen Mo headed back to his old house. After working for the whole afternoon, it was dark. Chen Mo went to a nearby restaurant to grab some food, and went back home to pack afterwards. As he didn¡¯t own any big pieces of furniture and didn¡¯t own much in general, everything he owned fit in fourrge cardboard boxes. After booking a van online, Chen Moid down to get some rest. Chapter 14

Chapter 14: Chapter 13 ¨C Company Name Confirmed!

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth At dawn the next day, Chen Mo started moving his stuff into the experience store after getting out of the van and paying the driver. From today on, Chen Mo would be living in the experience store. The experience store was fully decorated to Chen Mo¡¯s specifications. The first floor was basically a more spacious inte cafe equipped with aputer, massage chairs, sofa, snacks, drinks dispenser, and so on. After moving his stuff upstairs and unpacking, Chen Mo went online to order more basic necessities. ¡ª After settling down, Chen Mo walked around to check out the ce, which felt pretty good. From today on this experience store belonged to him. Although it was just the usage rights, it was much better than his previous house! When noon came around, Chen Mo received a message from the staffer from thepetition. ¡°Hi, Mr. Chen Mo! The decorations for the experience store werepletedst night, could you confirm that everything¡¯s in ce? Be assured that daily maintenance and cleaning will be periodically done by professionals. Please contact me again after you confirm the name of yourpany, we will make the appropriate signage for the store. Moreover, the three hundred thousand RMB has been transferred, could you confirm that, too? Chen Mo looked at the texts on his phone; the three hundred thousand was now in his bank ount. The organizers were indeed quite professional, there wasn¡¯t much to nitpick. ¡ª After replying to the message, Chen Mo tried out the equipment on the first floor. Chen Mo randomly tried out a few of theputers, massage chairs, and tablets, none of which had problems. All of them were new and were quite highly sped, and could easily run the vast majority of games on the market. This setup was more than enough for Chen Mo. Limited by his abilities, there was no way he could produce games that required high sped machines to run. Chen Mo locked the door and retreated upstairs to his office. The first floor was under surveince, so Chen Mo could monitor the situation from the second floor. However, his experience store wasn¡¯t officially open. There weren¡¯t any games for gamers to y, even if they were toe over. Therefore before Chen Mo developed a game, the experience store would remain closed. ¡ª¡ª Chen Mo turned on the workputer inside his office andunched the game engine. This workputer was more highly sped than theptop he had. In theory he could produce a high end VR game, but as before, he couldn¡¯t fully utilize the power of the machines. Following the production of ppyBird, his designer stats were changed. [Chen Mo: Video game designer (D-grade)] [Creativity: 16] [System: 8] [Coding:8] [Level Design: 5] [Story: 10] [Original art: 9] [3D art: 1] [Monthly quota: 300MB/800MB] Chen Mo had been automatically promoted to a D-grade video game designer. Several of his stats had also been increased. The stats shown in the game engine weren¡¯t Chen Mo¡¯s actual abilities, but were representative of his skills based on the games he had produced. Following the release of ppybird, Chen Mi¡¯s creativity had dramatically increased to 16. System, coding, and level design also increased slightly. Even original art was increased because of the bird in ppyBird. Chen Mo¡¯s actual skill level couldn¡¯t be shown by the video game engine. The scoring was based on the games that had already been produced, not straight from the brain of the designer. If given the opportunity to estimate his own stats, creativity was probably a hundred based on his experience with ssics in his previous world. Recreating any one of them would make waves in this world. Systems would probably be seventy, storyboarding sixty, level design thirty, coding twenty. This was all experience Chen Mo had gathered in his previous life. However, the video game engine wasn¡¯t able to produce the numbers he had in mind. Fortunately, after bing a D-grade video game designer his monthly resources quota had been increased from 300MB to 800MB. That was good news to him! He could also consider starting his ownpany after bing a D-grade video game designer. Of course, video gamepanies weren¡¯t exactly the samepared to his previous world. Video gamepanies were quite different than otherpanies. There wasn¡¯t a need for deposits, or even an office space, and there certainly wasn¡¯t a need for a string ofplicated procedures. The video gamepanies in this world could be seen as an extension of the identity of a videogame designer. The only thing required to start a video gamepany was the title of a D-grade video game designer. Then what was the point of starting apany? In theory, any game that was produced by a designer was required to be released by apany. Apany logo was required during loading, or else it wouldn¡¯t be epted into the market. If a video game designer didn¡¯t have their ownpany, they would need to release it under anotherpany! The ie generated by the game would go through thepany¡¯s ount, therefore a cut would be taken. If the designer had a dispute with otherpanies because of infringement, it would also go through the ount of thepany. Therefore, video gamepanies could be described as tiny, easy to register using the identity of the video game designer as security, and the first step for a D-grade video game designer into the video game market. Chen Mo found the registration for apany within Illusion Game Engine. Registration was simple, After filling in information regarding his identity and thepany, and deciding on a name andpany logo, it was ready to be reviewed. After giving it some thought, Chen Mo typed in thepany name: Thunderbolt Entertainment! It passed through the checks; there weren¡¯t any otherpanies using the same name. The reason for the name was simple, in his eyes the games he released needed to shock the video game industry, surprising designers and gamers. Moreover, Chen Mo thought that the games should also move like lightning; video gamepanies that had low impact, worried too much about the future, and were unable to make decisive decisions were unable to survive in such apetitive industry. After deciding on thepany name, Chen Mo started to hand-draw his logo. The workputer also had a drawing tablet, along with a lot of software used in a professional environment, all easily essible to him. Chen Mo¡¯s original art was rated at nine. Although low, it shouldn¡¯t be a problem when it came to designing a simple logo. Moreover, Chen Mo had seen many logos in his previous life, including video gamepanies and professional gaming teams, all of which could be taken as inspiration. In the end, Chen Mo¡¯spany logo had a unique art of a lightning bolt, with Thunderbolt Games written on it in word art. After confirming the information provided, Chen Mo submitted the form for review, which should be done in two to five working days. After deciding on thepany name and logo, Chen Mo could now contact the staffer to make the signs for the experience store. However, Chen Mo wasn¡¯t in a hurry to do that, as his eyes were set on considering what type of game to produce next. Chapter 15

Chapter 15: Chapter 14 ¨C Aren¡¯t you Gonna Eat Something

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth At that moment, Chen Mo¡¯s phone rang. The caller was a buddy from uni, Zhao Zihao. ¡°Hello?¡± Zhao Zihao replied in a casual tone, ¡°Chen Mo, you¡¯re pretty good! First ce in a video game designingpetition? How could you leave your brothers so out of the loop?¡± Chen Moughed, ¡°I just settled down, there¡¯s been too much doing on recently. How did you know?¡± Zhao Zihao said, ¡°You¡¯re asking me how I know? You¡¯re going viral! The negativements towards the judge during thepetition are all over the inte!¡± Chen Mo was speechless. ¡°Huh?¡± Zhao Zihao said, ¡°You can check it out yourself. Also, are you free tonight? Us three haven¡¯t really met up since we graduated. Coincidentally, you just got your identity as a videogame designer, and earned yourself an experience store. You better be buying us dinner!¡± Chen Moughed, ¡°Sure, I¡¯ll buy us dinner. Could you get Lin Mao too?¡± Zhao Zhao replied, ¡°Sure, it¡¯s decided then! How about this: I¡¯ll pick up Lin Mao, then we¡¯ll head right over to your experience store, then grab some food. Let¡¯s do 4pm. We¡¯ll see you there.¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll see you then.¡± In his memory in this parallel world, Chen Mo had two close buddies from university. Although the three of them were studying different areas, somehow they all entered the video game industry. Zhao Zihao had rich parents, his family was probably involved in traditional businesses. Chen Mo wasn¡¯t too sure about the details, all that mattered was that Zhao Zihao didn¡¯tck money. However, Zhao Zihao wasn¡¯t a video game designer. He acquired a studio for a video game guild, providing services such as boosting, gold grinding, promoting video games, and so forth. Thepany wasn¡¯t big, but the pay wasn¡¯t low, either. Every single hire were elite gamers, they had a no pay policy if they didn¡¯t do a good job. These workers could also be viewed as people who were hired to y games with Zhao Zihao, the other tasks can be viewed as extra work. Nobody cared if thepany was losing money, as in the end it was something Zhao Zihao had started for fun. Chen Mo had previously heard that Zhao Zihao was considering starting a clubbing business. However, as it was a considerable investment, he had yet to decide. Zhao Zihao didn¡¯t give off the usual vibes of someone born with a silver spoon, as he wasn¡¯t arrogant, spending most of his time ying video games. He would often join Chen Mo and the others at the inte cafe, and wasmonly referred to as having the body of a noble, the heart of a peasant by Lin Mao, another one of Chen Mo¡¯s buddies. As for the other buddy, Lin Mao, he was also a video game designer like Chen Mo. He got his D-grade video game designer as soon as he graduated and was now focusing full time on designing his own games. Among the three of them, Chen Mo studiednguages, Zhao Zihao studied finances, and Lin Mao was the only one who actually graduated studying video game design. The three of them met in the video game society in their first year and had been friends ever since. This gang was the few in this world whom Chen Mo viewed as close friends. ¡ª¡ª When the afternoon came, Chen Mo went out to familiarize himself with the environment around the experience store. After finding a restaurant, he went inside to grab a meal. Casually taking out his phone, he checked the news. Indeed, many news outlets had written about what had happened at the video game designpetition in their gaming section. Furthermore, there were many who participated in the discussion. ¡°Video game designpetition concluded, the three hundred thousand prize money experience store belongs to?¡± ¡°A mysterious bird takes the crown at a video game designingpetition!¡± ¡°Live audience: This is the most torturous game in history!¡± ¡°Seven hundred people three hundred and fifty hours ytime, this game is infectious!¡± ¡°Judge criticizes: Is this even a game?!¡± ¡°ppybird designer: Judge incapable of objectivity.¡± ¡°Founder of strongly promotes this game.¡± Chen Mo looked through the news articles, basically recounting the scene at thepetition, putting emphasis on the confrontation between Shi Huazhe and Chen Mo. Obviously the journalists were trying to clickbait the article in an attempt to make it a hot topic. There was also a video of when it happened. Shi Huazhe¡¯s review and Chen Mo¡¯s final remarks were being yed again and again, bing quite the hot topic. Chen Mo didn¡¯t mind; to him, any publicity was good publicity. More gamers will now recognize him, cutting down the cost per user of his future games, and saving on advertising, too! In this day and age, the attention economy was hugely prevalent, which was also applicable to the video game industry. As information increased, the attention of the user base became more valuable. If there were two simr games, one with no attention and one with plenty before the game was released, even if thetter wasn¡¯t as good as the former, the profits of thetter would be much higher than the former. If you had a fanbase of five thousand people and everyone of them listened to everything you say, you could reliably depend on your livelihood on the fans, be it through an online store, promoting games, or any other form of mization. At this point, Chen Mo noticed a video game mediapany released an interview with Shi Huazhe. On the video Shi Huazhe was visibly upset, looking into the cameras and said, ¡°What I said to contestant Chen Mo was advice based on my past. But he took it as an insult, it¡¯s really quite saddening. ¡°I still maintain my stance, the video game industry is a profession that requires sincerity and richness. Contestant Chen Mo isn¡¯t going to make it far. I think his next game isn¡¯t going to make it pass a hundred thousand sales in the first month.¡± Chen Moughed. Shi Huazhe was as stubborn as a mule, unwilling to surrender after so many attacks. Chen Mo quietly opened Weibo. His Weibo was now verified, updating his information after bing a D-grade video game designer and the champion of the video game designpetition. Chen Mo reposted the interview, adding, ¡°Aren¡¯t you gonna eat something?¡± after tagging the pages of several video game media. -You wanna mess with me? Sure, I¡¯ll be here till the end!- After a short while, Chen Mo¡¯s Weibo exploded! The video game medias reposted after noticing that Chen Mo replied and sensed the opportunity of some breaking news. Video Game Info Network, , Wechat gaming channel... even a higher-up of Emperor Dynasty Entertainment reposted! After creating such a scene, arge number of gamers now had their attention on Chen Mo¡¯s Weibo! ¡°Chen Mo? Is this the video game design champion?¡± ¡°Is this ount real?¡± ¡°Must be, it¡¯s verified.¡± ¡°Wow, really? Did you have to create such a scene? Why didn¡¯t you just give in?¡± ¡°This kid has personality, I like this guy!¡± ¡°What did you mean by yourst reply? What do you want Shi Huazhe to eat?¡± ¡°Previousment, did your vige just receive inte ess?¡± The gamers were having a heated discussion right on Chen Mo¡¯s Weibo. Chen Mo¡¯s ¡°Aren¡¯t you hungry?¡± was meant to be a joke. There are many who try to make predictions on the inte, and they always end it with,¡± If I¡¯m wrong, I¡¯ll eat my own sock¡± or ¡°If I¡¯m wrong, I¡¯ll eat my mouse¡±, eating all sorts of weird things. Therefore next time someone encounters a prediction, many would reply with, ¡°Aren¡¯t you gonna eat something?¡± The meaning behind Chen Mo¡¯s reply was clear: Shi Huazhe, you said I¡¯m not going to sell more than a hundred thousand copies in the first month for my next game. What if I do? Aren¡¯t you gonna eat something? Soon, the replies and reposts under this post started to explode, a hundred, three hundred, five hundred! Moreover, the friendly inte users were helping by tagging Shi Huazhe, probably just joining in the crowds, not considering the consequences. Chen Mo was much calmer than Shi Huazhe, matters like this weren¡¯t a concern for him. Moreover, Chen Mo didn¡¯t feel bad about this publicity stunt. If it brought more attention to his next game, why not? Soon thereafter, Shi Huazhe replied, ¡°Get a life!¡± Chen Mo was happy, seeing Shi Huazhe didn¡¯t dare take the bet. The discussions under the post were full of disappointment. There were still people trying to start something, encouraging Shi Huazhe to take the bet and eat a keyboard or mouse. Shi Huazhe decided to not reply, as if pretending he died. Afterughing, Chen Mo put his phone away. This was no more than a small interlude, no need to take it to heart. Chapter 16

Chapter 16: Chapter 15 ¨C Lacking a Focal Point

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth At 4pm, a red Ferrari stopped in front of the experience store. Zhao Zihao stepped out from the car and took a good look at the experience store, ¡°Wow! This experience store is quite big! Looks like Chen Mo got a good catch!¡± Lin Mao rolled his eyes. ¡°Doesn¡¯t your family own several stores like this?¡± Zhao Zihao replied, ¡°Hey, those belong to my parents, it¡¯s none of my business. This one was obtained by Chen Mo using his own hands, so it¡¯s different. Let¡¯s go in and take a look.¡± They dialed Chen Mo, waiting for him to let them in. Zhao Zihao wore a in white tee and jeans, along with some sneakers. If it weren¡¯t for the fact that he stepped out of a Ferrari, you wouldn¡¯t know he came from a rich family. In reality everything he wore was expensive, but for some reason when it was on him it seemed no different from the stuff you got from the market. Lin Mao was dressed more officially, in a short-sleeved shirt, and casual pants. Moreover, he was usually more calm, making him seem more reliable. The door opened. ¡°Come in!¡± Chen Mo weed his two guests inside. ¡ª Zhao Zihao walked around on the first floor, checking out the decor. ¡°Not bad, Chen Mo. This store¡¯s pretty good! I¡¯ll be addressing you as Mister Chen Mo the inte cafe owner!¡± Chen Mo replied, ¡°Stop messing around, this is a serious experience store.¡± Lin Mao looked around in admiration, ¡°Everything in here was provided by the organizers? Not bad. I don¡¯t even have my own experience store yet!¡± Chen Mo replied, ¡°You should join apetition too!¡± Lin Maoughed, ¡°Hey, it¡¯s not like I¡¯ve never tried. Getting first ce is too difficult, predominantly because the tastes of the audience are a bit weird. Thest time I joined one, I entered with a game of decent quality. In the end the audience didn¡¯t want to pay up, only getting second ce. Not much I could do!¡± ¡ª¡ª After catching up for a bit, they went to a nearby restaurant for food. Since it was only the three of them, they couldn¡¯t order too many dishes. Although Zhao Zihao was rich, he wasn¡¯t too picky about what he ate. They ordered five dishes and two bottles of beer, chatting as they ate. ¡°Zhao Zihao, how¡¯s your office going?¡± asked Chen Mo. Zhao Zihao grabbed some food using his chopsticks. ¡°Same old. It never was expected to make money as long as they yed games with me. If there was someone I couldn¡¯t beat in game, I¡¯d just ask them to beat the crap out of them for me.¡± Lin Mao said, ¡°Look at your sess.¡± Zhao Zihao said bitterly, ¡°What¡¯s the point of me hiring them other than as my champions?¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°Then stop insisting on having it your way in games!¡± Zhao Zihao shook his head, ¡°Now that you mention it the past two days have been infuriating.¡± Chen Mo asked, ¡°What happened? Bullied in game?¡± Zhao Zihao said, ¡°I¡¯ve been ying this new VR game from overseas that was released recently called Earth Online. This game has been infuriating!¡± Chen Mo asked, ¡°What¡¯s up?¡± Zhao Zihao said, ¡°Stop mentioning it. The designer of the game clearly has problems! Anyone who joins the game is born on the streets with five hundred RMB on them, meaning everyone needs to work in game to earn money, like in real life! ¡°Tell me, is the point of me ying the game to experience the life of a wage ve? There wasn¡¯t even an option to top-up when I looked for it! ¡°The most infuriating part is when idiotse over to annoy you looking for trouble. If you try and beat them up, the cops wille after you. Every time I get into a fight I wanna get my brothers over, it turns out they were born in a different city and need to catch a train!¡± Chen Mo replied, ¡°Isn¡¯t that a bit too real?¡± Lin Mao was impressed, ¡°This overseas designer is pretty good, being able to make a game like that.¡± Zhao Zihao was still not convinced. ¡°Sure he¡¯s good. But I still think the designer has problems, what¡¯s the point of disgusting yers like they are? Why not have the ability to beat people up?¡± Chen Mo replied, ¡°Sure, it¡¯s a bit ridiculous. We¡¯ve already experienced many different things in real life, what¡¯s the point of doing it again in game?¡± Zhao Zihao continued, ¡°Moreover, the currency in this game is useless. Can¡¯t even buy it using real money, I need to work for it! They were also super punishing on yers who make deals outside of the game. Once they find out about it, you¡¯re banned immediately. That makes me wanna quit!¡± Chen Moughed, ¡°Calm down, I¡¯ll make a game that allows you to pay money to get stronger. You¡¯ll be able to enjoy yourself however you want.¡± Zhao Zihao was quite happy, ¡°Really, Chen Mo? Then I¡¯ll be waiting for your pay to win game! When the timees I¡¯ll top-up a thousand RMB immediately!¡± Chen Moughed, ¡°A thousand? With a thousand RMB I can guarantee you will die in-game with slightly more dignity.¡± ¡°Huh?¡± Zhao Zihao was stunned. ¡°Isn¡¯t a thousand RMB enough? The Earth Online closed beta costs at least five hundred RMB!¡± Chen Mo just took a sip of tea. ¡°Alright, you¡¯ll know when the timees.¡± Lin Mao said, ¡°You¡¯re getting ahead of yourself. Zhao Zihao, what services does your studio provide? How many yers are there?¡± Zhao Zihao gave it a thought. ¡°yers? Ourpany provides the office space, we don¡¯t have a say in the guild. It¡¯s the chairmen in the guild that have control over the yers. There¡¯s a clear line in the sand between us and them.¡± Lin Mao asked, ¡°Then how often do you interact with the chairmen? When my gamees out, could you help me out and pull some yers over?¡± Zhao Zihao replied, ¡°It depends on how many you want. I know about ten chairmen. Including the yers, it should add up to several thousand. I think it might be difficult for you if you want to solely depend on your ie from these guys, but it should be fine to just show you some support.¡± Lin Mao sighed, ¡°The indie games I make are difficult to promote in the first ce, in addition to the small target audience. The channels of promotion aren¡¯t looking too good, either, and the resources I get are also super limited.¡± Zhao Zihao asked, ¡°Can¡¯t you just release it right to the market?¡± Lin Mao shook his head. ¡°Releasing it right into the market gathers no attention, none of the users are going to notice it.¡± Zhao Zihao gave it some thought and replied, ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll ask about it when the timees. I¡¯ll try and think of something to hype up your game. Not doing anything just isn¡¯t right, the least I can do is to make your numbers look good. Also, what¡¯s your opinion on this, Chen Mo?¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°I haven¡¯t even seen your game!¡± Lin Mao handed over his phone to Chen Mo, ¡°Take a look at this, it¡¯s about eighty percentplete.¡± Chen Mo grabbed the phone andunched the indie game currently in production by Lin Mao. ¡ª He made up his mind after ying for five minutes. It was a side scroller using a Middle Ages theme. It was about a knight saving a princess, including a boss fight against a dragon. All things considered, it was alright for a D-grade video game designer. However, there were still some pitfalls. Although it was fine in all aspects, there wasn¡¯t much that prompted a yer to pull out their money. Even if the game was sold at ten RMB, the yers would have to consider why they would make the purchase. Story? ystyle? Art? They were all alright, but there wasn¡¯t anything eye-catching. After thinking for a bit, Chen Mo said, ¡°I think that you are logically misunderstanding this.¡± Lin Mao asked, ¡°What misunderstanding?¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°I think there¡¯s a problem with your positioning. You¡¯re making an indie game. Sure the audience is smaller, but I don¡¯t think you need to position yourself to focus on a small audience.¡± Zhao Zihao scratched his head. ¡°What are you talking about? That¡¯s too convoluted. Could you simplify it a bit?¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°I can tell that you have given it your all in all aspects of the game. However, you made it ording to the tastes of a small audience, meaning you¡¯re only targeting a small audience who likes themes like this. The number of yers isn¡¯t able to support the sales of your game.¡± Lin Mao didn¡¯t quite understand. ¡°Aren¡¯t you supposed to target the yer¡¯s desires when making a game?¡± Chen Mo exined, ¡°What I mean is that you should widen your target audience. Basically, you need more yers to y your game.¡± Lin Mao was doubtful. ¡°I know that. It sounds simple, but how can you attract more yers to your game?¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°It¡¯s simple, just find a focal point.¡± Chapter 17

Chapter 17: Chapter 16-A Little bit of Creativity

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth Chen Mo continued, ¡°I think many video game designers have this problem. They are unable topete with B-grade and A-grade video game designers due to their limited ability, and yet they don¡¯t try to figure something else out, insisting on going head to head against them. That¡¯s just stupid.¡± After giving it some thought, Lin Mao replied, ¡°I still don¡¯t quite understand.¡± Chen Mo exined, ¡°Since we are close, I¡¯ll just give it to you straight. If you were a gamer, what type of games would you buy?¡± Lin Mao was shocked. In his view this was a question with an obvious answer, so simple that he had never given it any thought. After thinking it over, he replied, ¡°Umm... quality? Sincerity?¡± Chen Mo replied, ¡°Sincerity is very intangible. If a video game designer uses feelings to promote their game it can only mean one of two things: they¡¯re past their prime time, or they are desperate. ¡°As for quality, you¡¯re a D-grade video game designer. Can your qualitypare to a B-grade video game designer?¡± Lin Mao¡¯s mouth was open, though nothing wasing out of it. Chen Mo continued, ¡°I¡¯m asking why gamers would want to buy it, but really I¡¯m asking if the game has any gimmicks. Does it have anything special to make it stand out? ¡°I think you haven¡¯t fully opened your mind. I¡¯ll use your game as an example, and give you a few perspectives for you to consider. ¡°One is from the coding perspective. You could spend another two months of time improving yourbat system. Say you add another eight to fifteen weapons and over twenty different mobs.¡± Lin Mao asked, ¡°But isn¡¯t that tooplicated for a mobile game?¡± Chen Mo shook his head, ¡°It isn¡¯t. Do all mobile games need to be casual games? I don¡¯t think so. You should know that the simpler it is, the harder it gets. At this stage, I¡¯d rather go overboard than stop now. ¡°Improving thebat system would be veryplicated, but at least when ites to advertising your game you could say ¡®A choice from twenty different weapons¡¯, ¡®Mind bogglingbat, can you pick the right weapon every time?¡¯, etc.¡± Lin Mao looked like he was deep in thought. Chen Mo continued, ¡°A second scenario, in terms of difficulty. Make the game very difficult and add in unexpected traps.¡± Lin Mao asked, ¡°Unexpected meaning?¡± Chen Mo pointed at the game and said, ¡°For example, it looks like a hill here, but once you step on it spikes wille out to kill the yer. Or here, a seemingly unassuming NPC, but as you walk past them, they stab you in the back, killing you. Jumping behind him and talking to him from behind will also kill you. The only way to get through this would be to step on his head.¡± Lin Mao¡¯s mouth was slightly ajar, with a dazed expression saying ¡®Wow, mechanics like that?¡¯ Chen Mo continued, ¡°If you use the second method, you could say that the game is the most surprising game in history. You could even call it ¡°Knight¡¯s bizarre adventure¡± or something like that. ¡°There¡¯s also a third way of thinking, from the perspective of the story! For example, you could let yers pick a different story path at each point or react to situations differently. For example, before meeting an heavily injured opponent, you could choose to save or not to save. This would allow for many different paths to different endings.¡± ¡°You could set up five to eight different endings, some seeding, some failing, some totally unexpected. ¡°If you chose this path, you could advertise it as ¡®Eight different endings, dozens of options¡¯, or ¡®Can you see through the lies and discover the truth¡¯ or something along those lines.¡± Lin Mao scratched his chin. Chen Mo had dropped a knowledge bomb, which required some deep thought. Chen Mo wasn¡¯t in a hurry, either. After eating another mouthful, he waited for Lin Mao to fully absorb the three scenarios he had just pitched. What did designers in this worldck the most? Open minds! Chen Mo wasn¡¯t born with the openness, but had acquired it through his experiences in another world, during the birth of video games and their continued growth. Fromrge titles, to browser games, to mobile games and indie games, he had witnessed all of it blossom. Many video game designers were digging their brains, trying to get other gamers to notice their games and hand over the money in their pockets without resistance. As for video games, creativity would always take the cake. Without a doubt, the top percent must have open minds. It was impossible for a videogame designer whocked creativity to invent an immersive game. Of course, creativity isn¡¯t all that tangible. Many ignoramuses referred to themselves as full of creativity and the ability to save the industry. However, their creativity was just hypotheticals. Before being realized, nobody could judge if their ideas would be able to seed. The three hypotheticals that Chen Mo put out might seem like it came from genius full of inspiration, but in his previous life, these were rules that video game designers knew deep down. They had been tested by the industry countless times, with many sess stories. Chen Mo knew that Lin Mao was an honest person and was the one he was closest to among his buddies, so he chose to nudge him in the right direction. However, Chen Mo wasn¡¯t going to reveal any specifics. Up till now the end product was entirely dependent on how well Lin Mao understood that. Lin Mao gave it a long and hard thought and said, ¡°Right, I understand it, more or less. I think what you said made sense. Outside of my intended audience, it doesck something that will attract the attention of the other users. Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Yep!¡± Lin Mao said, ¡°I understand now, Chen Mo. Your three suggestions have widened my views. I think I have more ideas now. Thanks!¡± Chen Mo waved his hand. ¡°Don¡¯t mention it, it was nothing. All I did was point you in a direction. How you get there depends on you.¡± Lin Mao nodded, ¡°Yep, I now know which direction I¡¯m heading down. I thought the game was almost done, now it seems likepletion is quite a ways away. I¡¯ll rethink the game when I get back.¡± Lin Mao rxed his bunched eyebrows. He always felt that his game wascking, but he didn¡¯t know what... and now he knew. What hecked was a focal point, one that a gamer could see at first nce. With a focal point, his game would now be able to differentiate itself from countless other games! Zhao Zihao was shocked, and asked, ¡°Chen Mo, you¡¯re pretty good! I didn¡¯t think you had so many ideas. Did you uncover your full potential recently?¡± Chen Mo said seriously, ¡°Not uncovered potential, but I was enlightened. The video game gods guided me in my dreams the night before the video gamepetition and sent me a video game designing handbook.¡± Zhao Zihaoughed, ¡°Yeah, right!¡± ¡ª¡ª The three of them chatted as they ate, up until 10pm, ordering another four bottles of beer along the way. They were chatting happily, in the end all three of them getting tipsy. Chen Mo wasn¡¯t much of a drinker himself, as drinking often isn¡¯t good for the brain, as it affects memory and thinking. Therefore a drinking habit wasn¡¯t desirable in a video game designer. Zhao Zihao called a staffer from hispany to drive him. Lin Mao, on the other hand, was focused on how to restructure and change the game he was currently working on. After finding a designated driver, Chen Mo was at ease, sending them off after a few words of caution. After returning to the experience store and cleaning up after himself, he went to sleep after receiving messages from Zhao Zihao and Lin Mao confirming their safety. Chen Mo still needed to think about his next game. It was best that he got some sleep tonight to ensure a good mental status tomorrow... Chapter 18

Chapter 18: Chapter 17: Ten Consecutive Draws

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth Chen Mo woke up the next day at nine o¡¯clock. After grabbing a shower, he went out to buy breakfast. Chen Mo woke upte because he liked sleeping, only feeling a hundred percent when he got enough sleep, due to habits from his previous life. In his previous life working in the video game industry, he would often need to work through the night and his start time at work waster than normal. His sleep schedule wasn¡¯t adjusted to what would be considered normal. ¡ª After having breakfast, Chen Mo returned to his office to brainstorm his first game. Chen Mo had numerous games in mind, but he still had to give some thought to which one he was basing it off. In this world the cost of starting the development of a game was quite low. There was no need to rent an office or hire a programmer, saving any starting capital required to start game development, though it didn¡¯t mean there weren¡¯t any associated costs or limits with game development. One of the bigger limiting factors was art resources. Video game background music could be solved using money by hiring someone. As long as the quality wasn¡¯t too bad, gamers usually wouldn¡¯t nitpick too much. However, the visuals of the game were different. If Chen Mo wanted to develop arger game, the characters, models, and scenes all might need to be done from scratch, and the free resources from the game engine might not be suitable. Moreover, those cost quite a bit! Using a simple example: graphics for ying cards for a mobile game. The lower end would be eight to nine hundred RMB, at the other end of the spectrum it might cost seven to eight hundred. Higher standards were avable for a higher price. Just the cost for the art would be a huge sum of money. Moreover, there were the models, animations, special effects, and so on. These wouldn¡¯t be any cheaper than the art, and were quite troublesome to make. The game engine did haverge amounts of free resources, but the majority of them were just free resources of average quality. ppybird was able to use publicly avable art because it had a simple art style. After hand drawing the bird, everything else could be found and used without much, if any, modifications. However, if Chen Mo wanted to fully recreate arge game from his previous life, the art would need to look the same as the original. That would be troublesome! As for why the art needed to be the same, it was because games were quite delicate, like an intricate pocket watch. If any one of the parts were swapped out, it was not guaranteed to run smoothly. Of course, that ignored the crude knockoffs, games never meant to take off. The games that did take off always had their ystyle, art style, music, etc. in perfect harmony. They were the ones picked out among dozens of ideas by a designer. Any changes Chen Mo wanted to make had to be thoroughly thought out. Otherwise, like changing a poem, changing a word might make it seem like the work of an ameteur. Therefore, Chen Mo would try to the best of his abilities to preserve every single detail of the ssics, including identical art styles. The second biggest barrier was Chen Mo¡¯s own abilities. Although Chen Mo was the producer, he had his own specializations, so he wasn¡¯t good at everything. Coding and level design had their own more specialized engineers. Although Chen Mo knew some of it, he wasn¡¯t super well-versed in it. Some games might seem simple, but in reality the requirements were quite high. For example, Anipop! Although the rules were quite simple and seemed quite simple in design, it actually had very high requirements for their level design. Every level was more difficult than thest, while keeping up the tempo. This was not doable with his current abilities! Some of the Chinese pay-to-win games might seem like they had low development requirements, but more than half of the skill requirements were on the coding side of things. For example, how do you differentiate between different levels of VIP? What¡¯s the difference in abilities between different VIP yers? How much do you gain from topping up? How far can a yer get in the game within a certain amount of days? How do you control the tempo of the game? All these were coding problems. Although Chen Mo knew this, he couldn¡¯t solve them with a hundred percent certainty. In the end, ppybird was still an extremely simple game with no requirements for coding and level design. The explosive growth of games like those could not be replicated. Looking farther ahead, Chen Mo had to eventually be able to cover all of that. He must raise all coding rted stats to above eighty to be able to recreate a ssic from his previous life. How could these problems be solved? Pay to win! Were there any other choices? Paying to win changed lives! ¡°If you encounter a difficult situation, it can only mean that you haven¡¯t paid enough money.¡± Chen Mo said,ughing at himself as he turned on the virtual disy on his bracelet. Chen Mo had received three hundred thousand RMB in development funds, and nned to take out two hundred thousand of that to draw some prizes. The remaining hundred thousand would be saved for emergencies. The thing that troubled Chen Mo the most was that ppybird had to be free to y for yers to try out for three months after winning the video game designingpetition. It would not be gaining any profit during the three months. Chen Mo knew this at the start of thepetition, but Chen Mo didn¡¯t know how this world would react to ppybird or how popr it could get. Moreover he really did want the experience store, and with the resource constraints, ppybird was his only choice. Therefore, although he knew there would be some losses involved, Chen Mo chose to enter using ppybird. However, it hurt whenever Chen Mo thought about how ppybird brought its maker nearly three hundred thousand RMB every day, feeling as if he had missed out on hundreds of millions. During the next three months, Chen Mo wouldn¡¯t be expecting ppybird to bring him any money. The best move would be to make his next game. After navigating to the top-up screen. Chen Mo transferred two hundred thousand RMB into the bracelet. The bracelet credits now disyed two million ny seven thousand three hundred and forty. After giving it some thought, Chen Mo topped up some more, to make it a round 2.1 million credits. After dumping in two hundred thousand RMB, the three hundred RMB wasn¡¯t much. It was better to make it a round number and calm his mild OCD. Two million one hundred thousand credits, a hundred thousand credits per spin; enough for twenty-one spins! At this point Chen Mo noticed the virtual disy now had a new ¡°Draw ten¡± button. ¡°... How nice! The reason the button wasn¡¯t here before was because I didn¡¯t have enough credits to draw ten times, huh?¡± Chen Moined to nobody. The draw ten button also fine print: Guaranteed rare items. This wasparable to a strong point of pay to win games in his previous life, in order to encourage yers to top-up by any means. Chen Mo knew in ny-nine percent of the games, ten draws were a better deal than one. It was in his best interest to do ten draws. Chen Mo walked around in his office, then washed his hands and face. Preparations must be made before drawing ten! ¡ª After calming down, Chen Mo decided to draw one to test out his luck. ck ck ck... The wheel started spinning, ending with a ck on the blue area: Rare Skill Book. ¡°Hmm? Not bad.¡± Chen Mo was awake all of a sudden. This was the first time he had drawn a blue skill book; maybe the effects of washing his hands and face? Chen Mo clicked on the blue skill book, and noticed the description on it: Special Skill Book: +10 to music and audio effects. Chapter 19

Chapter 19: Chapter 18: The Next Game

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth Chen Mo was quite satisfied. He was worried about the audio side of things of the game, so the skill book was a godsend. Chen Mo always hired people to do BGM and sound effects for his game, as he did not have any musical bones in him. For some of the ssic games, it will be impossible to recreate them perfectly just from dictation. Therefore it would be better if he took matters into his own hands. Chen Mo tapped and activated it immediately. The blue skill book turned into rays of light and entered his fingertips. Chen Mo took out the keyboard from his office that had been provided by thepetition officials. Thinking he wouldn¡¯t be able to use it, he had put it away, as it was just gathering dust. After trying out a couple scales, he connected it to theputer and produced a simple ten second long BGM. Chen Mo felt that it sounded alright, and he was able to handle the audio part himself for simpler games. ¡°Not bad, off to a good start. Now all that¡¯s left is to see the results for the two ten spins.¡± Chen Mo took a deep breath and tapped the ten spins button. ck, ck, ck... The wheel spun up and slowed down constantly, finishing ten spins within thirty seconds. The ten draws showed on the screen in the order they were drawn. Designer Skill Books: three Coding books, four Level Design books. Special Skill Books: one +10 Original Art Special Effects Book: one +10 Animation Skills Special Equipment: Memory yback Potion This caught Chen Mo¡¯s attention. Pretty good, ten draws did make a difference! It felt like the chances of drawing blue and purple rares were much higher than single draws! Chen Mo hurriedly checked out the effects of the special equipment. Memory yback Potion: After consuming, freely remember any forgotten or murky memories,sts for four hours. That was pretty good! Chen Mo badly needed that item. There were many games that Chen Mo had yed before that he could barely remember now. Although there was a faint impression, it wasn¡¯t enough to reproduce all the details. With the Memory yback Potion, Chen Mo would be able to dive into his past memories. As long as he has yed it or done a deep dive into it, he¡¯d be able to recall the experience. Chen Mo consumed the skill books without giving them much thought. Coding skills +3, Level Design +4. Chen Mo estimated that his true coding ability was about 27, and his true Level Design ability was about 35. Combined with the Memory yback Potion, recreating some moreplicated minigames wasn¡¯t a problem. There were two other Special Skill Books: one for Original Art, another for Animation. It was obvious that the drawing mechanism was programmed to separate skills, such as art and music, that weren¡¯t rted to video game engineering, to be part of the Special Skill Books. Original Art +10, Chen Mo¡¯s Original Art skills had been raised to 19, and were now able to deal with games with simpler art styles. From barely anything to now something, Animation skills were now decent with the +10 skill book. Chen Mo could now do some simple 2D animations, which was key. -Draw again!- With another ten draws in him, Chen Mo tapped on the screen once again. ck, ck, ck... The wheel started spinning once again, and another ten items followed it. Designer Skill Books: seven Storyboarding skill books, two Coding skill books. Special Equipment: Lucky Capsule. Chen Mo almost fainted; the difference was way too big! -You have to be kidding!- Not only wasn¡¯t there a single blue skill book, the green skill books that were drawn were in the most unnecessary aspects, coding and storyboarding! Chen Mo was hurting after that. Every ten draws cost a hundred thousand RMB! However, Chen Mo felt better when he saw the special equipment. Lucky Capsule: After consumption substantially increases luck,sts for ten minutes. -What does this do? Am I gonna pick up five million bucks when I go outside?- -Effectsts for ten minutes... obviously it was meant to be used alongside drawing ten! Next time I¡¯ll find ten million credits and spin for ten ten times!- ¡°Whatever, I¡¯ll save it for next time...¡± Chen Mo was now in a sticky situation. With his credits depleted and a hundred thousand RMB in the bank, it would be too risky to dump the rest of it into credits. The safer bet would be toe back after earning some money by producing his first game. Chen Mo consumed the Storyboarding and Coding books. Although these were Chen Mo¡¯s strengths, they were still far from perfect, and in the end they were still useful. ¡ª¡ª Cehn Mo turned off the virtual disy in an attempt to calm down. Two hundred thousand RMB spent on top-ups, skill books were drawn, special equipment was drawn, all that¡¯s left was for Chen Mo to make his first real game. Chen Mo was still hesitant on which game to make. From a pure money-making perspective, a Chinese pay-to-win mobile game from his previous life would be the best choice. These games weren¡¯t super high quality, purely attracting yers using the coding side of things. You shouldn¡¯t make such a game too much about mization. However, Chen Mo was worried about two things. First was his coding abilities. The reason Chinese pay-to-win games are able to keep their yers paying was by stimting them using well made code. Just because you improve your strength in game using money doesn¡¯t mean the game would be profitable. Therefore software engineers within the Chinese video game industry had very high statuses, only second to the producer as software engineers control the tempo of the game. Making the code well would mean giving the game a proper foundation. The game can be saved even if the graphics looked bad or if the ystyle was repetitive. But if the coding weren¡¯t done well, the game would be dead on arrival with no breathing room. As Chen Mo didn¡¯t even have thirty points in his coding abilities there were some risks to making a game like this, even with the help of the Memory yback Potion. The code for these games were always semi-hidden includingbat calctions, attribute growth, effectiveness rtionship, economy algorithms etc. Every one of these have their own proprietary configurations, and maintained by professionals, essentially a trade secret where the average joe has no ess to it. Because the code is such a big part of these games, as soon as the code is leaked, otherpanies will be able to use that as a framework and produce a knockoff. Chen Mo would have to write all the code by hand if he made a game like this. However, he didn¡¯t have confidence manipting the code based on his current abilities. There was another problem: yer eptance! The main method of profit in this world still depended on sales per game. Top-up services, especially pay-to-win, were not mainstream. Furthermore, there hadn¡¯t been anyone fullymitted to pay-to-win. If he produced an average pay-to-win game and the gamers discovered it was pay-to-win, would they ept it? Would they be strongly against it, negatively affecting him and thepany¡¯s image? Maybe there would be some yers who would just boycott his next games? It was hard to say. Just because there was a low chance of it happening didn¡¯t mean it wouldn¡¯t happen. As this was Chen Mo¡¯s first game, he didn¡¯t want to take the risk. The tastes of gamers and the ce for pay-to-win games in this world were unknown, and the grounds needed to be tested, step by step. One misstep might be devastating. Therefore, Chen Mo chose to make a safer choice, and make a stand-alone game and an honest living out of it. Stabilizing himself using this game, at least putting the name of Thunderbolt Gaming out there, and then slowly testing the limits of the yers was what Chen Mo had in mind! Chapter 20

Chapter 20: Chapter 19: New Game Finalized

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth Chen Mo was mainly considering downloaded games and mobile games, ignoring browser games. Browser games did have their time in the spotlight and seemed like the next best thing. But browser games were special circumstances and were popr in specific groups. Moreover, the timeframe of their sess was usually quite short ,and browser games were difficult to replicate. In Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, browser games onlysted for three to five years and were left behind soon after, with mobile games taking their ce. On the other hand, mobile games also went from crude to highly refined within a few years, and their speed was continually increasing. Browser games did have a high mization value, and anything would be garbage without yers. -What are the gamers like in this world?- There were many full-fledged VR games, and the quality of those virtual reality games were much higher than AAA titles in Chen Mo¡¯s previous world. Serving up browser games to these people? ¨CAre we gonna pull a Click Now and receive a legendary sword? -That¡¯ll probably fail miserably...- In Chen Mo¡¯s view, mobile games evolved from browser games, putting pressure on browser games in all aspects. In terms of ease of use, you still needed to take care when ying browser games at work. You could y mobile games anytime; just leave the phone face down on the table when the manager came by. In terms of graphics, browser games were limited by the ways they were produced, requiring constant resource downloads. More often than not, the graphics wouldn¡¯t be fully downloaded, affecting the gaming experience. In terms of ystyle, the ystyle of ssic browser games was improved upon by mobile games. Furthermore, mobile games developed new ystyles during their development. Therefore, browser games had beenpletely reced by mobile games. If Chen Mo developed a browser game, it was probably due to brain damage. Chen Mo gave it some thought, his first actual game must be a ssic casual game from his previous life: nts vs Zombies! It wasn¡¯t the most profitable choice, but a stable and sustainable one! What did Chen Mo need the most now? Money? He needed it, but it wasn¡¯t what he needed the most! What he needed now was fame! There were three main reasons Chen Mo picked nts vs Zombies. First, the resources required for this game weren¡¯t high. The installer might be around 100 MB. The other resources could be kept within 300 MB. Video game installers werepressed, which were not representative of their actual resource usage. Moreover, the code for this game was quite essible, and the level designs were also quite clear. It could be handled easily with Chen Mo¡¯s current coding and level design abilities. The more difficult parts would be music and art. But Chen Mo was basically copying, so it wasn¡¯t a big problem. Therefore, this was a game that Chen Mo could easily handle! Second, Chen Mo needed fame and acknowledgement. Making pay-to-win games did rake in a lot of money, but it was very difficult to make them popr, and there was a high chance of receiving negativements. Chen Mo wanted to make his first game essible to everyone, showing more yers the logo of Thunderbolt Gaming and its designer, Chen Mo! Having everyone recognize him was a long-term goal, but it had to be nned from the first game. Third, nts vs Zombies might seem simple, but it was an all-around game. In particr was the strategy side of the game, making it a longsting game that allowed its yer to y for a long time. If a game required three months in development, Chen Mo wanted the game to be yable for a month. ording to this metric, nts vs Zombies steamrolled a bunch of casual games. Moreover, the game could be released on PC game mobile at the same time; adding cross-tform wasn¡¯t a problem! In the end, Chen Mo made the decision: the first game released by Thunderbolt Entertainment would be nts vs Zombies! ¡ª¡ª Chen Mo stood up and walked around the experience store, taking a ten-minute break before starting the development process. Chen Mo wasn¡¯t in a hurry to use the Memory yback Potion, as the potion onlysted for four hours. He should use his current memory of the game, build the main framework of the game, then use the Potion for the details that he couldn¡¯t remember. He had to first write the design documents, followed by entering the basics of the game into the video game engine. Chen Mo excelled at writing design documents in his previous life, essentially up to twice as fast as normal designers. A system design draw including concepts, original art, logic checks, untilpleted within five to seven days. This included time for thinking over and changing things! Of course, depending on the fundamentals of the game, the design document would differ. Even an average mobile game would normally require twenty to thirty design documents of varying sizes, which would include different areas. The demands for time and resource allocation would be even greater than that, and arge majority of them would not make it into the final game. The main time sink in writing a design document would be brainstorming, choosing between different design directions. However, nts vs Zombies was quite well-rounded. Chen Mo didn¡¯t want to make any modifications, making the writing process go by pretty quickly. Interface,bat system, level design, nts, zombies, mechanics... in no time at all, the design document was filled with the basic ideas of each of the items. Afterwards, Chen Mo started looking around in the game engine for free resources and downloaded them using his allocated quota. As for the art, in order to best preserve the integrity of the original game, Chen Mo decided to hand-draw to his standards. The free resources were only used as ceholders to make sure the development went smoothly. The ceholders would be reced only when the game was almost finished. Resources for thewns, nts, and zombies were plentiful, but a small portion of them were barely passable, as they were presented in weird themes. As they were only used as ceholders, he¡¯ll just have to deal with it. ¡ª¡ª Chen Mo spent three days writing the fundamentals into the design document and finding material for the graphics. During that time, thepany passed its review. Thunderbolt Entertainment was now proper. Chen Mo now had the title ¡°Founder of Thunderbolt Entertainment¡± on his Weibo and the game engine. Of course, the title didn¡¯t mean anything, as thepany hadn¡¯t achieved anything yet. ording to Chen Mo¡¯s ns, Thunderbolt Entertainment might have a few subsidiaries, such as Thunderbolt Gaming, Thunderbolt Literature, Thunderbolt Animations, Thunderbolt Movies, and so forth... However, that was just some strategic nning if the opportunity came, otherwise Chen Mo wasn¡¯t going to worry about it. Chen Mo nned to go deep into video gaming territory. Although literature and animations would be beneficial to video games, it wasn¡¯t his main n of attack. ¡ª¡ª After thepany name and logo had been confirmed, Chen Mo rang up thepetition staffers to ask them about the signage for the experience store. Very efficiently, the sign arrived in two days, along with professionals who came along to install them. The sign had Thunderbolt Gaming Experience Store in wordart, along with the Thunderbolt Entertainment logo. Chen Mo was quite happy with how it came out. ¡ª¡ª After finishing with the distractions, Chen Mo went back into his office space to clean up the framework of the design document and the ceholding artwork. With another day behind him, the main framework of the design document was now finished, and sixty to seventy percent of the artwork had also been found. Chapter 21

Chapter 21: Chapter 20 ¨C Memory yback Potion

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth After a good night¡¯s rest, Chen Mo grabbed some breakfast and performed the usual brushing and washing while waiting for his mental peak. When he was at his most awake, he used the Memory yback Potion and started looking through his forgotten memories. His memory of the game was murky, as nts vs Zombies was released a while ago. Chen Mo was diligent when going through his memory, as any of it could contain important details about the game, which could affect the quality of his clone. The effects of the Potion settled in quickly, and Chen Mo returned to his memories from many years ago. The first memories were the shapes of the nts: dragon-like peashooter[1], a certain-singer-whosest-name-is-Gao-looking squash, the potato mine with the joystick on its head, the sunflower with the mysterious smile, the walnut with its eyes open like light bulbs... After that were the various types of zombies: normal zombie, conehead zombie, pole-vaulting zombie, buckethead zombie, football zombie, dancing zombie... There were also the different zones, such as the frontwn, night, pool, and so on. As his memories cleared up, Chen Mo grabbed his drawing tablet and started making some sketches of the nts and zombies, paying particr attention to details and features in order to best recreate them. Afterwards, Chen Mo started to recall the flow of the game. When the game was started, the words that Crazy Dave said, from nting the first nts, beating the first zombie, to unlocking levels, unlocking new nts, beating the boss... Chen Mo was making notes as he remembered, taking notes of everything noteworthy in detail for every level, such as the levels where nts were unlocked, and the levels where special modes were unlocked. After that was the numbers. The time between shots of a peashooter, the damage increase that torchwood provided, the movement speed reduction of the wintermelon, the health amounts of the various zombies... These numbers might seem insignificant, but they could affect the entire structure of the game. As Chen Mo¡¯s coding abilities were limited, he could only resort to silly methods like this. ¡ª¡ª Four hours passed in a blink of an eye. Chen Mo let out a sign of relief, as the past four hours he had been extremely focused. As he rxed, he could feel his body catching up. However, it wasn¡¯t time to rest. He used whatever still remained in his memory to fill out numbers he might¡¯ve missed, as he was afraid to miss out on any detail. Memories of humans faded over time. The Memory yback Potion could only guarantee free ess to memories for four hours. Once it was over, the memories would slowly fade away. ¡ª¡ª After working two more hours, Chen Mo let out a deep breath, taking a sip of water while slouching in the chair. The desktop had a design document filled with thousands of lines of the details for the game. There was also a sketches folder filled with everything: sketches of nts, zombies, scenes, even theyout of the UI. The Memory yback Potion was used by Chen Mo, right down to thest drop! ¡°Man, that was exhausting.¡± Chen Mo wiped the sweat off his forehead. He was about to break after staying highly focused for six hours. But why did he put himself in such a difficult ce? Because there was only one Potion! If there were two bottles, he could¡¯ve done it with ease, one today and one tomorrow. He wouldn¡¯t have to worry so much if he had eight whole hours to write down every single detail of the game. But Chen Mo knew that he had to make money and pay bills! ¡ª¡ª Chen Mo walked around, ate some snacks and a few pieces of chocte, made a cup of coffee, and took a small break before going back to work. Next up was to refine the design document, finalize some of the design details, and put it into the design document. The details might seem excessive, but had a great effect on the experience of the game, so Chen Mo didn¡¯t overlook any of it. ¡ª¡ª Sorting through the documents took Chen Mo another week. After a week, the design document of the game was basically finalized. The details were also refined. The rules,yout, and the design of the nts and zombies were all finished. Chen Mo then entered the rules into the video game engine. It would then automatically generate a video game project, which Chen Mo could then modify. Generating the project took one to three days time. The more rules there were, the more time it would take. Chen Mo wanted to use this time to finalize all the calctions in the game. Some basic attributes of the nts included damage, health, range, attack frequency, attack area, ready time (activation time after being ced down), cooldown (after cing down the nt), cost, damage to the environment, and more. Chen Mo wanted to list every attribute for every single nt and zombie, while constantly verifying it. The numbers he had written down before were hugely helpful. The numbers between different nts and zombies could be cross-verified, making it much easier. The number-crunching waspleted in two days. As Chen Mo had huge lists of numbers in the details for reference, it wouldn¡¯t be too different from the original from his previous life. Next up was to test and adjust! ¡ª¡ª During this time, the Illusion Game Engine had generated the project, which Chen Mo temporarily named PVZ. This was only a ceholder, a new and better name would have to be decided when the game was released. Chen Mo checked out some of the rules and mechanics after opening up the project. There wasn¡¯t much to do other than patching up some errors in the ruleset and some logical errors. Afterwards, Chen Mo entered the various numbers into the Game Engine, along with the various artwork of the nts and zombies. With that, a simple working demo was produced. As of now, there wasn¡¯t a tutorial or any levels. Chen Mo initialized a scene and nted some peashooters, with a normal zombie at the other end. Pop, pop, pop... Under the relentless attacks of the peashooter, the zombie fell. The tempo was alright. Chen Mo proceeded to test out a couple other zombies and nts, which had no problem. Other than adjusting a few numbers that didn¡¯t feel quite right, everything else was OK. Afterwards Chen Mo worked on the zones and level design. Making the level flow was a highly technical part of level design. It needed to stimte the yer, not overwhelm the yer. Chen Mo had taken down a bunch of details on theyout of each level. The approximate numbers of zombies per level and when the nts were unlocked were all recorded, which made it a lot easier. In five days time Chen Mo fully developed the different zones and the flow of the levels, along with the tutorial. It seemed the adventure mode of nts vs Zombies had been sessfully recreated by Chen Mo. ==================== T/L Note: [1] raws used dragon mother, which could refer to daenerys, which would be a bit weird. Chapter 22

Chapter 22: Chapter 21: Art and Music

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth After finishing adventure mode, Chen Mo dedicated himself to minigames, puzzle mode, survival mode, and other modes. Everything else was fairly simple with the experience of adventure mode under his belt. Chen Mo didn¡¯t try as hard as he did before, as it was just manualbor, ytesting as he went. Within a week¡¯s time, he finished the other modes. The Zen Garden, almanac, achievements, and shop were even simpler to implement, finishing in three days. Chen Mo spent another three days ytesting. Hepleted adventure mode once, checked if there were any bugs in the other modes, and polished up some of the finer details. So far Chen Mo had been working on it day and night. After spending a month, the core nts vs Zombies had been sessfully recreated. In his previous life, nts vs Zombies was made in three years by a team of one designer, one artist, one musician, and one programmer. This majority of their time was likely spent on revising the design document and optimizing the user experience in order to produce a highly refined game like this. Chen Mo didn¡¯t need to code, or make too many adjustments to the numbers. He didn¡¯t have to look for inspiration or change designs. All he did was remake the original piece and it still had taken him an entire month. This demonstrated that video game development wasn¡¯t as easy as the majority of people thought. However, it wasn¡¯t done yet! Although the game was basicallyplete, the ceholder art from the game engine was still being used. The styles of the artwork shed, and many of them weren¡¯t the right size. It looked like garbage, calling it an eyesore would be an understatement. Moreover, the game did not have any music or sound effects,pletely removing the tension from the game. Thebat wasn¡¯t satisfying, either. Chen Mo spent his time on improving the art and music to the levels of the original in his previous life. Luckily Chen Mo had sketched down the nts and zombies and it was all saved on hisputer, all that was left was toplete it. However, this was a more painful process, as Chen Mo had to hand draw and animate all of it. About forty different types of nts and twenty different types of zombies,bined with the fact that every single one of them had their own subtle movements, added up to a substantial amount of work. Luckily, the artwork of the nts and zombies were fairly simple, especially when many parts of the zombies could be reused, reducing the amount of work. Although Chen Mo¡¯s art skills weren¡¯t high, he could manage. The art style was cartoonish, so the lines and colors of the characters were fairly simple. Of course, Chen Mo could¡¯ve hired someone, but then he¡¯d be required to describe his specifications in detail. Moreover, the results might not be up to par with his expectations. After giving it some thought, Chen Mo decided to bite the bullet and take matters into his own hands. On average Chen Mopleted one nt and one zombie per day. Combined with resources such as the interface and loading screen, finishing the artwork took almost a month and a half of Chen Mo¡¯s time. ¡ª¡ª Next up was sound effects and music! Chen Mo¡¯s Sound Effects Stat was now ten after consuming the skill book. It was impossible for him to make something from scratch, but recreating the original was still in the realm of possibility. The background music of nts vs Zombies could be considered one of the ssic BGMs. Chen Mo could clearly remember many of the melodies. Although he couldn¡¯t replicate them a hundred percent, he got fairly close. However, he didn¡¯t quite remember the BGMs that weren¡¯t super popr. The tutorial track, preparation screen, frontwn, night, boss theme, zen garden... these were a few of the ssics that Chen Mo could remember. Based on their melodies from his previous life, Chen Moposed a few simple yet simr sounding BGM tunes. As for the other less important BGMs, all he could do was to find some free resources for casual games off the game engine to take their ce. The ones Chen Mo found were quite thematically simr, so he hadn¡¯t made any significant changes. As for sound effects, Chen Mo had to resort to the free resources of the game engine. As the sound effects library of the game engine was vast, Chen Mo managed to find simr sound effects, though he had to suppress his OCD for the slight differences... ¡ª¡ª Music and sound effects took Chen Mo another two weeks time, and he was fairly happy with it. After ytesting for a week and adjusting anything that didn¡¯t feel right to him, he felt that the game was finally out of its development stage, after taking three months altogether. Chen Mo packaged his game into a 127 MB installer. Although it was slightly bigger than the original, Chen Mo didn¡¯t care, as this size was considered quite small in the parallel world. Chen Mo had prepared two standalone installers for this game, one for PC and one for mobile. The ounts were also crosstform, and it had a simple leaderboard. Thest problem was how the yers were going to log in. Chen Mo didn¡¯t give it much thought, and chose to use ounts at his ownpany, ie. a Thunderbolt Game Pass. Chen Mo did have other choices. He could also make users login via social media, or use Emperor Dynasty Entertainment ounts. Emperor Dynasty Entertainment was one of the biggest video game tforms and developers, so most yers had a Emperor Dynasty Entertainment ount. Moreover, Emperor Dynasty Entertainment allowed other games to use their tform for logins. Many game designers couldn¡¯t be bothered to design such a thing, and used their yer management system. This option would make it much simpler for the yers, attracting more users to his game. Many yers didn¡¯t want to bother going through a new registration and all the verifications associated with it, therefore requiring yers to register might lose a portion of the potential yer base. However, Chen Mo stuck with his decision of using his Thunderbolt Game Pass, not bothered by the potential loss. The reason was simple: be it social media ounts or using Emperor Dynasty¡¯s user management system, Chen Mo would be under the control of someone else. It didn¡¯t matter that the Emperor Dynasty wasn¡¯t taking a single cent, in Chen Mo¡¯s view it was still his loss. The data of the yers was a valuable resource. As Chen Mo nned to make many other games, he had to take onpanies like these eventually. It was better not to start with them now, than to have to sever ties down the road! After the game was finished, Chen Mo decided to wait on pushing the game into the market. Chen Mo wasn¡¯t sure if the tastes of gamers in this world were the same as his previous one. If there were any differences, he would have to make changes to the game. He first installed nts vs Zombies onto theputers and tablets in his experience store to test the responses of the yers, in order to decide on his promotional strategy. Chapter 23

Chapter 23: Chapter 22: Cost of the Experience Store

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth Chen Mo received a call at the break of dawn from Lin Mao. ¡°Chen Mo, I¡¯m releasing my game tomorrow. I named it Adventures of the Storm Rider. I¡¯ve sent you a copy of it, go ahead and try it out. Also, how¡¯s your game going?¡± Chen Mo replied, ¡°Cool, I¡¯ll check it out! My game has been going pretty well, it¡¯s basically finished. I¡¯ll be testing it out in my experience store for feedback for the next two days.¡± Lin Mao replied, ¡°Huh? Finished? It¡¯s only been three months! How did youplete it so quickly?¡± Chen Mo replied, ¡°Casual game. It wasn¡¯t big, either. I¡¯ll send you the installer in two days for you to test out.¡± Lin Mao replied, ¡°Alright. Let¡¯s give each other opinions and improve together!¡± ¡ª¡ª Chen Mo installed the game had Lin Mao sent over on his phone. Adventures of the Storm Rider. The installer was 94MB and had a little man raising his sword as the icon. This game had been developed by Lin Mao for nearly half a year, taking another three months after getting Chen Mo¡¯s opinion. That included testing, micro-adjustments, and pre-release preparations. Comparatively, Chen Mo¡¯s nts vs Zombies was much faster. In the time Lin Mao took to make the adjustments, Chen Mo was able to finish an entire game! ¡ª¡ª Entering the game... Chen Mo noticed that there were subtle changes made to the background, character, and ystylepared to the previous version. The changes weren¡¯t obvious, so only someone like Chen Mo who paid attention to little details like this would realize. It seemed that Lin Mao had put a lot of effort into the gaming experience. On the other hand, Lin Mao hadpletely revamped the ystyle ording to Chen Mo¡¯s suggestions. First was theplete overhaul of thebat system, adding a lot of extra content while keeping the essence of the previousbat system. A noteworthy change was the addition of the new ability, Storm. The main character was a knight who had the powers of the storm, able to utilize strong winds to slow down enemies and reduce their vision, or using heavy rain to slow down enemy attacks and afflict light status conditions. They could also summon a hurricane to blow away smaller, lighter enemies. A few smaller storm attacks were permanent, butrger stronger attacks required energy to cast. On the same note, there were now many more monsters which had different features. Different monsters might resist different storm attacks, while others were more effective. For example, strong winds wouldn¡¯t do much to an armored monster in full te armor, and hurricanes wouldn¡¯t be able to blow it away, either. However, rain could create muddy surfaces, drastically slowing its movement speed, even inflicting statuses such as sickness and rust, slowly reducing its attack. Chen Mo admired the fact that the changes made to thebat weren¡¯t as he had described, but took inspiration from what he had said. Moreover, the core of thebat system: storm could be directly inferred from the name title. Chen Mo thought this was quite smart. The name Adventures of the Storm Rider let the audience immediately know what the game was about, but still left enough to the imagination for the audience to be curious about the contents, making the game very attractive. Another, bigger change to the game was theplete overhaul of the story. First, there were now four different endings, depending on the choices the yers made throughout the game. Ending One: The knight defeats the dragon, saving the princess and bes the hero, living a happily ever after life with the princess. Ending Two: The knight fails to save the princess, perishing in anger alongside the dragon. Ending Three: The knight defeats the dragon, but does not kill it, instead signing a contract with it. From then on, the dragon bes the guardian of the Imperials. Ending Four: The knight defeats the dragon, but in the face of the allure of treasures, bes the new dragon. The copy Chen Mo had included GM tools, allowing him to make changes to the attributes of the characters. In the end he spent three hours testing it, going over all four endings once. If it was a normal ythrough, a run would take around six to eight hours, much more if the yer wanted to go through all four endings. Out of the three rmendations provided by Chen Mo, Lin Mao took two, not including the extreme difficulty. Chen Mo thought that it was the right choice, as the three weren¡¯tpletelypatible. Chen Mo thought that the game needed some luck to be the next big thing, but being mildly popr wasn¡¯t a problem. ¡ª¡ª Chen Mo sent a text to Lin Mao: I went over the game. Not bad! It¡¯s bound to be popr. Lin Mao replied quickly: I¡¯ll take your blessings. I¡¯m quite busy for the next two days with the release of the game. I¡¯lle over to your experience store and try out your game once this is settled. Chen Mo replied: Alright, I¡¯ll see you then. After having lunch, Chen Mo took an hour-long nap. He woke up at 2 PM, ready to open the experience store. But before he opened it, Chen Mo had some preparations to do. First was checking if everything worked in the store, and if all theputers had the game installed. Second was the price charged to use the experience store. The price of the experience waspletely up to the designer. Chen Mo could make it free and allow anyone to try out for free. However, making it free had a w. What happened if the game was hugely popr? If Chen Mo made a popr online game and many of the yers were staying at the experience store for long periods of them, potentially hogging an entire PC, it would be problematic, as many of his fans wouldn¡¯t be able to try it out. Go free for now, then raise the price? That wouldn¡¯t do, either. The price of the experience store shouldn¡¯t be changed willy-nilly. Reducing it was fine, but increasing it might anger some long-time fans. It was only an experience store, so there wasn¡¯t any pressure to make money. Chen Mo didn¡¯t want to control the number of yers in the future by increasing the price, either. Therefore he needed to charge a fee from day one, and it couldn¡¯t be a small amount, either. Under circumstances where there are many yers, he might even need to limit the y time per yer. In this world, the inte cafes in the Imperial Capital ranged from three to ten RMB an hour. Three RMB per hour was the minimum, and wasn¡¯tmon. Of course, there were higher ss inte cafes for the local tycoons, but Chen Mo had the majority of the yers in mind when he was considering it. In the end, Chen Mo decided to make it five RMB per hour, as the experience store was better than the average inte cafe, and much more spacious than normal. The price was definitely on the expensive end for now, but Chen Mo wanted to maintain it at this price in the future. As he made more and more games, the price would seem more and more affordable. The drinks in the experience store were ording to the rmended retail prices, not charging any extra. Chen Mo didn¡¯t care about small profits like that, either. The price only applied while they were ying games. If the experience store was full, he would enforce a four-hour limit for each yer, requiring them to requeue after four hours. The experience store would be open from 10 AM to 8 PM, no overnights or hogging a PC if you¡¯re not ying. After preparations wereplete, Chen Mo¡¯s experience store was officially open for business at 2:30 PM! Chapter 24

Chapter 24: Chapter 23: The Day Without Customers

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth Chen Mo sat at the bar on the first floor in order to be able to see any potential yers passing by. He also moved hisptop to the bar table. While waiting for customers, he would y nts vs Zombies and see if there was anything that needed to be changed. Chen Mo had spent over three months on this, from August all the way into December. It was now entering winter. As it turned colder, the pedestrians outside had put on long pants and jackets. Today, however, it was quite nice, as there wasn¡¯t much wind, so the weather was fine for going outside. ¡ª After ytesting for an hour and not finding anything, Chen Mo stood up and walked around the second floor. It was quite frustrating, as nobody hade yet. Chen Mo opened a can of Coke and went back to the bar table. It was at this moment that he remembered the free period for ppybird had finally ended. He could now push it onto the market. Chen Mo wanted to release ppybird and nts vs Zombies at the same time, using the ad space on ppybird to promote nts vs Zombies. In truth, ppybird was most popr in the first few months it was released. As three months had already passed, many of the yers that might be interested in it had already yed it. As yers wouldn¡¯t be always ying it, the hype surrounding it had slowly died down. ppybird wouldn¡¯t be able to make much money anymore if it were released now. It was hard to say how much money Chen Mo missed out on as thepetition officials were in possession of all the stats during the free period, so Chen Mo didn¡¯t know how many ads had been shown either. ¡°Whatever, it was for exposure.¡± Even though it felt like he missed out on billions, Chen Mo was alright with it. There were plenty more opportunities to make moneying, so he wasn¡¯t in a hurry. It was at this moment that a young woman stood in front of his store and looked around inside. The woman was dressed quite casually in a light jacket and jeans. She looked like she was around twenty-six, slightly older than Chen Mo. She looked quite pretty and had a ponytail, giving away a clean, genderless[1] vibe. Chen Mo greeted her, ¡°Hello.¡± The woman stood at the door and looked at the signs outside, then at the decor within the store and asked, ¡°Are you a videogame designer? Is this a video game experience store? Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Yes.¡± The woman patted herself on the chest as a sign of relief. ¡°Oh, thank the heavens. I thought this was a new inte cafe, I was worried for so long.¡± Chen Mo was ¡°?¡± The woman walked into the store exining, ¡°Oh, I¡¯m the owner of the Fates Inte Cafe around the corner,ing over to check out mypetitors.¡± -Damn, she isn¡¯t a yer, but apetitor!- Chen Mo was speechless. As a woman owner of an inte cafe, she wasn¡¯t here to experience games. She was just here to see if it was an experience store or inte cafe, and if he would be taking away her business. The womanughed awkwardly, ¡°Sorry. Since it¡¯s an experience store and not an inte cafe, it¡¯s fine now. From now onwards we are now neighbours, let¡¯s visit one another once in a while.¡± Although inte cafes and experience stores performed simr functions, they weren¡¯t directpetitors. In experience stores, yers can only y games developed by the designer, in particr having early ess to them. Designers usually wouldn¡¯t install other games on their devices, and didn¡¯t allow yers to y other games in their store, either. Chen Mo nodded, ¡°It¡¯s alright, you cane here anytime. I probably won¡¯t be having too many customers.¡± ¡°Cool.¡± This woman quickly made herself at home, sitting on the sofa and helped herself to a can of Coke as if it was her home.¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°Uhh... the drinks aren¡¯t free...¡± The woman put the can back where it was, ¡°Sorry, I¡¯m a little too used to this back in my store. Heh heh.¡± After judging the size of the main space, the woman said, ¡°Your experience store is quite spacious, and only so few machines? Seems like a waste.¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°Yup, the experience store is meant for yers to experience my games and not for profit, so I chose to make it a bit more spacious.¡± The woman said, ¡°Not bad, I¡¯m quite jealous of you high-end designers. Oh, right. I haven¡¯t introduced myself. I¡¯m Zhuo Yao.¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°Nice to meet you, I¡¯m Chen Mo. I have a game that hasn¡¯t been released yet, you wanna try it out?¡± Zhuo Yao waved her hand and said, ¡°Nah, I still have stuff to do back at the inte cafe. I just came out because I had a few minutes. I¡¯ll y the next time I¡¯m over.¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Sure, anytime.¡± As Zhuo Yao stood up and was ready to leave, she thought of something and asked, ¡°How much do you charge an hour?¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°Five RMB.¡± Zhuo Yao was a bit surprised, ¡°Isn¡¯t that a bit overpriced? I only charge four RMB in the main area of my inte cafe. This is a new experience store, so you have like what, two or three games?¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°Only one for now.¡± Zhuo Yao said as a reminder, ¡°I think you should move down the price, maybe even make it free. It¡¯s an experience store. You don¡¯t have to worry about making money. This price is a bit... unfriendly.¡± Chen Mo smiled, ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll consider it.¡± Zhuo Yao nodded, ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll be going then. I¡¯lle over some other time. Keep going at it and make a game that¡¯s gonna go viral, that way I¡¯ll be able to benefit from your sess.¡± Chen Mo smiled, ¡°Alright!¡± ¡ª¡ª After sending Zhuo Yao away, Chen Mo¡¯s experience store went back to being silent. Chen Mo didn¡¯t feel the rush. Experience stores like these needed to be built over time. Moreover, Chen Mo hadn¡¯t done any promotions, it wasn¡¯t a surprise that there wasn¡¯t anyone. In terms of location of the experience store, it wasn¡¯t good or bad. Although it was a bit off the beaten track, there was a small town nearby and a bit further away was a university, so the amount of people going by was a decent amount. ¡ª¡ª After waiting for another half an hour, the second customer showed themselves. This guy had greasy hair, tired eyes and seemed like he hadn¡¯t had enough sleep. It was obvious that he was an inte addicted teenager. As he walked in front of the store and saw Thunderbolt Gaming Experience Store, he muttered, ¡°Thunderbolt Gaming, never heard of it.¡± He then walked into the store and looked around, asking Chen Mo, ¡°Hey, is this an experience store? Not an inte cafe?¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Yep, not an inte cafe.¡± ¡°Oh.¡± This inte addicted teenager was noticeably disappointed, as he was obviously looking for an inte cafe. Although he could y games inside the experience store, it was only the games from that particrpany, so his choices would be limited. Moreover, he had never heard of thispany. After some hesitation, the teenager muttered, ¡°Whatever, the inte cafe was quite full anyways. May as well try this one out to kill some time.¡± He walked into the store and fished out his ID and mobile phone, ¡°How much do you charge for an hour?¡± Chen Mo replied, ¡°Five bucks!¡± The teenager was stunned, ¡°Huh? Five bucks? Ugh... whatever.¡± The teenager decided to leave. ¡°...¡± Chen Mo was speechless. This guy didn¡¯t even give it any thought! Five bucks an hour wasn¡¯t much, right? Turning around and leaving immediately, though? -Five bucks! What can you even do with five bucks nowadays? Maybe two popsicles? -It¡¯s not even enough to top-up in game, that¡¯s like six bucks!...- With no other choice, all Chen Mo could do was to continue waiting. ==================================== T/L Note: [1] Genderless as in not tomboy ordylike, usually used in a good connotation Chapter 25

Chapter 25: Chapter 24: The First yer

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth The next day, 10 AM... Chen Mo was awake and had already had breakfast. He was waiting inside the experience store. Yesterday, for the entire afternoon through 8 PM when the doors closed, there wasn¡¯t a single gamer. All the visitors were here for the inte cafe. After realizing it was an experience store that cost five bucks an hour, not a one of them stayed. Of course, one of the reasons nobody wanted to join was because the store was empty. Chen Mo wondered if his life was supposed to be so difficult. -My game is about to shock the entire gaming industry. Even though I allow you guys to spend five bucks to y it before it¡¯s released, you¡¯re still not satisfied?- Chen Mo wasn¡¯t going to give in, so he opened the store on time on the second day. He even prepared a cup, waiting for his first customer to serve them a cup of coffee. However, the thought of not having enough yerse in for an entire week had slowly crept into his mind. If he didn¡¯t gather enough thoughts from yers and couldn¡¯t gather enough feedback, all he could do was to test it on the market and change as he went. Rtively speaking, Chen Mo preferred talking to the yers face to face. As Chen Mo was deep in thought, a tall woman walked into the store. Long ck hair, about a hundred and seventy-two centimeters, and still wearing heels. Luckily Chen Mo was still in his seat, otherwise he¡¯d feel some pressure from her towering over him. The woman did look alright, but she had a strong aura surrounding her, keeping everything within five meters at bay. Even a fly that wandered into the exclusion zone would be killed. Basically, if you gave her a katana, she would be entirely capable of cosying Saeko from High School of the Dead. The woman checked out the store before setting her eyes on Chen Mo. Chen Mo felt shivers go down his spine and greeted her with, ¡°Hello!¡± The woman asked, ¡°Is this an experience store? Just opened?¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Yep, since yesterday.¡± The woman looked at the empty seats and said, ¡°Completely empty, has nobody been in here?¡± Chen Mo didn¡¯t have anything to say. -Doesn¡¯t she understand to not kick people when they¡¯re down? You can tell just by looking that the store is empty. You think by asking the store will be magically filled with people?- -And I so want to say ¡®No, there¡¯s bunches, you just can¡¯t see them¡®.- Noticing that Chen Mo didn¡¯t answer, the brte asked another question, ¡°Is it because the price is too high? Too few games?¡± Chen Mo answered, ¡°Five bucks an hour.¡± The woman nodded, ¡°Of course, you charge more than the inte cafe, no wonder it¡¯s empty.¡± Chen Mo said nothing. Changing the topic, the woman said, ¡°However, the environment is quite nice here, unlike the inte cafes with terrible atmospheres. Alright, I wanted to chill out for a bit anyways, I¡¯ll y for an hour.¡± After finishing her sentence, the woman swiped her ID on the bar table, then paid using her phone, and sat down at aputer. Inte cafes in this world were basically self-service. All you had to do was swipe your ID, and payments werepleted by scanning a QR code using your phone. Chen Mo finally came back to his senses after the woman sat down at a machine. -What? That¡¯s how I get my first customer? Wasn¡¯t that a bit sudden?- Trying to contain his happiness, he prepared a cup of coffee using the cup from before and ced it on the desk she was using. ¡°What¡¯s this?¡± the woman asked. Chen Mo replied, ¡°As you are the first customer, aplimentary coffee!¡± The woman scowled and teased him, ¡°Tut tut, opened since yesterday, but only received your first customer today. Sir, you sure are miserable. Sigh...¡± Chen Mo, ¡°... I¡¯ll be taking this away.¡± The woman said in a happy tone, ¡°Just leave it. Why are you so narrow-minded, despite the good looks?¡± Chen Moughed sarcastically as he returned to the bar and looked at the notification of the woman¡¯s identity. Wen Lingwei, 21 years old. -At this age, probably a uni student at the nearby university, probably second or third year.- -She has such a nice gentle name, why is she so mean? Probably because people around her have gotten ustomed to her antics because of her good looks.- As Chen Mo¡¯s impression of her wasn¡¯t too good after she was so mean, he decided to not pay her any attention and went back to work. However, at least he had his first yer, so he was still quite happy. ¡ª¡ª Wen Lingwei turned on theputer which only had one game on it. The icon was quite interesting, a filthy handing out of the ground holding a flower. ¡°nts vs Zombies?¡± Wen Lingwei felt the game had vibes of Guan Gong vs Qin Qiong[1] which didn¡¯t feel quite right. However, this game made her curious; how did nts fight against zombies? She double clicked the icon, starting the game. The logo of Thunderbolt Games shed across the screen. Soon, a loading screen was up on her monitor. There was a path in the middle of the screen. To the left were many zombies breaking through the fence, and on the right were nts waiting for the evil forces. The entire image was quite cartoony. Although the zombies were very ugly, they weren¡¯t disgusting. In contrast, the nts were quite pleasant and had human-like features, a mysterious focal point. ¡°Hey, feels alright!¡± Wen Lingwei was surprised. She thought that a newly opened experience store with a nobody designer couldn¡¯t make anything worthwhile, but she had been captured as soon as she entered the game. The art and UI were filled with elements rted to zombies, and the style of the UI had a strong resemnce to tombstones. However, the tombstones didn¡¯t seem out of ce, but matched the trees and houses in the background quite well. A popup appeared, asking Wen Lingwei to register a Thunderbolt Gaming game pass. Wen Lingwei scowled at the extra effort, but continued with the registration, skipping her mobile phone and ID number. After registration, Wen Lingwei clicked on the uppermost Begin Adventure button, entering adventure mode. A hand poked out of the ground in front of the tombstone all of a sudden, and coupled with a low creepyugh, gave Wen Lingwei a shock. ¡°... that was evil,¡± she muttered before entering the game. The whole screen was upied by arge piece ofnd that resembled the backyard of a house. A strip of grass was rolled out right in the middle of it, taking up around a fifth of the space. The tutorial was very simple. An arrow appeared on the screen, hinting for her to click on the tile on the top bar. The tile had a green nt on it, nicknamed Peashooter. Wen Lingwei clicked on the Peashooter and nted it on thewn ording to the hints. At this point, a small sun drifted down from the top of the screen. Following the hints, she clicked on it, receiving twenty-five suns. As Wen Lingwei nted the second Peashooter, the zombies appeared. With a growl, the zombie limped slowly towards the Peashooters. ============================ T/L Note:[1] Guan Gong and Qin Qiong were generals born two hundred years apart, used to describe someone inmand who blindly makes decisions. Also, ¡®bucks¡¯ is the ng term for bills of paper money in the Orient. So, five bucks in China is 5 RMB/yuan, but would mean 5 ringgit in Mysia. Chapter 26

Chapter 26: Chapter 25: Unable to Stop Themselves from Killing Zombies

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth The zombies moved very slowly, and the cartoony zombies weren¡¯t scary either, but Wen Lingwei felt quite tense. As the zombies slowly waddled towards the Peashooters, she couldn¡¯t help but feel a little nervous for them. The Peashooters started shooting out peas. The popping of the peas on the body of the zombie filled her ears. Soon after, the hand of the zombie fell off, and soon after that, the head fell off. The headless zombie fell to the ground, dead. Wen Lingwei now managed to rx a bit, thinking, ¡°Is that all? That was easy. Just a casual game after all, not all that difficult. ¡°However, thisbination is quite interesting. How did you connect nts with zombies? And it manages to be oddly satisfying.¡± Soon thereafter, Wen Lingwei cleared the first level and unlocked a new tile: Sunflower, and moved onto the next level. As long as the yers actually tried, the first few levels weren¡¯t difficult at all. Following the guide, Wen Lingwei progressed through the game, constantly unlocking new nts. Sunflower, Cherry Bomb, Wallnut; the nts unlocked themselves one after another. Thebat abilities matched their features quite well, easily making deep impressions. The nts, zombies, and even the weird neighbor Crazy Dave worked wonderfully with one another, making the game seem veryplete, with nothing out of ce. Wen Lingwei felt that although it was a casual game, a lot of effort has been put into it, and slowly immersed herself in the game because of how interesting it was. She couldn¡¯t stop herself as she progressed through adventure mode. After some time had passed, a pop up showed up in the bottom right corner, hinting that she had five minutes left on the hour. Wen Lingwei was shocked. So soon? She felt that she had only beaten a few levels. How did the time go by so quickly? She didn¡¯t give it too much thought as she was having fun, she couldn¡¯t leave it go at this. Wen Lingwei scanned the QR code and paid another ten bucks for another two hours of ytime. Surely two hours was enough to beat a casual game? ¡ª¡ª Noon... Wen Lingwei took a sip of coffee and was ready to continue battling. At this point of the game, she started facing some difficulties. Many nts crucial to beating the level were restricted, putting her out of herfort zone. Moreover, more and more zombies had appeared, such as the Pole Vaulting Zombie, Dancing Zombie, Newspaper Zombie, Screen Door Zombie, and so on. All of them required different nts to beat. When Wen Lingwei faced the Zombies for the first time she had to start over because she wasn¡¯t familiar with the abilities of the Zombies. However, these little obstacles didn¡¯t stop her. Instead it made this little game a lot more interesting and stimting. Games like this that required critical thinking made her quite excited. Unbeknownst to her, it was now noon. Wen Lingwei subconsciously looked at her phone and was shocked to find out that it was now twelve-something. Taking a look around, Chen Mo was still at the bar,pletely absorbed by hisptop screen deep in thought. Wen Lingwei raised her hand and said, ¡°Excuse me.¡± Chen Mo put his head up, ¡°What¡¯s up? Is there a problem with the game?¡± Wen Lingwei said, ¡°No, I was just wondering if you provided lunch?¡± Chen Mo shook his head, ¡°No, but there¡¯s a restaurant and a fast food outlet across the street. You could probably order some food delivery.¡± Wen Lingwei blinked herrge eyes, ¡°What are you having for lunch? How about you go buy something and buy me something too?¡± The corner of Chen Mo¡¯s mouth twitched. What is the meaning of this? Ordering me around? Do I need to put up a sign saying to not order the owner around? ¡°This experience store doesn¡¯t provide a meal delivery service. Moreover, you can¡¯t eat inside the store. If you want to eat you have to go to the meeting room,¡± said Chen Mo. Wen Lingwei asked, ¡°Where do you usually eat?¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°I usually eat on the second floor.¡± Wen Lingwei said, ¡°Then I¡¯ll eat on the second floor, too.¡± Chen Mo was speechless. ¡°The second floor is my personal space, no outsiders allowed.¡± Wen Lingwei pursed her lips and said, ¡°Stingy!¡± Chen Mo, ¡°...¡± Wen Lingwei said, ¡°Alright then, could you get me something from the fast food outlet? I¡¯ll eat in the meeting room. I¡¯ll pay you after.¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°Can¡¯t you order it yourself?¡± Wen Lingwei said, ¡°Sheesh, can¡¯t you see I¡¯m busy? Hurry up, I¡¯m starving!¡± Finishing her sentence, Wen Lingwei returned her eyes onto the screen, continuing her battle. -Nice, someone raised a inte addicted daughter...- Chen Mo didn¡¯t think Wen Lingwei would be addicted to it so quickly, even disregarding eating. As he was hungry anyways, he ordered two meals from the fast food restaurant. Chen Mo got up from the bar and moved around to get his blood flowing again, and checked on which level Wen Lingwei had gotten to. The screen was dark, it seemed like she had reached the night level on the second stage. The stronger Football Zombie now appeared as one of her potential opponents. It was obvious that Wen Lingwei had failed this level once and had made suitable preparations. As the Football Zombie appeared, she put down a bunch of nts in thatne, attempting to beat it with more firepower. In the end, the Football Zombie was defeated, but the othernes didn¡¯t have enough firepower and were overrun by zombies, resulting in a game over. ¡°Ah! Damn it!¡± Wen Lingwei took a sip of coffee and restarted the level. Chen Mo couldn¡¯t help butugh, as this was quite normal. As there were only so many suns to collect in each level, if you spent too many resources going face to face with the football zombie, the defences of the othernes wouldn¡¯t be good enough. In reality the best way to beat the Football Zombie was the Doom Shroom, though Chen Mo didn¡¯t n to hint that to Wen Lingwei, as spoilers affected the gaming experience. It wasn¡¯t because her mean words were still on Chen Mo¡¯s mind. Seeing Wen Lingweipletely immersed allowed Chen Mo to rx a bit. It seemed that ssics in this world still remained ssics, and good games would always age well, so he wasn¡¯t too out of his element as a videogame designer. Based on the current contents in the game, an experienced yer would take about five hours to go through it once; going through it twice would total about eight hours. If you included the other minigames and if you were extremely talented and borderline crazy, you could probably beat it in two days in one sitting. Of course, you could y the endless mode for the rest of your life. However, new yers wouldn¡¯t be able to cruise through all the levels easily, like the more experienced yers, as there was an experimental and learning phase. Moreover, casual games didn¡¯t require big health sacrifices, like ying throughout the night. ying two hours a day, including time for experimenting ,would result in about a month of ying. Even if you beat all the levels, there was still endless mode topete with your friends. It was basically an endless rabbit hole. Therefore, Wen Lingwei thinking that she could beat the game in two hours could be described by Chen Mo in one word: naive! Chapter 27

Chapter 27: Chapter 26: What Game is that Entertaining?

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth The food arrived half an hourter. ¡°The food¡¯s here. I¡¯ll be eating then,¡± Chen Mo called out. Wen Lingwei waved him away with a shooing motion. ¡°Go ahead, I¡¯ll beat this level soon.¡± Chen Mo brought the food into the meeting room and checked out the newly published games on the market on his phone as he ate. The official market was different from the other, smaller channels. The smaller channels allowed promotional spaces that were avable for purchase. In contrast, the official market didn¡¯t ept any payments that could affect the ordering of the games. The ordering of the games relied on proper statistics such as release date and sales, making it very difficult to inte the numbers to artificially improve your position. Chen Mo wanted to see if Emperor Dynasty Entertainment and Zen Entertainment had released any games recently. As thesepanies were massive and had huge user bases, whenever they released a game, they would be at the top of the leaderboards, because they captured the attention of many gamers. Although Chen Mo was confident in the quality of nts vs Zombies, he wasn¡¯t going to go head to head with the twopanies for now. Luckily, the games on the newly published list were from smallerpanies. Chen Mo downloaded a few of them and tried them out. He concluded that the best of them were simr to Adventures of the Storm Rider and were likely notpetition for nts vs Zombies. ¡ª As Chen Mo continued eating, Wen Lingwei mmed the door to the meeting room open and finished the burger in a few bites. It was like strong winds meeting clouds, gone in a sh. Afterwards she hastily finished her fries before finally shaking her Coke at Chen Mo, ¡°Surely I can drink at my seat?¡± Chen Mo, ¡°...That¡¯s fine.¡± Wen Lingwei left the meeting room with the Coke in her hand, five minutes after she came in. Chen Mo was only halfway through his burger. ¡°Are you really that into it? I¡¯m starting to wonder if I hired you for publicity[1]...¡± ¡ª¡ª After Chen Mo finished his meal, he cleaned out the meeting room table, then took the trash out. There was still only him and Wen Lingwei in the experience store. Chen Mo sat at the bar trying to figure out the release date of the game. Wen Lingwei was immersed in her own battle, the room had only the sound of clicking. ¡ª¡ª Three hourster... Chen Mo stood up and walked around the store. What surprised him was that Wen Lingwei was still totally focused on the game. Moreover she was almost through the third stage, meaning she was more than halfway through the first ythrough. -That¡¯s pretty fast.- It was evident that Wen Lingwei was pretty fast, given that she was a new yer and managed to figure the game out. At this point, finishing the game was only a matter of time. At this point, Wen Lingwei¡¯s phone rang. Wen Lingwei reluctantly picked up the phone after it rang a few more times. ¡°Hello?¡± Wen Lingwei picked up the phone with an unfocused tone, as her attention was still entirely on the screen, staring at the few Ducky Tube Zombies that required her attention. The speaker on the phone was a guy, ¡°Senior, where are you? We have been waiting here for five minutes.¡± Wen Lingwei was shocked, ¡°Waiting for five minutes? What for?¡± The man on the phone said, ¡°The regr meeting for the Publicity Department, today at 4 PM. It was you who decided the time.¡± Wen Lingwei pped her forehead after giving it some thought, ¡°Oh, right! Was it this afternoon? Is it 4 PM already?¡± ¡°...¡± Wen Lingwei asked, ¡°Are you guys all in the meeting room?¡± The guy on the phone said, ¡°Yep, everyone¡¯s here, just waiting for you to start the meeting.¡± Wen Lingwei looked at the screen sadly. Although she could save the game, she really didn¡¯t want to leave at this moment. Wen Lingwei replied after a pause, ¡°How about you guyse to me for the meeting? There¡¯s a sofa and a meeting room, and drinks too. After we finish with the meeting, we could grab some food too. How¡¯s that sound?¡± The guy on the phone replied, ¡°Huh? Alright then, since you¡¯re the head of department. Where are you?¡± Wen Lingwei said, ¡°I¡¯m in the small town near school. You guys know Fates Inte Cafe? No, not there, but at the new experience store across the street. Right, juste directly here.¡± After describing the location of the experience store in detail, she hung up and continued with her game. After ten or so minutes, a group of people arrived in front of the experience store. There were four men and six women, totaling ten people. It seemed like they were all university students from the nearby university. The leader of the group was a skinny, tanned man. After looking around at the doors of the experience store he said, ¡°Yep, should be this one.¡± A few cutely dressed girls that weren¡¯t even 160cm tall walked into the store and proimed in dainty voices, ¡°Senior, we¡¯re here!¡± Wen Lingwei looked at them and said, ¡°Oh, you¡¯re here! Jia Peng, Chang Xiuya, you guys enter the meeting room first, I¡¯ll be right there.¡± The skinny, tanned Jia Pengmented as he walked up behind her, ¡°Senior, please don¡¯t tell me that the reason you didn¡¯t show up was because you were too busy ying video games...¡± Wen Lingwei scowled and replied, ¡°What? Do you have something to say?!¡± Jia Peng hurriedly shook his head, ¡°No, not at all!¡± The others, including the cute girl Chang Xiuya, were trying hard to hold back theirughter, and obediently entered the meeting room. Chen Mo didn¡¯t care, as the experience store was open to the public. Even if the others weren¡¯t here for the game, they were free toe in and sit. Wen Lingwei paused the game and entered the meeting room, sitting down in the middle. ¡°Alright, let¡¯s start,¡± Wen Lingwei said, looking at Jia Peng and Chang Xiuya. Although the atmosphere was a bit odd, the participants slowly grew ustomed to it under the presence of Wen Lingwei. Jia Peng opened his notebook and stated, ¡°For today¡¯s regr meeting, I have three things i wanted to talk about. First was the poster for next week...¡± Jia Peng and Chang Xiuya were the deupties of the department, so many of the jobs were handled by them. As for Wen Lingwei, although she was the head, she only had to make the decisions. All she normally had to do during the regr meeting was to sit around and listen. Jia Peng and Chang Xiuya said a few things which were quickly assigned to different people, leaving a few decisions that needed to be made for Wen Lingwei. The meeting finished after half an hour. Wen Lingwei stood up and said, ¡°Alright, is that all? If that¡¯s all I¡¯ll be going.¡± Wen Lingwei left the meeting room and went back to her seat to continue ying. Jia Peng and the bunch came out of the meeting room and stood behind Wen Lingwei curiously. ¡°Senior, what is this game? Why are you so into it?¡± Jia Peng asked curiously. Wen Lingwei was the head of the department, so in the eyes of her juniors, she had a halo on her head. The younger ones among them were especially infatuated, basically viewing her as their end goal. However, their beloved senior was nowpletely into the game. How great could this game be? T/L Note: The raws used a word that described hiring a bunch of people to create hype around a certain topic. Say you opened a store; you¡¯d invite a bunch of people there to make your store seem really popr, attracting the attention of passersby. Chapter 28

Chapter 28: Chapter 27: Let¡¯s y together

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth ¡°nts vs Zombies.¡± Wen Lingwei replied without even turning around,pletely focused on the screen. ¡°nts vs... Zombies? Jia Peng thought that the name was direct. nts on the left, zombies on the right, hence nts vs Zombies. Chang Xiuya looked at the nts on the screen and said, ¡°Huh? This mushroom looks so cute, and so does the walnut. Seems pretty cool!¡± ¡°Be careful, there¡¯s a zombie munching away at your walnut!¡± a woman reminded her. Wen Lingwei wasn¡¯t panicking at all, as she had already gathered plenty of experience. She easily had small problems like this under control. After saving up enough suns, she let go of a Cherry Bomb in the middle of the hordes of zombies. Following a ¡°Boom!¡°, the zombies in the area turned into ashes. Cheng Xiuya let out a wow, ¡°You¡¯re good at this!¡± Wen Lingwei wasn¡¯t affected by the ttering, ¡°Basic moves. Rx, contain yourself.¡± However, even if it didn¡¯t show on her face, she was quite happy. Although the game might seem simple, the middle toter stages of the game did have some difficulties, and more often than not would cause her to panic slightly. However as Wen Lingwei gathered more and more experience under her belt, normal emergencies weren¡¯t a problem at all. Chang Xiuya said, ¡°Senior, this game looks pretty fun. I wanna y too!¡± Wen Lingwei said, ¡°Sure you can, just turn on aputer, it¡¯s preinstalled on it.¡± Chang Xiuya looked at the people behind her and said, ¡°I wanna y, do you guys want to join?¡± Jia Peng saidm ¡°I want to try it out, the game seems quite interesting.¡± The others also joined in, ¡°Let¡¯s y together, seeing we¡¯re here already.¡± The ten of them went to the counter, swiped their IDs and sat down atputers. Chen Mo had a total of eighteenputers on the first floor, and out of nowhere, eleven of them were now upied. The first floor was now quite lively. Jia Peng, Chang Xiuya, and the others entered the game and started registering for their ounts. ¡°Huh? It looks like you can add friends in this game. I thought this was a single yer game?¡± ¡°Yeah, what¡¯s the point of adding friends?¡± ¡°Maybe it¡¯s because there¡¯s a multiyer aspecting, but it only has a simple leaderboard for now. Come, let¡¯s add each other as friends and see who beats the game faster.¡± ¡°Wow, Senior Wen is already up to level three! Worthy of being the vice-deputy!¡± nts vs Zombies had always been a game suited for all ages and genders. Although it had a cartoony artstyle, it managed to appeal to all ages. The reason everyone here was ying the game was because nts vs Zombies was actually a fun game, and was something new and different. Another reason was that Wen Lingwei was ying it, leading the others to follow suit. When a majority of people in a small group did something, individuals would also join in in order to not feel left out. This was also the effect of herd mentality. Even if some within the group didn¡¯t have a good first impression of nts vs Zombies, they¡¯d still try it out. Soon, the others were also addicted to the game. Jia Peng had the most gaming talent and progressed the quickest, not getting stuck on the earlier levels at all as he steamrolled through them. Chang Xiuya, on the other hand, was a bit more clumsy, but she was ying quite seriously. Whenever she got stuck on something she¡¯d get Jia Peng¡¯s advice, and was quite happy ying the game. The others were in a simr position,pletely enchanted by the new ystyle of nts vs Zombies. One level after another, none of them wanted to stop. At this point, Chen Mo made up his mind. Although the sample size of ten wasn¡¯t big, there were both men and women with different personalities. Every one of them were quite into the game. It was evident that there was a huge potential within the younger generation. That was the best news Chen Mo could receive. For games, the best group of consumers to fight for were young adults, as they were the main consumers of games. This group had the most spare time, were the most active, and were pretty easy going with their money. If a game was popr among young adults, without a doubt it would spread to people of different ages. In contrast, if it doesn¡¯t capture the attention of the young adults and was only popr in a specific age group, it was very unlikely that a game would seed. Moreover, this group was still quite focused after ying for an hour or two without raising any questions or opinions, meaning that Chen Mo¡¯s level design and numbers were just right, basically replicating the original nts vs Zombies. The level design and numbers were points that had always worried Chen Mo, but he could finally rx after seeing this. The difficulty was on point, and the bncing on nts and zombies were well done, too. ¡ª¡ª 5:30 PM... After beating another level, Jia Peng looked at his watch, only to realize that it was already 5:30. He looked around to find out that nobody intended to leave, including Wen Lingwei, who was still fighting hard. ¡°Senior. It¡¯s now five-thirty, what are we having for dinner?¡± asked Jia Peng. The others raised her heads and looked at Wen Lingwei. Wen Lingwei blinked dumbfoundedly and said, ¡°How about... food delivery?¡± Jia Peng didn¡¯t know tough or to cry, saying, ¡°Senior, you said to meet up for dinner?¡± Wen Lingwei was staring at a screen with a struggling expression, as this level was slightly harder. She had tried the level three times now, and still hadn¡¯t managed to beat it. She was also getting tired from ying the whole day, and wanted to take a break. Moreover, after gathering the whole publicity department, surely they couldn¡¯t just get some food delivered. No matter what, they should still go to a restaurant. ¡°Alright, those who haven¡¯t finished have ten more minutes. Don¡¯t start another level once you¡¯re done. Let¡¯s go out for dinner in a bit,¡± said Wen Lingwei. ¡°Ok!¡± everyone agreed. The majority of the people here were still slightly worried. It would¡¯ve been bad if Wen Lingwei decided on ordering food. Gathering the entire publicity department just to eat takeout at a video game experience store? If anyone outside of the group knew, they would be made fun of until they graduated. One after the other, the students who beat theirst level quit the game and started chatting about their experiences from the game. ¡°I think the Torchwood is quite good, the damage increase is quite noticeable. A Torchwood with a few Peashooters behind, that¡¯s tons of damage!¡± ¡°However the Torchwood only boosts Peashooters, which aren¡¯t a good choice at theter stages of the game. That strategy is too simple.¡± ¡°I found the night level so difficult, especially the tombstones. They¡¯re so annoying, not to mention that they take up space too.¡± ¡°That¡¯s how you make it interesting! If there wasn¡¯t some difficulty, there wouldn¡¯t be a challenge.¡± ¡°Right? This game is quite scary; once you start, you can¡¯t stop.¡± The students that were on the leaderboards became the focus of the group, sharing their experiences as they chatted while looking through the leaderboards. Chen Mo reminded them nicely, ¡°If you haven¡¯t had enough of the game, there¡¯s an installer for your phone on theputers, you can continue ying it on your phone.¡± Chapter 29

Chapter 29: Chapter 28: The Statistics for Adventures of the Storm Rider

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth ¡°Huh?¡± Jia Peng was shocked. ¡°This game is on two tforms?¡± Another fellow asked, ¡°You can y it on your phone too? What about the save file? Does it carry over?¡± Chen Mo replied, ¡°The saves do carry over, yes. You can y on your phone using the save file from yourputer.¡± ¡°What? Howe you didn¡¯t mention this earlier?¡± Jia Peng hurriedly took out his phone and connected it to theputer and installed nts vs Zombies onto his phone. As the resources package wasn¡¯t big, the instation finished in a few moments. Jia Pengunched the app on his phone and logged in using his Thunderbolt Gaming game pass. Indeed, his progress on theputer was transferred over to his phone! ¡°It really is cross-tformed!¡± said Jia Peng. Chang Xiuya took a look at his phone, ¡°Huh, it really is. It feels like the textures look better than on a PC.¡± Jia Peng said, ¡°No, it¡¯s the same. It¡¯s just that the phone screen is smaller, so it looks more detailed. However, the controls do manage to suit both mobile and PC, even the UI is the same. I thought that the buttons on the PC version were a bit big, it turns out it was to make them suitable for mobile, too.¡± The others took out their phones and installed nts vs Zombies, one after another. Chen Mo hadn¡¯t released the game onto the market yet, so these people were performing the roles ofb rats. He nned to release it when it felt that his game was ready after gathering some information. ¡°Alright, since we are done ying, let¡¯s leave,¡± Wen Lingwei said with a hint of sourness. She wasn¡¯t prepared to leave the game behind, but she led the others out of the store. ¡°Sir, we¡¯ll be leaving now,¡± Wen Lingwei said, waving at Chen Mo. Chen Mo nodded in response, ¡°If you have any problems with the game, do let me know. I will take your opinions into consideration. ¡ª Wen Lingwei and the others had now left the experience store. ¡°Are you guysing tomorrow?¡± ¡°We have it on our phones now. Isn¡¯t it the same?¡± ¡°But I feel that the atmosphere is better ying in the experience store on theputer.¡± The bunch left while discussing things. ¡ª¡ª Chen Mo ordered dinner thenunched his backend management system to check out the statistics of the yers. During the designing phase, Chen Mo had included some data points that the game would log in order to harvest some yer-rted statistics. For example, which levels were yers stuck at for the longest, and had the most failures? How long did it take each yer to go through each level? The usage rate of each nt? What kind of zombies would breach the defenses of the yers? Which zombies dealt the most damage to nts? The yers wouldn¡¯t bat an eye at statistics like this, but they were quite important to Chen Mo. The emotions of the yers would often be dyed, or they¡¯d feel that something wasn¡¯t quite right, but didn¡¯t know where that feeling came from. But from the point of view of the designer, being able to find the source of frustration for yers and adjusting things ordingly was essential. With everything that the yers felt as a table, it was easier to adjust the game to its highest potential. When dealing with some out-of-ce statistics, Chen Mo would make slight changes to the attributes of nts or zombies, or make changes to the level, slightly reducing its difficulty. Simrly, after a few easy levels, he¡¯d introduce a more difficult level to introduce some setbacks. After making the changes, Chen Mo could push the changes onto the new installer. Changes like this would be amon urance until Chen Mo felt that things were perfect. ¡ª¡ª Three dayster... Lin Mao took a taxi to Chen Mo¡¯s experience store. When he was about to open the door, he noticed that there were about ten yers inside,pletely drawn in by the game. Among them was a small group of two or three who seemed to havee together, chatting as they yed. ¡°Bring a bomb! It¡¯s better if you bring one. It¡¯s good for emergency situations like the final wave, clearing a bunch of zombies with a bomb.¡± ¡°Don¡¯t worry about it, if you misced something just get rid of it using the shovel. But avoid using it because it¡¯s kind of wasteful, as the sun isn¡¯t refunded.¡± Lin Mao was quite curious. When Chen Mo said his game was done and was ready to be installed in the experience store for people to try out, he didn¡¯t think it was true. That was too fast! Lin Mao thought that Chen Mo¡¯s first game would take at least half a year, as the first game of a video game designer couldn¡¯t be an overly simple minigame, and it would have to be a game with an extended ytime. In the end, Chen Mo somehow managed to make it within three months? ¡ª Lin Mao went into the store and saw Chen Mo at the bar, walking over to greet him. ¡°Yo, you¡¯re here!¡± Chen Mo greeted Lin Mao when he saw him. Lin Mao sat down beside Chen Mo at the bar. ¡°There¡¯s quite a few yers here. Seems like your game is quite sessful?¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Yeah, not bad. I¡¯ve made a few adjustments ording to the statistics I¡¯ve gathered. I n to release it during this weekend. How¡¯s your game going?¡± Lin Mao replied, ¡°It¡¯s already on the market, you should be able to see it now.¡± ¡°Really? Then I¡¯ll support you by downloading it.¡± Chen Mo turned on his phone and looked up Adventures of the Storm Rider on the app store. Lin Mao had set the price at twenty RMB, which was normal, not cheap nor expensive. It was a one time purchase, meaning after the purchase it would receive updates and DLCs for free. Chen Mo downloaded the game and gave it a five star rating. ¡°How do the statistics look?¡± Chen Mo asked. Lin Mao replied, ¡°Not bad! The overall reviews are pretty good, but the downloads aren¡¯t super high, as the price is on the higher end.¡± Chen Mo nodded. Indeed, there weren¡¯t many who would spend twenty RMB for a small mobile game like this. However, the game¡¯s quality was quite high, hence it was worth the price. ¡°After the ratings get into a good state, maybe do some promotions and sell it at half price,¡± said Chen Mo. Lin Mao nodded, ¡°Yeah, I was thinking about that. The sales will probably increase by quite a bit if I sell it at half price.¡± Chen Mo looked at the statistics of Adventures of the Storm Rider on its store page. It was sixth in the newly released games list, but it wasn¡¯t part of the top paid games or popr games list. It was slightly obscure among the promoted new games. The ranking and rmendations of the games on the store were basically done automatically, updating every three hours. There were also some additional calctions to filter out suspicious games that might have had their numbers artificially inted for manual inspection. The mobile game app store had three main categories: paid games, free games, and best sellers. Other than that, there were smaller categories such as new games (games that have been out for under a month), ssic games (games that were released more than a year ago), and categories sorted by genre (action, adventure, strategy, etc.). Furthermore, there were a few more important promoted spots which were chosen by the system based on the data it has collected. The promoted spaces were updated daily, and it was possible for games to stay in the promoted spaces for multiple days in row. Adventures of the Storm Rider was sixth among the new games, and received a promotional space, which was quite a good start. After the yers raised its rating, Lin Mao would start a sale for half price. So far Adventures of the Storm Rider hadn¡¯t been out for even twenty-four hours yet, and it had around four hundred downloads with thirty-odd five star reviews. With a start like that, it was possible for it to be moderately popr during its ¡®new game¡¯ period. Chapter 30

Chapter 30: Chapter 29: Potential to go Viral!

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth The official appstore was different from other game distribution channels. Four hundred downloads in twenty-four hours may seem like nothing, but that number was actually pretty good. Other promotional spaces for other game distribution channels, such as the Emperor Dynasty Entertainment tform or the proprietary stores of phone manufacturers, could be bought using money. As long as you were friendly with them, the tform wouldn¡¯t care too much about artificially inting your numbers, either. Therefore, as long as you were willing to spend money, it wasn¡¯t surprising to have thousands or even tens of thousands of downloads on the first day on other game distribution channels. However, the official store prohibited inting statistics, therefore new games could only be found in obscure corners, just like The Adventures of the Storm Rider. There wouldn¡¯t be many who would download new games, even if they were on the top new games or among the promoted new games. However, the official store automatically adjusted the promotional spaces. Games like TheAdventures of the Storm Rider would probably be on the promoted list of new games or in its respective genre, which would greatly boost the downloads. If The Adventures of the Storm Rider was able to maintain its downloads and ratings for the next promotional round, it would be pushed even higher on the promoted list. If that continued, it would be able to go from a few hundred downloads to possibly hundreds of thousands within a week. Of course, games that fell into that positive feedback loop were few and far between; most games would fall off the promoted list halfway because of the statistics they had reached. The official app store also took a smaller, twenty percent cut from the revenue that the game generated. As for taxes, it was more troublesome than in his previous life, as it was quite a bit different, but not too difficult by any means. After ie taxes, trading taxes and the like, it all added up to about thirty percent. Of course, the main form of taxing was based on profit, as video game designers had a lower starting costpared to traditional businesses. So when the profit increased, the taxing increased too. So if there were a hundred thousand downloads, assuming no sales, Lin Mao¡¯s gross ie would be two million RMB, and after the tform¡¯s cut and taxes, he¡¯d be left with a million, one hundred and twenty thousand. Even though only half of it was left, it was still a huge profit. Of course, sales were also affected by the price. For a game like Lin Mao¡¯s, selling at twenty RMB, a hundred thousand downloads was a bit difficult to achieve. However, even if the game was cheaper, down to ten RMB, there weren¡¯t many games that managed to break a hundred thousand on the official app store. Those games would always be on the top of various rankings, and have promotional spaces multiple times. Many smaller designers only got thousands of downloads regrly, after working for half a year to a year just to earn about a hundred thousand RMB and having to worry about other expenses, barely keeping their stomachs full. Chen Mo said, ¡°The promotional spaces will be refreshed in one or two hours, right? Let¡¯s see how far up this game moves, then.¡± Lin Mao nodded, ¡°Yeah, I¡¯m looking at games during the same period, and mine looks like it has a better chance than the others. I can¡¯t be certain, as we don¡¯t know how the promoted spaces are calcted.¡± It was easy to tell that Lin Mao was slightly nervous. Promotions had a huge impact on the future of the game. In Chen Mo¡¯s opinion, his game didn¡¯tck work, sincerity, or creativity, all that was left was the eptance of the yers. Chen Mo patted his shoulders, ¡°Rx, the quality of the games out there on disy, what¡¯s there to be afraid of?¡± Lin Mao said, ¡°Yup, we can only hope. Is your game ready? Maybe I can give you some opinions from a different perspective.¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Yeah. You can try it out by going to aputer or using your own phone.¡± Shocked, Lin Mao said, ¡°Dual tform? Aren¡¯t you ambitious! I¡¯ll just use my phone then, I¡¯m more used to ying on mobile.¡± After installing the game on his phone, Lin Mao tapped on the icon andunched nts vs Zombies. After ying for ten minutes, Lin Mao waspletely absorbed by the game. ¡°This game... is quiteplete!¡± As Lin Mao was a video game designer, he had a different perspective than the other yers. He was shocked that the graphics, music, UI, and ystyle worked together very well; he couldn¡¯t find anything to nitpick! The tutorial was clear and was easy to pick up. The difficulty of the levels made sense, and thebat system was rich... If someone told Lin Mao that this was a high-quality game that was on the popr games list, he wouldn¡¯t doubt it! ¡°This... you made this in three months?¡± Lin Mao looked at Chen Mo, his mind blown. Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Yeah, I¡¯ve actually been thinking about this idea for a long time. What¡¯s wrong?¡± Lin Mao replied while nodding repeatedly, ¡°Pretty good, I think this game is capable of going viral! In terms of quality, the game beats many other top games. When do you n to release it?¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°Tomorrow maybe. I have been collecting the feedback of the yers for the past two days. Overall, it¡¯s not bad. I¡¯ve changed a few things that didn¡¯t seem right. After it¡¯s released and I gather even more statistics, I¡¯ll make more changes.¡± Lin Mao said, ¡°I think it¡¯s good. This game that you made is much better than mine. I can¡¯t believe it, it seems that you really have opened up. How did you get so good all of a sudden?¡± Chen Moughed, ¡°What is this? Back to the topic, the sess of the game doesn¡¯t just depend on the quality, but there¡¯s an element of luck, too. Let¡¯s hope that both of our games make big sales.¡± Lin Mao said, ¡°Yeah, hope we get big sales. Then we can be buddies on the top new games leaderboards.¡± In the past three days, nearly a hundred people had yed nts vs Zombies. Some of them were random yers that had walked past the experience store, but most of them were brought over by Wen Lingwei and Jia Peng¡¯s group. When these people left, they introduced the game to their roommates. Chen Mo¡¯s experience store received another bunch of yers that way. So far Chen Mo¡¯s experience store had managed to gather ten or so yers, and was much livelier than normal. ¡ª Chen Mo and Lin Mao chatted for a little while longer. ¡°Huh? The rmended lists have updated!¡± Lin Mao eximed in surprise. Chen Mo went over and said, ¡°Let¡¯s check it out; where¡¯s the new promoted space?¡± Lin Mao excitedly raced through the app store, ¡°Rmended in its genre! New rmended games! It was rmended on both!¡± ¡°Not bad!¡± Chen Moughed. ¡°You¡¯re on a roll here!¡± These two rmendations were pretty good one for a new game. Rmended in its genre meant bringing in more yers who liked games like that, and being rmended on the new games list would attract yers who liked trying out new games. Two rmendations at the same time meant the system was rating Adventures of the Storm Rider highly, meaning that it should bring in arge amount of sales in a small amount of time. If the game maintained its high rating, the game would undoubtedly receive better rmendations, possibly even being rmended on the front page. Lin Mao patted his chest in relief. ¡°Now I can rx, the second rmendation was so important!¡± Chen Mo reminded, ¡°Don¡¯t celebrate too early, you should continue monitoring the reviews. You might even be defamed by yourpetitors.¡± Lin Mao nodded, ¡°Yeah, I know. The gap between the second rmendation and the game properly going viral is still massive.¡± After chatting for another few hours and looking at the new games at the time and checking out their numbers, the two of them went out for supper after the store closed, after which Lin Mao left. After all, he had to pay great attention to the statistics and the feedback of yers, as it was a key moment. Chen Mo, on the other hand, had to worry about his release, so the two of them didn¡¯t have much time to spare. Chapter 31

Chapter 31: Chapter 30: Special Promotional Tactics

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth The experience store opened its doors early the next day. Soon after the doors were opened, Jia Peng brought over some friends. ¡°Good morning, manager. Are you releasing your game today?¡± asked Jia Peng. Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Yeah, why did you guyse over so early?¡± Jia Peng answered, ¡°Isn¡¯t nts vs Zombies being released? Since we don¡¯t have sses today, we¡¯re here to cheer you on.¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°Sure! Wee! Come in and take a seat. How many levels have you beaten in endless mode?¡± Jia Peng quickly replied, ¡°Eighty-four levels. Manager, is endless mode actually endless? Is there an upper limit?¡± Chen Mo replied, ¡°Only eighty-four? The real game starts beyond level one hundred, I¡¯ll tell you straight up.¡± Jia Peng was speechless, ¡°What the-? Are you crazy? I¡¯m feeling like I¡¯m losing my footing at level eighty-four. It¡¯s a struggle just to get through another level. The other guys also joined in nodding, ¡°Yeah! It starts at level one hundred? Are you ying the same game as we are?¡± Chen Mo smiled and said no more. Four days had passed, and Jia Peng and his friends would be the first batch of yers,pleting all of adventure mode. The adventure mode wasn¡¯t meant to be hard, Chen Mo set it to be same as the original version. As long as you were of average IQ, you should be able to beat it, given some time. Wen Lingwei and Jia Peng thought that the game ended after beating adventure mode, as if it was a puzzle game, finally managing to beat it after ying it obsessively for three or four days. The game content was already quite rich for a puzzle game. In the end, they found out that the game had an endless mode! After trying it out, it had opened them up to a whole new world. As the difficulty of the levels increased slowly but surely, they realized that what they thought was a good grasp of the game waspletely naivete. So far, Wen Lingwei was at the top of the leaderboards with ny-three levels. The others were around sixty to eighty, with a clear feeling of hopelessness. These yers thought that their strategy in adventure mode was strong, but as they entered endless mode, the same strategy would be blown to pieces. It was like ying a whole new game. Therefore, they came to Chen Mo¡¯s experience store often to y the game and to share their experiences. They also wanted to get some tips from Chen Mo for the best, most advanced strategy, and to continue grinding their rankings on the leaderboards. Jia Peng and his buddies turned on theputers that they were so familiar with and continued ying through endless mode afterunching the game and logging in. ¡°Manager, when is your game going to go live?¡± Jia Peng asked. Chen Mo replied, ¡°Probably around twelve.¡± Jia Peng nodded and replied, ¡°Alright, when the timees we¡¯ll be the first to download and give you a five star rating.¡± The time the game was released didn¡¯t matter for new games, but the nearest hour was usually chosen to make the statistics easier to track. Statistics during the twenty-four hours after the game went live were the most important, most notably the downloads and ratings as both of them directly influenced the rankings and promotions on the official app store. Whenever Emperor Dynasty Entertainment or Zen Entertainment would release, they would hype up the game in advance to draw inrge numbers of yers on release, taking the top spot of the new rmended games with no problems. Chen Mo didn¡¯t have that much money to promote his game, but he had other ns. At 10 am, Chen Mo already released his game into the store, and the adspace in ppybird contained an ad for nts vs Zombies. Clicking on the ad would redirect the yer to the app store download page for nts vs Zombies. How many yers did ppybird currently have? Chen Mo didn¡¯t know the number, but it wasn¡¯t small. Most of the yers of ppybird would be casual gamers, so using it to promote nts vs Zombies was definitely a good idea. Chen Mo didn¡¯t expect ppybird to rake in any money for the moment, as it was free to download, instead expecting it put his name out to as many people as possible, and convert them into nts vs Zombies yers. Other than that, Chen Mo also had the video game media in mind. Theoretically, he was just a D-grade video game designer, nobody would care if he released a game. The video game media had power, but who would give their time to a nobody D-grade video game designer? However, Chen Mo wasn¡¯t a nobody, and already had his name out there. He was the winner of the video game designingpetition, who also happened to have a conflict with Shi Huazhe, both incidents known on video game media. Chen Mo posted on Weibo: ppybird is now on the appstore for free (free forever!). My new game nts vs Zombies will be out at 12pm, on both PC and mobile. Let¡¯s see if we can break a hundred thousand downloads in the first month. @Shihuazhe, @Videogame Info Network, , @Wechat Gaming Channel, @Hengyou Video Games Channel... Chen Mo tagged dozens of video game mediapanies and included the loading screen of nts vs Zombies (the one with nts on the left and zombies on the right) as a promotional poster. ¡ª¡ª Within ten minutes, the video game media was all over it! The managers of the official Weibo ounts were all drawn out by the smell of a new tagline. ¡°Chen Mo? Wasn¡¯t that the champion of the video game designingpetition? The creator of ppybird?¡± ¡°He¡¯s about to release his new game? It¡¯s only been three or so months! Isn¡¯t that too fast? And he wants us to witness it together? Does he really think his game is gonna break a hundred thousand sales in the first month?¡± ¡°Three months in development is way too short. That time includes testing and adjusting the game! Could it be just another mini-game like ppybird?¡± ¡°A game like ppybird cannot be done again. If he makes something simr, he¡¯s just looking to fail.¡± ¡°It¡¯s called nts vs Zombies; it seems that the content of the game is quite rich, but it is still a casual game.¡± ¡°Shi Huazhe previously stated that Chen Mo¡¯s first game would never surpass a hundred thousand downloads in the first month, and this guy wants us to witness it with him. He¡¯s not afraid at all, this guy¡¯s got guts!¡± ¡°Hurry up and repost! Track all the stats of nts vs Zombies after it¡¯s released!¡± ¡ª The video game media got the smell of a new tagline and started reposting one after another. Of course they knew what Chen Mo was trying to do. He was trying to make himself a focus and promote his new game for free! However, the video game media was willing to be used, as they also needed a hot topic like this to operate! Moreover, even if the video game media didn¡¯t take the bait, the slow expansion of information on Weibo would mean that the game would slowly pick up in poprity either way. Following the reposts of the video game media, more and more gamers caught wind of this information. Chen Mo¡¯s first proper game, nts vs Zombies, was about to be released! Many of them were just watching, but the post did attract the attention of the spectators. The cartoony art style of the nts and zombies quickly made a deep impression in the minds of the gamers. Many of them were already looking forward to finding out how nts were supposed to battle zombies! Moreover, the video game media paid attention to the numbers nts vs Zombies would be cranking out, paying even closer attention to the number of sales in the first month. If it did reach a hundred thousand, for ten RMB each, it meant one million gross and about five hundred thousand RMB. That would be an incredible number! Chapter 32

Chapter 32: Chapter 31: Explosive Release!

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth Shi Huazhe wasn¡¯t stupid and knew that Chen Mo had many weird and wonderful ideas up his sleeves. It was entirely possible that Chen Mo could make something that would attract the attention of many people, driving up the sales quickly. Therefore, in order to try and keep what remained of his dignity, Shi Huazhe didn¡¯t dare lowball his estimate. But, what if he really made it to a hundred thousand? There wasn¡¯t an inch of Shi Huazhe that wanted to believe that. In his view, the sess of ppybird waspletely idental, as all of Chen Mo¡¯s skills were utterly terrible. Surely he was not able to get lucky like that again and again in the future? ¡ª¡ª 12 PM... nts vs Zombies was released into the market on time. The yers that had been waiting for it were all racing to download the game. PC yers were few and far between in this world, making it an unexplored territory. Therefore, Chen Mo chose to focus on the mobile yers. Despite having the game on the PC market as well, Chen Mo didn¡¯t expect it to get close to the top there. Chen Mo set the price at 10 RMB. The app store had set the pricing on games, ranging from free, one RMB, ten RMB, twenty RMB, fifty RMB, or above fifty RMB. As the official app store in this world mainly catered to users inside China, there wasn¡¯t a problem with currency exchange, so there was no need for 6 RMB or other odd numbers like that. Chen Mo could¡¯ve made it free or just one RMB, which would make it much easier to increase the number of downloads, but he felt that he was losing out on too much by doing that. nts vs Zombies wasn¡¯t suited for in-game ads, and Chen Mo didn¡¯t want it to affect the experience of the yers, either. If he sold it at one RMB, two hundred thousand copies would only result in a hundred thousand RMB, which wasn¡¯t even enough for him to make ten draws! Therefore, ten RMB was quite an approachable price. Of course, this didn¡¯t mean Chen Mo was running a charity, he was just going for low price at high volume. nts vs Zombies was expected to be popr among all ages. Primary or high school students with not much money, or even the older generation, were part of Chen Mo¡¯s target market. Making it cheap enough to fork out money without much hesitation was part of Chen Mo¡¯s n. ¡ª¡ª Jia Peng and his friends inside the experience store had already downloaded it, and gave it a five star rating. ¡°Manager, we¡¯ve downloaded the game and gave it a five star review!¡± said Jia Peng. Chen Mo said, ¡°Thanks! I¡¯ll give you all a free cup of milk tea for your trouble.¡± ¡°Thanks, manager!¡± Jia Peng and his friends were very happy. Jia Peng said, ¡°Senior Wen and the others wille over during the afternoon, as they have ss during the morning.¡± Another guy said, ¡°That¡¯s great, we can watch the gamepletely destroy the new games list together.¡± Jia Peng said, ¡°Of course! It will surely dominate the leaderboards, it¡¯s so fun! We¡¯ll be the witnesses here!¡± ¡ª¡ª Many others also had their eye on the sales of nts vs Zombies. On the official app store, the statistics for games were updated hourly, the games leaderboards were updated every three hours, and rmended spaces were updated every twenty-four hours. Many gamers were downloading the game. Some of them were brought over from the ads on ppybird, others came from Chen Mo¡¯s Weibo, and some of them just liked the idea behind the game. However, many yers were still observing from the sidelines, waiting for the hour to pass and check the reviews before deciding if they should buy it. ¡ª¡ª At 1 PM, the statistics for nts vs Zombies were finally updated! Jia Peng rubbed his eyes. ¡°Wow, did they misce the decimal point and made it seem ten times more than it should be? That number¡¯s unreal!¡± nts vs Zombies had received 887 downloads, with a score of 9.7/10 after an hour. Despite not being too familiar with the video game industry, the students knew the significance of those numbers. Adventures of the Storm Rider was considered doing quite well with four hundred downloads in twenty-four hours, but nts vs Zombies managed eight hundred and eight-seven in an hour! Just looking at the twenty-four hour downloads, this wasn¡¯t just a popr game, but an extremely popr game, and made in only a few months at that! Chen Mo was quite calm. Although these numbers were better than he had thought, it was still within the realms of his consideration. ppybird would be continually driving yers to nts vs Zombies, and the video game media had basically promoted Chen Mo¡¯s game for free, with more than a thousand reposts on Chen Mo¡¯s post. As a result, the people that had seen the game might be in the hundred thousands, all of which were potential yers. nts vs Zombies wasn¡¯t on any leaderboards or promotional ces, only because they hadn¡¯t been updated yet. With numbers like that, nts vs Zombies would without a doubt kill the new games leaderboard. ¡ª¡ª As the topic gained traction, the downloads of nts vs Zombies kept increasing. 1,333 downloads at 2 PM. 1,914 downloads at 3 PM. It seemed like the downloads were increasing by five hundred every hour, with no sign of slowing down. At a speed like that, including thete night slow down and the increased traffic from eight to ten PM, nts vs Zombies might break ten thousand in twenty-four hours! Ten thousand copies on the first day? That was crazy! Moreover, the ratings were ranging between 9.1 to 9.4, and never dipping below 9. This meant that the yers rated the game very highly, and would more than likely maintain this in the future. Jia Peng was shocked, and eximed, ¡°Look at the new games leaderboard!¡± First ce on the new mobile games leaderboard was now nts vs Zombies! ¡°Yeesh, isn¡¯t that too fast? Being on the leaderboard just after one cycle, that¡¯s insanely good!¡± Jia Peng couldn¡¯t believe it either. The new games leaderboard wasn¡¯t impossible to climb. Companies like Emperor Dynasty Entertainment or Zen Entertainment could easily reach the top of the leaderboard right after release by advertising and hyping up the game. However, Chen Mo hadn¡¯t spent a single cent on advertising nts vs Zombies! Reaching the top of the new games leaderboards one hour after release, that was the stuff of fairy tales! On the new games leaderboard, Adventures of the Storm Rider was in third ce, while nts vs Zombies was at the top in first ce. After receiving a rmended space, Adventures of the Storm Rider had been gaining momentum. But it stood no chance against nts vs Zombies. If Adventures of the Storm Rider had a standing start, nts vs Zombies had a shooting start. How can youpare when the number of yers are of different magnitudes? The video games media was also shocked. They also thought that nts vs Zombies had a high chance of going viral, and bing the biggest dark horse of the month! Although the statistics at the twenty-four hour mark were more significant for extraption, the three hour numbers for nts vs Zombies were extremely good, even beating some works fromrgepanies! The explosiveness of nts vs Zombies caused some minor panic within the video game media, but this was all within Chen Mo¡¯s calctions. Climbing to the top of the new games leaderboard? That wasn¡¯t even a small goal for Chen Mo... Chapter 33

Chapter 33: Chapter 32 ¨C Small Tricks for Endless Mode

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth During the afternoon, Wen Lingwei and Chang Xiuya brought a few of their own friends to the store. The store that was normally half-full was now quite lively. Some of them went to theputers while others sat on the massage chairs to y on their phone, but they all were ying nts vs Zombies. Wen Lingwei and Chang Xiuya came to the front of the bar and asked, ¡°I heard the game went online today. How did it go?¡± Jia Peng said, ¡°Too well. Just take a look; it reached the top of the new games leaderboards in the first leaderboards update,pletely destroying the other games!¡± Chang Xiuya said, ¡°Wow! The manager¡¯s so good!¡± Wen Lingwei clicked her tongue, ¡°Yo yo yo! That¡¯s good luck if I¡¯ve ever seen it. So, is the game going viral?¡± Chen Mo replied, ¡°For now, not necessarily. It depends on the next round of rmendations, and there¡¯s also the statistics that happen after that...¡± Wen Lingwei shot a nce at Chen Mo and said, ¡°Can you speak like a normal person?¡± Chen Mo replied, ¡°Yup, it¡¯s going viral.¡± Jia Peng and Chang Xiuya both let out a snicker and barely held back theirughter. Wen Lingwei said, ¡°Alright, since it¡¯s going viral, there¡¯s no need to keep looking at the app store. It doesn¡¯t make you seem confident.¡± Chen Mo said, ¡± I¡¯ll just check out the yer discussions, I have nothing else to do for now anyways.¡± Wen Lingwei pointed at her screen and demanded, ¡°Teach me how to go beyond level one hundred on endless mode.¡± Chen Mo was speechless. Jia Peng cried out, ¡°Senior, you can¡¯t do that, that¡¯s cheating!¡± Chang Xiuya was also protesting, ¡°Yeah, you¡¯re already in first ce anyways!¡± Wen Lingwei rolled her eyes and said, ¡°You guys don¡¯t know jack. This game is about to get a bunch of yers. It¡¯s just a matter of time! In two days, some genius-level yer is going to surpass me in endless mode. I¡¯m just preparing for the inevitable, understand?¡± Another guy who stood beside Jia Peng poked him and whispered, ¡°Are you stupid? Any secrets that the manager gives to Senior Wen will be passed down to us eventually.¡± Jia Peng and Chang Xiuya were stunned and realized, ¡°Oh, yeah!¡± ¡°Manager, secret to beating the levels, please!¡± The students in the experience store banded together soon after, urging Chen Mo to leak some tips for getting through Endless Mode. Wen Lingwe waved her hand to present the crowd, ¡°Do you see this, manager? This is what the people want.¡± Chen Mo was speechless. ¡°If this is what the people want, you must be the dictator...¡± Wen Lingwei said, ¡°Hurry up! I came all the way here to support you today, can¡¯t you just give us a hint?¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°If I remember correctly, it takes less than ten minutes for you guys to get here from the University...¡± Chang Xiuya said, ¡°Yeah, manager. We are basically your most loyal fans, can¡¯t you give us a tiny edge over the others?¡± Everyone started joining in... Taking turns to voice their support... Pestering... Chen Mo had nothing to say. He didn¡¯t want to give out any strategies, as a big part of puzzle games like these was finding out your own solution. He could spoil it, but wouldn¡¯t that ruin it? It would also inhibit the exploration processes of the others. However, if he doesn¡¯t let out anything today, these people likely wouldn¡¯t give up. ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll demonstrate the hint. It¡¯ll depend on you guys as to how much you can get out of it,¡± Chen Mo said as he turned on hisptop. ¡°Yay! It worked!¡± Chang Xiuya quickly moved closer to Chen Mo. The others dropped their games and surrounded the bar table, wanting to find out what Chen Mo was about to show. Was there a strategy that was able to clear endless mode infinitely? Or as Chen Mo said, the real game started beyond level one hundred! What strategy would be used to get past the hundredth level? Soon after, the bar table waspletely surrounded. Wen Lingwei let out a cough, and two of the guys gave her some space seemingly naturally. ¡°Alright, let¡¯s start,¡± said Wen Lingwei. Chen Mo rolled his eyes. Was it you or me who is the owner? Ten or so people had their eyes wide, staring at Chen Mo¡¯s screen. Chen Mounched nts vs Zombies and thenunched another program window, typing in some code, and changed a number to 2012. The audience were curious about what had happened. ¡°Manager, what are you doing right now?¡± ¡°Uhh... cheating?¡± ¡°Manager, you¡¯re the designer. Is that still cheating? That¡¯s just changing the game.¡± ¡°Bullshit! You can¡¯t do that, manager!¡±... A few of the guys protested. Wen Lingwei snapped coldly, ¡°Stop talking, the manager was just adjusting the level.¡± The audience looked closer. It appeared that Chen Mo had entered the two thousand and twelfth level in endless mode. ¡°What the? Two thousand and twelve? Are you crazy, manager? How difficult is that?¡± ¡°I was already struggling at eighty-something, and you¡¯re gonna start from two thousand and twelve?¡± ¡°If you beat this level is the record going to be two thousand and twelve?¡± ¡°I think your ¡®if¡¯ is a bit hard to achieve!¡± ¡°Is this actually yable? Are you sure you didn¡¯t make it too difficult?¡± ¡°Is the manager that guy? Sigh, it seems like he is that guy.¡± The corner of Chen Mo¡¯s mouth started twitching. After entering endless mode, he ced a bunch of nts using the game engine. If it was a normal ythrough, this step would be done in the previous levels. However, Chen Mo didn¡¯t have the time, so he did it using the game engine. Chen Mo was on the pool level, cing four Cob Cannons in the pool, four Twin Sunflowers, and six Gloom Shrooms. From left to right, the first row had Winter-melon, Gloom Shroom, two Winter-melons, Cob Cannon, Spikeweed. The second row had an Umbre Lead, Gloom Shroom, Winter-melon, Umbre leaf, Cob Cannon, Spikeweed. The top and bottomnes of the pool were reflected, and any nts that could fit a Pumpkin had one. The others whispered amongst themselves. ¡°This strategy by the manager seems quiteprehensive. It feels like something is about to go down.¡± ¡°Indeed, the positioning of the Umbre Leafs and Gloom Shroom seem quite intentional.¡± ¡°However, aren¡¯t there too many Cob Cannons?¡± There¡¯s one, two, three, four... eight of them!¡± ¡°It is quite a lot. I don¡¯t think the Cob Cannon is that great. I think it¡¯s too squishy, and you can¡¯t put it in a Pumpkin; it¡¯s gone after a few nibbles from the zombies.¡± ¡°But thisyout that the manager has... there¡¯s no way the zombies can get to it, right?¡± ¡°Shhh... Stop talking, let¡¯s watch. It¡¯s about to start!¡± Chen Mo gave himself three thousand suns and started picking his nts. Ice-shroom, Cherry Bomb, Mimic Cherry Bomb, Doom-shroom, Chilly Pepper, Squash, Pumpkin, Puff-shroom, Sun-shroom, and Coffee Bean. The others were trying hard to memorize it, and a few of the girls even brought out their notebooks. ¡°I think I understand what the manager is trying to do. Start with nts that do higher damage and keep them into theter levels, only bringing one-time use explosive-type nts. ¡°That¡¯s a n alright.¡± ¡°But... this feels extremely risky!¡± Moreover, why would you mimic the Cherry Bomb, but not the Ice-shroom or Doom-shroom? As one reduces speed and the other does huge damage, those two should make better choices?¡± ¡°Don¡¯t know, let¡¯s see how the manager ys this.¡± Everyone in the store was holding their breath as they looked forward to seeing how Chen Mo would y it out. Chapter 34

Chapter 34: Chapter 33: Level Beaten!

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth Chen Mo hit the Start button and nted an Ice-shroom in the second row. Just a few secondster, apanied by the creepy sound effects, a huge wave of zombies appeared! It was really a wave of zombies, there were so many of them it was impossible to count. It was difficult to tell what types of zombies were there, as the only thing identifiable was the red eyes of the Gargantuar, tightly stacked as it stomped forwards. Dancing Zombies, Pole-vaulting Zombies, and Football Zombies could sometimes be identified between the Gargantuars. The Zombies with their vaulting poles in their hands looked like knights charging into battle, the people watching could barely contain their shock. The red-eyed Gargantuars tossed their Imps one after another, and soon after eight Impsnded beside the Gloom-shrooms. That wasn¡¯t the end of it; the imps kept getting hurled towards the nts in a constant stream, all of them chewing away at the Winter-melon. The Gloom-shrooms started shooting crazily, and the flurry of Winter-melon shots at the zombies never slowed down, either. Chen Mo was quite calm, directing Cobs and other explosive nts towards the hoards of zombies, turning the waves of zombies into ash. Every so often, Chen Mo ced some Puff-shrooms and Sun-shroom down to slow down the zombies slightly . Under the constant waves of explosives, the hoards of zombies fell. Before Wen Lingwei and the others could make out what the zombies looked like, they were turned into ashes and coins on the ground. Moreover, Chen Mo had good control over the tempo of firing the Cob Cannons as he predicted the positions of the zombies and always provided support to wherever it was needed. Jia Peng¡¯s eyes and mouth were wide open at this performance. Chang Xiuya had her hands over her mouth, and even Wen Lingwei was staring. You can actually y like this?! How could a puzzle game feel like it requires higher APM than your average strategy game? Under the constant bombing by Chen Mo, it felt like the Zombies couldn¡¯t do anything in retaliation. Anything that walked onto the screen would die without resistance. ¡°I now know how insane the Cob Cannon is.¡± ¡°I knew that it was strong, but how is he able to protect so many of them?¡± ¡°I think... that this strategy is amazing! Reacting to all different types of zombies perfectly, interesting!¡± The audience were starting to get tense from the action. As the game continued, the assault from the zombies never stopped, but their speed was slowed down significantly. Under Chen Mo¡¯s methodical bombings, they died quickly. Even as a huge wave of zombies arrived, Chen Mo had managed to not lose any nts! ¡°It¡¯sing, a huge wave of zombies are approaching! I think the manager will be able to hold!¡± ¡°Oh my, there¡¯s so many of them!¡± After the warning from the game, a huge wave of zombies approached. Hordes of Imps flew towards the nts, and the Gargantuars moved forwards, withstanding the retaliating firepower. It was all under Chen Mo¡¯s control, maintaining the tempo from Cob Cannons and Bombs; it was hard to take in, there was so much going on. Jia Peng couldn¡¯t understand what was going on at all. He wanted to follow Chen Mo¡¯s cursor, but there was too much going on on the screen, so it was impossible for him to remember all the operations Chen Mo was executing. The others all had their attention on the screen, too. They knew that Chen Mo being able to beat so many levels wasn¡¯t just because of the strategy, but execution and technique, too! They basically had the statergy down, but there was still the technique that wascking. After a minute of exciting battle, thest red-eyed Gargantuar fell. Chen Mo¡¯s nts were basically at full health, his Bombs were essentially off cooldown, and he hadn¡¯t spent too many suns, either. ¡°Wow, he beat the level!¡± ¡°Two thousand and twelfth level, man! He actually beat it! Oh my heavens!¡± Everyone there was shocked. How did he do it? Was beating level two thousand actually possible? Moreover, it felt like Chen Mo had everything under control and didn¡¯t over exert himself. It was probable that he still had more in him to continue on. However, judging by Chen Mo¡¯s face, he didn¡¯t want to continue ying. ¡°Manager, do one more!¡± ¡°Yeah, manager, please exin the main points of the technique!¡± ¡°Manager, how did you decide on shooting the Cob Cannon, where do you shoot it?¡± ¡°When¡¯s the best time to use the Doom-shrooms and Ice-shrooms?¡± Everyone surrounding Chen Mo was talking one after another, all with questions about his technique. Chen Mo smiled, and closed hisptop. ¡°Like I said, I¡¯m only doing that once. How much you guys get from it depends on you.¡± Chen Mo didn¡¯t say anything else, but had a smile on his face, just like an otherworldly expert. Jia Peng protested, ¡°What? Manager, you can¡¯t just leave it at that. You¡¯re just cliffhanging!¡± Chang Xiuya added, ¡°Manager, just do it once more!¡± Wen Lingwei said coldly, ¡°Exin it properly, or I¡¯ll leave a bad review for this game on the app store!¡± The others joined in, ¡°Yeah, bad reviews!¡± They were all trying to outshine each other. Every single one around Chen Mo wanted him to exin the technique behind it, but Chen Mo wasn¡¯t going to give in, refusing to break. Endless mode was probably enough to entertain these people for a few years. During this time, the most enjoyable process would be trying to find the best strategy. If Chen Mo gave away all his theories, it would undoubtedly shorten that searching process, which would end up cutting down on the fun they would have. Therefore, he chose to do it once and only once, and not exin it any further. A few of the students saw that Chen Mo was set on his decision and quietly left the bar table, heading back to their seats, ready to try out Chen Mo¡¯s strategy themselves. Soon after, the others gave up one after another, leaving to try it out for themselves while it was still in memory. Before Wen Lingwei left, she rolled her eyes at Chen Mo and said, ¡°Hmph, stingy!¡± The corner of Chen Mo¡¯s mouth was twitching, but he kept it under control. It was the game and the yers. Yep! Soon after, Wen Lingwei and the others were battling in Endless Mode trying out Chen Mo¡¯s strategy. The strategy wasn¡¯t hard to memorize. As Wen Lingwei and Jia Peng were quite smart, they got it right after ying around with it a bit. They cross-verified and got most of the way there. The first levels were needed to set up the strategy, putting down all the required nts before eventually swapping out for Bombs in theter levels. However, that wasn¡¯t a challenge for Wen Lingwei and the others, and they got there very quickly. The original nts vs Zombies had basically been figured out by a few super fans. Chen Mo chose the moremon 3C eight Cob Cannon[1] build with four sunflowers. It was a more bnced strategy, and didn¡¯t have a problem with level 4000, or beyond. Normally the more Cob Cannons you had, the more firepower you had. However, Cob Cannons were very fragile, and if they were identally destroyed, they would leave an empty space behind for a long time. This could easily lead into a feedback loop, eventually costing the yer the game! =================== T/L Note: [1] 3C is the author of the strategy. Chapter 35

Chapter 35: Chapter 34: Rmended on the Front Page!

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth On the extreme end, it was possible to have twenty-two or more Cob Cannons. Chen Mo didn¡¯t want to show that one, as it was quite easy to fail. It wouldn¡¯t look good if he failed during the demonstration. Moreover, every single one of the Cob Cannons needed to be managed properly, it wasn¡¯t as simple as firing it everywhere. It required a certain knowledge of how the zombies appeared and firing ahead of time. Furthermore, it wasn¡¯t the only strategy. In reality, there was so much to learn in terms of strategy that you could have twenty to thirty pages posts on Baidu Sticky Notes, many of which were difficult to think up. For example, only using up half the map, or arranging the nts in the shape of an arrow, a heart shape or even strategies without using Cob Cannons. There were also extremely difficult-to-master strategies that used twenty-two or more Cob Cannons... Chen Mo understood the theory behind them, but if he had to perform them himself, there was no way he could pull them off without some practice, especially since firing the Cob Cannons and cing bombs was extremely technical. Some yers in his previous life even went as far as making up mnemonics to memorize the strategy. Other than that, there were many other small tricks, such as freezing the water in the pool level during specific times to stop zombies from spawning from the pool. There were many other small tricks like this, though Chen Mo didn¡¯t n to reveal any of them, letting the yers find out themselves. The passion of Wen Lingwei and the others was reignited once again, trying to figure out Chen Mo¡¯s strategy. ¡°Hey, interesting. I finished cing down the nts!¡± ¡°How is it, is it good?¡± ¡°It¡¯s good! Feels much stronger than my previous strategy!¡± ¡°Be careful and protect the Cob Cannon.¡± Everyone had their heads deep in trying to figure out Endless Mode, and had tossed the game release to the back of their minds. -I thought they said they were here to cheer me on?- Chen Mo was speechless. He went back to the app store and focused on the statistics for nts vs Zombies. ¡ª From the afternoon through the evening was the golden time for video game downloads. Every hour when the statistics were updated, the rate of increase for the downloads increased, from five hundred downloads per hour, to eight hundred downloads per hour! While nts vs Zombies convincingly held the first ce on the new games leaderboards, it also started making progress on the other leaderboards. Puzzle games, strategy games, casual games... nts vs Zombies started to show itself in the other leaderboards, and even reached the top five hundred paid games! It hadn¡¯t been twenty-four hours yet. It was crazy to be able to achieve results like this. At the same time, the topic of nts vs Zombies started gaining momentum, and Chen Mo¡¯s Weibo post was gaining more and more reposts. All therge video game media were downloading nts vs Zombies in order to introduce the game in their articles. Some video game designers that had caught wind of the game were shocked, downloading the game in order to find out why the game was such a popr topic. Right now, everyone was waiting for the statistics at the twenty four mark for nts vs Zombies! Currently nts vs Zombies had a score of 9.2, maintaining its high rating. The vast majority of yer discussions were positive. ============ ¡°Very innovative puzzle game!¡± ¡°This game is very rich in content. There¡¯s still more toe after ying for a few hours, very much worth my money.¡± ¡°Thumbs up for the music and graphics!¡± ¡°I initially thought that the theme of nts and zombies didn¡¯t match, but turned out to work quite well together.¡± ¡°I downloaded the game during noon, and have been ying for a few hours. I just can¡¯t stop ying!¡± ¡°I thought a game made in three months would be quite crude, but this is theplete opposite. This game is highly refined, and the creativity is out of this world!¡± ¡°I¡¯m a professional hater, but I can¡¯t find anything toin about. Am I about to lose my job?¡± ¡°I¡¯ll tell you what to do,ment above: These zombies aren¡¯t scary at all! :P¡± ¡°Is there anyone else who came here from Weibo, and feels sorry for Mr. Shi Huazhe?¡± ¡°Hehe, who would feel sorry for that washed-up designer? Relying on his old fame every single day, criticizing everything thates across him. Then what, do the games he makes evenpare to nts vs Zombies?¡± =========== Chen Mo was filled with pleasure after looking through the yer discussions. There were also some bad reviews or some opinions. However, when Chen Mo took a look, they were only empty arguments. Perhaps they were hired or just hating for the fun of it. Chen Mo didn¡¯t mind, as this small minority didn¡¯t affect the rating for nts vs Zombies. Before they could leave a bad review, they had to whip out money and buy the game anyways. -After they pay, they can say whatever they want. If I get mad, I lose.- Chen Mo had a great mentality, it was impossible for him to get mad over a few haters. Chen Mo was also filled with hope. He wanted to see how nts vs Zombies which was so popr in his previous world, would fare in the parallel world! ¡ª¡ª The next day, at 12 PM... There was only Jia Peng and a few of his friends. Wen Lingwei and the others stayed in the store until 8 PM when it closed. They probably yed a bunch more when they got back to the dorms on their phones and ended up not showing up today at noon. Jia Peng yawned and said, ¡°Manager, I tried out your strategy the whole night yesterday: it doesn¡¯t work! Why do I keep running out of Cob Cannons?!¡± Chen Mo only replied with a smile. Jia Peng said, ¡°...Manager if you keep doing that, I¡¯ll hit someone. Howe you can beat level 2000 easily, but I can only get up to 109?¡± Chen Mo rolled his eyes and replied, ¡°You beat twenty-odd levels in one night and you still aren¡¯t satisfied?¡± Jia Peng gave it some thought, and it seemed like that was true, then he should continue to investigate... ¡ª Chen Mo went to the app store to check out the statistics for nts vs Zombies. So far, manypanies had their articles done, the only thing missing were the statistics. At 12 PM sharp, the statistics were updated! nts vs Zombies: 23,187 downloads, 9.1 rating! It broke twenty thousand in twenty-four hours! ording to Chen Mo¡¯s estimates, it would break ten thousand in twenty-four hours, but Chen Mo wasn¡¯t too optimistic about it breaking twenty thousand. How when Chen Mo looked at it this morning, it had already surpassed twenty thousand, and at 12 PM, it was around twenty-three thousand. This meant that nts vs Zombies had received another wave of downloads during the night! Furthermore, nts vs Zombies had entered the top 10 for puzzle games, strategy games, casual games, and so on. It even managed to reach the top 100 paid games! The promotional spaces were even crazier, as the official game store gave nts vs Zombies a spot on the front page, under ¡°Must y Today!¡± There were four main promotional spaces on the front page. The best was for ssic games, which would be rmended on a rolling banner alongside five other games. The next was the ¡°Hot Today¡± rmendations. They would receive arger icon, which featured ten games. The one after that was the ¡°Must y Today¡°, which also had therger icons, but would be provided for ten to twenty games. The worst of them was ¡°Specials Today¡°, with about thirty rmended games. However, the worst front page rmendations were better than anything after the second page. Being able to receive a ¡°Must y Today¡± rmendation meant that nts vs Zombies was already doing quite well. It could be said that very few games are able to receive this rmendation only one day after its release. This meant that the score given by the system to nts vs Zombies was very high! Chapter 36

Chapter 36: Chapter 35: The Game¡¯s Gone Viral!

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth Even the video game mediapanies were shocked by the numberd. This included a lot of people who didn¡¯t get a good night¡¯s sleep. Why? Trying to finish the script, of course! The first day¡¯s sales went from a thousand, to five thousand, and ten thousand, then twenty thousand. The script couldn¡¯t be the same when the numbers were that different! The media thought that the first day of sales would be around eight to ten thousand, as they thought nts vs Zombies was a casual puzzle game, which always had a smaller audience. It would gain a lot of yers in the first few hours from Weibo, and after the hype died down the sales would also follow. In the end, the numberspletely surpassed their expectations! Not only did it not slow down, but it kept increasing, and broke twenty thousand in twenty-four hours! Some had known that they were going to witness this go down in history. At noon, when the twenty-four hour statistics for nts vs Zombies were released, the media started uploading their articles. =============== ¡°The biggest underdog today: nts vs Zombies!¡± ¡°Breaking twenty thousand downloads in the first day, destroying the new games leaderboard¡± ¡°Gamers say: I can¡¯t stop!¡± ¡°Industry professionals predict: Likely to enter the puzzle games leaderboard!¡± ¡°Game reviews: Rich content, new ystyle, otherworldly creativity!¡± ¡°Can you believe this? ppybird and nts vs Zombies had the same designer!¡± ¡°Breaking a hundred thousand in the first month? Shi Huazhe has noment.¡± =============== The consensus of the video game media was very positive. The numbers that nts vs Zombies produced were too good overall, and there wasn¡¯t much to nitpick in the terms of quality either. Even the haters found it difficult to find things to hate on. Under bombardment from the video game media, nts vs Zombies was getting more and more well known. In addition to the promoted space on the official app store, it was likely that nts vs Zombies would receive another wave of explosive growth! Noticing the hype around Chen Mo¡¯s game, many ¡°caring¡± yers put down everything they had on hand to check out Shi Huazhe¡¯s Weibo, but it turned out that he had deleted his reply to Chen Mo. Before today he liked criticizing everything, but ever since nts vs Zombies became popr, he hadn¡¯t posted anything yet. The ¡®caring¡¯ inte citizens weren¡¯t satisfied. He was the one to say confidently that Chen Mo¡¯s first game wouldn¡¯t be able to break a hundred thousand sales in the first month. Did he still think that now? Forget about a hundred thousand; after breaking twenty thousand on the first day, this game would be heading for five hundred thousand in the first month! ================ ¡°Mr Shi Huazhe, say something.¡± ¡°It¡¯s fine, nts vs Zombies only had twenty thousand downloads in the first day, it¡¯s possible that it won¡¯t hit a hundred thousand in the first month. You still have a chance, sir.¡± ¡°Sir, don¡¯t give up your treatment!¡± ¡°I have to say, it was a smart move for him to not say anything when asked what he was going to eat. That was smart of him.¡± ¡°So, you don¡¯t n to show yourself anytime soon?¡± =============== The spectators around nts vs Zombies were allmenting on Shi Huazhe¡¯s Weibo trying to start something. A few of the sarcasticments were pushed to the top with hundreds of likes. Shi Huazhe didn¡¯t post anything, because he knew what would happen if he did. The best thing he could do was to not do anything. However, this didn¡¯t mean he hadn¡¯t been looking at Weibo. With so many people making fun of him, sure he was angry, but there was nothing he could do since nts vs Zombies had performed very well. Coming out and criticizing it wouldn¡¯t do much. With these sales and poprity, going against the flow would surely bring many haters. While Shi Huazhe was mad, he wouldn¡¯te out now to be murdered on the inte. ¡°How is this kid so lucky? How can everything he makes get so popr? Next time, there¡¯s no way he¡¯ll be able to maintain this next time!¡± Shi Huazhe was set on notmenting. After others made fun of him and did not get any reactions, they decided to let this matter slide. Things got popr quickly and died down quickly on social media. These users were just trying to band together, and when they saw that nothing could be started, they left it alone. However, nts vs Zombies was getting quite popr, and the sales kept increasing. ¡ª¡ª Zao Zihao and Lin Mao both congratted Chen Mo over the phone. ¡°Not bad, I heard you murdered the new games leaderboard. I think you must¡¯ve raked in quite a bit of money. Hurry up, I¡¯m still waiting for my pay to win game,¡± said Zao Zihao. Chen Moughed and said, ¡°Don¡¯t worry, I haven¡¯t forgotten.¡± Lin Mao called in to congratte Shi Huazhe, ¡°That¡¯s pretty good, Chen Mo. I thought that your game would get quite popr, with a chance of going viral. I didn¡¯t think it¡¯d be this popr. That¡¯s amazing!¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°Your game is also doing pretty well, seeing as you¡¯re second on the new games leaderboard.¡± Lin Mao said, ¡°Sigh, it doesn¡¯t evene close to your nts vs Zombies. I¡¯ve been ying it for the past two days. It¡¯s actually pretty well done in all aspects, in particr how much ytime there is! I think this game is going to start a puzzle game trend.¡± Chen Mo replied, ¡°So be it, I¡¯m not making a puzzle game for my next one.¡± Lin Mao was shocked, ¡°Huh? What are you trying to do? This game is going to go viral, why not make a nts vs Zombies 2 while it¡¯s still hot?¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°Nah, I¡¯m fine. I¡¯m not nning on making my next game a puzzle game.¡± Lin Mao didn¡¯t understand, ¡°Why? It makes you money and fame! You¡¯re good at it too, why not do it?¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°It¡¯s hard to exin, but I just don¡¯t see too much potential in these types of games. Alright, I have to go. Let¡¯s meet up some time.¡± ¡ª¡ª It wasn¡¯t just Lin Mao who thought that puzzle games were about to be popr. So did the video game media! It was hard to say how popr nts vs Zombies was, but from what was going on now, it was possible for it to top the puzzle games leaderboard, possibly making ripples in the paid games leaderboard too! Moreover, the game had been able to maintain a score of around 9.3, and a portion of that must havee from downvotes bypetitors. However, their efforts were proven useless, as the reviews had never fallen below nine. It was evident that this game was extremely popr! The number of yers who requested a refund were also few and far between. As long as you had a short ytime and had a good reason for the refund, the app store would provide one. However there were extremely few yers who requested refunds, meaning that they recognized the game and nned to y it long into the future! In the eyes of the video game media and video game designers, Chen Mo¡¯s first game was stable, well done, had gone far, was already quite popr, and was certainly quite influential. Puzzle games were always quite popr, but there weren¡¯t many that could take it to the extreme. Puzzle games naturally had arge yer base, as they catered to both the young and old. Therefore if it got popr, it would surely go viral. Moreover the entry requirements for puzzle games weren¡¯t high, even a C or D-grade video game designer could make one. The only thing required was innovation! Not one of the designers in this world felt that theycked creativity. Therefore, some designers and video game media were trying to figure out which direction this would end up in. Would nts vs Zombies be a fire starter, reigniting the entire puzzle game market? Would a golden age for puzzle games arrive soon? It could only be judged by numbers in the future. However, nobody knew that the creator of the game, Chen Mo, didn¡¯t n to continue making puzzle games... At least for now! Chapter 37

Chapter 37: Chapter 36 ¨C Leading the Surge in Casual Games

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth Under the watching eyes of the entire gaming industry, the statistics of nts vs Zombies continued to increase. First twenty-four hours, 23,187! First three days, 77,409; first week, 122,375; first thirty days, 514,580! Over that first month, the video game media and video game designers were shocked time and time again. Normally a game would grow in the first week and slowly decrease. nts vs Zombies had a stable number of downloads even through the fourth week! Five hundred thousand sales in the first month! What did that mean? Chen Mo had earned more than two million RMB from this game in just one month! This number was insane for someone fresh to the industry, so much so that nts vs Zombies had set off a craze in the video game industry! The yers were spreading like a virus, the sales numbers kept on increasing! Many yers formed their ownmunities to try and figure out strategies for nts vs Zombies, in particr the endless mode, as the leaderboards shifted day to day. The video game media had new articles every day, with different industry professionals analyzing the sess of nts vs Zombies. Many game designers were discussioning the very same topic, even in major discussion forums and the Illusion Game Engine discussions. How did nts vs Zombies be so popr? Can its sess be replicated? Can it be used as a reference? The level design,bat system, code, tutorial, art, music and some other details of nts vs Zombies were studied again and again, bing a benchmark for other puzzle games. ¡ª¡ª An A-grade Zen Entertainment designer released a long Weibo post, detailing what made nts vs Zombies so sessful. They also mentioned that the puzzle game industry was about to have its renaissance. In his Weibo post, he said: To be honest, I quite admire Chen Mo, the creator of nts vs Zombies. As a new video game designer, he has provided us video game designers who overlook casual games with an important lesson. We always think that casual games are a small matter, and only C and D-grade video game designers use them to hone their skills. Because casual puzzle games like these were never able to have extended ytimes or strongly engage with the yers, the yers would grow tired of them, resulting in huge losses. Many of these so-called puzzle games don¡¯t have many puzzling elements to them. They are usually child¡¯s y, and far off from therger puzzle games. However, nts vs Zombies has overturned that traditional view. Who said puzzle games couldn¡¯t beplicated? Who said puzzle games couldn¡¯t have extended ytimes? Two of the biggest problems that were holding back puzzle games were solved by nts vs Zombies! Obviously, it wasn¡¯t the type of game that was the problem; it was our thinking that was limited! Not only that, nts vs Zombies showed us that there is a huge market for casual puzzle games. These games aren¡¯t niche, but can cover the entire market! Moreover, Chen Mo has taught an important lesson to all C and D-grade video game designers: even if you have lower resource limits or worse skills, it doesn¡¯t matter. Doesn¡¯t everyone im they are full of innovation? If you really are innovative, go ahead and make a casual game like nts vs Zombies; it will allow you to reach the peak as a videogame designer! As for Chen Mo, I think he has shown his prowess in puzzle games. As long as he can keep this going and make another two or three puzzle games at the same level as nts vs Zombies, I can guarantee that he will be not just one of the best, but the best video game designer in China! ¡ª¡ª Industry professionals, video game media, yer discussion... all of their evaluations were positive. There was nothing like what had happened with ppybirdst time, where a video game designer or game reviewer came out and pointed their finger at nts vs Zombies and said it was bad. Once in a while there would be a hate message, but they would be drowned out by the fans. Chen Mo knew that he made the right choice, for both fame and fortune. After nts vs Zombies topped the casual puzzle games chart, Chen Mo was now the word on the street. ¡ª¡ª In a month¡¯s time, Chen Mo had ny thousand followers on Weibo, demonstrating the poprity of the game. However, Chen Mo knew that nts vs Zombies still had greater potential. In his previous life, nts vs Zombies had reached three hundred thousand sales in the first nine days, breaking several records, and had actually taken the world by storm. Chen Mo had already managed to recreate at least ny percent of nts vs Zombies up, but had only received five hundred thousand sales. Evidently there was still a gap between it and the original. Chen Mo gave the matter some thought. First was advertising. Chen Mo hadn¡¯t done any advertising. The video game media reposts did give him some attention, but it was worlds away from the advertising the bigpanies were able to do. nts vs Zombies basically started off on the wrong footpared to them. Second was the market problem. nts vs Zombies was only released in China. If he was able to release it outside of China, the sales should be higher. However, Chen Mo was satisfied with his performance so far. Although nts vs Zombies did have the ability to enter the international market, Chen Mo didn¡¯t want to invest too much time and effort into it. In Chen Mo¡¯s view, the overseas market was unexplored territory. Were the tastes of the overseas market the same in this parallel world? That required a lot of time and effort to experiment with. Chen Mo didn¡¯t want to consider the overseas market for now, so he didn¡¯t put too much effort into it. Chen Mo was quite happy with the fact that nts vs Zombies was able to achieve results like it had. He didn¡¯t expect the game to break the sky. If just considering the starting steps, Chen Mo had forged a perfect start as a videogame designer. What he could achieve next depended on what he wanted to do! ¡ª¡ª 10 AM... Chen Mo sat at the bar table letting out yawns left and right. He had been out drinking with Lin Mao and Zhao Zihao till 11 PM, and was suffering the effects of that. Since Chen Mo and Lin Mao had great sess with their games, a celebration was required. Therefore Chen Mo decided to let himself enjoy some alcohol this time. Adventure of the Storm Rider received seventy thousand downloads in the first month. Although it didn¡¯te close to nts vs Zombies, it was top three on the new games leaderboards, raking in about eight hundred thousand RMB for Lin Mao. Lin Mao was quite happy with that achievement, as most new video game designers couldn¡¯t even hope to achieve results like that. Of course, Lin Mao was head over heels with results that nts vs Zombies had achieved. Within his admiration was happiness for Chen Mo. During the past few days, Wen Lingwei and Jia Peng didn¡¯te to the experience store every day like they had before. After ying it for a month, their passion for nts vs Zombies had slowly died down. More and more strategies were being released to the public, and more and more were being discovered, but the passion for the game would die down over time. Wen Lingwei and the others were urging Chen Mo to release a sequel, or even a new game. Chen Mo knew in his heart that nts vs Zombies had a really long lifetime. Some people might be able to y it for one or two years, but for the majority, they¡¯d get sick of it after a month or two. Of course, for a standalone game, it didn¡¯t matter that the gamers were sick of it. What was important was that the game was sold and money was earned. All that was left to do was to release the next game. Chen Mo was ready to move his focus to his next game, but before that, he wanted to give nts vs Zombies an update! Chapter 38

Chapter 38: Chapter 37 ¨C Visiting Neighbor

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth Chen Mo was looking through the yer discussions and forum hot posts for nts vs Zombies. If a new version was released, it would depend on what the yers wanted or liked. If he released a version that didn¡¯t cater to the yers¡¯ desires, it would be meaningless. Chen Mo then noticed a woman at the door. She had a ponytail, was wearing jeans, and was dressed pretty neatly overall. ¡°Zhuo Yao?¡± Chen Mo managed to recall her name. She was the owner of Fates Inte Cafe, who hade over just after Chen Mo had opened his experience store. Zhuo Yao was shocked when she looked around the first floor of the experience store. ¡°Wow, I haven¡¯t been around for a month, and your experience store is much livelier than when I was herest! I remember it waspletely emptyst time!¡± Chen Mo replied stiffly, ¡°Of course! It¡¯s not possible to have opened for a month and not have a single person in your inte cafe, right?¡± Zhuo Yao answered, ¡°You can¡¯t reallypare; is your experience store really the same as an inte cafe? Seems like you¡¯re doing quite well for yourself, there¡¯s so many yers here.¡± Chen Mo poured her a ss of water while she sat down on the sofa. ¡°You said you¡¯d be here some other day. Turns out that some other day was a monthter!¡± Chen Mo jested. ¡°(Sigh) Stop mentioning it. There was so much to do at the inte cafe, so I couldn¡¯t leave,¡± said Zhuo Yao. ¡°Moreover, I¡¯ve been addicted to this game as ofte.¡± Chen Mo asked, ¡°Addicted to a game?¡± Zhuo Yao nodded, ¡°Yeah, it¡¯s that nts vs Zombies that became really popr recently. Haven¡¯t you yed it? You¡¯re a videogame designer, there¡¯s no way you don¡¯t pay attention to the new games leaderboard.¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°Uhh... I¡¯ve yed it.¡± Zhuo Yao said happily, ¡°I knew it. So what level are you up to for endless mode? I¡¯m up to 97, I¡¯ll pass 100 soon!¡± Chen Mo didn¡¯t reply. Zhuo Yao noticed that Chen Mo was being a bit weird, she assumed that he was embarrassed about his score and consoled him, ¡°It¡¯s alright, I¡¯ll teach you. My strategy is great, guaranteed to cruise through the first fifty levels.¡± Chen Mo pointed at a far awayputer at a girl ying the game, ¡°She¡¯s already at level 174.¡± ¡°Huh?!¡± Zhuo Yao was shocked. What was the meaning of that? She stood up to get a better look of the girl. She seemed like a good kid, probably a student from the nearby university. How could she be better than herself, who¡¯s been ying throughout the nights? -Hold on!- When Zhuo Yao walked into the store, she hadn¡¯t paid any attention to what people were ying. But she noticed something when she looked at the screens. Was everyone here ying nts vs Zombies? -This is an experience store, and experience stores usually only contain games that belong to the designer. Does that mean...- Zhuo Yao looked at Chen Mo, ¡°Could it be... you¡¯re the designer of nts vs Zombies?¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Yep, that¡¯s right.¡± Zhuo Yao stood there for three seconds and finally realized the implications. ¡°I¡¯m gonna faint! That game was your creation? I was wondering why the logo on the game¡¯s loading screen was so familiar? Turns out I saw it on the door of your store!¡± Chen Mo was speechless. ¡°I think there should be a limit of how forgetful someone can be. Your inte cafe is nearby, and you can¡¯t even remember my logo?¡± Zhuo Yao was a bit embarrassed, and said after coughing, ¡°About that... You know that we who open inte cafes rarely leave them... Yeah.¡± Chen Mo nodded, ying along, ¡°Yep, true.¡± Zhuo Yao couldn¡¯t hold back herughter, ¡°What do you mean, true? Whatever, I won¡¯t argue with you. Teach me the secrets to nts vs Zombies now!¡± Chen Mo was speechless, ¡°Why are you all like this, asking me for secret techniques every time you see me. There are many posts on the forums, go find one there!¡± Zhuo Yao rolled her eyes, ¡°Stingy.¡± Chen Mo was once again speechless. -How can everything be tied back to me being stingy? This has nothing to do with me stingy, but you beingzy!- Zhuo Yao said, ¡°Sigh, but honestly, I didn¡¯t think a new video game designer like you could make a game like that. Unfortunately, mobile games don¡¯t do too much for my inte cafe.¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°Don¡¯t worry, I¡¯ll make more standalone games in the future. Also, I forgot to ask, is your inte cafe mainly for PC or VR games?¡± Zhuo Yao replied, ¡°PC. I thought about changing to VR, but the capital is too big, and I don¡¯t have that much in terms of funds. Right now PC-centric inte cafes are in an awkward spot, I¡¯ve been struggling for a while now about this matter.¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°Yeah, I know. I think the main thing is that PC games are being pressured by VR games, putting them in a difficult situation.¡± ¡°Exactly,¡± Zhuo Yao felt helpless. ¡°VR inte cafes will be the thing of the future, PC inte cafes will probably slowly fall out of favor.¡± Chen Mo shook his head, ¡°That might not be the case.¡± Zhuo Yao was shocked. ¡°Why?¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°It¡¯s simple! The reason PC inte cafes are struggling is because there haven¡¯t been any popr games on PC released recently. What if there was a super popr game that was able to put pressure on VR games?¡± Zhuo Yao murmured, ¡°That¡¯s... not likely...¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°There isn¡¯t one now doesn¡¯t mean that there won¡¯t be one in the future. Before nts vs Zombies was released, who would¡¯ve thought that the puzzle game market was so big?¡± Zhuo Yao replied after three seconds of thought, ¡°So, are you just praising yourself?¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Yep!¡± Zhuo Yao was speechless. Chen Mo said, ¡°That¡¯s the truth! I think you can continue your PC inte cafe. The future isn¡¯t as grim as you think...¡± Chapter 39

Chapter 39: Chapter 38: Hiring

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth In his previous life, MOBA dominated the PC and mobile market; other genres didn¡¯t evene close. In Chen Mo¡¯s mind, MOBA¡¯s dominance would continue for at least five to ten years. (Trans Note: MOBA = Multiyer Online Battle Arena format, i.e. League of Legends, DotA, etc.) As for what game would take the ce of MOBA, and be the king for the next ten years? Nobody knew. If someone did have the answer, he¡¯d start making it now! This was only true in the previous world, but what about in the parallel world, where gaming design concepts were undeveloped? Although the parallel world had VR games, Chen Mo didn¡¯t think that the VR games had better yability than MOBAs. On the PC front, the genres that were being pressured the most were adventure and FPS games, followed by strategy and management games. Genres like casual and mobile games weren¡¯t affected by VR games at all. Chen Mo thought that MOBAs, as a genre that had never surfaced in the parallel world, had huge potential, not unlike his previous world. That was why he hypothesized that PC games would never die off, and PC inte cafes would never go extinct. Of course, he wouldn¡¯t go and try and exin this concept to others, much less reveal any game concepts. Zuo Yao studied the arrangement in the experience store and asked, ¡°I just thought of something. Are you the only one in the experience store?¡± Chen Mo was shocked, ¡°What do you mean, just me? Aren¡¯t there other yers here?¡± Zuo Yao exined, ¡°I mean that in an inte cafe, there¡¯s someone responsible for technical issues, and one for the cashier. Is it just you here? Are you able to manage it?¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°Oh, that¡¯s what you meant. I¡¯m able to manage. The checking in onto the machines is self service. The daily maintenance and cleaning are done by professionals. There really isn¡¯t much that I need to do.¡± Zuo Yao said, ¡°But you still need to keep an eye on the first floor right? Isn¡¯t your office on the second floor?¡± Chen Mo was shocked; he really had overlooked that problem. Now that the experience store was open for business from ten to eight, Chen Mo had to stay on the first floor. However, his office was on the second floor. That meant that Chen Mo had to be the receptionist! Zuo Yao said, ¡°I think that you should hire someone to work at the front. In the end, you¡¯re now a famous video game designer, surely you don¡¯t have to be so personal with the yers?¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Yeah, you do have a point...¡± Zuo Yao stood up, ¡°Alright, I need to head back. Come visit me next time. Since we are neighbors, let¡¯s visit one another more often.¡± ¡°No problem!¡± Chen Mo stood up and showed her the door. ¡ª¡ª After sending Zuo Yao away, Chen Mo started to brainstorm about the receptionist problem. nts vs Zombies was now making stable ie. And Chen Mo wasn¡¯t short on money like before either. It was entirely possible for him to pay for one other person. However was concerned Chen Mo was other than the receptionist, was there anyone else that he needed to hire? Many video game designers have an assistant. For example when A or S-grade designers are designingrger VR games, it¡¯s unreasonable toplete it with one or two people, a whole team would be required. Chen Mo was now also decently well-known. If he wanted to hire an assistant, it was likely that many designers that hadn¡¯t entered the industry would be willing to work without pay. However, Chen Mo was a bit hesitant. This world wasn¡¯t the same as his previous one. The previous world relied on strength; the more talents thepany had, the better thepany would grow. Popr games required coordinating research, distribution, and marketing. Creativity wasn¡¯t the be-all and end-all for video games. It wasn¡¯t the same in this parallel world, where creativity was everything. Chen Mo didn¡¯t doubt that, either. If a A-grade video game designer caught wind of the idea of a MOBA, they¡¯d be able to create something with striking resemnce to a MOBA in a year¡¯s time. Chen Mo¡¯s Thunderbolt entertainment wasn¡¯t as big and mighty as something like Emperor Dynasty Entertainment or Zen Entertainment, so creativity was all he had, and something he could not afford to lose. He now had a Pandora¡¯s Box in his hand. Once the box was opened, it would drastically change the video game industry. When that happened, the otherpanies would surely do something in retaliation. What if the change came early? That wouldn¡¯t be good news for him! Therefore, there was a certain risk to hiring an assistant. Chen Mo¡¯s way of thinking would surely affect the assistant¡¯s after working for him long-term. Once the assistant figured something out and started their ownpany, it would be the same as Chen Mo raising his ownpetitor. Chen Mo was quite conflicted! However, he decided on hiring an assistant in the end. He would be makingrger games in the future, and there was no way he could do that alone. This step would have to be taken sooner orter. Of course, this assistant must be chosen to his requirements. He¡¯d rather not hire one than hire the wrong one. ¡ª After getting something in mind, Chen Mo went to hisputer and put in a long Weibo post. ==== Hiring: Video game experience store receptionist, female, good-looking, good working attitude, with basic knowledge of the video game industry. Hiring: Video game designer assistant, male or female, must have sufficient knowledge of the video game industry, professional, good working attitude. Applicants must provide the following: 1. Resume, 2. Thoughts on nts vs Zombies 3. Thoughts on any other mobile game on the market, 4. Thoughts on the future of the video game industry. Please send the above details to my inbox, sessful applicants are required to go through an interview. ==== After proof-reading the post, he sent it out. Chen Mo now had around a hundred thousand fans on Weibo. Most of them were fans of nts vs Zombies, or industry professionals who liked the game. Most of them were shocked after seeing the post, and reposted it. ==== This is a good opportunity, reposted. I¡¯d love to go, but I¡¯m still in school, reposted. Surely there¡¯s something to gather from the designer of nts vs Zombies! reposted. I wanna join! I¡¯ll be writing my thoughts on the games then. ==== Soon after, Chen Mo received plenty of interest after his Weibo post was reposted countless times. Of course, many of them wanted to be his assistant, and there were barely any receptionist applicants. It was difficult to enter the industry, even in the parallel world. Many wanted to join the industry, but couldn¡¯t make it themselves or didn¡¯t have enough talent; this was their only choice. As Chen Mo was now decently popr, the people who wanted to work under him were plentiful. In the eyes of many, Chen Mo was an extremely talented video game designer whose first game had gone viral. They would surely learn a lot if they had a chance to work under him! Chapter 40

Chapter 40: Chapter 39: nts vs Zombies Version ns

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth Chen Mo decided to wait until night time before checking the applications. He decided to focus on nning the next update for nts vs Zombies. In his previous life, nts vs Zombies had a sequel. Although it made a decent amount of money, the yer reviews left a lot to be desiredpared to the first game. That was why Chen Mo didn¡¯t want to make nts vs Zombies 2. If he wanted to make money and get hated on by fans, why not make some Pay to Win game? Just so the name of nts vs Zombies wouldn¡¯t be tarnished. This uing update will probably be the first andst update for the game, therefore Chen Mo wanted to please the fans, allowing the yers to invent their own ystyles, which would allow fans to y the game well into the future. As Chen Mo was about to start developing a new game, he didn¡¯t have the time or energy to maintain the game in the future. After giving it some thought, Chen Mo narrowed it down to a couple features. First, in terms of content, add developer tools. Anyone could use the developer tools to test out anything in the game. They could make adjustments to the nts, zombies, the environment, and the maps. They could also upload resources to make new types of nts and zombies, and they could use the existing artwork to make new maps, levels, and ystyles. These mods could be released, browsed, and installed by yers. The yers could rate and review the mods. There would be an algorithm to rank the mods ording to downloads, rating and ytime, rmending mods to yers periodically. Second, addworking and social capabilities to allow yers tomunicate better within the game. nts vs Zombies had simple connectivity and leaderboard functions when it was released, but this was only enough to satisfy the bragging needs of the yers, leaving behind the deeper social interactions. Through the new social capabilities, yers could add each other as friends or joinmunities. Friends or yers belonging to the samemunity could watch other yers, upload their own ythroughs, and rmend mods. Third, make a multiyer mode. In theory, with the developer tools, multiyer was only a matter of time. Chen Mo was just trying to elerate it. Chen Mo only had two simple game modes in his n for now. First was multiyer co-op, each yer controlling three to fivenes, supporting two to five yers at a time. This meant that there would be twenty-fivenes, and the yer would be able to scroll up and check the status of other yers. Every yer would have their individual suns, and they could help other yers nt and defend against zombies together. Under multiyer mode, when a yer died they could be revived by other yers using a special nt, and yers could coordinate and nt some special nts together. The second mode would be versus mode, it could be 1v1, 2v2, or 3v3. Every yer could get suns or moons; suns for nts, moons for zombies. Zombies had to be generated slightly faster than nts. yers would have to defend their ownwns or use zombies to attack the other y¡¯swn. Whenever a yer lost, they wouldn¡¯t be able to revive. The reason for having two different resources, suns and moons, was to prevent certain yers from dragging the game out by only making nts. If one controlled nts and the other controlled zombies, it would be very difficult to bnce, which is why Chen Mo didn¡¯t do so. Chen Mo wasn¡¯t sure if multiyer modes like these would be sessful, but he was optimistic. Because the game followed the original ystyle, any changes he made would be beneficial, so it wouldn¡¯t be detrimental to the main game. Of course, it wouldn¡¯t matter if it didn¡¯t work out, as there would be mods made by themunity. Chen Mo estimated it would take two weeks. This was a generous estimate, as the main game only took one month. ¡ª¡ª By the time night fell, Chen Mo had basically finished the design document. After closing the doors, Chen Mo went back to the second floor, checked his inbox, and went through the applications. Most of the applications were for the assistant position, only four were for the front desk. Chen Mo wasn¡¯t too happy when he looked through the applications for the front desk. One of them had barely any knowledge of games, another had no experience with nts vs Zombies, and the other two didn¡¯t put much effort into the thoughts on the game. Of course, the main issue was their looks, which Chen Mo didn¡¯t find too attractive. Chen Mo wasn¡¯t part of the good looks club, nor did he have any ulterior motives when hiring for the front desk. But after all, it was a well-paid job, so Chen Mo had many choices and didn¡¯t need topromise. He was only thinking about the yers. A sweet receptionist would improve the mood of the yers who came to the store, so it would be better if he chose someone good looking. Or at least someone cute.... Chen Mo continued looking through the applications for the assistant role. There were many resumes, and Chen Mo only needed one assistant at this point. Therefore whenever he found someone that didn¡¯t match his requirements, he would delete them. He wasn¡¯t considering older people at this moment. Older people tended to be more conservative, weren¡¯t active enough, weren¡¯t as creative, and didn¡¯t have as much potential. Moreover, it would be awkward if his assistant was older than he was. He wasn¡¯t considering employment experience, either. The ones that had worked at otherpanies would have had certain ideas imprinted into their design process and thinking. As Chen Mo¡¯s ideas werepletely different from otherpanies, trying to convert them to the same wavelength would take time and effort. He didn¡¯t consider those who yed games all day and had nothing better to do, either. ying and designing games werepletely different things. ying games required reaction time, controls, and game knowledge, whereas designing games required logical thinking, attention to detail, a solid working ethic, and some inspiration. It was difficult for someone who was just a gamer to get a job in game design. ¡ª After that, he started looking at the thoughts on games that had been submitted. The thoughts reflected the knowledge one had of games. Chen Mo couldn¡¯t hire someone who contradicted his philosophy on games. For the thoughts on nts vs Zombies, Chen Mo just wanted to know how much the applicant understood about the game. As long as they mentioned two to three points about creativity, ystyle, system, levels, or code, they would be considered passing. As for the thoughts on other games, Chen Mo wanted to see what types of games they liked. They¡¯d be considered to pass if they picked a game that was rtively sessful and went over why the game was good. The thoughts on the future of video games was a supplementary question. He wasn¡¯t going to consider them if their judgement was too far off, as those people would be too dense to absorb anything. Chapter 41 Chapter 41: Chapter 40: Interview Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth With all his requirements gathered, the person Chen Mo was looking for was like so: Young and had potential. Well rounded skills and waspetent enough to assist. Had basic knowledge on games. Dependable and trustworthy. Chen Mo looked through all the resumes ording to his requirements. In the end, the results were disappointing. There wasn¡¯t a single one that matched his requirements. Of course, Chen Mo already had this oue in mind, as he was very rigorous in his screening process. It was only the first day, so he didn¡¯t need to rush. ¡ª Three dayster... At 10 AM, the experience store was open for business as usual. Chen Mo was at the bar on hisptop writing the design document for the next update for nts vs Zombies. The process went smoothly, as the new implementations were simple and based on the existing framework; the requirements were also concrete. The foundations were almost finished, all that was left was including the details in the design document and actually executing it. Chen Mo had received many resumes over the past three days, and had even done five interviews. In the end none of them matched his requirements, and he wasn¡¯t able to find an assistant or a receptionist. The few who came had some shorings; some of them weren¡¯t smart enough, others were too smart for their own good. None of them matched Chen Mo¡¯s expectations. As there was a difference between looking at the resume and interviewing, everything they did or said reflected on their nature. Chen Mo wasn¡¯t going to consider anyone that didn¡¯t meet his expectations. He wasn¡¯t going topromise. ¡ª ¡°Hello, I¡¯m here for an interview?¡± Chen Mo looked up and saw a woman at the door, around twenty-three years old. She had short hair and neat bangs, and was quite cute, with a genuine smile on her face, making her quite attractive. ¡°Oh, hi,e in.¡± Chen Mo got up and grabbed the copy of her resume that he had printed off earlier. Chen Mo led her into the meeting room and poured her a cup of water. Su Jinyu, twenty-three years old, fourth-year student at a renowned art school in the Imperial Capital, received copious numbers of awards in school that could barely fit on her resume. Chen Mo could tell that she wasn¡¯t strong-willed and assertive like Wen Lingwei, but more kind and courteous. The awards she had received on the resume were tough work that nobody else wanted to do. It also meant that she wasn¡¯t the type to do everything in her self-interest, but the hardworking type who would do anything. His impression of her was good so far! ¡°I¡¯ve looked through your resume and have a basic understanding of your achievements. I just want to get to know you more, so just treat it like we are chatting, and just rx.¡± Su Jinyu nodded, ¡°Mm!¡± Chen Mo felt that perhaps he was the one who was worried. Su Jinyu didn¡¯t show any sign of nervousness. She likely had been in many situations like this in school, or perhaps she was born that way. ¡°You said on your CV that you¡¯re happy being the assistant or working at the front desk, why?¡± Su Jinyu replied, ¡°Ah, I think if I¡¯m not fit to be the assistant, I was happy to work at the front desk. I would probably still learn something at the front desk.¡± This was an honest, hardworking response. Chen Mo could tell that Su Jinyu didn¡¯t hold herself too highly, probably because she had previously failed at being a videogame designer. ¡°Since you¡¯re pursuing an art degree, why not go into the art industry? Why do you want to be a video game designer? I¡¯ve seen your artwork, they¡¯re all very high quality. You shouldn¡¯t have a problem bing an artist,¡± Chen Mo inquired. Su Jinyu answered, ¡°Umm... I think that I can utilize my art skills by being a videogame designer too, but I also think that a videogame designer has even more creative freedom.¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°You¡¯ve tried making a game, but didn¡¯t receive the video game designer certifications. Do you feel that youck talent?¡± Su Jinyu replied, ¡°About that, maybe I dock talent, but I won¡¯t give up!¡± Chen Mo nodded and asked the next question, ¡°What do you think is the most important attribute a video game designer should have?¡± Su Jinyu knotted her brow. Through her expression you could tell that she needed some time to think through the vague question. ¡°Umm, I think that a video game designer should stand by what they believe.¡± Chen Mo was shocked. ¡°What they believe?¡± Su Jinyu exined, ¡°Ah, I don¡¯t mean religious beliefs. I meant that video game designers should follow their heart and connect emotionally with the yers, bringing them happiness and inspiring them.¡± Chen Mo gave it some thought and asked another question, ¡°If you could make a game that didn¡¯t have a good reputation, but made a lot of money, would do you make it?¡± Su Jinyu was confused, ¡°How would it make money if it¡¯s reputation wasn¡¯t good?¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°Hypothetically.¡± Su Jinyu said after thinking for a few moments, ¡°Umm... I don¡¯t know. All I could say is that if I don¡¯t think the game is good, no matter how much money it makes, I wouldn¡¯t make it.¡± Chen Mo continued to fire questions at her, ¡°What if I made a game like that?¡± Su Jinyu was shocked, ¡°Huh? You¡¯re the designer of nts vs Zombies. If you could make something like that, why would you care about money at the cost of reputation?¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°To be honest, there¡¯s a big chance that I¡¯ll release a game that makes good money, but wouldn¡¯t stand so well publically. If you can¡¯t take that, it¡¯ll mean we won¡¯t be working together.¡± Su Jinyu scowled, showing her internal struggle with this decision. After some thought, Su Jinyu replied, ¡°I don¡¯t think I¡¯ll be able to change your view. To be honest, I really like nts vs Zombies. I think whoever invents a game like that must be a genius designer. I¡¯m sure I¡¯ll learn a lot by being your assistant. ¡°I¡¯m not the sharpest tool in the shed. I¡¯ve tried being a videogame designer before, but failed. So I thought that I should start as an assistant and learn from there. ¡°How about this: I¡¯ll work the front desk, but give me some assistant-level jobs from time to time. If there¡¯s a game I don¡¯t like, I won¡¯t participate.¡± Su Jinyu had quite a sincere attitude, not giving up her views or trying to change Chen Mo¡¯s. If she was the assistant, Su Jinyu would have to follow Chen Mo¡¯s everymand. If there was a game she didn¡¯t like, she¡¯d have to do that, too. That was what was expected from a video game designer¡¯s assistant. Therefore, Su Jinyu wanted to work at the front desk and be a part-time assistant, which was quite a nicepromise. Chen Mo gave the idea some thought. Su Jinyu was the best candidate Chen Mo had so far. Her most prominent feature was her passion for video games. Furthermore, she was filled with infectious positive energy. It would be very nice to work alongside someone like her. However, their ideology wasn¡¯t entirely on the same wavelength, which worried Chen Mo. It was evident that Su Jinyu was someone who wanted to make her money standing up, whereas Chen Mo didn¡¯t agree. Thepetition in the video game industry was fierce. In front of Chen Mo were titans like Emperor Dynasty Entertainment and Zen Entertainment, and countless other smallerpanies, all with their eyes on him. In order to win in an environment like this, it wasn¡¯t enough to just rely on recreating good games from his previous life. Chen Mo wanted to makerge games, which would require a lot of money. Therefore, his only goal now was to make money, and giving up parts of his reputation for it wasn¡¯t a problem. This would create many conflicts between him and Su Jinyu. Chen Mo gave it some thought and said, ¡°How about this. Before you graduate you can work at the front desk and be my assistant part-time. If there¡¯s anything you aren¡¯t happy with, you can leave whenever you want. If you¡¯re willing to stay after you graduate, we can make it official via a contract. How¡¯s that?¡± Chapter 42 Chapter 42: Chapter 41: The Cute New Arrival Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth Su Jinyu nodded in agreement, ¡°Yep, that¡¯s fine!¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll just need some more details about the employment. First, the work time! Every day, from 10 AM to 8 PM. Try to be present on weekends. If you need some time off, try and have them on Monday or Tuesday.¡± Su Jinyu agreed. ¡°As for the pay, working during weekends and holidays will be considered overtime working out to about eight thousand RMB a month, transferred within the first five days of the month. However, you only get eight days of leave a month.¡± Su Jinyu was shocked, ¡°Huh? So much?¡± Normallypanies would try and keep the pay of interns as low as possible. In the Imperial Capital, even a student from a notable university would only receive around five thousand RMB a month. The pay might be higher for an industry that required plenty of overtime, but it wouldn¡¯t exceed seven thousand. Only after passing the orientation and bing a full-time employee could one hope to get above eight thousand RMB, possibly into the tens of thousands. Su Jinyu thought she would receive five thousand a month in sry, so Chen Mo¡¯s offer was beyond her expectations. Chen Mo said, ¡°If you¡¯re unhappy, reducing it isn¡¯t a problem.¡± Su Jinyu left out a stifledugh, ¡°I¡¯m perfectly happy with it.¡± Chen Mo never liked the idea of bargaining for pay. It was always a showdown between HR and the applicant. I want fifteen thousand, you want ten, settling at twelve. It reminded him of the olddies at the market haggling,pletely unnecessary and was disrespectful to the talent. Chen Mo felt that spending two to three more thousand RMB a month wasn¡¯t a big deal whenpared to the ten thousand RMB per spin. Moreover, he felt that Su Jinyu deserved that amount of money. Chen Mo continued, ¡°Now, regarding overtime.¡± Su Jinyu quickly interjected, ¡°Overtime isn¡¯t a problem, I¡¯m still at the stage of learning and gathering experience. If there¡¯s a need to work through the night...¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°Oh? You¡¯re mistaken. I was about to say that there¡¯s no need for overtime. 10 AM to 8 PM every day, there will be no overtime.¡± ¡°Huh?¡± Su Jinyu was shocked as the situation waspletely outside her expectations. In his previous world, working overtime waspletely normalized in the video game industry, and there wasn¡¯t extra pay either. In the parallel world, although it wasn¡¯t required, working overtime was still quitemon. The majority of the video game designers in the parallel world were workaholics. They were always more well-rounded, as they had to do all parts of a game. Therefore the main designer was always the busiest,pletely destroying their sleep schedule in the process, which is why most of them chose to stay in their offices. Su Jinyu thought that Chen Mo was also like that and was prepared to work overtime often, but it turned out Chen Mo didn¡¯t work overtime? Chen Mo said, ¡°Companies that need their employees to work overtime frequently can only be one of two typesL understaffed, or have poor working efficiency of employees. Thispany is neither of those.¡± Su Jinyu nodded, ¡°Mm!¡± Although a bit confused, she feltpelled to agree. Chen Mo said, ¡°You probably already know most of the things you need to know about working at the front desk. There normally won¡¯t be too many customers, so you can do whatever you want during downtime, be it ying games or watching videos online. I will provide you with some assistant-level work from time to time, so just make sure you finish them on time.¡± Su Jinyu said, ¡°Alright, no problem!¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°Alright, you can go back for today and prepare yourself for your first day tomorrow.¡± Su Jinyu nodded, ¡°Alright, nice meeting you!¡± ¡ª After shaking hands because it felt necessary, Su Jinyu left with a huge smile on her face. Su Jinyu was very happy with the job. Being able to learn with an amazing video game designer, way above average pay, not too much work, and no overtime either! The only negative was that there was seemingly some difference in their ideology. But it wasn¡¯t a problem. Even if the designer of nts vs Zombies wanted to ruin their reputation for money, how bad could it really get? ¡ª 10 AM the next day... Chen Mo opened the doors ten minutes early, but Su Jinyu was already standing there waiting. ¡°Good morning!¡± Su Jinyu greeted him. Chen Mo said, ¡°You don¡¯t need toe so early in the future. It¡¯s fine by me if you¡¯re five to ten minuteste.¡± Su Jinyu said, ¡°I can¡¯t do that, I¡¯ve always been punctual.¡± As the doors had just opened, there weren¡¯t any customers inside. Theptop and drawing tablet that Chen Mo had ordered had also arrived, both of which were quite high-end,pletely able to satisfy any design requirements as of now. ¡°Go ahead and install any software you need on theptop. I¡¯ll send you a design documentter during the afternoon, please look through and refine it.¡± Su Jinyu nodded, ¡°Mm, alright.¡± ¡ª After telling her some other things she needed to do, Chen Mo went back to the second floor. As Su Jinyu was already at the bar counter, there wasn¡¯t a need for him to be there. Su Jinyu downloaded somemonly used software onto herptop. As the files weren¡¯t big and the inte speed was good, downloading them didn¡¯t take much time. Su Jinyu was quite pumped on her first day of work. She got up and walked around the first floor. As the maintenance and cleaning were done by professionals, everything was very neat. The screens, keyboards, and mice were all clean, and the seats were arranged neatly. Meeting room, bar table, snacks rack, sofa... Su Jinyu walked around the entire first floor, getting the impression that Chen Mo¡¯s experience store wasn¡¯t the same as the others she had seen before. It gave away a rxing vibe. Perhaps it was the orientation of things. Su Jinyu sat down at the bar table. A dark-skinned, skinny man walked into the store around five past ten. ¡°Hello, wee!¡± Su Jinyu greeted him politely. Jia Peng was shocked with his eyes and mouth wide open. He stepped backwards outside and took a look at the sign. -Thunderbolt Gaming experience store, it¡¯s right!- Jia Peng looked at the interior of the store. Yep, nothing has changed, other than the manager was now a cute girl. -D-did he be a woman?!- ¡°Uhh...are you...¡± Jia Peng questioned hesitantly. Su Jinyu said, ¡°I¡¯m Su Jinyu, the new receptionist.¡± ¡°Oh!¡± Jia Peng finally understood. ¡°Hello! Where¡¯s the owner?¡± Su Jinyu replied, ¡°He¡¯s on the second floor, is there something you need from him?¡± Jia Peng waved dismissively, ¡°No, it¡¯s fine. Uhh, I¡¯m just here to y games for a while, it¡¯s fine.¡± Jia Peng swiped his ID and sat down at aputer, taking a peek at Su Jinyu. He was having some internal thoughts. Tsk, I haven¡¯t been here for two days and there¡¯s a new receptionist now. It¡¯s a cute girl, too. That¡¯s big news. Jia Peng took out his phone and sent a message to his group. >Something big has happened! The manager hired a cute girl to work the front desk! Soon, there were countless replies. >Huh? Really? She wasn¡¯t there when I went yesterday! >I think the manager was hiring the past few days and even had a few interviews. >He found a new hire? Is it really a cute girl? How cute is she? >I don¡¯t buy it! Pics or it never happened! >Yeah, send a picture! >Is she as cute as senior Xiuya? Jia Peng was speechless, replying: Come have a look yourselves! Wen Lingwei: Don¡¯t let the cute girl leave, I¡¯ll be right there! The group had exploded. Instead of developing games, why did the manager think of evil tactics like this? Did he intentionally hire a cute girl to draw us in because we haven¡¯t been there recently? That¡¯s just too much! This type of behavior? Pathetic! But... it was a good choice! Chapter 43 Chapter 43: Chapter 42: Very Good, but Rewrite It Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth After only ten minutes, a huge group of people came into the store, one after another. Wen Lingwei was the first to arrive, and her eyes set on Su Jinyu, who was sitting at the bar table. ¡°The new receptionist?¡± Wen Lingwei said as she leaned on the bar table. Su Jinyu nodded, ¡°Yup, I¡¯m Su Jinyu, nice to meet you.¡± Wen Lingwei said, ¡°Wen Lingwei. Don¡¯t worry, I¡¯ll protect you. If the boss bullies you, tell me and I¡¯ll sort it out with him.¡± The others behind Wen Lingwei also took the opportunity to cop a look of Su Jinyu as they swiped their ID¡¯s. It really was a cute girl! She wasn¡¯t the type that would shock you at first sight, but one that you wouldn¡¯t mind staring at. There was an active aura underneath all the cuteness, enticing a few of the guys. ¡°Uhh, senior...¡± a guy said to Wen Lingwei, wanting to join in the conversation. Wen Lingwei gave him a cold stare, ¡°Back off.¡± ¡°Alright...¡± the guy hesitantly retreated. Jia Peng was speechless. ¡°Damn, had I known this would happen, I never would¡¯ve told you guys!¡± ¡ª Wen Lingwei, Chang Xiuya and a few other girls surrounded Su Jinyu and started chatting. A few of the guys only dared look from afar as they didn¡¯t dare to join in. ¡°Damn, how could the senior do this to us!¡± ¡°Yeah, the cute girl belongs to all of us!¡± ¡°I object!¡± Of course, they could only say that under their breath. They wouldn¡¯t dare speak out against Wen Lingwei. ¡ª ¡°Geez, why are you guys all here.¡± Chen Mo was speechless when he saw what was going on after he came down from the second floor. In the midst of working on the design document for nts vs Zombies, he had heard a lot of chattering from the first floor. When he got down, there were ten or so people. It had been over a week since there were many people at his store. Wen Lingwei looked at Chen Mo and asked, ¡°Manager, can I buy this cute girl from you?¡± The corner of Chen Mo¡¯s lips twitched. ¡°Employees are not for sale.¡± ¡°Stingy!¡± Chen Mo was speechless. -Please, human trafficking is illegal!- ¡°If you guys want to get to know each other, chat when she¡¯s off work. Don¡¯t bother her while she¡¯s working,¡± he said. Wen Lingwei shot back, ¡°What¡¯s her job?¡± Chen Mo replied, ¡°Uhh, greeting customers at the front desk?¡± Wen Lingwei asked slowly, ¡°Isn¡¯t she greeting customers now? I¡¯m the customer.¡± Chen Mo was once again speechless. -Good point, there¡¯s nothing I can say!- Su Jinyuughed, ¡°Maybe you guys should let me work. I can feel your love, but it is still working hours after all. ¡°How about we start an experience store group?¡± suggested Jia Peng. Chang Xiuya was shocked, ¡°Experience store group?¡± Jia Peng nodded, ¡°Yeah, we can add the regrs of the experience store into the group, including the manager and the cute girl.¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°Friendly reminder, pay some respect to her. She¡¯s in her fourth year, so she¡¯s a senior to all of you.¡± Wen Lingwei said, ¡°And you¡¯re trying to say?¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°Alright then, pretend I didn¡¯t say anything.¡± Evidently this group of people were way more interested in Su Jinyu than Chen Mo or his games! ¡ª Soon after, the experience store group was created. Jia Peng added everyone into the group and gave Chen Mo, Wen Lingwei, and Su Jinyu moderator roles. Of course, this was also an easy way to get the contact number of the girl... Although Chen Mo felt a bit left out, he was still relieved because Su Jinyu was so popr, meaning that his definition of beauty was quite normal. After making sure nobody, especially Wen Lingwei, would kidnap his new receptionist, Chen Mo retreated upstairs. The foundations of the design document for nts vs Zombies were already there. After giving it some thought, Chen Mo decided to hand over interconnectivity and multiyer features to Su Jinyu, and do the developer tools himself. The interconnectivity and multiyer features were definitive and the requirements were also clear cut, so Chen Mo wanted to use this opportunity to test out her design skills. ¡ª At noon, Chen Mo temporarily closed the experience store as he took Su Jinyu, Wen Lingwei, and the others to a nearby restaurant for lunch, not only to celebrate the huge sales made by nts vs Zombies, but also as a weing meal for Su Jinyu. As these people were the earliest yers at the experience store, they had be quite good friends with Chen Mo as they watched the sess of nts vs Zombies together. ¡ª As the afternoon came, Chen Mo sent the design document to Su Jinyu. ¡°I sent you the whole design document folder; just refine these two design documents and send it to me when you¡¯re done. ¡°This is the design document for the uing update for nts vs Zombies. The main point of it is to allow yers to bettermunicate with one another in game and allow them to meet other nts vs Zombies fans in themunity. ¡°I¡¯ve already finished the basics of multiyer, so read through it and refine it a bit. ¡°I don¡¯t have any requests for the design document, so just do it your way, with emphasis on ¡®your way¡¯. Try to make changes and not stick to my design too much. I¡¯ll need a first draft in three days, is that alright?¡± Su Jinyu nodded confidently, ¡°Alright, not a problem!¡± Chen Mo thought about giving her a few more words of advice, but after considering that it might restrict her train of thought, he decided against it. Different people often had different views on game design. Restricting someone¡¯s thoughts might result in a botched result. As for Chen Mo, he needed to finish the developer tools for nts vs Zombies, allowing yers to make their own mods. As his workload had been cut in half all of a sudden, he wasn¡¯t quite used to it. ¡ª Three dayster, Su Jinyu sent her first draft of the design document to Chen Mo. ¡°Mm... not bad.¡± As Chen Mo looked through the design document Su Jinyu submitted, he didn¡¯t seem all that happy, despite saying it was alright. At the same time, Su Jinyu nervously twiddled her thumbs. Although she had written design documents before, it was for very simple mini-games. It wasn¡¯t surprising that she was nervous, as this was a design document for nts vs Zombies. Even since nts vs Zombies had risen to the top of the casual puzzle game charts, it had gathered arge user base. Su Jinyu wouldn¡¯t be able to live it down if the yers weren¡¯t happy about the changes she made. It didn¡¯t take long for Chen Mo to look through her design document. ¡°The logic is very clear and all the details have been covered. There aren¡¯t any major mistakes, either. You have quite a good grasp on the basics,¡± said Chen Mo. Su Jinyu blinked and said, ¡°Tha-thank you.¡± ¡°But, you¡¯ll need to rewrite it.¡± Chen Mo smiled. ¡°Huh?¡± Su Jinyu was dumbfounded. -The logic and the details were fine, why do I need to rewrite it?- ¡°What even!¡± Chapter 44 Chapter 44: Chapter 43 ¨C New Update Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth Chen Mo exined, ¡°What I meant was that your thoughts are very conservative. There were basically no new points added in the two design documents, all you did was expand on what I had.¡± ¡°Uhh...¡± Su Jinyu was confused. Chen Mo did emphasise on doing it her way when he handed the design document over to her, but she didn¡¯t think too much of it. In most cases, video game designer assistants usually performed repetitive tasks. Moreover, most video game designers did not like their assistants making any changes, no matter how small. Therefore Su Jinyu chose to just expand on what Chen Mo had already done, without adding anything to it. But that was the exact opposite of what he requested. Chen Mo wanted her to add her own thoughts to it. Chen Mo said, ¡°Don¡¯t worry, I¡¯ll give you another three days. Remember, I want to see your thoughts.¡± Su Jinyu nodded eagerly, ¡°Okay!¡± ¡ª As Su Jinyu returned to the first floor, she continued to pick her brain for ideas. After she left, Chen Mo took another look at the design document. Her basic skill at writing design documents was solid, and the logic wasn¡¯t bad, either; the biggest problem was theck of inspiration. As of now, Su Jinyu was only capable of executing; she was still quite a ways away from being a proper video game designer. Persistent, hardworking, well rounded, butcked inspiration. That was Chen Mo¡¯s current assessment of Su Jinyu. Maybe she alwayscked her own ideas, or perhaps it was part of her character. Chen Mo could treat Su Jinyu as an assistant, only involving her in execution, but she wouldn¡¯t be able to grow much in such an environment. Chen Mo wanted to stimte her, as she was hardworking, but unable to see the bigger picture. That way, he could train her to be a more well-rounded video game designer in the next few months, which would save Chen Mo some work in the long run. ¡ª Su Jinyu had been wringing her brain, trying to make adjustments to the design document. Although the second draft looked better, it still wasn¡¯t good enough. The third draft had a few good ideas. Chen Mo finally gave the nod after the fourth draft. ¡°Mm, although it¡¯s not exactly up to par, you¡¯ve passed,¡± Chen Mo smiled. Su Jinyu was pleasantly surprised, ¡°Really? That¡¯s great!¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Yep, well done, you can get some rest now. I¡¯ll make some more adjustments tonight, and I¡¯ll send it to you tomorrow when I¡¯m done.¡± ¡°Alright, thanks for working so hard, boss!¡± Su Jinyu left work filled with happiness. The four design documents took her almost two weeks toplete before reaching Chen Mo¡¯s standard. Chen Mo was looking for some focal points in the design document. Even if the design document got a pass from him, without focal points, the yers wouldn¡¯t be happy about it. He could tell that the ideas she had in the fourth design document used up all her brain juices. Even if she was given more time, there probably wouldn¡¯t be a better version. Moreover, this had been dragged on for quite a while. Chen Mo nned to finish it in two weeks, and it was now beyond that. If it was dragged on any longer, it would affect the progress of the next game, so Chen Mo didn¡¯t want to spend too much time waiting. Chen Mo went to hisputer and opened his design document. In reality, when Su Jinyu was writing the design document again and again, Chen Mo was also writing his own copy. In order to not affect her thoughts, Chen Mo decided not to tell her. Whenpared against one another, Su Jinyu¡¯s design document was hard to look at. From the UI to the overall functionality, it was clear whose was better. Chen Mo added the parts from his design document ordingly into Su Jinyu¡¯s version, adding annotations exining his intentions. As for the other points that didn¡¯t make a huge difference, Chen Mo left them as they were. Chen Mo finally managed to finish after working for the majority of the night. After doing some final adjustments and checking it, Chen Mo was happy with the end product. As the update for nts vs Zombies was still based on the same framework, there wasn¡¯t a need to generate a new project in the video game engine; it could be done just by making modifications to the existing project. ¡ª The experience store opened on time early the next day. Chen Mo yawned and said to Su Jinyu, ¡°I¡¯ve sent you the design document that I edited. Just add the features ordingly, using the game engine.¡± ¡°Alright,¡± Su Jinyu nodded. Chen Mo went back upstairs to catch up on sleep, as he was still tired. Su Jinyu turned on herptop and saw how many changes Chen Mo made. ¡°... he changed so much!¡± Su Jinyu was shocked. Not only was the design document twice the size, but looking through the details, seventy percent of it had been modified. However, Chen Mo didn¡¯t delete Su Jinyu¡¯s suggestions from before, but inserted the modifications along with some notes. ¡°A-amazing...¡± Su Jinyu looked through all of the changes. The UI had all been changed, the features also had a lot of modifications... As Su Jinyu added them into the game engine while looking through the design document, she couldn¡¯t help but feel that her design document was a sham. ¡°The boss is amazing; how could he make so many changes in one night? That kind of work efficiency is scary!¡± Su Jinyu¡¯s respect for Chen Mo increased after this. In reality, Chen Mo already had it done beforehand... ¡ª After a week, the update for nts vs Zombies was finally done! Chen Mo installed it onto theputers in the experience store before anything else, so that Wen Lingwei, Jia Peng, and the others could ytest it for a few days, and let him fix any errors that were present. When Chen Mo felt that there weren¡¯t any more problems, it was submitted onto the official market. Soon, the yers for nts vs Zombies were downloading one after another when they realized there was now a new 40MB update. =============== ¡°Hmm? There¡¯s a new update for nts vs Zombies?!¡± ¡°Giving updates for a standalone game, how nice!¡± ¡°Insane. What¡¯s being added in this new update? Is there going to be new nts or zombies?¡± ¡°Hey take a look at the description. They¡¯ve added developer tools and a versus mode!¡± ¡°What the? Is that true? I¡¯ll go take a look!¡± ================ The yers were downloading the update as soon as they could. The yer discussion forums for nts vs Zombies also earned it a lot of attention as they were discussing thepletely unexpected update. In the parallel world, standalone games like this usually wouldn¡¯t receive updates, as the yers wouldn¡¯t pay twice, and the game designers didn¡¯t want to do something for free, either. Video game designers in this world hadn¡¯t figured out DLC yet! (Editor Note: DLC = Downloadable Content, first done onrge scale for MMO¡¯s by Asheron¡¯s Call) Moreover, nts vs Zombies had been released for just under two months. Although it was still quite popr, the first bunch of yers were already sick of the game, despite the continual influx of new yers. Weren¡¯t they a little bit too enthusiastic for the new update? Chapter 45 Chapter 45: Chapter 44 ¨C A Knockoff has Appeared Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth Inside the experience store... Wen Lingwei and Chang Xiuya were battling against Jia Peng and another guy. ¡°Senior, could you set up a Wallnut here for me?¡± Chang Xiuya asked. ¡°How many zombies do you have saved up? Put them over here on my side, let¡¯s try and get Xiuya¡¯s Cob Cannon,¡± Jia Peng said to his friend. Chang Xiuya panicked, ¡°Hey, Jia Peng, you can¡¯t do that!¡± Wen Lingwei remained calm. ¡°Don¡¯t worry, I still have two loaded Cob Cannons.¡± Chang Xiuya screamed all of a sudden, ¡°Ahh!! Jia Peng, why aren¡¯t you following your n? Didn¡¯t you say you were going to get my Cob Cannon? Why did you take my Sunflower?¡± With Wen Lingwei and the others ying PvP mode, and neither side willing to give up, the experience store was very lively. Using the developer tools, Su Jinyu was designing new nts and zombies. Of course, she was mainly doing the graphics. Her drawing skills were much better than Chen Mo; she had already drawn three new nts. The nts she designed had a Chinese theme, namely the Wheat Gatling Gun, Sweet Potato Mine, and Bamboo Wall. More and more yers started ying the game after discovering the social capabilities in the newest update. nts vs Zombies had gathered more than eight hundred thousand yers in the two months since its release. So far more than half the users were active yers, and many of them were starting their ownmunities in game, resulting in thousands ofmunities. Many of themunities were small friendship circles where the members were friends or ssmates, in order to check on one another¡¯s progress. Some of the bigger fans of nts vs Zombies had taken a great liking to the developer tools and were trying to make their own mods, in particr the people who were already interested in game design. So far there were dozens of mods, although most of them were just changes to some of the numbers, such as unlimited sun or increased nt firing speed. Although there were many yers, the average ytime for the mods were quite short. Chen Mo wasn¡¯t worried. As the number of mods increased, some higher quality mods were bound to appear as they got filtered by the fans and the algorithm. The multiyer had also be a hot topic among the yers. Within themunities of nts vs Zombies, many of the yers were sharing their experiences and discussing their strategies. There was even a group of three who managed twenty wins in a row, drawing the interests of many in themunity. The consensus on the other forums about the new update was also quite positive, potentially starting another wave of interest in the game. ============ ¡°I looked through the developer tools today; this kit is amazing! I¡¯m able to make adjustments to anything I want. Seems like the designer wants us to make anything we want! Now we¡¯ll just have to wait for some god-tier modder to develop a beautiful original mod!¡± ¡°I thought I already explored everything the game has to offer, it seems that I was too naive... If the new mods keeping, I might be able to y this for the rest of my life...¡± ¡°Respect to the designer. There¡¯s nobody else who is making a standalone casual game like this!¡± ¡°However, releasing the developer tools means that anyone can look through the numbers of the game. The designer sure is daring!¡± ¡°Right? Unlike the otherpanies that try and keep everything a secret, deathly afraid of someone copying them.¡± ¡°Yeah, I¡¯m now a fan just based on this developer tool!¡± =========== Chen Mo was quite relieved after looking through the yer discussions. He felt that an update receiving praise like this was good enough. As this update significantly lengthened the game¡¯s ytime, it was quite likely that nts vs Zombies would continue to be at the top of the casual puzzle game charts for the next few months. Out of nowhere, a panic-stricken Su Jinyu said, ¡°Boss, this isn¡¯t good!¡± ¡°Hmm?¡± Chen Mo raised his head, ¡°What¡¯s wrong?¡± Su Jinyu showed him her phone, ¡°Look, this game... copied us!¡± Chen Mo took the phone from her hands. There was some random game from the market, and from the introduction screen you could see that the ystyle was very simr to nts vs Zombies, fivenes on the left, enemies on the right. However the artstyle of the game waspletely different to nts vs Zombies. The game was called Lunar Defense. The plot of the game was that the yer would put down various high-tech weapons on the moon to defend against an alien insect race. Although the weapons seemedpletely different from the nts, their usage was very simr to the nts in nts vs Zombies. For example, the Peashooter was now a Machinegun Turret, Spikeweed was now Electromaic Trap, the Sunflower was now a Supply Station, the Cob Cannon was now a Nuclear Missile Launcher. The looks of the Zombies were also overhauled, changed into various types of aliens. They were all ugly insectoids of various sizes with different methods of attacking, but most of the attacks were reminiscent of zombies. ¡°What¡¯s wrong?¡± Jia Peng joined in the conversation. Su Jinyu said, ¡°Look at this! This Lunar Defense game is copying us!¡± ¡°What? How can they do that!?¡± The others in the store went on their phones and found the game on the market. Indeed, it didn¡¯t take much for the others to recognize that the game was copying nts vs Zombies. Although they changed the textures, music, and UI, the ystyle waspletely identical to nts vs Zombies. ¡°I¡¯m gonna give it a bad review!¡± Jia Peng said angrily. The others joined in, ¡°Yeah, bad reviews! I¡¯ll ask the others in themunity to do the same!¡± Chen Mo didn¡¯t say anything, instead choosing to look at the statistics for the game. It was released two days ago for free. The rating was extremely low at 2.3, most of the yer reviews were one star. Evidently the yers of nts vs Zombies felt offended by the giarism. The game chose to profit via ads, every time the yer beat a level a banner ad would pop up. Also, there was an ingame currency that could be bought using real money. The yer could use that to buy energy supplies (sun in nts vs Zombies), or up to three revives when they died The publisher was Sky¡¯s Limit Entertainment, designed by some unknown C-grade video game designer. Sky¡¯s Limit Entertainment was barely second ss, located at the faraway Magic City. They had also released a few fairly average mobile games before this, none of which did particrly well. The reviews of thepany were quite bad, but because they weren¡¯t well known, not many knew about their evil deeds. Chen Mo only realized what type ofpany this was after looking at their previous games. Chapter 46 Chapter 46: Chapter 45 ¨C This Game Won¡¯t Get Famous Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth Su Jinyu said, ¡°Boss, shouldn¡¯t we be suing thispany?¡± Jia Peng nodded, ¡°Yeah, manager! Send a legal letter!¡± Chen Mo shook his head, ¡°There¡¯s no need.¡± Su Jinyu was shocked, ¡°Why? Maybe we should contact awyer before you make that decision.¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°Infringement on things like game rules are very hard to prosecute. In order for it to be a validwsuit, it has to have a simr art style, and the design documents for the rules must be extremely simr. If we can¡¯t be certain that they giarized either of those points, it is an impossiblewsuit. ¡°Therefore, even if we send them a letter, they would probably just treat it as garbage and toss it away.¡± Su Jinyu said unhappily, ¡°But this game is way too simr to nts vs Zombies, anyone with eyes will be able to tell!¡± Chen Mo said calmly, ¡°But that isn¡¯t enough for them to be convicted.¡± Su Jinyu was still angry, but there was nothing she could say. In truth, when Chen Mo was transmigrated into the parallel world, he had already done some research on the video game industry, in particr giarism regarding video games. He even looked up some cases on the matter. It was simr to his previous world. There were two main categories protected by the copyrightws. One was artwork, music, and textual content, the other was the rules of the game, equivalent to the code for a game in the previous world. These were the two points that would be easy to convict someone of giarism on. As soon as there was concrete evidence, the sess rate of convictions was extremely high. Coincidentally, it was very difficult to tell if someone giarized the ystyle of the game. In his previous world, a famous tabletop game called Legends of the Three Kingdoms tried to sue Battle of the Three Kingdoms [1] on the basis that they were being giarized. However, Battle of the Three Kingdoms argued that everything that the designer did, including the direction of the designs, design framework, and the details of the designs that were thought to be rted, but were not protected under copyrightws. From a pure game rules perspective, Battle of the Three Kingdoms argued that Legends of the Three Kingdoms was based on an Italian card game called Bang!, and tried to countersue. In the end, the case ended and was settled out of court. There were many more examples like this in his previous world, as referencing and giarism was pervasive in the video game industry. Other than a handful of cases with sufficient evidence, most of the giarism charges don¡¯t amount to anything. Of course, it wasn¡¯t because thew didn¡¯t cover them, but because the line between giarism and referencing was very blurry. Even the popr Monument Valley from his previous life had been suspected of giarizing (¡°referencing¡±) Echochrome. [1] Of course, reference could also be called giarism, or in better words, a ¡°descendant¡±, or ¡°honoring¡±. It was the same in the parallel world. Although most people wanted to support the original and had a better concept of giarism, it was equally easy to giarize, hard to defend, took a long time for the case to be settled, and it was very difficult to gather evidence. The huge time and money spent were always significantly higher than the gains from the settlement. Therefore, there were also plenty of examples in the parallel world of giarism cases that didn¡¯t amount to anything. Chen Mo skimmed over the contents of Lunar Defense; the artstyle and music werepletely redone, with no trace of nts vs Zombies. As for the rules, although it was very simr to nts vs Zombies, it was clear that the designer redid the whole design document themselves, intentionally changing some points to mitigate the risk of awsuit. It could only be said that Sky¡¯s Limit Entertainment was probably a repeat offender and knew where the line was, hitting it right on the boundary. Chen Mo knew that if he started awsuit, although public opinion was on his side, he wouldn¡¯t be able to get anything out of it. However, this didn¡¯t mean there wasn¡¯t anything Chen Mo could. This was already in Chen Mo¡¯s calctions! ¡ª Chen Mo downloaded Lunar Defense and went through two levels. ¡°Don¡¯t worry, this game won¡¯t get famous,¡± said Chen Mo. ¡°Huh? Why?¡± asked Su Jinyu. Chen Mo handed over the phone to Su Jinyu and said, ¡°You¡¯ll know after you try it out.¡± ¡°Can¡¯t get famous? Are you sure?¡± Wen Lingwei questioned. Chang Xiuya also nodded, ¡°Yeah, manager. The graphics of the games are quite good. Moreover, it¡¯s free.¡± Chen Mo said firmly, ¡°I¡¯m sure, it won¡¯t get anywhere.¡± Jia Peng said after a few moments, ¡°Then should we still give it bad reviews?¡± Chen Moughed and said, ¡°Sure, you do you.¡± As Chen Mo finished, he turned around and retreated upstairs. ¡°Boss, don¡¯t leave yet! You haven¡¯t told us why the game isn¡¯t going to be popr!¡± said Su Jinyu. Chen Mo turned around and said, ¡°I still need to n out the next game. As for why the game isn¡¯t going to be popr, you¡¯re a videogame designer now! You should be able to tell.¡± Chen Mo left. Su Jinyu pouted, unsatisfied, and started ying Lunar Defense. She was quite curious how Chen Mo was so sure that Lunar Defense wasn¡¯t going to be popr. The others were also equally curious. Jia Peng wasn¡¯t convinced. ¡°The manager looks super confident. How can he be so sure the game isn¡¯t going to be popr?¡± Weng Lingwei said, ¡°Maybe it¡¯s the rating. Take a look, everyone is trying to boycott the game. Even if the game was free, who¡¯s going to y a game with terrible reviews like this?¡± Another guy said, ¡°I think it¡¯s because of its profit method. The manager must¡¯ve considered why he didn¡¯t want to use ads as a profit method when he was developing the game. Jia Peng said hesitantly, ¡°Then... are we still going to give it bad reviews?¡± Wen Lingwei said, ¡°Of course! Come, let¡¯s all give it bad reviews, we¡¯ll uninstall it once we¡¯re done!¡± Su Jinyu felt that the others made sense, but still felt that Chen Mo had other reasons. ¡ª Su Jinyu decided to try out Lunar Defense. First level, the game instructs the yer to put down a Supply Station and install a Machinegun Turret to attack the iing aliens. Second level, there were new aliens, and a new type of defense equipment was unlocked. Third level had the same unlocking ystyle. Su Jinyu wanted to uninstall the game before she even got to the third level. As it was very simr to nts vs Zombies, Su Jinyu felt that she was ying a second run of nts vs Zombies. Much of the content she was already familiar with, so Lunar Defense was dragging her through it with tutorials. ¡°Weird. The game is so simr to nts vs Zombies, and the quality of the game seems alright. Why don¡¯t I want to continue ying...?¡± Su Jinyu couldn¡¯t help but ponder. ============ TL Note [1]: Two video games popr in China. Chapter 47 Chapter 47: Chapter 46 ¨C Emperor Dynasty Entertainment¡¯s Game Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth Chen Mo looked up the recently published games on the market and what the bigger video gamepanies were testing when he got back upstairs. The majority of thergerpanies would have their unreleased games in their experience stores. As long as they were finished, even if they hadn¡¯t been released on the market, there would be rumors floating around. Chen Mo managed to find a ytest video on Emperor Dynasty Entertainment¡¯s new game, called Guardian of the Holy Spring. -Hmm? Emperor Dynasty Entertainment has joined in? I should probably pay attention to this as it was released by Entertainment Dynasty Entertainment.- Chen Mo yed the video, investigating the game more deeply. ¡ª As a new innovative game became popr, a wave of simrly-styled games would obviously follow suit. nts vs Zombies had been trendy for two months; if there were other video game designers who wanted to make a knockoff, two months would be more than enough. Chen Mo was prepared for such an event, but didn¡¯t think it woulde so soon. nts vs Zombies could be viewed as a descendant of Tower Defense games, but it¡¯s poprity had surpassed most such games, likely because it required more strategic nning. It wasn¡¯t a difficult task for the video game designers in this world to identify why nts vs Zombies was so popr. Any C-grade video game designer would be able to replicate it as long as they didn¡¯t care about the opinions of others. Lunar Defense was a game like that, a game with terrible reviews. An unknown video game designer was able to replicate it in two months. The thought process of Lunar Defense was clear; utilizing the fact that it was free, it would pick up any yers that didn¡¯t get into nts vs Zombies and sell ads to make a profit. They targeted the yers that didn¡¯t want to spend money on the game, or the ones who were already bored of nts vs Zombies. However, Chen Mo didn¡¯t care, as he knew that their thought process was bound to fail! There were three main reasons. First, because the video game designerscked skill, they were afraid to make any changes to the rules of nts vs Zombies, just in case they removed any of the focal points. That mindset resulted in them essentially making a carbon copy. It meant that most of the nts vs Zombies yers wouldn¡¯t y through it. If it were the same as the original, why not y the original? Moreover, the first few levels on Lunar Defense had tutorials. This would greatly affect the yers who were already bored of nts vs Zombies, as they didn¡¯t have the patience to sit through the tutorial again. Second, games like this weren¡¯t suited to be free! No matter if it was ads or top-up service, it didn¡¯t look good in the eyes of the yers. Compared to nts vs Zombies, the only thing Lunar Defense would get would be bad reviews. Third, the ystyle, mechanics and level design of nts vs Zombies worked very well with the artwork. If the artwork were changed, it would make the game feel disjointed. This resulted in many yers not liking the Lunar Defense, but they were unable to pinpoint why they didn¡¯t like it. Because they changed nts into defense systems and zombies into aliens, it affected the mindsets of the yers, which greatly affected their mood when they yed the game. Therefore, Chen Mo didn¡¯t bat an eye at Lunar Defense. The game was doomed from the start, and would only be flooded by the bad reviews from the yers. It might not even be able to recover their costs! It was a ssic example of failing at cheating! After Sky¡¯s Limit Entertainment with Lunar Defense, several other smallerpanies came out with nts vs Zombies knockoffs. However, Chen Mo could tell at first nce that their quality was even worse than Lunar Defense and they would end up beingughingstocks, so there was no need to be rmed. The only thing that bothered Chen Mo was Guardian of the Holy Spring, developed by Emperor Dynasty Entertainment. The designer was Qiu Bin, a B-grade video game designer working under Emperor Dynasty Entertainment. They had a few sessful games before this one. From the video, Guardian of the Holy Spring had many simr features to nts vs Zombies, but calling giarism might be too much, as many points only seemed simr on the surface. Guardian of the Holy Spring didn¡¯t have five straightnes in nts vs Zombies, but had hills and valleys, and what seemed like a fence. The yers needed to ce different defense mechanisms around the Holy Spring, such as magic wards, crystal towers, dragon¡¯s nests, and army camps, in order to defend against the demons. Guardian of the Holy Spring had also made an effort to differentiate itself from nts vs Zombies in areas such as the abilities of the troops, level difficulty, and ystyle. There were only a handful of features that ovepped with nts vs Zombies. If someone said that Guardian of the Holy Spring copied nts vs Zombies, there would probably be arge number of fans defending it. Being able to copy something only in essence, but not looks, was the highest form of copying. Moreover, with so many things changed, it might be a stretch to call it copying, as the core ofbat was also changed. But it was obvious that the game took inspiration from nts vs Zombies, and the source of entertainment from the game was simr to nts vs Zombies. Chen Mo predicted that this game¡¯s achievements certainly wouldn¡¯t be bad. With the promotions done by Emperor Dynasty Entertainment, it wouldn¡¯t be surprising if it managed to beat nts vs Zombies. That was the power of having different channels. However, the game was still in the early stages of testing. ording to Emperor Dynasty Entertainment, it was about three months away from release. The reason it needed so much time to develop was because it needed to include a lot of extra content. They probably had considered that the yers might think they were copying nts vs Zombies, and took the precaution to add different ystyles and content to dampen that feeling. This was an indication for Chen Mo that he needed to pick up his pace. Although this ¡®copying¡¯ incident wasn¡¯t a threat to Chen Mo, it proved one thing: the video game industry in the parallel world was the same as his previous world, keen and shameless! Maybe even better in some aspects! Even though nts vs Zombies had only been online for two months, manypanies had managed to create their own bootlegs, much faster thanpanies in his previous world. Just as Sky¡¯s Limit Entertainment¡¯s Lunar Defense managed to find a new niche by making it free, Emperor Dynasty Entertainment was able to use its huge user base, ¡®referencing¡¯ nts vs Zombies and iming it as their own. It was evident that the video gamepanies weren¡¯t just sitting ducks, but hungry wolves that didn¡¯t have ess to great ideas. As soon as they found these ideas, all the advantages Chen Mo had would be taken away! He knew that this was the time to make the next game! Chapter 48 Chapter 48: Chapter 47 ¨C Spin Ten, Again and Again Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth Chen Mo had already shortlisted a few games for his next release, but he hadn¡¯t decided on which one. There were plenty of games that could be considered ssics from the previous world, but not all of them would do well in this world. Chen Mo could continue down the path of high quality indie games as the spectors were predicting, but Chen Mo knew that it wasn¡¯t the best path. The reason was simple: how many nts vs Zombies were there in the previous world? The video game designers in this world thought that nts vs Zombies would bring a new wave of casual games, but Chen Mo knew that the sess of nts vs Zombies could not be replicated, and games like that could not be produced inrge quantities. Moreover, Chen Mo had gained plenty in both fame and money, and will now be able to test the limits of the yers in this world! If Chen Mo only relied on the high quality games from his previous world, it would be highly unlikely that he could ever hope to reach the same level of titans like Emperor Dynasty Entertainment or Zen Entertainment. Right now, Chen Mo only had one goal in mind: make money and top-up! A new wave of yers were brought into nts vs Zombies after the new update was released, reaching nine hundred thousand downloads. It was only a matter of time before he reached one million. The ie from the app store came monthly, therefore Chen Mo had only received the money for five hundred thousand copies. After the market¡¯s cut and tax, he had about 2.8 million RMB. Normally people would be spending that money on cars and houses, and perhaps rubbing it in the faces of the people born with silver spoons who looked down on others. However, Chen Mo didn¡¯t have that in mind at all. Buying properties? The experience store was quite cozy. Buying cars? Oh, Chen Mo didn¡¯t even have his license. Moreover, you¡¯d need to register your license te if you bought a car. And to register the license te, you¡¯d need an ount... Whatever, don¡¯t think about things like this. After giving it some thought Chen Mo decided to top-up 2.7 million RMB into his bracelet as it was close to the end of the month, meaning that the money from the app store would be transferred soon. This left a hundred thousand and change to spare. If nothing went wrong for the next month, 2.5 million RMB would be transferred into his ount. However he wouldn¡¯t be able to spend that money on spins, but would save it for something else. ¡°Alright, make me stronger by topping up!¡± Chen Mo did his before-spin ritual, washing his face and hands. He then used the Lucky Capsule he received from hisst draw. Lucky Capsule: Drastically increase luck. Lasts for ten minutes. Chen Mo didn¡¯t feel any different, but he might¡¯ve imagined a ¡°my luck just got better¡± kind of feeling. Without further dy, Chen Mo started drawing, as the effect onlysts for ten minutes. Chen Mo felt like a tycoon when looking at his twenty-seven-million points. ¡°How can I keep the wonderful feeling of topping up and drawing prizes to myself? I must let the others experience this in my next game.¡± With such a ¡°noble¡± idea in mind, Chen Mo tapped on the Spin Ten button repeatedly. Twenty-seven-million points was enough for twenty-seven Spin Tens. He didn¡¯t show any hesitation, as he had to finish drawing in the next ten minutes. Suppressing his curiosity for the prizes he drew, he focused on spending all his points on spinning. ck, ck... As the wheel spun, new equipment was being drawn. Chen Mo didn¡¯t care, and continued tapping with his eyes closed. However long the wheel spun didn¡¯t matter, but Chen Mo finally opened his eyes when the wheel stopped spinning. He took a look at the time. -Wow, this whole process took five minutes.- Chen Mo felt that a teenage girl at a mall with no concept of money, filled with hurt and happiness. ¡°Let¡¯s see what we drew...¡± Chen Mo nervously looked at the equipment menu on the virtual screen. Designer Skill Books: 135 Special Skill Books: 81 Special Equipment: 54 After consuming a few coding books, Chen Mo¡¯s coding skills were now alright and his sense for code was now sharper. He noticed something when looking at the number of skill books. ¡°Hmm? This number...¡± Without using the Lucky Capsule, the Designer Skill Books, Special Skill Books, and Special Equipment were approximately in the ratio of 7: 2: 1. That was what he had gathered from the previous ten Spins. Of course, this time luck was on his side. If it wasn¡¯t, it wouldn¡¯t be surprising if he got 9: 0: 1. After he used the Lucky Capsule, they showed up in a ratio of 5: 3: 2. The rewards he got from draws during the effect of the Lucky Capsule were much better! Of course, the Lucky Capsule didn¡¯t infinitely increase his luck and present him with Special Equipment every single draw. It seemed 5: 3: 2 was the best ratio he could get. Moreover, when the Lucky Capsule was in effect, you could even draw another Lucky Capsule. Clearly it was something that the system had in mind. ¡°Not bad, this Lucky Capsule was pretty worth it!¡± Chen Mo was quite satisfied. If he drew anything less than what he did this time, it would¡¯ve been quite wasteful of the Lucky Capsule! ¡ª Next was checking the description of the Equipment. Designer Skill Books, 135 in total. Of those, forty-seven were coding books, thirty-nine were level design books, and twenty-two were system books. Special Skill Books, 81 in total. Original Art Books, 34; every book gave +1. 3D Art, 33; every book gave +1. Music and Audio Effects, 10; every book gave +1. Storyboard Skill Book, 4. The first book gave +10, every subsequent book gave +1. Special Equipment, 54 in total. 47 were Memory yback Potions, 1 Anger Interferer, 6 Super elerators. ¡°Hmm?¡± Chen Mo rubbed his eyes, thinking he misread. There was something out of ce among the Special Skill Books: the Storyboarding[2] Skill Book. -What is this even?- Chen Mo had a vague idea of what a storyboard was. It referred to drawings that would represent the structure of a movie or animation, before it was shot or drawn. It would detail each shot, specifying the cinematic techniques, duration, dialogue, etc. Chen Mo was surprised, as he didn¡¯t expect to draw something like that. However he thought it through quite quickly. As it was categorized with the Special Skill Books, he wouldn¡¯t be surprised if he drew a book on martial arts! ¡°Mm, it¡¯s actually quite useful. I should be able to use it when making CG![1]¡± Chen Mo said,forting himself. Chen Mo had also noticed that every Special Skill Book, such as Original Art or Music, if they were abilities that had not been unlocked yet, the first book always gave +10, with any subsequent ones giving +1. There was also the Special Equipment. Chen Mo drew two new ones this time: Anger Interferencer, and Super elerator! ========================= TL Note: [1] Computer graphics [2] I¡¯ve used storyboarding before to refer to plot writing, but this time they decided to add a proper storyboarding skill (like the actual act of drawing storyboards), I¡¯ll refer to the former as plot writing in the future. Chapter 49 Chapter 49: Chapter 48 ¨C Why is There an Argument? Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth Anger Interferer: used against someone other than the user. After activation, the target will enter a state of anger, having a higher chance of making bad choices. Lasted for fifteen minutes. Super elerator: affects the user. Upon activation, work efficiency is increased to triple normal,sts for eight hours. After use, the user will need to sleep for ten hours to relieve fatigue. Should be used at most once every three days, otherwise there might be consequences! ¡°Super elerator? Not bad. I could probably use it when I¡¯m behind on work. But what use does this Anger Interferer have? Can I make someone beat me up by making them angry, then extort them for money?... ¡°Whatever, I¡¯ll save it for now...¡± Chen Mo didn¡¯t have any current need for these special items, but drawing a bunch of Memory yback Potions was a lifesaver. He wouldn¡¯t need to strain himself like he didst time in the future. He didn¡¯t want to bother with the Designer Skill Books, and consumed them one after another. After consuming them, Chen Mo estimated that his coding and level design skills that were quite weak before were now around seventy, and his system skills were probably around ny. His plot writing skills were even higher, and probably almost maxed! Of course, these numbers were Chen Mo¡¯s assessment of himself, there weren¡¯t any concrete numbers. ¡ª As he consumed hisst Plot Writing book, there was a pop-up on the screen! The system detects that your Plot Writing skills are maxed out. Would you like to enter the next level? Chen Mo was shocked. -What is this?- He clicked on the confirm button. Another pop up appeared: Entered the second level, now ready. There was another line of small print at the bottom: Maxing out the first level of Plot Writing means that you still need to satisfy the needs of plot writing in games. Please continue to work hard! Chen Mo read over the sentence three times and finally got a vague idea of what it meant. ¡°I think the one responsible for the writing in the system must¡¯ve been drunk...¡± he muttered. This sentence actually meant that Chen Mo¡¯s Story Writing skills were full for the first level, which was only enough for the plots of simpler games. For example, Chen Mo might want to make a visual novel. If he already had the vocabry and the script, he could better fill in the dialogue between characters, and set the scenes better. However, it would be impossible if he wanted to write out the story for a ssic game! The second level of Plot Writing focused on that point. Chen Mo put his hand to his forehead. ¡°It seems that I was quite naive. The road is much longer than I thought. To think that I believed I could max out all my Stats with ten million RMB...¡± ¡ª After regaining hisposure, Chen Mo consumed the rest of the Special Skill Books. Chen Mo¡¯s Original Art, 3D Art, and Music and Sound Effects States had now been raised considerably. As soon as he was done, another pop-up appeared on the virtual screen. The system detects that you have entered the second level for one or more Stats. You can now view your actual abilities. Chen Mo was shocked. ¡°Hmm? Did I unlock new functionalities?¡± Chen Mo¡¯s various Stats now appeared on the virtual screen. Previously, these Stats weren¡¯t visible, so Chen Mo had to guess what they were. Now he finally had ess to the actual numbers! Systems: 93 Coding: 72 Level Design: 71 Plot Writing: 100 (Entered Level 2) Original Art: 53 3D Art: 35 Animation: 10 Music and Audio Effects: 20 Storyboarding: 13 These numbers were Chen Mo¡¯s true abilities, including what Chen Mo learned in his previous life, and the growth from the books he had consumed from the bracelet. The stats from the Game Engine on Chen Mo were as so: Chen Mo: Videogame Designer (C-grade) Creativity: 49 Systems: 30 Coding: 48 Level Designer: 53 Plot Writing: 15 Original Art: 36 3D Art: 1 Monthly Resources Quota: 0/1.6GB These stats were analyzed by the video game engine, which meant the skills that Chen Mo had shown from his work so far. After releasing nts vs Zombies, Chen Mo¡¯s ratings had increased. His Creativity, Coding, and Level Design had all been increased substantially! Moreover, following the explosive growth of nts vs Zombies, Chen Mo had been upgraded to a C-grade video game designer. As for the monthly quota, it was something that didn¡¯t matter anymore to him, as he now scorned the free resources included. However, they were still alright as ceholders. Chen Mo felt quite rxed after spending so much money on his top-ups. Chen Mo now had many choices for his next game, even some Chinese Pay To Win games were now on the list. However, when there were so many choices it became a burden. Chen Mo couldn¡¯t make up his mind thatte at night, so he decided to take a rest. ¡ª At 8:30 AM the second day, Chen Mo was woken up by the ringing of his phone. As Chen Mo opened his heavy eyelids, he saw that the phone call was from Su Jinyu. ¡°Hello? What¡¯s up? Do you need some leave?¡± asked Chen Mo. Su Jinyu said in a worried voice, ¡°No, not at all. You should go online right now. Emperor Dynasty Entertainment are making a game called Guardian of the Holy Spring, and it seems like they copied nts vs Zombies!¡± Chen Mo shuffled around in bed into a morefortable position, ¡°Yep, I know. Wasn¡¯t there a ytest video released two days ago? I saw it yesterday.¡± Su Jinyu said, ¡°Not just that, the Weibo of the designer of Guardian of the Holy Spring is being attacked by our yers. Many fans of Emperor Dynasty Entertainment retaliated, bringing you into the mix! You probably should check your Weibo now.¡± ¡°Huh?¡± Chen Mo finally sat up. -How could something like that happen?- Chen Mo washed himself and went on hisputer. Indeed, his Weibo had been attacked by the fans of Emperor Dynasty Entertainment. He had a few thousandments under his newest Weibo, with two people in particr having a heated argument. Chen Mo spent a good twenty minutes trying to understand the gist of the situation. It had all started from the video Chen Mo saw yesterday. A yer secretly recorded that video when he was ying in the Emperor Dynasty experience store and uploaded it to the inte. The video had been out for three days, and was discovered by a few diehard fans of nts vs Zombies. As they had a strong sense of righteousness, they went straight to Qiu Bin, the designer of Guardian of the Holy Spring¡¯s Weibo, and started going at him with some intense wording. ====== ¡°Hehe, how could Emperor Dynasty Entertainment miss out on following trends and copying games. Dogs will continue to eat shit.¡± ¡°Sure enough, a nts vs Zombies bootleg was released in no time. I¡¯m impressed by the work efficiency of Your Highness.¡± ¡°giarizing dog. A B-grade video game designer nheless. He really is focused on making money in exchange for his dignity!¡± ====== Thesements received a lot of responses, and gained poprity soon after. Qiu Bin didn¡¯t say anything, but as a B-grade videogame designer and one who was working within Emperor Dynasty Entertainment, he had a huge amount of fans behind him, with plenty of brain-dead fans. Upon seeing that Qiu Bin was being attacked, they retaliated without hesitation! Chapter 50 Chapter 50: Chapter 49 ¨C Emperor Dynasty Entertainment? So What? Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth ¡°Where did this drama queene from? Don¡¯t talk smack if you haven¡¯t yed it. It¡¯s so obvious that it¡¯s two different games. Who¡¯s your copying nts vs Zombies*?* ¡°You should see an optometrist, even your perspective on the world is not normal. How is this giarism?¡± ¡°Hah, it¡¯s giarism when the ystyle has a tiny bit inmon? Then wouldn¡¯t nts vs Zombies be copying Emperor Dynasty Entertainment¡¯s Fantasy Tower Defense*? They are both tower defense games, after all.¡±* ¡°What¡¯s good about a rabid dog biting others? Did your owner make you a promise?¡± ¡°What level is Emperor Dynasty Entertainment on? What level are the developers of your nts vs Zombies*? Emperor Dynasty Entertainment copying you? You¡¯re just trying to leech of Emperor Dynasty¡¯s poprity!¡±* ¡°Hehe, sure nts vs Zombies is a good game, but you can¡¯t be so illogical about this. Can nobody else make a game of a simr genre?¡± ============== Soon, the arguments between the two of them got more and more intense. People were gathering others from theirmunity to fight for their side, and it became a war between two sides. The arguments got more and more intense as the two of them argued throughout the night. When dawn came along, Chen Mo was dragged into it. Both sides were really into it. Many fans of Emperor Dynasty Entertainment who had lost their sense of logic were also insulting Chen Mo. His Weibo had plenty ofments now! ======== ¡°A few hundred people looking for trouble in a few hours. I refuse to believe there wasn¡¯t someone behind them. So who¡¯s that scheming dog?¡± ¡°Brother, just focus on designing games, stop trying to make everything you do viral.¡± ¡°Stop trying to create all this drama about you. You¡¯ve only made one game, so you better pay your seniors more respect, understood?¡± ¡°Brother, you should probably say something soon. You still have time to distance yourself from the others. If you keep your mouth shut, you don¡¯t have anyone to me for being in the crossfire.¡± ====== Chen Mo scowled. -What does this mean? Why can you call my yers idiots?- Before this, Chen Mo was quite open to this type of copying, as he had seen this many times in his previous life. Furthermore, Chen Mo wasn¡¯t a special snowke, and was already mentally prepared. -Being targeted? That was nothing. But there are guys taking advantage of the situation and insulting my yers! How can I continue holding back? -Just because I¡¯ve been nice, doesn¡¯t mean I¡¯m not going to do anything!- Chen Mo sent out a Weibo: I didn¡¯t want to pay attention to this, and you guys thought you could just walk all over me? The video game designers haven¡¯t said anything, so what are you guys arguing about? @Qiu Bin, say something! The discussions underneath the post exploded as soon as it was sent. The yers of nts vs Zombies were all quite tired after fighting throughout the night, so most of them didn¡¯t have a good night¡¯s sleep. This Weibo was undoubtedly a stimnt for his fans. If the yers had been fighting hard for nts vs Zombies, but the designer just wanted to settle things the peaceful way, how disappointing would that be? Luckily Chen Mo wasn¡¯t a sissy. So what if it¡¯s Emperor Dynasty Entertainment? The fans of Emperor Dynasty Entertainment were also shocked; hot-headed people like him still existed? They even forgot to retaliate immediately! ¡ª The Weibo was all over the ce as soon as it was posted. Many video game industry professionals were starting to notice. Within an hour, Chen Mo received DMs from other video game designers, one of whom was from Qiu Hengyang: Emperor Dynasty Entertainment is the biggest channel and the biggest developer. There¡¯s no point trying to go head to head against them. Delete the Weibo and give it a rest, no need to be so stubborn. It was very clear what Qiu Hengyang meant. Why would he explicitly mention that Emperor Dynasty Entertainment was the biggest channel? In the video game industry, channels like these held the most power! Even if your game was terrible, as long as the channels are willing to promote your game, you would probably still make money. Even if your game was good and the channels had you boycotted, you would only be able to have your game on the official app store, and might only get a tenth of the sales possible. Emperor Dynasty Entertainment was the biggest gaming tform in China; what kind of video game designer would want to offend them? Therefore, Qiu Hengyang¡¯s reminder only meant well. Chen Mo replied: Can I ask you something? You¡¯re not brothers with that Qiu Bin guy, right? Qiu Hengyang answered: Nonsense! We just happen to have the samest name! Chen Mo replied: That¡¯s great, now just watch how I¡¯ll get at him. Qiu Hengyang responded: ... Maybe you have your own ns, but I still have to say, keep calm! The other DMs were simr in spirit, advising Chen Mo to not be so stubborn and go head to head with Emperor Dynasty Entertainment. Of course, there were plenty others in Chen Mo¡¯s DMs attacking him, but Chen Mo had filtered all of it out of his vision. ¡ª Another half an hour passed, Qiu Bin¡¯s Weibo was still the same. Maybe he was still asleep? That was impossible; even if he wasn¡¯t awake, someone must¡¯ve called him. It was clear that by not saying anything, Qiu Bin didn¡¯t want to respond. In reality, everyone in the industry could tell that Guardian of the Holy Spring took inspiration from nts vs Zombies. But this kind of referencing wasn¡¯t even close to giarizing. He would probably get some k, which would be quite normal. However, if Qiu Bin came out and said that he wasn¡¯t copying, he would just be aughingstock. Therefore, the best move was to not say anything and keep quiet until all this was over so he could sell his game and make money. It was fine as long as it didn¡¯t affect the sales. So what if the yers were attacking him? Qiu Bin and Emperor Dynasty Entertainment weren¡¯t losing anything! ¡°Tsk, you¡¯re quite good at ying dead.¡± If it was some newbie on the receiving end, they probably would¡¯ve cracked. But evidently Qiu Bin had experience under his belt and was quiteposed. ¡°Don¡¯t be like that, if you don¡¯t say anything, how can I lead you into my trap?¡± Chen Mo was going to seize this opportunity, baiting Qiu Bin into having an argument, and leading Emperor Dynasty Entertainment into his trap as well, paving the way for the next games. However, Qiu Bin didn¡¯t take the bait, and kept it all under control. It would be easier to mess with someone with a simple mind, like Shi Huazhe, but Qiu Bin and Emperor Dynasty Entertainment wouldn¡¯t be manipted that easily. Furthermore, they were onpletely different levels than Chen Mo. Even if they wanted to start something, it wouldn¡¯t look good. ¡°I have to try and make him say something.¡± Chen Mo wasn¡¯t saying it because he could; he was taking the opportunity to get what he wanted through a ¡°friendly bet with good intentions¡±. If Qiu Bin didn¡¯t want to say anything, there was nothing Chen Mo could do. Chen Mo took out the Anger Interferer from his bracelet and used it on Qiu Bin. ¡°Come on, y along with me and say something.¡± Anger Interferer consumed. Chen Mo still hadn¡¯t receivef a reply from Qiu Bin after one minute. ¡°Did it fail? Impossible. Maybe I justck firepower.¡± Chen Mo sent another Weibo: @Qiu Bin. Brother, you¡¯re from Emperor Dynasty Entertainment, you can¡¯t just admit defeat. Chapter 51 Chapter 51: Chapter 50: High Stakes Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth Everyone was shocked when Chen Mo sent that Weibo. What was he trying to do? Was he seriously going for the chase? This Chen Mo fellow wasn¡¯t leaving himself any room to retreat! It¡¯s rare to see someone like him who was always looking for a fight. Moreover, his opponent was Emperor Dynasty Entertainment! The supporters of Qiu Bin started quitting the battle. -We are here arguing with the yers of nts vs Zombies*, and Qiu Bin isn¡¯t going to say anything?-* -Look at Chen Mo, he¡¯s tried to draw blood twice!- This was like a war in the olden times with two sides. On one side, the general was talking smack, saying anything that he wanted. But the general of the other side didn¡¯t even dare respond? That would surely reduce morale! The disappointed fans stopped arguing and went to Chen Mo¡¯s DMs. ¡°Hey, could you say something, Mr Qiu Bin!¡± ¡°Mr Qiu Bin, he said he was copying you. Attacking him!¡± ¡°Mr. Qiu Bin, you can¡¯t just stay silent at times like this. This really hurts us, your long time supporters.¡± ¡°Could it be that Guardian of the Holy Spring did copy nts vs Zombies?¡± ¡ª Qiu Bin finally cracked. He nned to turn off Weibo, out of sight, out of mind, after all. But an unexined anger came from inside him, and he couldn¡¯t resist the urge to go back on Weibo. As soon as he turned it on, all the messages that he missed came at him at once. Chen Mo¡¯s Weibo in particr made him extremely angry. -What are you trying to say? You think you¡¯re a big deal now? You may be in the right, but you should know your ce! You¡¯re quite brave to be challenging someone from Emperor Dynasty Entertainment! -Alright, I¡¯m going all out today!- Qiu Bin¡¯s hands were trembling from anger, and he sent a Weibo in reply: I don¡¯t have time to fight with some nobody videogame designer like you, as I¡¯m quite busy. Though your efforts at finding trouble are quite admirable, if I didn¡¯t know who you were I would¡¯ve thought you were some hotshot in the industry. I heard your game did pretty well, five hundred thousand sales in the first month, right? And you¡¯re quite cocky because of it, right? If I got five hundred thousand sales in the first month I would be too ashamed to talk to the others in Emperor Dynasty Entertainment. His fans were happy when this extensive yet ssy Weibo was sent. He was right! Emperor Dynasty Entertainment was the biggest channel with copious amounts of users. Five hundred thousand sales in the first month wasn¡¯t much for Emperor Dynasty Entertainment. ¡°Nice one Mr Qiu Bin!¡± ¡°A heavy hit! Keep going at him!¡± His supporters were leavingments under his Weibo in support. Chen Moughed, as what Qiu Bin said was quite ssy. Qiu Bin avoided the topic of copying and went straight to his identity to threaten Chen Mo. Although what he said about sales was a bit stretched, Chen Mo couldn¡¯t say anything in retaliation. However, Chen Mo didn¡¯t mind, as his n wasn¡¯t to argue with him. He just wanted him to reply! From Chen Mo¡¯s perspective, Qiu Bin wasn¡¯t his rival, but just a stepping stone in his ns! However he still had to y out the rival part, so Qiu Bin would take the bait. Chen Mo replied: I don¡¯t think there¡¯s a point to arguing. How about this? Since you¡¯re quite confident, let¡¯s make a bet! The spectators were shocked. What, again? Many of the people involved remembered the bet between Chen Mo and Shi Huazhe. He said confidently that Chen Mo¡¯s first game would never reach a hundred thousand. The result of that was that he hadn¡¯t been on Weibo for more than a month. Qiu Bin was also shocked, but he couldn¡¯t back off now, and replied: What are we betting on? Chen Mo responded: Aren¡¯t you confident in your game? How about this, I¡¯ll make a game too, and we¡¯ll release it at the same time. Are you on? Qiu Bin was confused. What did he mean? Number of sales in the first month? : Qiu Bin asked. Chen Mo replied: No, profit from the first month. Qiu Bin was surprised by Chen Mo¡¯s answer and thought he misread it. -First month¡¯s profit? Isn¡¯t that a death sentence?- In reality, it didn¡¯t matter if it was sales or profit, Qiu Bin wasn¡¯t afraid. He had Emperor Dynasty Entertainment behind him!** As long as Emperor Dynasty Entertainment was willing to promote Guardian of the Holy Spring, sales and profit would always be a respectable number. As for Chen Mo? It was fine if he wanted to bet using nts vs Zombies, butpeting using a new game? Did he actually think that he was a video game-making genius, where everything he made went viral? Qiu Bin snickered.-It seems like the sess of nts vs Zombies has warped Chen Mo¡¯s perspective.- It was very easy to fail in the industry. However, after borrowing inspiration from nts vs Zombies, adding his own twist to it, plus strong amounts of advertising... Even if the game wasn¡¯t going viral, the results would still be decent! -What can Chen Mo¡¯s new game do? Unless he also has his own new ideas, but how can he guarantee his sess every time?- Qiu Bin felt that there was no way he could lose. Qiu Bin replied: First month¡¯s profit? Sure, if you¡¯re down to lose, I¡¯m down to y. What are the stakes? Chen Mo said: If you lose, you¡¯ll promote my game on the Promoted This Month section on Emperor Dynasty Entertainment¡¯s front page for a month, for free. Qiu Bin scowled. Promoted This Month was the best space for promotion on the Emperor Dynasty Entertainment channel, they never gave the space to games from other channels. It was a spot reserved for a few A and S-grade video game designers within Emperor Dynasty Entertainment. Moreover, a whole month? Qiu Bin answered: I don¡¯t have that kind of power. Chen Mo replied: I know you don¡¯t have that power, but you¡¯re still a B-grade video game designer. You must know someone who does inside Emperor Dynasty Entertainment, right? Try to make it happen, I believe in you. If Qiu Bin begged Lin Chaoxu, the Chairman of Emperor Dynasty Entertainment himself, he might be able to get that spot. But he wouldn¡¯t have any dignity left. If he lost a bet against a C-grade video game designer and a promotional space belonging to Emperor Dynasty Entertainment? How could he bring himself to ask for that space from his higher-ups? Qiu Bin was about to explode from all the pent-up anger. Chen Mo was too confident, did he not treat Qiu Bin as a threat at all? Qiu Bin didn¡¯t believe he could lose! He didn¡¯t believe in otherworldly forces, either. -How could Chen Mo attack me like that? How could he be so confident?- Qiu Bin replied: Alright, if I lose, I¡¯ll get you that promoted space! What if you lose? Can you give me a promoted space? Chen Mo gave it some thought. If the bet wasn¡¯t big enough, Qiu Bin wouldn¡¯t ept it, but he didn¡¯t have anything that would beparable to the promoted space of Emperor Dynasty Entertainment. Chen Mo quickly replied: If I lose, I¡¯ll spend time outside the Emperor Dynasty Entertainment building crossdressed! This shocked all the spectators. Wow, these guys sure know how to make it entertaining! In the end, you¡¯re still a videogame designer, can¡¯t you have some integrity? Qiu Bin decided to ept: Alright! I¡¯ll be waiting for you in four month¡¯s time! Chen Mo replied swiftly: No problem, get the promotional spot ready! ¡ª After Chen Mo sent that Weibo, he checked his watch: his fifteen minutes had just ran out. -Me losing? Don¡¯t be silly!- Why did Chen Mo want to anger him and start a bet? To prove himself? No! Chen Mo didn¡¯t mind others copying him, much less tearing each other up because of it. He didn¡¯t see anything meaningful in that. What he was really after was the promotional space, and the publicity it would bring his game from the attention it got. Chapter 52 Chapter 52: Chapter 51: New Game Decided Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth As Qiu Bin slowly calmed down, he was surprised at what he had posted on his Weibo. ¡°I was being too impulsive. What¡¯s wrong with me today? Why couldn¡¯t I just keep it in?¡± Qiu Bin¡¯s regret was settling in, but what was done had been done. Promises were made, Weibos were posted. There were tens of thousands of fans as witnesses, so it was toote to take it back. The news would probably be written into articles and posted by various video game mediapanies. When the time came, the whole video game industry might have their eyes on this incident, and it might gain even more traction after that. ¡°Geez, that wasn¡¯t smart!¡± Qiu Bin had never been the hot-headed type. If he was still full of zeal at thirty-something, why would he make a game like Guardian of the Holy Spring? He knew better than anyone else that his game took inspiration from nts vs Zombies in many ways. If he had been thinking clearly from the start to end, he wouldn¡¯t have responded to Chen Mo. The main problem was that if this incident did gain traction, even though Chen Mo did have a stake in this matter, he was benefiting from this no matter what! It was a simr situation between Chen Mo and Shi Huazhe, bringing a lot of attention to nts vs Zombies. The fight this time was much fiercer than thest, it was practically promoting Chen Mo¡¯s next game! Qiu Bin had always been timid and cautious, so this matter caused him some distress. -Why was Chen Mo so confident? Was he that certain?- Out of nowhere, Qiu Bin¡¯s mobile phone rang. It was from Lin Chaoxu, the Chairman of Emperor Dynasty Entertainment! Qiu Bin was shocked; how did this matter reach his boss so quickly?! Qiu Bin carefully picked up his phone. ¡°Hello. Mr. Lin. About the bet between me and Chen Mo, I...¡± Qiu Bin wanted to exin himself, but Lin Chaoxu interrupted him in the middle of his sentence. ¡°You did well on that,¡± said Lin Chaoxu. Qiu Bin was shocked, ¡°Sorry?¡± Lin Chaoxuughed, ¡°This Chen Mo guy nned this quite extensively. I don¡¯t think it was because he was trying to prove something, but he was trying to borrow some of Emperor Dynasty Entertainment¡¯s fame to promote his own game. However, won¡¯t an argument like this promote Guardian of the Holy Spring, too? ¡°Make your game as good as possible before April, add some more features if you can! Emperor Dynasty Entertainment will promote your game when the timees! ¡°Your response to Chen Mo was very firm, not dropping any of thepany¡¯s face. I was actually quite worried that you wouldn¡¯t respond, because you are usually quite meek. Remember, only we, Emperor Dynasty Entertainment, bully others. Nobody ever bullies us! If anyone isn¡¯t happy, we will destroy them!¡± His speech had gotten Qiu Bin¡¯s heart racing, and he replied, ¡°Understood, Mr Lin!¡± Lin Chaoxu replied, ¡°Mm, give it your all. Don¡¯t worry about the aftermath. You¡¯re a part of Emperor Dynasty Entertainment, and we never lose. Understood?¡± Qiu Bin, his emotions filled to the brim, replied, ¡°Yes, Mr Lin!¡± Upon hanging up, Qiu Bin¡¯s worries turned into happiness. Not only did Lin Chaoxu not hound him for making bets without permission, but actually praised him. What did this say about the situation? Lin Chaoxu¡¯s attitude was clear. First, so what if the game was copied, that didn¡¯t matter! Using the sheer power that Emperor Dynasty Entertainment possessed, they could do anything they wanted. Everyone else had to bend over, even if they weren¡¯t happy. As a videogame designer at Emperor Dynasty Entertainment, you could never back down from situations like this! Second, Chen Mo wanted to use this opportunity for publicity, but Guardian of the Holy Spring could also seize this opportunity to raise the game. Emperor Dynasty Entertainment could support him and lift the game to the skies, allowing them to benefit from it as well! As for the bet, it can only be said that Chen Mo had lost his marbles. Emperor Dynasty Entertainment was the biggest channel in China. If they wanted to promote Guardian of the Holy Spring, what could Chen Mo do to counter that? Chen Mo had no chance of winning this bet! After some thinking, Qiu Bin turned his worries into a reason to celebrate. He was happy that something came over him and made him take the bet. Qiu Bin made up his mind, ¡°Alright, I¡¯m not going anywhere for the next four months, and I will spend all that time on Guardian of the Holy Spring. There¡¯s no way that Chen Mo can beat me with all that support from Emperor Dynasty Entertainment behind me!¡± ¡ª On the other side of the bet, Chen Mo had received multiple phone calls. Lin Mao, Zhao zihao, Su Jinyu all called asking why Chen Mo had lost his cool. The bet was so one-sided that he basically wrote his own death sentence! Chen Mo however, was very calm. The experience store opened as usual, and Su Jinyu was already waiting at the doors. ¡°Boss, you¡¯ve been too rash! I didn¡¯t know that you were someone so hot-headed!¡± Su Jinyu eximed in worry. Chen Mo opened his arms. ¡°Geez, didn¡¯t we go through this on the phone? I wasn¡¯t being rash, I was prepared for that!¡± Su Jinyu said, ¡°What have you prepared to go head to head with Emperor Dynasty Entertainment?¡± Chen Mo replied without a totalck of concern, ¡°You wouldn¡¯t understand even if I told you.¡± ¡°@#£¤%&*%^*&(*%^!!!¡± was Su Jiny¡¯s response. Chen Mo tossed her a can of coffee, ¡°Alright. It¡¯s no big deal. We start developing the game today. If there isn¡¯t anything important, don¡¯t take leaves for the next four developmental months.¡± Su Jinyu was happily surprised, ¡°Really? Do you have the draft for your next game done?¡± Chen Mo shook his head, ¡°No, I haven¡¯t written down a single word.¡± Su Jinyu facepalmed. ¡°Boss, can you act more reasonably?¡± Chen Mo replied, ¡°Alright, don¡¯t panic. I¡¯ll give you your tasks tomorrow.¡± ¡°Alright,¡± Su Jinyu sat down at the bar table reluctantly, ¡°Make it quick, boss! We only have four months!¡± ¡°I know, I know.¡± Chen Mo said, waving his hand as he retreated back to the second floor. ¡°Who knows if he can actually manage,¡± Su Jinyu muttered under her breath, ¡°It¡¯s crazy someone as undependable as him was the designer of nts vs Zombies...¡± ¡ª Back in his office, Chen Mo wasn¡¯t rushing to start his design document, but instead chose tounch a drawing app. As Chen Mo¡¯s art skills were decent now, after half an hour of sketching and adjusting, a ssic character from his previous life appeared on hisputer screen. It was a silly-looking minotaur. It looked quite cute with it¡¯s massive head and tiny limbs. It had two massive eyes, and thick eyebrows. It was quite serious in expression, yet dumb and cute. It had tiny ears and horns, and a massive nose ring on its trapezoidal face. This was a cute drawing of a minotaur, yet it didn¡¯t feel childish. Chen Mo looked at the drawing, thinking it was missing something. After some thinking, he added three dots underneath its eyes. ¡°Yep, that¡¯s about right,¡± Chen Mo nodded. This silly cow was a ssic character from his previous life called MT! That¡¯s right, Chen Mo¡¯s next game was a card game that had been popr nationwide, called I Am MT. In his previous world, I Am MT would¡¯ve been outdated and most people would¡¯ve already been sick of it. However, in the parallel world, the gamers didn¡¯t yet know the genre called ¡°Chinese card games¡±. Chen Mo was sure of the n Qiu Bin and Emperor Dynasty Entertainment had. The y style and inspiration for Guardian of the Holy Spring was based on nts vs Zombies, therefore Chen Mo had a certain expectation of the profitability of the game. Even if Guardian of the Holy Spring was more content rich than nts vs Zombies and had better promotion, the bet was still based on profit, and that type of game wouldn¡¯t be suitable for top-ups. If Emperor Dynasty Entertainment did decide to change the profit method, Chen Mo would only win by arger margin. It was only based on this pointer that Chen Mo could bet as confidently as he did. In regards to profit-making, standalone games like that were some distance away from Chinese mobile games. This wasn¡¯t a problem of the quality; it all had to do with how they profited. That¡¯s right, even if nts vs Zombies was higher quality, with even better detail, it could never dream of surpassing I Am MT in terms of profit! Quite often, the video game industry was just that unreasonable! Chapter 53 Chapter 53: Chapter 52 The Soul of Card Games Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth In his previous life, nts vs Zombies swept the globe, earning millions of US dors in just nine days, breaking many records. If it were sold at three USD per copy and it made 1.5 million in sales, it would rake in 4.5 million USD in sales, or about 27 million RMB. On the other hand, what was the monthly profit for I Am MT? In 2013, when the Chinese mobile games market was in its early years of development, I Am MT made fifty-five million RMB! nts vs Zombies relied on the global market. I Am MT only utilized the Chinese market! nts vs Zombies was a standalone game relying on sales, the number of sales would inevitably decrease over time. On the other hand, I Am MT was a free game. Even after operating for three to your years, it¡¯s profitability never decreases, and even continued pushing updates. The sess of nts vs Zombies could not be replicated, but I Am MT¡¯s profit model could be reproduced again and again! When the two werepared, the profitability of Chinese card games was obvious. I Am MT showed the Chinese card game genre to the world, and made a path for Chinese developers. As the benchmark for card games, I Am MT was copied many times, and simr games still showed up four years after its release. I Am MT was well worthy of the title of ¡°The Original People¡¯s Card Game¡±, and held the top spot at the app store for a long time before Soul Hunters made revolutionary changes to the genre Chen Mo wanted to utilize the same profit model as other Chinese games, and I Am MT was the first step. Its features were very suitable for what Chen Mo was currently looking for. The first feature was that it was easy to make! Most of the art for I Am MT was on character cards. Coding, level design, ystyle, and original art weren¡¯t problems for Chen Mo now. Its ystyle was quite simple, and the rules are also clear. As long as the art was of eptable quality, the actual development time wasn¡¯t too long, maybe two to three months at most. The second feature was that it was appropriate. I Am MT didn¡¯t rely on the other Chinese games, which relied on inciting negative emotions to force yers to spend money. It was in fact the exact opposite. The game treated free yers extremely well, giving out a lot of free runes, especially during the holiday season. Moreover, the game didn¡¯t have highly strategic PVP or group PVP aspects, therefore free yers would feel less frustration. Chen Mo had to consider the threshold for yers in the parallel world. If he started with heavy firepower, the yers might not be able to take the frustration. He might end up being on the receiving end of angry fans, damaging his name in the process, and when that happened, he might have to crossdress. From that perspective, I Am MT was a decent game for testing the limits of the yers! The third feature was that it was easy to promote! Chen Mo had given this point a lot of thought. What was the core of card games? It wasn¡¯t ystyle, but IP, intellectual property! IP was a buzzword in the Chinese video game industry. Many video game developers would throw money at protecting their IP, many video game designers wouldn¡¯t shut up about IP. It woulde up more often than eating. Why was IP so important, and why is it worth so much money? In card games, IP decided the card¡¯s worth. If you had Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, and I had Hawks and Zoro[1], the two games would obviously havepletely different yer bases, and the price that the yers were willing to pay for a legendary card would also be different. Three Kingdoms were essentially the worst IP, because everyone was familiar with it. There were manypanies who made games using that theme. In his previous world, Naruto, One Piece, Fate[2], or Jin Yong¡¯s[3] works were the most popr IPs. As long as you got those IPs, making money was easy by changing the art on some existing game. A card game without an IP was a card game without a soul. Yes, it was that extreme! If you wanted to make a card game, you needed to have an IP! Chen Mo had considered how to solve the IP problem when he decided on making a card game. His first thought was to buy arger IP in the parallel world, but he gave up soon after learning the prices. The people in this world had better knowledge of intellectual rights and preferred to support the originals, therefore the prices for IP were also higher. In his previous world, a popr IP would be in the realm of seven digits, but it would only be higher in this world. Of course, not all IPs were that expensive. For example, popr but non-mainstream novels, or anime IPs could be acquired for a few hundred thousand. However, seeing that their sess would be limited, Chen Mo decided against it. You always get what you pay for when buying IP. Paying for a less popr IP would be a waste of money. Chen Mo was now stuck in the situation where he didn¡¯t want the cheap IPs, but couldn¡¯t afford the expensive ones. Even if he could afford them, he wasn¡¯t about to spend that much money! Therefore, Chen Mo decided to make his own IP, and I Am MT would be the most suitable IP. Of course, Chen Mo had other choices, such as redrawing One Piece or Naruto, or rewriting The Legend of the Condor Heroes, or Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils?[4] -That might be a bit too much...- Novels and anime required a long time to gain poprity. Moreover, with Chen Mo¡¯s current art skills, he couldn¡¯t hope to reach the likes of One Piece or Naruto. If he managed to draw a chapter a week, who knew how long it would take to reach a reasonable level of poprity. Although novels were slightly faster, they weren¡¯t suitable for going straight from writing to game. They usually went through a movie, animated series, and then finally developed into a game. Novels that were made straight into a game were few and far between. That was because the character of novels relied on the reader¡¯s imagination, and the characters in the games were concrete. The process of going from imagination to being concrete required the characters being slowly set into the minds of the readers, ensuring that the IP would take off. After going through many different choices, I Am MT was the easiest to recreate, and what Chen Mo thought was the best choice. The animation industry in this world was doing quite well. As long as Chen Mo provided an animationpany with character designs, story, and scenes, the quality of the product probably wouldn¡¯t be too far from the original in the previous world. After all, I Am MT was created by a couple fans of animated series turned games, meaning that it was low cost. I Am MT was very popr. It¡¯s first episode received more than thirty million views on iQiyi[5], and was sometimes even referred to as a cultural phenomenon, bing part of the memories for WoW[6] yers and animation fans alike. Therefore, it was entirely possible to make this into a super popr IP, which would allow Chen Mo¡¯s game to start off flying! Of course, there were also risks involved... The biggest problem was that part of I Am MT¡¯s sess relied to some extent on the story andrge user base for World of Warcraft. There wasn¡¯t a game called World of Warcraft in this world, so the audience might not understand some parts of it. For example, what did MT mean? What was the Main Tank¡¯s job? Why does MT have that job? What features do people with the same job have? Why was he the main character? These things didn¡¯t need to be exined to World of Warcraft yers, but could the audience in the parallel world understand the references to World of Warcraft in I Am MT? Taking a step back, if they didn¡¯t understand it, would it affect how popr the animated series got? ================= TL Notes: [1] Character from One Piece, an anime [2] Fate is a video game series by Type-Moon [3] Jin Yong is a famous Chinese novelist [4] Wuxia (Chinese martial arts novels) by Jin Yong [5] iQiYi is a Chinese video streaming tform [6] World of Warcraft Chapter 54 Chapter 54: Chapter 53: Card Original Artwork Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth After some thought, Chen Mo decided to stay optimistic on the parallel world yers¡¯ understanding and eptance of I Am MT. From what he had seen in his previous life, I Am MT started off being popr among the World of Warcraftmunity, but soon spread to the younger generation, who didn¡¯t y World of Warcraft. I Am MT¡¯s humorous style, cute artwork, and rich uninterrupted story allowed them to detach themselves from World of Warcraft, bing apletely independant story. In his previous life, there were many yers who didn¡¯t y World of Warcraft who liked I Am MT; there were even instances where yers got into World of Warcraft because of I Am MT. Of course, Chen Mo wouldn¡¯t release I Am MT unaltered. He nned to make some small changes to it to slowly introduce the yers in this world to the world of I Am MT. ¡ª After finishing a sketch of MT, Chen Mo went on to sketch the other characters, such as Shaman, Hunter, and Rogue. Chen Mo had a deeper impression of these characters, and was therefore able to draw them pretty decently from memory. However, the other, more unique side-characters were more challenging for him. ¡°This is kinda slow. Right, maybe it¡¯s time to use the equipment.¡± Chen Mo used the Super elerator from his bracelet. This drastically increased his work efficiency, making it very suitable for times like this. Chen Mo followed that up with a Memory yback Potion in order to remember details on the characters. As Chen Mo managed to draw more special equipment this time, he could afford to use it more deliberately. He had to finish the sketches as soon as possible in order, to not hinder future progress. As his memories cleared up, Chen Mo went straight to his memory of the mobile game, disregarding the content of the animations. ¡ª In his previous life, I Am MT managed to gather over one thousand cards with unique art throughout the years and numerous updates, of which four hundred and twenty-five were yable characters, the others being monster cards. Of course, there were many repeats. The five star and five star+ character cards only had different borders, with no changes made to the artwork. The cards for main characters, such as MT, had up to eleven different types of artwork for four star, four star+, five star, five star+, five star+3, six star (three forms), and seven stars (three forms). Chen Mo didn¡¯t need that many different levels as of right now. He nned to have up to five star +3 (max) in the first version, releasing the others in future versions. That way, each character card only needed three different pieces of artwork: four star (blue rarity), five star (purple rarity), and five star +3 max (purple rarity). Reducing the number of levels also meant that the number of monsters could also be decreased, meaning the number of cards Chen Mo needed to draw was below one thousand. Chen Mo needed to draw ssic artwork for these characters from Horde: MT, Shaman, Rogue, Hunter, Druid, Caster, Warlock, Priest, Beauty, Thief, Barrel Bull, and Blood Elf Mage [1]. From Alliance, he needed Lady, Tyran, Brick, Meddy, The President, Huntress, Elder Sister, Cannon Lady, the Holy Rider¡¯s Pentad, the Fireball Gods Pentad, Sunken Fish, Fallen Goose, Waning Moon, and Shy Flower. Other than that, there was Nosuke Shinsuke, and Winter, who showed upter. The first version would have thirty-six yable characters. There would be around two hundred cards for monsters, but these weren¡¯t a priority, and could be der. 36¡Á3,+200, summing to 308, was the number of cards after Chen Mo¡¯s filtering. ¡ª Chen Mo¡¯s drawing speed dramatically increased after using the Super elerator. With triple the work efficiency, one drawing took ten minutes, so the ssic artwork for the thirty-six characters was condensed down to six hours. It was unreasonable for Chen Mo to work for six hours straight without rest. With periodic breaks, Chen Mo finished the sketches by 6 PM. These were only rough sketches. There was still a bunch of work that needed to be done, such as adding details, color, editing, and post-processing. However, Chen Mo didn¡¯t n to do those himself, as he would be worn too thin. ¡ª After stretching, Chen Mo sent the sketches to Su Jinyu and went downstairs. ¡°Hmm? Why are you guys all here?¡± Chen Mo noticed that there were quite a few people downstairs. Wen Lingwei, Jia Peng, and Chang Xiuya were all present. Su Jinyu stood up and said, ¡°Boss, you finally decided toe down.¡± Wen Lingwei added, ¡°I thought you made a bet on impulse, and didn¡¯t want toe down because you were shy, as you realized you couldn¡¯t win.¡± Chen Mo snorted, ¡°Do I look like that kind of person?¡± Chang Xiuya asked in a worried tone, ¡°Manager... How¡¯s your new game going? If you happen to lose...¡± Wen Lingwei said, ¡°If you wanna go on the run, I do know a guy...¡± Chen Mo rolled his eyes and said, ¡°Hold up! What are you guys thinking? Don¡¯t worry, I already have nts for the new game. Goldfish [2], go ahead and extract the file I sent you.¡± Su Jinyu protested, ¡°I¡¯m Jinyu, not Goldfish! Both sybles have the meaning of gems!¡± Wen Lingwei said, ¡°Huh, that name is quite alright. I¡¯ll call you Goldfish from now on, too!¡± Su Jinyu was speechless. Upon extracting the file, everyone was shocked to discover that there were thirty-odd character sketches. Although they weren¡¯t colored, the outlines were good enough to leave a deep impression. Su Jinyu asked, ¡°Boss, are these the character drawings for the new game? Are we making a cute game?¡± Chen Mo replied, ¡°Yep, I should have the overall rules and mechanics of the game within a week, the first step was to finish the sketches for the characters.¡± Su Jinyu looked through each of the drawings with the others. ¡°This is a... cow? It was a nose ring, too. It¡¯s pretty cute. Why is the first drawing a cow? A cow humanoid? A cow head with a human body?¡± ¡°MT? What kind of name is this?¡± ¡°The second drawing is also a cow. Umm... it¡¯s a female cow too, called Shaman; it does look quite silly [3].¡± ¡°This weird green-skinned square headed weirdo, it probably isn¡¯t a human type race right? It¡¯s called Rogue... it does have a nk look. Can someone as dense-looking as this guy be a rogue[4]?¡± ¡°All the characters are quite weirdly shaped, although all of them are quite adorable. But is there really no problem with these weirdly-shaped characters?¡± ¡°Oh, finally a normal human, Lady. Hmm? She looks like the main character, why is she so far back?¡± ¡°Elder Sister? President? Umm... it seems like the ones at the back are all humanoids?¡± ¡°What do you mean humanoids, they are just humans!¡± ¡°What does Alliance and Horde mean? Why is the Horde at the bottom, and Alliance on top? Are those factions?¡± With everyone looking at the sketches, the room was filled with discussion. ============== TL Note: [1] Most of the names of the characters are puns, either based on the English word, or puns rted to the ss. [2] The Chinese pronunciation of goldfish is Jin1 Yu2; her name is actually pronounced Jin3 Yu2. [3] Its name is a y on words, based on English pronunciation of shaman and the word ¡°silly¡± in Chinese. [4] Direct trantion of the Chinese name would be Dense (slow in the brain) Rogue. Half of the trantions I used are from the iplete (and likely unmaintained) Fandom page; there was an English release of the game, but there doesn¡¯t seem to be much about it, so half the names are possibly official, the other half will be made up by me. ¨C Cold Taco Chapter 55 Chapter 55: Chapter 54: Making Money from the Manager in any way Possible! Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth The consensus on the characters so far was cute and noticeable features, but they weren¡¯t sure how these characters rted to one another... Chen Mo felt that it¡¯d be weirder if they were able to tell the rtionship of the characters outside of the show. Chen Mo asked, ¡°Goldfish, how long will it take for you to finish off the drawings, including filling in details, and color? It doesn¡¯t need to be too detailed; they will have to be the same size as my sketches.¡± Su Jinyu gave it some thought. ¡°Umm, these character cards aren¡¯t all thatplicated. Four to five days should probably be enough.¡± Chen Mo shook his head, ¡°Three days.¡± ¡°Huh?¡± Su Jinyu was a bit conflicted. ¡°I could also do it in three days, but the quality might be lower.¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°Don¡¯t worry, these cards will still end up on the phone. It¡¯s fine if it¡¯s slightly worse, as we can improve itter; we can keep it simple for now.¡± Su Jinyu awkwardly nodded, ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll try my best.¡± Wen Lingwei said, ¡°If it¡¯s just filling in details and colouring, I could do that, too.¡± Chen Mo was shocked. ¡°Are you sure? These are the actual resources for the game; they should at least be good enough that the yers don¡¯t have anything to nitpick about.¡± Jia Peng reminded him, ¡°Manger, senior over here is a top art student. She normally does artmissions too.¡± Chen Mo finally understood. Right, Wen Lingwei, Jia Peng, and the others are all in the school¡¯s Publicity Department. They usually needed to make posters and exhibition boards; could they be the president and vice president of the department if they didn¡¯t have drawing or image processing skills?¡± ¡°Sure, it¡¯d save me a lot of time if you drew too,¡± said Chen Mo. Wen Lingwei said with an evil smile, ¡°Then how much are you going to pay me? I usually charge five thousand per drawing, and that¡¯s the special price.¡± Chen Mo murmured, ¡°... I couldn¡¯t tell you were a pro.¡± Prices would vary greatly between different artists for drawings like art for cards. Some would charge a thousand, others would charge ten thousand. Of course, the price could still go higher than that. Obviously you¡¯d get what you pay for for things like this. There would of course be a difference in terms ofposition, lighting and color for an average artistpared to a better artist. Someone like Wen Lingwei, who charged five thousand per card, which happened to be the special price,was a price only a decent artist could charge. Chen Mo said, ¡°Wouldn¡¯t you usually have to do the design,position, and finding out the requirements? I already have the sketches and the drawings are way smaller than what you usually do. All you have to do is refine and color it. Can you settle for two thousand?¡± Wen Lingwei replied, ¡°Selfish!¡± Chen Mo was speechless. Wen Lingwei said, ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll do it out of pity. Two thousand per drawing, three days each. However, don¡¯tin that it¡¯s going too slow if it¡¯s just me and Goldfish working on this. Chen Mo looked at Jia Peng and Chang Xiuya, ¡°If you guys want to draw, I¡¯m fine with that too...¡± Jia Peng waved his hand dismissively, ¡°We aren¡¯t nearly as good as senior, I might be able to help you with the normal monsters, but don¡¯t give us any of the main characters.¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°That¡¯s fine, there¡¯s a few monster cardster, so I could probably send you guys some of those. I¡¯ll pay you guys the same.¡± Jia Peng once again waved his hand dismissively,. ¡°Don¡¯t worry, money isn¡¯t that important, you can pay as you see fit.¡± Chen Mo distributed the cards. ¡ª Su Jinyu and Wen Lingwei¡¯s drawing abilities were both very good, and they could take on the drawing of the main characters all by themselves. Moreover, it was easier for Chen Mo tomunicate with them, so Chen Mo gave them the most important main character cards to work on. Chen Mo assigned a few drawings to the other students who were also able to draw the monster cards. Based on the speed of three days per card, Wen Lingwei and Su Jinyu would take fifty-four days to finish thirty-six of the main character cards. Moreover it was only part of the cards, out of the three hundred cards that were required! This waspletely different from nts vs Zombies, as many of the zombie assets could be reused, and most of the nts were quite easy to draw, too. For card games however, each card was basically its own entity. If it didn¡¯t look good, the yers wouldn¡¯t want to fork out money, therefore it was a point Chen Mo didn¡¯t want topromise on. Therefore, in order to shorten this time, Chen Mo had to outsource the drawings. Chen Mo asked Wen Lingwei and Su Jinyu, ¡°Do you guys know any art outsourcingpanies? Something a bit more dependable.¡± Wen Lingwei did some thinking and replied, ¡°I know one. I have a few friends that are artists there, its quality is quite decent.¡± Chen Mo nodded,¡± Sure, just send their contacts to me. Also, do you guys know any animationpanies?¡± Wen Lingwei and Su Jinyu both shook their heads. ¡°I do know of a few, but don¡¯t know anyone personally.¡± Chen Mo replied, ¡°Alright, just finish the few main character cards I picked out from before for now.¡± Chen Mo started back upstairs. Su Jinyu said, ¡°Wait up, manager. What type of game is the next one going to be? Do we really need this much artwork for cards?¡± Chen Mo answered, ¡°Don¡¯t worry, you¡¯ll find out in a few days!¡± ¡ª When he got back to the second floor, Chen Mo started feeling tired; it was probably the side-effects of the Super elerator. Based on the contacts Wen Lingwei provided, Chen Mo found the manager for the art outsourcingpany andmunicated his specifications. Chen Mo gave them the sketches, which would save a bunch of money on the design and drafting stages, and would also save on time. In the end, they agreed on a price of twenty-two hundred per main character card, six hundred per monster card. As the requirements for the monster cards weren¡¯t as strict, they were reduced by a significant amount. Using these numbers, Chen Mo would have to spend about 36¡Á3¡Á2200, + 200¡Á600 = 357,600, three hundred thousand-plus RMB. Of course, there were some monsters that could be reused after being reskinned, but it was probably not possible to reduce it below three hundred thousand. Although it wasn¡¯t cheap, Chen Mo felt alright spending that money, as it couldn¡¯t be reduced any further. He felt quite happy to be able to finish the entire deck with five hundred thousand RMB. Chen Mo assigned the more important cards, like MT, Shaman, Rogue, Hunter, Lady, President, and Elder Sister to Wen Lingwei and Su Jinyu. Based on three days per card, it would take about a month to finish all of it. Su Jinyu also needed to be involved with the game design process, so Chen Mo couldn¡¯t allow her to just focus on drawing cards. Other than that, Chen Mo also assigned some of the monster cards to Jia Peng and the others, and paid them at market rates. The other cards were left in the hands of the outsourcingpany. It didn¡¯t matter who did them, as long as all the cards were done within two months! Chapter 56 Chapter 56: Chapter 55: Animations are so Expensive Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth Solving the problem of card art was only the first step. Chen Mo decided to deal with other visual resources, such as UI, background, and card special effectster. If possible he wanted to outsource it, otherwise he¡¯d just have to do it himself. There was still a more serious problem: finding a dependable animationpany! Replicating I Am MT shouldn¡¯t be a problem for the animationpanies in this world. However, Chen Mo wanted to make it higher quality, at least up to the level of thest few seasons of I Am MT, and it would be even better if it was able to surpass the quality of Warrior VS Dragon [1]. After all, this animated series was essentially promoting the game. If he gave up the effects of promoting in order to save money, he would be neglecting the essentials! Chen Mo didn¡¯t know anyone at any animationpanies, either. After giving it some thought, he decided to give Zhao Zihao a call. After all, Zhao Zihao owned a video game workshop, and would frequently socialize with others in the video game industry. It wouldn¡¯t be hard for him to find a dependable animationpany. During the call, Chen Mo briefly went over his specifications, and Zhao Zihao got him a contact for an animationpany in no time. This Dazzling Aurora Studio was fairly well known in the industry, and had a few decent animations, therefore thepany was probably a good choice. Chen Mo went over his requirements briefly and arranged a meeting with a person in charge tomorrow in his experience store. ¡ª By the time the discussions were done, Chen Mo could barely keep his eyes open. ¡°This Super elerator is quite something...¡± Chen Mo went to bed after woefully cleaning himself up. ¡ª Morning the next day... Chen Mo had slept for a full ten hours, and still felt quite stiff. No wonder they warned against using it multiple times in short session; you might actually die from it! -Wake up, washing and rinsing, open the doors.- Wen Lingwei joined Su Jinyu, arriving at 10 AM sharp every day. She brought her own drawing tablet andptop, colouring the characters down on the first floor of the experience store. During the afternoon, the person in charge from Dazzling Aurora Studio arrived, and Chen Mo invited him to his office on the second floor. The man was called Guo Feng. He looked about forty, and very kind, although he was starting to go bald. Chen Mo didn¡¯t go through the normal weing of guests, and went straight to the point, detailing his requirements. ¡°Here¡¯s what¡¯s going on. I want to make an animated series. There will be ten episodes in the first season, ten minutes for each episode. There will be a song for both the opening and the closing of each episode. ¡°I will provide the characters, scenes, story, dialogue, and shots. All you guys need to do is execute it ording to my specifications. ¡°I was wondering how much this would cost.¡± Guo Feng gave it some thought and asked, ¡°Do you n to pay for everything out of your own pocket?¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Yes.¡± Guo Feng said, ¡°Personally, I¡¯d give you this advice. Animations are a huge investment. If it doesn¡¯t get popr, it¡¯s entirely possible that you won¡¯t even break even. You want to make your own characters, set your own scenes and settings... this makes it even higher risk. ¡°Of course, if you¡¯re willing to pay, we¡¯ll do it regardless. It¡¯s just my advice to you.¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Yep, thanks for your advice, but I already know what I¡¯m getting myself into, so just give the price to me straight.¡± Guo Feng nodded, ¡°Alright. Right now the normal price in the industry for a twenty-four minute long animated series episode would cost around five hundred thousand, or about twenty thousand per minute. Of course, this is the highest quality service, including design, shots, and story writing.¡± Chen Mo tried to calm down and said, ¡°Umm... let me think about that.¡± What was referred to as ¡°highest quality¡± was basically the same quality as animes in his previous life. As long as it was a big production, had good video quality, dubs, sound effects, and background music, it would all be the highest quality. However this price was slightly more than Chen Mo wanted. Based on twenty thousand RMB per minute, a ten-minute episode would be two hundred thousand. A season had ten episodes, meaning a season would set him back two million! It was hard to tell how much I Am MT¡¯s cost was in his previous life, but it definitely wasn¡¯t that much, and was probably a lot lower than that. In this previous life, Locojoy only spent three million to acquire the rights to I Am MT. Evidently that amount of money was a big sum to the production team at the time. Guo Feng added, ¡°Of course, the price varies ording to the production quality. If you¡¯re willing to settle for lower quality, the price can be reduced. ¡°Of course, it would still be ording to your specifications.¡± Chen Mo asked, ¡°Is there a difference between 2D and 3D?¡± Guo Feng exined, ¡°There is a difference, but not a big one. Our 2D animations are actually converted from 3D ones, meaning we are using 3D techniques to create the effects of 2D. If it¡¯s purely hand-drawn 2D, the price might be up to ny thousand per minute. There¡¯s barely anyone doing it that way nowadays. ¡°Hand-drawn 2D animations require too many artists. The previous 2D animations could probably be ssified asbor-intensive, and most of the money would be spent on the artists. Currently, as the technology for converting 3D into 2D is quite mature, it allows us to cut down on a lot of manpower, therefore actually reducing the cost in the process.¡± Chen Mo nodded. The parallel world wasn¡¯t quite the same as his previous world. The wonders of technology... Chen Mo thought for a few moments. -Is two million for a season expensive?- Judging on the profitability of I Am MT, it wasn¡¯t. If I Am MT was just as sessful as in his previous life, it would only take one month to make the money for ten seasons! Moreover, I Am MT didn¡¯t have asrge a starting audience as the previous world. If the quality wasn¡¯t good enough and the IP didn¡¯t gain momentum, it would mean big losses for Chen Mo. Losing money wasn¡¯t a big problem, but he was currently in a wager! Therefore Chen Mo didn¡¯t dare save any money on the animations. It didn¡¯t matter if it was expensive, as long as the quality was there. Chen Mo said in a serious tone, ¡°Alright, I¡¯ve made up my mind. Just do it at the highest quality. However, providing the character design and story should cut down the cost right?¡± Guo Feng nodded, ¡°Of course! Without the investments rting to story, character design, scenes and so on, it will slightly reduce the cost, though not by a lot. Maybe like ten percent.¡± Chen Mo couldn¡¯t help but put his palm on his forehead. The savings were really minimal. However, after some thought, he was still saving two hundred thousand cold hard cash! Guo Feng added, ¡°However, if you provide the scripts and character designers, you will need to work closely with our crew, in particr so the settings and shots are decided on time, and try to reduce the number of times you make changes in order to not hinder progress.¡± Chen Mo nodded. ¡°Alright. How about this: a week from now, at the end of the month, I¡¯ll provide the character design, story, and scenes, then we¡¯ll make the contracts.¡± Chapter 57 Chapter 57: Chapter 56: Mobile Game nning Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth After escorting Guo Feng out of the experience store, Chen Mo retreated into his office once again. So far Chen Mo hadn¡¯t made any progress on the design document. However, he was not worried, as the ruleset for a mobile card game was extremely simple. Only thebat system, coding, and level designs were a little bit more troublesome. He prioritized finishing the scripts and storyboards for the animated series. It was only through the poprity from the series that the mobile game was able to make money, therefore the series had to be live much earlier than the game itself, as it would take time for the series to gain momentum. The game would spend four months in development, which Chen Mo had nned out. First week: finish everything rted to the animated series, such as character design, scene concept drawings, script, and storyboards, and organize the production of it. It would likely take a week to finish an episode, each being ten minutes long. As each episode was about half the duration of other animations, Chen Mo was worried that it wasn¡¯t going to attract enough viewers, therefore he decided to release the first three episodes together, meaning they would be released a month into the n. After that, there would be an episode released a week, and the first season would be wrapped up in three months. It would be decided when the time came if the second season would be continued seamlessly. As the animated series was produced, the game would also be under development. However that schedule was a bit more lenient, as adjustments would need to be made on the code. If everything happened ordingly, the art for the cards and the other graphical resources should go pretty smoothly. Chen Mo was aiming to finish the game in three months, leaving the rest of the time for testing and adjustments. In short, the first step was still to work out everything for the animated series in a week. Chen Mo would be taking up the role of an artist for the next couple days, jotting down notes on scripts and scenes while under the effects of the Memory yback Potion. Other than that, Chen Mo had also drawn concept art for the settings of the scene, as references for the production. Chen Mo didn¡¯t n to use the Super elerator, as he still felt bad from the side effects thest time he used it. ¡ª A weekter... Guo Feng made another trip to the experience store. This time Chen Mo was able to show him the finished scripts, shots, and storyboard. Guo Feng gave it a quick flip through, and was shocked to see that what Chen Mo had provided was veryplete and up to par. He was able to get the gist of the story just from the storyboard! Moreover, the character design was very new and fresh, and apparently the main character was a cow! ¡°Umm...¡± Guo Feng scratched his chin. He initially thought that this was just fooling around like a rich person, and Chen Mo was just doing it for the fun of it. But after looking through the storyboard and the script, although it wasn¡¯t perfect, the story was a good idea and had great potential! If this was a personal project of their studio, Guo Feng would assign their best resources to it! Moreover, the script and storyboard provided by Chen Mo were extremely detailed! There were even remarks on the design intent for some of the dialogue, and areas that needed to be paid attention to during dubbing. What Guo Feng didn¡¯t know was that Chen Mo had already made a few minor changes to the original script and removed a few of the more obscure gags, which would help the audience in this world better understand its contents. As Chen Mo had his first level of plot writing skills maxed out, making changes like that were quite simple. ¡°If you have any professional thoughts on the script of the storyboard, feel free to mention it to me. It¡¯s not entirely concrete.¡± Guo Feng noded, ¡°Alright, we¡¯ll let you know if we have any better ideas. However, I¡¯m quite surprised at how well done the script is. In my opinion this series definitely has the potential to gain some poprity. Chen Mo snickered to himself. -Some poprity? You¡¯re underestimating this animated series!- However, this was normal. In his previous life, even though I Am MT was praised when it came out, who would¡¯ve thought it would get that popr? There were many who thought that whoever made the decision to buy the rights to I Am MT with three million RMB was nuts. Looking back, a huge number of people underestimated the potential for the animation and the game. Chen Mo was initially worried that Chen Mo¡¯s scripts and storyboard would be unorthodox, but his doubts were cleared upon seeing the script. ¡ª The negotiation went pretty smoothly, and both parties decided to sign contracts at the start of next month, then officially start work. Zhao Zihao also assigned one of the employees from hisw department toe over and take a look at Chen Mo¡¯s contact. After making sure it was alright, Chen Mo signed the contact and paid them. nts vs Zombies managed to rake in 2.6 million RMB in the second month. 1.8 million of that was spent on the production of the animated series, the rest would be spent paying for the artwork for the cards and other graphical resources. ¡ª With matters rted to the animated series settled, all Chen Mo could do was to wait and see what the results would be. Next, Chen Mo had to start nning the rules for the mobile game. The early stages of I Am MT the video game, its ystyle and various systems were quite simple. However, after subsequent updates, its functionalities continued to grow, and even became bloated. Chen Mo didn¡¯t n to migrate everything over from that system. As updating mobile games and adding new ystyles was ast resort, many times developers were forced into adding on in order to make the game feel fresh. It was a ploy to ensure that the yerbase didn¡¯t trickle away as the yers got bored. Chen Mo had to cut out some extra parts of the game in the early stages. If he started off with too much, it might make it difficult for yers to start! ¡ª After brainstorming the final state of the game, Chen Mo started working on the foundation for the design document. This design document included the main interface, basicbat system, card growth system, dungeon ns, specialbat, ount types (level, title, strength, etc.), shop and VIP perks, friends, guilds, backpack, chatting, mail, daily content, and other rted content. With the aid of Memory yback Potions, the foundations for the design document were done in no time at all. They didn¡¯t need much consideration, as these systems were the standards for other subsequent Chinese mobile games with simr ystyles, and was a mature design that had withstood many tests. Chen Mo had to focus on two different aspects: the card growth andbat system, and the level design and bnce of the cards. Chen Mo was going to leave some parts of the design document for functionalities to Su Jinyu, but he decided against it, as functions like these would bepletely new to her. If he left it to her, he¡¯d likely have to spend a bunch of time correcting and rewriting it, which was a huge waste of time. Moreover, it would be very difficult to exin the design concept of the game to her. He¡¯d rather use that time for Su Jinyu to produce more artwork for the characters. He¡¯d let her enter it into the game engine once he was done, though. After he finished working on the foundations, he took a ten minute rest, and then went on to work on the most importantbat system document. Chapter 58 Chapter 58: Chapter 57: Secret Technique to Profiting from Card Games Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth Were Chinese card games fun? The ansswer differed from person to person, as everyone had different tastes. Many said that card games were crude, monotonous, and repetitive, all of which are true. But... they were quite profitable! Being profitable meant the yers approved of it. Why did yers approve of it? Because they thought it was fun! This was a very weird phenomena, as yersined while forking money out of their pockets. Why were card games so profitable? Which part of the game made it fun? This was an open-ended question. If Chen Mo were to write a thesis on the core of card games, it would probably be tens of thousands of words long. In simpler words, the pleasure of ying card games came from three distinct areas. First was the collecting and level-up cards. This was built on the yers¡¯ recognition of the character cards. There was a certainpany who made a One Piece-themed I Am MT bootleg. A certain rich person spent a few thousand RMB without question just to draw a Hawk-Eyes card! There was another nameless Three Kingdoms card game that was still in beta, and another certain rich person added five thousand RMB into his ount in anger just so he could draw Zuge Liang. It turned out the game didn¡¯t even have Zuge Liang yet! Thepany ended up working overtime to add Zuge Liang into the game! Simrly in I Am MT, many yers would be grinding dungeons daily, collecting purple card shards, or spending heaps of money ¡°Drawing Ten¡±, all just to get the cards they wanted! The video game designer would bnce the cards¡¯ abilities to match the scenes in the series (or ording to the poprity of the character), all just to train the yers to recognize the character cards. With the recognition of yers, the cards would be more valuable, which in turn incentivized the yers to spend money. Once the value of a card had been established, it would be differentiated from the other cards. The desire of the yers to collect and level up cards would also be satisfied, and they would feel that the money was well spent. Therefore the key in making a card game profitable was to establish a value system that was recognized by the yers. This made it possible to constantly sell the yers new cards, just like they were collecting stamps. After a yer got the card they wanted, in order to make it stronger, they would continue to level it up, or improve its abilities. Everytime the card was leveled, it let the yers feel like they were growing, which would make it feel like money well spent. This was also part of the aforementioned ¡°numerical stimulus¡±. This was the most important source of joy for card games. This was a very mature, and very repeated model, which is why the mobile card game market was so saturated. The second core attraction was figuring out the lineups and crafting your own strategies. Thebat system of card games might seem monotonous, but it was actually quite rich. In I Am MT, each card had three attacks: a normal attack, a special attack, and passive attacks. The character creation system was based on thebat system of World of Warcraft, with different characters having different abilities. There would be several types of AoE spells, such as blizzard types (attacked the whole screen), whirlwind types (three cells in the row in front) and piercing attacks (two cells in front). There was also physical and magical damage, as well as single and multi-targeted spells. Healing had the same idea, with single and multi-targeted healing. Other than that, there was also damage reduction, resurrection, damage over time, and many otherbat abilities. If you could think of it, there was some way to integrate that into the card gamebat system. This was all in addition to card positioning, order, effectiveness, and weaknesses, party leader abilities, and otherplicated mechanics, which greatly increased the yability of the card gamebat system. Of course, thisbat system was no match for a standalone game, but it was more than enough for mobile gamers! Thisbat system could be disyed all over the world again, just by reskinning thebat system for animes like One Piece or Naruto, or Wuxia Novels. Thesebat systems had a cyclic bncing system. For example, single target healing beat burst damage, burst damage beats group healing, group healing beats AoE damage, etc. It would take the yers arge amount of time testing and sharing their experiences with others to be able to find the best group of five cards among dozens of cards. The rare cards were under strict control, requiring the yer to spend time or money. Testing out each and every card inbat was a huge investment! This process would also be fun and fulfilling to the yer. Therefore if thebat system and card growth system in a card game were a perfect match for one another, it would result in abat system that never grew old, allowing the yers to y it for years and years without getting bored. The third feature was marketing strategy and numerical stimulus. These all covered a broad area, such as operational activities (seven-day logins, check-ins, growth bonuses), daily bonuses (free diamonds, freebat bonuses, online rewards, etc.), early bonuses, etc... Of course, these weren¡¯t just for card games, but were standards for every Chinese mobile game. It was also popr among other genres, such as strategy games or FPS games. However, the absolute first source of it had to be early browser games, poprized by mobile card games, which finally spread to all Chinese mobile games. Of course, this ¡°Ivan Pavlov¡±[1] style of numerical stimulus have been greatly criticized by many gamers. In the end, it was only criticism, and there wasn¡¯t a single mobile gamingpany who didn¡¯t dare not do the same. Why? Because it was simple, yet effective. Once it was removed, the statistics for the game and its profits would drop. This was the effect of ¡°numerical simtion¡±! First, the game must be free, attracting as many yers into the game as possible. Some of these yers may not n to spend money, but that didn¡¯t matter. After the start, there would be a very detailed tutorial, allowing the yers to experience what the game had to offer as soon as possible. At the same time, the game would be extremely easy and allow the yer to steamroll through it. This was the same theory behind ebooks: providing the first sections for free, experience it first, payter. If the user wasn¡¯t happy, no payments would be received. However, this could not be maintained for a long time, probably three days to a week, and the yer had to experience some difficulties after that. In games like these, paying yers and free yers were naturally on different levels. In order to make the yers spend money, barriers had to be introduced. The aforementioned barriers would be introducing them to difficulties and guiding them to spending money to make themselves stronger, and then moving forward on harder levels. This would result in another problem: if a yer didn¡¯t want to spend money and they were met with a barrier, what would happen? They would probably give up on the game! How do you keep these yers? Simple, just give them help! ============ TL Note: [1] Ivan Pavlov is a psychologist known for his work in ssical conditioning Chapter 59 Chapter 59: Chapter 58: An Abnormal Design Document! Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth What was interesting was that the less a yer wanted to spend on a game, the more they cared about the free resources the game gave! -You can¡¯t make any progress? Don¡¯t worry, I¡¯ll give you some diamonds. Just log in today, and I¡¯ll give you a hundred diamonds. After you beat N number of levels, I¡¯ll give you another five hundred, and when you get to level thirty, I¡¯ll give...- These yers would attempt to convert the resources into actual currency. You wanna give up? That means you¡¯re losing money every day! At that point, arge portion of yers would continue ying just because of the potential money lost. Many people would think that the yers would only do that if they were poor. If they were wealthy, they wouldn¡¯t be enticed by small amounts of money like that. That waspletely wrong! The willingness of a yer to spend money only had to do with their personality, and arge amount of yers cared about their earnings in games. Chen Mo had seen wealthy people like that first hand in his previous life. They could¡¯ve spent hundreds of thousands in the game, but they still cared about the few hundred daily bonus diamonds. When these yers were only ying the game because of the free resources the game provided, they had subconsciously epted that it was pay to win, and the rtionship between the in-game equipment, diamonds, and real currency. After that, this batch of yers who didn¡¯t want to spend any money might turn into spending yers when a promotional period came. From the first top-up, to monthly membership, to lifetime membership, to the firstrge top-up, they would start to spend more and more money. It wasn¡¯t a problem if they didn¡¯t convert immediately, and even if certain yers insisted on never spending money, at least they could y alongside paying yers, which would also be good for the game. Thepany also weed those yers who don¡¯t spend a single cent. If you can¡¯t support financially, morally works too! Of course, the third type of joy was built on the previous two. The yer must recognize the game and its contents before they were willing to be a ve to Ivan Pavlov¡¯s methods and spend money on virtual cards and winning virtual battles. ¡ª nning the foundation of the game took Chen Mo two days. Afterwards, he started working on the document for the rules. Including the refinements, the whole process took a week. This was simr to the amount of time nts vs Zombies took. Although Chinese mobile card games might seem simple, they had a lot of minute details, which took a lot of time. Of course, he had also been working on the original artwork for the cards at the same time. There were arge number of cards, but Chen Mo didn¡¯t need to finish them all at once. He would just work alongside the artpany, so it wouldn¡¯t take up too much of his time. Other than that, Chen Mo had also spent some time checking on the progress for the art and animation production. Guo Feng would be sending the first episode of the series to Chen Mo by theing weekend. ¡ª After finishing all the design documents, Chen Mo asked Su Jinyu to enter everything into the video game engine to produce the starting product for I Am MT. Su Jinyu and Wen Lingwei had finished four drawings each. Chen Mo could tell that their artistic skills were quite good, as the details wereparable to the originals. Of course, some details weren¡¯t exactly the same with the ones from his previous life, but that didn¡¯t matter, as minute details like that didn¡¯t y a big part. Su Jinyu downloaded the design document sent over by Chen Mo. Chen Mo said, ¡°All the design documents are there, all that¡¯s left are the numbers and level design, as well as the attributes of cards and the overall construction. Enter the rules into the game engine for now; we can add the rest at ater time.¡± Su Jinyu was shocked, ¡°All the design documents? You finished it in a week?!¡± Of course she was surprised, it took her two weeks to finish the two features Chen Mo assigned her for the update for nts vs Zombies, but he managed to write out the design document for a game in a week! This work efficiency was superhuman! Chen Mo continued ndly, ¡°Take a look at the design document and ask me if there¡¯s anything you don¡¯t understand. I¡¯ll be working on the numbers and level design.¡± ¡ª After giving her another few pointers, Chen Mo retreated back to his office. Su Jinyu was very curious as she opened Chen Mo¡¯s design document. What type of game would he be using for such an important wager? Chen Mo had previously ordered some cards to be drawn and had contacted an animationpany. What was he nning? What did an animationpany have to do with game production? So far, Su Jinyu had no clue what Chen Mo was nning to do. Wen Lingwei, Jia Peng, and the others gathered around to take a look. Wen Lingwei leaned onto the bar table and said, ¡°I¡¯m actually quite curious as to what the manager has nned for his next game.¡± Jia Peng said, ¡°Ahem, senior, do you really understand what the design document is saying?¡± Wen Lingwei gave him a cold nce, ¡°So what if I don¡¯t understand? Goldfish, exin it to me.¡± Su Jinyu was speechless... ¡ª They went through one design document after another. UI. Basicbat. Daily quests.... Su Jinyu¡¯s uncertainty didn¡¯t decrease at all during this process. In reality, it actually went up. After closing thest design document, Su Jinyu waspletely confused. ¡°That¡¯s it? That¡¯s all? Isn¡¯t that a bit too simple? The contents of this game don¡¯t evene close to nts vs Zombies!¡± Su Jinyu eximed. Wen Lingwei scowled, ¡°What¡¯s wrong? Can you exin what the game looks like?¡± Jia Peng wiped his sweat off his forehead, ¡°Although I don¡¯t really understand what¡¯s going on, but... I feel that the design document doesn¡¯t have much in it. Isn¡¯t the content on the lower side?¡± Su Jinyu opened the design document forbat and looked through thebat rules again. On the vertical mobile screen, the yer and the enemy will take up six tiles each (might be slightly different on boss rounds), attacking in order... Su Jinyu read over thebat rules again. ¡°Yeah, that¡¯s it! Isn¡¯t this too simple? This doesn¡¯tpare to nts vs Zombies!¡± Su Jinyu couldn¡¯t believe her eyes, and found it hard to believe that Chen Mo would give her such acking design document. nts vs Zombies was a real-time game, but the new game somehow devolved back into turn-based! Furthermore,bat could be summarized as a bunch of cards fighting. Other than moving around the cards, the yer didn¡¯t need to perform any other actions! Such a simple game... Su Jinyu couldn¡¯t imagine what thebat would look like, but felt like she needed to unsee it. A bunch of cards brawling? Could the idea be any dumber? Moreover, what is this VIP system? V12 required five million runes? The exchange rate was one RMB for ten runes, that meant that V12 required fifty thousand RMB?! Five zero zero zero zero RMB! Su Jinyu didn¡¯t understand what the meaning of that was; who would spend fifty thousand RMB in a game? How many nice meals could you afford with that amount of money?! How many articles of clothing?! How many movies?! How many gadgets?! How could there be anyone who would be willing to spend fifty thousand RMB on a game like this?! Moreover, look at the VIP privileges! Increase the limit of daily purchases, improve leadership, increase the number of times you can y in various game modes! There was even a VIP gift package! And what was this top-up bonus, why would there be cards in the top-up bonus? Topping-up twenty thousand runes for an exclusive Elder Sister card! Two thousand RMB, that was just robbery! Su Jinyu only had one thought in her mind looking through the design documents: WTF? ¡°Manager, although you¡¯re betting on ie, but... this ploy to make money is too obvious! ¡°No... I must ask him and find out what¡¯s going on!¡± Su Jinyu went upstairs. Jia Peng looked at Wen Lingwei, and she looked back at him. ¡°What do we do, senior?¡± asked Jia Peng. Wen Lingwei replied, ¡°Who knows? Let¡¯s just pretend nothing happened and go back to our own lives. Don¡¯t meddle with something if you don¡¯t know it¡¯s full extent, let Goldfish do the arguing with the manager.¡± Jia Peng was speechless. How can you be so content with this?! Chapter 60 Chapter 60: Chapter 59: The First Episode of the Animated Series Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth Su Jinyu was working hard at the front desk of the experience store. Jia Peng and Chang Xiuya were whispering to one another, mouth to ear. ¡°I heard that Senior Jinyu went to see the manager upon seeing the design document. What happened next?¡± asked Chang Xiuya. Jia Peng shook his head, ¡°No clue, the two of them talked for about an hour, then senior Xiuya came downstairs and followed his instructions on starting a new project in the game engine.¡± Chang Xiuya whispered, ¡°She didn¡¯t say anything?¡± Jia Peng shook his head again, ¡°Nothing.¡± Xiuya questioned, ¡°Does that mean she agrees with the ideas of the manager? She epts the game?¡± Jia Peng said hesitantly, ¡°I don¡¯t think so. I think her attitude is more like ¡®put aside our differences and work together¡¯.¡± Chang Xiuya was a bit worried, ¡°Now what?¡± Jia Peng said, ¡°What can we do? We on the sideline probably shouldn¡¯t poke our noses into this. The manager must have his own ideas, we¡¯ll probably mess things up if we interfere.¡± Chang Xiuya nodded, ¡°True, we should probably just continue drawing the monster cards.¡± The atmosphere was a bit thick in the experience store, mostly because nobody had high hopes for this new I Am MT game. Based on the avable rules and ystyles, it seemed quite baffling. -There have never been any game like this previously, is it going to work?- ¡ª ¡°Hello, is this the Thunderbolt Gaming experience store?¡± Su Jinyu was shocked. When she raised her head, she realized it was someone from the delivery service trying to make sure they got the right address. Su Jinyu stood up, ¡°Yes, do we have a delivery? You can hand it to me.¡± The delivery person walked in holding a box, ¡°There¡¯s a Mr. Chen Mo who ordered a projector. Please open the box and check it. If there¡¯s no problems I¡¯ll help install it.¡± A projector? Su Jinyu was shocked. Why did Chen Mo order a projector? Chen Mo was already downstairs, ¡°Go ahead and open it up. You can install the projector on the ceiling here, and install the screen on that wall.¡± ¡ª The delivery guy was quite dextrous, and finished the whole unboxing and installing process in half an hour. ¡°Please turn it on and test it out,¡± the delivery guy said as he wiped off his sweat. The projector was connected to Su Jinyu¡¯sputer. Chen Mo closed the blinds in the experience store and adjusted the image. It was pretty good. ¡°Yep, that¡¯s fine. If there¡¯s any problems I¡¯ll contact the sales department,¡± Chen Mo confirmed. ¡°Cool beans!¡± The delivery guy packed up his stuff and took the garbage with him as he left. Jia Peng was shocked, and asked, ¡°Manager, you bought a projector? What are you going to use it for?¡± Chen Mo said to Su Jinyu, ¡°y the video I sent you.¡± ¡°Video?¡± Su Jinyu looked at herputer screen. Indeed, Chen Mo had sent her a ten-minute video file, titled ¡°I Am MT Season 1 Episode 1¡±. Upon ying the video, it started showing on the projector screen. Chen Mo told them, ¡°You guys have been working hard, let¡¯s watch a little movie to take the edge off.¡± Everyone was curious. Was this the animated series Chen Mo had been working so hard on? Everything from the character development to the scripts of this animated series were done by Chen Mo, nobody else knew anything about it. They thought it would take a long time to produce, so how was the first episode finished so quickly? The logos for Thunderbolt Entertainment and Dazzling Aurora Studio disappeared after a few moments on the projector screen. The opening scene was a magnificent long shot, and a narrator began to give the background of the world. ¡°On the endless ins of Azeroth, there are many different races. Their survival, growth, and war gave birth to this glorious civilization. ¡°It has been many years since the Alliance and the Horde started fighting side by side, in order to defend against the invasion of the Burning Legion. Although that war managed to save Azeroth, the fragile agreement between the Horde and the Alliance has long since disappeared. ¡°Today, the thundering war drums sound again, with the humans leading the Alliance, and the Orcs leading the Horde, they face one another yet again... ¡°Our story starts from the guild of the Tauren...¡± Many scenes passed by, There was magnificent Stormwind City, the highly guarded Orgrimmar, the serene Darnassus... Different races and differentndscapes, the entirety of Azeroth was fully revealed in those few moments. Thest shot was a pan, focusing on a silly-looking Tauren. Weng Lingwei and Su Jinyu were sitting together, both of them shocked. The quality of the animation was quite high! It was produced by Dazzling Aurora Studio, after all. The animations, sound effects, narration, and some of the smaller details were all done quite well, easily conveying the intent of the creator through the product. The manager probably spent quite a bit of money... Moreover, the narration and scenes from the start had fully drawn their attention. Although it was just a few lines, every side of the animated world was revealed. It seemed to be a Western fantasy world. There were many ssical races from Western fantasy worlds, such as orcs and dwarves, and there were also some ssic scenes from it. Moreover, the animation made the world seem very rich, and it could be easily felt through the narration. The whole world was called Azeroth, with at least seven or eight different races. There was unity and war between different races. So far there were two different factions: one was the Alliance led by Humans, and the other was the Horde led by the Orcs. They were enemies at war. ¡°This world seems quite big. However, it¡¯s still too early to tell what the story is like,¡± observed Wen Lingwei. Everyone had their eyes glued to the screen after seeing the opening scene. ¡ª That was what Chen Mo was trying to achieve. Why was Chen Mo so confident with I Am MT? It was because the world was based on World of Warcraft, and there was no question about the cultural impact of World of Warcraft! Even without World of Warcraft, its world and story were still top notch! It was just like before the Harry Potter craze. How many people in China understood and liked witch culture? Many of them knew nothing about it, but it didn¡¯t affect the poprity of Harry Potter. Things that were ssic stayed ssic no matter where they went. They remained a ssic even if the method of conveying them was different. On the surface, Chen Mo was trying to recreate I Am MT. In reality, he was trying to recreate thebination of I Am MT and World of Warcraft, using the story of I Am MT, and the setting of World of Warcraft to recreate I Am MT to its fullest. Just like this opening scene had done, the setting of the story was organically conveyed to the audience through the narration and the scenes, teaching them about the setting of Azeroth and the different races. Chen Mo was akin to a dual-wielding warrior with Titan¡¯s Grip, wielding I Am MT on the left, and World of Warcraft on the right! The audience in this world didn¡¯t understand World of Warcraft? Not a problem! Using his fully maxed out Level One story-writing skills, Chen Mo could weave the setting of World of Warcraft into I Am MT, slowly feeding the information to the audience. Of course, if he had the ability to do so, he would bring even more of the gaming culture from his previous world into this one. But making an animation like this was already at Chen Mo¡¯s limit, so he couldn¡¯t make a massive game like World of Warcraft, nor did he have the money to make a blockbuster movie. Chapter 61 Chapter 61: Chapter 60: Not Fully Understood Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth The starting theme song started ying after the start sequence. ¡°I am MT, I¡¯m built like a wall. I parry, I dodge, I¡¯ll use my body to guard thee...¡± Chen Mo felt his passion from his teenage years reigniting upon hearing the melody. He had provided the melody and lyrics for the starting theme. The singer¡¯s voice also fit it quite nicely and was quite infectious. Su Jinyu was a bit shocked; the song exceeded her expectations! Nobody in this world had seen Saint Seiya, but this song wasposed by Hiroaki Matsuzawa and Nobuo Yamada, embracing the anime style to the fullest; it would remain a ssic no matter which dimension it was in. The story had finally started. MT came to the Wailing Taverns in order to finish a task. MT met the heavily wounded Shaman at the cave entrance. MT and Shaman. MT and Shaman was trying to save Rogue, who was being chased by Tyran, but Tyran was already guarding his corpse... Dazzling Aurora Studio was a professional team, after all. Be it the pacing of the story, sound effects, or connection plots, they were all done better than the original. Moreover, Guo Feng made minor adjustments ording to what they knew about the story to make it even easier to understand. Chen Mo also intentionally included some settings from World of Warcraft in order to slowly introduce it to the audience. Other than that, when Tyran appeared, Chen Mo indicated with text on the screen: Alliance ¨C Tyran. Alliance was written in red word art, introducing the character to the audience. Tiny changes like that exined most of the things that the original version never explicitly mentioned. ¡ª¡ª Ten minutes went by quickly, and the end theme started ying. Everyone knew what the melody was. It was L¡¯Internationale. But what made the others curious was that the lyrics had many famous people or ces in this world. Chen Mo turned off the projector and asked, ¡°How does it feel?¡± Their expressions were a bitplicated. Chang Xiuya said after some thought, ¡°There¡¯s a part of the plot that I¡¯m not fully understanding.¡± Jia Peng saidm ¡°The production is quite good, basically top notch.¡± Weng Lingwei said, ¡°Too short.¡± Su Jinyu also nodded, ¡°Yeah, it¡¯s only ten minutes. It feels like it ended before there was any advancement in plot. However, you can kinda feel that the world is massive.¡± Jia Peng added, ¡°It is quite funny, but... it feels like I¡¯ll be watching it my entire life. At ten minutes per episode, wouldn¡¯t it be releasing until the world ends?¡± Everyone started chattering and discussion, but the general consensus was that it was too short, and the background of the story and setting wasn¡¯t exined enough. Other than that, the characters, scenes, and story were quite good. Chen Mo had already seen those pointsing. Although Guo Feng and Chen Mo had made some minor changes to it and gradually added some exnation of the world, without basic knowledge of World of Warcraft, it was quite normal for the audience to not understand some parts. Chen Mo asked, ¡°Be objective on this: If there were more episodes released, would you watch them? Don¡¯t think about the associations of the series and me, just treat it as somebody else¡¯s work.¡± Everyone went silent and gave it some thought. Jia Peng nodded, ¡°I probably would. The theme is quite fresh, and to be honest, I¡¯ve never seen thebination of cute animations, humor, and Western fantasy. I¡¯d probably continue watching it just based on that.¡± Chang Xiuya nodded, ¡°Yeah, I think so too. The characters are quite cute, and they all have their own features. I really want to find out what happens to Shaman.¡± ¡°What about you guys?¡± Chen Mo looked at Wen Lingwei and Su Jinyu. Su Jinyu was a bit hesitant, ¡°Umm... I¡¯d probably watch it. First, because the theme is quite unique, and there was a lot of suspense just from the first episode. It¡¯s probably decent for killing time in the future. Also, the ending theme is awesome.¡± Wen Lingwei said, ¡°I don¡¯t know. I¡¯d probably watch it if it was popr, but I might just forget about it if it wasn¡¯t.¡± Chen Mo nodded, as it was basically what he had expected. Was I Am MTpletely helpless without World of Warcraft? Obviously not. For the viewers of the parallel world, although they lost a bit of the familiarity and references, they gained freshness and mystery. The animations in this world were almostpletely devoid of Western fantasy, so the world of I Am MT would bepletely new to some of these people. Everything on Azeroth would draw the attention of viewers, and having a minotaur as the main character was an interesting gimmick. This feeling was reminiscent of when the yers in the previous world first experienced the wonders of World of Warcraft. Moreover, the high production quality of I Am MT,bined with the humor, fast-paced story, and various interesting characters were all features that would draw viewers into continuing to watch. It didn¡¯t matter even if it didn¡¯t reach the poprity of the previous world. It was more than enough as long as the IP was able to allow the yers to recognize the value of the cards in the game! By Chen Mo¡¯s calctions, if this series did be a hot topic, it would certainly break ten million views in its first month, which would bring in more than enough yers into I Am MT. How much was ten million ys? Just like One Hundred Thousand Bad Jokes[1] in his previous life, breaking ten million views in just three days. The first episode had one hundred and sixty million views in total! In the parallel world, the quality of Chen Mo¡¯s I Am MT was impable, and the story and character designs had withstood the test of the people in his previous life. Even taking away viewers watching on the basis of throwbacks, the worst case scenario was getting a third of the views. That was enough to support I Am MT the video game! What if the views were even lower? Chen Mo might be hugely disappointed... ¡ª¨C After seeing the production quality of the first episode and getting feedback on it, Chen Mo was quite relieved. ¡°Alright, let¡¯s go back to work!¡± Chen Mo said as he went back upstairs. Su Jinyu was about to ask a question, but for one reason or another never did so. She was actually quite puzzled. Why was Chen Mo putting so much effort into the animation, butpletely shafting the video game? If Chen Mo put the effort and money into producing the video game instead, he¡¯d probably produce something even better, so why was he doing so much? ¡ª¡ª Chen Mo continued working on the second floor. He was focused on nning the numbers and abilities of the various cards, as well as content rting to the level design. Chen Mo wasn¡¯t bothering to draw the UI and other graphical resources, which was why he outsourced it. As that artwork wasn¡¯t important, he figured he¡¯d throw money at it, and just do some final quality analysis. Chen Mo now had to spend his time on making sure there weren¡¯t any problems with the card system and numbers. ============= TL Note: [1] One Hundred Thousand Bad Jokes is a 2014 Chinese animated fantasyedy film. Chapter 62 Chapter 62: Chapter 61: The World of Azeroth Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth If the IP was the soul of card games, the numbers would be its lifeline. If the numbers system crumbled, the game would follow. Conversely, if the numerical system was very well done andplete, the game would have very strong survivability. A good example would be a card game from his previous life, OMG! Kingdoms. It was still making tens of millions in profit two years after its release, an incredible result in the card game world. Despite it being a card game, its IP was terrible and could bepared to not having an IP at all. When it entered the market, the Three Kingdoms had already been driven into the ground. There would be several games with a Three Kingdoms theme every month. If it was solely on the basis of IP, OMG! Kingdoms would have no chance of differentiating itself from the other games. There were many games with Three Kingdoms that were quite sessful, such as OMG! Kingdoms, Junior Three Kingdom, Immortal Conquest, and Gong Cheng Lue Di. These games gave yers a misconception that Three Kingdoms was an alright IP. If they actually tried to make a Three Kingdoms game themselves, they would realize that this IP was a trap. As there would be a few Three Kingdoms games every month, it waspletely overdone. If the gamey was average, they would have no chance of making a break in the market. IPs like anime or popr novels would blow Three Kingdoms out of the water. For example, if he made a One Piece game now, there would be arge number of yers ying it, but if he made a game with Three Kingdoms in its title, would anyone y it? There were manypanies using Three Kingdoms in their games who intentionally excluded the words ¡®Three Kingdoms¡¯ from their titles. For example, Rivaless Thrashing, Beating Wei Shuwu, Immortal Conquest, and Gong Cheng Lue Di had emphasis on warring and sieging in their titles in order to reduce the bad taste the yers would have surrounding that theme. A feature of a good IP was it being able to make money and differentiate itself. If you had an IP like One Piece or Naruto, even if the game was just a reskinned first generation card game, it would still be raking in money. But what about Three Kingdoms? If you reskinned a game using Three Kingdoms, not only would you not be making money, you would look bad doing it too! That was proof that the IP of Three Kingdoms didn¡¯t add anything to the game. Then why was OMG! Kingdoms so popr? It wasn¡¯t because of its theme, but its game quality. The system functions, ystyle, and numerical settings of OMG! Kingdoms were the top among card games. Its sess was entirely on its game quality, and not the IP. Even if it was called Let Go of Water Margin it would still be popr, albeit slightly less. If it was able to get One Piece or Naruto as its IP? It would probably hit the moon, doubling or tripling its monthly ie. This was what many yers neglected, the charm of the ystyle itself. Why were Chinese card games done over and over again, despite there being so many more other games on the market? Why did the yers continue coughing up money, despite it all being based on the same genre? For example, Onmyoji was very popr, a game that managed to perfect its artwork. Ignoring how well it did in the art department, it was still a card game at its core. Chen Mo was working in the direction of OMG! Kingdoms and Junior Three Kingdom, replicating anything he could. Even if the game didn¡¯t reply on the IP of I Am MT, it would still be a fun card game! ¡ª¡ª Two weekster... It had been a whole month since the start of the development of I Am MT. Other than making the video game project, Su Jinyu continued drawing. So far the art had progressed almost halfway, and the game was almost finished. The only thing left was continuing to improve on the number system, finalizing the attributes of each card, and wait for the remaining artwork. The development of the game progressed quite quickly, as the ruleset of the game was quite simple. Everyone other than Chen Mo, including Su Jinyu, was feeling lukewarm towards the game. Su Jinyu was just doing it solely because it was part of her job. However, everyone¡¯s interest in the animation was growing. ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¨C ¡°I think this concept of achievements is quite good. Just imagine, after doing something, a pop-up appears with a ping; wouldn¡¯t that make you feel you aplished something?¡± ¡°Did you guys think that the rules of that world would be so fun? After the characters die, all they have to do is to move their soul to their bodies to be revived.¡± ¡°Yeah, that setting is quite forgiving. The characters in other series could never die, but in this one they can die again and again. This allows for more creative freedom in some scenes.¡± ¡°I think this rune thing is quite interesting, too. They just have to use a rune to get back to the Inn. This feels like something from a game, which probably makes it quite an interesting series to watch for gamers.¡± ¡°I¡¯ve actually done some research on that. Apparently ites from the Middle Ages, where they would take a piece of stone from their firece at home if they were to leave on a journey. When they get homesick, they¡¯d look at that stone to ease the sickness. In the end, the series somehow made it into something useful. That¡¯s quite interesting!¡± ¡°I really don¡¯t know how the manager manages to think up things like this. However, wouldn¡¯t these creativity juices be better spent on making games?¡± ¡°I don¡¯t really understand what the manager is thinking, but this world is way too expansive. I think you¡¯d need to be an A or S-level videogame designer to be able to handle it. Could it be that it was too far out of reach for the manager, which is why he chose to make a mobile game instead?¡± ¡°But you can really tell that the effort the manager spent on the animation and the world was way more than the game itself.¡± ¡°What is he trying to do? Even if he made an excellent animated series, what does it have to do with the game? Is everyone who liked the series going to y the game?¡± ¡°Who knows... However, I really want to see the world of Azeroth being made into a VR game. Just imagine being a Tauren running around on the endless ins.¡± ¡ª¡ª¡ª- Chen Mo had been paying attention to their chatter. At the start, everyone was waiting for the next episode toe out solely because it was a cool new theme. However, they were slowly bing more and more curious about the world behind it. There were many interesting settings going on on Azeroth, such as returning to the Inn using a rune, travel speed was increased while mounted on a wyvern or a griffin, reaching your body with your soul after dying would result in resurrection, leveling up afterpleting tasks, and getting achievements for doing special tasks... Some of these settings were very reminiscent of games, but they were quite easy for everyone to understand, as everyone there was a gamer. They wouldn¡¯t feel weird about it, but might even find it quite interesting. On the other hand, Chen Mo had gained another task on hand; creating the Universe of Azeroth! Chapter 63 Chapter 63: Chapter 62: Animated Series Premiere Tranted by Coldtaco Edited by Aelryinth Of course, it might be better if Chen Mo called it National Geogrpahic Azeroth (NGA) just like in his previous world, but Chen Mo didn¡¯t n to make a forum, but a site to ess the lore of Azeroth. Of course, the NGA was an important part of the website, and Chen Mo intended to add itter. The concept of Universe of Azeroth took inspiration from Universe of Leaugue of Legends. After League of Legends gained poprity, Riot Games spared no effort in building their own gaming culture, in particr the world of the game, also known has Universe of League of Legends. As games are a unique type of art medium, its world can be huge and expansive, and they woulnd¡¯t be able to fully convey it just from the scenes or settings of the game. In order to increase the cultural influence of League of Legends, Riot Games developed the Universe of League of Legends. Due to the feature of being a MOBA, there would be many heroes, which may result in an incoherent world, makign it extremely difficult to produce Universe of League of Legends. On the other hand, the world of World of Warcraft was already quite mature. Making Universe of Azeroth would make the world easier to recognise, and improve its impact. What would a website called Universe of Azeroth be like? In Chen Mo¡¯s ns, it was mainly to introduce the lore for Azeroth and World of Warcraft in four main categories, History, Heroes, Rules, and Areas, which would cover the history of Azeroth, lore for certain characters, rules for the world, and the various areas. Of course, covering every single point would be a long and tedious process which would be impossible topelte in a few months. Chen Mo had made long term ns to migrate some of that information over when he had time. He had his focus on history, rules and areas. History would go over the invasion fot he orcs, the construction of Orgrimmar and key events in human history, as well as the rtionship between the Alliance and Horde. Rules would cover a settings in the world such as runes, Corpse Running, Races, Jobs, and skills. Areas would cover the major cities of the various races, as well as the more important locations in Azeroth. This was so allow yers to better understand the content of I Am MT, and was alsoying down the path for the future. When Chen Mo would eventually gather enough resources, he would recreate the world of WoW in a better format, therefore this site could bepared to building up hype. ¡ª The first three episodes of season one for I Am MT now on all major streaming tforms! Chen Mo made some preparations before havin the animation go live. One of which was contacting the bigger streaming tforms and bought the advertisement spots for their front pages. Dazzling Aurora Studio was extremely familiar with this process, and they also happened to know a few from thepanies, so the more basic advertisement spots could be gotten as soon as money changed hands. Of course the more important spots on the front page were reserved for the hotter videos with more views and would cost Chen Mo an arm and a leg, so he wasn¡¯t considering that for now. Dazzling Aurora Studio also did some advertising and hyping on their own website. On the other hand, Chen Mo had also released the news of I Am MT¡¯s release on his Weibo as well as nts vs Zombies. It briefly went over the settings its world, and hinted that it would be rted to his new game. On Weibo, Chen Mo also posted a promotion clip for the animated series, which was the two minute lon gstarting scene of the first episode, giving and overview of the world of Azeroth. In a short amount of time, Chen Mo¡¯s Weibo was reposted several thousand times! This included fans of nts vs Zombies and ppyBird, the Video Game Media who were invested in the bet, as well as fans of Emperor Dynasty Entertainment. Soon thereafter, gamers who weren¡¯t aware of the situation also caught wind of the news. After watching the clip, some of them became interested in the series. ¡°What¡¯s going on? Animated series? Am I seeing that right?¡± ¡°...Aren¡¯t they betting on the ie of their next game? It¡¯s been a month, and Chen Mo produces an animated series?¡± ¡°It¡¯s even produced by Dazzling Aurora Studio. My goodness it seems like he nned it from the start. He probably forked out arge chunk of change for that right?¡± ¡°I¡¯m more worried if Chen Mo still has time to make his game...¡± ¡°It¡¯s quite interesting that he¡¯s using an animated series to promote the game. It seems like the world is quite expansive, it¡¯s probably worth a view.¡± ¡°Yep, let¡¯s see what it has to do with the game after we watch it¡± At 8 PM, I Am MT was official live! After all the hyping as well as the advertisement spots of the streaming websites, the video gained plenty of attention right after going live. There was also a trending topic on it on Weibo. The nts vs Zombies discussion forum was also filled with discussion about the animation. The hyping from before worked well, but it was only the first step. But what was important was the ratings of the viewers and if they were willing to continue watching. Chen Mo was a bit worried and had his eyes glued to the number of view as well as thements on the various streaming sites. You could say that the sess of this animated series would decide how popr his next game gets. If the series crashes and burns, it would most certainly impact his game. Although it wouldn¡¯tpletelyprimise the game, it would still give him a major headache. Su Jinyu, Jia Peng, and the others were also biting their nails and were constantly refreshing the statistics on the streaming websites. Soon, the audience discussion got going. ¡°It just ended there? That¡¯s way too short!¡± ¡°That¡¯s it? What happens next?¡± ¡°The main character¡¯s a cow, how nonmainstream! I like it!¡± ¡°Although it looks a bit silly, the world does look quite interesting.¡± Chapter 64 Chapter 64: Chapter 63: Game Complete ¡°What the? There¡¯s such an expansive world behind it. There¡¯s also artwork for it.¡± ¡°Too long; didn¡¯t read.¡± ¡°Huh, it seems like a full fledged Western fantasy world.¡± There was varying reactions from the audience. Some of them who weren¡¯t quite as patient spent a few moments on the site before leaving, but the others who were more interested in it and would spend more time looking into the settings and story behind the world. Just like his previous world, there weren¡¯t many people who liked Western fantasy worlds. However, even if there weren¡¯t many who were into it, at least they didn¡¯t dislike it. Universe of Azeroth was assembled by Chen Mo based on the lore of World of Warcraft. It also included some artworks, which were mainly concept art for important races, areas, and equipment. Although the art were quite simple, it was much better at conveyed meaning than pure text. In the end, I Am MT recieved 1.3 millino views in twenty-four hours! Chen Mo didn¡¯t sleep too well that night as animations were apletely new territory, so he didn¡¯t know what to expect. However, Chen Mo was relieved after seeing the numbers. The numbers for the first day weren¡¯t high, but it wasn¡¯t bad. Compared to other Chinese animations, this number was considered alright. Of course, it didn¡¯te close to the ones that got super popr. At this point, there had been more than ten million copies of nts vs Zombies sold, all of which would be looking out for Chen Mo¡¯s next game. In addition, with Dazzling Aurora Studio¡¯s reputation, promotional spaces on various strreaming website, the bets from before, as well as the reports from various gaming media allowed I Am MT to be the center of attention from its release. It should recieve another wave of attention in the next week. Compared to the number of views, Chen Mo was more concerned at the discussion of the audience. All in all, there were very few bad reviews, and most of them were focused on it being too short or theck of exnation of the background. The good reviews mianly focused on the fresh theme, the cool setting and the humour of it. The next two episodes had slightly reduced views, but that was expected. Moreover, as the number of views of I Am MT increases, the animations gained more and more traction on the various streaming sites. ording to Guo Feng¡¯s expectations, it could probably reach the key rmended sapces on the streaming sites within a week! When that timees, there will probably be even more viewers. ¡ª Qiu Bin was also paying attention to the matter. He had watched through the first three episodes of I Am MT, and his eyebrows were in a knot. Qiu was confused, what was the meaning of that? There hadn¡¯t been any news of Chen Mo¡¯s new game, and he released an animation? Although I Am MT was getting a decent amount of attention, but Qiu Bin wasnt¡¯ convinced. Even if the game was based on the animation, how many viewers would actually convert into yers? After all, there weren¡¯t many gamers within animation lovers. Moreover, gamers wouldn¡¯t start forking out money just because of it was an animation turned game, it still would depend on the quality of the game. In this world, the more popr IPs are quite expensive, but they are usually used as TV or movie adaptations. The few IPs that were sold to video gamepanies are usually used for VR games. How long had Chen Mo been in the industry? He was only a C-grade video game designer, and he was already nning to do animated series adaptations? That¡¯s too naive! No matter how Qiu Bin looked at it, Chen Mo¡¯s strategy would no work. He was slightly concerned at first, but the confidnece in him was gaining. ¡ª As days went by, I Am MT continued to gain poprity, and the production of the video game progressed streadily too. The number of views the series got continued to grow after release, as it got rmendations on the front page of many streaming sites, as well as bing a trending topic on Weibo. The first episode recieved 3.29 million views in the first week, and two months after its release, the first season had recieved more than fifty million views! Chen Mo was still deciding if he should release a second season, but Guo Feng had already made the decision for him. Under the strong rmendation of Guo Feng, Chen Mo used another Super elerator to produce the script and storyboarding. The animation got some attention, but didn¡¯t get close to what the original recieved. However, Chen Mo was content with that he had. Moreoever, Chen Mo was very surpised at how many people were interested in Universe of Azeroth. There were many yers discussing about the background of the story on in thements of the videos as well as on the Universe of Azeroth website itself. There had even been some fanart. Therefore Chen Mo had been working overtime to add a discussion forum on the Universe of Azeroth. He decided to give it the same name as the one in the previous life, ¡°National Geographic Azeroth forums¡± (NGA). The yers would be able to use their Thunderbolt Game Pass to log in and would be able to submit their original content, including fan fiction and artwork. There was only a month left until the agreed release date, and the content for the mobile game I Am MT was finished, and the graphical resources were already done. Chen Mo will be using this time to do some testing, installing it onto theputers and tablets in the experience store. ¡°Phew, finally done.¡± Chen Mo let out a long sigh. Chen Mo felt that the game was alreadyplete and had reached a good enough level to be released. Next would be making minor adjustments ording to the experiences of the yers. The changes would need to be main in three main areas, game length, level difficulty, and pricing. Although Chen Mo had plently of experience of these from his previous life, he wasn¡¯t too sure about the yers in this world. Chen Mo went downstairs where the projector was ying the second episode of the second season for I Am MT. In the second season, each episode had been extended to twenty four minutes, and each of them was more content rich. Of course, the price was also doubled ordingly. Chen Mo poured in nearly two months of ie from nts vs Zombies into the making of the second season. nts vs Zombies was a standalone game afterall, so the profit would d Chapter 65 Chapter 65: Chapter 64: Free Runes The assembling of the game using the game engine was done entirely by her, therefore she knew the contents of the game better than anyone. It was just that she could understand why the game would be fun and found it boring from her imagination. However, upon considering the fact that it was a game made by her and being able to see MT, Shaman and the other characters, she decided to give it a try. Jia Peng already had the game installed on his phone. The icon for the game was an adorable image of MT and was one that was easily identifiable. The game started after a simple opening scene. The opening was from the animated series. As all the resources belonged to him, he could use it interchangeably. The game required a log in using the Thunderbolt game pass. Upon starting the game, the yer was entered into a battle. On the yer¡¯s side was MT, Shaman, Hunter, Rogue, Beauty and Thief. On the enemy¡¯s side was Lady, Brick, Tyran, The President, Hunter and Elder Sister. The yers normally only had ess to five cards a battle, but in order to make the first battle more intense, Chen Mo elected to use six cards instead. These cards were all at their highest levels with detailed borders. The art on the cards were very good looking, and they also had some simple animations and effects. ¡°Hmm, feels quite nice,¡± Jia Peng was surprised. Although he had seen the graphics for the game well before. But seeing it in game with its borders, animations and special effects made the card feelpletely different. This scene was a recreation of a scene from I Am MT¡¯s second season, the battle on Hillsbrad Foothills, which happened to coincide with the episode release. After some simple dialogue, the two sides started fighting. The various cards attacked one after another, each with different types of attacks. There were normal attacks, Chain Lightning, ranged attacks, assassinations... The animations of every single card and even the art for the damage numbers have been adjusted by Chen Mo time and time again to recreate the quality of the original game. ¡°The attacks feel so satisfying!¡± Jia Peng was shocked as he thought cardbat would be awful to watch, so he wasn¡¯t expecting it to be so satisfying. For example, for Thief¡¯s normal attack animation, the card would move on top of its target, and the card would shake as if it was showing off its weapon, followed by a sh effect. And when Thief uses its abilities, it would disappear from its original location, then appearing behind its target so stimte a backstab. No matter the floating numbers of expanding text during attacks, they were adjusted to perfection. Combined with the animations when the cards are attacked and screen shake, it created a very satisfying strong hit. Many attacks such as Chain Lightning or Moon ives had very shy animations. Although it was just a pile of cards battling one another, it didn¡¯t give away a childish vibe. ¡°Making something out of a pile of cards fighting, quite amazing to be honest.¡± Jia Peng was also quite surprised that he felt that although the game wasn¡¯t a huge production, a lot of attention was given to the details, all just from the first battle. The game continued on. After the short tutorial, Chen Mo received his very own starting cards, blue MT and Shaman. Other than that, he could pick one out of Rouge, Hunter, Druid, and priest as their third character. ¡°Yep, ording to the story, Priest probably heals. I¡¯ll pick her then.¡± Jia Peng picked Priest. After going through some more tutorials, the yer entered dungeon challenges. The story driven tutorials were clear and concise, conveying information using the least amount of words, so as to not make the yer feel like they¡¯re being nagged. Combat, receiving equipment and experience, training cards, drawing cards, collecting online bonuses. This was the best feature of Chinese mobile games, the whole flow of the game, especially the gamey for the first day, have been nned extensively. Every single activity and every single would drag the yer deeper and deeper into the game. On one hand, the yer wouldn¡¯t need to expend too much effort into understanding and learning the game, allowing the yer to have a good grasp on the mechanics of the game even if they weren¡¯t paying full attention to it. This gaurrenteed that there wouldn¡¯t be yers who quit because they didn¡¯t understand the game. On the other hand, the yer would demonstrate different mechanics of the game from the start, allowing the yer to feel that the game was content rich. Jia Peng was feeling exactly that. In reality thebat of card games wouldpletely lose their charm after a few battles, and would trigger the yer to quit the game. However, whenever the yer gets that feeling, the game would suggest a new ystyle to the yer, or give them another reward to bait them into ying on. ¡°Hmm? Purple Lady?¡± Weng Lingwei said out of nowhere. Jia Peng and the others were shocked, ¡°Huh? How did you get a purple card? Howe none of us have gotten one?¡± Wen Lingwei said, ¡°Ten draws, it¡¯s in the store.¡± Jia Peng entered the store. There was a tutorial on ten draws, but it only guided the yer through single draws. Moreover, Jia Peng didn¡¯t have enough runes. ¡°This requires twenty-five hundred runes, how did you get so many of them?¡± asked Jia Peng. Wen Lingwei said, ¡°Are you dumb? Isn¡¯t the game just handing out runes? Level chests, online bonuses, missions, you¡¯d know once you collect all the rewards.¡± Jia Peng took a look. Indeed, he had his focus on battling and didn¡¯t pay any attention to what rewards he could receive. Collect! Collect! Collect! Many of the missions and achievement systems were alreadypleted. Finishing levels would also yield chests. There were also log in bonuses, and online bonuses. Jia PEng went through all the collecting and discovered that they contained many goodies. There were gold, experience cards, runes, normal cards... so many of them he could barely keep up. After collecting most of these rewards, Jia Peng realised that he had around twenty-six hundred runes, enough for one ten draws. ¡°That¡¯s so much money! That works out to about two hundred RMB! Didn¡¯t someone say the game would be very expensive? Why is it handing out money? Could it be that because we are testers and these are tester perks?¡± Jia Peng asked shockingly. The others asked, ¡°Yeah, manager, why are we receiving so many rewards, is it just a tester¡¯s perks?¡± Chen Mo shook his head, ¡°The normal yers would also receive the same amount.¡± Everyone was shocked, ¡°Does this happen everyday?¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Everyday. But you¡¯d get more on the first day.¡± Su Jinyu was puzzled, ¡°Manager, isn¡¯t this game supposed to make money from this game? The highest VIP tier costs fifty thousand RMB, but if you continue giving out resources like this, who would pay up?¡± Chang Xiuya agreed, ¡°Yeah, the moneyes in faster than I spend it. It doesn¡¯t take much time to save up enough for ten spins.¡± Chen Moughed, ¡°Don¡¯t worry about the yers spending money, just think about if you¡¯re willing to continue ying the game.¡± Jia Peng said after some thinking, ¡°I¡¯ll decide if I¡¯ll continue ying after I draw ten...¡± Chapter 66 Chapter 66: Chapter 65: One Two Punch of Card Games Chen Moughed, ¡°Yep, that¡¯s right. You must draw ten before you leave.¡± Jia Peng went to the store and tapped on the ten spins button, he was even slightly nervous. As someone with extraordinary terrible luck, Jia Peng was very anxious when ites to drawing mechanisms like these. He usually struggled to handle luck based situations like these. ¡°I¡¯m going in!¡± Prepared for the worst, Jia Peng hit the draw ten button. Chen Mo snicked. No wonder you have terrible luck. You don¡¯t even have a ritual before drawing, not even simple prep like washing your face or hands, it¡¯s obvious that you aren¡¯t being sincere enough. Swish swish swish... There were now ten cards on the screen, as the cards were flipped over, Jia Peng had his eyes focused on their borders. ¡°Heavens bless me with a purple...¡± Blue, blue, blue, shards... The disappointment in Jia Peng slowly crept up, as he felt like quitting the game in the next moment. But on the secondst card, he managed to draw a purple Brick card! ¡°Ah! Purple! I drew a purple!¡± Jia Peng was about to tear up from his happiness. As someone with terrible luck, it was the first time being on the same level as Wen Lingwei in terms of luck. ¡°Who did you get?¡± asked Chang Xiuya and Wen Lingwei as they gathered around. Jia Peng said, ¡°Brick, the human caster.¡± Weng Lingwei said, ¡°Tsk, not bad! Turns out you¡¯re able to draw purples too!¡± ¡°Heh heh. It¡¯s about time that luck was on my side.¡± Full of happiness, Jia Peng looked into the description for Brick and checked out his abilities. ¡°Blizzard? Sounds incredible, I¡¯m gonna level him up now.¡± Jia Peng also drew a bunch of useless monster cards, which he spent all to level Brick up, raising it to purple+. ¡°Mm, I need another Brick to get it to the next level. Guess I¡¯ll leave it at that.¡± Fully of glee, Jia Peng stared at his newly gotten card. He then adjusted his strategy and went to battle filled with hope. The others also managed to gather enough runes to draw ten. ¡°I got a purple MT. Uhh.. why does it feel kind of useless?¡± ¡°Purple rouge. Feels alright, I could try out an assassinating strategy.¡± ¡°I should probably raise the attributes of my purple cards right? I¡¯ll spend more of my resources on it then.¡± Everyone managed to draw a purple card, and swapped it into their strategy full of happiness. Chen Mo had such a big smile on his face that he couldn¡¯t say anything. In reality, these have been decided beforehand. The first ten draws guaranteed a decent purple character card. It didn¡¯t matter how lucky or unlucky you were. However, subsequent ten draws would definitely be lucked based. Although there was a certain guarantee for purple cards, it was possible to draw Ambasador, Baron Rivendare, The Mayor, or other purple monster cards which didn¡¯t have too much value in raising. However, once you do a certain amount of draw tens, a rare card must appear, such as Cannon Lady, or Nosuke Shinsuke. These were all traps. If they yers didn¡¯t get good cards from the first ten draws, the yer would be more likely to quit the game. Therefore adjustments must be made to the probabilities, as well as guaranteeing a purple character card. Afterwards, the amount of runes yers will get will decrease, and the probabilities will return to normal in order for the cards to retain their values. If the yers wanted better cards they¡¯d have to top-up. For the rich, there must be certain guarantees in ce to make sure that every penny they spent would be worth it to prevent them from feeling cheated. This was a hidden specification among Chinese card games. Of course were more headstrong and wouldn¡¯t do that, such as Onmyoji. Onmyoji didn¡¯t have any guarantees in ce, therefore the ability to draw SSR would be entirely up to luck. This led to ount selling in the early stages of the game, amongst many other problems. Of course, as Onmyoji was already really high quality, it had the rights to do so. Chen Mo¡¯s current 3D art skill was stillckingpared to Onmyoji, therefore he didn¡¯t dare be as headstrong as Onmyoji when making I Am MT. Jia Peng had hadded Brick into his team. The monsters in the dungeon did not stand a chance against Brick¡¯s Blizzard. He progressed through the dungeons swiftly with the help of the others in his team. ¡°This feels great!¡± Jia Peng won one battle after another, and every time he beat one he would receive some rewards as well as chests, task rewards and achievements. When he got stuck, he would redeem the rewards and level up his cards. Afterwards he would continue going through the levels... ¡°Hmm, I think I can level up again, but I don¡¯t have enough monster cards yet. Whatever, I¡¯ll just go through one more battle.¡± Jia Peng navigated to the next level once again. Chen Mo was looking at the expressions of everyone. Su Jinyu was tense and unwilling to give in, but she was still ying on. Jia Peng on the other hand seemed infected by the game, burying his head in his phone. Wen Lingwei wasn¡¯t trying to push through the levels, but was looking through the cards gallery, evidently she was still deciding on her team. So far, the effects of the one two punch of Chinese card games were working well. IP draws yers into the game. High level cards demonstrating the abilities of the cards. Clean and simple tutorial. Many different ystyles to rid the yer from getting bored of the game. Handing out runes to allow the yer to draw good cards. Good cards crushes dungeons allowing yers to feel growth and satisfaction. Thisbination of events would allow yers to feel a great sense of satisfaction and allow the yers to recognise the value of the in game currencies. With the satisfaction and recognising the value of the currency, it would allow the yer to continue ying on the second day, chasing for another good card. The IP¡¯s function in card games was most important in the first step, attracting the yers. The better the IP, the more yers it attracts, the more loyal they are, the more yers the game will get. As the numbers go up, profit naturally went up. However, could the IP decide the fate of a card game? Not necessarily. Under a circumstance with about the same attractiveness, the profit deciding second day retention, long term retention, and average spendage are all based on the quality of the game, where the IPs don¡¯t add much to it. Many would say that the IP was very important to the game, and would be the point ofparison to other games. What they mean was that it would be easier to differentiate yourself among the ocean of other mobile card games with an IP. What if the card game waspared to other mobile games? In reality, without the IP, card games would stille out on top. At theter stages of mobile card games, it eventually devolves into an AFK questpleting game, as the ystyle of the game would no longer be sufficient to keep the yers¡¯ interest, and could practically be ignored. However, with the numerical stimulus, luck based card drawing, and virtual currency makes it difficult for the yer to detach themselves from the game in fear of losing it, which in turn keeps the yer in the game. Numerical stimulus: new levels every day, new rewards, upgrading main character cards, and leveling them up... Luck based card drawing: gathered enough money to draw ten times, I¡¯ll probably receive a good card this time... Virtual currency: I¡¯ve already spent hundreds in the game, the perfect strategy, you want me to quit now? At this stage, the effects of IP were basically negligible. These three points would keep the yer attached to the game, as well as a top-up promotion which would continually entice you to pull out money. It¡¯s fine if you don¡¯t take money out of your wallet. As long as you are ying, that day will arrive soon enough. Chapter 67 Chapter 67: Chapter 66: Self-improvement for the unlucky star The release date for Guardian of the Holy Spring and I am MT approached as the days went by. Qiu Bin had been worried the past few days because of the hype surrounding the animated series for I am MT manage to gather. The series continued to gain more fans, and the world of Azeroth also became increasingly rich. There were also more and more discussions surrounding the series, and fanart of characters and Azeroth also started to appear. Although the growth of this animation did notpare to the one from the parallel world, it was still a considerable threat to Qiu Bin as Guardian of the Holy Spring did not have extra support such as this. Although Emperor Dynasty Entertainment does have great distribution channels, it wasn¡¯t so much so to allow for every game to be massively popr. Therefore, Qiu Bin was slightly worried that he would mess this up. Especially after looking into the contents rting to the world of Azeroth, Qiu Bin¡¯s doubt towards himself grew even further. This world is way too massive! Two different factions, multiple races and an incredible background story! Not to mention the big cities, important locations and the dozens of characters from the animations. This world had way more depth than Guardian of the Holy Spring! What game was Chen Mo trying to make? Can he fully replicate all of this in the game? Qiu Bin didn¡¯t believe that it was possible to replicate all this in a mobile game. First of all Chen Mo was only a C-grade video game designer, he wouldn¡¯t be capable of that. Secondly, with only four months of time, it would practically be impossible to include too many features! It wouldn¡¯t be enough time even if Chen Mo started working on it immediately after nts vs Zombies went live. Moreover, even if Chen Mo managed to squeeze that out of him, what about testing time? And the time for feedback and fine tuning? If an array of problems show up after the game goes live, he¡¯d be digging his own grave! Qiu Bin didn¡¯t understand a single bit. ording to him, if Chen Mo wanted to win, he¡¯d have to make a game with the quality surpassing that of nts vs Zombies. And judging from what Chen Mo had some so far, with the animations and websites, how much time would he have left to work on the game? All Qiu Bin could do was continually improve on Guardian of the Holy Spring. Only time could tell whoever will win the bet. ¡ª In the past few days, Wen Lingwei was very happy, but Jia Peng was the exact opposite. During the testing phase of I am MT, Chen Mo gave everybody eight thousands runes, giving them more than enough to make ten consecutive draws. Moreover, more credits are given out each day based on the rankings in the arena. Note, it was credits, which is not the same as being the free stuff given out by the system. This meant that their VIP levels were growing as well. This was to test the difference inbat abilities of a high tier VIP to the mid-low tier VIPs and if they matched expectations, as well as if the opinions of the different VIP levels matched what Chen Mo had in mind. In the end, on an even ying field, thebination of cards and the luck aspect started to show. As Wen Lingwei experimented with different strategies the most, and had great luck with ten consecutive draws, she frequently held the top spot in the arena. On the other hand, Jia Peng¡¯s terrible luck started to show, frequently drawing purple monster cards from his draws, and his cost of drawing a purple character card was much higher than others. He was ready to give up. Currently in the arena, Jia Peng waspletely dominated by Wen Lingwei. If it wasn¡¯t for Chen Mo handing out runes daily, he probably would have quit a long time ago from all the beatings he¡¯s taking. Jia Pengined to Chen Mo time and time again, on how the game was terrible for unlucky people such as himself, and was on the verge of quitting. Chen Mo really wanted to reply with, ¡°Brother, heard of Onmyoji?¡± However, as Jia Peng¡¯s situation was so depressing that Chen Mo thought that the rates he input was wrong, and looked over the drop rates for cards many times over. And the conclusion from investigating was that Jia Peng¡¯s draw rate was indeed much lower than the expected value. The only thing that could be said is that his luck was definitely showing... Chen Mo was also shocked, money can¡¯t change fate! It was only two days until the game goes live, and Chen Mo has made many numerical changes, including level difficulty, level up experience, bncing of cards, VIP benefits etc. It basically met his standard of being perfect. The hyping form the animations were also as good as it gets. Although it didn¡¯tpare to the level of the one in his previous life, based on Chen Mo¡¯s estimations, it should draw in enough yers to kick off the game with a decent yer base. This was more than enough for Chen Mo. While waiting for the game to go live, the testing save files were wipes. Wen Lingwei and the others needed to start off at the same point as the other yers. Yet Jia Peng was stillmentfully grinding through dungeons. Wen Lingwei said to Jia Peng while looking at her strategy with glee, ¡°Stop doing that, the save file will be reset in 2 days. What¡¯s the point of grinding dungeons now.¡± Jia Peng said without lifting his eyes away from the screen, ¡°I will live out this life fate has dealt me!¡± Weng Lingwei was speechless. Now Wen Lingwei and the others were discussing on the best strategy to start off with, and which strategies were the best, only Jia Peng was still relentlessly grinding. It can only be said that people who are unlucky are more dedicated than others. All of a sudden, Jia Peng jumped out of his seat, shouting, ¡°I got a purple drop! A purple drop!¡± Chang Xiuya asked, ¡°Really? Congrattions on finally getting a purple!¡± Wen Lingwei said, ¡°Oh, even someone as unlucky as you can have a change of fates?¡± Chen Mo patting Jia Peng on the back, ¡°That¡¯s great! Even though you were thest one to draw a purple, it still deserves recognition.¡± Jia Peng was hysterical, ¡°I¡¯m taking a screenshot to mark this asion!¡± Everyone else in the room could only empathise with his emotions. A few special levels have a chance of dropping purple monster cards, although his chance was quite small, set at 0.5% by Chen Mo. This was meant to be a surprise for yers who have great luck. However, what they didn¡¯t know was that this was a fake percentage set up by Chen Mo. Although the base chance was 0.5%, Chen Mo added some uses, ording to when the yer created their ount, this percentage would increase by 3% every day. After a purple card is dropped, this is reset back to 0.5%, and after a certain length of dry period, the percentage increases again, but the increase will never be higher than 5%. This was to allow for more yers to get the joy of getting purple drops, but at the same time not somon as to devalue the drops. That also means that Jia Peng¡¯s chance of getting purple drops were probably over 80%... The others received their purple drops two weeks ago, whereas Jia Peng only received his now. Chen Mo could only describe this as ¡°miraculous¡±. ¡°If I decide to make Onmyoji in the future, should I let Jia Peng know...¡± Chen Mo started to seriously consider this problem. Chapter 68 Chapter 68: Chapter 67: Game is Now Live! Wen Lingwei stared at her best cards, not wanting to depart with them. ¡°I just thought of something. Should we spend money on this game when we are officially testing the game?¡± Jia Peng grinned, ¡°Huh? Spend money on the game? I can¡¯t even draw good cards using the resources that were given out for free. Spending my own money would be the same as pouring it down the drain.¡± Wen Lingwei rolled her eyes, ¡°The unlucky star showing off his skills again.¡± Chang Xiuya said, ¡°Spend money? Uh, don¡¯t think I¡¯ll be able to keep up. Millions of RMBe and go just like that in this game. How much would we need to spend to reach this level when the game is officially released?¡± Wen Lingwei shook her head, ¡°I¡¯m not talking about ying up to this level. Look, no matter if you spend one RMB, ten RMB or a hundred RMB, you¡¯ll receive your respective VIP levels as well as other top-up bonuses, and you would immediately have an advantage over yers who don¡¯t spend any money.¡± Chang Xiuya nodded as if she understood, ¡°Mm, so you¡¯re saying that we spend less, maybe around a hundred? That still feels a bit... expensive.¡± Wen Lingwei said, ¡°But if you think about it, more than half the yers might never spend any money. If you spend a hundred RMB, you should be stronger than the majority of the yers right? Think about the arena ranking bonuses, as well as receiving dungeon rewards earlier, among other things¡± Chang Xiuya nodded, ¡°Yeah, seems like... we would be slightly better than others.¡± Wen Lingwei said, ¡°Right? No matter what we should spend a small amount of money. This game is free to y anyways, spending ten RMB on it doesn¡¯t seem like a huge cost anyways.¡± Wen Lingwei started to investigate how much money she should spend in order to get the best value for money in terms of benefits. Chen Mo said, ¡°Just saying, you drawing a card for me is enough to buy an Elder Sister card.¡± Wen Lingwei rolled her eyes again, ¡°What are you trying to say? Are you still thinking about how much I charge for artwork? There¡¯s nothing to discuss in that department!¡± Chen Moughed. The thing he was most worried about wasn¡¯t the poprity of the animation, nor the amount of yers, but if the yers weren¡¯t willing to fork out money. After all, it was difficult to manipte the willingness of the yers to spend money. If the majority of yers weren¡¯t willing to fork out money to spend in game, and if there weren¡¯t enough whales, spending money in game wouldn¡¯t provide too much excitement either. This would cause the monthly ie of the game to remain low. However, after noticing Wen Lingwei¡¯s reaction, Chen Mo gained confidence in the game¡¯s ability to rake in money. Once the majority of yers get a taste of the thrill of spending money in game, they would struggle to stop themselves from spending a second time. And the yers who weren¡¯t willing to spend money would feel more inclined to spend money for the first time. As long as there are enough of these two types of yers, the profitability of the game was more or less guaranteed. ¡ª As the release date approached, the advertisements for Guardian of the Holy Spring were being advertised more and more by Emperor Dynasty Entertainment. The advertisements weren¡¯t exactly everywhere, only present on a few key advertisement spaces on the Emperor Dynasty gaming tform. They also arranged for a few video game media to announce the game and wrote a few advertorials. After all, it was only a mobile game. As Emperor Dynasty Entertainment had a rough estimate of how profitable the game could be, there was no way they would spend all their resources on advertising it, as it costs money to put the game out there. Even the promoted spaces on the Emperor Dynasty gaming tform weren¡¯t exactly free. If the space was given to another better game, they would be able to profit more from it, which in a way would be money lost. Therefore, Emperor Dynasty Entertainment couldn¡¯t put down everything and give Guardian of the Holy spring all of its resources, and would only give it some of the better ones. However, in the eyes of the higher ups in Emperor Dynasty Entertainment, a few adverts like these was enough topete with a nobody videogame designer such as Chen Mo. Qiu Bin also had an idea of what Chen Mo was nning, likely using the animation to hype up the game, giving it publicity by proxy. However, Qiu Bin wasforted by the fart that the animated series haven¡¯t gained so much traction to be a tier one phenomena. Moreover, if Chen Mo¡¯s game was a one time pay game, the conversion rate from viewer to yer wouldn¡¯t be high. Moreover, could Chen Mo¡¯s game recreate the expansiveness depicted in the series? Qiu Bin had his doubts. If Chen Mo didn¡¯t do the game justice, the ratings would drop, which would directly affect the sales. No matter which train of thought he followed, Qiu Bin felt that Chen Mo had no outs. ¡°Whatever, it doesn¡¯t matter. We¡¯ll just have to wait until the games go live!¡± Qiu Bin did a once over on the contents of Guardian of the Holy Spring, and uploaded it to the official app store. ¡ª¡ª I Am MT and Guardian of the Holy Spring were now live on the app store at the same time! Many gamers had their eyes on these two games ever since the bet. After simmering for four months, the moment of truth finally arrived! Other than being released on the official app store, Guardian of the Holy Spring was also released on the Emperor Dynasty gaming tform. Just using the tform as well as Emperor Dynasty Entertainment¡¯s huge distribution, the sales in the first day skyrocketed! Guardian of the Holy Spring were priced the same as nts vs Zombies, at ten RMB. Qiu Bin didn¡¯t dare to set the price too high, mainly because Guardian of the Holy Spring didn¡¯t have massive changes from nts vs Zombies, and if the price was set at twenty, it might cause the number of sales to drop drastically, affecting the monthly ie. Soon, the sales of Guardian of the Holy Spring was released, quoted at one thousands two hundred and ny! Qiu Bin breathed a sigh of relief after seeing this number. Qiu Bin¡¯s assistance also had their eyes on this number alongside Qiu Bin. They couldn¡¯t help but smile after seeing that number, ¡°Not a bad result, congrattions!¡± Qiu Bin had a smile on his face, but still didn¡¯t dare to step out of line, ¡°Don¡¯t let yourself go so soon. Have you downloaded Chen Mo¡¯s new game? Let me see.¡± The assistant replied, ¡°Not yet. I¡¯ll do that now.¡± Qiu Bin waved his hand in dismissal, ¡°Don¡¯t worry about it. I¡¯ll do it myself.¡± Qiu Binunched the appstore and searched for Chen Mo¡¯s new game. The assistant said, ¡°Don¡¯t worry too much, you¡¯ll still be able to show your face in Emperor Dynasty Entertainment with a result like this. This number was almost double what nts vs Zombies achieved when it first came out.¡± Qiu Bin nodded, ¡°Of course, but this still isn¡¯t a confirmed victory.¡± The assistantughed, ¡°Still isn¡¯t a confirmed victory? You¡¯re too humble. Even if Chen Mo was given a miracle, his monthly ie wouldn¡¯t evene close to this level!¡± Just the first hour sales have already exceeded Qiu Bin¡¯s expectations. If this game was able to double nts vs Zombies, then it should be possible to sell around a million copies, meaning more than ten million in ie. (Ie meaning the gross ie generated by that user, before the cuts are taken.) A game would be considered amazingly popr with tens of millions in ie, and climbing on to various leaderboards were only a matter of time, it might even stand a chance at the total sales leaderboards. Chapter 69 Chapter 69: Chapter 68: Free to y Game? Qiu Bin didn¡¯t expect to sell this many copies. Why? Because the target audience for this game had significant ovep with nts vs Zombies, and the fans of nts vs Zombies would be on Chen Mo¡¯s side! It might not have mattered so much if there wasn¡¯t a bet, but now that there is one, the fans of nts vs Zombies who wanted to y Guardian of the Holy Spring would wait until next month before purchasing the game. Of course this meant that Qiu Bin would lose a portion of his yers. Luckily, Emperor Dynasty Entertainment was very supportive. Under the various methods of advertising, Guardian of the Holy Spring managed to capture the attention of yers who haven¡¯t yed nts vs Zombies. This allowed Guardian of the Holy Spring to double the performance of nts vs Zombies. However, Qiu Bin couldn¡¯t say that he had this in the bag, as he had yet to check out Chen Mo¡¯s game. It didn¡¯t take long before Qiu Bin found Chem Mo¡¯s new game, I Am MT. ¡°He really did use the animated series to advertise for his game. However, how does the game y? Did it really recreate the vast universe?¡± Filled with his own suspicions, Qiu Bin clicked the download button. ¡°Hmm? That can¡¯t be right!¡± Qiu Bin was shocked. He realised that the game was free! If it was a game that required purchase, the button wouldn¡¯t be download, but purchase instead. Chen Mo wanted to bet on the first month¡¯s profits, and he decided to make a free to y game? Qiu Bin was shocked as to what Chen Mo was nning. The assistant asked, ¡°What¡¯s wrong? Why are you so shocked?¡± Qiu Bin replied with disbelief, ¡°Chen Mo¡¯s new game is free to y! Free!¡± The assistant was also shocked, ¡°It can¡¯t be! That would make sense if the bet was on downloads, but the bet is on the ie of the first month!¡± Qiu Bin scowled, ¡°Free to y games can only rely on buying credits and selling ads. But you can¡¯t make good money off that!¡± The assistant didn¡¯t say anything in reply, there was nothing to say that could exin the situation! Qiu Bin looked back to his phone while trying to figure out the situation, but was met with something else he didn¡¯t expect. The game finished downloading in the time of that short exchange? Qiu Bin took a deeper look to find out that the game was only about a hundred a seventy megabytes, not much bigger than nts vs Zombies! All the artwork for Guardian of the Holy Spring were rendered in HD, and the entire installer was about four hundred megabytes, much bigger than I am MT. Qiu Bin was stunned. How could Chen Mo reproduce that enormous world with one hundred and seventy megabytes? It couldn¡¯t be a bait and switch! Full of suspicions, Qiu Bin tapped on the icon andunched the game. After I am MT went online, despite not having a promoted spot like on the Emperor Dynasty gaming tform, it still recieved a good amount of attention. The first yers of I am MT consisted of the yers from nts vs Zombies, viewers of I am MT, as well as the bystanders wanting to see the end of the bet. These people wereing either based on Chen Mo¡¯s reputation from thest game,ing from the story of I am MT, or just trying to stay on top of the drama. In the end, they were met with the same thoughts Qiu Bin had. A free to y game?! Only one hundred and seventy megabytes?! At first, arge portion of yers were contemting if they should purchase the game. But after noticing it was free, they downloaded the game before asking any further questions. The game was free to y anyways, and one hundred and seventy megabytes wasn¡¯t much. It¡¯s for the better to download first and talkter. The game can be deleted if it wasn¡¯t fun, and they wouldn¡¯t lose anything in the process. Chen Mo had made his own preparations, advertising the mobile game on his Weibo as well as at the end of the most recent I am MT episode. ¡°The mobile game by the same name is now live! Battle alongside MT and Shaman! Completely free, with no ads!¡± Of course, these were just buzzwords to get the game out there. In the previous world, upon seeing the word ¡°free¡±, most yers would mutter the words, ¡°Another pay to win game!¡± But it wasn¡¯t the same in this world. Most yers in this world were still quite innocent, and were shocked upon seeing the word ¡°free¡± while promising no ads. ¡°Free? The game is free to download? With no ads? How is he going to make money?¡± ¡°Probably in app purchases!¡± ¡°How much money can you get from in-app purchases? Moreover, the yers would decide if they would spend money in game, what if the yers aren¡¯t spending any money?¡± ¡°Yeah, and Chen Mo is betting over ie in the first month, isn¡¯t this suicidal?¡± ¡°We shall see, it¡¯s a free game anyways.¡± After the bet on Weibo and the hyping up via the animations, all the gamers were shocked upon seeing the word ¡°free¡±. Some were worried that Chen Mo would lose the bet. Some didn¡¯t understand why Chen Mo would be so ¡°charitable¡± to take a bet that he would most definitely lose. And others were just there for the drama. And based on that, almost everyone who had some concern in the matter downloaded the game to find out how this ¡°free¡± game would work. Inside the experience store. ¡°In the first hour of going live, there¡¯s nearly four thousand downloads, about three times more than Guardian of the Holy Spring. Yep, eptable.¡± Chen Mo was quite happy after looking at the download statistics for I am MT. In terms of downloads, of course a free game would have an advantage over games that required to be purchased. Afterall, yers would have some hesitation when buying a game, even if it was only ten RMB. The yers are given an option for a refund too, but that process took effort and would be quite troublesome to go through. Free games were different, downloading and deleting the game was easy and didn¡¯t require any hesitation. Under the same amount of advertisement, a free to y game would easily surpass a game that required purchase by over ten times. However, Guardian of the Holy Spring had the support of the Emperor Dynasty gaming tform, being able to maintain a third of I am MT¡¯s numbers was already quite good. Su Jinyu, Wen Lingwei and the others had their eyes on the statistics as well. Jia Peng said, ¡°There are so many downloads! Oh my, it¡¯s much higher than the ones promoted by the big tforms.¡± Wen Lingwei said, ¡°Of course. It¡¯s a free game. Downloading it doesn¡¯t cost anything. Furthermore it¡¯s only one hundred and seventy megabytes, it would take no more than two minute to download even under free wifi, of course the downloads are high.¡± Chang Xiuya said, ¡°Mmm, so the key point still depends on how many people are willing to spend money in game.¡± Su Jinyu was also there, and asked Chen Mo about a few numbers on the screen, ¡°Boss, what do these numbers mean?¡± These were backend management features Chen Mo implemented. In app announcements, bnce changes, as well as giving out runes would be done using this system. On the data query page, there were a few numbers, all of which were english abbreviations, such as DNU, ARPI, ARPPU, LTV, and so on. To anyone else other than Chen Mo, these letters bore no significance. They could only guess as to what these letters meant. Chen Mo said, ¡°It¡¯s not easy to exin. All you need to know is that once the numbers reach the target, this game would start making money.¡± Everyone looked at each other. Really? Is it that incredible? Chapter 70 Chapter 70: Chapter 69: Potential Revenue Soon, reviews for I Am MT on the official app store started toe in. ¡°What is this? I wanted to see huge shes between the Alliance and Horde. What¡¯s the meaning of a couple of cards like these!¡± ¡°This turned out to be a card game? Moreover, a type of card game that we¡¯ve never seen.¡± ¡°What should games like these be called? Card battling game?¡± ¡°Seriously differs from expectation! Refund!¡± ¡°To the previous poster, this game doesn¡¯t cost anything, it¡¯s free to y...¡± ¡°I was nning on giving a one star review, but after giving it some more time, I¡¯ll be giving a three star review for now. I¡¯ll update this in a few days.¡± ¡°Is it just me who thinks that the game is pretty fun? I think the cards are very cute. Five stars.¡± ¡°Is the previous poster a girl? Guessing you¡¯ve never yed a proper game.¡± ¡°Hehe, I¡¯m the previous poster. Would you believe me if I said I was bigger than you?¡± ¡°It¡¯s so funny that people are giving this a bad review. Chen Mo is a C-grade video game designer. Moreover, it¡¯s a card game. No matter what he did, it was impossible for the whole world to be recreated. Being able to represent the characters like this is a job well done in my opinion.¡± ¡°Yeah, I think it¡¯s not bad for a mobile game.¡± ¡°Don¡¯t you guys think this game is great? Free to y without any ads, as well as giving out all these free runes. In the end, Chen Mo is still betting on the ie of the first month.¡± ¡°I think I¡¯m giving this a five star for now, on the premise of the free runes.¡± ¡°Was it that easy to buy your votes?¡± ¡°What¡¯s wrong? I support Chen Mo. I¡¯d like to see ¡®Guardian of the Holy Spring¡¯ made to be a free to y game!¡± ¡ª So far, I Am MT had a score of 7.6. Very few of these were one star reviews, most of them were four stars, with a few three and five stars sprinkled within. Chen Mo guessed that in two days time when the yers finally caught onto how much the game actually costs, the reviews would plummet even more, possibly 7.4 or lower. However the scoring wasn¡¯t a big deal to Chen Mo. As this was a free to y game, yers would continue ying as long as the score isn¡¯tpletely horrible. On the other hand, Qiu Bin was also looking into I Am MT. ¡°That¡¯s it? Isn¡¯t this a bit too simple? Thebat system is monotonous, and the difficulty of the levels have no progression as you roll through all of them. Not only is the game free, but the game gives away so much free resources, allowing anyone to continue ying the game without any difficulty.¡± ¡°Who would spend money on this? The game relies entirely on in app purchases, and these purchases would be spent on buying more cards or making your team stronger? Would yers be buying this?¡± ¡°Is he just trying to give away money, using this to draw in yers? You¡¯re betting on the ie of the first month! If you lose by andslide because of how low your ie was, it would make the win meaningless!¡± Qiu Bin yed the game for nearly an hour. The dungeons were still monotonous, the free resources kepting in. He even managed to do a draw ten, and got a rare purple card out of it. ¡°This game was a huge letdown. I¡¯d forgive being unable to recreate the world. But making the game free, and giving out so much free resources at the same time, the yers would have no incentive to make in-app purchases.¡± ¡°It seems like collecting cards may be a way to make money, but how many yers are actually willing to spend that money? Moreover, based on how generous you are with giving away resources, I¡¯d have saved up enough to get more cards in two days. Isn¡¯t it a matter of time before the yers collect all the cards?¡± ¡°There¡¯s no point in continuing to look into this game, this game is hopeless.¡± ¡°Qiu Bin deleted I Am MT off his phone. From his perspective, so what if the game has higher sales? The yers aren¡¯t required to spend money, so the number of sales aren¡¯t representative of anything!¡± ¡ª It was now twenty-four hours since the games were released. Guardian of the Holy Spring achieved thirty eight thousand, nine-hundred and thirty eight sales at the twenty-four hour mark, maintaining about double what nts vs Zombies achieved. nts vs Zombies was definitely ate bloomer as it slowly climbed up thedder of the official app store, significantly increasing down the line. On the other hand, arge portion of the sales in the first day for Guardian of the Holy Spring depended on the promotions from the Emperor Dynasty gaming tform, so it might not keep this momentum. However, Qiu Bin wasn¡¯t worried. Even if the sales decrease down the line, the number of sales in the first month should be no less that eight hundred thousand, meaning that the ie of the first month would be at least eight million, with hopes of breaking ten million. Qiu Bin had no idea on how much money I Am MT would bring in, as I Am MT didn¡¯t rely on the number of sales, and the revenue from in app purchases is only known by the developer themselves. However, Qiu Bin wasn¡¯t worried. In his eyes, Chem Mo¡¯s game had no chance of breaking ten million RMB, and this bet may well be decided. ¡ª Inside the experience store. Chen Mo had his eyes on the various numbers on his screen. Jia Peng and the others were behind him, all staring at the numbers on his screen. No matter how long they looked at the numbers, they couldn¡¯t make any sense of it. ¡°Manager, do you mind exining what these numbers mean?¡± ¡°Yeah, the revenue for Guardian of the Holy Spring is already out. What about I Am MT?¡± ¡°Say something already!¡± Everyone started to chatter. Chen Mo looked at the numbers for a few more moneys and said, ¡°Don¡¯t worry, this beats Guardian of the Holy Spring by andslide.¡± Wen Lingwei didn¡¯t buy it, ¡°Hmm? Really? You¡¯re not saying that because you¡¯re too afraid to admit defeat right? How can you tell just by looking at these numbers? Where¡¯s the revenue? Honestly, if you wanna escape somewhere, I know a few people...¡± Chen Mo was speechless, ¡°Stop talking about the people you know...¡± Chang Xiuya asked, ¡°Well then, could you at least tell us how it¡¯s winning by andslide?¡± Jia Peng nodded, ¡°Yeah, you could go over the current situation briefly right?¡± Su Jinyu squinted, trying hard to figure out the rtionship between the numbers, but was still unable to get anything out of it. Chen Mo said, ¡°Let¡¯s put it this way, the revenue for the first month will not be any less than twenty million¡± Jia Peng almost choked on his own saliva, ¡°W-what? How much? Twenty million?¡± Su Jinyu was also shocked, ¡°Isn¡¯t twenty million too far out there? This is a mobile game!¡± Wen Lingwei did some mental arithmetics, ¡°If the game gets twenty million every month, that means you¡¯ll get over one million every month?!¡± Everyone was shocked. Twenty million! This may well double the monthly revenue of Guardian of the Holy Spring? Chen Mo must be inting this number! Chen Mo stood up and said, ¡°When the revenue of the first month is released and if I¡¯m not right, I¡¯ll reveal the meaning behind the numbers.¡± Su Jinyu asked, ¡°Huh? What¡¯s the point of telling us if you get it wrong?¡± Chen Moughed, ¡°If I get it right that gives me more of a reason to not tell you!¡± ¡ª These numbers referred to a few statistics regarding I Am MT. ¡°DAU¡±, ¡°LTV¡±, and the others might seem alien, but they were just english acronyms. DAU: Daily Active Users. Chapter 71 Chapter 71: Chapter 70: Spreading yerbase As the days go by, the agreed date of a month from release inches closer and closer. The sales of Guardian of the Holy Spring have noticeably slowed down, especially in thest two weeks, where the daily growth rate fell by 15%. Qiu Bin was metally prepared for this as Guardian of the Holy Spring heavily depended on the support by the Emperor Dynasty gaming tform. It also took a lot of inspiration from nts vs Zombies, which many yers didn¡¯t find interesting anymore. Even if the quality was improved, it would nevere close to the sess of nts vs Zombies. If both games never got any support from any distribution channels, would Guardian of the Holy Spring reach the number of sales that nts vs Zombies achieved? Most likely not. Guardian of the Holy Spring managed to nearly double the sales of nts vs Zombies thanks to how well distributed the game was, and Qiu Bin was more than satisfied by that. On the other hand, the downloads for I Am MT continues to sky-rocket, with hundreds of thousands of downloads every day. This explosive growth made Qiu Bin worry. ¡°How can the game gain hundreds of thousands of downloads every day?¡± Qiu Bin was confused. The assistant replied, ¡°Well... It¡¯s a free game after all, and it doesn¡¯t reflect actual sales. Don¡¯t worry about it.¡± Qiu Bin shook his head, ¡°But more yers mean more paying yers. At this speed, he would have more than three million yers in the first month!¡± The assistant didn¡¯t say anything in reply, as they didn¡¯t know how to exin this situation either. It would be slightly absurd if Chen Mo somehow managed three million yers in the first month, as Guardian of the Holy Spring only had about eight hundred thousand, which means that I Am MT had about four times the yers. But I Am MT is a free to y game after all, this amount of downloads are reasonable right? After some thought, the assistant said, ¡°Don¡¯t worry too much about it sir, I think the downloads metric can totally be faked. His game is free after all, it wouldn¡¯t cost much to fake the number of downloads right?¡± ¡°Moreover, even if he did have three million yers, and with a generous ten percent of them who are willing to pay in game. And if each of them pays twenty RMB, it would only result in a monthly ie of six million, which is still a ways off what we have.¡± Qiu Bin nodded in agreement, not excluding the fact that Chen Mo could have hired someone to hype up his work. ¡°Let¡¯s not be rash and have a second look,¡± said Qiu Bin as he reinstalled I Am MT onto his phone. ¡ª In the Subway. Two boys were on their way to catch a train to school. A boy who was wearing sses yawned and brought out his phone, and started ying I Am MT on his phone. The other boy asked, ¡°What game is this?¡± ¡°I Am MT, never tried it?¡± ¡°Nope, isn¡¯t that an animated series? It also has a game?¡± ¡°Of course it does, it was recently released.¡± ¡°Recently released? Is it fun?¡± ¡°Uhh, it¡¯s alright, not bad for killing time.¡± ¡°How much is it?¡± ¡°It¡¯s free.¡± ¡°Free? Then how does it profit?¡± ¡°Uhh, by in app purchases. It really depends if you want to spend money on it.¡± ¡°And is that a standalone game?¡± ¡°Nope, it¡¯s an online game. You can y together with friends. Why don¡¯t you download it and give it a try? It doesn¡¯t cost anything just to try it out.¡± ¡°Sure, I¡¯ll do that when I get back.¡± ¡°You can just download it now, it¡¯s less than 200M, so it¡¯s not going to use up much of your data cap.¡± ¡°Sure, I¡¯ll download it and try it out.¡± ¡ª In some random university dorm. Four guys sharing the same dorm were on their beds ying I Am MT. ¡°Huh? Zhang Er did you change your team leader? Wasn¡¯t it MT before? Why did you change it to Nosuke Shinsuke?¡± ¡°This card is incredible! I got it from buying credits. It was super strong when I tried it out.¡± ¡°Really? How strong is it?¡± ¡°It can carry and heal. If you bring her along, everything else you bring along just has to be fodder.¡± ¡°Really? That¡¯s starting to sound good.¡± ¡°You guys can try it out using the friendly aid function and see how well it works¡± ¡°Let¡¯s me try it out. Oh my, it really is good! It¡¯s better at carrying that MT? And its normal attacks lifesteal, that so strong!¡± ¡°Oh my, I¡¯m forking out some money too!¡± ¡°... Calm down you guys!¡± ¡°Yeah, I saw another super strong card the other day, even stronger than this one.¡± ¡°Who?¡± ¡°Elder Sister.¡± ¡°Oh, that¡¯s The President¡¯s sister right? Is it strong?¡± ¡°Super strong... I could never hope to beat that level, but that guy with the Elder Sister carried me right through like was nothing.¡± ¡°Really? How do you get Elder Sister then?¡± ¡°Not sure, let me check. Uhh, it seems like it¡¯s a gift from buying credits.¡± ¡°How much?¡± ¡°Uhh, seems to be two thousand?¡± ¡°Two thousand runes? That¡¯s like two hundred RMB, that is quite pricey...¡± ¡°No, it¡¯s two thousand RMB, twenty thousand runes...¡± ¡°...¡± A short moment of silence followed. ¡°What the, what¡¯s the problem with this guy! Two thousand RMB for one card, are they crazy?¡± ¡°All I can say is that we¡¯ll never understand the world of the rich...¡± ¡°I don¡¯t have anyone in my friend¡¯s list that has an Elder Sister!¡± ¡°Of course, whales like these are few and far between...¡± ¡°Huh? My friend¡¯s friendly aid has an Elder Sister! I¡¯ll send him a friend request. I¡¯ll get them if I can¡¯t beat anything in the future.¡± ¡°What? Their friend¡¯s list is already full!¡± ¡°...Whales are so popr!¡± ¡°I wish for a friend who has an Elder Sister!¡± ¡ª A randompany, lunch time. Two employees were ying I Am MT. ¡°What the! This guy I¡¯m facing is a monster! They have an Elder Sister! I¡¯m gonna be destroyed!¡± ¡°What can you do about that? They¡¯re rich...¡± ¡°Thispany doesn¡¯t even guarantee a level ying field! They just have their eyes set on money!¡± ¡°... I thought you knew that from the moment you started the game?¡± ¡°No! I must give it a bad review! I¡¯m so mad that I¡¯m still being bullied after paying over two hundred RMB!¡± ¡°... Is it that weird that you¡¯re being bullied by someone who¡¯s paid two thousand RMB when you¡¯ve paid two hundred?¡± ¡°I don¡¯t care, I¡¯m going to leave a bad review! What a garbage game for wasting my youth and my money!¡± ¡°If you¡¯re quitting, let me have your ount.¡± ¡°Who says I¡¯m quitting! I spent more than two hundred RMB on this! Quit trying that to try and take my ount!¡± ¡°Your imagination is quite good I see!¡± ¡ª The growth of I Am MT¡¯s yer base showed no signs of slowing down. It goes without mention that I Am MT¡¯s friend system was one of the most ssic designs,parable to the use of alliances in sh of Kings whereby guildmates help each other by speeding up building. And using the most ssic design sometimes achieves the best result. I Am MT had no way of including co-op because of the design of thebat system. However, I Am MT¡¯s friend system addresses this problem extraordinarily well. After bing friends, yers will be able to help each other inbat. Although it wasn¡¯t much, it was enough to attract yers to add others based on how strong they are. Chapter 72 - Whale Specific Card Chapter 72: Chapter 71 Whale Specific Card The friendly aid feature achieved three different goals. First, weaker yers will be able to clear some levels that they can¡¯t clear themselves with the aid of stronger ounts. This presents itself as a stronger yer carrying the weaker one, and in turn the weaker yer will feel as though they weren¡¯t ying alone, making the game feel more social, and increasing the yer retention of weaker yers. Second, stronger yers with stronger cards achieve an advertising effect, showing everyone on their friends list how strong the card is, incentivising other yers to spend money in game as well. Third, the non-ying yers will naturally flock to the stronger whales, flooding them with friend requests. This makes the stronger yers feel a great sense of satisfaction, further encouraging them to spend more money. These three points are key to the profitability and retention of I Am MT. And a simple ¡°friendly aid¡± system allowed for the best possible result using the least amount of resources possible, without the need of any co-op mode, achieving the three aforementioned points. Hyping up using the animated series, free downloads, as well as inviting friends allowed I Am MT¡¯s user base to spread far and wide into the circles of the younger poption. And the paying yers will maintain at about ten percent. ¡ª Inside the experience store, Chen Mo was so bored that he yawned a few times. The servers for I Am MT were rented, the customer service was outsourced as well, and the yer feedback would be filtered back to the developer once in a while. There virtually weren¡¯t any problems with bug fixes or server maintenance in the parallel world. Although many yers will have questions regarding buying credits or have criticism with the gaming experience, they were usually handled by a customer experience team. All Chen Mo had to do was gather the opinions of the yers and make changes to the game ordingly where he sees fit. Everyone else within the experience store was ying I Am MT, surrounding Wen Lingwei asking questions about strategies on teamposition. Wen Lingwei had spent around three hundred RMB, and the others have also spent some money in game, some just ten, some slightly more at thirty. ¡°You currently have Shaman and Cannon Lady. You should probably focus more of your resources to level up Cannon Lady, and work toward Shaman¡¯s leader ability, then your Chain Lightnings will be really strong.¡± ¡°Yep, you have many single target casters, and could probably do crazy burst damage to take out the enemies. You could add Thief or Rogue to your team, with the five fireball priests in a row, you could probably wipe out the enemy in an instant.¡± ¡°Jia Peng... Oh, your cards are terrible, may as well make a new ount.¡± Wen Lingwei gave each and everyone advice. Su Jinyu came to Chen Mo¡¯s side and asked, ¡°Why aren¡¯t you ying?¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°Oh, because I don¡¯t have any money.¡± Su Jinyu was speechless, ¡°This game doesn¡¯t require money!¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°You wouldn¡¯t understand, it¡¯s free when it¡¯s the most pricey.¡± Wen Lingwei walked over, ¡°Please stop pretending you¡¯re poor, Mr. Stingy owner. You said it yourself that I Am MT was capable of raking in more than twenty million a month, which means you¡¯d be getting ten million in your pocket this month!¡± Chen Mo waved his hand, ¡°That¡¯s when the end of the monthes, and that day is not today. Besides, I don¡¯t have much money left to spend on credits, as I¡¯ve spent most of the money on the animations.¡± Wen Lingwei said, ¡°Oh, then when you get your paycheck, be sure to get yourself to V12, that way we have someone to rely on.¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°I have to use that money to develop better games, why would I waste it on things like these?¡± Everyone was speechless. ¡°Do you believe the words that just came out of your mouth yourself? Obviously you just want to develop more pay to win games like these!¡±ined Wen Lingwei. Chang Xiuya asked, ¡°Manager, do you mind telling us if there are any V12s in the game?¡± Su Jinyu was shocked, ¡°No way right? V12 takes fifty thousand RMB, is it possible for someone to spend fifty thousand on the game already?¡± Wen Lingwei also thought it was not possible, ¡°Probably not, no matter whose money it is, it doesn¡¯te easy. I think there would be V12 yers in a month or two, because of how high the ceiling of this game is.¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°Uhh, actually there¡¯s already some.¡± Su Jinyu was shocked, ¡°Really?! Who?¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°There¡¯s actually twenty seven V12s, which one are you after?¡± Everyone was stunned. Jia Peng muttered, ¡°I really don¡¯t understand the world of the rich.¡± Su Jinyu said, ¡°I don¡¯t either.¡± Wen Lingwei said, ¡°Quickly! Give me their ount ID and I¡¯ll add them! I¡¯ve been stuck on this level for so long, all I need is a max level Elder Sister to pass this!¡± Meanwhile, someone walked through the door. It was when Chen Mo realised, isn¡¯t that Zhao Zihao? ¡°Why have you made your way here?¡± Chen Mo was shocked. Zhao Zihao was also shocked, ¡°Oh my, why are there so many people? So many girls, too.¡± Chen Mo stood up and said, ¡°Oh, let me introduce you to the assistant I was posting about before, Su Jinyu. And well, they are all yers.¡± Chen Mo then pointed to Zhao Zihao, ¡°One of my bros, Zhao Zihao. And uhh, an idiot.¡± Zhao Zihao greeted the others with a nod before sitting down. ¡°By the way, Chen Mo. Could you take a look at this, which card should I pick out of these ones?¡± Zhao Zihao passed his phone over. Chen Mo took a look at his phone and said, ¡°Hmm? You¡¯re also ying I Am MT?¡± Zhao Zihao said, ¡°Yeah, I can¡¯t not y your game right? I¡¯ve been busy before, so I wasn¡¯t ying when it wasunched, so it¡¯s a fairly fresh ount.¡± The others took a look, wow, V12. What the, it¡¯s a whale! Everyone was shocked when they looked further into what cards he had. Elder Sister, Nosuke Shinsuke, Huntress, Cannon Lady, Winter... He pretty much had all of the rare cards, and even had duplicates for quite a few of them. Wen Lingwei was speechless, ¡°You¡¯re outrageous! All these cards are wasted on you!¡± Zhao Zihao scratched his head, ¡°Sigh, I¡¯ve drawn a bunch of them and I haven¡¯t spent the time looking into them, it would¡¯ve been better toe here for advice.¡± Jia Peng said, ¡°Senior, give him some tips.¡± Wen Lingwei rolled her eyes, ¡°Why would I embarrass myself in front of the owner?¡± Chen Mo looked at Zhao Zihao¡¯s cards and asked, ¡°What type of strategy are you going for?¡± Zhao Zihao was shocked, ¡°What type of strategy? Just give me the best one you have!¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°There isn¡¯t really a best strategy, all of them have their strengths and weaknesses. Whatever, since you have so many good cards, may as well go for the ¡°Unmatched Pro¡± strategy.¡± Chen Mo exined as he put the strategy together. ¡°The Unmatched Pro strategy is like a love story, consisting of Elder Sister, Cannon Lady, Shinsuke, and Winter. These four characters provide a high amount of firepower and burst damage. It¡¯s a waste of an Elder Sister to not use this strategy. ¡°As your who you should bring as your fifth, because your leadership stat isn¡¯t high enough, you¡¯ll have to consider thatter. You probably could consider Blood Elf Mage, Shaman or maybe Waning Moon. Depends if you¡¯re more conservative or more liberal.[1]¡± Jia Peng had his hand on his forehead, ¡°There are all free gifts. The team of a real whale!¡± Zhao Zihao nodded, ¡°Sure, I¡¯ll y with this strategy for now. I¡¯ll level up these cards at the meanwhile too.¡± Wen Lingwei scowled, ¡°Why do you say that this strategy is¡¯ the best? How could the four most overpowered cards on the same team not be the best strategy?¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°There isn¡¯t a best strategy, the cards have strengths and weaknesses.¡± Chan Xiuya asked, ¡°Well, could you rmend a more approachable strategy?¡± Wen Lingwei nodded, ¡°Yeah, it¡¯d be better if it could destroy the ¡°Unmatched Pro¡± strategy.¡± Chen Mo was speechless, ¡°Why would I let you peasants bully a whale? Will I be making money then?¡± TL note:[1] In ystyle, not politically Chapter 73 - Fifth Best Selling?

Chapter 73: Chapter 72: Fifth Best Selling?

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Chang Xiuya urged, ¡°Don¡¯t worry, just slightly buff the cheaper moremon cards.¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°Sure, then you guys should try this out: MT, Shaman, Blood Elf Mage, Nosuke Shinsuke, and Druid. This is called the ¡°Crow Team¡± strategy.¡± Chang Xiuya said, ¡°Uhh, Nosuke Shinsuke costs quite a bit...¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°Uhh how about the Pocket Rocket strategy? Barrel Bull, Priest, Thief, Warlock, and the Five Fireball Priests. These should be easier to obtain.¡± Chang Xiuya paid extra attention to that, ready to collect the required cards. In truth, Chen Mo had built up all the bncing numbers from ground up, and waspletely different from the version in the previous world. This meant that the strategies would y differently in this world. However, Chen Mo still referenced a few more ssical strategies and made bnce changes ording to how easy they were to obtain. Wen Lingwei said, ¡°Is there really a strategy that could beat the ¡°Unmatched Pro¡± strategy? I was using that exact strategy during the testing phase and it felt unbeatable!¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°I can¡¯t tell you if there is one, otherwise the whales would stop paying after being beaten.¡± Wen Lingwei replied, ¡°All I need is a hint! How about this, if you give me a hint, I¡¯ll spend the money to buy the Elder Sister, how¡¯s that!¡± Su Jinyu said, ¡°I feel that two thousand RMB isn¡¯t enough to bribe the manager...¡± Chen Mo said solemnly, ¡°Of course, trying to bribe me with two thousand RMB. I won¡¯t leak how you could use the Fallen Goose and the President to instantly wipe out your enemies!¡± Everyone was speechless. It¡¯s too easy to bribe you Mr. Manager! Wen Lingwei stood up, ¡°Alright, I¡¯m gonna test that out!¡± Chen Mo could help butugh. The hint he gave actually works, and strategies that did huge burst damage did have a chance of beating the ¡°Unmatched Pro¡± strategy, but that would still depend on what level your cards were! The strategy of using the Fallen Goose and the President, was just the ¡°Elder¡¯s Help¡± strategy, which is abination of Fallen Goose, The President, Waning Moon, and Winter. However, something that Chen Mo didn¡¯t mention was that in order for this strategy to beat whales, there must be two max levels Fallen Goose. The two Fallen Gooses would be ced in the same row, their thief ability was single target rupture, making the targets take more damage from warriors. When The President¡¯s Whirlwind as well as Winter¡¯s healing reduction, they could deal huge damage to the enemy¡¯s Elder Sister, making it a four on five in the first round. Moreover, this strategy also required a decent amount of money. Otherwise, with theck of firepower, they would still be destroyed by the whales. Chen Mo believed that Wen Lingwei would be able to reach this strategy eventually. ¡ª It was now just a few days from the end of the first month, and Qiu Bin had his eyes locked onto the ratings of I Am MT. Currently, I Am MT¡¯s rating was just 7.1, and the number of one star ratings were now much higher. ¡°Garbage game wasting my money!¡± ¡°I¡¯ve never drawn a good card! NEVER!¡± ¡°You can¡¯t beat anyone if you don¡¯t spend money! I thought you said this was a free game!¡± ¡°From fan now hater!¡± ¡°How could you make a game like this? Don¡¯t you feel shame?!¡± Qiu Bin was puzzled as he looked through the one star reviews. What does this mean? It feels like most of these people have spent a lot of money in game? And still weren¡¯t satisfied? Wasn¡¯t this a free game? Moreover, the game was practically handing out money, and they still felt the urge to take out money from their pockets? Qiu Bin was confused. All of a sudden, the assistant barged through the door, ¡°Oh no! Oh No! You must take a look at the best seller leaderboard!¡± Qiu Bin was shocked, ¡°What¡¯s wrong with the leaderboard?¡± He took out his phone and looked at the best seller leaderboard of the official app store, and waspletely shocked. The fifth ce of the best selling leaderboard was held by I Am MT! Qiu Bin rubbed his eyes in and double confirmed it in disbelief. I Am MT! That¡¯s ridiculous! ¡°It can¡¯t be, something must be wrong! How could it reach the top ten in a month! That¡¯s impossible!¡± Qiu Bin was so shocked he started thering. Qiu Bin didn¡¯t pay attention to the best selling leaderboard for a long while, as he believed that Guardian of the Holy Spring and I Am MT stood no chance at that leaderboard. Entering the best selling leaderboard of the official appstore was a difficult task. The games that manage to enter the top ten had to be extremely popr social phenomena. All of those were ssic, evergreen games that would break millions in sales every month! Although Guardian of the Holy Spring did make a decent amount of money, most of it didn¡¯te from the official app store, but from the Emperor Dynasty gaming tform, which is why it stood no chance on the official app store best selling leaderboard. Qiu Bin didn¡¯t think that I Am MT had any capability to get into the best selling leaderboard, and never paid any attention to it. But now, not only did I Am MT enter the best selling leaderboard, it managed to reach fifth ce! Qiu Bin looked at the games in fourth and sixth ce, and they were two ssic games from Zen Entertainment, both at ten RMB, selling 1.5 to 2 million copies each month. That means that I Am MT¡¯s revenue for the first month was close to twenty million! Qiu Bin still couldn¡¯t believe it, but it was clearly the case. As it was impossible to cheat the system of the official app store, especially the number of sales. He didn¡¯t believe that Chen Mo had enough power to get the official appstore to do such a thing. Therefore, the only exnation was that the monthly ie for I Am MT was more than twenty million! ¡°How? Why?¡± Qiu bin looked at the 7.1 rating of I Am MT,pletely speechless. ¡ª Qiu Bin wasn¡¯t the only one shocked, everyone in the industry, video game media, as well as the people following the whole predicament was also shocked. Ever since I Am MT showed up on the best selling leaderboard, its growth had grown even more, and eventually got to fifth ce and maintained that position solidly at the end of the month, when the bet was due! There was no need for Chen Mo to publish his earnings, most could guess how much I Am MT was making based on the other games on that leaderboard. Twenty million! What caused even more head scratches was the fact that the rating for I Am MT always hovered around 7.1 to 7.3, and was as low as seven at its worst. On the other hand, other games that were in the top ten of the best selling leaderboard were above 8.5, and some of them were above 9.2! A rating of 7 would usually point to a terrible game, but I Am MT somehow manages to sitfortably at the top five of that leaderboard, and the number of downloads kept climbing! Many video game designers and video game media felt that this waspletely abnormal and have never seen a game with such terrible reviews making so much money. Many thought that Guardian of the Holy Spring had no chance of losing after looking at what it managed to achieve, and these people didn¡¯t believe that Chen Mo could make a game that would double the monthly ie of nts vs Zombies. And when Chen Mo got to making the animations, even fewer of them thought it would end up well. And when I Am MT reached the top five of the leaderboard, everyone¡¯s socks were blown off. What¡¯s this? What¡¯s going on? Did I miss something? I thought this game would be aplete flop, how did it do theplete opposite? And manage topletely destroy Guardian of the Holy Spring? This makes no sense!! Chapter 74 - Admitting Defeat Chapter 74: Chapter 73: Admitting Defeat After I Am MT solidified its position on the app store¡¯s fifth best seller, nobody could deny that this ¡°free to y¡± game was very profitable. It was even more profitable than most highly priced games that sell many copies! Hard surprised, half baffled. Many designers couldn¡¯tprehend how this low quality game that¡¯s only one hundred something megabytes, average rating could do so well. Even when taking into ount the hyping from the animated series, there was no way that would be enough to go toe to toe with a massive distribution tform of Emperor Dynasty gaming tform! However, I Am MT managed to destroy Guardian of the Holy Spring by nearly two times. Video game designers that swept I Am MT under the rug have now begun looking into how the game came to be sessful. The video game media are once again working overtime thanks to Chen Mo. At the end of the month, and the date where the bet is due. Guardian of the Holy Spring sold eight hundred and ny thousand copies, 8.9 million in profit. On the other side of the ring, Chen Mo had also released his earnings of twenty three million! It was beaten by almost three times! Soon thereafter, the articles of various gaming media were slowly being released. The betes to a conclusion: Chen Mo trumps Emperor Dynasty Entertainment! I Am MT brings in more than 23 million in the first month, solidifies its position as fifth best selling! Revealing I Am MT¡¯s method of profit, the secret of free to y games Whales dumping tons of money in this game Two thousand RMB for one card? That¡¯s right, it¡¯s a free game Losing with Emperor Dynasty gaming tform being your back! How did the Guardian of the Holy Spring lose? Qiu Bin remains silent, can he fill the end of his bet? Chen Mo¡¯s Weibo under fire, remaining silent from gamers¡¯ questions An ¡°unfair¡± game? Pop science: How much money can I Am MT bring its creator? Professionals discuss: A game that brings happiness through in app purchases isn¡¯t a good game! ¡ª There were many different articles representing different views. The spread in views were basically identical as the reviews, a close to even split between positive and negative. Some were surprised at the downloads and revenue I Am MT brought in, and others posed questions regarding how the game brings in revenue. This result wasn¡¯t anything special in Chen Mo¡¯s previous world. The original I Am MT raked in fifty five million each month, not to mention two hundred million Soul Hunters managed, as well as the three billion Honors of Kings managed. However, this wasn¡¯t the case in the parallel world. Mobile games primarily profited from sales, and if one wanted to make more than twenty million in monthly revenue, they would need to sell two million copies. Even if the game was twenty RMB a pop, they would still need to sell one million copies. Easier said than done to sell that many copies! Therefore, after I Am MT solidified its position as the fifth best selling, many video game media were shocked at this method of profiting, being able to get into the top five best selling games within a month, not to mention with a terrible score of around seven. This was good enough to go down into history! Being able to earn all that money while being under fire by the fans was a unique phenomena in it of itself! While the poprity of I Am MT continues to grow, Chen Mo was now a familiar name to more and more people. nts vs Zombies was also very popr, and was very high quality with very good reviews, but unfortunately it wasn¡¯t ¡°ssic¡±. It was still a game that managed a huge amount of sales with a unique and creative idea, but to the people of this world, it was a ways away from how shocking I Am MT was. Free game. Unfair, pay to win. Raking in money while under fire from the fans. These three characteristics of I Am MT were enough to differentiate itself, drawing the attention of many yers and industry professionals to look deeper into its sess. ¡ª Many have been expecting them to go at each other¡¯s throats, but it was theplete opposite. After I Am MT¡¯s monthly ie was released, Qiu Bin released a simple Weibo post: ¡°I admit defeat¡±. Chen Mo also released a Weibo. ¡°Thanks for all the love you guys have given. Please calm down with sending me razors, I understand that your wishes are to shave more often to maintain my handsome looks, but I¡¯m running out of space in my experience store. The yers were furious upon seeing someone so shameless! Is that for shaving your beard? ¡°I¡¯ve never seen such a shameless video game designer!¡± ¡°Where¡¯s the experience store! I¡¯m bringing a knife there!¡± ¡°Please like everytime I get a purple card.¡± ¡°Please update! When is season threeing out!!¡± ¡°Why not use this time you¡¯re spending on Weibo to update the World of Azeroth!¡± ¡°Garbage game wasting my time and money. Refunds please!¡± ¡°Add me if you y MT, my ID is XXXXX ...¡± There were many differentments, but most of them were ¡°wishes¡± from ¡°extremely friendly fans¡±. What was surprising was that there were no arguments between Chen Mo and Qiu Bin. Chen Mo didn¡¯t rub it in, nor did Qiu Bin try and wiggle his way out. The both of them just went on with their lives. The fans that bought snacks and drinks, ready for some drama were extremely unsatisfied. They thought that there would be drama, but just as I¡¯m getting ready you tell me it¡¯s over? However, as both parties have backed off, there was nothing to be unsatisfied of. No matter how hard they tried, the fans were unable to start anything, leading them to leave it as it was. What the people waiting for a show didn¡¯t know was that something dark was creeping about in the video game industry. ¡ª Emperor Dynasty Entertainment headquarters. Qiu Bin handed over his resignation better with both hands onto the desk of Lin Chaoxu. Lin Chaoxu lifted his head and saw Qiu Bin, and pushed the letter away, back towards him. Qiu Bin was shocked, ¡°Mr. Lin...¡± Lin Chaoxu said, ¡°It¡¯s just a promotional space, he can have it.¡± Qiu Bin was embarrassed, ¡°Sorry, Mr Lin, I...¡± Lin Chaoxu waved dismissively, suggesting that there was no need for him to continue. ¡°This matter wasn¡¯t all bad. At least you¡¯ve revealed a new threat to thepany.¡± Lin Chaoxu stood up and walked to the window in his office, and said as he looked out at the view, ¡°If it wasn¡¯t for this, it would¡¯ve taken us six months to a year to realise the huge potential that Chen Mo possesses. Knowledge of this a year in advance in exchange for a promotional space was worth it.¡± Qiu Bin could finally rx. He thought that Lin Chaoxu was about to go off at him, and even had his resignation letter ready. Turns out, Lin Choaxu wasn¡¯t even mad. Indeed, someone who was able to build Emperor Dynasty Entertainment had better foresight and forbearance than the average Joe. Lin Chaoxu said, ¡°Don¡¯t worry about the promotional space, I¡¯ll send someone over to Chen Mo and discuss the details.¡± Qiu Bin lowered his head, ¡°Alright.¡± Liu Chaoxu walked in front of Qiu Bin, ¡°However, there¡¯s still something I need you to do.¡± Qiu Bin asked, ¡°What¡¯s that?¡± Lin Chaoxu said sternly, ¡°Copy I Am MT and make a reskinned version of it.¡± Qiu Bin was shocked, ¡°Again?¡± Lin Chaoxu nodded, ¡°Yes. If you¡¯re worried about the pressure from the fans, you can publish it under some C-grade video game designer. But the game must be done under your supervision. I hope it¡¯s ystyle can fully mimic I Am MT.¡± Qiu Bin replied after a pause, nodding, ¡°Yes, I understand.¡± Qiu Bin picked up the resignation letter from the desk before leaving Lin Chaoxu¡¯s office. Chapter 75 - Emperor Dynasty Entertainment Internal Meetings

Chapter 75: Chapter 74: Emperor Dynasty Entertainment Internal Meetings

Lin Chaoxu got back to his seat and ced his phone with I Am MT running on the table A V12 ount. The friend notifications tab lit up again, Lin Chaoxu opened the friends tab to see yet another friend request. He would receive a huge amount of friend requests every single day. Although Lin Chaoxu deletes low rank friends every day, he was still struggling to deal with the amount of friend requests he was getting. Lin Chaoxu tapped lightly tapped the phone screen, seemingly deep in thought. Suddenly, someone was at his door. ¡°Come in,¡± said Lin Chaoxu. A man in his twenties walked through the door. He was dressed quite casually, with messy hair that looked quite unkempt. The man sat on the sofa in the office and opened a bottle of soda, without a hint of care. Lin Chaoxuughed, ¡°You came?¡± The man seemingly unsatisfied, put his legs onto the coffee table in front of him, ¡°Do you need to call all three of us here for a meeting, just because some C-grade videogame designer made a mobile game?¡± Lin Chaoxu didn¡¯t mind his move,ughing in reply, ¡°He isn¡¯t just some C-grade video game designer, the game isn¡¯t just a mobile game either.¡± Lin Chaoxu walked over to the man and handed his phone to him, ¡°This game was only on the official app store, bringing in more than twenty million a month. And judging from the downloads, it would bring in even more profit next month.¡± The man scowled, ¡°Twenty million?¡± Lin Chaoxu nodded, ¡°That¡¯s right, and the game is also free to y. All its profitse from in-app purchases.¡± The man finally gained some interest in the matter, taking the phone into his hands to give the game a try. The man was visibly confused the whole time, evidently I Am MT¡¯sbat system and artstyle was an eyesore. After giving thebat system a quick look, he went onto the VIP system and awards, as well as the friends on Lin Chaoxu¡¯s ount. The man thought in silence for a bit, ¡°Sure, even though I feel that your thoughts as a designer are outdated, but I will recognise that your nning skills have always been excellent. If you think this game has potential, get someone to do it.¡± Lin Chaoxuughed, ¡°You three have been working on VR games for so long, and have overlooked mobile games this entire time.¡± The man handed the phone back to Lin Chaoxu, ¡°Don¡¯t expect me to do this kind of dirty work.¡± Lin Chaoxu nodded, ¡°I¡¯ve alright assigned this to Qiu Bin, we should see the results in two months.¡± The man nodded in response, ¡°Alright.¡± Lin Chaoxu asked, ¡°What are your thoughts on ¡®World of Azeroth¡¯, have you seen it?¡± The man nodded, ¡°Yeah. I think Chen Mo has more ns for that. There¡¯s more content in it than your normal mobile game and animation.¡± Lin Chaoxu said, ¡°Yep, it¡¯s good that you noticed. What do you think about it?¡± The man shook his head, ¡°It¡¯s useless, we can¡¯t copy it. Don¡¯t even think about it.¡± Lin Chaoxuughed, ¡°Don¡¯t be so quick to make that decision. Discuss this with the others. Also, you three will have to host theing meeting. I won¡¯t make it.¡± The man lifted his eyebrow, ¡°Why?¡± Lin Chaoxuughed, ¡°It¡¯s now the time for young people like you guys to shine. As for me, I¡¯ll still make some calls when the timees, but I¡¯m struggling to keep up with how the young people think. Me going will just limit your ideas.¡± The man stood up, ¡°Alright, I understand. Don¡¯t worry about it too much. ¡®Genius designers¡¯ like these appear once every so often, it¡¯s barely worth mentioning.¡± Lin Chaoxuughed, ¡°Of course.¡± The man left Lin Chaoxu¡¯s office to the meeting room on the same floor. The man is named Qin Xiao, one of the three S-grade video game designers who is most trusted by Lin Chaoxu within Emperor Dynasty Entertainment. The video game designers working under Emperor Dynasty Entertainment usually spend most of their time in their experience store, and usually aren¡¯t at Emperor Dynasty Entertainment HQ, except under special circumstances such as work reports or important meetings despite belonging to the Emperor Dynasty Entertainment entity. And this meeting was proposed by Lin Chaoxu, hoping that the three S-grade video game designers can band together with a few A-grade video game designers to delve deeper into I Am MT, as well as the fictional world of Azeroth. Afterall, Emperor Dynasty Entertainment came out from this with a loss, there was no way they would give up this opportunity to learn something from it. As Qin Xiao walked into the meeting room, most of the others had already arrived. Of the three key seats in the meeting room, the left belonged to Qin Xiao, the middle one was upied by a man in their thirties, the right seat was a beautiful woman aged about twenty-seven. Yan Zhenyuan, Qiu Jiang. The three of them were S-grade video game designers working under Emperor Dynasty Entertainment, and would meet only a few times in a year, only during special asions like these. The meeting room table was surrounded by ten or so A-grade designer, all sitting tight in their seats. Qiu Xiao leaned his seat backwards and spun around, finally setting his feet on the meeting room table, ¡°Alright, let¡¯s start. Lin Chaoxu can¡¯t make it.¡± Yan Zhenyuan was quite bothered by that, ¡°He¡¯s noting again? That old man is always pushing these matters to us three.¡± Qiu Jiang put out the feminine cigarette[1] in an ashtray, ¡°It wasn¡¯t the first time he¡¯s done that. You guys go ahead, I won¡¯t be participating.¡± Yan Zhenyuan felt a headache as he looked at Qin Xiao to his left who was on his phone, and Qiu Jiang to the right who was redoing her makeup. ¡°Alright, let¡¯s start.¡± Yan Zhenyuan ordered the report material on the table that was prepared by the assistant, filled with analysis of I Am MT the animation, the game, as well as some of the content for the World of Azeroth. ¡°This meeting is quite simple, we are just discussing three problems.¡± ¡°First, can the sess of the mobile game I Am MT be replicated. ¡°Second, why is Chen Mo doing ¡®The World of Azeroth¡¯, why would he spend so much effort developing the world of I Am MT? ¡°Third, can we discover something useful from this. ¡°First question, Mr. Lin had already sent someone to address that, and I also think that I Am MT¡¯s model can be replicated, so not much else to discuss there. ¡°The main topic of today are the two questions after that, and are also the things we don¡¯t have a clear idea of, regarding ¡®World of Azeroth¡¯ ¡°Alright, please voice your thoughts. As Yan Zhenyuan finished speaking, he looked at the other A-grade video game designers. The A-grade video game designer looked at one another. They have made some preparations, but there was still some pressure speaking in front of these three S-grade video game designers. Finally a videogame designer in their thirty cleared their throats and said, ¡°I¡¯ll start.¡± Yan Zhenyuan nodded, suggesting that they should go on. This videogame designer was named Tang Dagang, and was an older videogame designer within Emperor Dynasty Entertainment, but his thoughts were falling behind, and haven¡¯t had any spectacr works. He was also one of the ¡®dirty work¡¯ video game designers. Tang Dagang said, ¡°I think Chen Mo made ¡®World of Azeroth¡¯ with two aims in mind, one being a gimmick for I Am MT. The other is that he¡¯s being greedy and wants to turn it into an IP, preparing for his future games. Yan Zhenyuan nodded, ¡°Sure, could you go into more detail?¡± TL note: [1] Apparently that¡¯s a thing, cigarette targeted at women, citing milder vour with pink packaging. Search ŮʿÑÌ in Google images. Chapter 76 - Copy or Not to Copy? Chapter 76: Chapter 75 Copy or Not to Copy? Tang Dagang said ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll provide more detail. Obviously I Am MT is an original series, but by itself, it doesn¡¯t generate enough hype to bring yers into the game. Moreover, the lifetime of the series is limited, and cannot fully convey the setting of the world. ¡°Therefore, Chen Mo released ¡®World of Azeroth¡¯ as a supplement for the animation, in order to give the mobile game something totch onto, as well as giving everyone an easier time of understanding some content within the animations. ¡°As for me saying that Chen Mo has more ns for it, the reasoning behind that is simple. It¡¯s because I think that he already had ns for his next moves when he was taking the bet! If he took the bet out of impulse, why would he be so cool headed after welling? This obviously means that he already nned something out from the start, and all he wanted was the promotional spot. Qiu Bin obviously walked straight into his trap! ¡°Since Chen Mo¡¯s desires are so strong, his ns are entirely obvious. The world of Azeroth is expansive andplete, even down to thest rune. This obviously means that Chen Mo wants to turn this world into a massive game. ¡°And there¡¯s no way it would attract that many yers on initial release, which is why he¡¯s trying to hype it up early, and work towards representing the world step by step, until when he thinks the yers¡¯ interest in the world peaks while having sufficient capabilities, he¡¯ll release the game in mention!¡± Yan Zhenyuan nodded, ¡°Yep, makes sense.¡± Qin Xiao who had their eyes on their phone the entire time said, ¡°So? What do you have in mind?¡± Tang Dagang was a bit hysterical, andpletely missed the sarcasm in Qin Xiao¡¯s eyes, ¡°So I think that it¡¯s good news for us! Chen Mo¡¯s only a C-grade videogame designer now, and there¡¯s no way for him to create a massive game like that. Therefore, we must send someone...¡± Qin Xiao waved his hand, ¡°Alright, we¡¯re all allies here, you don¡¯t need to hide it. You want to copy Azeroth right?¡± Tang Dagang felt attacked by that sentence, replying after a few moments with a nod, ¡°Yes.¡± Qin Xiao got his feet off the table, starting at Tang Dagang, ¡°Let me ask you this: How can we copy? The entire world of Azeroth was made by Chen Mo. We are argepany, if we really do pull something like that, and based on the current intellectual property rights, we¡¯d be paying huge sums inwsuits!¡± Tang Dagang tried to fight back, ¡°Of course i know that, but we don¡¯t have to make a carbon copy. We¡¯ll just change some bits and it should be fine.¡± Qiu Xiao replied, ¡°How can we change some bits? The ystyle of games can be copied like that, but how can we do that for an entire fantasy world and its story? In this day and age, fans get super aggressive if the stories are in any way slightly simr, and previously there was a well known author who nearly went bankrupt from awsuit. What¡¯s the difference between you copying the world and then copying a book? Do you thinkwyers and judges are stupid?¡± Tang Dagang refused to back down, ¡°We have so many writers in Emperor Dynasty, with so many designers who excel in screenwriting, making some modifications in the world can¡¯t be impossible right?¡± Qiu Xiao was speechless, ¡°How much do we need to change? If we don¡¯t change enough, it¡¯ll be easy to tell, then what¡¯s the point? Aren¡¯t we digging our own graves? If we changed a lot, aren¡¯t we just writing from scratch? If we¡¯re putting that effort in, why should we copy others? Can¡¯t we just write a western fantasy world from scratch?¡± Tang Dagang was shocked, trying hard to find a rebuttal. Qin Xiao continued, ¡°Moreover, don¡¯t we all know the potential of western fantasy within China? Hmm? There was this game releasedst year using the overseas IP called ¡®Heavenly Ring¡¯, and ended up aplete failure which still hasn¡¯t cooled off yet. Have you guys forgotten that already?¡± Tang Dagang said, ¡°Alright, even if we exclude the idea of western fantasy, there are many mechanics that we can reference from the world of Azeroth, such as running back to the corpse, using runes to teleport, pop-up achievements, and so on.¡± Qiu Xiao rolled his eyes and hit the table as he couldn¡¯t take it anymore, ¡°Can you use your brain before making suggestions like these? ¡°First, your design suggestions are all exclusive to western fantasy worlds, if it¡¯s not a western fantasy world, do these mechanics make sense? ¡°Second, even if we tacked these on, then what? Can we make a massive game just based on these mechanics?¡± Tang Dagang waspletely overwhelmed by these questions. Still unwilling to back down, he replied after a few moments of thinking, ¡°But, if this thing has no future, why would Chen Mo spend so much effort...¡± Qiu Xiao said, ¡°That¡¯s Chen Mo. Chen Mo has the entire design of Azeroth thought out, the intellectual property belongs to him. What do we have? Hmm? To us, the world of Azeroth seems really good, but we can¡¯t use that. ¡°How about this, if you can give me a world idea that isparable to Azeroth, I¡¯ll make a VR for it right now. Do you have one?¡± Tang Dagang argued, ¡°We... We can base it on the World of Azeroth and make modifications!¡± Qin Xiao predicted the question, ¡°Can something that has been modified be the same as the original? Do you think that after modifications, it¡¯ll be better than Heavenly Ring?¡± Tang Dagang was speechless. After noticing that Tang Dagang had nothing to add, Yan Zhenyuan decided to mediate the situation, ¡°Alright, we all have our own views, and sometimes we get a bit too excited, let¡¯s not take any of this personally.¡± Tang Dagang had nothing to say. He wouldn¡¯t dare take it personally, Qin Xiao was an S-grade videogame designer afterall, someone who his own boss would give special exceptions to, how dare he have anything else in mind? However, Tang Dagang was still unsatisfied, why can¡¯t they copy? Why could they copy I Am MT, but not Azeroth? One¡¯s a game, and the other is just arge scale show! Yan Zhenyuan looked at Qiu Jiang who had been quiet this whole time, ¡°What do you think?¡± Qiu Jiang nched back, ¡°Are you pretending? You can only copy the ystyle, but not the story, Qiu Xiao had made that abundantly clear. Is there anyone who still doesn¡¯t understand that? ¡°Chen Mo is indeed able to make a bunch of significant characters, but there¡¯s no way the characters he has now will be able to support arge scale game. From what I can tell, he¡¯s still saving the good stuff. Everything he has released so far is either too dangerous to copy orpletely useless.¡± Yan Zhenyuan felt helpless. He thought that Qiu Jiang would say something to mediate the situation, but what she said was more blunt than Qin Xiao. Yang Zhenyuan let out another sigh, ¡°I think... It can¡¯t be that simple right? Tang Dagang, you¡¯re a A-grade video game designer. If you¡¯re really interested in your idea, you should make a PC game. And if it has potential, request to make a VR game with Mr. Lin.¡± Tang Dagang happily nodded, ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll make sure to do a good job!¡± Yan Zhenyuan said, ¡°We can¡¯t budget too much financially and in terms of resources, so just make it as per RPGs[1].¡± Tang Dagang nodded, ¡°Sure, no problem!¡± Yan Zhenyuan looked at the others, ¡°Does anyone else have any other ideas?¡± The other video game designers voiced their opinions, but were unable to reach anything decisive. At the end, they weren¡¯t able to reach a unanimous decision, but many of the designers agreed with Qiu Xiao that the world of Azeroth was a good idea, but nothing can be used. However, just in case, Yan Zhenyuan didn¡¯t exclude any possibility, assigning Tang Dagang as head to make a game that mimics the world of Azeroth just to test the waters. If it turns out well, a VR game might be considered. Qin Xiao couldn¡¯t help but mutter, ¡°Waste of time.¡± TL note: [1] Role-ying games Chapter 77 - Love From the Fans Chapter 77: Chapter 76: ¡°Love¡± From the Fans Of course Chen Mo didn¡¯t know what happened within Emperor Dynasty Entertainment. Even if he knew, he wouldn¡¯t pay too much attention to it, as he had bigger fish to try. ¨CIn the experience store¨C Chen Mo walked into the experience store wearing sunsses and a mask, only rxing after making sure there wasn¡¯t anyone following. Su Jinyu was disdained, ¡°Manager, do you really have to do this?¡± Chen Mo took off his sunsses and mask, and grabbed a can of drink from the fridge, ¡°Geez, what do you mean if I have to do this. I¡¯m just worried about my safety.¡± Wen Lingwei said while ying I Am MT, ¡°Alright, you think you¡¯re someone famous now?¡± Chen Mo replied, ¡°What do you mean I¡¯m famous. I¡¯m basically a public enemy.¡± Chan Xiuyaughed, ¡°Manager, stop being a drama queen. You¡¯re a videogame designer, there can¡¯t be that many people thinking about you every day.¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°I don¡¯t want to hear that. I Am MT has nearly three million yers, my Weibo now has more than two hundred thousand followers. I¡¯m at least a little bit famous by any metric right?¡± Wen Lingwei facepalmed, ¡°You still think you¡¯re famous?¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°What do you mean, think. I am famous. Just look at my Weibo, there are hundreds of people tagging me expressing their love towards me.¡± Wen Lingwei had a ¡°you¡¯re kidding me¡± expression on her face, ¡°Those are the ones asking for your address to send razor des!¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°These yers can¡¯t help but send me gifts, if that isn¡¯t love, what is it?¡± Wen Lingwei was shocked, but three secondster, she decided to ignore this shameless person and continued grinding in game.¡± Su Jinyu said, ¡°By the way, manager, some did send you a razor de. I ced it at your bedside table.¡± Chen Mo was shocked, ¡°What! And you put it by my bed? Take it away, and give it to the garbage collectors.¡± Su Jinyu said, ¡°No kidding, if we gather up all these razor des we could probably get a few ice-creams worth of money.¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°That¡¯s why I¡¯m taking extra precautions for my own safety. What if I get ganked by a bunch of my fans?¡± Su Jinyu shocked, ¡°Ganked? What¡¯s that?¡± Chen Mo was also shocked, and replied, ¡°Oh that¡¯s a word in my dialect. It has a simr meaning to ¡®caught¡¯.¡± Jia Peng said, ¡°But I Am MT is quite popr right now, I saw five other people ying when I was on the train yesterday.¡± Chang Xiuya saidm ¡°There are also many other students ying in school.¡± Wen Lingwei said, ¡°Just take a look at the Weibo and see how many others are ming the manager to get a sense of how popr the game is.¡± Jia Peng said, ¡°That trending topic is quite funny, something along the lines of ¡®Refund my hard-earned money Chen Mo¡¯¡± Chang Xiuya snicked, ¡°Yeah, there aren¡¯t many other video game designers who have a trending topic ming them.¡± Chen Mo let out another sigh, ¡°I haven¡¯t been on Weibo for a few days now. Everytime I log in I get greeted with so many messages, all of them tagging me or arements on my Weibo, I can¡¯t go through it at all.¡± Jia Peng said, ¡°And you¡¯re not happy? There are so many video game designers who dream of having the poprity you have.¡± Su Jinyu shook her head, ¡°I think the manager doesn¡¯t wish to be popr like this. If it were me, I hope that I¡¯d be trending because of love from the fans. To be honest I still think the game is weird, although the manager did prove that it¡¯s quite profitable.¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°You¡¯re thinking too deep into it. I don¡¯t care about all this attention, all that matters is making money. The best would be making money without any attention.¡± ¡°...We overestimated your morality!¡± Su Jinyu asked, ¡°By the way, what¡¯s the next game going to be? I¡¯m going to quit if you make another I Am MT.¡± ¡°Yeah, I think that the animation is worth pursuing, but you should probably avoid games like these,¡± added Jia Peng. Wen Lingwei said, ¡°Someone as unlucky as you doesn¡¯t fair well with games like these after all.¡± Jia Peng was speechless. Chen Mo waved his hand, ¡°The next game won¡¯t be like this. I need some time to recover. I¡¯ll die young if I keep making these types of games.¡± Wen Lingwei said, ¡°Huh? I couldn¡¯t tell that you¡¯d be superstitious?¡± Chen Mo sighed, ¡°I¡¯m not superstitious. If I make another game like this and angered a few unlucky people, and they send someone after me, aren¡¯t I going to die young?¡± Wen Lingwei was speechless, ¡°Of course you¡¯d think that way!¡± Su Jinyu asked, ¡°So what are you nning?¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°Oh, I¡¯m taking a week off.¡± Everyone was shocked. Chen Mo was surprised by the reaction, ¡°What¡¯s wrong. I just made a game that brings in twenty million RMB every month. Isn¡¯t it normal and reasonable to take a week off?¡± Weng Lingwei said, ¡°You¡¯re not working hard enough!¡± Su Jinyu added, ¡°No aspirations!¡± Jia Peng also added, ¡°Stop bein Chapter 78 - Who Said Im Promoting MT?

Chapter 78: Chapter 77: Who Said I¡¯m Promoting MT?

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Although he might have told a tall tale, Chen Mo didn¡¯t n to honour that. His daily routine consisted of ying I Am MT, looking at yer reviews, watching movies or catching up on drama. There werements from haters on his Weibo everyday, but he disregarded them. Living the life of a salted fish with no aspirations. What disappointed him the most was the fact that he spent money to get himself to V12 to do whatever he wanted in game. Su Jinyu was speechless, ¡°Manager, can¡¯t you just give yourself the credits? Why did you spend actual money on that?¡± Chen Mo shook his head, ¡°You wouldn¡¯t understand. If I gave myself the credits, I¡¯d be cheating myself. But if I pay for it, I¡¯m a yer. It¡¯s difficult to exin.¡± Su Jinyu facepalmed, ¡°I don¡¯t understand why you¡¯re being so stubborn. Aren¡¯t you taking out money from your left pocket and putting it in your right...¡± Chen Mo replied, ¡°You wouldn¡¯t understand.¡± Su Jinyu was speechless. Jia Peng was checking out the official appstore on his phone, ¡°Manager, there¡¯s now three games that are based on nts vs Zombies this month. You really n on doing nothing?¡± Wen Lingwei was speechless, ¡°What? His new game is already live, why are there people out there still copying nts vs Zombies?¡± Su Jinyu said, ¡°It¡¯s because Emperor Dynasty Entertainment¡¯s Guardian of the Holy Spring generated another hype wave.¡± Chen Mo gave it a quick look, ¡°Oh, are there anyrgepanies?¡± Jia Peng shook his head, ¡°Nope, just some small ones.¡± Chen Mo replied, ¡°Oh, then it doesn¡¯t matter.¡± ¡°Why do you care about Emperor Dynasty Entertainment but not these ones?¡± asked Jia Peng. Chen Mo replied, ¡°What promotional spaces can thesepanies offer me in return? Arguing with them is just a waste of my time.¡± Jia Peng was speechless, ¡°Huh? The whole fiasco with Emperor Dynasty Entertainment was just for a promotional space?¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Yeah, why would I go through all that if it weren¡¯t for the promotional space?¡± Jia Peng had nothing to say. Chen Mo reassured, ¡°Don¡¯t worry, just keep your eyes on it. Let me know if you discover apany such as Zen Entertainment copying nts vs Zombies, and I¡¯ll head straight to Weibo for extortion. Promotional spaces is something I can¡¯t have enough of.¡± ¡°...Manager, I¡¯ve once again overestimated your morality,¡± replied Jia Peng. Chen Mo replied with a smile, ¡°Don¡¯t worry, you¡¯ll get used to it.¡± Su Jinyu said, ¡°Give it up, manager. All the chairmen and CEOs have an eye on you on Weibo, would anyone still dare have a bet with you.¡± Chen Mo sighed, ¡°All of these guys are more wary than thest, making my trapping efforts so troublesome.¡± Wen Lingweiughed, ¡°You just destroyed Emperor Dynasty Entertainment, along with a promotional space for a month. You¡¯re still trying to use this trick on otherpanies? You must be dreaming! The CEOs of the otherapnies aren¡¯t stupid.¡± Chen Mo let out another sigh, ¡°How unfortunate to have no one willing to go against me. Being the best sure is lonely.¡± ¡°Alright, you¡¯re now known in the industry as someone who¡¯s willing to hustle Emperor Dynasty Entertainment, it¡¯s no surprise nobody is willing to chance getting into a scuffle with you,¡± replied Su Jinyu. Chen Mo said, ¡°That can¡¯t be. Let me try.¡± Chen Mo logged into Weibo on his ount, and randomly got to Liu Yuanfeng, the chairman of Zen Entertainment¡¯s Weibo ount,menting: ¡°You interested in a bet?¡± It didn¡¯t take long before Liu Yuanfeng replied with three hand waving emojis. Chen Mo then reached out to the chairman of Fantasy Gaming tform, Ding Xing, ¡°You interested in a bet?¡± It didn¡¯t take long for Ding Xing to reply either, ¡°We have no beef, please let us be!¡± Chen Mo then got to the Weibo of chairman of , Qiu Hengyang, ¡°How about we make a bet, old Qiu.¡± Qiu Hengyang replied, ¡°What the! I¡¯m your ally!¡± Chen Mo went through a list of chairmen of differentpanies big and small, not one of them were willing to make a bet. Chen Mo sighed, ¡°Why are they so careful? I¡¯m just trying to get a promotional spot or two. Sigh, human emotions are difficult.¡± Su Jinyu and Wen Lingwei werepletely shocked. How should there be someone so shameless? Did you think it was easy profiting from promotional spaces? ¡°I was nning to get a few more promotional spaces. Whatever, I guess it just wasn¡¯t meant to be. This one I got from Emperor Dynasty Entertainment is quite big anyways, able to bring in many yers,¡± Chen Mo muttered. Su Jinyu said, ¡°Yeah, stop being so greedy. Do you know how many video game designers have turned themselves inside out to try and get promotional spaces and failing to do so? This is a promotional spot that only the A and S-grade videogame designers in Emperor Dynasty Entertainment have ess to!¡± Wen Lingwei said, ¡°By the way, isn¡¯t it kind of a waste to use it to advertise I Am MT... That space is usually reserved for huge VR games.¡± Jia Peng added, ¡°But in doing that, the manager rakes in so much more money. I¡¯m so jealous...¡± As they were chattering along, Chen Mo¡¯s phone went off. Chen Mo took a nce and picked up the phone as he saw an unrecognised number, ¡°Hello?¡± A man replied, ¡°Greetings. Is this the chairman of Thunderbolt Entertainment Mr. Chen Mo?¡± Chen Mo cleared his throat, ¡°Yep, it is I.¡± The person on the phone was speechless. After two seconds of silence, the person on the call replied, ¡°I am a representative of Emperor Dynasty Entertainment¡¯s advertising department, Xu Xiaojun. I¡¯m calling regarding the promotional spot.¡± ¡°Yep, that¡¯s great,¡± replied Chen Mo. Xu Xiaojun said, ¡°So Mr. Lin has already ordered that the ¡®This month¡¯s rmended¡¯ spot in the front page of the Emperor Dynasty gaming tform will be avable to you at any time. We¡¯ll advertise I Am MT for a month, anytime you want.¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°I appreciate your work efficiency, however... Who said I was going to promote I Am MT?¡± Xu Xiaojun was shocked, ¡°Huh?¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°At the time, I said ¡®Promote my game for a month for free¡¯. I didn¡¯t say I was promoting I Am MT.¡± Xu Xiaojun stayed silent for a bit, then replying, ¡°Could you rify?¡± ¡°Promote my next game. I¡¯ll let you know when I¡¯m done with it,¡± replied Chen Mo. Xu Xiaojun took another few moments to reply, ¡°I¡¯ll need to confirm this with Mr. Lin.¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Alright, I¡¯m not in a hurry.¡± Upon hearing their conversation, Su Jinyu and Jia Peng were shocked, but also could barely hold back theirughter. They could only imagine how difficult of a situation the other person from Emperor Dynasty Entertainment was put in after receiving the news. The manager isn¡¯t holding back at all! Can¡¯t you be more honest and less tricky? Chen Mo received a reply five minutester. Xiu Xiaojun said, ¡°Mr. Lin agreed. Then we¡¯ll use that spot for other games for now. When you¡¯ve developed your next game, let me know. Then we¡¯ll put your game onto the promotional spot instead.¡± Chen Mo replied, ¡°Alright! Thanks so much.¡± Xu Xiaojun replied, ¡°...No problem. Goodbye.¡± The line was cut before Chen Mo could even mutter the words ¡®Goodbye¡¯, and was left with the beeping of the dial tone. Jia Peng wasughing hysterically, ¡°Manager, you sure are brave. Aren¡¯t you afraid that they¡¯d poach you with five million RMB? Hahahaha!¡± Chen Mo said with a stern voice, ¡°What do you mean. Emperor Dynasty Entertainment is a proper, bigpany. They wouldn¡¯t do such a thing.¡± ¡°Besides, it¡¯s just five million, I can do that too!¡± Chapter 79 - Chapter 78: Picking Out a Writer

Chapter 79: Chapter 78: Picking Out a Writer

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Chen Mo added some more information on World of Azeroth. ¡°Moonde: One of the most unique ces in Kalimdor. The forest is untouched by corruption and maintains its initial purity and serenity, much different from other locations in Kalimdor. Moonde is a safezone as damaging to forest or creating confrontation will be met by the wrath of the druids. Moonde is often the location where the Alliance and Horde hold their meetings for treaties. The tauren often visit Moonde to learn the way of the druids from the elves. It didn¡¯t take long after the update was posted for discussion among the fans to start. ¡°Oh man, I didn¡¯t think I¡¯d live to see this. Chen Mo posted an update!¡± ¡°The previous post forgot to add: So far!¡± ¡°You think you¡¯d get away with posting dozens of words to keep us upied? Why don¡¯t you learn from the web novel writers who post tens of thousands of words everyday!¡± ¡°This just isn¡¯t enough!!!!!!!¡± ¡°Hey, are you not updating this because you¡¯ve made enough money?¡± ¡°When are you recreating Azeroth! Don¡¯t think you can satisfy us using a card game like I Am MT!¡± ¡°I¡¯m gonna send him another razor de, anyone with me?¡± ¡°Previous poster +1!¡± ¡°+2!¡± Chen Mo let out a faint smile and closed the website, aftermenting anonymously. As per usual, Chen Mo opened ¡°National Geographic Azeroth¡± to check for new posts. ¡°Hmm? A new artist[1]? Quite popr too.¡± Chen Mo noticed that there were a few recent threads that reached eight pages. The threat was titled :¡±Long Story creator[1]: Orgrimmar¡¯s orphan.¡± Chen Mo clicked on the thread and was met with a fanfic from the perspective of Orgrimmar¡¯s orphan, going through his growth and adventures as a Horde warrior. Of course, thetter was what Chen Mo guessed, as the story wasn¡¯t even at twenty thousand words so the story wasn¡¯t too developed. However, Chen Mo could tell that the author had a thing or two in writing. When the Chinese write western fantasy there would normally be two extremes, too locatised, or using english bastardization for everything. This novel had none of the problems. Moreover, the story was logical and the progression of the plot was well written. There were points that were left to be discovered down the line, and the foundation of the story seemed well established. No wonder it was so popr. The quality of this was much better than simr works that seemed to be done by highschoolers. ¡°This guy¡¯s pretty good,¡± eximed Chen Mo. In reality, Chen Mo also had the same thought when starting World of Azeroth. There was too much content in Azeroth, and if he was working alone, making a VR version of World of Warcraft might take a few years. It would wear him down super thin just writing quests and dialogue. Which is why Chen Mo wanted to make National Geographic Azeroth this early on, to gather the people who are interested in this lore, as the more talented artists and writers would be useful in the future. Otherwise it would be difficult and time consuming to hire someone that would meet his requirements. Just like in the previous world, the existence of I Am MT depended heavily on NGA. But Chen Mo didn¡¯t expect to pick one up so quickly. Chen Mo looked up the details of the author using their Thunderbolt Gaming game pass information, and got ahold of their phone number as they have it tied to their ount. Chen Mo gave the author a call. After a few moments, the person picked up, ¡°Hello?¡± Upon hearing it was a guy, Chen Mo was slightly disappointed. ¡°Hello, I¡¯m Chen Mo, the designer of I Am MT.¡± The person on the other side of the phone was shocked, eximing, ¡°Huh? Chen Mo? Really? Are you that Chen Mo? You¡¯re not a scammer right?¡± Chen Mo replied, ¡°I¡¯m probably not famous enough to have people pretending to be me right... I¡¯m the real Chen Mo, what¡¯s your name?¡± ¡°Oh, I¡¯m Zheng Hongxi or you can call me by my pen name, Phantom Light.¡± Chen Mo replied, ¡°... They¡¯re both quite difficult to remember.¡± Zheng Hongxi was speechless. Chen Mo asked, ¡°Well, do you have a job right now?¡± Zheng Hongxi said, ¡°Nope, I just quit my job, and am currently looking for one. Since I don¡¯t have much to do, and the World of Azeroth seemed quite interesting. So I wrote a bunch of stuff out of boredom.¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°Hmm, are you interested in working in the Imperial Capital?¡± Zheng Hongxi asked, ¡°Huh? Can I work in Thunderbolt Entertainment?¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°Yep, I¡¯m quite interested in your work. How about this, where are you living right now?¡± ¡°Uhh, Magic City.¡± ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll pay for your tickets for the train as well as your amodation. Would you like toe over to the Imperial Capital, and we¡¯ll talk more in person. And if you could, bring along your past works too,¡± said Chen Mo Zhen Hongxi replied, ¡°Sure! Well, I¡¯ll be packing then, be there in two days!¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Sure, I¡¯ll send you an address, just head right this way when you get here.¡± After ending the call, Chen Mo sent the address of the experience store to Zheng Hongxi. ¡°If this guy works out, all that¡¯s left is someone to deal with number bncing.¡± After releasing I Am MT, Chen Mo now had a stable source of ie, and had the capital to make arger scaled game. However, Chen Mo¡¯s current goal was still to grow his yerbase. When the yer base is sufficiently big, his firstrge scale game could be released with less problems. During this time, Chen Mo still needed to hire two employees, one in charge of story writing, the other for bncing. Of course Chen Mo could do all of it, but it would be too time consuming. Moreover, there are many repetitive jobs in these areas, and it wasn¡¯t too fulfilling to do those things again and again. There was no way Chen Mo would attemptrger scale games before hiring reliable writers and bncers. It could take ages without them, not to mention it would be a hassle juggling between all the aspects as well as the potential for poor quality. In Chen Mo¡¯s eyes, Zheng Hongxi had a good foundation, and would have good potential with some training. At this moment, Chen Mo¡¯s phone rang. Chen Mo was speechless. What was going on, there have been so many phone calls recently. He couldn¡¯t help but feel uneasy. Chen Mo proceeded to pick up the phone, ¡°Hello?¡± ¡°Hello, Is this Mr. Chen Mo?¡± replied a voice of a woman ¡°Yes, who is this?¡± replied Chen Mo. The woman replied, ¡°I¡¯m Han Lu, a journalist from ¡¯s gaming channel. I¡¯d like to arrange an interview, would you be interested?¡± Chen Mo was shocked, ¡°Huh? Interview?¡± Han Lu replied, ¡°Yep, our editor in chief thinks that I Am MT was quite sessful and is quite topical. Which is why we would like to have an interview. It wouldn¡¯t take up too much time, an hour or two at most. I¡¯d like to talk about the thought process during the designing phase of the game.¡± Chen Mo replied after a few moments of thinking. ¡°Sure, no problem.¡± Han Lu said, ¡°Alright, are you free tomorrow morning? I nned to meet you in your experience store.¡± ¡°I¡¯m free.¡± Han Lu replied, ¡°Sure, then we¡¯ll meet tomorrow morning then. Be there or be square!¡± After hanging up, Chen Mo was in shock. An interview? Have I be someone with that much clout? TL note:[1] The word used here was doujin, which means self-published works (but in english ismonly used to refer to H-manga) Chapter 80 - Creating Happiness Mindfully

Chapter 80: Chapter 79: Creating Happiness Mindfully

¨CThe next day.¨C Han Lu got to the experience store on time. She seemed quitedylike, and from the looks of it, she might only be in her mid-twenties. ¡°Nice to meet you Mr. Chen Mo.¡± Han Lu reached out to shake hands with Chen Mo. ¡°Let¡¯s go somewhere a bit more quiet.¡± Chen Mo said as he brought her to his office in the second floor. As the two of them walked up the second floor, Su Jinyu, Jia Peng and the others stared at them as they disappeared upstairs. ¡°Who¡¯s that chick?¡± asked Jia Peng. Su Jinyu replied, ¡°I think its a journalist from a video game media who¡¯s here to interview the manager.¡± Jia Peng was shocked, ¡°Interview him? Oh my, has the manager managed to gain that much clout?¡± Everyone was shocked, ¡°Oh geez, is the manager going to be hugely popr?¡± ¨CInside the office.¨C Chen Mo poured Han Lu a ss of water as the two of them sat on the sofa. ¡°You¡¯re probably quite busy recently, thanks for taking time out for this interview,¡± said Han Lu. Chen Mo shook his head, ¡°I¡¯m not really that busy, I¡¯ve been taking a break recently.¡± Han Lu cleared her throat and said, ¡°Umm, yeah. Alright.¡± This person doesn¡¯t know how to carry on conversations! Han Lu was already struggling in the first exchanges. Chen Mo reassured her, ¡°Don¡¯t be nervous, we¡¯re just chatting here.¡± Han Lu was speechless, are you who¡¯s interviewing who here! ¡°Alright, where should we start...¡± said Han Lu after some thought. ¡°Maybe from I Am MT. We call know that the game produced very good results, raking in twenty three million in revenue in the first month. And from this, your name is now very well known in the industry. Well, when you were in the initial nning stages of the game, did you expect it to be so profitable?¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Yep, I knew.¡± Han Lu was visibly confused. This waspletely different from expectations. Normally when videogame designers are met with this quetion, they would usually say something along the lines of: ¡°I never expected that¡±. Mainly because the videogame industry was full of unpredictability, and nobody can be sure that their game will be massively popr. But Chen Mo straight up said that he knew I Am MT would be this profitable? He must be telling tall tales! After facing such difficulties in the first question, Han Lu felt a headacheing. She could already tell that Chen Mo¡¯s brain functions differently from the average Joe. ¡°Well, could you talk about how you knew? Or perhaps, how were you so confident in the game?¡± This second question was made up on the spot, and she could finally breathe a sigh of relief afterwards. She gave herself a ten out of ten as a professional journalist to be able to deal with problems like that on the spot. Chen Mo said, ¡°Actually, my motto for designing games is ¡°Creating happiness mindfully¡±. Being able to make a good game stems from three different aspects. ¡°First, my passion for videogames. ¡°Second, my sincerity towards yers. ¡°Third, mymitment to my dream. ¡°If I had to add something else, it might be a little bit of luck. ¡°Which is why I thought that the game would be popr. Han Lu widened her eyes in shock. She couldn¡¯t believe that these words wereing out of his mouth. Is this a joke? Passion? Sincerity? Commitment? Are these words said by the creator of I Am MT? This were all empty talk. If all you need was passion, sincerity andmitment to make a good game, wouldn¡¯t this world be filled to the brim with good games? Moreover, Han Lu had done her homework. She¡¯s yed I Am MT, and this game had nothing to do with passion, sincerity andmitment! Passion by extorting money from fans, and sincerity by scamming them?! Han Lu felt that there was a big obstacle in front of her upon seeing this seemingly serious Chen Mo thering on about his morals. This was directly from Chen Mo¡¯s mouth. Does she write about this? If she didn¡¯t write about this, how would she finish the article? If she did, who would believe her? It felt that if she did release this, the viewers might question the intelligence of the editor as well as the journalist! Han Lu rubbed her temple to try and regain herposure, ¡°Alright, let¡¯s have a change of pace. What do you think about I Am MT¡¯s rating of 7 on the official appstore?¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°About that, I think it¡¯s quite normal. As the game is free to y, it not surpising that mypetitors might be behind all the bad reviews. It doesn¡¯t take much to download the game and give it a one star review. ¡°I feel so heartbroken when I think about it. I¡¯ve worked so hard to make a nice, free game, yet I still have to deal with this sabotage from mypetitors. This was a game that would have a score of nine or above, but its now hovering around seven. I mean, this makes me extremely heartbroken! ¡°I think the official appstore should put a stop to this, and give justice to I Am MT!¡± Han Lu was once again struggle to get wrods out of her mouth. Was that saborage bypetitors? It was clearly bad reviews from yers! Does Chen Mo not know? He can¡¯t not know! He¡¯s tantly telling lies! Han Lu rested her hand on her forehead. She nned to have an in depth story with a hot topic, but because of the curveballs Chen Mo had been throwing, her ns werepletely foiled! ¡°Well, there are rumours that there¡¯s a card called ¡®Elder Sister¡¯ in I Am MT which costs two thousand RMB. Many yers have expressed how much this affects the fairness of the game. What do you think about that?¡± said Han Lu after some thought. Chen Mo replied, ¡°Oh, about rare cards. I think its just like collecting stamps, do you know about collecting stamps? There are thousands and thousands of stamps right? I Am MT also has some parallels with collecting. In order to collect all the cards, some yers are willing to spend money to do that. I think this is because they approve of the game. ¡°That means you don¡¯t think at all that I Am MT is an unfair game then?¡± asked Han Lu. Chen Mo shooked his head, ¡°I don¡¯t think the question was well asked. You see, there isn¡¯t a truly fair game in this world right? Some games, you¡¯re better at it in you spend more time, or if you have good skills you¡¯re better, or sometimes if you¡¯re lucky you¡¯re better, or sometimes if you meet the right people you¡¯re better... Games are a small little universe in itself, and its difficult for it to be truly fair from one human to another. Therefore, yes, I think that I Am MT is not a fair game.¡± ¡°Uhh¡± Han Lu was shocked, entraced by Chen Mo¡¯s roundabout logic,pletely forgetting her follow-up question. After spending two minutes on the topic and not getting anywhere, Han Lu referred to her notebook to decide on the next topic. ¡°I¡¯ve done a bit of homework before I got here. What shocked me was how much yers were spending in game. Professionals have estimated that up to ten percent of the yerbase are paying yers, and these yers would pay on average two hundred RMB. ¡°Normal games would charge once to be able to y the game, and that would be in the ball park of ten to fifty RMB. However, I Am MT yers are spending up to two hundred RMB. Why is that? How is the game able to attract yers to spend so much? Chapter 81 - Chapter 80: Telling Tall Tales

Chapter 81: Chapter 80: Telling Tall Tales

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Chen Mo said, ¡°About that, you know that I Am MT ispletely free right? You can continue ying without spending a single cent, all the way until the game goes down, right?¡± Han Lu nodded after some thought. ¡°It¡¯s a free game, so why would the yers spend so much money? In reality, I¡¯m a transmigrator, I can control the minds of the yers using this game, making them spend money in the gamepletely willingly.¡± Han Lu was visibly confused. The atmosphere was very thick. Chen Mo broke the silence with augh, ¡°Sorry, that joke was a bit too dry.¡± Han Lu wiped the sweat of her forehead, ¡°Don¡¯t worry, you were a bit too serious when you delivered the joke, so I thought you were being serious.¡± ¡°Obviously I cannot be a transmigrator, nor can I control the minds of the yers right? Therefore there can only be one reason why the yers spend so much money. ¡°That¡¯s because they discovered their passion for the game. They felt the sincerity I was trying tomunicate through the game, which is why they are so willing to pay for in-app purchases in order to support me. I hope I can make more, better games in the future. ¡°Therefore, I will never forget the love given to me from the fans and I will not becent with this for a single moment. I will make more better games in the future to repay all the love from the fans.¡± The corner of Han Lu¡¯s mouth twitched upon hearing that, ¡°Right, if I remember correctly, you stated that you were taking a break at the start of the interview?¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°That¡¯s right, but I will always remember the love from the fans in my heart. Han Lu was starting to go crazy. It¡¯s crazy how this person can remain so im telling all these tall tales! It feels like that nothing productive cane from this! But since she was already here, Han Lu didn¡¯t have any other choice but to continue on. ¡°In order to hype up I Am MT, you invested some money into making the animated series by the same name, and even introduced a website ¡®World of Azeroth¡¯ to introduce the fans to the rich world. ¡°However, there wasn¡¯t much of the aforementioned content in the game. Was this because of the limitations from the type of game it was? Or did you n to use the world view just to draw in the interest of the yers.¡± ¡°That¡¯s a secret,¡± said Chen Mo, ¡°You guys will have to wait and see.¡± ¡°That means that you have ns to continue exploring all that Azeroth has to offer?¡± asked Han Lu. Chen Mo replied, ¡°I didn¡¯t guarantee that. I said it¡¯s a secret that everybody can look forward to.¡± ¡ª The interview hadsted almost two hours. At the end of it Han Lu felt that her thoughts werepletely muddled. Luckily she recorded the entire conversation in addition to making quick notes. Feeling that there was nothing else to be gained, Han Lu decided to leave. ¡°Thanks for giving up your time,¡± said Han Lu. Chen Mo waved his hand, ¡°Don¡¯t worry about it. Thanks for helping my thoughts reach the fans, allowing them to feel my passion towards games as well as my sincerity to them.¡± Han Lu could only manage a ¡°Good bye¡± after that. Han Lu felt dizzy as she left Chen Mo¡¯s experience store. What was going on, feels like I was hustled... Before she got here, the editor-in-chief repeatedly reminded Han Lu to reveal the secrets behind I Am MT, such as secret techniques to profiting from a free game, or Chen Mo¡¯s creativity. These were points that would attract the attention of many. Even if she couldn¡¯t reveal these secrets, it would be best to understand Chen Mo¡¯s true intent, such as he doesn¡¯t really care about the yers, only about money, or he¡¯s manipting the desires of the yers to reach the top. With information like these it could also use it to generate hype. In the end, Han Lu realised that she didn¡¯tplete any of the requests she was assigned. Secret behind I Am MT? Not a tiny bit! Chen Mo¡¯s real thoughts? Nothing! That guy was basically making stuff up. Passion towards games? Sincerity towards yers? Commitment to dreams? He¡¯s not even phased telling those tall tales! Han Lu was even starting to suspect if Chen Mo was mentally ill! ¡°Whatever, I can only report ording to what Chen Mo said...¡± Han Lu got a headache from looking at her notes she made during the interview. This would probably be her most difficult article since the start of the career... Upon seeing the silhouette of Han Lu leaving, Chen Moughed. Trying to get me to reveal something? You¡¯re too naive. Why would I tell you the secrets of I Am MT¡¯s profitability? If Chen Mo really exposed his secrets and the interview was released, wouldn¡¯t that provide a lesson for all video game designers on how to get yers to spend money? Of course, Chen Mo knew that even if he didn¡¯t reveal it, the video game designers of this world would eventually discover his secrets. It wouldn¡¯t be surprising if this saw a surge in card games like his previous world. However, Chen Mo didn¡¯t mind. Even if these people were able to figure out the strategy of card games, it would at least take a couple months. By that time, Chen Mo wouldn¡¯t bat an eye at low quality cardgames like these. ¡ª Three dayster, Chen Mo¡¯s interview was finally released on the gaming channel in . The title was ¡°Interviewing I Am MT¡¯s designer, Chen Mo: Creating Happiness Mindfully.¡± There was a paragraph in the interview as such: ¡°When the interviewer asked why he had so much confidence in this game? Chen Mo replied :¡±my motto for designing games is ¡°Creating happiness mindfully¡±. Being able to make a good game stems my passion for video games, my sincerity towards yers, and mymitment to my dream.¡± There were many other paragraphs of simr nature. Han Lu basically reported Chen Mo¡¯s answers faithfully. This interview did get a lot of attention, but not the way Han Lu expected. Many yers were leavingments upon reading this interview. ¡°There¡¯s nothing that man says that is remotely believable!¡± ¡°Creating happiness mindfully? More like creating happiness from money!¡± ¡°I thought he was a nice guy when he created nts vs Zombies, but now I know his true nature! He¡¯s a fraud!¡± ¡°This is too funny. Who conducted this interview? Are the editor and interviewer stupid?¡± ¡°I would¡¯ve been fine with Chen Mo telling his tales, but the editor writing down everything and publishing it is too much for me!¡± ¡°I almost thought I was watching the news...¡± ¡°I¡¯m tearing up from how much I wasughing. It¡¯s not April fools today right?¡± ¡°Chen Mo creating happiness mindfully? This will be the best joke of the year.¡± ¡°I really underestimated how ridiculous this guy is!¡± Chapter 82 - Chapter 81: Interview

Chapter 82: Chapter 81: Interview

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales ¡°That¡¯s because they discovered their passion for the game. They felt the sincerity I was trying tomunicate through the game, which is why they are so willing to pay for in-app purchases in order to support me. I hope I can make more, better games in the future. Therefore, I will never forget the love given to me from the fans and I will not becent with this for a single moment. I will make more better games in the future to repay all the love from the fans.¡± Wen Lingwei read out Chen Mo¡¯s interview inside the experience store. ¡°I can¡¯t believe I¡¯m seeing this,¡± eximed Su Jinyu. Jia Peng said, ¡°Manager, aren¡¯t the fans going to kill you for this?¡± Wen Lingwei said, ¡°Maybe you shoulde to the university for a few days until it cools off. ¡°What¡¯s wrong? Isn¡¯t it quite well written? Just take a look, every single word they released represents my true feelings towards the fans,¡± said Chen Mo. ¡°Manager, aren¡¯t you afraid of being struck by lightning if you continue talking like that?¡± asked Su Jinyu. ¡°Manager, do you have a lightning rod for this building?¡± asked Jia Peng. ¡°Alright, that¡¯s enough guys. I have an interview today, don¡¯t scare the interviewee away,¡± said Chen Mo. Jia Peng asked, ¡°Interview? You¡¯re hiring?¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Yep, I might still need to hire a story writer and a numbers person. Otherwise, it¡¯s going to be difficult to makerger games. Goldfish and I won¡¯t be able to do everything by overselves.¡± ¡°Tsk, does that mean there¡¯s going to be another cute girl soon?¡± questioned Wen Lingwei. ¡°Really?¡± Jia Peng¡¯s interest was piqued. ¡°What are you guys thinking about? It¡¯s a guy,¡± exined Chen Mo. Wen Lingwei said, ¡°A guy? What¡¯s the point of hiring a guy? Get him out of here.¡± Chen Mo was speechless, ¡°Do you guys n to turn my experience store into a women only ce?¡± Wen Lingwei rolled her eyes, ¡°Don¡¯t tell me that wasn¡¯t what you were nning.¡± ¡°...Whatever, I¡¯m calling it quits. The interviewee should be here soon, ¡± said Chen Mo. Not long after, Zheng Hongxi arrived. He looked quite young. He was tall and skinny, and looked like the quiet, polite type. Chen Mo shook his hand and brought him to the meeting room. ¡°Yep, I¡¯ve changed my mind, his handsome guy isn¡¯t half bad,¡± said Wen Lingwei to Su Jinyu. ¡°Can you get yourself together? It still depends if he matches the requirements of the manager right?¡± said Su Jinyu. ¡ªInside the meeting room.¡ª Chen Mo poured Zheng Hongxi a ss of water, ¡°This isn¡¯t somergepany, so the interview will be more like a chat, don¡¯t be nervous.¡± Zheng Hongxi nodded, ¡°Yeah, I¡¯m not nervous. But I¡¯m kinda surprised, you¡¯re much younger than I thought.¡± Chen Moughed, ¡°It¡¯s been a year or so since I graduated from university.¡± Zheng Hongxi replied, ¡°Then you¡¯ve graduated a year before I did. It hasn¡¯t even been a year since I graduated.¡± Chen Mo had already looked over Zheng Hongxi¡¯s resume. Zheng Hongxi, twenty-four years old. Recently graduated from a certain university from Magic City innguages. Worked in a mediapany after he graduated and quit because he didn¡¯t like the job. Wants to switch careers, but still haven¡¯t fully made up their mind. Chen Mo briefly looked over his previous work as well. Most of them were short stories. Other than western fantasy, he had dealt with Wuxia, Xianxia as well as eastern fantasy. Although they weren¡¯t particrly outstanding, the writing as well as the story logics were good enough. Most importantly no matter what themes they were, there wasn¡¯t anythingpletely out of line which Chen Mo was particrly satisfied with. Chen Mo asked, ¡°Have you nned which career path you are going for?¡± Zheng Hongxi said, ¡°I haven¡¯t fully thought it through. I personally don¡¯t like the interpersonal rtionships in traditional workces. I¡¯ve thought about writing FreeWebNovels full time, but it¡¯s still too unstable tomit, it would give my family more pressure too.¡± ¡°Have you thought about making games?¡± asked Chen Mo. ¡°I¡¯ve thought about it, but from what I can tell, Chinese games don¡¯t put too much effort into the story, whereas my interest is in the story.¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Alright. So I¡¯ve prepared a test, so just answer these however you like.¡± As Chen Mo finished his sentence, he took out a set of questions he printed out beforehand. Zheng Hongxi had a look. There were just five questions. The first was designing the story and two jobs for an MMORPG Wuxia game, exining the features of the jobs. Second was to give the names and descriptions of five Three Kingdoms equipment, frommon to rare equipment. The third question was based on the World of Azeroth, asking for a brief description of the rtionship between Draenor and Azeroth. The fourth question was to pick a small event from the World of Azeroth and briefly outline a quest line for it. The fifth was to write aplete quest line, including the dialogue between the NPC and the yer. The synopsis of the quest is as followed: ¡°Fordring wants you to find him Tan¡¯s hammer.¡± Design the characters ording to the settings of World of Azeroth. Changes can be made if the characters were remastered as well. Chen Mo said, ¡°Don¡¯t worry, take your time. One hour should be more than enough.¡± Zheng Hongxi nodded, ¡°Yep, that¡¯s enough.¡± ¡°Let me know when you¡¯re done,¡± said Chen Mo as he left the meeting room. As Chen Mo walked out, everyone was whispering, ¡°How did it go, manager.¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°Feels alright. I gave him a few questions to test his skills. If there isn¡¯t anything major from that it should be OK.¡± Su Jinyu asked, ¡°Hmm? What kind of questions.¡± ¡°Do you guys want to do it too? I¡¯m afraid that you guys won¡¯t be able to take it,¡± replied Chen Mo. Wen Lingwei said, ¡°Goldfish is a monster in school, you¡¯re underestimating her.¡± ¡°Alright, you can try it too if you like. Just do whichever ones you¡¯re interested in.¡± As Chen Mo finished, he brought up the questions on Su Jinyu¡¯sputer. Upon reading the questions, everyone silently walked away before attempting it. Su Jinyu looked at Chen Mo with a surprised look on her face, ¡°What is this, manager. Aren¡¯t these too hard? You might be able to make up some stuff for the first two questions, but what are the ones after?¡± ¡°Of course you find it hard, you don¡¯t usually pay attention to these things anyways. Alright, now everyone go home, clearly you guys aren¡¯t suited for the role of a writer.¡± ¡°Can we have a moment of silence for the story bro,¡± said Wen Lingwei. Su Jinyu said, ¡°We don¡¯t have to be that negative, what if he managed to answer them?¡± The questions Chen Mo decided on were actually on the easy side as he only nned to test some basic qualities of a writer. Equipment names, equipment descriptions, world setting, jobs, quest line, quest dialogue were all in the job description of a writer. As a writer, a big part of it is to package the game well, allowing the yer to feel that the world they are ying in is aplete world. It should at the very least not leave a bad taste, affecting the quality of the gamey. More advanced writing skills would include tying in the setting of the world with the scenes to make the setting and the gamey as one cohesive entity, possibly even driving yers to feel certain emotions through special missions. Chen Mo only asked the first point of Zheng Hongxi for now, thetter points can be learnt at ater point. Chapter 83 - Chapter 82: Userbase

Chapter 83: Chapter 82: Userbase

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Zheng Hongxi finished the questions in about half an hour. Chen Mo was pretty happy with the results. First question, Zheng Hongxi decided to have two different camps ¨C Gods and Demons, with different martial arts separating them further. The two sses requested were monks and priests. One would be a tanky ss, the other would be a caster ss. Zheng Hongxi jotten down a few weapons such as Ringed de, Scimitar, and Green Dragon Crescent de. and sorted them ording to their rarity. The next three questions were relevant to the World of Azeroth. As Zheng Hongxi was quite familiar with Azeroth, there were rtively more being written. Take the fifth question for example, where Chen Mo intentionally omitted much of the information. Tirion Fordring was a key character in the lore of World of Warcraft, and his son Tan was a member of the Scarlet Crusade. This questline yed a key role in the ¡®Love and Family¡¯ chapter in the gunds. It was because of Tan¡¯s death that Tirion Fordring decided to restart the order of the Silver Hand, eventually ying a huge role in leading the charge to beating the Scourge. Chen Mo hadn¡¯t given that much detail on ¡°World of Azeroth ¡±, only vaguely going over the rtionship between Tirion Fordring and his son Tan. Although Zheng Hongxi¡¯s reimagination of the story was far off from the original, it was still eptable. Chen Mo was still quite satisfied after looking at the whole thing. ¡°Alright, not bad. Let¡¯s talk about your sry. How much were you earning in your previouspany?¡± asked Chen Mo. ¡°Six thousand.¡± ¡°How about this, I¡¯ll give you eight thousand a month, with a month of trialing. If there isn¡¯t much development going on, you¡¯ll work Monday to Friday ten to seven. Otherwise, you¡¯ll work OT on Saturdays, is that alright?¡± said Chen Mo after some thought. Zheng Hongxi was very happy, ¡°Yeah that¡¯s great! What will I be mainly working on?¡± ¡°Mainly the story stuff, such as the main story, quest lines, equipment descriptions. Maybe designing entire worlds in the future, and possibly having you responsible for some story driven games,¡± replied Chen Mo. Zheng Hongxi agreed, ¡°Sure.¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°Alright, we¡¯ll do the contracts in a bit. You can take this time to go back to the Magic City to pack your stuff. Are you alright to start working in a week?¡± ¡°Sure, I don¡¯t really have many things back home anyways, shouldn¡¯t take too long,¡± said Zheng Hongxi. ¡ª After sending off Zheng Hongxi, Chen Mo returned to the experience store. Wen Lingwei said, ¡°So, did you manage to acquire your second partner? I¡¯m getting the feeling that the stubborn manager no longer wants to do this alone.¡± ¡°Manager, the weekend is around the corner, you said you were taking a week¡¯s break before working on the next game,¡± reminded Su Jinyu. Chen Mo was speechless, ¡°Why are you in such a hurry? You¡¯re not taking a good rest if you¡¯re thinking of work all the time.¡± Su Jinyu replied, ¡°Manager, how could you be such a salted fish?¡± ¡°Alright, alright. Just hold on, I¡¯ll send you a mindmap tomorrow, this time you¡¯ll do everything by yourself,¡± said Chen Mo. Su Jinyu was shocked, ¡°Huh? I¡¯m doing everything? Can I do it?¡± Chen Mo reassured Su Jinyu, ¡°Don¡¯t worry, you can do it. This game is very simple, if you can¡¯t do it, I might need to hire a new assistant.¡± Su Jinyu was speechless. ¡°What about you manager? I think you said that you¡¯ll be working on a new game yourself too right?¡± asked Su Jinyu. Chen Mo nodded, ¡°That¡¯s right, I¡¯m also doing one myself. You¡¯ll know about it when it¡¯s time.¡± ¡°Manager, please don¡¯t make a game that relies on luck, I can¡¯t handle that anymore!¡± pleaded Jia Peng. ¡°Oh, this game would probably be the most luck relient game ever made. Sorry about that,¡± apologised Chen Mo. ¡°... You guys go ahead, I¡¯ll be leaving.¡± Jia Peng said coldly.¡± ¡°Tsk tsk. So the manager ns to make another money scamming game?¡± questioned Wen Lingwei. Chen Mo shook his head, ¡°I¡¯m not scamming money this time. I told you I¡¯m trying to work back some good karma to avoid an early death. It¡¯ll be a very fair game this time.¡± A visibly excited Jia Peng shouted, ¡°A very fair game?!¡± Wen Lingwei refused to believe that. ¡°Moreover, you guys have probably yed it, even if you haven¡¯t you¡¯ve probably at least heard of it,¡± said Chen Mo. ¡°What is it?¡± Jia Peng dying to know. ¡°Alright, you guys will know when the timees, I¡¯ll be working on the mind map for the design document,¡± Chen Mo said asserting himself. As Chen Mo finished his sentence, he went back upstairs to his office. ¡ª Ignoring the sounds of some angry fans, I Am MT was doing quite well. The specifications for Chinese card games were well thought out, everything the yer does will be checked against the server, making it difficult for yers to cheat or tamper with in-game data. Moreover, these types of games were usually quite long term as mechanics such as acquiring cards and the difficulty of levels were nned and bnced extensively. It was even possible to calcte the time it would take for yers to reach theter stages of the game. Chen Mo wouldn¡¯t have to make any changes to I Am MT for at least two months. He will have to release a few new cards and introduce mechanics here and there. These things wouldn¡¯t take much time and could be done by setting aside a few hours. As for even further into the future... It¡¯s just a card game after all, and Chen Mo didn¡¯t n to live off it the rest of his life. When he¡¯s made enough money from it, he¡¯ll move on to the next game. Chen Mo only received 12.8 million out of the 23 million from I Am MT in the first month. This was already quite already as Chen Mo didn¡¯t have any other tform to publish his games on. The official app store only took twenty percent, other tforms such as Emperor Dynasty gaming tform or Fantasy Gaming tform took varying cuts, up to eighty or ny percent, leaving only ten to twenty percent to the videogame designer. Moreover, this was only the first month, as the yers increased over the next two or three months, the monthly revenue could increase too. As I Am MT is an online game, its profitability is naturally better than paid games. Because of how profitable I Am MT was, Chen Mo didn¡¯t even need to worry about needing the animation to make a profit. It was also quite difficult to have to find sponsors for animations, not to mention thanking said sponsors, so the profitability doesn¡¯te close to the game. Therefore Chen Mo had no expectation on the profitability of the animated series, nor did he worry about that, only using it for publicity. Now that he had the money to do so, he could do a few more draws to increase his attributes to the next level. Within Chen Mo¡¯s ns, nts vs Zombies was to get his feet off the ground, I Am MT was to bring in money, the next game would have to deal with the problem of bringing in yers. When all these preparations are done, he can finally make a game that would represent him and hispany. However, some nning was required to solve the problem of bringing in yers. Did Chen Mo have yers? Yes, but also no. There were many yers from nts vs Zombies and I Am MT. Although these yers had Thunderbolt Gaming game passes, they weren¡¯t considered Chen Mo¡¯s yers. Chapter 84 - Chapter 83 Differentiating Oneself

Chapter 84: Chapter 83 Differentiating Oneself

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Take Emperor Dynasty Entertainment for example, Emperor Dynasty gaming tform had tens of millions of active users a month, and times would reach more than two million concurrent active users. If these yers wanted to y a game by Emperor Dynasty Entertainment, they¡¯d have to log into Emperor Dynasty gaming tform, and naturally would see the other games promoted on the tform. There were many yers who only yed games by Emperor Dynasty Entertainment, rarely hesitating when buying games or in-app purchases. Chen Mo did have yers like these, but the number was just too low. Most of the yers wouldn¡¯t care about Chen Mo¡¯s next game, and it would be even more unlikely for them to buy or y a game because it was ¡®Chen Mo¡¯s work¡¯. Deep down, Chen Mo knew that he couldn¡¯t just make games, and would eventually have to work on his own distribution channels. In fact Chen Mo would eventually have to make his own gaming tform to gather all his games. Moreover, many games require a huge yer base to be able to profit. Chen Mo currently had two goals in mind, developing ¡®Thunderbolt gaming tform¡¯, notifying those who own the Thunderbolt game pass about said tform, and get yers from other tforms to join this tform. Just like blizzard, Tencent¡¯s TGP, and Wechat games from his previous life. Gathering all their yers in once ce to be able to better promote their games and allow the differentmunities to mingle. However, it wasn¡¯t enough for Chen Mo to make the Thunderbolt gaming tform as the tform would only have ppy Bird, nts vs Zombies, and I Am MT. It was too in no matter how you looked at it. Of course Chen Mo could make deals with otherpanies to get them to put their games onto Thunderbolt gaming tform in order to bulk up the game library. But Chen Mo didn¡¯t favour those games, and thepanies didn¡¯t favour Chen Mo¡¯s new tform either. No amount of discussion could amount to anything. By releasing two games at once, he would be able to boost the games he would have in the library, as well as increase his yerbase. Chen Mo opened the design document, writing down the title: ¡°Thunderbolt Tabletop¡±. ¡ª What games in China had thergest yer base? Cardgames? RPGs? Shooter games? Nope. Tabletop games were the most popr. In his previous life, Tencent Tabletop had more than a shocking two hundred and forty million users, one in five of them were ying tabletop games. Chen Mo wanted to make tabletop games so he could utilize the promotional spot from Emperor Dynasty Entertainment as well as the inherent quality of tabletop games to draw in more yers to Thunderbolt game pass, setting the foundation to future works. Chen Mo had nned this from the start, and would be the best use of the promotional spot from the previous bet. However, Chen Mo hadn¡¯t made his mind on how to tackle tabletop games. There were too many tabletop games, such as Dou Dizhu, mahjong, chinese chess, and Go. These were all under tabletop games. But wanting to do all of them wasn¡¯t realistic nor was it ideal, so he had to pick and choose. This world did have tabletop games. Emperor Dynasty Entertainment and Fantasy Gaming tform both had their own tabletop games featuring a good amount of yers. Chen Mo was thinking about how to differentiate himself, otherwise he would have no chance in making a dent in the tabletop yerbase of these twopanies. Chen Mo looked over the tabletop games on the market in the past few days as market research. Popr games in his previous life such as Dou Dizhu or Mahjong were quite popr in this world as well, and were essentially identical in ystyle. Chen Mo could make improvements in the user interface or in the rules, but these would only be improvements and wouldn¡¯t be enough to take yers off the other tforms. It must be obviously different from the other tabletop games. Even though they are all tabletop games, they all have very different ystyles. Dou Dizhu and Mahjong are examples of games that are popr regardless of age, with huge yerbases. Games like Chinese chess or Go would also have a decent amount of yers, but would have no chance at making money. Games simr to bridge would have even less yers. If Chen Mo wanted to make tabletop games while drawing in yers to his tform, Dou Dizhu and Mahjong would both be essential. However, from Chen Mo¡¯s research, otherpanies that focused on tabletop games did Dou Dizhu and Mahjong as well. They even included regional rules, such as using Jokers in Dou Dizhu, or Blood Mahjong. Chen Mo thought of three improvements so far, first would be assistance provided to newer yers such as tutorials, daily quests, special quests, and daily credits. Many of the other games didn¡¯t touch this point or did them horrible, so Chen Mo could spend some time to improve this. Second would be tournaments. There were very few tournaments for tabletop games in this world, and were mostly public lobbies. Chen Mo felt that tournaments would be a nice gimmick. Third was an equipment shop and VIP systems. There were only but a few games using a credit system. Improvements could include emojis, profile pictures, clothes, or even use credits to exchange for real life gifts. However, these were far from enough. The new yer system might make it easier to acquire yers and slightly increase yer retention, store and VIP system might improve the revenue by a bit, and a tournament mode would be a differentiating point, separating itself from the other games on the market. For tabletop games, these weren¡¯t enough to switch arge number of yers over. Therefore in order to break the loyalty the yers have towards their old tform, Chen Mo needed to find something big, something that the other tabletop games didn¡¯t have. Chen Mo started searching for games in the previous world that weren¡¯t present in this one. Dou Dizhu? Sheng ji? Golden Flower? Seven Joker Five Two Three?... There weren¡¯t many differentiating points, the more popr ones were overdone, and the less popr ones had a small yer base, failing to achieve the original objective of growing a yerbase. Chen Mo was depressed. Why did the two worlds have to be so simr in tabletop games? No way, I¡¯ll keep searching, there must be something! Hong Kong style Mahjong? Szechuan Mahjong? International Mahjong? No! Chen Mo felt funny, he felt that there must be something that was present in his previous world but not in this one. What was it? Chapter 85 - Chapter 84 Poker This World was Missing

Chapter 85: Chapter 84 Poker This World was Missing

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Chen Mo was looking around on the inte, and an idea came out of nowhere. ¡°Right, I don¡¯t think they have Texas hold ¡¯em! ¡°But how could there not be Texas hold ¡¯em? This doesn¡¯t make sense!¡± Chen Mo had been thinking long about what game was missing. But turns out that this world doesn¡¯t have Texas hold ¡¯em? That¡¯s nonsense! Chem Mo continued sourcing the web, even overseas ones, and concluded that there really wasn¡¯t Texas hold ¡¯em in this world! ¡°Indeed, I knew that something was missing, turns out that was Texas hold ¡¯em! ¡°Alright, Thunderbolt Tabletop¡¯sst puzzle piece has been found.¡± Chen Mo even got a bit emotional upon finishing the tabletop games library. ¡ª Texas hold ¡¯em weren¡¯t considered popr in China. In terms of users, it wasn¡¯t on the same level as Dou Dizhu, or mahjong. It wasn¡¯t as well known either. However, Texas hold ¡®me was quite popr in certainmunities, and they have even gotten quite in depth. IT circles, pioneeringmunities, adventure capitalists, CEOs all favoured Texas hold ¡¯em. Kai-Fu Lee, Liu Chuanzhi, Jack Ma and many others were all poker fnatics. Texas hold ¡¯em was also a global phenomena, especially in the US. If someone said they yed poker, they most likely are referring to Texas hold ¡¯em. The poker tournaments by World Series of Poker would reach ten million USD at times. There was once a chef from Sweden who got first ce and became a millionaire in a night. There are many who can¡¯t understand the mysterious power that Texas hold ¡¯em? If asked to use one sentence to summarise the difference between Texas hold ¡¯em to other variations of poker, that would be: ¡°Texas hold ¡¯em is a type of poker where someone could make money reliably.¡± It may sound unreal, but that was the truth. Other tabletop games such as Dou Dizhu, Mahjong, or Golden Flower had strong ties to gambling. Skill was important, but luck was even more important. A professional Dou Dizhu or Mahjong yer would rely heavily on luck to put food on their te, and that wouldn¡¯t be too different from just gambling. And one of the key points in gambling was that ying longer guaranteed losses, and nobody could reliably make money from it. But Texas hold ¡¯em was a game that one could reliably profit from. If you are always losing in Texas hold ¡¯em, that could only mean one thing: You¡¯re terrible at the game. Outside of China, there are many professional Texas hold ¡¯em yers, such as Phil Ivey who have been champion twenty four times in many different tournaments, being in the money (ITM) for over a hundred of them. He had made more than twenty million throughout his career in poker winnings. There were also many professional Texas hold ¡¯em yers in China, usually making around one hundred thousand RMB a month. This was due to a multitude of reasons, Texas hold ¡¯em had limited poprity in China, that said, there were around sixty million yers. Why was poker a valid method of making stable ie? Because the rules of Texas hold ¡¯em were much moreplicated than other poker variations. You can back out anytime, and could go crazy to try and double your chips. Moreover, you can vary your strategy based on what your opponent did (betting, calling, etc.) in Texas hold ¡¯em. Poker was different to Golden Flower as Golden Flower waspletely reliant on your hand. If you got a good hand, you were almost guaranteed to win. But in Texas hold ¡¯em, winning or losing would be decided by the fivemunity cards. In theory, even if you had the statistically worst hand, deuce seven off-suit, it would have a high chance of beating the best hand, pocket aces. High amounts of meticulous calctions, controlling your facial expressions, guessing your opponent¡¯s hands based on their behaviour, and keeping a good mindset were all crucial parts of Texas hold ¡¯em. One could say that luck factor would be minimised among all these features of the game. For example, if a pro and a noob yed each other, perhaps the noob had the better hand every time, but the pro would utilise psychology topletely annihte the noob wouldn¡¯t be surprising. Noobs would be able to win a few rounds just by virtue of good luck in games like Dou Dizhu or Mahjong, but in Texas hold ¡¯em , the noobs would never be given that opportunity. ¡ª After the foundations wereid, Chen Mo started working on the design document. The rules of tabletop games were really simple and clear cut, and would take much less time to develop than I Am MT. Chen Mo nned toplete most of the Thunderbolt gaming tform and Thunderbolt Tabletop, and then spend another week tweaking before releasing it. ¨CMorning the next day¨C Chen Mo handed over the design document mindmap to Su Jinyu. ¡°The mindmap is done. You can fill in the gaps in the ruleset. Don¡¯t worry about the story rted things and let Zheng Hongxi handle that when he gets here. You two will work on the game together, and it¡¯ll act as a test for his writing ability too,¡± said Chen Mo. Su Jinyu opened the document Chen Mo sent over. She was shocked that the design document was very very small, only having around two hundred words. ¡°Lifeline? Interactive fiction?¡± Su Jinyu eximed. Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Yep, it¡¯s really for you and Zheng Hongxi as practice, I¡¯ve already made a few points worth paying attention to clear in the design document. It depends on you guys how well this game goes.¡± ¡°But, manager, this game seems too simple!¡± asked Su Jinyu. Chen Mo smiled, ¡°A smile game can also be really good, don¡¯t underestimate it. Maybe consider adding new mechanics outside of the basics.¡± Su Jinyu nodded, ¡°Alright, I understand.¡± After handing over the design document for Lifeline to Su Jinyu, Chen Mo put all his effort into Thunderbolt gaming tform and Thunderbolt Tabletop. Lifeline was an interactive fiction, and Chen Mo nned to use it for Zheng Hongxi to practice on and get a better idea of his writing skills. After Thunderbolt Tabletop and Lifeline are bothpleted, Chen Mo would start nning his first big game. ¡ª Chen Mo spent the next two days improving the design document. The three games on Thunderbolt Tabletop, Happy Dou Dizhu, Happy Mahjong, and Thunderbolt Poker (aka. Texas hold ¡¯em) had basically no ovepping yerbase, which was why he chose them. However, many of the artwork can be reused in these three games, such as avatars, UI, and poker cards. Chen Mo outsourced these resources as there were many tabletop games in the parallel world, meaning that there were also many of these resources. It would only need small changes to make it usable. As it wasn¡¯t a huge part of the game, Chen Mo didn¡¯t care too much about how it looked, which was why Chen Mo¡¯s only requirement was for it to be quick, and wanted to receive the resources in two weeks. And Chen Mo paid special attention to two points during the designing process of these tabletop games, one was making improvements to the tutorials, and the other was to add a tournament mode which other tabletop games didn¡¯t have. Chapter 86 - Chapter 85: Story for Interactive Fiction

Chapter 86: Chapter 85: Story for Interactive Fiction

Many tabletop game designers think that they are very simple, therefore not requiring any new yer introductions as most of the yers would have yed it before in real life. But this view was incredibly wrong. There are many local variations in rulesets for tabletop games. For example, mahjong from different areas may have different rules for ¡®pongs¡¯,¡¯gongs¡¯ or winning. If an international mahjong yer wanted to try out blood mahjong, it would be very difficult for the yer to find out the rules for himself without the help of new yer introductions. There was also another group of yers who rarely have the chance of ying tabletop games, would even fail at ying Dou Dizhu, and despite that they still want to improve their skills. It wouldn¡¯t cost them much to y these tabletop games once in a while, and would also hope they can get some newbie tips when they y. Tecent Tabletop from the previous world had done this very well. As long as a new yer knew some of the rules when they start ying, the new yer guides would allow them to continue ying, receiving awards on the way as they finish quests. Chen Mo had already managed to recreate a card game such as I Am MT, so numerical simtion such as these wereparatively peanuts. The second was the tournament mode. In truth, the tournament mode was designed for Texas hold ¡¯em in mind, as it was very suited for tournaments. There would even be some who only y tournaments exclusively. Tournaments would include a sign-up fee and assigning everyone the same amount of starting chips. The yers would be spread to different tables, and they would get eliminated as they run out of chips. The winner and finalists would get a chunk of the prize money from the sign-up frees. Tournament modes like these were simr to survival games as yers were required to y in a stable manner. Without the stability, the game would be over for the yer, the aim was to get into the money rounds after all. On the other hand, it required yers to utilize the opportunities given to increase their chip count and knock off the chips their opponents have. yers would often lose a lot of chips from irrational moves, making it difficult to control the flow of the game. However, in tournament settings, the yers would lose the sign-up fee at most, and if theyst till the final table, they have the opportunities to increase their money more than tenfold. That was why many yers preferred to y tournaments. Even though it was theoretically possible for yers to lose more money (if they buy-in many times but never reaching the money rounds), the failure the yers would feel was rtively small. In his previous life, Dou Dizhu and Mahjong also had simr tournaments, but they couldn¡¯t evenpare to the poprity and universality of Texas hold ¡¯em. As Texas hold ¡¯em didn¡¯t exist in this world, tournaments for tabletop games were alsogging behind. Chen Mo had also just finished Tournament mode, and would make it one of the unique gimmicks Thunderbolt Tabletop would have over other tforms. The Thunderbolt Gaming tform now had five different games, ppy Bird, nts vs Zombies, I Am MT, Lifeline, and Thunderbolt Tabletop (Dou Dizhu, Mahjong, Thunderbolt Poker). Most of these games were mobile games, and nts vs Zombies and Thunderbolt Tabletop were both on PC as well as mobile. Chen Mo nned to prioritise the Thunderbolt Gaming tform on the PC, intending to release sales and promotions regrly, as well as allowing yers to check the status of their friends as well as their achievements in game. Of course, this didn¡¯t need to be finished in one go and could be added periodically. The PC app for the Thunderbolt Gaming tform was currently around ten MB. However, when more features are added, it might increase beyond 100 MB, but as to not anger the fans, Chen Mo decided to keep it small at this stage. The Thunderbolt Gaming tform would be even smaller one the phone, and would function purely as an app-store. Chen Mo wanted it to be under 5MB, and even when more features were to be added in the feature, to never exceed 15MB. ¡ª Monday, Zheng Hongxi officially joined thepany. Chen Mo decided to have Zheng Hongxi work on theputers in the experience store temporarily as Chen Mo was considering moving to a bigger experience store when he would make more money in the future. Of course it was still too early to consider this. Although Chen Mo had the funds, he wasn¡¯t bothered to go through all the hassle. Su Jinyu had managed to finish most of the foundations required for Lifeline. As it was an interactive fiction, the specifications were incredibly simple as chat boxes wouldn¡¯t take too long to program. Chen Mo said to Zheng Hongxi, ¡°This is an interactive fiction, and the selling point of the game is the story. I¡¯ll need you to design the settings ording to these specifications. Do a bit of nning for it and make the story seem more rich.¡± Zheng Hongxi was shocked upon seeing the draft handed to him by Chen Mo. ¡°That¡¯s it? The whole game is conveyed in essentially a conversation?¡± asked Zheng Hongxi. Chen Mo nodded¡± Yep, so the only reason yers would buy this game would be for the story.¡± ¡°...That¡¯s quite a lot of pressure. Is it really fine to take up that much responsibility on my first day?¡± asked Zheng Hongxi. ¡°This isn¡¯t really an important task, I might need you to work on the World of Azeroth in the future, and maybe even write a novel for it.¡± ¡°I¡¯ll... give it my best,¡± muttered Zheng Hongxi. Chen Mo patted him on his shoulder, ¡°It¡¯s fine, don¡¯t worry about it! If you do a bad job you¡¯ll have a second chance to do it again.¡± ¡°That¡¯s notforting at all!¡±ined Su Jinyu. After handing over Lifeline to Su Jinyu and Zheng Hongxi, Chen Mo went back to his office to work on the tabletop games. ¡ª After three days, Zheng Hongxi handed over the first drafts of Lifeline to Chen Mo. A key part of the first draft was toy down the foundations, including how many different paths as well as the different endings. There would be a different choice at every step, potentially leading to different endings. The draft was represented using a flowchart, each node containing a short, broad idea for the scene. Chen Mo gave a quick look over the draft, there were more than seventy different scenes with four different endings. ¡°Yep, not bad,¡± said Chen Mo. ¡°But you¡¯ll need to redo it.¡± Zheng Hongxi was speechless. ¡°First, there must be a build up to the story. The timeline as it is is quite messey. The in game time must be the same as real time, if the game wants the yer to wait for eight hours, that means eight hours. This is to make the yers feel more connected to the game. ¡°And evidently you haven¡¯t paid attention to this point in your writing process. You didn¡¯t consider what this would do to the pacing of the story.¡± ¡°Second, the story feels about the same no matter the start, the middle or the end, when it should be constantly ramping up, especially when they are trying to escape, that part was especially stale. Maybe you could add some more shocking elements, perhaps...shapeshifting aliens. ¡°And there¡¯s one more thing, the content isn¡¯t rich enough. You need to double the amount of choices to more than one hundred and twenty. You should increase the number of endings too, and ny percent of it should be failures, forcing the yers to be more careful. The yers must make the right choice every step of the way to reach the best ending.¡± Listening intently, Zheng Hongxi nodded, ¡°Yep, I understand. I¡¯ll make some changes.¡± Chapter 87 - Chapter 86: Poker

Chapter 87: Chapter 86: Poker

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales ¨CInside the experience store.¨C Su Jinyu and Zheng Hongxi were working hard at Lifeline. The others were doing their own things, Wen Lingwei was on a massage chair catching up on drama using a tablet. The experience store was now the ce where Wen Lingwei and the others would gather most frequently. They would visit if they had nothing to do, ushering Chen Mo to release new games. Chen Mo said, ¡°Let¡¯s take a break and y a game.¡± ¡°Hmm?¡± Su Jinyu was shocked, ¡°y a game? What kind of game?¡± Zheng Hongxi lifted his head up at a loss as he was stuck in the middle of his thought. Jia Peng replied, ¡°Sure thing, don¡¯t have much to do anyways. What type of game is it?¡± Chen Mo took out a set of poker cards, ¡°Poker.¡± ¡°...You guys go ahead, I¡¯ll take my leave,¡± said Jia Peng. Chen Moughed, ¡°Don¡¯t worry, you can watch or be the dealer.¡± ¡°Manager, don¡¯t tell us you n to y Dou Dizhu, we have eight people here,¡± Wen Lingwei saidzily. ¡°Not Dou Dizhu, it¡¯s a game that you guys have never yed before,¡± exined Chen Mo. Chang Xiuya was shocked, ¡°A game none of us have yed? That can¡¯t be possible!¡± ¡°Come over here, it¡¯s good that we have eight people. If Jia Peng deals, we¡¯ll y with a table of seven,¡± said Chen Mo. Su Jinyu asked, ¡°Is there a requirement with the number of yers?¡± Chen Mo shook his head, ¡°We can y with two to nine yers.¡± ¡°What about more than nine?¡± asked Su Jinyu. ¡°Oh, in theory we can y with more than nine yers, but we wouldn¡¯t fit at the table,¡± exined Chen Mo. ¡°...How convenient,¡± said Su Jinyu. Chen Mo ushered everyone to join, ¡°Come, I¡¯ll teach you the rules in the meeting room.¡± ¡°What can you do with a set of poker cards... Is there a prize for winning? I¡¯m not joining if there isn¡¯t,¡± said Wen Lingwei. ¡°Of course there is, I¡¯ll buy anything within five thousand RMB for whatever the winner desires,¡± said Chen Mo. ¡°Five thousand?¡± ¡°Anything?¡± ¡°The manager sure is different now that he has money!¡± Soon, everyone started making their way into the meeting room. Zheng Hongxi was speechless. Everyone was now sat around the table in the meeting room/ Chen Mo took out a set of chips that were custom made. Su Jinyu eximed, ¡°What is that, manager?¡± ¡°Chips, it¡¯s basically money. But we can¡¯t use money because that would be gambling,¡± exined Chen Mo as he distributed the chips. The chips were tiles slightly bigger than a coin, each of them had a different number of them of different colours. Everyone was given one five hundred, three one hundreds, six twenty fives, and ten fives. ¡°Now everyone has one thousand in chips. Whoever gets all the chips in the end wins. There will only be one winner,¡± exined Chen Mo. Su Jinyu asked as she fiddled with the chips, ¡°Manager, are you sure we won¡¯t be arrested for gambling?¡± ¡°...No, as long as nobody puts money on the table,¡± said Chen Mo. Wen Lingwei was also ying with the chips, ¡°Do you need these to y? It¡¯s not like Dou Dizhu?¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Yep, we need chips to y. Alright, now that everyone¡¯s seated, Jia Peng will sit in the middle, yes, right in the middle. You¡¯ll be the dealer.¡± Weng Lingwei raised her hand, ¡°I object, I feel like if he deals, everyone¡¯s cards will be terrible.¡± Jia Peng was speechless, ¡°Senior, you know I have feelings too right?¡± ¡°Don¡¯t worry, it¡¯ll be fair if all our hands are bad,¡± said Chen Mo. ¡°I don¡¯t feel any better!¡± eximed Jia Peng. Chen Mo spread out the cards on the table face down, ¡°We¡¯ll make it simple as we are ying by ourselves. Everyone grab a card, and whoever gets thergest card will be the dealer.¡± Su Jinyu asked, ¡°What does the dealer do?¡± Chen Mo asked, ¡°The dealer has a better position. Pick a card.¡± Wen Lingwei thought she drew the biggest card with a King, but Zheng Hongxi came out with an Ace. Jia Peng said, ¡°I¡¯m just from looking at how lucky you guys are.¡± Chen Mo put a doll in front of Zheng Hongxi, This represents the dealer. The dealer will move clockwise to the next person after every hand.¡± ¡°We¡¯ll do a testing round first.¡± Chen Mo started exining the rules of Texas hold ¡¯em. Texas hold ¡¯em was one of those games that are easy to learn, hard to master. It wouldn¡¯t take more than five minutes for someone to understand the rules. Under the guidance of Chen Mo, everyone started getting a hang of it. ¡ª After half an hour and observing two rounds, Chen Mo returned upstairs to work on the design document after making sure everyone understood the rules. In order to understand how the people of this world would understand Texas hold ¡¯em, Chen Mo decided to teach them how to y. It was essentially a preview of how the promotion of the game would go. The rules of Texas hold ¡¯em wereplete as it had been tested thoroughly and withstood the test of time in the previous world. It could even be described as wless. However, Chen Mo had to consider if he should use its uniqueness to promote Thunderbolt Tabletop. Texas hold ¡¯em was popr overseas because professional poker yers were able to make a living out of it. In the end, it was money that provided the most excitement. But Chen Mo couldn¡¯t do that as it would be considered gambling if money was involved, making it illegal. Moreover, there were societal impacts to gambling, and Chen Mo didn¡¯t want to be responsible for making a game that would destroy families. Therefore Chen Mo wanted to remove as much of the gamlbing aspect from Texas hold ¡¯em as possible, and promote it as apetition. This would give the yers a sense of the excitement from yer Texas hold ¡¯em. Just like Dou Dizhu and Mahjong, once the gamlbing aspect is removed, they are all fantastic tabletop games. Many big yers of the tech or investing industry liked to y poker wasn¡¯t for the money as every one of them had millions in worth. Texas hold ¡¯em were a type of puzzle game to them, and were simr to starting businesses and investing, all requiring them to understand what theirpetitors would do and changing tactics based on that, as well as knowing when to back out to cut losses. After confirming that Texas hold ¡¯em also had the same attraction to the people of this world, Chen Mo already had an idea of how to promote this game. This idea would be the best way to acquire the most yers, having them taste the fun of Texas hold ¡¯em, and eventually keeping them as yers. ¡ª As the days go by, the development of Lifeline and Thunderbolt Tabletop continues steadily. Zheng Hongxi won the first Texas hold ¡¯empetition using his amazing luck, beating Wen Lingwei and receiving five thousand RMB in prizes. Chen Mo even ordered a trophy, with the words: ¡°Champion of the First internal Thunderbolt Pokerpetition¡±/ From then on, everyone was interested in ying it, the few who don¡¯t have anything would y poker in the meeting room, all trying to win the poker tournament next week to get the prize as well as the trophy. What surprised everyone was that the more they get into, the more tricks they uncover, precisely the ¡°easy to learn, difficult to master¡± type of game. After two weeks, most of them werepletely obsessed with poker. Of course, this was under the driving force of winning prizes. Their interest would undoubtedly be much lower without the few thousand RMB in prizes. As for the story for Lifeline, it¡¯s been refreshed multiple times, so much that Zheng Hongxi couldn¡¯t keep track of how many drafts he had done. But the more changes he made, the more interested andplex the story became. Chen Mo did a quick once over the dialogues and concluded that the game had about the same pace as the one from the previous world. Of course there were some differences in the content, but it wasn¡¯t a problem. The two games this time were very simple for Chen Mo, including the artworks, it was done in a month¡¯s time. The next step would be constantly making changes and improvements, as well as improving the user experience. In this seemingly quiet month within the mobilemunity, there was something dark brewing. Just from rumours Chen Mo heard from different channels, there were at least three or fourpanies developing card games simr to I Am MT. And these were the ones that Chen Mo caught wind of, there would be even more than he had never heard of so far. In terms of development it could take two to four months. They would most certainly go live in the first moments they arepleted. There could be waves of new mobile card games just as Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, and the yers would experience the horror of being overwhelmed by these games. Perhaps the games would have different art styles and themes, but there was something that had to be the same, their source of revenue and the how the numbers were structured, all undoubtedly taking a page out of I Am MT¡¯s book. However, Chen Mo didn¡¯t mind as it wasn¡¯t at all a bad news for him. I Am MT had been strongly holding onto the advantage of being first, and the other games would forever live in the shadows of I Am MT, it would be impossible for any of them to disturb I Am MT¡¯s standings. These games might even expand the card game user base. Of course, thepanies that work faster would earn a lot of money, but it was inevitable. Chen Mo was fine with them earning money as long as he earned more. Moreover, the waves of card games serve as a good distraction of the gamingmunity, given Chen Mo more breathing room to set his foundation for future games. The games that would threaten I Am MT would be games such as Soul Hunters whopletely revamp the ystyle, and surpassing the first generation of Chinese card games. Chen Mo estimated that the other videogame designers would take at least a year to reach the level of Soul Hunters. Due to the nature of card games allowing their designers to earn money easily, most designers lose interest in improving, even staying in theirfort zone, unwilling to make any big changes to the first generation of card games. Only when the yers lose interest and start to hate it will designers try to make improvements, changing the ystyle of the first generation of card games. And Chen Mo could do so much more with a year. Chapter 88 - Chapter 87: Rating for Thunderbolt Tabletop

Chapter 88: Chapter 87: Rating for Thunderbolt Tabletop

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales The contents of Thunderbolt Tabletop were nowplete. It contained three different games, Dou Dizhu, Mahjong, and Thunderbolt Poker (Texas hold ¡¯em) Thunderbolt Tabletop was on both Pc and mobile as well, and would contain all three games. However, yers could choose to install or uninstall the games they didn¡¯t y. Moreover, Chen Mo had added all the existing games to the Thunderbolt Gaming tform, and after this update, the yers who wanted to continue ying nts vs Zombies or I Am MT were required to log into the Thunderbolt Gaming tform. Of course, Chen Mo gave out a bunch of free runes to the yers aspensation. Afterwards, Chen Mo contacted Xu Xiaojun, representative of Emperor Dynasty Entertainment¡¯s advertising department regarding promoting Thunderbolt Tabletop. ¡ª Headquarters of Emperor Dynasty Entertainment. Xu Xiaojun passed the phone used for testing to Lin Chaoxu, ¡°Mr Lin, this is the game Chen Mo wanted to advertise on our tform.¡± Lin Chaoxu grabbed the phone and scowled, ¡°Tabletop?¡± Xu Xiaojun nodded, ¡°Yep, if it¡¯s alright without, we¡¯ll start promoting it on the promotional spot on the front page at the start of next week.¡± Lin Chaoxu replied after a few moments of thinking, ¡°No problem, go ahead. We Emperor Dynasty Entertainment can¡¯t break our promise. You can leave the phone here for now, I want to look into the game further.¡± ¡°Alright.¡± Xu Xiaojun said before leaving the office. Lin Chaoxu had a lot on his te, and only managed to free up some time to test out Thunderbolt Tabletop after an hour. Even though Chen Mo was just a C-grade videogame designer, Lin Chaoxu still felt that he was worth paying attention to after being seen as a potential threat. ¨CTen minutester.¨C Lin Chaoxu was deep in thought after experience most Thunderbolt Tabletop had to offer. Afterwards, Lin Chaoxu made a call, ¡°Hello? Wu Zhao? Could you make your way to my office, I have something to discuss.¡± Wu Zhao arrived at Lin Chaoxu¡¯s office after half an hour. Wu Zhao was in his thirties, dressed casually, had long hair, and looked like a carefree frencer. Wu Zhao was the one responsible for Emperor Dynasty Tabletop who also happened to be an A-grade videogame designer. Emperor Dynasty Tabletop had games such as poker, Mahjong, and other regional tabletop games, all of which required his final approval. Wu Zhao asked, ¡°Is there something you need Mr Lin?¡± Wu Zhao was a bit nervous as Emperor Dynasty Tabletop wasn¡¯t a particrly important subject in Emperor Dynasty Entertainment. It also wasn¡¯t very profitable, so Lin Chaoxu would rarely even get him to meet in his office. Lin Chaoxu handed the phone to Wu Zhao, ¡°Try this game out, and tell me your opinions of it. Wu Zhao grabbed the phone, asking, ¡°Thunderbolt Tabletop?¡± Although he didn¡¯t understand the meaning behind this, Wu Zhao tapped the icon tounch the game. First was using Thunderbolt game pass to log in, and then reaching the Thunderbolt Gaming tform after logging in. The tform had six games so far, ppy Bird, nts vs Zombies, I Am MT, Happy Dou Dizhu, Happy Mahjong, and Thunderbolt Poker. The first three games were greyed out and required downloading to y. Thest three games were already downloaded. Wu Zhao tapped on Happy Dou Dizhu and started ying. Although entering the game required an extra step, the UI for Thunderbolt Gaming tform was clean and easy to operate. Although it was a bit of a pain, it was still eptable. The game had no other yers, but there were a few bots in the lowest level lobby so they could still y the game. Following orders, Wu Zhao yed two hands and concluded that the game was the same as his own Dou Dizhu and had no differentiating factor. However, Thunderbolt Tabletop had significantly improved the guidance in game, some of which Wu Zhao felt was overly simple and a waste. The more experience yers would be very familiar with the rules were also forced into the tutorial. Moreover, this game provided the yers with many Happy Beans, such as being able to go bankrupt three times a day, or special jobs, all of which provided the yer with the in-game currency. The VIP system as well as the store was more rich as well, including emojis or actions that required purchasing. The in game chat and interactions were also quite well done. Afterwards, Wu Zhao went onto Happy Mahjong. The ystyle wasrgely simr to other mahjong games, other more popr alternative ystyles such as Blood Mahjong was also added. It was simr to Happy Dou Dizhu, as Happy mahjong also had really good new yer introductions and experience. It was obviously much more polished than other tabletop games. Lastly, Wu Zhao opened Thunderbolt Poker. He was shocked that it was a type that he had never seen before. Wu Zhao could be considered as someone who was really into tabletop games as well as being a tabletop game video game designer. He had looked into countless tabletop games inside and outside of China, even if he hadn¡¯t looked into it in depth, he would¡¯ve seen it before. However, he had never seen anything resembling Thunderbolt Poker. The ystyle felt simr to Five-card stud and Golden Flower, but it was also clearly different. The tutorials were also really well done, and the exnation was also clearly exined every single step of the way, the different hands were also quite easy to remember. Wu Zhao had understood how the game works after ying for five minutes, but as there were no other yers, just bots, Wu Zhao hadn¡¯t discovered what would make it so fun. Wu Zhao felt that it was just a decent tabletop game, and couldn¡¯tpare to ssic games such as Dou Dizhu or Mahjong. Wu Zhao said after ying the three games, ¡°Mr Lin, are these the tabletop games made by Thunderbolt Entertainment?¡± Lin Chaoxu replied, ¡°Don¡¯t worry about who did it for now, let¡¯s talk about what you think about this.¡± Wu Zhao nodded, ¡°Sure, I¡¯ll quickly go over my thoughts. ¡°You understand how the tabletop games industry is in China, there are many users, and it¡¯s not that profitable. Big yers like us or Fantasy Gaming tform focused on making tabletop games because we had therge user base in mind in order to try and convert them to fans of our tform. ¡°Therefore, people would usually default to making tabletop games to expand their yer base. It is not the best idea to try and turn a profit using tabletop games. ¡°The intent of growing the yer base is clear from this game. Dou Dizhu and Mahjong made no changes to the rules, but the new yer guide as well as daily benefits were clearly revamped and polished. This is probably an attempt at trying to gain yers from other tabletop tforms who aren¡¯t brand loyal. ¡°For us, there are a bunch of yers who aren¡¯t willing to spend money, they could have dozens or hundreds of beans, ying daily just to get the daily benefits and y a few games. These are probably the ones who will change tforms. ¡°But I don¡¯t think it¡¯s anything to worry about. First, tabletop games require a set amount of users to gain momentum. The more new yers there are, the more there is to experience, the more fun the yers will have. Emperor Dynasty Tabletop currently holds the biggest yer base, so it would be difficult to make a big dent in us in the short run. Second, although there are quite a few of the aforementioned yers that are likely to switch tforms, it isn¡¯t enough for us to worry about. Our loyal fans are the active users, the people who have tons of beans saved up, and are especially brand loyal and are unlikely to change tforms. ¡°That¡¯s why I think that this game isn¡¯t a problem for us for now.¡± Chapter 89 - Chapter 88: Thunderbolt Poker

Chapter 89: Chapter 88: Thunderbolt Poker

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Lin Chaoxu nodded, ¡°Right, what do you think about Thunderbolt Poker?¡± ¡°That might be apletely original ystyle. I can¡¯t tell the potential it has just from ying it for ten minutes, but so far I think we should be wary of it. ¡°It¡¯s ystyle is simr to that of Golden or Five-card stud, but these two card games aren¡¯t popr, and don¡¯t evene close to Dou Dizhu in China. ¡°Golden Flower relies heavily on luck as everyone ispletely blind to everything else other than their own cards, so it¡¯s more like gambling where intelligence does not y a part at all. ¡°On the other hand, as Five-card stud has a hidden card and a revealed card, there is too much information, ruining any chance for mind games, making it difficult to be popr. ¡°The design for Thunderbolt Poker probably took inspiration from both of them. The yers could use themunity cards to determine how good the hands of their opponents are, but still incorporating some elements hidden from the yers, making it morepetitive. ¡°However, I think we still need to observe if these changes are sessful. Moreover, it¡¯s apletely new card game after all, meaning all the yers will need to start fresh. Even if it were to be popr, it would take a long time. ¡°During this time, we could also look into inventing other card games.¡± Lin Chaoxu asked, ¡°If we make this card game as well, there aren¡¯t any legal consequences right?¡± Wu Zhao nodded, ¡°There aren¡¯t any legal risks. Card games are considered ¡®rules and methods for mental workouts¡¯ and aren¡¯t subject to copyright. That means that everybody can do it.¡± ¡°That means ording to your analysis, this came wouldn¡¯t be a big problem for Emperor Dynasty during the short term, and would have no chance at converting yers from our tform,¡± said Lin Chaoxu Wu Zhao replied after some thought, ¡°You could put it that way.¡± ¡°Then what if the game was promoted on the front page of Emperor Dynasty gaming tform?¡± asked Lin Chaoxu. Wu Zhao was confused, ¡°Huh?¡± ¡°Remember when Qiu Bin and Chen Mo made a bet? This was the game he wanted to put onto the promotional spot for a month,¡± exined Lin Chaoxu. Wu Zhao scowled, ¡°Mr Lin, aren¡¯t we just handing them the advantage we have?¡± ¡°That¡¯s why I¡¯m asking you how big the effect would be,¡± replied Lin Chaoxu. Wu Zhao was put in a bad spot, and said after a few moments, ¡°There will probably be some effect, but it shouldn¡¯t be too problematic. That was made by Chen Mo? Why doesn¡¯t he promote I Am MT? Why would he promote a tabletop game?¡± Lin Chaoxu said, ¡°All that matters is that it wouldn¡¯t cause too many problems. You¡¯ll have to answer the other questions yourself.¡± Wu Zhao nodded, ¡°Yes, I understand. But Mr Lin, this guy has many ideas, we should probably keep an eye on him to prevent him from gaining anymore.¡± ¡°Yeah, I understand. Follow the rest of this development. The promotional spot isn¡¯t much, but my main concern is him taking too many of our yers,¡± acknowledged Lin Chaoxu. Wu Zhao nodded, ¡°I understand,¡± leaving the office afterwards. Lin Chaoxu was deep in his thoughts. This guy wants yers instead of money? This kid has quite the ambition. Lin Chaoxu also thought that Chen Mo would¡¯ve wanted to promote I Am MT as it had strong profitability. Combined with the support from Emperor Dynasty gambling tform, it shouldn¡¯t be a problem to double his monthly ie, maybe even pushing the fifty million mark. By that time Chen Mo would be increasing his profits by more than ten million a month. But Chen Mo chose to give up that money, instead choosing to promote tabletop games? This kind of courage wasn¡¯t one an average person would have. Lin Chaoxu could easily tell Chen Mo¡¯s intent. Tabletop games don¡¯t bring in money, and its revenue could neverpete with I Am MT, but the main selling point of tabletop games was that it made it cheap to acquire yers. Combined with the newly released Thunderbolt Gaming tform, it was obvious that this y was to drive users to his tform. However, it didn¡¯t matter even if Lin Chaoxu knew what he nned, Emperor Dynasty Entertainment would never use dirty moves just because of Chen Mo¡¯s potential threat as there were many spectators waiting for drama. ¡ª Can tabletop games not make money? It doesn¡¯t exist in the parallel world, but in Chen Mo¡¯s previous world, tabletop games were one of the hidden money makers. The reason was because of the various shady methods the videogame designers of the previous world did that the videogame designers of this world haven¡¯t thought of yet. However, Chen Mo didn¡¯t n to profit from this. Why were tabletop games not profitable? Because yerscked the drive to continue spending money. The noobs who keep losing wouldn¡¯t win from spending money, and would quickly realise how meaningless the money they spent were. Other games might give them an advantage if they pay, but if you were bad at tabletop games and kept spending money, you may as well donate that money. The yers who were good weren¡¯t willing to spend money either, as they could earn beans using their skills. Moreover, one the yers reach a certain amount of beans, such as tens or hundreds of millions, the beans wouldn¡¯t make a difference anymore, they would have no point in spending money, and the yers would slowly lose interest. Therefore, more often than not money goes into tabletop games and nothinges out, usually resulting in losses. The desire to buy in-app purchases for most yers are heavily suppressed. This meant that it wasmon knowledge in the industry that tabletop games made no money. The in game currency for tabletop games, such as Happy Beans were strictly banned against converting into real money. Thew states that any tabletop game that allows exchange of currency both ways are considered gambling, making it illegal. Once convicted, not only would the game need to be taken off the market, the maker might need to face jail time. And in Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, most makers of the game rode on the grey area to evade prosecution to make money. For example, if the currency exchange was set overseas, and the currency exchanger allowed conversion both ways, the developer would take a cut as profit. And in game, through the use of private rooms, yers would be able to move the currency between ounts. The yer would then be able to exchange that for real currency using the overseas currency exchanger. Many tabletop gamespanies would profit this way, and some of thesepanies would make tens of millions this way through tens of thousands of their yers. Texas hold ¡¯em was especially guilty of this. Ny nine percent of Texas hold ¡¯em games used this model and would rake in scary amounts of profit. However, Chen Mo decided to keep this secret to himself forever, wishing that this model would never appear in the videogame industry of this world. Chapter 90 - Chapter 89 Competition with Prizes

Chapter 90: Chapter 89 Competition with Prizes

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales After a month or so of development, Thunderbolt Tabletop finally entered the official app store as well as Emperor Dynasty Gaming tform! The ¡®Rmended this month¡¯ spot on the Emperor Dynasty Gaming tform now had a banner ad for Thunderbolt Tabletop. Other than the usual art and name of the game, it also had a slogan. ¡°Who¡¯s the poker king? Win virtual game pods in tournaments every week! There were tens of millions of active users on Emperor Dynasty Gaming tform, and up to two million concurrent users. The effects of being on the front page of Emperor Dynasty gaming tform for a month could not be understated. Chen Mo also promoted the game on his Weibo and Thunderbolt Gaming tform at the same time, essentially promoting the game everywhere he could. Many fans who paid attention to this matter knew that Chen Mo was about to release a new game. But none of them thought that Chen Mo spent over a month making a tabletop game. What a waste of the promotional spot! The yers were actively discussing the matter. ¡°Unbelievable, Chen Mo decided to not continue making games that scam money? That¡¯s impossible! Did the old Chen Mo finally return?¡± ¡°What, why did you make tabletop games? There¡¯s no future in tabletop games! You should¡¯ve just made more pay-to-win games!¡± ¡°What a waste of the promotional spot. That spot was used to promoterge VR games in the past, but Chen Mo decided to promote tabletop games! My goodness!¡± ¡°This only took a month, could it be any good?¡± ¡°Stop wasting your time on things like this! Get back to working on the sequel to nts vs Zombies alright!¡± ¡°There are already so many tabletop games! Emperor Dynasty had already been in the business for too long, you¡¯re far toote to the party!¡± ¡°A gaming pod every week? He really put down the money for this, but why do I feel that the money isn¡¯t going to be well spent...¡± ¡°That¡¯s three pods every week, they have one for all three games!¡± ¡°Fine, I¡¯ll go take a look. I¡¯m in need of a gaming pod anyways.¡± ¡°...previous poster, you still don¡¯t understand Thunderbolt gaming¡¯s antics? If it¡¯s too good to be true, it probably is!¡± ¡°But... It¡¯s apetition!¡± There were various different types ofments. However, most of them were drawn in by the idea of ¡°free gaming pod every week¡±. Chen Mo had also posted the rules for the tournament on his Weibo. Thunderbolt Poker, Dou Dizhu, and Mahjong will have apetition each. From Monday to Saturday, 10am to 10pm, there will be apetition every two hours, there will be a certain amount of tables decided by the number of yers who decide to enter. Each table will have a limit of fifty to sixty people, and the priority will be given to yers that haven¡¯t yed that day. Of which, 10am, 12pm, 2pm and 4pm are all free to y, free to entire and had registrations in advance. The 6pm and 8pm rounds were paid tournaments and registrations were still avable thirty minutes after the start time, and the entry fees were decided via bids using Happy Beans. The prizes were split among the top three of each tournament, 60% for first ce, 30% for second ce, and 10% for third. Free games gave arge amount of Happy Beans and a small amount of credits. The paid tournaments on the other hand would have arge amount of credits as prizes. And on Sunday, the first fifty yers based on the credits for that week will enter the final table, and the first three ces of that tournament will receive prizes. First ce: one R gaming pod, valued around eight thousand RMB. Second ce: A high end PC, valued around ten thousand RMB. Third ce, a gship smartphone, valued around seven thousand RMB. There was apetition for all three games, meaning that Chen Mo will be giving out close to three hundred thousand RMB worth of prizes every week. Moreover, this was different from prize draws as those can be rigged in favour of thepany. But as Chen Mo was hosting apetition, there was no refute whoever was better at the game to be able to get first ce, and there was no way to fraudulently control the oue of that. The VR gaming pods in this world were priced from fifty thousand to two hundred thousand. Chen Mo¡¯s pick of one valued around eight thousand RMB was considered mid range, but it was more than enough as there were PCs as well as smartphones as prizes too. Once the news was out, it spread like wildfire in tabletop gamesmunities. Moreover, with the help of Weibo, more and more yers knew about this, and many yers who don¡¯t usually y tabletop games were also drawn in by the prizes. As it¡¯s not a draw, but apetition, moreover a tabletop gamepetition. Many gamers felt that they stood a chance in games like Dou Dizhu which are more luck reliant, and could potentially win the tournament if they had good luck. Moreover, the game waspletely free, and thepetition was fair, so many yers wouldn¡¯t mind trying their luck. Even if they couldn¡¯t win a gaming pod, a PC or a smartphone weren¡¯t bad either! ¡ª On the day of release, Thunderbolt Tabletop reached over two hundred thousand downloads, showing no signs of slowing down! Free game, small size,plete new yer guide, advertisement on Emperor Dynasty Gaming tform, Prizes from thepetition... These were all reasons that drove the number of downloads to the sky. Of course, eighty to ny percent of yers were there to join in on the fun, all hoping they could be the lucky one to win the gaming pod. ¡°My goodness, there is so much guidance for new yers! Luckily you can skip it. Do you need that much guidance for such a simple card game?¡± ¡°It treats new yers quite nicely. I never quite understood the rules, but at least it¡¯s clear to me now...¡± ¡°It really does have a tournament mode. You just keep ying until a winner emerges? Seems more fun than ying in public lobbies.¡± ¡°Thunderbolt Poker? It¡¯s a new game?¡± ¡°I feel like thepetition for Dou Dizhu and Mahjong is too strong. Doesn¡¯t the winner of this new poker game get a gaming pod too? I¡¯ll try that out.¡± After looking deeper into it, the yers realised they must enter the final table on Sunday to have a chance of winning the prizes, but in order to get into the final table, they must y at the other tables from Monday to Saturday in order to get enough credits. For example, the evening rounds gave more credits, but they required spending Happy Beans to enter. This meant that yers had to choose between entering the normalpetitions, or spend their money to purchase Happy Beans. Moreover, many yers noticed that Thunderbolt Poker might be a good way to win prizes. The more popr games such as Dou Dizhu or Mahjong that had more yers would have strongerpetition. However, Thunderbolt Poker also had a gaming pod for first ce, and all the yers had to start fresh, meaning that it was much lesspetitive. This meant that there was arge number of yers trying out Thunderbolt Poker to try and exploit this new type of card game to win prizes. Many yers tried to y on the first day, resulting in many public lobbies as well as the tournament mode being overloaded, further increasing the poprity of the game. The poprity of Thunderbolt Tabletop never went down on various gaming leaderboards as well as trending topics. It was more than likely that the amount of users would continue to grow explosively! Chapter 91 - Chapter 90 Caught off Guard

Chapter 91: Chapter 90 Caught off Guard

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Wu Zhao who was keeping an eye on Thunderbolt Tabletop was panicked by the number of downloads in the first day. He felt like he severely miscalcted the situation, especially with Chen Mo¡¯s tactics. Wu Zhao did tabletop games himself, and ever since Thunderbolt Tabletop went online, the daily users for tabletop games for Emperor Dynasty Entertainment had dropped by several hundred thousand, which was no longer a small number. Obviously a big chunk of these yers went to Thunderbolt Tabletop, some left in search of something fresh, others left for the prizes. Moreover, Wu Zhao felt that he was in danger at the first moment. Moreover, he felt deep down that this was only the beginning. Wu Zhao couldn¡¯t do much else but ask Lin Chaoxu for advice. ¡ª Lin Chaoxu wasn¡¯t in such a good mood in his office. ¡°You said it wouldn¡¯t do too much damage to our user base, but look what happened now? Hmm? We lost a few hundred thousand in the first day, is that not a big loss?¡± Wu Zhao wiped the sweat off his forehead, ¡°Mr Lin, please let me exin. ¡°This Chen Mo guy nned it from the start, but the installer he sent us didn¡¯t reveal any information like this, causing me to miscalcte the consequences. ¡°He had nned from the start to promote his game using the prizes. I thought that the tournament mode was just to add some re to the game from yesterday¡¯s demo. I didn¡¯t expect he would expand on that, which is why the estimations were so far...¡± Lin Chaoxu asked after a few moments in thought, ¡°Is there any way to save this? Emperor Dynasty Tabletop in particr. We¡¯ll give out gaming pods too, ten times the amount he¡¯s doing! We¡¯ll make more decisions after we manage to retain the yers.¡± Wu Zhao replied, ¡°Mr Lin, It¡¯s not as simple as that. We could give out gaming pods too, but we don¡¯t have a tournament mode!¡± Lin Chaoxu scowled, ¡°If there isn¡¯t a tournament mode we¡¯ll just give it out using draws. The yers will have a chance to win if they y a certain amount of hours or y a certain amount of games. Wouldn¡¯t that drag up our daily yers?¡± ¡°Mr Lin, there¡¯s still a problem. The yers feel like they won¡¯t be lucky enough to make the draw if we do that idea, so it wouldn¡¯t get much poprity. We have millions of yers, even if we give out ten or even thirty gaming pods, the chance of getting one would be one in a hundred thousand. ¡°Moreover, yers wouldn¡¯t actually y the game if we do it that way. Most yers would AFK in game or grind it out to make it into the draw, so there would be no incentive to y daily. ¡°Although Chen Mo isn¡¯t giving out much from hispetition, just giving out three every week, but he is giving the yers a sense of hope. The yers think that as long as they are good enough, they will have a chance at winning.¡± Lin Chaoxu scowled yet again, ¡°How about we make a tournament mode as well. How long would that take, a week?¡± ¡°I¡¯ve already ordered people to work on that, but the rules of a tournament mode is a bitplicated. It would be about 30% of the game, including testing and improvements, I¡¯m afraid it¡¯s going to take two weeks,¡± replied Wu Zhao. Lin Chaoxu was visibly upset, ¡°Two weeks? That¡¯s too long. I don¡¯t care if you work throughout the night or take adreneline supplements. Finish it within a week. Before that¡¯s done, I want you to give out prizes using lucky draws. Gaming pods, phones, PCs, gift cards... Give out anything that is needed to retain the yers!¡± Wu Zhao nodded without hesitation, ¡°Yes, Mr Lin. I¡¯ll arrange that immediately!¡± ¡ª Emperor Dynasty Entertainment reacted pretty quickly, doing lucky draws only one day after Thunderbolt Tabletop was released. yers need to y a certain amount of hours and games to have a chance of drawing anything from gift cards to gaming pods. It was obvious this was in retaliation to Chen Mo¡¯s attacks. They weren¡¯t dumb enough to just taking, but this method of lucky draws wasn¡¯t anything to be proud of. As Emperor Dynasty Tabletop didn¡¯t have anything resembling a tournament mode, that was the only thing that had in the bag for now. After that, the yers of Emperor Dynasty Tabletop started to stabilize, and even showed signs of rebounding. However, most of these yers were just there to have a chance at the draws, not many yers were actually there to y the game. On the contrary, arge amount of yers at Thunderbolt Tabletop were having the time of their life. In particr, it didn¡¯t take long for Thunderbolt Poker to develop its own fans, and more and more yers started looking into the strategies for the game. Many yers realised that better yers were more likely to win in Thunderbolt Poker than Dou Dizhu or Mahjong. As long as you keep ying your hand well and folding when you get bad cards, you could guarantee a stable winning. Of course, many yers didn¡¯t like this y style, feeling that this card game was too constrained as it required staying calm and not making any rash decisions, otherwise, the chips went out faster than they came in. However, this didn¡¯t affect the poprity of Thunderbolt Tabletop. Even if the yers didn¡¯t like Thunderbolt Poker, they could y the usual Dou Dizhu or Mahjong. More and more yer discussion of Thunderbolt Tabletop started appearing. ¡°The new yer guides are really nice, it feels like they paid much more attentionpared to other tabletop games.¡± ¡°This game feels nice, free beans every day as well as bankruptcy protection three times a day. It works well for god-tier donors such as myself.¡± ¡°Previous poster, you¡¯re only losing a few thousand beans a day, how could you consider yourself a god. You¡¯re probably just a charitable dog.¡± ¡°I didn¡¯t think there would be so many pros. I¡¯ve always thought I was decent at the game but I don¡¯t even have enough credits to reach the top hundred.¡± ¡°Get out of my way, the VR gaming pod is mine!¡± ¡°Although I¡¯m still not that good, the champion next week will be me!¡± ¡°I¡¯ve already decided to switch over to Thunderbolt Tabletop, because this game gives out so many free beans...¡± ¡ª Sunday. There were now more than 1.5 million yers, it was growing faster than I Am MT! Of course, the vast majority of yers weren¡¯t paying yers, meaning that the revenue of Thunderbolt Tabletop would nevere close to I Am MT. However, the growth of yers was enough to shock industry professionals. There was no question that Thunderbolt Tabletop was trending, there were even streams who switched over from Emperor Dynasty Dou Dizhu to Thunderbolt Dou Dizhu during their free time. There were also some tabletop game streamers who changed their title to ¡°Gaming pod winning stream¡±, with tens of thousands of people watching. This idea was trending without a doubt. The new tournament mode as well as the unique ystyle of Thunderbolt Poker started to spread from tabletop games yers to arger audience. Chapter 92 - Chapter 91: Burning Money

Chapter 92: Chapter 91: Burning Money

As the release of Thunderbolt Tabletop had given Emperor Dynasty Entertainment a massive headache, the Chairman of Fantasy Gaming tform, Ding Xing was also highly anxious. Fantasy Gaming tform was also a big distribution in China, but they weren¡¯t as big into development as Emperor Dynasty Entertainment or Zen Entertainment. Fantasy Gaming tform ced huge emphasis on tabletop games, and was also a huge part in growing their yer base. Understandably, Ding Xing was shocked when Thunderbolt Tabletop was released. What is this? Ding Xing felt that he was caught between the crossfire. Why was he caught between Chen Mo taking on the titans of Emperor Dynasty Entertainment. And Chen Mo actually used the promotional spot on Emperor Dynasty Entertainment to promote his own tabletop games? Emperor Dynasty Entertainment too, why did they actually promote it? Aren¡¯t they giving him the shovel to dig their own grave? Chen Mo is giving away gaming pods through a tournament too? What a barbaric way to do things! The most infuriating thing was that the yers are actually falling for it? What is the meaning of this! Ever since Thunderbolt Tabletop went live, the daily active users for Fantasy Tabletop had dropped by tens of thousands, of course Ding Xin was worried. Ding Xing also wondered how he was caught in the crossfire when it was clearly between Emperor Dynasty Entertainment and Chen Mo. Ding Xing was now in the same situation as Lin Chaoxu, he wanted to retaliate, but what could he do? His games didn¡¯t have a tournament mode at all! Lucky draws? It wouldn¡¯t work well! Even if they had to throw money at it to fix the problem, it wouldn¡¯t fix the root of the problem! However, even if it was in vain, he had to do something. If nothing was done, the yers would continue falling, and before long, all of the users of Fantasy Gaming tform would be gone. Ding Xing had to bite the bullet, ¡°We are also giving out gaming pods! Everyone will be working overtime to make a tournament mode as well!¡± ¡ª Chem Mo¡¯s actions had stirred waves within the tabletop gamesmunity. There were countless video game designers working overtime just to make a tournament mode. If Chen Mo¡¯s hate meter could level up, it probably would¡¯ve gone up by three levels in one week. However, the fans that were waiting for drama finally got what they asked for. Around four tabletop games started giving out prizes, and many of them started to log into multiple ounts to try and have a chance at the lucky draws. However, the efforts by the other games arergely meaningless, as the tabletop games that use lucky draw systems didn¡¯t require the yer to pay attention. It was only because Thunderbolt Tabletop had a tournament mode that yers were inclined to grind out in Thunderbolt Tabletop for credits to increase their cing on the leaderboard. ¡ª Sunday. Dou Dizhu, Mahjong as well as Thunderbolt Poker within Thunderbolt Tabletop had started their finals round. After an hour of exciting gamey, the first three ces of all three games finally emerged. Chen Mo also had his eyes on the matter, livestreaming the entirepetition on Weibo, and released the winners at the end of it as well. He also contacted the winners as soon as possible to send out the prizes as early as possible. When thepetition finished, more focus was drawn to the game, and now more yers had their eyes on future tournaments. ¡°I was shaking the entire lifestream. These final contestants are insane! I didn¡¯t know there were this many pros in these tabletop games...¡± ¡°Transparentpetition with no chance of pulling shenanigans. A few of thepetitors were my buddies too. I¡¯ll have to give Chen Mo a thumbs up for that.¡± ¡°Impressive. Chen Mo even managed to give tabletop games an interesting gimmick. All I can say is that he¡¯s number one at whatever he does!¡± ¡°The designers for other games must be super nervous to experience the wrath of Thunderbolt Gaming once again...¡± ¡°Chen Mo really has many good ideas. I don¡¯t usually y tabletop games and I was still drawn in by this. Even though I never came close to entering the finals, I still continue to y every day.¡± ¡°There¡¯s no way I could go back to other tabletop games after getting used to Thunderbolt Tabletop. Everything else is just too crude! Thunderbolt Tabletop has the best yer experience for tabletop games in the market, bar none!¡± ¡°Please let Emperor Dynasty Tabletop know that I¡¯m noting back...¡± ¡°+1¡± ¡°Let Fantasy Tabletop know that I¡¯m not going back either.¡± ¡°Wait for me, previous poster. I¡¯ll be right there after I get my hands on the lucky draw!¡± ¡ª After the first week, Thunderbolt Tabletop reached 2.2 million users, the number of users I Am MT reached in a month. If this hype keeps going, Chen Mo estimated that Thunderbolt Tabletop could bring Thunderbolt Gaming tform more than eight million users, and optimistically ten million. How many yers were ten million? In season one of League of Legends, they had 1.4 million users, and when Season 2 came around, that number became 11.5 million. That was basically slightly under the number of yers Dota2 and Overwatch had. Of course, there were many inactive yers in tabletop gamespared to MOBAs. Half of the yers were probably inactive yers, and there probably weren¡¯t many loyal yers. Most of the yers would probably y a game or two before their long hiatus away from the game. Moreover, the number of yers Thunderbolt Tabletop achieved didn¡¯t evene close to the two hundred million of Tencent Tabletop from his previous world. However, Chen Mo was quite satisfied at this number. At least he now had a yerbase to advertise his future games to. Chen Mo didn¡¯t expect this to profit. He nned to return all the profits back into themunity, and even use some of I Am MT¡¯s profits as well, continuing to hostpetitions every week, and giving out gaming pods every week. If he continued at this pace, he would be giving out one million RMB worth of stuff a month. Chen Mo could still afford that cost, even when including the customer service team as well as the cost of the servers. Just like the wars on ride sharing apps or bicycle renting apps in his previous life, money burning out of your pocket wasn¡¯t a sign to stop. As Chen Mo was set on contending the spot on the hill, he couldn¡¯t stop until he converted all the yers from other tforms. Moreover, how much did it actually cost? One to two million a month for that many users? That was a good price to pay in the long run. ¡ª Emperor Dynasty Tabletop and Fantasy Tabletop also started releasing their own tournament modes in the second week, they were also giving out prizes through the tournaments as well. This managed to salvage a portion of their yerbase, but it was still just in retaliation. As they had a huge number of yers,bined with the fact that Thunderbolt Tabletop had a better user experience, releasing the tournament first, Thunderbolt Tabletop without a doubt had all the attention on them in this war of attrition. The power transfer was alreadyplete. The tabletop games industry which was originally held by Emperor Dynasty Tabletop and Fantasy Tabletop had been severely impacted by Thunderbolt Tabletop¡¯s explosive entry to the industry, taking away a huge number of their yer base and bing the third most influential game. And there wasn¡¯t much else the other tabletop games could do other than shiver in their boots. Chapter 93 - Chapter 92: Not Like the Other Interactive Fictions

Chapter 93: Chapter 92: Not Like the Other Interactive Fictions

¡ªInside the experience store¡ª Chen Mo tested Lifeline for onest time and said to Su Jinyu and Zheng Hongxi, ¡°Alright, it¡¯s good.¡± ¡°Yeah! That¡¯s awesome!¡± Su Jinyu couldn¡¯t help but be ecstatic. That was basically a game she and Zheng Hongxi worked together without Chen Mo¡¯s help, so it was particrly special. (If Chen Mo asking Zheng Hongxi to change the story multiple times didn¡¯t count as helping.) Zheng Hongxi finally breathed a sigh of relief and let out a smile. Despite being asked by Chen Mo to make many changes to the story as well as several big changes to the story, it was finally over. This process improved Zheng Hongxi¡¯s understanding of writing for games as well as his understanding of manipting the emotions of the yers. Now Zheng Hongxi was looking forward to the reaction of the yers, will they like his writing? Chen Mo installed Lifeline onto Chang Xiuya¡¯s phone, ¡°You¡¯ll be our firstbrat.¡± ¡ª Chang Xiuya was curious. Everyone knew that Su Jinyu and Zheng Hongxi had been working hard to make an interactive fiction, but they didn¡¯t know what type of game it would be or anything about the story. There were many interactive fictions in this world and was one of the more ssic genres. Many video game designers who liked story driven games would usually have interactive fiction as their first game. It was partially because that the game was easy to make, all it needed was a good story. Other resources would include getting a good set of artwork and probably outsourcing someone to do the audio as well. However, as there were so many interactive fictions on the market, it was significantly harder to break through as well. The interactive fictions of this world were very much simr to the previous world, mostly city life or transmigration to medieval times. This was because most interactive fiction yers are female, and they tend to like these themes more. Chang Xiuya also yed interactive fictions, but after ying a million different interactive fictions, most of their story would coalesce into one, making it quite boring after a while. If the only difference between interactive fictions were their story, they may as well read novels instead. Chang Xiuya was worried that Lifeline would be simr to other interactive fictions. However, since the manager overlooked this, his games are usually... Yep, other than I Am MT being a little bit scummy, the other games were quite creative. The icon of the game was fairly dark, with a small person in it who looked like an astronaut. The top right of the icon had a weird radio wave icon. ¡°Umm. Is it scifi? That¡¯s fresh.¡± Chang Xiuya tapped on the icon, entering the game. She was then met with a pop-up window, ¡°Lifeline is an interactive fiction that spans over a few days. Your gaming experience might be affected without push-notifications. Please enable push-notifications to enhance your experience.¡± Chang Xiuya tapped on ¡®Allow¡¯. A window that looked like a chatting app popped up. Soon, messages started appearing. Iing message Establishing connection Connecting ¡°Hello?¡± ¡°Does this work?¡± ¡°Can anyone hear me?¡± Chang Xiuya was a bit shocked after the questioning, but now two different choices appeared in the bottom: ¡®Who¡¯s there¡¯ and ¡®Yes I can hear you¡¯. Chang Xiuya felt that these had about the same meaning and wouldn¡¯t affect the story, then tapping on ¡®Yes I can hear you.¡± ¡°Oh, thank goodness! I was finally able to contact someone!¡± ¡°I¡¯ve waited for hours!¡± Another two choiced popped up: ¡®Who are you?¡¯ and ¡®What happened¡¯? Chang Xiuya thought that it would be better to ask who they were, tapping ¡®Who are you?¡¯. After two choices, Chang Xiuya already understood the difference between this and other interactive fictions. Lifeline didn¡¯t have any narration or background descriptions, it was set up entirely as a chatting software. But instead of chatting with real people, the yer would be chatting with fictional characters from the game. Conveying the world using a sci fi chatting app improved the immersion. This included sending the yer notifications, giving the yer an impression that they were talking to a real person. Chang Xiuya started chatting to this astronaut named Tyler based on what she felt was right. Through chatting, Chang Xiuya discovered that Tyler was an astronaut on a cargo pod, but crashed on an alien nt. However, he was nowpletely lost. He was a student who boarded to perform an experiment, and had no experience in dealing with emergency situations like these. However, Tyler seemed quite optimistic, even making jokes in such dire situations. Chang Xiuya evenughed at the jokes he made. ¡°So is the final task to help this astronaut escape? Doesn¡¯t seem too difficult. It¡¯s probably easier than the crazy scenarios from Chinese dramas set in ancient times right...¡± thought Chang Xiuya. ¡°There¡¯s a white mountain nearby that¡¯s a few miles out. But this mountain... looks a bit weird, it¡¯s vertically symmetrical so it doesn¡¯t seem quite natural.¡± ¡°The crash site of Varia seems a bit closer than the mountain. What should I do?¡± There were two choices: ¡®Head towards crash site¡¯ or ¡®Head towards mountain¡¯. Chang Xiuya knew that this was a key choice for the plot. As Tyler hinted, the mountain was shaped weird, and it was further away, obviously he should go towards the crash site! Chang Xiuya chose ¡®Head towards crash site¡¯. ¡°Makes sense, there could be survivors...¡± ¡°Alright, I¡¯m heading South. This should take at least one hour. I¡¯ll let you know when I get there.¡± Afterwards, the system disyed a ¡®Tyler is now busy¡¯ message. Chang Xiuya was shocked, what is this? There weren¡¯t any other choices, and Tyler stopped talking as well. The game just stopped without any further notifications. Chang Xiuya looked back at what Tyler said. ¡°It can¡¯t be that he¡¯s really going to message me an hour?!¡± Chang Xiuya was shocked. It was the first time she encountered an interactive fiction like this, making the yer wait for an hour for nothing?! All Chang Xiuya could do now was wait. She didn¡¯t close the app, however, fearing that she wouldn¡¯t receive the message when Tyler replies. Chapter 94 - Lifelines Unique Features Chapter 94: Chapter 93: Lifeline¡¯s Unique Features ¨CAfter some time¨C Taylor sent a message, ¡°Geez, this was much further than I expected. My legs are like jello, and I don¡¯t even know if I¡¯m halfway there yet.¡± ¡°Great, now I¡¯m thinking about jello.¡± Taylor is now busy. Chang Xiuya was happy to receive a message under an hour thinking that they wouldn¡¯t make yers wait for that long, but was utterly disappointed upon reading the message. Turns out he was just doing a quick reply and going back to being busy right after. There was nothing she could do other than wait. It had finally been an hour, and Taylor sent another message, asking Chang Xiuya if he should go to the cockpit or the crew area. Chang Xiuya remembered that it was previously hinted that she should check for survivors, then choosing to enter the crew area. Then, Chang Xiuya and Taylor started chatting again. The pace of the story was really well done, cutting off right before something important was about to happen. Everytime that happened, Chang Xiuya was dying for Taylor¡¯s reply. Moreover, the story progression was decent, not too fast nor too slow. There were crucial moments allowing Chang Xiuya to make decisions among the all the clowning around Taylor did. Under Chang Xiuya¡¯s guidance, Taylor explored the spaceship, searching for food and shelter. Taylor asked, ¡°I want to go to the tail of the spaceship to set up my tent. It should be warmer there. However there¡¯s a radiation source there. Could you look up if I would die of a night¡¯s exposure of 150 rads? My suit says that the radiation is about that much.¡± Chang Xiuya was shocked, ¡°Huh? I need to check the amount of radiation?¡± It seemed like a crucial moment in the story, Taylor could choose the warmer tail of the spaceship filled with radiation or the colder radiation free body of the spaceship. Chang Xiuya didn¡¯t know which to pick either, how much was one hudnred and fifty rads? Feeling that it was a crucial decision, Chang Xiuya decided to search up, ¡°one hudnred and fifty rads¡±. ¡°Absorbing 150 Rads shouldn¡¯t have any short term side effects.¡± Chang Xiuya replied, ¡°Go next to the reactor.¡± Taylor replied, ¡°To be honest, I¡¯ve been feeling really guilty.¡± ¡°What I want to say is, thanks for helping be today. This must be the worst day of my life.¡± ¡°Which is why I chose to believe you that this amount of radiation is fine. I guess I¡¯ll know tomorrow morning.¡± ¡°With this happy thought at the back of my mind... Goodnight, no matter where you are. Here¡¯s hoping that tomorrow will be better.¡± Taylor is now busy. Chang Xiuya tapped on her screen, and there was nothing else she could do. ¡°Do I really have to wait till tomorrow? I feel like I won¡¯t get a good night¡¯s sleep...¡± Chang Xiuya was quite worried, although one hundred and fifty rads shouldn¡¯t be a big problem, but who knew for certain that it wasn¡¯t a trap? It was toote to worry anyways, it seemed like she had to wait a few hours for Taylor¡¯s reply. Chang Xiuya stood up and asked Chen Mo, ¡°Manager, can I... take the phone back home?¡± ¡°Hmm? Did you finish the first day already? You can actually reply anytime, you don¡¯t need to reply as soon as possible at all.¡± replied Chen Mo. Chang Xiuya nodded, ¡°Alright, I understand. But... I still want to take it home...¡± Chen Moughed, ¡°Sure, take it home then. Don¡¯t keep Taylor waiting.¡± Chang Xiuya replied, ¡°OK! Thanks, manager!¡± ¡ª Chen Mo was relieved after seeing Chang Xiuya¡¯s reactions to the game, suggesting that the story of the game was fairly well done. In his previous life, the reason Lifeline blew up was because a few famous authors such as Ma Boyong promoted it on Weibo. After a Chinese version was released, it didn¡¯t take long to enter the first ce of paid games. It was a huge achievement for such a simple interactive fiction. In reality, it wasn¡¯t something super innovative. It was just a sci-fi looking chatting app with a fictional character who never shuts up. It¡¯s story wasn¡¯t even as good as interactive fictions released a few years ago. If you only read the text, it would seem incredibly stale. However, the amazing part of the game was that its pace wasn¡¯t decided by the reading speed of the reading, but the actual flow of time. The yers were required to wait for every single thing Taylor does, a few minutes to a few hours. This matched perfectly with how peoplemunicate online nowadays. Not only would this keep the yers from feeling bored, but gave the yers something to look forward to. Moreover, as the story progresses, Taylor would be met with many obstacles, potentially having to choose between difficult decisions. This made it easy for yers to reach bad endings. Every one of Taylor¡¯s deaths would move the emotions of the yers too. Therefore, yers would need to search up or discuss to carefully suggest ideas to Taylor, fearing that one bad decision would kill him. In this process, the yers would feel increasingly connected to Taylor, treating him as an actual human instead of an AI, someone stuck in outer space waiting to be rescued, a... friend. And this connection would increase the satisfaction of getting a good ending. The tension the yers feel would finally be released, and would feel as though they saved an actual human life. This pacing, story and connection gave a simple interactive fiction gave it a lot of life, receiving many good reviews. ¡ª The next day, Chen Mo released Lifeline. This game was just something Chen Mo assigned Zheng Hongxi to practice on, as well as to test how big the user base of Thunderbolt Gaming tform was. This time, Lifeline wasn¡¯t released on the official app store, but only on Thunderbolt Gaming tform for just one RMB. At the same time, Chen Mo sent out a Weibo. ¡°Our new game Lifeline is now avable on Thunderbolt Gaming tform. It is an interactive fiction about an astronaut who ended up in the crash who could contact you asionally. The whole process would be you chatting to him, no pictures, just words. The time in game and out of the game is the same. Remember to allow push-notifications.¡± There weren¡¯t any other methods of promotion, just Weibo and through Thunderbolt Gaming tform. All the yers using Thunderbolt Gaming tform would notice that a new game was released, and could start ying after paying one RMB. ¡°I¡¯ve just released it, we¡¯ll see how it does in twenty-four hours,¡± said Chen Mo to Su Jinyu and Zheng Hongxi. Su Jinyu and Zheng Hongxi were quite nervous. The game was incredibly simple and had no other methods of promotion. How many yers would notice and download the game? Chapter 95 - Gathering of scammy games!

Chapter 95: Chapter 94 Gathering of scammy games!

It didn¡¯t take long before games took notice of Lifeline on Thunderbolt tform and discussion to start. ¡°Interactive fiction? My goodness, I thought Chen Mo fell into the abyss of pay to win games and was a lost cause. I didn¡¯t expect him to release a standalone game.¡± ¡°A scammy game, then a tabletop game, then an interactive fiction. This amount of tossing and turning is impressive!¡± ¡°My god, Thunderbolt Tabletop had only been out for a week. This guy is printing out these games!¡± ¡°One RMB is quite cheap, buy first talkter...¡± ¡°Clearance sale! It¡¯s the genuine stuff! There¡¯s no need to ask for the price, everything here is one RMB! It¡¯s just one RMB, you wouldn¡¯t even feel scammed at that amount. If you can¡¯t even spare one RMB you wouldn¡¯t be able to buy anything, you¡¯re just poor!¡± ¡°My goodness, I almost thought you were a sales person hired by Chen Mo, previous OP.¡± ¡°Has anyone tried it? Is it good?¡± ¡°I tried it and it seems quite interesting! I¡¯m not going to spoil the story, but I¡¯m really into the game right now.¡± ¡°Anyone else look up 150 rads like I did?¡± ¡°The story is amazing, did Chen Mo write that? I only just found out that he was this good as writing, I¡¯m impressed.¡± ¡°Are you guys serious? Could you be that into an interactive fiction? Have you guys not seen a real game? Whatever, I¡¯m done with you guys I¡¯m off to chat with Taylor.¡± ¡°Help, has anyone gotten the perfect ending? ¡ª It didn¡¯t take long before the downloads for Lifeline to explode. As the poprity of Thunderbolt continued to increase, there were millions of users everyday, and each and everyone of them would see Lifeline. And the ratings of Lifeline were quite high, maintaining around 4.5 stars, which also drew yers to get the game. Moreover, at just one RMB, Lifeline was a steal. Many yers shared the game to their friends and on Weibo. 150 rads even became a trending topic on search engines. Soon, the number of sales of Lifeline for the first twenty four hours was released, thirty-nine thousand eight hundred and seventy-four! This was double the amount of sales nts vs Zombies achieved, but it was slightly lower than Guardian of the Holy Spring. Of course, this also had to do with the lower price as the game was a tenth of the price. In terms of revenue, Lifeline might only bring in thirty to forty thousand, a ways away from nts vs Zombies. Moreover, the difference in revenue will be even bigger down the line as it had a niche audience. However, it didn¡¯t matter as Chen Mo intended to use it as a test for how well Thunderbolt Gaming tform did as a distribution tform. And from the looks of it, Thunderbolt Gaming tform had simr effects to that of a middle of the road advertising space on the official app store. This wasn¡¯t a bad result to be able topete with strong foes in an environment like this. It could even be called a miracle for being able to gather this many yers in a week. ¡ª Lin Chaoxu didn¡¯t think that just one promotional space on the first page managed to cause so many waves. He thought that Chen Mo would use that promotional space to promote I Am MT to bring another ten million or so revenue to his pocket every month, which wouldn¡¯t have done too much damage to Emperor Dynasty Entertainment. But upon seeing Thunderbolt Tabletop, Lin Chaoxu knew that Chen Mo wasn¡¯t a shortsighted videogame designer, and his ambition was much higher than everyone thought! A young man who hadn¡¯t even been in the industry for a year managed to make four games from different genres, all of which did really well! The release of Thunderbolt Gaming tform further revealed Chen Mo¡¯s true intentions. But at this point, there wasn¡¯t much more Lin Chaoxu could do as Thunderbolt Gaming tform had gathered a very loyal fanbase. Now Chen Mo had money and the user base, the only thing he wascking was a product to be his poster child. A game like I Am MT wasn¡¯t suitable despite it bringing in a lot of revenue, it¡¯s public image was terrible. On the other hand, nts vs Zombies was just a casual standalone game. Many yers and industry professionals felt that Chen Mo couldn¡¯t stand side by side with other video game designers. It would need to take a few more months for the dust to settle, and many yers and designers were waiting for Chen Mo¡¯s next move. What was he trying to do? Make more scammy games? Continue expanding his userbase? Or will he make another game from a different genre? Nobody knew what Chen Mo was nning. ¡ª Within two months, the yerbase of Thunderbolt Gaming tform grew steadily. The user base of Thunderbolt Tabletop stabilised at around nine million, with around 2.7 million daily active yers, bing Thunderbolt Gaming tform¡¯s biggest and main game. Although Thunderbolt Gaming tform was still unable to knock down Emperor Dynasty Gaming tform and Fantasy Gaming tform, it was now at least a small yer in the industry. I Am MT was operating as usual, although the monthly revenue dropped slightly, Chen Mo still managed to get close to ten million revenue every month from it. And there were a few changes within the industry in this time. There were now around eight new tabletop games on the official app store as well as other major distributors, all of which had different themes such as Wuxia, Fantasy, anime, homebrew IPs, popr novels, and animations. However, they all shared the same feature, they were essentially carbon copies of I Am MT. Frombat system to the VIP system, even the yer guides, they were all referencing I Am MT. The changes they would make would only be aesthetically as nobody dared to change the core of the format. As the designers didn¡¯tprehensively understand the mechanisms that made I Am MT so profitable, they were afraid that any changes they made to the game would cause it to perform terribly. Even Emperor Dynasty Entertainment who released a game called Demon yers, based on a popr web novel by the same name, had a gameyparable to that of I Am MT. It couldn¡¯t be helped as I Am MT was entirely unique, from its gamey to its method of revenue. No matter how other games try to hide it, yers who¡¯ve yed I Am MT would be able to easily tell that it was based on I Am MT. If they really wanted to make it different from I Am MT, that would mean making a game of a different genre and profit method,pletely losing the meaning of copying. These games were released within two to three weeks of one another, all of them wanted to release as early as possible, as beingte to the party would mean missed opportunities. It didn¡¯t take long before the yers cracked. Was one scammy game not enough? Look at now many of you guys are gathering together now! Why did you have to choose Chen Mo of all people to mimic? Chapter 96 - Chapter 95 Virtual Gaming Experience

Chapter 96: Chapter 95 Virtual Gaming Experience

¡°What¡¯s going on? How many games have there been that shamelessly copied I Am MT!¡± ¡°You can tell what the game is about just from looking at the introduction. Card game, who would¡¯ve thought. There¡¯s no difference between this and I Am MT! It¡¯s just a reskin!¡± ¡°No much else needs to be said, just leave a bad review and go.¡± Thement sections of these games were on fire, there were manymunities who banded together to leave bad reviews, driving the ratings down. They might¡¯ve started at eight, and would drop all the way to 6.5. As Demon yers had a higher score than the others because it was more refined, and yet it was sitting at a measly rating of 7.1. There were many yers whomented on Chen Mo¡¯s Weibo, ¡°Look at what you did. You were a bad influence to all the other videogame designers, now all them making all these garbage games. There were haters and bad reviews, but it didn¡¯t take long for them to realise that although the ratings were terrible, there were very many downloads and just as many yers. The yers were speechless, who was ying these games? ¡ª Demon yers discussion forum. ¡°I want a main character card so bad. I can¡¯t hold back the urge to spend money anymore!¡± ¡°Herees another guy saying that we copied them...¡± ¡°So what, just ignore them. We¡¯ll y our game.¡± ¡°I think that it¡¯s better to trust our money with argepany like Emperor Dynasty. I Am MT wasn¡¯t bad, but it¡¯s a smallpany other all, I feel like money isn¡¯t well spent.¡± ¡°The quality of Demon yers isn¡¯t bad either, it isn¡¯t worse than I Am MT at the very least.¡± ¡°Moreover, it didn¡¯t the artstyle for Demon yers fit quite well.¡± ¡°Remember to add others to help inbat!¡± ¡ª Soon, the revenue for the card games were released, and none of them were anything to scoff at. The results for Demon yer were the best, and industry professionals estimated that its monthly ie coulde close to the 23 million I Am MT managed. It was inevitable that the fans would attack one another, but this time Emperor Dynasty Entertainment chose to keep their mouth shut no matter what their fans were saying after learning fromst time. After this batch of games, many video game designers realised that this format was suitable for many different themes, as long as they made an original one, they could also make money. Sure they would get a lot of hate, but it made money! After this wave of card games, another wave of card games followed as the videogame designers who were just spectating also started pushing forward their development of an I Am MT clone. During this time, the entire mobile game ecosystem was turned upside down. Or perhaps...hazy and polluted. ¡ª On the other hand, Chen Mo showed no signs of activity. Thunderbolt Tabletop had been taken off the promotional spot on Emperor Dynasty Gaming tform after a month, but Chen Mo continued to give out prizes. The promotional spot wasn¡¯t important when he had this many yers. After Lifeline was released, Chen Mo had not announced any ns he made. The other videogame designers took this opportunity to breathe a sigh of relief, but couldn¡¯t help but wonder what Chen Mo was nning. Now that Chen Mo had the money and the yers, if he continued the streak of sess from his previous games, those games would grow at a frightening speed. Many designers were wishing: Hopefully that freak takes a break for a year or something, I can¡¯t keep up! ¡ª Chen Mo touched the wall in front of him. The feedback he felt on his fingertips felt incredibly realistic. Walking, jumping, moving his hands... Chen Mo tried out a few actions, all of which felt quite lifelike, other than the significantly boosted speed and strength. Chen Mo felt that he was an athlete, one who wasn¡¯t out of breath after running for a bit. ¡°The VR games in this world are at this level? Impressive.¡± Chen Mo couldn¡¯t help but be impressed. Yes, Chen Mo wasying down in the gaming pod in his office, trying out Earth Online, a VR game from overseas. At its peak, this game was one of the most popr games, with more than seven million users worldwide. Of course, this number may seem small as Thunderbolt Gaming tform had tens of millions of users. This was due to the high cost of making VR games, as well as the gap between normal PCs and VR gaming pods. VR gaming pods would cost around fifty to two hundred thousand RMB. There wasn¡¯t an upper limit for top-spec gaming pods. Many manufacturers provide customization options for gaming pods, as long as you were willing to pay, you could add anything onto it. The price you had to pay to experience VR games wasn¡¯t expensive nor cheap. Different VR games had different hardware requirements. Games such as Earth Online required the most well sped VR gaming pod to run. Moreover, VR games cost quite a bit themselves. The cost to develop VR games would be ten times the price of PC triple A titles. Those would usually cost forty million USD, and in order to make a VR game of the same caliber, it would easily take billions of dors. In China, onlypanies like Emperor Dynasty Entertainment and Zen Entertainment could afford to pay the huge sum of money required for development. When the development cost is high, the price goes up naturally. Earth Online sold for three hundred and ny-nine USD, corresponding to two thousand to twenty-five hundred in China. The people who were willing to spend hundreds of thousands to buy a VR gaming pod, then another few thousand to buy games for it were few and far between. Most normal yers think that although VR games are great, spending the money on a car would be money better spent. Because VR gaming pods were so expensive, that created a market for VR inte cafes. These would charge fifty to two hundred RMB per hour. The people who can¡¯t afford VR gaming pods would have to go to a VR inte cafe to experience VR games. Because of its high development cost as well as small yer base, the expansion of VR games hadn¡¯t been entirely sessful. VR games were still a Chapter 97 - Chapter 96 Flaws of VR Games

Chapter 97: Chapter 96 ws of VR Games

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales The specifications of the game were also written with great care. yers will receive tickets for driving offenses, fines for jaywalking, and in the event when the yer gets hurt, they¡¯ll have to pay hospital fees too. Of course, one good thing about the game was that yers couldn¡¯t die, but could faint and recover in the hospital. This game was designed with helping yers feel the void they have in real life, as well as to utilize the biggest advantage VR games have. Chen Mo left the room and walked around and indeed, everything looked really realistic, and the ws suggesting that it was only virtual were barely noticeable. For example, the bodies of the yers aren¡¯t as detailed as in real life, simr to high quality CGI from his previous life. Although it looked incredibly realistic, you could tell it wasputer generated. This included the walls, tables, cars, streetmps... Although they were also very detailed, it was possible to tell that they wereputer generated. However, it still shocked Chen Mo that it was this detailed. Of course, despite being named Earth Online, it was just a name, the developers didn¡¯t recreate the entire Earth. Earth Online was just ced in a city, simr in size or slightlyrger than GTA 5 in his previous world. But the resources required to render one virtual city was incredibly eye watering. After trying out some more features, Chen Mo exited Earth Online. He didn¡¯t exit the game pod however, instead going into another VR game. This was Zen Entertainment¡¯s poster child, and was one of the best performing VR games in China. Chen Mo also tried it out a bit. The game was essentially a Wuxiao world in a VR environment. Other than the great feeling of being able to walk on air, itsbat system as well as ystyle was fairly averagepared to other MMORPG. Chen Mo tried out another seven popr VR games before getting out of the VR pod. Chen Mo felt tired after having yed for around four hours, but at least he didn¡¯t have a headache or felt dizzy afterwards. This was one of the problems of VR games. The yers must bepletely immersed in the game, meaning that all their senses are cranked up to eleven to take in all the information. Therefore VR games are as tiring as working a day job. yers might even have to focus even more during key battles or quests. Therefore, VR pod manufacturers rmend that yers y for a maximum of eight hours at a time, taking a break afterwards. The yers will face a test to test their cognitive abilities every time they log in. If they were considered to be tired, they would not be able to enter the VR world. This was designed with the health of the yers in mind. However, this also exposed another w of VR games, they are much more taxing on the body than PC games. Many would be able to y PC games through the night, and many teens would y over ten hours in one setting. They would alsopletely recover after those sessions after a good night¡¯s sleep. However, you couldn¡¯t do that in VR games as it will forcibly close connections. It would most certainly affect the health of the yers if they were allowed to y twenty plus hours in one sitting. This was also a problem that wasn¡¯t addressed with current technology, severely impairing the expansion of VR games. Many of the yers would be working a day job, and after their job, they would go back home and do some chores, not to mention the need for a good night¡¯s sleep. They might only be able to squeeze out two or three hours for VR games during a workday. They might have more time on weekends, but not by much, as it gets more and more difficult to have a calm rxing weekend. This was another reason people would choose PC or mobile games as their source of entertainment during their free time, because VR games were more physically demanding. The rich and carefree would have much better things to do, such as nes and yachts, or beachside parties. They wouldn¡¯t be spending their time in a virtual world in a VR game. There were various reasons VR games recing PC games would still be a long time away. In other words, with current technology, it¡¯s impossible for VR games to rece PC games. Basically, when VR games came out it was groundbreaking, but everyone slowly got used to it. Just like when the first triple A titles were released, drawing much attention from gamers. But as triple A titles got moremon, they didn¡¯t even bat an eye. ¡ª ording to Chen Mo¡¯s research, VR games couldpete with PC games in these Genres. First, action games, shooter games(FPS), or fighting games. These games had a strong emphasis on realism, and were basically extinct on the PC ecosystem. After all, shooting a gun in a VR gamepared to a PC was apletely different ball game. Second, adventure games. There wasn¡¯t much to talk about, looking at views on PCpared to VR, or rock climbing or surfing on PC vs VR werepletely different. Third, RPGs. These were also quite significant, but with different reasons from the previous two. As RPGs didn¡¯t rely on being realistic at all, but rather the social aspect as well as theposition of the world. A key point of RPGs was the roleying aspect, which is why the world they live in were hugely important as well. VR games took a huge amount of resources. Using the same resources, a PC could render a world ten times bigger than the VR world. In terms of richness, VR games couldn¡¯t keep up with PC games at all. Moreover, many developers would release PC versions of their VRRPG games to test the waters, only continuing development if it was well received. This meant that many RPGs were avable on both VR and PC. Therefore there were quite a few RPGs that were doing quite well on PC. Fourth, strategy games, and business simtion games. These types of games weren¡¯t affected much by VR. Because there was too much micromanagement required by the yer, requiring them to y from birds eye view. Adapting them to VR only made it more satisfying to y, and didn¡¯t add much to the gamey unlike the aforementioned genres. Moreover, because of how big the investment was to develop a VR game, it would be wiser to make the first few genres rather than strategy or business strategy games. Therefore, despite being challenged by VR games, PC games still remainpetitive, and would likely remain so for quite some time. Chapter 98 - Chapter 97: PC Gaming Research

Chapter 98: Chapter 97: PC Gaming Research

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Chen Mo did some stretching before going downstairs. There had been more customers in the experience store recently as many yers in the Imperial Capital wanted to have a ¡®nice meeting¡¯ and take a few photos with Chen Mo. After all, Chen Mo was now a ¡®famous videogame designer¡±. The yers who were talking about sending razor des turned out to be quite friendly in real life. They were especially happy after Chen Mo agreed to give them early ess to the beta test for his next game. Su Jinyu couldn¡¯t help but shake her head at these people, ¡°Is this what they refer to in history textbooks when they talk about how weak andprisable the petite bourgeoisie were...¡± After talking to a few of the new customers, Chen Mo put on his jacket in preparation of going out. ¡°Hmm? Are you going out, manager?¡± asked Su Jinyu. Chen Mo seldom went outside and would spend most of his time in the experience store. If he wasn¡¯t making new games, he would be thinking about making new games. Everything that could be done online would be done online. This included shopping and food delivery. Which was why Su Jinyu was shocked that Chen Mo would be going outside. Chen Mo replied, ¡°Yep, I¡¯m going for a walk. I¡¯ll be back before the store closes.¡± Chen Mo then left the experience store and walked towards Fates Inte Cafe on the other side of the road. Chen Mo had already experienced VR games and had a certain idea about it, the next step would be to check out how the PC market was doing. Chen Mo had only dabbled in the mobile games up until now, and therefore didn¡¯t have too deep of an understanding for the PC or VR side of things. However, Chen Mo wasn¡¯t satisfied with being known as a famous mobile game designer, he wanted to expand into PC games as well. And of course, he needed to do some research before entering the industry, and the best way to do research was to visit an inte cafe. It was easy to tell how popr a game was just by looking at how many people were ying said game in an inte cafe. This number would most likely be more reliable that lists or leaderboards online where it would be easier to fake numbers. At the front desk, Zhuo Yao was sitting there eating sunflower seeds while watching drama. Zhuo Yao noticed immediately when Chen Mo walked in, hastily throwing away the shells into the bin, ¡°Hey, a rare customer. Come in,e in.¡± Chen Moughed, ¡°Aren¡¯t you the owner of this inte cafe? Why do you have to work as the cashier too?¡± ¡°Sigh, it¡¯s to cut costs. I do have a cashier, but I can¡¯t have her keep watch day in day out. I¡¯ve been contemting on hiring another one, but that¡¯d cost a bit. And since I didn¡¯t have much to do, I decided to do this myself,¡± replied Zhuo Yao. Chan Moughed, ¡°What a way to pass time. Are there any free spots? I¡¯ll take one.¡± ¡°Yeah, just swipe your ID here. It has never been all that busy here, I¡¯d always have empty spots other than the nights of holidays. Chen Mo said, ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll go find some ce to sit.¡± ¡°Alright, if you have anything, ask for the administrator. That guy right there.¡± Zhuo Yao pointed at a man wearing sses. Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Alright, thanks.¡± Zhuo Yao waved her hand, ¡°No need for thanks. I¡¯m still waiting for you to develop a game that is able to rival VR games.¡± Chen Moughed, ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll be ying then.¡± After swiping his ID, Chen Mo paid twenty RMB and settled at a quieter seat in the store. As the Imperial Capital had fully banned smoke in all public ces, the inte cafe was quite clean and didn¡¯t smell of cigarettes. As he walked to his seat, Chen Mo took a quick sweep of what the other yers were ying. MMORPG and RTS games took the top, other genres such as strategy games, business simtion games, and action-adventure games had fewer yers. Thest few genres either had a smaller audience, or were dominated by VR games, and had less good PC games of its genre as a result. There were quite a few ying MMORPGs, and Chen Mo had already managed to identify three of the more popr games as he walked towards his seat. Legend of the Sword, Moon Lord¡¯s Prophecy, and Warring Three Kingdoms. Legend of the Sword was a Wuxia game developed by Zen Entertainment. The VR version was widely considered to be one of the best VR games in China, and was Zen Entertainment¡¯s proudest work. It was quitemon in this world to have a game both on VR and PC. As the cost of developing VR games were quite high, if it were to fail, it would be hard even for apany like Zen Entertainment to take the hit, sopanies are incentivised to develop a PC version to test the waters. It was because of the sess of Legend of the Sword that Zen Entertainment decided to develop the VR version, making the Wuxia game into what theirpany was known for. Moon Lord¡¯s Prophecy used a Eastern fantasy theme, and was based on a popr web novel by the same name. This was developed by an Qiu Jiang, an S-grade video game designer from Emperor Dynasty Entertainment. Its VR version was also in the makes, and could be released before the end of the year. Moon Lord¡¯s Prophecy had more yers and better revenue, however, it wasn¡¯t as well received as Legend of the Sword. Warring Three Kingdoms were different from the other games. It was an MMORPG that featured battle between nations. It had a small yer base, but had high revenue as well as having loyal yers. However, as thepany developing this game was short on cash, they didn¡¯t have a VR version nned. There were a few Western fantasy RPGs outside of China, such as Heavenly Ring. As if cursed, every overseas game with a Western fantasy game that tried to expand into China didn¡¯t end up so well. Even a huge IP like Heavenly Ring plummeted straight into the ground. This could be caused by what the yers were used to, but it also could be cultural differences. In short, this saved the bigpanies in China a lot of effort. Other than MMORPGs, there was a RTS game called Legion Conquest that was incredibly popr in China. ¡°How could an RTS game be so popr? And evenparable to MMORPGs? Incredible.¡± Chen Mo found Legion Conquest on theputer, andunched the game. Chapter 99 - Chapter 98 RTS games

Chapter 99: Chapter 98 RTS games

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales It didn¡¯t take long for Legion Conquest tounch after Chen Mo clicked on it. This was an RTS game that used modern themes. One could easily tell from the loading screen filled with nes and tanks among other fancy high tech weapons. The UI was quite clear, with Campaign mode and Versus mode as the two main modes. Chen Mo felt that this game bore some resemnce to Red Alert. However, this game had better graphics and had a much more different weapons system. This game didn¡¯t have the Apocalypse tank or Prism tank, but instead used tanks that were used in real life, with a few more futuristic tanks. However, this game didn¡¯t focus on the cold war, and didn¡¯t split the yers between the allies and the soviets. Legion conquest was set in a fictional world after a third world war, where many countries had been subverted as the bigger armies armed themselves for an all out war. And in the campaign mode, the yers would be ying as a leader of one of the countries, with the objective of conquering the world. There were many weaponry from real life, such as battle tanks and bombers that were avable to every yer, blurring the lines of the differences between countries. This was likely in consideration of the international audiences. After registering an ount, Chen Mo started Campaign mode. In summary, the quality of the game was quite high, and the tutorials weren¡¯t bad. However, the story was quiteckluster as the story, with barely any story progression after beating two levels. Basically the yer would invade wherever the game told them to, with no attention to the story at all. Of course, this was likely also a side effect of being set in a fictional world with the line between countries in the movie, meaning that the story was also restricted. However, the story isn¡¯t important in an RTS game anyways, not affecting its poprity at all. The controls of Legion Conquest were also quite crude and were quite simr to that of Red Alert. Chen Mo didn¡¯t find that interacting with the world, hotkeys, and clicking to assign orders as particrly intuitive. Selecting units, moving them, and attacking with them were all done by mouse, and right clicking would cancel the assigned orders, which Chen Mo found very unintuitive. Chen Mo looked into it deeper as he yed. At this time, an inte addicted teen sat next to Chen Mo, and looked at Chen Mo¡¯s screen while waiting for his PC to load. Chen Mo controlled a tank towards seven or so soldiers, and under the firing of the soldiers, Chen Mo¡¯s tank exploded. ¡°What the!¡± Chen Mo was speechless, it was just as illogical as Red Alert, how would a few soldiers with machine guns defeat my tank? Is the armor on the tank fake? The guy next to him asked, ¡°Are you new?¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Yep, I¡¯m new.¡± The teen said, ¡°The tanks in this game are garbage. Either you rush soldiers or save up for air troops or super weapons. The mid game tanks are a waste of money.¡± Chen Mo was speechless, ¡°Aren¡¯t tanks the main force of modern warfare?¡± The teen replied, ¡°I¡¯ve been thinking about that too, but that¡¯s the way the game was designed.¡± The teen alsounched Legion Conquest and started searching for an online match. It didn¡¯t even take a minute of searching to find an opponent. He was assigned into a 4 person map for a 1v1. The teen stopped chatting to Chen Mo and focused on building and training his army. Chen Mo decided to pause his game to watch the teen. Mining, building, training, scouting... the teen seemed as though he was following a script, and was quite serious about it. Early on, his opponent drew the teen into a corner, luckily had had sufficient defences and managed to hold off a few more waves. After saving up thirty or so pilots, heunched a counterattack to win the game. ¡°Yes!¡± the teen said excitedly. Chen Mo scowled, ¡°This game¡¯s bncing is kinda terrible.¡± The teen nced at him, ¡°You think this is terrible? It¡¯s currently the best RTS game.¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°Three tanks losing to twenty or so soldiers makes no sense at all.¡± ¡°Well, there¡¯s nothing much you can do. It¡¯s already the most well bnced RTS game, you¡¯ll just have to ept that fact,¡± replied Chen Mo. Chen Mo asked, ¡°Why don¡¯t you y RPGs?¡± ¡°They are too taxing. There isn¡¯t much skill to those games, it¡¯s just endless grinding, and whoever spends the most time would be better at the game. Unlike RTS games where whoever has more skill wins.¡± ¡°Hmm,¡± Chen Mo nodded. ¡°If you want to y RPGs, it¡¯s probably better to y in VR. Shooter games and adventure games are best yed on VR as well,¡± added the teen. ¡°But if you want to y RTS games or business simtion games, most of them are on PC as it just isn¡¯t worth it to convert it to VR. Moreover, these games don¡¯t take up as much time, one game would only take twenty to thirty minutes, and you could take a break afterwards if you want.¡± ¡°Is there a ranked mode for this game?¡± asked Chen Mo. The teen was shocked, ¡°Oh, there is a ranked mode, I just yed that.¡± Chen Mo asked, ¡°So the ranking is probably what makes the game so fun then huh?¡± The need nodded in reply, ¡°Yeah. You start with the campaign mode then move onto ranked. It¡¯s only fun when you y with the pros. This is simr to how actual war works, and is the core of RTS games. There¡¯s a lot of strategy involved, and has a high skill ceiling.¡± Chen Mo asked, ¡°Are there LANpetitions?¡± The teen replied, ¡°Of course there are LANs. RTS games are quite popr for LANs. Most of the big ESports clubs have yers too, all of them are gods at the game.¡± After chatting for a little while more, the teen went back to ying. Chen Mo on the other hand looked deeper into how the numbers were set in the game before leaving the inte cafe. What surprised Chen Mo was that his previous world had already left RTS games, and yet they were still quite popr in this world. It made sense after he gave it some more thought. VR games applied a lot of pressure to PC games, but PC gamers hadn¡¯t all converted to VR. Compared to RPGs, RTS games were more fragmented and strategic, which was why it managed to stay as one of the mainstream genres. As for MOBAs? Nothing resembling it! Chen Mo was a bit hesitant to make RPGs as it would currently take him a lot of effort, but he had found something that would make the transition smoother. Chapter 100 - Chapter 99: You Want to Learn? Ill Teach You

Chapter 100: Chapter 99: You Want to Learn? I¡¯ll Teach You

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Chen Mo was now back in the experience store. ¡°Manager, wee back,¡± greeted Su Jinyu. Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Yeah, I just went to the inte cafe to do some research and gather some inspiration.¡± Su Jinyu was happily surprised, ¡°Wow, you¡¯re nning another game already? Manager, you¡¯re birthing games like a sow to piglets.¡± ¡°... Couldn¡¯t you have picked a better metaphor?¡± replied Chen Mo. Chen Mo grabbed a can of drink, ¡°Goldfish, how has the mobile game market beentely, have you been keeping an eye on it?¡± Su Jinyu replied, ¡°Oh, Lifeline has been doing quite well.¡± Chen Mo was speechless, ¡°I didn¡¯t ask you that! Stop watching your own game, I¡¯m asking about the other games on the market.¡± ¡°Uhh, other games? There¡¯s more and more games that are copying I Am MT... Moreover, more and more tabletop games are copying Thunderbolt Tabletop as well..¡± replied Su Jinyu. The usually quiet Zheng Hongxi added as well, ¡°Basically half of the mobile game industry are copying you.¡± ¡°Oh, that¡¯s great,¡± replied Chen Mo. Su Jinyu was speechless, ¡°Huh? How is it great when so many people are copying you?¡± ¡°What do you know, if they copy us, that means they¡¯ve lost their ability to create new things. That also means that whatever they make will never be better than mine,¡± replied Chen Mo. Su Jinyu said, ¡°Wow, manager, I think you¡¯re too... optimistic. Demon yers are edging ever so close to the revenue I Am MT is making.¡± ¡°It¡¯s only getting close, it hasn¡¯t exceeded right? What¡¯s the big deal? By the way, how much do you guys know about RTS games?¡± asked Chen Mo. Su Jinyu replied, ¡°Uhh... not much. I¡¯m just an intern.¡± Zheng Hongxi said, ¡°I¡¯m just a writer.¡± Chen Mo was speechless, ¡°Wow, you guys are setting the bar too low. You guys will be your own video game designer one day alright? I¡¯ll give both of you three days to understand the RTS market and hand it a research report afterwards.¡± Su Jinyu was shocked, ¡°Huh? But I¡¯ve never been able to y those kinds of games...¡± Chen Mo replied, ¡°I¡¯m not asking you to be a pro yer, so it doesn¡¯t matter if you don¡¯t y. I¡¯m just asking you to understand the market. Regardless, I want to see a research report in three days. You guys better submit different reports, I¡¯d hate to see two simr ones.¡± Chen Mo retreated upstairs after assigning them work. Su Jinyu facepalmed, my goodness, what¡¯s a research report, I¡¯ve never written one! ¡ª Back on the second floor, Chen Mo started brainstorming his next game. Chen Mo could make a PC game next, but he felt that he needed a bit more help. Zheng Hongxi was able to save Chen Mo a lot of trouble in terms of writing, and Su Jinyu could handle some features or concept arts, but he was stillcking in the numbers and level design department. Chen Mo had been searching for this person for a long time, but never managed to find one. ¡°Numbers, level design. Right, I¡¯ll check the forums.¡± Chen Mo checked out the forums for I Am MT in search of someone who was good at analyzing the numbers/ bncing for I Am MT. The numbers were quiteplicated for card games like these. If someone was able to analyse the numbers of I Am MT with some integrity to it, they basically had all the foundations for the role. Chen Mo looked through a few hot threads. Garbage game, refund me my money! Analysis of the Draw Ten mechanism Tips for grinding purples Perfect strategy to control the battlefield! How much should you spend? V12 yer tells you how to get the bang for your buck. ¡ª After looking through the posts, Chen Mo couldn¡¯t help but press CTRL+W. These were horrible! Pseudo science posts like ¡®Analysis of the Draw Ten mechanism¡¯ and ¡®Tips for grinding purples¡¯ made Chen Mo feel like he was farther away from the science and maths he was looking for. Chen Mo didn¡¯t give up, and continued his search in Thunderbolt Poker¡¯s forum. There was also a lot of statistics knowledge required for Texas hold ¡¯em analysis. If someone could more or less calcte the probability of winning for every type of hand, they probably had some mathematical blood in them. Chen Mo looked through a few stickied posts. Offline Thunderbolt Poker Club: XXXXXX Offline Thunderbolt Poker Club: XXXXXX Offline Thunderbolt Poker Club: XXXXXX ¡ª Chen Mo silently pressed the report button before pressing CTRL+W once again. What is the meaning of this! Chen Mo was losing hope. Did none of the yers use more scientific methods to perform some analysis on the game? Yep, it seemed like these yers were more suited to games that would make them stronger by paying money. Chen Mo opened the forum for nts vs Zombies, but this time he was pleasantly surprised by the most highly voted post, an introduction to a mod! Introducing the mod I made, improved the stats for nts and zombies, with 8 new nts and 5 new zombies. The title was incredibly long, but the thread was incredibly popr too. It was only posted two weeks ago and it managed to reach over one hundred pages in replies. Chen Mo was also curious. He opened up nts vs Zombies to discover that the most popr mod was the mod he just saw. Chen Mo tried it out, and discovered that the main changes were adding the new nts and zombies, but they also made adjustments to the stats of the nts and zombies to adjust the difficulty of the game. This mod wasn¡¯t the most genious, but was the mostplete and most bnced, which was why there were so many fans. ¡°Yep, this guy isn¡¯t bad. Let¡¯s see if I can get him on board.¡± Chen Mo got their phone number through the Thunderbolt Game Pass once again. ¡°Hello?¡± it was the voice of another man. Huh? Why would you say another? Chen Mo said, ¡°Hello, I¡¯m the creator of nts vs Zombies, Chen Mo.¡± ¡°Oh, hi,¡± replied the man. ¡°Uhh, aren¡¯t you suspicious of my identity at all? Aren¡¯t you afraid that I could be pretending to be him?¡± The man on the phoneughed, ¡°Who would steal your identity and have tons of angry fans after them.¡± Chen Mo was speechless. ¡°I¡¯m just kidding. I¡¯m Qian Kun, spelt with a Q.¡±[1] Chen Mo replied, ¡°Oh that one, alright.¡± ¡°Ahem... I¡¯m actually quite a big fan,¡± said Qian Kun. This made Chen Mo quite happy, ¡®Huh? Really?¡± Qian Kun replied, ¡°Yeah, before you made I Am MT.¡± This left Chen Mo speechless once again. ¡°But I became a bigger fan after you made I Am MT. I think being able to use numerical simtions to make such a profitable game is incredibly amazing!¡± said Qian Kun. Chen Mo was speechless, why does this kid say things in such a roundabout way? ¡°You wanna learn?¡± asked Chen Mo. ¡°Of course I do!¡± replied Qian Kun. ¡°Come over to Imperial Capital then,¡± said Chen Mo. TL note: [1] His same has the same pronunciation as another word, and he was just rifying which one it was. Chapter 101 - Chapter 100: Scammed by Draw Ten

Chapter 101: Chapter 100: Scammed by Draw Ten

Qian Kun, fourth year mathematics student at a university in Imperial Capital, same year as Su Jinyu. Based on their results, this guy would be the best in terms of studies, receiving National Schrships every year and had already been invited to do research. However, this guy wasn¡¯t interested in research, but nned to enter the workforce instead. It didn¡¯t take long for Qian Kun to reach an agreement with Chen Mo when he arrived at the experience store. Qian Kun also joined Thunderbolt Entertainment as an intern, and was paid eight thousand a month as well. Chen Mo didn¡¯t mind paying them more either, but he wanted them to give time more time to gather experience and to hire time after they graduate, then giving them a proper sry. Of everything about Thunderbolt Entertainment, Qian Kun was most interested in I Am MT because he thinks that the game has some mysterious power to be able to get the yers to fork out too much money just from having a properly bnced game. ¡°Nice, now there¡¯s someone else to take the me when I make another scammy game,¡± Chen Mo thought secretly. ¡ª Now that the research was almost done, and he gathered all the manpower he needed, Chen Mo could finally start preparing for his next game. Chen Mo had something in mind for the game, but he wasn¡¯t sure if he would execute it with his current abilities, therefore... Yep, pay to win games. Chen Mo was now quite wealthy from the ten or so million from I Am MT, which happened to be Chen Mo¡¯s main source of ie. Games like nts vs Zombies and Lifeline were still selling, but at the same time the money was being redirected into Thunderbolt Tabletop, breaking even at the best. Chen Mo estimated that his various video game designing skills were around eighty, art was around forty, music twenty, and storyboarding 13. Chen Mo nned to max out the first levels of his video game designer skills, then level up art, music, and storyboarding skills a little bit as well as these would directly affect the quality of the games. Chen Mo wanted topete with high quality RTS games such as Legion Conquest, but the quality of the game might even be higher than the ones in his previous life. Washed hands, washed face, and a cleansing bath. Chen Mo topped-up five million RMB in exchange for fifty million credits. Chen Mo did 7 draw tens to draw a lucky capsule. Afterwards, Chen Mo took the capsule right away and spent all his remaining credits for spinning. He might even get addicted to this drawing thing. After all the draws, Chen Mo checked his loot. Since he now had more money, Chen Mo didn¡¯t mind as much if he didn¡¯t get the bang for his buck, and managed to remain fairly calm. Yep, very calm. Designer Skill Books: 250. Special Skill Books: 150. Special Equipment: 100. Yep, a perfect 5:3:2 ratio. Equipment details. 250 Designer Skill Books, 74 numerics skill books, 61 level design skill books, 49 System Skill Books, 66 Story Skill Books. 150 Special Skill Books. 27 Original Art Skill Books. 49 3D Art Skill Books. 30 Animation Skill Books. 21 Music and Audio Effects Skill Books. 23 Storyboarding Skill Books. One hundred Special Equipment. Fifty-eight Memory yback Potions, neen Reaction Speed Serums, twenty-two Hand Speed Boost Potions, one lucky capsule (already consumed). ¡°Hmm?¡± Chen Mo was shocked to see the list of equipment. Obviously the number of Designer Skill Books have already reached the upper limits, and in particr I¡¯ve already maxed out the first level for story writing. Why did it give me sixty-six of those? Those cost ten thousand RMB each! Can I convert them into Special Skill Books? I¡¯m in desperate need of leveling up by art and music skills! Also, what are these Reaction Speed Serums and Hand Speed Boost Potions! What use would that serve me as a videogame designer? Whatever, I¡¯ll consume them first. After calming down, Chen Mo started consuming the story writing skill books. A pop-up appeared on the screen: ¡°Your other abilities are still at level one. You¡¯ll be able to draw level two skill books after all your skills reach level two to continue leveling up your abilities. This level one skill book is now useless and will be converted to thirty thousand credits. ¡°Pfft!!¡± Chen Mo almost died from shock, What is this scam! The book cost him one hundred thousand credits, but he only got refunded thirty thousand credits. This amount of refund is just amazing! Holding back the urge to destroy the bracelet, Chen Mo consumed the other designer skill books. System, numerics, level design, and story writing have finally been levelled up. But now he was left with one hundred ny or so books that were converted into 5.7 million credits. But level two hadn¡¯t been unlocked yet, it seemed like other skills such as art, music and storyboarding were also included... After consuming the special skill books as well, Chen Mo checked out his attributes. System, numerics, level design, and story writing were all at one hundred, waiting for level two and were at level two. However, he was unable to continue to level his numerics stats as he needed to reach level two for everything else to be able to draw level two skill books. Original Art: 80 3D art: 84 Animation: 40 Music and Audio Effects: 41 Storyboarding Skills : 36 Chen Mo felt satisfied with the stats and didn¡¯t feel the need to draw more. The numerics stats was also good enough to make an RTS game. Because of the perspective of RTS games, he didn¡¯t need his art stats to be too high, unlike the requirements for first person action games. Therefore, his stats for Original Art and 3D Art was good enough for now. But he was a bitcking in the music and storyboarding department, but he could just spend more money in the CG department topensate. Chen Mo¡¯s stats in the Illusion Game Engine was as such: Chen Mo: Videogame designer (C-grade) Creativity: 49 Systems: 57 Numerics: 65 Level Designer: 53 Story Writing: 45 Original art: 39 3D Art:1 Monthly Resources Quota: 133MB/5GB Chen Mo had made three games ever since he became a C-grade videogame designer, including I Am MT, Thunderbolt Tabletop, and Lifeline, but he was still a C-grade designer, yet to reach B-grade... Creativity, Level Designer and 3D art didn¡¯t go up one bit. Systems, Numerics, and Original Art were increased slightly from I Am MT and Thunderbolt Tabletop. Story Writing on the other hand, was increased because of Lifeline. Although it wasn¡¯t much, his Monthly Resources Quota was increased to 5GB. It feels as though the people responsible for this were quite cocky. Obviously they don¡¯t recognise I Am MT, thinking that it wasn¡¯t much in terms of design despite how profitable it was. However, they decided to get Chen Mo a higher resources quota to ¡®have fun¡¯ with since he was now a frequent visitor of the best sellers leaderboard on the official app store. Chapter 102 - Chapter 101: RTS Masterpiece

Chapter 102: Chapter 101: RTS Masterpiece

Chen Mo felt that the 1.6GB he was given before was more than enough, especially for mobile games. There were only two uses for this quota, one of which was downloading public artworks and music. Of course, entry-level video game designers would tap into that resource, but would only use it as a ceholder. In order to increase the quality of the game, most designers would opt to make their own resources from scratch. Another was using the engine to generate a framework from rules for the game, taking up system resources. Games like I Am MT were really simple and would take at most 30MB to generate, so little you could basically neglect it. Chen Mo didn¡¯t worry about this at all while making his previous mobile games. However, moreplicated games such as RTS or MOBA games that had moreplicated rulesets would take up much more system resources from the game engine. Chen Mo would be a little bit apprehensive if he was to make an RTS game using the 1.6GB quota, but he could be more liberal now that he had 5GB to work with. Moving onto the special equipment. Chen Mo wouldn¡¯tin about the extra Memory yback Potions and would be happy to receive more. As for the Reaction Speed Serums and Hand Speed Boost Potions... They seemed kinda useless, but may as well use them both as their effectsts forever. At least it could be useful in games in the future. Chen Mo didn¡¯t feel any different after consuming all of it. ¡°Alright, that¡¯s it for now.¡± Chen Mo decided to work on a new design document for his next game. ¡ª Now that Chen Mo had users and money, Chen Mo wanted to work on his brand. Just like how he entered the mobile gaming industry with a fury using nts vs Zombies, Chen Mo wanted to have the same effect with the PC gaming industry with a ssic game. Chen Mo was a tossing between RTS and MOBAs, unable to decide which one he wanted to make. From a long term perspective, MOBAs would be the best choice. Recreating League of Legends would be more than enough for Chen Mo to do nothing for six to seven years. Based on his previous world, RTS games would start declining once MOBAs were introduced. However, Chen Mo still decided to make an RTS game after doing market research, settling on a Blizzard product: Warcraft First, in terms of difficulty, MOBAs are much more difficult than RTS games as MOBAs need a lot of attention to the numerics side of things to properly bnce things. Moreover, one small problem could lead to a huge chain reaction of bnce changes, and one bad patch could kill the game. Although RTS games required bncing as well, it was easier and wasn¡¯t asplicated as MOBAs. Second, from a promotional point of view, yers of this world had never seen MOBAs, but were plenty familiar with RTS games. It would probably take long for a MOBA to get off its feetpared to RTS games. Moreover, Chen Mo wanted to incorporate the World of Azeroth into a game as soon as possible. The sooner the world bes a game, the more yers would recognise the story, making the game spread even faster. Therefore, Chen Mo decided to make Warcraft first as there wouldn¡¯t be any point making an RTS game after making a MOBA. ¡ª Next up was nning the foundations of the game. Warcraft technically was a series of games. ¡®Orcs & Humans¡¯, ¡®Tides of Darkness¡¯, ¡®Beyond the Dark Portal¡¯, ¡®Reign of Chaos¡¯, ¡®The Frozen Throne¡¯, were all technically Warcraft, but the differences between them were huge. Setting aside the story, there was still a substantial difference between games in terms of gamey. For example in Warcraft 2, Blizzard had discovered their style, pioneering left click to select, and right click for attack and movement. Moreover, the ¡°Fog of War¡± concept had also spread to many other RTS games. In Warcraft 3, the concept of Heroes bes key in the design of the game, striking a bnce between teamwork and individuality, allowing the world of an RTS game to feel much richer. And when Wrath of the Lich King came along, Warcraft 3 continued to get bnce patches, and the story of the game reached its peak, which allowed Warcraft to be a ssic game. Chen Mo felt that he didn¡¯t need to go through all the trouble that Blizzard went through, and decided to skip right to Warcraft 3. In The Frozen Throne, the two most popr heroes, Illidan and Arthas dueled it out for the Frozen Throne, and pushed the story of the world of Azeroth to its limits. There were many yers who started ying the game or spent more time looking into the lore because of these two heros. Chen Mo decided to condense all the main parts of the story from Reign of Chaos, resulting in abination of both Reign of Chaos and The Frozen Throne. The other versions such as Tides of Darkness or Beyond the Dark Portal could be done as DLCs if the yers were enthusiastic about getting more. ¡ª Chen Mo split the designing process of Warcraft into six different parts, namely rules and specifications, battle mechanics, races and units, story, level and map design, and multiyer. As there was so much to do, Chen Mo wasn¡¯t in a rush to finish it. After writing down some concepts and key points, Chen Mo went downstairs. Qian Kun started working yesterday, and sat next to Zheng Hongxi. Zheng Hongxi and Su Jinyu were ying League Conquest while working hard to finish their research report on RTS games. ¡°Are the reports done?¡± asked Chen Mo. Chen Hongxi saiid, ¡°Almost done.¡± Su Jinyu said unconfidently, ¡°I¡¯m... done.¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Alright, you guys can keep it. I won¡¯t be looking at it.¡± Zheng Hongxi and Su Jinyu were visibly confused. Su Jinyu was dumbfounded, ¡°Manager, if you weren¡¯t going to look at it, why make us put so much effort into it?¡± Chen Mo replied, ¡°If I didn¡¯t ask you to write reports, would you y the game so seriously? Moreover, the reports are probably garbage, and I don¡¯t even need to look at it to know that.¡± Zheng Hongxi and Su Jinyu were both speechless. ¡°Alright, I¡¯ve got the ns for the next game, I¡¯ll talk more in the meeting room.¡± said Chen Mo. Chen Mo handed out the design concept to the rest of them around the meeting table. Zheng Hongxi was shocked, ¡°Wow, you¡¯re finally working on Azeroth?¡± ¡°RTS! Huh, seems like it¡¯s going to be a big project! Are we able to do it...?¡± said Su Jinyu. Qian Kun rubbed his chin, ¡°Not a scammy game huh. Disappointing...¡± Chen Mo was speechless, Is that the only thing this kid thinks about? Chapter 103 - Chapter 102: Troop and Building Planning

Chapter 103: Chapter 102: Troop and Building nning

It didn¡¯t take long for the three of them to read the redesign concepts. The design document gave an overview of the game, including what would make it fun and its basicposition. The three of them had a basic understanding of Warcraft after reading the design document. However, Chen Mo was surprised that the three of them didn¡¯t like the name of the game. ¡°Monsters? I think that¡¯s a weird name, why not call it the war of Azeroth?[1]¡± Zheng Hongxi said, confused. ¡°I like the use of war, and I think it suits RTS games. However, doesn¡¯t the game sound simr to Legion Conquest?¡± asked Qian Kun. ¡°But what are demons... There are orcs and undead, but there aren¡¯t any demons...¡± Zheng Hongxi struggled toe to terms with that point. Su Jinyu however was worried about the future of the game, ¡°Manager, I¡¯ve realised during my research that RTS is still dominated by Legion Conquest. There are a few otherpanies that have tried doing it and have failed. Are you sure we can make it to Legion Conquest¡¯s level?¡± Chen Mo was speechless, why were they worried about such weird things? But to be fair, the Warcraft was known as Warcraft in english, which doesn¡¯t have anything to do with demons. But this trantion represented the game really well as well as sounding epic. That was why it became the official trantion, turning demon into a proper noun.¡± ¡°Rx, you guys don¡¯t have to worry about my abilities toe up with names, nor do you guys have to worry about predicting how well the game does, ¡± said Chen Mo. Su Jinyu said, ¡°Wow, manager the great and almighty. So when are we starting?¡± ¡°Hold up, we¡¯ll need to split the work first.¡± ¡°First, Hongxi. You¡¯ll work on the story. I¡¯ll give you a quick overview of the story, and it¡¯ll revolve around the rtionship of Arthas and Idin. You¡¯ll need to keep it in mind. ¡°You should know what to do with the descriptions of quests, dialogue, units, and buildings, I shouldn¡¯t need to remind you of that. ¡°And from that will be the different buildings the various races will have as well as the settings for the units. So far we have four different races, humans, orcs, elves, and undead. The found different races will havepletely different buildings. You¡¯ll need to consider how well it¡¯s going to fit to the story, which you¡¯ll need to discuss with Qian Kun. ¡°It¡¯s not enough for the story this time to be at the same level as Lifeline, so you better mentally prepare yourself. The story for the game will need to end up as a ssic.¡± Zheng Hongxi wiped the sweat off his forehead, ¡°I¡¯ll try my best.¡± Chen Mo continued, ¡°Qian Kun, you¡¯ll be responsible for level design and the bncing. The bncing of the different units, difficulty of the levels, and the growth of the attributes of heroes. You¡¯ll need to discuss with Hongxi. ¡°You¡¯ll need to make a model for the bncing first, you should already know how to do these things. This is going to take some time, so don¡¯t worry about getting it first try.¡± Before Chen Mo could finish, Su Jinyu added, ¡°Yep, because the manager will tell you: Not bad, but redo it.¡± Zheng Hongxi confirmed, ¡°Yep, that¡¯s true.¡± Chen Mo and Qian Kun were both speechless. Chen Mo continued, ¡°Jin Yu will help me by making art work and concept art for characters and backgrounds. You¡¯ll also need to work on some of the specifications of the game.¡± ¡°I understand, ¡°Su Jinyu confirmed with a nod. ¡°Look up World of Azeroth when you have the time, as there are many things that could be directly used there. Other than that, you could probably use content from other Western Fantasy representations as reference such as Heavenly Ring.¡± After having their assigned jobs, everyone started working. Of course, it was unrealistic for Chen Mo to expect that Zheng Hongxi and Qian Kun topletely recreate the Warcraft, which was why Chen Mo had to build a foundation for them to work off of. Back at his office, Chen Mo used another Memory yback Potion and started recalling his lost memories. Back to many years ago where he would spend entire afternoons at inte cafes. First were the units. There weren¡¯t too many units in the game as there were four races, and around twelve different types of units for each race. Chen Mo started a column chart, with columns for attributes of units, including their cost (Gold, Wood and Food), attack speed, attack range, move speed, attack type, defence type, health, mana, weapon and armor type, special abilities, etc. Afterwards, Chen Mo filled them in for all the units, starting from Night Elves: wisps, archer, ive thrower, hippogryph... The attributes of every single unit will need to be filled out ording to the column chart he set out. Moreover, Chen Mo could probably remake all the numbers for the units without the use of Memory yback Potions based on his current abilities. However, in order to get Qian Kun some training, Chen Mo decided to make the foundation to allow Qian Kun to get some practice. Next up were the buildings. The building system was quiteplicated in Warcraft, unlike Red Alert where they only served one purpose and were all extremely squishy. It only took a dozen machine gun wielding conscripts to destroy a military camp. This wasn¡¯t logical no matter how you thought about it. The buildings in Warcraft were more like ayer of armour for the base. Only a few specialised units were able to quickly destroy buildings, low tier units would merely tickle the buildings, nothing a few hammers from the peasants wouldn¡¯t fix. Moreover, yers could block off areas using buildings to make their base more secure. After including the buildings into the bncing system, sneak attacks that weremon in Red Alert were nowhere to be seen. Moreover, Warcraft did a good job on upgrading buildings and training units. A building would be able to be upgraded from level one to level three. Should the yer work on building buildings to make higher tier troops or spam low tier units and rush early? The addition of an upgrade tree greatly expands the amount of strategies the yers could use. In addition, the yers would also need to consider what units each building produced, what techs each unit had, as well as the positioning of buildings. For example, Ancient of War from the night elves. Other than being able to train lower tier units such as archers and huntresses, it also had one thousand HP and strong attack. It could even consume trees to regenerate health. And it¡¯s also because of this that many yers choose to use the Ancient of War to help kill neutral creeps, which was amon strategy among night elves. These points made it clear that it was worth Chen Mo¡¯s time to n it properly as units and buildings were all integral to Warcraft. TL note: [1] In Chinese, the game is directly tranted to something along the lines of warring demons. Chapter 104 - Chapter 103: Arthass Sketch

Chapter 104: Chapter 103: Arthas¡¯s Sketch

The nning of units and buildings only took two days with the help of the Memory yback Potion. But of course, Chen Mo had just the numbers, with no images for reference at all. Chen Mo had previously posted a few concept arts of the World of Azeroth, including gryphons and hippogryphs, but most of the units stillcked artwork. As Chen Mo had so many other things on his hands, he decided to hand over the buildings and units to Qian Kun. Qian Kun built a system ording to the attack/defence types of the different units and buildings to achieve a sort of bnce between different races and units. Su Jinyu on the other hand was creating artwork for a portion of the units based on her concept art, and the rest of it were outsourced to an artpany. As for the story, Chen Mo only left the story for The Frozen Throne to Zheng Hongxi, asking to make a draft for the story (including the plot and campaign), before revising it in the future. After assigning the jobs, Chen Mo started to work on the most important part, the foundations of the specifications for maps. The Warcraft world editor (aka WE) was very powerful, leading to the development of many minigames. Moreover this game birthed ssic minigames such Chenghai 3C, Dynasty Warriors[1], and DotA. DotA was especially important as it started the long MOBA saga. Blizzard didn¡¯t know how powerful the world editor was, but Chen Mo did. Because of how useful it was, Chen Mo wanted to make sure he did it right, and even make it better than the one in his previous life. Not only did the mainframe of the world editor needed to be good, other hero mechanisms(respawning, reviving, invulnerability, etc.) also had to be added, bing part of the editor. Moreover, the resources for the map were also very expansive. The map settings included map size, terrain, texture, as well as water andnd. There were also settings such as time(night and day) which would affect the vision range as well as if they were sleeping. It could even influence the strategy for different races. Night Elves for example, where a few of the heroes and units would get invisibility upon standing still during the night, as well as increased health regeneration and improved vision range. Because of the limitations of the game engine, controls for Warcraft weren¡¯t as crisp as Starcraft 2 or other MOBA games, and Chen Mo felt that it was a point he could improve on. ¡ª The development of the game continued steadily. Chen Mo would spend most of his time making the engine for the world, and would spend the remaining time making sketches of different units, buildings or areas for Su Jinyu to finish and colour. These sketches didn¡¯t need to be as detailed as the cards as the yers would mostly focus on the character models as opposed to the artwork. As when the artworks were finished, there were still character models to work on, and after that were animations, collision boxes and many more items. This was why Chen Mo decided to focus on finishing the concept document, as it was a bottleneck for everything else. First floor of the experience store. ¡°Goldfish, can you tell me what genre the game will be? Is it an RPG?¡± asked Wen Lingwei. Su Jinyu replied, ¡°Geez, rx, you¡¯ll know when ites out.¡± ¡°But the concept art is pretty good, the urge for me to help you colour them in are so strong I could barely contain myself,¡± replied Wen Lingwei. Jia Peng also added, ¡°It seems rted to Azeroth, but it¡¯s not a cute version this time. Perhaps it¡¯s a more realistic I Am MT?¡± Su Jinyu was speechless, ¡°You guys are underestimating the manager, is he that type of guy? The type of guy to scam yers for money on the basis of a reskin?¡± Wen Lingwei facepalmed, ¡°What do you think?¡± ¡°You don¡¯t have to worry about that. This game ispletely unrted to I Am MT. Itpletely rests on the story from the World of Azeroth,¡± said Zheng Hongxi. ¡°Isn¡¯t the World of Azeroth and I Am MT the same thing?¡± asked Jia Peng. Zheng Hongxi shook his head, ¡°Of course it isn¡¯t the same. Haven¡¯t you noticed that the story the manager posts of the World Of Azeroth is the world behind I Am MT, but the characters in I Am MT never appeared in World of Azeroth?¡± Jia Peng gave it some thought, ¡°Uhh, that¡¯s... true.¡± Wen Lingwei was also confused, ¡°Why is that?¡± ¡°You guys still don¡¯t know? Names like Rogue and Priest clearly aren¡¯t normal names of Western Fantasy characters, it¡¯s just the bastardisation of their english pronunciation. I¡¯m guessing that the manager is afraid that the people aren¡¯t ready to ept Western Fantasy, which was why he decided to make the game and animated series more cute and suited to local tastes as promotion. ¡°That means that I Am MT is basically a parody and has nothing to do with the actual story in Azeroth.¡± Everyone finally understood, ¡°So that¡¯s why! The manager sure thinks far into the future.¡± Wen Lingwei scowled, ¡°Therefore, now that the manager thinks its the right time, he decided to tell the story of the actual World of Azeroth?¡± Zheng Hongxi nodded, ¡°Exactly. I can¡¯t tell you too much, but I can tell you that the story is insane. That¡¯s right, insane.¡± ...Is it as good as you make it out to be? ¡ª As they were talking Chen Mo came down stairs. ¡°I¡¯ve sent a new batch of sketches to you, Goldfish,¡± said Chen Mo. Everyone gathered around Su Jinyu as she opened the sketches. It was a young man wearing dark green armor with ashen hair, with eyes filled with evil intent. There was another sketch on the same image, a ming skeleton horse running, as well as a two-sword with magic inscriptions on it. The sketch also had the name of the character: Arthas Mhil, his mount Invincible, and his weapon Frostmourne. ¡°Is this the new Undead hero? He¡¯s so handsome!¡± eximed Su Jinyu. Wen Lingwei also joined in, ¡°He¡¯s so good looking! Is this the main character?¡± Jia Peng said, ¡°Umm... looks like the antagonist. That smile sends shivers through my spine.¡± ¡°The sketch for Arthas is finally done? Let me see! Crazy! This is amazing!¡± eximed Zheng Hongxi. Everyone had nothing but praises for the sketch. Chen Mo¡¯s sketch of Arthas fully conveyed his possible good or bad nature, especially with his mount Invincible and Fortmourne, everyone were able to imagine the heroic figure of Arthas leading the Scourge to take over Azeroth. This picture was enough to make their blood boil! After giving the sketch another look, they had more to say about it. Although the sketch was far fromplete, it was more than enough to convey the idea and characteristics of the character. From a design point of view, it was basically perfect and could even stand toe to toe with Heavenly Ring! Wen Lingwei said, ¡°Alright, I¡¯ve decided that I¡¯ll colour this sketch, free of charge!¡± TL note [1]: Names of WOW minigames, and Dynasty Warriors here doesn¡¯t refer to the actual Dynasty Warrior series Chapter 105 - Chapter 104: Always Copied, Never Bested

Chapter 105: Chapter 104: Always Copied, Never Bested

Everyone was getting excited just from the sketches, especially when they thought about how the world of Azeroth would be made into an RPG game. Wen Lingwei, Jia Peng and the others did not expect that Chen Mo would want to make an RTS as it was dominated by one overseaspany, and none of the Chinesepanies were able to properly integrate into the market. Which was why the others thought that Chen Mo would make an RPG, because it would be the safest choice. All of a sudden, Wen Lingwei mentioned, ¡°By the way, manager, have you seen Zen Entertainment¡¯s newest game?¡± Chen Mo shook his head, ¡°Nope, what is it?¡± ¡°I think it¡¯s called ¡®Seven Heroes¡¯. It¡¯s a Wuxia themedrge scale RPG on the PC,¡± answered Wen Lingwei. Zheng Hongxi said, ¡°Oh that, I think it just entered closed beta today, and would enter public beta in two months.¡± That managed to grab Chen Mo¡¯s attention, ¡°Really? What type of game is it?¡± Zheng Hongxi replied, ¡°I watched the trailer, and it feels like a reskin of Legend of the Sword, swapping out the Xianxia theme into Wuxia theme. ¡°Huh? They¡¯re doing that? Zen Entertainment sure iszy,¡± said Jia Peng. Zheng Hongxi said, ¡°It¡¯s not reallyzy. Because of how sessful Legend of the Sword was, any small changes couldpletely destroy the game. Copying their own game would be a safer choice.¡± Chen Mo nodded in agreement. This was actually quitemon in his previous world. Arge majority of thepanies don¡¯t have the courage to make big changes to a game that was already sessful. It isn¡¯t easy to create something new too, and I may even have the opposite effect. Therefore, the safer choice would be to reskin their own game, changing out Xianxia to Wuxia. They would need to change things such as the content, how it¡¯s sold, jobs, and thebat system, but the core of the game would remain the same, minimizing the risk of failure. Qian Kun said, ¡°It seems like they are just testing the waters. If it was sessful as a PC game, they¡¯ll make it into a VR game. Same old n.¡± ¡°The PC version will probably be sessful, as in China, Legend of the Sword still has the best of the best gamey,¡± said Zheng Hongxi. As they were discussing, Su Jinyu eximed out of nowhere, ¡°Huh? Take a look guys at Emperor Dynasty Entertainment¡¯s Weibo! They are releasing a new game!¡± Everyone took out their phone to check their Weibo. Indeed Emperor Dynasty Entertainment posted a Weibo on their new game, After theunch of I Am MT, Chen Mo developed Thunderbolt Tabletop as well as Lifeline. Including the development time, as well as testing, pre-release preparations and everything else was around four month¡¯s of time. It was now evident that Emperor Dynasty Entertainment hadn¡¯t been cking during that time. The Weibo was as follows : Our newest game Ain World is now in closed beta! Expansive world, rich character customisation and different races, providing you with a unique RPG experience! There were a few artworks included in the Weibo post, human knights, orc warriors, and elven archers. There were also a few artworks for the background setting, giving off strong Western Fantasy vibes. Zheng Hongxi was also shocked, ¡°What is this? Why would Emperor Dynasty make a Western Fantasy game?¡± Wen Lingwei said disapprovingly, ¡°It¡¯s even called Ain World. It¡¯s a knockoff of Azeroth right?¡± ¡°Manager, what do you think?¡± asked Su Jinyu. Chen Moughed, ¡°What is there to think. Western Fantasy as a theme is currently in limbo in China. Emperor Dynasty and Zen have avoided it like the gue in the past, but decided to try it again out of nowhere. Moreover, it¡¯s apletely original fictional world. Obviously...¡± Zheng Hongxi finished off his sentence, ¡°They¡¯re copying Azeroth.¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Bingo.¡± ¡°Wow, that¡¯s really a new low for Emperor Dynasty, they copy everything the manager does. Does a hugepany like them have no sense of dignity?¡± Jia Peng said angrily. Wen Lingwei added, ¡°They¡¯ve even copied it before we made it.¡± Chen Moughed, ¡°Don¡¯t worry, out of all the knockoffs they¡¯ve made, was there a single one that performed better than the original?¡± ¡°Well, we can¡¯t do nothing about it, right? Copying fictional worlds like this should warrant awsuit right?¡± said Su Jinyu. Chen Mo said, ¡°They¡¯ve already made changes no? Look, obviously they¡¯ve based it off Western Fantasy, and just ¡®referenced¡¯ some content from World of Azeroth, they wouldn¡¯t dare reference too much.¡± Su Jinyu was still unsatisfied, ¡°Well, manager, does that we¡¯re not going to do anything?¡± Chen Mo shook his head, ¡°Of course not. Am I the type of guy to just take it? Hand the great Chen Mo his mobile phone, Goldfish.¡± Su Jinyu was shocked, ¡°Huh?¡± Chen Mo pointed at his phone on the table, ¡°Over there.¡± SU Jinyu was speechless, ¡°You¡¯re such a drama queen, manager. Couldn¡¯t you have done that yourself? And even went as far to refer to yourself in third person...¡± Su Jinyu still walked the few steps to pass Chen Mo his phone. Everyone was curious as to what Chen Mo was going to do. Was he going to start something that would benefit him again? Chen Mo sent a Weibo with only a picture: Arthas¡¯s concept sketch. After some thought, he added a sentence :¡±Always copied, never bested.¡± His Weibo basically followed Emperor Dynasty Entertainment¡¯s Weibo, with only a five minute gap between them. The drama hungry fans were surprised upon seeing the Weibo! They were about to start trash talking Emperor Dynasty Entertainment upon seeing their Weibo, but upon seeing Chen Mo¡¯s Weibo, all their attention was shifted! Although Chen Mo only posted a picture and one sentence, the message was clear as day. There were dozens of entries on the World of Azeroth on Arthas. Therefore, everyone knew that he was a key character in the world of Azeroth, a fact that even the drama waiting yers knew. Even without context, the art for Arthas was amazing in and of itself. The design, the expression, the setting, and whenbined with the skeleton horse and Frostmourne, there were only two words that could be used to describe it: Extremely handsome! Compared to this sketch, the detailed artwork for Ain World was like a woman with heavy makeup. No matter how much foundation they put on, they werepletely overshadowed by the beauty of Chen Mo¡¯s sketch! The knockoff aspect became even more obvious. Moreover, Chen Mo added a ¡®Always copied, never bested.¡¯ which he didn¡¯t need to. Yeah, that rings so true! nts vs Zombies, I Am MT, or Thunderbolt Tabletop, no matter what theme, what genre, and no matter how good or ill of an intent the game had, the other designers would copy Chen Mo. It was starting to get hard to watch! Moreover, Emperor Dynasty decided to copy the World of Azeroth now? That¡¯s a new level of ridiculous! But looking back at Chen Mo¡¯s games, none of them were bested! No matter how they copied it, Chen Mo¡¯s next game would undoubtedly be better! Chapter 106 - Chapter 105: Its an RTS Game?

Chapter 106: Chapter 105: It¡¯s an RTS Game?

It didn¡¯t take long before that sentence blew up The drama hungry yers left manyments underneath Chen Mo¡¯s Weibo. ¡°Always copied, never bested! Crazy!¡± ¡°Hahaha, Emperor Dynasty Entertainment are still in their own happy ce when the real Azeroth is releasing soon. Do you think they are worried?¡± ¡°You got them right on the mouth!¡± ¡°I feel bad for Emperor Dynasty. They were going to generate hype for the game, but all it took was one sentence from Chen Mo to draw all the attention away from them. Hahaha.¡± ¡°Why do I feel that Chen Mo nned this from the start?¡± ¡°I can imagine what Emperor Dynasty was nning. Hasn¡¯t Zen released a game called Seven Heroestely? Then Emperor Dynasty decided to make Ain World to borrow some hype of Azeroth for itself. They even did it while Chen Mo didn¡¯t have the ability to makerge scale RPG games. But who would¡¯ve thought that Chen Mo already saw thise! Just look at this sketch, it¡¯s more than enough for Emperor Dynasty to start sweating!¡± ¡°But I¡¯m worried. Is Chen Mo able to make arge scale RPG?¡± ¡°Previous poster, can Chen Mo make casual games? Can he make mobile card games? Can he make tabletop games? Every time you thought he couldn¡¯t do it, didn¡¯t he do exactly that?¡± ¡°But RPGs cost a lot of money!¡± ¡°Chen Mocking money? Is that a joke?¡± ¡°Yeah, Chen Mo isn¡¯tcking any money at all, every single game he makes is insanely popr, how could he becking money? How could you even say that after being drained of money by I Am MT.¡± ¡°Wow, I thought there would be two to three years before I could y Azeroth, but turns out it¡¯s already in production. I¡¯m so excited!¡± ¡°I just wanna be a Tauren running around in the ins...¡± ¡ª The number of reposts andments on Chen Mo¡¯s Weibo was growing rapidly. Five hundred, one thousand, two thousand... On the other hand, Emperor Dynasty Entertainment¡¯s Weibo was much more quiet. The most infuriating thing was that the bestment was ¡®Always copied, never bested¡¯! It even became a trending topic, how could Emperor Dynasty not be mad? Not only were the drama waiting fans surprised by the Weibo, it even surprised industry professionals! Many video game designers were getting stressed from their past experiences with Weibo. It didn¡¯t concern them too much while he was still in the mobile game market, but does this mean he¡¯s entering the PC ecosystem? And he¡¯s starting off with an RPG, was he trying to contend with Emperor Dynasty Entertainment and Zen Entertainment? Wow, he¡¯s really not afraid of anything! This was also extremely time sensitive, first was Seven Heroes from Zen Entertainment, then Ain World from Emperor Dynasty Entertainment, then followed by Chen Mo¡¯s World of Azeroth? They were announced so close together it was hard to tell who would be winning and losing! Zen Entertainment had experience from Legend of the Sword. Emperor Dynasty Entertainment had a promotion using the Emperor Dynasty Gaming tform. Chen Mo... didn¡¯t have anything, but it was Chen Mo! This guy was incredible right off the bat. He only bullied others, there was nobody bullying him yet! Performance like this was incredible, and difficult to believe if you didn¡¯t see it with your own eyes. The drama loving fans were now extremely satisfied, and Chen Mo managed to siphon a lot of attention to the World of Azeroth. ¡ª Much discussion had started within the videogame industry. The biggest question was what type of game was Chen Mo nning? So far Chen Mo only released a sketch and a super pretentiousment. Many yers thought that Chen Mo must be making an MMORPG, as the content of World of Azeroth would fit an RPG so well it was practically designed for it. But many industry professionals didn¡¯t but it, mainly because of how demanding the content for an RPG was, could Chen Mo manage that? Chen Mo had also done some bait and switch in the past. He released an animated series as well as a website before he released I Am MT, but ended up releasing a hundred something megabyte mobile game. Simrly, Chen Mo only released a sketch this time, who could be sure that he wasn¡¯t going to make another scammy card game? However, there were also some industry professionals who thought Chen Mo would actually make an RPG as he now had the money and user base. Combined with an expansive fictional world and some hard work, it wasn¡¯t out of the line to make an RPG that would go down in history. It wouldn¡¯t make too much sense to make another scammy mobile game. Just as the boy who cried wolf, the yers would eventually get tired of this antics, ruining a fictional world as well done as World of Azeroth was. There were many different opinions, with no consensus. ¡ª Chen Mo was tight-lipped about the matter. No matter how many times the fans asked, he wasn¡¯t revealing anything. At the same time, the development was going on as nned. After Su Jinyu finished another batch of concept art, Chen Mo found anotherpany to outsource the 3D model production. Of course Chen Mo provided their scales, actions and other specifications as Chen Mo wanted to best represent the uniqueness of each unit. The details on character models didn¡¯t have as high requirements as RPG games, as most of the time yers would be ying from a top-down view of the world. There weren¡¯t any ¡®gentlemen requirements¡¯ such as being able to peek at the panties of the models. There were hundreds of models including the units and monsters in Warcraft. If the models for terrain and buildings were included as well, it was going to be quite big, but still within the realms of eptance. Other than that, Chen Mo also had Zheng Hongxi rewrite the story for the Frozen Throne four more times. The story would directly affect things such as the terrain, level design, enemy locations. Chen Mo had to meticulously adjust them one by one to make sure it fit with the story. Music and audio effects weren¡¯t big problems either. He could outsource the dubs and sound effects, and Chen Mo couldpose a rough BGM to be finished by professionals. === The drama hungry yers were eagerly waiting for Seven Heroes, Ain World, and Warcraft. On the fifth next month, Seven Heroes would enter public beta. The date for Ain World¡¯s public beta was also confirmed, on the tenth next month. Chapter 107 - Chapter 106: Game is Now Live!

Chapter 107: Chapter 106: Game is Now Live!

Jia Peng and Qian Kun were being quite rowdy as they were ying games in the experience store. ¡°What the, why is your demaster here again? You¡¯re so annoying, stop killing my peasants!!¡± ¡°Heh, you think I don¡¯t know that you¡¯re trying to hide the fact that you¡¯re leveling up your buildings? I¡¯ll kill your wisps!¡± ¡°What, don¡¯t make me do this!¡± ¡°My goodness, it self-destructed!¡± To be frank, guys usually have an advantage when ites to RTS games. The two of them had beat the campaign fairly early on, and quickly moved onto PvP. Jia Peng liked the game a lot as RTS games weren¡¯t as heavy on RNG. Of course he would never y heroes like demaster or Demon Hunter, as a demaster who doesn¡¯t crit posed no threat. The girls weren¡¯t entirely interested inbat like these, and only wanted to get through the campaign. But for their skill level, they were struggling through the campaign levels... Other than Wen Lingwei, all the other girls were still on the Undead level. ¡°Manager, could you do some cheating for me? I really can¡¯t beat this,¡± pleaded Chang Xiuya. Chen Mo took a look, and indeed, RTS games weren¡¯t too suitable for these girls. ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll teach you a spell,¡± said Chen Mo. ¡°A spell?¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Open the textbox and type in +1, no wait, I mean whosyourdaddy.¡± Chang Xiuya could barely hold back herughter, ¡°What do you mean! Are you asking theputer who¡¯s your daddy?¡± Chen Mo said in a serious tone, ¡°I¡¯m serious, try it.¡± Chang Xiuya typed in the cheat in the chat just as Chen Mo instructed, then hit enter. ¡°Hmm? It feels like nothing has changed,¡± said Chang Xiuya. ¡°Try and hit that monster over there.¡± Chang Xiuyamanded her Death Knight to attack the monster, and it died in one hit! Chang Xiuya was shocked, then tried to hit the other monster, which all died to one hit. Moreover, her Death Knight was also invulnerable, not losing a single bit of HP no matter how many enemies there were. Chang Xiuya eximed, ¡°Wow, it really is a spell, that¡¯s amazing! Anyways, how would you add something like this, manager.¡± Chen Moughed, ¡°There are many more spells in the game, you wanna learn?¡± Qian Kun typed in ¡®whosyourdaddy¡¯ in the chat in the match against Jia Peng. Jia Peng replied in chat: ¡°???¡± ¡°Ah! Manager, that spell doesn¡¯t work, you lied to me again!¡± cried Qian Kun. Jia Peng was speechless, ¡°Geez, you nned to cheat? What happened to your dignity.¡± Chen Moughed, ¡°Stop thinking about ways to cheat. Anyone would know that you couldn¡¯t use cheats in versus mode. Did you really have to try?¡± Chen Mo looked at the match between Qian Kun and Jia Peng and they were still at the early stages in terms of skill, with basically zero micromanagement. They wouldn¡¯t be fighting when they were training, and there was no training when fighting. Their strategies were also extremely monotonous, they would always train the highest tier minions and the match would be decided in one fight. They were also not inclined to kill neutral creeps as they would suffer heavy casualties when doing so. They were still quite new to the game after all, and were quite far away from actually understanding the core gamey. However, Chen Mo decided to let them explore, holding back on teaching them advanced strategies. As the game grows and yers increase, the strategies would develop themselves. ¡ª It was almost time for the release of Warcraft, and the game was more or less at the same level as the original version now. But the game engine, graphics and multiyer aspect were much better than the original. Especially the multiyer aspect, where Chen Mo included a scoring system for ranking, from zero to four thousand. Fifteen hundred was designed to be around the average yer, less than fifteen hundred would mean you were terrible, at four thousand meant that you were a pro yer. Moreover, Chen Mo added a rey system, and each rey file would only be a few hundred KBs, allowing yers to easily watch matches between high skilled yers in order to learn from them, which would in turn increase the skill level of the average yer. It was also because of these match reys that allowed a few ssic matchups to be spread all over the world, and allowed a few ssic strategies to be improved upon/ ¡ª This time, everyone in the experience store, including Su Jinyu had nothing but praises for this game. Even the girls who weren¡¯t used to ying RTS games were really satisfied with the game. The only person who had questions about the game was Qian Kun. He questioned why it didn¡¯t use the same modem as I Am MT, but was shut down quickly by Chen MO. Everyone was confident that Warcraft would be an amazing game, not only challenging Legion Conquest for the top spot for RTS games, but also defining the idea of RTS games! ¡ª Warcraft was now officially live at 2pm, the first. Chen Mo decided to only have it on Thunderbolt Gaming tform and the official app store, ignoring all the other misceneous tforms. Moreover, Chen Mo didn¡¯t feel the need to please the other distribution tforms. This was the reason he spent so much time and effort into promoting Thunderbolt Gaming tform and developing Thunderbolt Tabletop. Of course he had to send out a Weibo. ¡°The true Azeroth story, defefining RTS games. Warcraft: The Frozen Throne is now officially live!¡± The drama loving fans downloaded the game on Thunderbolt Gaming tform at moments notice. Chen Mo didn¡¯t use the usual profit model for this game, but instead chose to make the first chapter of the campaign mode free to y, but requiring yers to pay for the other chapters as well as the multiyer mode. Warcraft: The Frozen Throne was set at eight-eight RMB, which was quite expensive in China. Legion Conquest was selling for forty USD outside of China, and repriced it to ny-nine RMB in China, due to the differences in countries, the developers couldn¡¯t directly convert the cost. As Chinese yers had a lower level of consumption, and couldn¡¯t go shoulder to shoulder with the other developed countries. Therefore, in order to sell more copies, developers choose to reduce the price. Chinese mobile games usually cost ten to twenty RMB, and RPGs usually charge by ytime, reducing the upfront cost. Games like Warcraft that are charging almost ny RMB upfront were quite expensive Chapter 108 - Chapter 107: Ten Years In Video Games, Nine Years in CG

Chapter 108: Chapter 107: Ten Years In Video Games, Nine Years in CG

Chinese RTS fans were also discussing this brand new RTS game. In amunity of Legion Conquest yers. ¡°I heard there¡¯s a new Chinese RTS game that is quite popr recently.¡± ¡°I¡¯ve also heard. I think it¡¯s called Warcraft. It uses Western Fantasy.¡± ¡°...Really? I thought Western Fantasy and RTS games are taboo in the Chinese video game industry. Didn¡¯t Emperor Dynasty and Zen break themselves trying? Who would be daring enough to try the two together at once?¡± ¡°Thunderbolt Entertainment, the one owned by Chen Mo.¡± ¡°Chen Mo? Never heard of him.¡± ¡°You¡¯ve heard of nts vs Zombies and I Am MT right?¡± ¡°Huh? Isn¡¯t that a mobile gamepany? They¡¯re moving onto PC games? RTS games at that?¡± ¡°So brave...¡± ¡°But I¡¯ve heard this guy has some magical powers or something, no matter what genre they tap into, the game bes insanely popr. I¡¯m downloading Warcraft as we speak, I¡¯ll let you guys know how it goes.¡± ¡°Go forth! The people of our vige will be waiting for your good news!¡± ¡ª Everybody in thatmunity were RTS fans, and arge majority of them yed Legion Conquest. One of the admins in the group, Kaiser asked, ¡°What? New RTS game? Send me the link, I¡¯ll try it out too.¡± Many replies came after the message. ¡°Wow, K-god wants to try it himself? Alright, I¡¯ve got something to look forward to too. ¡°Even K-god is getting the itch, alright, I¡¯ll try it out too.¡± ¡°K-god, you can download Warcraft from Thunderbolt Gaming tform, it¡¯s just a search away.¡± This Kaiser guy was well known in the Chinese RTSmunity. There are a few superstars in LEgion Conquest, and Kaiser was one of them. However, Kaiser wasn¡¯t the best of the best, and was only top ten in the country. The reason he was famous was because he¡¯d always criticise Legion Conquest on various forums, and was even known to give the developer suggestions, and of course, almost none of them have been used. Kaiser was seen as the prime source of opinion in the RTSmunity in China. He had also made a tutorial series for Legion Conquest, and also had his own fan base. This guy was usually quiet year round, and seemed like the cool, quiet type. But they couldn¡¯t help but speak out after hearing about a new RTS game being released. In reality, this K-god with a huge fan base was just a second-year senior student. Xue Kai, game ID: Kaiser, 17 years old, legend in Legion Conquest. Xua Kai came from a well-off family, a huge fan of RTS games, and gained a huge fan base through streaming and videos. However, he still had many strong opinions on LEgion Conquest. He had also expressed his opinions to the developers, as it¡¯s an overseas game, even if Xue Kai got someone to trante his rmendations, the developers of Legion Conquest wouldn¡¯t even bat an eye. Therefore, Xue Kai had been waiting for a better RTS game to appear. Upon hearing that a Chinese designer developed an RTS game, he tried it out filled with hope. What if. What if the game was actually kinda fun? After finding Thunderbolt Gaming tform, he registered a Thunderbolt Game Pass and downloaded Warcraft. It didn¡¯t take long before the download finished. The icon was a young man who was filled with evil intent. Although it was difficult to tell from such a small icon, it felt really nice. Xue Kai double clicked the icon to enter the game. The logo of Thunderbolt Gaming shed across the screen/ An ominous gust of wind, the camera zoomed through the clouds, free as a bird. Following the ominous winds, a melodious tune started ying. A crow flew over the snow covered peak, through a deste gorge, finally reaching a populous human city. The pce of humans, the imperial capital of Lordaeron There was chattering, and the king, Terenas, sat on the throne deep in thought. At the same time, the crow flew out of nowhere right in front of the king. The background music turned dark, and the ominous crow drew the attention of the king. As everyone else in the room was chattering, the crow started to glow a suspicious green, and turned into a human as people were panicking. Medivh. His face was hooded, but his voice could be heard throughout the entire castle. ¡°Humans are in danger. The tides of darkness will arrive again, and the world is on the edge of war! ¡°The only hope for your people is to move west, to the forgottennds, Kalimdor!¡± The king was visibly upset, standing up from his throne, ¡°I don¡¯t know who you are or what you believe in, but now is not the time for prophecies! If our country goes to war, we will decide how to protect our citizens! Not you!¡± At this moment, the background music turned into a sad mncholic tone. Medivh¡¯s now had a disappointed tone, ¡°I¡¯ve once lost my humanity, but I won¡¯t let that happen again. ¡°If you can¡¯t solve the problem, I¡¯ll get someone else you will.¡± Medivh turned around and took his leave, leaving one message behind. ¡°I¡¯ve warned you, and the fates are in your hand.¡± The screen turned ck, signaling the end of the cinematic before entering the game. Although it was short it contained a lot of information. Xue Kai didn¡¯t pay much attention to the story of Azeroth previously, but he had gotten a lot of information from this cinematic. Humans were currently under attack by the orcs, and there was an unknown disease spreading too. A mysterious person entered the pce of the humans, but his words weren¡¯t taken seriously by the king. This short cinematic managed to bring out everything that was important, although Xue Kai didn¡¯t know who Medivh was, nor did he know what his human city was about, but it was more than enough that the story captured his attention. Moreover, the cinematic was really well done. In this world, China wasn¡¯tcking good animation or CGpanies, nor were theycking in good sound effectspanies or voice actors, the only thingcking was money. Good CG could be achieved with enough money, it wasn¡¯t the best of the best, but it wasn¡¯t too far off either. The only problem was that many of the developers weren¡¯t willing to spend that money. These cinematics would be two to three minutes long, and the money to make that cinematic was almost enough to make a mobile game. Why would Chen Mo spend so much money on CG? It wasn¡¯t known how much Blizzard spent on CG, but it wasmonly epted that the three minutes for the CG for Wrath of the Lich King was around five million USD. In the parallel world, due to the improvements in animations and CG, as well as the lower pay meant that it was much cheaper. Chen Mo didn¡¯t even pick the highest quality CG, but a slightly cheaper one, one that he was happy with. Even so, Chen Mo still spent around thirty-seven million RMB. And this was the result of it, a cinematic that summarises all the key scenes from the previous versions, minus many many parts to reach the thirty-seven million price tag. For example, the opening scene for Warcraft was changed to when Medivh warned the king, cutting out everything before it. Chen Mo spent a huge chunk of money from I Am MT just to make this cinematic. Some parts that couldn¡¯t be fit into the budget had to be reced with rengerings or pure narrations in order to save money. Truthfully, if Chen Mo wasn¡¯t financially supported by a game like I Am MT, he would¡¯ve never been able to spend money on things like these, and would¡¯ve needed to settle for something cheaper. If Chen Mo went all out on the cinematics, the cost of the game would easily surpass hundreds of millions, there was no way he could¡¯ve spent that money. The game itself, including the artwork and the like didn¡¯t evene close to the cost of the cinematics. Chen Mo finally understood the meaning behind, ¡®Ten Years In Video Games, Nine Years in CG¡¯ Only Chen Mo and Guo Feng from Dazzling Aurora Studios knew about this, whereas Su Jinyu and the others werepletely in the dark. Su Jinyu and Qian Kun would probably die from shock if they found out. It was a huge risk after all. If Warcraft didn¡¯t garder many yers, wouldn¡¯t Chen Mo be out tens of millions? If he spent that money on a scammy mobile game like I Am MT, he would make so much more money! But Chen Mo knew the worth of spending that money on CG. It might not work out for other games, but it was definitely worth it for Warcraft! Every single cinematic in this game would go down in history, it was worth it even if it would cost double the price! The reason Chen Mo was willing to spend all this money was not because of the immediate return, but to build up the brand of Warcraft to enable future games. Moreover, thirty-seven million was only about six million USD, considerably cheaper than the original! ¡ª Xue Kai was very impressed at this level of dedication. There were very few overseaspanies who were willing to spend this amount of money, and even less so in China. Moreover, this cinematic wasn¡¯t just about the quality of animations, it was also content rich! Xue Kai waspletely shocked for a few seconds before starting campaign mode. After the human price Arthas exchanged a few words with Lightbringer Uther, thebat started. The game started off with a few simple tutorials, guiding Xue Kai to left click to select, and move units with right click. ¡°Huh? The controls are differentpared to Legion Conquest.¡± Xue Kai was shocked as Legion Conquest was the gold standard for RTS games, there were very few RTS games who even dared to deviate from thatbat system. As a senior RTS yer, Xue Kai didn¡¯t start ying immediately, but chose to look deeper into the controls for Warcraft. Left click to select, right click to move, and after the unit it selected, there were a few moremands, including move, stop, hold, attack, patrol and abilities. Moreover, all these actions had shortcut keys. ¡°Hold? Patrol?¡± Xue Kai clicked on patrol then somewhere on the map, then Arthas began to run between the two points. ¡°The control system is so rich in this game. This has much more depth than Legion Conquest,¡± eximed Xue Kai. Moreover, he found the design of Hero Abilities quite refreshing. In LEgion Conquest, although there were a few special units, there wasn¡¯t a ¡®Hero¡¯ ss. In Warcraft, heroes were a part of the game, there was an icon of the hero on the top left, and heroes would even have special abilities that were very useful in battle. Moreover, there was an inventory in the bottom right. Although he didn¡¯t have anything, it was obvious that this game supported the use of items. ¡°Interesting, there are so many new innovative things in this game.¡± Controlling Arthas, Xue Kai startedpleting the objectives. During that process, Arthas kept talking, responding to Xue Kai¡¯smands. ¡°Of course.¡± ¡°For glory!¡± ¡°May the Holy Light bless my people.¡± This was simr to Legion Conquest, it wasn¡¯t perfect there, and was quite awkward at times. On the other hand, the voice lines for Warcraft were managed by Chen Mo himself, using the original ones as reference. Xue Kai felt that these voice lines were very natural, keeping to the Western Fantasy theme without all the awkward trantions. It didn¡¯t take long for Xue Kai to beat the first level. As Xue Kai had a strong background in RTS games, the campaign levels didn¡¯t pose much of a threat to Xue Kai as he swept through them. After beating the first level, Xue Kai didn¡¯t continue immediately, instead sending a message to the group chat. Kaiser: ¡°This game is amazing. Legion Conquest doesn¡¯t evene close to this!!!!¡± Chapter 109 - Chapter 108: RTS Community Gone Wild!

Chapter 109: Chapter 108: RTS Community Gone Wild!

The entire chat group flipped out when Kaiser sent that message. ¡°Oh my, did K-god get hacked? I¡¯ve never seen K-god praise an RTS game like this!¡± ¡°K-god are you serious? Is the game that greaT?¡± ¡°I trust K-god, I¡¯ll try it out now!¡± The chat group was filled with long-time RTS yers. Upon hearing from Kaiser than this game was way better than Legion Conquest, they couldn¡¯t wait to try the game. Xue Kai was so happy with the game, he felt that it wasn¡¯t enough to promote it in the QQ group. He went on Weibo and praised the game yet again. He even decided to livestream the game as he decided it still didn¡¯t receive enough praise. A game like this can¡¯t be enjoyed alone, the more yers the better! Moreover, it¡¯s rare that a Chinesepany releases such a nice game, of course he was going to support it! Xue Kaiunched the streaming software. Xue Kai didn¡¯t receive as many viewers as was still the afternoon, and Xue Kai usually streamed during the night. But there were many fans who followed Xue Kai who started watching the stream. ¡°Wow, K-god is streaming? It¡¯s only afternoon, that¡¯s weird.¡± ¡°Wow, I¡¯ve got nothing to do this afternoon anyways, feels good to watch K-god.¡± There were more and more people watching and chatting, and it didn¡¯t take long before he reached two hundred thousand viewers. Xue Kai had a million fans following his stream, so this number wasn¡¯t much. RTS games weren¡¯t as popr as MOBAs in the previous world too,bined with the fact that there were usually less people watching streams during the afternoon and less people watching streams in general, this number was reasonable. However, Xue Kai was still quite a big streamer with a million followers. Xue Kai started disying Warcraft on his stream, then changing the title to ¡°Trying out Warcraft¡±. Xue Kai said as he controlled Arthas to beat the level, ¡°I¡¯ve discovered this new game called Warcraft today. It¡¯s made in China and from the few moments I¡¯ve yed before this, it felt quite nice. I¡¯d rmend everyone to try it out.¡± The viewers also started discussing the game. There were many that had their eyes on the game and started promoting it to others. The other fans who hadn¡¯t paid too much attention to it couldn¡¯t help but download the game under all the peer pressure. ¡ª Xue Kai was one of the first Warcraft streamers, but he certainly wasn¡¯t the only one. The news spread quickly in the RTSmunity, and many viewers went to other streams begging the streamer to y Warcraft. It didn¡¯t take long before it became a phenomena on the streaming tform. The next day, many Legion Conquest streamers were now ying Warcraft. A lot of yers have been drawn in by the high quality cinematics, charismatic ystyle and incredible story, it didn¡¯t take long before Warcraft became immensely popr in the PCmunity. Xue Kai forked out money to buy Warcraft with no hesitation. He thought that he game was going to be popr for sure, and eighty-eight RMB for a game of this quality wasn¡¯t bad at all. As time went by, Xue Kai started to discover that the game had rich gamey and heart grabbing story. There were now eight hundred thousand viewers watching Xue Kia ying Warcraft, greatly surpassing many other RPG streamers as well as being his new top view count. After beating another chapter, another cinematic started ying. Xue Kai was shocked, another cinematic? The designer must be rich to be able to throw this much money based on how detailed they were. How many of these did he make? A far away bell sounded. In the sacred and magnificent melody, the camera flew over the city of Lordaeron and returned Arthas. Arthas enters the city after a drawbridge was dropped. The citizens of Lordaeron cheer with petals filling the air as they wee the return of their price. As the petals fell, Arthas who had a ck hood on looked up and grabbed a petal. At this moment, the melody turned depressing. The petal slowly wilted in Arthas¡¯s hand. Arthas threw the flower to the ground and looked towards the sky with his cold, lifeless eyes. Arthas then entered the hall of the pce. Arthas greets his father kneeling with his sword out. Nobody noticed that the weapon in the price¡¯s hand wasn¡¯t a holy battlehammer, but the dreadful Frostmourne. The king stood up to wee Arthas, but there was another voice in Arthas¡¯s mind. ¡°You don¡¯t need to sacrifice for your people.¡± ¡°You don¡¯t need to take up the responsibility of the king.¡± ¡°I¡¯ve arranged everything.¡± With the voice of Frostmourne in his mind, Arthas walked forward with his sword in hand. The camera panned to the shadow of Arthas on the wall, with the king yelling, ¡°My son, what are you doing?¡± Arthas repliedpletely emotionless, ¡°Continuing the legacy, father.¡± The king fell following his scream. As the blood flowed down from the throne, Arthas eximed emotionlessly, ¡°This country will be destroyed. ¡°But from it¡¯s rubble, a new order will be born, and it will shake the world to its core!¡± ¡ª Before Xue Kai came back to his senses, the chat was going wild. ¡°Oh my goodness, this is a Chinese game? You¡¯re telling me this is a Chinese game?¡± ¡°This cinematic is insane! Mom¡¯s asking me why I¡¯m on my knees!¡± ¡°The righteous son broke in the end? My goodness, does the story need to be this good! The father and son are gone!¡± ¡°I knew from the beginning that it wasn¡¯t going to turn out well!¡± ¡°Get a move on, K-god. We wanna see the end!¡± ¡ª The yers were already going wild from the story before they even got the Versus mode. The setting of the storypletely outmatched Legion Conquest. Not to mention the otherworldly quality of these cinematics blew the stale and boring settings of Legion Conquest into smithereens! This even drew up the visits to the World of Azeroth website. There were more and morements under Arthas and Illidan, with several morements every refresh. Within the experience store, everyone had their eyes on the statistics for the game. Although I Am MT had been on the best-selling leaderboards, PC games are on a different level to mobile games. Everyone was highly confident in Warcraft, but nobody knew for sure how well the game would sell. Su Jinyu asked, ¡°How¡¯s the sales like, manager?¡± Chen Mo replied, ¡°Didn¡¯t you ask that an hour ago? How much would it grow in an hour.¡± ¡°Quick,e take a look,¡± ushered Su Jinyu. Chen Mo took a look and said, ¡°It¡¯s at twenty four thousand nine hundred and sixty right now, growing at about seven hundred an hour. ¡°Wow, that¡¯s amazing! Over twenty thousand sales on the first day!¡± eximed Su Jinyu. Qian Kun also said in a happy tone, ¡°That means it¡¯s more than a million RMB in a day! That¡¯s amazing!¡± nts vs Zombies also had twenty thousand sales on the first day. But it was a mobile game after all, one priced at ten RMB at that, only resulting in two hundred thousand RMB. Warcraft was arge game sold at eighty-eight RMB, and selling twenty thousand copies meant 1.7 million RMB, apletely different level from mobile games. ¡°You¡¯re happy with that? I think the sales can go higher still,¡± said Chen Mo. ¡°Higher?¡± Su Jinyu was surprised, ¡°Any higher and there¡¯ll be no traces of Legion Conquest left. Isn¡¯t that a bit unrealistic?¡± Chen Moughed, ¡°Unrealistic? It¡¯d be unrealistic if that didn¡¯t happen.¡± Everyone else felt that the number of sales Warcraft had was already quite amazing, but Chen Mo was far from satisfied. In his previous life, Warcraft sold 1.6 million copies in China. At that time, priating wasmonce in China, and being able to sell 1.6 million copies were Although Chen Mo set the price a bit high at eighty-eight RMb, pirating games was a much rarer urrence in the parallel world and was more or less non-existent. Combined with the fact that there wasn¡¯t muchpetition among RTS games, Chen Mo was confident that he could sell around two million copies in China! Moreover, this was just the sales in China. A game like Warcraft could totally be sold overseas and could get immensely popr like Legion Conquest did.Warcraft also happened to be Legion Conquest, but better in every single aspect. Chapter 110 - Chapter 109 Ain World Fails Miserably

Chapter 110: Chapter 109 Ain World Fails Miserably

The poprity of Warcraft continues to grow, Chen Mo¡¯s works, story of Azeroth, revolutionary RTS game, excellent Chinese game were all trending topics that made it torge video game forums and streaming sites. In particr if you were in the RTSmunity and didn¡¯t know Warcraft, you¡¯d probably be made fun of. Once the topic got started, it started gaining more and more momentum. Warcraft managed to get forty-three thousand sales on the third day, double that of the first. That means that on the third day, there were nearly one hundred thousand downloads in total, resulting in eight million RMB in profits. Extrapting this data, Warcraft could read eight hundred thousand sales in the first month resulting in about seventy million in profit. This drove the gamingmunity crazy, and the drama hungry fans were getting really excited. There was a lot to PC games as RPGs games were able to reach tens of millions in profit in a month. But Warcraft was a sell by copy RTS game, and Chinesepanies wouldn¡¯t even touch RTS games with a ten foot pole! Themunity felt that Chen Mo was super cool by entering the PC gaming ecosystem with a bang using an RTS game, and even putting an overseas game like Legion Conquest under its feet. Moreover, the reviews for Warcraft were incredibly high for yers and industry professionals like. The ratings for Warcraft were consistently above 9.5, and many video game reviewingpanies had nothing but praises for the game. High Quality Chinese RTS game: Warcraft! Entering PC ssics with a storm! You don¡¯t believe that it¡¯s a Chinese videogame from these cinematics! From I Am MT to Warcraft, how much more can World of Azeroth provide? Rating of 9.5, this came could be a milestone in RTS games! RTS game legend: This game destroys Legion Conquest! Professionals say: Incredible high quality game! The entire video game media had nothing but praises for the game, and in a few days most of the videogame media had be Chen Mo¡¯s diehard fans, prasing Warcraft again and again. Many yers would dedicate their own time to promote Warcraft to other yers. In no time at all, Warcraft became incredibly well known. Even yers who didn¡¯t y RTS games knew about the great game. ¡ª On the fifth, Seven Heroes entered public testing. On the tenth, Ain¡¯s world Entered private testing. These games were supposed to be hot topics of the both, but never managed to garner much attention. Seven Heroes actually gathered less yers during its public betapared to private. Ain World had it even worse, when it entered closed beta, Warcraft was on its rise. When the two games werepared, Ain World¡¯s statistics were an eyesore. After experiencing the story and cinematics from Warcraft, the yers have developed a specific taste. The yers who tried you Ain World for its western fantasy theme didn¡¯tst too long before quitting. ¡°What are these character designs, and that hairstyle? It¡¯s so obvious that it¡¯s a cheap knockoff.¡± ¡°This opening cinematic looks like it¡¯s made for children. You guys should take a look at Warcraft¡¯s opening.¡± ¡°Emperor Dynasty Entertainment made a game of this quality? You guys are a hugepany, yet failed topete against a C-grade videogame designer who just entered the industry a year ago? You guys are making meugh.¡± ¡°Seriously, is the story written by a teenager?¡± ¡°I¡¯ll make a joke, an RPG game is destroyed to nothing by an RTS game.¡± Even diehard fans of Emperor Dynasty Entertainment couldn¡¯t make up a single excuse for how big of a flop Ain World was. It might¡¯ve been better without Warcraft. But with Warcraft in everyone¡¯s mind, all the ws in Ain World were ringly obvious. The cinematics and story were on apletely different level. The most infuriating thing was that Warcraft belonged to a genre where story wasn¡¯t important. On the other hand Ain World was an RPG! Tang Dagang was stuck in a hard spot. You can¡¯t me me, Emperor Dynasty Entertainment didn¡¯t give me enough resources at all! The internals of Emperor Dynasty never reached a consensus with regards to Ain World. Qiu Jiang and Qin Xiao were strongly against Ain World, but Yan Zhenyuan and Lin Chaoxu were quite cautiously supportive, unwilling tomit too much resources onto Tang Dagang. Tang Dagang was angry at the fact he didn¡¯t get the best Emperor Dynasty Entertainment could offer for things such as story writing and art. But in reality? So what if he got the best? Chen Mo didn¡¯t even bat an eye. Seven Heroes and Ain World weren¡¯t popr at all. They werepletely overshadowed by Warcraft on Weibo¡¯s trending topics. Emperor Dynasty Entered and Zen Entertainment didn¡¯t expect that works that they have put time and effort into got beaten by an RTS game of all things. The only thing worse than dying with a bang was to die quietly. Ain World had some haters at the start, but as time went on, nobody even bat an eye. This MMORPG that wanted to copy World of Azeroth failed miserably. ¡ª At this time, RTS fans were pulling their hair trying to figure out the strategies for Warcraft. They were shocked by how much moreplex the gamey was than they originally thought. At the beginning, everyone just tried to train a bunch of high tier units for one big battleter on. The yers were highly focused on making strong units andpletely neglected the heroes. Later on, a stronger yer discovered the use of heroes, focusing on getting skills and grinding mobs. Strategies involving harassing yers when they were building up using demaster or Demon Hunter started bing moremon. Afterwards, scouting, group farming, rushing, and distributing resource gathering started appearing. RTS yers from Legion Conquests were ying Warcraft day in day out to try and figure out new strategies. Chen Mo included aplete ranking system in Warcraft as well as a rey system. yers could watch strong yers battle it out, learning strategies first hand as well as being able to revise old strategies, allowing new ones to be developed even faster than before. In a week, Xue Kai and other RTS titans managed to reach twenty-four hundred points. They were even ready to give up sleep in order to climb even higher. Warcraft even infiltratedmunities that didn¡¯t y RTS games. yers who never yed Legion Conquest started ying Warcraft because of its rich story. Chapter 111 - Chapter 110: Expand Overseas?

Chapter 111: Chapter 110: Expand Overseas?

It waste at night. Horrific screams can be heard from the second floor of the experience store. ¡°What the! Give me storyboarding skill books!!¡± ¡°My goodness why is it an animation book again!!¡± ¡°I want to go to the second level! Stop messing with me and give me that storyboarding skill book!¡± If the experience didn¡¯t have good sound-proofing, his neighbours probably would¡¯ve called the police on him. It had been a month since Warcraft went online, and the official sales stated that he sold seven hundred and forty thousand copies, meaning that Chen Mo got nearly forty-one million RMB into his pocket. As there was arge portion of sales that came from Thunderbolt Gaming tform, a lot of his profits went straight to him without giving cuts to the official app store, which was why it was higher than expected. This was also one of the positives of having your own tform. The number of sales did drop in thest couple days of the month as there were limited numbers of RTS yers, but Chen Mo had managed to make a decent chunk of change despite that,ing close to breaking even in the first month. This wasn¡¯t surprising as Warcraft as a ssic. Games like these are in limited supply, and Chen Mo wasn¡¯t quite satisfied by a performance like these. It was difficult to predict how many more copies he could sell, but Chen Mo felt that his previous estimation of twenty million was a bit too conservative. After receiving the money, Chen Mo spent them on spinning as he tried to max out all his skills to enter the second level. In the end, the more money it spent, the more it hurt to spend. Mainly because Chen Mo¡¯s designer skills were already full, therefore every subsequent book had to be converted into credits. Every single skill book he draws meant that he was losing seven thousand RMB. It was basically robbery. Among the special skills, Original art, 3D art, animations and so on were not maxed out yet, and he still needed two hundred and fifty five books. ording to the 5:3:2 ratio he calcted before, including the fact that he could draw duplicate skill books and refunding those skill books for credits, Chen Mo needed to make at least another eighty of these draws. All these draws tranted directly to money! Although Chen Mo had the funds, he didn¡¯t want to spend it like this. After another few more draws, the rate of improvement slowed dramatically. With the fact that he was still quite far away from level two, Chen Mo hesitantly decided to call it for now. That¡¯s it for now, I¡¯ll think about thister. The only good thing that came out of it was the special equipment. Half of those were Memory yback Potions, and everything else were Reaction Speed Serums and Hand Speed Boost Potions. Holding back his pain, Chen Mo consumed all the special equipment. What use do these things have? Based on the name Reaction Speed Serums improve your reaction speed, and Hand Speed Boost Potions improve the speed of the hands. These were things that were important to professional video game yers. Other than ying games, these things were meaningless. What is the meaning of this? Is this a sign from the heavens for me to repay society? Chen Mo was stuck in a tough spot, wouldn¡¯t it be a waste of all this Reaction Speed Serums and Hand Speed Boost Potion if he didn¡¯t y games? Chen MoWent to sleep with the painful thought in mind. RTS yers didn¡¯t know about what kind of nightmare they would be facing in the future... ¡ª There were several video game media who wanted to interview Chen Mo during this time, but Chen Mo declined all of them. Chen Mo also gathered a lot of fans on his Weibo, now having more than a million fans, he was considered a decently famous designer. Despite their image of him, Chen Mo was actually quite humble about this, not posting anything on his Weibo for a month and declining every single interview. Many fans were suspicious that maybe he took the money and disappeared. It wasn¡¯t that Chen Mo was being humble, he just wasn¡¯t used to seeing good things said about him. Hmm, I think scammy games are more my style! Chen Mo¡¯s ratings on the Illusion Game Engine had grown explosively. Chen Mo: Videogame Designer (B-grade) Creativity: 78 System: 67 Numerics: 76 Level design: 77 Story Writing: 85 Original art: 77 3D art: 46 Monthly Resources Quota: 0KB/180GB Every single attribute saw explosive growth, and Story Writing grew explosively to a score of eighty-five. Chen Mo finally became a B-grade video game designer after releasing a ssic like this. Of course, his abilities were better than some of the good for nothing A-grade video game designers. But as Chen Mo was still so young, the officials didn¡¯t consider raising Chen Mo to an A-grade videogame designer right away. However, Chen Mo didn¡¯t care about arbitrary titles like that. He felt that the ratings within Illusion Game Engine werepletely meaningless and he had his own scores for the games he released. ¡ª Chen Mo woke up at the same time as usual the next day. There were already people waiting outside the experience store before it had opened. It waspletely full ten minutes after it opened. After Warcraft became popr, Chen Mo¡¯s experience store also gained plenty of attention. Nearby yers chose to visit his experience store to y Warcraft instead of nearby inte cafes. Chen Mo nned on ying on one himself, but he decided against it as he wanted to visit the inte cafe anyways. After dealing with a few fans, Chen Mo left the experience store. At this moment Chen Mo received a call from an unknown number. ¡°Hello?¡± answered Chen Mo. It was from someone he¡¯d never heard from before, ¡°Hello, are you Mr Chen Mo, designer of Warcraft?¡± Chen Mo cleared his throat, ¡°Yep, in the flesh.¡± After two seconds of silence, the caller said, ¡°Hello, I¡¯m calling from the overseas department of Meteorite Technology. I¡¯m calling today to discuss opportunities with Warcraft.¡± Chen Mo was shocked, Meteorite Technology? Meteorite Technology was quite a famouspany in China. They focused on tranting Chinese games into othernguages to ship overseas. Their services included trantions, release, overseas approval processes, so there wasn¡¯t much the designer had to do. Chen Mo was actually thinking of an overseas distributionpany, and this time they came at the right time. It wasn¡¯t surprising as Warcraft did so well in China. It already had potential of beating Legion Conquest, and the Western Fantasy theme would also do very well in the western market. Therefore,panies like these have also seriously considered getting the rights to distribute Warcraft overseas. Chen Mo gave it some thought before replying, ¡°Alright, we can talk about it. How about we discuss it in person in the experience store tomorrow. After deciding on the time, the caller left the call filled with joy. Getting to Chen Mo before otherpanies did was certainly an opportunity they never expected. Chen Mo didn¡¯t put too much attention on this matter as he felt that based on Warcraft¡¯s quality, it wouldn¡¯t do bad no matter whichpany did it. Knowing that, the only thing to consider was the pricing. After grabbing a can of drink from the experience store, Chen Mo headed towards Fates Inte Cafe. Chapter 112 - Chapter 111: 1v1?

Chapter 112: Chapter 111: 1v1?

Chen Mo got on aputer after swiping his ID. Zhuo Yao wasn¡¯t there today, and in her ce was a woman who didn¡¯t know Chen Mo. Chen Mo walked around the inte cafe to discover that almost half of the yers were ying Warcraft. Ever since Warcraft got popr, many inte cafes started having them preinstalled on theirputers. The yers could log into their ounts using Thunderbolt Game Pass to y against other yers. As there were quite a few yers in the inte cafe, Chen Mo settled at a random spot he found. Chen Mo logged into his Thunderbolt Game Pass afterunching Warcraft. As he was quite busy before, he never truly got to y Warcraft other than a few testing rounds. This was the first time he was ying as a yer. Enter nickname: Silent. Notice: nickname in use. Chen Mo scowled and called Su Jinyu. ¡°Hey Goldfish, could you enter the management portal and check who¡¯s using the ID silent in Warcraft? Yep, change his name. To what? It doesn¡¯t matter. Yes, and give him two hundred RMB aspensation and let them know that that nickname is not allowed. Yeah, right now.¡± Chen Mo tried again in five minutes and managed to get his nickname. Chen Mo first yed a custom game, picking random race for himself, and his opponent was an Insane level Undead. Chen Mo got bored after twenty seven minutes and steamrolled theputer. Although Insane would be the nightmare of average yers, as the designer of the game, Chen Mo knew the ns of the AI in and out. Moreover, his reaction time and hand speed were on par with professional yers,bined with high game knowledge, he basically toyed with the Insane bot. As he hadn¡¯t yed for a long time, he decided to y against an Insane bot to get used to the game again. Chen Mo felt warmed up after the game, and started searching for a real yer to y against. His was considered unranked with a ranking of 0. He would get his ranking after ten matches, then would be matched against yers of his caliber. One, two, three matches. He crushed all of them. Especially the third one where Chen Mo was paying the Orcs. He destroyed his opponent just using demaster and two other units, and his opponent quit the game before hitting the ten minute mark. ¡°...I feel like a bully.¡± It can¡¯t be helped as it was where the newbies hung out. Chen Mo had the skills of a professional yer, and had strategies that would best anyone in this world. He even felt ashamed of himself ying against noobs, doing whatever he wanted. At this time, someone behind Chen Mo said, ¡°Yo, you seem good, wanna y?¡± Chen Mo turned around to discover a chubby guy standing behind him. He looked around neen and looked quite dopey with his round sses, looking like a pandaren. Another nearby guy said, ¡°Fatty, are you challenging others again. Are you going to bully every single one that ys Warcraft here?¡± Another guy said, ¡°Yeah, can you believe that a 3000 elo yer is bullying noobs?¡± Fatty said, ¡°Stop talking, did I ask you? I just watched his guy y two matches, this guy is proper good.¡± He introduced himself to Chen Mo, ¡°Greetings, I¡¯m Zou Zhuo Chen Mo was shocked, ¡°Cho?¡±[1] Was this guy a Pandaren in his previous life? Fatty waved his hand dismissively, ¡°Not Cho, Zou.¡± ¡°Ohh, Zou Zhuo.¡± Chen Mo asked in return, ¡°Do you know me?¡± Zou Zhuo was confused, ¡°Do I... know you?¡± Chen Mo shook his head, ¡°Don¡¯t worry, I¡¯ll y a round with you.¡± Zou Zhuo was shocked by Chen Mo antics, but he hurriedly sat across Chen Mo after managing to find someone worthy to y against. ¡°I¡¯ll sit across you, no screen peeking,¡± assured Zou Zhuo. Chen Mo was sad as a self proimed Warcraft god didn¡¯t know who he was. Didn¡¯t you know that the developer of this game was sitting directly across from you? But now that he thought about it, Chen Mo didn¡¯t have photos of him on his Weibo, and yers wouldn¡¯t usually look up what the designers looked like, so it was quite normal for him to not know who Chen Mo was. ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll create the lobby,¡± said Zou Zhuo. Although there was a rankingdder, it was moremon to create private lobbies in inte cafes. Afterall, it wasn¡¯t as fun ying with matchmaking as they couldn¡¯t see one another, it was more exciting to be able to see your opponent. It didn¡¯t take long before Chen Mo joined the lobby. Zou Zhuo asked, ¡°Brother, what race do you y? I y undead.¡± Chen Mo replied, ¡°Me? I¡¯ll go random.¡± ¡°Huh?¡± Zou Zhuo was shocked, ¡°Random? Don¡¯t you have a main?¡± ¡°I usually y blind, don¡¯t worry, let¡¯s go ahead,¡± replied Chen Mo. Zou Zhuo was a bit hesitant, ¡°What if I¡¯ll set myself at 80% health?¡± Chen Moughed, ¡°Don¡¯t worry, we¡¯ll y one round first.¡± Zou Zhuo nodded, ¡°Alright, let¡¯s start then.¡± The match started. A few Warcraft yers huddled around and started watching. ¡°Wow, random huh. This guy isn¡¯t giving fatty any respect!¡± ¡°Hurry up, it¡¯s starting!¡± Their mouses and keyboards were being smashed in as the screen kept flickering. Buildings were being built quickly, and the peasants were collecting resources, with some sent to scout. Zou Zhuo was a 3000 elo yer afterall. As the game was fairly new and there weren¡¯t many high skilled yers,bined with the fact that it was difficult to gain elo, three thousand was fairly high. It wasn¡¯t over the top to be called a god at an inte cafe. It didn¡¯t take long before one of the Acolytes discovered Chen Mo¡¯s base. ¡°Orcs, huh.¡± Zou Zhuo didn¡¯t n to go easy as it wasn¡¯t easy to y undead against orcs. After watching for two minutes, the audience discovered that the game was moving at a high pace, and from the micromanagement they could tell they weren¡¯t noobs. ¡°demaster plus two huh, it seems like high ranked yers always go for demaster first. ying orcs isn¡¯t easy.¡± ¡°But fatty must have prepared his defences, he even has Dust of Appearance ready. He¡¯s quite careful when killing neutrals too.¡± ¡°What the, how did he do that? The orc yer¡¯s speed is inhuman!¡± ¡°It¡¯s alright, fatty is still holding on.¡± There were a few small skirmishes at the start, Zou Zhuo was leveling his skills whereas Chen Mo had his demaster +2. Chen Mo¡¯s demaster would follow Zou Zhuo everywhere, stealing kills and loot whenever he got the chance. Zou Zhuo had already prepared for this, but he was still put in a difficult situation. He wasn¡¯t like the noobs that would quit the game after being bullied by Chen Mo¡¯s demaster, but he was still losing small exchanges here and there. There were a few yers standing behind Chen Mo whispering amongst one another, not wanting Chen Mo and Zou Zhuo to listen in. ¡°My goodness, I can¡¯t follow his movements at all, what did he do?¡± ¡°demaster is constantly following fatty. He also has a Shadow Hunter farming on his own. He¡¯s even training units at base. This man¡¯s a pro!¡± ¡°Why do I feel that fatty is at a disadvantage?¡± Chapter 113 - Chapter 112: Can鈥檛 tell what鈥檚 going on!

Chapter 113: Chapter 112: Can¡¯t tell what¡¯s going on!

The match ended after seventeen minutes. Zou Zhuo typed GG as he stared at his Deathknight die with disbelief. (GG stands for good game, usually by the loser first, praising how well their opponent yed. This was usually done out of respect, with no negative connotations.) At the end-screen, Zou Zhuo scratched his head out of confusion. He didn¡¯t quite understand how he was beaten, and just felt like he lost in every single aspect. His opponent didn¡¯t do anything special either, going with the usual demaster +2. However, this feltpletely different to the other matches Zou Zhuo yed previously. He was on his backfoot the entire match, and felt that the game was never in his favour. Moreover, he would lose small things here and there and would never manage to gain them back. Zou Zhuo thought that the gamested twenty or so minutes, only to discover at the end of the game that it onlysted seventeen minutes. The spectators were also in shock. ¡°What happened? Fatty lost?¡± ¡°... It onlysted seventeen minutes!¡± ¡°How did he win? I didn¡¯t notice anything out of ce from the orc yer. It feels like he just kept harassing and steamrolled fatty¡¯s units during thest battle.¡± ¡°My goodness, I don¡¯t understand anything in this battle among titans!¡± ¡°Another round?¡± asked Chen Mo. Zou Zhuo scratched his head, ¡°I wasn¡¯t quite in the zone thest round, let¡¯s go again!¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Alright.¡± They started ying another round. Zou Zhuo was much more careful this time around, giving his full focus. He also managed to find out that Chen Mo was ying Night Elves this time using a scout. ¡°Rx, rx. There¡¯s no way he could y all the races right?¡± Zou Zhuo steadily killed neutral creeps, but this time he was met with Chen Mo¡¯s Demon Hunter. Although it couldn¡¯t go invisible like the demaster, he had mana burn. Every Time he saw the Demon Hunter on the screen his mana would get burned then it would run away. He couldn¡¯t catch up to him using his Deathknight at all, and there wasn¡¯t much else he could do. After a few more mana burns, the Deathknight had no mana and couldn¡¯t heal itself even if he wanted to. Zou Zhuo was now so irritated that he couldn¡¯t train units without worrying about the Demon Hunter. It either woulde out of nowhere to hit his Crypt Fiends, end up killing Acolytes in his base. Zou Zhuo called GG after twenty minutes. It was just as before, there weren¡¯t any special strategies with nothing out of line, but Zou Zhuo still lost for some reason. He just couldn¡¯t beat him! ¡°Going for more?¡± asked Chen Mo. Zou Zhuo shook his head violently, ¡°No more! That level of skill isn¡¯t normal. What¡¯s your elo?¡± Chen Mo replied, ¡°Me? I haven¡¯t even finished my cements.¡± Zou Zhuoughed, ¡°Stop kidding, how could you be ying at this level beforepleting your cements? Are you ying on a smurf?¡± Chen Mo realised that it wasn¡¯t too out of line to assume that. Zou Zhuo said, ¡°Add me as your friend, I¡¯ll consult you for strategies in the future.¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Sure.¡± After adding each other as friends, Zou Zhuo said, ¡°By the way, do you want to join my Warcraft group? There¡¯s a few highly skilled yers in there. I won¡¯t be able to beat you, but you might meet someone who would give you a challenge there.¡± Chen Mo declined after some thought, ¡°Forget about it, that¡¯s too much work. Maybe next time.¡± Zou Zhuo didn¡¯t push any further as every single high skilled yer he knew wasn¡¯t super friendly. ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll go back to ying ranked games, ¡± Chen Mo bid Zou Zhuo farewell and continued to y his cements. Chen Mo didn¡¯t n to y too seriously anyways, but this Zou Zhuo guy wasn¡¯t a challenge at all! The others thought that Chen Mo was ying seriously, but Chen Mo yed quite normally, and merely outmatched his opponent technically and by knowledge. Strategies like mine rush[1], tower rush, cyclone spam, raider rush, lich and crypt field spam, summons rush that weremonce in Chen Mo¡¯s previous world were nowhere to be seen! Chen Mo felt bored bullying noobs, and considered that he should give the RTS yers a little hint to spice things up. Whatever, I¡¯ll decide after the cements. Chen Mo entered another cement match. ¡ª Zou Zhuo started his rey against Chen Mo within his group. Zzz (Zou Zhuo): ¡°I just met a god in this inte cafe and got my butt handed to me...¡± There were a few other high skill yers in that group, so Zou Zhuo was only just above average, hence why the message didn¡¯t get too much attention and he has actually been made fun of. ¡°Wow, Z-god getting bullied at an inte cafe tournament, how sad.¡± ¡°Yeah, I thought you were the self proimed Fates Inte Cafe killer. So did you end up meeting someone tough?¡± ¡°Hahaha, I wanna watch Z-god getting bullied.¡± Zou Zhuo was speechless. What¡¯s wrong with these people? Laughing at my mishaps? You guys shoulde try, it¡¯s not that I¡¯m bad, the opponent is insane! Zou Zhuo looked around within the group and found the usually quiet Kaiser. ¡°@Kiaser K-god, could you take a look at these reys? I¡¯ve looked at them for so long and still haven¡¯t figured out how I lost. It feels like I just lost mechanically. But I thought my mechanics were decent? Is the skill gap that big?¡± No replies. Zou Zhuo was a bit butthurt but it couldn¡¯t be helped as Kaiser was hard to reach and was quite quiet in the group. Moreover, it was normal that he wasn¡¯t online when he wasn¡¯t streaming. It didn¡¯t take long before someone watched the rey between Zou Zhuo and Chen Mo. ¡°What? I just watched Zzz¡¯s match, were you ying at 80% hp? @Zzz¡± Zou Zhuo was speechless, ¡°No, it¡¯s 100%.¡± ¡°Why does your Crypt Fiend look like it¡¯s made of paper, the demaster one hits all of them.¡± Zou Zhuo: ¡°I don¡¯t know either!¡± ¡°Why was it Undead vs Orc in the first and Undead vs Night Elves in the second? Are they two different people?¡± Zou Zhuo replied, ¡°It¡¯s the same guy, he beat me twice ying random!¡± ¡°What the, you¡¯re joking right? Were you ying seriously? These were so one-sided.¡± Zou Zhuo replied, ¡°You think I wasn¡¯t ying serious? I gave it everything I had!¡± ¡°Well, I don¡¯t know then.¡± A few other yers looked at Zou Zhuo¡¯s reys, but none of them could tell how he lost either. As both parties were using normal tactics and were basically mirroring each other¡¯s movements, Zou Zhuo always lost horribly. It just wasn¡¯t the same watching reyspared to watching in person, it was even harder to tell in reys how fast the yers were moving from reys. There were many yers that were worse than Zou Zhuo, so what could they tell from the rey? All they could tell was that Zou Zhou has a huge army! Zou Zhuo is attacking! Zou Zhuo has the upper hand! Zou Zhuo GG¡¯d! There wasn¡¯t much Zou Zhuo could do as most of the better yers were always quiet, and the frequent users weren¡¯t usually that good. Alright, I¡¯ll probably have to wait for K-god¡¯s reply. Chapter 114 - Chapter 113: No Conversation To Be Had

Chapter 114: Chapter 113: No Conversation To Be Had

Zou Zhuo also decided to watch Chen Mo y two rounds, and despite having a better knowledge of the game, he couldn¡¯t understand what was happening either! As Chen Mo knew what he was going to do before he executed them, he could manage just fine despite all the quick changes in the screen. Zou Zhuo on the other hand, having no idea what Chen Mo was going to do, was really confused as Chen Mo would sometimes mine in the middle of an intense battle. Moreover, Chen Mo was cruising through the games. What was a bit crazy was that the enemies called GG and Chen Mo would move onto the next game without looking at the end screen. Zou Zhuo would usually spend twenty-five minutes per round, and forty-five when it was close. However, Chen Mo would usually finish under twenty minutes! It¡¯d be amazing if you could learn anything from this! Although Zou Zhuo understood the situation better after watching two games, he stopped because of how much he struggled to keep up. He just felt that the speed of his hands was too fast to be human! Zou Zhuo conceded. ¡ª Within the group. Xue Kai wanted to stream his ranked games when he got home at night, only to discover that someone @ him in the group. He was the friendly type, otherwise he wouldn¡¯t have released so many educational videos and sent feedback to the developers. Kaiser: ¡°@Zzz what¡¯s up?¡± Zou Zhuo replied in two minutes, ¡°K-god, I met a god in the inte cafe and waspletely destroyed. Take a look at the reys I sent to the group and give me some guidance!¡± Xue Kai was surprised. He knew that Zzz¡¯s elo was around twenty eight hundred from the information from the group chat. How was he bullied when he wasn¡¯t that bad? His opponent must be insanely good then? With some suspicion, Xue Kai opened the reys and started watching the matches. It only took about half an hour as the games weren¡¯t long. Xue Kai was shocked to see that he was actually crushed in the game! Moreover, this Silent guy yed random in both games, how confident was he? Xue Kai watched the first game once again. He was an Orc main himself. Although he liked the story of the Undead more, he felt mostfortable with Orcs after ying through all the races. The first match of Orcs vs Undead was good enough to be textbook examples! No matter early game harassment, killing neutral creeps, or mid game skirmishes, the tempo that the Orc yer was ying was impable. Every single mistake the Undead yer made would be capitalised on and taken advantage of. The Orc yer started to gain advantage after gathering all these small advantages, and defeated the Undead in one final push. Xue Kai knew that this Orc yer wasn¡¯t an ordinary Joe. Although others couldn¡¯t tell, Xue Kai knew that his hand speed, micro-management, and the ability to manage the tempo of the game was the best of the best, with no noticeable weaknesses. Xue Kai could feel that perhaps this person was better than him? Kaiser: ¡°This Orc yer is ying at a top level, it¡¯s normal that you can¡¯t beat him.¡± Zzz: ¡°Huh? Top level??¡± As Xue Kai replied, a bunch of lurkers showed themselves. Some of them didn¡¯t watch the rey, and some didn¡¯t notice how good Zou Zhuo¡¯s opponent was, so none of them truly knew how serious of a matter it was. And following Xue Kai¡¯s reply, they took this matter seriously. Xue Kai was one of the early adopters of Warcraft from Legion Conquest, and currently had thirty-seven hundred points. He was easily top five in the game. yers that he¡¯d approve of must be really good! ¡°Really, K-god? Is that guy that good?¡± ¡°Honestly, I couldn¡¯t tell how good he was. But if K-god said so, could there be anything else?¡± ¡°K-god, did you notice that he randomed both rounds?¡± ¡°Oh my, could it be a smurf of some high ranked yer? @Zzz, why didn¡¯t you invite them to this group?¡± Zou Zhuo replied, ¡°I did, but they didn¡¯t want to join.¡± The others weren¡¯t taking it, ¡°Man, fatty you sure are a piece of garbage. Why didn¡¯t you get on your knees and begged for him to join? Grab onto his leg and don¡¯t let go until he joins. Go now!¡± Zou Zhuo was speechless, ¡°Shut up! Anyways, he left ages ago.¡± Kaiser asked, ¡°Left?¡± Zou Zhuo replied, ¡°Yeah, he left around 7PM.¡± Again, the group was disappointed at that response, ¡°Wow, how could you give up an opportunity of inviting another pro into the group. You shouldmit seppuku as an apology!¡± Zou Zhuo replied, ¡°What! I sent the rey ages ago, but nobody said anything back then. But you me it on me now?¡± ¡°Don¡¯t care! You have to camp at the inte cafe from now on, until he shows himself!¡± Xue Kai looked up Silent on Warcraft. The ount was indeed created today, and looking at the match history, he won all ten of his cement matches in a row, cing at twenty-four hundred. Although it wasn¡¯t bad, it was still quite far away from Xue Kia¡¯s thirty-seven hundred. At fifteen points a match at 90% win rate, he would still need to win over one hundred matches, and shouldn¡¯t be reaching the top of the leaderboards anytime soon. Xue Kai was saddened, ¡°That¡¯s too bad, I looked forward to ying against him.¡± ¡ª The next day, Chen Mo discussed shipping Warcraft overseas with the representative form Meteorite Technology. No matter overseas or in China, there were plenty of thesepanies. They didn¡¯t make their own games, but would scout out popr games to work with, no matter if it was porting overseas games into China, or Chinese games overseas. Obviously as Warcraft was doing so well, being so popr in China as well as being set in a Western Fantasy world, it would naturally do well if shipped overseas. Chen Mo had thought of this already, and asserted the three points he was after during the meeting. First, any changes made to the game would be managed by him, and they had no rights over making any changes to the game. Second, Chen Mo would have the final call of trantions and overseas operations. Third, the cut was negotiable, but it must be higher than any other Chinese game on the market. With the three points on the table, there was barely anything left to discuss. In truth, it wasn¡¯t an easy task to ship the game overseas. It wasn¡¯t as simple as tranting all the Chinese text into English. The most important part was the promotional strategy. It wasn¡¯t like the game was going to be profitable once it was present on the market. Other than the usual texts and images that needed to be tranted, social media pages needed to be built, the news needed to be shared, as well as localization operation strategies. The distributors would be more familiar with overseas markets during the promotional period, and more often than not there needed to be some changes to make it more localised. For example, Vietnamese users usually like winged characters, and Japanese yers trusted loot box mechanisms more. The distributors required rights to change these points and had to work together with the developer to make suitable changes. However, Chen Mo asserted himself that Meteorite Technology would only be responsible for distribution and was unable to make any changes to the game, which was the lowest of privileges. Not only that, Chen Mo wanted the highest authorities even on things like trantions, and wanted every single thing to be approved by him first. There¡¯s no conversation to be had! Chapter 115 - Chapter 114: Ultimate Tentacle Monster!

Chapter 115: Chapter 114: Ultimate Tentacle Monster!

The representative let out a few awkward coughs and said, ¡°Uhh, Mr Chen Mo, perhaps you don¡¯t quite understand how this works. Here¡¯s how it works...¡± Chen Mo waved his hand, ¡°You don¡¯t need to, I fully understand what you do. I also know that Meteorite Technology is the top three overseas portingpanies, especially in the western market. And you guys also have deep knowledge in the western market. The representative from Meteorite Technology was shocked, Chen Mo obviously wasn¡¯t someone to talk without doing her research. Chen Mo continued, ¡°And it¡¯s also because of that reason that I would believe that you would ept my offer. The Meteorite Technology representative was stunned. Chen Mo continued, ¡°You should understand the potential of a game like Warcraft because you understand the western market as well as the behaviour of western yers. ¡°Let¡¯s put it this way, Warcraft could be even more popr in western countries than in China. The objective of the game was to rece Legion Conquest and be the most popr RTS game in the world. ¡°I believe that you also understand this, so I¡¯m not going to delve any deeper. If you aren¡¯t willing to ept these terms, I¡¯ll just move onto the nextpany. ¡°Even if Chinesepanies aren¡¯t going to take this deal, there are overseaspanies that would for consideration as well. The decision is yours if you want to reject the opportunity to make big bucks.¡± The representative was silent. Chen Mo¡¯s intentions were clear as day. He was obviously incredibly confident in Warcraft, and there was no point baiting him or trying to haggle. Chen Mo¡¯s attitude towards this was also incredibly stern, take it or leave it, there were many otherpanies in line. After a few moments, the representative said, ¡°Alright, I understand your intentions Mr Chen Mo. But I can¡¯t make this decision now, I¡¯ll have to consult and discuss with my colleagues.¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll give you two days. I want to emphasise that there will be no changing of terms, I hope you let the others know too. ¡ª After sending the representative away, Chen Mo continued ying ranked games. There were various different types of new posts everyday on the Warcraft forums, including strategies, victories, number analysis, and feedback. Chen Mo had Su Jinyu monitor the forums to gather the feedback from the yers. She was also ordered to gather the popr strategies and produce a short report every few days. Qian Kun on the other hand was responsible for bncing. Of course, as the foundations were alreadyid down, the only bncing changes required were small changes in the decimal ces, the yers might not even be able to feel the difference. However, Chen Mo still allowed Qian Kun to periodically make changes to the stats of units, and would be ordered to release after they were confirmed as a patch. Zheng Hongxi on the other hand was responsible for writing posts of the World of Azeroth. He was provided a few simple entries by Chen Mo to fill in and polish. After giving out work to everyone, Chen Mo became the person who had the most free time, ying ranked games everyday. The people ying ranked also suffered the torture handed out by Chen Mo. If Chen Mo wanted it to end, nobody was able tost over twenty minutes. Barely anyone wouldst over thirty minutes even if Chen Mo was messing around trying some other strategies. Eventually Chen Mo couldn¡¯t be bothered and even considered setting his elo to four thousand. But he declined to do so upon considering the fact that high ranked yers would always have an eye on the leaderboard, and if some unknown yer with a suspicious game history came out of nowhere, wouldn¡¯t he just expose himself? Luckily, Chen Mo made it so more points would be awarded for consecutive wins. ording to his calctions, it should only take another day to reach over thirty-five hundred and would finally be able to y with the pros. ¡ª Chen Mo felt that it was boring bullying noobs, but the noobs were incredibly unlucky. There were many yers minding their own business having fun in ranked, but would meet this freak who¡¯d y random out of nowhere. At the start they would think that it was free points, but it wouldn¡¯t take more than five minutes to realise their mistake. Destroyed by demaster +2. Stepped on by three Undead Heroes. Bullied by Humans building towers in their base. One time there was a human yer who had their peasants charmed by Dark Ranger which was used against them by building an ALtar of Kings, then summoning a Blood Mage and Archmage to box them in their base... Who knows how many addicted teenagers were cured of their addiction during this time. The worst thing was that a bunch of yersined on the forum, only to realise they weren¡¯t the only ones to suffer the fate. There were yers that experienced it from one thousand all the way to three thousand points! And it was the same person, someone with the ID Silent ying random race! The yer was also known to be incredibly quiet and would never say anything other than a GG at the end of the game. They would never talk trash or respond to any questions, some even theorised that it might be some artificial intelligence developed by somergepany. It didn¡¯t take long before posts regarding ¡®Random God Silent¡¯ started appearing, and guessing who Silent was became amon urrence. ¡°I met that Silent guy today, I didn¡¯t believe before that someone above three thousand couldn¡¯tst more than twenty-five minutes, but I¡¯ve experienced it first hand today!¡± ¡°I was destroyed by his Undead.¡± ¡°Previous poster, I was destroyed by his Humans.¡± ¡°How can he be able to y every single race? Are all of them at a level of three thousand points? What kind of monster is this guy?¡± ¡°Previous OP, it¡¯s not that they are yed at a skill level of three thousand points, but they destroy three thousand point yers with every race. It¡¯s apletely different ball game...¡± ¡°Do you think the ID is actually managed by four different people? Four different pros who y different races pranking us?¡± ¡°Wow, do you think the pros are that bored? Four people pretending to be one? I¡¯m amazed you managed toe up with that.¡± The discussion went nowhere. Moreover, many reys against Silent were sent to the forum, gaining the attention of many. The conclusion was that it was inhuman! Chen Mo¡¯s Warcraft didn¡¯te with an APM functionality, but some fans and technological geeks made an APM plugin. APM stands for Actions Per Minute (including mouse and keyboard. A higher APM meant that the yer¡¯s hand was moving faster, meaning that they would have an advantage in RTS games. Normally someone with an effective APM around one hundred and forty was more than enough to y a game like Warcraft at a rtively high level. This meant that they would have to click their meaningfully (no repetitive, useless clicks)mouse one hundred and forty times a minute. Professionals yers would have an effective APM from one hundred and eight to two hundred and seven. A yer like sky who had an APM of three hundred was pretty good. In this world, even a god like Kaiser had an APM of two hundred, which was already considered peak performance. But what was Silent¡¯s APM? Four hundred and sixty-six at the highest! Usually in Warcraft, an APM of above five hundred must include a lot of useless actions, three hundred would usually be more than enough. But Silent¡¯s APM was four hundred and sixty-six, with very few useless actions! This meant that he was reaching the limits of the human hand. When the APM stats were released, there were even more who believed that Silent was an artificial intelligence, and even gave it a new nickname: Ultimate Tentacle Monster! Chapter 116 - Chapter 115: Finally Met a Pro

Chapter 116: Chapter 115: Finally Met a Pro

The forum was filled with news that Silent wasn¡¯t online today. Many yers were happy that they were spared, but a few observers were sad that Silent didn¡¯t show up. As Silent gained poprity, there were quite a few observer streams on therger streaming tform, there was one observer who managed to gather hundreds of thousands of views at their peak. It wasn¡¯t surprising as although yers like Kaiser were entertaining to watch, they were usually evenly matched with the opponents. Although the gamey was high level, it wasn¡¯t what the yers were looking for. On the other hand, Silent would win every single game while ying random. Although he wasn¡¯t ying at a particrly high level, he had made his way to a three thousand level yer, which was incredibly entertaining. A majority of viewers preferred to watch him bully noobs too, as it felt like a drama. Maybe that wasn¡¯t quite right. Many viewers liked watching noobs getting bullied, but not noobs that were super low ranked. They knew that it wasn¡¯t that entirely possible to bully yers above thirty five hundred, so bullying yers around the three-thousand level mark would be the most entertaining. Three-thousand level yers were considered quite good as they were decent mechanically as well as in terms of game knowledge, and it was most entertaining bullying yers like those. It was just another long boring day for viewers that were sitting in front of theirputers waiting to watch Silent y some games. ¡ªNight time¡ª After a day of discussion, the representative from Meteorite Technology decided to ept all of Chen Mo¡¯s requests and recieved the distribution rights of Warcraft. There weren¡¯t many tricks they could try to do as Chen Mo asserted that he had choices. In the end, the representative of Meteorite Technology could do nothing but give in. It couldn¡¯t be helped as the quality of Warcraft was so high had Chen Mo had the leverage in the negotiation. The contract was signed. Any changes made to Warcraft¡¯s mechanics have to go through Chen Mo. Chen Mo has the right to put his hand into the trantions; and revenue (excluding costs) will be split 3:7, with Chen Mo taking seventy percent. It might be the worst, most humiliating day for Meteorite Technology, borderline bringing shame to the country. The distributor usually takes the bigger cut in deals like these, and the game would be considered quite good if it got a fifty-fifty split. But only thirty percent from Warcraft? The representative from Meteorite Technology was very conflicted, as this might be the highlight of his career, of the absolute lowest moment. After signing the contract, the representative went back to prepare the matters about shipping it overseas. On the other hand, Chen Mo went back to hisputer to y more ranked matches. He estimated that he should be ying against thirty-eight hundred point yers if he were to win a few more games. ¡ª ¡°Hmm? The Ultimate Tentacle Monster is online!¡± ¡°Is that Silent who queues with random race? Hurry up, he¡¯s about to queue!¡± The observing streamers quickly quit the games they were spectating to spectate Silent upon realising. First match. Second match. Third match. It was just as usual, a random race, and dismantling his opponents. Their opponents would feel disgusted at ten minutes, feel like quitting at twenty minutes, and would type GG in thirty minutes. The observers were all supporting Silent because of how much the viewers liked it. The more they praised Silent, the more the viewers like it, the more views they get. All these praises resented Silent as the one true god of Silent. And Silent¡¯s APM and other rumours were repeated again and again like a broken record. Of course, many pointed out that Silent was just a bully, just one that makes it look cool, and one that managed to set the bar higher. It didn¡¯t prove that his abilities were good enough to beat another pro. The arguments were going wild in the chat. Some said that Silent was just good at bullying noobs because of how fast their hand was, and didn¡¯t have any good strategies. The others said that his hand speed was inhumane, and would beat the pros just the same. It didn¡¯t take long before the audience was split into S-God and S-Dog. ¡°Hurry up, they started another match!¡± ¡°Wow, this ID looks really Chinese. LateWind? Isn¡¯t that Nightwind-god¡¯s alternate ount?¡± ¡°It actually is, but this ount was around thirty-four hundred yesterday, how did they meet?¡± ¡°Oh my, Silent is now at three thousand four hundred and ny-two points! All win! He¡¯s on a rocket to the top of the leaderboards!¡± ¡°This will be good!¡± The interest of the observers and their viewers were at their highest. Finally, it wasn¡¯t some random, but an actual high skilled yer! Nightwind, a Chinese RTS god. His real ount was at three thousand seven hundred and four points and was top ten in the leaderboards. Mained Orcs, and also happened to be a highly technical yer. At high ranked games, there were mainly Orc and Human yers, followed by Night Elves, and Undead at the bottom. As Nightwind¡¯s main ount was ranked so high, it was difficult for him to find other yers. And even when he did, it would be the usual few, and at that point he may as well do private games. Which was why he would asionally y on his alternate ount, but he somehow managed to reach thirty-four hundred on this ount too, and met Silent on the way. ¡°Hmm, isn¡¯t this that tentacle guy that was really popr recently?¡± ¡°Great, I¡¯m not holding back. I¡¯m gonna teach you a lesson.¡± ¡°You¡¯ll learn that the thirty five hundred bracket isn¡¯t easy.¡± Nightwind knew about Silent and clearly didn¡¯t believe they were as good as people said, which was why he wanted to teach him a lesson. Of course, Nightwind wasn¡¯t all talk, he had the skills to back it up. It was a four person map, with both yers taking the top left and bottom right respectively. Silent picked random as always, and got Humans. The chat was going wild. ¡°Randomed Humans, not bad, he has a chance.¡± ¡°Yeah, luckily he didn¡¯t get Undead or Night Elves.¡± ¡°Let¡¯s see what Silent does, I think Humans aren¡¯t the best.¡± A majority of yers were still trying to figure out the game, many felt that Orcs were the strongest, followed by Humans, and the Undead were the weakest. Many were worried that wouldn¡¯t it suck if Silent got Undead or Night Elves and lost? Both yers started as usual, Orc goes for demaster, Humans going for Archmage. It didn¡¯t take long before Silent scout the location of the Orcs. He then built a Farm in front of his base, running away when the demaster went after the peasant. Chapter 117 - Chapter 116: So Many Towers!

Chapter 117: Chapter 116: So Many Towers!

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales The demaster chased after the running Archmage, both of them had boots, so they couldn¡¯t catch one another. The chat was also starting to get excited. ¡°Wow, isn¡¯t this Silent guy the tentacle monster? Why isn¡¯t he microing?¡± ¡°Are you stupid? What can you do as an Archmage being chased by a demaster?¡± ¡°Humans can¡¯t beat orcs, nothing to see here.¡± ¡°What the, the Archmage is about to die!¡± ¡°Oh man, he lived with a sliver of health. Not bad, now he can buy potions and replenish his army and go again!¡± ¡°demaster wants to locate Archmage! They found the Human base!¡± ¡°The second hero for the Humans is here, the Mountain King!¡± ¡°The demaster is stunned, and is now surrounded! demaster has to retreat!¡± The streamer was trying their best tomentate the game, and the viewers were getting incredibly excited. It was clear that there was a battle to be had from the start, and the viewers were quite naturally quite excited. There were even viewers going to other channels to get them to watch the match, and because of that, the viewer count kept increasing! ¡°The Humans started mining! But why are they still training Footmen and Peasants, the Raiders from the Orcs are already here! ¡°Building towers? Do they n to drag it ontote game? ¡°It¡¯s over, the Orcs discovered the mine! ¡°The Humans are at a disadvantage! ¡°What? The Guard Tower is finished? The demaster has chased the Archmage for too long, and his Wind Walk is running out! ¡°It¡¯s over, demaster is surrounded! Could you believe that the demaster got surrounded!¡± ¡°The demaster is dead! ¡°This Mountain King threatens demaster too much! ¡°The Orcs haven¡¯t given up, the Shadow Hunter has a huge army behind him, trying to kill that pesky Mountain King! ¡°They can¡¯t kill him, the Mountain King deeps running around the tower! This movement is incredible! ¡°Oh no, the orcs are retreating, and the Mountain King only spared one Raider, that¡¯s not worth it! ¡°Oh my goodness, even a god like him can¡¯t stop Silent? ¡°Don¡¯t worry, this is not over yet, the Humans only have a bunch of low tier units. Didn¡¯t they take over the mines using Guard Towers? The Orcs are mining too! The game is still too close to tell who might win!¡± The game entered a stalemate. Nightwind wasn¡¯t dumb and wasn¡¯t going to send more of his troops to try and take over the mine when it didn¡¯t work the first time. He decided to focus on killing neutrals, gaining levels, as well as training high tier units. He wanted to defeat the Humans by using his superior research before the Humans could convert all their resources into manpower. ¡°Another tower? My goodness, this mine already has seven Guard Towers! ¡°There¡¯s another mine on the top of the map! Three towers right away! What¡¯s this ridiculous strategy! ¡°They¡¯re still building, he¡¯s not done yet! ¡°Look, the Humans skipped right over the mid tier units and went straight for Gryphons! ¡°Double Gryphon Aviaries training Gryphons! The humans are so rich! ¡°Orcs are training Troll Riders. ¡°I think something is about to hit Nightwind god!¡± The Orcs were in a rush, but there wasn¡¯t much they could do. The main force of Orcs were as usual, demaster, Shadow Hunter, Grunts, Raiders, Spirit Walkers and Troll Riders. Although this army was quite strong, the humans didn¡¯t want to battle outside their base at all! The humans on the other hand had Archmage and Mountain as well as some garbage Footmen, but they relied on Guard Towers. The Orcs had no chance of breaking their defence. Humans also had multiple mines and had plenty of gold, and could afford anything they liked such as Scroll of Town Portal, various healing potions, and Invulnerability Potions. And with the help of the Guard Towers, no matter where the Orcs decided to attack, the Heroes on the Human side could teleport anywhere, putting the Orcs in a difficult situation. The Orcs were favourable at the start, but when the double Gryphon Aviaries came alone, the tides of battle turned immediately. ¡°The Orcs are starting to mine too!¡± ¡°But the Gryphons from the Humans are approaching. But the Burrow stands no chance, they are gone in two hits! ¡°They¡¯re hitting the base! ¡°The demaster is back at base, but the Gryphons are all gone! ¡°My goodness, it looks hopeless! ¡°Why aren¡¯t Nightwind-god building towers? ¡°What¡¯s the point, are the Orc towers the same as human towers? Moreover, the Gryphons are showing themselves.¡± Nightwind started panicking. His opponent was like a prickly porcupine, his Orcs had sharp teeth, but there wasn¡¯t anywhere they could attack! Humans now had three different mines, and each of them had at least a dozen Guard Towers, and their main army wasposed of Gryphons and Dragonhawks If they went head to head, the Orcs might still have a chance, as long as he used the Troll Riders well, there was still a chance to win. But the humans weren¡¯t nning to battle at all. Gryphons were attacking Orc¡¯s mines all over the ce, and the Burrows and Watch Towers stood no chance against magic damage, wasting resources everytime he tried to build it. Rushing into the Human mines? That was a worse idea. There were many Guard Towers, including Dragonhawks and Gryphons, how could you rush into that? If it were anyone else, they¡¯d probably would¡¯ve broken down and quit the game. But Nightwind was an elite yer afterall, and was still in a good mental state. The Orc army was sent out to force a mine! There was no other choice as their current mine was at its limits, if they didn¡¯t make a move, they would¡¯ve lost the war of attrition. But before they could establish the mine, the humans came. The chat was going wild. Anybody could tell that this was the final battle. If the Orcs fail to secure the mine, their game would be over, but if the Orcs manage to hang on, they still have a chance. But the humans didn¡¯t start battling, but instead started building towers right in front of the mine. Once the tower was dropped, many Peasants were behind it hammering away. The observer who wasmentating was stunned. ¡°My goodness! Silent is trying to build a tower right in the face of Nightwind! Are they crazy! The Orcs have an entire army, will the tower even be built? ¡°Huh? But Nightwind isn¡¯t responding, he didn¡¯t see it! My goodness, he only has a portion of his army guarding the mine, and has his attention on the demaster! ¡°The tower is outside of vision range, and he can¡¯t see it! My goodness! There are now eight towers built, and upgrading! ¡°He¡¯s discovered it! It looks like it¡¯s toote! Destroy! Rush! My goodness, he can¡¯t win! ¡°The Orcs are retreating, but the humans aren¡¯t chasing at all! They¡¯re building more towers! That¡¯s too evil!¡± The chat was also shocked, spamming: ¡°never seen someone so shameless¡±! The Humans were nowpletely in advantage, but Silent still chose to not chase. Instead he chose to build more and more towers towards the mine! The Orc army was now stuck, the mine was behind them, and they had Guard Towers in front of them as well as their huge army. But the humans didn¡¯t n to fight, instead kept pushing the Guard Towers forward. ¡°Nightwind-god¡¯s not waiting anymore, he¡¯s forcing the fight! demaster used destorm! Spin, spin, spin! Oh, he can¡¯t win! And demaster is back to base. ¡°The mine was gone before it even started! ¡°The Peasants from Silent have now made it their base, turning the Orc mine into his! ¡°Wow, this mine is the scariest I¡¯ve seen, there are twenty-four Guard Towers!¡± The viewers could feel the hopelessness of the Orc yer through thementary. But Nightwind hadn¡¯t typed GG, his demaster was now level six, and didn¡¯t want to lose this way. ¡°The Humans are on the move, is this the end? ¡°No, the Humans aren¡¯t moving towards the base of the Orc! ...huh? He¡¯s gathering the Peasants to the middle of the map? ¡°Uhh... he¡¯s building towers again! ¡°Oh my, there are so many towers already! Looks like there are twenty two Guard Towers! ¡°What is this about? There aren¡¯t any resources in the middle of the map, what¡¯s the point of building so many towers? To ck passage?¡± Chapter 118 - Chapter 117: The Players Strong Opinion!

Chapter 118: Chapter 117: The yers¡¯ Strong Opinion!

Towers were built and upgraded. The Human army didn¡¯t leave either, guarding the tower until it was finished. The observer and the audience were really confused by this move. Why wasn¡¯t he finishing the match, what was he waiting for? With the advantage that he had, he just had to attack and win the game! It didn¡¯t take long before the Guard Towers were finished. The Gryphons that were blocking the Guard Towers were now gone, and it was only then that the audience and observer realised what the Guard Towers spelt out. The observer went silent. The chat went wild. ¡°What? What am I watching!¡± ¡°My goodness, this is so humiliating!¡± ¡°He¡¯s really that good!¡± ¡°Wow, I feel like Nightwind-god is about to break down.¡± The Guard Towers in the middle of the map spelt out two letters: NB![1] It even came with the exmation mark! With more than three hundred thousand viewers, the chat was filled withughter. Nightwind also saw the message using his demaster, and was so angry that the demaster charged right into the towers and used destorm! Most of the Guard Towers were destroyed, but demaster also died in the process. Nightwind typed out GG and quit the game. That was infuriating! Shameless! ¡ª Following the chat, Nightwind¡¯s inbox also exploded The chat was filled with discussion of the game, and many were PMing Nightwind. ¡°Nightwind-god, were you ying seriously?¡± ¡°Nightwind-god that wasn¡¯t like how you usually y!¡± ¡°Say something!¡± Nightwind was speechless as that match was too humiliating. Weren¡¯t these people adding salt on the wound before he could even calm down after that loss? He couldn¡¯t deny it as many knew that it was his alt ount. He couldn¡¯t say he wasn¡¯t ying seriously either, who¡¯s fault would it be that he got destroyed because he wasn¡¯t ying seriously? I¡¯ll just ignore it! There was a second wave of this incident in the forums once the rey was released, talking trash about those who didn¡¯t believe that Silent couldn¡¯t beat high skilled yers. ¡°Silent can¡¯t beat pros? What is this? Nightwind-god got bullied the same way the others did!¡± ¡°Destroying Nightwind while ying random, are you guys convinced?¡± ¡°Those who said that it was an AI, have you seen an AI that would arrange towers to spell out NB with an exmation mark? It didn¡¯t take long before the S-Dog gang retaliated. ¡°You¡¯re proud of that ugly win? The number of towers are ridiculous!¡± ¡°Yeah, Nightwind was trapped, y head on if you dare!¡± ¡°That¡¯s just ying against the spirit of the game!¡± ¡°But I feel that Humans are crazy, I didn¡¯t know you could y it like that. I never realised Towers were too strong, I¡¯ll go try it out now.¡± Somewhere still trying to argue while others were investigating the mass tower strategy and trying it out in ranked. There were many high skilled yers who found out that this strategy was actually really good! Basically, onrger maps, train Archmage first to secure as many mines as possible, then invest that gold into building towers around every mine. Afterwards, skip over mid tier units and go right to Gryphons and Dragonhawks, defeating the opponent by winning the war of attrition. This strategy didn¡¯t just work against Orcs, but Night Elves and Undead as well with minimal changes. The Human yers were excited to see the rise of the Human race! ¡ª After beating Nightwind¡¯s alt ount, Chen Mo continued queueing. The opponents afterwards were all much worse than Nightwind, steamrolling them without any special strategies. He yed until he reached thirty-seven hundred points and couldn¡¯t find any more matches. Chen Mo decided to call it as he was tired. Although Silent was now offline, the reign of terror never stopped in ranked. There was a new wave of tower building strategies that night. Every Human one woulde across would most certainly be using that strategy, and even non-Human mains were also practicing the same strategy. The worst thing was that this strategy was used by low and high ranked yers alike! The lower ranked yers weren¡¯t mechanically gifted enough, and couldn¡¯t beat demaster and Death Knight. What should they do? Build towers! Higher ranked yers were good mechanically, meaning that building towers had more of an advantage. Build towers! Who knew how many demasters and Demon Hunters were shot down by Guard Towers that night. The other three races were groaning with hatred. ¡ª Early the next day. Su Jinyu was frantically telling Chen Mo, ¡°Manager, it¡¯s not good. There are many yers saying in the forums that Humans¡¯ tower building strategy is too strong, and needs to be nerfed.¡± Qian Kun agreed, ¡°Yeah, manager. It seems a bit strong. Should I reduce some of the HP of Guard Towers? Or maybe build time? Or both?¡± Chen Mo shook his head, ¡°There¡¯s no need to nerf.¡± ¡°But manager, there are many yers who y other races that areining, wouldn¡¯t that affect our sales?¡± asked Qian Kun Chen Mo was speechless, ¡°You¡¯re just worried about the sales?! Don¡¯t worry, it¡¯s fine. I guarantee you that they¡¯ll shut up after three days.¡± Su Jinyu didn¡¯t buy it, ¡°Really? Are you sure, manager?¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Absolutely I¡¯m sure, just ignore them. Oh, actually, they¡¯re feeding me afterall, I¡¯ll give them some attention through Weibo.¡± Chen Mo opened Weibo to discover there were hundreds of tagsst night wanting the Human Guard Towers to be nerfed. Chen Mo sent out a Weibo: ¡°The stats for Guard Towers are fine, there will be no nerfs. All the other races have solutions to that strategy, pleaseplete the assignment individually.¡± It didn¡¯t take long before thements rolled in. ¡°Chen Mo! I guarantee you I won¡¯t kill you if you show yourself! Are you bncing the game with your feet? How could you say it¡¯s fine when it¡¯s so overpowered!¡± ¡°If you can¡¯t nerf its health, could you at least remove the mini-towers?¡± ¡°Yeah, it¡¯s like a porcupine once it¡¯s built up! It¡¯s not fair!¡± ¡°Can you buff the Undead??¡± ¡°Take a look at Silent¡¯s match yesterday. They destroyed Nightwind-god just using Towers! How is that fun to watch!¡± ¡°AAAAAAAA, I can¡¯t take it anymore! I¡¯m going to the experience store to pummel Chen Mo! Anyone with me?¡± ¡°Previous poster, I¡¯m in!¡± The yers were angry, but Chen Mo wasn¡¯t going to budge. However, he was worried that the yers woulde and gank him. He decided it would be better to hide out in the inte cafe for now. Geez, these yers are too soft. You can¡¯t even defend against a few Guard Towers? Are you guys still ying once the demolition strategy gets discovered? Chapter 119 - Chapter 118: Pandaren Brewmaster

Chapter 119: Chapter 118: Pandaren Brewmaster

There weren¡¯t many people in the inte cafe, but as Chen Mo sat down, someone shouted, ¡°Wow, it¡¯s the god gamer. You¡¯re finally here!!¡± Chen Mo was shocked to see Zou Zhuoing out of nowhere, fearing that Chen Mo might escape or something. Chen Mo stood down and turned on theputer. Zou Zhuo sat next to him and said, ¡°God gamer, there are a few other God gamers who want you to join the group I¡¯m in. Kaiser is also in there. Kaiser actually wants to y a few games with you.¡± Chen Mo replied, ¡°Oh, but I really can¡¯t be bothered.¡± Zou Zhuo was shocked to be declined even after bringing up K-god! All God-gamers indeed stoic! Chen Mounched Warcraft to search from another ranked match. Zou Zhuo was stuck in a hard ce, he couldn¡¯t get on the floor and begged like the group suggested he do. Zou Zhuo took out his phone and set a message to the group, ¡°I finally met SIlent again! But he¡¯s not joining the group, what should I do? It¡¯s very urgent!¡± The messages came in pretty quickly. ¡°Real Silent??¡± ¡°Pics or it didn¡¯t happen! Quick, show us a video!¡± ¡°What is there to do other than ask him to ept you as his student!¡± ¡°AAHHHHH, what¡¯s the address? I wanna go there!¡± The group had been discussing the past two days. After Silent gained poprity, the group noticed that the yer who yed again Zou Zhuo was Silent! That means Zou Zhuo has seen Silent himself, that¡¯s incredible! There were many in the group who said on the forums that Silent is a real person, and looked quite young too, and that someone had seen them with their own eyes. But of course nobody on the forum believed them thinking they were lies. But the moment to prove themselves right finally arrived! Under peer pressure, Zou Zhuo stood behind Chen Mo and took a short video. The video didn¡¯t contain much, just Chen Mo¡¯s incredible hand speed on the mouse and keyboard, as well as some shots of the screen. ¡°My goodness, this hand speed. It¡¯s worthy of the title Ultimate Tentacle Monster!¡± ¡°You gotta be spraining your hand like that...¡± ¡°I feel like I have one less finger than he does...¡± ¡°That screen, my goodness is that yed back at eight times speed? I can¡¯t understand anything at all!¡± ¡°That hand speed is probably real!¡± ¡°But what should we do if the god doesn¡¯t join the group? Do we need K-god to do it himself? @Kaiser¡± Kaiser: ¡°Forget about it, don¡¯t force them to join if they don¡¯t want to. @Zzz keep your eyes on him and learn from that.¡± Everyone expressed their disappointment in chat, ¡°Oh, that¡¯s too bad!¡± This time Chen Mo was ying against Night Elves, although they were fighting for a long time against Chen Mo¡¯s demaster, they eventually lost. Chen Mo¡¯s rating was now at 3794. It didn¡¯t feel like anything special, so Chen Mo searched for another match. -Inside the group- ¡°He¡¯s searching again! Go queue, K-god! Try and queue together with Silent!¡± Kaiser: ¡°I¡¯m in ss...¡± Everyone was speechless. It took some time to search for a match as his rating was so high, it took nearly five minutes for him to get a match. It was still morning, but there were almost four-hundred thousand total viewers across all tforms watching Silent y ranked matches. Although this was all streamers across all tforms, it was still an incredible number! Especiallyst night when Silent beat Nightwind using mass towers, and then spelling out ¡®NB!¡¯ using towers on the map increased his poprity by a lot. The audience were incredibly happy upon seeing his opponent. ¡°Digwa!!! Gourd god! Hahaha, Silent queued into Gourd god this time!¡± ¡°Gourd-god, please beat him with that disgusting tower strategy to make him suffer from his own invention!¡± ¡°Yeah, I agree! Gourd-god must use Silent¡¯s strategy against himself! Avenge us!¡± This Gourd-god guy¡¯s ID was Digwa, although nobody knew its true meaning, people would just pronounce it as spelt[1]. He wanted to change his name, but as the viewers used it more, he epted the nickname. He even changed his nickname on many tforms to Gourd. Digwa was the top three human yers in China, at three thousand seven hundred and twenty-two points, basically the same rank as Kaiser. After loading in, Gourd was also shocked to meet Silent. My goodness, I actually met him! Of course Digwa saw the match yesterday of Silent vs Nightwind, and got plenty of inspiration from it. He was a Human yer anyways, and had a better understanding of these strategies than anyone else, and realised that it was an amazing strategy. He also yed a few matches with other high-skilled yers to confirm how good the strategy actually was. Silent had been winning straight matches gaining a lot of points in the process. Gourd felt that he would meet Silent eventually, but didn¡¯t expect it to be so soon. Digwa entered in chat, ¡°S-god, pleased to meet you.¡± Silent replied, ¡°GLHF¡±. Gourd was speechless, this guy really doesn¡¯t like chatting, he¡¯s even toozy to reply in Chinese! This time Silent randomed Night Elves. The chat was incredibly exciting. ¡°Gourd-god, built towers! Destroy him! Make him feel the terror of Guard Towers!¡± ¡°Hahaha, whates around goes around. It¡¯s finally Silent¡¯s turn to y Night Elves against Humans!¡± Although they knew Digwa couldn¡¯t see, the passion from the fans never stopped. Digwa was probably thinking about how Silent would react if he used his strategy against him. If he beat it, that means that the strategy isn¡¯t fool proof. If he doesn¡¯t beat it... that means it¡¯s a design w? The Peasants were working hard to mine gold and build buildings. The fans were plenty excited: ¡°Hahaha, Gourd-god is doing so well! Beat him at his own game!¡± Thementator was a bit nervous as they saw how strong the tower strategy was from the humans. Silent wouldn¡¯t lose to his own strategy right? ¡°Alright, it seems like Gourd-god does n to beat Silent using the towers strategy. Let¡¯s take a look at Silent...Hmm? What¡¯s wrong with that Altar? From The perspective of the spectator, it was obvious that the Altar of Elders was builtte, as Demon Hunter was trained muchter than Archmage. At this point, the scouting Peasants managed to find the glowing altar, and turned away immediately. As the humans leave, the Night Elves cancel the training of the Demon Hunter. A wisp was already waiting at the Tavern in the middle of the map, and as the time came, it summoned a neutral Hero: Pandaren Brewmaster! The viewers were shocked, there was indeed a n in ce! ¡°My goodness! Pandaren Brewmaster! Feel like Silent has things in store! He must¡¯ve known that his opponent was going to use his strategy against him! ¡°Is the Pandaren Brewmaster good? I¡¯ve used him before, and he felt quite squishy. Can this beat Guard Towers? ¡°The Brewmaster¡¯s Breath of Fire is really strong! It can hurt buildings too! It seems like Silent came prepared! ¡°It looks like Gourd-god never noticed?? ¡°Does he think that his opponent is going to be the Demon Hunter as usual? Indeed, Digwa didn¡¯t expect Silent to train a neutral Hero. Moreover, he saw that the Altar was glowing from his own scout! Chapter 120 - Chapter 119: Ganging Up?

Chapter 120: Chapter 119: Ganging Up?

Digwa yed as usual, leveling up quickly using its water elemental, taking over mines in the process. Silents Night Elves on the other hand had a different strategy, building an Ancient of War that produces Archers close to a neutral camp, clearing the camp using the Ancient of War and Archers once the Brewmaster was done training. the viewers weren¡¯t surprised as he used this strategy every time he yed Night Elves. Everyone had their focus on the Pandaren Brewmaster as it was the only thing that wasn¡¯t as usual. ¡°Wow, Silent¡¯s Wisps had discovered the human¡¯s were rotating, they know that the humans are going to another mine, but the Pandaren is still grinding for levels. Is this for mining? ¡°Nope! Silent has no ns to go for mines. He¡¯s spamming low-tier units, trying to do some early fighting! ¡°It¡¯sing, the level three Pandaren Brewmaster with archers and mercenaries behind him are rushing towards the Human mine! The army is here! Gourd was shocked as he thought Silent was going Demon Hunter as usual, but by the time he realised, the Pandaren was almost level three! The level three Panda with archers behind him charged straight towards the mine, which at this point only had three Guard Towers. As there wasn¡¯t a need for many towers in the early game, three Guard Towers were plenty. Pandaren Brewmaster went first, breathing fire on all three Guard Towers and a few more Peasants! ¡°Whoosh!¡± Combined with the focus fire from the Archers, the Guard Tower had half its health left! Silent hadn¡¯t researched nor mined, instead focused on training archers and buying cheap mercenaries from the Mercenary Camp. The Humans on the other hand focused on building instead, meaning that the two yers hadpletely different armies. Gourd started to panic, knowing that it couldn¡¯t be a good thing to see the Pandaren, immediately spamming Arcane towers. However it was already toote, the Pandaren spent all its mana breathing fire, and would hit multiple towers and Peasants every time. All the towers were gone after a few more breaths! Gourd tried to build towers and upgrade them, but with only an Archmage and Footmen, the difference in strength was clear. The Pandaren came back immediately after going back to base to regain mana after the first attack! And after the second attack, Gourd was forced to give up that mine. The worst thing was that the Night Elves only just the Panda, meaning that it gained significant levels after killing all the Peasants. And the resulting high level Breath of Fire was even more difficult to deal with. It didn¡¯t take long after losing the mines for Gourd to condeed. There wasn¡¯t anything else he could do after losing all the mines and giving away so much XP. The Pandaren was stomping all over him, and there was nothing stopping it. The chat was shocked too, how could Gourd¡¯s towers be destroyed so easily? How could a strategy that had beaten so many yersst night be dismantled so easily? Just from one Pandaren Brewmaster? ¡°What is this? I just realised how squishy the towers are? They lose half their health from one Breath of Fire!¡± ¡°The worst is when your Peasants are caught in it, you can¡¯t fix your buildings at all!¡± ¡°Do you think Gourd-god would¡¯ve been better off with a few more Arcane Towers? ¡°Most likely, but Gourd-god didn¡¯t know he was going to face Pandaren!¡± ¡°So what if he knew. You saw how quickly the towers melted from the Breath of Fire.¡± ¡°My goodness, Silent is a beast. He used his strategy to destroy Nightwind-god yesterday, and dismantled that same strategy today? Crazy.¡± ¡°Get out of the way, I¡¯m on team S-god now!¡± ¡ª It couldn¡¯t be helped that he didn¡¯t expect that strategy. Especially training the Panda first, andbined with Moon Wells to provide Mana and HP, it was incredibly strong in the early game. The Panda¡¯s Breath of Fire was a nightmare for Footmen, Peasants, and Guard Towers alike. It was at this point that Gourd also received a message from Nightwind. ¡°Did you get destroyed by him too?¡± Gourd replied, ¡°Yeah, there wasn¡¯t much I could do either. Feels like I just got outsmarted.¡± ¡°Kaiser and the others were spectating, and it seems like not only is Silent mechanically strong, he also has good strategies.¡± Gourd replied, ¡°At least we gained something from it. We proved that the Tower strategy can be beaten.¡± ¡°I¡¯ve already asked a bunch of other pros that are above thirty-seven hundred. We¡¯ll queue together tomorrow afternoon. I refuse to believe that we can¡¯t beat him with all our powersbined,¡± replied Nightwind. Gourd was shocked, ¡°Huh? Why are we doing this together?¡± ¡°Whoever meets him ys against him, the others will watch and learn from it! It¡¯ll be the same as sharing our experiences. I checked this ID yesterday, this guy doesn¡¯t exist in the Legion Conquest circle. This means that his RTS knowledge isn¡¯t even at our level, it¡¯s just unbelievable that we lost to him!¡± ¡°But we can¡¯t beat him!¡± replied Gourd. ¡°We can¡¯t say that, his strategies are really good, like us two who lost to his strategies without actual fights. I got destroyed by Guard Towers, and you got destroyed by the Panda. How many more of these strategies does he have up his sleeve? We can get all the strategies out of him and once we have enough preparations, we should be able to beat him right?¡± asserted Nightwind. ¡°Yeah... makes sense.¡± ¡°Moreover, he hasn¡¯t dropped a gain yet. He¡¯s now at three thousand seven hundred and eighty points after beating you, he¡¯s about to reach the top! How can he reach the top from straight wins! He¡¯s just stepping on us at that point, are you okay with that?¡± added Nightwind. ¡°What? Straight wins? That¡¯s not alright!¡± ¡°So we can¡¯t back out!¡± ¡°Yeah, can¡¯t back out!¡± As there were only a dozen or so people at the peak of RTS, they knew each other well. They soon reached an agreement to show Silent what¡¯s up! If he really did reach the top with straight wins, how could these yers face society! That would be too shameful! ¡ª After having lunch, Chen Mo continued to y ranked games. Chen Mo noticed that his queues were much faster, not knowing that the others were cooperating to beat him. ¡°Huh? A few seconds? Doesn¡¯t it usually take five minutes to find an opponent?¡± Chen Mo didn¡¯t think much of it, and picked random as usual. There were quite a few yers around thirty seven hundred points, of course the queue was going to be fast. The chat was shocked. Are the gods about to brawl? Howe the gods that aren¡¯t usually active are now online, and all of them were spectating? ¡°Is the battle of gods? The ten strongest gods are battling against this new god?!¡± ¡°Wow, is this going to end up like Ragnarok?¡± ¡°Yeah, it¡¯s crazy how many gods are trying to battle against Silent. If I were Silent, I¡¯d be talking about this my whole life!¡± ¡°I decided to skip ss this afternoon to watch this battle among the gods!¡± ¡°It¡¯s starting! This time Silent got the Undead! Chapter 121 - Chapter 120: Last Match for Dignity

Chapter 121: Chapter 120: Last Match for Dignity

Inside the Fates Inte Cafe, Chen Mo was controlling three Undead heroes, battling it out with the opposing Orcs. ¡°Hey, this Orc is pretty good. You wanna kill my Crypt Fiend? ¡°Burrow. ¡°You wanna kill my Lich? Frost Armor, then Death Coil. ¡°You wanna kill my Death Knight? I¡¯ll just run away. ¡°You wanna surround me? That won¡¯t work. ¡°Hmm? You wanna run? Take my triplebo! ¡°Geez, this Shadow Hunter is still struggling? ¡°Sorry, you¡¯ll be followed by my Death Coils. ¡°Geez, you¡¯re done already? Next!¡± -Inside the chat group- ¡°Lost again! Let¡¯s go again!¡± ¡°How is this guy so good at Undead too? The Crypt Fiends and Ice Armor are incredibly difficult to deal with! The ss-cannon Lich and the healing machine Death Knight!¡± ¡°No, we gotta queue again!¡± This time it was a Human yer. ¡°Silent got Night Elves again!¡± ¡°Be careful of his Pandaren Strategy!¡± ¡°There¡¯s no need, there isn¡¯t a Tavern on this map!¡± ¡°Build towers, quickly! Let¡¯s see how he reacts this time!¡± ¡°We¡¯re finally onto something now that the mines are fully operational. Mine more and crush him!¡± ¡°Huh? How is he so rich?¡± ¡°He has more mines than the Humans! How did he get so many mines!¡± ¡°Don¡¯t worry, there¡¯s a battle to be hadter!¡± ¡°I can¡¯t win! That¡¯s awful!¡± ¡°My turn, my turn.¡± ¡°Wow, Silent got Humans this time! Your turn to use the Pandaren strategy!¡± ¡°What, he trained a Mountain King first! Ah! My Pandaren got surrounded and killed!¡± ¡°He¡¯s building towers again!¡± ¡°Man, why are there so many Siege Engines. They... are destroying my base! ¡°Man, there¡¯s nothing I can do, the Siege Engines aren¡¯t dying at all!¡± ¡°My bases are destroyed! I¡¯m done!¡± ¡ª It didn¡¯t matter that they went right after one another! Silent was still stomping on these pros while ying random! The chat was ecstatic as each match was better than thest. There were many yers within the group making requests from Zou Zhuo. ¡°@Zzz, what does Silent look like? Send us a clip.¡± ¡°Yeah, hurry, you¡¯re reporting from the battlefield!¡± Zou Zhuo sent a few videos one after another, but all behind CHen Mo. They could see Chen Mo¡¯s incredible hand-speed as well as hear him exining the situation to Zou Zhuo. ¡°Hmm, this is the second time ying against Nightwind, he seems much better this time. ¡°Huh, he yed this strategy pretty well, he¡¯s improved a lot.¡± ¡°His defence is pretty good, what about this?¡± ¡°Damn you!¡± ¡°Look, he¡¯s almost done.¡± ¡°Wasn¡¯t the demaster pretty cool? What happened? Huh, you want it to end? Nope! Look at me running circles around him.¡± ¡°Hmm? Rage quit?¡± ¡°Alright, next!¡± The group went wild after seeing the videos. ¡°Man, this Silent is so cocky, I really want to punch him!¡± ¡°What is this, I thought he¡¯s the cool type? He¡¯s obviously the annoying talkative type!¡± ¡°Yeah, his ID is Silent, he¡¯s silent in game, but not at all in real life!¡± ¡°Wow, it feels like he¡¯s not even trying, but toying with all these gods!¡± ¡°It really feels like Ragnaroc!¡± ¡°Has K-god yed?¡± ¡°K-god can¡¯t y as he has ss this afternoon.¡± ¡°I think it¡¯s wise for K-god to not y. This Silent guy is crazy, bullying anyone hees across!¡± ¡°All of them have been bullied once right?¡± ¡°Nope, there¡¯s still one more.¡± ¡°Oh yeah. There¡¯s Goph!¡± ¡°Let¡¯s go Goph! Humans, Night Elves and Undead have all fallen, you¡¯re the only one left to defend the honour of the Orcs!¡± ¡°My goodness, it really is the battle for honour, Goph losing means that Silent beat the entire army, and Silent would be the best of the best!¡± ¡°We can¡¯t allow that to happen!¡± ¡ª This time Chen Mo queued into an Orc yer named Goph. ¡°Hmm?¡± The ID was familiar to Chen Mo, it was the highest ranked yer who mained Orcs. ¡°I¡¯m almost at the top already? I feel like I¡¯m stomping all over these people.¡± Chen Mo was now at four thousand and twelve points after his long win streak. Beating Goph would allow him to be at the top of the leaderboard. The chat was going wild ¡°Goph! The best Orc yer is about to y!¡± ¡°Wow, it really is the battle among gods like Ragarok! It would go down in history if Silent beat Goph! Getting to the top with straight wins after beating all the pros?¡± ¡°Don¡¯t be so sure yet, Goph must¡¯ve done his research. He would lose that easily!¡± ¡°Let¡¯s see what he randoms, I think Goph has a chance is SIlent gets Night Elves or Undead!¡± ¡°Wow! Night Elves! You¡¯re a prophet!¡± ¡°Alright, he has a chance!¡± It wasmonly epted that Silent had a high chance of winning if he got Humans or Orcs. He could use tower spam if he got humans, and out probably out skill Goph in a mirror match. Silent could use Frost Armour Crypt Fiends if he got Undead, and had beat a few other Orc yers with the same strategy. All that¡¯s left were Night Elves, as Silent hadn¡¯t yed that matchup yet. Most yers felt that Night Elves aren¡¯t good against Orcs as Night Elf units were squishy, the Archers would easily die in three hits from the demaster. Although Demon hunter and mana burn the demaster, but it was difficult to get all his mana, furthermore the orcs could use mana potions too. Moreover, when the Orcs reach the second tier, they could train Raiders and Spirit Walkers. And whenbined are very difficult for Elven heroes to y against as they could easily die from a group of them. Many viewers were happy that Silent might have been overzealous in choosing to random, then being put into an unfavourable matchup. Many Night Elf yers were also watching this match. They found that the matchup against Orcs were difficult, but have never been able to find a way to y around it. Maybe Silent could give them some pointers? The match was in a four person map, with both yers spread quite far apart. Silent didn¡¯t do the usual farming with Ancient of War, instead walling off his base using buildings. The Orc¡¯s opening was the usual farming with demaster. The observer was trying their best to providementary. ¡°Silent isn¡¯t using Ancient of War this time, that¡¯s unlike him. Is this some new strategy? Hmm? That building cement is interesting, it seems like it¡¯s meant to block off passage. It¡¯s all ced in a row with plenty of space behind it. ¡°The Demon Hunter is running straight towards the Orcs, that¡¯s odd. It seems like he has no ns to farm levels at all! Moreover, he only trained an Archer, who is currently sitting in base!¡± Chapter 122 - Chapter 121: Flying Units!

Chapter 122: Chapter 121: Flying Units!

After the wisps had discovered where the Orcs were, the Demon hunter started burning mana and killing Grunts. Goph scowled, he most certainly could use the demaster to kill the Demon Hunter, but so what? The Demon Hunter could just run back to base and heal up, interrupting his farming. ¡°You¡¯re not farming, but choosing to interrupt my farm? Not gonna work.¡± Goph didn¡¯t take the bait, continuing to kill neutral creeps to level-up. He thought of running into their base to kill the wisps too, but gave up upon seeing the blockage as there was no way the demaster was making it through that. The Night Elves didn¡¯t train any other units other than Archers, instead investing their resources to level the Archers. The audience was shocked at this move. ¡°Straight to level three? You¡¯re fighting high-tier Orc units using that? ¡°That¡¯s not possible right? Demon Hunter is still level one too, and most of the Orc army is at level two now. As long as Raiders are able to take down buildings quickly, the Night Elves stand no chance! ¡°The Night Elves trained a Beastmaster! And he¡¯s still harassing the Orcs!¡± ¡°What¡¯s Silent nning, I don¡¯t understand this at all!¡± The Beast Master learnt Summon Quillbeast and was picking off damaged Orc units. And everytime Goph allied a heal, it would be cancelled. ¡°Don¡¯t worry,it¡¯s normal. If he¡¯s not doing anything and letting me farm, he¡¯s not the real Silent. Goph was naturally pantient as he was so highly skilled. Finally, the Night Elves finished their level three training. Silent pped down two Ancient of Wind as well as increased their poption to fifty, and started producing Druid of the Talons. ¡°What is he ying at, making Druid of Talons?¡± ¡°That thing is useless, it does no damage in human form, it only hits air units in crow form. Isn¡¯t it just going to feed itself to the demaster?¡± ¡°Maybe he ns to use Cyclone to control demaster?¡± ¡°The Druids only have enough mana to use it maybe two times, but the Orcs have Spirit Walkers to deal with that!¡± ¡°Maybe that¡¯s why Silent has no Ancient of Wind to mass produce the druids? Win in numbers?¡± ¡°I think that¡¯s too optimistic, you¡¯re only controlling the demaster, it doesn¡¯t do any damage. Once the demaster hits the ground, it¡¯s going to chop the Druid of Talon into pieces!¡± ¡°I think Silent fell into his own trap! The win streak is about to end!¡± ¡ª Druids of the Talons were cheap in terms of resources and poption, allowing the training of the Night Elves was done pretty quickly. After hiring some mercenaries and summoning the third hero, Goblin Tinker, to fill out some space, the army of fifty waspleted and proceeding to grinding levels. Goph was shocked when his scouting demaster walked into the massive army. Three level one heroes followed by many different mercenaries, it wasn¡¯t something that he could say he¡¯d seen before. Goblin Tinker? What does that thing provide? Are you sure it¡¯s not here to give my demaster experience? Without hesitation, demaster showed himself and started hacking away at the Goblin Tinker. But after just a few attacks, the one of the Druid of the w raised their hands and threw demaster into the air. And once it hit the ground, another Druid of the w raised their hands and threw him into the air. What was the meaning of this! He knew that this unit exists, but it was nevermonly used because of its low health and damage. It waspletely useless to have a few of it. It¡¯s only use was to throw enemies into the air, but it didn¡¯t deal damage, and would run out of mana after two casts. But Goph had just realised how disgusting it would be when there were many of them. If they worked together, the demaster would permanently be in the air. Goph was now sweating, as his demaster hit the ground, he quickly casted Wind Walk to try and escape. Although the Night Elves had Faerie Fire to reveal the invisible demaster, they chose to continue grinding levels instead of keeping the demaster constantly in the air. Goph knew better than to ck off, levelling in order to summon Tauren Chieftain. Tauren Chieftain¡¯s Shock Wave was a pretty good AoE spell, which would certainly be good against the squish Druid of the Talon. The Orcs were also training Spirit walkers, which could use Spirit Links to split damage across multiple units. It also had Disenchant which would be useful to remove the Cyclone effect off units. But when Goph¡¯s poption reached fifty, the Elven army had arrived. There were a lot more Elven units despite both armies being about fifty poption, due to the cheap costs of Druid of the Talons. The Druids charged forwards, immediately tossing the demaster into the air! Goph wanted to retaliate byting the Demon Hunter, but Silent was mindful of it, staying just out of range. The Goblin Tinker then put down its Pocket Factory, blocking the path towards it! This made it difficult for the Orcs to charge in as most of them were affected by Faerie Fire, and the key units were all in the air too! Goph used the Spirit Walker to dispel the Cyclone, but that dispelled the Spirit Link of itself too. And afternding, it would immediately be brought back into the sky by another Cyclone. The Orcs had a few Spirit Walkers, but the Elves had an entire army of Druid of the Talons! The Night Elves also had Mana res from two Faerie Dragons, making the Spirit Walkers take damage every time they cast spells. It didn¡¯t take long for the Orc¡¯s Raiders to die from the summons from the three heroes and Faerie Fire from the Druid of the Talons. Goph wanted to save them, but his Shadow Hunter was still in the air from the Cyclone! Goph finally let out a Shock Wave when his Tauren Chieftainnded on the ground, but Silent responded with an AoE heal, replenishing all his units to full health! It was hopeless! The match was already decided, but Goph wasn¡¯t about to give up. His Tauren Chieftain had enough mana to cast another Shock Wave to at least regain some dignity! The Tauren Chieftainnded, and shot out another Shock Wave! But this time, the Druids immediately turned into crows, bing flying units, causing the Shock Wave to miss! ¡°Pfft!¡± Goph may as well have spat out blood. How could he still toy with me when I¡¯m about to call GG, that¡¯s insufferable! It took the druids a lot of mana to turn into crows. Dodging the Shock Wave by using Crow Form was a cool effect, but might be game losing in a close match. But Silent could do anything he wanted as the victory was in his hands, and that whole maneuver was just to show off. Goph¡¯s rage was building, his units were thinning out, with just three half dead heroes left alive. Goph reluctantly called GG. The chat was filled withughter. ¡°What, Night Elves can beat Orcs? I¡¯ve been living under a rock!¡± ¡°Wow, the demaster waspletely decked out, but it was useless. It never even hit once...¡± ¡°This Silent actually defeated Goph just by using Cyclones.¡± ¡°I¡¯m impressed ! From today onwards I¡¯m team S-god!¡± ¡°He¡¯s at the top of the leaderboards with straight wins! What a historic moment!¡± At the same time this was going on in chat, a paragraph was trending on Weibo. ¡°The four races wereparing who had the most air units. The humans said they have Flying Machines, Gryphons and Dragonhawks! The Undead say that they have Obsidian Statues, Destroyer, and Frost Wyrm! The Night Elves say that they have Hippogryphs, Druid of the Talons, Faerie Dragon, and Chimeras! The Orcs say, ¡°That¡¯s nothing, when we fight the Night Elves, all our units are in the air!¡± Chapter 123 - Chapter 122: English Translation

Chapter 123: Chapter 122: English Trantion

¡°Geez, there isn¡¯t a single one that¡¯s worthy to be my opponent.¡± Chen Mo decided it was time to leave after looking at his watch. His ount was now at the top, he even showed off every single race. All that¡¯s left is to have these pros learn and understand. It¡¯s better for the growth of the game if it was at a higher level anyways. The news of ¡®Mysterious random yer Silent destroys the rankeddder, reaching the top¡¯ were stered all over the video game media. The news spread especially quickly in the Warcraftmunity. There were a few stickies that were discussing this matter. ¡°Did you watch the matches today? Silent destroyed thedder by reaching the top using random only! Even Goph couldn¡¯t handle him!¡± ¡°I saw it, and all I can say is that it¡¯s too sad! All the pros have been bullied!¡± ¡°Silent has no match at the top of thedder at four thousand odd points. They also got there in straight wins, and in just a few days! That¡¯s horrifying!¡± ¡°His skill level for all the races are exemry. Has anybody counted how many strategies he hade up with?¡± ¡°Raiders rush, mine rush, tower rush, Frost Armor Crypt Fiends, Gargoyles and Ghouls... and of course Cyclone spam!¡± ¡°That¡¯s revolutionary! I thought the pros had already discovered what the game had to offer, but it wasn¡¯t even close!¡± ¡°In particr that Cyclone spam, I didn¡¯t know you could y games like that.¡± ¡°Alright, I¡¯m going to watch some reys as revision. These reys are the best education material, you¡¯d probably gain two hundred points if you learn them properly! ¡ª The forms were filled with yersining about how strong the Humans and Guard Towers were, asking for CHen Mo to nerf them, but it didn¡¯t take long before all theseints were gone. The yers didn¡¯t even know which races were strong or weak even since Silent¡¯s appearance! It feels like whichever race Silent ys was strong! Any post thatined about the race they yed being weak would be replied with a rey from Silent saying, ¡°Your race isn¡¯t bad, you¡¯re bad.¡± Silent had gained plenty of fans in the process. Although nobody knew who Silent was, it didn¡¯t stop them from worshipping him. This also helped Warcraft gain a lot of poprity, the number of daily sales even peaked a little. ¡ª However, Silent never returned after beating Goph. Many observers thought that Silent just missed a day, but as days went by, Silent never came back! There were theories that he had quit because that was all that he had to offer; others said that he was afraid of losing, and would never y again; there were also some who said that it was a publicity stunt put together by the pros. But nobody got it right, nor did anyone know who Silent was. Although Zou Zhuo had seen Silent in person, they only added in game and had no other forms ofmunication. His fans were worshipping the few clips of him in the inte cafe filmed by Zou Zhuo. However, a few yers who have seen CHen Mo felt that the silhouette was familiar, and yet couldn¡¯t remember who it was! The pros could finally breathe a sigh of relief. After all, it was difficult to deal with constant losses everyday. But one thing was for certain, the appearance of Chen Mo dramatically increased the ystyles of Warcraft. The pros had finally realised now much more the game had to offer. They thought that they¡¯d explored the entire game, but Silent gave them a wakeup call. They could almost imagine what Silent would say, ¡°What is this? You guys are happy even though you¡¯re so bad? Watch and learn, this is how you actually y the game.¡± Silents reys were now treated as scripture, watched again and again for anyone looking to improve their gamey. ¡ª Meteorite Technology meeting room. Chen Mo looked through the trantions provided. The trantor asked, ¡°Is the trantion alright?¡± The trantor was just being nice, as the trantions were done by professionals, he was confident regardless if it were English to Chinese or vice versa. Although the young man before him was the designer of Warcraft and had good knowledge of Western Fantasy themes, how much English could he possibly know? He might not have even passed sixth grade! Asking for the final say was probably just to show who was in power, and to pick out a few problems to make him seem professional. The trantors have seen things like these many times.. Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Yep, it¡¯s great. But there¡¯s a small portion that needs to be changed, especially in the cinematic.¡± The trantor was visibly agitated, yet another one who pretends to know what they are saying. Chen Mo exined, ¡°When Arthas kills his father, it says ¡®continuing legacy¡¯, but it should be ¡®seeding you, father¡¯ in English. ¡®The next line should also be tranted like this: This kingdom shall fall! From the ashes there will arrive a new order, and it¡¯ll shake the very foundation of the world!¡± Chen Mo tranted the content as he went. The trantor was shocked, he thought CHen Mo was nitpicking, but it made sense as Chen Mo went along. The trantor could tell that the lines in Chinese held a pretty high standard. The trantions were meaningful, short and sweet, and fit the theme well. However, they didn¡¯t think that the trantion could be so true to the original! Chen Mo¡¯s syntax and vocabry made sense and fit the theme really well. Although Chen Mo had a strong ent, these trantions were really good! He even remembered the emotions he felt as he embraced the beauty of some English works. The trantor nodded, ¡°Alright, we¡¯ll do as you said!¡± The representative sitting next to them was also shocked that Chen Mo wasn¡¯t all talk. There must be something to allow him to be so sessful after all. They even got slightly emotional listening to these lines! The more true the trantion, the more sessful the English version of Warcraft will be. It may even be hugely popr in the Western market! This was the first time he felt so confident in shipping a Chinese game overseas! Chapter 124 - Chapter 123: Guest Commentary

Chapter 124: Chapter 123: Guest Commentary

Chen Mo spent the next little while dealing with shipping the game overseas. Meteorite Technology nned to release the English version first to test the waters, but under Chen Mo¡¯s request, they have agreed to release English, French, German, Russian, Korean and othernguages at the same time. Meteorite Technology nned to release the Korean version in the second wave, but decided to move it ahead under Chen Mo¡¯s request. It would¡¯ve been easy just to do trantions as they could be swapped into the game and would be released. It would¡¯ve been the same amount of time for one versionpared to many versions, all was required was more trantors. However, the main workloades in from promotion, meaning that wanting to release in multiple countries at the same time meant that the initial investment was much higher. Moreover the rules for the different markets were different, and especially when taking into ount the different preferences from region to region, releasing in so many regions wasn¡¯t a simple task. Chen Mo was serious about his decision. Promotion? What¡¯s that? Does this game need promoting? Alright, wouldn¡¯t hurt, but there¡¯s no point in wasting money in insane amounts of advertising. ¡°Don¡¯t worry, you guys just have to steal the thunder from Legion conquest, promoting the game as ¡®Better than Legion Conquest in every aspect¡¯, or ¡®Masterpiece RTS game¡¯. This would mean that any yer that searches for Legion Conquest would also receive results from Warcraft,¡± said Chen Mo. Meteorite Technology was shocked, isn¡¯t thatmiting a bit too hard? ¡°What does that expression mean, am I wrong? Isn¡¯t the game better than Legion Conquest in every aspect? Isn¡¯t this an RTS Masterpiece?¡± asked Chen Mo. The Meteorite Technology representative nodded as it seemingly made sense. Chen Mo was hoping to hype up the game across all regions by releasing it at the same time. As pros emerge from all the countries, they could learn from one another to speed up the expansion of the game. Of course Chen Mo didn¡¯t request to overlook the trantions for othernguages as he didn¡¯t have the ability to do so. He didn¡¯t understand a word of German, there would be no point in him poking his nose there. But these didn¡¯t matter as the most important part was that the English version was as close to the original as possible. It wouldn¡¯t be a great gaming experience if the trantions were horrible just like in the previous life. ¡ª After working hard for a few days to put the English Release in the home stretch, Chen Mo let his hands off the effort. The rest were dependent on Meteorite Technology¡¯s promotion and advertising overseas, which they were working hard at doing so. ¡ªInside the experience store.¡ª Su Jinyu was still checking forum posts daily to gather the thoughts of the yers as well as some hot topics. ¡°It¡¯s already been so long, and there¡¯s still people talking about Silent. These guys are crazy,¡± said Su Jinyu. ¡°Huh? There¡¯s still talk about it? Didn¡¯t Goph and Digwa surpass Silent¡¯s rank a few days ago? There¡¯s now three yers who are in the four thousand range,¡± expressed Qian Kun. Zheng Hongxi nodded, ¡°Yeah, but it seems like Silent has left a longsting impression. He did get his rank by destroying a bunch of high-skilled yers while having straight wins. It¡¯s on apletely different level.¡± ¡°That¡¯s true. If Silent was still ying, they might not even reach four-thousand,¡± added Qian Kun. ¡°Have you seen the few clips of Silent¡¯s silhouette? It just feels so familiar, his voice was familiar too,¡± asked Zheng Hongxi Qian Kun said, ¡°I¡¯ve seen it, it¡¯s over at that inte cafe. But it¡¯s pretty blurry and from the back. The inte cafe was also quite noisy, so it was difficult to make out his voice, I just remember that he was full of himself.¡± Su Jinyu was speechless, ¡°Huh? You guys couldn¡¯t tell?¡± The two of them were confused, ¡°Yeah, why? Do you recognise him? You know Silent?¡± Su Jinyu facepalmed, ¡°How sad would the manager be if he knew!¡± Qian Kun had his eyes wide open, ¡°Huh? Do you mean...¡± ¡°Yeah! Doesn¡¯t Silent mean ¡®Chen Mo¡¯[1]? You really couldn¡¯t tell?¡± Qian Kun and Zheng Hongxi were shocked, ¡°MY goodness, that¡¯s it! I knew the silhouette was really familiar! Since when did you know, Goldfish?¡± ¡°I knew it from the start! The manager had me get the ID for him!¡± said Su Jinyu. Qian Kun shouted, ¡°Why did you tell us earlier!¡± ¡°You guys never asked!¡± Zheng Hongxi said, ¡°We never considered that! Moreover, we have work to do everyday, who would have enough free time to discuss this!¡± ¡°My manager is so good!¡± eximed Qian Kun. Chen Mo came down the stairs at this moment. ¡°Alright, keep it down low. It¡¯s a secret for now.¡± Qian Kun said, ¡°Wow, you hit it so well, manager!¡± Su Jinyu asked, ¡°Manager, when do you n to let the yers now?¡± Chen Mo replied, ¡°Why would I tell the yers, they¡¯ll be guessing for a while. By the way, I¡¯ll be heading to Magic City over the weekend. Call me if anything happens.¡± ¡°Huh? Why are you going to Magic City? Are you promoting a game?¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Something like that. Fantasy Gaming tform is hosting a Warcraftpetition. ¡°Huh? Do you n toe out from your retirement?¡± asked Su Jinyu. Chen Mo shook his head, ¡°Nah. I¡¯m a special guest to provide insight.¡± Su Jinyu breathed a sigh of relief, ¡°Oh, that¡¯s alright. It probably isn¡¯t easy for the yers to enter thepetition to try their hand at the prize, so it¡¯s good that you aren¡¯t going to squash them.¡± ¡°...regardless, it¡¯s a good opportunity to promote the game. I¡¯ll be leaving during the afternoon, remember to let me know if anything happens,¡± said Chen Mo. ¡ª Thepetitive video game scene wasn¡¯t as developed as the previous world, but it wasn¡¯t non-existent. As there aren¡¯t esports games that were popr all over the world the functions of esports clubs were blurry. Most of them functioned the same as gaming workshops. Larger RPG games such as Legend of the Sword, Warring Three Kingdoms as well as Heavenly Ring from overseas have team PvP or GvG content, yers from these clubs would most certainly enter. There were a fewpetitive esports in the VR circle in shooter games. On the PC side of things, RTS games like Legion Conquest had smaller scaled tournaments as well, but there weren¡¯tpetitions that had attention from all over the world. The reason was simple, tournaments only had two basicponents, money and people. Thepetition could only seed when there were enough viewers and funds. Legion Conquest hadn¡¯t evene close to the poprity of MOBAs in his previous life, which was why they haven¡¯t been able to hostrge tournaments. However, there are more and morepanies and games who have discovered the potential ofpetitive gaming, which was why there were more and more regional tournaments happening in China. Smaller tournaments for Warcraft were finally a thing following Warcraft¡¯s poprity. TL note: [1] One of the chinese trantions of the word ¡®silent¡¯ is pronounced the same way Chen Mo¡¯s name is. Chapter 125 - Chapter 124: Comedian Ended up Videogame Designer

Chapter 125: Chapter 124: Comedian Ended up Videogame Designer

Chen Mo caught a cab to his destination after getting off the train. Thispetition was called the Fantasy Cup. Obviously the name was named after the officials, Fantasy Gaming tform. Not only were they a distribution tform, they were way ahead of otherpanies in terms of gaming tournaments as well. Although Chairman of Fantasy Gaming tform Ding Xing knew nothing about video game design, he had a good eye for the development of the gaming industry. Chen Mo had a little bit of beef with Fantasy Gaming tform as he took some of their user base when Thunderbolt Tabletop directed some of their yers to Fantasy Gaming tform. But as they say, temporary enemies mean forever profits. There wasn¡¯t any reason why Ding Xing would give up this opportunity given Warcraft was doing so well. If he could work with Chen Mo, there was no reason for him to burn the bridge. Legion Conquest¡¯s professional scene was moving along quite smoothly as most of the bigger esports clubs had ns to acquire pro yers. However, the release of Warcraft put a wrench into the ns. Many clubs have decided to reassess the situation before acting as there very well could be only one survivor from this altercation. Wouldn¡¯t it be sad if the game was dead two months after the Legion Conquest team was acquired? As Warcraft had its own ranking and rey system, the different skill levels were very clear cut. There were even a few pro yers who had gained poprity on a rey website, so the requirements for hosting a tournament were already met. This offline tournament was hosted in Magic City, meaning that the yers and special guests had to go to Magic City to attend. However, as the tournament was of a smaller variety there was no live audience and the games would be streamed. As Chen Mo arrived at his destination there was a representative who led him to his hotel as well as some documents going over the format of the tournament. Eight of the higher ranked yers were invited to this Warcraft tournament. yers like Goph, Nightwind, and Digwa who have yed against Chen Mo on thedder were there too. All the matches were best of three, straight into yoffs. The tournament would start from the top eight, then quarterfinals, semi-finals, then finals. There wasn¡¯t a lower bracket or repechage. As it was a smaller tournament, there wasn¡¯t a need to go through all that trouble. The tournament spanned over two days. The first day consisted of the top eight, and the quarter finals, third ce, and finals were hosted on the second day. The champion would get five hundred thousand RMB cash prize, two hundred thousand for second, ten thousand for third. The prize money was a good amount. Furthermore it was fully livestreamed, and the pros from all over the country would battle it out over BO3, so these yers took it quite seriously. Chen Mo¡¯smentating partner was a professional called Zhang Yang. He casted a few games before and was known for his quick thinking and his ability to control the flow. Other than paying for his transport, food and aodation, the officials also paid Chen Mo an extra fifty thousand RMB fee. Chen Mo was a special guest afterall, they couldn¡¯t pay him the usual rate. Chen Mo¡¯smentary was a gimmick more than anything, as having the designer or Warcraft to providementary must attract a lot of viewers! Of course, the officials were worried that Chen Mo would get off topic as he didn¡¯t have any experience inmentating, which was why Zhang Yang was assigned as his partner to control the flow of the conversation. Chen Mo was responsible for professional analysis in this duo. Chen Mo felt that this was a good opportunity to promote his game. Moreover he had nevermented before, it would be a good experience and an opportunity to show his face to the fans. Thepetitors had arrived and the machines were being checked. Zhang Yang walked over to greet Chen Mo, ¡°Nice to meet you Mr Chen.¡± Chen Mo couldn¡¯t help but think of a certain photographer with the samest name from his previous life, ¡°D-don¡¯t call me Mr. Chen, it reminds me of a certain someone.¡± ¡°Huh?¡± Chen Mo waved his head, ¡°Don¡¯t worry about it, call me by my whole name, don¡¯t leave out the word ¡®Mo¡¯¡±. Zhang Yangughed, ¡°Sure. You¡¯re a professional video game designer after all, pleased to be in your presence.¡± Chen Moughed too, ¡°Geez, what professional video game designer. We¡¯re bothmentators today, we¡¯re partners.¡± Zhang Yang nodded, ¡°Yep, seems like you¡¯re fitting in well. Let¡¯s go test out the equipment.¡± Zhang Yang cooperated with the officials sto test the equipment. Chen Mo didn¡¯t need to do anything as they were all handled by professionals. Chen After the preparations wereplete, Chen Mo did a quick mic test to make sure everything worked. Zhang Yang looked at the stream from his phone, it hadn¡¯t even been officially live, and the stream was still ck too. But it turned out that there were two hundred thousand viewers on the stream already. ¡°Yo, there are quite a few viewers today. The tournament hadn¡¯t even started and there were already close to two hundred thousand viewers. It would probably reach seven or eight hundred thousand viewers. The users in chat were talking to one another. ¡°Why hasn¡¯t it started! Hurry up!¡± ¡°I heard Chen Mo will make an appearance today?¡± ¡°Who¡¯s Chen Mo?¡± ¡°He¡¯s Warcraft¡¯s Designer!¡± ¡°Really? Why is he here?¡± ¡°Tomentate!¡± ¡°Wow, then there might be something to today¡¯spetition. The videogame designer must have better insight and average right? Let¡¯s see what he sayster.¡± ¡°Wonder if Chen Mo even ys his own game. Who knows what he¡¯ll provide to the stream? Maybe he¡¯s not even over two thousand points.¡± ¡°Maybe, maybe video game designers can¡¯t y games at all.¡± Zhang Yangughed, ¡°It seems like the viewers are looking forward to this. It¡¯s about to start, look into the camera.¡± The stream had started. ¡°Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, wee to Fantasy Cup Warcraft invitationals hosted by Fantasy Gaming tform. I¡¯m your caster Zhang Yang,¡± said Zhang Yang. Chen Mo followed suit, ¡°I¡¯m Chen Mo.¡± The audience was shocked, that¡¯s Chen Mo? He¡¯s much younger than i imagined! It was the first time most of the audience had seen Chen Mo. Most wouldn¡¯t care who the designer of the game was when they yed the game anyways. Zhang Yang said, ¡°This is Chen Mo¡¯s first time casting. I can see that the chat is being very nice and giving Chen Mo tons of love.¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°Really? Let me take a look. It looks like most are spamming: Chen Mo refund my hard earned money.¡± Zhang Yangughed, it seemed like Chen Mo was quite good at gags, he must¡¯ve done this before! ¡°Mr Chen Mo, you¡¯re pretty good at cracking jokes!¡± Zhang Yang saidughing. Chen Mo waved his hand, ¡°No no no, I thought we¡¯ve talked about this Mr. Chen Mo thing before this!¡± ¡°What could I call you by?¡± Chen Mo replied, ¡°Maybe, Designer Chen, I¡¯m a videogame designer afterall.¡± The viewers wereughing, weren¡¯t they supposed tomentate? This feels like aic sketch! Zhang Yang was speechless, ¡°That¡¯s still undermining your efforts. Alright I¡¯ll just call you Mr Chen Mo.¡± Chen Mo replied, ¡°That was just a joke that¡¯s supposed to ease up the atmosphere. It¡¯s also my first timementating today. I¡¯m honoured to be paired with Mr Zhang Yang.¡± The chat couldn¡¯t help butined, ¡°How could this be your first time? You must¡¯ve done this before, you seem so at home with this!¡± Chapter 126 - Chapter 125: Spoiler Commentary

Chapter 126: Chapter 125: Spoiler Commentary

While the machines were still being tested, Chen Mo and Zhang Yang continued chatting. ¡°To be honest, this is my first time meeting Mr Chen Mo. I¡¯ve heard so much about you.¡± ¡°Geez, I¡¯m ttered. I¡¯ve also heard plenty about Mr Zhang Yang, in particr in Chinesementarymunity. If you imed first, nobody would im second!¡± said Chen Mo. Zhang Yang was shocked, ¡°Huh?¡± The chat was filled withughter, he must¡¯ve said it backwards! Chen Mo continued, ¡°I actually really look up to Mr Zhang Yang. If I had to rate you, I¡¯d give you ten!¡± Zhang Yang waved his hands, ¡°Geez, that¡¯s too much! I¡¯m not worthy of that!¡± Chen Mo continued, ¡°As for the remaining nine hundred and ny nine...¡± Zhang Yang was caught off guard, ¡°Huh? Out of a thousand?¡± The viewers didn¡¯t expect Chen Mo would be so funny! How did amentary team turn into aic pair! Chen Mo looked at Zhang Yang and said, ¡°I can tell that you learn maths from your PE teacher.¡± ¡°Huh?¡± ¡°Ten plus nine hundred and ny-nine is one thousand and nine no?¡± corrected Chen Mo. Zhang Yang was speechless, ¡°Geez, you set me up!¡± The viewers were allughing, this Chen Mo guy is such a troublemaker! Zhang Yang was converted into a fan after being surprised at how entertaining Chen Mo was! How could he have been someone who had never done anymentary, he could be aedian with this amount of talent! Chen Mo continued, ¡°To be honest, I wanted to join thispetition as apetitor.¡± ¡°Really? Why did you choose to join as amentator then?¡± asked Zhang Yang. ¡°Well, when I asked the officials, they asked me to y ranked to see where I ced,¡± exined Chen Mo. ¡°Well, then show them what you¡¯ve got!¡± ¡°But in the end, the officials were really emotional and told me that I was too good, much better than Goph! Even that S-god from before wouldn¡¯t be able to beat you! You¡¯re nine million times better than him!¡± ¡°Huh, how did they get that number with all that zeroes following.¡± ¡°But the officials told me that there were two things preventing my development in game.¡± ¡°Which two things?¡± ¡°My left hand and my right hand.¡± Zhang Yang was speechless, ¡°That means you¡¯re garbage at the game and not made to y these kinds of games! The hand-speed requirement of this game is really high! The viewers hadn¡¯t stoppedughing. It had only been ten minutes and Chen Mo had made five or so gags which had been non-stop. Who knows how he came up with these! ¡°Hahaha, Chen Mo¡¯s aedian!¡± ¡°I¡¯ve never seen a videogame designer who had such good speaking skills!¡± ¡°Woah, who could tell this was the guy who made Warcraft!¡± ¡°On the basis of Chen Mo¡¯s jokes today, I won¡¯t be mailing him any razor des anymore.¡± ¡°This is aedian who identally became a videogame designer!¡± The preparations were eventuallyplete. ¡°Alright, our yers are done preparing, hold on to your seats as the games are about to start!¡± The chat didn¡¯t want that to happen. ¡°Don¡¯t start it yet! I want to watch Chen Mo¡¯sedy show!¡± ¡°Five more minutes of this please!¡± ¡°My goodness, it¡¯s the first time I wished there were more testing!¡± It didn¡¯t take long before thepetition started. Undead vs Orcs, poth yers had fairly high ranks as it was an invitational afterall. All the yers that were picked by the tournament officials were high ranked yers. Zhang Yang introduced the yers, the locations and the setup of the map. Zhang Yang also yed Warcraft which was why he had a good understanding of the basics, he wouldn¡¯t be able to cast the tournament otherwise. His main objective was to control the flow or to guide the conversations, give overviews of the match, and all the analysis would be left for Chen Mo. After the introductions, Zhang Yang asked, ¡°Mr Chen Mo, what do you think of the strategies the yers are going for?¡± ¡°The yers are going by the book so far, the Death Knight harassed the demaster for a bit, slowing down his progression to level two. But the demaster can farm the 331 camp now, which would give him better experience. As Chen Mo finished, the demaster ran towards the 331[1] camp. ¡°Death Knight secured this 533 camp. At the top of thedder, the mostmon strategy is to secure as much as possible early. It doesn¡¯t matter how good or bad the items are as the yers can sell bad ones. The key part was denying it for your opponent.¡± ¡°demaster has two circles, so he wasn¡¯t too lucky. It would be perfect for the first ten minutes if he got Gloves of Haste or des of Attack. But if the Orcs get +6 Agility on demaster, the game would heavily favour the Orcs.[2] ¡°The fights right now are pretty intense. This Crypt Fiend with Frost Armor should probably back off now, yep, it¡¯s running away now. Run around the trees then cast death coil to heal it up. Yep, this should mean that the Undead won the exchange. Chen Mo continued to exin the situation as the match went on. Zhang Yang was shocked to discover that he couldn¡¯t interject! Chen Mo wasn¡¯t speaking too fast or too slow, having a good control over the tempo of his words. His analysis was also incredibly in depth, in particr he knew the strategies of the yers really well. Anytime Chen Mo said there was something the yers would do, the yers would do exactly as he said! And sometimes he even found time to crack jokes. The viewers were shocked as Chen Mo¡¯smentary far exceeded their expectations. ¡°Oh man, spoilermentary? It feels like he sees the match two minutes into the future.¡± ¡°Why does it feel like the yers are listening to Chen Mo¡¯s order? They¡¯d do everything Chen Mo says!¡± ¡°The thought process is very clear and full of reason, he can even tell the yers¡¯ intent!¡± ¡°This is amazing! Who knew there were so many considerations behind one decision!¡± The audience discovered that thementary was more enjoyable than thepetition! The yers yed as best as they could, but in the end, the Orcs¡¯ demaster was killed instantly followed by a GG. The match was taken by the Undead. Chen Mo concluded, ¡°I think it was entirely even from the early to mid game. It was down to the Orcs being unable to kill the Undead, and when they failed to take over mines in the mid-game, losing two towers in the process. Of course, the Orc yer also had a few mechanical mistakes... ¡°And I think that the Orc yer iscking a bit afraid of fighting, as the demaster is one of the best early game heroes, but never killed too many Undead units when it was at its strongest. When Chen Mo finished his conclusion, there were some unhappy viewers in chat. ¡°He said it wasn¡¯t bad at the start, but what did he say afterwards? The Orcs made mechanical mistakes? This is an RTS game, and all the yers are top ten in thedder. It¡¯s alright to say that they messed up strategically, but how can he say so sternly that they didn¡¯t execute well?¡± ¡°Yeah, I wanna ask what rank Chen Mo is, how dare he say that they made mechanical mistakes!¡± ¡°This doesn¡¯t feel right, there should be an upper limit for the executing in an RTS game. How could someone watch over dozens of units? I don¡¯t think its a mechanical mistake.¡± ¡°Of course Chen Mo could tell from the perspective of an observer, but what would happen if he was the one ying? I¡¯d want to see him prove it!¡± ¡°He¡¯s calling the Orcs bad? These are all top tier yers, do you think it¡¯s yed by noobs?¡± Evidently there were ying viewers that are fans of the ORc yer. They would¡¯ve felt nice after watching their yer lose, but it was salt on wounds to see Chen Mo criticise the yer they were supporting. TL note: [1] I think this refers to the level of the units in the camp [2] Various items in Warcraft that give the Heroes bonuses, Agility basically makes the demaster stronger Chapter 127 - Chapter 126: Showmatch

Chapter 127: Chapter 126: Showmatch

It was alright during the first match, but during the second and third match, Chen Mo never stopped talking and always pointed out any mistakes the yers made, angering some of the fans. ¡°My goodness, it¡¯s gone! He really does dare to criticise anybody!¡± ¡°It¡¯s fine if you point out the mistakes of the loser, but picking out mistakes from the winner too?¡± ¡°Wow, I finally realised what Captain Hindsight means!¡± ¡°I really want to tell him to y if he¡¯s so good at the game!¡± Of course there were many who were standing by Chen Mo. ¡°Braindead fans out!¡± ¡°Can¡¯t you just listen to thementary? Did Chen Mo say anything wrong? He¡¯s the developer, wouldn¡¯t his game knowledge be much better than you keyboard warriors?¡± ¡°Another ¡®You y if you¡¯re so good¡¯. Do I need to be able to cool things down before I review a fridge?¡± ¡°If you don¡¯t wanna listen to him, just mute the stream! Nobody is forcing you!¡± ¡°You¡¯re doing great Chen Mo! Don¡¯t listen to these haters!¡± Soon, the two opposing sides of chat started going at each other¡¯s throat. The majority of the yers stood by Chen Mo, but the people against it had strong will and never gave up. During break time, a member of staff spoke to Chen Mo. ¡°Mr Chen Mo, I¡¯ve got something to discuss. There are many in chat who are saying that you¡¯re too good andmentating and started arguing. Could you tone it down a bit in the future matches?¡± Chen Moughed, ¡°I understand your concern. I¡¯ve looked at chat and I know where I¡¯m at. Moreover, wouldn¡¯t this tournament be more popr if more were talking about it? This is a good thing for you guys too.¡± The staff was a bit hesitant, ¡°So Mr Chen Mo, there¡¯s a showmatch tomorrow when the tournament finishes. You¡¯re supposed to y against the winner of the tournament.¡± Chen Mo was shocked, ¡°Huh??¡± The staff exined, ¡°Of course we won¡¯t get the champion to y against you at full strength. We thought about getting them to only use the mouse to y against you. It¡¯s for entertainment purposes afterall. Do you understand what I mean?¡± Chen Mo nodded. The organisers nned a showmatch for entertainment, by having Chen Mo y a game. The viewers would probably want to watch the videogame designer y their own game. Of course there could be a discrepancy between the skill level of the yers, which was why the winner would only use a mouse, making it a bit more entertaining. But after all the arguments in chat, the showmatch got more interesting. Many of the viewers felt that Chen Mo was Captain Obvious, although his analysis was good, there was no way he could be good at the game. How awkward it would be if Chen Mo lost to the winner who¡¯d y with one hand. Nobody but himself would be to me if he lost! The staff said, ¡°How about this, you go ahead with what you¡¯re doing, and I¡¯ll get the organisers to cancel the showmatch tomorrow. It wasn¡¯t anything important anyways.¡± Chen Mo shook his head, ¡°Don¡¯t, how could we do that? Don¡¯t worry, the match will be my concern, the show will go on.¡± The staff was shocked, What does this mean? Was he confident in his abilities? Obviously they didn¡¯t know how good Chen Mo was, but he couldn¡¯t be bad seeing how confident he was. It should be a big deal when he would y against the champion. The staff nodded, ¡°Alright, we¡¯ll do as you say.¡± The tournament continued. Chen Mo didn¡¯t make any changes and continued speaking his mind,pletely ignoring what was going on in the chat. Zhang Yang even felt bad for Chen Mo, thinking that he didn¡¯t know how bad the haters were! The tournament went on quite smoothly, the yers were ying seriously and Chen Mo¡¯smentary was very insightful. The viewers are more than happy to watch it. The organisers were also quite satisfied as the money spent on Chen Mo was well spent! Of course there was a vocal, unhappy minority. But the organisers didn¡¯t see it as a big problem as Chen Mo acknowledged and approved of it himself. The tournament continued on the second day. The quarter finals, third ce match and finals had the viewers going crazy. In the end, Goph outskilled Digwa to win the tournament. ¡°Alright, let us congratte Goph for being the champion of this Fantasy Cup! He will receive five hundred thousand in prize money, congrattions!¡± announced Zhang Yang The chat was also incredibly supportive. ¡°Goph-god!¡± ¡°King of Orcs! Long live the king!¡± ¡°Let¡¯s go Orcs!¡± ¡°Geez, that¡¯s too bad! If Digwa didn¡¯t make a mistake in picking mines, he probably would¡¯ve won!¡± ¡°This tournament was so enjoyable to watch! Warcraft is much more entertaining to watch than Legion Conquest!¡± ¡°Watch this makes me want to y ranked!¡± ¡°By the way, don¡¯t leave now as thepetition is not finished. Yes, up next will be a very entertaining showmatch!¡± said Zhang Yang The audience were shocked. Showmatch? What show? ¡°This showmatch will be a matchup between our champion Goph against the designer of Warcraft and my partner, Mr Chen Mo!¡± announced Zhang Yang. The chat went wild following this announcement! ¡°What? Chen Mo is ying the showmatch? Against Goph?!¡± ¡°What¡¯s the point. Goph has four thousand something points, wouldn¡¯t he just bully Chen Mo?¡± ¡°Maybe not, Chen Mo has really good game knowledge.¡± ¡°What good is game knowledge going to do. The game depends on execution and hand-speed. Wouldn¡¯t Goph stomp all over Chen Mo? What is the organisers nning?¡± ¡°Hahaha, we were just talking about Captain Obvious Chen Mo. He¡¯s good at pointing out mistakes, lets see how he does in a match.¡± ¡°Wow, I¡¯m amazed that Chen Mo epted it! Is he underestimated the strength of his opponent?¡± As the chat was discussing, Chen Mo was already sat at aputer ready to y. ¡°Alright, as it¡¯s a showmatch, Goph will have to y with one hand. That means Goph can only use his mouse, no keyboard.¡± exined Zhang Yang. The chat went wild yet again. ¡°Like I said, Goph would stomp Chen Mo if he yed seriously. ying one-handed is more like it!¡± ¡°Wow, that¡¯s kind of insulting, only one hand?¡± ¡°But I still think Goph will win!¡± ¡°Hahaha, how bad would Chen Mo feel if Goph won one handed!¡± ¡°It¡¯s hard to tell, I think he couldst a little bit?¡± Before the chat calmed down, Zhang Yang held onto his earpiece and was shocked. Zhang Yang continued after thirty seconds, ¡°Alright, I just got the message from the producer. Mr Chen Mo is asking Goph to y with both hands. To be honest, I¡¯m surprised to hear that message. I won¡¯t say much more, let¡¯s look forward for the showmatch!¡± The chat took a quick 180. There were a few people being condescending at the start, but the chat was filled with ¡°LOL¡± and ¡°???¡± when Zhang Yang was finished. ¡°Chen Mo is asking for Goph to y with both hands?¡± ¡°Hah, that¡¯s incredible. Maybe he thinks it would be too embarrassing if he lost to him single-handed, which is why he requested two hands?¡± ¡°Hahaha, this¡¯ll be good. Let¡¯s go Goph! Bring down Captain Obvious!¡± Chapter 128 - Chapter 127: A Long Weibo

Chapter 128: Chapter 127: A Long Weibo

As Chen Mo didn¡¯t bring his own keyboard and mouse, he borrowed one off one of the yers. After testing it and making sure it felt alright, Chen Mo signaled Zhang Yang that he was ready to go. Goph was quite nervous as he wasn¡¯t sure what Chen Mo was nning. The difference in skill level between a pro yer and an elite yer was huge. Someone like Goph could easily defeat a yer around three thousand points. But he didn¡¯t want to destroy Chen Mo as it was just a showmatch, and Chen Mo was the designer! If Chen Mo was vengeful and nerfed the Orcs because of that, perhaps reducing the demaster¡¯s damage? That¡¯ll be his own fault. If that happened, Goph would cop the me of many Orc yers. A familiar ID entered the lobby as he was worrying. Silent: Let¡¯s go. Goph was shocked, what is this? The other staff members were also shocked. They saw Chen Mo log into his ount with their own eyes, and turns out his ID was Silent? His rank on the top of the screen was four thousand one hundred and ny six! Everyone was shocked, including the staff and Goph! You were that Silent guy who destroyed the rankeddder! ¡°Wait! Quick, we¡¯ll need a camera focused on Chen Mo¡¯s hands. Yes, screen, keyboard and mouse. We¡¯ll need another source from Chen Mo¡¯s first person perspective!¡± ordered the producer. Chen Mo didn¡¯t mind them filming as the staff were hustling around him. Luckily the staff were quite efficient, the whole process only took around ten minutes. As the game was broadcasted, the chat was shocked. ¡°What is this??? Silent!!!¡± ¡°What¡¯s going on? Why is Silent here!¡± ¡°What? Is Silent Chen Mo¡¯s ount??¡± ¡°Huh? Huh? Huh? My entire life is a lie!¡± ¡°Yeah, doesn¡¯t Silent mean ¡®Chen Mo¡¯? My goodness, I¡¯ve never noticed!¡± ¡°Sucks that our English is so terrible!¡± ¡°Is Silent really Chen Mo?¡± ¡°MY goodness, this should be good. This¡¯ll be the match of the century! The finals won¡¯t evenpare to this!¡± ¡°Hahaha, where were the people who said ¡®if you¡¯re so good, you y¡¯. Chen Mo must¡¯ve obliged to teach us all a lesson!¡± ¡°There were peopleining about Chen Mo being critical. So does he have the right to be critical?¡± ¡°This Chen Mo is amazing acting. What did he say before? The only things stopping him were his left and right hand? I really thought he couldn¡¯t y!¡± The chat was going wild before the game started. There were more viewers now than in the finals! The familiar ID and random race yer, Silent, appeared once again! And he was actually Chen Mo! It didn¡¯t take long before the news spread all over the inte. Many of them were asking where they could watch the match! Goph wasn¡¯t concerned about making it entertaining, nor was he worried about going easy. He might not even win if he tried his best! This reminded Goph and his Druid of the Talon incident. His demaster was capable of killing everything, but never managed tond a hit! And when the game loaded, it was Night Elves vs Orcs again! Goph was about to cry. Again? It¡¯s so difficult to y against cyclone spam as Orcs, it¡¯s Silent¡¯s cyclone spam at that! The game started. The viewers had their eyes glued onto the screen as they didn¡¯t want to miss a single bit of action. There were many who were there to watch Chen Mo¡¯s first person perspective. ¡°My goodness, the hands are like moving so fast! Expected no less from the Ultimate Tentacle Monster!¡± ¡°So this is what four hundred APM looks like!¡± ¡°I can¡¯t handle this! I¡¯m dizzy, and I have a headache!¡± ¡°I¡¯m about to vomit, back to the observer I go. The match was intense. Chen Mo went cyclone spam just like before, but Goph was clearly prepared and made suitable changes such as training Tauren Chieftain second, but it was no use. After thirty grueling minutes, Goph called GG. As the two of them stood up, Chen Mo gave him a pat on the shoulder, ¡°Not bad, you¡¯ve improved.¡± Goph turned blue, it didn¡¯t feel like he improved at all! Destroyed just like before! All he did wasst a few minutes longer this time! He was quite happy when he won the tournament, but all that had been taken away! The other yers felt bad looking at Goph. He tried his best to win the tournament, but it ended with a loss against Silent. This is crazy! Everyone was incredibly entertained, from the forums to the chat, everybody was going wild. ¡°Hahaha, Chen Mo is too funny! He even pat Goph on his shoulder saying he yed well! Even though he got destroyed!¡± ¡°Chen Mo probably meant, You¡¯re pretty good among these noobs, but you¡¯re not on my level yet.¡± ¡°Goph was blue at the end of that! He was so happy to win the tournament, but the showmatch! Turns out he was ying against Silent! Do you think he regrets winning?¡± ¡°This means that everybody is still beneath Silent...¡± ¡°My goodness, who knew that Chen Mo was the Ultimate Tentacle Monster! That guy is so good at pretending!¡± The tournament ended with a roar ofughter. Thispetition performed much better than the organisers expected. Thest part in particr brought the whole thing together. The viewers thought that Chen Mo had made this arrangement beforehand with the officials. But even the organisers were shocked, but at least they gained from it! Goph being crowned as Champion, Silent showing himself, Chen Mo¡¯s analysis... All these hot topicsbined had dramatically increased the poprity of the tournament. It also brought the poprity of Warcraft to a whole new level! ¡ª On the train towards Imperial Capital. Chen Mo went on Weibo out of boredom, to discover that many yers tagged him. Of course many yers were shocked to discover that he was Silent andmented to express how impressed they were. There were also many other yers who were asking Chen Mo to make some educational videos or do livestreams. There were so many messages Chen Mo couldn¡¯t go through all of them at all. In order to give back to the fans, Chen Mo posted a Weibo in an emotional tone. ¡°I¡¯m grateful for all your love, but I won¡¯t be making any educational videos or doing live streams. I¡¯m a videogame afterall, not apetitive yer or a streamer. I¡¯m pretty average at games. ¡°I¡¯m fighting my own battles. I¡¯ve never received a penny since I started Thunderbolt Entertainment. I¡¯ve only been paying others. I never touch money, I have no interest in money.[1] ¡°Although Warcraft has some amount of sess, there will be more to it, and this is but a small step. Maybe not a small step, a medium step perhaps. ¡°Just like me who is still fighting my own fights. I don¡¯t have my own house, nor do I have a car as I take the train whenever I go out. ¡°Therefore, I really appreciate your support. I¡¯ll surely make more games that are better in the future to repay your kindness. I¡¯ve seen somements, it seems that I Am MT yers are quite bored of the game. Should I make a simr game on PC? What do you guys think?¡± TL note[1]: It¡¯s a famous quote from Jack Ma Chapter 129 - Chapter 128: Advertising for Overseas Release

Chapter 129: Chapter 128: Advertising for Overseas Release

The fans went crazy when the Weibo went out, ¡°I¡¯ve never seen someone so shameless!¡± ¡°My goodness, can¡¯t believe Chen Mo typed out all that garbage. Is this a new form of bragging?¡± ¡°You¡¯re average at games? You¡¯re literally the best in Warcraft!¡± ¡°You never touch money? No interest in money? Do you have no idea how money you make?¡± ¡°Warcraft is just a medium step! Amazing!¡± ¡°You don¡¯t have a house, but you have a massive experience store! Moreover, couldn¡¯t you buy any house you desire?¡± ¡°I thought this guy made a change of heart when he made Warcraft, but he still has his mind on I Am MT! I knew he wanted to make scammy games! Rot in hell!¡± ¡°Average at games, Chen Mo?¡± ¡°Previous poster, you did it wrong, it should be ¡®Average at games, Silent.¡± ¡°Average at games, Silent. No love for money, Silent. Medium step, Silent. No cars or house, Silent. Non-scummy games, Silent!¡± ¡ª Chen Mo let Su Jinyu, Zheng Hongxi and Qian Kun two days of break. The three of them were now actual employees. They even got a pay rise to ten thousand RMB a month. Of course, Chen Mo was a generous boss who gave out bonuses outside of their normal pay. This money woulde from games that the three of them developed themselves. For example, Chen Mo would split 8% of the profits between Su Jinyu and Zheng Hongxi from all the profits. This was already quite a bit as a game like Lifeline had around three hundred thousand in profit, meaning that the two of them would get around ten thousand in bonuses. Of course, they must¡¯ve made the game themselves. A game where Chen Mo managed most of it like Warcraft wouldn¡¯t count. Chen Mo would save the profit from big games like Warcraft to reinvest into developing other games, and maybe share it among the staff as year-end bonuses. This was to make them more satisfied. Chen Mo didn¡¯tck money, nor did he want his assistants to check-in and out everyday. He hoped that they could develop great games by themselves too. Chen Mo had been focusing on the release of Warcraft overseas recently, taking a break from game development. Making this the perfect opportunity for them to take a break and grab some rest. Afterall, the workload from working on Warcraft was huge. From level design and bncing to story writing. They were basically working day in day out, and were quite tired as a result of that. ¡ª After a lot of meticulous nning, Warcraft was finally about to go live overseas. Meteorite Technology gave it their best this game. The only thing they were worried about was the advertising and not being able to break even because of how small of a cut they took. Everybody had pushed back tasks in order to focus on Warcraft, from trantors to advertising. trantors, voice actors, advertising material, ad spaces, review, approval were all ces that had to be worked on overtime to ensure that the game was released at the same time across all countries. It was at this time when the yers of those regions discovered this game called Warcraft. Warcraft introduction: Warcraft is a highly sessful RTS game developed by Thunderbolt Entertainment. yers can choose from Humans, Orcs, Night Elves, and Undead to gather resources, train heroes and units to defeat your enemies. Warcraft¡¯s unique points: Complex story to bring you the most well crafted fantasy world. Perfectly bnced game with four races and dozens of units to allow an even battleground! Revolutionary controls and game modes. All new Heroes and equipment system to allow you to experience what it¡¯s like to be a Hero! ¡ª This introduction was tranted into many differentnguages and was released in many different countries. Of course, other than the promotional pitch, there were huge artworks, cinematics, and gamey footage that were released, including a ¡®Free trial¡¯ text in a nice font. As there were no intentions of hiding it, the news was spread within the Chinese video game developmentmunity during its preparation phase. ¡°Have you heard that Chen Mo ns to release Warcraft overseas?¡± ¡°Europe and US?¡± ¡°No, I think he¡¯s releasing all over the world. He even made Korean, French and German versions.¡± ¡°Tsk, that guy sure is ambitious. Is he not afraid to fail?¡± ¡°It¡¯s hard to tell, just from how popr Warcraft got in China, it¡¯s not surprising to release it overseas.¡± ¡°But the tastes of overseas yers and Chinese yers are different. Moreover, there are plenty of good video game designers overseas, so they aren¡¯tcking any good games. I don¡¯t see a world where Warcraft makes a huge scene.¡± ¡°That¡¯s true. I do think that Chen Mo is a bit crazy, but he does have a crazy capital and the hunger for sess.¡± ¡°True, Warcraft had been doing incredibly well. Even Legion Conquest couldn¡¯t match it. I¡¯m envious.¡± ¡°So what if you¡¯re envious? You couldn¡¯t make a bootleg no matter how hard you try, you can only watch it from the sidelines.¡± ¡°Yeah, we¡¯ll just watch. It has nothing to do with us anyways.¡± ¡°I¡¯m quite conflicted right now. I don¡¯t hope to see Warcraft taking over the world, but I do want to see a sessful Chinese game to represent the rest of us.¡± ¡°That¡¯s that, it¡¯s not up to us if the game bes sessful anyways. We¡¯ll see.¡± ¡ª The yers of Warcraft were discussing it on Weibo and the forum too. ¡°I heard an overseas version of Warcraft is in the makes?¡± ¡°No wonder why Chen Mo hadn¡¯t been ying ranked recently, was he dealing with that?¡± ¡°Although it has been quite popr in China, it¡¯s not that popr to warrant expanding overseas right? Is he overambitious?¡± ¡°Warcraft would do well no matter in which country. If so, he will release it as soon as possible!¡± ¡°I¡¯m supporting him, this is one of the less scummy games Chen Mo has made!¡± ¡°Maybe once the game is released overseas, we could bully the others from other regions!¡± ¡°Huh? Makes sense! Why haven¡¯t I thought of that! Get out of my way, I¡¯m heading towards the Korean server!¡± ¡°Korean server? With your twenty-four hundred points? There are a bunch of Legion Conquest pros there, and if they all changed to Warcraft, tsk tsk, it¡¯s not gonna be good.¡± ¡°Geez, if the game gets popr all around the world, could there be a world championship? Regionals would be great too!¡± ¡°It¡¯s hard to tell, we¡¯ll see. Who knows if the others will like it?¡± Chapter 130 - Chapter 129: Overseas Release

Chapter 130: Chapter 129: Overseas Release

In the United States. ¡°Hmm? A new game, Warcraft? By whichpany?¡± ¡°A developer and distributor that I¡¯ve never heard of.¡± ¡°Isn¡¯t that a Chinesepany?¡± ¡°That¡¯s weird. Chinese RTS game? I thought the ones they made in the past were huge failures. Weren¡¯t they wiped off the market by Legion Conquest?¡± ¡°Thest few posters, you guys are too out of touch with the Chinese market. Warcraft is currently incredibly popr in China, it¡¯s even exceeded Legion Conquest.¡± ¡°Really? Maybe it¡¯s because it fits the taste of the Chinese more.¡± ¡°I¡¯ve seen some posters and videos. To be honest, I¡¯m really shocked. It seems really high quality unlike the other Chinese games I¡¯ve seen. There¡¯s nothing I could nitpick from the dialogue. You guys should try it out.¡± ¡°The dialogue really is perfect. I¡¯m curious as to who did the trantion. Did they pay big bucks to get a trantor from the US?¡± ¡°This is the first time I¡¯ve seen the Chinese make a game simr to Heavenly Ring. Moreover, the quality seems amazing.¡± ¡°THe game is also free to y. I think I¡¯ll try it out when ites out.¡± -Europe- ¡°I¡¯ve heard there¡¯s a game that¡¯s simr to Heavenly Ring that is about to be released. I¡¯ve seen its ads everywhere.¡± ¡°Really? I¡¯ve never heard of an Europeanpany making that game, is it from the US?¡± ¡°No, it¡¯s Chinese.¡± ¡°oh, then I¡¯m probably not going to y it. It¡¯s difficult to imagine what they would do to a story like this. I¡¯m also doubtful if they could make a world to match the standards of Heavenly Ring.¡± ¡°They seem alright from the promotional videos I¡¯ve seen. At least I never realised it was made by the Chinese.¡± ¡°I¡¯ve seen it too, the dialogue is excellent. Although the French and German dubs are a bit weird, the English version was fine, perfect even.¡± ¡°Really? That¡¯s hard to believe.¡± ¡°Alright, you¡¯ve convinced me, I¡¯ll take a look.¡± -Korea- ¡°You¡¯re still ying Legion Conquest?¡± ¡°Yeah, are you done with the game? Off to RPGs?¡± ¡°Nope, I¡¯ve been ying another RTS game.¡± ¡°What? Another RTS game?¡± ¡°Warcraft.¡± ¡°Never heard of it.¡± ¡°Yeah, because it¡¯s not out on the Korean market yet. I downloaded it from a Chinese app store.¡± ¡°Chinese game? I¡¯m not sure if ditching Legion Conquest for that is a good idea.¡± ¡°This game is better than Legion Conquest in every single aspect. It wouldn¡¯t be a stretch to call it the best RTS game in the world.¡± ¡°Really?¡± ¡°I think there¡¯s a Korean version soon. I¡¯m looking forward to it.¡± ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll check it out then.¡± ¡ª Advertisements of Warcraft have appeared in money countries. However, due to the limited budget, there was no way they could paste it on every wall, so the poprity of the game had to be slowly built up. The games that really pop off are usually shared by mouth anyways. Finally after all the advertising, Warcraft is finally live! Chen Mo couldn¡¯t do much for the international version as the small amount of fame he had was only in China. Nobody would recognise him or the Thunderbolt Entertainment Logo outside of China. The sess of the game depended entirely on the quality of it! Warcraft was priced at twenty-nine USD, slightly cheaper than Legion Conquest. However, after exchange rates, the English version was sold at twice the price of the Chinese one. Chen Mo didn¡¯t want to sell it cheaper to sell more copies as the consumers overseas were more willing to spend. Twenty nine USD wasn¡¯t much for a game like Warcraft. It was even considered to be value for money, therefore the price wouldn¡¯t affect the sales. Moreover, the game also uses the same model of one free chapter before charging the yers, which was why Chen Mo felt that the price was suitable. If he could sell it higher, why not? ¡ª The yers who had their eyes on the game previously downloaded the game upon release. What shocked the Western yers was that the game was exactly the same as advertised, extremely high quality. They were alsopletely drawn in by the cinematics! The emotions these yers felt were simr to the yers in China. From curious, too surprised, to shock, and finallypletely impressed. yers who liked the theme and RTS game would more than likely buy the after the first chapter without any hesitation. ¡ª The screen was dark. A deep voice filled with resonance started talking. Betrayer? In truth, it was I who was betrayed! There was lightning followed by thunder. An unspeakable melody peaked the suspense. A winged and horned silhouette appeared on the screen signifying their identity. Illidan. In the dark sky, thick dark clouds rolled in the howling of the violent wind. The stormy waves on the sea kept tearing the coast and shaking the jagged rocks. ¡°I¡¯m still being chased.¡± ¡°I¡¯m still hated.¡± ¡°Now, my blind eyes can see what no ordinary man can!¡± The camera turned around to the skies faraway, filled with thunder and darkness. ¡°Sometimes, we must put our fate in our hands!¡± Thunder, waves, and there seems to be some terrible force recovering from the bottom of the sea. The music became tense, the camera went hundred water revealing many surfacing Naga. The lightning revealed their horrible looks. A Naga with a trident walked towards the camera, and looked at the shouted looking at the camera as a lightning revealed its face. ¡°Awaken all, set off a frenzy of destruction, and annihte those enemies who dare to oppose us!¡± ¡ª The cinematic ended, and yet the yers have yet toe back to their senses. This cinematic was amazing, even without the perfect art, voice acting, sound effects, shots, and story, the dialogue was more than enough to take the breath out of your lungs! These didn¡¯t sound tranted at all. Not only did they have perfect grammar, the tempo was also perfect, giving it an amazing feel. In just three minutes, the image of Illidan was fully revealed. This kind of first-person narrative allowed the yers to be fully immersed in the story. They couldn¡¯t understand how a Chinesepany could write such an authentic dialogue! Chapter 131 - Chapter 130: Good Reviews!

Chapter 131: Chapter 130: Good Reviews!

yers all around the world were feeling the unique charisma Warcraft possessed. The high quality animations keep the yers glued to their screens at the start while learning the game as they proceed through the story. The yers will discover the core of the game was in versus mode after experience the entire story and familiarise themselves with the controls. They will also continue all the game has to offer in terms of content, controls and even luck, and they will all be parts that yers learn to enjoy and love. Finally, there was the incredible addictive ranked matchmaking. There they will find that two thousand points would only be the beginning. It could even be said that there is limitless exploration in this game. ¡ª It didn¡¯t take long for the reviews of Warcraft toe now in the app stores in various countries. It was more or less a score of nine across the board, with simr praises everywhere. US. ¡°This game is much more rich and bnced than I expected. To be honest, I didn¡¯t want to agree with the im of ¡®better than Legion Conquest in every aspect¡¯, but I think it deserves that title after ying.¡± ¡°I don¡¯t know how the designer managed to incorporate the concept of Heroes into an RTS game, but this is an amazing design!¡± ¡°I think that the game was designed around the concept of heroes. This game feels a lot like an RPG which contradicts RTS games. Because you control a bunch of units in RTS games right? But somehow they managed tobine them too, I¡¯m honestly amazed! ¡°To be honest, I can¡¯t stop ying at all. There are many things I¡¯ve found surprising after ying all four races. All of them have different units and buildings, yet they arepletely in bnce. This aspect was done much better than Legion Conquest.¡± ¡°I thought the im of being the best RTS game was some marketing gimmick, but after ying, this game most definitely deserved it!¡± ¡°To be honest, I¡¯m kind of sad that the Chinese made this. Do the developers of our countryck inspiration?¡± ¡°You can¡¯t deny that the Chinese are really creative. It¡¯s amazing how they managed to recreate a fantasy theme like this!¡± ¡ª Europe. ¡°How did the Chinese manage to recreate a fantasy world so well? I¡¯m amazed, I didn¡¯t think Easterners understood our culture.¡± ¡°I¡¯m really surprised about the characters in the game. MY favourite characters are Arthas and Idin, but they both seem antagonistic.¡± ¡°I would¡¯ve thought this game was American or European made if nobody told me otherwise. This would probably go down in history as a ssic RTS game that will never be reced!¡± ¡°Although PC games stand no chance against VR games, this game managed to draw me in. Games can be good regardless of their tform, hurray for RTS games!¡± ¡°It¡¯s not hard to create an original story, it¡¯s making it logical that¡¯s difficult.¡± In Britain, there were even professional video game reviewers who wrote articles analysing the story of the game. ¡°Arthas¡¯s story is the most intriguing. I was honestly really shocked at the development of this arc. The righteous prince being drawn in by the evil forces and sumbing to the forces he once defeated, holding up his sword swinging it at people he swore to defend, turning his kingdom into ruins. It¡¯s amazing how the designer came up with such a bold story! ¡°The story is pretty unique, you might think it¡¯s illogical why a prince ready to seed the throne would give up everything he had? To turn into the dark side? Even killing his father? This is a very difficult topic, and if not dealt with correctly could easily be the biggest w of the game. ¡°The story of this game is one of the best in the industry. From the beginning when the price was full of righteousness, but because of how full of himself he was hepletely ignored the warnings of Uther. ¡°And after the Stratholme incident, Arthas got on the wrong path. He was blinded by revenge and hatred and did everything he could to get revenge. ¡°Up till he got to Northrend, sank ships and drew Frostmourne... At that point, he waspletely blinded by hatred which was why he gave into the allure of power, controlled by evil. ¡°Eventually, darkness took over his heart, bing the nightmare of all of Lordaeron. ¡°Needless to say, the story is incrediblyplete. I think that this level of storytelling is on the par with a professional writer!¡± ¡ª Korea. ¡°I don¡¯t think there¡¯s much to be said. This game is better than Legion Conquest in terms of bncing and many other aspects¡± ¡°If you¡¯re still ying Legion Conquest as an RTS yer, you¡¯re outdated. Warcraft is the future of RTS games!¡± ¡°I heard there are already yers with over 4000 points. We have to step it up, we can¡¯t lose to the Chinese. ¡ª Chen Mo was right, this game did even better in Western countries than in China. Especially when fantasy themes are deeply rooted in their culture, meaning that there will be many more yers who will love the theme of the game. With the help of Memory yback Potions, Chen Mo recreated Warcraft in English to a simr level to that of the original. The dubs in particr were essentially the same. As Warcraft was released all over the world at the same time, the sales kept going up, breaking one hundred thousand in three days! At this rate, it should reach seven hundred thousand in the first month worldwide. The biggest markets were Europe, US, and Korea. The Europeans and Americans liked it because of the theme. There were fantasy games as well as RTS games avable on the market, but it wasn¡¯tmon tobine RTS games and fantasy games. There were no RTS games that told the story like an RPG game, with Warcraft being the only game to do so. It was popr in Korea because they had roots in RTS games, and there were many die-hard RTS yers. The sales weren¡¯t anything to write home aboutpared to all PC games, but it was very impressive for an RTS game. It mainly had to do with the small RTS yer base. Moreover, Chen Mo¡¯s brand wasn¡¯t even close to how well known Blizzard was in his previous life as games such as Diablo, Warcraft 2, and Starcraft were already out, Warcraft 3 gained plenty of attention the moment it was out. Chen Mo was proud to be able to get results like this overseas. The game sold seven hundred thousand copies in the first month, meaning Chen Mo received around sixty million from international sales, much more than the revenue Chen Mo got from his previous games! Chapter 132 - Chapter 131: Balance in Warcraft

Chapter 132: Chapter 131: Bnce in Warcraft

It didn¡¯t take long for the sess of Warcraft overseas to be spread within China. ¡°Warcraft is doing pretty well overseas? Especially in Europe and America? That¡¯s weird, haven¡¯t they seen fantasy games before? Why are they buying it?¡± ¡°Yeah, although Warcraft is doing well, but satisfying yers overseas? I never would¡¯ve thought.¡± ¡°The overseas yers rated the game quite highly. There was even a game reviewer from Britain that gave Warcraft a high score for its story!¡± ¡°The yers also love it! Chen Mo must be making the big bucks this time. Warcraft took over the Chinese RTS market, and now its heading for the international market?¡± ¡°I¡¯m so jealous.¡± ¡°Geez, I can¡¯t understand it at all. Maybe prodigies do exist.¡± ¡°Yeah, there¡¯s no way it could be replicated.¡± ¡°Sigh, lets just make another copy of I Am MT.¡± ¡°Why are you all so depressed? I think it¡¯s a good thing for the Chinese video game industry. Chinese games and especially RTS games never had a presence on the international market. Chen Mo¡¯s Warcraft is also an opportunity for other Chinese games to expand out of China!¡± ¡°But what does that have to do with us!¡± ¡°Yeah. Moreover, Chen Mo made a Western fantasy game. It doesn¡¯t have much to do with getting our culture out there at all.¡± ¡°You guys are asking for too much. It¡¯s true that Chinese culture doesn¡¯t have much ground internationally, but isn¡¯t it the same for games, movies and books? We¡¯ll need to take it step by step, I think this is a good start.¡± ¡°Sight, I guess we¡¯ll need to see what Chen Mo does.¡± ¡ª Chinese yers. ¡°Have you heard that Warcraft was doing quite well overseas?¡± ¡°Yeah, the reviews were really good too. It was doing especially well in Europe and America!¡± ¡°It¡¯s great that the game is able to make it out of the country to allow for yers all around the world to experience the greatness of Chinese games, an RTS masterpiece at that!¡± ¡°Wow, I¡¯m so looking forward to ying with international yers!¡± ¡°It¡¯s great that China got the game first, we have three four thousand point yers already. We should be able to beat Korea this time right?¡± ¡°It¡¯s hard to tell, there are so many RTS freaks in Korea!¡± ¡°Chen Mo¡¯s amazing! I must sing praises for another month!¡± ¡°One month? You must do three months!¡± ¡ª The experience store had been popr the past few days. Many Warcraft ¡®pilgrims¡¯ from the Imperial Capital came to the experience store to see Chen Mo in person. yers never really paid much attention to video game designers, and would at most send razor des when they aren¡¯t happy about scummy business practices and bncing. But Chen Mo was different, Chen Mo was Silent¡¯s alter ego, the developer of various strategies, the one who reached the top of thedder with straight wins. Hismentary was enjoyable and charismatic. It didn¡¯t take long before he gained a huge fan base especially within the Warcraftmunity. Anyone who talks badly of Chen Mo would get a bunch of angry fans after them. Chen Mo¡¯s poprity increased even more after Warcraft¡¯s release. yers would visit him everyday, making his life quite difficult. As Zou Zhuo lived nearby, he was now a regr at the experience store, practicing Warcraft everyday dreaming of reaching thirty five hundred points. The experience store was quite small with enough room for eighteenputers and ten massage chairs. Two of them were reserved for Qian Kun and Zheng Hongxi too, there weren¡¯t enough seats at all. There were many yers who went to the experience store just to y games, but as there weren¡¯t enough seats, many went to Fates Inte Cafe to y Warcraft. This made Zhuo Yao really happy as she gained plenty of business this way. Chen Mo was troubled, as the yers were really friendly and the experience store was open for yers and the designer to interact with one another, it wasn¡¯t reasonable to ask them to leave. This made Wen Lingwei and Jia Peng feel really out of ce. They treated the experience store as their second meeting point, but from Warcraft¡¯s poprity their meeting point was taken. Chen Mo was now considering a bigger experience store. But those were still an afterthought. Although he had the money, he was still in a developmental stage, and it wouldn¡¯t be wise to expand willy nilly as the experience store was just a front for the work he does. As Warcraft was hugely popr, there were many who were interested in Chen Mo just to see him, but it should return to normal in a few month¡¯s time when it would cool down slightly. Chen Mo was saving his money to develop more games, it wouldn¡¯t be a wise choice to spend it on buying or renting properties. So after some consideration, Chen Mo decided to stay, and would only entertain the idea once he makes a game that would surpass Warcraft. There were yer discussions everyday on the Warcraft forums. Most of the discussions were about strategy, and story and ystyle topics were bing lessmon. But these topics were more than enough to keep them upied for a long time. Topics like which races were stronger, the best way to y different matchups, and the best way to y mirror matchups would usually be quite heated, usually ending in ¡®1v1 me¡¯. Many yers ranked around fifteen hundred liked talking trash. There were even some who were known to do that in the forums, making the forums a bit of a disaster. Therefore, Chen Mo thoughtfully included the points of the yers when theyment. From then onwards, there were less quarrels and the forums became a much more peaceful ce. Posts like these were bing moremon. ¡°I wanted to talk trash when I saw the title, but then I saw thirty five hundred points. Whatever, I¡¯ll back off I guess.¡± ¡°Uhh, thirty seven hundred god? I¡¯ll do some worshipping, although I don¡¯t understand what¡¯s going on, it looks incredible!¡± ¡°Twelve hundred points? You¡¯re making posts at that level! Reach two thousand before you talk!¡± ¡°Trash talkers were solved by Chen Mo just like that. ¡ª Warcraft was basicallypletely bnced in the previous life. Especially after version 1.24e, Blizzard would only release small changes once in a while. In this version, other than the Undead being slightly weaker by virtue of finding it a bit difficult to get mines, the other races were more or less even with none of them having a noticeable advantage. Moreover, even though Undead was known as the weakest race, it wasn¡¯t so bad that nobody would y it. Undead never made it once to the finals of WCG for the first ten years it was held, but in WCG 2012, Chinese Undead yer Ted beat Korean Orc yer the second time in the lower bracket, and beat Moon who was known as the fifth race 2:0 to reach the finals. Then they proceeded to beat Chinese Orc yer fly 2:1 to be the first one to win with Undead. These yers were the best of the best, especially when lyn and fly were Orc yers, and it was epted that it was difficult to y Undead into Orcs. This demonstrated that Warcraft is a very bnced game with incredibly rich content. Che Mo would make more bnced changes to this version to make it an incredibly bnced RTS game, allowing the yers to y years and years without getting bored of the game. Chapter 133 - Chapter 132: RPG map

Chapter 133: Chapter 132: RPG map

Chen Mo hadn¡¯t heard of news from anyone else during the time when Warcraft was gaining poprity. It wasn¡¯t that the other designers weren¡¯t jealous and weren¡¯t willing to copy, but they couldn¡¯t copy! Warcraft couldn¡¯t be replicated, no matter story or ystyle. Most of the designers knew that there was no way this could be copied. Therefore this had been a one man show by Chen Mo, all the other could do was just watch on. Chen Mo hit the ground running by breaking to the PC market with a game like this. He became a pretty well known video game designer from this, especially being the king of the RTS hill. Of course, when his demonic performance on the rankeddder taken into consideration, he gained his poprity much faster than designers of a simr grade. One good thing toe out of this was that the yers were now closer to the developer. Many yers didn¡¯t care about the developers, they would either butcher their Hero/race, or force a certain ystyle onto the yer, and sometimes would only care about money and block off allmunication from yers. There were arge number of yers who felt that designers didn¡¯t know who to bnce the game at all, nerfing whichever seemed strong. However, as Chen Mo also happened to be Silent, the gap between designers and yers was significantly closer. The yers felt that he was the same as them, people who loved ying games, someone who was good at games at that, which further increased the trust yers had in him. Chen Mo was ready to set Warcraft aside at this point. Just like nt vs Zombies, many felt that Warcraft would pave the way for RTS games, but Chen Mo knew that it wasn¡¯t an opening, but the peak. The learning curve for RTS games was incredibly steep. RTS yers could y it forever and ever and not get bored of it, but for the average yer who wasn¡¯t good at RTS games, they would only y one to two years. Many knew after ying for a few months that they were a one thousand point noob with no chance of climbing. A majority of yers didn¡¯t think that micromanaging was fun. Under these circumstances, their interest in RTS games would decrease rapidly, in turn making the RTS yer base smaller and smaller, and the game would slowly die off. It was actually one of the most enjoyable genres, but the only reason it didn¡¯t do well was because of the difficulty of growing its yer base. It had been smooth sailing so far for Warcraft and tournaments were appearing left and right. However Chen Mo knew deep down that there is a limit. Which was why Chen Mo was preparing to release a new version of Warcraft, and startedying the foundations for a new game. There were two points he wanted to focus on. One being to spend money to ensure the cinematics were high quality to allow it to be a wless ssic; the other was to have aplete editor to allow yers to explore what the game had to offer endlessly. Chen Mo did some nning around the cinematics, if he were to do everything before making cuts, it would cost around forty million RMB. Chen Mo didn¡¯t need to spend this money as the sales for Warcraft have already been made, and the yers¡¯ interest in the story was fading, it didn¡¯t matter too much if he added the cinematics or not. But Chen Mo felt that there were some in the previous version that left a bit more to be desired. As he wanted to recreate this ssic, he must recreate every part of it perfectly. Just like a high quality artwork. How could you put it in a cab for disy before it is patched up? The other problem was the editor. So far, yers were still focused on progressing through the story and versus mode. They didn¡¯t pay much attention to the world editor at all. Of course, this was mainly due to yers not realising the potential of the editor. Just like in nts vs Zombies, the best way to keep the yers interested in the game was to allow them to create whatever they want and allow them to pick whatever they want. Therefore, Chen Mo decided to give the yers a little help. First were the controls. The hotkeys for Warcraft were quite illogical. They would pick a random letter from the name of the ability as its hotkey. This created a problem as different Heroes, units, and buildings from different races would have different hotkeys. This seemed like a small problem, nor did Blizzard have the desire to correct it, but it actually dramatically increased the difficulty for yers to get into the game as many yers struggled to remember the hotkeys. This was easy to solve. Cen Mo included the ability to rebind keys into the game to allow yers to customise all their hotkeys. The second was improved to the editor. The original editor was rtivelyplicated, and would take new yers some effort to pick it up. As he was making it simpler to use, he included a small tutorial to make it easier for yers to learn. At the same time, he included some ssic RPG maps as inspiration in order to attract the attention of the yers. As this update was rtively simple, Chen Mo finished the n in no time, allowing Su Jinyu and Qian Kun to take over. ¡ª ¡°Here are the ns for the new update. The editor tutorial will be done by the Goldfish. You¡¯ll have to write it in more detail, take the learning abilities of our yers into ount.¡± ¡°Qian Kun, I¡¯ll need you to design a few RPG maps. Hongxi, do some nning for the design too. Take a look at the dialogues while you¡¯re there.¡± Chen Mo introduced the new update document to the three of them. Qian Kun looked at the document, shocked, ¡°¡®Protect Athena?¡¯ ¡®Escape Pyramid¡¯? ¡®Chenghai 3c¡¯? ¡®Tower Defence¡¯? What are these? Are these maps for Warcraft?¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Yep, I¡¯ve given a brief overview for each of them. You guys will have to work on the initial drafts and I¡¯ll give you the go ahead when it¡¯s good enough.¡± Qian Kun nodded, ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll take a look.¡± They didn¡¯t question as they have now developed an unconditional trust for Chen Mo especially when ites to Warcraft. Qian Kun took a quick look at the update ns, isn¡¯t this just a few maps? How is this a new update? But as he looked more into it, it didn¡¯t seem like just a few maps. These maps made changes to hero abilities and items. Who knows! Chapter 134 - Chapter 133: Warcrafts Update

Chapter 134: Chapter 133: Warcraft¡¯s Update

Su Jinyu, Zheng Hongxi and Qian Kun started working hard after receiving the update document. In truth, these RPG maps weren¡¯t the most ssic or the most bnced, so why would Chen Mo pick these maps? It¡¯s because these represented the Warcraft RPGs that eventually branched off. These were prototypes of the ssic Warcraft RPG, allowing the yers to enjoy the fun of Warcraft RPG maps while not restricting their thinking. Warcraft RPG maps eventually gave birth to DotA. Chen Mo didn¡¯t want to shoot his own foot by giving map designers the inspiration to make something like that. Defence map: Protect Athena Defence maps were really simple, and yet managed to have the essence of Warcraft RPG games: Herobinations and Hero training. As time goes on, the enemies will get stronger and stronger, and the yers¡¯ objective would be to find the bestbination across numerous Heroes and items. Tower defence map: Tower Defence. This game came from ssic tower defence games from his previous life. The core of tower defence games are simr to defence maps, the difference being yers would need to pick towers instead of Heroes. Casual map: Escape Pyramid. This map was representative of casual maps. The yers could pick from ten different modes and beat the game by dodging various traps. PvP map: Chenghai 3c. Compared to DotA, Chenghai 3c was quite primitive. It¡¯s biggest problem was bncing, and yet it was also the fact that it wasn¡¯t bnced that made it so popr. Many yers yed Chenghai 3c imba(imbnced) just because of how imbnced it was. At the same time, yers could y as multiple heroes, which bnced out some of the imbnce, making it an extremely entertaining map. Chen Mo decided to only release three maps, leaving the others for the yers toe up with themselves. ¡ª The new version didn¡¯t take long at all, and was finished in under two weeks. There were many different maps in Warcraft¡¯s campaign, and the three of them have worked on them too. Therefore it wasn¡¯t difficult for them to make the maps as they were already quite familiar with the editor. Most of the time was spent bncing the abilities as well as the difficulty of the levels. Chen Mo mentioned specifically that the heroes in the RPG raps have to bepletely different from the ones in versus mode. They need to match the heroes while being new ideas. This required a lot of thinking from the three of them, but their imaginations were stimted in the process, making it quite fulfilling. Especially Qian Kun who was basically responsible for all of Chenghai 3c. Chen Mo was especially happy as it was pretty close to the quality of the one in previous life. Chen Mo did onest check of the three maps, ¡°Alright, it¡¯s good.¡± ¡°Yes! We¡¯re done!¡± eximed Su Jinyu. Zheng Hongxi said, ¡°But it felt pretty easy.¡± ¡°Manager, this new patch feelsckluster. Although it seems fun, are the yers going to be happy? I feel like these maps don¡¯t evene close to the game content.¡± asked Qian Kun. ¡°Don¡¯t worry. Hongxi, could you work on the match notes then push the update?¡± ordered Chen Mo. It didn¡¯t take long for the patch notes to be done. Su Jinyu then posted the patch and the patch notes. This patch was pretty small, there was only one extra cinematic, improvements on some foundations of the game, as well as the three RPG maps. As the production of the cinematic takes a long time, it could only be pushed one by one. The patch would look sad without the cinematics, as it would be less than one megabyte. Oh maybe very sad would be a better world. Of course, Chen Mo could pad out the update with new encounters in the campaign, but yers had their focus on Versus mode with little attention paid to more encounters, which was why Chen Mo decided against it. Chen Mo didn¡¯t want to charge for this patch, nor did he n to charge for future maps. As there was so little game content, it wouldn¡¯t be good if he sold it as DLCs. He could also charge per map, for example when a yer makes a good map, the other yers could pay one or two RMB for each, and the money would be split between Chen Mo and the maker. But Chen Mo still decided against this. It was simple, obviously they couldn¡¯t start charging for the map from the start as it would never gain poprity. But it wouldn¡¯t make sense to chargeter either, why was it free at the start, and it starts costing money when it gets popr? Therefore, although charging for maps would be good for the map makers, yers would be less inclined to y them, which waspletely against the point of Warcraft RPG maps. Chen Mo wasn¡¯t making RPG maps for healthy development of the gaming industry or anything, but to further boost the sales of the game. RPG maps were a great reason for a group of friends to stay upte. Chen Mo¡¯s intentions were to draw in non-RTS yers, as their friends who y Warcraft would get them to get the game in order to y these RPG maps. Moreover, RPG maps would further extend the lifespan of Warcraft, as it continues to grow and expand, paving the way for future PC games. ¡ª After some simple preparations, Warcraft finally got a new update! Although this update was fairly low key, only made known to the yers via a patch note. Many yers noticed a new patch when they logged into the game. ¡°Huh? New version? Chen Mo sure is efficient!¡± ¡°Yeah, Warcraft was already doing quite well with no bncing issues. Was there a need for a patch?¡± ¡°He¡¯s so nice! Wow, is this the Chen Mo I once new? I¡¯m so grateful I¡¯m about to cry!¡± ¡°Yeah, howe he¡¯s so nice all of a sudden.¡± ¡°So what did he include in the patch?¡± Many of the yers startedining upon seeing the patch notes. ¡°My goodness, what¡¯s this? One cinematic, a few settings update, and a few new maps?¡± ¡°Are you kidding me?¡± ¡°How is this a new patch? Chen Mo? Do we have different understandings of patches?¡± ¡°At least it¡¯s free...¡± ¡°How dare he charge for something like this. That would be unreasonable!¡± ¡°I just watched the new cinematic, it¡¯s great!¡± ¡°So is the new cinematic the only good thing from this new update?¡± ¡°So is Thunderbolt Entertainment rebranding to Thunderbolt Movies?¡± ¡°Do you guys produce games or movies?!¡± Chapter 135 - Chapter 134: New version live!

Chapter 135: Chapter 134: New version live!

Confused and shocked, the yers started looking at the patch notes. New cinematic? Very cool, but it¡¯s barely three minutes long, and after watching so many incredible cinematics, the yers were starting to desensitise to it. New settings? Able to freely rebind keys? Ummm. seems useful, but this feature is too simple! It¡¯s probably really simple to implement too! Therefore the key content in this update must be the three maps! Therefore the yers started trying to make sense of these maps. ¡ª Many yers have noticed World Editor when Warcraft justunched. But many lost interest after taking a few looks. Although it wasn¡¯tplicated, it was difficult to learn without any guidance. Moreover, as most yers focused on the story andbat of the game, very few tried to learn the World Editor. This implementation was simr to that of nts vs Zombies, map sharing, rating and downloading all came with the game, allowing yers to make maps as they wish. The yers would eventually discover the World Editor when they get bored of ying against one another, so Chen Mo aws only fastracking that process. It didn¡¯t take long before yers tried out the maps. ¡°Protect Athena? Why do we need to protect Athena?¡± ¡°Who knows, maybe defending isn¡¯t that important? Wow, there are so many heroes to pick from!¡± ¡°I pick Demon Hunter!¡± ¡°I pick demaster!¡± ¡°Uhh, I seemed to have picked a healer.¡± ¡°Huh? Howe the abilities are different? My goodness, my demaster seems so strong. I have an Omnish and a crit. I can even put points into attributes?¡± ¡°So can my Demon Hunter!¡± ¡°There¡¯s a shop too, there¡¯s so many incredible items to buy from the shop!¡± ¡°The enemies are there! Quick, stop that opening!¡± ¡°I¡¯ll kill them, you block them off!¡± ¡°We defended! Wow, there are so many attribute books on the ground, and a lot of money too! Pick it up!¡± ¡°I¡¯m buying equipment!¡± ¡°I leveled up! Give me a second to see what I¡¯ve learnt!¡± ¡°Hurry, the enemy are here again!¡± ¡ª ¡°Tower defence? What¡¯s the difference between this and the other Tower Defence games on the market?¡± ¡°Wow, we can y together. We have separatenes!¡± ¡°The towers can be leveled up! You can turn them into Heroes too!¡± ¡°Seems interesting!¡± ¡°Stop leaking! What! How did you leak three!¡± ¡°No, we have to break down where everyone is cing their towers. We need to manage the few key entrances.¡± ¡°You guys are terrible, you should put it like this...¡± ¡ª ¡°Escape Pyramid? This sounds like an action adventure game!¡± ¡°... How could you include an action adventure game in my RTS? My VR pod is crying...¡± ¡°Take a look, it says there are many game modes inside.¡± ¡°Vote for mode? My goodness there are so many modes!¡± ¡°Let¡¯s just pick one.¡± ¡°Dodge attack? Running? What, why is thereva and ice on the ground, I¡¯m dead!¡± ¡°I¡¯m still alive!¡± ¡°It¡¯s just you now! Keep going!¡± ¡°My goodness you made it! Hahaha!¡± ¡°That¡¯s incredible! Man this is actually quite fun... Let¡¯s y something else.¡± ¡ª ¡°Chenghai 3c? This is such an inconspicuous name, it really matches Chen Mo¡¯s style.¡± ¡°Yeah, Chen Mo always does these weird names, seems like a bad habit of his...¡± ¡°Man, this game is so fun! You only need to control one hero! Mama doesn¡¯t have to worry about my terrible skills anymore!¡± ¡°Man, they¡¯ve even changed the heroes! My Hero is so strong! Even I¡¯m afraid of him!¡± ¡°Mine too!¡± ¡°Fight me middle!¡± ¡°You think I¡¯m scared? Hey,e back!¡± ¡°I can¡¯t beat you now, stand there and wait for my backup!¡± ¡ª The yers soon realised that the maps were much more fun than expected. There maps were different types of games. Although they had different styles, they had one thing inmon. In these maps, the yer only has to control one unit. This makes the yers who find RTS difficult happy as it was more than they could handle. This put high and low skilled yers in the same ying field. Moreover, multiyer matches in Warcraft were never as fun as 1v1 as it took away from strategies and techniques. But with these four maps, friends could y with one another with no problems. Moreover, the skill gap was also reduced, the ones that were good could carry the game, but the ones that were worse wouldn¡¯t drag down the team as much. This made multiyer games much more fun than Versus mode. After their hands were free from micromanagement, the yers would be able to experience different content from the game, such as hero picks, teampositions, training, and itembinations. After building up a strong Hero, they would be able to cut through the creeps like paper, and might even be able to do the same to other yers, bringing a lot of enjoyment to yers. In the campaign and versus mode of RTS, killing a single creep took a lot of effort. Every unit death could easilypound up as it RTS required yers to slowly build up an advantage. There was so way the yers could be this carefree in RTS mode. But in RPG maps, the carefree feeling was brought out entirely. It didn¡¯t take long before arge portion of yers to fall in love with these maps. Warcraft ying an RPG map during their free time with their friends slowly became a trend. ¡ª There was also discussion on these four RPG maps on the forums. ¡°These four maps Chen Mo released are actually quite interesting. I¡¯mpletely addicted, ying it every day. Anyone else with me?¡± ¡°PRevious poster +1¡± ¡°It really is like that. I thought these were just a few more maps during PvP, but I discovered twopletely different games when I looked deeper into it!¡± ¡°I¡¯m actually ying action adventure games and tower defence games in an RTS game, and it¡¯s really fun too... This doesn¡¯t make sense!¡± ¡°The tower defence map trumps any other tower defence game on the market. Chen Mo actually made four new games for us!¡± ¡°I¡¯m shocked. The game engine for Warcraft is amazing! These mapsbined were only around one megabyte, meaning that Warcraft supports content like this perfectly!¡± ¡°Buy one free four! This new update waspletely free! I¡¯m off to sing praises of Chen Mo again!¡± ¡°I¡¯m so happy I¡¯m about to cry!¡± ¡°Did you guys notice there¡¯s a tutorial in the World Editor?¡± Chapter 136 - Chapter 135: Notice Chapter 136: Chapter 135: Notice ¡°Geez, they are still using tutorials?¡± ¡°My goodness, it¡¯s actually really detailed!¡± ¡°ording to what they say, we can make these four maps too? Anyone could do it?¡± ¡°Man isn¡¯t this the same as nts vs Zombies? And it¡¯s more rich than nts vs Zombies too, you could mix and match hero abilities, make new items and levels!¡± ¡°That¡¯s crazy! Isn¡¯t this basically a game editor in Warcraft?¡± ¡°Yeah, you need permission to use the editor video game designers use, but this editor doesn¡¯t require any rights. It¡¯s also really simple, basing it on the limits of Warcraft. You could probably make many different games using this!¡± ¡°Alright, I¡¯m going to try it out!¡± ¡°There are many new game modes in nts vs Zombies, and the highly rated ones are really fun too. I¡¯m looking forward to see what the yers will be able to make!¡± ¡°I heard that there¡¯s a top-tier modder in nts vs Zombies who got hired because of how well they did.¡± ¡°Really?¡± ¡°No idea, I just heard of it.¡± ¡°Oh man, I want to work at Thunderbolt Entertainment too! There must be a lot of bonuses!¡± ¡ª The yers were all riled up after ying a few RPG maps. It didn¡¯t matter if they were talented, many of them started trying to learn the editor and trying out their own maps. Of course the people who were able to map actual maps were probably less than one percent, let alone make a high quality mpa. The makers of high quality maps must have some knowledge in designing, good inspiration, as well as taking suggestions and feedback from the yers. They also need to modify and improve on them day after day,parable to making a simple game. However, Chen Mo¡¯s objective wasplete upon getting the yers riled up. As the RPG maps gained poprity, Warcraft¡¯s sales obviously increased yet again. Many yers egged their friends on to buy the game. These yers weren¡¯t into the traditional RTS format, but Warcraft was now a way of socialising with friends with the inclusion of RPG maps, increasing the sales. It didn¡¯t take long before Warcraft followed the footsteps of nts vs Zombies, with various different types of maps being created by yers. Although these maps were simple and primitive, Chen Mo felt that it was a good start. As soon as the yers are interested in it, the growth should be really fast. Never doubt what the yers could do once given the opportunity. ¡ª At this point, Chen Mo¡¯s development of Warcraft was set aside. The game was still early in its development stage to the yers. The PvP mode was still in full swing. High skilled yers are appearing one after another on Ranked matches. And the more and more people outside of China were feeling the love of Warcraft. The RPG maps attracted a huge number of non-RTS yers, many of them were making their own RPG maps. But for Chen Mo, the development of the game was almost at the end. He did everything he could do to guide the yers, all that¡¯s left is for the yers so enjoy what the game has to offer. From this point onwards, RTS games will only follow a slow decline. This was fate, and Chen Mo wasn¡¯t about to change that. Ever since the development of Warcraft until now, going through releasing the game, stomping the rankeddder, releasing the international version, and making RPG maps Chen Mo had always been working. Chen Mo was quite tired and wanted to take a break. Using a high quality game like Warcraft breaking the RTS genre, Thunderbolt Entertainment sessfully pivoted from mobile games to PC games. Of course this didn¡¯t mean mobile games development wasing to an end. It was up to Chen Mo to decide what game he was going to develop. What will he do next? Chen Mo wasn¡¯t decided either. ¡ª Early next morning, Chen Mo received a phone call from Lin Mao. ¡°Hello?¡± Chen Mo was still quite drowsy. ¡°Hello? Chen Mo, I made a game in Warcraft, could you promote the game for me?¡± asked Lin Mao. Chen Moughed, ¡°What? You¡¯re ying Warcraft too?¡± ¡°Yeah. Sigh, I was never an RTS yer, and basically set it aside after I finished the story. But after you released the update, I realised the World Editor is quite enjoyable. I never noticed it before that, so I decided to make a map for fun.¡± said Lin Mao. Chen Mo replied, ¡°I¡¯ve been quite busytely, so I haven¡¯t contacted you guys.¡± ¡°Geez, there¡¯s no need for that. You must be busy to make a game like that. By the game, this game is amazing. You even made it overseas to represent us Chinese video game designers,¡± said Lin Mao. ¡°Geez, it¡¯s nothing. Also, I haven¡¯t heard from Zhao Zihao for some time, what has he been doingtely?¡± ¡°Oh, I think he¡¯s overseas for some personal matter. I never delved any deeper. He¡¯s from a rich family after all, it¡¯s not entirely surprising for him to go overseas and have fun. By the way, since it¡¯s been so long, you wanna grab a meal together some day?¡± asked Lin Mao . Chen Mo sat up on his bed, ¡°Some day? How about tonight, I¡¯ve been free recently anyways.¡± ¡°Alright, it¡¯s tonight then. I¡¯ll take a look for what to eat, and you do the same too. Let¡¯s discusster. By the way, have you seen the notice on the editor?¡± Chen Mo was shocked, ¡°Notice? What notice, I haven¡¯t been on the videogame editor for a few days now.¡± Lin Mao was speechless, ¡°How could you overlook something so important. I wanted to talk about that too. Alright, you take a look and we can discusster.¡± Chen Mo was left with confusion after hanging up, What notice? After his morning ritual, Chen Mo went onto the videogame designer editor. There was a notice upon logging in. Chen Mo was shocked as this was something he had never seen before. Illusion Game Engine was made in China, and as a VR capable editor, there were many things that had to do with VR. Evidently this video game editor wasn¡¯t so simple. This must¡¯ve had the government¡¯s support and couldn¡¯t have been done by some randompany. The reason for the huge sums of investment to develop a videogame editor capable of making VR worlds and allowing its users to use it for free was because countries all over the world put emphasis on VR technology. The official app store and Illusion Game Engine had strong ties with the government. Otherwise it would be impossible to build such a massive,plete system, allowing video game designers to grow and flourish from the ground up with no obstacles in the way. Chen Mo was confused, what was the objective of this notice? Chapter 137 - Chapter 136: Chinese Themed Game

Chapter 137: Chapter 136: Chinese Themed Game

Traditional Cultural Theme Game Season Event Notice In the spirit of this event, promoting Chinese culture and healthy development of our industry, the Game and Virtual Reality Committee have decided on a ¡®Traditional Cultural Themed Games¡¯ event. Designers are invited to use their expertise to design various Chinese themed games, potentially with educational value, to further expand the impact of our culture in the videogame industry. Target audience. All video game designers. How to participate All Chinese themed games will be automatically entered. Design requirements a. No tform limits, mobile, PC, and VR games are all eligible. b. Rich game content with a healthy theme and emphasis on traditional Chinese culture with educational value. Prizes At the end of this event, Game and Virtual Reality Committee members will judge all entries, with one first ce, three second ces, five third ce, and a few notable mentions. The award-winning designer will be awarded a certificate, and the winning game will be rmended by the official app store for a period of one month. Signed by the Game and Virtual Reality Committee yesterday. The corner of Chen Mo¡¯s mouth was twitching. Isn¡¯t this a serious official document? Even the punctuation looks official! Moreover, what is this Game and Virtual Reality Committee? Chen Mo didn¡¯t even know that existed! He never knew the rtionship between the videogame editor, official app store, and its corresponding departments even though he had used the editor before. Chen Mo finally understood the situation after looking it up. This Game and Virtual Reality Committee, also known as the Game Committee, was a legitimatemittee. It had a lot of power and was affiliated with the Ministry of culture, it basically governed the entire video game industry. Why did this exist in the first ce? Every country noticed the potential of Virtual Reality when it first appeared. For example, soldiers could train within a VR world, making training safer and cheaper. Virtual Reality wasn¡¯t just for video games, it also had great value in other industries. But an editor is still required in order to design aplete world using the editor. And that was now the Game Committee was bord. The reason this world put so much emphasis on the videogame industry wasn¡¯t because of artistic value, but because games will improve VR technology, and that would benefit all industries. As a result, the value of video game designers increased dramatically. The Game Committee represented other departments in the country. They gathered the best of the best in the country to make the Illusion Game Engine for the videogame designers and developed a rating system to allow video game designers to continually grow. Finally they would end up in VR territory, making VR games. The official app store also belonged to the Game Committee. The twenty percent cut from the sales from the official app store were funds for the Game Committee. Chen Mo finally understood. Why did Lin Mao ask him to pay attention to this matter? Because this event was hosted by the Game Committee, a legitimate department. If the game goes well and gets promoted by the officials, it wouldn¡¯t be surprising it gets on the news. Then their poprity will sky-rocket! ¡°I really can¡¯t take a break!¡± Chen Mo nned to take two days break, but the work game to him very soon this time around. The duration of the event was one season or three months. This meant that Chen Mo needed to make a game rted to traditional chinese culture in these three months. Moreover, the game must be good enough to meet the requirements of the judges. May as well go for first ce if joining. ¡°Chinese themed game? Educational too?¡± Chen Mo had a few ideas, but hadn¡¯t decided on which one to settle on. He decided to talk with Lin Mao before making any calls. ¡ª Lin Mao and Chen Mo were eating away at skewers at a BBQ store. The two of them haven¡¯t met in a while as Chen Mo didn¡¯t have much time as they worked on his game. This time, the two of them were chatting, de-stressing. ¡°Did you see the notice?¡± asked Lin Mao. Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Yeah, I took a look, but I haven¡¯t decided on what game to make.¡± ¡°Don¡¯t worry, take your time,¡± assured Lin Mao. You¡¯re aren¡¯t required to enter the event. It¡¯s alright to sit out if you have your own ns. You¡¯re better at Western Fantasy themes anyways, if it doesn¡¯t feel right to make a Chinese themed game and won¡¯t get a good result, there¡¯s no point wasting that time and effort.¡± Chen Mo grabbed a piece of paddywhack, ¡°I actually want to do this. I¡¯ve always been making games that are rted to Western Fantasy, I¡¯ve never really made a Chinese themed game.¡± ¡°It¡¯s great that you want to do it, but even better if you ce it somewhere. The promotional spaces aren¡¯t too important, the key is that you reveal yourself in front of the Game Committee members.¡± Chen Mo was shocked, ¡°Huh? That¡¯s most important?¡± ¡°Of course. They govern the entire gaming industry. Who knows what happens when you get on their bad side, I wouldn¡¯t want to find out. If you manage to grab their attention, it would probably do wonders to your career.¡± Chen Mon nodded, ¡°That makes sense. Then I¡¯ll need to prepare well and aim for first ce.¡± Lin Mao waved his hand, ¡°Forget about first ce, second or third ce is already good enough.¡± ¡°Why?¡± questioned Chen Mo. ¡°Don¡¯t get me wrong, I¡¯m not questioning your abilities. The biggest obstacle is time. The eventsts for three months, that means you need to make the game within three months.¡± exined Lin Mao. Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Yeah, the others have three months too right?¡± Lin Mao shook his head, ¡°Of course not! Bigpanies like Emperor Dynasty Entertainment and Zen Entertainment have insiders. They knew about this a few months ago. They¡¯ve had a few months worth of development ahead of you, you don¡¯t stand a chance.¡± Chen Mo was shocked, ¡°Huh? They can do that?¡± ¡°Why can¡¯t they. It¡¯s not really a secret for the members of the Game Committee. As long as you know someone, it wouldn¡¯t be difficult to catch wind of that. Video Game designers like us would only find out after the notice is released.¡± ¡°Geez, how is that fair?¡± cried Chen Mo. ¡°There¡¯s nothing you could do, as it¡¯s more or less the hidden rule of the industry. Everybody knows if they can get to Emperor Dynasty or Zen¡¯s level, we can do that too. But now? You¡¯ll have to look past that.¡± Chapter 138 - Chapter 137 Wuxia Game vs Xianxia Game

Chapter 138: Chapter 137 Wuxia Game vs Xianxia Game

¡°It¡¯s fine, it¡¯s just a one or two months right, that doesn¡¯t guarantee first ce.¡± said Chen Mo after some thought. Lin Mao nodded, ¡°That¡¯s true, the Game Committee members do have specific tastes. But you¡¯d probably have a hard time getting first ce if your game wasn¡¯t super innovative.¡± Chen Mo did some more thinking. ¡°I¡¯m thinking of making a Xianxia mobile game, what about you?¡± Chen Mo said after a thought, ¡°I¡¯m thinking Wuxia.¡± Lin Mao was shocked, ¡°Wuxia? Wuxia is pretty difficult!¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°I know, that¡¯s why I picked it.¡± ¡°That¡¯s true, if you make it well, there¡¯s a high chance of it getting first ce. But it is extremely difficult to make the theme special. Zen Entertainment have been ying with it for a long time and never got any results.¡± ¡°I know, that¡¯s why I¡¯m still thinking about it,¡± said Chen Mo. Lin Mao nodded, ¡°Alright! You can do it! I believe in you! You made an RTS game like Warcraft when it ismonly epted to be difficult! If you n it out and do this theme justice, you have a good chance of getting first ce.¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Good luck, let¡¯s get some good results!¡± ¡ª After his meal, Chen Mo returned to the experience store and started thinking hard about the game. There weren¡¯t many types of games that were Chinese themed. The popr ones were Wuxia and Xianxia. In the parallel world, the first response of video game designers and yers when they think about Chinese games would be Xianxia games. The currently popr VR game Legend of the Sword was a type of Xianxia game. The reason Xianxia games were popr was because they could use thebat system of an RPG game, making its ystyle easy to pick up and familiar to yers. Just as Western Fantasy RPG games have warriors, casters, archers, melee or ranged, flying with Gryphons... These could all be reskinned with a Xianxia theme. In Xianxia games, yers could fly on their swords, attack others with spells, they could explore areas like caves or mountains, all very fitting with Western RPG games. Thebat of Wuxia games could easily be reskinned using thebat system from Western RPG games, and the yers wouldn¡¯t feel that it was out of ce. Therefore most popr Wuxia games were basically reskinned Western RPG games. And because they had games to base it off of, there weren¡¯t any risks involved as it was something yers were used to. So why couldn¡¯t they do the same with Wuxia? The biggest problem was thebat system. Xianxia are ced in worlds where magic ismon, as opposed to Wuxia where magic is rare. You could fly on your sword, kill demons, and summon thousands of swords in Wuxia worlds, making it rich and fitting of this spellcasting basedbat system. In Wuxiabat systems you take damage and other effects when I cast spells, which can be reflected in skills and debuffs. Wuxia waspletely different. Traditionally it would be throwing punches and countering them. The Wuxia skills are usually pretty basic. For example, it would be a stretch to treat Eighteen Subduing Dragon Palms as eighteen different skills, but it might be too simple if it was just one move. It was also difficult to convey its meaning and uniqueness if it only dealt damage. Moreover, Wuxia worldscked monsters, making it more difficult to tell a story as there wouldn¡¯t be huge bosses, with humanoids in its ce. Converting Xianxia to Wuxia would require taking out a lot of content, moreover, it was also difficult to convey the cultural aspect of Wuxia through a game. Which was why designers would father do Xianxia over Wuxia. There were quite a few Wuxia games in his previous life, but the problem was that these Wuxia games were just a reskin and bore the same core as Xianxia and Western RPG games. Therge portion of the games that were based on sessful novels by Jin Yong and Gu Long depended on the IP, the games themselves made no new innovations. For example, making Six Meridian Swords[1] a ranged attack, and making Eighteen Subduing Dragon Palms and melee attacks, energy drain would be a mana drain, and quick steps would increase evasion... These still had strong ties to thebat system of Western RPG games. Setting aside the sentimental value to the original works, these mechanics were a bit of the stretch, and yers would probably not buy it. Although there wasn¡¯t Jin Yong and Gu Long in this world, there were simr Wuxia novels, with the concept of energy, move sets, and different types of Wugong. The Wugong in this world were pretty simr to the previous world too, stuff like Yijin Jing, Tai Chi, and Baguazhang were also popr in this world. It was impossible for Chen Mo to secure one of these IPs or to remake one of Jin Yong¡¯s novels were impossible as he only had three months to do it. The Wuxia IPs in this world were quite expensive and doesn¡¯te close to how popr Jin Yong¡¯s novels were. Even when setting aside the price, buying it wouldn¡¯t have a huge effect anyways, otherwise Zen and Emperor Dynasty would¡¯ve bought it. Zen Entertainment insisted on making high quality games with a Chinese theme. It wasn¡¯t that they didn¡¯t want to explore Wuxia¡¯s potentials, but the oues of those games were mediocre at best, which was why they went back to Xianxia themes. Forcing a Wuxia themed game without making innovations to the core of the game was obviously a no go. The judges weren¡¯t dense either and would easily be able to tell terrible works like these. What¡¯s the point of making a Wuxia game with barely any Wuxia content? Chen Mo wanted to make a Wuxia game to show off Wuxia content, one that makes innovations on the y style, and not one that just has Wuxia in the title. Chen Mo had made quite a few games since he entered the industry, including two incredibly sessful games such as nts vs Zombies, and Warcraft, scummy games like I Am MT, and a visual novel like Lifeline. But they were mostly ssic overseas games, there wasn¡¯t one that was actually a full fledged Chinese themed game. You couldn¡¯t me Chen Mo for favouring the west. This was what happened in his previous world, good games from China were few and far between, and most of them were scummy games. But that wasn¡¯t what Chen Mo wanted. He hopes that Chinese games could be shared all across the world, and Chinese yers would appreciate the traditional cultural aspects Chinese games. Therefore, Chen Mo wanted to use this opportunity to make a standalone Wuxia game to allow yers to fully experience China. TL note: It¡¯s like this finger gun attack https://youtu.be/OVz6fi1KMkg?t=134 Chapter 139 - Chapter 138: Wuxia Game Design Document

Chapter 139: Chapter 138: Wuxia Game Design Document

Chen Mo wrote down the title of his new design document. Wulin Legend design concept document. There were many ssic Wuxia games in Chen Mo¡¯s previous life. Although Wulin Legend wasn¡¯t the best, it was the most creative, starkly different from the Wuxia games that were based on Western RPG games. Although Wulin Legend wasn¡¯t extremely popr, its predecessor Heroes of Jin Yong was. In Heroes of Jin Yong, the main character was transmigrated into a world formed from fourteen of Jin Yong¡¯s novels. The main character was constantly interacting with the characters from Jin Yong¡¯s novels, collecting items, learning Wugong, and recruiting swordsmen beforepleting the fourteen main quests lines, gathering fourteen holy books and returning to his world. This game was shocking at the time of release, as yers could train Wugong from Jin Yong¡¯s novels, recruit warrios such as Duan Yu and Yang Guo to fight alongside them, and evenplete quests that were relevant to the original novel. Moreover, Heroes of Jin Yong had a good/evil system, which would increase or decrease depending on the choices of the yer. When the yer finally was about to leave the world after gathering all fourteen holy books, if they were nice, the ten evil masters would attack the yer, if they were evil, the ten good masters would attack the yer. The yer would need to beat the ten masters before beating the game, giving the yer an immense amount of satisfaction. Jin Yong¡¯s novels weren¡¯t in this world, and Heroes of Jin Yong wasn¡¯t as rich in content as Wu Lin Legend. The art wasn¡¯t good enough to satisfy the needs of yers nowadays either. After considerations, Wulin Legend would better fit what Chen Mo was looking for. There wasn¡¯t much content from Jin Yong¡¯s novels in Wulin Legend. Although it descended from Heroes of Jin Yong, the different factions, characters, and styles of Wugong were basically all made from scratch, making it easy for the people of this world to understand. In terms of artwork, although Wulin Legend was an old game, it was remade in 2015 (as Tale of Wuxia). The artwork, character models were all remastered. Moreover, as Chen Mo¡¯s art skills were rtively high, it should satisfy the demands of the yers. Chen Mo felt that Wulin Legend would match the content in this game better as opposed to Tale of Wuxia. Of course the most important part was that the ystyle and the story fit Chen Mo¡¯s needs very well. The innovative ystyle of the game was unique among Wuxia games. There was also a story regarding the remake of the game. Wulin Legend was released in 2001, although it was well received, it didn¡¯t be a ssic like ¡®Chinese Pdin¡¯ or ¡®Xuan-Yuan Sword¡¯. Other than the fact that it had a small audience, its difficulty, unbncedbat system, and iplete story contributed to its downfall. Of course, these were due to limits in funding. In the end, in an environment gued with piracy, Heluo Studio disbanded. The new studio Oriental Calctions weren¡¯t able to make anything noteworthy either, disappearing like fireworks in the night sky. In 2006, someone posted a question on the Wulin Legend forums :¡±Is Oriental Calctions still a thing?¡± The yers replied, ¡°Haven¡¯t seen them in a long time. It¡¯ll be too bad if they disbanded.¡± In 2009, the post was received with a reply by Heluo Studio¡¯s founder and Wulin Legend¡¯s producer Xu Changlong. ¡°Oriental Calctions ceased all operations three years ago, but everyone on that team is still in the videogame industry. All the key yers are also in a certain videogamepany. As long as we are still here, there is a chance of us making better products.¡± Xu Changlong was shocked. As time went by, he along with many others in the videogame industry gave up on making standalone games, turning into online games instead, doing things they didn¡¯t want to do and questioning their future. Until discovering that post on the Wulin Legend forums, seeing there were so many people discussing the game. He didn¡¯t know there were so many people in 2009 talking and reminiscing about a game from 2001. And it was because of this reason, with support of the fans, Xu Changlong wanted to remake Wulin Legend, releasing Tale of Wuxia in 2015, and selling a respectable four hundred thousand copies in January 2016. ¡ª Just like when he made Warcraft, Chen Mo did a concept draft, giving an overview of the game, before distributing the workload among Su Jinyu and the others. Chen Mo didn¡¯t need to raise his skills this time as the game was pretty simple. After making a game like Warcraft, a game like Wulin Legend was a piece of cake. He only needed to figure out some of theplicated settings and the stories, then recreating the content as close to the original as possible. It didn¡¯t take long for the concept draft to beplete. This game can be split into two categories, exploration and training. And the character arc could be split into three sections, entering the world (exploration), learning from the masters(training), and entering the field to save the martial arts world (exploration). The reason Wulin Legend got good reviews was because of how it melded both. Of course, Chen Mo needed the help of Memory yback Potions to recreate all the details. It was stillrgely the same as before, Chen Mo would write down some of the more important features of the foundations. The story, numbers, and artwork would be done by his three assistants. After the draft was done, Chen Mo held a meeting with Su Jinyu, Zheng Hongxi and Qian Kun. ¡°I nned for morerest, but there are changes made to the n. This is the concept document for the next game, take a look,¡± said Chen Mo as he handed out the document to the three of them, Qian Kun was disappointed, ¡°Not a scummy game...¡± Zheng Hongxi was quite interested in it, ¡°Hmm? From the looks of it the story is quite rich. And this a Wuxia theme too, Chinese style.¡± Su Jinyu was confused, ¡°Manager, I thought you said Wuxia themes were difficult? There are so many innovations in this game, isn¡¯t that a bit risky?¡± ¡°Don¡¯t worry about that, familiarise yourselves with the content of the game. I¡¯ll provide concept art for the characters and the locations. Goldfish, you¡¯ll be taking on all the artwork this time. ¡°Hongxi, you¡¯re mainly working on the story which is Wuxia themed. There is a lot of cultural knowledge in this, including artworks, books, chess, and music. You¡¯ll need to do some research on that. Of course, make it suitable, don¡¯t go too easy or too deep on it. ¡°Qian Kun, you¡¯ll be working on thebat system and bncing as per before. Bncing this time isn¡¯t as important as Warcraft. There¡¯s a few abilities that need to be especially strong and difficult to achieve, I¡¯ll tell you more about itter. ¡°Alright, that¡¯s about it. Take a good look at the document and have an idea of what the game will look like at the end. Make suitable preparations.¡± After receiving their work, the three of them started working. As for Chen Mo, he started recalling some key scenes and settings from the game using Memory yback Potions. Chapter 140 - Chapter 139: Gameplay and Side Quests

Chapter 140: Chapter 139: Gamey and Side Quests

Chen Mo¡¯s once fuzzy memory became clear after using the Memory yback Potion. Tale of Wuxia was basically an updated version of Wulin Legend with no changes made to the story line other than a few minor corrections. Chen Mo listed out every key item in both storylines in order tobine the both to get the mostplete story. Now that Chen Mo¡¯s story writing level was maxed out in the first level, he believes that he can objectively improve on the story after making a few changes. The main gist of the story was very clear, starting from entering Luoyang, Xiaoyao valley, Hangzhou City, Chengdu City, then the invasions of the cults. This progression was interspersed with a few side quests and backtracking back to Xiaoyao valley. This timeline was pretty easy to recreate following the main gist, but that was all he needed as Zheng Hongxi will fill in the rest. There were many paths in Tale of Wuxia, namely Eastern Depot, Beggars¡¯ Sect, Wulin League Leader (Good), Wulin League Overtake (Evil), all leading to different endings. The main character could be the leader of the Wulin League, but could also go into the path of killing all friends and rtives and overtake the Wulin League. They could also be a carefree head of the league, or be a judge or ranger. These were all choices the yer could make. Other than these endings, there were endings where the main character finds love, and even one specifically when they woo a specific girl. Yes, you can find love in this game, you can give gifts, ept gifts,plete special quests, to eventually woo the girl. Of course, there was also a harem ending. Zheng Hongxi had plenty on his te with this many endings. Chen Mo also had to deal with drafts for characters scenes,bat system, live skills, and item system too. Wulin Legend had more than one hundred and eighty characters, and most of these characters had unique looks, Wugong, or personalities. Chen Who would give them a name and a rough sketch, then finished by Su Jinyu. The character design and background story will be finished by Zheng Hongxi. Life skills including hunting, fishing, mining, and foraging. Each life skill had their own minigame and their own equipment system. For example, there would be a chance of getting snake galls when hunting snakes, and a chance of getting the bear paw or bear gall when hunting bears. Some of the equipment could be sold for money, and others could be used for buffs, for example, eating snake galls can increase the yer¡¯s energy by one. These life skills will have an effect on the yer¡¯sbat abilities. For example, ores from mining could be crafted into weapons, improving the yer¡¯sbat abilities. Thebat system also required a simr amount of effort. Tales of Wuxia had a chess-likebat system simr to that of Heroes of Might and Magic. The yer can move and attack once each round and have different areas, damage, and effects. For example, the first stance of Dugu Nine Swords ignores their target¡¯s defence, and could deal huge damage whenbined with Aotian Sword and the weapons master talent. They could even solo the battlefield whenbined with effects like multish. There were many other things that affectbat abilities other than Wugong such as cleaving, multihit, multi sh, items, and special buffs/debuffs making thebat extremely rich. There were even different types of Wugong such as energy, fists, kicking, ws, swords, knives, dual wielding, staffs, short staffs, Guqin, and concealed weapons. They would have different attack ranges, area of effect, strength, and different effects. It included all well known weapons and fit well with how Wugong were set. Of course, Chen Mo made some amendments to some of the ws Wulin Legend had. First was the art, in particr the art level was constantly increasing in remakes from Tales of Wuxia to Tale of Wuxia:The Pre-Sequel, but overall it wasn¡¯t the game¡¯s strong point. Chen Mo wanted to oversee the entire artwork and character model process to ensure the models, animations, and scenes were the best they could be. He even nned to improve the special effects duringbat to at least match the levels of the parallel world. Second was the difficulty curve. He could include a few hints during certain events. For example, when the yer gets stuck in a puzzle section for too long, NPCs would give some hints or allow yers to train more, allowing yers toplete the game without specific strategies. Furthermore, Chen Mo gave the game two types ofbat systems. First was turn basedbat just like the original, the other being a fake RTSbat like Soul Hunters allowing yers to control a character duringbat, repositioning them or casting spells. Moreover, Chen Mo improved on the inspect ability, allowing yers to check their rating, strength, orbinations of their Wugong, essentially viewing how good their strategy was. When the yer¡¯s inspect ability wasn¡¯t high enough, they could take the skill scroll to their master for inspection, allowing yers to easily differentiate between strong and weak Wugong. ¡ª The entirebat system would be managed by Qian Kun. Chen Mo gave these abilities a quick overview as Qian Kun wouldn¡¯t know things like Dugu Nine Swords and cleaving. Moreover, Chen Mo would also give a quick overview of the locations of the enemies and the level designer of Qian Kun. Other systems such as titles, recruiting warriors, rtionship with NPCs, and wooing girls would be done by Su Jinyu. Su Jinyu, Zheng Hongxi, and Qian Kun were getting better and better at their jobs after making Warcraft. They now had no problems understanding what Chen Mo was looking for from his design concepts, making the development go smoothly without anymunication problem. Warcraft could be described as a key obstacle, and once his assistants overcame it, they were able to work on games much more efficiently. Su Jinyu waspleting the character artwork in the experience store. The main character was called Dongfang Weiming in Wulin Legend, but the yers could freely change their name and looks in Tales of Wuxia. Wen Lingwei was also helping with colouring. ¡°Goldfish, why are there so many avatars? The only thing different is their expression, they basically all look the same,¡± questioned Wen Lingwei. Su Jinyu nodded, ¡°Yeah, it¡¯s to give the yers choice.¡± Wen Lingwei was confused, ¡°What does that do?¡± Su Jinyu exined after a pause, ¡°It¡¯s probably to allow yers to customise their characters and allow them to match their looks with their personality. The personality of the character isn¡¯t set, so the yers can y as the protagonist or antagonist.¡± ¡°Oh,¡± Wen Lingwei nodded, ¡°That sounds like there¡¯s a lot of content, like a visual novel.¡± ¡°Yeah, this game takes some inspiration from that. But the difference is still huge, and there is much more content in this game than visual novels.¡± said Su Jinyu. Wen Lingwei was worried, ¡°This seems like a game I could y. But will there be no problems stuffing all these different ystyles into one game? It feels like it¡¯s going to be a game that has no ce.¡± ¡°It¡¯s hard to tell, who knows before the game isplete. But I think we should trust the manager, he must know what¡¯s up,¡± assured Su Jinyu. Chapter 141 - Chapter 140: Zen Entertainments Xianxia Game

Chapter 141: Chapter 140: Zen Entertainment¡¯s Xianxia Game

¡°Ah, I¡¯m so tired after finishing one story branch and the background story of two characters,¡± said Zheng Hongxi as he streched ¡°Really? Did you write the story for Warcraft?¡± asked Jia Peng. Zheng Hongxi shook his head, ¡°That¡¯s different, although Warcraft has a much more incredible story, it¡¯s only one branch, I just had to go along the flow of the story. This game is different, there are so many story branches that affect one another. This is so much moreplicated than Lifeline and it¡¯s making my brain hurt.¡± ¡°You better hurry up, I have a bunch more Wugong and equipment descriptions waiting for you,¡± asid Qian Kun as he was working. Zheng Hongxi had his hand on his forehead, ¡°Oh my goodness!¡± ¡°Could you show me the script? I could look through it for you,¡± offered Wen Lingwei. Zheng Hongxi shook his head vigorously, ¡°I can¡¯t do that, wouldn¡¯t I be leaking? Moreover, I don¡¯t need you to look over it, the manager has already seen it.¡± Wen Lingwei was speechless, ¡°Selfish, why are you the same as the manager.¡± ¡°This isn¡¯t selfish, its professionalism alright?¡± asserted Zheng Hongxi. Wen Lingwei rolled her eyes with a ¡®yeah yeah, you¡¯re right¡¯ expression. ¡°Oh right, remember to give a few special Wugong and equipment their own story. The manager specifically asked for story special Wugong and equipment like Six Meridian Swords that can only be obtained afterpleting the quest from Wuliang Cave¡± Zheng Hongxi nodded, ¡°I remember, I¡¯m nning to give it an extra long questline.¡± ¡°From the sounds of it, although it is a Wuxia theme, the manager gave it many Wugong. The names also sound awesome, like Eighteen Subduing Dragon Palms, Six Meridian Swords, energy drain, Dugu Nine Swords. They feel so fitting!¡± expressed Jia Peng. Wen Ling said, ¡°Do you really need to question the story that the stingy manageres up with? He has so many of these ideas.¡± Jia Peng said, ¡°But I¡¯m still kind of surprised. I thought the manager would never leave the world of Western Fantasy since Warcraft got so popr that he could probably live off sequels of it. Why did he want to make a Chinese style game all of a sudden?¡± ¡°You didn¡¯t know? It¡¯s because of the Game Committee. That means the department rted to video games sent out a notice, asking for the designers to make a Chinese themed game. There¡¯s even judging for it,¡± exined Su Jinyu. Jia Peng was shocked, ¡°Is that so. I thought the manager wouldn¡¯t¡¯ care about things like this.¡± Su Jinyu said, ¡°He was actually already nning to make a Chinese themed game, but this came up at the right time.¡± ¡°Can the manager get first ce?¡± asked Jia Peng. Wen Lingwei replied, ¡°Has the stingy manager ever lost?¡± Su Jinyu quickly interjected, ¡°Don¡¯t be so full of yourself this time. It¡¯s hard to tell because Zen Entertainment is also making a standalone Xianxia themed game. They¡¯ve also started a month or so earlier than we did, so it should be further in development.¡± ¡°Huh? Zen Entertainment is joining too?¡± asked Jia Peng. Su Jinyu nodded, ¡°Of course, Zen Entertainment and Emperor Dynasty Entertainment are bothpeting. There are way morepetitors that you guys think. That¡¯s why I said we can¡¯t be sure.¡± Jia Peng seemed to understand, ¡°That¡¯s true. If there is judging, Emperor Dynasty Entertainment stands no chance, but Zen Entertainment excels at Xianxia games. Legend of the Sword was a very sessful RPG game, so they must have good knowledge on that matter.¡± Zheng Hongxi said, ¡°You can¡¯t be sure about that either, the advantage Zen Entertainment has isn¡¯t that big. ¡°I¡¯ve looked up the games that won before, and most of them just fit the Game Committee¡¯s liking. In short, they don¡¯t like online games, although online games are more profitable, it isn¡¯t easy to tell a story. ¡°The judges put extra emphasis on the story and innovative ystles. That means the best type of game are standalone games, and the high quality the better, the richer the story the better.¡± ¡°Even so, Zen Entertainment still has an advantage. There are many quest lines in Legend of the Sword, meaning that Zen Entertainment has plenty of experience in that. It probably wouldn¡¯t be that bad if they converted that into a standalone game,¡± argued Su Jinyu. Zheng Hongxi said, ¡°It won¡¯t be bad, but our story will be much better.¡± Everyone was speechless as he praised himself. Zheng Hongxi nodded in agreement, ¡°Yep.¡± They were once again speechless at his honesty. Qian Kun waved his hand, ¡°Alright, that¡¯s enough free time. Let¡¯s get back to work as we have a lot to do in very little time.¡± ¡ª At the same time, in the experience store under Zen Entertainment, there was an A-grade video game designer working hard. Yao Yu, A-grade video game designer and one of the main designers of Legend of the Sword. They were responsible for the story and was a well known story writer and Xianxia novelist. ¡°A few of the character artworks from earlier this morning aren¡¯t good enough, redo it.¡± ¡°I¡¯ve made a small change to the Nether Crypt, remember to carry that into the game. Changes need to be made to the corresponding dialogues and cinematics.¡± ¡°Pay more attention to thebat system. It¡¯s going to affect future development otherwise.¡± ¡°The level is too hard, please make some changes. It can¡¯t be too easy either, take the feelings of the yers into consideration.¡± ¡°Remember that this game isn¡¯t for the yers, but for the judges. Our goal is to allow the judges to feel immediately that this game is a very traditional Xianxia themed game, and allow them to feel our feelings and sincerity, understood?¡± ¡°Yes, it can feel close to Legend of the Sword, but it mustn¡¯t be too simr. Otherwise the judges are going to think that we weren¡¯t innovative enough.¡± Yao Yu was giving orders left and right to their four assistants as they worked hard for the Xianxia themed standalone game. In truth, an A-grade videogame designer might¡¯ve been overkill for this. An S-grade videogame designer could work on a VR game by themselves, and an A-grade designer could work on arge online PC game or take arge role in a VR game. Making a standalone game waspletely underutilizing them. However, Yao Yu understood the reason why the higher ups of Zen Entertainment assigned the job to him. It was because of his experience from developing Legend of the Sword and his excellent story writing skills. In other words, this was a political move. Getting a good cement in thispetition would mean improving Zen Entertainment¡¯s position in the Chinese gaming industry as well as improving his name. Therefore Yao Yu didn¡¯t dare take this lightly, giving his all to develop a standalone Xianxia game to win first ce! Chapter 142 - Chapter 141: New Customer in the Experience Store

Chapter 142: Chapter 141: New Customer in the Experience Store

Manypanies were busy developing a Chinese themed game with the aim for a good cement. There were many mobile games, less PC games, and no VR games. The main reason being three months was too short of a time frame to develop a VR game. Evenpanies like Emperor Dynasty Entertainment and Zen Entertainment with inside knowledge only had a bit over a month of extra time. It was too difficult to develop arge VR game in this time span, one might even say impossible. Moreover, the main reason for the games was to please the judges, and there was no reason to spend a lot of money to develop a game just to do that. If neither the judges or yers liked it, it would be doubly bad. Therefore, thergerpanies decided to make a PC game whereas smallerpanies nned to make mobile games. Manymunities of gamers were discussing the matter after catching wind of the news. ¡°Have you heard that the bunch from the Game Committee is nning a Chinese Themed Games Event? They are encouraging designers to make Chinese themed games.¡± ¡°Again? The pile of hot garbage from the Resistance War Games eventst time is still steaming.¡± ¡°Yeah, the games fromst season were utter garbage, it could even be worse than some of the drama series.¡± ¡°Sigh, it¡¯s a political move after all. These games aren¡¯t meant for us, but for the judges.¡± ¡°But the judges have decent taste other than being a bit pretentious.¡± ¡°Yeah, the first three ces do seem to be like that. But you can tell what they were going for, staying close to the theme, high quality game, unique artstyle, innovative gamey, and good story. As long as you adhered to these points you stood a chance at winning.¡± ¡°It can¡¯t be helped, they are treating these games as artworks.¡± ¡°Luckily it¡¯s not some weird theme likest time.¡± ¡°Chinese theme...feels a bit out there too. What can you do with that? I think there¡¯s going to be a bunch of Xianxia themed games this time.¡± ¡°Geez, Xianxia games are so overdone.¡± ¡°Maybe it¡¯s already decided that Zen Entertainment would get first ce.¡± ¡°Predetermined or not, Zen Entertainment is basically guaranteed to get first ce. They have deep knowledge in Xianxia games and good story writing after all.¡± ¡°But I feel like their games arecking something.¡± ¡°By the way, do you think Chen Mo is going to join? If he enters with a game like Warcraft, it could get really interesting!¡± ¡°Chen Mo? I don¡¯t think so. Chen Mo is better at Western Fantasy stuff. I Am MT, Lifeline, and Warcraft are all Western themes. nts vs Zombies are western based too, he¡¯s never touched Chinese style games!¡± ¡°That¡¯s true, this isn¡¯t his strong point. He¡¯s probably going to fail if he forces himself to join.¡± ¡°But there aren¡¯t other Chinese video game designers that can wow me. Maybe Chen Mo manages to do the theme justice?¡± ¡°I doubt it, there are different specialisations in the artistic world afterall.¡± ¡°To be fair, who thought CHen Mo could make RTS? And didn¡¯t he do exactly that?¡± ¡°Fair point. If he was doing this, there¡¯s probably a demo in his experience store right? I¡¯m heading towards the Imperial Capital anyways.¡± ¡°Wow, you¡¯re really going for this.¡± ¡°It can¡¯t be helped. I¡¯m really interested in this Chinese themed game event. It ends in two weeks, so Chen Mo is probably close to done, I¡¯ll go check it out.¡± ¡°Onwards, the people of your vige will await your return!¡± ¡ª There was a girl talking to her phone in the close vicinity of the experience store. ¡°I¡¯m here today with another outdoor session that you guys love. Guess where I¡¯m at! That¡¯s right, Thunderbolt Entertainment¡¯s experience store!¡± She then pointed the camera towards the signage of the experience store. ¡°I¡¯ve wanted toe here for a long time, it would sad to note visit thepany that made Warcraft. Moreover, they are situated in the Imperial Capital. But I don¡¯t really vibe with RTS games and I¡¯ve been doing a lot of work rted to streaming, which was why I haven¡¯t been here. ¡°We¡¯ll check out what the experience store has in store for us, we might even be able to meet Warcraft¡¯s designer Chen Mo.¡± She walked into the experience store as she spoke. Her name was Lin Xue, a famous standalone game streamer. She was different to other girl streamers, she started from making videos and was highly educated. How high? Top performer in liberal arts, got her bachelors in Renmin University, and got her Masters from Beijing University. Someone like her should have no problem finding a job that would pay twenty to thirty thousand a month. But because of how popr she got when she was studying, she chose to be a streamer and content creator instead. She was doing quite well for herself too. The one who said they wanted to visit Chen Mo¡¯s experience store for a Chinese themed game was Lin Xue. Lin Xue was shocked to see that many people in the experience store. The experience wasn¡¯t¡¯ big and had less than twentyputers and ten massage chairs, but they were basically all full. There were even people chatting on the sofa within the store. But she soon realised it was to be expected as Warcraft was amazingly popr in the RTSmunity. It wouldn¡¯t be surprising if yers who lived nearby would visit the experience store daily. Luckily Lin Xue chose to visit on a less popr Tuesday afternoon and there were still some seats within the store. Lin Xue got to the front desk. Su Jinyu said as she was working on the game within the game editor, ¡°Wee, please swipe your ID here.¡± Lin Xue took a nce at Su Jinyu¡¯s screen as she swiped her ID. It was the first time she saw someone working at the front desk of an experience store being so busy, having to deal with customers and designing games. However, the game on the screen attracted Lin Xue¡¯s attention. Su Jinyu was making some changes to the game ording to Zheng Hongxi¡¯s story changes so Lin Xue saw a game that looked cute. From the looks of the characters, clothing, and scenes it seemed like a Wuxia themed game. ¡°They are working on a Chinese themed game! But it doesn¡¯t look like a Xianxia theme, but a Wuxia theme!¡± Lin Xue asked, ¡°Is that game avable to y?¡± ¡°Oh, yes. It¡¯s installed on theputers in the experience store. But the game isn¡¯tplete, so the game might be a bit unbnced,¡± replied Su Jinyu. Lin Xue nodded, ¡°Alright.¡± Lin Xue quickly sat down at the only remaining PC. The chat was going wild on her phone. ¡°Hot girl! Hot front desk girl!¡± ¡°The girl working at the front desk is so quiet! Could you ask for her number?¡± ¡°Xue, could you show us the girl from the front desk again?¡± Lin Xue was speechless, ¡°You guys!¡± Chapter 143 - Chapter 142: Tried and True Chinese

Chapter 143: Chapter 142: Tried and True Chinese

As the chat kept asking to see pretty girls, Lin Xue checked out the experience store as she turned on herputer. A majority of them were ying Warcraft, a small number were ying nts vs Zombies or other mobile games. The twoputers furthest into the experience store seemed to be upied by two other assistants, one was dealing with numbers, the other with the story. ¡°Haven¡¯t seen Chen Mo, he¡¯s probably on the second floor.¡± Lin Xue didn¡¯t find Chen Mo after looking around the experience store. Many people now know what Chen Mo looked like since he showed his face during hismentary. Lin Xue didn¡¯t feel that it was a good idea to go search for Chen Mo as she didn¡¯t want to interrupt him if he was working. There weren¡¯t many games on theputers as they were all games from Thunderbolt Entertainment. Lin Xue noticed that there was a game without an icon called Wulin Legend. ¡°It actually is Wuxia themed! Chen Mo never disappoints in the wow-factor department,¡± Lin Xue was shocked. As a streamer passionate for standalone games, Lin Xue had some know-how in the videogame industry. She knew that all Chinese themed games were almost unanimous with Xianxia games. There weren¡¯t many games that had Wuxia themes. But many yers looked forward to Wuxia games as it gave away apletely different vibe to Xianxia games. Moreover, there were many Xianxia MMORPG games. yers looking deeper into it will realise that they have the same core gamey as western RPGs with modified looks and story, with no changes to the gamey. There were some good standalone Xianxia games, but there weren¡¯t many of them and the yers were getting sick of them. Lin Xue felt that it was brave for Chen Mo to make a Wuxia themed game. ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll download the streaming software now. The inte should be good here, I¡¯ll swap over to streaming from theputer and we¡¯ll be able to experience Chen Mo¡¯s new Wuxia game together.¡± said Lin Xue. Lin Xue looked at the chat as she waited for the streaming software to download. ¡°Show us the cute girl at the desk!¡± ¡°Grab her number!¡± ¡°Xue, get Chen Mo to teach you how to y Warcraft!¡± ¡°I don¡¯t wanna watch Wuxia games. The existing Wuxia games areplete garbage, it¡¯s probably the same too!¡± ¡°Yeah, since we are at the experience store now, could you show us more of it? We aren¡¯t in a hurry to y games.¡± ¡°Alright, shut up, let her decide what she¡¯s going to stream.¡± ¡°I like Wuxia games! I wanna watch!¡± ¡°We must take a look at Chen Mo¡¯s new game!¡± There were many differentments in chat. As the inte was pretty fast, the streaming software was done downloading. After doing some testing, Lin Xue started streaming from theputer. She then double clicked the icon to enter the game. It started off with a cinematic. The background looked like traditional paper made of rice, with ink slowly dripping on the paper and spreading out. The Thunderbolt Entertainment LOGO in the form of a seal appears on it. There were many different things shing on the screen. With each stroke of the brush, a character would show up in ink. The characters had simple animations, zooming, panning or fading, appearing on the screen one after another. There were handsome swordsmen, violent meon, serious monks, mysterious martial artists. ssic character designs shed by one by one and Lin Xue could barely keep up. As the cinematics continued, the camera started to pull away to reveal a word. It was followed by a cut, a few martial artists were fighting over secret scrolls and above them were a few evil looking characters controlling the situation. A young handsome swordsman flew across the screen, hacking down the thieves. In the vast mountains, an old man stood with his back to the camera, a group of masters and disciples stood respectfully behind him. Among the plum blossoms, there was ady ying her Guqin, standing beside her was a martial artist ying their flute. In the vast deserts, arge eagle flew by with a warrior sitting on it, overlooking the world. Among the chaos, a few Hero looking characters showed up. In the end, an evil looking person opened her eyes, and two words showed up in ink in the middle of the screen. Wulin Legend. Lin Xue was shocked after viewing the cinematics. It¡¯s notparable to the cinematics from Warcraft as the budget waspletely different. This CG wil ink drawn characters wouldn¡¯t even be on the same magnitude in terms of Warcraft. However, Lin was shocked how good the cinematics felt, perfectly reflecting the atmosphere of a Wuxia game. She could tell that the characters were ssic Wuxia themed, and the scenes were also ssic scenes that would appear in Wuxia themes. Andbined with the ink artstyle, the yers could feel how traditional and how integrated the whole thing was. People overseas might not be able to tell, but someone with strong Wuxia knowledge could tell how traditional this was. The game started after the cinematics ended. The background was a drawing in ink of a mountain. Thunderbolt Gaming¡¯s logo was at the bottom left, and the title Wulin Legend was on the top. There were four different options in the bottom right, Enter Wulin, Re Enter the Field, Retreat into Mountains, and Forget the Past. Lin Xue clicked on Enter Wulin and started the game. She was surprised to not enter into the game right away, but to a character customisation screen. They could set their name, change their looks as well as other basic attributes. System hint: Press spacebar for random attributes. Lin Xue was shocked to see something like this in a Chinese style game. This was simr to some standalone western fantasy games, but those were usually spent on attributes like strength and intelligence. After looking deeper into it, Lin Xue realised that Wulin Legen¡¯s attributes were different to other western fantasy games. The most important ones were three talents, namely Smarts, Sentimentality, and Bravery. There were also three attributes Qi, Energy, and Resourcefulness. There were also three images of Baguas for the other attributes. The first Bagua had eyes, ears, flexibility, strength, Neigong, Qinggong, attack, and defence. The second Bagua had mining, hunting, fishing, foraging, medicine crafting, smithing, cooking, and tea ceremonies. The third Bagua had medicine theory, chess, toxicology, surgery, art, books, wine, and flower arrangement. Lin Xue was shocked to see this many attributes. She pressed on the spacebar, and all the attributes shifted. She noticed that the lowest value for the attributes was zero, and highest was thirty. The total value of these attributes were probably set, and the yer could only change how they distribute them. Moreover, as the attributes change, the talents change too. ¡°This... is so rich!¡± Lin Xue was shocked. Chapter 144 - Chapter 143: Rich Game Content

Chapter 144: Chapter 143: Rich Game Content

Lin Xue was shocked, why were there so many attributes? Obviously the ones on the Bagua must be attributes for the main character. Not only this include Qinggong, Strength, and Neigong which were standard for Wuxia games, it also had attributes such as books, cooking and tea ceremonies which seemed to have nothing to do with martial arts. There were two possibilities. It was either a gimmick the developer added to intimidate others, or something the developer integrated to be a key part of the game. Lin Xue hovered over the talents and found out what they did. Other than the talents providing attributes, talents such as Sentimentality gave double experience for artistic skills, +1 tobat strategy, and improve the limit of all artistic skills to one hundred and twenty. There was also ¡®Serpent¡¯s Heart¡¯, increasing attacks based on how low their morality was. Lin Xue got increasingly confused the more she hit random. This design wasn¡¯t friendly towards yers who have a difficulty making choices. After struggling for some time, she finally started the game after finding something she was happy with. The early game content was simr to other Wuxia and Xianxia games. They would walk around the city, gather items and talk to NPCs. This was simr to puzzle adventure games, exchanging A for B, then B for C. The yers would get equipment or items after they finish the quest line. Lin Xue was givingmentary as she yed the game. ¡°This game feels pretty Chinese. The scenery, NPC, tasks, artstyle, background music all feels authentic. Although it doesn¡¯t feel as ssic as Warcraft, it feels very clean andfortable. ¡°There are a fewplicated tasks that require some thinking in this game. But the one thing I don¡¯t quite like is the huge amount of attributes. Who knows what these do, it¡¯s kind of overwhelming.¡± Wulin Legend¡¯s early game wasn¡¯t newbie friendly, especially when the yer roamed around Luoyang City. As the yer didn¡¯t know any Wugong, they would spend most of their time walking around collecting items which may make the yer feel irritated. But Chen Mo had tried to make some amendments by improving on the art, music, and yer guide in his game. It¡¯s difficult to iron out all the ws as Wulin Legend was really content rich. Even when including yer guides, it was unlikely that yers would get the hang of it in their first ythrough, which was a huge obstacle in the game¡¯s sess. However, this was also the fun of Wulin Legend, a game that was rich and had high rey value. Luckily, Lin Xue kept ying as she was quite interested in the game. After dwelling in Luoyang city for an hour, Lin Xue met Gu Yuexuan in the tavern, and drank some alcohol poisoned by Xuan Mingzi. Afterwards, the game transitioned into a cute version of the game which happened to be the development screen. ¡°Huh? What happened?¡± This was the first time Lin Xue saw a development screen like this like this. Turns out after the main character was poisoned, Gu Yuexuan brought them to Xiaoyao Valley to get his master Wu Xiazi to treat them. Lin Xue was utterly shocked to see something like this. Other games, and in particr the vast majority of Xianxia games, the main character would be constantly killing monsters, leveling up and gaining experience. These screens would only bemonly seen in interactive fictions or Japanese tamagotchi style games. After the main character recovered, they became the third disciple of Xiaoyao valley. Wu Xiazi also started passing on swordsmanship skills and Neiggong, improving some attributes of the main character. Lin Xue was shocked, ¡°Huh, this development mode is quite interesting. The development screen had a cute artstyle, rxing music, and funny texts. She realised that this development mode fitted the idea of training in the valley perfectly. Moreover, there was a lot of content during training. other than learning newbat skills, her surgery, arts, smithing, and cooking attributes were also increased. These attributes were actually useful. Some quests required relevant knowledge toplete, otherwise they would fail the request and the rtionship with the quest giver can worsen. Lin Xue found the game more and more enjoyable the more she yed. The game remained in development mode while training in the valley. During this time, she could assign activities to her character, have them go out and trigger events, practice Wugong, or train her other life skills as she pleased. Moreover, there were certain events that would happen on certain days. For example, on Chinese new year the disciples would have to visit their master, and the master would quiz the yer during the moon festival, and would even get prizes when they got it right. The master would give the main character tasks during training, such as visiting someone, participating in ceremonies, or to fight against enemies. The character was then returned to exploring the map after epting these tasks. The yer would visit ces like Shaolin Temple, Wudang Mountain and Hangzhou City and would meet other warriors through certain interactions. Moreover, thebat system really intrigued Lin Xue. Thebat system was chess-like which wasn¡¯t anything new. But Lin Xue was shocked that Chen Mo managed to perfectly incorporate all the Wugong she previously learnt into thebat. Neiggong were passive attacks, and leveling that up can increase the energy of the character, and some of the special effects of Neiggong can bebined with auto-attacks. Auto attacks or the effects of Wugong were varied. Each Wugong had a few different skills, and would either be single or multi target attacks. They also had different effects, for example punches can trigger multihits, attacking twice in one attack. Thisbat system was a bitplicated for Lin Xue¡¯s taste, but she took her time in learning new attacks and only had one Neiggong attack and a few other Wugong attacks. ¡°This game is quite interesting. It¡¯s hard to stop once you get into it!¡± eximed Lin Xue. There was also discussion in the chat. ¡°Xue is addicted...¡± ¡°Yeah, she¡¯s really focused, she was still chatting before, but she isn¡¯t talking much anymore.¡± ¡°But this game does seem really fun. There seems to be a lot of content. I didn¡¯t expect a Wuxia game to be this open world either!¡± ¡°yeah, does seemplicated. I¡¯m amazed they included arts into the game!¡± ¡°I wanna try, is there a download?¡± ¡°Nope, it¡¯s not released yet. You can only y it in Chen Mo¡¯s experience store.¡± ¡°Xue is so stupid, I wanna y in her ce!¡± Chapter 145 - Chapter 144: Theme Song

Chapter 145: Chapter 144: Theme Song

Wulin Legend¡¯s ytime depended on their yers. Higher skilled yers ying through the game just for the story might take thirty odd hours, but a less skilled yer wanting to get either the good or evil endings would probably require over thirty hours. If the yers wanted to experience all the endings and the different branches in the quests, or even wanting toplete all the quests in Luoyang city before meeting their master, the number of hours would be a whole different story. For someonepletely new like Lin Xue who didn¡¯t have any strategy in mind would probably take a few tries before they got an ending rting to being the head of the league. Of course she didn¡¯t know that was going to happen, she was just highly focused on the game,pletely forgetting to gank Chen Mo. -Zen Entertainment- Yao Yu Was still preparing an advertising document for Tale of the Sword. ¡°Yes, include a few more exciting shots into this cinematic. And thebat system as well, put more emphasis on the cooler spells. The colors are too dark for this one, redo it or increase saturation or brightness. And this one...¡± The advertising was just to make the yers feel excited about the game through posters or videos. Yao Yu had done this many times and had a good idea of what to do. At this moment, one of his assistants informed him, ¡°There¡¯s news on Chen Mo¡¯s new game, it¡¯s a Wuxia game!¡± Yao Yu was shocked, ¡°Wuxia? That means he¡¯s joining thepetition too?¡± The assistant nodded, ¡°Must be, why would he go through the effort of making a game with such a weak theme otherwise?¡± ¡°Is there a video?¡± asked Yao Yu. Yao Yu was actually quite nervous upon hearing that Chen Mo was also participating. Yao Yu wouldn¡¯t bat an eye if it was any other B-grade videogame designer. You do you. It¡¯s a Wuxia theme too, where many see it as a theme destined to fail, you¡¯d be digging your own grave. But Chen Mo was different, that guy seemed to have some mystical powers. He dabbles with games others wouldn¡¯t even think of doing, and seeds at that, Yao Yu didn¡¯t dare underestimate him. The assistant handed over the phone that had a few clips of Wulin Legend that were posted by fans. Chen Mo didn¡¯t try and hide it either as it didn¡¯t matter if the other designers saw it. The cutoff wasing and the game was mostlyplete. There was no time for the other designers to copy it even if they wanted too. Yao Yu didn¡¯t feel the need to want to copy it as Tale of the Sword was also at itsst stages, it wouldn¡¯t make sense to make big changes to it now. He just wanted to understand Chen Mo¡¯s new game by watching the video. Yao Yu scowled as he spent nearly ten minutes watching over all the clips. ¡°A huge map with a development mode? What is this? It¡¯s so weird,¡± Yao Yu was a bit shocked. Wulin Legend was very content rich, the yers might not even understand the extent of it by ying it themselves, even less so by watching a few short clips. Yao Yu watched it one more time and decided that Wulin Legend¡¯spetitiveness muste from its ystyle. Other than that, there wasn¡¯t much else he could make out. ¡°What do you think we should do?¡± asked the assistant. Yao Yu replied after some thought, ¡°Apply for more money for advertising, I want the whole world to know! His game is probably heavily reliant on the game mechanics. The new yers will find it difficult to get into because of how much content there is. We¡¯ll y the advertising game this time, as long as the yers are on our side, there¡¯s no way his game will get popr.¡± The assistant nodded, ¡°Understood!¡±¡± Although the results were decided by the judges, sales and the reviews of the yers are also taken into the consideration. If there was a game that the judges felt alright but it had terrible sales, it would more likely than not affect their decision. Yao Yu¡¯s thought process was correct. yers would find it difficult to learn Wulin Legend because of all its innovations, and the gamecked advertisingpared to Tale of the Sword. If they overwhelmed Wulin Legend in terms of advertising, they would be more than likely to take first ce. Yao Yu also had an idea of Chen Mo¡¯s ns. He didn¡¯t like to spend too much money on advertising, therefore Yao Yu was confident that as long as he can secure good reviews from the fans early on to drive up the sales, he¡¯d win for sure. Even if Wulin Legend gains poprityter? The judging would be over! ¡ª Chen Mo wasn¡¯t in the experience store today. He was chatting with Guo Feng in Dazzling Aurora Studio. ¡°How is it? Did you find the singer? I¡¯m not paying if I¡¯m not happy with it,¡± said Chen Mo. Guo Fengughed, ¡°Don¡¯t worry, you still don¡¯t trust me after working together for so long? But the cinematics you¡¯re making this time are so simple, when are you going to make more big works like Warcraft?¡± Chen Mo rolled his eyes, ¡°You wish! Are you depending on me to keep your huge studio alive? Furthermore, there are still some cinematics for Warcraft that aren¡¯t done yet!¡± ¡°Don¡¯t worry, they are working hard on it,¡± assured Guo Feng. Chen Mo waved his hand, ¡°That¡¯s fine. Since we¡¯ve been working together for so long, there¡¯s no need to speak in a roundabout manner. I¡¯m telling you that this song is very important to my new game, you have to understand that.¡± Guo Feng patted his own chest reassuring Chen Mo, ¡°Of course. The recording studio, orchestra, singer are all the best of the best. Of course it might be a stretch to get a big star like you asked, but right now all the singers I¡¯m looking at are the best in their field. Singing shouldn¡¯t be a problem.¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Alright. The lyrics and melody are done. If the singer is terrible, all I can do is ask some huge star.¡± ¡°Sure, it¡¯s your song, you make the call! You aren¡¯tcking money anyways, hiring a huge star shouldn¡¯t be a problem,¡± jested Guo Feng. Chen Mo waved his hand, ¡°What¡¯s going on, I feel like you¡¯ve been speaking sweeter and sweetertely. Alright, that¡¯s it for now, update me whenever there¡¯s something new.¡± Guo Feng urged Chen Mo to stay, ¡°They are recording right now. Just sit still for a bit and it should be sent over soon.¡± Guo Feng received a music file after fifteen or so minutes. ¡°Alright, it¡¯s done. Have a listen and see if you¡¯re happy with it. If you aren¡¯t we¡¯ll just get him to do it again,¡± said Guo Feng as he handed headphones over to Chen Mo. Chen Mo gave it a few listens. Chen Mo shook his head as he took off the headphones, ¡°It¡¯s no good.¡± Guo Feng was shocked, ¡°No good? What¡¯s no good?¡± ¡°Everything, get someone else.¡± Guo Feng was confused, was there a need to change the singer? Guo Feng had listened to it a few times. Although his main focus was animations and didn¡¯t have much knowledge in music, he had listened to many starting and ending themes of many animations in his many years in the industry, and could tell the difference between good and bad. Guo Feng would¡¯ve rated this song at the top. The lyrics and melody was provided by Chen Mo, there was also a professionalposer involved, so none of this should be a problem. That means Chen Mo wasn¡¯t happy with the singing. But the singers Guo Feng reached out too were the best of the best, so their skills weren¡¯t a problem. Any better than that, they would have to resort to stars. Was there a need for so much effort just for a theme song of a game? ¡°You think this guy isn¡¯t good enough of a singer?¡± asked Guo Feng. Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Yeah, far from my expectations.¡± Guo Feng wiped the seat off his forehead, ¡°But.. If you keep going higher, we¡¯ll be looking at A ranked singers. But from the looks of it, you need the best of that too?¡± ¡°Yes, can you do that?¡± Guo Feng cleared his throat, ¡°I could, but just the managers of those singers, and we¡¯ll probably pay market rate. But you have to know that it¡¯s going to be a huge sum of money, do you really need to invest that much into the theme of a videogame? ¡°Of course. Alright, just help me look for one. Ideally it would be someone that has done songs of simr themes like Wuxia or Xianxia. Someone who sounds authentically Chinese, someone that sounds really elegant. I don¡¯t want someone who is popr in their niche, I want a singing juggernaut.¡± Guo Feng nodded, ¡°Alright, you¡¯re paying after all. I¡¯ll see what I can do.¡± ¡ª Recording studio, Huaxiang Recording Company, Hong Kong. Zhou Yifeng had been dealing with some problems. He had been doing quite well recently as the most popr male singer under Huaxiang Records. But had been troubled by his new album. He had done most of his songs for his album, but his main song for his album hadn¡¯t surfaced. Zhou Yifeng was one of the better singers. He looked pretty average but was a good singer, a singer-songwriter at that, helping propel his poprity in China. But singer-songwriters would often encounter inspiration droughts. He hadn¡¯t released anything amazing in the past two years. He could still stay afloat through his previous songs, but it wasn¡¯t a long term n. Because of how saturated the market was, the spotlightes and goes. They might be reced after a year of not releasing albums, and he might be nearing retirement if he maintained two years without one. The manager walked up to him, ¡°Hey Yifeng, there¡¯s someone from China who asked you to sing a song, a high price.¡± Zhou Yifeng scowled, ¡°I thought I told you, I¡¯m not doing anything before the album is released. You don¡¯t need to tell me about performances like these in the future.¡± The manager shook their head, ¡°It¡¯s not a performance. A gamingpany is making a theme song and already wrote the lyrics. They just want you to sing.¡± Zhou Yifeng was a bit angered, ¡°I don¡¯t have time for that either. I¡¯m still preparing for the new album, reject it.¡± The manager said with some hesitation, ¡°But I¡¯ve heard the song, I rmend you to make that decision after you listen to it.¡± Chapter 146 - Chapter 145: Im Buying This Song!

Chapter 146: Chapter 145: I¡¯m Buying This Song!

Zhou Yifeng was shocked, ¡°Huh, is decent?¡± The manager nodded, ¡°Yep, the lyrics and melody have been sent by them. They got a normal singer to do it but their client wasn¡¯t happy, which was why they reached out to us.¡± Zhou Yifeng was conflicted, he wanted to decline it, but he thought it was worth a listen after the manager praised it. It was normal for dramas, movies and even games to get a star to sing their theme song. In Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, Asura had Albert Leung to write the lyrics, and Eason Chan to perform it, dramatically increasing the clout of the game. But all in all, most video gamepanies wouldn¡¯t be able to afford stars, nor is there a need for it. Most of the time they were hired just to create a talking point. Zhou Yifeng didn¡¯t want to take the offer upon hearing it was from a videogamepany. Video Gamespanies were probably not going to write their own lyrics, and it wouldn¡¯t be too good even if they got a professional to do it, the vast majority of it wouldn¡¯t get past Zhou Yifeng. If the lyrics weren¡¯t good, it would more or less be an ad deal, using his poprity to get the game famous, not benefitting him at all. But since the manager said the song was decent and the money was good, Zhou Yifeng decided to give three minutes of his day to listen to it before making judgements. Zhou Yifeng grabbed the headphones. The opening was pretty good, the melody was great too. Zhou Yifeng was pleasantly surprised. Zhou Yifeng was even more surprised upon hearing the lyrics. ¡°My sword, where does it go, love and hate are hard toe by.¡± ¡°My sword, pierces the sky, can¡¯t tell the difference between right and wrong.¡± ¡°I¡¯m drunk, can¡¯t open my eyes, gratitude and hatrede and go.¡± ¡°I awake, it¡¯s all a dream, thoughts of life and death are gone.¡± These lines seemed simple, yet they were filled with Wuxia¡¯s spirit! No matter the violence or the romance, these lines perfectly conveyed those feelings. Not only that, they even fully conveyed the feelings of warriors going on solo adventures and drunk martial artists! The song entered its climax with a transition. ¡°Thingse and go, it¡¯s sad we can¡¯t meet again.¡± ¡°Love and hatrede and go by the wind.¡± ¡°Augh, a sigh, a life of happiness, a life of sorrow!¡± ¡°Who will live and die with me?¡± ¡°Who will live and die with me?¡± Zhou Yifeng could feel his blood boiling and his hands shaking. He could barely contain himself as he wanted to scream from excitement! Zhou Yifeng could clearly recite the climax of the song just from listening to it once. The song was too good! Zhou Yifeng listened to the song again, this time at a higher volume! There wasn¡¯t much difficulty in terms of singing. There weren¡¯t high notes or transposes, making it seem like anybody could do it, but at the same time, it felt like no ordinary person could perform it. Zhou Yifeng was really excited from the song, but he could tell that the singer couldn¡¯t do the song justice at all. Although the singer was trying their best to convey the feelings of the song, they just couldn¡¯t do it. Zhou Yifeng guessed that this must¡¯ve been the reason to get another singer! This song wasn¡¯t rugged nor soft, not masculine or feminine. If one could only use one word to describe it, it would be elegant. Therefore, in order to convey the feelings of solo adventures, personal drunkenness, and living and dying together required singing in a carefree, elegant tone, but the tone couldn¡¯t be too casual. Zhou Yifeng got more and more emotional as he listened, asking the manager, ¡°Quick, let them know that I¡¯ll do it. Ask them how much the rights to the song are, I¡¯ll buy it!¡± ¡ª Guo Feng called Chen Mo. ¡°I have two good news, which one do you want to hear first?¡± asked Guo Feng. Chen Mo didn¡¯t reply. Guo Feng continued, ¡°The first good news is that Zhou Yifeng really likes the song and agreed to perform it. The second is that Zhou Yifeng really likes the song and wants to discuss buying the rights to the song.¡± Chen Mo replied, ¡°Oh, I¡¯m not selling the rights.¡± Guo Feng was speechless. He thought Chen Mo would be ecstatic, but he rejected it without any thought! Chen Mo would need to spend so much money just to get Zhou Yifeng to perform it, but it would be a two way rtionship since Zhou Yifeng liked the song and wanted to buy it. It could even fetch a good price and make Chen Mo money in return. But Chen Mo didn¡¯t even care? Guo Feng said, ¡°... Hold on, they are quite serious about this. They aren¡¯t just buying the song, they¡¯re adding it to their album and will give you a share of the profits.¡± ¡°Is there a difference?¡± asked Chen MO. ¡°A portion of the profits will be much more than just buying the song, it¡¯s apletely different magnitude.¡± Chen Mo replied, ¡°So no matter if they were just buying the song or giving me a cut, it¡¯s still about money right?¡± Guo Feng nodded, ¡°Yes, it¡¯s about money.¡± Chen Mo flipped the question, ¡°Do you think I¡¯m someone whocks money?¡± Guo Feng was speechless, ¡°... No.¡± ¡°Then why would I want to sell it?¡± ¡°What are you going to do with it if you aren¡¯t going to sell it, it¡¯s not going to reproduce!¡± ¡°I like the song, and I like having it.¡± replied Chen Mo. Guo Feng felt helpless, replying after some thought, ¡°There¡¯s also one thing, Zhou Yifeng said it¡¯s going to be the main song of the album. He¡¯s pretty well known in China, so when this song bes popr, it¡¯s going to draw attention to your game too right?¡± ¡°That¡¯s true. Alright, I¡¯ll consider selling it to him, if I¡¯m happy with his singing.¡± ¡°Alright, I¡¯ve sent you his manager¡¯s phone number, you guys can do ahead and discuss. We¡¯ll get someone else if you aren¡¯t happy with it. But there really aren¡¯t many other male singers that are as good or better than him in China, hope he¡¯s good enough. ¡ª The two of them finally reached an agreement after some back and forth. Chen Mo sold the rights to the song to Zhou Yifeng and agreed to get a portion of the sales of the album as payment. Chen Mo didn¡¯t try to fight for the rates as both parties benefited from this. Zhou Yifeng got a good song, and Chen Mo got a good promotion. In his previous life, A Life of Fighting is but a Dream was sung by Emil Chau, and just like Unforgettable Scripture[1], they were ssic Wuxia themed songs. Chen Mo also liked Unforgettable Scripture, but it would¡¯ve been a bit weird to have it as Wulin Legend¡¯s theme song as it was in Cantonese, which was why he settled with Life of Fighting is but a Dream in Mandarin. Chen Mo had been thinking long and hard since the early stages of the game on how to get more attention into his game. He couldn¡¯t make cinematics or animations like he did before because of the different themes as Wuxia had a strong focus on the setting rather than certain images. This was the reason why Chen Mo decided to settle on a theme song. Only time could tell if the yers would find it eptable. TL note: Not the official name of the song that was sung in Cantonese, but its called ÄÑÄîµÄ¾­ if you¡¯re interested in looking it up. Life of Fighting is but a Dream is the official English name of the song. Chapter 147 - Chapter 146: Pre Sales Promotion

Chapter 147: Chapter 146: Pre Sales Promotion

On Lin Xue¡¯s screen. Beggar ¡°After failing to defeat the Cult of the Sky Dragon and taking heavy damage, you awake from a months long slumber. ¡°As you awake, you feel like you¡¯re living in apletely different timeline. The Dragon King defeated the masters of the ins, bing the leader of the guild. ¡°You¡¯ve lost all of your ability to fight, rendering youpletely useless. Anyone who opposed the evil were either killed or imprisoned, it was everybody for themselves. ¡°You managed to escape the Dragon King, but your life fell into disarray. You were in poverty with nowhere to go, begging as you wandered, till the end of your life. There was an image of a skinny beggar curled up at the corner of the wall, with eyes full of discontent. ¡°What! How? What is this game!¡± Lin Xue was so angry she was about to explode. She had yed the games for three days, but whenever she lost a key battle, she was met with the end of the game. The main character bes a beggar. Other games would usually tell the yers to try harder, or ¡®everyone has to deal with victory and defeat¡¯, and would prompt the user to start again from thest save. But this game turned the game over screen into an ending, making the yer feel more immersed. Lin Xue was on the verge of breaking down. The main character was ordered to gather the Shalins, Warriors and beggars to band together before the cultists invaded. But Lin Xue died before she could even gather all of them. She didn¡¯t have a chance to see the subsequent scenes of the martial arts meeting, election, and fighting against the cults! Lin Xue felt really bad as her three days of hard work resulted in such a pathetic ending. It was incredibly embarrassing for someone like Lin Xue who self-proimed as an experienced standalone game yer! At this moment, someone behind Lin Xue said, ¡°Tsk tsk, the beggar ending huh?¡± Lin Xue turned around to find Chen Mo behind her. Who knows how long he had been there for, he even had a smug grin on his face. Lin Xue stood up, ¡°Ah! Aren¡¯t you Chen Mo! I¡¯ve waited for you for a few days. Why haven¡¯t you shown up?¡± Chen Mo was shocked, ¡®What do you mean? Although I¡¯ve been heading about quite a bit the past few days, I¡¯ve spent most of my time in the experience store. Maybe you¡¯ve never noticed me because of how focused you were on the game?¡± Lin Xue was shocked, ¡®Uhh... maybe.¡± Lin Xue then suddenly asked, ¡°Tell me the strategy! This game is so difficult I¡¯m about to rip my hair out!¡± ¡°What strategy? It¡¯s it more fun when you figure it out yourself? Keep going at it, I have high expectations of you.¡± replied Chen Mo before leaving. Leaving behind the angry Lin Xue. The chat started moving again. ¡°My goodness, we finally caught Chen Mo!¡± ¡°He¡¯s so punchable! As punchable as always! Xue, punch me for me!¡± ¡°Keep going at it? That¡¯s it?¡± ¡°I think he intentionally made the game hard! Screw that guy!¡± ¡°Don¡¯t be mad, Xue. Keep going at it, you can do it!¡± ¡°That¡¯s just how he always is huh. He¡¯s so irritating.¡± Lin Xue took onest angry look at Chen Mo¡¯s silhouette before restarting the game. ¡ª Thepanies were working hard to finish their game as the end date edges ever so close. It didn¡¯t take long before leaks started appearing. Wuxia and Xianxia themes never garnered much interest, but because it was a pretty big deal this time, yers were treating this as drama. The game most looked forward must¡¯ve been Zen Entertainment¡¯s Tale of the Sword. The yers were really excited after seeing some leaked test footage and gamey. Tale of the Sword was a standalone Xianxia game. The setting of the game was rted to Legend of the Sword, this way they could gain some advantage off their own IP. There wasn¡¯t much to say in terms of art, the scenes were beautiful, the models were really high quality, essentially the best of the best in terms of quality. Tale of the Sword featured a rich turned basedbat. It included many different treasures, items, and monsters. The game could¡¯ve been made into an RTS game, but Yao Yu decided to settle on turn basedbat. RTS games were mainstream among online games because of how fast paced it was. Turn based games required ces to spend time thinking about every decision, drastically slowing down the pace of the game, and the majority of yers wouldn¡¯t be patient enough to wait. But turned basedbat has it advantage in standalone games. yers weren¡¯t rushed and could spend as much time as they needed to consider all the possible moves. And at the same time, it was much easier for the designer to control enemy locations, difficulty of levels,bat system, and the pace of the game. In Chen Mo¡¯s previous world, RTS games could¡¯ve been done in the early days of Sword Heroes Fate. The problem was that arge portion of the yer base were girls or people who were terrible at games. The joy of gaming for this audience was exploration, collecting, and solving problems, the satisfaction ofbat wasn¡¯t important to them. Thereforeter standalone games like The Legend of Sword and Fairy decided on turned basedbat after considering the risk and return. This was also to satisfy the judges. Chen Mo could¡¯ve made an RTS game too, but because of how unique of a game Wulin Legend was, changing it to an RTS game would require a major overhaul of the game. Moreover, the skills and damage effects would also need to be overhauled. There wasn¡¯t a need to do that, especially when the judges might not even like it. He could consider using arge scale real timebat when he would release a Wuxia RPG game in the future. That¡¯s why Chen Mo and Yao Yu both chose to use turned basedbat. The main attraction for Tale of the Sword was its story as the game was developed by one of the main developers and writers to Legend of the sword. Although these games were made to please the judges, the thoughts of the yers were also part of the consideration. Therefore, Zen Entertainment went all out with advertising. The ads for Tale of the Sword were all over video game media, adspaces of various websites, Weibo, and even all major forums. Questions like ¡°How should I rate Zen Entertainment¡¯s new game, Tale of the Sword¡± were also at the top of some Q&A sites, with a few answers that have been prepared beforehand receiving almost eight thousand upvotes. There was also a lot of discussion among yers. ¡°What¡¯s wrong with Zen Entertainment? Why do I see ads for Tale of the Sword even when I¡¯m on the train/¡± ¡°They really are spending a lot to get first ce!¡± ¡°Yao Yu is overlooking the whole process, the story must be decent!¡± ¡°I¡¯m even getting ads in my friend group, I¡¯m impressed.¡± ¡°Isn¡¯t Chen Mo making one too? What¡¯s his new game? Howe I haven¡¯t heard of it?¡± ¡°Yeah, didn¡¯t someone say that Chen Mo was also making a Chinese themed standalone game? Howe I haven¡¯t seen any ads?¡± ¡°It¡¯s not like you don¡¯t know how little Chen Mo likes to spend on advertising.¡± ¡°How is he going topete with Zen Entertainment! Even if it was good, nobody is going to notice!¡± ¡°Geez, maybe Chen Mo is confident in his game. But I feel like he¡¯s going to fail this time!¡± The yers were hypothesising that Zen Entertainment have the first ce in the bag after spending so much money. Zen Entertainment had the most experience in Xianxia theme afterall, and knowing the tastes of the judges, it would be very difficult for anyone else to contend. But before the dust had even settled on this matter, another Weibo started huge waves. Chen Mo posted, ¡°Have a listen to the theme song for my new game, Wulin Legend titled A Life of Fighting is but a Dream. Of course I wouldn¡¯t tell you Zhou Yifeng sang it.¡± There was a link following the Weibo to listen to it. The yers were shocked, what is he ying at? Zhou Yifeng? That¡¯s a huge star, the best of the best in singing! The gamey for Chen Mo¡¯s Wulin Legend had already been leaked. Many of Lin Xue¡¯s viewers have seen the game since Lin Xue had been streaming it for so long. But how much influence did Lin Xue have? Most of the yers have only heard that it was a Wuxia game, having no idea what kind of game Wulin Legend was. Many thought that Chen Mo would treat this like other video gamepanies, making a game that would please the Game Committee members and not putting too much effort into it, which was why they haven¡¯t paid attention. But when this Weibo was released, they realised how much money Chen Mo had invested into this! The yers who thought Chen Mo wouldn¡¯t spend much money on advertising ate their words immediately, if this wasn¡¯t spending big bucks, what was? Asking Zhou Yifeng to perform was much more expensive than doing ads! That¡¯s a lot of effort! Chapter 148 - Chapter 147: This Song is Pretty Good, Who Wrote It?

Chapter 148: Chapter 147: This Song is Pretty Good, Who Wrote It?

¡°It seems like Chen Mo is quite rich now, his effort into games seems more and more impressive!¡± ¡°I take it back, this guy isn¡¯t one who cheaps out on promoting his game, he nned this out extensively!¡± ¡°I feel like he¡¯s back to making good games ever since he made Warcraft. Look at this game, he even got Zhou Yifeng to perform the theme song. He has a good heart!¡± ¡°Maybe he didn¡¯t buy it using money...¡± ¡°It¡¯s fine even if he did spend the money, otherpanies wouldn¡¯t spend it like this.¡± ¡°I¡¯ll give it a listen! Zhou Yifeng is singing, the song can¡¯t be that bad right?¡± Zhou Yifeng also posted a Weibo not long after Chen Mo¡¯s. ¡°Main song for my new album A Life of Fighting is but a Dream is now avable for listening! This song is made in partnership with Mr Chen Mo from Thunderbolt Entertainment. Also, keep an eye out for his new game Wulin Legend. It¡¯s a Wuxia game that is very traditional, the game is great too!¡± Everyone was shocked to see that Weibo! Zhou Yifeng promoted the song himself too! There were people who were saying that Chen Mo bought the song, but if that was true, why would Zhou Yifeng go through the effort of promoting Chen Mo? Moreover, the song was used as the featured song in his album, meaning that Zhou Yifeng was happy with the song too! Many yers who didn¡¯t care about this started listening to the song on the basis of that Weibo. And they realised after one listen that the song was really good! Soon, the discussion of the song in thements under Weibo and music streaming websites started appearing, and poprity of the song was steadily increasing! ¡°This song is great! It sounds really heroic and clean. It fits the Wuxia theme really well! It would most certainly be a ssic if it were to be a theme of a Wuxia TV show!¡± ¡°I feel like I¡¯m in a Wuxia world where every action has to do with gratitude and revenge!¡± ¡°My wine, my knife!¡± ¡°This is what Wuxia should feel like!¡± ¡°Wuxia songs are all elegant and majestic, making the listener feel like they are in the battle. This song wasn¡¯t as hoarse as the other ones, but manages to convey the emotions of Wuxia through and through!¡± ¡°I just want to be in a Wuxia world fighting, I don¡¯t wanna do homework...¡± ¡°There are four doctors in a phyciatric ward, oneughs everyday, one sighs everyday, one is jolly everyday, and thest is sad everyday. The patients call them: Doctor Laugh, Doctor Sigh, Doctor Jolly, and Doctor Depressed.¡± The song hit the top three songs of the day in no time with the help of the fans, and showed no signs of stopping! Everyone was wondering, who could this song be written by? Many thought that Zhou Yifeng wrote it himself as he was a singer-songwriting who had written many memorable songs in the past. Others thought that didn¡¯t make sense as Zhou Yifeng did songs that focused on love in the past, none of them had anything to do with Wuxia! Moreover, the lyrics for A Life of Fighting is but a Dream required the expertise of someone with deep knowledge in Wuxia and strong literary skills. This didn¡¯t fit Zhou Yifeng. Zhou Yifeng released another Weibo following the other post. ¡°There are many wondering who wrote the song. The lyrics and melody are written andposed by Mr Chen Mo. I¡¯m sorry I didn¡¯t specify that earlier.¡± Huh? Chen Mo wrote this? Chen Mo canpose too? ¡°Really? Chen Mo canpose? Why can¡¯t I believe that!¡± ¡°Are you stupid? All the music for Warcraft wasposed by Chen Mo, the story was also managed by Chen Mo. Do you think he didn¡¯t have the music skills or the literary skills?¡± ¡°But this is Wuxia themed!¡± ¡°Yhea, and he made a Wuxia game. Would he make one if he had no knowledge in this?¡± ¡°I¡¯m really impressed, Wuxia is also part of his resume?¡± ¡°I n to y this game now. If this was actually written by Chen Mo, he must really understand the idea and emotions behind Wuxia, this game might be extraordinary!¡± Following the poprity of this song, Zhou Yifeng¡¯s new album and Wulin Legend gained plenty of poprity too! Zen Entertainment¡¯s advertising department was shocked. They spent so much money and effort to put out this many ads thinking that the victory was in their hands, but Chen Mo came out of nowhere with this?? It would¡¯ve been fine if it was only Zhou Yifeng singing the song, but the song sounds so good and was so popr too! My goodness! ¡ª Inside the experience store, Qian Kun was ying Wulin Legend and singing, ¡°Thingse and go, where can we meet again...¡± ¡°Please stop singing...¡± begged Zheng Hongxi. ¡°You even got the lyrics wrong!¡±ined Su Jinyu. ¡°Can someone save my ears...¡± pleaded Wen Lingwei. Even Chen Mo was starting to get annoyed, ¡°You sing the song of death. They take money when they sing, but you take lives!¡± Even Lin Xue wasining as she was ying, ¡°Please stop, my followers are threatening to unfollow!¡± Qian Kun was bothered, ¡°Is it really that bad?¡± Su Jinyu replied, ¡°I don¡¯t understand how you could sing a song with such a simple melody so badly.¡± ¡°I¡¯m going to y the original version to cleanse everyone¡¯s ears...¡± said Chen Mo. The experience store was filled with A Life of Fighting is but a Dream sung by Zhou Yifeng through the speakers. ¡°This song is really good. Everytime I listen to it, I feel like I¡¯m about to grab my sword and head on the road.¡± said Zheng Hongxi. ¡°Yeah, I think only someone like Zhou Yifeng can sing this song so well,¡± added Qian Kun. ¡°The other singers that have no skills and all personality would never be able to make it sound so elegant.¡± ¡°So many people didn¡¯t believe it when the manager posted that Weibo, they thought he bought the song. But not only did he not spend money, he¡¯s even earning from it...¡± said Wen Lingwei. ¡°The manager is capable of doing everything. I¡¯m entirely impressed,¡± expressed Su Jinyu. ¡°Sit down, sit down. It¡¯s nothing much.¡± said Chen Mo. ¡°Alright, we¡¯ve gotten plenty of publicity and attention, and the game is more or less done. You guys can take a break and we¡¯ll wait till we release the game.¡± ¡ª A bunch of Chinese themed games went online at the end of the month. There were many mobile games and some PC games, and most of them were standalone games. Evidently, most of them were trying to catch the heart of the Game Committee, and joined just for a chance at the prize. Although it was a political exercise, there were many games that were actually good as the Game Committee has really specific tastes, a scammy game would ever have a chance. yers knew that although there were many games, there were only two games that stood a chance at first ce, Zen Entertainment¡¯s Tale of the Sword and Thunderbolt Entertainment¡¯s Wulin Legend. yers and members of the Game Committee were all downloading these games. Themittee members in particr paid much more attention to these games than the average yer. But in the grand scheme of things, Chinese games weren¡¯t as good as overseas games. There were also Chinese themed games, but they were never fully explored and developed. Who knows if there will be a high quality timeless ssic among these Chinese themed games? Chapter 149 - Chapter 148: The Game Has That Many Endings?

Chapter 149: Chapter 148: The Game Has That Many Endings?

¨CGame and Virtual Reality Committee¨C Video games in this world weren¡¯t governed by the National Radio and Television Administration, but the Game Committee. They might seem like they perform simr tasks, but they were actually very different. The National Radio and Television Administration focused on reviewing games, picking out violent, sexual, or otherwise riding on legal loopholes would be filtered and developers would be asked to make amendments. But the Game Committee did much more than that. The reviewing process in this world had a tiered system and overall much looser restrictions. Many violent games are allowed, and the changes required might only include changing the age restriction. Moreover, the Game Committee¡¯s main purpose wasn¡¯t to screen games, but to control and regte the gaming industry to allow the gaming and virtual reality technology to be developed better. Normally the Game Committee would never differentiate games based on how profitable they were, and would never give a game an upper hand just because they were more profitable. The Game Committee cared more about innovative games, and would help genres that were struggling. AT the same thing, they would also provide support and guidance for anything rted to virtual reality. The Game Committee was currently in a meeting going through the judging process of the event. As there were a lot of games, the games went through a preselection before having the opportunity to be reviewed. Moreover, the judges could never be able to y all the games from start to finish. The designers prepared tools to allow them to make changes to the attributes and story branches. The games with a moreplicated story were even required to deliver a script. ¡°We can consider the other prizester, but the first ce is between Tale of the Sword and Wulin Legend, anyone else have opposing opinions?¡± asked the host of the meeting. ¡°No problem,¡± replied the other members. ¡°Alright, then let¡¯s discuss which game is better deserving of first ce.¡± ¡ª As the Game Committee members were discussing, the yers were also downloading the game and ying it. Tale of the Sword and Wulin Legend were essentially neck to neck in terms of their promotion which was why they had most of the attention. ¡°Which one do you think is going to win?¡± ¡°I think Tale of the Sword? Zen Entertainment is really good at themes like these and have mastered both story and gamey. If they do it seriously, it must be really good.¡± ¡°But Tale of the Sword made no innovations.¡± ¡°How do you innovate? There have been so many Chinese themed games, and the ones who try and innovate fail miserably. Tale of the Sword is basically the best format for these games, you¡¯re just shooting yourself in the foot if you make changes to it!¡± ¡°But this format has been overdone. The core of the game is always the same, and the only thing that changed is the story. What¡¯s the point of a game if they all y out to be the same? If I¡¯m just here for the story, I may as well read a novel or watch TV!¡± ¡°I¡¯ll try out Wulin Legend. Chen Mo seems quite genuine. And I haven¡¯t seen a Wuxia game for a long time, I should support it!¡± ¡°Yeah, I¡¯m supporting it just because of the theme song!¡± ¡ª In forums within groups, the yers were discussing the design and story of both of these games. ¡°Tale of the Sword¡¯s story is so good! I cried going through that!¡± ¡°Yeah, the ending made me feel so sad, but the story is so good!¡± ¡°Friends who were ying Wulin Legend, how is it going?¡± ¡°Oh, I¡¯m still running around doing quests, I feel like I¡¯m going to y it a second time....¡± ¡°Why, is that game that fun? Is it worth ying multiple times?¡± ¡°No, it¡¯s because I don¡¯t think I can beat it in one ythrough...¡± ¡°What skills did you guys pick? What am I supposed to do? I¡¯m kind of confused...¡± ¡°I¡¯ve done most of the quests now, I can only say that it¡¯s reallyplicated!¡± ¡°I have a notebook beside me when I¡¯m ying this game, jotting down notes as I went. I have more than a dozen pages in notes now...¡± ¡°Really? Is it that crazy? Even if a game has some puzzle elements, it can¡¯t be ten pages worth of notes right?¡± ¡°Then you can write in on some toilet paper...¡± ¡°You guys will know once you y it. This game makes me feel dumb.¡± ¡°I heard there¡¯s already a strategy by a tester from the experience store. Yeah, a streamer named Lin Xue waas streaming the game, I heard they¡¯ve gotten two of the endings already.¡± ¡°What does that mean, is there a third ending?¡± ¡°Three? Hehe, Chen Mo himself said that there are nearly ten endings.¡± ¡°Huh? Ten?!¡± ¡°Yeah, and the ones Lin Xue got were the good and evil endings. The main character defeats all the good masters and was chosen as the leader of the guild, defeating the cultists at the end. In the evil ending, the main character joins the cult and exterminates all the different types of martial arts before finally killing the cultist leader to be the dictator.¡± ¡°Really? Evil ending? My goodness, it¡¯s my first time hearing such unorthodox endings in a Wuxia game! But I like it! ¡°Am I ying the same game as you guys? Why was I defeated by chickens in the first vige and obtained the title ¡®Chicken Warrior¡¯?¡± ¡°Geez, stop mentioning that. I saw Lin Xue get the evil ending on her stream and it¡¯s crazy. I won¡¯t spoil it any further, so if you wanna know you¡¯ll have to watch it yourself. I¡¯ll just say that there is a lot of freedom given the yer, much more than everybody expects.¡± ¡°My goodness, you¡¯ve managed to reel me in. Alright I¡¯m downloading it!¡± ¡ª Wulin Legend and Tale of the Sword were both priced at fifty RMB as Chinese themed standalone games rarely went above this price. Moreover, the purpose of these games wasn¡¯t to make a profit, but for the judges. There was no point in having a higher priced game just to anger the fans. Tale of the Sword received many good reviews at the start as most yers were there for the story, leaving a good review after experiencing the entire story. But Wulin Legend had mixed reviews. The majority of them were five star reviews, but there were one and two star reviews among them. The mainint was that the game was too difficult to learn and many yers couldn¡¯t figure the game out. They would die unexpectedly in the first ythrough and were really mad. But the poprity of Tale of the Sword died down soon after as there were no innovative gamey in the game. Although the story was great, there wasn¡¯t much to talk about a few days after beating the game. Moreover, many yers noticed that the game difficulty, level design, and story were all done with the judges in mind, and the ws were easy to discover. The game was quite fun initially leaving behind a good impression, but that was as good as it got, and had nothing following that initial hihg. This game angered some fans too, you¡¯re ignoring the yers just to please the judges? On the other hand, Wulin Legend got more and more popr. There were more and more posts about it on the forums. Strategy and tutorial videos were also getting increasingly popr! Yao Yu, the designer of Tale of the Sword, was getting worried. What is wrong with Wulin Legend. Howe it didn¡¯t die down after all this time, but actually increased in poprity? Chapter 150 - Chapter 149: First Prize

Chapter 150: Chapter 149: First Prize

It didn¡¯t take long before the yers realised that Wulin Lengend¡¯s poprity was actually increasing too! Many yers yed Tale of the Sword just for the story, and after they finished that, there were few yers who would y it for a second time. But Wulin Legend was different as there were so many different storylines. yers would y three or four times and would ever y through all of it. And even taking out its story, itsbat was also quite entertaining. Swords, knives, fists, concealed weapons... the Wugong in Wulin Legend were split into many different pacts. Andbined with the different professional skills and talents, there were many differentbinations to be had! The yers that get stuck usually get stuck in the start of the game. And the yers who move past that would usually y multiple times, at least to get the good and evil endings. There were a lot of discussions of which Wugong was the best, the flow of the story, the professional skills, strategies... There was much more discussion of this game, maybe even ten times more than Tale of the Sword! The first month sales of the Chinese themed games have been released. Tale of the Sword got three hundred and twenty thousand sales, a pretty good number for Chinese game standalone games. But Wulin Legend had more than four hundred thousand sales! This number wasn¡¯t amazing as it didn¡¯t evene close to nts vs Zombies or Warcraft; ie wise it didn¡¯te close to I Am MT either. But for a Chinese made standalone game, a Wuxia themed standalone game at that, this number was excellent! It had a niche market and was a game with a political motive behind it, this sales was as good as a Wuxia game had gotten! The most important part was that yers realised that Chinese themed games still had innovations to be made. Chinese games didn¡¯t need to rely on the story to sell games, they could also make sandbox games or games that are reallyplicated. The only limiting factor are the designers. ¡ª Soon, the articles from the media were released. Best contender for first ce? Who¡¯s in the running after Wulin Legend? Hard to convey Wuxia themes? This game did it! yers discuss: Unrestricted Wuxia world! Game review: Hard to learn, rich content, unrivaled creativity! Chen Mo who always did western fantasy games proved himself to be capable of Chinese themes too! Of course there were also articles praising Tale of the Sword, but their arguments were much weaker, the heartfelt story was a point that was tossed around again and again, with not much being said about the gamey. In the end, the dust were settled by the Game Committee announcing the results of this event. Wulin Legend got first ce, with Tale of the Sword in second. Although there wasn¡¯t any boration, it was the final world. It was the same as saying Wulin Legend was the best Wuxia Game with nopetition. As the results were released, an article was released on the videogame editor congratting Wulin Legend. ¡°For a long time, Chinese standalone games have been restricted to ¡®kill monsters, gain levels, progress story¡¯, and the yers were getting bored of it. And yet designers were never inclined to reach out to better game mechanics as they continued to work on artwork and story. This made Chinese standalone games, especially Xianxia games into a genre with all looks and no personality. ¡°However, Wulin Legendpletely overhauled this mode. It¡¯s biggest positive was the amount of freedom it gave yers. The yers could pick and choose how they wanted to build their character using attributes and Wugong, and could even choose to y as good or evil. This overwhelming freedom had never been done by any other Chinese game. ¡°Although this game did have some ws such as this high initial difficulty and bad tutorials, it didn¡¯t affect its sess. It still remains as the best standalone Wuxia game bar none. ¡°Maybe the other designers in the country stand to learn something from Wulin Legend, and look deeper into innovating new ystyles and move away from the thought that changing the story is the same as making a new game.¡± This paragraph basically said that the Game Committee recognised position Wulin Legend among Chinese games, and even criticised games like Tale of the Sword who only paid attention to story and graphics,pletely ignoring gamey. In the end, Chen Mo managed to get first ce in this even, improving reputation within the videogame industry! -Inside the experience store- Su Jinyu was happily surprised, ¡°Manager, look! Wulin Legend is on the promotional spot on the first page of the official app store!¡± Chen Mo took a look, and Wulin Legend was indeed on the best possible promotional spot for a week. The effects of the promotional spot on the number of sales were secondary, the most important part was getting his name out. Furthermore, someone from the Game Committee and delivered a certificate to Chen Mo yesterday, with ¡®Traditional Cultural Themed Games Event First ce¡¯ written on it, along with a trophy, all of which were professionally given out by the officials. As it was quite a prestigious trophy, Chen Mo let Su Jinyu clear out a spot on the bookshelves within the experience store for it. ¡°There were so many people who doubted you at the start of this, saying that it was too risky. But in reality, no matter the sales or professional reviews, Wulin Legend is considered to be extremely sessful!¡± eximed Su Jinyu. ¡°I was actually quite worried at the start. I feared the yers wouldn¡¯t ept something like this, but it looks like I worried for nothing,¡± added Zheng Hongxi. Chen Mo smiled, but didn¡¯t say anything. He was really confident in Wulin Legend and saw thising from the start. As a game that had their main selling point as the story, the story of Tale of the Sword didn¡¯t evene close to the level of Chinese Pdin 1, it could only be considered as good. How could a game with all looks with no personalitypete with a ssic like Wulin Legend where yers would y for more than six years? In his previous life, Chinese games have encountered many obstacles, there were concerns with piracy, concerns with how much consumers were willing to spend, and concerns with developers and the market. But no matter what the reason was, the result was that Chinese developers strayed farther and farther away from standalone games onto pay to win games. Even when they have the funds and skills, video gamepanies weren¡¯t willing to make standalone games, which was quite sad. Chen Mo chos Wulin Legend hoped to allow yers of this world to experience a revolutionary Wuxia game, and give the Chinese standalone games a little inspiration. Chapter 151 - Chapter 150: Harvest Time

Chapter 151: Chapter 150: Harvest Time

Early in the morning in the experience store. Wen Lingwei was on the massage chair, saying as she yawned, ¡°Mr heartless manager, when are you going to update I Am MT? I feel that the yers are leaving.¡± Chen Mo was shocked, ¡°Huh? You¡¯re still ying I Am MT?¡± ¡°Yeah, I¡¯m shocked at how long senior has persevered, I ditched the game a long time ago...¡± said Jia Peng. Wen Lingwei nced at him, ¡°Unlucky people like you will never understand the fun of this game. ¡°Although Warcraft and Wulin Legend were both really fun, I still don¡¯t think it¡¯s as fun as I Am MT.¡± ¡°Yeah manager, just look at how many card games there are on the market. All of them copied off I Am MT, and the worst part is that they are doing quite well!¡± added Qian Kun. Jia Peng nodded, ¡°Yeah, the yers were angry at the start, but as more and more games appeared, high quality ones also appeared. Combined with the fact that there hasn¡¯t been an update for I Am MT for so long, the yers are all gone.¡± ¡°It can¡¯t be helped, the manager has been working on new games, he didn¡¯t have the time to update I Am MT. The most he could do is add a few cards to make it seem richer. It¡¯s not surprising that the yers are sick of it,¡± added Qian Kun. ¡°I think it¡¯s a bit sad, and I feel kind of angry that the style of game was developed by the manager first, and the others are having such an easy time making money by copying it!¡± said Wen Lingwei. Chen Moughed, asking, ¡°The currently most profitable one is Emperor Dynasty Entertainment¡¯s Demon yers right? I think it has around forty million RMB in revenue per month.¡± ¡°And that¡¯s a lot, way more than I Am MT!¡± said Qian Kun. Jia Peng also added, ¡°That can¡¯t be helped, although Demon yers were releasedyer, Emperor Dynasty Entertainment has much better distribution, much better art, and most importantly they update the game much more frequently. They¡¯d push updates every two weeks or so, I Am MT won¡¯t be able to keep up.¡± Chen Moughed, ¡°Isn¡¯t that just forty million RMB? That isn¡¯t much.¡± Qian Kun was shocked, ¡°Huh? Manger, just forty million? I¡¯m really learning how the world works by working with the manager...¡± Wen Lingwei got up, ¡°What are you suggesting? Are you saying that you¡¯re about to head back into mobile games and tell these guys how it¡¯s done?¡± Chen Moughed, ¡°Heh, you think I actually left the mobile game industry? Ain¡¯t happening. I¡¯ll remind them of the terror of scammy mobile games.¡± ¡°Wow, the manager is heading back into mobile games? Hurray!¡± Su Jinyu couldn¡¯t take it, ¡°Oh no, we¡¯re making scammy games again!¡± ¡ª It has been more than a month since I Am MT was released. Chen Mo never paid attention to the mobile mobile game industry in this as he focused all his attention onto the PC market. Warcraft in particr took a lot out of Chen Mo, taking the better half of a year just in the development. He also spent time in promoting Warcraft and developing Wulin Legend, and the best he could do was to make a few new cards, add a few events here and there. Of course, the yers of I Am MT understood, but they still eventually got bored of it, switching to other card games. I Am MT¡¯s monthly ie had fallen to around three million RMB. It had fewer active yers, but the ones who yed were all hardcore fans and incorporated daily quests into their daily routines. Games simr to I Am MT were also appearing much more often on the mobile game leaderboards, upying almost half of the leaderboards.. The first four ces of the mobile game best sellers were card games. The other videogame designers didn¡¯t copy the game exactly either. Games like Demon yers made by a bigpany had made some improvements on the game. There were more and more different types of artworks with cooler effects. There were even games that made cards into 2D models. At the same time, designers were also constantly adding to the gamey. Card games that are new on the market are much more rich in content than I Am MT. Moreover, Demon yers have realised the importance of IP and updating frequently, and through these points, Demon yers were able to rise to the top, taking the first ce of the mobile best sellers leaderboard. It had been so long since I Am MT was released, and developers had examined every inch of it, and now understood fully why the game was so profitable. Moreover, card games were easy to make. A bigpany like Emperor Dynasty Entertainment could make a new one every two to three months without much effort. And if they listen to the feedback of the yers and make changes ordingly, it wouldn¡¯t be hard to make a sessful card game. Many video game designers especially B and C-grade designers of some of thergerpanies were having the of their life making huge sums of money through these card games. ¡°I heard your card game is about tounch? How is it, did you get the IP?¡± ¡°Yeah, we got it. It¡¯s an anime IP, although it¡¯s not particrly famous, it isn¡¯t bad.¡± ¡°It¡¯s fine as long as you got an IP. Just you wait, the monthly revenue is sure to surpass five million. It might even have a chance at breaking ten million if you get Emperor Dynasty Gaming tform¡¯s promotional spot. ¡°It¡¯s in the talks, but Emperor Dynasty Gaming tform wants eighty percent of the revenue. I¡¯m still thinking about it.¡± ¡°What¡¯s there to think about, you¡¯re still earning even if it¡¯s just twenty percent when the Emperor Dynasty Gaming tform is promoting your game!¡± ¡°It¡¯s true, but it still hurts.¡± ¡°Why are you hurting. You don¡¯t even have to do anything to make money through a game like this, you should be happy! By the way, we should probably all thank Chen Mo. I Am MT was indeed revolutionary. Video game designers like us who struggle to make ends meet finally found a way out, and look at where we are now.¡± ¡°We really do need to thank him for providing guidance through I Am MT. He then left to the PC market. Is this what they call doing good deeds without the credit?¡± ¡°To be honest, he really is a genius. All his PC games are really sessful too, I can¡¯t help but be impressed. But it¡¯s great that he left the mobile game industry, leaving some for the rest of us.¡± ¡°Yeah, we can do it! When I make back my money from this game, I n to get the IP of a popr novel, making it into another card game to make more money!¡± ¡ª I Am MT¡¯s release was good news for these video game designers. Before this, B and C-grade designers had to think hard and understand what the yers thought when they made a game. And even when it was released, it had a high chance of failing. But now, with the help of card games, the designers can make good money as long as they have a good IP and put some effort into copying other sessful card games. Even if it was just five million RMB a month, giving the distributors seventy to eighty percent, they would still get seven to eight hundred thousand each money, more than enough to make them happy. And the designers who couldn¡¯t secure a good IP would try and make their own IP or use another one as reference, trying their hardest to get the game to be popr outside of the game itself. There were also designers who would make changes to the gamey by including different ystyles. Nobody dared to make changes to the core gamey of I Am MT. These video game designers had no drive to innovate as they could make money just by copying afterall. Wouldn¡¯t it suck if they made a change and their game stopped being profitable? What they didn¡¯t know was that the reason Chen Mo stopped making pay to win games after I Am MT was because he was waiting for the right opportunity. The card game industry needed time to mature just like in his previous world, I Am MT had a monthly ie of fifty five million, Junior Three Kingdom had two hundred million, and Soul Hunters had three million. This wasn¡¯t just because of improvements in gamey, but also had to do with the expanding yerbase. As the number of card games increase, the number of yers would also increase. Many yers who never yed card games would be drawn into the genre by an IP they liked and be converted into a card game yer. This was a long process. It is only when the time was right and there was a sufficiently big yer base that these card games could do the unthinkable. Which was why Chen Mo was alright with the other video gamepanies copying I Am MT and making huge profits, hoping that they could expand the yers of the genre. Now the time hase, and he could finally be behind his harvest. Chapter 152 - Chapter 151: Situation of the Card Game Industry

Chapter 152: Chapter 151: Situation of the Card Game Industry

Chinese card games are a unique concept, and arepletely different from card games like Hearthstone or Magic: The Gathering Games like Soul Hunters and Onmyoji may seem to have differentbat systems and cards, but their core are simr. The so-called Chinese card games are represented by I Am MT. They stimte the yers throughbat, obtaining and training cards. The ways they materialise themselves are also constantly changing. From I Am MT¡¯s cards battling to Soul Hunters¡¯s 2D character modelsbat, to Onmyoji¡¯s full 3D turned based. Thebat may seem different but are simr at heart, all of them are known as Chinese card games. Chen Mo decided to read the reviews of the popr card games before deciding on which game to make next. -I Am MT discussion forums- ¡°I heard there¡¯s a new card game being released with a anime IP, anyone wanna y?¡± ¡°Nah I¡¯m good. There are so many simr games, aren¡¯t you tired of this format?¡± ¡°To be honest, they all feel just like I Am MT. I¡¯ve yed a few of the other games, but I alwayse back to I Am MT. I¡¯ll do the daily quests everyday, then drawing ten before calling it a day. ¡°Yeah, I think I Am MT was more fun when it first came out when it felt fresh. Now that there are so manypanies making card games, I¡¯m so sick of it.¡± ¡°It¡¯s already a miracle that this game is still making money after being copied from for a year.¡± ¡°Geez, unfortunately these designers only learn Chen Mo¡¯s way of making money and none of the innovation.¡± ¡°Yeah, although I Am MT feels like a scam, it was a revolutionary game. Chen Mo sure does have a lot of good ideas, I can¡¯t help but be impressed.¡± ¡°Unfortunately Chen Mo doesn¡¯t make mobile games anymore. Even the updates for I Am MT feel pathetic.¡± ¡°It can¡¯t be helped. Chen Mo have now moved onto PC games. He¡¯s made enough money from this and is now focused on making high quality games. Maybe he thinks it¡¯s a better path for his future.¡± ¡°Although it is a good thing, I do hope that Chen Mo makes a follow up to I Am MT.¡± ¡°I heard that there are a few video gamepanies who thought about changing the looks of their card games, who knows how it went.¡± ¡°The looks?¡± ¡°Yeah, they are moving away from cards and switching to 3D models. Thebat probably looks much better than cards.¡± ¡°Really, then I might take a look, hopefully they add something new.¡± ¡ª Chen Mo had an idea of the industry after looking through a few forums for the discussion on the more popr card games. He felt that the timing was just right and it was a turning point in the industry. The yers were starting to get bored of the first generation of card games, and the designers haven¡¯t decided on which direction to head. At the start of this, the video game designers could make money just by changing the looks, removing the drive for any innovation. But at this stage, many of the card game yers have yed a few card games and were starting to get sick of it. Changing the looks without a good IP was no longer a good n. Therefore the designers were forced to innovate. The easiest innovation was the graphics. Phones in this world are capable of supporting 3D mobile games, which was why mobile games progressed much faster than Chen Mo¡¯s previous world. In this previous world, I Am MT was released in January 2013, Soul Hunters was released in July 2014, and Onmyoji was released in June 2016. Every big change took a year or two to happen. This was just a constraint of ideas, but also technology. But because phones were able to supportrge scale 3D mobile games in the parallel world, this allowed more rooms for videogame designers to y with. Games that used 2D characters as their selling point already started appearing, which was almost half a year faster than the previous world. Although the gamey didn¡¯tpare to Soul Hunters, the artworks certainly exceeded Soul Hunters and the various games that followed it. If given another six months, a fantastic looking 3D mobile card game might appear on the market. Of course Chen Mo wouldn¡¯t let an opportunity go like that. AS the mobile card game industry was huge, and the call for developers to innovate was almost at its peak while the designers were still unsure of the direction the industry was about to head. yers will now be reminded of the horrifying ¡®creating happiness mindfully¡¯ incident. ¡ª Chen Mo was doing a quick sketch on his tablet in his office. It didn¡¯t take long before a ashen haired man with a fan was finished. Onmyoji¡¯s Abe no Seimei. Chen Mo could choose between Soul Hunters or Onmyoji, but he felt that Onmyoji was a better choice. Soul Hunters was also a very ssic mobile card game. It wouldn¡¯t be excessive to call it better than I Am MT in every aspect. But the problem was that it¡¯s artstyle was rtively worse, and it didn¡¯t have an IP advantage because of theck of DotA in this world. Chen Mo wanted to grab the entire mobile card game industry, letting nothing escape. From his experience, Soul Hunter and I Am MT were simr and their artstyle weren¡¯t the best of the best, the only improvement was the gamey. And the game mechanics of card games were easily referenced by other designers. And because of this, both games have been extensively referenced, and there were cases where the games that referenced it outperformed the original. Onmyoji didn¡¯t have that problem as the artwork, music, story, and characters were all the best of the best in the mobile game industry, no games should be able to threaten it two years after its release. As for Fate/Grand Order, Chen Mo couldn¡¯t recreate the entire Fates series as of yet, which was why he had to set it aside for now. Chen Mo opened a new designer document and started working on the design concept for Onmyoji. ¡°You¡¯ve copied off I Am MT for a whole year and helped me expand the yerbase for mobile card games. I¡¯ll count that as even. But now, everyone will have to do their best,¡± said Chen Mo Chapter 153 - Chapter 152: No Budget Limit

Chapter 153: Chapter 152: No Budget Limit

The foundations of Onmyoji were very clear cut. Even though its ystyle was vastly different from I Am MT after generations of card games, the core was still identical, it was still getting cards, training them, and arranging a team. The more difficult parts of the development process would be the quality of the artwork as well as making models. Onmyoji¡¯s models were exceedingly high quality, much higher than those in Warcraft and Wulin Legend. There was a lot of work that needed to be done outside of the models such as background music, dubs, and character artworks. These were rtively to solve as long as he had money. In Chen Mo¡¯s n, Onmyoji was split into six different categories, Shikigami and Onmyoji system, quests,bat, socials (hunts, mail, chatting, etc.), Souls and shop rted things, and other systems(summoning, codex, etc.). The most important ones were Shikigami, Onmyoji, Souls, and everything rted to thebat system, followed by the story. Everything else should fall in ce when these two are done. Chinese card games were incredibly easy to y, and the difficultyes from developing a y style based on the stats of the cards, which was how Chen Mo managed to finish the draft pretty quickly. Chen Mo sent the concept draft and the sketch for Abe No Seimei to Su Jinyu before going downstairs. ¡ª Before Su Jinyu could take a proper look at the document, Wen Lingwei and Qian Kun gathered around her. They were the two most interested in this type of game, which was why they were so excited to hear about the design document. Everyone was shocked to see that sketch of Abe No Seimei. ¡°What? Abe no Seimei? Isn¡¯t that a famous Onmyoji?¡± eximed Zheng Hongxi. ¡°Yeah, that clothing is also quite Japanese. Is this the theme you¡¯re going for, manager?¡± asked Wen Lingwei. Zheng Hongxi was a bit conflicted, ¡°Is it going to work? The IPs they use are better than thest. Onmyoji doesn¡¯t seem popr in China either, so do you n on making your own IP, manager?¡± Su Jinyu looked through the design document and said, ¡°The manager wrote that it¡¯ll be high quality, and will even hire voice actors in Japanese? From the looks of it, the game might be much moreplicated than I Am MT.¡± ¡°How knows how this will end up!¡± Everyone was kind of worried. Chen Mo came down stairs while the discussion was still going on. ¡°Let¡¯s go into the meeting room, I¡¯ll quickly go over the ns for the game,¡± said Chen Mo as he walked towards the meeting room. Wen Lingwei followed, ¡°I want to listen in too!¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Alright, suits you.¡± After getting seating Jia Peng couldn¡¯t help but ask, ¡°Manager, what type of game is it? Is it simr to I Am MT?¡± Su Jinyu asked too, ¡°Another pay to win game?¡± ¡°Oh, this will be a very honest game.¡± replied Chen Mo. Su Jinyu breathed a sigh of relief, ¡°Oh, thank goodness.¡± Qian Kun was shocked and looked through the document again, ¡°Umm, are you sure? The summoning system and Shikigami training system doesn¡¯t seem honest at all.¡± Chen Mo replied, ¡°I¡¯m saying honest in terms of the story. The game is ced in a time where ghosts and humans live side by side. The Onmyoji¡¯s are responsible for maintaining the bnce between them. There are also a lot of heartfelt stories between humans and monsters as most monsters have lived a sad life. If the story isn¡¯t honest I don¡¯t know what is.¡± Zheng Hongxi replied as he looked through the document again, ¡°Hmm. This story doesn seem quite honest.¡± Qian Kun scratched his head as he felt that something wasn¡¯t quite right, yet couldn¡¯t find what was wrong. Chen Mo continued, ¡°You guys can view this game as an improved I Am MT. The core of the game is simr to I Am MT, it uses simr getting cards, leveling them, and battling systems. But instead of cards, it¡¯ll be 3D models.¡± Qian Kun seemed to be rejuvenated and full of life, ¡°So, manager, it¡¯s a scammy game then?¡± Chen Mo was slightly irritated, ¡°Yes, you could put it like that.¡± ¡°I have a problem. Since it¡¯s a card game, the IP is very important right? You couldn¡¯t even show your face on the market if you didn¡¯t have a big IP. This game might do well in Japan, but there aren¡¯t many fans who like this theme in China right?¡± asked Zheng Hongxi. Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Yes, it seems to be like that.¡± ¡°Then how do you n to get this IP off the grounds? Do you n to make an animated series like I Am MT?¡± asked Wen Lingwei. Chen Mo shook his head, ¡°No animations. We won¡¯t be doing anything, the game will carry the IP with it.¡± Everyone was shocked, Really? Chen Moughed, ¡°Really. That¡¯s why we have to make the game as high quality as possible. This includes the artwork, models, scenes, music, voicelines, and dubs. It must be good enough to be better than any other mobile card game on the market.¡± Su Jinyu scowled, ¡°Be better than any other card game? That sounds hard.¡± Chen Mo shook his head, ¡°Not all all. It ends up being a problem of money. So Goldfish, when you go search for apany to outsource thepanies, you can go straight to the highest quality ones. I¡¯m alright with paying twenty thousand RMB for a piece of art. I don¡¯t have any limits for artwork or music this time. And I want famous voice actors from Japan. I don¡¯t mind spending more money if that means I¡¯m getting someone I¡¯m happy with.¡± Everyone was shocked, Twenty thousand per piece? Famous voice actors? I Am MT¡¯s artworks were only two thousand a piece, but this time it was ten times more, isn¡¯t this too wasteful? Combined with the models and animations, Shikigami¡¯s budget would go through the roof, costing more than the models for Warcraft! Sure Chen Mo had money, it was shocking to everyone that he¡¯d spend it like that. Qian Kun was a bit hesitant, ¡°Managear, if you really aren¡¯t looking at the price tag, the development cost could cost tens of millions...¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Yeah, so what? Is tens of millions a lot? I spent thirty-odd million on the cinematics in Warcraft.¡± Jia Peng scratched his head, ¡°You can¡¯tpare it to Warcraft, it¡¯s a mobile game after all...¡± ¡°Don¡¯t worry,¡± assured Chen Mo, ¡°It won¡¯t lose to Warcraft in terms of profitability. Let¡¯s put it this way, there is no limit for the development budget, especially things that rted to the quality of the game like artwork and music. I want the best, don¡¯t worry about the cost.¡± Wen Lingwei jested, ¡°Geez, I didn¡¯t know the stingy manager was this generous! I¡¯m not used to this!¡± Chapter 154 - Chapter 153: Emperor Dynasty Entertainments Internal Experience Exchange Presentation Chapter 154: Chapter 153: Emperor Dynasty Entertainment¡¯s Internal Experience Exchange Presentation Chen Mo started distributing the work to the three of them after going through the design concept. Everyone was more or less familiar with their jobs after working on Warcraft and Wulin Legend without needing Chen Mo to say much. Chen Mo re emphasised the importance of the story for Onmyoji. Onmyoji did have an IP, it was a novel by Baku Yumemakura under the same name. However, the novel wasn¡¯t super influential in China either, and the biggest contribution of the novel to the sess of the game was the story. Of course there would be a lot of work involved remaking the novel, and Chen Mo didn¡¯t need to do that as Zheng Hongxi could fill out the rest after receiving the main gist of the story. Moreover, most of the monsters and characters in Onmyoji were based on folklore from the Heian period taking inspiration from Konjaku Monogatarish¨±t, so it wasn¡¯t hard for Su Jinyu and the others to grasp the concept. The three of them started working after receiving their jobs. Zheng Hongxi in particr had a lot to do as he needed to do research because it was his first time writing Japanese style stories. Chen Mo¡¯s job was the same as usual, quality control. Back at his office, Chen Mo used a Memory yback Potion and started working on the sketches for the different Onmyojis and Shikigamis from the game. Abe no Seimei, Kagura, Hiromasa, Yao Bikuni. Ootengu, Shuten, Gyourou Arakawa no Aruji, Ibaraki Douji... Through Onmyojis continual updates, more and more Shikigamis were added to the game. In the end there were nearly one hundred Shikigamis, which was more or less the so-called Demon Parade. There wasn¡¯t a need to have that many Shikigamis in the first version, seventy of them was more than enough to support the content of the game. Chen Mo decided to go by his Memory and provide sketches, positions, and abilities for all the Shikigamis. The richbat system was the core of the game. The settings of each Onmyoji and their abilities matched perfectly, and was a Chinese mobile card game that did this aspect particrly well. For example, Yuki Onna¡¯s Blizzard, Sanbi no Kitsune¡¯s Woman Scorned or Shouzu¡¯s Water Circuit. The Shikigamis and their abilities fit well with the stories. And when a Shikigami consumes another one of the same type, they can even level up their abilities. And with the inclusion of different souls having different effects, itsbat was much moreplex and rich than the other games. This was Onmyojis biggest advantage, it was a game that felt fresh andplete. Strictly speaking, the core of Onmyoji wasn¡¯t a new concept as it was still a type of card game that was very simr in ystyle to Summoners War. Summoners War wasn¡¯t a huge mobile game either, but the game felt reallyplete. Onmyoji didn¡¯t make many changes with the bncing (other than making it more time consuming), but it was sessful because it implemented a lot more content surrounding the theme of Onmyoji. In terms of art, artwork, UI, and models were the best of the best and didn¡¯t feel out of ce, making the game feel more immersive. In terms of music, the background music and dubs were incredibly good, making it easier for the yers to be immersed into the story. In terms of story, using the novel¡¯s story as the foundations, each character/monster had their own background story. The animated scenes and texts had tens of thousands of wordsbined, with ns to keep expanding on it. Therefore, Onmyoji¡¯s real reason for sess was its story and content. When other card games were still borrowing IPs, buying IPs, or forcing IPs, Onmyoji already reached a stage where it had a highly integrated theme and content, a state where the game was the IP. This was the reason it became such a huge phenomena. If Chen Mo wanted to recreate Onmyoji in the parallel world, this was the point he had to focus on. The game can be scummy, time consuming, or monotonous. These ws can exist, but as long as the aforementioned point was done well, it can surpass all the other card games just by virtue of its content. ¡ª While Chen Mo was working hard on Onmyoji, the other videogame designers weren¡¯t cking off either. In the headquarters of Emperor Dynasty Entertainment. In the meeting room, a powerpoint about Experience with Demon yers was being projected onto a screen, honest my Qiu Bin. The meeting room was filled with people, mainly B and C-grade videogame designers within Emperor Dynasty Entertainment. They were giving it all their focus as they were afraid of missing out on something. Qiu Bin seemed to be in good spirits as he spoke. He led the development of Demon yers and managed to reach over forty-five million RMB in monthly revenue. He was now really well known in the mobile game industry as the sat safety at the top of the best selling leaderboards and was gaining ground within Emperor Dynasty Entertainment. He almost quit after losing his bet with Chen Mo but luckily Lin Chaoxu was confident in him and allowed him to develop a game like I Am MT, resulting in the hugely sessful Demon yers. Qiu Bin was quite smart, what hecked in creativity he had in being calm and collected. After losing to I Am MT, he dedicated everything to learn the reason I Am MT was so sessful. Qiu Bin¡¯s understanding of I Am MT continued to grow during the development and operation of Demon yers. Qiu Bin was confident enough to say that he was probably the videogame designer to best understand this genre of game. Of course, other than Chen Mo. Emperor Dynasty Entertainment decided to host this talk hoping that Qiu Bin could pass on the experience he gathered from developing Demon yers to other videogame designers, solidifying Emperor Dynasty Entertainment¡¯s ground in the mobile gaming industry. Qiu Bin was presenting non-stop with the help of the powerpoint. ¡°I¡¯ve done extensive analysis on the entertainment value of card games. It has to do with the recognition the yers have for the value of the cards. Of course, these were all points that designers are able to reach after basic research. Well, how can you make your card game different from the rest? ¡°For the sess of Demon yers and other card games of simr sess, I reduced it down to three things, fragmentise, low cost, big IP. ¡°By fragmentise I mean n and reduce the time a yer could spend in the game. Reduce the daily ytime and split big chunks of ytime into smaller chunks and allow yers to fully utilize the smaller chunks of time.¡± Chapter 155 - Chapter 154: Three Keywords of Mobile Card Games

Chapter 155: Chapter 154: Three Keywords of Mobile Card Games

There were many types of reactionsing from the attendees, confusion, deep thought, some didn¡¯t understand, some were surprised. Qiu Bin said, ¡°Don¡¯t worry, you guys can ask questions at any time.¡± Someone raised their hand, ¡°Why would you say that cardgames should framentise yer time? The first day of gamey in I Am MT is incredibly long.¡± Qiu Bin nodded, ¡°That¡¯s true, but it¡¯s only for the first few days. The first couple days is to get the yers into a habit of ying the game to ensure that the yers understand the value of the cards. ¡°But their ytime should be shortened after a week because of how monotonous the gamey is. If the yers spend too much time in game they would easily feel bored, shortening the lifespan of the game.¡± The person asking the question seemed to understand and was nodding. Qiu Bin smiled and said, ¡°The second keyword is to reduce cost. Many might think why not spend the money if you have it? It¡¯s not that you shouldn¡¯t spend money, but to push updates frequently. ¡°That are constant changes within card games. If you took three months to finish a game you might still be relevant to the trend when it¡¯s released, but any longer and your game might be outdated. ¡°Was I Am MT a high quality game? No, but it doesn¡¯t affect how profitable it was. While ensuring the game¡¯s basic qualities, reduce cost whenever possible and update as frequently as possible. Bend but don¡¯t break. ¡°The third point is a big IP. This one is fairly simple. IP directly decides the value of the cards. So I¡¯m urging you guys to buy a good IP the first moment you set eyes on it. It doesn¡¯t matter if it was expensive as the current market allows instant return given a good IP. There is no way to make a loss.¡± Qiu Bin kept presenting, keeping nothing to himself, sharing all his experiences with developing and operating Demon yers. The designers who attended gave it all their attention, there were questions here and there and Qiu Bin answered them as well as he could. The core gamey of a first generation game like I Am MT was fairly simple. Even if it wasn¡¯t understood in the first ce, after copying the game and operating it for a while, the designer would naturallye to an understanding. Demon yers had the help of Emperor Dynasty Gaming tform and a huge yer base withrge amounts of analytics. Qiu Bin spent a lot of time investigating so it wasn¡¯t surprising that he reached a conclusion before the other videogame designers. The presentationsted for over an hour with some more questions and answers at the end. In the end, one of the designers said, ¡°Thanks for your presentation, I¡¯ve learnt a lot. My question is: From the looks of the market, mobile card games are at a turning point, what do you think about this?¡± Qiu Bin nodded, ¡°Thanks, that¡¯s a good question, you have a good grasp on the market. ¡°It¡¯s true that the mobile card game market is at a turning point, or rather an adjustment point. The yers have yed games like I Am MT for a whole year now, and some of them are getting tired of it. We¡¯ll need to make some innovations to keep these yers. ¡°Many are guessing if there would be a massive change in card games? I can confidently say that there isn¡¯t. Even if there is, it would be a way of presenting it. ¡°Why would I say that? Think back to the three points I mentioned. Fragmentation, low cost, big IP. It will never deviate from this. I don¡¯t think there will be any videogame designers who dare make any changes to these three points as it¡¯s the reason that makes it so profitable. ¡°As long as these three points remain, the palystyle as we know is here to stay. Naturally this means that there won¡¯t be a huge change in the scene of mobile card games.¡± There was a follow up question, ¡°Is there really nobody who would dare make changes to these three points?¡± ¡°Absolutely not,¡± said Qiu Bin, but added a few momentster, ¡°Oh, other than Chen Mo.¡± Everyone was shocked, Is Chen Mo still relevant? Qiu Bin added, ¡°Because games like I Am MT was pioneered by Chen Mo. Who knows what he¡¯s thinking, maybe he has a much deeper understanding of the market than I do.¡± After a few moments, Qiu Bin added, ¡°Therefore, it¡¯s a good thing that he moved onto the PC market.¡± The attendeesughed, it¡¯s true that Chen Mo decided to dabble in the PC market instead. If Chen Mo decided to stay in mobile games and released game after game, who knows what¡¯ll happen to them. When the presentation ended, many designers came forward to Qiu Bin to make some small talk. ¡°That was great! I¡¯ve learned so much from your presentation!¡± ¡°Me too, thanks for sharing.¡± ¡°I¡¯ve heard Demon yers is doing better and better, congrattions.¡± Qiu Bin tried to be humble, ¡°You¡¯re too kind. This is all thanks to Mr Lin¡¯s trust in me. Of course, the tform also yed a big role.¡± Another designer said, ¡°By the way, I¡¯ve heard that Demon yers 2 is at the end of the production line? If it can continue the sess of the previous game to be two games that dominated the mobile game scene, you¡¯ll probably be the Game Committee honorary member of the year.¡± Qin Bin waved his hands, ¡°It¡¯s hard to tell, who knows how the game is going to do just yet. I¡¯ll take your words as good luck.¡± Qiu Bin¡¯s assistant was standing right behind him as he left the meeting room. Qiu Bin asked, ¡°Are all the promotional materials done for Demon yers 2?¡± ¡°It¡¯s done. Everything is in ce!¡± replied the assistant, ¡°Emperor Dynasty have put particr emphasis on the promotion of Demon yers 2, they haven¡¯t been skimping on advertising at all.¡± Qiu Bin nodded, ¡°That¡¯s great. As long as we have a good enough promotion and the yerbase from the previous game, this sequel is sure to do well.¡± ¡°For sure,¡± said the assistant before adding, ¡°But haven¡¯t you heard from the people from operations about the promotions?¡± Qiu Bin looked at him and said, ¡°I thought you¡¯ve been dealing with that this whole time?¡± ¡°Yes,¡± replied the assistant, ¡°the person in charge over there gave me some strategies that were kind of implicit, that¡¯s why I¡¯m wondering if they contacted you.¡± Qiu Bin was shocked, ¡°What?¡± ¡°It¡¯s nothing really, the person in charge suggested that maybe we could be a bit more daring with our slogan. Demon yers is the number one mobile card game in China and I Am MT has long since been irrelevant, its monthly ie is just horrible now. Could we maybe advertise as ¡®China¡¯s number one mobile card game¡¯ or ¡®the people¡¯s mobile card game¡¯?¡± Qiu Bin scowled, but didn¡¯t reply. The assistant added, ¡°From what I can tell, Mr Lin seems to agree with that thought process. Moreover, Demon yers is the number one card game, it¡¯s not too far of a stretch right?¡± Qiu bin nodded, he did think that it was reasonable as Demon yers was number one with nopetition. ¡°Alright, we¡¯ll do that. Demon yers 2 must get more yers than before!¡± Chapter 156 - Chapter 155: Qiu Bins Uncertainty

Chapter 156: Chapter 155: Qiu Bin¡¯s Uncertainty

Back at his experience store, Qin Bin continued to polish some aspects of Demon yers 2. This game had been in production for quite some time and the core gamey was more or lessplete. But upon considering the effects it would have on Demon yers after release, Emperor Dynasty Entertainment held off on releasing Demon yers 2 and chose to keep it in development instead. It was a difficult situation as Demon yers was still capable of making more than forty million RMb a month, there wasn¡¯t a need to kill off the previous game yet. As the sessor, Demon yers 2 had some improvements in terms ofbat. From pure cardbat to a horizontalbat. yers can use different abilities as usual, all they have to do differently was to modify the positions of their characters. Of course the characters were also upgraded from cards to 2D models. But as a Xianxia themed mobile game, the characters would be throwing items at one another to attack and had no need to move. There were still some differences between this and Soul Hunters from the previous world, but all in all it was slightly worse than Soul Hunters. But Demon yers 2 looked amazing thus far. Although the characters still had a cuter artstyle, it wasn¡¯t an immature one. The shift in artstyle was to satisfy the demands of yers for better quality, as well as appealing to as many yers as possible. This artstyle would certainly make the game more popr among the younger audience. I Am MT had the same cute artstyle. Qiu bin noticed that the cute artstyle can relieve how quickly the yers get tired of the game which fitted well with fragmentation. Qiu Bin was really confident in Demon yers 2 as many settings of this game had been repeatedly tested. Qin Bin could confidently say that Demon yers 2 will be the best mobile card game on the market, bar none. The art and music were all better. The gamey was the same as Demon yers with slight innovations. Moreover, Emperor Dynasty Entertainment would never skimp on the promotion of Demon yers 2 following the sess of Demon yers. With such a huge distributor behind it, the game could easily surpass its predecessor. Qiu Bin was confident that the game can continue the sess of Demon yers and continue to hold the best sellers top spot. It could never make more than eighty million in revenue a month! It would be incredible for a mobile game to reach eighty million in revenue a month, but Qiu Bin was really confident because he understood the power of mobile card games. As Qiu Bin was dreaming about Demon yers 2¡¯s release, his assistant ran out in a panic. ¡°It¡¯s terrible! We just got news that Chen Mo is making a mobile game!¡± Evidently the assistant ran over the moment they got the news from the shaking in their voice. Qiu Bin felt like the sky had fallen on his head. What¡¯s going on, Chen Mo is making a mobile game?! Is he starting something? But he calmed his nerves not long after, asking, ¡°Are you sure? What type of mobile game is it, is it a card game?¡± The assistant said, ¡°We don¡¯t know, but it looks really likely!¡± The assistant handed over his phone to Qiu Bin. Qiu Bin took a few of the original arts, they all looked like japanese style monsters that were really high quality and their unique features were really clear. Qui Bin asked, ¡°Where did you get this from?¡± ¡°A outsourcingpany. Thispany is the best artpany in the country. I know one of the artists there because of our long term rtionship with them. He sent it over because he noticed that Chen Mo asked them to do some artwork.¡± replied the assistant. Qiu Bin nodded, ¡°Alright, thanks. Did you ask him how many of these he ordered?¡± ¡°I¡¯ve asked, he isn¡¯t quite sure, but is confident that it¡¯s over thirty,¡± replied the assistant. ¡°Above thirty?¡± Qiu Bin could feel a chill down his spine. This basically confirmed that Chen Mo was nning to make a mobile card game! The features of these characters were very obvious. Their quality didn¡¯t seem to be split into tiers, andbined with the fact that the characters can change their looks, it¡¯s most likely a card game!¡± The assistant asked, ¡°Should we hurry Demon yers 2 along? We can¡¯t go toe to toe with Chen Mo¡¯s game!¡± Qiu Bin waved his hand, ¡°Hold on, let me think.¡± Qiu Bin¡¯s first reaction was to hurry the game along to release the game as soon as possible to avoid releasing alongside Chen Mo¡¯s game. The oue of releasing the games at the same time could be horrifying as Qiu Bin was reminded of I Am MT. But he couldn¡¯t just hurry it along as the quality of the game may bepromised. Wouldn¡¯t he be shooting himself in the foot? Qiu Bin said after some thought, ¡°Alright, we¡¯ll do the game modes that we were thinking about earlier. We¡¯ll grab some testers from Demon yers and get their feedback and make changes ordingly.¡± The assistant nodded, ¡°Understood.¡± ¡°Basically, we need to increase the pace. We¡¯ll get rid of any mechanics that aren¡¯t needed as long as they don¡¯t impact the game y. We¡¯ll do this step by step, but we¡¯ll need to move as fast as possible. The assistant went off and started to work, but Qiu bin decided to find out more about where these images were from as he was still unsettled.¡± ¡°Folklore from the Heian period ? No IP?¡± Qiu Bin felt really unsettled. Any video game designer would know that card games depend on their IP, how could Chen Mo not know that? Chen Mo made an animation and worked on World of Azeroth when he developed I Am MT. Didn¡¯t he spend that time and effort to make his own IP? Obviously Chen Mo knew the importance of IP for card games, much earlier than other designers did. Then, what¡¯s the new game about? Qiu Bin couldn¡¯t believe that this game didn¡¯t have an IP. He did a lot of research and even asked a few friends who were familiar with Japanese novels about this period. He concluded that there wasn¡¯t any! Chen Mo didn¡¯t have the backing of any popr animes or novels. Many who were interested in Japanese culture weren¡¯t aware about this theme either, not to mention Chinese yers! Qiu Bin was confused, what was going on? Could it be that Chen Mo was so good that he could make a card game without an IP? That¡¯s not possible! Chapter 157 - Chapter 156: Early Bird Gets the Worm?

Chapter 157: Chapter 156: Early Bird Gets the Worm?

It didn¡¯t take long before many other card gamepanies found out about the news. Chen Mo didn¡¯t try to keep it a secret at all. It was difficult to keep it a secret anyways as there was no way from preventing the artpany from leaking the news. Once the news gets out, it wouldn¡¯t take long for the entire mobile gamemunity to hear about it. It wasn¡¯t a good news to any mobile card game designer that Chen Mo was back making mobile games. And during Chen Mo¡¯s hiatus from mobile games, the other card game designers were having the time of their lives. The best time of their life even. At this point, the industry was happy to have everyone make money from mobile card games as opposed to going at each other¡¯s neck. This was opposed to genres like RPG as the yerbase was incredibly limited, and everypany was trying to get as much of it as possible. But it was different for card games. Since the huge mobile card game industry was still in its early stages and there wasn¡¯t a monopoly, there was a silent agreement that they should all work together in peace. Because card games were all so simr and no designer dared to make any big changes, which was why thepanies relied on big IPs to get a slice of the yer base. You¡¯ll make an anime one, I¡¯ll make one based on a novel. They could all work on the same thing yet have separate yerbases. It was fine even if they shared the same target audience as they just had to space out the release dates. Who wouldn¡¯t have the time of their life when they could make money by doing nothing? This was almost an unspoken rule. It wasn¡¯t that thesepanies didn¡¯t want to monopolise the industry, it was because they couldn¡¯t, and a game that could do that didn¡¯t exist. If they wanted to achieve that, they must ensure that the game was better than all the other games on the market and had an IP that covered a huge yer base. Demon yers might be the only one that slightly matches thest point. There wasn¡¯t a game that truly covered both points. But Chen Mo¡¯s move made everything unclear. Many video game designers were discussing this matter privately. ¡°Have you heard that Chen Mo is making a card game?¡± ¡°What? Is he making a sequel to I Am MT? It can¡¯t be, the animation isn¡¯t all that popr anymore. Are there that many die hard fans of the series?¡± ¡°No, I heard it¡¯s a Japanese Shikigami theme. I don¡¯t know much about it.¡± ¡°What is it, does it have an IP?¡± ¡°No!¡± ¡°Then why is he doing it?¡± ¡°Who knows! Who knows what Chen Mo is nning?¡± ¡°I feel like something is about to go down.¡± ¡°Who said it wasn¡¯t, Chen Mo had been doing so well in the PC market, but decided to pivot back into the mobile game industry. Clearly, he¡¯s messing with us!¡± ¡°What should we do?¡± ¡°Watch! What else can we do? Anyways, the ones at the top should be most affected, Emperor Dynasty Entertainment¡¯s Demon yers 2 will cop most of the blow.¡± ¡°We¡¯ll see what Emperor Dynasty Entertainment does.¡± ¡ª Qiu Bin forwarded the news of Chen Mo making a card game to Lin Chaoxu. It didn¡¯t take long for Lin Chaoxu toe to a decision. Promote Demon yers 2 now! Release it as fast as possible! Lin Chaoxu wasn¡¯t as cautious and indecisive as Qiu Bin as he knew what this meant. This meant that once Chen Mo¡¯s preparations were done, it could be another hugely popr game. This was horrible news to Emperor Dynasty Entertainment! The early bird gets the worm, release Demon yers 2 early and get a bunch of yers. Promote the game everywhere in order to get as many yers as possible, and make as much money as they could before Chen Mo releases his game. Even when Chen Mo¡¯s game was really sessful, its impact on Demon yers 2 will be greatly reduced. Once Lin Chaoxu gave the green light, the progress of Demon yers immediately got fast tracked. Promoting the game, getting testers, feedback, improving... Qiu Bin was working as hard as he could to get Demon yers 2 to a state where it could be released. Emperor Dynasty Entertainment¡¯s promotions started appearing everywhere. It was on various streaming sites, gaming sites, forums, ad spots... Various videogame media were also releasing their articles. Demon yers¡¯ sequel, Demon yers 2 released soon! Popr web novel turned mobile game taking the world by storm! National Phenomena, sessor of Demon yers Can Demon yers 2 reach a new record for mobile games monthly ie? First mobile card game sequel about to be released! With enough money, the media was sure to hype it up. Because of how sessful Demon yers was, it wasn¡¯t too over the top to sing the song of praises for its sequel. The yers watching for the side had all sorts of reactions, but they all looked forward to it because of its sess and its yerbase. Everyone in the videogame industry knew that Emperor Dynasty Entertainment nned to make as much money as possible before Chen Mo releases his new game to reduce the effects of Chen Mo¡¯s new game on them. Everyone felt bad, only Chen Mo had the power to put Emperor Dynasty Entertainment in this state! ¡ª On Chen Mo¡¯s side of things, Onmyoji was proceeding as usual. Shikigami¡¯s sketches, models, and scenes were being moved along nicely, the cinematomatics were being worked on, thebat system, numbers and ystyle were all being nned meticulously. There wasn¡¯t a whole lot of work for Onmyoji. In this previous life, Onmyoji¡¯s starting team only consisted of nine people, including programmers. Zheng Hongxi and Qian Kun were quitefortable with this as they were familiar with mobile card games, and they could direct any questions to Chen Mo. Su Jinyu had to deal with the difficult parts of the game. As this was a game that focused on artwork, her hands were full from controlling the artstyle for the game to make sure they match. Chen Mo was also busy as he oversaw all of this. Shikigami sketches, story of the game, the bncing of the game... he probably couldn¡¯t manage without the Super elerator. Chen Mo was already quite tired when he was working on Warcraft as it was more work. But since he had a lot of passion and motivation, Chen Mo didn¡¯t feel tired working on a game that could go down in history. But Chen Mo felt much more tired working on Onmyoji because hecked passion as it was fairly simr to I Am MT. ¡°I¡¯m going to hire a lot more people after this, I can¡¯t keep doing this.¡± Chen Mo wanted to maintain a small group as the efficiency would go down when the number of people increased. But from the looks of it, he needed to hire more as he couldn¡¯t do everything himself. ¡ª As he was working, Zheng Hongxi saw an ad about Demon yers 2. Aside from the advertising Demon yers 2, they even stepped on I Am MT. Qian Kun angrilyined to Chen Mo, ¡°Do you see what the media are saying? Demon yers is the number one mobile card game in China? How can they say that?¡± Zheng Hongxi agreed, ¡°Yeah, isn¡¯t that just a game that copied I Am MT? Seems that you can do anything with enough promotion!¡± ¡°Right? There¡¯s nothing good toe from following manager¡¯s footsteps!¡± added Su Jinyu. Chen Mo was speechless, ¡°What do the yers think on I Am MT¡¯s forum?¡± ¡°What can they think?¡± said Qian Kun, ¡°Anyone staying in I Am MT are all diehard fans. They aren¡¯t changing their minds. There are many more Demon yers fans anyways.¡± ¡°Don¡¯t worry, let them be,¡± said Chen Mo, ¡°Onmyoji is going alone pretty well anyways, just work on the things you need to work on. We¡¯ll release the game one and a half months after their release, they can bask in the sun while they still can.¡± Qian Kun was hesitant, ¡°But manager, Emperor Dynasty Gaming tform has so many yers, are you sure we won¡¯t suffer by giving them a head start?¡± Chen Moughed, ¡°Why are you worried? You guys know how good the game is. Put it this way, no matter Demon yers 2 or any other card game, they will eventually be consumed by Onmyoji. We won¡¯t suffer from anything.¡± Chapter 158 - Chapter 157: Remove Pseudo-random Probability

Chapter 158: Chapter 157: Remove Pseudo-random Probability

Demon yers 2 was finally released among all the advertisements! Emperor Dynasty Entertainment provided everything they could do to advertise the game before it was released. It held the front page promotional spot on the Emperor Dynasty Gaming tform for the whole time and even got the writer of Demon yers to promote the game. Needless to say, advertisements online and offline were basically everywhere. Emperor Dynasty Entertainment knew better than anyone that there was no reason to skimp on advertising as each yer represents ie for the game, and the money could be easily made back from these advertisements. The industry professionals thought someone like Chen Mo who would try to get the best out of every situation would try and start something, but Chen Mo waspletely silent, not even a Weibo was posted. This disappointed many drama hungry fans. As Demon yers 2 continued to get more and more popr, its statistics were released. In the first month of its release, it had 2.92 million yers, 12% paying users, Average revenue per user of 187.3, with a monthly ie of sixty five million RMB. This number shocked the entire mobile gaming industry. Card game developers around the world now have a strong understanding of the statistics rted to mobile card games and have a hunch for the statistics such as number of active yers and average revenue per yer. Many didn¡¯t expect much from Demon yers 2 as the IP Demon yers have been more or less exhausted, and there had been many cases where the sequel of the game did worse than its prequel. Most mobile card game designers knew, even without looking at yer reviews, that Demon yers 2 was incredibly sessful. If Emperor Dynasty Entertainment continues to advertise the game, the 65 million achieved for the first month might even be able to keep going up. Qiu Bin¡¯s wasn¡¯t overestimating when he said it was possible to get eighty million in monthly revenue. As long as Demon yers 2 holds its ce, without anypetitors for two months, it was probable to reach that number. This was both good and bad news for other video game designers. The bad news was that Demon yers 2 will take off a chunk of their yer base. Other mobile card games could only hope they aren¡¯t affected, or worse yet, lose in revenue. The good news was that Demon yers 2 proved that mobile card games still had room for improvement. Being able to get a monthly revenue of sixty five million means that other it was possible for other card games to reach that number too. ¡°Demon yers 2 got sixty five million in revenue in the first month, seems like it¡¯s topping the charts again.¡± ¡°How long do you think it¡¯s going to stay there? Three months? Half a year?¡± ¡°I think at least three months. I yed the game for a bit, and I¡¯m quite impressed. The quality of the game is much better than the others on the market, the art quality is also quite amazing. Qiu Bin¡¯s understanding of mobile card games is quite scary.¡± ¡°Sigh, I guess we¡¯re going to get less revenue for the next little while.¡± ¡°It¡¯s normal. People were wondering if I Am MT¡¯s sess was possible to replicate and held back on investing into it. The quality of mobile card games aren¡¯t too high. But after seeing that it was possible for other mobile card games to make money, there will bepanies who want to monopolise the market. I¡¯m sure that there will be more high quality games like this in the future.¡± ¡°Yeah, we¡¯ve made so much money for a year doing nothing. The yers are bored too. It¡¯s time we made something new.¡± ¡°If you¡¯re thinking of making another mobile card game, y more Demon yers 2 and learn from itsbat system and artstyle.¡± ¡°Thankfully we¡¯ve raked in a bunch of money. We should reinvest that into art and music now, we can¡¯t let Demon yers take all the glory! We must take back what is ours!¡± ¡°We weren¡¯t even the ones who suffered the worst. The worst are the mobile game designers that insist on making other genres of games. They must be so choked out by all these card games.¡± ¡°It can¡¯t be helped, the times have changed. They thought that mobile games are all casual games, but they finally realised how profitable it is.¡± ¡°Alright, enough talking, I¡¯ve gotta go back to grinding and try to grab a piece of this pie.¡± ¡ª Theunch of Demon yers 2 whipped up a storm in the mobile gaming industry. Perhaps it was just another new game to the yers, but videogame designers saw a different message. After a year or so of testing, Emperor Dynasty Entertainment finally decided to take over the mobile card game market. They can foresee that Emperor Dynasty Entertainment will continue to invest into this following the sess of Demon yers 2. They¡¯ll make more copies, with good artwork and their huge distribution to make many high quality mobile card games of different themes, consuming the entire mobile card game market in the process. After seeing their intentions, the other mobile card game designers are forced to follow the changes and increase the quality of their games. In no time at all, the peaceful mobile card game market was now in a race to reach the top. ¡ª Chen Mo had no pressure at all as he watched everyone fight it out. Onmyoji was more or less finished, the only things remaining were some artworks and some minor adjustments to the bncing which could be done in a week or two.¡± Qian Kun sent Chen Mo a spreadsheet, ¡°I¡¯ve sent you the rates for Shikigami drawing. If there it¡¯ll be final if there aren¡¯t any problems.¡± Chen Mo gave it a look. These numbers were synthesised by Qian Kun, they even included pseudo-random elements. SSR Shikigamis like Ootengu, Shuten Douji, and Arakawa no Aruji had around 0.1% drop rate, SR Shikigamis like Yuki Onna, and Inugami had around 1% drop rate, event based SR Shikigamis like Umibouzu, and Kuro Mujou had around 0.1% drop rate. Other R Shikigamis like Sanbi no Kitsune had around 3.5% drop rate. Basically, there was a one percent change of drawing an SSR, twenty-four percent for SR, and seventy-five percent for R. The drawing method and probabilities were set by Chen Mo, Qian Kun just assigned each Shikigamis their probability ording to how rare they should be to match Chen Mo¡¯s expected total probability. Moreover, Qian Kun added pseudo-random probabilities. The yers are guaranteed an SR if they fail to draw one ten times in a row, and the same applies to one hundred times in a row for SSR. Chen Mo nodded, ¡°It¡¯s more or like done, but remove the pseudo-random.¡± Qian Kun was shocked, ¡°Huh? Remove the pseudo-random? Are you sure?¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Yes.¡± Chapter 159 - Chapter 158: Song You Cant Get Out of Your Head

Chapter 159: Chapter 158: Song You Can¡¯t Get Out of Your Head

Qian Kun couldn¡¯t believe it. Chen Mo didn¡¯t mention pseudo-random before, it was all Qian Kun¡¯s idea. He¡¯s a top math student afterall, and had a clear idea of probabilities. There could be major differences between the probabilities of each draw for the yers without pseudo-random. For example, a free yer might be able to draw an SSR, but a whale who spent thousands or RMB never managed to draw one. The more yers there are, the more likely this would happen, and would bepletely out of their control. This was like leaving the most important economy system of the game to be decided by the heavens. Qian Kun didn¡¯t understand this move. He included a system like this for purple cards in I Am MT, but why wasn¡¯t he doing the same for Onmyoji? ¡°Remove the pseudo-random, but include a system for rewarding someone unlucky.¡± Qian Kun was shocked, ¡°A system?¡± ¡°Yes, turn their unluckiness into a protection mechanism. For example, if they don¡¯t draw an SSR for one hundred times in a row, refund a certain amount of jade. You can decide on the numbers. But basically, we won¡¯t be doing the traditional failsafe, but we¡¯ll use this system to refund some jade to the unlucky ones.¡± Qian Kun was confused, ¡°Uh, how is this better than pseudo-random?¡± ¡°It¡¯ll help the unlucky ones find their lucky counterparts,¡± replied Chen Mo. Qian Kun was speechless. Chen Mo patted his shoulder, ¡°Alright, just make the change. Keep in mind that we won¡¯t do pseudo-random for anything that should be pseudo-random. If they yers are lucky, good for them. If the yers are unlucky, we¡¯ll reimburse them in some other way.¡± Qian Kun was still confused, but he made the changes ording to Chen Mo¡¯s specifications. Chen Mo¡¯s Onmyoji had two main improvements over Onmyoji from his previous life. The reimbursement for unlucky yers can be collected multiple times, and the amount refunded was much more. This bes the failsafe mechanism, empathising the unlucky yers and congratting the lucky yers at the same time. He also included a sweeping function. When a yer fully clears a dungeon, they could use the sweep function to save time. These were the two biggest points the yers of Onmyoji in his previous life were asking for. Chen Mo didn¡¯t really think it was a good idea to add it, but he decided to anyway upon taking the rtive ¡®softness¡¯ of the yers in the parallel world. However, Chen Mo didn¡¯t decide on a traditional failsafe mechanism because the biggest fun factor of the game was its randomness. (Not trying to make fun of the unlucky yers.) Su Jinyu was preparing the advertising material for Onmyoji. ¡°Manager, are we going to match Emperor Dynasty Entertainment in advertising? We should put out more ads right?¡± asked Su Jinyu. Chen Mo shook his head, ¡°There¡¯s no need, they have tons of money but not many brain cells. We have money too, but there isn¡¯t a point ying the same game they are. The key point is to have effective advertising. Let¡¯s not lower ourselves to putting ads on video streaming websites.¡± ¡°Huh? How are we advertising then?¡± asked Su Jinyu. ¡°You can work out the advertising artwork with Hongxi for now. I¡¯ll worry about our advertising strategy. If we n on doing some pre-sales promotion, we¡¯ll focus on artists, ACG+N groups, and cosyers, we won¡¯t be considering other groups for now,¡± answered Chen Mo. Su Jinyu nodded and went back to work. After nning, Chen Mo called Guo Feng. ¡°So is my song done?¡± asked Chen Mo. ¡°It¡¯s done,¡± replied Guo Feng, ¡°But I don¡¯t know if you¡¯re happy with it. It¡¯s already the third version, we¡¯ll have to grab another star if you¡¯re still unhappy with this.¡± ¡°No no no, we can¡¯t have stars singing this song, I need someone from the ACG+Nmunity. Send me the song as soon as possible,¡± said Chen Mo. ¡°Alright, let me know if there¡¯s anything you want to change.¡± Chen Mo received Guo Feng¡¯s video file. Chen Mo put on his earphones and was happy that he finally found a singer he was happy with. There wasn¡¯t much difficulty in this song, but Chen Mo wanted the song to have azy yet gentle and loving tone to it, which was why it took him so long to settle on one. The MV was made with models from Onmyoji. The scenes were great, the animations were smooth, and the editing was alright. Chen Mo posted the song onto Weibo. ¡°Gokuraku Jodo, the theme song for my new game Onmyoji. Friendly reminder: This song is addicting, please use caution.¡± Warcraft had propelled Chen Mo¡¯s poprity, helping Chen Mo reach over a million followers on Weibo. Combined with what he had done in the past, there were a lot of followers staring at Chen Mo¡¯s Weibo hoping that he releases news on his new games. The drama hungry fans jumped right to it upon seeing his Weibo. ¡°First!!!¡± ¡°My goodness, he¡¯s alive! Bringing us another theme song!¡± ¡°Is Chen Mo entering the Entertainment Industry as a songwriter?¡± ¡°It¡¯s not a star singing it this time, dislike!¡± ¡°This song is addicting? I don¡¯t buy it!¡± The yers started watching the video. The camera zoomed in and the melody started ying, three girls started dancing. It was Hotarugusa, Kaugura, and Aoandon. The three of them were among the best looking and most prominent characters in Onmyoji. They were dancing to the beatpletely in sync. At the same time, azy yet lovely female vocal started singing. ¡°When moonlight climbs the sky¡± ¡°And the rednterns are lit¡± ¡°At the sign of festival music¡± ¡°A butterfly extends an invitation¡± ¡°Just peer inside and take a look¡± ¡°Once you wander in, you can¡¯t escape!¡± ¡°But if you wanna do something fun¡± ¡°Come on over to the Gokuraku Jodo¡± ¡°Sing! Sing! As your heart pleases¡± ¡°Sing! Sing! As your heart pleases¡± ¡°Let me hear your voice!¡± ¡°Dance! Dance! Forget about the time¡± ¡°Tonight, we¡¯ll bloom in force together!¡± The viewers were utterly shocked watching Hotarugusa, Kaugura, and Aoandon dance to the lovely music. ¡°My goodness, these girls are so cute! What have you been doing behind our backs Chen Mo!¡± ¡°Those moves! Those legs! That shuffling! I¡¯m getting a nosebleed!¡± ¡°The voice is so cute I¡¯m about to die!¡± ¡°The melody is great, the dancing is great, the vocals are great!¡± ¡°I think this was much better than those 2D music videos.¡± ¡°Previous posters, are you dense? This is a 2D music video!¡± ¡°Can a cute girl with long legs recreate this?¡± ¡°Chen Mo was right, it really is addicting! I¡¯ve listened to it for the third time and I¡¯m going for more!¡± ¡°I need to hard reset my brain!¡± ¡°It¡¯s like a drug, I can¡¯t stop at all!¡± ¡°Give me another hittttttt!¡± Chapter 160 - Chapter 159: A Massive Card Game

Chapter 160: Chapter 159: A Massive Card Game

It didn¡¯t take long for the Weibo to be shared everywhere, in particr in the ACGmunity, This song actually had several Chinese versions. Chen Mo chose the version that was closest to the original and better suited the title Gokuraku Jodo. In Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, Onmyoji made this song popr. This song was associated with Onmyoji ever since MikuMikuDance models of Onmyoji were made. It was because Gokuraku Jodo and Onmyoji were both popr in the ACGmunity, and had an even better effect on the ACGmunity whenbined. This was why Chen Mo decided to use this song to promote the game as its theme song. In just a few days time, Gokuraku Jodo took over the dance section of every major streaming tform. The song spread at an incredibly speed. It received explosive growth on the first day, there were people learning the dance on the second day. It didn¡¯t take long before song and dance covers started appearing! The dance, covers, and ACG sections of major streaming sites were all filled with Gokuraku Jodo. Many of them have listened to it many times and could recite the dance moves backwards. And Onmyoji was also bing more and more familiar. Gokuraku Jodo¡¯s explosive growth did wonders to Onmyoji. It started on Weibo, where many artists posted their creations of the characters from Onmyoji. Some were cute, some were alluring, and all of them were based on Onmyoji. There were original works as well asmissioned works. Onmyoji became a popr topic among the most influential in the ACGmunity. There were also sketches rted to Onmyoji, focusing on interactions between Shikigami in the story, which also became trending on Weibo. It didn¡¯t end there, Chen Mo released another video following that, titled ¡®Onmyoji Mobile Game Voice Actor Promotional Video: Complete Version¡¯. This video covered all the artwork and voicelines of Shikigami. Although it was very short as each Shikigami only had one line, the lineup of voice actors were still really shocking. ¡°My goodness, this voice actor lineup is amazing. They are all the top voice actors for anime!¡± ¡°Kugimiya? Kazuhiko Inoue? Taro Kubo? Aki Toyosaki[1]? What a way to spend money!¡± ¡°Ahhh! My ears are pregnant!¡± ¡°These drawings are so good I want to lick the screen!¡± ¡°Can someone make sure it¡¯s a mobile card game? A mobile card game?¡± ¡°Maybe it¡¯s only cards in the game with no models. Did you forget about I Am MT? It¡¯ll be amazing if they even give an animated card, I think that it¡¯s just a gimmick!¡± ¡°If Chen Mo was willing to spend so much money on the artwork, music, voice acting, it wouldn¡¯t be a stretch for him to spend money on models too! If he made 2D models like Demon yers 2, it¡¯s going to look so much better than Demon yers 2!¡± ¡°I don¡¯t think Chen Mo will settle with being the same as Demon yers 2, he never liked being the same in the past. Anyways, is a card game that has no cards still a card game?¡± ¡°Whatever, let¡¯s just wait for the game to be released. I can¡¯t wait!¡± ¡ª Onmyoji was finally released! This time, Chen Mo released on both Thunderbolt Gaming tform and the official appstore in order to reach out to as many mobile card game yers as possible. Chen Mo didn¡¯t spend a huge sum of money on advertising like Emperor Dynasty Entertainment, nor did he have a huge IP. However, Onmyoji didn¡¯t lose in the poprity departmentpared to Demon yers 2. It was because Chen Mo chose the ACGmunity as the start of his promotions. There are artists, dances, sketch producers, and other creators, amunity filled with creative people. And you could even say the quality of Onmyoji was as good as it gets, especially in characters and voice acting which werepletely unique in the Chinese video game market. It didn¡¯t take long before it attracted the attention of many fans of the ACGmunity. These fans would also willingly promote Onmyoji, artists would make their own creations, and creators would promote one another. Combined with Chen Mo¡¯s own promotion, it was easy for the game to promote itself. In addition to Gokuraku Jodo¡¯s poprity, Chen Mo¡¯s previous works, and a wave of excitement in the mobile card game market driven by Demon yers 2, it allowed Onmyoji to gather the attention of many before release. Chen Mo spent much less money on advertisingpared to Emperor Dynasty Entertainment, but it achieved more or less the same effect. Many yers started downloading Onmyoji from either the Thunderbolt Gaming tform or the official app store. They realised the game was quite big? ¡°My goodness, the inte is so slow. Howe it¡¯s not done after two minutes?¡± ¡°I¡¯m not doing either. Hold on, this game is over 1GB!¡± ¡°Huh? You¡¯re joking right? It¡¯s a card game!¡± ¡°My goodness, it actually is 1GB, no wonder it was so slow.¡± ¡°I¡¯m out of storage on my phone, I have to delete some things!¡± ¡°It¡¯s just a mobile card game. I thought that 480MB for Demon yers 2 was a bit ridiculous, but Onmyoji is 1GB?¡± ¡°Maybe Chen Mo is back to his old self? Ten years making games, nine years in CG? Maybe there are lots of cinematics in this?¡± ¡°My goodness, what is he trying to do?¡± ¡°I think it¡¯s a good thing, this means that Chen Mo isn¡¯t trying to hustle us. This game must be really high quality. Just think about the voice acting and the artwork. This shouldn¡¯t be the usual card based card game.¡± ¡°Makes sense. I¡¯m done downloading now! I¡¯m ying the game!¡± The game started with a simple cinematic. ¡°This story happens in a time where humans and monsters live together...¡± It was a deep Japanese dub with a mysterious background music, covering the world that the game was ced in. ¡°This magnificent and splendid, whimsical world, which belongs to the demons and monsters, is all yours to explore...¡± There were four different characters on the screen after the cinematics ended, all with their unique features. It was Abe no Seimei, Kagura, Hiromasa, and Yao Bikuni. The yers were shocked to see artwork of shuck high quality, trumping every other mobile card game on the market! Nobody would doubt if someone took a screenshot of this iming it was from a PC game. TL note: It¡¯s not her name in the raws, but it was close, I just assumed it was her because all the other names are actual voice actors for the game. Chapter 161 - Chapter 160: Revolutionary Innovation

Chapter 161: Chapter 160: Revolutionary Innovation

In the game, Abe no Seimei was in the middle of the screen, slowly waving his fan back and forth. The background looked like where an Onmyoji would live during a Heian Period, under the cold moonlight with beautiful cherry blossom trees swaying in the background with petals falling from the sky. ¡°Lord Seimei!¡± The story started off with the calls from a mask wearing white fox Shikigami. The graphics of the game looked really polished, and had a really clean UI unlike many other mobile card games. The characters tab, inbox, and chat function were on the top, otherwise there wasn¡¯t anything else on the screen other than an exmation mark on the top of the character and their dialogue. A UI like thisbined with beautiful scenery, high quality models, rxing music, and unique dubs make for an immersive game. This waspletely differentpared to other games. Every new character was apanied by a full body sketch and an overview, allowing yers to immerse easier into the story. Following Inugami¡¯s scenes, the yers started their first guidedbat. This was then the yers realised that the gamey was actually 3D, and they could even adjust their perspective. ¡°My goodness, I thought this was a card game? You can even change the perspective, it¡¯s actually 3D!¡± ¡°The models are so high quality too, it¡¯sparable to a PC game!¡± ¡°The effects of the abilities and the attack animations are really high quality too!¡± ¡°I noticed that the monsters will look in the direction of the characters that are moving. It¡¯s so cute how they move around.¡± ¡°It¡¯s still turn based, but you can control everything! There¡¯s so much freedom given to yers!¡± ¡°I won! Oh, I can draw cards now!¡± ¡°Hmm, this method of drawing is quite interesting, you have to draw out a symbol.¡± ¡°Wow, I drew a cute girl, a purple SR Yuki Onna!¡± ¡°Don¡¯t get too excited, I drew that too. Seems like it was guaranteed from the first draw...¡± ¡°Ahhh! Get this story over with, I want to put in some money and draw some cards!¡± The yers were soon absorbed into the game. The first few hours of the game were also nned. Various mechanics are slowly unlocked as the yers progress through the story, allowing the game to have a grip onto the yers. The Inugami and sparrow scene also gathered the attention of many yers. ¡°This Shiba character is so interesting!¡± ¡°Wow, it seems honest and heartfelt.¡± ¡°Interspecies rtionships... Although this story was quite short, the ending was pretty good and very heartwarming.¡± ¡°The story is great, andbined with the artwork and the voice acting, I actually think Chen Mo is an honest video game designer, he designed Warcraft afterall. Who knew money could make such a difference, in a mobile card game no less!¡± ¡°I¡¯m trapped!¡± ¡ª Other mobile card game designers were also downloading Onmyoji to see what the person who invented this genre could add to it. It didn¡¯t take long for them to realise that there was noparison, even the newly released Demon yers 2 wasn¡¯t on the same level at all! ¡°The graphics and voice acting... Making a game like this probably costs tens of millions right?¡± ¡°Yeah, he must¡¯ve spent a lot of money! I wonder how he¡¯s alright with that!¡± ¡°He¡¯s rich.¡± ¡°Even so, you don¡¯t just spend your money like that. Is Emperor Dynasty Entertainment not right? The problem is, the core of mobile card games are in its gamey, the graphics shouldn¡¯t make much of a difference. Wouldn¡¯t it be better if he spent that money on advertising instead?¡± ¡°Chen Mo also did advertising, and it worked wonders too.¡± ¡°I thought Emperor Dynasty Entertainment was incredibly greedy, but Chen Mo had bigger ambitions than Emperor Dynasty Entertainment! Emperor Dynasty Entertainment wanted to test the waters with Demon yers 2 then monopolize the entire industry with different IPs, but Chen Mo was one step ahead, wanting to take over the entire mobile card game industry with one game!¡± ¡°I think it¡¯s hard to tell. Chen Mo made a bold move, this game yspletely differently from I Am MT. Thebat is turned based now, and the card training system has been overhauled. Are the yers able to ept that?¡± ¡°We¡¯ll only know when the statistics for the monthly ie is released.¡± ¡ª Qiu Bin was probably the one who was most nervous. He downloaded the game as soon as it was avable and had been ying it non-stop to try and figure out this game, and see what changes Chen Mo made to mobile card games. He was shocked, this game was on a whole different levelpared to I Am MT! Qiu bin thought that Chen Mo only changed the theme of the game, with the mechanics of the game remaining true to I Am MT. But he now realised that it wasn¡¯t just the theme, the ystyle waspletely different too! Take raising Shikigamis for example, Onmyojipletely ditched the training system of I Am MT. The level and star system was fairly easy to wrap your mind around, but this Awakening and Souls system? There was also the concept of main characters, there were four Onmyojis, with a whole bunch of abilities. There was also exploration elements, story, shop, and the method of drawing new cards. Although they had some resemnce to a card game, it felt entirely different, and the gamey waspletely overhauled too, you could barely tell it was a mobile card game! Qiu Bin was most baffled at the fact that Onmyoji challenged all his previous knowledge of mobile card games. His three key points from before werepletely ignored in this game. Fragmentation, low cost, huge IP, Onmyoji didn¡¯t match a single one of them! Fragmentation? This game was incredibly tiring to y. The yers would spend five to six hours on the first day, and the yers didn¡¯t feel rxed in theter days too. As long as you were online, there were things to do,pletely ignoring the concept of time fragmentation. Low cost? This cost wasn¡¯t low at all. He spent so much money on artwork and voice acting, this game would easily enter the range of tens of millions, much more than the average PC game! Big IP? Onmyoji didn¡¯t even have an IP. This theme might be known in some specific groups, but most games wouldn¡¯t even care about stories and monsters from that period. You might know Abe no Seimei or Shuten Douji at most, there was no way anyone would know any of the other monsters! Qiu Bin spent so much time and effort to summarise mobile card games into three terms, just to have Chen Mo defy all of them just like that. ¡°Impossible, I don¡¯t buy it. The yers¡¯ tastes can¡¯t be changed that easily. Sure you innovated a whole new y style, but have you considered the cost of yers learning and epting a new game? ¡°It¡¯s so tiring to y this game, and the things are so expensive. There¡¯s no way this will be the new mobile card game!¡± Chapter 162 - Chapter 161: New Player Hints

Chapter 162: Chapter 161: New yer Hints

There were plenty of spaces left on theputers in Chen Mo¡¯s experience store, but the massage chairs were all upied. There were also many who were hanging out on the sofa or in the meeting room, and even some who sat at theputers ying Onmyoji. ¡°Hurry, I started a hunt,e join!¡± said Wen Lingwei. ¡°Senior, what¡¯s that name? Thunderbolt ghost hunting team?¡± eximed Chang Xiuya. ¡°I refuse to join!¡± asserted Qian Kun. ¡°It¡¯s fine isn¡¯t it? Isn¡¯t it better than ¡®the bugger team¡¯[1]?¡± Qian Kun shook his head, ¡°I¡¯d rather join the bugger team!¡± Chen Mo was speechless, ¡°How could you visit the experience store everyday, ying games, instead of searching for a job even though you¡¯ve graduated?¡± Wen Lingwei nced at Chen Mo, ¡°Find a job? I¡¯m not taking any of those garbage jobs. I charge five thousand RMB per drawing anyways, it makes no difference if I have an actual job or not.¡± ¡°Makes sense...¡± Obviously the experience store was the first ce taken over by Onmyoji. Wen Lingwei and Chang Xiuya couldn¡¯t wait to y the game before it was released. Zou Zhuo, who spent all his time ying Warcraft was dragged into it too. And when the game officiallyunched, they got through the story rtively quickly borrowing their experience form before. Chang Xiuya handed her phone to Wen Lingwei, ¡°Senior, I can¡¯t beat this story level...¡± Wen Lingwei was speechless and grabbed her phone, making changes to her strategy. ¡°Equip your souls. You need to train your Shikigami too. How could you beat the story levels without training your Shikigamis. ¡°Your team is a bit weird too, why are you still bringing your N rarity cards... You should train your Yuki Onna for a bit.¡± Wen Lingwei adjusted her strategy as she exined to Chang Xiuya to help her beat the levels. Chang Xiuya was your typical gamer who didn¡¯t care too much aboutbat. Instead, she paid more attention to the artwork, music and story. Of course, this resulted in her unable to beat the story levels... Zheng Hongxi eximed, ¡°Huh? I got an SSR.¡± This sentence gathered everyone in the first floor of the experience store. ¡°Huh? SSR?¡± ¡°What, there¡¯s SSR? in this game? Why have I never seen one before?¡± ¡°My goodness, it¡¯s the first SSR in your hunt! Let¡¯s see what it is!¡± Everyone was gathered around him. Zheng Hongxi passed his phone to show everyone else. On his screen was an ashen haireddy with long legs, SSR Shikigami Aoandon. This created a lot of chatter. ¡°Isn¡¯t that Aoandon? I want it too!¡± ¡°My goodness, he really got an SSR. How did you do it!¡± ¡°Give me some of your luck!¡± ¡°Yeah, how did you get it, teach me your symbol drawing strategy!¡± asked Jia Peng. Zheng Hongxi scratched his head, ¡°I don¡¯t know, I just drew a circle.¡± ¡°I¡¯m drawing a circle too!¡± said Jia Peng. Su Jinyu was speechless, ¡°It doesn¡¯t matter what you draw, it¡¯s more about the process. Which card you get is decided by the RNG from the system.¡± ¡°I don¡¯t care! Just let me have something good!¡± said Jia Peng. Wen Lingwei said to Zheng, ¡°Sell me your ount, I¡¯m offering three hundred RMB!¡± ¡°I can¡¯t sell it, there¡¯s too many things associated with this ount, such as my ID and my phone number.¡± said Zheng Hongxi. Jia Peng said after some thought,¡±What if i buy an ount with an SSR from the inte? They probably sell it there right?¡± Chen Moughed, ¡°You wish, that¡¯s impossible.¡± Jia Peng was shocked, ¡°Why?¡± ¡°You need a Thunderbolt Game Pass to download Onmyoji. And that pass must include ID, and phone number.¡± ¡°Geez! You¡¯re not giving me any chances, manager!¡± Chen Mo patted his shoulder, ¡°Pleaseplete your assignment individually.¡± Wen Lingwei silently put three hundred RMB into the game. ¡°I¡¯ve only gotten two SR cards so far. I¡¯m bringing shame to the lucky folk, I¡¯m topping up!¡± Su Jinyu advised against it, ¡°Calm down, you just need to take your time. There are a lot of free jadeter on. Moreover, it¡¯s not that SSR cards are the best, some R and SR cards are pretty good too.¡± Wen Lingwei shook her head, ¡°I don¡¯t care, I want an SSR!¡± Chen Mo couldn¡¯t help but smile upon seeing their reaction/ Technically there wasn¡¯t a need to have rules as strict as this for a mobile card game, requiring ID and phone number to be tied to your game pass. This was something only high tier VR games would do. Other card games wouldn¡¯t bat an eye when ites to abusing first draw ounts. First draw ounts refers to new ounts that drew rare cards in the early stages of the game. Most mobile card games would give the opportunity for the yers to experience drawing cards. And these cards can be good or bad, and the ounts with good cards are referred to first draw ounts. Some yers will try and grind a first draw ount, some will even make many ounts and try and sell them. There wasn¡¯t a point for other mobile card games to try and limit this. This was abination of the low value of cards, low yer base, and inflexible drawing probability, and wouldn¡¯t do much harm to the game. But Onmyoji was different. Because of the huge yer base and the probability of drawing cards, the cost of SSR cards are incredibly high. This created a huge first draw ount problem in the game, which was bad for both the yers and the developers. Therefore, Chen Mo decided to limit creation of ounts as much as possible, increasing the cost of creating first draw ounts to prevent abuse. This also solved a huge problem Onmyoji had when it was first released. It didn¡¯t take long before everyone was immersed into Onmyoji. Chen Mo wasn¡¯t ying as he had his eyes in the reviews. Onmyoji¡¯s reviews were really high so far, maintaining around 8.8. Most of them were five star reviews with a few one star reviews. There were a lot of bots among the bot reviews. Although some were better hidden than others, some were really obvious, overstating the ws of the games. There was feedback and insults, but the yers who liked the game were in the majority. But many of the yers expressed that they are finding it can¡¯t to understand the game because of how different it waspared to other mobile card games. There were many tagging Chen Mo on Weibo, asking for some tips. Chen Mo decided to post a Weibo. Onmyoji new yer tips: Demon Parade: A mysterious system that gives your friends three N card shards to your friends. Shikigami Scrolls: Makes fun of your drawings every Monday. Realm Cards: A mysterious card that seems to be able be leveled to six stars, but have never personally done it. Realm Raid: A confidence training system that makes you think you¡¯re good. Duel: A system that takes away from your confidence that you gained from Realm Raids Souls Shop: Synonymous with bankruptcy. Talisman Pass: Although you can¡¯t get Ootengu, you might be able to get a strand of hair from this mechanic. Max Goryou: Because you don¡¯t have money to level up using souls. Story level 35: A level that nobody beats when they are level 35. Challenge 18: Harder than the story. Watcher: Something you thought you didn¡¯tck, but found out you needed it badly. Speech Summoning: Pick your incantation carefully. The more quirky you are the better your chance of drawing SSR. But if you exceed the threshold, the whole world will hear what you said. Incantation example: Bla energy, dolo dolo, transform! Face: The most important thing in the game. Rare Shikigami: SSR cards does not exist in this game TL note [1]: It¡¯s a reference to a guild from the animated series I Am MT Chapter 163 - Chapter 162: Other Mobile Card Games are Panicking

Chapter 163: Chapter 162: Other Mobile Card Games are Panicking

The yers were dumbfounded upon seeing the Weibo. ¡°What is this? New yer hints?¡± ¡°The most important thing in the game is face? No SSR in this game? Geez, are they taunting us?¡± ¡°Hahaha, why is Chen Mo making fun of his own game?¡± ¡°This Chen Mo guys is up to no good. I almost believed that whatever I say affects the SSR drawing rate.¡± ¡°Chen Mo ys the hater role well. I wanted to hate Onmyoji, but there¡¯s no way I out hate Chen Mo!¡± Countless yers walked into the trap Chen Mo set up among all theughter. ¡ª As Onmyoji continued to gain poprity, it didn¡¯t take long before it infiltrated different mobile card gamemunities. -In a randompany- ¡°Have you yed Onmyoji?¡± ¡°Nope, I heard it¡¯s quite popr. Have you yed it? How is it?¡± ¡°It¡¯s addicting! I¡¯ve uninstalled all the other mobile card games.¡± ¡°Huh? Really?¡± ¡°Really! This game is incredibly fun. Time flies when you¡¯re staring at the phone ying the game, and all of a sudden you¡¯re off work or past bedtime. I don¡¯t even feel like ying other card games.¡± ¡°Really?¡± ¡°Really really. You¡¯ll know when you try it. Other card games seem so crude after ying Onmyoji, I can¡¯t stand them at all.¡± ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll give it a try.¡± -At a random school- ¡°My goodness! I drew an SSR! Ootengu!¡± ¡°Really? How did you get it, did you spend money?¡± ¡°Nope, I just decided to make a draw after having lunch, I didn¡¯t expect to find Ootengu!¡± ¡°Let me see. Wow, this ability, the special ability, that character model. Amazing! I want one too!¡± ¡°You make a draw too.¡± ¡°More draws? I¡¯ve spent over two hundred RMB, I haven¡¯t even seen an SSR. I¡¯m spending another three hundred RMBter, there¡¯s no way I don¡¯t draw one!¡± -Among a group of gamers- ¡°Ubume is the king of duels! Fight me if you disagree!¡± ¡°Shouzu, Kyuuketsu Hime, and Mirror Lady disagree!¡± ¡°What are you guys talking about? I only have one SR, Yuki Onna!¡± ¡°Get out of here!¡± ¡°I don¡¯t know what you guys are arguing about. My five SSRs are just here silently watching you argue.¡± ¡°Wow, let me rub some luck off you!¡± ¡°Please take me as your son!¡± -Onmyoji Discussion Forum- ¡°Chen Mo was right! SSR doesn¡¯t exist in this game! I¡¯ve been had!¡± ¡°I just fell into the trap today, can anyone help me with a better strategy?¡± ¡°Send a picture of your Shikigamis¡± ¡°If you¡¯re lucky you can do anything, otherwise, there¡¯s nothing you can do.¡± ¡°I¡¯ve looked into it, there are quite a few really strong R cards. Some of them are stronger than SSR cards when they are awakened, easier to train too.¡± ¡°Didn¡¯t Chen Mo say that SSR only represents its rarity, not its strength? Strong R cards are quite normal.¡± ¡°I¡¯ve won many duels against SSR cards with my R. I think this game is quite fair, unlike other games where you just have to spend money and get rare cards to win!¡± ¡°So what if you beat SSR cards with R cards? You¡¯re still unlucky.¡± ¡°Shut up! Someone line him up for execution!¡± -Demon yers 2 Discussion Forum- ¡°Anybody tried out Onmyoji? Feels much more fun than Demon yers.¡± ¡°Another one from the other side, how much did Chen Mo pay you? Emperor Dynasty will pay you double!¡± ¡°Pfft, sent by Chen Mo. Can¡¯t you use your brain? That game is actually quite fun.¡± ¡°I agree, I¡¯ve yed it and found that the game is better than Demon yers 2 in every single aspect, especially story and graphics. I feel like I¡¯m not even ying a mobile game anymore.¡± ¡°Mods deleting my most? Have it your way!¡± ¡°Whatever, since most say Onmyoji is fun, I¡¯ll go try it out. May we meet again.¡± ¡°It¡¯s been three days, previous poster. Is Onmyoji fun? Can you say something?¡± ¡ª Many video game designers of therge mobile card gamepanies felt the impact of Onmyoji, with their daily active yers taking huge blows. Demon yers 2 fared better than the other worse and outdated mobile card games. As the number of daily active yers fell, the server activities fell dramatically too. Many servers were deserted, and many yers from differentmunities have shifted to Onmyoji. Naturally, the revenue for these mobile cards dropped dramatically too. These designers were panicking. But there wasn¡¯t much they could do. Even Emperor Dynasty Entertainment¡¯s Demon yer¡¯s 2 could only stand and watch, what else could they do?¡± ¡°Our daily active users dropped tens of thousands again! Our days are over!¡± ¡°Yeah, our revenue is horrible to look at. At this rate, we might only be able tost another month before shutting it down.¡± ¡°All the yers shifted to Onmyoji.¡± ¡°Is that game really that good? It wasn¡¯t even that bad when Demon yers 2 came out right?¡± ¡°Yeah, it doesn¡¯t make sense. In theory brand loyalty is much stronger for mobile card games. These yers have spent so much money to draw rare cards, how could they just leave like that?¡± ¡°I heard Demon yers 2 took heavy blows too, but I don¡¯t know exactly what happened.¡± ¡°Onmyoji had only been online for a few days, that¡¯s crazy!¡± ¡°I think Onmyoji should enter best sellers anytime soon, even though it was released on the official appstore and the Thunderbolt Gaming tform.¡± ¡°I also think that Onmyoji can¡¯t be bad. At this rate, it¡¯s only a matter of time before it surpasses Demon yers 2!¡± ¡°Is Emperor Dynasty Entertainment just going to watch?¡± ¡°What can they do? Send their people over to leave bad reviews? Everything is in their favour right now, it wouldn¡¯t do anything. Moreover, bad reviews wouldn¡¯t do much. Mobile card games always had bad reviews, it doesn¡¯t matter for free games at all!¡± ¡°Geez, there¡¯s nothing stopping these yers from heading to Onmyoji!¡± ¡ª Many had their eyes on Onmyoji¡¯s performance, but nobody knew how well the game did. It had only been a few days since the game was released. They could all tell that the game was really popr from the downloads and the trending topics, but nobody knew the statistics such as yer retention, daily active users, and monthly revenue. They were all waiting for Onmyoji to enter the best sellers. Could it potentially drag Demon yers 2 into second ce? Chapter 164 - Chapter 163: Horrifying Monthly Revenue

Chapter 164: Chapter 163: Horrifying Monthly Revenue

The next month was a month that shocked all video game media, video game designers and gamers alike . Neen days into Onmyoji¡¯s life there were more than two million daily active users. That number reached 3.9 million in twenty eight days, and broke four million at the end of the month! The even scarier thing was that the yer base was still growing rapidly. Some industry professionals estimate that if this growth continued, Onmyoji could reach ten million yers ny days in! Ten million daily active yers would put it on par with tabletop games like Dou Dizhu, and would leave the other mobile card games in dust. The profitability of mobile card games are on apletely different levelpared to table top gains. This many yers suggests that Onmyoji¡¯s monthly ie could reach an incredible level! Onmyoji reached the best sellers leaderboards a week after it was released, and was rapidly gaining momentum. It reached the top five in the second week, and surpassed Demon yers 2 to reach the top in the third. Afterwards, Onmyojifortably sat on the top spot for a long time. There was nothing Demon yers 2 could do, as they stood no chance, no matter how much more advertising they did. At this point, it was impossible to know how much Onmyoji was making because there was no point of reference. Everybody knew that it surpassed Demon yers 2¡¯s sixty five million, but by how much was still a question. Many third parties were trying hard to figure out how much Onmyoji was making a month, but they could only perform an estimate. This was because there were a lot of yers that downloaded the gaming from Thunderbolt Gaming tform. But many thought that the ie from Thunderbolt Gaming tform must be less that the official app store, and could surpass one billionbined. The thought of a mobile game breaking a billion RMB a month would have never crossed the mind of any videogame designer. Who could¡¯ve thought that soon after Demon yers 2 set a new record, another new record would be set, one that might be in the billions at that. Only Chen Mo knew this number. A month after Onmyoji was released, the highest daily active yers was four million, second day retention of 47%, average revenue per user of 221.3, resulting in a monthly revenue of three hundred and seventy million! The video game industry was shocked when Chen Mo released this figure publicly. This number exceeded his estimations, but was still reasonable. The ARPU was much higher than he thought, but it was dragged down by the rtively fewer yers in this world. This was because the yers in this world were much more willing to spend, meaning that there were more medium to low paying yers. It was still reasonable because Onmyoji¡¯s statistics from his previous life were even more ridiculous. It had more than four million peak daily active users, six billion in revenue in the first month, and fourteen billion in the second. There were more than two hundred and seventy thousand reviews on the app store in the first month, and 14.1 billion hits on the topic Onmyoji on Weibo in the first two months. You could even say it was a national phenomena. In the parallel world, because Chen Mo couldn¡¯tpete with the advertising in the previous world, and the mobile gaming industry wasn¡¯t as big, resulting in a lower three hundred and seventy million, but still enough to give everyone a shock. The previous top mobile card game Demon yers 2 only had sixty five million in monthly revenue, and Onmyoji destroyed it by an order of magnitude! Even PC and VR game designers were discussing this. ¡°Chen Mo¡¯s Onmyoji broke three hundred and seventy million in monthly revenue? That means he has over two hundred million at hand? Really? Two hundred million?¡± ¡°Are you serious? That¡¯s money, not happy beans!¡± ¡°Yeah, you¡¯d be incredibly rich to have a hundred million in assets, but this guy made that money in a month? You¡¯re joking right?¡± ¡°So many VR game designers can¡¯t make that much, how did a mobile game manage that?¡± ¡°It¡¯s not that simple, what about the cost?¡± ¡°Cost? It might be ten odd million, I¡¯d take him a few days to make it back!¡± ¡°I¡¯m dumbfounded. No way, he must be lying right?¡± ¡°I think so too, he¡¯s probably lying to create publicity for the game?¡± ¡°But Onmyoji is still growing, it¡¯ll probably be higher next month!¡± ¡°I have nothing to say!¡± ¡°Man, now I want to make mobile games. What can we do with PC games, we can barely make money!¡± Of course, the video game media was just as shocked. ¡°Two hundred million into his pocket? Chen Mo¡¯s mobile game is going crazy!¡± ¡°The winner of the mobile card game saga?¡± ¡°Chen Mo: started and ended the era of mobile card games¡± ¡°The secret behind Onmyoji making three hundred and seventy million a month¡± ¡°yer activity: How much did you contribute to the three hundred million?¡± Mobile card game professional: I don¡¯t understand this game ¡ª Onmyoji hadn¡¯t copped much anger thus far as most were still shocked by this game. The high quality graphics and voice acting, richbat, interesting story, and frightening profitability, these were all trending topics that only gave Onmyoji praises. However, there were also many angry yers. The game was less time consuming after Chen Mo made changes to Onmyoji, so the hatred was all focused on one point: scammy. Especially the resentment towards SSR cards, mostlying from the unlucky ones. There were more and more posts appearing on various forums questioning the drop chance of Onmyoji. ¡°Is the SSR drop rate of this game lower than one in ten thousand? Howe I¡¯ve never seen one? The people I know who spent a lot of money haven¡¯t seen one either!¡± ¡°Yeah, I Am MT had a failsafe, howe it doesn¡¯t even exist for SR cards in Onmyoji!¡± ¡°I think Chen Mo made this game so horribly. I thought he was quite a nice developer, but it seems like I was wrong!¡± ¡°I¡¯ve spent nearly five thousand RMB and I haven¡¯t even seen a glimpse of an SSR unit. Can you exin this to me Chen Mo?¡± ¡°I want to go up to the experience store andin about this to him in person!¡± ¡°Me too, let¡¯s upvote this post so Chen Mo will see! You can¡¯t take our money like this!¡± Chapter 165 - Chapter 164: No SSR in This Game

Chapter 165: Chapter 164: No SSR in This Game

Chen Mo replied soon after. ¡°Tomorrow 8pm at room 10013 on Moyu streaming website I¡¯ll show you guys how to properly draw SSR cards and what being lucky truly means!¡± The Weibo was quickly reposted by fans. ¡°What? Chen Mo is streaming?¡± ¡°He¡¯s drawing SSRs on stream? Are you trying to rub salt on our wounds?¡± ¡°I mean, you¡¯re the designer, you change the rates as you please. It wouldn¡¯t even be surprising if you drew SSR cards every time!¡± ¡°Do you want more haters?¡± ¡°I¡¯ll be waiting for tomorrow night just to talk trash!¡± ¡°Can I rub some of your luck off you? Please!¡± ¡°Who cares about drawing SSRs, I want to watch you y Warcraft!¡± ¡°Yeah, can you please show us the way as Silent again?¡± It didn¡¯t take long for the Weibo to get more than fifty thousand reposts. Moreover, Moyu also gave Chen Mo¡¯s stream a special promotional spot, titled: Onmyoji¡¯s designer Chen Mo will teach the techniques for drawing SSRs himself!¡± The yers were confused, was there really a special technique? Could it be that failing the draw the symbols will affect the result of the drawing process? Many yers curiously waited at room 10013 for Chen Mo¡¯s stream to start. At 8pm, the livestream started. The viewers were greeted with long slender legs. Gokuraku Jodo started ying, and three beautiful female cosyers cosying Onmyoji characters started dancing. The haters were all confused. ¡°What? These girls are so pretty!¡± ¡°Where¡¯s Chen Mo? Which one of these is Chen Mo?¡± ¡°Don¡¯t think we¡¯ll forgive you just by showing us a few pretty girls, unless you¡¯re giving us their contact number!¡± ¡°I thought we were gaining something from this, we¡¯ve been had!¡± ¡°It¡¯s over already? Don¡¯t leave yet!¡± ¡°Go away Chen Mo, I wanna watch the girls dance!¡± After the dance was finished, the girls went off screen, and the screen switched a huge poster of Onmyoji characters. There was a small table and five single sofas in front of the poster. Chen Mo and the three cosyers sat on the sofas, along the female host. Chen Mo didn¡¯t dress up for this asion, and wore what he usually would. This was a streaming space by Moyu, there were also professional videographers hosted. Chen Mo looked quick rxed and there was some back and forth with the host. ¡°Let¡¯s wee Mr Chen Mo to our studio. I¡¯m joined with three cosyers, we¡¯ve all yed Onmyoji, but none of us have any SSR. I¡¯ve probably spent the most money here at around eight hundred RMB, and I haven¡¯t seen a single SSR,¡± said the host. Chen Mo replied,¡±That¡¯s why I¡¯m here to show you guys how to draw SSRs.¡± ¡°Yes, and we at Moyu had made some preparations ording to Mr Chen Mo¡¯s specifications. Let¡¯s take a look,¡± said the host. One of the cosyers had a brand new phone in their hands. The host held the phone and shook it at the camera, ¡°As you can see, this phone is brand new, so there¡¯s no chance that we could¡¯ve done anything to it. Now, Mr Chen Mo will open it.¡± Chen Mo grabbed the phone and downloaded Onmyoji. He also closed his eyes to create a random ount, and got the ID and phone number of a staff member. ¡°You guys all saw, there is no way that through the entire process that we could¡¯ve rigged anything.¡± Chen Mo showed the phone to the camera. ¡°I¡¯ll now show you guys the proper way to draw SSR. ¡°First, you must be sincere when you draw SSRs, anything can happen when you put your mind to it as they say...¡± Chen Mo continued to make up a story as he went through the story in game. The host, cosyers and viewers at home had their eyes peeled, afraid that they would miss anything. It didn¡¯t take long before he beat the story and was able to start drawing cards, and drew Yuki Onna, the first draw set by the system. Chen Mo paid thirty thousand RMB for credits in the game. ¡°Now take a look, I¡¯ve put in thirty thousand RMB into this ount. There is plenty of jade for us to draw many many times. Can you guys guess how many SSRs we¡¯ll be able to draw? ¡°Wow, you guys are saying three? You underestimate me. I was born under a lucky star! ¡°Five? Seven? ¡°You guys have no idea how lucky I am. Now don¡¯t blink because I will now show you how to draw SSRs.¡± Chen Mo got a basin of water from the side. ¡°First, you must cleanse your hand and your face.¡± Chen Mo cleansed himself as he said, and dried himself using a towel. ¡°Alright, now it¡¯s time for the miracle!¡± Chen Mo drew a star on the screen, and the animation yed! Everyone had their eyes glued to the screen. It was a R rarity Shikigami, Sanbi no Kitsune! ¡°Pfft!¡± the host could barely hold back hisughter. Chen Mo let out a few embarrassed coughs, ¡°Ahem, it¡¯s fine. Even the most lucky person can fail sometimes. I¡¯ll show you guys another technique.¡± Chen Mo grabbed an incense burner from the side and lit three joss sticks. ¡°Oh great Buddah, please grant me an SSR!¡± Chen Mo drew another star, and drew another R, Kodokushi! Chen Mo was a bit embarrassed, ¡°Haha, don¡¯t worry, I still have a lot of methods of drawing cards I haven¡¯t shown. Just treat the previous two as sacrificial ones.¡± Chen Mo moved the basin of water and the incense burner to the side, ¡°These are all things of the outside. Drawing cards muste from the inside, like this.¡± Chen Mo said to the phone, ¡°Bla fairy! Show yourself, my SSR!¡± Another R card appeared, Hotarugusa! The corner of Chen Mo¡¯s mouth twitched, ¡°Don¡¯t worry. I still have a lot of strategies, I¡¯ll pass it all on to you guys today.¡± Chen Mo showed many many different strategies. Five second dy, draw on the hour, cumtive draw, emotionally touch Shikigami method, call daddy method, change name method, do better art method... Chen Mo tried all the different methods. After a whole hour of drawing, other than a duplicate Yuki Onna and a Youko, he didn¡¯t draw any other SR, not to mention SSRs! The cosyers and host couldn¡¯t hold back theirughter, and the chat was going wild too. ¡°Hahaha, Chen Mo proved himself that SSRs doesn¡¯t exist in this game!¡± ¡°He even did all those things so seriously, maybe it depends on your bloodline!¡± ¡°Would Chen Mo go back and increase the drop rate for these cards?¡± ¡°I didn¡¯t think Chen Mo would be someone so unlucky hidden in in sight, I feel better now!¡± ¡°I feel like Chen Mo was about to cry at the end, hahahaha! Chapter 166 - Chapter 165: Another Interview

Chapter 166: Chapter 165: Another Interview

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales There were many different emoticon packs being shared around on Weibo and various different forums of Chen Mo¡¯s various expressions during the stream, all with different texts. ¡°I think SSRs don¡¯t exist in this game.¡± ¡°Tears of the unlucky.¡± ¡°Stop crying, you¡¯re in the presence of the most unlucky.¡± ¡°Lucky turned unlucky.¡± ¡°I don¡¯t know what to do if I don¡¯t draw SSRs.¡± ¡°Draw once before sleep, all of them were Rs!¡± It didn¡¯t take long before it became the hot topic of the day on the Onmyoji forums. Chen Mo card drawing livestream also became a trending topic on Weibo. The yers were full of anger and wanted to release it all onto Chen Mo, but who knew he couldn¡¯t draw an SSR when he was so serious about it too! And he seemed much more angry and the average yer! Many yers felt like they got their answer. There weren¡¯t any tricks and techniques to this game, it all depends on how lucky you were, even the designer couldn¡¯t escape this! A majority of the hatred was quenched following theughter. Many of them concluded that the rates are always the same, it¡¯s their problem that they couldn¡¯t draw SSRs! And just like that, the fight between the developer and yers were changed into the battle between the lucky and the unlucky, and Chen Mo never got much hate for this again. As for the Chinese mobile game market, it was still dealing with the aftermath of Onmyoji¡¯s release. So developers finally understood the mechanics behind I Am MT, but out came Onmyoji. What¡¯s worse was that the two games seemed to have no simrities. I Am MT was copping a lot of hatred while making tons of money, with a rtively low score. On the other hand, Onmyoji was still getting hate and making money, but the ratings were really high! The designers were trying to figure out how to copy Onmyoji, but it didn¡¯t take long for them to realise they couldn¡¯t. Many designers couldn¡¯t understand how Onmyoji got popr in the first ce. ¡ª If the designers couldn¡¯t understand, there was no way the media could figure it out. ¡¯s journalist Han Lu was organising files rted to Onmyoji, but was more and more confused as she looked deeper into it. She interviewed him when I Am MT was released, but she got nothing out of it, and got yed by Chen Mo instead. Things like ¡°Making happiness mindfully¡±, ¡°Passion, sincerity,mitment¡±, and ¡°All for the yers¡± were all gags that were used by the yers again and again. And Han Lu¡¯s article had been beaten like a dead horse again and again, there were many horriblements driving Han Lu mad. After Onmyoji became so popr, the Editor in Chief thought it would be a good idea to have Han Lu interview Chen Mo again. Han Lu tried really hard to refuse, but the Editor in Chief was determined to have her do it. ¡°It¡¯s fine, even if you get nothing out of him. Even if you release an article likest time, it would still bring many clicks to our website. Just try and make it as clickable as possible, alright?¡± Han Lu decided on interviewing Chen Mo once again. But this time she decided to expand her range of questions. Instead of focusing on Onmyoji, she could ask questions about Warcraft and Wulin Legend as well. Perhaps he would start making sense if it was thrown a curveball! After preparing some statistics and material, Han Lu bore her warriors heart and drove towards Chen Mo¡¯s experience store. ¡ª Han Lu noticed that there were many more yers than before in the experience store. It was almost at max capacity, there were even some chatting while waiting for their turn. There were also many who weren¡¯t here to y games. There was one who was queueing up against a statue of Kagura. This Kagura statue was around 1.5 metres, the same height as your average loli. It looked really close to the one in the game and was highly detailed too. It even had her right hand forwards, the same pose as one of the Onmyoji posters. There were many smaller figurines behind Kagura. They were all SSR Shikigamis, including Ootengu, Shuten Douji, Ibaraki Douji, and Aoandon, all standing behind a shelf behind Kagura. The experience store felt quite spacious before, but it felt incredibly cramped this time around because of the addition of the statue, the shelves, and the many people queueing up. But the yers didn¡¯t seem to mind as their focus was on their phones trying to grind resources in game. Han Lu was curious, what were they doing? She could only see that the yers were waiting patiently in line, and when it was their turn, they would put their hands together then touch Kagura¡¯s right hand, mumbling, ¡°Please give me a Shuten Douji!¡± Han Lu was shocked, ¡°That¡¯s what they are doing?¡± She grabbed one of the yers, asking, ¡°Does that do anything?¡± ¡°Who knows, but I¡¯m here anyways, of course I¡¯m going to pray. I heard it works,¡± replied the yer. Han Lu was shocked, how could the yers be so into this! There were new yers visiting the experience store every day ever since Onmyoji gained poprity. Chen Mo thought it wouldn¡¯t be good if the yers travelled all this way just to sit around and do nothing, which was why he ordered the statue and figurines to have something to wish to. It actually worked quite well. Many yers drew an SSR after wishing. They even tried to get other yers on the forum to try it out. This resulted in many fans from the Imperial Capitaling over, queuing up for a long time just to have a wish. Chen Mo also sold a bunch of figurines and made a bunch of money. It couldn¡¯t be helped, who knew the unlucky were so desperate to have a change of fate? ¡ª Su Jinyu brought Han Lu to the second floor. Just likest time, Chen Mo was waiting for her in his office, and even poured her a ss of water. Han Lu however was much more wary, she even decided to do some revision before she entered. Chen Mo looked at her and said, ¡°You feel a bit nervous, don¡¯t worry, it¡¯s just an interview.¡± Han Lu was speechless, how could she be treated as the guest again! Am I interviewing you or are you interviewing me! After regaining herposure, she smiled and said, ¡°We meet again Mr. Chen Mo. Our previous interview resonated quite well with the fans, I hope we¡¯ll be able to show the yers more this time around.¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°No problem.¡± ¡°First I¡¯d like to congratte you for the awesome figures that Onmyoji managed to get. You could say that it¡¯s sittingfortably in the top spot, leaving Demon yers 2 miles behind. ording to you, Onmyoji¡¯s monthly ie is more than three hundred million. What is your rating for a game like Onmyoji?¡± asked Han Lu Chapter 167 - Chapter 166: Silently Watching Him Tell Lies

Chapter 167: Chapter 166: Silently Watching Him Tell Lies

Chen Mo replied after some thought, ¡°Oh, this game is the same as I Am MT, a form of ¡®creating happiness mindfully¡¯ I guess. I think the sess of Onmyojies from the yers, and evidently, the yers are feeling the happiness I created for them more than ever.¡± The corner of Han Lu¡¯s mouth twitched, Chen Mo was still the same as before! But Han Lu wasn¡¯t worried as she came prepared. ¡°Many yersin that the game relies too heavily on RNG and the game doesn¡¯t treat the unlucky ones among us well, what do you think?¡± Chen Mo replied, ¡°Oh I thinkpared to I Am MT, Onmyoji is even more bnced.¡± Han Lu was confused, what did this mean? How could you call a game that had so many paying yers bnced? Chen Mo could tell that she was confused, exining, ¡°You see, in I Am MT, you be stronger the more you pay. The whales have a definite advantage over free yers. But in Onmyoji, the whales aren¡¯t any stronger than the free yers. It¡¯s not like they can¡¯t draw SSRs if they don¡¯t pay. As long as they word hard, they can beat the whales too. Doesn¡¯t this show that Onmyoji is more fair and bnced than I Am MT?¡± Han Lu was shocked, she felt that something wasn¡¯t quite right, yet couldn¡¯t refute. And maybe Chen Mo actually made sense? Han Lu got that thought out of her mind and switched topics. ¡°There were rumours that you have your assistants eighteen months of pay in year end bonus after your sess in Onmyoji. Is that true?¡± Chen Mo replied, ¡°No, that¡¯s just a rumour.¡± Han Lu nodded,¡± I thought it sounded too good to be true, I might¡¯ve believed it if it was five or six months.¡± Chen Mo replied a few momentster, ¡°It¡¯s quite easy to tell that it¡¯s fake. It¡¯s not the end of the year, it was a quarterly bonus.¡± Han Lu was utterly shocked, ¡°Huh? Eighteen months of pay as quarterly bonus?¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Yes, everybody knows that us at Thunderbolt Entertainment will always follow the idea of ¡®creating happiness mindfully¡¯. I hope that every one of my staff will put their heart into making each and every game. MOney isn¡¯t what is important, it¡¯s our ideal and our love of video games that brings us together. ¡°This bonus is to ensure that they have their basic necessities. There¡¯s quite a lot of stress living in the imperial capital, and it¡¯s difficult working with me... Before Chen Mo could finish, Han Lu was shocked. Eighteen months pay as quarterly bonus? To ensure basic necessities? ¡°Are you guys hiring? Perhaps someone who has studied in a major university?¡± asked Han Lu. ¡°We aren¡¯t reallycking help at the moment...¡± ¡°Just cleaning is fine too!¡± eximed Han Lu. Chen Moughed, ¡°We have some ns to hire more, but I haven¡¯t decided on when.¡± Han Lu nodded,¡±Ahem, alright. Let¡¯s move onto our next topic. ¡°Everybody knows that you¡¯re the number one video game designer who knows how to make money. What do you think about the idea of making money? Do you have any secrets?¡± ¡°Well, I¡¯m not making games just for money, it¡¯s just something that happens along the way.¡± Han Lu was confused, ¡°Something that just happens?¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Yeah, the reason I make games is to give yers happiness, add value to society, in the name of art. I¡¯m actually losing money a lot of the time.¡± Han Lu was shocked, ¡°You? Lose money?¡± Are you kidding? Onmyoji had two hundred million RMB in revenue a month. You? Losing money? That¡¯s just in lying! How are you going to exin yourself this time? Chen Mo exined, ¡°You don¡¯t believe me? Take a look at Onmyoji. I give jade to the yers quite often, every holiday, every update, and it¡¯s a few hundred jade every time. That¡¯s all money. ¡°Even the yers are saying they are building up a small fortune. This clearly means that the yers are benefiting from this. ¡°Think about it, if I give each yer one or two hundred jade every day, at a few million daily active yers, how much money am I giving out a day? ¡°You don¡¯t need to be good at maths to know that it¡¯s a humongous number! ¡°So the free yers are so happy ying Onmyoji. They can draw SSRs without spending a single cent. Aren¡¯t the yers the ones benefiting in this instance?¡± Han Lu was shocked, with a ¡°I¡¯ll just watch you run your mouth¡± look on her face. Obviously it was hard to get Chen Mo to open up about Onmyoji, so she decided to pivot to another game instead. ¡°You¡¯ve also switched to the PC market for a bit right? You¡¯ve made two very sessful games, Warcraft and Wulin Legend. They are known as the best in their genres. ¡°I¡¯d like why did you choose to make it a pay to y game, instead of a free to y game like Onmyoji?¡± Chen Mo gave it some thought, ¡°If the yers really want it, I could probably do that...¡± Han Lu stopped Chen Mo as soon as she could, ¡°Wait! I mean it¡¯s quite nice like that!¡± Han Lu¡¯s heart almost jumped out of her chest. If Chen Mo really changed Warcraft to the same profit model as Onmyoji, she¡¯d definitely be hunted down by the fans. Chen Mo continued, ¡°It¡¯s not too hard from an implementation perspective, I mean, if the yers really want that...¡± Han Lu stopped him again, ¡°The yers aren¡¯t asking for it, let¡¯s end it at that!¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Alright.¡± Han Lu wiped sweat off her forehead, ¡°Well, what are your thoughts on the future of the mobile card game industry? We all know that I Am MT started the whole saga, with many video game designers following suit. Do you think other designers will copy, I mean take inspiration from Onmyoji? ¡°I think there are designers out there who are really interested in referencing Onmyoji. But I¡¯ll be honest, the mobile card game industry is huge, but it doesn¡¯t have enough space for other games after ounting for Onmyoji. Han Lu was shocked, he really did say it! He said that the entire mobile card game industry was his, and hinted that everyone should back off! It¡¯s like he¡¯s dering war on the other mobile card game designers! Chapter 168 - Many Lies Chapter 168: Chapter 167: Many Lies The interviewsted two hours, and every trap Han Luid down had been dealt with by Chen Mo. Han Lu even felt that Chen Mo was the one trapping her. Han Lu decided to leave when she exhausted all her questions. ¡°Thanks for having me today.¡± Han Lu was bothered by the fact that she was alright even though she didn¡¯t get a single serious answer. Chen Mo replied, ¡°You¡¯re wee. I hope you¡¯ll do justice to this interview, and show my love for the yers to them.¡± Han Lu said goodbye before leaving the experience store. She had written down plenty of notes, but after reading it through again, it didn¡¯t seem like she had much useful information written down at all. However, she found herself to be alright with that and this was within her expectations. ¡ª The article was released three dayster. It more or less followed the interview without adding much to it. Han Lu released the interview exactly as Chen Mo said. It wasn¡¯t that Han Lu didn¡¯t want to add anything to it, she couldn¡¯t! Han Lu was surprised that the Editor in Chief was happy with the article. It was released on the gaming channel on Tianji titled: ¡®Interviewing Onmyoji¡¯s creator: Money is something that happens along the way.¡± There was a paragraph that was as followed: ¡°When the author asked if he had a secret as the country¡¯s best videogame designer at making money, Chen Mo responded: Well, I¡¯m not making games just for money, it¡¯s just something that happens along the way and the reason he makes games is to give yers happiness, add value to society, in the name of art. He also added that he actually losing money a lot of the time.¡± Many fans were angered by this article as it was shared to various forums and websites, and even quoted by other media. ¡°Another one! This editor is working with Chen Mo to steal my IQ points again!¡± ¡°My goodness! I¡¯d have to be stupid to believe this!¡± ¡°Onmyoji is more bnced? Are you joking?¡± ¡°Last poster, Chen Mo is right. It¡¯s fair when everythinges down to luck.¡± ¡°My goodness, eighteen months of bonus? Chen Mo is so rich! Does anybody have Thunderbolt Entertainment¡¯s recruitment line? I wanna be hired as a janitor!¡± ¡°Previous poster, you¡¯re wrong, it¡¯s a quarterly bonus.¡± ¡°How can someone be so rich! I¡¯m so mad!¡± ¡°Refund my hard earned money Chen Mo!¡± ¡°He¡¯s here with that ¡®create happiness mindfully¡¯ crap again! I knew that this guy was evil deep down. He might seem nice in Warcraft and Tale of Wuxia, but you see his true form when he¡¯s in mobile games! ¡°Yeah, I¡¯m only ying his PC games in the future, I¡¯m boycotting his mobile games!¡± ¡°Can you guys rx? Are you trying to get Chen Mo to move that profit model to the PC market?¡± ¡°Huh? He wouldn¡¯t, right?¡± ¡°Stop talking about it, it¡¯ll be terrible if he does!¡± ¡°My goodness, making money is just a side thing? Casually making two hundred million a month? I¡¯m impressed at how someone can be so alright with being so full of themselves.¡± ¡°Casually making money, Silent?¡± ¡°He¡¯s saying that he¡¯s the one losing money and we¡¯re the ones gaining? I actuallyughed.¡± ¡°The video game industry¡¯s king of lies have been born!¡± ¡ª Other video game designers are also shocked to see this interview. ¡°What is this? How can Chen Mo be so full of himself?¡± ¡°What is this word of caution that even though the mobile game market is big, it can¡¯t fit anyone else?¡± ¡°My goodness, he¡¯s so full of himself!¡± ¡°Does he really think that Onmyoji has the whole market in its palms? Does he think he can do anything he wants when he¡¯s rich?¡± ¡°I¡¯m going to make another mobile card game just because of this!¡± ¡°Hold on, rx! At this point, whoever tries to go against Onmyoji will suffer!¡± ¡°I¡¯m so mad! Can someone stop this guy!¡± ¡°Who can? Even Demon yers 2 is staying Silent!¡± ¡ª Another storm in the mobile gaming industry had been whipped up by Onmyoji, and Chen Mo was having the time of his life. He could finally rx and take in the money. But he was troubled by the increasing amount of visitors in the experience store. There are more and more Onmyoji yersing from far and wide just to visit the Kagura statue, wishing for an SSR. The experience store had been really full as ofte because of that. And Su Jinyu could barely handle working the front desk while working as an assistant too. Chen Mo wanted to keep a small team that focused on making medium to small games in order to build capital. It was because smaller teams are more efficient and would have a better effect at training his assistants. But the poprity of Warcraft and Onmyoji gave Chen Mo a pressure to hire more staff and get a better working environment. It was quite terrible to have Zheng Hongxi and Qian Kun work in an environment surrounded by yers. Moreover, Chen Mo had a lot of cash in hand following the release of Onmyoji. Warcraft had 5.7 million sales so far, bringing him six hundred and thirty million RMB in revenue. Onmyoji brought in two hundred and sixty million in revenue a month. These two games formed the majority of Chen Mo¡¯s ie. Chen Mo could barely bring himself to look at the revenue other games brought in as games like Tale of Wuxia contributed peanuts to his ie. Warcraft cost the most in development cost among all his games. It cost more than eighty million including all the cinematics. Onmyoji was much cheaper at around twenty million. And when taking out the promotion and advertising costs for the games, Chen Mo had around seven hundred million at hand. Of course, most of this money came from Warcraft. Warcraft was doing quite well because of all the new RPG maps, but the sales were sure to slowly slide down in the future. It naturally had less yers as an RTS game. Moreover, Thunderbolt Entertainment had limited impacts overseas, and couldn¡¯t reach the levels of advertisement as Blizzard in his previous life which caused its rtively lower ie. Luckily, as Warcraft¡¯s growth slowed down, Onmyoji¡¯s growth just began. Chen Mo estimated that Onmyoji¡¯s revenue next month would be even higher as he hoped for five or six hundred million RMB. Chen Mo now had a lot of cash at hand. Chen Mo could now afford to make triple A PC titles that would cost around forty million USD. The development cost of VR games was usually ten times more than PC games. It would cost him two hundred million USD to port a triple A PC game to VR, which would be very risky. As Chen Mo now had more financial freedom and three capable assistants, he can consider his next move to expand his brand. Chapter 169 - Honorary Committee Member

Chapter 169: Honorary Committee Member

Chen Mo hadn¡¯t spent money on improving his stats since the release of Warcraft as Wulin Legend and Onmyoji weren¡¯t particrly challenging. If he was making arge MMORPG however, not only would he have to spend money to level up his attributes, he¡¯d need to hire more help too. Chen Mo¡¯s current set up was as minimalistic as it could go, a main designer, an assistant, a writer, and one working the numbers. This was more than enough to work on a simple mobile game like Onmyoji, but arge RPG would be too demanding. It was a bit of a struggle to work on a game like Warcraft. Luckily most of the content in Warcraft was done in the game¡¯s world editor, they were able to get by despite being such a small team. Therefore, Chen Mo decided that if he was to make arger game, he would need to expand his team. This time, he would need to expand it to around twenty people. And when taking into consideration the professionals for art, animations and cinematics, music and sound effects, HR, game operations... the number would be evenrger. Chen Mo was on hisputer trying to figure out how many would be the optimal number. Everybody knew how well Thunderbolt Entertainment treats their staff after hearing about how Chen Mo gave them eighteen months of bonus after Onmyoji¡¯s release. There were already many asking how they could join thepany. Chen Mo would surely get many applicants if he said it he was hiring it online. At this moment, Chen Mo received a call from an unknown number. ¡°Hello?¡± ¡°Hi is this Mr Chen Mo? I¡¯m the cultural leader at the Game Committee, Qiao Hua. Chen Mo was shocked to hear from the Game Committee, a leader of one of the departments at that. The Game Committee needed no introduction, but this Qiao Hua, a head of a department called him personally?¡± Chen Mo replied, ¡°Great to meet you Mr Qiao.¡± Qiao Hua sounded elegant and polite, and even quite friendly for a head of a department. ¡°I¡¯d like to congratte you again for receiving first prize with Wulin Legend. I¡¯d also like to congratte you with your sess with Onmyoji, and thank you for your contribution to the development of the videogame industry.¡± ¡°Thank you so much.¡± Qiao Hua got straight to the point, ¡°Anyways, Mr Chen Mo. Regarding your contribution to Chinese themed games, we at the Game Committee have discussed and we¡¯d like to invite you to join us as an honorary member, and you¡¯ve been promoted to an A-grade videogame designer.¡± ¡°Uhhh...¡± Qiao Huaughed, ¡°Perhaps you don¡¯t know what being an honorary member means. The Game Committee will take in a few outstanding designers as an honorary member. They don¡¯t have to do anything, it¡¯s a title more than anything. ¡°We invited you because of all the high quality games you¡¯ve made. You don¡¯t have designation jobs, but we might give you some assignments, like giving talks to students about being a videogame designer.¡± Chen Mo quickly interjected, ¡°About that, I¡¯m usually quite busy, I¡¯m worried I don¡¯t have the time.¡± Qiao Hua replied ,¡±Don¡¯t worry, we¡¯llmunicate that ahead of time. I¡¯m just letting you know, and asking if you want to join.¡± Chen Mo replied after a moment, ¡°Can I think about this?¡± Qiao Huaughed, ¡°Of course, this ispletely voluntary. You can ask the opinions of others before deciding if you want to join.¡± Chen Mo was dumbfounded after hanging up. He thought that Wulin Legend¡¯s saga was already behind him. The trophy had been given, and the promotional spots were honoured. But the Game Committee invited him to be an honorary member? What was this about? In theory, this is nothing but a good thing, but Chen Mo wasn¡¯t sure if it would affect his work, Chen Mo decided to call Lin Mao. Lin Mao was shocked too, ¡°Huh? Honorary Committee Member? I don¡¯t know either! I¡¯m just a normal C-grade videogame designer, I don¡¯t know anything about that!¡± Chen Mo felt helpless, thinking long and hard of who to call next. Of course there were Honorary Game Committee members inrgepanies like Emperor Dynasty Entertainment and Zen Entertainment, but Chen Mo wasn¡¯t too friendly with them. All of a sudden, someone popped into his mind, Qiu Hengyang! He¡¯s the founder of afterall, he¡¯d probably know a thing or two about this. Chen Mo called Qiu Hengyang. Qiu Hengyang was shocked to receive a call from Chen Mo, ¡°Chen Mo? You¡¯ve been quite famous recently, what made you think of me?¡± ¡°I have something to ask you. What do you do as a Honorary Game Committee Member? Do I need to ojin?¡± Qiu Hengyang was shocked, ¡°Honorary Committee Member? Isn¡¯t that released at the end of the year?¡± Chen Mo replied, ¡°I¡¯m not sure either. I received a call from a Mr Qiao today and confirmed that I can join, but I haven¡¯t¡¯ confirmed.¡± Qiu Hengyang was stunned, ¡°Of course you do! Why are you even hesitating!¡± Chen Mo was speechless, ¡°I don¡¯t even know what you do as an Honorary Committee Member, how could I agree to that willy nilly.¡± ¡°Do you know how many people are willing to give up an arm and a leg to be an Honorary Committee Member, and here you are contemting if you should join?¡± said Qiu Hengyang. ¡°Really?¡± ¡°Yeah! I¡¯m actually a Honorary Committee Member too, of course I¡¯m sure. Let¡¯s put it this way, being a Honorary Committee Member is the same as recognition from the department. It benefits every part of releasing a game in the future, like their board reviews or promotions. And when you read A or S-grade, you¡¯d get a lot of extra resources when developing VR games too. Basically you don¡¯t lose from agreeing to it.¡± exined Qiu Hengyang. Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Alright, no problem.¡± Qiu Heng Yan reminded him again, ¡°Don¡¯t reject that opportunity, it¡¯ll be hard for you to get this opportunity again.¡± ¡°Alright, don¡¯t worry.¡± ¡°That¡¯s it I guess. We¡¯ll both be Honorary Game Committee Members in the future, let¡¯s look after one another.¡± said Qiu Hengyang. Chen Mo decided as it was such a good opportunity, he should ept to be an honorary member. It¡¯s quite likely thatrger games he makes in the future had some violence in it, and he would more than likely have to deal with the Game Committee¡¯s review process. If he could get on their good side now, why not. ¡°Anyways, I¡¯m an A-grade videogame designer now?¡± Chen Mo looked at the game editor to check his information. Chapter 170 - Pay to Win Level Two

Chapter 170: Pay to Win Level Two

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Chen Mo was now an A-grade video game designer in the Illusion game editor[1]. Chen Mo: Video Game Designer (A-grade) Creativity: 80 Systems: 73 Level Design: 77 Story Writing: 88 Original Art: 83 3D Art: 64 Monthly Resources Quota: 3GB/360GB Creativity, system, story, and artwork increased slightly, 3D art increased dramatically, no change in level design. The increase in the resource quota increased multiple times since Chen Mo reached A-grade, but he didn¡¯t have much use for this at all. Other video game designers would use a lot of the free resources as ceholders then make many changes after the game was mostlyplete. But Chen Mo didn¡¯t use this as he knew clearly what the game was supposed to look like, which was why he barely touched the free resources. Most of the resources he used in games were finished works by anotherpany after providing sketches. When Warcraft was selling like hotcakes in China, Chen Mo was already one of the best videogame designers in RTS games. But perhaps the Game Committee didn¡¯t raise Chen Mo to a A-grade video game designer because they felt that Chen Mo was too young and was only good at RTS games. But when Warcraft also sold well overseas and when he made ssic games like Wulin Legend and Onmyoji, Chen Mo could be considered as one of the best in the mobile industry, and could manage both Western and Chinese themes on the PC side of things. Which was why the Committee finally gave Chen Mo his identity as a A-grade video game designer and invited Chen Mo to be a honorary Game Committee member. The Game Committee¡¯s definition of a A-grade videogame designer was someone who was able to managerge scale PC games or manage a decent chunk of arge scale VR game. A S-grade videogame designer was someone who was able to manage arge scale VR game. Of course, there was still a difference between them, one must make a high quality VR game to be able to be an S-grade videogame designer. The process of bing an S-grade videogame designer from A-grade was a long and hard process. Not only does making arge VR require strong abilities, they also need a lot of money to spend in development, and in China only a few bigpanies could afford that cost. Chen Mo wasn¡¯t in a hurry either as developingrge scale VR games took a lot of requirements, moreover he had never done anything like it nor did he have enough manpower to do it. Chen Mo had two ns in mind, spend money to unlock the next stage of his attributes, n his next hires, and expand his team to onerge enough to work onrge MMORPGs or small VR games. Of course, consider a new office if necessary. Chen Mounched the virtual screen on his bracelet. System , numbers, level design, and story writing were all maxed out at level one. Original Art: 80 3D Art: 84 Animation : 40 Music and Sound Effects: 41 Storyboard: 36 Chen Mo must raise these stats to a hundred before he could progress to the next stage. Under the effects of Lucky Capsule, in the ratio of 5:3:2, he would need at least two hundred and neen skill boots to max out these skills, or make seventy three draw tens. This included the chance of duplicate skill books for the maxed out skills, which would cost him around seven million RMB. Chen Mo pulled the trigger as seven million didn¡¯t mean much to him at this point, it was money that he had to spend eventually, and he¡¯d rather spend it earlier to reap the benefits sooner. Money spent like this was much more useful than cars or property. Chen Mo used the same strategy as before, drawing as much as he could after he drew a Lucky Capsule. After almost fifteen minutes, he finally maxed out his attributes and drew a bunch of special equipment like Memory yback Potions and Super Focusers. A pop-up appeared on the screen: ¡°You¡¯ve maxed out all your abilities, would you like to proceed to level two?¡± There were two options, Yes and Confirm. Chen Mo almost died, ¡°Do I even have a choice?¡± Chen Mo clicked on one of the buttons. There were cool effects on the screen, many coloured dots flied around on the screen before finallynding on the wheel. The wheel disappeared, and in its ce was something simr to a slot machine. However, It was different to normal slot machines, the new system was split into three categories, the leftmost one had three different options: Design, Presentation, and equipment. Design included the original designer skill books. Presentation skills included art, music, and storyboarding. Equipment referred to special equipment. The middle column corresponded to the subcategories of the previous column. Design: Numerics, story writing, professional knowledge. Presentation: Art, Music, Cinematics. Equipment: Consumables, Permanent Upgrades. The rightmost column was the possible equipment. Chen Mo was shocked to see that the prices also changed. It went from one hundred thousand credits per spin to one hundred diamonds per spin. Chen Mo was happy to wee a reduction in price. But as he took a closer look, he noticed the exchange rate was one thousand RMB to 1 diamond. ¡°What?! Isn¡¯t that ten times more expensive? It was ten thousand per spin, and now it¡¯s a hundred thousand a spin! Do you think I¡¯m stupid? Do you think I¡¯ll find it cheaper if you change it to diamonds? No!¡± Chen Mo was speechless. Turns out the system had intion in mind, changing the credits into diamonds, and increasing the price tenfold. Chen Mo was a bit conflicted, but decided to put in one hundred thousand and make a draw. After pulling down the level, the columns started spinning, and stopped from left to right. Design ¨C Story Writing ¨C Storywriting skill book (Level 2) Story Writing skill book was neither good nor bad for Chen Mo. Chen Mo decided to consume his first level 2 skillbook. Chen Mo noticed that system and level design disappeared after reaching level two. The attributes he had now were story writing, numerics, and professional knowledge. In the first level, Chen Mo could recreate most stories from his previous life with the help of a Memory yback Potion; in the second level, Chen Mo could probably make big changes to the story and polish up ones that weren¡¯t done well in the original. Chen Mo guessed that there would be a third level, and Chen Mo could probably create an entirely original story that was of high quality. Chen Mo could handle the bncing of mobile games with level one in numerics, and could probably better deal with bncing of moreplicated games like MOBAs in the second level. Professional knowledge epassed many things, such as literature and history. It would even be helpful in FPS games for knowledge like ballistics, recoil, and knowledge of gun assembly and so on. TL note: I know I¡¯ve used game engine in the past, but I think game editor fits better Chapter 171 - Gaming Convention in the Parallel World?

Chapter 171: Gaming Convention in the Parallel World?

Even though Chen Mo could afford it, he still hesitated before drawing, it still hurts being his money after all. He hadn¡¯t decided on his next game, nor was he in a hurry to level up his skills. It was more than enough for now and he can make up the differenceter. Chen Mo turned off the virtual screen from his bracelet and when on hisputer to deal with hiring. First was someone responsible for games operations who would deal with maintaining the operations of games, including periodically adding new events, and promotional events during holidays. They also need to gather yer feedback and suggestions. Of course their main focus would be on Onmyoji as Warcraft and Tales of Wuxia were standalone games that didn¡¯t need any special events. The second was an art and music juggernaut. They would oversee artwork, models, and cinematics, including dealing with thepanies they were outsourced to. Chen Mo used to deal with them personally, and now he could finally delegate it to someone else. Next would be to give Su Jinyu, Zheng Hongxi, and Qian Kun some helping hands. The story, numbers, and functions ofrger games would be really rich. For example, many quest lines for RPG games would have tens of thousands of lines, which would most certainly be wearing Zheng Hongxi then if he did it alone. He also wanted to hire an assistant who would be responsible for giving out payslips, bonuses, and day to day benefits. Chen Mo finally decided to hire fifteen to twenty people this time around. The location where they will work was also quite problematic. Chen Mo decided to temporarily rent out the other shop lots next to the experience store at a higher price. Su Jinyu and the others will move there after renovating it to be their new office. He¡¯ll just have to hire someone else to work at the front desk. He¡¯ll consider moving into arger experience store once he makes a more popr game. After confirming, Chen Mo went downstairs and handed the sheet to Su Jinyu. ¡°Post a recruitment notice ording to this. The requirements are slightly higher than normal, but the pay will be 30% higher than the industry average. Also, discuss with the few neighbouring shop lots and try and rent them by paying a higher price. We¡¯ll renovate them and they¡¯ll be the new office location.¡± Su Jinyu looked at the sheet, ¡°This many? What about the interviews?¡± ¡°You three will interview then first, and I¡¯ll give them a final review. You can be a bit easier on the requirements as long as they seem like people who work well.¡± Su Jinyu nodded, ¡°Understood.¡± It didn¡¯t take long before the recruitment notice was written. Su Jinyu got Zheng Hongxi to do a final polish before passing it to Chen Mo. Chen Mo gave it one final check before posting it on Weibo, detailing the positions, requirements, and sry. The fans were sharing the Weibo like crazy. ¡°Chen Mo¡¯s hiring!¡± ¡°Thunderbolt Entertainment? Thepany that made Onmyoji and gave out eighteen month¡¯s worth of bonus?¡± ¡°My goodness, they¡¯re rich! You have to take a look!¡± ¡°The sry will be 30% higher than average, not including bonuses? My goodness, they are mean with their money!¡± ¡°Please hire me!¡± ¡°The requirements are so high it¡¯s ridiculous!¡± ¡°Who cares, just send out your CV anyways.¡± Many expressed their desires as the post was shared countless times. However, Chen Mo¡¯s requirements were quite high. For example, the art manager required five years or experience in rtion to art, and more than two years working in art, worked with games in the past, able to understand different themes/styles, familiar with the artstyle of most popr games, and have a deep understanding of artistic creativity. Moreover, they must include their CV and include what they have worked on. They must also do a sketch during the interview. Chen Mo¡¯s requirements would attract all the best of the best. Of course, a seedling with high potential could be considered as well. Su Jinyu and the others filtered through the huge amounts of applications before inviting them for an interview. They also reimburse their travel and amodation. It was impossible to hire this many people in such a short amount of time, but Chen Mo wasn¡¯t in a hurry either as he expected it to bepleted in one or two month¡¯s time. They¡¯ve also consulted with the neighbouring shot lots, most of them didn¡¯t want to rent out their shops, nor did Chen Mo try to force it. He decided on renting a cafe that was slightly smaller than the example store and furnished it to be an office. He even saved the coffee machine and the soda fountain. With the location of the office decided and the hiring process in the works, Chen Mo didn¡¯t have much to do other than consider his next moves. ¡ª While Chen Mo was looking through his DMs on Weibo, his phone rang. It was from Qiao Hua from the Game Committee. Chen Mo was shocked, he had already epted Qiao Hua¡¯s invitation to be an honorarymittee member a few days ago, what could it be now? Chen Mo picked up the phone, ¡°Hello, Mr Qiao.¡± Qiao Huaughed, ¡°Chen Mo, the Youy video game convention is happening next month. You can have your own booth as an A-grade videogame designer, but I noticed you haven¡¯t registered for one. I just wanted to see if you n to join?¡± Chen Mo was shocked to hear about a video game convention. ¡°I¡¯m not quite sure, but I¡¯ll join if there¡¯s a booth avable.¡± replied Chen Mo. ¡°There definitely is a booth avable. I can arrange that for you if you want. But there¡¯s only a month¡¯s time, is that enough time for preparations? I heard you were working on hiring recently too.¡± asked Qian Hua. ¡°It¡¯s enough time, no worries there,¡± replied Chen Mo. ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll arrange a booth for you. I¡¯ll send you the phone number of a staff member of the event. You can talk to them about this matter.¡± Chen Mo quickly looked up the Youy convention of this universe. The convention was a global digital interactive entertainment exhibition co-organized by many departments, hosted by the Game Committee. And this convention was located in Magic City in January. The aim of this convention was simr to that of ChinaJoy in his previous life. The main purpose was to attract as many yers, audience, and industry professionals inside and outside of China, providing an opportunity to interact. This included y testing, promotions, as well as some entertainment such as cosy events. Chen Mo hadn¡¯t paid attention to it, and he would¡¯ve missed this golden opportunity if it weren¡¯t for Qiao Hua¡¯s reminder. It didn¡¯t matter too much if he joined, but he¡¯d surely benefit if he did. He would be able to promote his game and interact with other industry professionals. Chen Mo had been to ChinaJoy in the past, but he¡¯d always join as a member of the audience. Of course he wanted to go to an event like this to promote his game. Chen Mo called the phone number of the staff member Qiao Hua provided in order to discuss matters regarding the convention. Chapter 172 - Make a New Game?

Chapter 172: Make a New Game?

This year¡¯s Youy convention was held in New World Expo in Magic City. It was split into three major areas of N, W and E, which was split into fourteen different exhibition halls. Thergerpanies congregated in N1 to N3. This included Chinese video gamepanies and operations, as well as video gamepanies from overseas. There were themed areas rted to video game entrepreneurship. Anyone who could join would try and join this convention. The Game Committee gave Chen Mo a spot in hall N2, which was more or less the best area, in the same grounds as Emperor Dynasty Entertainment. As Thunderbolt Entertainment was a smallerpany and had fewer games, the booth they got was also smaller. However, it was still positioned quite well, all thanks to Mr Qiao. A member of staff sent a picture of the location of the booth and a floor n to Chen Mo. ¡°It¡¯s right over here, think about how you¡¯ll decorate this.¡± Chen Mo looked at the floorn and replied, ¡°Alright, I have some things in mind. I¡¯ll send you an overviewter and you can handle the rest.¡± ¡°Alright, but I can only help you with the more essential stuff. I can get you in contact with showgirls if that¡¯s what you want. But things like sculptures and the costumes of the showgirls you¡¯d have to settle that yourself if you want them to suit your games.¡± ¡°Yep, of course,¡± replied Chen Mo. He then pointed out arge booth in the same hall, ¡°Is this Emperor Dynasty Entertainment¡¯s booth?¡± ¡°Yes, Emperor Dynasty Emperor is thergestpany in this hall and is the one who has the most games, which is why their booth is so big. Zen Entertainment also took up the majority of another hall.¡± Chen Mo nodded. Thesepanies took up a lot of area because of how many games they had. They even split their own booth into smaller sections, one for mobile games, one for PC games, and one for VR games. Moreover, from the picture there were many working on setting up the booth and putting up posters. Chen Mo replied, ¡°Alright, I understand what I¡¯m dealing with now. I¡¯ll send you the idea I have in mindter.¡± ¡°Alright. B the way, do you have a new game you¡¯re going to showcase?¡± Chen Mo was shocked, ¡°New game?¡± ¡°Yeah, most of the developers have a new game for the fans to try out in order to attract their attention. yers probably wouldn¡¯t care much if it was an old game. ¡°Although you could release a rare character or card or what have you. But a new game would be best.¡± ¡°Oh. Alright, I¡¯ll think about it.¡± The staff replied with a sweating emote. Think? You haven¡¯t nned on a new game yet? The convention is just a month out, you probably don¡¯t have the time to develop one. It¡¯s probably difficult just toe up with a demo! Chen Moughed, ¡°Don¡¯t worry.¡± ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll leave you with your preparations. And if you have the time, you shoulde to Magic City and have a look yourself, there are some things that just aren¡¯t clear over the phone.¡± ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll visit when I have the time.¡± ¡ª After wrapping his head around the booth, Chen Mo did some nning around the decoration of the booth, and ordered some sculptures and cosys. Conventions had always been about the same thing. Although Chen Mo didn¡¯t have many games, all of them were extremely high quality. Warcraft and Onmyoji in particr suited conventions really well. Chen Mo split his booth into two areas for Warcraft and Onmyojim respectively. He also nned cosys around these games. But it also made sense to have new games for these conventions, otherwise the fans would just be there to look at the showgirls. However, Chen Mo didn¡¯t have a new game on hand, and with Su Jinyu and the others working on hiring with just a month¡¯s time left, he couldn¡¯t even afford to make a mobile game, not to mention arge noteworthy game. But after some considerations, Chen Mo decided to make a more casual mobile game for the yers to try out. Chen Mo worked on the design document as he did the nning for the booth. As it was a simpler puzzle game where most of the developing process was on the level design, Chen Mo didn¡¯t n to bother Su Jinyu and the others and chose to work on it alone. ¡ª A month passed in the blink of an eye. Su Jinyu and the others had been working on the hiring process this whole time. It was more or less done, with just a few of the more important employees that are at itsst stages. Although the picks have been made, the timing was quite awkward as most wanted to wait until Chinese New Year before leaving theirpanies in order to get their year end bonuses. Luckily Chen Mo didn¡¯t n on working too hard anyways, and asked them to start after Chinese New Year. The new location of the office was also ready, as only slight modifications were needed to make the cafe office-ready. -In the experience store.- Su Jinyu said stretching, ¡°We¡¯re about to wee many more people. I¡¯m still not quite used to the fact, are we a bigpany soon?¡± ¡°Yeah, the manager is rich now. And it took quite a lot out of us working on the previous games. It¡¯s nice that we¡¯re getting more help, it¡¯ll be easier to work onrger games in the future,¡± added Qian Kun. Wen Lingwei asked, ¡°Huh, I don¡¯t think I¡¯ve seen him in a long time, where is he?¡± Su Jinyu shook her head, ¡°I don¡¯t know. I think he went to Magic City, not sure what he¡¯s there for.¡± Chang Xiuya asked, ¡°Speaking of Magic City, I think the Youy video game convention in the magic city is in a few days. Are you guys going? I have a few friends who got tickets.¡± ¡°That depends if the manager is going to let us have days off!¡± said Su Jinyu. ¡°Of course he would,¡± said Wen Lingwei, ¡°You guys aren¡¯t working on anything now anyways, wouldn¡¯t it be a good time to visit a convention?¡± Qian Kun waved his hand, ¡°Don¡¯t even bother, I checked a few days ago, and the tickets were all gone. It¡¯s toote now.¡± Chang Xiuya nodded, ¡°Yeah, my friends grabbed the tickets as soon as it was released. This convention is really popr after all, there are many reselling tickets too. I think it¡¯s toote to try and buy tickets.¡± Qian Kun said, ¡°Oh well, guess we aren¡¯t going. It¡¯s the same thing every time anyways.¡± Su Jinyu received a phone call amidst their conversation. ¡°Hello? Huh? Get a train ticket to Magic City? Join the Youy convention?¡± This caught everyone¡¯s attention. They were just talking about going, but Chen Mo was straight up inviting them to join? ¡°But we can¡¯t even buy the tickets if we wanted to. Huh, you have tickets? A lot of them? Why didn¡¯t you say earlier! Alright, I¡¯ll book train tickets for everyone! Su Jinyu said enthusiastically after hanging up, ¡°The manager said that he has many tickets for the Youy gaming convention and asked us to grab a train there. He¡¯s covering all the costs!¡± Chapter 173 - Our Own Booth

Chapter 173: Our Own Booth

Entrance 3 of the Youy convention, New World Expo Center, Magic City. ¡°My goodness there are so many people! Where¡¯s the manager? didn¡¯t we agree to meet at entrance 3?¡± Su Jinyu looked around. Magic City¡¯s wasn¡¯t all that cold this time around, and the weather had been fine the past few days,parable to spring or fall in the Imperial Capital so most people had long sleeves and pants. Other than Su Jinyu, Zheng Hongxi, Qian Kun, and a few other new employees, regrs such as Wen Lingwei, Jia Peng, Zou Zhuo, and Lin Xue were here too since Chen Mo had many spare tickets. ¡°Goldfish.¡± Chen Mo finally appeared among the sea of people. Everyone gathered around, ¡°Huh? Where did youe from, manager? Have you entered the convention already?¡± Chen Moughed, ¡°Come, follow me.¡± Everyone queued up close to one another fearing they might lose someone. Su Jinyu asked, ¡°Manager, which booth are we visiting first?¡± ¡°Which one? Ours, of course,¡± said Chen Mo. Huh? Chen Mo led everyone to Thunderbolt Entertainment¡¯s booth in hall N2 through hall N5. But they were big with arge group of guys in the first hall. They were surrounding one of the booths as they blocked the way forwards. ¡°Showgirl!¡± ¡°Her legs are so pretty!¡± ¡°This is excellent! She fits the ancient Chinese costume so well, I have to grab a picture!¡± ¡°What is this, an RPG? I¡¯ll have to try it out then!¡± ¡°It¡¯s a smallpany, it doesn¡¯t look like it¡¯s good.¡¯ ¡°Who cares if it isn¡¯t good, good looking showgirls means good game!¡± Wen Lingwei lost a little bit of her humanity, and Zheng Hongxi facepalmed as they saw this. Su Jinyu told off the bunch of guys, ¡°Can you guys quit blocking the way just to stare at breasts! You guys are bringing shame to the manager of the booth.¡± Of course not! Satisfied at her actions, Su Jinyu said, ¡°Alright, let¡¯s move on, manager. Manager?¡± She turned around to find that she had lost Chen Mo. Turns out Chen Mo was trying to break through the crowd to grab a picture too. Su Jinyu was speechless, ¡°Manager!¡± Chen Mo turned around, ¡°Quit it, their statue looks really good. Let¡¯s make one too. How would it look if it had it in front of our store?¡± Turns out Chen Mo was taking arge statue at the back. It was a huge, really traditional Chinese goddess that looked as though it was alive, fully conveying the emotions of the aftermath of a drunken party in an ancient Chinese setting. Su Jinyu breathed a sigh of relief, ¡°That goodness. Your image would bepletely ruined if you were there to take pictures of the showgirl. Chen Mo shook his head vigorously, ¡°Why would I, the showgirls we have are better looking than this. We can¡¯t have our attention drawn away by these that are worse.¡± The group continued moving past many booths. They didn¡¯t give the booths a detailed look, but it was evident that these video gamepanies didn¡¯t skimp on spending to attract the attention of the yers! There were some overseas Western fantasy RPG games that had showgirls dress up as blonde-haired elves with pointy ears. Combined with long legs and western looks, they looked just like the characters in the game. Chinese game developers weren¡¯t skimping either. Even smallerpanies that worked on casual puzzle games also tried to incorporate showgirls into their booths, trying every way they could to get eyes on their booth. ¡°Zen Entertainment¡¯s booth is right ahead,¡± introduced Chen Mo. Zen Entertainment didn¡¯t have as many showgirls, but they still had plenty of yers there to try out games. Su Jinyu was shocked, ¡°Why are there so many people?¡± Jia Peng was also confused, ¡°There aren¡¯t any sexy showgirls there, why are they gathered around there?¡± ¡°Because Zen Entertainment has a game demo going on. Look, you can y a Legend of the Sword in VR on a premium ount, with the best gear possible. And on the other side, they have a demo for their new game Winged World. The yers are all there to try them out.¡± exined Chen Mo. ¡°Zen Entertainment is quite impressive too, they are taking up the majority of the space in this hall,¡± expressed Zheng Hongxi. Su Jinyu asked, ¡°What about Emperor Dynasty Entertainment? Don¡¯t think we¡¯ve seen them yet.¡± ¡°It¡¯s in the back, let¡¯s keep moving,¡± said Chen Mo. It took a huge amount of effort to get the group to hall N2. They saw Emperor Dynasty¡¯s humongous booth as they entered as it took up the majority of this hall too. It was split into many sections, each section for each of their high quality games. Games like Moon Lord¡¯s Prophecy and Demon yers had their own areas. These areas were also decorated to their themes too, for example Moon Lord¡¯s Prophecy had special lights to represent the moon. The atmosphere of that area was entuated by a few showgirls in ancient Chinese clothing. There were a few staff members from Emperor Dynasty Entertainment that were visibly displeased as they saw Chen Mo. Wen Lingwei was distubed by this, ¡°Geez, what¡¯s their problem? How could they be rolling their eyes on the first sight of the manager?¡± ¡°Isn¡¯t that normal? The manager had toyed with them a few times since he entered the industry. It¡¯d be weird if they treated him nice!¡± said Su Jinyu. Chen Mo didn¡¯t care, ¡°This way.¡± The group followed Chen Mo to discover a booth that shocked all of them. ¡°I-isn¡¯t this a poster from Warcraft?¡± ¡°There¡¯s also a statue of a Shikigami from Onmyoji!¡± ¡°Geez, there¡¯s a showgirl cosying as Aoandon!¡± ¡°What is this? It says its Thunderbolt Entertainment¡¯s booth? This is our booth?¡± They were shocked as Chen Mo never revealed anything to them. All they knew was that Chen Mo was working on something in the Magic City. Turns out he was working on the booth! There were many people at Thunderbolt Entertainment¡¯s booth,parable to Emperor Dynasty Entertainment¡¯s and Zen Entertainment¡¯s. There were quite a few members of staff trying to maintain the order at the booth too. Chen Mo split the booth into two areas for Warcraft and Onmyoji. The Warcraft area was decorated in a Western fantasy theme with a huge poster. There was also a live-sized Arthas statue with many people ying Warcraft at theputers. The Onmyoji area was obviously in a eastern style filled with cosyers cosying as Abe no Seimei, Kagura, Hiromasa, and many others. There were also many pieces of equipment from the game, such as Abe no Seimei¡¯s table, and scrolls from the game. They all appeared to be ordered just for this even. This... is beautiful! Chapter 174 - Battle of Brains and Brawn

Chapter 174: Battle of Brains and Brawn

Everyone was really excited to see their own booth. Moreover, the decorations were really well done too, and were certainly not worse than Emperor Dynasty Entertainment or Zen Entertainment. There were many phones and tablets on Onmyoji¡¯s side. On them were testing ounts that had all SSRs unlocked which got many yers excited. ¡°My goodness, so this is what a full SSR team feels like! I¡¯m crying tears of joy!¡± ¡°There are so many SSRs to pick from? Which ones should I choose?¡± ¡°Can I use this ount at home? I don¡¯t wanna leave this behind!¡± ¡°Please let me absorb some luck from this!¡± There were more and more yers waiting to try it out, it was so long that it almost reached Emperor Dynasty Entertainment¡¯s booth! The people at Emperor Dynasty Entertainment were quite mad, sure you¡¯re better than us at making games, but you can¡¯t even let us have our moment here? Insufferable! They¡¯d lose all their dignity if they sat around and watched this happen! As yers were trying things out in Chen Mo¡¯s booth, lights lit up in Emperor Dynasty Entertainment¡¯s booth. An infectious melody started ying, followed by many alluring dancers! This attracted the attention of many gamers who were just wandering. The dancers seemed to be professionals too as they sessfully got the gamers excited. ¡°My goodness that was great! The three girls on the right are so attractive!¡± ¡°Yeah, those legs are to die for!¡± ¡°Hurry up! I¡¯m recording!¡± ¡°Emperor Dynasty Entertainment are flexing their muscles!¡± ¡°I¡¯m done with SSRs, I¡¯m settling for girls now!¡± Everyone at Chen Mo¡¯s side expressed their anger. How could they turn this video game convention into a dancefest? You¡¯re argepany, why are you resorting to such cheap tactics? Shameful! Chen Mo wasn¡¯t happy either, ¡°Huh? You¡¯re pulling out the big guns huh? Cue music!¡± Chen Mo got the staff in his booth to y music too! Why was the song so familiar? Turns out, it was Gokuraku Jodo! The cosyers on Chen Mo¡¯s side started lining up for the dance as the music started! Before the people got enough of Emperor Dynasty Entertainment¡¯s dancers, their attention switched back to Chen Mo¡¯s booth. ¡°My goodness, Thunderbolt Entertainment is going at it too?¡± ¡°They are using Gokuraku Jodo? Shameless!¡± ¡°Man this melody is so infectious, now my head is filled with Gokuraku Jodo! I can¡¯t watch Emperor Dynasty Entertainment¡¯s dance anymore!¡± ¡°I think one of the dancers got infected too, they¡¯re missing the beats! Hahaha...¡± ¡°But I still gotta go have a look. I haven¡¯t seen so many cosyers dancing Gokuraku Jodo.¡± ¡°Yeah, let¡¯s have a look!¡± Many of the yers went back towards Chen Mo¡¯s booth upon hearing the familiar melody as the number of people at Emperor Dynasty Entertainment dwindled. The staff at Emperor Dynasty Entertainment were fuming! They might lose to making games, but they surely can¡¯t lose at conventions!¡± The dances soon finished, and many at Thunderbolt Entertainment wanted an encore. But just as they ended, a member of staff from Emperor Dynasty Emperor said with a megaphone, ¡°We are hosting a tournament for Moon Lord¡¯s Prophecy, and everyone will be ying a maxed out ount. The winner gets to take the ount home! You can¡¯t miss this!¡± The yers were having second thoughts, a free maxed out ount? They¡¯re going all in! Many games would have maxed out ounts just for y testing, but some developers would also have a small prizedpetition. But giving out one of these ounts like Emperor Dynasty Entertainment was doing was unusual as one of these ounts could go for tens of thousands! This attracted many yers of Moon Lord¡¯s Prophecy as they were unable to resist the temptation of a maxed out ount. Many other yers went in that directed too thinking a small tournament was probably worth a watch. Chen Mo was shocked, ¡°They have more?¡± Su Jinyu said, ¡°We should do that too, manager!¡± Chen Mo was speechless, ¡°I didn¡¯t prepare for this! Give me a second, let me think.¡± As he was thinking, Zou Zhuo who had been ying Warcraft this whole time said to Chen Mo, ¡°Manager, Goph, Kaiser, and the others are here. They are asking me which hall we¡¯re in.¡± Chen Mo was shocked, ¡°Huh? They¡¯re here for the convention too?¡± Zou Zhuo nodded, ¡°Yeah, they¡¯re all here. We¡¯ve been discussing this in the group. They are heading this way as they just found out that there¡¯s a booth for Warcraft.¡± This was music to Chen Mo¡¯s ears, ¡°Great! Tell them toe save my bacon! We are at hall N2, right next of Emperor Dynasty Entertainment. It didn¡¯t take long before titans of the rankeddder Goph, Digwa, Nightwind, and Kaiser arrived. Chen Mo shoved a megaphone into Qian Kun¡¯s hands, ¡°Promote this for me!¡± ¡°Alright!¡± Qian Kun grabbed the megaphone and got to somece high, yelling,¡±Attention all Warcraft yers! The gods of the rankeddder are here,e get your signatures!¡± The yers had quite a following from streaming. It attracted the attention of many as it was the first time they showed up together too. ¡°Huh? They really are all here!¡± ¡°My goodness, I was quite happy with Chen Mo¡¯s signature, but thedder gods are here too! This ticket was so worth it!¡± ¡°Let¡¯s get our signature!¡± ¡°Are the gods ying? I wanna watch them y from a first person perspective!¡± These guys felt they hadpleted their quest after getting a signature from Chen Mo before Su Jinyu and the others arrived. But the pro yers arrived, in a bunch too! A big group of Warcraft yers headed straight towards the Warcraft booth. Nightwind was even surrounded by fans before he got to the booth! Goph was speechless, how could Chen Mo do this when they arrived moments ago! It couldn¡¯t be helped as it was the passion of the fans. It took them nearly twenty minutes to get through all the signatures. Goph walked to the front of the booth and said to Chen Mo, ¡°How could you do that to your guests? We came all this way to support you, just for you to use us to get attention to your booth? We haven¡¯t even had a sip of water or anything!¡± Chen Moughed, ¡°Don¡¯t be mad! How about we y a match?¡± Goph rolled his eyes, ¡°Of course not! I¡¯m actually in quite a good mood today, and I wouldn¡¯t want to ruin it!¡± The appearance of these Warcraft pros took away from all the attention Emperor Dynasty Entertainment was getting. That¡¯s just some ordinarypetition among average yers, there are actual professional yers here! The heads of the staff from Emperor Dynasty Entertainment were about to blow off, how could Chen Mo be so daring! The RTS gods are to me too, why couldn¡¯t they show up at some other time that wasn¡¯t when they were promoting! Time to pull out the big guns! A member of staff pulled out a megaphone, ¡°Emperor Dynasty Entertainment¡¯s newest VR game, Journey of the Marksman is avable for testing! There are limited gaming pods, firste first serve!¡± The yers were reconsidering their choices again! ¡°Journey of the Marksman? Is that the FPS game that had been hyped for a long time?¡± ¡°I heard it¡¯s really good, in VR no less!¡± ¡°We have to try it out!¡± ¡°I¡¯lle backter, I¡¯ll have to wait so long in the queue otherwise!¡± Many yers turned right around back to Emperor Dynasty Entertainment¡¯s booth again! Chapter 175 - Casual Puzzle Game

Chapter 175: Casual Puzzle Game

¡°These guys have no self respect!¡±ined Su Jinyu. Wen Lingwei nodded, ¡°Yeah! Manager, bring out your VR game too!¡± ¡°I don¡¯t have one!¡± Everyone let out a collective sigh, it seemed that they ran out of fire power. Emperor Dynasty Entertainment prepared an unreleased VR game for testing but Chen Mo hadn¡¯t. He hadn¡¯t even made arge PC RPG game. Just as when everyone thought Chen Mo was out of ideas. Chen Mo was on aptop for a few moments, putting up a QR code on a nearby disy. Chen Mo grabbed the megaphone from Qian Kun¡¯s hands, ¡°Ladies and gentlemen,e take a look. I have a new mobile game! It¡¯s alright if you don¡¯t want to queue, we at Thunderbolt Entertainment will help you! Just scan the QR code to download now. It¡¯s only 120MB, you don¡¯t lose anything if it¡¯s just 120MB. It¡¯s a casual puzzle game, free download!¡± Everyone collectively facepalmed, ¡°My goodness, now manager is an infomercial salesperson now? Shameless! We don¡¯t know him...¡± But it actually worked, Chen Mo¡¯s voice actually managed to gather the attention of a few yers. Sure Emperor Dynasty Entertainment¡¯s VR game was really attractive, but now many VR gaming pods did they have? Most of the people were queueing in line with not much to do. And when they heard Chen Mo¡¯s calls, they noticed a huge QR code on the screen. ¡°Chen Mo has a new game too? Casual puzzle game?¡± ¡°Could probably use it to pass time.¡± ¡°What fun does casual puzzle games have?¡± ¡°It¡¯s Chen Mo¡¯s casual puzzle game, did you forget nts vs Zombies?¡± ¡°Yeah that¡¯s made by Chen Mo, how could you not y? I personally would y anything with ¡°Made by Chen Mo¡¯ on it.¡± ¡°Sure, why not. I¡¯ve got nothing to do anyways.¡± Many of the yers either in line or just staring at cosys pulled out their phones to download Chen Mo¡¯s new game. Su Jinyu and the others were shocked. ¡°Manager, you secretly make a new game?¡± Wen Lingwei eximed. Chen Mo was speechless, ¡°What do you mean secretly, do I need to consult you when I make a new game?¡± Wen Lingweiughed, ¡°Of course not. Alright, I¡¯ll download it and check it out.¡± Upon scanning the QR code, they were met with a file called Anipop ¡°What is this, a tile matching game? ¡°Match three?¡± Discussion among the yers started. ¡°What is it, is it a match three game? It¡¯d get stale after five minutes!¡± ¡°Yeah, these games are so low IQ. It just depends how well you can see the moves.¡± ¡°What do you mean ¡®see the moves¡¯, it¡¯s a testament of luck. If you are lucky, you¡¯d beat the level within the time limit, otherwise you have no chance of finding any matches.¡± ¡°I thought Chen Mo would make a game like nts vs Zombies, I feel scammed!¡± ¡°Whatever, let¡¯s just download it and see.¡± Su Jinyu was also confused, ¡°Manager, why did you make a match three game? Sure There are many yers, but it¡¯s kind of pointless. It¡¯s only there to kill time, you¡¯d get bored of it pretty soon.¡± ¡°You try and see, it¡¯s different from the other match three games,¡± said Chen Mo. Everybody started the game filled with scepticism. Chen Mo did some research before making the game. The match three games in this world were quite primitive, most of the challenge was finding matches within a time limit. These types of games were tiring to y in theter stages of the game, tiring for the hands, tiring for the eyes, and even more tiring for the sounds. Which was why these people were disappointed to see a match three game. There wasn¡¯t anything special with the main screen. It featured a few animals and a vine that led upwards, not much different than other casual games. There was a simple cutscene toy the grounds for the story, which only had a few pieces of artwork. A huge seed fell to the ground and grew into a giant vine in an instant, pushing the mayor¡¯s house to the sky. The scene ended with the animals deciding on saving the mayor The levels started from the bottom of the vine. Green fruits appeared from the bottom up, and a finger hinted the yer to tap on the first fruit. There wasn¡¯t anything special with the first few levels as the yers were hinted that they needed to line up animals to clear them, and you progress after clearing a certain amount of lines. The first level was pretty state, but in the second level, the game hinted that yers could achieve better results if they lined up four or five different animals. ¡°Huh? Special clearing effects if I line up four? There are so many ways to clear four, nice!¡± ¡°Yeah, the bomb clears out such arge area, it feels so satisfying.¡± ¡°And the area is evenrger when you have two different animals together.¡± ¡°I also noticed that there isn¡¯t a time limit, only move limits!¡± ¡°Yeah, it¡¯s not like other matching games where you frantically search for matches. You have time to think about your moves in this game.¡± ¡°It feels so easy, can we cruise through this game?¡± ¡°It¡¯s not bad for killing time.¡± ¡°The sound effects are great. The ¡®unbelievable¡¯ and ¡®excellent¡¯ after each clear feels so good.¡± ¡°Not bad, Chen Mo even manages to add a re to matching games? But I¡¯m confused, there are so many ways to clear tiles, and there¡¯s only a limit on the number of moves. How are they managing the level difficulties? I haven¡¯t encountered any challenges, I¡¯ve been clearing these levels with three stars every time.¡± It didn¡¯t take long for the yers to realise it wasn¡¯t your ordinary matching game, before being sucked into the game. As the levels got harder and harder, they realised it wasn¡¯t as simple as they thought, and they might even fail a level here and there. However, the ramping up in difficulty was done really well. After the asional fail, they¡¯d most likely pass it the next try. As the difficulty increases, yers unlock new mechanics. The designs of the levels were also changing just the right amount so every level feels fresh. ¡°Geez, this game is actually quite fun, it¡¯s great to kill time.¡± ¡°Yeah, the best part is the unlimited amount of thinking time. This is what I¡¯d call a casual puzzle game. Unlike the other matching games that entirely depend on your eyes.¡± ¡°The difficulties of the levels are quite reasonable too. The graphics are also quite nice, it¡¯s definitely worth a y.¡± ¡°Really? I¡¯ll download it too.¡± Soon, the first batch of Anipop yers had nothing but praise for this game, even yers who didn¡¯t want to y started downloading the game. Chapter 176 - Addicting Game

Chapter 176: Addicting Game

Anipop was an incredible game. In Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, it¡¯s yerbase epassed children under the age of then and adults over fifty. It had over ten million daily active yers in five months time, and with future development, it even broke fifty million. It was truly a game that was nationwide, for ages. Why was the game so addicting? Unlike traditional matching games, the difficulty of Anipop didn¡¯te from a time limit, but a move limit. This allowed yers to n out their next move instead of rushing. This turned matching games into a true casual puzzle game instead of a game on reaction time, hand speed, and how fast the yers notice the matches. At the same time, Anipop added many more ways to clear tiles, such as line clears, explosions, random clears... and whenbined together will have different effects. It was also sometimes possible for the yer to achieve full clears, giving yers immense satisfaction, making it much more interesting than other matching games. Anipop also did a really good job bncing the game. There was a base amount per match, special clears and chain clears will award bonus points, and different scores will correspond to different amounts of stars, enhancing the bncing of the game. Anipop¡¯s level design was also incredibly high quality, there were more than twelve hundred different levels under five main categories, unlocking as the yer progressed through the game. This included portals, ice, golden pods, snow, gifts, yarns, vines, ropes, poison, silver, nests, clods, gems, balloons, UFOs, rockets, octopus, quicksand... The appearance of many different mechanics allow the yers to feel fresh every time they enter a few levels. Moreover, the difficulties were very well managed too, it was unlike that yers would be stuck on one level for multiple days. The yers would progress every single day, but wouldn¡¯t do that unchallenged. They also spent a lot of time polish the art and music. They tried many different art styles, even the tiny animal models went through thirty six different versions, with the final version matching the ideals of the majority of yers, allowing it to appeal to as many yers as possible. Anipop also did a good job with the sound effects, especially the popping when ice is destroyed. Some yers even said it was satisfying enough to hear the sound of breaking ice, even if they were stuck on the level for two weeks. Moreover, when the yers achieve arge clear, the different sounds effects are stacked together, apanied by ¡®excellent¡¯, and ¡®unbelievable¡¯, which gives the yers immense satisfaction. Last but not least, the social system for the game. Anipop¡¯s social system was also really well done, you could check the progress of your friends, check a friend¡¯s score per level, they could even send and request power ups, ask for new level unlocks. This increases the interactivity between yers, allowing it to spread within friend groups. It didn¡¯t take long for the yers of Anipop to catch the buy. ¡°Oof, I¡¯m out of powers.¡± ¡°Alright alright, add me and I¡¯ll send you some.¡± ¡°Theter levels are so interesting, how many of these mechanics did Chen Mo include?¡± ¡°I can¡¯t stop!¡± ¡°The sound effects are so satisfying, especially the breaking of ice. I could listen to that for a whole day1¡± ¡°Aren¡¯t you sitting there doing nothing? You should y too.¡± ¡°I¡¯m waiting to try out the maxed out ount!¡± ¡°What¡¯s the point, is Moon Lord¡¯s Prophecy as fun as this?¡± ¡°Geez, it¡¯s my turn already? I¡¯m not done with this level. You know what? You can go ahead.¡± ¡°I¡¯m not done either!¡± As there were so few gaming pods, most of them were sitting around doing nothing. And during that time, they¡¯d slowly sink into the embrace of Anipop. When it was their turn, they didn¡¯t want to leave the level they were on!¡± Emperor Dynasty Entertainment was dumbfounded, what did Chen Mo do to these yers? Howe they were willing to y mobile games over VR games? Wasn¡¯t it just a match three game? How did he add anything interesting to it? The people on Chen Mo¡¯s side were also confused, what was going on? They thought that Anipo was quite fun too. However, they didn¡¯t expect it to be so popr. Everyone queueing up were all ying it, and were enjoying it a lot! ¡°Manager, you¡¯re amazing! So what if it¡¯s a VR game, we can counter their VR game with a mobile game!¡± praised Chang Xiuya. Qian Kun could barely breathe fromughing so hard, ¡°Look at their expression over at Emperor Dynasty Entertainment. They¡¯re dying! They thought they could use their VR game announcement as the final straw, but their attention was taken away by a mobile game! I can¡¯t breathe!¡± Chen Mo walked towards Emperor Dynasty Entertainment¡¯s booth. He saw many Anipop yers on the way there. Chen Mo walked straight onto Emperor Dynasty Entertainment¡¯s booth, asking, ¡°Look at these guys with their faces buried in mobile games. So much so that your VR gaming pods are all empty. Would you like me to go into one and test the game out?¡± The staff were speechless, how could someone be so bold? It¡¯s not like you don¡¯t know your rtionship with Emperor Dynasty Entertainment, you¡¯re just looking for a fight now! But of course the staff couldn¡¯t force Chen Mo out of their booth, they could only fake a smile, ¡°Hahaha, great joke. But look, there are still so many people in the queue!¡± At this moment, a cosyer came forward, ¡°It¡¯s fine, they are the founder of Thunderbolt Entertainment after all. Just let them try it out and provide some feedback!¡± The girl was dressed incredibly lewd, with a great body and great face and looked to be one of the dancers on stage. They had a nametag on the chest, Saury. The staff felt a bit helpless, ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll arrange that for you.¡± Chen Mo waved his hand, ¡°There¡¯s no need, I was just joking.¡± Chen Mo never nned to try out the VR game. He was just here to poke fun at the staff at Emperor Dynasty Entertainment. Saury checked out Chen Mo and said, ¡°To be honest Mr Chen Mo, you¡¯re younger than I thought.¡± ¡°Thanks, you were quite good at dancing. Do you want to join us?¡± How could he do that? He¡¯s poaching publicly! Sauryughed, ¡°I¡¯m getting paid quite a lot, I¡¯m not sure if you could afford me, Mr Chen Mo.¡± ¡°Really?¡± replied Chen Mo, ¡°Well, nice meeting you.¡± Saury let out a stifledugh, ¡°That¡¯s all you got? You aren¡¯t even going to ask how much I¡¯m being paid? Seems like you didn¡¯t really mean the invitation after all. Let¡¯s exchange details, if I do n to changepanies, I¡¯ll let you now.¡± Chen Mo replied after a few short moments, ¡°Alright.¡± And just like that, the two of them exchanged their contacts right in front of the staff. What¡¯s going on? You guys are just going to pretend that I¡¯m not here?¡± ¡°Alright, see you next time,¡± said Chen Mo before turning to his booth. Chapter 177 - Award Ceremony Chapter 177: Award Ceremony The conventionsted for three days, with more or less the same content from the booths throughout the three days. Emperor Dynasty Entertainment were going at it quite aggressively on the first day, but gave up soon after as they got their attention that they deserved for their VR game taken away by Anipop as they lost all their dignity. Everyone was quite happy being at the convention, but they were said to leave it behind as they returned to HQ. -Inside the experience store.- Qian Kun seemingly hadn¡¯t had enough, ¡°The convention was great, when¡¯s the next one?¡± Su Jinyu replied, ¡°Next time? Probably another six months, there probably isn¡¯t another one of these before Chinese New Year.¡± ¡°I hadn¡¯t had enough. Could we please do more of this in the future?¡± said Qian Kun. Zheng Hongxi said, ¡°Anyways, it was incredibly funny that the hottest game of this convention was Anipop. The otherrge developers probably stained their pants seeing that.¡± ¡°Yeah.¡± Su Jinyuughed too, ¡°So many developers brought out VR games they worked really hard on, just to have every single yer in their line ying Anipop. That was unbelievable.¡± Many video game media released their articles following Youy¡¯s end. They were also shocked to see that the hottest game of this convention wasn¡¯t a VR game, but a very simple match three game. It was also a popr topic among many games. Anipop was then released on Thunderbolt Gaming tform and the official app store. The game had immense buzz behind it on release, reaching four hundred and sixty thousand downloads on the first day, sting every other casual game out of the water. Although this was an insane number, it was still within Chen Mo¡¯s calctions. Anipop had over 3.5 million downloads in fifteen days, with 1.5 million daily active users. Chen Mo¡¯s Thunderbolt Gaming tform was now one of the more influential distribution tforms in China. Combined with Chen Mo¡¯s charisma and the viral-like growth the game possesses, this result was well within reason. yers and media were surprised, how could Chen Mo be so crazy that he could add a spin onto a match three game! The hiring saga was almost over by the time they got back to the Magic City. Chen Mo had the final call for all of them, although a few of them didn¡¯t meet his requirements, most of them were eptable. The abilities of the new hires were more general. They knew their roles, but their main purpose was to spread the work out. Chen Mo still had the final say, the three assistants are responsible for different content, which would then be executed by the others. However, the new hires would only officially start after Chinese New Year, so they were currently quite free. Chen Mo allowed Su Jinyu and the others to make their own games as practice, and it would be ced onto Thunderbolt Gaming tform if Chen Mo approved of it. On the other hand, Chen Mo was thinking about which games to do after the Chinese New Year, and the annual Video Game Awards Ceremony. Not long after returning home from Magic City, Chen Mo got a notice from the Game Committee inviting him to the award ceremony and properly inducting him into themittee then. Chen Mo also did a quick search on the awards ceremony. The annual game award ceremony was simr to game developer conferences in his previous world, but also had its differences. The ceremony was hosted by the Game Committee annually, usually in the middle of January right before Chinese New Year. This awards ceremony only included Chinese games and game designers, which was a recognition and encouragement the officials gave to outstanding developers and games. Other than announcing Game Committee honorary members, awards in various categories were also given out. Moreover, there were also exchanges and educational talks too. Awards included Game of the Year, Most Creative, Best New Designer, Best PC/VR/Mobile Games, Best Story, etc. The Game of the year could be described as the most prestigious award among Chinese designers. Anyone who gets the award was more than likely to be an extremely influential video game designer. Although it was hard to say overseas, the recognition of the officials had a lot of weight within China. Chen Mo didn¡¯t care too much about the award as he had been in the videogame industry for two years and had made plenty of high quality games along the way, he hadn¡¯t touched anyrge MMORPGs or VR games. And in the videogame industry of the parallel world, the prizes usually belonged to VR games, though special PC games might receive this award asionally. Mobile games basically had no chance at Game of the Year. Therefore, Chen Mo felt that he still had plenty of room for growth. He might have a chance at Best New Designer or Best Mobile Game, but definitely not the others. Of course, many are jealous of his results that he achieved in two years as someone new to the industry. ¡ª The weather was fine on the day of the award ceremony. This award ceremony was viewed highly within the video game industry because it was hosted by the Game Committee, but it usually wasn¡¯t broadcasted unlike the entertainment industry as most yers wouldn¡¯t care about these awards. The most that would happen might be a few articles written about the rewards after the ceremony was concluded. Therefore, although important, there wasn¡¯t much hype surrounding the ceremony. At the cultural centre in the Imperial Capital, Chen Mo arrived on time, with a few members of staff waiting for his arrival. Though the event was titled ¡®annual videogame awards ceremony¡¯, it wasn¡¯t just about awards. The event ran over two days. There are expos,working, idea exchanges, and talks. The actual award ceremony doesn¡¯t start until the evening the next day. Of course the award ceremony was important, but theworking and exchanges also couldn¡¯t be overlooked. The officials would also get some famous video game designers to give talks, allowing other video game designers to pick up some designing concept ideas. And to the Game Committee, the award ceremony wasn¡¯t just for awarding outstanding work, but also to help videogame designers to get in contact with one another in order to improve the progress of the growth within the industry. Chapter 178 - Presentations

Chapter 178: Presentations

The moment Chen Mo entered the venue, he heard someone call out to him. It was Qiu Hengyang. Chen Mo walked towards him to introduce himself, ¡°You¡¯re here too?¡± Qiu Hengyang nodded, ¡°Yeah, I was going to let you know, but it seems that we¡¯ve ran into one another. I¡¯ve seen the news the past few days, too. You¡¯ve really done it, you¡¯ve managed to generate a huge news topic through a mobile game.¡± Chen Moughed, ¡°What do you mean a huge news topic. I just thought it¡¯d be a good idea to make a game for the yers to fidget with since the conventions were usually quite boring. Anyways, it¡¯s my first time here, so it¡¯d be great if you could introduce me to others.¡± Qiu Hengyang nodded, ¡°Of course, follow me.¡± The two walked as they chatted. Chen Mo asked, ¡°Heard your new game did pretty well, you¡¯re A-grade now too?¡± Qiu Hengyang nodded, ¡°Yeah, but my move to B to A-grade took four to five years, unlike you who managed that in a year. Your year has been quite insane huh, how many games have you made? Warcraft, Wulin, Onmyoji, Anipop... I doubt there are many others in the industry who could manage four games like you did.¡± Chen Mo tried to exin himself, ¡°I started working on Warcraft since Octoberst year, and that took a bit more than half a year, so don¡¯t count that in. And among those games, only Warcraft was the more notable one, the others were more like side projects.¡± Qiu Hengyangughed, ¡°Either way, you¡¯ve been pretty quick on your feet, and the main point is that the games were quite well received.¡± The two of them walked as they chatted, towards the venue. ¡°The main events for today and tomorrow during the day areworking events and talks, most of the talks have been organised by the Game Committee,¡± exined Qiu Hengyang. Chen Mo asked, ¡°Are you doing a talk?¡± Qiu Hengyang shook his head, ¡°Me? I¡¯m stillcking a lot of experience. Usually only S-grade videogame designers are invited to those talks, and usually have a few VR games behind them. ¡°Of course you could give a talk about more ssic games. You could probably give a talk yourself based on your results in the mobile industry this year, but I think that because you aren¡¯t an officialmittee member yet, they didn¡¯t organise one because they don¡¯t know you too well.¡± ¡°I don¡¯t really want to give one anyways,¡± said Chen Mo. Qiu Hengyangughed, ¡°It¡¯s not bad to give a talk. You can only have so much inspiration alone, it¡¯s when you interact with others that you gain more inspiration. ¡°Which talk do you want to join?¡± Chen Mo discovered that there were many different talks. There were over ten talks a day, each two hours on average. He had to decide which ones he wanted to attend as there were a few happening at the same time. And if they didn¡¯t want to listen to talks or presentations, they could joinworking events. Theseworking events are started by designers themselves, and the designers could pick and join events that had other simr video game designers. Chen Mo gave it some thought, ¡°I think I¡¯d like to listen to a presentation. Chen Mo didn¡¯t want to argue with other video game designers atworking events, which was why he chose to listen to talks. There were three different talks going on, ¡°The use of lightrays and scenery in levels¡±, ¡°Casual games design concepts and experience exchange¡±, and ¡°How to make a high quality VR FPS game.¡± Qiu Hengyang asked, ¡°Do you want to go to the casual game one?¡± Chen Mo was speechless, ¡°What¡¯s the point in that, I¡¯ll tell you anything you want to know.¡± Qiu Hengyangughed, ¡°That¡¯s true, it¡¯s probably a bit insulting to listen to others talk about casual games with you right by my side. You made games like nts vs Zombies and Anipop that sit at the top of the casual games leaderboards after all.¡± ¡°How about VR FPS games?¡± suggested Chen Mo. Qiu Hengyang nodded, ¡°Sure. We can¡¯t make VR games now, but we¡¯ll have to do it eventually. It¡¯s probably good for us to get into the know-how now.¡± There were quite a few attendees, and most of them were designers above B-grade, all well dressed and sat properly. Most of the front row seats were already taken, so the two of them sat somewhere in the back. The speaker was an S-grade videogame designer from Zen Entertainment, Ran He. His game, Heavy Assault, was one of the best VR FPS games in China, and was rated very highly within the Chinese video game industry. ¡°I¡¯m happy to be able to share some things I¡¯ve learnt during the development of Heavy Assault at this wonderful venue. ¡°I think we are still a bit behind in terms of design in VR FPS gamespared to the West, which is why I decided on an experience exchange, and I hope everyone would be able to gain something from this. ¡°I should start off by saying, FPS games are hard to get into, and even more so for a VR FPS game. Because it¡¯s in VR, we need to recreate a realistic environment for warfare, and if that setting wasn¡¯t well done, the game would feel tacky and uninteresting. Compared to FPS games from overseas, Chinese FPS games have nopetitive advantage. ¡°In this talk, I hope to go over how to make a high quality VR game starting from three main points, Environment, Weapons, and ystyle.¡± ¡°First, in terms of the Environment, we must choose somewhere that suits the gamey and the story as it will affect how the game will y and directly impact on how the yers will feel... Ran He¡¯s talk was straightforward and fluent, and easy to understand. However, Chen Mo could tell that he wasn¡¯t giving out the most important parts of his design. This way, the designers could learn a thing or two from the talk, but couldn¡¯t take the core of his sess and turn it around to threaten Ran He. Ran He spoke eloquently for nearly two hours, ending with a few questions from the audience. Everybody pped when the talk ended. Qiu Hengyang pped as he asked Chen Mo, ¡°How was it, did you learn anything?¡± ¡°Yeah, something like that. It¡¯s definitely better than the casual game talk,¡± said Chen Mo. Qiu Hengyangughed, ¡°It¡¯s about time for lunch, let¡¯s go grab something to eat.¡± There was a buffetid out for any of the video game designers who attended. Chen Mo and Qiu Hengyang grabbed some food before sitting down at a table beside a window. As he sat down, someone called out to Chen Mo. ¡°Chen Mo?¡± Chen Mo raised his head to find Saury. They met in the video game convention in Magic City, how did they meet at the awards ceremony again? Saury skipped the formalities and sat down next to the two of them. ¡°Isn¡¯t this even just for videogame designers?¡± Chen Mo wondered. Saury nodded, ¡°Yeah.¡± ¡°How did you enter, there isn¡¯t a song and dance event during the award ceremony right?¡± Saury let out a stifledugh, ¡°Pfft, no.¡± Qiu Hengyang looked at Chen Mo before looking back at Saury, ¡°Chen Mo, did you make a mistake? She¡¯s a videogame designer, one that¡¯s better than the both of us.¡± Chapter 179 - Talk Cancelled?

Chapter 179: Talk Cancelled?

Chen Mo was shocked, ¡°Her? Designer?¡± Saury crossed her leg, ¡°What¡¯s wrong with me being a designer?¡± ¡°Aren¡¯t you the lead dancer for Emperor Dynasty Entertainment?¡± Saury nodded, ¡°Yeah, leader dancer and game designer.¡± Chen Mo was confused, ¡°That¡¯s my first time I¡¯ve heard of a crossover like that.¡± Sauryughed, ¡°Is it that weird that a videogame designer happens to be a dancer too? Aren¡¯t you a songwriter?¡± Chen Mo squinted, ¡°That is true...¡± Qiu Hengyangughed, ¡°Stop messing with him, Qiu Jiang. Howe an S-grade videogame designer from Emperor Dynasty Entertainment like you aren¡¯t eating with the others from yourpany, but choosing to have your lunch with us instead?¡± Chen Mo was shocked to hear her name, ¡°Qiu Jiang?¡± Saury nodded, ¡°Yeah, that¡¯s my real name. Saury is my stage name.¡± Chen Mo was dumbfounded, you should¡¯ve said earlier! No wonder the staff at the convention followed all your orders! Of course Chen Mo knew who Qiu Jiang was. She was an S-grade videogame designer at Emperor Dynasty Entertainment. Moon Lord¡¯s Prophecy was her creation, which was on the same level as Legend of the Sword. Qiu Jiang was one of the top designers over at Emperor Dynasty Entertainment, someone even Lin Chaoxu was willing to bow down to. However, there weren¡¯t many photos of Qiu Jiang and Chen Mo didn¡¯t care to search for them either. Moreover, Qiu Jiang¡¯s nametag during the convention was ¡®Saury¡¯, how could he have known it was her stage name? Qiu Jiang looked at Qiu Hengyang with a fruit in her mouth, ¡°This is the awards ceremony, it¡¯s not like we have to stick together just because we are the samepany. I like hanging out with you two anyways, is there a problem with that?¡± Qiu Hengyang and Chen Mo were speechless. Qiu Jiang continued, ¡°Or do you think that I¡¯m here to get some industry secret from you two? The both of you are just some B-grade designers, I should be the one who should be wary.¡± ¡°We are both A-grade designers now,¡± asserted Qiu Hengyang. ¡°Oh, A-grade,¡± Qiu Jiang let out a sly smile, ¡°Congrattions.¡± ¡°That didn¡¯t feel nice at all!¡± said Qiu Hengyang. Qiu Jiang spread out her hands, ¡°It¡¯s mainly because the others at Emperor Dynasty Entertainment are like a piece of rock, they are so boring. I feel like I¡¯m going to drag myself down to their level if I talk to them anymore than I need to.¡± Chen Mo replied after a few moments, ¡°Alright, do as you wish. Otherwise, you¡¯d think we were up to something.¡± The three of them chatted as they ate. Qiu Jiang was one of those quiet times that listened more than they spoke, adding their thoughts asionally just to show their interest in the topic. However, Chen Mo could feel that she wasn¡¯t like the other B-grade video game designers here, and was obviously much smarter. However, Chen Mo wasn¡¯t nervous because of this. She¡¯s just an S-grade videogame designer, I¡¯ll be a S-grade videogame designer in two years! Soon, the three of them finished their meal, and continued with the activities after some coffee. ¡°I have a talk, do you guys want to join?¡± suggested Qiu Jiang. Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Sure.¡± Chen Mo didn¡¯t really care as these talks didn¡¯t really do much for him. Qiu Jiang¡¯s topic was ¡®How to make good use of fantasy IP inrge games¡¯, going through some things she experienced during Moon Lord¡¯s Prophecy¡¯s development. There were so many attendees that all the seats were taken, there were even some standing just to listen to the talk. Luckily, Qiu Jiang managed to get Chen Mo and Qiu Hengyang front row seats. This was fantasy IPs were quite the hot topic in China as ofte as it seemed like it had potential to surpass Xianxia. There was a lot more freedom with fantasy themes and Chinese fantasy IPs happened to be quite capable too. Games like Moon Lord¡¯s Prophecy and Demon yers were both based on popr Chinese novels. Qiu Jiang was calm and concise,pletely owning the stage. She also managed her time really well, not a minute over or under the time limit. The audience gave back to the talk with huge apuse. ¡°Incredible, she¡¯s the best of the best alright. The perspectives of S-grade videogame designers arepletely different from ours.¡± ¡°Yeah, although I didn¡¯t understand a lot of it, I still feel like I gained plenty from this to digestter.¡± ¡°Just look at her, she¡¯s a top videogame designer in the country despite only twenty eight years old, and a girl no less. What else could you say other than she¡¯s just better!¡± Qiu Jiang appeared to have heard it, ncing at the direction of thement before angrily sitting beside Chen Mo. Qiu Hengyang let out a stifledugh, quietly whispering to Chen Mo, ¡°She really hates when others mention her age, be mindful of that.¡± ¡°Oh, is that so?¡± Chen Mo turned around and said to Qiu Jiang, ¡°Don¡¯t be mad. You¡¯re really beautiful, I couldn¡¯t tell you were twenty-eight this year.¡± Qiu Jiang was dumbfounded at thement, was that supposed to make her feel better? Among all this? Even though the talk ended, most of the people in the audience remained seated, chatting. Chen Mo was confused, ¡°Why are they still here?¡± Qiu Hengyang looked at the schedule, ¡°Oh, there¡¯s another talk after this, titled ¡®Breakdown of profitability of mobile card games¡¯. These people are probably here for the next one.¡± ¡°Oh?¡± Chen Mo confirmed that that was indeed the next talk, hosted by Emperor Dynasty Entertainment¡¯s Qiu Bin, designer of Demon yers 2. Chen Moughed, ¡°I have to listen to this one, this¡¯ll be fun.¡± Although it could be said that Chen Mo knew the profitability of mobile card games like the back of his hand, he wasn¡¯t quite sure how the people of this world would analyse mobile card games. This was an opportunity for him to ¡®learn¡¯ about the views of mobile card games in this world, and he might even gain a new perspective in this process. There were many people in seats waiting for the talk to start, but two members of staff outside were in a panic. ¡°What? The talk is canceled? Why is it cancelled?¡± ¡°I thought the notice was out since two days ago. It was cancelled because Qiu Bin couldn¡¯t make it to the awards ceremony.¡± ¡°Nobody told me!¡± ¡°Whatever, it¡¯s not a big problem. Just let the designers know and ask them to go to other talks.¡± ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll do that.¡± A member of staff walked onto stage and said using the mic, ¡°I¡¯m really sorry to inform you that Qiu Bin had already let the officials know that he couldn¡¯t make it to the award ceremony because of personal reasons. Therefore, this talk is cancelled, please feel free to join the other talks.¡± Chapter 180 - Chen Mo Hosts the Talk

Chapter 180: Chen Mo Hosts the Talk

A lot of chatter following the announcement. ¡°Huh? Qiu Bin isn¡¯ting?¡± ¡°Why not?¡± ¡°I heard it¡¯s a personal reason.¡± ¡°Man, I really wanted to listen to his talk, why didn¡¯t hee?¡± ¡°It¡¯s pretty funny on the official¡¯s end too to only notify us now.¡± ¡°Whatever, there¡¯s a VR game talk next door, let¡¯s listen to that.¡± ¡°Geez, I wanted to learn a thing or two about mobile card games seeing how profitable it was this year. That¡¯s too bad.¡± Many were preparing to leave the hall. At this moment, Qiu Jiang made her way to the stage and grabbed the microphone, ¡°Qiu Bin isn¡¯t here, but Chen Mo was. You guys should try and convince him to give the talk, wouldn¡¯t that be better than Qiu Bin?¡± Many of the designers chose to stay after hearing Qiu Jiang¡¯s suggestion. ¡°Chen Mo? The Chen Mo that made Onmyoji? He¡¯s here too?¡± ¡°My goodness, his game absolutely destroyed Qiu Bin¡¯s Demon yers 2. His talk must be better than Qiu Bin¡¯s!¡± ¡°Yeah, I Am MT was made by Chen Mo too. He¡¯s the pioneer of mobile card games.¡± ¡°Where¡¯s Chen Mo? Which one¡¯s Chen Mo?¡± ¡°I¡¯m not going. Where¡¯s Chen Mo? Get on the stage, Chen Mo!¡± Qiu Jiang was really happy with herself as she walked down the stairs before dragging Chen Mo out of his seat, ¡°Go head.¡± Chen Mo was speechless, I was supposed to be the one listening to a speech? Howe I¡¯m giving the speech now? I just made fun of your age, did the revenge need to be so vicious? But when Chen Mo stood up, the audience got real excited pping. ¡°Is that really Chen Mo? p!¡± ¡°I wanna hear too, get him to give a talk!¡± Chen Mo was speechless. He didn¡¯t n on getting on stage, but he couldn¡¯t say no with this much enthusiasm from the audience. Chen Mo didn¡¯t mind talking about his work either, others might be afraid of his work being copied, but he wasn¡¯t. Chen Mo unwillingly got onto the stage and said, ¡°Alright, since you guys want to hear, I¡¯ll see what I can do.¡± Another round of apuse came from the audience, followed by a lot of discussion. ¡°That¡¯s Chen Mo? He¡¯s so young.¡± ¡°He looks like he¡¯s in his mid twenties. He¡¯d only be in the industry for two years if he started immediately after he graduated.¡± ¡°This guy is an A-grade videogame designer at this age! We already lost!¡± ¡°And his game is making over two hundred million RMB a month!¡± ¡°Over two million? That¡¯sst month¡¯s number, it¡¯s probably going to grow this month. With how well Onmyoji was doing, it¡¯ll probably stay at the top of the leaderboards for three months at least!¡± ¡°My goodness, is this what a genius looks like?¡± ¡°Thank goodness I came today, I gotta take notes.¡± Everyone who nned to leave stayed in their seats waiting for Chen Mo¡¯s speech. This speech was nned for a long time because of how well mobile card games were doing. The Game Committee decided to have Qiu Bin do the talk. Demon yers had been in the top spot of the best sellers for a long time after all. No matter yers, poprity, or ie, Qiu Bin was more than qualified to give the talk. But who would¡¯ve thought that Chen Mo who seemed to have settled in the PC market would double back into the mobile gaming industry, destroying the best sellers leaderboards with Onmyoji and causing mass hysteria among mobile card games. However, as the talks have already been determined, and Qiu Bin submitted a draft for the talk too, it wouldn¡¯t be a good look if the officials decided to ditch Qiu Bin who had been preparing for this speech for a long time in exchange for Chen Mo who was quite fresh to the industry. However, Qiu Bin wasn¡¯t having it. Why would he give a talk after Demon yers 2 waspletely destroyed by Onmyoji? He couldn¡¯t think of a good excuse either. The officials agreed that it was a valid point and decided to cancel the talk. But this only happened because of mimunications. Chen Mo looked at the time and it was about the time to start. Theputer was connected to a projector. On it was Qiu Bin¡¯s powerpoint that was submitted ahead of time. Chen Mo felt that if he gave the talk off the top of his head, he could easily go off topic, so he decided to use his powerpoint. Chen Mo opened Qiu Bin¡¯s powerpoint, and the title of the powerpoint: ¡°Analysis of profit models of mobile card games¡±, host: Qiu Bin. Chen Mo added a few words after ¡°Host: Qiu Bin¡± ¡°Host: Qiu Bin (cancelled) Chen Mo¡± Chen Mo cleared his throat, ¡°I¡¯m d to be able to stand here and share my experiences with making card games. ¡°This will probably be a bit more casual, so I hope you guys don¡¯t mind. It¡¯s not like I don¡¯t want to follow a script, but I don¡¯t have a script to follow.¡± This got a fewughs. Chen Mo continued, ¡°I¡¯ll just follow this powerpoint. The core of mobile card games are pretty simple, most designers should be able to figure it out if they put some effort into it. I trust that my understanding wouldnt¡¯ differ too much from Mr. Qiu Bin¡¯s.¡± Chen Mo went to the next slide. There was an outline on the first page. Qiu Bin prepared four points on the subject. One, Allow yers to recognise the value of the cards. Two, Using the inherent quality of mobile games, fragmentise time. Three, Reduce the cost and up updates, conforming to the market. Four, utilize IP. The next page gave a quiet overview of the first point, exining what ¡®card value¡¯ meant and how they could get the yers to recognise it. ¡°First, how to form the value of the cards. ¡°The so-called ¡®card-value¡¯ is how much a yer is willing to spend on a virtual card. Different yers have different values, yers might spend thousands of RMB for one SSR, while others weren¡¯t willing to spend any money. Qiu Bin¡¯s powerpoint was so well done that Chen Mo could talk off of every single point. Although the content was understood by most mobile card games, Chen Mo went more in depth and rified on some points that weren¡¯t clear, allowing many designers to finally understand. ¡°So that¡¯s how it works.¡± ¡°This number¡¯s model is so interesting. I felt that I was missing something, so that¡¯s what that was.¡± ¡°Yeah, we only understood parts of it before, but now I finally understand some of the more obscure things.¡± Qiu Jiang was paying quite a lot of attention. Although she focused on VR games and didn¡¯t care about mobile games at all, she was surprised and thought the industry was quite interested after hearing from Chen Mo! It didn¡¯t take long before Chen Mo finished the first page onto ¡°Using the inherent quality of mobile games, fragmentise time¡± Chen Mo added a few more words to the end of the title. ¡°Using the inherent quality of mobile games, (not necessarily) fragmentise time Chapter 181 - Award Ceremony Underway

Chapter 181: Award Ceremony Underway

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales They were shocked to see Chen Mo going off script! Those two wordspletely changed the meaning of the title! ¡°This was a pitfall that many designers fall into. I Am MT¡¯s gamey was really fragmentation, but what about Onmyoji? Without a doubt, it¡¯s a very reyable game. ¡°Even though it¡¯s a reyable game, and even though it doesn¡¯t fit what mobile games are used to, it was really sessful, why? To put it simply, if your game was the same quality as Onmyoji, you could make it a reyable game too, and you could even make more revenue... ¡°... And the third point, although it¡¯s easy to pivot when the cost is low, but once it¡¯s faced against high quality games, your game will be outpeted, which is why other mobile card games were dumpstered... ¡°The fourth point, although IP is important, you don¡¯t have to throw everything down just to get it. The highest point of mobile card games are games that are their own IP. Buying IPs are just opportunities, it¡¯s just a skin for your game, it still depends on the game as to how well you can execute it. Chen Mo went through the points at his own pace as there were only a few points that were noteworthy among mobile card games. He could fill out an entire talk just by using knowledge from the top of his head. The audience were both surprised and dumbfounded as they listened. ¡°Hepletely changed Qiu Bin¡¯s powerpoints for thest three points. He evenpletely overhauled the conclusion page?¡± ¡°Yeah, and it¡¯s theplete opposite too.¡± ¡°Which one¡¯s right?¡± ¡°I think it makes sense.¡¯ ¡°Yeah, I need to digest this a bit.¡± ¡°But ording to Onmyoji, Chen Mo is right.¡± ¡°Onmyoji did overhaul the idea of mobile card games, but I didn¡¯t really pick up on how he did it?¡± ¡°Did he mean that once the quality is good enough, you could do as you wish?¡± ¡°That¡¯s not possible right?¡± ¡°So should I focus on reyability or fragmentise gamey? Should I buy an IP? I¡¯m so confused!¡± -Two hours passed in a blink of an eye.- Chen Mo reached thest page of the powerpoint, ¡°Mobile card games have a limited lifespan. It might¡¯ve grown a lot in this year, and many mobile card games made a lot of money, but in the long term, yers will get bored of it, and the genre will eventually fall out of favour. ¡°It¡¯s hard to say how long the downfall willst, but I¡¯ll leave you guys with this: Think about how the game ys, make sure it¡¯s high quality. Mobile card games are only here temporarily and will not be able to sustain us indefinitely. ¡°Lastly, I hope you guys have learnt something from this, and I hope that you guys can make excellent games in the future. This concludes my talk, thank you.¡± Chen Mo bowed and left the stage with roaring apuse from the audience. ¡°That¡¯s excellent! There¡¯s no way Qiu Bin could give a talk of this quality!¡± ¡°Yeah, it¡¯s Chen Mo after all. His knowledge in mobile card games is really deep! His views arepletely different from ours.¡± ¡°Yeah, but there¡¯s still parts I don¡¯t understand.¡± ¡°Take your time and digest it. It¡¯s a blessing that he was willing to tell us so much.¡± ¡°I thought Chen Mo was crazy, but he seems quite humble today. It¡¯s nice that he was willing to share so much too!¡± Many video game designers came forward to greet Chen Mo and exchange their contacts. Chen Mo didn¡¯t deny them as many of them genuinely wanted to be friends. Chen Mo knew exactly what he was saying. There are only so many things with mobile card games, but knowing is one thing, executing is another. Just like Onmyoji, so what if they knew that the game was profitable, how many developers were actually willing to match their game to that quality? The various settings of the game tie in directly with the finished game. Even if Chen Mo revealed his settings and decisions, most designers wouldn¡¯t be able to recreate a sessful mobile card game. There were even some designers that uploaded Chen Mo¡¯s speech online. Qiu Bin died a little bit inside, I wasn¡¯t at the ceremony, why is my name showing up! Why did Qiu Jiang egg him on? Why did you drag Chen Mo on stage? And Chen Mo too, couldn¡¯t you have declined? Why did you actually deliver the talk? And even then, why did you use my powerpoint? And you even changed it? Isn¡¯t that just saying that all my thoughts were wrong? Qiu Bin felt helpless as he got tied into it even though he wasn¡¯t even there. Damn you Chen Mo! ¡ª The event continued on the second day. The talks were still the focus during the day. Chen Mo would listen to anything he came across as the contents were mostly simr, just on different topics. The main event finally started during the night. The talks during the day were just supporting events for the main award ceremony. Many designers worked hard for an entire year just for recognition from this event as it would help a lot for their future development. A few people whom Chen Mo met greeted him as they entered the venue. ¡°Chen Mo? You¡¯re here!¡± ¡°I hope you get the mobile game of the year, I¡¯ll even congratte you ahead of time.¡± ¡°Your talk was great yesterday, when are you going to talk about RTS games??¡± ¡°Chen Mo, can you tell me if there¡¯s any strategy for drawing SSRs in Onmyoji?¡± Chen Mo answered every single question. ¡°Well, I¡¯m just here to learn.¡± ¡°It¡¯s hard to talk about RTS games, maybe next time.¡± ¡°There¡¯s no secret, the yers don¡¯t buy it, but you don¡¯t believe it as a videogame designer either? It¡¯s all random.¡± Soon, the award ceremony started. A member of staff came up to Chen Mo and whispered to him, ¡°Mr Chen Mo, in case you get an award, be sure to think of what to say.¡± ¡°I have an award?¡± ¡°No, I¡¯m saying if you do get it. I don¡¯t know who¡¯s receiving the award either.¡± Chen Moughed, ¡°Alright, you don¡¯t need to tell me twice.¡± Chen Mo imed that he was just here to learn, but he actually really wanted to get the reward. Chen Mo was in a different world, and also had a different goal. In the previous world, he¡¯d be happy just to have clothes on his back and a roof over his head, but Chen Mo wanted to make more better games in this world. Chen Mo had already made plenty of money and didn¡¯t need to worry about clothes on his back or a roof over his head, but Chen Mo wanted to make more better games, and receiving an award from the officials would do wonders in helping him achieve that goal. Chapter 182 - Chapter 181: Becoming an Honorary Member

Chapter 182: Chapter 181: Bing an Honorary Member

Qiu Hengyang arrived soon after Chen Mo and sat next to him. The seats were predetermined by the officials. Other than the front row which was reserved for leaders, the other seats were determined more or less by grade, with higher grade in the front. The rtionship between designers are also taken into ount when assigning seats. As Chen Mo and Qiu Hengyang were both A-grade designers and knew each other well, they were sat in the same row. Qiu Hengyang introduced the other attendees to Chen Mo. ¡°The ones in front are all leaders in the Game Committee, you¡¯ll have to deal with them sooner orter. You should get to know them early as your game will have to go through them. ¡°That Mr Zhang is responsible for the official appstore. ¡°Mr Liu over there is responsible for the Illusion Game Editor. Chen Mo struggled to remember each of them. Qiu Hengyang went on to introduce the video game designers behind them. ¡°Those are the three S-grade videogame designers from Emperor Dynasty Entertainment. You¡¯ve met Qiu Jiang, and the other two are Yan Zhang and Qin Xiao. Three of them are working on their own VR games, and others on that side are Zen Entertainment... ¡°That¡¯s Ran He, the designer behind Heavy Assault, you¡¯ve seen him yesterday... Chen Mo tried to remember their names as Qiu Hengyang introduced them. He didn¡¯t really care, but Chen Mo knows that it¡¯d be beneficial to know them. It¡¯d be awkward if they cross paths in the future but he didn¡¯t know their names. As there weren¡¯t many S-grade videogame designers, Qiu Hengyang introduced a few more prominent A-grade video game designers. By the time he was done, it was almost time to start. Chen Mo came to a realisation, ¡°There are so many incredible people here. I¡¯ve been shut-in working on my games, but I just realised now many talented people there are after attending this award ceremony.¡± Qiu Hengyang nodded, ¡°Yeah, the best videogame designers in China are all gathered here, of course there would be many talented people here.¡± As the host stepped onto the stage, the chatter died down, followed by roaring apuse. The leaders have also all arrived. The leaders were heads of different departments within the Game Committee. Chen Mo also noticed Qiao Hua who contacted him before. He was a man in his forties, skinny, elegant, and seemed quite well maintained, a big contrast from the other middle aged men with huge pot-bellies. Zhang Zhongxiang, Chairman of the Game Committee, delivered a speech. The speechsted for ten minutes and was quite simr to the speeches of other leaders. They focused onst year¡¯s result, pointing out some ces that needed work, and their ns for the future. Soon, the speeches ended, and the award ceremony finally started. Chen Mo could tell that this award ceremony wasn¡¯t as serious as the likes of science award ceremonies as the atmosphere felt quitex. The ceremony started by announcing the honorary Game Committee members of this year. ¡°I¡¯m proud to announce this year¡¯s honorary Game Committee members: Designer of Protoss Wings, Li Feng, designer of Heavenly Three Kingdoms Zhang Xiaokong, designer of Wulin Legend and Onmyoji Chen Mo, designer of Death Walk Zhu Fanglin, designer of Sword of Dreams... Please make your way onto the stage!¡± There were members of staff locating the respective designers to guide them onto the stage. The Game Committee inducts ten honorary members every year. These members are usually quite young, and must have made a high quality game. Obviously the designers who received the awards were quite shocked, some even struggled to walk, other than Chen Mo of course. The other designers watched on with envy. ¡°Honorary member. That¡¯s like making yourself known in front of all the Game Committee heads and being inducted to be part of the department.¡± ¡°How long has Li Feng been waiting for this? He¡¯s been in industry for almost eight years now, and has had plenty of decent games. He finally made with with Protoss Wings this year huh.¡± ¡°Yeah, it¡¯s because of how many considerations the officials take into ount. It¡¯s not just based on how profitable the game is, it must have a certain amount of impact and look professional. Death Walk probably got included because it contained traditional elements. ¡°But this Chen Mo guys is a freak! He just became a B-grade videogame designer this year, he¡¯s now an A-grade, and an honorary member no less!¡± ¡°You¡¯reparing yourself to Chen Mo? He¡¯s not human!¡± ¡°Yeah. He probably made a huge impression with the Game Committee with Warcraft and Wulin Legend. Onmyoji¡¯s monthly revenue was probably thest nail in the coffin.¡± ¡°It¡¯s crazy that he could do western fantasy and Wuxia. I¡¯m so jealous.¡± Chen Mo walked onto the stage with the fest of the designers to receive a certificate from one of the leaders. As they weren¡¯t expected to deliver a speech, they walked down the stage after receiving their award and grabbing a photo. Qiu Hengyang asked, ¡°How did it feel to be on stage?¡± ¡°Not much.¡± Qiu Hengyangughed, ¡°Don¡¯t worry, it¡¯s just the beginning. The main course is up next.¡± The awards of various categories followed the induction of honorary members. The A and S-grade videogame designers were nervously looking at the stage. This award meant a lot to them as it was an acknowledgement of their year¡¯s work from the officials. Soon, the first award: Best Sound Effects. The leader on stage cleared their throat, ¡°I¡¯m proud to announce, this year¡¯s winner of best sound effects is¡ªDream Journey by Zhou Haibin!¡± A loud round of apuse followed! Zhou Haibin stood up filled with shock and disbelief. Qiu Hengyang was also pping as he whispered to Chen Mo, ¡°This is an indie game. Zhou Haibin has really high requirements on music, so this wasn¡¯t really surprising. However, being able to make a game of this quality as an independent developer is quite amazing.¡± Chen Mo was pping too, a designer that treats games like a work of art did deserve respect. Zhou Haibin got up on stage to ept the award before delivering his speech. ¡°Thank you, thank you. I didn¡¯t expect to receive this award because it was an indie game with a niche target audience. The gamey wasn¡¯t anything new either, and the highlight of the game was the music and sound effects. This award means a lot to be as it¡¯s a recognition for Dreams Journey, and a recognition for me. Thanks to everyone at the Game Committee and my loyal fans. Thank you!¡± Another wave of apuse followed. Although they werepetitors in the same industry, an indie developer like Zhou Haibin was most definitely out of the ordinary, most were happy for him to receive the award. Chapter 183 - Chapter 182: Unworthy Award

Chapter 183: Chapter 182: Unworthy Award

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales The next award was for best art. This time it wasn¡¯t an indie game, it was received by Ascension, a VR game by Zen Entertainment. The designer was also very emotional, thanking the leaders, theirpany, and the yers as per usual. The rewards were being handed out one by one, best visuals, best debut work, best level design, best models... These awards focused on different points. For example, art focused on art, and visuals focused on graphics from an artistic point of view. One must have an excellent art style to be able to receive the ward. Most of the awards at the beginning were taken by PC or VR games. There were some indie games too, but mobile games have yet to be represented. Although a game like Onmyoji was one of the best in the mobile industry, it still couldn¡¯t go toe to toe to VR or PC games. Soon, they reached awards by genre, Best FPS game, Best Fighting Game, Best Sports Game... Finally, they reached the Best Strategy Game. The leader on the stage handing out the awards had changed a couple times, this time it was Qiao Hua¡¯s turn handing out awards. Many had an idea who could win this category as there was only one person who made an RTS in the country this year, and there was only one person who made a really popr RTS game! Qiao Hua said sternly, ¡°I¡¯m happy to announce, the winner of this year¡¯s Best Strategy Game Award is¡ªthe designer of Warcraft, Chen Mo! A huge wave of apuse followed! Many knew who was going to win this award this year as Warcraft was really eye catching in the RTS industry. It managed to ovee an overseas game like Legion Conquest too. Moreover, it was doing really well no matter in or outside of China, so this award was well deserved. Chen Mo went up the stage to receive the award. Qiao Hua passed the award to Chen Mo, smiling, ¡°Congrattions.¡± Chen Mo nodded in thanks, then grabbed the microphone to start his speech. ¡°Everybody knows that Warcraft is an excellent game. Therefore I fully acknowledge the acknowledgement the officials give this game. Thank you.¡± There was a moment of silence before another huge wave of apuse. ¡°Hahaha, this Chen Mo guy loves messing around! He¡¯s doing it when he received an award too!¡± ¡°My goodness, does his family know he¡¯s doing this?¡± ¡°Warcraft¡¯s results are to be proud of.¡± ¡°But that¡¯s crazy what he did! It¡¯s an award ceremony after all, and the leaders are all watching!¡± There were varying reactions from the leaders. ¡°This Chen Mo is quite cocky,¡± Mr Zhang from the official appstore department scowled. ¡°He¡¯s still young, it¡¯s a good thing. Moreover, the video game industry is an industry that needs personalities like this,¡± Chairman Zhang Zhongxiang waved his hand, ¡°He can be even more bold if he makes better games.¡± Soon, the awards for various genres were done. Up next were the more important games, Best VR GAme, Best PC Game, and Best Mobile Game. Best VR Game was awarded to Qiu Jiang¡¯s Moon Lord¡¯s Prophecy. The game was released at the end of the year, and seemed like it had a chance at overtaking Legend of the Sword to receive Game of the Year. Best PC Game was awarded to ¡°Songs of Demeter¡±, Zen Entertainment¡¯s MMORPG, nowmonly viewed as Zen Entertainment¡¯s hit product after Tale of the Sword. Next was the Best Mobile Game Award. Most didn¡¯t care about this award in previous years as mobile games focused on casual games. Even if there might be one or two decent games, they¡¯d hover around thirty to forty million RMB in monthly revenue. This year wasn¡¯t like thest as Onmyoji managed to get over three hundred million in monthly revenue, surpassing many PC games by a longshot. ¡°Best Mobile Game, probably Onmyoji.¡± ¡°But Onmyoji has a japanese theme. Are the leaders going to like it? Most games that receive the award are Chinese themed.¡± ¡°It¡¯s difficult to say. Onmyoji¡¯s results are right there in in sight, and the monthly revenue is sky high.¡± ¡°The leaders are just basing it on profitability, they take artistic value and uniqueness into ount too, it¡¯s hard to tell.¡± Everyone was waiting for the winner to be announced. ¡°I¡¯m happy to announce, this year¡¯s winner for Best Mobile Game Is¡ª ¡°The designer of Onmyoji, Chen Mo!¡± Chen Mo was a bit surprised, but he still got up and walked onto the stage. There was a lot of chatter under the stage. ¡°It really was Onmyoji!¡± ¡°That means the leaders don¡¯t mind its theme?¡± ¡°You think they really care that much about it? They can ept western themes, so why not japanese themes? Moreover, if the yers like it doesn¡¯t that mean it¡¯s a good game?¡± ¡°That¡¯s true.¡± Chen Mo epted his trophy and grabbed the microphone. ¡°To be honest, I¡¯m surprised to receive this award. Strictly speaking, I don¡¯t think Onmyoji is a perfect game. ¡®I think Mr Zhang Yuanchao¡¯s Home and Mr Lin Yuan¡¯s Evening Valley Rain were all incredible Chinese themed games. Their graphics were much better than Onmyoji. I think I¡¯m unworthy of this award. ¡°I will continue working hard to be able to make games that are artistically rich and able to represent China so I can live up to this award. Thank you!¡± Apuse followed the end of his speech. MAny thought that CHen Mo would deliver a speech like hisst one, but Chen Mo was really down to earth in epting Onmyoji¡¯s ws. This made them feel like Chen Mo wasn¡¯t someone with no respect,ting him a lot of apuse. ¡ª Next, the most prestigious Game of The Year award belonged to Emperor Dynasty Entertainment¡¯s VR game, Wolf Soul. This was a FPS game developed by Qin Xiao that was ced in the modern world. The story and design of the game were top notch, and the game was worthy of the title. With that, the awards have all been handed out, and the annual Video Game Awards Ceremony finally came to an end. However, most attention wasn¡¯t on Qin Xiao who got Game of the Year, or Qiu Jiang who got Best VR Game, but Chen Mo. As someone who entered the industry for two years, it was incredible for him to be able to receive two awards from the ceremony. Many articles were released following the ceremony. Annual Videogame Awards Ceremony Comes to an end, Chen Mo¡ª only person to receive two awards! Best Strategy Game: Warcraft Best Mobile Game: Onmyoji Chen Mo: Undeserving of Award Chen Mo: Cocky or Humble? Among all the hot articles, many were waiting. What would Chen Mo do in theing year following the sess of Warcraft and Onmyoji? Chapter 184 - An RPG Map

Chapter 184: An RPG Map

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales It was the sixth day of the Chinese calendar, and Chen Mo was back in the experience store in Beijing. The Imperial Capital was weing huge waves of people as they wereing back from their hometown to resume work. The hustle and bustle before the new year hade to an end. Many people on the streets seemed dibobted as their bodies were still in holiday mode. Chen Mo opened the experience store door and went inside. Everything was as usual since a week ago when he left. Chen Mo moved theputer chairs to where they belonged before wiping down everything with a cloth, arranging the phones and tablets to where they should be. There were usually professionals cleaning the experience store, but dust had gathered as the experience store was closed for the past few days. Chen Mo was taking the cleaning quite seriously. This was his first experience store afterall, it had been with him since the start, and it wasn¡¯t surprising that he developed an attachment. ¡°Manager? You¡¯re back?¡± Chen Mo turned around to find Zou Zhuo at the door with a shocked look on his face. ¡°Yep, just got back. Happy Chinese New Year. You want a drink?¡± Chen Mo tossed a can of coke to Zou Zhuo. Zou Zhuo caught the can, ¡°Thanks manager, you too. Happy Chinese New Year.¡± Zou Zhuo was a local, he was going on a walk after having his meal and just happened to walk in on Chen Mo opening the experience store. Zou Zhuo was quite excited as he wanted to y a few matches of Warcraft against Chen Mo to learn from it, but it never happened as he was usually so busy. Luckily, the experience store was quite empty as it was just after Chinese New Year. Zou Zhuo turned on aputer, ¡°Manager, you want to y a few rounds and give me some pointers?¡± Chen Moughed, ¡°Sure, I¡¯ve got nothing to do anyways.¡± They started ying a few private matches. An hourter, Zou Zhuo called GG three times. The fatty scratched his head in confusion, ¡°Alright, I¡¯m done. The gap is still too big, there¡¯s no game to be had.¡± Zou Zhuo¡¯s Undead was destroyed by Chen Mo¡¯s Night Elves, Undead, and Orcs during that hour. Chen MO said, ¡°It¡¯s alright, you¡¯ve improved quite a bit.¡± ¡°The gap is still too big, I¡¯ll have to watch these reys when I get back,¡± said Zou Zhuo. ¡°I think your Frost Armor Crypt Fiend is quite alright, but you messed up some on the details. I¡¯d rmend you y some other races so understand your opponents better. You might even catch your opponents trying new things, you¡¯ll learn a lot that way.¡± Chen Mo gave Zou Zhuo more tips onbat and some details as Zou Zhuo nodded along as he felt that he had a lot to gain from this. ¡°What are we going to y next?¡± Chen Mo looked at the games on theputers in the experience store. They were already kind of tired with Warcraft which had the most depth. Other games like nts vs Zombies, Wulin Legend, and Onmyoji no longer appealed to CHen MO. ¡°How about we y some RPG maps in Warcraft? There¡¯s a map that has been quite popr recently. I¡¯ve tried it out and it was quite fun,¡± suggested Zou Zhuo. Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Sure.¡± Zou Zhuo found the map and created a lobby. Soon after Chen Mo entered the lobby, it was filled with other randoms. It was an RPG map called Holy Land. The story was based on a novel by the same name. The yers could choose to y as Holy Knight, Witch, Rouge, and Archer. They would explore the map before finally defeating the final boss to save the world. ¡°Manager, since you¡¯re better mechanically, you should pick the witch. I¡¯ll pick the holy knight and heal you,¡± said Zou Zhuo. Chen Mo picked the witch and started exploring the map with the other two yers. All in all, the map was excellent. It was one of the most popr maps on the Warcraft as it had a lot of yers, and many guides following its poprity. The level design was alright, thebat was rich, and the bncing was well done. Most importantly, the game was ced in a western fantasy world which allowed it to fit in well with the resources of Warcraft. Theplete product could almost pass as aplete game. There were human viges, elven cities on isted inds, and the spookynd of the dead. The multitudes of adventures allowed the yers to feel incredibly immersed. Chen Mo couldn¡¯t help but praise it, ¡°This game is great, the author must have good knowledge with western fantasy.¡± Zou Zhuo nodded, ¡°Yeah, but most importantly he used the story from Holy Land so it¡¯s not as shocking as the other western fantasy games in China. But unfortunately the author doesn¡¯t have the rights to the work, so we can only treat it as a fan project and they can¡¯t actually profit from it.¡± ¡°Has Holy Land not been turned into a game outside of China? Is there no Chinese version?¡± asked Chen Mo. ¡°There is, but it¡¯s a small VR game. I think thepany had some funding issues when they bought the rights. They were insistent on making a VR game, but they couldn¡¯t make arge world to explore. So the game is doing alright overseas, but not so well in China. ¡°Moreover, the game is different from this RPG map. I think most MMORPG games aren¡¯t all that satisfying to y, just like Warcraft. Killing monsters of the same level takes a lot of effort, sure it¡¯s bnced and realistic, but it¡¯s not really satisfying. ¡°I think that¡¯s one of the reasons why this map is so popr. It¡¯s really satisfying to be able to kill so many monsters in one sh.¡± Chen Mo nodded. Many designers in this world were quite stubborn with VR games, thinking that they may as well makerge VR games if they were going to make VR games anyways. When designers of this world think ofrge games, they default to VR games. But there was a lot of risk with making VR games. It would cost ten times more to develop the same world in a PC game in VR, and with the same money, it would mean a VR world a tenth of the size. Therefore most video game developers choose to make a PC game before migrating it to VR after it¡¯s proven to be sessful. Chen Mo and Zou Zhuo both yed well, andbined with Zou Zhuo¡¯s map knowledge, they finally beat it after an hour. Chen Mo said to Zou Zhuo, ¡°You go ahead, I¡¯ll do some research for my next game.¡± This caught Zou Zhuo¡¯s attention, ¡°Huh? New game? Have you figured out what game you¡¯re going to make?¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Yeah, I¡¯m almost there.¡± Chapter 185 - A Hack and Slash Game

Chapter 185: A Hack and sh Game

¡°Wow, you¡¯re working too hard, manager, you just got back from your break! Anyways, could you tell me what kind of game you¡¯re going to make?¡± asked Zou Zhuo. Chen Mo smiled, ¡°Hold your horses, I¡¯ll need to do some research and see if feasible.¡± Zou Zhuo nodded, ¡°Alright! Manager¡¯s new game has got to be good!¡± ¡ª Chen Mo did some quick research for standalone RPG games on both PC and VR. Basically, no matter in or out of China, MMORPG was the dominating genre. There were many points for MMORPGs, and the best point was that the interaction between yers could extend the lifespan of the game, which in turns extends the profitable window of the game. There were still traditional RPG games, but it was gathering far less attention than it did, and naturally there were fewer high quality games. This was one of the greatest pitfalls that this world had fallen into as cing too much emphasis on MMORPGs bought a series of chain reactions. Most MMORPGs were in first person view and had a focus on the artstyle. This was because first person perspective was widely epted to allow yers to immerse more into the game. Andbined with high quality arts allow yers to spend more time in the world. However, this introduced a problem, the information that the yers get bes incredibly limited as their field of view is smaller, making it harder to deal withrge groups of enemies. And in most MMORPGs, yers fight in groups. There were already many yers, and if many monsters are introduced, the screen will be incredibly cluttered as the yers get overwhelmed with information. This was much better on VR, but because most VR games are imported from a PC version, it would still be more or less influenced by their PC counterpart. Andbined with various other reasons, this led to ack of hack and sh games in this world. This was one of the reasons RPG maps in Warcraft were so popr. yers still liked the feeling of being powerful, killing many enemies in one hit, but they didn¡¯t understand what they wanted. Therefore, their voices would never be heard by the developers. Of course, they might not execute it even if they noticed. Although hack and sh might seem easy to execute, there were a lot of technicalities to it. If the design wasn¡¯t done well, the yers would quickly leave the game. And coincidentally, Chen Mo has a pretty good hack and sh game on his hands that he could use as a transitional work to pivot into an RPG, filling out gaps in this world in the process. At the front desk, Chen Mo turned on hisptop and started writing a concept design document for Diablo. It was harder for Chen Mo to develop Diablo than Warcraft. The game must beparable in quality to Diablo 3, therefore the resources required was much more than Warcraft. Most of the maps in Warcraft can be done in the map editor, but the same couldn¡¯t be said with Diablo as maps in Diablo are dynamically generated with very high quality. This was a major challenge for Chen Mo. Diablo was a decent traditional game as Chen Mo had never made an RPG in the past and it would be risky to rush into MMORPGs. Moreover, even in the previous world, Diablo¡¯s theme and ystyle were all unique. There were many Diablo-like games, yet not a single one could surpass the original. It was still one of the most ssic hack and sh games. Lastly, it was time to choose which generation to recreate. Diablo 1 was too old and had a simple ystyle. Diablo 2 was a timeless ssic and pioneered Diablo-like games. Moreover, the atmosphere and ystyle fit Diablo the best. However, Diablo 2 was still quite old. Although many concepts in that game were timeless, thebat system, user interface, and artstyle didn¡¯t age too well. Diablo 3 was also really sessful, but Diablo fans felt that it never reached Diablo 2¡¯s level. Although the graphics were quite nice, it wascking in what yers sought in a Diablo game. Chen Mo had no problems making Diablo 2 or Diablo 3 with his current abilities. The quality of the game he would make could match Diablo 3, so the only considerations were the atmosphere and the ystyle of the game. Chen Mo decided to use Diablo 3 as its foundation, using its world design, story, and artstyle, while making some improvements to the ystyle and artstyle to make it feel more like Diablo 2. One of the reasons the older fans dislike Diablo 3 was because of its art style and gamey. Diablo 2 had dark and dank jail cells, weird monsters, blood trails, and limbs to create a scary atmosphere. The yer¡¯s vision would also be limited in forcing the yers to y more vigntly. Combined with music and audio effects, yers were always kept on their toes. But Diablo 3 gave up some of that artstyle, perhaps as a process of making it look better, losing the sad, mysterious, and scary atmosphere. At the same time Diablo 3 was much easier, most yers could easily beat the levels. This resulted in it being less satisfying to defeat bosses. Chen Mo wanted to make a game that was as Diablo as possible, because being able to recreate that atmosphere would make all that hacking and shing feel more meaningful, which in turn extends the lifespan of the game. Of course, there were some obstacles in the way of making the game. The biggest obstacle would be getting it through the review process. In the previous world, Diablo would have struggled to get past the reviewing process, and Diablo 3 took a long time before being passed. However, the parallel world was more tolerant with gore and violent themes as long as they had age restrictions. Moreover, Chen Mo was part of themittee which would surely help with the reviewing of the game. It probably would be easier if they submitted the concept of the game to themittee ahead of time for the final review of the game. Next was an overview of a design overmap, nning various aspects of the game. Chapter 186 - Diablos Settings

Chapter 186: Diablo¡¯s Settings

Diablo¡¯s design could be split into three main categories. Story and quest lines: Building the foundations for the story as well asying out every single quest line, allowing yers to experience the story of the game seamlessly. Map and level design: Create the scenes ording to the story. Each chapter was ced in a different setting with different models and textures. Moreover, one of Diablo¡¯s biggest pros were its dynamically generated maps. Every scene the yer experiences are randomly generated. Elements such as dungeon entrances and altars are randomly generated every time, which makes exploration one of the important pleasures of the Diablo series. Combat system and monsters: This focused on the abilities the yers have inbat as well as the characteristics each monster had, making thebat system feel more rich. After these three points are done, everything else could be polished slowly over time. Other than that, Chen Mo also wanted to make some changes to Diablo 3 in terms of art style and y style. Chen Mo put an emphasis on cult, dark, scary, ominous, and bloody art style as he wanted the yers to feel depressed and anxious when they y the game. He also wanted to give the yers a simr fear from the gamey. First, cut down on yer attributes and increase boss damage. This will decrease the rates at which yers beat levels, as they feel more in danger againstrge groups of enemies and bosses. The worst part of Diablo 3 was the growth of the yer at theter stages of the game. It gets to a point when it didn¡¯t matter if the yer was dodging attacks from the boss as they didn¡¯t do much damage anymore. The real troublees from elite mobs, but they weren¡¯t beaten by out maneuvering or out skilling them, but it was based on equipment (resistance), making the game less tense that it should. Therefore, Chen Mo strongly considered nerfing the growth of the attributes to allow the yers to feel tense from the game. Second, build on Diablo 2¡¯s field of view design. The yer¡¯s field of view could be smaller, making it possible for the yers to be under attack by enemies out of sight. This was especially important in dark caves or dungeons. Third, designs could be borrowed from Diablo 2. Take the character screen for example. In Diablo 2, the screen was ced in a dark town, the characters are nketed in darkness and will only reveal themselves after the yer had made their picks. Diablo 3 on the other hand had character selection under moonlight, dramatically impacting on the atmosphere of the game. Chen Mo wanted to make changes to all these functions and scenes that didn¡¯t fit Diablo 2. Fourth, the flow of narrative and yer emotions should match Diablo 2. Diablo 2 was a master at managing and manipting yer emotions. In the first chapter for example, the yer would go through safety, danger, nervous, anxiousness, restricted, release, and rx in a cycle. The first chapter went something like this: Town (safe), Den of Devil (Danger), Kill all enemies, field of view increased (safe) Cold ins (safe), Blood Ravens (Nervous), Sisters¡¯ Burial Grounds (Extreme Danger) Stony Field (Safe), Underground Passageway (Danger), Dark Wood (Nervous), Jail (Anxious). Inner Cloister (Temporary Breathing Room), Catbs (Extreme restraint), Kill Andariel (Release, rx). The yers¡¯ emotions rise and fall as they progress through the game as they are allowed to rx and times but are incredibly tense at others as they be increasingly immersed in the game. However, Diablo 3 didn¡¯t address this point so well. Evidently they didn¡¯t care too much about the emotions of the yers during level design. Chen Mo nned to make slight changes to the progress of the scenes in Diablo 3 to remedy this, allowing scenes to better control the yers¡¯ emotions. Moreover, Chen Mo nned to bnce the game in the style of Blizzard, nerfing builds that yers have a tendency towards. This allows the game to feel ordered among all the chaos, instead of making changes directly to the foundations of the game to meet his expectations. After settling on a general design concept of Diablo, Chen Mo visited the Game Committee to run this through Qiao Hua to ensure the game wouldn¡¯t have too much trouble during the review process before work resumed. ¡ª It was the eight day of the Chinese calendar, and the new employees officially started work. Their new office was more or less in a finished condition. Computers, drawing tablets and other office supplies had arrived, and things like coffee machines, fridges, microwaves, and snacks were also provided. Su Jinyu arrived back at work a day before the others to work on the new arrivals. Chen Mo returned to the experience store at 11am. ¡°Manager, the new employees are here, would you like to wee them?¡± said Su Jinyu. Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Alright.¡± The new office was in a shop lot near the experience store. It was originally a cafe, but after a few light renovations it suited to be an office. Everybody stood up upon seeing Chen Mo. ¡°Let¡¯s meet in the meeting room, I¡¯ll give a quick overview of what I expect,¡± said Chen Mo. A meeting area was split out from the main office in order to form a meeting area for twenty people. After grabbing their seats, Chen Mo sat in the middle with his assistants by his side. Chen Mo was quite happy with these new hires. Most of them had plenty of working experience. As Chen Mo had the final say, the employees were more than capable. Chen Mo looked around and said in a serious tone, ¡°I¡¯m pretty straightforward so I¡¯ll skip the customs. I¡¯ll skip the talk about pay as it has already been discussed when you guys were hired, but in summary, it¡¯s higher than the industry average. ¡°I only have one wish, for you guys toplete the tasks I ask. I¡¯m not sure what your previouspanies were, but here, I go through every single detail of the game. I don¡¯t hope to receive an ambiguous answer. ¡°No matter the circumstance, even if you don¡¯t understand the intent behind my decisions, I hope that you will continue executing as ordered. You¡¯ll understand the meaning behind them when the game is released. ¡°Simrly, as long as you guys do your jobs, I can guarantee that I¡¯ll pay you what thepanies cannot. You won¡¯t have to worry about money as this isn¡¯t one of thosepanies that skimps on that.¡± The new hires seemed to be looking forward to this. The vast majority of the new hires were older than Chen Mo, but not a single one dared question him as his experiences in the past two years trumped many of them. Moreover, when considering the profitability of his games and his name, none of them dared to underestimate their boss who happened to be quite young. Chapter 187 - Design Concept Draft

Chapter 187: Design Concept Draft

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Chen Mo continued, ¡°Of course, I¡¯m not a dictator, I¡¯m open to any suggestions or opinions, but be ready to be rejected. ¡°Alright, that¡¯s about it. You guys don¡¯t have to be anxious, my aim is to make everyone here money after all. You will realise that joining Thunderbolt Entertainment will be the best choice you made. There were varying reactions, some excited, some calm. It was normal to doubt apany one just joined, especially one with such a young boss. This ¡®hyping up the employees¡¯ sessions weremonce in every singlepany, and most new hires would most definitely go through this at least once. ¡®Make everyone money¡¯ are just wordsing out of their mouths 99% of the time. Chen Mo continued, ¡°I focus on efficiency. Warcraft took around half a year of work toplete. There might be somemunication issues now that our team is bigger, but I still hope that our efficiency can be higher. ¡°Next, is the game we¡¯ll be working on. Here¡¯s the concept document, please take a look.¡± Chen Mo turned on the projector in the meeting room to reveal the title: Diablo Design Concept Document. The new hires signed non-disclosure agreements and nonpete uses so there was no need to worry about leaks. They wouldn¡¯t be so dumb as to give up such a good job in exchange for short term benefits. Many were shocked to see the name just as Chen Mo predicted. The name Diablo was a bit weird, but within realms of reasoning. Diablo wasn¡¯t a god[1] they were familiar with, no matter ancient or modern times. However nobody dared question him as Chen Mo was known to have weird names for his games. Chen Mo started exining the game. Artstyle. Core gamey. Background story of the setting. Storylines. Controlling the yer¡¯s emotions. sses andbat system. Improving on gamey and multiyer features. Equipment system and long-term goals. Chen Mo didn¡¯t go into too much detail as it was just a concept document. It was up to his assistants to fill those gaps. However, Chen Mo went through the most important parts of the game, going over the good and bad of the game, target audience, and profit model. As a result, everyone understood what kind of game Chen Mo was going for. Su Jinyu, Zheng Hongxi and Qian Kun didn¡¯t say much as it wasn¡¯t their first rodeo. Even if the concept of the game seemed really weird now, the final product would most certainly be a ssic that was well polished. However, the new employees were confused. And Chen Mo could tell they were confused, ¡°Please bring out any questions you have, I¡¯ll try my best to answer them. In particr, the few who are ying bigger roles should ask any questions they have, I wouldn¡¯t want you guys to start work confused as it would affect the efficiency.¡± There were seven ying the bigger roles, Su Jinyu who was responsible for the videogame project, Zheng Hongxi in story rted matters, Qian Kun in numbers, bncing and level design, Zhou Hanyu in art/graphics, Fu Guangnan in sound effects/music, Zhao Yunting in promotion/operations, and Lin Xiao in pay, bonuses, and allowance. Although Lin Xiao was an assistant, she was unlikely to participate in game development, but rather worked on keeping thepany rolling. Zhou Hanyu, Fu Guangnan, and Zhao Yunting looked at one another. Zhou Hanyu and Fu Guangnan were industry professionals in their thirties with plenty of skills and experience behind them. These were hand-picked by Chen Mo fromrgepanies. Zhao Yunting had only been in the industry for around three years, but she had been a part of three sessful projects. Zhou Hanyu asked, ¡°Mr Chen, I have a question.¡± ¡°Please don¡¯t call me Mr Chen, just call me by my name, or manager. Go ahead.¡± ¡°Manager, my main confusion stems from the artstyle. The keywords you gave for the artstyle were cult, dark, scary, ominous, bloody. I understand where you¡¯reing from, but as far as I know, that isn¡¯tmon in or outside of the country. Even if there was a small audience outside of China, I don¡¯t think I¡¯ve seen anyone in China do something like this. ¡°Sure it is a unique style, it matches the theme of the game too. But I¡¯m not entirely sure if the yers of China would ept this.¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°I understand what you mean. It¡¯s true that manypanies will consider the taste of the average gamer when making games. Even if they were working on a game with a depressing theme such as this, they¡¯d usually increase brightness and saturation to make the yers feel morefortable.¡± Zhou Hanyu nodded, ¡°Yeah.¡± ¡°But this isn¡¯t a game that was meant to please the majority of yers. The idea lies in originality, I¡¯m doing it because there is a gap in the market for games like these.¡± Zhou Hanyu still wasn¡¯t sold, ¡°But will the yers ept it?¡± Chen Mo exined. ¡°What¡¯s the most important part of the game? Consistency. Those games are giving up their identity by changing up the artstyle. This is a singleyer adventure, hack and sh game. The tense and anxious themes will allow the yers to better immerse into the game. As to if the yers are epting of it... ¡°That¡¯s going to depend on the quality of the game.¡± Zhou Hanyu nodded, still confused but now understood Chen Mo¡¯s idea clearly: Make a single yer RPG hack and sh game with a fantasy theme and use its artstyle. The art style was thest thing to be decided, but there was no other way given the type of game, ystyle, and theme. However, will the yers ept it? Zhou Hanyu didn¡¯t fully buy it. Chen Mo looked at Fu Guangnan, ¡°Are there any problems in terms of music and audio effects?¡± ¡°No problems. My questions are simr to that of Hanyu, I¡¯m just worried that the music will drive the yers away. But if the manager already had that in mind, I¡¯ll just follow the orders. The music and audio effects will surely be to your liking.¡± TL note[1]: The literal trantion of the chinese name is a god that destroys darkness. Diablo is from a spanish work meaning devil. Chapter 188 - Changes to Game Settings

Chapter 188: Changes to Game Settings

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Zhao Yunting said, ¡°Manager, I have a question. Zhao Yunting was responsible for operations and promotions. She was currently working on Onmyoji¡¯s day to day operations, but obviously she would be responsible for promoting the new game when theye out. Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Yep, go ahead.¡± ¡°I¡¯m not worried about the game quality, my main concern is that the game is really heavy and gore and violence, like corpses in prisons, blood pools, and even a necromancer. Could the game get pass themittee review?¡± asked Zhao Yunting ¡°I¡¯ve already spoken to the Game Committee. The game will be rated 18+, so the review shouldn¡¯t be a concern. You guys don¡¯t have to tiptoe around the things that might make it difficult to pass the review. There¡¯s no need to cut down on the corpses, blood, limbs, give it your all and make sure it doesn¡¯t affect the atmosphere of the game,¡± assured Chen Mo. Su Jinyu eximed, ¡°Incredibly, the honorarymittee member can do whatever he wants.¡± Chen Moughed, ¡°Less talking more working. Alright, now that you guys understand the game, we can start working on it. Hongxi, I¡¯ll send you an overview of the story in a bit, so prepare yourself for that. ¡°The story will have its unique Diablo theme. The yers must always feel a sense of hopelessness in this world. Take a look at the Dark Ages, ck Death, death by burning, soul cleansing, gibbeting, iron maiden... These could all be used in the game, especially things that are associated with hell.¡± said Chen Mo. Zheng Hongxi wiped sweat off his forehead, ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll try my best...¡± ¡ª After going through the design document, everybody started working on various aspects of Diablo, wasting no time. As the others were doing research and understanding the design concept, Chen Mo wasted no time and used Memory yback Potions to take notes on aspects of the design of Diablo. The difficulty of developing this game came from using assets from two different games, the story and basic gamey from Diablo 3, but the art style, atmosphere, settings, and highlights from Diablo 2. He must recall both games and think about how tobine them together. First, the story will follow Diablo 3. From an unknown hitting Tristram Cathedral, so beating Skeleton King Leroic in the first act, to defeating the Lord of Lies in the second act, infiltrating Bastion Keep and the Heart of Sin defeating Azmodan in act three, before reaching High Heavens to defeat Diablo. The story of Diablo 3 was really high quality and wasn¡¯t any worse than Diablo 2. But because of the artstyle and the representation of it in general, Diablo 3¡¯s story feltcking. This wasn¡¯t because of the story itself, but due to narrative techniques and overall style. The changes in the scenes of Diablo 3 was also really well done. Field of Misery, Desert, Snowy ins, Hell, and Heaven, were all well done, and were even referenced many times by action RPG game developers in china; Other than the main story, the yers can also learn more about the world through notes, letters, or narratives from the NPCs. Second, sses andbat systems will be based on Diablo 3 with some bncing changes. The yers can pick two primary abilities, four secondary abilities, and three passives. The abilities and controls were of a familiar design and was much better than Diablo 2. Moreover, the yers aren¡¯t required to relearn abilities or visit special locations in order to change abilities, making it new yer friendly, increasing the potential yer base. Although Diablo 3¡¯s abilities system were criticised by fans to be one dimensional as there were only so many viable strategies, Diablo 3¡¯s abilities system was actually really rich. It was due to the addition of ranks that yers tried their best to discover the best strategy then subsequently being copied by other yers that the system became monotonous. Therefore, the reason it seemed monotonous was entirely due to the ranked system. Many felt that Diablo 2¡¯s ability system was better, but if a rankeddder was introduced to this system, the yers would do the same min-maxing, which would end up the same as Diablo 3. As long as there was a tangible target for the yers for the yers to reach, these hack and sh games be incredibly monotonous as they give up exploring the game for optimal strategy and builds. Chen Mo wanted to make some changes to the ability and equipment systems to make the game less monotonous. Third, the equipment system will be based on Diablo 2. Although Diablo 3 had a random attribute system like Diablo 2, it didn¡¯t work as well because of the introduction of a equipment ceiling. For example, a certain ss must get certain equipment to allow a build to work, rendering the other equipment useless. Chen Mo nned to improve equipment drop rates, increase the randomness of attributes, and increase the number of equipment avable to remedy this. Of course, this could make the game difficult to bnce. A strong ss with strong abilities and strong equipment, who knows what the yers are capable of under so many random elements. It was a single yer game after all, and as Chen Mo didn¡¯t n to include a market system, the randomness wouldn¡¯t affect the game too much. Fourth, the difficulty of the game. Chen Mo wanted to slightly increase the difficulty and the yers mustplete the game under the default difficulty. This will be a challenge to new yers as bosses will require fitness and skill to beat. Combined with the artstyle and field of view, the yers would be struggling when they y the game as they could die at a single misstep. The difficulty will be slightly decreased after multiple deaths, but basically the yers couldn¡¯t cruise through the story with no obstacles in their way. Chapter 189 - Making a Game That Way?

Chapter 189: Making a Game That Way?

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Fifth, in terms of online and extended functions, continue Diablo 3¡¯s online functions, but hold off on Challenge Rift and Ranked. Diablo 3¡¯s Challenge Rift system was an excellent design, except for the fact it was a double edged sword. When the yers want to just kill arge number of enemies, they would obviously default to levels in the story with high spawn rates. Blizzard decided to release Challenge Rift to allow yers to do so with ease without the need to go through the story again and again. This was a good news to the yers who liked the feeling of hacking and shing as they saved them time. However, this damaged the lifespan of the game to a certain extent, making something that the game is incredibly repetitive. Chen Mo nned to release Challenge Rift in an update after the main release. By that time, the yers that remained are loyal fans who are sick of the story who would enjoy something like Challenge Rift. Competitive seasons, rankeddder, and increased difficulty would all be added in an update as something that extends the lifespan of the game. ¡ª With a general n in mind, various aspects of the development process were running along smoothly. With the foundations of the story in ce, artwork can be worked on. Chen Mo gave out concept art for some of the key areas to allow Zhou Hanyu to have a better grasp on the theme Chen Mo was going for. Chen Mo exined some of the key aspects of these scenes to Zhou Hanyu. ¡°Leroic¡¯s ce should be scary and old. The ground could be made to look gritty and worn. Consider adding spider webs in corners of the wall too. You should also use a cooler colour scheme to make it look dead. ¡°Remember, do not make it look too fancy and cut down on the lighting too as it would feel out of ce and the yers wouldn¡¯t be as impressed. ¡°The Keep should be here. The yers should have a wide field of view and the walls should give the yers an impression that the keep has seen many battles, so you should add some destruction. You could even add some animations of the keep falling apart as the yers walk by. The monsters will also attack the yer from different angles so the yers must feel that they could be swarmed at any moment. Chen Mo went through each scene in detail to ensure that Zhou Hanyu could capture the scene as he wanted. Zhou Hanyu nodded as Chen Mo exined, ¡°Sure, no problem, understood.¡± He was shocked as even though he was responsible for art, he didn¡¯t need to do too much thinking as Chen Mo did most of the considerations for him, even drawing concept arts himself! And Chen Mo¡¯s drawing skills might even be better than his! In previouspanies, Zhou Hanyu would take a look at a concept art and release a few different renders to allow the designers to pick the best one before slowly working out the rest of the graphics. But he didn¡¯t need to do that at all. Chen Mo gave the art style as he wanted, even drawing out concept art for the monsters and scenes. All he needed to do was polish it up and outsource it to apany with some quality management work here and there. This was the same with Fu Guangnan, Chen Mo gave a few BGM melodies, evidently of a certain style. He even specified which instruments to use in these pieces, including which to use in which scenes, and what emotions it should convey, all in great detail. This meant that they saved a lot of time as there wasn¡¯t a lot of time spent inmunicating or considering, all they had to do was execute. The other employees were shocked too as they were never involved in the development of a game that was as easy as this. No endless meetings. No redoing. No arguing. Only ¡®doing¡¯. We can make games this way? Zhou Hanyu and Fu Guangnan felt like they were involved in something new. It was their first time experiencing something like this for the eight years they¡¯ve been in the industry! ¡ª Many yers on the forums seemed a bit lost after Chinese New Year. ¡°I¡¯m so bored, any game rmendations?¡± ¡°Nope, I¡¯m also bored.¡± ¡°It¡¯s just after Chinese new year. Mostpanies probably just resumed operation. We¡¯d probably need to wait until March even if it was a game that started its developmentst year.¡± ¡°Geez, I¡¯m bored of all these games. The games nowadays take so long to develop.¡± ¡°By the way, have you guys seen Heavenly Ring 3¡¯s new year movie?¡± ¡°You should ask who hasn¡¯t seen it instead, it¡¯s such a huge work!¡± ¡°Yeah, the box office is over one billion dors, and it¡¯s still expected to increase. People who liked movies like these probably already watched it right?¡± ¡°It¡¯s kind of weird that the movie is really popr in China, but the game was aplete flop. Heavenly Ring the game entered the Chinese market two years ago before calling GG soon after.¡± ¡°It probably has to do with the gamey. Their tastes overseas aren¡¯t the same with us in China.¡± ¡°I really liked the theme, but it¡¯s sad that there aren¡¯t any good games.¡± ¡°Previous poster, I rmend Warcraft.¡± ¡°That¡¯s an RTS game, I can¡¯t y those games at all.¡± ¡°There are maps that aren¡¯t RTS in Warcraft, you should check out Holy Land.¡± ¡°Holy Land? Isn¡¯t that another Western novel?¡± ¡°Yeah, there¡¯s an RPG map in Warcraft that¡¯s basically a fan creation. You should try it out, I quite like it.¡± ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll do that.¡± Nobody expected that an overseas movie like Heavenly Ring 3 would bring another wave of poprity to the Warcraft RPG map Holy Land There were noticeably more strategy guides in the forums with thousands of concurrent yers every day. This was normal as Western fantasy themed games were in an awkward spot in the parallel world. There were many huge western works, but most didn¡¯t match the tastes of Chinese yers. It was difficult for them to enter the chinese market without the help of a game like World of Warcraft. Although Chinese developers knew the tastes of Chinese yers, they struggled to make a western fantasy game that was true to the original, and the yers weren¡¯t taking any of that. Therefore, the developers defaulted to Xianxia and fantasy themes, showing no interest in western fantasy. The result of that was that Chinese yers struggled to find western fantasy games that suited their tastes, and it was one of the reasons Warcraft got so popr so quickly. But as Warcraft was an RTS game, it couldn¡¯t take up arge amount of yers like RPG games. Chapter 190 - Impossible to Become Popular

Chapter 190: Impossible to Be Popr

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Many were tagging Chen Mo on Weibo. ¡°This map called Holy Land is pretty good, maybe give an official endorsement?¡± ¡°I rmend Holy Land too.¡± ¡°@Chen Mo, it¡¯s a new year and time to make new games! Stop cking off, my wallet can¡¯t take it anymore!¡± ¡°@Chen Mo, please make a nice, non-scammy game like Warcraft. Please stop trying to milk my wallet with scammy games!¡± Chen Mo was surprised to find that many diehard fans as he looked through his tags. And there were many who were waiting for yet another high quality game. Chen Mo decided to give everyone a small hint. He sent out a short and simple Webio. ¡°The next game will be a single yer RPG game, Western Fantasy.¡± He included a concept art of Tristram Cathedral under the cover of darkness lit up by candles. There was a traveller who looked into the sky where there was an unidentified object flying towards the cathedral, giving away an ominous vibe. The Weibo caught the attention of many. ¡°My goodness! Look at this, Chen Mo¡¯s new Webio!¡± ¡°It¡¯sing, Chen Mo is making another PC game! I have my money ready! What kind of game do you think it is?¡± ¡°Are you dense? Didn¡¯t Chen Mo already tell you it¡¯s a singleyer western fantasy RPG game? You can¡¯t be more detailed than that!¡± ¡°From the looks of it, isn¡¯t the atmosphere a bit too dark? It¡¯s really ominous. The cathedral gives away the vibes of a cemetery.¡± ¡°Yeah, I think there are tombstones upon close look. I think there¡¯s a shadow of a skull in one of the windows.¡± ¡°Maybe it¡¯s rted to Warcraft¡¯s Undead?¡± ¡°Doesn¡¯t look like it. The artstyle seems much gloomier than Warcraft. It does give away dark ages vibes though.¡± ¡°Chen Mo is finally making an RPG! I¡¯m looking forward to this!¡± ¡°Unfortunately it¡¯s a single yer game. It probably wouldn¡¯t feel as satisfying¡± ¡°Not necessarily, don¡¯t you have to y single yer games to get a good story? Moreover, designers usually make single yer RPG games to get their names out there in order to reduce the risk for MMORPGs.¡± ¡°That¡¯s true. It¡¯s by Chen Mo, it must be good. We¡¯ll just have to wait!¡± ¡°Geez, I thought he was going to make an RPG version of Warcraft. That¡¯s too sad.¡± ¡°Who knows, maybe he has something else in mind. I want to y a Warcraft RPG too!¡± It didn¡¯t take long before the news spread around within the industry. ¡°Have you heard? Chen Mo¡¯s new game is on the PC, a western fantasy themed single yer RPG game.¡± ¡°I¡¯ve heard about it. Thank the heavens that he¡¯s doing that.¡± ¡°Why?¡± ¡°Hopefully this means he¡¯s not making anymore mobile games, give us some breathing room!¡± ¡°But I¡¯m in PC games, who¡¯s going to give me breathing room?¡± ¡°Alright, take note that Chen Mo is making a singleyer game. Emphasis on single yer.¡± ¡°Oh, singleyer. That makes it slightly better.¡± ¡°It¡¯s great that it is single yer, they have limited profitability after all. Seems like Chen Mo has the same thing in mind with Warcraft, he¡¯s trying to work on his name and not for money.¡± ¡°We¡¯d still have to be careful. It¡¯d still be pretty bad if our games happened to be released around the same time. Take a look and see what he¡¯s up to.¡± ¡°There¡¯s a picture on Weibo! The game is called Diablo. This doesn¡¯t look like a first person game.¡± Maybe designers were trying to figure out what Chen Mo was up to via his We. The new Weibo post was also quite simple. It specified that the game is called Diablo. It also included an image of a forty-five degree third person view with a dual axe wielding barbarian battling countless skeletons and demons. ¡°It really doesn¡¯t look like a first person game. Is he nning a third person game?¡± ¡°Possibly. Third person games are easier anyways. It¡¯s normal that he¡¯d go for something more stable and predictable for his first RPG game.¡± ¡°That¡¯s not bad as there are fewer and fewer third person games as it is going out of fashion. This game probably wouldn¡¯t lose him money, but it¡¯s unlikely that it¡¯d get all that popr.¡± ¡°Yeah, I¡¯ve also thought out what Chen Mo was nning. There¡¯s too much first in making a first person MMORPG, which was why he chose to pivot using a third person RPG, focusing on the story and theme.¡± ¡°That¡¯s what I think too. He¡¯s making this game just for the yers who like Western Fantasy themes. Luckily the yerbase of this game will have a huge ovep with Warcraft, which guarantees some of his sales.¡± ¡°We panicked for nothing. But I do feel kind of sad as this suggests that he¡¯s admitting defeat? I remember how confident he was when he made Warcraft to go directly against Legion Conquest. Now he probably thinks that he doesn¡¯t have the abilities and is ying safe.¡± ¡°Not sure if you guys noticed the color scheme of these artworks?¡± ¡°Color scheme?¡± ¡°Yeah, the colors are really dark.¡± ¡°Oh, maybe he¡¯s trying to create a scary and ominous atmosphere.¡± ¡°It¡¯s not as simple as that. Sure it might just be for atmosphere, but thisbined with scary background music will give the yers a lot of pressure. It¡¯d be really tiring for them to y the game. Just take a look at the popr online games, none of them are dark at all as they fear the yers might get tired quickly.¡± ¡°Oh is that so. I¡¯ve learnt something today!¡± ¡°So I think Chen Mo made a mistake. He went too far just to create a unique Western Fantasy game, but he never considered if the yers would ept it. The artstyle in particr is too out there! Just take a look at Emperor Dynasty Entertainment and Zen Entertainment, none of them dare to do this!¡± ¡°Incredible. I¡¯ve learnt so much from your analysis!¡± ¡°I think Chen Mo¡¯s game will be profitable, but it¡¯s not going to be much, possibly just breaking even. There¡¯s no way this game will be as popr as his previous ones. Perhaps it¡¯ll be well received in a nichemunity, but there¡¯s no way this game will get popr.¡± ¡°Thank goodness for that!¡± ¡ª Many were talking about Chen Mo¡¯s new game, industry professionals and yers alike, but most of them didn¡¯t expect too much from it. The reasoning was simple, they thought that third person RPG games were one of the most ancient types of games, verging on extinction. Moreover, the potential for these types of games have more or less been fully explored as the industry was dominated by first person games. How many yers still liked ancient single yer RPG games like these was a question that remained to be answered. Chapter 191 - Playtest

Chapter 191: ytest

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Single yer games like Chen Mo¡¯s Wulin Legend and Zen Entertainment¡¯s Tale of the sword usually get around four hundred thousand sales in their first month, which wasn¡¯t much. Many felt that Chen Mo was ying safe by making a game like this. Even considering the fact that he was known for good stories, he might sell alright, but it definitely wouldn¡¯t be incredibly popr. Moreover, the game might have gone a little too far in its concept judging from the concept art. How many yers would like spooky dark themes like this? If it wasn¡¯t managed well, it would most certainly drive away most of the yers. Some were looking forward to it. Some were questioning it. Some were making fun of it. ¡ª Chen Mo didn¡¯t seem to mind at all as he wouldn¡¯t usually pay attention to these doubts. Only after the game waspleted will they know how good the game was. It was more likely to not to make predictions at this stage. Diablo¡¯s development was going along swimmingly. As there were more hands on the project, the speed it was moving along also increased. In Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, the development of Diablo 3 took a long time. There was a gap of twelve years from Diablo 2 to Diablo 3. Of course there were many back and forths during this time, and the majority of the time wouldn¡¯t have been spent on developing the game, but on remaking assets. Another problem was that the team responsible for Diablo 2 left Blizzard, adding more time on the development for Diablo 3. As the first versions weren¡¯t taken well by the hire ups, multiple revisions were required, which was why Diablo 3 didn¡¯t feel the same as Diablo 2. Chen Mo couldpletely bypass all the difficulties that the team went through as the development of the game increased dramatically as he viewed these matters through mature eyes. Zhou Hanyu would polish up sketches of monsters and characters by Chen Mo before sending it to apany to make the models and animations before making quality assessments. A few other assistants dealt with the areas, design of the levels, as well as the flow of thebat. Cinematics that were higher quality than Warcraft were also in the works. There were also tasks like bncing, equipment design, as well as some details with the yers. Under Chen Mo¡¯s leadership, the entire development process was streamlined, dramatically increasing the speed of the development. Diablo was more challenging to develop than Warcraft, but with the extra help, it¡¯s development was faster than Warcraft. It only took four months before having a working game that was in its early stages. The cinematics weren¡¯t done and neither was the bncing. Challenge Rift, rankeddder, and professional mode weren¡¯t in the game either, but the game was yable. ¡ª Chen Mo sat down in an empty massage chair in the experience store. He had been working hard the past few days reviewing graphical resources and level design. He decided to take a much needed rest after finally having some free time. Zou Zhou was on aputer next to him ying Warcraft. ¡°You¡¯ve been working hard, manager. How¡¯s the new game going?¡± Zou Zhou said as he passed Chen Mo a can of drink, ¡°I¡¯ve been itching to y the new game upon hearing its an RPG. Unfortunately I haven¡¯t been able to see the development of the game as Goldfish, Qian Kun, and the others have moved. ¡°It¡¯s yable now. I¡¯ll grab a hard-drive for you to ytestter.¡± Zou Zhuo was shocked to hear that, ¡°Is it really yable? Hooray! Manager, your efficiency sure is scary!¡± Chen Mo went back to the office next door before copying a iplete Diablo to install onto Zou Zhou¡¯sputer. Chen Mo estimated that the game should be live in two weeks or so. It¡¯d be a good idea for Zou Zhou to test the game out and experience the flow of the game in order to collect some feedback. It didn¡¯t take long to install. Zou Zhou could barely contain his excitement as he was proud to be the first yer to ytest this game. The other yers gathered around too. ¡°My goodness, Diablo is yable already?¡± ¡°Manager, you¡¯re like a sow giving birth to all these games! Start the game so we can take a look!¡± ¡°Incredible, let¡¯s watch.¡± ¡°Manager, I wanna y too!¡± Chen Moughed, ¡°Hold your horses. This is just a ytesting version. There are many things that aren¡¯t up to scratch, so you guys will have to wait. I¡¯ll install it onto theputers in the experience store next week for you guys to try out.¡± Zou Zhou clicked on the icon, ¡°Whatever, I¡¯m going in!¡± Everybody else huddled around to watch Zou Zhou y the game. Just as expected, there was a cinematic as he started the game. It started off with some red wax before Thunderbolt gaming¡¯s logo was stamped on. The camera panned upwards, below the seal was a vellum with text written in an unknownnguage. Following the tense melody was a raspy old voice. ¡°And at the end of days, the first sign shall appear in the heavens ¡°Justice shall fall upon the world of men, the armies of light and shadow will sh across the field of eternity...¡± Drawing after drawing appeared on the vellum one after another apanying the voiceover. Crows appeared on a battlefield filled with spears. A lightning appeared in the sky before light leaked onto the ground like a waterfall. Many warriors descended from the heavens, charging towards the demons. The angels and demons were at war before the earth split open,ing out of it a huge demon charging with its mouth open. Leah awoke violently with horror still in her eyes. The old Deckard Cain was looking through ancient scripts in the dark cathedral. ¡°If these trantions are correct, the powers of hell could already be on the move. The world must be told of theing darkness!¡± ¡°You do believe me, don¡¯t you Leah? It has begun...¡± At this moment, the cathedral started shaking, and a meteor appeared in the sky following a sh of lightning. The meteor flew across the sky,nding right in the middle of the cathedral. The shock from the impact caused Leah to end up on all fours, but as she got up to search for Deckard Cain, there was only a crater left where he used to be. ¡°Uncle!¡± The ending of the cinematic followed her scream. At this moment, both Chinese and English versions of the name appeared on the screen. Diablo1! Chapter 192 - Demon Hunter

Chapter 192: Demon Hunter

There was chatter after the cinematic finished. ¡°Incredible! The cinematics from Thunderbolt Movies still maintain their high standards!¡± ¡°I could see every single strand of hard on the girl. I think the manager started burning his money again.¡± ¡°What does that mean? I don¡¯t understand what just happened. The old man already looked so sad, why was he hit by a meteor? Was it because he doesn¡¯t his olddy cross the road?¡± ¡°The girl was so shocked. Where¡¯s my grandad? Oh wait, where¡¯s my uncle?¡± ¡°Start the game, I can¡¯t wait!¡± They entered a character select screen. Five different heroes stood around a campfire under the nket of darkness, so dark that you could only see their outline. They looked like they had different looks and equipment. Some had cloth armor, leather, te armor, wielding weapons like a great axe, crossbow, staff... Zou Zhuo was quite excited to see this unique character select screen as it felt incredibly immersive, as though he was facing a group of malicious men. Unlike other RPGs where every character looked like perfect dolls. A tall strong barbarian stood in the centre of the screen wearing basic armor with a tribal tattoo. Chen Mo didn¡¯t pick the barbarian from Diablo 3, but Diablo 2. Gone was the old man with ashen hair and beard, in its ce was a huge man like Kratos. ¡°Barbarian? Looks simr to a berserker.¡± Zou Zhuo clicked on the other characters. Everytime he clicked on one of them, they would walk out from the shadows next to the fire, making themselves in full view of the yer. The character that was selected before would retreat back into the shadows. Cool, crossbow wielding Demon Hunter. Magic wielding Wizard. The Eastern looking Monk skilled in battle. Mask wearing Witch Doctor with the power over life and death. Zou Zhuo clicked on each character to look through them. There were only five different sses to choose from in this version. Chen Mo nned to add Crusader, Witch Doctor, ranked mode and apetitive modeter. The yer could pick from any of the unique sses. They would also go through a character introduction for each character, showing off special abilities and their story. Zou Zhuo couldn¡¯t help but quickly go through the story of all the characters. It didn¡¯t take long for him to notice the difference in the design of sses in Diablo and other games. At first nce, the characters are exactly the same as ssic western fantasy characters (warrior, wizard, archer, crusader, etc.), just reskinned. But after looking deeper into their abilities and story, they were actually starkly different. The biggest difference was theck of differentiation between characters by separating them into defensive, offensive and support style characters. All characters were offensive characters, only differing in the way they did damage. Moreover, these characters matched perfectly with Diablo¡¯s theme. Take Demon Hunters for example. They possess an innate ability to resist demonic corruption. They allow them to use the power of demons as a weapon, wielding crossbows to destroy their enemies. They are relentless vignties sworn to do one thing: Destroy the creatures of the Burning Hell. Compared to the run of the mill archers, Demon Hunters suited Diablo much better. They differentiated themselves by different abilities and talents too, notpletely relying on bows. ¡°Demon Hunter? This guy looks cool. It¡¯s him it is.¡± Zou Zhuo picked a male Demon Hunter, giving him the nickname ¡®Zzz¡¯. A demon hunter that looked to be at the start of journey appeared on his screen, with little to no armor and a pathetic crossbow in his hand. He looked skinny and weak but had a cold murderous look in his eyes. Zou Zhuo started the game incredibly happy with himself as loved vibes like these as he personally loved the Undead. A vellum with drawing on it passed by the screen apanied by a deep dark voice. ¡°My family was butchered by hellspawn. To witness such a thing is enough to leave your mind in ruins. ¡°I was left frightened and alone, until I was rescued. ¡°Rescued by survivors, who had joined together to rid the world of the creatures of Hell. They saw in me the strength to resist the demons. And they forged me into a weapon.¡± ¡°Now, I am ready. ¡°A meteor has fallen in Tristram, and the dead have risen in its wake. I will send them back to their graves. Once, I was hunted. Now...I am the hunter.¡± A few lines were more than enough to convey the entire backstory of the Demon Hunter. It also helped the yers focus on ¡®meteor¡¯ which was an important theme in the story. Zou Zhuo was then ced in an empty field with a small vige off the screen. ¡°So it is actually not first person.¡± Everyone knew that this was a third person game, but Zou Zhuo couldn¡¯t help but be disappointed upon seeing the gamey himself as it would be more immersive in first person. Luckily, Zou Zhuo was a seasoned Warcraft yer and was quite used to a perspective like this. The graphics were incredibly high quality. They could tell that Chen Mo spent a lot of effort on the graphics as every detail, icon, and pattern were extremely high quality,pletely different from what the yers are used to with third person RPGs. The UI was clean and the theme was obvious. Zou Zhuo knew the controls after just looking through which abilities were bound to which hotkeys. After making his character spin in a circle or two, Zou Zhuo was sure that it was a 3D game with 3D scenes and models. Everything was in 3D of fairly high quality. Chen Mo deliberately chose to lock the perspective forcing the yers to go through the game in third person. The animations were really smooth, the arcs of the bolts were well done too. However, the graphics gave away a really tense vibe. The scene felt riddled with death before meeting many undead creatures. Dim streetmps, broken carts, and corpses suggested a world in a dire situation, The Demon Hunter continued walking forwards and was met by a zombie. After the first bolt, the growling monster charged at the Demon Hunter. Zou Zhuo handily kited[1] and killed the monster with ease. TL note[1]: Kiting means to hit and run at the same time. Chapter 193 - Obvious Upsides

Chapter 193: Obvious Upsides

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Chen Mo made sure that the yers couldn¡¯t cruise through the game like Diablo 3 in his previous life. Although it was a monster with zero difficulty, Zou Zhuo had a sliver of worry within him when a monster was rushing at him. As he continued on, the Demon Hunter found himself at Tristam after beating the group of undead trying to raid the city. The Demon Hunter then entered the city and gave himself a line of quests. The guidance was pretty good as there was a minimap on the top right hinting at the next location the yer should visit. There was also a quest reminder on the right. Zou Zhuo continued following the line of quests to go through the story. Zou Zhuo soon noticed a few obvious upsides in this game. The game felt smooth and the controls werefortable. The graphics and sound effects were all really high quality too. It even surpassed many games in first person in many aspects even as a third person game. It was evident that Chen Mo didn¡¯t make a third person game to ¡®hide ws¡¯, nor was it because he couldn¡¯t¡¯ satisfy the needs of a first person game. He made a conscious choice to keep the game in third person. Zou Zhuo was taken away by the spooky art style of Diablo as Chen Mo tried his best to recreate the atmosphere of Diablo 2. As the Demon Hunter walked into the crypts, the area felt like it was sticky from blood. In some quieter maps where you can hear the crackling of fires, and the footsteps of the character be increasingly evident, any monster that pops up on the screen will be more than enough to give the yers a shock as they find themselves on a seemingly endless path. Combined with this art style as well as an ever changing randomly generated map, the adventure in adventure games was brought out to its fullest. Moreover, Chen Mo continued the field of view and darkness mechanics from Diablo 2. When the yers enter caves, their field of view will be much smaller as most of their screen bes darkness, only able to see the outline of the terrain as the presence of monsters remains a mystery. The yers could clearly see all the monsters on the screen which took out a lot of the mysteriousness in the game, making it a game that ¡®could be seen through¡¯. With the darkness and field of view restrictions added back into the game,bined with the graphics, sounds effects, and level design. This made Zou Zhuo feel anxious at times, tense at others. However, Zou Zhuo didn¡¯t feel so stressed to want to quit the game, instead he waspelled to y more. This yedpletely different from all the overdone formats on the market. This game didn¡¯t look like an amusement park, with knights without a single spec of dust on their armor. The only things in this game were corpses, skeletons, abscess, and endless hopelessness. The Demon Hunter walked into the Cathedralpletely helpless, with silent mercenaries fighting alongside him. (Chen Mo followed Diablo 2 on this point as well, removing all the lines of mercenaries to allow yers to better absorb the horrifying atmosphere.) Many aspects of the ystyle also surpised Zou Zhuo. The equipment system was really rich. Zou Zhuo could get decent equipment during his adventure. They also had unique vour texts so no two pieces of equipment were the same. There were many different abilities to go with the richbat system. Different abilities were unlocked as the yer leveled up. Combined with talents and skill runes, the yers could figure out an optimal build from what they have, and this was a process which Zou Zhuo thoroughly enjoyed. The most important thing was how satisfying the game was! This was also the biggest difference between Diablopared to other RPG games. The world the yer exists in other games, especially online games, are really small. Not to mention bosses that take thebined power of many to take down, or the powerful NPC leaders of huge factions. There wasn¡¯t a big differential in power when considering between yers either. Many normal yers in MMORPGs know that they are just a normal yer. It wasn¡¯t the same in Diablo. You were the only god in the game, the saviour. From an adventure from Tristam at the start of the game, to a hero who saved Caldeum after defeating the Lord of Lies, turning the tides at Bastion Keep, before reaching the High Heavens to defeating Diablo, the embodiment of the seven evils, letting known the name of Nephalem be known from Hell to the High Heavens. The yer could cut through demons like a warm knife through butter when faced with waves of demons, leaving behind corpses and dropped equipment. Of course, you might die, you might lose some gold, you will also have to retrieve your equipment from your corpse (from Diablo 2), This was a world filled with danger, a world filled with hopelessness, and the only person you can depend on was yourself. And it was because of this that the yers get to experience a sense of satisfaction better than ever. It was because of a hopeless world that you give the waves upon waves of monsters and demons any mercy. One sh and all the demons will disappear in your wake. Zou Zhuo waspletely absorbed into the game as his field of view was reduced to a small circle when exploring a dark cave. All of a sudden, a huge wave of monsters appeared in front of him before charging directly at him! There were some monsters in this group that had a golden hue, leaving behind light in every step. The yers watching around him were shocked, ¡°My goodness! Be Careful! Dodge!¡± Zou Zhuo was shocked to see his health fall dramatically before calming his nerves and rolling to a safe distance beforeying down traps, setting loose a barrage of bolts! Waves after wave of groans from the monsters followed the waves of bolts. The weaker monsters started dying, but the huge rare monsters had a lot more health and continued charging towards the demon hunter. Zou Zhuo skillfully kited as he used all his abilities. He was exceedingly calm in a situation like this, not making any errors as he was fairly highly ranked in Warcraft. Chapter 194 - Skeleton King Leoric

Chapter 194: Skeleton King Leoric

¡°My goodness, this kiting is crazy!¡± ¡°Wow, you killed half of them already! Keep at it!¡± ¡°You¡¯re almost dead, quick, consume potions!¡± ¡°Alright, he¡¯s recovered. Don¡¯t go there, there¡¯s many monsters there!¡± The yers watching on were gasping and yelling seemingly more invested than Zou Zhuo himself. Zou Zhuo was frantically tapping on the keyboard and mouse, finally defeating the monsters after a bit of a struggle. There were many yellow equipment following the death of the golden enemies, along with many gold and potions. ¡°My goodness!¡± The on-lookers were getting increasingly animated. Zou Zhuo also breathed a sigh of relief as he almost screamed from how much he exerted just to defeat the monsters. They would always appear in bunches, and often provide a good scare in dark narrow dungeons like these. Zou Zhuo felt quite good about himself when he equipped three pieces of yellow equipment. ¡°Charge into the cathedral and capture Leroic!¡± Zou Zhuo continued ying enthusiastically with such a huge ambition in mind. He was finally about to face Skeleton King Leoric after nearly two hours of ying. This took quite long because Chen Mo increased the difficulty to prevent yers from cruising through the game. Zou Zhuo was also the type of yer to search through the entire dungeon before progressing through the game, which further increased the time required. Back at the town, Zou Zhuo repaired his equipment, organised his inventory, and bought some healing. Zou Zhuo took a deep breath before using a waypoint to teleport to the third floor of the cathedral in search of the Royal Crypt. The room waspletely empty, void of any monsters, except for a two-handed sword in the middle of the room. Leoric¡¯s sword. Zou Zhuo clicked on the sword and several illusions appeared around the Demon Hunter recreating moments before Leoric¡¯s death. The Demon Hunter continued forward. The crypt looked abandoned for hundreds of years, but Leoric¡¯s insane voice still echoed in the walls. All of a sudden, Leoric¡¯s silhouette appeared in front of the Demon Hunter. ¡°You dare to bring the warmth of life into my tomb?!¡± Following the Skeleton King¡¯s howl, pirs were activated and countless skeletons awakened, charging at the Demon Hunter! ¡°My goodness!¡± Zou Zhuo quicklymanded the Demon Hunter to roll around to dodge attacks while releasing a flurry of bolts to defeat the small skeletons. ¡°This game is actually quite exciting,¡± Zou Zhuo said as he breathed a sigh of relief. Diablo had many more monsters and were much tightly packed than Warcraft. Although there was only one yable character, there was still a certain amount of skill involved in thebat due to therge amount of skills the character has. After navigating various obstacles, he finally reached the Crypt of the Skeleton King. Most of the crypt had been weathered and corroded as the Demon Hunter only left one path forward. After clearing out a few swarms of skeletons, he finally reached the Skeleton Keep. Leoric¡¯s corpse was on the throne in a spacious hall. All that¡¯s left of the body was the skeleton, in the same position as it was when he was assassinated. Zou Zhuo clicked on the corpse, cing Leoric¡¯s crown onto the skeleton. The screen shook and countless sources of ominous green light gathered on the Skeleton King. Pieces of armour started attaching themselves to the skeleton, before the skeleton finally picks up the mace from the ground. The Skeleton King woke up following maniacalughter. He stood up, looking straight at the Demon He with mes in his eyes. ¡°My goodness, it¡¯s a boss!¡± The yers surrounding Zou Zhuo had their eyes wide open as they feared they missed something. Zou Zhuo quickly tried to gain some distance between them as he feared he might be one-shot. Leoric¡¯s abilities weren¡¯t tooplicated as he was the first boss, with multiple swings of his mace and summoning skeletons being the two noteworthy abilities. As Zou Zhuo was ying Demon Hunter, he definitely couldn¡¯t trade face to face with the Skeleton King. He kept using his abilities to create a gap and attacked the skeleton king using his mercenaries. However, the Skeleton Keep had a lot of health. Zou Zhuo would lose half his health if he was greedy in trying to get a few more hits in and could die at any moment he failed to dodge an ability. Zou Zhuo gave it a hundred and ten percent of his focus in his attempt to beat the boss. ¡°He¡¯s about to attack again, be careful!¡± ¡°Clear out the skeletons, they¡¯ll cause trouble if they start gaining in numbers.¡± ¡°You can do it, he¡¯s got a third of his health left!¡± ¡°This is so exciting!¡± The viewers couldn¡¯t help but be even more nervous than Zou Zhuo. In the end, the Skeleton King shattered into pieces as he growled onest time. His armour fell all over the ce leaving behind gold and equipment. There was an audible ¡®ting¡¯ when an orange light appeared beside the Skeleton King¡¯s corpse. Zou Zhuo hovered his cursor over it, ¡°Leoric¡¯s Crown? Orange equipment?!¡± The on-lookers were shocked too. ¡°My goodness, this is the first orange equipment right?¡± ¡°It looks so strong.¡± ¡°Take a look at the attributes!¡± ¡°Put it on first!¡± Zou Zhuo inspected the crown before putting it on. It was much better than the yellow helmet from before as provided bonuses to vitality and dexterity. It also had a special attribute, ¡°Increases the effect of any gem socketed into the helm by 100%¡± ¡°Increase the effect of gems by 100%? Doesn¡¯t that mean I can attach my yellow gems that increase drop chance for even more loot? ¡°I¡¯m going to be rich!¡± Zou Zhuo merrily returned to Tristram with Leoric¡¯s crown on his head and an inventory full of loot. ¡°This game feels great!¡± ¡°Yeah, although it¡¯s in third person, it feelspletely different to those ancient RPG games I had in mind.¡± ¡°Killing monsters feel so satisfying too. Could it be that he was inspired by that RPG map in Warcraft?¡± ¡°This feels more fun than some of therger RPGs. The atmosphere in particr feels great. It makes you look forward tobat.¡± ¡°It feels like a lot of attention has been given to abilities, equipment, boss fights, and story. If this was in first person, it¡¯d be one of the best games!¡± ¡°Yeah, I don¡¯t understand why it¡¯s in third person.¡± ¡°We wanna y too, manager!¡± The on-lookers surrounded Chen Mo begging to y Diablo. Chen Mo passed them the harddrive, ¡°Install it yourselves. There¡¯s a co-op mode to try out too.¡± Chapter 195 - Donut Principle

Chapter 195: Donut Principle

They basically snatched it out of Chen Mo¡¯s hands in order to install the game onto their PCs. ¡°Wow! Co-op?¡± ¡°Incredible, I thought it was a pure single yer game!¡± ¡°I heard there¡¯s only up to four yers. Guess it¡¯ll be us four in a group, you guys make your own groups.¡± ¡°I¡¯m ying Barbarian! What about you?¡± ¡°I¡¯ll y Wizard then.¡± ¡°This is exciting, though I¡¯m still sad that we can y with more yers.¡± ¡°I¡¯m done installing. I¡¯ll wait for you guys at New Tristram.¡± ¡°I¡¯m done too. Huh, it really resembles that RPG map from Warcraft, like a official remastered version!¡± ¡°Yeah, I was just about toment on how familiar this felt.¡± ¡°But how can youpare this to an RPG map?¡± ¡°Of course, this is the manager¡¯s own work!¡± ¡°I thought there wasn¡¯t anything fun about third person games, but it turns out to be quite fun!¡± Diablo was now the new trend in the experience store. The yers that were here for other games stopped what they nned and pivoted to ying Diablo instead. Diablo¡¯s online mode wasn¡¯t like other games, nor was there a synergy between different sses. It resembled a LAN game like Diablo 2, more suited for a small number of yers. The game would change its difficulty based on the number of yers to prevent the loss of a challenge with more yers. Rtively speaking, co-op modes reduce the difficulty of the game as noobs could depend on better yers to beat bosses. Moreover, abination of various sses also helped with clearing levels. However, when taking the preference of multiyer games, new yer experience, and prevention of cheats into consideration, an online mode was inevitable. It didn¡¯t take long before the yers were immersed into the dark world of Diablo. Chen Mo breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing this, as the first phase of the Diablo ¡®donut principle¡¯ was in effect. There was a lot of debate whether or not Diablo 3 was sessful. But based on the sales and feedback, even if Diablo 3 didn¡¯t reach the levels of Diablo 2, it was still a sessful game. The ¡®donut principle¡¯ referred to how the yers would eat the donut from the outside in when ying diablo. The outer parts were new yers, deeper into the donut were mid-core yers, and the hardcore yers would be deeper still. When they reach the centre of the donut, the yers will realise that there¡¯s only a hole to leave. The new yers are drawn into the game by its art style, high quality gamey, and excitingbat and story. Mid-score yers are attracted by the differentbinations of abilities, equipment attributes, differences between sses, rankeddder, and professional mode for greater challenges. And when they be hardcore yers, they will keep grinding everyday just to find ebtter equipment, experiment again and again for the best build, and would aim for the top every season as they relentlessly aim to be the best. But after the hardcore yers were done experiencing that, managed to find the best equipment, done climbing thedder, or were just tired of the game, they would find the exit and leave the game. Of course, there were yers leaving before they be hardcore yers. But an important point of this ¡®donut principle¡¯ was to not worry about yers leaving. Many online games try their best in order to retain yers, integrating daily or seasonal events just to hope that their yers continue ying. Although this worked, it could also create the opposite effect, affecting the ratings of the game. The yers would find the game incredibly boring, leaving the game never to return. This was where the ¡®donut principle¡¯ came in. New yers could leave the game after experiencing the story, and hardcore yers could leave the game after getting sick of climbing the rankeddder. The game wouldn¡¯t use various tactics to try and retain yers. This meant that all the yers would have yed everything they wanted to y before they left. Dragging out a month¡¯s content into three months wasn¡¯t what Diablo was about. The yers would naturally return when the game received updates like new in game story shards, new sses, or new content. Therefore the ¡®donut principle¡¯ suited Diablo¡¯s profit model and its ystyle. So far Diablo¡¯s first steps seemed to have gone well. Chen Mo¡¯s idea of the art style and atmosphere seemed to be right judging from how focused yers were on the game. It wasn¡¯t a game that had a niche audience, turning its unique art style into a selling point. ¡ª Diablo was ready to be sold in two weeks as the follow-up work progressed steadily. In this time, many ytesting videos were leaked onto the inte as topics like ¡®Chen Mo¡¯s new game¡¯ and ¡®Diablo¡¯ were gaining more and more buzz. ¡°There seemed to be some leaks on the cinematics and gamey of Diablo, have you seen it?¡± ¡°Isn¡¯t that some ancient RPG? What¡¯s so special about it.¡± ¡°It really isn¡¯t, the graphics look amazing, and the cinematics seem to be higher quality than Warcraft.¡± ¡°Really? Is he stupid? It¡¯s a singleyer game. Even if he sells five hundred thousand copies at ny-nine RMB each, that¡¯s just fifty million RMB gross, about thirty million. That¡¯s not even enough for the cinematics right?¡± ¡°Yeah, the cinematics surely cost more than fifty million? Is he trading money for fame?¡± ¡°It¡¯s hard to tell, the game does seem quite fun. You guys should take a look at the gamey, it seemed quite high quality.¡± ¡°So what if it¡¯s high quality. Just the words ¡®third person¡¯ is enough to give the game a death sentence. There¡¯s no way the game gains poprity.¡± ¡°But I think the game is so high quality that Chen Mo could¡¯ve made it a first person game.¡± ¡°Then... Then Chen Mo is just digging his own grave, there¡¯s not much else to say. I don¡¯t believe that it¡¯s possible for a third person game to gain poprity anyways, I¡¯ll eat my keyboard if it does.¡± Chapter 196 - Seventeen Difficulties

Chapter 196: Seventeen Difficulties

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales ¡°I don¡¯t believe that either. If Diablo sells over five hundred thousand copies, no. Ten thousand copies, I¡¯ll eat my monitor!¡± ¡°I¡¯ll eat my USB drive!¡± ¡°I¡¯ll eat my coffee mug!¡± ¡°Why don¡¯t you guys just go for one hundred million sales? That way you guys don¡¯t have to do anything. What¡¯s the point of going for eight hundred thousand if you don¡¯t want to eat anything anyways.¡± ¡°I¡¯ve written down the names of the posters, I¡¯ll be going after you guys when Diablo makes it.¡± ¡°Look at the brain dead Chen Mo fan.¡± ¡°So what if I¡¯m a brain dead Chen Mo fan. Think about it, haven¡¯t all of Chen Mo¡¯s games done extremely well?¡± ¡°He really has lost his marbles! You can keep singing the songs of praise, I¡¯ll be taking my leave.¡± ¡°Calm down, Chen Mo¡¯s not some kind of god. He did RTS and casual games previously, all games that require insane innovation to get those results. Now he¡¯s working on RPG games which are mainstream, a third person one at that too. There¡¯s no way he could save it no matter how many innovations he has!¡± ¡°Have you guys even seen the videos before talking? It looks quite fun in the videos.¡± ¡°It didn¡¯t look fun, so what if I hate third person RPG games!¡± ¡°Alright, we¡¯ll see when the salese now. I¡¯ll be going after every single one of you when he reaches eight hundred thousand sales!¡± ¡ª There was a lot of discussion among the industry professionals too. ¡°Chen Mo¡¯s new game is about to go on sale, anybody keeping an eye on that?¡± ¡°Diablo? I thought we went through that already, niche audience for third person games and scary games. It¡¯d probably get around three hundred thousand sales in the first month, what else is there to say.¡± ¡°There were leaked recently, there are cinematics too. I heard it¡¯s really high quality.¡± ¡°High quality RPG games are all over the ce. I might believe if you said he¡¯d make more innovations with casual games, but RPG games have been done time and time again, there¡¯s no way he could innovate anything new.¡± ¡°I just like to remind you that everyone who underestimated Chen Mo has been proven wrong. Are there any other games that are releasing soon?¡± ¡°There are actually quite a few games releasing after Chinese new year, but most of them are online games, so there aren¡¯t too many conflicts of interest with single yer games. Then again, so what if there was a conflict of interest, it¡¯s an RPG, could Chen Mo really whip up something new again?¡± ¡°Right? You could tell from his idea of Diablo. He¡¯s even making it in third person, that idea is from a few years ago.¡± ¡°I think he didn¡¯t even do mark research, how else would he go so off script?¡± ¡°I don¡¯t understand either. It¡¯d make sense if he made a simple game to test the waters, but isn¡¯t he stupid to spend so much money on cinmeatics and a high quality game?¡± ¡°Maybe he was inspired by that Warcraft RPG game because there were so many yers. Maybe he thinks third person RPGs still have life in them.¡± ¡°Well, he¡¯s thinking too much. How many yers does that RPG map even have. That Holy Land game that was quite popr recently probably has at most a few thousand concurrent yers. You have to be silly to make a game for a few thousand yers right? What¡¯s the point of targeting that tiny group.¡± ¡°Geez, we¡¯ll just have to see how it goes, that¡¯s really all we can do.¡± ¡ª Diablo started selling among the cloud of doubt. There were a few other MMORPGs released at the same time, but they didn¡¯t affect Diablo¡¯s sales much if at all. Single yer games that sell copies are less affected bypetitors, so the only deciding factor of Diablo¡¯s sales was its potential yerbase. Most of the yers on theputers in the experience store were ying Diablo, some of them even had a few yers watching.¡± ¡°I got the bounty!¡± ¡°My goodness, look at the attributes on this!¡± ¡°Not bad, it¡¯s better than what I have now, I¡¯ll equip it.¡± ¡°My four hours is up soon, and I¡¯m not done yet!¡± ¡°Hurry up, it¡¯s my turn.¡± In two weeks time, most of the the yers in Diablo were now hardcore yers who couldn¡¯t stop themselves. Although Diablo was quite content rich, it wasn¡¯t a lot of game time. There was a conquest in the game called ¡®Speed Racer¡¯, unlocked bypleting all five acts within an hour on the highest difficulty. Of course, this one of the extremes, but was possible to beat the game on in a few hours. New yers would have some trouble beating the game as Chen Mo increased the difficulty, but it would be at most ten or so hours as the game was designed to be beaten by everyone. However, the yers would discover that there was a choice of difficulties, Expert, Master, and Torment!¡± Moreover, there was Torment one through thirteen! That means that there are a total of seventeen difficulties in this game! Many yers who beat the normal difficulty would enthusiastically try out master difficulty, but would be absolutely destroyed by the mobs. Many were shocked to see this. What was the point of Torment 1-13 when Master was already so difficult, wouldn¡¯t the small mobs be capable of destroying worlds? Moreover, the increase in attributes given through level ups weren¡¯t much, so grinding levels weren¡¯t all that beneficial either, so how could the yers keep gaining strength? As they yed on, the yers finally realised, it was through equipment! They realised the game was more and moreplicated as they delved further into the game. In some cases, characters were a few times stronger when they had the proper equipment! Moreover, the chance of good equipment dropping increases with difficulty. yers got really excited when they got equipment that were orange or above, sometimes even taking screenshots. They lost the excitement the more they yed, but they couldn¡¯t stop themselves from ying more. It wouldn¡¯t feel right if they didn¡¯t grind some rare gear. Moreover, more and more yers started developing and exchanging builds and strategies based on abilities and special equipment. ¡°How to deal more damage¡±, ¡°output order¡±, ¡°ranking various equipment¡±, ¡°techniques for grinding gear¡± started recing discussions like ¡°story¡±, ¡°how to y¡±, and ¡°game quality¡±. The staff who doubted Chen Mo finally understood the intentions behind the design. The yers were really confident in the game, waiting for its release to give the other yers a big surprise. Chapter 197 - Chapter 196: Incredible Sales

Chapter 197: Chapter 196: Incredible Sales

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Many members of staff were ying Diablo too. A few assistants were discussing as they yed. ¡°That¡¯s weird, I thought the game wouldn¡¯t be fun when I looked at the draft. Why am Ipletely addicted to it now? It just has to be part of my daily routine!¡± ¡°You got that right, the ominous art style didn¡¯t stop me from ying at all, it¡¯s actually more enjoyable because of that.¡± ¡°Yeah. And there aren¡¯t that many different game modes in the game, nor are there daily activities. Yet I still grind the game every single day. I¡¯ll y one level after another, multiyer after singleyer, I just can¡¯t stop at all!¡± Zhou Hanyu was shocked too. When he first tried the game, it did feel quite stressful, but the stress mysteriously disappeared when ying through the story. He found that the disappearance of stress was because of the constant change in emotions of the yer as a result of the changes in scenes, colour, field of view and music. Moreover, the art style made it more satisfying to kill monsters, especially when beating bosses in scary environments followed by arge amount of drops, all the pent up stress was instantly relieved. The more he looked into it, the more Zhou Hanyu was surprised. He didn¡¯t think a niche art style like this could be executed so well, controlling the emotions perfectly at that. Zhou Hanyu was thoroughly impressed, all of Chen Mo¡¯s work wasn¡¯t just luck, but all skill! Fu Guangnan said to Zhou Hanyu, ¡°It should be released today. The sess of the game willpletely depend on how well the yers will take it.¡± Zhou Hanyu nodded, ¡°Yeah, but I¡¯m quite confident in this.¡± Fu Guangnan asked, ¡°How many copies do you think we¡¯ll sell?¡± Zhou Hanyu shook his head, ¡°No clue. But judging from investment, this game and the cinematics cost about one hundred and forty million RMB. The manager is charging one hundred and twenty-eight per copy, he¡¯d need to sell at least 1.8 million to bread even. Fu Guangnan was a bit worried, ¡°He¡¯s charging quite a bit for it, and the sales target is extremely high too!¡± Zou Hanyu nodded, ¡°Yeah, all I can say is that the cost is too high! The manager sure is willing to spend his money. Who else in the country would spend one hundred million on a third person single yer game? They wouldn¡¯t spend this money even if they did have it!¡± Fu Guangnan said, ¡°All I could say that he sure is courageous, all we could do is hope that it sells well. It¡¯ll greatly affect the morale of the team if our first game is dead of arrival.¡± Zhou Hanyu nodded, ¡°Yeah, hopefully.¡± ¡ª Diablo finally went live on the third of July! There was a steady stream of information about the game since the start of the year. It started with some original artworks, settings, then cinematics, then ytesting footage... There were also many who had their eyes on the game, in particr Warcraft yers and Chen Mo¡¯s fans. No matter how much the others underestimated the game, they still hoped that Chen Mo could surprise them. These yers didn¡¯t even hesitate before buying the game on the day of its release. Diablo used a pay per copy model at one hundred and twenty eight RMB per copy. This was quite a lot for a single yer game, especially in China. Warcraft only sold for eighty-eight, whereas Wulin Legend sold for just fifty. Of course, the yers knew that Diablo was extremely high quality and a lot of money went into cinematics, so the yers didn¡¯t mind spending so much money. But other than the diehard fans, the other yers were watching from the side. Some of them were even mocking them as they waited for the news of Diablo¡¯s terrible sales. Soon, the review from the first batch of yers were on the forums. ¡°Friends who tried out Diablo, how did it go? Is the game good?¡± ¡°There was a post on how Thunderbolt Movies¡¯ quality had only gone up...¡± ¡°...What about the others?¡± ¡°The quality of the game is surprisingly good,pletely different from those ancient third person games. I can¡¯t reallyment of the others, but I feel that there¡¯s a lot of details that weren¡¯t ounted for.¡± ¡°That¡¯s weird, I thought this art style would¡¯ve kept me away from the game, but I didn¡¯t feel that at all when I was ying. But this atmosphere... It¡¯s hard to describe.¡± ¡°It fits well. The art style and story fits well with the gamey.¡± ¡°How so?¡± ¡°It¡¯s not something that can be exined in a few sentences, you should just try it out... To be honest, it¡¯s a big game, and I felt that my one hundred and twenty eight RMB was well spent.¡± ¡°How does itpare to Warcraft?¡± ¡°It¡¯s a different game. If you want topare, it does feel simr to that Warcraft RPG map: ¡®Holy Land¡¯. Other than the stronger adult themes of course.¡± ¡°That maps quite good. If Diablo was really able to recreate that feeling, I¡¯m a hundred percent buying the game.¡± ¡°You are underestimating Chen Mo too much! Let¡¯s put it this way, there¡¯s noparison. Comparing Holy Land and Diablo is likeparing kindergarteners to NBA yers in basketball.¡± ¡°Is the difference that big? Alright, I¡¯ll try it out too!¡± ¡°I heard there¡¯s a co-op mode, I¡¯ll carry you!¡± ¡ª The reviews maintained well above nine as the number of sales increased. The video game media also started publishing their articles. ¡°Chen Mo with another Western Fantasy Game!¡± ¡°Unique art style, hopeless world, review of Chen Mo¡¯s first RPG game¡± ¡°Fierce fighting and unexpected surprises¡± ¡°Third Person RPG exceeds industry expectations¡± ¡°Chen Mo spending big money for cinematics again! Thunderbolt Movies proud production!¡± ¡°Expert analysis: Niche theme, high quality game but potentially small yer base¡± ¡°Experts say that this game will struggle to break five hundred thousand sales, is Chen Mo losing money?¡± There were praises and doubts as all eyes were on Diablo¡¯s sales. As it was a singleyer game, only the number of sales could reveal the answer to the question. Soon, Diablo¡¯s sales in the first week were released. Two hundred and eighty thousand sales! This was shocking news to all the industry professionals who doubted Diablo as this was pretty close to their estimate for the first month! But more shocking news had yet toe. Not only did Diablo¡¯s growth not drop in the second week, it kept its momentum, selling a total of four hundred and thirty thousand sales in the second week! Obviously many yers who thought the game was hopeless finally decided to buy the game in the second week, as yer opinion of the game further improved the sales. In the end, Diablo sold 1.87 million copies in the first month! This meant that Diablo made two hundred and forty million RMB, or one hundred and sixty-seven million RMB for Chen Mo! He made back his huge investment within a month. This shocked the industry professionals yet again. They didn¡¯t think that a third-person RPG that they have always despised and dubbed ¡®ancient¡¯ could be an extremely popr game! Chapter 198 - How Did it Succeed?

Chapter 198: How Did it Seed?

The number of sales of Diablo became a hot topic among industry professionals after its release. ¡°Have you seen Diablo¡¯s sales? It defies logic! How is it possible that it sold 1.87 million copies in the first month?¡± ¡°My goodness, 167 million RMB in profit in the first month? How is it possible, I thought third person games are ancient!¡± ¡°I don¡¯t buy it either, there wasn¡¯t anything particrly creative about the game. Moreover, it¡¯s a single yer game, yet it wasn¡¯t even as rich in content as online games!¡± ¡°And the yers are rating it highly!¡± ¡°Was it because of the quality of the game?¡± ¡°Regardless of the quality of the game, if the game wasn¡¯t good, the reviews wouldn¡¯t be that great. But the problem is that there were many copies, and really good reviews!¡± ¡°We have to look into it deeper, there must be something we are missing.¡± Most designers were really troubled by this. Even though CHen Mo made a record-breaking three hundred and seventy million RMB in a month using Onmyoji, the revenue on Diablo was on apletely different level. The graphics of Onmyoji trumps over every other mobile game on the market, and there were significant changes in the gamey too, utilizing the characteristics of a pay to win game to the fullest. Everybody was shocked at Onmyoji¡¯s results whenpared to the many games that came before it, but they still could make sense of it by looking deeper into it. But Diablo was different as nobody expected anything from it before it started selling. Even Chen Mo¡¯s hardcore fans couldn¡¯t think of any reason why the game would perform well other than a blind trust. It was only when the sales were released that these designers released their huge mistakes, thinking that there must be something special that they didn¡¯t notice. ¡ª At the same time the designers were investigating Diablo¡¯s sess, there was a lot of celebration on various forums. Many of Chen Mo¡¯s fans were trying to get doubters to fulfil their bets. ¡°You said you would eat your monitor, get to it now.¡± ¡°There¡¯s also the ones who said they would eat their USB drives, mice, and coffee mugs. Bon appetit.¡± ¡°He sold 1.87 million copies in the first month, how many copies did you guys say he would sell before? Can¡¯t be over eight hundred thousand?¡± ¡°Sorry, but us Chen Mo fans can do whatever we want.¡± ¡°Hmm? This thread is dying. We can¡¯t let it die. Bump.¡± ¡°Bump.¡± ¡°Bonk.¡± ¡°Boop.¡± ¡°You guys are horrible for kicking them when they are down, I¡¯ll kick them too.¡± ¡ª From various discussion forums to trending topics, everything was rted to Diablo. There were even two trending topics on Weibo rted to Diablo, ¡°Diablo¡± and ¡°Diablo¡¯s explosive sales¡±. This hack and sh game was now in the eyes in many, gaining respect from designers who underestimated it using its near perfect results. ¡ª Many RPG designers inrgepanies like Emperor Dynasty Entertainment and Zen Entertainment were holding meetings to investigate Diablo¡¯s sess. Most attendees were A-grade PC RPG designers. They were all confused at how something as ancient as a third person RPG game could achieve so much sess? Hadn¡¯t that genre been retired ages ago? Why would they y games like these when there are first person MMORPGs? In Zen Entertainment headquarters, a meeting was held, hosted by Yao Yu. Yao Yu had the most experience among them, with Tale of the Sword and Legend of the Sword under his belt. He had strong knowledge in MMORPGs and single yer RPGs, and was one of the best in terms of story writing. Yao Yu also started ying Diablo after the sales for its first week was released, and have already managed to figure out Diablo¡¯s sess. Yao Yu started sharing his analysis with the other attending designers. ¡°After looking deeper into Diablo, I think there was one point that we all neglected, ¡®satisfaction¡¯. ¡°I don¡¯t know if you realised, but the yers often have to face hundreds of monsters in the game, and in some of the levels, they could fill up the entire screen. And as the yers sh through these mobs, they get satisfaction that surpasses most MMORPGs through the damage numbers floating on the screen, as well as the visual and sound effects.¡± The other designers nodded in agreement. ¡°Yes, this is about the same as that RPG map in Warcraft. It¡¯s practically brainless, but it¡¯s really effective. ¡°It¡¯s mainly because mainstream RPGs are all online games. As a result of bncing requirements, the numbers in the game aren¡¯t all that flexible. ¡°Is that why Chen Mo made a singleyer game? ¡°That means he thought of making a hack and sh game from the start? ¡°It¡¯s not just that. I¡¯ve tried it out in Legend of the Sword and I was able to recreate a simr feeling through adjusting some numbers, but it was stillckingpared to Diablo. ¡°I¡¯ve narrowed it down to three main points. ¡°First, Legend of the Sword is based on lock-on abilities, and most of them are single target abilities. In order to recreate that same satisfaction, the abilities should not lock-on. ¡°Second, Legend of the Sword wasparativelyfortable with a bright art style, the monsters weren¡¯t scary either, so the yers would get bored easily after killing the same monster a couple times. ¡°Third, there is a limit to how many monsters can be on the screen in a first person game like Legend of the Sword. For example, the screen bes really cluttered when there are over one hundred mobs on the screen, making it difficult to select targets and move. ¡°Perhaps it¡¯s better in VR, but it also introduces more problems. The biggest problem is that hack and sh games like these must be single yer. Based on Diablo¡¯s cost of around one hundred and seventy million, it would cost around a billion to make a VR game. How manypanies are confident to be able to recuperate such a huge cost in a singleyer VR game?¡± The other designers looked at one another before reaching a conclusion. ¡°That means we¡¯d have to make changes to these three points to make a satisfying hack and sh experience?¡± ¡°Make abilities to not lock on, make the art style more gloomy, and change it to third person?¡± ¡°Isn¡¯t that what Diablo¡¯s doing?!¡± ¡°That means... Chen Mo thought of it from the start?!¡± Chapter 199 - Analysis of Diablo

Chapter 199: Analysis of Diablo

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales The industry professionals reached a stunning conclusion from all their analysis. If they wanted to make the most satisfying hack and sh experience, the way Diablo did it was absolutely the best way. Third person, singleyer, abilities that don¡¯t lock on, and a dark gloomy artstyle. The experience would be significantly worse with any of these points missing. That means that Chen Mo didn¡¯t make a third person game because of hisck of abilities, but he thought of it from the start. He wanted to make a game that focused on hacking and shing to fill the gap in the market. The viewers finally understood how Diablo managed to achieve this number of sales after their analysis. It was a groundbreaking, unique game with extremely high quality graphics and story. It¡¯d be weird if it didn¡¯t sell well. As they let out their collective sigh, there was only one question left to answer. What was the lifespan of a hack and sh game like this? Would the yers get sick of it pretty early on? -On Diablo¡¯s official forums.- ¡°Help, which one of these equipment is better? Which one should I equip?¡± ¡°Anybody understand Diablo¡¯s story? Could someone gather all the information in the game regarding the settings and provide us with some analysis?¡± ¡°How much health should I have at higher difficulties?¡± ¡°I just started ying a week ago but I¡¯mpletely addicted. Anyone wanna add me and y together?¡± ¡°How should I utilize this orange piece of equipment?¡± ¡°Best areas for high quality drops, from personal experience.¡± ¡ª Other than the respective posts about the story and gamey, most of the other posts were about equipment and builds. Most of the yers have reached thest stage of the ¡®donut principle¡¯ to be hardcore yers. These yers were encouraging new yers to join them too. ¡°I recently saw Diablo¡¯s promotional cinematic. I really like games like these as I can¡¯t handle 3D games. I¡¯d like to ask if the game is just about killing mobs? Isn¡¯t that boring?¡± ¡°Yes it¡¯s only killing mobs, but it¡¯s not boring at all. As for why it¡¯s not boring... I don¡¯t know either, but you¡¯ll know after you try it.¡± ¡°Yes, it¡¯s just grinding, and it¡¯s enough tost you a month.¡± ¡°Theter stages of the game are mainly about figuring out builds for characters as well as ying at higher difficulties. The game is extremely rich in this aspect. If you are aiming for the highest difficulty, this game willst you the rest of your life.¡± ¡°Gather round, let¡¯s wee the new guy! Once you¡¯re max level I¡¯ll help you grind equipment and get a decent build!¡± ¡ª Various videogame media were releasing articles about how Diablo seeded. ¡°The reasoning being the attraction of hack and sh games.¡± ¡°Niche audience at first nce, but immensely popr.¡± ¡°The secret behind Diablo¡¯s huge sales.¡± ¡°How did the severely underestimated Diablounch its counterattack?¡± ¡°The art of Diablo¡¯s numbers.¡± ¡°Chen Mo¡¯s first RPG game gains huge sess.¡± There are even special articles published by the game media to analyze the entire plot structure and deep cultural connotations of Diablo. ¡°The charm of Diablo¡¯s storyes from its perfect representation of a world, a cold world filled with burning fires of hell and hopelessness. ¡°In the Fields of Misery, the farmer clung to the remains of his dead wife, insisting that she was just ill and resting. ¡°In the city of Caldeum, servants who fell to death as they were sentenced by the emperor. ¡°In Bastion¡¯s Keep, filled with soldiers you can¡¯t all save from Archangels. ¡°There are also corrupted fallen angels you can¡¯t save in the High Heavens. ¡°There are also the scenes that are always pitch ck, with the only two lit scenes being the hopeless desert and the corrupted High Heavens. The world lived in the shadow of the Demon Lord, from the start to finish. ¡°We all know that Leoric became the Skeleton King after he lost his mind. During the process of defeating him, you will gather numerous sources of information, and understand his hopelessness and madness in the days before his death through his diary entries. ¡°There are also the diaries and letters collected on your path. Each of them reveal a tiny bit of the world. ¡°The diaries filled with hopelessness written by the criminals in the Cer of the Damned before they turned into Ravenous Dead, Captain Haile who refused to back down after his army was wiped out, and the book that was dropped into cers that drove prisoners to consume one another... ¡°This is a world filled with horror and hopelessness. You take up the role of being the saviour, killing thousand upon thousands of monsters, yet not making any changes to the world. ¡°This is a story about hopelessness, yet it manages to keep all of us immersed. This was probably the most attractive part of Diablo.¡± There were also articles analysing the hack and sh aspect of the game as a groundbreaking discovery to RPG games. ¡°A significant advantage of Diablo is the efficient use of fragmented time. ¡°This is an adventure game that supports up to four yers. You can join and leave anything during the adventure. If you wanted to, you could y no more than ten minutes per session. ¡°Therefore, although it looks like a boring single yer game, it¡¯s actually a incredibly friendly game for casual yers. ¡°Moreover, Diablo¡¯s unique style allows it to differentiate itself from the other RPG games on the market. ¡°In MMORPGs, yers maintain a close rtionship as they are required to interact with one another frequently, participating in various events. This wasn¡¯t a huge concern in Diablo. ¡°There wasn¡¯t a worry of fatiguing from 3D games or a long time investment. You could y a bit of Diablo if you could spare ten or so minutes in your day. And no matter how you spend that ten minutes, you are bound to discover your next objective. It could be a certain equipment or a certain difficulty, but there¡¯s always a target to aim for. ¡°This was a game that isn¡¯t all thatplicated, and all the credit for its strong life goes to simple hacking and shing. The view we have on RPG games that we¡¯ve had for so long. ¡°By going off script yet again, Chen Mo tells us that you can make RPG games in a different way. Third person RPG games aren¡¯t out of style, but just misunderstood. ¡°No matter how well it sells, it is still one of the best RPG games just from its unique style, and could even pave the way for other simr games!¡± Chapter 200 - Celebratory Dinner

Chapter 200: Celebratory Dinner

At a high ss restaurant in the vicinity of the experience store. The members of staff that worried if the game could even break even could finally rx after seeing Diablo¡¯s sales. It was a proper big sale. It was only the first month, the sales might be able to maintain this momentum for another two to three months. By that time, Diablo could easily achieve five or six million sales to be a high quality and popr game like Warcraft. Although the scary art style did prevent a small amount of yers from ying, since Diablo was a highly fragmented RPG game that was also high quality, it wasn¡¯t too difficult for it to sell more copies than Warcraft. Chen Mo didn¡¯t cheap out of this celebration feast, getting his assistant Lin Xiao to book everyone a meal at a restaurant that charged around six hundred RMB per person. Chen Mo didn¡¯t care about customs like these as his rtionship with Su Jinyu, Zheng Hongxi and the others was closer to friends than employee and employer. Moreover, Chen Mo wasn¡¯t a big fan of going out. But now that the team wasrger, he should follow the customs of a seriouspany. Of course he didn¡¯t need to have rules upon rules like certain departments. This gathering was somewhere between a gathering for friends and a business meal, focusing on celebration. The staff were free to drink if they desired. Chen Mo lifted his pint, ¡°I¡¯d like to thank everyone for their hard work in the past six months. Diablo selling 1.87 copies is a fantastic result, all thanks to your hard work and corporations. This is to everyone here, cheers!¡± Everyone lifted their drinks in the air too. ¡°Cheers to you, manager.¡± ¡°Congrats for the sales, manager.¡± ¡°It¡¯s all thanks to your creativity!¡± ¡°Yeah, we¡¯re just along for the ride supporting the manager.¡± ¡°Cheers!¡± Everyone was having fun and was happy for the huge sales as they all got bonuses and something noteworthy to add to their resumes, and a cool story to tell. Zou Hanyu lifted his cup and said to Chen Mo, ¡°This is for you, manager. I thought this was apany like the other ones I¡¯ve worked at. But I¡¯ve only just realised that thispany is different from the others. I¡¯m surprised that I was able to learn something working here. I never thought a game with an art style like Diablo could be sessful. I¡¯m thoroughly impressed.¡± Chen Mo lifted his cup too, ¡°You say that, but it¡¯s only because of how hard everyone worked. I¡¯ve only provided the overall concept for the art style and music, the rest of which were finished by you and Guangnan. There¡¯s no way this came would be nearly as popr if anyone here was missing. There¡¯s no need to restrain yourself, eat to heart¡¯s content!¡± Chen Mo was quite happy too as Diablo went through a lot of trouble to release in China. Although this game made a record breaking thirty million sales internationally, it didn¡¯t do well in the Chinese market. Chen Mo wasn¡¯t even sure if this game would pass the reviews or if the yers would be epting of it. Judging from the sales, there was no need for his worries as this game was more than enough to support his first step into RPG games. ¡°Manager, it¡¯s been about a month, and the first batch of yers are starting to get bored of Diablo, should we make some changes?¡± asked Zheng Hongxi. Zhao Yunting from operations replied, ¡°I don¡¯t think so, we are selling copies of the game after all. It¡¯s pretty good if the yers were able to y it for a whole month, do they expect to y it for the rest of their lives?¡± ¡°That means you don¡¯t understand the manager well enough. Just look at nts vs Zombies and Warcraft, they are both single yer games, but which one of those aren¡¯t suited to be yed for a long time? The manager will release an update or two to extend the lifespan of the game,¡± said Su Jinyu. Chen Moughed, ¡°Goldfish is right, there¡¯s an update and a DLC.¡± Qian Kun pped, ¡°Alright, let¡¯s sell another two million copies of the DLC!¡± ¡°I¡¯ll give you guys more details tomorrow on the updates. In short, there are two aims, developing a DLC which will have two new sses, seasons andpetitive mode, and an expert mode. The other is a small game.¡± Su Jinyu asked, ¡°We¡¯ll work on two games at the same time?¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Yes. As we have more helping hands now, DLC could be handled by the greater half of us. It¡¯s not in a hurry, I expect it to be done in around three months. The others will work on a smaller game.¡± ¡°Manager, I think we should stick with bigger games. Think about it, bigger games make more money and improve our name. Why should we spend our time on smaller games,¡± asked Qian Kun. ¡°It¡¯s not that simple,¡± replied Chen Mo,¡±There are advantages to both big and small games. You could have the best of the best every day, but you¡¯d get bored of it eventually. The smaller game is to help stimte our minds.¡± Zhou Hanyu said, ¡°Sure, we¡¯ll do that if that¡¯s what you¡¯ve decided. We can¡¯t go wrong following in your footsteps.¡± Fu Guangnan was speechless, ¡°Calm down with the praises!¡± Chen Moughed, ¡°Don¡¯t be so surprised. I¡¯ve already mentioned it before, I look at tangible things so these praises don¡¯t affect me too much. The most important thing is that the games are done well, everything else are just minor details. ¡°When I promised everyone that we¡¯ll be making money together, it wasn¡¯t an empty promise, but it¡¯s not just about making money. I hope to make some meaningful smaller games to give the yers some inspiration. I hope everyone here thinks the same. Making money is just something that happens along the way, our primary aim is to make good games, understood?¡± ¡°Yes!¡± -In the office the next day.- Everyone was in the meeting room waiting for Chen Mo to go through the ns for the next stage. Chen Mo mentioned in the dinner yesterday, there will be two different projects happening in parallel, one will be an update for Diablo, the other was a new game. The words Diablo: Reaper of Souls appeared on the projector. ¡°This new update is called Reaper of Souls. There will be two new sses, some new story elements as well as new game modes like apetitive season and expert mode. ¡°It¡¯ll go through both of them now.¡± Chapter 201 - New Version and New Game

Chapter 201: New Version and New Game

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Chen Mo started going over the basics for the new version. ¡°The new version will be called Reaper of Souls. The biggest update are the two new sses, Crusader and Necromancer. There will also be some more elements added to the story, the main character will enter the Pandemonium to battle the final boss. ¡°There will be more side quests for Covetous Shen, Haedrig Eamon, and the three followers. ¡°Of course, the story is just to supplement the content of the update, the main updates aren¡¯t story updates. ¡°There will also be new mechanics in the game, including Transmogrification, Paragon Levels, and Expert mode. The information in the concept draft should be enough for you guys to work from as it¡¯s quite simple. ¡°The key point is the two game modes that will increase the lifespan of the game. I estimate that this should extend it by one or two years. ¡°About Challenge Rift and Seasons. ¡°Challenge Rift is a gamemode designed to help yers get rare equipment. ¡°The yers probably don¡¯t care much about the story when they reach this stage, probably caring more about grinding rare items. It won¡¯t matter where they grind the items as we¡¯ll provide time a shortcut through Challenge Rift. ¡°Thepetitive seasons are equivalent to rankeddder. However, the way of climbing thedder is different from Warcraft. In this game, older yers have a significant advantage over newer yers, which is why yers will have to start from scratch at the start of every season. ¡°Each season shouldst anywhere from three to six months, we can freely adjust that ording to how the yers are doing. ¡°That¡¯s about it, any questions?¡± Chen Mo checked their reactions after going through the overview. They all looked at one another. Evidently, most cared more about the new story and sses than the Challenge Rift and Ranked Seasons. ¡°Uhh manager, obviously adding new story and sses are a must, but I¡¯m doubtful if the Challenge Rift and ranked seasons could extend the lifespan of the game. I thought you would make an editor in games like nts vs Zombies and Warcraft,¡± asked Su Jinyu. Everyone else nodded along, they clearly had the same thought as Su Jinyu, but was too embarrassed to bring it up themselves. Chen Moughed, ¡°It¡¯s not the same. The core of the enjoyment of Diablo somes from hacking and shing. Moreover, the maps are all randomly generated, even if we allow yers to add assets, they wouldn¡¯t be able to make many meaningful additions. ¡°Why are the yers getting bored? Because they don¡¯t have a goal anymore. ¡°In other words, yers were happily grinding away because they weren¡¯t sick of the game yet. But for the yers that got the few key equipment but have no other goals in mind, they quit the game because they aren¡¯t sure what to do next. ¡°Thepetitive seasons are there to createpetition, to allow yers to try andpete against one another and to introduce a goal for the yers. Challenge Rift on the other hand is more of an aid to reduce the more repetitive aspects of grinding, making the grinding process less offensive. ¡°Is there something like the map editors in Warcraft to extend the lifespan of Diablo indefinitely? Unfortunately not. It¡¯s because this is a hack and sh game, and we have to take care of any remaining hardcore yers. ¡°Are there any other questions? They were still doubtful, but the majority of them understood where Chen Mo wasing from. Nobody was going to challenge Chen Mo¡¯s thought process as he was the boss, and it was fine as long as the boss knew what they were doing. Chen Mo continued as they seemed to have understood the problem. Design document for Don¡¯t Starve. There was an incredibly simple concept art at the start of the document featuring a small pale man with messy hair sitting next to a campfire in the woods among trees, bushes and angry spiders. The moon on the top right had the words Don¡¯t Starve ominously written on it. Everybody was confused to see this name and concept art. ¡°Don¡¯t Starve? Like don¡¯t starve to death?¡± ¡°That concept art also looks really weird, it looks like an indie game.¡± ¡°Yeah, it doesn¡¯t look like it¡¯s from a bigpany. From the looks of it, it¡¯s going to have a niche audience.¡± ¡°Is the manager done making money?¡± ¡°Let¡¯s see what he has to say.¡± Everyone was waiting on Chen Mo¡¯s exnation. ¡°First, it¡¯s just as you guessed. This game is reminiscent of indie games. As I said before, this game will serve as a practice to get everyone in the mod. It shouldn¡¯t be too hard. ¡°I¡¯ll quickly go over the gamey. It¡¯s a survival game. The settings on this game are quite free, as science, magic, and weird monsters coexist in this world. Within reason of course. ¡°The only aim of the game is to survive, simr to survival mode of some other games. The difference is that we¡¯ll provide an incredibly rich equipment system. The yers can collect rocks and branches around the map, craft tools, and finally create their own base, from nothing to everything. ¡°You could view it as a sandbox game. ¡°Of course, as a survival game, the main character should face various dangers at all times, including darkness, weather, and monsters. The yers will die if they don¡¯t pay attention. ¡°We¡¯ll need to recreate a situation where the yer is abandoned alone in the wilderness. They could die from cold or starvation, and also survive long into the game. ¡°That¡¯s the main gist of it, any questions?¡± Chen Mo looked around. Su Jinyu said, ¡°I think it¡¯ll be a good game, I¡¯m quite interested in it.¡± Qian Kun scowled, ¡°Manager, I don¡¯t quite understand the selling point of the game. Although it sounds like a really cool game, I think it¡¯ll be really niche and won¡¯t sell many copies.¡± ¡°There¡¯s no point in trying to estimate the number of sales before the game is made. The driving force of the game is to survive. The yers will try their hardest to not die, and even be able to live more and morefortably,¡± answered Chen Mo. ¡°The desire to live, and exploring and gathering in order to do so is a very fun thing for the yers to go through. ¡°It doesn¡¯t matter how popr or niche it will be.. You guys can treat this as a fun exercise and enjoy the process.¡± Chapter 202 - Chapter 201: Diablo in VR?

Chapter 202: Chapter 201: Diablo in VR?

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Everyone started working on their tasks after learning about Diablo¡¯s new update and the design concept for Don¡¯t starve. Chen Mo was quite busy as he had to focus on Diablo as he had to go through resources for new areas, new sses and the new story. Most of the work for Diablo was managed by Zheng Hongxi and Qian Kun, whereas Su Jinyu led another group of employees to work on Don¡¯t Starve. Diablo 3 didn¡¯t do well when it was just released and lost a lot of its yers in a short amount of time. Especially with huge shoes left behind by Diablo 2 to fill, many yers of Diablo 2 didn¡¯t recognise Diablo 3 as a sequel. This situation was only amended on the release of Reaper of Souls. Before this update, Diablo 3 had a 41% rating on Metacritic, rising up to 72% after the update. After the update, the reviews of Diablo 3 increased dramatically, it could even be said that they werepletely different games before and after the update. And the way they saved the game were points Chen Mo pointed out previously. Including a rankeddder, removing limits for Paragon Levels, removal of Auction House, adding new maps, new ystyles, better differentiation between various difficulties, adding apetitive season... These changes allowed yers to find fun in Diablo 3, dragging it from the edge of death. Although Chen Mo made many changes to Diablo 3 allowing it to be artistically closer to Diablo 3, this game still possessed a risk of a shortened lifespan. The key factor was the change in the yers¡¯ tastes. Diablo 2 had a ssic design that paved the way for many other games, but the fact that there wasn¡¯t muchpetition then and and the nostalgia factor should also be taken into consideration. Even if a remastered version of Diablo 2 that waspletely faithful to the original was released, it probably wouldn¡¯t be sessful as the market was nowpletely different. After the team for Diablo 2 left Blizzard, they made Torchlight, and games like Grim Dawn were also seen on steam. However, no matter if it was a game made by the original team Torchlight, or a very ¡®Diablo¡¯ Grim Dawn, they never came close to Diablo 3¡¯s sess. The reasons wereplicated, but the changing times certainly yed a big role. You can¡¯t do the same thing over and over again as times changed. Reaper of Souls was the most sessful third person RPG that stemmed for the harsh lesson Blizzard learnt. Therefore, Chen Mo wanted to take some elements from Reaper of Souls to extend Diablo¡¯s lifespan. As for Don¡¯t Starve. This was simr to Lifeline, Chen Mo hoped that Su Jinyu and the others will get some enjoyment in the process of making don¡¯t starve and learn a few lessons from it. Which was why Chen Mo didn¡¯t provide too many ideas, instead challenging them by having them think about the settings that should be in the game. In Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, Don¡¯t Starve was an indie game, but definitely wasn¡¯t niche. The multiyer version of Don¡¯t Starve sold nearly five million copies on steam. And when it was included on Tencent Gaming tform, it broke one hundred thousand sales in the first two weeks, selling five million copies in the first month. There was no question for Don¡¯t Starve Charm as a high quality single yer game. Chen Mo also wanted to use this opportunity to test the eptance of the yers of this world towards open world and sandbox games, as well as providing his employees something to do. ¡ª Chen Mo was also working on releasing Diablo overseas while he worked on the update for Diablo and Don¡¯t Starve. Having worked together for Warcraft, the representative from Meteorite Technology didn¡¯t try to make any changes to the pricing, reaching an agreement to release Diablo overseas in no time. With a sess story like Warcraft in the past and an incredible result of Diablo in China, Meteorite Technology didn¡¯t have much to worry about. The strategy was the same as before, releasing it worldwide at the same time. Everything went smoothly with Warcraft paving the way. Chen Mo was quite hands off this time too, only asking a few questions here and there to ensure that the english version best conveys the atmosphere of Diablo. Chen Mo wasn¡¯t going to care too much about Diablo¡¯s performance overseas as even if it wasn¡¯t explosively popr, it wouldn¡¯t do half bad, focusing instead onpleting Reaper of Souls. ¡ª Chen Mo received a call while he was working. It was from Xu Xiaojun, a representative from Emperor Dynasty Entertainment¡¯s advertising department. Chen Mo was shocked, Why was he calling? They have previouslymunicated for the bet rted to I Am MT, where Lin Chaoxu got Xu Xiaojun tomunicate with Chen Mo directly for the promotional spot. But the two of them have nevermunicated since as everyone knew that Chen Mo had strong ambitions and would naturally be an enemy of Emperor Dynasty Entertainment. Chen Mo answered the call, ¡°Hello?¡± ¡°Hi Mr Chen Mo,¡± greeted Xu Xiaojun, ¡°I¡¯ve called today to discuss a potential coboration.¡± ¡°Coboration?¡± ¡°Yes, Diablo¡¯s sales were surprising to say the least, have you thought about turning it into a VR game?¡± ¡°Not currently, if there¡¯s nothing else...¡± Xu Xiaojun quickly interjected, ¡°Hold on, please listen to our proposal. Diablo has a rtively dark and hopeless world which helps with yer immersion. And when considering that the yers y the role of a hero saving the world, it makes for very satisfying gamey, which is why the game is suited for VR. ¡°Us at Emperor Dynasty Entertainment hope that we can coborate to make a VR Diablo. of course, as you¡¯re the developer of the game, we¡¯ll respect your decision. ¡°You¡¯re probably not well equipped enough to make VR games and are probablycking in money. We hope to arrange an S-grade videogame designer to coborate with you to make a VR version of Diablo, how does that sound?¡± Chen Mo remained silent for a few moments before replying, ¡°I don¡¯t think it¡¯s a good idea. I¡¯ll make a VR version myself, thanks for your concern.¡± ¡°Please don¡¯t be so quick in dismissing this opportunity, hello?¡± Chen Mo terminated the call before Xu Xiaojun could finish his sentence. Chapter 203 - What To Do

Chapter 203: What To Do

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales On the other side, Xu Xiaojun hesitantly hung up the phone. In the meeting room, Lin Chaoxu asked, ¡°He declined?¡± Xu Xiaojun nodded, ¡°Yeah, and he was pretty firm on that too.¡± Lin Chaoxu wasn¡¯t surprised, ¡°It¡¯s expected. A hungry designer like him wouldn¡¯t give up his games so easily.¡± In the meeting room, Lin Chaoxu, Xu Xiaojun, and a few other designers from Emperor Dynasty Entertainment were in a meeting. Yan Zhenyuan was also there too. ¡°I think Chen Mo has big ns for this world. HE probably ns to turn the world into something of the level of Warcraft,¡± said Yan Zhenyuan. Lin Chaoxu leaned back on his chair, ¡°Now that we¡¯re here, we can throw the n of cooperating with Chen Mo into the bin. Let¡¯s think of a n B.¡± Yan Zhenyuan smiled, ¡°What n B, we can only do it from the ground up.¡± Lin Chaoxu looked at him, ¡°How confident are you?¡± Yan Zhenyuan replied after a pause, ¡°Seventy percent.¡± Lin Chaoxu nodded, ¡°That¡¯s enough. Based on his current abilities, he probably can¡¯t turn Diablo into a VR game. Even the people at Zen Entertainment start at the same time we do, they won¡¯t have much of an advantage either.¡± ¡°As long as Chen Mo doesn¡¯t do something weird, there shouldn¡¯t be any big bumps. Although he¡¯s just an A-grade designer, he¡¯s been incredibly sessful, he¡¯d always manage to find some weird perspective on games, giving new life to genres that we thought were done for.¡± Lin Chaoxuughed, ¡°Are you afraid of him too, Mr Yan?¡± Yan Zhenyuan shook his head, ¡°I¡¯m not. But I¡¯m not some dunce liek Qin Xiao, you still have to give some respect to genius video game designers like him. ¡°Especially one that can start new genres, they¡¯d always have their own ideas and understanding. It¡¯s easy to get into a rough spot if you¡¯re just copying without understanding.¡± Lin Chaoxu asked, ¡°Then do you have ns for the new game?¡± Yan Zhenyuan gave it some thought, ¡°Actually, we learnt from Diablo that there¡¯s a huge demand for satisfying games, especially RPGs. There are very few games that are as satisfying as Diablo, so there¡¯s a huge gap in the market. ¡°If we want to develop a simr game, there are two paths we can take. ¡°First is a PC game, but what we can do will be incredibly restricted. We really can only make a third person game, so no matter what we do, it¡¯ll be a game that ¡®copied¡¯ Diablo. Lin Chaoxu nodded, ¡°Yeah, that¡¯s not going to work.¡± Yan Zhenyuan continued, ¡°So I think it¡¯s best to make a VR game. We can try to create a simr satisfying feeling in a VR setting. ¡°It probably would turn out quite well as VR games don¡¯t have the same problem with field of view and at the same time, it¡¯ll be even more scary. If we could create the essence of Diablo, it¡¯ll sell really well too.¡± Lin Chaoxu nodded, ¡°Then what about the profit model? Do you n to sell a single yer game by copy or make it multiyer?¡± Yan Zhenyuan replied after a few moments, ¡°There are a lot of risks associated with a single yer game by copy. Because of how the game it set up, theter stages of the game only consist of killing mobs repeatedly. It¡¯s hard to say if it¡¯ll work if it was on VR. ¡°An online game would be the safer choice, but because it¡¯s a game that¡¯s mainly about killing mobs, we can¡¯t have groupsrger than five. Otherwise, it¡¯ll be a big group against another big group,pletely ruining the atmosphere of the game. ¡°Therefore, I think that we should work with what Diablo has, have a single yer mode or up to a group of five. Moreover, we can allow yers to interact in towns and allow them to trade. Chasing good equipment will be the driving force for ying long term.¡± Lin Chaoxu nodded, ¡°Yep, that¡¯s what I think too. I¡¯ll leave that to you. We¡¯ll direct more funds for this project, so you don¡¯t need to hold back on anything.¡± Yan Zhenyuan nodded, ¡°Understood.¡± ¡ª So far in Emperor Dynasty Entertainment, Qiu Jiang was working on Moon Lord¡¯s Prophecy, Qin Xiao was working on Wolf Soul. These were the best products Emperor Dynasty Entertainment had to offer, so the two of them couldn¡¯t take any time out of their schedule. Yan Zhenyuan on the VR games Yan Zhenyuan had developed earlier were now more or less stable, and possibly even on the decline. Which was why Lin Chaoxu thought it¡¯d be a good idea to have Yan Zhenyuan to work on a new VR project. Coincidentally, Diablo provided some inspiration. Of course, converting a third person PC game like Diablo into a VR game has its challenges. It was more or less making a new game from scratch. That¡¯s why Lin Chaoxuo wanted to see if Chen Mo was willing to coborate with Yan Zhenyuan to greatly reduce the risk. Although it was extremely unlikely that Chen Mo would agree, it was worth a ask anyways. In the end, Chen Mo declined as expected. So there was nothing Lin Chaoxu could do but entrust all of this onto Yan Zhenyuan. Lin Chaoxu absolutely trusts Yasn Zhenyuan with his abilities. Among the most prestigious S-grade video game designers Lin Chaoxu had under him, Qin Xiao always preferred to work alone but always delivered, Qiu Jiang was the most flexible with many great ideas, Yan Zhenyuan on the other hand was well bnced. His worst games would still fetch some profit and big failures were never on his agenda. Therefore, Lin Chaoxu felt that it would be best for Yan Zhenyuan to handle this. -Inside the experience store.- Chen Mo received a message while he was working. Qiu Jiang: ¡°I heard Yan is working on a VR game simr to Diablo, take care.¡± Chen Mo was confused, checking out the message twice to confirm that it was from Qiu Jiang. What is this insider information? Chen Mo replied, ¡°Whose side are you on?¡± Qiu Jiang replied, ¡°Neither, I¡¯m just reminding you to make some preparations. I wouldn¡¯t want you to have nothing in retaliation as Yan beats you into the ground. That¡¯ll be some.¡± ¡°So you just want to see us tear at each other¡¯s throats then. What¡¯s wrong with you.¡± ¡°I¡¯m just hungry for some drama, what¡¯s wrong with that?¡± The corner of Chen Mo¡¯s mouth twitches, ¡°I knew about it when Xu Xiao called me earlier. You guys at Emperor Dynasty wanted to copy it when you saw that the game was doing well. I would¡¯ve known that without you telling me.¡± ¡°Alright, I¡¯m just here to remind you. You can y the game however you want, just don¡¯t get stomped into the ground by Yan. He¡¯d probably take a year to develop the game, I¡¯m rooting for you.¡± replied Qiu Jiang. Chen Mo was speechless as he put his phone away, What¡¯s Qiu Jiang trying to start! Though Qiu Jiang¡¯s message wasn¡¯tpletely useless. Now he knew that the VR game would take at least a year, meaning that it¡¯d be until August next month before it was even yable. What could Chen Mo do? Spend a year making a VR game himself to release it at the same time as Yan Zhenyuan? That¡¯s not realistic in such a short time frame as Chen Mo had no experience with VR games. Moreover, Chen Mo already set down his ns and could change it as he does fit. ¡°Think, what¡¯s my next step?¡± Chapter 204 - Chapter 203: Brainstorm

Chapter 204: Chapter 203: Brainstorm

Su Jinyu and a few other staff members were brainstorming in the meeting room, trying to figure out a way to make Don¡¯t Starve fun. ¡°ording to the manager¡¯s hint, it¡¯s a survival game right? So we should build the game around surviving. ¡°There should be two main factors in y: things that help with survival and things that harm the yers. ¡°What kind of resources would there be and what kind of negative factors are there? Thinking back to the real worlds, weather, temperature, monsters, food... These could all be included in the game. ¡°That means the source of enjoyment for this game is to have the yers control a character to survive in apletely foreign world. They¡¯ll need to explore the map for resources and use them to help them ward off the negative factors. ¡°We have the outlines of this game at this point. The game seems quite fun judging by the core gamey. ¡°Next will be the overall design of the game. The yers will need a few statistics to judge how well they are surviving. A simple example would be health. ¡°The yers¡¯ health would decrease when they are attacked, get frozen or burned for example, and the game will end when their health reaches zero. ¡°What else? The game is called Don¡¯t Starve, so obviously the manager wants us to integrate a food value into the game. The yers must search for food and would be worse off if they don¡¯t take care of it. It could even decrease move speed or something. ¡°From the looks of it, our target is in sight. ¡°But there are still ws. There feels to be something missing outside of these two factors. ¡°Yeah, these two factors feel a bitck-lustre. For example, rain, snow, hail, or drought, affects humans in real life, but how do we do that in game? Do the yers take damage when it rains? Or do we reduce their food bar when it rains? That doesn¡¯t really make sense. ¡°Moreover, if there only two factors, the yers would feel like they are ying a videogame character instead of a person which ruins the immersion.¡± ¡°Yeah, it feels like there¡¯s a missing factor...¡± Chen Mo walked in as they were thinking. ¡°The other attribute should be sanity,¡± said Chen Mo. This caught Su Jinyu¡¯s attention, ¡°Sanity? To represent how the yers are doing mentally?¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Bad weather or other terrible events will decrease the yers¡¯ sanity. Simrly, they can increase it with certain items. ¡°When their sanity reaches zero, the character bes insane. They¡¯ll experience hallucinations and the world world would look different, and shadow creatures will start attacking the yer. ¡°The yers will recover a certain amount of sanity after killing the shadow creatures. On the other hand, the game ends if the yers are killed by them.¡± Su Jinyu gave it some thought, ¡°That¡¯s a great idea. Hunger, health, and sanitybined would be a great way to describe the state of the character. You sure are good, manager.¡± Chen Moughed, ¡°It¡¯s nothing, you guys will figure it out eventually. This is more or less a must in a game like this.¡± Su Jinyu said, ¡°Manager, you should brainstorm with us. I realised that there are many interesting aspects for a game like Diablo Starve. If we properly develop the game, it¡¯ll be a great one!¡± Chen Mo rolled his eyes, ¡°Of course, why would I get you to develop a game that didn¡¯t have potential. You guys will have to hand in your homework without my help. This is for you guys to gain new perspectives, you can¡¯t expect me to hold your hands the entire way.¡± Su Jinyu pouted, ¡°Fine...¡± Chen Mo casually changed the topic, calmly saying, ¡°Emperor Dynasty Entertainment is working on a VR Diablo.¡± Su Jinyu was shocked, eximing, ¡°Huh? Since when? What are we going to do? Why aren¡¯t you worried at all?¡± Chen Mo leaned back into his chair, ¡°Why should I be worried? They¡¯re working on a VR game, there¡¯s not much I can do there.¡± Su Jinyu quickly followed up, ¡°What should we do? And what¡¯s wrong with Emperor Dynasty Entertainment copying us!¡± Chen Mo asked her to calm down, ¡°Rx, it¡¯s fine. It¡¯s hard to tell if Diablo could be sessfully made into a VR game. It might take a long time to amend some points that aren¡¯t suitable to be copied. It¡¯d take at least a year for it to finish.¡± ¡°We should pick up our pace then, manager. We¡¯ll make a simple VR game in half a year to test the waters, and use the other half of the year to make Diablo into a VR game!¡± Chen Mo was speechless, ¡°You¡¯re going too far. We can¡¯t do that in such a small time frame. There¡¯s no need to worry, I¡¯m just using it as a reminder to make sure Don¡¯t Starve goes smoothly without any dys. I want to use it to test some yer reactions. ¡°I have ns for what games to make in the future, at most I¡¯ll have to make a few minor adjustments. It¡¯s not worth it to mess up all our ns just to go head to head against Emperor Dynasty Entertainment. ¡°I¡¯m nning to release Don¡¯t Starve in two months, meaning the end of September. Of course, as it¡¯s going to be the first version, we¡¯ll need to push updates based on yer feedback, and release mods for the yers to pick from. ¡°Reaper of Souls should be done in three months with an extra three weeks in testing, meaning it¡¯ll be released mid-November. We¡¯ll set Diablo aside after that¡¯s done.¡± ¡°We should have plenty of yer feedback by November. By then, it¡¯ll be all hands on deck to make a VR game to try andpete against Emperor Dynasty Entertainment.¡± ¡°Alright!¡± Su Jinyu said pping, ¡°I¡¯ll try and move it along as fast as possible to produce a demo earlier for discussion.¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Sure, but you don¡¯t have to be in such a hurry. Two months is plenty, make sure the quality is up to par.¡± ¡ª There was no need for going over Don¡¯t Starve¡¯s sess. No matter sales or the brand, it was considered a ssic indie game. Chen Mo chose this game as practice for the others not only to help them be more creative, but to also test the yers¡¯ eptance of sandbox games. Sandbox games usually haverge maps with many different mechanics and a high degree of freedom with a lot of room for creativity. Creativity is a core element for games like these, allowing yers to achieve a goal using resources provided in game. There are games that give yers a lot of freedom in this world, but in Chen Mo¡¯s eyes, these weren¡¯t particrly sessful sandbox games. Chapter 205 - Chapter 204: Dont Starve and Sandbox Games

Chapter 205: Chapter 204: Don¡¯t Starve and Sandbox Games

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales In this world, most sandbox games are done by overseas developers. Take Earth Online for example, allowing yers to work, buy cards and houses, and experience different careers in game. This was one of the games that provided yers with a high degree of freedom. However, it wasn¡¯t truly a sandbox game. Sandbox games had two main features, rich content, and allowing yers to create freely. Although Earth Online was a content rich game, the game still operated under the restrictions of the designer as they weren¡¯t allowed to make much if at all. It should be emphasised that the ability to create is a core factor in sandbox games, meaning the yers could create whatever they want through resources provided by the game. Games that didn¡¯t fulfil this aspect couldn¡¯t be considered a true sandbox game. Of course, there were a few products experimenting with this aspect done by overseas developers, such as allowing yers to choose whichever characters they want to y, or what whichever car or house they wanted. But these were all part of the original game and were added to give the yers a choice and wasn¡¯t a core aspect of the game. Therefore, Chen Mo wanted to use Don¡¯t Starve to test the reactions of yers to a game like this. It if turned out to be sessful, the way to his first VR game would be decided. Of course, another key factor was that Don¡¯t Starve was rtively easier to makepared to other sandbox games. In Chen Mo¡¯s previous world, the first version of Don¡¯t Starve waspleted by three developers in eight hours. Obviously this was a primitive demo version. Theplete version took over a year, but most of this time was spent on testing and figuring things out as well as finding the identity of the game. For example, Don¡¯t Starve¡¯s team had gone through intense discussions, some thought that because it was a survival game, allowing the yers to be stronger and stronger as they progressed through the game while others thought that because it was a survival game, the yers should lose everything upon death. After the intense discussion, they decided on thetter. This game also had a simple yet unique art style. yers and monsters only had four directions with simple animations. The only thing that Chen Mo found troublesome was the difficulty settings of the game. However, with the help of Memory yback Potions and the collective brain of his staff, it wasn¡¯t hard to make a game simr to the level of the original after ensuring that they were heading in the correct direction. Chen Mo nned to make three modes: Survival, Adventure and Co-op. The first two shouldn¡¯t need any introductions, whereas co-op would allow yers to y and experience the game together. To be frank, co-op also happened to be the most popr mode. The core of the game was clear, allowing yers to explore and gather resources, craft various items, and try their hardest to survive as long as possible. The basics of the game included but are not limited to: Terrain generation, attributes and usage of different items, differences in attributes for different characters, monster respawn rates, as well seasons and environment. The map was also incredibly rich in content as there were various different biomes including ins, swamp, meadows, mines, forest, caves... different biomes had different features as well as different mobs. At the start of the game, the system will generate maps ording to a seed. The maps could greatly differ from one run to the next to ensure that the yer experiences something different every time. Moreover, the game also had seasons as a core part of the game. During spring, rain bes moremon and nts grow faster. In summer, nts may spontaneouslybust and the yers would heat up quickly, causing them to overheat. And during winter, nts grow slower and the yers may freeze. Seasons as well as various other factorsbine to pose a great threat to the yers as they are forced to prepare for the next season to prevent great losses. After the foundations of the world areid down, they¡¯d continuously add to the world to make it a rich,rge, andplex world. Chen Mo nned to include nine yable characters in the first version, including Wilson, Willow, Wendy, Wolfgang, WX-78, Wes, Wickerbottom, Woody, and Maxwell. Certain requirements had to be met before some of these characters could be unlocked. They also have different abilities. For example, Willow the firestarter is unlocked after surviving nine days, with the ability to start fires as she wished while being immune to fire damage. The monsters in this game could be split into four main categories: humanoids, animals, weird beings, and artificial intelligence, each with their own quirks. Many humanoids possess a certain intelligence and could be bribedpared to animal based monsters. Different monsters drop different items when killed, some could be turned into equipment, others can be turned into food. Don¡¯t Starve also had a rich equipment system, including things that are used day to day (light sources or used for gathering), consumables (foods or ingredients), and weaponry (weapons, armour, traps). Moreover, some items can be further processed. Food that goes bad quickly can be ced on drying racks, campfires, or crockpots to be processed further to extend their lifespan. Of course, as a sandbox game, a huge part of the enjoymentes from yer developed mods and allowing it to be part of the game. These mods are usually present in game to allow yers to pick and choose, and obviously would have different effects. Mods can provide statistics, reduce the difficulty of the game, while other mods add more content. With the inclusion of mods, the yer can change the difficulty of the game as they wish while increasing the amount of yable content. For example, new yers could decrease the difficulty of the game with a mod to help them live longer. ¡ª The development of Diablo: Reaper of Souls and Don¡¯t Starve were moving along swimmingly. At the same time Diablo continued to gain poprity. After selling a shocking 1.87 million copies in the first month, it maintained its momentum into the second month, selling 1.68 million copies, meaning Diablo raked in nearly four hundred and fifty million RMB in total. Most of the new yers still found the game fun. They are still on the path to challenging Diablo, going through on quest at a time in Nephalem as they can¡¯t stop themselves from hacking and shing mobs. However, other voices start to show up. Chapter 206 - Player Opinions

Chapter 206: yer Opinions

There were many new posts in the Diablo official forums. ¡°Diablo is so fun, I can¡¯t stop at all. There¡¯s nothing more I want to do after I get off work than doing three hours of grinding!¡± ¡°Yeah, this game is basically made for us that get motion sickness from 3D games. The best part is that in theter stages of the game the game isn¡¯t all that taxing on the body so you could y anything. It feels so good to watch my damage numbers go up.¡± ¡°Previous poster, you probably haven¡¯t yed for too long right? I¡¯m ready to quit the game.¡± ¡°Quit? Why?¡± ¡°It¡¯s so boring. I was one of the first to buy the game. I finished the story in two or three days, and the rest of my time spent on this game was just grinding equipment. It was quite fun to grind equipment at the start, but the satisfaction eventually fades away.¡± ¡°I agree, the post game is really monotonous. You just grind on the same four maps again and again. It was quite fun at the start, but once you more or less have everything you need, there¡¯s no point to grining more. Eventually you¡¯d have to grind two or three days before getting something usable and you¡¯d feel miserable if you didn¡¯t make any progress.¡± ¡°But I think I could y this game for a few months just grinding away.¡± ¡°That¡¯s just you. How many yers truly enjoy the grinding?¡± ¡°I think you guys are on the wrong side of the discussion. This is a single yer game. Have you guys yed Tale of the Sword? You also only go through the story once before being done with the game. How can you expect a singleyer game like this tost a lifetime?¡± ¡°But this is a Chen Mo game. All his previous games had a pretty long lifespan. Moreover, Diablo was really fun at the start, I expect it tost me at least a year.¡± ¡°Geez, I don¡¯t know anymore. Let¡¯s see if Chen Mo will release a new update.¡± ¡°I¡¯m fine with DLCs too!¡± Following that discussion, more and more posts of yers giving rmendations started appearing. ¡°Is there some special game mode you can add to Diablo? Wasn¡¯t there a lot of daily quests in I Am MT and Onmyoji? Those games aren¡¯t that content rich but were still quite yable after a long time. Surely you could do that too in Diablo right?¡± ¡°Please stop talking, don¡¯t make Chen Mo bring those terrible mechanics from pay to win games into a high quality game.¡± ¡°But it really feels meaningless to y Diablo now!¡± ¡°It¡¯s a singleyer game, how much time do you want to spend on it.¡± ¡°Stop talking, previous poster. We¡¯re here trying to think of ideas. What do you guys think about a map editor like Warcraft?¡± ¡°I don¡¯t think much about it. They are twopletely different games, there¡¯s noparison to be had!¡± ¡°I think we should give Chen Mo more time. Diablo could be considered a revolutionary game that is different from other RPGs. Chen Mo must be thinking about how to extend the lifespan of the game, we¡¯ll just have to wait. Moreover, even if he can¡¯t solve that problem, a DLC is not a bad idea.¡± ¡°Geez, we¡¯ll just have to wait for DLCs.¡± ¡ª In the experience store, Chang Xiuya was watching the ending cinematic after finally beating Diablo. A new light was in the endless sky above the clouds. ¡°In the end, it was a mortal heart, had saved two worlds from ruin, and cast down the prime evil, forever. Diablo¡¯s corpse fell in front of the camera, falling from the high heavens turning into ash before disappearing forever beneath the clouds. The high heavens which were previously corrupted slowly regained normality as the sun shined. ¡°A new day breaks for both angels and men.¡± The corruption disappeared as they were met with sunlight. ¡°For mankind¡¯s greatest champion, the Nephalem, rose to confront the darkness that we in our pride would not face.¡± With orchestral music in the background, the camera panned to a long shot of the High Heavens, looking scared and solemn under the sun. ¡°My brethren, I will take my ce among you once again, but this time as a mortal.¡± Tyreal walked onto a set of invisible stairs. ¡°Since justice has been met this day, I will now stand as wisdom. On behalf of those who risked all to save us.¡± ¡°Forever more, we shall stand together, angels and men, in the light of this glorious new dawn!¡± The was set on the recovered high heavens before the cinematic ended. ¡ª Chang Xiuya stretched, ¡°Geez, I finally beat the game. I¡¯m so tired. This game really isn¡¯t meant for us who aren¡¯t mechanically skilled. I was so tense when I finally got to idea.¡± Zou Zhuo said, ¡°Don¡¯t think there¡¯s many others who tried so hard to beat the game just for the ending...¡± Changn Xiuya yawned, ¡°It can¡¯t be helped, you have to finish the story when ites to games the manager made. But I do have a question, why is the angel Tyreal a middle-aged ck man?¡± ¡°Uhh, the manager had exined this previously. It¡¯s because when Tyreal transmigrated through the ozoneyer, he had his face first. It wouldn¡¯t make sense to maintain a pale face after all that friction and heat...¡± ¡°... What an exnation.¡± ¡°But I always had a question. From the looks of it, the story of Diablo seems to have finished as the Demon Lord was in. There can¡¯t be much to add in terms of enemies right?¡± asked Zou Zhuo. Chang Xiuya shook her head, ¡°Not necessarily. Who knows where that soul stonended in that final scene. I feel likes its foreshadowing something.¡± ¡°That¡¯s true. But I care more about what happened before than after. Have you realised that Diablo¡¯s story was thetter half? Howe the Great Evils and Baal, the Lord of destruction were only mentioned in scripts without any actual arcs?¡± asked Zou Zhuo. Chang Xiuya replied after some thought, ¡°Probably because the story had been written early on, but the manager only chose to use thetter half? Didn¡¯t Warcraft do the same?¡± Zou Zhuo nodded, ¡°Makes sense. But I think the manager should consider making use of the story that ured before this game and make a DLC or something. Based on the quality of Diablo, he could continue making money off this by releasing new sses and adding new scenes as the brand is so well known by now.¡± Chang Xiuya added, ¡°Yeah, perhaps even a VR game!¡± Zou Zhuo waved his hands, ¡°No no no. Make an Azeroth VR game first, so many of us Warcraft yers are still waiting on that.¡± ¡°Geez, that too. The manager has so many great IPs on his hand, I hope he can start making VR games soon.¡± Zou Zhuo added, ¡°Yeah, it should be in the near future. The manager had so many sessful works recently, he probably has enough funds to make a small VR game. Who knows what he¡¯s thinking.¡± Chapter 207 - Dont Starve Released

Chapter 207: Don¡¯t Starve Released

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales Chen Mo sketched as he walked out of the office towards the experience store. As he was working on Reaper of Souls and Don¡¯t Starve recently, most of his time was spent in the office discussing details of the game. However, he would periodically check on the experience store and sometimes get some peace and quiet in his office on the second floor. Chen Mo was caught by Zou Zhuo and Chang Xiuya as he stepped his foot into the experience store. ¡°Hey, the manager¡¯s here.¡± ¡°Manager, there are many yers discussing about the post game of Diablo on the forum. Have you seen it?¡± asked Chang Xiuya. Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Yes I have.¡± Chang Xiuya continued asked, ¡°What¡¯s your n then, manager? Although I don¡¯t have a good grasp on the situation, I think the yers want to spend more time in the game and provided a lot of suggestions to do so.¡± Chen Mo sat on the sofa and flipped through a random book he grabbed, ¡°I¡¯ve looked at most of the rmendations, and none of them are worth considering. Diablo¡¯s DLC is in works with new content and gamemodes, I¡¯ll announce it soon.¡± ¡°New sses? This caught Zou Zhuo¡¯s attention, ¡°What new sses, is there a Death Knight?¡± Chen Mo facepalmed, ¡°You¡¯re kidding! Death Knight is a ss exclusive to Warcraft. There will be two new sses this time, Crusader and Necromancer. There will be new story scenes too.¡± Zou Zhuo asked, ¡°Really? When will it be released?¡± ¡°It¡¯s been going well so far, probably November,¡± answered Chen Mo. ¡°Huh?¡± Zou Zhuo was visibly disappointed, ¡°That means it¡¯s going to take two months or so, I can¡¯t wait that long!¡± ¡°It¡¯s a proper DLC, so there¡¯s a lot of stuff to do. You think I can just conjure an update out of thin air or something.¡± Zou Zhuo nodded, ¡°Geez, fair enough. But based on the forum discussions, most older yers can¡¯t wait anymore. Perhaps you should give a hint? Just so everyone has something to look forward to.¡± ¡°Diablo still has a steady amount of sales, meaning that there is still an influx of new yers. It shouldn¡¯t be a problem short term, so I¡¯ll save it as a surprise.¡± Zou Zhuo was speechless. ¡°Oh, I do have a new game for you guys to try out,¡± said Chen Mo. Zou Zhuo eximed, ¡°Huh? You¡¯re making a new game again manager? I thought you said you were going to give Diablo a new DLC?¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Yeah, a new game and a DLC.¡± Chang Xiuya asked, ¡°Really? What type of game is it? I want to y something like nts vs Zombies!¡± ¡°It¡¯s hard to describe, but it¡¯s a survival game. The first version should be out in half a month, then we¡¯ll go straight into selling.¡± ¡ª At the end of September, more than two months after Diablo¡¯s release, a game called Don¡¯t Starve quitely appeared on the Thunderbolt Gaming tform. There wasn¡¯t much promotion this time, Chen Mo didn¡¯t even post a Weibo. Many yers thought their eyes were ying tricks on them when they discovered the new game upon logging onto the Thunderbolt Gaming tform. There was a lot of confusion among the happy surprise. ¡°What? Howe Chen Mo released a new game without saying a single word about it?¡± ¡°Don¡¯t Starve? That sounds like a cool game. It¡¯s on both PC and mobile too? Crossy as well!¡± ¡°Uhh... This game is quite small at around two gigabytes. What type of game is this?¡± ¡°Let¡¯s download it and see!¡± ¡°It costs twenty RMB!¡± ¡°That¡¯s not so bad. But judging from the price, it¡¯s probably a smaller game.¡± ¡°It has to be, it has only been two months since Diablo was finished. This isn¡¯t enough time to make arge game at all.¡± ¡°Let¡¯s look at the synopsis.¡± Don¡¯t Starve introduction. This is a sandbox game thatbines adventure, survival, role ying, training, and crafting. The character is ced in the deste world, and must use their very two hands to survive using materials avable around them. Of course, if you could arm yourself to defeat the demon in adventure mode, (maybe) you could return to the real world. Game characteristics: Rich in game resources and an expansive unknown world. n your every move to best use your resources in order to survive. Use your creativity to explore the endless limits. Face the unknown danger in this world with friends in co-op mode. ¡ª The vast majority of yers were shocked to see this introduction. ¡°All that text just to say it¡¯s a sandbox game simr to Earth Online!¡± ¡°It doesn¡¯t sound quite right. Earth Online is such a huge game, whereas Don¡¯t Starve is a measly 2GB, how could it call itself a sandbox game? How many elements could this game contain?¡± ¡°And Chen Mo made this in two months too! Two months for a sandbox game! Are you kidding me?¡± ¡°Uh, I looked at the graphics, and it was pretty simple. It¡¯s in 2D so the graphics don¡¯t take up much space. Perhaps it has a rich gamey. I¡¯ll buy it to try it out, it¡¯s a Chen Mo game afterall.¡± ¡°I think Chen Mo seems to be heading onto a certain path. This game looks like one of those games where the yer is constantly under pressure as they try and survive in a deste world. Think about how torturous that would be, what¡¯s the point of this game?¡± ¡°They said that in the introduction, it¡¯s a survival game, you survive as long as possible.¡± ¡°Geez, I don¡¯t understand the intent behind a game like this. Why didn¡¯t he just spend his time on a Diablo DLC? It must be his young creative blood acting up.¡± ¡°I think so too. Look at the graphics, it predominantly uses ck, the proportions of the character, and this weird art style. I think this is Chen Mo¡¯s y thing, why else would he not do any promotion of this game.¡± ¡°Whatever, I¡¯ll pretend I never saw this.¡± ¡°I tried it out, and the game is actually quite interesting. The introduction said yers could push the yers¡¯ creativity to their max. Remember nts vs Zombies and Warcraft?¡± ¡°I don¡¯t think Chen Mo did this. Maybe it¡¯s something an assistant made for practice? And they put it onto the store to take my money?¡± ¡°... I believe in Chen Mo¡¯s character.¡± ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll try it out just because it¡¯s Chen Mo. Although many yers managed to ignore the game, arge portion of the yers forked out money to buy the game. Other than trusting Chen Mo¡¯s brand, a portion of these buyers bought it because it had a clear source of enjoyment with a unique art style. As a self-proimed sandbox game with survival in mind, could the game be as fun as cited in the introduction? This was a question on the minds of many. Chapter 208 - Collecting Junk

Chapter 208: Collecting Junk

In the experience store, Su Jinyu excitedly watched Jia Pengunch Don¡¯t Starve. ¡°Just try it! I¡¯m not lying, it¡¯s really fun!¡± said Su Jinyu. Jia Peng wiped sweat off his forehead, ¡°Ahem, calm down. This has to be your work since you¡¯re promoting it so hard. Am I right?¡± ¡°Yeah, but the manager did provide some guidance,¡± answered Su Jinyu. Jia Peng couldn¡¯t believe it, ¡°If I remember correctly, yourst game was Lifeline? And the story was written by Zheng Hongxi too.¡± ¡°So? Does that mean you don¡¯t believe me?¡± ¡°Ahem, it¡¯s nothing. I¡¯ll try it out.¡± Filled with doubt, Jia Pengunched the game. Just like nts vs Zombies, Don¡¯t Starve was avable on both PC and mobile and had crossy support. As there were differences in the controls between PC and mobile, the lobbies were split into PC and mobile. However, yers could still join any game they wanted. The game started off with a cinematic. In a weird, joyous, and dark BGM, a bird came to the window of a small house. The camera cuts through the window, revealing Wilson¡¯s failed experiment, sitting in a chair very annoyed. At this moment, his radio started talking. ¡°Say pal, looks like you¡¯re having some trouble! ¡°I have secret knowledge I can share with you. ¡°If you are ready for it.¡± Wilson was happy, surprised and nodded without hesitation. ¡°Ok then!¡± A scary shadow appeared on the screen, followed by countless knowledge flowing into his mind. Wilson tried his experiment again. Rats, nails, gears, welding, blood rituals... In the end, he produced an ominous looking portal. ¡°Excellent! Now throw the switch!¡± Wilson was a bit hesitant. ¡°Do it!¡± Wilson pulled the lever. A dark shadow appeared from the ground, grabbing onto Wilson before pulling him into the ground. And that was the end of the cinematic before entering the game. The UI was really clean and simple, just as advertised, with a dark humourous theme. There were four main options to pick from, Start Game, Mods, Settings, and Quit. Jia Peng thought the game would be quite difficult because it was a survival game. He decided to explore Mods and Settings to check for an option to decrease difficulty. There were a few mods that Su Jinyu developed in Mods, such as building tutorials, show food attributes, and keep the status bar on. These were basically the official mods that didn¡¯t throw off the bncing of the game while giving the yers some guidance so they didn¡¯t feel lost in the game. Jia Peng selected a few mods out of the bunch then moved on to check on the settings. Jia Peng was confused upon seeing the huge amount of settings, deciding to just start the game under the watchful eye of Su Jinyu. Generating world... Rendering Wilson¡¯s beard... Dealing with game theory... Inserting horrible monsters... The game was quite dark just as advertised, unlike the horrifying style of Diablo, this was more humorous. The terrain, trees and rivers all looked like simple sketches, which presented itself as a unique style. Wilsonyed on the ground with the weird long faced wizard Maxwell standing over him. ¡°Say pal, you don¡¯t look so good.¡± ¡°You better find something to eat before nightes!¡± Maxwell then disappeared without a trace. Wilson stood up before the game officially started with the camera zooming out. Using his mouse, Jia Pengmanded Wilson to hop and skip all over the map. The sound effects were quite rich in this game, making the world feel less scary with the sounds of footsteps, birds, gathering, and the asional breeze. Of course, this might be because it was day. There were various resources on the maps too, saplings, trees, flowers, bushes and carrots. Jia Peng walked around and rxed a bit after realising there wasn¡¯t anything that could harm him nearby. There were four attributes on the top right, days (time), hunger, sanity, and health. Other than sanity, the others were quite self exnatory. The higher the better, probably, thought Jia Peng. Wilson continued to waddle around the map as Jia Peng didn¡¯t know where to go as he picked up anything he could on the way such as saplings, bushings, rocks, or nuts. Jia Peng still had plenty of space in his inventory after all. After running for quite some time, he decided to open up the map as he was lost. He realised that he had been walking in a straight line this whole time, and the map was way bigger than he thought. ¡°This map is huge!¡± Jia Peng felt overwhelmed as it felt like there was so much to explore. Harvesting grass tufts, picking up sticks, picking up rocks, picking up pine cones... After gathering for a few minutes, Jia Peng could tell that he was doing something wrong, and decided to check the tab on the left. There were only six different options so far, Tools, Light, Survival, Science, Fight, and Dress. There were probably more toe judging from the empty space. There were many things to pick from. He decided to craft an axe as he had the resources for it. After a few swings of the axe, a tree fell, dropping wood on the ground. After picking up the logs, Jia Peng looked deeper into what other things he could craft. It seemed like everything had their uses, but he didn¡¯t know where to find those resources. He¡¯d never seen the likes of spider silker, rope, or gold. ¡°Maybe I should make a pickaxe and start mining. Spider silk... maybe there are spider mobs somewhere?¡± Jia Peng continued running around in search of the materials. ¡°Hmm? There¡¯s a boulder!¡± Jia Peng crafted a pickaxe and started hacking away at the boulder. Soon, rocks, flint, and gold dropped to the ground. ¡°Hmm? It even dropped gold!¡± Jia Peng moved onto the next boulder and started hacking away. Jia Peng was happily hacking away at the boulders, despite his initial impression. The fact that he could collect rare resources for survival along with the satisfying, rhythmic nking of the pickaxe against the bounders made the gamey really satisfying. Filled with glee, Jia Pengmanded Wilson to pick up everything that dropped onto the ground. At this moment, he noticed a pig house and a pig walking on its two hind legs. Chapter 209 - Exploring Dont Starve

Chapter 209: Exploring Don¡¯t Starve

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales ¡°What? Why is it walking on its hind legs!¡± Jia Peng equipped his axe as he thought about hacking away at the pig to see if it drops meat. But in the same moment, night approached. Wilson muttered to himself, ¡°It¡¯s gettingte. It will be dark soon.¡± The pig also said, ¡°HOME TIME!¡± The pig then returned to its house and stayed inside. All Jia Peng could do was watch this happen. Jia Peng decided to forget about this pig who walked on its hind legs and continued wandering. The night was approaching and his vision was reducing. Jia Peng looked at the time indication on the top right nervously. There were three zones in the dial for time. Thergest yellow zone was for day, orange for dusk, and grey was signified night. It was now dusk, light started to get scarce but there was still time before night. Jia Peng continued picking away at boulders while contemting what to do during the night. ¡°Normally I¡¯d have to build a house or something right? But obviously I can¡¯t build one now, but there has to be something I can do. ¡°I should eat a few berries to replenish my hunger first.¡± Soon, night approached and the entire screen turned dark. Although Jia Peng didn¡¯t know if there was a side-effect to being in the dark without a fire, he still instinctively crafted a torch. With a torch in hand, Wilson can continue on his merry way in darkness. The torch produced a very limited radius of light and its health bar was decreasing rapidly. ¡°Hmm? I can light trees on fire too?¡± Jia Peng hovered over nearby trees to realise he could right click them to light them on fire. Jia Peng tried it out, and sure enough the whole tree caught on fire. It even spread to another nearby tree. The fire even caught Wilson the firebug on fire, taking away some of his health. This gave Jia Peng a shock, but he soon calmed down after realizing it wasn¡¯t a big deal. After a few moments, the tree stopped burning leaving behind two ckened trees. Jia Peng enjoyed that process and proceeded to burn down all the trees he came across. After setting a few more trees on fire, Jia Peng realised that his torch ran out. He then switched to his axe and started chopping away at the burnt trees. ¡°Hmm? It dropped two pieces of charcoal! That¡¯s a thing?¡± Jia Peng quickly picked up the charcoal. Although he didn¡¯t know what use it had, based on the game so far, all resources have its uses. It might now have a use now, but it would surelye in the future. And just like that, the first night ended, followed by the auto-saving of the game. Jia Peng breathed out a sigh of relief as he managed to survive the first night. Although the nights were tense, limited the yers¡¯ vision, and had a spooky background music, there wasn¡¯t much to fear about the night. As it was his first time, it was normal for him to feel nervous. Although his first day was a bit pitiful as he fueled himself on berries, he gathered a lot of resources, managing to fill up two thirds of his inventory. After going through the first night, he realised how precious daytime was. Jia Pengsat up straight ready for another day of exploration. After a lot of exploration, Jia Peng heard pigs from far away. Jia Peng controlled Wilson to head in the direction of the sound to find more pigs walking on their hind legs. But this time, it wasn¡¯t just one, there were many. The pigs were running around fighting against Merms. ¡°You¡¯re done for!¡± ¡°Us pigs will have a feast!¡± ¡°Ahhh!¡± There were around ten monsters in this area split into two teams. The pigs and the merms were swinging punches at one another. These monsters looked huge, much stronger than Wilson. Combined with the sounds of the punches, the situation felt really dangerous. ¡°What¡¯s going on? Why are they fighting? Please don¡¯t hit me, I¡¯m just passing by.¡± Jia Peng¡¯s first reaction was to run away. With so many strong monsters in the area, he¡¯d probably die in a few seconds. But the desire to watch how this would turn out overwhelmed his fear. ¡°I¡¯m not encouraging, I¡¯m just watching, ¡± Jia Peng carefully parked himself at the edge of the confrontation to watch the battle. The mobs didn¡¯t even bat an eye to Wilson as they were fully involved in the battle. A merm let out a final scream before dying, leaving behind the frog¡¯s legs and a fish. ¡°Hmm?!¡± This caught Jia Peng¡¯s attention, he¡¯d have to grab the meat after eating berries for a whole day! Moreover, the mobs seemed to be upied by the battle, they won¡¯t notice me right? Jia Peng slowly walked towards the frog legs. ¡°Nice, I got it!¡± Jia Peng backed off after grabbing the legs. However, he soon realised that his worries weren¡¯t needed as the mobs didn¡¯t even seem to notice him. Jia Peng checked out the stats of the frog legs, +12.5 hunger, -10 sanity. ¡°Why does it reduce sanity? Is it because it¡¯s disgusting to eat it raw? I¡¯ll save it for an emergency then. Jia Peng had Wilson wander around this group of monsters, keeping his distance as he feared they would turn on him. Soon, all the merms died and Jia Peng swooped in to pick up all the frog legs and fish. ¡°Wow, I can¡¯t believe that worked!¡± Jia Peng didn¡¯t want to overstay his wee either, leaving happily with frog legs in his inventory. Jia Peng looked at his inventory satisfyingly. ¡°This game is actually quite fun.¡± Jia Peng grabbed a drink before continuing his battle in Don¡¯t Starve. ¡ª What Jia Peng had experienced so far was but only a small part of what Don¡¯t Starve had to offer. He hadn¡¯t even encounteredplicated stuff like building bases, science machines, surviving summer and winter, and the hounds thate to visit periodically. The difficulty of the game would continue to increase. New yers who think they have the situation under control in particr are prone to having a game over in one single mistake. However, Jia Peng already experienced the joy of the game in gathering and surviving. Chapter 210 - Spirit of Dont Starve

Chapter 210: Spirit of Don¡¯t Starve

There were many points which attracted yers to Don¡¯t Starve, but it alles back to the ¡®Survival¡¯ aspect. ording to Maslow¡¯s hierarchy of needs theory, needs are divided into five major categories: physiological needs, safety needs, love and belonging, esteem, and self-actualization. The five needs form a pyramid, with the most bottom ying being physiological, and self-actualization on the top. The lower the need, the easier it is to realise, but also the most important and urgent. That means if a personcked food, safety, and esteem, they should feel the strongest for food. In that moment, safety and esteem wouldn¡¯t be as important. This was why under incredible food stress, humans would huntrge beasts (giving up safety) or beg for food (give up esteem). Maslow¡¯s hierarchy of needs can also be applied to different industries, including video games. Many game designers build theplete hierarchy of Maslow¡¯s needs in the game, using to drive yers to chase fictional numbers in the game, and be so immersed they can¡¯t stop themselves. A simple example would be pay to win games that sell ¡®strength¡¯, which focused on safety and esteem in the hierarchy of needs. The weaker yers would face the danger of being killed every moment they are in game. As they face ack of safety, this drives them to spend more time and money in game in order to regain safety, The stronger yers on the other hand have a certain amount of safety, so they pivot to chase the needs in esteem or self-actualization, such as taking from the others, forming a guild, gathering this underlings to battle others as they fork out more and more money just to chase the high. Normally, very few games reach the ¡®physiological needs¡¯ level on the pyramid as it was difficult to develop, and didn¡¯t fit into a majority of games. The physiological needs of humans are quite simple, consisting of food, water, health, and reproduction. However, games wouldn¡¯t usually have their yers run around to gather food or water. They usually wouldn¡¯t have hunger in the game as they could only fit in so much content in the game, with better ways to spend the time of the yers. Don¡¯t Starve exploits this oversight, conveying all aspects of survival. Moreover, Don¡¯t Starve wasn¡¯t just a simple game. As one delved deeper into the gamey, they will realise that there was a lot of content in the game. It was different from many main characters with huge motivations. Wilson¡¯s existence was just for himself, he didn¡¯t need to save the world or save others. His only aim was to survive, and everything he does in the world of Don¡¯t Starve was literally just that. Don¡¯t Starve is a highly stylized game with a very mature mindset. The world of Don¡¯t¡¯ Starve wasn¡¯t well realised nor have a deep story, it could even be said that it escaped reality. The art style and music was filled with dark humour, yet feeled incredibly real in the face of death. The feeling of absurdity and reality runs through the Don¡¯t Starve, which is strengthened whenbined with technology and magic in the game. Living moving robots, pigs living in groups, tombstones in forests, remains of the ones who came before, horrible monsters... These scary settings may seem unrted at first nce, but were closely rted upon deeper inspection. The world was a highly integrated unique magical world. And Don¡¯t Starve¡¯s lifespan came from its rich content. It may seem like a simple 2D game, but it was more yable than somerge works. The mobs were reallyplicated, each mob provided unique food items and resources which the main character could utilize using campfires, drying racks, crockpots and traps. Moreover, there were many things the character could interact with, harvesting by hand, chopping, mining, digging, lighting, nting... The yers could interact with anything, including the map itself. Precious materials could also be used as fuel in a time of need. There are also various materials the yers could obtain. If the yer wanted some pigskin, they could go head to head against the pigs, or they could look for abandoned pig houses, using the altar, or nting spider dens near pig houses and let the spider kill the pigs for the yers. And when the yers get gathered as much as they need and start losing interest in the survival mode, when the yers lose interest in trying to survive, the yers will discover a whole new challenge in adventure mode. Moreover, it was also a cool emotionless game mode, any oversight could lead to unrecoverable consequences in the face of survival. And so, survival bes more and more desired. When the yers will get a huge sense of bliss as they find a patch of carrots and berries in front of a pig vige. Many yers only realise how good it was to have a full stomach after ying Don¡¯t Starve. And it was because of this that Don¡¯t Starve was able to attract so many yers who were interested in surival games and retain their hardcore yers. There were even yers who weren¡¯t even close to getting bored of the game a few years in. It was because every ythrough of Don¡¯t Starve was a different journey. Moreover, like many sandbox games, mods were the core of the longevity of a game like Don¡¯t Starve. Setting aside official DLCs, the yers could also find a lot fun in mods they create themselves. Character mods for example, One Piece characters such as Zoro (has their own de, can cut trees, no sense of direction, map is always dark), and Ace(has fireball, regains sanity next to fire) were created. Assistant mods included more, better description, building guides, functional mods included permanent tents, expanded backpacks... There were alsorge scale mods such as Hero in the Dark, which had enough content tost yers half a year. Theserge scale mods could almost be considered their own game. Of course, Chen Mo decided to create just a few of these moremon mods that don¡¯t affect the gamey much, leaving the other mods up to the yers. This was the nature of sandbox games, only when the yers y their part will the game¡¯s full potential be realised. Chapter 211 - Incredibly Popular

Chapter 211: Incredibly Popr

Soon, reviews of Don¡¯t Starve started popping up. ¡°I noticed that the game is actually really rich. Although I was a bit lost at the start, but you can¡¯t stop once you get into it.¡± ¡°I was wondering how this could be a sandbox game with such a small game? Turns out Chen Mo actually managed to make a really rich sandbox game!¡± ¡°Am I the only one who died in the first night to darkness...¡± ¡°+1, first death was because of darkness, dying to unknown mobs. Second death was after ten days to hunger, third death was on day 11 killed by hounds during the night. For my fourth death, I caught a bird, found a pig vige, fed spider flesh to one of them and started an alliance, started nning my future home, before bing insane from too much spider flesh.¡± ¡°To be honest, this game is terrible for new yers. There are so many dangers you could die any time!¡± ¡°There¡¯s one thing you have to remember when ying this game: No zuo no die...[1]¡± ¡°The game is surprisingly good and addictive. But I have one question, howe there¡¯s nothinging out of me when I¡¯m eating so much? Why do I have to pick up after other animals? I want it to be self sustaining!¡± ¡°It looks like a small game, but there¡¯s a lot of good gamey! You¡¯d spend tens of hours just trying to learn the game, and you¡¯ll experience many exciting things during that process! I think the best part of this game is that there¡¯s no rule that the world has to follow, on the contrary, this allows them to create many different mobs, increasing the difficulty in the process!¡± ¡°To be honest, I¡¯ve never starved to death. I don¡¯t know why the game is called Don¡¯t Starve, I think a better name for this game would be, ¡®100 ways for Wilson to die¡¯. ¡°I love this art style. Although it has a cartoony 2D art style, it¡¯s quite refreshing when every other game is in 3D. ¡°Although it¡¯s a small game, it¡¯s a sincere one!¡± ¡°I realised Chen Mo allowed mods like he did for previous games. I¡¯m thinking about making a mod, how does a character mod sound? I¡¯ll import Arthas and his special ability will be eating corpses! Haha!¡± ¡°This game has a co-op mode too. It¡¯s an incredible feeling to y with friends all as different characters, helping one another survive!¡± ¡ª Although Don¡¯t Starve didn¡¯t have a lot of downloads initially, it¡¯s reviews were as high as 9.5! It was because most yers who bought Don¡¯t Starve were Chen Mo¡¯s fans, who usually liked sandbox survival games like these, naturally, these yers gave Don¡¯t Starve good reviews. In the moments right after its release, Don¡¯t Starve was still a niche game withoutrge scale promotion. As it had a niche art style and gamey, it wasn¡¯t surprising that it didn¡¯t receive explosive growth. However, with Thunderbolt Gaming tform and Chen Mo¡¯s name on the line, Don¡¯t Starve received a decent amount of sales at twenty-four thousand copies. Moreover, this number was still increasing, estimated to sell two million copies in the first month. Don¡¯t Starve was a longsting game after all, and because of its distinct style and great reputation, it had huge potential for growth. This number wasn¡¯tparable to Lifeline as it was twenty times more expensive, it was normal to have less sales. In his previous life, Don¡¯t Starve sold five million copies after making its debut in China. Of course Tencent Gaming tform¡¯s great distribution yed a part, as well as its good review on Steam. Chen Mo¡¯s Don¡¯t Starve was considered apletely new type of game in the parallel world, so it was normal that its first steps started off slow. Once the yers go up, the game would finally reach its full potential. There were various different reactions as the yers noticed the sales and ratings. ¡°Hooray! I hoped to see the Chen Mo who made nts vs Zombies, incredibly creative, rich y style, a small game like this can be a ssic game too! In my mind, this is the real Chen Mo!¡± ¡°Yeah, Chen Mo was wasting his potential making pay to win games!¡± ¡°I asked why Chen Mo wasn¡¯t updating Diablo, but I have my answer. You don¡¯t have to if you don¡¯t want to, Chen Mo, I¡¯ll forgive you for making a game like Don¡¯t Starve!¡± ¡°But it¡¯s still kind of sad, you can¡¯t rece the old with the new this soon, Diablo is still waiting for you!¡± ¡°Yeah, you have to think about the feelings of us Nephalem!¡± ¡°Warcraft yers are shaking. It¡¯s sad that there¡¯s only one Chen Mo, how good would it be if there were more of him to make games!¡± ¡ª The yers who liked Don¡¯t Starve gave it a lot of praise. The yers who didn¡¯t like it hoped Chen Mo would make other games. Diablo yers were still waiting for a DLC. This was why Chen Mo hoped Chen Mo could create copies of himself to provide for all different types of yer. Chen Mo¡¯s yer base was now huge after developing so many games. There were casual gamers who liked nts vs Zombies and Lifeline. Western Fantasy fans who liked Warcraft and Diablo. Fans of Chinese themed games who like Wulin Legend. And yers who liked pay to win games like I am MT and Onmyoji. It was hard to provide for everyone because of how different their tastes were. There was no way Chen Mo could make a game that covered all the bases either. All these yers could do was wait for Chen Mo¡¯s next move. ¡ª Industry professionals paid more attention to Don¡¯t Starve than the average yer. After Chen Mo developed Diablo to teach the ones who dismissed third person RPGs a lesson, nobody dared to underestimate Chen Mo again. Every game Chen Mo released was something that was weird andpletely different. Such as the card game I am MT that was pletely free¡¯. Or the third person single yer game Diablo. But he was met with sess every time, proving everything the industry professionals knew wrong. Nobody could deny the fact that Chen Mo hadn¡¯t made any mistakes so far, and anyone who usesyman¡¯s logic to exin his moves would inevitably fail. TL note[1]: It¡¯s a Chinese saying ¡®No zuo no die, why you try?¡± basically meaning, you don¡¯t have to do it, so why bother? Chapter 212 - Lacklustre Diablo Follow Up?

Chapter 212: Lacklustre Diablo Follow Up?

Chen Mo releasing Diablo and Don¡¯t Starve one after another caused a decent reaction in the videogamemunity, although not one as big as the copying craze from mobile card games. This was expected as the main characteristics of the game were really unique and hard to replicate. Diablo did allow industry professionals to realise the market gap in satisfying hack and sh games, but how to fill that gap was a very difficult question. If they followed Diablo and made a third person game with a dark art style, setting aside if they were capable of spending money to reach the quality of Diablo, even if they did, would the yers buy a game that was such a tant Diablo copy? Therefore, the only way out was to make a simr VR game, which was exactly what Emperor Dynasty Entertainment was doing. But for the otherpanies? There was too much risk involved with making VR games. Moreover, many changes had to be made to it, sopanies who could take such a big risk were few and far between. Don¡¯t Starve was also a simr unreplicatable game in the eyes of many video game designers. Because nobody understood how it managed to sell this many copies. Story? Art style? Music and audio effects? Items? ystyle? Sandbox mode? One thing¡¯s for sure, this was a rtively sessful sandbox game. This was because of its excellent quality and rich ystyle which replicates the physiological needs of humans, which triggers a desire to create in yers. But how could one create a sandbox game simr to Don¡¯t Starve? Nobody knows. Sandbox games may seem nice to make, but they are actually incredibly difficult to develop. The sessful sandbox games always seem easy to recreate during analysis, just that they didn¡¯t think of it. Therefore, although the reviews were good for Diablo and Don¡¯t Starve, it didn¡¯t create a copying craze like mobile card games did. Moreover, as Diablo looked better and better, it also gained more and more haters. ¡°There are yersining about how Diablo sucks in theter stages on the official forums again.¡± ¡°Yeah, I saw thating. I¡¯ve tried the game out too, it felt great at the start, but it became incredibly monotonous at theter stages of the game. If it wasn¡¯t for the desire to grind for equipment, I doubt many would continue ying.¡± ¡°They¡¯ll get sick of grinding great eventually. The better the gear, the rarer it is. You might not even see one piece of usable equipment the more you y, and that just feels terrible.¡± ¡°That only means that Chen Mo isn¡¯t invincible. Sure he could make games that are ying long into the future, this game isn¡¯t one of them.¡± It can¡¯t be helped. I think Chen Mo thought of this at the start. It¡¯s like a one time thing that¡¯s packaged really well with incredible cinematics. It feels good when you¡¯re killing mobs too. That¡¯s how they get you to buy the game as they neglect everything after they secure your money.¡± ¡°That¡¯s quite normal. It¡¯s a single yer game, you need to stopparing it to the standards of online games.¡± ¡°Chen Mo immediately pivoted to developing Don¡¯t Starve right after releasing Diablo. Obviously he doesn¡¯t expect Diablo to make him money in the long term.¡± ¡°YEah, I think so too. Maybe Chen Mo is nning for the future by dipping his toes in all the different genres. If Diablo doesn¡¯t work out, he can continue with Don¡¯t Starve.¡± ¡°I was shocked when Chen Mo released Diablo, but obviously it was just for show. Sure the sales were amazing, but the yers are already sick of it. It¡¯s not going tost into the future.¡± ¡°Yeah, I think the show¡¯s over.¡± ¡°I heard that Emperor Dynasty Emperor is making a Diablo style VR game. Wonder how that¡¯s going.¡± ¡°I think Yan Zhenyuan is working on it. There¡¯s no questions with the abilities of the video game designer, nor is there any with the distribution and funding of the game. I think the game will more than likely be popr.¡± ¡°Yeah, maybe even more popr than Diablo as it¡¯s more immersive in VR.¡± ¡°It¡¯s hard to say, there¡¯s a lot of risk in porting a PC game into VR. It¡¯s like making a whole new game.¡± ¡°Yan Zhenyuan is an S-grade designer after all, there isn¡¯t a single game he released that failed. Moreover, there¡¯s plenty of theory to support this game¡¯s sess too. Think about it, killing enemies left and right in VR, it¡¯ll really be covering the market gap when that is released.¡± ¡°That¡¯s true. Sigh, looks like Chen Mo failed a little bit here. He should have brought this game outter. He should probably be on his way to making VR games soon, if he brought it out in a year or so, he¡¯d probably develop his own VR Diablo. He¡¯s just giving Emperor Dynasty ideas by releasing it now!¡± ¡ª Yan Zhenyuan was also ying Diablo. He had a clear idea of the controls of this game so far. The high quality story and cinematics and the thoughtful detailed creepy atmosphere was just the packaging. The real core of the game is hacking and shing and the bncing of the game. Of course, the packaging of the game was so good the yers felt like they got more than they paid for. In reality, theter stages of Diablopletely depended on numerical simtion. At the same time the yers continue grinding, they are getting better equipment, increasing their strength, and moving to the next difficulties. Meaning the bncing of the game bes the main driving force for yers to continue ying. This may seem like a model that worked at first nce, but so far Diablo didn¡¯t seem to be able to achieve this. Yan Zhenyuan was also thinking about how to solve this problem as he was making a VR version of Diablo which was on PC. The profits of the game would be dramatically impacted if the yers were sick of it after a month or two. As VR games required much more financially than PC games, they could only wish they¡¯d lose a bit less money if they sold the game by copies. The thought of making money like that was a fool¡¯s dream. ¡°I need to think of something soon.¡± Yan Zhenyuan¡¯s project was now in its first steps as all parts of development were moving along steadily, but he¡¯d have to quickly think of something to ensure the longevity of the game. It was almost November, and ording to the roadn, it should be in its test phase theing June, and be released theing August. ¡°Whatever, I¡¯ll move with the online game idea for now, have as much socialization and trading in the game as possible. Then I¡¯ll need to drag out the ytime and slow down how quickly new yers level up. Yan Zhenyuan decided that since the problem was really difficult to solve, he may as well take a page out of the book of online games and retain yers through various online activities. Chapter 213 - Chapter 212: Diablos International Version

Chapter 213: Chapter 212: Diablo¡¯s International Version

Trantor: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales In the experience store, there were many surrounding Jia Peng, watching as he yed Don¡¯t Starve. It was over day seventy, and Jia Peng had more or less stabilized, maintaining decent levels for health, hunger, and sanity. The others watching were trying to study his base. There were two campfires in the middle of his base, one normal one and one endothermic one, both of which are used to regte the temperature of the base. There were many chests slightly further away from the campfires used for storage. Next to the chests was a tent, crockpot, science machine, bird cage, lightning rod, and a fridge. There were also various types of meat on the drying rack. There were many traps all around the base used to defend the base against any iing mobs too. Saplings, grass, berries and other necessities were all arranged neatly in rows, making the yers with OCD incredibly satisfied. Wilson had a Miner hat on his head, lighting up his surroundings during night without a need for a torch. There were also various items in his backpack for various situations. Chang Xiuya eximed, ¡°Wow, Jia Peng your base is awesome!¡± Jia Peng shook his head, ¡°It¡¯s alright. I¡¯ve seen so many posts on the interest that are way better than this. They look like something in the dreams of someone with OCD, mine¡¯s like a sow stall.¡± ¡°That¡¯s amazing too! By the way, what does Chester and the Walking Cane do?¡± Jia Peng was shocked, ¡°Chester? Walking Stick? What are those?¡± ¡°Uhh... it¡¯s nothing.¡± Jia Peng didn¡¯t seem to care, ¡°I find this game to be more yable long term than Diablo. Sure I was dying a lot at the start, but you can survive for quite some time once you get the hang of it. And it¡¯s so satisfying to hog all these materials.¡± ¡°Yeah, and the co-op mode is incredibly fun too,¡± added Zou Zhuo, ¡°Everybody has something to do, you could be exploring, hunting, gathering, and some even just watching. It¡¯s so fun to y with a few friends.¡± ¡°Yeah, that¡¯s true. And the characters all have different abilities, so they can do different tasks. I feel like I could y this game for ages,¡± expressed Chang Xiuya. ¡°So cares about Diablo¡¯s DLC anymore?¡±ined Lin Xue. Jia Peng scratched his head, ¡°Heh, it can¡¯t be helped. Don¡¯t Starve is so rich in content, I¡¯mpletely addicted to it. As for Diablo, sure it¡¯s fun, but I¡¯m kind of sick of it.¡± Chang Xiuya said, ¡°Weird, I didn¡¯t expect a girl like you to like Diablo, Xue.¡± ¡°Although I quite like Don¡¯t Starve too, Diablo feels better to y. Geez, maybe it¡¯s just a difference in taste. There are still quite a few yers who like Diablo, why does it feel like the manager is ignoring them,¡± said Lin Xue. ¡°He¡¯s really not,¡± said Chen Mo, ¡°Didn¡¯t the manager say he¡¯d release a DLc eventually? We¡¯ll just have to wait.¡± Lin Xiuya stood up, ¡°Geez, alright. I came here just to find out more about Diablo¡¯s DLC, but it seems I haven¡¯t been able to aplish my mission today. ¡ª At this point, the international version of Diablo was nearingplete. Meteorite Technology tried their hardest just as before. With experience from working on Warcraft in the past, the international version for Diablo went just as smooth, and it was nearing its release. With Chen Mo¡¯s English trantions, other trantions were also going quite well. Chen Mo felt that th English version in particr was as good as the original. Meteorite Technology was really familiar with the likes of trantions, dubs, promotions, reviews, and approvals. They guaranteed that there wouldn¡¯t be any problems and the game could release internationally at the same time. Everyone was really confident in Diablo¡¯s international release, so they spent much more money in promotions than Walking. Diablo game introduction: Diablo is a third person RPG developed by Thunderbolt Entertainment. yers could y in up to groups of four. They can also pick from different sses, joining the eternal fight between angels and demons as a Nephalem as they y a part in the amazing plot. Diablo¡¯s unique points: Thrilling and terrifying apocalyptic plot, you will be the only savior of the entire world. The dark art style allows you to always experience hopelessness as the whole world was on the verge of copse. Completebat system with five main sses with hundreds ofbinations so you can experience satisfying battles. Numerous items so you can immersepletely in the grind! ¡ª The promotional materials were released in various countries all at the same time. Other than the most basic game introduction, there were various posters, cinematics, and gamey footage released, showing the international yers the best the game has to offer. Diablo¡¯s logo, or the word ¡®Diablo¡¯ in a fancy font started appearing in the eyes of many international yers. ¡°Have you heard of the Chinese RPG that¡¯s releasing soon? It¡¯s called Diablo.¡± ¡°What does the name mean?¡± ¡°I think it¡¯s spanish for demon lord or demon.¡± ¡°Let me look at the advertisements. Yeah the game does look quite interesting. The sses are pretty cool too, Barbarian, Demon Hunter, Monk... There¡¯s an eastern ss, but the designer seems to know a thing or two about fantasy.¡± ¡°Thank goodness there aren¡¯t any weird embarrassing sses.¡± ¡°Oh, it¡¯s made by the samepany that made Warcraft!¡± ¡°Really? Thunderbolt Entertainment huh. I was wondering why I haven¡¯t heard from them in too long. In theory they shouldn¡¯t sink that soon if they are able to make a game like Warcraft.¡± ¡°Warcraft was incredibly fun, and I really liked the RPG maps. But Thunderbolt Entertainment seemed quitezy, they haven¡¯t made anyrge updates for Walking since release.¡± ¡°I heard it¡¯s a smallpany, and they¡¯ve tried to maintain as small of a team as possible. Moreover, they have to develop various different types of new games, so they probably can¡¯t give these older games too many updates. Basically the designer is just trying to trap yers.¡± ¡°Oh, that¡¯s a disaster.¡± ¡°Moreover, many games that Thunderbolt English develop aren¡¯t sold overseas. As far as I know, they made Onmyoji and a weird match three game, and never pushed any of that internationally.¡± ¡°They¡¯d probably only sell games like Warcraft that have a western fantasy theme overseas. I¡¯m really intrigued just by looking at the story, I already have my wallet ready.¡± Chapter 214 - Dissatisfaction

Chapter 214: Dissatisfaction

All in all, there weren¡¯t any huge obstacles in the way of the international release of Diablo, and even went slightly better than Warcraft. Thunderbolt Entertainment gained some fame overseas after selling Warcraft afterall, making an especially deep impression on yers who liked themes like this, which was why Diablo managed to garner so much attention before it started selling. Moreover, Western Fantasy themes, especially in Europe and America had always been popr, moreover, Diablo was an RPG, meaning that it¡¯d have a bigger audience than an RTS game like Warcraft. One thing that was different was that the international yers didn¡¯t have too many doubts ofints when it came to a third person RPG as there were more indie games overseas, with more yers liking single yer games. Most of these indie games are made by smallerpanies, which would naturally meet with some financial difficulties, which was why they could only manage third person RPGs. This meant that the yers overseas were more epting of RPG games like these. After the pre sales promotions, many yers were eagerly waiting for Diablo¡¯s release! Diablo was priced at forty-nine USD, much pricier than Warcraft. This was because Diablo had a greater cost, was higher quality, and was an RPG game with greater eptance. ¡ª Diablo officially started selling overseas. Many yers who had their eyes on this game bought and downloaded the game in the first moments it was main avable, and many of these were hardcore Warcraft yers. They believed that a developer who was capable of making Warcraft would produce an equally good RPG game. Soon, these yers werepletely taken away by Diablo¡¯s unique style and high quality story. The overseas yers, especially yers from Europe and America were even more familiar with the theme of the gamepared to chinese yers, so it was more likely for the yers to all agree and recognise the execution of the theme. At the same time, the ideas of Angels, Demons, and Nephalem were incredibly close to the hearts of the European and American yers. The story of saving a world also fit with western Heroism, and Tyreal¡¯s morals also aligned better politically with the yers. The yers worldwide had nothing but praises for this game. -In the High Heavens.- Tyreal, the ancientw of the High Heavens strictly forbids us from interfering with the mortal world!¡± ¡°Yet you have done so ¨C brazenly!¡± Imperius sat high up on his throne wearing shiny golden armor with ming wings, signifying a god of some sorts. Tyreal who was in silver armor didn¡¯t back down, ¡°All I am guilty of, Imperius, is bringing justice, while you hide, cowering, behind your throne!¡± ¡°Silence!¡± Imperius turned into a stream of light and rushed towards Tyreal, grabbing his breastte with one hand.¡± ¡°You will now answer for your transgressions!¡± The gold and the silver started battle one another, and finally, Tyreal grabbed Imperius¡¯s spear and pointed it towards an archangel who was part of the Angiris Council and said righteously, ¡°You cannot judge me! I am Justice itself!¡± ¡°We were meant for more than this ¨C to protect the innocent!¡± ¡°But if our preciousws bind you all to inaction... then I will no longer stand as your brother!¡± Tyreal grabbed his angel shoulder tes and let out a painful scream. His godly energy started flowing out of him, enveloping the hall. Imperius stepped back and said angrily, ¡°Sacrilege!¡± Tyreal¡¯s wings fell to the ground before disappearing. A red me surrounded his body, before tendrils of light rose up from the floor and grasped him, pulling him through it, into the mortal world. He was the ¡°falling star¡±, falling from the heavens as the great fireball towards Tristram Cathedral ¡ª Diablo¡¯s story started a lot of discussion among the international yers. ¡°To be honest, I was really surprised with Tyreal¡¯s story. Diablo¡¯s world seemed incredibly hopeless as the main character battled alone no matter where they went. I don¡¯t think they¡¯ve made any allies at all, but I think Tyreal could could help a tiny bit at the very least.¡± ¡°I think the writers executed Tyreal¡¯s character perfectly, wlessly conveying his character through the story.¡± ¡°As an angel of justice, he strictly abides by thew, rules and order, and maintains fairness and justice at all times, because this is the duty of the angel of justice.¡± ¡°But at a critical moment, in order to save the world, Tyreal chose to stand on the side of humans, personally viting thew and order of the High Heavens, and abandoning his identity as an angel. I think that was really admirable!¡± ¡°Yeah, there are only a few games from overseas that managed to move me this much through the story, and Diablo managed that. It seemed that Thunderbolt Entertainment still maintained their high quality stories, this was excellent!¡± ¡ª It was simr to when Diablo first started selling in China, most yers really liked the game at the start, especially the moments after theypleted the story. The international version managed to maintain a score of around nine. Moreover, the international yers got attached to the theme quicker and easier, so Diablo¡¯s performance internationally was better than Chen Mo¡¯s expectation, estimating to have sold around six hundred thousand copies in the first week, and three million copies in the first month. Chen Mo estimated that with overseas and Chinese salesbined, he would¡¯ve sold around ten million copies. Although this doesn¡¯tpare to thirty million copies of the original in his previous life, this number was still incredible. However, more and more angryments started appearing following Diablo¡¯s huge sess overseas. Some of them were from international yers. ¡°I feel scammed by the developers, the story was decent, and the game was high quality, but the post game is so boring! I can¡¯t believe it, this game doesn¡¯te close to Warcraft¡¯s quality!¡± ¡°For sure, even when taking the fact that it is a single yer game into consideration, this game was quite monotonous. This reminds me of a certain korean game, it looked great, but was aplete mess!¡± ¡°Ugh, I think thest two posters were a bit harsh, I do agree with them. There are noints in terms of the quality of the game and its story, but it¡¯s postgame doesn¡¯t evenpare with the sincere indie games. That¡¯s why I¡¯m giving it a seven. ¡°An incredibly boring game. I have no idea why the designer felt the need to add so many difficulties. Do they expect us to grind day after day to the highest difficulty?¡± Chapter 215 - Reaper of Souls Released

Chapter 215: Reaper of Souls Released

Evidently, the international yers were also feeling theck of content in the post game. As a hack and sh game, the post game of Diablo was indeed quite monotonous. This was a conclusion most yers could arrive at. And the other criticism was from Chinese yers. The news of Diablo¡¯s international release quickly spread within the Chinese Diablomunity.. ¡°Have you heard that Diablo started selling overseas?¡± ¡°Didn¡¯t Chen Mo release Don¡¯t Starve not long ago? He hasn¡¯t even taken a break huh.¡± ¡°He¡¯s quite brave huh. Obviously Diablo is an unfinished game, has he already given up us Chinese yers? Is he going to release a DLC? Does he n to run away with the money he makes overseas, never to be seen again?¡± ¡°Yeah, I¡¯m angry too. If he has the energy to develop Don¡¯t Starve and release Diablo internationally, why didn¡¯t he channel that into making a DLC instead? It feels like we are just an afterthought!¡± ¡°I gotta go tag Chen Mo and give him a good thrashing!¡± ¡°Geez, whatever. It¡¯s a singleyer game anyways, what else can youin about after watching the cinematics. It¡¯s about time anyways. If you¡¯re really that bored, it¡¯s not a bad idea to try out Don¡¯t Starve.¡± ¡°I don¡¯t like games like that, I wanna continue grinding in Diablo!¡± ¡°Haven¡¯t the yers given plenty of suggestions? The suggestions thread is now over fifty pages, I wanna know if he¡¯s seen any of it, is he listening to us yers!¡± ¡°I don¡¯t think so, why else would there be no news at all? He¡¯s probably gone!¡± ¡°I¡¯m mad!¡± ¡°I¡¯m going to give the experience store a visit and find out what¡¯s on Chen Mo¡¯s mind!¡± ¡ª The release of Diablo internationally triggered some dissatisfaction among yers. Although the development of the DLC and the international version were happening in parallel, with neithering into contact, the yers didn¡¯t know this, nor did they want to hear that. They just wanted a DLC that would satisfy them, one that would allow them to y Diablo long into the future. Many posts were bumped on the forums as yers vented their dissatisfaction. -In the office.- Chen Mo scrolled through his DMs on Weibo and some other discussions while asking, ¡°Qian Kun, will Reaper of Souls be finished this week? I¡¯m worried that my life might be in danger otherwise.¡± Qian Kun facepalmed, ¡°Really? Can¡¯t the yers wait another few more weeks?¡± ¡°It¡¯s already quite tight. It¡¯s been three months since release, and most yers areplete sick of the game, mainly because its so difficult to grind the rarer equipment, and the hardcore grinders were done grinding. Needless to say, the normal yers are bored of it too.¡± Qian Kun nodded, ¡°I understand, it¡¯s almost done, but I think the bncing of the two sses aren¡¯t quite right. I¡¯ll work overtime to try and finish this within this week.¡± Chen Mo patted him on the back, ¡°Thanks for your hard work. Once this update is released, we can set Diablo aside for the time being.¡± qian Kun nodded, ¡°Alright! Don¡¯t worry manager, I¡¯ll finish it in time.¡± Chen Mo returned to the experience store after checking in on the progress, feeling that the update should bepleted within this week. Zheng Hongxi said to Qian Kun, ¡°I think Reaper of Souls is quite high on the manager¡¯s priority list. But I do wonder, other than the two new sses and a few new quest lines, the main additions of the game is the Challenge Rift and the rankeddder. Are these things really capable of extending the lifespan of the game?¡± ¡°In the manager¡¯s thinking, probably. The rankeddder introduces apetitive element. Just like ranked mode in many other games, it triggers the yers to try and reach the top for bragging rights, which obviously would do a thing or two in extending the yer¡¯s ytime. But to be honest, I think these two modes are quite simplistic. It¡¯s basically a new dungeon and a ranked system. These aren¡¯t anythingplicated. Moreover, there was already so much game content, wouldn¡¯t the yers get bored of the game again?¡± Qian Kun turned the question around. Zheng Hongxi gave it some thought, ¡°What aboutpetitive seasons and Expert mode? ¡°I think Expert mode would be something fresh for the new yers to try out, but it¡¯ll only cater to a small audience. There is a lot of failure associated with that after all as they start over every time they die. Based on how difficult Diablo is, there probably aren¡¯t many yers who are willing to fail again and again like that right? ¡°I think thepetitive season works well with the rankeddder. It should give the yers something to feed off of for a bit, but I can¡¯t say now well it¡¯s going to work.¡± Zheng Hongxi replied, ¡°Yeah, the game is quite self-restricting after all. It¡¯s a singleyer at core, yet we are trying to drag out the life of the game to a few months and maybe even a few years. It¡¯s such a difficult task.¡± ¡°Who said it wasn¡¯t? Whatever, lets chat after I¡¯m done with work.¡± ¡ª With a week¡¯s worth of overtime, the development of Reaper of Souls finally came to an end. At the same moment Reaper of Souls was released on the Thunderbolt Gaming tform, Chen Mo released a long Weibo as a reply to the yers. Diablo¡¯s expansion pack, Reaper of Souls is now live! The new content in this DLC includes: New sses: Crusader and Necromancer. New act: A fifth chapter in the Diablo III storyline will be added, taking ce mainly in Westmarch. New Game Modes: Adventure Mode: A mode where the world itself is the yer¡¯s battlefield. Bounty quests are also avable for the nephalem to undertake, with a reward for finishing all the bounties in each Act. Nephalem Challenge Rift: Unlocked using Rift Keystone Fragments, it usespletely random terrain generation, spawns, and bosses. There are normal Challenge Rifts, and Greater Rifts. Completing Challenge Rifts grant extra loot. Legendaries Gems have a chance of dropping in Greater Rifts, further increasing the strength of the characters. Expert mode: High skilled yers can y expert mode, characters will only have one chance at being the game. There are no revives once they die. Ranked Ladder(Leaderboards) allow yers topare their progress to that of your gamey region, friends, and n members. The names of the top one thousand yers in the Greater Rifts will also be on the Leaderboards. Competitive Seasons: We encourage yers to try and experiment to get as strong as possible. At the start of each season, yers could create a brand new character alongside many other yers. The ranked seasons will provide unique rewards, including legendary items, borders, banners, ,etc.(Seasonal ranked leaderboards will be separate from the normal rankeddder). Chapter 216 - Regaining Popularity

Chapter 216: Regaining Poprity

The yers went wild as they saw that Weibo. ¡°What? Expansion pack for Diablo?¡± ¡°It¡¯s avable already? When did Chen Mo start working on it?¡± ¡°Why didn¡¯t he say anything about it before?¡± ¡°I thought Chen Mo was too busy working on Don¡¯t Starve and Diablo¡¯s international release and had no time to work on the expansion pack!¡± ¡°I¡¯m so happy I¡¯m crying! He didn¡¯t forget us! Let¡¯s see what¡¯s in it!¡± ¡°Two new jobs and a new act!¡± ¡°From the promotional video, the cinematics are as good as the other ones, the story looks incredible too!¡± ¡°The new sses, Crusader and Necromancer look quite interesting. The female Crusader looks so pretty, I have to create one!¡± ¡°Let¡¯s see if there¡¯s any new game modes. Adventure mode? Experience your own story? Sure, that¡¯ll make grinding easier in the future.¡± ¡°Hold on, Challenge Rift? Leaderboards? Competitive season? There¡¯s so many words... Alright, I¡¯ll read through them. It¡¯s like a list of things we need to do, first create a seasonal character, then grind like crazy in the Challenge Rift, then climb the leaderboards? Chen Mo¡¯s so thoughtful!¡± ¡°It feels like the leaderboards for mobile card games... Anyways, I hated rankeddders previously, but I don¡¯t know how I¡¯ll live without it!¡± ¡°Expert mode? One life? That sounds exciting, I like that!¡± ¡°The expansion pack costs 88 RMB? I¡¯m not sure if I¡¯m going to buy it... It¡¯s not really worth it if I just continue to grind the same way after buying the DLC.¡± ¡°You should buy it just for the two sses1¡± ¡°That¡¯s true, you go ahead and let me know how it goes.¡± With the quality assurance of Diablo, Reaper of Souls sold many copies upon release. This was mainly due to how long the yers have been waiting. Many thought Chen Mo didn¡¯t n to give it any updates, but nobody thought that he would release a whole expansion pack, one with a lot of content at that. This was news that shocked everyone. Warcraft didn¡¯t get this treatment! Moreover, no matter if Diablo¡¯s post game was boring or not, it was a high quality game, managing to attract many yers in its early life. Moreover, it seemed that this expansion pack had a lot of effort poured into it. -Inside the experience store- Many yers ying Don¡¯t Starve switched over to Diablo the moment Reaper of Souls was released. It was filled with Don¡¯t Starve fans, but all of a sudden they were now in the minority. ¡°You¡¯re ying Diablo¡¯s expansion pack too?¡± ¡°Yeah, new story and new sses, I have to try it.¡± ¡°You¡¯re giving up Don¡¯t STarve? I was waiting for us to all y together!¡± ¡°It¡¯s fine, this would onlyst a week or two. I¡¯ll try out the new sses before getting sick of the story, then I¡¯lle back to picking up garbage from the ground.¡± ¡°Yeah, the life of a Nephalem is calling!¡± Zou Zhuo created a seasonal character, a female Crusader, and started grinding right away. There were many yers like Zou Zhuo, apetitive season was something fresh in the minds of many seasoned yers. It was because yers bought the game at different times, some earlier than others. The yers who started earlier would have a significant advantage over theter yers, so it would be close to impossible for yers who bought the game to stand a chance on the leaderboards. Moreover, many didn¡¯t understand the game at the start, so they didn¡¯t put much thought into skills and equipment, and have been through many wrong turns. The gaps between yers would be huge if they used their own characters. Now that there was apetitive season implemented, as everybody needed to create a fresh character, everyone was starting from the same point. The noobs wouldn¡¯t be too far behind the higher skilled yers, and the pros would still have some advantage. The ranked season got many riled up. Zou Zhuo said to Jia Peng, ¡°Let¡¯s get grinding. We¡¯ll y till night to get max levels!¡± Jia Peng replied, ¡°Uhh, the experience store closes at night.¡± ¡°So what? We¡¯ll go to the inte cafe if the experience store closes, let¡¯s go!¡± The expansion pack got many riled up on the Diablo forums too. Some were discussing the story, some the new sses, while others talked about thepetitive season and leaderboards. There were even discussions about expert mode and legendary gems. ¡°Which sses would have the most advantage in the new season? Who would reach the top?¡± ¡°I¡¯ll be on the grind tomorrow, can anybody exin how the Barbarian should be yed?¡± ¡°The new season has begun! Anybody wanna grind together?¡± ¡°I¡¯m new, could anyone teach me how to y necromancer in preparation of climbing thedder tomorrow?¡± ¡°This new kid wants to y the game after seeing the expansion pack, anyone wanna take me along?¡± ¡°Big damage thread, the different builds of Barbarian.¡± ¡°Drop list: drop rates of different difficulties.¡± ¡°Analysis Diablo damage calction and different ways of increasing damage.¡± ¡°New yer introduction to sses. Some of the more popr threads were bumped to the top. The yers who left Diablo came right back to it upon hearing about the expansion pack as they looked forward to trying out thepetitive season. Soon, many of theint threads and rmendation threads were all gone, and the rating of the expansion pack continued to increase. ¡°I think this game is yable again! Thepetitive mode is actually quite fun, my daily grind is now filled with motivation!¡± ¡°Yeah, you¡¯d spend so much time grinding before just for good equipment. So what? Nobody sees it, nobody to share it with. Now that there¡¯s a leaderboard to work towards, I feel so motivated to grind!¡± ¡°Although I¡¯mpletely sick of the story mode, I can still keep grinding in adventure mode. I could craft special equipment bypleting special tasks, I can grind in Challenge Rifts, or even try and climb higher and higher in the Greater Rift!¡± ¡°Climbing the rankeddder is so addicting!¡± ¡°The new job is great too! The skill set of Crusader and Necromancer are so well done!¡± ¡°And there¡¯s a lot of new content too. You can transmute items using Kanai¡¯s Cube, it¡¯s so great to gain so much strength so quickly. All the special equipment that we set aside previously have a use now!¡± ¡°Anyone tried expert mode? It feels so great! The feeling of dying from one misstep is crazy!¡± ¡°The expansion pack is excellent, long live Chen Mo!¡± ¡°Hey, you guys were so mean to him before!¡± ¡°Ahem, it¡¯s a misunderstanding, misunderstanding I tell you! From today onwards, I¡¯m a braindead Chen Mo fan!¡± ¡°Chen Mo does remember us! I don¡¯t know if he saw the rmendation threads, but not including those rmendations was a great idea. This expansion pack was much better than anything in those threads!¡± ¡°Indeed, ¡®I¡¯m smarter than the designer¡¯ doesn¡¯t apply to Chen Mo!¡± Chapter 217 - Chen Mos Coaching Lesson

Chapter 217: Chen Mo¡¯s Coaching Lesson

Lin Xue was happily ying the new ranked mode in the experience store. The stream was titled ¡®Crusader ranked climb¡¯. There were many viewers with an incredibly active chat filled with discussion of the newpetitive season. Lin Xue was grinding Challenge Rifts as she interacted with chat. ¡°Why are there viewers asking me when I started ying again? As a yer who loved Diablo, of course I started ying the expansion pack the first moment it was avable?¡± ¡°Is the Crusader strong? From what I can tell, it¡¯s alright, it¡¯s not as good as Wizard or Warrior. Although I think I haven¡¯t figured out how to y this ss yet.¡± ¡°Is the new update fun? Incredibly fun! If the previous Diablo was a small slice of cake, looks delicious and tastes delicious, but you¡¯d get sick of it after a few bites. But Diablo with the expansion pack is like a drug, you can¡¯t stop at all!¡± ¡°Where¡¯s Chen Mo? I don¡¯t know either, but he¡¯s probably in his office, so we probably won¡¯t see him. Uh, not now, I¡¯m in the middle of a Rift, I¡¯ll go grab him after if I see him.¡± Lin Xue was also a regr at the experience store because she could try Chen Mo¡¯s newest games here. That¡¯s why she¡¯d visit the experience store every few days and were now quite close with Su Jinyu, Jia Peng, Zou Zhuo and the others. Lin Xue even bought a webcam in order to stream in the experience store. All of a sudden, her chat went wild. ¡°Is that Chen Mo?¡± ¡°There¡¯s a wild Chen Mo, quick, go catch him!¡± ¡°I think that¡¯s actually Chen Mo!¡± ¡°Go get her, Xue!¡± Lin Xue turned around to see Chen Mo entering the experience store. Perhaps he was a bit tired and wanted to rx on the sofa in the experience store. Lin Xue was also really happy to see him, ¡°Manager!¡± This startled Chen Mo, ¡°What...what are you trying to do!¡± Lin Xue smiled, ¡°Heh heh, it¡¯s nothing, my viewers want to see you.¡± She pointed the camera at Chen Mo, ¡°Look, it¡¯s a real Chen Mo! You guys have been nagging me for so long, now you guys finally have a chance to see him.¡± Chen Mo was speechless as he felt like a circus clown with hundreds of thousands of viewers looking at him. Chen Mo looked at Lin Xue¡¯s monitor, ¡°Are you ying the new ranked season? If you¡¯re going to do it, stay focused on it. There¡¯s no way you could make it to the top if this is how you¡¯re ying!¡± Lin Xue looked at the chat, ¡°Manager, the viewers say they want to watch you y games. They¡¯re fine with either Warcraft or Diablo.¡± Chen Mo had his hand on his forehead, ¡°You¡¯re the streamer, why are you looking at me?¡± ¡°It¡¯s something new! And luckily, I have an ount here, you can just y on my ount.¡± Chen Mo was helplessly pushed onto the seat by Lin Xue. ¡°But it doesn¡¯t really work if I y on your ount anyways, since the game isn¡¯t too mechanically intensive. I¡¯ll just take a look at your equipment,¡± said Chen Mo. Lin Xue let out a sly grin, ¡°Then help me shuffle around the equipment or something, there¡¯s heaps of stuff that I¡¯m not using!¡± Lin Xue was ying a female Crusader. She didn¡¯t have a lot of great equipment, but she managed to transmogrify her equipment to look quite good. She didn¡¯t have much equipped yet she had many items in storage. ¡°Your equipment is... straight garbage! None of your equipment are good at all, how am I supposed to y this?¡± said Chen Mo. Lin Xue smiled, ¡°You¡¯re Chen Mo, a videogame designer, the S-god that destroyed ranked in Warcraft. Can¡¯t you handle a little challenge like this?¡± Chen Mo was speechless. Sure it was a bit of bootlicking, it still felt great nheless. ¡°Alright, seeing as you buttered me up so well, I¡¯ll try and save your ount.¡± Chen Mo looked at Lin Xue¡¯s abilities and drops. This build waspletely garbage and would take a lot of effort just to reach 40 floors in the Greater Rift. But he couldn¡¯t me Lin Xue as the yers on his world hadn¡¯t spent much time testing out builds in Diablo, nor was there an incentive to do so when there wasn¡¯t a ranked season, so it wasn¡¯t a surprise that the yers¡¯ understanding of the game was rtively shallow. Chen Mo already had an idea in mind and wanted to use this opportunity to get the yers some inspiration, showing them the wonders of Diablo¡¯s equipment system. Although her equipment was quite terrible, Chen Mo felt that he could save it a tiny bit. After looking through the various items, Chen Mo finally found something resembling good news. As Lin Xue was the type of yer to hog equipment, she had a few ancient and primal ancient equipment. She put them all away no matter how good or bad they were. She also had key items such as Convention of Elements, Aqu Cuirass and Swiftmount, which could support a decent build. Chen Mo started pressing his buttons. First was swapping out all the abilities, equipping Shield re, Bombardment, Steed Charge , Iron Skin, Consecration, Akarat¡¯s Champion. He then swapped out his passive abilities for Fervor, Indestructible, Iron Maiden, and Finery. Afterwards, he swapped out the equipment too, equipping Aqu Cuirass, Swiftmount, Leoric¡¯s Crown, Belt of the Trove, Hellfire Amulet, Hexing Pants of Mr Yan, Illusory boots... Chen Mo equipped all these seemingly useless equipment. Moreover, Lin Xue somehow managed to have the rings The Wailing Host and Litany of the Undaunted, which Chen Mo was very happy about. Now he had the special effects of The Mortal Drama, Heart of Iron, and Convention of Elements. Rolling for elemental damage, enchanting, adding gems... After all that trouble, Lin Xue¡¯s Crusader was finally presentable at the very least. Chen Mo looked at the attributes of the Crusader, reduced freeze time, elemental resistances, and thorns were more or less up to par. ¡°Alright, it¡¯s done,¡± Chen Mo closed the character screen happily as he gave it his all to form a decent build out of a pile of garbage. Lin Xue was watching Chen Mo¡¯s every move as she watched him take out piece after piece of equipment and equipping them. And at this moment, Lin Xue was really confused. She only understood about 20% of what Chen Mo did. First was the abilities, there weren¡¯t any sustained damage sources, Steed Charge was basically just a utility skill, and Shield re was a controlling skill. Iron Skin and Akarat¡¯s Champion were buffs, and Consecration is just a small AoE spell. Out of the skills he picked, only Bombardment was a traditional damage dealing skill. However, it had a long cooldown, and it waspletely luck dependent on how much damage it would do. The equipment was even more shocking, Lin Xue only understood that The Wailing Host and Litany of the Undaunted set bonuses: While this is the only item Set Bonus the character has, their damage dealt is increased by 100% and damage taken is reduced by 4% for every Ancient Item they have equipped. These two rings were the natural enemies of every other equipment as you couldn¡¯t have any other set attributes with these two equipped. Chen Mo seemed to have decided on using various different equipment from different sets just to build around the rings. But will this work? Lin Xue is doubtful. Chapter 218 - Explosive Cavalry

Chapter 218: Explosive Cavalry

The chat didn¡¯t understand his moves either, it could even be said that it waspletely out of their scope of knowledge. ¡°Is Chen Mo messing around? There¡¯s no way that¡¯s going to work? Where¡¯s the damage?¡± ¡°Look at what he has equipped! Aqu Cuirass, Swiftmount, Leoric¡¯s Crown, Belt of the Trove, Hexing Pants of Mr Yan... They look good on paper but arepletely useless!¡± ¡°Maybe he¡¯s not going for set bonuses, using the set bonus of the rings to increase his damage? ¡°Maybe because Xue¡¯s equipment is too garbage and this was the best he could do. But I¡¯m still wondering, sure the attributes are high, but I feel that it just doesn¡¯t work... Will this actually help Xue to reach floor 45?¡± ¡°Have you guys noticed that Chen Mo went for thorns on all his equipment. Is that... even useful?¡± ¡°I¡¯ve got a Crusader too, let me see... Oh! You can turn your damage into thorns damage through runes! That means Chen Mo ns to use thorns as his main damage source!¡± ¡°Is that so. I understand it better now. No wonder he brought Iron Maiden as one of his passive. But I still don¡¯t really understand, the equipment looks good, but does it really work?¡± The chat was filled with question marks. Most were looking forward to the performance of the build as they knew that this wasn¡¯t something Chen Mo pulled out of nowhere and must¡¯ve had his own ideas in mind. Chen Mo started a Greater Rift with the Crusader. Lin Xue¡¯s previous record was forty-one floors. It wasn¡¯t even a clean victory as she slowly stumbled through sheer luck. The higher levels of Nephalem Rift have yet to be unlocked, so it was impossible for Chen Mo to go straight to level sixty. This meant Chen Mo had to continue where Lin Xue left off. After being teleported into the Greater Rift, hordes of monsters started charging in! There were many more monsters in Greater Rift than the usual story mode, so this was much more graphically intense than usual. Chen Mo wasn¡¯t phased by this as he used Steed Charge right away. The warhorse the Crusader turned into a shadow under the Crusader and charged directly into the hordes of monsters. This felt like a sudden, huge elerationparable to putting on the throttle on a motorbike. The chat was shocked, what¡¯s going on? There was one yellow and three blue elites among the monsters with plenty more smaller ones. Isn¡¯t it suicidal to charge in like that? The Crusader charged right into where the monsters were most dense. The monsters all followed him and formed a huge bunch. The Crusader let out an angry growl as they used Consecration, Akarat¡¯s Champion, Iron Skin and Bombardment. Barrels started appearing from the skies dealing massive damage to the mobs. At the same time, numbers started appearing on the screen. The weaker mobs started dying left and right, and the elite mobs were taking huge damage as well. Lin Xue was shocked to see this terrifying speed! She really struggled to beat this previously, and died numerous times. She didn¡¯t dare aggro so many mobs at the same time too as she took every step carefully. However, Chen Mo didn¡¯t even seem to care, charging right into where the mobs are most dense. The bonus of the ring was incredible as the mobs died under all the damage as Chen Mo pressed the 1234 keys on the keyboard, casting whichever abilities were off cooldown. Moreover, Chen Mo¡¯s horse never slowed down and pretty much always maintained Steed Charge. The hordes of mobs couldn¡¯t stop him at all as he moved wherever he pleased. It didn¡¯t take long for Chen Mo to clear the Greater Rift. It seemed pretty easy too as it wasn¡¯t mechanically intensive. It was like a trip to the mall as the Crusader walked around the map, leaving behind corpses in their wake. Lin Xue waspletely shocked, ¡°Manager... Are you and I ying on the same ount?¡± The chat was also filled withughter, nobody thought that a pile of garbage could be turned into something so powerful in Chen Mo¡¯s hands. Chen Mo beat another level of the Greater Rift and moved onto the next one. Just like before, charging around and killing everything. Lin Xue had her eyes on the screen the entire time, it didn¡¯t seem like anything as changed! From one level to the next, the mobs were dying just the same! Chen Mo continued at this pace and went to the level sixty-five before stopping. Lin Xue was shocked to see that was her own ount. The levels didn¡¯t seem any harder at all! When Lin Xue was ying, she felt that the difficulty increased by quite a bit from one level to the next. One level might be easy to beat, but the next may be very difficult. But it seemed like it wasn¡¯t a problem for Chen Mo at all as he breezed through levels forty to sixty. Chen Mo even equipped a few decent pieces of equipment that were dropped. There was some difficulty around level sixty, and it stopped working starting from level sixty-five. It was a set of gear that Chen Mo managed to gather from junk afterall. Many of these didn¡¯t have the perfect stats and quite a few of them weren¡¯t ancient either, meaning that the effects of the rings weren¡¯t fully realised. Chen Mo stood up, ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll leave it there for now, you¡¯ll have to figure out the rest yourself.¡± Lin Xue prevented him from leaving, ¡°Don¡¯t leave yet, you have to exin how the build works!¡± Chen Mo was speechless, ¡°Hey, aren¡¯t you the top of your ss? Finish your homework yourself!¡± Lin Xue pouted, ¡°Hmph, fine!¡± Lin Xue angrily sat back in her chair. Although she looked angry on the outside, she was quite happy as not everybody gets the opportunity to be coached by Chen Mo. Moreover, Chen Mo¡¯s disy today was incredible. She didn¡¯t expect how a bunch of crappy equipment could increase her strength so by much! It was crazy to beat twenty levels just like that! Without spending too much timeining about Chen Mo, Lin Xue quickly looked at her equipped tab and looked into Chen Mo¡¯s strategy. The chat also started their own analysis. There are even some who copied Chen Mo¡¯s exact build in their own game to try and figure it out themselves. ¡°Oh! I understand now!¡± Lin Xue finally understood how it worked after looking through the attributes and abilities of the Crusader. This build was known as explosive cavalry[1] in Chen Mo¡¯s previous world. It¡¯s most well known for utilizing items from different sets and stacking thorns damage, then using Bombardment and Steed Charge to deal as much damage as possible. The advantage of the build was how effective it was, the explosive damage, and how quickly it covers the map. Moreover, the items from the different sets worked well for a strategy like this. That was why this build had its time in the sun, and the peak of the build could even reach over level ny. Of course, there were many builds in Diablo 3 in Chen Mo¡¯s previous life. After a few updates, there were many builds that were better than this one. But because Lin Xue didn¡¯t have any equipment that worked particrly well with this build, Chen Mo used whatever he had on hand to form a passable build to showcase the different ways the game could be yed. TL note[1]: I think this is a Chinese build, simr builds exist in the western world but not exactly the same from what I can tell. Chapter 219 - A New Life

Chapter 219: A New Life

It didn¡¯t take long before the clip of Chen Mo beating many levels in the Nephalem Rift using Lin Xue¡¯s ount was stered all over the official forums, and many diehard yers were analyzing how Chen Mo managed that. ¡°Anyone else watched Xue¡¯s livestream? Chen Mo joined the stream, and the most horrifying thing was that he managed to beat twenty Nephalem Rifts levels after swapping out her equipment!¡± ¡°Really? I don¡¯t buy it, how could their strength be that much different on the same ount? Twenty levels? How much stronger do you need to get?¡± ¡°The clip is all over the inte, just have a look yourself. There are recordings of the whole thing. The worst part is that Chen Mo looked through all of Xue¡¯s garbage equipment while mixing and matching different ones. He also had a really weirdbination of abilities, yet he was incredibly strong!¡± ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll take a look!¡± It didn¡¯t take long before it became the most popr thread on the official forums, causing an especiallyrgemotion among Crusader yers. Crusader and Necromancer were clearly inferior to other sses in the Greater Rift as the other sses had more developed builds. Although the expansion pack had been out for quite some time now, the yers still haven¡¯t wrapped their head around these sses. Crusader in particr haven¡¯t had a proper build found out yet. And naturally, Chen Mo¡¯s new build attracted the attention of many. The yers knew that everytime Chen Mo released a new game, he¡¯d introduce a weird ystyle to the yers. For example, he pioneered cyclone spam and mass mines in Warcraft. Chen Mo¡¯s build must also be something worth looking into and was possibly very important to Diablo¡¯s deep and rich ystyle! Soon, the yers finally figured out Chen Mo¡¯s strategy with the help of many yers and the recordings. This strategy was named explosive cavalry and quickly gained poprity among Crusader yers. The idea of this build was to stack thorns and use the set bonus of The Wailing Host and Litany of the Undaunted to best utilize the strength of ancient equipment. The more ancient equipment, the more damage, surpassing the set bonuses of a full suit of equipment using items from different sets. In terms of abilities, Consecration, Bombardment, Iron Skin, and Steed Charge could be converted into thorn damage through runes, meaning that all these abilities were damage dealing ones. And Akarat¡¯s Champion provided an incredible strong buff, providing substantial damage increase. Thest ability could either be Shield re or Laws of Justice to increase survivability. The most shocking thing was the equipment that were all from different sets. Not only did they improve the set bonus of the rings, they also improved the abilities, so these special equipment were incredibly useful for Crusaders. Leoric¡¯s Crown, increase the effects of gems. With the help of a passive ability gem, the cooldowns of abilities are decreased dramatically with a diamond equipped in the crown. Ne: Hellfire Amulet, Gives the Crusader another passive skill. Chest Piece: Heart of Iron and Aqu Cuirass, one for stats, the other for effects. The Aqu Cuirass makes it so the yer takes 50% damage when the character has over 90% resource. Iron Heart makes it so the yer receives bonus thorns damage equal to 300% of dexterity. This was because the abilities this build didn¡¯t cost any resource, so it would always be full, meaning that the effect of Aqu Cuirass would always be on. Belt: Belt of the Trove, Triggers Bombardment every six seconds. Bombardment was the main damaging ability of this build, so Belt of the Trove could be described as the most important piece of equipment as it increased their damage multiple times. Pants: Hexing Pants of Mr Yan, resource generation and damage is increased by 25% while moving and decreased by 20¨C25% while standing still. As Crusaders of this build would be constantly running around, it perfectly utilized its special effects. Shoes: Illusory Boots, allows yers to move unhindered through enemies, improving the maneuverability of the Crusader. Weapon: Swiftmount, doubles the duration of Steed Charge. Inbination with the cooldown reduction, the Crusader would almost have 100% uptime on Steed Charge, meaning that the yer coulde and go as they wish without fear of being surrounded. Infused weapon: The Mortal Drama, doubles Bombardment impacts. Infused ring: Convention of Elements, increases damage to a single element. For a Crusader, the ring would cycle between Fire, Holy, Lightning, and Physical every four seconds. Thorns damage was considered physical damage, which means that it would further increase Crusader¡¯s damage output. Although these may not seem particrly effective on their own, they all have their ce in this build. When the Crusader are under the effect of all their buffs, the damage numbers from Bombardment will keep increasing, which was how Chen Mo managed to beat over twenty levels of the Greater Rift. ¡ª All Crusader yers were shocked after learning about this explosive cavalry build. How is this possible?! These seemingly useless equipment somehow managed to y a key role in this build. Moreover, with thisbination of equipment, abilities, and gems dramatically increased the damage output of Crusaders! While Crusader yers were copying the build, the other sses got some inspiration too. Everyone finally realised there were so many more ways to y the game, no wonder there were seventeen different difficulties! The yers were now sufficiently riled up as it was a key point in time in climbing. All yers of different sses were holding their breath as they tried their best to figure out the best build. Like a firestarter in a barrel of gunpowder, the passion of all the yers were realised all of a sudden. The hardcore yers were all trying to figure out the game as they look into the potential of the weirder equipment. Even the yers who weren¡¯t into exploring every nook and cranny of the game were participating in discussion on the forum for the best strategy and builds to beat as many Greater Rift levels as possible. Diablo which had cooled down for a bit gained a new life with the help of the new update! Chapter 220 - Revenue

Chapter 220: Revenue

Many industry professionals had their eyes on Reaper of Souls as well. Everybody knew about Diablo¡¯s crippling decline. yers and designers alike were trying to figure out how to reverse the process and extend Diablo¡¯s life, but nothing conclusive was reached. Many suggestions pitched by yers or designers were quickly shut down by others. These suggestions would always entail changing the core of Diablo or make it decline faster. As a hack and sh game, it was natural that people would get bored of it quickly. And in the eyes of many designers, there was nothing that could be done as in order to solve the problem, the core of the game must be changed, which would obviously affect how fun the game was. The pros and cons of a game like this were two sides of the same coin, and improvements difficult to implement. But nobody expected Chen Mo to double down on the hack and sh element of the game. You think grinding is boring? Alright, I¡¯ll just add more ways to make you grind. Are you still bored? Many yers realised that it wasn¡¯t boring, but was actually quite fun! It was like reverse psychology. Although the game seemed to be even more grindy after the release of ranked seasons and the leaderboards, people gained more enjoyment out of it. There were even articles analyzing how Reaper of Souls managed to save Diablo¡¯s post game. ¡°As someone who got bored of Diablo, it¡¯s hard to imagine that Reaper of Souls had made such a big change in the game. ¡°First it increased the content. ¡°The expansion pack continued to maintain its unique atmosphere with mountains of corpses, feeling townspeople, and demons all over the ce. This was maintained all the way, and you could feel the world calling. ¡°The best part was the confrontation between the main character and Adria. It was so satisfying to be able to kill that horrible witch again and again! ¡°What¡¯s most surprising was the Nephalem Rift mechanic. Different maps and random elements are joined together, making it so every level after being teleported into the realm feels like a crazy fever dream. ¡°And when you kill thest boss, the ground is positively littered with loot, and ancient equipment would drop almost every single time. Chen Mo created a simple yet effective system,unch the game, kill bosses, get rewards, quit the game. The yers can skip over all the convoluted steps and enjoy the best of hacking and shing. ¡°In truth, through the expansion pack, Chen Mo let us know that the core of the game is still grinding. Chen Mo used a few new game modes that suited Diablo really well to revive this game. ¡°The pros of this game: Dark atmosphere, adventures, longsting satisfaction, and amazing visual effects. ¡°If you like games where you kill hordes upon hordes of mobs, then without a shadow of a doubt, Diablo: Reaper of Souls is your best pick¡± ¡ª Diablo¡¯s expansion pack, Reaper of Souls, gave a new life to the game, extending its lifespan, solidifying Diablo¡¯s position in this genre. And its unique art style and game y became a popr branch under the RPG tree as video game designers look into it again and again. And the designer who was most inspired by Reaper of Souls was probably Yan Zhenyuan. Reaper of Souls arrived after he decided on the post game of this new project, and even started working on the design documents of the game. After investigating the features of Reaper of Souls, Yan Zhenyuan spent three days making huge changes to the design of the game. Although this meant that a lot of work had to be redone, dramatically increasing the workload, Yan Zhenyuan was sure that it would be worth it in the end. After seeing how Reaper of Souls solved Diablo¡¯sck of a postgame, Yan Zhenyuan also noticed the problem in his previous thought process. Yan Zhenyuan nned to incorporate techniques used in online games to extend the ytime, but from the looks of it, this way of extending ytime would surely affect the quality of the game. And Chen Mo¡¯s way of solving that same problem was probably the most ideal thus far. Of course there were differences in the design concept in VR and PC games, and as a S-grade videogame designer, Yan Zhenyuan wouldn¡¯t blindly copy it. However, he got some inspiration for this and gained a whole new found respect for Chen Mo. ¡°This guy is really something else.¡± ¡ª The development of Diablo wasn¡¯t just to pave the way for future development of RPG games, but more importantly, it was a test in many aspects. Testing the eptance of yers towards third person RPGs. Testing the eptance of dark, scary themes. Testing the eptance towards grinding. And Don¡¯t Starve¡¯s release was to test the eptance of yers towards sandbox games. Each of these points can be developed into games of different genres, and was a roadmap for Chen Mo¡¯s game development in the future. Following Reaper of Souls¡¯ great sess, Chen Mo had plenty of money on hand. Diablo sold 9.8 million copies world wide. Although this doesn¡¯te close to thirty million by Blizzard in his previous life, it was certainly a result to be proud of. Reaper of Souls had sold 2.9 million copies, and this was before its release internationally. Almost all the yers who would Diablo bought the expansion pack. (And the Chinese yers in this world finally got a taste of getting a game before the rest of the world.) Don¡¯t Starve sold 4.35 million copies in China. This doesn¡¯tpare to his previous life, but it was almost a miracle for such a tiny sandbox game to do so well in this world. Chen Mo managed to gain a lot in terms of poprity and money selling these two games. Chen Mo had around seven hundred million RMB on hand for development. Diablo cost quite a bit in its development, and including Reaper of Souls, it cost nearly two hundred million RMb. Don¡¯t Starve¡¯s cost was barely anything inparison. High quality games like these cost a lot of money after all. Thankfully, Diablo did equally well in the international market. Chen Mo¡¯s revenue is as follows: Diablo Chinese profits: three hundred and forty million. Diablo International profits: 1.23 billion. Don¡¯t Starve Chinese profits: sixty-one million. Reaper of Souls Chinese profits: two hundred and thirty six million. Of course, Onmyoji and Warcraft were still bringing Chen Mo profits. After working for so long, Chen Mo finally broke a milestone of three billion RMB for development. Chapter 221 - Slacking Off

Chapter 221: cking Off

Chen Mo was enjoying some time in the sun on the balcony on the second floor of the experience store. He wasying downfortably on a recliner, with sunsses on his face and a drink in his hand, just like on would in Hawaii. Although it wasn¡¯t all that warm outside, it was still quite nice to hang out directly under the sun. One could imagine they were on a beach under the sun if they closed their eyes. But the cozy atmosphere was soon broken. ¡°Manager, stop cking off during office times! I thought you were going to finish the design document for the new game within this week!¡± Su Jinyu said angrily with her hands on her hips. With the release of Reaper of Souls, Diablo¡¯s development was over. And due to the nature of Don¡¯t Starve, there wasn¡¯t a need to push frequent updates, which was by naturally starting cking off, spending his time enjoying the sun, sozy that he wasn¡¯t even bothered to turn around. The day to day operations of thepany, and the maintenance and bncing of games were covered by the new hires. All Chen Mo had to do now was to distribute the work and had plenty of free time on hand. ¡°Geez, sure is nice being the boss,¡± expressed Chen Mo, ¡°...Manager, get up and start working on the design draft!¡± ¡°Geez, Goldfish, how could you still not understand after working with me for so long? Let me ask you, what¡¯s the most important part of making a game?¡± Su Jinyu was shocked, ¡°Uhh, execution and inspiration?¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Not bad, you¡¯re learning. Then where does inspiratione from?¡± Su Jinyu was confused, ¡°Where does inspiratione from...? It just pops into your head out of nowhere.¡± Chen Mo shook his head, ¡°No no no, inspirationes from rxation. How could inspiratione to you if you were working like a dog every day? I need rest, let my mind clear up, and only then will inspiration arrive.¡± ¡°Uhh, do you mean that we¡¯ll only start working once inspirationes to you?¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Of course. Remember, the most important part of making a game is making sure you have your bearings right. If you¡¯re not in the right direction, you¡¯ll just be wasting energy. So you trying to rush me just has the opposite effect.¡± ¡°Oh, I¡¯ll leave you to it then. Take your time to gather inspiration then, manager.¡± After getting Su Jinyu to leave, Chen Mo continued to enjoy his time in the sun. He wasn¡¯t waiting for inspiration or anything of the sorts, he was just beingzy. After confirming the bnce of thepany, Chen Mo realised that he was much more wealthy than he previously thought. ¡°Should I consider buying a bigger experience store? Maybe a big house too while I¡¯m at it. ¡°Yep, when I have a house, I¡¯ll need a wife, then I¡¯ll have kids. Will it be a male ball or a female ball[1]... I meant boy or girl? ¡°The baby forms aren¡¯t going to be a problem, but would they need their own apartment close to the uni? I¡¯d be able to afford it, but the problem is having a local household registration[2]. ¡°Whatever, if I don¡¯t have a registration, I¡¯ll just send them overseas. I wonder if they¡¯ll be used to living overseas without the watchful eyes of any rtives.¡± Luckily nobody else heard of this as all this was just in Chen Mo¡¯s head. Otherwise Chen Mo would be reminded that all of his previous thoughts required a girlfriend. If the yers found out, they¡¯d most certainly said, ¡°It doesn¡¯t matter if you marry, or have kids, or be a bachelor the rest of your life. The only important thing is... that you get back to developing games!¡± He was a warm human living in a cold world. Chen Mo wasn¡¯t someone who had no desires, but to him, nothing elsepared to the satisfaction of making games. In terms of developing games, Chen Mo was a workaholic, one who would rarely take breaks. Moreover, developing games were different from other industries as they needed to listen to the feedback from yers and make changes ording to market demands. This meant that it was hard to stop halfway through something after starting. Only when a game was released and was operating stably could he take time out of his day to rx. This meant that Chen Mo had been incredibly busy recently. After having some time to think, his development road map wasn¡¯t exactly exactly as he liked. He said to Zhuo Yao that he promised Zhuo Yao that he would make an incredibly popr PC game that would drive a lot of attention back to the PC market in two years. It¡¯s been almost three years, yet he doesn¡¯t even have a date nned. On the contrary, he¡¯d progressed quite a bit in the direction of VR games. Chen Mo thought it¡¯d take him at least five years to even touch VR games, never expecting him to be within reach of VR games this early. Of course, it didn¡¯t matter than it differed on small details, it was still all within his calctions. The experience store was incredibly small for how popr and wealthy Chen Mo was. He had enough money and had a certain push to move to a bigger experience store for his ¡®face¡¯. However, upon considering that he was pressed for time for the next game on his agendabined with the trouble with moving, Chen Mo decided to dy moving until August or September next year. Chen Mo already had his assistant Lin Xiao look into finding a new ce for the experience store, taking every part of that equation into consideration and consolidated it into aplete report. Moving to a bigger experience store was a big deal after all. Chen Mo wanted it to be sufficient for at least another five or ten years to avoid having to move again soon after they settled down. Next was to continue spending money to increase his abilities. Chen Mo sometimes forgets that he was a transmigrater with a system like this. It was due to how costly this system was, so the frugal Chen Mo would constantly forget its existence. Moreover, developing new games and moving to a new experience store also cost a lot of money. Chen Mo didn¡¯t want to spend too much money into the system as he maintained his stance of ¡®good enough¡¯. He turned on the virtual screen of the bracelete. It was one hundred thousand RMB per draw. There were many different types of rewards from drawing, such as design (numerics, story, professional knowledge), presentation (art, music, cinematics), and equipment(consumables and permanent). As Chen Mo just entered the second stage, strictly speaking he needed all of it. Chen Mo gave it some thought and decided to spend ten million RMB to start. Chen Mo decided to calm down on spending too much money on this upon considering his usual unlucky self. This was the most expensive pay to win system in the world bar none after all. TL note[1]: It¡¯s a quote from a fantasyedy film called One Hundred Thousand Bad Jokes. /v_19rwvnjw40.html [2]It¡¯s something that¡¯s not required to buy a house in the area in China, but does make the process easier. Chapter 222 - Drawing Prizes

Chapter 222: Drawing Prizes

The ten million RMB was turned into ten thousand diamonds. It cost one hundred diamonds to spin once, meaning he could spin one hundred times. The system was really thoughtful as there was a new level on the side of the machine with a note :¡±Draw ten: Spend 990 diamonds, 10*whatever you drew.¡± ¡°... What a great deal,¡± Chen Mo said sarcastically. That meant spending nine hundred and ny gems would multiply whatever you drew by ten (not ten different equipment). And save ten diamonds. Chen Mo rolled his eyes at the thought that ten diamonds meant ten thousand RMB, but there was nothing else he could do but ept it. He pulled the spin ten lever. The reels started spinning with various types of equipment shing on the screen. It didn¡¯t take long before they settled down. Design ¨C Numerics ¨C Numerics bncing skillbook (level 2) One book turned into ten because of the spin ten. Ten identical level two numerics skill books appeared on the screen. ¡°Huh, not bad,¡± Chen Mo tapped on the skill books before they turned into stars and flew into his fingertip. Various knowledge of bncing flew into Chen Mo¡¯s mind. Various types of calctions, tableaus, and various bncing concepts and ideas were now part of Chen Mo¡¯s arsenal. Bncing numbers were incredibly important to Chen Mo as PC¡¯s greatest weapon, MOBAs, were strongly dependent on bncing. Without proper bncing numerically, there was no way the final product was going to be bnced. It was nearly impossible to have a properpetitive system in an imbnced MOBA, not to mention the difficulty of retaining yers. Chen Mo continued to draw. He pulled on the lever, the reels started and stopped again. Design ¨C professional knowledge, architecture skill book. Another ten books. Chen Mo let out ah ¡®oh¡¯. Even though he didn¡¯t need it, it was useful nheless. May as well consume it. After consuming the ten architecture skill books, many relevant knowledge appeared in his mind, includingposition, special buildings, and even some structural drawings. He moved onto more. Design- story- story writing skill book (level two) Design ¨C professional knowledge, architecture skill book Design ¨C professional knowledge, architecture skill book Chen Mo was a bit bothered by the amount of architecture skill books he¡¯d drawn as it felt that he couldn¡¯t utilize all this. But since he drew them, he may as well consume them. He continued spinning. Presentation ¨C Art ¨C Photoshop Skill Book. ¡°Hmm? Photshop? What?¡± With some doubt in mind, Chen Mo consumed the ten skill books. Chen Mo understood what it meant after consuming. Photoshop meant improving details, adding details to rough models to increase the amount of detail. Take older games for example, other than having rougher models, the graphics on the models were low quality to start with, and was the main obstacle to ovee in order to have a high quality game. After mastering this ability, Chen Mo¡¯s art skill can be increased further, bringing rough graphics and models to a higher quality. ¡°Not bad, I wouldn¡¯t mind a few more of those.¡± Chen Mo continued. Equipment ¨C Consumable ¨C Efficiency Adjuster ¡°Oh? New equipment!¡± This caught Chen Mo¡¯s attention. Sure he had drawn many special equipment before, but there were only so many different types of equipment in level one, such as Memory yback Potion, Super elerator... He was finally met with new equipment in level two. Efficiency Adjuster: Increases thinking and acting speed after use, with a maximum of ten times. The higher the efficiency, the shorter the duration. Double timests for one hour, ten timessts for twelve minutes. ¡°Hmm? Not bad!¡± This was simr to Super elerator, but was obviously much better. First was the ability to adjust how many times efficiency he wanted, the other was no side effects, meaning he could use it back to back. As it was a consumable, Chen Mo didn¡¯t use it immediately. He continued spinning Equipment ¨C Consumable ¨C Jinx Curse ¡°Hmm? Jinx?¡± Chen Mo was confused and looked at the item description. Jinx curse: After consuming, whatever positive thing the user says in a public space will have theplete opposite effect. Triggers, warm-up time, and effects arepletely random. Chen Mo was speechless. He could tell that this was a very dangerous equipment, not only was it hard to control, there were many restrictions too. It must be done publicly and must be something positive, either praises or encouragement. Moreover, whichever line it triggers on, how long itsts, and what it does waspletely random. It might be utterly useless, or incredibly game changing. ¡°I¡¯ll save it for now, I¡¯m afraid that I¡¯ll misuse it.¡± Chen Mo decided to keep it in his bracelet for ater time. He was afraid of triggering it after wishing he¡¯d have a healthy safe life, then dying by his own hands. He continued drawing. Presentation ¨C Art ¨C Photoshop Skill Book Presentation ¨C Art ¨C Photoshop Skill Book He was now almost out of diamonds after spinning two more times, with a hundred more diamonds left. He decided to save the leftover one hundred diamonds for next time. Overall he received: Ten Level two Numerical Bncing Skill Books. Ten Level two Story Writing Skill Books. Thirty Architecture Skill Books. Thirty Photoshop Skill Books. Ten Efficiency Adjuster. Ten Jinx Curses. Chen Mo was quite happy with what he got so far. Although Chen Mo wanted to continue spinning, he ultimately stopped himself. ¡°It sure is difficult to suppress the desires to gamble,¡± muttered Chen Mo. Su Jinyu came upstairs again once Chen Mo was done. ¡°Manager, there¡¯s a delivery addressed to you.¡± ¡°Alright, thanks,¡± said Chen Mo as he stood up. The two of them went downstairs together. Su Jinyu asked, ¡°Manager, what did you buy this time. It¡¯s a huge box, and the delivery guy said it was a valuable item.¡± ¡°About that... You¡¯ll know it a bit. It is quite valuable.¡± Chapter 223 - Building Blocks

Chapter 223: Building Blocks

In the first floor of the experience store, Chen Mo was epting therge delivery. It was so tall it was up to one¡¯s waist, and was impossible to tell what was inside. Su Jinyu asked curiously, ¡°What¡¯s inside, manager? The delivery guy said it was valuable, what can be so big yet so valuable? Doesn¡¯t look like anything electronic rted.¡± Chen Moughed, ¡°You¡¯ll understand in a bit, get Qian Kun, Zhou Hanyu, and Zheng Hongxi over. The other staff members can join if they want too.¡± ¡°Okay,¡± Su Jinyu went back towards the office. Chen Mo opened therge box using a box cutter to reveal smaller individually packed boxes. Chen Mo moved the smaller boxes into the meeting room and threw therge box away. Soon, Su Jinyu brought the others to the experience store. Qian Kun, Zhou Hanyu, Zhao Yunting, Zheng Hongxi, and Fu Guangnan were all here, as well as a few other members of staff. The frequent visitors of the experience store such as Jia Peng, Wen Lingwei, Chang Xiuya and Zou Zhuo gathered around as well. Chen Mo got everyone to sit in the meeting room. ¡°Manager, are these... Leggo[1]?¡± Wen Lingwei recognised what was on the table. Chen Mo nodded as he handed out the boxes, ¡°Yeah.¡± Qian Kun, Zhou Hanyu, and Zheng Hongxi each got a medium sized box. The others were smaller boxes and a final huge box. Chen Mo looked at the others and said, ¡°You guys can take one if you¡¯re interested.¡± Jia Peng, Zhao Yunting, Su Jinyu, and Chang Xiuya all grabbed one, leaving behind three small boxes and onerge box. Chen Mo asked Wen Lingwei, ¡°You¡¯re not joining?¡± ¡°I¡¯ll pass, I¡¯ve yed this plenty of times when I was younger.¡± Su Jia looked at the box in her hands, ¡°Manager, is this a snow castle... It¡¯s huge!¡± Everyone else was looking at what they got too. Qian Kun got a Mothership. Zhou Hanyu got a miniature sports stadium. Zheng Hongxi got a cathedral. These three boxes were of medium size. Jia Peng got a ck sports car. Zhao Yunting got a green T-rex. Su Jinyu got a snow castle. Chang Xiuya got a train. These four boxes were slightly smaller. They were all confused as they looked at the boxes in their hands. Zheng Hongxi asked, ¡°This cathedral is built from tiny blocks? How can it look so real?¡± Chen Moughed, ¡°Alright, get working on it. Don¡¯t mix the blocks if you leave them on the table.¡± Su Jinyu was confused, ¡°Uhh, manager. Is it a good idea to do this during office hours?¡± ¡°Of course it is. This will be your next task. This has to do with the next game we are working on.¡± Everybody was confused. ¡°Alright, what are you staring at me for, get to work. Don¡¯t think these are child¡¯s y. It¡¯s not easy to do a good job. They looked at one another before opening their boxes and taking the blocks out. Zheng Hongxi was shocked to look at the huge amounts of tiny pieces in front of him, ¡°Can all these tiny pieces really be built into a cathedral? Why can¡¯t I believe this?¡± Zhou Hanyuughed awkwardly, ¡°I nned to buy one for my son, but I never did it. I didn¡¯t expect me to y before he did.¡± Jia Peng scowled as he read the instructions, ¡°It¡¯s soplicated!¡± ¡°There are so many tiny parts!¡± eximed Chang Xiuya. Qian Kun looked at the price tag on the box, ¡°My goodness, this mothership is three thousand nine hundred and ny-nine RMB! It¡¯s too expensive!¡± Wen Lingwei looked at everyone else dumbfounded, ¡°Is this... your first time touching Leggo? What happened to your childhood?¡± ¡°You¡¯re joking, who could afford a four thousand RMB toy in their childhood.¡± said Qian Kun. Chang Xiuya nodded, ¡°Yeah, this small box costs almost six hundred RMB.¡± ¡°Looks like senior exposed herself asing from a rich family.¡± expressed Jia Peng. Wen Lingwei rolled her eyes, ¡°How did you reach that conclusion?¡± Everyone grabbed the tiny parts out and started reading the instructions. Each set had many many parts. Chang Xiuya¡¯s train had over seven hudnred pieces, and Zhao Yunting who got the simplest green dinosaur had almost two hundred pieces. Qian Kun¡¯s Mothership and Zhou Hanyu¡¯s sports stadium was even more outrageous. A one person prototype at ny three pieces. Jia Peng had a ck sports car. As it was rtively easy, he progressed quite quickly. Jia Peng appreciated its exquisiteness as he assembled it. The windshield was really solid, and you could even see the tiny driver through it. The hood can be opened, the spoiler can be adjusted, the doors and be opened, and you could get the driver in and out of the car too. All four wheels on the car spun freely as well. The quality and build of this sport car seemed on par with specialised toy sports cars. Even the logo of the sports car and the headlights were really detailed, it looked like a perfect piece of art. Chang Xiuya was alsopletely focused on assembling her train. From the picture on the box, the train was red with a little man on the barricade on the side of the train, signaling. There were carriages behind the train too as well as a crane to load and unload the goods from the train. There was even a digger and a smaller helicopter on the train. Moreover the doors to the crain, digger, and helicopter could all be opened, and people can be ced into them too. Chang Xiuya was struggling a little, only managing to set the tracks down and assemble the main part of the train. Qian Kun was really struggling. The mothership was huge and had smaller solo aircrafts inside and on the deck. He had only managed to assemble two of the smaller aircrafts and was a long way away from starting on the mothership. With his eyes on the manual and his hands working, it didn¡¯t take long for Zheng Hongxi to finish assembling the cathedral. Su Jinyu was going quite well with her snow castle. However, she forgot a small piece during her assembly, so she had to take apart a lot of it to fit it back, leaving her a little broken on the inside. The others watching didn¡¯t really care for it at the start, but once the first item was finished, everyone¡¯s interest was piqued and started helping. Some were arranging the pieces. Others were helping with the manual. Some werebining parts together. All working while discussing. Chen Mo smiled, it seemed like everyone enjoyed something like this. He opened thergest box and pulled out various tiny pieces of different colours. It was different from the others as it didn¡¯t have a manual or a picture of the finished product. There were only pieces of various colours of specific sizes. TL note: [1] Intentional misspelling, addressed next chapter. Chapter 224 - A Dog Made From Bricks

Chapter 224: A Dog Made From Bricks

Wen Lingwei looked at all the bits and pieces in front of Chen Mo, ¡°Did you buy all this?¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Yeah.¡± ¡°What do you n to build?¡± ask Wen Lingwei. ¡°You¡¯ll know once I¡¯m done. Chen Mo started building, piece by piece. Wen Lingwei was really curious as she watched each and every movement of Chen Mo. Normally, people would buy Leggo sets, such as Jia Peng¡¯s car or Su Jinyu¡¯s Snow Castle. These were all designed by designers then broken into smaller pieces. They¡¯d buy the set and follow the instructions in the manual, it was only a matter of time to build the whole thing. However, there were some unusual yers too. There are people titled Leggo Certified Professionals outside of China. These people don¡¯t buy finished Leggo designs, but buy random blocks and create anything they could imagine. Buildings, sculptures, oil paintings, etc. They also judge their work like they would any other artistic piece, creating ssic sculptures such as Venus and David, and even some celebrities. This way it wasn¡¯t just a problem of time, but talent as well. Using pieces of rectangr blocks to make a one to one replica of a person was incredibly ridiculous, yet some manage to do it, attracting a lot of attention as well. There was a little piece inside Wen Lingwei who suspected Chen Mo was a Leggo master as well. Chen Mo grabbed pieces he needed from the big pile in front of him. He was looking for light yellow, dark brown, and ck. From the looks of it, light yellow was arge majority of the pieces he grabbed. Chen Mo moved quite quickly as well, one piece after another without much thinking time. However, Wen Lingwei had yet to figure out what Chen Mo was building. Chen Mo hadn¡¯t really touched Leggo prior to this. He had assembled a few sets of Leggo, but had never touched it since arriving in the parallel world. But because of how high his arts level were at, being incredibly original arts and modeling,bined with the huge amounts of Architecture Skill Books he just drew, with the Reaction Speed Serums and Hand Speed Boost Potions, he had the whole thing under control. If he had a rough idea in mind, he could swiftly turn it into life using Leggos. Soon, Chen Mo¡¯s foundation was done, three legs, a butt, and a tail. Wen Lingwei was so shocked her eyes were wide open as she could already tell it was the lower half of a dog, one that was sitting at that. Chen Mo didn¡¯t seem to be slowing down at all as he continued building. Soon, its waist, its paw in the air, its brown cor, and the head followed one after another. After adding its ck nose and eyes, Chen Mo breathed a sigh of relief and called it odne. ¡°My goodness manager, are you ying the same thing we are?¡± Everyone was stopped dead in their tracks for more than half an hour as they watched Chen Mo build the dog. The dog was cream in colour, with a brown cor. It was sitting with its right front paw in the air, head slightly tilted as if asking its owner to pet its head.¡± ¡°Wow, you built a bachelor dog[1]!¡± Chen Mo didn¡¯t respond. ¡°Can I touch it?¡± asked Wen Lingwei. ¡°Sure. Don¡¯t worry it won¡¯t break unless you drop it.¡± Wen Lingwei carefully patted the head of the dog. The stic of the Leggo was really familiar, but even though she touched it with her own hands, she still struggled to believe that it was made of Leggo. It was the same size as a medium dog, and looked really simr to. Or perhaps it was better described as a mosaic of a dog. This felt like a character from an old game recreated in real life. Although it was pixted, it looked really realistic, perfectly capturing the essence of a real dog. Wen Lingwei eximed, ¡°Not bad, manager. You could probably be a Leggo Certified Professional, maybe even a Leggo Master.¡± Su Jinyu asked, ¡°Is that good?¡± Wen Lingwei nodded, ¡°Of course, there¡¯s probably under ten of those in the entire world.¡± Qian Kun was shocked, ¡°My goodness, the manager is good at everything. How much do Leggo Certified Professionals earn?¡± Wen Lingwei gave it some thought, ¡°Hard to say, but something like this would probably sell for a few thousand USD.¡± Qian Kun was shocked, ¡°That only took him half an hour right? That means he¡¯d be paid over fifty thousand RMB an hour? My goodness!¡± Chen Mo replied, ¡°That¡¯s not much anyways,. you¡¯d work tirelessly everyday and still earn less than Onmyoji while doing nothing.¡± The silence was deafening. If Chen Mo wasn¡¯t the manager, he¡¯d probably be taken outside for a beating. Chen Mo stretched, ¡°Geez, that was quite easy. You keep working on it, try and get it done as soon as possible. I¡¯ll tell you about the new games once you are done, so you¡¯ll be dragging down the progress of the new game if you worked slowly.¡± Everyone got back to their seats to work on their sets. Qian Kun kept scratching his head, ¡°Why did you give me the hardest one. I can¡¯t take the burden of being the one dying the new game! ¡°Help me!!¡± ¡ª Before thinking about the new game, Chen Mo was thinking about how to get the leaders to understand his creative intentions better. He wanted to make a game that didn¡¯t exist in this world, and one that didn¡¯t seem all that interesting. Chen Mo though Leggos would work best. There were building bricks in this world too, which had a simr name to Lego in his previous life, named Leggo. Although these were really popr overseas, there weren¡¯t many people who could afford Leggo because of how expensive it was. Qian Kun¡¯s mother shit cost four thousand RMB with two thousand nine hundred and ny six incredibly detailed pieces. The finished product was nothing less than an artwork. The cheaper ones started from two hundred RMB, and most families couldn¡¯t afford spending that much money for a toy for their children. Once the kids got older, there were more toys to choose from, so they wouldn¡¯t pick Lego either. Even if there were people interested in Lego, they wouldn¡¯t buy the sets one after another, buying one or two tests for the taste of it at most. Therefore, Lego naturally had a smaller audience in China, as seen with the tiny amount of people who have yed with Lego in his office. TL note: [1] It¡¯smonly used as an insult, making fun of someone for being single, usually a guy. Chapter 225 - Appear, My World[1]

Chapter 225: Appear, My World[1]

There were many reasons for theck of knockoffs too. First was sales, a high quality detailed mould was really expensive. If there wasn¡¯t a guarantee of selling millions of it, there¡¯s no doubt that the business would go bankrupt. There was no way these knockoffpanies could invest that much money into it, nor could they sell that many. Second was a problem with quality. Leggo had over seven thousand different parts with twelve different pipelines, the mould would cost anywhere from forty to two hundred thousand Euros to produce. The error in the parts can¡¯t exceed one hundred of a centimeter, and there was a machine involved in testing if the parts fit well together, with less than twelve faulty parts per hundred thousand. The maintenance team had to check around three hundred moulds a day. Taking the consideration of human hours and quality assurance, there was no way they could decrease the price. A core part of Leggo¡¯spetitiveness came from theck of constraints. They could release one set today, another tomorrow, nes, boats, tanks, cars, buildings... There were always more things to release, so it was hard forpetitors to make knockoffs. That was why knockoff Leggo factories were put in such a bad position. If they decreased the price, there was no way they could guarantee the quality; If they assured the quality with little to no difference in price, why would they buy the knockoffs? That¡¯s why there were very few yers in Leggo despite how fun it was, leading to a gap in the market in enjoyment such as these. Therefore, following theck of abundance of Leggo, sandbox building games hadn¡¯t appeared in this world either. Chen Mo wanted to fill this market gap and let everyone know that the fun in creating is endless. ¡ª After testing the waters with Don¡¯t Starve, Chen Mo more or less what the yers in this world were after. There were many yers who liked sandbox games, and the yers in this world weren¡¯t any less creative. Don¡¯t Starve had sold over four million copies and had no signs of stopping. yer made mods were also appearing left and right. From nts vs Zombies, to Warcraft and now Don¡¯t Starve, the yers had shown time and time again how creative they were. After some consideration, Chen Mo felt that the time was right to release a sandbox game that had even more potential to be popr. This will serve as Chen Mo¡¯s first step into VR, and seemed like something safe and had a good outlook. More importantly, it was a good opportunity for Chen Mo. If the game did exceedingly well, it¡¯d create some talking points surrounding his game and Emperor Dynasty Entertainment¡¯s VR game. By then it¡¯ll be free buzz for his game, which would do wonder in promoting it. After thinking it out, Chen Mo started working on the design document for Minecraft. There were only two simple reasons for picking this game. First, it was incredibly sessful, it was almost synonymous with sandbox games; second, it was quite easy to make, and was the most feasible one for Chen Mo so far. However, there were still some risks involved in making a VR game. As the making of VR games was hugely different from making PC games. Setting aside the technical aspect of making games, there were also differences in design concept, infinitely increasing the risk of making a VR game. No matter the design concept in his previous life or experience in his parallel world, they were all focused on mobile and PC games, barely touching VR games. Even if some experience in making console games can be transferred to VR, the differences were stark. Moreover, the closer a VR game got to real life, the most expensive it was, the more detail that needed to be attended. Various resources would also increase dramatically. The best part about Minecraft was because it was a game with pixel art, meaning it was less demanding on various resources such as models and animations. With his experience from his previous life in hand, he was incredibly familiar with its design concept. The first goal of the development was to create Minecraft entirely and port it directly to VR, allowing yers to collect, and build in VR, with the core enjoyment of Minecraft still in ce. The second goal was to improve on Minecraft, bringing its graphics and details to another level, making it fit better to the tastes of yers in this world. The third goal of development was to make some changes to its gamey. Because of various reasons, a lot of interesting ystyles weren¡¯t feasible in the previous world. As the technology was more developed in this world, more ideas can be brought to life that couldn¡¯t be in the previous world. The core of Minecraft was pretty simple. First was building, which was entirely simr to building Legos. Other game modes like Survival were all additions to the game and could be addedter. ¡ª The design document was done in no time as it was finished within an evening. The next day, there were still quite a few in the meeting room in the experience store tackling thergest set. Zheng Hongxi¡¯s cathedral was the thirdst to bepleted. Although it had a lot of parts, itsposition was quite simple, there weren¡¯t any huge problems if they followed the manual step by step. The finished product looked great, the steeple and windows in particr looked identical to cathedrals in real life. Zhou Hanyu¡¯s sports center was the secondst to bepleted. Although the sports centre itself was quiteplicated, the things surrounding it were quite easy to assemble. Qian Kun¡¯s mother ship was thest to be finished, as the mothership was huge with many smaller ships inside it, it was a huge hassle toplete. Afterpleting the mothership, Qian Kun leaned back in his chair to breathe a sigh of relief, ¡°My goodness, that was so a toy like this takes too much effort!¡± The meeting room was like an exhibition of Legos with various different themes. There was a T-rex, snow castle, racecar, train, cathedral, and a sci-fi mothership. And Chen Mo¡¯s bachelor dog of course. ¡°No kidding. Although there were ancient and modern themes, animals, and robots, everything matches quite well together. The designers at Leggo are quite talented in that aspect,¡± expressed Zhou Hanyu. Zheng Hongxi couldn¡¯t get his hands off the cathedral either, even taking a few pictures. At this moment, Chen Mo walked into the meeting room, ¡°Let¡¯s see... Not bad, so everyone finished their tasks.¡± Qian Kun breathed another sigh of relief, ¡°Thank goodness I didn¡¯t drag everyone behind. Thanks for everyone¡¯s help at the end.¡± ¡°Manager, you said you¡¯d show us the concept draft for the new once we were done with assembling these sets. Where¡¯s the draft?¡± asked Su Jinyu. Chen Moughed, ¡°Rx, follow me. We¡¯ll talk more back in the office.¡± TL note[1]: Minecraft¡¯s Chinese name directly trantes to ¡®My World¡¯, so there¡¯s a double meaning there Chapter 226 - Disagreements in Idea

Chapter 226: Disagreements in Idea

In the office, everyone was waiting eagerly for Chen Mo to present the design document. Although they enjoyed themselves ying Leggo, the majority still didn¡¯t understand why Chen Mo had them do that, and even less so the connection between that and the new game. Moreover, Chen Mo previously hinted at a VR game previously. Many thought Chen Mo would develop a game around Azeroth or a VR RPG game following Diablo, but they were now doubting that after ying with the sets. What is the rtionship between Leggo and the new game? The powerpoint titled ¡®Minecraft design concept¡¯ was disyed on the screen. It was even simpler than Diablo as the presentation ended under ten minutes. There were three main points, the rules of the game, the packaging, and additional modes. The rules included the settings of the entire world, the restrictions yers had with gathering and building, day-night cycles, killing monsters survival mode, crafting equipment, etc. The packaging referred to making each block look as best as they can, allowing the yers to connect things in game to real life. Additional modes included the additional game modes that should be added in theter stages of the game, such as survival mode, creative mode, multiyer, etc. ¡°That¡¯s about it, any questions?¡± Chen Mo asked and looked around for their responses. Everybody looked at each other with the same expression on the face, ¡°That¡¯s it? Are you joking?¡± Zhou Hanyu cleared his throat, ¡°I don¡¯t think there¡¯s a big problem with the design concept, it was presented quite clearly. But as a VR game, isn¡¯t Minecraft a bit... simple?¡± Zheng Hongxi nodded, ¡°I think so too, there aren¡¯t any story elements in this game. There isn¡¯t much in terms of numerics either. It doesn¡¯t evene close to Warcraft in terms of itsplexity, much less Diablo. Zhou Hanyu added, ¡°Yeah, and aren¡¯t the demands for graphics a little bit too low? The other VR games all go for a realistic look, going as far as rendering individual strands of hair. Based on what we have so far, I don¡¯t even think we¡¯ll have five fingers.¡± ¡°I think there¡¯s room for discussion whether or not the joy of the game could single handedly support all the sales. Sure building Lego was quite fun, but we¡¯ll need some kind of instructions. If we were given a bunch of different bits and pieces, who¡¯d be able to get on the level of manager? We¡¯d be able to make a horrible monster at best,¡± said Qian Kun. Su Jinyu also pitched in, ¡°Yeah, I think so too. The main problem I have is, how many yers out there are able to utilize their creativity and explore the entire unrestricted world? Moreover, VR yers are a smaller market to start with.¡± Usually, the few original members also had some doubts for this design concept draft. Even though Su Jinyu and Zheng Hongxi had incredible trust in Chen Mo, that was built on grounds where Chen Mo¡¯s design concepts weren¡¯t dramatically different from theirs. Evidently, Minecraft didn¡¯t match what they had hoped to be Thunderbolt Entertainment¡¯s first VR game. Chen Moughed as he didn¡¯t mind the doubts the others had for his design concept. Chen Mo spent all that effort to raise his three assistants to have their own thoughts and ideas after all. He wanted them to have their own perspectives instead of just having their head down and following whatever Chen Mo wanted to do. All these questions meant that they had their own thoughts, which happened to be a good thing. Chen Mo asked after a few moments, ¡°What do you guys think about Don¡¯t Starve?¡± Everyone was shocked, before Su Jinyu answered, ¡°Umm, the gamey¡¯s great, the sales were great, but it wasn¡¯t a top level game.¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°What was the secret of Don¡¯t Starve¡¯s sess?¡± ¡°Umm... recreating the needs of survival, rich gamey, and a sandbox game that allows yers to explore and create freely,¡± answered Su Jinyu. Chen Mo nodded, ¡°That¡¯s right. The reason Don¡¯t Starve seeded was because it was a sandbox game, and one that included the survival aspect. Did it have high quality graphics?¡± ¡°...no,¡± replied Su Jinyu. Chen Mo raised another question, ¡°Does Don¡¯t Starve have a story? Is itplex numerically? Does it have a good new yer system? Did you guys manage to guess the sales before its release?¡± Everyone looked at each other. Chen Mo continued, ¡°It doesn¡¯t have a story, not aplex numerical system. There is basically no new yer system, and everyone thought it would be a niche game before its release, nobody thought it would sell over four million copies. What does this tell us? ¡°It tells us that there¡¯s no need for a story in sandbox games, there¡¯s no need for aplex numerical system, nor is there a need for a good new yer introduction. What sandbox games need is freedom. With freedom, we can sacrifice anything. ¡°Like the pixel graphics, sacrificing everything for freedom.¡± Chen Mo paused to look at their reactions. Everyone was thinking about the meaning behind Chen Mo¡¯s speech. Chen Mo continued, ¡°What¡¯s the smallest piece of Leggo? 7.8mm width and length, by 9.6mm tall. It¡¯s less than 1cm3 in volume. ¡°Why was it that specific size? Because if it was any smaller, it¡¯d be hard to build with, anyrger and it won¡¯t do well with details. Leggo¡¯s dimensions took into consideration its utility and usability, the best result the designers arrived at. ¡°Simrly, if we want yers to have creative freedom in Minecraft, we also need to care about both usability and utility.¡± ¡°And we would arrive at pixel graphics every time. Do you remember the dog I built? That¡¯s pixel graphics. Therefore, we have no choice other than to do the same with our game.¡± Now, most understood what Chen Mo was going for. Chen Mo¡¯s idea was as follows, first make sandbox games like Leggo, which was why only pixel graphics could work. Moreover, Chen Mo thinks that it was enough to guarantee creativity, other aspects such as graphics, numerics, story, and ystyle weren¡¯t important at all. The design document was birthed under ideas like that. A few moments of silence followed as everyone contemted Chen Mo¡¯s words. Su Jinyu nodded, ¡°Sure, I understand. Since you¡¯ve thought of this clearly, I support this idea.¡± Qian Kun added, ¡°Ok, we¡¯ll try that! I think if a game could recreate the joy of building Leggos, it¡¯ll surely be fun!¡± Zhou Hanyu also pitched in, ¡°I still don¡¯t fully believe in it, but I¡¯ll think more into the graphics department. Even if it was pixel graphics, there¡¯s bound to be a best looking pixel graphic in the world.¡± Chen Moughed, ¡°Don¡¯t worry, this game won¡¯t disappoint.¡± Chapter 227 - VR Game Development Principles

Chapter 227: VR Game Development Principles

How popr was Minecraft in Chen Mo¡¯s previous world? In a nutshell, it is the most sessful indie game in terms of poprity and business bar none; it¡¯s the second most sold game in the world, exceeding 100 million copies, second only to Tetris. Upon considering 2009, the year when Minecraft was released, there were already quite a few decent PC and console games, it was nothing short of a miracle to be able to achieve sess like that. Moreover, Minecraft could and was ported to PC, console, tablets and mobile. There are some more numbers that could back up this incredible poprity. In 2014, Mojang the studio responsible for Minecraft was purchased by Microsoft with 2.5 billion USD. Minecraft had over 4.31 billion views on Youtube. There were over ten million yers joining the beta test, making it the most popr game in beat. Ordnance Survey of Britain recreated the entire British Isle with twenty-two billion blocks. What mysterious power did the game have to be able to attract so many yers? To put it simply, Minecraft dramatically decreased the difficulty of making a 3D object onputers. Many have had ideas of creating their own space/world. They might realise it through sandcastles, Legos, or paper mache when they were younger, and use games to do that when they get older. There are many ways to create a virtual world on theputer, but traditional 3D softwares possessed a steep learning curve, and many didn¡¯t have the patience to do it from scratch. And Minecraft was a way for the vast majority to easily create a 3D world. They just had to put the block down. There was no need for materials, textures, rendering, terrain, vegetation, or particle effects. All you had to do was ce down the block you chose. The blocks in Minecraft were all 1m*1m*1m, so yers wouldn¡¯t find themselves losing perspective in the virtual work, and the finished products would be more believable too. Moreover, Minecraft wasn¡¯t just a method for creating worlds, it had really rich gamey as well. For Chen Mo, porting this game to VR was something really challenging, and really meaningful. ¡ª After having gone through the design document, everyone started working. Chen Mo¡¯s mention of tech-trees, artstyle, and the game modes were enough to keep them upied for a long time. There wasn¡¯t anything to use as reference after all, how would you approach a game that was simr to Leggos? What would it look like? How do you deal with details? This was something everyone had to think long and hard. Chen Mo went back to his office on the second floor of the experience store and started looking into the restrictions he had making VR games. The Illusion Game Editor supported VR games, but the ways of making a game were much different than PC and mobile games. As an A-grade videogame designer and an honorary member of the Game Committee, he had plenty of rights in the Illusion Game Editor and could start working on VR games. Chen Mo had already looked through the process of making VR games since he became an A-grade videogame designer, he just wanted to look through it again. Chen Mo had experienced VR games himself, through Earth Online. Simply put, VR allows yers to upload their consciousness into the VR gaming pod, and was able to receive feedback from it too. The VR gaming pod reced the needs for inputs/outputs such as keyboards, mice, and disyers, bridging the gap between consciousness of the yer and the virtual world. The gaming pod is also able to analyse the consciousness of the yer. For example, if the yer wants to reach their hand out to grab something, the gaming pod would be able to recognise that input and turn it into an action within the game, allowing them to pick up that object in game. It was a simr case with walking, climbing, jumping, shooting, all of which were done in the same way. Theoretically, the VR technology of this world could analyse any intentions the yer has, but it was up to the designers to trante them into actions in games. In a cold weapons game, the yer could think out pulling the trigger in game, but the game would reject as such an input shouldn¡¯t happen. Whichevers input to support were all up to the designers. If you were a soldier with a gun in the game and wanted to ce the gun beneath your feet, but the designer didn¡¯t intend for such an interaction, nothing would happen. It may sound weird, but it was something yers get used to after ying a while. (Just like in AAA titles where you could only do whatever the story has you do.) Therefore the more actions the designer nned for, the more freedom the yer had, the more things they could do, the more real the game would feel. With that meant a greater hardware demand and a more tiring gaming experience. This was also why RTS games weren¡¯tmon in VR. No advantage in terms of graphics. Huge resource demand. It took a lot out of the yers, meaning they couldn¡¯t y it for long. For example in a VR RTS game, the yer would need to select units and what actions they would perform constantly while thinking about their tactics. This was extremely taxing on the yers. Even though it was the same on PC, yers had to do all of the same things, but everything was done using mouse and keyboard, and a lot of it could be muscle memory, decreasing the load on the yer. Therefore, some VR games would intentionally simplify some actions to prevent tiring the yers out from repetitive actions, and in turn extending the amount of ytime. For example, in some VR games, all attacks and punches, with no input into which direction, angle, or strength in order to simplify the number of actions which in turn reduces the demand on the yers. Moreover, VR games are able to stimte all senses, including sight, hearing, smell, and touch. The visual signals transmitted to the yers are just like the 124¡ã bifocal nature of humans, with around 25¡ã of focus, just like real life. Hearing and smell were also transmitted to yers to stimte real life sound and smells. ¡ª Next were the differences of design concepts in VR. Chapter 228 - Basic Rules of the World

Chapter 228: Basic Rules of the World

Every game had design restrictions based on their tform. For example, racing games on PC always only had two perspectives, from the inside of the car or outside the car. It was because the field of view in first person PC games are usually 75¡ã to 90¡ã, whereas humans have a 124¡ã field of view. Meaning, because of restrictions of a disy on PC, it was impossible to haveplete representation from a human point of view outside of having two more monitors. Most yers wouldn¡¯t get two more monitors just to y racing games, so the viewing angle within the car would feel really narrow. At times like these, a view from the top of the car is needed as the field of view is widened, meaning that the yers could see more, making it feel more natural. (This applied to PUBG as well.) This design of having two different perspectives was a result of limitations of PC. Simrly, although VR games were way better at conveying games than PC, it also had a simr downfall. The designs of VR games were also restricted by VR technology. Most popr VR games were in first person mode, and the flow of producing games all followed the same ¡®release on PC before porting to VR¡¯ model. First step of porting a PC game was to improve the quality of the graphics and models to meet the requirements of a VR game. This improvement would normally cost about ten times the resource. This was also where most of the money goes. The second step was to port PC controls in VR controls. This was mostly done in the game editor, converting signals received from yers using special equipment and converting it one to one to the established controls. For example, the design could use his intentions of jumping and link it to jumping in the game. When the yers would think about jumping, the character in the game would follow. The game would also have an increased field of view up to 124¡ã. Other senses such as smell, hearing, and touch would also be ported to the VR. Third step was to make minor changes ording to the game to make it feel better for VR yers. ¡ª After looking through the main points he had to consider making a VR game, Chen Mo started working on the rules of Minecraft. In the first stage, Chen Mo nned to make it on PC and recreate the original before porting it to VR. First was the basic rules of the world. Chen Mo nned for single yer modes as well as local and online multiyer modes. Of which, singleyer and local multiyer could be interchanged (just like Diablo 3), and the worlds could grow indefinitely as it would be procedurally generated by the game (A limit on yers should be added.). Online maps should support up to ten thousand yers. The world would be locked at one hundred thousand square kilometers, which would be simr in area to a province. The basic resources would be more or less the same as the original Minecraft, such as stone, water,va, sand, gravel, gold, iron, coal, wood, leaves, diamond, ice... More could be added depending on the situation. Other crafting material such as sticks, nks, leather, seeds, equipment used to gather such as shovels and pickaxes, transportation such as rails, minecarts and boats, tools for fighting such as sword, helmet, and chestpiece... There were hundreds of these, and more could be added in the future. Although Chen Mo hadn¡¯t looked at the design document for Minecraft, he could guess what the generation rules looked like. First was generating the base of the world and the shape of thend. Generate various biomes and their -edges, adding hills and mountains- adding ocean edges to these biomes- minor adjustments- add rivers. Step two was filling in the stone, water and air blocks based on the height limit. Third waspleting the biomes, adding grass and stone if it was ins, adding sand and stone if it was a desert... Filling in the entire map as well as adding bedrock. Fourth was generating special structures such as caves, ravines, ore deposits, viges, temples, ocean monuments... Special structures such as viges and desert temples were formed using predetermined resources. Chen Mo thought that he could add more special structures to make the world feel even more alive. Fifth was generating light. Sixth was adding special units (furnaces and chests have their own random algorithm). Seventh was generating pools of water and magma. Obviouslyva pools have a much lower spawn rate than water pools. Eight was adding ore. The types of ore are mainly determined by the height, such as dirt, gravel, coal, iron, gold, restone, diamond... Ninth was adding the little details such as sand, y and gravel next to bodies of water, nts, trees and mushrooms on soil... Last but not least was adding mobs such as cows, shepe, pigs, and chicken. Of course, this was Chen Mo¡¯s guess. It might be different from the original Minecraft, but it wouldn¡¯t be too far off. After this process, the world wasplete and the yers could start exploring as their own little character. The actions yers could perform in the original game included moving, jumping, attacking, mining and cing. There were also some animation mods that added climbing, hanging, sneaking, and facial expressions. Chen Mo could do all of these animations and increase the animations the yers had to make it feel more realistic (of course, the graphics needed to be improved ordingly). A dozen or so animations weren¡¯t a big deal for a big VR RPG game, nor will the yers feel drained and overwhelmed by the number of controls, allowing the yers to y for a long time while improving the depth of the game. Moreover, Chen Mo was thinking about improving on the other aspects of the game. For example, in the original the yers could craft doors and sticks with nks using the world bench. Chen Mo nned to expand on this to allow the yers to craft more items while making it more clear and concise. Chapter 229 - Yan Zhenyuans Thousand Hells

Chapter 229: Yan Zhenyuan¡¯s Thousand Hells

It had been nearly four months since Yan Zhenyuan started working on a VR version of Diablo. Although Emperor Dynasty Entertainment tried to keep everything to themselves, it was inevitable that the news would get out. Of course there were many rumours, nobody could tell which was true or false. Yan Zhenyuan¡¯s VR game was called Thousand Hells with an original IP. Rumours has it that a deal was made with a popr web novelist to release a novel by the same name at the same time. This game had strong ties to Buddhism, and had a simr style to Asura from Chen Mo¡¯s previous life. Thousand Hells was based in a world of eternal darkness filled with demons. Various demons from the thousand hells broke their seal and invaded the human world. The yer ys the role of the six realms as they enter the depths of hell to banish countless demons, reestablishing the seal, saving the human race. Thousand Hells had six different sses, or the six different realms, heavens, demigod, humans, animals, hungry ghosts, and hellspawn. Just like Diablo, all the sses were damage dealing sses with different methods of dealing damage. Heavens was simr to holy magic, an embodiment of holiness. Humans were simr to hunters or assassins, which was the hero who represented humans. Animals should shape shift into beasts simr to druids, but their different forms were all mythical creatures. Demigods were simr to berserkers to barbarians, violent and had great survivability. Hungry ghosts were simr to necromancers with the ability to summon demons to fight by their side. Hellspawn were simr to Warlocks with control over dark magic, based around damage over time and negative effects. It was different from heavens as it represented a part of hell that stood by humans. The sses in Thousand Hells were well designed, as it manages to incorporate the six realms deep into its design while bringing out the uniqueness of the different sses. Most importantly, the six sses all had inspiration from sses in Diablo. The demigod for example took some inspiration from Barbarians in Diablo. With a sessful PC game like Diablo as reference, the chance of Thousand Hells seeding would be much higher as it minimised the risks. Based on the current avable information, Thousand Hells did an impable job in terms of its packaging. In terms of the gamey, as Thousand Hells was still in its early stages, there hadn¡¯t been much leaked regarding gamey other than the basics. The yers would y as the embodiment of the six realms as they fight their way into hell, killing waves upon waves on enemies to seal the demons away, returning peace to the humans. This was simr to Diablo 1 where the yers fight their way into hell. Each level of hell featured a rtivelyrge procedurally generated map, so was the entrance to the next level, which required exploration to find. There were differences in art style from floor to floor, fire, ice, mirrors, knives, blood... Of course there wouldn¡¯t be a thousand different themes in a thousand different levels, the themes would have to be reused for a certain amount of levels. Simr to Diablo, there were horrifying elements such as execution, climbing up mountains of des, pots of boiling oil and other hopeless elements. (Of course this game was rated 18+) When considering that it would be even more visually stimting, Yan Zhenyuan would surely make some beautification to the contents of the game to prevent the realism from keeping the yers away. There were human towns at the higher levels of hell to allow yers to trade and interact with one another. It was a rtively empty world with an ancient, technologyless theme. It was hard to tell which period it was from other than some religious elements. Other things such as the social system and other unique y styles have yet to be leaked. ¡ª Chen Mo was thinking what the final product would look like. Based on the information so far, Chen Mo could already tell what Thousand Hells would look like on PC, but he had no clue what it would look like on VR. There was a huge change in field of view afterall, with many changes following that. Chen Mo thought that it might be simr to Dynasty Warriors. Of course, all would be clear after the game was made. The three assistants were trying their best to finish some of the smaller details in Minecraft. Qian Kun handed over a document to Chen Mo specifying Minecraft¡¯s crafting system. In the design document, Chen Mo hinted at a crafting table and how to make various tools without specifying which tools, leaving that to Qian Kun to design. Chen Mo looked at the crafting system design document. ¡°MAnager, the early stages of the game are quite clear cut as the yers could craft tools and weapons. Tools included axes, and pickaxes, and weapons included sword and armor. But I¡¯m not quite sure about thete game, what¡¯s the technological ceiling of this game?¡± asked Qian Kun. Chen Mo replied after a few moments, ¡°Really high.¡± ¡°How high is really high?¡± ¡°Rockets.¡± Qian Kun¡¯s eyes widened, ¡°R-rockets?¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Remember that there were trains, cars, and rockets in Leggo? Consider adding those to Minecraft.¡± Qian Kun scratched his head, ¡°WHat? Isn¡¯t a rocket tooplicated? Moreover where would it go?¡± ¡°Think outside of the box. There are two ways of crafting in Minecraft, one is arranging items in a specific order in the crafting table, the other is cing blocks in the world, and it crafts itself. ¡°For example, I¡¯ll arrange blocks into the shape of a man to form an Iron Golem. ¡°We could also add moreplicated tech trees. We could use several unique items to craft a control unit, and whenbined with fuel, reinforcement, and switches, we could create trains or even rockets.¡± ¡°I think I get it,¡± replied Qian Kun. Chen Mo continued, ¡°It doesn¡¯t have to be based on real life. You could create a whole new tech tree in this world just like Don¡¯t Starve.¡± Qian Kun seemed to have understood, ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll... Rewrite this then.¡± Chapter 230 - First Version

Chapter 230: First Version

Chen Mo nned some huge changes, but it¡¯d probably only be realised in the second or third stages of the release. A part of it was to implement a moreplete tech tree to allow yers to ce down blocks to build more advanced items such as cars or trains, and potentially recreate modern cities. Of course many have done this in his previous life, but a lot of it was stationary and non-interactive. Chen Mo wanted to add these technologies as a core part of the game. However, these were problems to be dealt with in the future. ¡ª It didn¡¯t take long for Minecraft¡¯s PC Demo to bepleted. However, everyone outside of Chen Mo thought that it was horrible to look at. Chen Mo didn¡¯t mind as he tried out the demo of Minecraft on hisptop. Everyone else were nervously watching behind Chen Mo as they feared Chen Mo wouldn¡¯t be satisfied with that. The starting menu was incredibly simple with only two buttons present, ¡®Start game¡¯, and ¡®Quit¡¯. Chen Mo hit ¡®Start game¡¯, and the world started generating. Soon, the game started. The game was in first person with no other UIs such as health, hunger, or inventory. There was a simplistic hand on the right of the screen to represent the yer¡¯s hand. The yer could fly freely in the demo. Chen Mo flew around in the world to check out the terrain and other generated resources. Ocean, mountains, rivers, grasnds, trees, animals... Thend was in order without any major problems. The graphics weren¡¯t great as they were ceholders Zhou Hanyu added in a short amount of time, more or less identical to the quality of graphics in his previous life. It would look alright on mobile, but it¡¯d be horrible on VR. Chen Mo ttened the top of a mountain in game and started building using cobblestone. Soon, a small cobblestone formed on top of the mountain. Chen Mo ran around the house for a better look before he entered the building, seemingly quite satisfied. ¡°Yep, that¡¯s great. This feels right, just keep going in this direction. Just focus on hitting the first goal and I¡¯ll prepare the rest,¡± said Chen Mo. Everyone got back to their seats and continued working. Zhou Hanyu said, ¡°Manager, I¡¯d like to discuss some things in terms of the graphics.¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Okay, I¡¯ve been wanting to chat with you anyways. Let¡¯s talk in the meeting room.¡± The two of them headed to the meeting room. Zhou Hanyu then pulled out a few printed images. ¡°These are the ideas I have in mind, but I haven¡¯t decided on which one.¡± Zhou Hanyu handed CHen Mo different pictures as he exined. ¡°There aren¡¯t major differences with the art styles, just some differences in the small details. It¡¯s hard to have more detail in pixel graphics anyways.¡± Chen Mo looked through the pictures and picked out the one he liked the most, ¡°This one, and I have a few things to remind you. ¡°First, as special resources such as water andva or the sky aren¡¯t required to be in blocks, make sure they look as realistic as possible. ¡°The style for other blocks, in particr the mountains, should be soft. Try softening hard edges and make it look more dynamic and aesthetically pleasing. ¡°The other was the 3D feel. You could use lighting and shadows to make the blocks feel even more 3D, such as gaps between nks or bricks. This can make it feel more realistic. ¡°You should also add more details to patterns to make the game feel less grainy. ¡°You could also pick more contrasting colours for different blocks to help yers differentiate between them. ¡°The game should give off a bright, fairytale-like world. ¡°You should refer to Leggos when ites to details such as character models. Special tools such as swords and pickaxes don¡¯t have to be in pixels, it¡¯d be great if you could make it look like a high quality Leggo build. ¡°The characters should be on the cuter side and make them more detailed. I want to add facial expressions in the future, so the faces of the characters should be clear enough to identify that face and facial expressions. ¡°Also, I want to add a ¡®Chisel mode¡¯ in the future, to allow yer to break down 1m*1m*1m blocks into 64 smaller blocks, so take that into consideration too.¡± Zhou Hanyu took down notes as Chen Mo exined. Just as usual, Chen Mo exined everything in detail to avoid mimunications. ¡°Alright, I understand,¡± Zhou Hanyu made notes on everything important. ¡°You can start preparing the graphical resources, we can add more details after the first version isplete, when we port it to VR. You have plenty of time, so make use of it,¡± said Chen Mo. Zhou Hanyu nodded, ¡°Sure.¡± ¡ª The development of Minecraft had been going well so far, although it wasn¡¯t particrly hard anyways as the original game in Chen Mo¡¯s previous life was built by a single person. After having the rules and settings of the world down, Chen Mo took the building of special buildings which would be added during world generation such as viges, mineshafts, and temples into his own hands. Chen Mo nned to add more hand-made resources into the future to add into terrain generation. The PC version of Minecraft was on par with the original version before Chinese New Year came. Everyone was quite happy with the game at this stage, but many still didn¡¯t feel well upon considering the fact that this was the VR game that would go against Thousand Hells. The high quality graphics of Thousand Hells was miles away from Minecraft after all. ¡ª Chen Mo declined all activities before Chinese New Year to focus on Minecraft. Chen Mo only showed up to the Awards Ceremony and didn¡¯t participate too much, and neither Diablo nor Don¡¯t Starve was awarded. It was within reason as these games didn¡¯t fit the tastes of the judges. Diablo was a western fantasy game with an incredibly dark theme, and its ystyle wasn¡¯t particrly revolutionary either; whereas Don¡¯t Starve wasn¡¯t for an award as it was a smaller game. Moreover, the judges of this world didn¡¯t have high expectations for sandbox games. In the eyes of many of the judges, Don¡¯t Start was just a niche game that happened to get higher than average sales, and couldn¡¯t make it as one of the greats. Chapter 231 - Transfer Complete

Chapter 231: Transfer Complete

The development of Minecraft continued after Chinese New Year. The game was still a ways away from the final product after the first stage. It was already quite a feat to recreate Minecraft, but Chen Mo wanted more, hoping to recreate it in VR. The next step was to port Minecraft to VR. -Second floor of the experience store- Chen Mo took off his special consciousness gathering helmet to stretch his neck. The consciousness gathering wasplete, now the thoughts of moving, jumping, attacking, cing, using, crafting were tranted into actions in VR. Chen Mo then entered everything into the Illusion Game Editor, linking the thoughts to movements in game. Conversion of the rules from PC to VR was also ongoing in the game editor. The conversion to a 3D PC game to VR was quite quick. Of course, if the game was innately big and had a lot of resources, this process would be much longer. Luckily, the rules of Minecraftwas quite simple with not many resources in y, so the conversion happened quite quickly. Chen Mo installed the VR version of Minecraft onto the gaming pod to try it out. Soon, Chen Mo¡¯s consciousness entered the VR world. A new world was generated as specified, and Chen Mo could feel himself fully immersed in the world. However, the situation could only be described as very terrible. First was the horrible graphics. In VR, the field of view of the yers were increased, so some of the rougher details can¡¯t escape the eyes of the yers. The jaggedness of the pixel graphics were incredibly obvious. Looking down revealed an ugly, blocky person, with legs like meat in a can and no fingers. Looking around revealed the trees, rivers, mountains, and animals, all of which wasn¡¯t what Chen Mo had in mind. These graphics were eptable on PC, but with the wider field of view in VR, all the ws were magnified, so bad that it almost feels like another game. The movements were smooth, and the feedback from the environment was incrediblycking. In VR, yers didn¡¯t y the game using keyboard and mouse, but using their consciousness. Although CHen Mo already gathered the thoughts for all of the controls, he realised that it was far from enough after trying it out in game. It was quitecking, especially whenpared to a mature VR game like Earth Online. For example, Chen Mo felt as though he was on a unicycle when he was moving as it was really weird without any bobbing. It felt like he was floating through the air too, as opposed to having his feet on the ground. There wasn¡¯t any feedback grabbing tools, and actions such as jumping, mining, and cing felt like someone else was doing it. All in all, the first VR version of Minecraft felt the same as VR goggles in his previous life, other than a change in perspective, there wasn¡¯t much difference. This version was so bad it felt insulting to have his VR pod run the game. These problems seemed to have stemmed from Chen Mo¡¯s inexperience with VR games. Luckily it seemed to be an easy problem to solve with enough time and effort into it. Improve actions, add view bobbing. Add various haptic feedback. Add resources for the other senses such as smell and hearing (improving them to a high quality of course). And improve all aspects of the graphics at the same time. Although it was still the same pixel art style after being imported to VR, Zhou Hanyu improved on many aspects as per Chen Mo¡¯s request. Basic blocks such as dirt, stone, ss, good, and leaves had patterns to make it feel more textured and softened the edges. These changes surpassed the graphical quality of many mods in his previous life. Moreover, Chen Mo added a ¡®Chisel Mode¡¯. This allowed basic blocks to be broken into sixty four different pieces to allow yers to perform detailed work, making creations resemble closer to real life. This ¡®Chizel Mode¡¯ was also used during world generation to soften the edges of the blocks to make the world feel more tied together and realistic. Other than blocks, characters, animals, adn weapons were all formed as though they were Leggo, keeping its cute art style while adding detail. The characters for example, although it still maintained the 3:1 ratio of body to head, the head, arms and legs were no longer cubes, but round, just like Disney characters in Leggo. It made the characters fit in better in the world, while giving the models more detail. At the same time, in order to make it better fit with multiyer, CHen Mo added a few more models. These models also took inspiration from the people from Leggo, with various different types of costumes such as suit and tie, cowboy, casual wear, firefighter, race car driver, pirate... Moreover, the yers could mix and match their tops, pants, hats, and shoes. These clothes didn¡¯t take much effort as they were cute versions of it after all, unlike the bigger games that specify every single strand of hair. Chen Mo also added a basic set of facial expressions with a happy face, sad face, and angry face, allowing yers to freely use in game. The second stage took a rtively long time, over two months in total. This version was finally a passable VR game. Although it¡¯s still pixel graphics, it wasn¡¯t rough or repulsive. The characters were still cute and simple, but had various different animals for walking, jumping, and taking damage. The field of view would slightly move as the body felt the vibrations, just like real life. The feedback from the game was also quiteplete, making the game feel much more realistic with walking, jumping, attacking, cing feedback implemented. The yers would feel their hands grabbing onto the wooden handle of their pickaxe when mining, and they could feel the vibrations through their hand into their body. Minecraft had been sessfully ported from PC onto VR. Next was the most important step or adding more to the game as well as additional game modes. Chapter 232 - Additional Game Modes

Chapter 232: Additional Game Modes

As the main source of entertainment of Minecraft came from creating, everything Chen Mo added to the game was built around creation. First the game modes. There were four game modes: Minecraft (Single yer), Somebody else¡¯s world (Local Multiyer), Everybody¡¯s world (Online mode), Chen Mo¡¯s world (observer mode.) Single yer mode was just like the original, with Survival, adventure, and creative gamemodes, the yers could experience all the game had to offer through these modes. Just like Diablo, the yers could open their single yer worlds to allow other yers to join either through random matching or specific invitations. In local multiyer mode, the host had rights to kick and mute yers, as well as the ability to revert those changes. In online mode, Chen mo hosted many servers, each able to fit ten thousand yers with ten thousand km3 of explorablend. This world wasn¡¯t a, but a gxy. All servers started off the same with identical maps, but yers could make changes to the world as they wished. How the server ended up lookingpletely depended on the yers. With this many different servers change would result in the same amount of unique worlds. The yers could set up ns within servers, they could be peaceful or be hostile and attack or steal from other ns or even attack and destroy the buildings of the other ns. Basically, servers may be able to world together towards amon goal or go at each other¡¯s throats and be in a constant state of chaos. yers could visit Chen Mo¡¯s creations in Chen Mo¡¯s world, or observer mode, and couldn¡¯t make any changes. Second, the construction trading system. Chen Mo considered including a construction in the game to help the yers who couldn¡¯t build at all. Moreover it could help the game generate some side revenue. Chen Mo will build many different buildings in Chen Mo¡¯s world, some may be from real life such as ancient pces, clock towers, cathedrals, twin towers, or even things from fantasy world such as Stormwind City, Bastion¡¯s Keep, or something more sci-fi such as Space Stations or Space elevators. The blueprints of these buildings could be bought with a price, and the yers would own the methods of building them forever. With enough resources, they could replicate these structures no matter in single or multiyer mode. Of course, the yers could use their creativity and buildpletely original creations. The yers could release the blueprints for the buildings they built and others could purchase the blueprints from them (if there¡¯s anyone who¡¯s willing). Third, the tech tree. The tech tree was incredibly simple in the original Minecraft. Although the yers could makeputers using redstone, they couldn¡¯t make cars, nes, or spacecraft. Chen Mo nned to include a full scale tech tree to allow yers to build spacecraft to migrate into space. (That¡¯s why online mode was a whole gxy) OF course, these tech trees wouldn¡¯t be the same as real life. For example, all special methods of transportations areposed of fuel, force generation units, control units, main ingredients, reinforcement materials and otherponents. The force generation unit was akin to generators, control units are the control ns, main ingredients referred to the main material referred to what these methods of transport were mainly made of, and the reinforcement material made sure they wouldn¡¯t disintegrate when travelling at high speeds. The yers could craft any of these modes of transport as long as they had the right resources and arranged them in the right way. (The yers could customise them, but only how they look.) Of course, things such as control units, fuel, required special materials, and the yers would slowly explore how to craft them. The yers would go through the experience of climbing the tech tree, starting from nothing and turning the world into a world filled with technology. Moreover, the tech three also had an alchemy system. The yers could receive various effects by brewing potions using various ingredients, such as the ability to survive in space. Of course, the tech tree and the rest of the world have to be unlocked progressive over time. The yers have to reach certain requirements to progress to the next stage as they slowly but surely leave their mother to the rest of the gxy. With these additional mechanics as well as a morepletely new yer introduction, Chen Mo believed that this VR Minecraft will be more attractive than the original! ¡ª The final stages of development were now on the agenda, the game could finally be consideredplete with all these additional y styles added into the game. The first beta test of Thousand Hells was also out. As Thousand Hells had a lot more content than Minecraft, they¡¯d test and review the feedback earlier, as abilities of various jobs, difficulties, and other relevant gamey had to be tweaked to reach its full potential. -Inside the world of Thousand Hells. This was an ancient city that was in perpetual darkness. There are temples, shrines, and various ancient buildings. The towns were riddled with hopelessness, filled with monks practicing tapas[1], disease-ridden beggars, and struggling peasants. Chen Mo picked a male human. He looked just like a normal human with a longbow behind him and a dagger at his waist, suggesting that he was a dangerous character. He looked around as if he was looking for someone. ¡°Manager?¡± Chen Mo turned around to find Lin Xue¡¯s female Heavens character behind him. Lin Xue¡¯s character looked like a god with various weapons floating around her. She looked incredibly elegant as her clothing waspletely spotless. ¡°You¡¯re here.¡± said Chen Mo. ¡°Yeah, but I¡¯m wondering how you be a beta tester. I thought only a few of Emperor Dynasty Entertainment¡¯s beta testers have a chance of getting a key?¡± asked Lin Xue. ¡°I paid for it of course. Lin Chaoxu wasn¡¯t going to give me a key even if I asked for one.¡± ¡°... Fair point.¡± ¡°Let¡¯s see how this game ys,¡± said Chen Mo. One after another, the two of them headed towards the massive gate to hell in the vige. TL note: [1] refers to meditation and self-discipline Chapter 233 - Thousand Hells Beta Test

Chapter 233: Thousand Hells Beta Test

Chen Mo and Lin Xue went through a simple tutorial before they officially entered the gates of hell. There were a few low level demons that had to be defeated to save a few vigers toplete the quest. After saving the cksmith and shopkeeper, these functions were unlocked. Of course, there weren¡¯t many functions avable, most likely unlocked in the future. As they entered the gates of hell, countless illusions surrounded the two of them as if they were transmigrating to a new world. This was just actually just a loading screen. However, arge group of demons charged towards them the moment they finished loading. There were tiny baby skeletons, skeletal birds flying in the sky, demon snakes with many teeth, giant scorpions with their stingers held high... Chen Mo used his Volley ability to rain down arrows from the sky at the monsters. And to be honest, VR and PC feltpletely different. In VR, Chen Mo¡¯s field of view was identical in real life. Combined with the sounds, smells and haptic feedback, he felt more immersed into the game than PC games. He could still feel that it was a game, but many aspects of the game strongly resemble real life. Of course, the smells weren¡¯tpletely disgusting, and were just there to add to the atmosphere. Using his bow and arrows and various abilities, the monsters in front of him fell one after another. His character would use abilities the moment Chen MO thought of it. Chen Mo could feel the bow in his left hand and the string on his right. He could even feel the vibrations from letting go of the arrow. The groans from the monsters came from all directions, as the yers be more and more immersed under such a tense atmosphere. OF course, the yers could turn, move, and jump with everything mirrored in the game, making it feel incredibly realistic. Lin Xue¡¯s Heavens character let out a range of different spells. Lightning rained down from the heavens turning monsters into ash; pouring rain turning the ground into mud, trapping and slowing down these monsters. Soon, the monsters ahead of them were all gone as their corpses disappeared. The two of them collected the equipment and monster shards that were dropped. The monster shards were the currency in this game. They could be used in trading, changed into coins, or used as a crafting ingredient. Chen Mo used Shadow Walk and rushed towards a small group of monsters. Chen Mo aggroed the mobs before the two of them used their abilities. Both of them were long range characters, and both were quite good at the game and had great synergy without the need tomunicate their thoughts. After nearly an hour, the two of them cleared out all the monsters in the first floor and the miniboss guarding the first floor. This meant they fully cleared the level, allowing the sun to shine again. At the same time, the entrance for the second floor appeared. The two of them were level seven after an hour of battling. They unlocked two new abilities, making fivebined with the three they started with. Chen Mo found out that all sses have a limit of twenty abilities, but were only allowed to carry seven at any time. This was perhaps an attempt of reducing strain on the yers. Chen Mo guessed that this ability system was identical to Diablo. They could pick and choose seven abilities and unique builds with their equipment, with no strong or weak abilities. The first floor was quite easy as it was just to help yers get the hang of the game. Lin Xue looked at Chen Mo and asked, ¡°Manager, you still ying?¡± Chen Mo shook his head, ¡°Not for now. I just wanted to check out what the game was like. You go ahead, I¡¯ll need to go back to working on the new game.¡± ¡°Then I¡¯ll stop too, let¡¯s y together when we are free,¡± said Lin Xue. Chen Moughed, ¡°Perhaps you¡¯ll never y it again as I¡¯m almost done with the new game.¡± ¡°Really?¡± asked Lin Xue, ¡°What genre is the new game manager? I heard it¡¯s a VR game?¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Yeah. You¡¯ll know soon enough, I¡¯ll make sure to get you to ytest.¡± Lin Xue eximed, ¡°Alright! But manager, I have a question.¡± ¡°Hmm?¡± Lin Xue was a bit hesitant, ¡°Uhh, manager, many said Thousand Hells copied Diablo, and said that you were making a VR game as a cover to hit back at Emperor Dynasty Entertainment, is that true?¡± ¡°Hitting back? No.¡± Lin Xue nodded, ¡°Oh, I thought so too. You¡¯ve never made a VR game after all andcked experience in many areas, there¡¯s no need to go head to head with Emperor Dynasty Entertainment in that regard.¡± Chen Mo said, ¡°The reason I made a VR game wasn¡¯t to hit back at the Emperor Dynasty game, but to destroy them.¡± Lin Xue was shocked, ¡°What?¡± ¡°Obviously the reason I made a game to release the same time as Thousand Hells was to teach them a lesson, what¡¯s there to question there?¡± Lin Xue was shocked, ¡°Uhh, how are you feeling after ying Thousand Hells?¡± ¡°I was about seventy percent confident before, but now...¡± ¡°Fifty percent?¡± asked Lin Xue. ¡°A hundred percent,¡± answered Chen Mo. ¡°...Manager, you¡¯re bluffing. I think Thousand Hells did well in many aspects. This theme is quite refreshing too, are you really that confident?¡± Chen Moughed, ¡°You¡¯ll now when the new game gets released. I¡¯ll be going, bye!¡± Chen Mo¡¯s character disappeared. Lin Xue was still confused. ¡°Did he start telling tall tales daily now? But he doesn¡¯t seem to be bluffing based on his tone...¡± ¡ª After checking out Thousand Hells, Chen Mo had a good idea of what the final game would look like. It would be a very mature VR game, even if it wasn¡¯t hugely popr, it¡¯d be slightly popr at the very least. There was nothing much toin about the gamey. It wasn¡¯t any worse than a sessful VR game like Tale of the Sword, and couldpete on the same grounds as some overseas VR game. Yan Zhenyuan¡¯s idea of a hack and sh VR game was really well thought out, and was something that was executed particrly well. Chapter 234 - Development Complete

Chapter 234: Development Complete

As VR games greatly expanded the yers¡¯ field of view, the yers still could clearly see the distance between them and the monsters in first person view. Various abilities are used through thought instead of using keyboard and mouse, dramatically reducing the chance of misys. At the same time of improving the immersion, Yan Zhenyuan also made changes to some aspects of the game that didn¡¯t suit VR games quite well. Tone down on the dark atmosphere, avoid making monsters that are too disgusting to avoid yer difort. The levels are designed to avoid the yers being stabbed in their back so they don¡¯t have to constantly look around and get tired quicker. Suitably reduce the move speed of the monsters to reduce the difficulty of ¡®kiting¡¯. Basically, the early stages of Thousand Hells allow the yers to feel the satisfaction of hack and sh games so they don¡¯t have to panic by adjusting the difficulty of the levels. Moreover, the take took some inspiration from Diablo in terms of the ability system, equipment system, and post game. More likely than not, the core enjoyment of the post gamees from grinding for equipment to kill more monsters. Thousand Hells was quite small for a VR game as many of the resources from level to level can be repeatedly used. Moreover, as the levels are procedurally generated, designs for levels didn¡¯t need to be stored either., At the same time, the game naturally had fewer story and additional game modes as it was a hack and sh game unlike otherrge scale MMORPG games, meaning that it was a smaller investment too. (This felt a bit like Diablo 1.) Therefore, Chen Mo guessed that Emperor Dynasty Entertainment would probably be quite happy with the game, and Yan Zhenyuanpleted the task assigned to him by Lin Chaoxu. Next was probably stering advertisements all over the ce to generate buzz for Thousand Hells, adding it to one of Emperor Dynasty Entertainment¡¯s finest games. But Chen Mo was confident that no matter how well Thousand Hells turned up, it would have a permanent problem it could never solve- number of yers. It might sound satisfying to hack and sh in VR, but VR games naturally had fewer yers than PC. Moreover, these games with darker art styles had fewer yers to start with. Therefore, Thousand Hells would usually make money, but there was no way it would be hugely popr. Of course Emperor Dynasty Emperor never expected it to make big money as VR games require a huge investment. It was a great sum of money just to have doubled their investment. If Chen Mo made any other VR game, he really couldn¡¯t be sure if he really could ¡®win¡¯. He hadn¡¯t made a VR game afterall, andcked experience in many different aspects in VR games, he¡¯d have to fall into many pitfalls just to gain experience in them. But Minecraft? Chen Mo was confident that his VR version of Minecraft would shock the entire gaming industry. ¡ª Minecraft was out of development a week after Thousand Hells was released for testing. This was the real,plete VR version of minecraft. Not only did it contain the ssic elements of the PC game, there were many adjustments made just for VR, improving in many aspects. THe graphics were dramatically improved while staying true to its core. Perfectly fitted the VR tform. The four game modes, the building trading system, apletely new tech tree... All of which wereplete. Cheers came from the office. There were many doubters in the beginning, but there was nothing but praises once the finished game came out. Everybody was shocked to see how well it fitted with VR, especially after experiencing the VR pod! Although there were still doubts if the game could beat Thousand Hells, but everyone had the same idea, the game would surely be profitable. It was hard to tell how much it would bring in as it had to deal with many different factors such as advertising, feedback... and luck. ¡°Thanks for working. We¡¯ll spend our next days working on the rest of it. Yunting, find beta testers from yers of nts vs Zombies, Warcraft, and Don¡¯t Starve. Make sure they are the really creative type, such as the ones who¡¯ve made popr mods. They¡¯ll be our first testers. ¡°There aren¡¯t any VR gaming pods in the experience store so far, but we won¡¯t have Minecraft on PC yet. If the yers want to y Minecraft, they¡¯ll have to download it on their VR pod at home. Zhao Yunting nodded, ¡°Alright, not a problem.¡± Chen Mo continued, ¡°Keep your eyes peeled for the feedback from these testers and send them to me. We¡¯ll make changes ordingly. And everyone else who has nothing to do will build buildings in game. ¡°Don¡¯t lose focus on thisst stage, stand your posts. ¡°And Lin Xiao, let all major video game media know that I¡¯ll host a game announcement event.¡± Lin Xiao nodded, ¡°Alright, should I prepare the powerpoint for the announcement event?¡± ¡°No need, I¡¯ll do that myself. Arrange the location for me. I want a five star hotel nearby, try and make it as posh as possible. It¡¯s our first VR game after all, so we have to make it as official as possible.¡± Lin Xiaoo nodded, ¡°Alright, not a problem!¡± ¡ª Minecraft and Thousand Hells both entered thest stages of development. Thousand Hells¡¯ advertisements were going full steam head, it could even be described as overwhelming. The advertisements of thousand hells could be seen on various streaming sites, video game sites, major forums, and spots in VR gaming pods... Many videogame media also released their articles as soon as they could. The groundbreaking VR game masterpiece Thousand Hells ising soon! Emperor Dynasty Entertainment¡¯s newest release, a shocking world of angels and demons! Gamepaly of Thousand Hells leaked! Analysis of Thousand Hells¡¯ unique ability system An incredibly satisfying VR game Thousand Hells¡¯ sses revealed, taking inspiration from the six realms. Many fans have caught wind of this fairly early on and knew that Emperor Dynasty Entertainment was developing a VR game simr to Diablo. Moreover, some yers were in the beta test and have tried the game. Gamey, sses and feedback were all leaked online. Most yers had nothing but praises for Thousand Hells after having yed the game as it was an incrediblyplete VR game. There were any noticeable ws in the game, and it was filling in a huge market gap for VR hack and sh games too. Many yers had their eyes peeling for Thousand Hells¡¯ official release. Chapter 235 - Announcement Conference

Chapter 235: Announcement Conference

In the shadow of the hype surrounding Thousand Hells, there was another news brewing in the videogame industry. Chen Mo was hosting a video game release conference and invited many videogame media too. ALthough there hadn¡¯t been much leaked about Chen Mo¡¯s game, there were still traces of the game among videogame industry professionals. IT could be a VR game, which was in development for over seven months. And they didn¡¯t know anything else. Many videogame media could tell something fishy was going on. If it was a VR, meaning Chen Mo¡¯s first VR game, it would be a huge deal. Chen Mo entered the PC game market using Warcraft while he was still a B-grade videogame designer. Warcraft¡¯s huge sess whipped up a storm in the RTS gaming industry, and even sold well overseas. Everyone was curious to find out what Chen Mo¡¯s first VR game would look like. Moreover, the timing matched perfectly with YAn Zhenyuan¡¯s Thousand Hells. In theory, the two games could release in July or August. Why could Chen Mo pick this time? Evidently Chen Mo knew that Thousand Hells would affect his sales. However, as he didn¡¯t n to dy his release, he clearly wanted to go head to head with Thousand Hells. There was a lot of discussion among videogame journalists. ¡°Have you heard about Chen Mo¡¯s videogame conference?¡± ¡°Of course, I¡¯ve heard of it ages ago. I think most video game media have heard of it, and the senior editor already had me prepare questions.¡± ¡°What do you think Chen Mo is going for? Going head to head with Emperor Dynasty Entertainment? He¡¯s quite bold to release the game at the same time!¡± ¡°Thousand Hells more or less copied Diablo, of course he¡¯s not happy with that. Don¡¯t you get Chen Mo¡¯s personality? Has he ever let anything slip?¡± ¡°You¡¯re saying, ¡®copy my game, I¡¯ll beat you up¡¯ kinda deal?¡± ¡°Something like that.¡± ¡°You¡¯re joking! To be honest, sure there¡¯s no doubting Chen Mo¡¯s mobile or PC games, but he¡¯s never made a VR game!¡± ¡°I think so too, moreover his previous opponents were all A-grade video game designers. He¡¯s facing Mr. Yan this time around, probably one of the most stable S-grade videogame designers in China. Moreover Thousand Hells is incredibly high quality, what if Chen Mo loses this time?¡± ¡°Maybe Chen Mo think¡¯s it might be more embarrassing to lose after postponing the release of the game, and that¡¯s why he¡¯s forcing the release.¡± ¡°But he hasn¡¯t even announced the release date. Nobody would know he had dyed the release of the game if he just shut up for another two months!¡± ¡°That¡¯s true, that means Chen Mo is incredibly confident?¡± ¡°PErhaps. One more thing, Chen MO¡¯s game should only be in development for six months? He was still working on Reaper of soulsst November. What kind of VR game could he make in seven months?¡± ¡°Yeah, from various sources, Yan Zhenyuan had been in the works for a year. Chen Mo had half the time and still dares to go head to head with Thousand Hells?¡± ¡°Geez, I¡¯ve got no clue. Whatever, we¡¯ll see when it¡¯s released. To be honest, I wouldn¡¯t expect anything from anyone else, but Chen Mo... I think he could give Mr Yan a run for his money.¡± ¡°Yeah, let¡¯s see when the conferencees.¡± -On the day of the conference, in a hall in a five star hotel in the Imperial Capital.- Most of the videogame journalists in Imperial Capital were in attendance. There were even some who flew in from Magic City or even further just to attend and ask Chen Mo some questions. All the staff of the conference were hired professionals, so everything was in order. There were banners, balloons and signage outside the hotel, and the journalists were directed by staff right from the entrance. The meeting hall was nicely arranged. The decor and the mics were really well done with various themed backgrounds and even a professional camera crew. The title of the powerpoint: ¡®Thunderbolt Entertainment Game Announcement Conference¡¯ was on the massive scene, main speaker being Chen Mo. The powerpoint was really in and featured nothing from the game, so there was no way for them to guess anything about the game. There was a lot of chatter before the event officially started. ¡°Five more minutes before it starts.¡± ¡°This is Chen Mo¡¯s first video game conference right? I think all his previous ones were done over Weibo.¡± ¡°Yeah, Thunderbolt Entertainment is quite an influentialpany in terms of profits, looks like they¡¯ll slowly before more and more official into the future.¡± ¡°Not bad, the conference is quite well done, unlike a mess some of the other smallerpanies usually make. Just a shame we don¡¯t know what it¡¯s about.¡± ¡°How¡¯s Chen Mo¡¯s presentation skills?¡± ¡°I think he worked on some casting for Warcraft, so that¡¯s certainly not a problem.¡± ¡°He¡¯s here, it¡¯s about to start!¡± Chen Mo walked in front of the screen with a mic, and a huge wave of apuse came from the audience. Chen Mo had a smile on his face, ¡°Thank you. Thanks. ¡°Many thanks for everyone to take time out of their day to join me at this announcement. ¡°Although this conference is recorded, it isn¡¯t being live streamed. Since I know you, and you know me, let¡¯s just skip over formal stuff. You are here because of my game anyways right? ¡°I can guarantee that this conference is a serious one, there will be no bluffs. Of course, this is especially directed at ¡¯s Han Lu. Chen Mo proceeded to look at Han Lu¡¯s seat. There was a wave ofughter from an audience. Han Lu¡¯s articles from Chen Mo¡¯s interview had more or less be a gag. Chen Moughed and continued, ¡°Alright, let the conference begin. ¡°Many of you might have heard that I¡¯m going to announce a VR game. This took a lot of mystery out of today¡¯s conference. Perhaps it might¡¯ve taken away the hype around ¡®Chen Mo¡¯s first game¡¯. ¡°Of course that couldn¡¯t be helped as I never tried particrly hard to hide it either as there were so many ways it could leak. But since I¡¯ve got through all this trouble to honest a conference, could you guys take pity on me and forget about all that you¡¯ve heard?¡± The journalists couldn¡¯t help butugh, This Chen Mo guy sure has a lot of gags up his sleeves, he¡¯s a born actor! Chapter 236 - Still Announcement Conference

Chapter 236: Still Announcement Conference

Chen Mo continued. ¡°Alright, let us begin. I know everyone here is filled with doubt, what would Chen Mo¡¯s first game look like? What tform? Probably PC or mobile. Geez, it¡¯s so mysterious.¡± Chen Mo couldn¡¯t even hold in his ownughter. The journalists were alsoughing along, ¡°Quit the stand-upedy, show us the game!¡± ¡°Alright alright, onto the new game. However, let¡¯s watch a simple cinematic before we start talking about the new game.¡± Chen Mo stood to one side and a cinematic started ying. This caughted the attention of the journalists. EVerybody knew that Thunderbolt Entertainment was also known as Thunderbolt Movies, the video gamepany who was most willing to burn money on making cinematics. The ones in Warcraft and Diablo were ssic examples of that. Will the cinematics this time around be as incredible? There was a cut. The sun was rising in the background and a little man ran towards the camera. The whole scene was incredibly brightly lit from the sun. It was also highly saturated, but everything was formed by blocks. Cube shaped clouds, trees, grass, rocks... The person looked like a toy but was still quite adorable. A huge slide was built in countless cubes. The person slid down from the slide and flew into the sky. His wings on his back opened up, flying through forests and valleys before reaching a boat on the ocean. Whales that were also formed using blocks tossed the ship into the area. The character hit a block in the air that looked like TNT and exploded before falling onto a rooftop. The character looked forward. The building in the background slowly lit up, and the entire city followed. Upon closer inspection, all the buildings were also built using blocks. There were many iconic buildings such as Beijing National Stadium, Beijing National Aquatics Center, and Yellow Crane tower. The entire city looked incredible grand as everything was lit. The camera panned into the sky, revealing the logo of the game built in blocks, Minecraft. This was where the cinematics ended. ¡ª There was apuse, but it wasn¡¯t particrly enthusiastic. Many of the journalists were confused, What was that? They were looking forward to a cinematic simr to Warcraft or Diablo¡¯s level, they didn¡¯t expect a short one minute animation. Could that be Chen Mo¡¯s new game? Chen Mo walked to the front of the stage, expecting the reaction he got. ¡°I know there may be some questions, don¡¯t worry, I¡¯ll exin in a bit. ¡°This game is a VR game called Minecraft. You may be wondering, why Minecraft? ¡°In short, it¡¯s a sandbox game. Many of you may have yed Leggos. This game is built around the fun that you get from Leggo sets. ¡°So, what can you do in the game?¡± Chen Mo went through the Powerpoint as he exined. ¡°This is a world built in blocks. You could view it as a world built of Leggos. In this world, you can freely move blocks and make the world however you want it to look. ¡°You could dig out a huge maze in a mountain. ¡°Or build a grand flying city using ss. ¡°You could also recreate real life buildings such as the sports stadium, the Great Wall, or the opera house. Of course you would need some architectural knowledge, and a lot of patience. ¡°To put it simply, you could build basically anything you want in this world. Chen Mo flipped through the slides, with images of the sports stadium, Great Wall, and opera house built using blocks. ¡°Moreover, there are rich additional game modes. ¡°For example, survival mode. You have nothing on you once you spawn in, and you must gather wood and stone to build your own house, avoiding dangerous monsters during the night and try your best to survive. ¡°Or local multiyer, you could look for other people¡¯s worlds, or invite other ys to your house and build together in the same world. ¡°Or online mode. In every server, ten thousand yers can band together and create in a ten thousand kilometre squared area. Every server would be unique. ¡°Moreover, there is a tech tree in the game that ispletely different from real life, as well as a unique trading system...¡± Chen Mo¡¯s exnation was clear and concise as he introduced every bit of Minecraft to the journalists. There were various different reactionsing from the journalists. Some were really into it. Some couldn¡¯t understand it. Some were whispering and shaking their heads. Some had a nk look on their face as they didn¡¯t know what to make of this. Evidently, even those who were interested in the game were slightly disappointed. Everybody knew that western fantasy was Chen Mo¡¯s strongest point. No matter Warcraft or Diablo, Chen Mo was the best in the country at handling western fantasy. Moreover, Chen Mo put all that extra effort into maintaining World of Azeroth, updating it periodically to tell the story of Warcraft¡¯s world. The yers were all waiting and hoping that Chen Mo would turn the world of Azeroth into an MMORPG. Many thought that Chen Mo made Diablo to pave the way for RPG games, and the next game would most likely be a first person RPG. But? The new game was an RPG, a first person RPG, a VR game. But this waspletely different from what they were expecting! Although the graphics were pretty good, although the content was rich, although the yers could create incredible buildings in game, it looked like it was made for children! Leggo? That¡¯s for kids! It would¡¯ve been fine if it was a mobile game, it was still fine on PC because there were more younger yers on these tforms, so there would most certainly be more yers who would be interested in games like this. But on VR? VR pods cost tens of thousands. Other than kids born in rich families, only sessful adults could afford something like that. Which of these adults would be willing toy down in their expensive gaming pods to stack blocks. Chen Mo¡¯s speech was really entertaining and filed with content, most journalists were taking this seriously and jotting down notes. But there were also many who lost interest in it as they unwillingly shot a few clips and took down a few important points waiting for the event to end. There was a journalist that was particrly disappointed who sent a message to his senior editor, ¡°My goodness, Chen Mo developed a building game...¡± Chapter 237 - Question Time

Chapter 237: Question Time

Chen Mo reached thest slide on his power point. ¡°Alright, that¡¯s all the content I have for this game announcement, go ahead and ask any questions you have. The next half an hour is reserved just for Q and A. The journalists now have a good idea of what the game was like after sitting through his exnation and gamey footage. Many journalists raised their hands upon hearing about the Q&A. Chen Mo picked a random journalist in the front row, ¡°The man in the sses, go ahead.¡± The man stood up and grabbed a mic from a member of staff, ¡°First I¡¯d like to thank you for that very entertaining presentation, I¡¯m really interested in the game. But I have a question, if this game is a game that is built around building, is it really a good idea to release it on VR? There aren¡¯t many teenagers who y on VR, have you thought about that?¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°I understand what you¡¯re getting at. Let¡¯s put it this way, Minecraft is a game for all ages, we hope that adults can gain the same fun as everyone else, so I don¡¯t think there¡¯s anything out of ce with the game. Alright, now thedy with blonde hair. ¡°Nice to meet you Mr Chen Mo. Why would you pick a game like this as your first game into the VR game industry? Are you targeting the puzzle game genre?¡± Chen Mo shook his head, ¡°No, just as I said before, it¡¯s a game for all ages. My target audience is the whole world. I hope every VR gaming pod has Minecraft installed.¡± Everyone was shocked at that statement as it sounded like something someone overly confident would say. A middle aged journalist asked, ¡°You have added a few additional gamemodes for Minecraft, but it¡¯s still not as manypared to therger MMORPGs, do you n to release DLCs in the future to add more content?¡± Chen Mo shook his head, ¡°Minecraft is not like other MMORPGs. We hope that the yers will make their own mods for the game just like Don¡¯t Starve. I think Minecraft is already aplete product that doesn¡¯t need anymore DLCs. The questions kepting, and the questions became broader and broader. Most of the questions were about Minecraft at the start, but in the end, questions about Diablo, Don¡¯t Starve, and World of Warcraft were being asked. There were questions on Chen Mo¡¯s next steps. Chen Mo got through all of them, skipping over the ones he didn¡¯t want to. Last but not least was Han Lu. ¡°Nice to meet you. Emperor Dynasty Entertainment¡¯s S-grade videogame designer Yan Zhenyuan is about to release his VR game Thousand Hells. There are plenty of discussions out there thinking that the game copied Diablo. ¡°Do you think it¡¯s a copy? And why did you announce Minecraft now, are you trying topete directly with Thousand Hells?¡± Chen Moughed, ¡°It doesn¡¯t matter if it was a copy or not. Video Game designers get inspiration from many different sources, and sometimes it¡¯s from other games. Sometimes, the thoughts of video game designers just happen to collide, so I don¡¯t mind that at all.¡± Han Lu asked another follow up question, ¡°That means releasing Minecraft the same time as Thousand Hells is just another coincidence?¡± ¡°Of course not.¡± ¡°Huh?¡± Han Lu was confused. Chen Moughed, ¡°It¡¯s just a learning experience as it¡¯s my first VR game after all. But you guys have something to look forward to. Which of these two games would sell more or be more profitable?¡± The journalists were shocked. What is he ying at? He was being nice and modest at the start, with all that about being alright with referencing games and just for experience, but what was that at the end. You intentionally announced the game the same time as Thousand Hells, and want us to guess who gets more sales? Is there even a point? This and Thousand Hells are onpletely different levels. Just on the difficulty of development, Thousand Hells was already miles ahead! No matter sales or profits, you lose! Many journalists were frantically making notes. Chen Mo said he wanted topete against Thousand Hells? This should be a good headline. Many thought that Chen Mo was just trying to gain free publicity for his game. Chen Mo asked, ¡°Uhh, onest question. How would you rate Thousand Hells?¡± ¡°Uhh, I¡¯ll need a few seconds to think in order to answer that.¡± He grabbed his bracelet on his left wrist using his right hand and thought for about ten seconds. The journalists were shocked by this. This was a dangerous topic, and Chen Mo could easily reject the question if he didn¡¯t want to answer. It would have been fine to say a few courteous lines if he hadn¡¯t yed it. But Chen Mo was seriously thinking about it? Chen Mo seemed to have gotten his thought process straightened, ¡°Geez, to be honest, I don¡¯t why you guys asked this question. ¡°How is Thousand Hells? Do I even need to say anything? I think it¡¯s a perfect game, it will most certainly be a best selling game. ¡°Is there anyone who thinks Mr Yan will fail? Impossible, what are you thinking about? Think about it, Emperor Dynasty Emperor is the videogame distribution channel in China. Mr Yan has a lot of experience behind him too, and the game filled in the market gap of VR hack and sh games. The stars have basically aligned for him right? It¡¯s impossible for him to fail. ¡°The entire gaming industry this year is just waiting for Mr Yan to do his thing. I think this year is the year for Thousand Hells, because the games this year will find it really difficult topete against Mr Yan¡¯s game. ¡°As for the sales, let¡¯s put it this way, it¡¯s impossible for it to not be popr. He has the Emperor Dynasty Gaming tform behind him, there¡¯s no way it isn¡¯t popr right? ¡°I¡¯ve yed Thousand Hells too, the game is incredibly fun and incredibly high quality. There¡¯s no questioning that the game will be popr. ¡°Alright, let¡¯s end it there, that¡¯s all the time we have for today. Chen Mo walked off stage after finishing his statement. The journalists were all dumbfounded, looking at one another. What? Chen Mo praised Thousand Hells a bunch at his own video game conference! And he was being so over the top with all that about the stars aligning and this year being the year of Thousand Hells. They were all really confused. Is Chen Mo trying to... jinx his rival? Chapter 238 - Lukewarm

Chapter 238: Lukewarm

Many videogame media released their articles for Minecraft following the conference. Chen Mo¡¯s newest game: Minecraft Chen Mo¡¯s first VR game exposed Minecraft: Pixel art building game Minecraft and Thousand Hells released at the same time Chen Mo: nothing but praises for Thousand Hells during his conference These articles went over the details that were shown during the conference, including the ystyle, as well as some gamey footage. Soon, the news was spread among the yers. There were various different reactions, but most of them had some element of shock. Chen Mo¡¯s first VR game is a building game? But most of them could tell what the point of the game was just by looking slightly deeper into the articles. From the looks of it, it was a game based around creating. Just like Don¡¯t Starve, it featured an open world and moreplex online modes. But even Don¡¯t Starve yers had some doubts about the game. Don¡¯t Starve was popr because it was a smaller game that could be yed on both PC and mobile. Moreover, it was priced at apetitive twenty RMB. However, Minecraft is a VR game. VR games are usually quite expensive, Earth Online for example was priced at three hundred and ny nine USD, and VR games of simr calibre would cost around one to two thousand RMB in China. Some Chinese MMORPGs were rtively cheaper, some even around five hundred RMB. But those games usually had microtransactions such as it was incredibly difficult to break even just by selling copies of the games. Although most of the VR yer base was in a higher ie bracket, but wanting them to spend one thousand RMB for a building game? Nobody would spend that kind of money even if they had plenty right? There was a lot of discussion on the forums too. ¡°What¡¯s Chen moi thinking? How could he make a building game as his most crucial game when entering the VR market? Honestly, I haven¡¯t seen a VR puzzle game make big money.¡± ¡°From what Chen Mo said, the game isn¡¯t just a simple puzzle game, it¡¯s still a sandbox game simr to Don¡¯t Starve.¡± ¡°But the main fun of the game is creating! Moreover, how many copies can he sell as VR games are priced so high. Is he able to break even?¡± ¡°I think breaking even isn¡¯t a problem. The game has pixel graphics, and a lot of the game is built by yers. Many of the resources can be reused too. How high could the development cost really be?¡± ¡°It probably wouldn¡¯t cost much to develop the mobile or PC version, but porting it to VR would still cost a pretty penny. And you¡¯ve seen the real gamey videos, the graphics are really detailed. Chen Mo probably didn¡¯t skimp on spending money, it wouldn¡¯t look as good otherwise.¡± ¡°I think it¡¯s in the millions, but it can¡¯t be over twenty million. That¡¯s peanuts for CHen Mo.¡± ¡°Twenty million for a VR game is incredibly low. Chen Mo could price it lower and sell more copies. If he sold each copy at two hundred RMB, he could totally make it all back. Would the people who own VR gaming pods care about a measly two hundred RMB?¡± ¡°I don¡¯t think it¡¯s as you said. Is Chen Mo worried about making money at all? I don¡¯t think he cares about wasting twenty million. On the other hand, he¡¯d care more about his first VR game being a total trainwreck!¡± ¡°And he¡¯s releasing it at the same time as Thousand Hells too. It¡¯d look so bad if he lost to Thousand Hells in all aspects!¡± ¡°When he loses, he could say that he made a puzzle game and didn¡¯t stand a chance.¡± ¡°We¡¯ll see. I can¡¯t afford a VR gaming pod anyways. If the game performs well, I¡¯ll just have to try it out in an inte cafe.¡± ¡ª Soon, Thousand Hells and Minecraft started showing their faces all over the inte. Although the games never mentioned their rivals, the yers could tell that the games have treated each other as such. Thousand Hells in particr showed many aspects of their characters, maps, special effects, story, and gamey, all of which were incredibly detailed, and the game seemed really satisfying to y. All the yers were incredibly excited for its release. yers showed their eagerness for Thousand Hells on the forums. Beta keys were being sold at prices over two thousand RMB, even higher than its initial release. But on Chen Mo¡¯s side of things, everything was kind of lukewarm. A lot of the basic resources were revealed early on on Minecraft¡¯s official forums. They didn¡¯t try to make a big deal about revealing all of it. The only thing noteworthy was the cinematic that was shown during the conference. The reactions to the cinematic were also so-so as it was easy for the gamey to differ greatly from actual gamey. Many games have incredible cinematics that arepletely different to the gamey. Moreover, the cinematked any charm as it looked like a child¡¯s drawingpared to the cinematics of Warcraft and Diablo. The yers were all incredibly confused. Chen Mo had many ways to promote his own games. He made an animated series for I am MT, used Arthas¡¯ sketch for Warcraft, the song A Life of Fighting is but a Dream for Wulin Legend, and Gokuraku Jodo for Onmyoji... But howe there was nothing for Minecraft? They just did a shoddy job in promoting the game, how many people would care on its release? Among all the confusion, Chen Mo finally made a move. Chen Mo unexpectedly posted a Weibo at noon that day: ¡°Minecraft: Forbidden city. Note: All of this is actual gamey.¡± The yers were utterly shocked. Forbidden city? Does that mean Chen Mo built the Forbidden City using blocks in Minecraft? They started watching the video. Although there have been many games in the past that recreated real life scenes, those were all done by professionals, and most of the time, they were only for looks. But Minecraft was a building game. If the Forbidden City really was built, doesn¡¯t that mean yers could run around in the Forbidden City? Chapter 239 - Forbidden City

Chapter 239: Forbidden City

Many yers who didn¡¯t care about Minecraft clicked on the video filled with doubt. And they werepletely stunned by it. ¡°This is real gamey?¡± ¡°It looks so good, how could it be real gamey? Where are the mosaics?¡± ¡°What¡¯s the difference between this and high quality cinematics? Are you lying to me again Chen Mo?¡± The Meridian Gate of the Forbidden City was the first shot in the video. The camera went under the gates, over the Jinshui Bridge, arriving at Taihe Gate. The camera Zoomed in to reveal a stone lion was built using blocks. Although it was mosaic-like, it looked exactly like a stone lion. The camera went over white jade stairs. Although the dragon sculpture on the middle of the stairs wasn¡¯t perfectly recreated, the general shape of it was there. Many cuts followed to show details of the buildings. Glorious roof tiles. The que in the centre. Lanterns on the side. Serene forest and pavilions. As well as the interior of the pce. Beds, desks, cushions, incense burner, bonsai... The camera panned to the Hall of Supreme Harmony, with the nine dragon screen, and the golden throne was in the middle of the screen. Many different cuts from different angels followed alongside a Chinese background music to reveal many more details of the Forbidden City. Finally, the camera banned backwards, the doors to the city closed, and the music fades out. But the cinematic hadn¡¯t ended. There was a smaller scene at the end revealing a timpse of the build. From the foundations, to the red pirs, shiny ss tiles... showing the entire build process. The yers watching had their eyes and mouth wide open the entire time. Chen Mo¡¯s Weibo was also shared countless times, with more and morements under it. ¡°Get this documentary out of my face...¡± ¡°Was this really built in Minecraft?¡± ¡°My mom asked me why I was watching a video on my knees.¡± ¡°Chen Mo¡¯s an architectural genius! Have my knees!¡± ¡°I heard there¡¯s a pce in real life that recreated this pretty well.¡± ¡°I¡¯m interested in this game now! Can you really recreate the entire Forbidden City? That means it¡¯s going to work for other buildings too?¡± ¡°It¡¯s so detailed! Although you could tell it¡¯s made of blocks, it looks so good I might just lick the screen!¡± ¡°Is this hard to make? I imagine if you gave me... a hundred thousand years I could do it to.¡± ¡°It¡¯s probably quite difficult, but it¡¯s only fun if it is!¡± ¡ª It wasn¡¯t some specialrge scaled promotion, but just from one Weibo and video, the hashtags #Minecraft and #ForbiddenCity was now trending!¡± The video also gained more and more views. And the way this gained poprity was not the same as Gokuraku Jodo. Gokuraku Jodo gained poprity from the ACGmunity, then slowly spread to everyone else. But this Forbidden City video gained its poprity though the rmendation algorithm and news outlets. This was treated as the biggest news of the day in the gaming section of news outlets, as they were shared everywhere. It was even read out on the news. Many who weren¡¯t into videogames heard about Minecraft and how someone built the forbidden city in game. This wasn¡¯t like the usual advertisements. The video caught the eyes of many and was filled with Chinese culture. This tickled the fancy of many traditional media as it piqued the interest of many non-gamers. And the name Minecraft became a familiar word among the people. ¡°Chen Mo made Forbidden City in Minecraft¡± was a topic that was gone over and over again. It even looked like it could overtake Thousand Hells. It was a trending topic for a whole week. Just as the buzz was dying out after two weeks, Chen Mo released another Weibo. ¡°Minecraft: Recreated Yuanmingyuan Park (Summer Pce). Note: Still actual gamey.¡± Another one? It has only been two weeks since the release or Forbidden City, and you release another one already? It¡¯s Yuanmingyuan Park at that! The video gained even more poprity with the help of Forbidden City. The Forbidden City was an actual building, but Yuanmingyuan Park had been destroyed agest ago with only a stretch of wall left. Many educational shows have tried rendering Yuanmingyuan Park in perfect condition. However, fully recreating took a lot of money for not a lot of profit, which show would make such a terrible financial decision? It¡¯d be a few images at most, but images will never be as realistic as a video. Everyone knew how incredible Yuanmingyuan Park was as it was known as the park of the parks. Everybody had to imagine what it looked like, and nobody had any idea what it originally looked like. But Chen Mo recreated the whole thing in Minecraft! This got the yers even more riled up as they couldn¡¯t wait to watch the video. The video started with some text. ¡°There was, in a corner of the world, a wonder of the world; this wonder was called the Summer Pce. ¡°Imagine some inexpressible construction, something like a lunar building, and you will have the Summer Pce ¡°Build a dream with marble, jade, bronze and porcin, frame it with cedar wood, cover it with precious stones, drape it with silk, make it here a sanctuary, there a harem, elsewhere a citadel, put gods there, and monsters, varnish it, enamel it, gild it, paint it ¡°Have architects who are poets build the thousand and one dreams of the thousand and one nights, add gardens, basins, gushing water and foam, swans, ibis, peacocks. ¡°Suppose in a word a sort of dazzling cavern of human fantasy with the face of a temple and pce, such was this building. ¡ª Victor Hugo. This was written by the French poet Victor Hugo to Captain Butler to denounce the destruction of the Old Summer Pce by the British and French forces. This description about the Old Summer Pce in this passage became a ssic piece of ssic description, remembered by countless people. The text faded away to reveal the map of Yuanmingyuan Park. The camera panned upwards to reveal Minecraft characters. It was only now that the yers released the map they were looking at was in Minecraft. The character walked to the ruins of the Old Summer Pce and found a special portal. They jumped into the portal and were transported to another world. Chapter 240 - Old Summer Palace

Chapter 240: Old Summer Pce

The character was transported to another world after stepping through the portal. There was a massive fountain in front of him in a garden filled with blooming flowers. There was a beautiful pce in the background as well. The whole scene looked heavenlybined with the blue skies and clouds. Soon, the buildings in Yuanmingyuan Park appeared one after another. Dagongmen, Pce of Heavenly Purity, Hall of Supreme Harmony, Ruyi Pavilion, Ru Gu Hanjin, Natural Drawing, Bitong Academy, Zuishi Linliu, Yuetan Yunju, Wuling Spring Scenery, Wenyuan Pavilion, Xifeng Beauty, Pinghu Autumn Moon, Pengdao Yaotai, Guan Hall, Unique Cave, Western Building, Lion Grove Garden, Yulinglong Pavilion...[1] ssic buildings in the park appeared one after another. Clear water of theke, well maintained garden, Chinese style buildings, Western style buildings. Everything had their own unique features even the trees were different. Moreover, there was a character exploring the park where there wasn¡¯t one for the Forbidden City. The audience had a better sense of scale with a little man for scale. The day slowly turned into night and the lights in various buildings lit up harmoniously as their beautyplemented one another. And when dawn came along, everything looked heavenly under the yellow glow of the sun. Finally, the background music faded out before the character woke up in a shock from their sleep. He was still in the ruins of Yuanmingyuan Park. A mncholic background music started ying as the character looked at the ruins in front of him in dismay, before an abrupt end to the video. ¡ª Yuanmingyuan Park piqued the interest of the yers once again before the buzz from Forbidden City faded again. ¡°The second video is out, this time is The Summer Pce! Chen Mo showed us that not only can you make real life buildings in game, but ones that don¡¯t exist too!¡± ¡°That was so quick! It¡¯s only been two weeks since Forbidden City¡¯s release, how did he release Yuanmingyuan Park so soon?¡± ¡°Building the entire park in two weeks? It¡¯d be tough even if you worked day in day out! There must be an easier way to build these things, maybe there¡¯s a generation algorithm or something.¡± ¡°Makes sense. But the game does seem really fun!¡± ¡°And this video was much better than Forbidden City. The introduction of the character showed us that the buildings are on the same scale as real life, and the addition of a story helped with the imagination!¡± ¡°That¡¯s incredible! It¡¯d have to support him on the basis of these two builds!¡± Not only did the videogame media hop on it the second it was released, even some traditional media did the same. There was even a news channel that took a few minutes during their off-peak times to showcase the two videos and Minecraft. The Game Committee in particr were really happy with these videos as it promoted Chinese culture. No matter recreating the Forbidden City or The Summer Pce, both were entirely positive things to have happened. The officials even decided to reserve a promotional space on the official app store and on the Illusion Game Editor. Minecraft gained immense poprity after the release of these two videos and even looked like it could overtake Thousand Hells. Moreover, more and more yers wanted to know more about its sales date and price. ¡ª Chen Mo was still working hard in the office. He used an Efficiency Adjuster and was building various buildings in Minecraft in what could be described as a demonic speed. It didn¡¯t look as good or was as immersive on PC, but at least it wasn¡¯t as tiring. Chen Mo spared no time in creating various incredible looking buildings as he spent twelve to thirteen hours a day doing just that. There was no way he could sustain that in VR. Chen Mo¡¯s reaction speed and hand speed was incredible after all the potions. His efficiency was even more incredible with his rich newfound knowledge in architecture and the help of the Efficiency Adjuster. Of course, Chen Mo waszy whenever he could afford it. There was a mod called WorldEdit in his previous life that dramatically reduced the building time. Chen Mo added these features during Minecraft¡¯s development phase so he could build theseplicated structures as the developer of the game. Some of the moreborious parts of building were done using programs and fixed using some editing magic, allowing Chen Mo to work faster. He had been working hard for a long time, with many buildings that werepleted during the development process, he just didn¡¯t release it. He released these two amazing builds intentionally to attract some attention to Minecraft. But he wasn¡¯t done yet. Chen Mo nned to add a mode called ¡®Chen Mo¡¯s World¡¯ after its release which would contain even more incredible buildings which he would have to update. Therefore, Chen Mo had to keep working hard until release so he could build as many incredible builds as possible to showcase how rich the gamey was. The worst part was that only he could do this as there wasn¡¯t much the other could do to help. It was insane to recreate the entire Forbidden City, and Chen Mo was probably the only one in the world capable of doing that thus far. But this wasn¡¯t a boring task as half his staff would be watching him build. ¡°Manager you¡¯re incredible. I¡¯m thoroughly impressed.¡± ¡°I¡¯m getting nauseous from how fast he¡¯s moving. I don¡¯t understand how the manager manages that.¡± ¡°I feel like I¡¯m ying a different game than the manager...¡± Chen Mo worked even faster under the praises from everyone else as real life and fantasy buildings appeared one after another. ¡ª Many video game designers were also discussing the matter between Minecraft and Thousand Hells. ¡°Chen Mo¡¯s incredible. How did he manage to develop a building game like Minecraft? The two clips of the Forbidden City and The Old Summer Pce was incredible!¡± ¡°Yeah, and the videos only contained actual gamey. That means the yers could do the same too, that¡¯s incredible!¡± ¡°Yeah, I was so confused when I heard Chen Mo was making a building game. I thought that wasn¡¯t his style? Especially when he waspletely overwhelmed by Emperor Dynasty¡¯s promotions at the start. I thought Chen Mo was going out of style already, but it seems like the tides are turning with these two videos!¡± ¡°And he probably got the people at the Game Committee so happy by spreading Chinese culture! That¡¯s what they like! Chen Mo must be getting a promotional spot on the official app store.¡± ¡°But it feels like only Chen Mo could do that. I haven¡¯t understood how CHen Mo was able to build the entire Forbidden City? How many tools does he need to assist him?¡± ¡°Didn¡¯t he say that it¡¯s all built by hand, block by block?¡± ¡°You believe that? He¡¯s probably just saying that. It¡¯d take more than a year to build something like that by hand without any assistance. It¡¯d take more effort than developing the game itself!¡± ¡°Maybe... Chen Mo is super human?¡± ¡°He has to be using some tools. We¡¯ll know when the game is released!¡± TL note: [1] These are all names of ces in the garden. Some of these are poetic, others are literal. There aren¡¯t proper trantions for most of them either, so these weren¡¯t tranted so well. Chapter 241 - Chapter 240: Trying Out

Chapter 241: Chapter 240: Trying Out

Finally, after all the hyping, Minecraft and Thousand Hells announced their release dates. Both games were released on the first of August. Thousand Hells was priced at 1288 RMB, whereas Minecraft was priced at 128, a tenth of Thousand Hells. Based on its pricing, Thousand Hells looked to be a middle of the road VR game, but in reality, its quality was below average. Because it had a monotonous ystyle just like Diablo. There weren¡¯t many microtransactions in the game either, meaning that most of the profits woulde from selling actual copies of the game. The game was actually rtively cheappared to other VR games when taking into ount the fact that yers wouldn¡¯t have to spend a simple penny after buying the game. Of course this didn¡¯t mean that Emperor Dynasty Entertainment had a change of heart. It was just that Thousand Hells didn¡¯t take up a lot of resources and many of the maps were reused, significantly reducing development costs. Emperor Dynasty Entertainment also priced it lower in hopes of selling more copies. Minecraft on the other hand... Many were surprised at how low Minecraft was priced. It was almost a freebie charging one hundred and twenty eight RMB for a VR game. (Normally, a VR game is ten times the price of PC games, that means Minecraft was priced equivalently as a PC game at twelve RMB.) But in reality, Chen Mo was still highballing it. Minecraft didn¡¯t require much investment during its development at all. The costs in the PC version were basically negligible, and all the improvement and changes in the VR version cost around ten million RMB. And ten million RMB wasn¡¯t much at all for Chen Mo, the main cost of the development of Minecraft was the timesink. Therefore Chen Mo priced it lower to sell more copies. Only when the number of yers go up will Minecraft¡¯s true potential be realised. Chen Mo wanted Minecraft to be installed on every VR gaming pod in China. ¡ª First of August, Minecraft and Thousand Hells was officially released! The yers who had their eyes on the games downloaded as soon as they could as they couldn¡¯t wait to experience the games in VR. On Lin Xue¡¯s stream on Moyu. The screen was still dark and a lot of discussion was happening among the viewers. ¡°Is Xue changing over to VR? Is she streaming a VR game today?¡± ¡°Yeah, I heard Thousand Hells was released today, she¡¯d probably be ying the official release. Xue was Diablo¡¯s diehard fan after all.¡± ¡°Uhh... Shouldn¡¯t a diehard Diablo fan y Chen Mo¡¯s new game?¡± ¡°As if, who would want to watch a building game.¡± ¡°Hmm? I think the VR gaming pod is now connected.¡± The scene from the VR gaming pod was now on the stream. VR games can be streamed in this world, requiring the signals from the gaming pod to be tranted into a stream friendly signal. For example, a first person RPG like Thousand Hells that have their yers ying in first person mode with a 124¡ã field of view, but after the conversion the signal will be a third person view (simr to a camera behind the yer), and the field of view will be converted to the normal 90¡ã. A direct stream from a first person view would be too jittery and cause nausea in many of the viewers. On the screen was more or less the VR version of the Desktop. There were many games disyed, with Thousand Hells in a more obvious position. Before the chat could start celebrating, Lin Xueunched Minecraft. The chat was shocking. ¡°Huh? Minecraft? Actually ying Minecraft?¡± ¡°What happened to Xue? When did she start ying these types of building games?¡± ¡°My goodness, I really don¡¯t wanna watch this!¡± ¡°If you don¡¯t wanna watch, feel free to leave. We¡¯ll watch anything Xue y¡¯s¡± ¡°We¡¯ll try out Minecraft today, which was developed by Chen Mo. Let¡¯s just start ying rather than going through all the exnations,¡± said Lin Xue. Lin Xue¡¯s somewhat vague remarks caused a lot of chatter in the chat. ¡°What is this Xue, what do you mean no exnations?¡± ¡°I feel like Xue trusts Chen Mo a lot...¡± ¡°Why do I smell something different!¡± The screen swapped over to Minecraft among all the chatter. Lin Xue was in the middle of a ins with a rising sun in the background. There were a few clouds in the air that spelled out Minecraft. Lin Xue also had a little hut on her left with the words Minecraft written on it. Further left was a path that led into a dense forest and many buildings could be made out, with a sign saying ¡®Somebody Else¡¯s World¡¯. On her right was a huge observatory with a huge globe on top, with the text ¡®Everybody¡¯s World¡¯. There was a small teleporter to the right of the observatory that said ¡®Chen Mo¡¯s World¡¯. There was also a building that looked like a shed next to the hut that said ¡®Resource Centre¡¯. Of course, all these buildings were built by blocks that give off strong pixted feels. This was probably the main menu. Lin Xue walked around before looking downwards and realising she was a toy person in game. The third person perspective of the audience could see that even clearer. Lin Xue looked like a toy from the Frozen Leggo set. Quite cute, 3:1 ratio of body :head, blonde with a white dress and stockings. She had a really cute walking animation too. The game would collect data of the yer from the gaming pod once the yer starts the game to decide the gender of the character the yer yed as. A cute dog with a sign in its mouth walked in front of Lin Xue. ¡°We¡¯ve picked a random character based on your gender provided from the gaming pod, would you like to customise?¡± Lin Xue clicked ¡®yes¡¯ with no histation. She would¡¯ve been fine if there was no way of customising, but why wouldn¡¯t she customise if she could? Lin Xue¡¯s perspective changed from first to third person as if her soul jumped out of her body. At the same time, two UIs popped up allowing Lin Xue to customize her looks. ¡°There seems to be quite a lot of options.¡± Lin Mo looked through the menus. She found that although this game looked simple, everything was quite well developed. Take this customisation menu for example, she could change her face, hat, top, pants, and shoes. She could even change her height within a certain range. Lin Xue finally settled with something she was happy with after half an hour. ¡°Hmm... Which should we start with?¡± ¡°Let¡¯s try the game out in single yer first, it¡¯d be terrible if we dragged others down in multiyer,¡± said Lin Xue after a few moments. Chapter 242 - A Confusing First Day

Chapter 242: A Confusing First Day

Lin Xue walked towards the little hutbeled Singleyer mode. The puppy with the sign game along once again, ¡°It appears that its your first time ying, would you like to view the tutorial?¡± Lin Xue hesitated for a few moments before hitting yes. A huge screen appeared in front of her, on it was a video for newbies. It was a simple video made by Chen Mo that went through mechanics of survival mode including gathering, building, killing mobs, crafting tools, and making beds. The video was about eight minutes long and the yer could toggle the yback speed and view it as many times as they wished. Lin Xue felt like she had a good understanding of the basics of the game after watching it once, so she walked into the hut and chose Survival mode. Soon, Lin Xue was transported into a whole new world. She was on top of a hill that waspletely built with blocks. There were many trees on the hill as well as on the ins around her, she could even see the ocean from the top of the hill (or perhaps river orke). Lin Xue was ying the game in first person mode, meaning she could see her hands and legs by looking down. There were two UI bars on the edge of her vision, red representing her health, yellow representing her hunger. The thought of the inventory bar brought up her inventory, with the options of picking any equipment in her inventory. Lin Xue had a basic looking axe, a gift from Chen Mo to all newbies. (It wouldn¡¯t be great if they had to punch trees the first time they yed it.) Lin Xue selected the axe and held it in her hand. ¡°Umm... ording to the tutorial, there¡¯s quite a bit I need to do on the first day. I¡¯ll need to gather resources, and probably build a house to avoid attack from the monsters during the night. Lin Xue started chopping away at trees with her axe in hand. After being destroyed, the logs dropped onto the ground as tiny little blocks. These were automatically picked up and stored in her inventory as she walked close to them. Lin Xue tried cing a block with it in her hand, and a 1m*1m*1m block appeared where she wanted it. ¡°Huh, pretty cool. So this is how you¡¯re supposed to build houses right? ¡°But the tutorial mentioned to best craft a crafting table first, that way I can craft other tools. Let¡¯s do that first.¡± Lin Xue collected materials as she wandered. She had gathered quite a few pieces of wood, but hadn¡¯t decided on where to build her house. Lin Xue had thought long about where to build her house. She wanted to pick somewhere that was easy to travel to, with a hill behind her and water in front of her. But before she could find her perfect spot, the sun setted. ¡°Huh? The sun¡¯s set already? My goodness, I haven¡¯t built my house yet!¡± Lin Xue now had plenty of resources on hand, but it turned dark before she noticed. Lin Xue ran to the top of a hill, thinking of building a house on top of it. But before she got there, she felt a huge shock behind her, and at the same time, she lost about twenty percent of her health. ¡°Ah! What hit me!¡± Lin Xue jumped when she got hit. She turned around to discover a skeleton with a bow in their hand shooter at her. ¡°My goodness, there¡¯s mobs already? Help!¡± Lin Xue was quite shook. Although the skeleton wasn¡¯t spooky at all, it was dark around her and the skeleton was a proper enemy, it was still quite scary as the skeleton wanted to end her life. Lin Xue tried her best to run away from her, but it seemed that the skeleton moved slightly faster than she did, moreover it had a ranged attack. Lin Xue¡¯s health quickly fell below half. ¡°What to do, what to do!¡± Lin Xue was panicking. Obviously she couldn¡¯t beat it with just an axe in hand. It¡¯s used for cutting trees, it must be terrible for killing mobs! But an idea came to her all of a sudden. ¡°I can dig a hole!¡± She quickly ignored the skeleton, hiding behind a tree and frantically dug downwards with her axe in hand. Soon, there was a pit in the ground, and Lin Xue jumped into it. But the skeleton was still trailing behind her. Lin Xue brought out a piece of dirt from her inventory and blocked the hole on top of her. ¡°That was scary! Thank goodness I lived!¡± Lin Xue breathed a sigh of relief. Even though it was a building game, it felt more like a horror game in that instance. The growling of the skeleton was still above her, evidently it was still nearby. ¡°What should I do, I don¡¯t think I can leave. Whatever, I¡¯ll just keep digging down.¡± Lin Xue threw away her worries and frantically dug down ten or so metres before stopping. ¡°That¡¯s about alright,¡± muttered Lin Xue. It waspletely dark in the cave, yet there was still a sliver of light allowing Lin Xue to take in her surroundings. She continued digging around using her axe and finally made a sizable cave. Just as the tutorial rmended, Lin Xue built a crafting table, wooden pickaxe, then started gathering cobblestone to make a furnace then a torch. She was then finally able to illuminate her cave. ¡°Geez, much better. Is this what home feels like?¡± Lin Xue ran around in her little hole happily before feeling the urge to clean up the sides of the cave and lit it up symmetrically. Of course, the only problem was that the only exit was above her, and was blocked off by her too. There were a lot ofints from the chat. ¡°Wow, what¡¯s Xue doing? I thought you build houses in this game, why is Xue frantically digging holes?¡± ¡°What is she doing? Why is itpletely different from Chen Mo¡¯s videos?¡± ¡°But the game feels quite fun, the ones with OCD among us must feel so satisfied!¡± ¡°Did Xue bury herself in the tomb she dug out herself?¡± ¡°You could probably film a grave robbing movie here, LOL!¡± ¡°How will Xue go out? She blocked off the entrance, and she can¡¯t fly either!¡± Lin Xue kept digging with her wooden pickaxe and exined, ¡°Don¡¯t worry, isn¡¯t it easy to leave? I¡¯ll just dig a staircase upwards.¡± ¡°Yeah, I¡¯ll just keep digging up.¡± ¡°We¡¯re not in a hurry anyways as it¡¯s still nighttime. Maybe I should make a bed and think about it more when the night¡¯s over.¡± Luckily Lin Xue managed to kill a few sheep on the way and got a few pieces of wool, allowing her to craft a bed. ¡°So, my fellow viewers, we¡¯ll have to make due with this bed tonight, let¡¯s dig a staircase upwards when dayes!¡± Lin Xueyed down on the bed andpleted her first day in Minecraft. Chapter 243 - Xues Tomb Making Journey

Chapter 243: Xue¡¯s Tomb Making Journey

It was day when she woke up from her sleep. Lin Xue continued digging a staircase upwards. Luckily she was still in ins and not ake of some kind, otherwise her cave would be flooded. She continued wandering, cutting down trees, killing sheep, digging out things here and there. The viewers were quite enjoying the show as many made fun of what she was doing. ¡°Is Xue preparing to bury herself again?¡± ¡°Grave Robbing the fifth: Xue¡¯s Tomb.[1]¡± ¡°Hahaha, Xue was chased by the skeleton for so longst night she was going to cry.¡± ¡°Isn¡¯t this a building game? Why does it feel like a horror game?¡± ¡°Didn¡¯t she go through the tutorial? Why does she lookpletely clueless still? LOL¡± But some viewers had some questions. ¡°Why does this game Xue¡¯s ying right now feelpletely different to Chen Mo¡¯s advertisements?¡± ¡°Yeah, Chen Mo built the entire Forbidden City, but Xue only dug a hole this whole time she had been ying the game?¡± ¡°Build a house, Xue! We want to see some buildings!¡± ¡°Yeah, just start simple by building a castle!¡± Lin Xue was getting a bit bothered by this, ¡°Could you guys be more reasonable? I need to worry about my survival first!¡± Lin Xue was also a bit confused. The game didn¡¯t feel this difficult before. Howe mobs show up in the dark. Not only do they attack, they make scary noises too! And it¡¯s extremely scary when it¡¯s pitch ck during night in VR! ¡°Alright, we¡¯ll leave survival mode at this for now. I see many want to watch me build houses right? I¡¯ll do that in creative mode!¡± Lin Xue walked into the singleyer hut in the main menu once again. But this time she chose creative mode and set it so it was perpetually day. Lin Xue spawned in another world. It was simr to her previous world, but this time she had ess to every block in the game and could fly. ¡°Huh? I can fly!¡± Lin Xue was really enjoying the flight. She had a set of silver wings behind her and could fly freely in the sky. After exploring from a bird¡¯s eye view, Lin Xue found a hill that looked to be to her liking. ¡°Alright, we¡¯ll build our house here. There¡¯s a hill behind us as water in front of us. This is where my mansion will be!¡± Lin Xue was really determined to give it everything she had. First was ttening the terrain. She ttened out a huge chunk ofnd close to the hell and startedying down the foundations, setting down the outlines to her house. She built a rectangr area using stone. Then sheid down a support beam from the mountain. Lin Xue even made sure that the beam was properly centered to satisfy her OCD needs. ¡°Yep, this beam is ced perfectly. Alright! Can you guys stop spamming ¡®Armstrong cannon¡¯ or whatever? It¡¯s just a beam! ¡°Alright, next we¡¯lly down the foundations of the house. I¡¯ll use wood and stone, doesn¡¯t that look great?¡± Although it sounded great on paper, Lin Xue was just cing down dirt and stone as the roof of her house. ¡°Stop saying it looks ugly. It¡¯s just the foundation, how good can the foundation look? ¡°I want to make a nice chinese style roof, the type with eaves that slopes down from the middle. Look at the beam I ced before, that¡¯ll be the highest point of the house. ¡°Next... We¡¯ll build the two walls. They say ¡®A house is at least four walls¡¯, I don¡¯t even have four walls yet. Lin Xue had three metre high walls on both sides, and punched a few holes for the windows. Next, Lin Xue started building the roof. The highest point of the house was the beam in the middle, sloping down towards the side. That was how she built her clumsy roof. ¡°Yep, the Chinese style roof is already quite obvious other than the fact that it¡¯s a bit ugly. Geez, stop saying it¡¯s ugly, I¡¯ll beautify itter. And with a bit more dirt, she called the roofplete. But from afar, Lin Xue¡¯s idea of ¡®Beautiful Chinese style roof¡¯ wasn¡¯t there as it looked like a huge tombstone instead. The chat was already going wild. ¡°It looks more and more like a tomb!¡± ¡°Are you afraid that grass is going to grow on your tomb once it rains? Hahaha¡± ¡°Xue, I thought you said you were building it out of wood and stone, why is it all dirt? It looks exactly like a tomb!¡± ¡°There¡¯s a few holes too, are those made by raiders?¡± ¡°Just give up, Xue. Your house is hideous! You have no talent!¡± ¡°I heard you live in the Imperial Capital, Xue. Do you live in Princess Tomb[2]? Lin Xue cleared her throat, ¡°This is art, you guys just don¡¯t understand! Not everybody can understand the meaning behind art. These must be slowly taken in and enjoyed, I¡¯ll give you guys some time to do that. ¡°Huh, turns out I was using dirt to build my house. My goodness, I just picked a block and didn¡¯t notice! Don¡¯t worry, since the foundations are already there, I¡¯ll just swap out the dirt for wood. ¡°Don¡¯t worry, it¡¯ll lose its tomb look after all the dirt is gone!¡± The chat didn¡¯t care at all. ¡°Is this where they are filming the new movie?¡± ¡°It looks like a tomb no matter what, there¡¯s even a tform for the dead.¡± ¡°Xue, I¡¯ll be raiding once you¡¯re done. Remember to leave some valuables behind.¡± Lin Xue continued to swap out all the dirt for wood. The house looked much more like a house after swapping out the dirt for wood. One problem was that it was huge as it stood at nearly ten metres. It was also simr in width with apletely empty interior. Lin Xue said, ¡°Don¡¯t worry, I¡¯ll put a torch inside the house. Lin Xue ced a torch onto the wall, one in the front and one in the back, and one in each of the corners. The interior was now brightly lit. ¡°Nice!¡± Lin Xue nodded, full of herself as she looked at the huge row of torches. This got the chat riled up again. ¡°It wasn¡¯t that bad before, but now it looks like a funeral hall!¡± ¡°My goodness, isn¡¯t opening up windows the first reaction to a dark room, why did she use torches?¡± ¡°Hahaha, I think Xue is still in the mindset of digging holes. She confused this with her tomb!¡± ¡°It¡¯s actually a tomb!¡± TL note: [1] They referenced a real chinese movie titled Kong Fu Youth, but obviously wouldn¡¯t work as well. [2] Like an area name, exists in real life too Gongzhufen (¹«Ö÷·Ø). Chapter 244 - Visiting

Chapter 244: Visiting

Lin Xue suddenly got an idea out, ¡°Huh? Yeah, I should add windows!¡± She ran out of the house and knocked a few holes in the wall and reced them with ss. She went to the front and added a door to the building. But this didn¡¯t make it look better, on the contrary, it made it look more like a tomb. Lin Xue didn¡¯t want to budge, swapping out more nks for ss, making the interior building brighter. ¡°Tadaa! How¡¯s that, doesn¡¯t it look a lot better? How about I call it Lin Xue¡¯s ss castle?¡± ¡°Hey, it¡¯s a ss castle, not a ss tomb. I¡¯ll get mobs to ban you if you keep saying that!¡± Lin Xue was quite angry as the chat seemed to be filled with professionals architectures, some say it looked ugly, some said she was dumb, but it really was quite difficult to build a good looking building! Although it wasn¡¯t technically difficult, as there was nothing to go off of and everything had toe from her imagination. She then had to put each block down piece and piece, it wasn¡¯t as easy as she thought. However, Lin Xue was not discouraged. Instead, she thought it was quite interesting. Building houses was at least a month¡¯s worth of content. While she was ying, a voice appeared behind her out of nowhere, ¡°Are you... refurbishing the tomb?¡± Lin Xue was shocked. She turned around to find another character with wings behind them, watching her work. Why was the voice so familiar? It looked a few seconds for Lin Xue toe back to her senses, ¡°Chen Mo?¡± Chen Mo replied, ¡°Of course it¡¯s me, is there anyone else that could just pop into your singleyer world?¡± ¡°Oh yeah, I¡¯m ying single yer, how did you join? Did you use your developer permissions?¡± ¡°Rx, I¡¯m just here to see how you¡¯re doing and if you need any guidance. But it looks like you¡¯re doing quite well, you¡¯ve already managed to build a pretty good looking tomb, are you filming a movie?¡± Lin Xue frantically said, ¡°Ahhh! That¡¯s my house!¡± Chen Mo flew around the house, ¡°Tsk tsk, alright, just keep at it. Are you really not nning to nt a few trees or it, or have a tombstone on the side?¡± Lin Xue broke down, ¡°Shut up! Right, I was about to give you a bad review! Your advertisements are all false to cheat us out of our money!¡± Chen Mo asked, ¡°Why?¡± Lin Xue said confidently, ¡°You¡¯re asking me why? Where¡¯s the Forbidden City? Old Summer Pce? Why is it just empty space? And there aren¡¯t that many things to build with. Did you really build the Forbidden City? You must¡¯ve done it using a program!¡± Chen Mo used ¡®hands wide open¡¯ emote, ¡°I really did build it. You¡¯re in single yer mode in a game called ¡®My World¡¯, since it¡¯s your world, why would the buildings I built appear in your world?¡± ¡°... Makes sense, I¡¯ve not nothing to say. Then where do I have to go to take a look at the Forbidden City?¡± ¡°Are you sure you wanna see? It might affect your passion for building.¡± ¡°I¡¯m sure!¡± Chen Mo used a ?? emote, ¡°Alright, I sent you a friend request. You¡¯ll have to quit Singleyer and enter ¡®Chen Mo¡¯s World¡¯. Lin Xue epted Chen Mo¡¯s friend request and quit single yer mode. Back at the main menu, there was a smaller portal next to the observatory that had the words ¡®Chen Mo¡¯s World¡¯ on top of it. Lin Xue secretly said ¡°narcissistic manager¡± as she walked into the portal. Countless blocks flew across Lin Xue¡¯s eyes to form a huge pixted vortex. Soon, Lin Xue was transported to a new world. The first thing she saw was a huge arch that was several dozen meters tall, with ¡°Chen Mo¡¯s World¡± written on top of it. It was a beautiful and grand arch. She felt tiny as she looked up at it from below. The style of the arch was pretty unique, however, as it wasn¡¯t Chinese style, nor was it a style from overseas. She couldn¡¯t tell which era it was from either. Past the arch was a dense forest with trees pver ten meters tall. She also noticed that something was different past this dense forest. There was a huge valley with countless peaks. There were many buildings in the valleys and between the peaks. It looked incredible from afar. There seemed to be buildings in the sky too. It looked like a huge flying city, but she could barely make it out with the clouds in the way. Lin Xue could barely contain her excitement. Even though she only saw a fraction of this world, she felt that there were countless more amazing things to see in this world. ¡°Huh, where¡¯s the manager?¡± Lin Xue said looking around. Chen Mo¡¯s character appeared next to her. After joining parties, both characters will have colour names to make it easier for yers to find one another. There were many other yers outside of Chen Mo as they couldn¡¯t wait to explore the world. Flying was enabled in ¡®Chen Mo¡¯s world¡¯, simr to creative mode. However, yers couldn¡¯t make any changes to the world, as digging and cing blocks weren¡¯t allowed. Lin Xue was quite excited, ¡°Let¡¯s go, manager!¡± ¡°Hold on.¡± A crystal appeared in Chen Mo¡¯s hands. He ced down one after another in the shape of a winged dragon. He then pulled out a control core and ced it in the chest of the dragon. The crystal dragon then came to life, and even stretched its neck. Chen Mo repeated the same procedure and created another crystal dragon. ¡°Alright, get on,¡± said Chen Mo. Lin Xue was stunned looking at the dragon. EVidently it was a model from the base game as it looked just as polished as yable characters. It also looked incredible because of how transparent it was too. Lin Xue hopped onto the dragon to discover that she actually could control the dragon to fly as she wished. ¡°Alright, let¡¯s go,¡± said Chen Mo. With Chen Mo in front and Lin Xue trailing behind, they travelled across the map on their crystal dragons. There were already many yers in ¡®Chen Mo¡¯s World¡¯ as many yers went straight to ¡®Chen Mo¡¯s World¡¯ in search of the Forbidden City before they even touched single yer mode. But as these yers were casually flying around, ¡®woosh¡¯ went two crystal dragons as they flew past them. The yers were all really confused. ¡°What was that, was that a dragon?¡¯ ¡°How do you get a dragon?¡± ¡°Do you have to y? You can buy that?¡± ¡°What, I didn¡¯t even think you could meet whales in a building game!¡± ¡°My goodness, this game is unyable!¡± Chapter 245 - Chen Mos World

Chapter 245: Chen Mo¡¯s World

Chen Mo and Lin Xue¡¯s dragons caught the attention of quite a few yers. Many went straight to Chen Mo¡¯s World after buying the game so there were quite a few yers here. The two crystal dragons flying by obviously caught a lot of attention. Many tried to chase after it in hopes of learning where they got the dragon. However, the dragon was too fast and it didn¡¯t take long for them to be dropped. Lin Xue was on the dragon in the sky, feeling great as everything flew by in a sh, leaving the other yers in the dust. ¡°Is this what it feels like to spend a bunch of money in a game?¡± Chen Mo kept flying upwards as they flew past the huge dense forest. Soon, the two of them reached a location with great views, overlooking the buildings underneath them. ¡°My goodness!¡± Lin Xue was so shocked words failed toe out of her mouth. The world was split into many huge valleys, something one could only notice from high up in the sky. There were many buildings in each of the valleys, closely resembling a town in real life. There was a huge modern city in the middle as she could barely make out the skyscrapers and a few other noteworthy buildings such as Eiffel Tower, and Oriental Pearl TV Tower. These buildings were scattered across the huge city, blending into their surroundings so as to not stick out. Many of the buildings in the modern city were from buildings in real life, an amalgamation of buildings of different themes of sorts. Of course, this city was a ways away from a real life city. Although it was small, it had everything a city needed,mercial area, industrial area, residential area, vi area. Theposition was also quite logical andpletely stunning. ¡°This is the central city. Most real-life buildings exist here,¡± exined Chen MO. He then pointed at the huge area to the left of the central city, ¡°That is the ancient distinct, the Forbidden City and Old Summer Pce are there.¡± That was a group of Chinese style buildings. The Forbidden City was at the most northern part of the city facing south, upying the most dominant position in the city. Not far away from the Forbidden City was the Old Summer Pce, which also took up a huge area. Other than these buildings that appeared in videos, she could make out other ancient Chinese buildings such as Yueyang Tower, Yellow Crane Tower, ssical Gardens of Suzhou, Songyue Pagoda, Qianling Mausoleum, Temple of Heaven, and Yongle Pce. As these buildings had different styles, there were forests separating these buildings. The tombs of emperors like Qianling Mausoleum were simply built on a rtively distant hillside and only reachable via a long stone path. Chen Mo pointed at a random mountain (Of course, Lin Xue couldn¡¯t tell which he was pointing at because it was so far away), ¡°Do you see the mountain below Qianling Mausoleum? I n to build the Emperor Qinshihuang¡¯s Mausoleum there, but I haven¡¯t gotten around to it yet.¡± Lin Xue was utterly shocked, ¡°Emperor Qinshihuang¡¯s Mausoleum? That hadn¡¯t even been excavated yet, right? How are you going to build it?¡± ¡°I¡¯ll just have to imagine it, there have been many descriptions in the past anyways. Even if I really can¡¯t handle it, I should at least have the Terracotta Army built.¡± ¡°I¡¯m on my knees.¡± Chen Mo continued to go through the buildings, ¡°The northwest of the ancient building district contains western fantasy buildings. Lin Xue was struggling to distinguish between the buildings, ¡°What are these? There seemed to be buildings from the middle ages, as well as a couple other weird ones, and... Huh? Isn¡¯t that Tristam Cathedral?¡± ¡°Yeah, the distinct is split into two smaller areas. On the left is Diablo rted buildings, containing buildings such as Tristram Cathedral and Bastion¡¯s Keep. The right side contains buildings from the world of Azeroth such as Stormwind City and Lordaeron Ruins. ¡°Stormwind City?¡± eximed Lin Xue, ¡°My goodness, you even built buildings from the world of Azeroth? What about the Frozen Throne?¡± ¡°... I haven¡¯t¡¯ gotten around to that yet,¡± replied Chen Mo, ¡°I¡¯m slowly chipping through them as there¡¯s so much to work on. Stormwind City and Lordaeron Ruins are the two buildings that are close topletion in the western fantasy district. ¡°That¡¯s incredible, I wanna go see Stormwind City!¡± ¡°Hold on, let me go through the other districts first. ¡°Therge open space on the east side of the western fantasy area is reserved for the new game, things will be added to it once thates out, but I haven¡¯t decided on what theme yet. ¡°The huge patch of ocean to the right of the central city is the lost city of Antis. The south of Antis will be world buildings. It¡¯s empty so far, but I n to add the Sphinx, pyramids and Hanging Gardens of Babylon there. There are three smaller distincts to the south of the central city that will serve as a disy area. I will add interesting tools and weapons, split into ancient, modern, and future. ¡°Ancient weapons include cold weapons, carriages, as well as mythical creatures such as dragons and Gryphons. ¡°Modern area includes tanks and nes. ¡°Future will contain spaceships and space stations. ¡°But most of these are still empty as I haven¡¯t had the time to do it. Lin Xue waspletely shocked. What was going on? Is this the same game I¡¯m ying? Lin Xue eximed, ¡°I-is this what your team built during the development phase? That means that in half a year, not only was the game in development, a massive project like this was in the works too? ¡°Uhh, more urately, it¡¯s built by me alone, why else would it be called ¡®Chen Mo¡¯s World?¡¯¡± replied Chen Mo. Lin Xue was so shocked words weren¡¯ting out of her mouth. Chen Mo had the crystal dragon descend, ¡°Come, let¡¯s give Stormwind City a visit. The dragons were fast, but even then it took them nearly ten minutes to reach their destination. Chen Mo and Lin Xuended their crystal dragons at the main entrance of Stormwind City. Past the front gate, Lin Xue was on the main path of Stormwind City, with statues filling up the sides of the moat. ¡°That¡¯s Turalyon, Khadgar, Alleria Windrunner... There aren¡¯t any signs yet, I¡¯ll add themter,¡± exined Chen Mo. Lin Xue raised her head to look at the massive sculptures. Although they were pixel art, they were incredibly detailed. She could understand the postures and even a little bit of their expressions. ¡°How did you make the nose and mouth?¡± asked Lin Xue. ¡°Oh, there¡¯s a chisel mode. You can split any block into sixty-four smaller blocks for finer detailed works.¡± Lin Xue got back on her crystal dragon to admire these statues further away. ¡°...Manager, you¡¯re not human!¡± Chapter 246 - Prices of Buildings

Chapter 246: Prices of Buildings

Lin Xue and Chen Mo were on their Crystal Dragons exploring the different areas. Stormwind City, Lordaeron Ruins, Tristram Cathedral... Forbidden City, Old Summer Pce, Yellow Crane Tower... Lin Xue was utterly shocked as they looked at the various builds. Lin Xue was still most interested in Stormwind City and Lordaeron Ruins as these two areas had a lot of records in the world of Azeroth, yet there wasn¡¯t anything resembling a floor n, so the yers could only imagine what it looked like. But here, Lin Xue could have a bird¡¯s eye view of Stormwind City from her crystal dragon, giving her a view of the structure of the entire city. Business District, the old city, Wizard area, Stormwind Fortress... All of Stormwind City was split clearly into different areas with different styles in each area. From the sky, the entire city looked incrediblyplete. Lin Xue also walked around in the city and even found the Auctioneer in the Auction House in the trading district. There were many guards patrolling in the city as well. There was so much detail she couldn¡¯t help but give Chen Mo a like. Lordaeron Ruins were also incredibly well done. Lin Xue managed to find the throne where Arthas killed his father just like what happened in the cinematic among the ruins. Moreover, there was a huge underground city beneath Lordaeron Ruins. ording to Chen Mo, this was known as the Undercity, upied by the source after Sylvanas took over the city by leading the Forsaken, and was now one of the main cities of the Scourge. Lin Xue¡¯s viewers were also utterly shocked, My goodness, Chen Mo built all of Stormwind City in game? Lordaeron Ruins too!¡± ¡°Those sculptures are amazing!¡± ¡°I didn¡¯t really care about the Forbidden City as it¡¯s a building in real life as reference, but building Stormwind City is insane, it¡¯s all from his imagination!¡± ¡°My goodness, this game sure is worth it. It¡¯s like buy one get N free, just look at how detailed the buildings are!¡± ¡°That¡¯s amazing. Will I be able to do the same if I y this game?¡± ¡°From Xue¡¯s performance, I have my doubts...¡± ¡°Man I really want to y it now. Alright, I¡¯m buying the game!¡± ¡ª After going through the Western and Ancient buildings, the two of them returned to the central city, which was also thergest, modern city. The city looked exactly like a real city from afar. You could tell the pixted nature of the game leaving its marks on some of the rounded buildings, but the rectangr buildings looked exactly like real life. With the excellent lights and shadows, Lin Xue would sometimes confuse herself thinking it was real life. What was even more impressive was cements of the buildings which made logical sense. Bridges, rails, gardens,mercial areas, and manyndmark buildings were all well ced. Moreover, Lin Xue even noticed signs when she was walking, noting the street names or area nme. She also noticed that all the buildings she entered were fully furnished, with a distinct difference in decor from floor to floor. Moreover, there were obviously more yers in the central city. Lin Xue noticed that there were many yers in the sky as well as on foot taking in the city from a more normal angle. And in VR mode, yers could freely chat to one another, and there was a lot of discussion among yers. ¡°My goodness, it¡¯s insane that someone built this!¡± ¡°I found a railway line too, there were even interchanges!¡± ¡°I went up the Oriental Pearl TV Tower. Although it¡¯s not at the same scale, it looks exactly the same on the outside!¡± ¡°Have you guys been to the other areas?¡± ¡°We haven¡¯t gotten to that yet as this is huge, it¡¯d take so long to fly there. Who know how long Chen Mo spent on this.¡± ¡°Hmm? Aren¡¯t those the two rich yers riding the crystal dragon? Ask them where they got it!¡± A few yers gathered around them. ¡°Excuse me, could you tell us where you got your dragons, did you buy it using money?¡± someone asked. Chen Mo replied right as Lin Xue was about to answer, ¡°Yeah we bought it, you can buy them at the three smaller areas down south. Moreover, everything here can be bought as long as you guys have the money.¡± As Chen Mo hid his ID in game, none of them could tell who he was. The yers were shocked, ¡°EVerything can be bought?¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Yeah everything.¡± He then pointed at the tower next to him, ¡°If you scan the tower, you¡¯ll get its blueprint if you fork out money. Then with enough resources in singleyer or multiyer, you¡¯ll be able to recreate this ording to the blueprint.¡± The yers were shocked to learn that. ¡°Doesn¡¯t that mean if we had the blueprint for Forbidden City, we¡¯ll be able to build one in online mode?¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Yes, that¡¯s right.¡± ¡°That¡¯s incredible, let¡¯s see... my goodness the blueprint for the tower is forty RMB!¡± ¡°What about themp. Oh, one RMB.¡± ¡°What about the Oriental Pearl TV Tower. The TV tower is really expensive, it costs one hundred and eighty RMB.¡± As though discovering a whole new world, the yers scrambled to check the prices of various buildings. There was one yer who stayed back, ¡°Thismp doesn¡¯t look tooplicated and yet it costs one RMB. What if I built it myself?¡± ¡°It wouldn¡¯t cost anything if you built it yourself. You could sell your own blueprints for money too.¡± replied Chen Mo. The yer got really excited, ¡°I can do that? The buildings I built can be sold for cash? My goodness, I just discovered a great way to make money. I¡¯ll be off to singleyer then!¡± After all the yers were gone, Lin Xue asked, ¡°Manager, I have a question. Aren¡¯t you afraid that the yers are going to resell the blueprints after buying your¡¯s?¡± ¡°Resell? Impossible.¡± ¡°Anything that was built from a blueprint cannot be resold as a blueprint. For example, if you bought Oriental Pearl TV Tower, changed some of the interior and added some decor, it¡¯s impossible to resell that. ¡°You can¡¯t sell your build if it contains a single piece of item that was recreated using blueprints. Unless you swapped out every single block, but that¡¯d take a lot of effort. You¡¯d be better off building a new building with that energy.¡± ¡°Is that so. You¡¯ve really thought of everything haven¡¯t you, manager.¡± Chen Mo said, full of himself, ¡°Of course, I¡¯m a professional designer afterall, how could something like this get past me? It had to do with profit no less.¡± ¡°You¡¯re only thinking that far when it has to do with profits then!¡± Chapter 247 - Online Multiplayer

Chapter 247: Online Multiyer

The two of them spent some more time in the central city. ¡°Geez these buildings sure do look nice. I want to buy one of them now. Makes me mad to think about the den I built,¡± said Lin Xue. ¡°So that really isn¡¯t a tomb then?¡± asked Chen Mo. Lin Xue used an ¡®angry¡¯ emote, ¡°Get out of here!¡± Chen Moughed, ¡°Although I really do hope you spend money on the game, but I rmend you hold off on that.¡± ¡°Why?¡± Chen Mo brought Lin Xue to a rooftop of a tall building that overlooked the city. ¡°To be honest, I wouldn¡¯t rmend anyone buy these blueprints. Although it is a feature, I hope that everyone tries to build their own things and experience the joy of creating. The point of the game is lost if you bought everything.¡± Lin Xue seemed to have understood that, ¡°Huh, is that so.¡± Chen Mo added, ¡°Moreover, you¡¯d still have to gather all the resources once you buy it.¡± Lin Xue was shocked, ¡°Huh? But don¡¯t you have infinite resources in creative mode?¡± ¡°Sure you have infinite resources in creative mode, but even if you recreate one of these buildings, who would see it? How many others would join your world and look at it?¡± exined Chen Mo. Lin Xue took a few seconds to process that, ¡°That does seem to be the case.¡± Chen Mo continued, ¡°So if you want to show off a massive building you bought, you best go to a multiyer server. But it¡¯d take a lot of resources and a lot of gathering to build the building, so it¡¯d be quite difficult to do that alone. Lin Xue thought for a second, ¡°So it¡¯s best to start a gang on a multiyer server before buying one of those?¡± ¡°... Must you use the word ¡®gang¡¯?¡± ¡°I understand now!¡± said Lin Xue, ¡°How about we explore multiyer mode?¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Sure, I¡¯ve been wanting to check how the yers are doing anyways.¡± The two of them quit Chen Mo¡¯s world and entered ¡®Everybody¡¯s World¡¯. This time, the two of them spawned in a valley surrounded by massive trees with a river =in front of them. There were quite a few yers in this valley, at least thirty to forty yers from the looks of it. They were all gathering wood and digging dirt. Some of them already crafted crafting tables and were using them. Lin Xue looked around and noticed that she didn¡¯t have anything other than the basic axe. ¡°Huh? Howe I have nothing but the axe?¡± eximed Lin Xue. ¡°Of course,¡± Chen Mo said looking at her, ¡°Everybody starts from nothing in multiyer, so everybody should work together.¡± Evidently, this valley was where the yers spawned. But unlike other online games, there wasn¡¯t even an NPC guiding yers in Minecraft, nor were there tasks. The yers spawn in this valley surrounded by trees with nothing else in possession. There were many spawns like this. Chen Mo had set the spawns, terrain, and starting buildings, meaning the yers will have to move around when they spawn. A yer named ¡®Cool Gust¡¯ walked towards Chen Mo and Lin Xue. He had a pickaxe in hand and appeared to have been mining before this. ¡°Nice to meet you two. If you guys are new, please join our guild. Strength in numbers. It¡¯d make surviving and growing easier too,¡± exined Cool Gust. Lin Xue looked at Chen Mo. Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Sure, the two of us are newbies, please look after us guildmaster.¡± Lin Xue was speechless. Cool Gust was quite happy, ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll send you a guild invite, just hit ept.¡± Chen Mo and Lin Xue both agreed and joined Cool Gust¡¯s guild. ¡°I¡¯ve also started recently, but I¡¯ve gotten hang of it quite quickly, perhaps it¡¯s because I like these types of building games, ¡± Cool Gust said passionately. ¡°We are currently splitting up and having everyone work on something different. You should go gather some wood. You¡¯ll be able to get it by using your axe on a tree. We¡¯ll build a house once we have enough resources. Lin Xue nodded, ¡°Sure.¡± The two of them got their axes out and started hacking away. Lin Xue noticed as she was chopping down trees that the yers had distinct jobs to do in this guild. Some were gathering wood, others gathering cobblestone, there were even some responsible for crafting. Daytime was much longer in multiyer mode, but because yers couldn¡¯t skip night by sleeping, multiyer was much more dangerouspared to single yer. But with such a huge group of yers, mobs would easily die if everyone hit them once. Danger was just a concept in this case. Soon, Chen Mo and Lin Xue brought back the huge pile of wood they gathered. With plenty of cobblestone and wood, Cool Gust decided to start building after some consideration. ¡°Alright, throw all the things you¡¯ve gathered on the ground, I¡¯ll use them to build the house. Yeah, just throw them there. I n to build quite arge house on this patch on emptynd. Let¡¯s do four houses for now, it¡¯ll be our houses for the time being. I¡¯ll start off and the three of you will try and copy what I do as close as you can. AFter saying that, Cool Gust and three others started building the house, including Chen Mo. ¡°Alright, I¡¯m about the start. I¡¯ll try and go slower, so pay attention and build exactly as I do. Otherwise you guys will have to destroy and rebuild it.¡± Cool Gust then started building the house. Lin Xue couldn¡¯t help but think that yers who y a building game like this must have OCD! Cool Gust was a decent builder. He built a border using cobblestone, thenid down nks, then a wall, then the roof, then windows... It actually looked quite decent. Cool Gust wasn¡¯t building too quickly as the others had to follow along. He stopped after every small section and waited for everyone else to catch up. ¡°It¡¯s wrong here, please redo that.¡± ¡°Isn¡¯t this wall one block short? Look.¡± Cool Gust¡¯s house looked quite nice despite only being half done. Cool Gust was walking along and pointing out mistakes. But he was utterly shocked at thest house. ¡°W-what is this!¡± It was an incredibly beautiful wooden double-story house. Moreover, it wasn¡¯t just hanging in the air as it even had supporting beams. The was also a proper set of stairs to the upper floor. There were guardrails on every single window with a pointed roof, skylights and a chimney, and an incredibly beautiful french window in the middle. Cool Gust felt that his build was an eyesorepared to this! Chapter 248 - Server Status

Chapter 248: Server Status

Cool Gust waspletely Dumbfounded, ¡°W-where did thise from? Who built this?¡± The other yers turned their heads to Chen Mo in unison. Cool Gust used a shocked emote, ¡°Boss, I¡¯m on my knees for you! Your house is incredible, teach me how you did this!¡± Chen Mo used a head scratching emote, ¡°Oh, I can¡¯t exin it either. I just thought of it and this was how it came out. Maybe it¡¯s from all the Leggo I¡¯ve done in the past.¡± Cool Gust was shocked, ¡°Well, what do you usually do, boss?¡± Chen Mo gave it some thought, ¡°Umm, professional Leggo builder?¡± Cool Gust used an impressed emote, ¡°Boss is incredible! I¡¯m thoroughly impressed! You¡¯re fit for a professional builder!¡± Lin Xue was struggling to hold back herughter. The chat couldn¡¯t hold back either. ¡°My goodness, Chen Mo the actor is here again!¡± ¡°Kill this serial liar!¡± ¡°Since when were you a professional builder! Have some dignity!¡± ¡°He even said he just thought of it and built it? Rot in hell!¡± ¡°I¡¯ve never seen someone so shameless!¡± Of course the yers in the server didn¡¯t know about this as they were investigating how the house was built. They gave up after a while as there was no way they could build a simr one given their skill levels. But upon looking back at the other three houses, nobody wanted to live in them anymore. ¡°You can use the blueprint for this house. You¡¯ll be able to build one once you gather enough ingredients,¡± said Chen Mo. ¡°Huh? Boss will give us the blueprint for this?¡± eximed Cool Gust. Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Yeah, we¡¯ll just trade one by one.¡± Everybody there got riled up upon hearing about the free blueprint, queueing one after another to trade with Chen Mo. After generating the blueprint for the house, Chen Mo gave everyone there a copy of it. ¡°Thanks boss! Boss you¡¯re the best!¡± With the blueprint in hand, everyone happily started gathering the ingredients to start building. The more Cool Gust looked at the other three houses, the more of an eyesore it was, so much so that Cool Gust decided to take them apart himself. Everyone became increasingly passionate about the game as they enthusiastically cut down trees. A few hundred metres squared of area was cleared out, and even mined out a huge cave in the side of a mountain. After gathering the appropriate ingredients, Cool Gust picked an empty piece ofnd and ttened it. Afterwards, he took out the blueprint, picked out a suitable area and ced it down. The blocks seemed to appear out of nowhere as they assembled themselves one after another. The blocks slowly fell out of Cool Gusts inventory, and not long after, an identical two-story building was built. ¡°Incredible!¡± Cool Gust hurriedly went into the building, exploring every nook and cranny of it. When Cool Gust finally came out, he asked Chen Mo, ¡°Boss, do I have your permission to modify this building?¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Of course, go ahead. But you can¡¯t generate another blueprint after you make changes, it has to be built from scratch.¡± ¡°Alright, thanks so much boss! I¡¯ll need to properly analyse this house!¡± said Cool Gust. This little house got many of the yers riled up as many of them were looking into how the house was built before trying to build one from scratch themselves. Chen Mo then said to Lin Xue, ¡°You go ahead, I have to go and check how the yers of other servers are doing.¡± Lin Xue nodded, ¡°Sure, no problem.¡± ¡ª After exiting his VR pod, Chen Mo left the second floor of the experience store and entered the office. Qian Kun came forward upon seeing Chen Mo¡¯s arrival. ¡°Manager, the sales look quite good, we¡¯ve sold more than ten thousand copies!¡± Qian Kun said enthusiastically. Chen Mo replied with a ¡°Oh¡±, ¡°Doesn¡¯t that mean we should start a second server? Keep your eye on it, we might experience more growth down the line.¡± ¡°No problem, rest assured, manager.¡± Qian Kun went back to monitoring the statistics rted to the game. It hadn¡¯t even been twenty-four hours since Minecraft was released so many statistics weren¡¯t avable yet. But theoretically, it shouldn¡¯t be a problem selling fifteen thousand copies on the first day. This might not seem like an incredible number as Don¡¯t Starve sold twenty-four thousand copies in the first day, whereas Minecraft sold over one hundred million copies in his previous life. But upon considering the tform it was on as there were naturally less VR yers than mobile for PC, and Minecraft¡¯s miraculous sales in his previous life from selling on PC, mobile, and various consoles. Whereas Chen Mo currently only had it on VR and was only selling it in China, so it was natural that the sales were on the lower end. Of course, this number was decent for a VR game. Most importantly, Minecraft was priced quite low, so many who own VR gaming pods wouldn¡¯t even think twice before buying the game. Chen Mo¡¯s Forbidden City and Old Summer Pce also did a good job of promoting the game. Chen Mo wasn¡¯t worried either as Minecraft had a long lifespan and was a game that was slow to grow. Only when there was enough participation from yers, will the true potential of the game be released. Chen Mo got to aputer and logged into the backend management terminal to check how the servers were doing. So far, ten thousand yers have filled up the first server. The yers were at different corners of the world as they gave it their all in exploration, gathering, and building. Of course not all ten thousand yers will remain. Chen Mo estimated that the world will operate smoothly with around three thousand yers. The world was massive, but the world was just a sr system of eight differents. Allsbined had about one hundred thousand square kilometers, meaning each had around ten thousand square kilometres. Chen Mo also gave an order to these eights. The yers would spawn on Earth, which was the third. Ten thousand square kilometres for ten thousand yers, meaning each yer had one square kilometre. This meant yers had one million blocks in terms of area, not to mention the blocks underground. This was more than enough blocks to keep the yers upied. Of course the yers wouldn¡¯t be ying alone, they would most certainly start guilds and work together. It was even more likely that a guild of a hundred people would work together to control a few hundred square kilometres and develop and build in that area. The status of the yers was about the same as what Chen Mo had in mind. There were many bright points on the map, signifying active yers. yers were still gathered around spawn thus far, with a huge gap from spawn to spawn, meaning that different guilds hadn¡¯t met each other yet. The construction in all guilds was going full steam ahead. Chapter 249 - Splitting Jobs

Chapter 249: Splitting Jobs

In Minecraft, buildings can take a lot of effort to build, but are very easy to destroy. Chen Mo had also made changes to amend that. Guilds can pick one or multiple plots ofnd to im it as their own, they will have absoluteplete control over all the plots in the areas. The guildmaster can ept and kick guild members freely, and only yers with permissions are allowed to ce or destroy blocks in the areas imed by the guild. The ¡®areas imed by the guild¡¯ was more or less a territory, allowing them to feel the greater sense of belonging, as if the plot ofnd was their home. Nobody would destroy their home for no reason. As the guilds grew (dependent on number of yers, time, and area built), the area imed by the guild will also be bigger and bigger. Two guilds cannot have im over the same area, and if that happens they¡¯ll have tobine guilds to dere war. Of course, yers could destroy the buildings of other guilds, but they have to use special tools, and it would take a long time to destroy them. At the same time, the guildmaster has the ability to save the state of the areas of the guild and can restore it with a cooldown. This didn¡¯t exist in the original Minecraft, so there was still a risk involved in making an online version. Buildings in Minecraft were too easy to destroy after all, as many blocks could easily be mined. However, Chen Mo hypothesised that with these rules in ce, griefing should be reduced to a minimal. Moreover, the core mechanic of online mode was freedom, meaning that the state of the worldpletely depended on what the yers wanted. If most yers had the intentions to destroy the world they yed in, it most certainly would be in disarray. If most yers in the world wanted to build the most incredible city, of course they could band together and banish the ones trying to create chaos. All Chen Mo had to do was make some bnce changes. ¡ª yers were going quite well so far. Most guilds were progressing well in terms of building. There were quite a few that were good at that, and professional architects were getting quite a bit of attention. After all, the houses built by the guild represented the guild, and the first impressions the guilds have on new yers would strongly affect their ability to gather new yers. It could be said that it¡¯s the main source ofpetition. There were many guilds who were simr to professional builders in his previous life, creating a professional team with dozens of yers to build all sorts of incredible buildings before securing them using their guild to allow others enjoy the view. In ¡®Chen Mo¡¯s World¡¯, there were many whales who forked out a lot of money to buy blueprints. Unique and high quality buildings such as Stormwind City, Yellow Crane Tower, and Forbidden City were incredibly popr. Of course, these buildings were also incredibly expensive. Buildings like Oriental Pearl TV Tower cost one hundred and eight RMB, but a building like Stormwind city was in the thousands. Yet, people still bought them. Even after buying them, they couldn¡¯t build them as they didn¡¯t have enough resources. These whales started poaching guilds with the incentive of them being rich as well having the blueprint to gather as many people as possible toplete the building. To many of these whales, it was an incredibly interesting consumer experience as they could build the buildings in multiyer mode and would even have their names on it, feeding their ego as hundreds or even thousands of yers would see it. At the same time, there were also yers who focused on the tech tree. It didn¡¯t take long before yers got the hang of beginner mechanics such as building a crafting table using four nts, or crafting a stone axe using cobblestone and sticks, or cooking meat in the furnace. And the more passionate yers, especially big guilds that controlled a lot of resources, quickly discovered even more tech. After taming horses, they could craft a carriage using wood. They could also use variousplicated ingredients and potions to craft a control core (living things), then gather a special crystal through mining to summon the crystal dragon. They could even make cars, but that¡¯d require even more ingredients, requiring control units (mechanical), fuel, reinforcement, switch module, tyres, etc... Many of these required rare ores that spawned in the ground where there was a high chance of meeting terrible monsters. If the yers wanted to progress through the tech tree, they¡¯d have to go through wood, stone, and metals step by step. After gathering metal tools, they¡¯ll equip everyone with metal weapons and armour in order to kill mobs and better gather resources. This way, the equipment yers had would be better and better, the yers would also get better at killing mobs, which allowed them to gather more resources. This would help them create more high tech equipment, or even create a modern city. It didn¡¯t take long before yers had specialised roles within guilds. Managers took on the role of distributing jobs, managing their expansion, Architects researched buildings and were responsible for building. Scientists looked deeper into the tech tree and focused on gathering Warriors fought mobs and battled other yers. Miners gathered various resources. Once everyone got their roles, the efficiency of the group increased dramatically. Moreover, there wasn¡¯t a difference in power in the game as yers worked towards amon goal of building the better building. These groups started posting their experiences on the forums, and soon the other groups also used the same strategy, resulting in most guilds following the same structure as they all headed towards a more proper,wful direction. There were many posts on the forum of yers detailing their process of grinding or sharing some of the buildings they built. Although there weren¡¯t many Minecraft yers as of yet, the yers who were ying were really passionate about the game. Most yers were passionate about creating and liked sharing their experiences. As a result, the Minecraft forums were incredibly lively, perhaps even more so than some of the bigger games. The yers were shocked at how rich the gamey was as they investigated the most optimal way to y the game. Of course there was still some fighting. There were posts from ones who didn¡¯t listen to instructions from their guild and got kicked from them. Sometimes other guilds would make posts yelling at one another after having some confrontation in game. There were quite a few of these posts and quite a lot of fighting. Chen Mo didn¡¯t mind too much as long as it wasn¡¯t the game at fault. There was bound to be conflict with people, and it wasn¡¯t surprising for people to fight over things like these. It¡¯s healthy to have some conflict once in a while anyways. Chapter 250 - First Day Sales

Chapter 250: First Day Sales

Soon, the statistics for Thousand Hells and Minecraft was released. The two games looked to be on even ground from the initial promotions. Thousand Hells got a lot of help from Emperor Dynasty Entertainment and even got the best promotional spot on Emperor Dynasty Gaming tform¡¯s front page. Whereas Minecraft gained most of its poprity from Forbidden City and Old Summer Pce. At the same time, the Game Committee gave Minecraft a promotional spot too. The twenty-four hour sales for the games: Thousand Hells sold 8739 copies, whereas Minecraft sold seventeen thousand four hundred copies. Minecraft sold double the amount Thousand Hells didn, but it wasn¡¯t even close in terms of revenue as Thousand Hells was priced at twelve hundred eight eight, ten times the amount of Minecraft. Thousand Hells made eleven million on the first day, and it seemed more than likely that it would make over two hundred million RMB in the first month, potentially even more than three hundred million. Minecraft on the other hand made 3.47 million RMB in its first day. Two million or so of that game from selling the actual game, and the rest came from yers spending money in game (blueprints). Many whales were spending repeatedly, up to several thousand RMB as they bought all of the high quality buildings. From the looks of it, Minecraft would probably make one hundred million in its first month which was quite far away from Thousand Hell¡¯s three hundred million. Yan Zhenyuan breathed a sigh of relief after seeing this number. He had been really uneasy since Chen Mo¡¯s videogame conference, and for some reason his eyelids were always twitching. Maybe it had to do with Chen Mo¡¯s praises? Yan Zhenyuan didn¡¯t dare look down at Chen Mo either as he knew that the videogame industry is incredibly unpredictable as miracles can often happen. A smaller game might gain a lot of poprity and spread all across the globe. Moreover, Chen Mo seemed to have created many of these miracles. Therefore, the more sessful a videogame designer was, the more careful they usually were. But from the looks of it, Minecraft didn¡¯t seem to be able to move Thousand Hell¡¯s position. Thousand Hells should be able to reach the top of the VR best sellers and stay there for a week or two, and Yan Zhenyuan was more than satisfied by a result like that. Although the games were of different genres and didn¡¯tpete with one another directly, they were both VR games that sold at the same time. It would still be fine if they had lower sales, but they would certainly be a bit embarrassed if Minecraft trumped them in terms of monthly revenue as well. Emperor Dynasty Entertainment were already celebrating as they finally beat Chen Mo! Although it might¡¯ve been overkill, and the games were of different genres as well, but a win¡¯s a win! And thinking back on the beef between Chen Mo and Emperor Dynasty Entertainment, it was normal for the designers at Emperor Dynasty Entertainment to be celebrating. ¡ª Chen Mo¡¯s side on the other hand was quite calm. Everyone was still quite emotionally stable upon seeing the statistics. They did sell quite a few copies, but because of how low the game was priced at a tenth of what Thousand Hells cost, it was normal for them to lose in terms of monthly ie. They might not be able to sell the same amount of copies if they raised the price either. All that could be said is that smaller games don¡¯t get the same treatment asrger games on VR. In the office, assistant Lin Xiao was having a discussion with Su Jinyu. ¡°Ms Goldfish, I want to ask you something. Minecraft¡¯s sales for the first day is out, should we organise a celebration dinner? I¡¯m not sure if the manager is satisfied with numbers like these. Normally, we should organise a dinner,¡± asked Lin Xiao. Su Jinyu replied after a few moments of thought, ¡°You should ask him yourself. I don¡¯t know what he¡¯s thinking either.¡± Lin Xiao was a bit hesitant, ¡°It¡¯s because I don¡¯t know what he has in mind that makes it so difficult to approach him with this question.¡± ¡°Don¡¯t worry, the manager has a good mentality. You don¡¯t need to worry so much, just go ahead and ask him,¡± assured Su Jinyu. ¡°Alright,¡± Lin Xiao nodded and decided to ask Chen Mo directly. Lin Xiao got to the second floor of the experience store to find Chen Mo was still looking into various statistics for Minecraft while building. Lin Xiao knocked on the door gently, ¡°Manager?¡± Chen Mo turned around to look at her, ¡°Come in, is something wrong?¡± Lin Xiao walked forwards and asked hesitantly, ¡°Manager, Minecraft¡¯s statistics for the first day is out, should we organise a celebratory dinner?¡± ¡°Celebratory dinner?¡± Chen Mo gave it some thought, ¡°Of course!¡± Lin Xiao nodded, ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll get that organised right away.¡± Chen Mo quickly waved his hands, ¡°No no no, wait. We don¡¯t need to rush this. Wouldn¡¯t it be better if we celebrate after the ie of Minecraft surpasses Thousand Hells?¡± ¡°Huh?¡± Lin Xiao was confused, ¡°Have the dinner after we surpass Thousand Hells?¡± From the ie of the first day, Minecraft was about a third of Thousand Hells, how would it surpass them? Of course Lin Xiao didn¡¯t dare ask any further. She had already reminded the boss about the dinner, it waspletely up to them when to host the dinner or if at all. ¡°Alright, just let me know when, manager.¡± said Lin Xiao before leaving. Chen Mo continued building calmly. For certain games, the first day¡¯s sales were incredibly important as after a long promotional period, the yers who buy the game on the first day are the target audience for the game. The feedback from these yers were incredibly important to the videogame designers. Normally, a game that had done sufficient promotions would have one of the highest if not the highest amount of sales in the first day. Especially when pre orders are taken to ount, the number of sales the game would get could safely be extrapted. But that wasn¡¯t the case for sandbox games. When sandbox games are just released, the yers would still be exploring the game so the fun of the game wouldn¡¯t be fully realised. Thates with sufficient participation and ingenuity from the yers. A second wave would follow, allowing for more growth. Although Chen Mo had used various methods to show the fun in building in Minecraft, there was still a gap between him and the yers. Chen Mo was the developer of the game after all. Most yers would think that there might¡¯ve been some special effects upon looking at his creations. yers will only realise the fun of the game when they build amazing buildings with their two hands. As it was only the first day since release so Chen Mo wasn¡¯t worried at all. Chapter 251 - Reversal

Chapter 251: Reversal

More and more reviews for Thousand Hells and Minecraft came up ss more and more yers have had their chance at the game. Most yers that have never yed Diablo rated Thousand Hells more highly than normal. Strictly speaking, Thousand Hells only borrow some ideas from Diablo. After porting the game from PC to VR and changing the western fantasy theme to an angel and demons theme, most yers could never tell that Thousand Hells took heavy inspiration from Diablo. But there were various different reviews for Minecraft. ¡°Is there anybody who understands the point of this game? All I do is dig up dirt and build houses. Is there nothing else to this game?¡± ¡°I think that this game is kinda boring. Sure it¡¯s satisfying to build my own house, but the houses I build are more akin to matchboxes than houses!¡± ¡°Because the game you are ying is called ¡®My World¡¯, but the fun part is in ¡®Somebody else¡¯s world¡¯!¡± ¡°The online mode is great, let¡¯s dig up dirt and build houses together!¡± ¡°I don¡¯t get the point of this game with all the guilds and building. Haven¡¯t there been games like these before? What¡¯s new?¡± ¡°Yeah, it¡¯s just a building game. What can you really build?¡± ¡°Hehe,st poster, stop pretending when you haven¡¯t even bought the game. You must spend some time on the game before you can understand it. People who don¡¯t spend time in games like you will never understand that!¡± ¡ª However, these arguments were few and far between, and they rarely ever heat up. This was because yers who didn¡¯t care about Minecraft wouldn¡¯t go out of their way to talk trash about the game, and the yers who bought Minecraft? They were all too busy building. A week after the game was released, there were quite a few videos on various streaming tforms. ¡°Minecraft first experience: Is this a horror game?¡± ¡°The city in the sky that we built¡± ¡°Minecraft new yer tutorial¡± ¡°Original build: recreating Siheyuan¡± ¡°Original build: recreating ssical Gardens of Suzhou¡± ¡ª There were three main types of videos. First was theedic first experience type videos, digging holes, chased by zombies, and building awful houses. Second was the educational type where more experience yers go over some tips and tricks for the game. Last was building videos, where yers record their amazing builds in creative mode or online multiyer mode to share (pronounced brag). Minecraft was a very topical game as the rich gamey allowed for different streamers or video makers to use their imagination to differentiate themselves from others. Other RPG games would more or less be going over the story or showcase high skilled gamey, making it difficult for streamers to differentiate themselves from others. Whereas a sandbox game allowed for talented yers to show off their building skills, while others showed off some interesting gamey, while others explored the world... When different yers yed the game differently, there would naturally be more diverse gamey. Minecraft slowly crept up on various video streaming and live streaming sites before many noticed, and started a Minecraft wave. Many yers were really confused. ¡°Howe there are this many Minecraft videos?¡± ¡°The gaming area is basically a Minecraft area!¡± ¡°Many streamers are off to y this game as well.¡± ¡°Have you seen Xue¡¯s livestream? Chen Mo showed himself there and showed off many incredible builds.¡± ¡°There¡¯s a streamer who became a guildmaster in Minecraft and they were incredibly progressional! He got some to mine, others to build, and already managed to build a little town!¡± ¡°I think the best part of the gamees from online multiyer. It¡¯s so satisfying to work together with many others to build a whole city.¡± ¡°Single yer is pretty fun too as you can craft whatever you want. It suits socially anxious people like me.¡± ¡°They¡¯re all fun! The game is fun because everybody gets to have their fun!¡± ¡°Geez, after watching so many videos and livestreams, I want to get the game too! I want to test out my architectural prowess¡± ¡°You will realise it¡¯s all somebody else¡¯s world! It¡¯s all lies!¡± As Minecraft gained traction on various live streaming and video streaming sites, the sales followed suit. Moreover, there were already some who¡¯ve started selling blueprints to their buildings. There are even groups who specialised in building for money. Soon, a string of statistics was released. First week sales: Thousand Hells fifty four thousand copies, Minecraft two hundred and sixty four thousand copies. First Month sales:Thousand Hells two hundred and thirty seven thousand copies, Minecraft 3.013 million copies. And when including various in-app purchases, Thousand Hells made three hundred and ny million RMB in its first month, whereas Minecraft made four hundred and thirty million RMB! Minecraft only got three hundred and eighty five million from selling copies of the game, and everything else came from in-app purchases, aka whales spending money on blueprints. When Minecraft broke three million yers, there were thirty open servers, with thousands upon thousands of different guilds. Most of these guilds have their whales, and even if they didn¡¯t they¡¯d band together to buy a blueprint. As it directly affects how the guild is portrayed, the yers didn¡¯t skimp on spending money on these. There were even some whales who would blueprints just to collect them. Some diehard World of Azeroth fans bought Stormwind City and Lordaeron Ruins just to have them. Even though Thousand Hells had tripled the revenue of Minecraft in the first day, Minecraft somehow turned that around in a month! ¡ª This number confused Yan Zhenyuan. Seventeen thousand in a day, twenty-six thousand in a week, three million in a month?! A difference of one hundred and seventy times between sales in the first day and the first month? Is he a monster? Moreover, Yan Zhenyuan was puzzled about the slow rate of growth of Thousand Hells! Thousand Hells had great reviews on various websites, video game media, and videogame tforms, maintaining a score of above 8.7. The yer feedback was alright too. Emperor Dynasty Entertainment also promoted the game as best they could. And yet it felt like something wascking? No matter how hard they promoted it, it wasn¡¯t hugely popr and didn¡¯t show any signs of doing so either! On the other hand, although Chen Mo did start spending some money to promote Minecraft from the second week, it was still quite far away from how much Thousand Hells was putting out. Howe it just keeps growing? The worst thing is the ridiculous number of sales it got! It¡¯d bepletely out of proportion if it continues at this pace! There have always been fewer VR gamers in Chinapared to mobile and PC. If it continued like this, wouldn¡¯t all VR gaming pods in China have Minecraft installed! That¡¯s ridiculous! How did a strategy of selling the game cheap to sell more copies work on a VR game? Yan Zhenyuan was speechless and was especially confused about Thousand Hells¡¯cklustre performance. Even if Thousand Hells didn¡¯t take over the VR market, it should at least resemble Diablo¡¯s sess on the PC right? The more Yan Zhenyuan thought about it, the less it made sense. Maybe... It¡¯s some kind of ck magic? It doesn¡¯t make sense! Chapter 252 - Minecraft Big Data Chapter 252: Minecraft Big Data It was all celebrations in the office. The atmosphere was slightly depressing when the statistics for the first day was released. Although the sold quite a few copies and was considered a great sess, it wasn¡¯t explosively popr as they werepletely outssed by Thousand Hells which happened to be outside of their expectation. But what happenedter was alsopletely outside of their expectation andpletely surprised them. From the first week to the first month, Minecraft¡¯s sales and revenue kept going up as it gained more and more poprity on various video streaming, live streaming, and video game forums. At the end of the first month, Thousand Hells was almostpletely defeated by Minecraft. This also wiped out the somewhat depressed atmosphere of the entire studio! ¡ª Qian Kun was putting a lot of effort into building houses in Minecraft on PC. He had a blueprint on hand and carefully ced down each and every block ording to the blueprint. Su Jinyu was behind him, ¡°You sure are patient.¡± Qian Kun said while having his full concentration on building, ¡°It¡¯s alright. After realising the fun in building, I¡¯mpletely addicted to the game. Time goes by in a blink of an eye when you¡¯re having fun.¡± Zheng Hongxi said, ¡°I thinkpared to patience, the bigger challenge is the pressure from the manager.¡± Su Jinyu couldn¡¯t help butugh, ¡°Yeah, Qian Kun. You spent days building this building whereas the manager would probably spend ten minutes on this.¡± ¡°Can you guys stop attacking me like this?¡± pleaded Qian Kun, ¡°The manager... He¡¯s not normal. There¡¯s nopetition between me and him in any game.¡± Su Jinyu nodded, ¡°Fair point... Anyways, where¡¯s the manager?¡± ¡ª Chen Mo was making a video on the second floor of the experience store. This was a special video, not a building video like the Forbidden City or Old Summer Pce. The building videos were stunning at the start, but as the yers¡¯ building prowess are continually being challenged, more and more professional groups appeared, and with that more and more incredible builds. yers slowly getting used to these types of insane builds after seeing them again and again in ¡°Somebody else¡¯s world¡±. And the video Chen Mo was making one was something that would allow others to feel the charms of Minecraft even better than building videos. Chen Mo did all the recording, editing, and post-production all by himself as it wasn¡¯t anything difficult and it was something most video makers could do, and was of course even simpler for Chen Mo. The video making process wasn¡¯t difficult, the difficult part was collecting data capturing the correct point of views in game, something only Chen Mo could do. After looking through it onest time, Chen Mo felt that it was good enough and uploaded it onto the inte via Weibo. Chen Mo¡¯s Webio was now the best ce for yers to get news about new games. Many of them would check Chen Mo¡¯s Webio everyday when they have nothing to do to see if Chen Mo had posted anything. The post attracted many reposts once it was released. ¡°Minecraft Big Data! Take a look at what these yers built!¡± The yers were all confused, Big Data? Big Data was a high level termmonly used in the IT industry, referring to the cleaning and summarising of arge amount of data to gain some insight. Of course, this term is sometimes misused to describe some shocking statistics. But normally, the video game industry rarely touched the term Big Data. Although there are various sources of data in video games, the designers usually kept it for their own eyes and would rarely release them. What was this Big Data Chen Mo was referring to? They yed the video. There was nothing special about the video as it featured some Minecraft gamey. The important point was the information revealed in the video. ¡°Over three million Minecraft yers a month after it¡¯s release. ¡°There are thirty Minecraft world servers thus far, totalling three million square kilometres, equivalent to the area China upies onnd and on sea. ¡°Every server has one hundred thousand square kilometres in area,parable to a province in real life. ¡°So far, yers have built on 158038 square kilometres across thirty servers, meaning yers have terraformed 5267.9 square kilometres per server, about half of the starting. ¡°Each yer has modified (dug or ced) five hundred and twenty thousand blocks.¡± ¡°The yer who modified most blocks is Lin Zhan in server one, modifying 1.483 million blocks. If these blocks were ced in a singleyer, it would cover one hundred and forty football fields. ¡°The guild that modified the most blocks goes to Huaxia Geographical Society, with a total of 783 million blocks modified. In a singleyer, it would be simr in area to Magic City. ¡°These yers who are so good at the game, do your families know about this? ¡°Nxet is some interesting stats about the servers. ¡°The first server is the oldest server and is said to contain the most real life architects. These architects have given it their all to show us the best advanced building techniques in the game. ¡°For example, a city in the sky built entirely with ss, or a underground dungeon below magma, or an ever growing pyramid in the desert... Apparently someone ns to dig through the and build a train through the centre of the. I sincerely advise against that.¡± ¡ª ¡°The biggest guild in server three is Huaxia Geographical Society, they have tasked themselves as the guild to terraform an entire to look like Huaxia[1]. ¡°Of course, this is an incredibly ambitious task. So far they have built Hengduan Mountains, and Chengdu, Chengdu ins, and Sichuan Basin[2], as well as other famous locations. And because of this, the tech levels of this server are quite far behind and still remain in the era of cold weapons. ¡ª ¡°Server seven is where battlehungry yers gather, as the servers are filled with chaos and explosions every day. Thirteen guilds are constantly fighting one another, putting every inch of the in war.¡± ¡°Of course, server seven also happens to be the most advanced in terms of military technology. All investments in the tech tree went to warfare, and there had already been fourrge airports.¡± ¡°Server eight is the server for love and peace. They focus on progressing through the tech tree with the aim of having manned spaceflight. They have been progressing steadily, searching for various rare materials to craft various parts that are required for rockets. ¡°Let¡¯s hope they¡¯ll eventually achieve manned space flights and achieve a history leap in online Minecraft! ¡ª ¡°Server fourteen has the most whales. The entire server has spent over 1.94 million RMB on blueprints although most of them haven¡¯t been crafted.¡± ¡°Moreover, yers Seraph and MilkBread are the two whales who have spent the most money on blueprints. The former bought out the entire central city, while theter bought out the entire western fantasy area including Stormwind City and Lordaeron Ruins. ¡ª ¡°That was how each server was doing. There are more exciting things to be done in Minecraft¡¯s online mode! PS: Don¡¯t forget to go shopping in Chen Mo¡¯s World. TL note:[1] like an old name for China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huaxia [2] The author used a collective word for these ces Chapter 253 - Redstone Technology Chapter 253: Redstone Technology This video attracted the attention of many Minecraft yers. Through the collected reposts, many yers who didn¡¯t y Minecraft were also discussing about the video. ¡°My goodness is this data official? Those guys are insane diggers!¡± ¡°The guys on server one dug out an area equivalent to the entire Magic City?¡± ¡°The other servers are in a simr ce too. Minecraft yers are crazy!¡± ¡°That guy from server one dug out one hundred and forty football fields? That¡¯s crazy! You¡¯d only be able to y a few hours in VR, he¡¯s way too efficient!¡± ¡°Theter statistics are quite interesting too. I¡¯m on server seven and I thought other servers are constantly fighting just like we are... turns out we are the exception!¡± ¡°Last poster, you guys are living in terrible states,e join us in server eight! We are all working together and are pretty close to building a rocket! Haha!¡± ¡°Huaxia Geographical Society sure are a weird bunch. Do they really n on recreating Huaxia in its entirety? They¡¯re ying a different game than we are!¡± ¡°I¡¯m from server fourteen and I watch the two whales oupete one another in spending. I think if Chen Mo does a custom build thing, they¡¯d buy them with no hesitation.¡± ¡ª There was also plenty of discussion of this video on the forums, and the different ystyles of different servers gained the attention of many yers. The way the servers were set up was in hopes of yers would modify the world ording to their ystyle anyways. After hearing about the status of various servers, many noticed they had been ying the game wrong and changed how they yed the game while others continued their ystyle and yed as they wished. Some yers with the same idea in mind nned to go to a new server to create a world that was even more perfect. At the same time, more and more different ystyles appeared. Chen Mo¡¯s Minecraft hinted at Redstone rted tech. With just a little effort, the yers could easily understand the theory behind redstone. Moreover, many buildings in Chem Mo¡¯s World had redstone circuits in them for things like automatic doors. The yers could learn more about the upper limits of redstone if they spend some time looking into them after buying the blueprints. The yers then started putting more emphasis on the magical redstone and started using them more and more in building their worlds. The theory behind redstone was quite simple, building aplete redstone circuit using redstone rted items such as redstone torches, levels, pressure tes, redstone dust, repeaters, pistons and rails in order to create interactive elements. It was now the programmers and musicians time to shine. Some made smart homes with automatic doors and lights. Some used redstone to recreate music like Gokuraku Jodo or Croatian Rhapsody. Some were trying to make machines that moved in Minecraft, and even TNTunchers. Some used redstone to create a huge maze that would change itself every minute. Some made 3D printers that would recreate anything below them, above them, known as a ¡®Creator System¡¯. Some yers even made aputer in Minecraft, and implemented apps like calctors and snake on them. Some of them could even change weather and environment in single yer using the keyboard of theputers in the game. Some even made phones that can turn on, slide unlock, and click on icons. Some of them even had working versions of ppybird. Of course because of the limits in the speed of redstone, these phones andputers were really slow and quiteggy, but it was an incredibly interesting concept in a game. With these various professionals in Minecraft, the potential of Minecraft was finally realised. Minecraft yers often made fun that the game wasn¡¯t called ¡®My world¡¯, but ¡®Somebody Else¡¯s World¡¯. Of course, many started working harder to learn the game after getting inspiration from others. There were also more and more Minecraft videos that increased its poprity even more. ¡°A cheap building game where everything is possible¡± became what Minecraft nickname and was known among most VR yers. Chen Mo¡¯s strategy of pricing it cheap to sell more copies was finally paying dividends. Although there weren¡¯t many VR yers, after Minecraft gained a lot of poprity, almost all VR yers had the game. Even if they weren¡¯t immediately interested in ying, they¡¯d choose to buy the game and y it when they were finally interested in ying it. Moreover, different yers could gain something different from Minecraft. Some liked to build houses in singleyer or explore the tech tree with a few other friends in survival mode. Some liked ying with redstone, making various redstone rted videos. Some liked to lead others in multiyer worlds to terraform the world. It was just like a shrunk down society in online mode. Everyone had their ce and could gain recognition and respect through their hard work. Some treated the game as a travelling game and would spend time in Chen Mo¡¯s world if they had nothing to do, checking for any new builds and if they should buy them. Some became reporters, exploring the various servers, gathering their status and reporting back to the yers on the forums. Although it was just a building game, it had unexpectedly allowed many to realise the child inside them, allowing them to rediscover the fun of creating, Moreover, Minecraft became one of the least hostile online games. As there were a lot of resources, there didn¡¯t need to be anypetition between yers, allowing them to work together. Only with cooperation and exploration of the techtree will the yers be able to enter space to gather even more rare resources to explore the tech tree. Therefore every new yer had their value, allowing a healthy rtionship between veterans and newbies. The newbies are eager to learn and the veterans are eager to teach, creating a healthy positive environment. The rich content made Minecraft¡¯s one hundred and twenty eight RMB price tag seem extremely great value. Combined with the liking the Game Committee took to the game and the continuous promotion on the official app store, Minecraft gained more and more sales and more and more poprity! Chapter 254

Chapter 254: Father and Daughter

The entire video game industry was dumbfounded at Minecraft¡¯s miraculous number of sales. It might be the cheapest VR game ever and didn¡¯t have the best profit model, but its increase in sales was horrifying. So far in China, there were over 1.3 billion mobile users, five hundred million PC users, and a measly one hundred million VR users. There are one hundred and fifty six million private car owners in China. People that could afford to buy cars should be way higher when taking the purchase restriction policies into ount. In theory, anyone who would afford a car could afford a VR gaming pod as well. But as VR gaming pods are purely for entertainment, there were naturally fewer yers who would go out of their way to buy a gaming pod, resulting in the number of around one hundred million gaming pods. But this was still a huge market. VR gaming pods are even moremon in advanced countries in the west, and the market looked really optimistic too. So far Minecraft sold three million copies and it shouldn¡¯t be a problem to break a hundred million in a few more months. That would mean that one in ten VR gaming pods have Minecraft installed. This also suggested that the game was about to be the ¡®most installed VR game¡¯. After Minecraft¡¯s miraculous growth, the gaming industry started looking deeper into its sess. There was even expert analysis from the Game Committee, going through Minecraft¡¯s unique points. ¡°Minecraft is an incredibly unique VR game. It¡¯s ability to allow yers to realise their imagination and creativity is its biggest differentiating factor. ¡°There are many games on the market that take inspiration from fun activities in real life and built their entire world around those features. ¡°In these types of games, the yers will follow the easy to understand rules to work towards a goal and from that get a sense of satisfaction. This was the core of many of these games. ¡°But these games are rtively shallow as the yers can only do so much within the restrictions of the game. They can¡¯t freely make changes and have limited scbility. ¡°But adding anymore to these games would actually do the opposite and shave off the original point of the game. It may even cause a loss of direction. ¡°But nothing of sorts happened in Minecraft. ¡°The game is incredibly rich. yers could y survival, y with others as a team, they could build, or even create various interesting things using redstone. ¡°Everybody would have their own way of ying the game and they would be able to search for the way of ying the game that would best fulfil them. ¡°It¡¯s hard to say what the core enjoyment of Minecraft is. I could only tell you that it gives you a fun space, all you had to do was to insert whatever you want to experience into that space and enjoy that experience. As Minecraft continued to gain poprity, it became the most topical VR game,pletely overshadowing Thousand Hells. -In the experience store. Chen Mo wasying down on the sofa testing how Minecraft ran on tablets. It was alright, but obviously notparable to VR. During the development process, Chen Mo worked on the PC version, then ported that onto VR. Mobile Minecraft was just something that happened along the way. But the problem was thatpared to VR, the PC and mobile version of Minecraft wasn¡¯t aplete game as VR Minecraft had been modified by CHen Mo, whereas Minecraft on PC and mobile were the same quality as the original Minecraft. This meant that PC and mobile versions of Minecraft didn¡¯t have online Multiyer or ¡®Chen Mo¡¯s World¡¯, and its graphics weren¡¯t as polished either. PC was rtively better, but the controls for the mobile version caused quite a bit of problems as the virtual joystick wasn¡¯t the best solution. Clicking to ce and holding to dig wasn¡¯t the most intuitive thing either. Moreover, the mobile version couldn¡¯t supportrge buildings because of the hardware restrictions of mobile. If the yers couldn¡¯t build huge buildings, the most the yers could do was to build a little wooden shack in singleyer or hang around in survival mode, dramatically affecting the entertainment value of the game. It was natural to release a PC and mobile version from how popr VR Minecraft was, nor was Chen Mo going to pass up this opportunity. However, Chen Mo still needed to do some polishing. While he was in the middle of his train of thought, a pair walked into the experience store. They looked like father and daughter. The dad looked quite young in his forties, and the daughter looked around twelve years old. The daughter was holding her father¡¯s hand, ¡°Papa, is this where Minecraft was made?¡± She had a really soft and cute voice, as if from an anime. The father bent over slightly and patted her on the head, ¡°Yep, you¡¯ll be able to y Minecraft soon.¡± Chen Mo was surprised as he¡¯d never seen a child in his experience store before. Experience stores have the same rules as inte cafes, where children are banned from using the facilities. Although minors could spend a short amount of time trying out mobile games under adult supervision, it was rare to see someone who would bring their children to an experience store to try out mobile games? The pair walked to the front desk. ¡°Hi, can I try out Minecraft here?¡± asked the father. Su Jinyu was no longer working at the front desk, and in her ce was another girl who recently graduated. She said embarrassingly, ¡°Sorry, because Minecraft is just a VR game and we only haveputers and mobile phones in the experience store thus far, there is no way to try out the game.¡± The father was shocked, ¡°Huh? Howe we can¡¯t try out your game in your experience store?¡± The front deskdy replied, ¡°I¡¯m really sorry, as Minecraft is our first VR game and we can¡¯t fit any VR gaming pods in the experience store. I¡¯m really sorry.¡± The dad seemed a bit disappointed, nodding, ¡°Alright, thanks.¡± The daughter pouted, ¡°Papa?¡± The father held her hand to the door and squatted down, ¡°I¡¯m sorry Nini, they don¡¯t have Minecraft at the experience store. Let¡¯s figure something else out alright?¡± The girl¡¯s eyes were getting a bit red as if she was about to cry, but she still nodded, ¡°Alright, let¡¯s do then papa.¡± The father pinched Nini¡¯s cheek lightly, heartbroken before standing up and leaving. ¡°Wait,¡± Chen Mo stood up, ¡°Are you guys here to y Minecraft?¡± The dad was shocked, ¡°Yes, and you are?¡± Chen Mo stuck his hand out, ¡°I¡¯m Chen Mo, I¡¯m the designer of Minecraft.¡± The dad shook Chen Mo¡¯s hand, eximing, ¡°You¡¯re Minecraft¡¯s designer? Great to meet you.¡± Chen Mo looked at Nini, ¡°You want to y Minecraft?¡± Chapter 255

Chapter 255: Nini¡¯s Present

The father nodded, ¡°Yeah, because Nini¡¯s friends have been ying Minecraft, she wanted to try it out after hearing from them. I¡¯ve looked it up online and found that it¡¯s a building game, so it¡¯s probably suitable for children, but we don¡¯t have a VR gaming pod at home. So we thought we¡¯d try our luck at your experience store and see if she can try the game out. Chen Mo understood the situation now. From the way the father dressed, he was probably an average working ss and didn¡¯t look like the gaming type, and was reluctant to buy a VR gaming pod. But Minecraft could only be yed in VR gaming pods, so the father thought he¡¯d bring his daughter to the experience store to try it out. From the looks of it, they got here via public transport or by train, and seemed to live quite far away. ¡°There¡¯s a VR gaming pod on the second floor, follow me,¡± offered Chen Mo. The father was happily surprised, ¡°Really? Thank you so much!¡± Nini¡¯s frown was also turned upside down. Chen Mo could tell that Nini was quite mature for her age, but still enjoyed fun and games like other kids of her age. Chen Mo brought the pair to his office on the second floor. The father was a bit hesitant, ¡°Is this your office? Is this alright?¡± Chen Mo smiled, ¡°It¡¯s fine. Come, take a seat, I¡¯ll pour you a ss of water.¡± Chen Mo had the father sit on the single sofa and poured him a ss of water. Nini stood beside him obediently, but had her eyes glued to the gaming pod. Chen Mo kneeled down as said to Nini, ¡°Nini you can y Minecraft in the VR gaming pod, but remember, you¡¯ll only be able to y for an hour alright?¡± Nini nodded vigorously. Chen Mo smiled, ¡°Come, I¡¯ll help you do some adjustments.¡± Nini walked to the VR pod with a spring in her step beforeying down in it. Chen Mo did some minor adjustments to allow for a better experience for a girl like her. Such gaming pods allowed minors to use them, but because of how tiring VR games were, their ytime needed to be strictly monitored. It was rmended to keep their ytime within an hour, and definitely not over two hours. Moreover, because many VR games had gore or violence, many VR inte cafes banned minors just like regr cafes, even under adult supervision. Therefore, if minors wanted to y VR games, their only hope was their VR gaming pod at home. As Nini didn¡¯t have on at home, her dad decided to bring her to the experience store. Chen Mo said to Nini through the little window in the VR gaming pod, ¡°Nini, it¡¯s starting soon. Do you see that icon? Select that to enter the game.¡± VR gaming pods had a sober mode and a fully immersed mode. The fully immersed mode provided a better experience but didn¡¯t suit minors as well, so Chen Mo decided to have Nini y in the sober mode. Chen Mo used a cable to stream the gamey onto hisptop, then ced theptop in front of the father. ¡°Thanks so much!¡± The father was really happy to watch Nini y. After going through the tutorial, Nini excitedly entered creative mode. Evidently it was something she talked about with her friends. Nini found a piece of tnd and started building a house. They could tell from theputer that Nini was ying as a princess in a dress, cing down pieces of wood seriously. First she arranged a square on the ground before cing down a secondyer. After a short pause, Nini found a ce to insert a door. Nini couldn¡¯t reach the top anymore when she was up to the fourthyer, but evidently she wanted to build more. This stopped Nini for a bit, but she soon managed to solve the problem by cing a piece of wood underneath her to build the fourthyer. Then Nini moved to the inside of the house to build the roof. The inside of the house waspletely dark after building the roof. Nini punched a few holes on the side of the walls and reced them with ss. The father had a huge smile on his face watching Nini¡¯s each and every movement. There were a few times that Nini encountered a problem, but the father held himself back to not help her, allowing her to figure out her own problems. Soon, the hour was up. Nini¡¯s building resembled a house. It waspletely made of wood, had doors, windows and a bed. Nini even added some decor on the root and added a supporting beam to make it look better. Of course, the house looked hideous as an adult, but it was something a twelve year old would take a lot of effort to make. Chen Mo knocked on the VR gaming pod, ¡°Nini, time¡¯s up!¡± ¡°Okay!¡± Although she didn¡¯t want to leave, Nini took onest look at her build before quitting the game. Nini was still really excited as she exited the gaming pod as she ran to her father, ¡°Papa I built a beautiful house in game!¡± The father had a smile on his face as he patted her head, ¡°Yeah, papa saw everything. Nini¡¯s a great builder, you¡¯ll be a great architect when you grow up!¡± Nini was still a bit unsatisfied, ¡°If I had a bit more time, I¡¯ll make the house look even better!¡± The father smiled, ¡°Nini, it¡¯s time for us to go.¡± Nini nodded and stood by her father¡¯s side. The father said to Chen Mo, ¡°Thanks for today. The kid has been telling me all about Minecraft on the way here. She¡¯d be sad for a long time if she didn¡¯t get to y today.¡± Chen Mo smiled, ¡°It¡¯s nothing, it¡¯s my honour to have people like you who like my game.¡± ¡°Thanks for having us.¡± ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll walk you out.¡± Chen Mo walked the pair downstairs to the entrance of the experience store. ¡°Hold onto this for now, it has the mobile version of Minecraft installed on it,¡± Chen Mo handed a tablet to the father. The father was shocked and quickly declined, ¡°We can¡¯t take that! Moreover, it¡¯s already a lot to have taken up so much of your time, how could I ept gifts like these from you?¡± ¡°This is a present for Nini. Moreover, Minecraft will release on Mobile and PC soon, before that happens, Nini can hold onto this tablet. You guys can return this when the PC and mobile version is released. Nini obviously really wanted it but she didn¡¯t say anything and stared at her father. The father couldn¡¯t help but give in, ¡°Thank you so much, I¡¯ll return it in due time.¡± Chen Mo handed the tablet to Nini, ¡°Remember to listen to your dad and don¡¯t spend too much time on it, alright?¡± Nini grabbed the tablet and held onto it like a baby, ¡°Yep, understood!¡± Chapter 256 - Location of New Experience Store

Chapter 256: Location of New Experience Store

Chen Mo walked back into the experience store after sending off the pair. Chen Mo was quite touched by the whole interaction with Nini as it reminded him of something he had neglected. What is a game? To a designer, there are many aspects to a game. The idea of a game also differs from person to person. It could be a work of art thatbines many different design and artistic concepts. It could be a great source of entertainment and the best way to deal with work rted stress. It could be a job, eSports, and a way to challenge oneself. It could be a drug, an unkible monster, something that many cannot escape. Everybody knew that videogames could be emotional, it could bring happiness, and it could bring negative emotions. Of course, games can also empty your wallet and bring the developers a lot of money. But Chen Mo also noticed that during the process of churning out games, he seemed to have forgotten the most basic primitive thing: that video games should bring happiness. Ever since he entered the industry, Chen Mo had been smoothly sailing in the eye¡¯s of the others, making a great deal of money with all the games he released. But in reality, nobody had seen any of his hardships. Chen Mo had never stopped making games ever since he entered the industry, maintaining three to four games a year, and one of which will be an investment of over one hundred million RMb. Other than that, in order to help him gain capital for more investments to allow this speed of developing video games surpass what the other designers were used to, Chen Mo had made quite a few pay to win games. He had been working almost every single day. Before development, he¡¯d to market research to see what yers were into, and work on the design document. During the development, he¡¯d overlook how everyone was doing, and monitor all aspects of the game including ystyle, art, and music. Before the game is released, he¡¯d promote the game using various methods. After the game is released, he¡¯d make changes ording to yer feedback, then move onto the next game soon after. It could be said that Chen Mo could take the ce of anyone on the team, and nobody could take Chen Mo¡¯s ce. Even taking out various aspects of it, even if it¡¯s just in terms of work ethic, Chen Mo wouldn¡¯t be inferior to anyone in the videogame industry. Of course this was helped by Chen Mo¡¯s personality as well as the environment he was in. Although Chen Mo had many ideas from ssic games, ideas aren¡¯t worth much in the videogame industry. Compared to distribution and capital, creativity is sometimes a weak force. Therefore, Chen Mo had to take each move carefully as losing grip of an opportunity could mean never seeing it again. But after watching Nini y Minecraft, Chen Mo realised something. Thunderbolt Entertainment was now an incredibly influential video gamepany. He no longer was the videogame designer that nobody cared about. He could slow down slightly and didn¡¯t need to calcte every step he took and make sure that there were no missteps. He should treat every yer as a person and not just numbers. He should consider things outside of making money. -In the second floor of the experience store, Chen Mo¡¯s own office.- Lin Xiao handed over some documents to Chen Mo, ¡°Manager, the design of the new experience store is basicallyplete. It¡¯s just as you requested, and this is the detailed report.¡± Chen Mo grabbed the documents, ¡°Alright, thanks for that.¡± Lin Xiao asked, ¡°Then when are we moving to the new office manager? If the date has been decided, I¡¯ll let everyone else know.¡± Chen Mo replied after a few moments, ¡°Let¡¯s do next week, you can let the others know now.¡± Lin Xiao nodded, ¡°Alright.¡± After Lin Xiao¡¯s departure, Chen Mo started looking through the documents. The matters about the new experience store had been in the works inst November, or before the development of Minecraft started. Lin Xiao had looked at many ces within the Imperial City. Chen Mo finally settled on a four-story office building. It was located in the northeastern corner of the Imperial City between the third and fourth ring road, right by a train station. As there were historical sites nearby and tall buildings weren¡¯t allowed to be built, the building was only four floors tall. The floor was still in construction and was due to bepleted in March. As Chen Mo was quite happy with the location and structure of the building, he decided to buy the building. It cost forty-six thousand RMB per square metre, and had sixty-four hundred square metres across the four floors for a total of two hundred and ny million RMB. This was on the expensive side but it had its upsides. First was the easy ess to public transport, and was located pretty close to Chen Mo¡¯s current experience store. Moreover, the area and the number of floors suited Chen Mo¡¯s needs, which was why he decided to buy the entire building. When the construction was finished in March, Chen Mo got professional interior designers to renovate it and made slight changes to the structure of the building and added decor to the inside and outside of the building. In addition to various spendings as well as various fees he had to pay to buy the experience store, Chen Mo spent over three million RMB. And now, all of the experience store¡¯s renovations were done. The structure of the entire experience store was handled by Chen Mo himself. It¡¯s a five minutes walk from the train station to the main entrance of the expensive store. The front desk and the resting area was located on the first floor, with many sofas to allow yers to rx and chat. Coffee and vending machines were also provided. The elevators were directly opposite of the main entrance, and there were two elevators that provided ess to all floors. Next to the elevators was a public area that led to the PC experience area decorated simr to an inte cafe. The two areas next to the hallbined were about twelve hundred metres squared and contained two hundredputers. The holographic projection viewing area and the mobile expensive area was located on the second floor. There wasn¡¯t a need for a main hall in the second, third and fourth, but all of them will have someone working at a front desk. There was onerge holographic projector and two smaller ones in the holographic projection area, and in game scenes or gamey can be shown holographically here. But holographic projection weren¡¯t mainstream in this world as they were quite expensive and weren¡¯t all that useful. Chen Mo bought it in consideration of future eSportspetition. Moreover, there was a massive LED screen in the viewing area, simr to ones that were present in concerts or eSportspetitions that were in ce for a better viewing experience. A portion of the area was used as seating and another was used as the mobile gaming experience area. At each seat was a tablet and a mobile phone for the yers. The VR experience area was on the third floor, stocked with eighty VR gaming pods. The pricing for a VR experience was more expensive and had time limits, but it was cheaper than VR inte cafes. Chapter 257 - New Experience Stores Holographic Projection

Chapter 257: New Experience Store¡¯s Holographic Projection

The fourth floor was the office area and Chen Mo¡¯s break area. The office area was much more spacious this time. There were meeting rooms of various sizes, a kitchte, and a break room. All the main creative staff also had their own VR gaming pod, where the others had upgraded drawing tablets andputers. Chen Mo¡¯s resting area was an area specially set aside, decorated simr to the second floor of the previous experience store. It was set as an area for Chen Mo to think in peace. Chen Mo also said goodbye to living in the experience store, renting a two bedroom apartment nearby for the time being. But upon considering that he might be working with a tighter development schedule in the future, Chen Mo didn¡¯t rule out that he might need to spend the night in the experience store. In theory, the fourth floor would not be open for yers. It was partially to keep their works as a secret, and partially to allow the staff a quiet work environment. Of course, Chen Mo encouraged his staff to visit the other floors and interact with the yers and gather some feedback. ¡ª Everybody was happy when they heard the announcement of a new experience store. The new location of the experience store wasn¡¯t a secret of anything and many of them were waiting for the new experience store toplete. The current location was still big enough to support everyone, albeit a bit tight, so everyone looked forward to a new location. The yers were excited about the new experience store too as there were less than twentyputers in the first floor of this experience store, meaning yers frequently had to queue up. The next will will consist of working on the PC and mobile versions of Minecraft as well as the preparations for the move. The old experience store belonged to thepetition officials. But because how well Chen Mo¡¯s games have been selling, greatly surpassing their expectations, they allowed him to use the experience store free of charge. There were also some procedures that needed to be done now that he was moving, but he didn¡¯t need to worry about that as Lin Xiao would take over. ¡ª Fifth of September, the new experience store was officially in use. As a lot of the equipment was brand new, they didn¡¯t need to move many things over to the new office, it didn¡¯t take long for them to pack their stuff to the new location. Everyone was really satisfied with the new experience store. Other than having a bigger area to work in as well as all round upgrades, the experience store had a lot of minute details that represented the culture of Thunderbolt Entertainment, which was to everyone¡¯s liking. There was a huge three metre tall Arthas statue at the front door of the experience store. Thunderbolt Entertainment¡¯s logo was stered all over the ss on the outside of the experience, making the experience store look incredibly modern and stood out from its surroundings. The hall in the first floor had various decor rted to games Thunderbolt Entertainment developed, such as Arthas¡¯ sword Frostmourne, Hellscream¡¯s Great Axe, and Tyreal¡¯s sword. There were various artworks in the hallways, and everyone of them had a different style. Some were based on Warcraft, some Diablo, some Onmyoji, as well as Wuxia themes. These were all artworks from the development process, and there was a piece of history behind each of these artworks. Looking through all these artworks told the growth of Thunderbolt Entertainment from the moment it was conceived. In PC, mobile, and VR experience areas there were special exhibition areas for figurines in ss cabs for the yers to enjoy. Some yers game to show their support too as the new experience wasn¡¯t all that far from the old one, being two stations apart. Many yers went straight for the VR experience area the moment they got to the experience store to try out Minecraft. As the previous experience store wasn¡¯t equipped with VR equipment, it was a long timeing for the yers who couldn¡¯t afford VR gaming pods. However, the yers and staff were more interested in the holographic projection area in the second floor. Many had even seen holographic projection technology, and were extremely interested in it. Zou Zhuo went straight for the holographic projection area, exploring the equipment. ¡°Manager, how do you use this holographic projection stuff? It looks incredible!¡± said Zou Zhuo. There was onerge holographic projectors and two smaller pnes. Therge one was in the middle of the area, while the smaller ones were on the side. These projectors were about half a metre in height and had a square base. Therge projector was about three metres in length, or about nine square metres, about the same area as a small cubicle. The smaller one had two metre sides, resulting in four metres squared, about the same area as a double bed. These projectors hadn¡¯t been turned on yet, so they looked like three silver boxes. If it weren¡¯t for the borders on its topside, some might mistake it as a stage and stand on top of it. Chen Moughed, ¡°Do you wanna y a match of Warcraft?¡± Zou Zhuo was shocked, happily surprised, ¡°Will this thing disy Warcraft?¡± ¡°Of course, why else would buy it?¡± There were two smaller soundproof rooms at opposite sides of the room, each room had five high-spedputers. Chen Mo and fatty entered different rooms andunched Warcraft. The other yers gathered around the projector to watch. Chen Mo and Zou Zhuo started a two person map. When the game started, the holographic projector turned on too. The whole map showed up on therge projector in the middle. They should see that Chen MO spawned in the top left corner of the map and Zou Zhuo spawned in the bottom right of the map. The two of them started building, training, and farming. The holographic projector showed a lot of details, including buildings, heroes, or other units. Moreover, it wasn¡¯t limited by the edge of disys, so everyone could see whatever was happening around the map at all times. Theo other two projectors showed what was happening at Zou Zhuo and Chen Mo¡¯s base, both projected showing half the map. With thisbination of projectors, everyone could clearly see what was happening around the map, creating an incredibly satisfying viewing expectations. Especially micromanagement that was previously hard toprehend was made easy on these holographic disys. Moreover,pared to PC graphics, these holographic disys had a better 3D feeling, making the graphics look even better. ¡°Geez, the fatty¡¯s spider is done for. Another one sumbing to Chen Mo¡¯s balde!¡± ¡°And Chen Mo is secretly mining on the other side of the map, fatty hadn¡¯t realised that yet! My goodness!¡± ¡°Looks like fatty is at a disadvantage again. Did I say again?¡± Soon, more and more yers gathered around and the holographic projector was surrounded by people. Chapter 258 - Minecraft Pocket Edition

Chapter 258: Minecraft Pocket Edition

Zou Zhuo was done after the first match. ¡°Hold on a second manager. I just realised that I wanted to look at the holographic projections. I never got the chance to look at it since I was so upied with the game!¡± Chen Moughed, ¡°That¡¯s true, anybody else wants to y Warcraft? Just head into the other room and give Zou Zhuo a chance to look at the projections.¡± Two excited volunteers offered themselves and entered the soundproof rooms. Another game started and Zou Zhuo was utterly shocked upon seeing the holographic projection. ¡°This is amazing! ¡°I can see each and every detail of the entire map! All the micromanagements can be seen so easily. ¡°And all the characters and terrain are 3D, so it looks much better than on PC. ¡°Wouldn¡¯t this look amazing if it was 2v2? ¡°But there¡¯s a problem, if it was an eight person map, it would look too good right? Heroes might do alright, but the minions would look tiny.¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Yeah, this projector setup works best for smaller 1v1 maps. Moreover, this isn¡¯t just for Warcraft, it has other uses as well.¡± Zou Zhuo was shocked, ¡°Huh? What else?¡± Chen Mo had a mysterious smile on his face, ¡°For the new game of course.¡± ¡ª The theory behind holographic projects were quite simple. In this world, although holographic projections were expensive, they did a really good job. Holographic projections work well with many different types of games as long as the game was fully 3D (3D models and scenes), then the holographic projector will do a good job of showing the bird¡¯s eye view of the game. There were two different ways of disying the game. First was a tracking mode, meaning tracking a yer¡¯s perspective or certain units. Games such as Diablo would be more suited to a tracking mode. But a game like Warcraft didn¡¯t suit tracking mode because of how much micromanagement there was. A lot of aspects of micromanagement would be missed if they chose to follow a hero, and if they followed the yer¡¯s perspective, it would result in a terrible viewing experience because of how quickly the yer¡¯s screen would change. The other was a fixed mode, meaning fixed on a certain area or perspective. Warcraft would be better suited for fixed mode. Of course, a problem arises if the map was too big, such as Warcraft¡¯s eight people maps. With a fixed perspective, smaller units such as Peasants will be too small to viewfortably. But a lot of Warcraft was about 1v1 on smaller maps, so this wasn¡¯t a big problem. Moreover, Chen Mo didn¡¯t buy this holographic projection setup just for Warcraft, he also considered a use case for the new game. Moreover, there was a huge LED screen in the holographic projection area, simr to ones used in concerts. The viewing experience of a huge LED screenbined with the holographic projectors would most certainly be great. ¡ª The experience with the holographic projector was overwhelmingly positive. Chen Mo also hinted at a new game, but no matter how much Zou Zhuo pushed for an answer, Chen Mo kept his mouth sealed. Back at the fourth floor, Chen Mo got the other main creative staff and finalised their development ns. There were many things that had to be returned to order after the move to a new experience store, and many hadn¡¯t yet stabilized from the move, so Chen Mo didn¡¯t n to start on anotherrge work immediately. Because of the one-two punch of Diablo and Minecraft, everyone was quite tired because of how close together the timing was and needed some rest. This was why Chen Mo wanted to work on a few smaller games to pick at their brains. The final design n is as follows. Finish up the move to the new experience store before the end of September and release PC, mobile and international version of Minecraft. These were rtively easy jobs just to keep the staff stimted. They will release one smaller, high quality game at the end of October and November. It served as warmup and to fill up some space on the Thunderbolt Gaming tform. They will start working on the next big game from December onwards. -In the office.- Qian Kun handed a tablet to Chen Mo. ¡°Manager, the mobile version of Minecraft is more or less done, please take a look. The controls are still kind of weird.¡± Chen Mo grabbed the tablet and yed for a few minutes. ¡°Yeah, that¡¯s about right, we can consider releasing it now,¡± said Chen Mo, ¡°The controls are more or less done at this stage. Because of the tform itself, it will never be the same as PC or VR versions. Qian Kun nodded, ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll arrange that.¡± After a month or so of development, the mobile version of Minecraft was finally released. This timeframe was just as Chen Mo expected. In fact, the development of Minecraft¡¯s PC and mobile versions were quite painless as the PC version was developed before the VR version, sopared to the PC version, the mobile version was rtively easy. The reason it took so long was due to some minute details in the gamey. Chen Mo had made huge changes to the VR version and had much more content than the original Minecraft. Online mode, ¡®Chen Mo¡¯s World¡¯, skill trees... supported Minecraft¡¯s explosive growth. And selling buildings became an important source of ie from the game too. Many yers were giving it their all to figure out building techniques, creating various buildings or moving mechanisms just to earn some cash in game. PC was alrightpared to mobile. Because of various restrictions of mobile, it couldn¡¯tmunicate seamlessly with the VR version. In multiyer mode, there often would be many people connected to the same server. Setting aside the huge resource requirement as well as a good inte connection, graphics itself was a huge problem. With twenty to thirty people in a small area, the mobile version had no chance because of how small the screen of a phone is. The buildings Chen Mo built also had extraordinarily high resource requirements, so it¡¯s unlikely that mobile phones could support them. There was also a problem of the controls. The controls of Minecraft on the mobile version were quite terrible, creating an awful fighting experience. However, despite this problem also affecting the original version, it didn¡¯t affect its explosive poprity. Therefore Chen Mo decided to have identical versions for PC and VR while excluding a portion of the functions on mobile, serving as Minecraft: Pocket Edition. Chapter 259 - Players Eager Anticipation

Chapter 259: yers¡¯ Eager Anticipation

The pocket version of Minecraft was to allow yers to experience the fun of the game on mobile, butpared to the PC and VR version, the mobile version loses out on a lot of content. The mobile version didn¡¯t support ¡®Everybody¡¯s World¡¯ and ¡®Chen Mo¡¯s World¡¯, but everything else was still there. The VR, PC, and mobile versions shared the same code, meaning that the buildings yers built on the mobile version could also be sold as blueprints and built on PC. Chen Mo felt that the mobile version was in a good ce, and the hardware wouldn¡¯t support it even if he wanted to improve it anymore. Thus, Minecraft¡¯s PC, mobile, and international versions were allplete. ¡ª Minecraft was still continuing to gain poprity on various websites and forums. And many designers were surprised at how well the game was still doing. A month after its release, it already beat Thousand Hells¡¯ in many aspectsing from a ten times price difference, making it an even more interesting topic. Moreover, from the looks of the trending searches, topics on various forums, as well as various statistics, Minecraft kept its momentum as there were various types of content released daily as the yer base continued to grow. The most dumbfounded out of everyone was probably the designer of Thousand Hells, Yan Zhenyuan. From an investment and game quality perspective, Thousand Hells was absolutely better than Minecraft, and from the feedback, yer¡¯s tastes as well as expert opinion, Thousand Hells was a wless game. But somehow, it just never gained poprity. In theory, although Thousand Hells was priced higher than Minecraft, but because it was still within a reasonable price for VR games, there was no way it would lose out that badly. But this game wascklustre in many statistics and managed to earn a pretty penny, but it waspletely overwhelmed by Minecraft, even giving the yers an impression that Thousand Hells¡¯ hype had already died down. And even Yan Zhenyuan couldn¡¯t understand this and concluded with this: ckmagic. And often when others talk about this topic, they¡¯d think of what Chen Mo said during his video game announcement. ¡°Thousand Hells is a really fun game. It¡¯ll surely sit at the top of the best sellers and be incredibly popr!¡± Did Chen Mo really jinx it? No way right? Although this waspletely ridiculous, Chen Mo¡¯s jinx left an impression in the minds of many. ¡ª A most gained the attention of many yers on Minecraft¡¯s discussion forums. It was titled: ¡°Incredibly touching! Designer Mr Chen Mo¡¯s gift to my daughter Nini.¡± This post was from Nini¡¯s father himself. Not only did he go through everything that happened, he even included a little clip. The video was filmed from the father¡¯s phone. In the video, Nini was focused on building a house in game with a tablet in her hand. Evidently, Nini¡¯s building skills were much better than before, and even used stone to build a good looking wall. The post gained the attention of many yers. ¡°Wow, Nini¡¯s so cute!¡± ¡°Chen Mo even gave Nini a present¡ª Mobile version of Minecraft? My goodness, Chen Mo¡¯s so nice, I¡¯d marry him!¡± ¡°Yeah, Chen Mo is so sensitive!¡± ¡°Nini seemed like a building prodigy. Her house looks amazing, probably all thanks to the inspiration from the game right?¡± ¡°Kids probably shouldn¡¯t¡¯ spend that much time on mobile devices, it¡¯s not good for their eyes. Take care of Nini, OP(original poster).¡± ¡°You guys aren¡¯t focusing on the right thing! Shouldn¡¯t we be talking about the mobile version of Minecraft?¡± ¡°Yeah, I was about to ask. Clearly Minecraft has a mobile version, when will Chen Mo announce it? I want to build houses anywhere too!¡± ¡°Yeah, release the mobile version too! So us without VR pods can y too!¡± ¡°Yeah, I was still struggling if I wanted to buy a VR gaming pod for this. I don¡¯t have to anymore, please release the VR version.¡± Eventually the topic revolved into everyone ushering Chen Mo to release the mobile version of Minecraft. Although Minecraft was incredibly popr taking over many video and streaming websites, a huge portion of yers have never tried the game. The reason was simple, they didn¡¯t have a VR gaming pod. One in five PC yers owned a VR gaming pod, meaning only twenty percent of yers could y the game. All the other yers could do was watch others y in an attempt to quench their thirst. These were all waiting to y Minecraft to prove that they were building prodigies and gain the respect of many. But the entry level was too high. There were only two ways they could y the game. First was buying a VR gaming pod then spending one hundred and twenty eight to buy the game. The other was spending that one hundred and twenty eight RMB to buy the game then pay fifty RMB every hour to y in a VR inte cafe. But Minecraft wasn¡¯t the type of game to ythrough just for the experience. It didn¡¯t have extraordinary production value, and yers had to spend a sufficient amount of time to fully realise the fun of the game, so it would be painful to go through that experience in an inte cafe. Therefore, these yers that have been eyeing the game were still hesitant on buying the game because of their wallets. Some industry professionals have concluded that although Minecraft had rich gamey, it wasn¡¯t resource intensive and would have no difficulties if it was ported onto PC. Porting it to mobile however may warrant some decrease in content, but the core of the game would still be there. Therefore, everybody thought that Chen Mo must make a PC and mobile version. If he didn¡¯t, otherpanies would most certainly take this opportunity to make knockoffs, and Chen Mo wouldn¡¯t be dubm enough to make that mistake. And with this video of Nini release, the yers are confident that Chen Mo had the mobile version of the game nned, and it was almost finished. Under the watchful eyes of many, Chen Mo released a Weibo announcing PC, mobile, and international versions of Minecraft, officially released on the twenty eighth of September And Chen Mo added that VR, PC, and Mobile versions will have crossy. The yers were incredibly happy to hear this. VR yers were releasing guides and tutorials for the game, and those who have never yed Minecraft looked forward to the release of PC and mobile versions. Chapter 260 - Thanks Uncle Chen Mo

Chapter 260: Thanks Uncle Chen Mo

On the 28th of September, Minecraft¡¯s PC, mobile, and international versions were released at the same time. Many yers were waiting eagerly in front of theirputers, purchasing and downloading the game as soon as they could. Moreover, Chen Mo had already mentioned that the PC could do everything the VR version could, only that the graphics were slightly worse; There was crossy between PC, VR, and mobile versions, just that the mobile version didn¡¯t support online multiyer and ¡®Chen Mo¡¯s World¡¯. The PC version of Minecraft was priced at twenty eight RMB, the mobile version at twelve RMb, and the international version sold for thirty-nine USD. The international version only supported the VR version for now. The game didn¡¯t grab as much attention as Warcraft and Diablo did so it was unlikely that it would be all that popr in a short amount of time. It would most likely take some time to snowball its poprity. Butpared to Chinese yers, there were many international yers who liked the exploration and creating aspect of the game. And from his previous life, the original Minecraft gained poprity really quickly, so Chen Mo wasn¡¯t worried at all. What Chen Mo cared about was the PC and mobile version in China. Everybody had their eyes on the statistics for the PC and mobile version of Minecraft. The number of sales on the first day was soon released. Minecraft PC version: sixty-five thousand. Minecraft mobile version: one hundred and thirty-seven thousand. The entire gaming industry was dumbfounded again. Thispletely exceeded their expectations. To put it simply, the PC sales exceeded Diablo, and the mobile version approached Onmyoji (Average daily downloads in the first week). Of course it wasn¡¯t the bestparison due to the cost to develop the games and its profit model, but just from these sales, Minecraft was incredibly sessful. Moreover, Diablo and Onmyoji had incredible graphics and had been promoted for a long time before its release. Onmyoji in particr could be described as having the stars align for it. It waspletely normal for a free game like Onmyoji to reach incredibly high downloads when mobile card games were incredibly popr. But Minecraft? VR, PC, and mobile versions were considered separate copies, and the all three had crossy. Many thought that there was no reason for VR yers to buy the PC or mobile versions, so the yerbases must be different. But in reality, this waspletely wrong. Many yers who already bought the VR version bought the PC and mobile version without a second thought, and this was the majority of yers too. And most yers who hadn¡¯t tried out the VR version would buy the PC or mobile version. The reason being that Minecraft was a rtively unique game. As the mobile version was the cheapest, many yers who wanted to try the most ssic experience bought this to try it out. And the PC version was the most ideal version, as it was more convenient than the VR version, the yers could build for a long time, and had better graphics than the mobile version. Therefore, many yers who owned the VR version would buy the PC version as well. And because of how much hype the VR version generated, the game was incredibly well known and many yers were waiting for the PC and mobile versions, which yed a big part in the huge number of sales. With Minecraft¡¯s release on PC and mobile, many yers who have been itching to y the game were finally able to scratch that itch. ¡°This newbie finally got the PC version, could a high skill yer suggest which server I should y on?¡± ¡°To be honest the PC version is quite great. Although it doesn¡¯t look as good as the VR version, it doesn¡¯tck in any other aspect at all. The best part is theplete crossy support. Hooray!¡± ¡°The mobile version isn¡¯t bad either. Being able to y anywhere is incredible!¡± After trying out the PC version, I¡¯ve decided that I would finally buy a VR gaming pod. I think that the VR version should be even more immersive.¡± ¡°I finally understand why you guys call this game ¡®Somebody else¡¯s world¡¯ after building a house for some time on PC. I¡¯m destroying this matchbox that I build, nobody get in my way!¡± ¡ª On the other side of things, Minecraft¡¯s international version also received great reviews. Many yers were confused, why would thepany that made Warcraft and Diablo make a puzzle game? But after trying it out, the yers were stunned at how yable it was. The international version sold quite a few copies, and even had better reviews than Diablo. Some of the international yers also started reposting some of the more ssic building guides and tutorials. The building game also gained the attention of some smallermunities, and some technology nerds started delving deeper and deeper into the unique charisma of the game. ¡ª Today, there were two special guests in the experience store. Chen Mo was in the office working on what¡¯sing up next, but he got a phone call from the front desk on the first floor, where a pair of father and daughter wanted to see him. Chen Mo went down to the first floor to find Nini. Nini was incredibly happy to see Chen Mo, running towards him to pass the tablet to Chen Mo. The father said, ¡°Nini, why remember to thank uncle Chen Mo.¡± Nini said cutely, ¡°Thanks uncle Chen Mo!¡± Chen Mo corrected her, ¡°It¡¯s big brother Chen Mo! Remember that alright?¡± Nini nodded, ¡°I¡¯ll remember it, uncle Chen Mo!¡± Chen Mo was speechless. The father alsoughed at Nini¡¯s actions, and said to Chen Mo, ¡°I¡¯d like to thank you again forst time.¡± Chen Mo waved his hand, ¡°It was nothing. It¡¯s my honour to have a yer like Nini. Also, the experience store now has VR gaming pods, you can get Nini to try that out.¡± Nini cheered, ¡°Papa, I want to y in the gaming pod!¡± The father seemingly helpless, patted her on the head, ¡°Alright, papa got it. I¡¯ll bring you to the gaming pod alright?¡± Chen Mo smiled, ¡°Just take the elevator to the third floor. Nini, you can only y for an hour alright?¡± Nini was already skipping and jumping towards the elevators, ¡°Okay uncle Chen Mo!¡± Chen Mo was speechless. Nini was still waving excitedly at Chen Mo as the doors to the elevator slowly closed. Seeing how happy Nini was, Chen Mo knew that it was a great idea to bring Minecraft to this world. At least to Nini, this game brought her a lot of joy. Isn¡¯t the point of making games to bring people happiness? Chapter 261 - The Stanley Parable and ICEY

Chapter 261: The Stanley Parable and ICEY

-In the second floor of the new experience, at the holographic projection area.- Qian Kun was ying Diablo with many people watching him y. On the projectors, Qian Kun¡¯s Barbarian was spinning around, surrounded by countless whirlwinds hitting the various monsters around him. The game looked incredibly 3D with the help of the holographic projector. It created an incredibly satisfying viewing experience whenbined with the satisfyingbat and shy visual effects. The viewers were incredibly impressed. ¡°This holographic projector is quite fun. It does a good job for Warcraft and Diablo.¡± ¡°Wouldn¡¯t it be incredible if this reced your monitor?¡± ¡°Don¡¯t think it would work, the disy would be too big and it would make it hard to control. It¡¯d be difficult just to move your mouse around.¡± ¡°At least it¡¯ll look great.¡± ¡°It¡¯s also incredibly expensive. I think the smaller ones cost hundreds of thousands, and thisrge one costs over one million RMB. Who¡¯d buy this just to y games on it? It¡¯s more than enough to buy a few gaming pods with that money.¡± ¡°Yeah, even if you have the money, you¡¯d need the space for it too... A normal living room probably wouldn¡¯t even fit such arge holographic projector, not to mention the property prices in the Imperial Capital...¡± ¡°Whatever, I¡¯ll just enjoy it here.¡± Many of the regrs quickly found the new experience store since the move as they weren¡¯t far apart to begin with, so many of the regrs came over too. Other than the regrs, there were more and more new faces as Thunderbolt Gaming was more and more popr. In the midst of their chat, Su Jinyu came along too. ¡°Qian Kun, the manager is asking you to join the meeting!¡± Qian didn¡¯t react at all. Su Jinyu felt helpless and said under her breath, the soundproofing of these rooms are really something. She walked in front of the soundproof rooms and knocked on the ss, gesturing for Qian Kun toe out. Qian Kun then opened the door. ¡°Let¡¯s go, the manager is calling us for a meeting.¡± ¡°Alright,¡± Qian Kun quit the game and followed Su Jinyu to the fourth floor. Everyone who needed to be there was already waiting in the meeting room. Everyone was quite rxed and were having their own fun as Minecraft¡¯s PC, mobile and international versions were quite sessful, and Chen Mo hadn¡¯t announced the next ns yet. Their confidence was also much higher because of Minecraft¡¯s huge sess. Minecraft served as Thunderbolt Entertainment¡¯s first step into VR, which happened to be incredibly sessful. The game utilized their strengths and allowed them to y around their weaknesses. They managed to create a sandbox game that took a ce in the heart of millions of yers bing a hot topic despite falling short of graphics, models, and scenes. They were also eager to hear Chen Mo¡¯s next n. He probably ns to continue deeper into the VR territory, perhaps make arge scale VR game? An FPS, first person adventure game, or perhaps an MMORPG? Everyone was waiting eagerly. Chen Mo stood up seeing that everyone was there. ¡°Now that we are all here, let¡¯s start. ¡°First, everybody probably knows that the PC and mobile versions of Minecraft had incredible sess, the international version is doing quite well too. Minecraft was something that everybody worked extremely hard, so I¡¯d like to thank everyone for that.¡± A loud round of apuse followed. Although a lot of it was an incredible effort from Chen Mo, it was all a team effort in its development, with a lot of blood sweat and tears over this project. Everyone felt proud about Minecraft¡¯s huge sess. Chen Mo continued, ¡°Next, I¡¯ll go over a few important points. ¡°First is about hiring. Our current team has expanded sincest year. After working through key projects like Diablo and Minecraft, everybody lived up to my standards, especially the few main staff. Well done everyone. ¡°Next, we might develop games that are even moreplicated, and we might even have to work faster. If you feel like you¡¯recking some manpour, contact Lin Xiao and go through the interviews yourselves. I¡¯ll get the final call once you¡¯ve decided on someone. I¡¯ll let you guys decide how many and who to hire, of course, I¡¯ll get the final say in all this. ¡°I hope to never hear about ack of help in future works, I only ask the games to bepleted on time. Chen Mo looked around to take in their reactions. Everybody seemed quite calm, evidently agreeing with the statement. Chen Mo continued, ¡°Next is our next n. ¡°I can tell you guys now that I don¡¯t n on developing huge games in short term, meaning the next two months or so. This is because I have other things to work on and consider at this time, and I¡¯d like to focus on that. ¡°Of course, even if we aren¡¯t working on big games, we¡¯ll be working on smaller ones. As to what games, we¡¯ll go through thatter. ¡°And during this time, everyone will focus on the development process. Goldfish, could you oversee the development process?¡± Su Jinyu nodded, ¡°Alright manager, no problem!¡± Chen Mo continued, ¡°There¡¯s also a few minor things I¡¯d like to mention rted to our future. We don¡¯t have many games thus far on the Thunderbolt Gaming tform. Although they are all quite high quality, we can¡¯tpare in numbers to the likes of Emperor Dynasty Gaming tform or Fantasy Gaming tform. ¡°So we¡¯ll spend the next little while on expanding the number of games Thunderbolt Gaming tform has. The next two games we make have this point in mind. ¡°Of course, if anyone has better ideas, feel free to show me a design document. If the idea is decent, you could use thepany¡¯s resources to develop it and release it onto Thunderbolt Gaming tform. And the profit split... Chen Mo took a few moments, ¡°Won¡¯t be revealed for now, but it¡¯ll certainly be more than the other tforms. A lot a lot more. This caught the attention of many. Su Jinyu, Qian Kun, and Zheng Hongxi had been working under Chen Mo for a few years now. Even if they weren¡¯t that great at the start, they were now incredibly experienced after being influenced by Chen Mo. Especially in terms of design ideas and concepts, which was much more developed than many indie designers. They have quite a few decent ideas, but because of how busy they were with work, they didn¡¯t have the time to realise them. But upon hearing from Chen Mo that they could use thepany¡¯s resources, they were incredibly happy and eager to shoot their shots. Chen Mo continued, ¡°Alright, that¡¯s about it, next we¡¯ll talk about the two new games we will be working on. ¡°The Stanley Parable and ICEY.¡± Chapter 262 - Gaming Platform Status

Chapter 262: Gaming tform Status

Chen Mo started going through the key points for The Stanley Parable and ICEY. Both these games weren¡¯t too difficult for the skill level the team was at. Moreover, these two games had really good reviews and were incredibly suitable to be used as filler. The Stanley Parable is a ssic meta game. The entire game is in first person, so all all that needed to be done was a few different endings and lines the yer would experience. As long as the script was up to par, all that was left was creating the scenes in game. And ICEY was a meta action game. The moreplicated parts of the action aspect of the game included different moves and the designs of monsters. They were there to create an excellentbat experience, allowing yers to kill monsters smoothly. Moreover, the main selling point of ICEY was the story, and just like The Stanley Parable, it contained a lot of meta elements. Both games were easy to develop and didn¡¯t have a need forplicated scenes. Although there were many different branching stories, it wasn¡¯t too difficult to make these games as long as the story was good. In Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, these two games gained immense poprity because they were meta games. Meta games could be understood as a game about games. These show up often in TV series or novels, but games that utilize this are few and far between. To put it simply, normally yers would y from games for a bird eye view and the characters in game would never know the existence of the yer. But in meta games, the fourth wall was constantly being broken, and the characters in the game would know the existence of the yer and converse with them. The main gist of it was, when you are ying the game watching the characters each and every movement as if you were some kind of higher being, but all of a sudden the character will turn around and look at you coldly saying, ¡°Stop telling me what to do.¡± And when the fourth wall is broken to a certain extent, it will be considered a meta game. Excellent meta games will make the yers feel surprised, or even that they have been yed. ¡ª These games didn¡¯t have much content, and the gamey was fairly straight forward, everybody more or less understood the intentions behind the game after a simple exnation from Chen Mo. There weren¡¯t many questions this time around. Although they were surprised at a game like this, but all in all, everybody felt that a design like this was quite interesting. Moreover, sales didn¡¯t matter so much as these were smaller games. Especially when Chen Mo had made sessful games on mobile, PC, and VR, he had enough funds to try making games he wanted. The two games will be developed in parallel. Qian Kun was responsible for ICEY, Su Jinyu overlooked The Stanley Parable, and Zheng Hongxi Xi dealt with the story of both games. Chen Mo on the other hand had bigger fish to fry. ¡ª In his own office, Chen Mo leaned into his chair, thinking. On his screen were various statistics rted to the Thunderbolt Gaming tform. Thunderbolt Gaming tform had twelve games so far. Mobile games included ppybird, nts vs Zombies, I Am MT, Thunderbolt Tabletop, Lifeline, Onmyoji, and Anipop. PC games included Warcraft, Wulin Legend, Diablo, and Don¡¯t Starve. VR games included Minecraft. And some of them were across multiple tforms. Each and every game had different difficulties of development and different amounts of investment, but overall they were all sessful games. And yers started getting the idea that Chen Mo¡¯s game must be a high quality, something that onlyrge overseas developers get. All these games were oversaw by Chen Mo to ensure that they exceeded the quality of the originals in his previous life. In reality, the number of games didn¡¯t matter so much to the gaming tform. For example, Blizzard in his previous life only had six games, but it didn¡¯t change the fact that it was one of the most sessful gaming tforms in China. The main point was still the quality of the game. But the reason for Chen Mo making his own tform wasn¡¯t just to have his own gaming tform like Blizzard. He wanted Thunderbolt Gaming tform to be aprehensive distribution tform like Stanley. And from some experience he had from his previous life, Chen Mo put a lot of emphasis on the importance of a video game distribution tform. To developers, sure the quality of the game is incredibly important. As long as the games were good, their name would be well known, they wouldn¡¯t have to worry about having no yers or no money. But the functions of a distribution tform greatly exceeds the yers¡¯ expectations. Many developers get down on all fours in front of video game distributions as they are forced to change many aspects of their finished game. There have even been cases of developers who buried their own game because they couldn¡¯t find a good distributor. And the power of the distributor¡¯s game from its user base aka the yers. If a distributor had one million yers, it couldfortably make money. If a distributor had ten million yers, even a garbage game could make money with promotion from the tform. If a distributor had one hundred million yers, it wouldn¡¯t be far from monopolizing the entire video game industry. Moreover, some of the games that gained immense poprity didn¡¯t just depend on its quality, the power of the distributors shouldn¡¯t be overlooked. In the videogame industry, whoever had the most yers and built the biggest distributor, held the most power. Chen Mo had been smooth sailing thus far, but he didn¡¯t want to be restricted by any distribution tforms in the future. Therefore Chen Mo decided to not depend on a single tform from the start. Even if he could lose yers from this, he insisted on building his own tform, and even made games to expand the amount of yers he had on Thunderbolt Gaming tform. At this point, Thunderbolt Gaming tform was simr to Blizzard in his previous life, just a tform that collects games coupled with basic functions, yet it still did well for itself. Thunderbolt Gaming tform had 5.4 active users in the long term, and around 1.7 million daily active users, a night and day difference from when he started. Most of these active yers came from Thunderbolt Tabletop, Onmyoji, and Anipop. Warcraft yers have been stable, and Minecraft yers are seen to continuously increase. This meant that Thunderbolt Gaming nts was already one of the most influential gaming tforms in China. Other than the official app store, the biggest gaming tforms in China included Emperor Dynasty Gaming tform, Fantasy Gaming tform, and Thunderbolt Gaming tform (in order ofrgest to smallest), with Zen Entertainment following closely behind. However, there was a difference between these fourpanies. Emperor Dynasty Entertainment focused on developing and its tform, Fantasy Gaming tform basically only focused on its tform, and Zen Entertainment focused on developing games andrgely ignored building their tform. Chapter 263 - A Tossed Stone Raises a Thousand Ripples

Chapter 263: A Tossed Stone Raises a Thousand Ripples

And now, Thunderbolt Gaming tform was at a crucial turning point as it was about to make its first move. And what Chen Mo will do next will shock the entire video game industry. ¡ª Eighth of October. It was the first day after national day, where most have yet to recover from their holiday mindset. It was the afternoon, and many office workers were finishing up what they left behind fromst week, haphazardly nning out this week¡¯s work before heading to their lunch break to deal with their first day back from a break. During their lunch break, many will pull out their phones to y a game and kill some time. And at this moment, they received shocking news. This spread like wildfire in the videogame industry the moment it was out. Chen Mo released an important message on the Thunderbolt Gaming tform¡¯s front page.. From today onwards, Thunderbolt Gaming tform will be aprehensive gaming tform as well as a social tform. The difference was that it allowed any other indie game developer to sell their games on the tform and promote the games for them. They will provide them with free resources and get a cut. Of course, these games must have gone through the Game Committee¡¯s review, and only then will they be able to release them on Thunderbolt Gaming tform. This meant that Thunderbolt Gaming tform will no longer be just Chen Mo¡¯s game, and will be simr to Emperor Dynasty Gaming tform or Fantasy Gaming tform, hosting games of other developers and use the resources of the tform to promote their games. And there was even more shocking news to follow. About the sales. First, the developer can sell their games on other tforms after hosting their gaming on Thunderbolt Gaming tform, but the game cannot charge money bypassing Thunderbolt Gaming tform. Second, Thunderbolt Gaming tform will give developers pricing and marketing strategy suggestions, but the developer has the final say. Third, Thunderbolt Gaming tform will only take a ten to thirty percent of the gross revenue of the games, and everything else goes back to the developer. This will be decided by the quality of the game. If the game is of good quality, there will be a one to nine slight (one for tform, nine for developer). The first two were nothing special as most other tforms had the same. Although there are some exclusive games overseas, in general, in China, most games were across multiple tforms, especially on PC and mobile. Different gaming tforms had different marketing strategies. Emperor Gaming tform and Fantasy Game tform will push for their own strategy when faced with designers that didn¡¯t have much power, and sometimes abuse the game to gain the maximum amount of profit. This meant that Chen Mo would provide guidance, but absolutely wouldn¡¯t interfere with their decision. The most shocking one was the third point, especially the mention of a one to nine split. The official app store had a two to eight split, twenty percent of the profits taken by the Game Committee for operations costs. This was already an incredibly low number. The other distributors usually did a fifty fifty split. Emperor Dynasty Gaming tform for example, only the great games got a fifty fifty split. Works from newer designers that didn¡¯t seem incredible might only get ten to twenty percent of the revenue if they posted it onto Emperor Dynasty Gaming tform, with the tform taking eighty percent of it. To the developer however, because of how many yers Emperor Dynasty Gaming tform had, the revenue still looked great with eighty percent of it taken away. Therefore, distributors still held great power in the videogame industry. Emperor Dynasty Entertainment¡¯s development wasparable to Zen Entertainment¡¯s, yet they were able to keep Zen Entertainment under control, all due to Emperor Dynasty Gaming tform. And Chen Mo¡¯s profit splitting strategy was straight up breaking the unspoken rule of the gaming industry. ording to Chen Mo¡¯s strategy, Thunderbolt Gaming tform would only take thirty percent of the profit of games. if the game was a better performing one, this could be reduced to ten percent. This was extremely attractive to some of the newer developers. As Thunderbolt Gaming tform was one of the threergest video game tforms in China with a huge yer base, there was no questioning its promoting abilities. And the ultra-low cut that the tform takes could increase the profits of the developers by multiple times, much better than Emperor Dynasty Gaming tform. (Of course, the official app store also takes a tiny cut. But because of therge number of games and the restrictive promoting strategies, new games must start from nothing, so the promotion wouldn¡¯t be as good.) ¡ª A tossed stone raises a thousand ripples[1]. This was a hot topic among yers, designers andrge distributors alike. -In a designer circle- ¡°Have you heard that Chen Mo¡¯s Thunderbolt Gaming tform is about to be opened to the public, so you can upload your games onto his tform1¡± ¡°I¡¯ve heard about it, and they take a tiny cut too, thirty percent at the highest!¡± ¡°This is absolutely good news! I n to post my new game onto the Thunderbolt Gaming tform to test the waters.¡± ¡°Beware of scams.¡± ¡°That wouldn¡¯t happen. Thunderbolt Gaming tform is the thirdrgest tform in China. And Chen Mo said that there wasn¡¯t any exclusive rights, no direct interference with promoting and pricing strategies, and takes a thirty percent cut at most. He already posted this onto the front page of the tform with countless witnesses, how could he take that back?¡± ¡°Yeah, Thunderbolt Gaming tform had been doing so well these few years. It¡¯s an incredibly influential tform in China now.¡± ¡°It really is a good opportunity. Sad indie developers like us could finally make a buck or two.¡± ¡°But what is Chen Mo thinking? Setting aside the ability for him to make money from such a low cut, isn¡¯t he inly attacking Emperor Dynasty Gaming tform and Fantasy Gaming tform?¡± ¡°Yeah, isn¡¯t it in the unwritten rules that it should at least be a fifty percent cut? Chen Mo reduced that all the way to thirty percent, isn¡¯t he trying to start something?¡± ¡°Chen Mo is going to end up on the bad side of many this time.¡± ¡°Yeah, although he had never been too friendly with Emperor Dynasty Entertainment in the past, he¡¯s a videogame designer and a developer after all. But now he used his identity as a distributor and did that, he¡¯s stopping the others from making money!¡± ¡°I think Chen Mo has quite the ambition. Perhaps he ns to turn Thunderbolt Gaming tform into thergest gaming distributor. This is just a battle of pricing!¡± TL note: [1] It¡¯s a Chinese idiom Chapter 264 - Retaliation From Distributors

Chapter 264: Retaliation From Distributors

¡°Price war?¡± ¡°Yeah, he¡¯s trying to outpete them using a low price. Just like the App wars with free apps. First they spend money to get all designers, games and yers over then raising the price, harvesting the fruits of theirbour after they take up a huge chunk of the market.¡± ¡°Tsk... Is Chen Mo really nning to do that?¡± ¡°I don¡¯t know what he¡¯s nning, but I think that is highly likely. Think about what kind of person Chen Mo is. He¡¯s not a charity. Why would he take twenty to thirty percent when he can take fifty?¡± ¡°That¡¯s true. He¡¯d lose so much money based on how many users Thunderbolt Gaming tform had.¡± ¡°Well, there¡¯s quite a lot to take in then.¡± ¡°Isn¡¯t this a perfect example that the seller knows better than the buyers? There¡¯ no way Chen Mo made a mistake here being as smart as he is.¡± ¡°Yeah, why would he go through the trouble of killing off all the distribution tforms in China if it weren¡¯t for his personal gains?¡± ¡°Geez, whatever. I don¡¯t care what he thinks. But in the short term, this will be a great plus to us video game designers. If the distributors are going to fight the price war, us designers will surely benefit from it.¡± ¡°That¡¯s true. It¡¯s a war among gods, us peasants will just have to stand back and watch.¡± ¡ª Emperor Dynasty Entertainment HQ. Xu Xiaojun was reporting to Lin Chaoxu about some important statistics rted to Thunderbolt Gaming tform as well as a few high priority reports regarding Chen Mo¡¯s announcement. Lin Chaoxu didn¡¯t do too good as he was visibly upset, yet managed to control his temper and was thinking in silence. After some time, Lin Chaoxu finally said, ¡°What do you think Chen Mo is trying to do?¡± Xu Xiaojun replied in a few moments, ¡°I think Chen Mo¡¯s intentions are clear, the same as when he made Thunderbolt Tabletop, trying to gain yers through a morepetitive price and expand Thunderbolt Gaming tform¡¯s influence to beat down on the other tforms.¡± Lin Chaoxu nodded and muttered, ¡°This kid sure is stubborn.¡± Xu Xiaojun added, ¡°Brave too.¡± Lin Chaoxuo seemed to have something in mind, ¡°That¡¯s one thing that separates him from other designers, he always looked out for the long term. He knows the difference between a short term gain and a long term day clear as day, and always managed to suppress temptations in front of his eyes. ¡°How much would he lose with the three to seven split based on Thunderbolt Gaming tform¡¯s current performance? It¡¯s amazing for someone as young as he is to let so much money go.¡± Xu Xiaojun asked, ¡°What do you mean, Mr Lin?¡± Lin Chaoxu sat in silence for a few seconds before replying, ¡°First, we¡¯ll need to try and hold onto the indie developers on our tform, and cut down on our split or have exclusive contracts as ast resort. Basically, don¡¯t let go of too many of the other designers. ¡°Then we¡¯ll need to do some things on public opinion. You should know what to do by now, I¡¯ll leave you to it. ¡°If these ns fail... There¡¯s nothing else to do but let in and fight the price war. We don¡¯t have to be too quick on that either as Ding Xing at Fantasy Gaming tform is probably more worried than we are, they probably won¡¯t sit and do nothing.¡± Xu Xiaojun nodded, ¡°Alright Mr Lin, I¡¯ll do as you ordered.¡± ¡°The other distributors will probably make their moves soon.¡± ¡ª When Chen Mo announced that Thunderbolt Gaming tform will allow any video game designer to post their games, many other distribution tforms quickly started their retaliations. First was to sign an exclusive agreement with many of these indie developers. Many of the designers were considering if they should post their game onto Thunderbolt Gaming tform. On the other hand, the distributors that they have been working with were working towards a better price and exclusivity agreements. For example, promising a higher share of the profits (an unprecedented four to six split, with developers getting sixty percent), while promising promotional spots and advertising strategies. These words were also extremely alluring. ¡°Thunderbolt Gaming tform is a new tform, they are surely weaker in terms of promotion, so what if they offer higher cuts? If the game isn¡¯t promoted sufficiently, you wouldn¡¯t be making money either way. Take a look at the official app store. They only take twenty percent, but how much money does your game make on there? ¡°We¡¯ve already worked together for so long and know each other in and out. We¡¯ve been in the business for so long, so there¡¯s a certain amount of guarantee there. ¡°Moreover, how many developers would want to post their games onto their tform the second the news came out? Thunderbolt Gaming tform only has so many promotional spots, and with that many games at once, thepetition would surely be fierce! ¡°Think about it, well you get an advantage based on the quality of your game? If you can¡¯t, why bother? ¡°It¡¯s true that we are impacted by this, that¡¯s why we decided on an exclusive agreement. A four-six split, with you getting six. This is unprecedented! Moreover, we¡¯ll arrange a bunch of services. Not only will you get various promotional splots, you¡¯ll even get resources for advertising. We¡¯ll guarantee that your game gets the attention it deserves. ¡°Of course, once you sign the exclusivity agreement, you won¡¯t be able to post your game onto Thunderbolt Gaming tform. But just as I said before, think about it, there¡¯s no gooding out of their side!¡± The intentions of the distributors were clear. They were trying their best to retain these indie developers and rope them in. This was to prevent arge scale move of developers to the Thunderbolt Gaming tform. Once the move starts, it¡¯ll be near impossible to stop. Moreover, attacks against Chen Mo and Thunderbolt Gaming tform also started appearing. There was a paragraph on a Q&A section that got over ten thousand likes and were being reprinted by various media. ¡°Exposing Thunderbolt Gaming tform: Is Chen Mo really starting a charity?¡± One of the paragraphs was as so. ¡°Do you really think that Thunderbolt Gaming tform undercutting the entire industry is a good thing for the development of the videogame industry? ¡°This was simr to some app wars. Some software advertised themselves as free to oupete the other seriouspanies. ¡°And when they got their hold on the market share, these softwarepanies finally bare their fangs. Although they were still free, they added various plug-ins in their software to steal the data of their customers, among other nasty things. ¡°There¡¯s no such thing as a free lunch. Whatever benefits the designers enjoy now will be paid back with interest. ¡°And when that dayes, thepanies that didn¡¯t want toply would go bankrupt, and the surviving ones would all look the same. And there¡¯s so saving it then! ¡°Please open your eyes, don¡¯t get blinded by short term benefits!¡± Chapter 265 - Ill Give You Twenty-Four Hours

Chapter 265: I¡¯ll Give You Twenty-Four Hours

There were many simr discussions. The inte was all riled up out of nowhere, and ¡®Chen Mo¡¯s Price War¡¯ became a trending topic. Various defamatory pieces started appearing, and all of them had the same talking points. Theypared Chen Mo¡¯s lower priced tforms to the free apps in the app war, with one key argument: Chen Mo did this to break the rules of the game, attracting developers with short term benefits to gain an advantage over other distributors before forming a monopoly to gain even more benefits. At the same time, many discussions defaming Chen Mo also started appearing. ¡°Chen Mo opened a can of worms when the invented pay to win games like I Am MT and Onmyoji, and you still think he¡¯s the good guy? Are you kidding me by saying he doesn¡¯t love money?¡± ¡°In terms of making money, he¡¯s better than any otherrgepanies. He¡¯s only been in the industry for a few years and has billions in worth. Who else can youpare him to?¡± ¡°Don¡¯t buy into his lies. It¡¯ll be difficult to restore the ecosystem once it¡¯s destroyed! Boycott Thunderbolt Gaming tform!¡± ¡°Yeah, Boycott Thunderbolt Gaming tform!¡± A lot of them were paid haters, but there were innocent bystanders that were mistaken among them too. Some of them were pretending with ulterior motives, and there were some who weren¡¯t pretending as they were used. Soon, a huge verbal war across the inte started as Thunderbolt Entertainment¡¯s yers and Chen Mo¡¯s fans retated. ¡°Heh, you guys are brainwashed quite easily huh. How many otherpanies copied I Am MT? Just think about it! Moreover, Chen Mo had made quite a few nice, non pay to win games. Bunch of blind dogs!¡± ¡°This perfectly describes the saying: a knave thinks of others in terms of his own desires!¡± ¡°You guys must be pretending, this ispletely different from the app wars alright? Aren¡¯t the distributors you guys are supporting bullying and abusing new developers for money? Emperor Dynasty and Fantasy sometimes take eighty to ny percent of the profit. You guys are now whining now that your source of ie is disrupted?¡± ¡°Support Chen Mo!¡± Of course Chen Mo¡¯s fans couldn¡¯t take the defamatoryments of the haters. Obviously it is a good thing that Chen Mo opened up his tform, using it to help out some designers who don¡¯t make much money by promoting their games. The intentions of the attackers were clear too; they were trying to create a bad public opinion to protect their interests. Once Thunderbolt Gaming tform gains momentum, the other distributors would surely be affected, and the days of making big banks would surely be over. This became a trending topic for quite some time as both sides constantly attacked one another. ¡ª Inevitably, Chen Mo¡¯s Weibo became the main battleground for the arguments. There was to guarantee that the words of the haters on other forums and sites would be seen by Chen Mo, so there was no point. This wasn¡¯t the case on Weibo as Chen Mo was quite active there, making posts before every game release. Although he almost never replies toments and private messages, many thought that he most certainly would see them. In a short few days, there were many Weibo posts about this matter as everybody got all riled up. This also affected people who didn¡¯t care, every time they went on Weibo, they would see two people going at each other¡¯s throats. And on the fifth day of Chen Mo¡¯s silence, the attackers went even further. The tags, private messages andments went from bad publicity to personal attacks, even going as far as spreading rumours with fake ounts. ¡°Heh, is Chen Mo really going to stay silent? Howe he¡¯s not saying anything? Isn¡¯t he usually active? Nothing to say this time?¡± ¡°Guilty as charged then. He doesn¡¯t know what to say in retaliation.¡± ¡°You could juste out and pretend to be a good guy. Just say: ¡®The tform is not for money, but for the benefit of all designers¡¯. Look, I¡¯ve even thought of the line for you.¡± ¡°Heh, these garbage designers that make garbage games only have so many tricks up their sleeves. Disgusting!¡± Chen Mo¡¯s fans were trying their best to defend Chen Mo, but since their opponents were well organised, taking the offensive at all fronts. There wasn¡¯t much they could do other than fighting back with anger. As each and every of Chen Mo¡¯s moves could be used as ammunition. Many of these attackers were under the cover as ¡®yers¡¯ and would never reveal the mastermind behind them. Many thought that there was most certainly a distributor behind all these attackers, but there was no way for them to find out where it game from. The war entered a stalemate. Manymunities were discussing this matter. ¡°What does the actions of Chen Mo mean? Silence is golden?¡± ¡°That¡¯s not right. In theory, if he does n to fight the price war, he could totally dress himself as the good guy. If his points are good, he should be the guy on the moral high ground right?¡± ¡°That¡¯s weird, could it be that Chen Mo is extremely calm and doesn¡¯t get their logic clouded by emotions?¡± ¡°He¡¯s extremely calm? I think that was the best joke in history. Just ask Shi Huazhe and Qiu Bin and see if they agree. Have you guys forgotten how hot headed he was when he entered the industry? Is it because he hasn¡¯t had any heat on him for a long time?¡± ¡°Chen Mo isn¡¯t someone to back down. He challenged Emperor Dynasty Entertainment when he was still a C-grade videogame designer. You think these guys are enough to scare Chen Mo? I think he¡¯s just waiting for cooldowns to get fit of everyone in one fell swoop¡± ¡ª Indeed, Chen Mo no longer kept his silence on the evening of the fifth day. Chen Mo sent out a Weibo at 8pm that night. ¡°There have been quite a few attackers in thest few days. I wasn¡¯t going to care since I¡¯ve been so busy, but seeing how hardworking and enthusiastic you guys have been, let¡¯s have a chat. I¡¯ll give you twenty-four hours to say whatever you want to say. How much money you attackers can earn will all depend on the next twenty-four hours. Please bring your performance!¡± This gave the bystanders who were drowsy from dinner a jolt. What does this mean? ¡°Let¡¯s have a chat?¡± Does that mean Chen Mo is about to participate in the war himself? Of course, Chen Mo wasn¡¯t someone who would bow down to others. The attacks are right at his door, how could he staypletely silent? That doesn¡¯t make sense! The attackers also got excited. The main event finally showed up after all their efforts in the past few days! Chapter 266 - Flame War

Chapter 266: me War

Soon, a me war began on Weibo. ZzzzOO: ¡°@ Chen Mo, you¡¯ve finally shown yourself? Must be great hiding in your shell thest few days huh? I¡¯ve @ you for a few days now, took you long enough!¡± After sending the Weibo, this attacker with the username ZzzzOO did as they did before, thinking of a reply while waiting for Chen Mo¡¯s reply. It didn¡¯t take long for Chen Mo to send out his response. ¡°After all, my job is making games, and your job is to attack others on Weibo. ZzzzOO choked on his spit, my goodness, Chen Mo replied so quickly! Not only did he retaliate, he even suggested that he was paid by someone to attack him! Although they couldn¡¯t think of anything quick, seeing that Chen Mo replied to one of the attacks triggered the other attackers to hop on. ¡°Haha, Chen Mo finally epts the battle!¡± ¡°I knew that he couldn¡¯t hold it in. Quick, get everyone in here, we¡¯ll fight this to the end!¡± ¡°Remember everyone, we all have our jobs. Don¡¯t just do personal attacks, we mustbine that with dirt, and his private matters!¡± ¡°My turn!¡± Soon, the haters came from all over the ce to join in. TaMo: ¡°Hehe, you have no idea what¡¯s about to hit you. Just you wait. Remember to have your phone by your side and have the emergency number on speedial.¡± Chen Mo quickly replied. ¡°I heard inbred kids like using empty words to threaten others, mainly to ease their stress for being alive.¡± This TaMo user was so mad that his head was about to explode, inbred? Isn¡¯t Chen Mo a decent person? Why does he go for low blows like that? The bystanders were enjoying the show,menting under Chen Mo¡¯s reply, ¡°Haha, that threat was just like telling a kid to go straight home after school. You think Chen Mo is afraid of you? One punch from everyone in the experience store would be more than able to crush you!¡± The haters were now mad. Attacking others is what we do. No matter huge stars or influencers, we¡¯ve attacked anyone who had the slightest bit of inte fame! You think a simple videogame designer would be able to beat us? Get him! For our honour! MellO: ¡°Not doing your job properly as a videogame designer. No wonder you¡¯re here counting your Weibo followers while otherpanies are counting bills.¡± Chen Mo: ¡°And you can only count your IQ using your ten fingers.¡± InOutCode: ¡°My goodness, isn¡¯t it just someone who makes games? I thought it was some kind of huge star or entrepreneur, why is he so good at this?¡± Chen Mo: ¡°Have you trolls not done your homework? Whatever, I¡¯ll do it for you. I¡¯m Chen Mo. So far I¡¯ve released the most profitable mobile game with nearly four hundred million RMB made in its first month. I¡¯ve also made Warcraft, the most popr RTS on Earth. Thunderbolt Gaming tform is the thirdrgest video game tform in China, with fifty million long-term users. Of course, I¡¯m also good at making casual games, Chinese style games, sandbox games, puzzle games... Could any of you trolls exin what these numbers mean?¡± This got the stamp of approval from many of the onlookers. ¡°MY goodness, Chen Mo¡¯s ego is through the roof, but I like this!¡± ¡°They asked if he was some kind of star or entrepreneur? How many entrepreneurs out there have higher worth than Chen Mo? I don¡¯t think there has been anyone of Chen Mo¡¯s age who started from nothing to reach his level!¡± ¡°Hahaha, the trolls are so unprofessional. How could you not have heard of Chen Mo if you paid the slightest bit of attention to the video gaming industry?¡± ¡°They even managed to ask stupid questions like that. They are just embarrassing themselves, back off while you can!¡± The attackers were really mad. Who hired that guy? He was terrible and unprofessional, even embarrassed us! Get a professional here! OrangeSauce: ¡°Isn¡¯t the whole point of fighting the price war for money? Why else would you do something charitable like that? You say one thing but you do other, I¡¯ve seen many just like you!¡± Chen Mo replied, ¡°Only willing to act for profit is the old man¡¯s instinct, but now it has be a norm of behavior for young people. Geez, do you guys not see anything other than money?¡± OrangeSauce replied, ¡°Are you saying that what you¡¯re doing is purely for the benefit of the public? Let me ask you this, aren¡¯t you losing money to promote your tform maliciously?¡± ¡°Some tforms take advantage of the new designers who don¡¯t have any bargaining power and take seventy to eight percent of their revenues. You know deep down that the services they provide aren¡¯t worth the money they are being paid. The garbage promotion that they provide, they¡¯d still be overpaid if they took thirty percent. I¡¯m not maliciously lowering the price, I¡¯m just returning the price to where it should be.¡± OrangeSauce: ¡°Are you saying that the cut the other tforms take are bloated?¡± Chen Mo: ¡°You can decide for yourself if that is bloated. I¡¯m not going to bother with trolls like you, all the industry professionals certainly understand this fact.¡± SSAW: ¡°I think there¡¯s something wrong with your head. You¡¯re a well regarded videogame designer and yet you¡¯re here arguing with the fans. You¡¯ll never gain my support!¡± Chen Mo: ¡°If I really do have fans like you, I¡¯ll try everything to get rid of them. I¡¯m really curious as to how you¡¯re fertilizing yourself to grow into something so beautiful?¡± SSAW: ¡°You! You¡¯re petty!¡± Chen Mo: ¡°I¡¯m sorry but I am who I am. If I knew I would make someone so bad that they have to be admitted to the hospital, let the others know that they shouldn¡¯t bother.¡± They stopped replying. Chen Mo looked around and didn¡¯t find anything else that was worth replying to, then sent out another Weibo. ¡°Quickly, I thought there were quite a few of you, why are you guys taking so long? Where¡¯s the professionalism?¡± The trolls were utterly bad upon seeing this post, he¡¯s even provoking us! We¡¯ll keep going at it, he¡¯ll learn that this is what happens! ¡ª After a full twenty-four hours. The attackers gave it their all. Some werementing brainlessly, some tried to spill dirt, some sounded smart but didn¡¯t give out any meaningful arguments, some were pretending to be for Chen Mo but were against him... But Chen Mo managed to chase off all of them. Something they spent half an hour thinking would get a retaliation from Chen Mo in less than two minutes, and end uppletely speechless! From 8pm the first day to 8pm the next. Chen Mo looked around and found that they didn¡¯t have anything new to say. Some of theirments weren¡¯t even coherent and seemed like they were confused. Some of them went back to old topics from yesterday, probably just waking up to take their shift and haven¡¯t caught up with yesterday¡¯s arguments. Chen Mo disappointingly shook his head. He still had quite a bit in him, but the attackers seemed out of gas. ¡°Not a single worthy one.¡± Chen Mo seemed quite disappointed. Chapter 267 - The Tides Turn

Chapter 267: The Tides Turn

Seeing as the trolls¡¯ ability to retaliate was basically gone, Chen Mo nned to go to sleep. Chen Mo released onest Weibo. ¡°You guys are too weak. We¡¯ll leave it here for now. I hope you guys will hone your craft and work on your professionalism so you guys won¡¯t lose so badly when you encounter someone like me next time. ¡°Alright, I¡¯m in quite a good mood after this chat, so I¡¯ll go over some questions seriously. ¡°When I announced that Thunderbolt Gaming tform would be taking a lower cut, many thought that it waspletely malicious and even brought out app wars from the past. All you¡¯re saying is that I¡¯m a dragon warrior, and would eventually grow scales and a tail to be the new evil dragon. ¡°I can tell you right here and now, I don¡¯t have any ns to be the new evil dragon, nor am I interested in all the treasures you guys have gathered for so long. I just want to y dragons, it is as simple as that. ¡°As to if I¡¯ll be hated, forgotten or cast aside by the vigers after ying the dragon, it doesn¡¯t matter. ¡°I don¡¯t care about these extremely rich distributions, but what is important to me is them without you. ¡°I¡¯d like everyone here to be my witness: I promise that Thunderbolt Gaming tform will never influence designers or their design or their marketing strategy, and we¡¯ll never take more than thirty percent. ¡°The worry you guys have of Thunderbolt Gaming tform beating other tforms with a lower price then bing the new tyrant will never happen. ¡°Thunderbolt Gaming tform will focus on promoting yers more, better games. I¡¯m here to make a tform, not to make money. ¡°To the distributors out there who are deathly afraid, you guys don¡¯t need to be doubtful anymore. I¡¯m not here to start a price war, nor do I want to monopolise the distribution channels. What I want to do is simple, I want you guys who are used to taking advantage of designers to have a taste of your own medicine. ¡°I¡¯d like to announce that the days where distribution is king is now over!¡± ¡ª The twenty four hour me war got the topic incredibly popr and even became the top trending search on Weibo, and Chen Mo¡¯s final Weibo drew even more attention to the matter. The distributors only had one thing in mind after seeing Chen Mo¡¯s Weibo post. Chen Mo¡¯s crazy! He¡¯s not here to stir things up, he¡¯s being serious! Soon, the twenty-four hour me war and the contents of the final Weibo was all over the inte. Everyone was discussing the matter, no matter the average gamer or industry professionals. ¡°Have you seen Weibo yesterday? Chen Mo finally showed himself and fought against the trolls for twenty-four hours, and he managed to push them back!¡± ¡°Really? You can push trolls back?¡± ¡°My goodness you missed it? Chen Mo is vicious. He¡¯d get thempletely speechless in one line, with many incredible quotes created in the process! You can still see them on Weibo, just go take a look.¡± ¡°Really? I want to see how Chen Mo attacks others to be able to push back trolls. Chen Mo¡¯s incredible!¡± ¡°Hahaha, Chen Mo even expressed his disappointment at the professionalism and performance of the trolls and hopes that they learn better techniques in the future, that¡¯s incredible!¡± ¡°Chen Mo really is incredible. He stayed silent for a few days, I really thought he was just hoping that he could silently wait it out. But he somehow attacks them back!¡± ¡°me War?¡± ¡°Incredible! The final Weibo is crazy, shutting up all of the doubters with all their thoughts of a price war and decreasing the price before increasing it. Chen Mo straight up told us that it wasn¡¯t going to happen!¡± ¡ª This Weibo post destroyed any of the arguments the trolls had. Chen Mo¡¯s ssy announcement that Thunderbolt Gaming tform will always stay true to their principles and will take thirty percent at most managed to shut all the trolls up and cut off a way of making money. No matter what Thunderbolt Gaming tform would look like in the future, Chen Mo could never think of increasing the cut the tform takes. If it goes above thirty percent, he¡¯ll surely get attacked by many of the witnesses. This was what caused the distributors such a huge headache. They finally understood that Chen Mo wasn¡¯t doing this for money. It seemed like Chen Mo set aside all these desires and decided to turn Thunderbolt Gaming tform into an ethical distribution tform, giving up a potentially incredible way of making money. No attacks will work on someone like him. Although there were still attacks against Chen Mo, the war was now on Chen Mo¡¯s side. ¡ª Although it was incredibly chaotic on the inte, Chen Mo¡¯s experience store looked like nothing of the sorts was happening. Chen Mo left his break room after cleaning himself, stretching his arms. He was quite tired after going in a me war against all the trolls, going to bed to regain some strength. It was now 11am and time for lunch. As he was thinking about which restaurant to order takeout from, he received a call. It was from Lin Mao. Chen Mo had remained in contact with Lin Mao, but because of everything that had been going on with moving experience stores, the new games, as well as the Thunderbolt Gaming tform, they hadn¡¯t met in two or three months. Lin Mao said, Chen Mo, Zhao Zihao came back to China a few days ago, let¡¯s try and grab a meal together. I also want to ask some questions about your gaming tform. Chen Mo seemed to have the same idea, ¡°Sure, you guys cane to me. I¡¯ll send you the address of the restaurant, and we can head to the experience store afterwards.¡± As Chen Mo couldn¡¯t be bothered to go too far, he decided to meet up at a nearby restaurant that cost around five hundred per person. Zhao Zihao and Lin Mao arrived after half an hour. ¡°Chen Mo!¡± Zhao Zihao was extremely happy to see Chen Mo as they hadn¡¯t seen each other in two to three years. Chen Mo happily walked towards him, ¡°Not bad to head out of the country two three years at a time. Why didn¡¯t youe back to visit once in a while? What have you been doing?¡± Zhao Zihao waved his hand, ¡°Geez, don¡¯t mention it, it¡¯s just running errands for the family. I¡¯ve been back a few times during this time, but I¡¯ve been so busy that I couldn¡¯t make time to meet up with you guys.¡± ¡°Alright, stop standing at the door, let¡¯s eat while we chat,¡± ushered Lin Mao. The three of them entered the restaurant, got a private room and ordered a few dishes. Chen Mo asked Zhao Zihao, ¡°How is it, are you still going overseas in the future?¡± Zhao Zihao shook his head, ¡°That should be done. But you¡¯ve made quite a ruckus in the past few years. I¡¯ve even heard of you while I was overseas. Incredible of you to sell Warcraft and Diablo overseas.¡± Chen Moughed, ¡°You¡¯ve been ying while you were overseas too?¡± ¡°Of course!¡± said Zhao Zihao,¡±Not just me, a few close friends were ying it too, we¡¯d y some RPG maps together as well.¡± Chapter 268 - PVP Map COG

Chapter 268: PVP Map COG

Lin Mao asked, ¡°Chen Mo, the stuff about your video game tform has been quite heated recently. Imend you for being so brave, you must¡¯ve gotten on many people¡¯s bad side.¡± Chen Moughed, ¡°Getting on other¡¯s bad side? ARe you talking about the distributors? I never liked them. Anyways, what do you mean ¡®get on their bad side¡¯? I don¡¯t need to care what they think now, them being happy doesn¡¯t affect me at all. In truth, they should be the ones trying to get on my good side.¡± Lin Maoughed too, ¡°Alright, alright, don¡¯t get too full of yourself, but there¡¯s nothing wrong with being proud. Here¡¯s one for your cockyness!¡± The three of them raised their sses and had a drink. Chen Mo filled up their sses with more beer. Lin Mao also grabbed a bottle of beer to fill up Chen Mo¡¯s ss too, ¡°To be honest, I¡¯m curious as to why you¡¯re making a video game tform too. Thunderbolt Gaming tform is now the thirdrgest gaming tform in China, there¡¯s nothing stopping you from taking seventy to eight percent of the designers¡¯ revenue and make bank. Why did you drop the rate to thirty percent?¡± Chen Mo asked, ¡°They don¡¯t know, but you don¡¯t know either?¡± Lin Mao blinked his eyes, ¡°You just don¡¯t like them?¡± Chen Moughed, ¡°Yep, it¡¯s just because I don¡¯t like them.¡± Zhao Zihao had his thumb out, ¡°Incredible.¡± Chen Mo exined, ¡°In truth, the bigger distribution tforms overseas would take thirty percent on average, fifty percent at most. But the distributors in China? They abuse their power to take control over the designers who have no power over them, taking eighty to ny percent of their revenue! ¡°Moreover, with their monopoly, they¡¯ll rmend the yers a bunch of garbage games just for money, it does nothing good for the yers. ¡°This causes the yers and designers to be in a tough spot, but there¡¯s not much the designer could do other than bow down to them just to get a promotional spot so that more yers would notice their game. They¡¯d even get forced into changing the profit method of their games, messing up a decent game. ¡°Many designers who have integrity decide to release their games overseas, and overtime, there would be fewer and fewer creative games in China. ¡°That¡¯s why I don¡¯t like them, and many of the distributors who have power choose to follow their awful ways. But I choose to be different. Although I work on a distribution tform, I¡¯m also a designer. If I don¡¯t care about this, nobody else would, that¡¯s why I have to make my stance. ¡°Many think that I¡¯m starting a price war. That¡¯s not the case. I have the money and the resources now, so I¡¯m choosing to do the right thing, that is all.¡± Lin Mao nodded, ¡°Alright. I¡¯mpletely impressed by what you said Chen Mo! Honestly I¡¯m quite impressed by your bravery. You¡¯re basically destroying their source of ie.¡± Chen Moughed, ¡°So what? Online stores destroyed the source of ie of physical stores, so what? Things that shouldn¡¯t survive will die off. It¡¯s enough for me that I know I¡¯m doing the right thing.¡± ¡°Well said,¡± praised Lin Mao, ¡°And right on cue, my new game is almost finished. I n on giving you some support and releasing it onto your tform.¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Wee! Don¡¯t worry, I¡¯ll promote your game the best I can. How far along is it?¡± ¡°It¡¯s almost done, I should be good to release it in the next few days. Also, how many designers have contacted you?¡± asked Lin Mao. Chen Mo replied after some thought, ¡°So far there¡¯s been a few dozen. Most are still choosing to observe as Thunderbolt Gaming tform has never promoted games of other designers. Moreover, the various other distributions are putting them in an awkward spot, so it¡¯s normal for them to be hesitant.¡± Lin Mao said, ¡°Don¡¯t worry, you can take it slow.¡± Lin Mao had made four games so far, releasing one a year. He¡¯s also now a B-grade designer. Lin Mao had been doing well for himself, but looked unimpressive whenpared to someone like Chen Mo. The three of them continued chatting. All of a sudden, Zhao Zihao thought of something and said to Chen Mo, ¡°By the way, I found a decent RPG map in Warcraft that isn¡¯t popr in China called COG, sh of Gods. Have you tried it?¡± Chen Mo was shocked, ¡°That trantes into... Fight among gods?¡± Zhao Zihao nodded, ¡°Yeah that¡¯s it. It¡¯s quite interesting and simr to the Chenghai3C map that you made. It also only has threenes but arranged slightly differently. 5v5 as well.¡± Chen Mo furrowed his brows, ¡°Huh, do you have a video?¡± ¡°Yeah, give me a second.¡± Zhao Zihao spent quite some time looking around on his phone, finding some gamey of COG to show Chen MO. This video was filmed using a phone so it looked quite terrible. The average joe would struggle to make sense of it, but Chen Mo clearly understood it. It was a map made in the Warcraft World Editor. Simr to Chenghai3C, it had threenes and already had something resembling a jungle and neutral creeps. Ten yers could each control a hero (ording to the mod, they are called gods) to destroy the base of the enemy. There wasn¡¯t much that could be gathered from the video, but Chen Mo could tell what the map looked like from the minimap. Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Hmm, interesting.¡± ¡°The map is quite popr overseas especially in Europe and America. It recently reached the top of PvP maps,¡± exined Zhao Zihao, ¡°I quite like the map too, I think it¡¯s more bnced than Chenghai3C and it¡¯s easier to get into.¡± Chen Mo could check the statistics for Warcraft¡¯s international version, but because he had been busy recently, he hadn¡¯t bothered to constantly monitor it. If it wasn¡¯t for Zhao Zihao mentioning it, he might¡¯ve discovered that a week or twoter. Chen Mo asked, ¡°Are there many westernpanies who n to make it onto a standalone game?¡± Zhao Zihao replied after some thought, ¡°Uhh, I think the author is trying to find apany for it, but because his price is quite high, he hadn¡¯t found a deal yet. Not sure what happened after that.¡± Chen Mo nodded, thankfully it was still within his expectations. The author must understand the potential of a gamemode like this, but because COG is a fork off Warcraft, they need to make huge changes from the engine to the characters in order to profit off it. Obviously the author didn¡¯t have the power to do that yet. But therge western video gamepanies aren¡¯t necessarily going to spend so much resources for a random map, so it¡¯d be difficult for them to strike a deal in a short amount of time. COG was still quite a ways away from bing a standalone game. Chen Mo asked, ¡°Would you be able to get in contact with the author?¡± Zhao Zihao was shocked, ¡°Uhh, probably, why?¡± ¡°I n to have a chat with him.¡± Chapter 269 - Gaming Platform Facelift

Chapter 269: Gaming tform Facelift

After their meal, Chen Mo brought Zhao Zihao and Lin Mao to visit his experience store. Zhaoo Zihao was incredibly interested in the holographic projectors on the second floor. After watching others y a match or two of Warcraft, he decided to buy one at home. Lin Mao on the other hand was more interested in Chen Mo¡¯s office. Chen Mo showed him what he was working on and introduced the two games that were in development. As the two of them know each other really well, Chen Mo didn¡¯t need to hide things in front of his brothers. Chen Mo also asked Zhao Yunting to give Lin Mao¡¯s new game a better promotional spot. Zhao Yunting was responsible for the operations of various games as well as overlooking Thunderbolt Gaming tform. Chen Mo chatted with Lin Mao and Zhao Zihao for some more time. Before they left, Zhao Zihao managed to get the contact for the author for COG. As the author for the map wasn¡¯t a well known designer or anything, Zhao Zihao had to go through various different channels through a few friends from overseas to get the author¡¯s email. After sending off Lin Mao and Zhao Zihao, Chen Mo sent the author an email. It was someone named Clive Raman. They were so low profile that Chen Mo couldn¡¯t get anything other than either name. But one thing¡¯s for sure, he probably wasn¡¯t working for anyrge videogamepany nor has he made anything else noteworthy. COG was probably inspired from ying Chenghai3C. Chen Mo wrote an email in english, introducing himself (Designer of Warcraft), expressed his interest in the map, and hopes that they could work something out. He didn¡¯t receive an immediate reply and that could¡¯ve been from a time difference issue and they could still be asleep. Clive Raman finally replied around 9pm. Fortunately he didn¡¯t think that the email was a fraud attempt. ¡°Nice to meet you Mr Silent.¡± ¡°To be honest, I was surprised to receive an email from you. I¡¯m not familiar with countries across the sea, and I never thought that the designer of Warcraft would notice the map I¡¯ve designed. It¡¯s an honour to meet you. ¡°Regarding a coboration, I¡¯m sorry but I¡¯m afraid it cannot happen. I¡¯ve already signed an agreement with anotherpany (I can¡¯t reveal anything at this point), and the higher ups ns to provide me with a lot of resources to develop COG. We are both happy with our sides of the agreement and I n to sign the contract soon. ¡°Moreover, I don¡¯t fancy the idea of working with someone overseas. This might be offensive, but I think people outside the country, especially the Chinese are sometimes quite nerdy (of course this is a neutral nerd with no derogatory meaning, and you¡¯re obviously not included in that generalisation), I doubt if someone outside of the country could understand my design intentions well. ¡°Moreover, I have my own decisions and hope to have absolute power over the project. Not many can ept this. Therefore, I could only apologise regarding your proposal, and I won¡¯t be changing my mind.¡± Chen Mo closed the email after reading through it. THey were quite absolute about their decisions, so Chen Mo didn¡¯t want to waste either of their time. Chen Mo¡¯s ¡®coboration¡¯ was actually a hire attempt. He felt that their ideas were decent and wanted to add him to his team. And the design process? He¡¯d probably still overlook it himself. But from the looks of the email, he can probably write that off. Moreover, Chen Mo didn¡¯t like their hinted underestimation of Chinese developers. Although it¡¯smon to have prejudice against Chinese developers, Chen Mo still wasn¡¯t taking it. ¡°Whatever, I¡¯ll just pretend that never happened. My ns have been set regardless of the existence of this map. Chen Mo closed hisptop and tried to forget about it. ¡ª After intense preparations, Thunderbolt Gaming tform updated in all aspects.. This update introduced huge changes to the Thunderbolt Gaming tform. Chen Mo¡¯s games were the official games and were still ced on the best spots and were constantly being updated. In addition, they added a new feature: Game Library. The game library was split into multiple sections, including a store, rmended page, ount, wishlist,munities, and developer tforms. Some of these were already there, while others were new additions. Moreover, each of these modules had many features. The store sorted games by categories, had different leaderboards, a ¡®popr games among friends list¡¯, and popr games. The yers could search and download various games here. The rmended page included editor picks, featured games, special offers, free this weekend, rmended by reviewers, best rated games, release soon, and many other rmended lists. In ount, yers could check their personal details, messages from friends and achievements from games. In wishlist, yers could freely add games into their wishlist to purchase when they go on sale. In themunity tab, yers could freely join differentmunities to discuss various games. The developers area was provided for various developers, allowing them to manage the games they published onto the Thunderbolt Game tform, such as new updates. Chen Mo¡¯s designs skills were incredibly good, and whenbined with various sessful works from his previous life as reference, Thunderbolt Gaming tform felt incrediblyplete, fulfilling the needs of the majority of yers and developers. At the same time, various games of other developers were also released on the Thunderbolt Gaming tform store, totalling one hundred and three different games. A majority of them are indie games that weren¡¯t all that great, but there were some high quality ones among them. Zhao Yunting picked a few decent games and gave them rmended spots. They were incredibly lucky to be among the first games as they easily reached the front page of Thunderbolt Gaming tform, the thirdrgest tform in China. Of course, this could be considered as a return on being an early supporter of Chen Mo. Although most of them were indie games, there were many of them, more than enough to fill up the store to start off with. Chen Mo knew that it wouldn¡¯t take long before more designers would fall into the embrace of Thunderbolt Gaming tform. Chapter 270 - Wails of Distributors

Chapter 270: Wails of Distributors

Thunderbolt Gaming tform¡¯s facelift gained plenty of attention from the yers. The matter gained plenty of attention since Chen Mo announced that he would use Thunderbolt Gaming tform to promote the games of their designers. But after a long argument among fans, a twenty four hour session against Chen Mo, and Chen Mo¡¯s long Weibo post, the matter became an extremely hot topic. Many yers who didn¡¯t y Chen Mo¡¯s games downloaded Thunderbolt Gaming tform just to check out what was happening. Right now, hate towards Thunderbolt Gaming tform had slowly died down as everybody got it out of their system. After Chen Mo announced his intentions in an incredibly ssy way, there was not much else the trolls could do to attack him, and the tides were now in Chen Mo¡¯s favour. And Thunderbolt Gaming tform¡¯splete overhaul got the other distributors sweating. If Thunderbolt Gaming tform wasn¡¯t sessful, such as the games don¡¯t sell well after posting them there with little to no attention, it would most certainly be good news for them. But if Thunderbolt Gaming tform did well? It would most certainly be bad news for them. When that timees, if the distributors wanted to continue operating, they would have to reduce their cut simr to Thunderbolt Gaming tform, meaning their revenue would be reduced dramatically. ¡ª The yers also had their eyes on the performance of Thunderbolt Gaming tform. ¡°Thunderbolt Gaming tform got an update today, you can download the games of other designers now!¡± ¡°Really? Let me check it out!¡± ¡°There are so few games. There¡¯s only a hundred or so of them!¡± ¡°They just started after all, they are likely to add more in the future.¡± ¡°The few rmended games are decent indie games. Seems like Chen Mo has a good eye.¡± ¡°Coincidentally, there¡¯s a game from a designer I quite fancy, I¡¯ll buy it here as they take a smaller cut, meaning that the designer gets more money. It¡¯s like a way I could support them.¡± ¡°The new update is pretty good. I feel like it¡¯s different from Emperor Dynasty Gaming tform and Fantasy Gaming tform, but is still quite rich in features.¡± ¡°Yeah, especially the promoted pages. There are so many different types of rmendations, even by category. They even rmend games based on what the yers like. And there¡¯s so many promotions too, providing free trials during weekends and special discounts!¡± ¡°Wishlist? Oh it¡¯s like a shopping cart. I could wait till the games go on sale before buying. This feature is quite nice!¡± ¡°I really do feel an urge to shop all of a sudden.¡± ¡°And the various features are really well done too. Other than statistics for games, there is a strategy tab, ratings and reviews... Seems much more feature rich than other tforms.¡± ¡°Not bad! I¡¯ve never really cared about Chinese indie games because the other tforms seem to always promote garbage games, so it¡¯s really difficult for me to find a good indie game. Now I finally managed to find a few deceind games. I¡¯ll buy them right now!¡± ¡°Yep, it appears that I have another game in my library!¡± ¡ª The yers more or less managed to find a game that was to their liking on the Thunderbolt Gaming tform, purchasing them. Twenty-four hours after Thunderbolt Gaming tform was updated, Zhao Yunting summarised the statistics of the first day into a report and submitted it to Chen Mo. The best selling game on Thunderbolt Gaming tform sold thirty-nine thousand copies. This was because the game was rtively cheap at one RMB. The most profitable game was a high quality puzzle game titled ¡°Fly Into the Future¡±. It sold twenty-two thousand copies, with two hundred and twenty-thousand RMB in revenue. These two games were on better promotional spots, and were the reason they sold so well. Moreover, because of how well reviewed the games were, they secured a 1:9 split, meaning that the profits the designers received were 24.5 thousand and 138 thousand RMB respectively. The release of these statistics promptly caused an uproar among videogame designers! The first day statistics proved that Thunderbolt Gaming tform deserved its title as the thirdrgest gaming tform in China, and its promotional powers were clear as day. The willingness of the yers to purchase was very strong too. At the same time, with Thunderbolt Gaming tform¡¯s help, there were a lot of yer ratings and discussions. The designers could gain a lot of feedback from the yers and make changes to their game ordingly. The designer of Fly Into the Future was very emotional and posted a thank you letter on the discussion forums. If he maintains his momentum, he would certainly receive around three million revenue at the end of the month, something he wouldn¡¯t even dare to dream of previously. He had tried releasing it onto other distribution tforms, but because they took seventy to eighty percent of his profits, he¡¯d only receive pennies. And after tax as well as the cost of developing the game, there would be barely anything in his pocket for a tough year of work, barely able to stay afloat. And Fly Into the Future was a good game, but the support from the tform also yed a huge part in its sess. Chen Mo giving ny percent of the profits back to the designers were basically increasing their profits by four to five times! And the financially unstable designers were all quite excited as they rushed to post their games onto Thunderbolt Gaming tform to get the best promotional spot they could. And the designers who signed exclusive agreements were deeply regretting it as they me themselves for taking their bait instead of observing the situation for a little while longer. The distributors were all quite dejected. Who knows how many happy CEOs were flipping tables in their beautiful office buildings. ¡ª In a week¡¯s time, mostrge distribution tforms started adjusting the cuts they take from designers, from their 2:8 or 1:9 cut (with distributors taking the majority), to 4:6 or 3:7 (with designers taking the majority). Larger tforms like Emperor Dynasty Gaming tform or Fantasy Gaming tform could afford to be a bit more stubborn, whereas the smaller ones couldn¡¯t help but make 2:8 (designers taking the bigger cut) the norm for designers. And with that, there were fewer and fewer games being released on their tform. The smaller distributors were wailing in unison. Who knows how many were resenting Chen Mo¡¯s existence. There was now a future where the split between distributors and developers approached a 3:7 split. The days of distributors using yers to abuse developers will soon be over. Chapter 271 - The Stanley Parable

Chapter 271: The Stanley Parable

There were more and more yers visiting the experience store. The PC area in the first floor would reach ny percent capacity during the weekends with ten or so PCs left unused. The mobile and VR experience areas weren¡¯t as packed, but were still around fifty percent capacity. There were usually many yers gathered around the holographic projection area as well. But just like with anything, the yers would eventually get used to it. -In the first floor of the experience store- As it was a Thursday, there weren¡¯t too many people in the experience store. Chen Mo was on a sofa with a drink in one hand looking through the books that recently arrived. There were two massive bookshelves on the sides of the halls filled with many gaming rted books. Of course, a lot of them were novels,ics, or gaming albums. There were also some rted to gaming design, but those were rarely touched. ¡°Manager,¡± a man in histe twenties in a suit swiped his ID at the front desk, greeting Chen Mo while he was doing that. Chen Mo nodded in acknowledgement, ¡°Isn¡¯t it a Thursday? No work?¡± They nodded, ¡°Yeah, I took the day off.¡± That was Zhao Lei, a regr at the experience store. They moved up north to find work and were currently working in a metalspany. It was a high paying job and high stress to go with it. Unlike other yers, he didn¡¯t visit the experience store to y games. He¡¯d usually sit around in the main hall and chat with the others. Zhao Lei didn¡¯t have a big social circle, and mostly dealt with work rted stuff in his work circle. But in the experience store, he foundfort. Therefore, Zhao Lei frequented the experience store during the weekends. Overtime he familiarised himself with Chen Mo, Su Jinyu, and other regrs of the experience store. Zhao Lei sat on the sofa next to him, ordered a cup of ice coffee and grabbed aic book from the shelves. Chen Mo looked at Zhao Lei¡¯s tired face and asked, ¡°What¡¯s wrong, had a lot of stresstely?¡± Zhao Lei nodded, ¡°Yep. I don¡¯t even know why, but I¡¯ve been encountering idiots during work. I¡¯ve had to entertain my clients quite a bit. I¡¯ve had four of those drinking sessionsst week, I¡¯ve had to work overtime this weekend as well. I¡¯ve decided I had enough for today so I took a day off.¡± Chen Mo said sympathetically, ¡°Yeah, take care of yourself. Do a health checkup when you can.¡± Zhao Leiughed, and said half jokingly, ¡°Checkup? I¡¯m afraid of finding out some serious disease that I can¡¯t afford to fix.¡± ¡°Don¡¯t be, healthes first.¡± Zhao Lei nodded, ¡°Yeah, I understand. ¡°Oh by the way manager, you haven¡¯t released a new game in some time, is it because of the gaming tform?¡± ¡°That¡¯s part of it, but then again, Minecraft has been out for less than two months. New games aren¡¯t produced that quickly, you should enjoy the fruits of yourbour anyways.¡± ¡°Oh, it¡¯s only been two months? Geez, I¡¯ve been losing track of time, it felt like it¡¯s almost been half a year.¡± Chen Moughed, ¡°You¡¯ve been too stressed, you should take it easy from time to time. If you stay highly stressed all the time like this, you¡¯re bound to burn out eventually.¡± ¡°I don¡¯t have any good way to destress. I don¡¯t have many friends, nor do I have any hobbies. It feels like there¡¯s not much I can do outside of working to provide for the family. I¡¯de over here to set around and rx a little.¡± Chen Mo replied after some thought, ¡°Actually, I have a game in the works that might suit you. Do you want to try it?¡± Zhao Lei was surprised, ¡°New game? Didn¡¯t you say you haven¡¯t had the time?¡± Chen Mo stood up, ¡°Aren¡¯t you familiar with my work efficiency? Still in development means the game hasn¡¯t been released but is already yable. Follow me.¡± Zhao Lei quickly got on his feet and followed Chen Mo to the PC area of the experience store. Zhao Lei sat down at aputer while Chen Mo got onto the management terminal and downloaded the game that was recentlypleted onto thatputer. ¡°The Stanley Parable?¡± Chen Mo nodded, ¡°Yes.¡± Zhao Lei was a bit confused, ¡°You said this game suited me? What kind of game is this, a puzzle game?¡± Chen Mo shook his head, ¡°You¡¯ll understand once you y it. Zhao Lei doubtfully clicked on the icon to start the game. There wasn¡¯t a cool loading screen nor was there an epic cinematic. The game started right away. The title of the game, The Stanley Parable was on the top left of the screen , the bottom left had eht options Start Game, Options, credits, and quit. The UI was abnormally simplistic. However, Zhao Lei quickly noticed that something was out of ce. There was an office desk that had a phone and aputer on the screen. There was a filing cab on the left with a decorative painting on the wall, like something mostpanies would have. A meaningless, boring picture. The strange thing was that theputer screen in the game looked identical to what he was seeing in the game. It also had the title of the game, options as well as a tiny cursor. It felt like a picture in a picture. Everything the yer did would be replicated on theputer in the game. Zhao Lei clicked on Start Game, and the same thing happened to theputer in the game. Zhao Lei was a bit weirded out but he didn¡¯t think much of it. It was probably something odd Chen Mo included, an easter egg of sorts. The loading screen waspletely ck, except for a line of english words in grey at the bottom: ¡°THE END IS NEVER THE END IS NEVER THE END...¡± It looped infinitely, starting from the left and ended on the right of the screen. If it was broken down into aplete sentence, it probably wrote ¡°THE END IS NEVER THE END¡± probably meaning the game never ends. But they stitched the ¡°THE END¡± from the start and end together to form a never ending loop. This made Zhao Lei even more confused, What kind of game is this? The game finally started as he was filled with thoughts and questions. Before anything appeared on the screen, Zhao Lei could hear a conversation going on. It was a deep male voice who spoke concisely, of moderate speed, and good rhythm. It was hard to interpret any sort of emotion from his speech as though he was narrating an exceedingly normal story. ¡°This is the story of a man named ¡°Stanley¡±.¡± ¡°Stanley worked for apany in a big building where he was Employee #427.¡± There was a light soft background music, and the graphics started showing up. The camera went through a hallway into room number 427. In the room was a man sitting away from the camera, at a desk that looked like the one from the starting screen, including theputer, the phone, and the filing cab. Orders came to him through a monitor on his desk telling him what buttons to push, how long to push them, and in what order The camera switched to a top down view of the monitor, showing a close up of the character¡¯s movements. Stanley started at the screen pressing on buttons on the keyboard with his right hand. His head bobbed like a buoy in the sea as he look up and down. Chapter 272 - Game with no Difficulty

Chapter 272: Game with no Difficulty

¡°This is what Employee #427 did every day of every month of every year, and although others may have considered it soul rending, Stanley relished every moment that the orders came in, as though he had been made exactly for this job. ¡°And Stanley was happy. ¡°The camera panned away before fading ck, and this time the title of the game appeared on the screen. ¡°And then one day, something very peculiar happened.¡± Something that would forever change Stanley; something he would never quite forget. The game faded back in, showing Stanley who was still in front of theputer, but this time he wasn¡¯t moving. ¡°He had been at his desk for nearly an hour when he had realized not one single order had arrived on the monitor for him to follow. ¡°No one had shown up to give him instructions, call a meeting, or even say ¡®hi¡¯. Never in all his years at thepany had this happened, thisplete istion. The camera showed the other seats in the office which all happened to be empty. Something was very clearly wrong. Shocked, frozen solid, Stanley found himself unable to move for the longest time. But as he came to his wits and regained his senses, he got up from his desk and stepped out of his office.¡± As the narration finished, the camera panned away from the screen. Zhao Lei then realised he could control Stanley and start the game. ¡°What a weird start to the game.¡± Zhao Lei was really confused, but he understood why Chen Mo said the game suited him. He was just like Stanley, someone who couldn¡¯t escape work. On the surface he was incredibly happy and satisfied, but underneath that was someone incredibly sad and depressed. Stanley¡¯s job of pressing buttons on the keyboards following the instructions of the monitor, there was virtually no differencepared to a machine. But Zhao Lei couldn¡¯t help but associate that with his job. Sure it was moreplicated, but was he that much different from Stanley pressing on the keyboard? Zhao Lei shook his head to usher away the weird thoughts in his mind, and looked around the room using his mouse. The office was incredibly empty and quite small. He couldn¡¯t interact with theputer, the filing cab, or the documents on the table. Zhao Lei left the office after triple checking he couldn¡¯t do anything. The roomsbeled 428 and 429 couldn¡¯t be opened either. The narration continued. All of his coworkers were gone. What could it mean? Stanley decided to go to the meeting room; perhaps he had simply missed a memo. There was a soft yet mysterious track in the background, and a weird narration to go with it. But the twobined fitted the game so well that Zhao Lei didn¡¯t feel like anything was out of ce, and even forgot that most games didn¡¯t have weird narrations like these. When Stanley came to a set of 2 open doors, he entered the door on his left. The tone of the narrator was an incredibly natural one, as if it was something that was certain to happen. Zhao Lei didn¡¯t put too much thought into it and walked through the door on the left. The narrator would guide Zhao Lei through the next little bit of the game. The meeting room was alsopletely empty, and so was the boss¡¯s office. Although there were a few forks in the road, Zhao Lei suppressed his curiosity and followed the instructions given by the narrator. ¡°Shocked, unraveled, Stanley wondered in disbelief who orchestrated this, what dark secret was being held from him! ¡°What he could not have known was that the keypad behind the boss¡¯s desk guarded the terrible truth that his boss had been keeping from him. ¡°And so the boss had assigned it an extra secret PIN number. 2845. ¡°But of course, Stanley couldn¡¯t possibly have known this.¡± Zhao Lei quickly found the keypad as it wasn¡¯t well hidden at all, typing in the pin as described by the narrator to reveal a secret passageway in the boss¡¯s office. ¡°Yet incredibly, by simply pushing random buttons on the keypad, Stanley happened to input the correct code by sheer luck. Amazing.¡± Zhao Lei needed a reason toin about this narrator. What? The keypad wasn¡¯t hidden at all, nor was the pinplicated! He thought it was a puzzle game, but it was too simple, it couldn¡¯t even be considered a puzzle! He just had to key in the numbers like the narrator described to reveal the hidden passageway? Holding back hisints, Zhao Lei went into the passageway. ¡°He stepped into the newly opened passageway.¡± He reached somewhere that waspletely to the office that he was just it. It looked like a strange facility that was under construction. He then reached deep into the building through a creaking and shaking elevator. After navigating a few more turns, he reached arge door that had the words ¡°Mind Control Facility¡± written on it. There were countless monitors on the walls of this huge room. Stanley pressed on a button, waking up all the monitors. Stanley and his co-workers were seen on these monitors. Everyone was being monitored with no freedom in sight. Stanley reached the core control center and discovered there were various mood controlling buttons: ¡°Happy¡±, ¡°Sad¡±, and ¡°Satisfied¡± He then reached the facility power room and turned off the power. In the darkness came rays of light. There were blue skies, clouds, grass, everything freedom looked like. Apanied by the soothing music was the praises of the narrator as Stanley walked out of the facility power room. ¡°Stanley felt the cool breeze upon his skin, the feeling of liberation, the immense possibility of the new path before him. ¡°This was exactly the way, right now, that things were meant to happen. ¡°And Stanley was happy.¡± This was where the game ended and Zhao Lei was returned to the starting screen. Zhao Lei was confused that he beat the game like that. Although the story was quite educational, going through the process of an office worker seeking freedom, wasn¡¯t that too simplistic? And could this really be considered a game? Zhao Lei had a strange feeling inside of him throughout the game. There were various mysterious scenes, forks, and unfathomable narratives. He thought that it was a horror game and was expecting a jump scare. But nothing came. He just kept following the guidance from the narrator, pressed a few buttons and managed to beat the game. Zhao Lei was incredibly confused. He looked at Chen Mo who was sitting next to him who had a smile on his face but didn¡¯t seem to want to share why. Zhao Lei started a new game thinking that there he must¡¯ve missed something. Chapter 273 - Deep and Meaningful

Chapter 273: Deep and Meaningful

Zhao Lei looked at the time and discovered that it only took him ten minutes toplete the game. This included him running around in circles, as well as some meaningless clicking around. Moreover, the controls were incredibly simple. There wasn¡¯t anybat or monsters. The whole game was just walking around and clicking. Considering the various choices the yer had to make, the game was clearly a puzzle game. Meaning that the game was probably about exploring different paths to reach different endings. After figuring that out, Zhao Lei felt that he knew what he should do next. He should try out different options. ¡ª The game started for the second time. ording to the hints, Stanley should exit his office to look for his colleagues in the meeting room. But Zhao Lei got an idea, what if he doesn¡¯t go out? What if he closes the door?? They clicked on the door of his office, and the door closed with it. ¡°But Stanley simply couldn¡¯t handle the pressure. What if he had to make a decision? What if a crucial oue fell under his responsibility? He had never been trained for that! No, this couldn¡¯t go any way except badly. ¡°The right thing to do now, Stanley thought to himself, is to wait. Nothing will hurt me. Nothing will break me. In here, I can be happy, forever. I will be happy.¡± Zhao Lei was incredibly confused. Am I locked in here? He walked around then clicked on the door to try to leave, but it was all in vain. HE also discovered something incredibly interesting. The clock on the wall that previously didn¡¯t move started moving, as though reminding Stanley that time was passing. ¡°But the one thing he knew, for sure, beyond any doubt, was that if he waited long enough, the answers woulde. Eventually, some day, they would arrive. Soon... ¡°Very soon now, this will end. He will be spoken to. He will be told what to do. Now it¡¯s just a little bit closer. Now it¡¯s even closer. Here ites.. The narration ended abruptly and his screen went ck. Zhao Lei couldn¡¯t guess what had happened to Stanley. The game ended, turns out that was another ending. Zhao Lei realised that the endings he got were quite simple, but were quite meaningful. It was just like the name of the game described, The Stanley Parable. Parables are sinct, didactic stories, in prose or verse, that illustrates one or more instructive lessons or principles. Evidently, it would only take a few minutes to reach a seemingly perfect ¡®freedom ending¡¯ if they followed the narrator. But Zhao Lei felt that this ¡®freedom ending¡¯ may as well be called ¡®deception ending¡¯ as Stanley followed what the narrator said without exploring anything else in the world. What did the two endings represent? Perish in silence because of shutting oneself in because of ack of courage? Or, following instructions toplete a journey, to tell a lie to themselves? Zhao Lei thought that the game was quite interesting and started exploring different paths that were presented to him. The game started once again. This time, Zhao Lei thought of the button in the facility power room. There were two buttons in front of them when he powered off the mind control facility, one wasbeled ¡®off¡¯, the other ¡®on¡¯. What would happen if he pressed ¡®on¡¯? As Zhao Lei was familiar with the game already, he quickly followed the narration to reach the facility power room. ¡°And as the cold reality of his past began to sink in, Stanley decided that this machinery would never again exert it¡¯s terrible power over another human life. For he would dismantle the controls once and for all. Even though the narration was hinting strongly that he should turn off the machine, Zhao Lei hit the ¡®on¡¯ button. ¡°Oh Stanley, you didn¡¯t just activate the controls, did you? After they kept you enved all these years you go and you try to take control of the machine for yourself, is that what you wanted? Control?¡± The huge screen in front of him turned red with the words ¡®LOADING MIND CONTROL SYSTEM¡¯ on it. The background music also turned intense. ¡°Oh...Stanley. *sigh* I apud your effort, I really do, but you need to understand; there¡¯s only so much that machine can do. You were supposed to let it go, turn the controls off, and leave. If you want to throw my story off track, you¡¯re going to have to do much better than that. ¡°I¡¯m afraid you don¡¯t have nearly the power you think you do; for example, and I believe you¡¯ll find this pertinent: ¡°Stanley suddenly realized that he had just initiated thework¡¯s emergency detonation system. In the event that this machine is activated without proper DNA identification, nuclear detonators are set to explode, eliminating the entireplex. ¡°How long until detonation, then? Hmm...let¡¯s say, um...two minutes. ¡°Ah, now this is making things a little more fun, isn¡¯t it, Stanley? It¡¯s your time to shine! You are the star! It¡¯s your story now; shape it to your heart¡¯s desires. ¡°Ooh, this is much better than what I had in mind! What a shame we have so little time left to enjoy it.¡± Zhao Lei was confused, feeling as though he had been yed by the narrator. Zhao Lei had stanley explored the building. There were many buttons around the facility, pressing any that he came across. But s, none of them did anything to stop the countdown. He even went to a door that he could escape from, but the door was closed shut. If it was a normal game, there would most certainly be a way to beat the game. But Zhao Lei suspected that although there were many buttons and switches in the room, nothing would stop the bomb from going off; everything was in vain. The narration continued. ¡°What¡¯s that? You¡¯d like to know where your co-workers are? A moment of sce before you¡¯re obliterated? Alright. I¡¯m in a good mood, and you¡¯re going to die anyway. I¡¯ll tell you exactly what happened to them: ¡± I erased them. I turned off the machine; I set you free. Of course, that was merely in this instance of the story. Sometimes when I tell it, I simply let you sit there in your office forever, pushing buttons endlessly and then dying alone. ¡°Other times, I let the office sink into the ground, swallowing everyone inside; or I let it burn to a crisp. Zhao Lei didn¡¯t pay any attention to the narration as he continued to wander around the building in search for a button that would diffuse the situation. But the next lines took Zhao Lei by surprise. ¡°Oh, dear me, what¡¯s the matter, Stanley? Is it that you have no idea where you are going or what you¡¯re supposed to be doing right now? Or did you just assume when you saw that timer that something in this room is capable of turning it off? ¡°I mean, look at you, running from button to button, screen to screen, clicking on every little thing in this room! These numbered buttons! No! These colored ones! Or maybe this big, red button! Or this door! Everything! Anything! Something here will save me! ¡°Why would you think that, Stanley? That this video game can be beaten, won, solved? Do you have any idea what your purpose in this ce is? ¡°You¡¯re only still ying instead of watching a cutscene because I want to watch you for every moment that you¡¯re powerless, to see you made humble.¡± The timer ended. The silence following the huge explosion was deafening. Zhao Lei was shocked. Obviously it was another ending, but this ending was more shocking than the previous ones. The narration was particrly interesting, as though they were mocking the yer, like they were speaking to the yer through the screen. Obviously this was all designed by Chen Mo beforehand, but Zhao Lei still felt that there was some interaction between him and the narration. Moreover, the narration hinted at some truth. The narrator had absolute control over the game. He could freely change the story and chose if Stanley lives or dies, it all depended on his mood. Realising that, Zhao Lei gained immense interest in the game as he couldn¡¯t wait to explore more endings for the game. Chapter 274 - The meaning of a meta game

Chapter 274: The meaning of a meta game

Zhao Lei began to explore different routes and tried different oues. He even deliberately chose the opposite route. ¡­¡­ If Stanley didn¡¯t choose to go to the boss and kept going downstairs, then he would fall into an endless loop. Stanley would start to dream and eventually fall into madness. ¡­¡­ At an office table by the window, Stanley could get out of the window andnd outside, entering a pure white space. However, this wasn¡¯t a BUG, because the caption would remind you that this was part of the game, and it also added some self-deprecation. [At first, Stanley thought that he destroyed the map, but it wasn¡¯t until he heard the narration that he realized that this was part of the game. He then praised the game¡¯s profound and humorous criticism of the video game architecture, as well as its attempt at a metaphor for the narrative structure. ¡­¡­ If one entered the boss¡¯s office and left before the door closed, the voice-over would be ¡°locked¡± in the boss¡¯s office. yers will no longer hear the voice-over. When the yers returned to Room 427, they would find that the door next to it was open, and a message appeared that guided the yers to the rescue cabin. On the way to the escape capsule, Stanley kept going up the stairs. He found that there was Room 427 on every floor, and every floor had the same structure. In the end, he would enter the escape capsule and escape from this ce (perhaps). ¡­¡­ If he chose the door on the right and took the elevator to the maintenance area, then the exnation would bepletely dumbfounded, and he wouldn¡¯t even be able to find the way Stanley was supposed to go. Stanley walked on a path that waspletely different from the narration, and the whole scenario was spoiled. The narration had no choice but to restart the game. However, the game became even more chaotic after the restart. Every time the game was restarted, it would fall into new problems. For example, the door had disappeared. For example, Stanley had entered apletely different scene. The narrator even had to draw a long yellow arrow on the ground, but this still couldn¡¯t save the game¡¯s story line that had beenpletely confused. In the end, Stanley woulde to a room with the words ¡°chaotic ending¡± written on it, and the entire process of the chaotic ending would be shown on the screen. Even the voice-over was shocked. He refused to restart the game ording to the process on the screen, but an unknown existence forced the game to restart. ¡­¡­ The more he yed, the more Zhao Lei realized that there were too many things in the game that he waspletely unaware of. No matter what choice he made, the narrator would always have a set of exnations, as if she had already guessed that he would do that. Moreover, there were many interesting Easter eggs in the game, and teasing the voice-over had be a very interesting thing. If you kept entering the wrong password in your boss¡¯s office, the narrator would hint at you again and again that it was the correct password, and even angrily emphasize it in red font. In the end, you would have no choice but to open the door yourself. There were even times when the voice-over would be shocked by what happened in the game, causing the entire game to fall into multipleyers of chaos. Stanley¡¯s [yer] and [voice-over] were higher existences, and they formed a huge mystery, making Zhao Lei want to constantly search for clues in the game to find the truth behind all this. He was already deeply attracted to this game. ¡­¡­ Before he knew it, more than two hours had passed. Zhao Lei looked at the time and realized that he had been in the game for a long time. However, he had a vague feeling that there were still many endings in the game that he had not yed out, and there were still many Easter eggs that he had not discovered. This was the second time Chen Mo hade to check on his progress. ¡°How was it? was it fun?¡± Chen Mo asked with a smile. Zhao Lei rubbed his neck and said,¡±it¡¯s not exactly fun, but ... It¡¯s very interesting.¡± When will the game be released?¡± ¡°Probably next week,¡± Chen Zhao said. ¡°Alright,¡± Zhao Lei nodded.¡±I¡¯ll definitely buy a copy for my collection when the game is released.¡± He paused for a moment before continuing,¡±also, I feel like the game is hinting at something. If you look deeper into it, there seems to be a lot of hidden meanings ...¡± Chen Mo smiled but didn¡¯t say anything. ¡°Can you exin to me what this game is about?¡± Zhao Lei asked. What¡¯s the meaning behind it?¡± Chen Mo shook his head,¡±it can only be understood, not exined.¡± Zhao Lei was speechless. He stood up and said,¡±¡±It¡¯s gettingte. I have to go back and have a good sleep. I have to continue working tomorrow.¡± ¡°Yes,¡± Chen Zhao nodded.¡±Rest well.¡± The two of them walked to the door. Before Zhao Lei left, he looked at Chen Zhao.¡±Thank you for the game. Although it¡¯s useless to understand some principles, at least it makes me feel better.¡± Chen Moughed,¡±don¡¯t think too much. It¡¯s just a game. Life still has to go on, doesn¡¯t it?¡± ¡­¡­ The Stanley Parable was not a simple puzzle game. It was a very ssic META game, and it had a deep philosophical meaning. The fun of this game was not in solving riddles or exploring different endings, but in experiencing and interpreting the countless fables in the game. This game was actually full of designs that went against conventional games. It was more like a joke about the meaning of the ¡°game¡± itself, or the rtionship between the designer and the yer. The game had no clear goal, no difficult challenges, and no rewards in the general sense. When the yers ¡®time stopped in the storage room, the narrator would even mock them.¡±Oh my God, are you trying to show off to your friends that you got the storage room ending?¡± Moreover, the game was full of sarcasm about the ¡°fun of the game¡±. For example, Stanley¡¯s job every day was to press the buttons, and he felt that he was very happy. Wasn¡¯t this a reference to the gamers? The yers followed the voice-over¡¯s instructions, opening the secret door step by step, turning on the switch, and finally reaching a seemingly perfect ending. Wasn¡¯t that what normal games would ask the yers to do? The content made the yers realize that they seemed to be Stanley. They seemed to have freedom and happiness, but this feeling was very fake. Behind each ending, there was a kind of philosophical thinking. For example, the lie ending was the lie of losing free will, the nuclear explosion ending was the consolidation of the creator¡¯s position, the return home ending was a kind of despair with no other choice, the chaos ending was the thought about the end, and the Starlight ending was the use of Stanley as ab rat for experiments ... And that was the biggest meaning of this game. It was a reflection of the game itself and life. The yers would reflect on their experiences in real life and think about what they should choose. Of course, the game itself did not have a clear background story. It was more like a work of stream of consciousness. There were a thousand hamlets in a thousand readers, and everyone would experience something different when ying the game. However, to be able to give the yers such an experience was the greatest meaning of the game. Chapter 275 - The cooperation between the Emperor dynasty and the divine illusion Guild

Chapter 275: The cooperation between the Emperor dynasty and the divine illusion Guild

The development of Stanley¡¯s fables and eich ICEY went smoothly, and Chen Mo released the two games on Thunderbolt gaming tform after they werepleted. This time, Chen Mo didn¡¯t spend too much effort on advertising his own games, since Thunderbolt gaming tform had a special area for his own games. It was already the equivalent of a huge rmendation, and with so many of his previous games ¡®reputation, he didn¡¯t need to waste too much effort on advertising them. To Chen Mo, these two games were very special, but not too shocking. He only took it out to fill up the game library and enrich the game types on the tform. Just as Chen Mo expected, the yers soon discovered the uniqueness of the two games and became addicted to them. These two ssic META Games quickly became a trend among the yers. Everyone was interested in the game¡¯s content, especially the ¡°teasing the innocent¡±. ¡°Wow, Stanley¡¯s fable is so fun. Chen Mo¡¯s starting to y this kind of stupid game again. I think he¡¯s cking off a little, but I really want to say that he¡¯s a genius!¡± ¡°I think eich is more fun. At first, I thought that it was just a normal horizontal action game, but halfway through, I realized that the core of the game was to tease the voice-overs!¡± ¡°Yeah, I thought myputer was infected with a virus during the plot kill!¡± ¡°And the voice-over can be teased! I repeatedly jumped into the pit, and he would evenin,¡¯are you so weak that you can¡¯t even jump into a few pits?¡¯ It¡¯s simply a demon!¡± ¡°The funniest part is that in the middle of the script, there was a scene where the author who was reading the script received calls from finance, designers, and artists. Everyone expressed their resignation. This is too much!¡± ¡°Fun, fun! Chen Mo is so cool, I feel like he¡¯s gone beyond scamming money and is trying all sorts of fun games?¡± ¡°Hmm, that¡¯s a good sign! I support Chen Mo!¡± ¡­¡­ Both games were well received on Thunderbolt gaming tform, with Stanley¡¯s fable at 9.1 and eich at 8.8. The two games were sold for 30 yuan, and there was a discount in the first week. After the discount, they were sold for 21 Yuan, which greatly increased the enthusiasm of yers in the first week. The first week of sales for both games were pretty good. The Stanley Parable sold 78000 and eich sold 103000. The Stanley Parable was better in terms of META and the depth of the story, so the overall rating was higher. However, it was a pure META game with a small audience, so the sales were not as good as eich. After all, eich had elements of an action game, and the fighting was more satisfying, so the sales were better. However, due to the rtivelycking META elements and plot, the rating was slightly lower. Regardless, these two games were both very sessful. Whether it was sales or reviews, theypletely surpassed other standalone games at the same price. The yers were all praising Chen Mo¡¯s attempt, which allowed him to gain more and more fans, which was even helpful to the development of Thunderbolt gaming tform. ¡­¡­ ¡­¡­ Emperor dynasty entertainment, CEO¡¯s office. The atmosphere in the huge office was a little heavy. Lin chaoxu stood by the window and sized up the potted nt that was as tall as a person. No one knew what he was thinking. On the sofa in the office sat another influential figure in the domestic gaming circle, the president of fantasy gaming tform, ding Xing. Speaking of ding Xing, he could be considered a legend in the domestic game circle. His biggest characteristic was that he knew nothing about game design. Like Emperor dynasty Entertainment¡¯s CEO Lin chaoxu, ZEN Entertainment¡¯s CEO Liu Yuanfeng, they were the best video game designers in the country, but after they expanded and created Giants like Emperor dynasty entertainment and ZEN Entertainment, they slowly left the frontlines of research and development and handed over the task of developing games to their own designers. Of course, if they wanted to, they could intervene in the development of the game at any time. But ding Xing was different. He wasn¡¯t a game designer and had never used a game editor. He was an entrepreneur and a gamer. Perhaps it was because ding Xing had always considered things from the perspective of an entrepreneur or a yer, and he liked to interfere with game development, that fantasy gaming tform¡¯s game development was a failure. It was ironic that he had the secondrgest distribution channel in the country but couldn¡¯t make a popr game. However, ding Xing also had his own unique points. He was a businessman with a very keen sense of smell, and he did things swiftly and decisively, so he had a good grasp of the development prospects of the game market. Emperor dynasty gaming tform and fantasy gaming tform were the two biggest distributors in the country and were originally at loggerheads with each other, but Chen Mo¡¯s sudden appearance had changed their rtionship. Ding Xing¡¯s expression was gloomy as he rapped the table, as aggressive as a sharp knife. ¡°These Terms are too much for me. President Lin, this doesn¡¯t seem like the right attitude to discuss things, right?¡± Lin chaoxuughed. He wasn¡¯t affected by ding Xing¡¯s aura at all, and said calmly,¡±¡±I¡¯m willing to negotiate with you. This is already the biggest concession I can make.¡± Ding Xing¡¯s face became even uglier, giving people the feeling that he could m the table and leave at any time. Lin chaoxu continued unhurriedly,¡±in fact, when Chen Mo created Thunderbolt gaming tform, your fantasy gaming tform was the one that suffered the most.¡± As for Emperor dynasty, it¡¯s fine even if we lower our cut to 30% as well, because we still have research and development to do. But what about you guys? if the channel profits plummet, I¡¯m afraid the financial report won¡¯t look good, right?¡± ¡°So, you just want to see me make a fool of myself and don¡¯t want to talk?¡± ding Xing coldly said. Lin chaoxu shook his head,¡±of course not. Don¡¯t misunderstand. I just hope that you can understand your current situation. Since we¡¯re going to talk about cooperation, let¡¯s cut to the chase. No matter how aggressive you are, you have to understand that the Emperor dynasty is the one who has the initiative now. ¡± He paused for a moment before continuing,¡±as for cooperation, of course, the Emperor dynasty would like to cooperate, because cooperation is a win-win situation.¡± In fact, I think we should work together too. Chen Zhao is an idealist or a lunatic. He doesn¡¯t need money, but we¡¯re both realistic businessmen. We can¡¯t let a lunatic ruin our jobs, right?¡± ¡°You¡¯re right,¡±ding Xing nodded. Alright, let¡¯s put away all the empty talk and talk about cooperation. Chen Mo¡¯s tform is a huge threat to all distributors in the country, we have to think of something. ¡± ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Pushing the book ¡°the literary life of women¡¯s clothing,¡± if you guys want to see women¡¯s clothing every day, then go and see real women¡¯s clothing! Chapter 276 - New channel, new game

Chapter 276: New channel, new game

On November 3rd, just when everyone thought that Chen Mo¡¯s battle hade to an end and that he had won, another piece of news caused another wave. Emperor dynasty entertainment and fantasy gaming tform announced that they would form a strategic partnership and share resources. Any game that was released on either tform would automatically be released on the other tform and would receive a rmendation spot. Apart from that, there were more than ten other smaller channels that joined the Alliance between Emperor dynasty entertainment and fantasy gaming tform. In other words, Emperor dynasty entertainment and fantasy gaming tform took the lead andbined all the resources from the smaller channels to build a huge tform. All games that are released on any of the above tforms will be released on other tforms at the same time and may receive a very strong rmendation: It was rmended to all channels. If a game was lucky enough to receive such a rmendation, it would be rmended on the front page of all the gaming tforms mentioned above. The effect of such a rmendation could be said to be terrifying. Thunderbolt gaming tform was the thirdrgest gaming tform in the country, and their number of users wasn¡¯t evenparable to Emperor dynasty gaming tform or fantasy gaming tform. However, after these distributors worked together to create a tform, the resources of both sides were pulled apart. Even though Emperor dynasty entertainment and fantasy gaming tform didn¡¯t mention anything about ¡®Thunderbolt gaming tform¡¯, it was clear that this was a counterattack. Against a strong disrupter, these old distributors had no choice but to work together to protect their own interests. The situation became confusing again. ¡­¡­ Emperor dynasty Entertainment¡¯s headquarters. In Lin chaoxu¡¯s office, the three S-grade video game designers were all present. Qiu Jiang and Yan Zhenyuan were sitting on the long sofa, while Qin Xiao was sitting on a single sofa, his legs resting on the coffee table. ¡°You guys know about the all-channel transportation, right?¡± Lin chaoxu asked. ¡°Got it,¡± Yan Zhenyuan nodded. Qiu Jiang was ying with her nails, bored.¡±¡±With such a hugemotion, how could they not know?¡± Lin chaoxu nodded,¡±yes, this is the reason I called you guys over.¡± I¡¯ll be direct, from the looks of it, the all-channel joint transport is going well. Ding Xing bit the bullet this time and sacrificed a lot of benefits to facilitate this cooperation, but overall, it¡¯s a good thing for both US and fantasy gaming tform. ¡± ¡°The most important thing now is that we need a key game to show the yers and independent designers the power of the new tform. ¡°A new game?¡± Qin Xiao asked, interested. Lin chaoxu nodded.¡±That¡¯s right. Ding Xing is also talking to Liu Yuanfeng in private. He hopes that ZEN Entertainment can also release apetitive game.¡± It¡¯s the same for our Empire. ¡± ¡°This time, we¡¯ll release three to five new games. Then, we¡¯llpete internally. The best two games will receive the strongest rmendation from all channels. This means that other than Thunderbolt gaming tform, all other gaming tforms will see the two new games. ¡± Qin Xiao, Qiu Jiang, and Yan Zhenyuan all listened intently. It was obvious that this was a great opportunity for them. ¡°The game we¡¯re going to make this time has to be super popr,¡± Lin chaoxu continued.¡±In other words, it has to capture thergest number of yers.¡± Qin Xiao pondered for a moment before asking,¡±where¡¯s the tform?¡± ¡°There¡¯s no limit to the tform,¡± Lin chaoxu said.¡±But the type of game definitely can¡¯t be a simple game like tabletop games. It¡¯s meaningless even if that kind of game increases the number of yers.¡± Qiu Jiang thought about it. ¡°Mmorpgs, then. I¡¯m good at it.¡± ¡°That¡¯s not for sure. There are quite a number of FPS yers in the country as well.¡± Qin Xiao replied. Qiu Jiang nced at him.¡±However, most FPS games don¡¯t have both VR and PC. Mmorpgs can have both.¡± Qin Xiao was speechless. Lin chaoxu said,¡±all three tforms have their own advantages. The mobile tform has the most yers and is the easiest to promote. The VR tform is easier to produce high-quality works. The PC tform is rtively more of apromise.¡± Yan Zhenyuan nodded.¡±That¡¯s right. But from the looks of it, mmorpgs are still the best if we want to capture the most number of users. Especially since we can do both VR and PC games. The advantage is huge.¡± Qin Xiao shook his head,¡±I don¡¯t think so.¡± Legend of the Sword, the moon god¡¯s prophecy, and heavenly justice of the Three Kingdoms were the three most sessful RPG games in the country, but none of them managed to take down the other. Was he trying to create a new MMORPG that could take over all three of them and dominate the MMORPG market? I think the possibility of that is very low. ¡± Lin chaoxu asked Qiu Jiang,¡±what do you think?¡± Does MMORPG still have room for development?¡± Qiu Jiang pondered for a moment and said,¡±it¡¯s hard to say.¡± Based on the current operation of the moon god¡¯s prophecy, mmorpgs still had a lot of potential. However, if you want to make a game that can dominate the MMORPG market, you have to fulfill at least two conditions. ¡± ¡°First, improve your technical level, art performance, and other aspects. Second, there are major changes in the way you y and the structure of the world. ¡± ¡°Based on the current situation, it¡¯s impossible to improve my technical skills and art performance in all aspects. The only opportunity is to improve my ystyle and world setting.¡± ¡°That means there¡¯s no chance,¡± Qin Xiao interjected.¡±There won¡¯t be any major changes to mmorpgs in the short term. As for the world views, I haven¡¯t seen anything particrly impressive yet.¡± Qiu Jiang rolled her eyes at him. Lin chaoxu replied,¡±it¡¯s okay, there¡¯s no need to rush.¡± No one could say for sure what the next game to dominate the domestic game market would be. You guys can think about it and not limit your thinking to mmorpgs. For example, two days ago, I found a very good game prototype overseas. ¡± As Lin chaoxu spoke, he pulled out a video from hisptop. ¡°What¡¯s this, isn¡¯t this Warcraft?¡± Qin Xiao, Qiu Jiang, and Yan Zhenyuan were all surprised. Lin chaoxu shook his head.¡±No, it¡¯s an RPG map in Warcraft. It¡¯s called COG, the Battle of the Gods.¡± The three of them watched the entire video in detail. ¡°ording to insider information,¡± Lin chaoxu said,¡±the author of this picture has decided to work with GA to make COG an independent game that¡¯s no longer part of Warcraft.¡± Qin Xiao furrowed his brows,¡±GA? Would they be interested in such a simple map? And it¡¯s even a Warcraft drawing?¡± It was no wonder that Qin Xiao would be so confused. GA was a very famous game developer, its full name was GeniusArt. It could be ranked in the top three in the entire European and American region, and could be said to be a veritable industry giant. From the video, COG was an RPG map that waspletely attached to Warcraft, so it had a third person God¡¯s perspective. Moreover, the game¡¯s content wasn¡¯t rich, and they were fighting on the same map back and forth. The onlymendable thing was that its hero and equipment system were moreplicated. Such a simple map could win the favor of an GA? This sounded like a fantasy. Chapter 277 - -mock trial

Chapter 277: Chapter 276-mock trial

Qiu Jiang said,¡±¡±Although GA is a bigpany, they release a lot of lousy games every year, especially when they often buy some small studios. As long as they think the game has a little bit of potential, they¡¯ll buy it. As for whether it can be made or not, they don¡¯t care at all.¡± Lin chaoxu shook his head.¡±Although you¡¯re not wrong, the GA are probably serious this time. They do have a few higher-ups who are very optimistic about this game.¡± ¡°Why?¡± Qin Xiao furrowed his brows. Lin chaoxu said,¡±I¡¯ve tried out the game too, and I have the same opinion as your Ga.¡± It¡¯s a very promising game type, and its biggest feature is its creativity. ¡± Lin chaoxu briefly exined to the three of them the core gamey, key points of strategy, and main fun points of the game. Qin Xiao pondered for a moment.¡±ying the same map back and forth. Each time, it¡¯s like a whole new experience?¡± Lin chaoxu nodded,¡±actually, you can see it as an RTS game where you only need to control one unit. It has greatly lowered the entry requirements.¡± Different heroes are suitable for yers with different preferences. The five of them can work together to achieve victory, and the pace is almost the same as an RTS game. These are all its advantages. ¡± Qiu Jiang nodded.¡±The fast pace is indeed an advantage. The biggest problem with mmorpgs is that the character¡¯s level and equipment have to be umted. It¡¯s hard for new yers to keep up with the progress of the old yers, and the level difference causes a natural division in the yermunity.¡± She thought for a moment and then said,¡±¡±However, if the game loses its growth potential, the yers will probablyck a long-term goal, right?¡± Qin Xiao shook his head,¡±that won¡¯t happen. Just look at FPS and RTS games. You¡¯ll know.¡± The advantage of FPS games was that they were easy to get started with, had a fast pace, and could be re-yed. There was no level growth, and it would not affect the fun of the yers in theter stages. I think this game should have the same routine. ¡± Lin chaoxu nodded,¡± This map was very popr in Europe and America, with tens of thousands of yers ying it every day. Itpletely dominated the other Warcraft maps. Although it hasn¡¯tpletely be popr in China, it should be soon. ¡± ¡°From the yers¡± feedback, they didn¡¯t feel that they would get tired of this map after ying it for a long time. Instead, they were enjoying it. It¡¯s also because of this yer¡¯s data that the author of this picture has the confidence to talk about cooperation with an GA. ¡± ¡°Then, What do you mean, President Lin?¡± Yan Zhenyuan asked. ¡°I¡¯m nning to talk to the GA,¡± Lin chaoxu said seriously.¡±I¡¯ll try to get the game¡¯s Domestic Agency rights.¡± ¡­¡­ ¡­¡­ In Chen Mo¡¯s Experience Store. Everyone was worried about Emperor dynasty entertainment and fantasy gaming tform working together to create a huge distribution channel, but Chen Mo acted like nothing had happened, and was at ease every day. Recently, more and more people were ying Warcraft in the PC experience area, but most of them weren¡¯t ying the battle mode. Instead, they were ying a whole new map: COG¡£ ¡°Good Morning, manager.¡± Zou Zhuo was walking towards the PC experience area with a bag of chips in his hand when he ran into Chen Mo who was justing down. Chen Mo looked at the chips in his hand,¡±¡±Even though I¡¯m happy that you keep buying the snacks from the experience store, I still think that you should control yourself a little, or you might not be able to find a girlfriend.¡± Zou Zhuo grabbed two chips and popped them into his mouth,¡±¡±But manager, you¡¯re so skinny, but you still don¡¯t have a girlfriend.¡± Chen Zhao was speechless. There¡¯s no way to continue this conversation! ¡°Oh right, manager, are you free today? Wan na y some games together?¡± zou Zhuo asked. ¡°No,¡± Chen Mo rejected sternly,¡±it¡¯s still working hours. As the boss, I should set a good example. How can I y games secretly?¡± Zou Zhuo nodded,¡±Oh, I see.¡± Then why don¡¯t you just announce that you¡¯re taking a break today? You¡¯re the boss, so we¡¯ll rest whenever you want. ¡± Chen Zhao thought for a moment.¡±You¡¯re right. Wait a moment.¡± Not long after, Chen Zhao took the elevator back from the fourth floor. ¡°Alright, I¡¯ve told everyone that we¡¯re taking a break today. We can y games now.¡± ¡°¡­¡­¡± Zou Zhuo¡¯s mouth was full of chips, but he couldn¡¯t say anything. He only gave Chen Mo a thumbs up. Chen Mo and zou Zhuo sat down in the PC area and opened up Warcraft. Chen Mo had already closed the friend and battle invite Windows, so even though the ID ¡®tiny¡¯ was quite famous, it wasn¡¯t harassed much. Zou Zhuo found the map, COG, and built a room. ¡°You haven¡¯t been ying battle mode recently?¡± Chen Mo asked. Zou Zhuo nodded,¡±yeah, it¡¯s mainly because I feel like I¡¯ve reached the ceiling of my personal ability. I¡¯m stuck at 3800 points. I can¡¯t go any further.¡± Moreover, this COG is really fun to y. I¡¯ll feel ufortable if I don¡¯t y it for a day. ¡± Very quickly, the 10-person room was filled. COG was slowly bing popr in China, and there were Chinese teams that tranted the game¡¯s content into Chinese. Even though it wasn¡¯t as popr as overseas, it was already the most popr confrontation map in China, surpassing the Chenghai 3c that Chen Mo had released as an official. ¡°Manager, you¡¯ve never yed this map before, have you?¡± zou Zhuo was excited. Chen Mo nodded,¡±yeah, I¡¯ve never yed it before.¡± Zou Zhuo said,¡±that¡¯s great, I can finally teach the manager how to y games!¡± Manager, let me tell you, this map is quiteplicated. There are more than 30 heroes in it, and each hero has different skills and characteristics. They are matched with different equipment. Tsk, this game is really rich in content. ¡± ¡°Manager, you might not be used to it at the beginning. I suggest you y the God of the jungle. This hero is rtively simple to operate and is suitable for novices.¡± Chen Mo took a look. The God of the forest was Malfurion from Warcraft and had four skills: summon Treant, bind (crowd control skill, single target target lock), heal (healing skill, single target recovery), and Emerald Dream (crowd control skill, hypnotize enemies within range). Indeed, this champion looked like a support and was very suitable for novices. ¡°Yeah,¡± Chen Zhao said.¡±This hero suits me, but I choose the dark Ranger.¡± Before zou Zhuo could stop him, Chen Mo had already chosen Sylvanas the dark Ranger and entered the game. Zou Zhuo,¡±...Alright, manager. You¡¯re good at it. You can y whatever you want.¡± They started sending troops as soon as they entered the game. Chen Mo quickly looked through the equipment system and hero skills as he walked towards his own tower. The image of COG was created using Warcraft¡¯s models. It looked like DOTA from Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, but there was still a huge difference. For example, in terms of hero settings and skills, although COG had made some changes to Warcraft¡¯s skill system, it didn¡¯t break away from Warcraft¡¯s style, or rather, it didn¡¯t form its own style. Chapter 278 - my mid

Chapter 278: Chapter 277 my mid

For [God of the jungle], it made use of Malfurion¡¯s model and had a rtively clear position. It was a very strong support for control and healing. This design was quite sessful because it took advantage of some of Warcraft¡¯s skill settings and fit the hero¡¯s appearance. However,[Dark Ranger] was a different story. Her skills were silence, dark arrow, Archer talent, and charm. Silence, dark arrow, and charm were the same as Warcraft, while life drain was reced with an Archer¡¯s talent. It was a passive skill that permanently increased the dark Ranger¡¯s range and critical chance. Obviously, the designer of COG, Clive Lehmann, realized that life drain was somewhat contrary to the dark Ranger¡¯s hero setting, so he changed it to a more suitable skill for archers. However, in Chen Mo¡¯s opinion, it was too overpowered to use the dark Ranger on this map. First of all, dark Rangers could rely on dark arrows to summon skeleton soldiers without limit. In the early stages, they could push thene like crazy and suppress the opponent. Furthermore, he did not know if it was intentional or negligently designed by the designer, but the other party did not pay for the skeleton soldiers that they killed, and only gave a very small amount of experience. In other words, by relying on this skill alone, the dark Ranger could gain an absolute advantage in thene and could attract aggro by using minions to carry towers to madly consume the other party¡¯s HP. Moreover, dark Rangers could rely on the Archer talent skill to permanently increase their range and critical chance, which was equivalent to bringing forward the strong period of a hero that was originally set to be carried in theter stages. When the dark Ranger was Level 6, she could lead a group of skeleton soldiers and lured wild monsters to invade the enemy¡¯s wild area. Even if she couldn¡¯t kill the enemy, she could still snatch the wild area¡¯s resources and greatly supplement her own development. Therefore, in the hands of those who knew how to y, the dark Ranger would definitely be a strong hero in the early, middle, andte stages through rolling a snowball. This was obviously too strong, and it was contrary to the position of this hero. If she already had a strongte-game carry ability, she shouldn¡¯t have such a strong online suppression. Of course, this was mostly because the designer of COG, Clive Lehman, was still in the fumbling stage and didn¡¯t know so much. The yers didn¡¯t realize that the design was unreasonable. They only had a vague feeling that the dark Ranger was very powerful. Chen Zhao could tell how perverted this hero was, so he chose her without hesitation. Chen Zhao¡¯s Dark Ranger arrived at the tower in the middle. COG¡¯s map was simr to Chenghai 3C ¡®s. There were three roads from left to right. The middle road was the closest, while the top and bottom roads were further apart. However, there was already the concept of a jungle in COG. There were many wild monsters in the jungle, such as low-level murlocs and tortoises, and high-level Red Dragons and mountain giants. In terms of the distribution of turrets, COG was also more scientific. There were three turrets on each road, which could ensure the safety of somete-game Champions in thene. They would not be caught until they had doubts about their lives. At this time, the other side¡¯s yers typed in the public chat: ¡°A high imitation of S-God?¡± A momentter, Chen Mo¡¯s teammate also typed: ¡°It doesn¡¯t look like a high-quality imitation. It¡¯s S-God. The letters are exactly the same.¡± ¡°F * ck, Chen Mo?¡± ¡°Even Chen Mo is ying this map?¡± ¡°It¡¯s really Chen Mo! It was not a high imitation! My heavens!¡± His three teammates and five opponents were all excited. They confirmed again and again that the dark Ranger in the middlene was indeed Chen Mo ¡®s. These people immediately began to chat on the public screen. ¡°I¡¯ve already taken a screenshot. ying with S-God, I can brag about it for a week!¡± ¡°It¡¯s really Chen Mo. I wanted to ask when you¡¯re going to release a new RPG map?¡± ¡°I¡¯m asking for a friend spot, big brother!¡± Chen Zhao was speechless. He really couldn¡¯t keep a low profile. There was nothing I could do about it. Even though I had intentionally tried to hide it, I was still such an eye-catching man. My mncholic eyes, my moustached beard, my amazing skills, and my mischievous appearance under the tower had all deeply betrayed me. Dark Ranger (everyone):¡±fight well. You screwed up your title.¡± Everyone was speechless. Everyone gave up on the idea of watching Chen Zhao and quickly returned to their seats. ¡°S-God, do you want me to follow you and heal you?¡± a teammate asked. ¡°No, I¡¯m mid.¡± Although the yers in this world didn¡¯t know what ¡°mid¡± meant, just by looking at the literal meaning, everyone could understand the meaning of the word. Considering that Chen Mo was the designer of Warcraft, everyone suppressed their desire to teach him how to y the game. These people wanted to tell Chen Mo that dark Rangers usually took the bottomne and worked with support champions. Chen Mo¡¯s opponent was Bloodmage, the Warcraft hero Kael ¡®thas. Of course, his skills werepletely different from the crazed Carl in DOTA. The blood mage¡¯s skills were ming storm, banish, blood sacrifice, and fire Phoenix. It was simr to the skills in Warcraft, except that the drain was reced by blood sacrifice. The passive effect of this skill could permanently increase the maximum health of the blood mage. After activation, the blood mage could use their health instead of mana to cast the skill. In addition, the fire Phoenix¡¯s effect was to first deal damage to the area before summoning the fire Phoenix, which was a bit simr to Hellfire. The Bloodmage¡¯s position was a high-explosive mage. The three-hitbo of banish, ming storm, and fire Phoenix couldplete the instant kill of most fragile heroes. Although his skills consumed a lot of blue, he could use his health points to release skills in an emergency, which made up for the blue consumption problem to a certain extent. The enemy¡¯s blood mage was very aggressive. He used a ming storm to burn Chen Mo¡¯s minions and then pushed thene like crazy, trying to keep Chen Mo under the tower. Chen Zhao didn¡¯t panic. He waited for the enemy minions to reach the tower and used dark arrow to finish them off. Soon, six skeletons stood up. With Chen Mo¡¯s current reaction speed and mechanics, it was impossible for him to miss a minion. While the blood mage was still in awe of Chen Mo¡¯s farming skills, the six little skeletons had already started pushing thene for the dark Ranger. Zou Zhuo was at the topne, and he was concerned about Chen Mo as he yed,¡±¡±Manager, can you do it? The blood mage dealt AoE damage and seemed to be more effective against the dark Ranger. The dark Ranger had to learn silence before it was easier to fight. Why don¡¯t you hold on and wait for me to help you?¡± Before zou Zhuo could finish, the system prompted,¡±¡±The dark Ranger has killed the blood mage!¡± Zou Zhuo was speechless. Chapter 279 - -five against one and killed

Chapter 279: Chapter 278-five against one and killed

Chen Mo was very disappointed. There was no ¡°FIRST BLOOD¡± sound effect. It was not cool at all. At least, you could have a ¡®solo kill¡¯ sound effect, right? Zou Zhuo was shocked,¡±manager, how ... How did you do that?¡± he asked. ¡°How did you do it?¡± Chen Zhao said,¡±he kept walking forward like an idiot. Then I surrounded him with six skeleton soldiers.¡± Zou Zhuo,¡±you¡¯re awesome!¡± The blood mage on the other side was also dumbfounded. This could be done? After the first wave of minions entered the tower, Chen Mo used his Level 1 Dark Ranger to kill six minions and summoned six skeletons. The two of them were still Level 1. The Bloodmage wanted to use another ming storm to drain Chen Mo¡¯s health, but as soon as he moved forward, Chen Mo had the six little skeletons surround him and beat him up. The level 1 blood mage didn¡¯t have much health left before he arrived. After being surrounded, there was no response from anyone and he was shot to death by the dark Ranger. Moreover, Chen Zhao also used Cross Kill and skeleton to cover. The blood mage struggled but couldn¡¯t escape. Bloodmage (everyone) said,¡±God S, you¡¯re really good. I¡¯m impressed!¡± Chen Mo didn¡¯t care. While the blood mage was resurrected, he used dark arrow to kill all the enemy minions, then turned off dark arrow to kill all the minions on his side, whittled down the tower¡¯s health, and sent three little skeletons to Scout the way. A champion that could control multiple units at the same time was perfect for someone like Chen Mo. The Bloodmage came online again. This time, he had learned his lesson. Seeing that there was a gap between their levels, he quietly dealt thest blow under the tower. Three minutester. [The dark Ranger has killed the Bloodmage!] The system notification appeared. Everyone was speechless. Even the blood mage¡¯s teammates could not stand it anymore.¡±Big brother, you¡¯re not messing with us, right? Even if it was Chen Mo, you wouldn¡¯t die Twice in five minutes, you¡¯re still Level 1?¡± ¡°I ... I really can¡¯t y this!¡± He resurrected and returned online for the third time. The blood mage was in an unspeakable predicament. The first time he was killed, he was surrounded by skeletons by ident. The second time, he waspletely helpless. Chen Mo could use the dark Ranger and little skeleton to farm the minions, killing both the enemy and his own minions, causing the blood mage to stay at Level 1 the entire time. Moreover, once Chen Mo¡¯s little skeletons reached the tower, they would try to surround the blood mage and drain his health. With the little skeleton attracting the aggro of the defensive tower, the dark Rangerpletely ignored the existence of the defensive tower and attacked the blood mage crazily. Soon, the blood mage was killed. In the beginning, the blood mage could still use firestorm to burn two skeleton soldiers to death. When the dark Ranger reached Level 3 and learned silence, the blood mage could not do anything. When he was surrounded, he would use silence to kill them. The Bloodmage¡¯s teammates were helpless. The death Knight thought,¡¯damn, you were killed under the tower? Are you disabled? Was he born with one less hand than others? You go down, I¡¯ll guard the tower in the middle!¡± The Bloodmage was furious, but he couldn¡¯t refute it. After all, he was too miserable. The dark Ranger was already Level 4, but he was only Level 1. If he were to argue with his teammates now, he would definitely not want to y anymore. The Bloodmage had just finished off two waves of minions when he heard a system notification.¡±The dark Ranger has killed the death Knight!¡± Everyone was speechless. ¡°Damn it,¡± the death Knight said.¡±The Bloodmage has raised the dark Rangers too well. I can¡¯t y with them anymore!¡± Ten minutes into the game, Chen Mo¡¯s Dark Ranger had already killed four yers and reached level 8. At this point, the Pandaren Brewmaster had the highest level, Level 6, while the blood mage had the lowest level, Level 3. The dark Ranger¡¯s equipment was the [Dark Bone bow] and the [storm horn]. They were supposed to be obtained in the middle of the game, but he had already obtained them in the early stage. Moreover, she was surrounded by more than a dozen little skeletons and two wild monsters. She was like an Army. With the little skeletons attracting the damage of the defensive towers, the dark Ranger could easily cross the tower and kill any hero. Zou Zhuo was just about to think that he could win this time, but he suddenly realized that the enemy heroes on the map were all gone. Zou Zhuo quickly reminded,¡±¡±Be careful, manager. They might be after you!¡± Before zou Zhuo could finish his sentence, five huge red dots appeared in the middlene almost at the same time. They came out of the jungle and went straight for the dark Ranger. Zou Zhuo panicked. It was toote for him to help now. If the dark Ranger died, it would provide him with a lot of experience and extra rewards. It would be a huge loss! A minuteter. [The dark Ranger has killed the Bloodmage!] The system notification appeared. [The dark Ranger has killed the death Knight!] A system notification appeared. [The dark Ranger has killed Windrunner!] The system prompted. [The dark Ranger has killed the Pandaren Brewmaster!] [The dark Ranger has killed The Alchemist!] The screen was flooded! Everyone was speechless. F * ck, are you trying to defy the heavens? On the map, the dark Ranger¡¯s skeleton soldiers were almost all dead, and the two charmed monsters were also dead. The dark Ranger had less than one-fifth of his HP left. However, the other party had already been annihted. Chen Mo mumbled to himself in dissatisfaction,¡±¡±There¡¯s no PENTAKILL and no ACE. This is so boring. ¡± Zou Zhuo was stunned. What was this? five against one and they were all killed? The five yers on the other side were already on the verge of exploding. It was a long-nned ambush, but Chen Mo seemed to have anticipated it. The skeleton soldiers blocked the way, the two charmed monsters absorbed the damage, and the dark Ranger attacked while moving. With the difference in equipment and level, the five yers were all shot down very quickly. [Death Knight (everyone): God S, hurry up. We just want to take a picture with you ...] Chen Mo was helpless. Giving up just like that? He had to encourage his teammates to turn the tables. He had to stabilize his mentality! At this time, shouldn¡¯t he send a voice message,¡±hold on, we can win¡±? Cough, cough. I¡¯m sorry, I was acting. [Dark Ranger (everyone): AFK and banned.] Everyone was speechless. The gaming experience was terrible! After a symbolic resistance of ten minutes, the blood mages ¡®base was destroyed. Zou Zhuo sighed,¡±manager, I didn¡¯t expect you to be this good at a game you didn¡¯t make.¡± Another round?¡± Chen Mo shook his head.¡±I¡¯m not ying anymore. This game is too simple. It¡¯s boring.¡± Zou Zhuo,¡±manager, can you think about our feelings before you say that?¡± Chen Mo stood up,¡±keep working hard. This game might be really popr in the future. You can still make it in time to change sses. When you be a professional, you won¡¯t have to worry about not having a girlfriend.¡± Zou Zhuo,¡±manager, you¡¯re running your mouth again, I¡¯d be a fool to believe you!¡± If he ys games as his profession, he¡¯ll probably starve to death!¡± Chen Zhao was happy. He patted his shoulder and left. Chapter 280 - Two choices

Chapter 280: Two choices

Even though many yers enjoyed it, Chen Mo knew that the overall gamey of COG was full of loopholes, and it was still far from being a qualified MOBA game. In the eyes of ordinary yers, this map was very interesting and different from any other game on the market. All heroes had different positions and could cooperate closely. They only needed to control one hero, which was more friendly to new yers. The pace was rtively fast, with a maximum of 40 minutes per game. It took into ount team cooperation and individual heroism. Of course, it was hard for the yers to sense the huge potential behind this game. They only had a vague feeling that this game was very fun. However, this was not the case for Chen Zhao. After seeing DOTA and LOL in his previous life, the two MOBA games that were extremely well-developed yet hadpletely different characteristics, the current COG was like a sieve in Chen Mo¡¯s eyes, full of holes and loopholes. There was no clear position in the hero design, and the bnce was extremely poor. The mapyout was unreasonable, and the jungle was narrow and long, which made it easy to GANK in thene. The positive motivation for the yers was seriously insufficient, and there were no special rewards or sound effects for killing or killing more. The cost of learning was very high. The equipment system was loose and did not form a system. His mechanics were still simr to those of an RTS game, and he was extremely unfriendly to yers with poor gaming skills. The snowball effect was too obvious, and there was very little to turn over. The yers were having a great time now, only because game such as COG had just appeared. Everyone was a noob, and they were happy when they won, but they didn¡¯t feel as frustrated when they lost. In such an environment where rookies pecked at each other, the fun of COG was infinitely magnified, so it looked very beautiful. However, what would happen if the yers improved their skills, had a deeper understanding of the game, and developed more strategies? yers needed a ruler to measure their own level, so the stairway to heaven was born. What would happen when everyone yed the game for the sake of winning and arge group of yers with a deep understanding of the game and good operation skills gathered on the stairway? Then the w of COG would be infinitely magnified. The dark Ranger¡¯s winning rate is too high. She¡¯s too strong. Let¡¯s weaken the blood mage! Perhaps people would say that the number of monsters in your jungle was too unreasonable, that your jungle was too small, that you were too tired from ying the game, and that you had too little inventory ... Every imperfect little setting would be a crack in the dam, and eventually cause the game to copse. This was also the reason why Chen Mo didn¡¯t bring out MOBA games from the start. The bncing of the numbers was too important, it could even be said to determine the life of a MOBA game. If Chen Mo released an imperfect MOBA game, it would be the same as giving the advanced concept to other video game designers. In the end, the otherpanies woulde up with a better MOBA game, and Chen Mo would lose all his money. This was something Chen Zhao could not tolerate. However, at this stage, Chen Mo finally had the ability to bring MOBA games into the world. Chen Mo had already set a development n, but with so many thingsing together, the development of the game was even more urgent. After Emperor dynasty entertainment and fantasy gaming tform teamed up, almost all the distributors in the country teamed up to attack Chen Mo¡¯s Thunderbolt gaming tform. In other countries, there were also games with MOBA elements, and they had already formed a partnership with the GA. He believed that they would soon release a moreplete version of MOBA games. To Chen Mo, he had to create a game that could dominate the entire Chinese market, only then could he destroy the distribution channel that Emperor dynasty and divine fantasy had set up, and only then could he keep the money tree of MOBA in his hands. In Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, DOTA and LOL were the two most popr MOBA games, and had basically explored the game genre to the extreme. However, these two games ended up onpletely different paths. DOTA was bnced to the extreme, and almost every champion had their own ce to be used. There were all sorts of tactics, and thepetitive nature of the game was top-notch. However, due to the difficulty of getting started, the style of the game, and historical reasons, DOTA had not been able to expand and harvest the MOBA market on arge scale even though it was the first to appear. As for LOL, it was a different path. By changing the art style, simplifying the operations, and fixing the routine, LOL had greatly reduced the difficulty of MOBA games, allowing it to be poprized to many people who didn¡¯t y DOTA before. Under the stacking of various objective factors, it hadpleted the harvest of the MOBA market, bing the most popr game in the world. However, this also brought about other problems, such as fixed routines, poor bnce, low operating limits (rtively speaking), and so on. Every time LOL was updated, there would be some unpopr and popr heroes. Although some heroes could be developed, there were still arge number of heroes who could only sit on the bench and not participate in the high-end games and professionalpetitions. In that case, could he make a perfect MOBA game with the advantages of the two? It was basically impossible. Obviously, these two games could see each other¡¯s strengths and weaknesses, and they both tried to make some changes in their own direction. However, they had already embarked on twopletely different paths. In order to simplify the operations and expand the user base, it was necessary to lower the upper limit of the game¡¯s operations and even destroy some bnce. One could not have both the fish and the bear¡¯s paw. These two games were MOBA games that had been developed to the extreme. DOTA was like go. There were many variations, but it was difficult to get started and had a rtively small audience. LOL was like Chinese Chess, the rules were clear, the number of yers was high, but the strategies were fixed. To Chen Mo, DOTA was great, but he had to expand his yer base as much as possible, and fight for the yer base with the local distributors that had already joined forces. He had to stabilize his yer base with an earth-shattering game. At the same time, he wanted to use this game to monopolize the MOBA game market to the greatest extent, and destroy any games that tried to imitate or catch up to him. Overall, LOL was more suitable for Chen Mo¡¯s current needs. Of course, another important reason was that Chen Mo didn¡¯t know how to y DOTA in his previous life. Even after using memory yback potions to recall some of the hero¡¯s skills, Chen Mo still found it difficult to perfectly recreate DOTA. As for League of Legends, Chen Mo definitely wouldn¡¯t use it the same way, since he was already very good at numerics. In Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, League of Legends had been constantly changing and improving over the years, so Chen Mo didn¡¯t stick to the obviously outdated design concepts. While Emperor dynasty entertainment and fantasy gaming tform were working together to prove their marketing capabilities, Chen Mo was also nning to teach them a lesson with the most popr game. Chapter 281 - cancel the fees for runes and heroes

Chapter 281: Chapter 280-cancel the fees for runes and heroes

He had decided to make League of Legends, but he still had to think about what to do. Strictly speaking, League of Legends was a very sessful game in terms of business, but in terms of bnce andpetitiveness, there were some ws to increase the business level. It had been popr for several years because of the constant updates, which constantly brought new feelings to the yers and diluted the game¡¯s imbnce to the greatest extent. Regardless of whether this method was the best solution or not, at least it solved the problem. It allowed the yers to y new powerful heroes every time there was a new version update. This allowed them to have different kinds of fun. In Chen Mo¡¯s opinion, there were many reasons why League of Legends went down this path in his previous life, but there were two main reasons. One was the position of the game itself, and the other was thepany¡¯s characteristics. In terms of positioning, League of Legends was a game with the ultimate goal of exploring, expanding, and unifying the market. It was for this purpose that they tried to reduce the difficulty of getting used to it (even at the expense of the game¡¯s bnce). Therefore, the subsequent operating strategies and version updates had to continue with this goal. This had been decided from the very beginning, and they were of the same lineage. As for thepany¡¯s characteristics, it meant that fistpany wasn¡¯t a bigpany with a lot of money at the beginning. It slowly developed with League of Legends. Opening up the market and developing games all required money, so it had to consider the game¡¯s ability to generate revenue. This was the same reason why Chen Mo had to make some pay-to-win games in the beginning. As for the operator, there was no need to exin. Everyone on earth knew whether it liked to make money or not. Of course, after the sess of League of Legends, more and more people began to consider changing their style, such as removing the level limit and the rune system. He even consideredpletely removing the fees charged by the yers for League of Legends, and using the events and other games as the main point of profit (just like traditional sports). There were several major versions of League of Legends in Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, and every major change would change the entire game, so he had to think carefully about which version to make. ¡­¡­ In his own studio, Chen Mo started to write the design concept for League of Legends. This was probably the longest draft he had ever written. Even though he knew most of the game¡¯s content by heart, there were still some key issues that he had to consider carefully. The most important point was what the final form of the game should be like. Chen Mo¡¯s goal was the same as the fistpanies in his previous life. He wanted a MOBA game that was easy to get started with, a phenomenal hit game that would dominate the PC market for a long time, and cut off any other MOBA games that might appear. As such, Chen Mo¡¯s League of Legends was going to be a rtively simple game. If it was tooplicated, MOBA games that were easier to operate would take over the market, and it would be impossible to achieve aprehensive domination. Second, to what extent should the game bepetitive and bnced? In his previous life, League of Legends had been criticized for its talent and rune system. In particr, the rune system made the game an unfair game to a certain extent, because it made yers of different game hours have a difference inbat power when they entered the same game. Of course, the rune system had its own purpose. First, to provide the yers with a sense of growth and long-term pursuit. Two, create a variety of games based on different runes for different heroes. 3. Earn money. Butter on, the design of the fist was also removed during the revision. Chen Mo¡¯s decision was to keep the talent in the first version of League of Legends and remove the runes. The yer¡¯s level limit was still level 30, but their talents would all be unlocked within level 10. In other words, as long as the yer worked a little harder to reach level 10, he would not have any difference in attributespared to other yers. There was also a change in the content of the revenue: All heroes were free, and all the revenue came from skins and other value-added services that did not affectbat power. Cutting off the fees from runes and heroes would definitely affect the revenue of League of Legends, but Chen Mo knew that there were more benefits. He wanted to make League of Legends into an absolutely fairpetitive game. This way, it would be more professional. The reason Chen Zhao dared to do this was because he was in a different situation from fistpany. If fistpany started with a headwind, then he started with a headwind. Fistpany had to consider the game¡¯s profitability, but Chen Mo didn ¡®t. Chen Mo had plenty of money for research and development, and even if he didn¡¯t have enough, he could just make pay-to-win games. There was no need to use League of Legends to take money from the yers. It didn¡¯t matter if League of Legends didn¡¯t make any money in the first six months or even a year. As long as they could increase the number of yers and create a prototype of e-sports, it would be hard not to make money in the future. In other aspects, Chen Mo was considering using the framework of League of Legends in S3, with some adjustments. Season 1 and Season 2 of League of Legends were the early stages of development. Season 3 was the time when the game truly developed its own style and had a wide impact on the world. Especially since Season 3, League of Legends began to produce arge number of LOL-style Champions, such as: Jayce, Zyra, brightmoon, Rengar, ruler of darkness, Kazik, Queen of spiders, Zed, thresh, Zach, and so on. These heroes were all ssic heroes that took into ount the hero¡¯s mechanism and operation. It was because of these heroes that League of Legends had such a strong vitality, allowing it to have aplete explosion in S3 and finally establish its dominant position. If simple heroes like a Mumu, stone man, and garen were the cornerstones of League of Legends, then these ¡°Sima¡± heroes that could be shown were the face of League of Legends. It was these heroes who could show off that allowed the game to cater to the vast majority of yers and have a long life. Of course, the version that Chen Mo was going to make would be different from any version in his previous life. Chen Mo was even thinking of adjusting the entire system of League of Legends so that most of the heroes could be used, and the game would be more diverse. Chapter 282 - -detailed settings

Chapter 282: Chapter 281-detailed settings

The League of Legends design draft that Chen Mo was working on could be divided into four parts. The first part was the core fun and basic rules of the game. The second part was the map and game mechanism. The third part was the hero setting. The fourth part was the summoner-rted settings and other things. MOBA games were actually very simple to create. They just had to fight on a map, unlike RPG and adventure games that required many levels. However, MOBA games were veryplex in terms of game mechanics and bnce. From its appearance to its poprity, the game mechanics were constantly improved, finally making MOBA games the most popr PC game type in the world. Chen Mo¡¯s design draft was as follows. In terms of game mechanics, there were four game modes: human-machine, matchmaking, ranking, and chaotic battle. yers must go through beginner¡¯s lessons and upgrade to Level 3 through the AI training before they can enter the matching mode. As for the rankingpetition, yers had to have at least four heroes with proficient proficiency to participate. There was a friend and merchant system. In the friend system, one could watch other yers fight, while the merchant system allowed one to buy various skins and other value-added services. In terms of Summoner-rted settings, yers could check their game records, ranks, hero list, talents, Summoner skills, equipment, and other game content. The ranking was designed in a ssic way, from bronze to King. In the hero list, every hero had the concept of ¡°proficiency¡±. Only when the proficiency reached a certain level could they be used for ranking. In his current n, proficiency was divided into six levels, namely apprentice, beginner, master, expert, master, and Grandmaster. When yers yed in different modes, the proficiency of the current hero would be increased as a restriction. Only the Champions with beginner proficiency could be used for matchmaking, and only those with master proficiency could be used for ranking matches. As for the experts, Masters, and grandmasters ... They were only there to show off. In terms of Summoner skills, they were still the moremonly used ones: sprint, heal, barrier, weaken, teleport, sh, purify, ignite, and smite. In a chaotic battle, there would be a marking (snowball) and a rity spell. The equipment was rtively moreplicated. He would slowly research it during the development process. However, he would have some more ssic equipment such as a hat, an Ice Staff, a hourss, and so on. He could also consider adding back the underworld fire that he had lost. In terms of the map, it still used the ssic Summoner¡¯s Rift, but it still followed the map mechanism of S6, including various explosive fruits, divination fruits, Elemental Dragons, and so on. These new map mechanisms would make the entire map more diverse and add a lot of random fun, allowing yers to speed up the game while fighting for map resources. At the same time, Chen Mo considered slightly reducing the effects of wards in the game, including raising the price of wards, reducing the duration of wards, increasing the benefits of wards, and increasing items like the fog of trickery. Due to the fixed strategies in League of Legends and the importance of vision, vision suppression made the game very boring in high-end games and professionalpetitions. It made the game lose its spirit to a certain extent, and it was almost impossible for the unorthodox to win again. What Chen Mo wanted was more new strategies and more dramatic effects, not some team building a long dynasty with mechanical training. And most importantly, Chen Mo wouldn¡¯t make the heroes ording to the original order in League of Legends, but would adjust the order ording to his own needs. Chen Mo nned to create around twenty-five heroes in the first patch, with a new one every two weeks. This was to keep the yers fresh, and at the same time, it was a step-by-step process, so that they wouldn¡¯t bepletely dumbfounded by the number of heroes they¡¯de across. ¡­¡­ After finishing the design document, Chen Mo called everyone for a meeting. After a brief introduction of League of Legends, most of them understood Chen Mo¡¯s design. After all, with the two game prototypes of Chenghai 3c and COG, everyone could roughly imagine the final state of League of Legends after it waspleted. They only had some doubts about the poprity and profitability of the game. Qian Kun asked,¡±uh, manager, this game ispletely free. It doesn¡¯t sell anybat power. Even the heroes are given for free. Can the profits be supported by the skins alone?¡± The others also had the same question. Most of them knew about Chenghai 3c and COG, but they were still Warcraft maps and had no profit. How to turn it into aplete game wasn¡¯t just a problem for the gas, but also for the creators of Chen Mo¡¯s team. ording to the traditional way of making games, the best way would be to buy out and add in the value of the game, so that the game would be dyed for a while. At least, they could earn back the production cost through sales, just like when they released Warcraft. It was a risky move to pay for the skins. What if there were not enough yers and they did not buy the skins? Chen Mo exined,¡±regarding that, everyone needs to understand the goal of League of Legends.¡± It¡¯s different from Warcraft, as Warcraft is made for RTS yers, which is a small group of yers, so we can only make money from sales. ¡± ¡°But League of Legends is different. This is apletely new game, and its goal is all the yers. ¡± Everyone was shocked. All the yers? Wasn¡¯t this a little too exaggerated? Does that mean that by then, whether it¡¯s RPG or FPS yers, they¡¯ll all like League of Legends? Everyone was in disbelief. Of course, out of respect for their boss and their love for the bonus, everyone put on an expression that said,¡±yes, yes, yes, you¡¯re right.¡± Chen Zhao smiled and didn¡¯t mind. Indeed, when MOBA games first appeared, only a few people could see the potential behind them. Even some high-quality game designers in bigpanies didn¡¯t have a proper understanding of their prospects. Otherwise, the ice frog and Blizzard wouldn¡¯t have parted ways. Chen Mo didn¡¯t want to say too much about the future development of League of Legends. After all, the time wasn¡¯t right yet. Saying too much would be like bragging and making Chicken Soup for the Soul. There was no need to do so. Only poor bosses would do that. Chen Zhao could totally buy the loyalty and passion of all his employees with money. Chen Mo looked at everyone,¡¯if there¡¯s no more questions, let¡¯s get to work. The research and development period for the first version is three months. We have to make the first version of League of Legends before the Spring Festival, including thepletion of all 25 heroes. ¡± Chapter 283 - hero

Chapter 283: Chapter 282 hero

In the first version of League of Legends, Chen Mo nned to have 25 Champions and five positions, with each position having five Champions. The difficulty was from low to high. At the beginning of League of Legends, there was no topne, midne, jungler, Archer, or support. At that time, there was still the Archer who yed mid, and the lineup and tactics of passersby games were very chaotic. However, in the S2 period, some of the top teams in Europe developed the ¡°EU style,¡± which was a double-yer method for top, mid, jungler, and bottomne. It was epted by the fist and became the official designated lineup configuration of League of Legends. Many people might criticize the rigidity of this configuration, but its advantage was also very obvious. It had found an official rmended lineup for League of Legends. With the guidance of this rmended lineup, yers could get used to it more easily, understand the arrangement of the lineup, and choose a rtively perfect lineup. It was of great significance to the promotion of League of Legends, and from theter development, it was also the most suitable lineup for the game. Just like how RPG games had the ¡°Iron Triangle of tactics, mages, and priests¡±, although this routine was more rigid, it provided yers with an easy-to-understand and easy-to-remember rule and framework. For example, when a yer asked how to y hero xxx, as long as he was told that it was a midne hero, he would be able to guess what the hero did. However, if you told him that this champion could carry, support, split the team, and y in any way, he would probably be dumbfounded. As such, Chen Mo introduced the different sses to the yers in the first patch, using them as the mainbel for heroes. Traditional sses like assassins and tanks were only used as notes to help yers understand the character¡¯s characteristics. The twenty-five Champions Chen Mo nned to develop in the first version of League of Legends were as follows. [Topne: garen,va beast, Timo, Barbarian King, Weapon Master] [Middlene: Annie, Kassadin, Death Song, Twisted Fate, Phoenix] Jungler: Nu Nu, a Mu Mu, Sword Saint, clown, Gragas [Sharpshooters: lucky sister, Ezreal, Esch, ratty, Vayne] Support: Soraka, Lulu, Tauren, sona, Blitzcrank Many of these Champions had been redone, and even the hero¡¯s mechanism had been greatly changed. For example, Gragas was originally a midner champion, but it waster changed to a jungler. Overall, Chen Mo didn¡¯t n on making older versions of heroes. The reason was simple, because older versions of heroes were at odds with the general framework of LOL. They were either uninteresting, or too strong, which wasn¡¯t good for the bnce and promotion of the game. In general, most of the heroes that were remade in LOL were more sessful than the old versions. These 25 Champions were selected after some consideration by Chen Mo. The difficulty of getting started went from the lowest to the highest, and each champion had different positions. Some Champions, like most of these five jungler Champions, were hard to see in the pro scene due to their mechanics, but they were easy to get used to. Newbies needed Nunu and demaster Champions to get used to jungler mechanics, so Chen Mo included them in the development n for the first version. Moreover, even if they were in the same position, Chen Mo would try to pick Champions with different positions, such as jungler. There were junglers like a Mumu who relied on team battles, and there were junglers like demaster who preferred to y solo. Of course, there were many more fun and showy heroes, but those were left for future development. Chen Mo nned to release a new version every two months after the first one, with five heroes in each version, giving the yers two months to digest. ¡­¡­ Even though the general framework of League of Legends had been finalized, everyone still had a lot of doubts about the concept draft. The biggest question was, why did he have to use a new IP? Up until now, whether it was the main creators of Chen Mo¡¯s team or the loyal yers of Thunderbolt gaming, they all had the habit of calling it ¡®Warcraft¡¯. No matter what type of game they made, they all wanted to be associated with ¡®Warcraft¡¯. Of course, their questions about League of Legends were also very reasonable. Since there were already heroes from Warcraft, why not use them? Why did they have to create a new IP? Although the slogan ¡°Demacia¡± also sounded quite cool, it was not as cool as Azeroth. Chen Zhao exined it this way. The game wanted to capture the most extensive yer base, so it was inevitable that the style would be cartoonish, cartoonish, and bright, which was in conflict with the realistic and dark art style of monster. Furthermore, League of Legends would be a brand new IP, and it would be a very exciting world just like Diablo. Didn¡¯t Diablo not follow the world view of Warcraft? Chen Zhao¡¯s serious nonsense sessfully dispelled most people¡¯s doubts. After making Warcraft and Diablo, Chen Mo¡¯s team had no problems making League of Legends in terms of technique and art. When Chen Mo made Diablo, he also wanted to train his team, and after the sess of the third person RPG, he naturally released League of Legends. Currently, the most difficult part was bncing the numbers, but Chen Mo was able to do it with his second stage of coding and the memory he got from the memory yback potion. After all, the numerical system in League of Legends was rtively clear. It was nothing more than attack, defense, magic damage, magic resistance, and the calction form was not tooplicated. Apart from Zhao Yunting and a small group of people responsible for the daily maintenance of Thunderbolt gaming tform, the entire team began to put all their energy into developing the new game, League of Legends. ¡­¡­ The poprity of COG seemed to be rising every day. The creator of this map, Clive Larman, also disyed his workaholic nature. Every week, he would make some small numerical bnce changes to the map, and asionally, he would make major changes to the terrain and game mechanics, making it a moreplete map. Although these changes could not be made in the country immediately, there were still many enthusiastic yers who were constantly moving it and tranting it into Chinese. In China, many Warcraft yers were addicted to this map, and it gradually became the most popr map in Warcraft, even more popr than the stairway tree. On the forums, more and more yers were talking about COG. At first, everyone was disgusted, thinking that an RPG map shouldn¡¯t take up so many pages. But as COG became more and more popr, everyone got used to it. There were already a lot of people leaving messages or private messages to Chen Mo, asking him to pay more attention to this picture, to give it some special rmendations, or to open up thedder system. Some even hoped that Chen Mo would work with the original author to create a new game that would be simr to Warcraft. Chen Zhao ignored all of these suggestions. Chapter 284 - Full value of numerics ability Tier 2

Chapter 284: Full value of numerics ability Tier 2

In the studio, Chen Mo was madly drawing the lottery. Thest time he did it was before he did Minecraft, and he got some numerics bncing skill books, architecture skill books, Photoshop skill books, and even poison milk capsules. It was also thanks to these skill books that Chen Mo was able to beautify Minecraft to the level required for a VR game, and build so many ssic buildings in the game, creating so many topics and gimmicks for Minecraft. There was also the poison milk capsule, which was a trick for old Yan, causing thousand Hells ¡®poprity to cool down a little, allowing Minecraft to take the opportunity to make a name for itself. Actually, Chen Zhao was just testing it out when he used the poison milk capsule, because no one knew if it would work. Everyone felt that thousand Hells ¡®poprity was not rising due to some mysterious reason, but Chen Mo wasn¡¯t sure if it was due to the poison milk capsules. This time, Chen Mo was aiming to get more skill books for bncing. In Chen Mo¡¯s opinion, League of Legends in his previous life wasn¡¯t that well-bnced, so he hoped to use his own ck technology to make the game very bnced, allowing most of the heroes to y. This time, Chen Mo was rich. He put in 50 million, which was 50 thousand diamonds, enough for 500 draws. As for where the money went, Chen Zhao had no idea. Considering that the system could even produce things like memory yback potions and poison milk capsules, it shouldn¡¯t be a problem to hide the flow of Chen Mo¡¯s assets. At least, so far, no relevant Department hade to Chen Zhao for tea. Pull, pull, pull ... Every time he pulled the lever, it would automatically cost him 990 diamond yer¡¯s item *10, but even so, Chen Mo still had to pull the lever 50 times. After all, that was 50 million, which could fill 16 luggage bags in cash. The final gains were as follows. Design-type skill book for building bnce (Grade 2): 100 books Design-type plot creation skill book (level two): 30 books Professional knowledge of design engine (ssic strategy in League of Legends): 100 books Professional knowledge for designing (psychology teaching material for gaming): 100 books Disy building art (3D model): 40 books Disy-type building art (action special effects): 50 books Disy-type engine music and sound effects skill book: 30 books [Item-type engine speed regtor: 20] Item-type bone memory yback potion (upgraded): 10 Item-type engine super focuser (upgraded): 20 ¡°Hmm, not bad. The numerics skill book is full.¡± Chen Mo was quite satisfied with the draw this time. He had maxed out all the coding skill books, and his coding skills were maxed out in the second stage. He was finally able to bnce the coding in League of Legends with ease. The story writing skill book was not of much use at the moment, but it was not a bad thing to improve the story writing ability. As for the 200 books of professional knowledge and skills, it was a bit of a pain in the ass. What did the ssic tactics in League of Legends do to deserve 10 million? However, when he thought about it, in his previous life, the big clubs would spend more than 10 million over a few years to hire a good coaching team. Thinking about it this way, 10 million was quite worth it. As for the 100 books on psychology, especially for gaming, Chen Mo could only curse in his heart. It could only be said that the system was really unscrupulous in order to make money! Chen Mo also needed skills rted to art and music. Although League of Legends itself did not require high model precision and action standards, the higher the model precision, the better it was. This was because the PC configuration in the parallel world was generally higher, so there was no need to consider deliberately lowering the configuration to promote the game. Moreover, the hero¡¯s various actions would affect some settings, such as the turning speed, movement speed, attack interval, Casting Swing, and so on. These were more detailed issues, closely rted to the art performance and game bnce. The more perfect it was, the better. As for the music, fist in his previous life was willing to pay a huge price for the ¡®lol¡¯ music and even held a special concert. Chen Mo didn¡¯t expect his ¡®lol¡¯ to be better than his previous life¡¯s music, but it had to be at least on par. In terms of special items, there were also the memory yback potion and the Super focuser. The functions were still simr to before, but the effects were many times better. After all, the current lottery price was also very touching. After maxing out his coding abilities in the second stage, Chen Mo finally had the confidence to make League of Legends even more sessful than it was in his previous life. ¡­¡­ Just as Chen Mo was feeling smug, he received a message on his phone. It was an invitation to join a group chat. ¡°Qiu Hengyang invites you to join the group chat: The failed designer¡¯s home. ¡± Chen Zhao was unhappy when he saw this. What the hell? why did the designer¡¯s home fail? If you want to die, you can die, but I¡¯m not going to die. The game I made is very popr. No. He directly rejected her. In less than two minutes, the group invitation came again. This time, Qiu Hengyang even sent him a private message: ¡°Come quickly, there¡¯s an important matter!¡± ¡°Change the group name,¡± Chen Mo replied.¡±I¡¯ll only enter if you call it Big Boss designer¡¯s home.¡± ¡°Wait, I¡¯m looking for the group leader,¡± Qiu Hengyang said. A momentter, another group invitation came. ¡°Qiu Hengyang invites you to join the big boss designer house.¡± This time, Chen Mo clicked [ept] with satisfaction. The group chat was quite lively and they were chatting. ¡°Ah, I do feel like the distributors are going to fight it out, -Li Feng said¨Cit¡¯s a little scary. It¡¯s a good thing for us independent game designers now, but who knows what will happen in the future?¡± Zhu fanglin: ¡°I heard that Emperor dynasty is preparing for a new game. They obviously want to make a name for themselves with-high-quality game to prove the value of the new channel.¡± ¡°I¡¯m panicking!¡±The wings of star elves supported Li Feng. Dream journey¡¯s Deputy, Zhou Haibin: ¡°don¡¯t worry. You can¡¯t help even if you¡¯re panicking.¡± Lin hailing-the nightmare tapir-¡®eh? Why did the group name change? wasn¡¯t it house of failed designers? why did it be the big boss ¡®house of designers? Then should I leave the group?¡± Wings of star elves ¡®support, Li Feng: ¡°eh, there¡¯s a new member.¡¯ Mister ¡®. Why does this name sound familiar?¡± F * ck, could it be Chen Zhao? Did you really drag Chen Zhao into this?¡± Chen Mo looked at the members of the group and saw that they all had the same name card, all of which were game designers ¡®names. It was easy to tell that most of the famous independent game designers in the country were in this group. There were more than four hundred people in the group, including sessful independent video game designers like Li Feng, Zhu fanglin, and Zhou Haibin. There were also some designers that he had never heard of. However, there should be a certain threshold to enter this group. It seemed that the lowest was a C-grade video game designer, and they had to be designers who had no connections with bigpanies. Chapter 285 - -all the big bosses love to act like newbies

Chapter 285: Chapter 284-all the big bosses love to act like newbies

¡°Hello, big bosses,¡± Silent said. The wings of star elves supported Li Feng.¡±F-ck-I don¡¯t deserve it. I¡¯m just a little loser-you¡¯re the real big Boss.¡± ¡°Big Boss, don¡¯t be so humble. Everyone in this group is a Big Boss.¡± [Administrator] hengyouwork¡¯s Deputy Qiu Hengyang: ¡°Stop ttering each other. Hurry up and change the group¡¯s name card.¡± ¡°How?¡±¡±which game should I write?¡± Everyone was speechless. The others only had one particrly famous game, like Li Feng¡¯s wings of star elves and Zhou Haibin¡¯s dream journey, but Chen Mo¡¯s games were all quite famous. The Onmyoji that had harvested the mobile game market? The Warcraft that could sweep away RTS games? Or was it Minecraft that just became popr on the VR tform? [Administrator] hengyouwork¡¯s Deputy Qiu Hengyang: ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll help you change it.¡± [Silent has been renamed to Thunderbolt gaming¡¯s Chen Mo.] Chen Mo¡¯s games were all quite famous, so he decided to use hispany¡¯s name as a prefix. In fact, Qiu Hengyang was the same. His games weren¡¯t too different, and none of them were particrly popr, so his name was prefixed with hengyouwork. ¡°We were still discussing this in the morning,¡± Lin hailing said.¡±And now we¡¯re talking about Chen Mo. The administrators sure know how towork!¡± [Group leader] Zhang xiaokong, the referee of the Three Kingdoms of Godsfall: ¡°Ahem, sister hai Ling, be more serious and mind your image.¡± Lin hailing: ¡°/Doge¡± [Group leader] Zhang xiaokong, the referee of the Three Kingdoms of Godsfall: ¡°First of all, let¡¯s wee our new boss. I¡¯ll exin to everyone that our group only adds independent video game designers, and we wouldn¡¯t invite designers from bigpanies like Emperor dynasty, Zen, and fantasy, but Chen Mo might be an exception. We moderators discussed for half a day this morning and decided to add Chen Mo, let me tell you this. ¡± [Wings of star elves support Li Feng: wee to the group, boss Chen Mo!] Lin hailing, the nightmare tapir,¡¯wee, boss Chen Mo! Big brother, please look familiar and rmend me!¡± ¡°Wee,¡± said dream travel¡¯s Deputy, Zhou Haibin. Gun fighter ¡°Qian¡±:¡±wee new boss!¡± ¡­¡­ Thunderbolt gaming¡¯s referee, Chen Mo: ¡°look at you guys. You¡¯re all big bosses. Why are you all acting like you¡¯re nothing?¡± [Group leader] Zhang xiaokong, the referee of the Three Kingdoms of Godsfall: ¡°No, no, no. Actually, most of the people in this group, including me, are failures. It¡¯s hard for them to make independent games.¡± Chen Moughed. Many of them were A-grade designers, and there were even a few S-grade ones. Although there were a lot of neers, this group was made up of all the famous designers in the country, so it wasn¡¯t a group of failed designers. In this day and age, the big shots all liked to act like newbies. Take Zhang xiaokong for example, he was an A-grade video game designer and was an Honorary Committee member in the same year as Chen Mo. He was quite an influential video game designer in China. The others, like Li Feng, Zhou Haibin, and Zhu fanglin, were all familiar to him. Although they weren¡¯t as amazing as Chen Mo, they were all well-known in the domestic gaming industry. Chen Mo also had a rough idea of what this group was for. It was probably a ce where the independent video game designers gathered together. After all, designers and distributors only had a business rtionship, and there were conflicts and schemes between them. Independent video game designers werepetitors with bigpanies, so only independent video game designers could maintain such a harmonious rtionship. [Group leader] Zhang xiaokong, the referee of the Three Kingdoms of Godsfall: ¡°By the way, it¡¯s really hard to get boss Chen Zhao in. I thought that since Thunderbolt games is so big, it shouldn¡¯t be impossible to find Chen Mo¡¯s contact, right? In the end, he couldn¡¯t find anything, and could only find the contact of the person in charge of Thunderbolt gaming tform. In the end, it was old Qiu who said he had Chen Mo¡¯s contact information, so he was able to get in. ¡± [Administrator] hengyouwork¡¯s Deputy Qiu Hengyang: ¡°I¡¯m confused too. Am I the only one in the group who has Chen Mo¡¯s contact? I say, Chen Mo, you¡¯re really popr!¡± ¡°Hahaha!¡± Lin hailingughed.¡±Looks like Chen Mo has no friends after all the money he¡¯s made!¡± ¡°Ahem,¡± Thunderbolt gaming¡¯s referee, Chen Mo,¡±I¡¯m focused on research and development. I don¡¯t pay much attention to what¡¯s happening outside.¡± [Group leader] Zhang xiaokong, the referee of the Three Kingdoms of Godsfall: ¡°I understand, I understand. After all, the big boss is busy making games to make money, unlike us, who are wasting our time and wasting our time on the project.¡± [Administrator] hengyouwork¡¯s Deputy Qiu Hengyang: ¡°That¡¯s enough, old Zhang. That¡¯s enough. Let¡¯s get to the point. ¡± [Group leader] Zhang xiaokong, the referee of the Three Kingdoms of Godsfall: ¡°Alright, alright, let¡¯s get to the main topic. Old Qiu, you should be the one to say it. ¡± Chen Zhao knew that these people had invited him in for a reason. This group was a private group for independent video game designers, and it wasn¡¯t meant for work. It was just a ce for people to chat and rx. There wasn¡¯t anyone from Emperor dynasty entertainment, ZEN Entertainment, or fantasy gaming tform in the group, not even a single videogame designer from a bigpany. And Chen Mo? Chen Mo was still an A-grade videogame designer, and Minecraft was only a few steps away from S-grade, but it hadn¡¯t been upgraded yet. From this point of view, there was no problem for Chen Mo to join the group. However, Chen Mo¡¯s Thunderbolt gaming tform was already the thirdrgest tform in the country, and he was also the boss of a video game distributionpany. The rtionship between the distributionpany and these independent video game designers was quite delicate. Considering his identity, it was still quite sensitive, so it was a bit inappropriate to add him into the group. It was like pulling a teacher into a good student group. That was really a pain in the ass. However, Zhang xiaokong and the other moderators still added him after some discussion, which meant that there must be some special consideration. [Administrator] hengyouwork¡¯s Deputy Qiu Hengyang: ¡°Well, Chen Zhao. Although most of the people in the group are against distributors, I think you¡¯re different from those who only care about profit. Your main identity is still a designer, so I don¡¯t think there¡¯s a problem with pulling you in. ¡± ¡°Of course, I didn¡¯t bring you in to say that I have a motive. The main reason is that I want you toe in as a videogame designer and chat with everyone. At the same time, I want to get close to you. After all, after Emperor dynasty and fantasy tform have joined forces, we all feel that the domestic game market might experience a big change and we¡¯re not confident.¡± [Group leader] Zhang xiaokong, the referee of the Three Kingdoms of Godsfall: ¡°Yes, actually, A-grade video game designers like us are still fine. No matter what the distributors do, we can still make a living. I¡¯m mainly worried that the new designers in our group will have to eat dirt if the market bes worse because of the channel chaos. ¡± Chapter 286 - model

Chapter 286: Chapter 285 model

Although they were all being subtle, Chen Zhao knew what they were worried about. Originally, the distribution channels in the country were the two major gaming tforms, Emperor dynasty and divine fantasy. The other smaller tforms could live freely in the cracks. Distributors were in a dominant position and had a stronger bargaining power, while independent video game designers were at a disadvantage. It was a bit like they were being exploited, but it was still within control. However, Chen Mo¡¯s Thunderbolt gaming tform had broken the rules of the distributors, and was basically dering war on all the distributors in China. This would lead to the elerated integration of domestic game channels. The coboration between Emperor dynasty and divine fantasy was a clear signal. They felt threatened, so they took the time to consolidate their distribution channels and resources, trying to stabilize their strong position as distributors. Even though this move was targeted at Thunderbolt gaming tform, the designers would be affected as well. If Thunderbolt gaming tform crumbled orpromised, then there would be an Alliance of distributors in the country. It would be equivalent to the two major distributors of Emperor dynasty and divine fantasybining, and their power would be unprecedented. How much bargaining power would the designers have left then? He was afraid that his life would be even more miserable than before. Of course, there was the possibility of Thunderbolt gaming tform unifying the domestic distribution channels, but that possibility was minuscule and impossible at the moment. These video game designers all felt threatened, but the distributors ¡®war was like a fight between gods to them. They couldn¡¯t get involved at all, which was why they tried to be friendly with Chen Mo. After all,pared to those high and mighty distributors, Chen Mo was more trustworthy. Thunderbolt gaming supported Chen Mo,¡±don¡¯t think too much about it. The future for independent video game designers will only get better and better. The current state of ¡®distribution channels being King¡¯ in China is not a healthy state. It¡¯ll change sooner orter.¡± ¡°When I first started Thunderbolt gaming tform, I didn¡¯t want to be controlled by others. After all, everyone knows how annoying it is for distributors to keep interfering with the development. ¡°So don¡¯t worry, everyone. Just focus on making the indie game. Emperor dynasty and divine fantasy won¡¯t be able to cause any trouble.¡± [Group leader] Zhang xiaokong, the referee of the Three Kingdoms of Godsfall: ¡°Sure, boss. We¡¯re relieved to hear that.¡± Zhu fanglin: ¡°that¡¯s amazing! 666!¡± The wings of star elves supported Li Feng, awesome! A wave of ¡± 666¡å appeared in the group. Although these people weren¡¯t familiar with Chen Mo, they liked his attitude. At least for now, these designers were on the same side as Chen Mo, fighting against the distributors that monopolized the domestic market. ¡°By the way, did you know, Chen Mo? Emperor dynasty entertainment and fantasy gaming tform are having an internal discussion. They¡¯re going to release a dominating game to prove the strength of their new distribution channel.¡± Thunderbolt gaming¡¯s referee Chen Mo replied,¡±not really.¡± Lin hailing, the nightmare tapir, said,¡¯Li Feng, you¡¯re indeed our intelligence officer. You even know this?¡¯ Quickly tell me in detail. ¡± The wings of star elves supported Li Feng-¡°sigh, after all, I¡¯m a failed designer who likes to collect gossip in the industry when I have nothing to do. ¨C I heard from Emperor dynasty that they¡¯re nning to create a game internally andpete with each other. In the end, they¡¯ll release one or two games and put them up for all channels to promote, creating a true national level game. ¡± [Administrator] hengyouwork¡¯s Deputy Qiu Hengyang: ¡°They¡¯re trying to show off. They want to show us how powerful the full-channel promotion is.¡± [Group leader] Zhang xiaokong, the referee of the Three Kingdoms of Godsfall: ¡°It¡¯s not just that. Think about it, if this game is really made by them, they¡¯ll definitely split more yer resources. With one losing and the other growing, thisrge channel will be very terrifying. ¡± ¡°I¡¯m a little curious, what kind of game are they nning to make?¡±Zhu fanglin asked. The wings of star elves supported Li Feng.¡±I don¡¯t know. They will definitely try to keep this kind of information confidential. Unless they deliberately release it, it will be difficult to find out the details.¡± [Administrator] hengyouwork¡¯s Deputy Qiu Hengyang: ¡°Actually, there are only a few popr game genres. If we¡¯re talking about the number of yers, it¡¯s still mmorpgs and FPS games.¡± [Group leader] Zhang xiaokong, the referee of the Three Kingdoms of Godsfall: ¡°Right, we¡¯ll definitely make an RPG game.¡± ¡°I heard that Emperor dynasty is interested in acting as COG¡¯s proxy. -Don¡¯t know if it¡¯s true.¡± [Group leader] Zhang xiaokong, the referee of the Three Kingdoms of Godsfall: ¡°It¡¯s probably just a small interlude. Currently, COG is still too niche, and no one can say for sure what will happen before the finished game is out. I think it¡¯s nothing more than a setup of Emperor dynasty, just like buying the lottery. ¡± The group started to discuss what kind of game Emperor dynasty and divine fantasy wanted to make, and the conversation slowly drifted off to the topic of ¡®is MMORPG a game that can be surpassed¡¯. Chen Zhao went silent. ¡­¡­ In the studio, Qian Kun was testing the new game prototype. Summoner¡¯s Rift only revealed a small part of the blue team¡¯s base, and the art resources were all reused from Warcraft and Diablo. Even though the art quality was high, the overall art style was extremely chaotic, so it looked strange. Qian Kun right-clicked on the empty space, and a barbarian walked to the spot he clicked on. This barbarian was actually created by the power of Demacia. However, because there was no model of Galen at the moment, he had reced it with a barbarian model. Through the editor, Qian Kun ced a new enemy hero in front of garen, a Teemo. Of course, this Teemo wasn¡¯t an official model. It was the King of the Hills from Warcraft. This Teemo, who looked exactly like the King of the Hills, was set to have 100000 HP, and it stood still. Qian Kun clicked on QWER, and a set of damage was dealt to Teemo, observing the effect of the attack. A ¡®silence¡¯ icon floated out. The special effect of the big treasure sword in thest big move had not yet been activated, but it had already had a shock effect. There was no problem with the damage value and the skill mechanism. Qian Kun looked at Chen Mo,¡±¡±Manager, it¡¯s okay. The prototype of the game should be more stable now. I¡¯ll try a few moreplicated heroes. ¡± Chen Mo nodded,¡±okay.¡± The main thing was that the judgment rules for the variousplicated States had to be done perfectly. There¡¯s also the skill trajectories and effects, hero movements, and so on. We must improve on them. ¡± ¡°Don¡¯t worry,¡± said Qian Kun,¡±Warcraft and Diablo have simrbat mechanisms. It¡¯s just moreplicated this time. It won¡¯t be a problem.¡± Chen Mo patted Qian Kun¡¯s shoulder and continued to look at the art work. He was very confident in Qian Kun. Although Qian Kun was always thinking about how to cheat yers of their in-game purchases, he was very experienced in numbers, levels, andbat systems. He was also very careful and rarely made mistakes. Chapter 287 - The glory of the BGM Summoner

Chapter 287: The glory of the BGM Summoner

Zhou Hanyu was busy adding color to the hero design draft. Before developing League of Legends, Zhou Hanyu had hired a few more people, including an experienced original artist, two UI artists, three 3d stylists, and two action artists. He had basically set up a small art team. In fact, based on the situation with Warcraft and Diablo, the art could be outsourced, but it would be more expensive tomunicate and slower to do. However, Chen Mo considered the fact that he would have to produce arge number of character concept art and models in League of Legends, including new heroes and new skins. It wouldn¡¯t be good to outsource too much, so he wanted to build a small art team first. Moreover, Chen Mo now had a lot more money for research and development, so he didn¡¯t feel any pressure supporting an art team. At the moment, he had to do a small part of the art by himself and outsource most of it. When the team expanded further in the future, he would outsource a small part and do most of the art by himself. ¡°How is it? is there anything you don¡¯t understand about these heroes?¡± Chen Zhao asked. ¡°No,¡± Zhou Hanyu replied,¡±the settings for these heroes are quite clear, and the progress is going smoothly. However, I have a question. Teemo, Annie, nuonuo, AMU, Lulu, all of these heroes have the word ¡®cute¡¯ in their special remarks? This ...¡± Chen Mo nodded,¡±yes, they are all very cute, especially Teemo.¡± Zhou Hanyu said,¡±yeah, I know that. It¡¯s already been drawn very clearly in the sketch.¡± There are only 25 Champions in the early game, and five of them are like mascots. Could it be that our game is ... For children?¡± Chen Zhao couldn¡¯t help butugh, then said seriously,¡±¡±Our game is all-age oriented, but primary school students will be an important group of yers. Zhou Hanyu scratched his head, a little confused. Primary school students were an important group of yers? Currently, other than casual puzzle games, none of the games in the country really treated primary school students as an important group of yers. The reason was very simple. They were generally noobs, had no money, and had no time. Most of the mainstream games in China had yers who were between the ages of 15 and 45. These people liked cool and realistic paintings. They might not be extremely against cartoonish versions, but they were still a little ipatible. In the first version of the heroes list, there were cute heroes (Teemo), handsome heroes (Ezreal), Ugly Heroes (stone golems), traditional heroes (garen), and special heroes (robots). These made Zhou Hanyu a little worried. Just what kind of hodgepodge was this game? Although the bright style, cheeky heroes, and simple operations would expand the yer base of League of Legends Q wasn¡¯t it a little too much? In a game like Warcraft, it was hard to imagine characters like Timo and Annie. Moreover, take the hero a Mumu as an example. He was clearly a mummy. Wasn¡¯t it better to be a normal-sized mummy wrapped in bandages and summoning scarabs? Why did he have to be a big-headed son? Moreover, it was set to keep crying, and the way it attacked was very simr to kowtowing ... Zhou Hanyu still had a lot of questions, but they would only be answered after the game was released. Chen Mo looked at the progress of the model. Since the sketches had already been given, the hero models and the original arts were basically released at the same time. Two models had already been released, and they were garen and AI Xi. However, they were still adjusting the movements, so they had not been reced in the game. In Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, garen¡¯s model had been remade, and Chen Mo didn¡¯t take the wrong path and directly remade the model. The remade Galen¡¯s graphics, movements, and details had all been greatly improved. However, overall, he still continued his previous style. He was heavy, steady, and gave people a very reliable feeling. As for some yers who thought that he was very wretched, squatting in the grass all day, waiting for people to pass by, shouting ¡°Demacia¡±, and then rushing out to spin his big sword ... That was because of the yers ¡®ying style. Garen¡¯s model was now standing upright like a stick, with his hands tilted 45 degrees down, and the big sword was on one side. If one looked closely, they would find that the model was very different from the real person. His shoulders were especially broad, his arms were thick, and his legs were thick. His entire person looked like a short tree stump, infinitely close to a square. His legs were about the same length as his upper body, and he felt like he could walk on all fours effortlessly if he bent down. Obviously, normal people rarely had such a body proportion, especially heroic figures. In this day and age, if one didn¡¯t have two long legs, it would be embarrassing to say that one was the male lead. However, there was a reason for this model. Because League of Legends was a God¡¯s perspective, yers didn¡¯t actually look at the model from the front, but from the top. From this point of view, Galen¡¯s body proportion would appear just right. He was tall, mighty, and well-proportioned, and his huge shoulder armor and big sword could highlight the hero¡¯s characteristics very well. If it was strictly done ording to a human¡¯s body in real life, it would look ugly from this perspective, and the details would be difficult to distinguish. Chen Mo had emphasized this point, and with their experience in Warcraft and Diablo, Chen Mo¡¯s team was quite skilled at making models. There were no problems with the art, and progress was smooth. Chen Mo went to Fu Guangnan¡¯s side and asked about the progress of the music and sound effects. ¡°Most of the requirements for the sound effects have been outsourced,¡± Fu Guangnan said.¡±They¡¯re the most professional sound effects team in the country, so there shouldn¡¯t be any problems.¡± ¡°The background music is going well too. Manager, your song is really great. I think we just need to add more elements to the song, and it will definitely be a ssic BGM.¡± ¡°By the way, the first version of the background music is ready. Listen to it.¡± Fu Guangnan handed the headphones to Chen Mo. Chen Mo took it and a familiar melody started ying in his headphones,¡±sunny glory.¡± This song was the BGM of the LPL¡¯s victory and was known as the godly Warsong. Its English name should be ¡°glory of the summoner¡±, but Chen Mo thought that it would be a bit too blunt, so he named it ¡°glory of the summoner¡± in Chinese. This song would be the background music for League of Legends¡¯s login and appear in the first version. Chen Mo listened to it. Even though the current version didn¡¯t have many instruments and the details weren¡¯t perfect, it was able to express the charm of the song. Chen Mo nodded.¡±Yes, that¡¯s good. Add more of this boiling feeling. It¡¯ll make people want to shout Demacia when they hear it on the street.¡± ...¡±Okay.¡± Chapter 288 - One billion US dollars for a hero, then

Chapter 288: One billion US dors for a hero, then

In the studio, Chen Mo was thinking about how to promote League of Legends. Even though League of Legends was a game with strong poprity, early marketing strategies were still very important. This was because Thunderbolt gaming tform¡¯s current distributionwork was far from Penguin¡¯s in his previous life. Moreover, League of Legends had a much weaker yer base in this world. In Lin Jie¡¯s previous life, DOTA had been the best of the best. When League of Legends hit the market, it happened to be at a critical period. DOTA was very popr among young people, especially among students, but its development was limited by many factors such as poprity, ranking mechanism, difficulty of getting started, cheating, and so on. League of Legends had be less difficult to get started with, and with the powerful operation and promotion ability of Penguin, it gradually became popr. Putting aside their grudges, it was an undeniable fact that League of Legends had taken advantage of DOTA. After all, DOTA was the pioneer of this market. But what about this world? Although COG had the prototype of a MOBA game, it was still an imperfect map. It was still far from DOTA. The Warcraft yer base was much smaller than in his previous life, and only a small number of yers had actuallye into contact with COG. One could imagine that when Chen Mo released League of Legends, most yers would be ¡°what kind of game is this¡± and not ¡°wow, there¡¯s finally a reliable MOBA game¡±. Therefore, he had to think about how to promote League of Legends. Just as he was thinking about it, the phone on the table rang. Chen Zhao picked it up and saw that it was an unknown number from Shanghai. Chen Mo picked up. A man¡¯s voice came from the other end of the phone. He was very polite.¡±Hello, are you Mr. Chen Mo from Thunderbolt entertainment?¡± It¡¯s me,¡±Chen Zhao said. The male voice on the other end of the line said,¡±Hello. Let me introduce myself first. I¡¯m the person-in-charge of GA¡¯s Shanghai branch. You can call me Peter.¡± Chen Mo frowned. Peter? Although it was an English name, he spoke Chinese very well, so he shouldn¡¯t be a foreigner. On second thought, Chen Mo felt that it was normal to use an English name since he was an executive in a foreignpany. GA had a branch in Shanghai, which matched the location of the phone number. ¡°Hello,¡± Chen Zhao said.¡±What¡¯s the matter?¡± ¡°It¡¯s like this,¡±Peter said,¡± our GA headquarters are currently working on a new game called COG. I¡¯m not sure if you¡¯re aware of this. As this game was originally a map from your game, Warcraft, and used a lot of resources from the game, we¡¯d like to ask if you could sell us the art rights? Of course, we can discuss the price. ¡± ¡°I¡¯m not selling,¡± Chen Zhao said without thinking. ¡°Ahem.¡± Peter coughed twice and said,¡±Mr. Chen Mo, it¡¯s just some art copyrights. Actually, with GA¡¯s research and art level, it¡¯s not difficult to make a game thatpletely surpasses Warcraft. The reason why we want to buy your art copyrights is mainly to continue the yers ¡®habit of COG¡¯s original graphics and to ensure the game¡¯s consistency ...¡± ¡°I¡¯m not selling it,¡± Chen Zhao said.¡±If there¡¯s nothing else, I¡¯m hanging up.¡± ¡°Please wait a moment!¡± Peter was a little surprised by Chen Mo¡¯s firm attitude. He didn¡¯t even ask about the price.¡±You should know that GA is a very strong and financially soundpany. As for these copyrights ...¡± ¡°Oh, how about one billion for a hero?¡± ¡°Huh?¡± This time, Peter was bbergasted. 1 billion? Your hero is made of gold? Besides, even if it was made of gold, it couldn¡¯t be worth so much money! Peter probed,¡±¡±You mean, Yuan?¡± ¡°No, dor,¡± Chen Zhao said. Peter:¡°¡­¡­¡± One billion dors for a hero, why not just Rob it? Does that mean that if COG were to produce 30 heroes, it would have to spend 30 billion? That¡¯s already the value of the entire GApany! Peter was a little unhappy. Clearly, Chen Mo¡¯s attitude was insincere.¡±Mr. Chen Zhao, I don¡¯t know the reason, but I feel like you might have some misunderstanding ...¡± ¡°There¡¯s no misunderstanding,¡± Chen Mo said.¡±I¡¯ve already told you that I won¡¯t sell anything in Warcraft.¡± ¡°By the way, please tell Clive Lehmann that although COG is a good map, it¡¯s still far from perfect in my opinion. The nerdy Chinese will make a game thatpletely overpowers cog.¡± ¡°Mr. Chen Mo ...¡± Before he could finish, Chen Zhao had already hung up. Actually, buying and selling copyrights wasn¡¯t a rare thing. It wasn¡¯t a big deal at all. To most gamepanies, as long as they had enough money, anything could be discussed. As for why Chen Zhao was so determined? Firstly, Warcraft¡¯s IP value was hard to measure with money, and since COG was apetitor, Chen Mo couldn¡¯t possibly shoot himself in the foot for short-term benefits. Secondly, Chen Zhao was very unhappy with their contemptuous attitude. Clearly, Clive Lehman and GA were looking down on themselves. Clive Ramon didn¡¯t believe that Chen Mo could make a game like COG, while the GA thought, isn¡¯t it just the art rights for a few heroes? It was just a smallpany in a developing country. He could just buy the copyright with some money. Moreover, Chen Mo didn¡¯t have a good impression of the GA. They would eventually be his opponents, so he didn¡¯t need to worry about their feelings. However, Chen Mo knew that changing art resources wasn¡¯t difficult for a GA, and it wouldn¡¯t have much of an impact on COG. After all, there weren¡¯t many yers in COG right now. When the time came, the names of the heroes, the models, and more new heroes would be changed, and the yers would definitely slowly ept it. However, at least they had to struggle a little more. ¡­¡­ The following period of time seemed to be rather calm. Even though Emperor dynasty entertainment and fantasy gaming tform had thergest distribution tform Alliance in the country, there were still many independent video game designers who chose to release their games on Chen Mo¡¯s tform. In the end, it was because this new channelcked a decisive product to prove its power. Just like during the war of live streaming tforms, poaching streamers through price wars was only a means. The real way to highlight the foundation and hard power of a live streaming tform was to create gods. It doesn¡¯t matter if you poached my popr streamer. I¡¯ll promote another big streamer in a month or two, even more popr than the one you poached. It was the same for distributors. It didn¡¯t matter how many yers they had. They could only prove their strength if they could release a harvest-level PC or VR game. As such, before a game like this appeared, all the yers and designers were just sitting back and watching. Even though Chen Mo¡¯s Thunderbolt gaming tform was in a disadvantageous position, it was still too early to say that Emperor dynasty and divine fantasy would win. The key was to see how Emperor dynasty and divine illusion would perform in the next game. Chapter 289 - A hero isn鈥檛 weak, but you鈥檙e a noob

Chapter 289: A hero isn¡¯t weak, but you¡¯re a noob

At the end of November, the yers of COG suddenly realized a problem. It seemed that the map, COG, was not going to be updated. The author of this map was very diligent. There would be some small changes to the bnce of the values every other week. asionally, there would be major changes to the game¡¯s mechanism and mapyout, so that yers could often y new content. With the help of many Chinese yers, the Chinese yers in China were able to y thetest Chinese version of the COG map as soon as possible. However, they did not know when it started, but the update of the map, COG, hadpletely stopped. There were no changes to the game¡¯s mechanics or new heroes, and even the bncing of the game had stopped. The yers were puzzled. What was going on? This didn¡¯t seem like Clive Lehmann¡¯s style. Could it be that he had encountered some kind of force majeure and had given up on this map? Many people were discussing it. Soon, under the pressing of the foreign yers, Clive Lehman announced thetest news of COG on his social media site. Actually, he didn¡¯t hide it on purpose. It was probably because he had been busy for a while, so he didn¡¯t update his social media homepage. In thetest social media update, Clive Lehmann announced that he had reached a partnership with GA to make COG an independent game that wasn¡¯t attached to Warcraft, and it was expected to meet yers early next year. This news not only caused a huge uproar among the foreign yers, but it also naturally spread to China. There was a post on Warcraft¡¯s official forum that discussed COG that went up by more than 300 posts in one day, bing the hottest post of the day. ¡°The creator of COG said that he wanted to make it an independent game? Are you trying to draw a line between you and Warcraft?¡± ¡°How do we draw the line? Too many of the heroes in COG came from Warcraft, is he nning on redoing them all?¡± ¡°He¡¯s working with an GA! GA is such a bigpany, what¡¯s so difficult about making a small map like this?¡± ¡°That¡¯s right, this time, COG has finally found a Big Shot. At least, with the support of the GA, there won¡¯t be any problems with research and development funds and technology. Coupled with Roman¡¯s creativity, I feel like COG is really on the right track.¡± ¡°COG is indeed fun. I think it¡¯s even more fun than the PvP mode in Warcraft.¡± ¡°Yeah, I think so too. COG can be said to be apletely new game. Even though a part of the gamey is derived from Chenghai 3c, the bnce and map have been greatly improved. It¡¯s already a unique style.¡± ¡°I have a lot of friends who bought Warcraft just to y this map. They won¡¯t even look at the battle mode.¡± ¡°Why isn¡¯t there any movement from Chen Mo? COG is a Warcraft map, Chen Mo should have the copyright, right?¡± ¡°I don¡¯t know. Chen Mo didn¡¯t believe me at all. I wonder what he¡¯s been busy with. If the GA wants to continue with their previous image as a COG character, they¡¯ll definitely have to buy the copyright from Chen Mo. Since neither side is saying anything, it¡¯s likely that they haven¡¯te to an agreement. ¡± ¡°If I were Chen Mo, I wouldn¡¯t sell it. I¡¯m angry, without Warcraft, where would the cogse from? In the end, he forgot his roots and turned around to run away with the rich GA. ¡± ¡°Alright, save it. What¡¯s the use of being angry? Other Omega have their own art team, at worst they can just redo the entire game, what¡¯s the big deal. ¡± ¡°Hey, Mo on Weibo.¡± ¡°What¡¯s the use Mo? Chen Mo can¡¯t do anything about this!¡± ¡°Forget it. No matter what, let¡¯s just wait for the release of COG¡¯s game.¡± ¡­¡­ Chen Mo had received at least a few hundred private messages andments in the past two days, all of them asking about COG. Chen Mo didn¡¯t reveal his ns for League of Legends, so he ignored all the messages andments. After all, it wasn¡¯t the right time to reveal the game yet, and it wouldn¡¯t do him any good. In the studio. The development of League of Legends had entered the second stage. The map, terrain, various map elements, and mechanisms were allpleted. The heroes were also halfpleted, but some details of the experience still needed to be adjusted. Although it was still a semi-finished product, he could already start the game with the GM tools. ying League of Legends during break time had be a trend in the studio. ¡°F * ck, you old sneaky bastard, hiding in the grass and trying to trick me again, are you a dog? I¡¯m not done with you!¡± ¡°Hurry up! That tower is about to fall. Someone go and touch it!¡± ¡°Hahahaha, three against one and he was killed. Don¡¯t you know how to y?¡± ¡°You guys stall them, I¡¯m going to steal the tower!¡± Everyone was shouting excitedly after getting high from the fight. Fortunately, it was break time, otherwise these people might have been thrown out already. Chen Mo felt like he had returned to the inte caf¨¦ from his previous life, and was surrounded by primary school students. It was true that it looked stupid to shout when one was too engrossed in the game, but it also showed that the game was well done and the sense of immersion was very strong. Of course, everyone was still in the xgbd stage, so their understanding of the minion line, defense tower, and hero lineup was basically zero. Fortunately, Chen Mo had set five positions and all the Champions ¡®attributes were slightly raised after the rune system was removed, so everyone¡¯s current formation was quite organized, and there were even people in charge of jungling. Chen Mo also encouraged everyone to y more games as a test, so that they could fix anything that didn¡¯t make sense. However, most of the yers ¡®dissatisfaction with the game was due to the bnce of the heroes. ¡°Manager, what¡¯s the use of Teemo? Every time I choose it as the topne, I get despised! It¡¯s just a lucky charm!¡± ¡°That¡¯s right, manager. Why don¡¯t we change it to the skin of the eyes?¡± ¡°Manager, isn¡¯t the ice Phoenix too weak? This skill uses up too much mana and this Q-skill can¡¯t hit anyone at all. No one¡¯s ying. ¡± ¡°Manager, isn¡¯t sister good luck a little too strong? Long arms, strongning, and this ultimate move is an extremelyrge AoE, super long range AOE, no matter how you look at it, it¡¯s a bit too overpowered. ¡± ¡°Manager, can you cut the robot¡¯s hook in half ...¡± Chen Mo¡¯s answer to these questions was simple,¡±¡±It¡¯s fine. There¡¯s nothing wrong with the attributes of these heroes. You think they¡¯re weak because you¡¯re a noob.¡± At first, everyone was very unconvinced, but after Chen Mo showed a 22-¡± 0-¡± 9 Teemo, everyone was convinced. In particr, Qian Hua, who had been killed by the explosion while stepping on mushrooms, had left a huge psychological shadow on the hero Teemo. There was also Zhao Yunting whoined about Blitzcrank being too strong. Chen Mo chose Vayne and adjusted Blitzcrank¡¯s HP to 100000 and its Q-skill to 100000. Both of them were fully equipped. In the end, the robot did not manage to hook Vayne even once. From then on, no oneined about the hero¡¯s poor bnce. Chapter 290 - A big wave of new games

Chapter 290: A big wave of new games

During the New Year¡¯s holiday, while the yers were immersed in the joy of the holiday, a rtively explosive news spread among the yers. Emperor dynasty entertainment and fantasy gaming tform announced that they would be holding a game recruitment event that allowed both local and foreign designers to participate. There were no restrictions on the tform and theme, but there were two things to take note of. First, the game had to be released on either Emperor dynasty gaming tform or fantasy gaming tform and signed a generational agreement, which meant that it couldn¡¯t be released on any other tforms. Second, the organizers have the right to make the final decision. All the games that are being called for will be reviewed and given the resources to be promoted. Of course, the rewards from this campaign were also very tempting. The excellent games selected after the review would receive a month¡¯s reward of being rmended by all channels. The full distribution channels referred to Emperor dynasty gaming tform, fantasy gaming tform, and all the smaller tformsbined, which took up about 70% of the distribution channels in the country. No one could imagine the effect of such a wide-range rmendation, because such a situation had never happened in the domestic gaming industry. What was certain was that even if the game wasplete garbage, it would still make a lot of money after the rmendation. What if the game was of good quality? That could create the next super explosive. Of course, there was a limit to the number of ¡®excellent games¡¯. Everyone guessed that there would only be two or three of them at most, and that was impossible. After all,¡±all-channel promotion¡± was like integrating all the scattered channels and resources together. It was achieved by squeezing out other games on the channels, so such precious rmendation spots couldn¡¯t be randomly given. Of course, Emperor dynasty entertainment would definitely make their own games, and even ZEN Entertainment would be a part of it. Most video game designers knew that the all-channel promotion was just a gimmick and would never really fall into their hands. However, this gimmick was still loud enough, so it still set off quite a big wave. At the same time, a few gamingpanies, including Emperor dynasty entertainment and ZEN Entertainment, started to reveal information about the new game. It was hard to say whether this information was leaked by ident or deliberately released, but considering that this information was not critical or confidential, and it could also create momentum for this event, most people felt that thetter was more likely. Emperor dynasty entertainment hadunched a key FPS game internally. It didn¡¯t have an official name yet, but it was codenamed ¡°Project: S ¡°, Qin Xiao was fully in charge. Qin Xiao had a very sessful VR shooting game, Wolf Soul, so it was a walk in the park for him to make another FPS game. However, in reality, Qin Xiao had only written the first draft of the design, and it was actually developed by two A-grade video game designers. This was because Qin Xiao was still in charge of the update for Wolf Soul. S ¡°was not in high spirits, so after writing the first draft of the design, he gave it to someone else to do first. After confirming that the game could be sessful, he nned to take over. Of course, outsiders would not know about this. Qiu Jiang and Yan Zhenyuan didn¡¯t release any new games because Lin chaoxu didn¡¯t think highly of their first draft. That was why Emperor dynasty wanted to use all their resources to release Project: S ¡°. There was also a game that was more popr, ZEN Entertainment¡¯s three realms, which was arge MMORPG project. Fantasy gaming tform had spent a fortune on the game, but since they didn¡¯t have much research and development capabilities, they wanted to work with Zen Entertainment. As for ZEN Entertainment, they obviously wanted this all-out promotion opportunity as well. Both Project: S and three realms had a very prominent feature, which was why they stood out among the many first drafts, and that was that they took care of thergest number of yers. In fact, as the two most popr genres of games on the market, FPS games and mmorpgs both had very sessful works. There were wolf Soul and Inferno assault in FPS games, while there were Legend of the Sword, moon God¡¯s prophecy, and heavenly justice of the Three Kingdoms in mmorpgs. These were all well-known premium games that had been tested and proven by the market. Without arge-scale technological revolution, how could it be easy to surpass these already sessful games? Therefore,¡±Project: S ¡°and¡± three realms ¡°were both trying to take a different path. This was also a change that had been made to amodate the full-channel promotion this time. For example: Sacrifice some quality to reduce the configuration requirements. Develop a variety of leisure games to maximize the feelings of non-hardcore yers. It was an extremelyplex social system with generous rewards. It fully supports both VR and PC dual-ends, as well as data synchronisation. All of these changes were to be able to capture thergest number of users and increase the possibility of it bing a super popr game. Especially ¡°Project: S, as an FPS game, the PC side was already severely outmatched by the VR side. It was a little too much to make a dual-terminal mode, but it was still done. After all, in ¡°Project: S had to be different from Wolf Soul and raging inferno assault, and the best gimmick was the dual-end version. Of course, the yers wouldn¡¯t know the details. They only knew that these bigpanies were making big moves and that there would be a few new games to y next year. This was not the end. Not long after, Emperor dynasty entertainment revealed that they had reached an agreement with GA to act as COG¡¯s proxy. This was far more of a topic effect than the fragmented information from before. This was because Project: S and three realms were just concept drafts, and nothing was set in stone yet. However, COG was already very famous in the small circle of Chinese yers. Clearly, Emperor dynasty entertainment had more than one hand in the game. They were nning to ce a portion of their bets on this new foreign game. Although COG wasn¡¯t very popr yet, the veteran yers of COG could vaguely sense the bright future of this new game genre. They paid more attention to this news than the other two games. After all, he was getting tired of ying with FPS and mmorpgs and needed to change to something new. Of course, the yers had different reactions to this news. Some were looking forward to it because with Emperor dynasty gaming tform¡¯s channel as a guarantee, there would be a lot of yers after COG was officially released. There were also people who were worried that Emperor dynasty Entertainment¡¯s brain would go haywire and destroy the game. However, in general, after a series of information bombarding the yers, the yers ¡®anticipation for these new games rose. Even many yers who had never heard of COG before were asking around about what kind of game it was. For Emperor dynasty entertainment and fantasy gaming tform, everything was going smoothly. Chapter 291 - -new game experience

Chapter 291: Chapter 290-new game experience

This year¡¯s Chinese New Year was February 16th. It was already February, and the atmosphere before the new year was everywhere. Most of the office workers were looking forward to the Chinese New Year holiday, thepany¡¯s Annual Meeting, and the year-end bonus. As for work ... What was that? could they be eaten? There were only two weeks left until the Spring Festival holiday, and most people were not in the mood to work. There weren¡¯t many good games being released during this period of time, so the yers were in a rtively quiet stage. After all, at this time, all the gamingpanies were busy organizing their annual meetings and writing their year-end work summary. Who would beunching new games during the new year? Games like COG would only be released next year. Other games such as In the experience store. It was a Saturday, but there weren¡¯t many people in the experience store. Minecraft¡¯s poprity had settled down a little, and while the die-hard fans could y Minecraft for a lifetime, most yers ¡®poprity would naturally fade after ying for a long time, and they wouldn¡¯t be able to build houses as frequently as they would for dinner. There were all kinds of games in the experience store now. There were still people ying Warcraft, Diablo, and Minecraft, but they were no longer as popr as when they first came out. There were also some yers who felt that there was nothing fun to do, so they simply sat in the hall, ordered a cup of hot drink, and chatted and read books. Jia Peng and Chang xiuya were also chatting. ¡°Eh, why isn¡¯t senior Wen here yet? Didn¡¯t we agree to meet at 2 pm?¡± Chang xiuya looked at her watch. Jia Peng was also a little confused,¡±yeah, she¡¯s supposed to be a very punctual person. But she¡¯s actually three minuteste today. This doesn¡¯t make sense.¡± Jia Peng and Chang xiuya had graduated a year after Wen Lingwei, and it had been a year since they graduated. Jia Peng and Chang xiuya weren¡¯t as arrogant as Wen Lingwei. They had both found proper jobs, one in an advertisingpany and the other in a technologypany. They had been working for more than a year and had gotten used to their work quickly. They were now considered proper office workers. However, after working, they couldn¡¯t go to the experience store every day like they did in University. They had things to do on the weekends too, so they could only meet up once in a while. Even though Wen Lingwei had been a frence artist for a long time, she obviously had her own things to do, so she didn¡¯te to the experience store often. As they were talking, Wen Lingwei pushed open the door and entered the experience store. ¡°Ah, there¡¯s a traffic jam.¡± Wen Lingwei sat down on the sofa and said helplessly. ¡°What do you want to drink?¡± Jia Peng asked. Wen Lingwei thought for a while and said, hot milk tea. Jia Peng stood up and went to the front desk to get Wen Lingwei some hot milk tea. Chang xiuya chatted with Wen Lingwei for a while and told her about her work. ¡°Where¡¯s the manager?¡±Wen Lingwei looked around the hall. ¡°I don¡¯t know,¡± Chang xiuya replied.¡±Maybe he¡¯s upstairs. He¡¯s quite busy right now, ying new games one after another. Why don¡¯t I go and ask?¡± Wen Lingwei shook her head.¡±Forget it. We¡¯re just here to sit around. Let¡¯s not disturb him.¡± Chang xiuya smiled.¡±Senior, I feel like you¡¯ve changed a lot after graduation. You¡¯re radiating a motherly aura.¡± Wen Lingwei rolled her eyes,¡±motherly?¡± Forget it, maybe it¡¯s because I¡¯ve met too many idiots after I started working, so I miss my old college days. ¡± She leaned back on the sofa and said with some emotion,¡±¡±I actually miss that small Experience Store and the manager. Before, when it wasn¡¯t that famous, everyone would joke around and y games together, but now, everyone¡¯s busy.¡± Chang xiuya also smiled.¡±Yeah, I still remember when we were working on I am MT. We watched anime together in the shop. There was an episode every week. It was really fun.¡± Jia Peng came back and handed Wen Lingwei a cup of hot milk tea. ¡°Thank you,¡± said Wen Lingwei as she took the bag. As they were chatting, Qian Yong came in from outside. ¡°Eh, Jia Peng? Why are you guys here?¡± Qian Kun was also very surprised. ¡°What, we can¡¯te?¡± Jia Peng asked half-jokingly. ¡°Yes, of course you can. You¡¯re wee.¡± Qian Kun walked over and gave Jia Peng a punch. ¡°Why did youe in from outside?¡± Jia Peng asked. ¡°Didn¡¯t he go out for lunch?¡± Qian Kun said,¡±wait a minute, I¡¯ll call the manager.¡± Jia Peng quickly stopped him,¡±it¡¯s nothing. Don¡¯t disturb the manager. We¡¯re just here to sit around.¡± Qian Kun shook his head.¡±It¡¯s fine, I¡¯m not disturbing you. The manager is not working today. By the way, you guys came at the right time. There¡¯s a new game to y today.¡± Everyone¡¯s eyes lit up when they heard that there was a new game. ¡°Really? a new game? What type?¡± Wen Lingwei asked. Qian Kun smiled.¡±You¡¯ll find out soon. Wait a moment. I¡¯ll go up for a while.¡± Not long after Qian Kun went upstairs, Chen Zhao came down. After some small talk, everyone was urging Chen Mo to bring out the new game. ¡°Sigh, you guys only care about the new game. You don¡¯t care about me at all.¡± Chen Mo was helpless. Chen Mo said a few words to the girl at the front desk. The receptionist nodded, and soon, her voice was broadcasted throughout the experience store. ¡°Dear yers, Thunderbolt Entertainment¡¯s new PC game, League of Legends, can now be tried first. You can y the game in the PC experience area on the first floor. After restarting theputer, the game will automatically update. ¡± This message was broadcasted three times. The yers in the experience store heard it clearly, and the yers in the PC and mobile experience areas were all discussing it. ¡°Ah? A new game?¡± ¡°A new game is out so soon? It hasn¡¯t been long since eich and The Stanley Parable were released. ¡± ¡°Yeah, I thought there wouldn¡¯t be any new games before the new year.¡± ¡°Quick, let¡¯s see what the new game is!¡± Everyone was very excited when they heard that there was a new game. These people were Chen Mo¡¯s loyal fans, and since there weren¡¯t many new games before the new year, they were all extremely excited to try them out first. The yers in the PC area all restarted theirputers to update League of Legends. Many yers in the hall, mobile game experience area, and VR experience area also came to the PC experience area. ¡°Let¡¯s go and take a look. ¡± Jia Peng, Wen Lingwei, and Chang xiuya also went to the PC experience area. They found threeputers in the corner and sat down. Jia Peng couldn¡¯t help but sigh.¡±The manager¡¯s Experience Store is getting more and more popr. The entire PC experience area is almost full. The previous experience Store only had 18puters.¡± Wen Lingwei added,¡±the first time I went there, there was no one there.¡± ¡°Oh?¡± Chen Zhao was amused.¡±You did remember to listen clearly.¡± Wen Lingwei said proudly,¡±of course! I¡¯m the first customer of the Thunderbolt gaming experience Store. Keep it up manager! When yourpany grows into a giant in the industry, I¡¯ll be able to brag about this for a long time.¡± Jia Peng looked around.¡±There¡¯s no more seats. Where are you going to sit?¡± ¡°I¡¯m not ying,¡± Chen Zhao said.¡±You guys y.¡± I¡¯ll just take a walk around. ¡± ¡°Well, that¡¯s good.¡± Jia Peng turned on hisputer, and League of Legends was automatically updated. Chapter 292 - -newbie training

Chapter 292: Chapter 291-newbie training

Soon, the game was updated, and a capital L icon appeared on the desktop. This icon was a bit simr to the one in Diablo. They were both made with the first letters of the game¡¯s name, and it gave people a in feeling, but it was pretty cool. Jia Peng double-clicked the icon and entered the game. The login interface was rtively simple and seemed to be an iplete version. The League of Legends LOGO was on the upper left corner, with Chinese and English LEAGUE OF LEGENDS in golden font. On the right was the login module, which could be logged in directly with the Thunderbolt Game Pass. However, the main part of the login interface was still empty. There was a line of small words: There should be a very cool gif here.¡± Jia Peng,¡±manager, What¡¯s this?¡± Chen Mo exined,¡±the art resources aren¡¯t all here yet. Just make do with it.¡± However, the art resources in the game are basically allplete, so it won¡¯t affect the game. ¡± ¡°Alright,¡± he said. Jia Peng entered his ount and entered the game. Wen Lingwei and Chang xiuya looked at the game for a long time, but they couldn¡¯t tell what type of game it was. They entered the game with suspicion. Entering the game interface, the overallyout was also very simple. On the top left were [start game],[home page],[career], and [collection]. On the top right were the yer¡¯s avatar, the currency bar, and the [mall]. The long strip on the right was a friend list, which could automatically import the friend information of the Thunderbolt Game Pass. If two yers ¡®Thunderbolt game passes were friends, then there was no need to add friends again here. The main part of the screen was reying a simple game demonstration video. Summoning crystals, defensive towers, minion lines, Elemental Dragons, scenes of heroes fighting, a bird¡¯s eye view of the entire battlefield ... To Wen Lingwei and Chang xiuya, this was a bit of a shock, but Jia Peng immediately understood the core of the game when he saw the map of the battlefield. Manager, this game looks like 3C and COG?¡± Jia Peng said. Chen Mo nodded. ¡°Then ... Then forget it.¡± Chang xiuya hesitated.¡±I don¡¯t think I¡¯m used to ying Warcraft. I can¡¯t get used to such a difficult game ...¡± ¡°Don¡¯t worry,¡± Chen Mo said,¡±there¡¯s a very detailed tutorial for new yers. It¡¯s also much easier than Warcraft. You guys can y it too, no problem.¡± ¡°Oh, really? I¡¯m very suspicious of this, manager ...¡± Chang xiuya still wanted to quit the game, but because of the famous ¡°since I¡¯m already here¡± theory, she decided to give it a try. The overallyout of League of Legends was based on the new version of the client. The old version was actually not bad, but not as cool. Someone like Chen Mo would definitely choose a more cool option. He clicked on the [start game] button, and there were a few sub-options, namely [training],[human-machine battle],[yer battle], and [custom match]. When the yers reached the conditions to start the rankingpetition,[training] would be [rankingpetition]. Of course, Chen Mo didn¡¯t n on starting a ranking match in this version. These people were all new ounts, so other than [training], the rest were locked. They had toplete the beginner¡¯s lesson before they could y the other modes. ording to Chen Mo¡¯s n, League of Legends would only have one server, so there wouldn¡¯t be the awkwardness of leveling up again after changing servers. All yers who were logging into the game for the first time were forced to go through the beginner¡¯s tutorial. As for those who changed ounts to y the lower-level games to fry fish, they weren¡¯t considered because this was something that the officials didn¡¯t promote or even prohibited. The loading speed of the game was very fast, because the current PC configuration was very high. Chen Mo¡¯s League of Legends had surpassed the standards of his previous life in all aspects, but it was still a low-end gamepared to the current PC. It was a far cry from those first-person games that burned their graphics cards. After entering the game, Jia Peng first noticed the game¡¯s perspective. A third person God¡¯s perspective, just like in Warcraft and Diablo. In the center of the picture was a tall and mighty hero. He was wearing heavy armor and holding a big sword that was very eye-catching. At first nce, Jia Peng was not used to this. Chen Mo¡¯s Warcraft and Diablo had a dark and realistic style that looked very serious, but League of Legends had a slightly more cheeky style. It could be seen from this hero that his pauldron, greatsword, and other elements did not fit the normal proportion, and there was a deliberate exaggeration. Moreover, the brightness and saturation levels of the entire screen were very high. It was even brighter and morefortable than the scenes in Diablo. Although the scenery in the highest heavens was also very bright and glorious, it would give the yers a sense of surrealism, and it could not relieve their mental stress. However, from a setting point of view, the high heavens was the residence of the angels, a sacred ce, and would reject mortals. Therefore, this kind of scene was more in line with the setting of the high heavens. On the other hand, the map in League of Legends didn¡¯t give off any sense of danger. It was simr to the rainbow Stage in Diablo. The yers ¡®minds were subconsciously rxed, and they would not be so nervous. A gentle female voice began to exin the tutorial. [Wee to the league of Legends training camp.] [In League of Legends, you¡¯re a powerful Summoner who controls the battles of different heroes and eventually wins.] [The ultimate goal of victory is to break through the enemy¡¯s heavy defenses and destroy the enemy¡¯s crystal core.] [Your hero is garen, the power of Demacia. Please right-click at the designated location on the map to control the hero¡¯s movement.] With the tutorial voice, the game screen kept changing, showing the yers information about the crystal hub, defense tower, heroes, and so on. Chen Mo had edited this tutorial before. In the original tutorial, the beginner tutorial was held in the chaos abyss map, and the tutorial guided yers to buy armor of thorns for eich, which was quite annoying. As such, Chen Mo moved the tutorial to Summoner¡¯s Rift and changed the novice tutorial hero to garen, to prevent the yers from thinking that AI Xi was a novice hero. Jia Peng clicked on the target location, and garen immediately walked over. Next, there were some more conventional guides, such as moving to the fog of war, learning skills, ying the game, using skills, destroying defensive towers, returning to the city to buy equipment, and so on. Further behind were advanced tutorials, such as killing monsters, changing perspectives, looking at minimaps, and so on. There would often be some small prompts in the lower right corner of the map, such as finishing off the minions, getting close to the minion line to gain experience, and not rashly tanking towers. This was a piece of cake for Jia Peng, as he had yed Warcraft before, and this amount of work was not even one-tenth of what he had done in Warcraft. In the end, as garen raised his sword and destroyed the enemy¡¯s crystal hub, a huge VICTORY icon appeared in the center of the screen. At the same time, an exciting ¡°Victor¡± was heard, which made Jia Peng feel veryfortable. He turned around and saw Wen Lingwei and Chang xiuya still fighting. They hadn¡¯t even destroyed the tower yet. Moreover, the two of them had been ying the game in locked-view mode the entire time. Chapter 293 - The importance of the depth of the fish pond

Chapter 293: The importance of the depth of the fish pond

The so-called ¡°lock-on¡± meant that the hero would always be in the center of the screen, and the screen¡¯s view would move as the hero moved. Obviously, for games like Warcraft and League of Legends that required yers to pay attention to the overall battle situation, it was like poking one¡¯s own eyes. There was rted teaching content in the beginner¡¯s tutorial. As long as you pressed the [Y] button, you could freely switch between a free view and a locked view. The default view after the novice guide was free view. In other words, both Wen Lingwei and Chang xiuya chose to y the game in a locked perspective. ¡°Don¡¯t you guys feel ufortable after locking on to your field of view?¡± Jia Peng was a little confused. ¡°Eh? Why?¡± Chang xiuya asked,¡±isn¡¯t thisfortable? You¡¯ll never be unable to find your hero, just like Diablo, it¡¯s so convenient. ¡± ¡°Yeah, much more reasonable than Warcraft,¡± added Wen Lingwei. Jia Peng was speechless. He watched the two yers ¡®operations for a while, and it was simply too horrible to look at. Chang xiuya yed very conservatively. Garen was a tank-type hero, but he was yed into a support by her. He wanted to run away when he only had half of his health left. He had even bought three defensive equipment, but he did not dare to enter the attack range of the turret. As a result, the progress of these two people was very slow, and they did not even manage to destroy the high tower. Jia Peng exined patiently to them. ¡°Garen can still move after using his E-skill to circle around. You have to always make sure that your e-skill can touch the enemy hero.¡± ¡°The damage from the tower can be taken. You won¡¯t be killed instantly as long as you retreat in time.¡± ¡°Garen¡¯s big move has a killing effect. Don¡¯t just throw it as soon as you see it.¡± ¡°You¡¯re asking why I can¡¯t buy two pairs of shoes? This was because the effects of the two pairs of shoes would not ovep. Oh, I know your hero has two feet, but the shoes are a pair, not one. Look at the icon. ¡± ¡­¡­ The most basic knowledge in League of Legends was as easy as eating and drinking for a yer like Jia Peng. He didn¡¯t even need to be taught, he could guess it himself. However, Chang xiuya and Wen Lingwei knew nothing about it. They even made a lot of jokes. In fact, many yers would make the same mistake as Jia Peng, and that was overestimating the IQ of yers with bad hands and female yers. Everyone knew that if a game wanted to be popr, it had to be ¡°easy to master, but hard to master.¡± There were many games that were difficult to master. In any case, for yers, things that they didn¡¯t understand or couldn¡¯t do even if they understood were difficult to master. However, different yers had different standards for what ¡°easy to master¡± was. For yers like Jia Peng, Warcraft wasn¡¯t easy to y, whereas COG and League of Legends were easy to y. However, for a yer like Chang xiuya, Warcraft and COG werepletely out of the question. League of Legends was barely passable, and anipop was easier to y. If one were to limit one¡¯s vision to the RTSmunity, or to the male yers and normal yers, the Newbie Guide in League of Legends was too stupid, it was like taking off one¡¯s pants and farting. Clicking move, attack, CS, such simple concepts could be exined with A few lines of text. However, what if this range was extended to the yers with terrible skills, primary school students, and female yers? The yers in the bronze and silver divisions were considered ¡°scammers¡± and were newbies. Not to mention Zed, Yasuo, and Vayne, most of them could not even y Gragas and Twisted Fate well. Taking Twisted Fate as an example, not to mention the high-end techniques, just the basic operations such as cutting cards, using an Ace, and constantly paying attention to the battlefield were difficult for most bronze and silver yers. How many bronze and silver-tier yers were there? In Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, this number was a suffocating 37%. That¡¯s right, a small half of the yers in this game were the so-called ¡°scammers.¡± If the yers in the golden section were included, the number would be around 59%. yers who were ranked Diamond and above only made up 5% of the entire yer group. (14% of the yers in the tinum section were underaged ounts, and nearly 20% were underaged ounts.) The statistics for different seasons were different, but the overall difference wouldn¡¯t be too big. This number didn¡¯t mean that there was a problem with League of Legends, but it reflected an objective fact: The yers in the country were basically distributed ording to this ratio. yers like Jia Peng might not even understand the meaning of this number, and they would be shocked: ¡°WHAT???You¡¯re actually telling me that half of the yers are handicapped? And there are a lot of people who can¡¯t y such a simple game?¡± However, it was the truth. For many yers, League of Legends was already a difficult game to get used to, let alone DOTA and Warcraft, which were even more difficult. That was why League of Legends had such a detailed novice guide, which even made people feel that it was a bit long-winded. This kind of overly detailed novice guidance wouldn¡¯t stop the experts from leaving, but it would keep the clumsy yers and female yers. ¡­¡­ Why was ¡°easy to handle¡± so important? This was because the core of all confrontational games, including League of Legends, was to¡¯ sell the gamey ¡®rather than¡¯ sell the content ¡®. Great standalone games like these were all about selling content and experiencing a whole new story and world. They could be put aside after one try. However, the core of games like League of Legends and Overwatch was to¡¯ sell the way to y ¡®. They were games that could be reyed. Every match was against a new opponent and a new battle, and one could not get tired of it even after ying for a few years. For this kind of game, the most critical factor to ensure its survival was the depth of the fish pond. In other words, there weren¡¯t enough rookies. This was because all the fun in this kind of game came from winning. For most yers, it was great to y a hero to perfection and outdo five others, but the real pleasure came from the moment the opponent¡¯s Crystal Burst. It didn¡¯t matter if he carried or won while lying down. Anyway, winning was more fun. If they lost, whether it was a loss in a pit, a loss lying down, or a loss after carrying with all their might, they would all be very unhappy. If the opponents were all noobs, then you would y veryfortably. However, what if there were no noobs on the other side, only experts, and you were tortured in every match? A small portion of yers would work hard. However, most yers would choose to give up on the game. After all, it was just a game to pass time. Work was already tiring enough, so why would ying games be tiring? Moreover, for most yers, although hard work could improve their skill level, what was more important was their gaming talent, reaction time, and hand speed. A yer who couldn¡¯t y this kind of game was born to be a fraud. It was like some people were born poor, and if you had to me them for not working hard enough, then they would be poor. If the depth of the fish pond wasn¡¯t enough, a newbie would encounter opponents who were obviously better than him not long after ying. If he was constantly abused, then he wouldn¡¯t be able to find any fun in this game. After all was said and done, how did the depth of the fish ponde about? It was still because of the huge yer base. How did a huge yer basee about? By using ¡®easy to master¡¯, even a girl like Chang xiuya would be able to y. Therefore, if League of Legends wanted to expand its yer base, it had to simplify the operations. Only League of Legends, which simplified the entire game, could attract such a huge user base. If League of Legends in his previous life didn¡¯t have this feature, even if Penguin Corporation promoted it, it would still be useless. Penguin had taken on so many games as agents, and most of the games died from internalpetition. How many games could really stand out and enjoy the resources of Penguin¡¯s channel? Chapter 294 - First season鈥檚 reward

Chapter 294: First season¡¯s reward

? Of course, at this time, there would definitely be yers who would put forward ¡°e-sports and being noobs are the original sins¡±,¡±noobs should work hard and one day surpass gods¡± and so on. There was no problem with this statement, but it should only be used to spur himself on, not to ask others. If you¡¯ve been abused, you should work hard on your skills. There¡¯s nothing wrong with being abused back. However, if your girlfriend was a noob and was abused, and you said,¡±being a noob in e-sports is an original sin,¡± you¡¯d see if you two would break up. A King yer was still a yer. A bronze yer was still a yer. For most yers with bad skills, control and reaction speed were innate, and no matter how hard they trained, they couldn¡¯t change it. To designers, these two types of yers were equally important because they were an essential part of the game¡¯s ecosystem. Simplifying the operations of the game would allow more yers to join and stay, so the game would have more yers than other games. This was the corepetitiveness of the game. As for the high-end yers? As long as the yer base went up, there would always be high-end yers. The two were not in direct opposition to each other. High-end yers had all climbed out of the pool of yers. What would be the consequences of drying up the fish pond? For example, if arge number of yers in the bronze Division in League of Legends were lost, then a bronze yer would have to queue for a longer time to y ranked games, or if he encountered many yers in the silver Division, his chances of winning would be lower and lower. He would be abused continuously, and as time went by, he would have no choice but to escape. This would further aggravate the loss of yers. When there were fewer and fewer yers in the bronze group, it would be the turn of the silver Group, the gold Group ... The drying up of the fish pond would cause a series of chain reactions, causing thepetitive ecosystem of the entire game to copse from the bottom to the top. Moreover, the speed of the loss of yers would be faster and faster, which was a nightmare forpetitive games. In Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, this was one of the reasons why Overwatch¡¯s poprity had dropped. Many yers had stopped paying for their purchases and theck ofputer configurations. The yer base was far lower than League of Legends, and the problems with the game¡¯s mechanics and ranking system had caused the poprity of the ¡®fried fish pond¡¯. All these factorsbined had caused arge number of yers to quit, and the poprity of the game had dropped. Of course, DOTA and League of Legends also had simr situations, but DOTA had many die-hard fans and a stable yer base, while League of Legends¡¯s fish pond was deep enough that it wouldn¡¯t make a ssh no matter how hard one tried. However, what if the yer base was not enough? Then, even the best game would be ruined. ¡­¡­ After much effort, Wen Lingwei and Chang xiuya finallypleted their beginner¡¯s training. Afterpleting the beginner¡¯s training, a special interface popped up on the screen as a system prompt, and there was also a very beautiful treasure chest. [Congrattions onpleting the beginner¡¯s training. You have received a small gift from the continent of valoran. Please click to open it.] Jia Peng was surprised,¡±huh?¡± I¡¯ll be rewarded forpleting the beginner¡¯s training?¡± Jia Peng tapped on the chest, and with a sh of gold, a few rewards appeared on the screen. [New skin: Death Knight garen] [Currency: 4500 point certificates, 10000 gold coins] [Guard (eye) skin: adorable Yeti guard] And that wasn¡¯t all. Just as Jia Peng epted the rewards, a new interface appeared. ¡°As a yer of the first season of League of Legends, we have prepared a small gift for you. Note: This reward will be out of print at the end of the first season and can not be obtained through conventional means. ¡± Jia Peng clicked the mouse and saw another skin! [New skin: [dragon hunter] Vayne Jia Peng couldn¡¯t stay calm any longer. What the f * ck, so many good things? Obviously, even though Jia Peng wasn¡¯t too sure about the value of these items, he was literate. He could recognize the purple epic icon on the skins. Moreover, the 4500 point certificates were the currency that could only be obtained by topping up in the game. Jia Peng quickly entered [collectibles] to check his reward. Different from League of Legends in his previous life, Chen Mo had added hero models in the game store and in the yers ¡®Collection interface. yers could not only see the original art of the hero¡¯s skin, but also the real model. This wasn¡¯t difficult to do. After all, even a mobile game like King of Glory had managed to do this. Of course, there were some unsightly models in his previous life, but the ones Chen Mo made were of extremely high quality, and there was no problem looking at them in close-up. [Death Knight] Galen¡¯s style waspletely different from his Original Skin. He was wearing dark armor, his eyes were shining with a cold light, and the big sword in his hand had turned into Frostmourne. In Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, this skin was quite popr with Warcraft, but it didn¡¯t have an IP and didn¡¯t look too simr to Arthas. However, this problem didn¡¯t exist for Chen Mo, as he had the entire IP in Warcraft and could use it as he pleased. Garen¡¯s skin looked like Arthas ¡®, and Jia Peng was very excited. In fact, Vayne, the [dragon hunter], had also been riding on the poprity of magical beasts. This name was first used as the name of the Hunter set in World of Warcraft. Of course, this world didn¡¯t have World of Warcraft yet, but as a sessful skin, Chen Mo still brought it out. As for the skin of the eye, it was just a little snowman. It was just an extra, nothing special. Jia Peng then looked at the recharge interface. 4500 point certificates were equivalent to 45 dors, and he couldn¡¯t estimate the value of 10000 gold coins yet. He looked through the shop and found that these point certificates could be used to buy a medium-priced skin. The gold coins were only enough to buy some trashy guard (eye) skins and Summoner avatars. ¡°Yeah ...¡± Jia Peng consoled himself,¡±these skins won¡¯t affect mybat power anyway, so it doesn¡¯t matter if I buy them or not.¡± ¡­¡­ Chen Mo had considered the entire reward system. In Lin Jie¡¯s previous life, yers in League of Legends could earn gold coins every day, and the main purpose of the gold coins was to buy heroes and runes. Although there were many problems, there were also benefits. Many yers enjoyed the process of saving gold to buy heroes and runes. This was equivalent to gradually opening the game content, so that yers would cherish their ounts (the wealth on them) more. It was the same logic as some card games that kept yers by giving them good cards. Chen Mo removed the hero and rune fees out of fairness, but he also considered other ways to get the reward. Point certificates and gold coins would still be retained. yers could still obtain gold coins through ying games, winning first victories every day,pleting missions, and so on. However, the specific use of gold coins had changed. Chapter 295 - skin

Chapter 295: Chapter 294 skin

Gold coins could be used to buy all kinds of avatars, avatars, guard (eye) skins, some hero skins, and some hero skins. Of course, allowing yers to use gold coins to buy a portion of the hero skins was equivalent to letting the yers have a discount. It had to be strictly controlled, otherwise, it would cause the entire economic system to copse. Gold coins could only buy a small number of average-quality skins. The specific list of avable skins would change every week, and the corresponding hero¡¯s proficiency must reach the highest Grandmaster level to buy, and the price was extremely high. As for the skin color, it was just a change of color, and it wasn¡¯t hard to make, so Chen Mo made it in the first version. After a yer obtained a certain skin, they could spend a certain amount of point certificates and gold coins to buy a dazzling skin. Other than that, yers could also use gold coins to open chests. Of course, there was no conflict between opening the box and buying it directly. All skins, avatars, and guard skins had a clear price, and one could buy them directly if they wanted to. However, if the yer chose to open the chest with gold coins, they might receive any item. It could be a worthless avatar or a rare skin. Of course, Chen Mo had calcted the probability. Overall, opening a box was more cost-effective than buying it, but it was up to luck to see what he would get. For most yers, as long as they were not lucky, they would still need point certificates to buy those very precious and rare skins, as well as some out-of-print avatars, avatars, guard skins, and so on. In addition, gold coins could also be used to change heroes in big chaotic fights, and the price kept rising. ¡­¡­ Jia Peng¡¯s reward was split into two parts: the newbie reward and the season reward. The newbie reward was the reward that every yer would receive after entering the game andpleting the newbie¡¯s tutorial. It included [Death Knight] garen, 4500 point vouchers, 10000 gold coins, and the Yeti guard skin. The reward for the first season was Vayne¡¯s [dragon hunter]. The rewards were quite generous. The epic skin was priced at 6900 points, which meant that Chen Mo had given out at least 200 RMB worth of rewards for the new yers. Besides, the undead knight Galen and Warcraft seemed to be linked together, which was quite impressive. Of course, in terms of the depth of the market in League of Legends, 200 yuan was nothing. The other yers in the experience store had also received these rewards, and they were all looking at garen¡¯s death Knight skin happily, wanting to enter the game to y. ¡°I¡¯ve taken a look,¡±Jia Peng said,¡± after the beginner¡¯s tutorial, we¡¯ll probably have to y a few more games before we can officially start the game. ¡± Let¡¯s form a team to y against the bot. ¡± ¡°Alright.¡± Chang xiuya said,¡±let¡¯s not fight with yers. I¡¯m scared.¡± Jia Peng was speechless. The three-man team was matched with a beginner-level human-machine battle. Soon, the match was found. At the moment, League of Legends could only be yed in the experience store, so there were few yers. However, the experience store was huge now, and most of the people in the PC area were ying League of Legends, so it was not a problem to y against a few bots. Entering the hero selection interface, Jia Peng began to look at the heroes. There were a few tab in the selection interface, which were [all],[topne],[middlene],[jungler],[Archer], and [support]. Clicking on the tags could quickly filter out the heroes in that position. There were only 25 heroes in the current version. After screening, there were only five heroes in each position, which was not a lot. However, none of them had yed it before, so they were still struggling with choosing their champion for a long time. Jia Peng wanted to look at the undead knight skin, but the other two immediately locked garen and Vayne down, leaving him speechless. Without a choice, Jia Peng chose the Wuji Sword Saint, Master Yi. This hero reminded him of the Grand Swordmaster in Warcraft, and he looked quite powerful. Wen Lingwei and Chang xiuya chose Annie and Lulu, for the simple reason that they were cute. Originally, Chang xiuya wanted to choose Teemo, but considering that she already had a top champion, garen, she still chose the fairy witch, Lulu, in the support column. In the New yer Guide, Chen Mo specifically taught the yers the roles of the five positions and encouraged them to choose their yers based on the five positions. Of course, this was just an encouragement. The yers could choose any hero they wanted, even five Archer Heroes. However, this obvious distribution of positions also yed a very good guiding role. At least these five passers-by, who didn¡¯t understand the game at all, had chosen a very perfect lineup. This was simply a miracle. There was still some time before he confirmed his champion, so Jia Peng began to look at the other information on the interface. During this time, yers could choose their hero skin, talent, and Summoner skills. In terms of talent, Chen Mo used the talent tree from S3 for the time being, and didn¡¯t have skills like thunder and grip of the undying. This was mainly to reduce the cost of learning in the early stages and wait for theter versions to release new talent systems. The S3 talents were very simple. Most of them increased the number of points. The attack, defense, and general talents were also very clear. It was easy to figure out how to add points after a little research. Jia Peng¡¯s ount had only unlocked the first row of talents. There were six rows of talents, and the sixth row was the ultimate talent. yers would unlock a row of talents every two levels, and they would be fully unlocked at level 10. As for the summoner skills, they could start with sprint, heal, and punishment. At Level 3, they could unlock barrier and weakness. At Level 5, they could unlock teleportation and purification. At Level 7, they could unlock ignite. At level 9, they could unlock sh. In other words, after level 10, thebat power provided by the ount would no longer have any difference. Jia Peng took a look. There was nothing to adjust for his talent and Summoner skill, but considering that he was a jungler hero, he still added [punishment] as a Summoner skill. He also took the opportunity to look through Master Yi¡¯s skin. Like the other heroes, Master Yi also had three skins. The best one was marked with the words ¡°epic¡± and was called ¡°carefree swordsman¡±. From the appearance, the model of this skin was very different from the original model. It was an image of a Chinese swordsman wearing ancient clothes and holding a long sword. Jia Peng¡¯s eyes brightened, and an urge to buy, buy, buy, buy rose in his heart. This was Chen Mo¡¯s Original Skin, because he felt that Master Yi¡¯s original skins weren¡¯t that good. Only Project Origin and astral executioner were better, the other skins were basically trash. Therefore, Chen Mo decided to create a new skin based on the image of Chinese swordsmen and named it ¡®carefree swordsman¡¯. The new skin was much better looking than Master Yi¡¯s Original Skin, and before Jia Peng could fight his inner desires, the game had already started. I¡¯ll y it for a while. If the hero is good, I¡¯ll consider buying a skin ... Jia Peng thought. Chapter 296 - There鈥檚 a skin for computers too

Chapter 296: There¡¯s a skin forputers too

He loaded the game. Jia Peng¡¯s team had garen, demaster, Annie, Vayne, and Lulu. On theputer were theva beast, Twisted Fate, Sword Saint, lucky sister, and Soraka. Theputer¡¯s hero was randomly selected from the current hero library, one for each of the five positions. However, considering the fact that a jungler AI would be required for a jungler, Chen Mo didn¡¯t do it and let theputer split the hero into two by default. Jia Peng looked at the game interface and rubbed his eyes in disbelief. ¡°This, this is f * cking! Why does theputer have a skin?¡± There were two skins on theputer across from him. They were the sword Saint Master Yi¡¯s carefree swordsman and theva beast Morfit¡¯s Overlord beast. Carefree swordsman aside, Jia Peng had been eyeing the skin of theva beast (stone golems) for a long time before he entered the game, and Jia Peng¡¯s heart was itching for it. From the original art, it was a huge mecha beast. It looked very technological and very oppressive. Jia Peng eximed,¡±holy shit, this skin is so cool!¡± It seems that we can¡¯t call theva beast an ugly B * stard hero anymore. Whether it¡¯s ugly or not depends on whether the summoner has money. ¡± Chang xiuya¡¯s attention was all on the cute animals,¡±¡±There¡¯s no Teemo on the other side either. I¡¯m so disappointed ...¡± Every time there were fiveputers, two heroes would have skins. Of course, the heroes and skins that appeared were random. The reason for this was simple. They wanted to use the AI as a way to show the skins so that the yers could see all kinds of new skins while ying on theputer. This would stimte their desire to shop. As for why all fiveputers didn¡¯t have skins ... Poor yers also wanted to save face! After entering the game, Jia Peng bought a jungler de and health potion ording to the rmended equipment. Jia Peng had already bought some equipment during the newbie experience, so he was quite familiar with it now. Jia Peng felt that the equipment system was simply too convenient. Every hero had a default equipment rmendation, which was divided into five modules, namely, equipment for the first round, early equipment, mid equipment, six godly equipment 1, and six godly equipment 2. Clicking on the equipment icon on the left, the entire synthesis process of the equipment would appear on the right. The equipment that could be bought would be in the normal state, and the equipment that could not be bought would be put in gray. It was clear at a nce. In other words, it didn¡¯t matter even if the yers knew nothing about the equipment system. They just had to pick the rmended equipment one by one. Moreover, there was also [all items] in the tab on the right, which was organized ording to starting items, tools, defense, attack, magic, and movement. In Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, most of the rmended equipment wasn¡¯t suitable, and the yers had alreadye up with a better way to get it. Therefore, Chen Mo made some changes to it. His arrangement was based on the high-end games andpetitions in his previous life. As for the two sets of six gods equipment, they were determined ording to the characteristics of different heroes, and yers were free to choose. Of course, yers could also freely change the arrangement of each hero. After buying the jungler, Jia Peng controlled demaster to quickly leave the house and arrive at the blue BUFF. He had already understood from the tutorial that the so-called jungler hero was a champion whose gold came from the jungle and tried not to kill minions in thene. As for the jungler, he could start with the blue BUFF or the red BUFF, depending on the yer¡¯s n for the jungler route. Jia Peng preferred the blue BUFF because he felt that demaster was a hero with a mana bar. This mana recovery BUFF was like the Mana Spring water in Warcraft, it should be very useful. The other Champions also came online. ¡°All troops, attack!¡± With a system notification, the soldiers from both sides began to appear from the crystal hub and marched toward the enemy base. In Jia Peng¡¯s eyes, these soldiers were quite ugly. They had the same style, unlike the rich variety in Warcraft. However, the soldiers were designed to be like this on purpose so that they would not steal the attention of the yers. Jia Peng was very rxed. This was different from Warcraft. In battle mode, Jia Peng felt like he was on high alert, even the sound of a rooster crowing at dawn could make him nervous. This wasn¡¯t just a matter of the game¡¯s rhythm, it was also a matter of the game¡¯s style and atmosphere. In Warcraft, there were a lot of sound effects, but they also made people busy. The farmers were building houses diligently, and when they were done, they would give you a notification. There would be a notification when the technology was sessfully developed. There would be a notification when new minions and heroes were created. There would be a notification when the poption was full. All sorts of units would be alerted when they were attacked. Even when you were controlling the hero to move, he would say something to you every time you clicked on the floor. If you clicked on it without stopping, he would say it without stopping. The yers were constantly receiving all sorts of information. With Warcraft¡¯s dark, realistic style and slightly tense background music, the yers couldn¡¯t help but focus as they immersed themselves in the game. Of course, the advantage of doing this was that it would make it easier for yers to immerse themselves in the game and concentrate. However, there was also a disadvantage. This kind of tension would make the yers feel tired. League of Legends had made a lot of adjustments to these issues. The background music was melodious and soothing. Even when an intense team battle broke out, there would not be any intense or exciting background music. If one did not pay attention, they might even ignore the existence of the background music. At the same time, there were no moreplicated sound effects, and even the voice of the hero did not appear as frequently. When the yer was controlling the hero to move, the hero would only say a sentence after a few seconds. There were many different voice messages, unlike in Warcraft where the hero would respond immediately and speak endlessly. In addition to the high brightness and saturation levels of the graphics, as well as the chibi style, the yers were in a rtively rxed state of mind when ying the game. (Of course, if it was a key team battle or a more important promotion match, the yers would naturally be nervous. There was no need to use images or sounds to stimte them.) The blue BUFF refreshed, and a huge dark blue carved Golem appeared in front of the sword Saint. Jia Peng controlled the desman to use Alpha Strike and began to farm the blue BUFF. Jia Peng had briefly looked at demaster Yi¡¯s skills before, and he concluded that even though demaster Yi was weaker than the demaster in Warcraft, there was one thing that was great. There was no jumping dagger skill. None of Master Yi¡¯s four skills were skills that relied on luck, which greatly improved Jia Peng¡¯s impression of him. Chapter 297 - positive feedback

Chapter 297: Chapter 296 positive feedback

Master Yi waved the long sword in his hand and kept attacking the blue BUFF. His movements were very smooth, and the sense of attack was not bad. The movements matched with the attack sound effects gave off a feeling of knife cutting into flesh. Soon, the blue statue fell to the ground, and a blue BUFF appeared under the sword saint¡¯s feet. Master Yi¡¯s health was quite good, and Jia Peng nodded with satisfaction before continuing to farm the wolves. Chen Mo canceled the rune system and made some adjustments to it, so it wouldn¡¯t be as difficult for new yers to jungle. Jungling wasn¡¯t supposed to be that difficult. In Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, due to runes and innate attributes, even if a side ount had jungler equipment, jungling was extremely difficult, slow and took a lot of health. That¡¯s why it was rare to see a jungler even at level 10, most of them splitting up into 2 ¨C 1 ¨C 2 roles. This was very disadvantageous to the poprization of jungler positions. As such, Chen Mo made some changes to the system and encouraged yers to practice with jungling heroes. However, before Jia Peng could finish killing the three wolves, a loud ¡°FISRT BLOOD¡± resounded throughout the arena. Jia Peng was stunned. What was going on? On a closer look, garen, who was on the topne, had already dealt first blood, while theva beast and the Grand Swordmaster on the enemy¡¯s topne were already pushing the tower. Jia Peng was speechless. He was too focused on jungling to notice how garen had died. However, Jia Peng was also puzzled. It had only been a few minutes since the start of the game, how could he be dead? Since he was just a passerby, Jia Peng didn¡¯t say much and continued to farm the bottom half of the jungle. In the end, garen spoke up.¡±Sword Saint,e and help me. I can¡¯t fight two people at once.¡± ¡°If you can¡¯t beat me, then go to the tower. Wait for me,¡± Jia Peng said helplessly. ¡°Oh,¡± Galen replied. Garen really did just log in under the tower. Jia Peng felt a little tired, but at least garen didn¡¯t send him off. As he moved his view to the topne, Jia Peng also nced at the demaster. He¡¯s so handsome! Not only had the model changed, but even the movements were different from the original moves of a Grand Swordmaster. The movements of this carefree swordsman, Master Yi, were very simr to those floating swordsmen in wuxia. They were very agile, and every time they swung their swords, there would be a sh of cold light. They were very handsome. He looked at his Original Skin and immediately felt that it was too horrible to look at. Jia Peng sighed helplessly and continued to farm the red BUFF. However, before he could finish, he received another notification.¡±Our hero has been killed!¡± Jia Peng saw that Vayne at the bottomne was dead. Jia Peng¡¯s face was full of confusion, this was really bad news! ¡°This man, he, he¡¯s too impulsive,¡± Chang xiuya exined.¡±He charged up and fought two people at once ...¡± Jia Peng shook his head helplessly. He wanted to type ¡°no need¡±, but after some thought, he deleted it and typed: ¡°Good luck, everyone!¡± Both sister lucky and Soraka were not at full health at the bottomne, but they continued to push thene relentlessly after Vayne was killed. Chang xiuya was shivering under the turret at the bottomne, and could only try her best to kill a few minions with her skills. Jia Peng saw a golden opportunity, and immediately outnked Chang xiuya from the back after the red BUFF was over. He then said to Chang xiuya,¡±¡±Hold on, I¡¯m almost there!¡± Jia Peng had already arrived, and theputer only noticed him then. Soraka and lucky sister turned around to attack. Jia Peng pressed his E-skill, boundless Kendo, and desman immediately rushed towards lucky sister, who had lower HP. ¡°Jia Peng!¡± Chang xiuya panicked,¡±be careful! There are two of them!¡± ¡°I¡¯m fine, just follow me!¡±Jia Peng said. Chang xiuya hurriedly cast an E-skill on Jia Peng, creating a shield around him. Then, with a flurry of attacks, her Q-skill and W-skill were all thrown onto lucky sister. ¡°Acting cute technique!¡± Following Lu Lu¡¯s shout, lucky sister turned into a harmless little animal. Jia Peng, on the other hand, didn¡¯t care about animals at all as he continued to hack at her. ¡°This will be a painful lesson!¡± The Wuji Sword Saint waved his long sword, and under the red BUFF¡¯s speed reduction effect and additional damage, he quickly cut down sister good luck to the ground. At this time, his health was still very good, and he continued to rush toward Soraka. One strike, two strikes, three strikes ... Master Yi¡¯s attack speed was very fast. Finally, after an Alpha Strike, Master Yi also killed Soraka and escaped from the range of the defensive towers with low health. The yers who were watching the battle heard what Master Yi said. ¡°Watch and learn.¡± ¡°DOUBLE KILL!¡± The sound effect of the notification rang throughout the entire arena. Furthermore, a special double-kill icon appeared in the center of everyone¡¯s screens, as well as Master Yi¡¯s head portrait. ¡°Wow, Jia Peng, you¡¯re amazing!¡± Chang xiuya eximed. Jia Peng was a little embarrassed, and he grinned,¡±¡±Hehe, it¡¯s nothing. It¡¯s aputer after all.¡± Although he said it was nothing, Jia Peng was actually very happy. The system¡¯s positive feedback for this kill was very good, which made him feel very happy. In MOBA games, it was rtively difficult to obtain kills. As for the triple, quadruple, and quintuple kills, they were even more difficult to obtain. In COG, there was no such rich positive feedback. Killing someone was nothing more than a dry system prompt, and there was no feeling. However, in League of Legends, this positive feedback was amplified in all aspects. When a hero attacked an enemy hero, there would be a special attack voice. For example, Master Yi¡¯s line was: ¡°This will be a painful lesson!¡± After the kill waspleted, the system would notify all yers that ¡°the enemy hero has been killed¡± and disy the avatars of the killer and the killed. The bottom frame would be differentiated by red and blue. If special conditions were met, such as double-kill, multi-kill, team wipe, super god, etc., There would be a special voice prompt and special icon to show it, which everyone could see clearly. After the battle, if the hero killed someone and survived, he would say a special voice to show off. For example, the sword saint¡¯s line was: ¡°Watch and learn.¡± (Chen Mo had taken this from some video highlights.) If other yers happened to see this hero, they would also hear the same sentence. Although he was killing theputer, Jia Peng still felt very happy. He went back to the city to buy equipment. In League of Legends, the B key was used as a recall key, allowing newbies to recall anywhere when they ran out of health without using any resources, which was very convenient for Jia Peng. After buying his equipment, Jia Peng went out again, cleared a few more monsters, and set his sights on the topne. After being killed once, garen obediently stayed under the tower. Fortunately, it was just a simpleputer, so both sides had been at peace. Jia Peng followed the tutorial and pressed the ALT key to send an icon that said ¡°heading to support¡±. With a crisp ¡°ding¡±, Jia Peng was sure that garen had heard and seen it, unless he wasn¡¯t in front of hisputer screen. Chapter 298 - human-head dog

Chapter 298: Chapter 297-human-head dog

Sure enough, garen raised the great sword in his hand and rushed over, shouting,¡±¡±Demacia!¡± ¡°F * ck!¡± Jia Peng was dumbfounded. He had only just reached the blue BUFF, and was still a distance away from the topne. Garen was in a bad state, with only half of his health left. Obviously, after seeing the signal, Galen did not even look at where the Grand Swordmaster was and rushed over. ¡°Big brother, wait for me to go first!¡± Jia Peng didn¡¯t have time to type. After garen rushed up, he was smashed into the sky by theva monster¡¯s big move. Then, he was madly attacked by the opponent¡¯s demaster. Even with his W-skill, he couldn¡¯t withstand it. By the time Jia Peng arrived, garen was already dead. Fortunately, the two opposing heroes had no skills left, and their health was low. Jia Peng¡¯s demaster activated Hignder and rushed over, raising his sword. Alpha Strike! The Grand Swordmaster¡¯s figure turned into a stream of light, directly cutting the low HP stone golem. Although the Grand Swordmaster himself no longer had the red BUFF and the speed reduction effect, his movement speed was very fast. The two opposing heroes were also very far away from the defensive tower, so the stone golem fell very quickly. After activating the Hignder skill, the Swordmaster¡¯s skills would refresh when he killed. Therefore, the Swordmaster used Alpha Strike again and killed the enemy Swordmaster with a few shes. demaster Yi, who had activated his Hignder, was running around like a Mad Dog, leaving afterimages behind him. It looked extremely cool. A deep system voice resounded throughout the arena.[Massacre!] ¡°Sword Saint, why don¡¯t youe in the morning?¡± Master Yi was speechless. Jia Peng didn¡¯t know how to exin it, so he decided to just leave it at that. Since he¡¯d already taken the head, the result was good. ¡­¡­ Completing four kills without dying was [massacre],pleting eight kills without dying was [super god massacre]. Chen Mo had been struggling with the system audio for quite some time. The main reason was that there were some words like ¡°first blood¡± that sounded less impressive in Chinese, so in Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, even the China Style game, Mobile Legends, still had English pronunciations like ¡°FIRST BLOOD¡± and ¡°PENTA KILL¡±. However, Chen Mo also considered that in his previous life, MOBA games were imported, and the yers were already used to English audio, so they kept the English audio effects. However, Chen Mo¡¯s League of Legends was for Chinese yers who had never yed any MOBA games before. If there were too many English pronunciations, the yers would be confused. After much thought, Chen Mo decided to use only ¡°FISRT BLOOD,¡±¡±DOUBLE KILL,¡±¡±triple KILL,¡±¡±QUADRA KILL¡± and ¡°PENTA KILL¡±, and use Chinese for the rest. The sound effects of thebo kill were changed to ¡°massacre,¡±¡±unstoppable,¡±¡±dominate thepetition,¡±¡±God-level massacre,¡± and ¡°super-God massacre.¡± After the A-list voice actors shouted out these words in Chinese, it felt quite realistic and did not feel too out of ce. Of course, Chen Mo considered the fact that he would have to make an International Version in the future, and that some people might have other preferences, so he added an entire set of English voices, allowing the yers to switch between them freely. ¡­¡­ Wen Lingwei and Twisted Fate were fighting in the middlene, neither of them could kill the other. They would go home when they were low on health, and after ying for more than 10 minutes, there was no kill count. There weren¡¯t many kills on the top and bottomnes, and all of them were assists, all of which were taken by Jia Peng¡¯s demaster. Moreover, as the number of Grand Swordmaster kills increased, his equipment also became better and better. Soon, hepletely crushed theputer with his equipment. In the end, as long as Jia Peng saw aputer, he would immediately activate his Hignder and rush up, killing with a few shes. The sword Saint was not only fast at killing people, but he was also fast at destroying towers. The other four followed him and soon broke the crystal of theputer and won. In the end, the Grand Swordmaster¡¯s score was 13/0/4, and he had taken most of the kills. ¡°Wow, Jia Peng, you¡¯re amazing!¡± Chang xiuya eximed. Jia Peng scratched his head in embarrassment,¡±¡±That, luck, luck.¡± ¡°He¡¯s a dog with a human head,¡±Wen Lingwei said. Jia Peng coughed dryly,¡±ahem, I don¡¯t like that. What do you mean a human-head dog? a head that was taken by skill, how could it be a human-head dog ...¡± At the end of the battle, Jia Peng was looking at his stats happily. In Warcraft, there would be a calction interface after a battle, and you could check the economicparison between the two sides. However, in League of Legends, the data was more abundant. On the entire interface, there were three options: [scoreboard],[chart], and [overview]. In the scoreboard, you could check all the heroes ¡®equipment, battle records, Summoner skills, and so on. In the [chart], you could view various detailed data of the heroes, including damage output, healing amount, damage received, the number of minions or monsters killed, and so on. The damage could also be subdivided, including the (physical/magic/true) damage dealt to the heroes and the total damage dealt. In total damage, there was also damage to the defensive towers and strategic points (defensive towers, big and small dragons, etc.). Moreover, all the data could be disyed in the form of a chart, and the length could be seen at a nce. In the overview column, you could view the economic curve of both sides. You could see the distribution of heroes ¡®kills on the map. After choosing a hero, you could also see the hero¡¯s kill and death location on the map. Through the final calction interface, it was clear who carried and who was cheated. After a battle, yers only needed to look at two statistics to determine whether their carry points were good or not. One was the battle record, and the other was the amount of damage. Of course, the damage taken, the number of CS, and other data could also be used as an important standard to measure his performance. Even those who had never experienced this game could roughly guess the entire process of the battle from the data and roughly see the key points of winning and losing. In some games, the statistics were not detailed enough. Some games, on the other hand, deliberately made the statistics less detailed for the sake of the yers ¡®feelings. But this would have the opposite effect. For the yers who were cheated, they couldn¡¯t see the data and didn¡¯t know what they were doing wrong. They didn¡¯t know how to improve and improve, and they would never grow and improve. And the final result was likely to be that everyone felt that they yed well, and then entered the stage of endless abuse, which would eventually make the whole game environment worse. Of course, with these data, the person who cheated could also refuse to admit his mistake, but at least it would make the carry feel better. He could also post the battle results on his WeChat moments and add a sentence: ¡°I can¡¯t move this group of scammers!¡± Chapter 299 - Feedback from the experience store players

Chapter 299: Feedback from the experience store yers

Jia Peng was very happy. Although he felt that this game was not as difficult as Warcraft, he was satisfied as long as he killed. It was very easy. Killing people felt good. He could even show off in front of his friends. It was simply perfect! Wen Lingwei nced at him.¡±Enough, stop being so happy about your results. Let¡¯s have another round. It was a little weird just now, and you got the kill.¡± ¡°Alright,¡± he said. Jia Peng invited the two of them again, and they lined up again. Chang xiuya was still a little scared, thinking that she couldn¡¯t y the game well, but seeing how good Jia Peng was, she felt that it didn¡¯t matter if she didn¡¯t y well, at least she could lie down with him. The feeling of winning while lying down was pretty good. As for Jia Peng, he was even happier. He couldn¡¯t wait to experience the thrill of Master Yi¡¯s crazy killing again. He entered the game selection interface again. This time, everyone chose a different champion. Jia Peng¡¯s fear of choosing was acting up again. He turned to Chen Zhao and asked,¡±¡±Manager, which hero is the best?¡± ¡°They¡¯re all powerful,¡±Chen Zhao said indifferently. Jia Peng didn¡¯t believe him,¡±manager, don¡¯t lie to me. How can they all be good? There are definitely some who are powerful and some who aren ¡®t. ¡± Chen Mo rolled his eyes,¡±I feel like you¡¯re questioning my ability to bnce the numbers.¡± These heroes are really powerful, but they have different positions and responsibilities. ¡± ¡°Alright,¡± he said. Jia Peng thought for a moment and changed his way of putting it,¡±then, are there any other heroes that are simr to the sword Saint?¡± Chen Zhao thought for a moment. Because it was the first version, there were not many assassin heroes that could be shown. The popr children¡¯s Zed and torsos had not been developed yet. ¡°You can try the Barbarian King or the clown.¡± Chen Zhao said. Jia Peng took a look and saw that someone had already locked Teemo down, leaving him with only a jungler position. ¡°Then I¡¯ll pick the clown as the jungler.¡± As Jia Peng spoke, he chose the demon clown sakke. In terms of the hero¡¯s image, he was a very cool hero, very simr to some perverted murderers in American dramas. In terms of image, he was like a child¡¯s nightmare. ¡°Manager, how do we y this champion?¡± Jia Peng asked after looking at the clown¡¯s skills. In terms of skills, the clown was the same as the sword Master, an assassin-type hero. His Q-skill was discement and invisibility, his W-skill was to ce a box on the ground, his E-skill was to slow down, and his R-SKILL was to clone himself. However, Jia Peng couldn¡¯t think of a betterbo just by looking at the skill description. Chen Zhao exined,¡±the box can be used in jungles. It can also be thrown into the grass to trick people.¡± He used his Q-skill, invisible wall, and E-skill to slow his opponent down. Big moves can be used to escape or to heal damage. ¡± ¡°...Sure, manager, your teaching is very clear.¡± This was another advantage of League of Legends¡¯s simplified routines, which made it very easy to teach between yers. A champion like the demonic clown should be considered a difficult champion, but its basic ystyle and routine could still be exined clearly in a few simple words. Especially after Jia Peng had yed the Wuji desman, he had a basic understanding of how assassin-type heroes were yed, and it was even easier to understand the characteristics of the clown hero. The second Battle between humans and machines met with a slight setback, mainly because Teemo at the topne was a little too aggressive, giving away four heads in less than ten minutes. Fortunately, Jia Peng carried the game with his life and grabbed the twoputers on the topne a few times, so he didn¡¯t lose the game. ¡°Phew, that scared me to death. It would be too embarrassing if I lost. So the biggest threat in this game is your teammates. ¡± Jia Peng said as he wiped the cold sweat off his forehead. Chen Zhao couldn¡¯t help butugh. This was the truth. After all, one should not be afraid of a god-like opponent, but of a pig-like teammate. Chen Mo patted Jia Peng¡¯s shoulder.¡±You guys have fun. I¡¯ll go check on the others.¡± In the entire PC experience area of the experience store, about 80% of the yers were ying League of Legends. However, there were also a small number of yers who didn¡¯t like this kind of confrontational game, or they didn¡¯t understand the game, so they closed the game after experiencing it for a while. Chen Mo wasn¡¯t surprised, because these types ofpetitive games could only be fun when you¡¯re really in it, and it¡¯d be best if you had good friends to y with. Most people were still stuck in the stage of the battle between humans and machines, and the true charm of League of Legends had not been fully revealed. Everyone was ying in a daze. The bright, cheeky style and simple game controls made it difficult for people to realize how powerful a PC game it would be. Some yers would ask Chen Mo questions from time to time. Manager, How do I y hero? can you help me?¡± ¡°Manager, what level do I have to be to hit people? I¡¯m tired of ying on theputer!¡± ¡°Manager, I¡¯m super godly! Don¡¯t you think I¡¯m gifted?¡± ¡°Manager, how do you y Teemo? can you teach him?¡± ¡­¡­ Chen Mo walked around and gave some advice whenever yers asked questions, as well as their feedback on the game. So far, the yers didn¡¯t have much opinion about the game, but they didn¡¯t boast about it either. Many people thought it was just a normal PvP game. Those who hadn¡¯t yed Warcraft¡¯s PvP maps thought the game was too simple and monotonous, while those who had yed Warcraft¡¯s PvP maps thought it was too simple. After all, the core yers of Warcraft were more or less used to forming teams, but this game didn¡¯t even have that, which made them very ufortable. Moreover, the mixed and matched style of the heroes made many old yers feel that the game was not so solemn and the sense of immersion was less. Like Warcraft and Diablo, the game environment was perfect. The art styles, sound effects, and environment were all very attractive to hardcore yers. However, League of Legends gave the yers a sense of surrealism, as if they were children ying house. There were cute heroes like Timo, Annie, and Lulu in the game, and the overall style was more Q-like. The shape and special attack effects of the defense tower, the crystal hub, the minions ... These elements in the map also seemed unreal, like toys. The appearance of the soldiers was too simple, and there was almost no sound effect. They were like rows of ants, and they didn¡¯t even scream when they died. Furthermore, in the game, heroes would not feel too much frustration after they died. They would just fall to the ground and scream, and then the screen would turn ck and white. However, they only needed to wait for more than ten seconds before they were resurrected, and they could jump back to the front line again. These hardcore yers felt that Chen Mo¡¯s new game was not as good as Warcraft or Diablo. Of course, they were too embarrassed to say it out loud, and only vaguely asked Chen Mo if he could make the entire battlefield more realistic, at least to let the yers feel more immersed. Chen Mo smiled but didn¡¯t say anything. Chapter 300 - heated discussion

Chapter 300: Chapter 299 heated discussion

While they were collecting feedback from the yers in the League of Legends Experience Store, the research and development team did not stay idle. Zhao Yunting was busy buying servers and looking for customer servicepanies. The others were also dealing with the details of the game, preparing promotional materials, and preparing for the first release of League of Legends. League of Legends was different from other games before it. It would have a huge number of yers in the future, so it would have high requirements on the server. Chen Mo had made many online games before, such as I am MT, Onmyoji, etc. The servers were all Cloud Virtual Machine, and the customer service teams were all from specialized customer servicepanies. The server technology in this world was very mature, because many VR games had a terrifying amount of data transmission. If they could move VR games ¡®servers, they could move League of Legends as well. However, Chen Mo didn¡¯t dare to be careless. He specifically told Zhao Yunting not to think about saving money on the server and customer service, and that they had to do their best. They had to ensure that the normal dy in League of Legends was below 10 ms, and every question of the yers had to be answered in a timely and professional manner. The development of League of Legends could be said to be very fast, or rather, very rushed. On one hand, there was a BUG like game editor in this world, which made developing games much faster. On the other hand, the initial version of League of Legends that Chen Mo nned wasn¡¯t tooplicated, with only twenty-five heroes. Therefore, before the prototype of COG¡¯s game was released, Chen Mo had already made the first version of League of Legends and put it in the experience store not long after the mmorpgs and FPS games of Emperor dynasty and Zen were created. It had to be admitted that ¡°speed is the key to sess¡± was a saying in the gaming circle, especially during the critical period. One month earlier or one monthter, the same game could have a different ending. Even though League of Legends was a game of high quality, Chen Mo didn¡¯t want to give his opponents any chance to make aeback. ¡­¡­ The information about League of Legends was quickly spread online by the yers in the experience store. Many of them had recorded videos of the game and introduced the game to other yers. As soon as the news spread, it quickly set off a huge uproar among the yers. For most of the yers, they were dumbfounded after hearing the news. Chen Mo had done a good job of keeping it a secret, so there wasn¡¯t a single bit of information about it being leaked. Most people didn¡¯t expect Chen Mo to be making a game like this. The yers were all discussing the videos that were circting on the inte. ¡°Chen Mo¡¯s new game is out? This was too F * cking fast! Is it going to be a small production like eich again?¡± ¡°I can¡¯t really tell, but ording to the yers in the experience store, Chen Mo seems to ce a lot of importance on this game. It doesn¡¯t look like it¡¯s just for fun, it should be the core game for the next stage.¡± ¡°Why does this feel a little like a COG?¡± ¡°Simr my a * s. The splitting, mapyout, heroes, and even the style arepletely different from COG. How are they simr?¡± ¡°Uh, I mean they¡¯re all this kind of 5V5petitive games.¡± ¡°If you put it that way, then the earliest 5V5petitive games should be Chen Mo¡¯s own Chenghai 3C. Chen Mo exined that Chenghai is tomemorate a friend of his, and 3c means three corders, which means three paths. ¡± ¡°Uh, fine, my bad. So you¡¯re saying that Chen Mo specifically optimized the 3C gamey and made an independent game?¡± ¡°...Why does it feel like this is what the author of COG is doing?¡± ¡°Weren¡¯t there a lot of people on the forums urging Chen Mo to work with the COG author? and Chen Mo made a simr game??¡± ¡°I¡¯ve done some calctions. League of Legends should have been in development before COG became popr. In other words ... Chen Zhao had already nned this, so he didn¡¯t care?¡± ¡°I¡¯m supportive of Chen Mo making games as an official, since the author of COG is a foreigner, but...What the hell is this game? Where is my Arthas? Where¡¯s my Dark Ranger?¡± ¡°Yeah, I thought this game was simr to Warcraft, but the style ... Is this a cartoon game?¡± ¡°I don¡¯t care! I want Arthas!!¡± ¡°Moreover, from the demo, the game is quite simple, especially in terms of control. There¡¯s no formation, and the skills are fixed at QWERDF. All the controls only need a dozen keys.¡± ¡°The style is a little too fresh. I don¡¯t feel anything.¡± ¡°I don¡¯t think there¡¯s any technique to speak of.¡± ¡°Just one picture? Even though this was the beta version, wasn¡¯t Chen Mo a little too much? You can change the Warcraft map too. ¡± ¡°The one above, have you never yed COG? In fact, there¡¯s only one drawing in a COG, not to mention that the drawing in League of Legends is much moreplicated than a COG. ¡± ¡°The number of heroes is okay, 25, but there are a lot of heroes here that I can¡¯t evenment on. For example, Teemo, is he a rabbit or a roon? I don¡¯t think such a young hero is for kindergarteners to y with, right?¡± ¡°Upstairs, do you all have such a big opinion? I think this game is not bad after watching the video. At least it¡¯s easy to get started, the rules are clear, and the pleasure of killing people is pretty good. It¡¯s at least above standard. ¡± ¡°You don¡¯t understand, we¡¯re asking for more because it¡¯s Chen Mo. He¡¯s already made games like Warcraft and Diablo, so this new game is obviously not as good! It¡¯s obvious that it was made to speed up the progress!¡± ¡°Do you guys think that Chen Mo made a new game because he wasn¡¯t convinced by COG?¡± ¡°I don¡¯t know, if you¡¯re not happy with COG, shouldn¡¯t you use Warcraft¡¯s heroes? Why do you have to create so many new heroes?¡± ¡°I feel like Chen Mo is messing around!¡± ¡­¡­ Soon, the yers on the forum were in a heated argument. Since most of Chen Mo¡¯s PC fans were from Warcraft and Diablo, they were used to the realistic and dark art style. They were also quite skilled in the controls, so they were definitely not used to the art style and controls of League of Legends. In their eyes, this wasn¡¯t a change in style, but a regression in skill. Of course, there were also many yers who supported League of Legends or were just waiting to see. To them, the change in style was probably a change and attempt by Chen Mo. Whether or not League of Legends would seed, they all supported Chen Mo¡¯s attempt and changes. There were also some yers who liked to y COG who had a bad guess. Chen Mo didn¡¯t disclose any information about working with the maker of COG, and the new game League of Legends was obviously a directpetitor of COG, so ... Wouldn¡¯t that mean that the COG maker wouldn¡¯t be able to get the rights to the heroes in Warcraft? Chapter 301 - spying on the enemy

Chapter 301: Chapter 300: spying on the enemy

What if they couldn¡¯t get the copyright? All the models would have to be changed, and even the names and titles of some heroes would have to be modified. The names of the equipment in the game would also have to be redone. Although for big yers like GA, this kind of change was not too troublesome, it was too damaging to the original group of yers of COG. Many people liked COG because they liked the hero characters in Azeroth. If all of them were changed, the whole spiritual essence would be different. However, there were also spections that Clive Lehmann and GA wanted to make the game a game that would be popr all over the world, and wouldn¡¯t be restricted to the original yer base. So to them, even if they couldn¡¯t get the copyright, it would only be a small setback, it wouldn¡¯t be a big blow. Some people were confused. Some people felt pity. However, Chen Mo¡¯s goal of releasing League of Legends first was achieved. Even though the game wasn¡¯t widely promoted yet, it still attracted a lot of attention after it was released during the special break before the new year. ¡­¡­ Emperor dynasty Entertainment¡¯s headquarters. Lin chaoxu looked at the demo of League of Legends on hisputer screen and frowned. To him, this matter was very confusing. Emperor dynasty entertainment had already heard from GA that Chen Mo had rejected their offer to buy the rights to Warcraft characters, and was very firm about it. This was within Lin chaoxu¡¯s expectations. He knew how much Chen Zhao valued the universe of Azeroth and that Chen Zhao wasn¡¯t someone who would be greedy for short-term benefits. However, Lin chaoxu waspletely confused about League of Legends. Lin chaoxu knew about it after the demo of League of Legends was released on the inte. However, after reading the relevant information and discussing it with the yers, Lin chaoxu¡¯s doubts grew. The first question was, why did Chen Mo make a game like this? ording to the yers in the experience store, Chen Mo ced a lot of importance on this game, and even made it the main part of the next development phase. However, in Lin chaoxu¡¯s eyes, these types of PvP games were just for fun. With Chen Mo¡¯s current abilities and funds, he could definitely make a bigger game. Lin chaoxu¡¯s desire to act as COG¡¯s proxy was equivalent to a bet. This was a brand new game model and was rtively novel. It was good if it worked, but there was no big loss if it didn ¡®t. But Chen Mo seemed to be confident that this game would work? The second question was why Chen Zhao didn¡¯t be Azeroth. If Chen Mo¡¯s new game was directlypeting with COG, then it was perfectly reasonable for him not to sell the rights to the characters in Warcraft. However, it was strange that he didn¡¯t sell it or use it for himself. Moreover, from the video, the art style and ystyle of League of Legends were different from any other games that Chen Mo had made before. From Lin chaoxu¡¯s point of view, Chen Mo hadpletely given up on his previous advantages and was making a very risky attempt. Lin chaoxu found it hard to put his mind at ease. Chen Mo hadn¡¯t done anything before, but releasing League of Legends all of a sudden meant that he was prepared to make a name for himself, and wanted to make use of the time difference to release the game as soon as possible. Lin chaoxu was very clear on the principle of ¡®speed is the key to sess¡¯. There was a knock on the door. Lin chaoxu organized his thoughts and said,e in.¡± A somewhat reserved man walked in and bowed slightly.¡±¡±President Lin, you were looking for me?¡± Lin chaoxu pointed to the seat beside him,¡±¡±Have a seat.¡± The man looked like he was in his early thirties, wearing sneakers, jeans, and a brown top. He looked no different from the ordinary employees of Emperor dynasty entertainment. In reality, Jin jieguang was one of Emperor dynasty Entertainment¡¯s mid-level managers, and he was in charge of matters rted to COG¡¯s operations. Lin chaoxu¡¯s evaluation of this person was ¡°extremely diligent at work, butcking in intelligence.¡± In terms of work attitude, Jin jieguang was a model figure in Emperor dynasty entertainment. He was devoted to his work and had little private life. Usually, when Lin chaoxu gave him an order, as long as he clearly exined all the things to take note of, he would be able toplete it better. However, this person wasn¡¯t suitable for work that required a high degree of autonomy, and his poprity within Emperor dynasty entertainment was average. But this wasn¡¯t important to Lin chaoxu. To him, people like Jin jieguang should be the ssic example of a good employee. They were honest, obedient, and hardworking. Their low IQ had be their strengths. Lin chaoxu showed the screen of hisptop to Jin jieguang,¡±¡±Have you seen the demo of League of Legends?¡± ¡°Chief Lin, I¡¯ve been paying attention to this matter. I¡¯ve seen it before,¡± said Jin jieguang hurriedly. Lin chaoxu nodded. Jin jieguang was indeed reliable. ¡°Any thoughts?¡± Lin chaoxu asked. Jin jieguang thought for a moment.¡±Mr. Lin, I think the information revealed in this video is still quite little. Moreover, watching a video and ying it yourself are still different. You can¡¯t tell how good a game is just by watching a video.¡± Lin chaoxu was very satisfied with this statement. He had the same thoughts as well. ¡°Boss Lin,¡± Jin jieguang volunteered,¡±I think it doesn¡¯t matter if League of Legends is a good game or not. If Chen Mo values this game, then we should.¡± ¡°I want to try out League of Legends at Chen Mo¡¯s Experience Store and create a detailed experience report for further analysis.¡± Lin chaoxu nodded his head in satisfaction,¡±good, very good.¡± I feel like you¡¯ve opened your mind? Not bad, maintain your current working state. ¡± Jin jieguang nodded vigorously.¡±Okay, Mr. Lin. I¡¯ll get ready. I¡¯ll book the tickets now.¡± ¡­¡­ ¡­¡­ Coming out of the airport, Jin jieguang¡¯s biggest feeling was that the capital was really cold. However, his heart was filled with pride. Even though there were people who criticized him inside Emperor dynasty entertainment and in the gaming industry, Jin jieguang still felt pretty good about himself. After all, in his opinion, it was all thanks to his own hard work that he was able to get to where he was today. This time, Jin jieguang was also very ambitious. He wanted to push the game ¡°COG¡± to the top in China and add another glorious stroke to his resume. As the biggestpetitor of COG, League of Legends was a huge threat. Jin jieguang was very concerned about it, which was why he came to Chen Mo¡¯s Experience Store to spy on the enemy. Chen Mo¡¯s Experience Store wasn¡¯t hard to find. Jin jieguang took a taxi from the airport to Chen Mo¡¯s Experience Store and found a nearby hotel to stay in. After all, it would be too eye-catching to drag a suitcase to the experience store to y games. Jin jieguang had also changed his clothes to make himself look more like an office worker who had nothing to do with the game industry. After everything was ready, Jin jieguang went to Chen Mo¡¯s Experience Store. Chapter 302

Chapter 302: Chapter 301-fishing for information

Outside the experience store, Jin jieguang couldn¡¯t help but feel that the experience store was quite impressive. Although the floor wasn¡¯t high, it was full of people. The hall was full of yers, some reading books and some chatting. It was very lively. Jin jieguang stopped in front of the Arthas statue in front of the experience store for a while and took out his phone to take a picture with Arthas. The photo was good, and the front soft light camera captured Jin jieguang¡¯s ugly face, making him look like a young man. This made Jin jieguang very satisfied, and he couldn¡¯t help clicking the share button and posting it on Weibo. However, Jin jieguang didn¡¯t add any text because he didn¡¯t want to be too mboyant. Jin jieguang was enjoying the selfie while refreshing his Weibo to see if anyone had replied to him. But unfortunately, he had very few fans. After a long time, no one left a message or replied, which made him a little disappointed. Jin jieguang waited for a while before walking into the experience store. ¡°Hello, wee.¡± The front desk girl greeted with a sweet smile. Jin jieguang went to the front desk, took out his ID card from his wallet, and handed it over. Jin jieguang knew how to get online in the experience store, so he didn¡¯t have to post on the inte asking questions like ¡°how to pretend to be a frequent visitor when it¡¯s your first time in a game experience Store¡±. After the payment, the front desk girl handed back her ID card with both hands.¡±¡±I wish you a pleasant game.¡± Jin jieguang smiled and said,¡±thank you.¡± He thought that this front desk girl was quite cute and polite. The first floor was the PC experience area. Jin jieguang found an emptyputer and sat down. ...... The experience store was quite popr that day, and there were only five or six empty seats left. Jin jieguang walked over and found that most of the people were ying League of Legends. The style of the game was very recognizable. A row ofputers with green screens was very spectacr. Jin jieguang quickly found the game icon of League of Legends on theputer screen and clicked to start the game. Beginner¡¯s tutorial. AI practice. Various game settings. Jin jieguang yed the game very seriously. After getting a general understanding of the game through the tutorial, he didn¡¯t rush to continue ying. Instead, he carefully analyzed all aspects of the game and secretly recorded them. Jin jieguang took out a small notebook from his pocket and specially drew out the entire interfaceyout of League of Legends. All the details were as detailed as possible. Jin jieguang recorded everything that was obviously different from COG, regardless of whether he understood it or not. It was a Summoner¡¯s skill. Talent system. Profit model. Hero characteristics. The game¡¯s style. Jin Jie wrote down everything he saw and soon filled up two or three pages. What interested him the most was the core gamey andbat system of the game. Obviously,pared to COG, League of Legends had many improvements, but there were also many areas where it had regressed. For example, the basic controls and some specific ying methods. Jin jieguang, who was ying League of Legends for the first time, was as confused as many other COG yers. The game seemed too simple. However, Jin jieguang had been in charge of the game operation for many years, and he soon realized that the simplification of the operation mode and specific ying methods in League of Legends helped to greatly reduce the difficulty of the game. For example, canceling the make-up, pressing the B key to return to the city, and a more specific equipment synthesis map could significantly improve the gaming experience of new yers. Jin jieguang took notes seriously. Suddenly, Jin jieguang heard someone in the PC experience area greeting,¡±¡±Manager,e and teach me how to y this hero!¡± Jin jieguang looked up and saw Chen Mo teaching a yer how to y League of Legends at the entrance of the PC experience area. Jin jieguang had never seen Chen Zhao¡¯s photo before, but he had heard of his name. Obviously, Chen Mo was the only one who was called ¡®manager¡¯ in the experience store. He hurriedly put away the small notebook on the table and calmed down his rather excited mood. Chen Mo probably didn¡¯t know who he was. After all, Chen Mo only cared about people like Lin chaoxu and Qin Xiao. He probably wouldn¡¯t care about a normal mid-tier manager like Emperor dynasty entertainment. Chen Mo quickly finished guiding that yer, then walked forward to guide another yer. Jin jieguang suddenly had a bold idea. Should he pretend to be a yer and try to get some information from Chen Mo? This thought made Jin jieguang very nervous, but it also made him excited. Although he could get some information by just ying the game, it was definitely superficial information. Since Chen Mo dared to put the game in the experience store, he wouldn¡¯t be afraid of people watching. However, what if he could get a little bit of Chen Mo¡¯s design as a yer? Then this trip to the imperial capital would be worth it. Jin jieguang immediately started a game and pretended to be a yer. However, his attention wasn¡¯t on the game, but on Chen Mo, who was walking towards him. Soon, Chen Mo strolled to Jin jieguang¡¯s side. ¡°Manager, can you teach me how to y this hero?¡± Jin jieguang raised his hand. Chen Zhao immediately walked over. Jin jieguang carefully observed Chen Mo¡¯s expression. He didn¡¯t seem to be surprised, so it was obvious that he thought Chen Mo was just a normal yer. Chen Mo looked at Jin jieguang¡¯sputer screen. ¡°You hero, you just need to die a little more.¡± Chen Zhao said. ¡°Ah?¡± Jin jieguang asked. ¡°Look,¡± Chen Mo exined patiently,¡±this hero is called Carls the Deathsinger. His passive skill is that he can continue to use skills for seven seconds after death. When he¡¯s alive, he¡¯s very short of blue, but after he dies, he can release skills without consuming blue. So, after he dies, hisbat power will be particrly high. ¡± ¡°Huh?¡± Jin jieguang scratched his head. Chen Mo continued to exin,¡±his way of ying is quite simple. He¡¯ll farm steadily, then when it¡¯s time for a teamfight, he¡¯ll sh into the crowd, use his W-skill to block the way, and then use his E-skill to deal a lot of damage to the surrounding enemies. When he¡¯s dead, he¡¯ll release an all-screen ultimate to clear the field.¡± Do you understand?¡± ¡°No, I don¡¯t quite understand,¡± Jin jieguang replied. Chen Mo wasn¡¯t in a hurry.¡±It¡¯s fine. Just remember, don¡¯t be afraid of death when ying this champion. Just charge into the crowd and use your E-skill to its full potential.¡± Jin jieguang scratched his head. Obviously, this was different from his experience when he yed COG. A hero that needed to die first to be powerful, what the hell was this? Seeing that Chen Mo was about to leave, Jin jieguang quickly raised his hand again. ¡°Wait a minute, manager, I think this champion¡¯s positioning is very strange. Why did it be like this?¡± ¡°What?¡± Chen Mo looked at him.¡±Why do you ask?¡± Jin jieguang¡¯s brain was spinning.¡±I¡¯ve been ying Warcraft and COG a lot. I don¡¯t think there¡¯s such a hero in there. That¡¯s why I¡¯m curious.¡± ¡°Oh, you¡¯re an old yer. In fact, many old yers have simr problems. ¡± Chen Mo sat down on the empty seat beside him and exined patiently,¡±actually, this hero was designed for noobs.¡± Chapter 303

Chapter 303: Chapter 302-heart to heart

Jin jieguang replied with an ¡°Oh¡± and pretended to y the game seriously while saying, ¡°I¡¯d like to hear more about it, manager. I feel that this hero is very meaningful. You must have put in a lot of effort back then, right?¡± Chen Moughed and waved his hand in embarrassment,¡±¡±That¡¯s definitely a loss of some brain cells, but that¡¯s how we designers are. We try so hard to squeeze out ideas to make the yers have more fun.¡± ¡°Yes, yes, yes, you¡¯re absolutely right, manager,¡± Jin jieguang said with admiration.¡±You¡¯re a role model for video game designers.¡± Chen Mo obviously enjoyed it. He reminded Jin jieguang,¡±¡±Your champion can use Q-skill in the early game to farm CS. This skill can basically rece normal attacks.¡± ¡°Alright,¡± Jin jieguang quickly nodded. Manager, you said that this hero was designed for noobs, but why do I feel that it¡¯s hard to y?¡± You don¡¯t understand,¡±Chen Zhao exined. This hero could use skills even after death, so who would die easily? Newbies die easily. If you¡¯re a veteran and you don¡¯t die even after ying for half a day, then you¡¯re basically born with one less skill, right?¡± Jin jieguang nodded,¡±Yes, that¡¯s right.¡± Chen Mo continued,¡±also, this hero¡¯s ultimate is an all-screen attack. It¡¯s used on all enemy heroes. No matter how weak you are, if you see the enemy hero¡¯s HP is low, you can use your ultimate and kill it, right?¡± Jin jieguang looked at the description of the Deathsinger¡¯s big move and felt that it was indeed the case. ¡°That¡¯s why it¡¯s a newbie hero. There¡¯s nothing wrong with that. ¡± Chen Zhao said. Jin jieguang nodded immediately. He felt that he had sessfully gained Chen Zhao¡¯s trust and made Chen Zhao want to show off. He could definitely get more information by beating around the bush. On the surface, Jin jieguang was ying the game, but in fact, he was constantly thinking about how to change the topic to the design concept of League of Legends. After thinking for a while, Jin jieguang still decided to use ttery as the main breakthrough. Manager, you¡¯re so considerate. You¡¯re afraid that the newbies won¡¯t know how to y, so you specially designed such a simple hero for them.¡± ...... Chen Mo revealed an enigmatic smile,¡±¡±Actually, this hero has a deeper meaning.¡± Jin jieguang¡¯s heart was filled with ecstasy, but he still pretended to be unconcerned but slightly interested on the surface.¡±Ah? Is that so?¡± Chen Mo hesitated,¡±well, it¡¯s rted to my uing strategy. It¡¯s ... Hard to say.¡± Jin jieguang¡¯s heart sank, and he thought to himself,¡±don ¡®t, we¡¯ve already said this, don¡¯t y with me.¡± Before Jin jieguang could think of a reply, Chen Mo continued. As if he had gone through some intense psychological battle, Chen Zhao stammered,¡±¡±Actually, it¡¯s fine to tell you. After all, you¡¯re an old yer in the experience store. But you must remember, you can¡¯t tell anyone else, or else you¡¯ll be digging a hole for me. ¡± Jin jieguang quickly expressed his opinion.¡±Don¡¯t worry, manager. I¡¯m your die-hard fan. I won¡¯t say anything!¡± Chen Zhao hesitated for a moment, but still said,¡±¡±Alright, I believe you. You know that Emperor dynasty entertainment and fantasy gaming tform have been targeting us, right?¡± ¡°Yeah, I¡¯ve heard a little about it,¡± Jin jieguang nodded. Chen Mo lowered his voice,¡±they want to make a popr game that can dominate the PC market. I think so too.¡± So, the goal of League of Legends is to dominate the PC game market. As for how?¡± ¡°You¡¯ve yed COG before, so you should be able to feel that League of Legends has be easier, right? In fact, simple games were the general trend because most yers were bad at it, right? Most of the hardcore yers have already been divided, so the current situation is that the one with the weakest hand will rule the world. ¡± Jin jieguang nodded. He thought so too. Chen Mo¡¯s words were like a saying of wisdom. Emperor dynasty Entertainment¡¯s ¡°Project: S ¡°and three realms, which was developed by ZEN Entertainment, followed this idea. They reduced the configuration and simplified the operation, so as to capture more yers. So on this point, everyone¡¯s line of thought was surprisingly consistent. ¡°Then, manager, is that why you made so many simplifications in League of Legends?¡± asked Jin jieguang. Chen Mo paused for a second and continued,¡±¡±Actually, League of Legends is only in its early stages. I still have the most crucial strategy forter, waiting to screw over dynasty and divine fantasy.¡± Jin jieguang listened carefully. Chen Mo continued,¡±I¡¯m going to simplify League of Legends!¡± This includes removing thest hit and equipment system, the team sharing levels, heads, hiding game data, etc. Topletely eliminate negative feedback and make it a paradise for new yers!¡± There was a lot of information in this video, and Jin jieguang¡¯s hand trembled. He identally ran to the tower and was killed by theputer on the other side. Cancel thest hit and equipment system? Share levels and kills? Hidden data? This sounded like a big change! ¡°This ... Will work?¡± Jin jieguang was puzzled. ¡°Why can¡¯t I?¡± Chen Mo was obviously getting excited,¡±look, League of Legends is only a beginner version now. Doesn¡¯t it make the newbie experience much better?¡± There was also a clear synthesis diagram, simplified item operation, designed a special novice hero, and even equipment that could automatically transfer money. Isn¡¯t the newbie experience of this version very good?¡± ¡°Yes ... Indeed.¡± Jin jieguang nodded. Chen Mo exined,¡±but the current version is a lie to Emperor dynasty. I can¡¯t perfect the game from the start. Otherwise, they¡¯ll copy me.¡± I¡¯ll make an iplete one first, and when they¡¯re halfway done, I¡¯ll bring out theplete one! When the timees, tsk, tsk, tsk, you can¡¯t even look at the beautiful painting. ¡± Jin jieguang subconsciously shivered, thinking that Chen Mo was really good at scheming! Chen Zhao didn¡¯t notice his expression. He continued excitedly,¡±¡±Cancel the negative feedback so that everyone can have a good time. For example, if a newbie¡¯s level, CS, and equipment are suppressed, it doesn¡¯t matter. I cancel the level and CS, and the equipment system doesn¡¯t want it. For example, if a newbie dies too many times and the data doesn¡¯t look good, it¡¯s fine. As long as we get a kill, it will be counted as a kill. Protect the newbies ¡°privacy and let them enjoy the game to their heart¡¯s content. By then, the number of yers will definitely increase explosively. It¡¯ll be hard not to be popr!¡± Jin jieguang raised his thumb and said,¡±good, really good!¡± Manager, listening to your words is better than studying for ten years. No wonder the manager can make so many awesome games. ¡± Chen Mo waved his hand,¡±it¡¯s nothing. It¡¯s just a small experience. It¡¯s not worth mentioning.¡± ¡°Then do you think the S-grade videogame designers at Emperor dynasty entertainment would have thought of this?¡± jieguang asked. Chen Zhao¡¯s expression became serious.¡±¡±I don¡¯t think they¡¯ll think of this. If they really do, then it¡¯ll be very bad for me. ¡± ¡°Yes, they definitely wouldn¡¯t have thought of it!¡± Jin jieguang quickly nodded. Chapter 304

Chapter 304: Chapter 303-rejection

Jin jieguang was excited. Chen Mo¡¯s words were like opening a door for him. His vague concept instantly became clear. ¡°Then, manager, is there any other way to further simplify the game and eliminate the negative feedback?¡± he continued to ask tentatively. ¡°There are some others, like ...¡± Chen Mo suddenly realized something and changed his words,¡±ahem, I don¡¯t think I need to go into detail, you can probably guess it anyway.¡± Jin jieguang saw the unnatural expression on Chen Zhao¡¯s face. Chen Zhao clearly realized that he had said too much. Jin jieguang didn¡¯t dare to ask again and said,¡±Yeah, manager, you can do it! League of Legends will definitely sell well!¡± Chen Mo wanted to say something, but in the end, he didn¡¯t say anything and turned to leave. Jin jieguang was very excited. He felt like he was a spy who had entered the enemy camp to obtain information that could change the situation of the war. He had gained a lot from this trip! Seeing Chen Mo walk away, Jin jieguang quickly took out his notebook and wrote down all the points Chen Mo had mentioned. After that, Jin jieguang yed a few more games of League of Legends and changed a few Champions. He felt that Chen Mo was right. Eliminate negative feedback, simplify operations, enjoy the game to the fullest, and turn this game into a paradise for novices! Jin jieguang went back to the hotel in excitement. Without even eating, he turned on hisptop and began to write the experience report of League of Legends, ready to record all the gains of this trip without missing a word. After all, many designers in the industry acknowledged that Chen Mo¡¯s vision was extremely advanced. Even if he couldn¡¯t predict the general direction of the game, he could still use it as a reference! ...... Jin jieguang¡¯s professional standards were very high. He wrote from 4 pm to 9 pm, and in five hours, he finished the first draft of the experience report. Not only was it filled with detailed information about his experience ying League of Legends, it also summarized the highlights of the design. Most importantly, he summarized the few sentences that Chen Mo had said and expanded them appropriately, forming aplete report. Chen Mo didn¡¯t go into details before, he only gave some simple ideas. When Jin jieguang asked if there were any more ways to simplify the game and eliminate negative feedback? Chen Zhao said yes, but he didn¡¯t go into detail. Jin jieguang was certain that Chen Mo had more ways to simplify the game, so he was also racking his brain. How should he eliminate the negative feedback? Yes, cancel the death rey so that the yers won¡¯t feel that they¡¯re dead. Or hide the number of deaths? Hmm, this one¡¯s not bad either! Jin jieguang wrote all of this in the experience report. He looked at the experience report, and the more he read, the more satisfied he was. After going downstairs for some supper, Jin jieguang revised and improved the experience report until he waspletely satisfied. The next day, Jin jieguang rushed to the airport without stopping. He couldn¡¯t wait to report to Lin chaoxu the results of his spying. ¡­¡­ Emperor dynasty Entertainment¡¯s headquarters. Lin chaoxu read through Jin jieguang¡¯s experience report several times. Jin jieguang sat on the side, still unable to hide his excitement. Lin chaoxu touched his chin with his right hand and fell into deep thought. After a moment, Lin chaoxu said,¡±when ites to games, a slight change in one part will affect the whole. Simplifying the content and hiding the data can indeed reduce the difficulty for new yers. This will allow more yers to enjoy the game. However, it may also create new problems.¡± Jin jieguang¡¯s heart turned cold. Could it be that Lin chaoxu didn¡¯t like this report? ¡°Of course, your report was very well written. It¡¯s worthy of praise.¡± Lin chaoxu said,¡±I¡¯ll hand this report to GA and the original author of COG. As for whether he¡¯ll ept it or not, I¡¯m not sure. After all, we¡¯re just an agentpany. In the agreement, we have no right to interfere with the design of the game itself.¡± ¡°Okay, Mr. Lin!¡± Jin jieguang quickly nodded. Clearly, Lin chaoxu was quite satisfied with this report, but first, Emperor dynasty entertainment had no right to change the design of COG. Second, whether the report¡¯s ¡°simplified game¡± and ¡°hidden data¡± were correct or not had yet to be verified, so Lin chaoxu still had some reservations about some of the contents of the report. Jin jieguang hesitated and said,¡±Boss Lin, actually, even if COG doesn¡¯t adopt it, we can also make a simr one ...¡± Lin chaoxu nced at him.¡±I know. I don¡¯t need you to remind me.¡± ¡°Yes, yes.¡± Jin jieguang quickly nodded. ¡°Alright, you¡¯ve worked hard on this trip to the capital. You¡¯ve gained a lot. COG is a very important project, so don¡¯t let your guard down. Go back and think about how to operate and promote it. ¡± Lin chaoxu said. Jin jieguang left. Lin chaoxu looked at the experience report a few more times. In his opinion, some of the content was very reasonable, but some of it was too radical and risky. In terms of the game experience of League of Legends, Jin jieguang was very detailed, which was worthy of praise. However, Lin chaoxu felt that thetter part of the game, where Chen Mo nned to update League of Legends, was a bit risky. However, because Jin jieguang¡¯s experience report was well written, Lin chaoxu couldn¡¯t find any faults. He even felt a little convinced. Lin chaoxu didn¡¯t dwell too much on this matter. Although the report seemed very reasonable, Lin chaoxu didn¡¯t immediately make a decision. Instead, he got someone to trante it into English and send it to the person in charge of the GA. Two dayster, GA replied, and it was the designer of COG, Clive Lehman, who personally replied, with a paragraph written as such. ¡°I don¡¯t know how yourpany¡¯s game is like, but I know that a good game should be rich and colorful. Extremeplexity is the fundamental factor for a game to be fun to y. Most of the so-called ¡®simplification¡¯ is just a castration of the game. COG will only be more and moreplicated in the future, so it¡¯s absolutely impossible to simplify it. ¡± ¡°In particr, your proposal to cancel the scoreboard, not disy the number of deaths, cancel the positive and negative CS and equipment system, no experience deduction from deaths, etc. These changes are very absurd to me, so please forgive me for not epting your suggestions.¡± Lin chaoxu sighed and closed the document. Just as he had expected, GA¡¯s R & D personnel and the original author of COG basically ignored this suggestion. It was obvious that Clive Lehmann thought that he was the designer of COG, while those foreigners on the other side of the ocean were simply making blind suggestions. Lin chaoxu had encountered this kind of situation many times in the process of working withrge foreign factories, so he was not too surprised. Fortunately, the GA had also reported the current research and development situation, which was smoother than Lin chaoxu had imagined. After learning that Chen Mo was developing COG¡¯spetitive game, League of Legends, and that it was almostplete, Lin chaoxu was also pressuring the GA to speed up the development. The answer given by the GA was that they would speed up the progress as much as possible and provide an initial version of COG during the spring Festival. After all, they didn¡¯t have a holiday for the Spring Festival over there. Chapter 305

Chapter 305: Chapter 304-crazy promotion

In the experience store, Chen Mo was scrolling through Weibo with a smile on his face. ¡°Manager?¡± su Jinyu was curious,¡±what¡¯s so good about you?¡± Chen Mo closed Weibo,¡±fooling an idiot makes me really happy.¡± Su Jinyu: ¡°???¡± Chen Zhao didn¡¯t exin further. He stood up and asked,¡±¡±Have the students who are staying in the capital for the new year bought the tickets for their parents?¡± Su Jinyu nodded.¡±Yeah, I just asked. I¡¯ve bought everything.¡± ¡°That¡¯s good. ¡± Chen Mo said,¡±I¡¯ll be busy before, during, and after the new year. I¡¯ll give everyone a heads up and let them get through this stage.¡± Su Jinyu smiled.¡±Don¡¯t worry, manager. After everyone received their year-end bonus and overtime pay, they¡¯re all very enthusiastic about work.¡± Chen Mo was relieved and walked to the first floor of the experience store. In previous years, Chen Mo would give his employees a break and let them go home, but this year was a little different. League of Legends was in a critical period of promotion. Chen Mo had a promotion strategy before, mid, and after the new year, and many things were moving forward, so Chen Mo made an unreasonable decision to work overtime this year. However, there was alsopensation. The overtime was voluntary, and it was enough to leave about ten people in the team. The people who stayed could bring their parents and even rtives to the capital. Thepany would reimburse the round-trip fare and amodation fees, and arrange for hotel amodation. ...... Moreover, some of the employees ¡®homes were in the capital, so they were fine. The year-end bonus had just been given, and there was a high amount of overtimepensation for overtime work, so everyone was very enthusiastic about work. The candidates who would stay in the capital for the new year were soon decided. Chen Mo was still a little worried, so he asked su Jinyu and Lin Xiao to care about everyone, buy some small gifts, and let them know if they had any needs. To Chen Mo, the entire n had been set, and there was no room for error. As for tricking Jin jieguang, it was just something he did in passing. It didn¡¯t matter if the Imperial court took the bait or not, it wouldn¡¯t affect Chen Mo¡¯s follow-up strategy. ¡­¡­ In the experience store, the poprity of League of Legends had been rising rapidly in the past two days, and it had the tendency to sweep through the entire PC experience area. He could even see a few female yers ying League of Legends, which was unbelievable in games like Warcraft and Diablo. Although there were only less than 200 yers ying back and forth, and they had almost remembered many familiar IDs, everyone was still ying quite happily because they were still at the stage of noobs fighting each other, and they even made a lot of new friends. This situation wouldn¡¯tst for long. After the first version of League of Legends waspleted, Chen Mo would put it on Thunderbolt gaming tform. When the rmendation spots were put up, it would definitely attract arge number of yers into the game, and the matchmaking system would be able to work. During this time, Chen Mo had been chatting with many yers and had gathered quite a bit of feedback. There were all sorts of opinions, like ¡®change the style¡¯,¡¯change the theme¡¯, and so on, which Chen Mo ignored. On the whole, everyone was pretty satisfied with the game. The main dissatisfaction was that everyone felt that the game wasn¡¯t deep enough. Many people felt that a champion like garen was nothing more than a QWERbo. It would only take seven or eight rounds to understand it. What was the point? In fact, this was mainly because Chen Mo hadn¡¯t updated enough Champions, nor had he started the rankingpetition. Some simple heroes were indeed easy to master, but it was also easy for yers to becent. Therefore, it was better to enrich the game content quickly. Apart from these questions, everyone thought that League of Legends was a good game. Although it looked ordinary at first nce, it was quite fun to y. Of course, the evaluation wasn¡¯t too high. It was only at the level of ¡°more fun to y with.¡± Chen Mo had a rough idea of what was going to happen next. ¡­¡­ On February 7th, nine days before Chinese New Year, League of Legends was officially released on Thunderbolt gaming tform. This time, Chen Mo used almost all the resources on Thunderbolt gaming tform to promote League of Legends, including the best rmendation spots, pop-up windows, notifications, and all sorts of other methods. The repeated notifications left the yers dumbfounded. What was going on? was the system out of control? Thunderbolt gaming tform was currently the thirdrgest tform in China, with 17 million active users a day. It was an influential tform. Sending pop-up windows and notifications so frequently would definitely make many yers feel disgusted, but Chen Mo didn¡¯t mind. As long as he could increase the number of users, it didn¡¯t matter if he was scolded by the yers. However, it was impossible for all 17 million active users to be League of Legends yers, because many of them were mobile yers from games such as Thunderbolt tabletop, Onmyoji, and anipop, so the promotion effect might not be that good. But to Chen Mo, it didn¡¯t matter. He just wanted the whole world to know about League of Legends. Just as the yers werementing about why Chen Mo was so crazy about promoting a PC game, they discovered another shocking fact: Chen Mo had other ways of promoting it. Things like buying video ads, subway ads, and host promotions didn¡¯t need to be mentioned. Chen Mo used every method he used to promote other games, and he didn¡¯t care about the cost. As if overnight, the promotional materials for League of Legends could be seen everywhere on all major websites. Even in the bus and subway stations of several big cities such as Beijing and Shanghai, huge posters of League of Legends could be seen. Other than that, there was also the crazy inte cafe promotion. On the official forum, Chen Mo recruited more than 2000 promoters from different cities, be it prefecture-level or county-level cities, or even some remote County cities. The job of these promoters was very simple. They just had to find any PC inte cafe in the city and convince the boss to install League of Legends on all theputers in the inte cafe. They would then hold special events in the inte cafe to encourage yers to y League of Legends. Every time theypleted an inte cafe, these promoters would receive some mary rewards. If they were diligent in running errands, they could easily earn 2000 to 3000 Yuan in a few days. In some of the second-tier cities in China, the average daily sry was 200 yuan. For some people, earning two to three thousand Yuan in a few days was already a very attractive job. Chapter 306

Chapter 306: Inte cafe¡¯s promotion strategy

Of course, it wasn¡¯t just the promoters who had benefits. The inte cafe itself had its own benefits too. In the parallel world, even though PC inte cafes were severely suppressed by mobile games and VR inte cafes to a certain extent, there were still quite a number of them, especially in second-tier cities. There were more PC inte cafes than VR inte cafes. The bosses of these inte cafes were just like Zhuo Yao of the finger fate inte cafe. They were troubled by the decline of PC inte cafes and were in desperate need of a stronger PC game to reignite the passion of gamers for PC games. Under the persuasion of the promoters and the attraction of the event itself, the owners of the inte cafes were very happy to ept League of Legends and cooperate with the promotion. There were three main ways for inte cafes to promote their games. One was that the first win in League of Legends in the inte cafe would give a small inte fee discount and a small drink; The other was the online fee top-up activity that was linked to League of Legends. For example, if you top up 200, you would get an additional 30, and you could also get some gold treasure chests in-game. Another way was to attract new yers to y League of Legends, and old yers could also get a certain discount on their inte fees. Chen Mo had also invested some money into the inte cafe¡¯s promotion, but not much. Thunderbolt gaming tform and Chen Mo¡¯s games were quite well known, and the Inte cafe bosses were happy to work with Chen Mo¡¯s new games. Moreover, these events would also stimte the inte cafe¡¯s top-ups and spending. Other than that, Chen Mo also ordered many posters and exhibition boards to be sent to inte cafes all over the country. These posters and disy boards were all beautiful original arts of some heroes and some keywords for promotion, such as: Quick matchmaking, server sharing, fairpetition, disconnected reconnection, offline freeze, team cooperation, and so on. These keywords were the most attractive elements of League of Legends concluded in his previous life, and they urately described the characteristics of the game: It was fast and convenient, fair and just, and required a certain level of skill and teamwork. In addition, these exhibition boards and posters also had the key slogan: Hero, I will fight for you! Of course, it was not realistic to spread the materials to all the inte cafes in the country. Even if he only spread a portion of the materials, it would take a lot of time. The reason Chen Mo had been busy promoting these things before the new year was because he was waiting for the Spring Festival holiday. Apart from that, Chen Mo also introduced some marketing strategies in the game, such as inviting friends to y the game to get a certain amount of gold coins as a reward, the more friends you invite, the more gold coins you get, and the first round of a game with friends would get extra gold coins, etc. With this kind of overwhelming publicity, League of Legends entered the yers ¡®sight, and it became popr in a few days. ¡­¡­ ...... Zhuo Yao was a little busy at finger fate inte cafe, but she was very happy. Her inte cafe had been bursting with customers for the past few days, and her inte fees had increased significantly. Her business was doing extremely well. This was because, apart from the promotional content that other ordinary inte cafes could receive, the finger fate inte cafe also had an additional special title: League of Legends¡¯s official partner inte cafe. Zhuo Yao had specially made arge banner and ced it at the entrance of the inte cafe, introducing the special benefits of the official designated inte cafe partners. As expected, it attracted arge number of yers. The so-called officially-appointed cooperative inte cafe for League of Legends was an officially-certified inte cafe. Currently, there were dozens of them in the country, and they were still expanding. The biggest benefit of coborating with an inte cafe was that the yers could experience some skins when they yed League of Legends in the inte cafe. Every time the yers logged in, they would get the chance to experience five to six random hero skins. Of course, they would be cheap skins that could only be experienced in inte cafes. However, this was already a very attractive gimmick to the yers. It also gave Zhuo Yao¡¯s fate inte cafe an additional advantage in thepetition between PC inte cafes. ¡°Boss, are there any empty seats?¡± A voice asked. Zhuo Yao was busy tidying up the things on the table. She looked up and said in surprise,¡±¡±Chen Mo? What are you doing here?¡± ¡°I¡¯m here to see how the yers are doing,¡± Chen Mo smiled.¡±I¡¯m here to see if the promotion is going well.¡± Zhuo Yao smiled.¡±It¡¯s going quite smoothly. It¡¯s so smooth that there aren¡¯t any empty seats left. Why don¡¯t I get you a chair? you can sit here and eat some melon seeds.¡± ¡°There¡¯s no need for that. ¡± Chen Zhao quickly waved his hand.¡±I¡¯m just looking around. Go do your work.¡± Chen Mo walked around the inte cafe and saw that all the seats were full. Half of the yers were ying League of Legends, which made Chen Mo feel like he had traveled back in time. Currently, the yers in the inte cafe were mainly young people. League of Legends was a game that could be easily spread, so it gathered arge number of yers in a short time after it was released. In other mmorpgs, if the yer wanted to pull someone into the trap, this would most likely happen. ¡°Come and y xxx game. It¡¯s really fun. I¡¯ll carry you.¡± ¡°Do I have to level up from the beginning?¡± ¡°Yes.¡± ¡°Then how long would I have to y to catch up with you guys? forget it.¡± In most mmorpgs, the yers were stuck at a very high level. When old yers and new yers yed together, most of them would help them level up and clear Dungeons. It would take a long time for the new yers to catch up with the old yers. However, League of Legends was different. It was a very convenient game for yers, and the conversation was basically like that. ¡°Come and y League of Legends. It¡¯s so fun. I¡¯ll take you.¡± ¡°Do I have to level up from the beginning?¡± ¡°No need. Everyone is Level 1 and have the same attributes. We don¡¯t have to spend any money, so it¡¯s absolutely fair.¡± ¡°Then ... Let¡¯s try it out.¡± Moreover, once the yers experienced this feeling, they would still choose League of Legends as their first choice in the future. This directly squeezed out the living space of other types of PC games. There were three college students ying League of Legends in the corner. The one sitting in the middle was obviously themander, ying with two friends. ¡°Don¡¯t fight, don¡¯t fight. If you can¡¯t win, go home and replenish your state first, thene back to the team.¡± ¡°You should take the red BUFF and quickly team up.¡± ¡°Team, don¡¯t walk around, what lead!¡± ¡°Group!¡± Thismander¡¯s routine was also very clear. In any case, he was in a brainless team and just did it. However, after ying for a few days, he already knew that the essence of the game was in a team. It seemed that he was also a talented yer. As they were fighting, the guy on the left suddenly let out an ¡°Aiyo¡± and said,¡±I ... I suddenly have a stomach ache!¡± Themander was anxious.¡±Hold on a little longer. We¡¯re at a critical moment!¡± The guy on the left threw his headphones on the table and stood up.¡±¡±No, no, I really can¡¯t take it anymore. I feel like I¡¯m going toe out at any time! I¡¯m going to the toilet, you guys wait for me!¡± With that, he ran straight to the toilet. Themander was speechless.¡±F * ck, this kid is really azy donkey. How can he y four against five?¡± Scamming!¡± He turned around and saw Chen Zhao, who was strolling nearby. ¡°Hey, brother, do you y League of Legends? My brother has a stomachache and is going to the toilet. Can you help him y for a while?¡± Chapter 307

Chapter 307: Chapter 306-saving the dying and healing the wounded

¡°He¡¯ll be back soon,¡± Chen Zhao said.¡±He should be back soon.¡± Themander said with a little disappointment,¡±¡±Hey, do you think I don¡¯t know his character? We said one minute, but it won¡¯t be over in five minutes. Brother, please help us. You don¡¯t have to do anything, just stay with us in the team as usual. ¡± ¡°Alright,¡± he said. Chen Mo saw that this ¡°big brother¡± was too kind to refuse, so he sat down. However, Chen Mo wasn¡¯t going to y it seriously, since boosting itself wasn¡¯t in line with the rules ofpetitive games. Chen Mo didn¡¯t want his teammates to lose, so he decided to help. In fact, he wanted to y ording to the guy¡¯s level and hang around until he came back from the toilet. Chen Zhao looked at the hero.¡±Ox chieftain alista. Obviously, this man was a rookie, so he was assigned to y as a meat support. This gave Chen Zhao a headache. What was the true standard of an ordinary yer? He definitely didn¡¯t know how to use Q-sh, nor did he know how to wander around and grab people to start a team fight, but what about Q-W? Well, he probably wouldn ¡®t. In that case, wouldn¡¯t the hero be useless? ¡°Forget it. I¡¯ll just hang out with this Archer and wait for the guy with the diarrhea toe back.¡± After Chen Mo started, he obediently followed behind his teammates, turning into a healer. ¡°Let¡¯s stop fighting and wait for that guy toe back. ¡± Chen Zhao suggested. ...... ¡°Alright,¡± he said. The team leader obviously didn¡¯t trust Chen Mo, who had just started, and didn¡¯t keep asking for team leader, team leader. The three of them yed as usual, while the two at the back pointed at Chen Mo and whispered. ¡°Why does that figure look so familiar?¡± ¡°Yeah, I felt that way when I entered the inte cafe. Isn¡¯t that God S? Chen Mo!¡± ¡°The more I look, the more it looks like it! Why is S-God back?¡± It had been a long time since Chen Most came to this inte cafe to y Warcraft. After the experience store moved away, it was even further away from the inte cafe. As a result, many of the experience store¡¯s regr customers stoppeding to the inte cafe, and the number of people who knew Chen Mo decreased. Most of the people who were ying the game didn¡¯t know who Chen Mo was, and they were all focused on the game with their headphones on, so no one noticed Chen Mo who had just sneaked in. However, some old yers still noticed. The two stood up from their seats and carefully observed. They finally confirmed that it was Chen Mo! And he was ying League of Legends! They quickly realized that this was a very precious opportunity and secretly took out their mobile phones to film. Zou Zhuo¡¯s video of Chen Mo ying Warcraft went viral on the inte, and everyone was curious about how S-God would do in League of Legends. Chen Mo had his headphones on, so he didn¡¯t know anything. Soon, the other side began to attack. It was clear that everyone¡¯s tactics were very simple at the beginning. It was just the blind Princess ¡®eight strikes. It wasn¡¯t just this big brother in the team who had the habit of being crazy in a team, but the other side also had it. Don¡¯t talk to me about minion lines, operations, involvement, vision, this old man¡¯s routine is just one sentence, charge to the middlene brainlessly! Obviously, in this kind of low-end game, you could not avoid the battle just because you wanted to. The team leader was also a little flustered.¡±Oh no, the other side is in the team. Nu Nu has been stopped!¡± Chen Mo¡¯s team consisted ofva beast, Twisted Fate, Nu Nu, bull head and lucky sister. The leader of the team yed cards, which suited hismanding style. The five of them swarmed forward and stopped Nu Nu near the middlene. Chen Zhao¡¯sva beast didn¡¯t even think and used a big move to save him. Although it smashed two of the enemy¡¯s front rows, it also put itself in danger. The leader of the team wanted to help, but in the chaos, he took out a blue card and threw it perfunctorily. In the end, Annie, who was covered in white light, rushed over. It was obvious that she was going to hit the bear with her card. ¡°We¡¯re finished, we¡¯re finished!¡± After this round of suffocating Cbash Brothers saving their grandfather, the Big Brother in the group panicked. Right now, the two front-row yers were surrounded. He had just thrown his card out and was targeted by Annie. As for his bottomne, lucky Archer hadn¡¯t arrived yet. The Bulls were nearby, but what could a support do? Just as Annie was about to catch up to Twisted Fate and cast a stunning skill, the Minotaur Chieftain suddenly rushed over and used his W-skill to push her into the enemy crowd. Then, he activated his ulti and walked into the crowd, and used his Q-skill to smash three people! ¡°Wow, awesome! You¡¯re awesome!¡± The Big Brother in the group couldn¡¯t help but shout. This smash had solved the urgent problem. Of course, it was mainly because the other side was more headstrong. They swarmed up to kill Nu Nu and the stone man, which gave Chen Zhao three chances to kill them. The stone golems charged through the crowd, and sister good luck, who had rushed over, took advantage of the time to cast her big move. The health of all the other party members instantly plummeted. With the three tanks in front, Twisted Fate and sister good luck were in a good position to deal damage. The situation was reversed in an instant. Some of the opponents wanted to fight, and some wanted to retreat. The battle was chaotic. In the fierce collision, although Chen Zhao¡¯s back row was also threatened, overall, the victory was certain. Chen Mo cursed in his heart. He had subconsciously made a King¡¯s y when he saw the situation getting dangerous, which seemed to go against his original intentions ... If this team battle identally ended up with a 0 for 5, then the game might be over. At this moment, the leader in the group shouted,¡±be careful of the sword Saint!¡± Be careful of the sword Saint!¡± The desman, who had been hiding in the opponent¡¯s jungle, finally appeared. At this moment when all the yers were low on blood, it was simply the best time for the desman to harvest. Although they had to be careful of the sword Saint, different people had different reactions. The stone man still wanted to chase the opponent¡¯s hero with low health, so he threw a snowball at the sword Saint. However, the sword Saint had activated the Hignder and was immune to the speed reduction effect, so the snowball was meaningless. Seeing the sword Saint rushing towards him, the leader of the group panicked and turned to run. At this moment, the ox chieftain rushed forward! The boss in the team was secretly happy and stopped in his tracks for a moment. However, the moment the Tauren W-skill was released, it was unknown if it was because he misjudged demaster¡¯s speed or what, but demaster was pushed to the side of the boss in the team! The brother in the group: ¡°...!!!¡± He was in a hurry to get a yellow card, but he soon died under the demaster¡¯s Mad dog-like attack. Obviously, the Grand Swordmaster knew how to y. After killing Twisted Fate, he immediately charged towards sister lucky and cut her down. In the end, it was a four for four. Chen Zhao¡¯s Minotaur escaped with little health left, and the demaster also chose to return to the city after searching for him. ¡°I¡¯m sorry. I wanted to push this Sword Saint away, but he ran too fast.¡± Chen Zhao said. ¡°It¡¯s fine, it¡¯s fine,¡± the leader said helplessly.¡±You yed pretty well, brother.¡± Although the ending was a little awkward, at least Tauren¡¯s first wave of operation was quite eye-catching. Otherwise, this team fight would have been defeated long ago. Therefore, the Big Brother in the team didn¡¯t say anything. The guy who went to the toilet also came back. Chen Mo returned theputer to him and left, hiding his achievements and fame. However, the two men behind him had captured the entire process. After Chen Zhao left, the two brothers finallyughed. ¡°Hahahaha, s-God¡¯s way of saving the dying and healing the injured is amazing. No, I have to post this online!¡± Chapter 308

Chapter 308: Chapter 307 evaluation

On the official forum of League of Legends, a new post caused a heated discussion. The title of the post was,¡±live footage of Chen Mo ying League of Legends, Minotaur chief saving the dying and defrauding his teammates!¡± Seeing this post, everyone¡¯s first reaction was disbelief. After all, Chen Mo was the best Warcraft yer in the country. He beat up all the top yers in China and was even nicknamed ¡°muscle-craser.¡± How could someone like him cheat his teammates in League of Legends? In the end, after watching the video, he realized that he had really screwed his teammates over! ¡°Hahaha, that¡¯s amazing. What¡¯s going on with S-God? why did he secretly go to an inte cafe to y games? he was even photographed!¡± ¡°It¡¯s indeed Chen Zhao from the back.¡± ¡°I¡¯m dying ofughter. I thought that this guy was good at ying the game, but the demaster was pushed to the side of his own card. It was so funny!¡± ¡°He¡¯s really an ox that saves the dying and helps the wounded! I thought I was the only one who would make such a mistake!¡± ¡°No, this should be considered a great assist! The best sixth person!¡± ¡°I can¡¯t believe that Chen Mo can¡¯t y League of Legends well either. S-God is a fraud, hahahaha!¡± ¡°I feel like if I y with this bull, I can get a 5 for 0 in this teamfight!¡± ¡°It makes me want to y League of Legends too. I think I can beat S-God!¡± ¡°I want to go y too! I can finally get back what I lost in Warcraft in League of Legends!¡± ...... Not only did the video be a hot topic among the yers of League of Legends, but yers of other games also knew about it. Chen Mo had another nickname: [Rescue the dying and heal the wounded], salent. ¡­¡­ In the experience store. Chen Mo was speechless as he watched the video. F * ck, I¡¯m just ensuring the fairness of the game. How is this saving the dying and healing the injured? But at this time, it was hard to exin, so he thought it was better to forget it. This video was also a hot topic, and it was equivalent to promoting League of Legends. So far, the promotion of League of Legends had been very sessful. With the gaming tform¡¯s promotion, inte advertisements, inte cafes, and so on, League of Legends ¡®poprity rose to a very high level, sweeping through Chen Mo¡¯s targeted yer base like a wave. Who was the target group of yers for League of Legends? The main target was the teenagers between the ages of 12 to 30, both in and out of school. These people were passionate about online games, but facing the pressure of school and work, most of them didn¡¯t have much time. At the same time, they preferred games that tested their control. One of the fatal problems of traditional mmorpgs was that they cost a lot of time to y, and some of them even cost a lot of money. yers between the ages of 12 to 30 were either still in school or working. They didn¡¯t have that much time to y games. These yers ¡®financial ability was generally rtively weak, and many of them were free yers. Games like League of Legends, which didn¡¯t cost money, guaranteed fairness, and allowed yers to show off their skills, suited them very well. Of course, there were also some rich and idle college dogs, but those people were in the minority. Even if they were University noobs, League of Legends was still attractive to them. Therefore, Chen Mo¡¯s strategy was targeted at inte cafes and university campuses. This was especially true for PC inte cafes, which were perfect for promoting League of Legends. ¡­¡­ On the 10th of February, three days after League of Legends was released, Chen Mo released the statistics for the first day. The number of yers who logged in on the first day reached 390000, and the next day¡¯s game retention reached an insane 73%. Of course, 390000 didn¡¯t seem like a scary number in terms of Thunderbolt gaming tform¡¯s active users. However, most of Thunderbolt gaming tform¡¯s yers were mobile gamers (that was the case for the entire gaming market), and they liked games like Onmyoji and anipop. The core PC yers didn¡¯t have an advantage. However, this number was already very terrifying. Diablo had only sold 280000 copies in the first week, and League of Legends didn¡¯t have a grand opening cinematics or a fascinating plot yet. It wasn¡¯t easy to attract so many yers with just the crazy promotion and free games. Moreover, League of Legends was apletely new game genre. Many yers were confused after reading the game description and did not have much motivation to download it on their PC. Therefore, it was a great sess to get this number. This number of yers was enough to support the game¡¯s matchmaking system, ensuring that yers of simr standards were matched together to y the game, and trying to ensure that all yers ¡®winning rate was around 50%. Although it was stupid to guarantee a 50% win rate at times, it also guaranteed the gaming experience of most yers to the maximum. Emperor dynasty entertainment and fantasy gaming tform couldn¡¯t sit still after Chen Mo announced the numbers. As professional video game distributors, they knew what this number meant. It meant that League of Legends had the potential to be a super popr game. This number was already on par with some of the ssic dominating games, or even slightly better. The only good news for Emperor dynasty and divine fantasy was that the yers didn¡¯t think too highly of League of Legends. The current rating for League of Legends was around 8.4. It didn¡¯t seem low, but the ratings for Warcraft and Diablo had never dropped below 9 when they were released. From the yer reviews, the game didn¡¯t seem to be a ¡®godly¡¯ piece of work. Most of the yers ments were ¡°not bad,¡±¡±I can y it,¡±¡±new way of ying it,¡± and there were not many brainlessments. Obviously, the gimmick of ¡°apletely free and fairpetition game¡± yed a key role in attracting yers and pulling up the ratings. There were also some yers who were disappointed in the game, including some of Chen Mo¡¯s core yers. ¡°I feel that the style is too cartoonish. There¡¯s no sense of immersion.¡± ¡°Chen Zhao has regressed, right? There¡¯s no story mode, not even an opening cinematics?¡± ¡°Looking at the development time, I feel like Chen Mo is up to something again. The old yers of Warcraft aren¡¯t used to this game, maybe the less skilled yers will like it.¡± ¡°I thought Chen Mo would make an official COG, but isn¡¯t it a little too different from a cog? He changed Chen Mo¡¯s style and his coolness has dropped by a lot!¡± These reviews gave Emperor dynasty entertainment a glimmer of hope to turn the tables. If League of Legends could achieve such a terrifying result, what would happen to COG? Chapter 309

Chapter 309: The COG test

Under Emperor dynasty Entertainment¡¯s frantic urging, the date of COG¡¯s testing was brought forward again to February 13th, the year before. The person in charge of GA expressed that this was already a very risky decision, because the current COG was not perfect yet. At least in the eyes of the designer, Clive Lehman, it was a very stupid decision to bring forward the closed beta. What¡¯s the point of taking the test a week earlier? Clive Larman and GA really wanted to reject Emperor dynasty Entertainment¡¯s proposal because they felt that a Chinesepany¡¯spetitive game would be released a week or two earlier than them, and that was nothing. COG was going to be targeted at the global market. As for League of Legends, which wasunched by that Chinesepany? At most, he would only be able to cause a ruckus in that small piece ofnd in China. However, Emperor dynasty entertainment was very determined, and the GA couldn¡¯tpletely ignore the huge Chinese market, so they brought the testing date forward in the end. The reason it was set on the awkward 13th of February was that Chen Mo had already spread the news that there would be special Valentine¡¯s Day events on the 14th of February and the week after that. This included introducing limited skins for Valentine¡¯s Day, limited couple profile pictures, and special matching missions. Obviously, Emperor dynasty entertainment didn¡¯t want to sh with League of Legends at such a critical time. After all, the Valentine¡¯s Day event was prepared. For yers, the Valentine¡¯s Day event was only held once a year, and cog...It didn¡¯t matter if they yed it a few dayster. If the test were to be conducted on February 14th, the relevant data would most likely be squeezed out. Lin chaoxu¡¯s sharp intuition told him that Chen Zhao came prepared. If he still couldn¡¯t think of a solution, the situation would be very bad. It all depended on the feedback from the yers after COG wasunched. ¡­¡­ ...... On February 13th, COG (Battle of the Gods) began its closed beta. Emperor dynasty entertainment promoted it through various channels, even using some of fantasy gaming tform¡¯s channel resources. Although the sess of COG was uncertain, the smooth promotion of League of Legends had boosted Lin chaoxu¡¯s confidence in this brand new game model, so he had invested a lot of marketing resources for a game in the testing stage. Even though many of the original yers of COG were Chen Mo¡¯s die-hard fans, they still preferred to try it out. Moreover, with Emperor dynasty Entertainment¡¯s promotion, there were many other yersing in, and arge portion of them had yed League of Legends. After all, among the games that were released before the new year, these two were the only ones that were more interesting and talked about, so it was impossible to avoid them even if they wanted to. The beta version of COG and the map in Warcraft had the same core gamey, system, and hero skills. There weren¡¯t many changes. In his opinion, some of the original designs of COG were quite perfect, especially among the core yers. The art style and operation mode of COG were some key elements that they liked. If he changed it rashly, it would mean giving up on these core yers, which was not worth it. The main difference between the closed beta version and the original map was the packaging and the derivative games. COG did not get the copyright to the hero, so they could only redo all the models. They had also made corresponding adjustments to the name to avoid legal risks. After all, GA was a bigpany, and they were afraid of being extorted. For example, Death Knights were renamed Dark Knights, dark Rangers were renamed shadow Rangers, and forest guardians were renamed elven prophets. There were also sses like Pdins, which only had their models changed but not their names. Pdins were a ssic ss in Western fantasy, so there was no copyright to them. These changes might seem like imitations to older yers of COG, but it wasn¡¯t important. Clive Lehmann believed that the game wouldn¡¯t be restricted to only yers who had yed Warcraft before, and the main yers wouldn¡¯t feel that the models were out of ce. After all, it was a European and Americanpany, GA¡¯s art design was very good at Western fantasy themes, the scenes and hero models were very authentic, so the sense of imitation was not particrly strong. There were some minor changes in the map elements and hero skills, but there were no major changes. Other than that, there were also some derivative games and profit models. Simr to League of Legends, COG also had a friend system, a matchmaking system, and a shopping center system. In terms of profit model, COG was also free of charge for all heroes and charged for skins, but there were two things that were different from League of Legends: Card collection and unboxing. COG had created a set of card modes, which was equivalent to an additional skill enhancement system. Each hero could wear a card set (containing four cards) to enhance the hero¡¯s four skills. For example, the dark arrow of the dark Ranger would add additional damage, and thest hit would summon little skeletons. There were three different cards avable for dark arrow. They were: increase damage, increase skeleton¡¯s HP, and increase skeleton¡¯s duration. yers could choose one of them to add to their deck. Clive Ramon¡¯s idea was that this card mode would increase the diversity of the game, allowing yers to freely choose their favorite card sets. Of course, it was also to increase profits. The GApany didn¡¯t approve of a model that solely relied on skins to make money. After all, this model was too risky, and it waspletely uncontroble whether yers would buy skins or not, which couldn¡¯t guarantee the revenue of the game. Unless COG became popr all over the world, but in the eyes of the GA, this idea was somewhat unrealistic. The GA¡¯s suggestion was to either set up a threshold to buy out, or to add a charging system linked to the attribute. After much consideration, Clive Ramon chose thetter because he felt that the cut-off fee would cost him more yers. As for the way to obtain the cards and skins, it was very ¡®European¡¯: The treasure chests were opened. Different from the unboxing in League of Legends, everything in COG was obtained by unboxing, and couldn¡¯t be bought directly. yers could earn gold coins through the game, and they could earn game coins by topping up. These two types of currency would open different chests. The gold chest would open different cards and card pieces, while the in-game coin chest would open skins and cards. Of course, the speed at which the yers obtained gold coins was strictly controlled, and the amount of gold coins required to open the chests would increase every week. It was definitely impossible for yers to obtain all the card sets in the early stages through the gold treasure chest. If they wanted to form a moreplete card set, they would need to top up. Moreover, it depended on the yer¡¯s face what would be opened after the top-up, and it was possible to open a hero card that one did not know how to y at all. However, unboxing was still quite popr in the European and American market, and they had some experience with sessful games in this area, so GA and Clive Lehmann didn¡¯t feel that there was anything wrong with it. Chapter 310

Chapter 310: Holiday arrangements

On the 13th of February, COG began its testing. This beta test didn¡¯t have any deletion of files. Emperor dynasty entertainment had alsounched some activities for beta yers, such as free skins and cards. After all, the marketing strategy of distributors these days was simr. If others gave it to you but you didn ¡®t, the yers would definitely scold you for being stingy. After the beta started, the staff in charge of the operation of COG at Emperor dynasty entertainment all stared nervously at the data and yerments. With Emperor dynasty Entertainment¡¯s distribution channels, the number of active yers and first-day retention of COG shouldn¡¯t be too bad. Many people were hoping that it would get better numbers than League of Legends, giving Chen Mo a head-on blow. However, Jin jieguang, the Head of Operations for the COG project, was a little worried. He had yed League of Legends before, and Chen Mo¡¯s words still echoed in his mind. Compared to League of Legends, COG was a moreplicated game. After the yers had yed the simplified version of the game, would they be able to get into the game smoothly? Everything would only be known when the data came out. After the beta started, yers kepting in. There were more and morements. To Jin jieguang¡¯s surprise, everyone¡¯sments seemed to be good. Many of them were five-star ratings, which raised the overall rating of COG to 8.8, which had already exceeded the rating of League of Legends. He randomly picked a few popr high star reviews and they were all full of praise. ...... ¡°Very good! It¡¯s almost a perfect replication of the original game of COG. I killed the yers on the other side until they were Level 3 and could only tremble under the tower. It¡¯s so cool!¡± ¡°I told you that this jungle is more fun. You can go wherever you want. And I feel that there are so many vegetables here. Many of them can¡¯t even make up for it. You can just kill them. It¡¯s so fun!¡± ¡°I think this is the true essence of COG. As for a certain Alliance ... They can¡¯t do it even if they have the ability. It¡¯s boring.¡± ¡°I miss the dark Ranger so much! Controlling a bunch of skeletons and monsters to sweep the jungle, whoever came would be killed! It¡¯s a pity that the name and model have been changed. It¡¯s a pity that we didn¡¯t get the copyright. ¡± ¡°Not bad, it¡¯s quite fun. It¡¯s very suitable for an RTS yer like me. It¡¯s simplified and emphasizes more on teamwork. It¡¯s great!¡± ¡°What a great drawing style! This kind of game should be yed with the original Western fantasy. I can¡¯t y the cartoon style of a certain Alliance!¡± There were also some bad reviews, but there weren¡¯t many of them. In Jin jieguang¡¯s opinion, many of the bad reviews were brainless abuse, such as the game experience was not good, too many people were killed, and so on, which had no reference value. ¡°Did Chen Zhao make a mistake? COG¡¯s approach was the right one? Is it not that important to simplify the game content?¡± Jin jieguang couldn¡¯t help but feel puzzled. He was still a little uncertain, but from the current number of active yers and yer reviews, COG was doing very well under Emperor dynasty Entertainment¡¯s promotion. Although it was hard to say for sure before the specific data came out, most people felt that it would be a game that could go head to head with League of Legends. ¡­¡­ Chen Mo was unmoved by the release of COG. He was in the studio making arrangements for the Valentine¡¯s Day event of League of Legends and the update of the new version. The list of people to stay in the imperial capital had been decided. There were ten people in total, including Chen Mo, enough to ensure the Valentine¡¯s Day event and the update would go smoothly. In fact, the new version of League of Legends was almostplete. There wasn¡¯t much content, just five Champions, a introductory cinematic, and a ranked mode, but to Chen Mo, the game was onlyplete when it had these. ording to the original n, a new skin would be released during the Valentine¡¯s Day event on February 14th:[Heart Hunter] Vayne also had a special event: Within a week from February 14th to February 20th, forming a team toplete a certain number of games every day will earn gold coins, avatars, and 30 days of experience skins. In other words, as long as the yer logged in for seven days to form a party forbat, they would definitely receive a special Valentine¡¯s Day profile picture box and a 30-day Vayne experience card. At the same time, the yer could upgrade the experience card to a permanent skin bypensating the price difference of 60% of the original price. On February 16th, the first day of the Lunar New Year, League of Legends would have a version update. At the same time, on the 21st and 22nd, there would be battle revelry. From 19 to 23 O¡¯ clock, all yers who logged in would enjoy double gold coins and double experience. At the same time, every yer who won a game would have a 3% chance of receiving a random permanent skin. The probability of this would be increased by 0.5% for every additional partner. In other words, during this period, as long as yers yed the game and won, they would have a 5% chance of getting a random permanent skin. Chen Mo had arranged this set of moves long before League of Legends was released, in order to make the most of the break during the spring Festival holiday and give League of Legends a big jump. Other than Chen Mo, there were nine people left in the studio. Qian Kun, Zheng Hongxi, and Zhao Yunting were the core members. The other six were ordinary employees. Four of the ordinary employees were locals of the capital, while the others had brought their parents to the capital and settled them in a hotel. Chen Mo specifically reminded him of a few things to take note of before and after the spring Festival. After the meeting, Zhao Yunting sneaked over to Chen Mo and said,¡±¡±Well, manager, I¡¯d like to take a day off tomorrow ...¡± ¡°Eh? Tomorrow?¡± Chen Zhao didn¡¯t react for a moment. Zhao Yunting nodded.¡±That¡¯s right. Isn¡¯t it a holiday tomorrow?¡± ¡°Oh, oh, right.¡± Chen Zhao had almost forgotten.¡±Sure, no problem. Have fun.¡± ¡°Thank you, manager!¡± Zhao Yunting left happily. ¡°Manager, tomorrow ...¡± Zheng Hongxi also ran over and said. ¡°No problem.¡± Chen Mo nodded.¡±I¡¯ll give you a day off tomorrow.¡± ¡°Thank you, manager!¡± Zheng Hongxi also left happily. ¡°It¡¯s Valentine¡¯s Day tomorrow,¡± Chen Zhao asked.¡±Who else is celebrating?¡± If there¡¯s a need for a holiday, then take it. ¡± ¡°Thank you, manager!¡± Most of the people cheered. In the end, out of the nine employees in the experience store, only Qian Kun and another guy didn¡¯t have to celebrate. ¡°Good luck!¡± Chen Mo patted Qian Kun¡¯s shoulder,¡±I¡¯ll leave the update to you two.¡± ¡°I understand, manager!¡± Qian Kun said with a solemn expression,¡±I will do my best as a single dog!¡± Chen Mo nodded. Sure enough, Qian Kun was the most reliable person in critical moments! Qian Kun suddenly thought of something and asked,¡±¡±Manager, I don¡¯t think you have any festivals to celebrate, right?¡± ...Get out! Chapter 311 - possessed by the God of bad luck

Chapter 311: Chapter 310-possessed by the God of bad luck

It was February 14th, the day of suffering for single people. A whole week after League of Legends was released, it had maintained a strong growth momentum, and the daily active yers had sessfully broken the one million mark. With multiple marketing strategies, League of Legends had expanded to more and more yers who had never touched RTS games or cogs. Besides, inte cafe promotions and friend invitations had be important ways to attract new yers. On the third day after going online, Chen Mo released the events rted to the Valentine¡¯s Day event on the in-game event page, which the yers couldn¡¯t wait to see. The main selling point of this Valentine¡¯s Day event was still the [Heart Hunter] Vayne skin. If they missed this week¡¯s event, they would have to wait until next year to buy this skin. In addition, there were also corresponding active tasks. When forming a team toplete a game, they would receive gold coins, head portrait boxes, experience cards, and other rewards. These were all important means to stimte the further expansion of the yer group. It could be imagined that if girls yed League of Legends, their boyfriends would have a high chance of being led into the pit. If the boys yed League of Legends, their girlfriends would also have a small chance of being tricked. Many yers logged into the game to participate in activities on Valentine¡¯s Day. They could even asionally meet couples in major inte cafes. ¡­¡­ At Emperor dynasty Entertainment¡¯s headquarters, Jin jieguang¡¯s face was dark. It wasn¡¯t because he was single, but because the first day statistics of COG were released after the open beta testing yesterday. Although the game received a lot of good reviews after it was released, with a rating of about 8.8, which gave Jin jieguang some hope, the statistics on the first day poured a bucket of cold water on him. There were 330000 yers who logged in on the first day, but only 43% remained on the next day. If it was a mobile game, the tomorrow¡¯s retention rate would be pretty good. However, this was a PC game, and a freepetitive game at that. The terrible tomorrow¡¯s retention rate could only be described with one word: Fail. ...... With such a day-to-day retention rate, it was difficult to maintain the fairness of the matchmaking system, let alone be popr. Even with Emperor dynasty Entertainment¡¯s strong marketing capabilities, it was difficult to promote the game. The data was a little too unsightly, so much so that Jin jieguang didn¡¯t know how to exin it to Lin chaoxu. However, Jin jieguang also had a vague feeling that one of the important reasons why COG was more like an RTS gamepared to League of Legends was that it was more like an RTS game. However, Jin jieguang couldn¡¯t be sure without the corresponding data. Lin chaoxu was rtively calm after learning about this number. He asked Jin jieguang to check the background data to see which game node had the most yers lost. At the same time, he would make a detailed survey and send it to the yers who had lost their jobs in COG to do a detailed survey. ¡­¡­ While Emperor dynasty entertainment was busy collecting feedback on their cogs, the Valentine¡¯s Day event in League of Legends continued to be popr. On Valentine¡¯s Day, there were 330000 people online at the same time in League of Legends. Considering that it was the first day of Valentine¡¯s Day, many couples were busy with other things, and there was still room for this number to increase. However, this number was enough to highlight the poprity of the game. In the experience store. Chen Zhao was hesitating. There was a new item on the virtual screen of the bracelet: Chen Mo had gotten the good luck generator a few days ago. There were ten of them in total, and they were extremely powerful. [Good luck generator: a magical device that can bring you good luck in most situations. After use, there is a 50% chance of obtaining good or bad luck. Lasts for one day. [If you obtain bad luck, you can turn it into good luck bypleting the mission.] From the description of the device, it felt like a device that would definitely make a profit. Chen Mo had already tried it once before, and he got good luck immediately after using the good luck generator. Chen Mo ¡°coincidentally¡± opened his phone to check Weibo and ¡°coincidentally¡± saw Jin jieguang¡¯s post in the discovery section, and ¡°coincidentally¡± saw his verification information and the selfie he took at the experience store. Otherwise, Chen Mo wouldn¡¯t have gone to the first floor of the experience store to trick him. Chen Mo wanted to try it again after the first time, but it had a cooldown time and couldn¡¯t be used too often. Today was February 14th, and the cool down time of the item was over. ¡°Ah, if only this was a peach blossom luck generator. After using it, a cold Heavenly Queen with the surname Zhang woulde knocking on your door after drinking too much, or an unknown beauty with the surname Wu would suddenly send you a bunch of art photos and selfies. ¡± Chen Zhao said emotionally. Putting away those unrealistic fantasies, Chen Zhao used another good luck generator. However, this time, the good luck icon that looked veryfortable did not appear. After the smoke effect, a bad luck icon that said ¡°possessed by the God of bad luck¡± appeared. [Possessed by jinx: your luck has dropped to a negative number. It¡¯s a piece of cake for you to eat instant noodles without seasoning packets.] ¡°F * ck!¡± Chen Mo was dumbfounded. It was really a 50% chance. He was luckyst time and now he was unlucky this time? Moreover, if eating instant noodles without seasoning packets was considered a small matter, then what would be a medium matter? Chen Mo panicked a little. It wouldn¡¯t have been a big deal if it was some other time, he could¡¯ve just stayed at home and choked on his saliva or fell on the ground in the experience store, but this was a crucial time for League of Legends! What if there was a serious BUG in the game? Was there some strange fluctuation in the server? Or perhaps some yers would kill their teammates and cause big news? This waspletely uneptable to Chen Zhao! ¡°Didn¡¯t you say that you could turn your luck around bypleting missions? where are the missions?¡± Chen Mo quickly looked at the screen on his bracelet and saw that a mission had appeared behind the [possession by jinx] icon. [System mission (1/5): arrive at the hall on the first floor of the experience store. [Time limit: 20 minutes] ¡°Just this? Isn¡¯t this too simple?¡± Chen Mo let out a long breath,¡±I knew it, the system still loves me. How could it trick me?¡± Chen Mo walked out of his office and pushed the door open. ¡°Oh,¡± ¡°Kada.¡± The door could not be pushed open. Chen Mo: ¡°???¡± What the f * ck was this? Chen Mo¡¯s studio was in the same area as his living quarters, with a security door next to the experience store. The anti-theft door was a high-tech product that could be unlocked with a password and fingerprint. Chen Mo didn¡¯t think much about it when he installed it. He just thought it looked good and had no problems with it after using it for so long. But today, he couldn¡¯t open it. The door was supposed to be unlocked with a fingerprint and password on the outside, but there was a special door button on the inside. However, the door button seemed to be broken at the right time, and there was no response after pressing it. F * ck, it¡¯s starting already? Chapter 312 - Finally out

Chapter 312: Finally out

Chen Mo pressed the button again, but it didn¡¯t work! Obviously, under the effect of [possession by jinx], the door had some unknown malfunction, and the door-opening button hadpletely failed. Chen Zhao had no choice. He took out his phone and was about to call Qian Kun. In the end, her hand slipped, and the phone fell to the ground. ¡°F * ck!¡± Luckily, Chen Mo was quick to react and picked up the phone that had almost fallen to the ground. ¡°Phew, luckily I took a lot of reaction speed serums and hand speed potions. Otherwise, the consequences would have been unimaginable.¡± Chen Zhao let out a long breath. Normally, a phone falling from this height would only break the ss screen, and there wouldn¡¯t be any serious problems. However, Chen Zhao was currently possessed by the God of misfortune. If he really dropped it, the entire phone might be smashed to pieces. Chen Zhao didn¡¯t dare to take the risk. After calming himself down, Chen Mo grabbed his phone tightly and called Qian Kun. ¡°Beep ... Hello, the number you have dialed is currently busy, please try againter. Sorry£¬the number¡­¡­¡± Chen Zhao hung up and called again. He called three times in a row, but all of them were busy. ...... Chen Zhao was speechless. He then called the others, but they were either busy or not picked up. Even the front desk¡¯s phone couldn¡¯t be reached. He sent messages one by one, but no one replied. ¡°Holy sh * t, that works too?¡± Chen Mo was helpless. He had five missions toplete and he was stuck on the first one. Chen Mo sent a message in the Company Group,¡±¡±Who¡¯s in the experience store? Come and save me!¡± [What¡¯s the matter, manager?] su Jinyu replied quickly. Chen Mo thought,¡¯...Can you contact the other people in the experience store? The door to my studio is broken and I¡¯m locked inside. ¡± Su Jinyu chuckled. Chen Zhao was speechless. [Aren¡¯t Qian Kun and the others still in the experience store?] ¡°I can¡¯t get in touch with him,¡± Chen Zhao said.¡±I don¡¯t know what he¡¯s doing.¡± ¡°It¡¯s nothing,¡± su Jinyu replied.¡±Manager, wait a moment. I¡¯ll make a call and ask.¡± There was no letter again. Su Jinyu knew about it, but she couldn¡¯t do anything about it. She had already gone home, so she couldn¡¯t possibly take the high-speed rail back. Chen Zhao shouted at the top of his voice,¡±is anyone there?¡± Quicklye and save me!¡± He shouted several times, but no one answered. Chen Mo¡¯s studio was indeed soundproof. No one could hear anything from the outside after the door was closed. If other people were working hard, they wouldn¡¯t be able to hear it. Chen Mo was in despair. The [possession by jinx] status had blocked the phones of all the people in the experience store who coulde to his rescue, and he couldn¡¯t get through to them. Seeing that 5 minutes of the 20-minute time limit had passed, Chen Zhao couldn¡¯t sit still anymore. He made a few more calls, but still, no one picked up! Chen Mo suddenly had an idea. Yes, order takeaway! Get the delivery guy to open the door for me! Without further ado, Chen Mo opened what to eat and ordered a cup of milk tea from the nearest milk tea shop. A minuteter, the milk tea shop called. ¡°Hello, our business here is too busy. The line is already long enough to reach the main street. This order may have to be delivered 20 minutester. Is that okay?¡± ¡°...Then forget it,¡± Chen Zhao said.¡±Thank you.¡± What the hell? The milk tea shop was so popr that the people in line formed a long line on the street? Are you F * cking kidding me? This was the first time he had heard that a milk tea shop had to wait 20 minutes to make milk tea! It¡¯ll be toote if I wait for you to deliver it in 20 minutes! This was clearly the work of a jinx! Without a doubt, the result would be the same if he ordered take-out from other stores! Just as Chen Mo was on the verge of despair, su Jinyu¡¯s call came. ¡°Hello? Manager, I called everyone just now, but it¡¯s too strange. No one picked up, not even the front desk.¡± In the end, I had no choice but to call the store next to the experience store and have the old man open the door for you. ¡± Chen Zhao was overjoyed,¡¯great, goldfish, you¡¯re the best! I¡¯ll give you a raise next year! When will that old man arrive?¡± ¡°I don¡¯t know,¡± su Jinyu replied.¡±He said he¡¯ll be there immediately. I don¡¯t know where he is now.¡± Chen Mo had a bad feeling.¡±Uh, I won¡¯t ask you how you got the number. I just want to ask, what did you tell the boss?¡± ¡°Just tell me to open the door for you,¡± su Jinyu said. Give me the phone number of the convenience store. ¡°Owuuu.¡± A momentter, su Jinyu replied,¡±I¡¯ve sent a message, manager.¡± ¡°Okay, goldfish, you¡¯ve been a great help. I still have something to do, so I¡¯ll hang up first. ¡± Chen Zhao quickly hung up. Looking at the time, there were only ten minutes left. Chen Mo quickly dialed the store¡¯s number. ¡°Crooked?¡± An old man¡¯s voice came from the phone. Chen Mo thought to himself,¡±I knew it.¡± Even though su Jinyu told the old man to open the door, the old man would definitely encounter new obstacles in his current state. For example ... A group of customers suddenly came to the convenience store. ¡°Hello, Sir,¡± Chen Mo said,¡±I¡¯m the owner of this gaming experience Store. I identally got locked inside,e help me ...¡± The old man said,¡±there are so many guests here. I can¡¯t leave in peace. Let¡¯s wait for another five minutes, okay?¡± ¡°Sir,¡± Chen Zhao said.¡±Come over now. I¡¯ll give you 500.¡± The old man was amused,¡±you¡¯re a liar!¡± I knew it, how could a normal pervert be locked in the mud by himself, so I ended up ying a prank here!¡± The call ended. F * ck! Chen Mo thought. Chen Mo typed on his phone at breathtakingly fast speed and found thems ount, then sent a friend request. ¡°Grandpa, hurry up!¡± Chen Zhao was speechless when he saw that there were only seven minutes left. The friend request was epted. As expected, small shops like this often needed to scan the code to pay, so the chat ount would often pop up with a notification. The grandpa added the friend request when he saw it. Chen Zhao immediately transferred 500 yuan and called the old man again. ¡°Crooked?¡± The grandpa picked up the phone again. Chen Zhao said,¡±uncle, I¡¯ve transferred you the 500 yuan. Open the door for me!¡± I¡¯m not lying to you!¡± The old man was dumbfounded.¡±I¡¯m talking about this young man. He really transferred the money ...¡± Chen Zhao was going crazy.¡±Sir, there¡¯s no time. Hurry up!¡± Come to the fourth floor of the experience store right now! I¡¯m going to die!¡± ¡°Alright, wait a moment,¡± the old man finally said. After hanging up, Chen Zhao was so anxious that he wanted to scratch the wall. After about three minutes, the old man finally arrived. Chen Zhao shouted from the door,¡±¡±My Lord, this way, this way! The password for this door is 14890, hurry up!¡± The old man¡¯s legs were quite agile. He came to the door and entered the password. Finally, the door opened. ¡°Thank you, sir!¡± Chen Zhao didn¡¯t have time to say anything else. He just jogged to the elevator. Chapter 313 - The harsh conditions

Chapter 313: The harsh conditions

As soon as he reached the elevator, Chen Zhao suddenly realized a serious problem. No, I can¡¯t take the elevator! If the elevator suddenly broke down and got stuck, it would take a long time for the rescue team to arrive. It would be toote. Chen Zhao mmed on the brakes and ran for the fire escape. Fortunately, nothing else happened when they went down the stairs to the first floor, except for two times when they slipped and almost fell down the stairs. Chen Mo jogged all the way to the hall on the first floor of the experience store, attracting a lot of attention. Everyone was still wondering what was wrong with the manager today, why was he so agitated? Could it be ... That she choked on too much dog food? Chen Mo looked at the time on his bracelet. Luckily, hepleted the mission in thest 30 seconds. [System mission (1/5): arrive at the hall on the first floor of the experience store. [Completed] [System mission (2/5):plete a match in League of Legends. [Time limit: 1 hour] Chen Zhao was stunned. Just like that? Just y a game? It didn¡¯t seem to be difficult. Unless there was a sudden ckout in the experience store? Theputer crashed? The mouse malfunctioned? Was there an electrical leakage on the keyboard? Probably not, since theputers and mice in Chen Mo¡¯s Experience Store were of good quality. As for the power outage or inte disconnection ... That would be too much, right? ...... ¡°Manager, do you want anything to drink?¡± the receptionist asked. Chen Zhao said unhappily,¡± I called you so many times just now, why didn¡¯t you pick up?¡± The front desk girl was stunned,¡±ah? There wasn¡¯t a call just now?¡± Chen Zhao was speechless. It seemed like jinx was ying tricks on him. Anyway, Chen Zhao didn¡¯t n to pursue it. He hadpleted the first mission. It was time for the second. However, who was he going to y with? As Chen Mo was thinking, someone shouted at the door,¡±¡±Manager!¡± Chen Mo raised his head and saw Jia Peng, Chang xiuya, and a girl he had never seen before walking into the experience store. ¡°What?¡± Chen Zhao was stunned.¡±You guys aren¡¯t home yet?¡± ¡°No,¡± Jia Peng replied,¡±it¡¯s just the holidays today. We¡¯re all on tomorrow¡¯s train, so we came to the experience store for a while.¡± ¡°The people who came to the experience store today are all true fans.¡± Chen Zhao said emotionally. ¡°Manager,¡± Chang xiuya introduced,¡±this girl is our junior. Her name is li jingsi. She¡¯s in her third year.¡± Jingsi, this is the manager I¡¯ve always told you about, Chen Zhao. ¡± Li jingsi was slightly taller than Chang xiuya, about 1.67 meters. Her short hair was neat, but she had a unique cuteness to her. Li jingsi¡¯s looks were very good, and she was probably the same type as Wen Lingwei, the type that would attract attention wherever she went. However, unlike Wen Lingwei, li jingsi gave off a very gentle vibe, not the least bit overbearing. Moreover, li jingsi¡¯s smile was very rxed. She was definitely a healer. Li jingsi smiled and nodded at Chen Zhao.¡±¡±I¡¯ve long heard of your great name. ¡± Chen Mo also nodded.¡±Wee, wee. Jia Peng, you two have brought me new customers. Thank you so much. I should give you a Lifetime Achievement Award.¡± ¡°Mr. Manager,¡± Jia Peng said,¡±don¡¯t give me all those fake stuff. Giving me an SSR set in Onmyoji is more practical than anything else.¡± Li jingsi kept observing Chen Zhao. It wasn¡¯t the kind of gaze that was impolite or aggressive. It was more of a curious gaze. Chen Zhao didn¡¯t mind. After all, he should be more worried about The Jinx. Jia Peng looked at the time and said,¡±let¡¯s go in.¡± By the way, manager, do you want to y a few rounds with us? I can¡¯t take care of two girls by myself ...¡± Chen Mo was speechless, aren¡¯t you going to sit in the lobby and chat? You guys came to the experience store on a day like this just to y games?¡± Jia Peng coughed dryly,¡±manager, you¡¯re going to hurt each other if you keep talking, isn¡¯t it better to have a tacit understanding ...¡± ¡°...You¡¯re right. My brain short-circuited for a moment just now. Please don¡¯t mind me.¡± Chen Mo said,¡±okay, I¡¯ll y with you guys today. Go find a seat. I¡¯ll bring some milk tea over.¡± ¡°Alright!¡± Chang xiuya was overjoyed. She had been a little worried at first, thinking that Jia Peng wouldn¡¯t be able to carry the two girls on his own. But now that Chen Mo was going to fight, it seemed like Jia Peng would be able to win easily. Jia Peng and the two girls found four seats in a row. After all, it was almost new Year, and the experience store¡¯s traffic was decreasing, so it wasn¡¯t hard to find empty seats. Chen Zhao hadn¡¯t arrived yet. He was probably still waiting for the milk tea. ¡°How was it?¡± Chang xiuya whispered to li jingsi,¡±how did it feel to see S-God?¡± Li jingsi smiled.¡±Other than the fact that he¡¯s very young, there¡¯s nothing special about him. Is he really that good at gaming?¡± ¡°That¡¯s for sure,¡± Jia Peng said.¡±He¡¯s even beaten the gods on thedder in Warcraft. Don¡¯t you think he¡¯s good?¡± Li jingsi felt a little regretful.¡±It¡¯s a pity that I yed Warcraft toote and didn¡¯t make it in time to fight him. However, I¡¯ve heard many stories about him from Goph and the others. I heard that he was the one who invented the famous ¡®wind blowing¡¯.¡± ¡°Don¡¯t worry, there¡¯s still a chance. After you finish League of Legends, you can ask to y two rounds of Warcraft with him, he should agree. ¡± Jia Peng said. As they were chatting, Chen Zhao came. After passing the milk tea to everyone, Chen Mo realized that the others had left him in the middle, next to Jia Peng and Li jingsi. ¡°Manager,¡± Jia Peng exined,¡±you can sit in the middle. It¡¯ll be easier for you tomand us.¡± ¡°Alright,¡± he said. Chen Mo sat down, feeling a little uncertain. If it was before, bringing these people to fight in matchmaking would be no different from beating up machines. One against five would not be a problem. However, he was possessed by the God of bad luck now. If every word he said was toxic, he would be in big trouble as amander. He opened the League of Legends client and entered the game. Chen Mo¡¯s ID was still the same as before,¡±sient.¡± He had already yed a few rounds in the beta and was now Level 5, ready for matchmaking. Li jingsi had obviously yed it before. Her ount had just reached Level 3, which was just enough for her to y in matchmaking. Jia Peng was the highest level among them, at level 10. Jia Peng had invited three people to form a team, but they couldn¡¯t gather five people to y, so they could only y a random passerby with four yers. Chen Mo nced at the virtual screen on his bracelet and saw that the mission had been updated. [System mission (2/5):plete a match in League of Legends. [Time limit: 1 hour] [System mission (3/5): choose a champion that requires luck in the game.] [System mission (4/5):plete 100 unlucky events in the game.] [System mission (5/5): win the game with a score of 0:8.] All the missions were refreshed, but the next ones had to bepleted in this game. Chen Mo¡¯s mouth twitched. So many restrictions? In order toplete the game within an hour, he had to choose a hero that required luck,plete 100 unlucky events, and win with a score of 0:8? This ... This is asking me to win while lying down! Chapter 314

Chapter 314: 100 bad luck incidents

Chen Mo was dumbfounded. If he could carry the team, then it wouldn¡¯t be a problem, but to let him win without doing anything ... That was too unrealistic, there were two girls in the team! If Chen Mo, the biggest carry, yed 0x8, then who would carry him? Chen Mo cursed in his heart, but remained calm on the surface.¡±¡±You guys choose your champion first.¡± It wasn¡¯t that Chen Mo wanted to be confident, but he still hadn¡¯t figured out what a hero that required luck was, and how he couldplete 100 unlucky events. Obviously, everyone wanted to win. Jia Peng brought out his favorite desman, Chang xiuya picked Lulu as support, the passerby picked Annie as mid, and Li jingsi picked Vayne as her target. ¡°Jingsi,¡± Chang xiuya whispered,¡±this champion is hard. Do you know how to y it?¡± ¡°I¡¯ve never yed it before. Let¡¯s try it out,¡±li jingsi replied. Chen Zhao was speechless. He could only hope that the other side didn¡¯t know how to y! Chen Mo looked through the list. Which champion should he choose? Bad luck events had to bepleted 100 times in one game. How would that count? sh and hit the wall? It definitely wouldn¡¯t work. This was his own mistake and had nothing to do with bad luck. Chen Zhao suddenly thought of a critical hit! Assuming that a critical hit was not triggered when it was supposed to, this should be considered an unlucky event, right? ...... ¡°I¡¯m a genius!¡± After thinking this through, Chen Mo locked onto a top champion without hesitation.¡±The king of the barbarians, tedamir. The Barbarian King¡¯s passive skill, battle fury, allowed him to gain rage points through his attacks. Rage would increase his chances of a critical hit. In other words, he was a hero with a natural critical hit. Moreover, the Barbarian King¡¯s main damage output was normal attacks, so it should be easier to trigger the critical effect andplete the unlucky event. Chen Zhao was currently in a state of ¡°possession by the God of bad luck¡±. Even a mouthful of cold water would get stuck in his teeth. Therefore, the Barbarian King¡¯s anger would not cause him to crit frequently. After choosing his champion, Chen Mo changed his skin,¡±The demonic de, tedamir. Jia Peng was dumbfounded,¡±manager, you ...¡± Chen Mo nodded,¡±yes, all skins¡± Jia Peng was speechless. ¡­¡­ He loaded the game. In terms of Summoner skills, because many of them had not reached level 10, they had all sorts of Summoner skills. Chen Mo¡¯s ount was only Level 5, with sprint and teleport, while li jingsi¡¯s ount was only Level 3, with healing and barrier. ¡°Let¡¯s try. ¡± Chen Mo felt like the future of this game was uncertain. Actually, it was not a big deal to lose a game or to lose face, but the key was that if he lost this game, he would not be able toplete his task of changing his luck, and the state of [possession by jinx] would follow him for the whole day! Who knew what kind of trouble would happen today. Chen Zhao could only focus. He nced at the opposing team and saw that they were stone man, Death Song, a Mumu, sister good luck, and sona. ¡°What?¡± Jia Peng was dumbfounded,¡±that¡¯s ... The ultimate team battle formation!¡± It was true that the opposite team¡¯s lineup was simply the favorite of novices. As long as there was a big move, it would be very powerful in a team fight. Rockman, a-Mumu, and sona each had a team control. Vayne¡¯s living environment was extremely harsh. The worst thing was that li jingsi¡¯s ount was only Level 3, and she had yet to unlock the summoner¡¯s purification skill. ¡°Manager ...¡± Jia Peng looked at Chen Mo,¡±how do we y this?¡± ¡°Let¡¯s y normally,¡± Chen Mo said.¡±You¡¯ll carry this round.¡± Jia Peng was speechless. Before they knew it, there were already a lot of people watching them from behind. Obviously, these people had never seen Chen Mo y a game before, and wanted to see how the S-God who had massacred thedder of Warcraft yed League of Legends. There were also people who were whispering to each other. ¡°I wonder how Chen Mo is doing in League of Legends? He chose the Barbarian King. This hero is very powerful in thete game, and he¡¯s also known as the three des of the Barbarian. ¡± ¡°Didn¡¯t you see that video? Chen Mo¡¯s saving the dying bull, he¡¯s obviously not a good yer in League of Legends. ¡± ¡°Not necessarily, let¡¯s see.¡± Chen Zhao was speechless. The problem was that he had to y with a score of 0 to 8. This time, he was going to live up to his title of ¡°League of Legends noob, serente.¡± At the topne Tower, Chen Mo¡¯s Tryndamere did two push-ups and waited for the minions. With his skills, even if he didn¡¯t have a critical hit, it wouldn¡¯t be hard to kill the stone man. After all, the difference in skill was too great. The stone man was still underaged, while Chen Mo¡¯s hand speed, reaction speed, skill, and awareness were all superior. But the problem was that not only could Chen Zhao not kill him, but he also had to find an opportunity to give away eight heads. Chen Zhao¡¯s Tryndamere started developing peacefully with the stone golems. Chen Zhao focused on killing and umting rage. Sure enough, even when the Barbarian King¡¯s anger was full, there was not a single critical hit. Chen Mo nced at the screen on his bracelet. The mission ofpleting 100 bad luck events was still 0/100. ¡°How can it not be counted?¡± Chen Mo was a little confused. The Barbarian King¡¯s critical hit rate was 35%, but he didn¡¯t get a critical hit after so many attacks. He must have triggered bad luck. Could it be that ... Killing soldiers did not count? Chen Mo decided to give it a try. He used his e-skill and shed the stone golem¡¯s face three times, then retreated. There was still no critical hit, but the mission on his bracelet had be 1/100. ¡°F * ck! It turned out that it had to be a hero! F * ck!¡± In other words, when the Barbarian King was attacking the hero, the critical hit that should have been triggered was not triggered because of the possession of jinx state. At this time, he hadpleted a bad luck event. Chen Mo almost vomited blood. The Barbarian King required him to trigger 100 unlucky events when he killed the hero. How ... How much damage would he lose? However, it would be easier if he knew how to deal with bad luck. Chen Mo did some rough calctions on how to deal a critical hit. First of all, the S3 talent didn¡¯t have talent points that could increase the chance of critical hit, it only increased attack speed and critical damage, so talent could be excluded. In terms of equipment, the startik Lightning de could increase critical strike by 30%, the endless de could increase critical strike by 20%, and with the 35% critical strike from full rage, the critical strike rate could reach 85%, which should be able to trigger the skill faster. Chen Zhao made up his mind and started to develop in peace. He nned to leave the mountain after he used the lightning knife and endless. Although he forced the stone man back home a few times, Chen Zhao couldn¡¯t kill him, so the stone man¡¯s development didn¡¯t fall behind. Jia Peng was a little flustered. It wasn¡¯t a good sign to develop peacefully with the opponent¡¯s lineup. He looked at li jingsi.¡±How is it? is the bottomne under a lot of pressure?¡± Li jingsi focused on the screen. It was li jingsi¡¯s first time ying Vayne, and Chang xiuya was a clumsy yer. On the other hand, sister good luck and sona were stronger in thene, and they had to be on guard against a Mumu. So, to Jia Peng and the others, it was good enough that nothing happened at the bottomne. Fortunately, everything was stable so far, and Vayne¡¯s CS were even slightly ahead. Jia Peng looked around and realized that it was unrealistic to catch sister Yun and sona, so he looked at Chen Mo,¡±¡±Manager, can you catch them on the road?¡± Chapter 315

Chapter 315: The king of barbarians who doesn¡¯t deal critical hits

¡°No,¡± Chen Zhao shook his head.¡±You should do more counter-squatting.¡± ¡°Oh.¡± Jia Peng¡¯s original n was to capture more of the stone golems and fatten Chen Zhao¡¯s Tryndamere, but he didn¡¯t know that Chen Zhao wouldn¡¯t be able to kill him. demaster, who had originally nned to go to the topne, turned back to the bottomne. In the early stages, it was not easy to catch a Mumu and demaster, so they were both focusing on farming. Jia Peng was timid and did not dare to rashly invade the jungle, so he yed until the middlene and the two champions were Level 6. At the same time Death Song reached Level 6, a Mumu appeared at the bottomne, obviously intending to take Vayne down. ¡°Be careful at the bottomne, go back to the tower!¡± Jia Peng was a little flustered. His desman and a Mumu didn¡¯t have any big moves yet, so if they really fought, it would be a 50 ¨C 50 chance. However, the opponent¡¯s deathsong could cooperate with a full-screen big move, so they would definitely be at a disadvantage. It was obvious that the other side was also a four or five-person ck team. Themunication was good, and the timing was very urate. Chen Mo quickly looked at the bottomne. It wasn¡¯t a big problem. The bottomne duo should be able to use their Summoner¡¯s skills without killing anyone. However, at this moment, a ray of light suddenly lit up on the stone man¡¯s body. He had been teleported! ¡°F * ck! All underaged passersby can teleport?¡± Chen Zhao was shocked too. Was she an underaged passerby? Could it be that the system is trying to mess with me while I¡¯m possessed by jinx? Chen Zhao rushed to the stone golem and shed it a few times, but the Barbarian King didn¡¯t interrupt the skill. He could only watch the stone golem leave. Chen Mo decided not to teleport, because based on his judgment, the stone golems would at most help his teammate get one more kill, but they would lose a lot of minions. Moreover, although the Barbarian King also had big moves, hisbat power was not as good as the stone man. It was hard to say if he would win if he went down. ...... After all, Chen Mo had a Barbarian King that couldn¡¯t be dealt a critical hit. ¡°The stone golems have teleported back to the tower.¡± Chen Mo said as he led the minions to destroy the enemy¡¯s topne Tower. Tryndamere was a champion that could take down towers faster than the others. By the time the bottomne battle ended, he had already destroyed the topne. However, the bottomne was also very brutal. It was a one-for-two trade. Chang xiuya¡¯s Lulu and Jia Peng¡¯s demaster died, while the opponent¡¯s Rockman died under the tower. It was the opponent¡¯s period of strength. After a Mumu and sona reached Level 6, the team control formation waspletely unreasonable. Chen Mo¡¯s side could only retreat and the outer tower was in danger. Very quickly, after being caught a few times in the jungle, the kill count ratio of both sides became 2-8. ¡°Vote,¡± Annie said. Jia Peng scratched his head,¡±manager, how do we fight?¡± Chen Mo¡¯s Tryndamere was still farming money, but because his sense of smell was too good, and the opponent¡¯s attention was on his teammates, Chen Mo didn¡¯t die before the lightning knife was ready. After a while, Chen Mo typed in the game,¡±¡±Stall them, I¡¯ll steal the tower.¡± Everyone was speechless. The people watching from behind almostughed out loud. Chen Mo, Chen Mo, you¡¯ve finally had a day like this? Obviously, League of Legends wasn¡¯t a game where one person could save the world. Chen Mo¡¯s insane reaction speed and hand speed were useless. Once the opposing team formation was chosen, no matter how good you were, could you take on five of them at once? Seeing the disbelief on Jia Peng¡¯s face, Chen Mo said in a serious tone,¡±¡±I¡¯m serious. Listen to me and you¡¯ll win. ¡± ¡°Alright,¡± Jia Peng coughed,¡±you can give us your instructions now, manager. What should we do?¡± Chen Mo quickly sent a signal on the map,¡±¡±The opponent should be in this position now. You can go a little closer to get a better view, but don¡¯t give the opponent a chance to force open. Just hide under the tower and guard it well. ¡± After Chen Zhao¡¯s Barbarian King used the lightning knife, he rushed to the top. Rockman had been following the team. Although he had a few assists, his finances were much worse than Tryndamere ¡®S. He was quickly killed by Chen Mo. Chen Mo didn¡¯t care and took the topne Tower. ¡°Manager, there¡¯s no one on the map,¡± Jia Peng suddenly said,¡±did they go to catch you?¡± Chen Mo nced at the small map. It was dark, so it was highly likely that they were here to catch him, but he didn¡¯t know how many people there were. Chen Mo sent a signal from the enemy¡¯s Blue BUFF,¡±¡±Let¡¯s go here and take the lower tower. ¡± As expected, when Chen Mo took down the topne turret and wanted to continue pushing, a Mumu and Rockman arrived. Rockman didn¡¯t say a word and used his ultimate, but it was dodged perfectly by King Manman¡¯s E-skill. The stone man was a little dumbfounded. He stood still for half a second as a punishment before throwing out a Q-skill. At the same time, a Mumu stretched out a bandage in an attempt to tie up the Barbarian King. However, with a perfect S-shaped snakeskin movement, the bandage was also gone. A Mumu, who did not manage to tie up the Barbarian King, was also dumbfounded. He cried on the spot, his tears forming a River. Tryndamere went straight into the red buff¡¯s jungle area, but since he had the speed reduction effect of the stone golems, he could not run very fast. Before he could run far, deathsong had also arrived! The three of them were supposed to die when trying to catch Tryndamere, but Chen Mo¡¯s positioning was so good that even with the speed reduction effect, the non-directional skills couldn¡¯t hit him at all. Moreover, this Barbarian King was also taking advantage of every opportunity to attack. Although there was not A single critical hit, and it was just like scratching an itch on the stone man and a Mumu¡¯s bodies, just being attacked continuously was already very annoying. Ah Mumu was getting anxious as well. He still had 3 seconds left on his ulti and was ready to use it. However, just as he was about to use it, the Barbarian King suddenly used his E-skill to cross the wall! Although the Barbarian King was still frozen by a Mumu¡¯s big move after crossing the wall, the death song and the stone man were unable to follow up with their big moves immediately. The audience behind Chen Mo eximed,¡±¡±F * ck! The store manager is so lucky, ah Mumu just happened to Zoom in when he crossed the wall?¡± Chen Mo cursed in his heart. I¡¯m lucky in my current state? Have you ever seen me, the Barbarian King with a critical hit rate of 65%, deal a critical hit with my Lightning de when I¡¯m enraged? If I didn¡¯t remember the cooldown time of a Mumu¡¯s big move, I would have been dead. On the other side, Chen Mo¡¯s four teammates charged into the enemy¡¯s Blue BUFF and caught the duo at the bottomne. They sessfully exchanged a 0 for 2 and even took down the bottom turret. Jia Peng was concerned about Chen Mo¡¯s condition as he destroyed the tower,¡±¡±Manager, how is it? can you walk?¡± Chen Mo didn¡¯t reply. The Barbarian King¡¯s health was on the verge of copse, and he had already used his ultimate, endless fury, and entered the state of a real man for five seconds. He retreated as he fought, killing people to farm for bad luck while approaching the dragon¡¯s cave. ¡°Three, two, one!¡± In thest second after King of barbarian¡¯s ulti ended, Chen Mo used his E-skill to go through the wall and enter the circle of Dragons. Then he dodged a Mumu¡¯s bandage and deathsong¡¯s Q-skill, ready to escape. Jia Peng: ¡°F * ck! The manager is awesome!¡± Before he could finish, a beautiful red line appeared above everyone¡¯s head. The big move of the song of death, Requiem! ¡°I¡¯m sorry, manager, I couldn¡¯t help but give you a kiss,¡±Jia Peng said. Chen Mo was already looking at the items in the shop. Even if he used his Q-skill to recover his health, he would still die, so Chen Mo gave up on struggling. However, a low-HP Barbarian King was able to trick deathsong out of him. He had alsopleted his strategic goal of 1/8 deaths. Chen Mo nced at the bracelet. Thank God, he had alreadypleted 19 bad luck incidents. Chapter 316

Chapter 316: Chapter 315-sessful luck

The death of the Barbarian King had relieved some of the pressure on his teammates, but they were still at an absolute disadvantage. They still couldn¡¯t win a head-on team battle. Chen Mo continued to mark on the map,¡±¡±The other party might be here. I¡¯ll continue leading the way at the bottomne. This time, you guys set up an ambush here. You should be able to catch a lone Rockman or deathsong.¡± ¡­¡­ Emperor dynasty Entertainment¡¯s headquarters. Jin jieguang handed a detailed report to Lin chaoxu, including some in-game data and surveys of the lost yers. Lin chaoxu carefully read the report twice, then said,¡±¡±So, the key to the high loss rate is that we¡¯ve imported too many yers with low levels of skill?¡± Jin jieguang carefully corrected Lin chaoxu,¡±¡±Boss Lin, strictly speaking, most of the yers in China are light-core yerspared to COG. It¡¯s not a problem with our guidance.¡± Lin chaoxu remained silent. ¡°Mr. Lin, there are a few statistics that you can focus on,¡± Jin jieguang continued. ¡°The first is the key loss point. Most of the yers lost after the first game. In addition, the number of yers lost between the second and first game is also very high. In other words, most yers quit the game after their first battle with another yer. Some even quit the game. ¡± Lin chaoxu furrowed his brows,¡±in other words, the first time they fought with a yer, the gaming experience was terrible.¡± Why doesn¡¯t League of Legends have this problem?¡± Jin jieguang exined,¡±because the tutorial for beginners in COG isn¡¯t so detailed, and it doesn¡¯t force yers to fight against machines to Level 3, and the lineup isn¡¯t as well-organized as League of Legends.¡± In other words, many new yers have already started to fight with the yers before they even understand the real way to y the game. ¡± Lin chaoxu frowned,¡±but, isn¡¯t there a matching system for COG?¡± You can match yers of simr levels together ...¡± ...... Jin jieguang nodded.¡±Yes, but it¡¯s meaningless. yers don¡¯t have any game data in the first game. We can¡¯t judge his true level.¡± Some yers have experience in RTS games, while some yers have never yed simr games at all. Although these two types of yers are ying COG for the first time, their skills are far from the same. ¡± ¡°Moreover, theplex game mechanics and snowball effect of COG will further increase the gap in the yers ¡®strength. Therefore, the first round of the game will be ... Very bad for the new yers.¡± ¡°In League of Legends, yers ¡®level is understood to a certain extent through the detailed beginner¡¯s tutorial and forced human-machinebat, so the data matched in the first game will be more urate.¡± Lin chaoxu nodded,¡±yes, continue.¡± Jin jieguang continued,¡±next is the survey. We specifically investigated the core yers who stayed in COG and the yers who left. The results were very surprising. The reviews of these two groups of yers are very different.¡± ¡°Most of the core yers who stayed in COG are experienced yers of the original maps, or have more experience in RTS games, and their hand speed is rtively fast. They¡¯re very satisfied with the game and have good reviews. That¡¯s why COG has always had high ratings. ¡± ¡°They¡¯re having a good time abusing noobs. ¡± ¡°As for the lost yers, they felt that the game was difficult to get used to and they didn¡¯t understand it. They couldn¡¯t even understand some of the basic game settings, so they were tortured badly and had a terrible gaming experience. ¡°But, isn¡¯t it the same for RTS games?¡± Lin chaoxu was puzzled. Jin jieguang nodded,¡±that¡¯s why RTS games have a small audience.¡± Moreover, RTS games like Warcraft have a threshold, and yers have to pay to buy it, so those who buy it are all hardcore RTS yers, which naturally dismatches a portion of the yers. ¡± ¡°However, COG was a free game, and any yer could join it. However, it was actually very difficult to get started with. In the eyes of these unskilled yers, it was difficult to get started with both it and RTS games, so these people were all lost. Lin chaoxu tapped the table lightly and said,¡±¡±Therefore, the lost yers became the silent majority. They didn¡¯t leave bad reviews or curse on the forum. They just quietly deleted the game. Jin jieguang nodded and said,¡±I¡¯m afraid ... That¡¯s the case.¡± This is also the key reason why the COG score does not match the survival rate. ¡± Lin chaoxu felt a slight headache. ¡°Boss Lin,¡± Jin jieguang said,¡±Chen Mo is doing the right thing. He¡¯s noticed that this type of game isn¡¯t good for new yers, so he simplified it to get more market share.¡± ¡°What¡¯s more, League of Legends hasn¡¯t reached its peak yet. He still has ns for further optimization and updates!¡± Lin chaoxu leaned back and pondered,¡±¡±So, what do you think we should do?¡± ¡°I don¡¯t think it¡¯s possible to make those foreigners change their cogs given their rigid characters,¡± said Jin jieguang. Let¡¯s use this chance to make a simr game, and follow Chen Mo¡¯s final n! Our game will be the final winner. Chen Mo would never have thought that his League of Legends would help us expand the market and benefit others. ¡± Lin chaoxu stood up and took two steps, hesitating. ¡°Don¡¯t worry, I¡¯ll think about it. ¡± ¡­¡­ In the experience store, the battle was intense. Chen Zhao¡¯s Tryndamere had a score of 0 to 7. It would be crazy if he died again. However, he was still persevering in dismantling the enemy¡¯s bottom-Lane crystal. Each sh seemed to be cutting into the hearts of the five people in front of him. The Barbarian King, who was filled with anger and had Infinity, Lightning de, and bloodthirsty sword, did not even have a single critical strike. This made everyone wonder if there was a BUG in the game. Even though the five of them were in a team battle, Chen Mo¡¯s Tryndamere made them extremely frustrated. Even though they could earn something every time they started a team battle, Chen Mo was the one who took care of a lot of towers. Even though the Barbarian King had been killed a few times, Chen Zhao¡¯s side had the upper hand. The onlookers were amazed,¡±the manager is ying League of Legends as a hide-and-seek game!¡± Li jingsi¡¯s Vayne was already at 7x0x2, a stark contrast to Chen Mo¡¯s 0x7. Especially when the other side was shocked by his amazing ys, Chen Mo couldn¡¯t help but sigh,¡±¡±Do the big shots like to act like newbies these days? Didn¡¯t you say you¡¯ve never yed Vayne before?¡± Jia Peng was also very excited. He didn¡¯t think that such a headstrong situation in the early game could bepletely reversed through the contribution points. ¡°Manager, they¡¯re going to start another group!¡± Jia Peng said. ¡°It¡¯s fine. I¡¯ll just keep them busy for a while. I¡¯m going to dismantle the crystal soon!¡± Chen Zhao was already heading towards thest crystal hub. It was obvious that the other party didn¡¯t want to return to the city. They had already been annoyed by the Barbarian King, and all they wanted to do was to rush forward and end this battle. Soon, all kinds of messages started to flood the screen. Rockman and AMU forced Lulu, Annie killed song with a backhand, demaster entered the field to harvest, and Vayne was madly attacking ... However, they were still short of one yer. Although li jingsi¡¯s Vayne had tried her best to avoid all kinds of damage skills, she was still killed by the Requiem that was released after deathsong died. In the end, only lucky sister was still alive, pushing Chen Mo¡¯s crystal with all her might. Chen Mo was also dismantling the crystal core, but he realized that even though he hadpleted the 100 unlucky events, he was still one death short! There wasn¡¯t enough time. Chen Mo cut the crystal to thest bit of health, then used whirlwind sh to charge into the enemy¡¯s spring. At the same time, everyone¡¯s earpieces were filled with a shocking ¡°VICTORY¡±! ¡°Wow, the manager is awesome!!¡± The onlookers were shouting excitedly. Jia Peng, on the other hand, was so exhausted that he was slumped in his chair. Chen Mo let out a sigh of relief as he looked at the virtual screen on his bracelet. [All missions have beenpleted. Transfer sessful!] ¡­¡­ Emperor dynasty Entertainment¡¯s headquarters. Lin chaoxu seemed to have thought of something and said to Jin jieguang,¡±¡±I¡¯ve decided. We can¡¯t pin all our hopes on the foreigners. We¡¯ll make a game ourselves and follow your n!¡± Chapter 317

Chapter 317: The shame of bringing a sister to kill serente

Chen Mo¡¯s video of Barbarian King was uploaded online again. The title this time was,¡±the Barbarian King of Serent brought his sister 0x8 to be a super god. It¡¯s a disgrace to the world of girls!¡± Moreover, it wasn¡¯t just the videos taken by passers-by. Many people also looked up Chen Mo¡¯s battle records in League of Legends, and there was indeed a score of 0 to 8 for Barbarian King. On the other hand, li jingsi¡¯s Vayne ended up with a score of 9-1-2, the highest kill, MVP, highest damage output, and so on. It was an eye-catching sight, in stark contrast to Chen Mo¡¯s Tryndamere. This post became a hot post on the forum again. ¡°Hahahaha, Chen Mo really doesn¡¯t know how to y League of Legends. Saving the dying and healing the wounded, and bringing a girl to humiliate Barbarian King, doesn¡¯t that prove that he¡¯s not suitable for this game?¡± ¡°Wow, he was carried by the girl instead of carrying her. What a shame!¡± ¡°Also, did everyone notice that the Barbarian King in the video didn¡¯t even have a critical hit? He had already added endless to the electric de, but he didn¡¯t even get a critical hit. How dark is Chen Mo¡¯s face?¡± ¡°This girl is really amazing, I think this Vayne is perfect! And the girl¡¯s looks are really explosive, and she¡¯s good at ying games. I feel like I¡¯m in love!¡± ¡°Wow, I¡¯m also secretly in love with this girl. Don¡¯t say anything else, just draw your sword!¡± Chen Zhao had gained another title,¡¯bringing a girl along with you, shame on you, thelent¡¯. This incident became a small interlude on Valentine¡¯s Day, and was talked about by the yers of League of Legends. More and more yers started to believe that Chen Mo really couldn¡¯t y League of Legends well ... ...... ¡­¡­ On Valentine¡¯s Day, the number of active yers in League of Legends increased again to 1.57 million, and the duration of the yers ¡®games continued to increase. This showed that League of Legends was bing more and more attractive to the yers. There were even more and more yers who sat in five inte caf¨¦s and yed games all night. It was partly because of the Valentine¡¯s Day event, but more of it was because of the special qualities of League of Legends. Compared to mmorpgs, MOBA games had apletely different way of increasing the ytime of yers. There were three main ways for mmorpgs to increase yers ¡®loyalty. Exploration and collection of game methods, numerical stimtion, and social interaction. The main method was still through numerical stimtion. In order to get the best equipment in the current version, yers would y activities and Dungeons day after day, making mmorpgs one of the most time-consuming games. However, this was also the biggest problem. The best equipment was often only dropped inrge-scale team Dungeons. If yers wanted to obtain it, they had to participate in activities at fixed times, which made it easy for them to get tired. MOBA games, on the other hand, adopted apletely different approach. It not only achieved the purpose of increasing the game¡¯s stickiness, but also avoided the sense of fatigue. The biggest advantage of MOBA games was the yability of the heroes and the uncertainty of the game. Many yers could y a few thousand rounds of Lee Sin and Yasuo without getting tired of it. On the contrary, they would find it interesting. This was the yability of heroes. The uncertainty of a game meant that you always felt that you could carry the next game and would encounter normal teammates and weak opponents. Although you might lose even worse in the next game, you would still enjoy it. This was simr to tabletop games in that every round was a whole new experience, and the yers would feel that the next round would be even better. This gave the game a sense of anticipation and addiction. Moreover, MOBA games could make full use of the time fragments, and could be yed in solo mode or in ck mode, which was far better than mmorpgs. If Emperor dynasty entertainment was the only one who paid attention to League of Legends in the beginning, after the Valentine¡¯s Day event, the entire gaming industry started to pay attention to this new PC game. Chen Mo ¡®s¡¯ designer¡¯s home ¡®chat group was also in heated discussion. ¡°Chen Mo¡¯s League of Legends has been very eye-catching recently. It seems to have be popr overnight?¡± ¡°I heard that there are more than a million active yers now. That¡¯s fast!¡± ¡°There are so many yers? Which one of you went to y? tell me, what do you think?¡± ¡°It¡¯s very fun, and most importantly, it¡¯s easy to get started. There¡¯s basically no difficulty at all. That¡¯s really amazing.¡± ¡°That¡¯s right. It¡¯s not hard to make a gameplex. What¡¯s hard is to do subtraction. To make aplex game simple without losing the core fun, that¡¯s where you can truly see the skills of a designer.¡± ¡°Also, it seems like Chen Mo ns to make this game his next priority? In my hometown, I can see the posters of League of Legends in the inte cafe in a third-tier city, and there are quite a lot of people ying it. ¡± ¡°Boss Chen Mo¡¯s eyes and senses are indeed sharp. The Spring Festival is a perfect break, and the otherpanies have no ns to release new games. He¡¯s taking advantage of this time to take over the market and y really well!¡± ¡°Is Big Boss Chen Mo here? Quicklye and ept our ¡± ¡°I don¡¯t think he¡¯s here. He¡¯s probably busy.¡± ¡°I¡¯m going to y League of Legends and learn! I feel like there¡¯s still potential to be discovered in this game!¡± ¡­¡­ Within the small circle of designers, any designer who was sensitive to ytime had noticed the strong growth of League of Legends. Although they were shocked by the potential of this new game type, and everyone was envious, it was a pity that most people were powerless. That was because the bigpanies were on break, and it wasn¡¯t realistic for independent video game designers toe up with a new game in a short time without any preparation. Moreover, most people didn¡¯t have the time and energy to research and develop new games during the spring Festival. With the right timing, location, people, and a little bit of metaphysical factors, League of Legends was getting more and more popr. ¡­¡­ It was February 16th, the first day of the new year. ¡°Xiao Ling, get up and eat!¡± ¡°Get up, don¡¯t make me call you a second time!¡± ¡°Get up ...¡± Chen Zhao sat up helplessly.¡±¡±Mom, I¡¯m already 26 years old this year. Can you stop calling me ¡®Xiao Ling¡¯?¡± Hearing Chen Zhao¡¯s words, his mother was amused.¡±¡±You know you¡¯re 26 this year? When can I find a partner? I¡¯m waiting to carry a grandson!¡± Chen Zhao was speechless. It couldn¡¯t be helped. All parents of this age had unlocked a special talent. No matter what topic it was, they could always change it to ¡°when are you going to find a partner?¡± Perhaps, this was a certain historical necessity? Chapter 318

Chapter 318: The reversal of fate

Chen Zhao¡¯s mother cleaned up the breakfast and mumbled,¡±¡±Xiao Ling, you¡¯re not young anymore. It¡¯s not like you can¡¯t afford to buy a house or get married. If you get married soon, I can take care of your children, don¡¯t you think so?¡± ¡°Mom,¡± Chen Zhao said as he washed up.¡±I can afford a nanny now. You don¡¯t have to take care of the child.¡± Chen Zhao¡¯s mother kept shaking her head.¡±That won¡¯t do. How can the nanny you hired from outside take care of your child?¡± It¡¯s like a restaurant, with all kinds of spices and hormones. It¡¯s delicious, but it¡¯s not good for the body!¡± Chen Zhao¡¯s father was also speechless.¡±Alright, our son¡¯s work is going so well. He knows what he¡¯s doing. You don¡¯t have to keep nagging.¡± Right, son? I don¡¯t think it¡¯s too much to ask for a marriage certificate next spring Festival, right?¡± Chen Zhao was speechless. Chen Mo¡¯s father said,¡±alright, hurry up and have breakfast. I still have work to do after breakfast.¡± Don¡¯t dy any further. ¡± Chen Zhao¡¯s mother said while wiping her hands,¡±¡±Sigh, didn¡¯t you say that you¡¯re your own boss? why do you still have to get up early and go to work every day? It¡¯s not easy for me toe all the way to the capital to cook you a meal. It¡¯s all your favorite food, so eat more. ¡± Like the others, Chen Zhao also brought his parents to the imperial capital. Chen Mo had spent Chinese New Year at home in the past few years, but this year, considering the promotion of League of Legends, Chen Mo brought his parents over to spend the Chinese New Year together, and let them have some fun in the capital. Chen Zhao¡¯s parents were both blue-cor workers. They were worried about Chen Zhao working alone in the imperial capital. Especially Chen Zhao¡¯s mother, who was always worried that he wouldn¡¯t be able to eat or sleep well in the capital. Every now and then, she would tell him not to eat waste oil in restaurants. Of course, there were also all sorts of wedding urges. Chen Mo was already used to it, something that happened every year. After breakfast, Chen Mo went to the experience store. Chen Mo was nning to update League of Legends today, so he arrived earlier. ...... Putting the new version on the first day of the new year might seem like a scam, but in reality, there were many people ying games at home on the first day of the new year. Many people even formed teams to y games at inte cafes. The custom in many ces was to have the New Year¡¯s Eve dinner and watch the Spring Festival G on the night of the New Year¡¯s Eve. In the early morning or the morning of the first day of the new year, they would pay New Year greetings, leaving the afternoon free. For some young people, if they didn¡¯t go out in the afternoon, they had nothing to do other than y games. Even when he went out to meet his ssmates and friends, ying games in an inte cafe was also one of the important entertainment activities. After all, for many second-and third-tier cities, few shops were open during the new year. ying games in inte cafes was a very good entertainment activity. Therefore, many inte cafes would open on the afternoon of the first day of the new year to meet the needs of these yers. Moreover, this wouldst until the end of the Chinese New Year holiday, so this was a great time for Chen Mo to promote it. The Valentine¡¯s Day event, the new version update, and the battle Carnival were held before, mid, and after the new year respectively. They covered the entire Spring Festival holiday and aimed to harvest the yers indiscriminately. ¡­¡­ In the studio, Qian Kun and the others quickly arrived. Chen Mo looked at the time,¡±it¡¯s almost time. Let¡¯s stick to our original n. We¡¯ll start the update. The server will be open at 12 noon.¡± The update time was from 8 am to 12 noon, which was four hours. The content of the new version had already beenpleted and tested many times. There should not be any problems. Chen Mo didn¡¯t have much to do during the version update. After walking around the PC area on the first floor of the experience store, he sat in the living room and read. It was the first day of the new year after all, so there wasn¡¯t a single customer in the experience store. Chen Mo was happy to be free as well, with no one disturbing him. ¡­¡­ At 12 o¡¯ clock sharp, the new version update waspleted. Many yers entered the game one after another to check out the updated content of the new version. In a third-tier city, four friends went to visit in the morning. After lunch, they went to an inte cafe to y games. ¡°Let¡¯s go to the inte cafe!¡± ¡°Let¡¯s go! Are we still going to y moon God¡¯s prophecy this year?¡± ¡°The moon god¡¯s prophecy was abandoned some time ago. I don¡¯t think it can keep up with your progress. You guys can take me.¡± ¡°I¡¯m also a little tired of ying, there¡¯s nothing to do even if I go online. Are there any other games to y?¡± ¡°By the way, have you guys yed League of Legends?¡± ¡°What is that? a new game? What type?¡± ¡°I¡¯m ying! Let me tell you, it¡¯s really fun, it¡¯s easy to get started, everyone starts from Level 1, and it¡¯s a test of skill. ¡± ¡°Sounds good. Let¡¯s try it together?¡± ¡°Let¡¯s y together. I heard that there¡¯ll be a new hero in the update today. We have to y it!¡± ¡°Let me carry you guys with my desman! I¡¯m a desman!¡± Although it was the first day of the new year, there were quite a lot of people in the inte cafe. Almost half of the camera seats were upied, so there should be more people in the afternoon. They were all surprised that many of them were ying League of Legends. When did this game be popr? I didn¡¯t seem to have heard of it before the new year. The four of them sat in the inte caf¨¦ and started League of Legends. The inte cafe¡¯s League of Legends had already been automatically updated to a new version. As soon as the game started, they saw a new CG animation. The four of them were stunned for a moment, but then, the beautiful CG animation attracted all their attention, and they couldn¡¯t help but put on their headphones and immerse themselves in it. First, it was the sword, shield, and wings that formed the dynamic LOGO of League of Legends, as well as Thunderbolt gaming¡¯s logo. The scene began with a close-up of a hand movement. Twisted Fate was ying with the card in his hand as if he were performing magic, and if you looked closely, you would realize that it looked like the same card, but the suit and number would change with every flip. Twisted Fate looked at the distant town in the night. Suddenly, he waved his hand, and a Crow flew out of his card. ¡°Tuk.¡± With a dull thud, the scythe-wielding straw doll, its eyes gleaming, opened its mouth and let out a shrill howl at Twisted Fate. The sky was filled with crows as they flew towards Twisted Fate! The scene changed, and a blue-skinned bald mage with a Rune Scroll on his back was running in fear. His eyes were covered by a ck nightmare. The sky cracked and the earth cracked, and boulders copsed. In the shadows, a dark creature suspended in the air revealed its sharp de to the mage. At the critical moment, the darkness in the wizard¡¯s eyes dissipated. He suddenly closed the spellbook and trapped the nightmare in ce. Then, he extracted a ball of rune energy that was emitting blue lightning from the spellbook and threw it at the nightmare! The scene changed again. Garen, who was holding a giant sword, was fighting a red-haired girl. The red-haired girl¡¯s figure was very agile. She shuttled back and forth in the air and attacked garen with her dagger. Garen gradually gained the upper hand. Just as he thought that victory was in his grasp, the Barbarian King suddenly extended his long sword, and the two of them began to fight fiercely again. Garen¡¯s greatsword pierced through the Barbarian King¡¯s body, but the Barbarian King did not die. His eyes burned with endless anger, and the situation was reversed again. A fireball sted the Barbarian King away, and Annie, who was holding a Little Bear, hummed a little tune and joined the battlefield. ¡°Roar!¡± A giant bear with mes all over its body descended from the sky. However, just as the giant bear was about to pounce on the Barbarian King, a huge monster suddenly swallowed it. Baron Nashor opened his bloody mouth, and the whole cinematic atmosphere reached its climax. However, the video came to an abrupt end, and a huge LOGO appeared in the center of the screen. League of Legends! Chapter 319

Chapter 319: New version, rankingpetition

The four-minute video shocked everyone, and they took a long time to recover. ¡°What the f * ck? Such high-definition cinematics?¡± ¡°Awesome!¡± ¡°There are quite a few heroes in there. Twisted Fate, Annie, garen, and Barbarian King? But how many of them are you still not familiar with?¡± ¡°Is it a new hero?¡± ¡°That¡¯s amazing. Let¡¯s go and see the new update!¡± ¡°He¡¯s so cool!¡± ¡°After all, Thunderbolt film studio has a basic operation. Take a seat.¡± Compared to Warcraft and Diablo, League of Legends ¡®CG animation took apletely different path. Blizzard cinematics like Warcraft focused on the story¡¯s content. They often cut out key points of famous events and used highly concentrated content to show the essence of the story. Every line was worth studying. On the other hand, League of Legends used the battle royale of multiple heroes as the main CG content, which ignored the rationality of the plot to a certain extent. This was because the first consideration for MOBA games was the diversity and bnce of heroes. The main purpose of developing new heroes was to enrich the game mechanics, not to fill in the plot. At the same time, these heroes were all protagonists, and they had different personalities. If they were all put into the same plot structure, it would actually be very difficult to make the plot very outstanding. ...... Therefore, even though League of Legends continued to show the universe of League of Legends and enrich the world view, the yers ¡®recognition of the continent of valoran was always slightly less than that of Azeroth. Of course, this was mainly due to the limitations of the game type. Although the cinematics of League of Legends didn¡¯t have any plot, they showed the characteristics of the heroes and the game very well, so as a means of promotion, this cinematics was enough to make the yers cry out in excitement. ¡­¡­ The main updates of League of Legends were as follows. The first was the added game cinematics, which was released in S3 in Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, titled ¡°the twist of fate¡±. The cinematics were chosen as the opening cinematics of League of Legends because the heroes in the cinematics were morepatible with the ones Chen Mo had nned for the first version. The ones in the cinematics were twisted cards, garen, Barbarian King, Annie, and the others, who were already released and had a certain level of influence among the yers. Next was the new hero. This version update had a total of five new heroes, one for each position. They were: Ryze the wandering wizard, the doomsday Messenger (grass-man), Katarina, Sivir (lunhui¡¯s mother), and winddy. Among them, Ryze the Vagabond could be considered a mid champion. He was used to y the topne, but it was rare. (Of course, the older Ryze was the top trending list in S4. Gogoing evenpleted 3:0 achievements of the Korea team. This version was released mainly because Ryze and Catarina were both very old and ssic characters. They also had more scenes in the CG, so they were released together. However, Chen Mo added both top and mid to Ryze¡¯s tag, allowing the yers to choose freely. Ryze and Catarina had both been remade. Before the remade, they were newbie heroes, but after the remade, their mechanics became moreplicated. Chen Mo continued with his previous design and followed the new skills. Although the old Ryze¡¯s magic machine gun and the old Catarina¡¯s face rolling on the keyboard were more fun, they were not easy to bnce after all. A higher value would be too strong, and a lower value would make one sit on the bench all year round. There was not enough fun to y. Chen Mo was thinking of adding one of these heroes into the wild mode if he had the chance in the future, and not update it in the official server for the time being. In this way, all the heroes in the CG appeared, except for the eternal Nightmare, Morten. Incubus was also a jungler and was somewhat simr to the paddy field man, so it was left for the next version to be developed, which was also to give the yers some suspense. In addition to the cinematics and new heroes, there was a very important update: The rankingpetition mode was activated. In fact, the yers had been looking forward to this mode for a long time. Chen Mo had already created a perfect ranking system in Warcraft, and the points were the most important measure of a yer¡¯s skill. Many old yers of Warcraft understood the importance of this ranking system in the game, so they knew that League of Legends would have a ranking system sooner orter. However, it opened earlier than everyone had expected. In fact, it was still a little early to start the rankingpetition, because there were only 30 Champions in League of Legends. In the draft mode, both sides had forbidden slots, and the Champions could not be chosen repeatedly, so the depth of 30 Champions was not enough. Chen Mo was thinking about how to get the yers to find a clear path as soon as possible, so that the experts could get out of the newbies ¡®newbies¡¯ Fishpond. This would allow the game to get on the right track faster, so he still activated the ranking system. However, considering that there were only 30 Champions at the moment, a 10-ban mode was a little too brutal. For the time being, they would still adopt a 6-ban mode, which meant that the blue team would ban first, and the blue and purple teams would each have three bans. The new rankingpetition system also caused a heated discussion among the yers. On the official forum of League of Legends, an enthusiastic yer posted and analyzed the content of the version update. After briefly analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of a few new champions, he deliberately spent a lot of time exining the new ranking mode. ¡°I think the most exciting part of this update is the rankingpetition mode. If cinematics are about face and new heroes are about game content, then ranked mode is about giving League of Legends its soul. ¡± ¡°Anyone who¡¯s yed Warcraft knows what I¡¯m talking about. Climbing thedder and passing yers are twopletely different gaming experiences. Under the stimtion of the ranking points, the game will continue to develop different strategies and will further stimte the poprity of the game.¡± ¡°Also, if you look closely at the ranking rules, you¡¯ll realize that League of Legends has a better ranking system than Warcraft.¡± ¡°Under the new recruitment mode, yers can ban heroes. This is a test for each yer¡¯s hero pool and to a certain extent, it prevents repeated lineups.¡± ¡°On the surface, the design of arge division from bronze to king only seems to be a change in the description, but in fact, it gives a very intuitive image of ¡®division¡¯. It is no longer a dry score.¡± ¡°Moreover, with the addition of the rankingpetition, small division,rge division, and other concepts, the ranking system has be more rich. It is also more beneficial to eliminate the factor of luck and show a yer¡¯s true level.¡± ¡°I can imagine that when someone asked you what rank you were and you answered with 3000 points, he wouldn¡¯t have any idea. What level is this? However, if you answer gold, diamond, or King, the concept will be very clear. ¡± ¡°Of course, the most important thing is that it satisfied my need to act tough. Don¡¯t stop me, I¡¯m going to y ranked and be the king!¡± Chapter 320

Chapter 320: This girl is cheating?

After the update, all the statistics of League of Legends skyrocketed, and it even became a hot search. All of a sudden, everyone was talking about the new version of League of Legends. It was as if there were no other games during the new year. At the same time, there were more discussions about League of Legends and COG. ¡°That¡¯s weird, I feel like COG is more fun than League of Legends, why do I feel like it¡¯s being crushed? It felt fine on the first day of the game, but why do I feel like there are fewer and fewer people after that?¡± ¡°I¡¯ve yed COG, and the beginner guide was a mess. The first match I entered, my matching head was smashed. I want to know if the matching system in this game is made with feet?¡± ¡°Hehe, it¡¯s too F * cking unbnced. The dark Ranger in the middle is simply a BUG. It can summon all kinds of skeletons, lure wild monsters, and its damage output is also very high. Oh, right, it should be called the shadow Ranger now, because yourpany doesn¡¯t have the copyright. (Manual emoji)¡± ¡°I can¡¯t say for sure. Although I feel that COG was done quite well and the game¡¯s mechanics are quite rich, it¡¯s just that it¡¯s hard to get into it. It¡¯s too difficult to win. It feels like the gods are fighting.¡± ¡°Forget it, let¡¯s go back to y League of Legends. The ranking matches are out, and I¡¯m going to be the king of ranking from today on!¡± It was only now that the feedback from the yers after COG began to enter the field of vision of most yers. The yers didn¡¯t have the detailed statistics like Emperor dynasty entertainment, so they only realized now that the poprity of COG seemed to have been crushed by League of Legends? Although there were still many yers fighting in the game, anyone with eyes could see that the winner of the first round of COG and League of Legends had been decided. The number of yers and poprity of these two games would show a rtionship of one decreasing and the other increasing, and slowly, League of Legends wouldpletely crush COG. Even with the two big channels of Emperor dynasty entertainment and fantasy gaming tform, it would be difficult to save them. Unless Chen Mo made a huge mistake in promoting League of Legends. ...... However, Chen Mo never seemed to make a mistake. No matter how anxious they were, there was nothing the other developers could do. Everyone was on holiday, and they could only watch Chen Mo¡¯s performance during the spring Festival. ¡­¡­ In the experience store, Chen Mo yawned in boredom. After the version update, he paid attention to the yers ¡®feedback. The effect was great. The yers felt that the new cinematics were cool and the ranking mechanism was great. As for the new heroes, some said that they were too weak and some said that they didn¡¯t understand the game. But overall, the yers were very satisfied. The main point was that the five new heroes in this update either required a certain level of skill, such as Ryze and Carter, or were designated as team-type heroes, such as mother Lunzi and winddy. The yers needed to familiarize and understand the process. This was the same as in his previous life. When a lot of new heroes were first released, everyone thought that they were trash. After they developed them, they realized that these heroes were f * cking crazy! In the hall on the first floor of the experience store, Chen Mo was reading a book. A figure walked into the experience store. ¡°Manager?¡± Chen Mo was taken aback. He turned around and saw li jingsi. ¡°What are you doing here?¡± Chen Mo was a little surprised. Even though li jingsi lived in Imperial, why would she be at the experience store on the afternoon of the first day of the new year? Li jingsi sat down on the sofa opposite Chen Zhao with a thermal container in her hand. ¡°I heard that the manager had to work overtime today. It must have been hard on him, so I¡¯m here tofort you.¡± Li jingsi opened the thermal lunch box to find some baked cookies inside. There were many vors of cookies, such as vani, chocte, matcha, and so on. They were all of different colors and were still warm. They looked delicious. ¡°Come, manager, try it.¡± Li jingsi handed the thermal container to Chen Zhao. ¡°Ah, thank you.¡± Chen Zhao picked up a matcha-vored cookie. It still had a faint tea aroma. It was soft and smooth and melted in his mouth. It was delicious. ¡°MMM, it¡¯s delicious! Did you do this yourself? That¡¯s amazing. ¡± Chen Zhao couldn¡¯t help but praise him. ¡°It¡¯s just cookies,¡±li jingsi said with a smile.¡± Anyone who knows how to use an oven can make them. ¡± There should be other employees, right? let them have some?¡± Chen Mo shook his head.¡±No, no, no, they¡¯re not hungry. Besides, cookie is so high in calories that they¡¯ll get fat if they eat it. I¡¯ll reluctantly do it for them.¡± Li jingsi burst intoughter and said,¡±Manager, I¡¯m here today to ask for something. For cookie¡¯s sake, can you y a few rounds of Warcraft with me?¡± ¡°Warcraft?¡± Chen Mo was stunned.¡±You¡¯re ying too?¡± Li jingsi nodded.¡±That¡¯s right. And I¡¯m really good.¡± ¡°No wonder you picked up League of Legends so quickly. You have the basics of RTS games. Alright, since I¡¯m free today, I¡¯ll y a few rounds with you. ¡± Chen Mo took the thermal container and sat down with li jingsi on twoputers in the PC area. ¡­¡­ One. Two. Three rounds. The two of them yed three rounds. Chen Mo still used a random race, while li jingsi used a Night Elf. To Chen Mo¡¯s shock, li jingsi was evenly matched with him. Even though he won all three rounds, li jingsi was obviously very skilled. In the second round, she used an elf against Chen Mo¡¯s beast, and even used a perfect wind style, almost overthrowing Chen Mo. Even though Warcraft¡¯s tactics had improved a lot over the years, it was still impossible for an ordinary master to y wind blowing to this level. What surprised Chen Mo the most was the girl¡¯s hand speed. It was extremely fast! Just from the sound of her typing, her average APM was estimated to be above 300. Chen Mo¡¯s hand speed and reaction speed were fast, thanks to the use of many system items. As for li jingsi, it was hard to say how a girl could have such fast hand speed, but it was probably a gift from God. Li jingsi took off her earphones and said with heartfelt admiration,¡±¡±As expected of S-God, I¡¯m convinced. When I was ying with Goph and the rest, they said that I definitely wouldn¡¯t be able to beat you. I didn¡¯t believe them, but I really can ¡®t. ¡± Li jingsi had a smile on her face the entire time she said this, and there was no sign of dejection on her face at all. It was clear that she was not the kind of person who ced a lot of importance on winning or losing. Even though she gave it her all during the fight, she was always able to maintain a calm attitude. ¡°It¡¯s already quite powerful,¡±Chen Zhao said. With your current skill level, you should be able to reach the top of thedder in Warcraft, right?¡± Li jingsi nodded.¡±It reached the top on the 7th ofst month. The ount name is ¡®throne.''¡± ¡°Throne?¡± Chen Zhao thought for a moment. Li jingsi smiled and replied,¡±yeah.¡± Have you stopped paying attention to Warcraft for a long time? you don¡¯t even know that thedder ranking has changed. ¡± ¡°I know this ount,¡± Chen Mo said,¡±but I thought only middle schoolers would use this id. Who would¡¯ve thought it was a pretty girl?¡± ¡°Actually, this ID is just because it¡¯s in harmony with my name.¡± Li jingsi said,¡±I didn¡¯t think Warcraft would be challenging at first, but after fighting you today, I¡¯m starting to think that the game is interesting.¡± Chen Mo ate another cookie and looked through thements on his phone. ¡°Do you want to y League of Legends?¡± Chen Zhao suddenly asked. Chapter 321 - Chen Mo鈥檚 live stream

Chapter 321: Chen Mo¡¯s live stream

¡°Alright.¡± Li jingsi nodded.¡±Actually, I still prefer League of Legends. After all, this game¡¯s style is morefortable, while Warcraft is too dark.¡± ¡°Log into your ount and wait for me. I¡¯ll turn on the livestream.¡± Chen Mo logged into his ount as he downloaded the livestream app. Chen Mo had a livestream room on fish-catching gaming tform. He used it when he was promoting Onmyoji, but he never used it again. Chen Mo didn¡¯t y many games, after all, no matter what level of enemy he fought, he would only be able to beat up noobs, which was quite boring. However, he had a special purpose for livestreaming this time. Ever since League of Legends was released, there had been discussions on the forum about the strength of each hero. Currently, the yers ¡®overall standard was still rtively low, so there was a certain gap between the hero¡¯s evaluation and the hero¡¯s actualbat power. The 25 Champions in the first version had a decent appearance rate, as Chen Mo had bnced the numbers well, so there weren¡¯t any BUG-level Champions that could dominate the game. The jungler, Archer, and support positions were still fine because the Champions ¡®positions were clear, their mechanisms were different, and the overall strength was not much different. For example, lucky sister was a champion that was easier to pick up as an Archer, Ezreal was very agile, eich was a team controller, ratty could deal AOE damage in a team fight, and Vayne was a fast meat cleaver that could show off. Each of these five heroes had their own characteristics and could meet the needs of the vast majority of yers. The yers ¡®opinions were mainly focused on the middlene, especially the two heroes, Twisted Fate and ice Phoenix. Most yers felt that they were too weak. Annie was a simple and brutal team control Mage, while Kassadin was a high-mobility snowball-type mage. In theter stages of the game, even a super ghost could be very useful, so these three mages were rtively more popr. ...... The yers felt that Twisted Fate and ice Phoenix were too weak. They had low damage output and were easy to kill, especially Ice Phoenix, who did not have enough mana and could not touch anyone with her Q-skill. After the new version update, the yers ¡®opinions were even more intense. Ryze was a mid-Lane mage who was a little weak in everything. Catarina was flying around in a graceful manner, but she didn¡¯t seem to be injured. It was difficult for the paddies ¡®big moves to jump out with such a long channeling time. Lun Tai¡¯s mother did not feel that there was any carry ability, so she could only go all out with her teammates. Winddy was just blowing wind to heal, and her presence was almost zero. What the hell are these five updates? Especially after the start of the rankingpetition, there were more and more arguments about the bnce of heroes on the forum. ¡°I beg Chen Mo to delete Phoenix. What else can he do other than turn into an egg?¡± ¡°And what¡¯s the use of Teemo? When I saw my teammate pick Teemo in ranked, I wanted to surrender immediately!¡± ¡°To be honest, Twisted Fate is also a piece of trash. It¡¯s such a waste to be the first to appear in the CG. It¡¯s a windfall!¡± ¡°I¡¯ll be honest. Those who don¡¯t choose a tank top or a tank jungler in ranked games, die!¡± ¡°I¡¯m really starting to doubt if Chen Mo is able to bnce the game. I¡¯m convinced of the bnce in Warcraft because Chen Mo is a Pro himself. But he¡¯s obviously not good at League of Legends, he¡¯s not even good at it yet, how can he bnce the numbers?¡± ¡°Yeah, think about the bull that saved the dying and the Barbarian King that¡¯s 0.8. Oh my God!¡± ¡°Sigh, Chen Mo should find a good bncing master to help with the game¡¯s bnce. If this goes on, all the good games will be ruined!¡± ¡­¡­ Very quickly, the livestream software was ready. Chen Mo tested the game and found no problems, so he posted on Weibo: ¡°Fish-catching streaming tform, streaming room 10013, live streaming League of Legends.¡± After posting, Chen Mo ced it on the table and said to li jingsi,¡±¡±Come, let¡¯s do the ranking.¡± ¡°I took a look just now. I don¡¯t think my proficiency is enough ...¡± Li jingsi was a little helpless. ¡°Oh, wait a moment.¡± Chen Mo quickly logged into the management tform and set both his and Li jingsi¡¯s ounts to all heroes master. ¡°Alright, line up.¡± Chen Mo invited li jingsi to join his team. ¡°...Yes, very strong,¡± li jingsi replied. ¡­¡­ On the fish-catching live streaming tform, many people had received a broadcast message. ¡°The streamer you¡¯re following, Mister (room 10013), has started streaming. Go and take a look! [Click to jump to the livestream room]¡± Everyone was a little dumbfounded. What was going on? ¡®Is Mister on air?¡¯ Because it was so long ago, many people had already forgotten when they started paying attention to Chen Mo. After all, it had been two and a half years since Chen Mo¡¯s bloodbath in Warcraft, and two years since Onmyoji¡¯s SSR draw. Many people had almost forgotten that Chen Mo still had his own stream. Soon, arge number of viewers poured into the live broadcast room. There weren¡¯t many people following Chen Mo¡¯s stream, only around 200000, but Chen Mo¡¯s Weibo had a lot of fans, so many people started watching his stream on their phones. In just ten minutes, Chen Mo¡¯s stream had 240000 viewers, and it was still growing. Soon, the screen was filled with bulletments. Everyone was discussing excitedly. ¡°Waa! S-God hade out of seclusion! How long has it been since S-Godst yed a game?¡± ¡°S-God, let¡¯s y Warcraft! It¡¯s so lonely without you. A little kid named Throne has climbed to the top. How can you bear this?¡± ¡°Where¡¯s Chen Zhao? Why aren¡¯t there any surveince cameras? Why aren¡¯t you saying anything?¡± ¡°The stream and game ID match, this should be Chen Mo himself, right?¡± ¡°What, Chen Mo wants to y League of Legends? Don¡¯t tell me that he wants to show us the ¡°healing the wounded ox¡± and the ¡± 0 8¡å Barbarian King?¡± ¡°Although we all understand that you want to promote League of Legends, don¡¯t you know what you¡¯re doing? you¡¯re a good example of what not to do!¡± ¡°Don¡¯t quarrel, don¡¯t quarrel! I want to see Chen Mo y League of Legends, then I¡¯ll be able to feel superior in terms of intelligence, hehehe!¡± There were all sorts ofments. Chen Mo didn¡¯t even turn on the bulletments, nor did he turn on the camera or microphone, because he didn¡¯t care what the yers were saying. He only had one goal, and that was to tell the audience: ¡°Watch and learn.¡± Only the less skilled and the less popr streamers would go back and do such things, Chen Mo didn¡¯t care about it at all. I rely on my skills to y games. Let me show you what high-end operations are! Chapter 322 - The goddess of fate is smiling

Chapter 322: The goddess of fate is smiling

He entered the rankingpetition interface. The low BGM sounded, first with a soothing and nervous rhythm, followed by the concentrated beating of drums, and then the bugle that wasmon in warsongs. Several instruments were well integrated together. Although the melody itself wasn¡¯t that tight, it perfectly set off the atmosphere of the qualifyingpetition. It made people feel an inexplicable sense of tension, but it also made their blood boil and filled with anticipation. This was the first ranked BGM in ¡°League of Legends¡± in Chen Mo¡¯s previous life. It was also a ssic produced by the ¡°fist of the big music manufacturers¡±, so many yers would subconsciously pick a champion when they hear this. Li jingsi looked through the heroes that filled the screen and asked,¡±¡±What should I choose?¡± ¡°As you wish.¡± Chen Mo said,¡±just choose the one you want to y.¡± After the heroes were disabled, both sides began to choose their Champions. Li jingsi was on a higher floor, so she locked onto Vayne first. Chen Zhao locked onto Twisted Fate after his opponent had chosen Annie. ¡°Lady Luck is smiling.¡± As soon as he locked on, his teammates sent him question marks. Theva beast was confused. You¡¯re still ying card Heroes even though they¡¯re trash? With Kassadin and death Song, why don¡¯t you y cards?¡± Chen Zhao smiled and didn¡¯t mind. Very quickly, the game loaded. ...... Chen Mo went straight to the middlene and started dancing under the tower. The stone man walked up the road while typing,¡±¡±Just don¡¯t give me the cards. I¡¯ve already met a few cards that died instantly when they hit the ground with a swarm of flyings.¡± Chen Zhao was speechless. He felt like the stone man didn¡¯t trust him at all. After thinking for a moment, he decided tofort his teammates. ¡°I¡¯m Chen Mo,¡± Twisted Fate master said.¡±I¡¯m sure I¡¯ll win if I don¡¯t give away anything.¡± The stone man stood under the tower for a while before typing,¡±¡±I¡¯m still a Goph!¡± ¡°Sigh, but I really didn¡¯t notice your id. How did you make it so simr?¡± Sword Saint Wuji: ¡°you want to COSPLAY Chen Zhao¡¯s¡± saving the dying and healing the injured ¡°bull or¡± super barbarian ghost king ¡°?¡± Chen Zhao was speechless. It felt like it had be a stain on his life? Forget it, I won¡¯t argue with these ignorant onlookers. I¡¯m so magnanimous. Annie was very aggressive. She stood outside the attack range of Chen Zhao¡¯s Tower and kept mocking him. Indeed, among the current champions in the middlene, Annie should be the strongest champion in thene to the newbies. It was unreasonable for her to waste her health so easily just because she was stunned. Chen Mo ignored Annie and stood behind the minion wave, steadily farming. Every time Annie wanted to faint and exhaust her cards, Chen Mo would pull away from her just right. The first time he went home, Chen Zhao¡¯s 38 CS surpassed Annie¡¯s by 10. Only then did the bulletments notice the details of the card operation. ¡°This CS is 666, it¡¯s as beautiful as a painting. Did anyone see how many minions he missed?¡± ¡°It doesn¡¯t seem to be missing? I didn¡¯t pay attention!¡± ¡°That¡¯s 10 more than Annie. ¡± ¡°And Chen Zhao doesn¡¯t seem to want to kill Annie? Why does it feel so conservative?¡± ¡°Trash! If it were me, I would¡¯ve solo killed him long ago!¡± Chen Zhao continued to develop. In fact, it was not impossible for him to defeat Annie with his control, but that would lose the meaning of livestreaming. His control and reaction speed were not something that every yer could have. Although he was good at killing, it was not educational. Chen Mo wanted to show the yers the essence of this champion. Even without incredible mechanics and reaction speed, he could carry a match with his familiarity and awareness. Soon, Twisted Fate reached Level 6. After pushing the minion wave under Anita again, Twisted Fate went to the underbrush by the river. With the activation of fate, a huge eyeball appeared above the heads of all the enemies, as if someone was staring at everyone¡¯s position in the dark. The audience in the livestream room heard Twisted Fate¡¯s sneer. ¡°I¡¯ve caught you,¡± The top Lane¡¯s Rockman was pushed under the turret by garen. He was originally very ufortable, but when he saw Twisted Fate as a support, he did not hesitate to use a big move. Twisted Fate followed up with a yellow card. Under the output of the two people, garen was quickly killed without any suspense. After all, the minion line at the topne was too long. With Rockman¡¯s speed reduction and Twisted Fate¡¯s continuous output, garen could not hold on. After easily taking a kill, Twisted Fate went back to his tower and took over the minion wave that Annie had pushed back. There were already many people in the live broadcast room who were spamming ¡± 666¡å. ¡°He, he¡¯s killed just like that?¡± ¡°That¡¯s weird, why can¡¯t I feel that this hero is so easy to kill when I y cardsharp? Every time I fly over, the other side will run away. Sometimes, I¡¯ll even be counter-squatted by the other side!¡± ¡°Look at Chen Mo¡¯s auto-attack, it¡¯s as beautiful as A painting! He basically didn¡¯t waste any damage and chased garen to his death!¡± ¡°Is Chen Mo really capable of ying Twisted Fate?¡± His second ultimate, cardsharp, helped Vayne take lucky sister¡¯s head. The third big move, cardsharp, killed the opponent¡¯s low health a Mumu in the jungle. Moreover, as Twisted Fate was flying up and down the bottomne, not only did Annie not manage to catch up to his CS, the gap between them was getting bigger and bigger. With the difference in CS and kills, Twisted Fate¡¯s equipment was getting more and more luxurious. In less than 20 minutes, he had already created a three-piece set of Lich, abyss, and Zhongya sandbag. When he encountered a lone champion in the jungle, he could just use a set of skills and they would be left with half of their health. All the other Champions were in a state of panic. Rockman, who had been on the offensive since the start of the game, stopped talking. He would asionally say 666. After all, Twisted Fate had helped him build an advantage by grabbing the topne, and it was much morefortable against garen. The sword Saint on his side typed: ¡°take advantage of the advantage and team up. It won¡¯t be easy to fight if the other side is tanky!¡± The other side had the same idea. Twisted Fate¡¯s frequent full-map ganks made them panic, and they all ran in groups, not giving Twisted Fate any chance to catch a single yer. ¡°Come.¡± Chen Mo quickly typed and activated his ulti again. This time, he chose a shocking position: Behind the five Champions. At this moment, the stone man and the sword Saint had a lot of curses in their hearts because they had seen several cards that could make a big break. All of them had undoubtedly given themselves up while they were in the team battle. Not only did he fail to bring up the rear, but he also ended up being unable to do so. This was because Twisted Fate was a mid-Lane sorcerer and was extremely fragile. In a 1v1, he would not have any advantage over most of the other Champions, and if he were to fly into a crowd, he would only be courting death. He was ying this card well at the beginning. Why did his intelligence suddenly drop and he started to give it away? You¡¯re a big head! However, it was useless to be conflicted because the card had already flown over. The others could only bite the bullet and continue. Chapter 323

Chapter 323: The number of people in the live broadcast room exploded

The other party had obviously noticed the position of the card. A Mumu directly walked to the ce where the card had fallen and released his big move in an instant! A wide Golden area appeared in an instant. Under the effect of the spell of mummy, all the enemies around it would be entangled. Although The mummy¡¯s Q-skill also had a stun effect, it was a non-directional skill and was less controble. After seeing Twisted Fate¡¯s amazing positioning, a Mumu did not dare to take the risk, so she directly used her ultimate! At the same time, the others also threw their non-directional skills at the position where the card was about tond. They wanted to kill him the moment hended. But all of his skills missed, because it wasn¡¯t Twisted Fate that was flying at him-it was a golden statue that looked exactly like Twisted Fate. Ding! Ding! A crisp sound was heard. The hourss, also known as the Golden body, could make the hero immune to all damage for 2.5 seconds and could not be selected, but the hero itself could not move, attack, cast spells or release any skills. All the directional skills and team control skills were all smashed on the Golden body of the card, and there was no ssh at all. Once the Golden body was over, Twisted Fate immediately activated sprint to avoid a Mumu¡¯s bandages, and at the same time, drew a yellow card to hold back garen, who was about to rush up. At the same time, his teammates all swarmed up. After losing many of their key big moves due to the economic disadvantage, the other side was already defeated. Twisted Fate strolled through the Aces as if he were taking A stroll in the park, drawing yellow cards one after another like death notices, announcing the death of his enemies. The yellow card was fixed, and he threw out three universal cards, urately taking down thest enemy who tried to escape. ...... ¡°TRIPLE KILL!¡± A huge triple kill icon appeared in the middle of the screen, and everyone could almost hear Twisted Fate¡¯s mockingughter.¡±Today is my lucky day!¡± With a triple kill, the five opponents were wiped out. Twisted Fate and his teammates razed the enemy¡¯s base to the ground, ending the game. After calmly rejecting the eight friend requests, Chen Mo continued to y with li jingsi. ¡­¡­ Thements section exploded. This card show had shocked everyone, especially thest wave of golden bodies, which had made the audience feel like they were in heaven. ¡°F * ck! You can y Twisted Fate in this way?¡± ¡°Why do I feel like his Twisted Fate has such high damage? Yellow card, Q-skill, and passive, he¡¯s going to kill brickskin instantly?¡± ¡°And I feel like Chen Mo¡¯s movements are too agile. He¡¯s like a Loach that you can¡¯t catch, and he¡¯s throwing cards at you!¡± ¡°What¡¯s the principle behind thest wave? can any of you tell me?¡± ¡°Zhongya Shatou! [Landing golden body deception], I¡¯ve learned something new! No, I¡¯m going to try it out with a mech now!¡± ¡°It feels like ... Chen Zhao nned this? He must have known that everyone said that the cards were not powerful, so he showed them to us? Why do I feel a sense of familiarity ...¡± ¡°Yeah, when Warcraft first came out, everyoneined that the humans and elves were too weak. He did the same!¡± ¡°Does that mean Chen Mo is going to start teaching? Hurry up and post on the forum. Let everyone see that serente is acting cool again!¡± After the game, the news that Chen Mo was livestreaming League of Legends quickly spread to all the forums and yer groups. Many yers were still wondering, wasn¡¯t Chen Mo a noob in League of Legends? Why did he even show off such a difficult champion like Twisted Fate? The confused yers all started streaming into Chen Mo¡¯s stream. After all, it was the new year, and many people had nothing to do. Watching the livestream of League of Legends and learning some high-end skills was a good idea. Soon, the number of people in Chen Mo¡¯s stream increased. By the end of the second ranked match, the number of viewers had exceeded 500000. The screen was filled with bulletments and gifts. While the audience was spamming ¡± 666¡å, there were also many people trying tomunicate with Chen Mo. ¡°S-God, I beg Annie to teach me!¡± ¡°S-God, my roommate has cancer. Before he dies, he wants to see you y Teemo as the topne. Please fulfill his wish!¡± ¡°S-God, why aren¡¯t you saying anything? Why don¡¯t you say something?¡± ¡°Where are the cameras? Where are the cameras? Where¡¯s the camera?¡± Many of the new audience members were dumbfounded. What was going on? there were already 500000 people watching? Judging from the number ofments and the frequency of the gifts, his poprity could only be high and not low. Moreover, Chen Mo didn¡¯t even sign an official contract with fish-catching streaming tform, so the poprity data shouldn¡¯t be fake. However, wasn¡¯t Chen Mo¡¯s stream too half-hearted? Other streamers paid special attention to their interactions with their viewers during their live broadcasts. Some less popr streamers would even read out everyment left by their viewers. The big streamers would also pick some bulletments to answer. From time to time, they would also say some flirtatious jokes to liven up the atmosphere. Not only did Chen Mo not turn on his camera, but he also didn¡¯t even have a microphone? The entire process was all about choosing people and ying games. If it were anyone else, the live broadcast would have been done for! But by doing this, Chen Zhao¡¯s poprity only exploded. This was really strange. The third round of the ranking match began, and Chen Mo locked onto his champion: Ice Phoenix. The bullet screen weed another wave of revelry. ¡°Wow, S is a beautiful ice bird!¡± ¡°As expected, S is teaching us. He¡¯ll y whichever game is harder. He must have seen the forum and knew that we all said that cards and Icebird were weak. That¡¯s why he deliberately yed for us to see!¡± ¡°The ice bird I met only knows how to build a wall to cut off his own life. Let¡¯s see how S-God ys. Does he also know how to destroy birds and eggs?¡± ¡°Who was the one who said that S-God didn¡¯t know how to y lol? Drag him out and kill him, how dare he create false information!¡± ¡°Ice bird party UP UP!¡± Soon, the audience was divided into different factions, all of which were divided by heroes. There were some ¡°Timo fans¡± who wanted Chen Mo to y the cute hero. There was the Catarina party that wanted Chen Zhao to y a more showy champion. Some wanted Chen Zhao to revive the ¡°Minotaur Chieftain party¡±. Some of them wanted Chen Zhao to show off his new hero, the ¡®wandering Wizards¡¯. Almost every champion had a group of fans, and they were all begging Chen Mo to y the champion they wanted to see. These people didn¡¯t know if Chen Mo had seen thements, so they kept saying all sorts of things, hoping that Chen Mo would see them. ¡­¡­ Zhang Yu, the boss of fish-catching live streaming tform, received a message. ¡°Mr. Zhang, look at the front page of our stream, Chen Mo¡¯s stream is exploding in poprity!¡± Zhang Yu, who was resting at home, was confused. What the hell? Chen Mo? Why is he livestreaming? Fish-catching streaming tform had worked with Chen Mo before, back when he drew SSR on Onmyoji. The tform had opened a room for Chen Mo, but it was never used again after the event. Chen Mo hadn¡¯t streamed for almost two years, why would he suddenly do one at this time, and with such explosive poprity? Chapter 324

Chapter 324: Chapter 323-instant death

Zhang Yu was also a little puzzled. He took out his mobile phone and went to the front page of fish-catching live broadcast tform. He was stunned as soon as he entered. What the hell, there were 670000 people watching Chen Mo¡¯s stream? He¡¯s already in first ce? ¡°What¡¯s going on?¡± Zhang Yu sent a message.¡±Chen Mo only worked with us before, he¡¯s not our contracted streamer. There¡¯s no need to give him fake data.¡± Very quickly, the other party replied: ¡°chief Zhang, the data isn¡¯t fake. There are indeed so many people watching!¡± Zhang Yu was speechless. In fact, there were a few popr streamers on fish-catching live streaming tform who had millions of viewers. However, the problem was that it was the first day of the new year! On the first day of the new year, how many big streamers would broadcast? Even if there were livestreaming, they would at most livestream outdoors, and not many would y games. After all, the big streamers were all famous people. It was fine if they were model workers, but they had to take a break during the new year. However, there were many viewers on the first day of the new year. Many people had nothing to do at home, so they were all ying games and watching live broadcasts. Coupled with Chen Mo¡¯s strong influence in the fan group, he dominated the rankings. Without any fake rmendation spots or numbers, he became the most watched channel on the entire fish-catching live streaming tform. Zhang Yu reacted quickly and immediately sent a message: ¡°¡±Give him a homepage rmendation and an APP notice. Write ¡®League of Legends designer Chen moxiu¡¯s godly operation¡¯! Promote it!¡± After all, Zhang Yu had been working on the live streaming tform for so many years. He had a much more thorough understanding of many problems than the ordinary staff of the live streaming tform. Even though Chen Mo didn¡¯t sign a contract with fish-catching streaming tform, he was a public figure that was on the same level as them, or even better. ...... After releasing one ssic game after another, and after the live streams of Warcraft and Onmyoji, Chen Mo¡¯s influence in the yermunity far exceeded any popr streamer. This was something everyone knew. Even though Chen Mo was also streaming on fish-catching live streaming, his stance waspletely different from the other streamers. Those live streamers had to carefully coax the audience and manage their rtionships with the tform as a way to make a living. But Chen Mo didn¡¯t need to do that, he waspletely free to do whatever he wanted, he didn¡¯t care about what the audience or the streaming tform thought, it was just the audience begging him to stream. Just like now, Chen Mo didn¡¯t turn on the camera or microphone, he didn¡¯t even say a word, he just yed the game in silence. Even so, he was able to attract arge audience, which showed how much influence he had over the yers. Zhang Yu didn¡¯t dare to lower the price and negotiate with him like the other streamers. Chen Mo was like a god of Fortune to fish-catching streaming tform. He couldn¡¯t wait to serve him well, so how could he dare to offend him? Posting a few advertising messages and putting up a front page rmendation was a way of showing goodwill to Chen Mo, as well as helping to increase the poprity of fish-catching gaming tform. ¡­¡­ Chen Mo¡¯s stream was still filled with bulletments. ¡°It¡¯s on the front page rmendation. 6666!¡± ¡°Wow, this poprity is too explosive. It¡¯s the first live broadcast and the number of viewers is already in the millions?¡± ¡°I bet that if S-God livestreams until 10 p.m., No one will be able to do anything. S-God will be the sole owner of the fish-catching tform today!¡± ¡°I was just informed that someone is livestreaming League of Legends? Who¡¯s Chen Zhao?¡± ¡°Upstairs, you don¡¯t know who Chen Zhao is? How embarrassing, are there any moderators? Give him an eternal seal!¡± Chen Zhao¡¯s Icebird had already gotten a score of 5x0x2. The frostramparts blocked his path, his Q-skill urately hit, and his E-skill directly took the kill. In the key team battle, he used a big move to slow down the three people and killed them one by one. This ice bird with the blue BUFF was like a flying death god. In the middle andte stages, as long as he met someone, he would RE-kill them with two skills and then kill them with a second icicle. Many bulletments were asking. ¡°Did Chen Mo use instant kill hack?¡± ¡°Mom, this ice bird is different from the one I¡¯m ying with.¡± ¡°I don¡¯t think I¡¯m ying the same champion as Chen Mo. Why do I feel like this champion¡¯s damage is so high in his hands?¡± ¡°I feel like Chen Mo¡¯s ying Phoenix, while I¡¯m ying chicken!¡± ¡°The other side¡¯s gaming experience is terrible! He had to report this to the police. This Silent ant was cheating! Instant death!¡± The match ended without any suspense. Chen Mo nced at li jingsi.¡±How is it? do you need to rest?¡± Li jingsi shook her head.¡±There¡¯s no need. It¡¯s not difficult at all. I just feel a little bored.¡± Indeed, these two yers had the foundations of Warcraft, and their hand speed and reaction speed were very fast. In this segment, they could crush them with just their mechanics, so it wasn¡¯t interesting. Chen Mo smiled and continued to rank. ¡­¡­ Very quickly, the yers also began to notice that li jingsi¡¯s battle results seemed to be a little out of the ordinary. ¡°Crushing in every round?¡± ¡°The rankingpetition has just started, and everyone is still in the lower ranks. It¡¯s not a big deal to y to this level in the fish pond game, right?¡± ¡°But I feel like Chen Mo isn¡¯t ying seriously! Moreover, the yers that were matchedter on were obviously better yers. ¡± ¡°Did you guys notice? This Vayne in Chen Mo¡¯s team was so strong, she would always kill at least six heads. It¡¯s just that S-God didn¡¯t give us much of a view, but I feel like he¡¯s always able to clear the bottomne?¡± ¡°S-God is too much. The enemy and US are not on the same level at all. How can we y this?¡± ¡°This ID is Throne? I just noticed that this is the same ID as the ount that just reached the top of Warcraft. It seems like ... The same person?¡± ¡°That¡¯s not right, I remember this ount. Didn¡¯t Chen Mo y duo mode with this ount the other day? Even now, I can still find the record. This ount was also ying Vayne and even yed a 9 and 1. Who would remember?¡± ¡°Ah? Wasn¡¯t there a video of Chen Zhao taking care of a girl? This is a girl? Are you kidding me?¡± ¡°Chen Zhao, you¡¯re so shameless. You brought a girl on New Year¡¯s Day. You have to give us an exnation!¡± ¡­¡­ There were a lot ofments, but Chen Mo didn¡¯t even look at them. Each match in the rankingpetition was very fast, and basically ended in 30 minutes at most. Chen Mo and Li jingsi yed all the way until 7 pm, and finally finished the rankingpetition. After winning all ten matches, both of their ounts were immediately upgraded to tinum 5. Chen Mo typed on the screen, I¡¯m offline, goodbye everyone. The screen was instantly filled with question marks. ¡°What the f * ck? I was just having a good time watching it, and you want to go offline? Chen Zhao,e out! I promise I won¡¯t kill you!¡± ¡°Ah, ah, ah, I just entered the live broadcast room. I¡¯ll leave after two more rounds!¡± ¡°Yeah, there¡¯s so many people watching tonight, can you bear to stand them up? Hurry up and y two more rounds!¡± ¡°Don¡¯t go, God S!¡± Chen Mo had already closed the live streaming app. Li jingsi took off her earphones.¡±I have to go back now. My mother is waiting for me to eat. She¡¯s already been urging me twice. Let¡¯s y together again next time.¡± Chapter 325

Chapter 325: Chapter 324-new high for active yers

Chen Mo and Li jingsi yed together for another five days, from the second to the sixth. Starting from tinum v, they had more than ten consecutive wins every day, dominating the stairway tree. When many yers encountered these two IDs in a ranked match, their first reaction would be to take a photo with them. As for thepetition, it was hard to win anyway, so they would just leave it to fate. Chen Mo¡¯s League of Legends was slightly different from the ranking system in his previous life, mainly in terms of ranking points. The yer¡¯s performance in the game would also have aprehensive evaluation, and if the yer¡¯s stats were significantly higher than the average of the score, then they would be matched against equally strong opponents, and the ranking would increase after winning. This was simr to thedder in Warcraft. The higher you went, the easier it was to meet strong opponents. If you won all the matches, you would get extra points, and your ranking would rise faster than in his previous life. Chen Mo and Li jingsi¡¯s ranking skyrocketed after winning all their matches in the past few days. They finally reached the top of thedder on the night of the sixth day of Chinese New Year, bing the first two greatest Kings to appear in the National server. Although there were many other yers who were trying their best to rank, they couldn¡¯t maintain a winning streak like Chen Mo. At most, they would reach the diamond rank. However, it shouldn¡¯t be long before there were yers who reached the master rank and entered the ranks of the greatest Kings. While Chen Mo was streaming, League of Legends continued to gain poprity. Chen Mo¡¯s stream reached a peak of 2.09 million viewers, which was more than many big streamers on fish-catching streaming tforms. During the livestream, Chen Mo yed almost all the carry Champions. He even yed some of the more ssic Champions like Ryze, Katarina, cardsharp, Gragas, etc., To show the yers the advanced skills of these Champions, such as Ryze¡¯sbo, Gragas¡¯s geometric barrel, etc. Chen Mo¡¯s livestreaming had created a wave among the yers, and videos of his livestreaming had been posted on various forums, quickly bing the most discussed topic during the new year. ¡°Who saw Chen Mo¡¯s jungler, Gragas? I¡¯m so shocked. You can y hero like this? E-skill first, then sh, and you can even use your ultimate to st the opponent¡¯s hero back to your Q-skill and kill him instantly?¡± ¡°Ryze¡¯s is also a ssic. Thatbo really dazzled my eyes. All kinds of spiritual driving, and the Golden Cicada shell shedding technique. It¡¯s so bright!¡± ¡°Carter¡¯s kill was the best. Two Penta kills, right? I was shocked when I watched the stream. How did this hero deal so much damage to Chen Mo? I feel like it¡¯spletely unreasonable!¡± ¡°There¡¯s also Phoenix¡¯s instant kill. After RE-firing, the opposing team¡¯s C spot directly melted!¡± ...... ¡°That Alistar support is the scariest. He¡¯s been going through all sorts of unreasonable tower attacks, and he couldn¡¯t even move after using a Big Shot. He went all the way to the bottomne with Vayne, who said Chen Mo was saving the dying? Fake information, drag him out and beat him to death!¡± In the process of switching to League of Legends, many uploaders on video websites had been making tutorial videos to teach the Champions some skills in League of Legends. However, after Chen Mo¡¯s ranked match video was released, these uploaders all stopped making tutorial videos, because they realized that their tutorial videos were nothingpared to Chen Mo¡¯s video. A lot of UP Masters noticed that Chen Mo¡¯s ranked match wasn¡¯t exined, so they exined it to him, which further promoted the spread of the video. As the yers continued to research and spread the story, more and more yers became familiar with some of the ssic hero routines. Everyone stoppedining about how weak some heroes were. It was obvious that all of them were strong in Chen Mo¡¯s hands. However, Chen Mo didn¡¯t stream anymore after that, as he had already achieved his goal of teaching. A lot of yers were sending Chen Mo private messages or messages on Weibo, hoping that he would continue streaming, even if it was just an hour a day, but Chen Mo ignored them all. The poprity of League of Legends had continued to rise, and the yers had epted the new game mode of ranking matches. Everything was on track, and it was time to move on to the next stage of work. ¡­¡­ During the battle revelry on the 21st and 22nd, the number of active yers in League of Legends reached a new high, breaking the two million mark. This number was already unbelievable for a PC game. There were quite a few games with two million daily active users, but most of them were popr mobile games, and some of them were fake. The difference between League of Legends and other games was that it was a PC game with a high yer retention rate of more than 70%. As the yer base spread, the fish pond would be deeper and deeper. The gaming experience of new yers would be better and better, and the number could still increase. For many popr mobile games, it would be good if their poprity couldst for a year. It was extremely rare to see one thatsted for two years, and active users came and went quickly. However, League of Legends waspletely different. Due to its high user stickiness, its yers would continue to umte, and its poprity would continue to rise exponentially. Eventually, it would be a trend that would sweep across the entire PC market. A lot of people thought that it was unbelievable that League of Legends could maintain such a strong growth momentum, but what they didn¡¯t expect was that it was just the beginning. ¡­¡­ On the first day after the spring Festival holiday, many gamingpanies immediately held meetings. During the spring Festival, some professionals in charge of game reviews and data analysis had been informed by their bosses to analyze League of Legends. Many of them had to work overtime in thest few days of the Spring Festival holiday to make sure that they could submit the relevant analysis materials to the meeting for everyone to discuss on the first day of work after the holiday. The continued poprity of League of Legends had created a trend in the domestic game industry, and almost all the designers were analyzing the sess of the game. Some people were just impressed by how fast League of Legends spread, and were impressed by Chen Mo¡¯s marketing. However, some people realized the hidden message behind this: Could it be that the spring of PC games wasing? Before this, the PC market was being suppressed by both mobile and casual games, while adventure and heavy games were being suppressed by VR. They could only rely on RTS games and mmorpgs to survive. However, League of Legends had apletely different meaning. It was a type of game that was very suitable for PC, and whether it was the number of yers, the depth of the game, or the profitability, it seemed to be very strong! In other words, it had the potential to rule the entire PC market. It was only now that many people realized that this new game type had such terrifying power. Chapter 326

Chapter 326: The strategy

All the features of League of Legends were analyzed repeatedly. For example, the game¡¯s operation mode, art style, core gamey, profit model, promotion methods, and so on. Countless professionals were studying the internal and external factors that made the game so popr. Some designers were also wondering if they could ride on the coattails of League of Legends and make a game that was simr or even better. Especiallypanies like Emperor dynasty entertainment and fantasy gaming tform, they were trying to steal users from Chen Mo¡¯s Thunderbolt gaming tform. The appearance of League of Legends at such a critical time was too deadly. The distributors thought that this would be a long battle and decided to release the game in may or June, or eventer than that. However, Chen Mo made the first move and released League of Legends before the new year. He took advantage of the loophole during the new year and usedrge-scale marketing to push the game to a high level of poprity. The distributors were caught off guard. If they followed the original n andunched apetitive game in may or June? That would be toote, and the daylilies would have turned cold. In just a dozen days, League of Legends had be so popr. Who could predict what it would be like in three or four months? By then, he might have already devoured the entire PC market. The gamepanies hade up with the following countermeasures. The first n was to speed up the development ofpetitive games and release them earlier. However, this n was quickly rejected, because ¡°Project: S ¡°and three realms were bothrge-scale games that were interconnected between VR and PC. There was a lot of work to be done, and the development schedule was already very tight. It was impossible to release them earlier. Moreover, after analyzing the game mode of League of Legends, many designers were skeptical about whether these two games could pose a threat to League of Legends. Because these two games were old-school shooting and role-ying games, there were already rtively mature products on the market. On the other hand, League of Legends was a new game model, so it was obvious which one would be more popr. ...... He had only heard of new game genres recing old game genres, but he had never heard of old game genres being able to fight back. The second n was to develop a game simr to League of Legends, which was either a copycat or a knockoff. Obviously, this was the best strategy that thesepanies coulde up with at the moment, unless they could discover a better game model. However,¡±discovering a better game mode¡± was something they had been trying for a long time, and it was not something that could be done overnight. Therefore, even though following the trend and making mountain viges seemed very low, they were the best choice at the moment. Moreover, copycat games might not necessarily fail, and there were many examples of pirated games surpassing the original. There were also several ways to create counterfeits. They could release a game simr to League of Legends on PC, or simr games on other tforms. He definitely couldn¡¯t make a VR game, because the investment was too big and the risk was too high. Moreover, League of Legends was able to capture so many yers because of its low configuration, ease of use, and God¡¯s perspective. Making it a VR game was as unrealistic as making an RTS game like Warcraft a VR game. Without the omniscient view, the yers would not be able to control the state of the entire battlefield, and it would be extremely difficult for the yers to cooperate with each other. Coupled with the shrinking of the yer base, the fun of the game would be lost. There were also people who suggested making simr mobile games. This seemed more reliable, but whether or not they wanted to do it was not confirmed. The main thing was that changing a game¡¯s tform meant that the yers ¡®operating habits would also change ordingly. As for how to avoid these ¡°pitfalls,¡± he still had to think about it in the long run. For example, how should he release non-directional skills while ying League of Legends on the phone? How should he farm? How should I check the minimap? How should he send a signal to his teammates? How was one supposed to determine which champion the yer wanted to attack? If they used their hands to farm, how could the small screen of the phone ensure that the yers wouldn¡¯t touch it by mistake? And even if they didn¡¯t identally touch it, who could stand the fact that the yers had to move and farm at least a few hundred times in a game? These problems that Chen Mo already had a clear solution to werepletely unknown to the other designers. Even if they tried to port it to the mobile tform, they would at least need a decent solution. Therefore, this n could be considered, but it would inevitably be dyed. After a long discussion, the most reliable way was to make a game on the PC side first to curb the current poprity of League of Legends. Even if it couldn¡¯tpletely take over the market share, it could at least ride on the coattails of the game, and it would be easier to understand the inner qualities of such games. After all, Chen Mo had all the algorithms and data for League of Legends, which were crucial for the promotion and improvement of the game. Without the data, it would be difficult to understand the yers ¡®tastes, and it would be impossible to make a truly dominant game. Emperor dynasty entertainment and fantasy gaming tform¡¯s staff had a few emergency meetings to decide on a strategy for after the new year. Firstly, Emperor dynasty entertainment would urge the GA to make changes to the game, which currently looked like it had the highestpletion rate, to better adapt to the habits of domestic users and improve the low retention rate. Of course, there was a high chance that the GA would ignore them, and Emperor dynasty entertainment couldn¡¯t do anything about that. After all, they were only agents. Secondly, Emperor dynasty entertainment would be developing a new game, ancient catastrophe, using Jin jieguang¡¯s experience report as a model topletely simplify League of Legends ¡®game mode, hoping to poach the yers from League of Legends. After all, League of Legends was much simpler than COG, and the effect was immediate. Lin chaoxu also hoped that the simplified ¡°ancient catastrophe¡± could turn the tables. Of course, Emperor dynasty entertainment didn¡¯t have that many resources. In order to fully develop the new game,Chapter 327: Chapter 326- Very quickly, Emperor dynasty entertainment received a reply from the GA. Regarding the information on League of Legends provided by Emperor dynasty entertainment as well as suggestions for subsequent modifications to COG, the GA attached great importance to it. Clive Ramon personally replied, but still didn¡¯t reveal much of his intention to modify it. ¡°I understand your philosophy very well. If League of Legends really gets such a high retention rate, then it¡¯s really bad news for cog.¡± ¡°However, I still believe that the key to this game is itsplexity and diversity. While it¡¯s true that simplifying operations can make it easier for more people to get used to it, it¡¯s very likely to damage the fun of the game itself and exhaust the vitality of the game in advance. ¡°For a game, the difficulty determines its audience, but the depth andplexity of the game skills determine itspetitiveness and upper limit. I think the simplicity of League of Legends is a short-sighted act, and we need to be careful about whether it¡¯s reasonable or not. ¡± ¡°Of course, I will also seriously consider your suggestions and adjust the difficulty of some heroes. Once again, thank you for your strong support in the promotion of cog.¡± Lin chaoxu sighed after reading Clive Larman¡¯s reply. It was clear that Clive Larman was moved and rejected. Even though Emperor dynasty entertainment provided detailed experience reports and game data for the GA, Clive Larman still stood by his point of view. Of course, he understood the importance of simplifying games for promotion, but he was right. Games that were too simple would make the game lose its depth. Those rtively popr games in the e-sports field, such as FPS and RTS, had extremely deep game depth. He had never heard of casual mobile games turning into e-sports. Lin chaoxu understood that Clive Larman was a rather arbitrary person. He had a strong sense of confidence in his own designs, which was amon problem for many genius designers. Maybe there would be some simplifications in COG, but it would definitely not be as simple as League of Legends. Lin chaoxu was a little disappointed, but he quickly epted the situation. That¡¯s good too, since Emperor dynasty entertainment had already decided to make ancient catastrophe and had a simplified version of League of Legends, it wasn¡¯t a bad idea to keep COGplex andpetitive. They would release both games at the same time, and they would just use the one that seeded. ¡­¡­ After the new year, League of Legends continued to be popr. ...... A special name quickly spread among the yers, and many yers began to call League of Legends ¡®¡±lol¡± in short. The abbreviation came from a Weibo post by Chen Mo. ¡°The overseas version of League of Legends is currently in development, and the English name will be LEAGUE OF LEGENDS, which will be called LOL in short. What should we call it in Chinese?¡± Under this Weibo post, many yers had the mentality of watching a show and not minding the big picture, leavingments one after another. They also used various nicknames. Like ¡°British Alliance¡±,¡±Alliance¡± and so on, but the one that received the most praise was still a harmonious name in the English reincarnation: ¡°Shua! Shua!¡± Soon, this nickname spread quickly among the yers, and ¡°y two games of League of Legends¡± was naturally referred to as ¡°y two games¡± or ¡°y two games¡± by many. Although this name seemed a little vulgar at the beginning, its appearance had a huge impact on the spread of League of Legends. Although the name League of Legends was very formal, it wasn¡¯t enough to show all the characteristics of the game. ¡°LOL¡± was an English abbreviation for ugh out loud¡±. It was a habitual use, so it had a great advantage in foreign countries. However, the Chinese name of League of Legends had always been missing a very simple and easy to remember name. If it was shortened to ¡°British Alliance¡± or ¡°League of Legends¡± ording to the custom, it sounded like a very formal international organization, not like a game. The appearance of ¡°lol¡± solved this problem very well. This abbreviation fit the rtively young yer base of League of Legends very well, and a more down to earth name helped to quickly gather poprity. So in a very short time, it spread throughout the entire League of Legends yer base, and even many people who didn¡¯t y this game knew the name. The second creations of some video authors, such as a certain video column ¡°quick news from the kun altar¡±, also allowed this name to spread even faster. While League of Legends became popr, various live streamers and video UP Masters also yed a role in adding fuel to the fire. At present, there were three or four League of Legends streamers with millions of viewers in China, and there were also several popr video series. Some of the talented yers who had quickly reached diamond or were even trying to be Kings in the rankingpetition started to stream, and they quickly gathered a lot of poprity. Of course, this was mainly because of Chen Mo¡¯s good start. During Chen Mo¡¯s stream, the streamers, viewers, and streaming tforms all saw the potential of League of Legends. After Chen Mo stopped streaming, the viewers had nowhere to go, and soon, a few big streamers with millions of viewers were born. All the major streaming tforms were also trying to find some potential yers and raise the price of League of Legends streamers. Even some streamers of other games began to switch to League of Legends. In terms of video, there were already three well-known video programs in the country, namely ¡°quick news of the kun altar¡±,¡±weekly God show¡±, and ¡°LOL: a collection of scammers¡±. These three video programs were all in different directions. ¡°Kun altar quick news¡± mainly shared and introduced thetest news, version changes, and information on new heroes in ¡°League of Legends¡±. ¡°Weekly God show¡± was a collection of exciting videos and high-end operations. ¡°LOL: scammers¡± was a collection of yers ¡®scamming and funny ys, which were mainly taken from low-end games. As the saying goes,¡±the early bird gets the worm,¡± it was the same in any field. The emergence of a new game had changed the entire circle of streamers and video authors. These pioneers had a sharper sense of smell and were the first tounch content targeted at the new game. This made it easier for them to get the meat of the game first in the rapidly changing environment. It was a win-win situation for the streamer, the video author, and the game itself. ¡­¡­ As for Chen Mo, he started to focus on the new expansion and the overseas version. At present, all the work in League of Legends was on the right track, and it was sweeping across the entire PC circle at an extremely fast speed in the country. The yer base had shown a trend of automatic expansion. In terms of promotion, as long as the original promotion n was maintained and the current growth momentum was maintained, it would be fine. At this stage, marketing methods were no longer important. The key was to maintain the game¡¯s stickiness to the yers and constantly release new content. Chapter 328

Chapter 328: The holographic projectionpetition

In Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, fist¡¯s strategy for League of Legends was very simple, it was to rely on its terrifying update speed. In the first beta version of League of Legends (2009), there were only 22 Champions. In the next six months, fist maintained the speed of updating one to two new champions every two weeks. By the end of the first season, which was the end of November, he had updated 87 Champions in two years. Furthermore, after entering Season 2 and Season 3,¡¯fist¡¯ basically maintained this high-speed update state, steadily updating a new champion every two to one months. There were also some ssic Champions such as Lee Sin, Orianna, and Zed. It was because of this high update speed that League of Legends was able to maintain its appeal to the yers, and its poprity continued to increase. In Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, Overwatch¡¯s poprity had dropped, partly because of its slow updates. It only updated a new hero and a new map every half a year, which was not enough to satisfy the needs of the yers. Of course, different types of games would have different difficulties in creating heroes, and the speed required to create heroes would also be different. However, the problem was that the yers didn¡¯t care about the difficulty of the game. They only cared about the speed of the update and whether there was new content to y. The updates were too slow? ¡°Bye, I¡¯m going to y other games.¡± As such, Chen Mo was very concerned about the speed of the new heroes ¡®updates. To him, speed was the most important. It was a good thing that developing new heroes was rtively easy. After determining the hero¡¯s image, skills, and numerical strength, developing new heroes was no more than an assembly line project, and Chen Mo didn¡¯t have to keep an eye on it. The game could only get on the right track faster if the number of heroes was quickly spread out. When the number of heroes reached about 100, this speed could be slowed down. ¡­¡­ Other than that, they were also preparing for the International Version of League of Legends. League of Legends had basically crushed COG in the country. Even if COG made adjustments in time, it was almost impossible to overtake League of Legends. ...... But in the International market, the yers had yet to experience the fun of League of Legends. If COG beat them to it, it would be bad for Chen Mo¡¯s future ns. Although League of Legends would still capture the majority of the yers even at night, being a step slower would result in a group of die-hard fans for COG, which was an unnecessary loss for Chen Mo. Therefore, Chen Mo had been urging meteorite technology to finish the overseas version as soon as possible. With the experience from Warcraft and Diablo, it wasn¡¯t difficult to make the International Version of League of Legends. Especially in League of Legends, there weren¡¯t that many lines and plots, and there wasn¡¯t a need to be careful with the words, so it was much easier to do. It was expected that the multinguage version of League of Legends would bepleted by the end of April at the earliest, and it would be released in various countries and regions. However, unlike Warcraft and Diablo, the server requirements this time were much higher. ording to Chen Mo¡¯s request, if the server dy was limited to within 10ms, it would be impossible to create the same server across the world, and they would have to set up the server by region. Even in terms of thework speed of the parallel world, making a global server within 10 ms was too fantasy. Moreover, Chen Mo didn¡¯t n on making a global server, this was for Future Strategic nning. In terms of setting up the server, Chen Mo first considered three areas: The American, European, and Korean servers. These three regions had the most yers, and their gaming skills and financial ability were good. They were the three regions that needed to be considered. The divisionpetition zone would have some influence, such as theck ofmunication between the divisions, different tactical preferences, and the widening of the gap in strength. Chen Mo¡¯s previous life was a good example. The division system caused the teams in the different divisions tockmunication, which led to the gap between the different divisions. Every year in the S series World Tournament, the divisions would reveal their true colors, and it was difficult to stimte the yers to feel the glory of the division. In thepetition area, it was a fight between the gods and they felt good about themselves. Once they revealed their true colors in the worldpetition, they would be crushed by the otherpetition areas. This was really sad for the yers. However, there were many benefits to this. The biggest benefit was that they could hide the strength of the major divisions. On the one hand, it ensured the poprity of the local league, and on the other hand, it gave yers some anticipation before the worldpetition started. It was precisely because everyone was not clear about the strength of thepetition before the start of the Worldpetition that they had a sense of anticipation. As for the Korean server¡¯s rule over LOL in Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, there were manyplicated factors involved. There were problems with the characteristics of League of Legends itself, the esports industry, club management, and the overall environment. Chen Mo also hoped to change the game¡¯s characteristics so that each division could present their own characteristics, instead of unifying the world with one ystyle. Of course, this was a story for the future. First, he had to make League of Legends popr around the world. ¡­¡­ In the experience store. The PC experience area had almost beenpletely upied by League of Legends, and there were very few yers who yed other games. Moreover, the entire PC experience area was very lively, just like the inte cafes in his previous life. There were yers shouting everywhere. ¡°Beat this demoness to death!¡± ¡°Teemo is in the grass. He doesn¡¯t dare to move. Kill him!¡± [Hahaha, I¡¯ve outdone the Vagabond!] ¡°Save me!¡± Although it was a little noisy, it was fine as long as the yers were happy. Moreover, when the entire PC area was noisier, there was a honey-like atmosphere, which made everyone particrly high. The holographic projection area on the second floor of the experience store was even more popr than the PC experience area on the first floor. The earliest audience had already surrounded the holographic projector, while theter ones had taken the seats next to it and the massage chairs in the mobile experience area. Those who wereter could only stand at the entrance and watch. It was all because Chen Mo had announced that there would be a League of Legends match in the holographic projection area. Many yers had seen the holographic projector, and it was very interesting. But ying League of Legends with the holographic projector? He really had not seen it before. The maintenance of holographic projection equipment was more troublesome, so it had always been open at fixed intervals, and not everyone could y it. The yers were all excited when they heard that they were going to y League of Legends with a holographic projector. There were also many yers who had heard the news and rushed over by train in advance. The yers were ready in the two small soundproof rooms. These ten yers were selected from the PC experience area, and even the worst one was at Diamond 5. Chen Mo split them into two teams ording to their rank and position, ying the red and blue teams. Today¡¯s match was a BO3, with two wins out of three. The five winning yers would each receive a Katarina figurine, while the five losing yers would each receive a Teemo¡¯s hat. Chapter 329

Chapter 329: Completely immersed in thepetition experience

Not only the holographic projection, but there was also arge LED screen in the viewing area. Thisrge screen would also be live-streamed together with the holographic projection. With the excellent sound effects, the atmosphere in the viewing area would definitely be very explosive. The banning phase for the blue and purple teams had ended and they were loading into the game. The spectating andmentary were all done by Chen Mo himself, firstly because the others didn¡¯t understand the game well enough and weren¡¯t eloquent enough, so he was the only one who could do it. Secondly, it was the first match in the holographic projection area, so it was quite memorable. One hero after another appeared on the summoner¡¯s tform behind the crystal hub, and the game officially began. ¡°Alright, the match has officially begun. First, let¡¯s take a look at the lineup of both teams. The blue team hasva beast, Gragas, Twisted Fate, Vayne and Lulu. The purple team has Weapon Master, clown, Kassadin, Ezreal, and Blitzcrank.¡± ¡°The blue team¡¯s current level one team strategy is to protect their jungle. This is also a popr way of ying in high-end games of the stairway tree.¡± ¡°The purple team has chosen to invade the jungle under the leadership of the Blitzcrank, but the blue team is doing well. There are no kills on either side.¡± All the audience¡¯s attention was focused on the holographic projection equipment and the LED screen. The three holographic projectors were showingpletely different content. Thergest holographic projection in the center showed the entire Summoner¡¯s Rift, including the crystal hubs, towers, and the positions of all the heroes of the blue and purple teams. Summoner¡¯s Rift was square in shape, which fit perfectly with the holographic projection device. All yers could clearly see the entire Summoner¡¯s Rift through the holographic projection device. Gragas was currently taking the blue BUFF on his side. The clown used the crate to quickly get rid of the red BUFF and went to the top jungle to find an opportunity to catch theva monster. He was hiding in the bushes, waiting for an opportunity. ...... In the middlene, Twisted Fate and Kassadin were developing peacefully. Twisted Fate was trying his best to exhaust them while Kassadin was carefully farming. At the bottomne, the blue and purple team¡¯s duo had already engaged in a fierce battle. After exchanging several Summoner skills, they retreated with low health and continued to farm. Under the holographic projection, all the heroes, monsters, and buildings were disyed in 3d. The audience had a 45-degree God¡¯s perspective, which was veryfortable. They could also adjust the viewing angle at will, which was a unique style. Some of the beautiful special effects of the skills were also disyed very well, making the audience excited. The other two size holographic projectors were showing the first-person perspective of the yers on both sides. The yer¡¯s hero was in the center of the screen, and the camera moved with the hero. The perspective would change every once in a while, from the midner to the jungler to the bottomne. The two devices showed the blue and purple teams respectively, so that yers could better see the details of the battle. The big LED screen also showed the battle situation from an observer¡¯s perspective, which was exactly the same as League of Legends in his previous life. With Chen Mo¡¯s well-thought-out and well-timedmentary, the audience was extremely excited. ¡°Wow, isn¡¯t this holographic projection too high? It¡¯s so cool, I can see the whole battlefield!¡± ¡°It¡¯s so exciting. It¡¯s like watching a real battle.¡± ¡°And the big screen is great. With the sound effects, it¡¯s even morefortable than a movie theater!¡± ¡°Yeah, I don¡¯t think we¡¯ve yed games like this before.¡± ¡°There are some, but their influence is too small. They¡¯re all just for self-entertainment. And those games don¡¯t support this kind of y. I can only say that League of Legends is perfect for this holographic projection device, even the map is square!¡± ¡°That¡¯s amazing! I think watching thepetition is much more interesting than ying the game by myself!¡± ¡°The manager¡¯smentary is good. Watching the game and listening to thementary is such an enjoyment.¡± Soon, the yers ¡®enthusiasm was aroused. When a fierce group battle broke out, everyone was extremely nervous. They held their breath as they observed the battle, afraid of missing every detail. In the team battle, the audience was shocked and cheered loudly when they saw the yers ¡®wonderful operation. They burst intoughter when they saw the yers ¡®ridiculous actions ... The entire second floor of the experience store was immersed in the atmosphere of thepetition, just like the League of Legendspetition in Chen Mo¡¯s previous life. There were even people who were cheering so hard that their voices were hoarse. Fortunately, the experience store had considered this point when it was being renovated. The sound instion on the second floor was very good, so it wouldn¡¯t disturb the people. The three matches, plus the break between matches,sted for a total of three hours. In the end, the blue team won. Five people got Catarina¡¯s figurine, while the purple team lost and got Teemo¡¯s hat. The yers came out of the soundproof room, all of them still wanting more. The yers on both sides didn¡¯t know each other before, but after the match, they had a sense of appreciation for each other. They all exchanged contact information and arranged a time to y together. There were also many spectators who surrounded them and asked them about their feelings of ying in the soundproof room. ¡°Wow, it¡¯s so different from ying games. I¡¯m so nervous! We were shouting so loudly in the soundproof room that our throats were hoarse. ¡± ¡°The pressure is really great. Although I can¡¯t hear the sounds outside clearly in the soundproof room, I can¡¯t help but feel nervous when I see so many people outside. I feel like my operation is a little out of ce.¡± ¡°I¡¯m so tired. I feel like I¡¯m about to copse.¡± ¡°One¡¯s mind will be highly focused. One really won¡¯t feel anything other than the game and will bepletely immersed. If you die in a ranked game, you can still drink some water, but this won¡¯t do. Even if you die, you have to constantly observe the situation in the field and don¡¯t dare to rx for a moment. ¡± ¡°The previous wave felt like it was going to die, but we kept encouraging each other and said that it was fine. In the end, our jungler snatched the Dragon. At that time, we almost shouted like crazy, it was so exciting!¡± The audience was not satisfied and did not want to leave at all. They were all asking for another round. Chen Mo saw that everyone was so enthusiastic, so he thought about it and said,¡±¡±How about this, in the future, every weekend, the holographic projection equipment will be automatically open, and I will arrange for someone to organize thepetition. As for the selection ... The selection will be done on Monday to Friday. Those who are interested can sign up. ¡± ¡°I¡¯ll take my leave today. I¡¯ve beenmentating for several hours and my voice is hoarse. If you want to y holographic projection, then continue. In the future, we¡¯ll change it to a fixed time every weekend. Juste on time. ¡± Chen Mo called over the receptionist on the second floor and gave her a brief exnation. She was in charge of the registration, selection, andpetition after the yers formed their own teams. As for thementary, Chen Mo had no idea yet, so he was thinking of picking a few good yers from the experience store and training them one by one. After all, this wasn¡¯t an officialpetition. It was more like an Experience Store event for the yers to have fun. It didn¡¯t have to be too professional; it was just for the yers to fully participate. Chapter 330

Chapter 330: Wee to the di Alliance

After arranging the matches in the holographic projection area, Chen Mo returned to his studio on the fourth floor. For apetitive game like League of Legends, the hosting ofrge-scalepetitions was a very important part of the promotion process, and it had to be nned in advance. However, there were still too few Champions in League of Legends. If they were to host a Pro League, the bnce and wattiness would definitely be reduced. Chen Mo had too many things on hand to do at the moment. Therefore, he decided to do it in the experience store first to gain some experience. After he was done with the overseas version, the Champions in League of Legends would gradually increase, and he could then start to arrange the officialpetition. Seeing Chen Mo, Qian Kun quickly went up to him,¡±¡±Manager, I¡¯ve finished reading the n for the new update. However, you wrote that the April Fool¡¯s event is to be confirmed. When will it be confirmed?¡± ¡°Hmm ...¡± Chen Mo thought for a moment.¡±I¡¯ll do it by tomorrow afternoon at thetest. You guys finish the new hero first.¡± ¡°Alright,¡± he said. Qian Kun nodded and went back to work. The next version update was scheduled for April 1st, which was April Fool¡¯s Day. It had only been a month and a half since the new update was released during the spring Festival. It was a little rushed, but Chen Mo wanted to make use of every Festival as much as possible. If the new hero was released at the same time as the festival events, it would be more effective. The five heroes in this update were: The will of the de, Arelia, Lee Sin, Orianna, honor executioner, Draven, and the goddess of dawn, leona. Obviously, this was a gathering of troublemaking heroes, and Chen Mo¡¯s attitude was clear,¡±yers, please show off and start your performance!¡± Moreover, these five heroes were all very ssic evergreen heroes, and their characteristics were very obvious. Saber sister, who was still very fun even after being shed countless times. ...... One of the most fun heroes in the entire league, the blind man known as the little monk. 10,000-year middlene spare tire clockwork. One knife for one child, Draven. Brainless support Japanese. If these five Champions were to go on stage together, it would probably be too beautiful to look at. At the same time, there would be a special April Fool¡¯s Day event: Wee to the di Alliance. Apart from the April Fool¡¯s Day event in League of Legends, Chen Mo also nned to make a ¡®heartwarming¡¯ game to purify everyone¡¯s hearts. ¡­¡­ The poprity of League of Legends continued throughout March, allowing Chen Mo¡¯s Thunderbolt gaming tform to gain an advantage in thepetition. The coboration between Emperor dynasty entertainment and fantasy gaming tformbined the domestic distribution channels to a certain extent, which was bad news for Thunderbolt gaming tform. Many yers and designers were waiting to see who would win. However, after League of Legends gradually showed its dominance on the PC side, the situation was gradually bing clear. Although the joint tform of Emperor dynasty and fantasy still controlled most of the domestic resources and yers, Chen Mo¡¯s Thunderbolt gaming tform couldpete with them with just League of Legends. Moreover, if Emperor dynasty and divine fantasy couldn¡¯t find a good way to fight against League of Legends, they would basically lose. It was like hitting Hearthstone. Although you had a lot of health, if the other party had a 10-to-10 servant that you couldn¡¯t kill, it would be very awkward. Everyone in Emperor dynasty entertainment was very nervous. Ancient catastrophe had already entered the intense development phase, and this game was also seen as the biggest hope to defeat League of Legends. In order to speed up the development process, many existing rules and designs from COG were used during the development of ¡°the ancient catastrophe.¡± However, they werepletely simplified and the packaging changed. From a Western fantasy theme, they changed it to a slightly China Style ancient theme. Emperor dynasty entertainment even had the intention of working with some God-level web novelists to release literary works that linked the ancient catastrophe to increase the topic of the game. Everyone knew very well that thepetition between channels would inevitably be apetition between products. Whichever channel¡¯s product could reach a dominant position would upy the absolute leading power. If Emperor dynasty and divine fantasy couldn¡¯t make a game that could stop League of Legends, their distribution channels would be slowly devoured by Thunderbolt gaming tform. It was only a matter of time. ¡­¡­ April 1st, April Fool¡¯s Day. Just past midnight, Chen Mo posted a long Weibo. ¡°League of Legends will be updated today. The content of the update is as follows.¡± ¡± 1. The primary school student logo is about to go online: Based on the data mining function of cloudputing, we have a 96.43% probability of determining whether a yer is a primary school student. Once the judgment is sessful, we will prepare a special ¡®red scarf¡¯ icon for the yer. yers will be able to see the logo in the game. I hope that everyone can y with a more tolerant attitude. ¡± ¡± 2. New heroes: there will be 35 new heroes in this update. They are the will of the de, Arelia, Lee Sin, Orianna, the goddess of dawn, leona, and the 31 glorious executioners, Draven. [ 3. New event: wee to the di Alliance, and di Wen¡¯s April Fool¡¯s skin: ¡®Drade, drade, Draven. (This also includes various icons and guard skins)¡± ¡°Thunderbolt gaming tform will be releasing a new mini-game for healing,¡¯excavate for Ascension¡¯. It¡¯spletely free and suitable for the masses: yers with bad hands and bad tempers will feel a sense of healing after ying it. Please download it. ¡± There were also pictures. The first picture was on the battle settlement interface of League of Legends. There was a yer with a red scarf icon behind his name, marked as an elementary school student by the system. The second to sixth pictures were the original arts of the five new heroes. The seventh picture was the skin of dreaiven. The eighth picture was the game interface of excavating for Ascension. Mixed in with a bunch of fake April Fool¡¯s news, Chen Mo¡¯s post looked ... Hard to distinguish. Everyone was clear that this Weibo post was posted on April Fool¡¯s Day, so there must be some fake news, but they couldn¡¯t figure out which one was fake at the moment. The yers all left messages. ¡°You purposely chose to post this on April Fool¡¯s Day. Don¡¯t you think that it¡¯s not credible at all?!¡± ¡°And ¡®cloudputing data mining function¡¯? I don¡¯t believe a single punctuation mark! If you have the ability, mark me as an elementary school student!¡± ¡°Did an elementary school student eat your rice?¡± ¡°p! I¡¯ve already said that the primary school students in the ranking matches should have been taught a lesson. With this rule, the primary school students have nowhere to hide. It¡¯s really satisfying!¡± ¡°Previousmenter ... Shouldn¡¯t you top up your IQ? this is obviously fake news!¡± ¡°It¡¯s all fake news indeed. 35 new heroes at once? You can¡¯t do it even if your liver explodes?¡± ¡± 31 glorious executioner Draven? What the hell is this, 31 repeat heroes?¡± ¡°This new event ... Looks like it¡¯s real.¡± ¡°¡± Excavating the earth for Ascension ¡°? Why does it sound like yerUnknown¡¯s Battlegrounds? Was he doing this on purpose? I really don¡¯t see how this game can heal people. Also, why is this person sitting in the jar? does he have legs?¡± Chapter 331 - healing-type game

Chapter 331: Chapter 330-healing-type game

On the official website of League of Legends, the interface rted to the April Fool¡¯s Day event was updated immediately. The yers then realized that the ¡®wee to di Alliance¡¯ event was actually real. The event¡¯s interface was a cute version of Draven¡¯s big face. His mouth was wide open, and there was an event introduction video inside. The strangest thing was that this Draven¡¯s eyeballs would follow the yer¡¯s mouse movement, which was very magical. Many yers were extremely curious and clicked on the event video. A slightly teasing voice introduced the new hero, glorious executioner Draven, and the new event. ¡°In Summoner¡¯s Canyon, there¡¯s such a long-range physical damage hero. He¡¯s handsome, charming, talented, and elegant. When fighting with other heroes, he always relies on his smooth and skillful A-strike to show his peerless performance.¡± ¡°That¡¯s right, he¡¯s the new hero that¡¯s released in this version, the glorious executioner, Draven!¡± ¡°Because of his narcissistic personality, exaggerated movements, and his natural talkative nature, the entire Alliance¡¯s audience deeply remembers him. Uh, and his face is enough to make the entire Alliance his brothers and sisters.¡± ¡°No matter which hero¡¯s face I put it on, it doesn¡¯t feel out of ce at all!¡± ¡°From April 1st to April 3rd this year, it will be the ¡®everyone loves Draven¡¯ Festival. Draven will invite all yers to his party!¡± ¡°During the festival, the soul-stirring Draven will appear on all the heroes, monsters, and even minions in Summoner¡¯s Rift. I¡¯m looking forward to it!¡± ¡°Finally, wee to the di Alliance!¡± While the yersughed at the original video, they also realized that there was indeed a new hero in the version update. Moreover, after entering the game and ying for a while, the yers understood that the 35 new heroes were introduced because the 30 old heroes had been changed to Draven¡¯s head. ...... Of course, the message about the primary school student and the red scarf logo was soon proven to be fake news and an April Fool¡¯s joke. However, the other two were true. League of Legends had indeed been updated with five new heroes and an April Fool¡¯s Day special event. This unique April Fool¡¯s Day event immediately caused a heated discussion among the yers, and they all entered the game to experience it. ¡°Oh my God, this new hero is so good. Is this the designated hero for April Fool¡¯s Day? Why did all the other heroes, minions, and monsters be his big heads?¡± ¡°Ten big-headed sons in a chaotic battle, my dog eyes are really blind 23333.¡± ¡°Fortunately, the rankingpetition didn¡¯t change. Otherwise, I would have vomited blood!¡± ¡°This demonic expression has really brainwashed me! I¡¯m going to try and put this head on all the heroes ¡®faces!¡± ¡°I feel like the new heroes are all very strong! The top and middlene are very well-rounded, the jungler is full of discement skills, showing off himself like a fool, and the bottomne two just fight whenever they don¡¯t agree, simply too!¡± ¡°F * ck, I didn¡¯t even understand thest batch of new heroes, and now there¡¯s another one? Chen Mo¡¯s production is as high as a sow!¡± ¡°This April Fool¡¯s Day skin is so fun, I really want to buy it! And this golden streamer by Draven looks pretty good too. Wow, everyone wants to buy it!¡± The April Fool¡¯s Day event in League of Legends caused a heated discussion on the forum. Although other games also had some April Fool¡¯s Day events, the content was too simple. They were either fake news or fake top-up activities, which were boring. However, the April Fool¡¯s Day event in League of Legends was different. This event was not only interesting, but it also had a joint effect with the new heroes, and the yers ¡®enthusiasm was fully aroused. While the yers of League of Legends were enjoying their April Fool¡¯s Day celebration, the yers of Thunderbolt gaming tform noticed Chen Mo¡¯s new game, excavate for Ascension. This name made many people confused. They didn¡¯t know what kind of game it was. Its harmony was yerUnknown¡¯s Battlegrounds, but the literal meaning of the game waspletely different. Due to Chen Mo¡¯s promotion on Weibo and the fact that the game was free to download, many people downloaded it to try out the healing techniques of the ¡®healing game¡¯ that Chen Mo was talking about. ¡­¡­ On the afternoon of April 1st, on the fish-catching live streaming tform, Lin Xue¡¯s live streaming room. After ying a midner with a single demonic spirit, Lin Xue opened Thunderbolt gaming tform and downloaded ¡°excavate for Ascension¡±. ¡°We¡¯ve been streaming League of Legends for so long, I¡¯m sure everyone¡¯s tired of it. Let¡¯s take a break and try Chen Mo¡¯s new game, excavating for Ascension.¡± ¡°Manyizens are saying that this is a very healing game and strongly rmend it. I¡¯ll take this opportunity to try it out and see how this game can cure it. ¡± The game¡¯s instation package was not small, it was a few hundred MB. However, the inte speed in Xue Lin¡¯s shop was rtively fast, so the download waspleted in a short while. The game icon was a hammer, which gave Lin Xue a bad feeling. She felt that her gaming experience this time was very likely to be ¡°ying with a hammer.¡± He entered the game interface. The sound of the wind whistled through his headphones. On the left side of the login screen, there was a rock. It should be a mountain. A hammer struck a stone and hung on it. The options were simple. There were only three options: new game, settings, and exit. Lin Xue was a little surprised. Such a simple game? There wasn¡¯t even a top-up channel? After all, the game waspletely free on Thunderbolt gaming tform, and there were no in-game purchases. In other words, the game waspletely free and didn¡¯t generate any profits? The bad feeling in Xue Lin¡¯s heart intensified. He clicked on new game and entered the game. It was a strange scene. There were rocks on the ground, a tree on the left, and a ck iron can in the middle of the picture. There was a big hammer next to it. The iron can kept shaking, and then, a person came out from it? It was a bald brawny man with a small beard. His muscles were very strong, and one could tell at a nce that he was full of strength. But strangely, he didn¡¯t seem to have legs, or rather, his legs were in the jar. Only his upper body was exposed. He picked up the sledgehammer beside him, and the game began. Xue Lin: ¡°???¡± Without any game guidance or any notifications, Lin Xue had no idea what to do. Xue Lin tried to move the mouse. The bald man swung the hammer and smashed it on the ground. With the hammer in his hand as support, the man¡¯s body in the can was lifted up and he moved a long distance to the right. He moved the mouse again, hitting the ground and moving to the right again. Xue Lin was dumbfounded. What the hell was this? Chapter 332

Chapter 332: The lid of Newton¡¯s coffin can¡¯t be pressed down

Very quickly, Lin Xue understood how to y the game. The gamey was very simple. He just had to slide the mouse to control the angle of the hammer. The bald man would use the hammer to hit the ground to move himself to the right or up. ¡°Aiya, it¡¯s so realistic? This character. ¡± ¡°Hmph, it doesn¡¯t look that difficult.¡± With a smile on her face, Xue Lin started her mountain climbing journey. Soon, Xue Lin encountered her first challenge on her way forward, a tree. The tree was too tall, and it was impossible to jump over it by swinging the hammer. He could only climb over it by using the hammer to hook onto the branches. Lin Xue was not in the mood toin about why the brawny man couldn¡¯t go around the tree because she quickly realized that this game was much harder than she had imagined. It was too F * cking difficult! First of all, it was very difficult to control the movements of the man with the big hammer. On the surface, it looked like he only needed to slide the mouse to control the hammer to hit the ground, but in reality, the distance of the mouse slide, the angle of the hit, the position of the character, the point of force, and so on would all affect the final result of a certain hit. In other words, this game looked like a game that could be cleared by moving the mouse eight times, but in fact, it was a technical job that required a lot of rhythm. Secondly, the game¡¯s physics were very strange. It was so strange that this muscr man could do many positions that were beyondmon sense. He could use the sledgehammer to do many actions that were unimaginable in real life. For example, his arms and shoulders were the same height, and he could use the strength of his shoulders to push himself a few meters high with the sledgehammer. This resulted in a result, which was that the game had its own set of action logic and force system. The yers had to carefully figure out this set of action logic and operate the mouse ording to the relevant rules to pass the game while holding down Newton¡¯s coffin. ...... Sometimes, a mistake would cause the sledgehammer to hit the wrong position, and the strong man would be instantly sent home by the counterforce of the sledgehammer. Xue Lin and the tree had a long and intense conversation. The brawny man¡¯s sledgehammer was hanging on the branch. Lin Xue kept moving the mouse. The brawny man and the sledgehammer kept hitting the tree trunk, and they kept making ¡°yup yup yup¡± sounds. This was apanied by the ¡°Dong Dong¡± sound of the hammer hitting the tree trunk, making the audience watching the livements burst intoughter. ¡°Wow, this tree! Let go of Xue and let me do it!¡± ¡°Xue, are you going to cut wood?¡± ¡°I¡¯m dying ofughter, I¡¯mpletely stuck!¡± After trying a few times, Xue Lin slowly touched the door. For example, using the hammerhead to support himself could allow him to fly very high. When the hammerhead was in a circr state, it could quickly jump over multiple obstacles. Also, after the strong man found a fulcrum on the hammerhead, he could use a very strange way of exerting force that vited thews of physics. He could use the hammerhead as a fulcrum to slowly support himself up and throw over. Finally, after Xue Lin flicked her mouse for no reason, the brawny man suddenly flew up two to three meters high and jumped over the tree. ¡°Yeah!¡± Lin Xue couldn¡¯t help but feel a little excited. She had gained some confidence in the game after killing the first enemy of the brawny man. ¡°It¡¯s not that difficult. I¡¯ve seen many side-scrolling mini-games, and this kind of scene is nothing to me. My friends, please watch.¡± Xue Lin said with confidence. There were already viewers who had yed the game before sending bulletments. ¡°Xue has set a death FLAG. GG.¡± ¡°Xue, you put so many gs on yourself. Are you going to sing Beijing Opera?¡± ¡°Soon, Xue will experience the heartwarming part of this game!¡± Lin Xue continued forward. There was a small hill in front of them with several protruding ces as support points. After a series of attacks, Xue Lin crossed the hill easily andnded in a Valley. The small hill was on the left, but it was a gentle slope when they came from the left, and a steep slope on the right. The right side of the valley was also a steep slope, and there was only a protruding terrain that could be used as a force point to climb up after a long distance. ¡°Alright, I¡¯ve figured out the routine of this game. This ce looks difficult, but it¡¯s not difficult for me at all. I just need to push it first, hook this stone and swing it, then hook this oar and swing it, then hook this wood, and then ... Ah!!!¡± Xue Lin screamed as a house suddenly appeared in front of the man. The house was nted into the mountain, with only the roof exposed. The entire house couldn¡¯t be touched. If the hammerhead hit it, it would be instantly bounced back and fall back into the valley. Xue Lin had identally hit the roof, causing all her previous efforts to go to waste. Xue Lin did not give up. She climbed up again with her hammer. This time, she was prepared. When she reached the roof, she cautiously hit the bottom with her hammer. When she was high enough, she hooked the hammer to the top of the house and flew up. ¡°Phew! See, no challenge can defeat me twice!¡± Xue Lin came to the position of a cement pipe. She patted her chest and calmed down a little bit of nervousness. If he wasn¡¯t careful, all his previous efforts would go to waste. This game was too F * cking exciting! The current position looked rtively safe. There was a small rock protruding on the left side. As long as he didn¡¯t seek death, he shouldn¡¯t fall down. The position of the cement pipe on the right was awkward. It was very high, and one had to jump and urately swing the hammer to hook to the top of the cement pipe. Xue Lin took a deep breath. Top! The brawny man was instantly sent flying. Xue Lin quickly swung the hammer, but the hammerhead hit the side of the cement pipe. The reaction force instantly sent the brawny bald man flying in the opposite direction. ¡°NO!!¡± Xue Lin couldn¡¯t help but scream, but fortunately, the bald man¡¯s hammerhead caught the protruding part of the small stone and didn¡¯t fall. Xue Lin felt like she had just survived a disaster. She carefully moved the mouse and let the bald man return to the position below the cement pipe. Xue Lin took another deep breath. Top! The moment the brawny man flew up, Xue Lin swung the hammer again. But this time, the hammer still hit the side of the cement pipe and Xue Lin flew in the opposite direction again! This time, he wasn¡¯t as lucky asst time. The hammer didn¡¯t hook onto the protrusion on the left. The muscr man fell straight to the bottom of the valley with the hammer and the jar, making a dull ¡°Dong¡± sound. At this moment, a BGM was yed at an untimely moment. ¡°Come home often,e home often ...¡± Xue Lin was dumbfounded. ¡°WHAT?!¡± Apanied by the cheerful BGM, a male voice-over spoke in a very calm and soothing tone,¡±¡±There¡¯s nothing more disappointing than a fresh start. Thank you for apanying me on this trip. If you¡¯re depressed, I understand. I just hope you can find a safe ce to leave the game. I¡¯ll always keep your progress.¡± Chapter 333

Chapter 333: The streamers who went crazy

Xue Lin¡¯s chest heaved up and down. She was trying hard to calm her emotions. Who said that this was a healing game? This was a F * cking game that was designed to torture yers, just like ppyBird! No wonder Chen Mo wanted to release it on April Fool¡¯s Day, it was his revenge on this world! Xue Lin looked at thements. Although the audience didn¡¯t increase much, the number ofments had obviously increased by a lot. ¡°I¡¯m dying ofughter. Chen Mo did it on purpose, didn¡¯t he?¡± ¡°Hahahaha, Xue, you look so cute when you¡¯re angry, but I can¡¯t help but want tough. What should I do?¡± ¡°Come on, Xue! You can do it!¡± ¡°Xue, don¡¯t be discouraged!¡± Many fickleizens were encouraging him, but it was unknown if they were really encouraging him or if they were just watching the show. Xue Lin decided to continue ying the game, not because of the show¡¯s effect, but because the audience loved it. She wasn¡¯t willing to admit defeat and wanted to conquer the game to prove herself. ¡­¡­ In just an hour or two, the game excavate for Ascension had suddenly be popr on all major live streaming tforms. Manyizens in the live broadcast room began to flood the live broadcast rooms of the big live streamers, asking them to y ¡°excavating the earth for Ascension¡±. More and more people flooded the live broadcast room. These big live streamers were all very curious about what kind of game this was. ...... During the game breaks, the hosts downloaded excavating for Ascension and began their journey of being abused. These hosts had basically gone through the same mental journey as Xue Lin. At first, he was confused. What was this game about? Then, he was puzzled. What the f * ck? this game was so perverted? After that, he was unconvinced. F * ck, I¡¯m going to conquer this game for you to see! In the end, he broke down. Damn it, I¡¯m going to kill the author of this game! Different streamers had different characteristics. For example, a certain technical streamer. ¡°A lot of people said that excavating for Ascension is a difficult game? I¡¯ve only yed for a few minutes, so I¡¯ll show you what a quick pass is and what a ssic lesson is. ¡± ¡°Eh? It¡¯s fine, we just encountered a small setback. It¡¯s okay, it¡¯s not a big deal. Let¡¯s continue. ¡± ¡°Sigh, I was a little stuck just now. It was my mistake. I won¡¯t make the same mistake next time. It¡¯s no big deal. Let¡¯s continue.¡± ¡°Ah!¡± ¡°Okay, I¡¯m steady. Every failure is a stepping stone on the road to sess. We have to believe that as a technical streamer, I¡¯m very close to sess.¡± ...¡±F * ck! No, I need to calm down. ¡± ¡°Okay, we¡¯re back at the starting point, but you know, this isn¡¯t the starting point. This is the middle of our journey. We¡¯re basically winding forward, do you know what I mean?¡± ¡°I¡¯m a technical streamer and I¡¯m very talented in gaming. Do you guys understand what I mean? I want to prove to you that this game isn¡¯t difficult at all in the hands of an expert. ¡± ¡°Hook! Stop! He flew! Let¡¯s go!¡± ¡°Ah!¡± ¡°Do difficulties defeat me so easily? Alright, don¡¯t rush. Extend your hammer and hook it. Don¡¯t rush, hook X5. Slow down and don¡¯t rush. Retract it and continue to hook. ¡± ¡°A...Ah! Hook your mother¡¯s banana peel!¡± ¡­¡­ A certain quality-type live streamer. ¡°NICE¡£This F * cking stupid game is not difficult at all for me. ¡± ¡°NICE, did you see that? I told you that this stupid hammer monster can¡¯t stop me at all.¡± ¡°Ah!¡± [Dazed for 10 seconds, raps on the table, table HP 100.] ¡°F * ck this sh * t! I must conquer this game today!¡± ¡°Mm~Oh! ¡°Ah!!!¡± Awooo!¡± (I calmed down and lit a cigarette.) ¡°Aiyaya! Hahaha. ¡± ¡°Take it slow, no hurry, one hook, hook, Wu! Ah!¡± (Slippers smashing on the table.) ¡°Hmph, hehehehe, I¡¯m so F * cking angry that I¡¯mughing.¡± ¡°Ah! Uh, ah!¡± (Slippers smashing on the table X3.) ¡°Wow, so annoying, y! Flick! I¡¯m sorry! Don ¡®t!¡± ¡°I¡¯m sorry!¡± (A heart-wrenching cry.) ¡°Don¡¯t worry, I beg you, don ¡®t! Don ¡®t! Don ¡®t!¡± ¡°What ... What the hell is this!!!!¡± (With a dull expression, he was thinking about life.) The bullet screen was filled withments,[that day, he passed away very peacefully.] ¡­¡­ A certain rational streamer. ¡°Today, we¡¯ll start ying this game of digging the ground to rise. I heard that many streamers have been driven crazy by this game, but I won¡¯t be driven crazy. Why? It¡¯s because I have a strong sense of reason. ¡± ¡°A lot of people swing their hammers blindly when they¡¯re in a state of mind. It¡¯s useless to swing your hammers blindly. The state of mind is very important in ying this game. Look, we¡¯ve already arrived while we were talking.¡± ¡°We can¡¯t rush here. Slowly, BIU! He didn¡¯t go up, BIU! He came up. Look, isn¡¯t it very simple?¡± ¡°This is a very difficult ce. Go! Go! We can¡¯t rush here, we have to take it slow ... Aiya, F * ck!¡± ¡°F * ck!!!¡± ¡°Calm down, calm down, calm down ...¡± ¡°Okay, after thest failure, we have a lot of experience in this ce. Next, we will use our experience fromst time to clear this ce.¡± ¡°Everyone, please watch carefully. It¡¯s time to witness a miracle. Go! Hook! Ah!¡± ¡°Motherf! Cker! Motherf! Cker! Motherf! Cker! Motherf! Cker! Motherf! Cker! Motherf! Cker! Motherf! Cker! Motherf! Cker! Motherf! Cker! Motherf! Cker! Motherf! Cker! Motherf! Cker! Motherf! Cker! Motherf! Cker! Motherf! Cker! Motherf! Cker! Motherf! Cker! Motherf! Cker! Motherf! Cker! Motherf! Cker!¡± ¡°He¡¯s finally here, hahahaha! Aish! Don ¡®t! Don ¡®t!¡± ¡°Calm down, calm down, calm down ...¡± ¡°As long as I can! We! Lay t! Mentality! We! He could! Very good! Climb up!¡± ¡°Ah, wait a minute. Let me take a rest first.¡± ¡°Continue, three, two, one, go! Let¡¯s go!¡± ¡°That¡¯s why, up until now, there hasn¡¯t been much difficulty in this game. The main thing is whether you can calm down. If you can calm down like me, it¡¯ll be easy for you, very easy! Aish! Don ¡®t! Don¡¯ t!¡± ¡°No!¡± ¡­¡­ A certain copse-type live streamer. ¡°F * ck, I¡¯ve never wanted to y this game.¡± ¡°But I can¡¯t help but F * cking want to open this game. I just want to see what¡¯s in it.¡± ¡°I just couldn¡¯t control my hands and wanted to open this game. I think this might be called cheap!¡± ¡°I don¡¯t know where I can go, but my curiosity has been driving me to climb up.¡± ¡°Don¡¯t give me that mental state now. I¡¯m already F * cking pissed off. I only have one thought right now, and that is to clear this game and delete it!!¡± ¡°Don¡¯t fall, don¡¯t fall, don¡¯t fall! It wasn¡¯t easy for me to get to this point, I¡¯m definitely going to delete this game!¡± ¡°Ah!¡± ¡°I¡¯m not ying F * cking sh * t! A stupid game!¡± ¡­¡­ A certain livestream host with mental disorder. ¡°The troubles of life!¡± ¡°Tell mommy!¡± ¡°It¡¯s about work!¡± ¡°Talk to Dad!¡± ¡°Go home often! Let¡¯s go home and take a look!¡± ¡± ¡± Chapter 334

Chapter 334: Chapter 333-I can¡¯t lie anymore

An ignorant streamer. ¡°I think a lot of people are ying the game ¡®excavate for Ascension.¡¯ I¡¯ll try it out too. I wonder if it¡¯s fun.¡± ¡°It looks quite retarded.¡± ¡°Is this person disabled? He doesn¡¯t have legs. ¡± ¡°Oh my God, is this how you y?¡± ¡°I¡¯m going up this tree now, right? I don¡¯t think I can go up, so I thought I should push myself up. ¡± ¡°F**K! NO! Is there something wrong with this game?¡± ¡°Why can¡¯t I even cross this tree?¡± ¡°I¡¯m starting to understand those streamers who have been driven crazy.¡± ¡°What move is this? counter storm?¡± ¡°This game is all about metaphysics, okay? There¡¯s no technique to speak of, and itpletely ignores all thews of physics!¡± ¡°Who can help me press down on Newton¡¯s coffin?¡± ¡°OH?NICE! I¡¯ming over to this tree!¡± ...... ¡°Eh? Why are you all saying ¡°wee home¡±? Why was this the starting and ending point of the game? What¡¯s the meaning of this?¡± ¡­¡­ A certain me-throwing live streamer. ¡°Go! Let¡¯s go!¡± ¡°Sigh, my mouse isn¡¯t good enough. There¡¯s a problem with the mouse¡¯s sensitivity!¡± ¡°Wait, wait a moment! Let¡¯s go! Let¡¯s go! Let¡¯s go!¡ÁN¡± Although he kept shouting to leave, the bald muscr man was still walking in the same ce. ¡°Ah!¡± ¡°Almost, almost. Don¡¯t worry, I got a little hot from shouting and my hand is cramping. This mouse is not good.¡± ¡°Alright, this round is over.¡± ¡°You¡¯re a disabled person, but your will isn ¡®T. You¡¯re messing with me, aren¡¯t you? You want to y with me, disabled but determined, right? If it wasn¡¯t for my mouse, I would¡¯ve pped you!¡± ¡°Go! Let¡¯s go! Let¡¯s go!¡ÁN¡± ¡°Alright, one, two, three, let¡¯s go!¡± ¡°AI! Don¡¯t drop it! Don¡¯t drop it! Motherf * cker!¡± (Silent.) ¡°The mousepad is a little narrow. I¡¯ll move itter. I¡¯ll move the keyboard away and move the mouse over here.¡± ¡°Don¡¯t worry, I can prove myself by moving my position. ¡± ¡°Go! Let¡¯s go! Let¡¯s go!¡ÁN¡± The bulletments wereughing like crazy. ¡°Hahaha, the host is ying a voice-controlled game. You can¡¯t go up even if you shout, okay?¡± ¡°This was how Weapon master¡¯s counterattack storm was trained back then.¡± ¡°The damage output is all by shouting?¡± ¡°Another one has gone crazy, hahahahahaha!¡± ¡­¡­ A certain step-by-step streamer. ¡°Okay, we¡¯vee to a more critical point. ording to our many years of experience in single-yer games, what¡¯s the most powerful way to win this kind of game? That¡¯s right, it¡¯s the S/L method!¡± ¡°There¡¯s no single-yer game that can¡¯t bepleted by using the S/L strategy. You Must Remember This.¡± ¡°That¡¯s right, I¡¯m nning to use the S/L strategy now. Hey, don¡¯t say I¡¯m a coward, this is a kind of game wisdom, okay? Sigh, those who hit the hammer with their heads lowered are boorish. Do I look like a boorish man? It doesn¡¯t look like it at all. ¡± ¡°Sigh, I¡¯m an intelligent streamer, so let¡¯s save the file first.¡± ¡°Wait a minute, I¡¯ll look for the Save button.¡± ¡°Don¡¯t worry, wait a moment. ¡± ¡°Eh? Where¡¯s the Save button in this game?¡± ¡°How do you save in this game?¡± ¡°What about the Save file? Does any of you know?¡± ¡°Auto-save?¡± ¡°I can¡¯t save?¡± ¡°Can¡¯t save?¡± ¡­¡­ A certainmanding streamer. ¡°Cripple, trust me. I¡¯ll count to three, and we¡¯ll jump together. Then, you grab the bucket above. Don¡¯t worry, don¡¯t worry, wait for me.¡± ¡°You hold on to it. Let¡¯s not jump too high. Trust me, give me your hand.¡± ¡°Get ready. Three, two, one, jump!¡± ¡°Eh? Are you F * cking you ...¡± ¡°I¡¯m sorry, I¡¯m sorry. I thought you fell. I shouldn¡¯t have scolded you. I¡¯m sorry, let¡¯s continue. ¡± ¡°Slowly, slowly, don¡¯t step on that bottle, be careful! Don¡¯t slip!¡± ¡°Okay, okay, stand firm first. I¡¯m okay, stand firm first. Stand still!¡± ¡°Stand still and I¡¯ll let go.¡± ¡°Don¡¯t worry, listen to mymand. Let¡¯s go up here first. Yes, yes, hook. The next one is a little difficult. Listen to me, hook it first ...¡± The bulletments were already ridiculing him. ¡°Hahahaha, why are you stillmunicating with him? as expected of amander, you can evenmand a game character?¡± ¡°You speak as if he¡¯ll listen to you, 23333¡± ¡°Another one¡¯s gone crazy, carry him away, carry him away.¡± ¡°I feel like there aren¡¯t enough beds in the mental hospital!¡± ¡­¡­ And a certain live streamer who thinks about humans. ¡°What is life for?¡± ¡°Why am I in this ce?¡± ¡°Why do I y this game?¡± ¡°What am I thinking?¡± ¡°Where did my life, my three hours go?¡± ¡°Do you guys think there¡¯s some sort of philosophical principle behind this game?¡± ¡°Dear viewers and friends, I suddenly have a strong urge to think about life. I¡¯ll end the livestream first!¡± ¡­¡­ Soon, the number of downloads andments for excavating for Ascension on Thunderbolt gaming tform skyrocketed. As for the game¡¯s rating, it was basically a C-type, all concentrated on one-star and five-star. However, the puzzling thing was that the five-star rating was obviously more than the one-star rating, pulling the game¡¯s average to 6.1. The 1-star ratings were nothing to scoff at, as they were all curses from angry yers. However, the 5-star ratings were very interesting to read. ¡°This is Chen Mo¡¯s work of conscience, a work of sincerity. The game supports multiple modes such as body sense and voice control. It¡¯s realistic andplex, with dozens of hosts rmending it. It¡¯s not to be missed!¡± ¡°This game is super fun, super simple, and I¡¯m super happy! It¡¯s very easy to clear the game, and we¡¯lle to a very special ce after clearing it. Come on,e on,e and y!¡± ¡°This game isn¡¯t suitable to be yed with a utilitarian mentality. Nowadays, many people y games just to clear the game and have lost a lot of philosophical thinking. Perhaps this game can help us find the fun of ying games and even the ultimate meaning of life.¡± ¡°This game is very suitable for yers who want to challenge jumping on roofs and walls. The smoothness and excitement of jumping up and down after getting the hang of it is simply great!¡± ¡°It¡¯s very interesting. It keeps returning to the starting point due to some small mistakes, reminding people not to forget their original intentions. It contains a profound philosophy of movement and stillness.¡± ¡°This game doesn¡¯t have any in-game content, so it¡¯s easy to operate. Open mode, scene change does not need to be loaded; The requirements for theputer¡¯s configuration were low, and theptop could be yed easily. The content of the story was deeply touching and full of positive energy. The best of the year award is in the bag. What are you guys waiting for? hurry up and download the game to experience it. ¡± ¡°It¡¯s fun. I¡¯ve changed three sets of keyboards and mice. I¡¯m going to light incense for them. Today is their seventh day.¡± Many yers leftments on Chen Mo¡¯s Weibo, asking him why he made such a stupid game to take revenge on society. Soon, Chen Mo posted on Weibo,¡±¡±In fact,¡¯excavating for Ascension¡¯ has a very rich game content. Have you ever thought that these mountains represent the dangers in our lives, while the people in the can represent you and me who are bound by reality? The characters in the game were prepared to face all kinds of destinies. They could advance many steps smoothly, but they could also lose everything in a freakbination of factors. This game has so many philosophical considerations, it should give the yers some inspiration ... Forget it, I can¡¯t continue to make up stories. ¡± Chapter 335

Chapter 335: I just want to see you guys get abused

Chen Mo¡¯s Weibo caused a huge wave of anger among the yers. We¡¯ve been tortured by this game and you¡¯re still in the mood to tease us? Beat this bastard to death! Many yers were calling for a boycott of excavating for Ascension, Chen Mo¡¯s games, and Thunderbolt gaming tform! Many yers were calling on other yers to uninstall the game to show their determination! Although many people said so, their bodies still opened the game over and over again honestly. More yers chose to tell other yers, live streamers, and UP masters about the game. It became a trend to watch those who were tortured by the game. Every time a streamer or video uploader reached a critical point in the game, there would always be a lot of viewers who would send bulletments at the right time. Therge number of repeated bulletments would make the visual effect particrly shocking. ¡°Wee to the Save point!¡± ¡°The ce where dreams begin¡± ¡°Wee home.¡± ¡°Go home often.¡± ¡°I feel bad for the table!¡± ¡°Carry him away, next one!¡± ¡°Another one has gone crazy, carry him away!¡± ...... Many people realized that watching others y this game was much more interesting than ying it themselves! It was only then that many yers realized the true joy of excavating for Ascension, and that was to watch others get abused! In fact, this was indeed the case for the game. Its poprity was not because it was fun to y, but because of its explosive effects in videos and livestreams. Therefore, under the drive of major live streamers and video uploaders, its poprity had exploded and it had be a phenomenal game. A lot of streamers figured out that the game could be saved through loopholes, but it was unknown if Chen Mo ignored it or did it on purpose. However, streamers who used loopholes to save would be boycotted by the audience because it waspletely contrary to the spirit of the game itself. Therefore, yers would choose to save when they couldn¡¯t y anymore, but the streamers would stubbornly start from the beginning. ¡­¡­ On the question and answermunity, a question was pushed to the front page. ¡°What¡¯s your opinion on Chen Mo¡¯s April Fool¡¯s Day game, excavate for Ascension?¡± Many people answered. ¡°Isn¡¯t the game Committee going to do anything? If people die in other games, people die outside of this game!¡± ¡°This game should be called ¡®dig the ground to get up¡¯,¡¯get down¡¯,¡¯get down¡¯,¡¯get down¡¯,¡¯get down¡¯,¡¯get down¡¯,¡¯get down¡¯,¡¯get down¡¯,¡¯get down¡¯,¡¯get down¡¯,¡¯I¡¯m going to die!¡± ¡°If it were me, I would probably choose to smash the VAT.¡± ¡°Being popr is a scary thing. When the neighbors were discussing how bad sh * t tasted, you couldn¡¯t help but take a bite out of curiosity, then frowned and ran over to join the discussion. It¡¯s really bad. ¡± However, there were also different opinions. A video game media¡¯s editor had written a long review of the game, analyzing the spiritual implications and philosophical thoughts behind the game. ¡°I don¡¯t think Chen Mo made this game just to torture the yers. There¡¯s a lot of dark humor in the game that disparages the mainstream games.¡± ¡°They give the yers false guarantees, follow certain rules, keep training themselves, and use one save point after another to advance step by step. In the end, you will win.¡± ¡°But is this really your sess? You¡¯re just the game designer¡¯s marite, and the clearing of the game is arranged. This makes the game experience like fast food, which is quickly consumed and thrown into the trash can. ¡± ¡°On the other hand, excavating for Ascension is theplete opposite of these games. As a designer who has contributed to many of our ssics, Chen Mo has his own unique preferences and understanding. ¡°In this game, there¡¯s no guarantee. If you fail, you¡¯ll have to start all over again. The only thing you can trust is your own strength and experience, and this can only be obtained through repeated painful failures.¡± ¡°In ¡®excavating for Ascension¡¯, the frustration of failure is resolved by the brawny man¡¯s humor. For example, there¡¯s a saying about failure: What we mean by failure is not falling, but stopping. ¡± ¡°When youe to thest snow Mountain, even though the sign says ¡®don¡¯t y with snakes¡¯, the narrator will still constantly tempt you to ride that snake. If you believe it ...¡± ¡°I don¡¯t think it¡¯s just a bad joke. It shows Chen Zhao¡¯s sincere thoughts: Enjoy these failures, they are sometimes more fun than sess. ¡± ¡°Many streamers find ways to enjoy their failures after many failures, such as cosying as a burly man while continuing to¡¯ dig the ground for Ascension ¡®, but it¡¯s not easy to do.¡± ¡°Sometimes, I feel that the experience in the game points to the life of each of us. The implication behind this idea is worrying. We may never reach the top. In the game, I am still stuck on the ¡®mountain of modern garbage¡¯, unable to move forward. Perhaps in reality, I am also living under a pile of modern garbage.¡± ¡°In any case, I suggest that everyone try ¡®excavating the earth for Ascension¡¯. There are a thousand hamlets in a thousand readers. I believe you can find more meaning in life and philosophical thinking from it.¡± This super longment received more than 8000 approval on the question and answermunity, making it the most popr answer under this one. A lot of people werementing. As expected of a video game media professional, their reviews were so in-depth! But soon, the number of likes for this super longment was overtaken, and the answer that overtook it was only two short paragraphs. ¡°You¡¯re all thinking too much,¡± Chen Zhao said.¡±I just want to see you guys being tortured to death.¡± ¡°Besides, I don¡¯t think those cosy streamers found the joy of failure. They¡¯re just purely crazy.¡± This answer was quickly reposted and ridiculed by the yers. Many people even took screenshots and reposted them on Weibo and major forums. Even ¡°kill that bastard Chen Mo¡± became one of the hottest topics on Weibo. Thispletely free game that was created to take revenge on society suddenly appeared on all major livestreaming tforms, video websites, and game forums on April Fool¡¯s Day. For a moment, it seemed like everyone was talking about this very special game. Many yers were trying to promote the game with all their might, making the game the most talked-about game and the most downloaded game during April Fool¡¯s Day without any advertising. On April Fool¡¯s Day, the download count for excavating thend for Ascension broke 2 million. It was a number that would make any video game industry personnel break down. Since it was a PC game, the instation package wasn¡¯t small, and Chen Mo didn¡¯t do any advertising, he just relied on the natural traffic. Moreover, there was no way to y this game. The modeling was rough and the quality was low. Even a normal B-grade video game designer could make it without any difficulty. But just like that, the number of downloads in one day had exceeded 2 million? Chapter 336

Chapter 336: Lin chaoxu¡¯s rage

The scarier thing was that the game¡¯s influence was far more than that. Many people hadpleted the game on live streaming websites or video-streaming websites. Not downloading it didn¡¯t mean that they didn¡¯t know about the game. In other words, the influence of excavating the earth for Ascension was immeasurable. Many gaming tforms and distributors were panicking because many yers who weren¡¯t even users of Thunderbolt gaming tform before had downloaded the game after it was released. It was only then that the distributors realized that Chen Mo¡¯spletely free version of excavating the earth for Ascension wasn¡¯t a malicious April Fool¡¯s joke, but a well-nned one. It waspletely free because he wanted to attract more yers for Thunderbolt gaming tform. Chen Zhao had clearly achieved his goal. ¡°Excavating the earth for Ascension¡± had already be a trend. Such publicity was much more cost-effective than spending money to promote it, and the effect was also countless times better. It wasn¡¯t just League of Legends that had the potential to be a hit, even a small game that was meant for torturing people had been yed by Chen Mo! ¡­¡­ Emperor dynasty Entertainment¡¯s headquarters. Xu Xiaojun stood in front of Lin chaoxu¡¯s desk, not even daring to take a deep breath. Lin chaoxu was in a rage. Hisputer screen was showing ¡°excavating the earth for Ascension¡±. ¡°Such a simple game has brought Chen Mo so many users! We have so many designers at Emperor dynasty entertainment, that! Muah! Many! Set-up! Ji! Shi! Why can¡¯t anyone do it? Hmm?¡± ¡°This trashy feeling! Trash style! Garbage modeling! It was a trashy action! All of them were trash! Trash! Why didn¡¯t our designers do it? Hmm?¡± ...... ¡°Why?¡± ¡°It¡¯s fine if they can¡¯t make League of Legends, but even a small April Fool¡¯s game has been destroyed. What kind of trash have we raised?!¡± ¡°Do you think the designers we raised are a bunch of trash?!¡± Lin chaoxu mmed the table.¡±Trash!!¡± He shouted. No one knew if he was talking about the designers in Emperor dynasty or the game excavating for Ascension. Xu Xiaojun didn¡¯t dare to say a word, it was obvious that Lin chaoxu was in a rare state of rage. A small part of the reason was probably because Chen Mo used excavating the earth for Ascension to steal users, but arge part of the reason was probably because Lin chaoxu had lost his mind after being tortured by the game. As for this game, Xu Xiaojun had also yed it. He understood it very well. The keyboard and monitor in front of Lin chaoxu were still intact, which proved that Lin chaoxu was a person who knew how to control his emotions. Lin chaoxu roared for more than ten minutes before he finally recovered. ¡°Alright, you may leave now. Tell all the A-grade and below videographers of Emperor dynasty to reflect on their actions. Each of them must write down their thoughts on how they¡¯ve cleared excavating the earth and seeking Ascension, as well as their analysis of the game. It can¡¯t be less than ten thousand words.¡± ¡°Yes.¡± Xu Xiaojun wiped the cold sweat on his forehead. ¡°Oh, there¡¯s more.¡± Lin chaoxu stopped him again.¡±Send this game to ding Xing and let him y it.¡± ¡­¡­ Chapter 337

Chapter 337: Chapter 336-overseas version released

Soon, various operating techniques, highlights of the live streamers, and fast-forwarded videos of excavating for Ascension were released. There was a very scary yer who uploaded a video of him clearing excavating the earth for Ascension in just four minutes, which caused everyone to worship him crazily. Only then did many people realize that the game process was actually so short? If there were no jams throughout the game, they could clear the game in four minutes. Moreover, the yer in the video had obviously encountered some setbacks. Otherwise, this time could be furtherpressed, even to less than three minutes. ording to Chen Mo, the average time for yers to clear the game was six hours, but for most yers, it was infinite. The hosts kept breaking down in the process of challenging the game. Many enthusiasticizens recorded and edited the copse scenes of these hosts challenging ¡°excavating the earth for Ascension¡± into a highlights video and posted it on the video website. It quickly gained more than a million views. Chen Mo¡¯s April Fool¡¯s Day event was very effective. The poprity of excavating thend for Ascension basicallysted from April Fool¡¯s Day to mid-April, and it was popr for at least half a month. The April Fool¡¯s Day event and the new update of League of Legends also made the yers excited. This caused Thunderbolt gaming tform¡¯s user base to explode, while League of Legends became more and more popr. ¡­¡­ On the 25th of April, the International Version of League of Legends was officially released. The overseas version this time was mainly aimed at three regions, namely the American, European, and Korean servers. Because these three regions were more developed in terms of economy and the gaming industry, it was important for Chen Mo to take control of the market in these three regions. Considering that the European server was open to multiple countries at the same time, the League of Legends app added multiplenguage options this time. yers could change thenguage options of the app to any one of thenguages in the settings when they first logged into the game. In terms of game content, the overseas version would be updated two to three dayster than the domestic version, but the content would be the same. Of course, this time would still be affected by the various countries ¡®evaluations and other factors, but it was generally not a big deal. ...... Chen Mo and meteorite technology had spent a lot of resources on advertising this time. Since the overseas version of COG was already released in the middle of February, Chen Mo was two monthste. Especially in the US server, COG already had a group of core yers. After all, COG was the product of GA, a well-known bigpany. No matter what, the quality of the game was guaranteed, so there was no need to worry about not having any yers. After seeing the promotional materials for League of Legends, the first thought that foreign yers had was that it was a game very simr to COG. However, some enthusiastic yers soon began to exin. ¡°In fact, no matter how you look at it, Thunderbolt entertainment is the true pioneer of this type of game. ¡°COG is a map for Warcraft, and Thunderbolt entertainment had already officially released the Chenghai 3c map in Warcraft. This map was also seen as the prototype and source of inspiration for COG. ¡°Also, League of Legends was released in the local server at the beginning of February, which means that its development time should be ahead ofst year. They onlyunched the world server version after theypleted the integration of the Chinese market. ¡± ¡°Moreover, in China, League of Legends has crushed COG in all aspects. I was lucky enough to y it for a while. Although I can¡¯t understand the Chinese message on the client at all, I can roughly understand the basic ying method. I think this will be a game thatpletely overpowers cog. I¡¯ve been waiting for the American server to beunched for a long time.¡± ¡°There are many specific differences, and it¡¯s difficult to exin them clearly. To sum it up, League of Legends is easier to get used to than COG, but the game is much more fun and bnced than COG. ¡± On foreign forums, while this popr science post received a lot of approval, it also received many doubts. Many yers were puzzled by thest sentence of the post: League of Legends was easier to y, and it was more bnced? A lot of yers didn¡¯t believe it, because bnce often meant the depth of the game, and the depth of the game often contradicted the ease of getting used to. However, this point was clearly written in the promotional materials of League of Legends. League of Legends game introduction: League of Legends was a 3d Large-scale onlinepetitive battle game developed by Thunderbolt entertainment. The main team had made Warcraft, Minecraft, and other ssic games. Other than the real-timebat features simr to Warcraft, League of Legends also had huge andplex heroes, better matching and ranking mechanisms, and rich game content. League of Legends features: In the fast-pacedpetitive battle experience, the average duration of each game was about 30 ¨C 40 minutes. The rich strategy choices, theplexbinations of dozens of heroes, the rich map mechanisms, and strategy choices made the game extremely rich. In the team cooperation mode, you need to cooperate closely with your four teammates to win. It was a rich and convenient equipment synthesis system. Apletely fairpetitive environment, can quickly reconnect after being disconnected, malicious AFK and instant withdrawal will be severely punished. There was no need to level up, as every round was a new start. The game would automatically match you with an opponent of simr strength. You will y the role of a Summoner and control heroes to fight. There was only one rule here-the winner was everything! For the International Version, the promotion of League of Legends was much smoother than when it was Warcraft. After all, with the reputation of Warcraft and Minecraft, Thunderbolt entertainment had a certain level of fame overseas. However, in the early stages of the game¡¯s promotion, League of Legends was still inevitablypared with cogs by yers. Chen Mo wasn¡¯t worried at all, because the game itself had already decided that once League of Legends was released, cogs would bepletely suppressed. In the field of MOBA games, the yer base wouldn¡¯t be able to take down two MOBA games. MOBA games were going to show their dominance after defeating other games of the same genre. They were going tounch an attack on other traditional games. ¡­¡­ Soon, the overseas yers ments were released, and they were all positive. This was different from the situation in China. As the saying went,¡±it¡¯s better topare the goods than not recognize the goods¡±. In China, League of Legends was the first to be released, and many core yers still didn¡¯t understand why it was so bright or why its gamey was simplified. However, for the overseas yers, they had already experienced COG. When they yed League of Legends again, they would feel the huge difference between the two games and naturally understand the uniqueness of League of Legends. Chapter 338 - The concept of MOBA games

Chapter 338: The concept of MOBA games

In the US server. ¡°I¡¯ve never yed an RTS game before. The first game I yed was COG, but to me, COG was too difficult, and I think many of the operations are very anti-human and unfriendly. The appearance of League of Legends really brightened my eyes. The way to y is clear, the teaching is detailed, and the operation is simple. It¡¯s the first time I¡¯ve experienced the fun of thispetitive game!¡± ¡°At first, I thought that the bright style was a little strange, but I soon realized that the biggest use of this style was to let the yers rx. Compared to COG, this game is not tiring at all, NICE!¡± ¡°Thunderbolt entertainment has continued their standard in Western fantasy themes, but to my surprise, they seem to have made a breakthrough. Warcraft is a pure Western fantasy theme, but they seem to have added a lot of other cultural elements in League of Legends. Maybe they¡¯re very ambitious this time and want to make this game popr all over the world?¡± ¡°That¡¯s right. Heroes have different styles and take into ount different cultural backgrounds. For example, there¡¯s the philosophical Weapon Master Jax, the traditional western fantasy hero garen, the Egypt mummy a-Mumu, and the eastern-style blind monk Li Qing.¡± ¡°Great! Even though it doesn¡¯t have a spectacr background story like Warcraft, these heroes have their own unique characteristics and rich mechanics. I think that¡¯s enough!¡± The European server. ¡°At first, I thought that although League of Legends was a new game, it would be as difficult as RTS games, but I was wrong. This game not only retained the fun of real-timepetitive games, but it also simplified the controls. Even a clumsy yer like me could y it smoothly!¡± ¡°I feel that many of the details reflect the game¡¯s heart, especially the matching system, ranking system, hacking reports, short-term reconnections, and so on. I can feel how determined the official game is to rectify thepetitive environment. This makes me very touched!¡± ¡°Also, League of Legends greatly reduces the cost of friends ying together. They can start at any time, and it supports single yer mode and free team mode with two to five yers. Each game only takes about 30 minutes, which is so convenient!¡± ¡°I think GA¡¯s COG is trashpared to League of Legends. ¡°I mean, COG¡¯s quality is not bad, but it¡¯s obvious that its design concept is outdated. It¡¯s not easy to get used to, and it has a strong RTS style. However, League of Legends is on a whole new path. It¡¯s the true king of games!¡± In the Korean server. ¡°That¡¯s great. I¡¯ve finally found a fair game where I¡¯ll be matched with equally strong enemies. It¡¯s not like COG, where it¡¯s boring to beat noobs, and even more boring to be beaten.¡± ...... ¡°I like its reporting system. This way, at least I can do something after I¡¯m tricked by some idiots who like to hack. ¡± ¡°This game seems simple? Why do you guys think it¡¯s better than COG?¡± ¡°Simple? I suggest that you try out Katarina, Lee Sin, Ryze, and the other heroes. This game is far more in-depth than you think. At the very least, you should get your ranking points up to diamond rank before you decide if this game is easy!¡± ¡°I think RTS games will bepletely stolen by this game. It¡¯s very likely to be a pir of the e-sports industry!¡± ¡­¡­ As the poprity of League of Legends spread around the world, a new concept began to develop. ¡°League of Legends is a MOBA game.¡± This was apletely new concept. MOBA games were the abbreviation for Multiyer Online Battle Arena. When tranted into Chinese, it was ¡°multiyer online tacticalpetition game.¡± In Chen Mo¡¯s previous world, MOBA games were a genre that everyone was familiar with, but in the parallel world, it was still apletely foreign concept. In fact, the term ¡°MOBA game¡± didn¡¯t make any sense. From the literal meaning, the concept of ¡°multiyer online tacticalpetition game¡± was too broad. If it was just a word choice, FPS games could also be categorized under this concept. When this concept was first proposed, it was actually just a way for League of Legends to¡¯ de-DOTA ¡®. Before this, all MOBA games were called¡¯ DOTA-like ¡®games, which was an awkward term for the promotion of all MOBA games. Moreover,pared to mmorpgs, FPS, and RTS games,¡¯DOTA-like¡¯ games weren¡¯t a proper name. That was why it was called a MOBA game. Putting aside the purpose and origin of this name, this name had indeed yed a very important role in the promotion of the game. Although this name was neither appropriate nor rigorous, no one could think of a more suitable word to describe this type of game. It couldn¡¯t be called a ¡°threene hero tower pushing game¡±, right? It was too uncool. As time went by, the concept of MOBA games was deeply rooted in people¡¯s hearts. Chen Mo didn¡¯t just want to redefine the game as a new genre, he also wanted to create a topic and gimmick to give yers a hint. ¡°MOBA is a new game. Come and y!¡± Whether a concept could be poprized or not did not depend on whether it was appropriate to call it or whether the yers were satisfied with it, but whether it was popr enough. For example, 3c was actually more scientific than MOBA. At least it told you that there were three paths to the game. And demigod called itself ARTS. It was very professional, but it was useless because these games were not popr enough. If League of Legends called itself a ¡°multi-yer online me-shifting game¡±, this concept would still be popr, and then it would be poprized to all simr games in the future. ¡­¡­ After the release of the overseas version of League of Legends, it also swept the overseas market with a strong momentum. The number of yers who logged in on the first day exceeded 500000, and the next day, the retention rate reached 68%. Moreover, the various statistics were still growing. This number was still gorgeous, which made the GA and the domesticpanies a bit dumbfounded. The designer of COG, Clive Ramon, had always thought that there must be something fishy about the high retention rate of League of Legends in China. This game was just like RTS games, and there was a certain threshold to control it. It was normal for Masters to beat newbies, so how could there be such a high retention rate? However, after the International Version of League of Legends was released, the GA had no choice but to ept the fact that the preserved data of League of Legends was real, and so was its poprity. Not only in China, but in the entire world, including the American, European, and Korean servers, League of Legends hadpletely crushed COG! The Chinese video game designers were also surprised that League of Legends could achieve such great results overseas. After all, the domestic and international video game market was very different. Only then did they realize that Chen Mo¡¯s goal wasn¡¯t just to win the distribution channel battle, but to make big news this time! Chapter 339

Chapter 339: E-sports club

At the MG Esports Club in the capital. ¡°President Chen, wee, wee.¡± A slightly chubby, bald man in good spirits extended his hand to Chen Mo. It was Bai shunhua, the manager of MG e-sports club. ¡°Sorry for the disturbance.¡± Chen Zhao and Bai shunhua shook hands. ¡°Hey, President Chen, you¡¯re too polite.¡± Bai shunhua quickly said,¡±you¡¯re a friend of President Zhao. Even without that, you¡¯re still an important guest of our club.¡± After all, League of Legends is developing so well now. When our club sets up a League of Legends branch in the future, we still need to have a good rtionship with you. ¡± ¡°Come, pleasee in.¡± Bai shunhua said as she led Chen Zhao into the club. Chen Mo only had a rough understanding of the ecosystem of the clubs in China, but he didn¡¯t know much about the specific operations of the clubs. This time, he had to ask Zhao Zihao to get the number of the manager of the MG e-sports club through some connections. Chen Mo wanted to check on the current status of the clubs in preparation for the future promotion of League of Legends. Luckily, MG e-sports club was located in the capital, so it was not too much trouble toe over. Beforeing here, Chen Mo had done some research on the e-sports clubs in parallel world. It could be summarized in one sentence-he lived a good life, but it was very irregr. ...... This was mainly a chain reaction caused by theck of variety in games. At present, there were more than ten rtivelyrge esports clubs in the country. They were gathered in Beijing and Shanghai, with Shanghai taking up the majority. However, there were also some e-sports clubs in other first-tier cities. MG should be one of the top three esports clubs in the country, and it was also the biggest club in the capital. MG¡¯s full name was ¡°MysteriousGaming¡± and the boss behind it was a rich second generation. Of course, most of the owners of the e-sports clubs in this world were rich second generation rich people. After all, the first generation rich people usually yed traditional sports. Speaking of the current development of these clubs, their financial situation was not bad. They were not purely money-burning things. They could be self-sustaining and even make some money, so their development was not bad. But the biggest problem was that it was not formal enough. At the end of the day, it was all because of the game. There were only a few types of games in this world that could be used aspetitive events: Without the support of MOBA games, it would be difficult for FPS, mmorpgs, and RTS games to support such a huge e-sports industry. This world¡¯s FPS games were also quite popr, but they were mainly popr on VR, so the number of yers was naturally limited. However, even so, FPS games were still the mainpetitive game project of the major clubs. RTS games weren¡¯t bad either. The big clubs had already set up branches for Warcraft and had some smallpetitions. However, the number of RTS yers was also rtively small, and they couldn¡¯t establish a long-term tournament. There were only a few tournament tournaments in the country, and the clubs usually only supported one to two RTS yers. As for mmorpgs, that was what Chen Mo wanted to say the most. Logically speaking, mmorpgs shouldn¡¯t be considered a qualified e-sports project because it required a lot of money and time to create a top-tier ount in such a game. Instead of calling it e-sports, it was more like ying with paywalls. Mmorpgs were naturally unfair in terms of time, and it was difficult to guarantee the game¡¯s bnce and wattiness. As such, mmorpgs didn¡¯t have any influentialpetitions in Chen Mo¡¯s previous life. However, there was a slight difference in the parallel world, and that was that these e-sports clubs all had some additional services: At the studio. This was because these e-sports clubs were all Game Studios. As the oldest online game genre, MMORPG was once the dominant game. The first thing these rich second generation heirs thought of when they set their eyes on the gaming industry was to set up their own studio. Gold farming, boosting, game marketing ... Basically, anything rted to the game, the studio could intervene and get a share. Moreover, theserge mmorpgs were helpless against the existence of gaming studios. Even though gaming studios would destroy the ecosystem of the game, they would still be able to promote and promote the game. Moreover, it was unrealistic topletely destroy the studio. As such, in the parallel world,rge gamepanies would form a mutually beneficial rtionship with these Game Studios. When designing MMORPG games, the gamepanies would leave some room for the studios to develop, and each studio would also have unspoken rules, which was to not exhaust the goose thatid the golden goose. They were not allowed to use any scripts or cheats that would harm the gamepany¡¯s interests. After all, if they were to really fight, the studio would not be able to win against the gamepany. E-sports clubs that grew up in such an environment still had some of the characteristics of a studio, and weren¡¯t on the right track like Chen Mo¡¯s previous life. Some MMORPG games, such as moon God¡¯s prophecy and heavenly justice of the Three Kingdoms, had rich GVS and PVP content. Heavenly Sword of the Three Kingdoms was a game that focused on world wars, which gave the big clubs some space to y. As such, the clubs in parallel world were mainly focused on FPS, MMORPG, and RTS games. FPS and RTS games were morepetitive, while MMORPG games were more profitable. The building of MG e-sports club was quite stylish. It was a four-story building with high-tech decorations, which gave people a feeling of modern and avant-garde. On the outer wall of the building, there was the logo of MG e-sports club: It was a mysterious Neb icon that had a very realistic feel to it. Bai shunhua showed Chen Mo around the internal structure of the whole MG e-sports club and introduced it to him as they walked. ¡°This is the rest area for our yers.¡± ¡°This is the contestants¡± cafeteria. We hired three cooking aunties to ensure that the food and drink are well-prepared. ¡± ¡°Going up from here is the contestants¡± resting area. Currently, two contestants are sharing a room, which is simr to a standard room in a hotel. However, it¡¯s filled with the personal belongings of the contestants and there¡¯s nothing much to see, so there¡¯s no need to visit this one for now. ¡± ¡°The entire area from here is the training room. You have to swipe a card to enter. Unrted people are not allowed to enter, mainly because they are afraid of affecting the yers¡± daily training. ¡± Bai shunhua swiped her pass at the entrance of the training area, and the high-tech ss door opened. ¡°President Chen, please.¡± Bai shunhua led Chen Mo into the training area. The training area was divided into many different small cubicles, and each row had seven seats. The space between the seats was rtively loose, and the environment was not bad. Many yers were training, and some of them would nce at Bai shunhua and Chen Mo before turning back to their games. Bai shunhua exined,¡±currently, we have six rtivelyrge branches. Over here, we have fire assault and Wolf Soul. In total, we have 13 members. These two branches are in the innermost part of the team, and they use VR gaming pods for daily training.¡± Chapter 340

Chapter 340: Looking into the future

Bai shunhua brought Chen Zhao in and introduced him to each branch. ¡°RPG games are the divisions of moon God¡¯s prophecy, Legend of the Sword, and heavenly justice Three Kingdoms. The yers in this area are not fixed because these games are not purelypetitive games. They usually do things like grinding for equipment and doing things like events. ¡°There¡¯s also RTS games. We currently have Warcraft and Legion conquest. Warcraft is still okay, but Legion conquest isn¡¯t as popr in the country anymore, so we¡¯re thinking about closing this branch. ¡± ¡°This is the Warcraft training room. I¡¯m sure you¡¯ll be interested, Mr. Chen.¡± Chen Zhao looked at it. MG e-sports club seemed to be treating everyone equally, as they had allocated a training room of the same size to the Warcraft branch. However, this training room could fit 14 people, while there were only three yers in Warcraft. The entire training room seemed a little empty. ¡°Because Warcraft is focused on single yerbat,¡± Bai shunhua exined.¡±We only need to find the star yers with potential. It¡¯s not like FPS games, where we have to form a five-man team.¡± Chen Mo nodded in understanding. Bai shunhua brought Chen Mo around to other ces before finally returning to the guest room. ¡°That¡¯s about it. Is there anything else you want to know, President Chen?¡± Bai shunhua asked. Chen Mo nodded,¡±yes, I understand most of it.¡± Bai shunhua took a cup of hot water from the water dispenser and handed it to Chen Mo,¡±¡±President Chen, you said earlier that you wanted to talk about the development of e-sports. What do you want to talk about specifically?¡± ...... Chen Zhao thought for a moment, trying to figure out where to start. ¡°Manager Bai, does MG e-sports club have any ns to set up a division of League of Legends?¡± Bai shunhua smiled.¡±Of course, President Chen. League of Legends is a very fairpetitive game. It¡¯s only been released for less than three months, but its poprity in China has already surpassed Warcraft. How could we miss out on such a crucial area?¡± ¡°We¡¯re nning to unearth some potential stairway tree yers by next month at thetest. They¡¯re at least at the level of the king, so they cane to the base for a trial. As for the official formation of the team, it may be dyed a little. We can probably form a team in June and participate in some smallpetitions. ¡± Chen Mo nodded. I have an idea about the e-sports mode of League of Legends. I hope that the major clubs can form a long-term league together, just like traditional sports. ¡± Bai shunhua was taken aback,¡¯long-term League? What do you mean, President Chen?¡± ¡°Manager Bai,¡± Chen Zhao said.¡±You can imagine this.¡± ¡°The 10 clubs in the country form 10 first-tier teams to establish a long-term League mechanism. The league has the spring and summer seasons. Each season will have the regr season and the yoffs. The yoffs will determine the champion. ¡± ¡°Three teams will be decided through the points of the spring and summerpetitions. They will fight in the world Finals.¡± ¡°In arge Stadium, under the cheers of tens of thousands of spectators, two of the world¡¯s top teamspeted for the highest honor of the year, the World Championship trophy and millions of dors in prize money.¡± ¡°All major live-streaming tforms and even traditional media will be broadcasting and following this e-sports event. When the timees, tens of millions of viewers around the world will watch it.¡± ¡°Manager Bai, can you imagine what kind of scene this will be?¡± Bai shunhua was stunned. Chen Zhao¡¯s words had him dumbfounded. Bai shunhua even had the illusion that she was a newbie who had just entered the workce, and as soon as she joined, she met a boss who was very good at making chicken soup and making empty promises, and she waspletely wrapped up in the prospect of the future. However, Bai shunhua was the manager of the e-sports club, and she was very familiar with the local and foreign e-sports environment, so she quickly regained herposure. He coughed twice and said,¡±President Chen, this is indeed a very beautiful picture. I also think that the e-sports industry is a rising industry. It is indeed possible that it will reach the height of traditional sports at some time in the future. However, judging from the current development of the domestic e-sports industry, I¡¯m afraid that it will take more than a decade for the image that President Chen is looking forward to to to be achieved.¡± ¡°It¡¯s not that the technology isn¡¯t up to standard, but the main issue is the influence. At present, in the domestic gaming circle, Oh, or in the entire world¡¯s gaming circle, there was nopetitive game that was as popr as football and basketball. Mmorpgs have more yers, but thepetition is not as good. ¡± ¡°The root of the problem is the number of yers. If there aren¡¯t enough yers, there won¡¯t be an audience. If that¡¯s the case, organizing thispetition will be aplete loss. If we lose a few hundred million, I¡¯m afraid that even with chief Chen¡¯s status, he won¡¯t be able to persist. ¡± ¡°Just like what President Chen said, the audience for thepetition is in the tens of millions. That means that the number of yers for this game has to reach at least ¡®hundreds of millions¡¯. From the looks of it ... This is too fantasizing.¡± Chen Moughed. Indeed, with the current development of the e-sports industry in this world, it wasn¡¯t hard to make them understand what he was talking about, but it was too hard to make them believe. In Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, no one was interested in the S1 World Championship of League of Legends, but there were already over 8 million viewers watching the S2 Championship on the Inte and TV, and the number skyrocketed to 32 million in S3. Indeed, if someone told you in S1 that there would be 30 million people watching an e-sportspetition at the Staples Center in Los Angeles in two years, you would probably think that he was bragging. Chen Zhao didn¡¯t n on exining too much, so he just said,¡±¡±Manager Bai, sometimes, we need to look further. League of Legends will develop faster and faster, and this day maye much earlier than we thought.¡± ¡°However, the first step is to set up a long-term mechanism in the country, which can¡¯t be done without the support of the major clubs. After all, a league only has spectators. It¡¯s impossible to have no yers. I need the big clubs to set up a perfect talent selection, training, and trading system. I need the cooperation of manager Bai and the other managers. ¡± ¡°No problem, President Chen.¡± Bai shunhua nodded. In fact, MG Club has been working on this, but the game developers didn¡¯t care about it and the clubs didn¡¯t have a Unified Manager, so it was always in a chaotic state. If you¡¯re willing to spend time on this, I¡¯m sure the other clubs will be happy to cooperate with you. ¡± Chen Mo nodded,¡±that¡¯s good.¡± I¡¯ll have to trouble manager Bai to tell the other club managers that the first ten teams for the league tournament have not beenpletely determined. It will depend on their performance to decide on which ten clubs to choose. ¡± ¡°Oh right, please tell them that this quota might seem like a free gift, but if they miss it, they will regret it for a long time.¡± Chapter 341 - ancient catastrophe warm-up

Chapter 341: Chapter 340-ancient catastrophe warm-up

Back at the studio, Chen Mo received some internal materials from Bai shunhua. This was a research report written by Bai shunhuast year after she went abroad for an investigation, for the reference of the internal staff of MG e-sports club. It had a more detailed analysis of the current development of the game industry in various countries. Bai shunhua repeatedly told Chen Zhao to keep the item to himself and not spread it around. Chen Mo¡¯s identity was a bit special, he was not apetitive esports yer, but as the designer of League of Legends, he had been a great help to MG Esports Club, so Bai shunhua was trying to show her goodwill. However, Chen Mo didn¡¯t think that the materials were that valuable. After all, foreign e-sports clubs didn¡¯t run away. As long as the local clubs were willing to spend money to investigate, they would be able to write down the materials. Chen Zhao looked through it. The esports industry overseas was basically the same as in his previous life. The US, Europe, and South Korea were all developing well and had a good foundation. There were a few established clubs. Of course, just like in his previous life, Korea in the parallel world was at the forefront of the e-sports system. The concept of ¡°leading¡± didn¡¯t refer to results. After all, no matter how strong the e-sports industry was, it couldn¡¯t dominate all types of games. In terms of e-sports results, Legion conquest hadpletely be a game dominated by Korea. In some FPS games, Europe and America were slightly better than Korea. There was a special case in Warcraft, where the Chinese server had the best yers, followed by the Korean server, and then the European server. This was rted to the fact that Warcraft was the first to be released in China, so there were many yers, thedder was perfect, and it started early. In terms of results, parallel world¡¯s Korea e-sports was not as dominant as it was in his previous life. There were many events that could not be helped up, but the level of professionalism was almost the same as in his previous life, which meant that it still had great potential. When the e-sports clubs in China, Europe, and the United States were still fighting for themselves, Korea already had an e-Sports Association and a perfectpetition operation system, as well as standardized management of yers. ...... Thebination of National cultural orientation, support from the upper ss, social recognition, professional management, and standardizedpetitions had always maintained the exuberant vitality of Korea e-sports. The president of the Korea e-Sports Association was a Member of Parliament, and his responsibility was to fight for the position of e-sports in the Parliament, such as television broadcasting channels, poprization of the country, and so on. The Vice-President of the Association was a representative of the upper echelons of thepany. They did not participate in the management, but they still had a very significant influence. The establishment of a professional club was an investment by thepany, not the boss¡¯s personal action. The manager of the club was an employee of thepany, not just an e-sports club¡¯s employee. This model was to give all the yers and employees a kind of protection. If thepany gave up the e-sports club, these e-sports yers would still be employees of thepany. Thepany had to protect their work interests. Even if they were to beid off, they had to follow theborw. Therefore, even if some of the second-tier teams in Korea couldn¡¯t make any good results, they still existed and persevered. In fact, Korea e-sports hadpletely gone beyond the scope of ying games. The only purpose of its existence was to win the championship, which was a very stressful job. Professional Espers are all about profit. If they can¡¯t win the championship, they might even give up a certain game project and invest all their resources into a project that is easier to rule. In this document, Bai shunhua also emphasized the development model of e-sports in Korea, and summed up many parts that could be used for reference. ¡­¡­ Chen Zhao finished reading the internal materials. The materials only helped him understand the current development of e-sports in various countries around the world, but he didn¡¯t have a use for it yet. The promotion of League of Legends definitely wouldn¡¯t happen overnight. In Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, it took three years for League of Legends to be popr all over the world, and it was the result of countless people¡¯s hard work. The situation in the parallel world was even moreplicated, so it was impossible to make League of Legends popr all over the world in a year or two. However, Chen Mo was different from fist games. Fist games only needed to keep updating League of Legends, but Chen Mo couldn¡¯t do that, he had to keep making new games. After that, the promotion of League of Legends would definitely rely on variouspetitions. The game itself didn¡¯t have much update content, so it would be fine as long as a few new heroes were released every once in a while and the game content was optimized. This was going to be a long process, so Chen Mo nned to split the current staff into two groups. A third of the original team would be in charge of the daily operations and maintenance of League of Legends, while the new team would be in charge of future promotions andpetition arrangements. As for the others, they were working on new games at the same time. After all, time was precious to Chen Mo, as there were many other games that were just as fun and exciting to make. ¡­¡­ In June, Emperor dynasty Entertainment¡¯s new game, ancient catastrophe, started to be promoted and more and more information started to leak out. They went with the flow and used the concept of ¡°MOBA games¡±. Their slogan was ¡°China MOBA, our own MOBA.¡± The game was based on ancient myths and legends, with Huaxia myths and legends as the main theme and myths and legends from other civilizations as supplementary. The n was to introduce 30 hero characters in the first version. Emperor dynasty entertainment had many experienced videographers, and with a very sessful game as a reference, the development of ancient catastrophe was very fast. It only took three months toplete the main content. In terms of technical skill, the ancient catastrophe made by Emperor dynasty entertainment was not inferior to League of Legends. The only differences were the background setting and the way the game was yed. In terms of gamey, ancient catastrophe hadpletely simplified League of Legends. This was mainly to further reduce the difficulty of MOBA games so that more people with poor skills could experience the core fun of MOBA games. ¡°Ancient catastrophe¡± removed the equipment and economic system, freeing the yers from the boring farming process. They could now focus on the online battles and consumption, making the early game more intense and exciting. At the same time,¡±ancient catastrophe¡± had added many new map mechanisms. After killing wild monsters, one could collect special coins, which could be used to activate the map mechanism to weaken the enemy¡¯s heroes and defense facilities. This made thepetition points in the whole game more diverse, no longer limited to big and small dragons and red and blue buffs. Moreover, this game also took care of the feelings of new yers to the greatest extent. The death data of new yers would be hidden. After the enemy hero died, every hero who participated in the kill would be considered to havepleted a kill. This was because this was a team game and did not encourage killing. Moreover, without the economic system, there was no point in snatching kills. Wasn¡¯t it great to record a kill for all the yers who participated in the battle and make all the yers happy? Of course, they would only know if it was fun after the game started testing. However, from the information released by Emperor dynasty entertainment, the game was in full swing. Chapter 342 - A paradise for newbies

Chapter 342: A paradise for newbies

The publicity for the ancient catastrophe was overwhelming, and even normal yers could clearly feel the importance Emperor dynasty entertainment ced on the game. Among the yers, especially those in League of Legends, many were talking about this fully simplified MOBA game. ¡°The test for ancient catastrophe has begun. Is anyone going to try it?¡± ¡°Dynasty is copying League of Legends again. What¡¯s so fun about that?¡± ¡°Yeah, he¡¯s always been imitating her, but he¡¯s never surpassed her.¡± ¡°However, since we are standing on the shoulders of giants, ancient catastrophe can¡¯t be too bad, right? With League of Legends as a reference and some improvements, together with the promotion of Emperor dynasty, ancient catastrophe will most likely be popr. ¡± ¡°I think so too. I heard that ancient catastrophe has simplified the operations and is more friendly to new yers. There¡¯s no need to farm or buy equipment, and the map mechanism is very rich. Unlike League of Legends where it¡¯s useless to kill monsters, killing monsters in ancient catastrophe will trigger the game mechanism.¡± ¡°I¡¯ll y it for a while. I¡¯m a bad yer in League of Legends, and I¡¯ve been bronze all year round. I hope I can continue ying ancient catastrophe ...¡± ¡°There¡¯s no need to be so hostile. League of Legends is still the same. We¡¯re just ying ancient catastrophe for fun. It¡¯s not like we¡¯re going to give up on League of Legends.¡± ¡°That¡¯s right. Is there anyone who wants to go to the ancient catastrophe with me? I¡¯ll be your friend!¡± ¡­¡­ The test of ancient catastrophe attracted many yers, including some core yers of League of Legends. This was normal. Just like how many MMORPG yers wouldn¡¯t y only one RPG, and fantasy novel readers wouldn¡¯t only read one fantasy novel, these yers weren¡¯t that clingy to begin with. Especially when a new game was just being tested, it was normal for many yers to try it out for something new. ...... The key to survival in MOBA games was to keep the yers. The first batch of yers ¡®demo and experience came out very quickly. It was very good, especially for some newbies. Ancient catastrophe was much easier to y than League of Legends, and it was much more friendly. The yers ¡®positivements were mainly focused on three aspects. The first was that he was easy to handle. After removing the farming and equipment system, the difficulty of getting started in ancient catastrophe had indeed been greatly reduced. yers no longer had to be beaten by a financial disadvantage or ack of equipment. After a new yer entered the game, they only needed to familiarize themselves with the hero¡¯s skills, fight fiercely with the enemy hero, and seize the map¡¯s mechanism at the right time to basicallyplete the mission. In League of Legends, situations such as being suppressed by a hundred in thening or solo kills in thening were rare. The kills were basically in small-scale team battles. Therefore, the new yers who transferred over from League of Legends felt that the game was too easy to get used to, and they started ying it foolishly in five minutes. The second was that he had a clear goal. In League of Legends, it was still okay to y in thenes, but after thenes were over, most yers would be confused about what they should do. Farming? Push the tower? Team fight? Wire? Oh, so many choices! Therefore, after the end of thening period, some yers would go into brainless groups. If they won, they would push, and if they couldn¡¯t win, they would throw. However, in ancient catastrophe, the yers had a clear goal because the map¡¯s mechanism would be refreshed frequently. The map of ancient catastrophe was also square, and theyout was simr to that of League of Legends, but the wild monsters were all reced by special creatures with certain abilities. For example, some of the monsters would be reced by the four sacred beasts. After defeating the monsters, these monsters would advance to the enemy¡¯s Tower and help you kill and push the tower. After defeating monsters, one would also receive coins. These coins could be donated to the altar in the wild to obtain buffs or debuffs on the enemy. Moreover, the mechanisms on the map were randomly enhanced, which created a lot of randomness and uncertainties in the battle. The yers also had a very clear goal. When they saw the mechanism refresh, they would rush to grab it. If they got it, they would earn. If they didn¡¯t get it ... They would just grab the next one. The newbies would no longer be at a loss after the end of thening phase. The third was that the data looked good. In ¡°ancient catastrophe¡±, there would never be a situation where the final score was 0-10-0 like in ¡°League of Legends¡±, because in ¡°ancient catastrophe¡±, all assists counted as kills, which could be seen as a team kill. It did not matter who was thest one. As such, there was no such thing as malicious killing in ancient catastrophe, and yers would make more rational choices in team battles. Ancient catastrophe hid the death statistics of yers. Moreover, the frequent team battles caused everyone to die a lot, so no one could remember how many times they had died. Of course, the damage and healing data could be seen in the game, but the Champions in ancient catastrophe were not as specific as LOL. They were only divided into tank, assassin, sorcerer, Archer, and so on. Moreover, the damage data alone could not determine whether a yer was good at ying or not, so it did not cause any damage to the new yers. In fact, everyone¡¯s damage was about the same. Because they did not have any equipment, the snowball effect was greatly reduced. At most, they would not be able to win in a team fight. In any case, summer could still use her skills to deal a lot of damage, unlike in LOL, where an Archer would be killed by an assassin before he could even raise his gun. Some new yers ¡®gaming experience had been improved to an unprecedented level. They only needed to familiarize themselves with the hero¡¯s skills and they could y happily in ¡°ancient catastrophe¡±. They could pay attention to the map¡¯s mechanism and team at any time. It didn¡¯t matter if they died, they would get a kill after a quick rub. If they lost the game, they could start the next game. If they won the game, everyone¡¯s stats would be good. It was great to take screenshots to show off. Moreover, at the beginning of the testing period, most yers were still in the learning stage, and their understanding of heroes and maps was not so mature. They were all typing andmunicating, so the atmosphere of the game was more harmonious. Due to various reasons, the first batch of yers of ancient catastrophe found the game to be very fun, and it was very different from League of Legends. A lot of people were surprised. Did Emperor dynasty entertainment really improve on the MOBA game? Very quickly, the yer score for ancient catastrophe was out. 9.2! It had to be said that the quality of ¡°ancient catastrophe¡± was very good because MOBA games didn¡¯t rely on quality to make a living. It wasn¡¯t that difficult to make. Moreover, Emperor dynasty Entertainment¡¯s artists were all very skilled, and the graphics were very beautiful, at least at first nce, it could make people¡¯s eyes light up, it was very eye-catching. After theprehensive improvement of the game mechanism and the newbie experience, many old yers of League of Legends could happily act cool as soon as they entered the game, and the newbies could also enjoy it. Chapter 343

Chapter 343: Chapter 342 ancient fire

Although the game was somewhat simr to League of Legends, it had been improved. Strictly speaking, the core fun of ancient catastrophe and League of Legends were different. Don¡¯t tell me that I can¡¯t make marksmanship just because you made one FPS? It was true that Chen Mo¡¯s League of Legends was the first MOBA game, but it wasn¡¯t wrong for Emperor dynasty entertainment to make another MOBA game with an improved ystyle, ancient catastrophe. Therefore, due to various factors, the statistics of the first beta of ancient catastrophe were very impressive. The yer retention data reached 65%, and the ratings were maintained above 9 points. From the yers ¡®feedback on the forums, everyone thought that the ancient catastrophe had performed much better than expected. This was because Emperor dynasty entertainment didn¡¯t copy the game by the book this time, but made it their own. Industry insiders predicted that the MOBA industry in the country would be dominated by two strong mobs. After the copse of cogs, League of Legends would dominate the high-end yer market, while ancient catastrophe would dominate the low-to mid-end yer market. The number of yers and poprity in these two markets were clear at a nce. ¡­¡­ In the designer Chat group, many people were discussing the uing ancient catastrophe. The wings of star elves supported Li Feng,¡±extra! ¨C Thetest news is that the statistics for ¡®ancient catastrophe¡¯ on the first day were perfect, only slightly lower than ¡®League of Legends¡¯. Lin chaoxu is very happy, and it seems that Jin jieguang, who proposed this n, has also been promoted and raised!¡± Gun fighter Qian Kun: Which designer is this?¡± ¡°Not the designer,¡± replied Li Feng,¡±he¡¯s the person in charge of operation COG in Emperor dynasty. Strictly speaking, he¡¯s an operations staff.¡± [Group leader] Zhang xiaokong, the referee of the Three Kingdoms of Godsfall: ¡°What¡¯s this? how can the Operations Manager interfere with game development?¡± ...... Wings of star elves supported Li Feng.¡±I didn¡¯t intervene. It¡¯s said that Jin jieguang had some ideas in the process of operating COG, then made an improvement report to Lin chaoxu. Lin chaoxu suggested it to the GA, but the GA didn¡¯t change it. Then, Lin chaoxu got angry, so we, Emperor dynasty, can do it ourselves!¡± That¡¯s how the ¡°ancient catastrophe¡± came to be. ¡± Lin hailing, the nightmare tapir,¡¯you bastard! As the person in charge of operations, you should go and start a top-up event, don¡¯t fight with us designers for our jobs!¡± [Administrator] hengyouwork¡¯s Deputy Qiu Hengyang: ¡°The data is perfect? Isn¡¯t that still lower than League of Legends?¡± Wings of star elves ¡®support Li Feng: ¡°you can¡¯tpare it like that. Just think about it, COG was so famous in the country, and it was even developed by GA and endorsed by Emperor dynasty. In the country, it waspletely crushed by¡¯ League of Legends ¡®, while¡¯ ancient catastrophe ¡®waspletely developed by Emperor dynasty. To be able to achieve such results, wouldn¡¯t Lin chaoxu wake up from his dreamughing?¡± Zhu fanglin: ¡°that¡¯s right. ¡®Ancient catastrophe¡¯ is a good starting point, and it¡¯s easy to get started. If the dynasty really put in all their effort to promote it, it¡¯ll definitely pose a threat to¡¯ League of Legends ¡®.¡± [Group leader] Zhang xiaokong, the referee of the Three Kingdoms of Godsfall: ¡°So, is it going to be a battle of channels again? I thought that Chen Mo had won with League of Legends, but Emperor dynasty¡¯s reaction is so fast. ¡± The wings of star elves supported Li Feng,¡¯is Big Boss Chen Mo here? I haven¡¯t seen any messages in a long time. Did you block the group Entertainment¡¯s Chen Mo ¡± [Administrator] hengyouwork¡¯s Deputy Qiu Hengyang: ¡°He¡¯s probably busy with League of Legends. ¡± Thunderbolt Entertainment¡¯s referee Chen Mo: Everyone was confused. ¡°F * ck, it really blew Chen Mo out. What do you think of the game?¡± Li Feng said. Thunderbolt Entertainment¡¯s referee Chen Mo: This gamepletely simplified the gamey of MOBA games, greatly reducing the difficulty for new yers to get started, and allowing all yers to experience the fun of the game. Just like how League of Legends hadpletely surpassed COG, ancient catastrophe would alsopletely surpass League of Legends. I think it¡¯ll be popr within a month and be the most dominant MOBA game in the world. ¡± Everyone was confused. Thunderbolt Entertainment¡¯s referee, Chen Mo: ¡°in a month¡¯s time. Ancient times will be a hit!¡± [Group leader] Zhang xiaokong, the referee of the Three Kingdoms of Godsfall: ¡°Big Boss, your ount ... Was hacked?¡± Chen Zhao was silent. Everyone in the group was dumbfounded. What was the meaning of this? These few sentences sounded like praise, but why did it smell like poisonous milk? ¡­¡­ A week after the beta testing of ancient catastrophe, three realms, which was developed by ZEN Entertainment, also began its beta testing. The PC version of ¡°three realms¡± was just a test. If the feedback from the yers was good, then the VR version would be released. However, the results on the day of testing were worrying. Its data was even worse than the old mmorpgs such as Moon Goddess ¡®prophecy and Legend of the Sword when they were first released, let alone the popr mmorpgs such as League of Legends and ancient apocalypse. ZEN Entertainment was in despair at the terrible numbers. They immediately stopped the closed beta and began to make major changes. However, no one knew what would happen after these changes. In fact, it wasn¡¯t that mmorpgs were bad, but mmorpgs that wanted to y Shards of Time were naturally contrary to the nature of the game. In the field of ¡°making use of fragmented time for fun¡±, mmorpgs could not bepared to MOBA games. The failure of three realms sent shivers down the spine of many traditional MMORPG designers. To them, there wasn¡¯t much of a problem with the game. In terms of quality, three realms wasn¡¯t at a disadvantagepared to games like Moon Goddess ¡®prophecy and Legend of the Sword, but the numbers had dropped significantly. This meant that the MOBA craze caused by League of Legends was no longer limited to RTS and MOBA games, but had begun to erode the user base of other games. Of course, this wasn¡¯t enough to affect ssic mmorpgs such as Moon Goddess ¡®prophecy and Legend of the Sword, which had been in operation for many years, had a mature gamey, and had a huge yer base. However, if the newly developed games didn¡¯t have some special attention, they would be greatly affected. For Emperor dynasty entertainment and fantasy gaming tform, the only game that could go head to head with League of Legends was ancient catastrophe. ¡­¡­ As the poprity of the ancient catastrophe continued to rise, there were more and more disputes about the game. As the two most popr MOBA games in the country, League of Legends and ancient catastrophe attracted too much attention. Not only did they represent the two games, but they also represented the battle between Thunderbolt gaming tform and traditional distributors, and a turning point in the gaming industry. Whoever won this MOBA game would have the absolute initiative for the next period of time. Chapter 344

Chapter 344: Chapter 343-depth of the game

In the experience store. Zou Zhuo threw his headphones on the table and stood up excitedly,¡±¡±Waa! I¡¯m on the diamond! I¡¯m on the diamond! Hahahahaha!¡± Zou Zhuo¡¯s excitement didn¡¯t attract too much attention. Most of the yers just nced at him and continued with their game. It was true that getting a diamond was not easy for ordinary yers. It was worth a wave of excitement. ¡°Congrattions, chubby boy! Keep up the good work! You¡¯ll soon be a King!¡± His friend congratted him. Zou Zhuo calmed himself down and sat down,¡±¡±Sigh, then I can¡¯t look forward to it anymore. It took me so much effort to get a diamond, it¡¯s too difficult to get a king again. But I really feel that League of Legends is getting harder and harder as we y it. The depth is really scary. ¡± The friend beside him didn¡¯t quite understand what he meant.¡±¡±Eh? How should I put it?¡± Zou Zhuo looked at his score happily and said,¡±¡±At the start, I thought that League of Legends was much simpler than Warcraft, but as we yed, I realized that the High Level Games were no easier than Warcraft.¡± ¡°How should I put it, the two games are different. The feature of Warcraft¡¯s ceiling is clear: your hands and mind can¡¯t keep up. You need faster hand speed, better reaction time, and better judgment. After a team battle, you¡¯ll lose your entire family because of a technical problem, and then you¡¯ll know that it¡¯ll be hard for you to advance.¡± ¡°However, it¡¯s not so obvious that League of Legends has reached the ceiling. Many people feel that they are at least in the tinum or diamond ranks, but they are stuck in silver or gold, so they will pass the me on their teammates.¡± The friend next to him was puzzled,¡±isn¡¯t that the case?¡± I really don¡¯t think there¡¯s much of a difference between gold and tinum in terms of operation. ¡± Zou Zhuo shook his head.¡±Of course, some people can make it to tinum, but there¡¯s a limit to that. You¡¯re a noob and only at gold. Even if you¡¯re led by a God, you can¡¯t make it to challenger.¡± ¡°That¡¯s where the depth of League of Legends is. It¡¯s not just a test of operation and skill, but also your awareness. If you y well, you can carry better by ying the center position, but if you don¡¯t y well, you can also y some lousy heroes to get points. ¡± ...... ¡°I¡¯ve met a lot of people who have average mechanics, but they just keep ying Champions that don¡¯t require much mechanics. They can get points by relying on their awareness.¡± ¡°The higher the ranking, the more you can feel those great gods. Their thinking is particrly clear, what time to do, how to snowball with the wind, how to dy development with the wind. There is really too much knowledge in this.¡± ¡°Take the manager for example. He¡¯s the king with a high win rate. His mechanics are just one aspect, but mechanics can¡¯t cure all diseases because you can¡¯t guarantee that your teammates can y well, right? there¡¯s still a chance of running into idiots asionally.¡± ¡°But when the manager is ying ranked games, his teammates don¡¯t dare to mess with him,¡± a friend next to him added.¡±Otherwise, he¡¯ll be banned.¡± Zou Zhuo,¡±that¡¯s what I meant, you understand the spirit.¡± The manager¡¯s understanding of the game is really amazing. His videos have been studied over and over again, the time and position of his appearance, how tomand his teammates with the wind and how tomand them with the wind. He has a clear understanding of the opponent¡¯s psychology. ¡± The friend beside him had a ¡°learned¡± expression. ¡°Speaking of which, where¡¯s the manager? I want to share my good news with the manager!¡± Zou Zhuo logged out of his ount, turned off hisputer, and went to the lobby on the first floor of the experience store. Chen Zhao was reading on the sofa. Zou Zhuo sat next to Chen Mo,¡±manager, I just got a diamond!¡± Aren¡¯t I great?¡± Chen Zhao nced at him, then you¡¯re really great. But if I remember correctly, I set the highest rank to be King tier, right?¡± Zou Zhuo,¡±wow, manager, you¡¯re such a pain in the ass!¡± Chen Mo patted his shoulder.¡±You¡¯re still far from being a professional, winning the championship, opening an online store, and marrying a fair, rich, and beautiful woman. You can¡¯t be so arrogant just because you won a diamond.¡± Zou Zhuo was speechless. Chen Zhao continued reading. Zou Zhuo suddenly thought of something and asked,¡±¡±Manager, the ancient catastrophe has been hyping up recently. Are you really not going to pay attention to it? It¡¯s said that this game has good statistics. ¡± ¡°Have you yed yet?¡± Chen Mo asked without looking up. Zou Zhuo shook his head.¡±Of course not. I¡¯m a loyal Thunderbolt gaming yer. Why would I y a pirated game like this?¡± ¡°It¡¯s fine,¡± Chen Zhao said.¡±You¡¯ll know after two weeks.¡± ¡°Really?¡± zou Zhuo asked, confused. ¡­¡­ In Emperor dynasty entertainment, Jin jieguang¡¯s expression was serious as he walked quickly to Lin chaoxu¡¯s office. Two weeks after the release of ¡°ancient catastrophe¡±, it was the first time that the growth of various data had declined. Although the number of active yers and the number of yers online were still increasing, it could be felt that the growth was slowing down. On the other hand, since the release of League of Legends, the figures had been rising faster and faster, and there had never been a decline, which raised Jin jieguang¡¯s vignce. Although there hadn¡¯t been any majorndslides so far, this phenomenon was a bit abnormal in itself. Jin jieguang wasn¡¯t sure if the danger was serious, so he quickly reported it to Lin chaoxu. In the office, Lin chaoxu looked at the various data materials handed over by Jin jieguang. He pondered for a moment and said,¡±¡±Did you find any problems with the game? Did you do a questionnaire?¡± ¡°I did a questionnaire survey, but the overall satisfaction level is okay,¡± said Jin jieguang. The yers who are not satisfied can¡¯t say why. They just feel that the game is boring or that they can¡¯t act cool. ¡± ¡°In other words, the high-end yers aren¡¯t very satisfied?¡± Lin chaoxu thought for a moment. ¡°You can say that,¡± Jin jieguang nodded. Since the current game mechanism of ¡®ancient catastrophe¡¯ is basically to improve thebat power of newbie yers, naturally, there won¡¯t be a situation where a God can fight five people by himself like in COG and League of Legends. ¡± ¡°Can it be improved?¡± Lin chaoxu frowned. Jin jieguang looked troubled.¡±Of course, but it seems to be in conflict with the original design of ¡®ancient catastrophe.''¡± If we increase the snowball effect, these Masters can use the snowball effect to kill newbies, and it seems like we¡¯ll be going back to the path of League of Legends, which will be very disadvantageous to our expansion into the low-and mid-end yer market. ¡± Lin chaoxu couldn¡¯t make up his mind. Indeed, it seemed that the opinions of the high-end yers would affect the subsequent data of ancient catastrophe to a certain extent. However, if the game was changed because of this, wouldn¡¯t it be equivalent to overthrowing all the advantages of ancient catastrophe? Chapter 345

Chapter 345: Chapter 344-just not fun

After much thought, Lin chaoxu decided not to change his mind. In the gaming industry, the first lesson that every video game designer learned was not to change their design ideas because of the dissatisfaction of some yers. (Of course, this rule could also be applied to all creative activities.) For most games, it was normal for yers who didn¡¯t like to y toin, but there were many more yers who were ying well, and they wouldn¡¯tin. If they only noticed theining yers, it would create a ¡°survivor bias.¡± Making changes to the game based on this would not only destroy the design ideas and game features that had been passed on, but it would also make the yers who had no objections unhappy, which would cause even greater losses. Lin chaoxu was naturally familiar with this. From the current situation,¡±ancient catastrophe¡± was far from the point where it needed to be cut off. It was still increasing, but the speed had slowed down. Moreover, taking care of the feelings of the high-end yers was contrary to the research and development idea of ¡°ancient catastrophe.¡± It was originally a game to harvest low-and mid-end yers, and there was nothing that could be done if the high-end yers did not like to y. Moreover, the reason why ¡°ancient catastrophe¡± was so well received was because it was different from ¡°League of Legends¡±. If it was modified ording to ¡°League of Legends,¡± where would the corepetitiveness be? Lin chaoxu considered for a long time before saying,¡±¡±Let¡¯s not change the game¡¯s ystyle for the time being. We¡¯ll have a few more operational activities and increase the data and poprity first. In addition, continue to pay attention to this matter and report to me at any time if there¡¯s anything. ¡± Jin jieguang nodded. Lin chaoxu¡¯s idea was the same as his, and this was indeed the safest way. ¡­¡­ At the end of June, the statistics of the ancient catastrophe suddenly began to fall like a cliff. This happened so suddenly that within a dozen days, the daily active users and the duration of the yers ¡®games began to plummet. Even the yers in the game could clearly feel the loss. ...... On the official forum of the ancient catastrophe, many yers were discussing it. ¡°Why do I feel like there are fewer yers recently? In the past, the matchmaking sessions were very quick, but now, sometimes it¡¯s a minute long, and you¡¯ll even be matched with experts who are obviously stronger than the average level. ¡± ¡°I also feel that there are fewer and fewer people online in my friend list. The few good engine oil yers who were online before have not been online for a few days.¡± ¡°Me too, my friend came online five days ago.¡± ¡°The group chat for ancient catastrophe isn¡¯t talking about the game anymore. Most of them are talking about mobile games and League of Legends.¡± ¡°Is it because it¡¯s still in testing and hasn¡¯t been officially released yet? The game should be popr once it¡¯s officially released. The quality of the game is so good, Emperor dynasty should quickly promote it, we can¡¯t dy any longer!¡± ¡°Yeah, I think it¡¯s because it¡¯s not officially online yet?¡± ¡°This game is so fun, why doesn¡¯t everyone like it? Everyone, go and pull some new yers in, it¡¯s such an easy game to y!¡± ¡°Don¡¯t make such a big fuss, okay? It was normal for the number of yers to fluctuate, which Emperor dynasty game had a low number of yers? When it¡¯s online and promoted, it¡¯ll definitely be popr!¡± ¡­¡­ What the yers didn¡¯t know was that the designers of ancient catastrophe and jieguang Jin were even more worried than the yers. The yers couldn¡¯t see the background data, but they could see it clearly. Such a sharp drop in activity could no longer be ignored. It was threatening the lifespan of the game ancient catastrophe. If they couldn¡¯t guarantee that these old yers would stay in the game forever, then it would be useless to promote and attract new users. The calction and results of water entering one valve and water exiting the other were already known by everyone since elementary school. Everyone was confused. What was going on? Wasn¡¯t everything fine when the closed beta started? The yer retention rate was good, and the satisfaction level was good too, satisfying the needs of the low-end yers. It also differentiated it from League of Legends. Everyone was clearly very satisfied, right? Why did it feel like it was going to die in a short month before the closed beta ended? This kind of plummeting speed had never happened in any of Emperor dynasty Entertainment¡¯s games before, unless some serious operational ident had happened. However, the ancient catastrophe was still in the testing stage, so they didn¡¯t dare tounch too many operations, let alone any operational idents. What had happened? Emperor dynasty entertainment distributed arge number of surveys to yers who abandoned the game, and the mostmon response was: This game was good in every way, but it was not fun. Jin jieguang was dumbfounded. What was the problem with ¡°not fun¡±? The scope of this question was too broad. There was no way to locate it! The designers and operators of ancient catastrophe were also racking their brains toe up with an event and change the gamey to get the game back on track, but it was no use. The poprity of ¡®ancient catastrophe¡¯ still died down day by day. ¡­¡­ ¡°Everything¡¯s good, but it¡¯s not fun. ¡± This was the biggest insult to a designer. This was because the hidden meaning of this sentence was that the graphics, quality, and feel of the game were all fine. It was just that the way it was yed wasn¡¯t good. That was the problem with ancient catastrophe. The main reason why it was not fun was that there was a problem with the way it was yed. Of course, strictly speaking, Jin jieguang and Emperor dynasty had been tricked by Chen Mo. However, the trap wasn¡¯t obvious and didn¡¯t look like a trap at all, so Jin jieguang stepped in without hesitation. When ¡°the ancient catastrophe¡± was first tested, the feedback from the yers was quite good. This game really took care of the feelings of new yers by lowering the difficulty of the first try and setting the game goals. This allowed it to achieve a certain level of sess in the early stages of its release. However, the most important problem was that new yers would not always be new yers. When the first batch of new yers grew into experienced yers, this game mode was a tant dissuasion. Hence, there had to be a delicate bnce between the newbies, the Veterans, and the experts. COG ced too much emphasis on the experience of the Masters, while ¡°ancient catastrophe¡± ced too much emphasis on the experience of the newbies. Both of them created an imbnce. Inparison, it was better for COG to ce too much emphasis on the experience of the Masters. It was nothing more than turning the game into a hardcore niche game, where there was no problem in surviving. However, the ancient catastrophe ced too much emphasis on the newbie experience, resulting in the loss of hardcore yers, which was very fatal. This was because the real support of a game was the hardcore yers, and the newbies were all dependent on them. The newbies would slowly be hardcore yers, and the number of hardcore yers would increase, so the newbies would slowly stop entering the game. When a newbie became a hardcore yer, he turned back to look at the game¡¯s settings, which had once attracted him, but all of them had be disgusting. Chapter 346

Chapter 346: Chapter 345-the ancient times have gone cold

Without the farming and equipment system, the yers had an easier time inning. They only needed to continuously drain the opponent¡¯s HP. However, this also madening meaningless. This was because at the same level, you couldn¡¯t establish an advantage inning. Every time you exhausted the other side, it wasn¡¯t enough to make a snowball, and you couldn¡¯t get an advantage in CS. Perhaps after the other party reached a certain level, they would suddenly kill you. You were suppressing him for the first ten minutes, but after ten minutes, you suddenly couldn¡¯t beat him. This kind of situation made people copse. The design of the map snatching mechanism also became a failure. Although this design made it very easy for the newbies to y the game as they just had to follow the map mechanism, it also made the game lose the space for choice. In League of Legends, against the wind, you could set up a team, lead the line, or defend to your death. This choice was a strategy in itself, a pleasure. However, in the ancient catastrophe, the map¡¯s refresh mechanism made the opposing side feel awkward. Don¡¯t care? It was equivalent to handing over the map mechanism to someone else, and the disadvantage would only be greater. To manage? If he couldn¡¯t win, it was equivalent to giving his head away. Moreover, as long as the map mechanism was refreshed, five people had to go together. If four of you went and the other side sent five, the result was that you were beaten one for four. It was easy to imagine how the yer who didn¡¯t go would be scolded. Of course, this was mainly talking about the yer experience of the low-end games. Everyone knew how to y the high-end games, so this situation would be much less. However, for a game, the experience of low-end yers would determine the depth of the game, and the depth of the game would determine the poprity of the game. The fact that he had hidden his data had been criticized by the yers. Because everyone felt very good about themselves. My stats are so good, so I definitely yed well. But if I lose, who¡¯s going to be responsible? ...... It¡¯s obvious that my four teammates are trash. In MOBA games, everyone had a different understanding of the game. In the same situation, some people felt that they should start a team, while some people felt that they should focus on developing. Many times, there was no clear right or wrong in these thoughts. Those who wanted to develop felt that starting a team was a gift, and those who wanted to start a team felt that continuing to develop was a slow death. In this case, everyone felt that their own thoughts were right, and others were stupid, so it was easy to have disputes and abuse. ¡°Why didn¡¯t youe? If theye, we¡¯ll win!¡± ¡°You¡¯re just sending them away by starting a group!¡± Such quarrels could be seen everywhere. Of course, this situation was alsomon in League of Legends, but League of Legends could rely on operation and awareness to establish an economic advantage andplete a forced carry of one against five. But the [ancient catastrophe] was different. In order to give new yers a clear goal, ancient catastrophe hadpletely abandoned the most interesting element of MOBA games: It was a choice that severely weakened the positive feedback of the game itself. What ordinary yers had to do was too simple. They only had to pushnes, steal monsters, and fight on the map. Anything else was meaningless. You cleared a wave of minions, but you didn¡¯t feel anything. There¡¯s no reward for you killing a hero. If you win the team battle, it won¡¯t be you who got four or five kills, but your team. You couldn¡¯t feel the advantages you gained through your own efforts, but the disadvantages brought about by the stupidity of your teammates were epted by everyone. Therefore, after the yers had a little understanding of the game ¡°ancient catastrophe¡±, they all felt very good about themselves. After losing, they began to me others and curse madly, and the game environment suddenly became extremely bad. The ancient catastrophe perfectly exined the principle of the wooden bucket. You can¡¯t save the world even if you y well alone. As long as there is a fool, you will lose. Under this kind of game mechanism, everyone could still y happily when they were in the state of newbies. However, once they grew up to be old yers, they couldn¡¯t continue ying at all and might even escape from the pit on arge scale. In such a situation, it was not surprising that the yers had suddenly started to lose arge number. ¡­¡­ Aftering to this conclusion, Jin jieguang and the designers of ancient catastrophe were on the verge of copse. What was going on? Weren¡¯t these all the advantages of ancient catastrophe? Didn¡¯t the yers like it? How did they suddenly be ws? Change? How could he change this? Overturn all of them and redo them? Wasn¡¯t this nonsense? Moreover, even if he were to redo it, how would he do it? All ording to League of Legends? Wasn¡¯t that a game that copied League of Legends? Besides, with such a big change, in another two months, League of Legends would have finished harvesting the entire market. It would be toote! Lin chaoxu was so angry that he was throwing a tantrum in his office, but he had no choice.¡±Ancient catastrophe¡± was a project that he had decided on, and he didn¡¯t think there was a problem with this model before it was produced. Now that there was a problem, it didn¡¯t make sense to push all the me to Jin jieguang. However, Jin jieguang¡¯s image and status in Lin chaoxu¡¯s heart had plummeted. Jin jieguang was also very confused. Was Chen Zhao¡¯s thinking wrong? Or had he been tricked? ¡­¡­ With the silent demise of ¡°three realms¡± and ¡°ancient catastrophe,¡± this battle for the distribution channels ended earlier than everyone had expected. Even though Emperor dynasty entertainment and fantasy gaming tform were still trying to attract more yers, their dominance on the PC side had fallen drastically under the influence of League of Legends. At the beginning of July, Chen Mo released thetest statistics for League of Legends. The number of active yers worldwide had exceeded eight million, and it was aiming for the title of ¡°PC game with the most yers in the world¡±. The number of new yers in the three overseas servers, the European, American, and Korean servers, also maintained a steady growth every day, adding a steady stream of new blood to the game. In China, League of Legends had begun to poach the yers from traditional mmorpgs and FPS games. There was more and more material about League of Legends on all major streaming tforms and video websites. After the unification of MOBA games, League of Legends had established its absolute dominance in the MOBA field, and the next step was tounch a ¡°world-ss PC game¡±. Of course, this would be a very long process. To Chen Mo, the most important development and promotion Period was over. Although the League of Legendspetition hadn¡¯t started yet, it would be on the right track soon. As long as new heroes were continuously introduced and the e-sports atmosphere was continuously created, the poprity of League of Legends would be maintained for at least five years. In just half a year, League of Legends shocked the gaming industry all over the world, and the concept of MOBA games became popr all over the world. Many overseas video game media had carried out in-depth follow-up reports on League of Legends, and the analysis of this new game genre had be apulsory subject for designers around the world. Chapter 347

Chapter 347: Chapter 346-lucky draw

The fourth floor of the experience store, Chen Mo¡¯s own office. Chen Mo was looking at some documents, on which the big clubs in the country were forming professional teams in League of Legends. There were a total of 12 clubs in the country that were willing to form professional teams for League of Legends, and Chen Mo was the first to obtain the information andposition of these clubs. These twelve clubs had different financial resources and abilities. After Chen Mo did some research online, he decided on ten teams to be the first to enter the League of Legends. There were a few teams that left a deep impression on Chen Mo, such as MG team, NT club team, IF team, evil Conqueror team, and North side team. Among these teams, other than the NRG team, they were all old and strong teams in the country. Their Foundation was rtively good, their economic strength was strong, and their management was more formal. NPC squad was an Esports Club that had only started in Warcraft. They were still young, but Chen Mo was satisfied with the name. (¡°Northend¡± means noscent.) After deciding on the ten teams, Chen Mo sent the list to Zhao Yunting, asking her to contact the clubs and reach out to them. This year was the first year that League of Legends had been released. It was still in its growth period, and there were a lot of things that needed to be sorted out. It was a little toote to form aplete League this year. After all, it was already the middle of the year, and time was too tight. Moreover, the clubs weren¡¯t ready yet. The rules and regtions weren¡¯t perfect, and the venue wasn¡¯t fixed. It was even more uncertain how many people would watch the daily league. As such, Chen Mo decided to skip the league tournament and use an invitation system instead. He would invite four teams each from the Chinese, Korean, European, and American servers topete and decide the champion. The S1 World Championship was set for October, and there were still more than three months to prepare. Considering the fact that the rules and regtions of thepetition in Chen Mo¡¯s previous life were already perfected and could be used immediately, there was still time to prepare. ...... Moreover, China had already hosted a few e-sportspetitions before, like the Warcraftpetition on fantasy gaming tform. The relevant staff had experience inpetitions and weren¡¯tpletely without a Foundation. Chen Mo asked Zhao Yunting to be in charge ofmunicating with the big clubs. In addition, he also asked Zhao Yunting to observe the more reliable e-sports hosting teams in the country. If necessary, he could directly buy the entire team. It was expected that by the time League of Legends World Finals were held in October, the number of heroes in the game would reach 50. Although it was still a little too little, some evergreen heroes had already appeared, so the viewing and bnce of the game should be guaranteed. ¡­¡­ Chen Mo couldn¡¯t help but turn on the virtual screen on his bracelet since he hadn¡¯t done a draw in a long time. In fact, so far, League of Legends had not brought him a huge amount of ie. Since its release, he had only earned about 600 million. Moreover, arge portion of the money was used to promote his products in China and overseas. Of course, this had a lot to do with Chen Mo¡¯s marketing strategy. After cutting the fees for heroes, League of Legends lost arge profit point. Moreover, Chen Mo didn¡¯t do that many activities, like limited skins and so on. Plus, the yers weren¡¯t that passionate about buying skins yet, and the number of yers wasn¡¯t that high. So even though League of Legends was popr, the number of yers paid wasn¡¯t that shocking. In Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, League of Legends¡¯s revenue only exploded after S3. It had beenpletely suppressed by Crossfire in China before, which could only be said to be the result of the different revenue models. So far, the team had been split into different groups. Qian Kun would be responsible for the updates of League of Legends, and Zhao Yunting¡¯s operations team would be responsible for the maintenance of League of Legends. Chen Mo nned to start a new project next. Of course, before starting a new project, he still had to spend money on it. He topped up another 50 million and exchanged it for 50000 diamonds. Chen Mo was quite familiar with the process now. He did the draw again and again, and soon, he was done with the 500th draw. The items that were drawn this time were quite scattered. Chen Mo scanned through them and found a few new skill books and items. Design-type plot creation skill book (level two): 40 books Professional knowledge of skeleton design (human anatomy): 100 books Professional knowledge of building design (advanced modern building skill book): 40 books Presentation style (demonic style advanced teaching material): 80 books Disy building art (3D model): 60 books Disy-type building art (action special effects): 50 books [Presentation-type engine, music and sound effects: 30] [Item Type fear shrouding equipment: 10] [Item-type engine speed regtor: 20] [Item-type] intelligence-reducing aura: 20] [Item-type bone memory yback potion: 50] ¡°Human anatomy? Evil tome style advanced teaching material?¡± Chen Mo started to look at the new items. Human anatomy was more detailed medical knowledge, such as the blood vessels, nerves, bone structure, and so on. There were also different effects on the human body when different injuries were suffered. This part of the knowledge was mainly rted to surgery. Unlike traditional medical textbooks, these skill books were not only dry knowledge, but they also had some content that could be applied to game development. Modern architecture advanced skill books were for moreplex building structures. Before doing Minecraft, Chen Mo had drawn a few architecture skill books, but they were more basic. There were ancient and modern buildings, and they were mostly basic structures on the outside. The internal structure wasn¡¯t very detailed. This time, the advanced skill book gave a detailed exnation of the internal structure of many modern buildings, including venttion pipes, electricity, water and drainage systems, and so on. This time, the advanced teaching materials for the demonic book style were mainly materials and detailed exnations of the demonic art style. In fact, Chen Mo had already used the evil art style in the game when he made Diablo, but since Diablo was a game from a God¡¯s perspective, many of the models and stickers didn¡¯t have to be so detailed. This time, the advanced skill book gave Chen Mo a deeper understanding of the art style of the demonic Arts, and the materials were more varied. Modeling, movement, music, and sound effects would allow Chen Mo to better handle first person games, and make the game feel more real and immersive. Adding on the psychology skill book that he¡¯d previously drawn, Chen Mo¡¯s control of the yer¡¯s psychology had reached a level of extreme precision. Chapter 348

Chapter 348: Chapter 347-difficult to pass the interrogation

There were also two new items that caught Chen Mo¡¯s attention. ¡°Fear shrouding device: after using it, you will lose your sense of fear and be able to think with absolute rationality. Lasts for 30 minutes.¡± Chen Zhao was speechless. What the hell was this? ¡®I¡¯m not on the night shift to guard the gate, nor am I a Cemetery caretaker. Is this thing ... To boost my courage?¡¯ [Intelligence-reducing Halo: after using it, your target¡¯s intelligence will short-circuit, making it easier for you to dupe him. During this period, as long as the other party agrees with your opinion, it will continue to be in effect. Lasts for 10 minutes.] This seemed to be quite useful. The next time Jin jieguang came to the experience store, he could use this item andplete the forced deception in three minutes. However, she felt that he probably wouldn¡¯te again ... After using up all the skill books, Chen Mo started thinking about the new game. At the moment, League of Legends had already gained a firm foothold on the PC side and was expected to be the most popr PC game. However, Chen Mo also knew that the situation in this world was different from his previous life. In his previous life, when League of Legends was released, the PC was the most popr game. At that time, there were no VR games, and mobile games were still in their primitive state. In this special environment, League of Legends quickly dominated the market because it was very suitable for PC games. In two or three years, it became the most popr game in the world, creating a miracle in the history of gaming. However, in the parallel world, VR, PC, and mobile tforms were all very developed. PC didn¡¯t dominate the game like it did in his previous life. Instead, it was being squeezed to the point where it felt ufortable. It was foreseeable that as League of Legends continued to develop, it would definitely dominate the PC market, but mobile and VR games would not be affected by League of Legends. Therefore, it wasn¡¯t realistic to rely on League of Legends to rise to the top. ...... The biggest benefit of League of Legends to Chen Mo was that he now had a Golden Brand and a longsting money tree on PC. Even though this money tree was still a small sapling, it would grow very quickly. Moreover, the e-sports rted industries that were derived from League of Legends were also one of Chen Mo¡¯s ns. After China¡¯s distributors had surrounded and suppressed Thunderbolt gaming tform, they went bankrupt with the sudden appearance of League of Legends. Now, Thunderbolt gaming tform had a firm foothold, at least to the point where it could stand up to these traditional distributors. Of course, it was impossible topletely crush these traditional distributors. Just like how popr League of Legends was in his previous life, it was impossible for Penguin topletely monopolize the game¡¯s distribution channels despite having so many users. Moreover, Chen Mo didn¡¯t have a weapon like Penguin in his parallel world. These traditional distributors would definitely adopt measures like lowering their cut or introducing various benefits to attract independent video game designers to release their games. However, Chen Mo¡¯s goal had been achieved, which was to reverse the market¡¯s status of ¡®distribution channels being King¡¯, allowing the entire game market to develop in a healthy direction. Next, Chen Mo decided to focus his attention on VR. Chen Mo had released a VR game called Minecraft before, but this game was basically taking advantage of a loophole. Its sess model waspletely different from the current VR games on the market. It could be said that it was a product that couldn¡¯t be replicated. This was a bit simr to League of Legends. They were both ¡°non-mass-produced¡± works, and they might only appear once in a while, the result of a genius designer¡¯s inspiration. Chen Mo wanted to try out games that could be ¡®mass-produced¡¯. These games had a clear production process and were extremely immersive, which was a new development for Chen Mo. However, before deciding on the next game, Chen Mo decided to visit the game Committee and see Qiao Hua. Because the next game he was going to make was a little special and he wasn¡¯t sure if it would pass the vetting process, so he had to let them know in advance. Chen Zhao wasn¡¯t sure if he could seed this time. However, he had just drawn a new item,¡±intelligence-reducing Halo,¡± so he hoped that it would be useful. Chen Mo went through the concept draft for the new game and headed to the game Committee with it. He had already been here once when he was working on Diablo, so he was familiar with the ce. He went straight to the gamemittee¡¯s office and found Qiao Hua¡¯s office. Chen Zhao knocked on the door. ¡°Pleasee in.¡± Qiao Hua said. Chen Mo entered the office and nodded at Qiao Hua.¡±Minister Qiao.¡± Qiao Hua smiled,¡±Chen Mo, you¡¯re here. Have a seat.¡± I still have something to do, so I don¡¯t have much time. Let¡¯s make it short, okay?¡± Chen Mo nodded.¡±Yes, it¡¯s about the new game. I¡¯ve brought the concept draft. Take a look.¡± As Chen Mo spoke, he handed the concept draft to Qiao Hua. The game Committee didn¡¯t have much of a bureaucratic air, which might be rted to the characteristics of the department and the personality of Chairman Zhang Zhongxiang. Chen Mo and Qiao Hua had known each other for a long time. It was Qiao Hua who had pulled Chen Mo into the game Committee, so they were very close and had a lot of free time in private. Chen Mo first showed the design draft to Qiao Hua to let him know, and when Qiao Hua felt that there were no problems, he would send it for review. It would most likely be done. Qiao Hua took the design document and flipped through it as he said,¡±¡±For you toe all the way here, it seems that this game is the type that¡¯s hard to get approval.¡± Chen Zhao smiled and didn¡¯t reply. Indeed, if the game was easy to review, Chen Mo wouldn¡¯t have to make the trip himself, he would just have to submit the relevant materials ording to the standard process. It was precisely because it was easy to be beaten back if the game was yed normally that Chen Mo had to inform Qiao Hua first. Qiao Hua flipped through the design document and furrowed his brows.¡±¡±Escape?¡± Chen Mo nodded,¡±yes, I want to make a horror game.¡± Qiao Hua¡¯s expression was grave as he finished reading the design document. After some thought, he flipped to the first page and read it again. After reading it twice, Qiao Hua raised his head and looked at Chen Mo. ¡°Your game is indeed not easy to pass.¡± ¡°Diablo¡¯s review was already a little too far-fetched, but we can still use ancient western adventure and role-ying themes to cover it up. After all, that game is on a PC and follows the traditional way of leveling up by killing monsters. It¡¯s just that the graphics are a little more evil, but that¡¯s still fine.¡± ¡°But there are too many sensitive factors in oust. For example, there¡¯s a lot of blood, horror scenes, and corpses all over the ground. Most importantly, it¡¯s a first person VR game, so the visual impact is too strong. The immersion is on apletely different level from Diablo, it¡¯s ... It¡¯s really hard to say. ¡± Chapter 349

Chapter 349: A horror game that criticizes reality

Chen Mo nodded,¡±yes, I know.¡± However, there aren¡¯t many people making horror games in China. For VR games, although horror games aren¡¯t popr, they¡¯re the most immersive of all games, and can fill the market gap. ¡± Qiao Hua adjusted his sses and fell into deep thought. ¡°Director Qiao,¡± Chen Mo added,¡±this game has to be split into levels. Just like Diablo, it has to be yed by adults.¡± ¡°Also, the physical condition of the yer must be checked through the VR gaming pod before they enter the game. People with heart disease and simr diseases can¡¯t y. In the game, the yer¡¯s physiological indicators must be monitored throughout the game, and if the indicators are abnormal, the line will be disconnected immediately. ¡± ¡°There are a few VR horror games overseas right now, and the rted settings and security measures have been perfected. If we follow these standards, there shouldn¡¯t be any major problems.¡± ¡°Yes, I know,¡± Qiao Hua sighed. However, the gamemittee¡¯s current attitude doesn¡¯t encourage games that are too bloody and violent, because they have certain risks and might have a subtle psychological impact on people. ¡± ¡°Of course, we all know that the impact is minimal. Just like watching horror movies, no one will be perverted or even kill or harm people because of horror movies. From my personal point of view, I think we can try something in this area, but you have toe up with a set of excuses to convince Chairman Zhang. ¡± ¡°Oh?¡± Chen Zhao thought for a moment.¡±I have an excuse.¡± ¡°Tell me about it,¡± Qiao Hua said, interested. Chen Mo briefly exined his idea. After Qiao Hua heard this, he frowned and thought for a moment.¡±It seems like it¡¯s possible. This is indeed a good reason, but it¡¯s hard to say whether it can convince Chairman Zhang, but you can try. ¡± ¡°Wait here for a moment, I¡¯ll go ask Chairman Zhang. I¡¯ll call you in a while.¡± Qiao Hua quickly walked out of the office to find Chairman Zhang Zhongxiang. ...... The situation in parallel world was different from his previous life. The audit of games was much more rxed. Moreover, the game Committee didn¡¯t have an absolute standard for which games could pass and which couldn ¡®t. As for whether a horror game like escape could pass the review and let yers y it, it was up to Chairman Zhang Zhongxiang to decide. Qiao Hua returned about half an hourter. ¡°Come with me, Chairman Zhang is waiting for you. You only have 20 minutes. Think about what you want to say. If you can¡¯t pass this time, you probably won¡¯t have another chance in the future. ¡± Qiao Hua said. ¡°I understand, Minister Qiao.¡± Chen Zhao followed. Qiao Hua led Chen Mo to the chairman Zhang Zhongxiang¡¯s office and knocked on the door, signaling Chen Mo to go in. In the office, Zhang Zhongxiang was reading the design document. Seeing Chen Zhaoe in, he pointed at his desk.¡±¡±Sit.¡± Chen Mo sat down and carefully observed Zhang Zhongxiang¡¯s expression. Zhang Zhongxiang frowned. It seemed like he had a lot of doubts about the concept document. Chen Mo¡¯s right hand touched the virtual bracelet on his left wrist, and he activated the device. Zhang Zhongxiang coughed and said,¡±¡±Chen Mo, I¡¯ve finished your concept draft. The game was a horror game with a lot of blood and violence. ording to the gamemittee¡¯s usual attitude, this game could not be approved. This is because under such a high level of immersion, this game will have a certain impact on the mental health of the yer. ¡± ¡°I don¡¯t think so, Chairman Zhang,¡± said Chen Zhao. First of all, as an adult, your three views have already been formed, and a healthy person will be frightened when they experience horror movies, horror games, or even haunted houses. ¡± ¡°Currently, both horror movies and haunted houses exist in our country. This means that as long as the horror experience is controlled, it will not be dangerous.¡± ¡°The current horror games overseas have a very mature protective mechanism for the yers. There are so many horror games overseas every year, but I¡¯ve never heard of a yer suddenly dying or being stimted to harm society. So, the impact is actually not that serious. Or rather, this kind of influence can bepletely avoided. ¡± Zhang Zhongxiang frowned.¡±The main thing is that horror games don¡¯t have any positive content. It¡¯s hard to convince the traditional and conservative members of the game Committee.¡± ¡°Then, Chairman,¡± Chen Zhao asked.¡±Do you think ¡®criticism¡¯ itself is a positive content?¡± ¡°Criticize?¡± Zhang Zhongxiang was stunned. Chen Mo nodded,¡±yes, it¡¯s like a magazine criticizing ugly facts.¡± Zhang Zhongxiang thought for a moment and said,¡±it should be.¡± ¡°Oust has a mental core,¡± Chen Zhao continued.¡±Its mental core is criticism. In this game, the main character is a reporter with a sense of justice. He goes to investigate a mental hospital and expose the crimes within. ¡± ¡°And the mental hospital is actually a ce where people are controlled to conduct horrible experiments. These foreign consortiums ignore the life and death of patients for their own interests, trample on thew as they please, and even have upper-ss figures acting as their umbre.¡± ¡°The yer will y the role of the righteous reporter and expose the evil acts under the control of the major consortiums. This in itself is a criticism of the ugly facts and also a kind of exposure of the seemingly beautiful false scenes of foreign countries.¡± Zhang Zhongxiang blinked her eyes. She suddenly felt that Chen Zhao made sense. Indeed, if oust¡¯s story was set in China, it would definitely not pass the vetting process. But what if it was ced overseas? It did seem like a form of criticism and revtion. Zhang Zhongxiang thought for a while and said,¡±but this is apletely fictional story.¡± ¡°Chairman, artes from life, but it¡¯s higher than life,¡± Chen Zhao exined. In the history of the world, there had been many cases of genocide. ¡°The prison in Auschwitz is far scarier than what the game shows. The camp has always existed to remind people to always remember that I made a game to interrogate human nature. Isn¡¯t that a positive and positive thing?¡± Zhang Zhongxiang was speechless. He flipped open the design document for oust and read it from start to finish. After a long silence, Zhang Zhongxiang finally nodded.¡±¡±That¡¯s good. This game has passed the vetting process for now, but you must remember that the game¡¯s background story must not change. It must happen overseas. Also, you have to make sure that the VR equipment is well designed to make sure that the game doesn¡¯t have any adverse effects on the yers. ¡± ¡°If the yers protest strongly, this game will be taken down. If it causes a serious impact on society, you can¡¯t be exempted from the punishment, understand?¡± ¡°Yes, Chairman,¡± Chen Zhao nodded.¡±I understand!¡± Chapter 350

Chapter 350: Chapter 349-trying out ¡°deserted house horror¡±

In the experience store, Chen Mo sat on the sofa in the lobby, flipping through a book called ¡®world supernatural stories¡¯. Chen Mo was much more relieved after getting oust approved. It was good as long as the game passed the review, and all he had to do was think about how to make it good. Chen Mo didn¡¯t have any experience in making horror games, so he was worried that he wouldn¡¯t be able to recreate oust. After all, a horror game could only be considered a horror game if it was done well. If it was not done well, it would be a dissing game. ¡°Hey, manager.¡± Zhao Lei came in from outside the experience store and greeted Chen Mo. ¡°Oh?¡± Chen Mo nodded.¡±You didn¡¯t work overtime today?¡± Zhao Lei sat down on the sofa opposite Chen Mo. ¡°¡±I¡¯m not working overtime. It¡¯s not easy to have two weekends in the past two days. ¡± Zhao Lei was the sryman who had tried out The Stanley Parablest time. He worked in a financialpany and had to work overtime on the weekends. However, it seemed like the weekend was off. He came to the experience store on Saturday morning. ¡°What book are you reading?¡± Zhao Lei asked curiously. Chen Mo lifted the book so that Zhao Lei could see the cover. ¡°¡± World supernatural stories ¡°? Manager, howe you¡¯re in the mood to read this kind of book?¡± Zhao Lei was a little surprised. Looking for inspiration, Chen Zhao said as he watched. By the way, do you usually y horror games?¡± ¡°A horror game?¡± Zhao Lei thought for a moment.¡±I¡¯ll y a little too. Horror games are more suitable for emotional adjustment and relieving stress. But I haven¡¯t yed many. I¡¯ve only yed two or three horror games in China. ¡± ...... ¡°Oh, I see. Do you have any rmendations?¡± Chen Zhao asked. Zhao Lei thought for a moment and said,¡±rmendation?¡± There was really nothing to rmend. The horror games in China are a little too boring. They are basically dreams, illusions, and mental illnesses. Although horror games don¡¯t require a special plot, games that rely on illusions alone are not that good. ¡± ¡°If you want to y, I¡¯ll rmend a game called deserted house. Although it¡¯s not a good game, it¡¯s a VR game and the quality is good. Oh, and most importantly, this game supports two-yer mode. ¡± Chen Mo put down the book and was interested.¡±¡±Two-person mode?¡± ¡°Yes, two-person mode.¡± Zhao Lei nodded. In fact, the so-called two-yer mode was just a gimmick. It meant that two people could share the same save file. Because VR horror games are quite scary, the developer of deserted house came up with this idea. Two people can y it together, but the two canmunicate at any time and share the Save file at any time. ¡± Chen Mo thought for a moment, a horror game designed to torture single people? ¡°You can say that,¡± Zhao Lei smiled. The main selling point of this game is that when two people y together, they don¡¯t have to be particrly afraid. They can discuss while ying, and if you can¡¯t pass a ce, you can directly use someone else¡¯s save file. It doesn¡¯t have to be a couple, but it can be a brother or sister ying together. ¡± Chen Zhao¡¯s interest was extinguished.¡±¡±What¡¯s the meaning of this? if you skip the parts that can¡¯t be yed in horror games, you¡¯ll still have the face to call yourself a horror game?¡± Zhao Lei said helplessly,¡±there¡¯s nothing we can do. After all, the horror games in our country are not as good as those in the U.S. And Japan. It¡¯s difficult to make, the market is small, and it¡¯s not profitable. If we go overboard, we might even be called in by the game Committee. It¡¯s a tough job. asionally, there will be a domestic horror game, but it¡¯s basically just a scam. We¡¯ll run away after we make a quick buck.¡± Chen Mo put the book back on the shelf.¡±Come,¡± he said.¡±Show me this deserted house.¡± ¡°Manager, you want to y?¡± Zhao Lei was stunned. Chen Mo nodded,¡±yeah, let¡¯s see how good the horror games in China are ..¡± ¡°Are you going to make a horror game?¡± Zhao Lei asked in surprise. ¡°Shh.¡± Chen Zhao made a ¡°quiet¡± gesture. ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll y with you, manager!¡± Zhao Lei said excitedly. ¡­¡­ Chen Mo and Zhao Lei went to the VR experience area on the third floor and found themselves a VR gaming pod. The VR gaming pods in the experience store didn¡¯t allow the instation of other games, so there was only one VR game in the pod: Minecraft. Chen Mo used his administrative rights to purchase abandoned house for himself and Zhao Lei¡¯s gaming pods. It wasn¡¯t that expensive. There was a two-person version that could directly activate two game pods. It only cost 398 Yuan, which was considered cheap in VR games. After buying, Chen Mo looked at the yer rating, 3.7. He felt that this terrifying journey was very likely to be a journey of ridicule. After epting Zhao Lei¡¯s friend request, the two of them could establish instantmunication and chat in the game cabin. This friend request was a function that came with the VR gaming pod. Each VR gaming pod had a unique number, which was equivalent to the equipment number of the gaming pod. The system¡¯s built-in onlinemunication function could bepleted through this number. ¡°How is it, manager? can we start the game?¡± Zhao Lei asked. Chen Mo said,¡±wait, which mode should I choose?¡± Is it the awakening style or theplete immersion style?¡± ¡°Uh, both are fine.¡± Zhao Lei said,¡±you can choose after you enter the game. Different VR games have different rules for these two modes, so there will be an exnationter. ¡± ¡°Alright, let¡¯s start then.¡± As Zhao Lei chose to start the game, a chat box popped up: ¡°Do you want to start ¡®deserted house shock¡¯ with your friend?¡± Chen Mo chose ¡®yes¡¯. First, it was the gamepany¡¯s LOGO, followed by some fragmented fragments. In VR, the world Chen Mo saw was pitch ck, with only a few scenes and images in the air. These images quickly filled the entire world, up, down, left, right, everywhere. The scenes were chaotic andplicated. There were murmurs from lips, strange red curtains, dark-colored bloodstains, and corpses that had fallen ... The scene shed by. Chen Mo could tell that the graphics were quite low-level, but it was still quite scary when it was fast. Then, a system notification appeared. ¡°Please choose the game mode.¡± ¡°Refreshing experience: in this mode, you can retain the real feeling in the game cabin and can disconnect from the game at any time, which is equivalent to experiencing the game content in apletely sober state.¡± ¡°Fully immersive experience: in this mode, you will bepletely immersed in the world of VR games, simr to a dream. In this mode, you will have a better gaming experience. Disconnecting will be like waking up from a dream. ¡± ¡°It is rmended that you experience the game in apletely immersed way, but apletely immersed experience requires a moreprehensive physical examination. If your physical condition is not up to standard, it will be forced to be a wake-up experience.¡± Chapter 351

Chapter 351: A sense of d¨¦j¨¤ vu in a domestic horror film

Obviously, apletely immersed experience would be more intense and exciting, but it could also cause the yer to have stronger emotional fluctuations. Chen Mo chuckled,¡±I¡¯m a high-end yer. I¡¯ve seen too much. I¡¯m definitely going to bepletely immersed in it. It¡¯s just a horror game.¡± He directly chose to fully immerse himself in the experience. Chen Zhao felt his consciousness blur for a short while, as if he was in a semi-conscious state before he fell asleeppletely. At the same time, he heard a very low system notification in his ears.¡±Checking the yer¡¯s physical condition. Heart function is normal. Breathing, heartbeat, and vital signs are stable. No past diseases or gic diseases. Health status is normal. Preparing for full immersion ess ...¡± The scene changed and Chen Mo entered the VR gaming space. Chen Zhao was in a bird¡¯s eye view, so the camera was probably looking down from the ceiling. The man below should be the male lead. He was dressed in casual clothes, jeans, and a T-shirt. He was typing on the keyboard. In front of him was aptop with a chat window of amunication software. A person named ¡°red rose¡± was sending him messages. The point of view couldn¡¯t be changed, and a voice-over was exining the game¡¯s plot to Chen Mo. [You¡¯re a best-selling horror novel author. Many horror novels have sold well in the country. [Sometimes, you look for inspiration on the inte, and this femaleizen called ¡®red rose¡¯ seems to have endless ghost stories to tell.] At this moment, the main character was chatting with this ¡°red rose.¡± [Red rose: are you holding a press conference in City X next week?] I live in city X, do you want toe over?¡± ...... The protagonist didn¡¯t think much and typed without hesitation: ¡°Alright.¡± Chen Zhao couldn¡¯t control his burning desire to curse. ¡°F * ck, what kind of stupid person would use such an old-fashioned name like ¡®red rose¡¯? even a scriptwriter for an 18th-tier web drama is better than this, right?¡± Soon, Chen Mo felt his field of view sink, and it became the main character¡¯s first-person view. He also gained control of the main character¡¯s body. [System notification: turn off yourptop and go to bed.] Chen Mo closed theptop and stood up. He tried to open the door, but the moment he touched the doorknob, the protagonist muttered to himself,¡±¡±It¡¯ste, it¡¯s time to rest,¡± Chen Mo was frustrated. It was obvious that this was just a small stand-alone setting. With the cheater nature of the game designer, they must¡¯ve cut down the rest of the house to save resources, leaving only this bedroom. Chen Mo was not convinced. He tried to open the window, break the door, or use the items in the room, but it was useless. All simr actions were strictly restricted. In the end, Chen Mo sighed helplessly and chose [sleep]. Obviously, in this world¡¯s VR games, yers couldn¡¯t do whatever they wanted like transmigrating. After all, that would bepletely uncontroble, and the amount of research and development resources the game developers needed would increase exponentially. For example, if yers were allowed to shoot, kill, or smash cars, then they would have to create the corresponding actions, special effects, performance effects, and derived ystyles. The more actions and ystyles a VR game supported, the more resources they would have to invest. ¡°Deserted house shock¡± was just a horror game, and it was obvious that the designer had only created the scene of this one room. There might be nothing outside the room. If the yer were to open the door and go out by himself, he might trigger some unknown bugs. The screen turned ck, and soon, it switched to a brand new scene. Before Chen Mo could observe his surroundings, he heard Zhao Lei¡¯s voice.¡±¡±Manager, how is it? have we reached the main scene?¡± Chen Mo didn¡¯t see any character that looked like Zhao Lei. It was clear that the call was like a voice in the game, and wouldn¡¯t affect the game¡¯s progress. ¡°You can choose ¡®private chat mode¡¯ tomunicate with friends outside of the game,¡± the system prompted. ¡°Yeah,¡± Chen Zhao said.¡±I¡¯m already at the entrance of this ¡®abandoned house¡¯.¡± ¡°Alright, you can go in now. You just need to pass the plot,¡± Zhao Lei said. Chen Mo looked at it. The setting was not bad, a house in the evening surrounded by mountains and forests. But Chen Mo was willing to bet that as long as the main character walked out of a certain range, the system would immediately tell him to walk back, because the outside was just a setting, not a real one, blocked by an air wall. Chen Zhao went to the door and rang the doorbell. ¡°Ding dong.¡± There was no response, but the door opened. Chen Mo,¡±what the f * ck?¡± Only a mentally-disabled child would go into such a strange scene in reality, right?¡± However, ording to the script, Chen Mo had to walk in. Holding back his urge to curse, Chen Zhao walked into the house. The wallmp in the living room was dimly lit, and the entire living room¡¯s decorations seemed a little retro. In this slightly dark atmosphere, there was a little bit of a scary atmosphere. There was the sound of running watering from inside. The bathroom light was on, and there seemed to be a woman¡¯s figure. ¡°The bathroom kill that¡¯s a must-have for domestic horror movies?¡± Chen Mo was speechless. He felt like he was watching a cheap Chinese horror movie. This game waspletely brainless, it was a horror game that was created by force. Chen Mo felt like quitting after three minutes. However, considering that he was using this as inspiration for a new game, Chen Mo kept his professional ethics in mind and continued to y despite his IQ being challenged. The male lead came to the bathroom and said in a slightly trembling voice,¡±¡±Hello, is anyone there?¡± The frosted ss of the bathroom was filled with water vapor, but through the ss, he could still vaguely see the figure of a woman. The male protagonist leaned over, and at that moment, a shrill scream rang out from the bathroom! A hand covered in blood mmed on the bathroom ss in front of Chen Zhao, making a muffled sound! ¡°Bang!¡± The sudden scene caused the male lead to fall backward and fall to the ground. At the same time, the background music suddenly became tense, and the bathroom light went out after a series of crackling sounds. Chen Mo helplessly stood up from the ground. When he fell just now, his butt still felt like it was touching the floor. Although it was very light, the system¡¯s forced fall, bloody handprint, lights out, horrifying music, and the feeling of impact were still quite scary. However, to Chen Zhao, he was only slightly frightened. This level of terror was child¡¯s y. Chen Zhao didn¡¯t even bother to use the fear filter. Chen Mo could guess what would happen next. ording to a normal person¡¯s train of thought, they would immediately run out of the bathroom to open the door to the living room and then search other ces. They would definitely not enter the bathroom. Therefore, for the designer, locking the door of the living room and all the other exits, then setting up a few traps to scare the yers, and finally cing the key clues in the bathroom was the best choice. Chapter 352

Chapter 352: Perhaps this is the sad part about being a designer

Chen Zhao roughly understood the designer¡¯s intention after a simple analysis. After all, he didn¡¯t eat so many psychology books for nothing. Thus, Chen Zhao found the bathroom light in the darkness and turned it on. In the midst of the crackling sounds, the bathroom light came on again, but the color tone had be a little strange. The sound of water in the bathroom had long disappeared, and there was no one inside, as if no one had taken a shower. Needless to say, it must be the male lead¡¯s illusion. Chen Zhao quickly found a line of Bloody Words in the bathroom mirror: ¡°You can only escape from here if you find me!¡± After a while, Zhao Lei asked,¡±manager, have you finished the bathroom scene?¡± The clue is in the bathroom mirror. You¡¯ll see it when you turn on the light. ¡± ¡°Oh, I¡¯ve found it,¡± Chen Zhao said.¡±I¡¯m on the second-floor balcony now. Should I go to the storage room next?¡± Zhao Lei,¡±WHAT???¡± How can you be faster than me?¡± Chen Mo was speechless,¡¯this game is too stupid, it¡¯s not difficult at all. Moreover, the few ghostly figures and the terrifying sound effects that appeared in the middle of the game didn¡¯t have any high energy at all. They were simply too weak. ¡± Zhao Lei was speechless. Chen Zhao continued,¡±after we¡¯re done with the storage room, should we go to the underground parking lot? ording to the game¡¯s usual style, the clue should be in that red car, right? Do I need a bloody hand toe out of the trunk and catch it? After struggling to break free, you realized that the bloody hand had disappeared again?¡± Zhao Lei didn¡¯t speak for a long time before he finally managed to squeeze out a sentence,¡±¡±Manager, you ... Have yed it before?¡± ¡°I¡¯ve never yed it before,¡±Chen Mo said. ...... ¡°Don¡¯t lie to me, manager!¡±Zhao Lei was a little frustrated. If you haven¡¯t yed it before, why do I feel like you¡¯re going through the process faster than me? You even know the trigger point of the plot?¡± Chen Mo sighed,¡±maybe this is the sad part of video game designers.¡± I know exactly what the yers are thinking, and I also know where I can scare them. I¡¯ve yed this kind of low-level scene in my mind countless times, and it¡¯s no longer fresh. ¡± ¡°I don¡¯t care anymore, manager, I¡¯m going to y by myself.¡± Zhao Lei felt as if his intelligence had been insulted. He was as helpless as an underachiever in the face of a straight-A student¡¯s invisible posturing. ¡­¡­ The entire game process was not long and ended in less than an hour. Of course, it was mainly because Chen Zhao had passed too quickly. For the average newbie,¡±deserted house horror¡± still had some scary elements, and there were certain riddles in it, such as the bloody Words on the mirror in the bathroom. If they didn¡¯t trigger it, they couldn¡¯t continue. Therefore, most of the yers ¡®first attempt was between three to five hours, and most of the time was spent looking for clues in shock. However, Chen Mo was well aware of the yers ¡®mentality and the designer¡¯s intentions. He was mentally prepared for the most difficult parts and knew the rules of some of the puzzles. He was able to guess it easily, just like the yers who had already cleared the game once and knew the rules, so he finished it in an hour. As for Zhao Lei, he was still fighting hard in thest scene. At this moment, the male protagonist was running in a space full of dead souls. From time to time, dead souls would suddenly appear and grab his ankles. This was thest scene of the game. The male protagonist had fallen into a deep illusion, and his schizophrenia had reached the extreme. He had to find his hidden will among the countless souls and destroy it to clear the game. Zhao Lei was ying very nervously. Even though he had already cleared the scenario once, many elements in thest scenario were random. Moreover, under the influence of such a terrifying atmosphere, he could not help but feel his blood pressure rising and his heart rate elerating. Just then, Chen Zhao¡¯s voice rang in his ear at an inappropriate time.¡±¡±Zhao Lei, I¡¯ve cleared the game. I¡¯ll be leaving first.¡± Zhao Lei was speechless. What the hell! Howe I¡¯m still at thest level, but you¡¯ve already passed! Is it my first time or your first time? The game has only been going on for less than an hour. Are you F * cking cheating?! Although he was cursing in his heart, Zhao Lei still said,¡±¡±Oh, okay. Manager, you can go first. I¡¯m about to clear the game.¡± The system prompted,[your friend who yed the game with you has cleared the game. You can now use his savefile to continue the game or continue with the current progress.] Zhao Lei, who was surrounded byyers of dead souls, suddenly felt that everything he was doing was meaningless ... Why was that ... I¡¯m clearly the yer who cleared this game, right? ¡­¡­ ¡­¡­ Aftering out of the VR gaming pod, Chen Mo¡¯s heart didn¡¯t waver at all, and he even felt likeughing. It wasn¡¯t wrong for a yer to give ¡®deserted house shock¡¯ a score of 3.7. Chen Mo felt that the score was too high. If Chen Mo were to rate it, it would probably be a negative score. Perhaps it was because there weren¡¯t any horror games in the country that the yers were so tolerant of it. After ying for ten minutes, Chen Mo was sure that house horror was a VR puzzle game disguised as a horror game. Other than thest scene where the yer had to run around to avoid the dead and look for the dissociative identity disorder, the rest of the scenes only required the yer to wander around the house to look for clues, and there was no tension at all. There were no monsters that would kill your entire family, and there were no plot kills where your fingers hurt or your penis hurt. Although there were asionally a few screams and a few scary scenes, they were all triggered, just like a haunted house. Even if you stood there without moving, nothing would happen. Moreover, the resources in the game¡¯s setting were really too economical. Other than the main character¡¯s room at the beginning, the entire game was yed in a deserted house, so the resources of the game were very limited. No wonder the game was so cheap. It didn¡¯t cost much at all! In terms of the plot, Chen Mo suspected that the script was written by a Chinese horror movie scriptwriter. When he first entered the game, he still felt that there were many doubts, but in fact, the story of the game was particrly simple. As an author who was passionate about writing horror novels, the male protagonist often needed to collect horror material and often fantasized that he was a character in the book, so over time, he developed schizophrenia. In fact, this abandoned house was bought by his other personality. The femaleizen called ¡°red rose¡± was not a real person. It was all his imagination. Everything in this abandoned house was him fighting against his other personality. In the end, he defeated the other personality and walked out of the abandoned house, and the game ended. Chapter 353

Chapter 353: Motion capture studio

There were so many ws in this story that Chen Mo didn¡¯t even know where to start. In any case, Chen Mo had already guessed the nature of the story halfway through and came to this conclusion. ording to the usual summary, the routine of this horror game was simr to that of domestic horror movies. It could be summarized in one sentence: ¡°Mental patients have a wide range of thoughts, while mentally-disabled children have more joy.¡± Chen Mo couldn¡¯t help but feel disappointed. How could a horror game of this level bring joy to the yers? How could he let the yers ¡®spirits be baptized? For yers who didn¡¯t like horror games, they wouldn¡¯t y this game at all. But for yers who liked horror games,¡±deserted house shock¡± was simply a test of their intelligence. It was time to let the horror game yers experience what a real horror game was like! ¡­¡­ Chen Mo already had some experience with VR games. ording to the usual process, he would make the PC version first, then improve the quality and resources of the game before porting it to VR. However, making a horror game like oust and a building game like Minecraft would requirepletely different resources. Chen Mo was now facing two serious problems. One was to ensure the physical and mental health of the yers through the game settings, so that they would not be scared to death in the game. The second was how to better express the expressions and actions of the characters in the game, making the game more realistic. Oust¡¯s immersion in the original game was so good that many yers didn¡¯t dare to y it on the PC side. They often screamed in fear and had to rest for a long time after each level. If it was transnted to the VR tform, the sense of immersion would only be multiplied. While the yers would feel more excited, it would also make them more afraid. If safety measures weren¡¯t taken, the yers might get sick from fear even if they weren¡¯t sick. Fortunately, some horror games abroad already had corresponding settings, such as real-time monitoring of the yer¡¯s vital signs and health through VR gaming pods, and automatically disconnecting when the fear level exceeded a certain value. Or, at the beginning, the yers could only use the refreshing experience, and after clearing the game once, they could unlock the fully immersive experience and higher difficulty, and so on. ...... There wasn¡¯t too much technical difficulty in setting up these things, just that the settings were a little more cumbersome. Chen Mo was already quite good at facial expressions and actions, after all, he had eaten so many action skill books. Normal actions, such as climbing, jumping, and attacking, could all be made into very realistic effects. However, it was difficult to make a character¡¯s expression perfect by hand. Even if he could, it would be a waste of effort, because the character¡¯s expression, mouth shape, and words had to match perfectly when they spoke. It was too inefficient to make all the expressions by hand, and Chen Mo would die of exhaustion. If it was azier domestic gamepany, they wouldn¡¯t bother with the facial expressions and mouth shapes of the characters at all. They would only do amon ¡°speaking¡± action. However, in VR games, the character¡¯s expression and mouth shape had to be done, otherwise, it would feel particrly fake when observed up close. Generally, when major manufacturers produced first-person masterpieces, they would generally choose motion capture. This was also the mostmon method used by European and American manufacturers in Chen Mo¡¯s previous life to produce Triple-A games. The so-called motion capture was to invite live actors to perform the words and actions of the characters in the drama. Tracking devices would be set up on the key parts of these actors ¡®bodies and faces, which would record their movements very urately and transform them into motion data for the character model in the game. This kind of technology first appeared in movies, like Avatar, Pirates of the Caribbean, Rise of the of the Apes, and so on in Chen Mo¡¯s previous life. It was quickly applied to the gaming industry. In the parallel world, this technology had also begun to be widely used in the gaming industry. Currently, some of the big Chinese manufacturers, such as Emperor dynasty entertainment and ZEN Entertainment, had already set up their own motion capture Studios. Chen Mo was also nning on setting up his own motion capture studio, since oust wouldn¡¯t be the only game he¡¯d use motion capture technology in. He¡¯d be making more first person games with different themes in the future, and there were many uses for this studio. Besides, there was another benefit to making oust: it didn¡¯t require many actors. Because this was a horror game, in addition to the patients with tumors on their faces, there were also fully armed soldiers. They basically didn¡¯t show their faces, didn¡¯t speak, and had no expressions. They just screamed and rushed toward the male protagonist in a very strange posture. The only ones with expressions were the priest, Scissorhands, and other individual characters. These people¡¯s facial expressions were very ferocious. For actors, they didn¡¯t need to perform so perfectly. Anyway, they just had to show how scary it was. If they really couldn¡¯t do it, they could still adjust the actionster, so it wouldn¡¯t affect the quality of the game. If Chen Mo really wanted to make a game like GTA 5, he would be exhausted just by looking for actors. Chen Mo briefly told Zhou Hanyu about the motion capture studio and asked him to do some research. He also asked him to meet up with Guo Feng from dazzling Aurora to see if there were any reliable foreign actors that could be rmended. In fact, there was a group of foreign actors in the country. It would take some effort to find them, but they could still be found. It was mainly because there were some domesticpanies that asionally made games with foreign themes. These actors had a certain demand in the domestic market and their schedules were quite full. They made quite a lot of money by doing guest roles for movies and TV series, dubbing for the overseas versions of domestic games, and so on. Fortunately, there weren¡¯t many dubbing parts of oust. One to two foreign male actors who were fluent in English were enough to handle the role. Of course, some special voices also needed post-editing. ¡­¡­ A motion capture studio required quite a lot of space, but it didn¡¯t need to be in the same location as the experience store, so Chen Mo rented an extra floor in the office building where dazzling Aurora Studio was located to be used as a motion capture studio. It would make it more convenient for him to create cinematics. Zhou Hanyu posted some more recruitment notices online and recruited a few people with relevant work experience. The studio was considered to be initially established. The price of aplete set of motion capture equipment was quite high, around ten million, including aplete system and a professional motion capture camera. Chen Mo bought it without thinking, since he would have to buy it sooner orter. After all of this was arranged, it was about time to announce the next game to the project team. Chapter 354

Chapter 354: Parkour, oh no, horror game

In the meeting room, everyone other than the League of Legends branch members were gathered, waiting for Chen Mo to announce the new game. Of course, Qian Yong was present. Although he was fully responsible for the version update of League of Legends, he was also responsible for the numerical values and level architecture of the new project, so he had to be involved in the new game. After such a long time of training, Chen Mo felt that Qian Kun was bing more and more reliable. Other than his Chuunibyou spirit of cheating for paywalls, he was already a very qualified designer in all other aspects. ¡°Manager, hurry up and announce the new game!¡± Su Jinyu said impatiently. ¡°That¡¯s right, manager,¡± Zhou Hanyu said.¡±You only said you wanted to set up a motion capture studio. Are you going to make an RPG game or a first person adventure game?¡± Zheng Hongxi was also looking forward to it. ¡°Yes, I think it¡¯s definitely an RPG game. After all, role-ying games are the games that can truly prove the strength of apany!¡± Qian Kun clearly didn¡¯t agree with this statement,¡±¡±No, no, no, what do you mean by¡± role-ying games ¡°are the only way to prove apany¡¯s strength¡±? They¡¯re obviously using games to prove it!¡± Lin Xiao looked at Qian Kun with a ck face. It was obvious that the person in charge of the ¡°League of Legends¡± project was extremely obsessed with spending money, which made her, who liked to y ¡°League of Legends¡±, very worried. Chen Moughed. It was obvious that no one had guessed what the next game would be, which made him very satisfied. How could I, the boss, put my face aside after letting you guys guess so easily? Chen Mo tapped on the keyboard of hisptop, and a document appeared on the screen. Oust¡¯s design document. ¡°Escape?¡± Su Jinyu was a little confused.¡±Is it simr to Don¡¯t Starve?¡± A VR version of Don¡¯t Starve?¡± ...... Zheng Hongxi stroked his chin.¡±From the name, it looks like a survival game as well. But it shouldn¡¯t be the same type as Don¡¯t Starve.¡± Strictly speaking, Don¡¯t Starve¡¯s content should be ¡®survival¡¯, but ¡®escape¡¯ feels ...¡± ¡°It looks like a ...¡± Qian Kun said. Zhou Hanyu was also in disbelief,¡±¡±H-horror games?¡± Chen Zhao made a ¡°you¡¯re right¡± gesture.¡±¡±Smart. That¡¯s right, this is a horror game.¡± Everyone was speechless. Obviously, this genre waspletely out of their expectations, because there was basically no big gamepany in the country that wanted to touch horror games, not even Emperor dynasty entertainment and ZEN Entertainment. Domesticpanies that made horror games were usually smallpanies or independent game designers. They felt that with their ownpany¡¯s level of design, they wouldn¡¯t be able topete with other types of games, so they made horror games. The horror games produced by thesepanies were often fake, just like ¡°deserted house horror¡±, where they would run away after a wave. The reason was moreplicated, but in the end, it was still due to the audit and Foundation. There was no need to talk about the audit. This kind of thing that touched the boundary was something that most gamepanies would not be willing to take the risk of doing. As for the foundation, it was because the domestic video gamepanies had no experience and umtion in making horror games. The video game designers didn¡¯t have a good grasp of the yers ¡®psychology, so the horror games they made were easily seen through. They weren¡¯t scary at all, and might even be turned into dissing games. Everyone was quite surprised to hear that Chen Mo was nning to make a horror game. However, this also piqued everyone¡¯s curiosity. After all, Chen Mo¡¯s games always exceeded their expectations and were always sessful, so everyone was looking forward to what kind of horror game Chen Mo was going to make this time. Chen Mo looked at everyone,¡±for now, horror games are a niche genre in China.¡± However, it¡¯s a game that¡¯s very interesting and can be considered a ssic game. ¡± ¡°It¡¯s just like my previous game, excavating for Ascension. The game itself isn¡¯t very friendly to most yers, but it¡¯s very enjoyable to watch and has a lot of topics to talk about. ¡°It¡¯s the same for horror games. Perhaps most people don¡¯t have the courage to y them, but as long as horror games are done well, they¡¯ll soon dominate all kinds of live-streaming tforms and video websites. They¡¯ll spread very quickly and be very well-known. ¡°Next, I¡¯ll briefly talk about the design concept of this game. It¡¯s divided into four parts, namely the operation mode, the story, the rted resources, and the yer¡¯s psychological control. ¡± Chen Mo started exining the core gamey and main fun points of oust. In fact, although Triple-A masterpieces looked very high-end, their processes were rtively fixed. It was like a product produced in an assembly line. As long as the risk was controlled and the money was willing to invest, it was almost certain that the work would be above the standard. For example, Triple-A masterpieces were like Heavy Industries. There were cumbersome steps andplicated processes, and there was a set of rtively fixed processes with high investment and high risk. Competitive online games such as League of Legends and PUBG were like the IT industry. They didn¡¯t have a particrly high technical threshold, and the key was creativity, ideas, promotion, and so on. The reason why manyrge foreign factories could maintain a stable output of Triple-A masterpieces at the speed of one per year was that this was a rtively streamlined production model. For example, for the naughty Dog who made ¡°doomsday of the United States¡± and ¡°mysterious sea¡±, the two games seemed to be very different in terms of plot and genre, but they yed the same way. As long as he changed the script, the scenes, the characters, and so on, he could make them easily. As such, Chen Mo focused on exining the highlights of oust. For example, it was a parkour, no, horror game where the main character¡¯sbat power was zero and he could only run away. For example, the main character¡¯s DV night vision and battery-collecting were very important settings. These were clearly different from the horror games that were currently being yed, but Chen Mo had singled them out and exined them in detail. Chen Mo broke down the entire game into many different parts. In everyrge setting, the yers would trigger different events afterpleting each side mission. The game¡¯s flow was slow and fast at times, and the yers ¡®tension would only be fully activated when they were rxed. After finishing the concept speech, everyone was very excited. Zheng Hongxi said,¡±wow, manager, this horror game is awesome!¡± It¡¯s even more exciting than the games we¡¯ve made before!¡± Su Jinyu,[it¡¯s a super blockbuster!] If it¡¯s made into a VR game, wouldn¡¯t the yers be scared out of their wits?¡± Zhou Hanyu,¡±I don¡¯t know if this game will be popr, but ourpany will definitely be popr ... The onlypany in the country that can make horror games?¡± Just thinking about this title makes me feel good. ¡± ¡°How about we make one of ourpany¡¯s rooms into a mental hospital as a memento?¡± ¡°Get lost!¡± Everyone shouted. Fu Guangnan frowned.¡±Manager, this game is not bad. But can it pass the vetting process???¡± Chapter 355

Chapter 355: News of the S1 World Championship

With Fu Guangnan¡¯s words, everyone realized this problem. That¡¯s right, could this Game Pass the vetting process? The bloody scenes, the brutal plot, and the scary gaming experience ... Even though the game producers thought that the game was great, ording to the gamemittee¡¯s usual attitude, it would be very difficult to review. ¡°I already talked to Chairman Zhang of the game Committee yesterday,¡± Chen Mo said calmly.¡±His attitude is eptable.¡± Everyone was dumbfounded. After a while, su Jinyu gave him a thumbs up,¡±¡±Manager, you¡¯re really amazing. You can really do whatever you want as an honorary member!¡± Chen Zhao coughed,¡±what do you mean?¡± The game board members in charge of the game¡¯s review thoroughly discussed the game¡¯s potential for development. Everyone believes that not only does this game fill in the gap in the domestic game market, but it also helps our country¡¯s game to be in line with the International market. More importantly, it has a very deep spiritual core. ¡± Qian Kun¡¯s mouth twitched,¡±an extremely ... Thick ... Spiritual core?¡± ¡°Manager, this is a horror game!¡± Zheng Hongxi couldn¡¯t help but remind him. Chen Mo nodded and said in a serious tone,¡±¡±Of course I know this is a horror game! Can¡¯t horror games have depth? No, no, no, this story looks like a horror game, but can¡¯t you see the deep meaning behind it?¡± ¡°There¡¯s ruthless disclosure of the current state of foreign consortiums, high praise for the righteous reporters ¡®courage to break into the Devil¡¯s Den, and ruthless criticism of the distortion of foreign human nature caused by the corruption of money!¡± ¡°Is it an extremely thick mental core?¡± Everyone was speechless. ¡°That¡¯s why the game Committee approved this game. ¡± Of course, it was still an 18+ Game. We have to protect the physical and mental health of minors. However, for those adults who can distinguish between the two, this game will cleanse their spirits and allow their souls toplete a sublimation. ¡± ...... Su Jinyu pouted.¡±Yes, manager. You¡¯re right. There¡¯s nothing wrong with that.¡± Chen Mo continued,¡±the research and development period ends at the end of September. It might be a bit rushed, but we¡¯ve already done everything we could to change PC to VR when we made Minecraftst time. We¡¯ve umted a lot of experience, so it shouldn¡¯t take as long asst time.¡± ¡°The duration of oust isn¡¯t actually that long. If it¡¯s an experienced yer, they¡¯ll probably only have two hours of game time to clear the game. Moreover, the game¡¯s script was already out. As long as he followed the script strictly and set up the trigger and refresh mechanism of the monsters at each key node, the quality of the game should be guaranteed. So, everyone, please hold on tight. ¡± Chen Mo looked at Zhou Hanyu again,¡¯the motion capture studio should hurry up and try to get the key actions of the characters done as soon as possible. The general movements can be left to me, and I can even manually adjust them when the timees. The main thing is that some of the cutscenes have to be done more perfectly. ¡± Zhou Hanyu nodded.¡±No problem. We¡¯re almost done with the preparations. We¡¯ve found the actors too. We can start work anytime.¡± Chen Mo nodded,¡±the art resources will be the same as before. Outsource it as soon as possible. We¡¯ll just upgrade the game after it¡¯s done. In short, we should focus on efficiency.¡± A single yer game like this doesn¡¯t need to worry about bnce, so it should be more efficient. ¡± ¡°Alright, good luck everyone!¡± ¡­¡­ After the meeting, everyone started to get busy. Everyone was already used to working like this, and the team had already gotten used to it, so Chen Mo didn¡¯t have to worry too much. Chen Mo spent the rest of his time going through the entire story, including the yer¡¯s activities and the monster¡¯s movement patterns. These aspects could be easily replicated with the memory yback potions, including the structure of the mental hospital. After Chen Mo had eaten so many architecture skill books, it wasn¡¯t difficult to replicate it. Very quickly, oust entered the intense development phase. ¡­¡­ ¡­¡­ In July, Chen Mo announced that the first season of League of Legends would be held in China, which immediately caused an uproar. This news had already spread among the upper echelons of some big clubs, but it had never been leaked out and had only existed as a small rumor. However, this time, Chen Zhao announced this as an official, so it had apletely different meaning. The yers exploded in an instant. On the official forum of League of Legends, almost everyone was discussing this big news. ¡°League of Legends World Finals? It would be held in China in October! That¡¯s great, League of Legends is going to have an internationalpetition!¡± ¡°That¡¯s great, but isn¡¯t the timing a little too tight? there are only three months left. As for the exact location and which teams to invite, these haven¡¯t been decided yet, right?¡± ¡°It¡¯s definitely already decided! Chen Zhao had only just announced it, not started preparing for it! Moreover, the clubs in the country have already arranged for a small-scale training tournament. They¡¯re obviously preparing for the world Finals. ¡± ¡°I wonder how the League of Legendspetition will be? Last time I went to watch a small Warcraft offlinepetition, the atmosphere was quite lively, but it wasn¡¯t hot enough. It¡¯s a pity. ¡± ¡°It¡¯s definitely going to be popr this time. It¡¯s basically an official event, and League of Legends has such a huge yer base. It should be very good!¡± ¡°Where can i buy tickets?¡± ¡°I don¡¯t know. Let¡¯s just follow up on the news!¡± As soon as the news was released, it immediately caused a heated discussion among the yers, and evenpletely dominated the official forum of League of Legends. It wasn¡¯t just because League of Legends was very popr now, but also because the meaning of thispetition waspletely different. In the past, there had been some e-sportspetitions, but they were all organized by third-party organizations and were often invited. Therefore, the ¡°value¡± of thesepetitions had always been a very controversial topic. yers didn¡¯t have a very urate judgment of the true skill level of a professional yer or team. However, the finals would be held by the developer of League of Legends, and other top teams in the world would be invited. It was equivalent to an official decision on the nature of thepetition: From now on, this would be the world¡¯s most prestigious League of Legendspetition, second to none. To be the champion this time meant that he had won the Supreme glory of the world. This sense of honor was enough to make all the professional yers in League of Legends go crazy! Chapter 356

Chapter 356: Preparations for the world Finals

The preparations for the S1 World Finals of League of Legends were already in full swing. Chen Mo inspected a fewpanies for the S1 World Championship and finally decided on the organizer: Yan Huang information Technology Co., Ltd. Thispany used to be a rtivelyrge studio in the country, butter they changed to doing e-sports Live broadcasts. At present, they had hired arge number of anchors, producers, and event-rted staff. In terms of professionalism, it should be the best in the country. There were a few otherpanies that wanted to be the host for the S1 World Championship of League of Legends, but Chen Mo was not satisfied with any of them, so he decided on zing glory. At present, Yan Huang had offices in Shanghai and Beijing. The relevant people in charge also attached great importance to it, somunication was very smooth. As for the location of the S1 International League, Chen Mo picked out a few. In the end, he decided on the 10th floor of Shanghai¡¯s Grand za, a multi-purpose studio. The main reason he chose this ce was because Shanghai¡¯s e-sports atmosphere was the best in the parallel world, and most of the e-sports clubs were here. The venue was quite expensive, at 90000 a day. Chen Mo signed a long-term lease, nning to rent it for at least a year. Not only would this Stadium be used as the venue for the S1 World Championship, it would also be used as the venue for the S2 LPL Spring Season. After deciding on the location, Chen Mo did some on-site research and met up with the person in charge of Yan Huang. He then provided Yan Huang with aplete renovation n. The entire venue was in China Red. Outside the Grand za building, a huge poster of League of Legends was hung for publicity. Inside the stadium, the first thing to be seen was the passageway to the stadium. On both sides of the passageway hung the gs of various teams,rge portraits of the yers, as well as the signature wall, voting wall, and so on. There was also a special disy wall inside the venue, which mainly contained figurines and essories rted to heroes for disy. Currently, there were not many figurines on the official website of League of Legends. There were only about 20 of them, including garen, Catarina, Twisted Fate, and so on. These figurines were all disyed on the disy wall. In addition to the figurine, there were also some essories, such as Teemo¡¯s hat, garen¡¯s big sword, and so on. There were also some self-made peripheral models made by fans. As long as they were high-level or original, they were also ced on the disy wall and marked with the name of the creator. ...... There was also a wall, which Chen Mo nned to use to disy the team uniforms of the professional teams. Of course, many pro teams currently didn¡¯t have the regtions and didn¡¯t have a team uniform yet, so they were still in the process of making one. Theyout of the stadium was simr to that of the LPL Spring Season. The audience was facing the stadium, and in the middle was arge screen used to show the main image of the game. On the left and right sides of the huge screen were two rectangr screens, showing the yers and champions of the two teams. Below therge screen were the yers puters, and in front of eachputer was a small screen used to disy the yers¡¯ facial expressions. Other than that, Chen Mo also set up arge holographic projector in the center of the venue. This holographic projection device was even bigger than the one in the experience store. It was 15 meters long and was right in front of the stage. The front row audience could clearly see all the details of the game through the holographic projection equipment, whichplemented the big screen in the center. The audience in the back row could only see a little blurrier, but they could still roughly make out the situation. This holographic projection device was thergest model avable at the moment, and it was quite expensive, more than 700000 Yuan. However,pared to the entire venue¡¯s rent, it was just a drizzle. In order to better showcase the effects of the holographic projector, Chen Mo even had the League of Legends project team add some extra features for thepetition. For example, after a hero was selected, the holographic projection would show the hero¡¯s and the yer¡¯s holographic projections; After the lineup selection of both sides waspleted, the hero lineup of both sides would be disyed in the form of holographic projection. These functions had been tested many times on the holographic projection in the experience store to ensure the performance. Apart from that, Chen Mo also provided Yan Huang with a detailedpetition schedule, including the warm-up before the match, the B/P segment, the official match, the post-match interview, as well as some things to take note of and the rules of the match. The rules were very detailed, so much so that the person in charge of zing fire was a little dumbfounded. Chen Zhao set the ticket date for September, a month in advance. Of course, the relevant information would definitely be released earlier. Apart from that, Chen Mo had also used a separate server for thepetition, which was equivalent to a local areawork, to avoid the possibility of a ¡°cable war¡± from his previous life. In terms of teams, the teams invited to the European, American, and Korean servers had already been confirmed. They were all based on the strength, fame, and thebat power of the teams. Basically, all the more famous foreign clubs had been invited, and there were a total of 12 teams. As for the domestic teams, it was more troublesome. Although one or two of the 10 teams in the country were strong, the other teams were still in a period of adjustment. Therefore, Chen Mo nned to have zing fire organize another selection before the world Tournament to select the four teams that would make it to the world Tournament. Of course, Chen Mo didn¡¯t care about the selection this time. After all, fiery Emperor was a professional team that had organized smallpetitions like this many times. There wouldn¡¯t be any problems. ¡­¡­ On the other hand, oust was also in development. Although they had encountered some small setbacks, they were not technical problems that were difficult to solve. They just needed to Polish their performance. Therefore, the current development progress was still considered smooth. Chen Mo set the release date for oust on a Sunday, September 23rd. Of course, the various approval processes were all going well. Although there were some minor twists and turns, it was not a big deal. Zhang Zhongxiang thought that although oust was dangerous as a VR game, it could help promote the progress of VR performance, so it passed the review. However, there was still some resistance within the game Committee. Zhang Zhongxiang and Qiao Hua also reminded Chen Mo to pay attention to the yers ¡®feedback after oust was released. If the yers were satisfied, then there would be no problem releasing a sequel. If there was a lot of boycotting, then this might be Chen Mo¡¯sst horror game. Chen Mo was well aware of the risks involved in oust, but he was confident in the game. He wanted to prove to everyone that even though horror games were a niche genre, they could still produce ssics and give yers a unique gaming experience. Just like how many big cities and theme parks had haunted houses, horror games would also be a very important type of game, upying a ce in VR games. Chapter 357

Chapter 357: Chapter 356-ticket sales

September. On the fourth floor of the experience store, in Chen Mo¡¯s office. Sitting opposite him was a slightly chubby middle-aged man who looked less than 40 years old. This was the chairman of brilliant me, Zhang Kaiwen. The reason why Zhang Kaiwen came to Imperial was to see the effects of League of Legends on the holographic projection, as well as to meet Chen Mo to discuss the details of the Grand Finals. Kevin Zhang and Chen Mo had their differences on the ticket price for the Grand Finals. ording to Yan Huang¡¯s previous experience of hosting e-sportspetitions, the ticket price was basically set between 100 and 300 yuan, 150 yuan was in the middle. However, due to the high rental fee, the equipment, and the huge investment, if they charged the tickets at this price, they would probably lose money. Of course, Kevin Zhang knew that Chen Mo was nning to make League of Legends into a series. It was a long-term goal, so he thought that they should make a loss for the world Tournament and set the price lower to increase its poprity and help promote it. However, Chen Mo requested for the tickets to be between 180 to 580, especially for the front row seats, where you could clearly see the big screen and the holographic projection, even the facial expressions of the yers. Chen Mo felt that 580 wasn¡¯t too expensive. Kevin Zhang was a little hesitant.¡±President Chen, I think your price is still a little too high. There aren¡¯t that many e-sports audience members in the country at the moment. With our previous experience, a front-row ticket of 300 yuan is already a little expensive.¡± After all, for traditional sports, the front row tickets for basketball games only cost 500 to 800 Yuan. E-sports games are too niche. The ticket price ...¡± Chen Mo smiled,¡±Mr. Zhang, this is the League of Legends World Finals. It only happens once a year. This year is the first.¡± To be honest, I think this price is too cheap. I wouldn¡¯t be surprised if the ticket price for the Grand Finals is two or three thousand, let alone 580. ¡± ¡°But President Chen, you have to consider the number of viewers ...¡± Kevin Zhang was still a little hesitant. ¡°League of Legends is about to break seven million yers worldwide,¡± Chen Mo said.¡±It¡¯s far more than all the previouspetitive games, including Warcraft. They¡¯re not on the same level. Moreover, League of Legends is different from first person games. Its third person perspective is very suitable for watching the game, and the visual effects of the game are far better than any other game. ¡± ...... ¡°Moreover, there will be a series of joint activities for the global Finals, such as free skins when buying tickets, limited avatars, limited figurines, and so on. In fact, the significance of these tickets is very great, so you don¡¯t have to worry about no one buying them.¡± ¡°The highest price is 580 Yuan. That¡¯s already very cheap.¡± Kevin Zhang was still a little hesitant. ¡°Mr. Zhang,¡± Chen Mo said with a smile,¡±I know how popr League of Legends is right now. So don¡¯t worry about it. Just set the price as I said.¡± Kevin Zhang thought about it carefully and realized that he really didn¡¯t have any other reasons to refute, so he could only nod and ept Chen Zhao¡¯s exnation. ¡°Alright then, set the ticket price between 180 to 580 Yuan. I¡¯ll contact the relevant ticketingpany. As for the publicity method for thispetition, other than the usual publicity, does chief Chen have any other good ideas?¡± Kevin Zhang asked. ¡°It¡¯s okay. Your zing glory Company can use the usual way to promote it. I¡¯ll do the rest.¡± Chen Mo thought for a moment and said,¡±also, remember to use an e-ticket. Just swipe your ID card and enter.¡± Zhang Kaiwen was stunned,¡¯e-tickets? The cost of creating an e-ticket system is much higher. ¡± Chen Mo nodded,¡±yes, even if it¡¯s expensive, I¡¯ll need an e-ticket.¡± To prevent scalpers. ¡± Kaiwen Zhang was a little hesitant,¡±President Chen, scalpers shouldn¡¯t be so fixated on an e-sportspetition, right?¡± Based on our previous experience in organizingpetitions, some of the low-priced tickets that cost 100 yuan might not even be sold out. If there are really scalpers, they can increase our ie ...¡± Chen Mo shook his head,¡±listen to me, use an electronic ticket.¡± Seeing Chen Zhao¡¯s firm attitude, Kevin Zhang stopped insisting. After all, this wasn¡¯t a big deal. He had already given in to many things before, so there was no need to persist on such a small matter. However, Kevin Zhang was still a little worried. The ticket price was so high, and it was an e-ticket. How high were Chen Mo¡¯s expectations for the S1 World Finals? Would these tickets be sold out? If no one bought the high-priced tickets, for the effect of the live show, they could only hire additional people to act as the audience. If that was the case, the situation would not look good. However, Kaiwen Zhang also knew that Chen Zhao had the final say in thepetition. He didn¡¯t have much power. Therefore, the n was quickly finalized, and it was done ording to Chen Mo¡¯s specifications. ¡­¡­ The news that the S1 World Championship of League of Legends was going to be held in Shanghai on September 8th spread throughout the entire League of Legendsmunity within a day. It also spread to the European, American, and Korean servers. Other than the usual advertising methods, Chen Mo also posted the news of the S1 International League on the home page of both the local and overseas servers, including the time, ce, team list, schedule, and so on. Apart from that, Chen Mo also set up a special section on the official website of League of Legends, where News of the World Championship would be continuously released. This page would also be constantly updated during the world Finals. During the world Finals, there would be a special Live Broadcast page on the home page of the client, which would broadcast the entire game live. Chen Mo also posted a long Weibo to introduce the S1 World Championship. ¡°The tickets to the S1 World Championship of League of Legends are now officially on sale. You can click on the ticket link on the official website to purchase tickets.¡± ¡°This year¡¯s world Championship will be held at Shanghai¡¯s Grand Square. There will be 16 teams from all over the worldpeting for the highest glory of League of Legends: The first season¡¯s championship trophy. ¡± ¡°All the yers who are watching the game will receive a new skin in the game: Champion¡¯s de, Raven. The yer who buys the VIP ticket will also receive a limited edition card master figurine. ¡± ¡°At the same time, the avatars of all teams will be open. yers can buy avatars in the game to support their favorite team (each Summoner is limited to two). If the team wins the championship, you will receive an extra treasure chest as a reward. ¡± ¡°This year¡¯s S1 World Finals will be the highest standard and the best live-stream esportspetition so far. We will give every Summoner whoes to the venue the most exciting esports experience!¡± The news of League of Legends¡¯s S1 World Finals immediately caused a huge uproar among the yers. Even though they had already received the news, the yers were still shocked by Chen Mo¡¯s willingness to spend money after seeing the actual schedule. Chapter 358

Chapter 358: Chen Mo made a horror game?

¡°What the hell? The venue of the S1 World Championship was at miles square? F * ck, how much did Chen Zhao spend to rent this ce? It would cost tens of thousands a day, right? And this ce can¡¯t be rented for a short period of time, right?¡± ¡°Yeah, Yuan da square is in the downtown area! What a F * cking nouveau riche!¡± ¡°Also, looking at these pictures, it seems like the interior has been renovated. There¡¯s a big screen, a specialmentator¡¯s seat, and a holographic projection device! F * ck, that¡¯s too much. ¡± ¡°This time, the officials have invited teams from all over the world. It seems like even the established clubs from Europe, America, and Korea will be attending. This should be the most valuablepetition!¡± ¡°Let me see how much the ticket is. The highest ticket is 580 Yuan. Is this a robbery?¡± ¡°That¡¯s right. Didn¡¯t the most expensive front-row ticket only cost about 300 yuan in the past? it¡¯s doubled just like that?¡± ¡°It¡¯s too expensive!¡± ¡°Upstairs, don¡¯t buy it if you think it¡¯s expensive! Look at the venue, the equipment, and the free skins and figurines. Think about it, is it worth the 580 Yuan?¡± ¡°It just so happens that I¡¯m in Shanghai. I¡¯ve already gotten two 180 yuan tickets. I¡¯m ready to go watch it with my girlfriend!¡± ¡°I don¡¯t believe it. These tickets definitely can¡¯t be sold out! I¡¯m waiting for the official discount ticket!¡± Some yers felt that the ticket price was too expensive and wanted to wait and see. They wanted to buy low-priced tickets before the start of the game. In the end, the tickets were sold out in just a week! Not a single card was left! Since the venue wasn¡¯t arge Stadium, there weren¡¯t many seats. The ticket prices weren¡¯t high either, so many yers in Shanghai were fighting for the tickets. Some yers from other ces even bought tickets and were ready to take the high-speed rail to watch thepetition. ...... In the beginning, many people thought that the scalpers were maliciously promoting the tickets. However, they soon found out that the tickets were sold e-tickets. One had to swipe their ID card to enter the venue. There was no way to promote the tickets! At this time, the yers who were waiting for the low-priced tickets panicked. They posted everywhere to buy second-hand tickets, but they could not buy them at all! These tickets were mainly bought by local yers, especially Shanghai¡¯s local yers. Because the e-sports system in this world was not mature, the poprity of the world Finals was not as high as it was in Chen Mo¡¯s previous life. Many viewers were toozy to go to another city to watch the game, as they found it troublesome. However, Chen Mo knew that in another two or three years, this esports craze would quickly spread, and tickets to the S series Grand Finals would soon be hard to find. ¡­¡­ On the 20th of September, when all the yers of League of Legends were eagerly looking forward to the S1 World Championship, Chen Mo released another piece of shocking news. The new game oust had been released in the experience store, and yers could try it out first. The game¡¯s official release date was set for September 23rd, and all yers would be able to experience this unique VR game. Many yers were still in a daze. What the hell, wasn¡¯t Chen Mo busy with the world Finals? How did he find the time to make a new game, and a VR one at that! At the start, everyone thought that the game would be a small game like Minecraft or a VR Don¡¯t Starve, but after looking at the promotional materials, the yers were all shocked. This was a F * cking masterpiece! Moreover, this was a horror game! Without much publicity, the news quickly spread among the yers. The reason was simple-the gimmick of a horror game was too good! Although there were some horror games in the country, they were all like deserted house, with no one ying them. None of them had a rating of more than 4, and they were all cursed. The yers had long been disappointed with the horror games in China. They all knew that these horror games were all fake to make money and weren¡¯t worth ying at all. However, if Chen Mo was the one who made the game, it would be apletely different story. Chen Mo¡¯s reputation among the yermunity was already very good. After all, he had released so many ssic games, and hisst VR game Minecraft had broken sales records. Many yers believed without reason that even though horror games were difficult to master, as long as it was Chen Mo¡¯s work, it was definitely worth ying! This time, Chen Mo released some of oust¡¯s information, mainly the original art. He didn¡¯t release the video of the game because he wanted to give the yers enough surprises. These original arts were mainly background art. There were scenes of using the night vision function of the video camera to observe monsters in the dark, the main administrative building of the mental hospital in the night, a fountain filled with blood and corpses, and a mental patient shivering under a bed ... The atmosphere of these original arts was extremely strange, making everyone feel a chill down their spine. It didn¡¯t take long for Chen Mo¡¯s new game, oust, to be a hot topic among yers and designers. ¡°Did you hear? Chen Mo released a new game, and it¡¯s a horror game!¡± ¡°I was wondering when Chen Mo would release his first VR game, I didn¡¯t expect it to be so soon!¡± ¡°Yeah, I thought Chen Mo would focus on League of Legends for the next few days after his performance on PC, but I didn¡¯t expect him to make his first VR game!¡± ¡°Yeah, and looking at the original art, it doesn¡¯t look like it¡¯s a game like Minecraft anymore. It¡¯s a real work.¡± ¡°Of course. In a horror game, the more realistic the scenes are, the better. Otherwise, can it still be called a horror game?¡± ¡°I didn¡¯t expect this, I thought Chen Mo would choose MMORPG as his first VR game. He¡¯s always so unexpected!¡± ¡°There¡¯s nopany in the country that¡¯s willing to make a horror game. What¡¯s Chen Mo thinking? This type is too niche!¡± ¡°Yeah, it¡¯s hard to make a good horror game. The designer has to have perfect control over the yer¡¯s psychology. Can Chen Mo do it?¡± ¡°I heard that Chen Mo¡¯s Experience Store is ready to be yed. Do you want to form a group to try it out?¡± ¡°F * ck, I wouldn¡¯t dare. It¡¯s a VR horror game. I feel like I¡¯ll lose my life!¡± ¡°It¡¯s fine. There have been so many VR horror games in the country before, but none of them are scary. Actually, changing the horror game to VR is just to make it more immersive, just like a haunted house. It¡¯s not that scary. ¡± ¡°Hehe, don¡¯t try to trick me. I¡¯m not going!¡± ¡°Just because it¡¯s Chen Mo¡¯s product, we have to go take a look.¡± ¡°I¡¯m not going because of Chen Mo¡¯s production! Think about it, all of Chen Mo¡¯s previous games were great sesses, this one was probably no exception. A very sessful horror game ... F * ck, it¡¯s scary just thinking about it!¡± ¡°It¡¯s better to be terrifying! Horror games these days were so weak that they were not even as exciting as roller coasters. As a veteran horror game enthusiast like me, I have to experience it!¡± ¡°Brave warrior above, rest in peace. If you die in the game cabin, I¡¯ll go back and collect your corpse!¡± Chapter 359

Chapter 359: Escape that not many people dare to y

That afternoon, a 1.9-meter tall man appeared in front of the experience store. ¡°This is the Thunderbolt gaming experience Store? Hmm, not bad, it¡¯s pretty cool. We need to take a picture of this Arthas statue. ¡± The brawny man went over and took a selfie in front of Arthas¡¯s statue. This brawny man was called Zhao Xuhui, and he was a fitness coach. He had a small hobby, which was ying horror games. Zhao Xuhui lived in the imperial capital. When he heard that Chen Mo had released a new horror game, he immediately came over to try it out. Zhao Xuhui walked into the hall on the first floor of the experience store and realized that there were quite a lot of people. Zhao Xuhui went to the front desk.¡±Hello. I would like to try out the new game.¡± The receptionist smiled.¡±Okay, please swipe your id here. The VR experience area is on the third floor. You can find it by taking the elevator.¡± Zhao Xuhui swiped his id at the front desk. At this moment, a chubby young man walked towards him. ¡°You¡¯re here to try oust too?¡± Zou Zhuo asked. ¡°Yeah, you too?¡± Zhao Xuhui nodded. Zou Zhuo nodded,¡±yes, but I¡¯m a coward. I¡¯m only here to support the manager¡¯s new game.¡± But I heard that the game was too scary, so I didn¡¯t have the courage to ...¡± Zhao Xuhui didn¡¯t think much of it. ¡°It can¡¯t be that serious. You haven¡¯t even yed yet and you¡¯re already scared?¡± Zou Zhuo pointed at the seven or eight yers in the lobby,¡±¡±They¡¯re all here to try out oust, but after five minutes, they were so scared that they left the game cabin and came to the hall to calm down. These are the bold ones, and a few of them were scared away. ¡± ...... Zhao Xuhui was speechless. That¡¯s why people nowadays have such poor mental fortitude! It¡¯s just a horror game. You know that everything inside is fake, and even if you die in the game, you won¡¯t lose a piece of flesh in reality, but you don¡¯t even dare to y? He was too weak! Zhao Xuhui patted zou Zhuo¡¯s arm,¡±¡±It¡¯s okay, don¡¯t be afraid. Come, let¡¯s experience it together.¡± Zou Zhuo hesitated,¡±actually, I haven¡¯t decided yet ...¡± Zhao Xuhui said nonchntly,¡±I haven¡¯t thought about anything. You¡¯re already here.¡± Let¡¯s go, we can keep each otherpany. ¡± Zou Zhuo had been struggling in the lobby for a long time. Even though he was terrified, he was still curious about oust. Under Zhao Xuhui¡¯s encouragement, zou Zhuo was moved and he finally gathered his courage,¡±¡±Alright, let¡¯s go together!¡± Zhao Xuhuiughed.¡±That¡¯s more like it. My name is Zhao Xuhui. How should I address you?¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo. I¡¯m a regr here. Come, I¡¯ll take you to the third floor. ¡± Zou Zhuo introduced himself as he led Zhao Xuhui to the elevator. Zou Zhuo was very familiar with the experience store as it was like his own home. He soon arrived at the VR experience area. To Zhao Xuhui¡¯s surprise, there weren¡¯t many people ying in the VR experience area. Most of the gaming pods were empty. ¡°Why aren¡¯t many people ying?¡± Zhao Xuhui was a little puzzled. ¡°Oh, there were quite a lot of them in the morning, but they were all full.¡± Zou Zhuo exined,¡±but most of them quit after ten minutes. The regrs of the experience store were all scared out of their wits. They¡¯re all trying to calm down now. Some of them are chatting in the lobby on the first floor, and some of them have gone to eat. That¡¯s why there aren¡¯t many people now.¡± Zhao Xuhui was once again disdainful. What the hell? so many people had been defeated? He was too weak! People in the modern world were so fragile that they didn¡¯t even dare to y a horror game. As he felt a sense of superiority, Zhao Xuhui couldn¡¯t help but be curious. Just how scary was this game? One thing was for sure, oust was definitely different from those ridiculous domestic horror games. From the yers ¡®reactions, it was definitely a qualified horror game. When he thought about this, Zhao Xuhui started to have some expectations. Zhao Xuhui and zou Zhuo each chose a gaming pod and entered it. ¡°Brother, hang in there. Let¡¯s try to be the first batch of yers to clear the game in the experience store.¡± Zhao Xuhui said to zou Zhuo. Zou Zhuo¡¯s mouth twitched,¡±I ... I¡¯ll try to hold on for 20 minutes ...¡± Zhao Xuhuiughed in his heart. Twenty minutes? Ha, his expectations of himself were simply too low! It would take at least an hour! Very quickly, Zhao Xuhui¡¯s vision went ck and the screen switched to the game cabin. The interface was very clean, and there were only two games on it, Minecraft and oust. Zhao Xuhui chose oust and entered the game¡¯s initial setting. At this moment, Zhao Xuhui was facing an extremely blurry image. The entire image had a cold green-gray tone to it. The surroundings were all gray and blurry, and he couldn¡¯t see clearly. He could vaguely see that this was a scene simr to an abandoned hospital, and there seemed to be the shadow of a wheelchair nearby. There weren¡¯t many mysterious scenes and the screen directly showed the game¡¯s options. This overly simple scene actually made Zhao Xuhui¡¯s hair stand on end. Before the game started, a long series of system notifications popped up. ¡°Checking the yer¡¯s physical condition. Please wait ...¡± ¡°Heart and lung function normal. Breathing, heartbeat, pulse, blood pressure, all vital signs are stable. No past diseases or gic history. Health status normal. Fear level normal. You are allowed to y the game.¡± ¡°It has been detected that this is your first time ying the game, so only the refreshing experience and simple difficulty will be avable. When you clear the game with a clear experience, you will unlock the fully immersed experience and the higher difficulty of the game. ¡± ¡°In the course of the game, you will receive arge amount of visual and auditory stimtion, as well as a small amount of tactile stimtion. If you fall from a high altitude, you will feel a slight pain on your back. The pain will be controlled at about 3%, just to make the game experience more realistic. It will not affect your health in any way. ¡± ¡°During the game, you can exit at any time and the system will automatically save the game record for you. If your vital signs or terror points fluctuate violently and exceed the warning level for 5 seconds, the system will automatically kick you out. It will not affect your health. ¡± ¡°Lastly, I would like to emphasize that this is apletely fictional VR game and will not pose any threat to your life. We wish you an extraordinary gaming experience!¡± Zhao Xuhui was a little speechless. What the hell? Not allowing apletely immersive experience? ¡°What¡¯s with only releasing the refreshing experience and the simple difficulty? Wasn¡¯t the awakening experience just like scratching an itch through one¡¯s boot? what the hell was the meaning of that! Moreover, it had the function of automatically kicking out of the game? He even emphasized that this was just a game and would not pose any threat to his life? Do I need you to tell me? Do you think I¡¯m a three-year-old child? How could I not know that this is just a game? What a joke!¡± Zhao Xuhui started toin about this notification. In his opinion, this waspletely unnecessary! Chapter 360

Chapter 360: The first experience of oust

Afterining about how unnecessary the game was at the start, Zhao Xuhui officially entered the game. In the darkness, a sentence appeared in front of Zhao Xuhui¡¯s eyes. [You are miles apushe, an investigative journalist who has embarked on the world¡¯s most dangerous journey to hell.] ¡°Survive as long as possible, record everything you see, and uncover the dark secrets at the heart of the mountain mental hospital. [You are not a warrior. If you want to travel through the terrifying mental hospital and reveal the truth, your only choice is to escape, hide, or die.] Obviously, this paragraph hinted at the entire flow and background of the game, and emphasized one point: You can only run or hide. You can¡¯t put up any form of resistance. There were two types of horror games. One had abat system where one could use guns to defeat the enemy. The other did not have anybat system and could only run. There were also some horror games in the second form, but most of them were small-scale horror games. Currently, the mainstream VR horror games in foreign countries all came with abat system. After knowing that he couldn¡¯t hold a gun, Zhao Xuhui was a little nervous. However, he quickly muttered to himself,¡±¡±It¡¯s good that you don¡¯t have a gun. Otherwise, I¡¯ll y it as a first-person shooting game.¡± After entering the game, Zhao Xuhui found himself driving a car on a dark path in the night. At this moment, Zhao Xuhui still couldn¡¯t control the main character¡¯s actions. He could only look around freely. The slightly strange background music, the rustle of the car radio, and the dark environment made the whole game¡¯s scary atmospheree out. The main gate of the mountain mental hospital was open, and the protagonist drove in. ...... The security booth at the entrance was empty. The protagonist parked the car and picked up a document and a handheld digital video camera from the front passenger seat. This document was an email, exposing the dark truth about the mountain mental hospital to the protagonist. It was also because of this email that the protagonist drove here at night to investigate the truth hidden in the mental hospital. After reading the email, the protagonist automatically put it away, took the handheld DV in his hand, and plugged in a battery. After he pushed open the door and got out of the car, Zhao Xuhui officially gained control of the main character. At the same time, a line of words appeared in the center of Zhao Xuhui¡¯s field of vision. [New target: investigate the mountain mental hospital.] Zhao Xuhui wasn¡¯t in a hurry to move forward. Instead, he familiarized himself with the controls of the game. In the game, you could view notes and documents at any time, and you could also take out the DV camcorder at any time and observe through the perspective of the DV camcorder. In addition, you could also perform a series of actions, such as walking, opening the door, running, and so on. Zhao Xuhui took a few steps forward to get a feel of the atmosphere of the game. Obviously, the background of this horror game was set in a foreign country. Before entering the mental hospital, Zhao Xuhui saw a big sign on the side of the road. On it was written ¡°MOUNT MASSIVE ASYLUM¡±, which was the English name of the mountain mental hospital. In addition, all the buildings were in the same western style, and they looked very old, as if they were products from the 60s and 70s of thest century. Under the dim sky, the mental hospital, which did not have many lights on, was like a huge ck shadow, full of oppression and mystery. ¡°It¡¯s quite realistic, unlike those ugly horror games that don¡¯t have any atmosphere at all. Not bad, it¡¯s worthy of praise.¡± Zhao Xuhui pushed open a small door and arrived at the empty space in front of the main administrative building. There were a few anti-explosive military vehicles at the entrance of the main administrative building, which made Zhao Xuhui feel a little strange. He walked to the main entrance of the administrative building, but the door was locked and couldn¡¯t be opened. Very quickly, Zhao Xuhui found a small hole in the door on the left. He squatted down and went through it. Then, he used adder to climb up the scaffolding used for construction and came to a window. During this process, the game prompted Zhao Xuhui to do the necessary actions, such as zooming the camera, crouching, jumping, and so on. Zhao Xuhui realized that there were quite a lot of ways to operate the game. When jumping and climbing, the field of view would also change ordingly. It was very realistic, as if he was performing these actions in the real world. It was very immersive. Also, the main character would make some noise when he jumped and walked. Whenbined with the wind and the faint, terrifying background noise, it made Zhao Xuhui feel that it was more real. Zhao Xuhui went to the window and flipped in. The light in front of him suddenly crackled and went out. ¡°What the f * ck? It¡¯s such an old trick. ¡± Zhao Xuhui had seen this kind of killing before, so he didn¡¯t feel that there was anything particrly scary about it. It was just that his surroundings werepletely dark, which made him feel a little annoyed. ¡°Don¡¯t you have a shlight or something?¡± Zhao Xuhui was puzzled. In some foreign VR games, ying in the dark was amon strategy. This was because the darkness would increase a yer¡¯s sense of nervousness and help them control their emotions. However, in most simr games, the main character would have a shlight to light up the ce, in case he couldn¡¯t see anything inplete darkness. At that moment, the system prompted Zhao Xuhui. He raised his handheld video camera and turned on the night vision. ¡°Eh? This setting is not bad, it¡¯s new, I like it! It¡¯s very befitting of a reporter¡¯s identity!¡± Zhao Xuhui raised the camera and turned on the night vision. At this moment, all he could see was a cold green-gray tone, which looked very strange. It was even more terrifying than the light from the shlight. ¡°Yes, this feeling is great! Wow, using the night vision of the DV camcorder to observe, what a genius setting!¡± Zhao Xuhui couldn¡¯t stop praising him as he walked forward with the video camera in his hand. Zhao Xuhui pulled open a door that was left ajar and walked forward. Suddenly, the television that was turned off turned on by itself. It even let out a sharp noise, which gave Zhao Xuhui a shock. ¡°F * ck, you scared me to death!¡± Zhao Xuhui froze for a moment. After he realized that it was just a television, he calmed down a little. ¡°F * ck, it¡¯s just a TV, trash. You¡¯ve just praised the game, and now you¡¯re ying such a vulgar trick on me. Bad review!¡± As a veteran horror game yer, Zhao Xuhui obviously wouldn¡¯t be scared off in a ce like this. He knew very well that at the start of the game, in order to take care of the newbies, this ce wouldn¡¯t really kill monsters. At most, they would just let out a few screams and a few ghostly figures would sh by to scare people. He wormed through the gaps, climbed through the venttion duct, and arrived at a door that was left ajar. Zhao Xuhui pushed the door open without any warning. Suddenly, an upside-down body was thrown at him. It instantly filled Zhao Xuhui¡¯s vision. The melody suddenly became intense and the main character let out an ear-piercing scream. ¡°F * ck!!!¡± Zhao Xuhui was so scared that he screamed. His entire body trembled and he broke out in a cold sweat. Chapter 361

Chapter 361: The strange mental hospital

Zhao Xuhui had already opened many doors before, so he wasn¡¯t prepared this time. He was shocked by the corpse. ¡°Calm down, calm down, it¡¯s just a small scene, a small scene! Motherf * cking chicken, you scared this Grandpa to death!¡± Zhao Xuhui calmed himself down, turned on the night vision mode of his video camera, and continued walking. The house was a mess. Blood, corpses, and debris were everywhere. Many unidentified bodies were hanging from the ceiling. Under the night vision of the video camera, it looked like a scene of purgatory. Zhao Xuhui continued to walk forward. A dead man hanging by the window suddenly spoke, giving him a big scare. However, it was still not a big deal. In the end, they came to a corridor with rtively good light. A burly figure shed past and entered the door at the side. Zhao Xuhui subconsciously took a step back. After making sure that this guy wouldn¡¯te out again, he continued to walk in. ¡°Hehe, you¡¯re so flustered. I know, there won¡¯t be any monsters at this stage, it¡¯s just a visual effect, Hmph Hmph. ¡± Zhao Xuhui was at ease and darted into the narrow gap in front of him. But at that moment, Zhao Xuhui suddenly heard a hoarse and low roar,¡±¡°LITTLE PIG!¡± Dawn¡¯s vision started to shake violently. At the same time, he clearly felt that his right arm was grabbed by something, and his entire body was uncontrobly pulled out from the narrow gap. The protagonist let out a scream of horror. ¡°F * ck! F * ck! F * ck! What¡¯s going on?¡± Zhao Xuhui waspletely dumbfounded. Didn¡¯t they say that no monsters would appear at this stage? What the f * ck was this?! ...... A brawny, blood-stained humanoid monster with a ferocious expression grabbed the main character¡¯s neck and pushed him down from the second floor! ¡°F * ck, no, don ¡®t! Ah, Yingluo!¡± Zhao Xuhui also couldn¡¯t help but cry out. The main reason was that he had been caught off guard when he had crawled through the narrow crack. In that instant, the roar in his ears and the feeling of his right arm felt too real. The visual impact of being caught by the monster at such a close distance was also very strong. Even the saa on Fatty¡¯s head, the blood stains, and the sharp teeth were clearly seen. ¡°Bang!¡± The protagonist fell heavily to the ground, and Zhao Xuhui could clearly feel the impact on his back. Just like the system notification said, the impact was very light. It was like many phones vibrating on his back at the same time. However, when he was falling from a high altitude, the vibration made Zhao Xuhui feel as if he was really falling from a high altitude. He fell to the ground and his entire body trembled. Zhao Xuhui¡¯s vision went ck for a moment before it returned to normal. At this moment, he was lying on the floor, helplessly looking at the chandelier on the ceiling and the body on the ground. In his daze, a priest-like man came to him with a shlight and hummed a tune. ¡°Then, Who are you?¡± ¡°I understand now. Oh, merciful God, you¡¯ve sent a Messenger to me. Save your life, child. You¡¯ve been summoned. ¡± After saying a few random words, the priest disappeared. After a while, the protagonist slowly got up from the ground. Zhao Xuhui¡¯s hair was already standing on end. This series of strange experiences had given him a very preposterous feeling. Why would there be such a mental hospital in modern society that looked like it only existed in medieval Europe? It felt as if it waspletely out of touch with the real world! Furthermore, what was up with these corpses? Why are all the mental patients here? Where did the fatty who looked like a mutant creature and the mysterious prieste from? This didn¡¯t make any F * cking sense! Could it be that the people in this mental hospital suddenly had a gic mutation? That was too F * cking ridiculous! Thesepletely unexinable mysteries sent a chill down Zhao Xuhui¡¯s spine. The series of shocks he had just received made him feel a little nervous. If this was reality, he would have smashed the door and escaped without a care. However, it was a horror game that he had chosen, so he had to finish it even if he had to pee. Zhao Xuhui calmed himself down and started to look around. He was probably in the lobby on the first floor of the main administrative building. The ground was covered with the bodies of the guards. The door opposite him should be the door he had tried to enter earlier, but it was locked. At this moment, a new mission objective was refreshed: Escape from the mental hospital and enter the security room to unlock the main door. ¡°You¡¯re about to escape? Hmm, the plot is very reasonable. In this situation, any normal person would think of escaping ...¡± Zhao Xuhui was already thinking of giving up, but when he saw the mission notification that he could escape after entering the security room and unlocking the main door, he still insisted on ying. At this time, he was empty-handed, with nothing but a very power-draining broken DV camcorder. Zhao Xuhui missed those horror games that came with weapon systems so much. How nice would it be if he could get a shotgun! Even if he didn¡¯t have a gun, arge machete would do! However, the game¡¯s interface at the beginning told the yers that there were no weapons in the game. Zhao Xuhui suddenly felt a sense of despair. While looking for the key card to the security room, he met a few mental patients who were still alive, but these patients turned a blind eye to him. Except for a pervert in a wheelchair who suddenly pounced on him and asked for a hug, there was no other energy. His tense mind finally rxed a little. In the security room, the protagonist sat in front of theputer and began to unlock the main door. ¡°So, there shouldn¡¯t be any more problems after unlocking the main door, right?¡± ¡°After that, I¡¯ll be able to go out ... The hell! Your sister!¡± Before Zhao Xuhui could finish speaking, the priest in the lower right corner of the surveince video suddenly pulled the switch. The entire scene instantly turned ck. There was a power outage! ¡°F * ck, F * ck, F * ck, F * ck, F * ck!!!¡± Zhao Xuhui cursed in his heart. At the same time, there was a loud banging sounding from the security room¡¯s door! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! ¡°Damn, this time we¡¯re really farming monsters! He really farmed monsters! What do we do, what do we do, what do we do!¡± ¡°Hidden in the cab? NICE, there¡¯s a system notification. ¡± Zhao Xuhui hurriedly pulled open the cab next to him and hid inside. ¡°Bang!¡± The terrifying fatty broke into the house. He dragged the iron chain under his feet and began to patrol the house. The main character was hiding in the cab, panting heavily. Zhao Xuhui could clearly hear the main character¡¯s panting, and even he was shocked by it. Through the gap in the cab, Zhao Xuhui could clearly see Fatty¡¯s face. This brawny and bloodstained guy was a monster. His beast-like voice and heavy footsteps made Zhao Xuhui feel a chill down his spine. The fat man walked past him and opened the cab next to him. Zhao Xuhui was speechless. Even though he knew that this game didn¡¯t have a voice function and that making sounds outside of the game wouldn¡¯t affect the game, Zhao Xuhui was still very careful not to make any noise. Chapter 362

Chapter 362: The yers ¡®mental breakdown

Zhao Xuhui could feel his heart pounding. He was scared out of his wits. He couldn¡¯t find the main character, so fatty dragged the chain out. Before he left, he turned around and gave Zhao Xuhui, who was hiding in the cab, a second shock. Although he knew that this was all part of the plot, Zhao Xuhui still felt his heart beating wildly and his brain wascking oxygen. ¡°It¡¯s all fake, it¡¯s all fake, it¡¯s all fake ... Fake ... F ** K, it¡¯s too real, I was scared to death!!¡± After waiting for a long time, Zhao Xuhui finally came out of the cab. ¡°Damn, this is really scary! I feel that if I¡¯m really caught by this fatty, I¡¯ll definitely die, right?¡± ¡°So, my mission now is to go to the basement and restart the generator? F * ck, are you kidding me? I knew it wouldn¡¯t end so easily!¡± After reaching the basement, Zhao Xuhui quickly discovered something that made him break down. ¡°To restart the generator, I need to turn on the two air pumps and the main switch? The generator, the two air pumps, and the main switch are in four different ces?¡± ¡°You¡¯re not F * cking ying with me, right?¡± ¡°F**K!!¡± ¡°S**T!!¡± ¡°What should I do now? Help me! I want to get out!¡± ...... ¡°I don¡¯t want to go to the basement to find some damn generator!!¡± This was the first time Zhao Xuhui had felt so much despair. The basement waspletely dark, and his vision was severely limited. There was also a crazy person chasing after him. But now, he had no way to get out as all the roads were locked. The only way was to avoid the psychopath in the dark, thenplete a series of operations ording to the order and restart the generator! Zhao Xuhui was so regretful that his intestines had turned green. Why did he have to y this game?! Wasn¡¯t this just looking for trouble?! He had a strong urge to immediately open the game cabin and leave this dark ce. He took a look at the system time. It had only been less than 20 minutes since he had entered the game! ¡°Less than 20 minutes? Are you F * cking kidding me? I thought it¡¯s been almost an hour!¡± ¡°ording to the average game time of 4 ¨C 6 hours, no, if the shortest game time is 2 ¨C 3 hours, I¡¯ve only passed one-sixth?! You haven¡¯t even finished the first part?¡± ¡°F * ck, why am I ying this game? Why?¡± ¡°I can¡¯t take it anymore!¡± ¡°Mom, I want to go home!!!¡± Zhao Xuhui cried out in despair. ¡­¡­ In the VR experience area, zou Zhuo came out of the gaming pod with a pale face. ¡°Damn, that¡¯s too scary! It was too terrifying! I don¡¯t want to y it a second time!¡± Zou Zhuo wiped the cold sweat off his forehead. He felt like he was in a daze. He could only say that the aftereffects of oust were too obvious. He could still feel his heart beating wildly. Zou Zhuo ordered a cup of hot milk tea after he returned to the hall. He was going to sit on the sofa to calm himself down. Zou Zhuo looked at the sofa and saw a familiar figure. It was a big guy with muscles. Wasn¡¯t that Zhao Xuhui? What the hell? Zou Zhuo was also a little confused. He thought that Zhao Xuhui would be able to y longer than him, but why did hee down earlier than him? It had only been 20 minutes since he entered the game cabin, right? Moreover, the two of them were pale. They were obviously frightened. Zhao Xuhui saw zou Zhuo as well, and the atmosphere became a little awkward. Zhao Xuhui had said that he would y for a long time, but he hadsted even shorter than zou Zhuo, and they had even met. This was really embarrassing. Zhao Xuhui coughed dryly.¡±Ahem, I¡¯m suddenly a little thirsty. I wanted toe out and have some milk tea before continuing.¡± Zou Zhuo nodded,¡±yeah, I understand.¡± That ... Where are you?¡± ¡°Restart the generator,¡± Zhao Xuhui said. Zou Zhuo,¡±me too ...¡± The situation became extremely awkward. A bespectacled young man beside him said,¡±¡±Are you talking about escape? I only yed until I restarted the generator ...¡± Several yers in the hall had yed oust and immediately started discussing it. In the end, most of them had been defeated at the power generator¡¯s restart, while a small number had been thrown down the building by fatty. He had no choice, it was too scary, he couldn¡¯t hold on at all! It was just a game, but why did it feel like he was ying with his life? Soon, the yers seemed to have found an organization and began to discuss. ¡°Damn it, I really fell for the manager¡¯s trick! I thought that this game would at most be at the level of domestic horror games, but it¡¯s not! This game is a hundred times scarier than all the haunted houses in the country!¡± ¡°Yeah, the main thing is that we can¡¯t guess where the high energy is at all. We were shocked at the TV, we were shocked at the falling body, and fatty was even more shocked! My weak little heart can¡¯t take it anymore!¡± ¡°Restarting the generator really made me break down. The basement was dark, and I had to find four ces to hide from that pervert with the long wooden nails! F * ck, I died a few times there, I don¡¯t want to y anymore!¡± ¡°This game¡¯s atmosphere is too F * cking weird. The scariest thing is that it feels so real! It¡¯s both real and strange!¡± ¡°When fatty grabbed me, I could feel my right arm being grabbed. Although I knew it was fake, I was still scared to death!¡± ¡°I was so scared that I almost jumped out of the game cabin!¡± ¡°Is there anyone else who wants to continue the challenge?¡± ¡°No need! Goodbye!¡± ¡°I still want to try. Although this game is scary, it¡¯s really amazing to be able to make a horror game to this extent.¡± ¡°I¡¯ll give you a suggestion. You must go to the toilet before you continue ying, in case you pee in the game cabin ...¡± ¡°I¡¯ve already posted my experience on the forum,¡± the bespectacled guy said.¡±I¡¯m trying to get more people toe and y!¡± Zou Zhuo was dumbfounded.¡±What the f * ck? what grudge?¡± The bespectacled young man said,¡±I can¡¯t enjoy such a fun game alone!¡± We must let everyone experience it!¡± ¡°Alright,¡± he said. Zou Zhuo felt that he was right.¡±Where did you post it? I¡¯ll go and top it.¡± Everyone took out their phones.¡±That¡¯s right! Let¡¯s go and promote it too!¡± Zhao Xuhui secretly heaved a sigh of relief. It seemed like it wasn¡¯t just him; everyone had been defeated! In that case, I¡¯ve already opened two small air pumps, so I¡¯ve been ying for a longer time? As expected, as a professional horror game yer, I¡¯m still very good. Zhao Xuhui said,¡±everyone, is there anyone else who would like to experience it again?¡± Let¡¯s go togetherter! I have to say that this horror game is f * cking fun. This is a real horror game!¡± When he saw that everyone else was also scared like dogs, Zhao Xuhui suddenly felt better. Hepletely forgot that he had been scared half to death before. Chapter 363: A vicious cycle of curiosity and fear Chapter 363: A vicious cycle of curiosity and fear In the Thunderbolt gaming tform¡¯s general discussion area, a few posts caught the attention of the yers. ¡°Oust is so fun! It¡¯s the most fun game I¡¯ve ever yed in my life. Everyone,e and y!¡± ¡°Oust is too F * cking terrifying! It¡¯s simply too scary, don¡¯te!¡± ¡°It¡¯s said that all the yers of oust were defeated in ten minutes. Is there anyone who¡¯s willing to try and see how long they canst?¡± ¡°You guys might not believe it, but this game is really scary ¡­¡± Although these posts were all different, at least they sessfully proved one thing: Oust was a sessful horror game, and it didn¡¯t end up as a dissing game! This sessfully piqued the curiosity of other yers about oust. Everyone was very curious about what kind of horror game this was. How terrifying could he be? Which aspect was terrifying? Why did everyone retreat in ten minutes? Isn¡¯t this too fake? Many of the yers in the imperial capital were not convinced and expressed that they would let oust y for them! It was just a horror game. How scary could it be? Very quickly, everyone started leavingments below the post. ¡°Even though I feel like you¡¯re Chen Mo¡¯s fake reviewers, I¡¯ll still take the bait. I¡¯ll try the game in the experience store tomorrow.¡± ¡°Aren¡¯t you exaggerating too much? It¡¯s just a horror game, how scary can it be?¡± ¡°You bunch of cowardly rats, watch me show you a high-end operation!¡± ¡°Really? is it really that terrifying? I don¡¯t believe it!¡± The curiosity of many yers and streamers who were passionate about horror games was fully aroused. Everyone was very curious. What kind of horror game could make most people retreat in less than 20 minutes? ¡­¡­ The next day, a new batch of white mice arrived. ¡°I want to y the new game, oust!¡± The young people were obviously together and were very active at the front desk. The pale-faced people in the hall who were clutching their chests gave them sympathetic looks. Ah, ignorance is bliss. In the past, I was just as fearless as you. Now? He had to prepare some quick-acting cardiac pills every day. After the young men swiped their ID cards, they took the elevator to the third floor in high spirits. ¡°Come on, let¡¯s y together, let¡¯s y together. We¡¯ll hold hands on the way to escape. Whoever leaves first is a dog!¡± ¡°Hehe, I¡¯m someone who can walk through a haunted house upside down without a change in expression. What can a mere horror game do to me?¡± ¡°Hmph! I¡¯ll be the first person to clear oust today!¡± ¡­¡­ Fifteen minutester, the young men returned to the hall on the first floor with pale faces and hands on their chests. ¡°Fuck! This game is too F * cking scary, I¡¯m not ying anymore!¡± ¡°Didn¡¯t they say that whoever backed out first was the dog?¡± ¡°Woof! No, I mean, we¡¯ve obviously underestimated the horror of this game. I don¡¯t want to y it anymore! Don¡¯t ever do it a second time!¡± ¡°I¡¯m already traumatized by the game cabin!¡± ¡°I¡¯ve already taken a taxi! I want to go home!¡± ¡°Don¡¯t go. Don¡¯t you want to experience it again?¡± ¡°Experience my ass! If you want to experience it, experience it yourself. Don¡¯t drag me along if you¡¯re courting death. Goodbye!¡± Soon, more and more yers were drinking milk tea in the hall on the first floor, and there was not enough space on the sofa. The strange thing was that the yers who had been scared pale by oust did not dissuade the other yers from ying. Instead, they piqued their curiosity. How scary was this game? As wave after wave of yers came down from the third floor of the VR experience area, there were even more yers in the PC experience area who were eager to try out the new VR horror game. Just like that, the yers in the experience store were caught in an infinite loop of ¡°curious, scared, more people are curious, more people are scared,¡± The yers who had tried oust couldn¡¯t wait to post in the Thunderbolt gaming tform¡¯s general discussion area, and the content of the posts was very different. Some said that the game was very scary, some said that it wasn¡¯t scary at all, some said that it was very fun, and some said that it was scary ¡­ Some people were telling the truth and sharing their real experiences, while others were lying to trick more people into ying. Those who weren¡¯t in the imperial capital and couldn¡¯te to the experience store to y oust were all very curious about what kind of game it was. ¡­¡­ ¡­¡­ On the 23rd of September, oust was officially released! Chen Mo didn¡¯t use too many advertising methods this time, since oust was a VR horror game. In China, games like this were extremely rare, and the hype itself was enough to create a lot of hype with the yers ¡®rmendation. Many of the yers who had been paying attention to the game had heard about the details of the game after the trial in the experience store. This game was very scary! In fact, most of them would be expelled in the first 20 minutes! However, this made oust more and more famous. Many fickleizens even flooded the livestreaming rooms of major streamers, asking them to try out this new horror game. ¡­¡­ Fish-catching live broadcast tform, Lin Xue¡¯s live broadcast room. Lin Xue, who had just finished a ranking match, was resting andmunicating with herizens. ¡°What? You want me to y Chen Mo¡¯s new game, oust?¡± ¡°Isn¡¯t that a horror game? I don¡¯t want to y! Don¡¯t even think about it!¡± ¡­¡±If you don¡¯t want to y, cancel the subscription and close it? Wow, are you guys that cruel? Do you really want to see a cute streamer like me y such a scary game?¡± ¡°There are actually so many people asking ¡®want to see¡¯? You ¡­ I misjudged you!¡± Lin Xue wanted to ignore these people, but for some reason, theseizens became more and more enthusiastic. In the end, the entire screen was filled withments like ¡°please y oust!¡± Lin Xue was speechless. She had been following Chen Mo¡¯s new game for a long time, but she immediately gave up when she heard it was a horror game. F * ck, Chen Mo¡¯s VR horror game can be yed? It scared people to death! As the saying went,¡±you can avoid the first day, but you can¡¯t avoid the fifteenth day.¡± Xue Lin didn¡¯t want to mention this at all, but the audience asking to watch oust was getting more and more, and she could no longer ignore it. ¡°Sigh, alright.¡± Lin Xue sighed helplessly.¡±Let¡¯s make this clear first. If I get into a particrly scary part of the game, I¡¯m going to quit immediately. I can¡¯t guarantee that I¡¯ll be able to clear the game.¡± Xue Lin stood up and went to open her VR gaming pod. The viewers immediately became alert and started spamming the bullet screen. ¡°Wow, Xue is really going to y oust! Well done!¡± ¡°You guys are so cruel. Xue is such a quiet and lovely girl. How can she stand such a scary game? You guys are not real fans!¡± ¡°What game is this? who has yed it before?¡± ¡°I yed with it for a while. All I can say is, do you really think Xue is the only one who would be frightened? Hehe, too naive. Everyone watching the live broadcast will be scared to death!¡± Chapter 364

Chapter 364: Sweeping the entire streaming circle

Very quickly, Lin Xue¡¯s VR gaming pod was ready. The live broadcast screen went ck for a moment, and the signal source was switched. When the screen lit up again, the live broadcast signal was being transmitted through the VR gaming pod. Manyizens typed,[let¡¯s change to a VR gaming pod to experience it with Xue!] When the host used the VR gaming pod to stream, the audience had two ways to watch the stream. One was the traditional live streaming website, which could be watched on PC, mobile, or home TV. However, the game screen would automatically change to the PC version, which meant that the VR view would automatically change to the PC view. The other way was to use the VR gaming pod to watch. All VR gaming pods came with the function of watching live streams, and they were automatically equipped with a live streaming tform. If you watched the live broadcast through the VR gaming pod, the experience would be exactly the same as the host ying the game, but you couldn¡¯t control the character yourself. Many yers preferred to use VR gaming pods to watch live broadcasts because it was more immersive, just like ¡°possessing¡± a live streamer for better effects. So, after hearing that Xue Lin was going to stream a new VR game, all the yers went to change their gaming pods to watch the live stream. However, there were also some yers who had already experienced oust who wereughing at the audience who had switched to VR gaming pods to watch the livestream. ¡°He¡¯s actually using a VR gaming pod to watch a live broadcast? I¡¯m afraid that your brains are damaged, and you¡¯ll be scared to the point of peeing like Xue! 23333¡± Soon, the live signal was adjusted and Xue Lin entered the game world of oust. ¡°This game ... Is it toote for me to quit now?¡± Standing in front of the main administration building of the mountain mental hospital, Xue Lin spoke to the audience in a slightly trembling voice. ...... The dim street lights, the dark night, the overgrown ground ... The main administrative building looked like a haunted house under the night sky. Xue Lin could feel the wind and the faint chirping of insects in her ears. Coupled with the strange background music and the panting of the protagonist due to fear, the whole scene was extremely strange. In such a quiet environment, every movement of the protagonist would make a loud noise, as if it was constantly knocking on Xue Lin¡¯s eardrums. At this moment, not only Xue Lin, but all the audience members felt a sense of panic from the bottom of their hearts. ¡°F * ck, this is a mental hospital? This scene looks so horrifying!¡± ¡°Nonsense! This is a horror game!¡± ¡°This ... Isn¡¯t this too different from the horror games in China? I¡¯m starting to regret watching the livestream in the VR gaming pod. It¡¯s already so scary without any enemies. How scary will it be when we encounter ghostster!¡± ¡°Actually, there are no ghosts in this game. But ... There are many things that are scarier than ghosts!¡± For the audience who watched the live stream in VR gaming pods, their gaming experience was exactly the same as Lin Xue ¡®s. Their vision, hearing, and touch were all basically synchronized. However, it was hard to back down now. Neither Lin Xue nor the audience could back out now. Otherwise, they would be theughingstock of ¡°being scared off after just three minutes of entering the horror game¡±. Xue Lin stood in front of the main administration building of the mental hospital, not forgetting to take some time to nce at the bullet screen. When live streaming in the VR gaming pod, the host could open a window in the upper right corner of the game vision to see the yers ¡®bullet screen messages. This window could be opened and closed at any time to prevent it from affecting the host¡¯s game process. What touched Xue Lin was that thements were all encouraging her to continue walking. ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll experience this horror game with everyone today! I was quite scared at first, but with everyone¡¯s support, I instantly have the courage. Yes!¡± After drilling a hole, climbing adder, and jumping in from the first window, the lights went out with a timely crackling sound. ¡°Ah! What the hell is this!¡± Xue Lin was shocked by the darkness in front of her, and her exaggerated screams shocked the audience again. ¡°Damn, I was scared to death by ah Xue!¡± ¡°Xue, have you never yed horror games before? He¡¯s so cute that he¡¯s actually scared by such amon ¡°extinguish the light¡± move. ¡± ¡°I feel like Xue¡¯s screams are scarier than this game ...¡± Xue Lin was a little embarrassed,¡±¡±I¡¯m sorry. I wasn¡¯t mentally prepared at all, so I got a shock. But this melody is really scary ...¡± Xue Lin turned on the night vision function of the handheld DV ording to the system prompt, but she didn¡¯t feel any better at all. The DV camcorder¡¯s vision was still severely limited, and it could only see a small area in front of it. In addition, the infrared vision turned the whole picture into a cool greenish-gray color, which made the weirdness even worse. Xue Lin could feel her heart pounding and her blood pressure rising. ¡°I ... I¡¯ll continue ying. If you see the live broadcast signal cut off, remember to collect my body. My home address is ... Forget it, I won¡¯t tell you.¡± Bullet screen viewers: ¡°F * ck! Xue, in order to ensure your safety, tell us your address!¡± Xue Lin cracked a joke to ease her mood. She raised the camera again and walked into the darkness. ¡­¡­ It wasn¡¯t just Lin Xue, all the streamers on the major broadcasting tforms were flooded with bulletments from the water friends asking them to y escape. ¡°Host, please y oust!¡± ¡°Host, hurry up and y oust! You¡¯ll be outdated if you don ¡®t!¡± ¡°Xue¡¯s just a girl, yet you dare to y with her. Streamer, don¡¯t be a coward!¡± Most of the streamers didn¡¯t even know about oust, as Chen Mo didn¡¯t spend much effort on promoting it and just let the yers spread it around. The streamers were also surprised. Why did the audience want to watch oust so much? What kind of game is this? Soon, arge number of ignorant live streamers were lured into the pit of oust by maliciousizens. A storm of blood was about to sweep through the entire broadcasting circle ... ¡­¡­ At night, when he clicked on the front page of fish-catching live streaming tform and casually nced at the cover of the live streaming rooms, he realized that almost half of the live streaming rooms were broadcasting oust. You could hear the host¡¯s shrieks when you clicked into any of the live broadcast rooms. ¡°Ah Yingluo! I was scared to death, why is there a person here! The F * ck!¡± ¡°Fatty is chasing me, help, help, help! Ah, Yingluo!¡± ¡°Hiding in the cab? this time you should ... F * ck, why did he pull me out of the cab?!¡± ¡°I can¡¯t stand it, I can¡¯t stand it! Hurry up and let me get out of this damn ce!¡± ¡°There¡¯s no battery, what should I do, there¡¯s no battery!!¡± ¡°I feel like I¡¯m having a severe headache right now, and my hands and feet are starting to go numb. I really doubt if I can walk out of the game cabin alive ...¡± ¡°I¡¯m so scared that the fatty will be waiting for me at the door. Open the door ... Ah! He is really waiting for me here! I was wrong, big brother, please let me go!¡± ¡°Where should I go! Who among theizens can point me in the right direction? where should I go? Help, mom, someone is chasing me!¡± Ghostly wails and wolf howls could be heard. Chapter 365

Chapter 365: Scissorhands specialize in cutting fingers

Some of the more timid audience members were on the verge of a mental breakdown. What the hell was today? was it Halloween? Why did the streamers start ying the horror game as if they had discussed it beforehand? It would have been fine if it was just a normal horror game, but the point was that this game called oust was too F * cking scary! This scene, this plot, this background sound, this game atmosphere, this night vision mode, and the screams of the hosts ... It was really scary! The audience watching the live broadcast in the VR gaming pods were filled with regret. They climbed out of the gaming pods in less than ten minutes and continued to watch on their phones andputers. It couldn¡¯t be helped, this game could really kill people to experience it in VR! When the main character was running for his life, the monster that was chasing him suddenly knocked on the main character¡¯s back. This touch would be transmitted to the yers in the game cabin at the same time. This feeling was terrible! Just like many people who yed horror games or watched horror movies on PC, if someone suddenly stabbed you in the back when you were especially focused, you would be scared to the point of peeing in your pants! The audience climbed out of the game cabin one after another while sighing. It was already so scary just by looking at it. How scary would it be if they were to y the game in the game cabin? It was no different from being in the same realm! Moreover, this kind of horror wasn¡¯t just visual and auditory horror, but more of a psychological horror. In a dark environment, one¡¯s vision was limited, and one could only check the surrounding environment through the night vision function of the DV camcorder. Moreover, there could be a madman running out at any time and ce to cut you to death. This kind of fear of the unknown was really terrible! What was worse was that the main character in this game could not resist at all. He could only run or hide! Some streamers who have no sense of direction are really driven to the end by monsters. They are in as much despair as they can be. Even some of the live streamers who had yed horror games before were so scared that they peed their pants. They all expressed that this game was too F * cking perverted! ...... Soon, oust¡¯s poprity spread from the VR gaming area to the PC gaming area. All the streamers who had VR gaming pods were experiencing it, and even many big streamers of League of Legends were lured into ying by the fickleizens! Except for a small number of anchors who were determined and determined, the other curious anchors had all fallen for the game. They were scared out of their wits after entering the game. This mentality of ¡®letting the streamer be tortured¡¯ drove more fickleizens to other livestreaming rooms to continue spreading the gue of oust ... All of a sudden, the entire livestream circle was filled with grief, and everyone was shrouded in the shadow of the mountain mental hospital ... ¡­¡­ In Xue Lin¡¯s live broadcast room. Even though she had been so scared that she wanted to quit the game a few times, Lin Xue still persevered. Even theizens were touched and sent encouraging bulletments. ¡°Xue¡¯s so powerful. She¡¯s the only female streamer to reach this point. She¡¯s so strong!¡± ¡°Xue looks so cute when she¡¯s crying. She¡¯s exining the game in a serious tone even when she¡¯s crying. She¡¯s so professional. I strongly request that fish-catching gaming tform award her with a professional live streamer award of the year!¡± ¡°I was so scared just now that I went out for a meal. When I came back, Xue was still live-streaming? It¡¯s too awesome!¡± ¡°Wow, the nouveau riche has given me a gift! NICE, Xue has sessfully proven that she¡¯s a capable streamer. She can dominate the fish-catching live streaming tform without relying on her looks!¡± The effect of livestreaming horror games was indeed explosive, especially when girls livestreamed horror games. The gifts in Xue Lin¡¯s channel were almost non-stop, and the number of viewers was increasing. ¡°Phew, I¡¯m finally out of the sewers. I¡¯m really going to die Here ...¡± Lin Xue panted non-stop, triggering a wave ofments: ¡°Benefits for moaning in pain!¡± This part of the sewer was too depressing. Lin Xue almost went crazy when she first entered the scene. She could only use the night vision of the DV to see the way in the dark sewer. The fat man kept walking around, trying to find the protagonist. Fortunately, even though Xue Lin had a bad sense of direction, she had activated her innate skill [passive navigation]. She always found the exit in panic and fear, and sessfully passed through the sewer. ¡°So, this ce should be out of the range of the sewer. It¡¯s called ... The male ward?¡± The setting in the male ward was slightly better. The overall brightness was not bad, and everything looked calm. Lin Xue had already gotten used to this environment. So far, Lin Xue had already yed for one and a half hours (with a 20-minute break in between). Her fragile nerves had slowly gotten used to it after being scared so many times. At least, when she encountered those perverts, Xue Lin knew that the first thing she did was to run for her life instead of waiting for death. But just as Lin Xue jumped down from the venttion duct, the melody suddenly became tense! ¡°Meat! I want to eat meat! Eat the meat!¡± There were at least two or three mental patients screaming madly, and they began to smash the door madly. ¡°Ah Yingluo! It¡¯s here again! Another monster!°¡°¡°¡°¡,¿ìÕÒÃÅ,°¡,ÕâÀïÓÐÉÈÃÅ!¡± Xue Lin was still running like crazy, and the mental patients were chasing her. This was a long chase thatsted for at least three minutes. Under such urgent circumstances, three minutes felt like years. Xue Lin was screaming the entire time. Fortunately, her innate skill [passive navigation] still came into y. She actually managed toplete it in one go and ran to thest room. At this time, a voice came through the speaker next to the small elevator,¡±¡±Who is it? You¡¯re not one of them, right? Hurry up, if you want to live, get into the elevator!¡± The small lift in front of her slowly descended. Xue Lin was like a drowning person who had found a life-saving straw. She ran desperately towards the small lift. Finally, the protagonist climbed into the small elevator and closed the iron fence. The few mental patients with hideous faces knocked on the fence of the small elevator, but the protagonist sessfully escaped. ¡°Waa! I was scared to death!¡± Xue Lin felt like she was a cripple,¡±there¡¯s actually a normal person in this ce, Oh my God!¡± ¡°As expected, there¡¯s always a way out. After all, he¡¯s the protagonist. He¡¯s so lucky that someone would lend a helping hand in this kind of mental hospital. Wow, this makes me feel a little warm.¡± Just as Xue Lin¡¯s voice fell, the small lift had already reached the upper floor. ¡°You¡¯ve made the right choice, buddy.¡± A tall monster was standing at the entrance of the small elevator. He looked no different from those mutated monsters, except that he was wearing sses and a broken mask. His upper body was naked, and his lower body was only wrapped in a piece of rag. He looked like a perverted psychiatrist. It wasn¡¯t a Doctor Who treated mental illnesses, but a Doctor Who already had mental illnesses! Chapter 366

Chapter 366: I really want to see Chen Zhao pee himself

¡°WHAT?!¡± Xue Lin didn¡¯t even have time to cry out before the perverted doctor swung his fist and knocked the protagonist unconscious. ¡°F * ck! I was tricked by him! Waa, help!¡± Xue Lin was on the verge of a mental breakdown. What the hell? why did I have to go through so much trouble to escape from those mental patients, only to meet an even more terrifying mental patient! Moreover, judging from this guy¡¯s expression, movements, and lines, he was a mini-BOSS like fatty! Although Lin Xue quickly understood that this was a plot kill, thepletely unexpected reversal still made her keep repeating ¡°F ** K¡± in her heart! The perverted doctor threw the protagonist onto the wheelchair, tied his hands together, and pushed the wheelchair forward. At this moment, Xue Lin felt that the protagonist waspletely out of control. He could only be pushed slowly in the long and dark corridor by the crazy doctor. This feeling of having no control over his own body was extremely depressing, making Xue Lin¡¯s fingertips numb. Xue Lin looked around and said in a trembling voice,¡±¡±This ... Where are we ... Going? I ... I have an extremely bad feeling ...¡± When they came to a door, the perverted doctor said in a rather yful voice,¡±¡±I like the air in the mountains at night. Do you want to go out for a walk? Go, I¡¯ll wait for you here. Go, run freely! Oh, you don¡¯t want to go? That¡¯s fine. ¡± The perverted doctor continued to push the main character inside. Xue Lin was furious. What the hell? why was this monster here to y with the protagonist? This must be Chen Zhao¡¯s bad taste! Kill that bastard Chen Zhao! ...... Not only did he create such a scary game, but he also used the monsters ¡®mouths to make fun of the yers! Shameless! ¡°HERE WE ARE.¡±(We¡¯re here.) ¡°Thank you very much foring. We¡¯ll start immediately. I need to wash my hands first ...¡± The perverted doctor pushed the main character into an extremely dark room and turned on the light. Xue Lin saw the sink in front of her was covered in blood and her bad feeling became even stronger. The perverted doctor was rambling about the ¡°difference in ideas¡± between him and the priest while fiddling with all kinds of blood-stained sharp weapons on the dirty tool table. A boning knife, a vegetable knife, a pair of big scissors ... The perverted doctor muttered to himself as he fiddled with the knives and gestured on the protagonist¡¯s right hand. ¡°What?¡± Xue Lin was also scared.¡±What is this pervert trying to do?¡± ¡°Money has be a matter of faith. This is also the reason why I¡¯m here. I want to give in! You guys! I believe in you!¡± After a series of illogical mumblings, the crazy doctor suddenly picked up a pair of big scissors that was more than half a meter long and cut down on the main character¡¯s right hand! ¡°Ah, Yingluo!!¡± Lin Xue almost screamed at the same time as the main character! In the nervous BGM, Lin Xue¡¯s vision became blurry and filled with blood. The protagonist began to struggle violently, not daring to look at his right hand. However, this only made the scene even more terrifying! Xue Lin could clearly feel the continuous pain from her right index finger. Although the pain was not severe, it was enough to make her heart beat faster and her blood pressure rise! But it wasn¡¯t over yet. The crazy doctor raised the big scissors again and cut off the ring finger of the protagonist¡¯s left hand! Xue Lin could clearly see the protagonist¡¯s two hands. At this time, his hands were covered in blood. The ring finger on his left hand and the index finger on his right hand had been cut off. His vision was also blurred because of the pain. Xue Lin could feel the continuous paining from her fingers. The pain was not strong, but it was enough to block out any other feeling. In other words, Xue Lin really had a feeling that her two fingers had been cut off! The game continued, but Xue Lin was no longer in the mood to y. ¡°Ah! I¡¯m not ying anymore! I¡¯m not ying anymore!¡± Lin Xue didn¡¯t even bother to look at what her fans were saying. She directly exited the game and climbed out of the game cabin. She touched her two fingers with lingering fear. Well, fortunately, they were not really cut off ... What the hell is this game! Why would there be a plot like cutting fingers? It was really frightening! Xue Lin felt that she was in a daze after ying for so long. It seemed that she would not be able to sleep well tonight! Xue Lin could feel her heart beating faster and her blood pressure rising. She was like the main character in a game, and her breathing was involuntarily rapid. After ending the broadcast in a hurry, Xue Lin turned on the TV and adjusted the volume of a skit to the maximum. Ten minutester, she still felt a little scared. There was only one thought in Xue Lin¡¯s mind. Chen Mo¡¯s horror game really shouldn¡¯t be yed! ¡­¡­ Soon, all kinds of trial videos and livestreams of oust appeared on the inte, and more and morements about the game began to appear. ¡°F * ck, what have I done? why am I ying this game? why!¡± ¡°It¡¯s too F * cking terrifying. I was defeated within ten minutes. It¡¯s so scary!¡± ¡°Damn it, how can I escape in this kind of ce? I¡¯d rathermit suicide, okay?¡± ¡°Everyone, please don¡¯t y. It¡¯s easy to get heart disease, chest tightness, panic, and many other diseases. If you have the above symptoms, please remember to leave to ensure your safety!¡± ¡°F * ck, isn¡¯t the main character a modern person? why didn¡¯t he bring his phone with him when he had a DV? Shouldn¡¯t we call the police now?¡± ¡°Did you guys notice? oust is the same as excavating for Ascension. It¡¯s flooding all streaming tforms and video websites. Chen Mo is doing this on purpose, he¡¯s taking revenge on society!¡± ¡°Yeah, why would he make a horror game instead of an RPG? Chen Mo is definitely up to no good!¡± ¡°I only have one thought now. I want to kill that bastard Chen Zhao! I was so scared that I peed my pants when I watched the video. How scary would it be if I yed it myself?¡± ¡°I really want to know how Chen Mo would fare if he yed this game himself. F * ck, I left a message on his Weibost time for him to y excavate, but he managed to get away with it. I¡¯m definitely going to let him y it this time!¡± ¡°That makes sense, the host is already sick of watching highlights of Chen Mo pissing himself, I want to watch a video of Chen Mo pissing himself!¡± ¡°That¡¯s right, that makes sense. How can we let Chen Zhao go? I have to let him experience the feeling of being scared to the point of peeing his pants like the other streamers!¡± ¡°What if he doesn¡¯t pay attention this time?¡± ¡°Go and leave a message on Weibo!¡± ¡°Do you think Chen Zhao would care with his shameless personality?¡± ¡°Then ... Are there any rich people? The nouveau riche offered a reward for him to y!¡± ¡°Are you F * cking kidding me? Would Chen Mo be short of money? He threw you double the amount!¡± ¡°Wow, what should I do then? I feel like my life has lost its meaning if I can¡¯t watch Chen Mo¡¯s live broadcast of oust!¡± ¡°Quick, who can think of a way to provoke Chen Mo into ying oust!¡± ¡°That¡¯s impossible. Chen Zhao¡¯s a steady old dog. He won¡¯t be provoked.¡± ¡°Anyway, let¡¯s leave a message on Chen Mo¡¯s Weibo!¡± Soon, the yers all leftments on Chen Mo¡¯s Weibo, strongly requesting him to stream oust for everyone to see. Chapter 367

Chapter 367: Chapter 366-crazy difficulty

Basically, three days after oust was released, most of the streamers who were willing to y horror games had already yed the game and were so scared that they peed their pants. Some enthusiastic yers even edited the highlights of the streamers and posted them on the inte. The audience had no interest in teasing the streamers. No one knew who started it, but everyone suddenly realized that they should let Chen Mo y oust! How could he forget about such a terrifying game? Even though Chen Mo was a top yer in both Warcraft and League of Legends, horror games were different. They didn¡¯t test one¡¯s micro-control or reaction speed, but one¡¯s inner calmness. Chen Mo really couldn¡¯t get used to it. After all, a few big streamers of League of Legends had peed their pants in oust. A lot of people were imagining Chen Mo panicking in oust after acting cool in Warcraft and League of Legends, and the more they thought about it, the more they felt it was too beautiful to look at! It didn¡¯t take long for all the invitations to be pushed to the top, and many people sent private messages and left messages on Weibo, tagging Chen Mo all sorts of times, wanting to see him y oust. He used all kinds of threats and promises. However, most of the yers knew that the chances of blowing Chen Mo out were slim, because he didn¡¯t need to consider the audience¡¯s preferences or the effects of the show. He didn¡¯t even turn on his mic when he livestreamed League of Legends. With his poprity, he could easily stream League of Legends with millions of viewers, but what about Chen Mo? He just didn¡¯t broadcast it. Ever since he reached the top, he had never appeared on the live streaming tform again. Why would a person like him take the risk of peeing his pants to broadcast oust? Slowly, they lost their hope because Chen Zhao didn¡¯t respond at all. In the end, to everyone¡¯s surprise, Chen Mo actually posted on Weibo! ¡°Oust will be livestreamed at 12:00 tonight. Everyone,e and watch. This game isn¡¯t scary at all.¡± The onlookers were dumbfounded. What the hell? Chen Mo was really going to livestream oust? ...... Could it be that our persistent messages and private messages touched him, and our sincerity finally broke through? However, Chen Mo¡¯s choice of time was really awkward. Broadcasting oust on midnight, was he trying to scare people to death? Very quickly, some yers expressed that they were determined not to watch it! This was definitely Chen Zhao¡¯s scheme! It would definitely be scary to watch an escape on 12 at night! However, some yers said that it was already good enough that Chen Mo was willing to broadcast oust, why was he being so picky? Besides, horror games should only be yedte at night for it to feel good! The news spread like wildfire, and oust¡¯s poprity skyrocketed as it flooded all streaming tforms and video streaming sites. Thebination of Chen Mo and oust¡¯s hot topics made the yers ¡®anticipation for the live stream reach a peak! ¡­¡­ At 11:50 that night, arge number of viewers gathered in Chen Mo¡¯s stream, chatting in the dark. The timing was just right, most of the famous streamers were already resting, some of them would continue until 1 pm, but the audience was already sick of it, so they decided to join Chen Mo¡¯s stream. ¡°Where¡¯s Chen Mo? Why aren¡¯t they here yet?¡± ¡°It shouldn¡¯t be time yet,¡± ¡°Do you guys think Chen Zhao will stand us up?¡± ¡°That¡¯s impossible. Chen Mo has always been on time for his livestreams. He¡¯s never stood anyone up.¡± ¡°Eh? There was a picture! It¡¯s here, it¡¯s here!¡± An image of a VR gaming pod appeared in the livestream room. It was the login interface of oust. The audience was immediately excited. With Chen Mo¡¯s live stream, many viewers received a notification and the number of viewers instantly increased! ¡°Wow, Chen Mo won¡¯t turn off his microphone like he did in League of Legends, will he?¡± ¡°That¡¯s possible. It¡¯d be embarrassing if he screamed while ying. I think Chen Mo might just turn off the microphone.¡± ¡°I really want to hear Chen Zhao¡¯s screams!¡± While thements were still going on, Chen Mo finally spoke. ¡°Hello? Can you hear me?¡± After getting an affirmative answer, Chen Zhao continued,¡±¡±A lot of people have been sending me private messages recently, telling me that oust is too difficult to y and too scary. That¡¯s why I¡¯m doing a live stream today to demonstrate the game to everyone. ¡± ¡°Don¡¯t be afraid, everyone. This game isn¡¯t scary at all, even though I haven¡¯t really yed it after it was made. But! I can guarantee with my integrity as a video game designer that this horror game is only above average in my mind. In fact, it¡¯s just a low-budget adventure game with a bit of puzzle-solving nature. It¡¯s not as scary as everyone thinks it is. ¡± Chen Mo yawned.¡±Just in time. I¡¯m a little sleepy. Let¡¯s clear the game and go to sleep.¡± The audience was speechless. He still didn¡¯t forget to show off at this life and death moment? ¡°Not scary at all? I¡¯m afraid you¡¯ve lost your mind from bragging, right?¡± ¡°Only slightly above average? I¡¯ve yed a lot of horror games overseas, but I don¡¯t think there¡¯s anything scarier than this one, okay? Then, what do you think a horror game that¡¯s extremely scary looks like?¡± ¡°Yawning? wow, it feels like a ruthless provocation to my mountain mental hospital!¡± ¡°Clear the game and then go to sleep? Very good, the FLAG has been raised. I¡¯ll y with you until tomorrow morning!¡± Chen Mo¡¯s bragging drew the merciless ridicule of the audience, but he didn¡¯t care, because he couldn¡¯t be bothered to look at thements. Chen Mo chose a new game, but unlike other streamers, a difficulty menu popped up. ¡°Because the easy difficulty is boring, I used my developer privileges to make some changes. Let¡¯s y the crazy difficulty.¡± Chen Mo chose the ¡®crazy¡¯ difficulty and entered the game. The bullet screen instantly exploded! ¡°What the f * ck? Crazy difficulty! Chen Mo is crazy!¡± ¡°F * ck, you can y with this crazy difficulty? Many hosts don¡¯t want to y it a second time after clearing the easy difficulty!¡± ¡°Chen Zhao really is a little death-seeking expert. Alright, seeing as you¡¯re so brave, I won¡¯t pursue the matter of you acting cool just now. I¡¯ll wait for you to be taught a lesson by all kinds of monsters!¡± Oust had four difficulty levels: easy, hard, nightmare, and crazy. In the beginning, the yers started with the easy difficulty by default, and they could only challenge higher difficulties after clearing it. The higher the difficulty, the less battery the DV camcorder could carry, and the higher the damage of the monster. Many live streamers had already been tortured by the hard difficulty after clearing the easy difficulty, let alone the crazy difficulty. However, what was even more explosive was yet toe. After Chen Mo chose crazy difficulty, a chat box popped up. [Are you crazy?!] The crazy mode will give you the ultimate heartbeat experience, the highest difficulty, and there is no saving point. If you die, all progress will disappear, and you have to start from the beginning. [Are you really ready to be abused?] Chen Mo chose [yes] without hesitation. He also exined,¡±this hint is just to scare people. It¡¯s actually not that difficult.¡± Oh, but at this level of difficulty, there really isn¡¯t a saving point. This is true. ¡± There was another wave ofments. The audience watching the live broadcast was stunned. No save point? Then what the hell! Wouldn¡¯t that be the same as ¡°excavating the earth for Ascension¡±? Get killed by thest BOSS and start over? All the games he had yed before would be nullified? F * ck, this game can be yed like this? It was too F * cking exciting! Chapter 368

Chapter 368: The director of the mental hospital, Richard serente

Chen Mo started the game amidst the ¡± 666¡åments. He entered the mountain mental hospital, entered, jumped out of the window, and crawled into the venttion duct ... Most of the audience had already yed or watched the first half of oust, but there was still a small portion of the audience who hadn¡¯t watched it. However, regardless of whether the audience had seen it or not, they all had an illusion: It seemed that the game was not as scary as it used to be. Chen Mo exined in a calm tone as he yed. ¡°This television will ring for a while. Ignore it.¡± ¡°There¡¯s a battery in this room and a file in the room next door. I won¡¯t be taking it. Batteries are useless. ¡± ¡°A body will fall from the front door.¡± ¡°Fatty will throw me into this crack, and then we¡¯ll go through the plot.¡± Chen Mo didn¡¯t waste any time. He just told them the main points of the ce, including where there was high energy, where there were batteries, and where the documents were. The audience felt that something wasn¡¯t right. What was going on? why was he so calm? ¡°What the f * ck? What did Chen Zhao just say? The battery is useless? He could only get two batteries in Nightmare Mode! He actually said it¡¯s useless!¡± ¡°F * ck, you spoiled the plot of high energy! Bad review!¡± ¡°He¡¯s so calm ... And his tone doesn¡¯t change at all? You, did you get an adrenaline shot before you started streaming?¡± ...... ¡°F * ck, I suddenly thought of something. Chen Mo is a video game designer himself, so he should know where to farm monsters and where to farm batteries!¡± Many of the audience had a premonition that they might not be able to see Chen Mo pee his pants tonight. Chen Zhao didn¡¯t walk very fast, but he didn¡¯t stop at all. He soon arrived at the basement. This was also a ce where many new yers were dissuaded from. The lighting in the basement was very poor, and it was the first time a monster would appear to hunt yers down. In this ce, yers needed to turn on the two air pumps and the main switch. In other words, they had to run to four different ces while being surrounded by monsters. Many people got lost here and then lost. Many viewers were curious as to how Chen Mo was going to handle this segment. ¡°The next step is to restart the generator. Many people can¡¯t get through, but it¡¯s okay. Look at my route and follow it strictly when you¡¯re ying. ¡± ¡°Run for the entire journey and open two small air pumps. Many people would choose to open one, avoid the monster, and then open another. Actually, you can open both at the same time. There¡¯s more than enough time. ¡± ¡°After you¡¯re done, stand behind this pir for a while. When you see the monster break in, return to the previous room and hide in this corner. After he barged into the room six times, he would check the cab on the left. Then, he could leave and turn on the main switch. ¡± ¡°Hiding in the cab? No, no, no. He would not hide in the cab. He would hide in this corner because he would not look in that direction. We¡¯ll leave immediately after he enters the room. After activating the power supply, we¡¯ll return to the first floor. After entering this gap, we¡¯ll pass the first chapter. ¡± ¡°Look, isn¡¯t it very simple?¡± The yers were all stunned. What the hell? there was such a function? Chen Mo finished the basement that had many streamers stuck in for half an hour in five minutes? Many of the audience members expressed that their views on the world had been subverted! ¡°F * ck, you can y this game like this? Not picking up the battery, not going into the cab? He just found a corner and squatted there, and then he lost the monster?¡± ¡°What did Chen Zhao say?¡± Let¡¯s open this door first, because we¡¯ll being overter! F * ck, is this even an official spoiler?¡± ¡°Why do I have the feeling that Chen Zhao is very familiar with these mental patients? You know their movement patterns like the back of your hand!¡± ¡°Is this really nightmare difficulty? Why do I feel like it¡¯s even easier than the EASY difficulty? The monster didn¡¯t even touch me ...¡± ¡­¡­ Chen Mo exined at a steady pace as he advanced the plot. The prison building, the sewers, the men¡¯s ward, the courtyard ... The audience was surprised to find that Chen Mo seemed to know all these ces like the back of his hand. Chen Mo waspletely familiar with the difficult pursuits that other streamers would find difficult. Not only did he run smoothly without anyg, he even had a GPS navigation system and clearly exined where he would trigger the monsters! In just an hour, Chen Mo arrived at the female room. He was already halfway through the game. Many streamers would need two to three hours to reach this ce when ying the easy difficulty, but Chen Mo only took an hour. Moreover, Chen Mo was exining as he yed. If he wanted to go as fast as possible, he could probably shorten the time even more. Chen Mo continued to exin calmly. ¡°Although this ce is called the women¡¯s ward, it¡¯s a pity that there are no women here.¡± ¡°There¡¯s a more difficult part here, which is to get three fuses, and it¡¯s not easy to figure out the pattern of killing monsters, so it should be difficult for many people here.¡± ¡°But it¡¯s still the same as before. As long as everyone runs ording to what I¡¯ve taught you, there won¡¯t be any problems. These monsters won¡¯t even be able to see you.¡± ¡°After taking the first fuse, he went out and walked straight. He flipped over this bed and came to the opposite side. When he saw this strange personing out, he immediately turned back and waited for him at this position. He¡¯ll check the third fuse, so we can take the opportunity to get the second fuse in his room. ¡± ¡°After you get the second fuse, hide under this bed and wait for him. Of course, you could have taken other routes, but this corridor was rather narrow, so you would run into one no matter where you went. If it¡¯s easy difficulty, we can just take a hit from him and run over, but in nightmare difficulty, we¡¯ll be killed in one hit, so we can only hide under this bed. The other ces aren¡¯t easy to use. ¡± ¡°Actually, there¡¯s no need to turn on the DV here because there¡¯s a sound when this person goes over. I turned on the DV the whole time mainly for everyone to see. Actually, two batteries are more than enough for this game. You don¡¯t even need to pick up some of the batteries. ¡± ¡°After getting the three Safety Locks, we went back the way we came and got the key. Okay, this part is done. ¡± The viewers in the bullet screen were shocked. There was such a thing? ¡°F * ck, what the hell is this? Chen Mo can even recognize the way with his eyes closed!¡± ¡°Mental patient: F ** K, why is this neer more familiar with the ce than me?¡± ¡°It feels like the entire mental hospital is run by Chen Zhao!¡± ¡°The director of the mental hospital, Louis serente?¡± ¡°Chen Zhao: that¡¯s right. I made everything. Everything is under my control. Don¡¯t worry!¡± ¡°Jushan mental hospital-property under Chen Zhao¡¯s name.¡± ¡°Hahahaha, so familiar that it feels like it¡¯s your own home!¡± ¡°Is this still a horror game? There¡¯s nothing scary about the whole process. The main character just keeps jumping up and down, drilling holes and climbing walls. This is obviously a parkour game!¡± ¡°After all, the protagonist is a reporter. He runs so fast!¡± ¡°F * ck, why is Chen Zhao so calm? I¡¯ve seen other streamers get scared half to death when they y oust, but after watching Chen Mo¡¯s stream, I suddenly feel pity for the patients here. ¡± ¡°Monster: please show me some respect. After all, this is a horror game and I¡¯m the BOSS here!¡± Under Chen Mo¡¯s skillful control and calm exnation, the bulletmentspletely changed. The atmosphere that was weird, suspenseful, and scary at the start of the stream had now turned into a rxed, humorous, and funny atmosphere. Many of the audience members were dumbfounded. What the hell? wasn¡¯t this a horror game? Wasn¡¯t this a horror game that scared many streamers and made most of them quit after ten minutes? How did Chen Mo end up ying a parkour game in his backyard? Chapter 369

Chapter 369: The prize pool of the S1 Grand Final

The video of Chen Mo livestreaming oust in the middle of the night was quickly posted online, and many viewers who didn¡¯t dare to watch the livestream felt the same way: Howe Chen Mo¡¯s oust didn¡¯t seem scary at all? This gave many yers who had never yed oust the wrong impression that the game was really simple. As a result, many yers were at ease and tried the game. As for the ending ... Of course, they were still scared to death ... However, Chen Mo¡¯s live streaming of oust did indeed increase the sales of the game. Many yers who didn¡¯t know about the horror game or didn¡¯t dare to buy it were happy to add one more VR pod to their game. Many people thought that Chen Mo¡¯s stream would spoil the fun of oust, but it didn ¡®t. Chen Mo¡¯s stream was on the third day of the game¡¯s release. Most of the yers had already cleared oust by this time, since the game was less than two hours long. No matter how bad a yer was at directions, they would only need four to five hours to clear easy difficulty. Even if Chen Mo didn¡¯t stream, there would be other yers who loved horror games making livementary, game-clearing videos, and game-clearing strategies. Chen Mo¡¯s stream wouldn¡¯t affect their second creation at all. Moreover, even though Chen Mo had already shown the yers the correct way to clear the crazy difficulty, the other yers would still pee their pants in fear. If you don¡¯t believe me, you can download oust and try it out. In just three days, oust had sold more than 30000 copies. As a horror game with an extremely small audience, the sales were impressive. Oust was priced at 688 RMB, which was considered average among VR games. Oust didn¡¯t have a lot of investments, nor did it take a long time to develop. After all, in Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, oust was a low budget indie game with less than twenty people in the entire production team. It wasn¡¯t too difficult for Chen Mo to port it to VR, it was just an additional investment. On Thunderbolt gaming tform, oust had an unexpectedly high rating of 9.4. Most yers felt that this was a horror game that was scary enough. If there was only one word to describe it, it would be scary! ...... As for how scary it was? Different people had different views, such as the night vision of the DV camcorder, the ystyle of the nonbat system, the background and plot of the story, the realistic VR game experience, and so on. All of these were important elements to enhance the sense of horror. After the poprity of oust, not only VR yers, but also yers on PC and mobile tforms learned about the game through livestreaming and videos. The impact of oust had far exceeded the sales of the game. ¡­¡­ In the experience store, Chen Mo was looking at the schedule of the S1 finals and other rted information that Yan Huang had sent. When Chen Mo livestreamed oust, he had actually used the fear filter, otherwise he wouldn¡¯t have been so calm. Even though the game designers knew theyout of the levels and how to farm monsters like the back of their hands, it was still scary when they actually started ying. Just like many yers, even if they had cleared the easy difficulty and were mentally prepared for the respawn rate of the various monsters and high-level plots, they would still panic if they yed the game a second time. This was an instinctive reaction. Luckily, the system had a fear masking device, otherwise Chen Mo wouldn¡¯t have dared to do the crazy difficulty and he wouldn¡¯t have been able to act so cool. As he was reading, his phone rang. Chen Mo saw that it was from Qiao Hua and quickly picked it up,¡±¡±Minister Qiao?¡± ¡°Chen Mo,¡± Qiao Hua¡¯s voice came from the other end,¡±I heard that oust¡¯s sales are good. Congrattions.¡± ¡°It¡¯s all thanks to Minister Qiao and Chairman Zhang that oust passed the vetting process,¡± Chen Mo quickly said.¡±That¡¯s why the yers are able to y it.¡± Qiao Hua chuckled.¡±By the way, I¡¯m calling to tell you something. The reviews for oust are pretty good, so you don¡¯t have to worry. It¡¯s not going to be taken down.¡± ¡°Also, the gamemittee¡¯s opinion on oust is more or less the same. This is a sessful attempt in the VR industry for domestic games. In the future, simr themes will be more rxed, which is good news.¡± ¡°Yes,¡± Chen Zhao said.¡±It¡¯s indeed good news.¡± ¡°However,¡± Qiao Hua¡¯s tone changed.¡±This game has its risks. You have to keep an eye on that.¡± I¡¯ll summarize my experience. If you want to develop a simr game in the future, it¡¯s best to give me a heads up first like this time. ¡± Chen Mo nodded,¡±don¡¯t worry, I will.¡± After hanging up, Chen Zhao was relieved. In fact, horror games weren¡¯t that scary. Many people were overly worried about horror games, mainly because of their perceptions. At least, from the news, they had heard of many people dying from gaming, but very few people were scared to death from ying horror games. As long as a normal adult didn¡¯t have heart disease or high blood pressure and was healthy, it wouldn¡¯t be a big deal to be exposed to some horror elements. At most, they would quit the game. Everyone knew how brave they were, not to mention that Chen Mo had made a lot of preventive measures for the VR version of oust, so there shouldn¡¯t be any problems. With oust¡¯s experience, Chen Mo would be more confident in making other games in the future. After all, the parallel world¡¯s videogame industry waspletely different from his previous world, and some rules needed to be slowly explored. However, Chen Mo didn¡¯t have the time to pay attention to oust¡¯s follow-up, as League of Legends¡¯s S1 World Championship was about to start. ¡­¡­ As the day of thepetition drew closer, a lot of information regarding the finals was constantly being revealed, including the venue, the schedule, the information of the participating teams, and so on. The most exciting thing for the yers was the prize pool of thispetition. As the official of League of Legends, Chen Mo announced that the base prize of the prize pool for the S1 World Finals was 40 million RMB. The champion team would receive 20 million RMB, the second runner-up Team 10 million, and the top four, top eight, and top sixteen teams would all receive a prize. In other words, even if a foreign team was eliminated in the first round of S1, they would still receive a reward of 200000. If converted to dors, the total prize pool this time was nearly 7 million dors! Of course, because S1 was an invitation-based game, the division of the prize pool might seem a little strange. Many people might wonder why a team that didn¡¯t make it out of the group stage could get 200000 Yuan in prize money even if they didn¡¯t win a single game. This was mainly for the future. After League of Legends went global, every spot in the world Finals would have to cross many levels to get it. Compared to the efforts of these professional teams to get a spot in the S League, the 200000 Yuan prize money was nothing at all. It could be regarded as a constion prize. Not only that, Chen Mo also announced that the champion¡¯s de, nie ruiwen, would be released during the finals. Anyone who bought the skin would receive amemorative profile picture of the S1 World Finals, and 50% of the profits from the skin would go to the prize pool of the world Finals. Chapter 370

Chapter 370: Promotional video for the Grand Finals

The price of champion¡¯s de, Jing ruiwen¡¯s skin was 99 Yuan, which meant that for every yer who bought the skin, the prize pool of the S1 World Finals of League of Legends would be increased by 50 yuan. (yers who have bought tickets to the S1 Grand Final will automatically receive this skin.) Moreover, the most eye-catching spot on the official website of League of Legends would also refresh the changes in the prize pool of the S1 finals in real time. This news immediately caused a heated discussion among the League of Legends yers. Everyone was shocked. Was Chen Mo crazy with such a huge prize money? There had been many e-sportspetitions in the past, both domestic and foreign, but he had never heard of such a high prize. The highest prize pool was basically a million dors. As for domesticpetitions, the prize money for the champion was only hundreds of thousands of dors. But Chen Mo had raised the total prize pool to seven million dors? Moreover, half of the profits from the purchase of champion¡¯s de, Peregrine ruiwen, would go to the total prize pool. With the current poprity of League of Legends, the ie from this would definitely not be small. Although the yers couldn¡¯t estimate the exact number, it was definitely not a problem to add on a few hundred thousand dors. Not only was this a limited edition skin, but it also came with a limited edition profile picture and profile picture frame from the S1 World Championship. This was a proof of the identity of an old yer, and it was very memorable. Many yers were impressed by Chen Mo¡¯s generosity, there probably wasn¡¯t anyone else in the country who would dare to do this! Indeed, Thunderbolt entertainment wasn¡¯t the most profitablepany in the country at the moment. There were still establishedpanies like Emperor dynasty entertainment and ZEN Entertainment. However, the difference between Thunderbolt entertainment and thesepanies was that Chen Mo had the final say here. Chen Mo could spend the money however he wanted, and no one would jump out to object. If bigpanies like Emperor dynasty entertainment and ZEN Entertainment wanted to spend that much money on thepetition, it wasn¡¯t as simple as Lin chaoxu or Liu Yuanfeng. Thesepanies had financial pressure and had to be responsible to all the shareholders. A loss-making business would face great resistance. So, Chen Mo was the only one in the country who dared to do this. ...... The huge prize pool instantly attracted the attention of arge number of yers, and became the biggest gimmick before the S1 World Finals of League of Legends! ¡­¡­ A week before the start of the S1 World Championship, the promotional video of the championship was also posted on the home page of the servers, as well as the major video-sharing websites. Due to theck of time, the video wasn¡¯t too shy. It was just a mix of game cinematics andpetition videos, interspersed with Chen Mo¡¯s speech. The purpose of the trailer was simple, it was to let the yers, especially the overseas yers, feel Chen Mo¡¯s determination to promote League of Legends and create a perfect e-sports system. ¡°League of Legends S1 World Finals is the grandest League of Legends event to date, and it¡¯s expected to be the grandest e-sportspetition.¡± ¡°Professional yers from all over the world will gather in Shanghai topete for the highest prize money in history.¡± ¡°Here, I¡¯m going to introduce the first season of League of Legends to you.¡± ¡°We¡¯ve provided more than 7 million dors in prize money for the world Finals, and the prize pool is still expanding. When yers buy the champion¡¯s de, ziraiwen, skin, half of the proceeds will go to the prize pool.¡± ¡°The sixteen top teams willpete, but only the top teams will be able to pick up the championship trophy and win the huge prize money.¡± ¡°Here, we make a promise to the world¡¯s League of Legends Summoners that League of Legends will be the representative of the strongest e-sports game in the next few years. We can¡¯t wait to know how many Summoners will be watching the S1 World Finals with us.¡± ¡°We want the yers and the world to see Thunderbolt Entertainment¡¯s determination in promoting e-sports, which is why we¡¯ve invested so much resources into the finals.¡± ¡°This year¡¯s League of Legends finals will be different from any e-sportspetition you¡¯re familiar with. You¡¯ll be able to see the two strongest teams in the world fight against each other.¡± ¡°5th of October. We¡¯ll witness it together in Shanghai!¡± The video was tranted into manynguages with subtitles and posted on the local, European, American, Korean, and video websites of various regions. The main purpose of this video was to let the yers, both domestic and foreign, feel the atmosphere of the S1 World Championship. League of Legends had only been released overseas for more than half a year. Although it had developed well and spread quickly, and the major clubs had set up branches of League of Legends, it was not that popr yet. As such, Chen Mo decided to save a lot of time for this year¡¯s s1 World Championship. The teams were invited, and the live broadcast was done through the League of Legends app. Some foreign video websites and live-streaming tforms would also broadcast it, but they could not send a message to every yer of League of Legends, so it was not as convenient as watching the game directly on the app. The video had also sessfully raised the anticipation of foreign yers for the finals, and the S1 World Championship had be a hot topic among yers from the European, American, and Korean servers. ¡°Oh my God, League of Legends offers a bonus of more than seven million dors? Isn¡¯t this way more important than any esportspetition?¡± ¡°Has this China Company gone crazy?¡± ¡°Obviously, the guy named Silent in the video is the producer and boss of League of Legends. He¡¯s very optimistic about the future of this game. However, I do have to admire his generosity!¡± ¡°From the video, that¡¯s true. He actually said that he wanted to make League of Legends the strongest esports representative? What a great goal!¡± ¡°I didn¡¯t pay attention to thispetition at first. I thought it would be a very ordinarypetition, but this video sessfully caught my attention!¡± ¡°Indeed, it seems that team tiny is preparing to make it an unprecedented e-sportspetition. This guy¡¯s ideas are really advanced! It¡¯s a pity that I can¡¯t watch the match live. ¡± ¡°I didn¡¯t hear about the ticket sales before?¡± ¡°Yes, it¡¯s a pity that the tickets weren¡¯t sold overseas. After all, League of Legends is a game that has only been released for half a year. It can¡¯t cover all aspects yet. ¡± ¡°I¡¯m paying more attention to the S1 World Championship this time. I hope the official game of League of Legends can bring us a different e-sports experience!¡± Chapter 371

Chapter 371: Chapter 370 training room

Shanghai, on the 10th floor of the Grand Square, in the stadium of League of Legends S1 World Finals. There were still three days before the official start of the tournament, and the preparations for the S1 World Finals were basicallyplete. The participating teams and contestants from various countries had already arrived in Shanghai. The officials had arranged hotels and training rooms for them. Chen Mo had personally decided on the entire process of the S1 World Championship. Although it wasn¡¯t as Grand as the League of Legends World Championship in his previous life, it was still something that would shock all the yers in the parallel world. After all, the current influence of League of Legends was far from the level in his previous life. The current standard was unprecedented in many people¡¯s eyes. The poprity of e-sportspetitions was rising step by step, and it couldn¡¯t be achieved overnight. At the very least, it should be a good start. On the 10th floor of Yuan da za, the staff members were adjusting the equipment and rehearsing. The person in charge of zing glory, Sun Xiao, apanied Chen Mo the entire time, going through the flow of thepetition for thest time. Sun Xiao was the person in charge of the S1 World Championship this time. Basically, he was responsible for everything, big or small, in thepetition. He had thought that everything was ready, but to his surprise, Chen Zhao still pointed out all kinds of problems. ¡°Have you exined thepetition etiquette to the contestants? The winning team will have to take the initiative to shake hands and wave to the audience at the end of the game. Then, they can go back to pack up their keyboards and mouse and leave. ¡± ¡°In addition to the mouse and keyboard that the contestants bring, the officials must prepare two additional sets of the same model. If any of the contestants have any problems with their equipment, rece them immediately.¡± ¡°If the game is paused due to a malfunction, the director must inform the host of the reason for the pause immediately and let the audience know.¡± ...... ¡°Also, if there are any emergency situations, there must be a corresponding n. I don¡¯t want the audience to wait and have twomentators do a crosstalk, understand?¡± ¡­¡­ Chen Mo exined everything to Sun Xiao. Sun Xiao had been in charge of many esportspetitions and was very familiar with them, but he still found himselfcking in many areas when it came to Chen Mo. This caused Sun Xiao to have the same doubts as the chairman of zing glory, Zhang Kaiwen.¡±Who was the professional esports yer? After confirming that everything was in order, Chen Mo and sun Xiao returned to the hotel where the contestants were staying. This time, the hotel was arranged as well. It was a four-star hotel nearby. It was not particrly luxurious, but it was very close to the venue and very convenient. Other than that, Chen Mo had also arranged a special training room for the yers. Chen Mo and sun Xiao walked towards the training room for the Chinese yers. ¡°How¡¯s the shooting of the promotional video?¡± Chen Zhao asked. ¡°We¡¯re almost done. There¡¯s onest team left today, the one from Europe.¡± Sun Xiao said,¡±the time is a little tight, but I¡¯m sure I can cut it out the day before the game. The effect will definitely be okay.¡± Chen Zhao looked at him.¡±Which team from Europe?¡± Sun Xiao was taken aback.¡±It¡¯s called NTW, a Ninjas work team. It¡¯s not a particrly big-name team, so it¡¯s arranged for thest day.¡± ¡°Just say the names of the teams,¡± Chen Zhao said indifferently.¡±I can remember them.¡± ¡°Alright, chief Chen.¡± Sun Xiao nodded. Chen Mo nned a simple promotional video for the 16 teams. After all, this was the first World League of Legends finals, and it was normal for the local yers to not know about the foreign clubs. Shooting this promotional video would help viewers from all over the world get to know these teams well, and it could also be considered a brief introduction. It was just that time was a little tight. These teams had immediately arranged for the shooting of the publicity film as soon as they arrived in Shanghai, but they had still been filming until now. ¡°Did the contestants feel any resistance when they were shooting the trailer?¡± Chen Mo asked. Sun Xiao shook his head.¡±No, everyone felt that it was quite fresh because there was no such segment in the previous e-sportspetitions. The special publicity film made them feel that thispetition is very formal and has a sense of ceremony.¡± ¡°However, everyone is worried about the effect of the promotional video. They¡¯re afraid that it¡¯ll be awkward when it¡¯s cut.¡± Chen Zhaoughed.¡±Don¡¯t worry. It won¡¯t be awkward. My storyboard will definitely be super cool.¡± Sun Xiao smiled and nodded.¡±That¡¯s true. President Chen can be considered a storyboard master in the country.¡± The two of them chatted and went to the training room for domestic yers. The training room was located in the hotel. The teams from different divisions were assigned to different floors, and there were specialized staff members in charge of receiving them. Every team had a special training room. In addition to theputer for daily training, there was also a rtivelyrge TV for studying tactics and watching other teams ¡®games. Sun Xiao introduced,¡±basically all the domestic teams are here, this is IF team¡¯s training room.¡± The four teams in the country had fought their way to the finals, so they definitely represented the highest level of professional yers in the country. The four teams were IF, MG, NRG, and Ntclub. Chen Mo already knew about this result. It was basically the same as what he had predicted. These four teams were all on the list of the League of Legends professional league, and they were all rtively old teams in the country. NRG was rtively young, but the boss paid special attention to League of Legends and spent a lot of money to poach two star yers, so in terms of strength, they were not inferior to the other three old teams. IF¡¯s performance was the best in the selection. This team was called immortal fairy, which was the richest club in the country. The five members of the team were all top yers and geniuses in the country. Basically, the most talented yers in League of Legends in the country had all been poached into this team. Just as Chen Zhao reached the door, he heardughter from the training room. ¡°Hahaha, Luo Yongchang, you¡¯ve been solo killed by me again.¡± ¡°Hu Jing, don¡¯t be so smug. I just miscalcted the duration of the summoner¡¯s skill. Let¡¯s y another round if you dare.¡± ¡°If you want toe again, thene again. Do you think I¡¯m afraid of you?¡± ¡°That¡¯s enough, you two stop soloing. I¡¯ve just gotten some information on a few foreign teams. Come and study them together.¡± ¡°What¡¯s there to see? I¡¯ve watched a few games of European and American teams, and it¡¯s simply blinding. What can I find out by studying their information? Are you studying how to hold your pee?¡± ¡°The Korea team seems to be very strong.¡± ¡°It¡¯s not like we haven¡¯t yed in training tournaments before. They¡¯re just a bunch of noobs, not even as good as Europe and America. These foreign servers opened more than two monthster than us, and there are fewer people. Their ideas are much worse, what¡¯s there to see?¡± Chen Zhao heard this conversation from outside the door and frowned. Sun Xiao was also a little embarrassed. Chen Zhao pushed the door open and entered. Chapter 372

Chapter 372: Chapter 371-a Death Song with mes?

There were six people in team IF¡¯s training room. In addition to the five members who were training, there was also a leader. At the moment, the clubs in the country were still not very formal. There was no specialized tactical coach. The lineup selection was decided by the yers freely. The tactics used were alsopletely up to the yers. In addition to being responsible for the daily living, itinerary, and supervision of the team, the team leader also shared some of the responsibilities of the coach, such as collecting information on other teams for the team members or arranging training games. However, the opinions of most of the club leaders weren¡¯t taken seriously. After all, these leaders ¡®ranks were very low. In front of these professional yers who were at the level of Kings, their suggestions would seem like they were showing off their skills in front of an expert. Everyone was stunned when they saw Chen Zhao enter. The team leader recognized Sun Xiao, who was following Chen Mo, and asked,¡±¡±Director sun, this is ...¡± Before sun Xiao could reply, one of the IF members beat him to it and shouted,¡±¡±Chen Mo? You¡¯re Chen Zhao!¡± After the shout, the others also recognized him. It was Chen Mo, the designer of League of Legends! In fact, most of them had seen Chen Zhao¡¯s picture, but there were some differences between the picture and the real person. IF club was far away in Shanghai, and they had never been to the Imperial City before. They had never seen Chen Zhao before, so IF¡¯s leader didn¡¯t recognize him at first. Recognizing Chen Zhao, the IF leader was a little embarrassed. He quickly went up.¡±So it¡¯s President Chen. Why is President Chen in the mood toe today?¡± ¡°I¡¯m here today to see the finals,¡± Chen Mo said indifferently.¡±I just happened to be passing by.¡± He looked at the members of IF team. He had already read the information of these team members, so he knew them all. The two people who had been shouting in the training room earlier were Hu Jing, mid, and Luo Yongchang, bottomne. ...... Hu Jing was only 17 years old this year and was known as the most promising mid yer in the country. His reaction speed, control, and understanding of the game were all good. He was also the well-deserved core of team IF. ¡°You think the European, American, and Korean yers are all noobs?¡± Chen Mo asked. Hu Jing looked Chen Zhao up and down, his eyes full of interest. ¡°What¡¯s wrong?¡±he nodded. ¡°It¡¯s good to be confident, but in this game, prideful professional yers who underestimate their opponents will never be the final winner.¡± Chen Zhao said. Hu Jing looked at Chen Zhao. Obviously, this sentence had a heavy educational meaning. These professional yers of IF team were a little ufortable, like being caught whispering in a self-study ss. Of course, they weren¡¯t stupid enough to go against Chen Mo. After all, they were professional yers in League of Legends. Strictly speaking, being a professional yer was all given to them by Chen Mo. If they really pissed Chen Mo off, they could find a reason to be permanently banned from ying. If even the club boss didn¡¯t dare to mess with him, they, the group of inte-addicted teenagers, certainly didn¡¯t dare to mess with him. However, Hu Jing¡¯s eyes clearly showed that he was very unconvinced. ¡°You don¡¯t like it?¡± Chen Zhao looked at him.¡±Not convinced?¡± Hu Jing smiled.¡±Mr. Chen, I heard that you yed League of Legends well. I watched your live stream during the new year and learned a lot.¡± It¡¯s a rare opportunity today, can you give me a few pointers?¡± As soon as Hu Jing said this, the hearts of team IF¡¯s leader and the other members skipped a beat. This little troublemaker was courting death! It was fine if it was the other team members, but Hu Jing was different. Hu Jing¡¯s family was very rich and he could be considered a rich second generation. He had never suffered since he was a child and had an unruly character. To him, ying professionally was no different from ying. Even if he couldn¡¯t y professionally, it was no big deal. At most, he could just go home and inherit the family fortune. This was a very obvious difference from the other yers who relied on ying professionally for a living. IF team¡¯s leader was also a little flustered.¡±President Chen, Hu Jing was just joking. Please don¡¯t take it to heart.¡± As the leader spoke, he gave Hu Jing a meaningful look. Chen Mo looked at Hu Jing and nodded,¡±sure.¡± You seem to like ying SOLO a lot, so let¡¯s have a SOLO or two. ¡± ¡°Chief Chen, this ...¡± IF team¡¯s leader was helpless. What was going on? But since Chen Mo said he wanted to y, he could only let Hu Jing apany him. Luo Yongchang offered his seat to Chen Mo, allowing him to use hisputer and ount. IF¡¯s leader kept winking at Hu Jing, telling him to lose to Chen Mo so that he wouldn¡¯t offend this guy. In the end, Hu Jing acted as if he didn¡¯t see anything and just focused on randomly picking out talents. The leader was so angry. Hu Jing pulled Chen Mo into a custom match and chose Summoner¡¯s Rift as the map. Since Chen Mo had never organized an official SOLO tournament in this world, most Chinese yers chose Summoner¡¯s Rift as the map for their SOLO matches. Most of them chose mid or top. The rules weren¡¯t set either. They were usually discussed before a SOLO battle, but the moremon rule was that no jungles ornes could be cleared. They could go home at will, three kills and two turrets. In other words, whoever got three heads or two towers first would win. ¡°What are the rules?¡± asked Hu Jing. Three blood and two towers?¡± Chen Mo shook his head.¡±ording to the professional tournament¡¯s midning, whoever dies first or falls off the tower first loses.¡± Hu Jing thought for a moment and said,¡±does that mean that all Summoner skills have sh?¡± ¡°Whatever Summoner skills you¡¯ve brought in thepetition,¡± Chen Mo said.¡±Bring the same Summoner skills this time.¡± ¡°Alright.¡± Hu Jing nodded. If it was a proper SOLO match, the best Summoner skill would definitely be exhaust, barrier, exhaust, or ignite. However, in a match, sh was usually used. Chen Mo¡¯s meaning was clear, they would go ording to the game¡¯sning. ¡°What about the champion?¡± Hu Jing asked again. ¡°Whatever,¡± Chen Zhao said.¡±Choose your strongest.¡± Very quickly, both sides had chosen their heroes and entered the game. Hu Jing chose Orianna, while Chen Mo chose Death Song. The summoner¡¯s skills were sh and ignite. Hu Jing was stunned when he saw Death Song. Orianna and death Song were currently two of the most popr mid Champions, and they were often encountered in ranked matches. Inparison, Death song¡¯s ulti was an all-screen ulti that could support teammates, but its ability inning was slightly weaker than Orianna ¡®s. In the early game, they still had to keep farming, and only in the middle andte game could theye out and save the world. Of course, it was rare for Orianna and deathsong to have a one-on-one kill in a high-end game. This was because those who yed deathsong were usually very sneaky and would not allow Orianna to use her ultimate to easily pull them in and kill them. All in all, in high-end games, Death Song was at a slight disadvantage against Orianna. Moreover, Death song¡¯s Summoner skills were usually debuff or teleport. Death Song with ignite was very rare. Hu Jing was a little puzzled. Did Chen Mo choose Death Song because he wanted to make a name for himself? Could it be that this SOLO match was going to take a long time? However, what did this ¡®ignite¡¯ mean? Chapter 373

Chapter 373: Level two solo kill

Orianna and death Song rushed to the middlene, testing each other¡¯s positioning, but neither of them made a move. Regardless of whether Orianna learned her Q-skill or E-skill at Level 1, Death Song would definitely be stronger at Level 1. Hu Jing was not stupid enough to fight Death Song head-on at Level 1. He was just walking around to trick Chen Mo into using a few Q-skills to deplete his mana. However, Chen Mo didn¡¯t even care about him. It seemed like he was determined to farm minions. Hu Jing licked his lips and could not help but feel excited. There weren¡¯t many professional yers in the country that he thought highly of, because IF this team had already made it through the pull-ups, it could be said that the other teams ¡®midners had all been defeated by him. However, he was very curious about Chen Mo. Chen Mo¡¯s previous livestreams were too impressive. Even heroes like Icebird and Gragas, which were considered weak, became extremely strong in his hands. Many professional yers studied Chen Mo¡¯s livestreams to learn their techniques. However, Chen Mo had stopped ying the stairway to heaven a long time ago. Although Hu Jing was also the strongest Esper, he had no chance to fight with Chen Mo, so he didn¡¯t know how strong Chen Mo was. Now that Hu Jing finally had a chance to fight Chen Mo, how could he not be excited? IF team¡¯s leader, the other team members, and sun Xiao were all watching from behind, secretly breaking out in cold sweat. The members were all afraid that IF Hu Jing offended Chen Mo, he could just leave and go back to being a rich kid, but the rest of the team would have to clean up the mess for him. Sun Xiao was also a little helpless. This Hu Jing was obviously an ignorant inte-addicted teenager, did Chen Mo have to be angry with him? SOLO? if he lost, wouldn¡¯t he be making himself ufortable? ...... Even though Chen Mo was strong, Hu Jing was still a professional yer from team IF. It wouldn¡¯t be wrong to call him the strongest mid in the country, it would be impossible for him to beat Chen Mo. The onlookers were quite helpless, but since things hade to this, they could only watch from the side in silence. Very quickly, the minions came. To Hu Jing¡¯s surprise, Chen Mo¡¯s death Song went forward and crossed the minion line to suppress him the moment the minions came into contact! ¡°What? so radical?¡± Hu Jing was a little dumbfounded. Just now, he had tried so hard to lure her, but she was not even willing to use a Q. She was clearly nning to clear the sky. Why was she so aggressive ining over to Q him now? ¡°Bang!¡± ¡°Bang!¡± ¡°Bang!¡± Death song¡¯s Q-skill,[destion], left three marks on the ground. The skill¡¯s area of effect was very small. It was just a small dot on the ground, and the skill would only take effect after a 0.5 second dy, so it was very difficult to hit. However, even though Hu Jing¡¯s clockwork twisted left and right, it was still hit twice in a row. ¡°This ...¡± Hu Jing was a little dumbfounded. What was going on? Orianna subconsciously retreated, and death Song stopped chasing. He retreated a little and used his normal attacks to finish off three minions. Obviously, Hu Jing had never seen such a radical Death Song before, so he was a little dumbfounded. Level 1 was indeed Death song¡¯s strong period, but he had never seen anyone who dared to oppress others like this, because Death song¡¯s Q-skill was just too difficult to hit! If his Q-skill was continuously interrupted, Orianna would be able to counterattack. However, Chen Mo¡¯s death Song could urately predict Orianna¡¯s movements. Every Q-skill was ced precisely in the position that Orianna was about to move to, making it look as if Orianna was moving forward on her own. These two Q-S had injured Orianna. Moreover, in order to save mana, Chen Mo didn¡¯t use his Q-skill to farm at all. Instead, he used his normal attacks to farm and used all his Q-skills to drain Orianna¡¯s health. Anyone who had yed Death Song before knew that Death Song had weak attack power and very unfriendly trajectory. Using normal attacks to farm was simply self-torture. However, Chen Zhao¡¯sst hits were terrifyingly steady. He didn¡¯t miss a single hit. Hu Jing felt a great deal of pressure. Obviously, Chen Mo¡¯s death Song wasn¡¯t the kind that only killed soldiers, he wanted to kill! As long as Hu Jing¡¯s clockwork took a step forward, Chen Mo¡¯s deathsong would follow up immediately, not allowing clockwork to farm. Hu Jing tried again, but was still hit twice by Chen Mo¡¯s Q-skill. Orianna¡¯s health was down to half, while Death Song still had two-thirds of his health left. If there was only one unit within the range of Death song¡¯s Q-skill, the damage dealt would double. These Q-skills were all cast across the minions ¡®line, so they were very damaging to Orianna. Hu Jing drank the blood medicine he had brought with him. He felt a strong sense of dissatisfaction. Why can Death Song suppress me like this? If this was a professional tournament, this would already be considered aning disadvantage, and at this level, the jungler wouldn¡¯t be able to help. Hu Jing was feeling very ufortable being suppressed. He really wanted to level up to Level 2 as soon as possible. That way, whether it was learning the W-skill to increase his consumption or the E-skill to increase his shield, it would make him morefortable in thene. However, just as Orianna was about to move forward and farm, a sh of light suddenly appeared on Death song¡¯s body. He had leveled up by 2! Evidently, due to the difference in experience between Orianna and death Song, there was a level difference between them. Hu Jing was shocked and immediately controlled Orianna to retreat. However, Death Song had already caught up to him and activated his ignite. The edge of his E-skill also grazed Orianna. ¡°He wants to kill me?!¡± Hu Jing¡¯s Orianna did not dare to head down the turret in a straight line, because he knew that Death Song would definitely fire her Q-skill on the path of his retreat. Hu Jing controlled Orianna to twist left and right desperately, but Death song¡¯s Q-skill kept appearing in the path he was going to appear in. ¡°Bang!¡± ¡°Bang!¡± ¡°Bang!¡± With every Q-skill, Orianna¡¯s health dropped by arge amount. Although Orianna had shed to the turret, Death Song had also used sh. After taking the damage from the turret, he threw out another Q-skill and turned back. ¡°FIRST BLOOD!¡± Hu Jing¡¯s screen turned ck and white. Orianna had been solo-killed by deathsong, and it was a level 2 solo kill! Death Song left the turret¡¯s range with ease, and he still had nearly half of his health left. Hu Jing was stunned. He looked at his screen and could not believe what had happened. He was killed by deathsong? How was that possible? Death Song was clearly the publicly acknowledgedte-game hero in League of Legends! IF team¡¯s leader and members were all dumbfounded. What was going on? A professional mid yer, the strongest mid yer in the country, was solo-killed by Chen Mo at Level 2? Should Hu Jing be said to have rxed? It didn¡¯t seem like it. Hu Jing was ying seriously. Although he was caught off guard, he was obviously ying seriously. However, a level 2 solo kill, how could that be exined? There was no way to exin it! ¡°What?¡± Chen Mo nced at Hu Jing.¡±Are you convinced?¡± Hu Jing bit his lip lightly and did not say anything. Chen Mo was very calm.¡±It¡¯s okay if you don¡¯t like it. Let¡¯s y another round. This time, you¡¯ll use Dead song and I¡¯ll use Orianna.¡± Chapter 374

Chapter 374: Attention received

Hu Jing didn¡¯t say anything. He just quietly started another custom match. It was still Orianna who killed song, but the Champions of both sides had switched. IF¡¯s other team members were all staring at the screen with full concentration, not even daring to breathe loudly. This was practically teaching Hu Jing how to y games! If Hu Jing lost again this time, then there was nothing to be dissatisfied about. If he could solo your Orianna with deathsong, and then use Orianna to solo your deathsong again, then it would prove that this was not a difference in Champions, but a difference in strength! Ten minutester. ¡°FIRST BLOOD!¡± After reaching Level 6, Orianna hid the ball and pulled back deathsong with her ulti. Simrly, she took the turret before taking deathsong¡¯s head and escaping with little health left. Hu Jing was speechless. Because he felt that he couldn¡¯t win, he really couldn¡¯t win! If the first round was a little strange, the second round was a clear difference in strength. Hu Jing himself had yed a lot of anikra before, but he had never felt that it was so difficult to hit anikra¡¯s Q-skill. Orianna¡¯s positioning was extremely strange and she was always able to avoid his Q-skill. The few Q-skills that were used to block the road were also blocked by Orianna¡¯s shield with her E-skill. Death Song had been at a disadvantage inning the entire time, so it was inevitable that he would be killed in the end. Even if Hu Jing had been holding on, he would have been the first to fall from the tower. Chen Mo stood up,¡±talent can allow you to get the upper hand, but if you think talent can crush everything, then let me tell you something: The Korea yers train 16 hours a day. ¡± ...... Hu Jing was silent. ¡°Let¡¯s go,¡±Chen Mo said to Sun Xiao. After Chen Zhao left, the atmosphere in the training room was still very heavy. Hu Jing stared nkly at theputer screen, as if he was recalling the two times he had yed against Chen Mo. ¡°Leader, let¡¯s take a look at the information of the foreign teams.¡± Hu Jing said. ¡­¡­ Before the league of Legends S1 World Finals, the domestic video game media had also treated this as a major event in October. This was because thispetition was different from any previous e-sportspetition. In every sense, it was one of a kind. League of Legends was currently the most popr esports game in the country, and it was also moving towards this goal worldwide. In other words, this game had an extremely deep audience base, and its poprity would definitely be high. The prize pool for the finals this time had created a historical record. Nopetition organizer had been able to take out so much prize money, which was a big gimmick in itself. From the information revealed before the game, this would be an e-sportspetition that waspletely innovative in all aspects. Every detail was carefully crafted and almost the top professional e-sports yers in the country were gathered. There was no doubt about their professionalism. Moreover, the title of S1 had already revealed Chen Mo¡¯s ambition. S was the short for ¡®seaon¡¯, and ¡®S1¡¯ was the first Season. If there was a first season, there would be a second and third season. Chen Mo obviously wanted this number to continue, and he would host the world Finals every year. In the field of e-sports, there was indeed no gamepany that could do this. In the past, game developers and e-sportspetition organizers were often differentpanies, and it was very rare for the developers to organize the e-sportspetition all by themselves. Clearly, Chen Zhao wanted to do something that no one had ever done before. The venue on the tenth floor of the miles square was already filled with a few waves of local reporters. There were even one or two foreign reporters who traveled thousands of miles to take videos and introduce the details of thepetition to the foreign yers, such as the current situation of the venue and the preparations of the teams. The yers were all very excited about thepetition. After all, it was a game made by a domesticpany, held in China, invited so many international teams, and even provided such a Grand venue and a prize pool that could create history. No matter how you looked at it, it was a feast and a party. However, there were many people in the gaming industry who were criticizing thispetition. ¡°Chen Zhao¡¯s really taking too big a step this time. Isn¡¯t he afraid of pulling his balls? The prize money for the e-sportspetition was raised to seven million dors? You burned too much money?¡± ¡°Yeah, a million dors is enough to make these professional clubs fight for it. Seven million? I have too much money to spend!¡± ¡°Esports is purely burning money. Can we recover the cost?¡± ¡°Take back my ass, just the prize money alone is more than 40 million, and the rental of the venue is more than 30 million a year. How much can we get back just by selling the tickets? Even with the video broadcast, it¡¯s still far from enough!¡± ¡°I heard that he¡¯s going to hold a league tournament at this venue.¡± ¡°League tournament? How many people would watch the league tournament? The tickets were selling fast because it was the annual Grand Finals, and it was the first one. The league tournament is yed all year round, so there will definitely be few people watching and the ticket price will have to be lowered. I really don¡¯t think we can recover the cost!¡± ¡°I can¡¯t figure it out either. If we¡¯re talking about spending money to promote a game, League of Legends is already dominating the entire PC market. Other than a few old-school FPS and mmorpgs that are struggling to support it, the other PC games have long been squeezed to the point of being unable to hold on. Would promoting such a popr game make it skyrocket?¡± ¡°Yeah, it¡¯s time for them to get paid. With the poprity of League of Legends, even if Chen Mo didn¡¯t organize apetition, there would be other people begging for it. He didn¡¯t have to worry at all.¡± ¡°Maybe he¡¯s really ambitious, but I think he¡¯s too optimistic. With the current domestic environment, it¡¯s hard to maintain e-sports in the long run.¡± ¡°It¡¯s better if it can¡¯t go on. It¡¯d be best if it can drag Chen Zhao down.¡± ¡°Sigh, we¡¯ll know when we see the poprity after thispetition.¡± ¡­¡­ It was obvious that most of the developers in China would find it difficult to understand Chen Mo¡¯s advanced thinking, and they couldn¡¯t predict how popr e-sports would be in the future. In October, everyone¡¯s attention was focused on the S1 World Finals of League of Legends. Whether it would be a feast or a farce, they would only know when the game started. ¡­¡­ It was October 5th, the day of League of Legends¡¯s S1 World Finals. Many yers had already arrived at the distant square and were ready to enter. Jia Peng, Chang xiuya, li jingsi, Lin Xue, su Jinyu, zou Zhuo, Zheng Hongxi, and the others came to the entrance of the arena. Qian Kun was already waiting for them. These tickets were all given by Chen Mo and they were all good seats in the front row. However, other than Qian Kun who had arrived early, the others had just arrived at the Grand Finals venue, so they felt very fresh. At the entrance of the stadium was a three-meter-tall statue of Catarina. Many of the audience members were taking photos beside the statue. Chapter 375

Chapter 375: The opening ceremony

¡°Wow, there are gs of major professional teams on both sides. It feels so official. I know this. IF, What is this?¡± Su Jinyu pointed at the Blue g next to the IF g. ¡°It¡¯s an up-anding club in the country,¡±Qian Kun answered. Wen Lingwei looked at the figurines and essories on the wall,¡±¡±This card master figurine is quite handsome.¡± ¡°Don¡¯t worry, you all have it. Anyone who bought a VIP ticket can get a card master figurine with the ticket. ¡± Qian Kun said. ¡°Where¡¯s the manager?¡±li jingsi looked around. ¡°The manager is inside,¡± Qian Kun said.¡±Come, follow me.¡± Under Qian Kun¡¯s lead, everyone entered the arena. The structure of the arena had already been exposed. Above the stage was arge screen and two rectangr screens. There was also a small screen in front of the contestants puters. There was also a huge holographic projection equipment in the middle of the venue. However, it was still the entrance stage, so the lights in the entire venue were very strong. There was nothing particrly cool about it. These people¡¯s seats were in the same row, and they sat down in order after finding their seats. There was an empty seat next to the aisle, reserved for Chen Mo. The audience was already entering the venue. Although there were no special people to lead the other audience members into the venue, the signboards in the venue were very clear, so it was not troublesome to find them. Su Jinyu looked at the audience,¡±¡±Wow, there are so many people. I didn¡¯t pay attention to it before, but now that I¡¯ve found out that thispetition is so popr, I¡¯m a little excited.¡± Zou Zhuo said,¡±I¡¯ve watched a few e-sports games before, and I¡¯ve also watched Warcraft. As long as there¡¯s something exciting, the audience will cheer and cheer. The atmosphere is really explosive.¡± However, that Stadium is much smaller than this one. It¡¯s hard to imagine what it feels like to have the audience here cheering together. ¡± ...... Qian Kun turned around and looked,¡±huh?¡± The manager is here. ¡± Everyone turned around. Chen Zhao walked over and sat in the empty seat reserved for him. ¡°How are the preparations?¡± li jingsi asked. ¡°No problem,¡± Chen Zhaoughed.¡±Just wait for the 666.¡± On the big screen was the icon of the League of Legends World Finals. The main body was in the shape of a battle g and a trophy. In front of the trophy was the silhouette of a Summoner¡¯s head. The LOGO of League of Legends and the words ¡°S1 World Finals¡± were marked on the chart in English and Chinese. The background of the icon was a constantly vibrating red and blue element, making the whole picture full of movement. The match was about to begin, and most of the audience had already entered the stadium. The entire Stadium was almost full, and everyone was looking at their watches, waiting for the match to begin. Suddenly, all the lights in the stadium went out, leaving only the striking symbol of the finals on the big screen. ¡°It¡¯s starting?¡± ¡°It¡¯s starting, it¡¯s starting, oh oh oh!!¡± Many of the audience members couldn¡¯t help but cheer. A very moving BGM resounded throughout the entirepetition venue. A countdown to the start of thepetition appeared on the lower right corner of the big screen, and a video began to y on the big screen. Following the background music, the scenes began to quickly switch. The iconic buildings of Beijing, Shanghai, and other parts of the country shed past one by one. Each building appeared for an extremely short time, but it was enough to make the audience in the stadium scream non-stop. When there were 10 seconds left on the countdown, the video ended. With the heavy drumming, a huge gold and light blue treasure chest appeared on the holographic projection in the arena. It was aplete holographic projection effect, but to the audience, it looked like it was real. At the same time, all the audience members couldn¡¯t help but shout out as the countdown on the big screen began. ¡°Ten!¡± ¡°Nine!¡± ¡­¡­ ¡°Three!¡± ¡°Two!¡± ¡°One!¡± As the countdown on the big screen reached zero, the entire Stadium erupted in thunderous cheers. At that moment, the background music in the arena changed again. First was a piano piece with a strong sense of rhythm, followed by a blood-boiling electric sound that swept through the audience! The lights on the stage lit up, and the audience was surprised to find that in the center of the stage, a DJ was ying to the rhythm of the BGM. The big screen also showed the scene of the DJ. Many of the audience members were already shouting,¡±Brother Yuan!¡± Yuan Meng was one of the top DJ in the country and had arge number of fans in the country. She was very well-known among the young people. This time, the theme song for the first season was personally performed by Yuan Meng, which raised the atmosphere of the studio once again! ¡°Wow, this background music is so cool! What¡¯s your name?¡± ¡°I don¡¯t know, eh? The screen at the side showed the theme song for this year¡¯s Grand Finals. [Silver trace]?¡± ¡°This is awesome! If brother Yuan ys this electronic tune, it¡¯ll be so good that it¡¯ll explode!!¡± Silver scar, the English name of the game, was Silver traps. Many people might not remember the name, but most of the League of Legends yers could hum along when they heard the melody. In Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, this song was the theme song for the S2 World Championship, and it was used as the BGM during break time in the fifth game of B05 Deathmatch. It could be said that anyone who had watched League of Legends had heard this song. In the S2 grand Final, the eight-hour battle between WE and CLG.eu, this song was yed during the entire wait. For many old yers of League of Legends, it was an unforgettable melody, just like many other ssic songs. The reason Chen Mo chose this song as the theme song for the S1 World Championship wasn¡¯t just because of the feelings, but also because it was pure music. It could make the world¡¯s audience forget about thenguage difference and experience the charm of League of Legends together. In the blood-boiling BGM, a huge key appeared on the holographic projection and was inserted into the gorgeous treasure chest. Under the treasure chest, countless stone floors appeared from the void, forming a tform simr to the Summoner¡¯s Rift map in League of Legends. The left side of the tform was blue, the right side was red, and in the middle of the tform was the symbol of the world Finals. The blue and red elements began to collide violently, and the entire tform fell apart. The treasure chest also fell rapidly, finallynding in the Summoner¡¯s Rift. On both sides of the treasure chest, the shadows of various heroes began to appear.ai Xi, Annie, stone man, robot, Prince, Ryze ... These heroes used different methods to open the treasure chest. There was ice, fire, earth, lightning ... Finally, the treasure chest opened, and a huge holographic projection trophy appeared above the treasure chest. The trophy flew up to the stage, and everyone noticed that the real Summoner¡¯s trophy had appeared on the stage. Chapter 376

Chapter 376: Chapter 375-battle team¡¯s appearance

Although the trophy didn¡¯t look very big from a distance, the audience could clearly see the details of the trophy on the big screen. It was very exquisite! In fact, the entire trophy was ted with pure silver and weighed 32 kilograms. The entire trophy was carved into four parts. On both sides of the trophy were two embossed of China Dragons. The dragon¡¯s tail was coiled around the body of the cup, and the bottom of the cup had a dragon scale pattern. It was a natural thing. The dragon¡¯s eye was the finishing touch of a custom-made top-grade diamond. Under different radiances, it would show different resplendent effects. If one were to summarize it in one sentence: Everything he saw was hand-carved; The beauty presented was like a king chasing after a deer! Through the big screen, the audience could clearly see the details of the championship trophy. Although they didn¡¯t know the specific specifications and craftsmanship, it was clear that the sincerity of the organizer was vividly reflected in the details of the trophy! At the same time, the BGM changed again, and the big screen began to y videos of the teams participating in thepetition. One scene after another, one professional yer after another. His hands were wrapped in bandages. His back view walked towards the arena. He looked down from the viewing elevator. In an ancient alley full of China Style. Outside the stadium. ...... In the wilderness. On the rooftop. The 16 teams shed past one by one. At first, only the captain of each team had the camera, and finally, it was the group photo of the entire team. These scenes were basically taken from all over Shanghai. Some of the iconic locations and buildings were all captured. Some were even shot in the studio, such as a scene in the wilderness, which waspletely synthesized in post-production. Apanied by the background music, the entire video exploded with excitement. After seeing their favorite professional yer, the audience burst into endless apuse and screams. The lights in the front row were turned on, and many of the audience members noticed that the gs of the sixteen teams were hidden in the shadows of the stage. These gs were all of the same standard, about three meters tall. At the same time, a team logo appeared on the big screen. It was team NTW¡¯s team logo. The five yers of team NTW appeared on the long screens on both sides of the big screen. In the passionate BGM, team NTW¡¯s Captain, a European with long blond hair, walked out from the backstage and waved to the audience before standing next to the team g. The sixteen participating teams entered the arena one by one. The order of appearance was Europe, the United States, Korea, and China. Each division would send out a team in turn, which meant that they were automatically divided into four groups. Each group had one team from each division. The captains of each team made various poses to greet the audience ording to their preferences. There was even a very shy Captain of the United States team who simply danced a short dance in front of the stage, which received a burst of apuse and cheers. The audience was also very respectful. No matter which country¡¯s team it was, they all gave a very warm apuse. Especially when the China team appeared, the audience in the entire Stadium shouted the team¡¯s name together, and the atmosphere reached a small peak. The appearance time was quite long,sting more than ten minutes, to ensure that every team had enough time to make an appearance. After all the teams had appeared, the host went on stage. ¡°Wee to the world Finals of League of Legends S1. I¡¯m your host, Zhang Yang. Summoners, please show me your enthusiasm, can you?¡± The host¡¯s image appeared on the big screen. Zhang Yang was dressed in a purple suit, looking particrly energetic. There were also many Zhang Yang fans in the venue, and all of them cheered and pped enthusiastically. Zhang Yang was also the most experiencedmentator and host in the country. His ability to control the situation was very strong. When he heard that he would be able to host the world Finals of League of Legends S1, he was very excited and had prepared for it for a long time. ¡°The 16 top teams from all over the world have arrived and are about to aim for the World Championship trophy, the highest honor in League of Legends. At this moment, they need your blessings and shouts. Let¡¯s cheer them on together, okay?¡± The crowd erupted into even more enthusiastic apuse and cheers. ¡°Alright, thank you to the representatives of the sixteen teams. Please enter the training room to rest. We would also like to thank the esports DJ, teacher Yuan Meng, for bringing us such a wonderful opening show. Let¡¯s give him a round of apuse!¡± On the big screen, the camera zoomed in from far to near, sweeping across the captains and gs of each team, and finally focusing on the championship trophy in the center. ¡°Hero, I will fight for you!¡± ¡°League of Legends Season 1 Global Finals, begin now!!¡± As Zhang Yang announced the start of the Grand Final, the audience burst into even louder apuse and cheers. At the same time, the style of the BGM changed again, and the host¡¯s screen was seamlessly transferred to thementator¡¯s seat. ¡­¡­ The opening of the S1 finals was broadcasted live across the globe. There were a lot of channels for the livestream this time, including the official website of League of Legends, major livestreaming tforms, video websites, and clients. This was especially true for the client, where yers could freely observe the entire game. Some professional yers or live streamers could also open their own livestreaming sources to exin and stream the game. There were two streams this time, a Chinese stream and an English stream. The English livestream source had only reced some of the Chinese on the screen with English, but thementary was definitely still in Chinese. Because time was tight, their influence abroad was not that great. It was definitely toote to invite specializedmentators from Europe, America, and Korea to exin the game in China, so they could only let them broadcast it in their own country. On the live streaming site, the number of people watching the S1 World Finals of League of Legends grew. The number of viewers on the fish-catching live streaming tform alone had exceeded two million, which was more than some of the big live streamers. Not only that, but the poprity of the major live broadcast rooms was still rising. The full screen of bulletments had to be distributed, otherwise it would not be clear at all. The opening of League of Legends¡¯s S1 World Finals had shocked the audience! Before this, many people had watched e-sportspetitions through live broadcasts, but the opening was usually very simple. At most, there would be a song and dance performance or cosy performance, and often there would be a very long and dragging speech by the leaders. It was simply boring to the point of exploding. However, the audience was surprised to find that this year¡¯s S1 finals waspletely different from any previous e-sportspetition! The bullet screen was already filled with all kinds of 666. ¡°F * ck, this opening ceremony is so cool. It feels like the cards areparable to some traditional sports. They even made their own characteristics. Awesome!¡± ¡°The effect of this holographic projection is great, and it¡¯s very creative. It has integrated the characteristics of the map and the heroes!¡± ¡°This trophy is really cool! It¡¯s not only high and Grand, but it also has China elements and there¡¯s a Chinese dragon embossed on it. It¡¯s so cool!¡± ¡°The theme song is great too. It¡¯s so exciting. What¡¯s the song called? can you find it online?¡± ¡°The sixteen teams look so good. These yers must have put on makeup. They look so energetic, unlike the previous e-sportspetitions, where they looked like Inte-addicted teenagers who spent all their time in inte cafes.¡± ¡°This promotional video is also very sensational. It¡¯s super cool!¡± ¡°And the entire pace is very tight. There¡¯s no awkward speeches from the leaders and we¡¯ve entered thepetition directly!¡± ¡°I regret not going to watch the game live! The atmosphere at the venue is so good that I can feel the cheers from the venue even through the screen. ¡± ¡°I regret it too. If we had the Grand Finals next year, I would definitely have bought a ticket to the live venue!¡± Chapter 377

Chapter 377: Chapter 376-opening battle

The match continued. After the introduction of the teams and the DJ¡¯s performance, the screen switched to thementator¡¯s seat, and thementator introduced the first game to the audience. The grouping and schedule for the S1 finals had already been decided. The opening match would be the domestic team NRG against the European team flog. As the teams were still in the period of changing and getting used to each other, there was no obvious difference in strength in the division. Therefore, there was no distinction between the first and second seeds. They were all drawn randomly to ensure that the four teams in each group came from different divisions. On the field, the yers on both sides were already in position and adjusting their machines. On the big screen, the twomentators began to introduce the two teams in thispetition. Strictly speaking, there should be threementators in League of Legends, one for the field, one for the team battle, and one for the game analysis, each taking up a different role. A crowd-controlmentator was usually in charge of the topic to prevent thementator from going off track. The team battlementary required a clear line of thought, a sharp tongue, and to be able to clearly exin the key details of the team battle; The game analysis andmentary were usually done by retired professional yers. They had to have a more urate interpretation of the strategic intentions of both sides. However, this was the first season of the Grand Finals, and Chen Mo didn¡¯t have the resources to find so many professionals. As such, he only had twomentators this time, and the lineup was quite random. It was basically a professional esportsmentator and a professional yer from another team, or a high-scoring random streamer. Of course, these people were also carefully selected. They had a deeper understanding of the game and were more eloquent, so they were qualified to be thementators. ¡°Wee to the S1 World Championship of League of Legends! We¡¯re currently at Shanghai¡¯s Grand za. We¡¯ve just seen that all sixteen teams participating in this world Tournament have already appeared!¡± ¡°Hello everyone, I¡¯m thementator, memories.¡± ¡°Hello everyone, I¡¯m ke Zhen, the mid yer of Team E.¡± ...... The twomentators introduced themselves. Memories could be considered one of the earliest e-sports streamers in the country. She was good at controlling the situation, while ke Zhen was an active midner in the e team. Since the e team did not make it to the World Championship, ke Zhen was invited to be a guestmentator. He was very skilled and had arge number of fans in China. Moreover, due to ke Zhen¡¯sst name and his tendency to be gay, his fans loved to call him ¡°ke ji.¡± Many of the audience members were already cheering,¡±ah, Corgi!¡± Oh my God, I thought it would be a pity that he couldn¡¯te to the finals, but he¡¯s actually a guestmentator, simply great!¡± Memories: ¡°okay, we saw that the audience was very enthusiastic just now. When all the teams came on stage, they gave a very warm apuse and cheers. So, before the game officially begins, I would like to remind everyone that this time, apart from the League of Legends app and the official website, you can also watch it through the major live broadcasting tforms. Thank you for the strong support of the major tforms.¡± ¡°Alright, we¡¯ve just watched the 16 teams enter the arena. Everyone should have the teams that they support in their hearts. Then, for today¡¯s opening battle, it will be our NRG against the European team DG. We can see that the yers on both sides are already debugging their equipment. The exciting match is about to begin!¡± The debugging time was very short. After the twomentators chatted for a while, the big screen showed the B.P. Interface. ¡°Alright, let¡¯s move on to the B/P phase. Team f has banned widow, stone man, and Prince, while team NRG has banned Tauren, Carter, and Scorpion.¡± ¡°Let¡¯s let¡¯s let¡¯s see which champion they¡¯ve chosen. Oh, it¡¯s locked in, Ezreal!¡± ¡°The NRG team is also very fast. They¡¯ve locked in on Shen and sona. It seems like they¡¯re prepared.¡± ¡°Yeah, there¡¯s really nothing much to think about for these Champions. They¡¯re all popr Champions at the moment,¡± ke Zhen replied. As the corresponding hero was locked on the big screen, the holographic projection also shed the hero¡¯s holographic image, causing the audience to cheer. Not only were Ezreal, Shen, and sona popr in thepetition, but they were also popr in-game heroes, so many viewers felt a sense of familiarity with them. Soon, the lineup of both sides was locked in, and it was time for the final adjustment. ¡°So, for the final lineup,¡± reminisced Gu Fei,¡±for team f, there¡¯s Lady de, Gragas, brightmoon, Ezreal, and Blitzcrank. For team NRG, there¡¯s Shen, Lee Sin, Icebird, Vayne, and sona.¡± ¡°Then, ke Zhen, please analyze the lineup of both teams for the audience. Which lineup do you think is more reasonable?¡± Ke Zhen said,¡±actually, both teams ¡®lineups are more reasonable. There are many ways to win in League of Legends. You can y a snowball fight in the early and mid-game, and you can also y a team battle in the mid-game.¡± In short, I think that squad F is more towards the early game. They need to gain an advantage in thene. On the other hand, squad F is more stable. Their early, mid, andte game are good. I still think squad F is better. ¡± It had been six months since the April Fool¡¯s Day version of League of Legends was released on April 1st. There had been three updates and 15 new heroes in total, which meant that there were 50 heroes in the game. The heroes in the three versions of the update were: Top units: Shen, Prince, mundo, jungler, nightmare, widow, Scorpion, mid units: brightmoon, vampire,cus, marksman, corki, Tristana, bigmouth, support, gem, Zyra, Morgana. Of course, there were many Champions that could y two roles. For example, corki was more suitable for midner, while Zyra and Morgana could y support or midner. Overall, League of Legends had fifty Champions, which was simr to S2 in Chen Mo¡¯s previous life. The poprity of League of Legends was constantly rising, and releasing all the heroes at once would leave the yers at a loss. Chen Mo nned to release some special heroes like Zed, Yasuo, and so on in the same order as in his previous life, so that the yers could slowly get used to them. These 50 Champions were still a little too few, but some of the popr Champions had already been released, so for these professional teams, the number of Champions to choose from was not too little. It would not affect the tactics and viewing rate of the game. Moreover, many professional teams were still trying to figure out their tactics. Overall, these teams only had two tactics. They could either choose strong champions like Lady de and Jax for the advantage in thene, or they could choose Team Champions like deathsong, Icebird, and Rockman for team battles. Chen Mo felt that these tactics were quite primitive, but it made him feel like he was back in S2, and it was quite an interesting feeling. Chapter 378

Chapter 378: Chapter 377-good start

The match officially began. As the game screen appeared on the big screen, the entire Summoner¡¯s Canyon appeared on the holographic projection device. The audience could see the heroes on the holographic projection starting from the two bases and rushing to thene. The entire Canyon was in full view. Although squad F had gotten ahold of Blitzcrank, they did not choose to invade the first team. Instead, it was Shen, blind, and Icebird from the NRG team who had entered the jungle area of squad F¡¯s Blue BUFF and snatched it. After getting the blue BUFF, blind leveled up by two and went straight to the top Lane¡¯s Bush. The de girl of team f was stunned and did not notice anything. She was killed by blind and Shen¡¯s set of skills. ¡°FIRST BLOOD!¡± The system¡¯s sound effects resounded through the entire Stadium, and the stadium immediately erupted into thunderous apuse and cheers! The camera panned to the jungler of the NRG team, NRG. ck. He was a dark-skinned and skinny young man. He did not look happy even after getting first blood. He still had a serious expression on his face and was constantly talking to his teammates. Memories said,¡±wow!¡± Dor¡¯s level 2 catch is really unexpected. It helped the NRG establish a big advantage in the early game. In this case, both jungler and topne are ahead of the other side, especially the top. I think this de girl is hard to y. ¡± Ke Zhen: ¡°well ... To be honest, I think thatdy de was too careless. It was obvious that their mid yer had given them the information. They should have known that the NRG team was trying to steal their blue. In this situation, ckie¡¯s blind man had only chosen to catch them in passing. Who would have thought that he would actually catch them ...¡± Memoriesughed awkwardly.¡±This ... This might be an oversight.¡± Ke Zhen: ¡°also, blind¡¯s Q-skill managed tond a hit on Lady de with her low health. She even used her sh. It was obviously a sh of death because her health was almost at the killing line. Blind¡¯s Q-skill would have killed her for sure. It was a sh of death.¡± ...¡±¡± The audience was alreadyughing uncontrobly. This ke Zhen really did not give any face to their international friends at all! ...... ¡°I¡¯m dying ofughter. Why doesn¡¯t Corgi pay any attention to the International impact? The whole world is watching this match. You¡¯re so direct in pointing out the bronze-level skills of the European team, be careful not to ruin our International Friendship!¡± ¡°Corgi probably won¡¯t ept this. They¡¯re just a bunch of noobs. They¡¯d be better off fighting with their E!¡± ¡°Forget it. That F * cking topner, e, is just a burden to Corgi.¡± ¡°But no matter how much of a cheat that topner, e, is, he wouldn¡¯t do something like being caught to death at Level 2 and still use sh of death!¡± ¡°Shouldn¡¯t this team be called the European scoundrel team? 23333¡± The impact of this first blood was still very big. In the topne, de girl had died once, and when she came back online, she could onlyst four hits. Shen du had already hit 15, and the difference in level was also very big. If the blind jungler got a kill, the invader would be even stronger. At the bottomne, Vayne and sona were hiding behind the minions and whittling down their minions, giving Blitzcrank no chance to pull them back. In the middlene, Phoenix was up against brightmoon. However, Phoenix had taken the blue BUFF from her side and herning ability had been greatly enhanced. She could rely on her outstanding individual ability to not fall into a disadvantageous position. The NRG team had a three-tier advantage and had the initiative in the early stages. Memories: ¡°we saw that the strategy of the NRG also yed a key role. This level one blue counter directly established an advantage for the upper, middle, and thirdnes. It especially made the middlene veryfortable.¡± ¡°That¡¯s right,¡±ke Zhen replied,¡± because we know that the Nakano of the NRG team is their star yer and one of the strongest Nakano yers in the country. ¡± Silver is the same as IF¡¯s Hu Jing, he¡¯s also considered one of the top three mid yers in the country. ¡± ¡°The other one of the three midners?¡± ¡°Yes, that¡¯s me,¡± ke Zhen replied. The live audience burst intoughter. These two people were singing the same tune and praising themselves! However, that was indeed the case. Currently, the top three midners in the country were Hu Jing, Silver, and ke Zhen. Ke Zhen could be said to be the leader of the four dumbasses in the team. If his teammates were more like humans, the team that would be in the finals would not be the DT club but the team of the team of the European Union. He recalled,¡¯indeed, the midner duo, ck and Silver, have been together since the beginning of their professional career. At the time, the boss of the NRG also poached them together. And the audience gave their midner and junglerbination a pet name: Dumb * SSbination. ¡± At 7 minutes, another battle broke out at the topne, and the minion wave was naturally pushed towards the NRG side. The Level 4 low-health de girl thought that Shen had returned to the city and took the risk to clear the minion wave, but she was immediately killed by Shen¡¯s taunt and ignite. At present, the summoner skill that yers in the upper and middle positions liked to use the most was still sh ignite. This was because no professional team had ced importance on the use of teleportation yet. yers preferred to y one-on-one advantage and always felt that it would be very difficult to y with teleportation in the line. The moment Shen reached Level 6, another battle broke out at the bottomne. Shen used his ultimate skill to teleport Vayne over, taking Ezreal¡¯s head. The snowball was already rolling, and there was no way for DG to reverse their current decline. de girl¡¯s development could not be replenished, and Shen could support the othernes every time he had a big move. The snowball was getting bigger and bigger, and the game was finally fixed at 35 minutes, with a kill count of 10 to 25. f * G had also organized several counterattacks, but they had not been able to turn the tide of the game. As the crystal of DG exploded, the image of the NRG yers appeared on the big screen. The expressions of the five yers were still rtively calm, only the two yers in the middlene high-fived. Memories: ¡°okay, let¡¯s congratte NRG for winning this game very cleanly. It¡¯s a good start for our domestic team!¡± The five members of the NRG team stood up from their seats and shook hands with the yers of the FFG team one by one ording to thepetition etiquette that the organizer had repeatedly reminded them about. After that, the five of them came to the stage and bowed to the audience. The venue immediately erupted into thunderous apuse and cheers! ¡°Oh oh oh oh! The NRG is awesome!¡± ¡°Dor, carry!¡± ¡°This is great! This is the perfectpetition! I¡¯m so excited!¡± ¡°The dumb * SS duo will take the championship!!¡± ¡°NRG! NRG! NRG! NRG!¡­¡­¡± For those who had never watched e-sports games, this sense of glory was hard to understand. But as long as they felt the atmosphere of the stadium, they would deeply understand how exciting it was to watch their own team beat the foreign team on their home ground! The scene on the big screen changed and entered the post-match analysis. ¡°Alright, let¡¯s move on to the post-match analysis.¡± The MVP of the previous match had already been given. It was the jungler, ck. And we can see the economic curve of both sides. From the beginning, the NRG has been leading in all aspects until the end of the game. ¡± Ke Zhen nodded.¡±That¡¯s right. Because the midner of the NRG team is the best at bringing up the tempo in the country. He had the advantage of being a third-tier champion in the early game. On top of that, he had support-type Champions like Shen. Basically, this match had already gone far with the first blood in the topne.¡± ¡°But I have a question.¡± Memories said,¡±NRG is so strong. How did it lose to IF?¡± Ke Zhenughed.¡±Well, it¡¯s mainly because IF¡¯s five yers are more well-rounded. Hu Jing in the middlene isn¡¯t at a disadvantage against Silver. IF¡¯s bottomne yer is stronger too. Although NRG can gain a certain advantage in the early stages, they can¡¯t beat IF in the team battles in theter stages. That¡¯s why League of Legends is a five-yer game, and it¡¯s impossible to carry it with only one or two yers. ¡± Chapter 379

Chapter 379: Chapter 378-spreading the news

Memories: ¡°okay, next up is the post-match interview. This time, our guest for the interview is the MVP, ck, who has just gotten off to a good start for the NRG. Let¡¯s turn the footage to the interview booth.¡± The audience was surprised. There was a post-match interview? They had never seen this segment before in other e-sportspetitions, but the thought of seeing their idol yer made the audience cheer immediately. The scene changed, and a tall and beautiful girl was already preparing to interview the MVP of the game, little ck. ¡°Alright, wee to the post-match interview. I¡¯m the host, Nana. We¡¯ve also invited the jungler of team NRG, ck, for this post-match interview. Come and say hello to everyone.¡± The emcee, Nana, passed the microphone to ck. ck looked a little shy as he spoke into the microphone,¡±¡±Hello everyone, I¡¯m the jungler of the NRG, ck, Jiang Hao.¡± The audience burst into cheers again, and the shouts of ¡°ck God¡± and ¡°dor¡± were endless. ¡°First question,¡± Nana said.¡±For a level one team to attack after invading the blue BUFF, was it a strategy that was nned from the start, or was it an impromptu one?¡± ck Thought about it for a moment.¡±Well, actually, the invasion to steal the blue was a well-nned strategy. However, I didn¡¯t expect that the opponent¡¯s de girl would be so close to the front line. I caught him in the middle of thene and killed him.¡± ¡°So you ¡®grabbed it¡¯ by the way ¡®, huh ...¡± Nana was a little speechless.¡±Okay, the second question. Comment on your opponent and your own performance.¡± ck paused for a moment before he said,¡±er ... The opponent is also ying quite well. He is also very strong.¡± After that, I think our team¡¯s cooperation is better. ¡± ¡°Alright, then the third question. There are a lot of fans who support you here today. Do you have anything to say to them?¡± Nana asked. ...... ck looked at the camera and said,¡±yes, thank you very much for your support.¡± And this time, my parents are also present, and I really want to perform well in front of them. ¡± Nana nodded her head.¡±That¡¯s right. This time, our organizers have also invited the family members of all the professional yers to the venue. Have you found the location of ck¡¯s parents?¡± The scene on the big screen changed to the audience seats. Jiang Hao¡¯s parents were sitting in the audience. Jiang Hao¡¯s mother¡¯s eyes were filled with tears as she kept giving the big screen a thumbs up. Nana: ¡°okay. Thank you very much for epting our interview, contestant ck. Now, everyone can take a short break and look forward to the next game!¡± ¡­¡­ This time, Chen Mo specifically asked the organizers to invite all the parents of the Chinese yers to thepetition. For those parents who came from other ces, they would even provide ne tickets and food. This wasn¡¯t just to encourage these yers to work harder in thepetition, it was also to establish an impression for the audience around the country and the parents of all the professional yers: Esports wasn¡¯t about inte addiction. Even though this world¡¯s philosophy was more openpared to his previous life, the development of the e-sports industry wasgging behind. Many traditional families did not ept the concept of ¡°e-sports.¡± Among the current professional yers, many of them had fierce quarrels with their families before they started ying professionally. There were even some yers who kicked open doors and ran away from home to y. If Chen Mo wanted to build aplete e-sports ecosystem, the first step was to change people¡¯s misunderstanding of e-sports, and the best way to do so was through the world Championships. A huge investment, a huge prize pool, a Grand venue, a cool opening ceremony, and teams from all over the world. All of this made these traditional parents realize that e-sports was a new thing and had a very good future. The process of parents going from disapproving to approving would also affect more people, including the audience watching the live broadcast. This was equivalent to a role model, allowing more and more people to realize that e-sports was also a form of sports. ¡­¡­ Thepetition was basically set ording to the S International League in Chen Mo¡¯s previous life. The sixteen teams wouldpete for a month to decide the champion. The first round of the grouppetition would be held from October 5th to 8th, the second round would be held from the 12th to the 15th, the top eight would be held from the 19th to the 22nd, the semi-finals would be held on the 28th and 29th, and the final round would be held on November 5th. The matches were basically arranged on weekends in the afternoon so that it was convenient for the audience to watch the matches and also for the audience from other countries and regions to watch the live broadcast. The poprity of the event was already very high after the first victory of the NRG. Meanwhile, the poprity of the major live-streaming websites was also rising. The number of people watching the S1 World Finals of League of Legends on fish-catching live streaming tform had reached more than 2.3 million. All kinds of bulletments were flooding the screen, all of which were ¡°congrattions, NRG, you¡¯re awesome.¡± After winning the first match in the NRG, the official forums, various forums, Tieba, and Weibo of League of Legends were all discussing the finals. The clean victory had excited the yers, and more yers began to watch the live broadcast of the game. The reaction of the yers could be described as ¡°running around to tell each other.¡± ¡°Have you watched the League of Legends finals? The NRG has already won one round!¡± ¡°I didn ¡®t. Who¡¯s the opponent?¡± ¡°I don¡¯t remember their name. It¡¯s a European team!¡± ¡°A European team? The teams from the other countries are here as well?¡± ¡°They¡¯re all here. There are teams from Europe, America, and Korea. There are also four Chinese teams!¡± ¡°Where? where? I want to see the foreign team getting beaten up!¡± Obviously, this kind of foreign battle was always the battle that could stimte the sense of honor the most. A team that yed well in foreign battles could easily gain fans and resonate with the yers. The first game of the NRG had attracted more and more domestic yers to the game. Some yers who didn¡¯t watch the game or pay attention to the domestic teams began to understand these teams and star yers. ¡­¡­ In the audience, Chen Mo was scrolling through his phone. The tournament organizers were counting the number of people watching the Grand Finals from various channels in real-time. So far, the number had reached 6.5 million! Most of the audience were from China, and there were also some from overseas, but the number was only a small part. After all, thepetition was not that important to the overseas yers, and there was a time difference between watching and watching. The main channels for yers to watch the game were the major livestreaming tforms, and many people also watched it on the client or the official website. This number had already made the organizer, Yan Huang technology, very excited. This was a solid 6.5 million people, enough to crush any big live streamer on any live streaming tform, and even more so than any previous e-sportspetition! Just the opening match of the group stage had already attracted so much attention, how much more attention would it be in the finals? Chapter 380

Chapter 380: Chapter 379petition schedule

The first day of the group stagepetition ended with the domestic team winning both games. On the first day, the domestic teams, NRG and IF, were the first andst match respectively. They would be ying against the European and North American teams, without ying against the Korea teams. After a day ofpetition, a few teams and star yers left a deep impression on the audience. It was the midnerbination, ck and Silver, from the NRG. IF¡¯s midner Hu Jing lust and ADCner Luo Yongchang Roy. Frost, the midner of the Korea team¡¯s OST. Muffy, the support yer of the Korea team MAD. The midner of the European team vs G, Pure. He was the ADC of the North American team, weasel East gaming. At the current stage, professional teams in League of Legends were still very dependent on the individual strength of the star yers. Although they would also grab strong champions, their understanding of Champions, routines, and tactics had not reached that level. When the audience watched the game, they were all focused on the highlights and their signature Champions. In any case, as long as there was a kill, they would cheer, and they couldn¡¯t see much tactical intent or details. The schedule for the first round of the group stage basically gave all the teams in each Division A chance to make an appearance. All the matches were BO1, and each team only had to y one game a day. After the first round, each team in the group would y a game with the other three teams. Generally speaking, with two wins, the situation of advancing was more optimistic. ...... In the second round of the grouppetition, the four-day schedule was to finish a group every day and directly decide whether the team in the group would stay or leave. This stage was very tense and cruel. At the end of the first day of thepetition, although the two domestic teams, NRG and IF, had both won, the domestic teams were nervous instead. After seeing the performance of the other teams, they realized that these teams were not weak at all! The older European and American teams performed better than expected. They were not as weak as everyone thought. The Korea team had improved significantly and even seemed to be much stronger than the European and American teams! In fact, the domestic teams often had training tournaments with the Korea teams. This was also a kind of e-sports tradition, which had been carried on from the previous RTS games and FPS games. After all, cross-Division Training could challenge opponents withpletely different styles, which was good for both sides. However, due to thete release of the Korean server, the Korea teams basically yed very badly against the Chinese teams. Their individual skills were far worse, so IF¡¯s Hu Jing had the idea of looking down on the Korean teams. However, after today¡¯s game, the leaders of the various domestic teams analyzed the performance of several strong teams and were surprised to find that the Korea team was improving very fast! The two games that were yed today were also against Europe and the United States. One was a solo show by OST¡¯s middlener, Frost, and Orianna dominated the game. In the other match, MAD¡¯s support yer, Muffy Tauren, walked around the entire game and established a huge advantage for the team in the middle of the game. This was a world of difference from the performance of the Korea team in the previous training games. The leaders of the various teams began to pay attention to the situation. They studied several strong opponents, especially MG and Ntclub, who were in the same group as the two Korea teams, E Motus and MAD. They collected information overnight and analyzed the ying style of the two Korean teams. Judging from the results of the first day, the performance of China and South Korea was not bad. On the other hand, the European and American teams, except for veteran teams such as VSG and WBG, performed very badly. Of course, this was also rted to the grouping. There were strong and weak teams in each division. Today, it just so happened that the strong teams from China and Korea had met the weak teams from Europe and America, so there was no suspense in their victory. If the following matches were to be a battle between the strong, the oue would be hard to say. The strength of each division wasn¡¯t much different from Chen Mo¡¯s estimation. Overall, the domestic team was the strongest. This was without a doubt. Since the Chinese server¡¯s League of Legends had been online for a few months, the yer base wasrge. In the process of the Masters ¡®confrontation, the top yers in the country improved very quickly. If a yer from another server came to the local server, he would obviously find that the pace of the king segment in the local server was faster than that of the other servers, and the yers ¡®skills were better. And at this stage, the domestic e-sports environment was rtively clean. There was no influx of hot money, and the minds of e-sports yers were still rtively simple. This was a group of yers with e-sports dreams. Although there was no particrly strict management system, they were generally very hardworking, so it was normal for them to be in the lead temporarily. Whether it was individual strength or team cooperation, the domestic teams were obviously better than the other divisions. The European division and the Korea division were simr in level, but their styles were different. South Korea was more inclined to mid-stage rhythm and team cooperation, while Europe was more inclined to development and team battles. The e-sports Foundation of these two divisions was rtively deep. Many professional yers in League of Legends had transformed from other events. Their reaction and operation were very good, and with good team management and a lot of training, they made rapid progress. As for North America, only a few old strong teams couldpete with China, Korea, and Europe. This situation was just as Chen Zhao had predicted. In fact, in Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, S2 was the era of rising power. South Korea had AZF and NajinSword, Europe had M5 and CLG.eu, China had WE and IG, and the champion TPA. The gap between the top teams wasn¡¯t that big, it was more of a difference in philosophy, tactics, and performance. It was the same in parallel world. League of Legends was still in its early stages, and the strong teams in each region were still in the exploration stage. There were no regional leagues, so there were no divisions that dominated the game. The Chinese server had opened a few months earlier, so the number of yers in the Chinese server was far more than that of the foreign servers. This was already a great start, and the world Tournament was going to be held in their home stadium. If they couldn¡¯t beat the foreign teams, then these professional yers didn¡¯t need to y anymore. They should just go home and sell their pancakes. ¡­¡­ IF team¡¯s training room. Hu Jing was watching the recording of the OST team¡¯s match. OST¡¯s midner, Frost, was one of the top midners in Korea. This match was against the North American team. He had used Orianna to solo his opponent once. In the mid-game for the Dragon, he had pulled in four yers by hiding the ball, directly establishing the victory. After the first day¡¯s matches, the domestic teams more or less stopped looking down on the foreign teams and began to seriously study the styles and y of these teams. ¡°This OT should be the most threatening opponent in our group,¡± the leader asked.¡±What do you think of his individual skills?¡± Hu Jing watched the video seriously.¡±She¡¯s very strong. She¡¯s good at all the details. She¡¯s very familiar with Orianna and has a good understanding of the game.¡± ¡°Then, do you have confidence in this Frost?¡± the team leader asked. ¡°Don¡¯t worry,¡± Hu Jing said calmly.¡±He¡¯s very strong, but he¡¯s far from Chen Mo ¡®s.¡± ¡°Really?¡± the leader was stunned. Hu Jingughed.¡±Frost¡¯s Orianna is also very fierce in thene. Her control is very delicate, but I should be able to handle it. Whether it¡¯s Icebird or deathsong, I¡¯m confident that I won¡¯t be at a disadvantage in thene.¡± What¡¯s more, our AD is stronger than the OT¡¯s ad. As long as I stay calm and wait for the midte team battle, the chances of winning are high. ¡± Chapter 381 - the battle of the focal point

Chapter 381: Chapter 380 the battle of the focal point

The leader was curious,¡±I¡¯m a little confused. How strong is Chen Mo?¡± Are you saying that you and Frost are no match for him?¡± Hu Jing was silent for a while before he replied,¡±it¡¯s hard to say.¡± In terms of mechanics and reaction time, Chen Mo is only slightly better than me, but Frost should be on the same level as me. However, what¡¯s really scary about Chen Mo is his understanding of the game and his psychological control. ¡± ¡°Game understanding and ... Psychological control?¡± the leader was a little confused. ¡°Yes,¡± Hu Jing said,¡±I wouldn¡¯t have felt this if I wasn¡¯t personally ying against Chen Mo. He¡¯s very familiar with the characteristics of his champion, and he knows exactly when his champion is strong and when his champion is weak. The scariest thing is that he seems to be able to see through his opponent¡¯s mind. When I y Orianna, it feels like every step I take is right in front of his death song¡¯s Q. It¡¯s the most despairing feeling I have. ¡± ¡°And when he uses Orianna, he seems to be able to guess the position of every Q-skill of my deathsong. He always walks to ces that I can¡¯t imagine. He¡¯s like a machine, always able to avoid all my non-directional skills with extreme precision.¡± The leader was speechless. Hu Jing watched the video of the game and continued,¡±¡±But it¡¯s true that these Korea teams are improving too fast. I don¡¯t remember hearing about Frost in OST during the previous training tournaments. Now, he¡¯s definitely one of the main yers.¡± The leader nodded.¡±That¡¯s right. Frost was a high-scoring yer in the Korean server that was scouted by OST a month and a half ago. They¡¯re growing very quickly.¡± Hu Jing¡¯s expression also became serious.¡±I understand. I¡¯ll watch the video of the match again.¡± ¡­¡­ As the schedule of the first round of the group stage continued to advance, the situation of each group became clearer and clearer. It was October 8th, thest day of the first round of the grouppetition. The situation in Group A had basically been settled. The three matches of the NRG team were all won, and they had basically locked in the qualifying spot. The other three foreign teams were fighting for the remaining spot. ...... The situation in Group B was rtively chaotic. IF from China and OST from Korea both had two points. Today, there would be a crucial showdown between the two teams, and the winner would most likely be the top of the group. Group C was led by the Korea team MAD, while the domestic team, NTclub, did not perform well. It was likely that the European team would advance to the next round. Group D¡¯s old North American team, WBG, had basically secured a ce in the next round. The remaining spots would be decided between the local teams, MG, and the Korea team, E Motus. ¡­¡­ The first match on thest day of the group stage was the highlight-the match between IF and OST. It happened to be a Sunday, so the crowd was very lively. There were already waves of cheers even before the battle started. ¡°Okay, wee to thest day of the group stage of the first round of the League of Legends World Finals. I¡¯m thementator, memories.¡± ¡°Hello, everyone. I¡¯mmentator ke Zhen.¡± Memories and ke Zhen were still thementators for this crucial battle. In fact, they had already rotated thementators for the previous matches, but this match was more critical, so it was still the two of them whomentated. Recalling the information on thementary tform,¡±¡±So, after three days ofpetition, the situation in each group has gradually be clearer. Ke Zhen, what do you think of the current situation of the domestic teams?¡± Ke Zhen thought for a moment and said,¡±among the domestic teams, the current situation of NRG and IF is better.¡± However, the performance of NTclub in Group C was worrying because the Korea team MAD and the European team vs G in Group C were ying very well. If ntclub could not adjust their condition well in the next round, it was likely that they would not be able to advance from the group. As for Group D, as the North American team, WBC has basically secured a ce in the group. I don¡¯t think it¡¯s a big problem for MG topete for the second ce with E mouts from Korea, because from the previous performance, MG is slightly better. ¡± Memories nodded.¡±Okay. After today¡¯s match, the situation of each group¡¯s advancement will be more clear. Today¡¯s key match will be IF and OST. These are the two teams that we generally think are currently at the top of thedder. What do you think of the result of this match, ke Zhen?¡± Ke Zhen said,¡±it¡¯s hard to say. At the moment, we¡¯re more optimistic about IF, NRG, OST, and MAD. We¡¯re clear that IF is slightly stronger than NRG in our country. However, for these two Korea teams, OST mainly relies on the individual strength of their midner yers, while MAD relies on good teamwork. It¡¯s hard to say how strong they are.¡± But I personally think IF will win. ¡± The twomentators analyzed the current situation of the group stage and briefly introduced the characteristics of IF and OST teams, as well as their star yers. The game began. It was obvious that both sides were targeting each other¡¯s mid. Popr mid Champions like death Song, Icebird, and Orianna had all been banned, and the final mid-Lane battle was actually between vampire and Lux. IF¡¯s formation was Lady de, Scorpion, vampire, Ezreal, and Tauren, while so¡¯s formation was brightmoon, mundo,cus, big mouth, and Lulu. Memories: ¡°okay, then the match between the two sides will now begin. IF is on the blue side, OT is on the red side. Please cheer for the team you like, okay?¡± The big screen switched to the game, and the holographic projection showed the full view of the Summoner¡¯s Rift. The audience in the arena was screaming and cheering loudly. After the first round of the group stagepetition, NRG and IF had sessfully gained arge number of fans. After all, these two teams had won all the matches so far, and they had ced the hopes of the domestic audience on them. ¡°Good luck, everyone,¡± Hu Jing said in the team voice chat.¡±Since you¡¯ve set up this trap, you must win this round!¡± Obviously, killing the wild Scorpion was a special routine, specifically used to deal with an OT. Although there were 50 Champions in League of Legends so far, there were only a few popr Champions. There were still many Champions that were either simpler, suitable for novices, or not fully developed yet. In the jungler position, Gragas, Lee Sin, Incubus, and widower had all appeared, but Scorpion had not been used in the world Championship. He recalled,¡¯IF actually came up with abination of a vampire and a Scorpion. It¡¯s because we know that IF¡¯s mid yer is a very strong individual yer but vampire is rtively shameless. He won¡¯t be at a disadvantage but it¡¯s difficult for him to gain an advantage in the league. ¡± Ke Zhen nodded his head.¡±That¡¯s right. IF¡¯s lineup is clearly aimed at bot¡¯s middlene. After banning the popr mid-Lane champion, vampire¡¯s powerfulning ability can tie Frost down in the middlene. On the other hand, Scorpion will be brainlessly pulling yers once he reaches Level 6.¡± ¡°In other words,¡± reminiscing,¡±IF the tactical idea in this game is to use vampires to tie Frost to death in the middle and then ughter his teammates.¡± ¡°That¡¯s right. I think that¡¯s the tactical intention of IF,¡±ke Zhen nodded. Chapter 382

Chapter 382: The end of the first round of small grouppetition

In the cheers of the audience, the battle between IF and OST officially began! It was obvious that IF hade up with a strategy that had never been used before in order to deal with OST. After the start of the game, OST chose the Mondo Red Lane, while brightmoon would return to the topne after she took the blue Lane, establishing the upper hand in the topne. However, IF seemed to have seen through the opponent¡¯s tactical intentions. Scorpion and the bottomne duo directly crouched in the bushes at the bottomne. After the blue buff refreshed, they decisively bypassed the ward and invaded, sessfully snatching the blue buff from the OT. At the same time, IF¡¯s topner, Lady de, had also taken down her own blue buff with the help of the vampire. Scorpion then returned to his own jungle to take down the red buff, sessfully achieving a start with three buffs. Reminiscing: ¡°wow, you can see that IF¡¯s opening strategy clearly shows that he¡¯s studied the bot strategy. In that case, de girl with the blue buff at the topne should have the advantage against brightmoon. The jungler will also develop faster with an extra buff. Vampire in the middlene has also gained a certain advantage when he¡¯s going against Lux in thening. The pace of the IF in the early game is very good.¡± Ke Zhen was also very excited.¡±That¡¯s right. Obviously, IF¡¯s n worked. Because of vampire¡¯s characteristics as a hero, he can push thene mindlessly. This is equivalent to locking Lux in the middlene so that Frost can¡¯t support the othernes. Oncecus leaves, the vampires will cause a lot of trouble for the OT whether it¡¯s to support or to push the turret. ¡± Memories: ¡°but, the SOT Lane is abination of big mouth and Lulu. If thisbination can develop in theter stages, it will be very scary. I don¡¯t know IF IF they will target the SOT Lane.¡± ¡°Big mouth needs a long time to develop. Currently, IF¡¯s Ezreal and Tauren at the bottomne basically don¡¯t have to worry about getting caught. We just have to wait for Scorpion to reach Level 6, then IF can start to mess around like crazy.¡± The match continued. Scorpion, who was at Level 3, was immediately caught, and Tauren shed to the top, directly forcing out two shes from the opposing duo at the bottomne. In the middlene, although Frost¡¯s Lux was also frantically trying to kill off Hu Jing¡¯s vampire, vampire was a hero with great endurance. As long as he hid behind the minion wave and took a few breaths, he would be able to recover his health. Scorpion¡¯s level 4 attack came down again, sessfully taking advantage of the bot duo¡¯s vision gap. Tauren¡¯s WQ raised its mouth twice, and Scorpion and Ezreal followed up with damage output, sessfully killing them. ¡°FIRST BLOOD!¡± The sound effect of first blood resounded through the entire Stadium, and the audience immediately erupted into deafening cheers! ...... IF de girl at the topne had sessfully suppressed brightmoon, but she had also been caught by Mondo once because she had pressed too deep into thene, and she had used her sh. Scorpion, who was at Level 5, went around the blue buff area and grabbed at the back. Vampire was big. The two of them nned to kill Lux from Frost with a set of damage, but frmot¡¯s control was very good, and in the end, they escaped with low health. At this stage, everyone was still in the ¡°fight if you don¡¯t agree¡± stage. They were all walking around and causing trouble. There was no longer any long and smelly operations at all. Therefore, the effect of thepetition program was simply explosive. The cheers at the venue were also getting louder and louder. After snatching away the blue buff from the bot, Scorpion once again gave his blue buff to Lady de to ensure that he had the upper hand in the topne. After all, vampire could not take the blue buff, and Hu Jing¡¯s task in this game was very simple, which was to tie up frot. After Scorpion rose to Level 6, he temporarily did not find a good opportunity to pull people in. After all, the bot side was well aware of the threat that Scorpion posed when he reached Level 6. Moreover, they were at a disadvantage, so they could only hide for the time being. IF he could take down a small dragon, but unfortunately, the Dragon¡¯s attributes were not very good, and it was only a Wind Dragon. The IF¡¯s Blue buff refreshed again. This time, the SOT decided to invade and steal the IF¡¯s Blue buff. Mondo and brightmoon sessfully forced Scorpion to sh. However, Hu Jing¡¯s vampiric support was very timely. He immediately shed over the wall and used his ulti. Saber sister also came over to surround him. The three yers from the OT immediately retreated when they realized that they could not win. However, it was already toote. Thebat power of vampiric and saber sister was extremely terrifying! Lux wanted to use her Q-skill to freeze the vampire, but she was dodged by Hu Jing¡¯s blood pool! In the end, the crescent moon was killed, and Lux could only escape from the Dragon¡¯s pit with a sh. Mundo was also surrounded by the Minotaurs, and his head was given to the Scorpion. OST paid the price for their reckless invasion. After that, IF¡¯s economic advantage had expanded to about 4000. Although they did not kill too many people, their third-line advantage and jungle resources were enough to pull apart the economic gap. After that, IF fought steadily. Because of the economic disadvantage of the OT, the brightmoon 8.0 and Mondo¡¯s equipment were not good, and no matter who Scorpion pulled, he would be able to kill them instantly, so the situation quickly reversed to IF¡¯s side. Although Lux from Frost did not die even once, she could not save the world with saberswoman and Scorpion¡¯s equipment. The game was finally set at the 37th minute, with the score of 11-6. This time, there weren¡¯t too many kills because the OT team had been avoiding the match. However, the level and excitement of this match were far higher than the previous matches where the score difference was huge. He recalled,¡¯in thest wave of team battle, IF could be said to have destroyed all obstacles and sessfully destroyed the OT crystal hub, winning this game! Let¡¯s congratte! At the end of the first round of the group stage, he became the top of the group with a record of 3-0!¡± ¡°Congrattions, IF!¡± Ke Zhen said. IF¡¯s five members came to the center of the stage. All five of them were very excited and enjoyed the apuse and cheers of the audience! ¡­¡­ At the end of thest round of the grouppetition, both NRG and IF won all three matches and ranked first in their group. Especially IF, their brilliant performance in the battle against OST had won them countless fans. In various major forums, the domestic league of Legends yers were all dancing with joy. Although the group stage was only halfway through, the poprity of League of Legends¡¯s S1 finals was rising, which could be seen from the poprity of major forums and live streaming tforms. On the live broadcast website, many hosts had opened live broadcast rooms to rey some of the exciting scenes and ssic games in the world Finals. The games of NRG and IF were repeatedly reyed, and yers loved to watch it, with tens of thousands of viewers every day. Some of the big streamers of League of Legends were also analyzing the game during their spare time. Some were reviewing the match, some werementating, and some were analyzing the participating teams, their ystyles, characteristics, and so on. It could be said that almost all the livestream streamers of League of Legends were riding on the poprity of the world Finals. This time, the world Finals were not limited to the gaming industry. Many traditional media outlets also reported on the News of the World Finals. Although it did not cause too wide an impact in society, at least it was a good start. The World Championship was a big event with a high prize, and it was apetition that would bring glory to the country. The spirit and ideology it conveyed were positive, so the game Committee was very supportive of it. The S1 World Finals of League of Legends was bing more and more influential, and it was even beyond everyone¡¯s expectations. Chapter 383

Chapter 383: The distributors ¡®surprise

After the grouppetition ended, Chen Mo posted on Weibo. ¡°About the first season of League of Legends World Finals: More than 7 million viewers were watching the group stage on the inte or TV, most of which were domestic viewers, but more than 2.7 million viewers were watching from countries such as Europe, America, and Korea. This also means that the League of Legends World Finals has be the most watched e-sportspetition in history. ¡± The moment this Weibo post was posted, it immediately caused a widespread discussion! Before this, most yers and game industry professionals could only vaguely feel that League of Legends was very popr, but they didn¡¯t have a clear idea how popr it was. However, the number of 7 million viewers had truly shocked everyone! This number had far surpassed all previous e-sportspetitions, which meant that the world Finals of League of Legends had be an important event, evenparable to some traditional sports! On the forum. ¡°The number of viewers for the S1 final match exceeds 7 million? Is that true? Isn¡¯t this just a League of Legends game?¡± ¡°I don¡¯t think it¡¯s fake. There are more than 2 million people watching on fish-catching¡¯s live streaming tform alone, and this doesn¡¯t include other tforms, official channels, and overseas viewers. Even if he faked the number of people, Chen Mo wouldn¡¯t fake the numbers. ¡± ¡°Don¡¯t you think that during this period of time, many chat groups and forums are talking about the finals? This is obviously true data!¡± ¡°I don¡¯t think 7 million is a lot. The previous global science and technology Conference in Shanghai had 6.3 million people watching it. I guess many people haven¡¯t heard of that conference before? But there are very few people in China who haven¡¯t heard of League of Legends, right?¡± ¡°No, no, no. It¡¯s only well-known among us inte-addicted teenagers. League of Legends isn¡¯t that well-known.¡± ¡°But it¡¯s still not low!¡± ...... ¡°It can only be said that this is an internationalpetition. At first, many people didn¡¯t pay attention to it. But after the two China teams beat the foreign teams, the attention of this game is getting higher and higher!¡± ¡°That¡¯s awesome. Let¡¯s wait for the finals. If the domestic team can sessfully win the championship, I think this world Championship will probably make history!¡± ¡­¡­ Emperor dynasty Entertainment¡¯s headquarters. Emperor dynasty gaming tform, fantasy gaming tform, and a few other influential tforms in the country were holding emergency meetings. Xu Xiaojun presided over the meeting, and his face was very ugly. Everyone present was the person in charge of a major tform, and all of them had ess to arge number of distribution channels. All of them were reputable people in the gaming industry, and independent video game designers didn¡¯t dare to offend them. As the saying goes,¡±the King of Hell is better, but the little devil is harder to deal with.¡± The ones who were really in charge of the channel resources of the major gaming tforms weren¡¯t CEOs like Lin chaoxu or ding Xing, but the people in charge of the tforms. If these people joined forces, they could even decide the life and death of arge number of games. If the majority of distributors in the country didn¡¯t promote your game and worked together to shut you down, it would be difficult for most average video game designers to make their games stand out in front of the yers. But now, the atmosphere in the conference room was very gloomy, and these people¡¯s faces were also very bad. Xu Xiaojun cleared his throat, and his face was a little serious.¡±The number of viewers for League of Legends¡¯s global Grand Finals has reached 7 million, and it¡¯s currently filling all major forums, video websites, and live broadcasting tforms. It can be said that the influence of this game isparable to many traditional sports. What we can predict is that after the finals, League of Legends will have another explosive growth in the domestic market. ¡± He looked at the people present.¡±President Lin organized this meeting to let us discuss countermeasures. Everyone, please express your opinions.¡± The person in charge of fantasy gaming tform, Yao Bo, sighed.¡±¡±Chairman ding is also very angry, but ... With the current poprity of League of Legends, I¡¯m afraid there¡¯s no way to deal with it.¡± Xu Xiaojun also knew that Yao Bo was right. With the current momentum of League of Legends, what countermeasures could theye up with? The sess of the League of Legends finals was based on the game itself. When the game became popr, the poprity of the e-sportspetition would also increase. But after all, this meeting was to discuss countermeasures. They couldn¡¯t just look at each other without saying anything, right? Xu Xiaojun said in a deep voice,¡±although the current situation can¡¯t be reversed by one or a few people, we should at least analyze the sess of this finals. Even if we can¡¯t analyze the countermeasures, we can still barely report back.¡± Yao Bo nodded.¡±That¡¯s right. That¡¯s why Chairman Lin and Chairman ding asked us to hold this meeting.¡± At least analyze the sess of the League of Legends finals first. ¡± ¡­¡­ It wasn¡¯t just the distributors, most video game designers in the industry were also analyzing the sess of League of Legends¡¯s S1 World Finals. League of Legends¡¯s local promotion had already given these distributors a tight p in the face. The local distributors had initially joined forces to suppress Thunderbolt gaming tform, but the sudden appearance of League of Legends hadpletely crushed the other PC games in the same period, further establishing Thunderbolt gaming tform¡¯s strong position in the PC market. Chen Mo was very sessful in both mobile and PC games, and he had made a name for himself in VR games with Minecraft and oust. Ever since thepetition started, these traditional Chinese distributors had been on the losing end. It was humiliating that they couldn¡¯t beat Chen Mo even with so manypaniesbined. And this League of Legends finals was like sprinkling salt on the wound. Originally, these distributors were generally disapproving of the finals. It was very simple, because these distributors had organized many e-sportspetitions and knew the ways. Fantasy gaming tform had hosted manypetitions in the past, and Yao Bo was considered a famous esports yer in the country. The reason for the negativements was that in the eyes of these distributors, e-sportspetitions were a business that made a loss and was a means for game manufacturers to promote games. E-sportspetitions required money to rent the venue, purchase various equipment, an attractive prize money, and invite famous yers from all over the world ... These were all money, but what about the tickets to thepetition? It was impossible to set the price too high. It would be good enough if they could recover the cost, and they wouldn¡¯t make much money at all. It was also very difficult to get sponsorships. At most, he could get sponsorships from a fewpanies such as the motherboard, keyboard, and mouse. Many e-sportspetitions simply lost money, and evente bonuses sometimes happened. Chen Mo¡¯s lineup this time was too big. Whether it was the venue or the prize money, he had broken records in all aspects. If it was as popr as the previous e-sportspetitions, he wouldn¡¯t have been able to recover his costs. However, when the data came out, everyone was pped in the face. Who would¡¯ve thought that thispetition would be so popr? Chapter 384

Chapter 384: The foundation of thepetition

It wasn¡¯t just Xu Xiaojun and Yao Bo who were in charge of the gaming tform that was confused. Many video game designers were also confused. Why had there never been any esports game that could reach such a scale before League of Legends? There had never been such arge-scale e-sportspetition before, so many industry insiders thought that it was impossible for e-sports to reach the scale of traditional sports. The most fundamental reason was the audience. The reason why traditional sports were so popr was because there were many spectators. For example, there were so many football fans all over the world. Even if they did not y football, many people loved to watch football games. It was precisely because of such a broad base of people that football matches could be more and more popr. Whether it was the World Cup, European Championship, or the Olympic Games, even if it was a Football League in a certain country or region, it could make arge number of fans ¡®blood boil. However, e-sports was different. The biggest problem that e-sportspetitions couldn¡¯t be poprized was that they didn¡¯t have a sufficient audience base. Even though the situation in the parallel world was different from Chen Mo¡¯s previous world, there was one thing that was simr. Before League of Legends, there was no other game that was as popr as League of Legends. Most games only had a lifespan of one to two years, but what about the history of football? It had been at least a few hundred years. The special nature of the game industry meant that most games would be reced by new games very quickly. A game that could be as popr as football for hundreds of years? It was nothing more than a fool¡¯s dream. In the parallel world, mobile, PC, and VR were all developed, but they all had their own ws. Although there were many people ying mobile games, thepetition was poor, and there was no guarantee that the audience would be able to watch thepetition. Although there were some FPS games in VR that could guaranteepetitive y, the number of yers was small and the viewing rate was not good, so it could not achieve dominance. For e-sportspetitions, although the morepetitive it was, the higher the viewing pleasure, the premise of all this was that the yers must have yed the game before. If the yers had never yed the game before, they would not even understand what was happening in the game, so how could they watch it with interest? Therefore, League of Legends was a game made forpetitions, and its features were very suitable for e-sportspetitions. League of Legends had arge audience base, and every yer was a potential audience for the game. ...... The omniscient view was very suitable for watching the battle. Most yers could understand what was happening on the battlefield, and it was also suitable formentary. It had a high degree ofpetition and viewing. Although League of Legends was a rtively simple MOBA game, there were still many more profound routines and eye-catching operations in the professional league, which were enough to distinguish the level of different teams. The numbers obtained in the S1 World Finals of League of Legends were the envy of all distributors and designers, because there was a huge potential behind this poprity. However, they had no choice. Even if they wanted to make other games look like esports, it would be hard for them to reach the poprity of League of Legends. This was because, at the moment, there was no domestic or foreign game that could achieve the qualities of League of Legends. In the end, Xu Xiaojun and Yao Bo came up with an analysis report, analyzing the reason for the poprity of the League of Legends Grand Finals, but how to deal with it? He was helpless. The reason why League of Legends could create such an e-sports atmosphere was entirely due to the game itself, and with the dominance of League of Legends on the PC side, there was no other PC game that couldpare to it. What Emperor dynasty entertainment and fantasy gaming tform had to admit was that this was a dead end, and League of Legends ¡®World Finals was just the game¡¯sst resort. ¡­¡­ After the first round of the grouppetition ended, the teams weed a three-day rest period. During this period of time, all the teams were free to do whatever they wanted. Some foreign teams chose to y in Shanghai and experience the local customs, while some teams still seized the time to train hard and prepare for the second round of the group stage. ¡°Sharpening the gun before the battle¡± could be said to be extremely important in e-sportspetitions. This was because before thepetition between the major divisions, no one could determine which tactics were the strongest, especially when there were differences in level and style between the divisions. For example, Europe and the United States liked to develop steadily in the early stages and wait for team battles in theter stages. This style of y was not a problem in the European and American Division. However, when ying against the Chinese and Korean teams, the other party would not give you any time to develop steadily. They would simply snowball and kill you in the early stages. Therefore, after the end of the first round of the group stage, many teams with consecutive wins were overtaken because of their ck, or some teams with consecutive losses came up with new tactics to counterattack after increasing the training volume. These were all verymon things. In the hotel, apart from the training rooms for the teams, Chen Mo also arranged a lounge for himself. Su Jinyu and the others went out to have fun. After all, they had been working in the capital all this time. It was rare for them toe to Shanghai, so they had to visit some famous attractions, such as the Oriental Pearl Tower, the Bund, and so on. After all, they weren¡¯t like these teams who didn¡¯t have any training tasks and were just here to y. Chen Mo and Li jingsi had been ying games in the break room the entire time. It had been a while since Chen Most yed league of Legends. Even though he had lost a segment, his hidden points were still there. As such, he duo-ed with li jingsi and once again dominated the champion segment. It was almost impossible to win every game since League of Legends was a five-yer game. Chen Mo couldn¡¯t guarantee that his teammates would always y at their normal level, either because it was normal for them to lose their game due to their mentality or luck. However, Chen Mo and Li jingsi still maintained a high win rate. After finishing an 8-to-0-to-3 brightmoon, Chen Mo received a call from Sun Xiao. ¡°Hello?¡± Chen Mo picked up the phone.¡±What¡¯s up?¡± Sun Xiao said,¡±chief Chen, it¡¯s like this.¡± A few club managers in Shanghai came to me and asked for your contact information. They probably want to get a spot in next year¡¯s League of Legends professional league. ¡± ¡°Tell them that the spots are gone, but the spots for the First Division are still there. Submit the relevant qualifications and arrange for them to y in the First Division. ¡± Chen Zhao said. Sun Xiao hesitated for a moment.¡±Er, but chief Chen, there are quite a few clubs in Shanghai. The bosses have alreadye personally. Why don¡¯t you meet them and talk to them face to face?¡± ¡°Alright.¡± Chen Zhao thought about it. ¡°That¡¯s good.¡± ¡°Then, shall I arrange the dinner?¡± ¡°No, there¡¯s no need for a dinner.¡± Chen Zhao said,¡±ask them toe over. I¡¯m in the lounge right now.¡± There are a few long sofas here, so there should be enough space. ¡± ¡°Alright,¡± he said. Sun Xiao said,¡±then I¡¯ll have them go over directly.¡± Chapter 385

Chapter 385: Chapter 384-stubborn Chen Zhao

After working with Chen Mo for the past few days, Sun Xiao knew Chen Mo¡¯s personality very well. Chen Mo was clearly someone who didn¡¯t care about small things. He never attended any social events or dinner parties. He was also very direct when he talked about things and never bargained with others. If it was anyone else who dared to do this, they would definitely bebeled as ¡°low EQ, not smooth enough.¡± But Chen Mo was different, he had the confidence to do so. He didn¡¯t even need to consider other people¡¯s feelings now, with League of Legends in his hands, these big clubs wouldn¡¯t even have the time to suck up to him. Chen Mo now had absolute authority over League of Legends ¡®professional league. He was the only official, and he could choose whoever he didn¡¯t want to bring along. ¡°A few people from the club will being over soon,¡± Chen Mo said to li jingsi.¡±I have something to discuss with them. You can continue ying. Don¡¯t worry about it.¡± ¡°Do you want me to leave?¡± li jingsi asked. Chen Zhao shook his head.¡±No need. It¡¯s nothing important. You probably won¡¯t be interested. Just y.¡± ¡°Alright,¡± he said. Li jingsi nodded.¡±Then I¡¯ll y a solo match first.¡± Not long after, Sun Xiao came over with a few club bosses. Sun Xiao led the bosses in and introduced them one by one. ¡°This is the designer of League of Legends, President Chen from Thunderbolt entertainment.¡± The club bosses all greeted Chen Mo, and Chen Mo returned their greetings. Everyone quickly took their seats. ...... Sun Xiao was the first to speak.¡±Everyone, actually, I¡¯ve already discussed this with chief Chen over the phone. However, out of respect for everyone, I¡¯ll let chief Chen exin it to everyone personally.¡± The club owners all looked at Chen Mo. Chen Mo looked at everyone and said,¡±I¡¯m sorry about the pro League. The ten teams have already been confirmed.¡± I¡¯ve done some research on the clubs in the country before, and they¡¯re a team that¡¯s based on the club¡¯s foundation and the strength of the yers. They basically represent the highest level of professional teams in League of Legends. ¡± ¡°But there¡¯s no need to worry. Next year, in addition to the professional league, there will be a First Division. Everyone will be able to get a ce in the First Division. We have a promotion match every year. As long as you perform well in the First Division, you can enter the professional league. ¡± The club owners looked at each other. A slightly chubby boss was the first to speak.¡±¡±Chief Chen, it¡¯s like this. Let¡¯s not beat around the bush, the attention of the e-sports audience is limited. The vast majority of their eyes will be focused on the professional league and there won¡¯t be many spectators in the First Division. ¡± ¡°Our clubs have a good foundation, but we were busy with other projects and didn¡¯t pay much attention to League of Legends. As long as we can get a spot in the pro League, we¡¯ll definitely do it well. At that time, we¡¯ll just sign a few high-scoring yers, poach one or two star yers, and it¡¯ll be easy to form a strong team. It¡¯s a bit of a waste to y in the First Division, President Chen. ¡± Another boss with an ent said,¡±¡±Yes, President Chen. I noticed that there are only ten teams in the professional league. I think it won¡¯t be a problem to expand to a dozen teams.¡± Chen Mo shook his head.¡±No, the schedule has been set. It¡¯s from Thursday to Sunday. The main purpose is to ensure that the audience has enough time to watch the game.¡± ¡°You don¡¯t have to be so rigid, chief Chen,¡± said the boss with the ent. ¡°The team can be divided into two groups. The group will have more bribing, and the group outside will have less bribing.¡± Or don¡¯t hit the 3rd boss, just hit the 2nd boss, right?¡± Chen Mo still shook his head,¡±no, the grouping will cause the strength of the teams to be uneven. The grouping also rtes to the qualifying round and the yoffs. It¡¯s not fair for some teams.¡± Changing to BO2 won¡¯t work either, it will reduce the cruelty of the league. In BO2, some teams will rx after winning a game. Only BO3 can ensure that these teams y at their highest level. ¡± The fat boss paused for a moment and said,¡±¡±Uh ... Yes, yes, yes, President Chen does have a point. ¡°However, I feel that our clubs are more formal than some clubs in the league in all aspects. For example, the NRG club was just formed recently. It was just that it was prepared earlier. In terms of financial resources, we are much stronger than it. As long as we have some time ...¡± Chen Mo frowned,¡±I¡¯m the one who decided on these ten clubs. No matter what background or financial resources they have, their League of Legends Division is the strongest in the country. The current record of the NRG in the worldpetition is 3-0 -0. Can the bosses ¡®teams do it? I¡¯m afraid some clubs haven¡¯t even organized their branches yet?¡± Hearing Chen Mo¡¯s words, the club owners were a little embarrassed. It was true that several of the bosses here only thought of setting up a League of Legends branch after seeing the poprity of the League of Legends World Finals. Some clubs didn¡¯t even have enough yers. To put it bluntly, they just saw that League of Legends was doing well in esports and wanted to quickly hitch a ride to get a piece of the cake. Chen Mo continued,¡±regarding the pro League, I already have a very mature n.¡± I understand that you all want to support League of Legends, but there¡¯s always a priority. As the organizer, I have to keep my word. ¡± ¡°You can set up a League of Legends Division without worry. I guarantee that everyone¡¯s team will have a game to y. The First Division has the opportunity to be promoted to the professional league every year. If you really have the strength, you can jump three levels and directly jump to the worldpetition. ¡± The club bosses looked at each other. Chen Mo had already made it clear, his attitude was firm, and he had a good reason. There was no point in pestering him. The club bosses stood up and left, and sun Xiao sent them off. After sun Xiao left, the club bosses started to discuss on the way out of the hotel. ¡°I¡¯ve always heard that this Chen Zhao is a stubborn person. He actually rejected me so firmly?¡± ¡°I thought that if it could be bought with money, it wouldn¡¯t matter even if it cost a few hundred thousand. But he didn¡¯t have that intention at all?¡± ¡°Don¡¯t tell me he¡¯s really going to be selected based on the team¡¯s strength?¡± ¡°He¡¯s really crazy. A game can only be popr for a year or two, and he¡¯s expecting it to be like football? Who would watch the First Division?¡± ¡°What promotion and demotion? it¡¯s quite decent. Do you want a spot in the First Division?¡± ¡°The spots in the First Division are not valuable. If we can¡¯t get a spot in the pro League, our club would rather not y the League of Legends Division. I¡¯d like to see what Chen Mo and the other clubs can do!¡± ¡°That¡¯s right, he really thinks he¡¯s a Big Shot!¡± Chapter 386

Chapter 386: The professional yers training in the National server

Of course, those clubs that didn¡¯t get a ce in the LPL, although they said they didn¡¯t want it, most of them still epted the First Division. After all, there might not be such a shop after this. However, there were also a small number of clubs who didn¡¯t even n to set up a League of Legends branch. After all,pared to the professional league LPL, the attention given to the First Division would definitely be very low, or almost zero. These clubs felt that the investment and output were not proportional, so they nned to wait and see for a while. With the arrival of the major clubs, the value of professional yers suddenly rose. Many high-scoring passers-by and live streamers were also invited by the clubs, and ying professionally became one of their choices. ¡­¡­ In the waiting room, Chen Zhao was still ying with li jingsi. ¡°Do you think those club bosses will still set up a League of Legends branch?¡± asked li jingsi. They don¡¯t seem to be very interested in the spots in the First Division. ¡± ¡°It doesn¡¯t matter if they¡¯re interested or not,¡± Chen Mo said indifferently. At the moment, the top yers and rted e-sports resources in the country could only support 10 LPL teams and 12 first division teams at most, which means that I only need 22 clubs, it¡¯s useless to have more. These clubs that gave up their spots in the First Division will soon regret it. ¡± Li jingsi didn¡¯t ask any further. She looked at the lineup.¡±We might have to go down the bottomne.¡± ¡°Are you an Archer or a support?¡± Li jingsi thought for a moment.¡±I¡¯m a little tired of ying the Archer. I¡¯ll y the support for this round. You carry me and lie down.¡± ...Sure.¡± ...... Chen Mo thought about it and chose a champion. ¡°Wee to the di Alliance!¡± ¡­¡­ During the world Tournament, all foreign professional yers would train in the National server. Chen Mo had specially prepared for these yers to use their respective national ounts, which were all Champions and all Champions, allowing them to practice in the high-end games of the National server. Of course, these ounts would be recycled after the World Tournament. These ounts all came with name change cards, and foreign professional yers could change their names freely. This was to prevent high-ranked yers from bing actors because they hated a professional yer, and to maintain the fairness of thepetition. However, under the efforts of the resourcefulizens, the IDs of these professional yers were still exposed one after another, and there was even a very detailed corresponding form. It had to be said that the names of these foreign friends were also very creative. In order to make themselves look less like ¡°foreigners,¡± they simply racked their brains. There were also some yers who were more confident, such as Frost from OST, who directly used their game ID. These yers were not afraid of being yed. There were also some professional yers who had English names, such as a word, because there were also some yers in the Chinese server who used English names. However, most of the professional yers used Chinese names, probably to do as the Romans do and better disguise themselves as Chinese yers who quietly carried the game. However, these names were all very awkward. At first nce, one could tell that they were machine-flipped, and they did not have the effect of hiding their identities at all. For example, a certain European mid wanted to name himself ¡°professional yer¡±, but after flipping the ¡°Professional yer¡± over, it became ¡°professional yer.¡± Hence, he used this ID that seemed strange to others to y the stairway to heaven. Many people were wondering why professional yers were ying League of Legends. Other than that, there were also a few IDs that were very annoying, such as ¡°I want a sister,¡±¡±this person is not breathing,¡±¡±dazzling tornado charge,¡±¡±what a beauty,¡±¡±mental fortitude,¡±¡±a nobody wants to mess with you,¡±¡±strong spirit,¡±¡±the Aegean is open,¡± and so on. Some of the names could not even be tranted into English, as some European teams had to use French, German, or Russian to do the trantion ... However, after getting the IDs of most of the professional yers, theizens immediately set off a vigorous campaign to stop them. These people were all professional yers, so if I killed him, wouldn¡¯t that mean I could also y professionally? During the rest period, the high-end yers of the country started to rank frantically, trying to stop these professional yers. All the major forums and yer groups were also lively. Many yers were tracking the results of these professional yers, and some streamers found a way to make money from it. They live-streamed the process of these professional yers climbing thedder, and there were quite a lot of viewers watching. In the live broadcast room of these professional yers who spectated, the audience was discussing the high-end games they had seen these days. ¡°Frost is so sick, even an actor in the team won? In the end, this actor probably found his conscience and started ying again. The worst part was that he even won!¡± ¡°This actor¡¯s points will probably be deducted and his ount will be banned for three days ... The official website made a special announcement that during the world Tournament, the environment of the stairway to heaven will be purified. Any actor who is verified will be severely punished.¡± ¡°This Muffy is obviously a support yer. Why is he ying in the mid and Archer positions all the time?¡± ¡°This Pure mid from vs G has been screwed over. He¡¯s good at team development mid, but his teammates are crazy and sent him flying, not giving him a chance to develop at all 2333.¡± ¡°I¡¯m dying ofughter. I feel like Pure¡¯s mentality has exploded. He¡¯s in urgent need of a duo-team with his team¡¯s jungler!¡± ¡°Wait a minute, F * ck, what did I just see? This is an interesting match, Draven from the blue team is Chen Mo!¡± ¡°W-what? Chen Mo? He used Draven?¡± ¡°That¡¯s right. The blue team¡¯s bottomne has two yers, one is a talent and the other is a Throne. Isn¡¯t that Chen Zhao? The ID of this big mouth on the opposite side was tenacious spirit. Wasn¡¯t he the strongest AD in North America? It¡¯s Turke from the WBG battleteam. ¡± ¡°F * ck, this is good. Where¡¯s the live broadcast room? I¡¯m going to watch!¡± ¡­¡­ Chen Mo didn¡¯t know that this match was being watched by a lot of famous streamers. He just thought that the ID of the big mouth was a bit strange. ¡°Mental fortitude¡±? This name was too unrefined. Li jingsi was a girl who kept her word. If she said she would lie down, she would lie down. She directly chose a healer to support her, carrying out the spirit of lying down to win to the end. On the other side, it was big mouth and winddy. This was abination that could be seen in a game. Winddy could protect big mouth to a certain extent, and big mouth couldpletely take over the game after he developed. ¡°How are we going to fight?¡± Li jingsi asked. Kill big mouth. ¡°Alright,¡± li jingsi nodded. Both sides went online. Obviously, the opponent¡¯s big mouth did not realize the seriousness of the situation. After all, he was the number one ADC in North America. Although Truke used a developing champion like big mouth to go against Draven, who was a strong early game champion, he did not admit defeat at the start. Instead, he tried to snatch the second level. However, Chen Mo¡¯s Draven obviously didn¡¯t want to give him the chance. He used a spinning hatchet to hit the shield and then retreated, waiting for the shield to disappear before going forward to wear her down. Chapter 387

Chapter 387: Chapter 386-study well

At Level 1, driven, who was ying with spinning axes, clearly dealt much more damage than big mouth. Furthermore, with a healer healing him, any blood exchange was worth it. After taking two hits from Draven¡¯s axe, Truke also realized that this Draven was a reckless man who did not care about his own life. Seeing that he had no hope of getting the second kill, Truke could only surrender and hide behind the minion wave. Very quickly, Truke realized that this Draven seemed to be very good at ying. And it seemed to have exceeded the average level of shooters in this division? After all, Truke was a professional yer, and he had done his research on most ADCs. The key to ying Draven well was to bnce the rtionship between receiving the axe and using the A. For professional yers, it wasn¡¯t difficult to catch the axe. The difficult part was catching the axe and using an A at the same time. Sometimes, they had to decisively give up on catching the axe and chase after the dying yers. If his thoughts weren¡¯t clear, it was very likely that he would miss his axe or miss an attack. No matter which situation it was, it would be very harmful to Draven. But this Draven¡¯s movements were very smooth. He continued tond minions and deplete his health. Coupled with the rapidly spinning axe in his hand, the scene was simply too beautiful to be imagined. Truke had never seen such a fierce Draven before, and they were not used to it. After all, this champion was very difficult to y and was not a popr champion. They rarely encountered it during training or in officialpetitions, so they were not used to it. Truke decisively chose to retreat to the tower. Draven was about to level up to Level 2, so going out to farm now was no different from suicide. However, he was not too worried. At least he was safe under the tower. As long as big mouth could hang on and develop, he could still take over the game through the midte team battle. ¡­¡­ The game had progressed to 5 minutes and 23 seconds. ¡°FIRST BLOOD!¡± ...... The sound of first blood resounded throughout the battlefield. The low-HP Draven was trying to escape the range of the turret, but a mouthful of milk from the healer directly restored his HP back up, and he escaped with low HP. Turke thought that this was unbelievable. ¡®What¡¯s going on? how did I get killed under the tower?¡¯ The yers who were watching the live broadcast all saw this scene. He saw it, but he couldn¡¯t understand it. The process was very simple. Draven quickly pushed thene, and there was a clear level difference between him and big mouth. Big mouth was reluctant to give up such arge number of minions, so he tried very hard to add ast hit to the tower, and Draven took advantage of this opportunity to keep consuming his energy. After Draven reached Level 3, the first time he crossed the tower, he tricked the winddy shield and exhaust. The second time, he tricked big mouth¡¯s healer. Bigmouth was already on the brink of death, but his sh was still there. Seeing the number of minions under the turret, Turke made a wrong decision. After eating these soldiers, he would return to the city. On the third tower attack, Draven killed bigmouth with a sh and escaped from the tower¡¯s attack range with low health. The final result was that Draven and the healer were both on critical HP, but the hero, winddy, was unable to pursue them. Two minutester, the jungler on bigmouth¡¯s side realized that they were at a disadvantage at the bottomne. On the other hand, the opponent¡¯s Raven was crazily suppressing thene. He decisively grabbed thene, but this had instead caused Turke to fall into a trap. Under Draven¡¯s spinning flying axes, the other three heroes couldn¡¯t kill him no matter how hard they tried. After killing the healer, they lost three heads. ¡°triple kill!¡± The low HP Draven returned to the city through the grass, but everyone knew that he had dominated the game. Especially since Chen Mo was using a top streamer¡¯s skin. The audience didn¡¯t think much of it at first, but they suddenly realized that the skin¡¯s voice chat was really mocking. ¡°Draven is undergoing a Draven-style rxation.¡± ¡°Let¡¯s watch today¡¯s exciting match between the great Draven and the losers!¡± ¡°After resting, Draven will be even more Draven!¡± ¡°Be careful, Draven has gotten the endless de, hahahahaha!¡± ¡°Watch and learn!¡± ¡­¡­ After gaining a huge advantage in the early stages, Chen Mo¡¯s Draven was able to take control of the match, while Turke¡¯s mouth had no room to y. It wasn¡¯t a problem of skill or technique, because there was no ce for him to farm. Right now, iven¡¯s financial advantage was too great. Unless there were four people to capture him, it was impossible to kill him. Chen Zhao had good awareness. If there were really four people, he would¡¯ve realized it long ago. The match ended without a doubt. Chen Mo¡¯s Draven got 17-2-3, trapping the five opponents in the fountain. ¡°It¡¯s not good to abuse the spring. ¡± Even though Chen Mo said so, Draven still couldn¡¯t help but walk to the edge of the spring and cut down big mouth, who was standing a little further away. Li jingsi was at a loss for words. Chen Mo sighed,¡±sigh, I can¡¯t control my hand ..¡± ¡­¡­ On the live broadcast tform, in the live broadcast room for spectating professional yers, the bullet screen was already exploding. ¡°F * ck, Chen Zhao¡¯s Draven is crazy! The other side is a professional yer!¡± ¡°Even a professional yer can¡¯t stop Chen Mo ... F * ck.¡± ¡°This big mouth has really be an explosive output. It¡¯s all passive explosions ...¡± ¡°This Draven is invincible. Whoeveres will be killed. Why is his damage so high?¡± ¡°He caught the axe urately, dealt high additional damage, killed a lot of people, and gained a lot of passive money. His economy ispletely crushed!¡± ¡°It¡¯s so good to watch, it¡¯s simply a torture! I¡¯m impressed by Chen Mo when ites to beating noobs!¡± This Draven ughter hadpletely overturned the yers ¡®understanding of this hero. After the April Fool¡¯s Day update, Draven had stolen the limelight with the big-headed doll event. However, Chen Mo had never yed any ranked matches since then, and most yers didn¡¯t realize the strength of this champion. No matter if it was a high-end game or apetition, there were very few people who would ask about it. But after this, the yers realized that this hero was actually so powerful. All of the livestream viewers had clearly seen how Draven killed with each swing of his axe. Whether it was receiving an axe, using an a, or using A big swing to kill, his performance could be said to be perfect. Moreover, he was extremely calm, and killing was as simple as eating and drinking! Even though he had fought against three enemies many times, he didn¡¯t panic at all. He was like a killing machine that only had eyes for heads, ruthlessly tearing apart the enemy¡¯s mental defenses. This incident also became a small interlude during the rest of the finals, and was talked about by the yers. ¡­¡­ After the ranking match, Chen Mo looked at his phone and saw a message from su Jinyu. Manager, look at the game editor, the game Committee has a new game draft.¡± Chen Zhao was stunned. What the hell? Last time the game Committee was looking for a China themed game, and Chen Mo even made Wulin legend. But since then, the game Committee had not released any new games. Why are they collecting games again this time? Chen Mo said to li jingsi, then opened hisptop and entered the game engine to check out the campaign. Chapter 388

Chapter 388: Three Kingdoms mobile game collection

As expected, after opening the editor, Chen Mo saw the announcement in a prominent position. ¡°Promotion of the Three Kingdoms culture-themed game season activity announcement¡± In order to promote the traditional culture of the Three Kingdoms and promote the healthy development of the game industry, the games and virtual reality Committee has designated October 8th to January 8th as the ¡°games of the Three Kingdoms¡± event season. All designers are invited to use their wisdom to design high-quality games of the Three Kingdoms and promote the culture of the Three Kingdoms. 1. Collecting targets All game designers. 2. Method of participation The Three Kingdoms games released in this season would be tacitly evaluated. 3. Design requirements 1. There was no limit to the tform, mobile games, PC games, and VR games were all avable. 2. The game was rich in content, with a healthy and positive theme, which could reflect the cultural implications of the Three Kingdoms. 3. It was innovative and clearly different from the traditional Three Kingdoms game on the market. 4. It could adapt to the needs of the market and the characteristics of games in the inte era. 4. Reward content ...... At the end of the quarter, a Review Committee formed by the games and virtual reality Committee would review the game. While ensuring the spirit of the Three Kingdoms, the yer¡¯s response and market feedback would be important evaluation standards. There will be one first prize, three second prizes, five third prizes, and a certain number of Excellence Awards. Award a certificate to the winning designer, and the winning game will be rmended by the official app Store for a month. It was signed off by the game Committee yesterday. The format of this announcement was basically the same as the announcement from thest campaign for China themed games, but it included the Three Kingdoms games. However, Chen Mo was more concerned about the design requirements. In addition to not being limited by the tform and the theme meeting the culture of the Three Kingdoms, there were two more special requirements. They had to be innovative, adapt to the market demand, and adapt to the characteristics of the game in the inte era. Chen Mo read it over and over again, and indeed, while these few lines seemed to be quite simple, they clearly reflected the direction of the gamemittee¡¯s campaign. What did it mean to adapt to the market demand? Obviously, this meant that the game had to be a game that the yers loved to y and was profitable. What did he mean by adapting to the gaming characteristics of the inte era? This meant that it would be best if the game was an online game that could support many people online, and the more people supporting it, the better. Chen Mo summarized the requirements, and a few words shed through his mind: Three Kingdoms, online games, strategy games, and pay-to-win. There were many implications in the spirit of the Three Kingdoms, but the most prominent one should be strategy. The Three Kingdoms was an era where counselors, generals, and Lords were all shining, and the various battles also reflected the wisdom of the ancient era. For example, the three visits to the thatched cottage, the trick of injuring oneself, burning red Cliff, the trick of empty city, and so on. These were all points that were deeply rooted in the culture of the Three Kingdoms. Of course, some of these events might have been fabricated byter generations and not the real events of the Three Kingdoms period. However, it was undeniable that these stories had been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people with ¡°Romance of the Three Kingdoms¡±, an ancient ssic. If he had to make an RPG or a hack-and-sh game, he could do it. However, to best reflect the characteristics of the Three Kingdoms culture, the best choice was still a strategy game. Chen Mo started to think about what kind of game he should make. There were indeed many Three Kingdoms games in his previous life, but not many of them met the requirements. In his previous life, some of the Super ssic games of the Three Kingdoms, such as the Romance of the Three Kingdoms series, were good in all aspects, but the problem was that they were not online games and could not meet the demand of hundreds or thousands of people ying online games at the same time. Moreover, ording to the gamemittee¡¯s requirements, the game had to be ¡®popr¡¯ and ¡®suitable for the inte era¡¯. A standalone game meant that it could only be sold per set, and the profitability would be far worse. It also didn¡¯t fit the characteristics of online games. Also, Chen Mo was in Shanghai, so he didn¡¯t n on returning to the capital. He nned to take care of the game himself, apart from the art resources. It would be more difficult to make arge PC game. ¡°Kill of the Three Kingdoms¡± wasn¡¯t bad either, but Chen Mo felt that it should be categorized as a board game. Even though the ystyle and packaging fit perfectly with the Three Kingdoms, it was still limited to the ¡°table¡± category and couldn¡¯t bring out the characteristics of arge-scale war between countries. After some thought, Chen Mo came up with a suitable game. Before he started production, he decided to give su Jinyu a call. Very quickly, the call went through. ¡°Hello? Manager, have you seen the game recruitment event?¡± Su Jinyu asked. ¡°Yeah, I did,¡± Chen Zhao said. Su Jinyu,[are we not going to participate?] Or should we ignore the S1 finals for now and head back to the capital?¡± Time was tight as the finals would only be over on the 5th of November. If they returned to the imperial capital to make the game by then, it would be a monthte, which was why Su Jinyu asked. ¡°I¡¯ll do it myself this time,¡± Chen Zhao said.¡±You guys can just continue watching.¡± ¡°Huh?¡± ¡°Yes, I¡¯ll spend a month to make a mobile game. It¡¯s not difficult. You guys don¡¯t have to do anything, I¡¯ll send the relevant art requirements to the art team in the capital and have theme up with the material for me. I¡¯ll handle everything else myself. ¡± Chen Zhao said. ¡°Uh, manager, Qian Kun, Zheng Hongxi, and I are free these days. We can help.¡± Su Jinyu said. Chen Moughed,¡±no need. The game I¡¯m making isn¡¯t that difficult. It¡¯s just a piece of cake for me to do it myself. I¡¯ll just look for you guys if I need your help.¡± ¡°Alright then, manager. Good luck.¡± Su Jinyu was dumbfounded. ¡­¡­ It wasn¡¯t just Chen Mo, the other video game designers also saw the theme game gathering. ¡°The game Committee has a new game recruitment event? It¡¯s the Three Kingdoms theme this time. ¡± ¡°The Three Kingdoms game ... Is not easy to do.¡± ¡°Ah? Why? isn¡¯t the Three Kingdoms game the best subject matter?¡± ¡°This is something you don¡¯t understand. Indeed, any game that was wrapped in the Three Kingdoms would be considered a Three Kingdoms game, but if you wanted to make it good and unique? It was too difficult! Because this subject matter has been done too badly, there are many mediocre works and few outstanding works!¡± ¡°Also, the game Committee has an additional request this time. They want it to meet market demand? And it would be best if it was an online game?¡± ¡°It¡¯s not easy. Think about the China themed gamest time, Wulin legend was the winner. No one in China could make a wuxia game like that with its rich story and high level of freedom. There will definitely be more people participating in this ¡®Three Kingdoms¡¯ event. I feel like it¡¯ll be difficult to break out of the encirclement with so many people!¡± ¡°I just want to ask, Chen Zhao probably won¡¯t be joining this time, right?¡± ¡°Well ... I don¡¯t think so. League of Legends is very popr now, and the world Finals are at a critical moment. He should be in Shanghai watching the world Finals. Besides, with his current qualifications, he probably doesn¡¯t care about the prize in this event. ¡± ¡°Yeah, he¡¯s already an Honorary Committee member and has a good rtionship with the game Committee. He probably doesn¡¯t need to suck up to them anymore.¡± ¡°That¡¯s great, I¡¯m more confident now that Chen Mo isn¡¯t participating. The Three Kingdoms theme is also my type, I¡¯ll do it well this time!¡± Chapter 389

Chapter 389: Chapter 388-pay-to-win strategy mobile game ¡°leading thend¡±

Many designers were eager to make a different Three Kingdoms game and win the first prize. However, the designers who knew the game well knew that it would not be easy to make this game. The gamemittee¡¯s campaign would usually be for games that were on the losing end of the market, like the China themed games from before. There were quite a few Three Kingdoms games in the country. Or rather, a lot. However, the quality was very worrying. As an IP, Three Kingdoms waspletely free, which meant that any designer could make games of Three Kingdoms without any barriers. Although there were arge number of fans of the Three Kingdoms in China, the IP of the Three Kingdoms was the same as the game to the West. It had been seriously overdrawn. Therge number of crudely made games of the Three Kingdoms had made most yers feel nauseated when they saw the two words ¡°Three Kingdoms¡± in the game name. Moreover, the current Three Kingdoms game in the country did not have any special way to reflect the culture of the Three Kingdoms. Speaking of Three Kingdoms, there was one game that had to be mentioned. It was an MMORPG that had always been very popr, Heavenly Sword of Three Kingdoms. This game, along with Moon Goddess ¡®prophecy and Legend of the Sword, was one of the top three mmorpgs in the country. It was well-known and had its own unique characteristics. Heavenly Sword of the Three Kingdoms focused on country war Mode. The yers were scattered in the Three Kingdoms of Wei, Shu, and Wu, and carried out frequent country Wars and city sieges. At the same time, they could experience some quest plots rted to the Three Kingdoms. Currently, all the Three Kingdoms games that made online games basically followed the path of Heavenly Sword of the Three Kingdoms, which was a war-type RPG game. Moreover, the gamemittee¡¯s requirements this time were ¡®market demand¡¯ and ¡®online games¡¯, which meant that it was very likely that the single yer game would not win. Inparison, single-yer games were easier to make. Whether it was the plot, strategy, or gamey, it was much easier to make a single-yer game because there was no interaction between yers. The designer would have a lot more freedom and would not have to worry about uncontroble situations. In Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, the ssic games of the Three Kingdoms, such as ¡®Records of the Three Kingdoms¡¯,¡¯legend of Cao Cao¡¯,¡¯Legends of the Three Kingdoms¡¯, and so on, were all single yer games. Obviously, these games had more variety in plot performance and strategy, but the problem was that they couldn¡¯t be changed into online games. ...... For example, if each yer yed the role of a Lord, there would be at most a dozen yers ying the game together. If they started with different Lords, there would be no guarantee of bnce. Hence, creating a Three Kingdoms themed online game was a headache for all video game designers. Moreover, because Three Kingdoms was an IP with no threshold, it meant that its potential was almost exhausted. Many designers had racked their brains to make a different Three Kingdoms game, but most of them had failed. If so many designers didn¡¯te up with anything, it meant that this theme was really hard toe up with. Under such circumstances, to create a unique Three Kingdoms game? It was extremely difficult. However, to many video game designers, Chen Mo was busy with the S1 World Championship and might not be participating. This should be the best news. ¡­¡­ Chen Mo was typing on hisptop in the lounge. On theputer screen was the design concept for ¡°leading thend¡±. Compared to the famous games of the Three Kingdoms in Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, such as Records of the Three Kingdoms, unparalleled Three Kingdoms, and legend of the Three Kingdoms, leading thend wasn¡¯t as well known. However, Chen Mo wanted to make this game because it had something that other games didn¡¯t have. It was a fully free sandbox strategy mobile game that could support tens of thousands of yers in a war against a country. As a strategy type of SLG game, it had a 40% tomorrow retention rate and an ARPU of up to 150. Moreover, it had a terrifying long-term retention rate, which was considered outstanding in SLG games. In Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, after the rise of mobile games, there were many mobile games with the Three Kingdoms theme. Setting aside the single-yer games, in terms of online games, thend of the guide was one of the best games. Chen Mo didn¡¯t n on making a big game in the imperial capital. Making a pay-to-win game with an SLG theme should be enough to win a prize in the event. Moreover, it had been a long time since Chen Mo made a pay-to-win game, so he had to let the yers feel his love for them again. From a technical point of view, it wasn¡¯t difficult for Chen Mo to make thend of the guide, and it didn¡¯t require much resources. In terms of art resources, there were nothing more than UI, military arts, Ground arts, etc. Chen Mo just had to send his requirements to the imperial capital and wait for the art team to send back the resources. Thend guide map was a very realistic map of the Three Kingdoms period. It was put together piece by piece, but thend was reused, so the resources were very limited. There werend (wood, stone, iron ore, food, and other resources), rivers, mountains, cities, docks, checkpoints, fortresses, military camps, and so on. Even though the art of the original was pretty good for a mobile game, Chen Mo wasn¡¯t satisfied with just that. He nned to make changes to the game in two areas. One was the city construction. There weren¡¯t many changes to cities in leading thend, and all the building upgrades were done in the form of charts. Chen Mo nned to directly upgrade the buildings onto the yer¡¯s cities, so that every time the yer leveled up a building, it would be visible on the city. On the other hand, there was the battle scene. Thebat system of ¡°leading thend¡± was quite unique. Due to the limitations of the skill level, thebat scenes were very monotonous. Moreover, it was meaningless to watch it or not. It was better to just read the battle report. Although this was nothing to the Veterans, to the newbies, this kind of battle scene had the effect of dissuading them. Chen Mo nned to improve the entire battle scene to better show the critical points such as the loss of soldiers and the casting of skills. This would allow the yers to see the effects of the various tactics more directly. On one hand, it would improve the graphics, and on the other hand, it would allow the newbies to know more clearly what happened during the battle. Other than that, Chen Mo also nned to make someprehensive improvements on the general map. For example, when the Army marched, they would stick to the ground more closely and not look like they were floating in the air. The various special effects and performances during the siege would also beprehensively optimized. As a SLG game, the ystyle for the mid andte stages of the game were already very mature, so Chen Mo¡¯s main goal was to make the game retain more yers in the early and mid stages. Chapter 390

Chapter 390: The current situation of the mobile game market

In the lounge, Chen Mo was writing some details about the setting of thend of the guide. Although this was a mobile game, some of the rules of the state war were ratherplicated. This was because there could be dozens or hundreds of yers moving at the same time in the same battle. The rules had to be very clear in order to avoid any problems. Moreover, thebat system of ¡°leading thend¡± was also veryplicated. There were more than 400bat techniques (skills). The entirebat technique system alone was not something a newbie could understand even after ying for a few months. Therefore, there was a certain amount of work to do. Just as he was thinking, Zheng Hongxi knocked on the door and came in. ¡°Manager, I heard that the game Committee is collecting games from the Three Kingdoms? I know everything about the Three Kingdoms. Manager, tell me what kind of game you want to make. I¡¯ll take care of the plot, and I promise it¡¯ll be good. ¡± Zheng Hongxi was still a little excited. Chen Zhao looked at him, are you very familiar with the Three Kingdoms? What books have you read?¡± Zheng Hongxi said,¡±¡± Records of the Three Kingdoms ¡°and¡± Romance of the Three Kingdoms ¡°!¡± I¡¯ve seen them all!¡± ¡°Oh.¡± Chen Yu asked,¡±then, have you read Pei Songzhi¡¯smentary on the Three Kingdoms, as well as records of Shu, Book of Jin, Book of Wei, Wei Lue, historical Records of the Three Kingdoms, Zi Zhi Tong Jian, aption of exnations on the Records of the Three Kingdoms, han-Jin spring and autumn?¡± Zheng Hongxi was dumbfounded,¡¯...This, I haven¡¯t seen it before. Manager, you¡¯ve seen them all?¡± ¡°I haven¡¯t seen it either,¡± Chen Mo shook his head. Zheng Hongxi was speechless. What the hell, why are you saying that you haven¡¯t seen it! ¡°It¡¯s fine,¡± Chen Mo smiled.¡±The game doesn¡¯t need a plot, so you don¡¯t have to write it.¡± ...... ¡°Ah?¡± Zheng Hongxi was stunned.¡±How can we promote the culture of the Three Kingdoms without the plot? Even if it¡¯s an RPG, there should at least be a main mission, right?¡± Chen Mo shook his head,¡±I don¡¯t want the plot.¡± This time, it¡¯s a mobile game with a special way of ying. Don¡¯t worry. ¡± ¡°Alright,¡± he said. Zheng Hongxi looked very disappointed.¡±Well, keep it up, manager. If you need any help, you cane to me anytime.¡± ¡°Alright,¡± he said. Chen Zhao nodded. Zheng Hongxi thought for a moment and said,¡±Manager, you¡¯re not thinking of making a pay-to-win mobile game with the Three Kingdoms theme, are you?¡± ¡°It¡¯s also a pay-to-win mobile game,¡±Chen Mo said. Zheng Hongxi reminded him,¡±well, manager, I shouldn¡¯t have said that.¡± There are quite a lot of pay-to-win mobile games on the market now. If it¡¯s the same card game as Onmyoji, I¡¯m afraid it won¡¯t bepetitive ...¡± Chen Mo nodded,¡±don¡¯t worry, I know what to do.¡± ¡°Okay, then you better buck up, manager.¡± Zheng Hongxi said,¡±I¡¯ll be in charge of shouting 666.¡± ¡­¡­ In the current state of the mobile game market, it could be said that pay-to-win games dominated the market. Onmyoji had been running for two years now, and Chen Mo had done some updates. Even though it was still in the top ten of the mobile game market, it had already started to show signs of decline. After all, the lifespan of card games was limited, not to mention a game like Onmyoji that was extremely damaging to the liver. The only reason it was still in the top 10 of the best-sellers list was because there were not many strongpetitors in parallel world. The current domestic mobile game market was in a rtively chaotic state. Onmyoji did reap a huge harvest from the mobile game market when it first appeared, but card games weren¡¯t a long-term game after all. The way to y it was rtively monotonous, and most people would get sick of it after a few months. However, a game that could rece Onmyoji had yet to appear. However, Onmyoji¡¯s appearance did give mobile game designers some inspiration. The mobile game market had great potential and yers could ept heavy games. The mobile game market was currently in a state of chaos. RPG games, card games, and casual puzzle games were all quite good, with a few top-selling RPG games. However, there weren¡¯t any phenomenal games that caused a sensation like Onmyoji. Many designers werezy and modified their PC games, transnting them to mobile games to make money, or creating card games. As a result, there were more shoddy games in these mobile games, and there was ack of distinctive quality games. The crude quality of the game wasn¡¯t the main point. The main point was the way the game was yed. There were only slight innovations and no revolutionary changes. As for mobile card games, they had almost exhausted all of their ystyles. After Onmyoji, there were still a few decent card games, but the yers were already sick of them. It was getting harder and harder to make money from mobile card games. Everyone was looking forward to the birth of a better way to y. ¡­¡­ 12th of October, the second round of the S1 finals would begin. Thepetition continued. This time, thepetition schedule was even more brutal. From the 12th to the 15th, they had to finish a group match every day, which would directly determine the fate of these teams. The poprity of the second round of the grouppetition was basically the same as the first round. This number could only be surpassed in the semi-finals or even the finals. In the end, the four teams that qualified for the next round were settled. The situation in Group A, B, and C was rtively clear. In Group A, NRG and DG would advance, in Group B, IF and OST would advance, and in Group C, VSG and MAD would advance. Among them, because the teams in the group were weaker, NRG advanced with a perfect win record, with a final score of 60. In Group B, IF lost to OST in the second round, and they won against OST in the tiebreaker match to advance to the next round. In Group C, VSG from Europe and MAD from Korea advanced. What was more surprising was the situation in Group D. Originally, MG was stronger than the Korea team, E Motus, but in the second round of the group stage, E Motus¡¯s strength had suddenly improved significantly and he had used two tricks in a row. In the second round of the group stage, he had achieved a score of 3-0 and had directly advanced to the second ce of the group stage, pushing out MG. In this way, the top eight were two domestic teams, three Korea teams, two European teams, and One North American team. The drawing of lots for the quarter-finals was still based on the principle of avoiding the teams in the same group. That was to say, the teams that had fought in the group stage would not be ced together in the quarter-finals. The final grouping results were: NRG-MAD, VG-FG, IF-Emotus, WBG-SOT. The grouping result was no different for NRG or IF, because both teams had won first ce in their groups. The teams in the finals were all fighting for the championship, and the two China teams were in the upper and lower half of the zone, so they would not meet early. This was already a very good grouping. However, there was one thing that puzzled the local teams. How did Korea¡¯s E Motus team suddenly be so strong? If the victory of MG was due to luck, then the result of 3-0 in the second round of the group stage could not be simply exined by luck. After analyzing E Motus¡¯s recording, the Chinese teams realized that the discipline and team battle skills of this team seemed to have improved significantly. Their control of their vision was also significantly better than in the first round. Later, after some clues, the domestic teams finally found out that the Korea team had been secretly training after the first round of the group stage. All the teams had been training together. This kind of training was not just a practice match. The two strong teams, OT and MAD, simply shared all their hidden tactics and experiences with the other two Korea teams selflessly. E Motus, in particr, had benefited greatly! Chapter 391

Chapter 391: An insult incident

The domestic teams were all dumbfounded. How could this happen? In fact, there were training tournaments between domestic teams, but not as often. This was because the domestic teams would also have appropriate training tournaments with foreign teams, so the time was rtively tight. Moreover, the domestic teams didn¡¯t think too much about it and didn¡¯t share their own routines and tactics. After all, these strategies might be used in the semi-finals and finals in the future. If he gave them to his brother team, they would use them in the group stage. Wouldn¡¯t that mean that he would have one less strategy to use? Therefore, while they were surprised, the domestic teams were also shocked by the ¡°unity¡± between the Korea teams. Chen Zhao was not surprised by this. The clubs and yers in this world didn¡¯t know how the Korea teams worked, but Chen Mo did. If the Korea team was to be described in one sentence, it would be that they would do anything to win. The championship was more important than anything else. It wasn¡¯t just the clubs and professional yers, the entire e-sports environment in the Korean server was the same. If they lost the game, the trolls in China would at most send some spicy chicken sauce to their yers, but the Korea trolls would really send de pieces and dead rats. Furthermore, the Korea trolls would still me even if they were the Champions. When Faker lost the Intercontinentalpetition, his fans would use the most vicious words to curse his entire family. Bang was med like a dog by his fans because he said,¡±I¡¯m earning more than 100 of you¡±. In the end, he could only say,¡±I¡¯ll use the rest of my life to atone for my sins.¡± It could be seen how much importance the Korea e-sports circle ced on the championship. Many people thought that there was fiercepetition between the Korea teams and that they would not share their strategies with each other. This was apletely wrong idea. In Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, the reason why the Korea teams didn¡¯t share their strategies with each other was because the LK had already dominated the game. They basically won the championship without sharing their strategies. Even so, the South Korean team only practiced with the Korea team in the worldpetition. They would never practice with foreign teams to prevent any possibility of tactical leakage. ...... Moreover, even if they yed practice matches with foreign teams, they would nevere up with any tactics. They would only try to get the other side¡¯s tactics for research. Once they found out that the other team didn¡¯t y any tricks, they would no longer ask this team to y training matches. In parallel world, the Korea teams were at a disadvantage. Even the European and American teams,¡±VSG¡± and ¡°WBG¡±, posed a threat to the Korean teams, not to mention the Chinese teams that had started earlier. Under such circumstances, it was perfectly normal for the Korean teams to share their strategies and fight for better results. ¡­¡­ From October 19th to October 29th, the top eight and semi-finals would begin. The results of the quarter-finals were basically as everyone had predicted. They advanced to the semi-finals with NRG, VSG, IF, and OST, respectively. Among them, team VSG, team IF, and team OST were all recognized as strong teams. There was basically no suspense in the game. The match between NPC and MAD went on for five rounds. MAD¡¯s support yer Muffy used Tauren, Blitzcrank, and Zyra to create a lot of trouble for NPC. In the final round, NPC simply banned the support twice and then went for Tauren first,pletely limiting Muffy¡¯s hero pool. After that, they won the game with a stronger midner and junglerbination. The poprity of the semi-finals had reached a new high because two Korea teams had been eliminated in the top eight. Both NRG and IF had umted arge number of fans during this period of time. Therefore, the number of people watching the two semi-finals had even reached 7.8 million! For others, this number might not be a big deal because the number of people in the group stage had already reached 7 million. This time, the domestic teams had performed so well and upied two positions in the top four. It was normal to have a few hundred thousand more viewers. But to Chen Mo, this number was already very satisfying, because it was close to the number of viewers he had in the S2 of League of Legends in his previous life, 8.3 million. The reason was that League of Legends was so popr in China, and the number of Chinese yers made up the majority of the audience. Chen Mo didn¡¯t take too many detours while making League of Legends, and the S1 World Championship this time had gathered some of the ssic ideas from his previous life, which was why it sessfully attracted the attention of many yers. For the two semi-final matches, the stadium for the finals waspletely filled with spectators, and the atmosphere in the stadium was extremely lively. The match between NRG and VSG started first. After losing the first game, the NRG team adjusted their condition very well. With the strong midner and jungler team up, they finally won the game and sessfully advanced to the finals. It could be said that after winning the BO5 match against MAD, the cohesion and tactical literacy of the entire NRG team had taken a huge leap. Especially since they had learned some fast-paced tactics from MAD, which made it very difficult for VSG to adapt. Although VG¡¯s mid Pure had strong personal ability, under the fast-paced y of the NRG, the European yers ¡®slow-growth strategy was very slow. In the end, they could only watch the NRG advance to the finals. The battle between IF and OST attracted arge number of attention. Everyone hoped to see IF sessfully enter the final andplete the magnificent feat of the two China teams joining forces. However, the process of thepetition was full of twists and turns. These two teams could also be considered old enemies. In the group stage, the result of IF and OST was 2:1. IF had won first ce in the group because of the tiebreaker match. After that, OST won the quarter-finals by 3:0 had defeated a veteran team from North America, WBG. It could be said that the current OST¡¯s strength had improved a certain amountpared to the group stage. In the case of IF winning the first game, OST turned over two games in a row. In the fourth game, IF tied the score again and the two teams ended with a score of 2: With a score of 2, he entered the deciding game of the fifth round. In the deciding match, the two sides had a 54-minute tug-of-war, but in the end, OST won, and IF lost. Although the live audience felt sorry for IF, they still gave a warm round of apuse for OST¡¯s wonderful performance. It wouldn¡¯t have been a big deal if the whole incident had ended there. The key was the microphone segment of the team battle after the game, which caused the public opinion on the inte to explode in an instant! Starting from the semi-finals, the event organizers began to release some microphone recordings of the team battle. These recordings were mainly the recordings of the winning team battle, so that the audience could better feel the atmosphere of the team battle and the joy of victory. The microphones for the two semi-final team battles had been released at the same time, mixed together. In the beginning, the microphones for the NRG and VSG had no problems, but there was a problem with the ones for the OT team. In the final crucial team battle, OSTpleted a three for five exchange and wiped out IF, taking advantage of the situation to win the game. However, in this team battle, the Korea team¡¯s voice had been silenced as many as six times. Although the tranted Chinese was very normal, the audience was not stupid. It was obvious that these few sentences were not good, so they had censored it without any trantion. The audience could not take it anymore. Many of them were guessing what the silence meant. There were also more and more audience members who demanded that the organizers make this matter clear. If OST really insulted IF¡¯s members in the team voice chat, should they punish them ordingly? Chapter 392

Chapter 392: Chapter 391-agitated crowd

In the resting room, Chen Mo listened to the recording of the crucial team battle twice, then looked at the tranted text. Sun Xiao stood at the side and did not say anything. Chen Mo looked at Sun Xiao.¡±Is this trantion correct?¡± he asked. Sun Xiao nodded.¡±Of course. Our trantors are all professionals. How can they trante a few swear words wrong?¡± ¡°Alright.¡± Chen Zhao thought for a moment.¡±Announce it.¡± Sun Xiao was a little hesitant,¡±chief Chen, after this announcement, will it stimte the hatred of the yers towards the Korea team?¡± This ...¡± Chen Mo shook his head,¡±since you¡¯ve already released the muted version, isn¡¯t that equivalent to ¡°there¡¯s no evidence¡±?¡± The more we let the audience guess, the more they mighte up with some nasty words. It¡¯s better to just give them the original recording. ¡± ¡°Then, what about these Korea yers?¡± Sun Xiao asked. Chen Zhao looked at him.¡±Don¡¯t worry about your team. These Korea team members will be punished ordingly. They have to make a public apology.¡± As for the other penalties, there was no need for a penalty or suspension. After all, during a team battle, it was inevitable to get carried away with emotion. I want to see the domestic team beat them on the field. ¡± Sun Xiao nodded.¡±Yes, chief Chen. I¡¯ll get it done now.¡± Originally, the microphone segment wasn¡¯t exined to the yers, so they didn¡¯t know that their voices would be recorded throughout the game. Because there was no such segment in the group stage and the top eight, the Korea yers obviously got carried away. They swore a lot after winning thest key team battle. Of course, the quality of these people was not very good to begin with. ...... It was the first time that Yan Huang had encountered such a problem. When he was editing the video, he had already tranted the original version. The person in charge of the microphone hesitated for a moment and finally decided to put the muted version in. After all, this team battle would determine the oue of the entire BO5. If there were voice messages in the previous team battles, it would be strange if there were no voice messages in this team battle. Out of this consideration, the person in charge of the show edited the video and uploaded it. He didn¡¯t expect that this incident would cause such a stir. Chen Mo only found out about this after the video was released, but the public opinion on the inte was already out of control, so he had no choice but to release the original recording and warn the Korea team members, ordering them to make a public apology. ¡­¡­ Yan Huang¡¯s official Weibo ount released the original microphone for the team battle. Although it did not trante the swearing in Korean, there were so many Korean gods among the yers, so the trantion of the microphone was done very quickly. ¡°I¡¯m giving Ezreal my ulti, he¡¯sing! Ah, wait!¡± ¡°We won, we won, we won, we won!¡± ¡°Airne! An Airne!¡± ¡°Behind me, behind me, they¡¯re hitting me! Nightmare is hitting me!¡± ¡°Prince, Prince, Prince!¡± ¡°We won! He won this round! We won, we won!¡± ¡°Wuwuwuwu!¡± ¡°Push, push, push, push! After killing the Prince, push!¡± ¡°Kill him! Kill him! You little one!¡± ¡°I¡¯ll F * ck you to death, you son of a B * tch!¡± ¡°F * ck you to death, you little B * stard!¡± ¡°Hey,e here, you son of a B * tch ...¡± ¡°Haha, kill him, son of a B * tch!¡± ¡°Kill him!¡± ¡°Okay, we won, we won!¡± After this trantion was released, all the major forums exploded! ¡°F * ck, what do these Koreans mean by this?¡± ¡°Hehe, I¡¯ve really seen this quality. I originally had a good impression of OST. A lifetime of darkness!¡± ¡°Isn¡¯t this considered an insult? Chen Mo? The organizers won¡¯t punish them? Even a ban is a light punishment!¡± ¡°These people don¡¯t want to return to their country alive?¡± ¡°Damn it, I¡¯m angry just thinking about it. It¡¯s my own fault for not being able to live up to expectations. It¡¯s the matter of thest round!¡± ¡°Hehe, the audience even apuded when they won in OST, but now they¡¯re doing this? The live audience should just throw the light sticks over and smash these idiots to death!¡± Clearly, the actions of the OST yers were considered a form of abuse. No matter how one looked at it, it waspletely against the spirit ofpetition. It also reflected the low quality of these yers. Apart from the bot yer Frost from OST, who remained silent from the start to the end, the other four yers were more or less swearing. The jungler in the team said the most. As soon as the video was released, Chen Mo also posted on Weibo, ordering the Korea yers to issue a public apology. Soon, under pressure, the four Korea yers who insulted the IF team members in the microphone issued a public apology. However, it was clear that the bot jungler was still very unconvinced. He privately expressed that he had no idea that the microphone would be recorded, and that he could only admit that he was unlucky. Theizens were in a frenzy. Even the overseas official bot ount was being criticized by the angryizens. However, as the organizer, Chen Mo couldn¡¯t do anything else. Although the incident was bad, it didn¡¯t involve any racial discrimination. It was just a few vulgarities, not to the extent of a ban. It could only be said that after this incident, the conflict between the local teams and the Korea teams had reached a peak. All the audience members were looking forward to the final, looking forward to the NRG to ruthlessly p the faces of the group of yers from OT. ¡­¡­ In the training room of the NRG. NRG¡¯s jungler, Jiang Hao, leaned back in his esports chair and let out a long breath. ¡°Not bad, this routine works. Let¡¯s rest for ten minutes and summarize our experience. Then, we¡¯ll continue to test the next routine.¡± Jiang Hao said,¡±I¡¯ll also inform the IF team members to take a short break.¡± Not long after, Hu Jing pushed the door open and entered. Jiang Hao raised his head.¡±The n just now worked. Thank you for your hard work.¡± After the semi-finals, IF would stay in the hotel and practice with the NRG. Of course, the two teams were still in different training rooms. This was mainly to consider the problem of sound instion. Hu Jing sat down next to Jiang Hao. ¡°It¡¯s nothing. This time, the S1 championship trophy must be kept in the country. We should be the team that understands the most about the OT team. Moreover, our style is rtively simr to that of the OT team. Only we can simte an OT¡¯s ystyle. ¡± ¡°Besides, those people from OST can¡¯t just let it go like that,¡± Hu Jing added after a pause. ¡°Yes, MAD will definitely train with an bot,¡± Jiang Hao nodded. ¡°By the way, your team¡¯s ADC is weaker in thening,¡± Hu Jing added.¡±Let Luo Yongchang y with him in thening tomorrow. At least make sure that the bottomne won¡¯t be too disadvantageous.¡± Hu Jing patted Jiang Hao¡¯s shoulder and said,¡±good luck. The hopes of the domestic teams are all on you.¡± You¡¯re currently the best jungler in the country and I believe that a jungler is a position that can create miracles!¡± ¡°I understand.¡± Jiang Hao¡¯s expression was very serious.¡±If we can¡¯t win the championship this time, we might regret it for the rest of our lives.¡± Chapter 393

Chapter 393: Did Chen Mo go overboard?

The final match would start on November 5th, which was less than a week away. As the S1 Grand Finals became more and more popr, the Three Kingdoms ¡®game recruitment event was also in progress. In this period of time, games with the Three Kingdoms theme had started to appear on the official app Store, and they were all mobile games. There were also some designers who were designing PC games, but most of them clearly knew that it wasn¡¯t easy for PC games to win awards. This was because client-side games had their own standards, and mobile games had their own standards. Unless the client-side game could reach the standard of heavenly justice Three Kingdoms, it would be very difficult for it to appear on the PC best selling leaderboard. These mobile games were basically the same, with only RPG or card games. There were some innovations, but the main ones were in the ystyle and story. On November 2nd, many video game designers suddenly discovered a new mobile game on Thunderbolt gaming tform: ¡°Leading thend¡± Chen Mo didn¡¯t post anything on Weibo or do any advertising, he just posted it on Thunderbolt gaming tform and the official app Store. He was calm, but the designers weren ¡®t. ¡°F * ck, what the hell is this, why did Chen Mo suddenly make a mobile game? ¡°Leading thend¡±? From the original art of the generals in the screenshot, it looks like ... The Three Kingdoms theme?¡± ¡°F * ck, isn¡¯t this just for the gamemittee¡¯s Three Kingdoms game gathering? Didn¡¯t you say Chen Mo wouldn¡¯t be participating?¡± ¡°F * ck, you¡¯re so popr in League of Legends, and the world Championship is going well, why did you suddenlye back to make mobile games? Are you crazy?¡± ¡°I¡¯m so angry! Chen Zhao, can you give us a way out? Was it easy to participate in a game recruitment? Do you really have to win this first prize! I¡¯m so angry!¡± ...... ¡°That¡¯s right, you should focus on your PC games, VR games, and prepare for the World Championship! Can you stop snatching food from us weaklings!¡± ¡°I¡¯m so angry! I¡¯m only halfway through my game! Then, am I going to go online or not?¡± ¡°I strongly protest! To ensure that there¡¯s some suspense, Chen Mo¡¯s right to participate is canceled!¡± Even though the video game designers were frustrated, there was nothing they could do about it. After all, the video game contest was open to all video game designers, and even if Chen Mo wanted to participate, he couldn¡¯t stop them! After calming down, the video game designers all downloaded the game to see how it was made. All the designers knew that there were many games in the Three Kingdoms, but they were not easy to make. Chen Mo already had the reputation of ¡°Chen Mo¡¯s products are definitely top quality¡± in the domestic gaming industry, so what kind of innovation would he have in the Three Kingdoms? But after ying for a while, the designers were a little confused. He didn¡¯t understand how to y this game. ¡°This game ... What¡¯s the situation? I¡¯ve never seen this type of game before.¡± ¡°It should be considered a strategy game, SLG, but ... I¡¯ve never seen such a way of ying it before.¡± ¡°I didn¡¯t even y for ten minutes before I was defeated. I don¡¯t understand this game!¡± ¡°Yeah, the map of this game is made up of squares. The yers have their own city and their own generals, but they don¡¯t understand the other ways of ying.¡± ¡°I¡¯m also very puzzled. This game has no instance dungeon, no plot, no yer level. What the hell is this? Without the mainstream method of pushing the map, how could the pace of the game slow down? Are you blind?¡± ¡°It seems to be fighting on the ground. There are enemies on everynd, and their levels are different. I only got to Level 3 before I left because the monsters in each area seemed to be randomly selected. I didn¡¯t understand. ¡± ¡°It seems like we can fight yers here, but it¡¯s not interesting.¡± ¡°Moreover, is this game really considered a Three Kingdoms game? There wasn¡¯t even Wei, Shu, or Wu! The birthce is directly in each state, and the yers in the state can fight each other. What the hell is this?¡± ¡°There are too many innovations! Chen Mo has created apletely different genre of games, it has nothing inmon with the mobile games on the market!¡± ¡°I feel like Chen Mo¡¯s taking too big a step. He¡¯s definitely going to break his balls, right?¡± ¡°The yers can¡¯t ept it, right?¡± ¡°It¡¯s indeed dangerous. ¡± ¡°I think with Chen Mo¡¯s reputation and Thunderbolt gaming tform¡¯s user base, there will be many yers who would y.¡± ¡°It¡¯s no use. If the game¡¯s quality isn¡¯t good enough, the tform won¡¯t be able to push it.¡± ¡°We¡¯ll see. Let¡¯s wait for the game data toe out. ¡± Many video game designers who had tried out nd of the guide¡± did not have high hopes for the game, as the changes were too drastic! It could be said that ¡°leading thend¡± waspletely different from any other mainstream mobile game on the market. There were no simrities at all. Not only that, its packaging was different from traditional games with the Three Kingdoms theme. There were no Wei, Shu, and Wu divisions, but the entire map was divided into different states. Although the setting of ¡°state¡± did exist in the Three Kingdoms, it was not particrly clear. This was because the changes in the territory during the Three Kingdoms period were particrly violent, and a state could belong to two or three lords. Moreover, the way of ying this game was really not friendly for novices. Without simr games as a Foundation, the yers would bepletely dumbfounded after entering ¡°leading thend¡±. They would have to learn everything from the beginning. To make matters worse, thend of the guide was a SLG game that cost a lot to learn. It was difficult to understand the game, which was not very friendly for yers. The reason mobile card games like I am MT and Onmyoji were so popr was because they were easy to get started with. Be itbat or the various ystyles, it was easy to understand and learn at a nce, and with some plot, it was easy to get into the game. However, thend of the guide was different. Both thebat system and the daily gamey were moreplicated, and there was no plot. What was worse was that the core fun was hidden deep. Therefore, for ordinary yers, they would be very confused when they first came into contact with thend of the guide. They had no idea what was so fun about the game. However, even so, the designers didn¡¯t dare to jump to conclusions. After all, they had been pped in the face by Chen Mo too many times. Almost all of Chen Mo¡¯s games were sessful. Minecraft, which he thought was just a building game, was able to take mobile, PC, and VR by storm, and Diablo, which he thought was going to die, was able to be revived with a DLC, let alone the mobile game that Chen Mo had first entered. Many people thought that with Chen Mo¡¯s help, there would be no suspense in the Three Kingdoms game gathering. However, after ying the game ¡°leading thend¡±, many people had a glimmer of hope. Maybe Chen Mo was too creative this time? Chapter 394

Chapter 394: Chapter 393-trial of ¡°leadingnd¡±

Very quickly, more and more games from the Three Kingdoms participated in the game recruitment activities. Most of the works were just following the trend to make up the numbers, but there were also some works of rtively good quality. The most eye-catching one was a game by ZEN Entertainment,¡±the heroes of the Three Kingdoms¡±. It was a Three Kingdoms game that slightly innovative card games. The core of the game was still the same as mobile card games, with maps, battles, and the entire historical background of the Three Kingdoms period strung together. However, this game¡¯s campaign packaging was rtively new. It wasn¡¯t the kind of map that was pushed one by one, but an entire map. After the yers challenged a key city, they could unlock a part of the big map and slowly unlock the entire Three Kingdoms. This was a rtively big innovation. There were also some slight innovations in other ways of ying, such as the general system and equipment system. There were also some traditional ways of ying, such as the soul system, general stars, mount system, and so on. Apart from that, the game¡¯s art was also an important selling point. The background story of this game was notpletely based on the traditional culture of the Three Kingdoms. Instead, it had been magically modified to add the colors of gods and demons to the background of the Three Kingdoms. For example, traditional viins like Dong Zhuo and Lu Bu were designed to be the demon God¡¯s descent, and the original art design of the card was very cool. Although this design wasn¡¯t a revolutionary innovation, it at least added a better art skin to the game, making it very different from the other games of the Three Kingdoms. Moreover, ZEN Entertainment¡¯s artists were really skilled. The original arts were very detailed, and the design was great. Not only did they reflect the characteristics of the generals, but they also gave them the color of gods and demons, which was very popr with young people. If these original arts were outsourced, each of them would cost more than ten thousand Yuan, which was quite expensive. Moreover, in order to better reflect the characteristics of the country war system, the game had a special country war system. yers could fight freely on the big map and fight for the ownership of each city. ...... However, the game design of this big map was rtively simple. The ownership of the city changed very quickly, and there were no tactics to speak of. However, this ystyle at least created a World War on arge map and could stimte the yers ¡®sense of honor. ZEN Entertainment had also done a lot of publicity for the Three Kingdoms ¡®heroes. Many designers felt that ¡°the heroes of the Three Kingdoms¡± was the most promising work to win first ce in this game gathering. Even though the core of the game was still the same as a mobile card game, there were a lot of changes to it, such as the art style, the derivative y styles, and the world War. Moreover, it wasn¡¯t a bad ystyle since mobile card games had been proven to be a sessful ystyle by the market. It wouldn¡¯t be a big hit, but it wouldn¡¯t make losses either, so it was a very safe choice. As for Chen Mo¡¯snd of the leading sand? Inparison, it was too risky. After all, this was apletely new way of ying and was not even rted to any previous games or methods of ying. Who could guarantee that the yers would buy it? ¡­¡­ After ¡°leading thend¡± was released, the yers quickly discovered this work. ¡°Eh? Chen Mo made a Three Kingdoms game? ¡°Leading thend¡±?¡± ¡°This name is weird. However, there was a reason for it. All thend under the sky was the king¡¯snd, and all the people on the shore of thend were the king¡¯s subjects. I feel like this is a game rted to the earth?¡± ¡°Uh, and-snatching game?¡± ¡°Who knows, but I didn¡¯t expect Chen Mo to be making games of the Three Kingdoms. I always thought he wasn¡¯t good at the Three Kingdoms theme.¡± ¡°How could Chen Mo not be good at the Three Kingdoms theme? it¡¯s just an entry theme for many designers.¡± ¡°But it¡¯s not easy to make the Three Kingdoms. There are a bunch of Three Kingdoms games every year, but only a few are really fun.¡± ¡°We have to try it out. After all, it¡¯s Chen Mo¡¯s product!¡± ¡­¡­ Zheng Hongxi was also ying ¡°leading thend.¡± Chen Mopleted the game on his own, without su Jinyu or Zheng Hongxi¡¯s help. Zheng Hongxi was also a little curious after learning that the game had no plot. How could he make the Three Kingdoms game well without any plot? One had to know that the most valuable part of the Three Kingdoms IP was actually its plot. A lot of historical events were ssic events, such as straw boat borrowing arrows, burning camp, empty city Strategy, seven capture seven escapees, and so on. Many ssic Three Kingdoms games were ssic precisely because these historical events were interpreted from different angles, thus improving the original plot of the Three Kingdoms. However, if he were to cast aside the plot and make a Three Kingdoms game? It was equivalent to giving up a very important aspect of the Three Kingdoms. Of course, Chen Mo wasn¡¯t stupid enough to not think of this. Since he dared to give up on the Three Kingdoms storyline, he had obviously found a way to y it without any harm. With this curiosity, Zheng Hongxi downloaded ¡°leading thend¡± on his phone and entered the game. The first part was a very short opening. The pce under the dark clouds was brightly lit, and below it was a neat Army. After clicking on the screen, the sun shone through the dark clouds. The screen zoomed in, and the game¡¯s login interface appeared. At the front of the pce, the soldiers were neatly lined up on both sides, and the generals and civil officials were walking up the stairs as if they were about to make an audience. In the pce, arge cauldron that symbolized power was in the center of the picture, looking very majestic. This opening and login interface was actually very simple and not difficult to do, but it revealed the historical background of the Three Kingdoms era very well, and the atmosphere was also very suitable for the characteristics of the world War. After logging into Thunderbolt gaming pass, the game officially started. The first was a very simple CG, followed by dynamic pictures, and sentences of four-word ancient text appeared on the screen. [At the end of the Han dynasty, the country copsed; heroes rose together, and the Army became strong;[Endless attack, endless war.] [Allnds under the heavens belong to the king, and all the subjects on the shore of thend belong to the king.] These dynamic pictures were different scenes. There were troops attacking a city, the Emperor performing a ritual, hundreds of officials worshipping, and fighting in the wilderness ... Zheng Hongxi could tell that Chen Mo didn¡¯t have the time to do such a cool opening, so he only did a simple one. However, these few sentences were enough for a mobile game to be cool. ¡°As expected, the manager is the best at using the least resources to perform the best.¡± Zheng Hongxi said with emotion. After entering the game, the screen first changed to focus on a huge city. Luoyang. [Ancient Luoyang, the important capital of the country, travelling to the resting point, across the world.] The screen changed again, showing the yers a big map of the entire Three Kingdoms period. However, this big map was not divided into Wei, Shu, and Wu kingdoms like the traditional Three Kingdoms game. Instead, it was divided into Yangzhou, Jingzhou, Yizhou, Liangzhou, and 13 other states. [Six directions rest, travel ten thousand miles, set eight directions, take all in the state.] [The star of the general descends upon the world, setting up his career. The Tiger waits upon the world, and the bnce will not stop.] [With hard work, the sun rises and the sun sets. Peaceful martial arts cultivate literature, rising from a corner.] This sentence was half-written and half-white, and it was a bit awkward to say. yers who were not good at ancientnguages might not understand it. However, these people probably wouldn¡¯t read it seriously. This paragraph might not be understood by all yers. In any case, it was cool enough, so everyone just had to understand the spirit. Zheng Hongxi was in charge of the plot, so he would definitely understand. In addition to the previous cinematics, these words actually meant: At the end of the Han dynasty, the world was in chaos, and heroes rose up and fought against each other. Luoyang was the world, and whoever obtained Luoyang would obtain the world. The world was huge, and if they wanted to pacify the chaotic world, they had to unify all the states. A General Star had already descended into the world, but he had just started his career and was surrounded by powerful enemies. He had to be careful and slowly develop from a small ce to a strong one. It was obvious that the general stars referred to the yers. Chapter 395

Chapter 395: The first experience

Before entering the game, the system prompted that he had to first choose the state where he was going to be born in, which was simr to other world war games. Zheng Hongxi took a look. He had wanted to choose Qingzhou or Yangzhou, but he found that it was already full, so he chose Liangzhou. After all, the Western Liang Army had a lot of role in the history of the Three Kingdoms. After entering the game, Zheng Hongxi was surprised to find that the Luoyang City he had seen before was the game¡¯s real scene. The scene in front of Zheng Hongxi was a wilderness. There were stone mountains, forests, and farnds in this wilderness. The shot was very high, and the entire Stone Mountain only upied a very small grid in the picture. Zheng Hongxi roughly estimated that the screen of the mobile phone could disy about 10*10, about 100 small grids, and a mountain or a piece of farnd could only upy one small grid. The nine small boxes in the middle of the screen were marked with special borders. There were red and green boxes. Clearly, these should be the main operational areas. In the middle of the nine squares was a small city that was smoking, and the surrounding red squares were filled with some rebel soldiers and tents. Obviously, ording to the opening plot, this small city should be a yer¡¯s city, and it was currently being attacked by thieves and was in great danger. What followed was a series of beginner¡¯s instructions. Under the system notification, Zheng Hongxi started to form a team to fight the thieves. Thebat system of leadingnd¡¯s shore waspletely different from the mobile games on the market. Each yer can lead multiple troops, and each troop can only bring up to three generals. Each Army was divided into a main camp, a middle Army, and a Vanguard. If the generals in the main camp were all killed, the battle would be lost. However, Zheng Hongxi¡¯s troops had not yet opened the vanguard position. It had to be opened after upgrading themand Hall. ...... After choosing a location, the troops set off. The process of the expedition was very clear. There was an arrow connected to the targetnd, and the specific marching time was also marked on the top of the Army model. Very quickly, the battle between the troops entered the battle scene. In the beginning of the battle, both sides had fewer troops. Zheng Hongxi¡¯s cavalry swarmed up and wiped out the opposing troops. The next step was to recruit generals, continue to attack the enemy, attack the enemy who carried grain, recruit soldiers, and other basic operations. However, Zheng Hongxi also noticed that the system was gradually guiding the yers ¡®attention from the specific battle scene to the battle report. Later, when they were conqueringnds, the battle scene no longer popped up. Instead, a battle report was sent directly to the lower left corner. If yers were interested, they could click on it to read it. Directly skipping the long and meaningless battle process was a good setting for Zheng Hongxi, it saved him a lot of trouble. After sessfully beating back the Raiders, Zheng Hongxi¡¯s city was built. It took up nine squares and was starting to take shape. [System notification: upy the capital of 13 provinces and you will be able to rule the world. Development will be slow in the early stages. You can expand your influence ording to the quest Tips.] ¡°The beginner¡¯s guidance ... Is over?¡± Zheng Hongxi was a little surprised. The tutorial for most mobile games was very long because the game itself was moreplicated. Basically, every time you unlocked a new ystyle, you would have to be guided once. However, based on the nature of ¡°leading thend¡±, the first few simple steps were all beginner¡¯s guides? This made Zheng Hongxi a little confused. With only a few steps of guidance, would the yers understand? Next, Zheng Hongxi began to do his missions. The missions were divided into two parts. One was the mission, and the other was the strategic goal. The strategic goal was a long-term goal, such as how muchnd they could upy, how much resources they could produce, and so on. It could basically be regarded as the core task for a long time. On the other hand, the quests were more varied. There were building buildings, upgrading buildings, upying a certain level ofnd, and so on. Although the quests seemed to have no quest line, they actually did. For example, yers had to upgrade the city Lord¡¯s mansion before they could unlock the other buildings. There were still many things that could be done in the early stages. They had to continuously conquernd and upgrade the buildings in the city. In the beginning, the construction was upgraded rtively quickly. It took a short ten seconds or a long time, but it was soon done. Zheng Hongxi continued to upgrade his buildings ording to the missions and went on expeditions. He indeed had something to do. The gamers would be rewarded with a lot of resources afterpleting a mission. It was afortable experience for the gamers as they were short of resources in the early stages of the game. The resources from the mission meant that they could continue to upgrade the buildings to the next level. In the process of ying, Zheng Hongxi also discovered some deeper rules. The other yers ¡®spawn points were nearby, so they would fight fornd. But at the start, everyone was in a battle-free State and could not attack each other. In other words, whoever owned a piece ofnd would be the fastest. Thend was also in a battle-immune state after it was upied, and it could only be attacked after an hour. They could only go to thend that was adjacent to their ownnd and could not skip to fight. Moreover, Zheng Hongxi found that he currently had a novice buff. In addition to the main city¡¯s war-exemption protection, he also had elerated recovery of generals when they were seriously injured, halved the stamina consumption of generals, shortened cooldown time for Alliance participation, and full return of recruitment resources when the generals were removed from the team. ording to the game¡¯s General Settings, a general would be seriously injured if he lost, and he could not fight during the seriously injured stage. Every time a general went out to battle, he would consume 20 points of stamina. A general only had 100 points of stamina in total, and when his stamina was used up, he could not go out to battle. After a general was removed from the team, under normal rules, only 80% of the resources would be returned. Obviously, the newbie buff was a change in the settings to lower the difficulty of the game for newbies. There were also a few yers around Zheng Hongxi. They were all in the wild (no allies), so they all looked like they were marked in red, which made Zheng Hongxi a little flustered. However, he soon received an Alliance invitation. Obviously, in such a World War game, most of the core yers had to rely on the carrier of alliances. It was impossible to y without an Alliance. There were two allies that invited Zheng Hongxi. One was called Dragon fights the world, and the other was called big farmer. Obviously, the first Alliance won Zheng Hongxi¡¯s favor, because the name was a little better. The Alliance was only Level 1, so it could only add 10 yers. It would only be able to add more yers after leveling up. There were a few Alliance members next to Zheng Hongxi¡¯s city, all of whom were marked with blue blocks, looking much more at ease. At this moment, the Alliance master began to send a message in the Alliance channel, asking everyone to join the chat group. Chapter 396

Chapter 396: Chapter 395 Alliance

¡°Uh ... So formal?¡± Zheng Hongxi waszy and didn¡¯t want to join, but considering that he had to y the game seriously, he couldmunicate more with the yers after entering the chat group, so he still joined. After joining, Zheng Hongxi found that there were quite a lot of people in the group, more than 80 people. ¡°So many people?¡± Zheng Hongxi was a little surprised. There were only 10 people in the Alliance, so how could there be more than 80 people in the chat group? The Alliance master was a man called ¡°peace conquering general.¡± He exined,¡±Yes, because the Alliance can only add 10 people in the early stages, we have many sub-leagues. In the future, when the main league¡¯s level is higher and there are more positions, everyone will join the main league. ¡± Zheng Hongxi took a look. It was true. Some of the yers in this group were in the Dragon battles the world Guild, some were in the Dragon battles in the wild Guild. In short, their names all started with the word dragon battles. After chatting with the people in the chat group, Zheng Hongxi quickly understood that these people had been ying this kind of World War game together for a long time. This time, they were collectively ying ¡°leading thend¡±. There were also some country war games in China, such as ¡°Heavenly Sword of the Three Kingdoms.¡± These games basically used guilds as units for country Wars, so these yers naturally formed small groups. Obviously, the Dragon War Guild had already existed in other world war games before this. Moreover, these yers were very sticky and had good rtionships. They all spontaneously obeyed the orders of this League leader and changed games as soon as he said so. Zheng Hongxi typed: ¡°I just started. I¡¯m not good at it.¡± General jianpingtu: ¡°it¡¯s fine. We¡¯re all new to this game. There are still many things we don¡¯t understand.¡± However, I feel that this game is quite novel. I can look forward to the World War in theter stages. ¡± ¡°By the way, everyone, remember to hit the ground more in the early stages. That way, the Alliance will level up faster.¡± Obviously, for these war game enthusiasts, their evaluation of ¡°leading thend¡± waspletely different from those passer-by yers. For yers like Zheng Hongxi who had note into contact with world war games before, theck of guidance in the early stages of the game and theck of enjoyment were enough to dissuade him. ...... However, for the yers of Dragon Wars, these shorings would not make them give up the game. This was because thend of the leading earth had already shown the content rted to the World War at the beginning of the game. These yers were looking forward to ying the World War part. How could he hit others? How to attack the city? How could they upy the 13 state capitals, attack Luoyang, and unify the world? Obviously, the game had provided such a mechanism. This was something that was worth looking forward to for these war country game enthusiasts. With such a strong sense of honor as a stimulus, they would ignore the dullness and boredom of the early stages and focus on some numerical goals, such asnd area, building construction, and so on. Moreover, as the game progressed, there would always be various small functions reminding the yers: Many people were ying this game. For example, after other yers drew five-star generals, they would send an announcement to inform all yers. In particr, some rich people drew several five-star cards at once and refreshed the screen continuously. The effect was still very shocking. In the world Channel, Alliance channel, and state channel, many yers were chatting as they yed, discussing the world¡¯s trends, making the game very lively. In addition, there would be a special game called ¡°general trend of the world¡± in the early stages. In this game, the game process of the entire server was divided into many stages, such as the chaos of the yellow Turban, the decline of the Han Dynasty, the chaos of the world, the fierce preparation of troops and horses, the division of warlords, and so on. The final trend of the world was the establishment of the Three Kingdoms, the invasion of the Central ins, the sweeping of the world, and the unification of the three. These major powers all had very clear goals. For example, the [Three Kingdoms] required the capital of three states to be upied, and the [three parts to one] required all 13 states to be upied by the same Alliance. After these stages of the world trend were achieved, there would be some special rewards for all yers in the server. For example, everyone could receive Jade talismans (top-up currency), open exclusive card packs for a limited time, and the appearance of a bandit gang stronghold on the map, etc. These ystyles reminded the yers that this was a World War game. Ordinary yers might not feel much about it, but to the yers who were keen on world wars, it was very novel. ¡­¡­ It had to be said that with the foundation of other world war games, the people in the Dragon War group quickly picked up the game. Moreover, the division ofbor for these people was very clear. Some of them were responsible for researching how to y the game, including the rules of the organization, thebat system, and so on, writing strategies for the members to see; Some were in charge of setting the rules of the Alliance, such as not being allowed to fight fornd, not fighting with other alliances, and letting the Alliance¡¯s dedicated diplomats decide and deal with it; Some tycoons were only responsible for providing high-endbat power, charging money and drawing cards in the early stages, and working hard; There were also people in charge of recruiting, sending invitations, emails, and recruitment messages on the world Channel. Soon, Zheng Hongxi felt like he was ying the game. ¡°Leading thend¡± was simr to other war games. It was boring to y it on a single yer, but once you joined a more active League and met a group of yers who liked the game, the yers ¡®loyalty would be greatly increased. Moreover, after ying for a while, Zheng Hongxi could clearly feel the fun in the early stages of the game: Land snatching. The fun of ¡°leading thend to shore¡± was roughly divided into several stages. In the early stage, it was about snatchingnd, in the middle stage, it was about fighting cities and unifying the forces in the state, and in theter stage, it was about breaking through and fighting the state war. It could be said that the game only became truly fun in the middle stage. However, it did not mean that the early stages were boring. The fun in the early stages of ¡°leading thend¡± was mainly to fight for territory and increase one¡¯s resource production and power points. This was a rtively simple numerical stimtion. Through some in-game goals, one could build a cycle of ¡°building,nd farming, obtaining resources, recruiting, and then continue to build andnd farming.¡± There was no concept ofbat power in ¡°leading thend¡±. yers were ranked ording to ¡°power points.¡± The so-called power points referred to how muchnd you upied. The morend you had and the higher your level, the higher your power points. Therefore, when the yers had a clear goal of ¡®power points¡¯, they would focus on how to seize morend in the early stages. This was because the high-levelnds in the game were limited. The higher the level, the fewer thends on the map. If you were slow, thesends would be taken by others first. Therefore, driven by the pressure of resources, many yers would choose to constantly adjust theirbat techniques, improve the strength of their troops, upgrade their buildings, and challenge higher-gradends toplete the expansion of their forces as soon as possible. Chapter 397

Chapter 397: Chapter 396-siege

As the Dragon War alliance continued to grow and expand, they began to try to attack some small cities, and the situation in Liangzhou gradually became clear. The entire server¡¯s game progress was based on the general trend of the world. The first goal was to upy 160000 pieces ofnd in the entire server. The second goal was to have more than 45 people in an Alliance of 30. The third goal was to eliminate 9 million soldiers in the entire server. The fourth goal was to upy 15000 pieces of Level 4nd. After that, it would enter the stage of [division by warlords], which required the entire server to upy more than 20 Level 3 cities. Basically, in the first few days of the newbie period, all the yers were desperately upyingnd to increase their resource production and general level. However, some allies who had a better understanding of the game would start organizing some activities to attack the lowest level three cities. There were certain benefits to upying a small city. It could increase the production of resources for all members of the Alliance. At the same time, the yers who upied the small city could receive additional taxes. An Alliance¡¯s rule over a region was mainly achieved through these key cities. The more cities they upied and the higher their rank, the more stable the Alliance¡¯s rule over the region was, and the more benefits they would obtain. ording to the Alliance master¡¯s request, Zheng Hongxi came online at 8 O¡¯ clock that night. After a few days of hard work, the Dragon War had developed very well. It was thergest Alliance in Liangzhou and could be ranked in the top ten in the entire server. Apart from that, the secondrgest Alliance in Liang Province was called Qiyue Wuyi, slightly weaker than the War of the Dragon. The city they were going to attack this time was Yun Street, a level 3 city. In ¡°leading thend¡±, the lowest level of a city was Level 3, and the highest was level 10 (Luoyang). In fact, a level 3 city was very easy to conquer, and there were not many buffs. The main purpose of conquering this city was to practice because there would be such city-conquering activities every day in the future. Theter cities would be higher in level and harder to conquer, so it was necessary to let the Alliance members get used to this rhythm in advance. At the forts around Yun Street, Zheng Hongxi¡¯s troops were already in position. If they wanted to attack the city, they had to build fortresses around the city in advance so that the troops could directly attack from the fortresses. If they were to send troops from their own main city, it would take several hours to March, and there was no time at all. Before the official siege, the Alliance master had already sent an email in the game group to remind them of some things to take note of. ...... The people involved in the siege had to obtain a piece of Level 1nd around the city in advance and build a fortress. On the day of the siege, they had to move their main forces and the siege forces to the Fort to prepare for the siege at night. Every yer had to prepare at least three troops. The main force would be the strongest force and would be responsible for clearing the city¡¯s defenders. A siege force was the force with the highest siege points. They didn¡¯t need to be full, just enough. They were mainly responsible for taking down the city¡¯s defense points. A road-paving troop was usually full of cavalry. They could run faster and were used to pave the road, Scout the path, and so on. The sieging forces were usually infantrymen. This was because infantrymen had the highest sieging points, but they were also the slowest. They often needed to leave their homes seven or eight hours in advance to rush to the fortress. Zheng Hongxi looked at the fortresses surrounding Yun Street City. There were at least 60 to 70 people from the Alliance this time. The entire Yun Street City was densely surrounded by fortresses. There were five to sixyers of fortresses on the inside and outside, tightly surrounding the city. Because the Alliance master didn¡¯t know how powerful the city¡¯s guards were, he called all the people he could in the Alliance. At 8 O¡¯ clock, the siege officially began. The Alliance¡¯s strongest force was called [cloud depths], and their stronghold was in the first row outside of Yun Street City. They had already taken over a portion of Yun Street Urban area and were preparing for the siege. Yun Street City was a small city, also taking up 9 squares. In the center was the inner city, and the rest were Urban area. Because they couldn¡¯t directly attack non-connectednds, they had to first take down a Urban area before attacking Yun Street city¡¯s inner city. Of course, some big cities upied an evenrger area. For example, Wuwei, the capital of Liangzhou, was a level 8 city with 25 squares. They had to destroy two of Urban area before they could attack the inner city. Very quickly, the Alliance master¡¯s email arrived. ¡°We¡¯ll start clearing the garrison now. Yunshen¡¯s troops will arrive in Urban area at 8:05, and the rest of the main forces will arrive a minuteter. Remember to calcte the time and don¡¯t increase unnecessary losses. ¡± Copy and ess ( https://bit.ly/3NSnQtR ) to see the full content Zheng Hongxi looked at the time. It was now 8:30. His main force was cavalry. If he were to send out troops now, the marching time would be 2 minutes and 12 seconds. In other words, he would be able to send out his troops in a few dozen seconds. Chapter 398 - The situation in Liangzhou

Chapter 398: The situation in Liangzhou

Under everyone¡¯s joint attack, Yun Street City was sessfully captured! At the moment of attack, a broadcast message appeared in the middle of the screen. All yers in the server could see it clearly. [Congrattions to the Dragon warring the world for upying chiyun Street (Level 3)!] The Alliance channel was immediately filled with cheers andughter. ¡°Wow, it¡¯s down 6666¡± ¡°Amazing, he¡¯s so fast. He finished in less than ten minutes!¡± ¡°The troops have retreated. The conscripts are sleeping!¡± Even in the world Channel, many yers from other states were typing to congratte him. The alliance leader group sent an email,[everyone has worked hard. If you have the ability, you can destroy the other Urban area on Yun Street and increase taxes.] Tomorrow, we¡¯ll continue to clear the Jade Gate, the day after tomorrow, we¡¯ll rest for a day, and the day after tomorrow, we¡¯ll go to the Level 4 city, an Yi. Everyone, prepare in advance. ¡± The fortresses around Yun Street City started to retreat, and all the yers sent their main forces back to their own cities to replenish their lost forces. At the same time, many people¡¯s road-paving troops had already headed towards Yumen City and Anyi city. They were prepared to build fortresses and seize a good position in preparation for the siege battle. In the Alliance chat group, many yers were also discussing it. ¡°I don¡¯t think this city is as hard to fight as I thought. There are so many people, so the fight is going on very quickly.¡± ¡°The main thing is that we¡¯ve done our homework and studied all the tricks in this game. If we didn¡¯t prepare well and went to fight, it definitely wouldn¡¯t have gone so smoothly.¡± ...... ¡°That¡¯s right. We have to build the fortress in advance, and we also have to have enough troops to attack the city.¡± ¡°Good! Good luck, everyone! Let¡¯s conquer a few more cities tomorrow and unite Liangzhou as soon as possible!¡± After taking down Yun Street City, everyone was very excited. Group activities like this were the best way to strengthen cohesion. Moreover, the siege battle in ¡°leading thend¡± was different from other world war games. Everyone had to participate in it. The main force would be sent out to destroy the defending Army. Ordinary yers also needed to form a siege force to increase the durability of the city¡¯s defense. If there were not enough people, it would be impossible to win. In the early stages, the siege was actually to train the troops and improve the organization and discipline of the entire Alliance, in preparation for the future regional wars. After a while, the Alliance master spoke in the chat group. ¡°Everyone, take down my phone number. If there¡¯s anything, you can call me directly, no matter what time it is.¡± Zheng Hongxi,¡±so dedicated?¡± The Alliance master typed,[I¡¯m not dedicated.] In this game, if the alliance leader was defeated, the entire Alliance would fall. Therefore, my city must not be attacked. So, everyone, keep an eye out. If there¡¯s any sign of trouble, contact me immediately. ¡± Zheng Hongxi was a little surprised. There was such a rule? In the end, he checked and found that there really was one. In this game, yers could attack other yers at will. As long as all the yers ¡®troops were destroyed and the durability of the yer¡¯s city was reduced to 0, the yer would enter the [fallen] state. After entering the fallen state, the yer would be the attacker¡¯s vassal and could no longer fight back. All the plots of the yer could be used as a springboard. In addition, there was a special rule. If the Alliance master fell, all the members of the Alliance would fall as well. It could be said that once they fell, they would be beyond redemption. At that time, they would only be at the mercy of others. That was why the league Master of Dragon War was so careful and even deliberately told everyone his mobile number so that everyone could contact him at any time. ¡­¡­ The current situation in Liangzhou was basically apetition between the two alliances, long Zhan and Qiyue Wuyi, while the other small alliances had already submitted. This was also determined by the way the game was yed. In the general trend of the world and its daily activities, if the Alliance upied more cities, each yer would receive arge number of Jade talismans as a reward. The bigger the Alliance, the greater the rewards. This setting encouraged the Alliance to merge continuously, and yers were willing to joinrger alliances to seek better rewards. There were also some unspecialized yers who didn¡¯t care about the rewards, but these people would soon find that the game was getting harder and harder to y. Sooner orter, they would join the league. Strictly speaking, the two alliances, long Zhan and Qiyue Wuyi, were currently in apetitive and hostile rtionship. This was because the cities in Liang Province were limited. If you take them, I can ¡®t. However, these two leagues were still in a state of peace because everyone was still in the development stage. Once the war started, it would be a long time, and everyone¡¯s development would be affected. It was very likely that both sides would suffer. In the chat group, the diplomat of Dragon War specifically instructed everyone not to fight Qiyue Wuyi¡¯s people to avoid any misunderstandings. If a dispute were to ur, the management would be the first to mediate. ¡­¡­ During this period of time, Zheng Hongxi¡¯s territory was getting bigger and bigger. He could already conquer Level 4nd more smoothly, and the resource resources had a rtivelyrge leap. In ¡°leading thend,¡± Level 4 and Level 6 were the two rtivelyrge checkpoints. yers could only Challenge Level 4nds after they had changed all theirnds to Level 3nds, and they would be badly injured. However, this also reflected the design idea of the game, which was thatnd resources were bing scarcer and scarcer, and high-levelnd was bing more and more difficult to find. In the future, if they wanted morend, they would have to fight for it. After they finished fighting for thend in the province, they would have to fight for thend in the other provinces. At present, the goal of the Dragon War Guild was rtively clear, which was to develop first and start from a level 3 small city toplete the world¡¯s momentum. ¡­¡­ After ying for a few days, Zheng Hongxi realized that most of the people in the Alliance were night owls. In fact, these yers were not born to be night owls. It was mainly because they had yed the game ¡°leading thend¡± a lot, so they naturally became night owls. Many of the activities in the game were counted in ¡°hours¡±, such as upgrading a high-level building, mass recruitment of soldiers, or going to distantnds. They often took several hours toplete. What if it happened to bepleted in the middle of the night? For example, when the troops were all gone, they needed to recruit more soldiers before they could continue to fight. The recruitment time was two in the morning. Of course, it was fine if you didn¡¯t care, but if you only woke up at 8, and the general stamina was full, then the 6 hours of general stamina would be wasted. In order to save resources, most yers would choose to go online at 2 O¡¯ clock, go on two expeditions to exhaust some of their stamina, then sleep and wait for their stamina to recover naturally the next day. It was the same for building a building. If the building waspleted in the early hours of the morning and you did not build a new building, then there would be an empty building queue within these few hours, which was equivalent to a waste. Therefore, most yers naturally became night owls as they yed. Some hardcore yers even set an rm and got up on time to y. After ying for more than ten minutes, they would finish everything before going back to sleep. Zheng Hongxi was the same. At 2 am, his rm clock rang. Opening his drowsy eyes, Zheng Hongxi fumbled for his phone and opened ¡°leading thend¡±. He was ready to go online to upgrade the buildings and sweep through a few Level 4nds to consume the general¡¯s physical strength. He noticed a red line on the map. ¡°What?¡± At first, Zheng Hongxi didn¡¯t pay much attention, but he inadvertently realized that the red line seemed to be heading in the direction of the Alliance master? He found the Alliance master¡¯s city and was surprised to find that several fortresses were under construction not far from the Alliance master. Two of them were alreadypleted and troops were being sent to pave the road! Chapter 399

Chapter 399: Chapter 398-night attack

¡°T-these fortresses?¡± Zheng Hongxi was instantly invigorated. These fortresses were all Qiyue Wuyi¡¯s fortresses, and they were all neatly built five squares away from the city of the Dragon War Guild¡¯s Alliance master. What they were up to was obvious. They were going to fall to the alliance leader of Dragon War! It was obvious that these people hade prepared. There was a vision rule in ¡°leading thend¡±. The area within five squares outside the main city and two squares outside the fortress was within the yer¡¯s field of vision. Once the enemy yers used thesends as their military destination, an eye-catching red line would appear. Moreover, an enemy Army¡¯s UI symbol would appear on the yer¡¯s UI. After clicking on it, the yer could jump to the enemy Army¡¯s location. It was obvious that Qiyue Wuyi¡¯s men had a n. They purposely avoided the Dragon War alliance leader¡¯s field of vision and chose to build the fortress at the Fifth District of the main city. This way, they wouldn¡¯t be discovered. It would take a few hours to build the fortress. If they were discovered, the people of Dragon War would be prepared. When the fortress was built and the troops were all in ce, Qiyue Wuyi¡¯s men could directly focus fire on the alliance leader of Dragon War. By then, it would be around 4 or 5 in the morning, and Dragon war¡¯s men wouldn¡¯t be able to react at all. However, since the yers were still newbies, there were two yers who made a mistake and chose thend around the fortress as their destination, which exposed the movement of the troops. With that, Qiyue Wuyi¡¯s n to attack at night was discovered by Zheng Hongxi. Zheng Hongxi suddenly sat up. The chat group was quiet. Most people were asleep at two in the morning. Zheng Hongxi didn¡¯t dare to dy. He found the president¡¯s phone number and called. ¡°Hello?¡± It was an unfamiliar voice. He had clearly just woken up. ...... ¡°Alliance leader, quicklye online. Qiyue Wuyi¡¯s people are building a fortress near your city. They might want to attack you!¡± Zheng Hongxi said. ¡°What? Alright, I¡¯ll be online immediately!¡± After saying that, the Alliance master hung up in a hurry. He had obviously logged into the game. Two minutester, the Alliance chat group exploded. ¡°Quick, everyone online,e out!¡± Someone from Qiyue Wuyi wants to rape me, type 1. ¡± Soon, six or seven people had hit the number 1. Obviously, these people were all night owls, and they were still awake. ¡°What¡¯s wrong, Alliance master?¡± ¡°What? Qiyue Wuyi¡¯s people want to take you? When was that?¡± ¡°F * ck! I just realized that the fortress is almost at the entrance of the Alliance master¡¯s house! What should we do, Alliance master?¡± ¡°Don¡¯t panic, there¡¯s an emergency n,¡±general jianpingtu said. Those of you who are online, go to my main city and buy a piece ofnd to build a fortress. Don¡¯t get too close to my main city, just four or five squares away. ¡± ¡°Is it toote to repair the fortress now?¡± Zheng Hongxi typed. The Jianping tu general: ¡°there¡¯s still time. You probably won¡¯t be able to get rid of me tonight. But from tomorrow onwards, our two alliances will definitely officially start a war.¡± If we make preparations early, we won¡¯t be in a passive positionter on. ¡± ¡°Also, those who are closer to my home, quickly send the main force to guard my city. Pay attention to the most central position. Don¡¯t guard the wrong ce.¡± ¡°There are too few of us, should we call yunshen and the others over?¡± someone asked. ¡°I¡¯ll make the call, you guys go ahead with your work. ¡± Soon, almost half of the members of Dragon War were woken up by the phone. After all, these members of Dragon War hade from other online games. They were all familiar with each other and had each other¡¯s contact methods. Therefore, the league Master directly called them and woke them up, asking them to send their main forces over to defend. At the same time, the alliance leader of Dragon Wars, general Jian Pingtu, started to defend. [Defense] was a special function in ¡°leading thend¡±. It required three hours of preparation. After the preparation waspleted, one could enter the defense state. This state was equivalent to avoiding battle and no enemy could attack. The defense state had to end after five hours. If it were an old yer, as a league leader, he would definitely have to activate defense every day before going offline. However, these people were all newbies, after all, and they did not expect the other party to choose this time to attack, so they were careless. They would start defending from 2:30, and the most dangerous time was the preparation stage between 2:30 and 5:30. If they were destroyed by the enemy during this period of time, the entire Alliance would fall, and it would be over for them. If they managed to hold their ground during this period, they would be exempted from battle until 10:30 the next morning, which was equivalent to a chance to catch their breath. Fortunately, Dragon War had an emergency n, and their organization and discipline were good. So, these people quickly began to take action. Gao Zhan, regardless of distance, pulled all the main forces to help defend the Alliance master¡¯s city to ensure that the Alliance master would not fall before the defense preparations wereplete. All the other members who were online began to build fortresses near the Alliance master, ready to provide support at the first moment. They were racing against time. In fact, there weren¡¯t many people in Qiyue Wuyi, only a dozen or so. After all, most yers still had to work the next day, and there were only a few who didn¡¯t sleep at night to y. These people quickly realized that their intentions had been exposed, so they also seized the time to mobilize their troops. A few yers who were closer directly sent their troops, wanting to finish the battle before the Dragon War Alliance¡¯s high-level battle arrived. All of a sudden, the scene became extremely chaotic. The military strength of the Jianping tu General¡¯s troops was decent, but he was not a tycoon, so he could at most take on two or three enemy main forces. The key was still the other troops stationed there. The enemy forces were already paving the way to the main city of the Jianping tu general. They were clearing thend piece by piece, ready to attack Urban area. However, these people were not ready yet. The few troops that had arrived were basically all cavalry troops. Although theirbat power was good, they could not break the durability of the city in one attack, so the progress was greatly slowed. Soon, a few troops that were closer to the Alliance master arrived and stationed themselves in the center of the city. Several high-levelbat troops of the Dragon War alliance were already on the way and would arrive in less than an hour. Once the defense was sessful, the enemy would have to destroy the defense team first if they wanted to capture the Alliance master. There were more and more people in the group chat, all asking about the current situation of the battle. ¡°I¡¯m here. I just got online. How¡¯s it going?¡± ¡°Have all the expert Battlemasterse? Is the Alliance master alright?¡± ¡°I¡¯ll immediately send troops over. They¡¯ll be there in half an hour!¡± In the game, blue arrows could be seen everywhere in Liangzhou, pointing to the Alliance master¡¯s position. At 3:40 am, Qiyue Wuyi¡¯s yers officiallyunched their attack! After an hour of tug-of-war, the outer Urban area had already fallen, and once the Main City fell, the entire Dragon War would be Qiyue Wuyi¡¯s subordinate. On the other hand, it would take nearly two hours for the [defense mode] to be activated. Everyone was nervously paying attention to the situation on the battlefield. At this stage, it was purely a head-on sh to see which side¡¯sbat power was higher! Chapter 400

Chapter 400: Chapter 399 defense

The first red arrow connected to the Jianping tu General¡¯s inner Urban area. Soon, the second and third Red Arrows ... Qiyue Wuyi¡¯s forts had already been repaired, and the troops in these forts attacked the alliance leader of Dragon War at almost the same time. At this moment, there were 10 Dragon War troops stationed there. These were the main forces sent by the members who were closer to the Alliance master, so they arrived faster. The first unit crashed into the enemy, and the red number 10 on the garrison turned into 9. Zheng Hongxi heaved a sigh of relief. It seemed that the opponents were not some high-level battle. Looking through the battle records, Zheng Hongxi found that the other party¡¯s unit was not very strong. They were basically on the same level as his own unit. He could only say that this student only worked hard and did not pay in game. But just as Zheng Hongxi heaved a sigh of relief, the second enemy force crashed into them, and the number of Garrison troops instantly changed from 9 to 4! This enemy force had directly destroyed five of the garrison troops! Zheng Hongxi panicked. He hurriedly opened the battle report and found that the other party was a small group of Wei cavalrymen, which was a formation made up of three Wei cavalrymen. That was why they could directly prate the five troops on this side. ¡°This is their league¡¯s battle?¡± ¡°F * ck, they¡¯ve already formed a team so early? The pure Wei Qibination is really awesome!¡± ¡°But he still has remnants of his troops. He can still pass through again when he returns to the fortress!¡± ¡°What do we do, what do we do?¡± ...... ¡°Is there anyone nearby who¡¯s online? All the troops, gather! Bring the attacking forces over as well, as many as you can!¡± ¡°Those who are within 30 minutes,e over. There¡¯s no need for those further away. We won¡¯t make it in time!¡± ¡°Where¡¯s yunshen¡¯s main force? How long more before we arrive?¡± ¡°There¡¯s still ten more minutes. Hold on!¡± There was also a bit of panic in the chat group as everyone was discussing the battle situation in real-time. The line-up in ¡°leading thend¡± was different from the other games of the Three Kingdoms. The other games encouraged the mixing and matching of different types of troops, but ¡°leading thend¡± encouraged the same camp and the same type of troops. In other words, if three generals of the same Army were of the same camp and type of Army, they would receive an additional bonus. The little Wei cavalry referred to the four-star Guo Jia, Cao Zhang, and Cao Ren. These generals were all called four-star divine generals, and they were extremely powerful in the early stages of the war. However, the small Wei cavalry was only useful in the early stages. In the middle stage, even the great Wei cavalry (Xiahou Yuan, Xun Yu, Cao Cao) were just food for Wu Gong. However, the current little Wei riders were enough to cause huge trouble for the Dragon battle. Soon, the second and third troops ... Qiyue Wuyi¡¯s troops kept shing with the defending troops, and after the first round of battle, the defending troops of long Zhan were all defeated and sent back home! At this moment, all of Qiyue Wuyi¡¯s troops in the fortress had moved out, and the dense Red Arrows were pointing at the central Urban area where the alliance leader of Dragon War no longer had any troops stationed! ¡°We¡¯re finished!¡± ¡°What do we do, we don¡¯t have time!¡± ¡°Why does yunshen still have three minutes? I¡¯m worried.¡± Everyone in the chat group was panicking. If Qiyue Wuyi¡¯s troops had more city assaulters, they could destroy the Alliance master¡¯s city defense points in one round. After all, a yer¡¯s city¡¯s defense wasn¡¯t as high as an NPC city ¡®s, and under the concentrated fire, it would be destroyed very quickly. However, it would take another three minutes for the Dragon War¡¯s highest battle cloud, unknown depths, to arrive. It all depended on whether or not the Alliance master¡¯s city would be broken through this round. The fate of the entire Liangzhou would depend on these three minutes. Whether the city was conquered or not, Liangzhou would walk on twopletely different paths. ¡°The first collision was against a cavalry unit. Fortunately, the city¡¯s defense only dropped by less than 20 points.¡± ¡°There¡¯s an Archer in the second unit, but he lost 70 this time. ¡± ¡°The third unit is the cavalry unit again. They lost 33 points.¡± Everyone was nervously paying attention to the city defense value of the Alliance master¡¯s Urban area. In the beginning, the yers ¡®city defense value was only 900 points. If it was an infantry force that was specifically used to attack cities, they would lose one or two hundred points with each collision. Luckily, Qiyue Wuyi¡¯s preparations were very rushed, and the troops that could be gathered were mostly cavalry. Although they ran fast, their attack points were very low, so their durability dropped very slowly. During this time, two more troops arrived, dying Qiyue Wuyi¡¯s siege. ¡°Hold on!¡± ¡°F * ck, there are still 300 points of city defense left. The other side still has a lot of stamina!¡± ¡°Yunshen¡¯s almost here!¡± ¡°That¡¯s great, yunshen is on guard!¡± Finally, when the Alliance master¡¯s main city only had 210 defense points left, the main force of the cloud recesses finally arrived and sessfully stationed themselves in the main city of the Jianping general. Groups of enemy troops were still heading toward the Main City, but these troops all ran into the garrison troops in cloud recesses. Five or six troops ran into them in a row, but the garrison troops did not move! Qiyue Wuyi¡¯s people were stunned. They had thought that victory was in sight, but the 10 troops that had crashed into them all returned without any sess! Qiyue Wuyi¡¯s Alliance channel was already in chaos. ¡°What¡¯s the situation? Do you still have any troops left? hurry up and crash into them! The leader of Dragon War only has 200 hp left. Two more rounds and we¡¯ll be done for!¡± ¡°F * ck, the enemy¡¯s troops have arrived. He¡¯s defeated ten troops by himself! Just look at the battle report. ¡± ¡°What¡¯s this? Why is this cloud depths so powerful?¡± ¡°Look at his two generals, Lu Meng and Zhou Yu!¡± ¡°F * ck, you¡¯re joking, right? How could there be such a perverted tycoon in the Dragon battle? Even Lu Meng hase out?¡± ¡°Damn, he still has a lot of troops. He can¡¯t rush down.¡± ¡°But our troops are still on their way.¡± ¡°It¡¯s useless. The difference inbat power is too great. Most of our forces are cavalrymen. They¡¯re just food for us!¡± ¡°We can¡¯t care that much. There¡¯s no turning back. Tonight is our best chance. If we can¡¯t win and fall into a tug-of-war, the situation will be very bad for us! All the mobile troops at the front line, gather up and crash! We¡¯ll kill this tycoon even if we have to take his head!¡± Qiyue Wuyi¡¯s people were like crazy as they sent their troops up, wanting to take out the main forces of cloud depths unknown ce. However, it waspletely useless. Another three or four teams charged forward, but they were all killed in seconds. In the game, Lu Meng and Zhou Yu were both five-star divine generals. The ¡°Viceroy¡± lineup that was invincible in the mid-game and could be useful in thete-game was thebination of Lu Meng, Sun Quan, and Zhou Yu, the three archers of Wu. Lu Meng¡¯s skill was crossing the river in white, which could prevent the enemy from attacking normally for the first two rounds of the battle. After this effect ended, he could immediatelyunch a strategic (magic) attack on the enemy. On the other hand, Zhou Yu¡¯s skill was tounch a strategic attack on the enemy and cause them to enter a state of fear, making them unable to attack normally for two rounds. It could be said that when these two generals worked together, the other side¡¯s generals who relied on physical attacks could only watch helplessly, unable to cause any damage at all. The two generals ¡®damage output was also very high, and all kinds of magic attacks hit the other side, making them lose their bearings. Chapter 401

Chapter 401: Chapter 400-back and forth battle

Of course, this lineup and sun Quan¡¯s awakenings would be considered theplete ¡°Governor¡±. However, it wasn¡¯t thete stage yet and the COST of the lineup was limited. He could only bring these two generals. (In ¡°leading thend,¡± every general had a COST value, and there was a COST limit for the lineup. Therefore, only two divine generals could be brought in the early stage. Only when the total COST was higher in theter stage could the perfect lineup be created.) Most of Qiyue Wuyi¡¯s troops were cavalry units that dealt physical damage. When they encountered Lu Meng and Zhou Yu, they were like the nemesis of the heavens, and they had no way to fight back. As for the siege teams, they were even worse off. The siege teams basically had no fighting power and were just there to die. Until Qiyue Wuyi¡¯s troops at the front line were all wiped out, there was still half of the Army left in the cloud recesses! The Dragon War chat group was in a jubnt mood. ¡°Awesome, he managed to defend it!¡± ¡°F * ck, yunshen¡¯s two generals are too strong. They¡¯ll kill as many as theye!¡± ¡°I¡¯m looking at the battle report. Yun Shen annihted more than ten teams by himself!¡± ¡°The other side has no more soldiers. Quick, are there any other people nearby? Pull out the siege troops and destroy their fortress!¡± ¡°There¡¯s no rush. We¡¯ll slowly take care of them after the Alliance master¡¯s defense is broken through!¡± At 5:34 A. M., The siege General¡¯s defense was sessfully activated! Everyone in Dragon War heaved a sigh of relief. The Alliance master¡¯s defense was activated, which meant that they could take a break for this defensive battle. In the next five hours, the Alliance master¡¯s city would be invincible. ...... Next, it was time for an all-out counterattack. The troops in the cloud recesses retreated, preparing to return to the battlefield after recruiting soldiers. The other yer fortresses were also under construction, and they would probably be finished by seven or eight in the morning. In the chat group, everyone heaved a sigh of relief. General Jian Pingtu: ¡°alright, it¡¯s been hard on everyone. We¡¯ve finally managed to hold the fort.¡± Everyone, go out and eat something, then go back to sleep. There will definitely be a tough battle today, so everyone should pay attention to rest. ¡± The others were excited. ¡°Alliance leader, Qiyue Wuyi¡¯s people are fighting without dering war, right? A sneak attack? Let¡¯s go and capture their alliance master!¡± ¡°That¡¯s right! We should drive these bastards out of Liangzhou!¡± ¡°Right! Chase him out of Liangzhou!¡± ¡°Don¡¯t worry, everyone. Let¡¯s rest first. ¡± ¡°I¡¯ve already sent a group mail. Your fortress has already been set up. Transfer your troops over and start tearing down the enemy¡¯s fortress. Tear down all the rednds. It¡¯s only safe this way. ¡± [Dragon War] sent an email to the alliance leader group, informing all Alliance members of the results ofst night¡¯s battle. ¡°This morning, Qiyue Wuyi¡¯s people started a battle without a deration and wanted to ambush the alliance leader! Fortunately, someone discovered it in time and managed to defend it. Otherwise, the consequences would be unimaginable. Anyone who reads this mail, build a fortress near the coordinates (291,218). All future activities will be canceled. Liangzhou¡¯s Civil War has begun!¡± At 8 O¡¯ clock in the morning, the other yers of the Dragon War started toe online one after another. When they saw so many new messages in the chat group, they were all a little dumbfounded. But when they looked at the content of the chat, everyone exploded. ¡°What? Qiyue Wuyi¡¯s people are nning a sneak attack?¡± ¡°They started fighting?¡± ¡°F * ck, a civil war has started in Liangzhou?¡± ¡°Those bastards! I¡¯ll go to the World Channel and scold them!¡± Everyone was filled with righteous indignation because this matter had happened too suddenly. It was simply a breach of morality and was despised by everyone. From five to eight in the morning, the people from the two alliances went to rest, ate breakfast, and went to work. After eighto¡¯ clock, the world Channel suddenly became lively. ¡°Everyone, look at the coordinates (291,218).¡± ¡°What the f * ck? This was a night attack? Is there a civil war in Liangzhou?¡± ¡°...Something so big happened in one night?¡± ¡°Exciting! The first state to have a civil war. Qiyue Wuyi¡¯s people have courage, I admire you!¡± ¡°We¡¯ve built so many fortresses, but they still haven¡¯t been taken down? The people of Qiyue Wuyi are so useless?¡± ¡°It¡¯s said that there¡¯s a high-level battle at Dragon War. He blocked seventeen teams by himself.¡± ¡°Then what¡¯s the point of fighting, Qiyue Wuyi¡¯s people should surrender! If we can¡¯t even win this, it¡¯s impossible for us to winter!¡± It wasn¡¯t just the spectators from the other states who were watching the show. The two allies, Qiyue Wuyi and Dragon War, were also cursing in the world Channel. The members of Dragon War were the most furious. They had agreed to develop peacefully, but they started a war without any announcement and directly attacked their alliance leader in the middle of the night. This kind of behavior was too shameless! This was simply treachery and immoral! However, Qiyue Wuyi¡¯s men also argued that Liangzhou would be unified sooner orter. If they didn¡¯t take over Dragon War, they would be taken over by Dragon War. Moreover, Qiyue Wuyi was at a disadvantage, so a sneak attack was the only way. Besides, a night attack was the usual strategy of the Three Kingdoms. ording to what you said, shouldn¡¯t lu Meng also apologize to Liu Bei? The two alliances were at war. Even though they were fighting, no one was idle. Those who had been fighting and developing all started to build fortresses near the front lines. On the side of the Dragon War, those who woke up early had already mobilized their troops over to fight with Qiyue Wuyi¡¯s people. The reason why ¡°leading thend¡± was tiring to y was that once such internal or state wars started, it could be as short as a few weeks or as long as a few months. Furthermore, the war would go on day and night without any rest. However, this was the most exciting part of the game. Other games couldn¡¯t do this kind of night attack at all because the mechanism didn¡¯t support it. Zheng Hongxi got up and had some breakfast. Instead, he felt more energetic. After sleeping for two to three hours, he got up again and sent his fully-recruited troops to the front line. There were more and more people at the front line. Red and blue arrows were everywhere, and the battle was intense. To Qiyue Wuyi, if a sneak attack didn¡¯t work, they could only attack. However, since Dragon Warrior had already discovered them, they wouldn¡¯t be able to gain any advantage. This kind ofrge-scale battle was often fought around a certain core point, such as strategic locations, cities, and so on. There were more variations, but overall, it was a t push. The fortresses of both sides were at least a screen¡¯s distance away, more than a dozen squares apart. Everyone had to send troops from the fortresses, so the fight for the group of fortresses became the most important. The line of defense began to go back and forth. Both sides were repeatedly fighting for thend in the middle of the two major fortress groups. After thend was taken, the troops would defend it, and then they would attack thend in front. The enemy would also send troops to prate the garrison and take back thend. Themanders on both sides were constantly sending group emails. ¡°(291,222), this red plot is gone.¡± ¡°(294,217) there¡¯s a powerful force here, Gao Zhan Shang.¡± ¡°This is an empty fortress. The attacking forces will directly attack and tear it down. Be careful of the enemy¡¯s Garrison. If they discover any Garrison, retreat immediately.¡± ¡°(295,193) scouting unit, go and see what kind of formation the defending troops have.¡± Chapter 402 Chapter 402: Strategy for the league war In such arge-scale battle, Zheng Hongxi quickly understood how the league war in ¡°leading thend¡± should be fought. Because it had apletely different mechanism from other games, every yer could y a role in ¡°leading thend¡±. Even a yer with zero in-game purchases would be a valuable asset to an Alliance as long as they yed it every day. In such arge-scale Alliance War, the yers would at least organize three troops, one main force, one siege force, and one Pathfinder/paving team. It was different from attacking NPC cities. When attacking yers, the siege troops did not need to bring troops because the siege troops could not defeat the enemy¡¯s main force. They could only avoid the main force and destroy thend and fortresses. However, these low-levelnds and yer fortresses could be destroyed without the need for troops. During the Alliance War, a yer¡¯s main missions included the following. First, kill the enemy¡¯s living power. This was the mission of the main force. Find the position of the enemy¡¯s main force and then attack. They would cripple the enemy¡¯s main force and open up a path for their own attacking forces. Of course, whether you killed or injured the enemy depended on how strong your main force was. To determine the strength of the enemy, they had to first send a Suicide Squad to test the waters. After confirming that they could defeat the enemy, sending the main force was a more secure method. Second, to defend the strategic location, which was also the mission of the main force. When the troops took down some key locations (such as neutral fortresses in the wild, gaps in the enemy¡¯s Fortress Group, etc.), They could send their main forces to guard thend and use it as a springboard to continue attacking the surroundingnds. Obviously, the other party would alsounch an attack on this plot ofnd. At this time, there must be a main force stationed to ensure that this plot ofnd was upied and could not be snatched back. Moreover, if they wanted to move forward, they would have to build a group of fortresses at a certain distance. The fortresses were very fragile during construction and could be destroyed by any siege force, so they also needed the protection of the main force. ... Third, to flip the ground and destroy the enemy¡¯s buildings. This was mainly the task of the siege forces. In the Alliance War, as long as the number of troops that had siege points above 100, they could be considered a siege force. (Because each grid upied by yers has at least 100 city defense points. Only when the siege points of the Army is more than 100 can the enemy upy the grid in one go. Otherwise, they will have to fight twice.) Since both sides relied on the fortresses to fight, once a yer¡¯s fortress at the front line was destroyed, it meant that his troops would have nowhere to go. They would either be stationed at the front line and unable to move, waiting to be ughtered, or they would have to retreat. Fourth, explore the way. This was mainly the mission of the Suicide Squad. Every yer had to form a Suicide Squad, which was a cavalryman that could run fast. They would not bring any troops with them, just to explore the way and see how strong the enemy forces were. After confirming, they could send the main force to attack. Of course, themander had to make a series of strategic decisions during the battle. For example, where would be the most suitable location for the fortresses? If they were too close to the front line, they would be easily defeated, and if they were too far away, it would be inconvenient to mobilize them. When should they defend? When should they attack? How many main forces does the enemy have, and which forces should we use to defeat them? If they made a wrong decision and the enemy found a loophole, they would lose a fortress chain, which could lead to a defeat in a crucial battle, which would be very demoralizing. Moreover, Zheng Hongxi quickly felt that in ¡°leading thend,¡± although rich yers were important, civilian yers were also very important because the two yedpletely different roles and were indispensable. Obviously, as a pay-to-win game, it was impossible and impossible for every yer to be equal. However, it used another way to allow civilian yers to make some contributions to the battlefield. The only difference between spending money and not spending money in ¡°leading thend¡± was whether your general was strong enough. For example, it was normal for a rich man to be able to defeat a team of more than a dozen civilian yers with a governor¡¯s lineup. However, this did not mean that the rich could do whatever they wanted. Resources could not be bought, and the recruitment of soldiers could not be elerated. The time of deployment was fixed, and props could not be used to elerate it. In a battle at a key location, the rich could indeed y a very crucial role. For example, you want to defend a key checkpoint and have more than a dozen troops stationed there. In the end, the tycoon wille alone and destroy all of your troops, and the battle will be over. Or you had to take down a checkpoint, but the rich were stationed at the checkpoint. Simrly, the dozens of civilian troops could not rush down, which would be a pain in the ass. However, no matter how strong the tycoon was, his general only had 100 stamina points and could only move five times. Moreover, it took time for the troops to move. Everyone could clearly see the movement and arrival time of the troops, so the civilian yers couldpletely avoid them and let the rich yers hit nothing. It doesn¡¯t matter if the nouveau riche is stationed somewhere. We can take a detour and not confront them directly. In addition to the absolute advantage of the tycoons in killing enemies and defending, things like overturning thend, attacking the city, exploring the way, and paving the way were equally important. Moreover, anyone could do it. If the civilians were willing to spend time and were smart, they couldpletely fool the tycoons. Furthermore, as the game progressed, manymoner yers with good looks could also gather a good lineup. As the game progressed, the gap betweenmoners and tycoons would continue to narrow. In addition to the restraint of the different types of soldiers, the wealthy formed a very strong Wei cavalry lineup, but themoners just happened to have a set of Wu bows. Then, the two sides might at most fight to a draw, but it was impossible for the wealthy to win. As the game went on, one would realize that having a clear mind, a variety of tactics, and a group of civilian yers who knew how to y and had more time was far more important than having a local tycoon. ...... The Alliance War between Dragon War and Qiyue Wuyi was slowly turning into a white-hot war. There were even more people in the Dragon War, and with the help of a tycoon like the cloud depths, they quickly destroyed all the enemy fortresses around the alliance leader and gradually pushed the battlefield towards the position of the alliance leader, Qiyue Wuyi. A civil war within the same province was different from a regional war between provinces. During a civil war, the focus was basically on the cities of the two Alliance Masters. This was because it was only meaningful if the Alliance master fell. Whoever lost the Alliance master first would lose. Moreover, the yers of these two alliances were spread all over Liangzhou, and everyone could use their allies nd as a springboard to fly anywhere. Therefore, the people of Dragon War quickly opened up a second battlefield near the alliance leader of Qiyue Wuyi, turning from defense to attack. After this lesson, the league Master of Dragon War learned his lesson. He kept the group of fortresses that other people built around his main city and started to defend it before going to bed every night. He also started to build his own sub-cities. In case of an emergency, he could move the city and leave. Chapter 403 Chapter 403: Qing Yangzhou splits up Xu Prefecture ¡°Leading thend¡± was different from other SLG games, where yers could not move cities at will. This was because the Alliance master¡¯s city was too important. If the other party had spent so much effort to attack the Alliance master¡¯s city, only for the Alliance master to spend money to move the city away, there would be no strategy at all. In ¡°leading thend by the shore¡±, if one wanted to move a city, they had to build a sub-city in advance, and the main city could only move to the ce where the sub-city was. This was a protective measure for the Alliance master, and it was also a countermeasure for the enemy. In any case, if they found out that you were building a sub-city, they could just stop you in advance. It could be said that Qiyue Wuyi could no longer be the alliance leader of the warring Dragon Alliance. The night attack was their best chance. If that night attack had been sessful, they would have been able to unify the entire Liang Province. Unfortunately, they did not seed, and the Dragon War would not give them a second chance. Although the Dragon battle team had won one victory after another, the battle was still in a stalemate. Because the entire Liangzhou was too big, with more than 100000 squares, Qiyue Wuyi could totally use space for time and y gueri warfare with Dragon War. If you tear down one of my fortresses, I¡¯ll build another one elsewhere. Qiyue Wuyi¡¯s people even formed various small teams and engaged in guerri warfare to attack the cities of some key personnel. Because the main forces were outside, the main city almost fell. Although many of them were exhausted, they obviously couldn¡¯t ck off. After all, Qiyue Wuyi¡¯s people were fighting with all their might. Even if Dragon War wanted a truce, Qiyue Wuyi¡¯s people would not agree. ... The two sides were in a stalemate, fighting from morning to night every day. When would this Civil War end? A week or a month? No one knew. It would only end when one of the Alliance Masters fell, or when all the Alliance members were tired, and the Alliance master was deserted. ...... The Civil War in Liang Provincested for five days. During this time, civil wars broke out in other provinces. During the internal war in Ji Prefecture, the number one alliance of Ji Prefecture, withering years, attacked first and gained the upper hand. The number two Alliance of Ji Prefecture fell in a single night. A small number of them submitted to the first Alliance, while the rest either surrendered or wandered to the Bing Prefecture. The Ji Prefecture waspletely unified. The three alliances of Bingzhou were united peacefully because there was only one major Alliance, the [godly might mansion]. The other two small alliances were not willing to have a civil war, so they merged into the [godly might mansion] and each got an official seat. At the same time, the Bing Province had also epted some refugees from the internal war in the Ji Province. Yangzhou¡¯s two major alliances were war spirit and Jin Xiu, and they were currently living in peace. It was said that the two alliances had already reached an agreement. One side would break through Xu Prefecture and the other would break through Jing Prefecture. They would each fight their own battles and not invade each other. In addition, Jing Prefecture, Yi Prefecture, You Prefecture, Qing Prefecture, and Xu Prefecture all had one major Alliance, so there was no Civil War. They were all developing quietly. Only Liangzhou was still in a fierce fight. ...... Zheng Hongxi had been fighting day and night for the past few days, and his head was dizzy. The Alliance War was too tiring. They fought every day, day and night. When the main forces were exhausted, they would be pulled back to the main city to recruit soldiers, and when they were full, they would be pulled back to the front line to continue fighting. Up till now, Dragon War had been winning one victory after another. Qiyue Wuyi¡¯s Alliance City and sub-cities were surrounded by the Army, and Dragon war¡¯s fortresses were everywhere. After all, they had been fighting for so many days, and Qiyue Wuyi had been purely on the defensive. It wasn¡¯t easy for him tost this long. It could be said that it was already a miracle that the People¡¯s hearts had not dispersed even now. Zheng Hongxi had been valued by the Alliance master because of his heroic performance in the past few days, and he was pulled into a small group of only twenty people. This chat group was like a core group. Some highly confidential information was first discussed in this group before sending emails to inform the others. The Jianping tu general: ¡°attack at 10 O¡¯ clock tonight!¡± If you can¡¯te due to the situation, send an email to ask for leave. I¡¯ll send an email to the group at 6 O¡¯ clock tonight for everyone to get ready. After being in a stalemate for so long, victory or defeat will be decided in one move. If we lose the alliance leader of Qiyue Wuyi, we can unify Liang Province!¡± Everyone was very excited. After fighting for so long, they were finally going to get their revenge. ¡°Awesome! Tonight, we¡¯ll take down that Alliance master so that he won¡¯t dare to attack us again!¡± ¡°Fight, fight, fight! Even if we don¡¯t sleep today, we¡¯ll chase all the people of Qiyue Wuyi out of Liangzhou!¡± ¡°F * ck, a civil war has been going on for nearly a week. I¡¯m f * cking drunk. I¡¯ve been fighting every day during this period and I haven¡¯t developed at all. It¡¯s so hurtful.¡± ¡°Me too. I can only hope that the Civil War is over so that I can take the time to rest and farm a few pieces ofnd.¡± ¡°I hope the Civil War ends tonight and I can sleep in peace.¡± Zheng Hongxi was also very excited. After fighting for so long, he could finally have a good sleep. When Liangzhou was unified, he could have a good rest and obtain a few more pieces ofnd to replenish his resources. As they were discussing, someone sent a screenshot: ¡°Look at the two checkpoints at the border of Xu Prefecture, Mengyin and Huai an!¡± Everyone was a little puzzled. What did Xu Prefecture¡¯s checkpoint have to do with them? Zheng Hongxi looked at the map and was surprised to find that the two checkpoints in Xu Prefecture were surrounded by fortresses! ¡°What the f * ck? What¡¯s going on?¡± ¡°What do you mean? why did Qingzhou and Yangzhou both build fortresses?¡± ¡°Why do Xu Prefecture only have so many fortresses? You¡¯re not resisting?¡± The people in the chat group were dumbfounded. Was a fight about to start? Mengyin was the border checkpoint between Qingzhou and Xuyu, while Huaian was the border checkpoint between Yangzhou and Xuyu. Outside of these two checkpoints, Qingzhou and Yangzhou had already built arge number of fortresses, and it looked like they were ready to attack the city at any time! Not only did the yers of Liangzhou notice this, but the yers of other states also noticed it. In fact, the yers in Liangzhou had only noticed the fortress groups because of the quarrel in the world Channel. The world Channel was already filled with scolding, but the yers from Qing and yang States did not say anything at all. It was only the yers from Xu Prefecture who were scolding. ¡°Xu Zhou¡¯s Alliance leader Tian Shi is really good at scheming. Are you a dog from Qing Zhou or Yangzhou? How much was the entire state worth? Is it enough to buy coffins for your entire family?¡± ¡°It¡¯s obviously a dog from Qingzhou. Tian Shi said in the group that he wants all of Xuzhou to merge with Qingzhou. Hehehehehe!¡± ¡°An Alliance master who is ranked in the top 10 in the entire server actually sold the entire Alliance to Qing Yang without even resisting. Disgusting!¡± ¡°Trash that betrays the state for glory, I wish you to be killed by a car when you go out!¡± After scrolling through the chat history in the world Channel for a long time, Zheng Hongxi finally understood what was going on. Qingzhou and Yangzhou had built their fortresses at the two passes of Mengyin and Huaian at almost the same time. It was obvious that they wanted to break through the passes and invade Xuyu. However, the leader of Xu Prefecture did not intend to resist at all. Instead, he asked all the members to merge into Qingzhou. It was obvious that Tian Shi had been a spy nted in Xu Prefecture by Qingzhou from the very beginning. They had worked so hard to establish an alliance to unify Xu Prefecture so that Qingzhou could easily swallow the entire Xu Prefecture! It was also easy to understand why Yangzhou sent out their troops. They did it to split up Xuzhou. If Yangzhou did not send troops, Qingzhou would swallow up the entire Xu Prefecture, and their strength would increase greatly. It was obvious that Yangzhou could not ept such a thing happening. Hence, they had broken through the first stage. Not only did they want to snatch resources, but they also wanted to take in the Xu Prefecture yers who were not willing to go to Qingzhou. No one had expected that the server¡¯s first state war would beunched in such a way! Chapter 404 Chapter 404: The end of the Civil War in Liangzhou In the ¡°leadingnd to shore¡±, there were mountain ranges that separated the states, and different states could not be crossed directly. There would be a checkpoint at every set distance in the mountain range. If one wanted to go to other states, they would have to break through the checkpoint first. The level of the checkpoints was rtively high and couldn¡¯t be cleared in the early stages. It required dozens of people from the Alliance and hundreds of troops to clear it. After that, they would be able to enter the neighboring state. However, breaking through the pass also meant a deration of war and an invasion, which would inevitably cause the other party¡¯s resistance. The two sides often had to fight for a long time near the pass. However, if the Alliance master did not resist at all like Xu Prefecture, the progress of Qingzhou and Yangzhou would be very fast. They might even divide the entire Xu Prefecture within a few days. ...... That night, the final battle of Liangzhou¡¯s Civil War started at almost the same time as the battle between Qing and yang! Qiyue Wuyi¡¯s Alliance leader saw that his main city and sub-cities were surrounded by the Dragon War fortress, and he could tell that the situation was not good. He chose to give up his position as Alliance leader in advance. However, the abdication required 12 hours of preparation time. During this time, the yers of Dragon War would attack Qiyue Wuyi¡¯s main city and sub-city at the same time! In the first round of attack, Qiyue Wuyi¡¯s Alliance leader activated [defense] and sessfully dyed for 5 hours. The yers of Dragon War directly recruited soldiers in the fortress. After the five hours were over, at 4:15 am, they wouldunch another attack! ... This time, Qiyue Wuyi¡¯s Alliance leader couldn¡¯t escape even if he had wings. The main city and sub-cities fell at the same time. At the same time, all the members of Qiyue Wuyi¡¯s Alliance fell! The Civil War in Liangzhousted for nearly a week, and the Dragon War finally won and unified Liangzhou. The world Channel and Liangzhou channel were filled with heated discussions, but no one from Qiyue Wuyi¡¯s Alliance said anything. After all, the war of words hadsted from the beginning to the end of the Civil War, and everyone was tired of it. Qiyue Wuyi had already guessed this oue. After all, they were much weaker than Dragon War. A small number of yers in the Alliance had already submitted to the Dragon War during the Civil War. After the fall of the alliance leader, some of them chose to surrender and start over, some chose to wander, and some chose to submit. (Wandering can go to other states, but giving up all thend in the state and starting from scratch will be very harmful to the yer, so most people will not choose to wander.) At this point, the Civil War in Liangzhou finally ended. The Dragon War chat group was in a jubnt mood! Everyone was exhausted. After nearly a week of fighting, many of the core yers in the group had not had a good night¡¯s sleep for a long time. With the end of the Civil War, everyone could finally rest. ...... On the other side, the battles of Qingzhou and Yangzhou were almost carried out at the same time! These two states had obviously sent out all their elites, and the neutral defenders at the checkpoints did not cause them much trouble at all. Just like the previous siege by the Dragon War, they sessfully took down the city. After taking down two border checkpoints, Qingzhou moved from north to south, and Yangzhou from south to north, paving the way to the nearest city in Xu Prefecture. ording to the regtions in ¡°leading thend by the shore¡±, the Alliance of Qingzhou could not ept Xu Prefecture members. They had to first upy a city in Xu Prefecture before they could ept Xu Prefecture members. Therefore, in order to ept the yers from Xu Prefecture, Qingzhou and Yangzhou chose the small city closest to their side as their first strategic target. On Xu Prefecture¡¯s side, because the alliance leader, heavenly erosion, was actually a spy from Qingzhou, this kind of betraying behavior was despised by most yers, so the entire Alliance had split. Within the Alliance, Tian Shi assured the members,¡±If they joined Qingzhou, they would be able to enter the resource state after Qingzhou broke into the resource state or even unified it. Furthermore, Qingzhou was powerful and had the ability to unify the resource state. They would be more valued if they joined earlier. Obviously, these words were half true and half false. However, most of the people here were still novices and did not know much about the game¡¯s mechanics. Thus, more than half of the people believed heavenly eclipse¡¯s words and were prepared to not resist and ept his arrangements to join Qingzhou. The others despised heavenly erosion¡¯s act of selling out the state. They had already left the Guild and entered the wilderness, waiting for Yangzhou to enter the pass and join them. Qingzhou and Yangzhou had obviously taken Xu Prefecture as their top priority at the moment. They had specifically set up paving teams to spread thend throughout Xu Prefecture day and night. The faster the road wasid, the more territory they would be able to upy. Qingzhou and Yangzhou were both very powerful, but it was obvious that they would not start a war at this time, because it was meaningless. Next to Qingzhou was Ji Prefecture, and next to Yangzhou was Jing Prefecture. If Qing and yang were to go to war before the situation was clear, it was very likely to give the other prefectures an opportunity. Therefore, the first state war in the entire server was very likely to end with Qing and yang splitting up Xuzhou, governing thend and not invading each other. The first Prefecture battle could only be considered a one-sided battle, but it reminded the other prefectures that some of the more powerful prefectures could already break through and invade the other prefectures. Xuzhou was the first, but it was clear that it would not be thest. ...... After the Civil War ended, the yers of Liangzhou entered a temporary state of rest and recuperation. Qiyue Wuyi had already left, so Dragon Wars needed to take over the yers who left the Alliance and take back all the cities that Qiyue Wuyi had destroyed. They also had to deal with all sorts of disputes overnd. Moreover, everyone was already very tired and couldn¡¯t wait to have a good rest. In the Dragon War chat group. The peace conquering general: ¡°for the next period of time, everyone should quickly replenish their development. Our Alliance members ¡®power points on the ranking list have clearly fallen behind the other states. After all, the internal war in Liang State has been going on for the longest time, and it¡¯s a bit of a blow to our bones.¡± ¡°The one who is in charge of pulling in people should be Qiyue Wuyi¡¯s scattered yers. We should poach the people from the small leagues. We are now the biggest Alliance in Liang Province. We have to quicklyplete the unification and pull in all the yers in Liang Province. Only then will we not be passive.¡± Someone asked,¡¯Alliance master, Qing and yang have divided Xu Prefecture. Is the prefecture war about to start on arge scale? Will we be in danger?¡± ¡°The neighboring provinces are Bing Province and Yi Province. Bingzhou was not a threat. They had fewer yers there, and it was and of war. It was connected to Liangzhou, Jizhou, and Youzhou. It was impossible for them to take the initiative to invade Liangzhou. I¡¯ve contacted the Alliance master in Yizhou, and he told me that Liangzhou isn¡¯t their target. So for the time being, we should be safe. ¡± ¡°If Yizhou doesn¡¯t attack Liangzhou, does that mean they¡¯re going to attack Jingzhou?¡± someone asked. ¡°Or is it that they¡¯re not going to break through and just want to farm?¡± General Jianping tu: ¡°it¡¯s impossible to just focus on farming. There are several tycoons in Yizhou. It¡¯s impossible that they don¡¯t fight a state war.¡± I think it¡¯s possible that Yizhou and Yangzhou will split Jingzhou, just like how they split Xuzhou. ¡± ¡°In that case, our Liangzhou should be safe for now. ¡°However, don¡¯t let your guard down. Everyone has seen Qing and Yang Pass through Xu Prefecture. It will only take a few hours. In the next few days, if you have nothing to do, take a look at the few checkpoints at the border between Liangzhou and Yizhou. If you find that Yizhou is building a fortress on arge scale, you must inform me at once.¡± Chapter 405 Chapter 405: Chapter 404-the battle of Youbing A day after Qing and yang entered Xu Prefecture, the second Prefecture war began. The northernmost Youzhou had invaded Bingzhou and sessfully broken through. They had pushed all the way South with irresistible force. It was different from Qing and yang splitting Xu Prefecture. This time, when you Prefecture invaded Bing Prefecture, the Alliance master of Bing Prefecture did not sell out the prefecture and actively resisted. The difference in strength was obvious. Youzhou province was in the northernmost part of the entire map. All the other provinces neighbored with resource provinces, except for Youzhou province, which couldn¡¯t enter resource provinces directly. Zhang tie had to kill Bing Province or Ji Province first. The so-called resource provinces referred to Yongzhou province, Yanzhou province, Yuzhou province and Sili Province. As the four provinces were rich in resources and all of them were high-levelnds, they were called resource provinces. There were a total of 13 states on the shore of Shuai tu. Nine states were for yers to choose from, including Qing state, Xu state, yang state, and Jing state. yers could not choose four states, including Yong state and yan state, as their birthce. The nine states that yers could choose were in the outermost circle. Further in was Yongzhou, Yanzhou, Yuzhou, and further in was sili. In other words, the yers had to pass through many stages to enter the resource state before they could enjoy the rich resources inside. Youzhou province couldn¡¯t directly enter resource province; additionally, it was neighboring Ji Province and Bingzhou province, the two weaker provinces. Therefore, this geographical location was the safest and most remote. Many yers jokingly called Youzhou the ¡°farming state¡± for this reason. ... However, the server¡¯s Youzhou was obviously not satisfied with farming. They wanted to Annex the other provinces first, then enter the resource provinces, and finally unify the world. In this stage-breaking battle, all the yers in the server watched the entire process. Zheng Hongxi also saw how well-trained the Alliance fought in the state war. Youzhou¡¯s Alliance [Wei Wu Chunqiu], the leader was called Cao Mengde. His power was ranked sixth in the entire server, and he was most likely a local tycoon. Youzhou¡¯s battle with Bingzhou also took ce at midnight. At 3 am, the Bingzhou yers found that Youzhou had built a fortress in front of the checkpoint and quickly informed their alliance members to defend it. However, there was a time difference, and there were very few yers in Bingzhou. There were nonds in front of the checkpoint upied by the Alliance, and they had to pave the way temporarily. It waste at night again, and many yers were already asleep. Although a few yers had paved the way overnight, the other yers had no time to build a fortress. Finally, at Seveno¡¯ clock in the morning, Youzhou had taken down the checkpoint between Youzhou and Bingzhou,¡¯sk pass¡¯, almost without any interference. Although most of the Bingzhou yers had woken up, they were too far away to do anything. Although the checkpoint had been broken, Bingzhou did not give up on resisting. The defense of the neutral pass was very strong. After breaking through, Youzhou would need a period of rest and recruitment. The gamers of Youzhou immediately started recruiting soldiers in the fortress. They woulde online at noon and attack Bingzhou. The gamers of Bingzhou had arrived at the checkpoint. Many fortresses had been built. Although the number was less than in Youzhou, it was still a spectacr sight. However, it would be impossible to take back the checkpoint at this time. There were high-level NPCs guarding the checkpoint, and the high-level Warriors in Youzhou could still be stationed there. With the strength of the Union province, there was no hope of attacking by force. Therefore, the state of Bing could only mobilize all of its main forces and station them at the keynd in front of the pass. At 12:30 pm, Youzhouunched an attack. A solitary red arrow pointed to the core area where the Bingzhou Army was stationed. There were 37 main forces there. Bing province¡¯s Alliance, the [godly might Manor], was also nervously discussing countermeasures. ¡°There¡¯s only one person. He should be a Pathfinder. Don¡¯t worry.¡± Many people didn¡¯t pay much attention when they saw that Youzhou only sent one person over. It wasmon to send a Suicide Squad to Scout the way before a fight started. Everyone knew this. After the Suicide Squad scouted the formation of the garrison troops, it should be time tounch a general attack. However, the moment this force crashed into the garrison, everyone was dumbfounded. The red number 37 on the garrison instantly turned into 25, and they entered a state of continuousbat! The [divine might Manor] chat group instantly exploded! ¡°What is it?¡± ¡°F * ck! This isn¡¯t a Suicide Squad, this is the main force!¡± ¡°Aplete military governor! One-versus-twelve?¡± ¡°And he still has one-third of his forces left!¡± ¡°F * ck, look at the battle report. There¡¯s no chance at all!¡± The Bingzhou yers opened the battle report and found that there were 12 new battle records in the Alliance battle report. They were all created by the alliance leader of Wei wuchun Qiu, Cao Mengde. Cao Mengde had indeed only sent a single unit over. This was aplete military governor¡¯s team! Lu Meng, Sun Quan, and Zhou Yu all had very high levels ofbat techniques. Even though they were also the main forces of the Bingzhou yers, they werepletely helpless in front of this group of tycoons! Just Cao Mengde alone had annihted 12 of the garrison troops! Cao Mengde¡¯s troops retreated. Following that, countless Red Arrows appeared on the Youzhou fortress opposite the checkpoint, pointing at the Bingzhou Garrison troops! The Bingzhou yers were already panicking. The difference inbat power between the two sides was clearly huge. How could they fight when the nouveau riche of the other side defeated all 12 of them? The yers of the divine might Manor were still rushing to the battlefield, and the new yers had also stationed their troops on thend in front of the checkpoint, trying to stop the attack of Youzhou. However, in the intense battle between the main forces, Bingzhou was quickly defeated. Bingzhou didn¡¯t have any tycoons or high-level fighters, but Youzhou had at least two or three high-level fighters who could defeat ten yers at the same time. In a battle at such a key location, Bingzhou¡¯s yers couldn¡¯t resist at all. Thend in front of the pass had been imed by Cao Mengde, the Alliance master of Youzhou, and he had started to build the fortress there. Soon, the second piece, the third piece ... Thend of Bingzhou province in front of the pass was upied one piece after another. The main force of Youzhou province was stationed on these pieces ofnd to build fortresses. The yers of Bingzhou tried to take back thend, but they couldn¡¯t get rid of the troops in Youzhou. Soon, arge red patch ofnd appeared in front of Bingzhou¡¯s border. These were allnds of Youzhou. They had already passed the border and extended into the Bingzhou fortress cluster. Bingzhou¡¯s fortress was also continuously being destroyed. Once the fortress was destroyed, the yer¡¯s troops would automatically return to their main city. If they wanted to transfer more troops over, they would have to attack the ground and repair the fortress, which would take at least a few hours. Under such a situation, Bing Province began to retreat in defeat. You Province continued to pave the way to Shang AI, the first city in Bing Province! He sent an email to the alliance leader group, asking everyone to build fortresses around Shang AI and Xin Xing, as well as the second line of defense. However, at this stage, the morale of the entire Union State Alliance was extremely low. Everyone was feeling lost. There was no way to fight this battle! Chapter 406 Chapter 406: Chapter 405-all involved in the war The continuous state wars caused all the yers in the server to panic. It was as if they were really in a chaotic world, with endless wars and endless attacks. It was as if, overnight, the days of stable development and farming were gone, leaving only the continuous war. Youzhou was unstoppable in Bingzhou, and the yers of Bingzhou were unable to resist. The Union Prefecture¡¯s Alliance master sought help from the Liang Prefecture and the Ji Prefecture, but the two prefectures were helpless. This was because the Yi Prefecture was behind the Liang Prefecture, and the Qing Prefecture was behind the Ji Prefecture. Yizhou, Qingzhou, and Yangzhou could be said to be the three strongest provinces in the server. It was difficult for Liang Province and Ji Province to protect themselves, so how could they spare people to help Bing Province? While the Alliance master of Bing Prefecture was in despair, it was Qingzhou who expressed their willingness to help Bing Prefecture fight against Youzhou. Although this was a good thing for Bingzhou, the problem was that Qingzhou and Bingzhou were not connected at all. There was still the Jizhou in between! Qingzhou proposed to break through the pass through Jizhou to help Bingzhou fight against Youzhou. However, this meant that Qingzhou¡¯s military forces would have to cross the entire Jizhou and build countless fortresses in Jizhou. Obviously, no matter how stupid the Alliance master of the Ji Prefecture was, he would not agree to such a request. He would not believe that the Qing Prefecture really wanted to help the Bing Prefecture. ... After being rejected, Qingzhou directly built a fortress at the border of Qingzhou and heizhou,[Guangzong]. It was called and-borrowing, but it was actually an invasion. The entire Ji Prefecture expressed that they would fight to the death against the invasion of Qing Prefecture. Both sides faced off in guang zong, and a war was about to break out. On the same night, the yers of the battle of the dragons found out that Yizhou was building a fortress at Yinping pass, which was the border between Liangzhou and Yizhou. This immediately alerted the entire battle of the dragons. It was obvious that Yizhou was going to do the same thing as Youzhou. They were going to break through the pass in the middle of the night and fight without any announcement. The Dragon War chat group was in a mess, but everyone quickly calmed down. They immediately went to the two passes of Yinping and Yangping to build fortresses and prepare to resist the invasion of Yizhou. In the chat group, many yers of Dragon War were discussing it, and everyone felt a little desperate. The Civil War had just ended, and there was no chance for them to catch their breath. Now, the regional war wasing? ¡°Alliance master, how¡¯s Yizhou¡¯s strength? can we defeat them?¡± ¡°Damn, there are quite a few tycoons in Yizhou. How do we fight them?¡± ¡°Didn¡¯t Yizhou say that their target wasn¡¯t Liangzhou? Why did he change his mind? Or are they lying to us?¡± ¡°Damn it, defend Yinping pass! Send them back to Yizhou!¡± ¡°Don¡¯t panic, everyone. Yizhou has been repairing the stronghold overnight. This battle is inevitable. ¡± Fortunately, we have already paved the road in advance. Everyone, seize the time to build the fortress. Send the main force and the siege force over and prepare to seize the pass!¡± Liangzhou¡¯s strategy was to build fortresses at Yinping and Yangping at the same time. Yinping was mainly for defense, and they would try to seize the pass. If Yinping failed, they would attack Yangping Pass to make sure that at least one of the two passes was in their hands. After a long period of civil war, the situation in Liang Province was very chaotic. Although Qiyue Wuyi had taken over half of the people, there was still a small portion that had not been taken over. Some of the yers from the smaller leagues were still scattered and not undermand. Moreover, after a long period of civil war, the yers in Liangzhou were generally limited in their development. Their resources and general levels were obviously lower than those in Yizhou. Obviously, Yizhou chose this time to invade Liangzhou, taking advantage of the fact that Liangzhou had just finished its internal strife, and that Liangzhou was not developing well, to break it up and take it in. For Liangzhou, the only good news was that this group of yers had the most fights in the entire server. They were very experienced, which was probably a blessing in the misfortune. ...... At Seveno¡¯ clock in the morning, Yizhou began to attack Yinping pass. The yers of Liangzhou who were online were waiting for themand to try to clear the stage. Like a city, a checkpoint had guards and city defense points. After eliminating all the defenders, the city¡¯s defense would be reduced to 0, and the upation would be sessful. However, the rule in ¡°leading thend¡± was that the checkpoint would belong to the ally that defeated the city¡¯s defense value when it dropped to 0. This was the same logic as snatching the Baron in League of Legends. It didn¡¯t matter how much health they took, the key was thest hit. This was a setting that yers both loved and hated, but in general, this setting had its own reasons. It was because of this setting that in this kind of pass battle, the stronger side could obtain a great advantage, and the weaker side would not bepletely helpless, at least there would be a glimmer of hope. When Yizhou attacked Yinping pass and went to war with Liangzhou, Jingzhou also broke through Red Cliff and went to war with Yangzhou. Yizhou and Jingzhou acted in unison. It was clear that this was a strategy that had been discussed long ago. It was very likely that Yizhou and Jingzhou had been on the same front from the very beginning. At noon, the dust had settled for the two state wars. Yizhou had sessfully taken down Yinping pass. After all, there was a difference in strength between the two sides. Yizhou had more people and strongerbat strength. In thest round, all the attacking forces arrived at the same time within a second, instantly destroying more than 1800 points of the city defense value of Yinping pass, which destroyed the hope of Liangzhou. The situation at the Jing Yang battlefield surprised everyone. Jingzhou did not take down Red Cliff, but Yangzhou! Yangzhou had two major alliances. The Jin Xiu group had always been in the battle of Xu Prefecture. They divided up Xu Prefecture while keeping an eye on Qingzhou¡¯s movements. The war spirit was in charge of resisting Jingzhou. This Battle of Red Cliff was yed perfectly by [fighting soul]. In front of Red Cliff pass, battle soul only arranged 30 people. Although the fortress was heavily built, most of them were empty. However, these 30 people were all leading a siege force, and all of them were veterans. Themander of [battle soul] had told them countless times, so everyone knew what they had to do. Just as Jingzhou was about to take down the red Cliff pass, these 30 attacking forces moved out and arrived at the same time. They directly took over the red Cliff pass. This was easy to say, but very difficult to do. This was because the speed and distance of all the troops were different. If they wanted to arrive at the same time, everyone had to be highly focused, and they had to be very strong in carrying out their tasks. However,[war spirit] actually managed to take down Red Cliff! This wasn¡¯t the end. The war spirit pretended to attack Red Cliff, but in reality, they were attacking the Xiakou border. While Jingzhou was attacking Red Cliff, the war spirit also gathered their main forces to attack the Xiakou border. In the end, the two passes, Red Cliff and Xiakou, were both taken by Yangzhou! Jingzhou was furious and wanted to take back red Cliff after resting, but war spirit sent a few of their experts to Red Cliff. If Jingzhou wanted to break through, they had to do it the same way. They had to first attack the defending Army and then clear the city¡¯s defense. However, now that Red Cliff belonged to Yangzhou, they were no longer neutral. Once they entered the siege stage, the Yangzhou¡¯s Gao Zhan would be stationed at the pass, and the Jingzhou siege troops would not be able to return. They would be eaten clean. A few high-level battles didn¡¯t take much effort to defend Red Cliff. On the other hand, the main force of war spirit had already entered Jingzhou from Xiakou. Within a day, the entire server¡¯s situation changed drastically, and all the states were involved in the war! Chapter 407 Chapter 407: The final Zheng Hongxi had been ying for the past few days until he was dizzy. After entering the state war, he was even more tired than during the Civil War! The Civil War of Liangzhou was just a war between two alliances, while the regional war was a war between two provinces. There were more people in the regional war, and the tactics were moreplicated and fierce! After Yinping pass was lost, Dragon War decided to give up on Yinping pass and attack Yangping Pass with all their might. They wanted to exchange passes with Yizhou. Although they had taken down Yangping Pass, Yizhou did not seem to care at all. They were heading north from Yinping pass with all their might, clearly wanting to end the battle as soon as possible. This move caught Liangzhou off guard. Yizhou¡¯s goal was to take down Liangzhou¡¯s two cities, linqiang and Xiping, as soon as possible. It would shake the morale of the yers of Liangzhou, and then take them in. Although Liang Province had taken down Yangping Pass, they had no choice but to defend it immediately. There were only 20 squares between Yinping pass and linqiang. Liangzhou began to build arge number of fortresses around linqiang, forming three lines of defense. The different groups of fortresses could support each other and were ready for a long war. Although they were well-prepared, they felt that their strength was not in their hearts, and it was hard to fight! Yizhou had always been one of the strongest provinces, with six or seven local tyrants and arge number of participants. Liangzhou had been fighting a civil war for a long time, and everyone¡¯s development was not good. Although there were a few high-level yers like Yun Shen, they could not stop Yizhou¡¯s attack at all. Lin Qiang¡¯s Liangzhou fortress was slowly devoured, and Yi Prefecture also began to advance, preparing to attack Lin Qiang city. ... ...... At the critical moment, Zheng Hongxi¡¯s game suddenly popped up. Su Jinyu called. Zheng Hongxi was dumbfounded. Why did su Jinyu call him? Zheng Hongxi picked up the phone and said,¡±Hello?¡± What¡¯s wrong?¡± ¡°Where are you?¡± su Jinyu asked. ¡°In the hotel.¡± Su Jinyu,[...Today¡¯s the S1 finals!] ¡°Ah?¡± Su Jinyu: ¡°hurry up! It¡¯s about to start!¡± Zheng Hongxi hung up the phone and took a look. It was true, today was the final day of Season 1 of League of Legends! After ¡°leading thend¡± was released, Zheng Hongxi had been ying the game day and night for a few days. He had not paid attention to the date at all, and today was the final? He didn¡¯t feel that time had passed so quickly at all! After washing up and changing his clothes in a hurry, Zheng Hongxi took a taxi to thepetition venue. Fortunately, the hotel was very close to thepetition venue, so they arrived very quickly. Fortunately, su Jinyu reminded them early, so they didn¡¯t miss thepetition. Zheng Hongxi jogged all the way to find a seat and sat down. He had not gone out to exercise for a few days and was panting heavily. Chen Zhao looked at him.¡±You¡¯re just in time. We¡¯re about to start.¡± Zheng Hongxi panted.¡±Manager, it¡¯s all your new game¡¯s fault. This game ... Is toxic!!¡± Thepetition had not officially started yet. Zheng Hongxi panted as he took out his phone and opened ¡°leading thend¡± to continue ying. They had no choice, the battle in linqiang city was still ongoing! ...... The final showdown of League of Legends¡¯s S1 World Finals was about to take ce! The Grand Finals this time could be said to be highly anticipated. The match between NRG and OST represented the highest level of professionalpetition in this world¡¯s ¡°League of Legends¡±. What kind of exciting match would these two teams present? Everyone was looking forward to it. The up-anding team in the country, NRG, had performed very well throughout the entire finals. First, they were the first team to advance from the group stage. Then, they defeated the strong Korea team MAD in the quarter-finals, and defeated the strong European team vs G in the semi-finals. They had yed against the top teams all the way, so it was not easy for them to enter the finals. The NRG team had also gained a lot of fans during the world Finals, and they became the team with the most fans in League of Legends in the country. Silver and ck, the midner duo, also gained a lot of fame and became the two most popr professional yers in League of Legends. Meanwhile, after OST defeated IF, they also showed their powerful strength to the world. However, the team battle recording that was released after the game had lowered the image of the team in the hearts of the domestic audience to the lowest. Although it was inevitable to be emotional when ying games, as a professional yer, the nature of unscrupulously insulting the other yer in the professional arena waspletely different from private in-game abuse. Even though these yers had apologized under pressure from the officials, it was clear that no one believed that they were sincerely apologizing. This was because the bot jungler had said in private that this situation only happened because they didn¡¯t know that the microphone would be recorded. They could only admit that they were unlucky. The entire domestic audience was looking forward to the NRG defeating the OST. Not only was it to keep the S1 championship trophy in China, but it was also to vent their anger and teach these arrogant guys a deep lesson! After all, to every professional yer, the runner-up position was not an honor, but a disgrace, because it meant that you were The Biggest Loser! ...... Before the match began, the big screen disyed a video clip. In the darkness, the images of the heroes and the yers gradually appeared. These images shed through the camera, and finally converged into the huge logo of League of Legends. Then, a blood-boiling BGM started ying! Every single scene of the S1 World Championship was shown on the screen to the audience. The stadium was full. The audience cheered enthusiastically. The pro yers nervously tapped on their keyboards and mice. The crystal exploded, and the match ended. The winning contestant cheered towards the audience, shaking hands and high-fiving the audience. In the lounge, the yers gathered in a circle and cheered each other on. The yers were fiercely discussing tactics. There were also exciting scenes of the team battle and the expressions of the professional yers. Some people were excited, some were excited, some were silent, and some were disappointed ... Scenes shed by quickly. The exciting scenes of the group stage, the quarter-finals, and the semi-finals were all cut in. Apanied by passionatementary, the wonderful performances of the sixteen teams were reyed one by one. The midner and junglerbination of the NRG was perfect. IF¡¯s ADC, Luo Yongchang, Roy, had a four-kill limit. It was a wonderful solo show by the bot midner, Frost. MAD¡¯s support, Muffy, roamed the entire field. Highlights of Pure Icebird¡¯s wonderful killing of the vs G mid. ...... As the exciting scenes shed by, the audience was reminded of the blood-boiling moments of the previous matches. The atmosphere in the stadium quickly heated up, and the audience couldn¡¯t help but cheer along with the video! ¡°NRG! NRG! NRG! NRG!......¡± Finally, the camera stopped on the huge championship trophy. Under the camera, the championship trophy glowed with silver light, symbolizing the highest honor of the world Finals. And today, there would be a team that would raise him up and finally crown him as King! Chapter 408 Chapter 408: The start of the final ¡°Wee to the first season of League of Legends World Finals, I¡¯m thementator memories.¡± ¡°I¡¯m thementator, ke Zhen. ¡± Memories shouted to the audience,¡±Today is the final round. Everyone, tell me loudly. Are you happy?¡± The audience also gave him face and replied loudly,¡±¡±Happy!¡± After the previous warm-up video, the poprity of the venue was already very high. The audience was looking forward to the final game of the Grand Finals. The twomentators ¡®enthusiasm was also transmitted to the audience, making them all excited. ¡°Now, let¡¯s wee the two teams that are in the finals. They¡¯ve both defeated strong opponents one after another to stand on the highest stage of League of Legends. Today, one of them will be the champion of the first season of League of Legends!¡± ¡°First of all, let us shout, N! R! G!¡± Deafening apuse and cheers immediately erupted in the stadium. Soon, all the voices were gathered together, shouting the name of the NRG team. Under the loud shouts of the audience, the five members of the entire NRG team appeared on the stage and waved to the audience. ¡°Next up, another strong contender for the championship, OST!¡± ... There was also some apuse and cheers in the stadium, but it was far from beingparable to the NRG. The audience who didn¡¯t like this team didn¡¯t boo orugh. They only used silence to express their emotions. Obviously, there were some in the audience who still maintained their good manners, but for arge portion of the audience, the verbal abuse incident before the match had already caused their image of the team to plummet. Clearly, they did not want to give any cheers to the team that had insulted IF. In fact, many of the audience members had liked the OST team, especially their midner Frost. Now that things hade to this, they could only say that they were embarrassing themselves. Thementator obviously noticed the slightly awkward situation and quickly said,¡±¡±Alright, contestants from both teams, please enter the stage. The audience, please give your apuse and cheers to the two teams. The exciting match is about to begin!!¡± This year¡¯s S1 World Championship was very simple, so there were no extra segments arranged on the day of the final. There was no theme song singing, music performance, cosy performance, and so on. They went straight to the main topic. However, for many of the audience members who were keen on the game, this was just right. After all, many people bought tickets to watch the finals to witness the birth of the championship, not to watch some strange song and dance performance. The yers were adjusting their equipment, while the twomentators were analyzing some key points of the match between the NRG and the OST, as well as predicting the score. ¡°I think the key to this match between the NRG and the OST is in the middlene.¡± ¡°Although the bottomne of the NRG team is slightly weaker, they must have done some targeted training during this period of time. The bottomne is definitely at a disadvantage, but it shouldn¡¯t be broken through.¡± ¡°So, if NRG wants to win, the key is to see if the midner duo, Silver and ck, canpletely suppress Frost and tie him up in the middle.¡± ¡°Especially ck, a jungler is a position that can create miracles. In fact, many of our previous misconceptions have been overturned in the finals. Nakano¡¯s role is far greater than we expected, so this time, NRG can be said to be the most promising team in the country to win the championship. ¡± After all, ke Zhen was still a professional yer, and he was also the captain andmander of the team. He had a clear understanding of the key points of the match. After hisments, the audience¡¯s expectations for this match had reached a peak! Memories pressed on her headset.¡±Okay, the equipment of both teams has been adjusted. Next, let¡¯s watch a video. Let¡¯s see what the key yer of the NRG, the jungler, ck, thinks of this match.¡± The big screen switched to the scene of the NRG jungler, Jiang Hao. In front of the camera, Jiang Hao was still a little shy. He was obviously not used to this feeling. ¡°I think this is the best opportunity for our team. We also have the hopes of many of our brother teams on us. If we lose, we won¡¯t be able to find an excuse. We can only let this day be an eternal regret. So, we¡¯ll do our best to win this match. ¡± The crowd cheered again. Indeed, what Jiang Hao said was right. In this Grand Finals, the Chinese team had the advantage of time, ce, and people. The Chinese server opened early, had the most yers, and had the home advantage. IF even sparred with them unreservedly before the game, they had done everything they could. If they still couldn¡¯t win the championship under such circumstances, they could only regret it for the rest of their lives! Very quickly, the big screen cut to the match! The battle between the two teams went on very quickly. It was clear that both teams had gone through a lot of training matches during this period and were very familiar with the current key heroes. In the first round, both the NRG and the bot team had their eyes on the mid-Lane champion, and all six ban slots were given to the champion in the mid-Lane. As the blue team, NRG was the first to snatch, choosing Gragas over Death Song. On the other hand, OST sessfully obtained the death song and chose a Mumu, the team-fighting hero, to cooperate with. The midner of the NRG team chose the ice Phoenix, hoping to make up for some of their weaknesses in the team battle. After the match started, tankard from the NRG team started to invade the champion¡¯s territory. The bot jungler, ah Mumu, was carefully farming the champion. However, this champion was still too weak before Level 6. Not only was he killed once, but his development also fell behind. Every time a Mumu was killed, there would be a burst of cheers from the crowd, because this jungler was the one who had been insulted the most and the one who was the most unrepentant. In the early stages, the NRG team had gained a certain advantage. However, in the crucial group battle against the Dragon, the spectacr OT had extended the frontline of the NRG team. Ah Mumu¡¯s entrance had instantly tilted the bnce of the group battle. After death song¡¯s death, he had actually managed to obtain a triple kill with his ultimate skill! After this team battle, Death Song was already difficult to stop. The gap between the two teams ¡®lineups in the team battle was obvious. In the end, the first round of the battle was won by the SOT. After the loss of this match, the faces of the members of the NRG team were somewhat grave. However, they did not look too dejected. Instead, they were full of fighting spirit. The live audience was also cheering loudly, shouting and cheering for them. In the audience. Li jingsi looked at the big screen.¡±This is bad. Please don¡¯t let this affect the mentality of the NRG team members.¡± Chen Mo said as he watched the livestream,¡±¡±It doesn¡¯t matter. The midner of the NRG team is famous for being a big-hearted yer. He managed to survive the previous match with MAD¡¯s BO5. Also, I think the chances of winning for the NRG are higher. ¡± Chapter 409 Chapter 409: Chapter 408-one chasing three? ¡°Why?¡± li jingsi asked. Chen Mo exined,¡±pro teams now generally value team battles. It¡¯s obvious from the fact that OST even used Amumu as a suicide song.¡± ¡°To put it bluntly, the OT strategy is still the same old way, but the NRG is already trying a new strategy.¡± ¡°Gragas is a champion that is very suitable for invading the jungle. The ck of the NRG is also very good, but their mistake is that they didn¡¯t follow this idea and chose the average Icebird in the middlene.¡± ¡°For this round, Kassadin and Orianna, the two champions who are the best at snowballing as junglers, have been banned. However, you can still choose Annie, Carter, or even vampire for the NRG. I can only say that they lost this match because they were too conservative. ¡± ¡°I think that in the next round, the NRG will probably realize this mistake, and they will definitelye up with more tricks.¡± Even though he was there, Chen Mo still used his phone to watch the live broadcast of the finals. What touched Chen Mo was that after the loss of the first game, no one typed GG or brainlessly cursed, all of them were ¡°good luck, NPC¡±. With so many cheers floating by, it made people feel that the domestic audience really supported this team from the bottom of their hearts. In the second match, both teams had swapped their blue and red. However, in terms of lineup selection, both teams were still targeting their midner Champions. In fact, the bot team had even banned Gragas, who had performed outstandingly in ck¡¯s previous match. In the midst of the ¡°ban deathsong¡± calls, the NPC ignored them and continued to y it. ... However, this time, the SOT did not choose to do so. Instead, they directly locked onto the topner Jax. On the other hand, the NRG team had gotten Shenhe and deathsong, while the jungler and support had reced mundo and sona, bringing out an almost impable lineup. Clearly, both sides had switched ystyles. So had also tried to gain an advantage in the semi-finals, using the rtively new 4 ¨C 1 split push strategy. On the other hand, NRG had seen through their intentions at the first moment and had chosen Shen as their target. Because of the lineup, both sides did not find a good opportunity in the early stages and could only develop steadily. Although the early stages of the game were a disadvantage for the NRG¡¯s third-string yers, they still managed to stabilize their situation. After nearly 18 minutes, a battle broke out at the top and bottomnes of both sides! After Silver¡¯s deathsong used his ulti to help the bottomne kill Zyra, he rushed to the topne and stopped the three-man team of midner and upperner who were trying to get Shen through the tower. After Shen gave the big move, Death song¡¯sbat power was off the charts. In addition, mundo, who had opened the big move, had been clingy all this time. They actually sessfully exchanged a 0 for 3, and the situation on the field was reversed in an instant! Although the bot team was also trying to use their points to tie down the enemy, it was difficult for Jax to do anything in front of the well-developed Shen. In the end, by relying on their stronger team strength, the NRG team sessfully regained one point! Silver¡¯s death Song yed a crucial role as well. His participation rate with ck¡¯s mundo was 83%, which could be said to be a true midner reviving the entire game. In the third match, the NRG team returned to the blue team. This time, OST did not dare to y the death song. After the first two matches, everyone could tell that Silver and Frost were extremely familiar with the death song. Whoever got it would be able to dominate thepetition. However, in a situation where there were only three ban slots, the bot had no choice but to release Orianna in order to ban deathsong. Without any hesitation, the NRG immediately locked her down. This time, OST had chosen a more team-oriented lineup, while NRG had brought out Orianna, Lee Sin, and Jax, the ultimate violent topner and jungler. It was clear that they wanted to crush bot during their development period. The bot was obviously still farming and waiting for the team battle, but the NRG did not give them any chance at all. In the early game, blind, along with Jax and Orianna, madly invaded the jungle, forcing the bot¡¯s jungler, Scorpion, to run around. In the small-scale team battle that followed, Jax¡¯s jump, stun, and Orianna¡¯s ulti caused even more damage to the seemingly fragile lineup of the bot. In front of these three, the bot champion was like a piece of paper. In the middle of the match, a snowball had already begun to roll. The NRG team had won the match without any suspense. After securing the match point, the NRG was only one step away from the S1 World Championship trophy! In these three games, the twomentators had shouted until they were almost exhausted, but they were also very excited. To be able to witness the domestic team win the championship at this time, whether it was for the audience or thementators, it was a great honor! ...... The fourth round began. For the OT team, they were already standing on the edge of the cliff. Everyone¡¯s expression was very serious. They entered the back-up segment again. After the first few rounds, everyone had realized the importance of the game. The most crucial fourth round would depend on the lineup of both sides! There were too many Champions that were difficult to deal with on both sides. Three ban slots were not enough, especially for an bot. They had to make a decision. In the end, bot didn¡¯t choose to ban Mo Ling, nor did they choose to snatch her first. Instead, they chose a lineup that could be said to be an unconventional one: Jess, nightmare,cus, Ezreal, Lulu. Seeing this lineup, the vast majority of the audience and the twomentators were a little dumbfounded because this lineup had never appeared on the stage of the world Finals. However, Chen Mo could clearly feel the intentions of the OT. The POKE stream. This style had been all the rage in his previous life, but no party had ever brought it out in parallel world. The so-called POKE was to use long-range skills to consume the enemy¡¯s health and establish a huge health advantage before the start of the team battle. From there, they could snatch the map resources and snowball. Clearly, in this life-and-death battle, the bot could only use their trump card. As long as this lineup could develop, it would definitely cause great trouble for the NRG. No one knew if the NRG team had seen through their opponent¡¯s intentions. The lineup they had chosen this time was simr to the previous game, with Orianna as the core. The only difference was that after the topner Jax was banned, they had chosen Shen, who was easier to support. In the wild cheers of the audience, the curtain of this crucial battle had been raised! Not only was the five yers of the OT very unconventional in their lineup, but they also very aggressively chose a level one team invasion. After Jayce elerated everyone in the eleration gate, he carefully detoured into the red buff area of the NRG to ambush. Because of this bot formation, Lux, Lulu, and Incubus all had crowd control skills, while Jess and Ezreal could make up for the damage. Once an NRG jungler entered the jungle, it was highly likely that he would be killed by the five of them. However, the NRG had already ced a Ward in the jungle area of their red buff, and the movements of the five yers from the bot were clearly seen. The five yers of the OT were lying in ambush in the bushes between the red buff and the middlene, while the NRG was also standing under a turret in the middlene to block their vision. Both sides were very close to each other, but the NRG knew the location of the bot, while the bot did not know where the NRG was. ¡°The wards of the NRG are very important! Clearly, the NRG knew that the OT had not left and was still waiting! They¡¯re waiting for the OT yers to return to the city, then they¡¯ll go and catch the people who are left alone!¡± ¡°Can we seed? There was no one in the OT, but someone had already returned to the city! The NRG is currently booking a ce, let¡¯s see if we can book a person who is alone!¡± The twomentators were also excited. In the entire world Finals, a level one fight was very rare, and a level one fight thatpletely understood the opponent¡¯s intentions andpletely relied on numbers to fight against the opponent was even more unprecedented! Chapter 410 Chapter 410: Witnessing history, creating history The SOT-Lane duo from SOT had already returned to base. The topner and jungler were also preparing to get the red buff. The midner, Lux, was preparing to go back to thene. However, just as he was going back down, the five yers from the NRG team suddenly appeared from their blind SOT! Frost¡¯s reaction was very fast. As soon as he saw the yers, he shed and pulled away. Then, he turned around and used his Q-skill to trap the two yers, and escaped to the topne. Although Lux had run away, the bot jungler, shapeshifter, was still in the jungle. The five yers of the NRG immediately split up and surrounded him. Shapeshifter ran in the direction of the NRG base in a panic and was caught up very quickly. Orianna took first blood. After taking first blood, the top jungler of the NRG team immediately entered the jungle area of the bot¡¯s Blue buff and snatched away the blue buff. This opening was a dream-like opening for the NRG team. The main point was that the midner had taken off. For the OT team, nightmare had basically copsed and Lux had used her sh. They had to be more careful in thene because ck loved to grab the midner. The loss of the first-level team fight had caused the bot lineup to be at a huge disadvantage in the early stages. This was because the key to the POKE flow was to obtain the gold lead in the early stages. Otherwise, long-range consumption skills would be like tickles to the opponent. How could they fight this team fight? Both sides developed steadily in the early stages, and the economic advantage of the NRG was maintained. In the middlene, Frost was still steady but fierce, and the long-handed Lux only needed to seize the opportunity to exhaust Orianna. After another Q-skill reached Orianna, Lux decisively used her ultimate skill. At the same time, the light of the bot¡¯s Incubus was switched off, and she wanted to kill Orianna and take the middle turret! However, at this time, both teams were rushing over. Shen of the NRG team immediately cast a big move on Orianna. This time, it became a 10-man melee. Although the yers of the SOT team were ying well, the NRG team had the lead in gold and their lineup was more suitable for team battles. After continuous dragging, the NRG team sessfully got a 0 for 3 and continued to expand their advantage. ... After a continuous snowball effect, the gold advantage of the NRG team had reached four thousand. In the crucial team battle at the Baron pit, although the OT had first taken out the support of the NRG team, the NRG team had decisively chosen a 4v5. Orianna¡¯s perfect ulti pulled the three of them together, and in the end, it was a 1 for 3 trade, and they had sessfully taken the Baron pit. In the end, the NRG relied on their huge economic advantage to break through the threenes of the OT and finally arrived in front of the OT¡¯s crystal hub! As the battle progressed, the livementators were also excited. The audience even gave a round of enthusiastic apuse and cheers! ¡°Jayce is down!¡± ¡°The Two Towers in the crystal hub are about to be demolished!¡± ¡°Right now, only Lux from Frsot is still trying to hold on, but it¡¯s useless. She can¡¯t clear out the Super minions!¡± ¡°The five yers of the NRG are dismantling the crystal, they¡¯ve won! He won! The champion of the NRG world!¡± ¡°Congrattions to the NRG, and also to every member of the audience. We have witnessed history!!¡± ¡°N! R! G! The world! Jie! Crown! Army!¡± In the thunderous apuse and cheers of the entire Stadium, the five members of the NRG team had already jumped up from their seats in excitement and hugged each other wildly. The audience in the arena even shouted spontaneously,¡±¡°NRG! NRG! NRG! NRG!......¡± The entire stadium¡¯s lighting became iparably gorgeous, and the stadium also rang out with an exciting victory Warsong. On the big screen, the five heads of the champion team, NRG, were disyed. The camera panned to the seats of the NPG yers. The five yers hugged each other excitedly and waved to the audience, enjoying the apuse and cheers of the audience. The SOT members were still seated in their chairs, each of them wearing an extremely dejected expression. They were indeed only one step away from the summoner¡¯s trophy, but the NRG had be an insurmountable moat. The five members of the NRG team came to the side of the OST position, and the members on both sides shook hands in turn. Although the smell of gunpowder between the two teams was very strong before the game, the members of the two teams were very polite and showed a very good demeanor. To the NRG, after defeating the OT in a direct confrontation and bing the world champion, all grudges could be written off. Only the winner had the right to be lenient. In the midst of the passionate battle song and the cheers of the audience, the five members of the NRG rushed onto the stage. Jiang Hao tried to lift the shiny silver Summoner¡¯s trophy, but it didn¡¯t move at all. Fortunately, his four team members immediately surrounded him and the five of them raised the summoner¡¯s trophy together! ¡°Summoners of League of Legends, let¡¯s cheer together for the world champion of League of Legends ¡®first season¡¯s world Finals, Northen gaming!!¡± Whether it was in the stadium or on the major live broadcast websites, the poprity of the cup-holding event had reached its peak! ¡°The NRG is awesome! The championship!¡± ¡°Hahaha, the champion will be staying in China!¡± ¡°Cool! He¡¯s one against three, and he¡¯s beating out OST. This championship title is well-deserved!¡± ¡°The five of them are all good!¡± ¡°The atmosphere at the venue is exploding! It¡¯s a pity he wasn¡¯t there!¡± ¡°Huh, isn¡¯t that Chen Zhao? Chen Mo is on stage!¡± ¡°Ah, Chen Mo! Wow, these five young men have cards! Chen Mo personally congratted and interviewed me?¡± ¡°I knew it. I was wondering why Chen Zhao hasn¡¯t shown himself yet. So they were waiting for the finale to appear!¡± The heat in the stadium had reached its peak, and Chen Mo¡¯s appearance on stage was no different from adding another fire to the already boiling crowd! This time, Chen Mo wore a more formal outfit. He was already waiting backstage when the NRG team had the upper hand in the fourth round. After the NRG team won, Chen Mo went on stage and instantly became the focus of the audience. ¡°Thank you so much for the victory that the NRG has brought us. I believe that all the summoners here should be as happy and glorious as I am. Everyone, let¡¯s give the loudest cheer again, okay?¡± The audience once again let out deafening cheers. It didn¡¯t matter how many times they cheered in this situation. The World Championship was a Supreme honor for all the domestic audience and yers! Chen Zhao went to the front of the stage and high-fived his five teammates. The five young men looked at Chen Mo, the designer of League of Legends, with curiosity. To Chen Mo, it was a great honor to see a Chinese team win the S1 Championship. At least he could make up for the regrets from his previous life. Moreover, this championship was fought for by the five of them. Chen Mo didn¡¯t reveal any tactics or strategies to them, nor did he give them any special treatment. They deserved it. As the designer of League of Legends and the host of the World Championship, Chen Mo came to the stage and gave a summary of the championship. All the cameras were focused on Chen Zhao. ¡°I am very grateful to all the professional teams and all the summoners for their full support in the world Finals. It can be said that you are the witnesses of history and also the creators of history. This history will be iplete without any of you here. ¡± ¡°For the finals, we¡¯ve invited the world¡¯s top 16 teams. In the long journey of more than a month, all the teams have shown us their top skills and also showed us the most wonderful side of League of Legends.¡± ¡°Today, these two strongest teams have dedicated a dream-like showdown to us!¡± ¡°Today, the NRG battleteam will be crowned as the king!!¡± Chen Mo paused and waited for the cheers to die down before he continued,¡±¡±Just now, I just received the real-time data. The number of people watching the final has reached 8.37 million. This number has already created history.¡± ¡°At the same time as winning the NRG trophy, the prize pool for thispetition has also been finalized. During the world Finals, we sold a total of 540000 riven skins. Half of the profits, which is 27 million, will be used as the champion prize money!¡± ¡°In other words, the champion team will receive a prize of 47 million Yuan!!¡± ¡°Let¡¯s cheer together for this unprecedented e-sports event. The glory belongs to every Summoner in League of Legends!!¡± Chapter 411 Chapter 411: After the Grand Finals In the stadium for the S1 World Finals, the apuse and cheerssted for a long time. Even though the audience did not directly participate in the S1 World Championship, as yers of League of Legends, it was a great honor for the tournament to gain so much attention and influence. ¡°League of Legends S1 international Grand Final hase to an end,¡± Chen Mo announced loudly.¡±Everyone, let¡¯s meet again in S2!!¡± The crowd erupted into raucous apuse and cheers again, and many of the audience members were even shouting. ¡°Goodbye, S2! Next year¡¯s champion has to stay!¡± ¡°Go, NRG!!¡± ¡°Chen Mo is awesome!¡± ¡°Little ckie, smile at the camera!¡± Chen Mo left the stage amidst the audience¡¯s cheers, leaving this glorious moment to his five teammates. At this point, the S1 World Championship of League of Legends came to a perfect end! ... ...... After the game, all the yers were still immersed in the excitement of winning the S1 finals. It was foreseeable that this had be a wild celebration for all yers of League of Legends, and the poprity of the finals would take at least one or two months to subside. The brief interlude in the S1 finals had sparked a heated discussion among the yers. For example, in a post-match interview with the NRG jungler, Jiang Hao, the reporter asked him what his first feeling was after winning the championship. Jiang Hao actually said,¡±¡±The trophy is too heavy!¡± Manyizens checked and found out that the trophy this time was actually 30 kilograms. It was no wonder that Jiang Hao felt that it was heavy. It was difficult for five people to lift it! There were also enthusiasticizens who discovered a small detail when the NRG was holding the cup. Jiang Hao was the first to rush to the side of the trophy to hold it, but after lifting it a little, the trophy did not move at all! Fortunately, the other team members quickly came over and raised the trophy together, so this scene was not noticed by many people. However, this small detail was still discovered by enthusiasticizens and caused a heated discussion on the inte. ¡°Hahaha, Jiang Hao is so cute. His first reaction when he wins the championship is that the trophy is too heavy?¡± ¡°Yeah, the trophy is really impressive this time. 30kg? It¡¯s no wonder little ck can¡¯t lift it. With his small body, wouldn¡¯t he hurt his waist if he really lifted it?¡± ¡°Didn¡¯t you see how careful the five of them were when they held the cups? If it hits the ground, the trophy might not even look good, and the stage might even have a hole in it!¡± ¡°Amazing, I can only say that this year¡¯s S1 Grand Final is indeed impressive. I¡¯m only impressed by Chen Mo when ites to acting cool!¡± ¡°Chen Mo: I¡¯m not targeting anyone. I¡¯m just saying that when ites to acting cool, none of you are as good as me!¡± ¡°The domestic team won the championship, I¡¯m satisfied! Let¡¯s go for a spin!¡± ...... On various forums, there were more and more posts about the championship of the NRG. Arge number of League of Legends yers were discussing the newly crowned King team, discussing theirtest tactics and signature heroes in the finals. On the various live streaming tforms, the S1 Grand Finals ¡®special live stream was still being kept, reying the process of the NRG winning the championship. There were still hundreds of thousands of viewers watching every day. On various video websites, all kinds of videos and information about the championship of the NRG were exposed, and they were very popr. Even the daily training, SOLO, and meal scenes of the NRG in the base were all talked about by the yers. The poprity of thispetition was far higher and moresting than anyone could imagine. Many yers all expressed that they hadn¡¯t seen enough, they wanted to see more! As apetitive game, League of Legends had a lot of spectators. For some yers, watching the game was even more fun than ying the game themselves. For example, some of the more difficult Champions, such as Icebird and riven, yers couldn¡¯t y them at all. However, in apetition, professional yers could use them to kill everyone and y with extremely exquisite control. Many yers would feel a sense of immersion when they saw the team or yer they supported. They would also feel a strong sense of satisfaction after winning the game. As such, many yers were saying that it would be great if the Grand Finals were held every month! Of course, some yers quickly retorted,¡±there¡¯s a finals every month? It was unrealistic in all aspects. Moreover, if there was one every month, then he would not be so excited. However, once a year was indeed too long. yers were still looking forward to more smallpetitions in China and continue to see their favorite teams and yers. Their wish was soon realized. After the finals, Chen Mo made two big announcements. ¡°To celebrate the champion of the NRG, the skins of all the heroes who have been used in the final will be on sale for a week. They will be sold at a 50% discount from their original price. At the same time, all Summoners will receive double gold coins and double experience in this week. In addition, the officials will be creating a champion skin for the NRG. ¡± ¡°In addition, all the major divisions will start to form League of Legends professional leagues. ¡°Currently, there are four major divisions: the domestic division LPL, the North American Division lol NA, the European division lol EU, and the Korea division lol. We will be working together with local e-sports organizations to build a longstingpetition system. Starting from S2, thepetition in the major divisions will be the only channel for the global Finals.¡± At the same time, the official website of League of Legends also began to release some details about the league, including the information of the participating teams, the schedule, the rules of promotion and relegation, the spots for the worldpetition, and so on. Moreover, a lot of the audience had realized that the LPL would officially start at the beginning of next year, and it would be held at the Grand Finals venue, Shanghai¡¯s big square. ¡°I just said that I haven¡¯t seen enough and now you¡¯re here for the league?¡± ¡°Awesome, there¡¯ll be apetition in a few months, and it¡¯s a league. Will it be a seamless match for next year¡¯s s2 World Championship?¡± ¡°Amazing! Chen Mo nned all of this, a set ofbination punches?¡± ¡°Wow, as long as it¡¯s a champion that has been used in the NPC, all the skins are half price? F * ck, why did Chen Zhao suddenly have a conscience?¡± ¡°The one above, you¡¯re really naive ...¡± ¡°But I¡¯m more concerned about the champion skins of the NRG. I wonder what kind of skins Chen Mo will make for the five Guys.¡± ¡°Yeah, the champion¡¯s skin is so good! When the timees, we¡¯ll have five people in the game and everyone will use their own skin. This posturing is simply destructive!¡± ¡°My wallet can¡¯t wait! As long as the NPC exclusive skin is done well, we¡¯ll buy it no matter what!¡± ¡°Yeah, it¡¯s a domestic team after all. We have to support them!¡± After the World Championship, the poprity of League of Legends had been rising. Even the number of active yers and the number of yers paying for the game had increased significantly. The S1 finals itself was the most effective publicity. Whether it was the venue, the trophy, the participating teams, the number of spectators, or the prize pool for the record-breaking, all of it showed the yers that League of Legends was a game that was constantly developing and improving. It was very likely that it would be the most poprpetitive game in the world. This also attracted more yers to join League of Legends. Chapter 412 Chapter 412: The champion skin At the NRG Esports Club. Chen Mo and Zhou Hanyu were chatting with the five members of the NRG team. The NRG club was located in Shanghai. Although it was a little remote, it was still eptable. This time, the boss of the NRG club personally weed Chen Mo and treated him with great importance. As an up-anding Esports Club, the foundation of the NRG was much weaker than the other established clubs. The reason for its name and the creation of the Warcraft and League of Legends divisions was because the boss himself preferred Chen Mo¡¯s games. What the owner of the NRG didn¡¯t expect was that he made the right bet in investing in League of Legends, and he really got a big bargain. After winning the NRG Championship, the five young men instantly turned from five unknown inte-addicted teenagers to the focus of all League of Legends yers. Not only did they have arge number of fans in China, but they also had a lot of supporters overseas. And these five people were all regarded as the five strongest positions in the world. Their ¡°status¡± in the game instantly rose. In a rankingpetition, four teammates and five opponents would fight to take a photo with them. At the same time, these young men had also won a huge sum of money. The S1 championship prize money had reached 47 million. ording tomon sense, this money had to be deducted first before being split with the club. However, the boss of the NRG did not only refuse to take a single cent from the club, but also paid for the tax deduction. This 47 million bonus was directly distributed to the five members, and each of them received a huge bonus of 9.4 million. Of course, for the NRG club, the attention received by this world Championship was immeasurable. It was conceivable that all kinds of sponsorships woulde in session soon, and it would also have a huge fan base. ... What¡¯s more, the boss of the NRG did not care about the money. What he wanted was results and attention. If the club he had set up won the championship, it would be a very important topic to talk about when he ate with his friends in the future. From an unknown inte-addicted teenager who yed games in an inte caf¨¦ to a multi-millionaire and a world champion, the five yers could be said to have gained both fame and fortune. To Chen Zhao, this was nothing. The reason why the prize pool for the S1 finals was set so high was to show it to all yers and professional yers. It was simr to ¡°buying a horse¡¯s bones with a thousand gold¡± in nature, to attract more yers to walk the path of ¡°professional yers.¡± However, for these five young men, it was hard to say whether such a high level of attention, such arge amount of wealth, and so much honor was good or bad. He hoped that they would hold on to their hearts and not let the temporary glory get to their heads. Of course, Chen Mo couldn¡¯t care less about that. He was here for the champion skin. Chen Mo and Zhou Hanyu met the five of them in the meeting room after rejecting the invitation to dinner and Tour Shanghai from the NRG boss. The five of them were still immersed in the joy of winning the championship, and were even more overjoyed when they heard that Chen Mo was going to make champion skins for them. Everyone took their seats in the meeting room. Chen Mo looked at the five of them,¡¯I¡¯m sure everyone knows why I¡¯m here, it¡¯s about the champion skin. There are three main points to consider when making a champion¡¯s skin. The first is the style of the team, the second is the yer¡¯s personal preference, and the third is overall coordination. ¡± ¡°Is everyone satisfied with the NRG team uniform?¡± The five of them looked at each other and nodded.¡±Yes, I¡¯m satisfied,¡± Jiang Hao added,¡±I just feel that there are too few patterns.¡± Chen Mo smiled.¡±It¡¯s fine. We can fix the pattern. The main thing is that the champion¡¯s skin has to be the same color as the NRG uniform.¡± The NRG team uniform was a pure ck one with ice patterns on it. Overall, it was deep and cold. Of course, this was rted to the personal preferences of the NRG boss. From the name of the team, it could be seen that the boss had a certain preference for Arthas. Therefore, the team uniform was pure ck with some ice patterns. It was basically based on the feeling of the ice throne and death Knight. Chen Zhao continued,¡±okay, then let¡¯s set the color tone to ck. Then, let¡¯s talk about our preferences. First, which hero do you want? It¡¯s best if it¡¯s something you¡¯re best at. ¡± It was obvious that the five of them were well prepared. They basically said the heroes they wanted without much hesitation. ¡°I want the blind monk skin,¡± Jiang Hao said. Silver, who was ying mid, said,¡±¡±Hmm ... Orianna,¡± Top, ADC, and support were Shen, Vayne, and sona. These Champions were all currently popr Champions, and were also the best champions of the five members of the NRG team. Their characteristics were very distinct. ¡°Alright,¡± he said. Chen Mo asked as he wrote it down,¡±are there any special requirements? For example, what kind of recall action do you want, special effects, and so on?¡± The five of them were a little reserved at the beginning, but they quickly became lively and spoke freely. ¡°I hope that when Lee Sin returns to the city, he can do a handstand.¡± ¡°Orianna, can you make that ball silver? ck skin with a silver ball, he would look very handsome. Oh, but don¡¯t make it too obvious, or else it¡¯ll be hard to hide the ball in the future. ¡± ¡°Can Shen¡¯s two weapons be made into gold? Yes, and then make it a little bigger. Or, why don¡¯t you just use two championship trophies to beat someone up?¡± ¡°Sona, can you show more of your chest?¡± ...... Chen Mo and Zhou Hanyu wrote down all the requests of the five members. They wouldn¡¯t fulfill all of them, but they would be used as a reference. After all, these five people were the owners of the skin. He had to take their opinions into ount as much as possible while ensuring the artistic and beautiful degree of the skin. After this, Chen Zhao was ready to return to the imperial capital. On the way back, Chen Mo and Zhou Hanyu started designing champion skins for the five yers of the NRG. Chen Mo¡¯s original art skills were already quite high. Two hourster, the first draft for the champion skin was ready. This time, the five heroes were mainly ck in color. At the same time, many ice patterns were added, making their styles more rich. In the middle of the art was Orianna, who was holding a silver ball of light. On the bottom left was the eye-catching blind monk, who was wearing sunsses and moving elegantly. On the bottom right was Shen, who was wearing a ck suit and holding two gold trophies. On the top left was Vayne, who was holding a silver crossbow. On the top right was sona, who was wearing headphones and ying the dark music. At the same time, Chen Mo and Zhou Hanyu also discussed the movements and special effects of the skins. As per Jiang Hao¡¯s request, Lee Sin¡¯s return trip would be a handstand with one finger. When Orianna used her W-skill and ultimate, the silver ball would be surrounded by an NPC¡¯s logo. Sona¡¯s ultimate skill would be a huge ice pattern, which would look very cool. Zhou Hanyu had recorded all of these requests. He would take them all into consideration when he went back to create the skin model, actions, and special effects. Chapter 413 Chapter 413: Chen Mo is going to lose in in-game purchases? Not long after Chen Zhao returned to the imperial capital, all sorts of phone calls came. Most of the calls were from club owners or managers, who all wanted to get a spot in the LPL. After knowing that there were no more spots left, they asked if there were any more. Chen Mo could only tell them that they could apply to form a team, and there would be professionals to evaluate the club¡¯s status and the team¡¯s strength. As long as they met the requirements, they would be able to get a spot in the LKL. It was a firste, first served basis. Many clubs suggested that there should be a ¡®convenient channel¡¯, but Chen Mo rejected them all. There was no other way. Many clubs still went through the process obediently. Chen Mo wasn¡¯t that stuck on the LPL quota. As long as the club met the requirements and the team was strong enough, they would pass. Very quickly, the quota for LPL was also filled up! Many of the club bosses who had been observing were dumbfounded. What was going on? There¡¯s no ce in the First Division? It was only then that they felt a little panicked, because the poprity of League of Legends was far beyond their imagination, but it was toote for them to enter the scene. There were clubs who wanted to buy it, but the other clubs were not selling it at all! Even if there were two or three clubs that had gotten the LKL slots, the price they offered was very high, one million! ... The bosses who didn¡¯t get a spot were speechless. One million? why didn¡¯t they just go and Rob? When they thought about how the free spots they had previously taken were now being sold for 1 million, these bosses were all gnashing their teeth in hatred and cursing these clubs for being unscrupulous merchants. Most of the clubs didn¡¯t have the courage to do so. One million was not a small sum. It was enough to maintain the entire club for a long time. Now, they were just buying a spot? Wasn¡¯t this the same as raising the price from the ground! Many club bosses decided not to buy it in a fit of anger and no longer set up a League of Legends branch. However, they would soon find out that this would be one of the things they would regret the most in the next few years, because the current price was really not expensive. ...... After League of Legends ¡®first season finals, the domestic esports scene weed a wave of enthusiasm. All the major clubs had increased their investment to unearth high-scoring yers topete for the LPL and LPL spots. All sorts of sponsorships came one after another, mouse, keyboard, headphones, motherboard, esports chair ... The yers ¡®sries had also increased, and professional yers had be bright and beautiful in the eyes of many people. Putting aside the impact of the influx of hot money on the overall environment, at least Chen Zhao had achieved his goal. With the huge gimmick of the S1 finals of League of Legends, the influence of League of Legends was no longer limited to the game itself, but spread to arger group of people through multiple influences. As the dominating game in his previous life, League of Legends developed well in this world. It even started off more smoothly than in his previous life. After all, fist Inc. Was just a smallpany when it first started, but Chen Mo had already gained a lot of poprity when heunched League of Legends, so it was apletely different story. ording to the statistics of the S1 finals, League of Legends¡¯s statistics in the parallel world were basically the same as S2 in his previous life. Although its influence in overseas regions was still rtively weak, League of Legends had undoubtedly upied a dominant position on the PC side in China. At this point, the start of League of Legends had finallye to an end for Chen Mo. The general trend had been set, and all he had to do was to follow the prescribed order and League of Legends would reach the peak just like in his previous life. ...... ...... The recruitment for the Three Kingdoms game continued. ZEN Entertainment¡¯s heroes of the Three Kingdoms had already entered the top three of the best-selling mobile game leaderboard. With the overwhelming publicity, the Three Kingdoms game that had created a new way of ying card games still attracted arge number of yers. Moreover, the style of the game was a huge gimmick. Many mobile game yers said that they didn¡¯t want it, but their bodies were very honest. They had a lot of fun drawing cards in ¡°the heroes of the Three Kingdoms.¡± As for ¡°leading thend¡±, it was hovering around the tenth ce on the official best selling leaderboard. Of course, many yers yed the game on Thunderbolt gaming tform, and the best selling leaderboard didn¡¯t represent the game¡¯s profits. However, the heroes of the Three Kingdoms was also released on Emperor dynasty gaming tform and fantasy gaming tform at the same time, so it also had other sources of ie. In other words, from the official rankings,¡±the heroes of the Three Kingdoms¡± had undoubtedly suppressed ¡°thend of the guide¡± in terms of ie. To most mobile game designers, this was surprising news. Chen Mo, the pioneer of pay-to-win mobile games, had lost? ¡°What¡¯s going on? the heroes of the Three Kingdoms has already crushed thend of the guide for three consecutive days. Is Chen Mo¡¯s new game really going to fail?¡± ¡°Indeed, I¡¯ve yed both games. ¡®The heroes of the Three Kingdoms¡¯ is more stable, and all kinds of things are stimting me to top up. However, there doesn¡¯t seem to be any top-up activities in ¡®leading thend¡¯, and there¡¯s no desire to top-up at all!¡± ¡°Chen Mo haspletely overturned his profit model for mobile games?¡± ¡°He didn¡¯tpletely overthrow it. I just don¡¯t know why his style ispletely different from before.¡± ¡°Everyone, I have a different view from you. I think ¡°leading thend¡± will definitely overtake us. ¡± ¡°Why?¡± ¡°I think from now on,¡¯leading thend¡¯ will start to make a name for itself in the rankings. Its ie will have an explosive increase. Just wait and see, the state wars in the various servers have basically entered the stage of white hot. If they really start fighting, it¡¯s hard to imagine how many people will turn into paid yers. ¡± ...... Zheng Hongxi came to Chen Zhao with two dark circles under his eyes. Manager, I don¡¯t think I can continue ying this game ...¡± ¡°What?¡± Chen Mo was stunned.¡±What¡¯s wrong?¡± Zheng Hongxi handed the phone to Chen Mo. ¡°Manager, look at Liangzhou¡¯s current situation. Do you think we can turn the tables?¡± Chen Mo took the phone and looked at the state war status. Obviously, Zheng Hongxi had sessfully transformed into a pay-to-win yer during this period of time. A conservative estimate was that he had already added 70000 to 80000. Of course, with his current ie, the money was still eptable. However, what made Zheng Hongxi depressed was that although his troops were very strong now and couldpletely suppress the local tyrants in Yizhou, the situation was still a little difficult to deal with. After Yi Prefecture was breached, Liang Prefecture and Yi Prefecture fought back and forth near Lin Qiang, but Lin Qiang still fell in the end. Fortunately, due to the Dragon War¡¯s active resistance, those small leagues did not surrender at the mere sight of the wind. Instead, they joined the Dragon War to fight against Yizhou. It was good news for Liangzhou that the People¡¯s hearts were still United. After Yizhou took down linqiang, they set their sights on Xiping again. This was a truly critical moment for Liangzhou. As Xiping was a Prefecture city, after upying it, Yizhou could gather troops and form legions. At the same time, they could control the entire Prefecture, reducing the time for Alliance members to build fortresses in the prefecture and preventing other Alliance members from moving their main cities in. In other words, once Xiping was lost, nearly one-seventh of the territory of Liang Province would have to be handed over. Chapter 414 Chapter 414: Chapter 413-¡°the shore of thend¡± ¡°Yizhou is fighting Xiping now?¡± Chen Zhao asked. Zheng Hongxi nodded.¡±That¡¯s right. Everyone was already depressed when linqiang was lost. If Xiping is lost as well, the Alliance might be disunited. There¡¯ll be no way to clean up the mess.¡± ¡°Have you contacted Yangzhou?¡± Chen Mo asked. Zheng Hongxi was stunned,¡¯Yangzhou? Why did you contact Yangzhou?¡± ¡°It¡¯s obvious that Jingzhou and Yizhou are allies;; Chen Xiao said;; they¡¯ve been tied together for a long time; it¡¯s impossible for them to surrender to Yizhou; after fighting for so long, they¡¯re already angry; Qingzhou is too far away, and Qingzhou and Youzhou are at Bingzhou, so they can¡¯t help you. The only option left is to form an alliance with Yangzhou. ¡± ¡°But Yangzhou is too far away from us!¡± Zheng Hongxi said. They¡¯re still fighting Jing Prefecture, so how could they help us fight Yi Prefecture?¡± Chen Mo shook his head,¡±I don¡¯t think so.¡± ¡°Right now, Yangzhou is fighting Jingzhou, and Yizhou is fighting Liangzhou. The key is to see who can¡¯t hold on first. If Liangzhou can¡¯t hold on, Yizhou will take Liangzhou and go back to Jingzhou. If Jingzhou could not hold on any longer, Yizhou would have to give up Liangzhou. This is a world of difference. ¡± ¡°The most important thing for your Liangzhou now is that the People¡¯s hearts can not be scattered. Obviously, you can¡¯t defeat Yizhou with your own strength. And the best way to boost morale was to find a strong Alliance. By forming an alliance with Yangzhou, we can boost the morale of Liangzhou, and we can also put pressure on Yangzhou, forcing them to attack Jingzhou with more effort. This will make Yizhou lose interest in the other regions. ¡± Zheng Hongxi hesitated,¡±but, manager, can this solve the urgent problem?¡± Xiping is about to fall. ¡± Chen Zhaoughed,¡±what¡¯s the urgent need?¡± Yizhou had been struggling ever since they broke through, so what if they lost Xiping? It would be a long time before they could reach Wuwei and Jin city. As long as the People¡¯s hearts are still there, we can just give them Xiping. ¡± ... ¡°The key now is not to lose a few cities in Liangzhou. It doesn¡¯t matter how many cities you lose, but to unite. As long as you refuse to surrender, Yizhou will be powerless to do anything. ¡± Zheng Hongxi suddenly realized,¡¯that makes sense! Manager, I¡¯ll go find the Alliance master of Yangzhou now!¡± ...... Zheng Hongxi could be considered a bystander. After Chen Mo¡¯s advice, he immediately got in touch with Yangzhou and put pressure on them to speed up their attack on Jingzhou. Liangzhou was on the verge of copse and could fall apart at any time. Of course, these words were half true and half false, but Yangzhou did indeed take them very seriously. After the Jin Xiu group finished taking Xu Prefecture, all the yers in Yangzhou were mobilized tounch a fierce attack on Jing Prefecture. Yizhou and Jingzhou had always been allies. ording to Yizhou¡¯s n, Yizhou would first disperse Liangzhou and take it in before helping Jingzhou to fight Yangzhou. In the end, they couldn¡¯t take down Liangzhou no matter what, and Jingzhou was the first to fall! In the end, Yizhou took Xiping, but the two allies of Yangzhou had already turned Jingzhou into a sieve. They even crossed two provinces and tried toy theirnd at the checkpoint of Yizhou. The people in Jingzhou had already dispersed. Many yers were dissatisfied with the Alliance master of Jingzhou working with Yizhou to fight Yangzhou to the death, so they all turned to Yangzhou. To Yizhou, the situation was already out of control, and they could only withdraw their troops. ...... In the Dragon War chat group. ¡°Yizhou¡¯s soldiers have withdrawn! Many of the fortresses have been demolished, and there are only a dozen troops left near Xiping!¡± ¡°They really, really withdrew their troops!¡± ¡°Hahaha, I heard that Jingzhou can¡¯t hold on any longer. Yizhou has to go back and take in the Jingzhou yers. Otherwise, the entire Jingzhou will be swallowed up by Yangzhou!¡± ¡°We¡¯ve finally defended it!¡± ¡°Quick, everyone, let¡¯s keep up the good work. We¡¯ll take back Xiping and attack Yizhou!¡± ¡°That¡¯s great! I want to top up money and celebrate with a card!¡± Everyone was overjoyed. After a long period of battle, Liangzhou finally saw the light of hope. From the Civil War in the beginning to the breakthrough of Yizhou, the yers of Liangzhou had gritted their teeth and held on. Now, they finally had the chance to attack Yizhou! Arge number of troops began to push towards Xiping, preparing to take back Xiping and attack Yizhou! ...... Many videogame designers suddenly realized that it seemed like leading thend was rising in the mobile best selling leaderboard. From the tenth ce, to the ninth, to the eighth ... It seemed to be increasing every day, and there was basically no pause! On the contrary,¡±the heroes of the Three Kingdoms¡± was clearly showing a decline, and the follow-up wascking. Many people were puzzled. What was going on? It was understandable that the heroes of the Three Kingdoms didn¡¯t follow up well. After all, it was a mobile card game, and the way to y it wasn¡¯t new. The yers ¡®desire for cards in the early stages drove them to top up and draw cards, but in the middle andte stages, yers would abandon the game because of the single way of ying. This was normal, and all mobile card games followed this path. However, why did ¡°leading thend¡± show its power in theter stages? There were also some designers like Zheng Hongxi who insisted on ying ¡°leading thend¡±. After experiencing the state war, these designers quickly understood the core fun and the secret of making profits of ¡°leading thend¡±. ...... Although ¡°leading thend¡± was also a Game of the Three Kingdoms, it did not use the game to reproduce the plot of the Three Kingdoms. Instead, it tried to create a real world and let the yers decide the direction of the whole world. For example, in Zheng Hongxi¡¯s server, Yizhou¡¯s decision to attack Liangzhou was actually apletely wrong decision. Not only did they fail to take over Liangzhou, but they also caused Jingzhou to copse. Yizhou was unable to take care of one thing and lost the other, greatly damaging its vitality. What if Yi Province chose to join hands with Liang Province and advance to the resource province first? Perhaps the whole server would take a different turn. It was because of this variety of choices that yers had countless possibilities when ying the game. The final ecosystem of the entire server was determined by all yers. As for which Alliance would be able to take down Luoyang and unify the world? No one knew. However, no matter which Alliance it was, it required clear leadership, strong execution of the team, and a sufficient number of tycoons to do it. Moreover,¡±leading thend¡± had a very good figure in terms of per capita purchase. Although there were basically no top-up activities, the rich were very enthusiastic about top-ups. The reason for this was that ¡°leading thend¡± was a World War game. During the World War, yers would have a strong sense of honor for their own Alliance and state. Whether it was to fight for more resources or to defend their own territory, these yers would be motivated to top up their game to gain higherbat power. Moreover,nd of the guide¡± was not like other games that had no restrictions on rich yers. It built a wonderful bnce. It was true that the rich yers could beat the civilian yers by topping up their money, but the civilian yers could also build an army that was not inferior to the rich yers through the umtion of time. They could even use a variety of tactics and game mechanisms to defeat the rich yers. Such a design ensured that the game¡¯s ecosystem would not deteriorate, and both civilians and tycoons could y a key role. With the long-term yability of strategy games, it was not surprising that it could stimte yers to continue paying. Chapter 415

Chapter 415: Why am I not an S-ss yet?

Two weeks after it was released,¡±leading thend¡± sessfully reached the third ce on the mobile game best selling leaderboard, while ¡°history of the heroes of the Three Kingdoms¡± kept falling and finally stopped at 12th ce. Although the ranking of ¡°leadingnd¡± did not continue to rise after that, it was not easy for a SLG game to climb to this position. Obviously,¡±leading thend¡± was far from being a perfect game. As a SLG game, its biggest problem was that it was too difficult to get the hang of it, and it was too slow to get popr. Most yers would only experience its fun after ying for two or three weeks and entering the state war stage. It would take a few months to fully understand it, which was obviously out of ce in the fast-food gaming environment. It was possible that at the novice stage, 80 to 90% of the yers would be dissuaded and would not be able to experience its true fun. However, thend of the guide was also a game with outstanding advantages. For many old yers, it was a game that they wouldn¡¯t get tired of even after ying for a few years. Unlike traditional pay-to-win mobile games,¡±leading thend¡± was more gentle and long-term. ¡­¡­ Some video game media also reported on the unique Game of the Three Kingdoms. ¡°A Game of the Three Kingdoms that can freely change the world?¡± ¡°Chen Mo once again teaches all mobile game designers a lesson!¡± ¡°yer reviews: this is the real chaotic era of the Three Kingdoms!¡± ¡°Game review: difficult but rich in content and novel ystyle!¡± ¡°Chen Mo¡¯s new work shows you a different Three Kingdoms¡± ...... ¡°Leading thend: no story, yers create the story!¡± To most yers, thend of the guide didn¡¯t cause much of a stir. Compared to Chen Mo¡¯s other works, this mobile game wasn¡¯t that earth-shaking. However, all the yers were sure of one thing, and that was that no matter what game Chen Mo made, it would always surprise them. ¡­¡­ In the final selection,¡±thend of the guide¡± undoubtedly won the first prize. Of course, it wasn¡¯t that this game was too good, but that thepetition games of the same period were too weak. The only decent game, heroes of the Three Kingdoms, was still using the mobile card game that Chen Mo had long gotten tired of. On the other hand, thend of the guide was aplete innovation, so it was clear which one was better. Chen Mo also posted on Weibo. ¡°Aiya, I got the first prize again. There¡¯s almost no more space on the bookshelf. What a worry.¡± The attached picture was the certificate and trophy for the ¡°Three Kingdoms event¡± first prize. This Weibo post infuriated many video game designers. ¡°F * ck, this Chen Zhao is asking for a beating!¡± ¡°Isn¡¯t this rubbing salt into our wounds?¡± ¡°Beat this pretentious d * ck to death! If you can ¡®t, give it to me!¡± ¡°Go y your PC and VR games. Don¡¯t mess around with the mobile game!¡± ¡°I¡¯m so angry. Can¡¯t you leave a prize for us?¡± ¡°I strongly protest! They request that Chen Mo be disqualified from the nextpetition!¡± Of course, grumbling aside, many mobile game designers still received a lot of inspiration from the game. One of the biggest inspiration was that Chen Mo tested the limits of the yers for all the designers. And the result of the test was that the yers seemed to have no bottom line? Many people thought Onmyoji was already a heavy game, and a mobile game that required four to five hours of ytime was already impressive to most designers, but Chen Mo made an even heavier version of it! Not to mention four or five hours, it wouldn¡¯t be too much to y nd of the guide¡± for ten hours a day! Furthermore, they had to do it at a fixed time. They would fight during the day and at night. Once the state war started, they would not even have the time to rest. Fortunately, it was a mobile game. If it was a PC or VR game, how many yers would wake up in the middle of the night to fight? However, from the yers ¡®feedback, it seemed like many of them felt that it was alright? What the hell was this! Many video game designers had realized that while heavy mobile games would tire yers out, it was very sticky. After most yers got into the habit, the first thing they did when they took out their phones was to open ¡°leading thend¡±. They yed and yed it every day, so it was not easy to give up the game because they were too bored. ¡°In that case, can we also make some games that are more intense? For example, transnting a war RPG like Heavenly Sword of the Three Kingdoms to a mobile game tform?¡± This was a question that many mobile game designers were thinking about. ¡­¡­ ¡­¡­ Even though he had sessfully put many video game designers in a bad mood, Chen Mo wasn¡¯t in a good mood either. This was because Chen Mo¡¯s scores in all aspects had increased greatly in the illusion game engine, except for his designer rating, which was an A +! Chen Mo was speechless. Why? [Chen Mo: videogame designer (A+ grade)] Creativity: 89 System: 83 [Level limit: 82] [Plot: 89] [Original art: 87] [3D art: 81] In terms of the various values,pared to before, the creativity, system, and level design had all improved slightly. The 3D art had also improved significantly, but the story had not changed. Chen Mo thought that he would be able to get the title of S-grade video game designer if he made a phenomenal VR game, but it didn¡¯t seem to be the case. Chen Mo had already made two VR games, Minecraft and oust. These two games should be considered phenomenal in their respective fields, right? Besides, League of Legends was already so popr that it almost dominated the entire PC game. Wasn¡¯t this even considered? Why didn¡¯t you give me an S-grade videogame designer? why did you give me an A +? Even though Chen Mo was full of questions, he had no one to ask. The few S-grade video game designers in the country were either working for bigpanies like Emperor dynasty or Zen, or they were all alone. They had no connection with Chen Mo. After much thought, Chen Mo decided to call Qiao Hua from the game Committee. Qiao Hua chuckled at Chen Mo¡¯s question. ¡°Well, Chen Zhao. As for your rating, it¡¯s not that I¡¯m targeting you, but the game Committee has a set of clear standards for S-grade video game designers. ¡± ¡°Even though Minecraft and oust are both good VR games, they¡¯re still different from the gamemittee¡¯s definition of ¡®top quality VR games¡¯. ¡°The members of the game Committee are split into two groups. One group thinks that you¡¯ve made sessful games on mobile, PC, and VR tforms, and that you¡¯ve been constantly creating new ones, so you should¡¯ve been an S-grade videogame designer a long time ago. The other faction is more conservative, thinking that while Minecraft and oust are very creative, they¡¯re obviously opportunistic and can¡¯t be considered top quality VR games. ¡± ¡°Then what is considered a top quality VR game?¡± Chen Mo was speechless. ¡°There¡¯s no doubt that Minecraft and oust are great games,¡±Qiao Hua exined. However, it¡¯s hard to win over the majority of the judges in terms of art. ¡± ¡°Artistic?¡± Chen Mo was stunned. ¡°Yes, artistic,¡± Qiao Hua replied. This is because games are viewed as the ninth form of art. Art includes many aspects, such as character design, world setting, story, art style, music style, and so on. ¡± ¡°Or to put it bluntly, only a VR game with a chance of winning the best of the year can be rated S. It doesn¡¯t have much to do with how much money your game makes or how popr it is. It mainly depends on the evaluation of the judges. ¡± Chen Zhao got it,¡±okay, I understand.¡± Wasn¡¯t it just a game to please the judges? I¡¯ll make another one!¡± Chapter 416

Chapter 416: Making a game of the year in three months

¡°Another one?¡± Qiao Huaughed. Chen Mo, this game isn¡¯t like cabbages, you can¡¯t just pull them out like that. Actually, you don¡¯t need to be anxious at all. With your talent, it is only a matter of time before you reach [S] ss. Why are you in such a hurry?¡± ¡°I understand,¡± Chen Zhao said.¡±Thank you, Minister Qiao.¡± After Qiao Hua¡¯s exnation, Chen Mo had a general idea. The judges in this world were simr to the ones in Chen Mo¡¯s previous world. They would consider many factors when evaluating a game, and not just the number of yers, profit, or poprity. For example, in Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground didn¡¯t win game of the year despite its poprity, but lost to Legend of Zelda: Breath of the wilderness. When evaluating a game, many review boards would consider the ¡®artistic¡¯ aspect. This consideration was multi-faceted. For example, the structure of the entire world setting. For example, whether the plot and the rted characters were designed with a unique style. For example, the level design in the game, and whether the puzzle-solving content wasplicated and interesting enough. For example, whether the game was innovative and popr with yers. Such things would all be included in the scope of consideration of the judges. Even though games like League of Legends, oust, and Minecraft could be said to be the best of their genre, the biggest problem was that in the eyes of the judges, they were only outstanding in certain types of games. They could win best PC game, best horror game, best puzzle game, or best innovative game, but it was usually very difficult to get a major award like game of the year. Because these games were notprehensive enough, they were at a disadvantage in terms of the world¡¯s background, story, level design, and so on. ...... In the eyes of the more traditional and conservative judges, no matter how many people yed the game and how popr it was, if it wasn¡¯t artistic enough, they wouldn¡¯t give it to the game of the year. Chen Zhao was thinking. There were many restrictions on which game to choose. There were two major restrictions. One was time, and the other was experience. It was already November, and this year¡¯s annual Gaming Awards ceremony was at the beginning of February, so there were still three months left. Chen Mo had to make a VR game before the award ceremony and win game of the year in order to get the S-grade videogame designer title. Otherwise, if they missed this year¡¯s annual Gaming Awards ceremony, they would have to wait until next year for the next best game of the year. Wait for another twelve months? Chen Zhao could not wait. Then, what about making a VR game in three months? It sounded a bit ridiculous, but it wasn¡¯tpletely impossible. After all, Chen Mo hadpleted oust in three months. VR games were different from VR games. Oust¡¯s entire game process only took slightly more than an hour. As long as the script was set and the art resources were in ce, it was done very quickly. However, it also depended on what game he was ying. Oust was a small production, after all. If they wanted to make an open world? There was definitely not enough time. It would take a long time to construct the entire world and the massive art resources. It would take at least a year and a half to migrate the Superrge series of games from his previous life to VR. Moreover, Chen Mo didn¡¯t have any experience in making arge open world. So far, Chen Mo¡¯s games looked like they were unconventional, which could be summarized as: Under the condition that the quality was guaranteed, it was both fast and economical. Moreover, Chen Mo didn¡¯t n on spending so much effort to move those mega-sized games. After all, his only goal this time was to win the award and be an S-grade video game designer, so the less he spent, the better. This meant that Chen Mo needed a game like this. Suitable for VR. It would be better to save as much resources as possible, and it would be best toplete it within three months. It had to meet the judges ¡®taste, be artistic, and have the hope of being¡¯ game of the year ¡®. Moreover, during the selection process, the game¡¯s ¡°characteristics¡± were more important than the actual ¡°quality.¡± It was a special game genre that had never appeared before, and it had a higher chance of winning the judges ¡®favor. In the eyes of the designers of this world, these conditions should bepletely impossible to achieve. Three months toplete a game of the year? No matter how he thought about it, it was nonsense. However, Chen Mo happened to have a game like that. Overwatch, a product of Blizzard. Chen Mo was a little surprised when he thought of the game, but after some consideration, it seemed to be the best choice at the moment. Of course, in Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, there was a lot of controversy surrounding the game, the biggest of which was its lifespan. If it waspared to the long-lived LOL, DOTA, and CSGO, Overwatch was not as good as the threepetitive games in terms of yer retention. It was also far behind in terms of reputation, poprity, andpetitiveness. Of course, there were moreplicated factors in this, so he didn¡¯t talk about it for now. However, if they were topete to see who had won more awards? In Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, in 2016, Overwatch won game of the year in all three games: TGA, women, GDC, and IGN. It swept away most of the most prestigious awards in the video game industry, and made Blizzard the biggest winner of 2016. Moreover, the fact that the Overwatch defeated mysterious Sea 4 had caused a heated argument between console yers and Blizzard fans. Normally, games of the year would not be given topetitive games, so many yers thought that mysterious Sea 4 had already been decided as the best of the year. There were even yers who said that so many sessfulpetitive games had never won this award, so how could Overwatch win it? Could it be that Blizzard stuffed him with money? If it had only won one or two awards, it would have been a little controversial. But if it had won almost all of the annual game Awards, it could only mean one thing: Overwatch had indeed gained the favor of arge group of judges, which was why they had given game of the year to apetitive game. In fact, this was not difficult to understand. Even though Overwatch wasn¡¯t apetitive game, its advantages were in character design, ystyle innovation, story background, and cultural implications. The judges ced great importance on these aspects. Furthermore, to Chen Mo, Overwatch had an obvious advantage, and that was that it was easy to make. The first version of Overwatch only required a few battle maps and a dozen heroes, unlike other Triple-A games, which required a few hours of nning or arge open world. To make a game that couldpete for ¡®game of the year¡¯ in three months? Overwatch was Chen Mo¡¯s best choice at the moment. Chapter 417

Chapter 417: Advantages and problems co-exist in ¡°Overwatch¡±

After deciding on the next game, Chen Mo started writing the design concept for Overwatch. As apetitive game, Overwatch itself did not have much game content. Whether it was the number of heroes, skill mechanisms, map elements, or other aspects, it was far inferior to those real big productions. In Chen Mo¡¯s n, the first expansion of the Overwatch was as follows. In terms of heroes, the first 22 heroes would be released, and new heroes would be added in after the shadow. In terms of maps, 12 maps will be avable, and the maps beyond echeinwald will not be avable for the time being. This was mainly to ensure that the yers had the most basic gaming experience. If the content of the game was cut down further, it would be too little, which would greatly affect the gamey. In addition, some more important systems had to be done, such as training mode, hero skins, box opening, outstanding performance, social interaction, career overview, choice settings, and so on. The other changes were to the game, and the biggest change was mainly in the game mode. Chen Zhao had considered this a lot. Strictly speaking, Overwatch wasn¡¯t a particrly sessfulpetitive game. From the perspective of game bnce, yer data, match enjoyment, poprity, and many other aspects, Overwatch was much worse than DOTA, LOL, and CSGO. Apart from thepetition, just the gaming experience of the yers alone, Overwatch had many ws. One of the core problems was that this was a game that tried to eliminate negative feedback, but the yers received more negative feedback than most other games. When yers first came into contact with the game, they were very excited and felt that everything was perfect. However, after ying for a long time, they would feel a deep sense of powerlessness. ...... For many yers, there was a very puzzling question. What should I do to win when my teammates are not strong enough? What should I do to be stronger? In terms of ystyle, Overwatch had inherited the ystyle of Legion Fortress 2, but it faced problems that Legion Fortress 2 had never faced. If it was just a niche game, both Legion Fortress 2 and Overwatch would be doing well. However, what if they wanted to rece MOBA games and promote this brand new game mode to the whole world and be one of the mainstream games? It was too difficult. There were many reasons for this, but the core reason was that Overwatch wasn¡¯t a mature game model, and Blizzard wasn¡¯t able to make it perfect. As an FPS game with skills, Overwatch had the ystyle of both MOBA and FPS games. However, it also created many new problems. Due to the different positions and skills of the heroes, the restraint between different heroes was too obvious. For example, the yuan family was naturally restrained by Winston. This kind of restraint was basically impossible to make up for with skills, which waspletely contrary to the habits of FPS yers. In an FPS game, as long as one¡¯s marksmanship was good enough, one could solve most problems. However, this was not the case in Overwatch. At the same time, since Overwatch¡¯s main gamey was FPS, any slight change in the numbers would cause extremely serious consequences. Therefore, the bnce of the heroes was more difficult than MOBA games, which directly led to problems such as slow updates of new heroes and rigid lineup in high-end games. At the same time, Blizzard¡¯s preferred ¡°warrior, mage, and priest¡± Iron Triangle mode also reduced the fun of the game itself. Overwatch was a game that was extremely dependent on teams. Therefore, some heroes that could provide a lot of benefits to the team, such as Reinhardt, Anna, and Lucio, were very popr. As for the heroes that could not provide any benefits to the team, such as ck Lily, Hanzo, and so on, they would not be epted by the team even if the yer¡¯s skill level was high. In simple terms, it was the same 6V6, and all the heroes were given 1 point each. Some of the heroes added up to 6 points, while others added up to 100 points. At the same time, thepetitive mode elerated the yers ¡®exploration and development of this game mode. In order to win, most yers would force their own side to choose the best lineup, causing hero discrimination to appear even before the game began. You choose to rebuild the Empire? I don¡¯t care if you¡¯re good at it or not, I¡¯ll spray you first. (¡°Rebuild the Empire¡± refers to the Easter egg that was triggered when Hanzo and ck Lily chose it at the same time. These two heroes were simr to snipers and had almost zero bonus to the team, so many yers thought that they would not win as long as they were chosen.) That was why 303 and 402 were so popr, making the game lose the fun of MOBA games and FPS games. In addition, the game update was slow, the single-purchase system caused a low number of yers, and thepetitive mode was unreasonable. All of this made the game lose its poprity quickly. What Chen Mo wanted to do was to take over the advantages of Overwatch while avoiding these ws, allowing the game tost longer in VR. The core idea of the change was topletely abandon thepetitive route and make Overwatch a game that leaned more towards entertainment. The specific approach was to not open the stairway system and not hold any rtedpetitions. This might seem absurd, but it was the result of Chen Zhao¡¯s careful consideration. While making Warcraft and League of Legends, Chen Mo was well aware of how thedder and ranking system would help withpetitive games. It could be said that high-endpetitions were an important addition to League of Legends, and only an idiot wouldn¡¯t make it. However, for Overwatch, the stairway tree system and rted events would not have much of an impact. Instead, it would have a certain negative impact on the game environment. In Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, thepetition for Overwatch was also very popr, but there were two problems that couldn¡¯t be solved. The first was the viewing pleasure. Like all FPS games, this was a small problem that could not be solved. The second problem was the lineup. As the pro yers continued to explore, they would discover that under the current game mechanics, 222 or 303 was the best lineup. Some heroes were just not good, and some heroes were basically useless. This trend would quickly spread from thepetition to the high-end games, and then to the fish pond, affecting all the yers ¡®evaluation of the heroes. In the end, it would inevitably lead to a situation where ¡°rebuilding the Empirebination would lead to abuse¡±. Limited by the nature of the game, these two problems were unsolvable. Since they couldn¡¯t be solved, they might as well not do it. If they forced it, it would only overdraft the game¡¯s lifespan and have the opposite effect. Chapter 418

Chapter 418: The improvement n

Chen Mo¡¯s idea was to make Overwatch into an entertainment game, to maintain the core fun of the game. First of all, he had to remove the threshold and make the gamepletely free of charge. He could only make a profit from the skins, avatars, and other value-added services. This was to attract as many yers as possible and expand the depth of the whole fish pond, so that most yers ¡®win rate and matching experience were close to that of League of Legends. Many yers might think that it was stupid to force a 50% win rate, but in fact, apetitive game that could not guarantee a 50% win rate was a disaster. Not being able to guarantee a 50% win rate meant that some yers who yed well could keep winning, while those who yed badly would keep losing. This would aggravate the loss of yers in the fish pond, which was extremely detrimental to the lifespan of the game. Secondly, it was to reduce the feeling of winning and losing and strengthen the yer¡¯s sense of growth. For apetitive game, most yers ¡®main joy came from winning. On the basis of maintaining this, he also had to try his best to make the losing yer not so depressed. In his previous life, one of the problems of Overwatch was that yers lost for no reason. You might think that it was because one of your teammates did not y well, or that they did not cooperate well, or that the lineup was not good. In short, the system would not tell you where you lost, and you would not be able to figure it out. This directly caused many yers to feel a deep sense of powerlessness after losing, and the negative feedback after losing could be called explosive. Chen Mo¡¯s method was to record all the stats of the yer¡¯s heroes throughout the game, not just damage, healing, and kill. For example, Winston would integrate data such as damage, number of kills, number of deaths, damage taken, critical kills (killing the opponent¡¯s output or healer with better data), critical damage (the amount of damage contributed to the critical kill), the effect of the big move (whether the timing was correct), and so on. He would give aprehensive assessment for each game. All the yers could clearly see these numbers and could also clearly distinguish which yers were carrying and which yers were cheating. At the same time, the kill count would no longer be shared, and the situation of getting a kill count gold medal from killing would no longer exist. ...... Of course, since all the data was made public and even more detailed, the ¡°gold¡± setting was removed. Moreover, this setting itself was meaningless, because most yers didn¡¯t agree that winning a gold medal didn¡¯t necessarily mean that you yed well. For yers, if they chose the same champion, they would be able to see the change in the champion¡¯s proficiency at the end of each game. This was equivalent to a disguised form of motivation. For example, if you used Hanzo and performed well throughout the game, even if you lost the game, you would forget the unhappiness of your failure when you saw that you had gotten an S-rank score and performed better than before. Moreover, the rewards that yers received were directly linked to their individual performance, and had nothing to do with winning or losing. As long as you yed well, you could get more rewards if you lost than if you won. This would dilute the frustration of losing the game. For those who were not good at the game, they could also clearly know what was wrong with them through various data. For example, if a yer chose death, the system would send him a notification after the game ended: In this round, his performance was B, and the number of times he used his E-skill to move was far lower than the average. The number of times he used SHIFT to avoid damage was far lower than the average, and the total damage of grapeshot was far higher than the total damage of the short range. Combining these data, the system could determine that this yer didn¡¯t know how to attack from the back. After this yer understood this principle, he would subconsciously strengthen his performance in these aspects the next time he yed Grim Reaper. Only by winning with joy and losing with a clear understanding would most yers be able to enjoy themselves in the game. Thest point was to open a variety of game modes. One of the biggest problems of Overwatch was that the 6V6 all-hero selection mode caused some team-enhancing heroes to be far more effective than ordinary Assault Heroes, causing the lineup to be rigid. Chen Mo was thinking of activating five different modes for the yers to choose. The one with the most yers would determine the correct choice. The first was the ssic mode, all Heroes 6V6, and could not be chosen repeatedly. The second was the FPS mode, where yers could only choose the assault-type hero. In other words, this mode would return to the original fun of FPS games, and everything would be decided by shooting. The third was the ban mode, where each side could vote to ban three Champions. If the yers generally felt that the hammer and the DJ were not fun and did not want the opponent to get them, they could ban them directly and they would not appear in the game. The fourth mode was a 12 VS 12 mode with more people, and it was not semi-finals. The meaning of this mode was that the yers had more room to stir up trouble, and many heroes had more opportunities to y. The problem with a 6V6 was that the space was very limited, so for the sake of the team, two tanks and two healers were basically necessary, so there were only two assault positions. In thepetition for the assault position, it was obvious that the heroes with higher damage ability (such as Soldier 76) would appear all year round, while the heroes with lower damage ability would not have any chance to appear at all. Even if you yed well, your teammates would not trust you. In a 12 VS 12 situation, the entire team would be able to give more space to the less popr Champions. For example, while ensuring that they had the basic number of tanks and healers, they could choose 76, ck Lily, Hanzo, Yuanshi, and Grim Reaper at the same time. They could take into ount the high ground sniping, cutting to the back, regr damage output, and other damage output methods, allowing more Champions to have the space to fight. The fifth was the promotion mode. When a hero¡¯s kill count reached a certain number or received a certain number of assists without dying, they would be promoted and choose a certain ability to enhance. In other words, they could snowball with the advantage of the early stage. Of course, the other party could also achieve a stronger promotion effect by ending thebo kill. Moreover, all effects will be reset to zero after the end of the current round to ensure the fairness of the initial round. This was mainly to satisfy the yers who wanted to be a hero and experience the thrill of one against five in this game. On top of that, Chen Mo¡¯s Overwatch would have a more stringent reward and punishment system. Every yer¡¯s performance in daily matches would affect the yer¡¯s overall score. In matchmaking, yers of simr levels would be assigned to the same match first. If a yer¡¯s score was always very low, he would be matched with a weaker opponent. If a yer was reported by many yers for being passive in the game, cursing, etc., There would be a certain punishment. Moreover, this group of yers would enter the same game first. In serious cases, they would be locked in a small ck room and would only be released after ying a certain number of human-machine games. Of course, Chen Mo wasn¡¯t 100% sure if these changes would work. However, there was one thing that Chen Mo was clear about. Overwatch was a great game, and it shouldn¡¯t just be as popr as it was in his previous life, it should be better. Chen Mo didn¡¯t want the poprity of his own game to die down after a period of poprity. He wanted the game to live longer and allow more yers to enjoy the game. Chapter 419

Chapter 419: An FPS with a skill

Very quickly, the design concept for Overwatch waspleted. The game¡¯s Foundation wasn¡¯t thatplicated, and Chen Mo¡¯s modifications were mainly focused on the game¡¯s mechanics, so it wasn¡¯t that difficult to make. Chen Mo¡¯s changes were to ensure that the game¡¯s core enjoyment was preserved, without damaging the game¡¯s original characteristics. One of the biggest problems of Overwatch was that some simple or boring heroes were too strong. yers would not win if they did not choose them, but it would not be fun if they chose them. Therefore, many yers would y heroes that they did not like to y in order to win. He didn¡¯t feel anything when he won, but he would explode if he lost. For example, Champions like dachui and Lucio did have a lot of high-end techniques in high-end games, but the yers who were ying in the game would not be able to experience them. In terms of hero skills, the skills of these heroes were very simple and straightforward. There was no special space for them to show off. They gave a lot of benefits to their teammates, but the fun of ying them was very limited. However, changing the hero¡¯s skills would destroy the hero¡¯s original characteristics. Many yers hated the sledgehammer¡¯s shield. However, if the shield was changed, would it still be considered a sledgehammer? Therefore, while retaining the hero¡¯s skills and characteristics, the most reasonable and effective way to change the game was to enrich the game¡¯s mechanism so that more heroes could appear. After finishing the design document, Chen Mo called everyone to the meeting room for a meeting. Many people in the studio were still immersed in the atmosphere of the S1 World Finals. When they heard that they were going to start making a new game, many of them were dumbfounded. ¡°In such a hurry?¡± Su Jinyu was stunned. Everyone had just returned from Shanghai not long ago. Even if they wanted to make a new game, they should at least think about what to do first, right? ...... Chen Mo smiled, and the title of the document appeared on the screen: Overwatch¡¯s design concept. ¡°Everyone, the mission this time is rather urgent.¡± Chen Mo looked at everyone,¡±we¡¯re going to make a game of the year within three months.¡± ¡°Ah?¡± Everyone was dumbfounded. Three months? Making a game of the year? Even though everyone was used to Chen Mo¡¯s bragging, this was still unbelievable to many. Making a game of the year in three months? It felt like an insult to the other video game designers! Other people might not even be able topete for the game of the year even after two to three years of hard work, but we have one in three months? Wasn¡¯t this too ridiculous? Besides, it wasn¡¯t up to them to decide if they wanted to win the game of the year. They had to get the judges to like it. Most of the people present knew that even though Thunderbolt entertainment had developed League of Legends this year, held the world Finals, and also developed their second VR game escape, it was still too difficult to get the title of game of the year with those. Because it didn¡¯t suit the judges ¡®taste. Chen Mo clearly knew this, which was why he wanted to make a new game. From what he said, the main purpose of this game was to win prizes. Would it work? Everyone listened to Chen Mo¡¯s exnation of the new game with questions in their minds. ¡°Overwatch is an FPS game, but it¡¯spletely different from all the mainstream FPS games on the market. This is because in this game, the hero¡¯s skills will have apletely different impact on the battle. Hearing this, everyone¡¯s eyes lit up. ¡°An FPS with skills¡± was indeed an idea that many people had thought of, but no one had ever been able to turn it into reality. A concept sketch appeared on the projector. It was the image of a warrior wearing high-tech Armor, unsheathing the long sword on his back, and a giant Dragon¡¯s Shadow coiling around him, looking murderous. ¡°Take the yuan n as an example. His normal attack was to throw shurikens and attack the enemy from a distance. It has two special skills that can quickly move and deal damage to the enemy. It can also reflect long-range attacks. At the same time, he can climb walls at will and can jump twice. ¡± ¡°His big move is to pull out the long sword on his back and cause a lot of damage to the enemy in a short time.¡± ¡°Another example is Xiaomei. She has two normal attack methods. One is to slowly spit out ice mist to freeze the enemy, and the other is to shoot icicles to cause point damage. Special skills could create an ice wall or enter a state of quick freeze, making one immune to damage. The big move is Blizzard, freezing arge number of enemies in the range. ¡± Chen Mo briefly exined the two ssic heroes in Overwatch to help everyone understand what an ¡®FPS game with skills¡¯ was. Due to time constraints, Chen Mo wasn¡¯t able to draw out all the sketches for all the heroes. He only picked two heroes with distinctive features. Through the two sketches and Chen Mo¡¯s description, most people could quickly imagine how the two hero games would look like. ¡°If that¡¯s the case,¡± Qian Kun scratched his head,¡±then all the heroes would be very powerful. Wouldn¡¯t it be like a fight between gods?¡± ¡°Yes,¡± Chen Zhao smiled.¡±You can think of it that way.¡± Su Jinyu said,¡±are you stupid?¡± Don¡¯t all the heroes in League of Legends have skills?¡± Qian Kun waved his hand,¡±of course I know. I mean, this is an FPS game after all, right? Will there be a situation where the five of us run forward with guns in our hands, only for Xiaomei to suddenly appear out of nowhere and cast a Blizzard to freeze us all, and then we¡¯ll all be F * cked?¡± Chen Mo nodded,¡±yeah, that¡¯s possible.¡± However, this is also the fun part of the game. As a pretty yer, you should try your best to create such opportunities. ¡± ¡°Uh, then the bnce of this game will be very difficult.¡± After all, Qian Kun was in the field of numerical values, so he was very sensitive to these issues. Chen Mo nodded,¡±it¡¯s indeed hard to bnce, but it¡¯s an inevitable problem.¡± I can only say that if you want to do a good job in an FPS with skills, you have to solve the problem of bnce as much as possible. ¡± ¡°Understood,¡± Qian Kun nodded. Obviously, it would be more difficult to bnce out the skills in an FPS game. In MOBA games, the damage output of a champion¡¯s normal attacks could be estimated. An ADC, regardless of whether he had any critical equipment or not, could roughly estimate the damage output of the champion in a certain period of time. However, in an FPS game, the output efficiency of a normal attack was dependent on the yer¡¯s marksmanship and the level of the opponent. There was a world of difference in the output efficiency between an expert who managed to hit the head with a headshot and a noob who missed every single shot. At this time, with the addition of hero skills, it would make the actual strength of a hero more difficult to estimate and control. Chen Mo looked at everyone and said,¡±I¡¯ll be in charge of bncing the numbers with Qian Kun. After all, we¡¯ve had some experience in League of Legends. It shouldn¡¯t be too much of a problem.¡± Do you have any other questions?¡± Chapter 420

Chapter 420: The first free VR game?

Su Jinyu thought for a moment and said,¡±manager, this is a good idea.¡± However, did he really have a chance topete for game of the year? As far as I know, this year¡¯s Game Awards are usually given to open world games with more content. ¡± ¡°Don¡¯t worry about that,¡± Chen Mo said,¡±there aren¡¯t anypetitive VR games this year. There might be one or two that are good, but I¡¯m confident in Overwatch.¡± Besides, didn¡¯t Emperor dynasty Entertainment¡¯s Wolf Soul also win game of the year before? It¡¯s also an FPS. ¡± Seeing that no one had any more questions, Chen Mo continued exining the other parts of the concept draft, including the game modes, hero settings, world backgrounds, map designs, additional ystyles, profit models, and so on. The more they listened, the more excited they became. This concept draft was Chen Mo¡¯s style, and it was extremelyplete. Everyone was especially interested in the heroes and their backstory. However, there was still quite a bit of controversy regarding the profit model. ¡°Completely free of charge? Like League of Legends, they only rely on value-added services to charge?¡± ¡°Isn¡¯t it a little risky? It¡¯s a VR game, after all, so the investment is much higher than a PC game!¡± ¡°Yeah, and manager, there aren¡¯t many VR yers in the first ce. If we only sell value-added services, will we be able to cover our costs?¡± ¡°There¡¯s no VR game on the market that has no barriers to entry, right?¡± Obviously, everyone knew the meaning of ¡°no threshold¡± forpetitive games, but the problem was that VR and PC tforms were different. So far, the cheapest VR game in the country cost tens of Yuan, and no one had ever heard of a free game. Chen Mo seemed to have expected everyone¡¯s reaction and smiled,¡±¡±I understand everyone¡¯s meaning. Let¡¯s put it this way, even in the worst case scenario, the game wouldpletely lose money, and it would be fine. This is because our goal is game of the year. ¡± ¡°Do I have to make money? Ourpany isn¡¯t short of money right now, so it doesn¡¯t matter even if this game loses money and earns sales. Moreover, as long as there are enough yers, it¡¯s impossible not to make money. ¡± ...... ¡°What do you guys think?¡± Chen Mo looked at everyone.¡±What¡¯s the most suitable price for Overwatch?¡± Everyone looked at each other. Qian Kun said,¡±based on the price of Wolf Soul, it could be as low as 488 Yuan, and as high as 1288 or 1688 Yuan.¡± Minecraft sold for 128 RMB, that¡¯s already a very low price. To many VR yers, it¡¯s like giving it away for free. ¡± ¡°If Overwatch is sold at 128 RMB, it¡¯ll only be 100 million RMB for a million copies. Do weck 100 million RMB?¡± Chen Mo said. Everyone was speechless. It was true, Onmyoji¡¯s monthly revenue was already in the hundreds of millions, and Chen Mo didn¡¯t see any point in relying on Overwatch¡¯s sales. Chen Mo continued,¡±even if the price is ten times higher, 1288, one million copies would be one billion.¡± However, you have to consider how many yers the Overwatch will lose at the 1288 threshold. ¡± ¡°In other words, it¡¯s meaningless to set a low price. It doesn¡¯t matter if it¡¯s worth a few dors, so it¡¯s better to give it for free. If we set it too high, we¡¯ll lose a lot of yers. For us, the number of yers is more important than the money we earn from sales. For apetitive game, I don¡¯t need to go into the importance of the depth of the fish pond, do I?¡± ¡°What if the Overwatch ispletely free? Most of the VR gaming pods in the country or even overseas would probably be installed with Overwatch. Even those who don¡¯t y FPS games would be attracted to y it. As long as half, no, one-tenth of these people stay and be core yers, it¡¯ll be a profit for us. ¡± Everyone looked at each other and did not speak. Indeed, Chen Mo¡¯s words were a little shocking. If it was any other videogame designer, they wouldn¡¯t have the confidence to make a high-quality VR game for free and only make a profit by selling skins. What a great insight! But Chen Mo was different. He had a lot of money now, and he had the final say. He could spend it however he wanted, and he could do whatever he wanted with it. No shareholder or investor woulde out and tell him what to do. Everyone could only sigh with emotion. Being rich was really willful! However, Chen Mo¡¯s words made sense, since there weren¡¯t many VR yers to begin with. If they were to add in a buyout, the depth of the game wouldn¡¯t be guaranteed, and the game wouldn¡¯t be very friendly to new yers. It was obvious that Chen Mo had great ambitions for Overwatch¡¯s performance in VR. He wanted to make it the game with the most yers, and also make it the first top quality VR game with zero requirements. In the end, everyone epted Chen Mo¡¯s shocking decision to make apletely free VR game, and use it topete for the Game of the Year award. After all, he was the boss, and he had the final say. ¡­¡­ In November, when Chen Mo was preparing for Overwatch, something happened in the gaming industry. War of Souls, a first-person MOBA game developed by a smallpany, had quietly gone online and then disappeared. This game was a PC game with a simple design idea. It was to take advantage of the MOBA trend brought by League of Legends and change the third person God¡¯s perspective to the first person perspective to explore another possibility. But the result was unsurprisingly a failure, and many yers had never even heard of this game. In fact, when League of Legends first appeared, many designers had considered this problem: Can you change MOBA games to first person? Many videogame designers gave up on such changes after careful consideration. This was also the main reason why bigpanies like Emperor dynasty entertainment and ZEN Entertainment didn¡¯t make a ¡®first person MOBA¡¯. The smallpany that produced War of Souls obviously wanted to try their luck, but they failed without a doubt. This was because a very important factor in MOBA games was that yers had to have a clear view of the entire battle. They had to be very clear about where their teammates were, what they were doing, and the position of the enemy heroes in order to make the right judgment. Changing the third-person God¡¯s perspective to the first-person perspective directly limited the yers ¡®vision and caused them to misjudge the battle situation. Moreover, when using a wide-range skill, it was difficult to judge the actual range of the skill filter in the first-person perspective. Some full-map skills were very difficult to do, and the yers ¡®judgment of the sense of distance often deviated. All of these problems severely damaged the core fun of MOBA games. In addition, the level of the game was very average, so it didn¡¯t cause much of a ssh. This game also reinforced the mainstream belief that MOBA games couldn¡¯t be made in first person, much less in VR. Chapter 421 - Original hero, Dragon Lady ao Wei

Chapter 421: Original hero, Dragon Lady ao Wei

Very quickly, the sketches and detailed settings of each hero were out, and the various map scenes were also in the process of being produced. So far, Chen Mo¡¯s team had already made two VR games, with League of Legends as the foundation for the mechanics of the skills. It could be said that Overwatch wasn¡¯t too difficult to make, the only difficulty was that no one had made an FPS game before, but it wasn¡¯t an unsolvable problem. Chen Mo nned to create 23 heroes in the first version of the Overwatch, 22 of which were original heroes in the game, including Anna. Apart from that, Chen Mo also nned to create an original China Style hero, the Dragon Lady Phoenix Aowei. In ¡°Overwatch¡±, the two brothers, Genji and Hanzo, were simr to Japanese-style heroes. They used the images of ninjas and Ronin respectively, but the element of ¡°Dragon¡± was given to these two Japanese characters. Of course, most Chinese dragons had four or five toes, while the Shimada Dragon was a standard three-toed Dragon, which was in line with the basic characteristics of Japanese dragons, which showed that the two were still different. However, no matter what, it didn¡¯t make sense for Chen Mo to give Japanese characters and not Chinese characters after creating Dragon culture. Therefore, Chen Mo decided to add a new hero to his 22 heroes, dragoness support ao Wei, as a supplement. The background story of Dragon Lady Aowei was set as thest descendant of the Huaxia dragon n. Her body had decayed, but her soul was still trapped in the altar at the bottom of the sea. A research team from Huaxia went deep into the East China Sea, and the Explorer Aowei dived into the sea and regained the power of the Dragon God from her previous life. Aowei was a dual-form hero who could freely switch between the two characteristics of Assault Support, which were [Thunder form] and [rain form]. In the Thunder form, ao Wei¡¯s normal attack was to quickly throw a bolt of Thunder at the target and stack the [Thunder rune] mark on the enemy. When the mark was stacked to a certain number, the enemy would be temporarily paralyzed and their movement speed would be reduced. If the enemy used a cold weapon as a melee weapon, it would temporarily block his normal attacks. The special attack in the Thunder form was to create a thundercloud in a small area. The thundercloud would cause continuous damage to the surrounding enemies and continuously stack the effect of the [Thunder rune]. If used again during the duration, a thunderstorm will be triggered and all imprints will explode. Aowei¡¯s two special skills were [soaring cloud] and [weaving mist]. ...... [Soaring cloud] made ao Wei¡¯s movement speed faster, and she could fly freely. She could even go up and down to climb some tall buildings. The duration was short, and there was a cooldown time. [Mist weaving] created a cloud of mist to wrap around the user, temporarily reducing damage, and also changing forms. In the rain form, ao Wei¡¯s normal attack was to quickly throw a stream of water at the target to recover a small amount of health points for her hero and stack the [rain talisman] mark. Only effective healing can stack the mark. When the mark stacks to a certain number, allies will receive an explosive healing and a temporary increase in movement speed. The special attack was to create a rain cloud in a small area, which would have a continuous healing effect on the Allies in the area, and the effect of the [rain talisman] imprint would be continuously stacked. If used again during the duration, Healing Rain will be triggered and all imprints will be detonated. Ao Wei¡¯s ultimate skill was [true dragon form]. At this time, ao Wei had transformed into a Divine Dragon Spirit body, and her HP had greatly increased. She could temporarily fly in the air and cross any terrain (she could not drill into the ground). In the lightning form, Aowei¡¯s entire body would be wrapped in lightning, causing continuous damage to the enemies around her. In the rain form, Aowei could continuously heal the surrounding friendly units. In addition, during the duration of the big move, ao Wei could choose to consume all the Dragon God¡¯s power immediately and create a thunderstorm or a Healing Rain in arge area (depending on the current form). Since the image of the Dragon Lady was widely used in Chinese games, the design was not difficult. Ao Wei¡¯s appearance was simr to the Dragon Lady in Battle God. She had a long ck ponytail, a pair of dragon horns, and a red lightning mark on her forehead. His face was covered with a ck Veil, and his clothes were mainly ck. He looked clean and neat, with Golden Dragon scales embellishing his face. Moreover, Aowei¡¯s image would also inherit the consistent characteristics of the female characters in ¡°the Overwatch¡±, which was that her chest and butt were very attractive. In addition, ao Wei¡¯s appearance would also change slightly in the two forms. The lightning form was mainly ck in color, and the body would be surrounded by Thunder special effects. In the rain form, it would be white in color, and there would be a water flow effect around it. At the same time, ao Wei added some Easter eggs with Xiaomei and the yuan brothers in her voice chat. If ao Wei became teammates with the yuan brothers, she would say,¡±¡±Be kind to the Dragon God¡¯s power in your hands. They will be used to protect this world.¡± If ao Wei killed the yuan brothers, she would say,¡±¡±The power of the Dragon God that¡¯s lost in a foreignnd can¡¯t defeat the Orthodox lineage in the end.¡± In addition, ao Wei and Xiaomei were both heroes of China and members of the expedition, so they were very close. Other than the dialogue Easter egg, there was also a hidden Easter egg. When Xiaomei had the effect of ao Wei¡¯s rain talisman, the quick freeze wouldst longer. Ao Wei joined the game to give the yers in China an exnation. Blizzard¡¯s Overwatch gave the Dragon to Japanese characters. If Chen Mo copied it, he would probably be scolded by some Chinese yers. ¡­¡­ As the end of the year approached, there were no new games, and yers were generally idle. The League of Legends World Finals from October to November did boost its poprity, but after the finals, League of Legends entered a period of stability. Starting from November, there were two key events in the gaming industry that were worth looking forward to. One was the gaming convention in January, and the other was the annual Gaming Awards ceremony before the Spring Festival. Most yers didn¡¯t really care about the annual Video Game Awards ceremony. They didn¡¯t care which game won the award, but the Youy Convention in January was a hot topic among many. ¡°Are you going for Youy this year?¡± ¡°Of course, there should be such a big event before the Spring Festival. Why not?¡± ¡°I don¡¯t think there¡¯s any game that I¡¯m looking forward to this year.¡± ¡°Indeed, Emperor dynasty entertainment and ZEN Entertainment¡¯s games this year aren¡¯t that interesting, but let¡¯s go take a look. Maybe there¡¯ll be some games that¡¯ll be released next year to try out?¡± ¡°Chen Mo will be going to the exhibition, right? This year, League of Legends has swept the entire PC market, and Thunderbolt entertainment is about to be a giant in the country. ¡± ¡°But there¡¯s nothing to show in the exhibition, right? League of Legends? You¡¯re tired of ying at home, so why don¡¯t you go to the exhibition?¡± ¡°Uh, let¡¯s go take a look. Maybe Chen Mo made a new game.¡± ¡°That¡¯s not possible. He¡¯s been busy with the finals for so long. It¡¯s only two months until January. What can he do?¡± ¡°A DEMO is fine too. Or we can y new games from Emperor dynasty and Zen. Both are good.¡± ¡°That¡¯s true. Let¡¯s go and take a look together. ¡± Chapter 422 - The exhibition

Chapter 422: The exhibition

The development of the Overwatch was going smoothly. The difference from before was that Overwatch was no longer developed on PC before VR. Instead, it was developed almost simultaneously. The main reason was that the entire project team had already made two VR games and were quite familiar with the process. On one hand, they were in a hurry, and on the other hand, it was easier to find any problems in the experience and make adjustments in time. In the experience store. Qian Kun said to Chen Mo excitedly,¡±¡±Manager, the Pharaoh Eagle is ready. You can experience it in the VR gaming pod!¡± ¡°Hmm, is that so? Let me take a look. ¡± Chen Mo immediately put down his work and followed Qian Kun to the gaming cabin where the Overwatch DEMO was already installed. The Pharaoh Eagle was the first hero to be developed in the n, followed by the yuan n. On one hand, the two champions needed to fly in the air, and Chen Mo wasn¡¯t sure if he would feel dizzy if he changed it to VR, so he needed to confirm it in advance. On the other hand, it was because these two heroes were more popr. If they were released in advance for everyone to y, they could better understand the game mechanism of Overwatch. Chen Mo entered the gaming pod with the Overwatch DEMO and opened the first version of the game. The current game was rtively simple. There was only one map, Li Jiang tower, and one hero, the Pharaoh Eagle. After entering the game, he was directly brought to the Li Jiang tower map. ... Chen Zhao looked around. He had already turned into the Pharaoh Eagle. Lowering his head, he could see the blue armor he was wearing and the rocketuncher in his hand. Of course, Chen Mo was currently experiencing the game in progress. In the official online version, yers could use a third person perspective to look at the champion¡¯s appearance. At the edge of Chen Mo¡¯s field of view were a few eye-catching interfaces at the bottom left, the top left disyed the champion¡¯s avatar, health and other basic information, the UI showed the usage and cooldown of two special skills, the bottom right showed the weapon status and bullet count, and the top right showed the charging status of the ultimate. The entire edge of the field of vision was made into a high-tech translucent state, giving people the feeling that they were watching the battlefield through special Tactical Goggles. The key information and the UI were very well integrated together, not blocking the yers ¡®vision. This feeling was like wearing sses. Although the frame of the eyes would cause a certain block of vision, it was only at the edge of the vision. If one did not pay attention, it would be ignored. Only when one looked at it on purpose could one notice the information on it. Moreover, this kind of UI design gave people a stronger sense of immersion and was more in line with the technological sense of the Overwatch. yers could open the help interface at any time to check the hero¡¯s skill introduction. In the open space in front of him, there was a robot target with infinite HP. Chen Zhao used the rocketuncher in his hand to fire a rocket at the robot target. Chen Zhao felt a slight vibration on his arm. The rocketuncher was basically at the same position as Chen Zhao wanted to fire. Even if an FPS game was imported to a VR tform, it was not as if one could y wherever one wanted to. Otherwise, FPS games would be a game that depended on one¡¯s eyes. In FPS games on VR tforms, yers could freely control the direction of their weapons, but there were certain restrictions. For example, they could not shoot behind them (they had to turn around first). When they shot at the center of their field of vision, their uracy would be improved ordingly. The closer the shooting position was to the edge, the worse the uracy would be. The yer¡¯s vision control and the direction of the shot were two different mental signals. It also tested the coordination of the yer¡¯s eyes, hands, and brain. Some yers who yed FPS games for a long time would have a higher uracy than novices. Chen Zhao tried to use the two skills of the Pharaoh Eagle. The direction of the shock wave and the shooting were the same, and the rules were the same. When he used the push-in backpack, Chen Zhao could feel a slight vibration on his back while he flew into the air. The feeling of flying was simr to that of a PC, but the field of view was wider, and he could observe his surroundings more freely, no longer having to move the mouseboriously. The feeling of falling from the sky felt too real, and Chen Mo¡¯s legs subconsciously went weak. However, he quickly got used to it after flying a few times, and it felt great flying in the sky, much more immersive than the PC. After bombarding the robot target, Chen Mo exited the game cabin in satisfaction. ¡°How is it, manager?¡± Qian Kun asked expectantly. Obviously, he had already experienced the Pharaoh Eagle in VR mode. Chen Mo nodded,¡±yeah, that¡¯s the feeling. No problem.¡± Continue to do it and hurry up and chase out the next Champions. ¡± ¡°Sure, no problem.¡± Qian Kun happily went back to work. Chen Mo was relieved after making sure that the VR experience was fine. The development of Overwatch was progressing in an orderly manner. After the game waspleted on time, Chen Mo rushed to Shanghai to arrange the game convention. The Youy Convention after Onmyoji was organized by Chen Mo¡¯spany and he didn¡¯t even participate. Since there weren¡¯t any games that needed to be promoted, there wasn¡¯t much point in holding an exhibition. However, Chen Mo nned to use this Convention as an opportunity to release the first edition of the Overwatch and use it as an opportunity to promote it. ¡­¡­ ¡­¡­ Shanghai, new world Expo Center. Thunderbolt Entertainment¡¯s booth was being set up, and many of the staff were busy. This time, Thunderbolt Entertainment¡¯s booth in Hall N3 was muchrger thanst time, taking up more than a third of the entire Hall. The exhibition hall this time wasn¡¯t in the same area as Emperor dynasty entertainment and ZEN Entertainment. Only smallpanies were in Hall N3, so Thunderbolt Entertainment¡¯s booth was in a very good position. Chen Mo had recently made Minecraft, League of Legends, and oust, but they weren¡¯t suitable for disy, and the cosyers didn¡¯t have much to show off. Chen Mo decided to set up two main experience areas, the PC and VR experience areas, as well as theputers and VR gaming pods. The yers could experience the new versions and heroes of League of Legends in the PC experience area, and they would give figurines of heroes forpetitions. In the VR experience area, yers could experience oust and the Overwatch. Other than that, there were also some cosyers, mainly cosying the female characters in League of Legends and Overwatch. Of course, it didn¡¯t matter whether there were cosyers or not. The most important thing was the demo of Overwatch. Chen Mo didn¡¯t need to rely on cosy or gimmicks to attract yers anymore. The quality and reputation of the game alone were enough to attract yers. Chapter 423 - sea of people

Chapter 423: Chapter 422-sea of people

On the day of the exhibition. This year¡¯s Youy Convention was packed with people as usual. Many gamers from Shanghai came, and some even came from other ces just to see the booth babes and try out the new games. Many yers were discussing at the entrance of the exhibition. ¡°Eh? Emperor dynasty entertainment, ZEN Entertainment, and Thunderbolt entertainment didn¡¯t get assigned to the same exhibition hall this year?¡± ¡°The officials did it on purpose?¡± ¡°I think so. Chen Mo¡¯s Thunderbolt entertainment is basically a giant now. It should have no problem supporting an entire exhibition hall.¡± ¡°Hahaha, I just remembered Chen Mo¡¯s first convention. It was a funny one with Emperor dynasty, and he even stole all the attention from Emperor dynasty¡¯s VR games with his anipop. I¡¯m dying ofughter.¡± ¡°This time, Thunderbolt entertainment is in the same exhibition hall as a lot of smallpanies. It looks like Thunderbolt Entertainment¡¯s status in the industry has indeed risen. Even the organizers of the convention are taking this seriously.¡± ¡°Which one should we go to first?¡± ¡°The booth babes from Emperor dynasty entertainment are definitely the best. As for ZEN Entertainment, the in-game activities were good, and the merchandise was good; However, Chen Zhao¡¯s side was definitely the most unexpected. I¡¯m so conflicted. ¡± ¡°But Chen Mo didn¡¯t even show upst year. I wonder if he¡¯lle this year.¡± ¡°Let¡¯s go and take a look. ¡± Many yers ¡®first choice was still Emperor dynasty entertainment and ZEN Entertainment¡¯s booths, since Thunderbolt entertainment didn¡¯t have many games and Chen Mo didn¡¯t even attendst year¡¯s Convention, so there wasn¡¯t anything particrly attractive about it. Of course, some of Chen Mo¡¯s die-hard fans went to Thunderbolt Entertainment¡¯s booth. When they arrived at Thunderbolt Entertainment¡¯s exhibition hall, the yers were all dumbfounded. Why were there so many people? Reading on Mybo xno vel. ,Please! The entire exhibition hall was filled with people, and it was getting crowded. Most of them were squeezing towards Thunderbolt Entertainment¡¯s booth, and the other small gamingpanies were almost ignored. Only the yers who couldn¡¯t squeeze through looked at the other smallpanies ¡®booths. ¡°What¡¯s the situation? Why are there so many people?¡± ¡°Oh my God, it¡¯s so crowded!¡± ¡°Make way, excuse me, excuse me!¡± ¡°Don¡¯t let me pass, can¡¯t you see that there¡¯s a crowd here? You¡¯re the only one who¡¯s anxious?¡± ¡°Hey, F * ck, who stepped on my foot?¡± ¡°I¡¯m sorry, I just tiptoed and looked at the stage. ¡± ¡°I think Chen Mo is here.¡± ¡°F * ck, Chen Mo is that popr?¡± ¡°But Thunderbolt Entertainment¡¯s booth doesn¡¯t seem to have much. There aren¡¯t many booth babes, just a bunch ofputers and VR gaming pods.¡± ¡°Eh? But these booth babes ...¡± The yers who couldn¡¯t squeeze through were a little puzzled. Why was it so popr? From afar, there was nothing particrly sensational on the stage. The big screen was still dark, and there were no original arts or cinematics on it. The PC and VR experience areas were not open yet. There were a few booth babes, but they were all working as staff to maintain order. Moreover, the number of booth babes was much fewer than that of other video gamepanies. Many yers were asking, what was everyone squeezing for? The yers ¡®questions were soon answered. Chen Mo went on stage and took the microphone,¡±¡±Hello, everyone.¡± The yers in the front row all waved at Chen Mo, clearly having a lot of charisma in their hearts. ¡°Oh, I finally see the living Chen Zhao!¡± ¡°When are you going to give me your autograph?¡± ¡°Tell me, is there a new game?¡± ¡°Can we y the new hero in League of Legends?¡± Some greeted him, some asked for his signature, and some asked about this and that. Everyone was talking at the same time, and it was very lively. Chen Zhao gestured for everyone to be quiet. There were two important events today. The first event was to announce the new heroes and versions of League of Legends. The second event was to announce a new VR game. Apart from that, we¡¯ll open League of Legends and the new game trial in the PC and VR experience areas. ¡± ¡°Oh, there¡¯s one more thing. This time, all five members of the NRG battleteam are here. There will be an exhibition match in a while. Everyone can look forward to it.¡± ¡°Everyone, don¡¯t be in a hurry. If you want to experience it, you¡¯ll have a chance. Please be polite to each other, line up consciously, and listen to the arrangements of the staff. Those who don¡¯t have a seat at the moment don¡¯t need to worry, because the big screen will broadcast the rted activities live, so those who can¡¯t get in line can just watch the big screen. ¡± ¡°Alright, please wait for a moment. Let¡¯s watch a promotional video.¡± Chen Mo left the stage after saying that. The yers who had already calmed down exploded again. Chen Mo¡¯s words had released quite a few big news, there was no way they wouldn¡¯t explode! League of Legends had new versions and new heroes to try out. The NRG battleteam would be there to y an exhibition match. And a brand new VR game! How could this be? Many yers couldn¡¯t wait any longer and were pushing forward. Fortunately, the staff was trying their best to maintain order, and most of the yers were more cultured, so the situation didn¡¯t go out of control. The yers at the outermost edge looked at the dense crowd in front of them and sighed helplessly. They couldn¡¯t squeeze in at all! They could only look at the big screen. As the cinematics began to y on the big screen, the crowd quieted down and everyone looked up at the big screen. In the quiet forest, three soldiers were moving forward. They seemed to have heard something and looked around, trying to find the enemy¡¯s position. Above them, a ck shadow was observing their position through the gaps between the leaves. A cold light shed, and a close-up of a Ninja with a mask appeared on the screen. His eyes glowed red, and then the ck shadow jumped down from the tree! ¡°Swish!¡± A cold glint flew past, and a huge shuriken nailed a soldier to a tree. A momentter, the other two soldiers finally reacted and saw the true face of the neer. A Ninja wearing an Iron Mask shed the dual des on his arms. The two soldiers roared and charged at the Ninja, but the Ninja immediately broke the longsword in the soldier¡¯s hand. He then transformed into a shadow and finished off the two enemies. The original promotional video ¡°cmity: Inferno shadow formation¡± was a simple ink style animation, but Chen Mo copied the split scenes from the previous video and made it into a high definition version. The video excited the yers. They could tell that this was a hero who could control shadows. His appearance was different from the traditional Japanese ninja. He had made many changes and innovations. The video didn¡¯t end there. It seamlessly connected to the real scene of the game. The name of the new hero was disyed on the lower right corner of the screen: The master of shadow stream, Chi Jie. Chapter 424 - The new hero tribulation and ginghes

Chapter 424: The new hero tribtion and ginghes

? Zed, who was on the brink of death, was pinned down by Ryze. Just as Ryze was about to use hisst Q-skill to take Zed¡¯s head, Zed suddenly disappeared! A huge ck ¡°kill¡± mark appeared on Ryze¡¯s body. Zed instantly appeared behind him, leaving a shadow where he stood. Ignite, ghost sh, des, and then a normal attack. Zedpleted all the operations in one second and then returned to the tower. Ryze tried to escape from the attack range of the defensive towers with an eye-catching blood mark on his body. However, after a clear explosion of the mark, he fell to the ground. The scene changed. Jayce, who was at full health, was chasing after Zed, who had little health left. After the electric shock passed through the elerator, Zed¡¯s health was reduced to less than one-fifth. Jayce switched to his melee form and wanted to smash Zed to death with his hammer. However, the moment he used his Q-skill, Zed released a shadow in front of him and instantly switched positions with the shadow. At the same time, Zed and shadow simultaneously used their EQ skills on Jayce, slowing him down and taking away nearly half of his health. Jayce was in hot pursuit. He once again used his Q-skill in cannon form, trying to take Zed away. Zed dodged with sh, ignited his e-skill, and then used a normal attack. His series of actions were as smooth as flowing water, and he instantly killed Zed! There were still all sorts of exciting scenes, such as extreme dodging skills, counterattacks with low health, thousand-mile discement, and so on. Zed¡¯s various wonderful moves were vividly disyed. The yers in the audience were all stunned, staring at the big screen and eximing from time to time. ¡°F * ck, what¡¯s going on? You killed him with such little blood?¡± ¡°I don¡¯t understand. Why is this hero flying around?¡± ¡°It feels so awesome. He can kill people without them noticing?¡± ¡°Isn¡¯t this too showy? If you y well, you can Dodge all the skills!¡± ¡°The ID is very eye-catching, silent...As expected, Chen Mo is quietly acting cool again ...¡± The first part of the cinematics was only one minute long, while thest five minutes were actualbat scenes. Of course, Chen Mo had recorded all of these himself, in order to let the yers know how awesome this hero was. Reading on Mybo xno vel. ,Please! Very quickly, the video ended. The yers instantly exploded again,¡±F * ck, this new hero is so powerful!¡± Hurry up and open the PC experience area, I want to y!¡± ¡°Don¡¯t worry,¡± Chen Mo said slowly.¡±It¡¯s obviously not Thunderbolt film¡¯s style to only release one CG. There¡¯s more.¡± Everyone was speechless. Chen Zhao was right. There were more. After a brief ck screen, Thunderbolt Entertainment¡¯s LOGO appeared on the big screen again. Her slender fingers, which were wearing leather gloves, were twisting the spring on the back of a monkey doll. The scene changed, and a huge shark missile cut through the sky and fell towards the city in the distance. At the same time, a slightly hoarse but evil female voice began to sing. h h h. Wanna join me£¬e and y. (Want to join? y with me?) But I might shoot you£¬ in your face. (But I might shoot you in the face.) Bombs and bullets will£¬ do the trick. (Bullets and bombs dance, ying the prelude to mischief;£© What we need here£¬ is a little bit of panic! (Our game will be even more perfect, with just a little bit of panic!) In the midst of the evil singing andughter, the camera zoomed in. A slender female hero was standing on a huge shark missile and looking excitedly in the direction of the city in the distance. The new hero had blue hair that was tied into two long ponytails behind his back. He had light blue Bullet tattoos on his body, and all kinds of bullets were hanging on them. In the long underground tunnel, ginghes finally looked back for the first time. She smiled evilly at the camera, then bit her lip. ¡°Waa!¡± The audience below the stage instantly let out a burst of screams. Shooting wildly, ying with the merry-go-round, dancing with the destroyed puppets, blowing up airships ... Explosions were happening all over the city, as if countless fireworks were exploding. Ginghes looked around and revealed a satisfied smile. Finally, in the ruins of the city, an extremelyrge monkey doll rose, instantly waking ginghes from her dream. She looked at the monkey figurine on the table, stretched out her right hand, and made a ¡®fire¡¯ gesture. ¡°Bang!¡± With a gunshot, the entire video came to an abrupt end, and the League of Legends LOGO appeared on the screen. However, the LOGO was quickly painted in pink: JINX¡£ The moment the video ended, the yers below the stage were all excited. ¡°Ah ah ah ah ah, is this new champion an ADC? It¡¯s as beautiful as a painting!¡± ¡°This is my wife! Everyone, draw your swords!¡± ¡°Oh my God, the new hero is a loli! As a lolicon, I¡¯m very satisfied!¡± ¡°A t chest is justice!¡± ¡°My loli is as beautiful as a painting!¡± ¡°Don¡¯t stop me! I want to y loli!¡± As expected, the moment these two cinematics were released, the atmosphere in the audience instantly exploded! A few of the audience members in the front row were clearly lolicon, and they couldn¡¯t control themselves. Zed was one of the most popr Champions in League of Legends, and was also a ssic hero that was worshipped by the yers. The first video of Zed was an eye-opener for all the yers. Ginghes was one of the most popr female characters in ¡°League of Legends,¡± and the CG and song ¡°Get Jinxed¡± were even more ssic. The new version of ¡°League of Legends¡± had been in preparation for a long time, and the two videos werepleted in advance. The song ¡°Get Jinxed¡± had even gone through a lot of trouble to invite foreign singers to sing it, so as to ensure that it was as original as possible. There was no Chinese version of the song¡¯s lyrics, and it was difficult to trante it into a Chinese version, because it would lose the charm of the original words after trantion. This time, Chen Mo decided to write the lyrics in English. On one hand, it was to ensure the quality of the song and fit ginghes better, and on the other hand, it was to better expand into the European and American markets. After ying the two videos, Chen Mo went on stage again. He looked at the eager yers below the stage.¡±¡±Don¡¯t worry, we¡¯ll open the PC experience area for you to experience the new version and new heroes. But first, let¡¯s wee the five Champions of the NRG to the stage. We will pick five lucky fans from the venue and have an exhibition match with them!¡± The five members of the NRG battleteam had been in the audience the whole time, and a booth baboon led them up onto the stage. ¡°Waa! ck God!¡± ¡°Silver! All five of us are here!¡± ¡°Can I brag about me killing Silver by myself for a year?¡± ¡°Wow, how can they y an exhibition match like this? could it be that they¡¯re being ughtered in a fancy way? The opponent is a world champion!¡± Although many yers knew that ying an exhibition match with the five people of the NRG would most likely result in a fancy ughter, this was, after all, an opportunity to get close to their idols, so they all raised their hands. ¡°Everyone, look at the big screen, there¡¯s a QR code on it.¡± After everyone scanned the QR code with their phones, the system would automatically draw five yers, and the yers who were drawn could go on stage. It¡¯s absolutely fair and just. There¡¯s no underhanded means. ¡± Before Chen Mo could finish, the audience had already taken out their phones and started scanning the QR code on the big screen. Chen Mo looked at the audience¡¯s reaction and nodded in satisfaction. Chapter 425 - exhibition match

Chapter 425: Chapter 424-exhibition match

After the warm-up of the new cinematics of League of Legends, the atmosphere at the scene was very enthusiastic. The entire exhibition area was crowded, and many people were rushing over from other exhibition areas. Soon, five lucky yers were chosen. Chen Mo said,¡±may I invite the five yers on stage? we¡¯ll be broadcasting the exhibition match live.¡± Don¡¯t leave, everyone. The real highlight is after the exhibition match!¡± The five yers had not even started ying yet, but they each took out a small notebook to ask the five pro yers of the NRG for autographs and photos. The yers who didn¡¯t get chosen were not so lucky. They could only stand below the stage and take out their phones to take pictures. ¡°Chen Mo said that the real highlight is after the exhibition match? What¡¯s the big event?¡± ¡°Are you a fish? do you only have five seconds of memory? We¡¯ve just been told that we¡¯ll be able to experience a brand new VR game. ¡± ¡°Uh, then why didn¡¯t they announce the new game first before ying the exhibition match?¡± ¡°Are you stupid? you¡¯re ying fight thendlord and throwing a King Bomb first? They would definitely release the big news afterying the foundations! The other gamepanies are the same. ¡± ¡°But these two new champions in League of Legends are too awesome. They even invited the entire NRG team for the exhibition match. After that, they¡¯ll use the new game as the finale. Can they still suppress them?¡± ¡°...How would I know? you can ask Chen Zhao.¡± There were only a few yers who were worried about Chen Mo. Most of the yers were watching whatever was avable and were eagerly looking forward to the exhibition match. Soon, the yer and the five yers took their seats. The conditions at the venue were rtively limited, so there was no need to set up a soundproof room. Everyone was only equipped with sound-proof headphones. In the preparation stage, Chen Mo introduced the rules of the exhibition match to the audience. ¡°It just so happens that the yers on both sides are adjusting the machines. I¡¯ll use this time to introduce the rules of this advertising segment, oh no, the exhibition match.¡± Reading on Mybo xno vel. ,Please! ¡°This time, the five yers of the NRG must use their champion skins and can only y the game with one hand. In other words, you can only use the mouse and not the keyboard. ¡± ¡°As everyone can see, the five NPG yers don¡¯t have any keyboards on theirputers. They¡¯ve all been put away.¡± ¡°Also, as the game progresses, there will be new rules. As for what the rules are, I won¡¯t disclose them yet. I can only say, please look forward to it.¡± There were two cameras broadcasting live at the venue, and they had even specially filmed the desktop of the five yers of the NRG team. There were only mice but no keyboards. These five people looked very unustomed to it. Their left hands were on the table, but it was empty and not appropriate to put them anywhere. The audience roared withughter. ¡°Hey, you let it slip! This wasn¡¯t an exhibition match, it was an advertising segment! You just wanted to show us the champion skin and trick us into buying it!¡± ¡°Yes, I¡¯ve long seen through Chen Zhao¡¯s evil intentions!¡± ¡°But the rules of thispetition are interesting. Professional yers don¡¯t have keyboards!¡± ¡°Single-handed? I can only say that my heart aches for little ck. How can a blind man like him y? 23333¡± ¡°Silver¡¯s clockwork is taking a lot of effort to y with!¡± ¡°Maybe sona, who¡¯s a support yer, is a little simpler? But it¡¯d be funny if the big move missed. ¡± ¡°Hahaha, the five contestants are dumbfounded. Chen Mo is actually doing this to us!¡± ¡°Wow, these five lucky yers are so lucky! They¡¯ve got a chance to solo Silver!¡± Initially, many yers thought that this exhibition match would not be worth watching. The five people of the NRG team were at the top of the game, so what was the point of fighting? However, after hearing the rules, everyone perked up. ying League of Legends with one hand? He really had not seen it before! Soon, the game was shown on the big screen. Both sides were very serious about banning their Champions. Of course, the five yers of the NRG had to use these five Champions with champion skins. Everyone had been informed of this in advance. As such, the NRG banned garen, Timo, and barbarian as a token. The lineup for the NRG team consisted of Shen, Lee Sin, Orianna, Vayne, and sona. Each of them had chosen their champion skins. On the other hand, the yers ¡®side was more troublesome. The middlene and the Archer positions were directly locked with the new champions, cmity and ginghes. They obviously felt that these two new heroes must be very powerful and couldn¡¯t wait to y them. The other three positions were Renekton, a Mu Mu, and thresh. Obviously, only the jungler really wanted to win, so he chose a team-control hero that was very considerate of the team, while the other yers were all free. He loaded the game. Looking at the pictures of the champion¡¯s skins and five English IDs, it was a cool feeling. Many yers had the urge to buy, buy, buy. ¡°Shen¡¯s two trophies are so domineering. ¡± ¡°Yeah, Orianna is handsome too.¡± ¡°Sona¡¯s chest is so big. Tsk, tsk, I must buy this skin!¡± As the match began, Chen Mo started exining on the big screen. ¡°Both sides are starting normally. The yers are pretty good. They¡¯re ying very well.¡± ¡°Eh? ckie¡¯s Lee Sin used up his blue and immediately came to catch the topne?¡± At first, the yers thought that the five yers of the NRG could only y with one hand, and that the two sides would be evenly matched. However, the yers soon realized that they were overthinking it. Shen of the top Lane¡¯s NRG was more conservative at the start. Renekton habitually pushed thene and quickly reached Level 2. The minion wave was also under Shen¡¯s Tower. ckie¡¯s Lee Sin immediately reached Level 2, and when he appeared from the bushes, he smacked the floor to slow him down and used a Q-skill. Shenya immediately taunted and used crowd control. Renekton used sh in his panic, but ckie¡¯s Lee Sin followed up with A second Q-skill and took the kill with a normal attack. The yers below the stage were in an uproar. ¡°What the f * ck? What was going on? Isn¡¯t it a one-handed operation?¡± ¡°Hahaha, little ckie¡¯s blind is no different from using both hands?¡± ¡°It¡¯s over, these professional yers are all monsters. I thought that the two sides would be able to fight each other, but I was overthinking it!¡± ¡°It¡¯s over. The new champion in the middlene has beenpletely suppressed by Silver¡¯s Orianna. He¡¯s already returned to base and lost a huge wave of minions. ¡± ¡°It¡¯s cold, it¡¯s cold. Let¡¯s just enjoy the champion¡¯s skin ...¡± ¡°Why do these two new heroes feel so weak ...¡± As the audience watched, they were puzzled. What the hell was this? were professional yers really using one hand? However, the camera was still focused on him. It was indeed a one-handed operation. There wasn¡¯t even a keyboard on the table, so he couldn¡¯t operate it with both hands! After four minutes, Silver used his Q and W to single-handedly kill Zed, who was returning to the city from the tower. And the worst thing was that after ying for 4 minutes, Zed in the middlene had only made 3 moves. Fortunately, the yers of the NRG were ying more rxed. Sona was standing too close to the front at the bottomne and was caught by a Mumu, who sent her back. These yers were obviously not the kind of rookies who didn¡¯t know how to y at all. During this period, ckie¡¯s Blindman caught the jungler, ah Mumu, and was actually twisted away with two Q-S, which caused the audience to cheer. However, it was clear that the gap between the two sides was still too big. With the pro yers ying with one hand and not ying seriously at all, the number of kills on both sides quickly pulled apart. 20 minutes into the match, the number of yers on both sides had reached 21 to 7. The five yers of the NRG team had already gathered in the middlene and were ready to push the opponent¡¯s high tower. The yers, on the other hand, could not fight back and could only watch from afar in front of the crystal. There was nothing they could do about it. The gap between the two was just too big. Silver¡¯s clockwork in the middlene had managed to suppress Zed by 130 CS. Clockwork had managed to score 180 CS, but Zed had only managed to score 50 CS. One QW and he would have to go home. Chapter 426 - A dramatic result

Chapter 426: A dramatic result

However, before the tower had fallen, the five yers of the NRG had already rushed to the opponent¡¯s high ground. First, Orianna pulled ginghes back and Zed. Then, Blindman chased Amumu to death. Only Renekton and thresh, the support, were left trembling in the spring. The five yers of the NRG team circled the yers ¡®high ground and observed the opponent¡¯s fountain before returning to the middlene, ready to continue demolishing the high towers in the middlene. However, the instant the yers ¡®high tower was destroyed, Chen Mo said,¡±¡±Alright, thepetition is suspended! Please pack up your keyboards and go to the opposite side to exchange champions with the NPC yers!¡± As soon as Chen Mo finished, the game on the big screen really did pause! The ten people who were fighting were all dumbfounded. ¡°Quick, switch positions! Stand up, stand up. ¡± Chen Zhao urged. The audience burst intoughter. ¡°Ah? Exchanging heroes?¡± ¡°Hahaha, so you were waiting here?¡± ¡°The pro teams are already ahead by 11000 gold. The middle Lane¡¯s inhibitor tower has been broken. Should we go back now?¡± ¡°Little ck is so confused. What¡¯s going on?¡± ¡°What a shocking reversal!¡± ¡°I¡¯m dying ofughter. Is this how you y?¡± The yers from both teams went to their respective positions under Chen Mo¡¯s urging. The five yers were all hugging their keyboards with silly smiles on their faces. Chen Mo teased,¡±you¡¯ve never seen such luxurious equipment?¡± Hurry up and get your seats, we¡¯re going to continue the game. ¡± Reading on Mybo xno vel. ,Please! A few professional yers sat down in front of the yers puters. These heroes were really too miserable! It was another two minutes of debugging time. The five yers and the NRG team members adjusted the settings in the game and the game continued. The game was still paused at the moment when the red team¡¯s high tower was broken. The five heroes on the blue team were originally used by the NRG. They did not have enough health but were still rtively healthy, while the heroes on the red team were about to be resurrected. However, as soon as the time-out ended, ckie¡¯s a Mumu immediately wrapped a bandage around Orianna¡¯s body, and then used a big move on three people! Zed directly entered the field and used his ultimate to lock onto Orianna, who had rtively more health. The blue team wanted to retreat, but thresh immediately hooked Orianna and entered the field to use his ultimate skill to keep her alive, while ginghes was madly attacking from the side. ¡°Triple Kill!¡± The yers who were originally happy were dumbfounded. What was going on? It was reasonable to say that before the start of the team battle, the five heroes of the blue team still looked very healthy even though their health was not full. Most importantly, they were leading by 10000 gold! How did he get a one-for-four trade when he was leading by 10000 gold? The audience was alreadyughing uncontrobly. If they didn¡¯tpete, they wouldn¡¯t know. Wasn¡¯t the difference too big? Zed, who had previously been suppressed by Orianna, had entered the battlefield perfectly and dodged all control skills. He dealt all the damage and got three kills before leaving, leaving the audience in awe. ¡°F * ck, Silver¡¯s Zed isn¡¯t the same champion as the one he yed before!¡± ¡°Sure enough, this champion can only achieve the effect of the collection of videos in the hands of an expert!¡± ¡°Orianna, Vayne, and sona seemed to have melted before they could even react?¡± ¡°Isn¡¯t this a new hero? This was also Silver¡¯s first time, right? How did you get so good at it?¡± ¡°I can only say that their gaming talents arepletely different ...¡± ¡°Wow, it¡¯s over. We can¡¯t win even if we lead by ten thousand gold!¡± Chen Mo was speechless. How did they fight this? However, it was still okay because after this wave of team battle, the economy of both sides had pulled back to about 2000. The blue side still had a huge advantage. The yers clearly realized that even though they had a gold advantage of 10000, they couldn¡¯t y around recklessly. The five of them obediently gathered together and prepared to push the middlene, wanting to take the high ground crystal first. This time, the yers had learned their lesson and stood in a scattered formation to prevent a Mumu from suddenly growing to three people. Moreover, the well-developed Shen and blind were directly in front, protecting the back row. The team battle between the two sides broke out again. However, this time, the pro yers of the NRG were not as easily defeated. After all, the gold advantage of the blue team was too big. Orianna¡¯s big move could easily take down Renekton¡¯s health. The topne, jungler, and support of the NRG fell to the ground one after another, but just as everyone was on the brink of death, Zed entered the field again and used another set of perfectbos to cripple everyone. Ginghes simply fired one shot at a time, getting a quadruple kill. In just 24 minutes, the number of kills on both sides had already reached 27 to 15. They were fighting like crazy every minute, making the audience burst intoughter. In the end, the blue team never won any more team battles after that! After 35 minutes, the red team¡¯s kill count had surprisingly reversed. What had almost been a ghost kill count had miraculously turned into something in Silver¡¯s hands. They had sessfully made four major items. Now, as long as they didn¡¯t meet Shen, they could kill him in one go. Moreover, both Zed and ginghes had physical attacks, so they pushed the towers very quickly. The blue team¡¯s middle and bottom high ground were also pushed down, while the red team¡¯s economy exceeded 4000. It was another wave of team battle, and the NRG team had won again. Zed and ginghes were frantically tearing down the blue team¡¯s high tower, and it looked like they were about to take it down. ¡°Okay,¡± Chen Mo said.¡±The game is suspended. We¡¯ll switch back!¡± The audience almost peed their pants fromughing. ¡°Chen Mo really put in a lot of effort to let the audience win!¡± ¡°Hahaha, the gold advantage that the pro yers worked so hard to gain is going to be taken advantage of by these guys again.¡± ¡°This robbery was super ghostly when it was given out, but when it¡¯s taken back, it¡¯s almost super godly. What a big profit!¡± This time, the audience brought back their best champions, but once they started fighting, they found that they still couldn¡¯t win! In the middlene, there was a team battle. The five yers of the NRG team swarmed up again and killed four yers! The spectating yers were speechless. ¡°Wow, aren¡¯t these professional yers a little too strong?¡± ¡°There¡¯s no choice. He¡¯s the world champion!¡± ¡°But they¡¯re all ying with one hand!¡± ¡°GG!¡± Just when everyone thought that the yers were going to lose, they found out that Zed had already reached the crystal core on the blue side and was cutting the crystal with his sword! It was already toote for the NRG yers to go back. This Zed had directly blocked their vision with their W-skill to cross the wall. By the time they appeared in the blue team¡¯s vision, they were already pushing down the low-HP tower with their super minions. Chen Mo was also excited, wow, this tribtion is so spiritual! Sure enough, you found your position and went to steal the tower! Three more des! Two des! Wow, Zed even used his W-skill to avoid blind¡¯s Q-skill, a sh! We¡¯ve won! Congrattions to our yers for winning!¡± The yers at the scene couldn¡¯t help butugh. Even a well-written script wouldn¡¯t be this dramatic, right? The yers of the NRG stood up and shook hands with each other. Chen Mo let out a long sigh of relief,¡±it wasn¡¯t easy. These five audience members finally won against the NRG yers. Congrattions!¡± Each of you will receive a figurine, please collect it from the staff. ¡± ¡°Many yers should have experienced the new hero just now. I wonder how everyone feels? We¡¯re going to talk about the most important part of the exhibition. Is everyone ready?¡± Chapter 427 - highlights cut

Chapter 427: Chapter 426-highlights cut

The audience was still immersed in the atmosphere of the new hero and the previous exhibition match, and more and more yers were gathering. Even though the other exhibition halls also had great disys, Chen Mo¡¯s disy of the two new champions of League of Legends and the exhibition match with the yers of the NRG immediately made the ce popr! Many of the yers below the stage were trying to squeeze in. ¡°Those in front, hurry up! I haven¡¯t yed the new hero yet!¡± ¡°This hero looks so cool!¡± ¡°Is there any more exhibition match? Let¡¯s have another round?¡± ¡°Yeah, aren¡¯t the five people from the NRG still here? Come and give me an autograph!¡± The yers were all very enthusiastic, or perhaps too enthusiastic. It was as if everyone¡¯s attention was on the five members of the NRG team, and no one was looking forward to the new game. Chen Zhao was speechless. After thinking for a moment, forget it, I¡¯ll just throw the king Bomb directly. As Chen Mo left the stage, the screen dimmed again, and Thunderbolt Entertainment¡¯s LOGO appeared. The noisy yers gradually quieted down. ¡°Shh! It seems like there¡¯s a new cinematics!¡± ¡°The tickets to today¡¯s exhibition are worth a lot of money.¡± ¡°Is it a new game?¡± Reading on Mybo xno vel. ,Please! ¡°Don¡¯t talk, watch carefully!¡± ¡­¡­ On the battlefield. A few soldiers were hiding behind cover, and there were loud explosions around them. Their eyes were lowered, full of frustration and despair. Suddenly, a whistling sound was heard. The soldier raised his head, his eyes slightly widened, and a smile appeared on his face. In the clouds high above, under the cover of the afterglow of the morning sun, the Pharaoh Eagle wearing blue mechanical armor quickly rose into the sky and flew toward the battlefield. ¡°We are the hope!¡± In the corner of King¡¯s Lane, a robot¡¯s arm had been torn off and it was lying on the ground. Lionheart stood in front of him and spread therge shield on his arm to block the Molotov cocktail. ¡°We are the glory!¡± In a World of Ice and snow, a single mech charged straight at the huge mech monster in front of it. The camera cut to the front and gave a close-up of the girl in the mech. ¡°What we are, is courage!¡± In the vault, countless criminals were firing at will. Soldier 76 descended from the sky and used the butt of his gun to send an enemy flying. ¡°We are justice!¡± In the ruins, a child¡¯s face was covered in wounds, but a golden light appeared in front of her. The angel slowly descended from the sky. With a pair of golden wings, it extended a helping hand to her. ¡°We ... Are showing mercy.¡± Lie Kong shuttled back and forth quickly, dodging the homing missiles that were following closely behind him. He hung upside down on the screen and fired back. ¡°We are determined!¡± Under the cherry blossom tree, Yuan-Shi sheathed her saber. ¡°We are harmonious!¡± Looking at the rocket that took off, Winston¡¯s face revealed a smile. ¡°We are the vanguard of the Overwatch!¡± The camera zoomed out, and the heroes of the Overwatch Council appeared on the screen. Winston, lie Kong, Soldier 76, Yuan, ck Lily, Pharaoh Eagle, Hanzo, DVA, Angel, Lionheart ... In the majestic melody, the LOGO of Overwatch appeared on the screen, and the video came to an end. This was the promotional video for Overwatch from Chen Mo¡¯s previous life. It was usually yed in the cinema before the movie started. The reason why he chose this video was mainly because time was too tight. There was no time to make a six to seven-minute video. The video was only one minute long, but it vividly portrayed the characteristics of several key heroes in the Overwatch. At the same time, it also hinted at the world¡¯s background, which could make yers who had never yed it feel the corresponding expectations. After the video finished ying, the yers were excited again. ¡°This new cinematics ... F * ck, it¡¯s of a very high standard!¡± ¡°I¡¯m looking forward to the game even more after watching it. What kind of game is it?¡± ¡°Aren¡¯t the heroes in this game tooplicated? There¡¯s a flying hero, a tank hero, a healer, and even one that can teleport?¡± ¡°Could it be another MOBA game?¡± ¡°Look at thest scene. There are so many heroes. It should be a MOBA game, right?¡± ¡°A MOBA game with a future theme? Isn¡¯t it better to do it in League of Legends?¡± ¡°Didn¡¯t you guys hear what Chen Zhao said? It¡¯s a VR game. ¡± ¡°F * ck, a VR MOBA?¡± ¡°Is it okay? I heard that MOBA games can¡¯t be made in 3d? It seems like those who did it are all dead. ¡± While the yers were discussing, Chen Mo said,¡±¡±Why are you guys still in such a hurry? I¡¯ve already told you that it¡¯s not Thunderbolt film studio¡¯s style to only release a CG movie. Also ...¡± Everyone was speechless. After a brief ck screen, the second video was yed on the big screen. However, this video wasn¡¯t CG, since Chen Mo didn¡¯t have the time to do it. The second video was made using real scenes from the game, so it didn¡¯t take much effort. The camera shed across the voskaya industrial zone, giving a close-up of the huge mech under construction in the distance. At the entrance, Charia dusted her hands and picked up the particle cannon on the ground. The scene changed to Chalia¡¯s first-person perspective. First, she put a particle barrier on the friendly Hunter Kong, and then killed the death god that came out from the side and the fortress in front of her in a high energy state. However, in the process of taking over the target point, the Mad Rat on the roof detonated the bomb tire and blew her away. The screen showed a close-up of Mad Rat and then switched to his first-person perspective. First, he used a concussion mine to blow himself up into the air, then he used a grenadeuncher to kill ck Lily, who was high up in the air. After that, he threw a trap on the ground and killed lie Kong, who was following him. The scene switched to Dorado. Mad Rat was bombarding the ce. Soldier 76 rushed out of the door with his tactical eyepiece on and cleared the enemies in front of him. However, just as Soldier 76 was advancing, Lu BA hooked him and shot him dead. The road bully came to Highway 66 and was shot away by McRae, who had opened the door to noon. After that, Lucio, Winston, DVA, Xiaomei, Hanzo, and Yuanshi also appeared one by one. Hanzo and Yuan-Shi were confronting each other on the tform. Just as the battle was about to break out, ao Wei, who had transformed into a true dragon, descended from the sky and created a huge thunderstorm in the area where everyone was. After that, it was a great mix of highlights. Yuan-n¡¯s dimension sh. McRae arrived at noon. The Pharaoh¡¯s Eagle had brought justice to the world. Lucio jumped up and stopped there. Ao Wei leaped into the air and released a thunderstorm. A close-up of an Angel releasing an immortal hero. The Grim Reaper used death bloom in the crowd. Winston activated his primordial rage and roared. Chalia¡¯s gravity spray worked together with Hanzo¡¯s support. D.VAunched a nuclear bomb from a distance after using his thrusters. The exciting scenes were yed at an extremely fast speed, so the yers were dazzled and let out waves of exmations. At the end of the video, there was a close-up of all the heroes, as well as a huge Overwatch LOGO. Chapter 428 - -trial

Chapter 428: Chapter 427-trial

After the video ended, Chen Mo went on stage and the yers below started discussing. ¡°F * ck! This is an FPS game!¡± ¡°That¡¯s true, and the second video seems to be made using the game¡¯s real scene? Some of the first person views even have an UI!¡± ¡°From the looks of it, it¡¯s an FPS with skills?¡± ¡°This is amazing! I¡¯ve never yed this before!¡± ¡°And it looks really cool. Look at that hero flying in the sky, he¡¯s even shouting ¡®justice from the heavens¡¯ when he¡¯s using his ultimate. He¡¯s so cool!¡± ¡°I was just about to ask why these two Japanese heroes had Dragons, and the Chinese dragon appeared. Chen Mo is indeed very thoughtful ...¡± ¡°Wow, this Huaxia-style dragon girl is so pretty. I want to lick her!¡± ¡°And the graphics are really good. Looks like Chen Mo didn¡¯t earn all that money for nothing, did he spend it all on the graphics?¡± ¡°And these heroes exist in every country. They speak differentnguages. Japanese, Russian, German ... I think they¡¯re all here. ¡± ¡°Chen Zhao is really going further and further on the path of bing an international model ...¡± ¡°Don¡¯t be so fake. I just want to ask when we can try the game. I can¡¯t wait!¡± ¡°Yeah, how does a hero that flies in the sky look like in VR?¡± ¡°I¡¯ve yed this feeling of flying in the sky in other VR games, it¡¯s great! However, Chen Mo¡¯s new game¡¯s hero¡¯s flying skills are much cooler, so it¡¯s definitely not bad!¡± ¡°Hurry up and open the trial!¡± Reading on Mybo xno vel. ,Please! Chen Mo was very satisfied with the yers ¡®reactions, he walked onto the stage,¡±¡±Everyone, don¡¯t worry. Let me briefly introduce this new game.¡± ¡°As you can see, the game¡¯s name is OverWatch, which is tranted as Overwatch or OW for short. This is the first FPS game I¡¯ve made, and it¡¯s apletely different genre from the previous ones. ¡± ¡°Overwatch uses some elements from MOBA games, but the main gamey is still FPS. However,pared to traditional FPS games, the yers in Overwatch will y many different roles and have different ways of ying. ¡± As Chen Mo spoke, the big screen changed to a full Hero Group photo of Overwatch. Chen Zhao pointed at Reinhardt, who was on the right.¡±¡±Lionheart is a heavy soldier hero. He didn¡¯t have a gun or a bow. He only had a long-range skill with a long cooldown. Therefore, he could be considered aplete melee hero, overturning the traditional FPS ystyle. There are many more of such heroes in the Overwatch. ¡± ¡°The original design of Overwatch was to allow yers to have a more diverse and rich gaming experience in the process of shooting. For example, Soldier 76 can be considered a regr FPS yer, but his ultimate skill is to activate the tactical eyepiece. After activating it, the system will automatically aim at the enemy for you. ¡± ¡°In other words, yers with bad marksmanship can still find joy in this game.¡± ¡°As we all know, FPS games are not friendly to new yers. We hope that more yers will be able to experience the fun of FPS games through Overwatch.¡± ¡°This is a VR game that will be released on the VR tform soon. I know that everyone must be very concerned about the price, but I can tell you in advance that this will be apletely free game. ¡± ¡°Yes, you didn¡¯t hear wrong, it¡¯spletely free! Just like League of Legends, all the iees from value-added services that don¡¯t affectbat power, including skins, profile pictures, special expressions, and so on. ¡± ¡°Okay, we¡¯ll open the VR area for a trial. In addition, we will invite the star yer of the NRG team, Jiang Hao, to try out the game live and broadcast it on the big screen. yers who haven¡¯t yed yet don¡¯t have to worry, please line up and experience it in an orderly manner!¡± While Chen Mo was speaking, the yers were already cheering, and after hearing that it was a free game, they were even more shocked. ¡°FPS! Chen Mo had finally extended his ws to the FPS! The designers of FPS games are going to cry!¡± ¡°An FPS with skills? Can you do it?¡± ¡°It looks very cool, how can it not work? Chen Mo¡¯s games don¡¯t work?¡± ¡°Wait, did I hear wrong? what did Chen Zhao say? He said that the game ispletely free?¡± ¡°Apletely free VR game? I¡¯ve never heard of it!¡± ¡°Is Chen Mo crazy? I don¡¯t think this game is expensive even if it¡¯s sold for six or seven hundred Yuan. He¡¯s giving it away for free?¡± ¡°What¡¯s the fuss about? I¡¯d be surprised if it was someone else, but ... This is Chen Zhao. He¡¯s already tired of these free games and mobile games, and you just met him today?¡± ¡°Yeah, think about Onmyoji, the ¡®free game¡¯ that dominated the bestselling leaderboard for a few months, then think about League of Legends, the ¡®free game¡¯ that¡¯s all over the PC market. You guys think Chen Mo is doing this for charity? how childish!¡± ¡°You think Chen Mo will lose? He¡¯s smiling so much that he¡¯s waking up from his dreams!¡± ¡°But it¡¯s a good thing for the yers, it¡¯s apletely free VR game! I¡¯ve never heard of Chen Mo being awesome!¡± The yers in the front row couldn¡¯t help but squeeze forward, wanting to be the first to experience the VR gaming pod. At this time, it was no longer about quality. Who cared about quality in order to y the game? If they didn¡¯t squeeze at this time, they wouldn¡¯t be able to y at all! After the VR experience area¡¯s game cabin was opened, the yers in the front row quickly filled up all the game cabins, leaving only one special game cabin for Jiang Hao to use for his livestream. The other four members of the NRG team looked at Jiang Hao with resentment as he got into the game cabin. They could not y and had to sign autographs for their fans. It couldn¡¯t be helped. Who asked Jiang Hao to be the most popr in the yers ¡®hearts? There was a limited number of VR gaming pods, so those who couldn¡¯t get one could only line up and watch the big screen. ¡­¡­ After Jiang Hao entered the game cabin, the big screen quickly showed his in-game real-time image. Of course, the experience of the gaming pod was the same as the human eye, but the perspective on the big screen was simr to that of theputer. There were still some differences between the two. However, the audience below the stage could also feel the excitement of the game. After a brief loading screen, Jiang Hao found himself in a teahouse that was full of Chinese style. In front of him were the bamboo tables and chairs of the teahouse. There was a whole set of tea set on the table, and the tea in the teacups could be clearly seen. Jiang Hao took a walk in the teahouse. He could clearly see the night view of the entire city from the window in front. This was a modern city filled with a sense of technology. There were tall buildings and bright lights. Many small flying devices shuttled between the buildings. The night view of the entire city was beautiful. Jiang Hao quickly realized that the teahouse he was in and the gazebo outside were all built on the roof of a building. This was obviously a Chinese setting. Chapter 429 - Training (part three)

Chapter 429: Training (part three)

¡°A China Style teahouse on the top of a tall building? This is a good idea. ¡± Jiang Hao could not help but be amazed. The initial login scenario was actually Li River Tower, but Chen Mo didn¡¯t have the time to make a special one, so he took it. Needless to say, the effect was pretty good. Neither Jiang Hao nor the yers present could see anything wrong. A huge virtual screen appeared in front of Jiang Hao. On it was the LOGO of Overwatch and some options. On the left were fourrger and more eye-catching options,[start],[training],[hero], and [supply]. In the lower right corner, there were five smaller options, including [outstanding performance],[social interaction], and [career overview]. The [start] option was still grayed out because the game had not officially started and could not be matched with yers. Therefore, it was equivalent to being offline at the moment, and he could only experience the basic ying method in the [training] option. Jiang Hao clicked on the [training] option, and three sub-options appeared on the virtual screen. They were [teaching mode],[training range], and puter training]. Jiang Hao chose [teaching mode] first. After a short loading, Jiang Hao found himself in a training base. The camera swept across the sky and stopped in front of the automatic door. The automatic door opened, and the camera gave a close-up of Soldier 76. Then, the camera panned to Soldier 76. Jiang Hao¡¯s vision was automatically switched to Soldier 76¡¯s first-person perspective. Jiang Hao looked down. Soldier 76 was wearing a blue and white coat and red leather gloves. Jiang Hao couldn¡¯t control his character¡¯s movements yet and could only wait patiently. Soldier 76 moved his hand joints. Reading on Mybo xno vel. ,Please! At this moment, Jiang Hao heard an artificial intelligence¡¯s voice from the training base,¡±¡±Hello, Soldier 76. I¡¯m Athena, the AI, and I¡¯ll be guiding you in the Overwatch training program. ¡± Jiang Hao¡¯s vision automatically turned to the left, where there was aputer full of a sense of technology. It was obviously the artificial intelligence Athena¡¯s main body. ¡°Then, where is she?¡± On the second floor on the upper right side of the training ground, lie Kong quickly shed down and came in front of Jiang Hao. ¡°Hello, I¡¯m lie Kong. I¡¯ll help youplete the training.¡± ¡°Now,¡± Athena said,¡±please use the center of your field of vision to observe where lie Kong is.¡± Lie Kong flickered quickly and arrived at the left side of his field of vision. Jiang Hao realized that he could now control 76 soldiers. He first looked around and quickly noticed lie Kong on his left. The guidance wasplete the moment he focused his gaze on lie Kong. ¡°Very good,¡± Athena said.¡±Now watch as Hunter Kong heads to the center of the tform.¡± Hunter Kong flickered quickly and arrived at the center of the tform. Jiang Hao subconsciously looked at where she had disappeared to. Athena,¡¯well done! Next, let¡¯s review the basic mobile content. You can move in any direction. Now, follow lie Kong around the hangar. ¡± Jiang Hao Ran forward with lie Kong. Vision and movement were the same as other VR games, so there wasn¡¯t much to practice. Jiang Hao mastered it very quickly. The reason why the beginner¡¯s training was soplicated was that some people might be ying VR games for the first time, so they had to guide them carefully. Under lie Kong¡¯s guidance, Jiang Hao arrived at the next training location. ¡°Very good,¡± Athena said.¡±Now, please jump onto the tform, pass through the explosion-proof door, enter the shooting range, and head to the highlighted position.¡± Jiang Hao jumped onto the tform and the explosion-proof door opened. In front of him was a shooting range. There was a highlighted spot on the floor with an arrow on it, indicating for Jiang Hao to go over. At the designated position, a heavy pulse rifle automatically appeared in Soldier 76¡¯s hand and the clip was changed. ¡°Now, I¡¯ll guide you through your basic shooting training.¡± ¡°Your avatar will be disyed on the top left of the screen, next to your blood. If it drops to 0, you will die. Now, let me arrange some targets for you to attack. ¡± A training robot appeared in the shooting range and came to Jiang Hao. ¡°Now,¡± Athena said,¡±please watch the training robot and fire at it.¡± ¡°Of course, you can also fire at it without looking at it, but if you do that, your shooting uracy will be greatly reduced. When the target you want to shoot is in line with your field of vision and shooting direction, your shooting uracy will greatly increase. ¡± ¡°After practice, your shooting uracy can even reach a hundred percent. Of course, I believe that this is not difficult for a well-trained soldier like you. ¡± Jiang Hao stared at the training robot in front of him and fired at it. Blue mes shot out of the muzzle, and the training robot¡¯s HP dropped rapidly under a series of bullets before finally exploding. After all, Jiang Hao was a professional yer and had yed some VR games before, so this step wasn¡¯t difficult for him. However, Jiang Hao still realized the difference between Overwatch and other FPS games. The most obvious difference was that the recoil of the gun itself was very small, and the muzzle basically wouldn¡¯t drift. Other FPS games were basically as realistic as possible. During the shooting process, the yer¡¯s shoulder would feel a very clear recoil shock, and the muzzle would involuntarily float up. In other words, even if one¡¯s vision and shooting direction werepletely fine, the shot would still be high. Therefore, even in a VR FPS game, one had to be careful with one¡¯s gun. However, in Overwatch, the recoil was very light, and there was no need to press the gun, or just a very small amount. This also greatly improved Jiang Hao¡¯s uracy. Almost the entire magazine of bullets hit the training robot. Athena said,¡¯well done. However, Please note that in actualbat, your enemies will be more difficult to hit. Now, let me prepare some more challenging targets for you. ¡± Soon, more training robots began to appear in the shooting range, and they were all moving. The system was also giving some basic information, such as there would be a red outline around the enemy¡¯s body, a health bar would be disyed above their heads when shooting at the enemy, most weapons had capacity limits, and they needed to change the magazine, and so on. In addition, the system also notified Jiang Hao that he could use close-range attacks to destroy enemies in close range. Next was the skill guide, which included spiral missile, biological force field, sprint, and Tactical Goggles. When he turned on the tactical Goggles, Jiang Hao¡¯s entire field of vision would change slightly, as if he was really looking through high-tech goggles. When the tactical eyepiece was turned on, the weapon would automatically attack the enemy in Jiang Hao¡¯s field of vision. All he had to do was slightly adjust the shooting direction. This made Jiang Hao very interested. Chapter 430 - -will you faint?

Chapter 430: Chapter 429-will you faint?

After the training course ended, Jiang Hao chose to enter the training range to familiarize himself with the different heroes. Jiang Hao was particrly interested in a few of the more powerful heroes in the video, such as Hunter Kong, Yuan Shi, Pharaoh Eagle, and so on. These heroes were quite different from the characters in other FPS games, so Jiang Hao wanted to experience them first. Of course, most yers had the same question after watching the video. Would they get dizzy ying these heroes with quick movement skills? For example, Hunter Kong could obviously move three times in a very short time, and the distance of the movement was very long. Including sh back, Hunter Kong¡¯s position could change four times in a second. For example, death god was spinning continuously when he released his ultimate skill. If it waspletely realistic, the yers would definitely vomit. However, Jiang Hao understood after ying these heroes. Chen Mo had obviously made a lot of changes to the experience to ensure that the yers wouldn¡¯t feel dizzy while ying. The first was the problem of rapid discement. In fact, the problem of rapid discement existed for most Champions, such as ck Lily, Winston, and so on. For such a fast movement, some yers would definitely get dizzy. It was unavoidable, just like 3D dizziness. It could only be said that this was natural, and this group of yers had no choice but to give up on these heroes. However, for most yers, as long as they practiced more, they could get used to this kind of rapid movement. In VR mode, the immersion of this kind of rapid movement was stronger than on PC, simr to a roller coaster or bungee jumping. However, this kind of discement waspletely controlled by the yer himself. After knowing where he was going to appear in advance, the series of movements such as discement, direction adjustment, and shooting were all out of the yer¡¯s habitual reaction. They could adapt to it with more practice. Of course, in VR, heroes like Hunter Kong and Yuan Shi would have a higher threshold than in PC, but they were notpletely unyable. For some yers, these heroes were more exciting to y. The second problem was the change in perspective brought about by the skill. This was actually an easy problem to solve because the PC version of Overwatch had a simr problem. For example, when McRae rolled, the yer¡¯s perspective would not roll along with McRae¡¯s vision, but would still look in the direction they wanted to. When death released death bloom, the yer¡¯s vision would be pulled up to the sky to help the yer better judge the range of the big move. In other words, the yers ¡®vision could still be freely controlled under the effects of these skills. It would not be the same as the hero¡¯s real vision. It was equivalent to temporarily having a God¡¯s perspective, and they could return after the skills were used. Moreover, VR mode was better than PC, and that was that the yer¡¯s field of view was separated from the actual shooting direction, which greatly reduced the sense of dizziness. Reading on Mybo xno vel. ,Please! For example, on the PC side, if a yer wanted to shoot a target with Soldier 76, they had to aim the crosshair in the center of the screen at the target. At this moment, the field of view and shooting direction in the game werepletely the same. What if the yer wanted to observe target B while shooting target A? It was impossible to achieve in most PC FPS games. Even if he did, the effect would not be good. However, in VR, when yers yed Soldier 76, it was like shooting in real life. You could look at target A while shooting at target B, as long as target B was still within your field of vision. You didn¡¯t need to focus on it. This was simr to shooting in the real world. Of course, doing so would cause the uracy of the shots to drop significantly, but ¡°lowering the uracy¡± was still much better than ¡°not being able to do it at all.¡± In other words, in VR, when yers used Yuan-Shi sword draw, their vision would not waver as violently as on PC. Their vision would remain stable, but it was up to them to decide where to attack. ¡­¡­ Soon, Jiang Hao found that he had fallen in love with the game. In VR mode, the sense of immersion in the game was very strong. When ying certain heroes, the feeling of satisfaction was multiplied. For example, when Jiang Hao yed with the Pharaoh Eagle, it was as if he was really flying in the sky. This included his vision, the speed of his natural descent, the slight sound of the wind, and so on. Everything was very simr to flying in real life. There was also Yuan-Shi¡¯s sword draw. Since the field of view in VR was the same as in real life, unlike in PC, the field of view was limited. Moreover, it could sh at any spot in the field of view, so it was more realistic. In addition, the yuan-Shi could also climb walls and do double jumps. At first, Jiang Hao was not familiar with it and often fell from the sky. However, after he got used to it, he quickly became immersed in it. Not only Jiang Hao, but the yers below the stage were also excited. ¡°F * ck, this hero can fly andunch rockets in the sky? This was a F * cking suppressive fire! A bomber?¡± ¡°It feels so good!¡± ¡°And this Ninja, he can climb walls at will? It¡¯s so cool toe and go from all kinds of high ces. ¡± ¡°Yeah, even though other VR games have simr wall-climbing content, they seem to have more restrictions and it¡¯s slower too. It¡¯s not as satisfying as this one.¡± ¡°And this DVA, it feels like we¡¯re really fighting in a mech. The various UI¡¯s are very detailed, and it looks so technologically advanced!¡± ¡°The dragoness is also very handsome, especially after she bes a Dragon. She can fly as she wishes. This is so high!¡± ¡°It¡¯s already so cool from a PC Perspective, what would it be like from a VR perspective? Didn¡¯t you feel great?¡± ¡°This Hunter Kong¡¯s view ... Why do I feel a little dizzy? I feel like the surrounding scenery is changing so quickly.¡± ¡°Because little ckie has been using his sh all this time. He can use three shes at any time. If this were in LOL, tsk tsk tsk ...¡± ¡°Will little ck really not faint ...¡± ¡°Seeing how smoothly he¡¯s ying, he obviously doesn¡¯t know how to. However, it also depends on the yer. Some people have 3D stun, so they might not be able to y heroes like lie Kong and Yuan. ¡± ¡°Wow, I can¡¯t wait. The queue is so slow!¡± ¡°Because those who enter the game cabin are not willing toe out!¡± ¡°Please, those who are trying out the game, hurry up. You just need to try it out for about ten minutes. Have some public morality!¡± The yers in the queue below the stage were not appeased by the sight of little ck ying. Instead, they became even more anxious. Obviously, after seeing the rich mechanics of the game, they wanted to y it even more. There were also many people who came to line up for Overwatch after experiencing the new version of League of Legends. They all wanted to try out the brand new VR game. The livestream on the big screen attracted even more yers. The poprity at the booth was getting higher and higher. Many people had clearly just arrived and were all standing on tiptoes to watch the big screen. Some yers even stood on the booths of otherpanies and looked at the big screens, making the staff of thesepanies curse in their hearts. Chen Mo smiled in satisfaction, he was very satisfied with the yers ¡®reactions. It was obvious that the VR version of Overwatch was the same as the PC version in his previous life, gaining a lot of attention as soon as it was released. Chapter 431 - -heated discussion

Chapter 431: Chapter 430-heated discussion

¡°Everyone, don¡¯t push. Please line up in an orderly manner ande one by one! As there are more people trying it out, each yer has a 10-minute time limit for the VR gaming pod. Please be polite ...¡± A few staff members were already trying their best to maintain order. There was no other way, Thunderbolt Entertainment¡¯s booth waspletely full. Those who entered the VR gaming pod didn¡¯t want toe out, and the people outside couldn¡¯t wait to enter, and more and more people gathered. As ast resort, these VR gaming pods could only be used for a limited time experience. Even so, many people still felt that they had not yed enough. Aftering out of the gaming pods, they took a stroll outside and wanted to take advantage of the situation to get back in and y again. There were still many yers who couldn¡¯t get in, but they all gathered around the stage and shouted at Chen Mo. ¡°When will Overwatch be released? ah, no, when will it be released?¡± ¡°Is it reallypletely free? Does that mean all VR gaming pods can be installed?¡± ¡°Chen Mo, I¡¯m your fan, can¡¯t you let me try it out first!¡± ¡°What about the poor who can¡¯t afford a VR gaming pod?¡± Chen Mo couldn¡¯t y dead since the yers were so enthusiastic. He answered them one by one. ¡°Soon, it¡¯s already in the final optimization stage, and it can probably go online in early February. Test? No, no, no, my game doesn¡¯t have a test, so it¡¯s definitely a finished product. ¡± ¡°That¡¯s right, it¡¯spletely free. You can y as much as you want after you go online.¡± ¡°If you want to try it out, line up quickly. I can¡¯t give you special treatment in front of so many people.¡± ¡°It¡¯s actually fine. Everyone will be able to y the game once it¡¯s released. There¡¯s no need to rush it for a few days.¡± ¡°You can¡¯t afford a VR gaming pod ... Bro, let me give you a piece of sincere advice. If you can¡¯t afford a VR gaming pod, you should save up first. Real life is more important, so let¡¯s not keep thinking about ying games. Of course, if you really want it, you can go to Thunderbolt tabletop¡¯spetition. There will be a free gaming pod ...¡± Chen Mo lived in seclusion and didn¡¯t livestream. Other than asionally posting on Weibo, he didn¡¯t interact with the yers, so it wasn¡¯t easy for many people to see Chen Mo. Reading on Mybo xno vel. ,Please! Now that there was a chance to chat with Chen Mo, the audience crowded over and asked questions one after another, turning the fair into a huge press conference. ¡­¡­ Chen Mo was exhausted from the whole day of exhibition. The gamers were too enthusiastic. They didn¡¯t want to leave even though the dojo was about to close. The exhibition went on for three days, and in these three days, Thunderbolt Entertainment¡¯s booth became more and more popr. It became the most popr booth in the exhibition, even beating Emperor dynasty entertainment and ZEN Entertainment! Moreover, the number of people in these three days had increased by the day. In the end, there were so many yers at the entrance of the exhibition hall that they didn¡¯t even dare to take a look. As the convention continued to be popr, news of Chen Mo¡¯s new game, Overwatch, quickly spread online and ignited the entire gaming industry. ¡­¡­ In a designer¡¯s chat group. ¡°Which one of you is at Youy? Has anyone tried Chen Mo¡¯s new game?¡± ¡°You mean ¡®the Overwatch¡¯? It seems like a lot of people are talking about this game. How is it?¡± ¡°I didn¡¯t get to y, there are too many people! But from the demo, it¡¯s pretty good, just like Chen Mo¡¯s usual!¡± ¡°Yes, it seems to be an FPS game with MOBA elements!¡± ¡°I heard it¡¯s a free game.¡± ¡°Again? Did he want to replicate the sess of League of Legends in VR? What great ambition!¡± ¡°But isn¡¯t it a fact that a first-person MOBA can¡¯t be done?!¡± ¡°This isn¡¯t a MOBA, it¡¯s an FPS! We definitely can¡¯t make a VR MOBA, but an FPS with skills ... Aiya, I can¡¯t say for sure. I can only say that although there were simr ideas in the past, no one has actually made it. ¡± ¡°What¡¯s with Chen Zhao¡¯s speed? They¡¯ve just finished the League of Legends World Finals, and now they¡¯re making a new game?¡± ¡°I can only say that we don¡¯t understand the world of the master. If I were the designer of League of Legends, I would only need to make one game for the rest of my life. Why would I need to make other games?¡± ¡°...So you¡¯re a loser and Chen Zhao is a boss.¡± ¡°Wait, I suddenly have a bad idea. Why did Chen Mo choose this time to release a new game? Could it be for this year¡¯s grand prize, game of the year?¡± ¡°Game of the year? No way, this game doesn¡¯t look like the kind of game that will win the championship. ¡± ¡°But think about it, Chen Mo is going to win all the PC awards with League of Legends this year, why would he release a new game a few months earlier topete with his own?¡± ¡°Maybe it¡¯s the same as League of Legends, using the Spring Festival holiday for marketing? I heard that Chen Mo spent the new year in the Imperial City to promote League of Legends. ¡± ¡°It¡¯s different now. Last year was a distribution war, and he was trying to get users for Thunderbolt gaming tform. This year? The distribution war is over, League of Legends is popr, and Thunderbolt gaming tform has gained momentum. He doesn¡¯t have to be in such a rush. I think he¡¯s definitely trying to fight for the annual gaming award before the Spring Festival. ¡± ...¡±Terrifying! Is this day finally here?¡± ¡­¡­ On the forum. ¡°Chen Mo said that the new game, Overwatch, ispletely free! It¡¯s very likely that there¡¯ll be a dominatingpetitive game like League of Legends!¡± ¡°Completely free of charge? NICE, this is Chen Mo¡¯s style!¡± ¡°...Alright, Can Chen Zhao lose out? Why does it seem like he has a conscience?¡± ¡°How is that heartless? If it was any other gamepany, they would definitely buy out the game and add in the price. A VR game would be considered cheap at around six to seven hundred RMB, but Chen Mo just waived everyone¡¯s entry fee, what is this, he¡¯s really generous!¡± ¡°That¡¯s right, if that¡¯s the case, would other VR gamepanies be stupid? Why not make it all free? Obviously, only Chen Zhao has the confidence to do so!¡± ¡°This game is so cool! I can¡¯t help but want to y it.¡± ¡°Chen Mo is quite ambitious!¡± ¡°I don¡¯t think we should be blindly optimistic. The sess of League of Legends on the PC side is phenomenal, and there are many factors behind it. The main reason was that there weren¡¯t any strongpetitors on PC, and MOBA games werepletely new. With the right time, ce, and people, League of Legends could be so sessful. But there are already FPS games on VR, it¡¯ll be too hard for Overwatch topletely dominate them!¡± ¡°It¡¯s not up to us whether it¡¯s difficult or not. Just be patient, I think even if Overwatch can¡¯t reach the dominance of League of Legends on the PC side, it won¡¯t be bad!¡± Chapter 432 - First-day downloads

Chapter 432: First-day downloads

As the exhibition went on, the poprity of Overwatch continued to ferment. Many video game media were at the exhibition, and they all noticed the new game, Overwatch, which attracted the most attention. After being baptized by the phenomenal game League of Legends, the media were no longer surprised by Chen Mo¡¯s actions. The fact that Chen Mo ced so much importance on Overwatch made the video game media feel like it was big news. Although the exhibition only released the training mode and the battle between humans and machines, and no one knew what it felt like to fight with yers in the Overwatch, the game was attractive enough from the information that was released. On the other hand, the video game media¡¯s attention was mainly focused on Overwatch¡¯s world view, hero settings, and game innovations. ¡°New game update: a direct hit to Chen Mo¡¯s new VR shooting game, Overwatch!¡± Chen Mo: Overwatch will be a free VR game! ¡°An analysis of the hero of the Overwatch Council: the prototype was drawn from different countries and regions around the world.¡± ¡°An FPS with skills? Can the Overwatch Vanguard continue the sess of League of Legends?¡± ¡°The exhibition¡¯s most popr hero of the Overwatch Vanguard: Analysis of all the skills of the flying Pharaoh Eagle ¡­¡­ After this period of time, whether it was the yers ¡®heated discussions, the media¡¯s articles, or some rted videos, more and more yers began to know about the new VR game, Overwatch. Of course, the ¡°free VR game¡± gimmick had also yed a big role in advertising, and it could be said that the contribution was indispensable. The video game industry that had been quiet before the Spring Festival was suddenly in an uproar, and everyone was surprised that Chen Mo would release such a crucial VR game at this time. Under the yers ¡®fervent anticipation, the Overwatch was officially released! Reading on Mybo xno vel. ,Please! The timing was just right-Youy had just ended and the poprity had yet to die down. It was also a week before the gamesmittee¡¯s annual games Awards ceremony. Many yers had been waiting impatiently for a long time. As soon as the Overwatch was officially released, they all downloaded it. After all, it was a free game, so he would decide whether it was fun or not after logging out! On the day that Overwatch was released, there was a wave of downloads among domestic VR gamers. Whether they were Thunderbolt Entertainment¡¯s yers, FPS yers, or not, as long as they knew that Overwatch was a free game, they all went to download it and happily added one more game to their VR gaming pods. It would be a loss if he did not y a free game! Very soon, the number of downloads for the first day of release for Overwatch was released. It had sessfully broken 400000! This number also shocked the industry insiders. Many people were sighing. Free games were so willful! One must know that with the current situation in China, there were more than 1.3 billion mobile users, about 500 million PC users, and only about 100 million VR users. In other words, the yers of VR games were one-fifth of the yers of PC games. Before this, Chen Mo had also maintained the highest monthly sales of a VR game with Minecraft at 4.22 million. That was Minecraft¡¯s sales in the second month of its release, and because the game was slow to catch up, it only reached its peak in the second month, and then the sales dropped and stabilized. Before the release of the PC version of League of Legends, there were only 390000 yers on the first day even after so much promotion and publicity. The number of yers on the first day of the game¡¯s release had exceeded that of Minecraft and League of Legends, which was something that many people did not expect. Of course, thisparison wasn¡¯t fair because Minecraft had a pay threshold, and it was a slow game, so it wouldn¡¯t get popr all of a sudden. Comparing the number of downloads of a free game with a game that had been bought off was a little like ying hooligans. When League of Legends was first released, not many people thought highly of it. The number of yers only increased explosively in the middle andte stages. From the graphics, when League of Legends was first released, it didn¡¯t have any special advantagespared to other games on the market. MOBA was not recognized by most yers at the beginning, so it was normal that there were few yers on the first day. Judging from the current statistics, the number of yers in League of Legends was growing crazily every day, and it had broken ten million in a year. If the current League of Legends waspared, the 400000 downloads in a single day of Overwatch was not a figure to be proud of. Even though the number of downloads on the first day of the game was supported by the free game, the numbers couldn¡¯t keep increasing. Chen Mo didn¡¯t spend too much time promoting the game. However, Chen Mo was confident that after the release of Overwatch, it would continue to grow at this rate. ¡­¡­ The numbers on the first day made many video game designers jealous. It was obvious that Chen Mo¡¯s VR game had be popr, at least it had enough yers and was a hot topic. However, it was still too early to say that the game was a sess. After all, it was a free game, and the number of downloads didn¡¯t mean anything. Many people just followed the trend and downloaded it for the ¡°free¡± gimmick. They might give up after ying a few rounds, and it was impossible for them to be core yers, let alone top up money in the game. Whether or not Overwatch could recoup its costs depended on two key factors. One was the long-term retention rate of yers and the number of yers paying. If either of these two numbers didn¡¯t work, Overwatch would probably be done for. After all, as a VR game, the investment was much greater than a PC game. If it couldn¡¯t recover the cost, it would be a loss. ¡­¡­ After downloading the Overwatch, the yers couldn¡¯t wait to get into the game. In a certain FPS game group chat. ¡°¡®Overwatch¡¯ is open for download today. Anyone want to form a party to y?¡± ¡°The free VR game we talked about before? It¡¯s avable for download today?¡± ¡°Very good, I¡¯ve been waiting for a long time, let¡¯s go!¡± ¡°Free of charge? Which Big Shot would be so generous as to y a VR game for free?¡± ¡°Who else could it be? Chen Mo.¡± ¡°As expected, as long as a domestic video game designer causes trouble, he¡¯ll be the first one to react.¡± ¡°He¡¯s finally starting to make FPS games! I¡¯ve been thinking that Chen Mo is a genius in video game design. He¡¯s making mobile and PC games one by one, when is he going to make FPS games? In the end, it really did happen, faster than I thought!¡± ¡°Let¡¯s hurry up and talk in the game! How many Thunderbolt game passes do you all have? Quickly add me as a friend!¡± Chapter 433 - Welcome to King鈥檚 Avenue

Chapter 433: Wee to King¡¯s Avenue

In this group of yers, most of them were fans of FPS games, and many of them were good at FPS games. After the Overwatch was released for download, these FPS yers were the first to receive the news. Their members were also the first to enter the Overwatch to experience the game. Purrsy: ¡°we¡¯re driving together for Overwatch. Is there anyone else?¡± We¡¯re missing two!¡± As soon as this person spoke, several yers responded instantly. ¡°Wow, Almighty P is here! Almighty P, bring me along!¡± ¡°Hey, old P didn¡¯t dive today. The new game is really attractive!¡± ¡°Can¡¯t we win with Almighty P? I¡¯ll do it, I¡¯ll do it!¡± ¡°It¡¯s full. Old P, let¡¯s go!¡± Purrsy replied,¡¯alright, it¡¯s full! Dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty ... The small train is starting, hold on tight, everyone!¡± ¡­¡­ Puresy¡¯s original name was Li Bai, and he was considered a slightly famous streamer in the domestic FPS gaming circle. His technique was good, his marksmanship was good, and he had a good mentality. Most importantly, the entertainment effect of live streaming was explosive. He was basically ying Wolf Soul, fire assault, and so on. Fans affectionately called him ¡°God P¡± or ¡°old p.¡± Very quickly, puresy formed a six-man team and entered the ssic mode of the battle. Very quickly, the game loaded. ¡°Wee to King¡¯s Avenue. Please choose your hero.¡± Reading on Mybo xno vel. ,Please! In the character selection interface, everyone was conflicted in the team voice chat. ¡°F * ck, there are so many Champions, which one should I choose?¡± ¡°It¡¯s a little too many. It seems to be ... 23?¡± ¡°If you have the time to count the number of heroes, why don¡¯t you look at the skill description and start choosing!¡± ¡°Hurry, hurry, hurry, there¡¯s not enough time. Hurry and choose a prettydy and get ready to fight!¡± Soon, everyone had chosen their heroes and entered the game. Old P¡¯s lineup was DVA, Pharaoh Eagle, Yuanshi, Hanzo, ck Lily, and Soldier 76. Obviously, everyone had chosen characters with better looks at the beginning. This kind of character that looked awesome was obviously particrly popr. As for old P himself, he chose Soldier 76 because he still had not figured out how to y this game. He had alreadye into contact with Soldier 76 in the teaching level and it was more simr to the characters in traditional FPS games. Old P felt that he should be able to carry this champion. Old P was on the defensive side. At the beginning, although everyone didn¡¯t know the way, the directions were clear and there was basically only one route, so everyone found the target point rtively smoothly. At this time, the attacking yers were still locked up in the house. They had to wait for dozens of seconds for the defending yers to reach their defensive positions before the game would start. The yers on old P¡¯s side chatted as they hurried on. ¡°You guys don¡¯t say. This setting is really not bad. It has a European vor and a bit of technology.¡± ¡°Look at our heroes, they¡¯re so powerful! There¡¯s an Archer, a dart-throwing expert, a sniper, and a mecha-pilot, how could they lose?¡± ¡°F * ck, why are you always healing your own people? Don¡¯t heal me yet, I need to familiarize myself with my skills first. Sigh, what¡¯s the meaning of this Yuan n¡¯s guy twitching around his body with a knife? I¡¯ll take a look at the skill descriptionter. ¡± ¡°F * ck, can you do it? don¡¯t pick a champion that you don¡¯t know how to y and screw it up.¡± ¡°It¡¯s okay. If you don¡¯t know how to y, you can change your champion at any time. Besides, what¡¯s there to be afraid of with Almighty P here?¡± ¡°AI! Look, my Archer hero can climb walls! Hey, I¡¯ming up! Sigh, I¡¯m down again! Hey, I¡¯m back! Ah, I went down again!¡± ¡°And my arrows are infinite, I can shoot them as I wish! He didn¡¯t need to change the magazine! Wow, this hero is so powerful, I feel like I have to carry!¡± ¡°Alright, alright, how childish can you be? hurry up and get ready to defend. The game is about to start!¡± The game began amidst theughter. After all, old P¡¯s side was a veteran of FPS games and had experienced it in training mode before. Therefore, they were faster at getting started. They all stood in favorable positions and waited to ambush the other yers. The attacking lineup was also randomly chosen. There were Hunter Kong, ck Lily, Yuan, McRae, death god, and Tobian. Six people came out from the main entrance and were directly exposed to the muzzles of old P and the others. ¡°Oh my, someone¡¯s here, someone¡¯s here!¡± ¡°What are you waiting for? hurry up and fight!¡± Old P¡¯s side instantly went all out. Some shot arrows, and some opened fire. The six people on the opposite side were all stunned. What was going on? why did they encounter such fierce firepower as soon as they stepped out? Old P¡¯s marksmanship was very good. Soldier 76 killed an enemy in almost one shot with the pulse rifle, and the ¡°ding ding ding ding¡± sounds were all headshots, like a melodious melody. ¡°Triple kill!¡± A huge kill icon appeared in the center of everyone¡¯s vision. Old P¡¯s Soldier 76 hadpleted three kills by himself. If not for the two heads being taken by the Pharaoh Eagle¡¯s rockets, it would have been a Penta kill. ¡°F * ck, Almighty PS!¡± ¡°Almighty P is amazing! He¡¯s fighting a team alone!¡± ¡°I just threw a few darts and the game ended? ¡®F * ck!¡¯ We¡¯re simply too strong!¡± ¡°Hahaha, I told you. With this level of firepower suppression, the other side will probably be defeated as soon as they step out of the door!¡± The other side didn¡¯t understand what was going on either. After being resurrected, they rushed out for the second time. However, it was the same this time. Old P¡¯s six yers had already upied an advantageous terrain and bombarded them indiscriminately, and they were all killed very quickly. After three consecutive charges, the attacking side waspletely annihted, while the defending side only died seven times in total. Old P¡¯s Soldier 76 didn¡¯t die even once, and he even killed nine. Very quickly, old P realized that this game was much easier to get used topared to other FPS games. In the beginning, he was subconsciously pressing down on the gun, butter he realized that there was no need to do so because Soldier 76¡¯s gun basically did not have any recoil. It was fine to press it a little, or even not press it at all. Basically, he could shoot wherever he pointed. Furthermore, the soldier¡¯s level 76 skill was very versatile. It could run quickly and heal. It also had an explosive damage skill. When it activated its ultimate skill, it could aim at itself. It was perfect! When they ran out of health, they could find cover and heal back to full health with a healer. By upying the advantageous terrain, old P waspletely confident that he could take on five of the opponents! ¡°Cool! Wow, there¡¯s no need to count the number of bullets, and there¡¯s no need to think so much. It¡¯s just a shot, and all the enemies are dead!¡± ¡°Was my ultimate skill cool? A giant dragon is flying over!¡± ¡°My rocketments are pretty good too!¡± ¡°Alright, it¡¯s still God P who carries. Your big moves are equivalent to fireworks, they¡¯re good to look at but useless. Look at Almighty P, one bullet for one enemy!¡± Just as everyone was praising each other, the attacking yers rushed out again. This time, the one at the front was a tall and strong man who was holding an extrarge transparent shield. Chapter 434 - justice from the heavens ... Ah!

Chapter 434: Chapter 433-justice from the heavens ... Ah!

¡°Wow, why don¡¯t these people learn from their mistakes? they¡¯re out again. Let¡¯s kill them!¡± ¡°Go!¡± The yers on old P¡¯s side were still the same as before, madly pouring fire on the opposite side. In the end, when the bullets hit the shield of the opposite side¡¯s sledgehammer, they only caused blue ripples, but did not cause any damage to the enemy behind the shield. At this time, the fortress behind the hammer switched to Sentry Mode and directly became a fixed turret. The Gatling machine gun quickly rotated and madly poured bullets at the yers on old P¡¯s side! ¡°Tututututu ...¡± The dense barrage of bullets instantly killed Yuan-Shi and ck Lily. Old P had only revealed his head for a moment, but he was instantly beaten to a critical state and quickly retreated. ¡°F * ck, I¡¯m dead!¡± ¡°I¡¯m dead too. What¡¯s going on?¡± ¡°We¡¯re only left with three people?¡± ¡°It¡¯s okay, I have a big move. I should be able to clear the field. Watch me!¡± ¡°Descending from the heavens ... Ah!!!¡± Everyone was speechless. The moment the Pharaoh Eagle flew into the sky, the muzzle of the fortress was aimed directly at it. It was shot down before it could even finish its big move. The six attackers swarmed up, and under the protection of the sledgehammer, old P was almost unable to fight back before he was surrounded and beaten up. The defenders werepletely annihted. ¡°What¡¯s the situation?¡± Reading on Mybo xno vel. ,Please! ¡°Did you guys watch death rey? That hero is a freak!¡± ¡°Yeah, do the Gatling bullets not cost money? I was instantly killed!¡± Old P was also watching his own death rey. It had to be said that this was a very good setting. In FPS games where yers often died inexplicably, the death rey could allow yers to know more about how they died. It could also allow them to obtain more information from the opponent¡¯s perspective. ¡°This hero ... Is too bugged, right?!¡± After studying the two heroes, big hammer and fortress, old P felt that his three views had been subverted. In other words, after the sledgehammer raised its shield, the fortress could attack crazily from behind? A soldier of 76 can¡¯t do anything at all? ¡°What should we do, Almighty P? The hero on the other side is too abnormal!¡± ¡°What do you mean what to do? we¡¯re choosing too!¡± ¡°Eh? That¡¯s right, we¡¯re choosing too!¡± Old P thought it through very quickly. Since this hero was powerful, why couldn¡¯t they just y it too? Yuan-Shi and the Pharaoh Eagle exchanged their weapons for a sledgehammer and a fortress, ready to intercept the invaders at the only path they had to take. Old P was still studying the hero¡¯s skills, trying to see which hero could counter this fortress. It couldn¡¯t be that it was invincible, right? After less than two minutes, the defenders who rushed out died and returned. ¡°F * ck, this won¡¯t do. The opponent¡¯s firepower is too strong!¡± ¡°That¡¯s right. My fortress didn¡¯t even have time to find a ce to sit down before it was killed by the other party. I didn¡¯t even have time to react!¡± ¡°Isn¡¯t there a hammer and a shield?¡± ¡°No, we can¡¯t hold on at all. The enemy fortress¡¯s shield is too fast!¡± ¡°Didn¡¯t they say that the fortress can¡¯t be moved after it¡¯s sat down?¡± ¡°Yes, but this fortress ... He directly boarded the carriage!¡± Everyone was speechless. It was no wonder that the yers on old P¡¯s side were helpless, because the attacking yers had an idea and developed a very powerful strategy in the fish pond game, which was to ride in the fortress. Fortress sat on the transport target, hammer stood in front of him and raised his shield, while the others scattered around the transport target to inform fortress. There was no such thing as the fortress turning its muzzle to fire at the enemy the moment they appeared. ¡°This hero is too abnormal! How do we y this game!¡± ¡°This, even if the five of us are at the same level as Almighty P, it¡¯s useless. This has nothing to do with marksmanship!¡± ¡°Yeah, so what if you have good marksmanship? it¡¯s the same even if you hit the shield!¡± Old P switched to Yuan-Shi.¡±Don¡¯t be anxious. Everyone, gather. Let¡¯s try another wave.¡± At this time, the attacking party¡¯s transport target had already been escorted to thest target point. During this period of time, they had basically bulldozed through the entire way and did not encounter any obstacles. The defenders ¡®sledgehammers and fortresses were set up on the high tform near thest turn of King¡¯s Avenue. The others had also changed to heroes with more powerful firepower, such as Mad Rat and Grim Reaper, all ready to protect their only core: The fortress. ¡°It¡¯sing, it¡¯sing! The car was here! Hurry up and fight!¡± The moment the target turned, the fortresses on both sides saw each other. The Gatling guns began to fire wildly at the shield of the hammer. The other members were also firing at the enemy, all of them aiming at the enemy¡¯s fortress. ¡°F * ck, this won¡¯t do. The opponent¡¯s firepower seems to be stronger! Our shield is broken!¡± ¡°Their shields are also broken! Quick, kill the fortress!¡± ¡°Argh! If you can¡¯t kill me, I¡¯ll die!¡± ¡°I¡¯m also dead! And there are eggs all over the floor!¡± ¡°What should we do? the fortress isn¡¯t dead!¡± ¡°Eh? When did Almighty P go around the back? Wow, Almighty P,e back! You¡¯re no match for him!¡± ¡°...With this little dart, we¡¯ll probably have to wait until next year if we want to destroy the fortress!¡± ¡°Wow, Almighty P is going to solo fortress? I¡¯m mourning for God P ...¡± Seeing that the situation was critical, old P¡¯s yuan-Shi somehow managed to sneak up behind the enemy, jumped down from the building, and threw a small dart at the fortress. The yers in the fortress reacted very quickly as well. In VR, yers could urately determine the location of their opponents through their sense of touch. The fortress¡¯s muzzle quickly adjusted to an angle and started firing wildly at Yuanshi, who had jumped down. But at this moment, Yuan-Shi suddenly blocked the knife in front of her and started waving it around quickly. ¡°Ding ding ding ding ding ...¡± A series of crisp metal nging sounds rang out. Yuan-Shi did not lose a single drop of health, but the fortress was reduced to a pile of broken parts. After the fortress was destroyed, Yuan-Shi immediately went back and forth in the field and took in the remaining people. ¡°F * ck! What happened to Almighty P?¡± ¡°How did the fortress die? I didn¡¯t see it clearly.¡± ¡°How did Almighty P do it? fortress ¡®HP is so high that it can¡¯t be killed by darts!¡± Old P was speechless,¡±didn¡¯t you guys read the skill description?¡± Yuan-Shi¡¯s sh can block flying objects and bounce them back to your target. In other words, all bullets can hit the fortress. ¡± ¡°So that¡¯s how it is! Almighty popsicle!¡± ¡°Hahaha, amazing. Such a difficult fortress was destroyed by Almighty P alone!¡± Everyone started praising him again. If old P had not sessfully taken down the fortress, the consequences would have been unimaginable. ¡°Wow, they are here again! Hurry up and get ready!¡± ¡°Almighty P, the fortress is in your hands this time!¡± ¡°Good luck, everyone!¡± Soon, the yers found the unique fun in Overwatch. Although marksmanship couldn¡¯t solve all problems in the game, it also meant that yers could win in many ways. Soon, the yers were addicted to the game. Every hero was a new experience for them. The unique skills and powerful skills of the heroes were refreshing to them. This game was different from the other FPS games on the market! Chapter 435 - Strongly requesting to weaken the fortress

Chapter 435: Strongly requesting to weaken the fortress

The match ended in the midst ofughter. After the victory, a close-up of the winning team appeared on the interface. Several heroes each posed in the corresponding posture, and everyone was satisfied with the screen. To everyone¡¯s surprise, the rating interface didn¡¯t pop up immediately. Instead, the ¡®best of the night¡¯ scene appeared first. ¡°Best of the year: Pursley.¡± Old P¡¯s yuan-Shi stood in front of the camera and received a default, ssic close-up of Yuan-Shi. The three darts in her hand shed and then disappeared. She then looked back at the camera. After the close-up, the screen began to rey the yuan n¡¯s first-person perspective. As it was in VR mode, everyone could feel how cool old P¡¯s yuan-Shi was when he was harvesting the remnants of the battle. They could also clearly see the entire process of that crucial battle. Old P¡¯s yuan-Shi first climbed the wall to a high ce to avoid the enemy¡¯s line of sight, then descended from the sky to attack the fortress on which the target was being carried. At the moment the fortress attacked him, he activated sh and reflected all the bullets from the fortress. Then, he used shadow and close-range dagger attacks to continuously harvest the remaining blood andplete the clearing. Immediately after, the rted scores appeared on the screen. Old P¡¯s Yuanshi received an extremely high S-rank score. Not only his teammates, but even his opponent liked him. In addition, there were three yers who performed better, such as the other party¡¯s absolute core fortress and the Pharaoh Eagle, who had good damage output. There was also a ¡®details¡¯ button. If you clicked on it, you could see all the yers ¡®scores in the game, as well as detailed data on the heroes used by the yers. Taking old P¡¯s yuan n as an example, several pieces of data were highlighted: Number of kills, number of kills with big moves, survival rate of big moves, sh rebound damage. These statistics showed that old P¡¯s yuan-Shi had yed a very good role in reaping the spoils of war, and the survival rate was very high. The damage reflected by [sh] showed that old P¡¯s Yuanshi had ced a great restriction on the enemy¡¯s fortress, and it had a targeted effect. Chen Mo had also made some small improvements in the best yer and rted evaluations. In addition to output/healing, kill/assist, and skill effects, two new weight factors were added. One was theplexity and aesthetic of the rted operations, and the other was the impact on the battle situation. Reading on Mybo xno vel. ,Please! For example, if a yer used Hunter Kong to attract a lot of attention in the battle, then sessfully stuck the bomb on the core enemy and killed many people, then this difficult operation would also have some bonus points. In addition, if it was a key team battle, such as this team battle sessfully saved the critical state of the target point, or this wave of team battle effectively blocked the other side¡¯s push into the city, the yers who performed well in the team battle would also get extra points. Hence, ording to the overall assessment, the best yer of the match was not given to the brainless Tutu fortress, but to old P¡¯s yuan-Shi. ¡°F * ck, P-God is 6666!¡± ¡°I give full marks for this operation!¡± ¡°God P is really bold. I thought that wave was over, but God P¡¯s yuan-Shi went in alone and took the head of the enemy general from the middle of an Army of ten thousand. I¡¯m impressed!¡± ¡°Almighty P, take me flying!¡± ¡°The yuan Shi I¡¯m ying with is not a hero at all!¡± ¡°The immersion in VR is so explosive! It feels so good just by watching from the sidelines!¡± ¡°Quickly start another round! Eh? Why is it already open?¡± Before anyone could react, the game had already automatically started the next round. [Wee to Route 76. Please choose your hero.] ¡°F * ck, the next round automatically starts?¡± ¡°What a scheme! I feel like I¡¯ve fallen into an infinite loop and can¡¯t get out!¡± ¡°Hahaha, that¡¯s good. Everyone, hurry up. Again, again!¡± ¡­¡­ Very soon, the official forum of Overwatch became very popr. All sorts of yers were posting and sharing their experience in the game. ¡°The mostplete analysis of all hero skills for newbies!¡± ¡°Sharing the suitable locations of turrets in Tobian maps.¡± [About bnce: isn¡¯t the fortress too strong?] ¡°Suggested change of name: fortress Vanguard¡± ¡°Analysis of attack patterns on all maps¡± [Hanzo¡¯s archery skills] Anyone want to y? ¡°Add me as a friend!¡± ¡­¡­ Currently, these popr posts were mainly about strategy guides. Because no one knew how to y the game, these strategy guides were the most popr. In addition, there were also some daily discussion posts and daily bragging posts. However, the funniest ones were still some new yer experience posts. ¡°Is there a problem with this route? I¡¯m going to the well of Ilios, but why did the arrow go into the well?¡± ¡°This DJ¡¯s Healing Wave is really powerful. My Healing Volume was amazing the whole time!¡± ¡°Previous poster, do you have some misunderstanding about this hero? Lucio¡¯s HP is added in an area, not with his weapon ...¡± ¡°Tobian wasughed at the first time. I heard that you can level up by hitting the Fort with a hammer, but why didn¡¯t it react after a long time? In the end, the fortress in my team asked,¡±Tobian, why do you keep holding the small hammer?¡±¡± ¡°I really want to ask, they all say push cart diagrams, push cart diagrams, can push carts increase movement speed? I¡¯ve been pushing it for so long, but it¡¯s still so slow. ¡± ¡°I feel like I¡¯m still a newbie. I heard that other people¡¯s magical chickens are all ¡®from heaven¡¯... Ah!¡± And my chicken is ¡®Tian ... Ah!''¡± ¡°When I yed the monk, I hung balls to all my teammates as soon as I left the house. I feel like I¡¯m going to win this round! It was onlyter that I found out that the ball could only hang one person ...¡± The yers were having a great time ying the game. As an FPS game, Overwatch¡¯s game mechanics were richer than most other FPS games, so the learning cost was higher. However, since no one knew how to y it at the start, it became the most fun period for everyone during this period. They would be very happy if they won, and they could quickly move on to the next round if they lost. asionally, they would save the previous best of the game and watch it again and again, and they could also show off in front of their friends. Moreover, the game¡¯s win rate was basically maintained at around 50%. Unspecialized characters wouldn¡¯t crash into a team, and there wouldn¡¯t be situations where they would lose to each other, so everyone was having a great time. However, there were also yers who questioned whether the hero Fortress was too strong. In a post titled ¡°I suggest the game change its name to fortress Vanguard,¡± many yers wereining. ¡°The fortress is too abnormal! You¡¯ll be invincible after you sit down!¡± ¡°Yeah, if you have a good friend like dachui to protect you, and then a healer to heal you, it¡¯s simply abnormal!¡± ¡°And isn¡¯t this a defensive hero? But you can y as an offensive hero, just in the car. ¡± ¡°I strongly request for the fortress to be weakened! Set the muzzle of the Gatling gun to overheat!¡± ¡°That¡¯s right. Or, the healing amount will be halved after you sit down!¡± ¡°I agree. I strongly request for the fortress to be weakened. It will seriously affect the game experience!!¡± Chapter 436 - The award ceremony

Chapter 436: The award ceremony

On the forums, the calls to weaken the fortress grew, but Chen Zhao was unmoved and pretended not to see it. Chen Mo didn¡¯t have to prove it himself this time, as many yers answered for him on how to attack the fortress. All kinds of exciting scenes were posted online, and many fast-handed FPS gods were already performing how to kill the fortress in fancy ways. Yuan-Shi flicked the fortress to death. Lie Kong hacked the fortress to death. Or he might as well use Hanzo¡¯s or DVA¡¯s ultimate skills to kill them. In fact, fortress was stronger in the novice stage, mainly because the yers were not mentally prepared for this hero. Moreover, under the protection of the hammer and shield, most yers could not think of a good way to cut in. Especially in VR mode, yers could feel a dense vibration all over their body when they were hit by the fortress, as if they had been turned into a sieve by the bullets. Most yers would panic to death in this situation, not to mention counterattacking, they would not even be able to escape in a panic. However, once they fought more, the yers soon found a way to deal with the fortress. At the same time, more and morebinations of Champions and ystyles were being developed. Yuan-Shi, lie Kong, and the monk¡¯s dog-releasing style. Thebination of the Pharaoh Eagle and the angel. The nuclear bomb dropped by DVA. Chalia¡¯s gravity spray worked together with Hanzo¡¯s support. Also, no matter how strong he is, I choose Tobian. Reading on Mybo xno vel. ,Please! There was also the electrotherapybination of Dragon Lady and Winston, as well as the Empire-rebuildingbination of Hanzo and ck Lily. Eh? There seemed to be some strange things mixed in. In short, yers found that after many differentbinations of heroes, they became more willing to explore and dig deeper into the game. Theplex ways of ying various heroes were constantly dug out, and some special heroes began to capture arge number of fans. Heroes like Yuanshi, Hanzo, Aowei, lie Kong, ck Lily, and Pharaoh Eagle, who were very good at showing off, became frequent visitors of the game and often appeared in highlights. ¡­¡­ A week after the release of Overwatch, all the statistics continued to rise! The game spread at an extremely fast speed, from major video websites to many VR game forums, yer groups, and video game media. It became popr almost overnight! Even many yers who did not y FPS games could feel the poprity of this game. Under the persuasion of their friends, they downloaded and tried it out on their VR gaming pods. After all, as a free game, yers had no entry requirements. They could experience it as long as they had VR gaming pods. To the yers ¡®surprise, even those who didn¡¯t y the game started to enjoy a new wave of poprity. Several ssic female characters, such as DVA, Aowei, Hunter Kong, Angel, and Xiaomei, became the first choice of many cosyers. These cosy images quickly gained great poprity. This was especially true for the DVA. This beautiful girl who loved to y games was easy to cosy, so there were many real-life cosy. There were also manyrge-scale seductive photos, and some book artists even used the female characters in the photos as material for their books. All of these had yed a huge role in promoting Overwatch objectively. Of course, this was all thanks to the outstanding character design of ¡°Overwatch¡±. The heroes had different personalities and various styles. Every hero had a unique background story and character, which made the heroes of ¡°Overwatch¡± more alive and stimted the other works. Before the annual awards ceremony, Overwatch hadpletely stirred up the rather dull gaming industry, attracting everyone¡¯s attention! ¡­¡­ ¡­¡­ On the day of the awards ceremony, the weather was good. Even though the gamers didn¡¯t care about the award ceremony, it had already attracted much attention in the domestic gaming circle. All the attention was on the heavyweight award of ¡®game of the year¡¯. Over the years, this award had always been given to the S-grade videographers from Emperor dynasty entertainment and ZEN Entertainment. Other independent videographers had also won this award, but it was rtively rare. However, this year was a little special, because of Chen Mo and the appearance of the Overwatch, the winner of game of the year was immediately decided. Inparison, there weren¡¯t many great works in the domestic gaming industry this year, and there were even fewer that couldpete for the honor of ¡®game of the year¡¯. Before the appearance of Overwatch, it was widely believed that game of the year would be one of the two games. The first game was the magnificent Tang, developed by an independent game designer. In the game, the yer would y the role of an assassin, sneak into Chang ¡®an during the period of the magnificent Tang, and assassinate the Empress, Wu Zetian. Of course, there were all kinds of derived plots apanying this. The main selling point of the game was that it had restored some of the style and features of the great Tang Dynasty, including the local customs, clothing, and architectural features. At the same time, as an assassin, the feeling of flying on roofs and vaulting on walls during the Tang Dynasty was also very good. There were many night-time assassination plots that were also done very well. However, the disadvantages of this game were its limited capacity and short process. As a VR game, the main process was only about 40 minutes. Although the designer said that this was a game with ¡°open game characteristics¡±, most people could tell that it was a word game with some side branches. If the game¡¯s artistic style was taken away, it didn¡¯t have much content. The second one was an MMORPG by ZEN Entertainment, three realms. The project for this game had actually beenpleted long before League of Legends, but it was affected by the appearance of League of Legends. In the initial design n, the idea of ¡°three realms¡± was to sacrifice part of the quality, reduce the configuration requirements, fully support the dual-end of VR and PC, develop a variety of casual games, and build a rich social system. Initially, the game was designed to attract the most number of yers for new channels, so the design was to take care of thergest number of yers. However, after League of Legends came out of nowhere, ZEN Entertainment quickly realized that there was a problem with the game¡¯s approach, so they urgently halted their development ns and made some changes to it, finally releasing it this year. After the modification, three realms focused its attention on the VR field and no longer hoped topete with League of Legends on the PC side. League of Legends had be so popr on the PC side that even the old mmorpgs were being suppressed, let alone a new game like three realms that had no foundation. The advantage of ¡°three realms¡± was that the art style was better. It built a threeyer world of humans, Immortals, and demons. The scenes were also developed to the extreme of the traditional Xianxia style. As for its ws, it could be said to be amon problem with mmorpgs in China. It was theck of depth, and the various ystyles revealed the utilitarian heart of the designers. In terms of gamey, there weren¡¯t any major changes to traditional mmorpgs. Chapter 437 - The suspense of game of the year

Chapter 437: The suspense of game of the year

Emperor dynasty entertainment had a few decent games this year, but they didn¡¯t qualify for game of the year as a whole. At first, the industry insiders were generally optimistic about the great Tang. After all, three realms was an MMORPG. For the sake of profit and statistics such as yer retention, some of the game¡¯s yability would have to be sacrificed, so it was natural for the judges to lose points. On the other hand, the great Tang was a single yer game with a strong Chinese feel to it. Other than theck of game content, it had no obvious shorings. However, after Overwatch was released, the ¡®game of the year¡¯ award immediately became a mystery. Many video game designers had realized that ¡®Overwatch¡¯ was definitely qualified topete for this award! Although it was apetitive game, and the main fun came from the confrontation between yers, its characteristics were also very obvious. There were two points that were very likely to impress the judges. The first was the construction of the world and the rich character settings of each hero. The future background, the coexistence of humans and machines, the heroes of various countries with various superpowers ... The entire background was very artistic and would definitely be very pleasing to the eye. The second was the innovation of the game. Although there had been ¡®FPS games with skills¡¯ before, they did note up with aplete system. Designers were afraid that such a mode would affect the core fun and bnce of FPS games, so they were very careful when making it, unlike Overwatch which was so bold and decisive. From the feedback from the current yers, it was very important that the Overwatch had bnced the fun of traditional FPS games and MOBA games. Ideas weren¡¯t valuable, only when they were turned into works were they valuable. In the process of turning ideas into a work, there were a lot of details, and any problem with any of these details could cause the final product to bepletely different from what was previously expected. Therefore, for Overwatch to be able to develop the concept of ¡®FPS with skills¡¯, it was already an amazing feat. Other than that, the main problem with judging Overwatch was that the content was not rich enough. Simply put, there was no plot in the game, there were not many scenes, and there was no open world game content. However, these three points were not fatal, because there were other content in ¡®Overwatch¡¯ that could make up for it. There was no plot, but there was a background story. Furthermore, there were many Easter eggs in the map. The background story of all the heroes was integrated into one. In terms of story-telling, Overwatch was not told to the yers in a traditional way, but it was not a weak story. Reading on Mybo xno vel. ,Please! There weren¡¯t many scenes, but each one had its own characteristics. King¡¯s Avenue, flower vige, Li River Tower, Hollywood, and other scenes. The architectural style of every map in ¡°Overwatch¡± waspletely different, and they were all innovative. Not only did they show the cultural characteristics of each country, but they alsobined a sense of technology. Such a scene design itself was also a bonus. There was no open world game content, and the game content was not rich enough. This could not be solved. However, as a free VR game, Overwatch was able to innovate on the mainstream FPS ystyle, and the response from the yers was very good. Would this be some kind of bonus? No one could tell. Although many designers still felt that the Grand Tang was the most suitable game to win the award, they had to admit that Overwatch was a verypetitive game. All of this would only be revealed at the final award ceremony! ¡­¡­ Many designers were chatting in the big boss Designer Chat group. ¡°I¡¯m already at the venue. Is everyone here?¡± ¡°I¡¯m so envious of the big boss who can attend the annual awards ceremony ...¡± ¡°I¡¯m also envious ...¡± ¡°Old Qiu, have you arrived? And where¡¯s the dog leader?¡± ¡°Let¡¯s gather in the main hall!¡± ¡°Huh? I see boss Chen Mo!¡± This chat group was filled with independent game designers, and a few of them were regrs at the annual game Awards ceremony, such as Li Feng, who made wings of star elves, Zhou Haibin, who made dream journey, and Zhu fanglin, who made evil earth. These people usually chatted in the group and it was difficult for them to gather together. At such a critical asion, they naturally had to get together and build up their rtionship. After all, these independent videogame designers were rtively isted from the rest of the world and didn¡¯t have much to do with the designers from Emperor dynasty entertainment and ZEN Entertainment. They basically didn¡¯tpete with each other, so their rtionship was very good. Of course, there were many designers in the group who were not qualified to attend the award ceremony. They could only be envious. As soon as Chen Mo entered the hall, he heard someone calling him. ¡°Chen Mo! Here!¡± He turned around and saw that it was Li Feng, the designer of wings of star elves, who had been very active in the group. There were already four or five people gathered around Li Feng. They all greeted Chen Zhao when they saw him. Chen Mo knew everyone present since they had been chatting in the group before. They were all famous independent designers, and Chen Mo had seen their photos and information. Soon, Qiu Hengyang and Zhang xiaokong, the group leader, arrived. These were all old acquaintances in the group, but they hadn¡¯t seen each other for a long time in real life, so they were still quite excited. ¡°Alright, let¡¯s not block the way here and go inside,¡± said Zhang xiaokong. By the way, are we going to the lecture or the exchange?¡± ¡°It¡¯s all up to you,¡±said Li Feng. By the way, does Chen Mo have a lecture this year?¡± ¡°Don¡¯t keep calling me ¡®Big Boss¡¯,¡± Chen Mo said helplessly.¡±I¡¯m so embarrassed.¡± Li Fengughed.¡±Well, I¡¯m just used to it.¡± ¡°There¡¯s no talk,¡± said Chen Mo. ¡°Maybe it¡¯s because the games I¡¯ve made this year are all a little controversial, and the game Committee is worried that something might go wrong.¡± Qiu Hengyang expressed his understanding.¡±That¡¯s true. Look at excavating for Ascension and oust. These two sadistic games, especially oust, probably have a lot of internal disputes in the game Committee. Did Minister Qiao Hua criticize you?¡± Chen Moughed,¡±why are you criticizing me?¡± If Minister Qiao and Chairman Zhang didn¡¯t agree, would my horror game have passed the vetting process?¡± ¡°That¡¯s true,¡±Qiu Hengyangughed. ¡°Eh? This can¡¯t be right? Why didn¡¯t you mention Chen Mo¡¯s two major works this year?¡± ¡°You mean League of Legends and the Overwatch?¡± Qiu Hengyang asked. ¡°Overwatch¡± had just been released a few days ago, so there was no time to make arrangements. As for League of Legends, it¡¯s a sess, but it¡¯s still on the PC, so it¡¯s not very popr. As for esports, the gamemittee¡¯s attitude is quite ambiguous, but it¡¯s still controversial, so they won¡¯t be very supportive. ¡± Li Feng nodded.¡±Yes, e-sports has always been a gray industry. Clubs and Studios are ambiguous. The game Committee doesn¡¯t encourage or encourage it, but they don¡¯t explicitly ban it either. He should still be in a wait-and-see state. ¡± ¡°It¡¯s a good thing you don¡¯t have to tell me,¡± Chen Moughed.¡±I¡¯m toozy to tell you.¡± Zhang xiaokong looked at the lecture in the morning.¡±¡±I don¡¯t think there¡¯s any talk I really want to listen to. By the way, do you guys want to attend an exchange or something?¡± Chapter 438 - Exchange meeting on the development prospects of competitive games

Chapter 438: Exchange meeting on the development prospects ofpetitive games

¡°An exchange?¡± Li Fengughed.¡±Stupid group leader, you want to go and fight with the people from Emperor dynasty and Zen?¡± Zhang xiaokong said,¡±what¡¯s there to argue about? how can an Academic Exchange be called arguing?¡± This is for designers to share their ideas. ¡± Qiu Hengyang nodded.¡±Alright, let¡¯s go take a look at the exchange. The talks this morning were really boring.¡± The group of them walked towards the venue of the exchange. The so-called exchange meeting wasn¡¯t much different from a lecture. The scale of the meeting varied, but the topic of the meeting was a discussion about a certain game type or development direction. The biggest difference between an exchange and a lecture was that a lecture was generally popr science. Only one person would talk, and it had a certain level of authority. On the other hand, the exchange meeting was an exchange. Most people could speak freely, and it didn¡¯t matter if they were wrong. This was because the questions at the exchange meeting were often inconclusive, and no one knew the correct answer. Of course, this kind of Academic Exchange was inevitable, but it was normal. After all, it was inevitable to refute each other in other Academic Exchange activities. Chen Mo didn¡¯t want to go to these events before, because he didn¡¯t want to argue with other designers. If he did, he might identally reveal his ideas and cause more trouble. However, this morning¡¯s lectures were really boring. Since everyone wanted to go to the exchange meeting, he would go and take a look. Like the lecture, the exchange was divided into many different venues, big and small. The small-scale exchange meetings only had one or two long conference tables, which could amodate a dozen or so people. Therger exchange meetings were held inrge venues that could amodate up to a hundred people. Of course, it was impossible for everyone to speak at arge-scale exchange. When the organizer organized such arge-scale exchange, he would estimate the number of people in advance and arrange for a few well-known designers to speak in advance. At the same time, he would reserve many audience seats. Under normal circumstances, the audience was not allowed to speak freely and had to apply. After all, time was limited. If all the small fry came up to discuss, then there would definitely be nothing to exchange in this exchange. When Zhang xiaokong and the others arrived at the venue, they found that there were many topics for the exchange meeting, but the number of people was very different. There were some unpopr topics that no one was interested in, with only a dozen or so people; Some of the hot topics were about explosive poprity, and therge venues were full. ¡°Eh? This one¡¯s not bad, let¡¯s go take a look?¡± Chen Mo pointed at the sign for the venue. Everyone took a look and saw the signboard: ¡®Exchange meeting on the future ofpetitive gaming¡¯. Reading on Mybo xno vel. ,Please! Everyone was speechless. ¡°Sure, let¡¯s go take a look,¡± Zhang xiaokong said.¡±We¡¯re all quite interested in e-sports, but Chen Mo, are you sure this exchange will be of any use to you?¡± Chen Mo was amused.¡±Why wouldn¡¯t it work? we¡¯re just learning from each other. Who knows, maybe the others have better ideas?¡± ¡°Sure, I¡¯ll participate in this one then.¡± Zhang xiaokong nodded. The few of them entered the venue and found seats in the opposite corners. Obviously, the conference had just started, and the first designer was still exining some basic knowledge and development status ofpetitive games. Even though these things seemed like child¡¯s y to designers who understoodpetitive games, there were hundreds of designers in the stadium who specialized in different fields. Many mobile and VR designers didn¡¯t know much aboutpetitive games, so this kind of popr science was still necessary. Every speaker had a PowerPoint presentation. The videogame designer who was giving the speech was an A-grade videogame designer from Emperor dynasty entertainment and the host of the speech. ¡°Competitive games have existed for a long time, like the RTS games Legion conquest and Warcraft a few years ago, and then there were COG and League of Legends. After a long period of development,petitive games have also undergone a lot of changes. ¡± ¡°Before this,petitive games have always been a niche game, because in the past,petitive games were mostly referred to as RTS games. Although some FPS games arepetitive, the number of viewers and poprity ofpetitive games can not bepared to the number of yers in the game itself. ¡°That¡¯s whypetitive games have always received less attention. But this year, with the League of Legends World Finals,petitive games seem to have been pushed to the forefront, and the poprity has risen. ¡± ¡°Then, what are the future prospects ofpetitive games? Was the sess of League of Legends a replicable and rtable sess? Regarding this point, there will be a few designers who will do a professional analysis. I hope that everyone can gain some insights from this exchange event. Thank you!¡± ¡°Next, let¡¯s wee the first main speaker.¡± The host stepped down after a brief introduction of the concept and development ofpetitive games. In fact, this was mainly to make the event more official and to prevent the meeting from going astray. As for e-sports games, although League of Legends had achieved great sess in this world, it had not gained much attention in the gaming circle. Because of Chen Mo¡¯s push, League of Legends showed a revolutionary development in this world. It was so fast that many people didn¡¯t even have time to react. It wasunched before the new year and was not looked upon favorably. At the beginning of the year, they started to work hard and beat all simr games in the country. They then gradually expanded into other games. It continued to be popr in the middle of the year and spread overseas. The global Grand Finals that would be held from October to November instantly attracted countless gazes. The series of actions were allpleted within the year. Even though League of Legends had swept the entire PC market and was very popr, many designers who were limited to their own field could only feel that League of Legends was very popr, but they had no idea how popr it was. As such, things that Chen Mo was already sick of were still new to many video game designers. In addition, this world ced more emphasis on VR than PC, so the poprity of PC games was not known to them yet, so it was not surprising that such a situation urred. Many designers who didn¡¯t understand or care about League of Legends were still indifferent. It was a PC game with a God¡¯s perspective, the graphics weren¡¯t particrly exquisite, there wasn¡¯t much story, and the way to y looked very simple. How could it be better than a VR game? Of course, many yers realized that League of Legends had pointed out a new path forpetitive games, and that was why there was such a meeting. This group of designers could be said to be the group of people who were most concerned aboutpetitive games at the moment. They would more or less influence the direction of the domestic development ofpetitive games. Chapter 439 - Debate and discussion

Chapter 439: Debate and discussion

? The first designer went on stage. He was also an A-grade videogame designer from Emperor dynasty entertainment, and was also a PC game expert. He had obviously done a lot of research on League of Legends. ¡°Regardingpetitive games, my opinion is: Competitive games would continue to develop in the next three to five years and be one of the mainstream genres of PC games. As for the VR game, I haven¡¯t done much research on it, so I¡¯ll leave it to other designers. ¡± ¡°Next, I¡¯ll talk about whypetitive games became mainstream on the PC side. The crowd below the stage listened with great interest. It was obvious that the designer had prepared a lot of information before the conference, talking about the history and analysis of esports games. From the development of RTS games to the emergence of gaming clubs, to the sess of League of Legends, it was all about the same. ¡°The reason why I¡¯m so sure thatpetitive games will continue to develop in the next three to five years is becausepetitive games on the PC side have a huge advantage over other game genres. They have fragmented time, repeatable experiences, clear goals, and are easy to spread, among other attributes. And these attributes are very much in line with the habits of current mainstream PC yers. ¡± ¡°In the next few years, the habits of mainstream PC yers should not change. Therefore, I predict thatpetitive games still have a lot of potential on the PC side.¡± Very quickly, the first designer finished his speech. The second videogame designer went on stage and started to talk about the current development ofpetitive games in the VR field. This was the videogame designer from Emperor dynasty entertainment. ¡°The development ofpetitive games in the VR field, to be honest, ispletely behind the PC market. Of course, there are manyplicated reasons for this. ¡± ¡°Currently, thepetitive games in VR games are mainly referring to FPS games. However, there are norge-scalepetitions yet. This is mainly due to two factors, the number of yers and the viewing pleasure. ¡°There aren¡¯t many VR yers to begin with, and there aren¡¯t as many FPS yers as there are RPG yers. In a situation where there aren¡¯t enough yers, there¡¯s ack of audience for major events. In terms of viewership, FPS games change too fast. Even withmentary, it¡¯s difficult for yers to keep up with every exciting scene on the battlefield. ¡± ¡°However, I¡¯m still optimistic about the e-sports ecosystem on the VR side. Obviously, VR is an all-round improvement and innovation tformpared to PC. There¡¯s no doubt that VR games are the future of games. So, I¡¯m more inclined to think that VR games can bepetitive, but we haven¡¯t found a suitable path yet. ¡± After the second designer finished his speech, the third designer went on stage. Reading on Mybo xno vel. ,Please! This videogame designer was the videogame designer for ZEN Entertainment and he immediately offered a different perspective. ¡°I have a different view on the future of VRpetitive games. In my opinion,petitive games are only popr temporarily. They¡¯ll definitely decline in the long run. ¡± ¡°The reason is simple. Games are different from traditional sports. Games change too quickly. I¡¯ve never heard of a game that has been in power for more than three years. If the game dies, then the e-sports system that we¡¯ve worked so hard to build will be a castle in the air and will only copse ...¡± These designers all had their own opinions and opinions. Some people felt thatpetitive games had great potential and would have very good development prospects in the future, while others felt thatpetitive games were just a sh in the pan and would soon decline with the decline of games. Of course, there were also people who retorted this, saying that if apetitive game declined, there would be another one to rece it. Although the game would decline, the audience would change, which meant that thepetitive game itself would only develop better and better. Following that, someone retorted, saying that ¡°the audience will change¡± was not a valid point. Most audiences only looked at the games they yed, and ¡°the audience will change¡± was based on ¡°the yers will change.¡± But it couldn¡¯t be that every phenomenal game in the future would be apetitive game, right? ¡­¡­ This was how the exchange meet worked. As the topic of discussion was something that the industry had yet to reach a conclusion on, it was filled with arguments and refutations, refutations and refutations. However, this was also the purpose of the exchange meet. Through such debates, the designers in the audience could have their own thoughts and form their own understanding of the problem. At the same time, through constantmunication and disputes, some of the ws in their views would be pointed out, which would help everyone find the final truth. Zhang xiaokong looked at Chen Mo, who was sitting next to him, and found that he was still listening with great interest. The organizer didn¡¯t invite Chen Mo to the exchange. Chen Mo was the designer of League of Legends, so it was natural that he would be involved in this topic. But the main problem was that the videogame designer was from Emperor dynasty entertainment, and Chen Mo wasn¡¯t on good terms with them. The designer must have considered this as well, so he was too embarrassed to ask. Most of the videographers invited were from Emperor dynasty entertainment, and a small portion were from ZEN Entertainment, which was obvious. Moreover, these video game designers also thought that Chen Mo¡¯s ideas werepletely ahead of the time before League of Legends. However, after League of Legends appeared, most designers were able to discover the elements of its sess just by studying the game carefully, and they weren¡¯t any less knowledgeable than Chen Mo. Of course, Chen Mo still had some hidden secrets, but even if he was asked to talk, would he talk about them? It was obviously impossible. Even if Chen Mo came, he would probably talk about things that everyone could see. That was why Chen Mo wasn¡¯t on the list of main speakers. ¡­¡­ The discussion stagested for two hours, with a 20-minute break. After thest designer finished his speech, the organizer went on stage again. ¡°Alright, after the presentation by the designers, everyone should have their own opinions. Next, everyone can speak freely. As usual, those who want to speak can go on stage, but please control the time. Each person has ten minutes, so please keep your speech short. ¡± After the host finished speaking, he stood to the side. Following that, designers came on stage to express their opinions. Of course, the designers who were able to attend this award ceremony were at least well-known in the country. They were very restrained in this kind of asion. Basically, there would not be situations where they upied the podium or talked nonsense. They were all courteous to each other, so the order of the venue was not bad. The organizer nced down the stage while listening to the new designer¡¯s speech. ¡°What?¡± When he nced at the back row, he saw Chen Mo sitting with Zhang xiaokong and the others. ¡°Chen Zhao?¡± The host rubbed his eyes and confirmed that he was not mistaken. Chapter 440 - Chen Mo鈥檚 speech

Chapter 440: Chen Mo¡¯s speech

Chen Zhao was here too? This was something he had never expected. Other video game designers might be able to learn something from this exchange, but Chen Mo was too good atpetitive games, what was the point ofing here? However, since he was already here, he couldn¡¯t just let him go. The host didn¡¯t invite Chen Mo at first, mainly because of Chen Mo¡¯s rtionship with Emperor dynasty entertainment. But now that Chen Mo was already here, he had to go up and talk. The host avoided everyone¡¯s line of sight and went to Chen Mo¡¯s side,¡±¡±Hello, is this Mr. Chen Zhao? You should have a lot of say in this issue, can you please go up and talk about it?¡± Many other designers also noticed Chen Mo in the back row. ¡°Eh? Isn¡¯t that Chen Zhao?¡± ¡°The designer of League of Legends and the Overwatch?¡± ¡°Damn, why is he so low-key? did he sit in the back seat the entire time? I didn¡¯t notice. ¡± ¡°Why didn¡¯t he go up and talk? He seems to be the one who has the most say in this issue, right?¡± ¡°Chen Mo, go up and talk!¡± ¡°Yeah, boss Chen Mo, tell us!¡± More and more people began to notice it, and the cheers were getting louder and louder. Chen Mo was only here to listen to the lecture, but seeing the crowd¡¯s enthusiasm, he could only stand up helplessly and walk up to the podium. Reading on Mybo xno vel. ,Please! The designers were all discussing. ¡°Sure, sure. We should listen to Chen Mo¡¯s speech, especially since boss Lin said that ourpany hasn¡¯t made a goodpetitive game yet. If we can make it, we¡¯ll definitely have the resources to promote it, and then we¡¯ll be able to reach the sky like League of Legends.¡± ¡°Yeah, President Lin has been eyeing League of Legends for a long time, but no one has been able to make it. I hope that Chen Mo can make some of it this time, then we can makepetitive games too!¡± ¡°Sigh, the ancient catastrophe ...¡± ¡°Alright, that¡¯s enough. Just listen.¡± Chen Mo nced at the designers in the audience. He didn¡¯t know most of them, but he could roughly guess their identity. Most of them were from Emperor dynasty entertainment, ZEN Entertainment, and other video game designers. After all, the exchange was organized by the designers of Emperor dynasty entertainment, so it wasn¡¯t surprising that most of the people attending were designers from Emperor dynasty entertainment. Of course, there were other independent video game designers, but they were all seated in thest row, and most of them knew Chen Mo. Chen Zhao touched the bracelet on his left hand with his right hand and thought for two minutes. The topic of the conference had basically shifted from League of Legends to the Overwatch. There was no need to borate on the sess of League of Legends on the PC, but to make apetitive game that surpassed League of Legends on the PC? Most of the designers were clear-headed, they knew that this was difficult, basically impossible. After the defeat of COG and ancient catastrophe, the twopetitors in the same field, League of Legends had upied the absolute dominant position in the MOBA field. Did he want to use other MOBA games to shake the status of League of Legends? It was basically impossible, because in the current League of Legends, whether it was character design, game y, or rted events, it was far ahead of everyone else. Competitive games were different from single-yer games as they were unique. In other words, once yers yed League of Legends, they would not touch other MOBA games unless the game was ruined. There would only be one winner in the market segment. MOBA yers wouldn¡¯t be like single-yer gamers, buying every new game they came up with. Therefore, everyone turned their attention to the VR field and the Overwatch. Even though Overwatch didn¡¯t have any ranking or rtedpetitions, most of the designers guessed that the game would follow the path of League of Legends. The reason was simple. Overwatch waspletely free of charge with no threshold, its battles were absolutely fair and had no growth potential, and it had a rich variety of tactics. All its characteristics were extremely simr to League of Legends. Many video game designers had naturally thought that Chen Mo made Overwatch to recreate the sess of League of Legends in the VR industry. Of course, whether that was the case or not would depend on what Chen Zhao said. Chen Mo cleared his throat and said,¡±¡±A few designers have said this before. I thinkpetitive games will be the mainstream game in the future, and obviously, the sess of League of Legends has proven this. ¡± ¡°Why? In fact, many people didn¡¯t get to the point. The fundamental reason was thatpetitive games were a game between people, so it had a strong reyable attribute and met the multiple needs of the yers: It¡¯s to be stronger, to show off, to cooperate, to socialize, to research, and so on. Moreover, its depth of the game is better than most games. ¡± ¡°I¡¯ve always felt that as a videogame designer, you can not understand games, but you can¡¯t not understand human nature. You don¡¯t have to know anything about game design concepts, but you have to know what the yers want. ¡± ¡°Obviously, in this aspect,petitive games are definitely better than any other game genre on the market. Moreover, it has extremely high derivative value, which is esports. ¡°League of Legends ¡®first season¡¯s global Grand Finals have more than 8 million spectators. Although League of Legends isn¡¯t making any profits at the moment, this number alone already shows its huge value.¡± ¡°After the new year, Thunderbolt entertainment will also set up a special department to be in charge of esports-rted matters.¡± ¡°That¡¯s why I feel that today¡¯s exchange is very good. Obviously, everyone has a good sense of smell and has recognized the good prospects ofpetitive games.¡± Chen Mo¡¯s speech came to an end, and the audience gave him a round of apuse. ¡°As expected, the big boss is different the moment he opens his mouth. He¡¯s even more convincing than the previous people!¡± ¡°Yes, and as the designer of League of Legends, he does have the confidence to say that!¡± ¡°That¡¯s a really good line,¡¯you don¡¯t understand games, but you can¡¯t not understand human nature¡¯. Look at the videographers who were analyzingpetitive games from all angles, and Chen Mo¡¯s one sentence was enough to kill them all: That¡¯s human nature, yers just love to y!¡± ¡°Listen up, I feel like Chen Mo is going to release a lot of useful stuff this time! Let¡¯s listen more, maybe we can write a good design draft and get President Lin¡¯s appreciation!¡± ¡°That¡¯s right. As long as we can get boss Lin¡¯s recognition, we¡¯ll have no problem in terms of resources or channels. Maybe we¡¯ll be able to reach the sky in a single bound like League of Legends!¡± Chapter 441 - The ultimate form of VR competitive games?

Chapter 441: The ultimate form of VRpetitive games?

Chen Mo waited for the apuse to die down before continuing,¡±¡±I can assure you that League of Legends is just the beginning. It¡¯s just a small trial on PC. The future belongs to VR!¡± ¡°Obviously, VR is the future direction of the game industry, so Overwatch is a test. Why couldn¡¯t the past VR games push the e-sports industry? Because of the number of yers. ¡± ¡°There are less than 100 million users in total on the VR tform, and many VR games have a threshold fee of one to two thousand Yuan, which means there are even fewer yers. If there aren¡¯t enough yers, there won¡¯t be enough viewers, so even if we forcefully organize apetition, the poprity will definitely be low, and we¡¯ll lose money if we do it. ¡± ¡°That¡¯s why Overwatch has to make it free of charge. That¡¯s the only way to provide enough space for the e-sports ecosystem!¡± All of the video game designers were listening intently. It was obvious that Chen Mo¡¯s words were very useful to them, the kind that couldn¡¯t be repeated anymore. As long as they could understand a small part of it, they might be able to benefit from it. Chen Mo continued,¡±I know everyone is curious about one thing. Is there a VRpetitive game that can achieve what League of Legends did on the PC?¡± He nced around the audience and said,¡±the answer is yes.¡± Many people might ask,¡±is it¡± Overwatch ¡°?¡± I can only say that the Overwatch is heading in this direction, but it has not reached its end. ¡± The designers in the audience were all shocked. What did he mean? was Chen Mo going to expose something big? Many people thought that Chen Mo wouldn¡¯t be able to exin the core design ideas, but it seemed like Chen Mo was going deeper and deeper. Of course, no one would remind him. Everyone listened carefully as if they had taken advantage of the situation. ¡°Although League of Legends has achieved great sess on the PC side, it¡¯s a difficult task to replicate this sess on the VR tform.¡± ¡°I¡¯ll share a little trick with everyone here. It¡¯s how to determine what kind of game you want to make.¡± ¡°It¡¯s simple, by elimination. After eliminating all the wrong choices, the remaining choices, no matter how unreasonable they look, are the correct choices. They are the only truth. ¡± Chen Mo¡¯s thoughts were clear as he exined word by word. Reading on Mybo xno vel. ,Please! ¡°First, can MOBA games be directly imported to VR?¡± ¡°Obviously not. Because MOBA games required a good view and a clear understanding of the movements of teammates and opponents, they could only use a God¡¯s perspective, which couldn¡¯t make full use of the ¡®stronger immersion¡¯ advantage of VR. That¡¯s why MOBA games can¡¯t be directly imported to VR. ¡± ¡°Second, ifpetitive games can be reyed, then why are MOBA games reyable?¡± ¡°That¡¯s because MOBA games have a rich system. League of Legends is expected to have more than 100 Heroes, and each hero haspletely different skills. Such rich game content will support yers to keep studying the game. ¡± ¡°So, if there¡¯s apetitive game on VR that can dominate the market, it must be a game with rich content and can be reyed. ¡°Combining the above two points, we cane up with a seemingly absurd conclusion: MOBA games could not be imported to VR. However, if you want to make a goodpetitive game, you must have many heroes, many skills, and a rich game mechanism. ¡± ¡°That¡¯s why Overwatch was born.¡± After hearing Chen Mo¡¯s exnation, the designers in the audience all looked enlightened. ¡°So that¡¯s how it is. That¡¯s how you got the idea for Overwatch?¡± ¡°The big boss is indeed the big boss. We all think of ideas when we make games, but the big boss analyzed the industry¡¯s development direction through all kinds of general trends. After that, the ideas naturally came out!¡± ¡°Amazing, amazing, I learned it again!¡± ¡°So Chen Mo is saying that Overwatch is the ultimate form of VRpetitive games?¡± ¡°I think it makes sense! They had to have more Champions and more skills, but they couldn¡¯t copy MOBA mode, which meant they had to either do an RPG or an FPS! However, in terms ofpetition, FPS yers will definitely win against RPG. Therefore, the answer is clear!¡± ¡°Shush, stop talking. Let Chen Zhao finish.¡± Chen Zhao paused again. When everyone had more or less figured it out, he continued,¡±¡±From the looks of it, Overwatch represents the general direction of VRpetitive games. But to be honest, Overwatch still has a long way to go. ¡± ¡°Actually, the main issue is still the quantity. There were already fifty Champions in League of Legends during the world Finals, which barely met the game content required for the game. However, the Overwatch only has 23 heroes so far. We¡¯re stillcking in numbers. ¡± ¡°So, the next goal for Overwatch is to produce more new heroes. My goal is to get more than 70 new heroes in the Overwatch within two years. This will ensure the diversity of thepetition. ¡± ¡°Of course, it¡¯s only a matter of time. I believe that in the future,petitive games will definitely be able to achieve even better development and be a dominant game type. ¡°That¡¯s just my personal opinion. Thank you, everyone.¡± Chen Zhao got off the stage and thunderous apuse immediately sounded. ¡°Amazing! As expected of a Big Shot, your analysis is so good!¡± ¡°In other words, the Overwatch isn¡¯tplete yet? Do we still have a chance?¡± ¡°Right, there¡¯s definitely a chance! ¡°Right now,¡¯Overwatch¡¯ has just been released and is still in its release period. If we also work in this area, we might be able to catch up!¡± ¡°I think boss Lin will definitely be very optimistic about this game mode. We might not be able to grasp the PC version, but we definitely have to grasp the VR version of Overwatch!¡± ¡°I¡¯ll write the design concept and send it to CEO Lin!¡± ¡°I¡¯ve gained a lot from today¡¯s exchange!¡± Chen Mo¡¯s words made many designers ¡®blood boil, especially the designers from the two bigpanies, Emperor dynasty and Zen. Many of the independent video game designers were also tempted, but it was obvious that they couldn¡¯t make it even if they knew. ording to Chen Mo¡¯s n,petitive games like this had to be free of charge, how could an independent video game designer afford to make a free VR game? If they screwed up and couldn¡¯t recover the cost, wouldn¡¯t they lose all their money? However, Emperor dynasty entertainment and ZEN Entertainment were different. Just like Emperor dynasty entertainment, as long as the designer¡¯s design draft could get Lin chaoxu¡¯s approval, the R & D funds, promotion fees, and so on would all be paid for by Emperor dynasty entertainment. The designer didn¡¯t have to pay for it. What if he seeded? Thinking about how popr League of Legends was now, it could be said that it reached the sky in one step! As a result, the video game designers of these twopanies were very excited and began to think about VRpetitive games, hoping to gain the recognition of thepany¡¯s higher-ups. These people had their doubts and wanted to see how Overwatch would perform, but after hearing Chen Mo¡¯s words, their doubts were dispelled. It was obvious that Overwatch¡¯s mode represented the future direction of VRpetitive games! It wasn¡¯t toote to start now, but if they dragged on any longer, the market share would bepletely devoured by Overwatch! Chapter 442 - a dead end

Chapter 442: Chapter 441-a dead end

Chen Mo got off the stage and returned to his seat. Zhang xiaokong frowned and said in a low voice,¡±¡±Chen Zhao, did you say too much? You¡¯ve revealed all the key points to the sess of the Overwatch, aren¡¯t you afraid of being copied?¡± Chen Mo smiled,¡±it¡¯s okay. I¡¯m confident in Overwatch.¡± Besides, this is an exchange, so there are both correct and wrong points of view. Everyone is improving through the exchange. ¡± Zhang xiaokong still felt that it was a bit inappropriate, but since what Chen Mo wanted to talk about was his own private matter, Zhang xiaokong didn¡¯t ask anymore. Chen Mo was a little helpless. I purposely adjusted the effective range of the Halo to avoid the indie video game designers in the back row. Why do you guys seem to have been fooled by me? Could it be that I¡¯ve reached a level where I can fool people without the use of props? ¡­¡­ Chen Zhao¡¯s words were half true. The correct choice could indeed be eliminated by the process of elimination, but it was also possible that after the process of elimination, one would find that this path did not work at all. The path that Chen Mo described, which was the path that the Overwatch took, was a path that didn¡¯t actually work. The so-called ¡°no way¡± didn¡¯t mean that it would fail, but that it would never reach the level of MOBA games being popr all over the world. Even though Blizzard had made some mistakes in the production and promotion of Overwatch, what about others? Simrly, it was impossible toplete the idea of an ¡®FPS with skills¡¯. The sess of ¡°the Overwatch¡± was inseparable from the excellent character setting, story background, and cultural connotation, which happened to be Blizzard¡¯s strength. What if otherpanies wanted to copy Overwatch? In terms of cultural content, it could not even reach the standard of Overwatch. As such, Chen Mo wasn¡¯t worried about being copied at all, because no one could do a good job of this type of game. Chen Mo knew that there were a lot of problems with Overwatch, but they couldn¡¯t be solved with the current design concept. Reading on Mybo xno vel. ,Please! In order for Overwatch to be a perfectpetitive game, the core problem that needed to be solved was bnce and the richness of tactics. These two problems were actually the same. The specific performance was slow updates, little content, easy to get tired of, rigid lineup, poor experience in the fish pond, and so on. All of these actually originated from the same problem. Based on the current game mechanics of Overwatch, there were the best or near-best champion lineups. The so-called bnce didn¡¯t mean that both sides could have the same lineup. Otherwise, why would MOBA games still ban yers? Wouldn¡¯t it be fine if everyone just randomly chose the strongest hero? In the Overwatch¡¯s ¡°push-and-upy¡± mode, some team-type heroes became indispensable. In a 6V6, the lineup changes were directly locked in, and the heroes squeezed each other¡¯s ying space. The reason why 76 and the Empire-rebuildingbination were treated so differently was that their output stability and output ability were not on the same level. In that case, was it possible to quickly produce multiple heroes through the number of shops and achieve a good bnce? It was almost impossible. It was possible to create heroes quickly, but the more heroes there were, the more difficult it would be to bnce the game, which was much more difficult than MOBA games. This was mainly because of the game¡¯s ystyle. In MOBA games, there were rich maps and growth, so special heroes such as early-game heroes,te-game heroes, and split-zone heroes were allowed. Ate-game hero was weak in the early game and invincible in thete game, so yers had ways to deal with him, so it was not a problem. However, there was no economic system in Overwatch, and there was no map mechanism that could enhancebat power. Heroes had no growth, so it was impossible to distinguish early andte-game heroes. In this case, some special heroes would not appear, and even if they did, the yers would not y them. Therefore, due to the limitations of the game mode, this bnce was difficult to achieve. As long as A¡¯s damage output was 1% higher than B ¡®s, yers would choose A over B. In the limited 6V6 lineup, yers would carefully choose six Champions who couldbine together to exert the strongest teambat ability, such as sledgehammer, hairy girl, DVA, 76, Anna, and DJ. Such a lineup would be able to crush Assault Heroes. The yuan n and lie Kong want to cut Anna? A backhand hypnotizing needle, a bottle, and a Russian shield to clear your mind. With such a lineup, what flexibility was there to be had? What Yuanshi, liekong, ck Lily, Hanzo, what¡¯s the use of climbing walls? What was the use of x-ray vision? Therefore, no matter how many new heroes were created or how many new hero mechanisms were made, professional yers/yers would always be able to find six best choices with the strongestbat power. The problem of a rigid lineup was almost unsolvable. It was because Overwatch didn¡¯t have any growth or economic system. Of course, making a growth system and an economic system was not necessarily the right choice. This was an FPS game, and there were fights all the time. There were no options for yers to steal towers and develop safely. Once snowballs were allowed, would the disadvantageous side be rolled to death without any ability to fight back, causing the game to lose its suspense early? No one knew before it was made, but it was obvious that solving a problem would lead to a new one. In Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, Blizzard didn¡¯t make Overwatch perfect, and no otherpany could make a game like that perfect. This was a ¡°beautiful-looking¡± dead end. As such, Chen Mo chose a different path, turning Overwatch into a more entertaining game, trying to avoid overusing the game¡¯s content inpetitive games. Making Overwatch a world-famouspetitive game was an impossible task, but Chen Mo obviously wouldn¡¯t tell anyone about it. He couldn¡¯t wait for the video game designers from the bigpanies to swarm over and copy Overwatch, only to end up badly injured. ¡­¡­ This year¡¯s seminar and Exchange were a little boring, because Chen Mo had stolen all the limelight. A lot of people were discussing the sess of League of Legends and Overwatch, wondering if it would represent the direction of future development. Obviously, both games were phenomenal games, and League of Legends was gaining momentum overseas, not just in China. Although Overwatch had not been officially promoted overseas, based on the characteristics of the game itself, it would definitely be very popr overseas. What about the other games? Only the great Tang and the three Realms could put up a fight, but they were still far behind in terms of the topic and poprity of the yers. Many designers were guessing that Chen Mo was going to be a God at the awards ceremony. Chapter 443 - The award ceremony

Chapter 443: The award ceremony

On the night of the awards ceremony. All the designers knew that all the talks and social exchanges were just for show. The real highlight was the awards ceremony. The lectures were all for show, and the awards ceremony at night represented the achievements and honors of the designers this year. The video game designers entered the studio one after another. When Chen Mo and his group entered, there were already many people. This year¡¯s awards ceremony seemed to be more Grand than the previous years. Although the venue had not changed, the decorations were more gorgeous. There were also special cameras to record the entire award ceremony. Moreover, several video websites had also started to broadcast it at the same time. This was the first live broadcast of the awards ceremony. The previous awards ceremony was not a problem with the technical requirements. The reason it was not broadcasted was because the game Committee did not want to do so. The award ceremony was mainly between the game Committee and the designers, and had little to do with the yers. But this year, the gamemittee leaders probably wanted to expand the influence of the awards ceremony so that more yers could participate, so they arranged for a live broadcast for the first time so that yers could watch it. Although they had arranged for a live broadcast, it was not that big of a deal. They only opened a live broadcast room on a few live broadcast tforms and video websites, so the poprity was not too high. But even so, there were still hundreds of thousands of viewers watching. Many viewers were discussing it on the bullet screen. ¡°Why isn¡¯t it starting yet?¡± ¡°Hurry up, hurry up. It¡¯s time to announce the winner!¡± ¡°Game of the year: magnificent Tang, it¡¯s definitely won!¡± ¡°Will there be League of Legends?¡± Reading on Mybo xno vel. ,Please! ¡°Can you see Chen Zhao? Where¡¯s Chen Zhao?¡± ¡°Those sitting in the front row are all S-grade video game designers? Who are they? I can¡¯t see them clearly because they¡¯re too far away ...¡± The awards ceremony hadn¡¯t officially started yet, so the video was still the entrance of the designers. Most of these viewers were yers who were more interested in the gaming industry and preferred VR and single-yer games, while a small portion of them were just trying to be fresh. Chen Mo, Zhang xiaokong, and the others entered the venue together, and the staff members dutifully guided them. To Chen Mo¡¯s surprise, he didn¡¯t sit with Zhang xiaokong and Qiu Hengyang this year. He sat in the front. Looking around, he didn¡¯t see anyone he knew, which made him feel very awkward. ¡°I knew it,¡± Zhang xiaokong said.¡±You¡¯re no longer in the eyes of the gamemittee leaders. You¡¯re no longer sitting with us.¡± Hurry up and go, have fun with the designers from Emperor dynasty and Zen. ¡± Chen Zhao was speechless. The seats were all arranged in advance. Except for the leaders in the front row, the seats were basically arranged ording to the designer¡¯s rank. The first two rows were basically all S-grade video game designers, followed by A-grade, B-grade, and so on. Of course, there were differences between designers of the same level. Some A-grade designers already had several representative works, so they were definitely seated closer to the front. As for Chen Mo, he was assigned to a more sensitive position, in the first two rows, but to the side. Strictly speaking, Chen Mo was still an A+ grade, not an S-grade. However, S-grade videogame designers didn¡¯t fill up two rows of seats, and there were still two or three empty seats, so Chen Mo was put in. Obviously, in the eyes of the gamemittee leaders, Chen Mo was only one step away from S-rank. Chen Mo knew most of the other S-grade video game designers, but he had never spoken to them before. This was because most of these videogame designers were under Emperor dynasty entertainment and ZEN Entertainment, and Chen Mo didn¡¯t really get along with either of them. There were also independent designers, but those were even more loner. They focused on making games and rarely showed their faces in public, so they didn¡¯t have many opportunities to interact with them. Most of the S-grade video game designers kept a polite distance when they saw Chen Mo. The reason for this wasplicated. On one hand, schrs looked down on each other, but as S-grade video game designers, they were all a little arrogant. The tension betweenpanies was one thing. After all, Thunderbolt entertainment was at odds with Emperor dynasty and Zen, especially Lin chaoxu and Liu Yuanfeng, who were secretly angered by Chen Mo. It wasn¡¯t good for these designers to be too close to Chen Mo as employees. As for why these S-grade video game designers would join Emperor dynasty entertainment and ZEN Entertainment, that was another story. This was because making a game was a rtively high-return but also high-risk thing. Theserge-scale VR games could easily invest tens of millions or even hundreds of millions. It was good to make a profit, but what if they lost? Most S-grade video game designers couldn¡¯t bear the risk. The biggest advantage of joining bigpanies like Emperor dynasty and Zen was that they could avoid risks. Thepany would be in charge of the R & D funds and promotion, so it was fine to lose money. If he earned it, he would have to give a lot of money to thepany, but he could also earn a lot. From aprehensive perspective, joining a bigpany could effectively avoid risks, and these designers could create without any worries. Most video game designers were only good at designing games, they didn¡¯t know anything aboutpany operations, marketing, and so on. This was why these bigpanies were attractive to S-grade video game designers. As for Chen Mo, he was a special case. There were very few designers like him who started from scratch, developing games and distributing them, and even being their own boss, so he was an exception. As soon as Chen Mo sat down, the designer turned around. ¡°Chen Zhao? It¡¯s an honor to meet you. ¡± Chen Mo recognized the person. It was ZEN Entertainment¡¯s S-grade videogame designer, ran he, who was also the creator of fire assault. Ran he could be considered one of the more established S-grade video game designers in the country. Furthermore, he specialized in FPS games and had a certain level of fame in the game industry. ¡°You¡¯re too kind,¡± Chen Zhao quickly said.¡±You¡¯re my senior.¡± Ran heughed.¡±What senior? it¡¯s just that you entered the industry a few years earlier. This year, with the release of Overwatch, the momentum is really strong. If there are no idents this year, the game of the year should be your Overwatch, and you¡¯ll enter the S rank.¡± The two of them chatted for a while. As the designer of an FPS game, ran he had obviously studied Overwatch a lot. He was also very clear that this game was an innovation for FPS games, which was why he was so optimistic about it. As for himself, he had just finished updating a major version of burning assault this year. The new game was still in preparation, so he had no works to participate in the selection for the time being. These S-grade video game designers had long passed the stage where they relied on quantity to win. It was already considered good if they could produce one work in two to three years. It was even more so for designers like ran he and Qin Xiao, who designed high-quality games. They would not start new projects frequently and would prioritize running the old projects first. They would only start new projects when the old projects were almost at the end of their lives. Unlike Chen Mo, who made a few games a year as if he didn¡¯t need money. Chapter 444 - Won an award again

Chapter 444: Won an award again

On Emperor dynasty Entertainment¡¯s side, Qiu Jiang also turned around and greeted Chen Mo. The S-grade video game designers in the front row were all in their forties. Video game designers like them had a high status in the industry, and many of them didn¡¯t need to be active in the research and development front line anymore. As for the designers who were really active, they weren¡¯t too old. They were basically between 27 to 40 years old. The reason why many of these designers were so young and even became S-grade designers before Chen Mo wasn¡¯t because they were cheating, but because they walked apletely different path from Chen Mo. Chen Mo had started from scratch, from mobile games to PC, then to VR. In the beginning, there was no money, no people, no resources, no channels, and it was very slow to make the game by itself. It was all umted bit by bit. These young S-grade video game designers would usually be the assistants of other S-grade video game designers, and would have been in touch with VR games for a long time. After two to three years, he would be in charge of a portion of the content inrge VR games. After another two to three years, he would be in charge of VR games under bigpanies like Emperor dynasty and Zen, and he would get the S-grade videogame designer license. It could be said that some of the higher-ups in the samepany started from the bottom and kept rising, but their starting point was lower. On the other hand, some of them had entered through special channels such as Management Trainees, so it took them only a few years to be high-level executives. Inparison, Chen Mo¡¯s path was more difficult, but it was also moreprehensive and wouldn¡¯t be restricted by capital and channels. In other people¡¯s eyes, Chen Mo¡¯s development speed was already unbelievable, since other S-grade video game designers only made VR games, while Chen Mo was proficient in cell phone, PC, and VR games. ¡­¡­ Soon, the award ceremony officially began. The host went on stage. The leader gave a speech. Announcing this year¡¯s honorary gamemittee members. They would issue the certificate and take a photo. Reading on Mybo xno vel. ,Please! The entire process was basically fixed. The ten new designers went on stage excitedly to receive their certificates, their faces full of excitement. Some of the designers had only been in the industry for one or two years before they were able to be Honorary Committee members, while most of them had been in the industry for more than five years. There were also many people who had been in the industry for seven to eight years, or even longer, but still couldn¡¯t get it. They could only be envious in the audience. Chen Mo had been an Honorary Committee member for a long time, and it felt like time had flown by as he watched these people go on stage to receive their awards. After that, the various awards were announced. In the beginning, there were all kinds of small awards, such as best music, best art, best visual art, best debut work, best level design, best character creation, Best Narrative, best performance ... Chen Mo wasn¡¯t looking forward to any of these awards, mainly because his main works this year, such as League of Legends, oust, and Overwatch, were allpetitive games. In terms of artistic quality, they didn¡¯t have any special advantages. However, Chen Mo¡¯s goal wasn¡¯t these small awards. He only had one goal, and that was game of the year. These awards were mostly won by A-grade video game designers. The games made by these designers were all unique, so it was easier for them to stand out in these categories. However, to Chen Zhao¡¯s surprise, he still won the award. After the Best Performance Award, the next award was for the best atmosphere, which was given to Chen Mo¡¯s horror game oust. This surprised Chen Mo. He didn¡¯t think that a game as controversial as oust would win since there wasn¡¯t a ¡®best horror game¡¯ award in the game category, and in terms of art, oust didn¡¯t have any special advantage over other VR games. The best atmosphere award had always been given to first-person adventure games that had a strong sense of immersion. This year, perhaps because oust had created such a good atmosphere, it was given to a horror game for the first time. To Chen Zhao, this was an unexpected surprise. As he went on stage to receive his prize, he also thanked the game Committee for their understanding and tolerance of oust, as well as the support of the yers. ¡­¡­ Next up was the most anticipated game. This award was selected from the games that had yet to be released. In the end, it went to ZEN Entertainment¡¯s VR game, road to heaven 2. The game¡¯s prequel had already achieved considerable sess and had even won the best art Award. The art style of the game could be said to be unique. The prequel¡¯s influence and ZEN Entertainment¡¯s constant promotion had attracted a lot of attention even before the game was released. Next was the best information film, which was given to ran he¡¯s raging inferno assault. Fire assault had always been one of the most famous FPS games in the country. The response to the new documentary was also very good, and it was well-deserved to win this award. Next up was a special award, best operational game. The leader on stage cleared his throat.¡±I hereby announce that the winner of the best operational game of the year goes to Qin Zhuan: League of Legends, designer Chen Mo!¡± The crowd instantly burst into warm apuse! Chen Mo stood up very calmly and walked up to the stage. Indeed, there wasn¡¯t much suspense about this award. In this aspect, League of Legends had indeed overshadowed all the other games in the country. Other games were still stuck at the stage of advertising, promotion, and promotion, while League of Legends¡¯s operations had already focused on esports. The first season of League of Legends¡¯s global Grand Finals had caused a certain sensation both at home and abroad. The poprity and number of spectators had broken records. During the period of the S1 finals, this topic had made it to the top of Weibo¡¯s search list. It had swept through all the major video game media and forums, and even many people who didn¡¯t y games had heard of this matter. After the global Finals, the champion skin of League of Legends was sold like crazy again, which greatly promoted the game itself. Whether it was the publicity method or the publicity effect, League of Legends deserved to win this award. Chen Mo went on stage again, at a loss for words. This was because he had already thanked them when oust won the award. It didn¡¯t take long for him to go on stage again, so it didn¡¯t seem appropriate to thank them again. Chen Mo thought about it and said,¡±thank you again, leaders and dear yers.¡± I hope that the sess of League of Legends will promote the emergence of morepetitive games, so that the e-sports in the country can achieve greater development and progress. Thank you, everyone. ¡± Chapter 445 - Why are you here again?

Chapter 445: Why are you here again?

Chen Mo¡¯s second appearance on stage attracted a lot of discussion and envy from the designers. ¡°Chen Mo feels like he¡¯s going to go against the heavens this year. I feel like these two awards won¡¯tst long. There will definitely be more! The best game of the year on PC has already been reserved by League of Legends. Even if Overwatch can¡¯t win game of the year, it should at least win some other award, right?¡± ¡°Scary, this is crazy. Chen Mo has made a lot of big news in the past, but it seems like there¡¯s more this year?¡± ¡°It¡¯s mainly because Chen Mo¡¯s games this year are all very popr. Think about it, League of Legends swept the PC market and held the global Finals; The horror game oust was the best horror game in the country at the moment. There¡¯s also the Overwatch ...¡± ¡°It¡¯s already good enough for other designers to make one game in two years, but Chen Mo made three in a year. He¡¯s cheating!¡± ¡°Have you all forgotten about excavating the earth for Ascension ... This game was also on all the live streaming tforms at that time.¡± ¡°It¡¯s simply a BUG. ¡± ¡°Actually, if you study them carefully, these four games aren¡¯t difficult in terms of technical skills. The content isn¡¯t rich either. The key is that it¡¯s hard to design, and the ideas are hard toe by. ¡°I can only say that any S-grade videogame designer is a monster!¡± ¡°Let¡¯s wait and see, there should be more behind. ¡± ¡­¡­ Next up was a series of categories: best shooting, best fighting, best adventure, best sports, bestpetition, best strategy, best cosy, best action, best puzzle ... Chen Mo returned with a huge haul. Overwatch won best shooting, while League of Legends won bestpetitive game. There was still no suspense. This year, there were no outstanding FPS games in the country. Even if there were, it would be difficult topete with Overwatch for the best shooting game. Reading on Mybo xno vel. ,Please! This was because there were two points that other FPS games could notpare to. One was the innovation in the ystyle, where a hero¡¯s skill was added to the shooting. The second was the character and setting, which basically surpassed 90% of the current domestic FPS games. As for the bestpetitive game, League of Legends had fully demonstrated thepetitiveness and poprity of the game in the world Finals. The major clubs setting up League of Legends branches reflected the huge contribution that the game had made to the domestic e-sports industry. Chen Mo was at a loss for words after going on stage twice in a row. He had already received the award twice. Receiving it two more times and thanking the leader two more times? It seemed a little stupid. This time, Chen Mo had no choice but to look into the future, talking about the future ofpetitive gaming and his own wishes. At the same time, it also strengthened the effect of his previous duping, making more people agree with the e-sports mode of Overwatch that Chen Mo had made up. On the live broadcast tform, all kinds of bulletments were already flooding the screen. ¡°Him again? Why do I feel like he¡¯s already been up here a few times?¡± ¡°Don¡¯t tell me they¡¯re bribing the judges! Why are there so many awards?¡± ¡°Upstairs, are you F * cking kidding me? You don¡¯t even know Chen Zhao?¡± ¡°Yeah, it¡¯s fine if you don¡¯t know the others, but you don¡¯t know Chen Mo? It¡¯s so embarrassing!¡± ¡°I think that the judging is very objective and fair. League of Legends and Overwatch didn¡¯t deserve to win these two awards. If they chose other awards, it would be shady, right?¡± ¡°Hahaha, Chen Mo¡¯s expression is a little awkward. I want to see where he¡¯s sitting, where did he put all the trophies? You can¡¯t let it go, can you?¡± ¡­¡­ After a series of different categories of games, the awards ceremony slowly entered the climax. Next up were four very important games. Best Independent Game, Best Mobile Game, best PC game, best VR game. These four awards were basically used as a Foundation to select the best work of the year on the three tforms. At least, it meant that the work was the best among the three tforms. As for the Best Independent Game Award, it was a form of encouragement to the designers. Everyone was looking forward to these four awards. ¡°I hereby announce that the winner of this year¡¯s best Independent Game Award goes to the designer, Lin Mu, of the magnificent Tang!¡± ¡­¡­ ¡°The winner of the Best Mobile Game of the Year is the designer of the lost time, Zhang xiaokong!¡± ¡­¡­ ¡°The winner of the year¡¯s PC game Award is the designer of League of Legends, Chen Mo!¡± ¡­¡­ ¡°Best VR Game of the Year goes to the designer of Overwatch, Chen Mo!¡± These four prizes were given out one by one. The first three games didn¡¯t have much of a suspense, and there wasn¡¯t much controversy, but when thest best VR game was announced, the crowd still burst into a discussion. The great Tang had the potential to be nominated for game of the year, so it was normal for it to win the Best Independent Game Award. It would be a problem if it didn ¡®t. As for Best Mobile Game, even though Chen Mo¡¯s ¡°leading thend¡± was pretty good, it was toomercial. Zhang xiaokong¡¯s lost time was a single yer game. The story and ystyle were excellent, so it deserved the award. As for the best PC game, with League of Legends¡¯s performance this year, it would be a problem if they didn¡¯t win. As for the best VR game Award being given to Overwatch, many people still had doubts. Generally speaking, the best VR game and Game of the Year awards were the same, because they were both selected from VR games. ording to the unspoken rules and conventions, if there were two great VR games, the one that was slightly worse would win best VR Game of the Year, and the better one would win game of the year. Now that Overwatch won best VR game, did that mean that game of the year was going to be given to magnificent Tang? ¡°How did the best VR game go to Overwatch? What about the magnificent Tang?¡± ¡°ording tomon sense, it should be one for each person. Doesn¡¯t that mean that the game of the year will go to the great Tang?¡± ¡°That¡¯s impossible. I think that ¡®Overwatch¡¯ is going to sweep up both awards!¡± ¡°That¡¯s too much! If it was in previous years, the magnificent Tang would definitely be able topete for the Game of the Year award!¡± ¡°It¡¯s not appropriate for apetitive game to get the best of the year, right? The game Committee wouldn¡¯t give you that. ¡± ¡°Forget it, stop guessing. Let¡¯s just watch Chen Mo receive his award!¡± ¡°How many times has Chen Mo gone on stage? It seems to be the sixth time?¡± ¡°Hahahahaha, I feel like Chen Mo¡¯s at a loss for words. He doesn¡¯t know what to say at all, he¡¯s already said what he should!¡± Chen Mo walked onto the stage and took the trophy from the leader. The leader was also a little annoyed, with an expression that said,¡±why is it you again?¡± Chen Mo looked at the audience, speechless. He had already gone up on stage five times, and he had even imagined the future. He had thanked everyone he needed to thank, including the game Committee and the yers. Chen Mo held the trophy in his hand and said four words into the microphone. ¡°Thank you, country!¡± Chapter 446 - Game of the year, well-deserved!

Chapter 446: Game of the year, well-deserved!

After Chen Mo said the words ¡°thank you to the country¡±, the designers in the audience held back theirughter. ¡°I¡¯m dying ofughter. I can see that Chen Mo is really out of words!¡± ¡°I¡¯ve been holding it in for so long, yet I¡¯m still thanking the country. Hahahahaha!¡± ¡°You don¡¯t have enough awareness. Shouldn¡¯t the country be the first to thank you? If this were in the sports industry, he would have been ordered to write an examination!¡± ¡°That¡¯s right. Maybe we¡¯ll even have to take back the award!¡± The designers in the audience and the live stream users were all making fun of Chen Mo, mainly because he had won too many awards this year. Many of the designers sitting next to Chen Mo peeked at his seat. Chen Mo was holding a trophy on stage, and there were five more in his seat. There was almost no space left. Fortunately, although the trophies were exquisitely made, they were not big. They were about the size of a mineral water bottle, just slightly bigger. If it was the same size as the League of Legends Championship trophy, Chen Mo would have to find a movingpany to move it back. Chen Mo returned to his seat and ced the six trophies on the ground before sitting down. After the first four major awards, thest and biggest award, the best game of the year, was almost out. Everyone was looking at the stage, waiting to see who would win the award. The host went on stage. ¡°This year has been a great year for the domestic games industry. We¡¯ve already seen the best games of the year in the previous awards. It can be said to be a wonderful year with hundreds of flowers blooming. ¡°So, who will win this year¡¯s game of the year? Please look at the big screen, next up are the games that have been nominated for this year¡¯s Video Game Awards. ¡± Reading on Mybo xn o vel. ,Please! The big screen began to y the highlights of each candidate game. Under the background of the co-existence of the immortal world, Devil World, and human world, countless people from the Xiuzhen world were riding on their flying swords, flying across the sky in unison. In the dark and chaotic demonic realm, Immortals with fluttering clothes were waving their flying swords to kill demons and devils. ¡­¡­ In Chang ¡®an under the cover of night, an assassin in ck was stepping on the tiles of the eaves and shuttling quickly. He had a Tang sword on his back and a hidden weapon in his hand. He hung upside down from the beam of the house and observed his prey. ¡­¡­ The Pharaoh Eagle flew out of the clouds and headed toward the battlefield in the distance. The angels extended a helping hand to the children in the ruins; Sledgehammer raised his shield and blocked the Molotov cocktail ... Every time an exciting clip was yed, the name of the game would be indicated on the big screen, and the background music of the game would also be yed in the stadium. Even though there were two other games that were nominated, everyone knew that they were just there to y a supporting role and were notpetitive at all. The real game of the year would be born from these three games. The magnificent Tang. ¡®Three realms¡¯. ¡°Overwatch.¡± On all the major livestreaming tforms, countless bulletments were flooding the screen. Many yers had been paying attention to the awards ceremony in the past years, but they had never had the chance to witness it live. This was the first live broadcast, and many people were guessing who the annual award would go to. ¡°The magnificent Tang! It has to be the great Tang!¡± ¡°¡®Three realms¡¯ isn¡¯t bad either, so why isn¡¯t it ¡®three realms¡¯?¡± ¡°Online gaming scum, get lost! This is an award ceremony! It¡¯s obvious that ¡®the magnificent Tang¡¯ haspletely surpassed your ¡®three realms¡¯ in terms of story, art, and game. ¡± ¡°The two of you, stop fighting. In my opinion, this award should go to¡¯ the Overwatch ¡®!¡± ¡°Impossible! If ¡®the magnificent Tang¡¯ doesn¡¯t win an award, it won¡¯t be tolerated by the heavens!¡± The apuse gradually died down, and the chairman of the game Committee, Zhang Zhongxiang, came on stage with the annual game trophy in his left hand and the list of winners in his right. ¡°I hereby announce that the winner of the best game of the year is Yingying¨C He paused, then looked at the designers in the audience.¡±¡±Overwatch, Chen Mo!¡± The venue instantly erupted into warm apuse and cheers! Chen Mo stood up and walked up to the stage as the ssic background music yed. ¡°As expected! It¡¯s ¡°the Overwatch¡±!¡± ¡°It¡¯s a pity that it¡¯s not the Grand Tang?¡± ¡°The game quality of the magnificent Tang could have beenparable to this year¡¯s game in any other year! He didn¡¯t win any of the two biggest awards this year, best VR game and game of the year?¡± ¡°Sigh, it can¡¯t be helped. Strictly speaking,¡¯the magnificent Tang¡¯ isn¡¯t perfect and has its ws. It¡¯s expected that this award will be given to¡¯ the Overwatch ¡®.¡± ¡°I can only say that it¡¯s a pity. It¡¯s such a pity that ¡®the magnificent Tang¡¯ and ¡®the Overwatch¡¯ are shing.¡± ¡°Chen Mo really got a Grand m this year. He¡¯s got so many awards that his hands are tired!¡± The designers at the scene were pping and discussing. Most of the video game designers present could ept that Overwatch had won the Game of the Year award. It was within their expectations. Even though there was a certain level of suspense between the two games, in the eyes of these professional video game designers, it was clear that Overwatch was still slightly better in every aspect. Chen Mo went on stage, took the trophy from Zhang Zhongxiang, and then walked to the microphone. ¡°Thank you, everyone. Once again, I would like to thank every yer who likes the Overwatch.¡± ¡°To use a phrase from Overwatch: This world needs more heroes, and this world is worth fighting for!¡± ¡°This is also a concept that I hope to convey to everyone through ¡®the Overwatch¡¯. Perhaps this world is not perfect, but we should all work hard to make it a better ce. Each of us can be the heroes of this world.¡± ¡°As for game of the year, everyone might have different opinions. I¡¯ve always felt that the best game exists in everyone¡¯s hearts, and as long as the designer puts in the effort to create a game, it¡¯s a good game.¡± ¡°Overwatch is my first game of the year, but it won¡¯t be thest. In the future, Thunderbolt Entertainment¡¯s entire R & D team will make even more fun games for everyone! Thank you!¡± The venue once again burst into enthusiastic apuse and cheers thatsted for a long time! Chen Mo¡¯s eptance speech was so good that it was impable. ¡®The Overwatch¡¯ had indeed conveyed such a concept: All the countries and regions in the world coexisted in peace. Although the world was not perfect, and the heroes faced countless misunderstandings, everyone who wanted to make the world a better ce was a worthy hero. Chen Mo also gave his own answer to the controversy regarding game of the year,¡±The best game existed in everyone¡¯s heart, and as long as the designer put in the effort to create a game, it was a good game! Chapter 447 - A perfect ending

Chapter 447: A perfect ending

? There were still many Great Tang yers who wereining about the game on the various streaming tforms, but after Chen Mo¡¯s speech, they all stopped talking. ¡°Well said. Since when did Chen Mo suddenly be so enlightened? This set of rhetoric is simply watertight!¡± ¡°I¡¯ve gained another wave of favorability in front of the gamemittee leader!¡± ¡°Sigh, although I really like the great Tang, I have to admit that Overwatch is indeed better in all aspects.¡± ¡°Overwatch truly deserves the title of game of the year!¡± ¡°Awesome, Chen Mo is invincible! Chen Mo won seven awards at the awards ceremony this year!¡± ¡°Amazing, he¡¯s simply swept away everything! Chen Mo is going to be an S-grade videogame designer next year, right?¡± ¡°Chen Mo said that Overwatch wouldn¡¯t be thest game to get the best Game of the Year award, and that there would be more and better games in the future. Wow, I¡¯m really looking forward to it!¡± ¡°Supporting Chen Mo! Chen Mo is awesome!¡± On all the major streaming tforms and game forums, yers were spontaneously promoting the news of Overwatch winning the award and sharing their joy. Clearly, after sweeping through the annual Video Game Awards, Overwatch¡¯s poprity in China would rise again, and it was very likely to sweep through the entire VR gaming tform! Apletely free VR game that won the gamemittee¡¯s recognition as game of the year? This could be said to be of great help to the promotion of ¡®the Overwatch¡¯. ¡­¡­ At the awards ceremony. After the final annual Gaming Awards ceremony, this year¡¯s awards ceremony came to a perfect end. Reading on Mybo xn o vel. ,Please! In the midst of the warm apuse and cheers, everyone stood up and left. Chen Mo stood up from his seat with the seven trophies in his arms. He could be considered the biggest winner of this year¡¯s awards ceremony. Oust won the best gaming atmosphere, League of Legends won the best operating game, bestpetitive game, and best PC game, Overwatch won the best shooting game, best VR game, and game of the year. He won seven awards all by himself. Many designers wouldn¡¯t even get that many awards in three or four years, but Chen Mo had won all of them in one year. Many video game designers came over to congratte Chen Mo. ¡°Congrattions, we have a great harvest this year!¡± ¡°President Chen, I don¡¯t think you can hold this trophy anymore. Why don¡¯t you give us some?¡± ¡°Congrattions, I¡¯m not convinced by any of the video game designers in the country except you. Now Thunderbolt entertainment is a domestic gaming giant that canpete with Emperor dynasty and Zen. I feel like you¡¯re about to write a legend!¡± The video game designers were sincerely congratting Chen Mo. Even though he had won so many awards, he did deserve all of them. Chen Mo returned their greetings. He had only tricked the designers from Emperor dynasty and Zen, and only those who wanted to copy Overwatch took the bait. Chen Mo would give these video game designers a lot of respect and respect. ¡°Hello, Chen Mo. I¡¯m Lin Mu, the designer of the magnificent Tang. Congrattions.¡± To Chen Zhao¡¯s surprise, Lin Mu was here too. After the Grand Tang was released, Lin Mu was one of the top independent video game designers in the country. Chen Mo had never met him before, and this was his first time meeting him. Lin Mu looked like he was in his thirties and had a refined temperament. It was obvious that he didn¡¯t take the annual Gaming Awards to heart, even though many yers of the magnificent Tang game were against him. ¡°I was lucky,¡± said Chen Zhao hurriedly. In fact, the magnificent Tang is also a good game, and it was luck that Overwatch won this award. ¡± Lin Muughed.¡±Don¡¯t be so modest. I¡¯ve yed Overwatch. Game of the year is well-deserved and I¡¯ve learned a lot from it.¡± ¡°By the way, is there any other release for the magnificent Tang apart from the official app Store?¡± Chen Mo asked. ¡°No, what¡¯s wrong?¡± Lin Mu was stunned. ¡°If you agree, you can put it on Thunderbolt gaming tform,¡± Chen Mo said.¡±I¡¯ll help you promote it. I don¡¯t want a share.¡± Lin Mu was stunned,¡¯no share? This is not appropriate!¡± ¡°It¡¯s nothing,¡± Chen Mo smiled,¡±the quality of the game is great. As a domestic game, it¡¯s time to promote it.¡± Let¡¯s exchange contact information and talk about itter. ¡± ¡°Alright,¡± he said. Lin Mu nodded and the two of them exchanged contact information. To Lin Mu, although the magnificent Tang was famous and had sales, its revenue could not bepared to therge-scale MMORPG games like Emperor dynasty and Zen. Although the great Tang had also received a lot of rmendations on the official app Store, the official app Store would not operate and promote it for him. Therefore, the great Tang had always been in a state of poprity but not poprity. The profit was still eptable, but there was still a lot of room for development. Chen Mo¡¯s Thunderbolt gaming tform was already one of the most influential gaming tforms in the country. After Overwatch won the best game of the year, it would definitely rise to fame, and its dominance in the VR world would increase. Under such circumstances, Chen Mo was willing to use Thunderbolt gaming tform¡¯s resources to promote the great Tang for free, which was a great thing for Lin Mu. To Chen Mo, this was a form of support and encouragement for good Chinese games. ¡­¡­ It was already 10 pm when he returned to the experience store. However, there were still many people in the experience store. Not only were the employees there, but the yers were also waiting for Chen Mo to return. As soon as Chen Mo entered, he was immediately surrounded by colorful ribbons and flowers. ¡°Wee back, manager!¡± ¡°Manager, you¡¯ve won so many awards tonight that your hands are tired. You should treat us to a meal.¡± ¡°Manager, where¡¯s the trophy? Hurry up and show it to everyone!¡± ¡°Congrattions, manager. To celebrate, shouldn¡¯t the experience store be free for three days?¡± ¡°What do you mean by free in the experience store? it¡¯s not as good as half price for all skins in League of Legends!¡± There were all sorts ofments. Whether it was the employees or the yers, they were all extremely excited. It wasn¡¯t just Chen Mo¡¯s glory to win so many prizes at the awards ceremony, everyone felt honored. Many of the yers present were Chen Mo¡¯s loyal fans. They had apanied Chen Mo since he first started in the small Experience Store, watched him be an Honorary Committee member, made a game like League of Legends that took the entire PC market by storm, and won the game of the year with Overwatch ... They had all watched Chen Mo grow up, and their sense of participation allowed them to feel Chen Mo¡¯s joy. Qian Kun and su Jinyu had already picked up a trophy each and were ying with it. ¡°The workmanship on this trophy is so detailed. There¡¯s even some words carved on it. It feels so good in my hands.¡± ¡°It¡¯s a pity that it doesn¡¯t have the championship trophy of League of Legends. It¡¯s too small.¡± ¡°Let¡¯s see where to ce it. There¡¯s a spot on the bookshelf on the first floor, but you have to keep an eye on it. Don¡¯t lose it.¡± ¡°Hey, don¡¯t just focus on ying. Let me see the trophy too!¡± Chen Mo smiled,¡±alright, put down the trophy. The experience store is closed today. Everyone here, including the yers, should have supper together. It¡¯s my treat!¡± Chapter 448 - Becoming an S-Class!

Chapter 448: Bing an S-ss!

? The next day, in the experience store. Chen Mo opened the illusion game editor in his office and looked at his designer¡¯s information. For other people, they would be happy for at least a week, since this was the gamemittee¡¯s annual award, which meant that they had defeated all the designers in the country. Not only for Chen Mo, but for the entire team, it was a stage victory. When Chen Mo said he was going to make a game of the year in three months, many people didn¡¯t believe it, thinking that Chen Mo was being too optimistic. However, after Overwatch won an award, everyone was convinced that Chen Mo wasn¡¯t bluffing. He really did win game of the year when he said so! The experience store was packed to the brim today, especially the VR experience area. After Overwatch won the most important Game of the Year award in the country, it became very famous in the gaming industry. Many people who had heard of Overwatch but had never yed it before downloaded it to try it out or tried it out in Experience Stores. After all, game of the year was a very high honor for a game, and the reputation of Overwatch instantly soared. However, for Chen Mo, this matter could be turned over once he got the award. Even though Overwatch was a new game to the yers in this world, Chen Mo knew that he still had a long way to go. In the illusion game engine, Chen Mo¡¯s profile had already be that of an S-grade videogame designer. [Chen Mo: videogame designer (S-grade)] [Creativity: 92 points] ¡°System: 90 points¡± [Stage: 91 points] Reading on Mybo xn o vel. ,Please! [Plot: 92 points] [Original art: 93 points] [3D art: 93 points] [You can experience any game on the market.] [ess to the National database for any information] [Obtain an independent area in the official app Store to disy your personal work] After Overwatch was released, Chen Mo¡¯s ratings had all risen to more than 90 points, especially in the original art and 3D art, he even got 93 points. This was because the art level of each character in ¡®Overwatch¡¯ was very high, especially the modeling and actions. They were basically first-ss. This was Chen Mo¡¯s first top quality VR game, so it was within his expectations that it would get such a high score. However, these ratings were all for show. What Chen Mo really cared about was the privileges of an S-grade video game designer. The reason why Chen Mo was in such a rush to release Overwatch and be an S-grade videogame designer was to get these privileges a year earlier. Chen Mo had heard a little about the privileges of S-grade video game designers from various sources, but he hadn¡¯t been particrly specific. Now that he was an S-grade video game designer, Chen Mo could finally look at the details in the illusion game engine. First of all, there was no limit to the resource quota, so he could use the illusion game editor¡¯s art resources as he pleased. Secondly, he could experience any game on the market at will, including domestic games and foreign games. He didn¡¯t have to spend a single cent. Moreover, S-grade video game designers would be given an independent area on the official app Store to disy the video game designer¡¯s works. This independent area was permanent, which meant that once you became an S-grade videogame designer, you would be able to get a permanent rmendation on the official app Store. These three privileges were something other video game designers could only dream of. Without a limit on resources, he could try as much as he wanted, and he wouldn¡¯t have to waste so much effort to choose recement resources. He wouldn¡¯t have to consider the problem of capacity when making games. He could experience any game on the market and save a lot of money. Some popr games would cost one to two thousand Yuan to enter, and if one wanted to experience more of the game, they might have to spend more money. If one tried three to four games a month, they might have to spend ten thousand Yuan. Most video game designers were not that rich. As for the independent area on the official app Store, it was equivalent to the best rmendation spot, and the effect of the rmendation would definitely be better than the group. Of course, to Chen Zhao, these three privileges were not important. In fact, they seemed to be of little value. Unlimited resources? Chen Mo¡¯s resources had never been used up, because he never had to spend on trial and error, and he made all the art resources himself. To experience the game at will? Chen Mo didn¡¯t care about spending ten or twenty thousand a month. It didn¡¯t matter if he bought everything. A rmendation spot on the App Store was even more useless. Chen Mo¡¯s Thunderbolt gaming tform was already one of the most influential video game distribution tforms in the country, and every one of Chen Mo¡¯s new games received a lot of attention, so why would he need the official app Store to promote his games? Chen Zhao valued this privilege the most.¡±Can ess any information in the National database. The so-called national database was a veryrge datawork. The data in it was veryplex and could be said to be all-epassing. Whether it was Science and Technology, literature and art, cutting-edge knowledge of various disciplines, historical documents, and so on, everything was avable. In the parallel world, almost all of the country¡¯s knowledge could be found in this database. If necessary, one could also find some professionals in the industry through this channel and have them answer some questions in person. Why did Chen Mo value the database so much? Chen Mo knew that he would need it in the future. If Chen Mo wanted to make a game with an ancient setting that was extremely realistic, he would have to look into a lot of things, such as the architectural style of that era. How were the People¡¯s clothes? How was his behavior? What about the social atmosphere? He had to consider all aspects. Even though Chen Mo had a lot of game ideas that he could use, he didn¡¯t have the knowledge to do so. After getting ess to the National database, some professional problems would be solved. ¡­¡­ Other than these special privileges, S-grade video game designers had many other benefits. Even though S-grade and A-grade video game designers sounded simr, they were actually very different. S-grade video game designers had a certain status in the industry, and even had a say in the game Committee. There were many benefits to this. For example, he could use more resources to design games. For example, they would be more rxed during the game¡¯s review. They would also be more respected, like some S-grade video game designers, experts, schrs, and famous directors, who were regarded as outstanding representatives of the cultural field. After working so hard for so long and finally bing an S-grade videogame designer, it would be much easier for Chen Mo to makerge scale VR games. Chapter 449 - Are you going to hold a ranking match?

Chapter 449: Are you going to hold a ranking match?

After the annual Video Game Awards ceremony, Overwatch¡¯s poprity was increasing. As the first free VR game in the country, and with the honor of game of the year, Overwatch was unstoppable in the VR world. After the awards ceremony ended, many of Emperor dynasty entertainment and ZEN Entertainment¡¯s video game designers started to write design concept drafts, hoping to make a game that could surpass Overwatch. ¡°Overwatch is really popr. Wolf Soul is the only game that has been recognized by the game Committee in the past three years, right? Looking at the current trend of Overwatch, is it going to surpass Wolf soul¡¯s dominance in FPS games?¡± ¡°Now, the domestic FPS games are basically Wolf Soul, raging inferno assault, and watchman.¡± ¡°But the biggest advantage of Overwatch is that it¡¯s free! Both of them cost more than 1000 Yuan to y, but this one is free. The threshold is too different!¡± ¡°It¡¯s not that bad. For those yers who can afford the game cabin, Wolf Soul only costs a few hundred Yuan when it¡¯s on sale. They¡¯ve bought whatever they want.¡± ¡°The main thing about Overwatch is that it¡¯s very popr in VR inte cafes.¡± ¡°Indeed, it¡¯s a big advantage to be able to y directly in a VR inte cafe!¡± ¡°It¡¯s mainly because Overwatch is still in its early stages. ording to Chen Mo, the game has to have sixty heroes in the future, and there¡¯ll definitely be ranked matches and tournamentster on. It¡¯s even possible to have an International Finals like League of Legends, so the future is even better!¡± ¡°It¡¯s a good thing Chen Mo hasn¡¯t started a ranked or professional match yet. We still have a chance.¡± ¡°I¡¯ve already submitted my design drafts. I don¡¯t know if I¡¯ll be able to stand out in Emperor dynasty, but I hope I can get this project.¡± Many of Emperor dynasty entertainment and ZEN Entertainment¡¯s video game designers were working on their design concept drafts, all of them wanting to use Overwatch as a prototype to create a game that could even surpass Overwatch. This was a normal thought. In Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, when MOBA games were popr all over the world, there were many other MOBA games other than DOTA and LOL. After the game became popr, many other client-side and mobile gamesunched the mass escape mode. Moreover, many of them had achieved a certain level of sess. Reading on Mybo xn o vel. ,Please! It was clear that in the game industry, copying was not a problem. The key was to copy well. Many video game designers thought that League of Legends could catch up and defeat COG because the game updated faster, promoted better, and optimized in all aspects. And now, Overwatch was still not perfect in all aspects, especially since thepetitive mode had not been released yet. As long as they took it seriously, they could still catch up from behind. Especially Emperor dynasty entertainment and ZEN Entertainment, both Lin chaoxu and Liu Yuanfeng were optimistic about Overwatch¡¯s gaming model. These twopanies had experience in sessful FPS projects, so they were morefortable with the game. After Overwatch won the honor of game of the year, the direction of the domestic games industry was slowly changing. ¡­¡­ On the Overwatch forum, while the yers were rejoicing over the award, the call for the rankingpetition to start was getting louder and louder. ¡°The Overwatch is so popr now, let¡¯s start the rankingpetition! What was Chen Mo thinking? The first version of League of Legends had ranked matches, right?¡± ¡°I think Warcraft started off with adder mode as soon as the game was released.¡± ¡°Maybe Chen Mo is thinking of letting everyone get familiar with the mechanics of the game before starting the rankingpetition, so that the newbies won¡¯t mess with us?¡± ¡°Hmm, that makes sense! However, we can release the rankingpetition mechanism first. If you¡¯re afraid that the newbies will cheat you, you can add proficiency restrictions. ¡± ¡°Go Mo on Weibo, tell him to start the Overwatch ranking as soon as possible. I¡¯m going to climb straight up to the title of greatest King!¡± ¡°That¡¯s right. I¡¯m so good at showing off but I don¡¯t have any ranking points to show off. Hurry up and open it!¡± On Weibo and forums, many people Chen Mo, asking him to update the Overwatch and start the rankingpetition. After ying Warcraft and League of Legends, the yers were well aware of Chen Mo¡¯s tactics. Especially in League of Legends, for many yers, the most important thing was the rankingpetition, and the ranking was the symbol to measure a yer¡¯s level, which prompted yers to work hard to climb up. Everyone knew that the rankingpetition for Overwatch was going to start sooner orter. There was only one reason why it had not started yet: Chen Mo was toozy! Therefore, many yers were urging him. Not long after, Chen Mo replied on Weibo. ¡°About the qualifying match: due to the busy schedule before the Spring Festival, many updates and changes may be dyed. At the moment, there was a hidden scoring system in the Overwatch. yers with high skill would be matched with yers with the same skill. At the moment, the winning rate of all yers was around 50%, so even if there was no ranking system, they could still improve their skill level through continuous practice. As for the hidden score, we will consider showing it in the gameter on. Everyone, please be patient. ¡± Chen Mo didn¡¯t directly answer the yers ¡®questions, but there were a lot of hints. Chen Mo didn¡¯t specify when the rankingpetition would start, he didn¡¯t even say if it would start or not. He only said two things, one was that he was currently full of work and a lot of content would be dyed; Second, Overwatch had a hidden sub-mechanism. The yers were all wondering about the meaning of this Weibo post. ¡°Chen Zhao said he¡¯s busy? In other words, there will be a ranking match, but we don¡¯t have the time to do it now!¡± ¡°There¡¯s a hidden sub-mechanism? Doesn¡¯t that mean that when the ranking systemes out, everyone¡¯s ranking will be directly matched and ranked ording to the hidden points?¡± ¡°Eh? That was a possibility! That¡¯s quite thoughtful of Chen Mo. In that case, it doesn¡¯t matter if it opens a few dayster. Let¡¯s y well and get higher hidden points. Then, we¡¯ll be able to level it directly to diamond or even higher. Wouldn¡¯t that be great?¡± ¡°That makes sense. Let¡¯s wait and see!¡± This Weibo post dispelled most of the yers ¡®doubts, and everyone continued to y happily. ¡­¡­ Chen Mo¡¯s post was just a Bluff, to calm down the yers who were insistent on having a ranked match. But in reality, Chen Mo didn¡¯t make any promises. He didn¡¯t even mention if he would hold a ranking match. If there weren¡¯t any other considerations, Chen Mo could have told the yers that the rankingpetition wouldn¡¯t be held anymore, as it would damage the lifespan of the game. However, Chen Mo couldn¡¯t reveal it yet, because Emperor dynasty entertainment and ZEN Entertainment were both trying to copy Overwatch. If Chen Mo revealed that Overwatch couldn¡¯t make a rankingpetition, it would definitely raise their suspicions and cause them to doubt the entire game. Once they decided to slow down and observe for the time being, as time passed, the various disadvantages of ¡®Overwatch¡¯ would slowly be apparent, and they woulde back to their senses. In that case, wouldn¡¯t Chen Zhao¡¯s lies be in vain? Chapter 450 - Someone is cheating?

Chapter 450: Someone is cheating?

? On fish-catching live streaming tform, in Pursley¡¯s live streaming channel. As one of the most popr streamers of Overwatch, old P¡¯s live stream had more than a million viewers. He was already quite well-known in the domestic FPS scene. Now, with the poprity of Overwatch, his poprity had risen to another level. ¡°Overwatch¡± was different from other FPS games. There were the usual assault hero76, the usual sniper ck Lily, and a special assassin-type hero, Genji. Therefore, the viewing rate was much better. After using Yuan-Shi to circle around and draw his sword, the bullet screen was filled with all sorts of 6666ments, which made old P very satisfied. The only w was that there was no ranking mode in Overwatch, so there was no way to y the King in the live broadcast room. However, this was not a big problem. After all, it did not matter if the live broadcast was not in the high rankings. As long as the game was good, the audience would like it. It was another brand new game. This time, it was the voskaya industrial area, and old P was the attacker. ¡°Today, I¡¯ll show everyone the ultimate skill of the flying rat. Everyone, watch carefully!¡± Old P directly chose Mad Rat. Since Chen Mo didn¡¯t release the ranked matches and gave the post-match statistics, thepetitive scene wasn¡¯t affected much. The yers could y whatever they wanted, and no one wouldin about the ¡®rebuild Empire¡¯bination. As long as you yed well and could carry it, it was fine. ¡°What kind of freaks and perverts are there here? But ... I like it!¡± ¡°I clearly know that there¡¯s something outside that can blow me up, but I¡¯m still wandering around here!¡± In the battle preparation stage, Mad Rat was already impatient. As soon as the door opened, old P¡¯s Mad Rat directly threw a mine under his feet and blew himself up to the roof of the building outside of point A to observe the other party¡¯s lineup. ¡°Eh? There¡¯s a fortress on the other side? And what¡¯s the meaning of da Chui¡¯s positioning?¡± Old P was a little surprised, because there was a fortress on the roof behind target A, and there was also a hammer and an Angel protecting it. Reading on Mybo xn o vel. ,Please! After the yers had figured out a way to counter the fortress, this champion could no longer be used in every match like before. After all, old P was an expert and had high hidden points, so the matched opponent was also stronger. Logically speaking, he shouldn¡¯t have chosen a fortress on this map. This was because point A in the voskaya industrial zone was not an easy position for the defenders to find their fortresses. There were many ways for the opponent to enter. There were at least four or five positions in the entire point A where the fortresses could be sneaked in. Therefore, the environment in which the fortresses dealt damage was not good, and it was very likely that they would be instantly killed. Under such circumstances, it was a little strange to choose to y the milk hammer Castlebination, which was very backward. The attackers swarmed forward. With Yuan-Shi, ck Lily, and the road-hog on the ground, they were quickly taken down by the attackers. However, just as everyone rushed toward the target and wanted to destroy the enemy¡¯s fortress, an ident happened. The fortress turned its muzzle almost instantly and aimed at old P, who appeared in his field of vision. Before old P could throw out a few bombs, they were already swept down by the fortress¡¯s bullets, and their balls shattered on the ground. ¡°Triple kill!¡± ¡°Quadruple kill!¡± ¡°Penta kill!¡± Old P was shocked. What was going on? He quickly turned on the death rey. In the livestream room, more than a million viewers also saw fortress ¡®first-person perspective when he killed old P. Old P¡¯s Mad Rat poked his head out from behind the house at point A. He wanted to throw a few bombs at the second floor where the fortress was located to wear down big Hammer¡¯s shield. The fortress ¡®original target was squad 76 below. As a result, the moment old P¡¯s Mad Rat showed his head, the muzzle of the fortress instantly locked on to him. The Gatling gun barrel immediately began to spin quickly, and with a series of ¡°ding ding ding ding¡± sounds, most of the bullets actually hit old P¡¯s Mad rat¡¯s head, directly killing him! Not only that, after fortress killed rabid rat, his vision instantly returned to the 76 heads beside him. Although the death scene ended here, everyone knew what happened after that. Fortress, under the protection of the hammer, directly killed all the people below and got a Penta kill. Other than lie Kong, who tried to cut the fortress at close range and was struck to death by the sledgehammer, the others were all captured by the fortress alone. After seeing old P¡¯s death rey, the bulletments in the live broadcast room instantly exploded. ¡°???¡± ¡°What¡¯s the situation?¡± ¡°He was killed in seconds? There¡¯s something wrong with this fortress, right?¡± ¡°Instant vision lock? Crazy headshots? One against five?¡± ¡°Did this fortress cheat???¡± Old P also felt strange. The six attackers had died at the same time, so they were resurrected at the same time. Old P silently changed to Yuan. This time, the six attackers were all holding their breath. After entering point A, they didn¡¯t even care about the target. They all went to the second floor from the room on the right and went straight to the fortress. Old P¡¯s yuan-Shi took a roundabout route from the left and waited for the other party members to start exchanging fire with the fortress before climbing up the wall to the second floor and throwing shurikens at the fortress from behind. In the end, fortress¡¯s reaction was still extremely fast, and his marksmanship was also very urate. The moment the five attackers swarmed up, fortress urately locked onto the weakest Hunter Kong and killed him. In the midst of his panic, Hunter Kong had used three shes and backtrack, but it was still useless. He was still targeted by the fortress and killed. The others were not any better. As the attacker did not choose to use the sledgehammer, the remaining few people became live targets and fell to the ground one after another under the fortress¡¯s high headshot rate. Old bastard¡¯s Yuanshi attacked fortress from behind, trying to take away half of its HP. The moment the fortress¡¯s muzzle pointed at him, he immediately activated [sh], trying to kill the fortress. However, the fortress strangely stopped firing. Within a fraction of a second, it pointed its muzzle at the others andpletely ignored the yuan n members. After old P activated [sh], he actually didn¡¯t hit a single bullet! The attack this time ended in failure again. After old P¡¯s [sh] ended, the muzzle of the fortress locked onto him for another second. Under the crazy rotation of the Gatling gun, old P¡¯s HP was almost depleted in a second. Even if he used [shadow] to escape, it would be of no use. The second attack failed again, and the attacking yers confirmed that there was something wrong with the fortress! From the death rey, the fortress seemed even more heaven-defying this time. Not only did it have all kinds of 180-degree instantaneous locks, but the headshot rate was also very high.¡±Ding ding ding¡± sounds of headshots could be heard without end. It was clear that this level of uracy was not something that ordinary humans could achieve. In the game channel, the attacking yers were already typing. ¡°The fortress is cheating?¡± ¡°F * ck, you F * cking dog! Use your cheat to kill your entire family!¡± ¡°You can¡¯t even be bothered to act? Aren¡¯t you afraid of being banned?¡± It was obvious that most of the yers found it hard to keep their cool when faced with a cheater. They were all cursing, even sledgehammer and Angel, who were protecting the fortress. In the end, the opposite fortress replied with two words,¡±¡±Hehe.¡± Chapter 451 - agitated crowd

Chapter 451: Chapter 450-agitated crowd

? As soon as these two words came out, not only was old P and his teammates furious, but even the audience in the live broadcast room was also furious. ¡°F * ck, this fortress is so arrogant?¡± ¡°I despise this kind of cheater the most. God P, kill him!¡± ¡°Right, kill him!¡± The bullet screen was filled with excitement as everyone greeted the family members in the fortress. Old P¡¯s teammates went out again, but this time, they were not as reckless as before. Some chose dachui, some chose 76, some chose DVA, and some chose Charia. In short, everyone chose heroes that could restrain fortress. Old P chose Xiaomei and turned on the team voice chat at the same time, starting tomand. ¡°Come on, don¡¯t rush out. Avoid the fortress¡¯s vision and clear out his other three teammates! We¡¯ll slowly take care of himter!¡± The six attackers shared the same enemy. After taking care of the three defenders outside, they swarmed up and rushed towards the fortress. The attacking yers had already thought of a strategy in advance. First, they used Xiaomei¡¯s frostrampart as cover to quickly rush to the second floor. Then, they raised their hammers and shields to block the first wave of damage from the fortress. The moment the sledgehammer retracted its shield, Chalia immediately covered the sledgehammer with a particle barrier. The attacking side¡¯s hammer knocked away the defending side¡¯s hammer! After the enemy¡¯s fortress lost the protection of the sledgehammer, the attacking party swarmed forward. DVA immediately activated a barrier to absorb damage, while the others seized the opportunity to attack with all their might. Finally, they sessfully destroyed the fortress! However, even so, the fortress still killed two people. No. 76 and Lucio, who were rtively weak in the team, died. If it wasn¡¯t for old P¡¯s Xiaomei¡¯s refrigerator opening in time, they might have been taken away by the fortress before they died. ¡°F * ck, I¡¯ve killed this B * stard!¡± ¡°Damn, you¡¯re still so arrogant? Did they think that this was some other FPS game? Didn¡¯t I give you all kinds of shields?¡± Reading on Mybo xn o vel. ,Please! ¡°NICE! Big piece of human heart!¡± The audience on the bullet screen all pped their hands in joy. It was great to win the game, but it was obviously even better to hit the cheater¡¯s face like this! The attacking yers also typed in the game channel: ¡°Did you diefortably? A cheating grandson!¡± In the end, the opposing fortress actually typed in the game channel,¡±¡±You guys forced me to do this.¡± After the attacker sessfully upied point A, old P was surprised to find that the opponent¡¯s fortress had been reced with a new hero, Sky Hunter! The angels that had been in the death protection fortress were now reced by 76 soldiers. And these two people were actually cheating! After using cheats, Hunter Kong became even more overpowered. It was clear that this yer wasn¡¯t a noob to begin with, and had a certain level of skill and awareness. His Hunter Kong would always appear in unexpected ces and fire a burst of bullets at the attacking brittleskin. What was worse was that Hunter Kong¡¯s headshot rate had be very high after he used his cheat. Almost every single one of his shots were headshots. Coupled with his close-range attacks, he could take down a brittleskin with every sh. Furthermore, the enemy¡¯s yers who were originally using the angel fortress changed to 76, and just like Hunter Kong, their headshot rate was very high! The 76 was like a moving fortress. Not only was every shot locked, but it was also very flexible and difficult to catch. Originally, when there was only one person using cheats, the attacking side was already having a hard time dealing with it. Now that there were two people using cheats at the same time, and they were even using Champions like 76 and Sky Hunter, the situation was instantly out of bnce. Not to mention taking down point B, the attacking side could only be killed by the defending side at home! Although the attacking side also tried to use the tank hero to restrain the opponent¡¯s 76 and Hunter Kong, they obviouslycked output. In front of the high mobility of Hunter Kong and 76, the tank hero seemed too cumbersome,pletely turning into a power bank. After several unsessful attempts, the attacking yers all began to curse and curse, and they even greeted the family members of the three yers who cheated. Because old P was live streaming, he didn¡¯t type to scold people due to the public¡¯s influence. However, it was obvious that he was very angry. He had been saying all kinds of obscenities during the live stream, but now he didn¡¯t say a word. In the final stage of the game, the attacker¡¯s defeat was certain. Other than old P, who was still rushing out to find an opportunity, the others had given up. Although he was very angry, he had no choice. He really couldn¡¯t win! In the game channel, the attackers were typing furiously, saying that they would report the three people who cheated. Hehe, just report me.¡±Lie Kong typed. At the end of the game, the best shot was given to Hunter Kong. In this shot, Hunter Kong¡¯s muzzle was basically locked the entire time, and the opponent¡¯s HP dropped like a roller coaster. Not only that, when he saw da Chui raising his shield or Chalia activating the particle barrier, he would also automatically shift his gun to other people to avoid enemies with shields. It was obvious that the other party was cheating, and it was done so brazenly. Old P didn¡¯t say a word. Obviously, he was about to explode from anger! On the bullet screen, the audience was consoling him. ¡°It¡¯s okay, Almighty P is ying very well. The other side is an orphan who cheated, don¡¯t take it to heart.¡± ¡°That¡¯s right, he¡¯ll definitely be banned!¡± ¡°Sigh, but Overwatch is a free game. I feel like the other party is fearless.¡± ¡°Hurry up and find Chen Mo, there¡¯s a hack in Overwatch!¡± ¡­¡­ In just one day, the official forums of the three most popr FPS games in the country, Overwatch, Wolf Soul, and raging inferno assault, were filled with all sorts of discussion posts about external hacks. ¡°F ** K, there¡¯s a plug-in in for Overwatch! The fortress is invincible, instant aim lock!¡± ¡°That¡¯s right, I saw it when I watched old P¡¯s live broadcast just now. Sky Hunter¡¯s cheating skills are simply invincible!¡± ¡°I can¡¯t y this game anymore!¡± ¡°There¡¯s a cheat in Overwatch too? There¡¯s also a cheat in Wolf Soul. ¡± ¡°Right, the same goes for the raging inferno assault!¡± ¡°What¡¯s the situation?¡± ¡°yers of the Overwatch, you should be content. If you encounter a cheat, you can still fight with your heavy armor Hero. If you encounter a cheat in Wolf soul and fire assault, you¡¯ll be ughtered one-sided without any power to fight back!¡± ¡°Damn it, how can these people be so arrogant?¡± ¡°That¡¯s strange. Weren¡¯t the external hacks almost eliminated before? why did they appear again? Could it be that some new technology has been poprized abroad?¡± ¡°I¡¯m speechless. I¡¯m just ying a game and I¡¯m already so angry. The game Committee should investigate this!¡± ¡°That¡¯s right, hurry up and ban all the cheaters!¡± All of a sudden, the yers were full ofints. All kinds of cheats had suddenly ravaged three domestic FPS games in one day, instantly bing the hottest topic of the day. ¡­¡­ In the experience store, Chen Mo was having an emergency meeting with Qian Kun, su Jinyu, and a few other key personnel. Su Jinyu said,¡±customer service¡¯s phone is almost exploding with calls. Many yers are reporting that someone is cheating in the game. Customer service is currently sorting it out. They¡¯ll send over the list very soon.¡± ¡°The reporting system in the game has also received a lot of reports, more than in the past two weeks,¡± said Qian Kun. Manager, how do you think we should deal with these reports?¡± Chapter 452 - -overflow of external cheats?

Chapter 452: Chapter 451-overflow of external cheats?

Chen Zhao tapped the table lightly. ¡°First, we¡¯ll quickly screen through the game¡¯s mechanism. All ounts with abnormal recent head shot rate, shooting uracy, and various data increases will be frozen first.¡± ¡°The game has reys of all sorts of deaths and highlights. Give the customer service staff the relevant authority to manually review the ounts that have been reported. Freeze all the ounts that are not operated by normal people.¡± Su Jinyu nodded.¡±Alright, I¡¯ll go arrange it now.¡± ¡°Is frozen an eternal seal?¡± Zheng Hongxi asked. Chen Zhao shook his head.¡±No, it¡¯s temporarily frozen. As for whether it¡¯s permanently sealed, it¡¯ll depend on the situation.¡± Also, close the registration function for Overwatch temporarily. No new ounts can be added for at least three days. ¡± Qian Kun hesitated,¡±I don¡¯t think so, manager?¡± Our Thunderbolt Game Pass is now bound to our id. ¡± Chen Zhao¡¯s attitude was still firm. There are a lot of people who sell ID data on the inte, and those who want to buy it can buy a lot of it. It¡¯s not safe. ¡± ¡°Alright,¡± he said. Qian Kun nodded,¡±but manager, these aren¡¯t long-term ns. I feel like they¡¯re just treating the symptoms but not the root cause.¡± Chen Mo nodded,¡±yes, I know.¡± I¡¯ve already asked the game Committee, they¡¯re still investigating and will give us a reply soon. During this period, we¡¯ll first use the manual review method to control the impact of this matter as much as possible. ¡± Very quickly, everyone went off to do their own things. Chen Mo was also surprised by the cheat¡¯s explosion. As FPS games were considered a popr genre in the parallel world, Wolf Soul and raging inferno assault had been in operation for a few years, but no one had ever heard of such arge-scale hack. Parallel world was different from Chen Mo¡¯s previous world. Due to the advanced technology and the gamemittee¡¯s regtion of the market, most of the cheats in previous FPS games had been banned. Even if there were a few yers who used cheats, they were quickly banned and didn¡¯t cause much of a stir. In the parallel world, even though FPS games had shifted from PC to VR, the game¡¯s principles were still the same. During shooting, some data had to be stored and calcted in the game¡¯s client to ensure the game¡¯s effect, which gave some external cheats the opportunity to tamper with the data. Reading on Mybo xn o vel. ,Please! As such, be it in the previous world or the parallel world, FPS games were the most popr games for cheating. Although the specific cheating methods and techniques werepletely different, the principles were simr. There were two ways for yers to cheat on the VR tform. The first was to crack the client¡¯s data through a special program, which meant to read and tamper with the game¡¯s hidden content through special means to achieve the effect of x-ray vision and self-sight. This was equivalent to the plug-in in in in in his previous life. The second method was to use some auxiliary equipment. Since the yers in VR games controlled their vision and shooting direction with their minds, there were some special auxiliary equipment that could help the yersplete some Special Operations. For example, if a yer¡¯s hands were clumsy and his reaction time was slow, he would only have a 30% hit rate when he shot. After using the auxiliary equipment, the auxiliary equipment could rece the yer¡¯s original thought signal with a more urate thought signal, which allowed him to react faster and have a higher hit rate. This kind of auxiliary device was simr to the mouse Hong in his previous life. It would not tamper with the data of the game client, but would modify the yer¡¯s operation, so that he could y some high-level operations more easily and mindlessly, which was equivalent to forcibly improving the yer¡¯s level. In parallel world, hacking had been basically banned, mainly due to technical reasons. On the one hand, cracking the game had be more difficult. On the other hand, the game had established a moreprehensive inspection mechanism. Once the client data was abnormal, an rm would be automatically triggered. After verification, the problematic ount would be frozen for investigation. Every gamepany had always been strict on hacking, and with VR games that could easily be bought out for one to two thousand RMB, any cheating that was found out would be permanently banned, and even the ount¡¯s ID number would be cklisted by the game Committee. Of course, those who really used hacks didn¡¯t use their own ID cards, but even so, the cost of hacks was rtively high. Therefore, although there were cases of external hacks in previous FPS games, it was far from the extent of widespread. However, after the outbreak of external hacks, the yers were surprised to find that the previous mechanisms did not seem to have any effect. The inspection mechanism of Overwatch, Wolf Soul, and raging inferno assault did not detect any abnormality in the client¡¯s data. Although the data of these yers who cheated was obviously abnormal, the system did not have any warning, so it could not judge whether they were cheating or not. In other words, this was a brand new cheat. ¡­¡­ The game Committee was also looking into the matter, and they notified Chen Mo as soon as the technical staff came back with the results. Clearly, this external modification technology had temporarily surpassed the illusion game editor¡¯s technology, and it didn¡¯t change the client¡¯s data. Chen Mo knew very well that the parallel world was still in a state of technological explosion. Various domestic and foreign technologies were undergoing rapid updates. Sometimes, it felt like the development of technology had stagnated, but a new technology might suddenly appear at any time. Obviously, this hack was one of the derivatives of the new technology. The improvement in technology had made the anti-cheat methods more advanced, but the methods of making cheats had also be more advanced. After a certain technological revolution, this new external modification quickly spread from abroad to China. ording to the gamemittee¡¯s spections, it was likely that some foreign technological breakthrough had been used by the external developers to develop auxiliary equipment for FPS games on the market. This auxiliary device could modify the yer¡¯s mind signal to a certain extent. Due to its high level of technology and the fact that it did not tamper with the client¡¯s data, the inspection mechanism in the game did not trigger an rm. If he wanted to solve this problem once and for all, he had to wait for the technical staff to crack it and update the inspection mechanism in the game. When would the in-game inspection mechanism bepleted? The game Committee didn¡¯t have an exact time, after all, this hack was new to the technical staff and needed time to research. Before that, the game developers could only rely on themselves to control the spread of these cheats. Emperor dynasty entertainment and ZEN Entertainment also went through an emergency manual check and froze any yers who were suspected of cheating. With the system¡¯s inspection mechanism failing, the only way to tell if a yer was cheating or not was to use a stupid method like a ¡°manual review.¡± Of course, once it was verified, the ID number bound to these yers ¡®ounts would naturally be cklisted, and the ID would no longer be able to register for any FPS game. However, this did not have much of an effect, because more than 90% of the yers who really cheated did not use their own ID card. On the inte, there were many gray channels and channels that could buy ID information. There were 1.3 billion people in the country, and the number of yers who yed FPS games was at most in the tens of millions. Those yers who cheated could buy all kinds of ID information on the inte and register multiple ounts. Some people didn¡¯t even know that their ID information had been stolen. Therefore, it was not feasible to convict someone with an ID card at the moment. The only way was to block the ID number and increase the cost of cheating. Chapter 453 - There鈥檚 never been anything that the game company dared to do

Chapter 453: There¡¯s never been anything that the gamepany dared to do

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On the official websites of Overwatch, Wolf Soul, and raging inferno assault, they immediately released announcements to appease the yers, exining the problem of the overflow of external cheats and how to solve it. They were also trying their best to ban the ounts. But the effects of this disturbance were still spreading. Among them, Overwatch had the most severe external hacks. In the end, it was still because of the problem of profit model. The price of the other two games was more than 1000 Yuan. Once the cheater¡¯s ount was banned, he would have to spend another 1000 Yuan to experience the game, which was equivalent to increasing the cost of the cheater. Moreover, with a small yer base, the number of yers who cheated would also be reduced. Overwatch was a free game, so many people yed it and cheated. Moreover, after the ount was blocked, one only needed to buy an ID card information to register again, which greatly reduced the cost of cheating. Many yers wereining on the Overwatch forum. ¡°Is this going to work? why hasn¡¯t the cheater that was reported this morning been banned yet?¡± ¡°F * ck, I¡¯m speechless. Chen Mo¡¯s a little slow this time.¡± ¡°Previous poster, didn¡¯t the announcement say that? This time, the game Committee is still studying it, and even dynasty and Zen are at a loss. What can Chen Mo do?¡± ¡°Yeah, we can only wait for the technical staff to solve it.¡± ¡°But I¡¯m really pissed. One cheater ruined my good mood! I don¡¯t know if reporting him will work!¡± ¡°Sigh, I thought it was pretty good when Overwatch was free, but now it seems like I¡¯d rather pay a few hundred Yuan more for the entrance fee. At least that way, there¡¯ll be fewer cheaters!¡± ¡°Sigh, it¡¯s not much less. Don¡¯t you see that Wolf Soul and raging inferno assault have a lot of cheats?¡± ¡°We can only wait a little longer. At most, we¡¯ll stop ying for the next two days. We¡¯ll talk about it after this period of time passes.¡± Reading on Mybo xn o vel. ,Please! Even though many yers were unhappy, they knew that the problem was due to the technology. Chen Mo couldn¡¯t do anything about it other than increase the amount of checks. However, just as many people thought that Chen Mo would ce all his hopes on the game Committee like Emperor dynasty entertainment and ZEN Entertainment, Chen Mo posted a long Weibo. And the content of this Weibo post made the yers even more dumbfounded. ¡°Regarding the recent cheating incident: currently, it is still uncertain when the gamemittee¡¯s technical staff will be able to update the in-game inspection mechanism. Before that, the game¡¯s own inspection mechanism can not be used toplete the automatic inspection and ban cheating ounts. ¡°But that doesn¡¯t mean we¡¯re going to do nothing. At present, we have already screened the game¡¯s data and abnormal ounts with arge increase in hidden points. The relevant staff are conducting a manual review of these suspected cheating ounts. Once they are confirmed, they will be frozen. ¡± ¡°In addition, at noon tomorrow, we will be carrying out a version update for the game. The update content is as follows: ¡± ¡°Overwatch will be updating its testing program. This program will conduct aprehensive inspection of the yer¡¯s VR gaming pod and all external devices installed in the gaming pod. In other words, all VR gaming pods must be given the highest authority to Thunderbolt gaming tform to run Overwatch. ¡± ¡°While the game is running, the detection program will detect the status of the yer¡¯s VR gaming pod and all external equipment. Other than some normal external devices that have been added to the white list, the game will be interrupted if any other unknown external devices are detected. ¡± ¡°In addition, we encourage yers to report those who are suspected of cheating. Once the yer is found to be cheating, we will give a small gift to the first 30 yers to report. ¡± ¡°Of course, each yer can only report 20 times a day. Please treasure the number of reports you have and don¡¯t abuse or maliciously report them.¡± ¡°In addition, if a yer is proven to be a cheater, the ount of the yer ying with him will be temporarily frozen. If the situation is confirmed to be ¡®cheating with the boss¡¯, even if the yer didn¡¯t cheat, they will be permanently banned. ¡± ¡°A fair and justpetitive environment needs to be maintained by everyone. Please believe that Thunderbolt entertainment won¡¯t let a single cheater off the hook!¡± As soon as this long Weibo post was posted, it immediately caused a huge uproar among the yers! ¡°What is it? Testing procedures?¡± ¡°This ... This feels like an anti-virus software?¡± ¡°But isn¡¯t it a little too much to grant the VR gaming pod the highest authority?¡± ¡°That¡¯s a little too much!¡± ¡°Chen Zhao¡¯s arrogant? Which gamepany would dare to ask for this kind of authority! And I can¡¯t y without it?¡± There were no other measures, but the ¡°detection program¡± installed in this version update made many yers unhappy. Because after the instation of this detection program, yers must fully open the highest ess of the VR gaming pod to y the game. It was like you bought an oven to bake sweet potatoes, but the oven required you to enter any of your rooms at will. Obviously, any owner with a normal brain would feel that this was very inappropriate. A VR gaming pod was like a PC. There was some personal information inside. Who knew if this information would be leaked after all the ess was fully opened? Obviously, what Chen Mo wanted to do wasn¡¯t tooplicated. He just wanted to create a detection program to check if there were any unknown programs or external devices in the VR gaming pods. If there were, they wouldn¡¯t be able to log into the game. It was that simple. The other gamepanies weren¡¯t stupid. Why wouldn¡¯t they do it? It was very simple, because he would be scolded for doing so! After all, the gamepany was not an anti-viruspany. If you asked the yers for the highest authority, you would be overstepping your authority. Moreover, could the yers be trusted? What if you secretly did something to a yer¡¯s VR gaming pod and stole information? Just like in Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, penguin games was the biggest gamepany in China, but what if he said that he wanted yers to give penguin games the highest level of ess on the PC, to check everything on the PC, and even change the data? He would definitely drown from the spittle. In parallel world, even the big names like Emperor dynasty entertainment and ZEN Entertainment didn¡¯t dare to do this. However, it was obvious that Chen Zhao dared! Many yers reposted andmented on it. Although most of the yers were praising it, there were also many yers who questioned the testing process. ¡°Request for the highest authority? I¡¯ve never heard of a game software that¡¯s this awesome!¡± ¡°So, you¡¯re saying that if I don¡¯t give you the permission, I can¡¯t y the Overwatch anymore?¡± ¡°Does the game Committee know that you¡¯re so cool?¡± ¡°Who will be responsible if my personal information is leaked?¡± Chen Zhao¡¯s response was very straightforward. ¡°That¡¯s right. If you don¡¯t have this right, you can¡¯t y the Overwatch. If you¡¯re unhappy, you can choose not to y.¡± ¡°If you don¡¯t want to continue ying and spend money in the game, you can look for customer service. I¡¯ll freeze your ount and give you a full refund.¡± ¡°We¡¯ve already talked to the game Committee about this, and I can guarantee to all yers that Thunderbolt entertainment will not look into any data in the yer¡¯s game cabin. Other than checking for suspicious external devices, there will be no other actions. Thunderbolt entertainment is willing to take full responsibility for this!¡± Chapter 454 - The storm continues

Chapter 454: The storm continues

? The cheating scandal was still brewing. As for Emperor dynasty entertainment and ZEN Entertainment, although Wolf Soul and raging inferno assault had released announcements on their official websites, and they were in the process of manual testing and banning their ounts, this kind of cheating was still spreading. The key difference between this hack and the previous one was that the system could not detect it automatically. It had to rely on manual inspection, which was much less efficient. Moreover, most of the time, manual verification could not guarantee 100% fairness. Some of them were indeed FPS experts, or some of the yers had an idea and performed wonderful operations. Without the corresponding game data to support them, it was sometimes difficult to determine whether they had cheated or not. Some of the yers who had obviously used cheats were quickly banned after being frequently reported. However, it was clear that some of the banned yers had been mistakenly banned, while others had been missed out on. Some of the smarter yers only used the less noticeable features of the plug-in, such as adjusting the shooting angle and locking the muzzle on the body instead of locking the muzzle. In addition to the superb acting skills of these yers, even the opponents in the game might not be able to see through it, let alone the staff who tested it manually. They only wondered why this person was so strong. These people had used external modifications to confuse the difference between him and the experts, causing some of the experts to mistakenly seal him, while he had sessfully avoided detection. All of a sudden, the gaming environment of Wolf Soul and raging inferno assault became very bad. Many masters were criticized for cheating after making wonderful ys, and even reported by other yers. The yers no longer trusted each other. Even if they lost, they no longer looked for problems from themselves, nor did they admire each other¡¯s marksmanship. Instead, the first thing they did was to type and curse at each other for cheating. The people in charge of Emperor dynasty entertainment and ZEN Entertainment were all extremely busy, and all the customer service staff were working overtime to deal with the hacked ounts. As for the game Committee, Emperor dynasty entertainment and ZEN Entertainment were also pressing for an answer, but they didn¡¯t get a definite answer. They only knew that the technical staff was working overtime toe up with a solution. But how long would it take? No one knew. Some people also proposed to lock the number of the VR game pods and prohibit cheating game pods from logging into all FPS games and even online games. But this was just a beautiful wish. This was the same problem Chen Mo was facing. If he wanted to use the VR pod¡¯s code, he would need the yer¡¯s permission and the highest level of authorization, and it wasn¡¯t within the gamepany¡¯s authority to ban the use of VR gaming pods. Reading on Mybo xn o vel. ,Please! Even if the game Committee wanted to do that, they had to consider the impact and whether the yers would ept it. It was conceivable that the resistance would be very great. Just like in Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, with the high poprity ofputers, what if the relevant departments required everyputer to be registered under their real names? Requiring every shooting game to be able to track the IP address of the PC? One could only imagine how much resistance they would encounter. The yers needed privacy, and they naturally didn¡¯t trust the gamepany or the relevant departments. Even the yers who didn¡¯t cheat didn¡¯t want their VR gaming pods to be a time bomb. Of course, VR gaming pods didn¡¯t have absolute privacy, so if the game Committee wanted to investigate someone through the gaming pods, they could do so. However, this kind of thing had to be limited to a small area and couldn¡¯t be done openly, or the yers would definitely rebel. Another reason was that there had never been such arge-scale cheating incident before, so¡¯ locking in the VR gaming pod number ¡®was not even within the gamemittee¡¯s consideration, and the game Committee was caught off guard. In terms of technology, this world¡¯s VR gaming pods had not developed to the level of science fiction. There was no such thing as automatically locking the resident number as soon as one entered the gaming pod, automatically detecting DNA, automatically checking past criminal records, and so on. From Chen Mo¡¯s point of view, the gaming pods in this world could collect the yer¡¯s thoughts to control the character in the game, and give the yer their vision, hearing, touch, and other main senses, that was all. In addition, it could also detect the physical condition of the yer, including age, blood pressure, heartbeat, or individual diseases. The rest was gone. Since VR gaming pods were first developed for gaming, who would have thought of recording the resident number of the yers to prevent cheating? Obviously, resistance and profit weren¡¯t proportional at all. No VR gaming pod developmentpany with a screw loose would do something that was bothborious and annoying. As such, Emperor dynasty entertainment and ZEN Entertainment couldn¡¯t do anything about it, and could only hope that the game Committee would quickly update the relevant technology, so that the game¡¯s automatic detection system could detect this new cheat as soon as possible. There were also people who suggested to the game Committee that the VR gaming pod waspletely bound to the yer¡¯s identity information, and that the yer would be directly held responsible if they cheated. But the game Committee did not reply. This was clearly too brutal, even more brutal than Chen Mo¡¯s request for the Thunderbolt gaming pass to obtain the highest level of ess to the VR gaming pod. The authorities wouldn¡¯t just do as they pleased. In just a few days, the yers of Wolf Soul and raging inferno assault were full ofints. On the other hand, Overwatch¡¯s stylepletely changed after Chen Mo¡¯s statement. ¡­¡­ At the start, a bunch of yers were cursing at Chen Mo on the forums and websites, saying that he was invading privacy and had malicious intentions. Many even threatened to quit the game or refund it. Chen Mo¡¯s reaction was very straightforward. I¡¯ll return it to you! A portion of the yers were really concerned about their VR gaming pod rights, and Chen Mo had harmed their interests slightly, so Chen Mo decided to refund them. There were also some yers who were just using this as an excuse to pressure Chen Mo, hoping that he would change his mind. Chen Mo¡¯s attitude towards these yers was very clear, it was impossible. If you ept it, then ept it. If you don ¡®t, then forget it. If you have the ability, then don¡¯t y. For these yers who refunded the game, their ounts would be permanently banned, along with their ID cards. Since you¡¯ve already refunded the game and don¡¯t want to y Overwatch anymore, there¡¯s nothing wrong with being forever sealed, right? Chen Mo didn¡¯t know how many of these yers wanted to leave the game or ask for a refund in order to continue cheating, but he was sure that there were quite a few of them. From Chen Mo¡¯s experience, once arge number of cheaters appeared, it meant that the situation was very serious. It was possible that it had happened before, but no one noticed it at the beginning. If he didn¡¯t take decisive measures, it would bepletely useless to find all the cheaters at the speed of the current artificial ban. What if the game Committee couldn¡¯t solve the problem from a technical level within a month? Wouldn¡¯t that mean that all three FPS games would be ruined by external hacks? Chapter 455 - heavenly justice!

Chapter 455: Chapter 454-heavenly justice!

Chen Mo didn¡¯t care what the otherpanies did, but he was willing to deal with Overwatch. Of course, there were many yers who supported Chen Mo¡¯s decision. Most of these people were Chen Mo¡¯s fans and trusted him. They were all frustrated by the cheating and were desperate to solve the problem once and for all. At least Chen Mo came up with a solution, which was much better than the otherpanies not doing anything and allowing the cheating to continue. The yers were fighting intensely. However, Chen Mo didn¡¯t move at all. A dayter, the Overwatch was urgently updated with a new version and added in the testing process. On the day of the update, Chen Mo obtained some shocking data through the program. On the first day of the new version update, 3.28 million yers had logged in, and 6.4% of them had been intercepted by the detection program. Was there any false interception? There were certainly some, because some yers would install auxiliary equipment for their VR gaming pods for single-yer games or RPG games, simr to plug-ins, not necessarily external. As long as these auxiliary devices came from an unknown source, they would all be intercepted by the detection program and banned from logging in. However, one thing was for sure. Among the yers who were intercepted, arge portion of them were definitely yers who had cheated. At the same time, the first batch of titled battle pet Warriors was out. There were more than 4000 people in total. These were the ones who had been reported more often, and they basically used cheats tantly without any acting skills. While the yers were still arguing over Chen Mo¡¯sst Weibo post, Chen Mo¡¯s Next post came. ¡°Notice of punishment regarding Overwatch¡¯s cheating: ¡± ¡°After the Overwatch update, a total of 210000 gaming pods have been banned from logging in. Being banned from logging in by the detection program doesn¡¯t mean that you¡¯re using external hacks. Some auxiliary equipment of unknown origin will also trigger the detection program¡¯s rm. ¡± Reading on Mybo xn o vel. ,Please! ¡°For yers who are mistakenly intercepted, as long as they no longer use auxiliary equipment of unknown origin, they can continue to y. As we can¡¯t determine if these yers are using external hacks, we will only intercept them and there will be no punishment. ¡± ¡°In addition, after manual verification, we have locked in the first batch of confirmed cheater names. All ounts that have been verified to have vited the rules will be permanently banned, including the ID number used by the ount. We also reserve the right to further impose punishment. ¡± ¡°Thunderbolt entertainment guarantees that we will continue to provide the yers of Overwatch with a fair and just gaming environment. We will also crack down on any behavior that vites the fairness of the game.¡± ¡°Justice will not be absent, and should not bete!¡± ¡°Finally, I would like to thank all the yers for your support and love for Thunderbolt entertainment and Overwatch. Thank you!¡± The Weibo post had a picture of the Pharaoh eagle flying in the sky and releasing its ultimate skill with the words ¡°justice from the heavens¡±, which made the yers extremely excited. At the bottom of the long Weibo post, there was also an Appendix with a list of banned ounts. The list clearly indicated the names and game IDs of more than 4000 ounts. As soon as this Weibo post was posted, arge number of yers apuded and cheered! ¡°He¡¯s out! Justice from the heavens!¡± ¡°Amazing, Chen Zhao¡¯s reaction is so fast! The first batch of titled battle pet Warriors is out already!¡± ¡°Actually, the title isn¡¯t that important. The key is the testing process! Where were the goddesses who had criticized Chen Zhao before? Look at this number, there are 210000 gaming pods that have been banned from logging in!¡± ¡°Yeah, even if there were mistakenly intercepted, most of them should be cheats, right? Tsk, tsk, hundreds of thousands of cheaters, I was wondering why this game waspletely unyable, so many cheaters are real!¡± ¡°I thought Chen Mo was making a mountain out of a molehill, but it looks like he¡¯s doing it for real! I feel like there are fewer cheats after the version update. I¡¯ve been ying for the entire morning and haven¡¯t seen one!¡± ¡°Yeah, they were probably all intercepted, right?¡± ¡°Well done! Chen Mo will never let yers down, aren¡¯t Emperor dynasty and Zen going to learn from him?¡± ¡°Hehe, they won¡¯t be able to learn it. Only Chen Mo has the courage to ask for the highest authority of VR gaming pods.¡± ¡°It¡¯s not Chen Mo¡¯s courage, it¡¯s his reputation. The yers trust him and that¡¯s why he¡¯s doing this!¡± ¡°Great, we can y this game again!¡± After the beta testing of Overwatch was released, the yers were all cheering and pping. Some of the yers who were skeptical at first turned to support Chen Mo¡¯s decision after seeing the data. Because from the data, this detection program was indeed very useful! Among the yers who logged into the Overwatch that day, 6.4% of them were suspected of using external hacks. Even if only one-tenth of them used external hacks, it was still about 0.5%. What if this 0.5% of yers were scattered in different games? That would increase his influence by ten times. What if he considered the fact that he would meet different yers every time? His influence had to be further expanded! The longer it took, the more normal yers would be affected. This number also showed that there were a lot of cheaters in Overwatch, and Chen Mo¡¯s actions were necessary! Many yers could clearly feel that there were fewer cheats in the game, and the cheaters who used cheats to kill people were basically nowhere to be seen. Obviously, most of the yers hoped that FPS games could have a fair and justpetitive environment, and they hated cheats. However, there were also people who postedints on the official forum of Overwatch, saying that their ounts had been blocked by mistake. These people swore that they didn¡¯t have any cheats and strongly requested Chen Mo to unseal them. Chen Mo specifically told the customer service staff to retrieve their first-person videos from the database and reply to them as an official. In the official reply post, the ¡°highlights¡± of these yers were ced at the top of the second floor for other yers to watch. In these ¡°highlights¡±, it could be said that there was a group of demons dancing around. There were all kinds of brazen locks, 180-degree instant turning locks, instant frailties in the midst of an Army, and so on, which made the audience gasp in amazement. ¡°What the f * ck? And he was still so confident that he wasn¡¯t dead? If you¡¯re not dead, are you an alien?¡± ¡°Tsk, tsk. This is simply an insult to the intelligence of the audience.¡± ¡°I don¡¯t know what you¡¯re thinking, but you¡¯re still here to get the official release? Won¡¯t Chen Zhao give you a clear exnation?¡± ¡°Is this ¡®seeking a hammer and getting a hammer¡¯? If you want solid evidence, Chen Zhao will give you solid evidence!¡± ¡°Cheater! Let¡¯s hang our whole family on the tree!¡± ¡°Chen Zhao¡¯s really good at this. He hung a tree in public and flogged the corpse like crazy! Everyone, hurry up and push the post to the top so that more people can see what happens to cheater!¡± Soon, these posts were all pushed up by the yers. The Overwatch Forum¡¯s main page was filled with ¡®thread¡¯ posts. They were all posts of yers who requested to be unsealed being proven wrong by the video! Chapter 456 - The world鈥檚 number one Sky Hunter?

Chapter 456: The world¡¯s number one Sky Hunter?

After the emergency update of Overwatch added a detection program, the game environment of the entire Overwatch was cleared. Moreover, the fact that he quickly banned arge number of ounts showed the yers Chen Mo¡¯s determination to crack down on cheating, and they all pped in joy. As for whether this detection program couldpletely root out the external modification? The answer was obviously No. It was just like how no matter how advanced human medical technology was, it was impossible to kill all bacteria and viruses and cure all diseases. Every technological advancement and innovation would also encourage a corresponding innovation in external hack technology, and new external hacks would always emerge one after another. As long as there were rted interests, the cheat would always exist. Chen Zhao was very clear about this. However, the biggest significance of this test program was that it could block out more than 90% of the auxiliary equipment. Those that could bypass the inspection process might only ount for less than one-tenth of all the external hacks, and they were very expensive. It was normal for them to cost thousands or tens of thousands a month. Chen Mo couldn¡¯t do anything about these hacks, because it was a battle between the world¡¯s advanced technology. The designer couldn¡¯t do anything. However, as long as the external modification could be controlled within a certain range, it would be fine. After all, there were only a few people who could afford to use this kind of high-end external modification. Moreover, they did not dare to use it openly, or it would definitely be detected by people. The number of people who used cheats had been greatly reduced, and they were all used very carefully. This way, the damage that the cheats could cause to the game itself would be limited to a very small range and would not cause too serious of an impact. Of course, Chen Mo also hoped to get rid of all the cheaters, but he still had to rely on the game Committee. ¡­¡­ On the first day of the update of Overwatch, the number of daily active yers dropped by 29%. However, after the testing program was officially released, the daily active yers of Overwatch began to rise again due to the high number of positive reviews from yers. Reading on Mybo xn o v el. ,Please! Obviously, many yers ¡®first reaction to this Assessment Program was distrust, so they did not log into the game. However, after seeing the importance of the detection program, the yers all epted it and returned to the arms of the Overwatch. On the fifth day after the update, the number of daily active yers had exceeded the previous figure and was still growing rapidly! Many of them were yers from Wolf soul and fire assault. The two games were still in the stage where cheats were rampant, and even though Emperor dynasty entertainment and ZEN Entertainment were working overtime to ban their ounts, they couldn¡¯t use a detection program to block most of the cheats like Chen Mo. The yers of these two games were annoyed by the external hacks. After much thought, they decided to y Overwatch! It just so happened that Overwatch had just won the title of game of the year, so its quality was definitely not a problem. It was free, and there was no threshold to try. Moreover, he heard that Chen Mo was extremely ruthless with the use of cheats, and it was almost impossible to find any in Overwatch. With these three points added together, arge number of yers from Wolf Soul and raging inferno assault were attracted to the game. Although the Overwatch had lost a group of yers due to the detection program, it had gained even more new yers! Emperor dynasty entertainment and ZEN Entertainment¡¯s higher-ups were fuming, but they couldn¡¯t do anything about it. They weren¡¯t as bold as Chen Mo, who dared to ask for the highest authority of VR gaming pods from the yers. Chen Mo dared to do this because he had enough charisma and his yers trusted him, but Lin chaoxu and Liu Yuanfeng didn¡¯t have the ability! They had no choice but to wait for the game Committee to solve this issue from a technical level. ¡­¡­ In the experience store. Qian Kun was showing Chen Mo a video. The yer in the video was using Hunter Kong to y the game. His reaction was very fast, and he shuttled through the battlefield quickly. His gun was very stable, and almost every burst of bullets could kill a brittleskin. Qian Kun exined,¡±this is the streamer that has been reported by a lot of people recently. His name is Hami. He¡¯s pretty popr on fish-catching gaming tform right now. He¡¯s the third most popr streamer on Overwatch, and his poprity is still rising. He¡¯s also known as the world¡¯s number one Sky Hunter.¡± Chen Zhao was speechless. It was obvious that the live streaming tforms in the parallel world also liked to use such gimmicks to attract viewers. At the moment, Overwatch was only open on the local server and not on the foreign server. Indeed, there was no difference between the number one Sky-hunting game in the country and the number one Sky-hunting game in the world, because no one yed Overwatch overseas. If you want to, you can even be called ¡°the number one Sky Hunter in the universe¡±! These few videos were all exciting ys by Hami. Compared to the other streamers of ¡°Overwatch¡±, Hami¡¯s main feature was his excellent marksmanship. Other streamers liked to y assassin-type heroes like Yuanshi, but Hami liked to y shooting-type heroes that could show off. Heroes like Hunter Kong and 76 were all Hami¡¯s favorite. Obviously, the yers who had been abused by cheats in Overwatch knew that heroes who relied on marksmanship like this were the favorite of cheats. They had never heard of people using cheats to y sledgehammer and Gori. Evidently, this Hami had been reported many times, but the customer service staff couldn¡¯t confirm if he was cheating or not. Considering that he was a streamer and had some influence, they handed him over to Chen Mo. Chen Mo watched the video three times, then looked at some of the scenes frame by frame. ¡°I can¡¯t tell.¡± Chen Mo shook his head. ¡°Uh ...¡± Qian Kun pointed at the screen,¡±he turned 180 degrees and instantly locked the camera. Isn¡¯t that a hack?¡± Chen Mo shook his head,¡±for some FPS experts, a 180-degree turn isn¡¯t that difficult after practice.¡± As for instant aim, you can say that his reaction was fast or that he was lucky. This level of performance is far from enough to be a solid hammer. ¡± ¡°Hmm...You¡¯re right,¡±Qian Kun nodded. ¡°One thing for sure,¡± Chen Mo said,¡±is that even if he did cheat, it would be a very high-level hack for streamers. It would be able to avoid the detection of Overwatch.¡± Moreover, he must have used it very carefully. It was very likely that he only used this plug-in to assist in aiming and micro-self-aiming. Moreover, his reaction speed is indeed very fast. He¡¯s an expert himself, so he¡¯s very clear about the operation mechanism of the cheat. His acting skills are also not bad. ¡± ¡°Moreover, we can¡¯t find out whether he¡¯s using a cheat or not based on these videos. So, let¡¯s just leave it at that for now. When the gamemittee updates the anti-cheat program, we should be able to detect it. ¡± ¡°Alright, that¡¯s the only way,¡± Qian Kun nodded. Chapter 457 - The mysterious Master of Warcraft

Chapter 457: The mysterious Master of Warcraft

? This incident became a small interlude. Although there weren¡¯t any follow-up events, Chen Zhao still felt a little alert. Hami wasn¡¯t the biggest streamer on fish-catching TV, and it didn¡¯t seem like there were any major problems with him, so Chen Mo didn¡¯t bother with him. However, Chen Mo had the data of all the names that were suspected of cheating. As long as the game Committee improved their technology, they should be able to find out if they were really cheating. ¡­¡­ A weekter, the incident of the external modification finally subsided. The game Committee had urgently updated a patch for the domestic FPS games. This patch could block most of the external modifications to the game. Even though it didn¡¯t solve the problem of external hacks once and for all, this patch was like rain after a long drought for most of the yers who were looking forward to it. Obviously, the high-end cheats in the game had not beenpletely banned, but the low-end cheats had basically been eliminated. With the addition of manual review and censorship, the cheating situation of Wolf soul and fire assault was finally under control. Of course, there were more cheats in these two games than in Overwatch. After all, Overwatch used more brutal methods. But no matter what, Wolf soul and fire assault both suffered some losses from the cheating incident. On the other hand, while Overwatch attracted a huge number of yers, it also made the image of ¡®Chen Mo cracking down on cheating¡¯ deeply rooted in people¡¯s hearts. In addition, the game Committee also arrested several criminal gangs that sold cheats on the inte, which also made the audience cheer. ¡­¡­ In the experience store. Chen Mo and Li jingsi finished another game in Warcraft, and Li jingsi won this time. ¡°Not bad.¡± Chen Moplimented. Reading on Mybo xn o v el. ,Please! Li jingsi nced at him.¡±When will you stop ying random races?¡± she asked.¡±Can you y a game with me seriously?¡± Chen Mo smiled.¡±I¡¯m serious. You were lucky this round. The treasure you got was too good.¡± Li jingsi looked at him nomittally and said,¡±¡±By the way, a lot of people suspected that fish-catching tform¡¯s Hami was cheating. What happened after that?¡± ¡°I didn¡¯t find out.¡± Chen Mo said,¡±at least the gamemittee¡¯s patch and the Overwatch¡¯s testing program didn¡¯t detect it. And I can¡¯t tell much from the video. ¡± Li jingsi thought for a moment.¡±So, even if he really did cheat, it would be a very high-level cheat?¡± she asked. Chen Mo nodded,¡±yes, it¡¯s not appropriate to call it a hack. It should be called ck technology.¡± However, this kind of thing can only be said without a doubt. Before there is solid evidence, you can¡¯t speak carelessly. ¡± ¡°I understand.¡± Li jingsi thought for a moment and asked,¡±you¡¯re not nning on updating Warcraft?¡± ¡°Right, I don¡¯t n on updating it.¡± Chen Mo nodded,¡±to be honest, Warcraft is already perfect for me. Be it the plot, cinematics, or game bnce, they¡¯re all just right. There¡¯s only so much game content, so there¡¯s nothing more to add. ¡± He paused.¡±Moreover, RTS games aren¡¯t mainstream anymore. There are fewer and fewer yers, and I have new games to work on. I don¡¯t have the energy to do that.¡± ¡°What a pity,¡± li jingsi said as she stretched her shoulders.¡±I still like Warcraft best.¡± ¡°It¡¯s nothing much,¡± Chen Mo consoled.¡±At least the hardcore Warcraft yers are still ying. It¡¯s still the best RTS game in the world.¡± RTS games aren¡¯t like MOBA. As long as you have 20 to 30 top yers, you can keep ying the game. ¡± . Li jingsi nodded.¡±That¡¯s true. Although there¡¯s a huge loss of normal yers, it doesn¡¯t really affect the yers at the very front of the stairway tree.¡± At this point, li jingsi seemed to have suddenly thought of something.¡±¡±Oh right, speaking of experts, do you know that there¡¯s a new expert in the US server?¡± Chen Mo was stunned,¡¯an American costume? I didn¡¯t pay attention to it. ¡± ¡°The ID is Origin,¡± li jingsi said.¡±It seems like he has already beaten all the yers on the stairway to heaven on the US server. Every round ends very quickly. It¡¯s simr to how you wreaked havoc in the National server. ¡± ¡°Oh?¡± Chen Mo was surprised, as there weren¡¯t many new yers in Warcraft, since it was an RTS game that had been released for four years. Of course, it wasn¡¯t just Warcraft. The world¡¯s RTS games weren¡¯t doing well anymore, but Warcraft was the best living RTS game in the world, at least it had arge number of core yers. A young genius had suddenly appeared in a new game like this? It was clearly not very scientific. Moreover, ording to li jingsi, Origin appeared out of nowhere. The moment it appeared, it maintained a record of all victories and climbed up thedder to the top in a short time. This was simr to the sensation Chen Mo had caused when he reached the top of the National server. Even though there weren¡¯t many masters in the US server, far less than the Korean and Chinese servers, there were still a few. Origin was able to kill the entire stairway tree like Chen Zhao, which was obviously not normal. Chen Mo was able to kill stairway tree because of his godly hand speed and reaction time, as well as advanced tactics that were several levels ahead of the world. But what did Origin have? Chen Mo tapped the table lightly and mumbled the ID. ¡°Origin ... Origin? This ID was interesting, and he felt that the other party was very likely to be a Chuunibyou teenager. Do you have a video of him?¡± Li jingsi nodded.¡±Yes, it¡¯s all over the Warcraft circle now. I¡¯ll get you some video files.¡± Very quickly, li jingsi found a few Origin¡¯s video files in the Warcraft group chat. Chen Mo copied the recording to hisputer and started to watch the battle. Chen Mo had been busy with Overwatch¡¯s plug-in and didn¡¯t have time to pay attention to Warcraft. After all, he had made so many games, and it was impossible for him to know the situation of every game. One te. Two games. Three games. Chen Zhao had been watching seriously without saying a word. Li jingsi, on the other hand, was watching from the side with him, not saying a word either. After reading it all, Chen Zhao frowned. ¡°How do you feel?¡± Li jingsi asked. Chen Zhao thought for a moment and said,¡± The feeling this person gives me, isn¡¯t his operation a little too good?¡± Li jingsi nodded.¡±That¡¯s right. Everyone thinks that this person¡¯s skills are almost the same as yours. His multi-thread skills are especially impable.¡± Even though some of the details weren¡¯t perfect, it¡¯s clear that his operation was heaven-defying. ¡± ¡°Such a person couldn¡¯t have been unknown before, right?¡± Chen Zhao frowned. Li jingsi nodded.¡±Everyone¡¯s guessing that it¡¯s a smurf ount of some expert, but it¡¯s hard to say who it is.¡± Moreover, this person only ys the night Elf race. ¡± Chen Mo thought,¡¯could it be the Korea light? This elf¡¯s fighting style is simr to stallight ¡®s. ¡± ¡°My first reaction was that it looked like Starlight,¡± li jingsi said. But he¡¯s the number one elf in Korea. Why is he not ying in the Korean server but in the US server?¡± Chapter 458 - Heaven-defying data

Chapter 458: Heaven-defying data

¡°I¡¯m not sure. ¡°Chen Mo shook his head. But from the video, Origin is indeed a super-ss yer. ¡± ¡°Don¡¯t you want to fight him?¡±li jingsi asked curiously. ¡°Fight him?¡± Chen Zhao shook his head.¡±It¡¯s nothing. I¡¯m a video game designer, and I only y games to promote them. I¡¯mpletely uninterested in this kind of purepetitiveness. ¡± Li jingsi raised an eyebrow.¡±So, this is the reason why you¡¯re not ying seriously with me?¡± Chen Zhao was speechless. ¡­¡­ This yer with the ID Origin had attracted the attention of Warcraft yers all over the world, but he was only well-known within the small circle of Warcraft. After all, RTS games had long since be a niche game. For most mainstream yers, Warcraft had a genius yer? What does it have to do with me? Therefore, this matter didn¡¯t have much of an impact. Moreover, even among the Warcraft yers in the Chinese server, this news didn¡¯t cause too much of a stir. After all, Origin was wreaking havoc in the weakest American server. Any top yers from the Chinese and Korean servers would be able to do the same in the US server. Moreover, there was a hidden boss in the Chinese server, serente. After Chen Mo¡¯s rampage at the stairway tree, the yers in the Chinese server had a much higher standard. To most of the yers, Origin was nothing more than a fish pond in North America, far from Chen Mo¡¯s ability to defeat the entire Chinese server. However, what no one expected was that this was only the beginning. After Origin reached the top of the American server, it moved to the European and Korean servers. And this time, Origin was fighting on both sides at the same time. Reading on Mybo xn o v el. ,Please! Just like in the US server, this guy yed a ¡°ranked from zero¡± again, causing the yers from the European and Korean servers toin endlessly. However, since Origin¡¯s ID had already been registered in both the European and Korean servers, the ID was changed to original 203 and original 204. Some people guessed that these two IDs should refer to the dates, which were the dates Origin created its ounts in the European and Korean servers. Origin¡¯s record was also aplete victory, and all of them were from the elves. Moreover, people discovered a very important piece of information. Origin seemed to have a slight dy when ying on the European and Korean servers. Although the dy was not too serious, it was obvious that Origin was not ying as smoothly as it did in the US server. In the US server, Origin¡¯s various methods of pulling back blood, saving, and returning to base were all very extreme. It could even be said that they would not retreat until thest attack. However, in the European and Korean servers, Origin was often slower in pulling down its health due to dys, causing its own soldiers to be killed. Of course, this little dy was not enough to affect Origin¡¯s battle record. However, it seemed to reflect a problem: Was Origin an American? Otherwise, why would he not be stuck on the American server, but have a dy on the European and Korean servers? This made many people¡¯s previous guesses question. Before this, many people had suspected Origin to be a Smurf of the Korean yer, star light, because the two had some simrities in their ystyles. Moreover, there were only a few top elves in the world who could be counted on one¡¯s fingers. But now, Origin seemed to be a yer from the American server. Starlight couldn¡¯t possibly go overseas just to y with his alternate ount, right? Three dayster, the spection that ¡°Origin is light¡± was broken. This was because the two of them had fought on the Korean server¡¯s Stairway to Heaven! Because Chen Mo¡¯s Warcraft had a special bonus system, if they kept winning, they would gain a lot of points. So Origin gained a lot of points with every win. Origin was like a young inte addict who had been ying games until he died. He yed for three days and two nights and scored 4000 points in both the European and Korean servers! Moreover, during this period, he would y the European and Korean servers one after another, not dying any of them. Both sides had consecutive wins, and both sides had 4000 points! After Origin¡¯s ranking got higher, he actually met Starlight! This battle attracted a lot of attention because light was currently recognized as the strongest Elf race in the Korean server, and Origin had always been regarded as a Smurf of light. The battle between these two people was full of topic and drama! The final result surprised everyone. Starlight lost! Although in this internal war of the night Elves, Starlight also yed very seriously, it seemed that they were always a little weaker than Origin. In the end, the poption gap between the two sides grew bigger and bigger, and they lost. Nevertheless, Starlight was a recognized expert after all. Their defeat this time could only be said to be a narrow miss. In the eyes of many, Starlight might have a chance of winning if they could obtain a better treasure in a crucial match. Of course, the most important thing about this fight was to tell everyone that Origin was not Saint light. In fact, origin was stronger than Saint light! This news shocked the world¡¯s Warcraft yers. Did an RTS genius really appear in the US server? And he¡¯s going to challenge the whole world? ¡­¡­ In the experience store. Chen Mo¡¯sputer disyed a huge amount of data, but he was frowning. Li jingsi sat at the side, not saying a word. Chen Zhao thought for a long time and leaned back in his chair in confusion.¡±¡±This doesn¡¯t make sense.¡± ¡°What do you mean, manager?¡± zou Zhuo asked. ¡°Can you find out?¡± Goph asked.¡±What is Origin¡¯s background?¡± Not only li jingsi and zou Zhuo, but even Goph, Nightwind, and other old Warcraft yers from China hade all the way to Chen Mo¡¯s Experience Store. On the day Origin beat Starlight, li jingsi had sent the video to Chen Mo and exined her doubts. Most of the people present had the same question as li jingsi: Who was this? If it was any other game, he could only guess; But the designer of Warcraft was someone they knew, so why couldn¡¯t they just ask Chen Mo to check? Therefore, these people hoped that Chen Mo would be able to find some clues from the data. Chen Mo was also curious. If Origin was not Starlight, then it must be a new genius. However, Chen Zhao had a strange feeling. He felt ufortable watching Origin¡¯s video. Although Origin¡¯s strategy was very organized and clear, Chen Mo always felt that Origin¡¯s strategy was somewhat evil. He often couldn¡¯t understand Origin¡¯s intentions. Chen Mo tapped a few times on the keyboard and brought up a chart and a string of data. ¡°This is Origin¡¯s APM map.¡± Chen Zhao exined. Zou Zhuo nodded,¡±yeah, we know that. It¡¯s been all over the inte.¡± Origin¡¯s hand speed is crazy. It reached 600 at its peak. It canpete with you. ¡± This APM chart was like an ECG, with peaks and valleys. During the team battle, the APM value would suddenly rise, and after the team battle, it would fall back. But overall, Origin¡¯s average APM was around 400, which was basically the same as the average APM of most experts. Chen Mo tapped on the keyboard a few more times, is this data avable online? ¡°This, this is ...¡± The people behind Chen Mo were all speechless from the new data. Zou Zhuo said incredulously,¡±the percentage of effective ys is ... 98.3%?!¡± Chapter 459 - Artificial intelligence?

Chapter 459: Artificial intelligence?

¡°How is this possible? This effective control ratio ... Is inhuman!¡± Goph eximed in shock. Obviously, from the APM data, Origin¡¯s hand speed was very fast, but it was still within the range of a human¡¯s hand speed. Chen Mo and Goph could reach this APM. But 98% effective control? This data was very abnormal! The so-called effective operation referred to some operations that had practical significance. For example, right-clicking to move, form up, kick out of formation, attack, release skills, and so on. Nullifying operations meant meaningless movements, repeated formation, and striking F1 multiple times, which wouldn¡¯t affect the battle too much. A normal expert could maintain a rtively high APM. In arge-scale battle, the peak APM could even reach 600 or 700. This was mixed with arge number of ineffective operations. These ineffective operations weren¡¯t to increase the APM value, but mainly to warm up their hands. Through these seemingly meaningless operations, they could maintain their hand speed to a rtively high level. In fact, most yers with around 300 APM could be a professional yer in Warcraft, which meant that RTS games needed a higher level of APM. Reaching 400 was basically the level of a God. Out of these 400 APM, only 60% to 70% were effective operations. For many yers, the higher the APM, the more ineffective the operations. Even Chen Mo would have some ineffective actions when ying Warcraft, which could only be attributed to the limits of the human body. No matter how fast one¡¯s hands were, they would have to repeat some actions to maintain their feel. But Origin could maintain an average APM of around 400, and at the same time, the effective operation ratio could reach 98%? In other words, he was actually better at the details than Chen Mo! This was very unscientific! Chen Mo looked at everyone.¡±So, Origin might be an AI.¡± ¡°How is that possible?¡± Zou Zhuo¡¯s first reaction was disbelief,¡±the old yers in Warcraft can easily destroy the crazyputers, and that¡¯s only if theputers get extra gold.¡± How can this AI be so powerful?¡± Goph also nodded.¡±That¡¯s right. Origin really can¡¯t be seen as aputer. Its operations and tactics are no different from humans.¡± Could it be some sort of cheat?¡± Reading on Mybo xn o v el. ,Please! ¡°A hack?¡± zou Zhuo asked. Goph nodded.¡±Yes, external software. In other words, an assistive program. For example, Origin was originally an expert in the US server, but his skills were not that good. Now that he has a new hack that can automatically pull minions, he is one with the machine, so his strength has improved rapidly. ¡± Chen Zhao shook his head,¡±I have to emphasize one thing. The calcted effective operation rate is 98%, and it is calcted ording to an evaluation standard I designed. For example, sending two movement or attackmands to the same unit within 0.5 seconds is considered a repetitive operation and invalid operation. ¡± ¡°However, this evaluation standard is targeted at normal people and normal yers. It¡¯s impossible for a normal person to issue twomands to the same unit in 0.5 seconds, but what if it¡¯s an AI?¡± ¡°You mean ...¡± Goph frowned. Chen Mo nodded.¡±Yes. It is very likely that Origin did not think that his move was useless. It was just that they changed their strategy in 0.5 seconds.¡± ¡°In other words, Origin thinks that its effective operation is 100%.¡± ¡°¡­¡­¡± At this point, gaph and the rest of the people present understood. Obviously, Origin could not have been created by other yers using cheats or scripts. As long as a yer was still ying, it would definitely be invalid. No expert could avoid this. In other words, Origin was very likely to be apleteputer program. It was an AI, an artificial intelligence. Zou Zhuo was still in disbelief. It wasn¡¯t just him, the other people present were also in disbelief. This was because many people felt that AI still had a long way to go before it could conquer RTS games. He didn¡¯t expect it toe so suddenly! ¡­¡­ The second day after Origin reached the top of the Korean and European servers, the poprity of Origin on the inte had started to spread from the Warcraft yer base to many other yers. This incident had already be the biggest news of the month, and it was quickly spreading to other groups of yers. This was because Origin had dominated the Korean and European servers. These two servers were known to be full of strong yers, and there were many very strong professional yers. Origin was still able to maintain all their victories and reach the top. This was simply too terrifying. In other words, Origin¡¯s current strength had already surpassed the professional yers from the Korean and European servers! On the forums, not only Warcraft yers, but many other PC and even some VR yers were talking about this mysterious Master Origin. They were talking about the series of unbelievable things he did in Warcraft. ¡°Have you heard? There¡¯s a Super Master in Warcraft!¡± ¡°Ah? RTS games were already dead, and he was still a master? Now it¡¯s League of Legends¡¯s world!¡± ¡°F * ck, this lousy yer is so proud? In terms ofpetition, Warcraft willpletely crush your League of Legends!¡± ...¡±Why did you start a chain of contempt? It¡¯s the first time I¡¯ve seen two games from the samepany go at each other. It¡¯s all Chen Mo¡¯s work, why are you guys fighting over it?¡± ¡°Okay, we¡¯re off topic. This time, we¡¯re talking about Origin. Those who don¡¯t care, leave. Don¡¯t cause trouble.¡± ¡°I¡¯ve watched Origin¡¯s video. It feels like we¡¯re back to the time when Chen Mo wreaked havoc on the stairway tree when Warcraft was just released! It¡¯s the same fancy ughter, and the control is really detailed. It feels invincible in a head-on fight!¡± ¡°As a yer with 3000 points in the stairway tree, I think Origin is better at controlling the details than Chen Mo, especially in the few games he yed on the US server. In some games, he didn¡¯t even lose a single minion. He¡¯s insane!¡± ¡°Alright, that¡¯s just a noob bullying game. There¡¯s nothing to say. Chen Mo is definitely better in terms of viewing experience. Chen Mo used a random race to win the server, but Origin only knows how to y the elf race. ¡± ¡°Why do I feel like this is a cheater? I had suspected that this was an AI before, but Chen Zhao proved that he had made it himself. However, Chen Mo¡¯s control was already at the limit of a human. Origin is even more op than Chen Mo. How is that possible?¡± ¡°I think so too. And Origin was from the US server. How many RTS Masters could there be in the US server? It¡¯s most likely some kind of ck technology. ¡± ¡°Yes, I think Origin should show itself. He¡¯s reached the top of the US server, then the Korean server, and the European server. If it were me, I would¡¯vee out and bragged a long time ago. How could he still be so quiet and silent? Chapter 460 - Declaration of war on all mankind

Chapter 460: Deration of war on all mankind

¡°For the new yers who have never yed Warcraft, I would like to ask, if you all say Origin is so powerful, what level of control does he have in League of Legends?¡± ¡°There¡¯s no way topare. There are only a few mechanics in League of Legends. After six skills, you¡¯ll only have an Ace. How can itpare to an RTS game?¡± ¡°If I have to force an analogy, it¡¯s probably equivalent to ying the geometric barrel 100 times without making a single mistake?¡± ¡°What the f * ck? No one can do that, right?¡± ¡°In fact, the difficulty might be higher than this. You can think of it as controlling ten barrels at the same time to y with a geometric barrel without any mistakes. And you¡¯ll have to y against a first-ss yer. ¡± ¡°Could he be a cheater?¡± ¡°I¡¯ve never heard of cheats in RTS games. Aren¡¯t cheats only used in FPS games?¡± ¡°It¡¯s newly researched! Otherwise, why would he only appear now?¡± ¡°All of you have such dark hearts. Can¡¯t you believe that a genius young man came from America?¡± ¡°Heavens my ass! Do you think there would be two monsters like Chen Zhao in the same era? I don¡¯t believe it!¡± ¡­¡­ The yers were all making guesses and had different opinions. Even some of the yers who didn¡¯t y Warcraft were attracted by this event as it was a hot topic. A rare super genius? The Chuunibyou who swept the world? Everyone was trying to guess Origin¡¯s true identity. Reading on Mybo xn o v el. ,Please! However, just as the world¡¯s Warcraft yers were guessing who Origin was, a piece of news instantly blew up the topic. There was no doubt about the authenticity of this news. Not only were there videos of the press conference on foreign websites, but there were also news channels and science and education channels in China that reported this news. ¡°The Super artificial intelligence, Origin, developed by a North Americanpany has recently emerged. After conquering all the board games in the world five years ago, they have shifted their new target to video games and announced yesterday that they have achieved ¡®extraordinary¡¯ results.¡± ¡°It is reported that the artificial intelligence named Origin has sessfully reached the top of thedder with a winning record on the American, Korean, and European servers. All human yers who have yed against origin have been defeated, including many of the top professional yers in the world.¡± ¡°It¡¯s worth mentioning that Origin has chosen Warcraft, a ssic real-time strategy game by our designer Chen Mo. ording to the developers, they chose Warcraft as their main target because it represents the highest level of design in the world for RTS games. It also has a perfect bnce, which will help Origin to have a fair fight with human yers. ¡± ¡°At the same time, Origin has officially dered war on all of humanity. At present, Origin¡¯s research and developmentpany has officially issued a challenge to Starlight, the number one yer in the Korean server. The two sides will have an offline match this week.¡± ¡°After AI conquered all the board games, can it continue to move forward and conquer the video game industry? Let¡¯s wait and see! We¡¯ll be broadcasting the entire process for you. Wee to this ssic war between humans and machines!¡± . As soon as this news came out, the topic of Origin exploded! This news was originally only active among Warcraft yers, but after this news appeared, it instantly became a hot topic on the inte. If Origin was a yer, it would not have be so popr. But it was an artificial intelligence. It was apletely different story! On all the major gaming forums and Weibo, everyone¡¯s attention was focused on this. They were all discussing the war between humans and machines. ¡°What the f * ck? What was going on? He¡¯s already in the gaming industry? And it¡¯s an RTS game?¡± ¡°What¡¯s this? Origin was really an artificial intelligence! I didn¡¯t believe it when the giant hand was analyzing it. I didn¡¯t expect it to really be artificial intelligence. ¡± ¡°Yeah, who would believe that? I heard that the AI was still beaten by the human¡¯s B-list yersst year and could be easily beaten to a pulp even with 70% of its health remaining. Yet, it¡¯s already reached the top this year with a win-all?¡± ¡°Have you forgotten the script when the artificial intelligence conquered all kinds of chess? A month ago, it was still ying against a second-rate yer, but a monthter, it¡¯s already in the top three of the world. And another monthter ... No one in the world can understand its game anymore!¡± ¡°Isn¡¯t he too arrogant? It¡¯s just that reaching the top of thedder, professional yers and those with high points on thedder are two different concepts. ¡± ¡°Upstairs, I¡¯m sorry to tell you this news. Starlight had fought Origin on the stairway before and Starlight lost ...¡± ¡°What? Then what¡¯s the point of fighting! Even if we can win now, we¡¯ll probably be able to beat the world in a month at most!¡± ¡°It¡¯s hard to say. I don¡¯t know how this offline tournament will be yed. Moreover, in the previous match between star light and Origin, star light¡¯s luck wasn¡¯t very good and they were evenly matched in the early game. If Starlight is lucky this time, they still have a chance of winning. ¡± ¡°We¡¯re fighting this week? What¡¯s thepetition format?¡± ¡°Best of three. I think that if Starlight is lucky, they should be able to win a game, but to win it ... It¡¯s a little difficult. ¡± ¡°I¡¯m paying attention. I didn¡¯t understand the war between humans and machines in the chess genre, but I¡¯ll have to pay attention to this war between humans and machines in an RTS game!¡± ¡°Yeah, even though I don¡¯t y Warcraft anymore, I can still understand thepetition!¡± ¡­¡­ The news quickly made it to the top of Weibo, Tieba, forums, and search rankings. Even Warcraft was on thest page of its life. Many Warcraft yers who had never yed before bought Warcraft to experience it in order to understand the war between humans and machines. Clearly, the war between humans and machines was more popr than Chen Mo had expected. The technology in this parallel world was more advanced than Chen Mo¡¯s previous world, and the research on artificial intelligence was also at the forefront. As early as five years ago, before Chen Mo transmigrated, thepany that developed Origin had already conquered all the go games in the world. Go was thest game to be conquered in the world. The war between humans and machines had already attracted the attention of countless people back then. Many of those who did not understand go at all were also paying attention to this unprecedented war. However, the final result was the defeat of mankind. After humans lost their ruling power in the go world, some ¡°AI threats¡± appeared on the inte. Many people were worried. It was publicly acknowledged as the mostplicated and difficult game of Go, as well as the game that best represented humanity¡¯s intelligence. If even go had been taken down by AI, how far away would the daye when the intelligence of machines truly triumphed over humanity? At this time, gaming had be the next target of artificial intelligence. Chapter 461 - 1.5 million saber reward!

Chapter 461: 1.5 million saber reward!

When artificial intelligence first stepped into the gaming industry, it actually didn¡¯t go smoothly. Before thispany developed Origin, they had also developed another artificial intelligence to enter the RTS field, but it waspletely crushed by human yers. Of course, he chose RTS as his main focus mainly because of the game genre. In the current market, only RTS games could allow humans to fight against artificial intelligence. In FPS games, no matter how hard humans tried, it was impossible for them to win against cheats. As for casual puzzle games, humans also had no chance of winning. Those seemingly difficult puzzles were only difficult for humans, but they werepletely easy for artificial intelligence. After all, there were so many puzzle games in the world, but which one of them could surpass the difficulty of go? As for the popr MOBA games, it was a 5V5 game after all. To let five human yers fight five AI with the same thought process? It didn¡¯t feel very appropriate. Therefore, RTS games were the most suitable game for the AI researchpany. The reason why RTS games were more difficult to conquer than go was because of the fog of war. In an RTS game, due to the limited vision, artificial intelligence couldn¡¯t grasp all the movements of the opponent, which gave the two sides the space to y a strategic game. At the same time, due to the extremelyplex conflicting attributes between the different types of troops, these changes were often faster and moreplicated than in go. If the other party¡¯s small intentions were not discovered or understood in time, they might be directly destroyed by a wave of attacks with their family. For artificial intelligence, the biggest limitation was always one thing: Calction speed. At the beginning of the game between the artificial intelligence and Go, humans could win against the artificial intelligence in fast chess, but they would lose if they yed slow chess. This was because the way artificial intelligence thought waspletely different from humans. The moreplicated the situation was, the longer it would take to calcte the optimal solution. In real-time strategy games, there wasn¡¯t enough time to think like go. For an AI, it might have to change to apletely different algorithm and rules. Reading on Mybo xn o v el. ,Please! Of course, apart from these aspects, in terms of operation, the artificial intelligence clearly crushed the human yers in all aspects. For some human yers, the APM in RTS games was never enough because they needed to operate dozens of units at the same time. Even if they had the brain, their hands couldn¡¯t keep up. However, for an artificial intelligence, no matter how many units it controlled, it was no problem. In terms of reaction time and uracy, it was better than human yers. Therefore, considering that this was rtively unfair to human yers, thepany that developed Origin also imposed certain restrictions on the operation of artificial intelligence. It forcibly limited its average APM to around 400 and its peak to within 600, which was the same as the top yers of human yers. Of course, for artificial intelligence, even if its APM was limited, it still had an advantage over humans because it didn¡¯t need to do those repetitive operations to warm up. Every step of its operation was effective. In other words, Origin¡¯s average APM seemed to be around 400, but it was actually equivalent to 500 or even 600 for humans. After Origin sessfully climbed to the top of thedder in the United States, Europe, and South Korea, Origin¡¯s R & D Company announced that, considering Origin had too much of an advantage when facing human yers in terms of APM, they would continue to lower Origin¡¯s APM value to an average of 350. Of course, this could be said to be for fairness. It could also be said that Origin¡¯s R & D Company was afraid that the professional yers would be scared away and no one would fight. Or they were afraid that the war between humans and machines would be one-sided and there would be no audience to watch, so they made such adjustments. But to the Warcraft pro yers, it was a tant challenge. At the same time, Origin¡¯s R & D Company also announced that there was a reward of 1.5 million dors for the war between humans and machines. As long as one could defeat Origin in BO3, they would be able to get it! Such a high bounty was a huge temptation for the world¡¯s Warcraft professional yers. After all, unlike League of Legends, Warcraft wasn¡¯t as popr, and the yers weren¡¯t rich. Not to mention, not only could they gain money from this battle, they could also gain fame! To represent humanity and defeat the AI was a once-in-a-lifetime honor for most people. Who wouldn¡¯t want to go? Even if thepany that developed Origin did not offer a reward, these professional yers would definitely go. Starlight, the ¡°number one elf¡± in the Korean server, was determined to do so. He became the first professional yer to face Origin. ¡­¡­ On the inte, some people were also wondering why Origin didn¡¯t challenge Chen Mo directly, but rather star light, the number one elf in the Korean server, when Chen Mo was the one who created Warcraft and was recognized as the number one yer in the game. In fact, this was not difficult to understand. In Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, AlphaGo didn¡¯t challenge Ke Jie right off the bat. Instead, he started off as an ordinary first-tier yer and challenged his way up. On one hand, it was to constantly create a topic effect. If he challenged the world champion as soon as he started, it would not be good for creating a topic and it would not be good for attracting attention. On the other hand, it was also for gradual progress. After all, Origin¡¯s R & D Company was not clear about Origin¡¯s current level. If they challenged Origin bit by bit, Origin would have a better chance of winning. Furthermore, for Origin, Starlight was the best choice. They had just fought on the Korean server¡¯s Stairway to Heaven, and the difference in strength between the two was not that big. At the same time, both of them were from the elf race, so although the viewing of the Civil War was slightly less enjoyable, it would definitely ensure absolute fairness. If it was any other race, even if Origin won, people would say that it was a race advantage. Starting the first match with a civil war would show the fairness of the war between humans and machines. The opening battle of the war between humans and machines had already attracted the attention of the entire world before it even started. The reason it was called an opening battle was because everyone knew that Origin would not stop regardless of whether they won or lost. It would definitely be stronger and continue to challenge stronger human contestants. Everyone had their own opinions on the oue of the match. ¡°One week is enough for Origin to improve by leaps and bounds. Starlight could not beat them before, and they definitely can¡¯t beat them now. I¡¯ve seen this kind of scenario countless times in the chess war between humans and machines. What¡¯s there to doubt?¡± ¡°But Origin¡¯s APM has been lowered again. In an RTS game, a slight change will affect the whole game. If Origin¡¯s champion is killed because of ack of control, wouldn¡¯t the entire game be over?¡± ¡°But there is no dy in the offline matches. The reason Origin had a hard time winningst time was mainly because there was a dy in ying the Korean server in North America!¡± ¡°Last time, Team Starlight was not prepared. As long as we study Origin¡¯s video, we will definitely be able to find a way to deal with it!¡± The yers had different opinions. Although most of the yers were on the side of the humans, everyone knew that Origin had a higher chance of winning. After all, this kind of scenario had been yed out many times in the chess war. Chapter 462 - The first battle!

Chapter 462: The first battle!

On the day of the war between humans and machines, everyone¡¯s attention was on it. This war between humans and machines could be said to be very prestigious. Not only did the major domestic live broadcast tforms and video websites broadcast it live, but even some science and education channels of some television stations also broadcasted the entire process. On Weibo, Tieba, and various major forums, the war between humans and machines had be a revelry for all gaming enthusiasts. It had suddenly be the hottest topic in recent times. Of course, the poprity of the war between humans and machines was not low either. The United States, Europe, Japan, South Korea, and the whole world were paying attention to it. This was mainly due to the poprity of the previous ¡°war between humans and machines¡±. At the beginning, when the AI conquered chess, this topic was already very popr overseas. By the time the AI conquered all chess games, this topic had already attracted the attention of the entire world. And this time, after five years of silence, artificial intelligence had taken another big step into the gaming industry and even conquered theplex RTS game? This made many onlookers excited. Humans were like that. When artificial intelligence waspletely destroyed in the hands of humans, everyone felt that this thing was not a threat at all and could not be hyped up. However, in the blink of an eye, when artificial intelligence could beat all human professional yers, people would quickly lose interest in it. Only when the level of artificial intelligence and human beings were the closest would the ¡°war between humans and machines¡± win unprecedented attention. After all, a battle was only a battle when both sides were evenly matched. On all the major live broadcasting tforms, the ¡°war between humans and machines¡± live broadcast room was already flooded with arge number of viewers. ¡°Quickly start! I can¡¯t wait!¡± ¡°It¡¯s so quiet, why isn¡¯t there any sound? I¡¯m deaf?¡± ¡°Didn¡¯t you turn on the system voice? What rubbish broadcast. ¡± ¡°Oh, this seems to be a room without amentator. It¡¯s still in the preparation stage and the scene is very quiet. Those who want to listen to thementary can go to K-God¡¯s live broadcast room. He¡¯s also broadcasting the entire game live. ¡± Reading on Mybo xn o v el. ,Please! ¡°Why isn¡¯t Chen Mo livestreaming! Wow, it would be great if I could hear hismentary!¡± ¡°Previous post, wake up. Chen Mo has long stopped using this kind of poprity ...¡± A lot ofments were flooding the screen. On the screen of the live broadcast, the scene of the war between humans and machines had already appeared. This time, there was no special e-sportspetition venue for the war between humans and machines. There were no spectators either. Theyout of the venue was very simple. There were only twoputers facing each other to ensure that the spotlight could not see Origin¡¯s screen. Origin¡¯sputer was also very simple, but there was a very simple logo on the back of the monitor and ORIGIN¡¯s capital English letters. The exterior of the logo was a sevenyered space with an open eye in the center. This was the logo of Origin¡¯s R & D Company, the seventh Horizon. In addition, there were three judges and a staff member from seventh visionpany. . The other staff, such as the ones in charge of broadcasting andmentary, were all in other rooms, so the venue was very quiet. In fact, this was not in line with the atmosphere of e-sports, because e-sports was like traditional sports, the more lively the better. Some bigpetition yers could perform better in an environment with tens of thousands of audience cheers. Even if there was a problem with reporting the location, it would be fine as long as the yers wore sound-proof headphones. Of course, seventh vision had their own considerations for arranging the venue. On one hand, it was a continuation of the tradition of ying against go professionals. Because these Go yers needed a very quiet environment to focus on their thoughts, the venue was always set up in this way, and this arrangement had continued until now. On the other hand, it was to give the war between humans and machines a more serious atmosphere. It was obvious that the majority of the audience would definitely be on the side of the humans. If there were a lot of people in the audience and humans were defeated by Origin, would the yers cheer or not? If they were to cheer, who were they cheering for? For theputer? Theputer couldn¡¯t hear him, and he felt like he was being ¡°betrayed.¡± If they didn¡¯t cheer, wouldn¡¯t the audience have no sense of existence? Moreover, since thepetition had already reached the level of ¡°human VS artificial intelligence¡±, it would be toomercialized to invite so many spectators. Therefore, in consideration of this rtionship, the venue¡¯syout was still the same as the previous chesspetition, and it was very quiet. Of course, the yers at Starlight still needed to wear noise-canceling headphones. This was a habit of professional yers. Starlight sat down in front of hisputer. He nced at theputer opposite him, which was empty. His expression was a little grim. He did not look rxed at all. Clearly, this feeling of emptiness was even more oppressive than a real human opponent. This was exactly the same as the pressure a Go yer would face when facing artificial intelligence. Origin was a silver cylinder the size of an air purifier. After connecting to theputer, it would automatically log into Warcraft and enter the officialpetition room. Obviously, Origin was an off-line version in this live game. This kind of confrontation was more fair. Starlight had already started to adjust their equipment and warm up. The event was divided into many live-streaming rooms on major live-streaming tforms in China. One was the official livestream room, which would broadcast the entire situation of the venue and thepetition. However, there was only the system¡¯s voice and nomentary. After all, this live broadcast was for the whole world to watch, so it was not appropriate to use anynguage to exin it. It was better to let the other countries invite their ownmentators when they broadcast it. In addition, there were live broadcast rooms withmentators. There were also manymentators for the game. A Science Channel in China had also specially invited a professional yer like Nightwind tomentate. This was a rtively popr live broadcast room. Kaiser, who had always been popr, had also opened a livestream room tomentate. This was also a popr livestream room. Of course, seventh vision and the other popr websites had already notified Chen Mo, since he was the one who made Warcraft. Chen Mo was also very straightforward. After all, Warcraft wasn¡¯t very popr now, and this event was basically advertising the game. It was a good thing, and Chen Mo couldn¡¯t be happier. Many yers were thinking that it would be perfect if Chen Mo couldmentate the war between humans and machines! However, everyone knew that Chen Mo didn¡¯t seem to care much about the war since the beginning. He didn¡¯t even make a public statement, not even a Weibo post. Commentating on a Korean yer¡¯s match live on the inte? That can¡¯t be. It was still unknown if Chen Mo would be willing to fight on his own! Chapter 463 - Not good situation

Chapter 463: Not good situation

Meanwhile, in the experience store. Compared to other live stream viewers, the yers in the experience store had a much better view. The second floor of the experience store had a special holographic projection area! There was a big screen and a holographic projection device. The experience of watching the game was much better than watching it live on a live broadcast website! He didn¡¯t use the official livestream sources in the experience store, because...Chen Mo could get his own. Before thepetition started, Chen Mo specifically informed the organizers. Even though thepetition was set up on a local areawork (in order to minimize the dy), the data generated during thepetition would still be transmitted to Chen Mo in real time. The data was very little since the entire Warcraft video file was only a few hundred Kuai. After Chen Mo received the data, he could rey the match on the Warcraft client and use the holographic projector. In the experience store, the game was already loading on the big screen. There was a small screen at the bottom left corner of the screen, specifically used to capture Starlight¡¯s facial expressions. As for Origin ... Even if he wanted to film his facial expressions, he could not! At the same time as the game began, the holographic projection device began to disy the game. The yers in the experience store had been waiting impatiently for a long time, and they all cheered when they saw the screen. ¡°It¡¯s starting, it¡¯s starting!¡± ¡°Wow, I¡¯m so excited. I feel like I¡¯m more excited than all the previous Warcraft games!¡± ¡°Of course. This is a battle between humans and artificial intelligence. It¡¯s apletely different battle!¡± ¡°Shush, don¡¯t speak, watch carefully!¡± Reading on Mybo xn o v el. ,Please! Everyone was focused on the big screen and holographic projection equipment, watching the opening battle of the war between humans and machines. Even though the screen didn¡¯t show any difference between thispetition and the previous Warcraft, the meaning waspletely different in the yers ¡®hearts. After all, the opponent was an AI! This time, the war between humans and machines was all yed on BO3, which was a best of three game. This was also to avoid as much luck as possible from affecting the oue of the game. In these three games, the game map would also be changed. They were all popr maps in the current game and would appear randomly. This was also a slight advantage for human yers because the tactics used in different maps were often very different. For example, a tier-one map could be used near a small or big map, but it couldn¡¯t be used at a far distance on a big map. If Origin wanted to perform well in all kinds of maps, the program they wrote had to be moreplicated. The more maps there were, the more likely Origin¡¯s tactics and calctions would go wrong. This was also why Origin could not y with a random race. With the current level of technology, it was not easy to create such a Top Elf AI. Origin did not have the energy to create other races. However, seventh vision was obviously very confident in Origin and believed that it had the ability to deal with any map. Chen Mo, li jingsi, Goph, and the other true Masters of Warcraft were all sitting in the audience, watching the big screen intently. Thementator this time was Digwa. . It was obvious that this super luxurious lineup was the true strength of Warcraft in China. Chen Mo¡¯s Experience Store was way better than the other live streaming tforms. However, Chen Mo didn¡¯t do it on purpose, since the event was entirely spontaneous. Chen Mo didn¡¯t want to make it too Grand, and just wanted to give his loyal fans a little benefit. ¡°Both sides ¡®opening was simr. The ancient war trees were both auctioned to the front, and they were both the First Evil demon hunters. However, we¡¯ll have to see what kind of treasures both sides drop next. ¡± ¡°Aiya, stallight¡¯s luck isn¡¯t that good. After the first grinding spot, a level 5 monster appeared and it was an artist¡¯s mask? AI, that¡¯s really a scam, this thing is useless against evil demon hunters. ¡± ¡°On the other hand, Origin ... Damn, storm lion¡¯s horn? Yours is even worse, it¡¯s not even as good as an artiste¡¯s mask! The two of you dropped such a treasure, you really can¡¯t talk anymore, are you both African?¡± The crowd burst intoughter. These professional yers were quite eloquent, especially when they had a good understanding of the game. Not only could they clearly exin the situation in the game, but they could also joke around to make everyoneugh. All in all, the audience was on the side of the humans and they all hoped that Starlight would win. Warcraft was different from go. Luck yed a part in it. The audience almostughed when they saw Origin get such a trashy treasure. It seemed that even artificial intelligence could be divided into Europe and Africa! Thepetition continued. Both sides had entered a rtively stable growth period, but the small friction had never stopped. Origin once again showed its heaven-defying level of operation, making the audience in the stadium exim in surprise. All sorts of extreme MFS and extreme low health. It could be said that there was nothing Origin could not do. Of course, this was after strict restrictions. If there were no control restrictions, Origin could make all the minions use A. But that would be too overpowered and too much of a bully. There was no fairness at all. Therefore, Origin¡¯s APM had been strictly restricted. It could only perform the operation with the highest priority at the moment and could not go to A without limit. But even so, the viewing pleasure of this kind of operation had already surpassed the vast majority of human yers. On the other hand, Starlight did not seem to be able to handle some of the small details of their operations well. It was unknown if it was because they were nervous or for some other reason. For example, after using old deer to wrap around the other party¡¯s Huntress, he could¡¯ve taken her down with a normal attack, but he was confident that he would turn around and cause the Huntress to run away. However, this was to be expected. After all, stallight was a human, and it was impossible for him to operate it perfectly. Fortunately, unlike go, Warcraft wasn¡¯t a game of pure intelligence. There were also maps, treasures, and other elements. The tactics of both sides were surprisingly simr. They were both starting with the evil demon Hunter, old deer, and then the buck. The general direction was very simr, only some of the details were different. After all, after a long period of tactical development in Warcraft, the best strategy for the internal elf battle was basically set. Origin could not create its own tactics without the game¡¯s mechanics, so it could only improve on the existing tactics. It was just like how an artificial intelligence had to read a lot of go books before slowly developing its own tactics when fighting against human Go yers. As thepetition progressed, the atmosphere in the stadium began to slowly turn heavy. ¡°This operation ... Is amazing.¡± ¡°It¡¯s so difficult. At the start, I felt like I had a slight advantage, but the more I fight, the more I feel like I can¡¯t win.¡± ¡°I can only say that Origin is terrifying in the offlinepetition. There are so many ways to preserve their health. I finally understand why Origin likes to use the elves. Obviously, the elves are better at using their micro-control advantage.¡± ¡°It¡¯s going to be difficult, it¡¯s going to be difficult!¡± It was different from go. Go¡¯s situation was even moreplicated. Even those who were good at go would find it difficult to determine which side had the advantage when they saw the top-tier war between humans and machines. Just like in Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, many professional yers thought that AFA was at a disadvantage, but in his own judgment, he always had a winning rate of more than 50%. Warcraft was different. What was happening on the battlefield could be clearly seen from the poption, the number of soldiers on both sides, and the number of soldiers that died in the battle. Even some of the yers who hadn¡¯t yed Warcraft before could watch the show. They didn¡¯tpletely understand the game. Therefore, the audience quickly judged the situation of the game: Starlight¡¯s situation was not looking good! Chapter 464 - The real artificial intelligence

Chapter 464: The real artificial intelligence

The first match ended. Initially, light had the advantage because of their luck in the early stages, but in the middle of the game, Origin seized the opportunity and the situation slowly went out of control. In the end, after a direct team battle, light ended up with a GG. In the second round, both teams were at an even more disadvantageous position for stallight, further away on the big map! Being further away meant that both sides had more time to develop. It would be difficult to use rush tower¡¯s tactics to catch Origin off guard. This time, everyone could clearly see that although both sides were leveling at the same speed, Origin was clearly better at some details. They had a health advantage in the early game. Moreover, Origin did not drag out their development with team light. Instead, they were always actively harassing and attacking. They yed very aggressively, which made team light¡¯s mentality explode. In the end, in the second game, Origin started to snowball even faster. The poption gap between the two sides quickly widened and light once again typed GG. In the opening battle of the battle between humans and machines, Origin had given the humans a 2:0! In the experience store, the people watching the battle sighed. ¡°We¡¯ve lost! It¡¯s even less suspenseful than I imagined!¡± ¡°Sigh, what a pity. Actually, there was a chance in the first round, but Starlight did not grab it.¡± ¡°What chance do you have? Even if Starlight had a slight advantage in the first round, the difference in poption was not wide at all. As long as you let Origin survive, it will be a slow death because it is better than you in every team battle!¡± ¡°Indeed, if you want to fight, you have to kill it in one wave. It¡¯s different from human yers. When ying against a human yer, you could expect them to make a mistake in the next wave, but Origin? There¡¯s almost no mistakes!¡± ¡°How do we fight this? Why do I feel that this offline version of Origin is even more insane than the one that yed the stairway to heaven in the Korean server?¡± All the major live-streaming websites were also filled with despair. Reading on Mybo xn o v el. ,Please! The bullet screen was already filled with a bunch of ¡°GG¡±. This was not to praise Origin, but to mourn the human yers! ¡­¡­ After the meeting, the organizers held a press conference. Starlight was not in a good mental state and was listless. Starlight first bowed to the audience.¡±¡±I¡¯m sorry, I¡¯ve let everyone down!¡± Next, he expressed the despair he felt when he yed against Origin offline. ¡°Actually, when I fought Origin on the stairway, I felt that Origin¡¯s operation was very powerful. However, in terms of tactics and decisions, I did not feel that it was any different from humans. So, I once mistook origin for a human.¡± ¡°But after today¡¯s fight, I finally realized how terrifying Origin is. The scariest thing about it isn¡¯t that itpletely overpowers the human¡¯s micro-control. Although it¡¯s also very scary, its APM has already been restricted, so it¡¯s only slightly better than the human yers. ¡± ¡°What¡¯s really scary about it is that it¡¯s an artificial intelligence that will never make mistakes. As long as there¡¯s enough information, its judgment of the situation is absolutely correct, or rather, has a high probability of being correct. The probability of being incorrect is so low that it¡¯s almost impossible to appear.¡± ¡°And it won¡¯t have any emotional fluctuations. In other words, you know very well that you¡¯re facing an opponent who will never make a mistake. ¡± ¡°When you see a silver cylinder in front of an empty seat, the sense of powerlessness will be particrly strong. To be honest, in the second round, I knew that I could not beat Origin. It seemed like origin was winning every time we had a small conflict. This kind of slow death made me feel depressed. ¡± . These words made many of the audience and professional yers shiver. As the first professional yer to y against Origin offline, stallight could feel much more than the audience. As Starlight had said, this was the scariest thing about artificial intelligence. It would not make mistakes or act on impulse. It could always urately judge the situation on the battlefield. When it avoided battle, it didn¡¯t mean that it couldn¡¯t beat you, but that it had better choices. When it dueled with you, then ... You might already be able to type GG. This feeling of having his fatepletely in his grasp was one of the reasons why stallight¡¯s mental state had exploded. Otherwise, he would not have lost so quickly in the second round. Of course, even if they could hold on for a little longer, they would not be able to change the oue of their defeat. ¡­¡­ The news of Starlight¡¯s defeat spread all over the world in an instant, and this piece of news also attracted even more attention! It could be said that this news made those people who felt that artificial intelligence was not up to standard realize the reality. In the past, if artificial intelligence wanted to defeat humans in RTS games, they could only rely on God-defying operations. For example, all the troops were A-ss,pletely crushing humans in terms of operation. However, it was clear that this was not a victory at all, because this kind of unbelievable operation was simply bullying. RTS should be called a real-time strategy game, not a real-time operation Game, and the AI had never won against humans in strategy. Also, many of the ¡°A.I.¡± That created hype in the past, including the crazyputers that came with Warcraft, actually operated in apletely different way from A.I. This was because the AI obtained information directly from the game¡¯s code, just like a full-map hack, so it could urately judge the current situation. In other words, this was actually cheating, and real artificial intelligence could not do this. A real artificial intelligence must be like humans, reading game data with ¡°vision¡±, judging the current situation based on limited information, and then making decisions (including short-term and long-term decisions). Otherwise, there would be no point in defeating the humans. It was because of this that many people felt that as long as the APM of artificial intelligence was limited and it was restricted from reading in-game data, it could not bepared with humans at all because there were many things that it could not do. For example, under the cover of the fog of war, how could one understand all the intentions of the other party and urately judge the current situation? How could they determine if the other party was harassing them or trying to fight a decisive battle, or luring them away? ¡®No matter how good the artificial intelligence is, I¡¯ll just y rush tower and kill you. What¡¯s the use of your good operation?¡¯ However, after Origin beat Starlight, people were surprised to find that Origin had solved all these problems! Starlight was a top-tier yer in Warcraft, so how could he not know rush tower? Would he not know how to take advantage of a loophole? Why wouldn¡¯t he win if he could? It was obvious that there was only one reason for Starlight¡¯s defeat, and that was because they could not win! A lot of people thought that AI couldn¡¯t y RTS games, just like how many people thought that AI couldn¡¯t y Go. They all treated it as a crazyputer in the game and never thought of it as real AI. A true AI would know how to explore the way in an RTS game, how to determine the enemy¡¯s intentions through local information, and how to defend against tower rush and all sorts of strange tactics. Just like how an artificial intelligence conquered go, it could eat all the game records in the world and then practice against itself. What tactics would it not be able to try out? If it realized that the best way to win thepetition was for rush tower, it would definitely turn the tables on the human yers. In other words, Origin wasn¡¯t aplete map hack, but A real AI. It was a machine that knew how to y Warcraft. After all, after five years of research and development, this world¡¯s technological level had already reached that level. After understanding this, many of the Warcraft professional yers felt a sense of despair that they had never felt before. They could read Starlight¡¯s despair from his post-match videos and empathized with him. This was also the despair that all of the go yers had felt earlier. No matter how hard they tried, they just couldn¡¯t win! Moreover, everyone knew that Origin¡¯s appearance wouldn¡¯t help Warcraft develop better. It would only make Warcraft and other simr games die faster. This was because when people talked about the professional yers in Warcraft, they would know that they were the top of the game. However, after Origin appeared, these professional yers were no longer the top few. This was because there was only one top existence in this field, and that was the artificial intelligence Origin. Who would want to y a game dominated by artificial intelligence? Chapter 465 - The National server鈥檚 battle!

Chapter 465: The National server¡¯s battle!

In Chen Mo¡¯s Experience Store. A few top yers of Warcraft in China gathered in a conference room to study the video of the war between humans and machines. There were Goph, li jingsi, sweet potato, Nightwind, and Kaiser. Everyone¡¯s expression was not rxed. In fact, among these few people, only the first three were of super-ss standard. Although the others were also experts, they all had their own problems. Basically, they had not reached the standard of stallight. The war between humans and machines in Warcraft had a huge impact, but it wasn¡¯t as big of a storm in the core circle of the pro yers. After all, there were all sorts of go clubs in the go industry, and there were a lot of senior and talented people. But what did Warcraft have? Whether it was in terms of Foundation or number of people, they were far behind. However, it was a game like this that became the first line of defense for humans and AI in the gaming world. It was hard to say if this was a good or bad thing for the professional yers in Warcraft. But no matter what, whether or not they could beat the AI in Warcraft was all up to these people. After watching the recordings of the two games, sweet potato looked at everyone and said,¡±¡±What does everyone think? do you have any ideas?¡± Nightwind shook his head and said,¡±it¡¯s difficult. At least I can¡¯t see much with my level.¡± Stallight is already the number one elf in the Korean server and his understanding of the elf race is definitely deeper than mine. However, he still chose the safest way to y. He clearly knows that it¡¯s useless to y with other methods. ¡± Kaiser nodded,¡±¡±That¡¯s right. Obviously, Origin¡¯s developers are not stupid. They would not have left any obvious loopholes.¡± Nightwind looked at the crowd and said,¡±then, it¡¯s time for the National server, right?¡± The three of you are the only ones in the country who can make a move. ¡± ¡°I ... I¡¯m a beast!¡± Goph said helplessly. Indeed, the most famous professional yer in the country was Goph. He had won the most Championships and had been at the top of the stairway tree for the longest time. Although li jingsi had overtaken her recently, she had caught up to her very quickly. As for li jingsi, she had only reached the top of the stairway and had never participated in any majorpetitions. When faced with such an incident, everyone would definitely think of Goph first. Reading on Mybo xn o v el. ,Please! However ... Goph¡¯s original race was an orc. This was awkward! Although the bnce in Warcraft was good and there wasn¡¯t much difference between the four races, it wasn¡¯t easy for the orcs to fight against the elves! The difference between normal yers was not obvious, but when it came to Origin¡¯s level, who knew how big the difference would be? ¡°If it doesn¡¯t work, I¡¯ll give it a try,¡± Goph said helplessly. Although it¡¯s not easy to fight against the elves, it¡¯s not like there¡¯s no chance of winning ...¡± Nightwind expressed his understanding, then looked at sweet potato and Li jingsi.¡±¡±What do you guys think? Are you confident?¡± One of them was a human, and the other was an elf. They could fight elves, at least not in terms of race. Sweet potato scratched his head.¡±Sigh, I¡¯m pretty much evenly matched with Starlight this year. Now that I¡¯m going up against an elf who¡¯s even more abnormal than him ... To be honest, I¡¯m not confident.¡± Li jingsi shook her head.¡±I¡¯m not interested. I don¡¯t think I can win.¡± Everyone was speechless. Chen Zhao wasn¡¯t here. He didn¡¯t n on participating, and these people didn¡¯t invite him. It was mainly because of Chen Mo¡¯s special identity. He wasn¡¯t a professional yer in Warcraft, and the match against Origin would obviously require these professional yers. . Professional yers were all proud and arrogant. If they didn¡¯t want to win the championship, what kind of professional yers were they? Therefore, these people also had their own pride and wanted to win with their own strength. In this situation, it wasn¡¯t appropriate for Chen Zhao to get involved too enthusiastically. However, just because he didn¡¯t get involved didn¡¯t mean that he didn¡¯t do anything. Li jingsi took out a USB drive from her pocket.¡±¡±Oh, by the way, Chen Mo said that everyone can watch the video. These are all the videos of Origin¡¯s Stairway to Heavenpetitions in the US, European, and Korean servers. It might be helpful. ¡± Nightwind looked happy, but then he asked,¡±¡±Why didn¡¯t you say so earlier?¡± ¡°You didn¡¯t ask,¡± li jingsi said seriously. Nightwind was speechless. Everyone quickly took the USB drive and plugged it into theirptops to study it. In fact, there had been some videos of Origin on the inte, but they were not systematic and were very difficult to collect. Chen Mo had all the information on the American and European servers, so giving it to these professional yers was a small help. Chen Zhao didn¡¯t want to say too much either. After all, he would seem like a busybody if he did. As the creator of Warcraft, Chen Mo could be considered one of the organizers of the war between humans and machines. The pro yers weren¡¯tpletely defeated yet, so he didn¡¯t need to say too much. What if these people defeated Origin with their own strength? Wasn¡¯t that a wonderful thing? ¡°Come on, let¡¯s do some research! Chen Zhao¡¯s information is really useful. At least from these videos, we can roughly analyze Origin¡¯s movement patterns!¡± ¡°Yes, but there are a lot of these videos. Let¡¯s split them up. Let¡¯s split up the videos of each race fighting Origin and look at each race. Then, we will put them together.¡± ¡°Okay, let¡¯s first analyze Origin¡¯s behavior and then think about how to crack it!¡± After getting these videos, the pro yers finally found something to do. They started to work hard and stayed upte to study Origin¡¯s strategy. ¡­¡­ The poprity of the war between humans and machines did not die down because of Starlight¡¯s defeat. Instead, it increased even more. Although the defeat this time dampened everyone¡¯s hopes of defeating the artificial intelligence, it was obviously not enough to extinguish all their hopes. ¡°Starlight has lost, what should we do? I feel like Origin is about to conquer Warcraft!¡± ¡°It¡¯s still early, the experts from the National server haven¡¯t said anything yet!¡± ¡°Sigh, it¡¯s been a while since Ist watched a Warcraft game, right? Although the country was still the strongest, it was no longer as dominant as before! Just this year, sweet potato and Starlight¡¯s match records are basically evenly matched. They are only slightly stronger. Under such circumstances, do you still think that the top yers from the Chinese server can beat Origin?¡± ¡°Yeah, the chances of winning are really too small!¡± ¡°But Origin will not stop here, right? At the very least, we have to get past Goph. ¡± ¡°Goph is an orc. It¡¯s not going to be an easy fight ...¡± ¡°Sigh, let¡¯s wait and see. I think Origin will definitely issue another challenge. Let¡¯s see if Goph is willing to take it.¡± ¡°I think there¡¯s a chance if Chen Zhao makes a move.¡± ¡°Chen Mo? It was hard to say, how long had it been since he yed Warcraft? Besides, he didn¡¯t have to take the risk. With the AI¡¯s power, did he think Chen Mo had a chance of winning? It¡¯ll be pretty ugly if we lose. ¡± Just as everyone was discussing when Origin would dere war on the professional yers from the National server, everyone received a very surprising piece of news. Digwa would represent their country against Origin! Chapter 466 - The strategy of the experts in the National server

Chapter 466: The strategy of the experts in the National server

When this news came out, everyone was a little surprised. This was because this time, sweet potato had taken the initiative to fight, unlike stallight, who had only epted the challenge after it had been sent to him. Although many people were worried about sweet potato, most of them were still very excited and cheered for him on Weibo. ¡°God sweet potato is so domineering! Come on, kill Origin!¡± ¡°God sweet potato is amazing. He took the initiative to fight. He should have this kind of sword spirit!¡± ¡°Sure enough, our yers are thest line of defense against the artificial intelligence!¡± ¡°As yers of magical beasts, we are not afraid of a battle!¡± ¡°Upstairs, you¡¯ve read too many Xianxia novels ...¡± Regardless of whether he won or not, sweet potato¡¯s action of taking the initiative to fight the artificial intelligence was very morale-boosting and also attracted arge wave of fans. As for why the group of great gods had been researching for a long time, and in the end, sweet potato was the first to stand up? This was because everyone had studied it for a long time and felt that humans had the highest chance of winning against Origin, and sweet potato was the highest level human yer in the country and even the world. Even though sweet potato and Starlight had their fair share of wins and losses this year, it was normal for both teams to be at the top. Moreover, Fighting Starlight and Origin were twopletely different things. Even if the chances of winning were not high, there was still hope. Moreover, out of the three yers in the country, he was the most suitable. Goph wanted to go as well, but he knew that it was more difficult for the orcs to fight against the elves. As for li jingsi, her skill level was about the same as stallight ¡®s. Moreover, in a situation where they were of the same race, it was not easy for an elf to use her ultimate skill against an elf. In Warcraft, the elves didn¡¯t have any natural enemies, but they loved and hated humans. Just like in Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, Th000, the Egg Boss who defeated moon and won the WCG Championship, had the habit of using humans when fighting elves and elves when fighting humans. When fighting a civil war, they would be restrained, but it would be morefortable to fight with another race. Moreover, after the research of a few top yers, everyone had basically reached a consensus. If they wanted to defeat Origin, there was no chance of fighting them head-on. They could only think of other ways. ying tricks and tricking Origin was one way to go, but the chances of sess were low. This was because the current mainstream tactics were the best choices that professional yers had summed up. If you yed a trick, you would be at a disadvantage in the early, middle, andte stages. It was possible that you wouldn¡¯t even be able to drag on until the trick took effect before you were GG. For example, if you wanted to recruit a Dark Ranger to abduct farmers and create a race of soldiers to confuse Origin¡¯s judgment, the first premise was that you had to have a level 6 Dark Ranger or an undead yer. With Origin¡¯s character, could it help your Dark Ranger grow to Level 6? It would be even more ridiculous to use the undead. Not to mention that the undead were generally recognized as difficult to mine and rtively weak, the key was that there were not many high-level undead yers in the country! The most annoying thing was that Origin was an elf. The premise of ying Dark Ranger to abduct farmers was that the map was big enough to drag out thete game. But even if you knew how to mine, Origin was an elf. To lie to Origin, this ¡°lie¡± itself was very difficult to hold because Origin¡¯s judgment of the situation was changing every second. It would never feel that it had been lied to. Origin also knew how to Scout and spy on the enemy. To hide from Origin from the start was like hiding from other pro yers. How could it be that easy? The problem now was that Origin was not the kind of crazyputer that had a natural IQ defect. It was an artificial intelligence that was smarter than human yers. The tricks that people could think of might have been rehearsed by origin countless times. So, after thinking about it, the most promising tactic to win against Origin was to use team t-r! And it would be best if it was a t-r! The so-called ¡°t-r¡± was a one-time Attack. When the two sides were close to each other, they would pull arge group of peasants and junior soldiers to the other side¡¯s house to build towers and shoot the other side to death with arrow towers. In front of the countless arrow towers with automatic attacks, what was the use of controlling them? Of course, Origin was an AI and not stupid. It definitely had a way to prevent it from being destroyed, but having a way and not being able to do so were two different things. Which professional yer didn¡¯t know that their opponent could possibly know the skill of t-r? But the number of pro yers who had died from this move was still vast. This was also the reason why everyone had considered it over and over again and decided to rmend sweet potato. This was because it was the easiest for humans to y the t-r game and they had the highest chance of sess. The other elves, orcs, and undead wouldn¡¯t be able to do this. Obviously, sweet potato wasn¡¯tpletely unprepared this time. He came prepared. After everyone had studied the videos together for a long time, they had developed several sets of tactics. The professional yers in the National server knew very well that even if they did not ept the challenge, Origin woulde to them sooner orter. The longer it dragged on, the stronger Origin would be. They could not be a coward forever, right? It was better to fight early thante, and it was better to take the initiative to challenge than to fight passively. At least ... He could die with some dignity. ¡­¡­ With sweet potato¡¯s response, the topic of the war between humans and machines rose again! This was especially true in China. Everyone was paying more attention to this battle because this time, a Chinese yer was going to fight Origin to defend the dignity of humanity in the video game industry! ¡°The expert from the National server has finally made his move! God sweet potato, you can do it!¡± ¡°Tonight, we¡¯re all going to have melon powder!¡± ¡°Sure. If the elves can¡¯t do it, there¡¯s still the human race. There¡¯s no problem with representing the human race in the battle!¡± ¡°That¡¯s right, taking the initiative to challenge him, how domineering! Besides, even if God sweet potato can¡¯t make it, we still have Goph. Don¡¯t worry!¡± Many people were still quite optimistic. After all, Goph had not made a move. However, the top few magical beast experts knew that Goph might not have a better chance than sweet potato ... ¡­¡­ After the sweet potato agreed to the war, Origin¡¯s research and development team immediately came to China. Origin had nothing to rest about anyway. The offline version did not even need to kill viruses. As for why he was in such a hurry, it was the sweet potato¡¯s own request. Because ... Origin might evolve again if they did not fight quickly. Origin was an offline version, which meant that it did not use the power of a supeputer. All the calctions were done on this small cylinder. Moreover, it wouldn¡¯t automatically update. Although there was a certain degree of self-learning ability, it was very limited. As for Origin in itsplete form, it could use a supeputer as its main body to do calctions, but it would obviously use too many resources. On one hand, it was a waste, and on the other hand, it was a bully. Therefore, sweet potato decided to challenge the current version of Origin. This was also a lesson learned from the previous war between humans and machines in go. Previously, the top yers of humanity had a chance of winning against the artificial intelligence. However, they were afraid that they would not be prepared enough and thus dyed thepetition for more than a month. In the end, after more than a month, the go artificial intelligence¡¯s go skills had increased by several levels ... Sweet potato didn¡¯t want this to happen. He could have won, but he couldn¡¯t win because of the dy and the evolution of the artificial intelligence. That would be a pain in the ass. In fact, everyone knew very well that even if they won this time, when the artificial intelligence made aeback in the future, they would most likely still lose. This was because the speed at which artificial intelligence evolved was much faster than that of humans. It was like two straight lines with different slopes. The starting point of artificial intelligence might be very low, but it would catch up or even surpass humans one day. However, who cared about what happened after that? At least for now, it was enough to defeat the artificial intelligence. Chapter 467 - The determination of sweet potato

Chapter 467: The determination of sweet potato

On the day of the match between sweet potato and Origin. The location of thepetition this time was a special venue. The overall style was the same as before, very simple. Outside the venue, there were all sorts of spectators and reporters, all looking forward to the results of thispetition. Although it was said that it was fighting on behalf of mankind, the sweet potato first represented the people of the country, then the whole of mankind. There were many Warcraft yers and many sweet potato fans present. These people were cheering for sweet potato when he entered the arena. After all, from his expression, they could tell that he was under a lot of pressure this time. These people were not allowed to enter the venue, but there was a television outside the venue, so everyone could watch the live broadcast from there. Chen Mo, li jingsi, and Goph were all there too, causing quite a stir among the audience. They signed autographs for many of them before sitting down. The match was about to begin, and the atmosphere in the stadium quickly turned heavy. Goph appeared calm on the surface, but he was actually not confident.¡±I don¡¯t know if the carefully prepared tactics will work.¡± Li jingsi looked at the big screen and said,¡±¡±There is a possibility of sess in the tactics. It just depends on whether sweet potato can fully y out the tactical preparations.¡± The script was well-written, but whether Origin would cooperate with the performance ... It was hard to say. ¡­¡­ The match between sweet potato and Origin had officially begun! As soon as the first round started, everyone¡¯s heart skipped a beat. Big map, go further away! Obviously, this was not good news. Being far away meant that no matter how much they pressured origin in the early stages, they would not be able to kill Origin. The team¡¯s tactic was not feasible at all. The game would undoubtedly drag into the middle andte stages. At that time, Origin would definitely gain an advantage in the chaotic battle. On the small screen, sweet potato¡¯s expression was also very serious. He was staring at hisputer screen with all his attention, not even daring to blink too much. In the situation where it was difficult to gain an early advantage, the sweet potato simply did the opposite and began to mine quickly. Every time they opened a mine, sweet potato would set up numerous arrow towers, obviously to y dirty. This tactic had an immediate effect. Origin tried to break through the arrow tower formation a few times but failed. Then, they gave up. This also allowed the sweet potato to enter the middle stage with an even advantage. ¡°There¡¯s a chance! God sweet potato is well prepared for this. Even Origin couldn¡¯t get past the arrow tower formation!¡± ¡°Of course. The arrow tower is fully automatic. It doesn¡¯t matter if you¡¯re an AI or not. No matter how good your operation is, you¡¯ll still be able to shoot the arrows.¡± ¡°This is the first time I¡¯m d that the human race has something like an arrow tower ...¡± The audience¡¯s hope was ignited, but a few of the experts had a gloomy look on their faces. ¡°Not really,¡± li jingsi sighed. ¡°Sigh,¡± Goph said.¡±But the map is far away. This is the only way we can take a gamble. What else can we do? You¡¯ll die faster if you use other methods. ¡± Chen Mo knew that this choice could help him drag the game on, but the problem was that he still wouldn¡¯t be able to win a 100-man team battle! ¡°You arepeting with Origin in a team battle. Is it not Shi Lezhi? Even if its APM was limited, it was still better than humans. As for the economic suppression that many people were looking forward to from the quick mining, it did not appear at all. Because ... Origin had decided that it could not break through the arrow tower and had stopped. It had gone to mine! ¡°This Origin ... F * ck, isn¡¯t this a chaotic mining flow? Why is it also ying the chaotic ore flow?¡± ¡°This position was chosen. F * ck, it¡¯s so F * cking tricky. God sweet potato doesn¡¯t even know.¡± ¡°Maybe the sweet potato thinks that the number of mines is an advantage. In fact, it¡¯s not. The number of mines on both sides is the same!¡± When they saw Origin also open up a mine, and it was a chaotic mine flow, the audience was not happy. In the middle of the game, the audience finally saw that the mines and finances of both sides were simr, but every time there was a small friction, it seemed that sweet potato was the one losing! This time, they would lose a few soldiers. Next time, they would lose a few arrow towers. Although the feeling was not obvious, little drops make an ocean. The gap would slowly widen. In the final battle, both sides had full yers, but the difference in skill was obvious. Sweet potato¡¯s poption fell faster than Origin ¡®s. In the end, after the Archmage died, sweet potato helplessly typed GG and quit the game. Origin also replied with a GG with almost no dy. This artificial intelligence was quite polite ... However, this did not make the onlookers feel any better. ¡°Sigh, it¡¯s a pity that we can¡¯t win the team battle in the end.¡± ¡°But I feel like the gap is smaller than the two matches Starlight had. If they continue, they might be able to win.¡± ¡°Sigh, the gap this time is small because everyone was mining in the early game. Sweet potato used dirty y, but dirty y can¡¯t get rid of Origin. It¡¯s just stalling for time.¡± ¡°Yes, to put it bluntly, it¡¯s a slow death. It¡¯s so desperate ... From the middle stage, I feel like I can¡¯t win every team battle. If I were God sweet potato, I would have voted long ago ...¡± ¡°Maybe this is the dignity of a professional yer. Let¡¯s hope that luck will be on mankind¡¯s side in the next round ...¡± ¡­¡­ While everyone was sighing, the second round began after the break. The location this time made everyone¡¯s eyes light up. Big map, closer! This was the best spot for the human¡¯s t-r tactics! This was because the closer the two sides were to each other in a big map, the more advantageous it was for a human¡¯s team! ¡°Sweet potato¡¯s Pathfinders went counterclockwise and found Origin¡¯s base immediately. It¡¯s close!¡± ¡°Not bad, the anticipated Dr. As expected, God sweet potato didn¡¯t hesitate at all. F * ck the militia!¡± ¡°He¡¯s ying with his life!¡± Obviously, the current situation was already a blessing from the God of luck for sweet potato. If he was further away from the big map again, he might not have the confidence to y until thete game. After discovering that it was close, sweet potato directly knocked on the militia and prepared a t-r! Origin¡¯s reaction was also very fast. ording to its original n, the Demon Hunter was supposed to go and level up. The start of the game was supposed to be a normal start. However, when origin saw the farmer who was leading the way for sweet potato, it immediately canceled its own leveling n! Its own little Pathfinder elf didn¡¯t see the location of the sweet potato, but it was obvious that the sweet potato farmers coulde to its base at this time, which must be close! ¡°F * ck! Origin¡¯s reaction was way too fast and decisive. ¡± ¡°And I don¡¯t see any hesitation? Obviously, it has a set of countermeasures for dealing with the tark Republic, right?¡± ¡°Damn it, this is what it means to meet on a narrow road and see red with the bay! The key is to see if God sweet potato can put up a fight and set up the arrow tower!¡± Chapter 468 - There鈥檚 a problem with the balance of your game!

Chapter 468: There¡¯s a problem with the bnce of your game!

The audience¡¯s hearts were in their throats! The Archmage of sweet potato led the militia and rushed towards the home of the elves. They started to knock on the arrow tower at the entrance of the elf¡¯s home. Since sweet potato had been building low-level units all this time, the human forces had the upper hand. The scene of several arrow towers hitting at the same time was also very shocking. ¡°There¡¯s hope! At the moment, sweet potato has the advantage in numbers. Even if all these soldiers are dead, it¡¯s fine as long as we can protect the arrow tower!¡± ¡°Origin is nowpletely stuck at home. Let¡¯s see how it will deal with this!¡± ¡°Origin¡¯s demon hunters areing back as soon as possible. The ancient war trees nted outside are alsoing back. The little sprites have also started to create ancient guardians!¡± ¡°Origin¡¯s response is very good. They did not follow their previous n. Instead, they chose to build more moon Wells, replenish their forces, and even go to the mercenary store to buy mercenaries!¡± ¡°The Demon Hunter has leveled up to Level 2 by killing the peasants, directly leveling up the circle of fire! This is bad, sweet potato¡¯s defensive tower hasn¡¯t been upgraded yet!¡± ¡°F * ck, this evil demon Hunter¡¯s positioning. This fire ring is so disgusting!¡± ¡°Sweet potato,e on!¡± It was clear that Origin did not panic like the other human yers when they faced off against team TR. Instead, it was as if they had seen a verymon tactic and they followed it step by step. Most elf yers would level up their Demon Hunter to Dodge when they faced a yer like this. This way, they would be able to reduce the damage taken. But Origin was different. It chose sacrifice monly known as Ring of Fire) because its positioning was too crazy. It could chase after the yer and burn them all the way. It was guaranteed that it would burn the farmers who got the most damage! The more they fought, the worse the situation became for sweet potato. Although the Terran¡¯s Dr could easily beat the elf at a close distance, it was obviously not a sure-win tactic. Otherwise, there would be no need to fight when the Terran yer and the elf yer met at a close distance. Wouldn¡¯t it be enough to just dere the Terran yer the winner? The Terran team¡¯s Tier R tier game was a desperate gamble at the expense of their own Economy and Development. However, once the gamble failed, it would be more and more difficult to y. After the first few waves of attacks failed to destroy Origin, sweet potato¡¯s situation became more and more critical. A few arrow towers were forced to retreat and some were forcefully taken down. In the early stages of the game, the team didn¡¯t give the sweet potato any advantage! Halfway through, Chen Zhao shook his head in regret. Li jingsi and Goph also sighed softly. Obviously, the sweet potato had no chance of winning. This tactic was correct, but there was still a problem-mentality and operation! In terms of mechanics, Origin was indeed good, but after limiting their APM, they were not able topletely crush the humans. The key was the problem of mentality. Origin was an artificial intelligence and had no emotions, but sweet potato was different. After the first wave of tanks was blocked, he started to panic. Every time there was a change in his control, Origin would find his weakness. As time went on, sweet potato¡¯s actions became more and more chaotic, while Origin pressed on step by step and fought more and more fiercely. In the end, as sweet potato¡¯sst turret at Origin¡¯s Gate was destroyed, he helplessly typed GG. On the screen, sweet potato¡¯s expression was exactly the same as stallight ¡®s. However, sweet potato looked even more upset. After all, he was not the only one who had failed. This strategy had been developed by li jingsi, Goph, and a few other domestic experts through the night. In this situation, aside from feeling a deep sense of powerlessness, sweet potato also felt a little guilty. What if he could stabilize his state of mind? What if his hand speed could be a little faster? But these assumptions were not valid. ¡­¡­ At the post-match press conference, sweet potato didn¡¯t say much like Starlight. He only bowed to everyone and said,¡±¡±I¡¯m sorry, I tried my best!¡± Many people¡¯s eyes turned red. They could see that sweet potato really wanted to win and was really going all out, but he really couldn¡¯t win. Sometimes,petitive games were like this. Although there were a lot of dissatisfaction, a loss was a loss. No matter how one exined it, it was just an excuse. Sweet potato¡¯s defeat made everyone who was paying attention to the war between humans and machines very worried. Many people consoled each other. ¡®Don¡¯t worry, we still have Goph. The strongest beast, the king of the face-off, has yet to make a move!¡¯ However, what they did not know was that gaph felt that this battle would give the sweet potato field a greater chance of winning! This was because Goph¡¯s advantage was in directbat. It was an advantage against other human yers, but against Origin ... It was not! Not to mention that he was ying the beast race. Although the yers had not lost hope and were still hoping for Goph to fight Origin, in the circle of Warcraft professional yers, there was already an atmosphere of despair. If sweet potato led a group of professional yers toe up with a strategy and got a 2:0, then who else could win against Origin, even if it was just a small match? ¡­¡­ In the experience store. Nightwind and the others wereforting sweet potato. ¡°Don¡¯t be too sad. You¡¯ve already tried your best. After all, the other party is an artificial intelligence.¡± ¡°Yeah, the despair that we¡¯ve experienced is something that those professional Go yers have already experienced. It¡¯s nothing. Even if we lose, it doesn¡¯t mean anything. The sky hasn¡¯t fallen either.¡± Although he said that, everyone¡¯s heart did not feel good. After all, everyone still hoped that mankind could win. Sweet potato raised his head.¡±Actually, I don¡¯t think there¡¯s a problem with the strategy. The key is that my hand speed is not fast enough. I don¡¯t have enough hard power.¡± However, perhaps a stronger human can win?¡± Nightwind¡¯s face hurt.¡±Bro, you¡¯re the best human in the world. Who else can it be?¡± Gourd looked at him,¡±have you forgotten about the previous game?¡± When someone is fighting with you, he wrote ¡°F * ck¡± on the map with an arrow tower?¡± Nightwind was speechless. He recalled bad memories again! However, Nightwind did realize that there was still Chen Mo! However, when they heard Chen Zhao¡¯s name, the others didn¡¯t have much of a reaction. ¡°Chen Mo still has the ability,¡± Goph said,¡±but ... When we asked him in private today, he said he didn¡¯t want to y.¡± ¡°Why?¡± The sweet potato was puzzled. ¡°It¡¯s the same reason why he stopped climbing thedder,¡± li jingsi exined.¡±He only did it to promote Warcraft, not to bepetitive. He thinks that the fight against AI should be for the pro yers. ¡± ¡°I think there¡¯s another important reason,¡± gaph added.¡±That¡¯s because he doesn¡¯t have the confidence to win. Of course, that¡¯s just my imagination ...¡± Everyone was speechless. Sweet potato said helplessly,¡±then what should we do?¡± Why don¡¯t we go and talk to him?¡± ¡°I¡¯m afraid we¡¯ll have to think of a better reason in advance,¡±Goph said. Everyone fell silent again. That¡¯s right, what excuse could they find? For the sake of all mankind? It seemed a little too ridiculous. In fact, the biggest benefit of defeating Origin was fame and fortune, but Chen Zhao did not seem to be interested. ¡°I have an idea,¡± li jingsi said after some thought. ¡°Oh?¡± Everyone¡¯s spirits were lifted.¡±What is it?¡± Li jingsi sent Chen Mo a message. ¡°They want you to fight origin.¡± Chen Mo quickly replied, No. Li jingsi replied again.¡±They said that Origin is so invincible mainly because you have a problem with your bnce. The elves are too strong. That¡¯s why they can¡¯t beat them.¡± Very quickly, Chen Mo replied again,¡¯WHAT? Is there a problem with the bnce of my game? It can not be! Just you wait!¡± Chapter 469 - A stronger human contestant!

Chapter 469: A stronger human contestant!

? Li jingsi showed everyone Chen Mo¡¯s words on her phone screen,¡±¡±It¡¯s done. ¡± Everyone was speechless. F * ck, he agreed just like that! As a video game designer, Chen Mo would never allow anyone to question the bnce of his game! However, why did it feel like Chen Zhao fighting Origin was child¡¯s y? Everyone looked at each other and felt that this was a little unreal. After all, when sweet potato went to battle, he more or less had the thought of ¡®for all of humanity¡¯, but Chen Mo went to battle mainly to prove that he was bnced. ¡°Uh,¡± Goph smacked his lips,¡±on the bright side, at least Chen Mo agreed to fight.¡± ¡°Can ... Can we win? ¡°Nightwind¡¯s face was full of pain. Li jingsi looked at him.¡±I think ... The people from Origin are probably worried about this.¡± ¡­¡­ On the second day after sweet potato¡¯s defeat, many of the audience members had yet to recover from the defeat. Although everyone knew that there was still Goph, could Goph win just by making a move? Based on sweet potato¡¯s performance yesterday, he had obviously prepared in advance, but it was useless to prepare tactics. There was a gap in the operation! Although it was a small difference, it would eventually add up. Although Goph was more meticulous in his operations, he was an orc. What kind of exaggerated moves could an orc use against an elf? Many of the professional gamers knew that the war between humans and machines was likely over. Meanwhile, many of those who were still anticipating Goph¡¯s appearance were just unwilling to ept this fact. At this critical moment, sweet potato posted on Weibo. ¡°I¡¯m sorry, everyone. I was in a bad mood after losing yesterday¡¯s game and didn¡¯t respond to everyone immediately. Professional yers experience many failures in their lives, so to me, this is also a kind of training. Also, don¡¯t be discouraged, because soon, there will be a human yer stronger than me against Origin. This war between humans and machines is not over yet!¡± After reading this Weibo post, the onlookers were d that the sweet potato¡¯s mentality was not affected, but they also had some doubts. ¡°A human contestant stronger than him? Was Goph going to fight? I¡¯m looking forward to it!¡± ¡°As expected, our country¡¯s yers are getting stronger and stronger. They all took the initiative to dere war. How domineering!¡± ¡°The two above, I suggest you go to the Ophthalmology Department. Sweet potato said ¡®a human yer who is stronger than him¡¯, not ¡®a human yer¡¯...¡± ¡°What the hell? how can there be a human yer stronger than him?¡± ¡°There really is one!¡± ¡°F * ck, don¡¯t tell me ...¡± ¡°No way?¡± Chen Mo hadn¡¯t appeared in a top tier Warcraftpetition for a few years, so many yers had already subconsciously ignored him. Just like otherpetitive games, most people¡¯s first reaction would be to care about the current strongest group of people. Four years ago, you were the number one in the country. Four yearster ... You¡¯d probably have retired and sold tbread, right? However, as soon as someone reminded them, they immediately realized that the sweet potato was obviously talking about Chen Mo! If even sweet potato could personally admit that this person was stronger than him, then he was definitely not a professional yer. Because among professional yers, sweet potato himself was the top human! ¡°Chen Mo is going to fight???¡± ¡°F * ck, how many years has it been since hest yed Warcraft? Although it¡¯s a game he made, I really want to ask if he still remembers the shortcut keys. ¡± ¡°If even the sweet potato thinks it¡¯s fine, then it¡¯s definitely fine!¡± ¡°F * ck, Chen Mo¡¯s crazy mechanics are probably on par with Origin ¡®s.¡± ¡°Haha, I¡¯ve thought about it a long time ago. I guess we¡¯ll still have to ask Chen Zhao toe out in the end.¡± ¡°The hidden boss has been alerted!¡± ¡°F * ck, this is really the most promising one! Chen Mo, you can do it, this is thest line of defense for Warcraft!¡± ¡­¡­ ¡­¡­ On the day of thepetition, the venue was packed with people. Admission to the war between humans and machines was based on tickets. Not only was the viewing area packed, but even the streets outside the venue were filled with people. Traffic control was even triggered. ¡°F * ck, what¡¯s going on? why are there so many people?¡± ¡°It¡¯s the final round!¡± ¡°Chen Mo has his own topic attribute!¡± ¡°If I didn¡¯t see Chen Mo go in with my own eyes, I would have thought it was fake news from sweet potato ... With Chen Mo¡¯s high-profile personality, he didn¡¯t even post a single Weibo? This doesn¡¯t make sense!¡± ¡°Chen Mo, you can do it! Bring out the style you used to massacre the entire National server¡¯s Stairway to Heaven!¡± It wasn¡¯t just the live audience that was more than before, even the audience on the live broadcast tforms and television programs had more people than before! Even though many of the people who didn¡¯t y Warcraft didn¡¯t understand the meaning behind Chen Mo¡¯s participation, the major streaming tforms and science channels had invited some professional yers to guestmentate. Chen Mo¡¯s history of massacring the country¡¯s servers was quickly made known to these audiences. There were a few reporters who wanted to interview Chen Mo before he entered the arena, but they were all stopped by the staff. Chen Mo smiled at the reporters,¡±¡±It¡¯s not toote to do the interview after we¡¯re done. I just want to prove that there¡¯s nothing wrong with the bnce of Warcraft.¡± The reporter: ¡°???¡± Why are we all thinking about the Supreme honor of ¡®fighting for humanity¡¯? What are you thinking about? Bnce? Did anyone care about this kind of thing? Chen Mo went to thepetitor¡¯s seat and sat down. The relevant staff exined to him about the game-rted matters, such as a time-out if there was a problem, a break between two games, and so on. Although Chen Mo knew a lot, he still patiently waited for the staff to finish. After all, he still had to go through the process. While Chen Mo was testing the keyboard and mouse, Origin¡¯s staff was doing the same thing. Chen Mo clearly knew that li jingsi was trying to goad him into action, but he had no choice. She had hit his weak spot, and he had to take it. Although everyone knew that Origin was strong in all aspects, even if it was a different race, some people would still wonder if Origin was stronger because it used the elves. Otherwise, why would it only use the elves instead of other races? Chen Mo had to prove that there was no problem with his game¡¯s bnce, this was about the dignity of the video game designer! ¡­¡­ Soon, both sides were ready. Origin had already finished testing. Chen Mo started a custom game to warm up before giving the other team an OK sign. The match had officially begun! As the screen loaded, everyone¡¯s hearts were in their throats, even more nervous than Chen Mo. The entire world was watching the war between humans and machines. Even people who had nothing to do with Chen Mo before were silently cheering for him. After all, it was an AI. Now, all humans were on Chen Zhao¡¯s side! Chapter 470 - A headstrong start

Chapter 470: A headstrong start

? This time, Kaiser and Nightwind were invited to be the guestmentators, while Goph, sweet potato, and Li jingsi were watching the final battle live. This was thest battle because everyone knew that if Chen Mo lost again, no one would be able to beat Origin in Warcraft. ¡°Can you do it?¡± ¡°I don¡¯t know,¡± ¡°It¡¯ll be good. ¡± The three of them didn¡¯t talk much, so Chen Mo couldn¡¯t hear them no matter how much they discussed. Moreover, Chen Mo might not even use the tactics they came up with. Chen Mo was the designer of Warcraft, so he must have a unique understanding of the game. As the founder of many ssic genres, perhaps Chen Mo still had some hidden skills that he hadn¡¯t used yet? Everyone was looking forward to it! The game loaded on the big screen. Random race VS elf! The live audience immediately burst into an uproar! ¡°F * ck, it appeared! Chen Mo¡¯s random race!¡± ¡°He¡¯s so F * cking generous. He¡¯s even ying random race?¡± ¡°This ... When fighting against the humans, it can confuse them. But when fighting Origin ... Is it useful?¡± ¡°I don¡¯t know! Chen Mo probably wants to try?¡± After seeing Chen Mo choose a random race, everyone was shocked, because it was too risky! From Origin¡¯s battle records, it had fought in the United States, Europe, and South Korea. It had fought against all races. Which race would Origin not fight? It was definitely not possible. However, since Origin could fight any race, what was the point of Chen Zhao¡¯s random race? At most, it would only affect Origin¡¯s opening and starting champion, making them choose a more secure start. But once little elf found the path, wouldn¡¯t it be the same as a normal game? On the other hand, what if Chen Zhao brought along a race that was not useful? Everyone broke out in cold sweat. After entering the game, the big screen showed the locations of the two teams and Chen Mo¡¯s race. ¡°Done,¡± Goph said, holding his forehead. Sweet potato was also in pain. The scene was also silent. Big map, further away, undead! This was a nightmare difficulty opening! Far away on such arge map, the elves could mine as they pleased. Chen Zhao would not be able to kill Origin immediately, and the undead were known to be the most difficult race to mine. Strictly speaking, if they wanted to fight Origin on a big map like this, the most promising choice would be the humans, followed by the elves, then the beasts, and the undead. The undead had an advantage in a head-on team battle, but the problem was that it was difficult to mine! Putting aside the mining factor, it was indeed a good idea for the undead to fight the elves. Chen Mo¡¯s face was really dark, no one could get such a random start! Chen Mo didn¡¯t seem to mind. It was still the usual opening, with the death Knight, Lich, and frost-armored Spider harassing them while leveling. After Origin confirmed Chen Mo¡¯s location, their reaction was also very straightforward. Obviously, Origin also thought that the chaotic mine was the best choice for the elves to go to a ce far away from such arge map. Chen Zhao obviously knew that Origin was messing around, so he used the undead to mine while looking for Origin¡¯s mines on the map. Goph looked at the tournament screen with a grave expression. ¡°It¡¯s not easy to fight. ¡± Sweet potato was helpless.¡±Didn¡¯t I see it from the start? if I were Chen Mo, I would have typed GG a long time ago. This is an early game to dissuade yers from ying. It¡¯s still okay if we meet human yers, but how are we going to y against Origin?¡± ¡°I have to say,¡± Goph said,¡±Chen Mo¡¯s mechanics are insane.¡± The match continued, and everyone discovered two facts. First, Chen Zhao¡¯s undead were at a natural disadvantage in this map! It was not that Chen Zhao¡¯s decision was wrong. He could find Origin¡¯s mine almost every time, but there was a difference in the system between the two races, so Chen Zhao¡¯s side was a little tired. Second, Chen Mo¡¯s mechanics were indeed insane! This feeling was obvious whenpared to yesterday¡¯s sweet potato. Chen Mo didn¡¯t panic at all in the middle of the game, and any dying spiders that everyone saw would be pulled away or healed. On the big screen, team Saint and Origin were locked in a stalemate. ¡°This is ... This is bullsh * T. Chen Mo can even fight Origin with this? Is he still human?¡± ¡°Origin might have limited APM, but isn¡¯t this too overpowered?¡± ¡°It¡¯s a pity that Chen Mo didn¡¯t have such good mechanics. You should¡¯ve just chosen a human or an elf!¡± In theter stages of the game, Chen Mo¡¯s side was showing obvious signs of decline. But every time everyone thought Chen Mo was going to be killed by Origin, he would miraculously survive! Every time, they felt like they couldn¡¯t win this team battle. How did they defeat Origin again? Moreover, it was as if Chen Mo had activated a map hack. Every time Origin tried to mine randomly, Chen Mo could urately find its mining location. On the other hand, Origin was always slower than Chen Mo. ¡°What ... What¡¯s going on?¡± ¡°Why do I feel like Chen Zhao can open a mine with the undead, and it¡¯s even smoother than Origin?¡± ¡°Isn¡¯t Chen Mo¡¯s consciousness a little too overpowered? How on earth did he find such a tricky and messy mine?¡± Chen Zhao sneered in his heart. ying with me? You¡¯re still too young. Although Chen Mo could not guess what Origin was thinking, he had eaten so many psychology textbooks and was a designer. He could guess what Origin¡¯s developer was thinking! Origin¡¯s thought process was actually a process of thinking. Although there was a certain degree of randomness in it and it also depended on the final decision, as long as there was enough data, some things could still be analyzed. Chen Mo only needed to get all of Origin¡¯s matches on this map, and then through special data analysis, he coulde up with a very specific conclusion. What was the probability of Origin choosing to open a certain mine at a certain point? It must be known that on the stairway tree, everyone was ying on the most popr map. Origin had yed so many matches on the stairway tree, so they had yed a lot of random games on this map. Chen Mo could use his second stage of mathematical analysis to analyze the regr locations of Origin¡¯s mines. Combined with some on-the-spot judgments, as long as Chen Mo went to the mine that was the most disadvantageous to him, he would most likely be able to find Origin¡¯s ancient Tree of Life. As for Chen Mo himself, he went straight to the mines that human yers rarely went to. This resulted in some situations where the lights were not on because Origin knew that these mines were not a priority, so they did not find it at first. Origin¡¯s little spirit only found it when Chen Mo¡¯s mine was almost ready. The audience was dumbfounded. ¡°F * ck, Chen Zhao is using the undead against Origin and he¡¯s not at a disadvantage?¡± ¡°Chen Mo¡¯s operation isn¡¯t bad either. The undead are strong to begin with. If it¡¯s a 100-person group battle ... It¡¯s hard to say!¡± ¡°I¡¯m starting to wonder if Chen Mo is cheating on the entire map!¡± Everyone was confused. Who would¡¯ve thought Chen Mo would do this? If this situation continued, it felt like even if all the mines on the map were mined, there would be no results. Chapter 471 - The epic bladder

Chapter 471: The epic dder

Many of them were breaking out in cold sweat, but a glimmer of hope was ignited in their hearts. Although this was a big map, and it was almost impossible to mine all the mines, but ... What if? If all the resources on the map were used up and the game ended, Chen Mo might have a chance! If both sides were on the same level, the undead would have the advantage over the elves. With Chen Mo¡¯s godlike mechanics, it seemed like ... There was a chance? 15 minutes. 30 minutes. One hour! In the game, the undead from team Saint and the elves from Origin fought from the left to the right, from the bottom to the top. When small teams met, they fought. Whenrge teams met, they fought! Moreover, both parties were not operating on a single line, but on multiple lines! At most, the two sides would fight in five or six ces at the same time, and they would not affect each other! You tear down my mine, I tear down yours. If you trick me here, I¡¯ll immediately return the favor! In the beginning, Chen Mo was at a disadvantage and was almost killed by Origin a few times. But after Chen Mo managed to survive, he seemed to have turned the situation around? As the undead heroes gradually formed, thebat power of the high-level Death Knights and liches was off the charts. Chen Mo was forced to y guerri warfare at the beginning, but he seemed to be able to fight Origin head-on! The audience¡¯s necks were hurting from watching, and thementators ¡®throats were hoarse, but they didn¡¯t know when this long battle would end! ¡°F * ck, what the hell is this? it¡¯s been an hour!¡± ¡°Chen Mo¡¯s not human, he can still maintain this hand speed? I really want to know if his hand is cramping. ¡± ¡°I feel like both sides are going to mine all the gold mines on the map ...¡± ¡°It¡¯ll be a good thing for Chen Mo if he really mined it! A high-level undead hero won¡¯t be at a disadvantage. ¡± ¡°It¡¯s hard to say ... The death Knight and the Lich are both Level 6, but the elf demon hunters and Watchmen are also Level 6!¡± ¡°This is going to turn into a fight between gods! This is the first time I¡¯ve ever seen such an epic dder ...¡± ¡°Chen Mo, you can do it! You¡¯re on yourst breath!¡± The battle wasing to an end. The battle between Saint and Origin had also reached its climax. The gold mine on the map had finally been mined after repeated struggles! It might sound like a fantasy, but how could so many sub-mines on the big map be mined? However, the fact was that after nearly an hour of super dder mining, all the mines that could be seized on the map were basically mined! What was even more tragic was that the elves ¡®trees were all pulled up to participate in the battle, and all the buildings that the undead could sell were sold! Both sides were fighting to thest man ... During this period, the two sides had been engaged in a tug-of-war for a long time. Some mines could be said to have changed owners three times. In the end, when there was not much gold left, the two sides stopped. After the economic sources of both sides were cut off, everyone was paying attention to the situation of the troops on both sides. Chen Zhao¡¯s undead had three high-level heroes, especially the Lich. He had many treasures and was extremely powerful. Although there were still some buildings left, he couldn¡¯t sell them all. Otherwise, the other side would swarm over and tear them down. Origin also had high-level demon hunters and Watchmen, as well as the three heroes, dark Rangers, who were slightly lower in level. Origin¡¯s first hero was the Demon Hunter because it had no way of knowing what Chen Mo¡¯s random race was. Otherwise, The Guardian or Dark Ranger would have been a better choice. This had be a small advantage for the random race ... In terms of herobat power, Chen Zhao¡¯s side was stronger, but in terms of military strength and poption, Origin had the advantage. Both sides were also very clear that there was no point in dragging on. The mine on the map had already exploded, so what was the point of dragging on? This was a team fight! Both sides brought along their families, bringing along everything that could move. Origin¡¯s little elf could use self-destruction to consume the opponent¡¯s Blue. So, at the beginning of the final team battle, they rushed to the undead heroes and self-destructed. The ghouls and monks in Chen Zhao¡¯s house couldn¡¯t do that. They wouldn¡¯t be of any help against the high-leveled elven soldiers and would even give the enemy heroes experience. So, Chen Zhao dragged the ghouls away and went to tear down Origin¡¯s base. Although Origin¡¯s big tree had been pulled out to fight and was not a threat to the ghouls, the ghouls might not be able to tear down all the city armor in their lifetime! Chen Zhao didn¡¯t want to think about this anymore. He wanted to give these soldiers something to do! The spectating crowd was also shocked. They had never seen such a tragic battle before! ¡°F * ck, Chen Mo actually made it this far. How did he do it?¡± ¡°They¡¯ve really mined all the mines on the map. Now, let¡¯s see who can win this group fight!¡± ¡°These six heroes are like gods fighting!¡± ¡°Chen Mo seems to have the advantage, this Lich¡¯s damage is too terrifying!¡± ¡°But Origin is not weak either. The Demon Hunters and Watchmen have the advantage in poption!¡± ¡°The Demon Hunter¡¯s transformation has ended! This Death Knight is really good at healing. He even managed to save the Lich?¡± ¡°It¡¯s the war of heroes! Chen Zhao¡¯s minions are almost all dead, but this Death Knight is still moving around like crazy!¡± ¡°Why do I feel like Chen Mo¡¯s mechanics ... Are even better?¡± ¡°Of course, all the minions are dead, only the undead knight and the Lich are left. With Chen Mo¡¯s hand speed, you¡¯ll be able to y with two champions.¡± ¡°Origin is the same!¡± As the battle progressed, the number of units that both sides needed to control decreased. However, both sides ¡®mechanics were vividly disyed! Even Chen Mo¡¯s Lich was crazily using his A, bing an ADC! Soon, the heroes of both sides fell one by one! They definitely couldn¡¯t retreat now. If they did, they would be chased and beaten by the other party, and then they would really be defeated like a mountain. The final team battle was unusually brutal. First, the three heroes of both sides, little ck, died one after another. Then, the Demon Hunter and death Knight fell almost at the same time. The undead Lich relied on the normal attacks of the magic ball to attack madly while its mana waspletely empty. The moment it killed The Guardian, it was taken away by the God of revenge! However, the God of revenge was only a unit summoned by the watchman. When the time was up, it would automatically disappear! All the audience members looked at each other. What the hell? How did this count? Both sides ¡®heroes and minions were all dead, and they had no money left. It was impossible to revive the heroes or build new minions. Could this be ... A draw? Just as everyone was in a daze, the camera suddenly cut to an ancient war tree in Origin¡¯s mine. The ancient war tree ... Stood up! Then, he slowly walked towards Chen Zhao¡¯s base! Everyone was speechless. Chapter 472 - Who鈥檚 the AI?

Chapter 472: Who¡¯s the AI?

? All the big trees in the elf race could stand up, but in the previous battles, Origin had basically pulled them up to be the main tank. There were not many left at home. Only the ancient war tree in this mine stood up and crawled toward Chen Zhao¡¯s base. It was unknown whether Origin had forgotten about it or did it on purpose. It had not participated in the battle before. The tree was climbing very slowly, and the map was huge. God knows how long it would take for it to tear down all of Chen Mo¡¯s buildings! But ... Even if they were to be torn down, they would still be torn down! In that case, Chen Zhao would still lose! Just as everyone was feeling speechless, the caster switched to the two cameras in the corner. Who said that Chen Zhao had no more soldiers? Chen Zhao still had three ghouls and a destroyer! These three ghouls had been used to pick wood. In the end, Chen Mo dragged them to Origin¡¯s house to tear down the house. As for this destroyer ... No one really paid any attention to him! He didn¡¯t know if Chen Zhao did it on purpose or not, but it just floated above the forest at the corner of the map. No one noticed it! The destroyer moved, slowly climbing toward the ancient war tree in the center of the map! The audience immediately cheered. The destroyer was an Air unit and the tree couldn¡¯t touch it! The ancient war tree was a live target. It could only take a beating. Did that mean that Chen Zhao would still win? As long as they could knock down this tree, wouldn¡¯t it only be a matter of time before the other elven buildings were demolished? But the moment it saw the destroyer, the ancient war tree suddenly turned around and walked towards a forest. Then, it pulled down a tree and stuffed it into its mouth. Everyone was speechless. F * ck, there¡¯s such an operation? The destroyer followed the tree and attacked all the way, but the tree just ate trees to recover its health. With the destroyer¡¯s low damage output, it would take a long time to kill the tree! Everyone was speechless. ¡°Thisputer ... It¡¯s cheating!¡± ¡°Yeah, Origin is cheating! If he was a human, he would have admitted defeat long ago, right? What¡¯s the point of continuing this fight?¡± ¡°It¡¯s obvious that Chen Mo won. What¡¯s the judge doing? Hurry up and announce Chen Mo¡¯s victory!¡± The three judges were also in pain. How could this be counted? He had never seen such a situation before! Chen Zhao stretched his shoulders, stood up, and said a few words to the judge. The judge looked at each other and then nodded. Soon, the game was over, and everyone received the notification of the match¡¯s results. The result of the first round was a draw! The moment they received this notice, the onlookers couldn¡¯t ept it. Why did it end in a draw? Chen Zhao was clearly going to win. Even if they fought for another ten hours and the ancient tree of war ate all the trees on the map, the destroyer would have to kill it! However, the organizer quickly exined that this draw was Chen Mo¡¯s idea ... Sweet potato¡¯s face darkened, what is this Chen Zhao thinking? Did water get into his brain? Or had his brain stopped working after ying for more than an hour? This is clearly a game that you won, how can you take the initiative to ask for a draw?¡± Goph was also puzzled.¡±That¡¯s right. If it were me, I¡¯d still win even if I had to fight for another ten hours. I might not have this chance next time!¡± The audience was also discussing amongst themselves, not understanding what Chen Mo was trying to do. ¡°I think,¡± li jingsi said quietly.¡±Maybe Chen Mo wants to beat Origin two more rounds?¡± Sweet potato was speechless. Goph:¡°¡­¡­¡± You¡¯re really big-hearted! In a BO3 match, you still want to y Origin with a 3:0? Why don¡¯t you just go to heaven? ¡­¡­ The draw in the first game made the audience indignant, but after the second game began, everyone suppressed the pain in their hearts and continued to watch the next game. At least in the first round, Chen Mo had used the undead to prove that he had the ability to beat Origin. What about the rest? In the second game, everyone¡¯s eyes lit up when they saw the loading screen. Humans VS Night Elves! ¡°Chen Zhao is finally a human!¡± ¡°Eh, I wanted to see the random race!¡± ¡°Forget it, a random race is enough. Chen Mo knew that. The undead on the big map is too difficult to y. If we get another undead or orc, we might not be able to finish thest game!¡± ¡°That¡¯s right. Choosing the human race means that Chen Mo¡¯s head isn¡¯t made of iron. If he can win, why should he be reckless?¡± ¡°Do you think Chen Mo has any deeper meaning in choosing the human race? To represent humanity and defeat Origin?¡± ¡°Eh, that makes sense! Maybe Chen Zhao really thought so! It¡¯s a good idea to use the human race to represent the human race!¡± Goph and sweet potato let out a sigh of relief when they saw Chen Mo choose the humans. There¡¯s hope! Previously, Chen Zhao had been able to fight the chaotic ore flow of the night Elves with the undead. Wouldn¡¯t it be easier if he chose the humans this time? When he loaded the game, it was a big map, far away! Everyone felt their teeth hurt. Did Chen Zhao wash his face and hands before he left? Why was he so unlucky? Two in a row were further away from the big map? However, the humans had an advantage over the undead. Chen Mo¡¯s face was expressionless as he focused on the screen. ¡°I feel like Chen Mo¡¯s choice is simr to the sweet potato?¡± ¡°Yeah, it¡¯s all about mining.¡± ¡°But they are much fiercer than the sweet potatoes. Chen Mosu didn¡¯t build that many towers after he opened the mine. Instead, he kept chasing Origin?¡± When sweet potato and Origin fought on the big map, sweet potato¡¯s strategy was to mine more mines. Each mine had many arrow towers to ensure that they would not lose any mines. However, this was equivalent to investing too much of their economy into the arrow towers. They would not be able to leave the sub-mine and restrict Origin from mining. On the surface, Chen Mo looked like he was mining quickly, but he only had two towers in each mine. Some of the mines further away only had one magic Tower. His main force was leveling up on the map while trying to locate Origin! ¡°Why do I feel like Chen Mo¡¯s hand speed is increasing again? Is he nning to face Origin head-on for the entire game?¡± ¡°He ... Isn¡¯t he tired? We just finished the dder surgery in the previous round!¡± ¡°Seriously, Chen Mo didn¡¯t seem to have suffered much!¡± ¡°Indeed, there¡¯s no disadvantage in the early stages. The economy has declined, and the poption has always been ahead!¡± ¡°The mixed unit is about to take shape! Wizards, Musketeers, Magi-breakers, and mortar teams! The Archmage¡¯s mana point cleansing and Blizzard, the blood mage¡¯s fire level is gradually rising!¡± ¡°The bear of the elf tribe has already started swimming! This witch¡¯s speed reduction is really powerful!¡± ¡°Is this ... Theplete Chen Zhao? If we only look at the two IDs, I really can¡¯t tell which one is Origin!¡± ¡°Yeah, why do I feel like Chen Mo is the AI? This operation, this awareness, you¡¯re the one who¡¯s cheating, right?¡± Chapter 473 - Full respect

Chapter 473: Full respect

? The more the audience watched, the more excited they were. Was Chen Mo going to teach Origin a lesson? Oh, it can¡¯t be a human either ... ¡°Damn, Chen Mo¡¯s human operation is as beautiful as a painting!¡± ¡°Wait, what does Chen Mo mean? A crazy fight?¡± ¡°Origin is a messy mine, but Chen Mo¡¯s mortar team is destroying it like crazy! This is the first time I¡¯ve seen Origin being suppressed!¡± ¡°F * ck, there¡¯s a close-up of Chen Mo¡¯s hand movement, is he ... Having a cramp?!¡± On the small screen, Chen Mo¡¯s left and right hands were ying the video at multiple times. His left hand was typing on the keyboard, his right hand was moving the mouse, and the screen was moving like crazy. The images shed by, and no one could see what was happening. His expression was extremely serious, and he didn¡¯t even blink for a long time. Goph eximed,¡±Chen Mo¡¯s eyes seem to blink every eight or nine seconds?¡± He¡¯s so focused!¡± ¡°I¡¯m too focused,¡± said sweet potato.¡±I might miss some information every time I blink.¡± ¡°I wonder if his eyes will get dry,¡± li jingsi said, a little worried. Goph and sweet potato: ¡°???¡± Girl, what¡¯s wrong with your brain? are we talking to you about your eyes? ¡­¡­ Five minutes passed. Ten minutes passed. The second game seemed to be passing particrly slowly, even slower than the first game! This was because this time, tiny was really going all out, and its hand speed was crazy without any reservation. Origin, right? didn¡¯t you use your super fast hand speed to beat people? Today, I¡¯ll let you have a taste of being abused by someone with a high APM. What did you just say? Your APM is restricted? Oh, hehe, what does it have to do with me? The audience was shocked to find out that Chen Mo was really eating up Origin¡¯s troops in a head-on battle! This phenomenon shocked everyone. What on earth was going on? How could Chen Mo surpass Origin in terms of operation? But very quickly, Goph and the other pro yers understood. It wasn¡¯t because Chen Mo¡¯s mechanics were better than Origin ¡®s, but because Chen Mo¡¯s mechanics had reached a certain level. In Warcraft, APM had many thresholds, such as: Anyone with an APM below 100 couldn¡¯t be a pro, and anyone with an APM below 200 couldn¡¯t y professionally. Around 300 was the average level of a professional yer. However, once the average APM reached 400 or even 500, and the effective operation of these APM was guaranteed, then one could basically control most of the units in the game with ease. If he went any higher, there was no point in continuing to increase his APM. He couldn¡¯t really let every minion y an Ace, right? It was obvious that Chen Zhao had reached this threshold, and Origin was also stuck at a simr level. Moreover, it was not a war of 100 people on both sides. Because the war was too fierce, the poption of both sides was basically maintained at around 40 people. No matter how many soldiers they produced, they died too quickly, and the poption could not rise at all. In this situation, Chen Mo¡¯s APM was not at a disadvantage at all. He could evenpletely suppress Origin! Even if both sides performed perfectly, there would still be wins and losses. On the other hand, Chen Mo used his almost perfect awareness topletely suppress Origin¡¯s movements. Because he had the initiative, he fought even more aggressively, and Origin seemed to be exhausted. Team battle! Team battle! Team battle! The battle between humans and elves did not stop for a second. People were shocked to find that Origin, who was almost like a god, had suddenly changed. They¡¯re actually avoiding the battle? At thepetition venue, the staff member responsible for Origin¡¯s daily maintenance was also dumbfounded. He had only seen this happen when two origins were fighting each other! When Origin judged that they were at a big disadvantage in a team battle, they would avoid the battle and trade space for time. They would not fight a battle that they were not confident in. This concept was actually very correct, because when the number of troops was at a disadvantage, even if you had the skill, it was difficult to perform. The other side could kill one of your minions in one round of fire, so what skill was there to y? However, this was exactly what Chen Zhao wanted. You want to avoid the battle? Hehe, where can you hide? You¡¯re ying with a chaotic mine flow. I can even find your sub-mines smoothly, not to mention yourrge main force. Seeing that Origin was avoiding the battle, Chen Zhao became even more motivated. The mixed troops led the mortar team and became a demolition team on the map. They demolished Origin¡¯s big trees one by one! Seeing Chen Mo¡¯s aggressive, no, aggressive attitude, the audience went wild and erupted in cheers. ¡°Chen Mo is awesome! F * ck, kill thisputer!¡± ¡°Hahaha, isn¡¯t it just a slightly more powerful man-made robot? As expected, I can¡¯t beat Chen Mo!¡± ¡°Good luck! To protect the dignity of humanity!¡± ¡°Protect my a * s! We¡¯re not protecting the dignity of humanity right now. We¡¯re trampling on the dignity of artificial intelligence!¡± Even though Chen Mo couldn¡¯t hear them from outside, they still couldn¡¯t help but burst into apuse and cheers. It was like Chen Mo was ying a game of expansion on the minimap. There were originally so many neutral mines, and the elves and humans were split in half, but as the game went on, the humans ¡®forces grew! The elves werepletely squeezed into a small corner in the lower right corner of the map, and the human army was outside! After the poption increased, Origin still showed terrifying team battle strength. Chen Mo attacked them countless times, but both sides suffered heavy losses. Chen Mo chuckled.¡±It¡¯s fine, I¡¯ll just wait. I have a few mines here, and you only have two. I¡¯ll tear them down sooner orter.¡± With victory in his grasp, Chen Mo¡¯s hand speed wasn¡¯t as fast as before. After all, it was quite tiring to y like this and his hands could get cramps easily. After gaining the absolute advantage in terms of economy, Chen Mo built a lot of tanks and demolished them! Origin had the ability to operate, but in front of so many tanks and Chen Mo¡¯s main force, they could not do anything. After the final wave of battle, Origin¡¯s Sanben base was destroyed. Origin typed GG and then logged out of the game. The moment Origin quit the game, the crowd burst into a loud cheer! Not only the live audience, but all the major live broadcast tforms and video websites were also flooded with bulletments, full of 6666! ¡°Wow, Origin is so smart. It can even y GG!¡± ¡°It¡¯s been ying GG before, but it only yed after the human yers admitted defeat. This time, it took the initiative to y!¡± ¡°Chen Mo is awesome! This time, there was nothing to say. It was a direct victory! Origin was suppressed the entire time, and this B * stard didn¡¯t have any temper at all!¡± ¡°Yeah, I didn¡¯t expect Chen Mo to do this. I thought he would use some big move, but his big move was to destroy Origin?¡± ¡°I suddenly realized a very scary problem. Chen Mo¡¯s current performance is no less than Origin ¡®s. In terms of awareness and tactics, he seems to be better than origin. 0?¡± ...¡±F * ck, is it that explosive? BO3 against 3:0, Chen Mo is afraid that the war between humans and machines won¡¯t leave a deep impression on us, so he¡¯s trying to make history?¡± ¡°I wonder how Origin is feeling right now. It¡¯s a pity that it has no expression!¡± ¡°I don¡¯t know what Origin is feeling, but its research and development team is pretty frustrated. Who would have thought that a cheater like Chen Mo would appear out of nowhere? Hahahaha!¡± ¡­¡­ After a short break, Chen Mo and Origin reached thest round. Even though everyone was sure that Chen Mo had won, the first round was a draw, so they had to fight again. However, they were no longer as worried about Chen Zhao. Instead, they were very excited. Who wouldn¡¯t want to see an AI being beaten up? The third match began and the game loaded. This time, Chen Zhao was still a human, and he randomly got a two-person map, e. This was the most popr two-person image in Warcraft, and there was no other. On this map, the distance between the two sides wasn¡¯t as close as the big map, but it wasn¡¯t far. Seeing this picture, sweet potato suddenly became energetic. ¡°EI! Chen Mo¡¯s luck is finally reliable for once!¡± Sweet potato said with emotion. However, he immediately realized that luck was not really a problem for Chen Mo. He did not need luck to beat Origin anyway! The first reaction of all the experts present when they saw this map was: However, no one knew if Chen Mo would choose ¡± When Chen Zhao saw the map, he was also stunned. Such a coincidence? They were both thest matches. It was always the humans fighting the elves. The map was all e. Very well, since that¡¯s the case, I¡¯ll give you the most respect! I¡¯ll let you see what a hopeless Dr is! Chapter 474 - The ten-minute match ends!

Chapter 474: The ten-minute match ends!

? E was a picture of two people. Chen Zhao¡¯s human was on the left, and Origin¡¯s elf was on the right. The Chinese name of this map was Echo Ind, and it was one of the most ssic maps in Warcraft. It was also the most popr two-person map. This map was popr mainly because it was bnced and simple. In other maps, yers had to explore the opponent¡¯s location before starting, and being born at a different location would have a huge impact on the yer¡¯s decision making. However, the map of EI was small and the resources were rich. No matter where they were born, it basically wouldn¡¯t affect the tactics of the yers, reducing the luck factor to the minimum. Moreover, this map was very well-designed in terms of architecture, map bnce, hero leveling routes, and so on. So, whether it was a novice or an experienced yer, this map was very popr. On this map, the humans could choose [three farmer], which meant that before the altar was built and the hero appeared, they could directly pull the militia to the other side¡¯s house to build the tower. This way, the arrow tower would even appear before the hero. However, Chen Mo did not choose to do that, because the risk of this type of TRR was not proportional to the benefits. It was a desperate attack that sacrificed the early stage of the economy. It was good at bullying newbies, but against an opponent like Origin, if one was not careful, they would lose. Chen Mo was going to use a more reliable but more lethal tactic. Both sides ¡®opening seemed very normal. Origin¡¯s elves chose to build the ancient tree of war next to the mercenary camp to level up, while Chen Zhao used the militia to Scout the way and build a house in Origin¡¯s house. Origin chose the watchman as the starting yer. When ying against humans, the watchman was a popr champion, especially on this kind of small map. This was because the two skills, poison needle and fan de, were very useful whether it was to kill peasants or to instantly kill heroes. Obviously, Origin was the same as the average human yer at the start. After all, there were only so many resources at the start, and Origin could not y anything fancy. Chen Zhao¡¯s altar started to light up, but to everyone¡¯s surprise, he actually summoned a Pdin? Gaph and the sweet potato face looked at each other. ¡°Holy Knight?¡± ¡°This is fake, right? He wants to y neutral hero?¡± ¡°Fire demon, Dr.?¡± Obviously, the first heroes of the human race were either archmages or the King of the Hills. Even if the Pdin was a hero, it would usually be the third. But Chen Mo couldn¡¯t just create a new hero and change it, could he? That would be a waste of his time, so the only exnation was that Chen Mo wanted to y a neutral hero. Origin¡¯s little elf had already arrived at Chen Zhao¡¯s base. After ¡°seeing¡± that Chen Zhao¡¯s altar was lit up, it turned around and left. ¡°Chen Mo is probably going to take a TRR, right?¡± Goph looked at the screen. Sweet potato nodded.¡±It¡¯s definitely a Dr. It¡¯s most likely a fire demon Dr.¡± Or Naga?¡± Sweet potato was even more nervous than Chen Zhao. He knew that Chen Zhao was definitely going to y TRR with Origin, but how exactly were they going to fight? Which champion? Would Origin be on their guard? This was hard to say. At that time, sweet potato had also tried to y with TR but Origin had blocked it. After that, it was basically GG. Would Chen Zhao be different? After the watchman came out of the altar, he went straight to the mercenary camp. The ancient war trees stood up as well, cooperating with the Watchmen and archers in their leveling. But at this moment, the camera suddenly cut to the human base. Five militia lined up in a row, crossing the map and running toward the home of the elves! At the same time, the farmer waiting in the tavern in the middle of the map also summoned the real starting hero of the humans: Goblin tinker! Origin, on the other hand, was stuck in the middle of leveling up. Give up now? A few of the monsters were already low on health, so giving up would mean that they had fought for nothing! Origin did not go home immediately. Instead, he chose to finish the training in the mercenary camp first. Although the human militia was almost at its door, the artificial intelligence would not panic because of this. It still seriously carried out its own program, leveling up first and then returning to defend. After all, it had faced many t-r¡¯s before. It knew that human t-r¡¯s might look impressive, but they weren¡¯t that scary. Of course, Origin reacted very quickly. The first thing they did was to add a second ancient tree of war. At the same time, most of the yers went home after they finished leveling up. When Chen Zhao¡¯s militiamen arrived at Origin¡¯s house, the duration of the militia¡¯s operation had not ended yet. They started to cut down the unfinished ancient war trees. In the end, the militia¡¯s time was up, so the farmers turned around and started building towers. At the same time, the Goblin tinker¡¯s pocket factory was also put down and began to produce a steady stream of explosive men. Chen Zhao only had five farmers, three infantrymen, and a Level-1 hero in front of him. The hero and infantrymen were all trying their best to cut down the ancient war tree that was still being built. ¡°Destroy this ancient war tree!¡± ¡°It¡¯ll be a big advantage if we can defeat it!¡± A lot of people were shouting. It was obvious that if Origin built this ancient tree of war, it would be able to produce soldiers from both camps. It might even be able to turn the situation around. However, Chen Zhao stopped when the tree of war only had a bit of health left! Just as everyone was dumbfounded, Origin¡¯s ancient war tree was finallypleted. Chen Zhao then moved all his troops over and focused fire on it. They destroyed it! ¡°F * ck! Chen Zhao is so cunning. He doesn¡¯t want Origin to return the ancient war tree, so he purposely waited until it¡¯s built before demolishing it?¡± If I were Origin, I would have called the police!¡± In Warcraft, buildings in construction could be removed. With Origin¡¯s control and reaction time, they could cancel the building before Chen Mo¡¯sst attack. So Chen Mo decided to wait for her to finish before he demolished it. Origin¡¯s Watchmen were also desperately trying to kill Chen Zhao¡¯s farmers, but Chen Zhao kept controlling the infantry and heroes to keep his farmers alive. It didn¡¯t matter even if the peasants died, because Chen Zhao¡¯s three arrow towers were almost done! The moment the three arrow towers were built, they began to shoot arrows at the night Elves ¡®buildings. Soon, the two Moon Wells around them were destroyed! Origin waspletely dumbfounded. Chen Mo didn¡¯t need to do anything because the arrow towers were fully automatic. As long as Origin¡¯s heroes entered the range of the arrow towers, they would be shot with arrows. But if the heroes ran away, they would shoot at the buildings! What was even more despairing was that Chen Zhao was still shooting at the towers. Soon, Origin¡¯s main base became Chen Zhao¡¯s sub-base! Origin waspletely dumbfounded. They had the ability, but they could not use it! After tearing down Origin¡¯s main base, Chen Zhao¡¯s Goblin tinker led infantry and mixed mercenaries to look for Origin¡¯s remaining buildings on the map.¡±If I don¡¯t fight you, I¡¯ll tear down your house!¡± Chen Zhao¡¯s Army was at an absolute advantage because the important buildings in Origin¡¯s home, such as the barracks, the altar, the moon well, and so on, had all been demolished. The mine was also gone. Even if Origin wanted to build an army, they had no money, no buildings, and no people! In the end, Origin typed GG and quit the game. The third round had only been going on for ten minutes! Ten minutester, the match was over! Chapter 475 - The press conference

Chapter 475: The press conference

? ¡°Oh my God, Chen Mo¡¯s TRR is a big move! Although Origin has dealt with many TRS before, it can¡¯t handle Chen Zhao¡¯s TRS!¡± ¡°Chen Mo hase up with a new strategy on this map that has been studied so much. Even Origin, who has watched all the videos from all over the world, was fooled by Chen Mo!!¡± In the live broadcast, Nightwind, who was in charge ofmentating, was already shouting excitedly! The audience in the stadium burst into a warm round of apuse and cheers thatsted for a long time! ¡°He won, he really won!¡± ¡°Chen Mo really is a BUG, he¡¯s just going to say¡± TRR,¡±he¡¯s not even talking to you! So what if it¡¯s artificial intelligence? in front of the arrow tower, what¡¯s the use of your good operation?¡± ¡°We won! I didn¡¯t expect Origin to be defeated by Chen Mo, even though they have defeated all the professional yers in the world!¡± ¡°Is it time for the press conference?¡± ¡°Hurry, hurry, I want to see the press conference, I want to see what Chen Mo has to say!!¡± The audience was in an uproar. They had thought that all the world¡¯s Warcraft professional yers would be wiped out by Origin. Who would have thought that Chen Mo would stand up and turn the tide? He was moved? He wasn¡¯t really touched, because Chen Mo didn¡¯t make aeback after a hard fight. He didn¡¯t take any humiliation. Chen Mo just went up and beat Origin. So the audience wasn¡¯t touched. They felt like Chen Mo had lost some of his humanity after the battle and gained some sacred glory? Or rather, he felt like a cheater! However, while others relied on high tech for their cheats, Chen Mo was a walking human cheat! On all the major livestreaming tforms, the bullet screen was already filled withments. Everyone was looking forward to the post-match press conference! ¡­¡­ The audience in the stadium couldn¡¯t wait. At the press conference earlier, everyone¡¯s mood had been very heavy, and those pro yers who went up on stage seemed to be reflecting on their mistakes, as if they had all been burdened with a huge mistake. But it was different for Chen Mo, he had won! This press conference was like a celebration party, everyone was waiting to see Chen Mo brag! It wasn¡¯t appropriate to say that he was bragging, because Chen Mo had indeed beaten Origin. How could that be considered bragging? This was strength! Humanity¡¯s top strength! At the press conference, Chen Mo sat calmly on the stage with Origin¡¯s developers. The press conference officially began. The reporters below the stage couldn¡¯t wait any longer and started to ask questions. ¡°Mr. Chen Mo, you just defeated Origin, the so-called strongest artificial intelligence. How do you feel now?¡± Chen Mo moved the microphone closer to him,¡±¡±It¡¯s not bad. It¡¯s been a long time since I¡¯ve had a serious fight in Warcraft.¡± The audience was dumbfounded. He hadn¡¯t yed seriously for a long time? Did he mean that he looked down on the current professional yers and that he could only y seriously against yers like Origin? Fine, fine, fine, you just won against the AI, so whatever you say is right ... The reporter who asked the question was also dumbfounded. Clearly, Chen Zhao¡¯s act caught her off guard. She thought for a moment and asked,¡±we saw that you chose the humans at the end and chose a new set of t-r tactics. You sessfully won the game in ten minutes.¡± May I ask why you chose the human race? Do you want to defeat Origin on behalf of mankind?¡± Chen Mo looked at the audience and said,¡±uh, actually not.¡± I just wanted to prove that there¡¯s nothing wrong with the bnce of Warcraft. Whether it¡¯s the orcs, humans, or undead, they can all defeat the elves. ¡± The audience was dumbfounded. What the hell? He just wanted to prove that there was no problem with the bnce, so he wanted to use the orcs, humans, and undead to defeat the elves? F * ck, does anyone care about the bnce of this game? No one cared! Also, ording to what you said, any race could beat Origin, right? Another reporter stood up.¡±But you used the undead in the first round. You used humans in the next two rounds. You didn¡¯t use the orcs at all!¡± ¡°Oh.¡± Chen Mo thought for a moment.¡±Actually, I forgot to change after the second round.¡± The reporter was speechless. The audience burst intoughter. They were still guessing why Chen Mo used the Terran race twice in a row, but the real reason was that Chen Mo forgot to switch races! It was supposed to be a serious scene, but why did it feel like the atmosphere had been taken away by Chen Zhao? At this time, a reporter asked the R & D staff of Origin. ¡°What do you think of Origin¡¯s defeat? Is this a blow to the research of artificial intelligence?¡± Origin¡¯s R & D staff said a long string of English words, and someone next to him tranted it into Chinese,¡±¡±The future will definitely be the era of artificial intelligence, and this is just a small setback. I don¡¯t think there¡¯s a need to hold too much hatred towards artificial intelligence, because artificial intelligence will definitely y a revolutionary role in various fields in the future, including the gaming field. ¡± ¡°Thank you, Mr. Chen Mo,¡± he said, looking at Chen Mo. ¡°Thank you very much for bringing us such an amazing game.¡± ¡°Thank you for creating such a strong opponent,¡± Chen Zhao said, smiling.¡±I will wait for Origin 2.0 to make aeback.¡± ¡­¡­ The press conference ended. The moment thepetition ended, all sorts of news articles were already everywhere! ¡°Artificial intelligence stopped in the gaming industry?!¡± ¡°Chen Mo wins against Origin, thest game ends in 10 minutes!¡± ¡°The ssic point of the professional yers ¡®interpretation of these three matches: It will be recorded in history!¡± Post-match press conference: Chen Mo: I just want to prove that there¡¯s no problem with the bnce of the game!¡± ¡®A genius designer and a top-tier yer? Chen Mo has be a key line of defense for human intelligence!¡± No one would have thought that Origin, who hade with such ferocity, would end up like this. Thest game was even in 10 minutes! On the way back to the experience store, Chen Mo looked out the window in silence. Thest match wasn¡¯t actually Chen Mo¡¯s style. It was the ultimate move that Th000, SKY and Infi, the three top humans in the country, came up with overnight to deal with moon before the 2013 WCG in his previous life. This move had a miraculous effect. In thest Warcraft WCG match, Th000 managed to get moon to GG within 12 minutes, sessfully keeping the champion in China. By that time, Warcraft had already reached ten years old, and all the tactics were already highly developed and perfected. The three top human races in the country had researched this together. This tactic was like a nuclear weapon. Even if Origin had watched all the battle videos in the world, it would not have expected Chen Mo to have such a powerful move. Using this ssic tactic to end the final war between humans and machines was very memorable for Chen Mo. However, that wasn¡¯t what Chen Mo cared about. Winning against AI didn¡¯t mean much, because Chen Mo knew that AI would surpass humans sooner orter. This was the trend, and humans didn¡¯t have to fight to the death with AI. Humans only needed to focus on the areas that artificial intelligence could not do. What Chen Mo was concerned about was whether there was a connection between the recent A.I. And the widespread hacking. Chapter 476 - Can artificial intelligence be applied to the gaming industry?

Chapter 476: Can artificial intelligence be applied to the gaming industry?

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Before this, Chen Mo had suspected that Origin yed the game by connecting to theputer through a data cable. Wasn¡¯t that a plug-in? The principle of external modification was to correct some of the operating signals of humans and do things that humans could not do. Origin could be seen as a moreprehensive and powerful external program. If a portion of Origin¡¯s functions were taken out and made into auxiliary functions, such as automatic team battle, automatic recall, automatic minion pull, and so on, and then given to normal yers, wouldn¡¯t that be the most high-end plug-in? Moreover, Origin¡¯s disguising skills were very good. After limiting its APM, its performance could fool most human yers. Chen Mo had to use the background data to find its ws. Chen Mo also noticed that Origin did not trigger any anti-virus software or security rm when he connected to theputer and yed Warcraft. If this was a hack, it shouldn¡¯t have been discovered. Chen Zhao had a guess. Could Origin have some connection with those hacks? Of course, it was definitely impossible that seventh visionpany developed a plug-in. They were a legitimate high-techpany that researched artificial intelligence. Their total assets were ranked in the top three in the world. Why would they need to make money through plug-ins? However, was there such a possibility? In order to allow the artificial intelligence Origin to sneak into thedder of various games more smoothly, the seventh vision World had made some kind of detection-avoiding program for origin to collect game data as a real yer? Origin¡¯s project wasn¡¯t just limited to Warcraft. In seventh Vision¡¯s n, all types of games in the world, including popr VR games, as long as there was room for AI development, would be Origin¡¯s research direction. ording to Origin¡¯s n, after conquering Warcraft, they would have to turn their attention to other projects. This was just the beginning. Since there was such a program to avoid detection, would someone secretly use this technology as an external hack? Or rather, even if this technology wasn¡¯t leaked by the seventh vision, if the seventh vision was able to develop this technology, otherpanies should be able to do the same, right? In short, thetest hack must have benefited from technological innovation in a certain field. The domestic technology was currentlygging behind, but it would catch up soon. Just like in Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, after Google developed the AI, alpha dog, Jue Yi, Xing Tian, and other AI also appeared in the country. In that case, would therge-scale entry of artificial intelligence into the gaming industry mean the arrival of a new era? To put it simply, there were too many functions that artificial intelligence could y in the game. For example, ording to the rules designed by the designer, the rules of the entire game world would be automatically changed, and a system simr to ¡°God¡¯s will¡± would be built, making the adventures of the yers more varied andplicated. At that time, the scenes depicted in Xianxia novels could be seen in the game. Another example was that some key NPCs were controlled by artificial intelligence. This way, regardless of whether the yers were ying a single-yer game or an online game, they would feel like they were talking to real people instead of NPCs with scripted lines. Think about it, an NPC with a well-nned personality and movement patterns would also make various corresponding actions based on their affinity with you? If he was paired with his super good looks, many otakus would probably be addicted to games. A character drawing was already enough to make many people crazily spend money on it, let alone an artificial intelligencedy who could talk and respond to you in a VR game world. The artificial intelligence could even disguise itself as the yers and guide or cooperate with the game script, allowing the real yers to get a more realistic game experience. In the past, designers had to design veryplex and detailed rules for the game. If there was a mistake in one rule, it could lead to a bug or even a crash in the entire system. No matter howplex the design was, the system was dead in the end. It was just a puppet with a well-wound clockwork, and would only operate in a rtively obvious pattern. However, with the help of artificial intelligence, many of the elements in the game could be brought to life, making the entire game world more real. This could be a revolutionary improvement for VR games, especially those open world games. Of course, from the current point of view, this idea was still a little too early. Origin was not at that level yet, and its cost was too high. It could not be poprized yet. However, with the current level of technology in this world, who could say for sure that the development of artificial intelligence would stagnate? At this rate of development, it would not be surprising for artificial intelligence to appear in the game and y the role of many real yers at the same time. ¡­¡­ The next day, in Chen Mo¡¯s office. Chen Mo touched his bracelet and opened the virtual screen. It had been a long time since Chen Mo had a draw, and his hands were itching for it. It was mainly because his previous abilities were more than enough. The things he had done recently, including hosting the League of Legends World Finals, developing leading thend, Overwatch, and so on, were all enough for him. Chen Mo had wanted to try and see if he could get a device to counter the hacks when the hacks were rampant, but he didn¡¯t get a new one even after drawing a few million, so he gave up. It could be said that Chen Zhao¡¯s current abilities were quiteprehensive. He wasn¡¯t in a rush to improve his abilities. After a year of hard work, Chen Mo¡¯s ie wasn¡¯t as explosive as before, even though he had earned quite a bit. It was mainly because of Chen Mo¡¯s marketing strategy. League of Legends was still being promoted with a lot of money, especially during the World Championship. Chen Mo had used some of the revenue from League of Legends to fund it. Overwatch was a VR game that had a huge investment, and even though Chen Mo¡¯s amazing free VR game had brought in arge number of yers, it would still take some time before it could start making money. As for oust and sharpshooter, they were both niche games. Although they were profitable in the eyes of other designers, they were still far from being a real money tree game in Chen Mo¡¯s eyes. Of course, it was mainly because he was earning lesspared to his previous life. In the parallel world, Thunderbolt entertainment was already one of the top three Chinese video gamepanies on par with Emperor dynasty entertainment and ZEN Entertainment in the eyes of many yers. Moreover, their reputation was much better than those twopanies. Chen Mo looked at the virtual screen on his bracelet and thought to himself,¡±¡±Isn¡¯t it time to move on to the next stage and make more ssicrge-scale games?¡± Chapter 477 - Where鈥檚 the huge system I put here?

Chapter 477: Where¡¯s the huge system I put here?

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It¡¯s been a long time since he¡¯d spent money on in-game purchases, so Chen Mo was a little excited when he turned on the virtual screen. In terms of story and coding, his current ability was enough to adapt most of the games in his previous life. However, he was stillcking in some other aspects, such as professional knowledge, art, music, and so on. The attributes were already at the maximum for the second stage. Although the plot was still a little off, it would be done soon. What Chen Mo wanted more was some technical books and special equipment. When Chen Mo saw the magnificent Tang at the annual videogame awards, he had the idea of making the Assassin¡¯s Creed series. Imagine how cool it would be for an assassin to leap over roofs and vault over walls in a VR game, find his target, kill him with one strike, and blend into the crowd to avoid being pursued. He killed one person in ten steps and left no trace for a thousand miles. Of course, Chen Mo also had the idea of porting Assassin¡¯s Creed to China to make a new game, but that would definitely be after the ssic Assassin¡¯s Creed was remade. Although there were many famous assassins in China, their characteristics were not prominent enough. There would be a lot of improvements and original content to make them in the game. Not to mention whether they were good or not, the yers might not ept them. In China, cultural adaptation had always been a sensitive area. Even though the audience and yers usually didn¡¯t seem to care much about history and culture, once there were any mistakes in the TV series or game, they would quickly pick them out. Hence, the game designers were in a difficult position. Faithfully reproduce history, right? If the effect was not cool enough, it was likely that no one would y it. But what if he changed it? Some people would jump out and say that this was disrespectful to history and would lead the next generation astray. Just like in King of Glory, if you made Li Bai into a cool assassin, people would say that you didn¡¯t respect history. What else could he do? To turn Li Bai into a poet. You can kill people just by writing? Besides, Li Bai was a swordsman in history. Otherwise, how could he write a poem like ¡°killing a man in ten steps, leaving no trace for a thousand miles¡±? Also, when ¡°King of Glory¡± made Jing Ke into a female character, it was criticized again. Even though it was said that it was based on historical fiction, the name was still changed in the end. But look at mate, even King Arthur¡¯s gender has changed to a woman and he¡¯s still dating a good-for-nothing, but I don¡¯t see any English people protesting? On the contrary, he was quite popr. It was a bit of a pity, but that was the current situation in China. If one wanted to adapt and innovate the traditional culture and history of the game, they often had to bear a huge risk. If they were not careful, they would be cursed at. Chen Mo had to be careful about this. In order to gain more experience and not cause too much controversy, it was better to start with the ssics and foreign works in Assassin¡¯s Creed. Even if he didn¡¯t make Assassin¡¯s Creed: Origins, he could still make the Ezio trio, which was one of the ssics in the Assassin¡¯s Creed series. However, one of the biggest difficulties for Chen Mo was the cultural heritage of the Assassin¡¯s Creed series. For example, in Assassin¡¯s Creed 2, it almost recreated the scenery of Florence at that time. Whether it was the architecture, the character service, or the story plot, it was all highly restored to the history. This was not something that could be done just by traveling. One had to have a deep understanding of the entire European history and culture to be able to do it. Of course, Chen Mo had other ways to do it without the bracelet. For example, he could hire some experts in Europe as special consultants and send people to Europe to do field research and use the potion to recreate the scenes in the game. However, doing so would be troublesome and time-consuming, and there was no guarantee of the game¡¯s effects. ¡°System, give me some effort. Give me some professional skill books about European history and culture. Also, open up the third stage for me. Muah.¡± Even though the current draw still hurt Chen Mo¡¯s heart, it was better than before. After all, he already had a few ssic games in his hands. After releasing League of Legends and Overwatch on PC and VR respectively, these two games would provide him with a steady stream of ie in the future. It would not be a big deal to get a few million from the lucky draw. Chen Mo decided that no matter how much money he drew, he had to open the third stage! As for whether there was a third stage or not? Chen Zhao was not sure himself. However, the points were already full, and the plot was about to start. There should be some special reaction after the draw was full, right? I¡¯ve topped up 50 million, draw! Chen Zhao kept pulling the lever, and the three shafts started spinning. In the end, he had only yed it a dozen times before the virtual screen got stuck and a prompt box popped up. Chen Zhao was confused. What was going on? Could it be that the third stage was about to begin? It can¡¯t be, right? It can¡¯t be that easy, right? I haven¡¯t even spent my 50 million yet, and you¡¯re already opening it for me? I¡¯ve already prepared myself to throw in a few hundred million, but you¡¯re firing me so easily? Are you trying to make things difficult for me, Fat Tiger? He carefully looked at the prompt on the virtual screen. [Your attributes and story writing abilities have reached the second stage¡¯s maximum value. Do you wish to activate the third stage?] There were still two options below,[yes] and [confirm]. Chen Mo was overjoyed. Not bad, there¡¯s really a third stage? However, Chen Mo felt a little frustrated when he saw the chat window, because he knew that the entire system would change once he entered the next stage. Just like when the second stage wasunched, the items that could be drawn in the first stage were no longer avable. Although there were still some items in the second stage, they were all enhanced versions and more expensive. Obviously, if they entered the third stage now, they would not be able to get the items from the second stage. The ones that he had saved up were still there, but if he wanted to draw again, he could only draw the ones from the third stage. Chen Mo wanted to close the chat so he could get some items in the second stage, but there was no close button! Moreover, other than the dialog box, the entire screen was locked, and there was no response. Chen Mo was speechless. Isn¡¯t this forcing me to start the third stage? You didn¡¯t even give me a chance to choose! I can¡¯t even take things too hard. If I don ¡®t, my bracelet will be stuck here? He had no choice but to open it! Chen Mo consoled himself, it¡¯s a good thing I didn¡¯t run into too many obstacles in the third phase, the system didn¡¯t trick me, this is a good thing ... A very cool dynamic effect appeared on the screen. The entire lucky draw system, which was simr to a Tiger machine, shattered into countless stars. Then, the image disappeared ... It had disappeared ... Chen Mo was confused. Where¡¯s my system? Where¡¯s the big system I left here? You said you were going to enter the third stage, but why did you make my system disappear? Chapter 478 - System, you tricked me!

Chapter 478: System, you tricked me!

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Chen Mo didn¡¯t believe that there would be a bug in his system. The problem is, I don¡¯t have a restart button on my bracelet. After a few seconds, a progress bar appeared on the virtual screen. Loading. Chen Mo let out a long breath. Damn, I was scared to death. It turns out that the load capacity was too high, so I had to load it. It seemed that the system had only paused for a moment and did not copse. It was a false rm. The progress bar was moving very slowly, but Chen Mo was very patient and just stared at it. After entering the second phase, Chen Mo had indeed gained a lot. Even though he had more in-game purchases, his rewards had also increased! If he entered the third stage, wouldn¡¯t he fly into the sky and stand shoulder to shoulder with the sun? After waiting for ten minutes, the progress bar finally finished. A new UI appeared on the virtual screen. There were two transparent spheres at the bottom left and bottom right of the screen, both of which were red in color. However, due to the different special effects attached to them, they gave people apletely different feeling. The ball on the bottom left gave off a more cheerful and active feeling, while the ball on the bottom right was burning with a raging me, giving off a more intense feeling. ¡°Why does it look like Diablo?¡± Chen Mo scratched his head. The UIyout was simr to Diablo¡¯s ssic UI, with two balls on the left and right, but in different colors. However, Chen Zhao could see that the two balls were empty. There was nothing inside. In the center of the main body of the virtual screen was a huge Neb vortex with many spinning arms. ¡°The interface is quite cool. It¡¯s much cooler than the previous lottery draws and the Tiger mecha. But I want to ask, what about the lottery button? Where¡¯s the top-up button?¡± Chen Zhao¡¯s teeth hurt. I¡¯m the only one who can see this. What¡¯s the point of making it so cool? It also increased the cost of understanding. Bad review! So, what were the two transparent spheres doing? What was the whirlpool up there for? Moreover, why was there no ssification this time? in the past, it was divided into three categories: ¡°design¡±,¡±disy¡±, and ¡°prop¡±. Why was it gone now? What confused Chen Mo even more was where the top-up button was. A pay-to-win system that didn¡¯t even show the top-up button, wasn¡¯t that inappropriate? However, a rted prompt was quickly given on the screen. ¡°Entering the third stage, the top-up function will be closed. The remaining diamonds from before will be fully converted and returned.¡± ¡°At the bottom-left corner of the screen is [happiness], and at the bottom-right corner is [resentment]. When both happiness and resentment are full, you can draw a lottery.¡± ¡°Ways to obtain happiness and resentment points: After the third phase, the newly developed game could collect these two emotions. You need to take note that only happiness points or resentment points will be included in the statistics. ¡± Chen Mo repeated the sentence three times and froze. ¡°What the f * ck? You¡¯re not ying me, are you? You must be ying with me, right?¡± Chen Mo didn¡¯t feel good, you¡¯re not following the rules! Why did the price only increase tenfold in the first phase to the second phase, but now that we¡¯ve entered the third phase, you¡¯ve changed the currency system! Please don ¡®t, big brother. You can continue to collect money, I have money! I have a lot of money! Chen Mo had already prepared himself for the possibility of drawing a few hundred million from him, so that he could get more professional knowledge from him. That way, he would be able to make games like Assassin¡¯s Creed and World of Warcraft more easily. In the end, he couldn¡¯t spend the money and the system didn¡¯t ept it! Chen Mo didn¡¯t like the pay-to-win system at first. Why did other people draw reputation points, while he had to draw real gold and silver? Therefore, every time Chen Mo went to the draw, he would feel a pain in his heart. However, the current situation made Chen Zhao even more depressed. He couldn¡¯t even spend his money! He even had to collect happiness and resentment points? Are you trying to kill me? Chen Zhao had a lot of money, but he didn¡¯t have any happiness or resentment points. It turned out that not being able to spend money was also a kind of pain ... Chen Zhao felt helpless. He finally realized how wonderful it was to spend money to be stronger. Chen Zhao also noticed that the so-called happiness and resentment points had restrictions. It had to be a newly developed game. And it had to be [pure happiness points] and [pure resentment points]. Chen Mo cursed in his heart. System, are you targeting me? Where¡¯s the ¡°excavating the earth for Ascension¡± that I made before? What about oust? Wasn¡¯t this a good game that could generate resentment? What about Minecraft? It¡¯s a good game that can generate happiness points, right? Why didn¡¯t the games he developed before count? Tell me why! If you had told me earlier, I would have developed these gamester! Chen Mo felt terrible. The system told him that it had to be pure happiness or resentment points, which meant thatpetitive games wouldn¡¯t work. For example, in League of Legends, you met good teammates, yed well, and won the game. Or if you encountered a scammer, you were targeted, and you lost the game. It was indeed a resentment. However, this kind of happiness and resentment clearly did not meet the system¡¯s requirements. This was because this kind of happiness or resentment came from mixing together, and it was targeted at teammates, not the designer. Even if there was a part of the resentment targeted at the designer, it would not be much. Pure happiness or resentment should be simr to Minecraft or excavating for Ascension. The emotions the game gave the yers were consistent, and not something that would change. Also, there was something else. The happiness and resentment points didn¡¯t indicate the required values at all. How much would it take to be full? Or would it only count when the game was created and the happiness or resentment points were generated? Chen Mo was speechless, the system was trying to trick him! Where are my professional knowledge and skills books? Give it back to me! I¡¯m going back to the second stage! I don¡¯t want to y the third stage! I want to spend money! Don¡¯t stop me! For the first time, Chen Zhao felt the pain of not being able to spend money ... ¡­¡­ The system silently tricked Chen Mo and ruined all his ns. ording to Chen Mo¡¯s n, as long as he could get enough skill books and special items, he would try to make some ssic games, such as Assassin¡¯s Creed. However, not only did he not get the skill book, but he also could not get any other rewards. This was F * cking painful! Chen Mo was going to make at least two games, one to provide happiness points and the other to provide resentment points. The original development n was put on hold, and Chen Mo didn¡¯t really know what game he was going to make. Why don¡¯t I make a simpler game first and study the principle behind how resentment and happiness points are generated? Chapter 479 - Another healing game?

Chapter 479: Another healing game?

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Chinese New Year, the first day of the Lunar New Year. Last year¡¯s Chinese New Year, the hottest topic was League of Legends, and this year¡¯s Chinese New Year, the hottest topic ... Was still League of Legends. In many second-and third-tier cities, going to inte cafes to y games during the new year was still a very popr way to relieve stress. However, there weren¡¯t many new games to y during the new year, which made many people feel a little bored. However, it made sense. How could there be a game like League of Legends every year? Many yers were wondering why Chen Mo didn¡¯t make a new game this New Year. It didn¡¯t seem like his style! ¡°Why didn¡¯t Chen Mo make a new game this year? Isn¡¯t it his specialty to seize the market during the new year?¡± ¡°He made a huge profitst year, alright? I heard that he won a few awards at the annual Video Game Awards ceremony. It¡¯s a big harvest. I don¡¯t think he needs to work overtime to y games during the spring Festival, right?¡± ¡°Sigh, what a pity. Is Chen Mo, who has a high production rate like a sow, going to have a difficultbor? Don¡¯t forget your original intentions!¡± Just when many people thought that Chen Mo wouldn¡¯t release any new games before the end of the Spring Festival holiday, Chen Mo quietly posted on Weibo. ¡°The new game ¡®humans: aplete failure¡¯ has been released. Everyone is wee to y! It was a heartwarming mini-game that was free of charge and suitable for the masses: He was a bad-tempered yer and a brother on the surface. After ying it, you will feel as if your soul has been healed, and it can improve the friendship between friends. Please download it!¡± The yers who said that Chen Mo wouldn¡¯t release a new game after winning so many prizes were pped in the face. F * ck! You won so many awardsst year, but you¡¯re still tirelessly releasing new games? What would the other video game designers think if they only released one game a year? Eh? Are you trying to anger your peers to death? They didn¡¯t even stop during the new year! ¡°There¡¯s really a new game! Chen Mo¡¯s a really high yield!¡± ¡°This frequency is unparalleled! I want to know if the game was made before the war with the AI or after that?¡± ¡°It¡¯s a small game. ¡± ¡°Wait, this game¡¯s introduction, why do I feel like I¡¯ve seen it before?¡± The yers were puzzled. Why did the game¡¯s introduction have a sense of deja vu? A small game to heal people¡¯s hearts? Completely free of charge? [Suitable for people: bad-tempered yers with bad hands?] After ying it, I feel like my soul has been healed? F * ck, isn¡¯t this the introduction of ¡°excavating the earth for Ascension¡±?! Many yers panicked at that moment. Wasn¡¯t this a joke? The game ¡°excavate for Ascension¡± released on April Fool¡¯s Day had tortured many people to the point of death. Chen Mo had said it was a healing game, healing my ass! What kind of healing game is this? it¡¯s basically a depression game! All the streamers on the major streaming tforms were tortured to death! A lot of the yers were instantly alerted, there must be a scheme behind this! It¡¯s the new year and you¡¯re still causing trouble for everyone. How bad are you! The yers couldn¡¯t take it anymore and left messages. ¡°Don¡¯t mess around! We won¡¯t believe you!¡± ¡°You still dare to call yourself a healing game? It¡¯s clearly a suicide game!¡± ¡°I¡¯m sorry. From the name of this game and your game introduction, I can already smell the scent of conspiracy. So, even if this game is free, I will definitely not y it!¡± ¡°That¡¯s right, I will never let your scheme seed!¡± ¡°I strongly rmend that the game Committee arrest Chen Mo and do a psychological test to see if he has an antisocial personality!¡± ¡°I agree! I have to force him to y the game he made!¡± ¡°Forget it. He¡¯s so awesome that he can even defeat artificial intelligence. He¡¯ll definitely clear the game quickly if he ys a game he makes ... I¡¯ll just shoot him directly.¡± ¡°Agree, we¡¯ll execute him directly!¡± Chen Mo was helpless. What the hell was this? Why did no one believe me when I was telling the truth? Where was the trust between people? Every word I said this time is true! Chen Mo had no choice but to post another Weibo. ¡°Dear yers, you¡¯ve misunderstood me. My game is really a healing-type game. If you don¡¯t believe me, you can take a look at the game screenshots and trial videos.¡± There were a few photos of ¡®humans: A screenshot and a Short Video of ¡°defeat.¡± The yers opened it. A small, pure-white person that seemed to be made of sticine was struggling to move a cube. Then, he climbed onto the cube, raised his hands high, and jumped on the spot. He grabbed the edge of the wall and climbed up. From the video, this little person seemed to be half-paralyzed, high paraplegia, or paraplegia. Not only were his limbs extremely uncoordinated, but even the entire world¡¯s physics engine gave off a strange atmosphere. The yers were speechless. ¡°You said this is a healing game? This ce is full of the same smell as ¡°excavating the earth for Ascension¡±!¡± ¡°As if I¡¯d believe you! Look at this strange physics engine, this little person is like sticine, he can¡¯t even walk properly! You¡¯re still hoping to use this viin to climb walls?¡± ¡°I feel like I¡¯m seeing the 3D version of¡± excavating the earth for Ascension ¡°?¡± ¡°I¡¯m not ying! I won¡¯t y even if I¡¯m beaten to death!¡± ¡°I support the shooting!¡± Chen Mo was speechless. What the hell was this? This was really a healing game! Why didn¡¯t they believe it? Chen Mo thought about it, it seemed like the yers wouldn¡¯t believe him if he said something serious, so he had to take a roundabout way. ¡°If you guys don¡¯t want to y, you can let the streamers y!¡± The yers were all stunned. It seemed so! If we¡¯re not ying, we can watch the streamers y! Thinking back to excavating for Ascension and oust, weren¡¯t the streamers and yers enjoying the game? Oh, that didn¡¯t seem to be urate. It should be the streamers ying miserably and the yers watching happily! At this moment, the yers instantly recalled their love for the major streamers. ¡°I can¡¯t wait to see the streamers y this game!¡± ¡°Yeah, I want to see it too!¡± ¡°Hurry up, myrades! Let¡¯s take over all the livestreaming channels and let Chen Mo¡¯s new game fly!¡± ¡°Ohehehehe, it¡¯s time to let the hosts feel our love again!¡± Soon, a group of ¡°humans: a total failure¡± fans began to upy the live broadcast rooms of various major live broadcasting tforms. Some big streamers didn¡¯t broadcast during the spring Festival, but it didn¡¯t matter. Don¡¯t do it because it¡¯s small, don¡¯t do it because it¡¯s small, don¡¯t do it because it¡¯s small, so what if it¡¯s a small anchorwoman? A small streamer should also receive the love of the yers! Uh, something didn¡¯t seem right. But that wasn¡¯t the point. The point was that the yers who were just there to watch the show quickly took over all the livestreaming rooms and started spamming the screens, asking the hosts to y Chen Mo¡¯s new game humans: ¡°Aplete defeat.¡± ¡°Requesting the host to y ¡®humans: defeat¡¯!¡± ¡°Yeah, this is Chen Mo¡¯s new game. It¡¯s really fun!¡± ¡°Yes, a healing game! It¡¯s done!¡± A lot of streamers gasped when they saw the words ¡®healing type¡¯. No way, again? Thest time in excavate for Ascension, we were tortured so badly that we would never forget it. Now, there¡¯s a ¡®healing¡¯ game? It¡¯s the new year, can¡¯t we just live stream properly? Also, do you have any misunderstandings about ¡®healing games¡¯? If he was really going to be cured, why didn¡¯t you guys y with him? Chapter 480 - Please call me by my full name 480 Please call me by my full name Obviously, the first reaction of most streamers was to refuse when they heard the words "healing game." After all, the painful lesson from "excavating the earth for Ascension" was still vivid in his mind. As the saying goes,"forget the pain once the scar is healed". This scar had not yet healed! This was a stab to the heart and a sprinkle of salt on it! However, after all, there were too many people who wanted to watch the flood ofments. These anchors had to think carefully. By sacrificing themselves, they could gain more attention and please the audience. Perhaps ... They could also be popr and appear on a show like "how are the anchors fat four"? If one thought about it this way, this was definitely a challenge! Some of the smaller streamers ''thoughts were gradually bing active. Although "excavating the earth for Ascension" had driven several streamers crazy, it had also sessfully made a few streamers popr! With this thought in mind, many streamers downloaded the game and decided to try it out. ¡­¡­ Lin Xue''s live broadcast room was also filled with "The ''defeat'' party had taken over. Xue Lin''s mouth twitched as she faced the bulletments asking her to y the new game. "I say, don''t overdo it! You were the ones who made me y excavate for Ascensionst time!" "I don''t believe that this is a healing game! This name is full of malice!" "What? Chen Zhao did it? Chen Mo''s work is even worse!" Xue Lin was speechless. Was it easy to start a live broadcast during the new year? Why was he still giving him trouble? Even though she was a loyal fan of Chen Mo''s games, any of Chen Mo''s games that werebeled as ''healers'' were never meant for normal people! "Alright, that''s enough. Am I that kind of person? If I say I won''t y, then I won''t y. I, Lin Xue, will keep my word!" "Eh? Someone was swiping nes? Hehehe, you want to buy me over with money? That''s impossible, I''ve always been a high-end streamer who views money as dirt. I stream for the art, for the great streaming career, not for gifts. " "Eh? Someone sent ten rockets? And you specifically asked me to y? Alright, I''ve decided to devote myself to art today and study this ''humans: Aplete defeat. " "I''m not ying for the Rockets. I said it''s for art!" "Eh? That''s not right. Why does the name of the person who donated rockets sound so familiar? Isn''t that Chen Zhao?!" "Chen Zhao,e out!" Xue Lin was speechless. She looked at the rich guy who donated the rocket. Wasn''t he a smart guy? And it wasn''t a high-quality imitation, you could even enter Chen Mo''s stream with a click! Of course, Chen Mo wasn''t streaming at all. He was just secretly observing from the fish-catching live streaming tform, trying to see if the other streamers were ying his new game. But when he saw Xue Lin hesitating, he decided to give her a little help. Xue Lin was helpless. What are you doing? The more he thought about it, the more he felt that this game was Chen Mo''s scheme! Chen Mo typed in the stream, it''s the new year, shouldn''t youe home more often? The live stream exploded withments, and the audience''s attention was no longer on Lin Xue, but on Chen Mo. ¡°MDZZ! You still have the face to mention e home often''!" "Hahaha, I''ll believe you!" "I''ve been exposed. How can this be a healing game?" "Why don''t you y a healing game? If you''re so capable, then turn on your live broadcast!" "That''s right, if you have the ability, then turn on the live broadcast! You salted fish!" "He''s actually observing in secret and trying to show off!" Chen Zhao was helpless."It''s really a healing type. I''m not lying!" Seeing the audience''s disbelief, Chen Mo sighed in pain. Why couldn''t there be trust between people? However, he saw that Xue Lin still downloaded and opened Chapter 481: The brain circuit of this game is a little strange!

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Lin Xue felt that this lzx was a funny yer. This was obviously not his real name. Who woulde up with such a name? ¡°Li Xiu,¡± Xue Lin asked,¡±how should we go now?¡± As soon as Xue Lin finished speaking, she saw NZX walk to the little snowman, grab it with both hands, and throw it down ... He was thrown down ... Lin Xue was dumbfounded. What the hell was this? But the next second, the little snowman fell from the sky andnded in front of Xue Lin. ¡°It¡¯s fine,¡± lzx exined.¡±Just give him a little love and care.¡± Xue Lin was speechless. She had a feeling that this adventure would not go so smoothly. Perhaps the correct way to open it was to choose the single yer mode ... A few lines of words appeared on the screen, giving Xue Lin some tips. The basic operation was very simple. The WASD moved back and forth, left and right, the spacebar jumped, and the mouse adjusted the perspective. The left and right mouse buttons could control the little person to stretch out its left and right hands, and if it touched an object, it would grab it. In addition, there were some rtively more advanced operations, such as climbing up by grabbing the edge of the tform with both hands, or grabbing an object with both hands and dragging it. In the process of familiarizing herself with the controls, Lin Xue very quickly verified her previous guess. The physics of this game was indeed worth a dozen people pressing on Newton¡¯s coffin ... This little person was like a paraplegic. He walked as if he was floating, and it was highly possible that he would fall to the ground at any time. The little person¡¯s body was also shaking strangely as it jumped, walked, and grabbed things. It was no different from being molded out of sticine ... Imagine a patient with osteodystrophy with paraplegia. This was basically the situation ... The first stage was very simple. He just had to control the little person to press the button on the wall to open the door. It was obvious that this was just a teaching stage. However, Lin Xue¡¯s team still encountered some problems. This was because this NZX liked to grab people and throw them down. Although the people who were thrown down would still fall from the sky, it was obvious that no one wanted to free-fall for nothing. As a result, such conversations often urred. ¡°Don¡¯t grab my head!¡± ¡°F * ck, why did you throw me down, you police officer!¡± ¡°F * ck, just you wait!¡± The cooperative game had turned into arge-scale wrestling scene because of this policeman in a red cap and uniform, student NZX ... Lin Xue was speechless. The lizx, little snowmen, and Penguin Queen were fighting each other while she found the exit ... Soon, Lin Xue realized that this game really didn¡¯t cheat people! And it was quite fun! There were many save points in the game. As long as you reached the Save point, the game would be saved automatically. If you lost your footing and fell, you would return to the Save point. Moreover, when forming a party, as long as one person activated the Save point, the others would be revived at the Save point. If one person cleared the stage, the others would also consider it a clear. Lin Xue realized that it was easier to clear the game in a team! For example, if one were to y the game by themselves, they would have to take the box and press the mechanism to open the door. However, if there were many people in a team, one person could step on the mechanism, and the others could go and trigger the Save point. This was a puzzle-solving game, but it also had a bit of action element. One had to jump and grab the wall very well, and there was also a little bit of control requirement. However, unlike excavating for Ascension, if you fell, you would be directly sent back to the nearest save point, which meant that you wouldn¡¯t do anything useless. Therefore, although the game had a certain level of difficulty, it basically didn¡¯t give people any sense of frustration. The most important thing was that this kind of weird physics story created a very strongedic effect ... Looking at these gummies doing all kinds of difficult actions in all kinds of strange positions, such as holding the chandeliers and swinging across the river, stacking boxes and jumping to high ces, it was a very strange and cute feeling ... Even though this NZX was holding her back along the way, Lin Xue¡¯s progress was still considered smooth. She soon arrived at the castle Gate. After smashing the door lock with a rock, they came to arger room. There was a door in the front, but it was very high and he couldn¡¯t climb up. There was a wooden fence on the left, blocking the way tightly. Xue Lin was the first to enter and fell into deep thought. The wooden fence on the left side was definitely off-limits, and there didn¡¯t seem to be any mechanism that could be opened. The key to passing the test was how to climb up the high tform to open the door, right? Before Xue Lin could say anything, the little snowman had already rushed towards the wooden fence with a stone in its arms. Xue Lin was speechless. The wooden fence did not move even a little under the not-so-violent impact ... As for the Penguin, it was holding a long wooden pole and trying to build a single-nk bridge to the high tform. Xue Lin studied it for a long time. She felt that she should grab the windowsill and move over from the window next to her. Just as she was about to call out to NZX to give it a try, she saw that it had already passed through the wooden fence ... It had passed ... Xue Lin was dumbfounded. F * ck, how did he do it? Li Xiu, how did you get there?¡±she typed. The snowman: ¡°the wooden fence can¡¯t be hit by stones. But you can bend it with your hands. After bending it, you can go through it sideways ...¡± Everyone was speechless. Xue Lin was speechless. What kind of setting was this! It felt like this guy¡¯s brain circuits werepletely different from ordinary people ¡®s! Everyone followed him through the wooden fence and came to a t ground. There was a trebuchet on the t ground, and there were manyrge rocks beside it. In front of the trebuchets was a cliff, and they had to cross it to reach the next storage point. Xue Lin stood in front of the trebuchet and started her reasoning again. ¡°Mm, ording to our previous experience, we must put the big rock on the trebuchet and smash the opposite wall. Then we can go to the other side from the bridge and jump over the hole!¡± ¡°Come, everyone, give me a hand and help me move the stones up!¡± Under Xue Lin¡¯s lead, everyone mounted the capstan on the trebuchet and ced a rock on it. ¡°Fire!¡± With Xue Lin¡¯smand, the stones from the trebuchets were instantly thrown out andnded behind the city walls ... Lin Xue was not discouraged.¡±It must be because that rock was too light. Come, let¡¯s change to a heavier rock!¡± She then moved an even bigger rock, mounted it, andunched it again. In the end, the rock still flew behind the city wall and did not hit the city wall! Lin Xue was a little speechless,¡¯why does it feel like the distance I throw has nothing to do with the size of the stone? Could it be that he should push the cart? That¡¯s right! It should be pushed back, so that the stones can hit the city wall!¡± Just as Xue Lin was about tomand the little snowmen and Mr. Penguin to pull the trebuchets, lzx was typing on the side. ¡°Can¡¯t we just use the trebuchets to throw them over?¡± Xue Lin was speechless. The little snowman was speechless. Penguin boss was speechless. It seemed ... To be so! Chapter 482 - Resentment from a teammate

Chapter 482: Resentment from a teammate

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Everyone felt a little awkward. Just now, Xue Lin was happily directing everyone to load the stones into the trebuchets. Now, she was silent. It was obvious that her thoughts were not scattered enough! Indeed, when seeing trebuchets, stones, and city walls, the first reaction of a normal person would be to use trebuchets to throw stones. Who would think of throwing people? However, after being reminded by student NZX, everyone also realized that in this game world, it was indeed much more convenient to throw people than stones ... Xue Linmanded the little snowmen and Mr. Penguin to stand on the trebuchets and throw the trebuchets one by one. However, when it came to student NZX, he typed: ¡°You can go up first.¡± Xue Lin was very touched. This was the spirit of sacrifice! This student NZX had always remembered the teachings of the people, leaving the opportunity to live to others, burning himself, and illuminating the path forward for all mankind ... Xue Lin stood on the trebuchet and typed emotionally,¡±¡±Thank you, Li Xiu! I¡¯ll open the door for you when I get there!¡± There was an iron gate next to the city wall, but it was locked and couldn¡¯t be opened from the outside. After Xue Lin used the trebuchet to fly into the city wall, she could open the iron hook on the door and let student NZX in. But just as Lin Xue flew into the castle and was about to open the door for student NZX ... He saw student NZX unsteadily holding the iron hook on the outside, passing through the iron fence, and pulling the iron hook on the inside away ... Then, he silently pushed the door open and entered. Xue Lin was speechless. What the hell is this? This door could be opened directly with a hook, so why did we waste so much effort to y with trebuchets? Every time a trebuchet wasunched, it had to be turned on first. Using the physical engine in this game to turn the steering wheel was simply a pain in the ass! Moreover, from the way this student cdx was so familiar with the ce, he should have known that he could enter from the main entrance! Then why were you pushing the trebuchets with us just now? He even reminded us that we can just throw him over? Why don¡¯t you just open the door? You¡¯re only opening the door after we¡¯ve all passed, are you doing this on purpose? Seeing student NZX swaying as he walked in, Lin Xue wanted to grab his Red Hat and throw him into the river! ¡­¡­ ¡°Resentment: +32!¡± Chen Mo almostughed out loud when he saw the message on the virtual bracelet. Obviously, NZX was his alternate ount. The ID ¡°Slent¡± was so well-known that he would be discovered no matter where he went. So, in order to keep a low profile, he opened another alternate ount and sneaked into Xue Lin¡¯s game room. At this moment, many light spots appeared out of thin air on the virtual bracelet and then converged into the two transparent spheres on the left and right. These light spots were also of two colors, representing happiness points and resentment points. Of course, happiness points ounted for the majority of the points, because humans: ¡°Crushing defeat¡± was a game that focused on happiness, so most people wouldugh like the viins in the game, so Chen Mo basically gained happiness points. There wererge and small numbers of happiness points, some in the tens, some in the tens, and asionally a little over 100. He wondered if the yer who provided more than 100 points wasughing his head off ... However, even so, there was still a long way to go before the ball of happiness points was fully filled. It had been more than two hours since the game went online, and it had only filled less than one-tenth of the ball. The ball didn¡¯t show exactly how many happiness points it needed to fill up, but it was clear that the amount was huge and wouldn¡¯t be able to fill up in a short time. As for the ball that was umting resentment, it was even slower. Until now, there was only a bottom line, very little. However, Chen Mo also discovered that it wasn¡¯t that happy games didn¡¯t provide grudges, they did provide a few, but only a very small amount. Moreover, any yer¡¯s grudges against Chen Mo would be counted into this ball, just like when Chen Mo threw the snowman into the river, he gave him 4 grudges. Chen Zhao was very happy at first, thinking that he had found a way to make money. However, after spending so much, he lost all his grudges and became happy instead ... What the hell! Little snowman, have you awakened your masochist physique? However, it made sense. The yers in humans: defeat never felt defeated. Even if other yers caused trouble, the yers would not resent the designer. They would only fight happily ... Chen Mo also noticed a more serious situation, which was that the amount of happiness points he gained was decreasing. In the beginning, many yers could provide around 30 to 100 happiness points, but as time went on, it would slowly decrease until it became more than 10 points, and then it would decrease even more. In other words, when the yers first came into contact with the game, they felt particrly happy, so they produced more happiness points. However, once they got used to it, they would not be as happy anymore. Luckily, there were still new yersing in. Chen Mo estimated that at this rate, he would be able to fill up his happiness points in a day. However, what was a pain in the ass was that he had to umte a full orb of happiness and resentment points before he could proceed with the third stage of the lottery. Chen Mo¡¯s resentment points were very, very little ... What to do? Chen Mo thought of two methods. The first was to sneak into the rooms and get some grudges from the yers like before. The second was to create a mini-game that could generate distress points. Actually, it was quite worth it to go and get some grudges, because Chen Mo found that there were more rewards when he did so, with each yer getting at least 10 grudges, and at most 70 to 80. On the other hand, the game itself generated much less resentment points, often adding three to five points. It made sense. You could make your teammates resent you for causing trouble in the game, but as the developer, the yers wouldn¡¯t often resent you, unless you always prepared all kinds of schemes for them ... Chen Mo suddenly felt that this new game was quite interesting, at least it allowed him to take a big step forward in his revenge against society ... ¡­¡­ ¡°You guys go first, I¡¯ll step on the mechanism!¡± Lizx typed. The other teammates didn¡¯t suspect anything and were still sighing about the existence of true love in the world. In the end, just as the first yer was about to walk over, student NZX silently walked down from the mechanism. The automatic door closed and caught the teammate in front ... Everyone was confused. However, just as they turned around to look, student NZX had stepped on the switch again, and the door opened again. ¡°Oh, so you identally walked down.¡± His teammates didn¡¯t suspect anything and were about to walk through the automatic door again, but student NZX came down from the mechanism again ... The automatic door closed again and trapped his teammate! Everyone was speechless. ¡°Resentment: +30!+¡± 10!+ 8!¡± Chapter 483 - -acting tough and running!

Chapter 483: Chapter 482-acting tough and running!

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For the construction stage, student lzx took the lead. He jumped over the gap between the two tforms, urately grabbed the iron ball hanging in the air, and swung it to the opposite side. In this level, there was a huge gap between the two tforms. It was impossible to jump over it directly. One had to grab the iron ball in the air and swing it to the opposite side. The steel ball was actually suspended in the air by a crane. After the yer jumped to the opposite side, they could control the crane to swing the steel ball and smash it into the wall next to them. Then, everyone could continue to pass the level. His teammates sighed with emotion. This red-hat police officer with the word ¡°show¡± on his back seemed to really know how to y. He passed the checkpoint quickly all the way and was always the first. It seemed that he could pass the test lying down this time! However, just as his teammate was about to jump over and grab the iron ball, the iron ball was thrown to the right. The teammate who had jumped in the air fell straight down ... Everyone was confused. But soon, student NZX operated the crane and moved the metal ball back to its original position. ¡°Oh, looks like a newbie. I don¡¯t know what the Crane¡¯s control lever is for. It¡¯s excusable, excusable ...¡± His teammates didn¡¯t suspect anything and jumped again. As a result, the iron ball was thrown to the right again, and the two teammates who wanted to jump over to catch the iron ball fell straight down again ... His teammates were simply speechless. F * ck me, F * ck me, F * ck me! The red-cap officer was obviously doing it on purpose! The most infuriating thing was that he had even deliberately ced the iron ball back in its original position. And it was a straight hook, waiting for the fish to jump up by itself? [Resentment: +24!] 16!+ 8!¡¿ ¡­¡­ On the surface of the sea, everyone was squeezed into a small red Boat, and one of his teammates was paddling with all his might. Under the game¡¯s ridiculous physics, rowing was simply self-torture. He had to hold the left and right keys at the same time to grab the two oars and then constantly move the mouse ... The boat was like a turtle crawling, slowly moving toward the next storage point. However, his teammates on the boat were very happy. ¡°Come on, we¡¯re almost at the shore!¡± ¡°Eh? Why did the red cap officer jump down?¡± ¡°It¡¯s okay, don¡¯t worry about it. He¡¯lle over after we trigger the Save point. ¡± ¡°Eh? I think he went ashore to drive that speedboat?¡± ¡°That speedboat can be driven? Isn¡¯t it stranded on the beach?¡± ¡°F * ck, he really drove that speedboat down. That¡¯s not right, why is heing towards us!¡± ¡°F * ck! Don¡¯t hit me!!¡± ¡°Argh! I fell into the water!¡± ¡°F * ck, we capsized! Don¡¯t you run!¡± ¡°Beat him up!¡± ¡°It¡¯s over, our ship has sunk, and everyone is trapped on the beach!!¡± [Resentment: +55!] 38!+ 42!¡¿ ¡­¡­ Chen Mo couldn¡¯t help butugh as he looked at the resentments on the virtual screen. This feeling was quite satisfying ... After humans: aplete mess was released, arge number of yers flooded in. In the beginning, everyone had mistakenly thought that this was a scam game like ¡°excavate for Ascension¡±. But after watching the streamers y it, they realized that it wasn ¡®t! This game was very fun! Chen Mo wasn¡¯t wrong, this game was a healing type of game in a sense, because there was no sense of failure. If you fell, you would automatically return to the Save point, and in the process of solving the puzzles, you could also y with your teammates. It was fun to y! In particr, the game¡¯s program effect was very good, and the effect of teaming up with acquaintances was especially great. Many hosts wereughing so hard that they were out of breath. The only w was that there was a police officer with a Red Hat and the word ¡°show¡± on the back who seemed to always run into the rooms to cause trouble and set up his teammates! Not only were the hosts of the various tforms not spared, but he also did not let many innocent passers-by off! However, his control was particrly good, and his understanding of the game¡¯s mechanics was particrly thorough. He pretended to be cool and ran away, and no one could do anything to him ... Many live streamers and yers were posting on Weibo, strongly condemning the red-cap police officer. ¡°Everyone, pay attention! There was a pervert who had been running around the game rooms recently, trying to trick his teammates every time, and running away after acting tough. It was simply unforgivable! This person is wearing a police uniform and a Red Hat. One of the more obvious characteristics is the word ¡®Xiu¡¯ written on the back. Please be careful!¡± Very quickly, many private rooms were locked, locked, or only friends were allowed to enter ... Some of the house owners even locked their rooms when they saw the yers in the red cap and uniform ... Chen Mo was helpless too. How did he be famous so quickly? Sigh, it seems that I¡¯m really too outstanding, like a bright light in the dark. Even if I change ounts, I¡¯ll still be recognized! My Red Hat, my police uniform, and the casual and unruly word ¡°Xiu¡± on the back have all deeply betrayed me ... Cough, cough, I¡¯ve digressed. Actually, Chen Mo could ignore All ess to these rooms, but wouldn¡¯t that expose his identity? So, after some thought, Chen Zhao decided to just let it be. ¡®Even if you want to fleece someone, you have to pay attention to sustainable development ... After a busy afternoon and night, the happiness points on the virtual screen were almost full, but the resentment points had only umted less than a quarter. Chen Mo highly suspected that the amount of resentment needed to fill up a whole tube was lower than the amount of happiness. After all, it was easier for the yers to be happy in the game, but it was harder for them to resent the designer. Moreover, it was difficult to maintain this kind of resentment. If the game itself made the yers particrly unhappy, the yers might very quickly abandon the game. The sheep had already run away, so where could they get the sheep¡¯s wool ... Therefore, the system must have considered the difficulty of collecting resentment points, so the value was lowered ordingly. However, Chen Mo wasn¡¯t sure if it was true or not, because the two balls didn¡¯t show the exact numbers. It wasn¡¯t possible to earn more grudges by tricking people in the game. Of course, the main reason was that Chen Mo was getting tired of the game, and the efficiency was too low. ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll just make another game.¡± Chen Mo still chose to use the designer¡¯s way to solve problems. Does he want to collect more resentment? Wouldn¡¯t it be over if they just made another game? However, it was still the Chinese New Year holiday, so Chen Mo only brought aptop home. There wasn¡¯t enough time to make a big game, and he didn¡¯t have enough time or manpower, so he could only make a small game. Can¡¯t a mini-game collect grudges? Hehe, of course you can! Moreover, the collection would not be any worse than the big games! A mysterious smile appeared on Chen Mo¡¯s face. If that¡¯s the case, then let¡¯s make a game that tests the yers ¡®brain circuits! Chapter 484 - puzzle game

Chapter 484: Chapter 483-puzzle game

Trantor: 549690339

During the spring Festival,¡±humans: a total defeat¡± had sessfully spread to all major live streaming tforms and video websites. Many live streamers ¡®changes in camera angles had also been recorded and made into highlights that were posted online. The main reason was that this game was free and could be downloaded by searching. It was very suitable for team games and was especially fun. During the spring Festival holiday, many friends formed groups and went to inte cafes to y. When they were tired, they downloaded human: It was quite interesting to y ¡®defeat and ruin¡¯. Of course, Chen Mo didn¡¯t get any ie from the game, since it was free and didn¡¯t have any in-game purchases. However, Chen Zhao didn¡¯t care about the small amount of money. What he needed now were happiness points and resentment points. The yers all eximed that Chen Mo had really turned over a new leaf! He had actually created such a fun and healing game! Many people started to suspect that they had really wronged Chen Zhao. That didn¡¯t make sense! However, before humanity: a crushing defeat¡¯s poprity faded, Chen Mo¡¯s new game was released. ¡°Two mini-games in a row! The new game ¡®the normal big adventure¡¯ is avable for download. It¡¯s a puzzle mobile game, and it¡¯s alsopletely free of charge, hoho!¡± The yers were all shocked. What the hell was Chen Mo doing! It¡¯s the new year, don¡¯t you want to rest? And what¡¯s with this ¡°Oh hehe¡±? Why did it feel like there was a deeper meaning to this! He had already thought that Chen Zhao¡¯s personality was as unreliable as the sun rising from the West. Today¡¯s ¡°hehe¡± seemed to have exposed his true intentions in some ways ... ¡°Chen Zhao took his medicine? It¡¯s only been a few days and there¡¯s a new game? Don¡¯t tell me he¡¯s pulling the other employees to work overtime with him?¡± ¡°No, I heard it¡¯s been a holiday for a long time. These two games were probably created by Chen Mo during the new year.¡± ¡°Amazing, he¡¯s a boss after all. We¡¯re all ying cards, games, and visiting our rtives when we have nothing to do at home, but Chen Mo is ying games at home! I¡¯m impressed!¡± ¡°Puzzle game? Was it something simr to nts vs Zombies and anipop? That would be fun. Chen Mo¡¯s puzzle games are all pretty good!¡± ¡°That¡¯s right, his puzzle games are still well-known. I have to try it out!¡± ¡°Chen Mo really wants all the games to be free ...¡±Aplete failure¡± doesn¡¯t even have in-game purchases. Where on earth does he earn money from ...¡± ¡°I don¡¯t know, but it¡¯s a good thing! I feel like Chen Mo has taken another big step towards being a good game!¡± ¡°You can forget it! I fell into the trap before because I heard that League of Legends was a free game, but now? My family suspects that I¡¯m poisoned ...¡± ¡­¡­ When they heard that it was a free puzzle game, many yers ¡®first reaction was that it was definitely a game simr to nts vs Zombies and anipop! These two games could be considered ssics among the puzzle games in the country, and could basically be seen on the puzzle games leaderboards all year round. Anipop, in particr, had broken a record in terms of yer count, and there were still many yers ying it. It could be said to be a longsting premium game. Even though it had some in-game purchases, it was still a well-known game for yers who had yed it. With these two preques, Chen Mo¡¯s puzzle game gained a lot of attention the moment it was released. ¡­¡­ On fish-catching live streaming tform, in Pursley¡¯s live streaming channel. Old P had just finished streaming Overwatch and was chatting with the audience. ¡°Eh? Chen Mo¡¯s new game? Isn¡¯t it the Rubber Man?¡± ¡°Another one? ¡®F * ck, so fast? Didn¡¯t the Rubber Man just appear?¡± ¡°Puzzle game? IQ test? Hehe, you guys are so funny. What¡¯s my title? It¡¯s a humanoid reasoning device, Sherlock Holmes from China. You actually want me to y a puzzle game, are you out of your mind?¡± ¡°Puzzle games have no difficulty in my eyes. Let me tell you.¡± ¡°Someone wants me to prove it? You really won¡¯t shed a tear until you see the coffin. Alright, I¡¯ll go and prove it. ¡± Old P was now one of the most popr streamers in Overwatch. Not only did his technical skills improve, but his obscenities also improved. It was true that it wasn¡¯t enough for the current hosts to just have skills. The key was that they had to be strong and funny, and the program¡¯s effect was off the charts, so that the audience would like to watch it. Old P found the normal dare in the Thunderbolt gaming tform¡¯s mobile game section and started downloading it. The game was very small, and it finished downloading in a short while. Old P sighed and said,¡±you¡¯ve really underestimated me.¡± Do you know why I¡¯m only ying the Overwatch recently? It¡¯s because puzzle games are too easy for me. Only an exciting game like Overwatch can give me a little challenge. ¡± ¡°There¡¯s actually a new audience member who doesn¡¯t believe me? Hehe, I¡¯m afraid you think that my title of ¡®guide P¡¯ is undeserved? Today, I¡¯ll let you know what it means to have a game guide!¡± After they entered the normal big adventure, they were greeted with a very shocking game screen. On the bare cliff, two small, chivalrous people were confronting each other. ¡°Hiss ...¡± Old P gasped.¡±This ... Did Chen Mo¡¯s Art Workers go on strike?¡± This drawing style could only be described as terrible. Even primary school students ¡®simple drawings were of a higher standard than this. There were no colors. The cliff and the characters were outlined with pure lines. There were no special effects. There were only two or three very simple animations. Even an amateur designer could not draw such a thing ... Old P was shocked. Something¡¯s wrong? This didn¡¯t seem like Chen Mo¡¯s style. If Chen Mo could even make a game like Overwatch, then the art must be top tier, how could he make such an ugly game! Old P confirmed it again. There¡¯s no mistake, this is Chen Mo¡¯s game! For some reason, old P felt a sense of crisis. Things were abnormal, there must be a conspiracy ... There was a conversation at the beginning of the game. [Shit King!] [If it wasn¡¯t for that stupid designer, you wouldn¡¯t be alive today!] [I told you, don¡¯t call me sh * t King. Call me the omnipotent sh * t King!] Old P couldn¡¯t help but ridicule,¡±what the hell is the omnipotent Xiang King!¡± Wasn¡¯t that the meaning of sh * t King?! I don¡¯t think it¡¯s nice at all!¡± The two sides were on bad terms and were about to start fighting. At this time, a dialog box appeared on old P¡¯s screen, marked with [attack] and [defense]. Old P thought for a moment. Obviously, he should strike first and gain the upper hand. Attack! The de Master on the left flew over and stabbed the omnipotent Xiang King. A small notification floated up: HP-1¡£ The all-powerful Xiang King stretched out his hand, and a pile of shit quickly flew towards the swordsman on the left. HP-65536! The sound of sad music rang out ... [World line support eggface has been destroyed, creating new adventure ...] Old P didn¡¯t feel good, WHAT? What the hell was this strange style, inexplicable character design, stupid dialogue, and brain-deadbat system? Chapter 485 - There鈥檚 something wrong with your brain!

Chapter 485: There¡¯s something wrong with your brain!

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[You are now yer number 248, Kitty egg] Old P was dumbfounded.¡±What¡¯s going on? why is it happening again?¡± It was still the same style and the same conversation, but the name of the main character changed from eggface to eggface. ¡°He didn¡¯t even change the character¡¯s appearance!¡± Old P ridiculed. Two options,[attack] and [defense], appeared on the screen again. This time, old P had learned his lesson. As the saying goes, one learns from one¡¯s mistakes. Since attacking could not cause any damage, he could only defend! [System notification: defense has been greatly increased!] There was also a shield effect. Although it was still very simple, old P really had the illusion that his defense had improved! [The omnipotent Xiang King has used his ultimate skill ¡°Lord¡¯s love¡±, dealing 2147483647 damage to you!] ¡°F * ck! What the hell! My defense has been greatly improved, so why is the damage even higher? This doesn¡¯t make any F * cking sense, okay?¡± Old P was speechless. This game had no logic at all! [In view of your limited strength, we are adjusting our risk ...] [You are now yer number 249,¡¯tie dan¡¯ er ¡®] Familiar scenes, familiar plot, familiar routine. Old P felt like he had fallen into an endless loop. It was not over! But this time, the prompt box had changed. [Do you wish to surrender to the ¡®omnipotent Xiang King¡¯?] There were two other options below,[no] and [no]. ¡°What the f * ck? Isn¡¯t it the same?¡± Old P casually chose [no], but the Xiang King used that lump of shit again and died! He chose [no], but he still failed! However, this time, a small [prompt] button appeared on the upper right corner of the screen. After clicking it, a small hand appeared on the left side of the swordsman¡¯s body and pointed at him. Old P was dumbfounded.¡±This means ... You want me to pick him?¡± He tried to click on the vignte on the left, and the vignte actually took out a pistol. A button appeared at the bottom of the screen: [Fire] ¡°Holy shit! There¡¯s such an amazing operation? What the hell is wrong with this designer¡¯s brain?¡± Old P was shocked. So this was the right way to open the game? Fire! [You shamelessly ambushed the defenseless ¡®omnipotent Xiang King¡¯, dealing 1000 points of damage!] He had actually seeded ... On the screen, the game¡¯s logo shed past. It turned out that what had just happened was only the prologue. Now, the game had really begun ... Old P didn¡¯t feel good. He felt that he had a lot of philosophical questions in his heart that needed to be answered. Who am I? Where am I? What am I doing? Why am I ying this game ...? [You are now yer number 250. Due to the number of destroyed worlds, Adventure System V1.0 has been adjusted to the lowest difficulty. You have received this month¡¯s brain-dead grant of $1,000.000] Old P let out a long breath. Even though the words ¡°yer 250¡± and ¡°this month¡¯s brainless allowance¡± hurt his not-so-fragile heart, and fully showed Chen Mo¡¯s evil intentions, he could still hold on ... Obviously, this was not a proper puzzle game at all! Strictly speaking, this game should be a ¡®training program for abnormal brain circuits¡¯, specifically used to twist the yers ¡®brain circuits in an abnormal direction! As for the game¡¯s name,¡±the normal big adventure¡±, it was obviously an irony ... This adventure game was not normal at all! However, this piqued old P¡¯s curiosity. He wanted to see how abnormal the game¡¯s brain circuits were. [To make this difficulty seem normal, please choose a protagonist name ording to your preference.] [Xiong Batian: $8,000,000] [Bu Jingtao: $5,000,000] [Big dog han: $3,500,000] [Dog leftovers: $1,000,000] The new riddle made old P fall into deep thought again. From the nature of this game, the first few were not valid at all. Because the brainless subsidy for this month was only 1 million at the beginning, obviously, they could only afford thest name! Old P chose [dog leftovers] without hesitation. However, a system notification popped up,[insufficient bnce!] Old P was shocked. What the hell! I¡¯m rich! However, when he took a closer look, the money was not $1,000,000, but $1,000.000! The first was ama, and the second was a dot! Old P was speechless. He tried to click on thest button, and the bnce became $1,000,000. ¡°F * ck! So that¡¯s how it is, you want to F * cking trick me again!¡± Old P was feeling a headache while feeling proud. He was feeling a headache because the game¡¯s brain circuit was indeed impossible to guard against. He was proud because he was getting more and more used to the game¡¯s brain circuit ... To be able to find a solution so quickly, I should also be gifted, right? Old P entered the game interface with confidence. This was the real content of the game. The whole screen looked like a very retro horizontal version of a game. The screen was still so simple that it made one¡¯s hair stand on end. There were arrows to the left and right on the bottom left, and a jumping button on the bottom right. Old P was instantly invigorated,¡±huh?¡± Next, it should be time to enter the operational stage! For a high-end yer like me, a game that can be operated will make me even more powerful! Tremble in fear, mortal!¡± However, old P soon realized that he was wrong, and very wrong! He realized that all his skills were useless, because this game didn¡¯t follow the rules at all! And the design of this game waspletely contrary to those ssic horizontal versions of action games! For example, a square that could clearly be stepped on would immediately shatter. The bar was clearly marked with a smiling face, but if he walked over it, it would fall down and smash the protagonist to death. He was clearly a high-level NPC who protected the peace of the novice vige, but he had received a bento after only saying two words! Whenever he encountered an enemy with a question mark above his head, the system would ask him seriously if he wanted to attack, defend, or escape. Other than escaping, he would die without any suspense ... It was a seemingly harmless River, but a trap would only be triggered when the main character jumped over it. A piece ofnd that was originally fine suddenly sank when the protagonist jumped back! A cloud that looked very safe would suddenly appear with a bunch of sharp thorns and stab the protagonist to death ... There was clearly a pit in front of them, but if they wanted to jump over it, a hidden square would suddenly appear above their heads and push them into the pit. Old P didn¡¯t feel good at all. This game didn¡¯t follow the routine at all! And every time he died, it was not his statement that was deducted, but his IQ ... From his initial IQ of 250 to his foster value of more than 200, old P felt that he had begun to doubt his life ... After a dangerous journey, old P was weed by many people as a hero. When old P walked over, these people would all kneel on the ground to show respect. In the end, old P saw an NPC soldier in front of him that looked exactly the same as before, with an exmation mark above his head. ¡°Eh? There¡¯s a mission?¡± Old P walked up curiously. The NPC took out a sword and stabbed the main character to death! The most annoying thing was that the NPC even sneered,¡±¡±Idiot!¡± ¡°F * ck! I knew it!¡± Old P was speechless. This time, he directly jumped over the Assassin¡¯s head. But just when he thought he was safe, the assassin turned around and rushed at him with his sword raised, stabbing him to death again! Old P looked at the phone screen, dumbfounded. ¡°F * ck! As expected, this game was unusual! You¡¯re an assassin, aren¡¯t you? You¡¯ll still take the initiative to attack? Your mother!¡± Old P was helpless. What the hell was this? Chen Mo was definitely making this game to take revenge on society, right? [Resentment: +199] Chapter 486 - What kind of F * cking puzzle game is this!

Chapter 486: What kind of F * cking puzzle game is this!

Trantor: 549690339

The next stage was still a very strange horizontal movement style. In front of him was a Lonely Water pipe, and in front of the water pipe was a square with a question mark. For a moment, old P forgot about the game¡¯s nature and went up to touch the square. As a result, a row of motionless squares appeared above his head, and they were filled with words: You won¡¯t die if you don¡¯t seek death! ¡°F * ck! I knew it was a trap! This is Chen Mo¡¯s scheme!¡± Old P was speechless. He tried to block it a few times and finally confirmed that he couldn¡¯t block it. If he did, he wouldn¡¯t be able to pass! He had no choice but tomit suicide. His IQ was 50! The next time, old P learned his lesson and wanted to jump onto this square. But the moment he jumped up, a man-eating flower came out of the cube and bit the protagonist¡¯s leg. F * ck! IQ +50! ¡°F * ck! It¡¯s a conspiracy!¡± Old P was speechless. After resurrecting again, he chose to feign a move first. After tricking the man-eating flower out, he stepped on the square. This time, he jumped toward the water pipe in front of him, but it actually leaked through the pipe! The protagonist fell from the water pipe on the upper left and returned to the distance. Old P was speechless. But it wasn¡¯t over yet. Just as old P wanted to jump to the square again, he found that he couldn ¡®t! That was because the hidden cubes had all been activated! And the line of words on it had changed: Even if he didn¡¯t seek death, he would still die! ¡°F * ck me!¡± [Resentment: +66] Old P was simply speechless, it was impossible to guard against! After stepping through almost all the pits that could be stepped on, old P finally came to the castle. ¡°Damn it, I can finally pass. I¡¯m starting to doubt my own intelligence ...¡± However, just as old P was walking towards the castle Gate without any warning, the king pushed the door open and came out. This push directly pushed old P down the cliff! F * ck! IQ +50! ¡°Eh, that¡¯s strange. I think someone knocked on the door just now?¡± The old king muttered to himself. Old P almost vomited blood. What the hell was this! There was actually trouble at thest part of this level? Where was the trust between people? Old P wasn¡¯t discouraged. He started from the beginning and finally arrived at the right side of the castle Gate after much effort. ¡°Hmph, you can¡¯t push me down again this time, can you?¡± Old P confidently walked towards the castle¡¯s main door, but the door opened again. It was still the old king. He pushed the door open and pushed old P down the cliff again! F * ck! IQ +50! ¡°What the f * ck!¡± Old P was dumbfounded, why didn¡¯t he y by the rules! Why do I always get pushed off the cliff no matter if I stand on the left or the right! Old P didn¡¯t understand at all. What should he do? After the old king¡¯s fancy disy of pushing the door open, old P finally had no choice but to click on the [prompt] button on the upper right corner. [That stupid developer is telling you that there are two ways to get a hint.] [Intimidate: p.] There was a simple self-portrait of Chen Mo on the left. He just had to swipe the screen to p himself, and after a certain number of ps, he would unlock the notification. [Temptation: top up 1 yuan ...] The corner of old P¡¯s mouth twitched slightly, and he decisively chose to threaten! Top up money? It can not be! 1 yuan was still money, not to mention, wasn¡¯t charging money an insult to his IQ? It can¡¯t be charged! I must not encourage such evil practices! He could also use this chance to give Chen Zhao a good beating! After madly pping Chen Mo 125 times, a notification appeared. He pointed at the castle door with his little finger. ??? Old P was dumbfounded. What did he mean? Could it be ... He tried to click on the castle, and the door opened ... The door opened ... Old P was confused in the wind! It was a horizontal clearance game! He actually needed to do it manually! [King: gousheng, you¡¯ve finallye.] Recently, there are always children pranking at my door. It¡¯s really annoying!] [Gousheng: ... (You better not let me find out that you did it on purpose!)] Old P almost vomited blood, Chen Mo¡¯s game even had its own self-dissing ability! But why do I still feel like hitting you? Why? You¡¯re very good at taking revenge on society! After meeting the old king, the old king gave dog feed a book. There was a lot of key information in the book, and thest question was,¡±¡±So here¡¯s the question, who is the most handsome person in this game?¡± Clearly, this was also a hurdle. There were four options below. There were in-game character names and real life names. Old P selected all four options with a dumbfounded expression, and the result was ... All wrong! ¡°What the f * ck? As expected of this game, these are definitely not the options!¡± Old P opened the notification and saw that there was a new button under the [intimidate] column with an arrow pointing at Chen Mo¡¯s avatar: [It¡¯s him!] Old P tried to click it, and it actually passed! Obviously, the ¡°most handsome person¡± was Chen Zhao himself! Even the viewers in the bullet screen couldn¡¯t stand it anymore, and all kinds of bulletments flooded the screen. ¡°F * ck, I¡¯ve never seen such a shameless person!¡± ¡°Hahahahaha, it¡¯s actually Chen Mo himself. I knew the answer wouldn¡¯t be simple based on the game¡¯s nature!¡± ¡°If you y this game too much, it will affect your intelligence!¡± ¡°My brain has been led astray!¡± ¡°Hahaha, the most handsome person is the designer himself? Isn¡¯t Chen Zhao afraid of being struck by lightning?¡± ¡­¡­ In the game, old P found out that there were actually many wicked achievement systems in the game! For example, the yer could unlock the achievement [child prodigy: He actually passed the test with an IQ of 250? [It seems that my design is not difficult enough!] When the yer¡¯s intelligence was reduced to a negative number, the achievement [negative IQ: How was that possible? It must be the world¡¯s fault!] In the ¡®most handsome man¡¯ question, the yer will answer ¡®the game¡¯s designer¡¯ to unlock the achievement [realist: In order to clear the game, I can only ept this setting ...] This made many of the yers in the bulletments lose their jobs, because Chen Mo had done the job himself! When the officialsined, no one else couldin! Old P was tormented by the game to the point of death. It was as if Chen Mo had dug a hole for him in every ce that looked fine, waiting for the yers to jump in ... It was useless to deliberately guard against it, it was simply impossible to guard against it! For example, there was a level where the main character had to pick up a wing from the ground to y ppyBird. However, if he picked it up, he could only fly to the right, and no matter how long he flew to the right, he couldn¡¯t pass the level ... The correct way to open it was to jump to the right side of the wing and pick up the wing. This way, he could fly to the left. After avoiding two flying salted fish and two thorny clouds, he could uratelynd on the target point to pass the test. Who the F * ck would have thought of this! Old P was on the verge of a mental breakdown. Some levels weren¡¯t something a normal person coulde up with, and every time the main character died, his IQ would be deducted. In thest few levels, old P¡¯s IQ had been deducted to more than-800, as if Chen Mo was mocking his own IQ ... This feeling was very bad ... Moreover, the game¡¯s prompts were also very deceptive. Either you pped 255 times or you topped up 1 yuan. And these two methods would make people feel that their intelligence was being insulted ... ¡°What a F * cking puzzle game! This is simply outrageous!¡± Chapter 487 - A new skill book

Chapter 487: A new skill book

Trantor: 549690339

Chen Mo almostughed out loud as he looked at the endless amount of grudges on the virtual screen. It seemed that the normal big adventure was a very sessful game, and the yers could feel its unique charm! You stepped on a trap and got scammed, resentment points increased. The death notification indicated a decrease in IQ and an increase in resentment. Finally, he found a way to clear the level with an abnormal brain circuit, which was to add resentment points. Even top-ups and ps would add resentment points! There were too many grudges being generated, and Chen Mo couldn¡¯t tell who was generating them, but he was sure that any yer who yed the normal big adventure wouldn¡¯t be able to escape ... The so-called ¡®plucking feathers from geese when they pass by¡¯ was basically this level ... Chen Mo was overjoyed as he looked at the endless resentments in the system. This was even more interesting than topping up! Moreover, it seemed to be more beneficial to society? After a period of umtion, the transparent ball that represented happiness points had been filled to the brim. The second portion of happiness points had also been umted to about 30%. After the happiness points were full, a very eye-catching number ¡± 1¡å appeared next to the ball, representing the umtion of an entire set of happiness points. As for grudges, he had already umted more than 90% of them. He was very close to umting a full set. A steady stream of grudges was still being umted. Although the numbers weren¡¯t particrly high, they were longsting. When many yers pped ¡°Chen Mo¡± in order to get a hint, their grudges would continuously increase by 1 +1+1, making Chen Mo smile from ear to ear. I like to see you guys angry but unable to kill me! Finally, his resentment points were full! He had umted a full set of happiness points and resentment points, so he could draw the lottery. ¡°It doesn¡¯t seem that difficult. I¡¯m a genius!¡± Chen Mo thought about it happily, then gently tapped on the lottery draw in the middle of the virtual screen. ¡°The prize for the third stage! I wonder what kind of prize it will be? I¡¯m really looking forward to it!¡± Chen Mo stared at the screen intently. Although they could not win the prizes for the first and second stage, the prizes for the third stage would definitely be better than the previous two stages! The vortex that was already spinning slowly spun even faster. Soon, a new icon appeared in the center of the vortex: It was a Golden Book. ¡°A skill book? Hmm, it¡¯s alright. Let¡¯s see what it¡¯s about. ¡± Chen Mo was well aware of the system¡¯s nature. Skill tomes were considered basic tools, but they were also essential, because only when all the skills were upgraded would it be easier to makerge-scale games. However, Chen Mo still wanted some specialized skills or special items, since those items were less likely to appear ... Chen Mo took a closer look at the new skill book. [Hardware design skill book (beginner): 1 book] Chen Mo was shocked, hardware design? Why did the system give me such a thing? Isn¡¯t this a little too F * cking overboard? The so-called ¡°hardware¡± was actually quite easy to understand. It was rtive to ¡°software¡±. It was the general term for all physical devices andponents. Simply put, theputer¡¯s main unit, monitor, keyboard, and mouse, which could be seen and touched, were all considered hardware. As for the programs, games, and other virtual things, they were all software. There was a wide range of hardware. Mobile phones, PC, VR gaming pods, and so on were all in the ¡°hardware¡± category. However, Chen Mo was a videogame designer, not aputer engineer. What was the point of having a hardware design skill book? Could he have changed his career to selling cell phones? The thousand Yuan machine upied the low-end market? Born for a fever? Charging for five minutes and talking for two hours? Soft light from the front and back, illuminating your ugliness? Feelings premium? Buying a cell phone and getting free tickets for the crosstalk? Smashing a walnut with a phone? Or did it have a nuclear explosion function? Although Chen Mo could do crosstalk and was good at bluffing, but...Wouldn¡¯t that be a little off-topic? If that was the case, he wouldn¡¯t be called a video game designer. He would be called a cell phone designer ... He was a little disappointed, but he still ate it. After all, it was not a burden to have more skills ... After using the skill book, some of the knowledge entered Chen Mo¡¯s mind and gradually became clear, as if he had already known it for a long time. After getting a general understanding of this knowledge, Chen Zhao¡¯s eyes lit up. This skill book was a beginner skill book, but it covered a wide range. It basically contained some basic knowledge of hardware equipment such as mobile phones, PC, gaming pods, etc. Basically everything was included. Chen Mo could feel that if he ate more of these skill books, he would have the ability to direct some of the technical staff to design a phone orputer. It was ¡°directing¡± and not ¡°designing¡± himself, which meant that Chen Mo could roughly distinguish the good and bad of the design and the principles behind it, but it was still a distance away from being able to do it himself. Moreover, not all of these skill books were from his previous world. Some of them were also from the parallel world, including the gaming pod technology. Even though he had only grasped the basics, Chen Mo could feel that if he continued to eat the skill books, he might be able to improve the VR gaming pod¡¯s hardware one day. Even though there was only one skill book, it was still a new skill, and Chen Mo might be able to use it in the future, so he was quite happy. However, the resentment and happiness points that he had saved up were only enough for one draw. This made Chen Mo, who had drawn hundreds of cards in a row before, very ufortable. ¡°I still prefer the original system where I can be stronger by charging money ...¡± Chen Zhao muttered to himself, but he soon let it go. After getting used to the ¡®happiness¡¯ and ¡®resentment¡¯ settings, Chen Mo actually felt that it was quite interesting ... ¡°It seems like I¡¯ll have to make some adjustments to my research and development n starting after the new year. From now on, making money won¡¯t be my main goal. My main goal is to create more games that can ¡®heal people¡¯s hearts¡¯. The word ¡®heal¡¯ actually had both meanings. Chen Mo analyzed the speed at which the two emotions could be obtained. The speed at which he obtained happiness points was faster, but the amount he needed was alsorger. On the other hand, resentment points were rtively slower to obtain, and they would slowly be converted into happiness points in theter stages, but the amount required was smaller. Torturous games like ¡°the normal big adventure¡± only provided more resentment points at the beginning S but they would slowly turn into happiness points in the middle S in theter stages S the only ones left were basically sadistic people who were used to this way of thinking, and the happiness points produced were already more than the resentment points ... However, the system¡¯s values were clearly specially designed. The amount of happiness points required was much greater. In general, happiness points were still morecking. This basically decided Chen Mo¡¯s future and short-term ns. Chapter 488 - Are you interested in giving a lecture?

Chapter 488: Are you interested in giving a lecture?

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Chen Zhao was thinking about his ns for after the new year when his phone rang. He picked it up and saw that it was Qiao Hua. ¡°Oh? It¡¯s the new year, what does the game Committee want from me?¡± Chen Mo was a little confused, the Spring Festival holiday wasn¡¯t over yet, so the game Committee shouldn¡¯t have started work yet, right? Calling at this hour, could it be ... To wish me a Happy New Year? ...That doesn¡¯t make sense, the game Committee is full of leaders, why would they wish me a Happy New Year ... Chen Mo picked up the phone,¡¯Hello? Happy New Year, Minister Qiao. ¡± ¡°Happy New Year,¡± Qiao Hua said with a smile. I heard that you didn¡¯t stay idle when you went home for the new year, and even made two new games?¡± Chen Zhao smiled,¡±I have nothing to do at home. I¡¯m just bored.¡± What, does the game Committee care about this?¡± Qiao Huaughed,¡±why would the game Committee care about this!¡± Alright, let¡¯s stop with the nonsense and get down to business. I wanted to tell you about this after the spring Festival holiday, but time is tight, so I asked for your opinion in advance. It¡¯s like this, do you want to be a lecturer?¡± ¡°A lecturer?¡± Chen Mo was taken aback. What the hell is this? ¡°I¡¯d like to invite you to teach an elective course at First World University,¡±Qiao Hua said with a smile. The previous elective teacher was seriously ill, so he couldn¡¯t teach anymore. Someone needed to help out the sses in the second half of the year. After thinking about it, I feel that you¡¯ve just won game of the year, so it¡¯s most suitable for you to teach this elective course. Are you interested in it?¡± Chen Mo thought for a moment,¡¯what ss is it? If it¡¯s a specific type of game, maybe I don¡¯t have enough experience now, and I might be misleading the students?¡± ¡°This course is called ¡®gaming prospects¡¯,¡± Qiao Hua replied. Well, it was basically a history and expected course. In the first half of the year, the teacher had already exined the history of the development of games to everyone. Thest part was mainly about the prediction of the future. In other words, what would the future game be like? how would the entire game industry develop?¡± ¡°You don¡¯t have to worry about not doing a good job or not being good enough,¡± Qiao Hua continued. ¡°On one hand, this course is to educate the students on the basics of video game creation, so that they can have a basic understanding of the game industry. On the other hand, they were looking forward to the future. It¡¯s an elective course, not apulsory one, so you can actually talk about it with a little more freedom. ¡± Chen Mo nodded,¡±okay, I understand. I¡¯ll think about it.¡± ¡°Think about it,¡± Qiao Hua said kindly.¡±There¡¯s no rush. You just have to give me an answer within the next few days.¡± ¡°Then why did you choose the first university and not the other schools?¡± Chen Zhao asked. Qiao Huaughed.¡±It¡¯s because this happened too suddenly. On one hand, the teacher fell sick and needed you to save him. On the other hand, it was to make up for theck of gaming expertise in our University.¡± ¡°Although the academic level of world No. 1 University is not bad, they have always beencking in the area of game design. I¡¯m asking you to give a lecture because I hope that you can give some new inspiration to the teachers there. After all, you¡¯re a professional video game designer, while these teachers have been away from the line of video game design for a long time. Many of their ideas can¡¯t keep up with the current era.¡± Chen Mo nodded.¡±Alright, I¡¯ll think about it. Is this an official mission from the game Committee?¡± ¡°Of course not,¡± Qiao Huaughed,¡±this waspletely voluntary. If you want to go, of course it¡¯s good, but if you don¡¯t want to, we won¡¯t force you. We can still find someone else. ¡± After hanging up, Chen Zhao did some research. The world¡¯s first university was actually another name for a famous school in Qi Lu. Qi Lu wasn¡¯t far from the imperial capital. It only took two hours by high-speed rail. Chen Mo didn¡¯t have much time to spare. This elective only had one ss every two weeks, and each ss was two hours long. This meant that Chen Zhao only needed to make a trip once every two weeks. After all, this was only an elective ss. For the students, they had topletely master the contents of the professional course because it was basic ssic knowledge. As for the elective course, it was more to cultivate interest and to have some basic understanding of the game industry. Chen Zhao was quite interested in this, as he had never been a university lecturer. Moreover, Chen Mo felt that being a lecturer was a glorious thing. As the saying went, a teacher was responsible for teaching and clearing up doubts. If he could make more students like game design through his lectures, he would be able to cultivate more talents for the domestic game industry. This was something he was happy to see. After all, he didn¡¯tck money anymore. He didn¡¯t need to consider how much money he could make as an important goal. Now, his goal was to be diversified. On one hand, he wanted to let the game industry develop better so that the channels would no longer restrict research and development. On the other hand, it was to create more and more fun games for yers. It could also allow more talents to enter this industry. And from the current course, this was only an elective, so he didn¡¯t have to worry about being restricted or following the textbook. In fact, he just had to talk about some of his own experiences, and he had a high degree of freedom. His lectures didn¡¯t affect his current work, because he only needed to go to world No. 1 University once every two weeks. After some consideration, Chen Mo agreed. Qiao Hua then gave Chen Mo a few more reminders not to stick to a fixed way of thinking. He didn¡¯t even need to do a PowerPoint or a live lecture, as long as he finished the ss. As for the final test and results of the students, they could also decide on their own. For this, the world No. 1 University School would not have any requirements or interference. Then what should he talk about? Chen Zhao was also considering it. Since it was his first time giving a lecture on a University campus, he had to teach something that no one else had taught before. Chen Mo already had a n for this, but he still needed to think about what he wanted to talk about. ¡­¡­ After the spring Festival holiday, Chen Zhao returned to the imperial capital. The work after the new year was almost done, and there were no new games for the time being. Chen Mo¡¯s two main works, League of Legends and Overwatch, were still in development. There would be new updates and content in the new year. Especially in League of Legends, all the major clubs had already formed teams, and the preparations for the LPL Spring Season were also in full swing. The rted League tournament would soon be on the right track. As for the Overwatch Council, they also had ns to develop the next version. After Overwatch won the Game of the Year award, other gamepanies were also considering developing simr products. After the new year, they had also established projects and started their development. Chen Zhao didn¡¯t say anything.¡±You guys do your thing and I¡¯ll do mine.¡± Chapter 489 - Welcome to listen

Chapter 489: Wee to listen

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Some of the other game modes of the Overwatch were also released, and the vitality of the game was greatly extended. Chen Mo was considering updating Overwatch every two months, adding some holiday skins, new maps, new ystyles, new heroes, etc., To try and keep the game popr. ¡± 70 new heroes a year¡± was just a lie. It was impossible to do that much. However, the new heroes had to be made appropriately, or it would be impossible to maintain the poprity of the game among the yers. There was a lot of work to be done, and Chen Mo didn¡¯t have much time to think about the first game of the year, so he didn¡¯t think about making a new game in the first month after Chinese New Year. Instead, he asked everyone to take care of Overwatch and League of Legends. Chen Mo also told everyone that he was going to be a coach at Shanghai University, and everyone was very surprised. Qian Kun asked,¡±manager, are you really going to be a lecturer?¡± Then can I attend the ss?¡± Chen Mo was amused,¡¯what are you doing? Work hard, you¡¯re not a college student anymore. ¡± Qian Kun chuckled.¡±As the saying goes, you learn as you live. I¡¯m really interested in your lecture.¡± Chen Mo patted his shoulder.¡±You¡¯re able to take charge of a game on your own now. Maybe in another two or three years, you¡¯ll be able to teach others aboutpetitive games.¡± Su Jinyu asked,¡±manager, how long are you going to be gone?¡± It won¡¯t affect our future game development n, will it?¡± Chen Mo shook his head,¡±it doesn¡¯t matter.¡± There was only one ss every two weeks, and each ss was two hours long. This means that I¡¯ll only be absent for one day every two weeks, and it won¡¯t affect the development of the game. ¡± ¡°As for what game we¡¯re going to develop next, I haven¡¯t thought about it yet. I¡¯lle up with a new design concept in a month.¡± Su Jinyu nodded.¡±Alright, manager. I¡¯ve cheered you on!¡± ¡­¡­ After settling everything rted to the experience store and preparing the content for his elective ss, Chen Mo took the high-speed rail to Qi Lu. World No. 1 University was considered a key University in China. Its learning style was more down-to-earth and simple, which was in line with the cultural characteristics of Qi Lu. It was said that Qilu¡¯s students were more miserable because Qilu¡¯s cut-off point could be said to be the highest in the country. Therefore, the cut-off point of world No. 1 University was also higher, and there were many top students on campus. As for its shorings, it should be said that the world first university and the Qi Lu region had simr characteristics. They were rtively more traditional and conservative. Although they had a certain advantage in some traditional subjects, their development in some new fields fell behind other first-ss universities in all aspects. Of course, the reasons for this were moreplicated. There were management problems, culture problems, and many other problems. All in all, this was an objective fact. Compared to other universities, the gaming major of world No. 1 University was still in a backward position. In the parallel world, the status of the gaming industry had risen, and it was highly valued by many of the higher-ups, which was evident from the appearance of the game Committee. Under such circumstances, it wasn¡¯t surprising that many universities would offer a major in game design. Those who graduated from top universities with a major in game design would often be fought over by bigpanies like Emperor dynasty entertainment and ZEN Entertainment, and they would receive a high annual sry after graduation. It could be said that in the parallel world, even though the gaming industry was not as popr as financial management, it was still a pretty good profession. As for Chen Mo, he didn¡¯t have any background in the arts. He studied literature, which was why it was so difficult for him to enter the industry. If one were to graduate from a top university with a major in game design, they would usually be able to follow a more advanced game designer as an apprentice as soon as they graduated, or enter argepany to be in charge of a smaller project independently. It would be much faster to start. ¡­¡­ When Chen Mo arrived at First World University, there was a teacher from a school that specialized in game design who was in charge of weing him. ¡°Hello, is this Mr. Chen Zhao? I¡¯m the counselor of the School of Game Design, my name is Liu Hai. ¡± He was a tall and thin young man, probably a student who had stayed in the school after graduation. She didn¡¯t look too different from Chen Zhao¡¯s age. She might be a year or two older. Chen Zhao shook his hand.¡±Hello, Liu Hai. I¡¯m hair curtain.¡± Liu Hai was drunk at that moment. F * ck, this is a joke! This friendly joke didn¡¯t affect Liu Hai¡¯s attitude towards Chen Mo, he was still very respectful, because the gamemittee leader had told the School of Game Design that it was a big Shot who was here to save the fire. In the beginning, everyone was very puzzled. What kind of Big Shot was he? When they heard that Chen Mo wasing, all the leaders, lecturers, and professors were shocked. Who in the domestic video game design industry didn¡¯t know of Chen Mo? Chen Mo had just won game of the year, and had been a hot topic in the past few years, so he was quite well-known in the domestic video game industry. The teachers from the school also liked to study Chen Mo¡¯s games when they had nothing to do. After hearing that Chen Mo wasing, many teachers wanted to use this opportunity to exchange ideas with him and learn thetest design concepts. After all, Chen Mo was one of the top designers in the country and had many representative works, especially in thepetitive gaming industry. He was also well-known overseas. The fact that such a person coulde was something very important for the First World University. With Liu Hai leading the way, Chen Mo arrived at the School of Game Design and met the Dean. The Dean of the School of Game Design was a middle-aged man in his forties called Fang Yubin. He was slightly chubby, but his face was kind and didn¡¯t put on any airs. ¡°Wee, Mr. Chen Mo,¡± Fang Yubin said with a smile. It must have been hard on you toe all the way from the capital to Qi Lu. It¡¯s our Academy¡¯s honor that you¡¯re here to give a lecture. ¡± ¡°Not at all,¡± Chen Mo quickly replied.¡±I¡¯m a self-taught amateur. I still need to consult you academics on some professional questions.¡± After a round of mutual praise, everyone had a pleasant conversation. After Fang Yubin gave Chen Mo a brief introduction of the ss, he asked Liu Hai to show Chen Mo around the ssroom and the school. Liu Hai brought Chen Mo to the lecture hall of the mixed-use building. ¡°This is the ce where you will be teaching. ¡°From now on, you¡¯ll have sses here at 10 am on every other Thursday.¡± Liu Hai had already contacted the teacher in charge of the equipment and turned on the projector and other equipment in advance. ¡°If you think it¡¯s necessary to use a PowerPoint, you can use the projector. The content of the lesson is up to you, as long as you can teach the corresponding lesson time. You can also arrange for the students to watch videos, debate freely, and so on during the ss. You have absolute freedom in this area. ¡± ¡°However, the school leaders and some lecturers and professors mighte to listen in on your elective ss. You don¡¯t have to be too surprised about this. After all, you¡¯re an S-grade videogame designer and you¡¯ve been on the frontlines of research and development. These teachers have long heard of your name and would like to learn some new game design knowledge from you. ¡± ¡°Sure, no problem,¡± Chen Mo smiled.¡±I wee everyone to my ss.¡± Chapter 490 - The most popular elective lecturer!

Chapter 490: The most popr elective lecturer!

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The news of Chen Zhao¡¯s arrival had already spread among the students. This was big news. Even though the school had intentionally kept it a secret, there were too many people who knew about it. Some of the student cadres had only heard a few words from the teachers, and very quickly, the news had spread throughout the entire school. ¡°I heard that Chen Mo will be teaching the electives in the new semester? Is that true?¡± ¡°Chen Mo is actually going to be one of the best in the afterlife? Oh my God, since when did our school have so much face! Isn¡¯t he one of the few S-grade video game designers in the country?¡± ¡°Yeah, he¡¯s the designer of League of Legends and the Overwatch!¡± ¡°I wonder how much it cost to invite him to the Academy this time. But someone like Chen Mo doesn¡¯tck money, right? even if you have money, you might not be able to hire him. ¡± ¡°I heard that the game Committee arranged this personally. Did they think that our school¡¯s video game design department is too weak, so they asked Chen Mo toe and give us some advice?¡± ¡°You don¡¯t say, that¡¯s a possibility!¡± ¡°Then wouldn¡¯t we be basking in too much light?¡± ¡°Oh my, I¡¯m so excited. I heard that Chen Mo is very young and handsome. I wonder what he looks like in real life.¡± ¡°And he¡¯s very rich!¡± Someone added. ¡°Yeah, the key is that he¡¯s rich ...¡± ¡°He¡¯s simply a life idol. If only I could be like him after I graduate!¡± The students were all talking about it. Many of them were surprised to find out that this was the first time they were looking forward to ss ... ¡­¡­ At 10 am on Thursday morning, the lecture hall of theprehensive building was full of people. There were even many people loitering in the corridor and outside the door. The seats had long been taken up, and these people could only stand in the back row and listen. Many of the students who had chosen this course were dumbfounded. What was going on? How could there be so many people choosing this course? ¡°Last semester, there were only a few dozen people in this elective ss. Therge lecture theater wasn¡¯t even full! Why were there still so many people standing and listening this time? Where did these studentse from?¡± ¡°Oh my God, I have toe earlier next time. I almost couldn¡¯t even get a seat this time. I could only get thest row.¡± ¡°There are so many unfamiliar faces. I feel like they¡¯re from other colleges. There are also many people who aren¡¯t from the gaming major who came to listen.¡± ¡°Maybe everyone wants to see what the designers of League of Legends and Overwatch look like ...¡± ¡°Look, there are many teachers listening in from behind. These teachers are quite smart. They came over half an hour earlier to reserve seats ...¡± It was the most fatal for the government to upy a seat ... Many of the teachers were also speechless. The attendance rate for this elective ss was much higher than that of the professional sses! Not only were the students of their own Academy here, but many students from other Academies were also here. Liu Hai was also present. Seeing this situation, he also felt a little annoyed. In fact, this kind of elective course didn¡¯t restrict students from other specializations from listening in, because the general elective sses were not full at all. However, this ss was different. There were too many people and there were no seats left. Many students from the School of Game Design who had chosen this elective course had no ce to sit. Liu Hai came to the podium and said to the students below the stage,¡±¡±Everyone, please pay attention. This is an elective course for the game design major. Students who have not signed up for this course, please try not to take up any seats. There will be a video of his ss and it will be posted on our school¡¯s internal website. You can watch it after the ss. ¡± The quality of the students was still rtively high. Some of the students who didn¡¯t choose this course stood up to give up their seats and then left by themselves, or stood in the back row. But even so, the entire ss was still unusually lively. Liu Hai was also very helpless. He couldn¡¯t chase her away. Clearly, Chen Zhao¡¯s appeal among the young people was extraordinary. It was mainly because Chen Zhao was young and had a lot of personal charm. Although there were other S-grade video game designers in the country, they were all focused on research and development and rarely showed their faces in front of the yers. It didn¡¯t mean that they were worse than Chen Mo, but with less exposure, their poprity would naturally drop. Just like some experts and schrs, they had real talent, but they didn¡¯t have many opportunities to disy it in front of the public, so their poprity was naturally low. But Chen Mo was different. Not only was he a very young S-grade videogame designer, he was also very well known in the country. Events like the League of Legends World Finals and his victory over the AI had all increased Chen Mo¡¯s poprity. To these students, Chen Mo was only a few years older than them, so they were basically the same age. They had moremon topics to talk about. As soon as the bell rang, everyone turned to look at the door. Chen Zhao walked in and stopped.¡±¡±Oh, why are there so many people?¡± The entire lecture hall was filled to the brim, and many people were standing at the back of the ssroom. Even the people outside the door were looking in. Am I that popr? Chen Zhao was also puzzled. ¡­¡­ There weren¡¯t many red tape in the University. There was no need to stand up or greet the teacher. The professor would start the lecture when he arrived and leave the ss after the lecture. Whether there were questions or answers to questions in the ss depended entirely on the professor¡¯s mood. Some professors simply talked from the beginning to the end, notmunicating with the students at all. They didn¡¯t even ask if the students were sleeping or skipping ss. Of course, there were also lecturers who were keen on calling out names or calling students to answer questions. It could only be said that this was a matter of personal habit. The Dean of the School of Game Design and a few other professors were sitting in the back of the ssroom. They had already told Chen Zhao that they would only listen and wouldn¡¯t ask about the ss. A few lecturers were discussing it in private. ¡°Chen Mo hasn¡¯t given a lecture before, can he do well? Some video game designers know everything when they¡¯re making a game, but it¡¯s different from giving a lecture. ¡± ¡°It shouldn¡¯t be a big problem. This is an elective ss, so it¡¯ll be fine as long as he can talk a little about something important to arouse the students ¡®interest. He was originally here to put out the fire anyway.¡± ¡°I heard that he¡¯s very eloquent. It shouldn¡¯t be a problem for him to give lectures. I¡¯m just afraid that he won¡¯t have any teaching materials. Will he go off track?¡± Of course, these were all private discussions. Now that they were in ss and in front of the Dean, they did not dare to say too much. Most of the lecturers didn¡¯t doubt Chen Mo¡¯s professionalism. After all, he was a self-made S-grade video game designer with sessful works on mobile, PC, and VR. As long as Chen Mo had something useful, he would be able to teach the ss well. Chen Zhao walked up to the podium. He didn¡¯t have a notebook or a textbook. He had nothing. However, he was very rxed and did not have any nervousness or stage fright. Chapter 491 - The first lesson

Chapter 491: The first lesson

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¡°Quite a few people came, I¡¯m very pleased.¡± Chen Zhao looked at the audience with satisfaction and said,¡±¡±First, let me introduce myself. I¡¯m Chen Mo, the designer of League of Legends and the Overwatch. Most of the students here should know me, so I won¡¯t say much. If I say too much, it will seem like I¡¯m showing off. ¡± The audience burst intoughter. Chen Mo¡¯s self-praise was unique. He was still the same as he was during the livestream, always saying flirtatious jokes. When theughter died down, Chen Zhao continued,¡±¡±First of all, I would like to thank the game Committee and the leaders of the world¡¯s top video game design major for letting me give this ss. I¡¯m also very honored. ¡± ¡°Today is the first ss. Let¡¯s first briefly talk about the ss itself. This ss is called future prospects of games. It is to summarize the past development experience of the game industry and look at the future development prospects of the game industry. ¡± ¡°As for some of my past experiences, I won¡¯t repeat them since you¡¯ve already learned themst semester. It¡¯s the era of mobile games, PC games, and VR games, but in the future ... It might be the world of virtual games, or it might not be. This is the focus of our future sses. ¡± ¡°Of course, ording to current understanding, the future will definitely be dominated by virtual games because virtual games can crush mobile and PC in all aspects of experience. Many people believe that with the continuous development and advancement of technology and the poprization of VR gaming pods, VR games will definitely rece mobile and PC as the most important and high-end entertainment in the future. It will also be the mainstream gaming genre. ¡°I would like to hear everyone¡¯s thoughts on this point. Is there any student who wants to take the initiative to speak?¡± The response from the students below the stage was very enthusiastic, and they all raised their hands. Chen Zhao pointed at a girl with sses in the front row.¡±¡±You can exin.¡± The girl with sses stood up and greeted,¡±Mr. Chen Mo, Hello!¡± I think this is an obvious fact. VR games are better than mobile and PC games in all aspects. Although VR games aren¡¯t very popr in China, it¡¯s mainly due to the cost of VR games. ¡± ¡°At the moment, a VR gaming pod costs at least tens of thousands, at most hundreds of thousands. It¡¯s too expensive for the current ie level of the ordinary people in the country. But what if in the future, we could let people enter the virtual world through a VR helmet or just a pair of VR sses? Or if the price of VR gaming pods dropped drastically to the same price as PC games, then VR games would definitely crush the living space of PC games. That¡¯s why I think the future will be dominated by VR games. ¡± Chen Mo nodded and pointed to a chubby boy in the middle row. The boy stood up.¡±I think VR gaming pods will definitely be mainstream in the future. But PC and mobile should still have room for survival.¡± Unless there were virtual sses or virtual helmets that could integrate the functions of mobile phones and PC. Before that, it¡¯s impossible for VR games topletely dominate the entire market. ¡± ¡°But based on the current situation, with our current level of technology, it¡¯s still too early for that day toe. So, the coexistence of mobile phones, PC, and VR will continue for a long time. Chen Mo called out a few more students. Everyone had their own opinions, but the general idea was simr. Everyone felt that it was only a matter of time before virtual reality games became mainstream. Before virtual reality gamespletely dominated the market, other gaming tforms, including mobile and PC, would not suffer a fatal blow, but they would not live well either. Chen Mo nodded. This point of view basically represented the current mainstream view. ¡°That¡¯s what I¡¯m going to talk about today,¡± Chen Zhao said.¡±I have a different opinion on this.¡± ¡°Will the game really bepletely limited by the tform? I don¡¯t think that¡¯s the case. A truly good game will be a good game no matter which tform it is put on. It might even be able to save an entire tform because of a game. ¡± The students blinked their eyes. This was an unconventional way of saying it. ¡°Mr. Chen Mo, are you talking about League of Legends?¡± a student asked. Many people¡¯s first reaction was to think that it was League of Legends, because PC games werepletely dominated by VR games before that. However, the poprity of League of Legends was beyond anyone¡¯s expectations, and it was even more popr than many VR games on the market. Moreover, League of Legends couldn¡¯t be changed into a VR game, which made many people realize that VR wasn¡¯t omnipotent. Chen Mo nodded,¡±League of Legends is just one of the many examples.¡± Actually, there are still a lot of openings in the Chinese game market, and VR games can¡¯t cover all of them. ¡± ¡°Miss Chen Mo,¡± a student asked,¡±what do you mean by ¡¯empty¡¯?¡± Chen Mo replied,¡±the game is a form of expression, while the device is a medium.¡± The VR gaming pod was just one of the carriers. It had its advantages, but it also had its disadvantages. It could not meet all the needs of everyone. To give a simple example, handheld devices still had room for survival even now. It¡¯s just that no one¡¯s doing it. ¡± Everyone was stunned. A handphone? Parallel world had its own handheld devices as well. The so-called handheld device was actually a handheld game machine. Its main feature was that it could be held in one¡¯s hand to y. However, the handheld devices in this world had not been fully developed at all. They disappeared very quickly because technology developed very quickly. With the improvement of technology, smartphones continued to be more and more popr. Handheld devices had beenpletely reced by mobile games. Indeed, there was a high degree of ovep between the functions of a handheld phone and a mobile phone. In the eyes of the designers of this world, most of the functions of a handheld phone could be achieved on a mobile phone. In that case, why would they spend money on a handheld phone? As such, everyone was surprised by Chen Mo¡¯s words, as handheld consoles were a long-lost game medium, a fact that was widely acknowledged in the gaming industry. The few lecturers and professors in the back row were frowning. What was going on? How could Chen Mo make such amon mistake? One of the braver students raised his hand and said,¡±¡±Mr. Chen Mo, are you sure that handheld devices still exist in this era? The functions of a handheld phone and a mobile phone were highly repetitive. What a handheld phone could do, a mobile phone could do as well. But why would he buy a handheld phone? It doesn¡¯t make sense. ¡± Chen Mo smiled,¡±because the handheld device I¡¯m talking about isn¡¯t what you¡¯re thinking. You¡¯ve all imagined a handphone to be a mobile phone that can¡¯t make phone calls and can¡¯t install other software, right?¡± The students looked at each other. What was the difference? The handphone couldn¡¯t be installed with other software or make phone calls, right? What¡¯s the difference between a phone and other things? ¡°Think about it,¡± Chen Mo said,¡±if there¡¯s a handphone, we can y an open world game on it. There were real joysticks and real buttons on it, and it felt better than the virtual joysticks of mobile phones. It was very convenient and could be yed anytime, anywhere. How many people do you think will buy it?¡± Chapter 492 - Chen Mo wants to be a mobile phone?

Chapter 492: Chen Mo wants to be a mobile phone?

Trantor: 549690339

The student who asked the question said thoughtfully,¡±¡±I think I get it now, Mr. Chen Mo. You mean the handheld device¡¯s performance will be better than the phone, and you can even y some veryrge open world games. But is that even possible?¡± Chen Mo smiled.¡±There¡¯s no problem with the current technology. The reason no one¡¯s doing it is because everyone¡¯s mistaken.¡± Chen Mo continued, but the lecturers and professors in the back row were also suspicious. Even though Chen Mo had his reasons, it waspletely againstmon sense in the video game industry. The lecturers didn¡¯t dare to interrupt Chen Mo or question him, since Chen Mo¡¯s question had always been a question of differing opinions. Chen Mo said that there was still room for cell phones to survive in this world. To prove this, they had to create a cell phone that was popr all over the world, or at least in China. However, there was none at the moment. Of course, Chen Mo could say that it was because the handheld device manufacturers in this world were too trashy, and couldn¡¯t make the handheld device he wanted. Chen Mo didn¡¯t dwell on this point and continued to exin ording to his n. However, this question was deeply rooted in many people¡¯s hearts. ¡­¡­ Chen Mo¡¯s first ss went smoothly. He was good at talking, and his knowledge of games was much higher than the average schr, so many students felt that he had benefited a lot. However, as the rted video was posted on the official website of World University, there were also voices of doubt. Most of the questions were focused on one point. Chen Mo said that there was still room for mobile phones to survive in this era. Was that nonsense? ¡°Isn¡¯t a handheld device an old antique that has been eliminated long ago? Now that smartphones were so advanced, what game couldn¡¯t they make? Why would there be people who specifically buy handheld phones?¡± ¡°Yeah, I think Chen Mo¡¯s taking things for granted too. Maybe it¡¯s because he¡¯s interested in handheld games, so he thinks that others like them too?¡± ¡°This is a University ss. Aren¡¯t you misleading the students? Even though some unverified theories can be put forward, it¡¯s obviously irresponsible to say something that¡¯s obviously a facy. ¡± ¡°I also think that Chen Mo didn¡¯t know what to do during his first lecture. He¡¯s just talking nonsense when he¡¯s high.¡± Many people were using this as an excuse to force Chen Zhao to apologize and admit that he had made a mistake. Chen Mo was quite popr in the game industry, but his rtionship with distributors was like fire and water. One could only imagine how many people would jump out to help him in this situation. These people had their own motives. If Chen Mo came out to apologize and said he was wrong, it would clearly reflect hisck of professionalism. It would also be a blow to his reputation. In the designers ¡®chat group, this matter had caused a lot of discussion. ¡°What¡¯s the situation? Is Big Boss Chen Zhao here?¡± ¡°What¡¯s wrong?¡± ¡°I think boss Chen Mo mentioned amon mistake in his lecture at world¡¯s No. 1 University. In the end, a bunch of haters got hold of it and used it as a pretext to make a big fuss. Now, there¡¯s a lot of noise on the inte. ¡± ¡°How could this be? How could Chen Mo make amon-sense mistake?¡± ¡°What kind ofmon sense mistake is it?¡± ¡°I think boss Chen Mo said that there¡¯s still room for mobile phones to survive in this era.¡± ...¡±It doesn¡¯t seem appropriate, but it¡¯s not a big deal. Why are so many people holding onto it? Maybe it¡¯s just a slip of the tongue. ¡± ¡°Someone is definitely trying to stir up trouble!¡± As everyone was chatting, Chen Mo replied,¡±¡±Why do you all think that¡¯s wrong?¡± Everyone was a little dumbfounded. Although everyone was surprised to see Chen Mo, Chen Mo seemed to think he was right. Zhang xiaokong typed,[the current mainstream understanding in the industry is that mobile phones are already outdated!] ¡°What?¡± Chen Mo asked,¡±does mainstream knowledge have to be right?¡± Everyone was dumbfounded. Why was Chen Mo so confident? I¡¯m not the one at fault, but the world? Zhang xiaokong said,¡±Chen Mo, you can¡¯t say that.¡± It¡¯s mainly because you can¡¯t prove what you said. Aren¡¯t you just getting yourself into trouble?¡± Chen Mo typed, I can prove it! ¡°Ah?¡± Zhang xiaokong was stunned.¡±You can prove it?¡± How are you going to prove it? Can you make a best-selling mobile phone?¡± ¡°Yeah,¡± Chen Mo said.¡±I¡¯m nning to make a popr phone.¡± Everyone was speechless. The group instantly fell silent, and everyone didn¡¯t know what to say. It was no wonder, Chen Mo¡¯s statement was a bit too shocking! You¡¯re a video game designer, why are you making your own handheld device? Can you make something that so many hardware designers can ¡®t? Moreover, not many people made things like mobile phones! However, since everyone in the group was Chen Mo¡¯s friend, they didn¡¯t ask any further after knowing that Chen Mo was confident. As for whether or not it would work, he would only know after Chen Mo¡¯s handheld device was made ... ¡­¡­ Even after Chen Mo returned to the imperial capital, there were still many people discussing this topic online. It was obvious that it wouldn¡¯t stop for a while. A portion of them were fake reviewers who were adding fuel to the fire, while a portion of them really didn¡¯t think that Chen Mo would win. Chen Zhaoughed. Since you guys are helping me gain poprity, I¡¯ll take advantage of it. Chen Mo posted on Weibo,¡¯it seems like a lot of people think I can¡¯t make a good handheld device? Don¡¯t worry, you¡¯ll agree with me after I¡¯ve done it. ¡± Wasn¡¯t it just to make a mobile phone? I can. The technology in this parallel world was much more advanced than in Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, so it wasn¡¯t difficult to make a handheld device. However, because of the concept, many people felt that if there was a mobile phone, there would be no need for a handheld device, so no one really studied this thing. Chen Mo didn¡¯t actually need to design a handheld device himself, he only needed to exin the concept and find a Reliable Manufacturer to do the work. Just like in Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, many cell phone manufacturers were also OEM. Just like Xiao Mi, she could make mobile phones,puters, electric lights, and power strips. Making so many things was actually just to be responsible for the design, then find a manufacturer to produce and sell it online. At the same time, Chen Mo didn¡¯t need to make his own handheld device, he just needed to leave the design to the professionals. But even so, it was already very shocking! A lot of people were shocked, Chen Mo¡¯s short temper ... Was really something! ¡°F * ck, in order to prove his point, he really has to make a mobile phone? Chen Mo is f * cking awesome ...¡± ¡°I respect you for being a man. When the grass on your grave grows up, I¡¯ll go back and burn some incense for you ...¡± ¡°Chen Zhao ... He¡¯s not going to admit his mistake? Is it expanding?¡± ¡°I think Chen Mo¡¯s so confident that he¡¯ll definitely be able to make a handheld device!¡± ¡°The key isn¡¯t to make it, but to have someone buy it!¡± ¡°Awesome. It doesn¡¯t matter if Chen Mo seeds or not. This ¡®I¡¯ll do it¡¯ is something we should learn from!¡± Some people were surprised, some were disappointed, but in general, after Chen Mo said he wanted to make a mobile phone, no one chased after him anymore, because there was no point in a war of words. As for who was right and who was wrong, they would only know after the handheld device came out! ¡­¡­ By the time Chen Mo returned to the experience store, the news had already spread. Qian Kun was shocked,¡±manager, it¡¯s only been two days since west met. Why did you make such big news again?¡± You really want to be a handheld device?¡± ¡°What is it?¡± Chen Mo nodded. ¡°What about us?¡± Qian Kun asked. ¡°Should we go and be mobile phones too?¡± Chen Zhao smiled, no need. When this is released, it will be paired with a new set of games. You guys are mainly busy with the new game. You don¡¯t have to worry about the handheld device, I¡¯ll go and contact them. ¡± Chapter 493 - Working with mobile phone developers

Chapter 493: Working with mobile phone developers

Trantor: 549690339

Could a cell phone rece a handphone? In the eyes of the yers in parallel world, the answer was obvious: Of course he could. This was because the functions of mobile phones and handheld phones were highly repetitive. They were both portable devices that could y games. Moreover, the configuration of mobile phones these days was very high, and they could yrge-scale games that were tens of gigabytes. Not to mention that mobile phones had an advantage that palm phones couldn¡¯tpare to. On one hand, everyone had a smartphone, which meant that everyone was a potential user of mobile games. On the other hand, mobile phones had inte ess and had more users. For video gamepanies, it would be easier to make online games with more users. In that case, why would most people spend two to three thousand Yuan on a separate handheld phone to y games? That didn¡¯t make sense! Therefore, the people of this world did not realize the possibilities of a handheld device. However, Chen Zhao did not think so. Mobile phones could never rece handheld phones. This was not a problem that could be solved by technological development. This was an inevitable result of the different positioning of the two products. In Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, whether it was a console or a handheld device, the buttons were fixed. There had to be two solid joysticks on the left and right, and more than ten solid buttons. Obviously, these solid joysticks and buttons couldn¡¯t be ced on the phone, because their positioning waspletely different from the phone itself. Making calls, sending messages, and using various applications were the main functions of a mobile phone. ying games was just one of its secondary functions. Therefore, no cell phone manufacturer would add a physical joystick and buttons on the phone, which were useless except for ying games. Ultimately, the cell phone was not a professional game console, so games were just a subsidiary function. It was impossible for cell phones to fully serve games, so it was impossible for them to experience some core games to the extreme. In addition, whether it was a console or a handheld device, its true vitalityy in the core games on it, and some games could not be transnted to a mobile phone no matter what. In other words, the difference between mobile phones and handheld phones was not determined by the level of technological development, but by the different positions of these two products. Their main functions were different, so they could never be the same. Of course, there was also the possibility that with the development of technology in the future, people could enter the virtual game world with a virtual helmet or a pair of virtual sses. If it really improved to this extent, then not only handheld phones, but also gaming devices such as mobile phones and PC would be eliminated. And even if a new device reced the handheld device, it didn¡¯t mean that the handheld device had disappeared. It could only be said that the new device had be the new handheld device. Therefore, from the current situation, handheld phones and mobile phones, as two devices with different main functions, could co-exist. If the yers wanted to experience some professional hardcore games, they still had to use the handheld console. The handheld device that Chen Mo wanted to design was obviously to fill in the void of parallel world. Of course, since there were no handheld devices made in China in parallel world, Chen Mo had to start from scratch. However, starting from scratch didn¡¯t mean that he had to start from scratch. In the era of globalization, the production of a mobile phone often required cooperation in many aspects. Its parts mighte from different manufacturers around the world, and the real R & D only needed to provide the design n. Even some of the R & D Business Alliance¡¯s design ns could be bought, and they could also make cell phones, as long as they could sell the cell phones. Handheld phones and mobile phones had some technical simrities, so Chen Mo considered contacting some of the more reliable mobile phone developers in China. ¡­¡­ Two dayster, Lin Xiao handed a report to Chen Mo. ¡°Manager, these are the survey materials of some cell phone manufacturers. I¡¯ve contacted some industry insiders and talked to the higher-ups of thesepanies. The general situation is written in the report material. Please take a look.¡± Chen Mo nodded,¡±Okay, thanks for your hard work.¡± He took a closer look at the review materials of these mobile phone manufacturers. Basically, it was simr to his previous life. There were many brands in the cell phone industry in this world. The domestic cell phone industry was developing well, even better than Chen Mo¡¯s previous life. In fact, in some aspects of technology, it hadpletely surpassed his previous life. After all, there was a lot of ck technology in this world, so it was normal for it to surpass the previous world. After careful selection, Chen Mo chose a cell phone developer called le Hui. This mobile phone R & D Company called le Hui was also a new R & D Company that had only emerged in recent years. Compared to other veteran R & Dpanies, their main selling point was: It was cost-effective and linked with the popr mobile games on the market. They had carefully designed all sorts of cell phone models, all of which were made to target the popr mobile games on the market. For example, a thousand Yuan console could bring in a certain popr game on the market. High-end consoles that cost 2000,3000, and even 5000 Yuan all had their own popr mobile games. In other words, if you wanted to y a popr game, choosing a phone that was rtively cheap in Lehui would be the best choice. It was cheap and easy to use. This marketing strategy helped le Hui quickly upy the market for young people. At the same time, le Hui cell phones also had a good reputation among gaming enthusiasts. In fact, one could tell from the name ¡°le Hui¡± that ¡°le¡± meant to bring joy to everyone, and ¡°Hui¡± meant that it was more affordable. At the same time, it highlighted the characteristics of the phone in terms of ying games and price-performance ratio. Chen Mo chose thispany because they had a better sense of the game industry and would be able tomunicate more easily. On the other hand, he felt that they were able to strictly control the cost, which would be helpful in the development of the mobile phone. Soon, Chen Mo contacted the person in charge of Lehui and made an appointment to meet the CEO at Lehui¡¯s headquarters in three days. ¡­¡­ The founder and CEO of Lehui was called Zhou Jiangping. In the domestic it industry, Zhou Jiangping was also a very famous figure. He had a technical background, unlike those founders who liked to Bluff people into investing. Many people thought that Zhou Jiangping was one of the more down-to-earth and serious entrepreneurs in China. Of course, to le Hui and Zhou Jiangping, they were also very surprised that Chen Mo could contact them. Chen Mo¡¯s Thunderbolt entertainment was already considered one of the Giants in the Chinese gaming industry, as it was an influential game developer and distributor. Moreover, the Lehui cell phone was meant for young people and was closely rted to the mobile game market. As the Best Mobile Game designer in the country, Chen Mo was definitely worthy of le Hui¡¯s attention. Chapter 494 - -switch

Chapter 494: Chapter 493-switch

Trantor: 549690339

Three dayster, in Lehuipany¡¯s headquarters in Haidian, Imperial. To Chen Zhao, it was a short journey, so he arrived at the agreed time. Someone led Chen Mo to the president¡¯s office. Zhou Jiangping was busy. When he saw Chen Mo, he immediately put down his work and stood up.¡±Hello, President Chen.¡± Chen Mo shook his hand.¡±Hello, director Zhou. I¡¯ve heard a lot about you.¡± The two chatted for a while, and Zhou Jiangping¡¯s Secretary poured Chen Zhao some tea before leaving. Chen Mo sipped his tea and said,¡±director Zhou, we¡¯re both pragmatic people. We¡¯re both busy, so let¡¯s keep it short.¡± The main reason I¡¯m here is to cooperate with you to develop a handheld game console. ¡± ¡°A handheld game console?¡± Zhou Jiangping was stunned. Chen Mo nodded. Zhou Jiangping was a little surprised. Obviously, as a mobile phone R & D Company, he was very familiar with the current state of the mobile phone industry. He was also very clear about the technological level of mobile phones. Handheld game consoles were apetitor for cell phones, but they were already out of use. Why did Chen Mo want to make handheld games? Obviously, Zhou Jiangping wasn¡¯t in the gaming industry, and he was usually busy, so he didn¡¯t know about the controversy caused by Chen Mo¡¯s point in ss. Zhou Jiangping instinctively wanted to tell Chen Mo about the current state of the handheld devices, but on second thought, it was allmon sense. As an S-grade video game designer, how could Chen Mo not know about these things? Clearly, Chen Mo had his own reasons for wanting to make a handheld device. ¡°Mr. Chen, why don¡¯t you tell us your requirements for this handheld device?¡± Zhou Jiangping asked after some thought. Chen Mo came prepared and took out a USB from his pocket.¡±¡±This contains some of the design concepts of this handheld phone. You can take a look.¡± Zhou Jiangping inserted the USB into hisputer and opened the design document inside. ¡°Switch?¡± he was stunned.¡±This handheld device is called ... Switch?¡± Chen Mo nodded. Switch had many meanings in English, but the main meaning was switch and conversion. This name was actually very appropriate, and it was very beneficial in pushing this product to the International market. The biggest feature of the switch was that it was both portable and home. It could freely switch between a mobile phone and a home phone. Zhou Jiangping looked at the design document Chen Mo gave him seriously. Chen Mo hadn¡¯t written down all the features of switch clearly. Some of the concepts were even written vaguely on purpose. This was because he hadn¡¯t reached a specific agreement with Zhou Jiangping yet, and he didn¡¯t trust le Hui that much. However, in order to give Zhou Jiangping a more basic understanding, some key features were written out, such as the Switch¡¯s approximate size, configuration requirements, price, key settings, and so on. Moreover, Chen Mo even drew out the finished product of the switch, showing the positions of the buttons and the rted parts. Zhou Jiangping frowned. Chen Mo¡¯s design document didn¡¯tpletely convince Zhou Jiangping. It was clearly written in the design document that the highlight of the machine was that it could y games on both the mobile phone and the TV. However, what was the use of being able to freely switch between mobile phone and TV mode at the same time? There was a mobile phone for all the portable devices, and there was a PC and a VR gaming pod at home. All of these seemed to be in conflict with the positioning of this mobile phone. However, some of the specific button designs were more novel to Zhou Jiangping, including the design of the left and right joysticks, and more than ten physical buttons. The distribution was very reasonable and in line with ergonomic design. It was obvious that Chen Mo had put a lot of thought into this design. One thing Zhou Jiangping was sure of was that this mobile phone would improve the game¡¯s operational ability much more than a mobile phone. It might even be on apletely different dimension. ¡°With the current level of our country¡¯s technology, there shouldn¡¯t be any problems making this phone, right?¡± Chen Mo asked. Zhou Jiangping nodded,¡±yes, from a technical point of view, there shouldn¡¯t be any difficulty.¡± First, I¡¯ll introduce you to the basic process of domestic cell phone OEM. ¡± ¡°First, we¡¯ll talk about the basic design concept of cell phones. This is usually given by us, and some professionals will design it. Of course, if it¡¯s a peripheral product, we¡¯ll also find a professional designer to design it. ¡± ¡°The so-called proposalpany is actually a cell phone proposalpany. They are very familiar with the various essories and designs of cell phones and can quickly find solutions to some problems.¡± ¡°After we¡¯ve designed and developed this cell phone, we¡¯ll hand the relevant ns to the OEM for mass production. This is also one of the current mainstream models. For example, some manufacturers in Europe and the United States often entrust the production to China, Southeast Asia, South America, and other regions with lowerbor costs for production. ¡± ¡°In this aspect, the cell phone industry has already formed a ratherplete set of rules and processes. It can be said that arge number of people in the country are doing concept and marketing for cell phones. ¡°As long as you can get people to buy it, as long as you can find a marketing channel, then even people who don¡¯t know the technology at all can make cell phones.¡± ¡°The mobile phone you¡¯re making now should be following this process. In my opinion, the biggest difficulty lies in two aspects. ¡± ¡°The first question is how much this model of the mobile phone can be sold for, and how much money you are willing to invest in it. If it¡¯s to get investments, it might be very difficult because this idea might not be epted by the investors. ¡± ¡°The second is some of theponents of this phone, which are currently not avable on the market. It wasn¡¯t like a mobile phone, which could be pieced together easily. These parts that aren¡¯t avable on the market all need to be made separately, and it¡¯ll be difficult to control the quality in this area. ¡± ¡°Of course. In the end, it¡¯s all about money. As long as the money is in ce, everything can be discussed.¡± Chen Moughed,¡± There¡¯s no upper limit to the amount of money, you can think too much. I don¡¯t n to get any investments. I¡¯ll pay for it myself. ¡± Zhou Jiangping looked at Chen Mo¡¯s rxed expression and was secretly surprised. She had heard that Chen Zhao never hesitated when it came to spending money. It seemed to be true. For some other listedpanies, even the president couldn¡¯t spend it however he wanted. They often had financial pressure and had to look at the Board of Directors ¡®faces. However, Chen Zhao was different. All his money was his. He could spend it however he wanted. No one would have any objections. ¡°Mr. Chen, can you tell us the price of this phone?¡± Zhou Jiangping asked. ¡°Within 2500,¡± Chen Mo said.¡±I¡¯d like to set the price at 1999,2333, or 2499. As for the specific price, it still depends on how much the cost can be controlled, but I definitely hope the price is as low as possible. ¡± ¡°The price isn¡¯t high, mainly because handheld phones aren¡¯t like cell phones. You don¡¯t need to consider calls and other functions. It¡¯s entirely for the game, so the hardware utilization will be very high. Director Zhou should be able to understand this very well, right?¡± Chapter 495 - An epoch-making mobile phone

Chapter 495: An epoch-making mobile phone

Trantor: 549690339

Zhou Jiangping nodded.¡±Of course I understand. In fact, I¡¯m very clear about the technical difficulty of the switch.¡± What I¡¯m worried about is whether the future of this product is too narrow. ¡± ¡°Don¡¯t worry,¡± Chen Zhao smiled.¡±You don¡¯t have to worry about that.¡± The two of them had a more in-depth chat and simply settled some issues. Chen Mo was the investor and party a, so all the R & D, marketing, and other expenses would be paid for by him. As for whether the product was up to standard, Chen Mo would be the final judge. As for le Hui, they contacted the relevant manufacturers and provided suggestions during the production process to help Chen Mo make the phone more smoothly. In terms of profits, Chen Mo would pay 10% of the profits from the phone, which meant that he would be sharing the profits with le Hui. There was still the possibility of a long-term partnership. Although Chen Mo could find a solutionpany or an OEM himself, or even confirm the specific parts himself, it would be too troublesome. Chen Mo still had to make a game that would be released at the same time as Switch, so he didn¡¯t have that much time and wasn¡¯t professional enough. Leaving this work to le Hui would save Chen Mo a lot of effort. In terms of ie, Zhou Jiangping¡¯s original idea was for Chen Mo to directly provide the corresponding funds. Thunderbolt entertainment would be responsible for all the investment in the R & D process, while Lehui would just be running errands. Zhou Jiangping wasn¡¯t too interested in the 10% sales of this model of mobile phone, because he wasn¡¯t particrly optimistic about the future of this mobile phone. The hardware and software were different. If it was a game, with Chen Mo¡¯s reputation as a guarantee, it wouldn¡¯t be too bad and wouldn¡¯t make a loss. However, in terms of hardware, any small w could cause the entire product to crash. Zhou Jiangping felt that it would be good enough if Chen Mo didn¡¯t lose money on the first product since he crossed over to make the Switch. He wouldn¡¯t be able to make much profit, so how much could 10% of the revenue be? If this 10% wasn¡¯t much, he might as well just let it go. At least he would owe Chen Zhao a favor, which would make it easier for them to work together in the future. After all, as apany that specialized in developing game phones, le Hui might have the opportunity to work with Chen Mo in the future. ¡°Director Zhou,¡± Chen Moughed.¡±You¡¯d better ept this 10%. Otherwise, you¡¯ll regret it in the future.¡± After finalizing the proposal with Zhou Jiangping, the legal team would draft the contract. Chen Mo and Zhou Jiangping didn¡¯t need to worry about this, as the professionals would do it. ¡­¡­ After that, Chen Mo returned to the experience store and started writing the first draft of the Switch. There were many reasons why Chen Mo chose to make the Switch. All in all, it was because of the game market structure in the parallel world. In the parallel world, mobile games, PC, and VR were all highly developed, and they all had a few mature products. Under such circumstances, traditional handheld devices were indeed severely suppressed. As such, Chen Mo¡¯s handheld device had to be different from the game in terms of operational ability and content. It had to be better than the phone in all aspects, and the better. In other words, the yers had to be able to feel that the controls of this handheld device were very special and irreceable. Moreover, the games on it were very good. From Chen Mo¡¯s point of view, Switch had a few advantages. First, the Switch was abination of a handheld and home console. That is to say, all the games on the Switch could be yed on the home TV. Switch¡¯s advertising slogan was: ¡°No matter when, no matter where, no matter who, you can enjoy the fun of the game.¡± Second, the Switch wasn¡¯t just a handphone. It had a lot of additional ck technology, and it was these ck technology that made the Switch a very unique handphone. To the previous handheld devices, this was a form of progress and transcendence. For example, HD had a very mature Switch vibration technology. This technology sent both horizontal and vertical waves through the device, which were transmitted to the yer¡¯s brain through the skin, creating the illusion of a real touch. If a yer closed their eyes, they might really think that they were being rubbed by something. Even the texture and coarseness of the surface of a real object could be expressed to a certain extent. Of course, this feeling was still a far cry from that of the ck technology VR gaming pods in the parallel world, but it was more than enough to crush Mobile games. Moreover, the Switch¡¯s controller had an enhanced sensory game function, and yers could achieve some specific operations in the game by waving the controller. Thanks to this, when yers yed the Switch, they no longer had to hold the controller to y like other console games. Instead, they couldpletely remove the two controllers of the Switch and hold them in their left and right hands, ying the game in anyfortable position. He could even wave the controller the entire time, just like a normal motion-sensing game. For the yers, this operation mode was equivalent to a kind of innovation and liberation. Moreover, it was simr to the control of the body, which greatly reduced the difficulty of the game. Third, Switch supported two yers to y the game at the same time. This was reflected in games such as Mali Kart and Super Mario Odyssey. Many yers might have to ask, isn¡¯t it just two people ying the game? All mobile games could do that. However, Switch¡¯s two-yer mode waspletely different from mobile games ¡®multiyer mode. There was noparison in terms of experience. For some yers who were in urgent need (especially couples and close friends, BFFs, etc.), This was simply too important. Because for any other device, if you wanted to y the game together, you had to buy another device, but the Switch didn¡¯t need to. It only needed two people to y the game. Moreover, some special games had a two-yer mode, which waspletely different from the traditional multiyer mode. Fourth, the Switch button design was also very ssic. On the two handles on the left and right hands, there was a physical joystick and four physical buttons, as well as the L, R, ZZ, and QR buttons on the handle. These were the standard buttons for some console handles. They were ssic designs that had been tested countless times on the market. The Switch used these designs and made minor adjustments to the size and touch of the buttons. Although the buttons were size, it felt better than other console handles. In addition, the Switch also had an innovation in the button design of the handle: On the side of the handle, there was a side button for two-person mode, as well as a HOME button, plus and minus buttons. In other words, the total number of buttons on a Switch added together exceeded 20. Of course, these buttons couldn¡¯t be used at the same time. Different buttons were used in single and two mode, but this also proved that Switch had put a lot of effort into the design of the buttons. While using some of the ssic designs, it had also made corresponding improvements. In addition, the mobile phone had a very clear advantage, which was that it almost did not have any external hacks. Mobile games, PC games, and VR gaming pods were all affected by external hacks to a certain extent, especially mobile games and PC games. In the end, it was because these devices wereprehensive tform devices. For example, a PC could also be used for office work and would have a lot of software that waspletely unrted to games installed. These software could be mixed with external cheats and modify the game itself. However, handheld phones and mainframe units were highly enclosed and could only be used to stuff in game cards or game discs. This ensured the sealing and safety of the environment. Even if there were some technical experts who could install external hacks on the host or palm through some technical means, only a few people could do it. Moreover, once it was discovered by the server, the device could be immediately locked to prevent external hacks from affecting the yers of other normal games. This was the reason why the mainframe and handheld devices in Chen Mo¡¯s previous life were unaffected by hacks. It was because of these advantages that Chen Mo was confident in the Switch. In this world where mobile, PC, and VR games were more developed, the Switch was still very promising because of its unique characteristics. Not only could it be used as a handheld device, but it could also be used as a television game console. To some extent, it was equivalent to filling up the gap in the market. This was because there were no mainframe units in parallel world, and there were no games that were suitable to be yed on television. Of course, this was only the first draft. The actual production n could only be finalized after the actual production process. But overall, it shouldn¡¯t be a big deal. The Switch Chen Mo was making was just a little better or worse than the one in his previous life, it wasn¡¯t impossible. Chen Mo also felt that with the technology in the parallel world, he might be able to install some New ck technology for the Switch in the future. Chapter 496 - Super Mali Odyssey!

Chapter 496: Super Mali Odyssey!

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Soon, the first design draft of Switch was almost done. Chen Mo had umted some happiness points and resentment points over the past few days, and had already drawn five hardware skill books. He now had a clear understanding of some hardware knowledge. In the first version of the Switch, Chen Mo didn¡¯t only draw out the appearance of the Switch, the key settings, the functional divisions, and other aspects, he also indicated the characteristics of eachponent in detail, as well as the rted technology of the entire handheld device. This was only a first draft. Chen Mo had only listed out the basic functions of the Switch in detail, along with his own requirements. The n might continue to improve during the production process. After finishing the first draft for the Switch, Chen Mo started on the design for the new game. This game would be carried on the Switch as the first game of the new mobile. Super Mali Odyssey. In fact, there were many ssic games on Switch, and Chen Mo chose super Mali Odyssey as the first Switch game in the parallel world for his own reasons. This was because super Mali Odyssey was by far the most suitable game for the Switch. Some game review media described super Mali Odyssey like this: ¡°There are always some things in this world that will remind you how beautiful life is, such as Li Bai¡¯s poems, Du Kang¡¯s wine, and¡± super Mali Odyssey. ¡°¡± In the eyes of many veteran yers, this kind of evaluation was not at all an exaggeration. This was because super Mali Odyssey spanned across different genders, ages, races, countries, upations, and cultures. No matter what kind of yers they were, they could enjoy the purest joy and joy in this game. If there were aliens, they might not be able to understand ¡°King Lear¡±,¡±The Shawshank Redemption¡±, or the Four Great ssical Novels, but they would definitely fall in love with ¡°super Mali Odyssey.¡± This was closely rted to the concept behind Nintendo¡¯s own game design. In the global gaming industry, Nintendo had always been against violence and pornography, and had made it their responsibility to develop excellent games for all ages. The Super Mali series was a wonderful interpretation of this concept. Chen Mo chose super Mali Odyssey as the first game on the switch tform because it was of high quality,parable to the ssic games of the world. On the other hand, it could perfectly showcase the characteristics of the Switch. If this was any other game, someone might say,¡±¡±This is the sess of the game, not the sess of Switch. If you put this game on other tforms, it will be popr.¡± Visit Myb0 x nove l. to read, pls! Super Mali Odyssey, on the other hand, would not have such a problem. Chen Mo made super Mali Odyssey not only to release a new game, but also to use this game to show the unique features of the Switch to all yers. On one hand, it was to increase the Switch¡¯s sales, and on the other hand, it was to pave the way for future games. First,¡±super Mali Odyssey¡± was targeted at the most extensive yer group. Whether it was the elderly, children, hardcore yers, or ordinary yers, they could all enjoy the corresponding fun in the game. It was the purest form of game fun, which could be distinguished from most games on the market. No in-game purchases, no probability, no numerical excitement, max level at birth, and how the yers yed in the future depended on themselves. Moreover, this game was very longsting. It had a variety of levels and ways to y it, so many people could y it many times without getting tired of it. Chen Mo wanted to collect happiness points, as this was also a money tree type of game. Second, the game mode of ¡°super Mali Odyssey¡± was perfectlypatible with the Switch tform. yers could y the game by shaking the handle, which was simr to a body-sense game. They could also y a two-person game, with one person controlling Mario and the other controlling capi, and the two people would cooperate with each other. This experience waspletely different from the online mode of other games. In super Mali Odyssey, there were more than 20 movements, and most of them had their own hand gestures, which could be yed like a body-sensing game. Of course, Chen Mo knew that super Mali Odyssey¡¯s poprity was partly due to its emotional attachment. In parallel world, there wasn¡¯t an ip asrge as super Mali, so Chen Mo¡¯s game wouldn¡¯t have such a high ip bonus. However, that didn¡¯t matter. Mali was able to be a superrge ssic ip because of his character design, game ystyle, art style, and other aspects that represented the highest level of the time, so he was loved by yers. Super Mali¡¯s plot was rtively weak, and its biggest highlight was the character design, scene design, world view design, and level design. In other words, its main advantage was in the way it was yed. Therefore, Chen Mo took out super Mali Odyssey without any difficulty for the yers. The concept draft this time took a long time, because super Mali Odyssey was a ssic game. Chen Mo had to think about how he could let su Jinyu and Qian Kun understand the core fun of the game. ¡­¡­ The next day, Chen Mo went to Zhou Jiangping with the first draft of the Switch design. Zhou Jiangping was very surprised when he saw the design draft. It was actually so detailed? From Zhou Jiangping¡¯s point of view, this design document was more professional than many of the professionals in theirpany. Chen Mo had even made clear notes on the seemingly insignificant details. For example, Chen Mo had written down some basic controls and special functions on the two controllers. Pushing the joystick to the bottom and just pushing it a little should be two different operations, and pressing the joystick should also be a different operation. Chen Mo exined in detail how the two controllers could be operated in single and dual mode after they were installed and removed. Chen Mo had also marked the other details clearly. For example, Chen Mo had drawn a 10-centimeter-long cooling vent above the Switch screen. At the same time, Chen Mo also had requirements for the touch of the touch screen, the touch of the buttons, and the body¡¯s fall resistance. What shocked Zhou Jiangping the most was that Chen Mo had a requirement for the game card? ¡°Phenthiamine? What is this?¡± Zhou Jiangping asked in shock. ¡°It¡¯s a bitter agent,¡± Chen Zhao exined.¡±It¡¯s the most bitter substance in the world.¡± Zhou Jiangping was shocked,¡±that¡¯s possible?¡± Why would you paint something like that on the card?¡± Chen Zhao exined,¡±it¡¯s because it¡¯s small. It might be eaten by children or pets. That¡¯s why I added a bitter agent to prevent it from being eaten by mistake.¡± But you don¡¯t have to worry, it¡¯s definitely not poisonous. ¡± ¡°Can it really prevent anyone from taking it?¡± Zhou Jiangping asked, puzzled. Chen Mo revealed a meaningful smile,¡±¡±It¡¯s okay. I¡¯ll let you taste it after I¡¯m done. You¡¯ll experience how bitter the most bitter thing in the world is.¡± Zhou Jiangping was speechless. Chapter 497 - Design concept for super Mali Odyssey

Chapter 497: Design concept for super Mali Odyssey

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Chen Mo and Zhou Jiangping discussed the design. The rest was still fine, but the main issue was the coreponents. In Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, many parts of the Switch were made for integration and power consumption, and couldn¡¯t be bought on the market. Chen Mo had to redo these parts. Moreover, in his previous life, many technologies required patents, such as the motion sensing technology. If he really had to buy everything, it would indeed be a huge expense. Regarding this, Chen Mo and Zhou Jiangping had also discussed some general countermeasures. Since the technology in this world was more advanced and not exactly the same as in Chen Mo¡¯s previous world, many of the designs had their own alternative. Including the HD vibration and motion sensorponents, which had a greater impact on the game¡¯s design, Zhou Jiangping tried his best to ensure that there were corresponding alternatives, and that it would not affect the feel of the Switch. In fact, by relying on some of the ck technology in the parallel world, he might even be able to surpass them to some extent. Moreover, the body of the Switch could also be made thinner and the frame smaller. These were also improvements. With the technological level of the parallel world, these improvements were not difficult to make. Of course, the design still needed to be improved, which would take a long time. Chen Mo wasn¡¯t sure how far it could go before the actual prototype was made. ¡­¡­ After returning to the experience store, Chen Mo started working on the design concept for super Mali Odyssey. To Chen Mo, this game was far more difficult than all the other games he¡¯d made before, the most difficult part being the graphics, the actions, and the level design. ¡°Super Mali Odyssey¡± was a box court game. The way to clear each major obstacle in the game was very simple. As long as one collected enough moons, activated the Odyssey, and headed to the next map, they would be done. Therefore, passing the levels was not the most important task for the yers. The most important thing was to find clues and obtain the moon. In ¡°super Mali Odyssey,¡± the moons were hidden in a natural way, and the density was very high. A small map could be embedded with nearly 100 moons. This made the yers find the joy of hiding in Odyssey far more than in other sandbox games. Even the seed of Zelda¡¯s yahaha was slightly inferior. Visit Myb0 x nove l. to read, pls! At the same time, these levels must also give the yers some difficulty challenges, allowing the yers to use a variety of ways to clear the levels, not just a linear path, so that the yers could fully disy their own wisdom. Super Mali Odyssey was the game with the best level design in the world. Many of the scenes in ¡°super Mali Odyssey¡± were based on reality. For example, new New York City corresponded to New York, and the desert country was based on Mexico. The game¡¯s setting wasn¡¯t decided from the start. In Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, the developers of super Mali Odyssey first designed a core gamey for the level, then thought about how to incorporate the setting into it. For example, if the designer wanted to design a scene that would make Mali move slowly, they would naturally think of the desert. They didn¡¯t want to use the pyramids in Egypt, which were already rotten to the core, so the Mexico desert became a natural choice. Mali himself had very strong abilities, such as throwing hats, jumping, etc., So many yers ¡®ways of clearing the game were not exactly the same as the game¡¯s design at the beginning. Many interesting ways of ying were explored by the yers themselves. At the same time, super Mali Odyssey made the collection gamey the ultimate. There were gold coins, purple coins, and the moon in the Odyssey. Each element had a different function, and the difficulty of obtaining them varied. Take gold coins as an example. In the olden days, gold coins had practical significance, such as buying items and buying clues. Therefore, the act of eating gold coins itself motivated yers to take action. Compared to the moon and the special currency, yers could eat all the gold coins ced in the challenge without any pressure. It was like a dessert after the challenge, allowing yers to get the sweetness of a stage victory. However, this benefit wasn¡¯t something that could be forced onto the yers. The yers had to take it. There were also some challenges where there was no price to pay even if one failed. Gold coins were the dessert of the challenge. It could motivate yers and not make them feel that the challenge was too easy. Moreover, in the process of some ¡®unorthodox¡¯ ying methods and operations, yers could only use basic running and jumping toplete the quest, or they could use special techniques to achieve results that basic operations could not achieve. These actions would reduce the time needed to clear the challenge, and it was also a good motivation for the yers. Super Mali Odyssey¡¯s resurrection point design was also very borate. In the game, once the challenge failed, the yer would have to return to the starting point, and the resurrection point was the starting point of the journey. The longer the resurrection point was designed, the stronger the frustration the yer would feel when they failed. Through the design of these resurrection points, they could control the emotions of the yers and adjust the difficulty of the game. In the process of yers obtaining the moon, there were many rewards, both bright and dark. On the surface, yers could get the moon when they reached the end point, but in fact, there were many levels that had another moon hidden. In most of the stages in super Mali Odyssey, there was more than one moon hidden, and the second moon was ced in a very careful location. After the yers found it, they did not cry out that it was a scam, but were excited and happy as if they had found a treasure. For super Mali Odyssey, only by collecting everything could one pass the game. The main plot of this game was designed to let everyone enjoy the game. In other words, its main plot was only equivalent to a teaching script, and the real start of the game would only be after the main plot waspleted. The main plot of the Odyssey was actually just a simple, normal difficulty challenge. The real challenge that allowed the yers to experience all the mechanisms of the game was the all-collection. It could be said that onlypleting the main plot would allow one to experience less than 20% of the game¡¯s content. The rest of the content, in terms of quality and difficulty, would not be worse than this 20% of the game¡¯s content. It might even be better. In some games, collecting all the elements was actually forcibly increasing the game time, so that the yers could run more maps. The maps of these games were densely packed with collection points. Running over to touch them and looking at the pictures would be the end. If the number was appropriate, it would be interesting, but once the number exceeded a certain number, it would make people feel like they were doing a mission, boring and meaningless. For the Odyssey, collecting was the main course of the game, and it was done very well. The difficulty gradient of the different moons was very different. Some could be seen at a nce, some had to be searched for, and some had to go through very difficult and continuous challenges before they could be obtained. The easy collection could guarantee that even beginner yers could easily clear the game without losing the challenge, while the difficult collection was the real core of the game. It was still quite difficult for Chen Mo to replicate all of this perfectly. Chapter 498 - A game tailored for the Switch

Chapter 498: A game tailored for the Switch

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Super Mali Odyssey had a total of 17 scenes, including Hat Country, Waterfall Country, sand country, Lake Country, Forest Country, and so on. Each scene had a certain number of moons, and more moons would be unlocked after clearing the game. In super Mali Odyssey, the total number of moons reached more than 860, and there were even more gold coins and special currencies. These elements were hidden in various hidden locations on the map. If he wanted to reproduce them, he would need arge number of memory yback potions. Luckily, Chen Mo had enough stock, otherwise he¡¯d have to n the levels from scratch. ¡°Super Mali Odyssey¡± was a box court game. Each small scene was rtively independent, so it was not particrlyplicated. After nning the locations of all the props and cloth monsters, the difficulty of development was greatly reduced. Even with the help of the memory yback potion, Chen Mo could feel theplexity of the elements while writing the concept draft. One could only imagine how much effort it would take to create it in real life. In addition, the game also had arge number of Easter eggs hidden. For example, in the metropolis, this level was full of King Kong¡¯s Easter eggs. For example, the car in the city had a license te of 1981 foster. This was probably tomemorate the first appearance of Mali and King Kong in 1981. In addition, there were also many background music in ¡°super Mali Odyssey¡± that were Easter eggs. For example, the music of the mini car in the city Country was the same as the music of the card game in Super Mario No. 3 high school. At the start of the small car race, one would even hear the background music of the Super Mali Kart. It was obvious that the yers in parallel world could not understand these Easter eggs, which was a pity. However, Chen Mo couldn¡¯t possibly bring the entire Mali series over, because some of the Mario series were already outdated in terms of the current design concept in parallel world, and there was no point in bringing them over. It wasn¡¯t a bad idea to see these Easter eggs as part of super Mali Odyssey¡¯s game content, as a way to add to the game¡¯s diversity. After all, many people in Chen Mo¡¯s previous life had never yed the prequel to Super Mario, but that didn¡¯t affect their love for it. It was believed that many yers would be very surprised when they encountered the attack of the two-dimensional foil, even if they had never yed the first generation of Mali¡¯s works. Other than that, Chen Mo also wrote down the art and music style in detail. This included the background music. Chen Mo decided to write down all the important background music and melody, but he needed to go into detail. ¡­¡­ Very quickly, the design concept draft waspleted. Everyone was called for a meeting. Visit Myb0 x nove l. to read, pls! Everyone had heard some rumors about the new game, but they were more interested in what Chen Mo said it would be a handheld game. But what would a handheld game look like? Chen Mo quickly answered everyone¡¯s questions. The design concept draft this time consisted of two parts. One was the design concept for Switch, and the other was the design concept for super Mali Odyssey. Obviously, these two concepts had to be exined at the same time so that everyone could better understand why this game was the most suitable for a mobile phone. Chen Mo first introduced the functions of the buttons on the two game controllers. For example, the left joystick controlled the character¡¯s movement, and the right joystick controlled the view. He could squat, run, throw his hat, and jump. At the same time, after the yer makes some special hand gestures, Mali can make some special movements. For example, when climbing, if he waved the handle, it would make Mali climb faster. In addition, there were moreplicated movements such as level three jump, long jump, roll, body attack, knock to the ground, backflip, side flip, and so on. Each movement had corresponding buttons and hand gestures. Everyone¡¯s eyes lit up. ¡°Manager,¡± Qian Kun said in surprise,¡±I feel like the actions in this game are veryplicated. It¡¯s even moreplicated than some VR games!¡± Chen Mo nodded,¡±that¡¯s right. It¡¯s impossible for a VR game to have such aplicated action system. There¡¯s too much consciousness information to record. If it¡¯s really made, the yer would be really tired.¡± Zheng Hongxi nodded.¡±That¡¯s right. I also think that this game is very suitable for the mobile tform. This is because the game¡¯s capacity is rtivelyrge. It¡¯s difficult for a mobile phone to carry it. However, it¡¯s not portable enough if it¡¯s ced on a PC. ¡± ¡°And the joystick is better than the mouse,¡± Chen Mo added with a smile.¡±You¡¯ll know when it¡¯s done.¡± ¡°I think so too,¡± su Jinyu said.¡±If we make it into a VR game, this third person game perspective might not be suitable. It won¡¯t be able to bring out the strong sense of immersion that VR has.¡± It was obvious that everyone had a deep understanding of the game now. After Chen Mo took out the design concept, everyone understood Chen Mo¡¯s intentions without any difficulty. Obviously, this was a game tailored for the Switch. This included the game¡¯s capacity, game features, game controls, and so on. It was a perfect fit for this handheld device. What was even more shocking was that Chen Mo¡¯s game had a highpletion rate. Even though Chen Mo¡¯s previous design drafts wereplete and rich, this one seemed to be soplete that it made one¡¯s hair stand on end. The location of the gold coins, special currency, and moon for each level, as well as the distribution of monsters, and even the cement of various objects were written clearly. Through theseplex checkpoint maps, most people could even imagine the challenges and routes that the protagonist had to face when he came to this level. The game¡¯s art style and background music were also written clearly, and there was even a special theme song. It could be said that each stage had its own unique characteristics, and each stage waspletely different. In addition, there was a special way to y with the hat, which was also very novel to everyone. In the game, the hat was Mali¡¯s partner. In addition to being used as a means of attack, it could also be used with Mario to perform some veryplicated movements. The hat could also be attached to other small animals, which greatly increased the yability of the game. In other words, the yer could control as many special units as the number of small animals in the game. Moreover, the skills of these small animals would alsoplement the levels, making the game more diverse. ¡°The levels are more difficult andplicated,¡± Chen Mo said.¡±But I believe everyone can do it.¡± ¡°Also, I hope that everyone can maintain their childlike innocence when making this game. This game¡¯s specialty is topletely remove the heavy makeup on the market and restore the game¡¯s most essential fun. ¡°¡®Super Mali Odyssey¡¯ should be able to make teenagers and middle-aged people in their forties and fifties enjoy it. Everyone must take note of this. When designing, you must always remind yourself to maintain your childlike innocence.¡± Qian Kun said,¡±manager, this handheld game looks very interesting for now. Will we be able to port all therger games onto this handheld game?¡± For example, arge scale VR game?¡± Chen Zhao shook his head. The positioning of this handheld device ispletely different from that of VR games. It¡¯s not suitable for transnting VR games with a strong sense of immersion. ¡± Chapter 499 - A game craze similar to "Overwatch"

Chapter 499: A game craze simr to ¡°Overwatch¡±

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Chen Mo was afraid that everyone would not understand, so he exined. ¡°Regarding this, you must remember one thing: Different tforms havepletely different effects on the game. ¡± ¡°Compared to PC and VR gaming pods, mobile games like mobile phones are more portable. This is also the advantage of handheld games. ¡°On the other hand, traditional games are good at immersive experiences. They use top-tier graphics, music, and scripts to create top-tier stories to achieve top-tier experience. There¡¯s a division between mobile games and traditional games. ¡°For example, somerge scale VR games give off a Grand feeling. What was Grand? All sizes were rtive. When we were sighing at the magnificence of the scene, we were actually using the size of the character in the shot as a reference. ¡± ¡°The scene is huge, and the enemy is huge. This is because our main character is of a normal size. The magnificence can only be felt when there is a contrast.¡± ¡°If these games are transnted to mobile or mobile phone tforms, it will be difficult to establish such aparison. No matter how big the monster is, it will only fill the entire screen. Even if you can barely recognize the very small protagonists on the screen, I¡¯m afraid it will be difficult for you to create a Grand feeling. Because the screen is only this big. ¡± ¡°If it loses this Grand feeling and multi-channel music and sound effects, the game¡¯s atmosphere and appeal will definitely be greatly reduced. ¡°What we¡¯re doing now is a handheld game, so we¡¯ll try not to make those grand games. We can consider migrating games like League of Legends and Overwatch which have arge yer base, but we have to consider the special features of the tform. ¡± ¡°The most suitable game for this mobile phone is a game like super Mali Odyssey. They didn¡¯t pursue the Grand scene, but the feeling of small and delicate. A rtively small character was freely searching in a small area. It gives people the feeling of a Suzhou garden, small butplete. ¡± ¡°In the future, when we develop games on this tform, we¡¯ll also give priority to this type of game because it¡¯s the mostpatible with this tform.¡± After Chen Mo exined the details of the design, everyone started working on it. Chen Mo wasn¡¯t too worried about the game. This was because the current team was already capable of handling such a game. With such rich settings, they should be able toe up with it in the short term. It was just that some details needed to be adjusted over and over again to achieve the best state. Chen Mo was more worried about what the Switch would look like. Could the performance meet his requirements? Visit Myb0 x nove l. to read, pls! However, there was no point in worrying. He would only know after testing the prototype. ¡­¡­ While Chen Mo was working on super Mali Odyssey, something happened in the gaming industry. After the new year,rge gamingpanies led by Emperor dynasty entertainment and ZEN Entertainment started to put Overwatch-like VR games on their development schedules. During this period of time, Overwatch was in the limelight. Although it was not as dominant as League of Legends on the PC side, it had already shown its edge on the VR tform. Especially after it won the honor of game of the year, Overwatch¡¯s poprity rose sharply. With the game¡¯s high quality and innovative ystyle, it captured arge number of yers. On the streaming tform, League of Legends and Overwatch had be two key gaming sections, and many VR game streamers had even started to ride on Overwatch¡¯s poprity. Chen Mo never announced the revenue from the game. However, there should be a lot of guesses, because there were people everywhere who were posting all kinds of jokes about 328. ording to the personal experience of some streamers and yers, there were indeed many yers who had fallen into the trap for free and had started to buy skins. Some girls even had the tendency to y Overwatch as a costume changing game. Everyone knew that Chen Mo wasn¡¯t making Overwatch for short-term profit, even if it lost money in the early stages, as long as the game continued to run and there were more yers, its ie would definitely increase. These video gamepanies were all racing against time, trying to develop a VR game that could surpass Overwatch. Emperor dynasty Entertainment¡¯s game project was called gunfire. This game was rted to Emperor dynasty Entertainment¡¯s previous games. The game¡¯s basic content and ystyle were based on Wolf Soul, and the hero¡¯s features and skills were based on the already-dead project, ancient catastrophe. These two were ready-made projects, so it was not difficult to make use of them. Lin chaoxu had always felt that ¡°the ancient catastrophe¡± was a pity. Lin chaoxu felt that ¡°ancient catastrophe¡± was an excellent piece of work, be it in terms of art, music, or ystyle. However, it was inexplicably cold ... Maybe it was just a deviation in some small tricks? Triggered some kind of chain reaction? Now, with the poprity of Overwatch, Lin chaoxu felt that the scraps of the ancient catastrophe could be saved. The entire background of gunfire history was the coexistence of myth and technology. High-tech soldiers who could use firearms obtained the power of the ancient gods through special DNA, and they could use some special skills while shooting. For example, Ymir, the Father of the frost Giants. This hero¡¯s original image was a tall and strong human from Northern Europe. Under normal circumstances, he would use a freeze gun to shoot. After awakening his power, he could turn into a Frost Giant and attack the enemy with a wide range of frost attacks. Of course, the design was based on the hero design of the Overwatch in some ways, but it also added many unique elements. In fact, it was very different from the way the Overwatch yed. This time, although Jin jieguang wasn¡¯t fully in charge of all the work in gunfire, he still participated in some of the design. Although the failure of ¡°ancient catastrophe¡± had greatly reduced Jin jieguang¡¯s image in Lin chaoxu¡¯s heart, he was a typical representative of hard work after all. Lin chaoxu couldn¡¯tpletely throw him into the cold Pce because of this matter. Jin jieguang was also holding his breath this time. He still didn¡¯t know why the ancient catastrophe failedst time, but after a long time ofparison and reflection, he basically had an idea. In the end, it was because he didn¡¯t copy League of Legends well! He had clearly been tricked by Chen Zhao ... Jin jieguang secretly made up his mind that this year¡¯s gunfight must strictly follow the Overwatch. As long as the arena mode was added and a few new heroes were produced, even if it couldn¡¯t reach the poprity of Overwatch, it shouldn¡¯t be bad, right? Chapter 500 - A history teacher personally creating history

Chapter 500: A history teacher personally creating history

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Chen Mo¡¯s second ss was still packed with people. Taking into ount the situation of the full Housest time, the leaders of world No. 1 University had specially transferred a lecture hall this time. The lecture theater this time was thergest in the entireplex. It could fit a few hundred people, but even so, the seats were all filled. Liu Hai was speechless. How big was the ssroom? did he have to arrange an auditorium for the performance? Half an hour before ss started, there were already students who came to reserve seats. Before the ss started, these people were using their mobile phones and chatting. ¡°I wonder what Chen Mo will talk about in this ss?¡± ¡°We only discussed it in thest ss and talked about the superss. This time, we should be talking about it in detail.¡± ¡°Thest lesson seemed to have caused quite a bit of controversy on the inte.¡± ¡°Hey, isn¡¯t it all over the inte? Chen Mo said that mobile phones were still very useful in this era. This was obviously his personal opinion, but it didn¡¯t match the mainstream opinion. It¡¯s quite a pain in the ass to be influenced by many people with ulterior motives. ¡± ¡°And Chen Mo is very stubborn. He even posted on Weibo that he¡¯s making a new phone.¡± ¡°He¡¯s a Big Shot, after all. But I don¡¯t think he¡¯ll talk about this topic again before he makes this phone. After all, only the phone is convincing.¡± ¡°I think so too. Chen Mo probably won¡¯t mention this again in today¡¯s ss.¡± ¡°I also think that there¡¯s no need to be too tangled up in this.¡± Fang Yubin, the president of the School of Game Design, and a few other professors were also sitting in the back row. Chen Mo did a good job in thest ss, showing his professionalism. Of course, other than the fact that there were some disputes about the mobile phone. Visit Myb0 x nove l. to read, pls! They were all looking forward to Chen Mo¡¯s ss. Chen Zhao arrived five minutes before ss. He lookedpletely unaffected by the negativements on the inte. His expression was very calm. Before ss started, a student in the front row asked,¡±¡±Mr. Chen Mo, what will we talk about in this ss?¡± ¡°We¡¯ll talk about the future of mobile phones in this ss,¡±Chen Mo said with a smile. The students in the front row were dumbfounded. What the hell? Was Chen Mo going against those people online? The original course n should not be like this, right? Could it be that the curriculum had been changed at thest minute to p those people online in the face? The bell for ss rang. Everyone was waiting for Chen Mo to start his second ss. Chen Mo scanned the students below the stage.¡±¡±Today, we¡¯ll be talking about the second lesson. It¡¯s about the future development prospects of handheld phones.¡± The students and professors in the audience were all stunned. What the hell? again? ¡°Talk about the future development prospects of mobile phones? What kind of future is there? it¡¯s already been abandoned for so long!¡± ¡°Let¡¯s not talk about the future. This ss won¡¯t go off track, right? the future can¡¯t just be about mobile phones, right?¡± ¡°Chen Mo didn¡¯t say that there¡¯s only mobile phones in the future, he only said that he wanted to talk about the future of mobile phones, PC, and VR.¡± The students and professors were all dumbfounded. Logically speaking, Chen Mo¡¯s best choice would be to not mention this again. Since he was here to give a lecture, he only needed to share some basic knowledge. As for the future of the game industry, he only needed to share some views that were in line with the mainstream understanding, and that would be enough toplete the task. But Chen Mo seemed to be getting into a dead end, why was he talking about the phone? Chen Mo seemed to have read everyone¡¯s mind. He smiled and said,¡±¡±Don¡¯t worry, everyone. I¡¯m talking about my vision for the future of the game. ¡°The future of games will definitely not be limited to mobile phones. I think mobile phones, PC, VR, and mobile phones will exist for a long time in the future. Until the technology explodes again, this situation will continue. ¡± ¡°Handheld phones will only gain certain advantages in certain areas. They will serve specific groups of people. I think that all of you here are especially honored because you will witness the rise and expansion of handheld phones in the future.¡± ¡°Next, I will exin this problem from three aspects. The first is the target group of the mobile phones; The second was the advantage of a handheld device over PC, mobile, and VR. The third is the characteristics of mobile games in the future. ¡± The students and professors were all listening attentively, and everyone was dumbfounded. At this time, no one was ying with their phones or getting distracted, because what Chen Mo was talking about was too shocking, and everyone was afraid that they wouldn¡¯t get enough! In the beginning, everyone thought Chen Mo was being ridiculous. How could handheld devices be the only mainstream device apart from PC, mobile, and VR? Wasn¡¯t this nonsense? However, as Chen Mo continued to exin, everyone realized that he made sense. Obviously, Chen Zhao didn¡¯te up with this idea on the spot. He had thought about it carefully. The ss seemed long, but it wasn¡¯t actually that long, because Chen Mo had used many other examples to exin the game. Some of these games were ssic games from the parallel world, while others were made up for the students to better understand. After all, most of the people here were students, and Chen Mo had to consider their eptance. It would be easier for everyone to understand if he exined more and more. Chen Mo didn¡¯t n on exining all the core content, so he went for the surface. Even though it was impossible for domestic video gamepanies to copy handheld games and handheld game designs, Chen Mo didn¡¯t want to take any risks. It was better to be careful about such confidential content. Soon, Chen Mo¡¯s second ss was over. The crowd below the stage was pping, but some professors and students looked worried. ¡°I feel like teacher Chen Mo¡¯s words are going to cause more controversy.¡± ¡°That¡¯s right. Thest time, it was only mentioned a little and so many people questioned it. This time, it¡¯s said in detail. Those people with ulterior motives will definitely seize more evidence to attack ...¡± ¡°Actually, there¡¯s nothing to be used against me. The main thing is that these things have not been verified. For example, when I said that there¡¯s still room for development for the current television game console, I can alsoe up with a lot of theories, but whether or not they will work, I¡¯m not sure. ¡± ¡°Yes, although what he said makes sense, after all, there hasn¡¯t been a very popr mobile phone in so many years. Didn¡¯t other people think of this idea?¡± ¡°It¡¯s also possible that someone else has the idea but doesn¡¯t have a specific design n. Ms. Chen Mo only talked about the possibilities of this idea in this ss, but she didn¡¯te up with a specific design n, so it¡¯s hard to exin. ¡± ¡°I don¡¯t know if it¡¯s to keep it a secret or if it wasn¡¯t designed at all.¡± This time, Chen Zhao boasted even more. Previously, he had only said that there was still room for mobile games to survive. This was a very general statement. It was just like some smaller mobile phones. As long as the business was still alive, it was considered to have room for survival. When Chen Mo made a phone and sold hundreds of thousands of them, he would be able to recover the cost, and he could say that this thing still had a chance to survive. But in this ss, Chen Mo directly said that handheld phones wouldpete with mobile, PC, and VR, and that they would co-exist for a long time toe. That was a bit of a stretch! Many people¡¯s first reaction was that Chen Mo was talking nonsense! Sure enough, after the video of this ss was released, there was a wave of doubts on the inte. ¡°Chen Mo¡¯s second lesson, why are you still holding onto the phone? Just how deep is his plot!¡± ¡°Yeah, it feels like he¡¯spletely twisting words and reasoning. He¡¯s retorting for the sake of retorting!¡± Someone Mo on Weibo: ¡°I had a good impression of you, but after watching the videos of these two sses, I feel like you¡¯re a history teacher who only teaches the wrong history! The course you¡¯re teaching might affect the other students ¡°understanding of the game industry. Doesn¡¯t your conscience hurt from bringing in so much private goods?¡± Chen Mo chuckled and replied,¡±I can only say that your vision has limited your imagination.¡± Speaking of a history teacher ... Do you know what the best history teacher is like? The best history teacher is to personally create history. ¡± Chapter 501 - New VR connection mode

Chapter 501: New VR connection mode

Trantor: 549690339

Chen Mo¡¯sments about handheld phones caused quite a stir, but Chen Mo was very calm despite the inte being in an uproar. He didn¡¯t need to refute anything. He just needed to wait for the handheld device to be made and let the yers y the game. That would be enough to exin everything. By then, the yers would know why Chen Mo was so sure that the handheld game would have a ce in the future. However, the development of the mobile phone could not bepleted in a day. Just like cell phone research and development, the speed of research and development often depended on many factors. Different manufacturers had different speeds. Some manufacturers developed one in a year, some in half a year, and some faster manufacturers produced one in a month or two. Of course, the quality was often not guaranteed. It was not that the manufacturers that updated their cell phones once a year were slow. It was just that the technology was not up to standard. The new cell phones that they produced did not have any obvious advantages, so there was no need to be so fast. Parallel world¡¯s rted technology was more advanced, and the time needed to build it was also shortened. However, considering that many of theponents of the handheld device needed to be specially made, the time needed to build it would be extended ordingly. ording to Zhou Jiangping¡¯s estimation, the first prototype would take at least two and a half months toplete. As for whether it could meet Chen Mo¡¯s requirements, it was hard to say. If it couldn ¡®t, it might have to be adjusted. Chen Zhao could ept the timing. Super Mali Odyssey also took time to produce. Although it wasn¡¯t a vr game, it had a lot of content, and some details had to be tested repeatedly. It would be fine as long as the two werepleted at the same time. ¡­¡­ In the experience store, Chen Mo was chatting with zou Zhuo in the VR experience area. ¡°Why do I feel like the yers in the two game pods have already yed for more than five hours? is it really okay for them to still note out?¡± Chen Zhao was confused. ¡°Manager, have you not been paying attention to the news?¡± asked zou Zhuo. Chen Mo nodded,¡±yeah, I¡¯ve been busy with the new game and didn¡¯t pay much attention to the news.¡± What¡¯s wrong?¡± Visit Myb0 x nove l. to read, pls! ¡°I heard that there¡¯s been a new update on VR gaming pods recently,¡± zou Zhuo said.¡±On one hand, it¡¯s to reduce the mental fatigue of yers when ying VR games, and on the other hand, there¡¯s a new VR connection mode called soothing connection mode.¡± ¡°Slow connection mode?¡± Chen Zhao was stunned. What kind of ck technology was this? Zou Zhuo exined,¡±it¡¯s said that this kind of rxing connection mode is for immersive experience, and it¡¯s a new way to connect VR gaming chambers.¡± With this connection, the yers ¡®consciousness would not be as focused, and they might even be a little rxed. For example, if the immersive connection mode is a nightmare, then the soothing connection mode is a light sleep. ¡± ¡°Of course, the yer¡¯s consciousness is still clear, but they are in a very rxed state. In this mode, the yer will be in a special scene and soothing background music.¡± ¡°In such an environment, the yers will be able to rest. After an hour in the soothing mode, the yers ¡®spirits will be greatly relieved, and they will be able to experience the immersed mode again. ¡°However, even with this slow connection mode, the yers can not spend more than seven hours in the game cabin every day. In other words, after four hours in the immersion mode, one hour in the soothing mode, and two hours in the immersion mode. Any higher and it won¡¯t work. ¡± ¡°This kind of soothing mode can also be used as a way to reduce stress. For example, when the yers are tired from work, they can experience this soothing mode in the VR gaming pod to relieve their mental fatigue.¡± ¡°I see.¡± Chen Mo nodded. Recently, he had been busy making handheld devices and the new game, Odyssey, so he had not paid attention to these things. He did not expect such ck technology to appear. Obviously, the biggest significance of this soothing mode was that it extended the time yers spent in the VR gaming pods and relieved the mental fatigue of yers to a certain extent. What Chen Mo was more interested in was if he could create some simple games for the yers. Recently, the speed at which he obtained happiness and resentment points had greatly decreased ... Chen Mo took out his phone and looked through the chat history of the top designers. The messages in the group were always 99+, everyone was too good at spamming ... Chen Mo was too busy to join in the chat, so he didn¡¯t pay attention to what everyone was talking about. After opening the chat history and flipping through a few pages, Chen Mo found the discussion on this soothing mode. There were also some introductions on the inte regarding this kind of soothing mode, but they were definitely not as reliable as the conclusions made by these professional video game designers. Chen Mo looked through it. Obviously, the other independent video game designers in the chat group were very interested in this soothing mode, thinking that this was a very important opportunity. In soothing mode, the VR gaming pod would y some soothing and melodious background music. In addition, there was a default blue sky, white clouds, and grasnd scene. The setting and background music were to allow yers to rx their minds. However, yers could still y the game in the soothing mode. Of course, a game in soothing mode would bepletely different from a normal game. In such a mode, it could only be a very simple and casual game. The system would automatically detect the yers ¡®brain waves when ying these games, and only games that could soothe the mind could pass the review and be included in the game store under this mode. That was when the opportunity came. Because soothing mode was a brand new VR connected mode, there weren¡¯t any good games in this mode. yers could only y in the system¡¯s default scene. Although it could relieve their spirits, it was inevitably boring. These independent video game designers were considering if they could create a casual game that was more suitable for this mode, they would be able to take over the market. After all, there were no other games in this connected mode. yers would y any game that was made. Many video game designers had already started toe up with games that were suitable for a morefortable mode. ¡°Soothing mode? This is interesting. ¡± Chen Zhao¡¯s interest was piqued. The happiness points and resentment points he had gained during this period of time had decreased a lot because of the [human: Ruined and normal adventures had been released for quite some time now, and the yers who were interested in them had already yed them. They had basically experienced the core fun of the game, so they didn¡¯t have much of an impact on the game. But for Chen Mo, the happiness and resentment points directly determined how many times he could draw, so the more the better. There was still some time before super Mali Odyssey waspleted, and Chen Mo didn¡¯t n on waiting around during this time. Since the VR gaming pods had a new and rxing connection mode, Chen Mo had also thought of a game that was very suitable for it. Chapter 502 - VR farm!

Chapter 502: VR farm!

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While su Jinyu and Qian Kun were busy with super Mali Odyssey, Chen Mo took some time off toplete the new game. The game was quite easy to make, except for the design of the scenes. However, Chen Mo had already made a few VR games, and as an S-grade video game designer with a lot of art materials, it wasn¡¯t difficult to make. After two days of hard work, the game waspleted. After Chen Mo uploaded the game, the system checked it and found that it could meet the requirements of a slow connected game. When yers yed this game, most of them were in a rtively rxed and indifferent state of mind, which yed a very good role in rxing the mind. However, under certain circumstances, the yers would also have some slight emotional fluctuations. This was not a big deal, because emotional fluctuations would not make yers more tired. As long as the yer was in a rxed state most of the time when ying the game, it would be fine. Chen Mo immediately put the game on Thunderbolt gaming tform after it was done, and posted a Weibo post. ¡°The new game, Leisure Farm, has been released. It¡¯s a VR game that¡¯s specially designed for afortable gaming mode. Everyone is wee to try it out!¡± As soon as this Weibo post was sent out, dozens ofments instantly appeared. ¡°The sofa.¡± ¡°A bench.¡± ¡°Eh? Shouldn¡¯t Chen Mo be busy making handheld phones? And he still has to give a lecture, how would he have the time to make a new game?¡± ¡°A game that¡¯s specially designed for the slow mode? This isn¡¯t too bad, there aren¡¯t many games that are reliable in this connected mode. Since Chen Mo made a game, I¡¯ll definitely try it out!¡± Many people were wondering what kind of game Leisure Farm was. From the name, could it be a farming game in soothing mode? Visit Myb0 x nove l. to read, pls! It felt like he could rx, but what was there to y? ¡­¡­ In Chen Mo¡¯s Experience Store, the yers were also the first to discover the new game. In thefortable connection mode, the interface would automatically disy the games that were installed in the game cabin. Since this was the only game in the experience store with a soothing mode, the yers could see it at a nce. Zou Zhuo had just finished a round of the Overwatch when the system notified him that it was almost four hours. He needed to leave the game cabin or enter the soothing mode to rest. Zou Zhuo chose to enter the slow mode. He had already experienced it before. After entering the soothing mode, his consciousness would enter a special scene. In this scene, there was a blue sky, white clouds, and a grasnd. A breeze blew, and birds asionally flew in the sky. It was as if they were really in the middle of a grasnd. Moreover, yers could walk around and even ¡®run freely¡¯. In slow mode, yers could freely chat with their friends. For many people, there was nothing to do even if they quit the VR gaming pod, so they might as well continue to rx in the soothing mode. Zou Zhuo noticed that there were two different buttons on the menu after he enteredfortable mode. The first button would bring him to the default setting, while the second would bring him to Chen Mo¡¯s new game, Leisure Farm. ¡°Eh? The manager¡¯s new game ising out so quickly. We didn¡¯t even know there was this mode two days ago, and the new game is already out two dayster?¡± Zou Zhuo was also shocked by Chen Mo¡¯s efficiency. It was too fast, Chen Mo had already made the game while the other designers were still trying to figure out the features of the slow mode! Curious, zou Zhuo chose to enter Leisure Farm. ¡°Uh, this scenario seems to be a bit simr to the default setting by the officials.¡± Zou Zhuo looked at where he was, he was also on a green grasnd. The grasnd looked like it belonged to the government, it didn¡¯t change much. However, there were many more elements on the grasnd. The first was to use a tall wooden fence to surround arge area, which was obviously the range of the yer¡¯s farm. There were more than 20 plots ofnd on the farm, each of which was two meters wide. In other words, the entire farm was notrge, only about 100 square meters. There was a small thatched house and an open space next to the farnd. It seemed that he could do some construction on his own, but he was not sure what he was going to build. Out of the 20 plots ofnd, only the first row of four plots ofnd had been opened up. The rest were still in a state of unimednd. There was also a small pond next to the field. The pond was also in a state of no water at the moment. It seemed that the element would only be unlockedter. There was a rocking chair next to the farnd and a parasol. There was a radio and a newspaper on the small table under the umbre. It was a very casual style. ¡°Not bad, this environment is not bad.¡± Zou Zhuo was surprised because the art was of high quality, and the style matched the original green. In VR mode, zou Zhuo felt like he was in a real farm. Oh, it didn¡¯t seem appropriate to put it that way. It wasn¡¯t a real farm, but an environment that was more elegant and soothing than a real farm. It should be said to be an ideal farm. The farms in the real world were so messy. There wererge areas of farnd, all kinds of modern harvesting machines, and even some animals such as cattle and sheep. Insects and strange small animals were inevitable in the fields. In summer, it would be exposed to the sun, and in winter, it would be very cold. The real time to enjoy the beauty of the countryside was actually only a short period of time in spring and autumn. For real farmers, farming was hard work. Only those rich people who had money and leisure time could really experience the so-called ¡°beauty of the countryside.¡± However, Chen Mo¡¯s farm in VR was much morefortable than the farm in real life. The gentle breeze, the soothing background music, the endless green field, and the seemingly simple but exquisitely built thatched house all made people feel veryfortable. Zou Zhuo couldn¡¯t help but exim,¡±manager, you¡¯re a Pro. You only need to change a few buildings and you¡¯re able to make the whole ce so lively.¡± Many designers were also considering how to create a better environment in the soothing mode. Some designers made an Ind so that yers could hear the sound of tides; Some designers had specially created a sunrise on the top of the mountain so that yers could see the sunrise and sunset. However, Chen Zhao had only added a few plots of farnd and a thatched house to make a simple farm. However, the farm gave off a more rxed and natural feeling than the ind and the mountain top. Zou Zhuo sat on the chair and turned on the radio. Melodious background music started ying on the radio. It was obvious that Chen Zhao had carefully selected the music, which was very helpful for rxing. Zou Zhuoid down happily, thinking that the scene the manager had created was much better than the original. Zou Zhuo noticed the newspaper beside the radio. ¡°There¡¯s even a newspaper?¡± Zou Zhuo was surprised as well. In the real world, young people rarely read newspapers, and the newspaper was ced next to the radio so naturally that zou Zhuo didn¡¯t notice it. Zou Zhuo picked up the newspaper and started reading. It was obvious that Chen Mo had imnted relevant awareness in the game, allowing the yers to read the newspaper freely, which was part of the game¡¯s content. Chapter 503 - Growing vegetables in VR mode

Chapter 503: Growing vegetables in VR mode

Trantor: 549690339

Zou Zhuo opened the newspaper and was surprised to find that it was a game manual. ¡°After nting crops on the ground, we can harvest them?¡± ¡°After harvesting, can I sell the crops for money?¡± ¡°We can also buy all kinds of props, including fertilizer seeds for decoration and so on?¡± The gamey of the farm wasn¡¯tplicated, and one newspaper was enough to write it down. Chen Mo purposely included the relevant gamey in the newspaper so that it would fit the environment better and the yers wouldn¡¯t feel like it was too much of a show. Of course, yers could still do the same thing in the game without reading the newspaper, but that would require some exploration. Following the directions in the newspaper, zou Zhuo first went to the thatched house to get some seeds, then went to the back of the house to get some farm equipment. The farm tools were very simple, just a hoe, shovel, kettle, and spray can. ording to the game¡¯s instructions, the hoe was used to weed, the shovel was used to uproot withered crops, the kettle was used to water, and the spray bottle was used to spray medicine. As for nting and picking fruits, he could do it with his hands and didn¡¯t need any farm equipment. Zou Zhuo came to the field with the seeds and farm equipment. At this time, four pieces ofnd in the farnd had already been cultivated, while the rest were not. Zou Zhuo spread the seeds on the four plots ofnd. The holes on the ground indicated that the seeds had been nted. It waspleted just like that. Zou Zhuo was a little surprised. The procedure was so simple. All he had to do was to go to the side of the field and nt the seeds. He didn¡¯t need to dig or water the seeds. However, on second thought, he felt that it made sense. After all, this was the soothing mode, which was meant to let the yers rx. It was definitely necessary to simplify the rted operations as much as possible. All they had to do was scatter the seeds and collect the vegetables. The mental pressure on the yers was basically negligible. Visit Myb0 x nove l. to read, pls! After spreading the seeds, zou Zhuo walked around the house. There was a small warehouse next to the thatched house, which was obviously used to store crops. However, the game guide in the newspaper said that there would be shops and other buildings, but they had not been unlocked yet. Zou Zhuo went back to his rocking chair, picked a soothing song, and closed his eyes. In this kind of atmosphere, it really felt like they had returned to the countryside. The sun was warm and the brightness was just right under the shade of the parasol. He didn¡¯t find it ring at all. With the gentle breeze and the soothing melody, zou Zhuo felt like he was in a real farm. He could touch the grass and smell the green grass. Of course, a part of it was just an illusion. Chen Mo had created the image of a farm, so when the yers were rxed, they would naturally imagine other elements that weren¡¯t there. Zou Zhuo opened his eyes after a while and realized that the crops on the ground had already sprouted. ¡°Eh? That¡¯s fast. ¡± Zou Zhuo was surprised that the crops were growing at a speed visible to the naked eye. However, he quickly thought it through. After all, this was a game. If it was really like the real world where crops only ripened in half a year, then there was no point in ying. Zou Zhuo estimated that the seeds would mature and be harvested in a few hours. However, he wasn¡¯t sure exactly how many hours it had been. He couldn¡¯t tell just by looking at the growth state of the bud. At this moment, weeds grew on one of thends, while the other had dried up and cracked, which was obviously different from the othernds. ¡°Yes, it¡¯s time to work!¡± Zou Zhuo stood up and picked up the watering can and the hoe. First, they watered the drynd and then removed the weeds on the othernd. It was a simple operation, but zou Zhuo felt like he was weeding a field, and he was filled with a sense of achievement. Zou Zhuo felt a strange sense of satisfaction as he looked at the growing crops. He wished that the crops would mature soon, he couldn¡¯t wait for the harvest. At this moment, a line of small words appeared in an unremarkable ce in his field of vision: [Congrattions, you havepleted your first weeding. The system will gift you four bags of fertilizer.] ¡°Eh? And fertilizer?¡± Zou Zhuo came to the thatched house and found four extra bags of fertilizer under the shed behind the thatched house. The stic bag of fertilizer was very small, about the size of a bag of salt. Zou Zhuo held the fertilizer in his hand and looked at the name on it. Two bags of ck fertilizer and two bags of gray fertilizer. Zou Zhuo suddenly had a bad feeling when he saw the name of the fertilizer. However, he didn¡¯t think too much about it. He took the four bags of fertilizer to the side of the farnd. The newspaper wrote about how to use the fertilizer. All they had to do was to sprinkle the fertilizer on thend. The two bags of fertilizer had different effects on different crops. For some low-grade crops, the time could be shortened. As for some high-grade crops, the time could be shortened by a lot. When the time came, they would have to use high-grade fertilizer. Zou Zhuo was currently growing basic crops like carrots and white radishes. The gray fertilizer could reduce the growth time of these crops by three hours, while the ck fertilizer could reduce the growth time by six hours. Zou Zhuo spread the four bags of fertilizer on the four pieces ofnd. The crops that had been sprayed with gray fertilizer had entered a state of near maturity, but they could not be picked yet. As for the crops that were sprinkled with the ck fertilizer, they directly entered a state of maturity, and huge white radishes and carrots were almost emerging from the ground. ¡°Hmm ... So the time it takes to ripen is between three to six hours?¡± Zou Zhuo made a rough deduction. Carrots and white radishes were both primary crops, so they ripened at the same time. The only difference was that the seeds of carrots were expensive and sold at a higher price, while the White radishes were cheaper. ¡°So ... The maturity time of these two types of radishes should be longer than three hours and less than six hours.¡± Zou Zhuo came to the two plots of carrotnd, squatted down and pulled the carrot out. Every plot ofnd had many carrots nted neatly. Zou Zhuo was very fast and finished in a short while. The carrot was originally covered with some soil, and it looked very realistic. However, after zou Zhuo threw them into the warehouse, the mud on the carrots disappeared and were piled up neatly. Zou Zhuo dug out the remains of the crops on the two plots ofnd and nted new ones. At this moment, there was another line of system prompt that was not very obvious. It has been detected that you have harvested your crops. Do you wish to sell them at the store? ¡°So you mean you can sell it for money? Sell it decisively. ¡± Zou Zhuo said without hesitation. A brand new building was instantly built on the empty space next to it. It looked like a simple convenience store, but the architectural style matched the scene very well. There were no NPCs inside, everything was automated. Zou Zhuo ced the Bunch of Carrots in the shop and exchanged them for system currency. There was a simple ATM machine next to the store, it showed the amount of money zou Zhuo had, and he could also check the transaction records. He could also check the prices of different items in the store, but of course, most of them were not affordable for zou Zhuo. However, zou Zhuo was surprised to find that the ATM had an interface that allowed the exchange of game currency for real items. Zou Zhuo was shocked. Most games only did top-ups, which meant exchanging real money for in-game currency. He had never heard of in-game currency for real items. Among them were some prizes of lower value, such as top-up cards. There were also some more valuable prizes, such asputers and VR gaming pods. Of course, these high-valued items were sky-high in value when converted to game coins. Zou Zhuo didn¡¯t even dare to think about it. However, it was already very shocking to be able to exchange in-game currency for physical items. Zou Zhuo realized that the game was not as simple as it seemed. Chapter 504 - What a fraudulent fertilizer name!

Chapter 504: What a fraudulent fertilizer name!

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After selling the carrot, zou Zhuo received some in-game currency. It wasn¡¯t much, but he still had some left after buying the necessary seeds. Zou Zhuo started to think about what he should buy. All the decorations were generally more expensive, such as the design of a new house, a new shop, a new fence, etc. Zou Zhuo also realized that he could buy a dog and a private kennel, but he wasn¡¯t sure what they were for, and he couldn¡¯t afford one yet. Zou Zhuo finally decided to buy a bag of fertilizer. This was because fertilizer could reduce the growth time of crops, which was equivalent to buying time with money. It was obviously a good choice in this game. Zou Zhuo opened the chemical fertilizer section and was shocked. There are so many types? The lowest grade was the gray fertilizer and ck fertilizer that zou Zhuo used before. Zou Zhuo¡¯s current money was only enough to buy a bag of the most ordinary gray fertilizer. There was a wide variety of other fertilizers in the store, but when zou Zhuo saw the names of the fertilizers, he was dumbfounded. The ck fertilizer and the ck fertilizer. Vtile gray fertilizer and vtile ck fertilizer. The gray fertilizer and the ck fertilizer were easy to develop. Vtile ck fertilizer, vtile ck fertilizer. Easy to develop ck fertilizer, easy to develop ck fertilizer. Are you F * cking ying tongue twisters? Zou Zhuo was speechless, but then he thought about it and realized that it was probably just a little prank that Chen Mo had ced in the store. He didn¡¯t think too much about it. Visit Myb0 x nove l. to read, pls! Zou Zhuo chose to buy a bag of gray fertilizer. However, his money was not immediately deducted. Instead, a system prompt popped up. [Please use the voice function of the VR gaming pod to read the name of the product you want to purchase andplete the purchase.] ??? Zou Zhuo was dumbfounded. ¡°Gray fertilizer,¡± he tried to say. [System notification: purchase sessful!] Zou Zhuo was speechless. So this was what he was waiting for? ¡°I was wondering why the manager made the names of these fertilizers so long, like a tongue twister. It¡¯s just to cheat us!¡± ¡°If I want to buy high-grade fertilizer in the future, I¡¯ll have to shout to the system: Give me a bag of ck fertilizer that can be easily used. ¡± F * ck, just thinking about it makes me feel good ... He felt that the system was targeting Hu Jian people. ¡°Resentment +10!¡± However, there was a small prompt next to the fertilizer store. If the yer read it wrong ten times in a row, the purchase would be automaticallypleted. Zou Zhuo heaved a sigh of relief. It seemed like Chen Mo still had some conscience. ¡­¡­ Zou Zhuo walked around the farm and found a path that led into the distance. ¡°Hmm, What¡¯s this?¡° Zou Zhuo walked to the side of the road and saw a sign. As he got closer, a system list appeared in front of him. On it were all of zou Zhuo¡¯s Thunderbolt Game Pass friends. He tried to click on one of the friends. [Your friend has not unlocked Leisure Farm yet. Do you want to remind him to open it and nt vegetables with you?] ¡°Oh, it¡¯s not open?¡± Zou Zhuo then noticed the special symbol behind the friend¡¯s name, indicating that he had yet to open Leisure Farm. Zou Zhuo tapped on the reminder button. How could he let me enjoy such a fun game all to myself? He clicked on another friend. [The friend is at home. You can visit but can not steal vegetables. Do you want to go to the friend¡¯s farm?] ¡°Hmm, what¡¯s the meaning of this?¡± Zou Zhuo pondered over the meaning of the hint. In other words, this friend was currently on his farm. He could visit him, but he couldn¡¯t steal vegetables. What if he wasn¡¯t at home? could she go and steal vegetables? Zou Zhuo continued scrolling through his friend list. More than half of the yers hadn¡¯tunched Leisure Farm yet. After all, it was a new game and it wasn¡¯t popr yet. Zou Zhuo invited them one by one. Some of them were in the farm, and like zou Zhuo, they were tired from ying the game and were trying to rx. Zou Zhuo, who was in his own farm, decided not to look at them since they would only be chatting anyway. Zou Zhuo was dying to know how the thief stole the vegetables. One had to know that stolen vegetables could be exchanged for money! He also found a few friends who were not at home, but the radishes in these friends ¡®fields were not ripe yet, so he could not steal them. Zou Zhuo roughly estimated the time his friends ¡°radishes would ripen and decided toe back when they were ready. He was just thinking about it ... He scrolled up and found Chen Mo¡¯s ount at first ce. ¡°Manager, you¡¯re ying on the farm too?!¡± Zou Zhuo thought about it,¡±oh yeah, the manager definitely ys it, he made it!¡± Maybe there¡¯s something good in the manager¡¯s farm?¡± Zou Zhuo entered Chen Mo¡¯s farm without hesitation. Since the resources were all the same, the scene changed very quickly. Zou Zhuo didn¡¯t even notice the change. Zou Zhuo was still at the side of the path, and the farm was in sight. To his shock, Chen Zhao¡¯s farm waspletely different from his! Chen Zhao¡¯s farm looked like a traditional garden. It had a stone wall, a tall tree, and a beautiful rock garden in the middle of the pond. The house was no longer a shabby thatched house. It was a stone house with a Chinese style. It was very neat. There was a beautiful doghouse next to the house, and a Husky was napping in the doghouse. Chen Mo¡¯s farm was filled with crops that zou Zhuo had never seen before. Jade cabbage, Jade grape, God of Fortune, starry flower, fragrant Sparrow ... ¡°F * ck, what kind of nts are these? Fantasy crops?¡± Obviously, these were all high-level crops in the farm, and just the seeds alone would cost thousands of gold coins. Also, Chen Mo¡¯s fields were different from zou Zhuo ¡®s. They were all shining with a golden light. Was this the legendary Golden Land? These crops had all ripened, and there were many fruits hanging on them that made people drool. Zou Zhuo couldn¡¯t stay calm anymore, these fruits were money! Manager, you have so many high-level fruits in your field. It¡¯s not too much to give me a few to help the poor, right?¡± Zou Zhuo mumbled to himself as he sneaked to the side of the field to steal some vegetables. Zou Zhuo was overjoyed when he saw the high-grade fruits being picked one by one. If he sold all these fruits, he would be able to buy so many bags of ck fertilizer. However, just as zou Zhuo was enjoying himself, he heard a dog bark. Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof! Zou Zhuo was shocked. He turned around and realized that the Husky that had been napping in the doghouse had rushed out and was behind him. It bit zou Zhuo¡¯s heel! Chapter 505 - The farm is being targeted by the workshop!

Chapter 505: The farm is being targeted by the workshop!

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Oh my God, why is this dog biting people? Zou Zhuo felt a slight pain from the bite, and the fruit in his arms fell to the ground. The dog was still chasing zou Zhuo, so he ran back to his farm in a panic. ¡°Phew, they finally stopped chasing ...¡± Zou Zhuo received a system notification when he returned to his farm. [You have been bitten by a dog. You need to pay 500 gold coins for medical expenses. It has been automatically deducted from your system currency.] ¡°F * ck, this is such a scam!¡± Zou Zhuo was speechless. Obviously, the fruit in his hand would drop randomly when he was bitten by a dog. When he ran back, there were only five or six fruits left in his arms, but he still had to pay 500 gold coins for medical expenses? It was really a breakdown! Obviously, the medical expenses were also calcted ording to the number of times he was bitten by the dog. The more times he was bitten by the dog, the higher the medical expenses. Zou Zhuo sold the fruits to the store, and to his surprise, they were sold for 3000 gold coins! ¡°Oh my God, high-grade crops are amazing.¡± Zou Zhuo said. ¡°If we steal all the fruits in the manager¡¯s field, how much money would it cost?¡± It was worth it even if he was bitten by a dog! However, zou Zhuo knew that Chen Mo wouldn¡¯t make such a mistake in his design. Most likely, the more he was bitten by a dog, the higher the medical expenses would be. It was impossible to increase in a linear manner. Zou Zhuo was smart enough to give up on the idea of stealing vegetables ... And the worst part was that he was bitten by a dog, and his money was directly deducted from the system! This was a little too shameless! Visit Myb0 x nove l. to read, pls! Zou Zhuo went to his friends ¡®farms and stole a few radishes. They weren¡¯t worth much, but zou Zhuo was happy. People were all like this, whether rich or poor, they would have a greedy mentality. Taking advantage of others didn¡¯t matter much, as long as it was taking advantage of others, it would make one¡¯s heart happy. Of course, if he could get a big advantage, he would definitely be overjoyed. An hour passed quickly, but zou Zhuo still wanted more. However, he had stolen most of the vegetables and nted most of the crops. There was nothing to do now, so zou Zhuo had to exit the slow mode. ¡­¡­ Soon, the other yers also discovered some special ways to y Leisure Farm. They added each other as friends and stole vegetables from each other. ¡°Sigh, this Leisure Farm is really well done. Basking in the sun inside feels even morefortable than the system¡¯s default environment!¡± ¡°Yes, it¡¯s a idyllic scene. It¡¯s much morefortable than the simple blue sky, white clouds, and grasnd!¡± ¡°And you can also nt crops. Although the operation is particrly simple, it makes people feel like they¡¯ve returned to the countryside. I can¡¯t help but recite poetry.¡± ¡°When beans are nted at the foot of the southern mountain, the grass will flourish and the beans will grow sparkly ...¡± ¡°Oh, you¡¯re going to recite this poem? I thought it was ... A dog ...¡± ¡°Ahem, you can indeed raise dogs in the farnd.¡± ¡°Eh? Did you guys notice that the first person on our friend list is always Chen Mo¡¯s ount?¡± ¡°Yes, I noticed it too. I even went to take a look on purpose. The fields are full of high-grade crops. I wanted to steal two more, but I was bitten by Chen Mo¡¯s dog!¡± ¡°F * ck, me too! I was bitten by his dog too!¡± ¡°Ah? So this was what dogs were for? He could guard the house. Then I¡¯m going to keep one too. Although I¡¯m only growing carrots now, it¡¯s still a heartache to lose it. ¡± ¡°But dogs are expensive. You can only afford them with money!¡± You could use in-game currency in Leisure Farm, but not everything could be bought. What could be bought with money was basically some decorative parts, such as the exterior of the house, fence, dog house, and so on. In addition, some special functions also required a small amount of money to activate, such as buying dogs, dog food, upgradingnd, and so on. Upgrading normalnd to Red Land, cknd, and even goldnd would cost some money. Of course, it could also be activated by saving up gold coins, but the gold coins spent would be much more expensive than the actual currency. Because gold coins could actually be exchanged for physical objects, it was equivalent to a channel of conversion between in-game coins and real money. Of course, there were also some things that could only be obtained by topping up, such as dog food. Since Overwatch was a free game, many yers had Overwatch and Thunderbolt gaming tform in their gaming pods. Therefore, Leisure Farm¡¯s promotion went smoothly, and even some yers who didn¡¯t y Overwatch or use Thunderbolt Game Pass downloaded Leisure Farm. ¡°Hurry up! Anyone ying Leisure Farm can add each other as friends and steal vegetables from each other!¡± ¡°Why didn¡¯t you y Leisure Farm? Hurry up, I¡¯m still waiting to steal your vegetables!¡± Very quickly, Leisure Farm expanded in the circle of VR gamers at an unscientific speed ... After all, the soothing mode of the VR gaming pod was only one fun game, so the speed of expansion waspletely beyond most people¡¯s imagination ... ¡­¡­ At the same time, many Studios had their eyes on the new game. ¡°What? This game can actually be exchanged for real items? Is this a new feature made by a new designer? aren¡¯t you afraid of losing money?¡± ¡°Hehehehe, it¡¯s our turn to show off our skills!¡± ¡°Hurry up and download the game to all the VR gaming pods in the studio. Everyone, go and steal the game!¡± However, the strange thing was that those big studios didn¡¯t seem to have any ideas about Leisure Farm. These small studios did not mind. To these Studios, they were just worried that there wouldn¡¯t be any games to y in soothing mode, and Leisure Farm was just right in front of their mouths. In immersed mode, yers could only y for a maximum of four hours before they had to rest or enter soothing mode. However, yers could y for a long time in the rxing mode. They could even y for more than eight hours in a row because this mode did not cause too much fatigue. Each gaming pod in these Studios had three to four boosters, and these people could take turns ying and stealing vegetables 24 hours a day. You might not believe it, but on the third day after Leisure Farm¡¯s release, many Studios set up a vegetable stealing team ... After all, the gold coins could be directly exchanged for physical objects. When the physical objects were sold, wouldn¡¯t that be equivalent to exchanging them for money? Of course, these Studios didn¡¯t just steal vegetables, they also grew their own vegetables. Because Chen Mo set a limit, there was a limit to the number of times a yer could steal vegetables and the number of times a yer could be stolen in their field. Otherwise, it would be extremely beneficial for yers who had plenty of time to steal vegetables. Compared to the ie from stealing vegetables, he would gain more from growing his own vegetables. ¡°The specialized auxiliary equipment is ready. With this, you can steal vegetables with one key!¡± ¡°Really? Quickly insert it into the VR gaming pod and try it out. With this, we can save a lot of effort!¡± Very quickly, someone in the studio developed a vegetable stealing plug-in specifically for Leisure Farm. After all, the game was too simple, and it was not difficult to make such a plug-in. However, after inserting it into the VR gaming pod, everyone was dumbfounded. ¡°Unknown external equipment has been detected in your VR gaming pod. Logging in denied.¡± ¡°F * ck, what¡¯s this situation?¡± ¡°I don¡¯t know how it detected an external device.¡± ¡°F * ck, isn¡¯t this the same detection mechanism as ¡®Overwatch¡¯?¡± ¡°Oh no, this plug-in can¡¯t be used ...¡± ¡°F * ck, Chen Mo actually included all the anti-cheat moves from Overwatch into Leisure Farm?¡± ¡°F * ck, it seems that it¡¯s impossible to use plug-ins. I can only steal vegetables manually!¡± ¡°Shush, you can¡¯t tell anyone about this, you hear me? Otherwise, our studio¡¯s face will bepletely lost!¡± Chapter 506

Chapter 506: With your level of arithmetic, you¡¯re basically bidding farewell to the studio

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As soon as the rm went off, the studio¡¯s boosters went online on time and entered the game cabin to collect the dishes. These people worked in shifts. Crops now took about five to eight hours to ripen, which meant that it was entirely possible for them to ripen in the middle of the night. In order to prevent their vegetables from being stolen, the studio¡¯s boosters had to set an rm ande online on time to collect the vegetables. It was originally ¡°Leisure Farm¡±, but they had turned it into a cultivation farm ... These people often had several ounts in their hands, and they would nt and collect them at the same time. After logging into his second ount, the booster suddenly felt that something was wrong. ¡°What¡¯s going on? Why did it seem like a batch of radishes on this ount had been stolen? There¡¯s actually someone who can cultivate more than me?¡± He didn¡¯t think too much about this boosting. Maybe someone just happened to be cultivating until thiste. When he logged into his second ount, why did it seem like radish had been stolen again? At first, he thought that this was a coincidence, but when he asked the others, it seemed that all their radishes had been stolen! And looking at the rted records, the person who stole their radishes was the same person, NZX! ¡°F * ck, what¡¯s up with this guy? How did he do it?¡± ¡°Could it be that they were followed by the footprints in the farnd?¡± ...... Chen Mo made some new innovations for stealing vegetables. Originally, in most farm games, only friends could steal vegetables from each other, but Leisure Farm was different. In a friend¡¯s farm, one could head to a friend¡¯s friend¡¯s farm. In theory, if one was not afraid of trouble, one could follow this clue to any yer¡¯s farm. Also, if you stole someone¡¯s fruit, you would leave Footprints on the Farm. This yer can track the location of your farm through the footprints. Obviously, these workshops ¡®farm ounts had stolen from many others and left footprints in many ces. NZX should have followed them directly through the footprints. These workshops ¡®farm ounts were basically all good friends. After tracking them down, he could wipe out the entire workshop¡¯s farm ounts. These Studios were furious. It had always been us who stole from others, but this NZX actually stole from us? Really, what could be tolerated! ¡°Come, let¡¯s steal it back!¡± These people followed the footprints that NZX had left to steal the vegetables and arrived at his farm. However, they were dumbfounded the moment they entered. The farm was full of the lowest grade white radishes, and there were even three dogs, all of whom were eyeing these people covetously! ¡°F * ck, why are they all the cheapest white radishes? and they even have three dogs?!¡± ¡°These radishes ... Aren¡¯t worth much ...¡± ¡°Even if it¡¯s not worth much, I still have to steal it. I can¡¯t lose my pride.¡± ¡°Big brother, calm down. Where are the three dogs? think about it.¡± ¡°I¡¯ve decided, I must steal!¡± One of the boosters walked up and was about to steal a carrot. As soon as he pulled one out, he was bitten by three Mad Dogs. ¡°Emma, Emma! Hurry up and run!¡± Under the siege of the three dogs, the radishes in the booster¡¯s arms quickly fell to the ground, and he didn¡¯t get a single one. Not only that, but the booster was also injured all over, and he had to spend more than 3000 Yuan on medical expenses. The substitute yers ¡®faces were solemn. F * ck, they¡¯ve met a tough one! It felt like this lzx was a professional at stealing vegetables to get rich? He only grew the cheapest white radish and kept three dogs. Obviously, he was afraid of revenge! While these boosters were still struggling, another booster shouted,¡±¡±Sigh, my newly ripened dish was stolen by this NZX again!¡± ¡°What¡¯s going on? Didn¡¯t you say that you can¡¯t steal if the farm owner is online?¡± ¡°Yeah, but how can I be online all the time? I have a few ounts. When I went to check on one of them, the other ounts were stolen!¡± ¡°F * ck you! This kid is cheating, right? How could he be more diligent than all of us?¡± ¡°Could it be that we have encountered the legendary professional vegetable thief?¡± Chen Mo sneezed in the game cabin while stealing vegetables. ¡°Hehe, you want topete with your brother¡¯s reaction? I killed the artificial intelligence Origin. You guys are still too young ...¡± The studio¡¯s boosters were speechless. ¡°What do we do? It was impossible to guard against! I feel that this kid will be a formidable enemy!¡± ¡°Why don¡¯t we ... Buy a dog too?¡± ¡°Damn, dog food is expensive. Dog food is calcted by the day!¡± ¡°We still have to buy it! If you don¡¯t buy it, you won¡¯t be able to stop this kid. If you want him to steal every single radish, that¡¯s money. These gold coins can be exchanged for real items!¡± ¡°That seems to be the case. Then let¡¯s buy it!¡± These boosters thought for a moment and decided to buy a dog! As the saying goes, there is no return without effort. In order to save up more gold coins to exchange for more expensive prizes such as mobile phones,puters, and VR gaming pods, the workshops decided to give each farm ount a dog. This would greatly reduce the losses of each farm! ¡°Hehe, this time I¡¯d like to see if that NZX dares toe again!¡± ¡°That¡¯s right, if youe again, I¡¯ll bite you to death!¡± ¡°Every farm has stolen a dog. Let¡¯s see how you can steal it!¡± A few boosters specifically waited for their farm crops to ripen before entering the farm two minutester, hoping to find the stealing NZX. Maybe she could even see him being bitten by a dog! In the end, there really was a booster who managed to get to NZX. This guy was wearing a police uniform and a Red Hat, with a big ¡°Xiu¡± word on the back. To the booster¡¯s surprise, NZX did not steal the vegetables at all. Instead, it squatted beside the vegetable field and looked at the dogs in the farm with satisfaction. This expression made it seem as if the dog was actually his own ... What was going on? ¡°This kid is quite tactful. He doesn¡¯t dare to steal vegetables anymore, afraid of being bitten by a dog.¡± The booster walked up and said happily,¡±¡±So, you don¡¯t dare to steal vegetables anymore?¡± ¡°Your dog looks pretty good,¡± said NZX cheerfully.¡±How much did you buy it for?¡± ¡°I didn¡¯t spend much,¡± the booster said calmly.¡±It¡¯s only 50000 gold coins. I¡¯ve saved it up in a few days.¡± ¡°Then what about your dog food?¡± ¡°Dog food is more expensive.¡± The booster was silent for a moment. ¡°How much is it?¡± EZX asked. ¡± 30 yuan for three days ... That¡¯s none of your business!¡± The booster said. ¡°Then have you calcted how much the vegetables you¡¯ve stolen and grown for the past three days can be sold for when added together?¡± The booster was dumbfounded. He really hadn¡¯t calcted this in detail. Not to mention him, even the entire studio had not counted carefully. lzxughed,¡±you don¡¯t know?¡± Then let me tell you, at your current level, even if you don¡¯t lose a single vegetable and steal all of them every day, your daily ie will at most be five Yuan. After ying for two months, you can probably cover the cost of the dog food. If you want to use the gold coins in the game to exchange for a VR gaming pod, it might take at least a year. ¡± Chapter 507

Chapter 507: Chapter 506-spying on the enemy again!

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The booster was shocked. Such a pervert! There was nothing they could do about it, because the studio had not carefully calcted how much money they could earn before! This was because a lot of the data was hidden, such as the maturity time of each crop, the specific price when it was sold, and so on. The number of fruits that each seed produced was not fixed. It fluctuated randomly within a certain range. Moreover, he could steal other people¡¯s vegetables every day. In fact, the real profit every day was rtively difficult to calcte. Obviously, this studio didn¡¯t calcte it seriously. They just thought that they could make money by doing this, so they did it. After all, this was a free game without much investment. Now, after being reminded by NZX, this booster suddenly realized that it didn¡¯t seem to be profitable. Moreover, he seemed to have lost money in order to buy this dog ... lzx patted him on the shoulder happily.¡±¡±Alright, with your level of mathematics, you guys are basically saying goodbye to the studio ...¡± ¡­¡­ A lot of Studios were cursing at Chen Mo, saying that there was no such thing in the world, Chen Mo had clearly nned it all out! It was no wonder that those big studios didn¡¯t have any ideas about this game, because they all had some professional numerical calction staff. After some calction, they knew that the profit of this game was very low! ...... Only some small studios that were less experienced would do it after thinking that the game¡¯s currency could be exchanged for physical items and would definitely make money. In the end, he was being taught a lesson every minute ... Obviously, exchanging in-game currency for physical objects was a bigger gimmick to attract more yers to enter. It was like some tabletop games where game coins were used to exchange for physical objects. If you wanted to have so many game coins, you first had to top up enough money or win enough money. To designers, the wooles from the sheep¡¯s body. It might seem like they were giving the yers a lot of benefits, but they were actually bought with the money they earned from the yers. Not only did these Studios not make any money from Leisure Farm, they even bought a bunch of dogs and paid Chen Mo ... Of course, it was possible to use game coins to exchange for real items in the game, but many people ignored the time cost of the game. If you wanted to use game coins to exchange for even the lowest-level top-up card, you would have to y for a long time. During this time, the yers would be part of the game experience, just like the free yers in games with paywalls. So no matter how he looked at it, Chen Zhao was still earning ... For the rich yers, they didn¡¯t care about the actual items, they only cared about the pleasure of stealing other people¡¯s vegetables and not having their own stolen. They would rather spend money on dogs, which was a source of ie for Chen Mo. For yers who were reluctant to spend money, a few top-up cards were enough to make them jealous. These people would rather go online on time to steal food and be calctive. Even though they earned a bit of money, they invested a lot of time and provided active users for Leisure Farm, so Chen Mo still earned. The game also provided Chen Mo with an endless supply of happiness and resentment points ... Stealing other people¡¯s vegetables would produce happiness points; If the vegetables were stolen or bitten by a dog, resentment points would be generated. Although the happiness and resentment points were rtively small, it was still meat no matter how small it was. Especially after teasing the studio ounts, Chen Mo felt a huge wave of grudges, which made himugh out loud. Not only that, the game store also provided Chen Mo with a lot of grudges. A lot of people posted on the inte,¡±F * ck, Leisure Farm¡¯s store system is too F * cking deceptive!¡± A gray ck fertilizer! It will turn ck and turn into a gray fertilizer! A lot of people were tortured by the name of the fertilizer, and every time they bought fertilizer, Chen Mo would gain a huge amount of grudges. ¡°Hehehe, I can earn so many grudges just by making such a simple game. I¡¯m really a genius!¡± Chen Zhao thought happily. ¡­¡­ ¡­¡­ While Chen Mo was busy making games to earn hatred points, hispetitors weren¡¯t idle either. Outside the experience store, a tall and beautiful woman was looking inside. ¡°Okay, calm down. I¡¯m just an ordinary yer now. I came here from another city to experience the game.¡± The beauty mumbled to herself as she calmed herself down. She patted her chest and walked into the experience store. Her name was Feng yingwan, and like Jin jieguang, she was here to spy on the enemy. To be precise, she was sent by Jin jieguang. Recently, Jin jieguang always felt his left eyelid twitching, and he couldn¡¯t sleep well. Although the project of gunfire was still steadily developing and had mostlypleted the game, Jin jieguang still felt that something was wrong. Thest time Jin jieguang came to spy on the enemy, he was duped by Chen Mo and even ¡°ancient catastrophe¡± was ruined. This time, Jin jieguang still felt that something was wrong, but he couldn¡¯t put his finger on it. The biggest question was, why would Chen Mo talk so much about his future ns? Logically speaking, Chen Mo¡¯s personality was just like his name. He didn¡¯t like to talk much, especially when it came to gaming. Chen Mo always held back. Was there any conspiracy or trap waiting for him to jump into? But Jin jieguang couldn¡¯t figure it out. What conspiracy could there be? All of them were copied from Overwatch, just with an additionalpetitive mode. No matter how one looked at it, there was no problem. Maybe Chen Mo was so excited after winning so many awards that he decided to share his future ns? He felt that something was wrong. Jin jieguang was not at ease, so he decided to send Feng yingwan over to spy on the enemy¡¯s situation. This time, Jin jieguang was more cautious. He highly suspected that Chen Zhao already knew him, so he couldn¡¯te personally. Feng yingwan was a new employee who had just joined two months ago. As a young and beautiful girl, she should have a natural advantage in spying on the enemy, right? Feng yingwan was also very nervous. Before he left, Jin jieguang had repeatedly told him that Chen Zhao was an extremely dangerous person and that he had to be extremely careful! However, from the photo, Chen Zhao looked quite young and had a kind, no, delicate face. Feng yingwan had the illusion that Chen Mo was just an ordinary senior. How could this kind of person be extremely dangerous? However, Feng yingwan also reminded herself again and again that one should not judge a book by its cover. She was now dealing with an S-grade videogame designer, a dangerous character that gave the entire Emperor dynasty entertainment a headache. If he let his guard down, he was afraid that this mission would only end in a crushing defeat! Feng yingwan entered the living room and saw Chen Mo sitting on the sofa reading a book. Did he find his target so easily? He wasn¡¯t quite used to it. Feng yingwan suddenly felt like backing out. She thought that it would take some time to see Chen Mo after entering the experience store, but Chen Mo was sitting on the sofa in the living room. This made her feel very ufortable, as if all her ns had been ruined. Feng yingwan calmed down and sat on the sofa opposite Chen Mo to greet him. Chapter 508

Chapter 508: A serious setback in spying!

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¡°Hello, manager.¡± Chen Zhao looked up and nodded politely.¡±¡±Hello,¡± he said. Feng yingwan thought to herself,¡±en, not bad, the n is going very smoothly.¡± ording to the information, acquaintances would call Chen Zhao manager. If he called him President Chen, he would definitely be exposed. If she called him manager, it meant that she was a regr customer. This way, Chen Zhao would have a better first impression of her. Of course, Chen Mo couldn¡¯t remember all the regr customers in the store, so Feng yingwan had the chance to get away with it. ¡°Manager, why don¡¯t you have work today?¡± Feng yingwan asked tentatively. While reading, Chen Zhao said nonchntly,¡±¡±Oh, today¡¯s calendar shows that it¡¯s not suitable for work.¡± Feng yingwan was speechless. What the hell? The lunar calendar indicated that it was not suitable for work, so he did not work. What kind of shady lunar calendar was this? That¡¯s just an excuse you made for not wanting to work! As expected, being a boss meant doing whatever he wanted! ¡°Aren¡¯t you here to experience the game?¡±Chen Mo asked casually. ...... Feng yingwan was shocked. What was going on? Had he been exposed? However, she quickly calmed down. Chen Zhao was probably testing her. Calm down, I have a n. ¡°I had an argument with my boyfriend today. I¡¯m in a bad mood, so I came to the experience store for a while.¡± Feng yingwan said as she ran her fingers through her hair. This was also the excuse he had thought of before. In fact, there were many regr customers who came to the experience store when they had nothing to do, either to y games or to chat with others to change their mood. Moreover, Feng yingwan¡¯s statement also had a little hint. Now that she had quarreled with her boyfriend, maybe some people would have a chance. Coupled with her beautiful face and hot body, Feng yingwan was very confident. Very few men could remain calm under such a hint. ¡°Oh,¡± Chen Zhao replied.¡±Why did you fight?¡± ¡°Because he sent me a message today, saying,¡±I¡¯m not sure if he¡¯s a good person. ¡°I¡¯ll take you out for a ride on my motorcycle after dinner, okay?¡± ¡°What¡¯s wrong?¡± Chen Mo was confused.¡±Is there a problem with that?¡± ¡°He didn¡¯t even add the word ¡®baby¡¯ when he said that, so he¡¯s not romantic at all!¡± Feng Ying said. ¡°Oh!¡± Chen Zhao suddenly realized.¡±I see.¡± Feng yingwan smiled at Chen Mo,¡±manager, you won¡¯t do that, right?¡± Then ... Manager, if you were to say this to me, what would you say?¡± ¡°Oh?¡± Chen Zhao thought for a moment.¡±After dinner, I¡¯ll take you for a ride on my precious motorcycle, okay?¡± Feng yingwan was speechless. ¡°Resentment +333!¡± There was indeed a treasure added, so there didn¡¯t seem to be anything wrong with it. But why did it feel like something was wrong? Feng yingwan forcefully suppressed her urge to ridicule him. After thinking for a long time, she decided to change the topic. ¡°Manager, I¡¯m actually very interested in game design. I wonder if you can teach me a few things? Who knows, I might be a video game designer in the future. ¡± Chen Zhao looked at her.¡±Of course you can. You just need to pay some school fees.¡± Feng yingwan was overjoyed. She did not expect Chen Mo to actually agree to it! If she could be Chen Zhao¡¯s apprentice, it would be worth the money! He might be able to get more information, and since Chen Mo said he only needed to pay tuition, Emperor dynasty entertainment should pay ... Right? Feng yingwan nodded her head in a hurry.¡±Sure. How much is the tuition fee?¡± Chen Zhao thought for a moment.¡±Pay me every month. 1% of my monthly ie.¡± Feng yingwan thought for a moment. One percent? That wasn¡¯t expensive. After all, the other party was an S-grade videogame designer. It was already very generous of him to charge only 1% of his monthly ie as tuition! ¡°How much exactly?¡± Feng yingwan asked tentatively. Ten thousand?¡± ¡°No, 7 million.¡± Chen Mo shook his head. Feng yingwan was speechless. On second thought, Chen Mo had quite a few cash cows on hand, like League of Legends and Overwatch. They were both gaining momentum, and together with his previous works, each one of them would make a lot of money ... But a monthly school fee of 7 million? F * ck, you¡¯re not kidding me, are you? When the time came to apply for funding from Jin jieguang, he would say,¡±CEO Jin, I want to go undercover with Chen Zhao. I need you to pay for my tuition.¡± Jin jieguang was definitely going to say,¡±no problem, how much do you want for the tuition?¡± A monthly school fee of 7 million. Wouldn¡¯t they be kicked out of Emperor dynasty entertainment? It seemed that he could not be an apprentice anymore. Feng yingwan wasn¡¯t discouraged. She had a sh of inspiration and thought of a new idea. ¡°By the way, manager, I heard that you¡¯re really good at games. I really like ying games too. Why don¡¯t we y a few rounds together?¡± Feng yingwan had long heard that Chen Mo not only liked making games, but also ying games. He even beat the AI in Warcraft. It could be said that no matter what game he yed, Chen Mo was an expert. Feng yingwan even practiced Warcraft for a period of time, but the game was too difficult. She yed for a while but was still a noob, so she had no choice but to give up. However, Feng yingwan was ying League of Legends quite well, and she was also in the diamond League now. She couldn¡¯tpare to Chen Mo, but a girl with a diamond rank should be pretty rare, right? Coupled with her looks and figure, Feng yingwan was confident that Chen Mo would see her in a different light. Chen Mo said nonchntly while reading,¡±¡±What game are you ying?¡± Feng yingwan said proudly,¡±my League of Legends is in the diamond section. How about it, manager? do you want to y a couple of rounds with us?¡± ¡°Sure,¡± Chen Mo nodded,¡±but I¡¯ll have to test your skills first.¡± ¡°Sure,¡± Feng yingwan nodded. Other things aside, she did have the standard of a diamond Ranker, so she was not afraid of being tested. Chen Mo pointed at a girl in the PC experience area,¡±¡±If you can beat her in a solo match, I¡¯ll y duo mode with you.¡± ¡°Okay, no problem!¡± Feng yingwan nodded. If it was a male yer, Feng yingwan would feel a little guilty. After all, the experience store was full of crouching tigers and hidden dragons. If a King were to pop out, who could reason with him? However, for girls, the diamond rank was already very high. Feng yingwan was confident that she would not lose to any girl in a solo. ¡°Anyway, I just need to beat this girl once, right?¡± Feng yingwan asked. Chen Mo nodded. Only then did Feng yingwan rx. It didn¡¯t matter even if he identally lost, as long as he won one round! After walking over, Feng yingwan realized that this girl¡¯s looks seemed to be better than hers, and she also seemed to have a unique temperament that made her feel very ufortable. ¡°I feel like this girl has a special rtionship with the manager. It seems like I have to defeat this girl to gain the manager¡¯s trust!¡± Feng yingwan made up her mind. She wanted to show off her diamond skills to Chen Mo. ¡­¡­ An hour and a halfter. Feng yingwan came back with a pale face. Chen Zhao looked at him.¡±How is it? did you win?¡± The corners of Feng yingwan¡¯s mouth twitched,¡±No... What¡¯s her level?¡± It feels so strong?¡± ¡°Oh, you mean li jingsi?¡± Chen Mo asked. She¡¯s just an ordinary King tier, and she¡¯s even a bit weaker than me. ¡± Feng yingwan was speechless. ¡°Enmity points +999!¡± Chapter 509

Chapter 509: The prototype is out

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Feng yingwan felt that things weren¡¯t good. Chen Mo didn¡¯t seem to be following the rules at all. If this continued, not to mention not being able to obtain any information, even his identity might be exposed. Just then, the elevator door opened and a young man walked out. ¡°Manager,¡± Qian Kun said to Chen Mo,¡±we¡¯ve been talking about creating a new hero for Overwatch. We don¡¯t have enough people right now. What do you think ...¡± ¡°Oh.¡± Chen Mo thought for a moment,¡±then we can put the Overwatch on hold and make a new game first.¡± Qian Kun was a little hesitant,¡±also, there are yers on the inte urging us to release the rankingpetition mode. What do you think ...¡± Chen Mo said,¡±let¡¯s focus on the new game first. It¡¯s an important part of the game¡¯syout and has the highest priority.¡±As for Overwatch, there were no strong games topete with for the time being, so he did not have to worry too much. The otherpanies ¡®games won¡¯t be released until at least two monthster, so it won¡¯t be toote for us to start the qualifying mode then. ¡± Qian Kun nodded.¡±Alright, manager. We¡¯ll get back to the new game.¡± The two of them didn¡¯t speak in detail, but Feng yingwan could still hear some clues from it. Chen Mo was busy with the new game and had put the development of Overwatch on hold. Indeed, this exined why Chen Mo still hadn¡¯t released the ranked mode for Overwatch. It was because he felt that it would take at least two months for the otherpanies to develop a game simr to Overwatch, so he was not in a hurry. Moreover, it seemed like Chen Mo ced a lot of importance on this phone and the games that came with it, which was why he put all his energy into it and didn¡¯t ce much importance on Overwatch. ...... ¡°That¡¯s right, this is very useful information. Chen Mo doesn¡¯t know the actual speed of our development, he¡¯s only estimating it based on normal speed.¡± Feng yingwan was extremely excited in her heart, but on the surface, she still pretended to bepletely uninterested, as if she was really a yer who had nothing to do with it. After chatting with Chen Mo for a while, Feng yingwan realized that she couldn¡¯t get any useful information out of him. It wasn¡¯t that Feng yingwan didn¡¯t want to ask Chen Mo about the Overwatch, but Chen Mo was very cautious and would always change the topic whenever it came to the topic. Also, Feng yingwan didn¡¯t dare to ask too deliberately. If Chen Zhao found something and suspected her, it would be bad. After chatting for a while, Feng yingwan pretended to be an ordinary game enthusiast and went to the PC experience area to y League of Legends for a few rounds before leaving the experience store. Although the harvest of this spying trip was not big, they had collected some useful information. Feng yingwan truthfully reported this information to Jin jieguang. There were two main pieces of information. One was that Chen Mo ced a lot of importance on the new handheld game and game, even transferring the people in charge of developing theter versions of League of Legends and Overwatch to take part in the development of the new game. This caused the update speed of the other two games to slow down. The second was that Chen Mo estimated that other video gamepanies would take at least two months toplete their Overwatch. Therefore, during this period of time, he was not in a hurry to update the content of the Overwatch or go online for ranking matches. Jin jieguang carefully judged the authenticity of the two messages. The final conclusion was that it was highly credible. Everyone knew how much Chen Mo valued mobile phones. This time, it could be said that he was challenging everyone¡¯smon sense and had obviously received a lot of criticism. A person like Chen Mo who loved face pping wouldn¡¯t be able to stand being pped in the face by others, so it was normal for him to put in a lot of effort into making this phone and the game that came with it. On the contrary, it would be a problem if Chen Mo wasn¡¯t interested in the phone. As for Overwatch, it was still considered a pioneer in the rted field and was still in the stage of expansion. Other gamepanies were also trying to make games simr to Overwatch, but their progress was not as fast. Chen Mo¡¯s estimate of the time waspletely urate, but Emperor dynasty entertainment was different. Emperor dynasty entertainment already had a solid foundation. They had the leftover materials from the fps game Wolf Soul and the MOBA game ancient catastrophe. Many of these were ready-made. In addition, Lin chaoxu ced a lot of importance on this project and allocated a lot of manpower and resources to it, so the development was very fast. In other words, Chen Mo had originally estimated that these new games would only be released in two months, but in reality, gunfire could release a ranked version in five weeks. Jin jieguang felt that it was a great opportunity for Chen Mo to release the ranking tournament before Overwatch, but Chen Mo didn¡¯t seem to realize it. After receiving this information, Jin jieguang felt more at ease. Gunfire history had entered the final stage of development and fine tuning. Whether or not the humiliation of ancient catastrophe could be washed away depended on this one move! ¡­¡­ Zhou Jiangping¡¯s office. Chen Zhao sat on the sofa. A staff member ced a white box in front of him. ¡°Mr. Chen,¡± Zhou Jiangping said,¡±open it and try. See if there¡¯s any difference from what you¡¯ve expected.¡± The first Switch prototype had been produced, and it had gone through many adjustments. Many of the technologies werepletely different from the ones Chen Mo used in his previous life. However, from the outside, it didn¡¯t look too different from the Swtich from Chen Mo¡¯s previous life. After all, it was made ording to Chen Mo¡¯s drawings. It looked lighter than the Switch in his previous life, with a smaller frame, and a stronger back and screen. It was estimated that the drop resistance performance was also very good. The size was the same as the Switch in his previous life, but because the ck edges of the screen were smaller, the screen was actually slightlyrger than the Switch screen in his previous life. Zhou Jiangping handed the card to Chen Mo with aplicated expression.¡±¡±It is indeed very bitter ...¡± ¡°Huh?¡± Chen Mo was amused.¡±You really licked it?¡± Zhou Jiangping didn¡¯t say anything. His pained expression had already proven everything ... ¡°That¡¯s a boss indeed,¡± Chen Mo said emotionally.¡±He can do what others can ¡®T. I¡¯m impressed.¡± Zhou Jiangping felt that Chen Mo¡¯s words seemed to have an unspoken meaning, so he asked,¡±¡±President Chen, did you lick it too?¡± ¡°No, I¡¯m not stupid.¡± Chen Moughed. Zhou Jiangping was speechless. These cartridges were also custom-made, and there was a special machine that could write game content into them. This card contained a demo of ¡°super Mali Odyssey.¡± There was only one scene to test the operation of the game. Chen Mo removed the left and right controllers from the Switch and started the game to try it out. It was mainly to test out various operations, including jumping, flinging the hat, adjusting the angle of view, and so on. Apart from that, Chen Mo checked the vibration and body sensitivity of the game controller, and concluded that it could meet the requirements of the game. After all, this machine was checked by Zhou Jiangping and Lehui¡¯s rted technical personnel, so there would definitely be no problems with the quality. Zhou Jiangping couldn¡¯t possibly use apletely underrated handheld device to fool Chen Mo. Chen Mo yed for a bit more and tried out some basic controls, then nodded in satisfaction. However, he also gave a few suggestions for improvement and hoped that Zhou Jiangping could further optimize the machine in the future. ¡°By the way,¡± Chen Mo asked,¡±director Zhou, about the follow-up proposal I told you aboutst time, are there any technical problems?¡± Chapter 510

Chapter 510: A n to integrate mobile phone and handphone

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Zhou Jiangping said,¡±well, the problem is that there may be some minor ws. It needs to be continuously optimized. It can be done.¡± ¡°You can¡¯t guarantee performance?¡± Chen Zhao asked.¡±What do you mean?¡± ¡°There might be a lot of problems,¡± Zhou Jiangping exined.¡±Including controller connection, game optimization, and so on. There¡¯s also a bigger problem in the eptance of the yers.¡± Chen Mo nodded,¡±it¡¯s okay, I¡¯m mentally prepared for this.¡± Anyway, can you write a feasibility report and analyze this n in detail?¡± ¡°Of course, I¡¯ll arrange for someone to do it immediately,¡± Zhou Jiangping replied. Chen Mo¡¯s follow-up n was tobine the phone and the handphone. In the future, Chen Mo suggested connecting the two handles of the Switch to the yers ¡®phones through Bluetooth or other means, so that the yers could y the games on the Switch on the phone. However, Chen Mo¡¯s first choice wasn¡¯t to use this n, but to redo Switch. This was because the n wasn¡¯t mature yet, and he needed to use Switch to pave the way. Just like what Zhou Jiangping had said, with the current level of technology in the parallel world, it was possible to do it, but it would create problems that would affect the gaming experience of the yers. The first problem was the size of the screen. The Switch¡¯s screen was the limit for a portable handheld device, but even so, it could barely disy the game with the smallest screen. Games like ¡°Odyssey¡± and ¡°the legend of celda¡± would feel veryfortable on TV, and it would be okay on the Switch. It wouldn¡¯t be depressing, but if it were on the phone, the screen would suddenly be a few times smaller, and it would definitely feel particrly sullen. It would even be difficult to read some words. After all, mobile phones had to be designed with portability in mind. Although there were many mobile phones with superrge screens, most people preferred mobile phones that could be held in one hand. ...... With the screen so much smaller, it would definitely affect the experience. The second problem was the phone¡¯s capacity,patibility, heat dissipation, and so on. Although the cell phone capacity in this world was veryrge, mobile phones at the same price range were definitely not as good as the Switch in terms of ying games because the Switch was a special game console. The third problem was thepatibility of the phone and the game controller. It wasn¡¯t that they couldn¡¯t fit, but he had to develop the game controller first. One could only experience the true fun of the game by ying it with two controllers. It was impossible to y the game with a touch screen and a virtual joystick. In the parallel world, the main trouble in the development of the Switch was the two joysticks, and the screen was nothing more than arge mobile phone. The Switch prototype was now ready. Chen Mo could consider connecting the controller to his phone. Other than that, Chen Zhao had other ns. Of course, Chen Mo didn¡¯t think that a brand new handheld game and a brand new game would make most yers pay for it. After all, this world didn¡¯t have the same spending habits as his previous world. For many people, the Switch was a new thing, and they would just wait and see. Therefore, in order to help the yers make up their minds, Chen Mo introduced a variety of marketing strategies in a friendly manner. First, he had to make sure that the game controller could be connected to the phone. The game controller was sold separately for about 500 yuan. Second, Switch would run on Thunderbolt gaming tform by default, encouraging all independent game designers on Thunderbolt gaming tform to make their games support Switch. Wasn¡¯t it just to expand the game library? That¡¯s easy, I have a bunch of indie games on hand, I¡¯ll add all the points I can. Since Chen Mo wasn¡¯t making it himself, he could just let the other designers make some changes. Some games were simpler and couldn¡¯t fully utilize the features of the Switch, but that didn¡¯t matter. He could just sell it at a cheaper price and get more discounts. Moreover, based on the performance of the magically modified Switch in the parallel world, it could fully support most of the standalone games on the market that were suitable for mobile and PC. At the same time, the handheld console would automatically connect to Thunderbolt gaming tform, and the games on it could be purchased and downloaded. The price of the handheld console was about 2000 Yuan. This price was actually not high, because just the two controllers cost 500 yuan. For the yers, buying a handheld game console was much more fun than a tablet. Of course, there would definitely be yers who would prefer to y on their phones to save money. That was why Chen Mo also sold the game controller and the connector for the phone to connect to the TV. However, Chen Mo believed that after ying for a while, many of these yers would still want to buy a Switch. The reason was simple. The screen wasrge, the battery life was long, the heat dissipation was good, the performance was good, and there was no need to worry about phone or message harassment ... ¡­¡­ After the first prototype of the Switch came out, Zhou Jiangping and le Hui¡¯s technical staff began to study the solution of connecting the controller to the phone. Chen Mo specifically told him that it didn¡¯t matter if the n wasn¡¯t perfect, at leaste up with a n first. This was a bait for many yers who didn¡¯t want to buy a handheld device. It could make them focus their attention. As for whether it was good or not? He could slowly optimize itter. In any case, the most important thing was to first throw out this concept. With the technological level of this world, it was only a matter of time and investment. Apart from that, Chen Mo was also working on Thunderbolt gaming tform¡¯s PC, mobile, and handheld gaming servers, and he was trying to connect the handheld console to any of them. ¡­¡­ The fifth ss of Chen Mo¡¯s first University of Life. After the second ss, Chen Mo didn¡¯t talk about handheld devices anymore. Instead, he started to look at the future development of mobile, PC, and VR. Apart from that, Chen Mo also gave a general overview of the future development of VR games. ¡°With the help of super artificial intelligence, the entire game world may be a highly unified game system. By then, even the designers can only guess a fraction of the rules of the game.¡± ¡°This will make the game world closer to the real world. A slight change will affect the whole, and everyone can create history in the game.¡± It was the fifth ss today. After Chen Mo finished, there was still half an hour left in the ss. The students and teachers were all surprised. Chen Mo had actually miscalcted the time? Some new lecturers would often miscalcte the time. Sometimes, if they spoke too fast, the ss would not be over, but the prepared content would have been finished. At that time, they could only chat awkwardly with the students. Chen Mo had been talking so well before, why was he talking so fast today? However, many of the students were excited. Did this mean that they couldmunicate directly with Chen Mo? Could he ask Chen Zhao some questions? But just as they were racking their brains to think of what questions to ask Chen Mo, Chen Mo seemed to have prepared for it as he took out a box from his bag. ¡°I¡¯d like to demonstrate this new handheld device to everyone.¡± Chen Mo said with a smile. Chapter 511

Chapter 511: This game will threaten the boat of friendship

Trantor: 549690339

¡°You¡¯ve already made the brand new Palm phone?¡± The professors and students below the podium were all shocked. It had only been two months, and he had already finished it? Even the sample has been taken out? Wasn¡¯t this efficiency a little too fast?! Everyone thought that Chen Mo would only bring out the prototype after the semester was over, and that he¡¯d have a special press conference. After all, one couldn¡¯t make a handphone on the spot. It was like designing a mobile phone. The various configurations,yout, and other ns had to be constantly revised. And Chen Mo did it so quickly, and was going to use the ssroom as a press conference? Everyone was in high spirits. It was a great honor to be able to witness this brand new mobile phone earlier than anyone else! Everyone stared at the box in front of Chen Zhao with wide eyes. Chen Mo calmly took out the Switch prototype from the box and showed it to everyone. ¡°Everyone, please take a look at the approximate size¡± The students below were all craning their necks to look at the podium. ¡°So big! It¡¯s much bigger than I imagined. ¡± ...... ¡°In order to ensure portability, this is the biggest we can make, right? If it¡¯s any bigger, it can really be used as a brick. ¡± ¡°This big screen should be fun to y with, but it¡¯s not as good as a tablet.¡± ¡°Would it be inconvenient to operate? When I y mobile games on the tablet, I feel size it¡¯s too big, and my fingers aren¡¯t long enough. ¡± The crowd was in a heated discussion, but Chen Mo didn¡¯t immediately answer their questions. Instead, he introduced the features of the phone. ¡°This handheld device is called Switch. It can be touched, but it¡¯s not used in most cases because we use these two things when we y games.¡± Chen Mo took two controllers from the phone and showed them to everyone. The two handles were very small, only slightly longer than an adult¡¯s middle finger and about two fingers wide. ¡°These two controllers have motion perception and vibration technology. As for the use of these technologies ... Everyone will know in a while. ¡± Chen Zhao took out a ck base from the box and connected it to the projector on the podium. ¡°Next, it¡¯s time to witness a miracle,¡± Chen Mo said with a smile. He ced the switch on the base, and after just two seconds, the image of the handheld console appeared on the projection. There was a burst of surprised exmations. This technique wasn¡¯t too difficult, and it wasn¡¯t anything to be surprised about. The main thing was that Chen Mo¡¯s movements were very shy. Chen Mo held the two controllers in his hands and exined how to use them. ¡°This is the correct way to hold it. Hold the two handles in your hands. Your index finger can hook the two keys above, and your thumb is responsible for pushing the handle and pressing the keys below. Of course, there are some special ways to use this controller. We¡¯ll see how to use it in the game. ¡± The big screen showed the game of Odyssey. ¡°Wow, it¡¯s so cute!¡± Some girls couldn¡¯t help but shout. The scene on the screen was Hat Country. The residents of Hat Country all wore all kinds of hats, and the architectural style of this ce was rted to hats. Even the houses were in the shape of hats. It looked like a fairy tale world, and all the girls present had stars in their eyes. ¡°Mali can do a lot of things in the game,¡± Chen Mo said.¡±But the main things are moving and using the hat.¡± ¡°Mali can jump, roll, run, and through various Special Operations, he can go to many special ces to collect various elements. I believe everyone can see that this game is suitable for all ages. ¡± As Chen Mo exined, he also demonstrated some special movement techniques. For example, with his left hand pressing down on yl and his right hand constantly swinging the game controller Mali would roll on the ground quickly. Chen Mo did a few fancy moves, such as jumping on a hat, a side flip, a squat jump, and a hat throw. The two handles would move up, down, and horizontally to trigger different actions. The students looked at Chen Zhao¡¯s actions in surprise. ¡°This feels so interesting. Is this a motion-sensing game?¡± ¡°I don¡¯t think it¡¯s a sensory game, but I feel like it¡¯s much more interesting than the average sensory game!¡± ¡°This method is quite novel, and the background design of the game seems quite interesting. Is it a fairy tale?¡± ¡°It feels like the earliest game genre, but it¡¯s much richer!¡± ¡°I¡¯m more interested in these two controllers. Although the game is well made, the main thing is that the control mode is very fun!¡± There were some motion-sensing games in the parallel world, but they were not the mainstream. Although VR games were very advanced, the game was yed in VR gaming pods through brainwaves, and the yer¡¯s body was not moving at all. On the other hand, motion-sensing games could at least allow you to y a little. It was both interesting and less tiring, so it was still favored by some yers. However, the biggest problem with motion-sensing games was that there were only a few ways to y them. For example, boxing or tennis, which were very boring. It might be fun for two people to fight, but it would be boring if they yed too much. ¡°Super Mali Odyssey¡± had rich game content and added some sensory modes, which made many people feel a little novel. ¡°I¡¯m sure everyone can feel the main advantage of this handheld device,¡±Chen Mo continued. ¡°The first is portable. Its screen was rtivelyrge, but it could also be put into a rtivelyrge pocket and carried around. This can be said to be apromise for the size of the phone and tablet. In terms of gaming experience, this size is the most suitable. ¡± ¡°The second is the controller¡¯s special sensory mode, which is much more convenient than mobile phone operations. Moreover, you can y the game in any position, whether you¡¯re sitting, lying down, or standing up. ¡± ¡°Also, we can y two-person mode. Does anyone want to try it out?¡± The students in the audience raised their hands. They were all curious as well. They had never seen this new model before, and it seemed to be quite interesting when Chen Mo was ying it. Chen Mo randomly selected a boy and a girl in the front row and changed the game mode to a two-person game. There would be a big change in the operation mode in the two-person mode, and one person would control Mali and the other person would control the cap capi. After exining the game to the two, Chen Mo stood to the side and watched them y. The boy controlled Mali and wandered around the map. On the other hand, the girl controlled happy to look around for any targets that could be controlled, including wooden stakes, gold coins, boxes, and so on. ¡°Hurry, hurry over there. There seems to be something good there!¡± ¡°Hey, wait, I want to see what¡¯s glowing here first.¡± ¡°Yeah, I feel like the game controller is vibrating. The hint says that if you squat down, you can step on it and get good stuff.¡± ¡°I¡¯m going to squat down for a moment ... Eh? A heart. ¡± ¡°Come, let¡¯s go over there and take a look.¡± ¡°Uh, I want to go there ...¡± ¡°Let¡¯s go over there first!¡± As the two of them yed, the smell of gunpowder came out. The boy controlling Mali wanted to explore the nearby area first, but the girl controlling the hat wanted to hurry to the distance to see what the glowing thing was. If they weren¡¯t in ss and under everyone¡¯s watchful eyes, the two of them might have already had a little conflict ... Chen Mo looked on with a smile. The boat of friendship was really overturned! Chapter 512 - The new handphone is amazing!

Chapter 512: The new handphone is amazing!

Trantor: 549690339

Half an hour of trial time had passed, but the two students were still not done. Super Mali Odyssey was such a game. Before getting started, one would think that the game was childish and was meant for children to y. However, after getting started, one would feel that the game was very toxic and one would not be able to stop once they started ying! During the game, everyone¡¯s childlike innocence was stimted to the maximum. They always felt that there seemed to be something hidden in every corner of the map. Every corner was extremely novel, like a fairy tale world full of mysteries, waiting for you to uncover them. The bell for the end of ss rang, but no one had any intention of leaving. Even the audience below the stage was watching with great enthusiasm. ¡°I feel that the design of these moons is very interesting. They can actually appear anywhere? It¡¯s like any strange corner on the map could hide the moon!¡± ¡°Yeah, and the two-yer mode seems to be different from other multiyer modes. One person controls the main character, and the other controls the hat?¡± ¡°And the hat can also possess other small animals! I was shocked when I possessed the frog. You can do this? Moreover, the frog¡¯s ability ispletely different from the main character ¡®s. It can jump higher, which means that for certain levels, you have to possess a specific animal to pass. ¡± ¡°Yeah, and the overall quality is pretty good. Looks like Chen Mo really put a lot of thought into this game.¡± ¡°And the motion-sensing mode of this game looks very fun. It¡¯s a pity that we can¡¯t use it when we¡¯re in pairs!¡± ¡°Of course, it¡¯s because ying alone and ying with two people arepletely different. When two people y, it¡¯s obviously mainly to fight ...¡± ¡°So, will you consider buying it when it¡¯s on sale? It looks fun. ¡± ¡°But it shouldn¡¯t be cheap, right? this game console costs at least 3000 Yuan? Its performance should be better than the mid-to-high-end cell phones on the market, and with the price of the game itself ... I can¡¯t afford it. ¡± ...... ¡°Chen Mo hasn¡¯t announced the price yet. How much is it?¡± Chen Mo looked at the time. It had been ten minutes since ss ended, but no one had any intention of leaving. He went to the podium and pped his hands.¡±¡±Alright, that¡¯s all for today¡¯s ss. If anyone is interested in this phone and game, you can buy it to y when it¡¯s on sale.¡± ¡°Mr. Chen Mo,¡± someone asked.¡±You haven¡¯t told me how much this is going to be sold for?¡± ¡°The price is 1999,¡± Chen Mo said.¡±That¡¯s the total price of the console and the controller. If you buy the controller, it¡¯ll be 499.¡± Chen Mo saw everyone¡¯s confusion, so he added,¡±¡±These two joysticks can be connected to the mobile phone in the future. This way, everyone can y mobile games on the mobile phone.¡± ¡°Other than that, most games on Thunderbolt gaming tform will support controller connection mode. In the future, Thunderbolt gaming tform¡¯s mobile, PC, and handheld consoles will all be connected. Of course, these ns are still in preparation, but they should be ready when it¡¯s officially released. ¡± The audience was shocked. It was obvious that Chen Mo¡¯s continuous release of handphones, games, and follow-up ns in the past half an hour had shocked everyone. Before this, many people thought that Chen Mo¡¯s phone would take a long time to make, and that it would be impossible for it to reach a perfect standard right from the start. But after seeing the prototype today, everyone realized that they were wrong. Chen Mo already knew the ultimate form of the phone! Fang Yubin, the president of the School of Game Design, and a few other professors sat in the back row, their faces full of shock and surprise. These people were considered professionals, and had a deeper understanding of the gaming industry than most students. After seeing the Switch and super Mali Odyssey, as well as Chen Mo¡¯s future marketing strategy, they all realized that the game had great potential! Clearly, Chen Mo didn¡¯t just release a single handheld game, but a new game mode. With the support of Thunderbolt gaming tform, Switch would have arge number of independent games. The more games there were on Thunderbolt gaming tform, the more the handheld device would benefit. That way, the problem of fewer games would be solved. At the same time, the positioning of the handheld device was very clear. It was prepared for the yers who had high requirements for the game¡¯s portability. For those who were unwilling to spend money on a phone, Chen Mo suggested apromise, which was to buy a controller and y on the phone. As for those who didn¡¯t care about the 1000 Yuan, in order to get a better gaming experience, they would definitely buy a whole set of handheld consoles. Moreover, even if everyone went to buy a controller instead of a handheld device, Chen Mo wouldn¡¯t lose out, because he could still make money just by selling controllers and games. Fang Yubin looked at the professor beside him and said,¡±¡±I didn¡¯t expect it to really be made. What do you think of the future of this mobile phone?¡± ¡°If it¡¯s just a handphone, I don¡¯t think it¡¯ll have a bright future,¡± the professor sighed.¡±But Chen Mo isn¡¯t just introducing a handphone. It¡¯s like introducing apletely new game mode, and it¡¯s filling in some of the gaps.¡± ¡°I think Chen Mo¡¯s idea is feasible, but we¡¯ll only know how many people will buy it after the release of the phone.¡± ¡­¡­ After thetest lecture video was uploaded to the inte, it immediately caused a huge uproar. Many people thought that Chen Mo¡¯s handheld device was still in the nning stage, or even that the n wasn¡¯t perfect yet. But he had already made a prototype? Someone had specially taken thest half an hour of the lecture video and posted it online. Soon, the yers saw the real scene of ¡°super Mali Odyssey¡± on the Switch! Everyone¡¯s reaction was as stunned as the students in the ss! They thought that Chen Mo woulde up with a game simr to the current mainstream mobile games, at most arge MMORPG, or a cross-era mobile card game. But what no one expected was that Chen Mo would release a game that waspletely different from any other mobile game on the market! The game was extremely casual and supported motion-sensing and two-person game modes. The target group of yers was very wide, and children over the age of ten and middle-aged and elderly people in their fifties and sixties could enjoy it. This kind of game was almost extinct in the current game market! Chen Mo even exined in ss that the controller could be connected to mobile phones in the future, and that Thunderbolt gaming tform would be installed on the handheld device, and most of the games on Thunderbolt gaming tform would support controller mode. In other words, this phone was mainly squeezing PC and mobile game users. Chapter 513

Chapter 513: Chapter 512-release, snatch!

Trantor: 549690339

As the topic continued to grow, Chen Mo¡¯s Weibo post caused another wave. This was the promotional video of the new handheld device. A pretty girl was ying Switch on the TV at home, and the game could be clearly seen from the TV. She was sprawled out on the sofa, her left and right hands making various poses from time to time, and Mali in the picture was constantly performing the corresponding actions. The scene changed to the airport. After taking a seat, the girl opened the stand behind the handheld device and started ying games on the ne. In the car, at the party ... She switched through several scenes in a row, and the girl was not only ying super Mali, but also many very simple mini-games with body sensitivity. Chen Mo also took some time to create a collection of mini-games, mainly from the 1 2 Switch, which included cowboy duels, milking, unarmedbat, table tennis, and so on. These mini-games were all the best choices at the party because these games didn¡¯t require one to stare at the screen. One only needed to look into the opponent¡¯s eyes to perform the motion control. In the promotional video, the girl and her best friend didn¡¯t look at the screen at all. Instead, they held the controller and looked at each other, making all kinds of poses, which was also novel to many people. After seeing Chen Mo¡¯s videos in ss and the handheld game¡¯s promotional videos, the videogame media¡¯s opinion changed. ¡°Maybe we all misunderstood Chen Mo¡¯s intentions. The biggest advantage of Switch is that itbines many things that we¡¯ve neglected into one device!¡± ¡°For example, we used to have motion-sensing games, but traditional motion-sensing games were too monotonous. Most yers wouldn¡¯t buy specialized equipment just to y one or two such monotonous motion-sensing games. ...... ¡°Another example is that there are many casual action games on the market, but none of them are as good as super Mali Odyssey. Although some games have a two-yer mode, a mode where one person controls the main character and the other person controls the hat has never appeared before!¡± ¡°The advantage of the Switch is that itbines all these elements that we ignore into one machine. Obviously, some of the current yers like motion-sense games and casual games. With the emergence of the Switch, these people can achieve these goals with the lowest cost!¡± ¡°Chen Mo has thoughtfully prepared two options for them. If they¡¯re still in a wait-and-see state and don¡¯t have a lot of money, they can just buy two game controllers. These two game controllers have both sensory and vibration technology, and they can still enjoy the game after connecting it to a phone orputer.¡± ¡°If you¡¯re interested in the game, you can buy a full set of handheld devices. It¡¯s not that expensive. Apart from the price of the controller, the handheld device only costs 1500 Yuan. It¡¯s a few levels ahead of cell phones at the same price range!¡± ¡­¡­ At the same time, many of Thunderbolt gaming tform¡¯s independent video game designers received the news as well. Chen Mo encouraged them to make their games with controllers. It was actually quite easy to change, since the controller had a set of basic rules. Chen Mo only needed to hand the rules over to the designers and let them do as they pleased. Casual games, light action games, and puzzle-solving games could all be upgraded to the mobile version without any pressure. Moreover, Chen Mo gave a ten percent discount to the designers for the mobile version, which was the same as encouraging them to make games specifically for the mobile version. Many indie video game designers saw this opportunity and made their games mobile, while some even considered making an indie game like the Odyssey that incorporated motion-sensing modes. Of course, most people were still in a wait-and-see state because no one knew if this new model would be epted by the yers. How many game controllers and handheld devices could be sold for waspletely uncertain. Everything would depend on sales! ¡­¡­ On May 1st, after nearly three months of preparation, the Switch was officially released with ¡°super Mali Odyssey¡±! This time, it was mainly online purchases. Like most mobile phones, the purchase link of the Switch was put up on the official website and severalrger shopping websites at the same time. Of course, in addition to ¡°super Mali Odyssey,¡± the Switch also came with many other mini-games by default, such as cowboy duels. These mini-games didn¡¯t have arge capacity, but for special asions such as parties and 2-man games, they best reflected the characteristics of the handheld. Before the release, the reviews of the Switch showed a prized characteristic. Some people¡¯s interest was ignited after watching the demo video of the Switch. They were surprised by the new sensory game and two-person game mode. They firmly believed that the Switch had some features that other devices did not have, such as a moreplete sensory system, which could be yed anytime, anywhere, and could be seamlessly connected to TV and other devices. This would be a very key advantage. However, there were also a lot of people who wereining, especially those who had argued with Chen Mo before. They still firmly believed that the phone wouldn¡¯t seed, and at most wouldn¡¯t make a profit. They had many reasons. On the one hand, with the poprity of smartphones, the positioning of handheld phones and mobile phones was somewhat repetitive. On the other hand, even if there were a PC and a VR gaming pod at home, there might not be people who would buy handheld phones to y on TV. Moreover, many people thought that even if Chen Mo used his Thunderbolt gaming tform to provide a huge library of games for the handheld device, most of the games were forcefully modified. yers could y on the phone as much as on theputer, so why would he y on the handheld device? These two groups of people were having a great time arguing, and all the results could only be decided when the sales volume was out. ¡­¡­ In the world one university dormitory. A few male students from the game design major were all crowded in front of theputer. ¡°It¡¯s going to be released at 10 am. There¡¯s still five minutes left. Get ready quickly.¡± ¡°There¡¯s no need to be in such a hurry, right? This isn¡¯t snatching a train ticket. ¡± ¡°It¡¯s hard to say. Chen Mo didn¡¯t announce the exact number of units in stock. If he didn¡¯t prepare enough, like only tens of thousands, wouldn¡¯t they all be sold out in an instant? There are so many yers supporting Chen Mo in the country!¡± ¡°That can¡¯t be, right? After all, there are only a few people like us who are willing to buy as soon as we appear. I think most people are just waiting to see what happens. ¡± ¡°Anyway, just be careful. We just need to grab one from each dormitory. It¡¯ll be embarrassing if we can¡¯t get a single one!¡± ¡°That¡¯s impossible. With my hand speed at snatching train tickets, isn¡¯t snatching a mobile phone a piece of cake?¡± Chapter 514

Chapter 514: Sold out in five minutes!

Trantor: 549690339

The four of them had already decided to buy Chen Mo¡¯s new phone. The Switch wasn¡¯t expensive. It only cost 2000 Yuan, so the four of them only needed to split 500 yuan each. Moreover, the console was also equipped with some games, especially super Mali Odyssey. Everyone had already seen the demo in the ss and felt that it was very fun. For these college students, the VR gaming pod was out of their reach. They couldn¡¯t afford it, and even if they could afford a dormitory, they couldn¡¯t put it in. As for theputers, the students puters were generally of lower specifications. It was still difficult to run somerge-scale PC games. After all, the students had no money, so many students bought rtively low-endptops. As for mobile phones, the main reason was that the screen was small and the operation was inconvenient. It couldn¡¯t bepared to cool devices like the Switch. On the one hand, buying the switch was a novelty, and on the other hand, it was a good price-performance ratio. It was only 500 yuan for the four of them, but if they wanted to buy a cell phone with simr specifications, they would have to spend at least 4000 to 5000 Yuan! ¡°Hurry, hurry, hurry, Time¡¯s Up!¡± ¡°No problem, I¡¯m ready. Refresh and grab the order!¡± ¡°Hey, F * ck, the schoolwork is connected! This F * cking inte!¡± ¡°Hurry up and do it again. Refresh it quickly. Don¡¯t drop the ball at this critical moment!¡± Just as they were about to start fighting, the school¡¯swork suddenly disconnected. Several people hurriedly checked thework connection, and it took five minutes to restore it. He quickly opened the shopping link on the official website and clicked to buy immediately. ¡°Why isn¡¯t there any response from the interface?¡± ...... ¡°What¡¯s with this hint? Sold out?¡± ¡°Let¡¯s try other shopping websites!¡± ¡°It¡¯s the same, there¡¯s no stock in Qi Lu!¡± ¡°Damn, really? what¡¯s going on? Is there a bug in the system?¡± The few of them were dumbfounded. What was going on? Sold out? How could it be sold out? it had only been on sale for five minutes! The few of them did not give up and went through a few more websites, but the results were all the same. They were all sold out! ¡°Why is this phone so simr to the Lehui phone? Was this hunger marketing? How did it sell out so soon after it was released?¡± ¡°Did you prepare too little? Don¡¯t tell me you¡¯ve only prepared a few thousand?¡± Many people recalled the fear of snatching Lehui cell phones. Because there were not enough Lehui cell phones, there were often fewer of them when they were released, and they needed to be snatching. In the end, many people said that this was hunger marketing on purpose to keep everyone in suspense. In the end, Zhou Jiangping had no choice but toe out and rify that this was not hunger marketing! Why wouldn¡¯t he sell it if he could? The production capacity really couldn¡¯t keep up! But why did Chen Mo do this? One of the boys in the dormitory checked and said,¡±¡±Oh my God, so this handheld device is a coboration with Lehui! No wonder Zhou Jiangping has led Chen Mo astray, he¡¯s also into hunger marketing!¡± ¡°I say, the main culprit is here!¡± ¡°No, I¡¯m going to find Chen Mo on Weibo and scold Zhou Jiangping. Why didn¡¯t he teach him something!¡± ¡°That¡¯s right, I want to go too! He also wanted to see if Chen Mo had posted anything on Weibo and find out the reason. Could it be a problem with the inte?¡± ¡­¡­ It wasn¡¯t just these few people. All the major forums and Tieba on the inte had already exploded. Many people were posting, expressing that they couldn¡¯t buy it at all! ¡°F * ck, I just identally refreshed the page and bought it again!¡± ¡°I identally overslept. When I woke up, even the game controller was sold out!¡± ¡°I bought a handheld device but didn¡¯t manage to buy it. Then, I wanted to buy a controller but it was gone too!¡± ¡°How are the other websites? Can¡¯t you buy it from other websites too?¡± ¡°Don¡¯t ask, it¡¯s the same. I just came back from there and I can¡¯t buy it either. Hurry up and ask Chen Mo what¡¯s going on.¡± Soon, Chen Mo posted on Weibo. ¡°I have good news and bad news to share with everyone. The good news was that the Switch had 150000 in stock and the standalone controller had 100000 in stock. They were all sold out in five minutes. It was a great sess. The bad news is that those who still want to buy it will have to wait until next month ...¡± As soon as this Weibo post was posted, hundreds ofments instantly appeared below it. ¡°F * ck, what¡¯s going on? I prepared 150000 Yuan worth of handheld devices and 100000 Yuan worth of game controllers, but they¡¯re all sold out. Is this really that ridiculous?¡± ¡°I thought I was in the minority. In the end, so many people are buying!¡± ¡°Yeah, shouldn¡¯t you guys wait and see? wait and see before you buy!¡± ¡°I¡¯m so angry. You guys actually dare to snatch it from me!¡± ¡°Did anyone buy it? I highly suspect that Chen Zhao is lying. He didn¡¯t even prepare that much stock!¡± ¡­¡­ Zhou Jiangping¡¯s office. Chen Mo handed his phone over and showed him the message on Weibo: ¡°Chief Zhou, you¡¯ve really made me suffer.¡± Zhou Jiangping was also annoyed,¡±Mr. Chen, I didn¡¯t expect it to sell so well!¡± And there are so many people scolding me on Weibo!¡± ¡°Why?¡± Chen Zhao was confused.¡±Why?¡± Zhou Jiangping smiled bitterly.¡±Everyone said that I was the one who taught you how to do hunger marketing. That¡¯s why they¡¯re all scolding me.¡± Chen Moughed,¡±that¡¯s right, it¡¯s your fault.¡± Zhou Jiangping was helpless.¡±Yes, it¡¯s my fault. I¡¯m already urging the manufacturers to speed up the production.¡± Chen Mo¡¯s original n was to prepare at least 300000 handheld devices and 200000 standalone controllers for the first batch, but Zhou Jiangping said it was too risky and would not agree to it no matter what. ording to le Hui¡¯s experience, for popr cell phones that attracted a lot of attention, a few hundred thousand units in stock was enough. The main thing was that if these things couldn¡¯t be sold, it was equivalent to a pure loss. There was no need to put so many into production for the first batch, and the production capacity wouldn¡¯t be able to keep up. The first batch of 150000 handheld consoles and 100000 individual controllers was the maximum that Zhou Jiangping could ept. Chen Mo actually felt that this number was too little. In his previous life, the Nintendo Switch had three million in stock but was sold out. Even though it was for the International market, Chen Mo felt that it wouldn¡¯t be too much to give a discount and divide it by ten. Even though Chen Mo wasn¡¯t as influential as Nintendo in parallel world, he still had a lot of die-hard fans in China. However, Chen Mo also considered the fact that the yers in parallel world didn¡¯t have the same habits, and there weren¡¯t any hardcore handheld or mainframe yers, so he agreed to Zhou Jiangping¡¯s suggestion. He prepared 150000 for the first batch and nned to sell it after. In the end, they were all sold out in just five minutes! It was actually selling even faster than some of the popr Lehui cell phones! After receiving this news, many people who didn¡¯t think much of Switch before fell silent. Was this phone not a sess? This was too F * cking sessful! Even some of the popr models of the Lehui mobile phone were not as popr. As a brand new mobile phone, it was a miracle that the Switch could sell so well! And many people realized that ¡°super Mali Odyssey¡± was selling more game cartridges than the mobile phones! There was only a total of 250000 Yuan in stock for the handheld console and controller. In the end, the physical cassette for the game Odyssey had sold for 370000 Yuan, and that did not include the digital version! Everyone was dumbfounded. What was going on? Chapter 515 - How bitter is a cassette tape?

Chapter 515: How bitter is a cassette tape?

Trantor: 549690339

The trolls found another reason,¡¯this is definitely fake data! The sales volume is not that high. This is all a conspiracy. It was all bought by insiders to boost the sales volume and for hunger marketing!¡± In the end, a hot topic appeared on Weibo: The most bitter cassette in the world. ¡°The handheld console and game controller are all sold out. I can only buy a cassette. Sigh.¡± ¡°You won¡¯t be able to y it even if you only buy a carry card!¡± ¡°It¡¯s fine. We¡¯ll be able to y it when the next batch of handheld deviceses out.¡± ¡°I heard from Chen Mo that the cassette was made with the most bitter substance in the world. It¡¯spletely non-toxic and harmless to prevent children and pets from eating it. Quickly lick it and see if it¡¯s true?¡± ¡°Really? The world¡¯s most bitter material? I don¡¯t believe it!¡± ¡°It¡¯s as bitter as Chinese medicine?¡± ¡°Liar, this card is obviously sweet!¡± ¡°Yeah, it tastes great when you lick it. It¡¯s a little sweet, but it¡¯s not greasy at all!¡± ¡°F * ck, upstairs, how can you lie to us? this card is obviously sweet and spicy!¡± ¡°Nonsense, the salty party is the Justice!¡± ¡°I really licked it. It¡¯s hard to describe what I¡¯m feeling right now ... I¡¯m starting to doubt my life. I need to calm down by myself ...¡± ...... Chen Mo didn¡¯t go out of his way to promote this, but the news still spread to different groups of yers. Many people already knew that the card was coated with the most bitter substance in the world to prevent people from swallowing it by mistake. However, this only made everyone more determined to seek death ... Those who hadn¡¯t licked it wanted to lick it, and those who licked it wanted to trick others into licking it. In the end, this thing had be a hot topic ... Therefore, many yers who didn¡¯t buy a handheld or handheld game console simply bought a cassette first. On the one hand, it was to prepare in advance. On the other hand, he wanted to try and see how bitter the most bitter material in the world was ... Thus, a very strange phenomenon had urred. Physical cassette tapes were sold for more than handheld consoles and game controllersbined, and most people bought physical cassette tapes directly instead of the digital version ... On major streaming tforms and video websites, a batch of unboxing reviews of Switch naturally appeared. Selling out within five minutes ofunch had created a strong topic for the Switch. The yers who had been paying attention to the mobile phone were regretful that they did not manage to buy it, and those who did not pay attention were also attracted by the news. Everyone had the same question. What was this handheld device like? Therefore, a lot of people decided to do live unboxing. ¡­¡­ Fish-catching live broadcast tform, Lord windraiser¡¯s live broadcast room. Mr. Tornado was a slightly perverted fatty. He wasn¡¯t a particrly famous streamer, but he had a good understanding of technological products and some games. He often did unboxing reviews for cell phones. And today, the name of his live stream room had changed to: ¡°Switch opens (ka) review!¡± When this headline was released, it immediately attracted arge audience. ¡°What¡¯s the situation? Switch Unboxing Review? The streamer actually managed to snatch it. This character is simply unscientific!¡± ¡°I think it¡¯s because hand speed isn¡¯t scientific!¡± ¡°Open what box? we want to see you lick the cassette. Hurry up, let¡¯s see what it tastes like!¡± Mr. Tornado looked at thements on everyone¡¯s screens with a smile. The audience was much more than before, probably because of the new handheld device. ¡°Hello everyone, I¡¯m Mr. Tornado. I¡¯ll be reviewing Chen Mo¡¯s new phone today. But before that, there¡¯s a small side mission, which is to lick the cassette. ¡± ¡°Some of you might be here for the first time, so I¡¯ll introduce this card to you. I heard that Chen Zhao added a bitter agent to the card to prevent it from being consumed by mistake. It¡¯s very, very bitter. ¡± ¡°Today, I told everyone in my fan group that my Switch has arrived. As a result, everyone said that no one cared about your Switch, we just wanted to see you lick the card!¡± ¡°To be honest, I¡¯m also very curious. How bitter can it be? Alright, I¡¯ll lick it. ¡± As Lord windstroke spoke, he put the card to his mouth and licked it gently. ¡°It¡¯s not special ... rgh!!!¡± Before Lord whipping wind could finish his sentence, he had already covered his mouth and started howling. After a hasty apology, Lord whipping wind rushed out of the door and into the bathroom. The bulletments were allughing like crazy. ¡°Hahaha, you won¡¯t die if you don¡¯t seek death!¡± ¡± 23333, is the aftereffect that strong?¡± ¡°I¡¯ve already taken screenshots just now. A new set of emojis will immediately appear!¡± ¡°Lord windwhipping¡¯s acting skills are too superb. I¡¯ll lick it. It¡¯s not that bitter at all. If you don¡¯t believe me, you can try it for yourself!¡± After five minutes, Lord windraiser returned. He had obviously brushed his teeth. Lord windstroke¡¯s expression was one of disbelief.¡±¡±How do you describe the bitterness of this cassette? I wonder if you¡¯ve ever eaten the Huang Lian su without the sugar coating? If you¡¯ve eaten it before, I can tell you that it tastes very simr. It¡¯s basically the feeling of chewing a Huang Liansu into pieces and swallowing it without water. It seems to be even more bitter ...¡± Ignoring the ¡°one more¡±ments on the bullet screen, brother tunfeng wiped the sweat off his forehead and continued to open the treasure chest. ¡°Alright, let¡¯s officially open the box.¡± ¡°Open the firstyer of the box. The overallyout is not bad. There are two small controllers on the left and a handheld screen on the right ...¡± Mr. Tornado began to unbox the game and demonstrate it step by step, including every part, the feel, and the actual operation of the game. He introduced them all. A lot of the audience members were watching seriously, and thements kepting. ¡°The real one looks so beautiful. It¡¯s just like the one in the trailer!¡± ¡°This size is just right. The screen is much bigger than a cell phone!¡± ¡°And these two controllers are so interesting. They make clicking sounds when they are plugged in and out.¡± ¡°And it¡¯s really a seamless conversion. After inserting it into the base, the information will appear on the TV within five seconds?¡± ¡°This game looks interesting too. You can even use special hand gestures to y it?¡± As Lord tornado continued to introduce the game, many people became more and more interested in the new phone and game. Obviously, this phone waspletely different from the average phone on the market, especially when the two controllers gave people a wonderful feeling. Very soon, Lord windstroke¡¯s unboxing experience came to an end. He yed with the phone and said,¡±¡±All in all, this mobile phone gave me a very amazing feeling. You can say that it¡¯s a brand new game console model. Strictly speaking, it can be considered a handheld device that can disy images on TV, and it¡¯s not expensive. ¡± ¡°I think, just like what the trailer said, this is indeed a game console that takes into ount everyone¡¯s feelings. It doesn¡¯t actually have an absolute target audience, or rather, everyone is actually its potential target audience.¡± ¡°Moreover, this system unit has been sold out, which is enough to show how popr it is. If anyone wants to buy it, my suggestion is to make an appointment for the next batch immediately. This model will definitely not disappoint you!¡± Chapter 516 Chapter 516: Evaluation (1) Trantor: 549690339 Overnight, this magical palm seemed to have suddenly swept through the games and technology media in the country. All kinds of information began to crazily bombard it. In the beginning, there were only one or two video websites that had news of the switch, and they were generally disapproving of it. However,ter on, arge number of digital and game enthusiasts were unboxing the Switch, and even other channels were affected. In fact, in the long run, the fate of a device was decided by thements of its core fans. For Chen Mo, he had a very wide group of yers in China, as well as a lot of die-hard fans. Just like Blizzard in his previous life, no matter what game was released, the first reaction of die-hard fans would be to buy it. Even if Blizzard really made a mobile phone out of the blue, as long as the quality looked good, there would still be a lot of people who would buy it mindlessly. This was the word of mouth. However, these sentimental fans alone couldn¡¯t support the sales of a ssic product. Those marginal fans and passersby still had to wait for thements of the core fans before they could really decide whether to buy this product. After watching therge-scale livestreams and videos of the reviews, most people had a moreprehensive understanding of the mobile phone. In fact, Chen Mo¡¯s first stage was targeted at two groups of people. The first was his core fans, as long as the quality of the phone was good, they would definitely buy it. The second was yers who were particrly interested in simr ystyles. For example, some people especially liked motion-sense games, and some especially liked this casual duo game. For them, Switch and super Mali Odyssey were the best games in this aspect, so they would definitely buy it. Chen Mo didn¡¯t n on making this the world¡¯s hottest game right from the start, as it wasn¡¯t realistic at all. Chen Mo¡¯s goal was to use this phone to fill the gap in the gaming market, and at the same time, gain as much happiness points as possible. In other words, this was aputer that hardcore yers and the general public could buy. As long as it had any appeal, then the 2000 Yuan was definitely worth it. Would they be able to reach the sales volume in his previous life? That was definitely impossible, because the market environment was different, and the umtion was also different. It was already very good that it could be sold to the current situation. If more premium games and derivative games were released in the future, the Switch¡¯s sales would obviously continue, but it would definitely not reach the level of Nintendo in his previous life. But even so, the current sales were enough to shock the yers and video game media in China. The second batch of handheld phones had more than a hundred thousand reservations. After Chen Mo announced that the handheld phone would be connected to Thunderbolt gaming tform, everyone had a lot of faith in the future Library of the handheld phone. This was also one of the advantages of Chen Mo choosing his own distribution channel. Everyone knew that Chen Mo had a lot of good games, so he wouldn¡¯t have to worry about getting bored of them after buying the phone. It was only now, after the sales figures were out, that many video game media started to seriously analyze the reason for the sess of the mobile phone. Tianji¡¯s gaming channel even released a long review of the game. ¡°The Switch is a very unique product. It represents a new gaming experience, a bit like the perfect integration of mobile and PC. Moreover, the game controls of the two joysticks can even surpass the two tforms mentioned above in terms of the feel of the game. It can allow you to y PC-level games anywhere. ¡± ¡°This novel feeling made the author realize that this technology has always been there, but no one has discovered it.¡± ...... In fact, Switch was equivalent to drilling a loophole between mobile and PC. It wasn¡¯t small in size, but it was still within the eptable range of a portable device. It didn¡¯t need to be as light as a mobile phone; it just needed to be able to be carried out. After dismantling the device, many video game media found that its performance was about seven times that of the average high-end mobile phone. Of course, this was a rtively sensational figure, but in fact, the Switch could runrge games at a stable frame-rate in both palm mode and console mode, which had already surpassed many mobile phones on the market. (This data is made up. In reality, you can search for the exact number on Baidu.) In the end, it was because the Switch was a special game console. In other words, as apromise between mobile and PC, the Switch took into ount both performance and ease of mobility. It also greatly lowered its price. Despite the pressure of both PC and mobile, it found a way out, which was what everyone had ignored before. After the release of super Mali Odyssey, many video game media also began to review the game. ¡°When ites to the open world, it seems that the concept of the open world and sandbox has long been overused. However, there are very few games that can really make the open world good. The formic world can no longer meet the needs of the current yers. It has lost the sense of novelty that the open world had at the beginning. ¡°However, after reading super Mali Odyssey, the author¡¯s interest in the open world seems to have been reignited. Yes, I have to boast about this game today.¡± ¡°ording to the designer Chen Mo, this game isn¡¯t a closed game, but rather a box world, where you¡¯ll be able to adventure in different worlds. The game¡¯s plot is very simple. It¡¯s about defeating the Demon King and saving Princess bitch. ¡± ¡°Of course, the real content of the game isn¡¯t in the story, but in collecting and solving riddles. Here, I really want to say something bad about Chen Mo. This is the most fun collecting and solving game I¡¯ve ever yed, and there¡¯s no other!¡± ¡°There are all kinds of strange and amazing adventures hidden in the corners, including running notes, unlocking mechanisms, jumping, racing, snatching gold coins, rope jumping, remote-controlled racing cars, puzzles, and otherplex and novel games. They test the yers ¡®skills and imagination from all angles, and many of the content is even more interesting than the main storyline. ¡°In some games, the protagonist will switch from 3d to 2d seamlessly through the water pipe. It¡¯s very shocking. I wonder how the designer came up with this idea.¡± ¡°In this game, you have to have a huge amount of hidden content. Of course, don¡¯t be scared by the word ¡®hidden¡¯. In fact, the process of finding hidden content is very smooth. With the game creator¡¯s exquisite guidance and the support of certain rules, some seemingly unreasonable details are no longer so ordinary.¡± ¡°We can feel a sense of aplishment in the process of discovering the strangeness, thinking, and then solving the mystery. We can be proud of our excellent intelligence. Of course, this is all thanks to the game creator, thanks to Chen Mo¡¯s level design. ¡± Chapter 517

Chapter 517: ¡°Gunfire battle¡± is online

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And on hengyou, professional game reviewers were not stingy with their praises. ¡°And one of the highlights of this game is the motion-sensing mode. Some of the movements are solely controlled by the motion perception mode, and the actual precision of the motion perception is very satisfactory. The motion perception mode is enough to deal with some of the most difficult levels. ¡± ¡°In duo mode, the other yer can control Mali¡¯s hat alone. No matter what mode or where you are, you can easily take out two controllers and start a big adventure for two people.¡± ¡°The hat can be said to be the beginning of this game. Compared to the traditional jumping and attack modes in some games, the hat is omnipotent. It can attack the enemy and make you jump higher. It can also possess different NPCs or enemies and unleash their characteristics and skills. This makes the whole game extremely rich, including Tyrannosaurus Rex, tank, missiles, wires, and so on.¡± ¡°Of course, it¡¯s not a perfect game. There are some minor ws. But I feel that this game and the new console have achieved Chen Mo¡¯s goal perfectly. For yers who like this type of game, it¡¯s an eternal ssic. Be it graphics, sound effects, operating systems, or how fun it is, it¡¯s perfect in every aspect, and it¡¯s above nine points for every aspect!¡± All the major video game media gave super Mali Odyssey above nine points, and some even gave it a full score of ten! Of course, game reviews in China were often filled with all sorts of unspoken rules. There were even some trashy games that managed to get high ratings by spending money on them. There weren¡¯t many games media that had real authority. However, Chen Mo didn¡¯t spend a single cent on the game, nor did he care what the media would say about it. Because super Mali Odyssey was such a game, any professional game reviewer would find it difficult to find any major ws in the game. The double positive reviews of the mobile phone and the game further shook the marginal fans and the audience. Many people were considering whether to buy a switch. There were also people who asked Chen Mo the same question on Weibo. Chen Zhao¡¯s answer was ... ¡°Asking means you want it, hesitating means you want to buy it!¡± ...... ¡­¡­ Experience Store. The mobile game experience area was already full because there were 30 switches for yers to experience freely. Those who couldn¡¯t buy a handheld game all came to try it out. ¡°Hey, how do I get this moon? Who can teach me?¡± ¡°This level seems to be very difficult. Why do I feel like I can¡¯t skip it? Do you need some special method?¡± ¡°We have to be fast enough to collect notes. You don¡¯t know how to get lost? Your left hand will press on the yl and your right hand will swing the controller continuously. ¡± The yers were all trying it out, and the mobile game experience area was even more popr than the holographic projection area. Through constantmunication, the yers discovered that there were too many hidden elements in the game. No matter how long they yed, they would discover new elements. There were more than 800 moons in the game, hidden in every corner of the world. After collecting 250 and 500 moons, a rtively difficult level would be opened. A level with 500 moons was hard enough to make people doubt their lives. Therefore, this was a game that could be yed for a long time, and everyone enjoyed it. Chen Mo sat on the side, looking at therge amount of happiness points he had gained. Ever since the release of Switch and super Mali Odyssey, Chen Mo suddenly gained arge amount of happiness points, and the speed of his gain didn¡¯t slow down at all. Of course, there were also a few grudges mixed in because some of the levels in the game were slightly more difficult. Even the help mode might not be able to clear all the levels smoothly. When the yers were slightly abused, they would still generate resentment points. So far, Chen Mo had collected 64 happiness points and 18 resentment points. In the future, as ¡°super Mali Odyssey¡± continued to sell well, this number would continue to rise, and the gap between the happiness and resentment points would continue to widen. Of course, Chen Mo had a series of follow-up ns for the phone, but he would only release them when the time was right. The yers were still in a very new stage for this handheld console and game, and because there was no stock, many people had not really gotten their hands on this handheld console, so there was no need to finish the rest of thebo punches so quickly. ¡°Manager!¡± Qian Kun walked over,¡±Emperor dynasty Entertainment¡¯s new game, gunfire, is about to be released.¡± ¡°Oh? He¡¯s finally going online? It¡¯s so slow. ¡± ¡°If I don¡¯te online now, I can¡¯t continue acting ...¡± Chen Mo said emotionally. After the new year, all the major clubs ¡®League of Legends branches were trying to find all kinds of potential yers, and the LPL Spring Season was also held very smoothly. There were a lot of people watching live and online, more than everyone had expected. Before this, many people had thought that the reason why there were so many spectators in the world Tournament was because there were teams from other countries, and that it only yed once a year. How could there be so many people watching the league tournament? But in fact, although the poprity of the league had droppedpared to the worldpetition, it was still not low. This was because the major clubs had their own fixed fan groups, especially for teams NRG and IF, who had arge number of fans. In addition, the yer base of League of Legends was constantly expanding, so the poprity of the league was also rising. In the three major divisions of Europe, North America, and Korea, the relevant leagues were also in preparation. The local veteran clubs and some official institutions were also very supportive of the poprity of the rtedpetitions. This was because they could see that League of Legends was still in a very strong development stage, and there was a trend of unifying the PC market. The future was still very promising. Under the support of various factors, everyone could foresee that the second season of the world Finals would create a greater momentum thanst year. Under these conditions, esports suddenly became a hot topic, and it wasn¡¯t surprising that Emperor dynasty entertainment wanted to quickly release gunfire to take a share of League of Legends ¡®esports. Obviously, for Emperor dynasty entertainment, this was the best time to release gunfire. With the help of League of Legends, the e-sports industry in China was booming. Many clubs were increasing their investment and setting up other gaming branches because they saw the bright future of the e-sports industry. Chen Mo had been busy promoting his new phone and game, and although it was quite sessful, it was a little too old school for Emperor dynasty entertainment, and even a little weird. Lin chaoxu was also very confused about this. He didn¡¯t know why Chen Mo suddenly wanted to make a mobile phone. After thinking about it, he could only conclude that Chen Mo¡¯s feelings were causing trouble, or he was trying to prove his point by pping others in the face. Chapter 518

Chapter 518: Must a rankingpetition be a good mode?

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After the new year, Chen Mo¡¯s update speed for Overwatch had slowed down significantly. Even though new heroes and new maps were still being released, some yers were already unhappy that it didn¡¯t start ying ranked matches. Although there were other modes for yers to choose from, and the number of active yers and various statistics of the Overwatch was steadily rising, theck of a rankingpetition was still a big regret. In this case, the sudden appearance of gunfire would definitely poach a group of core yers who were passionate about thepetitive mode from Overwatch. For Emperor dynasty entertainment, this was the best time to start. In the overwhelming publicity, gunfire instantly attracted arge number of yers ¡®attention, and its momentum even overshadowed Switch and super Mali Odyssey. It wasn¡¯t that handheld games and the Odyssey series weren¡¯t good. On one hand, it was because of the market environment, and VR games were more likely to attract the attention of yers. On the other hand, Emperor dynasty entertainment was very willing to spend money to promote the game. After spending a lot of money, it was very easy to create the illusion that the game was very popr. And on the official promotional page of gunfire, a line of advertising caused quite a stir. ¡°An FPS game that can release skills. The ranking mode is fully open, waiting for you to reach the top of the gods!¡± Obviously, this sentence was tantly hinting that I¡¯m a game simr to Overwatch, but I have a ranking mode! Obviously, this kind of promotion would inevitably get a lot of scolding from the Overwatch yers, but if they were afraid of being scolded, then Emperor dynasty entertainment wouldn¡¯t be Emperor dynasty entertainment. This kind of scolding wouldn¡¯t affect the attitude of the yers and bystanders of Emperor dynasty entertainment towards the game. It would only make the loyal yers of Overwatch feel disgusted. The two games were already in a life-and-deathpetition, so what was the big deal with a few scoldings? This advertisement had indeed yed a very good role in publicity. Some of the great gods who had been waiting for the rankingpetition mode for a long time had their thoughts activated. They wanted to go to gunfire to beat some noobs and rush to the sky Ladder. At that time, they could also show off and do something. On the official forum of Overwatch, arge number of questioning posts appeared. ...... ¡°Why isn¡¯t Chen Mo in ranked mode? Did you really forget about the Overwatch because you¡¯ve been busy with the handheld game and the new game?¡± ¡°I don¡¯t get it. Overwatch just updated a new hero and a new map. They obviously have the manpower, but why is the rankingpetition so low in priority?¡± ¡°Yeah, a lot of people went to y gunfire because of the ranking tournament. Chen Mo shouldn¡¯t be so slow to notice!¡± ¡°Look at League of Legends next door. They¡¯re having all kinds ofpetitions. When will Overwatch do the same?¡± Some of the Overwatch yers were disappointed. To them, Chen Mo¡¯s mistake was a low-level mistake. The problem could have been solved if the rankingpetition was released earlier, why did it drag on until now? Chen Zhao remained silent and did not respond to these suggestions. ¡­¡­ Emperor dynasty Entertainment¡¯s headquarters. Jin jieguang came to Lin chaoxu¡¯s office with a set of data in his hand. ¡°President Lin, this is the data for the release of gunfire. Please take a look.¡± Lin chaoxu took it and read it carefully a few times before nodding his head in satisfaction.¡±¡±Hmm, not bad. You¡¯ve maintained it well too. It¡¯s much better than ancient catastrophe.¡± ¡°And, chief Lin, there are a few statistics that you should pay special attention to. Compared to Overwatch, gunfire Wars has a clear advantage in the amount of time the core yers are online and the satisfaction level of the core yers. Obviously, this is all thanks to the rankingpetition mode. ¡± Lin chaoxu nodded.¡±That¡¯s right. It¡¯s just as we predicted.¡± This time, with the release of gunfire, Jin jieguang and many other people in the gunfire project were all on tenterhooks, afraid that a tragedy like ancient catastrophe would happen. ¡°Ancient catastrophe¡± had a good start at the beginning, but in the early stages, there was a sudden massive decline in data, and it couldn¡¯t be saved no matter how hard they tried. Lin chaoxu and Jin jieguang were very afraid that ¡°history of gunfire¡± would repeat its mistakes. However, up until now, gunfire had been developing very well. Although it was still far from the standard of Overwatch, Lin chaoxu firmly believed that at least this game wouldn¡¯t die as quickly as ancient catastrophe! ¡­¡­ In the ssroom of world No. 1 University. This time, there were even more students attending Chen Mo¡¯s ss, even more than the first ss. Many of them were already standing in the corridor, just to catch a glimpse of him. After the unprecedented sess of Switch and Odyssey, many people¡¯s views had beenpletely reversed. Those who doubted Chen Mo were convinced. Chen Mo said he was going to make a handphone, and not only did he make it, but it was also selling so well. It simply subverted theirmon sense. Indeed, listening to Chen Mo¡¯s lecture gave one the feeling of witnessing history. Chen Mo had only made a simple prediction about mobile phones, and it was actually going to be a reality! Today¡¯s lesson went smoothly as usual. During the break, a few students gathered around and asked questions. ¡°Mr. Chen Mo, can you buy a new Switch? I want to buy it. ¡± ¡°Does Switch have any new game development ns? It¡¯s not like Thunderbolt gaming tform¡¯s games, which you personally developed!¡± ¡°Mr. Chen Mo, which team do you think is the strongest in League of Legends? Is it the NRG?¡± Chen Mo also had time to chat with everyone and answer their questions, At this moment, a student asked,¡±Mr. Chen Mo, Emperor dynasty Entertainment¡¯s gunfire copied Overwatch and even started a ranked match. It seems like the response is quite good. Why didn¡¯t Overwatch start a ranked match?¡± Chen Zhao didn¡¯t answer immediately. Instead, he asked,¡±¡±Is a ranked match a good game mode?¡± The students in the front row were stunned. Wasn¡¯t that nonsense? The rankingpetition mode would definitely be a good mode! From Warcraft to League of Legends, you¡¯ve proven it yourself! There were too many advantages to the rankingpetition. It could create long-term goals for the yers, it could differentiate the level of the yers, and at the same time, it could provide the ground for future professionalpetitions. Without the ranked mode, League of Legends would have a hard time developing into a professionalpetitive game. With so many advantages, why would Chen Zhao ask this question? Chen Moughed,¡±there¡¯s nothing that¡¯s absolutely good in this world, and there¡¯s nothing that¡¯s absolutely good in games.¡± The games that have released the ranking mode are all developing well. This gives everyone the illusion that the ranking mode is a way of ying without any side effects. ¡± ¡°But it¡¯s not like that.¡± Chapter 519

Chapter 519: Cold out

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A lot of people wanted to hear Chen Mo talk about the other side effects of the rankingpetition. But at this moment, the bell for ss rang. Chen Moughed and said,¡±alright, let¡¯s continue with the ss.¡± Everyone was speechless. Big brother, don¡¯t just say half of your words. I really want someone to beat you to death! ¡­¡­ There were also many big streamers on the live streaming tform who switched to gunfight. The titles of the live streaming rooms were all changed to ¡°live streaming for 4000 points¡±,¡±the number one yer in the country, Ymir¡± and so on. Obviously, the effects of the rankingpetition were immediate. In ¡°Overwatch¡±, the poprity of some popr streamers was actually very difficult to measure. For example, you¡¯re especially good at Yuan-Shi, and I¡¯m especially good at sky-hunting. We¡¯ve met a few times in the game, and there were wins and losses on both sides. At this time, even if the fans of both sides were to fight, it was difficult to determine who was stronger and who was weaker, because there was no ranking point as a very clear measure. Of course, Overwatch had some other criteria, such as the hidden points in the matching mechanism or the overall performance of a yer. However, these were not like the ranking points, which were very clear criteria. However, in gunfire, your score was your score. I had 4000 points, and you had 3500 points, so you had no right to talk nonsense in front of me. Therefore, the desire of streamers and yers to climb thedder was very strong. There were even arge number of skilled streamers who chose to climb thedder without rest a few days ago and rush to the top of the rankings. After the rankingpetition, the yers also started posting on the forum. They either showed off their battle results orined about their teammates who cheated them. In the first few days, they were happy and harmonious, and the situation was great. However, the situation seemed to have changed. ...... Many live streamers on the live streaming tform found that their viewership numbers did not continue to rise. Instead, it was falling. ¡°Streamer, why are you ying Ymir again? Can¡¯t you y any other hero?¡± ¡°You¡¯d be an idiot if you yed other Champions. These two champions are the son of the version, and this is a ranking game. You don¡¯t want to win by ying other Champions, right?¡± ¡°But there are only two or three Champions. We¡¯re already sick of it. We want to see the Champions that you can show off. We want to see you y The Great Sage, Heaven¡¯s Equal!¡± The host said helplessly,¡±dear viewers, The Great Sage, Heaven¡¯s Equal can¡¯t go on stage in this version. It¡¯s not that I don¡¯t want to y, but I¡¯ll be scolded by my teammates if I y this hero. It¡¯s basically giving away points. His output is too weak.¡± At the same time, there were more and more posts filled with hostility on the forum. ¡°I¡¯m really puzzled. Didn¡¯t the best lineup already be decided? Even if you don¡¯t know, you¡¯ll know after watching a few of the streamer¡¯s ranking matches. Why would people blindly choose those not-so-powerful Champions?¡± ¡°That¡¯s right. They clearly had the best lineup, but they had to choose those troublesome heroes. Last time, I saw The Great Sage, Heaven¡¯s Equal, open a cloud somersault to cut the back row and was instantly killed. Everyone was sent to their deaths. It was useless to report him!¡± ¡°If you¡¯re really a noob, then don¡¯t choose the output position, just choose a healer!¡± ¡°Do you know what it feels like for a n¨¹wa like me to be the number one in damage output?¡± ¡°Why do I feel like this game is getting more and more difficult? I used to be able to y at 2000 points, but now it seems like there are a bunch of monsters? It¡¯s either my teammates are too stupid, or my opponents are too awesome. It feels like it¡¯s all fate!¡± ¡°It¡¯s not just fate that counts. What¡¯s more infuriating is that some orphans just don¡¯t want to change their Champions. No matter how much you scold them, they even report you for verbal abuse. I¡¯m so angry!¡± ¡°Sigh, the environment of Overwatch is still the best. Everyone can happily y any hero and no one will scold you. You can y whatever you want and you can even show off when you¡¯re free!¡± ¡°Yeah, I feel it too. It¡¯s really tiring to y gunfire, and it¡¯s boring. The first two days of the rankingpetition were still full of excitement, but now I don¡¯t want to y a single round. ¡± ¡°Eight out of ten games, you need to replenish the tank or the milk. It¡¯s not easy to y an output, so as long as you go against the wind, your teammates will spray you ...¡± ¡°And I really think that this game isn¡¯t as good as Overwatch. The only reason it¡¯s popr for a while is because of the rankingpetition. Moreover, the various hero settings feel so low-ss that it¡¯s not as high-end as Overwatch at all!¡± ¡°Forget it, let¡¯s go back to ying Overwatch. Goodbye, everyone!¡± ¡­¡­ As the saying went,¡±the duck in the spring River can predict the future¡±. The environment and development trend of a game were first reflected in the fish pond. Not long after the ranking matches in gunfight were released, the fish pond games began to get uglier and uglier. It wasn¡¯t just the problem of the rigid lineup, but many other problems that caused arge loss of yers. The rigid lineup caused tanks and healers to be too popr, and assassin-type heroes were difficult to appear on the field. yers were more inclined to heroes with stable output, and in this case, the audience was greatly reduced. For better entertainment, the streamers could only open side ounts to blow up fish in the lower sections, which also gave other yers a very wrong leading role. Blowing up fish ponds had be a trend. This further exacerbated the loss of yers in the fish pond, and it continued to spread from bottom to top. The number of yers in the entire gunfight was not muchpared to the Overwatch to begin with. Under such circumstances, the massive loss of yers even threatened the normal matchmaking system. Many yers realized that they couldn¡¯t win even if they yed fast mode. After everyone knew about the best lineup in the rankingpetition, many yers asked their teammates to change their Champions in fast mode. This trend began to spread in the game, and everyone was having a hard time ying it. All of this caused gunfire to cool down rapidly, and even Emperor dynasty entertainment couldn¡¯t understand what was going on. ¡­¡­ Going back to Chen Mo¡¯s question, was a ranked match a good design? From Warcraft to League of Legends, ranked matches were undoubtedly a good design. There were many benefits to it, and most people knew that. However, this situation could not be applied to every game. To put it simply, if the game wasn¡¯t deep enough, the rankingpetition was a way to let the yers know their true level in a short period of time. Chapter 520

Chapter 520: Lottery draw

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This was because your opponents were all real yers, and the distribution of real yers was that the gold, silver, and bronze divisions had the most yers. If the rankingpetition mode was not activated, these yers might feel good about themselves and still find some fun in the game. However, once the rankingpetition mode was activated, these low-ranking yers quickly realized that they were just ordinary people in the game, and their only motivation was to climb up the points. If they couldn¡¯t climb up, they would soon lose interest in the game because they had lost their goal. Of course, this wasn¡¯t the case for Warcraft and League of Legends. Many gold and silver yers were still ying because these games had rich content and depth, allowing yers to learn and grow. Take League of Legends as an example. yers could practice new versions of powerful heroes, watch god-like livestreams to learn better awareness, and there was a possibility of improvement in their own operations through constant practice. Such rich content diluted the impact of losing in ranked matches. The yers always felt that there were still many things they didn¡¯t understand and that there was still a lot of room for improvement, so even if they weren¡¯t at a high level now, they felt that they could actually climb higher, and they would continue to work hard to pursue that very illusory goal. However, for some games with rtively weak content, the rankingpetition would elerate the exhaustion of the game content. Once the yers found out that they still couldn¡¯t score even after understanding most of the game¡¯s mechanisms and practicing arge number of heroes, they would soon lose interest in the game. This was the trap Chen Mo had set for Emperor dynasty entertainment. When gunfire decided to start the rankingpetition, its defeat was already set in stone. ¡­¡­ Gunfire came and left in a hurry, and this triggered the thoughts of many designers. Why was it that Overwatch could do the same model, but gunfire couldn ¡®t? It wasn¡¯t like it couldn¡¯t be done. Judging from the initial poprity, gunfire had been developing well, but why did it suddenly die out? ...... Was it because he didn¡¯t do a good job as a hero? Was it because of the rankingpetition mode? At first, the other gamingpanies were gloating, thinking that this was a good opportunity for their projects. They released three or four games simr to Overwatch with a ranking mode, but all of them failed. Thetter few games died out even faster, not only because of the rankingpetition mode, but also because the yers were already tired of Overwatch. With Overwatch as the leading game, these games looked like knockoffs. For thesepanies, this was an uneptable failure, because this was a VR game. Even though the game itself wasn¡¯t as rich in content as other VR games, it was still a VR game. The investment in these games easily exceeded 100 million Yuan, and such heavy losses even triggered a turmoil among the higher-ups of several gamepanies. Thepanies that didn¡¯t make simr games were secretly d and also analyzing the reasons behind this. At the end of the analysis, everyone came to a conclusion: This path was not feasible. Chen Mo didn¡¯t activate the ranked mode to cover up the conflicts within the game, but it wasn¡¯t a perfect game to begin with. It wasn¡¯t that Overwatch couldn¡¯t make a ranking game, but that Chen Mo was doing it on purpose. As much as they were frustrated, these video gamepanies also set such areas as forbidden zones, and even the popr FPS games on VR tforms were affected to a certain extent. ¡­¡­ In the experience store, Chen Mo was looking at his happiness and resentment ie happily. No matter how many times he tricked someone, it would still be very interesting. Up until now, Chen Mo had gained far more happiness points than resentment points. It had to be said that after super Mali Odyssey was released, the happiness points he gained increased rapidly. This was still limited by the sales volume. When the second batch of palm phones was sold, the speed might be even faster. Inparison, the growth rate of the grudges was very slow, almost negligible. So far, the total number of grudges had only just broken through 20. However, 20 was quite a lot, so Chen Mo decided to finish it first. He drew five times and got five more hardware design skill books. Chen Mo was speechless. These five books were really not that useful anymore. He had already sessfully made a handheld device, and even if he got more hardware design skill books, he wouldn¡¯t be able to develop new handheld devices or devices. However, it was not a burden to have more skills, so he would eat first. After finishing the five hardware design skill books, Chen Mo continued to draw. The vortex spun rapidly again, and a new skill book appeared on the virtual screen. Chen Mo was instantly energized. After taking a closer look, it was [specialized knowledge] cold weapon knowledge skill book! ¡°Eh? This one¡¯s not bad, I don¡¯t think I¡¯ve seen him before!¡± Chen Zhao quickly used it. A lot of knowledge flowed into his mind, including arge amount of knowledge about cold weapons, China, foreign,mon, rare, and the shape, appearance, weight, special use of each cold weapon. ¡°This thing is not bad, it¡¯s very useful.¡± Chen Mo was overjoyed. To him, this was much more useful than the hardware design skill book, since hardware design was only useful when creating hardware. However, this cold weapon knowledge could be used in most cold weaponbat games. ¡°Continue drawing, see if there are any more?¡± Chen Mo tried the lottery again. To his disappointment, it wasn¡¯t a cold weapon skill book, but after taking a closer look, Chen Mo was pleasantly surprised. This time, it was a special item! [Special item store key]: After use, the mall can be opened for shopping. The mall includes the third stage enhanced version of all the items that have been drawn. They also need to be purchased with happiness points and resentment points. There is no limit to the total amount of purchases at one time. The mall will close after the purchase. Clearly, this was also a good thing. There were many special items in the first and second stages, but Chen Mo didn¡¯t get any after that. It was obviously a good thing that he was allowed to open the merchant shop to exchange for items. However, it seemed that this key was more precious. It would definitely be more cost-effective to use it after he had saved a lot of happiness points and resentment points. He opened the mall and bought it freely. After buying it, the mall would close. He didn¡¯t know when he could open it again. So, after some thought, Chen Zhao decided not to open it for now and save it forter. At the very least, he would use it after he had collected more enmity points. Chapter 521

Chapter 521: A new engine of physics

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¡°I¡¯ll continue drawing the lottery with the remaining resentment points. ¡± From the remaining 14 draws, Chen Mo got a total of eight cold weapon knowledge skill books, three evil art style advancement skill books, and three ancient architecture advancement skill books. Even though he didn¡¯t get any special items, these skill books were still quite good for Chen Mo. They were all third stage skill books, and could be used inrge scale VR games. In fact, Chen Mo had already drawn some skill books on human anatomy, architecture, model movements, and demonic styles when he was doing oust. These were just supplementary. After finishing the skill book, Chen Mo felt satisfied. At this moment, his cell phone rang. Chen Mo picked it up and saw that it was Qiu Hengyang. ¡°Old Qiu has nothing to do, why did you call me?¡± Normally, Qiu Hengyang would call Chen Mo for something important, otherwise he would tag Chen Mo in the group. As soon as the call went through, Qiu Hengyang immediately said,¡±¡±Chen Mo, take a look at the messages in the group. They¡¯re quite important and you¡¯ll probably be interested.¡± ¡°Sure,¡± Chen Zhao said, confused. After hanging up, Chen Mo looked at the group chat. There were thousands of messages. He didn¡¯t know how long they had been talking, but the number was still rising. Chen Mo couldn¡¯t be bothered to look through the chat anymore, so he asked in the group,¡±¡±What happened?¡± ...... The people in the group replied one after another. ¡°Boss Chen Mo is here!¡± ¡°Old Qiu¡¯s call went through?¡± ¡°Chen Zhao, did you see thetest news?¡± ¡°Yes, quickly go and take a look. Something big has happened!¡± Chen Zhao was dumbfounded. What could have happened? Someone quickly posted a link, and Chen Mo clicked on it, opening a news page. ¡°Recently, the technologypany that developed the artificial intelligence Origin, seventh vision, announced that it has made a major breakthrough in the development of artificial intelligence.¡± ¡°Thanks to thetest calction methods, Origin has sessfully achieved veryplex physical control and judgment operations in the game. It is said that with this kind of physics, thews of physics in the real world will be perfectly replicated, and all thews of physics will be fully controlled by the artificial intelligence Origin. The game developers only need to make slight adjustments ording to their own needs. ¡± ¡°As for how to use this technology, there¡¯s no urate n yet. However, it¡¯s clear that AI will have an impact on the game industry in another way. Theplex rules of the world that the designers have worked so hard to build will likely be controlled by AI. ¡± ¡°Of course, our country¡¯s researchers are notgging behind. ording to the game Committee, the domestic artificial intelligence system has also been developed to a simr stage. I believe that it will soon be able toplete most of what Origin can achieve.¡± ¡°Will this usher in a new gaming era? Let¡¯s wait and see!¡± There was so much content in the message that Chen Mo had to read it again. In the chat group, everyone had already gone through a few rounds of discussions, all of them looking forward to the impact and innovation this new technology could bring to the gaming industry. This was the difference between this world¡¯s video game industry and his previous life. Technology was advancing at a rapid pace, and every few years, a revolutionary new technology would appear, attracting the attention of all video game designers. Under such circumstances, it would be a difficult task to umte game design concepts. For example, artificial intelligence could take over the physicalws of the entire game world under certain rules. How terrifying was that? In the past, if designers wanted to build a realistic physical world, they had to write countless rules and go through many ways toplete it. For example, if the designers wanted to create a monster, its actions included movement, attack, receiving attacks, releasing skills, death, and so on. If the monster didn¡¯t do any death action, then when it died, it would either stand still or disappear on the spot, which would give the yer a very unreal feeling. Of course, there were some physical engines that could throw corpses and fly them, but they were still far from the real effect. The safest way was still to do the death action, but even if he did it, it only diluted this unreal feeling under certain circumstances, but it didn¡¯t eliminate it. Many game designers ¡®solution was to create more death actions. For example, when the yer attacked from behind, the monster would fall forward and die, and when the yer attacked from the front, it would fall backward and die. The more death-like actions he did, the more realistic the feeling he gave off. However, what if this world had a perfect set of physics engines? All the steps above could be directly omitted. As long as he created a model, bound it to the corresponding bone armor, and set a certain mass, many things could be left to the physics of this world to calcte on its own. When the monster died, the artificial intelligence would automatically calcte ording to the physicalws of this world and calcte in which position the monster should fall to the ground. Or what kind of reaction would the different body parts have when they were hit? In other words, every hit or kill by the yer would produce a different effect, and the degree of realism was likely to be several levels higher than that of previous games. Obviously, with the development of equipment and artificial intelligence technology, the game world would be more and more simr to the real world. How long would this take? Chen Zhao couldn¡¯t say for sure, but he was sure that it would be much faster than his previous life. Obviously, artificial intelligence would not stop there. This new discovery was only a small interlude in the development of artificial intelligence, but it had already caused a huge shock to the game industry. Thebat system of the entire game industry would probably be affected, and the rules of thebat design system might have to be overturned and redone. As Chen Mo was thinking, his phone rang again. It was Qiao Hua. ¡°I¡¯m really busy,¡± Chen Zhao couldn¡¯t help butin. Chen Mo picked up the phone. Qiao Hua wasn¡¯t as anxious as Qiu Hengyang, he was calm and greeted Chen Mo first before getting to the point. ¡°Chen Zhao, I¡¯ll give you a political task.¡± Chen Zhao was shocked. A political mission? That sounds very stressful! ¡°You¡¯ve seen the news online, right? It¡¯s about thetest research progress in artificial intelligence. ¡± I did,¡±Chen Zhao said. ¡°Well, that¡¯s good.¡± Qiao Hua exined,¡±actually, the selectionmittee has been researching artificial intelligence. Our AI is called Pangu. It is only slightly behind Origin, but not by much.¡± ¡°At present, our research and development has entered a simr stage. Soon, the Pangu system will be able to fully take over the physics of the game.¡± ¡°That¡¯s a good thing,¡± Chen Zhao said, confused.¡±But what does it have to do with political missions?¡± Qiao Hua said,¡±in the field of artificial intelligence, there is apetition between our country and foreign countries. Origin has always been ahead of us. This is something that many researchers find hard to ept.¡± Just like the war between humans and machines, the Pangu system could also do this, but Origin stole the limelight, so there was no point in doing this. ¡± ¡°Next, it will be a battle between twopletely different physical engines. Origin should be installed in the Reality Engine soon, and the Pangu system should also be installed in the creation engine soon. As for which of the two physics engines is better ...¡± ¡°It¡¯s obvious that we¡¯ll have to rely on the specific game to show it. ¡± ¡°Oh?¡± Chen Mo thought,¡±you¡¯re saying ... You¡¯re going to make a game to show off this new physics engine?¡± ¡°That¡¯s right,¡± Qiao Hua said.¡±The game Committee hopes that the Chinese video game designers can make a game that fully disys the superiority of the Pangu system. It would be best if they could make full use of this new physics engine and surpass origin.¡± Chapter 522

Chapter 522: The Pangu system

Trantor: 549690339

A game that fully demonstrated the superiority of the Pangu system? ¡°I do have some ideas,¡± Chen Mo said after some thought.¡±But let me see how far the system can go first.¡± ¡°Of course,¡± Qiao Hua replied. How about this,e to the game Committee tomorrow when you have time, and I¡¯ll get the technical staff to show you how to use the Pangu system in the illusion game engine. ¡± After hanging up, Chen Mo started to think about what kind of game he should make. Obviously, the best way to demonstrate apletely new physics engine was to create a very unique game world and an innovativebat system. Just like in many wuxia novels, some heroes had a great deal of internal strength, but without the corresponding moves to show off, they couldn¡¯t act well. One had to have profound internal energy and the moves were very beautiful to attract the apuse of the audience. It was obvious that both the game Committee and the seventh vision desperately needed a game to showcase the revolutionary results brought about by physics to the game industry. Although the research on both sides was carried out at almost the same time, whoever developed a better game first would have a better lead. It was no wonder the game Committee ced so much importance on this. It wasn¡¯t just Chen Mo, there were also a few other S-grade or A-grade video game designers who got the news. Obviously, the game Committee couldn¡¯t just ce their hopes on Chen Mo alone, it was a joint mission for all the video game designers in the country. The video game designers were also having a heated discussion about what game to make. ...... ¡°I think we should make an enhanced version of earth OL. In order to show the advantage of physics, it¡¯s best to create a world that ispletely simr to the real world!¡± ¡°Think about it, if thews of physics in the game and in reality are exactly the same, how big of an impact would it have on the yers?¡± ¡°I don¡¯t think so. In reality, there¡¯s nothing special about the rules of physics. Think about it, walking, driving, and fighting are nothing special. Even some traditional rules of physics can be replicated perfectly.¡± ¡°What really needs to be shown is some very unreasonable games, such as leaping on roofs and vaulting over walls, and cold weaponbat. These action-type games are the easiest to show the high level of physics.¡± ¡°I think there are other ways to show off physics. For example, building airnes, rockets, and so on. Think about it, if we make a game that makes rockets, and the rocket follows the rules of physics in the game and sessfully breaks through the atmosphere, sending the carrier satellite into Earth¡¯s orbit, doesn¡¯t that mean that the physical engine is very powerful?¡± ¡°No, no, no. I think whether physics is really awesome or not still depends on the feeling of impact. For example, in a traditional shooting game, the character would only tremble violently and spray blood after being shot. However, in the real world, the character¡¯s entire arm might break if it was shot. Even if you wear a bulletproof vest, you might be pushed out by the bullet. Isn¡¯t this the real power of physics?¡± ¡°Upstairs, if you do this, will the game Committee let you pass the trial? You made a shooting game and then shot someone¡¯s arm off. Isn¡¯t this scene too gory?¡± ¡°That¡¯s a small problem. After all, this game has a political mission. In order to use physics, I believe the game Committee will be more lenient in their review. ¡± ¡°Hehe, drawing!¡± ¡­¡­ Different designers had different opinions on what kind of game could better showcase the power of the Pangu system. However, since he wanted to demonstrate the power of thews of physics, he had to put more effort into the sense of impact. When it came to technology, such as a gun battle, the yers would not be able to realize the use of physical engines because the whole scene was too intense. Chen Zhao¡¯s idea was that only in a cold weapon battle could the physical engine be used to its best effect. In the originalbat system, due to the limitation of physical control, the attacker and the target were just repeating the attack and HP loss. The attacker shed the enemy once and caused 10 points of damage. On the surface, it looked like the attacker would be spitting blood when he shed the enemy, but no matter where he shed, he would still deal 10 points of damage. Of course, this was also improved inter games. The different positions of the attacker¡¯s attack would trigger different effects. For example, in many games, shing at the shield would hardly cause any damage to the enemy, but attacking the enemy from the back would cause additional damage. There were also some shooting games where shooting at the head, body, hands, and legs would have different damage calctions. Now, with the development of artificial intelligence technology and the advancement of physical engines, thisbat system could be further advanced. Of course, it was not enough to rely on skills alone. In order to build a perfectbat system, a lot of other settings were needed. Chen Mo already had a good idea, but whether or not it could be realized could only be decided after seeing the actual effects of the Pangu system. The next day, Chen Mo went to the game Committee. Of course, the actual Pangu System R & D department was not here, but the game Committee could ess the Pangu system through the inte. ¡°It¡¯s still a beta version,¡±Qiao Hua exined,¡± and there are still some ws. He should be able toplete it after some time. However, some of the more heaven-defying functions are already avable. You can try them out first. ¡± Chen Mo could connect to the Pangu system on a high-endputer and run the illusion editor on it. It was equivalent to adding a brand new interface to the illusion game engine. Through this interface, the Pangu system could create the physical rules of the entire game. This included the gravity of the entire world, the power of a character, the weight and density of various materials, as well as the specialws of physics. The first few points could be regarded as some basic rules. Once determined, the world would operate ording to these physical rules. In addition, there were some special rules that were above all physical rules. If one wanted to make the game more rich, they would have to construct many different special rules. Obviously, the more special rules there were, the more content the game would have. For example, the designer could write a rule: If a yer attacked the bottom of any humanoid creature¡¯s feet, they could send it flying ten meters high. In the game, when yers attacked the soles of any humanoid creature¡¯s feet, the humanoid creature would fly ten meters high and would no longer be restricted by the basic physical rules. Of course, no brainless designer woulde up with such a design in reality. This was just an example. It showed that with physics as the driving force, as long as the designer had enough patience, they could create a unique and rich game world. Chapter 523 Chapter 523: Come out, Dark Souls! Trantor: 549690339 Chen Zhao randomly dragged out two knights from the material library and perfected some basic settings, such as each Knight¡¯s strength, armor thickness, weight, and so on. In terms of strength, the Knight¡¯s hands, legs, and other limbs were all endowed with different strength attributes, and the armor on the whole body was also designed to have different thickness and defensive power. In the Pangu system, there were some ready-made temtes, including human temtes. As long as a Knight was equipped with a human temte, he would have a set of default attributes, including the strength of his bones, thew of movement, the impact after damage, and so on. It was obvious that the Pangu system had studied this from the very beginning, and now it could be used directly. After that, Chen Zhao designed a few more basic moves, such as defense, attack, roll, and so on. These movements were quite simple, and Chen Mo couldn¡¯t be bothered to design more. He just wanted to see if there were any special movements that could be used to take a hit or die under thews of physics. Very quickly, the game content was designed. In the editor, the two knights began to fight in an open space. The Knight with the sword attacked the Knight with the shield, but the sword bounced back involuntarily when it hit the shield. If it was in the previous physics engine, the ¡°flick¡± action had been set. As long as a Knight with a sword cut on an extremely hard material like a shield or wall, the knife would bounce. However, the motion and range of the rebound were the same when it was used to cut different shields. However, under the physicalws controlled by the Pangu system, the ¡°throwing knife¡± waspletely autonomous. The specific movement range of the throwing knife and whether there were any side effects were all calcted by the Pangu system. At the same time, the Knight with the shield was notpletely unaffected. He would also suffer a certain impact based on the results of the physical calctions. If the swordsman¡¯s strengthpletely overwhelmed the shield Knight, the shield Knight might even be knocked to the ground by this blow. After the death of one party, the Knight¡¯s death action would also be automatically generated by the Pangu system. The sword-wielding knight¡¯s sword struck the shield-wielding Knight¡¯s neck at the gap in his armor. Blood instantly dyed the de red, and the shield-wielding Knight lost thest of his HP and knelt on the ground, dying after letting out a wail. The entire movement was automatically generated by the system, and it was highly realistic. Chen Mo tried a different setting. For example, one side¡¯s Knight would be particrly strong, or one of the Knights ¡®armor would be particrly heavy. As the weight of a knight¡¯s armor increased, the Knight¡¯s walking speed would be slower and slower. In the end, he could barely stand on the spot. Chen Zhao was very surprised. The Pangu system¡¯s effects were moreplete than he had expected. With the Pangu system, manyplicated designs that required designers to make in the past could be eliminated. ¡°How is it?¡± Qiao Hua asked. Chen Mo reluctantly exited the illusion game engine,¡±¡±It¡¯s very good,¡± ¡°I know it¡¯s pretty good,¡± Qiao Hua chuckled.¡±I¡¯m asking if you have any progress with the new game?¡± Chen Zhao smiled,¡±don¡¯t worry. Let me think.¡± Will the Pangu system¡¯s authority be open to all designers?¡± ¡°Of course not,¡± Qiao Hua shook his head. At the moment, the Pangu system¡¯s authorization has only been opened to a dozen designers, all of whom are S-grade and well-known A-grade designers in the country. ¡± ¡°It probably won¡¯t be poprized in the future, because the Pangu system consumes too many resources when it¡¯sputing. Also, it has other things to do, so it¡¯s impossible for everyone to use it.¡± Chen Mo nodded, I understand. ¡°Three days from now,¡± Qiao Hua continued,¡±Pangu¡¯s authority will be given to you all. By then, you can log into the illusion editor on any high-endputer.¡± However, I have to remind you that if theputer¡¯s configuration is not high enough, you should quickly get a newputer. Otherwise, you might not be able to run this system. ¡± ¡°Although the Pangu system won¡¯t operate on yourputer, the derivedputation and resources alone are enough to cause a lot of trouble for yourputer.¡± ¡°Alright,¡± Chen Zhao smiled.¡±I understand.¡± After returning to the experience store, Chen Mo started thinking about making a new game. Chen Mo had already decided on the game he was going to make. It was the VR version of Dark Souls. He could directly create content in Dark Souls 3 other than the downloadable content. The reason for making this game was actually very simple. It was because thebat system and level design of Dark Souls had always been the industry¡¯s best. A major feature of the ck soulbat system was that time and level umtion couldn¡¯t help much in clearing the game. On the contrary, if they wanted to clear the game, the yers had to continuously improve their skills while being tortured. In Dark Souls, yers had to constantly learn somebat skills, such as shield reflective, shield break,bat skills, roll, hit recovery, execution, and so on. Moreover, thesebat techniques were often derived from the cold weaponbat tactics in reality. Although some of the techniques seemed to be rtively out of touch with reality, in general, theirbat system should be the most realistic. No matter how strong a Knight was, after being backstabbed, they would lose a lot of HP and be kicked to the ground. No matter how strong a Dragon was, after being hit in the head continuously, they would be stunned (hit recovery) and be executed by the yers. When facing enemies of different body sizes, yers had to use different tactics. Unlike some games, no matter how big the enemy was, the battle would be boring. Of course, Dark Souls in Chen Mo¡¯s previous life couldn¡¯t be as realistic as it was due to theck of technology and poprity. However, with the support of the new Pangu system, it was possible to create a new VR model of Dark Souls. The already perfectbat system would be even more abundant with the support of this physical engine. As for why he chose Dark Souls 3 over Dark Souls 1, there were two main reasons. First, ck soul 3 was more bnced andprehensive in terms of the game¡¯s difficulty and specific design. (Inyman¡¯s terms, it¡¯s easy and suitable to fall into a trap.) Many people started from ck soul level 3, because ck soul level 1 was too difficult. The second was to consider the storyline. ck soul 1 told the beginning of the fire transfer, while ck soul 3 told the end. It could be said that ck soul 3 could better express the spiritual essence of the entire dark soul series. For Chen Mo, it was a bit repetitive to move both ck soul 1 and 3 to VR. The VR tform only needed one soul series game. As for Dark Souls 1, it could be used as a PrePass and released on Switch. Of course, there were other reasons for making Dark Souls, such as the problem of investment, the problem of resentment points, and so on. As a Triple-A masterpiece, ck soul¡¯s investment was smaller than other series. Because ck soul¡¯s map design was very delicate, often putting a lot of content in the same scene, and through various elevators and one-way doors, it was very good to limit the pace of the game. Although this was to save money, yers liked this level design very much. If he wanted to make arge open world like GTA 5 or the origins of Assassin¡¯s Creed, Chen Mo would find it very difficult even now. On top of that, Chen Mo was indeedcking a game that could help him farm resentment ¡­ Chapter 524 Chapter 524: Hehehe! Trantor: 549690339 Chen Mo started working on the design concept for Dark Souls. In fact, Dark Souls was a game with very distinctive features. Whether it was the story¡¯s background,bat system, level design, scene design, side quests, or other aspects, they were all different from the games on the market. It was a game with its own style, and Chen Mo¡¯s design document was mainly to exin two things to everyone. The first point was that the core selling point of the game was the rich and variedbat system and the game¡¯s difficulty, which was a little too much for ordinary yers. In fact, these were all for the game¡¯sbat system. The yers cracked the designer¡¯s conspiracies inplex levels and defeated powerful bosses to better make use of thesebat rules and find fun in them. Some newbies were killed by the Knights, butter on, they could kill the Knights with reflective shield or broken shield. This was one of the fun things that thebat system gave to yers. After grasping the rules of soul-type battles, using these battle rules in itself was a very happy thing. The second point was the view of the world. The world of the Soul series waspletely different from the world of other games. There were many Western fantasy elements in it, but in fact, many Western fantasy elements were different from the traditional western fantasy. This world had a unique charm to it, and Chen Mo had to exin the concept to his team before he could better understand it in the game. For example, what was fire transmission? What was the Lord of Cinder? What kind of role were yers ying, and why did they have to pass fire? The basic content of the world was clear, and the hidden content had been dug out by the yers through various clues. However, there were still many different pitfalls in the game, and Miyazaki Hidetaka did not give a specific answer. Instead, he left it for the different yers to guess on their own. (ording to Miyazaki Hidetaka, when he was working on Dark Souls, he did the content first before the plot, so it¡¯s very likely that he didn¡¯t have a clear andplete game script himself ¡­) It was just like how many mystery movies had an open ending at the end. Everyone had different views on the ending, and the designer would not tell you which one was absolutely correct. Of course, Chen Mo had his own opinion on this, but he still decided to continue the mystery of the Dark Souls series. This kind of open ending had a special charm, and it wouldn¡¯t be good if the official gamepany forced the plot to be exined clearly. On the other hand, the perfect nk space could stimte the yers to explore the details of the whole world. The entire design concept draft took two days toplete. On one hand, Chen Mo had to think about how to describe it so that people who haven¡¯te into contact with ck souls would understand the rules of this world. On the other hand, he had to think back to the various processes in the game. However, what surprised Chen Mo was that he didn¡¯t use as many memory yback potions this time. He was able to remember most of the scenes and boss battles clearly. Thinking about it, this should be the aftereffects of the suffering, right? Any yer who had died in the same ce dozens of times would have remembered the terrain of the area ¡­ Dark Souls was a game that required rote memorization. You had to remember the distribution of monsters, terrain, and monster skills in a certain area to clear the game smoothly. If you didn¡¯t learn, the difficulty of the game would increase exponentially. ¡­¡­ After finishing the design concept, Chen Mo called everyone for a meeting. The news about brand new Yin Qing had been spreading on the inte for the past few days. Although most of the designers in the country were not qualified to use the Pangu system, it didn¡¯t stop them from talking about it. In fact, there were even many designers who offered their suggestions, saying that if they were the ones to create the game, they would do what the game would do. In a short period of time, many all-mouthy King emerged. The other people in thepany were also discussing this matter. ¡°The manager is an S-grade videogame designer, and he¡¯s on such good terms with the game Committee. I¡¯m sure he¡¯ll be invited to try out the Pangu system, right?¡± ¡°In other words, our next game can be made with thetest Pangu system?¡± ¡°That¡¯s possible, but I don¡¯t know what the manager is thinking.¡± ¡°We¡¯re probably talking about the new game today, right?¡± When Chen Zhao walked into the meeting room, everyone fell silent. Chen Mo looked at everyone.¡±I¡¯m sure you¡¯ve all heard that the Pangu system has built a new physical engine. The game Committee is currently looking for a game in China. They hope that you can make a game that can fully express the Pangu system.¡± Let¡¯s cut to the chase and go straight to the design concept. ¡± The title of the design draft appeared on the projection: Dark soul design draft. Chen Mo introduced,¡±first, I¡¯ll give you a simple summary. This is a Western fantasy game. Itsbat system ispletely different from any other game on the market. The art style and story background are simr to Diablo that we did before. ¡± ¡°Oh?¡± Qian Kun was surprised. Manager, are you finally going to release a VR version of Diablo?¡± No, wait, this game doesn¡¯t look like Diablo. It¡¯s called ¡­ Dark Souls?¡± The others were also a little confused. If it was any other game, it would be fine, but Chen Mo had the big ip of Diablo! Diablo had achieved good results on the PC market before, and most of the senior employees had just joined, so the memory was still fresh. When Diablo was first released, not only the outside world, but even many people in the project didn¡¯t think it was good. However, after it was released, Diablo led the trend at that time. It even created Emperor dynasty Entertainment¡¯s thousand Hells. Although this game wasn¡¯t as sessful as Diablo on the PC, it was still a good VR game. Quite a fewpanies had tried to create the same effect as Diablo on VR, but none of them had seeded. After that, Chen Mo seemed to havepletely forgotten about it. He didn¡¯t release the sequel to the Diablo series, Qin Zhuan, even though the story was ssic and could be used repeatedly. Why did Chen Mo leave the ip of Diablo and make a new game? Chen Mo looked at everyone.¡±This game is called Dark Souls. It¡¯s also Diablo style, but it has nothing to do with the story of Diablo.¡± Everyone was still a little confused. Chen Mo exined,¡±I know what you guys are thinking. Let¡¯s put it this way. The reason why we didn¡¯t use Diablo¡¯s ip is because the two games arepletely different in terms of gamey and spirit.¡± ¡°Diablo is a hack and sh game, and the main purpose is to let the yers have fun. The yers can kill groups of monsters with a wave of their hands and get a lot of equipment. ¡°But Dark Souls ¡­¡± ¡°Hehehe!¡± Chapter 525

Chapter 525: The game¡¯s features and world-building

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This ¡°hehehe¡± made everyone present shudder. What did ¡°hehehe¡± mean? Why did it feel like there was something going on? And why did Chen Mo look like he wanted to say something but didn ¡®t? ¡°Why do I feel like there¡¯s a conspiracy behind this ...¡± Qian Hua couldn¡¯t help but shiver. ¡°Ahem, back to the main topic.¡± Chen Zhao coughed. Su Jinyu asked,¡±manager, you haven¡¯t finished the first half of your sentence.¡± What kind of game is Dark Souls?¡± ¡°Yeah ...¡± Chen Mo exined,¡±it¡¯s a role-ying game thatbines parkour, face changing, Musou, love development, walking simtion, and many other elements.¡± Everyone was speechless. What the hell! We¡¯ve tolerated parkour, face-pinching, and unparalleled, but what are love cultivation and walking simtion? Su Jinyu pointed at the projection screen.¡±But manager, your concept draft clearly says ¡®high difficulty¡¯.¡± Chen Mo coughed dryly.¡±Ahem, don¡¯t mind the details. You¡¯ll understand the hidden elements after you y the game.¡± ...... ¡°Alright, let¡¯s get down to business. Thebat system of this game waspletely different from all the previous games, and it was also a game tailored for the Pangu system. It¡¯s also because of thisbat system that we can¡¯t use Diablo¡¯s story as the background, because the two games havepletely different characteristics. ¡± ¡°From this, there is also the world view, story plot, level design, monster design, and so on. As for this, everyone, please listen to me slowly. ¡± Hearing Chen Mo¡¯s story, everyone was curious and confused. The so-called novelty was that everyone found thebat system very interesting after hearing about it. shing at different body parts would have different results? Moreover, the difference in damage would be particrly great. Every weapon had a specialbat technique. The same cold weapons included straight swords, curved swords,rge swords, shields of different models, and arge number of armors. Moreover, yers had many attributes. Every time they leveled up, they could freely allocate attribute points. Different weapons had different attribute requirements. The yer¡¯s ss also did not have many restrictions on the yer¡¯s ying style. As long as the attribute points were appropriate, mages could holdrge swords, and Warriors could also cast spells. For yers, they had a lot of freedom. Moreover, most of the attributes were useful. Even for the general strength-type attributes, yers had to consider the allocation of health, energy, strength, stamina, and other elements. This type ofbat system had never been seen before, as no one had ever made such arge-scale rpg game before. This was a challenge for everyone. They were confused because Chen Mo emphasized the difficulty of the game: This was going to be more difficult than any of the previous games. Some yers might even be dissuaded at the first boss and might not evenst half an hour. Everyone was confused. Chen Mo had emphasized that it was easy to get started but hard to master, so why did the script suddenly change? Didn¡¯t you say it was easy to handle? Chen Mo saw everyone¡¯s confusion and exined,¡±¡±Regarding this point, you guys don¡¯t have to worry too much about it now. Our main focus is to create the game¡¯s mechanism. As for the difficulty, we can adjust itter.¡± No one asked too many questions, partly because they trusted Chen Mo, and partly because it was true that the difficulty could be adjustedter in the game development process, so there was no need to worry about it in the beginning. Especially Qian Kun, as a system designer, he knew very well that the difficulty of the game was something that was easy to control. If yers felt that a boss was too difficult, they could just hack it here and there, and it would instantly be easy. No matter how strong the boss was, it couldn¡¯t withstand two strikes from the designer ... Other than that, the design of the entire game world also surprised everyone. ¡°I¡¯ll tell Zheng Hongxi the details of the world. For others, you just need to know the background of the game.¡± ¡°In this world, fire is the origin of everything, and a King¡¯s soul was born from fire. The people who obtained the king¡¯s soul ended the rule of the giant Dragons and started the era of fire. However, the fire would gradually die out, and after the fire died out, the whole world would fall into darkness again. ¡± ¡°That¡¯s why some powerful kings use themselves as firewood to extend the burning time of the me. They are also known as the Lords of Cinder in the game. And the main character is a remnant ash who carries the mission of passing on the fire. ¡± ¡°As for the details, there will be a detailed script designter. Everyone just needs to roughly understand the background of this world. When the game is produced, you can experience it in the game yourself.¡± Soon, he finished the design concept. Most of them understood the game¡¯s characteristics. In fact, many people didn¡¯t really understand the meaning of Dark Souls. They thought that this game was a continuation of Diablo¡¯s style, and that the Diablo world-building was just for the yers to enjoy. Chen Mo smiled and didn¡¯t say anything. The next step was the most important part of the design, which was to make Dark Souls into a VR version. The most important part was thebat system design. In fact, when they were working on Overwatch, they had alreadye up with some clear ns for some of the designs, which could be used in Dark Souls. In Overwatch, there were problems with changing the perspective of a yer with skills, such as McRae¡¯s roll or death¡¯s big move. The solution was actually very simple. Under these skills, the yer¡¯s vision could still be freely controlled, and it would not be the same as the hero¡¯s actual vision. It was equivalent to temporarily having a God¡¯s perspective, and the yer could recover the vision after the skills were used. Another problem was the field of vision. Most 3a masterpieces on the PC side used a third-person perspective, which meant that the camera was behind the character, so that the yer could see the character¡¯s back and movements. There were many reasons for using this perspective, but the biggest reason was that it made yers feel morefortable. This was because the first person¡¯s vision on PC was 90 degrees, while in reality, the human¡¯s vision was 124 degrees. This was also why most first person games would cause the user¡¯s vision to be severely limited. Therefore, some shooting games and racing games would change the first-person perspective to the third-person perspective to reduce the difort caused by the limited field of view on the PC. On the other hand, most of the AAA games involved cold weapons. The enemy could attack the yers from any direction, and the effect of vision became even more obvious. Chapter 526 - The combat system

Chapter 526: Thebat system

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Moreover, the yers also wanted to see the character¡¯s appearance, clothes, and movements. He had given up on the insignificant sense of immersion to gain so many advantages, which was why most 3a masterpieces on PC all used this perspective. If the third person perspective was used on the VR tform, the biggest problem would be that the advantage of the VR tform could not be fully utilized. The biggest advantage of VR was the sense of substitution, and it couldn¡¯t be abandoned. At the same time, because the yers ¡®actual field of vision on the VR tform was also 124 degrees, and the yers could feel the touch from different parts of their body when they were attacked, the problem of limited vision did not exist at all. There was no need to worry about not being able to find the enemy. Thest problem was that the yers couldn¡¯t see their own character¡¯s appearance and actions, which was actually quite easy to solve. Chen Mo was nning to add two more features. The first was a video yback system. yers could record their own battles with the boss and rey it from a God¡¯s perspective. This way, yers could freely view their own appearance during battle. The other mode was God¡¯s perspective. yers could freely switch to the God¡¯s perspective and observe the character¡¯s appearance. It was convenient for those who liked to look good to dress up and do street dances. This basically solved the first person perspective problem on the VR tform. In addition, dark soul in VR mode had another advantage. It allowed one to have more precise control over distance and a stronger sense of immersion. Of course, he would also suffer more ... However, suffering was the core fun of this game. ...... Apart from that, he also had to enrich the details of the battle. With the support of the Pangu system, it was possible to build a moreplexbat system. The changes brought by the Pangu system to the ck soulbat system were mainly three aspects. The first was that the judgment of the various striking positions was more urate. yers could use the tip of the sword, the de, swing, flick, stab, and other different movements to strike different parts of the monster¡¯s body, resulting in different effects. Monsters would deliberately make some gaps in their armor. For example, a normal knight¡¯s armor had a very hard te armor on the outside, but only a rtively soft chain armor inner lining could be worn at the joints. If the yers could pierce through the gaps in the armor, they could deal more damage to the monsters. At the same time, when cutting at different parts of the armor, the impact on the enemy would be calcted ording to the power of the cut, which would also cause a certain amount of damage to the enemy. Of course, the game still retained settings such as backstab and execution, but the trigger was different from the previous game. The yers could try backstab as long as they were diagonally behind the monster, but the sess or failure depended on the Pangu system¡¯s calctions. The second was that the strength judgment of the entire game had be more urate. Different weapons had different impact forces. When dealing with heavily armored enemies, a heavy blunt weapon like a hammer was much more useful than a sword. In the original dark Souls, as long as the yer could lift the extrarge shield, the enemy would only lose some energy when they hit the extrarge shield. However, after the magic modification, if the enemy used a hammer-type weapon to attack the extrarge shield, and the yer¡¯s strength attribute was not high enough, they would still receive light damage. At the same time, yers could fight with monsters. When the yer¡¯s sword and the monster¡¯s sword collided, the difference in strength between the two sides would be calcted. Based on this, the result of the collision would be decided and fed back to both sides. If two evenly-matched enemies were to fight, the swords of both sides would bounce back slightly after the collision, and it would consume a certain amount of energy. If one side¡¯s energy was exhausted, it would produce the same effect as reflective shield, and there would be a more obvious hit recovery. Under such a setting, the yers actually had more opportunities to be reckless, and it was also closer to a real battle. Of course, there was a problem with this change. The difference in attributes might make the battle less suspenseful. If one side¡¯s strength and energy both overpowered the other, then the battle would be a one-sided ughter. In this regard, it could be solved with some other small changes, such as setting the strength and energy threshold, modifying the matching algorithm during pk between yers, or supplementing the attributes of the weaker side, and so on. Of course, this was something to be discussedter. He would only need to consider it in detail when creating the online mode. Third, it could increase the richness of the battle. In the original dark Souls, if the yer triggered backstab on a monster, the monster would have a rtively long invincible frame when it fell to the ground. Before the monster got up, the yer would not be able to deal any damage to the monster. Of course, there were many other considerations for this design, the main one being the bnce of the game. Chen Mo decided to use another approach. In a real duel between Knights, if one party backstabbed the other, the winner would have long been determined. The one who was backstabbed could only die. So Chen Mo¡¯s n was that once one of them was stabbed in the back and kicked to the ground, the other yer could follow up with a follow-up attack, such as jumping high and then smashing the ground. (In the original work, there were some special weaponbat techniques that could pursue fallen enemies, but the number was rtively small.) The one who was stabbed in the back had to roll away in time to avoid the attack, or else he would have to suffer a high amount of pursuit damage. Chen Mo also added a new setting, the maximum amount of energy. In a critical situation, when the yer¡¯s energy bar had been depleted, if he still needed to roll, he could use his own energy. However, the maximum amount of energy that could be overdrawn was very limited. After overdrawing, the recovery speed of the original energy bar would slow. After the maximum energy bar was full, the normal energy bar would recover at a normal speed. This setting was actually simr to the potential explosion at a critical moment. Many exhausted people often exploded with a very powerful force at the critical moment in order to survive. After adding this setting, even if one¡¯s energy waspletely depleted, they wouldn¡¯t bepletely at the mercy of others. At least, they still had a chance to save their lives. (In Dark Souls, the energy point can be understood as the physical point. Rolling, attacking, defending and other operations will consume energy, but it can not be called physical strength, because in Dark Souls, the physical point affects the character¡¯s weight carrying ability. These are twopletely different attributes.) After this modification, thebat system of Dark Souls would be moreplicated and varied, and it would be closer to a real battle. Some specialbat methods were also allowed, such as the battle between the Red Viper and the demon mountain in the Song of Ice and Fire. The Red Viper, as a leather armor unit, relied on its flexible positioning and poisoned long spear to constantly attack the gaps in the demon mountain¡¯s armor, and won by umting ¡°almost¡± poison. Thisbat system could also be achieved. Chapter 527

Chapter 527: Don¡¯t worry, yers will understand when they die

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Soon, Chen Zhao had ess to the Pangu system. Chen Mo was in charge of thebat system this time. As for the other parts of the game, it wasn¡¯tplicated since everyone was more experienced. While using the Pangu system, Chen Zhao discovered something even more terrifying. The Pangu system was an artificial intelligence that was simr to Origin. Basically, whatever Origin could do, Pangu could do as well. One of them was ying games ... If it was used in the game, it would improve the monster¡¯s AI ... After using this system, the intelligence of specific monsters could be increased to a particrly high level. They could even perfectly use anybat skills supported by thebat system. They could even analyze the best solution for their ownbat methods. ¡°I feel like if I really apply this system to the monsters in Dark Souls, the yers won¡¯t be able to spread fire anymore ...¡± Chen Mo was just ying with it out of curiosity, he didn¡¯t actually use it as a monster AI. Obviously, if this was really made into a monster AI, it would be too awesome to face so many artificial intelligence at the same time. Most Lords of Cinder would say,¡±¡±This fire can¡¯t be spread, whoever you want! Go and pass the water!¡± Of course, there were various ways to limit the AI of the monsters, such as lowering the operation and reaction speed of the artificial intelligence, separating the aggro between different monsters, and so on. However, even so, it was still too difficult for the yers. Even the stupid AI from before was enough to torture the ordinary yers, let alone the enhanced AI. Think about it, you¡¯re facing a monster with a shield, and you¡¯re very confident in using your longsword to break the shield. In the end, the monster dodged your attack with a cool forward roll, and even backstabbed you ... ...... It can¡¯t be passed on! This fire won¡¯t spread! However, there were other uses for this system. After the prototype of the entirebat system was created, Chen Zhao could use the Pangu system¡¯s AI to control two knights to fight and analyze the attributes of various weapons, shields, and armor. When a particr weapon, shield, or ystyle was discovered to be particrly powerful, it could be weakened in a targeted way, so that most of the ystyles and weapons were rtively bnced. Moreover, it was too extravagant to use the Pangu system as the monster AI at the moment, because the current Pangu system still relied on theputing power of the main body¡¯s supeputer, which was not so convenient to use. Chen Mo considered using it as a Special Trial mode for yers who had alreadypleted N rounds and were no longer interested in fighting NPCs. This way, there wouldn¡¯t be a situation where ¡°everyone knows that the Lord of Cinder doesn¡¯t know how to perform five consecutive shes ...¡± However, this was a story for the future. ¡­¡­ The development of Dark Souls was going quite smoothly. After Chen Mo personally took care of thebat system, the other parts weren¡¯t too difficult. In terms of the scenes, the entire Dark Souls could be seen as a huge seamless map (except for a few scenes that needed to be transported). After Chen Mo gave a detailed levelyout and n, there was a lot of content, but it didn¡¯t slow down the development. As for the art and music, with the experience from Diablo, it went smoothly. Another advantage of Dark Souls was that it had less plot and less text, which made it easy to produce multinguage versions. The plot could be written quickly. Chen Mo¡¯s art team was growing as well, reaching a total of 39 people. However, there was still a lot of work that needed to be outsourced. This art team did not take care of all the art-rted work. They mainly did concept design and prototype creation. Some of the rough work was outsourced. In other words, Chen Mo¡¯s art team was going for the elite route, and six of the main art experts could take charge of their own areas. The person who had the most breakdown in the entire project was Qian Kun. Qian Kun was in charge of the game¡¯s numbers and level design, but Chen Mo¡¯s level design n left him in a daze. It was clearly a huge seamless map, but the yers ¡®game flow was forcibly cut into many scattered small pieces. Even if it was the same ce, the yers had to explore many different routes. It was like the scene in the small church of purity. The yers always felt that as they fought, they were back again! Then, they switched to another road and continued to fight. ¡®Hey, I¡¯m back!¡¯ With some unlockeddders, mechanical elevators, one-way doors, locked doors, and other elements, they sessfully made a scene moreplicated, so that the yers had to explore repeatedly to fully collect all the elements in the map. In other words, he only knew how to push the door but not pull it open ... However, this design was very popr. Not only did the yers not curse, but they also felt that this level design was really awesome! In fact, part of the reason for this level¡¯s design at the very beginning was that Miyazaki Hidekazu did not have enough research and development funds, so he had no choice but to use this resource-efficient production method ... This made the level design of Dark Souls the industry benchmark. This level design was a pain for Qian Kun, because Chen Mo¡¯s draft wasn¡¯t that clear. The same scene was filled with all sorts of markings and route descriptions, giving Qian Kun a headache. With the addition of the cloth monsters, Qian Kun couldn¡¯t help but shiver when he imagined the scene of the yers ying. What was even more insane was that Chen Mo kept hinting for Qian Kun to increase the monster¡¯s attributes. ¡°This Knight monster, increase its strength and mental energy a bit more, and its desire to attack a bit more. Oh, adjust the HP too, add another third. As for your intelligence, it should be just right now. You don¡¯t need to adjust it anymore. ¡± Chen Zhao said. Qian Kun was dumbfounded.¡±Manager, this Knight¡¯s attributes are already higher than the yers ¡®. This is just a small monster ...¡± Chen Mo said matter-of-factly,¡±of course I know it¡¯s a small monster. Aiya, it only regenerates a bit of health. yers just need to hit it with a backstab. It¡¯s not hard at all, right?¡± Qian Kun was speechless. ¡°It¡¯s okay,¡± Chen Mo said.¡±Look, based on how stupid this Knight is, he¡¯ll definitely swing his sword twice. The yers will just raise their shields to block it, then flick it, and execute it with a raise of their hands.¡± Or the yer can hold the shield and roll to the back of the monster to backstab it. After repeating this three times, the monster is basically dead. It doesn¡¯t matter whether its attributes are high or not. ¡± Qian Kun scratched his head.¡±Then, manager, what if the yers don¡¯t understand the execution and backstab you mentioned?¡± he asked. Chen Zhao thought for a moment.¡±It¡¯s okay. They¡¯ll understand after they die more.¡± Qian Kun was speechless. Chapter 528

Chapter 528: A very suitable chapter name

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Chen Mo¡¯s series of adjustments gave Qian Kun a huge headache. Didn¡¯t they say that the difficulty would be lowered? wasn¡¯t this clearly a higher difficulty? This design made Qian Kun shiver in fear. If he had to describe it in one sentence, it would be that Chen Mo¡¯s evil intentions were hidden everywhere ... The cloth monsters in Dark Souls had the following characteristics. The first was that where you could see temptation, there would definitely be a conspiracy. For example, if you saw a glowing item or a delicious chrysanthemum in front of you, then there would definitely be a different number of monsters hiding behind it, to the left, to the right, or to the top, waiting to ambush you. The second was when you felt that you couldn¡¯t beat an enemy, then you really couldn¡¯t beat them. For example, if you suddenly saw a majestic Knight, or a fat man who caused the earth to shake when he walked, or a powerful fire-breathing dragon. Your first reaction was,¡±F * ck, how can I defeat such a powerful enemy?¡± But in order to clear the game, you could only try it without hesitation. In his heart, he still harbored the mentality of getting lucky. Maybe it just looked more impressive? Then, after trying it out, I realized that, well, I really can¡¯t beat him! In the early stages of the ck soul Stage, there were many ces where such enemies that you obviously couldn¡¯t beat were ced. Of course, if you were highly skilled, liked to y spirit Douluo, and insisted on a headbutt fight, then it wasn¡¯tpletely impossible to win, but it would be very strenuous. This kind of monster was more suitable to be pushed to the next part of the map and be stronger. Many yers would be dumbfounded when they first came into contact with this level design. ...... Why? ording to the process, I shouldn¡¯t have encountered such a perverted monster! But that was the truth. In Dark Souls, it wasn¡¯t as if you would always encounter an evenly matched enemy if you followed the procedure obediently. The third was that most of the more difficult levels had hidden simple ways to clear the stage, such as terrain killing. However, new yers were usually hard to find. To put it simply, the level design of Dark Souls was very malicious. There were many seemingly unreasonable arrangements and crazy traps in this game. If you still considered this game ording to the logic of ordinary games, you would definitely be tricked to the point that even your mother wouldn¡¯t recognize you. However, if you carefully studied the design of Dark Souls ¡®levels, adapted to this way of thinking, and constantly tried various methods, you would find that every seemingly difficult level had a rtively simple way to pass it. Many yers who were not good at it could also pass it. Of course, this was the charm of Dark Souls ¡®level design. However, this charm was hidden so deeply that most people couldn¡¯t see it at first nce. For Qian Kun, although he had done a lot of level designs, the level design ideas of Dark Souls hadpletely overturned his previous thinking. His first reaction was that this game looked so difficult! In this regard, there was nothing he could do to help. The yers could only pray for themselves ... ¡­¡­ Other than developing Dark Souls, Chen Mo also had other things to do. The ss at world No. 1 University was still going on. After seeing the performance of the Switch, those who doubted Chen Mo before all shut up. Although this model was far from being able topete with mobile phones, everyone could see that this model still had room for development. In addition, more than 20 indie games have been migrated to the Switch tform. yers could download these indie games directly on the Switch. For indie games with higher capacity requirements, they could also buy clips from the official website. Currently, most of the indie games that had been moved to the mobile and PC tforms were mobile and PC. The original designers were very active because moving to the mobile tform wasn¡¯t too much of a hassle for them, and there wasn¡¯t much work to do. With some random tweaking, they could create another tform to sell the game. Moreover, thepetition on mobile tforms was not intense at all. As long as the game quality was slightly better, it would sell well. Moreover, with the performance of the Switch, mobile games were perfectly supported, and some PC games that couldn¡¯t run on mobile phones could run without pressure after optimization. Some yers even called for Chen Mo to port League of Legends to Switch as soon as possible, so that everyone could just lie down and do nothing. Chen Mo enthusiastically replied,¡±screw off!¡± Don¡¯t think that I can¡¯t see that you¡¯re trying to find an excuse to screw over your teammates, and you¡¯re also trying to push the me on me! There were MOBA games on mobile devices, but League of Legends wasn¡¯t suitable. It was mainly because of the operating mode. Many settings and skills in League of Legends were not suitable for mobile/handheld devices. This involved the game¡¯s basic rules, hero skills, and so on. If all the changes were made, it might bepletely different from the League of Legends on the PC. The handheld and PC games would not be able to connect to each other because of the different mechanisms. In that case, it would be no different from two different games ... However, some independent PC games, such as first person adventure games, could be migrated to the mobile tform, allowing many yers to realize their dreams of ying games while lying down. The handheld device itself had a lot of buttons, and it supported motion perception. The operation mode was also very mature. Therefore, many designers had seen the potential of this brand new mobile phone, and their enthusiasm for developing a mobile phone exclusive to them had been rising. ¡­¡­ In the hall on the first floor of the experience store. There was arge LED TV on the wall, which Chen Mo had no choice but to add after the yers strongly requested it. ording to Chen Mo¡¯s original n, there would be a bookshelf next to the sofa in the living room with many books for the yers to read. However, he still overestimated the desire of modern people to learn. In reality, other than Chen Mo who asionally flipped through the bookshelves, most of the yers weren¡¯t interested in the books. They wanted more modern multimedia equipment like the television. To put it simply, they needed images and sound ... This was a pain in the ass for Chen Zhao, because the sound of the TV would disturb him when he was reading in the living room. However, on second thought, even without the sound of the TV, the hall would not be quiet with so many peopleing and going, so it was not suitable for reading. As such, Chen Mo switched to a TV. Other than broadcasting the games, he would also asionally broadcast somepetitions or the promo of a new game on Thunderbolt gaming tform. Chapter 529

Chapter 529: Chapter title not too suitable

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Chen Zhao was chatting with li jingsi. ¡°You should be graduating this year, right?¡± Chen Zhao asked. ¡°Yes, very soon,¡± li jingsi nodded. ¡°What are your ns after graduation?¡± Chen Mo asked again,¡±graduate or work? Or can you y professionally? With your level and looks, you¡¯ll probably reach the peak of your life soon. ¡± Li jingsi smiled.¡±I¡¯m not interested in any of them. It¡¯s best to y games all day.¡± But if you don¡¯t want to y professionally, then ying the game will be work, and you¡¯ll soon find it boring. ¡± ¡°Your dream in life is to y games,¡± Chen Mo joked.¡±You¡¯re the only one with such a dream.¡± ¡°This dream isn¡¯t easy to achieve, alright?¡± li jingsi said. Games are getting more and more expensive, it¡¯s all your fault. Designers nowadays only care about using their pay to create happiness, they need money to y games in peace. ¡± ¡°Then why don¡¯t you be my girlfriend?¡± Chen Mo was amused.¡±You¡¯ll be able to realize your dream in an instant.¡± ¡°Sure,¡± li jingsi replied with a smile. Chen Mo: ¡°???¡± Wait, it was different from what he had imagined? Luckily, there weren¡¯t many people in the hall, or Chen Mo would have beenughed at. Not only did he fail to hit on a girl, but he was also hit on? How embarrassing, you should quickly leave the group! Hurry up and go back to work on the game seriously, you trash! ...... Just then, a piece of news on the TV interrupted the conversation between the two. ¡°Recently, famous gamingpany Omega once again revealed more information about the new game.¡± ¡°It¡¯s said that the new game is called ¡®Knight¡¯s glory¡¯. The game is set in medieval Europe. The yers will y the role of an expedition Knight to deal with powerful enemies.¡± ¡°And this time, ga has revealed more details. The most eye-catching one is that the game¡¯s physics will be fully controlled by the origin of artificial intelligence, the famous origin.¡± ¡°Speaking of origin, I believe everyone here is familiar with it. It represents the highest level of artificial intelligence. ording to the relevant staff. The physical engine built by origin has reached an amazing level in all aspects, and Knight¡¯s glory can be regarded as a game that serves origin. ¡± ¡°In the game, the Knight¡¯s battle style in the Middle Ages will bepletely replicated. Origin attraction could even perfectly replicate some details of a Knight¡¯s battle. From the prototype video that was revealed, this video is more like a movie or CG, but GA¡¯s developers proudly tell us that this is the game¡¯s real-time calctions, aplete in-game setting, every battle will be at this level. ¡± ¡°Some of the other details have not been fully disclosed yet. However, the GA-rted designers were obviously full of confidence. He said that this will be the best game to showcase physics. Perhaps in the near future, humans will really be able to realize their dream of creating a new world in games. ¡± At the end of the news, there was a long picture attached. In the image, two heavy-armored knights were fighting with two-handed swords. The swords collided violently, making a loud sound. As the Knights on both sides were wearing heavy armor, and the scene and characters were very precise, one couldn¡¯t even tell that this was a game at first nce. It was extremely simr to reality. Obviously, in addition to the precision of the scenes and characters, physics was also a great help to the game. With Origin¡¯s help, the swords of both sides touched each other. Then origin calcted the reaction force. It was very simr to a real Knight¡¯s duel. ¡°It seems like their first thought is to fight with cold weapons.¡± Chen Zhao thought. If it were any other designer, their first reaction would definitely be a pain in the ass. After all, GA was an international manufacturer, and no one wanted to sh with them. However, Chen Zhao was not moved at all. He even wanted tough. A car crash wasn¡¯t scary, but whoever was weaker would be embarrassed. At this moment, Qian Kun walked over. ¡°Well, manager, the first mini-scene of the game is ready. We can try it out now. I just yed for a bit and I really want to ask, are we really not going to lower the difficulty anymore?¡± Chen Mo looked at Qian Kun,¡±what¡¯s wrong?¡± Is the difficulty very high?¡± Qian Kun coughed dryly.¡±I¡¯ve been at it for ten minutes. I still can¡¯t defeat that judge of ashes, Gundar.¡± Chen Mo chuckled.¡±I feel like you¡¯re not ying seriously at all. You¡¯re such a disgrace to us designers. You should leave the group.¡± Qian Kun was speechless. ¡°Do you want to try out the new game?¡± Chen Mo asked li jingsi as he stood up. ¡°Sure,¡± li jingsi nodded. The three of them went to the VR gaming experience area. A demo for Dark Souls had already been installed in one of the gaming pods. The demo was actually very simple. It only had a small area of Firelink sacrificial grounds. The only challenging enemies were the ashen judgementor Gundar and the two special creatures, brother de and the Bugatti Veyron. The Firekeeper was the only npc in the Firelink sacrificial grounds. The other NPCs were not allowed in. The main purpose of creating this scene was to test thebat system and some basic rules of the game. In the end, after testing the game¡¯s difficulty, Qian Kun peed his pants. After he entered, he was tortured by Gu da for ten minutes. Before this, Qian Kun had already felt that this game was too difficult. After all, he was in charge of calctions. It was obvious that some elite monsters had better attributes than yers, let alone bosses. It was simply an overwhelming victory. At first, he thought that it was reasonable to do so. After all, the other party was a boss, so it was fine for it to have higher HP and higher attack. However, when the battle started, Qian Kun was dumbfounded. He had been killed instantly! ¡°It¡¯s obviously because you¡¯re too noob. Watch me. ¡± Chen Mo was about to enter the gaming pod. Qian Kun quickly stopped him,¡±manager, stop it. Everyone knows that you¡¯re a gaming God. You know the boss¡¯s skills like the back of your hand. I¡¯m sure you can defeat the boss without any pressure, but you can¡¯t represent the average yer¡¯s skill level.¡± Chen Zhao was speechless. It felt like Chen Mo was charging up his [act tough] skill, but was interrupted by Qian Kun ... ¡°Then you know the boss¡¯s skills like the back of your hand,¡± Chen Mo retorted.¡±Why can¡¯t you beat the boss?¡± Qian Kun was speechless,¡±F * ck, I¡¯m just a game designer, not a professional yer!¡± ¡°Alright,¡± Chen Zhao said.¡±It seems that even if I beat gundyr, you won¡¯t be convinced.¡± ¡°I¡¯ll give it a try then,¡±li jingsi said. As he spoke, he entered the game cabin. Qian Kun knew that li jingsi was a master as well, but she was only a master in Warcraft and League of Legends. Li jingsi didn¡¯t even know the boss ¡®skills in Dark Souls, nor did she understand the game¡¯s mechanics. Even if she was better than him, she couldn¡¯t be that much better, could she? ¡°Manager,¡± Qian Kun said,¡±look, if jingsi is stuck at gundyr for a long time, it should prove that the difficulty of this boss is a little high, right?¡± ¡°Hehe.¡± Chen Mo smiled but didn¡¯t say anything. Chapter 530

Chapter 530: You still said that this game is difficult?

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Very quickly, li jingsi found herself in the game world. This was a deste grave. Everywhere was gray, deste and dpidated. It seemed to be filled with ashes and human remains. There were many skeleton monsters in front of them, and they blended in well with the environment. There was no UI disy. He couldn¡¯t tell if they were corpses on the side of the road or monsters that could hurt people. There was a bunch of words carved on the ground. Li jingsi bent over to take a look and found that it was written with some basic operations for the game. He looked down at himself. He was wearing a Silver knight¡¯s armor, holding a shield in his left hand and a long sword in his right hand. Because it was only a demo for testing, no other sses were released, and they were all Knights by default. Chen Mo and Qian Kun were looking at li jingsi¡¯s first-person perspective through an external monitor. One moment, li jingsi raised her shield, the next moment, she rolled. The next moment, she brandished her longsword and used herbat skills. She wandered around in the same spot for five minutes without taking a single step forward. Qian Kun was confused,¡± what is she doing? ¡± Familiar with the skill? ¡± Chen Mo rolled his eyes,¡± what else? ¡± Could it be that he¡¯s doing a street dance? ¡± Qian Kun was speechless. Different yers would have different ways of ying the game. Most yers were in a very rxed state of mind when ying the game. They didn¡¯t like to look at the prompts, and they didn¡¯t like to look at the plot. In any case, they just kept moving forward and only counted when they cleared the game. ...... Therefore, in order to amodate the needs of these yers, many game developers constantly simplified and brainless games, such as forcing new yers to guide them, skipping various plots, and so on, so that yers could y without using their brains. However, there were also other yers who would experience symptoms simr to OCD when they yed the game. He had to read every single word of the game. All the allowed methods of ying the game must be fully practiced. Only when they felt that it was enough to deal with most situations did they continue to advance. Clearing the game wasn¡¯t enough. He had to collect all the special items, finish all the side quests, and find all the hidden items. It was clear that li jingsi belonged to thetter in a certain sense. She first spent five minutes familiarizing herself with all the controls. Although Chen Mo had modified thebat system of Dark Souls, the core was still the same. After li jingsi had familiarized herself with all the skills, her character once again stood there in a daze, not moving at all. ¡°What is this?¡± Qian Kun was confused. Chen Mo thought about it, maybe he¡¯s looking at the description of the attributes. Qian Kun was speechless,¡±it¡¯s useless to look at it now, it can¡¯t be upgraded ...¡± Soon, li jingsi must have finished looking through the attribute panel before she walked up to face the first monster. The first monster was very simple. In fact, all they had to do was to charge up and mindlessly attack it. However, li jingsi did not do that. Instead, she raised her shield and waited patiently. Qian Kun was dumbfounded,¡±could this be ...¡± ¡°Yeah ... She¡¯s practicing reflective shield ...¡± Chen Mo nodded. In front of li jingsi was a small skeleton monster. Well, strictly speaking, this thing could not be called a skeleton monster. It should be called a living corpse. However, it didn¡¯t matter what it was called. In any case, this thing was just a Trash Monster in the novice area. It could be killed with two strikes. As long as the yer was in his right mind, he shouldn¡¯t die to this thing. At that moment, the zombie was waving its weapon and trying to attack li jingsi, while li jingsi was practicing reflective shield. The knight¡¯s shield was a medium-sized shield, so it was not easy for it to reflect sessfully. However, li jingsi¡¯s reaction time was far beyond the average yer¡¯s ... After two failed attempts, the Knight Shield in li jingsi¡¯s hand sessfully deflected the zombie monsterlings ¡®weapons. She immediately followed the instructions and took a step forward, stabbing the longsword in her hand into the zombie monsterlings¡¯ abdominal cavity. It was an instant kill. For the next few monsters, li jingsi began to study other battle tactics. For example, rolling backstab, raising his shield to block, usingbat skills, and so on. Basically, he had tried all the skills mentioned in thebat system introduction on the monsters before he reached gundyr. Qian Kun suddenly had a bad feeling. He felt that it was a mistake to let li jingsi experience the game. This fellow was just like the store manager, they were both not normal yers! As li jingsi pulled out the spiralling sword from Gundar¡¯s body, the ashen nephilic judge, who was known by many newbies as a boss to dissuade others, stood up. He was almost twice as tall as the yers, and he held a long-handled weapon of an astonishing length in his hand. It looked a little like a broadsword, but also a little like a halberd. Qian Kun had suffered enough losses from gundyr. When he designed this boss, he didn¡¯t think that gundyr was that strong. However, when they started fighting, he realized that gundyr could kill anyone in an instant! Gundyr¡¯s attacks were powerful and heavy, and even if yers raised their shields, they would still lose a lot of energy. If you just stood there and waited for Gundam to finish his attack, the only result would be that your shield would be broken and you would be beaten up. Li jingsi raised her shield immediately when she saw Gu da attacking himself. However, just as Gu DA¡¯s broadsword was about to sh at her, li jingsi raised her shield and deflected it. At the same time, she took a step forward and stabbed her sword through her chest! Qian Kun was speechless. Although li jingsi managed to deflect the attack with the help of the new physics engine, she still felt a strong vibration in her left hand. However, the Parry was a diversion, so it didn¡¯t affect him much. This boss¡¯s difficulty level was just so mysterious. If the yer couldn¡¯t learn Parry or roll, then this boss was simply undefeatable. However, if the yer could master Parry, then this boss would be no threat at all in the first stage. Li jingsi¡¯s parry had only lost half of her HP, but the rest had been sessful. Gu DA¡¯s HP had also dropped below half, and he had entered the second stage. In the second stage, Gundar would erupt with human pus. His entire body would be filled with ck abyssal material. This material was like a huge snake¡¯s head, and its attack range would berger and more dangerous. Li jingsi was not in a hurry to fight. Instead, she took a potion to recover her health, then rolled around in the wide field, dodging, and studying Gundam¡¯s movement patterns. Li jingsi quickly discovered the pattern. After Gundar jumped high and hit the ground, he would often be in a daze for a long time. She could take advantage of this period to run forward and attack him from behind. After two strikes, she would roll back and repeat. In the end, the boss that had been torturing Qian Hua for ten minutes was actually worn down to death by li jingsi on her first try ... After beating Gundam, li jingsi came out of the game cabin.¡± ¡°That¡¯s it?¡± Qian Kun looked helpless.¡±There¡¯s nothing else. This is just a demo. The game¡¯s content isn¡¯tplete.¡± Chen Mo chuckled,¡±what did I say?¡± You¡¯re telling me that this game is difficult when a girl defeated a boss on her first try and left a bottle of potions behind?¡± Li jingsi nodded.¡±Yeah, it¡¯s too easy. It¡¯s not challenging at all.¡± Qian Yong was speechless, he could only nod,¡± ¡°Yes, yes, you¡¯re all right ...¡± At this moment, Qian Hua was in despair. Damn it, these two experimental samples were not representative at all! What kind of normal yer would do nothing but read the game manual and then practice hard? This didn¡¯t make any sense! ¡°Sigh, yers, I can only help you up to this point. I can¡¯t help you anymore. Good luck ...¡± Qian Kun thought sadly. Chapter 531

Chapter 531: Thunderbolt film studio¡¯stest production

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In the end, the difficulty of Dark Souls was decided. Although Qian Kun was extremely worried about the difficulty, Chen Mo patted him on the shoulder with a smile, ¡± ¡°Don¡¯t worry, the yers are much stronger than you think.¡± Qian Kun could only silently pray for the yers and hope that they were on their own. At the same time, as Knight¡¯s glory revealed more and more details, it also caused a bigger and bigger impact in the domestic gaming circle. Although thepetition between the two AI models had not been brought to the surface, everyone was clear about it in their hearts. The GA had already made the first move, and had sessfully attracted the attention of the world¡¯s media. If the local gamingpanies didn¡¯t do anything, the limelight would bepletely stolen, which was clearly the opposite of what the game Committee wanted. Many designers were discussing it. ¡°What¡¯s the situation? Why did it feel like Knight¡¯s glory was soplete, and how did the GA¡¯s preparatione so fast and so well? So much information has already been revealed!¡± ¡°That¡¯s right. From the information that¡¯s been disclosed, thepletion rate might have reached sixty to seventy percent, or even higher. It¡¯s too fast!¡± ¡°Hey, I just thought of an idea for the game!¡± ¡°Upstairs, so what if you have an idea? You speak as if you have the authority to ess the Pangu system ... That thing has only been issued to a dozen people in the country. ¡± ¡°Cough, cough, it¡¯s hard not to tear it down! Can¡¯t you just let me finish this B * stard?¡± ¡°I wonder how the Chinese video game designers are doing, but I don¡¯t think they¡¯ll be so fast.¡± ¡°There¡¯s still a time difference. Origin developed faster than the Pangu system, and the GA should have gotten the rights a long time ago, so they have an advantage in time. It¡¯s normal for the game to be moreplete. You must know that before Origin¡¯s physics engine was officially disclosed, GA¡¯s research and development should have already been in progress!¡± ...... ¡°Thispetition is unfair to us!¡± ¡°Don¡¯t make a fuss. When has this kind of thing ever been fair? He could only see which projects in the country were progressing faster. Speaking of which, did Chen Mo do anything? he¡¯s probably the fastest video game designer, right?¡± ¡± Indeed, in terms of speed, Chen Mo seems to be faster than most video game designers in the country and abroad. I think if there¡¯s anyone who would fight back against Knight¡¯s glory, it would be Chen Mo! ¡± There were other designers who had obtained the rights to the Pangu system, but they were in a rush. After they obtained the Pangu system, they had to study the system¡¯s features, n a new game from scratch, and then start working on it. In such a short time, they couldn¡¯t even produce some of the more exciting game materials, let alone a finished game. As for the foreign designers, although Origin¡¯s physics engine had not been disclosed for long, it was obvious that some bigpanies had already been testing it before it was disclosed. No one knew how long they had been developing it. However, Chen Mo wasn¡¯t worried at all, because Dark Souls was progressing very quickly. He wasn¡¯t afraid of anyone in terms of speed. After all, in the world of martial arts, speed was the only thing that could not be broken, and this was even more so in the game industry. ¡­¡­ At the same time that Knight¡¯s glory released arge amount of information, Chen Mo¡¯s Weibo also released the opening cinematics of Dark Souls! Other than the video, there was no other text in the post. It was mainly to give yers enough space to imagine. After seeing this Weibo post, the yers in China were all shocked! ¡°F * ck, Chen Mo really doesn¡¯t know how to just watch. He released the opening cinematics, is this a tit-for-tat?¡± ¡°Sure, I like this little temper!¡± ¡°This also means that Chen Mo¡¯s development is fast, he can¡¯t just release a cinematics to trick people, right?¡± ¡°I don¡¯t think so, don¡¯t Chen Mo¡¯s new games alwayse out faster than everyone expected? Hurry up and see what the cinematics say. Let¡¯s see what kind of game it is!¡± The designers and yers all opened the cinematics to watch, hoping to find more information about Chen Mo¡¯s new game. ¡­¡­ The video started with a thick fog. It was gray everywhere, and countless ancient trees stood tall. There were many huge and immortal ancient dragons around the trees. A low and aged female voice was telling the story in a low voice, giving people the feeling that an old witch was telling a prophecy about the end of the world. ¡°In ancient times, the world had yet to split and was shrouded in fog.¡± The camera zoomed in from a crack in a tree toward the center of the. At the same time, sparks lit up, and the entire scene became bright. ¡°However, one day, the first ball of fire was created. Later generations called it the first fire.¡± Beside the burning mes, countless ck shadows stood up. ¡°People found the king¡¯s soul around the first me and defeated the ancient dragon that ruled the world with the power of fire.¡± The scene changed. The lightning Spear in Sun King Gwyn¡¯s hand pierced through the sky and pierced through the ancient dragon Army. ¡°The era of fire has begun ...¡± After passing throughyers of fog, a vast scene appeared in the distance. A huge and magnificent city appeared in the camera! This was an extremely prosperous human city-state, and one could see how grand and magnificent it was just by looking at it from afar. Then, the screen turned ck and sparks fell from above. ¡°But the fire will eventually be extinguished, and when that timees, the world will only be left with darkness.¡± ¡°The light can not shine on the world, and the night continues endlessly.¡± A hand reached out to the me and ignited itself. ¡°The heroes with great power used themselves as firewood to pass on the continuation of the me. Lord of Cinder. ¡± After that, there was a long ck screen, indicating that countless years had passed. Then, the ruins of a city appeared on the screen. In the background of a gray fog, copsed buildings were everywhere, looking lifeless. ¡°That city is called Lothric. It¡¯s the hometown of the Lords of fire, and also the ce where the Wanderers gather.¡± Many strange creatures with crutches and turtle shells on their backs were struggling to move forward in the gray wastnd. ¡± Therefore, the Pilgrims all headed north and understood the meaning of the fable. ¡± ¡°The fire is dying out, but Wang Ying is nowhere to be seen.¡± One of the Squire¡¯s strength was finally exhausted. He raised his head with great effort to look in the direction of Lothric city, and then fell down. The camera zoomed out, and the Pilgrim was motionless and lifeless. He had died on his way to Lothric. ¡± When the me of inheritance is extinguished, the bell will ring and wake up the ancient Lords of Cinder in their coffins. ¡± The scene changed to Firelink sacrificial grounds. The bell of the clock tower rang, and the camera gradually zoomed down to a Cemetery. The coffins were opened one after another, and the sleeping Ancient Lords of Cinder were all awakened. ¡°Sainther puppeteer, Edric.¡± ¡°Monitors of the abyss, support Farron¡¯s undead Legion.¡± ¡°And the City of Sin¡¯s King of solitude, the giant Yumu.¡± The scene changed again, showing the interior of the fire-resistant sacrificial grounds. The fire-resistant woman picked up the eyepatch, which was made of dark matter, and put it on her head. ¡°However, the Kings will definitely abandon their Thrones, and the ashes of the fireless wille in a flurry.¡± ¡°That¡¯s nameless. He can¡¯t be a soldier, and he¡¯s cursed to be undead.¡± ¡°But it¡¯s precisely because of this that ashes yearns for the embers so much.¡± The screen stopped abruptly, and the name of the game appeared on the screen. Dark Souls! Chapter 532

Chapter 532: Surprise or shock?

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The video was not only posted on Weibo, but also on major video websites abroad. Moreover, the whole cinematic was in English, and it was captioned in differentnguages ording to the region. Although there wasn¡¯t much description, just a video was enough to make yers from all over the world excited! As Chen Mo released more and more high quality games, Thunderbolt entertainment had gained a lot of attention in China. Overseas, as Warcraft, Diablo, Minecraft, League of Legends, and other ssic games spread like wildfire, Thunderbolt Entertainment¡¯s influence was also growing. This was especially true for Thunderbolt Entertainment¡¯s die-hard fans, who couldn¡¯t help but have a question in their minds after watching the video. What kind of game was this? Such a distinctive and rich CG quickly caused a heated discussion among yers around the world. The yers in China. ¡°This is Chen Mo¡¯s new game? It¡¯s also a Western fantasy theme!¡± ¡°Chen Mo is good at Western fantasy themes! However, it seems like this world¡¯s background and overall atmosphere is Diablo. ¡± ¡°Chen Mo can definitely handle Diablo wind, but I want to ask, why didn¡¯t he use the ip of Diablo, but instead made a new game, Dark Souls? This world view doesn¡¯t match at all!¡± ¡°This should be made using the Pangu system. It¡¯s also a Western fantasy theme. Is this going to challenge Knight¡¯s glory?¡± ...... ¡°But ... Other than the video cinematics, I didn¡¯t see anything else. I don¡¯t know the specific game content or the battle.¡± ¡°I think it¡¯s probably a hack and sh game like Diablo. With plenty of mowing battles, it¡¯ll be easier to disy the Pangu system¡¯s physical power. ¡± There were also many people discussing it overseas. ¡°The GA just revealed some information about Knight¡¯s glory, and Thunderbolt entertainment released the new game¡¯s promo? This is really interesting. ¡± ¡°Could it be that this Chinesepany is going to use a Western fantasy theme topete with the GA? Isn¡¯t that a little too stupid?¡± ¡°The guy in front, you¡¯re really ignorant. Thunderbolt entertainment already has ssic western fantasy games like Warcraft and Diablo. It¡¯s obvious that their main designer, Mister, has a deeper understanding of Western fantasy than some European and American designers. I wouldn¡¯t be surprised if thispany released another ssic western fantasy game.¡± ¡°That¡¯s right, I¡¯m actually looking forward to it. In fact, it¡¯s better to count on Thunderbolt entertainment than to expect an Omega toe up with a better Western fantasy theme. After all, everyone knows how much of an Omega¡¯s sh * t is, and Thunderbolt entertainment has already had so many sessful precedents!¡± ¡°But I can¡¯t tell anything from this video! I¡¯m not worried about the world, apany that can make Warcraft and Diablo would have no problems with the world structure. However, whether or not it can beat Knight¡¯s glory still depends on the way it is yed!¡± ¡± I think this promotional video is very ordinary. It¡¯s obviously mystifying. There¡¯s a lot of meaning in it, but it seems to have beenpletely cut off. Just from this video, I can¡¯t tell the background of the entire world.¡± ¡°We¡¯ll only know when the game is released!¡± Obviously, the quality of the game¡¯s CG was first-ss,pletely worthy of Thunderbolt film studio¡¯s reputation. It was just that many people did not quite understand the specific world-building content of the CG. Of course, this was all within Chen Zhao¡¯s expectations. The world background of Dark Souls was different from any Western fantasy theme in the past. It could be said to bepletely unique. It was very unrealistic to integrate the whole world and exin it clearly in a video that onlysted a few minutes. Moreover, Chen Mo didn¡¯t want to exin it clearly, because most of the world¡¯s content was distributed among the collection of weapons, tools, and maps, which required the yers to slowly figure it out and figure it out on their own. This video was based on Dark Souls 3 with a small portion of Dark Souls 1. At the beginning of the game, the creation of the Age of Fire was mentioned mainly to give yers a basic idea of how this world was created. Why did the people want to pass the fire? What kind of existence was the Lord of Cinder? After exining these concepts clearly, they continued with the opening plot of Dark Souls 3. Of course, Chen Mo didn¡¯t go into too much detail, including Sun King Gwyn, witch, Tomb King NEET, White Dragon Sith, etc. He didn¡¯t mention anything in detail, mainly to hide some plot in preparation for Dark Souls 1. The main focus was still on the plot of Dark Souls 3, and the main scenes were given to the ancient Lords of Cinder. ¡­¡­ Soon, yers all over the world began to guess what Chen Mo¡¯s next game would be! Of course, the Chinese yers were the main battlefields, because they (thought) understood Chen Mo the best. Obviously, this was a work created with the support of the Pangu system, so the game must have highly highlighted the Pangu system¡¯s physical support, and it was most likely a VR game. At the same time, from the background of the world, it waspletely Diablo. In a sense, this world was even more despairing than the world of Diablo! This was because there were at least a bunch of angels in the world of Diablo who were against the demons. Although these angels weren¡¯t good people, they seemed to be on the yers¡¯ side. At the same time, although the cities were surrounded by a bunch of monsters, there were at least some living vigers in the cities. However, from the video of Dark Souls, especially thetter half of the video, there were no normal creatures ... The Punisher-carrying inspector who was dressed like a reptile, the mud-like Aldrich, the giant yum who was holding a vegetable knife ... Only the abyss watchman Farron¡¯s undead squad looked normal, but their hats were hanging low, and they were obviously not to be trifled with. And the voice-over in the video also clearly said, ¡± the Lord of Cinder will definitely give up the throne. ¡± What did that mean? The fireless ashes woulde in a flurry. It was unclear if this was a good or bad thing. To say that they were ¡± nameless, undead who could not be paid, and cursed, ¡± it felt like they were definitely bad people. Could it be that they wanted to fight with them? Judging from the video, the entire world of Dark Souls seemed to be a hopeless world. Everyone was living well when there was a fire, but now the fire was going out. What should they do? Of course, these were all the yers¡¯ spections, and there were right and wrong. However, such a world setting had instead aroused the crazy pursuit of some dark yers! In fact, after Chen Mo released Diablo, there were a few otherpanies that followed suit and released Diablo games, but they weren¡¯t as sessful as Diablo, and the genre wasn¡¯t as popr. The ystyle was one aspect, but the world view was another. This was because Diablo didn¡¯t change the way Diablo was yed, and there weren¡¯t any obvious advantages after it was made into a VR game, because Diablo¡¯s farming style was more suitable for PC. Moreover, these games didn¡¯t have the same world structure as Diablo, so the sense of despair and the depth of the plot were far from it. That was why there hadn¡¯t been any good Diablo games on the market for a long time. Many yers of Diablo were looking forward to Chen Mo releasing more of the series, or moving Diablo to VR. However, Chen Mo had always been free and easy, and no one knew what he would do in his next game. That was why the yers of Diablo couldn¡¯t get Diablo 2 even though they had been looking forward to it. After seeing the dark Souls promotional video, although some of the dark yers were a little disappointed (after all, the game did not use a dark ip, and the hope of killing Big Pineapple again was lost), most of the dark yers were still quite excited. There hadn¡¯t been any good Diablo games on the market for a long time, and dark Souls was made by Chen Mo himself, so it definitely wouldn¡¯t be bad. Moreover, from the opening video, the world structure of the entire world was definitely excellent. The only thing that was uncertain now was how the game would be yed. Many of Diablo¡¯s fans had already decided that they would ept it even if Chen Mo decided to improve Diablo¡¯s gamey. There was no choice, some die-hard fans were just that good at making do. What they didn¡¯t know was that Chen Zhao was going to give them a huge surprise. ...Or perhaps, he was frightened. Chapter 533

Chapter 533: Is this a mowing game?

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This time, Dark Souls used Chinese and English dubbing, and then integrated multiplenguage versions in the game. It was strange that in his previous life, Dark Souls was a work of the Japanese factory, but there was no Japanese voiceover at all. Of course, the reason for this was actually quite simple. Miyazaki Hidetaka personally liked medieval games from Europe and America very much. On the contrary, he hated traditional Japanese otaku games that took care of the elderly. Therefore, when he was developing demon¡¯s soul, all the details of the game were closer to American rpg. In other words, when the Soul series was first created, it was a game meant to serve Western yers, and they didn¡¯t really want to deal with the yers. Indeed, when ¡°demon¡¯s soul¡± was first released, the sales in nihong region were dismal. Miyazaki Hidetaka went through a lot of trouble to get ¡°demon¡¯s soul¡± listed in Europe and the United States. In the end, it received good reviews and the sales were gratifying. After that, Miyazaki Hideo released Dark Souls 1 and destroyed the world with its extremely high quality, creating countless topics in Europe and America. Western yers bragged about it. And that old thief Miyazaki must have been thinking the same thing: This was the normal response of Dark Souls. F * ck you yers, go eat sh * t. What kind of Japanese dubbing do you want? Of course,ter ¡°bloodline¡± had Japanese dubbing because it was a cooperation with Sony. When it came to his son ¡°ck souls 3,¡± he was toozy to do Japanese dubbing ... Of course, Chen Mo didn¡¯t have such thoughts and wasn¡¯t unhappy with the Chinese yers, so he naturally did the Chinese dubbing. To Chen Mo, it didn¡¯t make much of a difference whether there was Chinese voiceover or not, because Dark Souls was targeted at hardcore yers who liked Western fantasy themes and were keen on suffering. These yers didn¡¯t really care if there was Chinese voiceover in the game. However, since there wasn¡¯t much work to do and he only needed to hire a few more voice actors, Chen Mo decided to do the Chinese voice acting as well. Needless to say, the lines in the movie were quite interesting when read in Chinese, and there was no trantion. As for the English audio, it was for other considerations. ...... Chen Mo¡¯s goal was very clear this time. The main battlefield would be the Western market, where Dark Souls and Knight¡¯s glory would go head to head. Therefore, the reaction of the Western yers was very important. Although both games were Western fantasy themes, it was precisely because of this that the difference could be seen. ¡­¡­ Frank, the project manager of GA¡¯s Knight¡¯s glory and one of the top designers under ga, had also noticed the news of Dark Souls. After seeing the promotional video of Dark Souls, Frank instinctively became a little vignt. In thepetition between cog and League of Legends, ga had the advantage of being local, but they were beaten. The most infuriating part was that League of Legends was a Western fantasy setting ... Thunderbolt entertainment was quite famous overseas, and had almost be one of the most famous Chinesepanies. Although Emperor dynasty entertainment and ZEN Entertainment had a lot of good works, their games were still popr in China and had limited influence overseas. Chen Mo¡¯s Thunderbolt entertainment, on the other hand, had gained quite a bit of fame in the country due to a few top quality games. Frank naturally didn¡¯t dare to underestimate it. After all, there wasn¡¯t much information on Dark Souls yet, so he couldn¡¯t take it too seriously. ¡­¡­ After that, Knight¡¯s glory and dark Souls suddenly entered a state of silentpetition. You expose an original art today, I¡¯ll expose some information tomorrow. Whatever you release, I¡¯ll release. In any case, we¡¯ll definitely cover the other party¡¯s topic! In the beginning, Chen Mo mainly focused on creating original art for the scenes, concept art for weapons, and original art for monsters. Later on, he finally created live-action videos for games! This video was a clip of the battle between the yer and the Knight of Lothric. In order to create a better show effect, the yers wore the Desperado set, small round shields, and straight swords. The overall battle process was not too long, and it was nothing more than a disy of the weapon¡¯sbat skills and tactics. In the end, yer no injuries defeated the Knight of Lothric. The entire video was from a God¡¯s perspective, not the yers¡¯ first-person perspective. This was to allow the audience to observe the details of the battle more carefully. During the battle, everyone could clearly see that when the longswords of the yers and the monsters collided, there would be physical effects. When the yers¡¯ longswords struck the armor of the Knights of Lothric, the results would be different depending on the location of the strike! In the end, the yer deflected the Knight of Lothric¡¯s attack with his shield and then stabbed his sword through the gap in the Knight¡¯s chest armor, instantly executing him. The yers who saw this video were all shocked. In this video, Chen Mo only showed a portion of the techniques, including rolling, reflective shield, execution, and so on. He didn¡¯t show any other weapons or equipment, nor did he show the boss. He only used the mostmon elite monster as the background. This was mainly to prevent too much information from being leaked. However, just this video alone was enough to shock the yers. ¡°F * ck, is this the real scene of Dark Souls? I feel like it¡¯s on par with Knight¡¯s glory!¡± ¡°Yeah, and whether it¡¯s the scene or the characters, the model uracy is very high. I really feel like I¡¯m watching a cinematic, but it¡¯s obviously not!¡± ¡°This physics engine is really awesome. Is this the Pangu system? He did not feel like he would lose to origin at all! In terms of hardware, it can be said to be on par with Knight¡¯s glory, right?¡± ¡°But I feel like thebat system in Dark Souls is richer. Roll, Shield Block, and direct stab. I don¡¯t think I¡¯ve ever seen anything like that in Knight¡¯s glory!¡± ¡°Yes, how should I put it? it seems that the battles in Dark Souls are more exciting, more dramatic, and more like a game. As for Knight¡¯s glory, it seems a little too close to reality?¡± ¡°Chen Mo really did make a hack-and-sh game! It¡¯s just that in VR mode, it¡¯s more fun to cut grass!¡± ¡°That¡¯s right, that character kept rolling. The Knight didn¡¯t even have a chance to touch him before he died. He was stabbed to death!¡± ¡°Wow, I can¡¯t wait anymore. It¡¯s so exciting just thinking about hacking in VR!¡± Obviously, the yers ¡®victory over the Knight of Lothric in the video was too easy, which gave many yers the illusion that Dark Souls was just a hack and sh game like Diablo. Of course, they would soon find out that this was actually a beautiful misunderstanding. For some experts, Dark Souls was indeed a hack-and-sh game. However, for most newbies, they could only be cut by the grass ... However, Chen Mo had no intention of exining. In fact, the video was meant to mislead the yers. Hehe, it wasn¡¯t to collect resentment points. Chapter 534

Chapter 534: Press conference

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As Chen Mo revealed more and more information, the discussion about Dark Souls became more and more heated, and the attention it received was no less than in his previous life. This was mainly because it was the first game to showcase the Pangu system to the Chinese yers and video game designers, and it was created by Chen Mo himself, so he had a lot of expectations. Even if Chen Mo didn¡¯t make Dark Souls but another game, it would still get a lot of attention. However, Chen Mo didn¡¯t reveal too much about the specific ystyle. Most of the videos were about battles with elite monsters. They were very smooth and didn¡¯t seem to be difficult, so many yers mistook it for a mowing game. He couldn¡¯t say that he mistook it, because ording to normal logic, it should be a hack-and-sh game ... When Diablo first came out, many video game media and professional video game designers had analyzed that grinding in a world of despair was actually a good way to y, and Chen Mo had no reason to give up. However, Chen Mo didn¡¯t want to release more information, which made the yers very ufortable. Just as the yers ¡®anticipation for Dark Souls reached its peak, Chen Mo finally announced that he was going to hold a conference to introduce the new game to the yers, as well as announce the release date. After hearing this news, the enthusiasm that had reached its peak and was about to decline was once again ignited. ¡°Is it finally here? Chen Mo¡¯s going to be very formal with the new game conference this time!¡± ¡°More details will be revealed at the press conference, right? Hurry up and take a look. ¡± ¡°Chen Zhao really knows how to keep people in suspense! Can¡¯t you release the game earlier?¡± ¡°Maybe it¡¯s not even done yet. But even if they¡¯re holding a press conference now, it¡¯s already very fast!¡± ...... Those who were familiar with Chen Mo would know that he wasn¡¯t really into releasing new games, and that it was up to fate whether or not he did. Strictly speaking, thest press conference could be traced back to the time of Minecraft, and it didn¡¯t cause much of a stir. Minecraft caught up from behind, and it was only after it was released that people slowly realized the difference of the game. But times had changed, and everyone was looking forward to Chen Mo¡¯s new game. ¡­¡­ On the day of the press conference. In a meeting room of a five-star hotel in Imperial. This new game conference was a big event for most of the game media, and even many foreign game media reporters flew all the way here to attend. At the same time, major video streaming sites and live streaming tforms had also prepared new live streaming rooms for the new gameunch. On major game forums, there were also live text posts about the new gameunch. Even some foreign live broadcast tforms broadcasted the conference out of enthusiasm, and there was even simultaneous interpretation to trante it into other countries nguages. It could be said that this new game conference had attracted the attention of arge number of game lovers. Very soon, the press conference officially began. Chen Mo walked to the big screen with the microphone and the audience immediately gave him a round of apuse. Chen Mo smiled and looked at the reporters,¡±¡±I¡¯m still very grateful to everyone for taking the time to attend this press conference. I¡¯m sure everyone knows the theme of this conference. I¡¯m mainly introducing my new game, Dark Souls. ¡± ¡°I¡¯ve already posted some information about Dark Souls online, but I¡¯m sure everyone is still wondering what kind of game it is.¡± ¡°There are three main topics for today. First, we will continue to disclose some information. Second, it will be a question and answer session. I will answer some of your questions. We¡¯ll be announcing the release date of the game and some other matterster. ¡± ¡°Alright, let¡¯s first look at a video.¡± Chen Mo stood to the side as a new video of the game appeared on the screen. This time, the video was no longer a CG, but a real scene in the game. The camera lens floated in the air, constantly passing through the different scenes of the world of Dark Souls, such as the city wall of Lothric, the undead Settlement, the road of living sacrifices, Fn fortress, the dark church, the underground tomb, lengxiao Valley, and so on. The various scenes in the game were disyed in front of the yers. This time, the editing was very natural. Every scene was a fleeting glimpse, and then it was quickly changed. The entire video was only five minutes long, but it showed everyone many Grand and magnificent scenes. Some of the locations that the yers called ¡°absolute views¡± were shot for a longer time, and the reporters below the stage would exim from time to time. All the major bullet screen video websites were also filled with ¡®awesome¡¯ and ¡® 666¡¯ s. ¡°Damn, this scene is so Grand? Did you count how many special scenes there are? I think there are at least ten!¡± ¡°The number of scenes in this VR game is almost the same as Diablo, maybe even bigger? It¡¯s really awesome!¡± ¡°And why do I have the feeling that the whole world is connected to each other at a very high level? do you guys have this feeling? It seems that the previousrge bird¡¯s eye view has also covered the scene behind. ¡± ¡°Awesome! He felt that the game¡¯s content was very explosive. Who knows how Chen Zhao chased them out in such a short time? he¡¯s insane!¡± ¡°Knight¡¯s glory will probably be disappointed. Dark Souls has more than a dozen scenes!¡± ¡°What about the boss battle? Hurry up and let us see the boss!¡± The video ended very quickly. Chen Mo walked to the front of the stage and said to everyone,¡±¡±As everyone has seen just now, most of the unique scenes in this video have been recorded. These are the styles of the game¡¯s scenes. It¡¯s just that all the scenes recorded are small corners of the scenes. ¡± ¡°It¡¯s not easy to estimate the average time yers spend in the game, but it should be longer.¡± The reporters in the audience were a little confused. Wasn¡¯t the average duration particrly easy to estimate? This didn¡¯t sound like something Chen Zhao would say. He could roughly estimate the total game time of a game. Based on the game¡¯s capacity and difficulty, it shouldn¡¯t be too difficult to estimate the time that ordinary yers needed to clear the game. Did Chen Mo mean that the game had a lot of levels and many paths? Well, that should be the case. The reporters didn¡¯t think too much about it. ¡°Next, there¡¯s a video. It¡¯s mainly to show everyone the boss battle of this game.¡± Chen Zhao retreated to the side again. Chapter 535

Chapter 535: This game feels very simple!

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The boss battle this time was against giant Yumu. In the video, brother onion and the yer each held a storm controller and attacked giant Yumu madly. The video this time was different from the previous God¡¯s perspective video. It was yed in first-person perspective, and only now did everyone feel the shock of watching it from a first-person perspective. Although everyone¡¯s view was a 90-degree angle, which was rtively limited, they could feel the strong sense of immersion in the game just from the oppressive feeling of giant Yumu on the screen. The giant Yumu, whose body was burning with embers, waved hisrge machete and constantly hit the ground. Under the effect of Pangu attraction, every swing would cause the screen to shake and leave deep cracks on the ground. During this period, the yer was identally cut by giant Yumu and was sent flying on the spot. Everyone could clearly feel giant Yumu¡¯s powerful strength, which was clearly the credit of Pangu¡¯s sword. However, under thebined attacks of the two storm controllers, the giant Yumu quickly fell to the ground, its huge body turning into the king of cinder. After watching the video, everyone had the same question. It was that simple? In the video, the yers didn¡¯t perform any particrly exquisite orplicated techniques because brother onion had already attracted most of giant yum¡¯s attention. The yers spent most of their time using the storm controllers to beat up giant yum. Yumu would asionally change targets, but the yer only rolled twice to avoid therge machete. There was no difficulty at all, which further solidified the mowing nature of the game. However, just the overall atmosphere of the game, the epic and oppressive feeling, had already shocked many people. Setting aside the difficulty of the game, at least the setting, music, sound effects, and other aspects of the boss battle atmosphere were all top-notch. Moreover, the experience in the VR gaming pod mode should be more exciting. ¡°Yeah,¡± Chen Mo exined,¡±strictly speaking, this is a plot kill. I can¡¯t reveal too much about this, so I hope everyone can experience it in the game.¡± Simply put, this Onionhead npc was a good friend of the boss, giant Yumu. After giant Yumu lost his mind, he had to abide by the original agreement and defeat giant Yumu with his own hands. The two weapons in the hands of the NPCs and yers are called storm controllers. They are also weapons that giant Yumu personally created to target himself, so this battle will look rtively simple. ¡± Oh, I see! ...... A lot of people came to a sudden realization. No wonder this battle looked so simple. It was a plot kill. It seemed that as long as he used this weapon to fight the giant, he would win without a doubt. Some yers even wondered if the game was too simple. However, the background story that Chen Mo revealed attracted the interest of some yers. This was because Yumu the giant was the Lord of Cinder that had appeared in the cutscenes. In other words, yers had to defeat all the Lords of Cinder? ¡°Alright,¡± Chen Mo said,¡±everyone can ask your own questions. If there¡¯s anything you¡¯d like to ask about the game, feel free to ask. I¡¯ll answer them ordingly.¡± It was obvious that Chen Mo would only release these two videos at the press conference. Most of the game content would be better off for the yers to experience it themselves. One of the two new videos was about the game¡¯s setting, and the other was about the boss battle. In addition to the game¡¯s information that was previously revealed, the game¡¯s features were basically introduced. The only thing Chen Mo didn¡¯t mention was the game¡¯s difficulty. The moment they heard that they were going to ask questions, the reporters below the stage perked up and asked questions one after another. A reporter stood up impatiently and took the microphone.¡±¡±Mr. Chen Mo, most people on the inte are guessing that this is a hack-and-sh game simr to Diablo, but you¡¯ve never admitted to it. Is this a hack-and-sh game?¡± Chen Moughed and exined,¡±I don¡¯t really like the term ¡®hack-and-sh¡¯. In fact, Diablo isn¡¯t exactly a hack-and-sh game. It depends on the difficulty of the game.¡± If the yer starts off with the torture difficulty, they won¡¯t be able to cut the grass either. ¡± ¡°Back to Dark Souls, I think this game also has this characteristic to some extent. If it was a very experienced veteran, they would definitely be able to cut the grass. However, in this game, I still hope that it can give the yers some challenges and not just mindlessly y it. ¡± The reporter was confused. Chen Mo seemed to have acknowledged that the game allowed yers to cut grass, but he added a restriction, which was that only experienced yers could do it. However, they didn¡¯t think too much about it since Diablo was the same. Even hack-and-sh games would be difficult. Someone else asked,¡±Mr. Chen Mo, what¡¯s the difficulty of the boss in this game?¡± The boss battles in Diablo were criticized by many, and the bosses in theter stages were not as good as the elite monsters. Was this improved in Dark Souls?¡± ¡°Although Diablo and dark Souls are both Diablo games,¡± Mr. Chen replied,¡±they¡¯repletely different in my design ideas, so don¡¯t always use Diablo¡¯s fixed ideas to consider Dark Souls.¡± ¡°You can say that. I think that the difficulty of the small monsters and the boss in Dark Souls are very bnced. The boss is definitely harder than the small monsters, but the small monsters are not without challenge. Let¡¯s put it this way, ck soul¡¯s level design should be the design benchmark in the current game industry. ¡± The reporters in the audience were slightly shocked. Chen Mo¡¯s expression was serious. It was hard to tell if he was bragging, but from what he said, he was probably very satisfied with the difficulty. Better level design than Diablo? Well, whether it was true or not, it made everyone feel more at ease. ¡°Mr. Chen Mo,¡± another reporter asked,¡±can you give me some examples of your so-called ¡®excellent level design¡¯?¡± ¡°It¡¯s best to let the yers experience it themselves,¡± Chen Mo said.¡±If I say too much, it¡¯ll sound like I¡¯m boasting.¡± However, I can reveal a little bit. In the game, there are many specific strong enemies that can be dealt with using terrain kill. ¡± The reporters were all stunned. Many strong enemies could be dealt with using the terrain advantage. Didn¡¯t that mean that the difficulty of the game had been further reduced? It seemed like Chen Mo hade up with this as an official game to encourage yers to win in many ways. Well, this was quite good. After all, no one would think that lowering the difficulty was bad. It was originally a refreshing game. ¡°Hello Mr. Chen Mo,¡± another reporter asked.¡±I¡¯m a reporter from Tianji gaming channel, and also an elite yer.¡± I¡¯ve yed your Diablo before, and I like it very much. The only regret is that I think that as a hack-and-sh game, Diablo¡¯s difficulty level is a little too low. ¡± ¡°It¡¯s hard to show off in Diablo like in League of Legends and Overwatch, so it¡¯s boring after a while. I wonder if I¡¯ll have a chance to show off in this new game?¡± Chen Mo looked at him,¡±yup, you¡¯ll have a lot of opportunities to show off in the new game. Or rather, you can show off at any time.¡± I think the new game will be a frequent guest on major video and live streaming tforms. Those experts will get a great sense of achievement from this game. ¡± Chapter 536

Chapter 536: Chapter 535-trial!

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The reporter sat down happily. There were also manyments on the bullet screen. ¡°Wow, this game can be shown off! Watch me show off to the whole audience!¡± ¡°Hehe, the yuan n is already thirsty for 300 rounds!¡± ¡°Why do I feel like this game has no ws at all? Did I go too far with my bragging, or did I miss something? The scene was rich, cool, and showy. It was perfect! Did Chen Mo use a powerful move this time?¡± A few more reporters asked, but most of their questions were focused on the in-game details. Chen Mo didn¡¯t go too deep into it. This was basically a tacit understanding. The reporters wanted to dig out as much material as possible and create a bigger sensation before the game was released to bring more traffic to their websites. On the other hand, the designer had to hide the content as much as possible to create a sense of mystery and attract the interest of the yers. Therefore, after a battle of wits and courage, the yers ¡®anticipation was pushed to the peak. They came up with a game like this based on the information that Chen Mo had leaked. It was a slightly more difficult hack-and-sh game. Rich scenes and boss battle settings. It was a level design that imed to be the industry¡¯s benchmark. It was a brand new work that continued the spirit of darkness. ...... The content that was revealed at the press conference made the yers ¡®enthusiasm reach an unprecedented high! Chen Zhao looked around. It was almost time. ¡°Next, I¡¯ll announce the release date of this game. ¡°Dark Souls will be officially released on September 1st, with both domestic and international versions. The game has both Chinese and English audio, and the subtitles support multiplenguages, including Korean, Japanese, French, German, Russian, and many othernguages. ¡± ¡°For the yers in China, all they have to do is log in to Thunderbolt gaming tform on the same day, purchase and download the game. The price of this game is 1988 RMB, and the game supports online gaming mode. ¡± ¡°There¡¯s one more thing. The previous general rule is that a new game can be refunded unconditionally if it¡¯s been bought for two weeks and the game time doesn¡¯t exceed two hours. On the other hand, Dark Souls had no more than three hours of game time in two weeks, and yers could refund it unconditionally. This is also a small benefit for the yers since Thunderbolt entertainment has never sold a VR game at such a high price. ¡± As soon as Chen Mo finished speaking, another wave of 666 appeared on the screen. On one hand, the price was not expensive. In VR games, 1988 was only considered an average price. ording to the current quality and content of Dark Souls, and as the first work of the Pangu system, it was clearly worth the money. Moreover, Chen Mo extended the refund period by an hour. Although it didn¡¯t seem like much and was just a small favor, it was better than nothing to the yers. Some people noticed the faint smile on Chen Mo¡¯s face when he announced the extension of the refund period. However, they didn¡¯t quite understand the meaning of this smile. ¡­¡­ Not long after, Knight¡¯s glory also announced the release date of the game. It was September 10th, nine days after dark Souls. However, this was also a helpless move, because the development of Knight¡¯s glory was so fast that it could not be improved further. Frank was puzzled. Was this China Company on steroids or what? It startedter than Knight¡¯s glory, but why was it released earlier? This research and development speed was unparalleled! However, Frank also knew that it didn¡¯t matter if they went online a few dayster. As long as they went online within a month, it would be considered a sh. The key was still the quality of the two games and the reviews of the yers. ¡­¡­ Three days before the game was released, Chen Mo¡¯s Experience Store had a huge wave of new yers. ording to Experience Stores ¡®usual routine, new games would be released in the experience store before they were officially released for the yers to try out. Most of Chen Mo¡¯s other games were released a week earlier, but for some reason, Dark Souls was only released three days earlier. Many people thought that it was probably because the game¡¯s development was too rushed, so it couldn¡¯t be released earlier. They didn¡¯t think too much about it. As soon as the store opened, the experience store became very lively. There were even a few streamers from the imperial capital. But what surprised Chen Mo was that Qiu Hengyang was there too. Chen Mo smiled and led him into the hall,¡±¡±Old Qiu, you¡¯re a rare guest. Why did youe today?¡± ¡°I haven¡¯t had much inspiration recently,¡± Qiu Hengyang said.¡±I¡¯ve been wandering around. I heard that your new game is going to be released in the experience store today, so I came to try it out.¡± Chen Moughed,¡±okay, no problem.¡± Find a VR gaming pod first, you can secretly cook first and wait for 10: We can start ying Dark Souls at 10. ¡± ¡°Okay,¡± Qiu Hengyang nodded. Mr. Qiu entered a game cabin at random. Dark Souls had been installed in the game cabin in advance. 10. These games will be activated at the same time, and you can experience them directly. Qiu Hengyang hade this time because he was encouraged by the others in the group. Everyone was curious about how dark Souls was doing, and they were all itching to try. Since Qiu Hengyang was in the imperial capital and was close to Chen Mo¡¯s Experience Store, he was chosen as a representative to try out Dark Souls and see what the Pangu system was like to see if he could get some inspiration for it. Who knows, it mighte in handy in the future. There were a lot of people in the VR experience area, and even though Chen Mo had quite a few gaming pods in his Experience Store, they were quickly taken up. If Qiu Hengyang hadn¡¯t arrived early, he would¡¯ve had to queue up. Among the yers, Qiu Hengyang even saw a few famous live streamers who were probably here to try out the new game. Chen Mo¡¯s games were obviously very influential in China, even some famous streamers were his fans. Soon, the time was up, and dark Souls was officially activated. Qiu Hengyang entered the game immediately. The first was the opening cinematics. He had seen this cinematics before, but it was a different experience in VR. In VR, the yers felt as if they were in the real world. Although the perspective was fixed, Qiu Hengyang was still shocked by the feeling of being in the real world. He could only sigh. After all, Thunderbolt film studios had been ying with CG for years and had more and more tricks up their sleeves. After the cinematics ended, it was time for the character selection screen, which wasmonly known as face-molding. ¡°Oh? You can actually pinch my face. ¡± Qiu Hengyang was a little surprised, because Diablo didn¡¯t have any features at all, since the game itself was a hack and sh game, and didn¡¯t really care about looks. However, being able to pinch her face was still an improvement. Qiu Hengyang looked at the options in the interface and quickly understood. This wasn¡¯t just a face-molding interface, it was also a profession selection interface. In addition to being able to customize a human¡¯s appearance and body shape, one could also choose the profession they used to have. The different sses they chose would result in different equipment and weapons, as well as different starting attribute points. They could also choose burial items, which were special items that they would carry with them when they were born. Qiu Hengyang didn¡¯t have any special requirements for appearance, so he chose a Knight as the starting game. His original intention was that Knights had more armor and could better disy the effects of the Pangu system. In the end, he identally chose the most suitable profession for novices ... Chapter 537

Chapter 537: Return!

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After confirming his ss, he officially entered the game. The camera went from high to low, giving a close-up of an unknown grave. Suddenly, the lid of the coffin was opened, and the Knight character that had just been formed stood up. Then, the camera focused on the Knight. As if he was possessed, Qiu Hengyang began to y the game in first person. Qiu Hengyang first observed his current location. It was a deserted Cemetery, with ruins everywhere, broken walls, and ashes all over the ground. All he could see was a gray tone, nothing else. ¡°It¡¯s really a Diablo game. The setting is pretty good.¡± Qiu Hengyang sighed. He tried to perform some actions, such as moving, attacking, and so on. Although it was simr to other VR games, Qiu Hengyang could feel a slight difference. Under the effect of the Pangu attraction, all objects in the game had real mass. A yer¡¯s sword swing was not a simple action, but the result of many mass and power calctions. In the game, the action of swinging a sword was more realistic than any other VR game. This wasn¡¯t a matter of the character¡¯s art level, but the technique was on a different level. Qiu Hengyang even had the illusion that the sword in his hand was real, as if it was real. He tried to sh at the wall, but the sword bounced back a little after creating some sparks on the wall. At the same time, Qiu Hengyang could feel a clear vibration in his right hand. This feeling was very realistic. Qiu Hengyang couldn¡¯t help but sigh. It seemed that the Pangu system was indeed invincible. He couldn¡¯t wait to see what it would look like when the sword was used on a monster or boss. ...... As he continued to walk forward, there were many clear signs on the ground. If he looked carefully, he could tell that they were lines of words that he couldn¡¯t understand. However, when he approached it, Chinese words would automatically appear on it. These were all introductions to the game¡¯s content, including the things that yers could do, such as the ability to switch between the state of their weapon, and the ability to hold a sword in one hand or two hands. Other than that, there were also movement, jumping, running, and other operations that yers could slowly familiarize themselves with. These operations weren¡¯t done by pressing buttons, but by the yer¡¯s mind. In other words, although the yers could figure it out by themselves, the process would likely be more tortuous. Qiu Hengyang found the New yer Tips very interesting, as if they were scribbling on the wall. He continued to move forward and soon encountered the game¡¯s first monster. It was a hideous zombie with ragged clothes that pounced at him. Qiu Hengyang rushed up and cut down the monster in two. ¡°Hmm, this damage is pretty good. It¡¯s almost the same as Diablo. It¡¯s easy to kill the small monsters at the beginning of the game.¡± There were still some things on the ground. Qiu Hengyang picked them up and didn¡¯t look at them carefully, only focusing on moving forward. However, at a fork in the road, he saw a message written on the ground: ¡°Let¡¯s return. ¡± Qiu Hengyang was a little puzzled,¡¯does that mean there¡¯s a strong enemy ahead? Is this a trick to create a game atmosphere, or is this the truth?¡± Having just killed two monsters, Qiu Hengyang¡¯s confidence was temporarily boosted, but now he was in a dilemma. ¡°Let¡¯s go and take a look. It shouldn¡¯t be too difficult. ¡± Qiu Hengyang was quite confident in his skills. After all, when he was ying Diablo, he didn¡¯t encounter too many difficult enemies. As he walked, Qiu Hengyang noticed that there were no monsters along the way. After crossing a stream, he saw crystals growing all over the ground, and in the middle of the crystals, there seemed to be a huge creature. ¡°W-what is this thing?¡± Qiu Hengyang tried to take two more steps forward, but the creature suddenly stood up and roared at him! Qiu Hengyang finally got a good look at the monster. It was a giant lizard-like creature, covered in bright white crystal spikes. When the crystal dragon saw Qiu Hengyang, it rushed over, raised its head and spat out a mouthful of cold air! Qiu Hengyang wasn¡¯t paying attention and got hit in the face by the cold air, his health dropping by arge amount. ¡°Damn, this monster is so strong!¡± Qiu Hengyang was shocked. He subconsciously rolled to the side, but the crystal dragon just so happened to jump high into the air, its four giant ws pouncing at him, smacking him to the ground! In the first-person perspective of the VR game, Qiu Hengyang could clearly see some of the details of the crystal dragon, including the bright white crystal spikes. Uh, there were also some indescribable parts ... He didn¡¯t see it clearly, so he didn¡¯t know if Chen Zhao had done anything ... With the support of the Pangu attraction, the crystal dragon smacked Qiu Hengyang to the ground. Although Qiu Hengyang¡¯s armor had a certain damage reduction effect, the damage caused by such a heavy blow was still very high in terms of physical damage. Qiu Hengyang¡¯s health dropped to the bottom in an instant. ¡°F * ck, I¡¯m finished!¡± Qiu Hengyang panicked and immediately rolled back. In this regard, the game was very convenient. Under normal circumstances, people shouldn¡¯t be able to roll back immediately when they fell to the ground, but the game could, probably in order to reduce the difficulty of the game. However, the crystal dragon clearly had no intention of letting Qiu Hengyang go. It chased after him and cut off his path of survival with a p! Three bright red words,¡±you¡¯re dead¡±, appeared in Qiu Hengyang¡¯s field of vision. As the screen turned gray, Qiu Hengyang was back at the spawn point. ¡°... Alright, this monster is obviously not to be fought now. This is probably Chen Zhao¡¯s malicious joke. ¡± Qiu Hengyang was helpless, he could only give up on this cool-looking elite monster and continue moving forward. It seemed that Chen Zhao wasn¡¯t lying. They should indeed return ... This time, Qiu Hengyang was slightly more rxed. As a result, on the way to the first bonfire, he was cut a few times by the monsters. He didn¡¯t notice it at first, but when he looked at the health bar at the edge of his field of vision, half of his health was gone without him knowing! When he looked down, there were obvious signs of damage at the ce where he had been stabbed. Some of the weaker parts even had blood oozing out! Obviously, this was thanks to his own ss. If it were other sses with cloth or leather armor, the damage of these few shes might be even higher! Qiu Hengyang, who had been neglecting the damage from the monsters, felt something was wrong. The monsters had all been killed in one hit, so he didn¡¯t feel threatened at all. Qiu Hengyang suddenly had a bad feeling about this. Why did it feel like ... There was a problem? Chapter 538

Chapter 538: It seems like this is the first boss

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After lighting the bonfire, Qiu Hengyang continued walking. There were more and more living corpses ahead, but they were still scattered. Some of the living corpses could be killed with a single sh from the downward sh. However, these seemingly insignificant monsters had caused Qiu Hengyang a lot of trouble. If he was not careful and got cut by these zombies, Qiu Hengyang could see arge chunk of his health bar drop, his heart aching. Coupled with the vibration from his body, sometimes, Qiu Hengyang would shiver when he was stabbed. This feeling was simply sour ... Qiu Hengyang was puzzled. What was going on? What happened to the grass-cutting game? If this grass can cut off so much blood from me, what¡¯s the point of cutting it? However, Qiu Hengyang managed to keep his cool. After all, it wasn¡¯t his first time ying VR games. After suffering two losses, Qiu Hengyang had learned to carefully block the attacks of these monsters. The first few monsters were really easy, so after drinking two bottles of health, he was able to kill them all and came to a rtively wide courtyard. In the courtyard, a tall giant knelt on the ground with a sword in his chest. Qiu Hengyang walked up to the giant and found the sword on the giant¡¯s chest glowing slightly. It seemed like it was an operational item. ¡°Eh? What was this? npc?Could it be that they¡¯re here to give me weapons?¡± ¡°Many games give newbies low-level divine weapons at the beginning, could it be ...¡± ...... Qiu Hengyang tried to operate the sword. He held the hilt with both hands and slowly pulled the sword out. It had even caused him to bleed ... ¡°Well, the Pangu attraction is so good. The effect of the blood spurting is so realistic. I wonder how this thing passed the trial ...¡± In the end, before Qiu Hengyang could take a closer look at the sword, he saw the giant in front of him stand up, and the rted UI appeared at the bottom of his field of vision. This was a long health bar, which was obviously used to indicate the boss¡¯s health. The health bar even showed the boss¡¯s name. Judge of ashes, Gundar. ¡°I¡¯m going to faint, so this is a boss! I thought they were here to give me equipment ...¡± Qiu Hengyang was shocked. He was about to attack, but Gu DA¡¯s long de was alreadying at him, hitting him in the chest! Qiu Hengyang felt like he was a rag bag as he was sent flying, falling to the ground with a loud thud. His health had dropped by arge chunk! ¡°F * ck, what¡¯s going on?¡± Qiu Hengyang was dumbfounded. In VR mode, it felt as if the knife had really cut into his chest. It was very real. And the moment he fell, his field of view would involuntarily rise up to simte the field of view of falling to the ground. Seeing Gundar, the judge of ashes, walking towards him, Qiu Hengyang quickly tried to roll and dodged Gundar¡¯s next attack. ¡°Yes, the field of vision is fixed during the rolling process, so there will be no dizziness. Moreover, the rolling process is very smooth. I can roughly judge that there will be a short period of invincibility during the rolling, and I won¡¯t be hurt ...¡± These were all the game mechanics that Qiu Hengyang came up with in a short time as a video game designer. But he didn¡¯t have time to care about them now, because Gu da was already charging at him again with his big knife! Qiu Hengyang quickly raised his shield. ¡°Bang!¡± Gundam¡¯s broadsword hit the shield, making a loud sound. As his energy bar dropped rapidly, Qiu Hengyang¡¯s left hand also shook violently. Gundam¡¯s attack range was very far, and he was ying with hisrge de like a tiger. It was scary to look at it from a distance. Qiu Hengyang was shocked, what was this fight about! Thanks to the ancient system, all objects were given real mass. It was clear that Gundam¡¯s strength and weapon weightpletely overwhelmed the yers. As long as thisrge sword touched a yer, it would be sent flying without any exceptions. ¡°F * ck! This person is too fierce. He doesn¡¯t even give me a chance to attack. How can I fight this?¡± Qiu Hengyang held his shield up for a while, but Gu DA¡¯s continuous attacks quickly drained his energy. With two Swift shes, Gu da took Qiu Hengyang down. As he resurrected by the bonfire, Qiu Hengyang cursed in his heart ... ¡°What¡¯s there to fight! It feels like it¡¯s even harder to fight than the crystal Lizard!¡± ¡°Is this also a part of the current process that shouldn¡¯t be followed? But this time, the words ¡®return¡¯ aren¡¯t written on the ground. ¡± ¡°Well, it¡¯s obvious that this isn¡¯t a ce for a yer of my current level. I¡¯ll go explore the other parts of the map.¡± Qiu Hengyang muttered to himself. Qiu Hengyang was too shocked by Gundar, the judge of ashes, so he didn¡¯t want to face this boss for a while. He turned to other routes to see if there were any hidden paths. After exploring the entire novice map for a long time and getting attacked by the small monsters, Qiu Hengyang finally came to a conclusion: It seemed like there was no way out! That¡¯s right, after leaving the birthce, apart from the crystal Lizard that he couldn¡¯t defeat, he could only go to the judge of ashes, Gundar ... Combined with all the signs, Qiu Hengyang came to a conclusion that made him despair. It was as if this was the first boss of the game ... ¡°Is this a F * cking grass cutting game?¡± Qiu Hengyang was shocked. This had nothing to do with a hack-and-sh game, right? Why did it feel like the boss was the one cutting the grass? three shes to kill a little kid! Moreover, Qiu Hengyang had chosen to be a Knight, so he was born with armor. Even if it was grass, it should be the tougher kind of grass. If Knights were like this, then what would the other professions be like ... Qiu Hengyang cursed in his heart, but he still kept reminding himself to calm down. ¡°Calm down, calm down. Chen Zhao probably wouldn¡¯t make such a low-level mistake. Could it be a huge failure in the design of the numbers? Or was it unknown error in the program? Is it a special problem caused by the Pangu system?¡± ¡°But Chen Mo should¡¯ve tested it out himself. If there¡¯s a problem with the game¡¯s difficulty, he should¡¯ve noticed it.¡± Qiu Hengyang thought about it and felt that Chen Mo wouldn¡¯t make such a stupid mistake. Qiu Hengyang sat down by the campfire and decided to challenge the boss again. ¡°Well, I might have entered the door in the wrong way just now. It should be fine if I do it again.¡± Qiu Hengyang thought as he went to the courtyard where Gundam was and entered the White mist gate. As soon as he entered, he saw Gundam charging at him again with his machete. This time, Qiu Hengyang decided to be more aggressive. Last time, he had been killed by the boss without doing anything. Obviously, he wanted to attack more this time. Maybe the boss didn¡¯t have much health left? Chapter 539

Chapter 539: Please review it again!

Trantor: 549690339

Qiu Hengyang raised his shield and walked forward. After taking two hits from the boss, he found an opportunity to strike at the boss¡¯s left leg with his sword! ¡°Now!¡± Qiu Hengyang knew that the sword in his hand was extremely sharp, killing monsters with two shes each! As his long sword hit Gundam, Gundam¡¯srge de hit him again. With a bang, Qiu Hengyang felt as if Gundam¡¯s de had dented his armor. He was once again sent flying like a broken bag, falling to the ground, nearly one-third of his health bar evaporating in an instant. Qiu Hengyang was dumbfounded when he saw Gundar¡¯s health bar. It was only a small drop, so it could basically be ignored! The armor on Gundar¡¯s body was not damaged at all ... ¡°F * ck, what¡¯s the point of fighting!¡± Qiu Hengyang was in despair. This boss fight felt like he was tearing apart a tank with his bare hands. The other side¡¯s strength, armor, health, and other aspects werepletely overwhelming. If he rushed up, wouldn¡¯t he be giving himself away? ¡°Yes, there must be a bug in this game!¡± Qiu Hengyang decided to leave the game cabin. Clearly, a battle like this was meaningless. He should at least wait for Chen Mo to fix the bug before he could continue ying, right? ¡­¡­ ...... The moment Qiu Hengyang exited the game cabin, he found that arge number of other yers had also exited from the other gaming cabins. Since the first batch of yers had entered the game cabin at the same time, everyone¡¯s progress was simr, and they were all stuck at gundyr ... A small portion of the yers did note out, probably because they were still fighting, but arge number of them had all retreated. ¡°Where¡¯s the manager? What was going on? There¡¯s a bug in this game, how did the boss kill me in three strikes?¡± ¡°Yeah, I shed the boss twice and it was like scratching an itch. Is there a problem with the difficulty setting of this game? Or did he say something wrong?¡± ¡°Is it rted to the Pangu system?¡± Many of the yers who came out of the game cabin were confused. How could this be? It was supposed to be a hack-and-sh game, but after entering it, he was directly abused to the point where he couldn¡¯t even find his bearings! There were even a few yers who said that they were forced to retreat by the small monsters at the entrance. These small monsters looked very trash, but when they were hit by a set of attacks, it was simply painful. They were not careful and lured two or three monsters before they were killed directly! Only after chatting with each other did they realize that they were all in the same boat! These people died in all sorts of strange ways. In short, there were all living creatures on the map that could cause the death of yers ... If there was a yer protection Association, they would be expressing their strong condemnation of this game! They formed a group to look for Chen Mo, while the other yers in line happily entered their gaming pods. They didn¡¯t think much about why these people woulde out of the game cabin when they were having a good time. Perhaps they hadn¡¯t learned the story of ¡°Wang Rong doesn¡¯t take the Li from the side of the road ...¡± Soon, they found Chen Zhao in the hall on the first floor. ¡°Manager, go and take a look! There¡¯s a bug in your game!¡± ¡°That¡¯s right, the numerical difficulty seems to havepletely copsed. We can¡¯t even pass the first boss for the newbies!¡± ¡°And why are the small monsters so excited? they can all kill me instantly!¡± Facing everyone¡¯s doubts, Chen Mo was very calm,¡±¡±There¡¯s no problem with the game¡¯s difficulty and the numbers.¡± Everyone was shocked. No problem?! ¡°F * ck, manager, this monster can kill people in seconds, and there¡¯s no problem? Isn¡¯t this a hack-and-sh game?¡± Chen Mo squinted his eyes,¡±did I admit that this is a hack-and-sh game?.¡± The menacing crowd was stunned by the question and froze on the spot. But thinking about it, it didn¡¯t seem like Chen Mo had ever admitted that this was a hack-and-run game! Chen Mo had been asked many times by reporters and yers before, and he only said,¡±¡±It¡¯s true that experts can cut grass in this game, but there¡¯s still a certain level of difficulty for novices.¡± He had never said that the game was simple ... However, since everyone¡¯s first impression of the game was already the strongest, they had long treated the game as a hack-and-sh game, so they didn¡¯t think too much about it. Now that he thought about it, there was definitely a conspiracy! Chen Moughed,¡±it¡¯s okay if you think this is a hack-and-sh game. The monsters can also hack the yers. There¡¯s nothing wrong with that.¡± Everyone present was shocked. This was the first time they had heard of a mowing game where monsters cut yers! You can actually say it without a change in expression? He had never seen such a shameless person! Chen Mo¡¯s self-righteous attitude effectively interrupted everyone¡¯s aggressive questioning, but some yers quickly recovered from their shock and retaliated. Manager, I don¡¯t mind you increasing the difficulty of the game, but isn¡¯t it a little too high? no one can beat the first boss.¡± ¡°That¡¯s right, the difference in attributes is too big! This broken thing only needs three shes to kill a person, there¡¯s no room for maniption at all?¡± Chen Mo chuckled,¡¯why isn¡¯t there any room for maniption? How many times do you think your initial energy bar is enough for you to get lost?¡± Everyone looked at each other. They had clearly never cared about this question. Old Qiu was more sensitive to numbers. He said,¡±¡±Probably six or seven times.¡± ¡°How many times does Gundar attack?¡± Chen Zhao asked again. Everyone was once again confused, but it was still old Qiu who said,¡±¡±There will be a gap, but at most three times.¡± ¡°That¡¯s right,¡± Chen Zhao said.¡±Look, every time you roll to avoid his attacks, you can also touch his butt. What did this mean? It means that, theoretically speaking, the boss will never be able to touch you. ¡± ¡°You guys don¡¯t look for problems with your own operations, but me me for making the game difficult?¡± Everyone was shocked. What you said made so much sense! ¡°What?¡± Qiu Hengyang was also confused.¡±You mean that if we y normally, the yers shouldn¡¯t be touched by Gundam even once?¡± Chen Zhao shook his head,¡±how is that possible? I still gave the yers enough room to make mistakes. Look, gundyr needed at least four hits to kill you, and you still have three health potions, so you can take at least three or four more hits. All of that added up to a hundred million, my friends. ¡± All the yers present were shocked. What kind of rounding? With Gundar¡¯s strong desire to attack and such a long HP bar, how could he be touched only four or five times before he killed it? This was an impossible task! Chen Mo smiled and said,¡±sigh, the yers these days are all impatient. Think about it, where¡¯s your passion when you first started ying?¡± Think about Diablo, how difficult it was for you to defeat the Skeleton King in your first game. If you really can¡¯t do it, think about ppy Bird, think about digging the ground to improve ...¡± ¡°F * ck, manager, is this what you¡¯re really thinking? This game is just like excavating for Ascension, it¡¯s a scam game, right?¡± One of the top yers saw through Chen Mo¡¯s lies and pointed out the root of the problem. ¡°Ahem.¡± Chen Mo coughed dryly,¡±anyway, Dark Souls is a game that you have to put your heart into. Don¡¯t be impetuous. It¡¯s like a cup of fragrant tea, you have to taste it over and over again to get a taste of it.¡± ¡°Alright, let¡¯s continue to enjoy the taste.¡± All the yers present were shocked. What fragrant tea! What F * cking taste! There was only shock in this, okay? Chapter 540

Chapter 540: Chapter 539-reflective shield

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However, seeing Chen Mo¡¯s silent smile, everyone understood that this wasn¡¯t a hack-and-sh game at all. This was clearly a high difficulty game! Everyone was confused, why did Chen Mo give up on the happy hack-and-sh game and make a game like this to disgust everyone? Even though Chen Mo had a dark past like excavating thend for Ascension, it was released on April Fool¡¯s Day to disgust people. Dark Souls was made using Pangu¡¯s system. If he invested so much money and the yers were driven away, wouldn¡¯t the game suffer a huge loss? Even Qiu Hengyang didn¡¯t understand what Chen Mo was doing. There were many ways to disy Pangu¡¯s physical engine, so why did he have to use the yers ¡®fragile bodies to disy it ... Everyone didn¡¯t know what to do. Were they still going to y this game? After all, it was made by the Pangu system, with such rich content and distinctive features. It would be a pity not to y it. But even if he wanted to y, he couldn ¡®T. He waspletely being abused! The Boss killed a kid in three strikes. What the hell was this? Suddenly, zou Zhuo ran out of the elevator and into the living room, shouting,¡±¡±I passed! I¡¯ve passed!¡± He had the style of Fan Jin ... The others were confused,¡±what did you cross?¡± Fourth or sixth rank?¡± Zou Zhuo was speechless,¡±what level four or six? I passed!¡± Everyone expressed their shock and disbelief.¡±Ah? Really? how did you survive?¡± ...... ¡°How did you defeat such an overpowered boss? did you get a bug?¡± ¡°Do you have any simple moves? What profession did you choose?¡± The moment they heard that someone had passed Gundam, the others surrounded him out of curiosity. After all, when they challenged Gu da, they were all beaten to a pulp. They were like sandbags that Gu da punched ... Such a difficult boss seemed to bepletely undefeatable. How the hell were they supposed to clear it? Zou Zhuo said excitedly,¡±at first, I also thought that this boss was too difficult. There was no way we could defeat it. But then I thought about it again. The manager wouldn¡¯t design a boss that we can¡¯t defeat. How could he make such a stupid mistake?¡± ¡°So I went back and carefully read through the various operation instructions and found that we can use shield rebound to fight this boss. As long as we use the shield to deflect his attacks, we won¡¯t lose any blood at all. There will also be arge stun in his movements, and we can attack him like crazy. ¡± ¡°Besides, the manager left a lot of openings for the boss to attack. As long as we can grasp its attack rhythm, we can slowly wear it down!¡± After hearing zou Zhuo¡¯s exnation, the crowd finally understood. ¡°So that¡¯s how it is. It seems like we¡¯re fighting in the wrong way?¡± ¡°There¡¯s such a fancy operation as Parry? I¡¯ll try it when I get back!¡± ¡°What¡¯s next after this boss?¡± Zou Zhuo scratched his head.¡±Uh, I didn¡¯t get a good look at the rest. I was so happy after killing the boss that I couldn¡¯t wait toe down.¡± ¡°Hey, let¡¯s go. Let¡¯s go and try again. It seems like the way we fought just now was wrong. Let¡¯s try again.¡± Everyone returned to the VR experience area. Originally, after they left the VR gaming cabins, these gaming cabins were already upied by other yers. However, a new group of yers soon couldn¡¯t stand the abuse and left, so these people found the gaming cabins and went back in ... The new batch of yers once again raised ¡°logical doubts¡± about the difficulty of the game, but more and more yers had passed the trial of the judge of ashes, Gundar ... With the help of the yers who cleared the game, the other yers also understood that there was nothing wrong with the difficulty setting of the game. In other words, it was deliberately set to be so difficult ... Different people had different ways of fighting. Some used reflective shield, some used roll, and some passed through the mysterious gate. The yers who cleared the game after being tortured all felt a sense of pride. After all, the fact that he was able to defeat such a difficult boss showed that he was indeed a one-in-a-million martial arts genius! The yers who didn¡¯t clear the game also rushed to Gundam again and again, trying to prove that they were not worse than the others. Of course, there was also a group of people who were very helplessly persuaded to leave ... However, all in all, the yers who came to the experience store were Chen Mo¡¯s loyal fans. After epting this setting, they felt that the game was quite special,pletely different from the other games. At least in this game, everyone could experience the long-lost heartbeat ... With mixed feelings, Qiu Hengyang once again embarked on his journey to challenge Gundam. After listening to zou Zhuo¡¯s advice, Qiu Hengyang decided to try using shield counter to fight guda! ¡°It seems like the key to defeating the boss is written in the hints on the ground. I just didn¡¯t pay attention to it.¡± Mr. Qiu also felt a little guilty. As a video game designer, he didn¡¯t pay attention to such an obvious message in the game. This could be said to be a low-level mistake! He passed through the White fog gate again. Qiu Hengyang raised his shield and rushed towards the tall Gu da. The moment he saw Gu da waving his long de, Qiu Hengyang had an idea.¡±Now, shield counterattack!¡± Qiu Hengyang waved his shield, only to see Gundam¡¯s de miss his shield ... Then, he was sent flying like a sandbag ... ¡°F * ck, what¡¯s going on? Didn¡¯t you get it?¡± Indeed, the moment the long sword hit Qiu Hengyang, he noticed that he had been a little slow in raising his shield. In the end, Gundam¡¯s long sword came right above the shield. Qiu Hengyang quickly rolled to his feet and raised his shield to face Gundar again, trying a second reflective shield. This time, Gu DA¡¯s movement was very obvious. Qiu Hengyang was highly focused, and with a thud, the de bounced back sessfully! ¡°I¡¯ve seeded!¡± Qiu Hengyang stepped forward, his sword piercing through Gundar¡¯s chest armor! ¡°Awesome! Cool!¡± Qiu Hengyang was so happy that he wanted to shout. After being beaten up by Gu da a few times, this attack was simply too much for him. And it was at this moment that Qiu Hengyang realized the power of physics. His shield and Gundam¡¯s long sword had collided. The timing of the reflective shield was different, and the result was different. Even if the reflective shield was sessful, the time taken to hit the boss would be slightly different. Qiu Hengyang could also feel the difference when the sword pierced through Gundar¡¯s body. During execution, the longsword would by default choose the weakest point of the target in the direction that the yer wanted to attack. Basically, it would choose the gap in the armor, so this stab was clean and neat, and the damage was off the charts. Qiu Hengyang wanted tough out loud,¡±¡±As expected. This boss wasn¡¯t as strong as he had imagined. Chen Mo had already prepared a way to win, if he could deflect all of the boss ¡®attacks. Doesn¡¯t that mean that this boss is a noob?¡± Qiu Hengyang felt that hisbat power was at an all-time high after mastering the new technique. Chapter 541

Chapter 541: The new game is really fun!

Trantor: 549690339

In fact, Gundam was indeed one of the easiest bosses to Parry. That was why many people called him teacher Gundam, because many people learned Parry from him. With Qiu Hengyang¡¯s continuous attacks, gundyr¡¯s HP quickly dropped to half. However, just as Qiu Hengyang thought that he was going to take down the boss, Gundar¡¯s body suddenly exploded with arge mass of unknown ck substance, like a giant ck snake coiling around his body! ¡°F * ck! What¡¯s going on? there¡¯s a second stage to this boss?¡± Before Qiu Hengyang could react, the huge ck snake bit him, emptying his health bar. Qiu Hengyang was speechless. I¡¯ll hit your sister! ¡­¡­ Many people were still suffering at Gundar¡¯s ce, while others had already arrived at Firelink sacrificial grounds. Zou Zhuo was one of the fastest-he was already exploring Lothric¡¯s wall. Zou Zhuo¡¯s confidence had swelled after defeating Gundam. He thought that the rest would be a piece of cake for him since he had already defeated such a difficult boss. However, when he arrived at Lothric¡¯s high wall, he realized that he was indeed being chopped up. It was just that the monsters were chopping him up ... Zou Zhuo realized that other than the little ones that kneeled on the ground and prayed, all the other monsters that could move had the ability to kill him. ...... Moreover, many of the monsters were hanging on the city walls outside. When he walked past them, they would suddenly appear behind him and ambush him. Zou Zhuo was having a hard time. It felt like a horror game where a monster would pop up out of nowhere and scare you half to death! In the middle of the game, zou Zhuo also met the Knight of Lothric, who was mentioned in the information that was released earlier. ¡°Oh? I remember that this monster was a weakling. In the video, I think he won without any injuries, and he could be killed by a direct rebound!¡± Zou Zhuo was very confident in his anti-recoil skills. Even Gundar had fallen to him, let alone a mere Knight. Zou Zhuo raised his shield and charged forward with confidence. Zou Zhuo flicked back with confidence. Zou Zhuo flicked back with confidence. Zou Zhuo, dead. ¡°F * ck, what¡¯s going on?¡± Zou Zhuo was in a bad mood. He had confidently raised his Knight Shield to deflect the Knight¡¯s attack, but his first Parry failed. He was chased by Lothric and shed three times, and his HP dropped drastically. Zou Zhuo wasn¡¯t convinced. He raised his shield and charged forward again, but his counterattack failed again. He was killed by two more shes from the Knight of Lothric ... ¡°I¡¯m shocked! Even these F * cking little monsters can insta-kill me! How are you more powerful than Gundam? If you¡¯re so awesome, why don¡¯t you go and pass on the fire?¡± Zou Zhuo was speechless. He thought that he had made a mistake and revived to challenge again. The result was the same-he was pressed to the ground and rubbed by the Knight ... Zou Zhuo also noticed that when he raised his shield, the Knight would hit him with his shield. After being hit, zou Zhuo¡¯s energy was emptied. After being hit straight, the Knight followed up with a series ofbos, hitting zou Zhuo until he couldn¡¯t fight back. ¡°Meow, I can¡¯t afford to offend you, I can¡¯t afford to offend you. I¡¯d better run ...¡± Zou Zhuo decided to avoid this monster. On second thought, Chen Mo had already hinted at the crystal dragon in the beginner¡¯s area that there were many monsters that yers shouldn¡¯t be fighting and could avoid. Therefore, zou Zhuo decided to avoid the Knight and continue forward. After going around the map and dodging the fire Dragon, zou Zhuo came to a room. A delicious-looking treasure chest was quietly waiting for yers to open it. ¡°There¡¯s a chest!¡± This was the first chest that zou Zhuo had encountered in the game. Needless to say, there must be something good in the box. Wasn¡¯t thismon knowledge in the game? Zou Zhuo walked over happily and opened the box with both hands. Suddenly, the chest jumped up, opened its mouth, and bit down on zou Zhuo¡¯s head! ¡°What the f * ck? what¡¯s going on?!!¡± Zou Zhuo was so shocked that he almost sat up from the VR gaming pod! In the first-person perspective, zou Zhuo could clearly see the chest open its mouth. A long tongue and two rows of extremely sharp teeth bit down on his head! Then, the camera zoomed out to a third person perspective, and zou Zhuo could clearly see his current situation. It was a scary monster with long arms and legs. The chest was its head, and it was tearing at zou Zhuo¡¯s character, blood sttering everywhere! ¡°F * ck, what should we do now?¡± Zou Zhuo was shocked. His character kept struggling, but he couldn¡¯t escape from the treasure chest monster¡¯s ws. In the end, his HP dropped to zero and he died on the ground ... Zou Zhuo was speechless. ¡°What the hell is this? why are all the treasure chests in this game so indecent?¡± Zou Zhuo was in despair. The first treasure chest he found was a scam. How could he still y this game? Zou Zhuo wasn¡¯t convinced and was ready to take revenge after he revived. After much effort, zou Zhuo finally arrived at the treasure chest monster¡¯s room. Zou Zhuo didn¡¯t want to waste his breath on the dog and started attacking it. The treasure chest monster suddenly stood up and pounced forward, biting zou Zhuo¡¯s head again! ¡°F * ck, what¡¯s going on?¡± Zou Zhuo was shocked. The treasure chest monster¡¯sbat power was far beyond his imagination, and he failed the second challenge ... Zou Zhuo wasn¡¯t convinced and tried for the third time, but he still failed! ¡°Why do I feel like this monster is even more powerful than a Knight?¡± Zou Zhuo was speechless. He felt like Chen Mo was ying a huge joke on him, and it was a series of conspiracies! When he first saw it, he thought it was a treasure chest, but he died when he opened it. After he died, he would definitely think,¡±well, it¡¯s just a small trap. Watch me chop him to death!¡± In the end, he realized that he couldn¡¯t beat them after a few attacks ... At this moment, if the treasure chest monster had an inner OS, it would be like this: ¡°This Intelligence 5 trash actually wants revenge? Hehe, even if we were to fight face to face, you¡¯re not my match!¡± The most frustrating thing for zou Zhuo was that most of the monsters in the area would respawn after he sat in the bonfire to recover his health! Especially the Knight of Lothric, who was a pain in the ass for zou Zhuo. He was also in the respawning range! ¡°I can¡¯t even get past the first high wall, and you still expect me to defeat those powerful Lords of Cinder? Let¡¯s spread the chicken feather!¡± Zou Zhuo started to doubt his life. What¡¯s the point of beating Gundam? This was even scarier than a boss at the roserick ramparts! ¡­¡­ After two hours of fighting, many people had arrived at the city wall of Lothric by noon. However, they had the same problem as zou Zhuo. They were confident after defeating gundyr, but they realized that they were still too young after fighting the small monsters ... Chen Mo was right, the difficulty of the bosses and monsters in this game was very good. Simply put, the boss only had a slightly longer HP bar, but in reality, any monster could kill you in an instant ... Qiu Hengyang had also been tortured to death at the wall of Lothric. After dying countless times, he finally decided to exit the game cabin and go for a meal. At that moment, Qiu Hengyang noticed that many people were asking in the group chat on his phone,¡±¡±How is old Qiu? Is Chen Mo¡¯s new game fun? Did you enjoy cutting grass?¡± Qiu Hengyang had mixed feelings in his heart, thought for a moment and replied,¡±¡±Yes, the new game is really fun. It¡¯s really a hack-and-sh game. I suggest that everyone buy it and try it out when it¡¯s released ...¡± Chapter 542

Chapter 542: You can continue to Bluff!

Trantor: 549690339

For three days in a row, the yers in the experience store were tortured to death in Dark Souls! The yers quickly concluded the rules of the game. The boss was extremely overpowered and could instantly kill anyone. The monsters were also very overpowered and could instantly kill people. yers without armor were as fragile as paper. yers with armor were as fragile as vellum. In short, in this game, it was not strange for you to die at the hands of any monster ... Moreover, in this game, the malicious intent of the designer could be felt everywhere. It was one thing for monsters that yers couldn¡¯t defeat to appear in the normal process, and it was also another thing for yers to tolerate the fact that there would always be small monsters hiding by the walls in all kinds of strange corners, waiting to ambush them. But the most annoying thing was that even the first treasure chest they encountered in the game was actually a monster! It could be said that 90% of Dark Souls ¡®yers were affected by it. Who would have thought that it was a monster? However, Chen Mo had thoughtfully prepared a blood stain and advice system in the original game. While the yers were ying, the blood stains and advice of other yers would randomly appear in the game. The so-called blood stain was when another yer died in a certain ce, you could see a pool of blood on the ground. After touching it, you could see what happened to the yer before he died. Therefore, yers who entered the gameter would see a pool of blood in front of the treasure chest monster. As long as they touched it, they would know that there was something wrong with the treasure chest. And the admonishment function also surprised everyone. ...... The so-called admonishment was to write a line of words on the map to remind everyone about what would happen in this ce. This was also the help system unique to ¡°Dark Souls.¡± In fact, Miyazaki Hidetaka hade up with this idea in the beginning to save on production costs, but it was unexpectedly popr. From the start of the newbie area, Chen Mo had been giving the yers some tips on what to do, as well as some special events. Later on, the yers also began to write admonishments on the ground to remind other yers. Of course, some of these admonishments were true and some were false, and yers who saw them could choose to like or object. The yers were still kind at the moment, so the advice warmed the yers in the desperate world.¡¯Well, at least there are other idiots who are suffering here like me ...¡¯ Moreover, the magically modified admonishments allowed yers to write any words on the ground, no longer limited to the words in the temte. (Of course, there¡¯s a word-blocking setting. If a yer is reported for insulting messages, the ount will be punished.) After all, after dark Souls was transnted to the VR tform, it became easier to enter information and there were no more restrictions. Soon, these vanguards began to leave a lot of advice on the map, such as ¡°please use your shield to fight back¡± at the entrance of Gundar,¡±don¡¯t kill NPCs¡± at the entrance of Firelink sacrificial grounds, and so on. There were also some monsters that they couldn¡¯t defeat, such as Crystal Lizards, brother machete, Knight of Lothric, and so on. Many people also left advice in the ces where they appeared, so that everyone could go around them and fight them in the future. Some yers were surprised to find out that the NPCs in Dark Souls could attack! However, the consequences of the attack would be very tragic. Some NPCs would refuse to sell you goods, while others would chase after you, not letting you go even after you died. This will also directly cause you to cut off all quests rted to him. Some yers were so desperate that they deleted their files ... If this was in other games, the yers would definitely be criticized for this. However, in Dark Souls, everyone quickly epted this setting ... After all, the yers who were willing to stay were masochists, who would care about such details ... However, it wasn¡¯t a big deal to change ounts and start all over again in this game. This was because many yers who chose the mage or priest ss were beaten to death by the boss in the beginning. They had no choice but to delete their ounts and choose the Knight ss again. As for the even more tragic situation of not having any owners, it made the yers even more suspicious of their lives ... ¡­¡­ In the past three days, the dark Souls yers in the experience store had experienced life¡¯s ups and downs. Although arge number of them were discouraged by the high difficulty of Dark Souls, those who stayed chose to continue without exception. At the same time, many yers ¡®demo information was posted on the inte, and some anti-fans were cursing Dark Souls on the inte. ¡°F * ck, what kind of trashy game is Chen Mo making? This game isn¡¯t a mowed-down game at all. Once you enter, you¡¯ll be instantly killed by the small monsters!¡± ¡°This game is torture. Chen Mo is taking revenge on society again!¡± ¡°Everyone, please don¡¯t buy it after it¡¯s released. Whoever buys it will be stupid!¡± However, there were also many yers who retorted. ¡°Who said that? this is clearly a hack-and-sh game. How can you be so dishonest?¡± ¡°This game is really fun. Don¡¯t listen to those fake reviewers. Everyone, buy it and y!¡± ¡°Yes, this is a game that can heal the soul. It can effectively relieve the mental fatigue after work and is good for physical and mental health!¡± ¡°I can be the witness. This game is really great. There¡¯s a video as proof!¡± The yers who supported and opposed Dark Souls uploaded their videos, but this made the other yers even more confused. From the interface, they were obviously both Dark Souls, but why were the effects so different? The yers who imed that they would be killed by the monsters in Dark Souls uploaded a video of their battle with Gundam. As expected, Gundam¡¯s long sword was brandished in the video and killed the yers in three strikes. It was a terrible scene. However, there were also yers who uploaded videos of them killing people on the High Wall of Lothric with greatswords. In the video, the yer wielded his greatsword, and the skeleton monsterlings were no match for him at all. Even the Knight of Lothric was smacked to the ground by the continuous attacks of the greatsword, sessfully proving that the game could indeed cut grass. The gamers who didn¡¯te to experience the game were confused. Who was telling the truth? In fact, the yer with the big sword was one of Dark Souls ¡®loyal yers. He had been in the experience store for the past three days and had been pushing the game very fast. In order to record this video, he even ran back to the city wall of Lothric and beat up the monsters there. It really created the effect of a mowing game. There were also a lot of people who were just watching the show and trying to confuse the public. With the mentality that they couldn¡¯t be the only one being tortured, they crazily liked this big sword bro¡¯s video. ¡°That¡¯s right, this is the normal state of Dark Souls. I¡¯ve also killed a lot of people in it, hehehe.¡± ¡°See that? Is this big sword domineering? does it kill monsters with two shes? Even the Knights couldn¡¯t fight back. Don¡¯t you feel guilty for saying that Dark Souls is difficult?¡± ¡°That¡¯s right, that¡¯s right. It¡¯s obvious that you¡¯re not skilled enough, but you¡¯re ming the game instead. It¡¯s your fault for opening the game!¡± The other yers who didn¡¯t know the truth were all dumbfounded. Who was right? why were the reviews so prized before the game was released? A lot of yers could smell a hint of conspiracy, but this made some people¡¯s curiosity and desire for knowledge even more inted. From the video, this big sword bro was really having a great time killing monsters. Under the effect of the Pangu¡¯s Guide, killing monsters was really like cutting grass! Although there were many people on the inte who had been abused to the point of quitting the game, most yers still felt that they should buy it and give it a try. After all, it was so famous. How would one know how difficult it was without ying it personally? Moreover, this game could be refunded, right? What was there to be afraid of? Chapter 543

Chapter 543: Officiallyunched

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On September 1st, Dark Souls was officially released! This time, the local version would be released at the same time as the othernguage versions. The game had two built-in voices, Chinese and English. Whether it was in China or abroad, the number of downloads of Dark Souls had begun to rise. This was because, strictly speaking, Dark Souls was the first game to use artificial intelligence to create a physical engine. Although Knight¡¯s glory was released early, the development was slower, so it would be released more than a weekter. This made Dark Souls the first game in the world to be created with artificial intelligence physics. Thunderbolt entertainment had a huge reputation overseas as well. Many foreign yers saw it as a Western fantasypany and hoped that it could continue the sess of games like Warcraft, Diablo, and League of Legends. It could be said that yers from all over the world entered Dark Souls with high expectations. However, they soon encountered the same problem as the yers in the experience store-they started to doubt the game¡¯s difficulty! It could be said that these people had died extremely brutal and inhumane deaths in the game. Many of them were even stuck on their way to the Firelink sacrificial grounds on the first day and were tortured to the point where they could not take care of themselves. And in vr mode, this kind of battle was even more thrilling. Luckily, Chen Mo set Dark Souls as a horror game, which would test the yer¡¯s blood pressure, heart rate, and other indicators. Otherwise, it would¡¯ve been big news. The foreign yers were fine because most Western fantasy yers were hardcore. After epting the difficulty, they were very happy to continue ying and found it interesting. Moreover, they weren¡¯t tricked by Chen Mo, nor did they y the game with the hope of ¡®cutting grass¡¯. But when had the Chinese yers ever suffered like this? On the first day of the game¡¯s release, the official Dark Souls forum exploded with activity! ...... ¡°What¡¯s the situation? This game is too difficult. I¡¯ve already died four or five times for the first boss and I don¡¯t think I can beat it at all. ¡± ¡°Let¡¯s not talk about bosses. Why do I feel like it¡¯s hard for me to even fight small monsters? where¡¯s the difficulty adjustment interface in this game?¡± ¡°Where¡¯s the hack-and-sh game? you bunch of liars!!¡± ¡°After all this, it turns out that I¡¯m the grass, the monsters are cutting me! I¡¯m really F * cking convinced!¡± The forum was filled withints, and Chen Mo was overjoyed as he looked at therge amounts of grudges he gained. The other people on the project were deeply worried about this situation. Qian Kun had felt that the game was too difficult from the start, and now that he saw the yers ¡®feedback, he felt that he was right. The others, including su Jinyu and Zheng Hongxi, were also very annoyed because most of them had tried out the game after dark Souls was made. The conclusion was surprisingly the same. It was too abnormal! I can¡¯t continue ying! If even the creator felt pain when fighting, then what about the yers ... There was an unspoken rule in the game design industry. If the game designer felt that the difficulty of the game was just right, they would at least prepare two levels of difficulty for the yer to choose from. However, it was not true for Chen Zhao ... A few people approached Chen Zhao in private.¡±¡±Manager, do you really not need to lower the difficulty? At least give the yers the option to choose the difficulty, right?¡± Chen Mo shook his head,¡±no, the difficulty is just right.¡± If he lowered the difficulty, he would lose the essence of the game. The yers spent so much hard-earned money to buy the game, and then reduced the game content by lowering the difficulty. Am I still human?¡± Everyone was shocked. Manager, you found your conscience in such a bad ce, right? Clearly, Chen Mo was in his own way. No matter how many yers protested against the game¡¯s difficulty, he was unmoved and ignored them. Inevitably, the discussion about the game on the forum became more and more intense. The yers who had been dissuaded by Gundar and the monsters posted to defame the game, but many yers also retorted. This could be clearly seen from the game ratings of Dark Souls. Although there were many bad reviews, the game¡¯s rating had always been above 8.5, which was a very high rating. There were also many yers who spontaneously wrote reviews of the game to educate the new yers who had just fallen into the pit. ¡°As the earliest yer of Dark Souls, I¡¯d like to give some advice to the new yers.¡± ¡°A lot of people say that this game is difficult. I thought so at first, but after beating gundyr, my opinion changed.¡± ¡°Is this game difficult? It was indeed difficult. The boss only needs to hit you three or four times before you¡¯re killed. However, this game is very technical. After ying for four days, I can take Gundam away without any injuries if I open a new ount. ¡± ¡°Also, the game only truly begins after we pass gundyr¡¯s trial. On the high walls of Lothric, one would encounter even more threatening enemies, and even very malicious level designs. When I first came to the Lothric wall, I also felt very desperate. This feeling was like a real adventure, because you never know what is waiting for you in front of you. You never know where you will die because of a moment of negligence. ¡± ¡°However, after clearing the High Wall of Lothric, my view of the game changed again. Because I recalled every battle before, I could even clearly remember how many monsters would spawn in every corner. I could also remember the boss¡¯s skills at each stage. I¡¯ll remember what kind of treasure is hidden in every ce. ¡± ¡°And this is an experience I¡¯ve never experienced in other games. In those games, I don¡¯t even remember what¡¯s in the map or what the terrain is after clearing it. I just walk around and get out. ¡± ¡°But in Dark Souls, just a small scene like the Lothric wall took me a lot of time and energy. I can remember the location of every monster and the dangers hidden in every ce. This is an experience I¡¯ve never had in other games. ¡± ¡°As the game progressed, I realized that there were many different types of NPCs. Besides the main mission of defeating the Lord of Cinder and passing on the fire, there were also many side missions. ¡°Even the various props in the game contain a lot of stories. I won¡¯t spoil them. I hope you can experience them on your own. ¡°I¡¯m making this post to tell everyone that, in my opinion, Dark Souls is a very dedicated game. Its level design,bat system, and boss battle design are all industry leaders. There are no other games in the world that are simr to it. ¡°This is a game for men. I hope you can enjoy it patiently. At least, in my four days of ying the game, the seemingly invincible enemies in the early stages of the game are not difficult at all. After defeating them, you will get a great sense of achievement. I hope you can all understand this!¡± Chapter 544

Chapter 544: The tide of suffering!

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More and more simr posts appeared, leading yers to re-evaluate Dark Souls. In fact, it could be seen from the game¡¯s ratings that although Dark Souls was very difficult, the yers would discover many hidden meanings of the game after epting the setting. Many people were prepared to curse on the forum mindlessly, but after seeing the posts of these forerunners, they calmed down and decided to challenge Gundam again. This time, they saw the light of victory. After their relentless efforts, they finally defeated Gu da. Many yers began to change their mindset because they would understand how fun the game was after they defeated Gundar. It was because it could give the yers the feeling of the ultimate heartbeat! This kind of ultimate heartbeat was not like some shooting games or horror games. In shooting games and horror games, you had to be highly focused, but often you would fail without any warning. It was possible that a stray bullet or a pre-arranged monster would kill you. However, it was different in Dark Souls, especially in boss battles. Although the consequences of mistakes were very serious, the boss ¡®movements had a certain pattern. As long as one carefully observed and grasped the rhythm, the boss was not as difficult to fight as one might imagine. In other words, Dark Souls ¡®difficulty was designed just right. yers were forced to understand the boss¡¯bat mechanism, and it was impossible to clear the game by brainlessness or luck. However, once the yers mastered the boss¡¯sbat mechanism and strictly followed this mechanism to fight, it was only a matter of time before they cleared the boss. Moreover, the yers could feel their own improvement every time. From being killed in the first stage to the second stage; From the first kill to the pursuit of quick killster on, the yers could feel that their skills were constantly improving and maturing. It could be said that the yers only truly experienced the core fun of Dark Souls aftering to the High Wall of Lothric. ¡­¡­ ...... Of course, there were also arge number of yers who chose to refund. If someone were to ask what was the most difficult part of Dark Souls? The answer should be the high wall of Gundar and Lothric. Of course, in terms of game design, these two scenes were obviously not the most difficult, but they had the most dissuasion from yers. Because most of the yers who couldn¡¯t adapt to the ck soulbat system had retired at this stage. The yers who stayed put in a lot of effort, and it was only a matter of time and persistence for them to clear the game. Of course, some people couldn¡¯t y a hardcore game like dark Souls because the game required the yers to have a strong psychological quality and a certain level of control. Naturally, some people who didn¡¯t want to suffer would be stuck. Chen Mo extended the refund allowance from two hours to three hours for this purpose, to give the yers more time to decide if they were suitable for the game. If it really wasn¡¯t suitable, a refund would be the right choice. Many people had posted screenshots of their refunds on the forum, but everyone was very tolerant of these people. On one hand, he expressed his understanding of the yers ¡®terrible skills. On the other hand, he felt sorry for them for missing out on such a special game. After that, some yers found out about Chen Mo¡¯s mysterious smile at the release conference. Back then, Chen Mo said that the refund allowance period was extended from two hours to three hours. Many people thought that this was a small benefit, but now it seemed that many people understood the meaning of this smile. ¡°I was wondering why Chen Zhao smiled. He knew that we would be tortured to death, so he extended the time by an hour!¡± ¡°So, the three hours are for us to challenge the boss without any worries and be defeated?¡± ¡°Kill that bastard Chen Zhao! He actually made me suffer!¡± However, the three-hour refund policy did have some effect. The refund allowance period was two hours. For some yers, two hours wasn¡¯t enough to fully grasp the essence of Dark Souls. Some yers would even be stuck at Gundar for more than an hour. At the walls of Lothric, they would be tortured to death. When the two hours were almost up, they could only hurriedly refund the game and couldn¡¯t truly feel the charm of Dark Souls. Chen Mo extended the refund deadline to three hourster. The yers who werepletely handicapped by Gundam were left in pain and decided to refund the game as well. However, the yers who barely passed Gundam and came to the walls of Lothric had an extra hour in the game. In this hour, they could feel the deeper meaning of the game, and that was why some yers stayed. It was onlyter that the yers realized that extending the time limit by an hour was aplete conspiracy to trick them into falling into the trap! After crossing the High Wall of Lothric, the yers would soon arrive at the undead Settlement and Fn fortress. They would find that the game was getting more and more difficult and perverted, and the design of the monsters was getting more and more malicious! Chen Mo¡¯s meaningful smile was also made into an emoji by the yers, and was named: It was salent¡¯s smile. Someone even wrote on the emoji package: Young man, do you want to pass the fire? On the official forum, this expression package instantly became popr and became a universal way of replying. No matter what kind of thread it was, people would reply: A young man passing on fire? Everyone¡¯s reaction was the same: No, get lost! As a highly difficult game that no one had ever seen before, Dark Souls had unexpectedly attracted a lot of crazy fans. Some yers even promoted it to their friends on their own ord. ¡°I¡¯ve recently discovered a new game called Dark Souls. It¡¯s really fun to cut grass. Come and y!¡± ¡°That¡¯s right. Dark Souls is really fun. It¡¯s definitely a hack-and-sh game!¡± ¡°And this game can also be used to develop love rtionships. The fire-proof female sister is so beautiful!¡± ¡°This is an extremely casual game. Everyone cane and take a look at the scenery. The scenery in lenglie Valley is amazing!¡± ¡°This game¡¯sbat system is so awesome! The Pangu system is simply awesome!!¡± Of course, these were all coupled with funny emojis. Most people already knew that Dark Souls was actually a highly difficult game, which was very unfriendly to newbies. However, the poprity of Dark Souls had already soared. All kinds of topics had increased the attention of Dark Souls. On some live streaming tforms, Dark Souls had also begun to upy the major live streaming channels! The trend of suffering quickly spread to the live-streammunity ... Chapter 545

Chapter 545: Xue¡¯s turtle style of fighting

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Not long after dark Souls was officially released, the yers who wanted to watch the show took over the live broadcast rooms of major live broadcasting tforms. ¡°Wow, the host isn¡¯t ying Dark Souls. You¡¯re out of the game!¡± ¡°That¡¯s right. Dark Souls is such a good game, but he doesn¡¯t want to y it. I despise him!¡± ¡°Casual games and refreshing battles. This game is worth having!¡± This wave had swept through almost all major live streaming websites, whether it was technical streamers, entertainment streamers, or even some cute girl streamers who only knew how to sing and dance ... Many streamers were shocked. Chen Mo again? Eh, why did I say again? The hosts were immediately reminded of the fear they felt from excavating for Ascension, oust, and a normal big adventure. Chen Mo was obviously at the peak of his ability to take revenge on society ... Dark Souls, for example, had already attracted a lot of attention before it was released. After it was officially released, it seemed to have received even more attention ... However, before and after the release, the yers ¡®understanding of the game had a 180-degree reversal ... The hosts were speechless. Why did it feel like Chen Mo was taking revenge on society more and more frequently? were they imagining things? Although Dark Souls tortured the yers to death, there were still many streamers who threw themselves into its arms. On one hand, it was because the quality of the game was indeed very high. Whether it was the scenes, actions, orbat system, they could all be considered excellent. The only problem was that it was too difficult. ...... On the other hand, it was because the game¡¯s program effect was very explosive. Many people had posted some Short Video about Dark Souls on the inte, such as injury less defeating Gundar and so on. Within two or three days after the release, many yers had realized that this was a game that could be shown off. Although it was difficult, it could have different effects in the hands of experts. Therefore, the streamers were all eager to try. If they could sessfully clear dark Souls, it would be a very positive promotion for their livestreams. Some websites naturally gathered in Xue Lin¡¯s live broadcast room. Lin Xue was almost bing a professional tester for Thunderbolt gaming. The main reason was that Lin Xue had been trying out Chen Mo¡¯s games before he became famous, so every time Chen Mo had a new game, the audience would ask Lin Xue to try it out. Although Xue Lin¡¯s skills were not very good, she was cute and very smart. When she did live broadcasts, the effects were very explosive. So many yers came to Xue Lin¡¯s live broadcast room immediately and asked her to y ¡°Dark Souls.¡± Lin Xue sighed,¡±Aiya, this game has just been released and you¡¯re already asking me to y it. It seems like you really love me deeply!¡± However, I know how cunning you guys are. Don¡¯t you just want to see me being tortured in this game?¡± ¡°Let me tell you guys, it¡¯s impossible to be abused. It¡¯s impossible to be abused in this life. Next, I¡¯ll let you see how top students y this game!¡± Lin Xue entered the game cabin full of confidence. The audience was very puzzled.¡±What¡¯s the situation? it doesn¡¯t feel like he tricked Xue?¡± ¡°That¡¯s right. Why does Xue look so confident?¡± ¡°I don¡¯t believe it. Xue can handle such a difficult game?¡± ¡°Don¡¯t mess around. Xue is someone who has even cleared ¡®excavating the earth for Ascension¡¯. Don¡¯t underestimate her!¡± Not long after, the scene in the livestream room changed. Xue Lin entered the game cabin. At this time, everyone found that there was already a save file in the beginning interface of ¡°Dark Souls.¡± However, Lin Xue had opened a new save file for the sake of live streaming. ¡°Actually, I¡¯ve tried this game since the experience store was released. Today, I¡¯m going to give you guys a strategy guide. I¡¯m going to tell you guys how to y this game!¡± Lin Xue said as she pinched his face. The screen was filled with a bunch of 666s. ¡°Oh my God, Xue can even be a guide. Is this still the clumsy Xue we know?¡± ¡°Why do I feel like Xue¡¯s raising a g for herself?¡± ¡°It¡¯s possible that Xue has been secretly practicing these few days!¡± While the yers were still confused, Lin Xue started the game. Unsurprisingly, she chose the Knight¡¯s opening and then exined to the audience,¡±¡±I¡¯ve realized that this game isn¡¯t that difficult. The key is that you have to figure out your own style.¡± ¡°There are a lot of expert tutorial videos on the inte. For example, they teach you how to roll, how to hit a hit recovery through heavy attacks, and some people use a two-handed sword to attack.¡± ¡°But they don¡¯t exist in my game. There¡¯s only one word that stands out in my game: Although it¡¯s weak, it can help you pass the game easily. Watch carefully. ¡± Lin Xue raised her Knight Shield and carefully walked towards the first monster. Although this monster couldn¡¯t pose a threat to her at all, she still raised her shield very seriously. After the first monster hit her shield and was knocked away, she followed up with two more strikes to kill it. It was the same for the monsters behind. Lin Xue held her shield the entire time and moved forward at a turtle¡¯s speed. The bulletments were speechless.¡±What¡¯s going on? is Xue using a turtle style?¡± ¡°Wow, it really is! Xue had basically not lost any health up until now. I really feel like this strategy is a lot safer!¡± ¡°The streamer¡¯s fighting style is too cowardly. He killed the monsters after just two shes!¡± ¡°Hehe, the one who said that ah Xue was weak probably hasn¡¯t yed Dark Souls before, right? These monsters looked like they could be killed in two strikes and were very trash, but they hurt you to death, okay? This is the right way to preserve blood!¡± Just like that, Lin Xue arrived in front of Gundar without any injuries. It was obvious that she had already explored all the monsters on the map. She knew how many monsters there were and what items there were like the back of her hand. She even took the me pot in front of Gundar. ¡°Alright, the first boss is the ashen judgementor gundyr. There are two main points to fight this boss. One, you have to raise your shield throughout the entire battle. The other is to not be greedy for your sword!¡± ¡°Alright, I¡¯ll demonstrate the strategy to everyone!¡± Xue Lin raised her shield and charged at Gundam. Gundam¡¯srge sword was very powerful, but Xue Lin kept her shield up and faced him. She used her shield to block Gundam¡¯s attack. Then, Xue Lin shed twice and rolled away. Lin Xue¡¯s way of fighting was like splitting the sky. She raised her shield and circled the boss the entire time. Only when she saw a very obvious w would she rush up and touch it. Then, she would immediately roll away. The audience was shocked. This game could be yed this way? It¡¯s like creating a sky! Chapter 546

Chapter 546: The suffering streamers

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¡°Alright,¡± Xue Linughed,¡±the boss will soon enter the second stage. We need to use the me pot well.¡± He kept a distance from him and then threw the methrower like crazy. Many streamers would teach you how to parry this boss, but there was no need to. If the Parry fails, you¡¯ll be done in three strikes. So, if you¡¯re a noob, you can y like me. ¡± The millions of viewers watched as Xue Lin raised her shield and killed Gundar one sh at a time. After entering the second stage, Xue Lin threw down all the me pots in her hand and Gundar fell down. Xue Lin still had One Health potion left and her health was still very good. ¡°Look, isn¡¯t this game very simple? I¡¯ve said it before, you have to use your brain to y games!¡± The audience was shocked.¡±F * ck! There¡¯s such a way to y this game?¡± ¡°That¡¯s true. I feel like this game isn¡¯t difficult for Xue at all. There aren¡¯t any particrlyplicated operations, nor are there any reflective shields. She¡¯s just slowly grinding the boss to death!¡± ¡°Awesome, awesome. I feel like he¡¯s a genius with high IQ. As expected of a graduate from a famous university. He¡¯s really good!¡± ¡°Is this how a top student ys the game? I¡¯ve learned it!¡± Xue Lin¡¯s live broadcast of ¡°Dark Souls¡± quickly attracted arge number of viewers. Originally, these viewers wanted to see Xue Lin get beaten up, but they found out that Xue Lin was ying very smoothly! Gundar passed it in one try, and the Lothric wall behind them didn¡¯t suffer much either. Lin Xue went around the few enemies that she couldn¡¯t beat, and she was very stable when dealing with the small monsters. She lured them over one by one the entire time. Soon, Lin Xue came to the second boss, Ice Dog, and defeated it again! The yers were instantly shocked. It seemed like this game really wasn¡¯t difficult! Xue Lin was overjoyed. She was also tortured badly in the experience store, but this gave her a new way out, which was to create a sky ... Lin Xue disyed her academic genius nature throughout the entire journey. She memorized all the monsters and some of the key points to collect them. Then, she started ying from the beginning again during the live broadcast. Finally, she revealed her academic genius nature and stunned the audience in the live broadcast room. ...... The audience was surprised to find that Lin Xue seemed to be really good at ying this game! Although it was particrly cowardly and not much to watch, it was valuable in its stability. Any yer who had yed Dark Souls knew how important stability was to yers. As long as they died in this game, they would be resurrected at the bonfire. However, this also meant that all the mobs would respawn, and they would have to kill the mobs they had fought before again. In other words, if one died, they would have to start from the beginning. Without any skills, it was impossible to pass through by relying on luck or rashness. The strategy that Xue Lin had chosen, although it looked particrly cowardly and not pleasing to the eye, was especially safe. Every step was taken carefully, and she tried to save as much health as possible. Lin Xue exined,¡±I call this style Lin Xue¡¯s turtle style!¡± For this strategy, I suggest that you guys add more health, stamina, and energy. As for strength, you just need to be able to hold a big shield. ¡± ¡°As for the weapon, is there even a need to say? It would definitely be a shield in his left hand and a sword in his right. Everyone who used a big shield said it was good! Many people clearly don¡¯t have that skill, but they still choose to start without anyone. Some people even deliberately take off all their equipment to show off. Do you know how fragile you will be after taking off your equipment?¡± ¡°Look at me. After I added more stamina, I put on a set of good armor, and then I raised my middle shield to fight. I didn¡¯t think about Parry. I just drew the monsters one step at a time. This game isn¡¯t that difficult, right?¡± ¡°Well ... A lot of people asked me why I¡¯m so familiar with it ... Ahem, if you die in the same ce several times, you¡¯ll remember the distribution of these monsters.¡± However, as the process progressed, Xue Lin soon came to some more disgusting ces, such as the Fn fortress, the underground tomb, and so on. Although she was extremely careful, she was still tortured to death by all kinds of monsters. Lin Xue wasn¡¯t discouraged at all. Instead, she carefully memorized the characteristics and distribution of these monsters. Then, she slowly prepared the corresponding materials and items as she slowly destroyed them. ¡­¡­ Lin Xue had a sh of inspiration and discovered her academic genius characteristics. However, other streamers were not so lucky. Whether these streamers had just started ying or had been ying for a while, they were all tortured by the endless tricks ... The High Wall of Lothric. ¡°Hey, F * ck! This treasure chest could actually eat people! Oh my, I¡¯m dead!¡± ¡°Damn, this situation doesn¡¯t look right. This Knight is so fierce! I¡¯m done for, I¡¯m going to be killed by him. How is this guy even more powerful than Gundam?¡± ¡°Hey, there seem to be a few harmless monsters here. Damn, why did these monsters suddenly explode? what is this ck snake? Are you Gundam? F * ck, I¡¯m dead. This guy¡¯s damage is even higher than Gundam ¡®s!¡± ¡°F * ck, what¡¯s with this Dragon? He keeps breathing fire, I can¡¯t beat him at all! I¡¯m done for, I¡¯m going to be burned to death!¡± ¡°F * ck, I have to defeat two knights to get the quest item? What¡¯s the point of fighting!¡± ¡°What the hell is this little fatty with little wings? help!!¡± The undying settlement. ¡°What¡¯s the situation with this big brother with the VAT? ¡®Damn it, I¡¯m going to be killed by him. You ... You¡¯re going to smash everything here like a Sima jar!¡± ¡°Wow, this fat aunty looks very dangerous. She actually hugged me! I¡¯m finished, I¡¯m finished. I¡¯ve been burned to death. ¡± ¡°I¡¯ll go to hell. Big brother Sima Tan threw the VAT away and took out a big saw to cut me! Oh my God!¡± ¡°What¡¯s the situation with the big rat in the sewer? I¡¯m finished! I¡¯m going to be bitten to death!¡± ¡°F * ck, why did I get shot when I walked here? Where did this big arrowe from? we can¡¯t pass through this ce!¡± ¡°This is a ghost vige! What undying settlement, they¡¯re too hospitable!¡± Fn fortress. ¡°Oh my God, what the hell is this mud-like thing on the ground? Was this a cesspit? Damn, I can¡¯t move at all inside! F * ck, I can only roll forward. F * ck, this is so cool!¡± ¡°There¡¯s no one else who can roll around in a cesspit! I want to vomit ...¡± ¡°F * ck, what¡¯s this monster? He¡¯s washing my hair! I¡¯m dead ...¡± ¡°No, I have to go around this Thai-style hair washer. Oh my God, this big monster is holding a big tree and doesn¡¯t look easy to deal with. I ... Should I hide?¡± Chapter 547

Chapter 547: I believe you

Trantor: 549690339

¡°Eh, why are there a few frogs? They can also spew poisonous gas, but they look like trash ... F * ck, how did I die? I¡¯ve been cursed to death? It turns out that this fish will die immediately after it grows, it¡¯s so abnormal!¡± ¡°Oh my God, I¡¯ve finally extinguished three fires. My little heart can¡¯t take this kind of blow anymore ... So I¡¯m going to face the first Lord of Cinder next? I¡¯m so excited. ¡± ¡°F * ck, what¡¯s with this Lord of Cinder¡¯s skill? What the f * ck, are you doing a street dance? F * ck, I¡¯m dead with just three shes!¡± ¡°What¡¯s the point of fighting this boss? why is it dancing like crazy? it can¡¯t even touch him!¡± ¡°Hahaha, I finally killed him! I just realized that this red-eyed monster can help me attract aggro. Nice! This boss was simply a piece of cake, it wasn¡¯t difficult at all ... F * ck, why was there an interlude? F * ck, this is the second stage and he¡¯s full health. What the f * ck are we fighting for!¡± The yers who had gone through the baptism of Lothric¡¯s high walls had a kind of mysterious confidence in themselves, thinking that it would not be difficult for them to crush the game. However, they soon realized that they were wrong after the scene that followed ... The difficulty level would get higher and higher as time went on, and there would be more and more insanely powerful monsters appearing. There was no way to beat them! It was only then that everyone realized that Lothric¡¯s Knight was really a weak little monster, not even in the top ten of the most powerful monsters ... There were even more powerful monsters behind him! For example, Sima can, who was smashing the ground with a huge VAT, the big crab on the road of the Living Dead, big tree in Fand¡¯s cesspit, the Thai-style hair washer, and the skeleton Grand Swordmaster in the skeleton graveyard ... All the yers unanimously agreed that the most disgusting monster should be the Rat King of cinder in the sewers! The reason why it was called Lord of Cinder was because it was much harder to defeat than many bosses. In the sewers, these two giant rats were simply killing themselves! If two of them attacked together, no one could defeat them. Even if they attacked one by one, it was easy to overturn the car! The scariest thing was that these two rats would swallow people into their mouths, madly bite them, and instantly die! ...... These two rats left a terrifying impression on countless people. Many yers expressed that they would rather fight the boss than these two rats! There was still hope if they encountered a boss, but if they encountered two rats, they could directly wait for their resurrection! There were also many traps in the map, such as the skeleton graveyard. One would be shot by arrows for no reason after stepping on something, or be hit by a big ball of skeletons, which would be so painful that one would wish they were dead ... Some of the faster streamers finally reached the underground prison and the City of Sin after a long time. It was only then that they were on the verge of a mental breakdown ... There were monsters that would push people down from the entrance, corpses that would scream when picking up items, wardens that could lower the maximum HP of yers and use branding iron to brand people ... In VR, these scary scenes constantly challenged the yers ¡®nerves. Many live streamers were so scared that they screamed on the spot, turning it into a horror game ... The streamers were tortured to death, but the yers watched with great interest. If the streamer sessfully passed the game, the yers would send a wave of 666 to express their admiration for the streamer¡¯s skills. Moreover, the exciting feeling of being in the game also made many yers very satisfied. If the host didn¡¯t pass the test and suffered repeatedly in a certain ce, the audience would love to watch. Anyway, they weren¡¯t the ones suffering, so it wasn¡¯t a big deal to watch the fun. In addition, the difficulty of ck souls was actually within a rtively reasonable range. Many people felt that it was difficult because they had not figured out the mechanism of the game and were not familiar with the attack patterns of the mobs and bosses. After casting embers, many bosses could summon NPCs to fight side by side with them. In fact, this had reduced the difficulty of the battle. As long as they suffered a few times, the first part of the battle would be more smooth. After the streamers made the game popr, many yers also had the idea of trying it out themselves. Dark Souls had attracted another group of new yers, but most of them cried as soon as they entered the game ... For this game, ying it by yourself and watching others y were twopletely different concepts. The boss looked very simple, but it waspletely different when he yed it himself! ¡­¡­ On the other hand, Chen Zhao was gaining more and more resentment points. For Dark Souls, the gain of enmity points was too longsting. Many yers contributed arge number of enmity points at the beginning. Almost every scene had a different challenge, and the yers ¡®enmity points could be said to be endless. It would only stop after one round of the game. Moreover, passing the first round did not mean the end of the game. Many yers would choose to start the second round and continue to suffer ... This was the advantage of Dark Souls. It wasn¡¯t a game that was made to torture people, and it didn¡¯t give people aplete sense of frustration like excavating the ground for Ascension. Dark Souls could give yers a lot of pleasure, which came from the joy of bing stronger, the surprise of seeing through the tricks, and the joy of constantly exploring. After they worked hard to be stronger, they could easily defeat their enemies. This kind of joy was the most fundamental element that supported the yers to continue ying. As Chen Mo was enjoying himself, he suddenly received a call from Qiao Hua. Qiao Hua sounded helpless,¡±Chen Mo, what¡¯s going on?¡± How did your first game made using the Pangu system be such a big news?¡± Chen Zhao pretended not to know anything. What¡¯s the big news?¡± Qiao Hua was speechless.¡±It¡¯s one thing if you¡¯ve been making games that are usually bad, but this is the first game made using the Pangu system. Everyone has high hopes for it. They want to beat foreign games!¡± Don¡¯t cause any trouble. ¡± Chen Mo chuckled.¡±Don¡¯t worry. I¡¯ll be fine. I know what to do with this game.¡± ¡°Alright,¡± Qiao Hua said helplessly,¡±as long as you know what you¡¯re doing ... I¡¯m just going to ask, are we really not going to change the difficulty of the game anymore?¡± Hehehe ...¡± ¡°Alright, alright, I won¡¯t change it then ...¡± Qiao Hua was speechless. ¡°Don¡¯t worry, Minister Qiao, the yers haven¡¯t felt the love I gave them in Dark Souls yet!¡± When they get a taste of it, they¡¯ll definitely praise the game to the heavens. ¡± ...¡±I believe you,¡± Qiao Hua said. Chapter 548

Chapter 548: Multiple endings?

Trantor: 549690339

Logically speaking, the game Committee wouldn¡¯t care what game the designer made as long as it didn¡¯t break anyws or affect the review process. Whether the game made a profit or a loss, or whether the designer would be scolded, that was entirely up to the designer. However, Chen Mo¡¯s Dark Souls was different, as it was the first game made by Pangu system. Many members of the game Committee were looking forward to this game being able topete with Knight¡¯s glory and show the effects of Pangu system, but Chen Mo made a game that tortured yers. Wasn¡¯t that a little too much? However, Qiao Hua had no choice. The game was already made, he couldn¡¯t possibly ask Chen Mo to lower the difficulty, could he? Also, ording to Chen Zhao¡¯s personality, he wouldn¡¯t be affected by others. He was very stubborn ... Therefore, Qiao Hua could only hope that Chen Zhao would make good use of this opportunity. ¡­¡­ After a few days of hard work, the first batch of yers who had started Dark Souls and were more talented had basically pushed into theter stages of the story. It was the same for Xue Lin. She had almostpleted all the missions and collected all the firewood of the Lords of Cinder. She had arrived at the final scene. Here, Xue Lin had to face the incarnation of the Lord of Cinder. This was the final boss of the game. As long as one defeated the incarnations of the Lords of Cinder, they would be able to pass on the fire and end the game. At this moment, Xue Lin¡¯s character was simply unsightly. She was wearing a set of Javier¡¯s heavy armor, holding a Javier shield in her left hand and an ordinary straight sword in her right hand. She looked like a turtle. The bulletments ridiculed. ¡°Oh my God, Xue¡¯s act really stands out! A piece of sky is created. ¡± ¡°You don¡¯t say. ording to Xue¡¯s way of ying, the difficulty of the game seems to have been reduced by a lot. Holding a big shield throughout the game seems to be a lot easier!¡± ...... ¡°Wow, we¡¯re finally going to challenge the final boss. I think Xue should be able to pass it with her level, right?¡± After a few days of practice, Xue Lin¡¯s skills had improved rapidly. Xue Lin¡¯s fighting style was extremely cowardly. She was wearing the Javier equipment set and holding a big shield, tanking the boss¡¯s damage. At the same time, he invested a lot of attributes in his stamina to ensure that he could roll smoothly. Of course, this meant that her damage was very low, but Lin Xue didn¡¯t care. She just used her sword to attack the boss. Even though it was slow, it was fine as long as she could pass ... Xue Lin was really great to be able to y Dark Souls like this ... The Lord of Cinder¡¯s transformation skill was very cool. From a first person¡¯s perspective, the Lord of Cinder¡¯s five consecutive shes brought upyers of mes and continuously disyed all kinds of gorgeous moves. Xue Lin used her Harville shield to block the entire process. She only dared to go up and steal a few shes when she saw an obvious gap. After dying a few times, Xue Lin finally managed to wear down the incarnation of the Lord of Cinder ... ¡°Waa! I¡¯m awesome, I cleared the game! Why aren¡¯t you guys giving me 666!¡± Lin Xue shouted excitedly. Luckily, she was in the gaming pod. If she was in front of theputer, she would have jumped up ... The live broadcast room was also filled with all kinds of 666. Lin Xue wasn¡¯t the first yer to clear dark Souls, but she was one of the first few. This was especially true in the broadcasting circle. While the other hosts were still being tortured, Lin Xue had already sessfully defeated thest boss of the game by using this rote memorization and sneaky fighting style. ¡°Wow, Xue¡¯s so talented. Chen Mo probably didn¡¯t expect such a yer to exist, did he?¡± ¡°This is salent¡¯s miscalction! Xue actually solved this game with the mindset of a top student. Haha, this is really interesting!¡± ¡°I think you¡¯re all underestimating Chen Mo. Chen Mo must¡¯ve expected that someone would use this method to clear the game from the start. I even think that he encouraged everyone to use this method to clear the game, but most people just followed the usual train of thought, so they didn¡¯t seed!¡± ¡°Eh, that makes sense. Xue¡¯s style of y is indeed very safe, and it¡¯s considered a strange way. She¡¯s indeed a top student. Her IQ is really amazing!¡± On the screen, Xue Lin¡¯s character was standing next to the initial me. She reached out to the top of the furnace and ignited the me. Then, the mes spread to her entire body. Lin Xue¡¯s character, the Knight in heavy armor, sat down beside the mes. The camera slowly moved to the distance and looked at the Dark Sun ... The game was over, and the week was over. Lin Xue heaved a sigh of relief,¡±sigh, let¡¯s end today¡¯s Dark Souls. I¡¯ve finally cleared the game!¡± I know there¡¯s still a second round, but I¡¯ve been too tired these past few days, so I¡¯m going to take a break before ying the second round. Alright, I¡¯m going to change myputer. See you guyster. ¡± After changing theputer, Xue Lin still wanted more. The past few days in ¡°Dark Souls¡± had given her a lot ofplicated feelings. At first, she thought that this was a game that tortured people for fun, just like the other streamers. In order to make the audience enjoy it more, Lin Xue had specially studied the game and created a turtle style of y. She sessfully cleared the game with a set of heavy armor, a big shield, and a straight sword. But in the process of ying the game, Lin Xue suddenly realized more about the game. As Lin Xue yed, she felt that this game wasn¡¯t a game that was meant to torture people. The high difficulty of the game highlighted the intricacies of thebat system and level design. Lin Xue only had a shallow impression of all these. A more intuitive feeling was that in the middle andte stages of Dark Souls, there would be an irresistible feeling, and people would not want to y other simr games at all. In Dark Souls, the sense of achievement from defeating an enemy without getting hurt was much greater than in other games. Besides, yers had to be careful at all times, so the game experience was more rich. It was like having aplicated feeling after eating an exquisite dish, and eating anything else in a short period of time would be tasteless. Xue Lin felt a little tired after ying the game, so she didn¡¯t continue to y other games. Instead, she bragged to theizens on the bullet screen while opening the official forum on herputer to check out some information about Dark Souls. At the moment, the official forum of Dark Souls was still mainly filled with strategy guides and experience sharing posts. The yers who were exploring Dark Souls were all sharing their new discoveries in the game on the forum, and they were all huddled together ... At this moment, a hot post caught Xue Lin¡¯s attention. The title of the post was ¡°about the various endings of Dark Souls.¡± Chapter 549

Chapter 549: Frank feels that he has a huge advantage

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Xue Lin opened the post. ¡°To be honest, Chen Mo didn¡¯t reveal if the game has a single ending or multiple endings. Most people who have cleared the game have gotten the ¡®fire pass¡¯ ending, but I¡¯ve walked into a different story line. I wonder if that¡¯ll have any effect.¡± ¡°Beside the bridge of the undead Settlement, there will be a jailer from Rondor who is still alive. After talking to him, he will be your follower. After that, I will be able to draw out true power and level up for free!¡± ¡°I¡¯m not too sure how to draw it in, but I found out that something called the Halo of darkness had mysteriously appeared on my body. And as I continued to draw it in, my zombified state became more and more serious. In the end, I couldn¡¯t even look at it ...¡± ¡°Also, the npc rted to this Pilgrim said somethingpletely different from the mainstream opinion. I suspect that this is a different ending, or a more important side quest.¡± ¡°Because I¡¯m a noob, I haven¡¯t finished the game yet, so I don¡¯t know if it will affect the ending of the game. But from the looks of it, the game has a lot of side quests, and spreading fire shouldn¡¯t be the only purpose.¡± There was also very detailed information in the post, including some screenshots and videos. There was no doubt that it was a part of the game. ¡°Eh? There¡¯s such a thing!¡± Xue Lin was also shocked. Indeed, there were too many collectable elements in Dark Souls, and many people would easily ignore some NPCs. When Lin Xue entered the undead Settlement, she went straight through the main entrance and didn¡¯t notice that there was a special NPC on the other side of the bridge. Moreover, from other people¡¯s posts, it could be seen that there were many different branch NPCs in the game, but each NPC¡¯s mission was hidden very deeply, and it could be broken if one was not careful. Moreover, every NPC seemed to have their own ending. ...... Lin Xue was so focused on clearing the game that she didn¡¯t pay much attention to the story of the NPCs. Now that she saw the side quests, Lin Xue realized that even though she had cleared the game, there was still a lot of content that she hadn¡¯t really understood. ¡°Hmm ... Then let¡¯s try to prepare for the second round! I feel like I can explore the side quests of these NPCs. I feel like I¡¯ve missed out on so many things!¡± Xue Lin thought to herself. ¡­¡­ In other countries, Dark Souls had also caused a great response. In fact,pared to China, there were more yers in Europe and the United States who liked this theme, and there were more hardcore yers. Therefore, Dark Souls was even more popr overseas than in China! Dark Souls suddenly became a popr game on major foreign live-streaming websites. Many foreign live-streamers were also talking andughing with the bullet-screen audience while they continued their torturous journey in Dark Souls. Some media outlets were also reviewing Dark Souls. Although no specific review articles had been released yet, from the feedback of the hosts and yers, Dark Souls had unexpectedly received a lot of good reviews. In a sense, there were indeed more masochists abroad than in China ... This situation made GA feel like breaking down, because Knight¡¯s glory was the first to release the information, and it was the first game to be developed using artificial intelligence physics, but in the end, Dark Souls preempted it, this was F * cking embarrassing! The person in charge of Knight¡¯s glory, Frank, was also paying attention to Dark Souls. After trying out the game, his biggest feeling was that this game was not for humans to y! Frank had only wanted to check out the game¡¯s physics system, but he was immediately taught a lesson by Gundam the moment he entered the game. He was beaten up so badly that he almost refunded the game ... Frank was also shocked. Did this game have to be so difficult? However, after Frank briefly looked at the physical system, he felt more at ease. In terms of performance, the Pangu system was not better than the origin system. The physical systems created by the two artificial intelligence systems were very simr in function, and there was no particrlyrge difference in performance. Frank was still a little disapproving of the design concept of Dark Souls. On one hand, he felt that the game was too difficult, and on the other hand, he felt that the game was a little fake. Because the theme of Dark Souls was a medieval fantasy background, there were many factors that werepletely out of touch with reality. For example, under normal circumstances, it was impossible for humans to carry super heavy equipment like the animated smoke greatsword or the ck Knight greatsword. What kind of muscr man would be able to swing a sword that was heavier than himself and swing it so vigorously? It was not scientific at all. Moreover, there were a lot of impractical equipment in the game, such as Javier¡¯s armor and shield. In real life, if a normal person were to wear such a set, even a muscr man would not be able to walk ... Not to mention, he had to roll on the ground and Dodge the attacks ... Obviously, the design idea of this game was still inclined towards coolbat. Many things were deliberately exaggerated in an artistic way with reality. In addition, the game¡¯s difficulty was insanely high, so Frank thought that this game would be a rtively niche game. On the other hand, Knight¡¯s glory took apletely different path. On one hand, it was very realistic. The plot, equipment, andbat styles in Knight¡¯s glory were all created by Frank and the project team after rigorous research. They were basically done to faithfully reproduce history. At the same time, although Knight¡¯s glory¡¯sbat system was quite rich, it was still based on thebat of Knights in real life. As a whole, the premise was still to find the ws of both sides. Although the boss also had a certain difficulty, as long as the yer¡¯s attributes increased, they would be able to clear it. For Frank, the main purpose of this game was to show the superiority of physical engines. It was enough as long as the yers could feel the pleasure and experience the feeling of fighting as a medieval knight. Frank believed that sometimes, it was because the game was so close to reality that the yers would feel more real in the game. Therefore, Frank thought that Knight¡¯s glory would be more popr than Dark Souls, and would be more popr in Europe and America. Many yers who had no choice but to refund the game after being tortured by Dark Souls were also looking forward to the release of Knight¡¯s glory. ording to Frank¡¯s information, Knight¡¯s glory was much simpler than Dark Souls, and they could get a more refreshingbat experience in this game. Therefore, many people were looking forward to it. As for the other video game designers, they paid attention to Knight¡¯s glory for another reason. The Pangu system and the origin system, these two physical engines created by artificial intelligence, were a test for designers. Chen Mo had already given his answer, but could he get better scores than the foreign designers? This was what everyone was looking forward to. And all of this would only be revealed after Knight¡¯s glory was officially released! Chapter 550

Chapter 550: Knight¡¯s glory is online

Trantor: 549690339

Knight¡¯s glory was officially released on September 10th. Both domestic and foreign yers had high hopes for Knight¡¯s glory. In many people¡¯s eyes, Dark Souls was good, but it was too difficult. Many people couldn¡¯t enjoy the changes brought about by artificial intelligence. In other words, he wasn¡¯t enjoying the game at all. Many people hoped that Knight¡¯s glory would not be the same as Dark Souls. At least it should be more enjoyable. It¡¯s not easy to have such a powerful physics engine. Let¡¯s have a good time killing monsters! After Knight¡¯s glory was released, many yers bought it as soon as they could. After ying the game, the yers quickly discovered some of Knight¡¯s glory¡¯s special features. To put it simply, the feel of this game was simr to Dark Souls, but the world setting, the way to y, and the actual sense of impact were different. Knight¡¯s glory was a story that happened in the Middle Ages, trying to reproduce the life and fighting style of a real Knight. In terms of background, all the costumes and rted historical background in Knight¡¯s glory had been strictly studied, but the only problem was that it looked a little old-fashioned. Although the knight¡¯s armor from the Middle Ages was also very handsome, the aesthetic standard of that era could not bepared to the current aesthetic. In the real history, some Knight armors were designed to be rtively ugly in order to take into ount their performance. Design that was too realistic also made Frankck some creativity when designing armor and weapons. Of course, this was basically a state where yers had their own preferences. Some yers liked cooler equipment styles, while others preferred more realistic weapon styles. However, the biggest difference between Knight¡¯s glory and dark Souls was thebat system of the two games. ...... The goal of Knight¡¯s glory was topletely reproduce the Knight¡¯s fighting style in medieval Europe. Itsbat system was divided into two aspects. One was the daily battle with ordinary soldiers, who were mostly wearing leather armor or chain mail. The yers who yed the role of Knights would swing their two-handed swords and cut these soldiers. The light ones would leave a bloody wound on the body, and the heavy ones would break the arms and legs or even the head. While the scene became more bloody and brutal, it also highlighted the shing effect of the big sword. The other way was to fight against an Elite Boss. In Knight¡¯s glory, due to the limitation of the background, all the bosses were actually Knights like the protagonist. They were all normal humans, but they had different weapons. The boss battle was just as exciting. It was like watching a movie. Just like the Knight duels in many medieval European movies, both sides would wave their big swords and test each other. Their big swords would collide fiercely, and both sides would try their best to deflect the enemy¡¯s big sword to the side. When one side revealed a w, the other side¡¯s greatsword would sh at his armor, causing damage. After a long battle, the oue would be decided. Both sides were wearing heavy armor, and in reality, as long as the sword didn¡¯t hit the other party¡¯s vital part, it would be difficult to kill the other party in one blow. At the same time, since Knight¡¯s glory was more realistic, the yer¡¯s strength was limited, and they could only lift two-handed swords that had existed in real life. The weight of a greatsword was strictly limited. Even if it were tond on an opponent, the damage would be very limited when the opponent was wearing heavy armor. Thisbat system gave the yers a good feeling at the beginning because it was simple and brutal enough. The difficulty of the game was very low when dealing with minions because most of them were wearing light armor, while the main character was wearing heavy armor and waving his big sword like cutting vegetables. In a battle with a boss, the yers would mainly fight with their swords. As long as one¡¯s attributes met the requirements and reached a certain strength value, they could win the battle and deal damage to the boss. Many yers loved Knight¡¯s glory after they got their hands on it. Unlike Dark Souls, they were rarely abused in the game. At the same time, some yers also started to post their opinions on the dark Souls official forum, hoping that Chen Mo could make some improvements to the game. ¡°I¡¯ve always wanted to say that Dark Souls is too difficult to make. Although this is a game made to torture people, there should at least be a difficulty option, right? Not everyone is a masochist!¡± ¡°I also think that Knight¡¯s glory is doing very well. In fact, this game isn¡¯t as good as Dark Souls in terms of physics, but its battles are much easier, so many people with bad hands can y it. Isn¡¯t that good?¡± ¡°I think Chen Mo is too conceited, he thinks that the difficult game he made is good? A down-to-earth game is the best game!¡± ¡°I think there¡¯s another key point. Both sides want to show off their physical appeal, but Knight¡¯s glory is obviously better. As you can see, the greatsword has different effects when it cuts down on cloth armor, leather armor, or chain armor enemies. It can even behead them. And when two knights fight, through special techniques such as the collision of the des and cutting the gaps in the te armor, the power of physical attraction can also be disyed. ¡± ¡°Dark Souls has all of the skills you mentioned. Different enemies have different effects. You can behead them, chop off their hands and feet, or fight with them.¡± ¡°Oh, really? I didn¡¯t notice that because I was rolling on the ground and unequipped the game not long after ... I only remember that Gundam was very perverted and it was very difficult to y ...¡± ¡°Gundam is a boss, and you want to break his limbs? Your strength and gundyr¡¯s armor have the same attributes. How could you have killed the boss from the waist up ...¡± A group of yers who preferred Knight¡¯s glory had appeared on the inte, which made many people more dissatisfied with the difficulty of Dark Souls. However, many of them were just using it as an excuse. They had suffered quite a bit in Dark Souls, so they wanted Chen Mo to lower the difficulty and make Dark Souls a hack-and-sh game. In fact, in terms of physics, the two games were almost the same. Knight¡¯s glory could do it in Dark Souls, including beheading, knife fighting, backstabbing, and so on under special circumstances. It was only because Knight¡¯s glory was easier and closer to a real battle that it was more obvious. Chapter 551

Chapter 551: Chen Mo¡¯s quick kill video

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Many yers expressed that Dark Souls was also a game to show the special effects of the Pangu system. But we didn¡¯t see much of it in the game! He had been tortured by the monsters all this time and had no time to feel it! Many yers thought about it and wondered if it was because they were ying the game in the wrong way. Some yers started to tag Chen Mo on Weibo, hoping that he would try out Dark Souls and show everyone the high end of the game. At the same time, it was also to shut the mouth of the haters and let them see how awesome the physics engine in Dark Souls was ... After what happened in oust, many people knew that Chen Mo wouldn¡¯t be tricked by his own game. If he yed as a dark soul, he might really be able to cut grass ... However, many people were interested in it. They wanted to see what it would be like to y ck soul like a game of mowing grass. Although there were some skilled yers who had alreadypleted one round of the game and could y some interesting ys, they were still far from turning Dark Souls into a mowing game. So after much thought, the yers were hoping that Chen Mo was a good idea? Not long after, Chen Mo posted on Weibo. The content was simple, a text and a short video. ¡°Many people want me to show you what¡¯s special about this game, so I¡¯ll give you a short demonstration. However, Dark Souls is a game with a lot of content, and I don¡¯t want to cause trouble for you guys too early. I hope that you can explore the game on your own, so that the game will be more interesting. ¡± ¡°My next video is a quick kill video at the highest difficulty in Dark Souls. Interested experts can try to kill other bosses quickly. ¡°In addition, this video is also to show the exquisiteness of the Pangu attraction. Everyone can study it carefully.¡± After this Weibo post was posted, it immediately caused a frenzy of reposts by yers! During this period of time, Dark Souls had gained a lot of poprity. ...... The game itself was a very hot topic and had long swept through the entire broadcasting circle, and the word ¡°suffering¡± had be one of the hottest words. A lot of people were hoping that Chen Mo would try it out himself, or show some of the more advanced ways of the game to the yers. As such, a lot of people reposted the video without even looking at it. ¡°A video of Chen Mo ying Dark Souls! I can finally see how the real big shots y this game!¡± ¡°It¡¯s a pity it¡¯s not a live broadcast! And this video seems to be very short?¡± ¡°It says here that the boss can be killed quickly. How do we do that?¡± A lot of people were quite confused. Now that everyone was in the exploration stage, they basically adopted a safe way of fighting the boss because the yers in this game died too easily. As long as they were not careful and were hit by the boss, their HP would basically be depleted, and they might even be killed directly. Most of the yers were still focused on providing support and had not thought of challenging a quick kill. The yers clicked on the video with great curiosity. At the start of the video, many people had already recognized the boss in the video. It was the nameless King! This was one of the bosses in Dark Souls that leaned towards the middle andte stages. He was not a Lord of Cinder, but his strength was stronger than many Lords of Cinder. Some people even thought that he was the most difficult boss to fight in Dark Souls. In the story, the nameless King was actually quite a powerful character. Afterbining the first and third generations of the story, most yers in Chen Mo¡¯s previous life deduced that he was the eldest son of the once glorious sun King, Gwyn. He was banished for various reasons and became a Dragon¡¯spanion. In the first stage, the nameless King would ride a huge Wyvern that was the size of a bird. yers had to defeat the Wyvern that he was riding before they could face the nameless King. Due to the difficulty of this boss being too high, many people simply skipped it in the first week and went straight to the other Lords of Cinder to clear the stage. After clearing the stage, they would return to fight the nameless King. In Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, although there were a lot of yers who used dirty tactics to defeat the boss, such as using arge shield and a crossbow, it was still very difficult to face the boss head-on. The yers were all excited to see the boss, as the nameless King was one of the most handsome bosses, and was also very strong. Many of them hoped that Chen Mo would release apletely different strategy guide for defeating the nameless King, so that the yers who were stuck on the boss for a week could use it as a reference. But when they saw the character¡¯s details, many people were shocked! ¡°F * ck! Howe Chen Mo only has a sliver of health left after the boss started?¡± The video was yed in third person, so everyone could clearly see Chen Mo¡¯s character. This was the system¡¯s own recording. The reason it was in third person was probably because Chen Mo considered the fact that the yer wouldn¡¯t be able to urately determine his actions in first person, so he changed it to third person. Through the ui, many yers could clearly see Chen Mo¡¯s character. His HP bar was down to a small amount, which meant that no matter what his attributes were, he would be dead if the boss touched him! On the screen, Chen Zhao¡¯s character held a two-handed sword, a dragon body stone, and internal potential spells. There were also a few buffs below the profile picture, but many yers couldn¡¯t tell what these buffs were at first nce. At the start of the video, the Wyvern that the nameless King was riding charged at Chen Mo, but Chen Mo didn¡¯t even try to Dodge. Instead, he charged up his sword and shed at the Wyvern¡¯s head! Under the powerful force, the huge Wyvern actually fell beside Chen Zhao! Its head happened tond on Chen Zhao¡¯s left. Chen Zhao swung his two-handed sword again and smashed it down on the Wyvern¡¯s head! Everyone could clearly see that the sword had deeply cut into the Wyvern¡¯s skull, causing arge spray of blood! Obviously, the Wyvern¡¯s skull was very hard under the Pangu system¡¯s physical control. Even such a powerful sword couldn¡¯t directly behead the Wyvern. But even so, the sword still caused irreparable fatal damage to the Wyvern¡¯s head! What was even more shocking was that the Wyvern¡¯s health bar was instantly emptied! The first sh directly reduced the Wyvern¡¯s HP by half, and the second sh¡¯s beheading effect directly emptied the Wyvern¡¯s remaining HP, killing it with two shes! Chapter 552

Chapter 552: Teacher, I can¡¯t learn it!

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Many yers were shocked. Anyone who had fought the nameless King would know that the Wyvern had a lot of health. Even if it was just the head, it would take at least a few rounds of attacks to get the boss into the second stage. But Chen Mo had only used a two-handed greatsword and got out of the second stage in just a few seconds! However, what was even more shocking was yet toe. After entering the second stage, the nameless King would personally fight the yers. As the nameless King was the eldest son of Sun King Gwyn, he also had the power of Thunder. His spear could draw down lightning from the sky and strike yers with it. Many yers would deliberately change into their own set of clothes with the highest lightning resistance and raise their Dragonyer shields when fighting the nameless King. This was to prevent the boss¡¯s lightning damage from directly killing them. However, with Chen Mo¡¯s current health, the nameless King would be able to kill him with a single touch, let alone normal lightning damage! In the face of such a high HP, it was meaningless to wear anything. It was even better to be naked. That way, the weight would be lighter, and the body would be more flexible ... A lot of people were worried, but they all knew that this wasn¡¯t a livestream. Since Chen Mo had already released the video, there was no risk of the ident happening. However, they were all very suspicious. How could Chen Zhao kill a stage two Nameless King so quickly with only a sliver of health? The video continued. The nameless King charged at Chen Zhao with the lightning Spear in his hand! Many yers had been hit by this skill before. Generally speaking, when a boss attacked, it was in a super armor state. yers ¡®attacks could not hit it in a short time. Therefore, many yers chose to roll to avoid it and wait for the boss to finish his set of skills before they found an opportunity to attack. However, Chen Mo had no intention of dodging. The weapon in his hand had changed to the exiles ¡®greatsword, and he charged at the boss, swinging his greatsword at the boss! The yers were all shocked. Wasn¡¯t this courting death? yers who had yed Dark Souls knew that it was only meaningful to fight a boss when the boss only had one or two hits left, because the health and attack power of the boss and yers were not on the same level. ...... The boss was still at full health, while Chen Mo only had a fraction of it left. The result of this exchange would definitely be Chen Mo being instakilled! However, what happened in the video was beyond everyone¡¯s expectations. It could even be described as unbelievable. Chen Zhao quickly ran forward. He rolled forward the moment the lightning Spear reached him and dodged it. It was still normal here, but the nameless king¡¯s spear attack was a series of attacks. It would stab many times. Chen Zhao didn¡¯t roll at all. Instead, he swung his exiles and fought with the nameless King! One de! Two des! Three des! Chen Mo¡¯s attack frequency was surprisingly consistent with the boss ¡®. Every time, Chen Mo would hit the boss first, and then the boss would stab him with its spear. Under these circumstances, the boss wouldn¡¯t be able to hit hit hit anything, but Chen Mo¡¯s attacks were still quite powerful. Each of his attacks took away a quarter of the boss¡¯s health. On the fourth sh, before the nameless king¡¯s spear could reach him, Chen Zhao¡¯s exiles sword had already cut him, emptying his health bar! The nameless King that had tortured countless Dark Souls yers to death had fallen just like that! The yers were all shocked. They couldn¡¯t see clearly what had happened in those few seconds. They could only turn around and watch it a second time, a third time, and even a fourth time! Including the Dragon, Chen Zhao had only shed the nameless King six times. Fei Long had shed twice, while the nameless King had shed four times. The most shocking thing wasn¡¯t Chen Zhao¡¯s damage, but why he didn¡¯t die? Chen Mo had rolled away to avoid the first shot, but he was standing right in front of the nameless King for the next three shots! Everyone knew that in Dark Souls, the front of a monster was the most dangerous position, as many of the monster¡¯s skills could interrupt the yer¡¯s damage output. However, Chen Mo was fighting the boss from the front and didn¡¯t take any damage at all! The video immediately caused a stir among the dark Souls yers, and even many yers who didn¡¯t y Dark Souls on the inte came to watch it with interest. Although these people didn¡¯t y Dark Souls, they knew the difficulty of the game. They were used to seeing the host being tortured in the game. Now that they saw such a quick kill video, they were all discussing it enthusiastically, whether they knew it or not. ¡°Oh my God, the entire boss was killed with six strikes, and the video was only 20 seconds? How did he do that?¡± ¡°F * ck, I thought Chen Mo said he¡¯d kill the boss in one minute, but it only took 20 seconds? And there¡¯s also time for the boss to change stages and run away!¡± ¡°Chen Mo¡¯s cheating! He¡¯s killing people in seconds!¡± ¡°Upstairs, are you dreaming? How could Chen Mo¡¯s own video be a public hack? If he wants us to study it, it must mean that this is something that can be done normally!¡± ¡°Don¡¯t tell me he got this by using his superior equipment? I¡¯ve never heard of this kind of damage before. Even if all my equipment is maxed out, it shouldn¡¯t be this overpowered, right?¡± ¡°Previous post, it¡¯s very hard to beat the game with equipment. It¡¯d be fine in the first round, but Chen Mo said it¡¯s the maximum difficulty. Chen Mo also mentioned that there was a limit to the amount of resources you could get every week, and you wouldn¡¯t be able to get more resources than you were supposed to. In other words, he must have used his resources to the extreme to achieve this effect. ¡± ¡°Let¡¯s not talk about the equipment. Tell me, how did he manage to make those three shes? Why didn¡¯t the boss deal any damage?¡± This short 20-second video caused a heated discussion among the yers. At first, many people had said that they would learn how to fight Nameless King through this video. But after watching it, they said that they would not learn anything! Teacher, I can¡¯t learn it at all! Many Dark Souls loyal yers started to analyze the video, trying to figure out what special equipment Chen Mo was using. It was obvious that Chen Mo was wearing the red tears ring. The ring¡¯s effect was to increase the damage dealt when the yer¡¯s HP was low. As such, Chen Mo purposely lowered his HP to a very low level before fighting the boss, in order to make good use of the ring¡¯s effect and increase his damage. Other than that, Chen Zhao must have used some other methods to increase his damage, including some special weapon techniques, dragon body stones, internal potential, and some targeted enchantments. Chapter 553

Chapter 553: So Chen Mo didn¡¯t lie

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With so manyplicated damage-increasing effects stacked together, Chen Mo¡¯s attack had reached a very high level. With the exiles ¡®high damage and the beheading effect, many experts felt that it wasn¡¯t impossible to achieve such an effect. However, it was still the same sentence. He looked handsome, but he could not learn it! This was because such a quick kill required very exquisite control. A single mistake could lead to an instant kill! What was even more confusing was how Chen Mo managed to sh the boss four times without being touched. Finally, a yer came to a conclusion after watching the video many times and personally testing it with the exiles ¡®greatsword countless times. ¡°Chen Zhao didn¡¯t lock his health. The reason he wasn¡¯t hit by the nameless king¡¯s spear was because he lowered his body when he swung. The spear passed over his body and didn¡¯t hit him.¡± After hearing this conclusion, all the onlookers were stunned. Not only that, but the yer who had discovered this secret said that there were more hidden secrets. After he saw the video, he did the same thing. He used the exiles ¡®greatsword to challenge the nameless boss for a week. He wanted to replicate this. However, he kept failing and was hit by the boss every time! Later on, he downloaded the video and looked at it frame by frame. In the end, he finally found two key points of this strategy. In Dark Souls, yers would lower their bodies when they wielded heavy weapons. A tall boss like the nameless boss would usually attack the yer¡¯s upper body or head. Therefore, yers could lower their bodies when the boss attacked and avoid the boss¡¯s attack. However, the reason why this student couldn¡¯t replicate it perfectly was because when the exiles charged up their weapons to attack, they could lower their bodies, but the charging time of the exiles ¡®weapons couldn¡¯t be perfectly synchronized with the boss¡¯s attack frequency. In other words, if the spear was fully charged, the boss¡¯s spear would still hit the yers. ...... The reason why Chen Mo was able to do this was because he used an iplete charging method, which allowed him to perfectly synchronize with the boss¡¯s attack frequency! Roll,plete second charge, iplete first charge,plete second charge,plete first charge. After these four shes, the yer¡¯s movements were perfectly synchronized with the boss¡¯s attack movements, sessfully dodging the boss¡¯s four attacks, and then ending the boss with his four high-damage shes. Moreover, since the yers didn¡¯t have enough energy, Chen Mo must have used some special methods, such as wearing equipment that increased energy. But no matter what, the enthusiastic yer proved that Chen Mo¡¯s actions could indeed be replicated, and it was a method that the game allowed! Before this, many people had doubted that Dark Souls didn¡¯t demonstrate the power of the Pangu system well, but after watching this video, these voices disappeared. It wasn¡¯t that Dark Souls didn¡¯t show it, but that these yers were too weak. They hadn¡¯t even reached this level yet! In vr games, even if artificial intelligence was used to create a physical engine that was very close to reality, the yers still couldn¡¯t do as they pleased in the game. At the end of the day, it was all due to technical reasons. The current technology only allowed yers to carry out some more basic movements consciously and issue some simpler directionmands. It could not fully satisfy some of the yers ¡®needs, such as lowering their heads and bending down while attacking the boss. Such operations were basically impossible. It was the same for Knight¡¯s glory. Although the game simted a real Knight Battle, the yers could only perform some of the actions allowed in the game, such as swinging the sword to the left or right, quick sideways movements, and so on. What Chen Mo was showing was another application of the physical system. On the one hand, it was possible to use special weaponbat techniques to allow the character to perform specific actions. When the character performed these actions, the character could even avoid the boss¡¯s normal attacks! The other was the physical effect of hitting arge target. In the video, Chen Mo used a huge two-handed sword to stop the chariot. Under the effect of the Pangu engine, the yers could clearly see that the Dragon collided with Chen Mo¡¯s sword, and the attack even forced Chen Mo to retreat a distance. However, at the same time, the great force added to the sword also caused great damage to the Wyvern. The lower half of the Wyvern¡¯s body was still flying forward, but because its head hit Chen Zhao¡¯s sword, it could only curl up in pain. It then fell and rolled to the side, temporarily unconscious. Chen Zhao followed up with another sh, ruthlessly cutting into the Wyvern¡¯s head. The audience could even see the feeling of the sword cutting into the Wyvern¡¯s skull! It could be said that the Pangu system¡¯s physical attribute was fully demonstrated in this boss battle. And this kind of expressiveness was something that Knight¡¯s glory, which was close to reality, could notpare to! Although Knight¡¯s glory was very realistic, it was a battle between Knights. The difference in strength between humans was not that big, so there would not be a situation where one¡¯s strength waspletely overpowered. However, the battle Chen Mo was showing was a battle between a human and a Dragon, a battle between a human and a God, so the whole scene was even more impactful! Moreover, this video also had another purpose, which was to show everyone the infinite possibilities in Dark Souls. Many people thought that Dark Souls was a game where monsters tortured yers. The yers could only carefully avoid every attack of the boss and then slowly grind the boss to death. However, after watching Chen Mo¡¯s quick kill video, many people understood that the maximumbat power of dark Souls ¡®yers was very high. If he could kill the nameless King with just six strikes, then wouldn¡¯t the other bosses be even faster? After realizing this, many yers suddenly burst into an unprecedented enthusiasm, especially the elite yers of Dark Souls. This video was like a shot in the arm for them. Obviously, the yers had not explored Dark Souls yet. The game still had countless meanings for the yers to explore, and there were still endless possibilities in thebat system. Chen Mo wasn¡¯t lying that this game could be yed like a hack-and-sh game ... Chapter 554

Chapter 554: High score for Dark Souls

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After Knight¡¯s glory was released, more and more yerspared it with Dark Souls. In the beginning, Knight¡¯s glory had done well in all aspects, whether it was sales or feedback from yers. Many people were sighing with emotion. If Dark Souls could lower the difficulty, it should be able topete with Knight¡¯s glory. But now, because of the difficulty, many people were discouraged from ying Dark Souls. On the inte, although Dark Souls was also very popr, people always felt that it was not as popr as Knight¡¯s glory. A lot of people werementing why Chen Mo had to make it so difficult. He clearly had the strength to fight head-on, but he was ying himself to death. However, in the week after Knight¡¯s glory was released, this trend gradually reversed. First, Knight¡¯s glory¡¯s rating began to drop slowly. From the initial 8 points, it slowly dropped to 7.5. As more and more game reviews were released, many yers started to make rational judgments about Knight¡¯s glory. As the yers yed the game longer and longer, they began to discover some problems with the game. The biggest problem was that the content of the game itself was very boring. Whether it was thebat system or the entire world background, although it was done with great effort, it always felt that there was a little bit less mystery. It gave the yers the feeling that they were watching a documentary instead of going on a thrilling adventure. However, the biggest problem wasn¡¯t that. It was the fun of the game itself. For many yers, they had experienced both Knight¡¯s glory and dark Souls. When he first started ying Knight¡¯s glory, he felt that it was very cool to cut vegetables in the game, and there was no resistance to the plot. However, as he yed for a long time, he soon encountered a very critical problem, which was that there were no strong challenges in the game. Due to the game¡¯sbat mechanism, when yers wore heavy armor and held big swords, they had very limited battle strategies to choose from when they encountered a boss that was also a Knight. They could only increase their attributes and fight with the boss, avoid the boss¡¯s attacks by moving around, and then attack the boss¡¯s ws. ...... In Knight¡¯s glory, in order to increase the difficulty of the bosses in the middle andte stages, Frank used a numerical increase in difficulty design. Many bosses heldrge shields and had very low attack desire. Coupled with their high HP, the yers ¡®battle time with the bosses was helplessly extended to nearly 20 minutes. If some Western fantasy yers continued to y, the time might even be extended ... Of course, this was also a helpless move, because Knight¡¯s glory¡¯sbat mechanism itself was like this. In order to give the yers some challenge and extend the game time, they could only make the difficulty for the yers by using this kind of healing method. At the same time, because the character controlled by the yer couldn¡¯t roll, the fighting style was very simple. Many yers who were used to ying Dark Souls would find it fun to cut grass in Knight¡¯s glory, but they would soon find it boring. As a result, Knight¡¯s glory¡¯s rating began to drop slowly, which meant that the yers ¡®expectations for it were gradually bing more rational. On the other hand, Dark Souls¡¯ rating had been maintained at a high score of nearly nine points! Even if some yers gave low ratings because of the abuse, it still didn¡¯t affect the position of the game in the hearts of most yers. For yers, the best way to evaluate a game was time. Some games might seem fun at the start, but as time passed, theck of follow-up y and shallow game content would affect the yers ¡®evaluation of the game. As for other games, although there were all sorts of dissuasions at the beginning, the yers would always discover the novelty of the game as they continued to explore, and the oue of the two games was self-evident. Although Chen Mo¡¯s video was only 20 seconds long, it caused a huge stir among the yers, causing them to explore the game¡¯s diverse gamey. The yers quickly realized that the game¡¯s implications were much deeper than what they understood! First, in terms ofbat system, yers found that the upper limit of thebat system was very high. Most of the weapons in the game had their own uses. They could choose specific weapons for specific bosses, which would yield twice the result with half the effort. Moreover, its powerfulbat system was also disyed in the aspect of humanbat. To a true expert, killing monsters wasn¡¯t a big deal. As long as they put in enough time and effort, the majority of yers could do so. On the other hand, a true expert could only disy the strength of their skills in the arena. There was an online system in Dark Souls, and yers could join many different forces for PvP (or pppppppppppppvp). Simply put, yers could use items to invade other yers, or they could act as police to help the invaded yers. Of course, Dark Souls was a single yer game because its main fun was to explore the world and challenge levels and monsters. If yers formed parties to challenge bosses and small monsters, then the core fun of the game would be seriously destroyed. Just like in Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, the newbies had toplete the game on their own before the experienced yers would give their souls and equipment to the newbies. This was to allow the newbies to enjoy the game in the face of adversity, and not let the experience shrink because of the help of others. As such, Chen Mo didn¡¯t make too many changes to the inte connection, only making some simple changes like in his previous life. He didn¡¯t have the intention of turning Dark Souls into arge multiyer game. The real fun of PVP in this game was the solo battles. Many arena fanatics realized that under thebat system of Dark Souls, fighting other yers was much more interesting than fighting monsters! At the same time, Chen Mo also made some changes to the matching mechanism. When yers engaged in pvp battles, the total attribute points, weapon enhancement level, and other basic attributes of both sides would be automatically bnced to the same level by the system to ensure the fairness of the game. In Chen Zhao¡¯s previous life, there was something called the high wall Lord of Cinder in Dark Souls. It also meant that some veteran yers would use special means to increase theirbat power, and then go to the High Wall of Lothric to invade the newbie yers who had just started the game, killing them for fun. As the attributes of these old yers wereparable to bosses, they were jokingly called ¡°Lords of Cinder of high walls¡±. Even though this was allowed in the game in his previous life, Chen Mo felt that it waspletely different from what the game designers had in mind. Chen Mo wanted to give all the yers who loved ck souls an equalpetitive environment, so he made this change. Everyone would rely on their skills. Chapter 555 - "Soul Study"

Chapter 555: ¡°Soul Study¡±

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The hardcore yers of Dark Souls were very scary. Soon, more and more quick kill videos appeared. Most of the video¡¯s first step was to recreate the effect of Chen Mo¡¯s quick kill of the nameless King. Even though very few had seeded, this Short Video had be a textbook example for the yers. Another intuitive feeling for the yers was the world and plot of the game. These yers soon explored every corner of Dark Souls and tried to dig out the story behind every npc. To everyone¡¯s surprise, the game had many endings, and every npc had a corresponding background and ending! What the yers talked about the most was the battle between the true and false endings. Among the four endings, other than the fire fight ending, the other three were very popr. The first one was the normal fire-passing ending, where the yerpleted his own destiny and continued the initial me. This was also the ending that most yers hade up with after one game. Some yers jokingly called the second ending the ¡°two-night and two-flight ending.¡± The yer and the Firekeeper discovered the secret hidden behind the fire, so the yer and the Firekeeper chose to put out the fire, and the world fell into darkness. Thest ending was the King of Darkness ending, which was also the ending discovered by the yer who had posted the hot thread on the forum. After saving the Wanderer of Rondor, he would draw out the dark energy hidden in the yer¡¯s body. In the end, the yer would gather eight rings of darkness and devour the mes to be the King of Darkness in the New World. The yers were in a heated debate on the forum about which was the real ending. The yers who supported the fire-spreading ending said that it was the world¡¯s long-cherished wish from the very beginning. Moreover, after the fire was extinguished, the world would fall into eternal night, and there would be wandering ghosts everywhere. There was no light in such a world, so how could it be the true ending? Obviously, he should pass the mes down. The yers who supported the King of Darkness ending said that from all the signs, it was very likely that passing on fire was a lie. The tragic experience of the Lords of Cinder had already proved this. Moreover, the game was called Dark Souls, which hinted that darkness was the only home. boxn ovel. c0m As for the yers who chose the ¡°two-night ending¡±, they said that they didn¡¯t care if they passed fire or not, they only wanted the fire-resistant girl! In order to prove which ending was the best, the yers began to search for clues left behind by Chen Mo, including Side Story analysis, location verification, item descriptions, and so on. Some yers even jokingly called it ¡°Soul Study,¡± a study of Dark Souls. The world of Dark Souls was hidden in arge number of item descriptions, and this world was very fragmented. yers needed to have a very strong imagination to make a rtively reliable story. Moreover, Dark Souls 1 didn¡¯t exist in the parallel world, so some of the yers ¡®questions were destined to remain unanswered. If the plot of Dark Souls 1 and Dark Souls 3 werebined, most yers would think that the dark ending and the end of fire-passing were the real ending of the game. However, since there was no story about Dark Souls 1, the yers in this world had doubts about this. At the same time, with the yers ¡®constant digging, both the background story of the supporting characters and the entire world view of the game had be more developed. The yers then realized that after one round of the whole plot of Dark Souls, the content that was revealed was only the tip of the iceberg! This was because without a strategy, most yers were destined to miss arge number of side missions. In Dark Souls, there were many scary settings that made the yers shiver. For example, what was the identity of the main character? In the beginning of the movie, the protagonist was said to be an unkindled ashes, an undead who could not be a servant. Then what kind of existence was the protagonist before he was resurrected? Also, after defeating the monster King, yers would find a fireless sacrificial ground in Lothric city. Theyout of the meless sacrificial grounds was the same as Firelink sacrificial grounds, but it was a world ofplete darkness, a world where the fire was extinguished. From all the signs, Dark Souls was a world with distorted time and space. Even if yers wanted to find other yers, they had to invade or summon talismans. Then, what was the rtionship between the fireless sacrificial grounds and hero Gundar and the yers ¡®Firelink sacrificial grounds? Some people found out that after defeating Gundar the hero in the fireless sacrificial grounds, they would receive a broken spiral sword. When the yers first teleported from the Firelink sacrificial grounds to Lothric city, the other half of the spiral sword was behind them. At the same time, the game¡¯s name was dark Souls. What did Dark Souls represent? Some said that it represented humanity, while others said that it represented the power of the abyss. However, why would a game with fire-passing as its main background be named Dark Souls? The Firekeeper, the saintess, the tsundere Knight Hugo, the thief, Siris, Anri, Knight onion, brother gray heart, and many other supporting characters in Dark Souls actually had their own stories and endings, but most of them had tragic endings. No matter how hard the yers tried, they couldn¡¯t arrange a better ending for them, because there was no such thing as a good ending in the game. Just like the saintess, she had the mission of bing the fire Ryer. If she came into contact with the dark Scriptures, she would lose her mind and eventually be eroded by the darkness, dying at the hands of yers. However, if she did not learn the dark Scriptures and eventually became a fire-resistant woman, she would be a machine that only knew how to help yers level up, waiting for death in the tower full of fire-resistant women¡¯s corpses. And the Knight Igor, who was guarding her, would alsomit suicide in the dungeon where the saintess was first imprisoned. The more plots the yers discovered in the game, the more they realized that this was a game that made people despair, not only in terms of the difficulty of the game, but also the background story of the game! This world was even darker than Diablo, and the yers couldn¡¯t change anything. The uniquebat system, level design, and story background made Dark Souls a unique game. In the beginning, the yersbeled it as ¡°difficult¡± and ¡°masochistic.¡± However, as the yers ¡®understanding of the game deepened, more and more yers began to praise Dark Souls! Chapter 556

Chapter 556: Thunderbolt entertainment: dark god Factory!

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Not long after dark Souls and Knight¡¯s glory were released, major domestic and international video game media released their reviews of the games. To everyone¡¯s surprise, even in Europe and the United States, Dark Souls was a one-sided sess! The Western video game media praised Dark Souls even more than the domestic media, which made many yers wonder how much money Chen Mo had given them. Some European and American video game media even gave Dark Souls near full marks, especially in terms ofbat system, level design, world design, and so on. Some media even called Dark Souls the ¡°unique cold weaponbat design masterpiece¡±, and even called Thunderbolt entertainment the ¡°dark god Factory¡±! As more and more game reviews were released, yers were surprised to find that even in Europe and the United States, Knight¡¯s glory waspletely crushed by Dark Souls. Whether it was professional reviews, yer ratings, or sales, Dark Souls hadpletely surpassed Knight¡¯s glory, and it was still showing a rising trend! As more and more professional reviews were released, many yers began to understand where Dark Souls ¡®unique charm came from. It had to be said that ordinary yers paid more attention to the experience and feelings they gained in the game, while professional media would analyze the design of a game more urately. Such reviews often paid more attention to the artistic quality and design techniques of the game. After the video game media analyzed Dark Souls, they summarized the advantages of the game into three aspects. The first was the richbat system. There were many kinds of cold weapons in Dark Souls, many of which didn¡¯t exist in real life. Moreover, these cold weapons had their own uses. yers could use daggers, swords, and other weapons for speed and agility. They could also use greatswords and warhammers for damage. However, different weapons had different characteristics. No matter what weapon was used, there would be corresponding weaknesses, and these weaknesses had to bepensated for by good operation of the yer. This was a stark contrast to Knight¡¯s glory. Although Knight¡¯s glory was born out of real-lifebat, itsbat methods were very simple. Most of the time, it tested the yer¡¯s reaction speed and character attributes. However, in Dark Souls, there were manybat techniques. yers could even predict the opponent¡¯s attack in advance and interrupt it. At the same time, they could use special mechanisms such as shield reflect, roll, backstab, and execution. The entirebat system was very rich. The second point was the design of the levels. In this world, the mainstream level design was still based on numerical values, which meant that the monsters became stronger and stronger mainly because their attributes were getting higher and higher. ...... Many gamepanies were even considering using various algorithms to make many monsters spawn randomly. At the same time, they would give these monsters the corresponding attributes based on the yers ¡®level progress, creating a sense of randomness for the yers. However, in this mode, the yers ¡®experience of clearing the stage would be very boring. As long as the yers¡¯ attributes could crush the monsters ¡®attributes, it would be a piece of cake for them. If the yer¡¯s attributes were not up to standard, then the battle would be very painful. Even if the yer¡¯s skills were good, it would be difficult to pass. However, Dark Souls chose another way, which was to carefully n each monster in the level. Although the monsters would randomly spawn in a small area, the overall configuration would not change. In addition to the different characteristics of the monsters and their well-designed conspiracies, when the yers challenged a certain level, it was equivalent to solving a puzzle. Should he pull them out and fight them one by one? Or was it a terrain kill through a specific method? Or should he put on a specific piece of equipment and rush over? Different yers had different methods, but not all methods were suitable. yers had to repeatedly try to find the best solution to this level. At the same time, the design of all monsters being resurrected after using the bonfire, although it greatly increased the difficulty of the game, it also ensured thepleteness of the level design to the greatest extent. If the monsters didn¡¯t resurrect, the yers only had to slowly grind them one by one, and one day they would clear the game. However, this was obviously not the original intention of Dark Souls. Dark Souls hoped that yers could solve the puzzle perfectly and move from one bonfire to another with limited HP and potions. Although this kind of level design was very difficult and even despairing for many people, it ensured that the level experience in Dark Souls was always maintained at a high level without any discount. Moreover, the reason why Dark Souls was so popr was not because it was difficult, but because it was difficult for a reason. The meaning of this game was not in the suffering itself, but the sense of aplishment that came with the suffering. In other games, the yer¡¯s character grew, but in Dark Souls, the yer himself grew. In the beginning, yers had to drink elemental bottles to deal with a skeleton, butter on, they could parkour all the way to the boss room and kill the boss quickly. From newbies to veterans, the yers ¡®characters might not have be much stronger, but the yers themselves had be stronger. The charm of Dark Souls ¡®level design was that it did not deliberately make things difficult for the yers. Instead, it guided the yers through failure after failure, allowing them to try different methods and finally find the most suitable way to clear the level. At the same time, Dark Souls brought the charm of exploration to the extreme. Although it wasn¡¯t an open world game, Dark Souls allowed yers to explore a variety of routes. Different areas had different difficulties. Dark Souls did not force yers to follow a certain path. If some big shots killed the olddy and defeated the dancer after defeating the second boss, they would enter a high-level area like roserick city. At the same time, there were arge number of hidden items at the corners of the map, which hid the unknown history of Dark Souls. Through the brief description of the item, the yer could imagine the story behind the item and the world background of Dark Souls. The third point was the unique characteristics of the game. Although many people already had a certain understanding of Diablo since the early days of Diablo, it was clear that the release of Dark Souls had pushed the concept of Diablo to another level! Chapter 557

Chapter 557: A w in the plot?

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Many peoplemented that after Diablo, although manypanies followed suit and released Diablo games, none of them could reach the level of Diablo. It wasn¡¯t just about the game¡¯s difficulty, plot design, character design, and so on. The most important point was that these games didn¡¯t create a dark atmosphere. In some games, the yers were disgusted by therge number of corpses and the dark environment. However, when the yers yed, they did not feel any despair at all, because the characters in the game were just NPCs, not alive enough. After dark Souls was released, the yers who liked Diablo games eximed that it was a godly piece of work! This was because Dark Souls had created such a desperate world. In the world of Dark Souls, fire itself was an illusory thing. Bones seemed fragile and warm, like a me that was constantly swaying and could be extinguished at any time. ¡°Dark Souls¡± created a world of despair, depression, and suffering. It seemed that no one had a good ending here. The undead had be wandering ghosts with the loss of humanity,pletely forgetting their past. The yers followed the protagonist¡¯s point of view and saw too many tragedies in the constant struggle. These tragedies were so overwhelming that they couldn¡¯t breathe. However, there was a lot of warmth in Dark Souls. Although most of the supporting characters ended up dead, the yers had also witnessed their stories. The deserter of the Fand undead Legion, brother grey heart, finally gave up his shield and returned to the Fand fortress. He picked up the big sword in his hand and reignited his courage to fight. Together with the protagonist, Andrew defeated the Devourer Aldrich and gave his sword to the protagonist. After that, she foresaw her fate of turning into a living corpse. She equipped herself with a Broken Sword and quietly waited for the main character to arrive at the ashes Lake. Brother onion finally defeated the giant yum and fulfilled his promise. After drinking to his heart¡¯s content with the protagonist and raising his ss to praise the sun, he chose to understand his remaining life and left the storm controller and full body armor to the protagonist. In this world of despair, in the tragic fate of everyone dying and turning into zombies, the brilliance of humanity burst forth, making people feel that there was still warmth in this world. Many video game media outlets were also wondering why Chen Mo was so insistent on not lowering the game¡¯s difficulty. ...... The final conclusion was that only such a difficulty level could make this game an eternal ssic that yers would remember. Imagine if the yers mowed their way through Lothric¡¯s high wall, there wouldn¡¯t be much difference between an expert and a newbie. How would they be able to showcase the intricacies of the level design? The yers would not remember the exquisite designs of the levels, nor would they have a fresh memory of the boss battle. When they entered a new map, they would not feel like they were taking risks at all. Only a journey where one could die at any time could be considered an adventure. Cutting grass along the way could only be considered a tour. It was because of the high difficulty of Dark Souls that the yers had a deep impression of the game. At the same time, it was highlypatible with the spiritual core of Dark Souls. With all these factorsbined, these professional game review media found that Dark Souls was perfect in all aspects after careful review. Although it was extremely difficult to get started with, it was like an exquisite piece of art, surpassing most of the games of the same type in the same period! Thebat system of Dark Souls was even more amazing. It would have an immeasurable and profound impact on thebat system of simr games in the future! The well-known foreign video game media TGNmented on Dark Souls: ¡°This is a Diablo masterpiece from Thunderbolt entertainment. It¡¯s enough to make the entire world¡¯s video game media go crazy over it. You could even say that it¡¯s its own style to a certain extent, because its style is so unique,pletely different from any other game you¡¯ve seen before!¡± ¡°Maybe there will be a lot of ¡®SOUL LIKE¡¯ games in the future, and ¡®soulbat¡¯ is very likely to be a proper term!¡± ¡°Dark Souls describes a world burning in the fire of purgatory. It¡¯s a fierce and ruthless beast that will knock you down again and again. However, this world hides countless curious secrets that every yer can¡¯t help but return here, eager to find the thrill of oveing difficulties andpleting challenges!¡± ¡°The epic, heart-wrenching challenge, and rich background story made Dark Souls the most thrilling adventure!¡± ¡°The scenery of the kingdom of Lothric and its surroundings is visually impactful. It¡¯s an unprecedented exquisite design. Every scene in the game is unique, and the background that the yers are seeing is not a picture, but a ce that the yers will be going to in the future!¡± ¡°The Phantom wall in the game is such a love-and-hate design that some yers with OCD have to go up and sh at suspicious bricks and dents to see if there are hidden doors.¡± ¡°There are a lot of NPC storylines in the game, but there is no clear mission guidance at all. yers need to solve the mystery through their own adventures and long journeys. Some characters might die, and it¡¯s irreversible, but these NPCs will also leave behind interesting legacies. This is a very interesting setting in itself. ¡± ¡°Thebat system of Dark Souls is perfect. Abandoning a shield and dual-wielding a weapon is no longer a willful and cool choice, but a real reward. In many special boss battles, yers holding two weapons might even be a better way to fight than holding a shield. ¡± ¡°yers can equip any weapon on their left or right hand. They can even cosy as specific bosses with armor and weapons. They can even use the boss¡¯s signature attack moves. For example, yers can do the same thing with the ¡®Farron¡¯s breakdance team¡¯ that many yers jokingly call.¡± ¡°Judging from the plot, the author highly suspects that Dark Souls is nearing its end, and the game designer, Silent, has not revealed any ns to develop a sequel. ¡°Although this game is worthy of the Super high rating of 9.5, I have to say that the iplete plot is always a w. Some of the events of the ancient times are vague, and it is difficult to reproduce the original appearance of that period of history even through the game items.¡± ¡°I don¡¯t know if the designer did it on purpose or not, but all Dark Souls fans are looking forward to the designer releasing an official setting collection or doujin novel about the history of the ancient times so that everyone can better understand the game¡¯s past and present lives. Chapter 558

Chapter 558: The interview across the ocean

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On this day, Chen Mo¡¯s Experience Store had two special customers. A blonde foreign girl was in front of the camera and said in English,¡±¡±Hello, everyone. I¡¯m Denise, a reporter from tgnn. I believe that many of our viewers are wondering where I am. That¡¯s right, we¡¯ve crossed the ocean to the distant Eastern country, and we¡¯vee here for a pilgrimage. ¡± ¡°Of course, this term might be a little weird, but as long as you see the front door of this Experience Store, you should know what I mean by ¡®pilgrimage¡¯, right?¡± ¡°That¡¯s right, this is thepany that developed Dark Souls, Thunderbolt entertainment. I¡¯m sure many of you have the same question as me-the experience store is only this big?¡± ¡°At first, I had the same question. Compared to other well-knownpanies like GA, this Experience Store was way too small. It was hard to imagine how many R & D personnel this Chinesepany had.¡± ¡°But this only piqued my curiosity. I want to see who the designer of Dark Souls is. Alright, then please follow me to visit the designer of Dark Souls, sileng. ¡± Said Denise as she walked toward the experience store. She was followed by a staff member with a camera on his shoulder. He even took a few shots of the exterior of the experience store, such as the eye-catching statue of Arthas. As she walked into the experience store, she did not forget to introduce the ce to the camera. ¡°As you can see, this Experience Store isn¡¯t that big, but the decorations are great. We can also see many familiar elements, like Warcraft, Diablo, Minecraft, and so on. ¡± ¡°Other than that, the popr League of Legends on the PC is also a product of Thunderbolt entertainment. Yes, perhaps many yers didn¡¯t notice? Dark Souls and League of Legends were made by the same gamepany. ¡± ¡°Also, there are a few games that most of the audience have never seen before. I¡¯ve checked, and Thunderbolt entertainment hasn¡¯t released any overseas versions of these games.¡± ¡°I have to say, after doing some research, I realized that Thunderbolt Entertainment¡¯s local reputation in China far exceeds the International market. In China, many people even think that Thunderbolt entertainment is the best gamepany in terms of research and development,¡± ...... ¡°On the other hand, slime is also very popr among the yers. It can be said to be one of the most popr designers in China.¡± ¡°Of course, I know that many viewers, like me, onlypletely understood and liked this Chinesepany after dark Souls. There must be many yers who wanted to see what kind of person the designer of Dark Souls was. Then, please follow me into Thunderbolt entertainment. ¡± Denise said as she walked in. Obviously, the two foreigners ¡®faces had attracted the attention of many yers in the experience store. The man carrying the camera behind them was too conspicuous and couldn¡¯t be kept a low profile. However, the yers in the experience store only nodded politely at Denise and didn¡¯t try to strike up a conversation with her. ¡°Hello,¡± su Jinyu greeted.¡±Is this Denise?¡± Denise nodded and said in Chinese,¡±¡±Yes. May I know how to address you?¡± ¡°I¡¯m su Jinyu,¡±su Jinyu said. The manager is on the fourth floor. Do you guys want to meet the manager and start the interview or walk around the experience store first?¡± ¡°I¡¯d like to take some shots in the experience store. Thank you for your hard work. ¡± Said Denise. ¡°Sure,¡± su Jinyu nodded.¡±No problem.¡± Su Jinyu was a little surprised, because Denise¡¯s Chinese was very good. Although she still had a slight ent, it was clear that she had no problemmunicating with her. What su Jinyu didn¡¯t know was that tgnn had originally wanted to invite Chen Mo to America, but Chen Mo rejected them without even thinking. The reason was simple. Chen Zhao didn¡¯t want to go so far for an interview, and he wasn¡¯t interested in the foreign culture ... Therefore, tgnn had a reportere all the way to China for this talk show. In order to reducemunication barriers between the two sides, they even arranged for a reporter who was fluent in Chinese. After all, they didn¡¯t know how good Chen Mo¡¯s English was. On the other hand, Denise was very happy because she was a loyal Dark Souls yer. To have the opportunity toe to Thunderbolt entertainment and meet the designer of Dark Souls in person was like a vacation for her. Under su Jinyu¡¯s lead, Denise and the cameraman started to look around the experience store. She was clearly very interested in the entire Experience Store, even taking pictures of some of the smaller figurines, statues, and murals. ¡°Speaking of Warcraft, it¡¯s a very sessful RTS game with a very sessful world setting, but why didn¡¯t it have a sequel?¡± ¡°Ahem ...¡± Su Jinyu coughed dryly.¡±Actually, I wanted to ask the same question as you ... You¡¯d better ask the manager yourself when you see him.¡± After walking around the experience store and randomly interviewing a few yers, Denise and su Jinyu arrived on the fourth floor. Chen Mo was still working on something in front of hisputer when he saw su Jinyu walking over with Denise. ¡°Hello,¡± he said. Chen Mo reached out his hand. Denise sized Chen Zhao up curiously and was a little surprised.¡±¡±Is this the designer of Dark Souls? He¡¯s much younger than I imagined!¡± From the outside, Chen Zhao looked very energetic. He looked like he was only 25 or 26 years old. Of course, his actual age was even older than that. ¡°Hello, I¡¯m Denise, a reporter from tgnn.¡± The two had already talked over the phone, and Chen Mo had agreed to the interview. After a few polite words, they went straight to the point. They went to a reception room on the fourth floor and sat on the sofa. The interview officially began, and Denise was still a little excited. ¡°Alright,dies and gentlemen and dark Souls yers, I¡¯m facing the designer of Dark Souls, Mr. Chen Mo, Mister deaf.¡± ¡°Come to think of it, you¡¯ve been keeping a really low profile, Mr. Chen Mo. You¡¯ve made so many sessful games, but you¡¯re still not well-known overseas. I can¡¯t even get an interview with you. Dennis said with emotion. Chen Zhao smiled.¡±Because I¡¯m someone who¡¯s afraid of trouble. I don¡¯t like to go out often either.¡± To me, staying in the experience store and focusing on making games is the happiest thing. ¡± Chapter 559

Chapter 559: Can you turn off the damage disy?

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¡°Alright, let¡¯s get to the point,¡± said Denise. I¡¯vee here with many yers ¡®questions. We all know that Dark Souls has achieved extraordinary sess in Europe and the United States, evenpletely crushing the GA¡¯s Knight¡¯s glory. ¡± ¡°Although you¡¯ve made some other sessful games like Warcraft, Minecraft, League of Legends, and so on, there¡¯s never been a game that has such a wide influence like dark Souls. After all, this is the first game to be created with AI, and it represents the top level of vr game design. ¡± ¡°Then, regarding this game, our first concern is its difficulty. When you designed the game, did you decide from the start that the game would be this difficult? Or is this a joint decision by the entire research and development team?¡± ¡°Yes.¡± Chen Mo nodded.¡±I¡¯ll decide on the difficulty.¡± Dennis said,¡¯in other words, the difficulty of Dark Souls¡¯ fame ... Was entirely due to your efforts? So why is it so difficult?¡± Chen Mo smiled,¡±I don¡¯t think¡± hard ¡°can be used to describe the game¡¯s difficulty.¡± I don¡¯t like to say ¡®this is too difficult¡¯, but I usually say ¡®this doesn¡¯t make sense¡¯.¡± ¡°What¡¯s the Difference?¡± Denise asked, confused.¡±What¡¯s the Difference?¡± ¡°Obviously,¡± Chen Mo said,¡±Dark Souls isn¡¯t so difficult that it¡¯s impossible for everyone. This wasn¡¯t my intention when I was designing it.¡± ¡°From a secr point of view, Dark Souls is indeed more difficult than most games on the market, but I¡¯m more concerned about whether the level design logic behind Dark Souls is reasonable.¡± ¡°The key is to find a bnce point. The yers will find it very difficult when they can¡¯t find the trick, but after they find the trick, most people can clear the game rtively smoothly. This is the difficulty design I want. ¡± ¡°Wow,¡± said Denise in shock,¡±he¡¯s indeed a world-ss game designer. Even his way of looking at games is different from ours.¡± ¡°To put it simply,¡± Chen Mo said in a low voice,¡±you can¡¯t be too ruthless, or you¡¯ll beat all the yers away.¡± ¡°Huh?¡± ...... ¡°It¡¯s okay,¡± Chen Zhao smiled.¡±Let¡¯s continue.¡± ¡°Alright,¡± Denise said,¡±next question. Isn¡¯t there a huge difference in the damage output of the weapons in this game?¡± For example, I personally like whips, but in Dark Souls, whips don¡¯t seem to be of any use. As for other weapons, such as exiles ¡®broadswords, aren¡¯t they a little too strong?¡± ¡°Yes,¡± Chen Zhao said. The exiles ¡°daggers are indeed stronger.¡± ¡°Why did you design it this way on purpose?¡± asked Denise. ¡°Of course,¡± Chen Zhao said.¡±It¡¯s because I like to use it.¡± ¡°Huh?¡± ¡°It¡¯s about whips,¡± Chen Zhao continued.¡±It¡¯s because it¡¯s a pretty marginal type of weapon in the design. In fact, in Dark Souls, most of the weapons that were suitable for showing off had some other attributes that were slightly weakened. This is so that the yers can try out other weapon types. ¡± ¡°So,¡± said Denise thoughtfully,¡±that¡¯s why whip-type weapons and many other cool-looking weapons are all shy without substance?¡± Chen Mo chuckled,¡±that¡¯s right, after all, being strong is only temporary, but being handsome is a lifetime!¡± If it¡¯s strong and handsome, then the yers won¡¯t use other weapons, and I¡¯ll be wasting my time?¡± Denise was speechless, but she thought,¡¯you¡¯re right ... But there should be a limit to how weak I am, right? For example, the leather whip that I like, isn¡¯t the damage too low?¡± Chen Mo coughed dryly,¡¯well ... Don¡¯t bring your hobbies into the game. Besides, if you think the damage output is low, you can turn off the damage disy. ¡± Denise was shocked,¡±turn off the damage disy?¡± Aren¡¯t you just lying to yourself?¡± Chen Mo nodded,¡±yes, but at least it¡¯s a good solution, right?.¡± ¡°But ...¡± Denise almost broke down.¡±Whether it¡¯s an invasion or a police officer, low weapon damage means that you can¡¯t beat anyone!¡± Chen Mo smiled,¡±well, you can y the game offline. You can be a lonely Queen of whips. That way, you won¡¯t have to face such problems.¡± ¡°What?¡± Denise was shocked.¡±So, the solution to the low damage of the whip is to y offline?¡± Chen Mo nodded,¡±yes. Even though this solution doesn¡¯t sound reliable, you have to admit that it¡¯s one of the ways to solve the problem.¡± ¡°Alright, then let¡¯s move on to the next topic ...¡± Said Denise as she held her forehead in despair. ¡°On the inte, the plot of Dark Souls has triggered a heated discussion among yers. Some yers even specte about the plot by dismantling the name. Many people said that this method was stupid. After all, the designer of Dark Souls was a Chinese. Then, may I ask if you put any corresponding meaning in the name?¡± Chen Zhao said,¡±ah, actually there is.¡± I¡¯ve dabbled in a wide range of things, including many ces and people¡¯s names in the game. In fact, I first used English and then tranted them into Chinese ording to the English. Otherwise, the game wouldn¡¯t have such a Western vor. ¡± ¡°Oh?¡± Denise¡¯s eyes lit up.¡±So, it¡¯s very reasonable to specte the corresponding plot through the names of the ces and people?¡± Chen Mo nodded,¡±yes, you can say so.¡± ¡°It¡¯s really surprising,¡± said Denise.¡±It seems that your cultural heritage is really deep! I was still wondering how a Chinesepany could make such an authentic Western fantasy theme, but now that I know you have such a deep cultural heritage, it¡¯s not difficult to understand!¡± ¡°Haha!¡± Chen Moughed,¡±it¡¯s just a small interest.¡± ¡°We also noticed,¡± said Denise. The plot of Dark Souls was rtively fragmented, and many of the plots were not exined clearly. What do you think about this? Is it done on purpose to give yers more room for imagination?¡± Chen Zhaoughed,¡±in fact, this was a deliberate design. I have aplete background story in my mind, but I won¡¯t say it out loud because it¡¯s one of the core joys of Dark Souls to let the yers explore and discover more mysteries in the world. ¡± ¡°Of course, there¡¯s still arge part of the plot that we haven¡¯t released yet. There¡¯ll be another work in Dark Souls.¡± Denise immediately perked up and asked,¡±another work?¡± In other words ... Dark Souls will have a sequel?¡± Chapter 560

Chapter 560: A more Perfect Dark Souls!

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Chen Mo nodded,¡±although I haven¡¯t decided yet ... It¡¯s possible that it¡¯ll appear in the old legends.¡± Denise was very excited. This was clearly the most valuable piece of news she had discovered this time. ¡°Then, is there anything you can reveal about the prequel to Dark Souls?¡± ¡°Well ...¡± Chen Mo said,¡±I¡¯ve decided on the background, but I can¡¯t reveal too much now. I can only reveal that it was set much earlier than Dark Souls itself.¡± Denise asked,¡±far earlier than the time setting ... How long exactly?¡± Will he tell us about the beginning of the world of Dark Souls?¡± ¡°Yeah,¡± Chen Mo said,¡±the yers wille into contact with many of the early characters in Dark Souls, including the Sun King Gwyn, who built the Age of Fire.¡± ¡°Actually, the research and development n for this project has already been decided a long time ago, and it won¡¯t take too long. This is because the overall engine is based on the current engine. We only need to add some scenes.¡± The more Denise listened, the more excited she became. Will it be sold separately this time, or will it appear in the form of a DLC?¡± ¡°It¡¯s going to be sold separately,¡± Chen Mo said.¡±But there¡¯ll be two different versions this time, including the VR and mobile version.¡± ¡°Mobile version?¡± Denise was stunned. ¡°Yes,¡± Chen Mo nodded. As for this mobile phone, it was still only being sold in China. If you¡¯re interested, I can give you one, or you can bring it back to tgnn. I expect this model to be sold overseas soon. ¡± Chen Mo stood up and took a brand new Switch from the side and handed it to Denise. ¡°Is this a brand new handheld device? Oh, I have a little impression of it, but I don¡¯t think this model is sold in Europe and the United States. ¡± Denise curiously observed the Switch¡¯s packaging. ...... Chen Mo smiled,¡±yes, I¡¯ve been busy with Dark Souls ¡®development. It¡¯s a bit rushed. There aren¡¯t many games on it, so I¡¯m thinking of dying the release for a few months.¡± This time, the prequel of Dark Souls and the main body of Dark Souls will be released on the mobile tform. ¡± Denise was a little surprised,¡±isn¡¯t this a little unnecessary?¡± Those who really like dark Souls are hardcore yers, so they definitely prefer to y in the game cabin. ¡± Chen Zhao smiled. The current pricing strategy was that if yers bought the VR version of Dark Souls, they would get the mobile version for free. yers who can¡¯t afford a VR pod can also buy the switch, and it¡¯s very cheap at only 98 Yuan, which is about 16 dors, not even 1/20 of the VR version. ¡± Denise nodded. After hearing the price, she began to understand the advantages of the mobile version of Dark Souls. However, she hadn¡¯t opened the treasure chest yet, so it was hard for her to understand what it felt like to y Dark Souls on such a small mobile phone. ¡°Then,¡± asked Denise.¡±How much content will the dark Souls on the handheld device shrink?¡± ¡°It¡¯ll faithfully recreate Dark Souls ¡®content,¡± Chen Mo said.¡±It won¡¯t shrink too much.¡± Of course, due to the different operation and disy methods of the two devices, the mobile version of Dark Souls will definitely have some changes in the experience. ¡± ¡°But I think the mobile version and the VR version are two different gaming experiences. It¡¯s hard to say which is better.¡± ¡°Then,¡± said Denise excitedly,¡±in the prequel to Dark Souls, can you strengthen my favorite whip-type weapon?¡± Chen Mo smiled,¡±¡±Like I said before, you can turn off the damage disy.¡± Denise was speechless. Clearly, Chen Zhao couldn¡¯t increase the damage of the whip. Dennis thought for a moment and asked,¡±there¡¯s another crucial question. How difficult is the prequel to Dark Souls?¡± Will you lower the difficulty just because the yers strongly request it?¡± Chen Mo chuckled.¡±I¡¯ve said it before. When I¡¯m making Dark Souls, I never consider the difficulty. I want to give the yers an unexpected feeling. I want to surprise them and bring them happiness.¡± ¡°As for the prequel to Dark Souls ... Let¡¯s put it this way. It will be an even more unexpected game. Or rather, it is the true essence of Dark Souls. I think it will surpass the current Dark Souls in terms of gamey. ¡± After saying that, Chen Zhao gave a meaningful smile. Denise was very excited.¡±Alright! I¡¯m sure many yers can¡¯t wait to see it. I hope the prequel of Dark Souls can bepleted as soon as possible!¡± Denise chatted with Chen Mo for a while more. The reporter from across the ocean was obviously curious about everything in the experience store, and only left after asking a few more questions. ¡°In short, the content of Dark Souls ¡®prequel shouldn¡¯t be confidential, right? It shouldn¡¯t be a problem to release it to the yers now, right?¡± Asked Denise. Chen Mo smiled.¡±No problem. You can make the yers look forward to it. I hope you can try the Switch and help promote it.¡± Denise nodded.¡±Okay. I¡¯ll take my leave now. I hope there will be more interviews in the future.¡± Denise walked away happily, her mind filled with her longing for the prequel to Dark Souls. The other yers probably had the same expectations as Denise, but Chen Mo couldn¡¯t help but smile when he thought about the difficulty of the game. ¡­¡­ Chen Zhao had a lot of things to do recently. The number of employees in Thunderbolt entertainment was increasing. Not only were there more people in the art department, but there were also more people in charge of the operation and maintenance of various projects. The four-floor workspace was almost full. There was a lot of work to do at Thunderbolt entertainment. On one hand, it was the League of Legendspetition. The domestic league was in full swing, and the poprity was getting higher and higher. The time of the second Global Finals was gradually approaching, and many yers of League of Legends were looking forward to it. On top of that, Overwatch had already released its International Version a long time ago, and it received a very good response in the Western market. However, the game¡¯s poprity in China was not as dominant as League of Legends, mainly because of the game¡¯s characteristics. As the game¡¯s depth wasn¡¯t that great, it was difficult for its poprity to continue rising. Many yers would stop ying it after the novelty wore off. However, Overwatch was still a popr game and needed to be operated in the long run. Of course, there were professionals in charge of maintaining the content, so Chen Mo didn¡¯t have to worry about it, since the game was already more or less set. Chen Mo¡¯s current focus was on two things. One was to remake Dark Souls 1 so that the Dark Souls series could be fully presented in this world; On the other hand, it was to promote the Switch. So far, the Switch had not been sold in the European and American markets, and there were no particrly popr games on the tform except for Odyssey. Chen Mo wanted to use the poprity of Dark Souls toy the foundation for Switch to open up the Western market. The mobile phone and the VR gaming pod targetedpletely different groups of people. The biggest advantage of the mobile phone was that it was cheap. For a game like dark Souls, the VR version costs 1988 Yuan, but the mobile version only costs 98 Yuan. The difference in experience between the two devices was mainly in the sense of immersion. The mobile version of Dark Souls was equally fun in terms of ying method and content. Apart from that, the market share of mobile tforms was still expanding. Just like in his previous life, more and more manufacturers were modifying their PC games and putting them on the mobile tform. The results were good, and the profitability of mobile games was getting stronger and stronger. Chen Mo hadn¡¯t released a new game on mobile games for almost a year. Could he use this opportunity to pick up another wave of leeks? Chapter 561

Chapter 561: Prequel to Dark Souls!

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Soon, TGN¡¯s interview was out, and it was a video interview. The host and Chen Mo conversed in Chinese, and after the interview was covered with English subtitles, it was uploaded to all the video websites. While the video caused a strong reaction in Europe and the United States, it was also forwarded by many enthusiastic yers to the domestic website. What caught the yers ¡®attention the most was that Chen Mo had announced the development ns for Dark Souls! ¡°What? The prequel to Dark Souls? Wow, it sounds really cool!¡± ¡°Yeah, the main thing is that the plot of Dark Souls can bepleted. Plus, Chen Mo said in the interview that he has aplete plot in his head. After the prequel is released, many of the unsolved problems should be solved, right?¡± ¡°Those schrs and soul schrs no longer have to argue on the forum every day ...¡± ¡°But why do I have a bad feeling about this? Chen Mo¡¯s smile in the interview reminded me of the press conference for Dark Souls ... Serente¡¯s smile is just asking if you¡¯re scared!¡± ¡°Aiya, after the baptism of Dark Souls, what else do you have to worry about? How difficult could it be? Let¡¯s put it this way, the prequel to Dark Souls is definitely difficult, but we¡¯ve been abused so many times, how can we be abused again?¡± ¡°Hehe, that¡¯s true ...¡± After hearing that Dark Souls had ns to develop a sequel, many yers were extremely enthusiastic and left messages on Chen Mo¡¯s Weibo, asking about the n. Chen Mo didn¡¯t n on hiding it from the yers, because the development of the prequel would be very fast. The battle mechanics and character scenes could be reused, so it wouldn¡¯t take long. Moreover, releasing more News Now could keep the poprity of Dark Souls going. After all, there would be a lot of games made with artificial intelligenceing out soon. Although the quality of these games would definitely not beparable to Dark Souls, they were new games after all, and would still have a certain impact on Dark Souls. Chen Mo posted on Weibo. ...... ¡°To answer a few questions. First of all, there was indeed a development n for the prequel of Dark Souls, and everyone would see it soon. This time, we¡¯ll make up for some of the plot¡¯s content, and at the same time, we¡¯ll give you an even more exciting journey in Dark Souls. ¡± ¡°Secondly, there will be an update for Dark Souls. In addition to the daily bnce adjustments, there will be a new way of ying, the death mode. ¡°In death mode, the yers will fight the Lord of Cinder at his peak, not the noobs who have been burned to ashes. Death mode allows 1-to-10 yers to form teams freely. At the same time, the boss ¡®HP, attack desire, and AI will also be automatically adjusted ording to the number of yers. ¡± ¡°In death mode, the boss will no longer attack ording to the original AI. Instead, it will be controlled by the artificial intelligence to release skills ording to a certain random pattern and choose the aggro target.¡± ¡°Finally, after dark Souls ¡®prequel ispleted, it will beunched on the VR tform and switch at the same time as Dark Souls. The pricing of the two games will be exactly the same, 1988 Yuan for VR and 98 Yuan for switch. Those who can¡¯t afford a VR gaming chamber can also try the game on their phones or on TV. ¡± The moment this Weibo post was posted, it once again caused a frenzy of reposts by yers! The sequels were still a mystery, and no one could say for sure if they were fun or not before they were made. However, the death mode and new ystyle that Chen Mo mentioned were quite new to many yers. After a period of trial and error, many yers of the bone ash tier had alreadypleted many rounds of the game, and the limits of the game were constantly being explored. As the bosses in Dark Souls had rtively simple AI and fixed movement patterns, many expert yers could even defeat some difficult bosses with normal weapons at level one. Some yers even posted a video of a level one character using a beginner¡¯s longsword that had not been strengthened to defeat the nameless King. Although the entire video was nearly half an hour long, which was very long, this yer had indeed defeated the nameless King with a Smurf. Moreover, he had not been touched at all throughout the entire video. To many of the current experts, bosses were no longer a threat to them. For the sake of more exciting challenges, many of them would try to find ways to farm bosses as quickly as possible. They would try to kill bosses before they could even make it out of the second stage. This new mode gave the yers, who had lost their sense of challenge in the game, a new way to challenge themselves. A boss controlled by artificial intelligence, just thinking about it made him feel good! There were several games made with new physics at home and abroad, but when the news of Dark Souls was released, the yers said,¡±Aiya, Dark Souls is still the most fun! These game developers felt that they were f * cking dogs. Dark Souls had been released for such a long time, couldn¡¯t they stop for a while? Unfortunately, Chen Mo didn¡¯t have any intention of stopping. From what he said on Weibo, the prequel to Dark Souls wasn¡¯t an empty promise, and it was going to bepleted soon ... The other video gamepanies were speechless, but they couldn¡¯t do anything about it, since Chen Mo was making games so quickly ... He was simply doing whatever he wanted ... ¡­¡­ In the experience store, Chen Mo was sitting in the lobby on the first floor when he heard amotion from the PC experience area. ¡°F * ck, does this Sword Saint even know how to y? how can he drive a big one up there? is he a primary school student?¡± ¡°Sigh, don¡¯t mention it! Recently, the primary school students are having their summer break, and there are more and more scammers in the rankingpetition!¡± ¡°Damn it, why are primary school students ying League of Legends instead of studying?¡± ¡°Typing and scolding him, I¡¯m so angry. How can he still y games when he¡¯s so weak? Go home and drink your milk!¡± Chen Zhao couldn¡¯t help but smile. It seemed that elementary school students were still not weed in this world. League of Legends had been online for more than a year now, and it was developing well. Although it was not as popr as in his previous life, it was already dominating the PC market. Of course, League of Legends also encountered the same problem as in his previous life, the problem of primary school students. It had to be said that in this world, mobile and PC games were more attractive to primary school students. In particr, games like League of Legends, which were easy to get started and easy to show off, had be a disaster area for primary school students. Of course, he was not discriminating against primary school students. The so-called primary school students were just a joke. Many 14 to 15-year-old geniuses who yed professionally were, strictly speaking, elementary school students, but they yed better than most adults. In fact, the primary school students in the eyes of many people were actually college students or girls. However, in proportion, it was possible that the proportion of children who were scammers was higher, so primary school students were synonymous with scammers. Chapter 562

Chapter 562: Mobile MOBA

Trantor: 549690339

On the forums and Tieba almost every day, there were postsining about which pig teammate had tricked them again. Why hadn¡¯t the elementary school started yet ... Indeed, at the end of every week or holiday, many people could feel that the probability of encountering pig teammates had increased significantly. There were also a lot of people who said,¡±Chen Mo, hurry up and turn on the identity verification mode. Don¡¯t let the kids log into the game. It¡¯s so annoying!¡± Chen Mo alwaysughed it off. What a joke, primary school students are also an important group of yers. It¡¯s not easy for primary school students to save up their lucky money, what kind of person am I if I don¡¯t earn it? He had to treat the yers equally! However, even though there were some primary school yers in League of Legends, the number was still too small. The true core yers of League of Legends were still young people between the ages of 16 and 26. Even though there were more female and elementary school yers in League of Legends than other games, Chen Mo was still not satisfied. In the parallel world, mobile games and vr games were both very advanced, which caused a severe divergence in the PC market. League of Legends could only unify the PC market, and while it would slightly affect the other two tforms, there was a limit to it. If he wanted to expand his yer base, he couldn¡¯t just ce his hopes on one tform. As Chen Mo was thinking, zou Zhuo walked over and sat down beside him. ¡°What¡¯s wrong with you? why are you frowning? You got dumped?¡± Chen Zhao asked curiously. ¡°Sigh, don¡¯t mention it.¡± Zou Zhuo¡¯s face hurt.¡±I lost the diamond rankpetition again.¡± Chen Zhao patted his shoulder sympathetically.¡±¡±Sigh, this is normal.¡± ...... Zou Zhuo wasn¡¯t convinced,¡±manager, why do I always run into such terrible teammates?¡± As long as my teammates know how to y, I can win, but I can¡¯t stand my teammates giving me free money!¡± Chen Mo chuckled,¡±zou Zhuo, you can win if your teammates carry you, but you can¡¯t win if your teammates don¡¯t know how to y. Doesn¡¯t that mean you¡¯re in this group?¡± If you can really carry each game yourself, how can you not y?¡± Zou Zhuo was shocked.¡±I think you¡¯re right ... But I still want to say something. F * ck a F * cking kid!¡± Chen Moughed,¡±think about it. The primary school students might be on your side or opposite you. Isn¡¯t it fun to be teammates with primary school students?¡± ¡°But ... I don¡¯t think primary school students have ever been on the opposite side of the queue ... Ah, I was just thinking, can you find a way to control these primary school students?¡± zou Zhuoined. Chen Mo looked at him.¡±Hmm...We can make a game for primary school students. Let them y it. Then they won¡¯t have to go to League of Legends to trick you.¡± ¡°That¡¯s realistic, isn¡¯t it?¡±zou Zhuo said. Primary school students nowadays are not like before. They all like to y games like League of Legends and especially like to y heroes that can be shown, such as children¡¯s y ... If you make a game, they might not like to y it. ¡± ¡°You don¡¯t have to worry about that,¡± Chen Moughed.¡±They¡¯ll definitely like my game.¡± ¡­¡­ League of Legends had been online for more than a year. As League of Legends became more and more popr, MOBA games also became more and more popr. However, on the PC side, League of Legends had already gained momentum, and there were basically no MOBA games that could shake its position. This was because these types of games had a strong sense of exclusiveness. yers who were used to ying MOBA games would feel very ufortable when they tried other games. Therefore, in the field of PC, it was hard to find a MOBA game that couldpete with League of Legends. Moreover, the VR industry wasn¡¯t suitable for transnting this type of game, so many video gamepanies focused their attention on mobile games. Transnting League of Legends to mobile games seemed like a good choice. Moreover, mobile game designers were constantly changing their design concepts and were no longer as limited as before. Following the baptism of games such as Onmyoji andnd of the guide, most video game designers realized that mobile game yers had no bottom line. No matter how hardcore the game was, they would still y it ... Therefore, many designers were preparing to port their sessful PC RPG games to mobile games, and also thinking about porting MOBA games like League of Legends to mobile games. There were indeed two or three gamepanies that were already in the process of making the game. However, the end products of the game weren¡¯t very good and the experience wasn¡¯t as good as aputer, so it didn¡¯t be popr. The time was almost right for Chen Mo. If he let the developers continue to explore, there would definitely be designers who could recreate a moreplete MOBA on the mobile game tform. Clearly, Chen Zhao would not give them the chance. ¡­¡­ Many mobile game designers from Emperor dynasty entertainment and ZEN Entertainment were researching how to port MOBA games to their phones, and some were discussing it in private. ¡°Did you hear? League of Legends¡¯s number of online yers has reached a new high. It¡¯s dominating the PC market now, and I can¡¯t even make money without doing anything!¡± ¡°Yeah, but then again, who would¡¯ve thought that League of Legends would have such a great future? Everyone thought that the PC market was already dead. ¡± ¡°Emperor dynasty entertainment should have a project as well. Should they consider making a mobile MOBA?¡± ¡°Yes, you have a project there too?¡± ¡°Definitely! And two of the projects are almostplete, but some details are still open to discussion. ¡± ¡°Yes, we¡¯re also stuck at this segment. The main problem was farming, the game rhythm, and the release of skills. If we can solve these problems, it shouldn¡¯t be hard to recreate the core fun of MOBA games on mobile games. ¡± ¡°But these are the problems that are not easy to solve! We¡¯ve tried a few ns, but they don¡¯t feel good. ¡± ¡­¡­ Many video game designers were thinking about how to port MOBA games to mobile games, but they had yet toe up with a perfect n. These people¡¯s design ns were basically based on the temte of League of Legends. Because League of Legends had achieved great sess on the PC side, its game design concept and numerical model had long been proven to be very sessful, so most designers chose to use it. However, many video game designers were still confused as to how to make changes to suit the mobile game tform. On one hand, it was a matter of control. For example, how should the yer move, attack, and how should they choose the target they wanted to attack? How do you determine if a yer wants to fight the hero, the tower, or the jungle? Furthermore, certain skills were more troublesome to cast. For example, Lee Sin could use his roundhouse kick smoothly on theputer, but it was a little too masochistic on the mobile game. Chapter 563

Chapter 563: New mobile game

Trantor: 549690339

The most direct solution was to let the yers touch the screen, but even though this n seemed perfect, the hand feel of the operation was terrible. The main problem was that it was tiring and inurate. If it was on a tablet, it would be more friendly for the yer to tap on the screen with his hand. However, after all, most people yed games on their mobile phones. Who would have nothing better to do than to run around with a tablet? Moreover, it was very tiring to point because yers had to frequently farm and attack in the game, and they also had to move. On the PC side, yers could easilyplete these actions with the mouse, but on the mobile tform, just relying on the mouse would make it seem like they were in a mess. On the other hand, it was the rhythm of the game. In League of Legends, normal matches were around 30 minutes long, but some could be dyed to 50 minutes or even longer. It was obvious that this was an uneptable amount of time for mobile game yers. Many designers thought that this time should be further shortened, even to about 20 minutes, but no one had a good n for how to shorten it. Some designers hoped to speed up the pace of the game, including reducing the defense towers and monster HP, increasing the yers ¡®attack power and leveling speed, and so on. However, this would bring new problems because the system of League of Legends was veryprehensive. Any change could cause the pace of the game to copse. For example, considering that the high HP of the defensive tower would slow down the pace of the game, would reducing the HP of the defensive tower cause some fast-push heroes to be too powerful? This kind of weakening might result in the game not slowing down, but some heroes bing too strong ... Therefore, it was a very systematic task to adjust the game¡¯s rhythm. It involved all aspects of the game, including the game¡¯s mechanism, hero¡¯s skills, and so on. It was not easy to get the results you wanted by simply adjusting some attributes. ¡­¡­ ...... Emperor dynasty Entertainment¡¯s headquarters, Lin chaoxu¡¯s office. Qiu bin was all smiles. Lin chaoxu was in a good mood as well,¡±¡±Hmm, not bad. The moon god¡¯s prophecy has been doing well on the mobile tform. It¡¯s already on the top of the best-selling list. You should be able to raise your videogame designer level.¡± Qiu bin smiled.¡±Yes, it¡¯s all thanks to you, boss Lin. Actually, there were some design changes when we transnted moon God¡¯s prophecy onto the mobile tform. But overall, the game has a good foundation!¡± As one of Emperor dynasty Entertainment¡¯s signature products, moon God¡¯s prophecy was originally a dual-terminal game between PC and VR. However, in the past two years, the game had been impacted by League of Legends on the PC and other games on the VR, and its figures had been declining year by year. Many people could clearly feel that RPG games were no longer as glorious as they used to be. Emperor dynasty entertainment didn¡¯t want to fall behind in the poprity of changing PC games to mobile games. This time, Lin chaoxu even let Qiu bin do it personally, changing moon God¡¯s prophecy to a mobile game. Even though Qiu bin wasn¡¯t an S-grade videogame designer, he was the best at designing mobile games in Emperor dynasty entertainment. Lin chaoxu had high hopes for him to pass this project to him. On the other hand, turning moon God¡¯s prophecy into a mobile game wasn¡¯t thatplicated, since there were already art resources on the PC side. Qiu bin just had to change the resources, shrink the capacity, and make some design changes to the mobile game. Moon God¡¯s prophecy performed extremely well after it was released, sessfully reaching the top of the mobile best selling leaderboard. Many PC and VR yers who had given up on the game even returned to the mobile game tform through various old yers ¡®summons. This was a pleasant surprise for Lin chaoxu. He had only wanted to give it a try, but he didn¡¯t expect it to be so sessful. Lin chaoxu praised Qiu bin highly, and Qiu bin himself was very proud of himself. When he walked out of Lin chaoxu¡¯s office, he was still beaming with joy. ¡°I feel like ever since Chen Mo left the mobile game tform, my life has been getting better and better!¡± Qiu bin thought. Thinking about Jin jieguang¡¯s tragic experience on PC, Qiu bin felt a sense of relief. Chen Mo was indeed a jinx, no one would have an easy time! But then again, Chen Mo had been doing very well in VR, and had even made his game into the International market, receiving good reviews. Qiu bin couldn¡¯t help but think that Chen Mo had gotten to where he was now, even though he had just started out as a nobody. ¡°But fortunately, that guy went to the VR tform. If I continue to stay on the mobile game tform, my days will be tough. ¡± Qiu bin sighed. After Chen Mo used I am MT and Onmyoji to turn the entire card market upside down, there weren¡¯t any other revolutionary mobile card games. Although there were games simr to ¡°leading thend,¡± they were not as groundbreaking as the previous two, and their influence was far from that of the previous games. Many video game designers thought that Chen Mo didn¡¯t want to y with them anymore in the mobile game industry. This was a good thing for most video game designers, since no one wanted their game to be rted to Chen Mo¡¯s ... She could get into a car ident, but not Chen Zhao ... ¡­¡­ In the experience store, Chen Mo called everyone for a meeting. In fact, the news about the sequel of Dark Souls had already been released, and everyone was looking forward to it. Although not many of the people present could really clear the game, it didn¡¯t affect everyone¡¯s love for it. Wasn¡¯t clearing the game through a video also considered clearing the game? However, while they were looking forward to it, they were also a little confused. Dark Souls was already quiteplete, and ording to Chen Mo¡¯s personality, he wouldn¡¯t release a sequel so quickly after a sessful game. There were also some yers who joked that ¡®Chen Mo isn¡¯t one of the best¡¯, because Chen Mo hadn¡¯t really released many sequels since he started developing games ... Even for an evergreen game like Warcraft, Chen Mo didn¡¯t seem to have any ns to release a sequel ... Could they reallye up with something new for the dark Souls sequel this time? If it was just like a DLC, it would be difficult to satisfy the yers. Chen Mo looked at everyone present,¡±I¡¯ll talk about the next stage of the development n. First, it¡¯s about the prequel to Dark Souls. I¡¯m sure everyone knows that it¡¯s mainly based on the current resources and design of Dark Souls, but some changes have been made to the details. ¡± ¡°One more thing ... While we¡¯re working on the prequel to Dark Souls, we¡¯re also going to develop a mobile game.¡± Chapter 564

Chapter 564: Garden gardener-salent

Trantor: 549690339

¡°Mobile games?¡± Everyone was surprised, as Chen Mo hadn¡¯t released a mobile game in a long time. Chen Mo only made I am mt and Onmyoji because he didn¡¯t have the ability and money, so he made these games to spend money. But as Chen Mo¡¯s videogame designer level got higher, he had more and more money to spend on research and development. As a result, he stopped making mobile games and shifted his focus to VR. Thest Thunderbolt entertainment released was leading thend, and Chen Mopleted it all by himself. However, they didn¡¯t think too much about it. After all, it wasn¡¯t a lot of work to develop the prequel of Dark Souls. With the foundation of Dark Souls, developing the prequel was nothing more than adding some new scenes and new plots. The overall framework could be used. Under such circumstances, it didn¡¯t seem like a bad idea to transfer some people to develop a mobile game. Chen Mo tapped on the keyboard, and the design concept for Mobile Legends appeared on the projector. This time, we¡¯re making a MOBA mobile game.¡± Chen Mo looked at Qian Kun,¡±you¡¯ll be in charge of the mobile game this time. After all, you¡¯re in charge of League of Legends, so you¡¯re more experienced. This mobile game is based on League of Legends, with some minor changes. It shouldn¡¯t be too difficult for you.¡± ¡°Ah?¡± Qian Kun was stunned.¡±Then why don¡¯t we just make the mobile version of League of Legends?¡± ¡°Yup.¡± Su Jinyu was also a little confused,¡±even if we don¡¯t use the characters from League of Legends, we can use other characters. We can use the famous characters from Warcraft and Diablo as well.¡± Chen Mo narrowed his eyes.¡±I say, you two have been with me for so long. Why haven¡¯t you grown up?¡± ...... ¡°Ah?¡± The two of them looked at each other in confusion. Chen Mo knocked on the projector screen,¡±alright, it¡¯s time for the small ss. Let me ask you guys, what is the first element in writing a game design concept draft?¡± ¡°Hmm ...¡± Qian Kun scratched the back of his head and said,¡±I¡¯m analyzing the design.¡± Chen Mo nodded,¡±that¡¯s right. Before writing a design draft, the first thing to do is to analyze the game¡¯s target audience. Then, we¡¯ll analyze the game¡¯s design intent.¡± ¡°Let¡¯s see who the gamingmunity I¡¯m writing about is. ¡± ¡°Uh, primary school students ...¡± Qian Kun was dumbfounded. No one had noticed it before, but on closer look, Chen Mo had clearly written on the target audience page: Primary school students, female yers, and rted audience groups ... Obviously, this game waspletely different from League of Legends. The yers of League of Legends were young yers between the ages of 16 and 26, mainly high school and college students. However, King of Glory¡¯s target audience was ... Primary school students, female yers, and those with bad hands. Everyone was a little dumbfounded. This was the first time they had seen a game that targeted primary school students. Chen Mo said,¡±indeed, these game IPS do have some weight in the hearts of young people.¡± But if the target audience is primary school students, how many of them have yed Warcraft before and how many of them like Diablo?¡± ¡°Uh, that seems to be the case ...¡± Qian Kun thought. Chen Mo continued,¡±King of Glory and League of Legends aren¡¯t in the same position. Otherwise, wouldn¡¯t I be poaching my own yers?¡± Obviously, I want those young people to continue ying League of Legends. The mission of Mobile Legends is to continue to expand MOBA games to those rtively marginalized groups of yers. ¡± ¡°Primary school students, female yers, and clumsy yers are mainly those who feel that League of Legends is too tiring, that it takes too long, and that it¡¯s inconvenient. These are the main target audience of Mobile Legends. ¡°And most of these people weren¡¯t loyal yers of Thunderbolt gaming before. Thunderbolt gaming does have a lot of good IPS, but they don¡¯t have much of an advantage in this group of people. ¡± ¡°Think about it from the perspective of an elementary school student. How many of them know about the Lich King, and how many of them have actually yed our VR game?¡± ¡°Maybe the only game that has a little influence on primary school students is League of Legends. But like I said before, I don¡¯t want this game to sh with the positioning of League of Legends. What if League of Legends is released as a mobile game and it hits the PC market?¡± ¡°These yers need a clearer and more recognizable cultural image. It¡¯s easier for them to remember and recognize the characters in the traditional culture. After all, many people have already learned Li Bai¡¯s poems when they were in primary school. ¡± Qian Kun scratched his head.¡±Hmm...I think so. Manager, I understand what you¡¯re trying to say. But can the primary school students really support this game?¡± Their time and spending power should be rtively weak ...¡± Su Jinyu raised her hand.¡±One more question, manager. The game Committee has a rule for underaged yers. They have to limit their ying time every day. This will have an impact, right?¡± Chen Mo chuckled.¡±Of course, even if the game Committee doesn¡¯t have any rules, I will still limit the time that the primary school students can y. After all, they are the flowers of our country, we have to take good care of them!¡± Everyone present was shocked. Oh my God, did the store manager really say that? Protect the flowers of the mothend? Why did he feel like Chen Zhao¡¯s smile was a little off when he said that? Or was he going to have another title in the future, the gardener, serente? ¡°Also, why don¡¯t I use another ip?¡± Chen Mo continued.¡±It¡¯s so that the students can understand our country¡¯s traditional culture.¡± ¡°Actually, I have a lot of good IPS, but most of them are Western fantasy themes. First of all, primary school students are not interested in it. Second, it can¡¯t y the role of promoting traditional culture. ¡± Su Jinyu¡¯s face was full of pain.¡±Manager, don¡¯t lie to me. I don¡¯t read much. You¡¯ve obviously changed a lot of hero¡¯s background stories.¡± Look at what you¡¯ve written in the concept draft. It¡¯s a magically modified continent to begin with. These heroes only have simr names and characteristics, but in reality, they¡¯re not historical figures at all!¡± Chen Mo chuckled,¡±of course. It¡¯s so boring to strictly reproduce historical figures. No one would y it.¡± In order tobine the real historical figures with the game¡¯s characteristics, he had to make some magical changes. However, there¡¯s no need for everyone to worry, because I¡¯ve already made preparations for this. ¡± Chen Mo tapped on the keyboard,¡±that¡¯s right, this is the system. I call it love blue cat, learn blue cat ... No, no, it ¡®s¡¯ love knowledge learn knowledge, I¡¯m proud of my posture system ¡®.¡± Qian Kun was shocked,¡±Oh my God, is the name of the system that long?¡± Chapter 565 - The more difficult Dark Souls

Chapter 565: The more difficult Dark Souls

Trantor: 549690339

Chen Mo exined,¡±the heroes in this game need to be unlocked.¡± yers could purchase the items with gold coins, diamonds, and point certificates. Of course, some heroes can only be obtained through extremely fraudulent top-up activities. However, we¡¯ll talk about thister. ¡± ¡°The point is that when the yer wants to buy a hero, in addition to saving up the money needed to buy a gold hero, they also have to read the true life history of the hero through the microphone and answer the correct questions given by the system before they can sessfully buy it. Su Jinyu was confused,¡¯manager, can you give me a more specific example? Why do I feel like you¡¯re a scammer, system?¡± ¡°Alright,¡± Chen Zhao said.¡±I¡¯ll give you a simple example.¡± For example, if a primary school student wanted to buy Li Bai, after he finished reading Li Bai¡¯s true life introduction, the system would pop up a few questions, one of which was like this: In history, what was Li Bai¡¯s real upation?¡± ¡°There are four options below, respectively: drunkard, assassin, poet. Jungler.¡± Qian Kun was shocked,¡±wow, can someone really get these questions wrong?¡± ¡°Don¡¯t overestimate the education level of primary school students,¡±Chen Moughed. ¡°Moreover, these questions were drawn from arge question bank. The questions arepletely random and the choices are all mixed up. There is also a time limit of ten seconds to answer. If you get it wrong, you¡¯ll have to re-read the introduction to the person¡¯s life. ¡± ¡°If a primary school student chooses drunkard, assassin, or jungler in this option ... Then it¡¯s a pity that he can only go back and review Li Bai¡¯s real history.¡± Su Jinyu was shocked.¡±Manager,¡± she said.¡±Aren¡¯t you afraid of those kids?¡± ¡°It¡¯s every gamer¡¯s duty to spread history to all primary school students!¡±Chen Mo said with a straight face. I¡¯m obliged to promote traditional cultural knowledge!¡± Everyone was shocked. Chen Mo was so serious when he said this that they almost believed him ... Su Jinyu¡¯s mouth twitched.¡±Manager,¡± she said,¡±so, King of Glory is actually an quiz game to poprize historical facts?¡± ...... Chen Mo nodded and said with certainty,¡±¡±Yes, that¡¯s right,¡± He thought for a moment and said,¡±eh?¡± If that¡¯s the case, do you think the game Committee will give a special rmendation spot to Mobile Legends? After all, this game is meant to promote traditional culture. ¡± Su Jinyu facepalmed.¡±Manager! You¡¯re thinking too much!¡± Chen Mo chuckled,¡±okay, next up is the content of Dark Souls¡± prequel. ¡± ¡°The prequel to Dark Souls mainly remakes a bunch of scenes and makes some small changes to the game. For example, in the beginning, the bonfire will not be able to teleport. ¡± ¡°Ah?¡± Everyone was shocked and almost thought that they had heard wrong! The bonfire couldn¡¯t be teleported. Could this game still be yed? Qian Kun tried his best to imagine the scene after the bonfire failed to teleport him. For example, in Dark Souls, yers would have to go through a lot of trouble to find Farron¡¯s cesspit. By then, they would have umted a lot of souls and would have to go back to the firefightdy to level up. Then, they would have to run all the way from Farron¡¯s cesspit to the High Wall of Lothric, and then back to the Firelink sacrificial grounds ... This was too F * cking deceptive! ¡°Manager,¡± Qian Kun coughed dryly,¡±I think we should think twice about this. If we do this, our Experience Store might be razed to the ground by the angry yers ...¡± Chen Mo smiled,¡±it¡¯s okay. yers can level up by the bonfire.¡± Moreover, as the yer progresses in the game, they will get a special item. With this item, they can use the bonfire to teleport. ¡± Qian Kun¡¯s face was filled with pain,¡¯in other words ... Teleportation is a function that can be used at will, but it¡¯s now on a prop?¡¯ Manager, aren¡¯t you going a little too far? I can¡¯t stand it anymore! Also, are you going to use this prop to charge for it?¡± Chen Zhao¡¯s eyes lit up. Don¡¯t tell me this is a good idea!¡± Qian Kun facepalmed and said,¡±don ¡®t!¡± Manager, I¡¯m just saying. You can¡¯t charge us for this, or our lives won¡¯t be guaranteed!¡± Chen Moughed,¡±of course not. I¡¯m just joking. But I¡¯ll definitely need the prop.¡± Not only can¡¯t the bonfire teleport, but there will also be some small changes in the prequel to Dark Souls, which will highlight ... Well, the game¡¯s yfulness. ¡± Qian Kun said,¡±this isn¡¯t a game. This is torture!¡± Manager, I really think that the current difficulty of Dark Souls is already insane. Is it really appropriate to increase the difficulty?¡± ¡°Of course it¡¯s appropriate!¡± Chen Zhao said. A torturing game has been turned into a mowing game by the yers. Obviously, the yers are far from reaching their limits!¡± ¡°And this is all art, understand? Art! What did Dark Souls rely on to be popr? It depended on its artistic quality. The core fun of Dark Souls was the unexpected level design, the intense boss battle, and the ubiquitous danger of death! If we only make something simr to Dark Souls, how can we meet the increasing material and cultural needs of the yers?¡± Everyone was speechless. He was speechless, but his heart ached for the yers ... It was hard to imagine what Dark Souls would look like ... ¡°Also,¡± Chen Mo added,¡±Dark Souls will have a new game mode called random mode. In this mode, all items will be dropped randomly, except for some key items that may affect the subsequent plot. ¡± ¡°In other words, if yers want to y this mode well, they have to explore everywhere and even collect everything as the goal of the game. Otherwise, they are likely to miss out on some very good items.¡± Qian Kun¡¯s eyes lit up,¡±this game type sounds very fun!¡± It can replicate the core of the adventure to the maximum!¡± As everyone knew, the drops in Dark Souls were fixed. After a round of running and bing familiar with the game¡¯s items, yers would know where the good items were and where the items could be taken or not. Therefore, the yers ¡®goals would be very clear. Many pro yers didn¡¯t even fight monsters, they only picked up the key items and ran smoothly. This was obviously against Chen Mo¡¯s design, and it also lost the fun of exploring when they were new. If there was a random mode, the yers would have to go through all the items. They might pick up trash from where a good item was dropped, or they might pick up a good item from an ordinary ce. The dramatic effect of the game itself was very obvious. However, Qian Kun also realized that there might be a very uncontroble situation in this game mode. The yers would find that they would only pick up a pile of trash at the beginning, and the good things would be randomly sent to somewhere. If some unlucky yer were to y this mode, they would probably be given a song called ¡®cool¡¯... However, since Chen Mo was going to make this type of random mode himself, he would definitely have considered this. There wouldn¡¯t be a situation where the prison key was inside the prison ... Chapter 566

Chapter 566: Li jingsi¡¯s interview

Trantor: 549690339

After they finished discussing the design concept, everyone quickly went into the development of the two new games. ording to Chen Mo¡¯s estimates, Dark Souls and mobile Legends would be developed very quickly, especially Mobile Legends. Most of the resources were made from League of Legends, and some resources could be reused. The original art and models of the characters were a lot more, but as long as he had the design drafts, he could outsource them to apany. After all, even though the model precision of mobile games was decent, it was nothingpared to the VR games that Chen Mo was making. To Chen Mo, mobile games were a great money-making tool when he was poor, but now it was just for fun. However, with the in-game ability of Mobile Legends ... Chen Mo still had to pay attention to it. Of course, in Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, Mobile Legends was a game with half the reputation and half the praise. On one hand, its results had indeed left all gamepanies dumbfounded. The number of online users, poprity, and ie were all terrifying. On the other hand, since the birth of King of Glory, it had been apanied by arge amount of negative news. This included over-referencing counterfeit products, low-ss packaging, misleading primary school students with cultural background, and so on. Of course, Chen Mo could choose another ip to repackage a MOBA game, but it wasn¡¯t a good choice. There were two reasons for this. First, the ip address depended on the yer base. Warcraft and Diablo were undoubtedly big IPS for many hardcore yers, but for primary school students and female yers, they really didn¡¯t know who the Lich King was. It was the same for Onmyoji¡¯s ip. The reason why Onmyoji was so popr was mainly because of the poprity of the 2D yers, and then it spread to the ordinary yers. And the 2D yers were only a very small part of the group of primary school students and girls. Even though NetEase had used the same ip as Onmyoji to make final battle of ping ¡®an capital, it was obvious that the game was still far from King of Glory in every aspect. On the contrary, the historical figures of China were more well-known in this group. Even a girl who never yed games would know Jing Ke, Han Xin, Zhen Ji, Cao Cao, Guan Yu, Zhuge Liang, and the others. ...... Another point was that to Chen Mo, Mobile Legends was a rtively trashy game. He would definitely be criticized for making such a game, just like I am mt and Onmyoji. Since it¡¯s a game with paywalls, don¡¯t even think about building a reputation ... Wouldn¡¯t that be a double take? Imagine using World of Warcraft to view a MOBA game and create a pay-to-win system, then give diamonds to the Lich King? It would probably anger many loyal yers of magical beasts to death ... Chen Mo¡¯s goal was simple, games with paywalls were all about spending money, the yers just had to top up their game and scold them all they wanted ... As for some high-quality games, they had to be done with a conscience in all aspects, and they could even make losses and sell well. It was obvious that King of Glory was a game with paywalls, and there was no need to use it on other IPS. Moreover, using traditional characters could also allow primary school students to learn about traditional cultural knowledge and create an answer sheet to buy heroes. Wasn¡¯t that great? Besides, if he did other IPS, how could he have a beautiful China-style skin like Feng qiuhuang? Wasn¡¯t this preventing yers from spending money? Since the game was made for primary school students, he had to serve them wholeheartedly. He had to think for them and be anxious for them. That was a responsible designer! As for the ystyle, although many of the ystyles in glory of kings were criticized as giarized, it had to be admitted that many of the designs in glory of kings were the most mature ones at the moment. This included the operating mode, auto-farming, double joysticks for skill release, paywall system, and so on. These basically represented the highest level of mobile MOBA. Moreover, in terms of paywalls, King of Glory was indeed at the peak. It had been a long time since Chen Mo had let yers experience ¡°using money to create happiness.¡± It was time for them to experience the fear of being dominated by games with paywalls! ¡­¡­ In the experience store, li jingsi was flipping through a book in boredom. After two pages, a tall girl walked in. This girl looked to be about 27 or 28 years old, with long hair split in the middle. From the way she walked, she looked very strong and had the style of a mature older sister. She was dressed very formally, and from her aura, she looked like a strong woman. Li jingsi raised her head and nced at her.¡±Sis, you¡¯re here.¡± The girl who hade was called li Jingwan, li jingsi¡¯s cousin. Li Jingwan sat down opposite li jingsi and said in a very determined tone,¡±¡±I¡¯ve arranged an interview for you. There¡¯s a high-level videogame designer from Emperor dynasty entertainment who¡¯s on a business trip in the capital these few days, so you should go and interview for the videogame designer position. Don¡¯t you like to y games? It¡¯s not bad to be a designer. ¡± Li jingsi was dumbfounded.¡±You¡¯re really my sister ...¡± She said.¡±Why did you make such a mess of arrangements for me?¡± So that¡¯s why you¡¯re looking for me today? you didn¡¯t even tell me before?¡± Li Jingwan raised her eyebrows and asked,¡±would you still go if I told you?¡± We grew up together, do you think I don¡¯t know you? If I want to force you to submit, I can only act first and reportter!¡± Li jingsi was speechless,¡¯I do like to y games, but making games and ying games are twopletely different things! Who wants to be a designer?¡± ¡°Then why don¡¯t you look for a job yourself?¡± li jingshu asked. You¡¯ve already graduated, and your ssmates have already settled on jobs before graduation. You, on the other hand, are still ying games all day after graduation, and you don¡¯t even have any serious business. On the surface, uncle and aunty are too embarrassed to talk about you, but in fact, they are very worried and have beenining to me. ¡± Li jingsi facepalmed.¡±Alright ... Sis, you must¡¯ve put in a lot of effort to contact Emperor dynasty entertainment, right?¡± she asked. ¡°It took a lot of effort and several connections to get in touch with him,¡± said li Jingwan. You¡¯re so good at gaming, maybe some gamingpany will take a fancy to you. ¡± Li jingsi was speechless.¡±Alright, alright. I¡¯ll go take a look when the timees. Just send the message to my phone.¡± But ... I don¡¯t have a resume. ¡± ¡°It¡¯s fine, as long as you¡¯re willing to go,¡±said li Jingwan.¡± You don¡¯t need a resume. ¡± When we get there, we¡¯ll have a casual chat and report your rank in the game, isn¡¯t that good enough?¡± Li jingsi narrowed her eyes.¡±So, you¡¯ve already considered this for me?¡± ¡°Of course,¡± li Jingwan replied with a smile. I wanted to find you another job, but after thinking about it, you don¡¯t seem to be interested. You just like to y games, so I thought of a way to get you an interview at a gamingpany. ¡± ¡°I¡¯m really grateful that you didn¡¯t interview me for a gaming anchorwoman job,¡±li jingsi said. Li Jingwan was amused,¡¯a game streamer? That didn¡¯t require an interview. Besides, being a video game designer is a decent job. If I be a video game streamer, uncle and aunty won¡¯t agree, right?¡± ¡°Anyway, jingsi, just let me be at ease and quickly find a job, okay?¡± Li jingsi waved her hand impatiently.¡±¡±Alright, alright, sis, I understand. I¡¯ll go and take a look when the timees. ¡± Chapter 567

Chapter 567: Not interested in game design

Trantor: 549690339

Li jingsi was sitting in the lobby of Emperor dynasty Entertainment¡¯s imperial capital Branch, looking dumbfounded. Li jingsi did not want toe at first when she was inexplicably arranged for an interview. However, after thinking about it, it had taken li Jingwan a lot of effort to arrange it, so she had to reluctantlye ... Anyway, it was just a formality. After all, it was not easy for a video game designer to enter the industry. It required a lot of professional knowledge. Li jingsi usually did not have any proper research on video game design other than ying games. Coming to the interview was just a gift. There was no way she would pass, okay? ¡­¡­ Emperor dynasty Entertainment¡¯s imperial capital Branch was very formal. It was located in a high-end office building in the northeast of the imperial capital, and visitors had to register after entering. After the prettydy at the front desk rified li jingsi¡¯s purpose foring, she called the person in charge and asked li jingsi to wait in the lobby for a moment. This was li jingsi¡¯s first time attending an interview for a gamingpany. She was not wearing a formal suit and did not even have a resume ... However, the gamepany¡¯s interview didn¡¯t require formal wear, because the inte industry was more casual, and there weren¡¯t so many requirements on appearance. But even so, li jingsi¡¯s aura still seemed out of ce with the rest of thepany. To put it simply, everyone was either working seriously or pretending to be serious about their work. Only li jingsi herself seemed to be on vacation ... If he came to the interview with the mentality of not being hired, he suddenly felt that the interview was not scary at all ... The receptionist received a call, then stood up and said to li jingsi,¡±¡±Alright, this time, our chief Qiu will personally interview you. Please follow me to conference Room No. 3. ¡± Thedy at the front desk led Li jingsi forward, passing through work stations after work stations. ...... Thedy at the front desk said to li jingsi,¡±¡±It¡¯s director Qiu who¡¯s personally interviewing you. It seems like you¡¯re quite valued. I wish you a sessful interview.¡± Li jingsi smiled, but didn¡¯t say anything. She thought to herself,¡¯I don¡¯t want to seed in the interview at all ...¡¯ The two of them arrived at conference Room No. 3, and thedy at the front desk knocked on the door. ¡°Pleasee in.¡± A deep voice said. Thedy at the front desk opened the door, and Li jingsi walked in. There were four people sitting in the meeting room, three men and one woman. They were probably all employees of Emperor dynasty Entertainment¡¯s branch in Imperial City, and Li jingsi clearly did not know any of them. Her eyes quickly swept over the four people and gave them nicknames from left to right: sses man, fatty, suit man, and round-faced girl. Well ... It was very simr to the characteristics of a gamepany¡¯s employee. There was nothing wrong with it. Fatty pointed to the seat across the conference table.¡±¡±Li jingsi, right? Please have a seat. ¡± After li jingsi sat down, the fatty introduced himself.¡±¡±Hello, I¡¯m the chief designer of the ¡®ancient catastrophe¡¯ mobile game project in the imperial capital Branch of Emperor dynasty entertainment. My name is Zhang Bei. This is a well-known mobile game designer from Emperor dynasty Entertainment¡¯s headquarters and the main designer of moon God¡¯s prophecy, Qiu bin, CEO Qiu. ¡± Li jingsi nodded very politely. Zhang Bei was a little puzzled. If it was anyone else who came for the interview, they would at least say ¡°nice to meet you¡± after hearing these two titles, right? Especially Qiu bin, he was the best Mobile Game designer in Emperor dynasty entertainment, with a few sessful works. Moon God¡¯s prophecy had just reached the top of the best selling leaderboard, there was no reason for anyone who wanted to enter the game industry not to know him ... However, li jingsi¡¯s polite nod made it clear that she meant: I don¡¯t know you guys, but I feel that you guys are really cool, so I¡¯ll just nod and send a 666 out of courtesy. Zhang Bei was also very confused. Qiu bin was the one who asked for the interview, but why did it look like Qiu bin and the interviewee did not know each other at all? What kind of script was this? The atmosphere was a little awkward, so Zhang Bei had to continue with the interview. He had already heard that this interviewee was special and did not even have a resume. However, he knew the basic information. He graduated from the capital¡¯s key university and was excellent in his studies. The only problem was that he had few interests and hobbies. He basically had no resume worth mentioning in the University. However, it was said that he was very good at ying games, but he didn¡¯t know if that was true. Zhang Bei coughed twice.¡±How about this? briefly tell me what games you¡¯ve yed, and what games you¡¯ve been ying recently.¡± Li jingsi thought for a moment.¡±I¡¯ve yed quite a lot of games. For example, Warcraft, League of Legends, Overwatch. I¡¯ve been ying Dark Souls recently.¡± Everyone present was a little confused. Why did these games all seem to be Thunderbolt Entertainment¡¯s games? This girl hadn¡¯t even yed a single one of Emperor dynasty Entertainment¡¯s games before, why was she here for an interview? Qiu bin nodded.¡±Yeah, they¡¯re all famous games. How are they?¡± Li jingsi thought for a moment.¡±I¡¯ve reached the top of thedder in Warcraft. I¡¯ve also reached the king¡¯s section in League of Legends. I¡¯ve just finished four rounds in Dark Souls.¡± There wasplete silence. Everyone present gasped ... In the game designer¡¯s interview, it was amon and unimportant routine to ask the interviewee what game he yed and what segment he was in. Some video game designers were good at ying games, while others were terrible at it. There were even some who didn¡¯t like ying games at all and could still be video game designers. It was because designing a game and ying a game were twopletely different things. Just like a chef and a customer, liking to eat didn¡¯t necessarily mean that they knew how to cook. Of course, as a video game designer, if you yed well, you could get extra points in the interview. But wasn¡¯t li jingsi¡¯s level a little too good? Reaching the top of thedder in Warcraft was already unbelievable. After all, it was a real-time strategy game that had high requirements for hand speed, which was not good for female yers. To be able to reach the highest level in both Warcraft and League of Legends, it could be described as cheating. Many professional yers from traditional RTS games switched to League of Legends, but many of them were stuck at the diamond rank ... Moreover, li jingsi had sessfullypleted four rounds of Dark Souls, a game that was publicly acknowledged to be insane. That was even more unbelievable ... Even the professional video game designers were dissuaded after trying out Dark Souls, let alone the girls. At most, they could only get through one round of the game to see the plot. Zhang Bei really wanted to ask, girl, does your family know that you¡¯re so cool? Zhang Bei coughed twice.¡±With your level, you can totally be a streamer. Did you have simr thoughts before?¡± Li jingsi shook her head.¡±No, I don¡¯t think there¡¯s any point in being a streamer.¡± Zhang Bei and Qiu bin looked at each other, both thinking that this girl was pretty independent. Normally, if a normal person could y League of Legends to the level of the king, they would definitely try to do a live stream. After all, the live stream industry was so popr now. Those big live streamers could easily earn hundreds of thousands or millions a year. Many people were trying their best to get into the live stream industry. If he was really talented and had outstanding gaming skills, this was equivalent to a gift from the heavens. How could he bepletely uninterested in the streamer? Moreover, with li jingsi¡¯s looks and skills, she would definitely be a pir of the livestream, right? Even if he didn¡¯t like to talk or joke, as long as he sat in front of theputer, turned on the camera, and yed a King ranked game, his poprity would still rise! Zhang Bei said,¡±hmm...You mean you¡¯re not interested in live streaming?¡± Then why are you interested in game design?¡± ¡°Oh, I¡¯m actually not interested in game design,¡± li jingsi said. Zhang Bei was speechless. Chapter 568

Chapter 568: The interviewer¡¯s big setback

Trantor: 549690339

If you¡¯re not interested, then why are you talking about it? What are you doing here today? Qiu bin didn¡¯t think much of it. He had heard about li jingsi¡¯s personality before, but what interested him more was li jingsi¡¯s champion level in League of Legends. Although game experience wasn¡¯t that important to a video game designer, it still depended on the game experience. Now, League of Legends was still in a very popr stage. Manypanies were researching mobile games simr to League of Legends. If there was a master of League of Legends in the project, it would be helpful for the development of the entire project. After all, the king yer¡¯s understanding of the game was not something that ordinary people couldpare to. At first, Qiu bin had thought that the interview was just a formality, but after hearing that li jingsi was a King, he suddenly became interested. This was because he had a special mission foring to the imperial capital. Manypanies were trying to make mobile MOBA games, but none of them had made a dominating game yet. Lin chaoxu felt that the timing was good. He could try to transnt ¡°ancient catastrophe¡± to the mobile tform. He might be able to hit the jackpot. If they could do well on the mobile game tform, it would be a very promising project. Therefore, the task fell on Zhang Bei of Emperor dynasty Entertainment¡¯s imperial capital Branch. Qiu bin¡¯s visit this time was to spread the advanced design concept of mobile games, and also to consult Zhang Bei on how to modify the ancient catastrophe after transnting it to the mobile version. Strictly speaking, the staff for the entire ancient catastrophe project was sufficient, but theycked someone who had a deep understanding of MOBA games. The highest level of the designers in the entire project team was tinum. It was unrealistic to expect these people toe up with a bnced MOBA mobile game ... ...... Li jingsi appeared at this critical moment. ¡°Okay,¡± Qiu bin said,¡±then why don¡¯t you tell me the ws of League of Legends?¡± ¡°ws?¡± Li jingsi thought for a moment.¡±This game doesn¡¯t have any ws.¡± Qiu bin was speechless, how could they continue the conversation? There¡¯s no such thing as a perfect game in this world. Is there a problem with me asking you to talk about your ws? Qiu bin coughed and said,¡±how can there be no ws?¡± Think about it, isn¡¯t his weakness to have a single ystyle? There are only two or three maps in League of Legends, and yers can only y Summoner¡¯s Rift and asionally fight. There aren¡¯t any rich modes at all!¡± Li jingsi said,¡±that¡¯s because the core fun of League of Legends lies in the cooperation between different heroes. Even if there¡¯s an extra map, the yers won¡¯t be interested at all. It¡¯s a waste of effort.¡± Qiu bin was a little speechless, then he said,¡±then, a rigid formation is a weakness, right?¡± In League of Legends, everyone has to choose based on top, jungler, mid, and bottomne. There¡¯s no room for flexibility at all. ¡± Li jingsi replied,¡±that¡¯s because we have to consider the difficulty of the yers getting used to it. This kind of position allocation allows the yers to easily choose a suitable lineup. It will allow them to get used to it faster. It also prevents them from randomly choosing people and causing the newbies ¡®gaming experience to deteriorate.¡± Qiu bin was speechless. Why did it feel like the roles of the interviewee and the interviewee were reversed? Actually, Qiu bin didn¡¯t have much research on games like League of Legends. He had only made mobile games before, and the questions he asked about League of Legends during the interview were just casual questions. In the end, li jingsi had turned the tables on him and taught him a lesson ... This was really embarrassing ... Although the situation was a little awkward, Zhang Bei was now looking at li jingsi in a different light. In the beginning, Zhang Bei had felt that li jingsi was rather unreliable, but after answering these two questions, li jingsi¡¯s image in his heart suddenly rose. Indeed, what Qiu bin raised were the two problems that were often criticized in League of Legends, and they were also two settings that many yers didn¡¯t understand. However, for li jingsi to be able to analyze the design intent of the designer so clearly with just a few words, this kind of insight was not something that ordinary yers could have. Zhang Bei couldn¡¯t help but sigh. She was indeed a King. She could see the problem clearly. It seemed that this girl was indeed quite capable. What they didn¡¯t know was that li jingsi often yed duos with Chen Mo in League of Legends, and she had heard a lot of her questions from Chen Mo. He didn¡¯t dare to say anything else, but if he answered League of Legends ¡®questions, he would really be walking right into the muzzle of a gun ... ¡°So, what do you think of mobile MOBA games?¡± Zhang Bei asked. ¡°Hmm ...¡± Li jingsi thought for a moment and said,¡±it should have very good development prospects, right?¡± Zhang Bei was surprised,¡±huh?¡± Can you tell me more about the future?¡± ¡°I¡¯m not sure,¡±li jingsi replied,¡±it¡¯s just a feeling.¡± Zhang Bei was speechless. This girl was really direct, she didn¡¯t even bother toe up with a reason! Li jingsi had said that mobile MOBA games had potential because she knew that Chen Mo was working on it ... It was obvious that Chen Mo¡¯s games were all promising ... Zhang Bei coughed twice. This was the first time he had encountered such a challenging interview. Li jingsi seemed to have something on her mind, but she just didn¡¯t like to talk about it. The interviewers had to rack their brains before they could answer her ... He answered every question he was asked. There was no one else in the world who would have such an annoying interview ... If it had been anyone else, Zhang Bei might have already sent them away impatiently. However, li jingsi was a top designer, after all. Zhang Bei felt that she had a lot of ideas and had the potential to be a designer, so he needed to confirm it further. ¡°What if I asked you to change ancient catastrophe into a mobile game?¡± Zhang Bei asked.¡±What would you do?¡± ¡°I¡¯ve never yed ancient catastrophe,¡±li jingsi replied. Zhang Bei was speechless. He thought for a moment and said,¡¯then let¡¯s change to a more specific question. What do you think needs to be changed between mobile MOBA games and PC League of Legends? Let me give you a hint, skill type. ¡± ¡°Skill type?¡± li jingsi was dumbfounded. ¡°Yes,¡± Zhang Bei nodded.¡±For example, some skills in League of Legends are limited by the operation mode and can¡¯t be transnted to the phone. Annie¡¯s ultimate skill required a precise range, which was very difficult to achieve on the phone. At this time, we will need to redesign the skill. What kind of skill do you think is better?¡± ¡°In order to match the characteristics of the hero, the new ulti must be able to rece the original ulti, and it must also be in line with the operating habits of mobile games.¡± ¡°In this situation, shouldn¡¯t the first thing to do be to improve the mobile game¡¯s operating system?¡± li jingsi asked. Zhang Bei was stunned. How do we change it?¡± ¡°I¡¯m just saying,¡±li jingsi replied. Zhang Bei was speechless. Why was the interview so difficult? Chapter 569

Chapter 569: Messy in the wind

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Zhang Bei and Qiu bin asked a few more questions, and Li jingsi continued to answer as she pleased, causing a lot of frustration in the room. Moreover, when it came to the professional questions at the end, li jingsi¡¯sck of basic knowledge in game design was shocking to everyone ... It was obvious that she had no prior experience in the game design industry! After asking a few more questions, Zhang Bei felt that he had asked enough, so he said,¡±¡±Alright, we¡¯ve already understood some of your basic situation. Let¡¯s discuss it again. If you pass the interview, we¡¯ll give you an answer the day after tomorrow at thetest.¡± Li jingsi nodded, stood up, and politely thanked him before turning to leave. The interview was much longer than she had imagined. At first, li jingsi had thought that the interview would just be a formality. The other party would happily ask a few basic questions, and she would happily say that she didn¡¯t know anything. After that, the interview would end happily, and she would go home happily to report to her cousin. In the end, he didn¡¯t know what questions he answered correctly by ident, but the other party suddenly became interested and asked a lot of questions in a row ... In the end, even li jingsi herself felt a little awkward, because she really did not understand! ¡­¡­ After li jingsi left the meeting room, Qiu bin and Zhang Bei didn¡¯t leave immediately. Instead, they first discussed the results of the interview. Qiu bin was conflicted,¡±I think this girl¡¯s knowledge of the game industry is too shallow. She doesn¡¯t even understand the most basic concepts!¡± He¡¯s obviously not interested in the game industry, what do you think?¡± Zhang Bei nodded.¡±That¡¯s right. I think his understanding of MOBA mobile games is a little off. His first reaction is to change the operating mode of the mobile game?¡± But that¡¯s the nature of mobile games. No matter how much you change it, it can¡¯t be better than a PC game!¡± ...... ¡°You¡¯re the person in charge of the ¡®ancient catastrophe¡¯ project,¡± Qiu bin said.¡±I¡¯ll let you make the decision.¡± Zhang Bei thought,¡¯sigh, it¡¯s a pity, but let¡¯s forget it. Even though she was good at League of Legends, her understanding of mobile games was too shallow. Moreover, if you don¡¯t know some basic knowledge, it¡¯ll be very troublesome tomunicate at work in the future. ¡± A girl next to her interrupted,¡±let me say something. She said that League of Legends is at the level of Kings. I¡¯m really suspicious. She¡¯s so good-looking and so good at ying games. How could she do a livestream for no reason?¡± For example, there hasn¡¯t been a Queen on fish-catching live streaming tform yet, right?¡± ¡°You mean she¡¯s lying?¡± Zhang Bei asked. The round-faced girl waved her hand.¡±I can¡¯t be sure about that. But I think it¡¯s possible.¡± Qiu bin knocked on the table and said,¡±Okay, okay, we¡¯re getting off topic.¡± Alright, since you think it¡¯s not suitable, then I don¡¯t want it. It took me quite a few turns to get this interview anyway, so I¡¯ll just make some arrangements. ¡± The few of them chatted in the meeting room for a while more before Qiu bin was ready to leave. This time, he hade to Imperial to discuss a few key issues with Zhang Bei, including some magical changes to the mobile game ¡°ancient catastrophe¡±, and the addition of some popr top-up activities and special ying methods. Now that most of the content had been decided, Qiu bin was ready to leave the imperial capital and return to Emperor dynasty Entertainment¡¯s headquarters. As Qiu bin walked out, Zhang Bei naturally had to send him off. After all, Qiu bin was from the headquarters, and was the best Mobile Game designer in the field of mobile games, so he had to get closer to him. The two of them arrived at the entrance of the hall on the first floor and realized that li jingsi had not left. When he looked again, it had started to rain. ¡°You didn¡¯t bring an umbre?¡± Qiu bin asked out of courtesy. Li jingsi smiled.¡±That¡¯s right. But it¡¯s fine. I¡¯ll get my friend to pick me up.¡± He¡¯s still on the train, he should be here soon. ¡± Qiu bin nodded. Taking the subway reminded him of his school days, but that was a long time ago. Zhang Bei said to Qiu bin,¡±boss Qiu, I¡¯ll arrange for someone to send you to the airport. He¡¯s driving over now. Please wait for a moment.¡± ¡°Okay,¡± Qiu bin nodded. The three of them stood in the lobby. The car had not arrived yet, so the atmosphere was a little awkward. Qiu bin said to li jingsi,¡±if you want to enter the industry, you can learn more about game design. I think you have a good foundation. If you know more about it, you won¡¯t make thosemon mistakes again.¡± ¡°As I said today, it¡¯s obviously hard to improve the control mode of mobile MOBA games. Touch control is basically not suitable, so it¡¯s hard to release skills as you like in client-side games. You can only work on the skills in the game. As long as you have some basic knowledge of the game industry, you won¡¯t make such a mistake. ¡± Li jingsi looked out of the window absent-mindedly, not sure if she was listening. ¡°Who said that mobile MOBA games can¡¯t have a different operating mode?¡± someone said. Li jingsi turned around and looked,¡±eh? You¡¯re here. How did you get here from that side?¡± Qiu bin was dumbfounded when he saw the person. What was going on? Why was Chen Zhao here? Chen Mo closed the umbre and said to Qiu bin,¡±¡±Hey, old Qiu, long time no see.¡± Qiu bin¡¯s mouth twitched. What a coincidence, meeting this jinx ... Wait a minute! Looking at the umbre in Chen Mo¡¯s hand, Qiu bin suddenly had a bad feeling,¡±¡±Don¡¯t tell me you¡¯re here to ... Pick her up?¡± ¡°Yeah, what¡¯s up?¡± Chen Mo nodded. ¡°You ... Took the subway here?¡± Qiu bin¡¯s face hurt. Chen Mo chuckled,¡±it¡¯s peak hour, I¡¯m afraid of traffic.¡± Qiu bin was speechless. How could a rich boss like him take the subway to pick someone up? ¡°Alright, let¡¯s go,¡± Chen Zhao said to li jingsi. MOBA mobile games have to be changed, don¡¯t listen to their nonsense. ¡± Li jingsi nodded and followed Chen Mo out of the main hall. Qiu bin was speechless. Zhang Bei was speechless. Qiu bin was speechless, what the hell? Did you run so far away just to p my face? I just said that it¡¯s hard to improve the operating mode of MOBA mobile games, and you¡¯re going against me ... And what was with this li jingsi? It seemed like she had a special rtionship with Chen Zhao. Then you should just go work at Thunderbolt entertainment, why did youe to Emperor dynasty entertainment for an interview? Wasn¡¯t this just causing trouble? F * ck! Qiu bin felt terrible. He hade to the imperial capital as an Imperial envoy, but his mood had been ruined by an interview ... Zhang Bei was also speechless. Of course, he knew Chen Zhao, but Chen Zhao didn¡¯t know him. After all, the two of them were not on the same level ... What he was more concerned about was Chen Zhao¡¯sst sentence.¡±¡±The operating mode of a mobile MOBA game definitely needs to be changed!¡± This made Zhang Bei feel conflicted, because he had already discussed the game¡¯s operating mode with Qiu bin. It was basically going to be done ording to the traditional way, but Chen Mo actually wanted to change the traditional way? Are you F * cking going to change it or not? If he changed it, Jin jieguang¡¯s mistake was still vivid in his mind ... If he didn¡¯t change it, he wouldn¡¯t feel at ease. After all, this was Chen Mo, the best videogame designer in both mobile games and MOBA ... He was so conflicted! Just like that, Zhang Bei and Qiu bin¡¯s minds were in a mess ... Chapter 570

Chapter 570: Chen Zhao is tricking you!

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The current mobile game market was basically in a state of blooming with all kinds of flowers. No game genre had dominated the market. In the parallel world, the development of mobile games had a few key stages. The first stage was when I am mt started a wave of mobile card games. The video game designers realized that such mobile card games were highly profitable, easy to make, and made good use of ip, which was why there was a wave of mobile card games. The second stage was the heavy game craze brought about by thend of the guide. Even though Onmyoji could be considered an era-defining game, it was still the creator of mobile card games, not the pioneer. It was a perfect harvest for the market, but it didn¡¯t bring about a change in the mobile game market. Although leading thend was a rtively unpopr strategy game, its heavy attributes made many designers realize that mobile games could be made moreplex. A few mobile game designers were inspired to try to port their PC games to the mobile game. These games were getting more and more intense, and some of them even required four to five hours to y every day. At this stage, the mobile game market in the parallel world was very simr to that in Chen Mo¡¯s previous world. Even though the design concept of mobile games in parallel world was very backward, the technology had long since reached that stage, so the speed of development was much faster than in his previous life. However, there was one thing that was different from reality. MOBA games appeared rtivelyte. It had only been slightly more than a year since they first appeared. In the past year or so, League of Legends went from being looked down on at the beginning to growing and expanding. It was actually a very fast process, so many designers didn¡¯t realize the potential of this game model at first. After League of Legends became popr, these people also tried to make mobile MOBA games, but because of time constraints, they hadn¡¯t found a good way to transnt it. ¡­¡­ Zhang Bei was having a headache. Theputer screen in front of him had several drafts for the mobile game, ancient catastrophe, but none of them had been finalized. ...... Chen Zhao¡¯s previous words made Zhang Bei feel like he had F * cked a dog. It was mainly because Chen Zhao¡¯s tone was too certain, as if this was something that was beyond doubt ... Traditional MOBA games definitely wouldn¡¯t work. They needed to change! But how should he change it? Obviously, Chen Zhao would not reveal it ... Zhang Bei didn¡¯t want to make any changes, but he was the person in charge of the ¡°ancient catastrophe¡± mobile game project. He always felt uneasy about such a key design, so he had already privately written several design drafts to make changes. But no matter how he changed it, he was not satisfied. The phone screen was only so big, and Zhang Bei really couldn¡¯t figure out how to change the operating mode. An easier way to think of was to change the entire operation method to touch, which meant that he could tap on the screen to farm and attack the hero. But the problem was that this design had been done in mobile games before, and the results weren¡¯t good. This design was veryfortable on a tablet, but it felt terrible on a mobile phone. Most of the mobile gamers in the country still yed mobile games on their phones. Very few of them used tablets. Therefore, this kind of design n would not work at all. Zhang Bei felt like his head was about to explode. He really wanted to grab Chen Mo and ask him how he was going to change it! There was no way to change this! Zhang Bei sent a message to the internal chat group of the designers of Emperor dynasty entertainment: ¡°Everyone, take a look at my design ns. Are they reliable?¡± There were many designers from Emperor dynasty entertainment in the group, both mobile and PC. They knew each other well and trusted each other. Usually, when they encountered some design problems, they would discuss it with the others in this group to stimte their brains and so on. Someone looked at Zhang Bei¡¯s design and asked,¡±¡±Didn¡¯t you say that the operational design for the mobile game ¡®ancient catastrophe¡¯ has been finalized? Why do you still want to change it?¡± Zhang Bei typed,[sigh, don¡¯t mention it.] When I ran into Chen Mo today, I didn¡¯t know if Chen Mo mentioned it intentionally or unintentionally, but he said that the controls for mobile MOBA games had to be changed, and he was very certain about it ...¡± ¡°He told you to change,¡± someone asked.¡±Why are you so obedient?¡± Zhang Bei was speechless.¡±I can¡¯t help it. After all, Chen Mo is a God in the field of mobile and MOBA games. I can¡¯t help but be worried when he suddenly says something like that ...¡± While everyone was chatting, Jin jieguang suddenly appeared. ¡°F * ck, don¡¯t listen to Chen Zhao¡¯s lies! He¡¯s definitely setting up a trap to trick you! I was tricked by him in this way! He likes to y this trick, pretending to identally let something slip and letting you hear it. There must be a trick in it, so don¡¯t fall for it, just stick to your own n!¡± The other designers also agreed. ¡°That¡¯s right. There are already a few mobile MOBA games out there, and the controls are basically done in a more traditional way. After all, the left hand has to use the virtual joystick to control the character¡¯s movement, and the right hand has to press four skills. There¡¯s no more space for other buttons on the screen. The space on the screen was only so big, could Chen Mo even do anything? I think he¡¯s just fooling you!¡± Everyone expressed that they couldn¡¯t believe big Chen¡¯s words. He was most likely lying! If they believed Chen Zhao, they would probably be wrong ... Under everyone¡¯s persuasion, Zhang Bei¡¯s heart also calmed down a little. In the end, he decided to follow the previous design! ¡­¡­ On Chen Mo¡¯s end, Dark Souls and mobile Legends were both developed at the same time, so they didn¡¯t affect each other. As a mobile game, even though the settings of Mobile Legends were quiteplicated, Chen Mo already had the experience of making League of Legends, so making another mobile game was a piece of cake. Chen Mo didn¡¯t even ask much about the production process, leaving it to Qian Hua. Of course, Qian Kun would also ask questions that he wasn¡¯t sure about. When he first took over Mobile Legends, Qian Kun was a little reluctant. However, after looking at the details of the game, Qian Kun suddenly fell in love with the game! The reason was simple. It was a game with paywalls! Qian Kun had always been passionate about games with paywalls, but Chen Mo didn¡¯t make as many games as before, so Qian Kun didn¡¯t really have the chance to use it. After seeing some of the settings of Mobile Legends, Qian Kun was extremely excited. He felt that this game was in tune with his ideas! For example, drawing runes with diamonds, buying heroes with point certificates, and a special treasure snatching system. This was totally a lottery! There were also all sorts of treasure chests in the game, it was like cheating people to spend their money, all of this made Qian Kun extremely excited! Chapter 571

Chapter 571: ¡°Ancient catastrophe¡± is back!

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It could be said that in terms of P2w games, King of Glory was the best. Some of the more popr designs had been concentrated in King of Glory, so there was no doubt about its profitability. Moreover, many of the designs in the design document surprised Qian Kun. He had been wondering how a mobile MOBA game should be made since League of Legends was a PC game and many of the controls were not suitable for mobile games. It was obvious that Chen Mo already had a n in mind, including the two-roulette system, the special controls, and some changes to the game¡¯s settings. All of these pointed to the fact that the game was perfect for mobile games. However, there were also some designs that surprised Qian Kun. ¡°Manager,¡± Qian Kun asked Chen Mo,¡±I saw in your design concept draft that you¡¯re going to use Pangu¡¯s derivative functions to create some very simple AI for the game?¡± Pretending to be a yer?¡± Chen Mo nodded,¡±yeah, why?¡± Qian Kun couldn¡¯t help but facepalm.¡±Manager, isn¡¯t it a bit of a waste to use the Pangu system as a simple AI? isn¡¯t that overkill?¡± he thought. Besides, these things are useless, right? As long as our fish pond is deep enough and we have enough yers, we don¡¯t need these robots to support the scene!¡± Chen Zhao shook his head,¡±why would I? Anyway, he had already been given the authority to the Pangu system, so it would be a waste not to use it. Moreover, these were all rtively simple AI that would not take up too much of the Pangu system¡¯s performance. It¡¯s a waste not to use the Pangu system, isn¡¯t it?¡± ¡°Ah?¡± ¡°Also,¡± Chen Zhao continued,¡±a deep fish pond also needs robots. This was different from League of Legends, because the yer base was different. In Mobile Legends, there were many primary school students and female yers who had nevere into contact with such games before. Their true abilities might be even weaker than a simpleputer. So, how could he let them experience the fun of this game and enjoy the thrill of killing people? Obviously, I¡¯m using AI. ¡± ¡°If King of Glory wants to capture as many yers as possible, the fish pond can never be too deep. We have to make sure that the yers at the bottom of the fish pond can enjoy the game.¡± Qian Kun said thoughtfully,¡±I understand, manager.¡± But I still feel that if the Pangu system could speak, it would definitely be cursing ...¡± ¡°Hehe.¡± Chen Zhaoughed.¡±Then let him bite me.¡± ...... ¡­¡­ AI was also a design that Chen Mo came up with on a whim. In fact, there was also a part of AI in Mobile Legends, but it was more hidden and looked more stupid. These AI would only appear in the lower tiers to ensure the lowest gaming experience for yers. However, Chen Mo had an even more convenient AI, the Pangu system. Other than being able to fully simte the physical world, the Pangu system also had other functions. For example, Chen Mo nned to use the Pangu system to create a more powerful monster AI in Dark Souls to let the yers experience death. As for Mobile Legends, Chen Mo nned to let the AI act as the yers in the game, allowing the real yers to have a better gaming experience. Of course, as long as the AI appeared, it would appear together with five people and would not be on the same side as the real yers, which would cause the yers to be cheated. The AI would strictly control their behavior and determine the level of the AI ording to the level of the enemy yers. On the whole, it was definitely slightly lower than the yers. In this way, the yers would have a higher chance of winning. At the same time, the yers would at most doubt that these were AI, because these AI had a certain internal behavioral logic and were not stupid simple man-made machines. These AI¡¯s were mainly concentrated in the lower grades, ranging from bronze to gold. There were many traps in this segment, and some yers didn¡¯t know how to y at all. Their operations were even worse than a simpleputer, so they didn¡¯t have to worry about being discovered. Of course, it didn¡¯t matter even if they were discovered because the yers didn¡¯t have any evidence and could only guess. Moreover, this system was nothing more than giving benefits to the yers and did not harm the interests of other yers. Of course, the only thing that was a bit of a waste was that he was using the Pangu system as a punching bag for newbie yers ... However, Chen Mo didn¡¯t really care about this. Wasn¡¯t artificial intelligence meant to be used? Don¡¯t tell me he¡¯s saving it for the new year? ¡­¡­ The development of the mobile version of primordial catastrophe and mobile glory of kings were both very fast. After all, many of the design concepts were rtively mature, and both sides were racing against time to make progress. Inparison, the development of ancient catastrophe was much faster than King of Glory because this project was established earlier than King of Glory, and the designers at Emperor dynasty entertainment were also working overtime. As the mobile version of ancient catastrophe sped up, Emperor dynasty Entertainment¡¯s publicity campaign was alsounched. Although the ancient catastrophe was not a very sessful PC project, it still had a group of core yers, and the quality was good in all aspects, so it could barely be considered an ip. Articles about the mobile version of ancient catastrophe appeared on various video game media. ¡°An epoch-making MOBA mobile game, the mobile version of ancient catastrophe, is about to be released!¡± Continuing the ssic PC gamey, redefining mobile MOBA! ¡°Summer heat of passion,e to the mobile version of the ancient catastrophe and y with me!¡± ¡°I haven¡¯t touched League of Legends for days after ying this game!¡± All sorts of manuscripts. Some of them were serious, some of them were not, and many of them were just trying to ride on the coattails of League of Legends. After all, League of Legends was undeniably popr on the PC side, and most of the mobile games were trying to get closer to League of Legends, trying to bring in League of Legends yers. As long as he could attract some yers of League of Legends to y in their spare time, he should be able to make a lot of money from this game. Of course, such a way of advertising would definitely arouse the disgust of many core yers of League of Legends. On the forum, many loyal yers of League of Legends wereining. ¡°F * ck, didn¡¯t ancient catastrophe, which was instantly destroyed by League of Legends, die long ago? How can you still have the nerve to make a mobile version?¡± ¡°It¡¯s a continuation of the PC version of the ancient catastrophe. Why don¡¯t I know what the ssic game is?¡± ¡°Redefine MOBA mobile games? This is too much!¡± ¡°Wow, Emperor dynasty¡¯s style is still the same, they¡¯re really shameless when ites to publicity! But I really want toin that mobile MOBA games aren¡¯t that great these days. They can¡¯t evenpare to League of Legends. ¡± Chapter 572

Chapter 572: You can¡¯t stop drinking pesticide!

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Obviously, many yers had tried other mobile MOBA games, and the main thing they felt was that there was a huge difference between mobile MOBA games and client-side games. Before the trend of mobile MOBA games had developed, it was impossible to gather so many yers. The promotion methods of these games were basically for the yers of League of Legends, because these people were the easiest to attract. However, this created a paradox. The yers of League of Legends had a very different experience on the PC and on the mobile. This was because mobile MOBA games were easy to operate and the content was repetitive. It looked like an emascted version of League of Legends. Except for some yers who were not good at League of Legends and could not enjoy the pleasure of torturing others, most people found it boring. The abridged version of League of Legends would never surpass League of Legends. Many video game designers had realized that if they wanted to make a dominating MOBA mobile game, they would have to make a difference from League of Legends. If it was just a watered-down version of League of Legends, it wouldn¡¯t be verypetitive. Under the overwhelming publicity, the mobile version of ancient catastrophe was officially released! The mobile version of the game had made a lot of changespared to the previous PC version. After all, the reasons for the failure of the ancient catastrophe had been more or less summarized. Zhang Bei had also made some changes to the mobile version, such as adding in the farming, economy, equipment system, and refining the in-game data. In addition, Zhang Bei also made some innovations. For example, he made a few more maps in the mobile version, and each map had a different map mechanism. At the same time, the hero design also continued the popr design from before. Some skills that were not suitable for mobile games were all changed to directional skills. After the mobile version of ancient catastrophe was released, many yers still downloaded the game even though it was despised and boycotted by many League of Legends yers. This was the advantage of mobile games. Even though mobile games weren¡¯t as impressive as PC games, they were convenient. Just the fact that they could y while lying down was enough to make many yers switch to pitcher games. Just like those mobile games in his previous life, they basically emascted yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground and transnted it to mobile phones. There was basically no innovation, but it was still very popr. In the end, it was still a matter of threshold. It could be said that most yers did not have high expectations for the details of the game. It was enough as long as they could experience the core fun of this type of game. ...... ¡­¡­ Apart from the core yers of League of Legends, many other yers had good reviews for the game. ¡°Not bad. I think this game is very interesting. Killing people is quite easy!¡± ¡°I¡¯ve never yed League of Legends before, but I feel that ancient catastrophe is very interesting. I wonder why you guys are talking about League of Legends?¡± ¡°Sister, please carry me! Is there any Big Shot who can help me score?¡± ¡°I think the characters in this game are all very beautiful, especially the female characters ¡®skin!¡± ¡°Although it¡¯s a simplified version of League of Legends, it can be yed on the phone. It¡¯s good enough that you can y it while lying down!¡± ¡°And I feel that this game is quite simple. I¡¯m super amazing the first time I yed it. I feel that there are more noob yers in this game than League of Legends!¡± After the initial release, the mobile version of ancient catastrophe had been doing well. Emperor dynasty entertainment continued to promote the game with all their might, trying to expand the game¡¯s influence. At the moment, there wasn¡¯t a dominating MOBA game in the country yet, so Emperor dynasty entertainment hoped that the game would be ancient catastrophe. Soon, the mobile version of ancient catastrophe began to climb up the best selling leaderboard, and it was even gradually approaching the position of moon God¡¯s prophecy! Of course, part of the reason was that when the mobile version of ancient catastrophe was first released, there were a lot of operations, such as monthly cards, lifetime cards, hero gift bags, skin gift bags, and so on. Under the stimtion of such arge-scale event, yers ¡®enthusiasm for topping up their game cards reached a peak not long after the game wasunched. That was why ¡°ancient catastrophe¡± had climbed so quickly on the best-selling list. However, this was enough to show that the ancient catastrophe had a good start. ¡­¡­ In the industry, many designers were using the sess of ancient catastrophe to discuss the feasibility of mobile MOBA games. ¡°Who¡¯s been following Emperor dynasty Entertainment¡¯s mobile version of ancient catastrophe? The data seemed to be very good. Moreover, the Emperor dynasty is also sparing no effort in promoting it. ¡± ¡°I tried it out, and it felt good. The quality of the game is not bad. But I really want to say that MOBA games can¡¯t bepared to mobile games at all. This game can only be considered a castrated version of League of Legends. ¡± ¡°But this is a mobile game. You can y it anytime, anywhere, even while lying in bed. It¡¯s rtively simple and there are many noobs. It¡¯s not on the same tform as League of Legends, so there¡¯s basically nopetition. ¡± ¡°Yeah, this time, the ancient catastrophe isn¡¯t as cold as the PC game. Looks like Emperor dynasty entertainment has learned their lesson and has finally learned something. ¡± ¡°Yeah, Emperor dynasty entertainment has made quite a few MOBA games and umted a lot of experience. It¡¯d be weird if they couldn¡¯t make another sessful game!¡± ¡°By the way, Chen Mo doesn¡¯t seem to have any reaction. I¡¯ve been keeping a low profile recently. ¡± ¡°His Dark Souls has been well-received and is now working on a sequel. Even League of Legends seems to have been handed over to his assistant to maintain. He¡¯spletely shifted his focus to vr games, obviously not nning to y with us mobile game designers anymore, he¡¯s already out of this stage. ¡± Many video game designers felt that it was a pity that the mobile game industry was boring and lonely without Chen Mo. Even though Chen Mo¡¯s previous games had turned the mobile gaming industry upside down, he had still brought a lot of innovation. Now that Chen Mo had gone to the more advanced VR industry, the designers were starting to miss him. While the designers were still reminiscing, Chen Mo posted on Weibo. ¡°The new game King of Glory is about to be released. This is a game that you can¡¯t stop ying! You can learn about history and ancient people by ying mobile MOBA games. You deserve to y mobile Legends!¡± The video game designers were speechless. What was going on? I just said you¡¯re not ying mobile games anymore, why are you back? A lot of people suddenly recalled the script Chen Mo had when he released Onmyoji. It was also when everyone thought that Chen Mo had stopped ying mobile games, that he suddenly came back and used Onmyoji to push the monthly revenue of the most popr games in the mobile game market to hundreds of millions ... And this time, Chen Mo actually made a mobile MOBA! However, a lot of people were puzzled, because Chen Mo¡¯s Weibo felt different from before. Why did it feel a little indecent? To y games, one had to understand historical knowledge and ancient characters? Why did it feel like he had gone off track? What kind of game was this? Chapter 573

Chapter 573: Prosperous Chang ¡®an

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Chen Mo made a mobile game? Moreover, it was a MOBA mobile game? Both the video game designers and yers were surprised, because they knew that Chen Mo was making a prequel to Dark Souls, which had been promoted before. ording to Chen Mo¡¯s personality, he rarely developed two games at the same time. After all, Thunderbolt entertainment was different from otherpanies. They mainly focused on quality games and rarely generated revenue through the number of shops. Chen Mo rarely saw two games being developed at the same time. The news made Zhang Bei and the other designers ¡®hearts skip a beat. The worst situation had appeared! Many video game designers in the industry hade to amon understanding, and that was to never sh with Chen Mo! No matter what type of game it was, no matter how early orte it was made, as long as they crashed into Chen Mo, they would die an ugly death ... There were many people who looked down on Chen Mo before, and would even mock him when he entered the new videogame industry, but not many had such thoughts anymore, because the grass on the graves of the previous designers was already a few meters long ... There were two main opinions on the new mobile game. Some people felt that Chen Mo¡¯s main focus was on Dark Souls, and he still had to promote the Switch. With so many things to do, how could he waste his energy on a high quality mobile game? Therefore, the game must have been developed by someone else in Thunderbolt entertainment, and Chen Mo was just promoting it. However, there were also people who said that even if Chen Mo didn¡¯t make the game himself, he must have designed it. ...... Based on the previous situation, Chen Mo wouldn¡¯t release a normal mobile game for no reason. Any game that could be on Thunderbolt gaming tform¡¯s front page was definitely no ordinary game. ¡­¡­ When Zhang Bei heard the news, his first reaction was to look for Mobile Legends on his phone and download it immediately. Although the mobile version of the ancient catastrophe had been released, and the data was not bad, Zhang Bei knew that glory of kings would definitely be the strongestpetitor for his game. He would not feel at ease if he did not study it immediately. This time, the game¡¯s capacity was not small, but the yers were not surprised because the new games were getting more and more intensive, and the game instation package was getting bigger and bigger. As a mobile MOBA game, King of Glory was definitely rich in content, and the instation package would not be small. Zhang Bei installed the game and clicked on the icon to enter. In fact, Zhang Bei was still a little nervous. The main reason was because they weren¡¯t prepared for it, as Chen Mo didn¡¯t even let out any news about him making a MOBA mobile game, and now he just threw the game out like that, aren¡¯t you scared? Furthermore, Zhang Bei had met Chen Most time, and Chen Mo seemed to be very confident about how to make a MOBA mobile game, causing Zhang Bei toe up with a few design changes ... Therefore, Zhang Bei was very curious. If Chen Mo said that he would definitely change the design of traditional mobile MOBA games, then what was he nning to do? ¡­¡­ After entering the game, the first scene was the opening animation. Chang ¡®an was bustling at night. The bell rang, and the gate slowly opened. Zhong Kui walked out. Standing on the roof, Li Bai looked in the direction of Zhong Yuan. He raised his wine pot and took a sip of wine. In the dark corners of Chang ¡®an, there seemed to be countless people who were ready to make a move, as if they were coveting something. Li Bai ran quickly on the roof. His body swayed as if he was drunk, but his body was very elegant and graceful. He came to the top of Zhong Kui¡¯s head and jumped down! Di Renjie, Lee Yuan Fang, Miyamoto Musashi, Marco Polo ... A series of heroes appeared one after another, and the fighting scene was extremely gorgeous. Coupled with the beautiful scene design and smooth character movements, the whole CG was instantly elevated to a higher level! This cinematics was from Chen Mo¡¯s previous life¡¯s glory of the Kings. This was also a CG that tianmei had spent a lot of money to make after they had made a lot of money. Although the plot was a little empty and it was difficult topare with the quality and content of the CG manufacturers, the quality was already very good in terms of the graphics. It could be said to be the top standard. After all, money was omnipotent. As long as one was willing to spend money, even the most beautiful CG could be produced ... This time, Chen Mo was obviously going to use Thunderbolt film¡¯s style to recreate the exquisite cinematics, even better than in his previous life. However, Chen Mo also felt that the cinematic was a bit too long, so he cut it down and focused on a few exciting fighting scenes. If it was like Chen Mo¡¯s previous n, he would release a cinematic to hype up the game before it was released. But now that Chen Mo didn¡¯t need to spend so much effort on advertising, he could skip all these steps. To put it simply, it was just a little inted ... Because Chen Mo had a huge influence in China and had ess to Thunderbolt gaming tform, even if there wasn¡¯t any promotion, there would be a huge number of yers ying the game with the level of King of Glory. Therefore, they didn¡¯t need to spend so much effort on advertising. After the cinematics were released, it immediately caused a widespread discussion among the yers! ¡°Sigh, Chen Mo¡¯s game is indeed a big production. Thunderbolt movies is indeed worthy of their reputation!¡± ¡°Indeed, this cinematic is much better than the Onmyoji ¡®s. Did you guys realize that Chen Mo has always been a thrifty person when making mobile games? he rarely spends a lot of money, but it seems like he¡¯s going all out this time!¡± ¡°Indeed, Chen Mo saved a lot of money on mobile games before. Onmyoji¡¯s opening cinematics were simple, and leadingnd was even less. Looks like he¡¯s serious about making a mobile game this time?¡± ¡°The quality of the cinematics is pretty good, but the plot is confusing. What the hell are these characters?¡± ¡°Hmm ... From the name, it seems to be the prosperous Chang ¡®an, which means this is Chang¡¯ an city? But I don¡¯t seem to recognize any of them ...¡± ¡°This drunkard is quite handsome. I don¡¯t know where he¡¯s from, but he seems to be the main character!¡± ¡°From the video, he¡¯s being treated like a son. I wonder how it¡¯s like in the game?¡± Many yers were discussing the game. There were two main reactions. One was that the cinematics and fighting scenes were good. The other question was, who were these people? Chapter 574

Chapter 574: The game¡¯s pace is fast

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However, there was at least one thing that everyone was clear about. From the CG, this game was basically a Chinese style game, and the heroes in the game were mainly Chinese heroes. This was a surprise to many yers, as Western fantasy heroes were still the mainstream MOBA in China. Speaking of which, this had something to do with League of Legends. In the parallel world, most yers of MOBA games came from League of Legends, and the heroes in League of Legends were very popr, so these mobile games subconsciously imitated this style. Moreover, for most video game designers, it was risky to make MOBA games with a China Style, because they didn¡¯t know if the yers would ept it. Chen Mo¡¯s change wasn¡¯t exactly bold, but it did catch the attention of many yers. I¡¯ve watched too many Western fantasy movies, it¡¯s not bad to try the China Style once in a while! Since he was a China hero, who were the people who appeared in the cinematics? The yers all entered the game with questions in their minds. ¡­¡­ Zhang Bei was also ying the game. After watching the cinematics, he was both amazed and envious. Even though the mobile version of ancient catastrophe cost a lot of money, it was obviously impossible to make such a CG. After all, it was too big of an investment, and the headquarters of Emperor dynasty entertainment would not agree to it. Even though Zhang Bei was the chief designer of the entire project, he was still restricted by the higher-ups, and couldn¡¯t be like Chen Mo, who could make the game and spend money however he wanted without any concerns. Zhang Bei could only sigh. There was no point in being envious, as Chen Mo¡¯s mechanics were not something that normal people could learn ... ...... After entering the game, he directly entered the beginner¡¯s tutorial. In reality, if a yer had a character in another server that had already gone through the beginner¡¯s tutorial, then when creating a character in the new server, the process would automatically be skipped. However, King of Glory had just been released, so everyone had to go through the tutorial before they could y the game. The first was a few simple instructions, telling the yers that the story took ce on a fictional continent, and that the yers would summon heroes to fight. Obviously, this was the same as the tutorial in League of Legends, and the other MOBA mobile games did the same. What Zhang Bei was concerned about was the operating mode of this game. The initial guidance was very simple. It was nothing more than moving, attacking, casting skills, killing heroes, buying equipment, recovering HP, and so on. To Zhang Bei, these were all verymon designs, nothing worth mentioning. The hero that Zhang Bei was using was Arthur. Arthur¡¯s hero skills were basically the same as garen in League of Legends, but he might be a little stronger than garen, because he had two more useful movement skills. Zhang Bei was a little disappointed, because he didn¡¯t see any better control changes in Arthur. It was better to just click a little. Chen Mo said he wanted to change the skill casting mode, but in the end, he still made a very ordinary system? Zhang Bei was a little suspicious. However, Zhang Bei still found some valuable things, which was theyout of the entire game interface. The bottom left was the virtual joystick, and the bottom right was the attack and skill buttons. The minimap had been moved to the upper left corner. After unfolding the minimap, a signal could be sent from it. The scoring panel, shop, share button, and other elements were well-ced in the empty space of the interface, and theyout was rtively reasonable. Moreover, there were three smaller buttons on the far right, which were respectively attack, retreat, and assemble, which could send messages to teammates very quickly. Zhang Bei was also very surprised. Obviously, this was a very good design. Although the entire interface of the mobile game should be reduced by as many buttons as possible, these three buttons were still too important. After all, in MOBA games, you needed to work with your teammates at all times, and mobile games often required you to quickly let your teammates understand your intentions. Although these three buttons were small, they were very useful. After the exnation of the most basic operating system, they went on to the battle between humans and machines and actualbat training. However, Zhang Bei was highly suspicious that the enemy he encountered during the actualbat training should also be theputer, because he was so happy killing ... He randomly picked a marksman champion, and the opponents all rushed forward in a daze. In the end, Zhang Bei¡¯s score was 10-0-3, basically crushing the entire game. And during the battle, Zhang Bei also discovered some of the game¡¯s characteristics. First of all, the pace of the game was very fast. If the battle went smoothly, it could end in more than ten minutes, and they could surrender in six minutes. The yers had been fighting intensely since they came online, farming and consuming each other. Since the number of skills had been reduced to three, the yers could use their ultimate skills at Level 4 and cause all kinds of trouble. At the same time, because the size of the map was further reduced, the hero¡¯s movement speed became faster, and there were more discement skills, resulting in the pace of the game to be further elerated. Secondly, equipment could be purchased anywhere on the map without the need to return to the fountain. This might seem like a risky change, but after trying it out, Zhang Bei felt that it was a very good setting! To be able to buy equipment at any time and ce, and turn one¡¯s economic advantage into an equipment advantage, was simply too important in this fast-paced game. This also meant that it would be easier to snowball because they would no longer have to worry about whether they should go home or not. There would no longer be the phenomenon of having a huge amount of savings but not being able to replenish their equipment in time and being killed by the enemy. Some of the stronger physical heroes could even not go home the entire time. And Zhang Bei could feel that the map mechanism had also changed, including the respawn time of the wild monsters, the speed of the minions, and the role of various epic monsters. All of them were slightly different from League of Legends. Even the health of the towers had been reduced. In League of Legends, the time it took for a tower to be destroyed was actually veryte. However, in King of Glory, if the tower was undefended, it would be destroyed when a hero was at Level 2 or 3. All of these settings pointed to one result, which was that the pace of the game had been greatly elerated. In League of Legends, it wasmon for a dder fight tost for more than half an hour, or even forty to fifty minutes. However, it would never happen in Mobile Legends. In Mobile Legends, the standard game time was 15 minutes, and you could roll in six minutes. There were very few games thatsted for 30 minutes. In other words, in terms of game time, this game was very suitable for mobile games. In terms of feelings, a game like League of Legends gave people the feeling that they were writing an essay on a topic. It could easily take forty to fifty minutes, and the whole operation was very tiring. However, League of Legends gave people the feeling of smoking a cigarette, and it ended without paying much attention. Chapter 575 - Chen Mo is an honest person!

Chapter 575: Chen Mo is an honest person!

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The movements of the characters in Mobile Legends were very smooth, and the controls were veryfortable, which surprised Zhang Bei. The controls for a MOBA mobile game could be done so smoothly? This was very clear in the actualbat training. Zhang Bei chose the Archer hero, and he even found that he had learned to walk a! In ¡°League of Legends¡±, taking a was actually a rtivelyplicated and very tiring operation. If the yer wanted to take a, he must first right-click the position he wanted to move to, then point at the enemy target to attack, then move, then attack, and so on. Of course, some yers liked to use the a key to attack, but in general, the movement and attack were mainly done with the mouse, and the position had to be very precise. One wrong move could lead to instant death. For example, if the attack did not hit the enemy hero but hit the ground, it would be a disaster. However, in Mobile Legends, Zhang Bei realized that his positioning was so smooth. He only needed to use the virtual joystick in his left hand to control the character¡¯s movement, and then hit the attack button continuously. Because the movement and attack operations were spread out to the left and right hands, the yers didn¡¯t have to worry about making mistakes. Also, the click operation was changed to the joystick operation, so there was basically no problem with the direction of the movement. Therefore, in Mobile Legends, anyone could get an a. This was determined by the game¡¯s operating mechanism. Zhang Bei was a little confused. Why didn¡¯t he have such a smooth feeling when he was making the mobile version of ancient catastrophe? After some careful study, he realized that Chen Mo had made some changes to the character¡¯s movements in Mobile Legends. There were slight changes to the front and back swing of the attack, as well as the rted attributes, so some Archer Heroes ¡®positioning was more smooth, and even some melee heroes couldpletely move throughout the whole process. After the victory, a special rating interface popped up in Mobile Legends. It disyed Zhang Bei¡¯s battle statistics in the form of a pentagram. At the same time, it also praised him in the form of words, making Zhang Bei feel very proud. Although Zhang Bei, as a designer, knew that the content was all fake, he still felt very happy. What surprised Zhang Bei even more was that there was an expansion exercise after that! ...... In the advanced training, the yer would control Houyi to release his skills. What surprised Zhang Bei was that Houyi¡¯s second skill was simr to Annie¡¯s ultimate skill in ¡°League of Legends¡±, which dealt damage within a small area! This was a problem that troubled many MOBA designers. After seeing the design of Mobile Legends, Zhang Bei suddenly pped his head. It was so simple, why didn¡¯t I think of it? The operation was very simple. All he had to do was press the second skill button, drag his finger, and drag the skill range to where he wanted it to be. However, none of the previous MOBA mobile game designers had thought of such a simple move. In fact, this thing was called the double-wheel system. The so-called double-wheel system was: The joystick on the left hand was a wheel, and the skill on the right hand was also a wheel. It was not difficult to control the range of the skill release by dragging it, but the important thing was that many designers had a hard time turning the corner at the beginning of shooting. This seemingly natural design was something that only appeared after MOBA had reached a certain stage in Chen Mo¡¯s previous life. Once it appeared, it was quickly used by most mobile MOBA games. Moreover, it wasn¡¯t just this type of skill. There were also some super long range full map skills. Houyi¡¯s ultimate was the same as AI Xi ¡®s. It was a long-range flying skill with a stun effect. Zhang Bei was surprised to find out that this skill could be perfectly replicated in this way! Zhang Bei tried out Houyi¡¯s skills many times and found that this mode was very friendly, especially for mobile games. It was even more convenient than on PC! Since the yers no longer had to click the mouse frequently, King of Glory required a very small amount of activity. The yers didn¡¯t feel tired at all after ying for 15 minutes. From the tutorial, it seemed like Chen Mo¡¯s game was targeted at yers who had never yed MOBA games before. The tutorial was very detailed, even more so than the one in League of Legends. There was a lot of teaching in the tutorial, including basic design of the game such as level, money, skills, defense towers, and so on. It also included some more advanced content, such as choosing a target hero, adjusting the direction of the wheel, regional casting, moving through walls, and so on. What surprised Zhang Bei even more was that there was an advanced way to y this operating system? Chen Mo inserted two small buttons between the top and bottom of the attack button, minion and turret. After pressing these two buttons, the hero would automatically attack the nearby low-HP minions or turrets. This prevented the awkward situation of the hero who wanted to farm but was attacking, and the hero who wanted to kill but was attacking the turret. In other words, this design divided attacking the hero, farming, and pushing the tower into three different attack operations. As long as the yers got used to it, they could very well ensure that they could attack the target. Another special design was that there were five additional positions on top of the skill as the avatar of the enemy hero. When the enemy hero entered the yer¡¯s attack range, their avatar would be disyed in the corresponding position. By clicking on the avatar, one couldunch a normal attack on the enemy hero, and by dragging the skill to the avatar, one could choose to release it. The design of the entire operating system made Zhang Bei¡¯s jaw drop, because all the content that he had been struggling with before had been solved perfectly by Chen Mo! He didn¡¯t know how to farm or attack the tower. I wonder which champion should I use the skill on? Did he not know how to adjust the range of his skill? It didn¡¯t matter. Under this system, all these doubts would be solved. Zhang Bei even had an illusion. Why did he feel that the operation of Mobile Legends was much easier than League of Legends? And it wasn¡¯t the kind of simplicity after castration, but the rationality of the design. Not only that, even the entire interface design made Zhang Bei feel veryfortable. The entire interface of League of Legends was still based on the design concept of PC games, and the various elements on the game interface were rtively scattered. This style was fine on a PC, but not on a mobile phone. On the other hand, King of Glory was designed with the idea of a mobile game, and the various divisions on the interface were very clear. Other than a few very clear buttons on the interface, there was arge UI. For example, the battle mode, ranking mode, and so on. Basically, the most important functions were all ced in front of the yers in a very eye-catching way. Looking at the design, Zhang Bei had the urge to remake the mobile version of ancient catastrophe that he was in charge of ... You¡¯ll die if youpare people, but you¡¯ll throw away the goods if youpare them! And Zhang Bei realized that Chen Mo wasn¡¯t lying to him, the controls for traditional mobile MOBA games really needed to be changed! Compared to King of Glory, the clumsy and monotonous operating system of ancient catastrophe was nothing. Even the feel of the game was a million miles away! Also, due to the limitations of the operating system, many skills were highly repetitive and boring. It was impossible to replicate the characteristics of MOBA games. Zhang Bei was confused. F * ck, who told me not to believe Chen Zhao? Chen Zhao was clearly telling the truth...He was an honest man! Chapter 576 ?Chapter 576 Zou Zhuo¡¯s dissatisfaction Trantor 549690339 ¡°Zhang Bei was a videogame designer who specialized in mobile MOBA games, so he was able to see the uniqueness of Mobile Legends and understand Chen Mo¡¯s intentions. ¡± ¡°Zhang Bei knew very well that this game would definitely bring a terrifying impact to the current mobile MOBA game market, and the results would be unpredictable. ¡± ¡°However, ordinary yers did not have Zhang Bei¡¯s vision, so they could not tell the difference between mobile MOBA games and mobile mobile mobile mobile Legends. ¡± Their evaluation of King of Glory was mostly based on their intuition and gaming experience. ¡°¡±¡±The main heroes in King of Glory are all Chinese characters? Why do I feel that something is wrong? it¡¯s so strange!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±It¡¯s alright. It¡¯s just that there were too many Western fantasy themes in the market before, and they were all copying League of Legends. That¡¯s why it felt a little strange when China heroes appeared.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I think it¡¯s not that bad. The world view in glory of kings has been redone, and it¡¯s just empty history. The style of the characters is also very consistent. The styles of these heroes are the same, and there is no severe sense of fragmentation. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Isn¡¯t this game too simple? I just entered and got a super god. Why do I feel like my teammates and opponents are all noobs?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I also feel that the difficulty of this game is very low, but it¡¯s really cool to kill. The time is very short, one round in ten minutes ... When I don¡¯t have time to y League of Legends, I can y two rounds, and torture the noobs.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Upstairs, look at you. You only know how to bully noobs!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Hehe, so what if I bully noobs? Bullying noobs was fun! Do you dare to say that you don¡¯t like to bully noobs?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I think this game is pretty good. Although the graphics and quality aren¡¯t the best, the overall feeling is very natural. It also seems like the hero¡¯s mechanisms are very rich.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Yeah, I found a few interesting heroes in it, such as Li Bai and Han Xin. Have you seen these heroes? It seems to be different from League of Legends!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Oh my God, I was just casually chatting in the group and found out that one of my female friends is also ying! She couldn¡¯t y League of Legends at all. She was aplete fraud, but now she was ying King of Glory? And he¡¯s very engrossed in the game!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±This game¡¯s controls are quite perfect. When I was ying other MOBA games, I always felt like I couldn¡¯t hit the person I wanted to hit, and I wanted to tap on the screen. But after changing the controls in Mobile Legends, it seems to feel really good!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Sigh, but I¡¯m still a little disappointed. It doesn¡¯t feel like this game has surpassed Chen Mo¡¯s previous games. To Chen Mo, wasn¡¯t it the same as transnting League of Legends to a mobile game? Although there were some changes to the settings and the heroes have some new skills, many of them are the same as League of Legends, such as the map mechanism, equipment, and so on. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Indeed, I¡¯m a little disappointed too. I thought it would be some epoch-making new game, but there¡¯s no major innovation in the game.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Upstairs, aren¡¯t you guys expecting too much? I think that¡¯s good enough. Chen Mo isn¡¯t a God, how can he be so innovative with every piece? I think it¡¯s already amazing to be able to port a MOBA game to the mobile tform and make it so perfect. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I just think that Chen Zhao doesn¡¯t have to worry about making money anymore, right? He should make a more artistic game and keep surpassing himself! However, King of Glory looks like a by-product. It¡¯s not even as good asnd of the leading sand. At least,nd of the leading Sand¡¯s ystyle has never appeared before, and it¡¯s very special!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Okay, okay, don¡¯t worry about these things. Let Chen Mo do whatever he wants. Plus, this is just a transition product. Chen Mo took some time off to make a mobile game, mainly Dark Souls prequel. ¡°¡± ¡± ...... ¡°The reactions of the yers were different, but overall, the yers did not show much enthusiasm for King of Glory. ¡± ¡°The main reason was because Chen Mo had released many ssic works, and his image in the yers ¡®hearts had been greatly improved. ¡± Many yers were looking forward to Chen Moing up with an even more revolutionary game. They even wished that Chen Mo would release a new game every few months. ¡°In the eyes of a professional mobile game designer like Zhang Bei, Mobile Legends had a huge impact on mobile MOBA games. It could even be said to be revolutionary. This included the operating system, game mechanics, hero design, and so on. It could be said that this was the final form of mobile MOBA. ¡± ¡°However, only a designer like Zhang Bei could understand it. The other yers couldn¡¯t feel the essence of the game design. After all, they had yed League of Legends before, and the changes made in Mobile Legends could only be considered as minor tweaks. ¡± ¡°In the eyes of some yers, Mobile Legends was a very poor replica, and their impression of it could never surpass that of League of Legends. ¡± ¡°Of course, this was only human nature. In reality, King of Glory wasn¡¯t worth bragging about. Just from the creativity and artistic aspect of the game, King of Glory couldn¡¯t be considered a good game. ¡± ¡°However, it was precisely such a work that hadpletely unexpected performances in certain aspects. ¡± ¡°Meanwhile, Chen Mo was quietly waiting for everyone to realize how terrifying Mobile Legends was ... ¡± ...... In the experience store. The television in the hall on the first floor was ying the promotional video of Mobile Legends on loop. ¡°It wasn¡¯t any special treatment. After the TV was installed in the hall of the experience store, every time a new game was released, the TV would y its promotional video. ¡± Zou Zhuo sat on the sofa on the first floor and pouted. ¡°¡±¡±Manager, although it¡¯s a little inappropriate to say this, I really don¡¯t think that Mobile Legends is very interesting. Wasn¡¯t this just a simplified version of League of Legends? I feel that making this thing has lowered your image. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Zhao was still reading. He smiled.¡±¡±When have I ever cared about my own image?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Don¡¯t lie to me,¡±¡±zou Zhuo said,¡±¡± look at all the games you¡¯ve made before, which one of them isn¡¯t a revolutionary product?¡±¡± And they¡¯re all yed in different ways!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Even pay-to-win mobile games like I am mt and Onmyoji arepletely new, right? However, the way to y King of Glory wasn¡¯t anything special. Weren¡¯t they all overused in League of Legends? I won¡¯t believe you if you tell me you¡¯re not scamming me. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Mo chuckled, not angry at all. ¡± Chapter 577 ? Chapter 577 Zou Zhuo¡¯s g Trantor 549690339 ¡°It wasn¡¯t that zou Zhuo didn¡¯t know how to talk, but as a regr customer of the experience store, the rtionship between zou Zhuo and Chen Mo wasn¡¯t just that of a designer and a yer, they were more like friends. ¡± ¡°It was like a friend visiting your house and you cooking a dish. The friend would say that your cooking skills were really bad. If the rtionship between the two of you was average, then it would be looking for trouble. However, this could also be a reflection of your good rtionship. ¡± ¡°Between some brothers, the closer their rtionship was, the more they liked to insult each other. ¡± ¡°Therefore, Chen Mo often called zou Zhuo a fatty in return. ¡± ¡°Chen Moughed,¡±¡±you¡¯ve yed Mobile Legends?¡±¡± How do you feel?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo nodded,¡±¡±I did. It felt too simple. There was no challenge at all!¡±¡± If I go in and kill eight to ten of them, it¡¯s like fighting against a bot. I have to say, King of Glory is way too fastpared to League of Legends. Sometimes, it feels like a game. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Zhaoughed.¡±¡±It¡¯s fun killing people. Are you not happy?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo shook his head.¡±¡±I just don¡¯t think this game is challenging. I don¡¯t even have a goal.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Mo looked at him and said,¡±¡±you didn¡¯t make it to the Challenger League in League of Legends, did you?¡±¡± You can try it out in Kings of Glory. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo shook his head,¡±¡±forget it. I can brag about being a challenger in League of Legends, but what¡¯s the point of being a challenger in Mobile Legends?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Just like how if anipop gets out of the rankingpetition, wouldn¡¯t people think I¡¯m stupid if I go out and brag to the others after I beat the king?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo continued,¡±¡±and I¡¯ve realized that Mobile Legends has a lot of pitfalls!¡±¡± The runes, the heroes, and the skins cost money. There were many ways to top up money. This game was way more F * cking fraudulent than League of Legends! Manager, I have to criticize you. You¡¯re already so rich, why do you still care about the yers ¡®money? you can even make itpletely free!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Mo chuckled,¡±¡±free of charge?¡±¡± Do you know how much money I will lose?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo shook his head,¡±¡±how much can we lose? I¡¯m stuffed. A few million a month?¡±¡± Oh my, that¡¯s a lot ... Forget it, just pretend I didn¡¯t say anything. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Mo chuckled,¡±¡±a few million?¡±¡± I can really give away a few million. ¡°¡±I can only say that you¡¯re thinking too simply.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo was speechless,¡±¡±stop bragging, manager. It¡¯s just a mobile game. Do you really think you¡¯re that good?¡±¡± I think this game isn¡¯t even as good as Onmyoji, it should be able to earn a few million. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Zhao smiled,¡±¡±it¡¯s okay. I¡¯ll ept your promise today.¡±¡± Don¡¯t look down on this and that now, what will you say when your phone is re-installed with Mobile Legends?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Put it back into mobile Legends?¡±¡± Zou Zhuo didn¡¯t believe him,¡±¡±how can it be put back? If there¡¯s League of Legends, why would I y such a castrated MOBA game?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±What?¡±¡± Chen Mo was amused.¡±¡±Tell me, what if I put it back?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Impossible,¡±¡± zou Zhuo shook his head vigorously. ¡± ¡°Chen Mo thought about it,¡±¡±how about this? if you can¡¯t put back Mobile Legends in a month, I¡¯ll give you ten League of Legends skins.¡±¡± But if you put it back in ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±After dark Souls is released, you have to clear the game. How is it?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo¡¯s eyes lit up,¡±¡±ten limited skins for League of Legends?¡±¡± Manager, you said it, you can¡¯t go back on your words!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Mo chuckled,¡±¡±do I look like the kind of person to go back on my word?¡±¡± Besides, it¡¯s just ten skins. I don¡¯t have to spend a single cent. What can¡¯t you give me?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo was overjoyed. In his opinion, it would be too easy to stop installing Mobile Legends for a month! And ten limited skins ... The price was hard to estimate! ¡± ¡°In League of Legends, many restricted skins were only sold on special festivals. Once it expired, it could no longer be purchased through normal channels. It could only be obtained through some very fraudulent lottery activities, and the cost of obtaining it would increase exponentially. ¡± ¡°In other words, even if all of the skins were sold at the lowest price, zou Zhuo would still be able to get at least $2000 if he chose the ones with the highest price. If they were limited edition skins that were already out of print, the price of these ten limited edition skins would be hard to estimate. ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo was a loyal yer of League of Legends, so he wouldn¡¯t sell the skins. However, to the old yers, the skins were like collectibles, which were very precious. ¡± ¡°As for the risk, it was basically non-existent. ¡± ¡°Even if there was an ¡°¡±in case,¡±¡± the most they could do was clear the prequel to Dark Souls. ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo had finally cleared Dark Souls after the painful experience. Although he had suffered a lot during this period of time, he was still someone who had cleared Dark Souls, so he was mentally prepared for this. ¡± ¡°So, it looked like a bet that he wouldn¡¯t lose, and Chen Mo was basically giving away ten limited edition skins! ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuoughed,¡±¡±I¡¯ll bet on it!¡±¡± Manager, don¡¯t go back on your word!¡±¡± ¡± ...... Zou Zhuo¡¯s thoughts represented the thoughts of most League of Legends yers. Most of the yers who had yed League of Legends had the same thought when they yed Mobile Legends. It was just that they were too simr. ¡°Strictly speaking, the gaming experience of these two games was very simr. Other than a few subtle differences in the feeling. ¡± ¡°On the other hand, League of Legends was obviously moreplicated and had more content. Therefore, many yers of League of Legends were very repulsed when they first came into contact with King of Glory, because they could not find any challenge or sense of achievement in this game. ¡± ¡°Of course, some yers who could only reach silver or gold in League of Legends easily reached diamond or even higher in Mobile Legends. Most of them would like the game. ¡± ¡°But what if they were already good in League of Legends? On the contrary, they might be repulsed by Mobile Legends, and might even be toozy to improve their ranking. They didn¡¯t care about what level they could reach in Mobile Legends. ¡± ¡°When it was first released, King of Glory was only a niche game. In the eyes of many yers, it was just like the crudely-made MOBA mobile games on the market, an emascted copy of League of Legends. ¡± ¡°Even though Mobile Legends wasbeled as Chen Mo¡¯s creation, many people yed the game based on the quality of the game itself, and not on the identity of the designer. ¡± ¡°Of course, since Chen Mo was the designer of League of Legends, Mobile Legends didn¡¯t cause too much of a controversy, but many yers said,¡±¡±Aiya, if Chen Mo wants to make money, then let him. We¡¯ll just ignore this game and wait patiently for Chen Mo¡¯s new work! ¡± ¡°From this point of view, the parallel world¡¯s mobile Legends did not receive as much criticism as his previous life ... ¡± ¡°However, there was another group of yers who had apletely different experience and feeling. ¡± Chapter 578 ? Chapter 578 Zou Zhuo miscalcted Trantor 549690339 ¡°In the blink of an eye, three days had passed. ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo came back to the experience store and sat down on the sofa happily. He said to Chen Mo, Manager, one-tenth of the agreed time has passed. Are you panicking?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Zhao was still reading. He smiled and said,¡±¡±¡±¡±What am I panicking for? it¡¯s only been three days.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo chuckled,¡±¡±but I really didn¡¯t have any desire to download mobile Legends again in the past three days.¡±¡± I don¡¯t think there will be any changes in a month. Why don¡¯t you give me the ten limited edition skins now?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±What¡¯s the hurry?¡±¡± Chen Mo nced at him with disdain. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Hehe, manager, I know. You may look calm on the surface, but you¡¯re actually panicking inside, right?¡±¡± zou Zhuo said. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±You¡¯re overestimating Mobile Legends. There¡¯s no innovative way to y it, and it¡¯s so simr to League of Legends. I wouldn¡¯t give up League of Legends for three months, let alone one month. ¡°¡± ¡± Chen Mo smiled but didn¡¯t say anything. ¡°At this moment, a tall girl came in. ¡± ¡°This girl had short hair and was dressed up neatly. She didn¡¯t have any heavy makeup on her face and was very elegant, but she vaguely revealed a kind of androgynous beauty. ¡± Zou Zhuo¡¯s eyes widened when the girl walked in. He had been watching the girl¡¯s every move. The girl swiped her id at the front desk and walked into the elevator. ¡°¡±¡±Wow, manager,¡±¡± zou Zhuo said to Chen Mo. I can feel that your career is on the rise. I¡¯ve never seen such a pretty girl in the experience store before!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Mo rolled his eyes,¡±¡±are you blind? When has my Experience Store ever been short of pretty girls? haven¡¯t I always had a bunch of them?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo chuckled,¡±¡±hmm, that¡¯s true, but I don¡¯t think there¡¯s such a special girl!¡±¡± You don¡¯t say, this girl really fits all my fantasies about girls!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Mo looked at zou Zhuo,¡±¡±I didn¡¯t know you liked this type?¡±¡± To be honest, this girl...I really can¡¯t tell if she¡¯s disguised as a man, especially with her chest ...¡±¡± ¡± Chen Mo stopped talking. ¡°Zou Zhuo snorted,¡±¡±manager, what do you know!¡±¡± A t chest is justice! This short-haired, t-chested, and tall girl is perfect!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Alright,¡±¡± Chen Mo shrugged,¡±¡±I don¡¯t really understand your taste, fat otaku.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo was speechless,¡±¡±manager, I¡¯m a fat otaku, but can you please not add the word¡±¡± dead ¡°¡±?¡±¡± Forget it, I¡¯m not going to talk to you anymore. I¡¯ll go ask the girl at the front desk and see what game she¡¯s ying. I have to find a way to hit on her. ¡± Zou Zhuo went to the front desk and asked the girl. ¡°He was a regr at the experience store, so he was already very familiar with the girl at the front desk. After asking a few questions, he found out the short-haired girl¡¯s name and Computer History. ¡± ¡°Chen Mo looked at zou Zhuo, who was overjoyed, and asked,¡±¡±¡±¡±How is it? did you get it?¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo said happily,¡±¡±I got it!¡±¡± The girl called Zhao Shu Yi and went to the mobile game experience area. As expected, girls like mobile games. I¡¯ll go and see if I can get close to her. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Mo looked at him with a smile.¡±¡±Go. I wish you sess.¡±¡± ¡± Zou Zhuo went upstairs happily and headed to the mobile game experience area. ¡°By right, zou Zhuo had been in the experience store for quite some time and had seen all kinds of girls, but he had never seen a girl like Zhao Shu Yi who could make him fall in love at first sight. ¡± ¡°Of course, it could also be that zou Zhuo had a special taste for girls with gender-neutral beauty. ¡± ¡°Of course, no matter what, being able to find the type that one liked was also a kind of luck. For some people, the type that they really liked only existed on television and the Inte. They didn¡¯t even have the chance to F * cking follow it ... ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo was a little nervous, he even went to the bathroom to look at himself in the mirror. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±It¡¯s alright. I went out to wash my hair today. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo tidied up his clothes. He was a little chubby in the mirror, but at least he looked cute. ¡± ¡°When Chen Mo first met zou Zhuo, he felt that zou Zhuo was wearing a round frame mirror and looked very cute, like a Pandarian. ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo¡¯s appearance didn¡¯t change much, at least he still gave off a kind vibe and wasn¡¯t a pervert. ¡± ¡°After confirming his image, zou Zhuo gathered his courage and went to the mobile game experience area. ¡± The short-haired t-chested girl called Zhao Shuyi was sitting on a massage chair in the mobile game experience area. She was ying mobile games on the high-end mobile phone in the experience store. ¡°Zou Zhuo was d that the girl came alone, it would be easier to hit on her. If she had brought a friend, it would be very awkward to hit on her. ¡± ¡°If she brought her boyfriend along ... Well, zou Zhuo¡¯s rtionship might end before it even started. ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo suddenly felt nervous. He didn¡¯t have much experience in hitting on girls. Even though the experience store was his home field, he was still nervous. ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo thought for a while and decided to use a more natural approach, which was to sit down on the massage chair next to the girl and pretend that he was here to y mobile games as well, so that he could chat with her. ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo sat down on the massage chair and grabbed his phone. He didn¡¯t dare to look in the girl¡¯s direction, for fear that it would appear too deliberate and make her feel disgusted. ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo opened Onmyoji and yed it casually. After a few minutes, he nced to the side and saw that the girl was still looking at her phone screen. She didn¡¯t seem to have any reaction to his appearance. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Well, it¡¯s alright. The girl shouldn¡¯t be disgusted with me. At least she didn¡¯t leave immediately when she saw me.¡±¡± Zou Zhuoforted himself. ¡± ¡°After another two minutes of Onmyoji, zou Zhuo couldn¡¯t take it anymore. He gathered his courage and said to the girl,¡±¡±¡±¡±Yo, sister, you like to y the manager¡¯s mobile game too? How about we y it together?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°To be honest, even zou Zhuo himself felt that his way of hitting on people was too weak. It was only after he said it that he realized how low-ss it was ... ¡± ¡°However, the words had already been spoken, and it was toote to change them. ¡± ¡°Fortunately, the girl didn¡¯t mind. Apparently, she also had a more easy-going personality. ¡± ¡°Zhao Shuyi looked at zou Zhuo and said,¡±¡±Sure, let¡¯s y together.¡±¡± ¡± Zou Zhuo was overjoyed. ¡°¡±¡±Sure, What game are you ying? I¡¯m good at ying games, so I have no problem carrying you!¡±¡± Zou Zhuo patted his chest and said. ¡± Zou Zhuo said with confidence. ¡°As an old yer of Chen Mo¡¯s games, zou Zhuo had yed all of Chen Mo¡¯s games, such as League of Legends, Warcraft, and Overwatch. Even though he wasn¡¯t considered a top yer, he was still considered an expert. ¡± Zou Zhuo was very confident in his gaming skills since he managed to clear the difficult Dark Souls in one round. Bringing a girl with him was definitely not a problem! ¡°The girl tilted her phone towards zou Zhuo,¡±¡±¡±¡±Do you y King of Glory?¡±¡± ¡± Zou Zhuo was speechless. The expression on his face was very interesting. ¡°The girl¡¯s phone was indeed showing the scene of Mobile Legends, and there was even a big ¡°¡±defeated¡±¡± icon. It was unknown if the girl had been tricked by herself or by her teammates ... ¡± Zou Zhuo was speechless. Are you an actor arranged by the manager? It¡¯s been less than three days since I made the bet with the store manager. Why is there a girl here all of a sudden? and she wants to trick me into ying Mobile Legends? ¡°F * ck! This script was written in advance, right? Was he waiting for me here? ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo had a stomach full ofints, but he didn¡¯t say them out loud ... ¡± ¡°It took him a lot of effort to finally squeeze out a sentence,¡±¡±¡±¡±y! I¡¯m really good at King of Glory!¡±¡± ¡± Chapter 579 ? Chapter 579 Such a skilled top-up Trantor 549690339 ¡°Two hourster, Zhao Shu Yi walked out of the elevator and left the experience store. ¡± ¡°However, zou Zhuo didn¡¯t follow them down immediately. He only came down after five minutes. ¡± ¡°Perhaps zou Zhuo didn¡¯t want to make it seem too obvious, it would be too sneaky if he followed the girl down the stairs. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±How is it?¡±¡± Chen Mo asked, looking at zou Zhuo. ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo sat down on the sofa across from Chen Mo, a little embarrassed. He thought for a while before saying,¡±¡±Manager, I have good news and bad news, which one do you want to hear first?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Good news,¡±¡± Chen Zhao said.¡±¡±Let¡¯s hear the good news first.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo,¡±¡±the good news is, I managed to get the girl¡¯s contact information, and we¡¯ve had a lot of fun together.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±What¡¯s the bad news?¡±¡± Chen Zhao asked. ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo sighed,¡±¡±the bad news is, I might lose the bet ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Well, that¡¯s good news for me,¡±¡± Chen Moughed. ¡± Zou Zhuo was speechless. ¡°Chen Mo looked at zou Zhuo and said,¡±¡±you said a month is too long?¡±¡± It¡¯s only been three days, and you¡¯ve already finished installing King of Glory. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo coughed,¡±¡±manager, this is a special case!¡±¡± I didn¡¯t want to pretend to be in Mobile Legends. The game itself has nothing that attracts me. It¡¯s only because the girls are ying it, so I ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Zhao nced at him in disdain.¡±¡±¡±¡±I put a knife to your neck and asked you to put the game back in?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo coughed,¡±¡±well ... No.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I don¡¯t care if you like to y mobile Legends or not,¡±¡± Chen Mo added.¡±¡±You just have to top up your money.¡±¡± Moreover, female yers are part of the gaming experience. Mobile Legends can provide you with such a precious gaming experience. It¡¯s fine if you¡¯re not grateful, but you¡¯re evenining about this and that?¡±¡± ¡± Zou Zhuo was dumbfounded. Chen Mo¡¯s words made sense! ¡°That seemed to be the case. If zou Zhuo had insisted on not ying Mobile Legends, he wouldn¡¯t have been able to hit on this girl ... ¡± ¡°Strictly speaking, King of Glory did provide him with a special gaming experience, which was to pick up girls ... ¡± ¡°Chen Mo chuckled.¡±¡±Anyway, you¡¯ve lost. Just wait for the release of Dark Souls.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo sighed helplessly,¡±¡±¡±¡±Ah, alright, manager, you¡¯re so astute. I admit defeat. When the ck soules out, I¡¯ll suffer for another week to get through. ¡°¡± ¡± Chen Mo gave zou Zhuo a mysterious smile. Zou Zhuo shivered involuntarily. Why did he feel like something was wrong? He seemed to have encountered a very sinister plot ... ¡°However, zou Zhuo didn¡¯t think too much about it, as his mind was upied with other things. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±By the way, manager, please help me pick a few heroes in Mobile Legends who can show off and kill at the same time. I need to practice.¡±¡± Zou Zhuo took out his phone and told Chen Mo. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Oh?¡±¡± Chen Mo looked at him with interest,¡±¡±didn¡¯t you say you weren¡¯t interested in this game? You can¡¯t even brag about being a King?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo scratched his head in embarrassment,¡±¡±¡±¡±This ... It¡¯s mainly because sister Shuyi likes to y, so I can¡¯t y by myself if I want to bring her along, okay? Also, it¡¯s best to choose a hero that I can show off, so that I can show off my handsomeness! If I really fight a King, perhaps sister Shuyi will look at me in a different light ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Mo said nonchntly while reading,¡±¡±¡±¡±Alright, you can y Li Bai, Han Xin, and Luna. If you can master one or two of them, it won¡¯t be a problem to pick up a girl in the game. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo was overjoyed.¡±¡±Okay, manager. I¡¯ll change to a new ount now. I¡¯ll practice a few rounds secretly.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Huh?¡±¡± Chen Mo was confused,¡±¡±why Do you need a new ount?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo chuckled,¡±¡±I have to y ranked games with the girls. If I get there myself, I won¡¯t be able to carry the girls.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Zhao was speechless.¡±¡±That¡¯s enough. You¡¯ll have to waste your brain on this.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Hehehe.¡±¡± Zou Zhuoughed as he switched to another ount. ¡± ¡°Not long after entering the game, zou Zhuo pped his forehead helplessly.¡±¡±¡±¡±Manager, you have to pay for all the heroes you mentioned!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Mo looked at him like he was an idiot,¡±¡±¡±¡±Nonsense, I¡¯m running a gamingpany, not a charity. If you don¡¯t top up money, do you still want to be stronger?¡±¡± ¡± Zou Zhuo was speechless. ¡°The first MOBA game that yers in the parallel world came into contact with was League of Legends, so they were already used to the free-to-y mode of League of Legends. Now that they were ying King of Glory, they found it hard to get used to the fact that they had to pay for the heroes. ¡± Zou Zhuo cursed in his heart. He first went to the training camp to y these Champions and felt that they were indeed very cool. ¡°Zou Zhuo didn¡¯t study the heroes and skills in Mobile Legends seriously before. After all, he was only a Smurf, and there were many heroes that he couldn¡¯t get. Only Arthur, Houyi, Ang, and a few other heroes were familiar with the game. ¡± ¡°However, after ying Li Bai, Han Xin, and Luna in the training camp, zou Zhuo suddenly had a question. ¡± Wasn¡¯t King of Glory a little too overpowered? ¡°The overpowered aspect here mainly referred to the hero¡¯s mechanism, which was that the discement was as many as a dog! ¡± ¡°These assassins, in particr, basically had a movement skill each. Han Xin even had three movement skills, and could run from the small dragon¡¯s cave to the big dragon¡¯s cave in the blink of an eye. This was something that was simply unimaginable in League of Legends. ¡± It wasn¡¯t just the discement skill. Other mechanisms seemed to be more brutal than League of Legends. A very obvious example was the short cooldown of skills. ¡°For example, Luna was actually the bright moon in League of Legends, but much stronger. With a certain attack speed and CD reduction, Luna could even use a certain technique to continuously use her ultimate skills, which was the so-called ¡°¡±infinitebo under the moon.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Not only could it fly around the map, but it could also deal tons of damage in an instant. ¡± ¡°As for Li Bai and Han Xin, these two heroes also had their own unique characteristics. These assassins in Mobile Legends had one thing that stood out, and that was jumping! ¡± ¡°For example, Han Xin was known as ¡°¡±han tiaotiao¡±¡± because his first and second skills were all movement skills, and there were two parts to each skill, which could be used all over the map. ¡± Zou Zhuo spent half a day training in the training camp and decided to buy Li Bai. ¡°In fact, the reason was very simple. In addition to thinking that this hero was very powerful, it was also because this hero was more handsome. ¡± ¡°Moreover, the hero who appeared in the opening of the video should have been treated like his own son. There was no mistake. ¡± The thought of having a handsome hero to show off in front of the girl of his dreams made zou Zhuo feel like his money was well spent! ¡°However, after seeing Chen Mo¡¯s smile, zou Zhuo suddenly felt a headache. ¡± Why did it seem like he had unknowinglypleted the top-up just now? Why am I so skilled? ¡°There are so many steps to top up, you need to click at least a few times, and you need to swipe your fingerprint on the phone, but why do I feel like it¡¯s done in an instant ... ¡± Was this what Chen Mo meant by the charm of Mobile Legends ¡®paywalls ... Chapter 580 ? Chapter 580 The skin salesman Richard serente Trantor 549690339 ¡°¡±¡±You bought it?¡±¡± Chen Mo smiled at zou Zhuo. ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo nodded,¡±¡±yeah, I bought a Li Bai.¡±¡± Manager, tell me first, this hero should be very powerful, right?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Mo chuckled.¡±¡±Of course he¡¯s good. Not only is he good, but he¡¯s also very showy. He¡¯s perfect for showing off in front of girls.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo chuckled,¡±¡±that¡¯s good, it was worth it!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Oh?¡±¡± Chen Zhao looked at him meaningfully.¡±¡±But are you sure you don¡¯t want to buy another skin?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo shook his head,¡±¡±No.¡±¡± I don¡¯t really like to use skins in League of Legends. The real strong yers will use the default skins to create the strongest effect of the hero, and those skin fans are usually bad at fighting. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±We must resist the evil practice of having skin dogs!¡±¡± He said with a sense of justice. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Oh.¡±¡± Chen Mo nodded.¡±¡±You do have a point, but I have to remind you that you can increase your attack by 10 points with a new skin.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo was shocked,¡±¡±what?¡±¡± It even adds attack power!¡±¡± ¡± Chen Mo smiled but didn¡¯t say anything. Zou Zhuo was speechless. ¡°As a veteran of League of Legends, zou Zhuo knew what 10 attack points meant, so he was a little frustrated ... ¡± ¡°In fact, 10 attack points were not a lot. In theter stages, many equipment would add tens of attack points. 10 attack points would not be of much use in the middle andte stages. ¡± ¡°But if he wanted to die, he had to die in the early stages. 10 points of attack power would still have an impact in the early stages, because everyone¡¯s attributes were very low in the early stages, and there was no good equipment. These 10 points of attack power could very likely determine whether the opponent would escape with low HP or be killed by you. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Don¡¯t underestimate these 10 attack points,¡±¡± Chen Mo said.¡±¡±You have to know that 10 attack points are very important in the early stages!¡±¡± It might even cause a snowball effect. You just happened to kill a person and get an extra piece of equipment, just coincidence.....If you continue to think like this, 10 points of attack power can determine the oue of a battle. ¡°¡± ¡± Zou Zhuo¡¯s mouth twitched. You¡¯re right! ¡°Zou Zhuo knew what Chen Yu was up to, but the problem was that it was like Jiang Taigong fishing, whoever was willing to take the bait. ¡± ¡°Although 10 attack points couldn¡¯t determine the oue of a match, it was obviously very ufortable to lose 10 attack points at the beginning. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Shameless! You¡¯re too shameless!¡±¡± ¡± Zou Zhuo thought to himself as he opened Li Bai¡¯s hero interface and started looking at the skins. ¡°¡±¡±Fan Haixin ... The thousand-year-old fox ... Oh my, they¡¯re all ugly. Eh? Feng qiuhuang?¡±¡± ¡± Zou Zhuo¡¯s eyes lit up. ¡°Li Bai¡¯s default skin was actually very handsome. In Mobile Legends, he was one of the most handsome. Moreover, white shirt and wine gourd were also very unique. ¡± This was also one of the reasons why zou Zhuo decided to buy Li Bai. Wouldn¡¯t it be morefortable to act cool in front of girls with a handsome hero? ¡°However, when he saw Feng qiuhuang¡¯s skin, he suddenly felt that it was nothing special ... ¡± ¡°White clothes, white hair, Phoenix essories, special effects, unique voice. Even the movements seemed to have been repeated! ¡± This skin could only be described with one word-cool! ¡°¡±¡±Three feet long sword, cut off all the entanglement of love.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Feng Xi, Feng Xi, return to your hometown, travel the four Seas to seek your support.¡±¡± ¡± Even the exclusive voice chat had the attribute of torturing dogs! ¡°Chen Mo also added fuel to the fire,¡±¡±¡±¡±You like this skin? You really have a good eye. The special effects of this skin have all been redone. After entering the game, Li Bai¡¯s various skills and special effects are all different from the original. Moreover, it¡¯s only the first week¡¯s discount, so you can buy it at 20% off. After this week, the first week¡¯s discount will be gone, and you¡¯ll have to buy it at the original price. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Also, this is this year¡¯s limited skin! After this year, you won¡¯t be able to buy it anymore. Oh right, this skin is a couple skin with Wang Zhaojun¡¯s Phoenix in flight. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Mo stood on the side like a dedicated salesman, giving zou Zhuo a headache. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Manager, you¡¯re already so rich. Do you really need to trick me into buying a skin?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Mo chuckled,¡±¡±this has nothing to do with money, it¡¯s just a personal hobby.¡±¡± Besides, you¡¯repletely willing to buy the skins, so I¡¯m just asking if you want to buy them. ¡°¡± ¡± Zou Zhuo was speechless. ¡°Although he knew that Chen Zhao was just fooling him, he really wanted to buy it! ¡± ¡°On one hand, it was because of the added attributes. On the other hand, it was because the skin was very handsome. But the most important thing was that it was a couple skin! ¡± ¡°The other skin was Wang Zhaojun¡¯s Phoenix in flight, which was also in the same style. ¡± Zou Zhuo was even thinking of buying a Phoenix in flight for Shuyi. Let her y Wang Zhaojun in the middle while he yed Li Bai? ¡°Tsk, tsk, tsk, just thinking about it made him excited! ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo gritted his teeth. Forget it, he had already bought a hero, buying a new skin was just something that he could do in passing! ¡± ¡°Then, he looked at the price of the skin-1788 point certificates, which was 178 yuan! ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo was shocked,¡±¡±manager, isn¡¯t this skin too expensive?!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Mo squinted.¡±¡±It¡¯s not expensive. It¡¯s cheaper than many skins in League of Legends. Plus, there¡¯s a 20% discount for the first week. You¡¯ve made a big profit.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo¡¯s mouth twitched,¡±¡±but the skins in League of Legends are valuable!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Mo smiled,¡±¡±I can¡¯t guarantee the value of the skins in Mobile Legends. However, it can definitely help you get girls.¡±¡± This is what you need, right?¡±¡± ¡± Zou Zhuo was speechless. ¡°Zou Zhuo was speechless. No matter what he said, Chen Mo would always change the topic to picking up girls ... ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo had to admit that Chen Mo was right, this was exactly what he needed! ¡± ¡°Chen Mo saw zou Zhuo¡¯s hesitation and smiled,¡±¡±¡±¡±What do you think is the most irresistible thing in the world? He just needed it! Think about it, why were the house prices so high? Why were so many people trying to buy a house? It¡¯s because you can¡¯t get married without a house. This is what we need. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Think again, why did you buy this skin? Because if you want to pick up girls, this is also a necessity! In fact, your skin is more important than the house. Without the house, you can¡¯t get married, but without this skin, you can¡¯t even get a girl!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo¡¯s face turned green,¡±¡±but manager, buying a skin doesn¡¯t mean you¡¯ll be able to get a girl!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Mo narrowed his eyes,¡¯I can tell you¡¯ve never studied logic before. This was called a necessary condition, not a sufficient condition. It was like buying a house. Did it mean that you could get married after buying a house? It was not certain. But you can¡¯t get married if you don¡¯t buy a house, right?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±It¡¯s the same with skins. If you buy a skin, you might not be able to pick up girls. But if you don¡¯t buy a skin, won¡¯t the chances of you picking up girls be greatly reduced?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo scratched his head, he couldn¡¯t refute that! ¡± ¡°Chen Mo was a designer, after all, so his little logic was perfectly organized ... ¡± Chapter 581 ? Chapter 581 Buying a skin is just in need! Trantor 549690339 ¡°Chen Zhao continued,¡¯think about how expensive a house is, right? A house in a second-tier city can easily cost more than two million Yuan, and it¡¯ll take you forty to fifty years to pay off a loan. But how much is this skin? it¡¯s less than two hundred Yuan, my friend!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±What can you do with 200 yuan in today¡¯s inted society? It was just the money for a meal! Isn¡¯t that right?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±You can¡¯t afford to take a girl out for a meal, a movie, or a room with 200 yuan, right? And yours is a one-time use, but this skin is permanent! Once you buy it, it will be in the game forever. It is your personal property. The clothes you buy will be thrown away and expired after wearing it for a long time, but the skin will not. It will always be so beautiful. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Even if you can¡¯t flirt with this girl, this skin will still y its role when you flirt with the next girl. Even if you don¡¯t want to flirt with girls or men, this skin ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo quickly stopped Chen Mo,¡±¡±stop, stop, stop!¡±¡± Manager, don¡¯t say anymore. I¡¯ll buy it, I¡¯ll buy it, okay?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°After some internal struggle, zou Zhuo finally decided to buy the skin. ¡± ¡°Actually, it wasn¡¯t that difficult, because online shopping was a very simple thing. You just had to click on a button, scan your fingerprint, and the payment would bepleted. It was extremely fast. ¡± ¡°Because online payment was just a virtual number, unlike shopping in the store where you would take out cash, many people did not have a clear concept of how much they spent. ¡± ¡°Therefore, zou Zhuo quickly forgot about the pain and went into the game to show off his new skin. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Wow, this skin is so handsome! The special effects have all been changed!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±The movement of A normal attack is so handsome, and the big move is also so handsome! He¡¯s so handsome, manager!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±But ... Why do I feel like this hero is easy to kill?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Mo chuckled,¡±¡±the hero is an assassin, and a special one at that.¡±¡± You have to y like this. First, find wild monsters or minions to farm big, then use big moves. If you don¡¯t have big moves, then you¡¯ll be an observer at the edge ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Mo gave zou Zhuo some pointers as he watched him y, and zou Zhuo quickly got into the game. After all, he had the basics of League of Legends, and he was quite smart. ¡± ¡°The more zou zhuoyue yed, the more he felt that he had bought the right hero. This hero was too showy! ¡± ¡°It was even more showy than many Champions in League of Legends because the cooldowns of the skills in Mobile Legends were too short. The yers would move around crazily, and sometimes, they would not even know where they were ... ¡± He had shown off his opponent and himself ... ¡°As zou Zhuo was ying, he suddenly felt that something was wrong,¡±¡±¡±¡±Manager, why are you so kind today? You even taught me how to y?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Mo chuckled.¡±¡±I guess this is part of the after-sales service. But I have to remind you of something.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±What is it?¡±¡± zou Zhuo asked. ¡± ¡°Chen Mo said,¡±¡±you¡¯re using an alternate ount now. Li Bai and Feng qiuhuang¡¯s skins were bought on your alternate ount.¡±¡± Or you can use this ount to carry girls, or you can buy a new one on your main ount. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo,¡±¡±what the f * ck?¡±¡± Manager, why didn¡¯t you say so earlier!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I just thought of it,¡±¡± Chen Mo chuckled. ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo was unconvinced,¡±¡±I don¡¯t believe it!¡±¡± You must have thought of it long ago, but you didn¡¯t say it! You¡¯re just trying to trick me into spending double the money, aren¡¯t you?¡±¡± ¡± Chen Mo smiled but didn¡¯t say anything. ¡°Zou Zhuo broke down,¡±¡±F * ck!¡±¡± I¡¯ve only yed for two hours and I¡¯ve already charged over 200 RMB for a mobile game? I must be crazy!¡±¡± ¡± ...... ¡°In just three days after its release, King of Glory¡¯s best selling leaderboard was already soaring, and its ranking was rising every day. ¡± ¡°Strictly speaking, the momentum of Chen Mo¡¯s King of Glory was much slower than Onmyoji¡¯s because Onmyoji had already gained a lot of poprity with its many derivative works and arge number of card yers. It became a phenomenal topic in a short period of time. ¡± ¡°However, Mobile Legends didn¡¯t have such good treatment. On one hand, Chen Mo didn¡¯t put much effort into promoting it at the beginning, and on the other hand, many MOBA yers didn¡¯t really enter Mobile Legends. ¡± ¡°Onmyoji was different from King of Glory in this aspect. Onmyoji could be said to be the master of mobile card games, and was on apletely different levelpared to other mobile card games in parallel world. ¡± ¡°On the other hand, glory of kings had to bepared with League of Legends since it was born, and many League of Legends yers could not be converted into glory of kings yers at once. ¡± ¡°This was amon and contradictory trait of all mobile MOBA games. If the game wanted to be popr, it had to ride on the poprity of League of Legends. However, that would mean that the mobile game would have to live under the shadow of League of Legends forever. It could only drink the soup and could not start from scratch. ¡± ¡°Of course, for other video game designers, it would be fine as long as they could get some leftovers. But for Chen Mo, it was clear that he had his own ambitions for every game he made. ¡± Many mobile game designers had already seen the potential of King of Glory. Just the fact that it was the best MOBA mobile game was enough to prove many things. ¡°However, no one knew what the limits of King of Glory were. ¡± ¡°From the looks of it, the MOBA that had the best performance was the mobile version of ancient catastrophe, which was currently in second ce on the best selling leaderboard. Although it had asionally surpassed the mobile version of the moon god¡¯s prophecy, it was quickly overtaken again. ¡± ¡°After all, mobile games on PC had a high paywall and yers were very clingy. ¡± Could Chen Mo¡¯s King of Glory replicate Onmyoji¡¯s glory and reach the top of the mobile game bestsellers? Many people were suspicious. ...... ¡°At the same time, King of Glory was slowly spreading among many groups of yers. ¡± At apany. ¡°¡±¡±You¡¯re here to y a few rounds of Mobile Legends during your lunch break?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±King of Glory? What¡¯s that?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±It¡¯s the mobile version of League of Legends, which can be yed on the phone. It¡¯s very simr and the operation is even easier. I can easily release the Super god inside!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Aiya, isn¡¯t this the fake version of League of Legends? Weren¡¯t there already a few MOBA models? There¡¯s nothing fun to do. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±This one is different. Chen Mo made this.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Chen Zhao did it? Why did Chen Mo get involved in this game? Alright, I¡¯ll download it and y a few rounds. ¡°¡± ¡± ...... At a certain school. ¡°¡±¡±Have you yed King of Glory?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±King of Glory? I¡¯ve never yed it before. What kind of game is it?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±It¡¯s simr to League of Legends, but you can y it on your phone! And the heroes in the game are especially cool, my Arthur the sixth! I¡¯ll bring you!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Shh! The form teacher is here, quickly put away your phone. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±It¡¯s fine. We can y secretly during the evening self-study. ¡°¡± ¡± At the gathering. ¡°¡±¡±Hey, girl, why are you ying mobile games too? Isn¡¯t this King of Glory?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±That¡¯s right. I was looking for a game on the inte that day and found this game out of the blue. I tried it out and found that it was actually quite fun, so I¡¯ve been ying it ever since.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Girl, what segment are you in now? Only silver? Come, I¡¯ll take you, I¡¯m Gold!¡±¡± ¡± 1 ¡°¡±¡±Okay, okay, hurry up and help me score. I feel like my teammates are all terrible!¡±¡± ¡± ...... In a certain chat group. ¡°¡±¡±Does anyone want to y mobile Legends? Let¡¯s add each other as friends. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Buttface, you¡¯ve changed. You¡¯re ying this kind of trashy mobile game.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±That¡¯s right. You gave up League of Legends and said that you don¡¯t have time to y it, but why did you turn around and y King of Glory?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Hmph, I despise you!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±King of Glory is just a castrated version of League of Legends. Many of the game¡¯s mechanics have been changed. It feels like they¡¯re just messing around and it¡¯s not interesting at all ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±But ... There are so many pretty girls in Mobile Legends. You can also have a master and disciple rtionship, pick up girls, and search for girls nearby. I¡¯ve already gotten to know quite a few girls who y mobile Legends, and we¡¯ve had a good chat ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Wait, you can search for the girls nearby?!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Yeah, and as long as you¡¯re of a higher rank, these girls will like to add you. I even sessfully got the contact information of several girls!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I¡¯ll go! Big brother Buttface, please take me with you. I want to y mobile Legends!¡±¡± ¡± Chapter 582 ? Chapter 582 Whoever gets a girl gets the world Trantor 549690339 ¡°Although most of the yers of League of Legends were indifferent to the appearance of Mobile Legends, this game had gradually expanded among other groups of yers. ¡± ¡°To put it simply, these yer groups were the derivative groups of League of Legends. ¡± ¡°In other words, these yers knew about League of Legends and were interested in it, but they felt that League of Legends was difficult to y or was more tiring. They were marginalizing League of Legends. I understand, but only asionally. ¡± These people were far from being loyal to League of Legends. All they needed was a game to kill time. ¡°Even for many people, League of Legends was considered a heavy game, and it was very tiring. They really needed a fast-paced mobile game that could be yed while lying down, yet still retain the essence of MOBA games. ¡± ¡°Therefore, after the appearance of Mobile Legends, these yers quickly threw themselves into the arms of Mobile Legends. ¡± ¡°This was also Chen Mo¡¯s goal. He didn¡¯t make King of Glory to steal yers from League of Legends, since both games were his own, and he would be stealing his money if he kept stealing. ¡± ¡°Chen Mo¡¯s goal was to expand MOBA games to these marginal groups of yers, targeting those who didn¡¯t y League of Legends or those who were tired of it, and kill them all in one fell swoop with Mobile Legends. ¡± ¡°Don¡¯t think that you can keep your wallet just because you gave up League of Legends, that¡¯s impossible! When you see Mobile Legends, you still have to obediently take out your money. ¡± ¡°Moreover, King of Glory had to capture the hearts of those students and female yers, especially female yers, who were an important group of yers in King of Glory. ¡± There was a very interesting phenomenon in the gaming industry. ¡°Although some games were not popr with male yers, they were unexpectedly popr with female yers ... ¡± ¡°There was also a very interesting phenomenon in this game. Male yers would slowlye over to y for girls. As long as the game¡¯s social system was done well, it would be fine as long as the girls were hit on. ¡± ¡°It didn¡¯t matter if he couldn¡¯t capture the male yers. He would capture the female yers first, and then the male yers woulde to him. ¡± ¡°Therefore, there was also a saying that ¡°¡±whoever gets girls gets the world.¡±¡± As long as he gathered a group of girls in the game, he would not have to worry about not having anyone to y. ¡± ¡°In some games, there were even more female yers than male yers. Male yers were rare creatures in the game and were protected by the girls. ¡± And this gimmick was indeed very crucial to the promotion of this game ... ¡°It was the same for King of Glory. Perhaps it was the easiest MOBA game to get started with, so it was more attractive to girls than League of Legends. ¡± ¡°The art style of Mobile Legends was closer to women¡¯s aesthetics. What kind of hero would female yers like? They didn¡¯t like Western heroes, nor did they like tall and strong men. They liked China-style little brothers and sisters, and they liked cute things. ¡± ¡°In Mobile Legends, the art design of many heroes was simr to this. For example, Li Bai, Han Xin, Zhen Ji, Ang, Daji, and so on. All of them were handsome and beautiful. ¡± ¡°Strictly speaking, although a world view like magical beast was regarded as a ssic by countless yers, it wasn¡¯t very attractive to girls. ¡± ¡°It was an undeniable fact that there were very few female yers in World of Warcraft. On the other hand, the China Style swor III had a lot more female yers than that ... ¡± ¡°It was the same for King of Glory. Under Chen Mo¡¯s intentional promotion, arge number of female yers started to enter the game. They might not be able to y League of Legends, they might be noobs, but it didn¡¯t matter. As long as they could y the game in the early stages, they would slowly be addicted to it. ¡± ¡°This way, many male yers like zou Zhuo would be led into the trap ... ¡± ¡°In order to perform well in front of the girls, they had to work hard to study the game¡¯s mechanism, save money, and buy better skins and stronger runes. ¡± An undercurrent began to grow ... ...... ¡°At the same time, many yers were very surprised when they saw the hero characters in the game. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Oh my God, the person holding the wine pot in the cinematic is Li Bai? I thought it would be something like the liquor sword immortal. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Moreover, there are also Zhong Yuan, Miyamoto Musashi, Marco Polo, Di Renjie, li Yuanfang ... There are also people from the Three Kingdoms period, such as Guan Yu and Zhang Fei. They are all historical figures.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I always feel that it¡¯s a bit too much of a knockoff ... All kinds of historical figures have traveled through time and space toe to the same story background ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±But I think it¡¯s fine. Instead, I feel very close to it. On one hand, these people are already known to everyone, like Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and the like. On the other hand, the game has made some magical changes to these heroes, so they¡¯re very fun. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±It¡¯s true. I thought it would be a disaster to use the China Style as a hero, but it seems like Chen Zhao did a good job.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±And there are a few heroes in this game that are really fun. Li Bai, Han Xin, Guan Yu, Diao Chan ... These heroes are quite unique. They¡¯re notpletely imitating League of Legends.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I think Guan Yu is the most interesting hero. To be honest, the mechanism of his skill is a bit like the yers in League of Legends, but it¡¯s different. Also, the way he releases his skill is very suitable for mobile games. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±That¡¯s right, and this game is actually different from League of Legends. It has its own unique mechanism. Although it¡¯s easy to get used to ying King of Glory after ying League of Legends, if you want to be the king, you still need to have some understanding of the game.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°The yers were all discussing the new MOBA game, and the topic of discussion about Mobile Legends was far greater than that of ancient catastrophe. ¡± ¡°Soon, King of Glory started to climb up the best selling leaderboard. Although it did not climb as fast as the Onmyoji, it kept rising. It soon entered the top ten without any signs of falling. ¡± What the others didn¡¯t know was that the number of downloads for Mobile Legends was increasing at an even more terrifying speed! ¡°This was enough to show that the game was expanding to other groups of yers at an increasingly fast speed. It was just that these yers had not really yed it yet, so it had not formed a spending boom. ¡± ¡°Chen Mo believed that when the game really made it to the top of the best selling leaderboard, its potential would shock everyone. ¡± Chapter 583 ? Chapter 583 Answering questions to buy heroes! Trantor 549690339 At a junior high school. ¡°During the lunch break, one of the boys secretly took out his phone and opened Mobile Legends. ¡± ¡°Smartphones were already verymon in the parallel world, and Chen Mo had made many improvements to Mobile Legends so that it could run smoothly on the trashy thousand Yuan machines. ¡± ¡°Therefore, some primary and secondary school students could also y mobile Legends. ¡± ¡°After all, after the poprization of smartphones, many parents would buy ordinary phones for their children. This was also human nature. If their children encountered any problems on the way to and from school and didn¡¯t call, it would be too inconvenient. ¡± ¡°Moreover, even if their parents didn¡¯t allow them to buy one, many students could secretly save up their money to buy one. After all, many low-end cell phones were not expensive. Some children who had a lot of living expenses could afford it in two or three months. ¡± ¡°The boy entered the game happily. His deskmate, another boy, leaned over and said,¡±¡±¡±¡±How is it, Buttface? have you saved enough money?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Buttface smiled.¡±¡±I yed two rounds secretlyst night. I have enough money now. I can buy Li Bai.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°His deskmate was surprised,¡±¡±ah, you finally have enough money!¡±¡± Not bad, Li Bai is very cool. Last time, I saw a great God who was very powerful. He killed five people by himself. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°Buttface nodded his head,¡±¡±yeah, I also thought Li Bai was very handsome. That¡¯s why I wanted to buy him.¡±¡± I¡¯ve been secretly reading a lot of guides these few days, and I can¡¯t wait. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°As Buttface was speaking, he found Li Bai in the game store and clicked to purchase the item. ¡± ¡°However, to his surprise, the hero did notplete the purchase immediately. Instead, a new prompt interface popped up. ¡± ¡°[Please read the following into the microphone ¡°¡±Li Bai was a famous Romantic poet in the Tang Dynasty. His name was too white, and he was known as the schr Green Lotus. He was also known as the immortal poet byter generations, and he and Du Fu were called Li Du ...¡±¡± ¡± Buttface was dumbfounded. What the hell was this? ¡°On the interface was an introduction to Li Bai¡¯s life. There were not many words, only a few hundred words, but the information was very concise. It introduced all of Li Bai¡¯s life in history, some representative works, and derived knowledge. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±But we¡¯re clearly ying a game. Who would want to read Li Bai¡¯s life story?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Buttface tried to close the interface, but the purchase process was directly canceled! ¡± ¡°¡±¡±F * ck, what do you mean? You can¡¯t buy a hero if you don¡¯t finish reading this?¡±¡± ¡± Buttface was shocked. It was too embarrassing to read this kind of thing in the ssroom. Those who didn¡¯t know would think that they were studying or memorizing history questions! ¡°His deskmate was also dumbfounded.¡±¡±F * ck! What the hell is this?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°There was a limit to heroes being exempted in the game, and these heroes did not need to be bought, so no one noticed this. ¡± ¡°However, when they had enough gold coins and were ready to buy a hero, these underaged yers suddenly realized that there was a ¡°¡±reading the text¡±¡± segment. ¡± ¡°Buttface put away his cell phone with a pained expression, ¡°¡±I¡¯m going to the toilet ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Obviously, dog two also felt that it was too shameful to read in the ssroom. It was better to go to the toilet and find a ce with no one around to read ... ¡± ¡°Even if someone else heard it, they would not know who it was ... ¡± Buttface came to the school toilet. ¡°Fortunately, it was lunch break, so there was no one in the toilet. The students either went home or returned to their dormitories. Some students did not go back in the afternoon and were either sleeping or studying in the ssroom. No one would disturb him ... ¡± ¡°Buttface said in a low voice,¡±¡±Li Bai is a famous Romantic poet in the Tang Dynasty ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°This paragraph was not long, and he finished reading it very quickly. Buttface heaved a sigh of relief, thinking that he could buy a hero. However, another interface popped up on the phone. ¡± [Please answer the following questions. [Which of the following poems are the works of Li Bai?] ¡°[A Tongguan official, B Yueyang louji, C SHU daonan, D Chunxiao.] ¡± Buttface was startled. What the hell was this? ¡°As a junior high school student, he had learned many of Li Bai¡¯s poems, such as ¡°¡±thoughts in a quiet night,¡±¡±¡±¡±early release to White Emperor City,¡±¡± and so on. But he really couldn¡¯t answer this question ... ¡± ¡°In the previous passage, there were at least seven or eight of Li Bai¡¯s representative works. At that time, he read them once but didn¡¯t read them carefully, so he didn¡¯t remember what they were. ¡± ¡°However, when he looked at the four options below,¡±¡±spring dawn¡±¡± seemed to be the only poem that he had some impression of. As for whether it was written by Li Bai, he really couldn¡¯t remember ... ¡± ¡°Buttface was really drunk. He wanted to go back and read the paragraph that he had read just now, but he found that he couldn¡¯t go back at all. He had to answer the question directly ... ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Then there¡¯s no other way, just make a wild guess!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Buttface clicked B. He felt that as a Romantic poet, Li Bai¡¯s works must be very cool and ethereal. The other two names didn¡¯t seem to be the same ... ¡± ¡°However, after he clicked on it, the system actually prompted him that he answered wrong! ¡± ¡°Moreover, if he answered wrong, he would not tell the correct answer. The interface would return to the ce where he read the character¡¯s life history, and the boy would have to read it again ... ¡± ¡°¡±¡±F * ck, isn¡¯t this a scam?!¡±¡± ¡± Buttface was shocked. Again? ¡°However, he had no choice but to repeat it ... ¡± ¡°This time, Buttface was more careful. He took a look at Li Bai¡¯s representative works at the bottom. As expected, Shu Dao Nan was among them. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±So you should choose C for this question. Alright, there¡¯s no problem this time.¡±¡± ¡± Buttface answered the questions again happily. [Who is the ¡®li¡¯ in ¡®little Li Du¡¯?] ¡°[A is Li He, B is Li Shangyin, C is Li Bai, D is Li Qingzhao.] ¡± ¡°Buttface was instantly shocked,¡±¡±F * ck, what the hell is this?¡±¡± Why did you change the topic?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±That didn¡¯t seem to be the question just now. This ... Does the mobile game even have a question library?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Buttface¡¯s first reaction was to check it on the inte, but there was a huge countdown on the interface, which only had ten seconds. It was obvious that by the time he found the answer online, it would be toote. ¡± ¡°Buttface wanted to choose Li Bai, but he soon realized that the problem was not that easy. ¡± ¡°Upon a closer look, it was actually ¡°¡±little Li Du¡±¡±? ¡± ¡°Li Bai¡¯s life story had mentioned it a little. Li Bai and Du Fu were called Li Du together, but there were two other people called little Li Du together. ¡± ¡°Du was Du Mu, but who was this li? Buttface couldn¡¯t remember ... ¡± ¡°In fact, many people had already learned this knowledge when they were in junior high school. But after all, dog two was bad at studying and didn¡¯t pay attention to Chinese ss ... ¡± ¡°He had a vague feeling that it was either Li He or Li Shangyin, but he was not sure. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I¡¯m guessing. Li He it is!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Buttface had chosen A, but he was wrong again ... ¡± ¡°Buttface was about to break down,¡±¡±I just want to buy a hero. Is it necessary?¡±¡± he thought. Besides, I want to buy Li Bai. Big brother, why are you asking me so many people who have no rtionship with Li Bai?¡±¡± ¡± Chapter 584 ? Chapter 584 Treating everyone equally! Trantor 549690339 Buttface had no choice but to go back to the previous interface and read out the life story of Li Bai ... The third question was very simple. [What¡¯s Li Bai¡¯s profession?] ¡°[A drunkard, B assassin, C poet. D jungler.] ¡± ¡°Buttface was surprised,¡±¡±holy crap! It¡¯s that simple?¡±¡± Wasn¡¯t this just a free point question? Why were the previous two questions so difficult? Although being a drunkard is also very suitable, this question should obviously choose a poet!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Buttface chose C, and a prompt popped up on the interface. ¡± ¡°[Congrattions, you¡¯re right. You¡¯ve sessfully bought the hero! [Do you want to share this with your friends?] ¡± ¡°Looking at Li Bai on the interface, Buttface had mixed feelings. ¡± He actually had a Chinese ss while ying a game? ¡°After buying the hero, Buttface suddenly had an ominous premonition. Could it be that all the heroes that he wanted to buy would have this kind of question-and-answer segment? ¡± ...... ¡°Not long after King of Glory was released, many underaged yers discovered the game¡¯s maliciousness towards underaged yers. ¡± ¡°Since the Thunderbolt Game Pass was bound to the ID card, it could easily check the yer¡¯s real age. ¡± ¡°Underaged yers were divided into several age groups Those under the age of 12 can only y for one hour a day, those between the ages of 12 and 16 can y for two hours a day, and those between the ages of 16 and 18 can y for three hours a day, but there must be a half hour break after the two hours. ¡± ¡°As for adult yers above the age of 18, there was no restriction. ¡± ¡°This anti-addiction system wasn¡¯t much, as many mobile games had already made it. This was mainly to protect minors. ¡± ¡°However, the craziest thing was that underaged yers had to answer the questions when they wanted to buy heroes in Mobile Legends! ¡± ¡°After reading the person¡¯s life story, the person had to answer a random question from the question library correctly within ten seconds to sessfully purchase it. If the answer was wrong, the person would have to read it again. ¡± ¡°There was no time to check the answers online, because the entire time to answer the questions was less than ten seconds. ¡± ¡°A lot of people were tortured by this question-answering system because Chen Mo had deliberately raised the difficulty of the questions. For example, Li Bai¡¯s question even asked ¡°¡±who is the Li in little Li Du¡±¡±... ¡± ¡°In reality, Li Shangyin and Li Bai didn¡¯t have much of a rtionship, but Chen Mo didn¡¯t find the questions difficult or out of the sybus. After all, it was always good for students to have more knowledge! ¡± ¡°No need to thank me, my name is Lei Feng! ¡± ¡°Many people shared their question banks online, but they soon realized that it was meaningless. ¡± This was because the answers to the questions were all in the characters ¡®lives that the yers had read. Going out to check the question library was like taking off one¡¯s pants and farting! ¡°Many underaged yers didn¡¯t even bother to look at the question bank. As a result, when they really bought a hero, they could only guess. Many yers even recited the person¡¯s life four or five times and almost memorized it before they finally answered a rtively simple question correctly ... ¡± ¡°Some of the stronger Chinese heroes became the most affected, such as Li Bai, Han Xin, Zhuge Liang, Zhou Yu, and so on. Many underaged yers not only studied literature, but also history ... ¡± It couldn¡¯t be helped. The yers ¡®need to buy heroes was so urgent that they could even force themselves to learn ... ¡°Arge number of underaged yers protested on the forum, saying that this was discrimination! ¡± Why did they put such a restriction on underaged yers? We also spent money to buy heroes! ...... ¡°When Chen Mo created the system, he considered the fact that it was troublesome and unnecessary for adult yers, so he only gave it to the underaged. ¡± ¡°After all, he had to protect the flowers of his country, and those that had already borne fruit were not within his consideration ... ¡± 1 ¡°Therefore, yers like Zhou Zhuo didn¡¯t need to answer the questions when they bought heroes. ¡± Many yers were gloating. ¡°¡±¡±Hahaha, even primary school students have their own problems! You lost to Chen Zhao, right?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Hahahahaha, who told you to trick us in ranked games! But now, he had to answer the questions before buying the hero. Chen Mo¡¯s design was simply amazing! He even let the primary school students learn some cultural knowledge to benefit the younger generation!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I was scared to death. Fortunately, I¡¯m an adult this year. I took a look at the questions and I don¡¯t know any of them! If I were to answer this question, I might not even have the chance to be Li Bai and Han Xin ...¡±¡± ¡± Many primary school students protested sternly. What kind of designer was this? ¡°I¡¯ve already spent so much effort to save up gold coins or top up money, but you won¡¯t even let me buy a hero! Does it mean that you don¡¯t want money? ¡± Many underaged yers protested and even expressed their intention to report this to the game Committee. ¡°The adult yers couldn¡¯t help butugh.¡±¡±Little friends, can you check Chen Mo¡¯s identity before reporting him? He¡¯s an Honorary Committee member, if you report him to the game Committee, they¡¯ll give him a Certificate of Honor. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°In the end, thebat power of these underaged yers was quite strong. After all, young people were all hot-blooded and easy to get over. To put it bluntly, they were more like Chuunibyou. ¡± ¡°Many underaged yers posted on the official forum of Mobile Legends, demanding that Chen Mo treat them the same! ¡± There were also yers who threatened to refund or quit the game if this mechanism was not removed! Chen Zhao quickly replied. ¡°¡±¡±In view of the great sess of the question answering system in King of Glory, which has caused a warm response among the yer group and produced an excellent social influence, I¡¯m not going to let you go. Hence, the King of glory project team decided that the question answering system would be made avable to all yers. We¡¯ve always treated all yers equally, and we won¡¯t show any favoritism to underaged yers. Please rest assured!¡±¡± ¡± Chen Mo¡¯s response left all the adult yers dumbfounded ... ¡°¡±¡±F * ck, what the hell? Why do we seem to have been unjustly implicated?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±F * ck! Those primary school students are causing a ruckus here and there, how did they end up causing trouble for us? We¡¯re already adults, why do we still have to answer questions?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±F * ck, Chen Zhao¡¯s getting more and more daring. It¡¯s fine if he¡¯s bullying primary school students, but he¡¯s doing this to us?! That¡¯s too much!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Many adult yers were also dumbfounded. After all, some of them were not very educated and had little knowledge about historical figures. They might not be able to answer these questions correctly ... ¡± 2 ¡°Furthermore, even if he got it right once, he still had to recite a long list of people¡¯s lives! ¡± A lot of people finally realized what Chen Mo was doing! ¡°Many yers were unhappy. After all, they could have bought the heroes directly. Now, they had to answer questions to buy them. Wasn¡¯t this setting up a spending barrier for them? ¡± The yers expressed their dissatisfaction and even reported it to the game Committee. The reason was that the hero purchasing mechanism in Mobile Legends had created obstacles for yers to spend. yers could not immediately buy what they wanted after spending money. They requested the game Committee to uphold justice and protect the legal rights of the consumers! Chapter 585 ? Chapter 585 The gamemittee¡¯smendation Trantor 549690339 ¡°Very quickly, the game Committee warmly replied to these yers and even released a special article that was reposted by the major video game media. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Recently, some yers have reported that you need to answer a question to buy a hero in Mobile Legends. If you answer the hero¡¯s life correctly, you can¡¯t buy a hero. The game Committee has unanimously agreed that glory of kings has made a great contribution to the poprization of traditional cultural knowledge, and would like tomend Chen Mo and the glory of kings project team!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±At the same time, the game Committee encourages other gamepanies to learn from Thunderbolt entertainment. When they release games that are simr to the Chinese style, they should be able to use the design of King of Glory as a reference. It is the responsibility of every designer to spread traditional cultural knowledge to the yers.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°When the yers saw the gamemittee¡¯s post, they were initially overjoyed, feeling that they had finally gotten justice for themselves, but when they saw the content, they were dumbfounded ... ¡± ¡°¡±¡±What the hell is this? Not only did they not cancel the system, they even gave Chen Mo a reward?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Not only did hemend them, but he also asked other gamepanies to poprize this design?!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Game Committee, you¡¯re not cheating us, are you?!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Looks like Chen Mo really can do whatever he wants as an honorary member of the game Committee, he¡¯s like a mountain!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°The yers were in despair. The gamemittee¡¯s announcement was basically the gamemittee¡¯s way of defining the game system Good, very good, very good, worthy of encouragement! ¡± ¡°After this document was sent out, many gamepanies were shocked. How could this be possible? ¡± The game Committee praised Chen Mo and even asked otherpanies to do the same? ¡°Many gamepanies quickly picked up on the trend and expressed their goodwill to the game Committee. As long as there was a Chinese style game or a Chinese historical figure in it, they would follow the method of King of Glory and answer questions! ¡± There were even many Chinese-style games that didn¡¯t have historical figures. ¡°Then what should he do? Then he would answer other questions, such as people¡¯s clothing, customs, historical background, and so on. ¡± ¡°As a result, the yers were instantly overwhelmed with grief ... ¡± ¡°Imagine ying a Huaxia-style wuxia mobile game, but a question suddenly popped up while you were ying, and you could only continue ying if you got it right. Wasn¡¯t this F * cking cheating? ¡± ¡°Of course, there were many games that weren¡¯t made, because the gamemittee¡¯s notice wasn¡¯t a rule, it was just a form of promotion. ¡± ¡°But even so, the yers were still affected. Some yers even said that ying the game now felt like a history lesson ... ¡± ¡°Many yers expressed indignantly,¡±¡±I¡¯m not ying anymore, it¡¯s a trashy Mobile Legends!¡±¡± He had to answer questions to y games. He had never seen such a ridiculous mobile game! Chen Mo was overconfident. Refund! ¡± ¡°On the forums, this kind of post was very popr. Many yers who couldn¡¯t buy a hero were very angry and expressed that they wanted to quit the game. ¡± ¡°However, the status of the game on the forum had exposed their real situation ... ¡± Many yers who posted that they had quit the game logged back into mobile Legends after a day or two. What was even more terrifying was that the image below the forum id would show the games they had yed recently. ¡°Three days ago, he had posted that he would never y mobile Legends again. However, the bottom of his profile picture showed that thest time he logged into mobile Legends was ten minutes ago. This was F * cking awkward ... ¡± ¡°It was not that these people did not want to quit, but they could not! ¡± ¡°Many people only realized after they started ying that Mobile Legends was truly worthy of being called Mobile Legends ¡®pesticide of the king, because it was really poisonous! ¡± ¡°Many yers who had initiallyined that they would quit the game if they did not buy a hero came back in the end. After all, they had already saved enough money. It was just a matter of answering a question. Thinking about it carefully, it did not seem that overboard ... ¡± ¡°If he stopped ying, wouldn¡¯t his gold coins and point certificates be in vain? ¡± ¡°After these yers bought the heroes, they immediately forgot about the pain they suffered from answering the questions. ¡± ¡°On one hand, he was very happy after buying a new hero and couldn¡¯t wait to experience it in the game; On the other hand, yers would have a stronger sense of identity with these characters after understanding their True Lives in history. ¡± ¡°For example, Han Xin¡¯s Last Stand, Zhou Yu¡¯s burning red Cliff, Guan Yu¡¯s thousand-mile journey, and so on. Many yers might not have known much about these heroes before, but after reading their life stories a few times, they had a rough idea of how amazing these people were in history. ¡± ¡°When they returned to the game, they would have the illusion that if their character was so awesome, they would also be awesome, right? ¡± ¡°The system had caused a stir at the start, but as the game Committee made their final decision, the yers started to ept it ... ¡± He had no choice but to ept it. There were no other games on the market that were simr to Mobile Legends! ¡°Unknowingly, King of Glory¡¯s poprity had increased steadily, and it was even soaring on the mobile best selling leaderboard. It soon surpassed the mobile version of ancient catastrophe and was approaching the moon god¡¯s prophecy! ¡± ¡°King of Glory¡¯s strong performance on the best selling leaderboard also caused many yers toin. F * ck, this was all my hard-earned money! ¡± Many yers didn¡¯t feel that the game was a scam when they first came into contact with Mobile Legends. ¡°Although he had to buy all the heroes, he could slowly save up gold coins. The skin only added ten attribute points. For many yers, not buying a skin was not a big problem. ¡± ¡°The only bad thing was that the runes needed to be drawn with diamonds. However, many yers did a rough calction and realized that even if they didn¡¯t spend a single cent, it wasn¡¯t particrly difficult to earn a set of Level 4 runes through events. ¡± ¡°Besides, if you didn¡¯t have runes, your teammates and opponents would basically be ounts without runes, so you wouldn¡¯t be tortured. ¡± ¡°Therefore, many yers did not realize the in-game pay-to-win nature of this game at the beginning. They even felt that Mobile Legends was much better than other in-game games. ¡± ¡°In many mobile card games, it would cost hundreds or thousands of dors to get rare cards, and in some RPG games, a good piece of equipment could be sold for a sky-high price. ¡± ¡°Inparison, the skins for King of Glory were basically all within 200 yuan, and the cheaper ones were less than 30 yuan. The heroes were also priced differently, and some could even be bought for a few hundred gold coins. ¡± ¡°Of course, there were also rtivelyrge in-game in-game purchases, such as the lucky draw system, where he could draw Wu Zetian and Han Xin. ¡± ¡°However, these two champions weren¡¯tpletely heaven-defying, they were just average. It was more of a show-off after getting it, and whether it was strong or not still depended on the individual. ¡± ¡°However, after they went deeper into the game, many yers were very confused. Where did my money go? ¡± ¡°Why did my King of Glory ount be 5,6, and even 8 times more expensive as I yed? ¡± Chapter 586 ? Chapter 586 You¡¯re really a gardener! Trantor 549690339 ¡°After thinking about it carefully, he realized that there were many ways to scam money in this game! ¡± ¡°Seeing a strong hero, he wanted to buy it. ¡± She wanted to buy beautiful skin. He saw a powerful inscription and wanted to buy it. ¡°Moreover, there were all sorts of top-up activities in the game, constantly reminding you to top up some money. With that, I¡¯ll give you good things! ¡± ¡°Moreover, in order to show off in front of girls, many yers did not hesitate to buy heroes, skins, and even give girls skins. In a short time, a few hundred Yuan had been spent ... ¡± ¡°Moreover, in order for King of Glory to reach the top of the best selling leaderboard as soon as possible, Chen Mo used a very simple and direct method, which was a discount for the first week. ¡± ¡°In the first week of the game¡¯s release, all heroes and skins were at a 20% discount. After the first week, they would return to their original prices. ¡± ¡°Under such temptation, many yers could no longer remain calm. ¡± The yers were very clear-headed when they saw the skins they wanted to buy. ¡°This sobriety meant that they were clearly aware that if they didn¡¯t buy it now, they would buy it in the future. In that case, it was better to buy it now and it would be cheaper. ¡± ¡°Therefore, after they had really yed Mobile Legends, many yers started to top up their game money to buy their favorite heroes and skins. ¡± ¡°And some girls were even more aggressive in topping up. Some girls even yed the game as a dress-up game, just to buy a bunch of nice skins for their favorite female heroes ... ¡± As for the oue of the game? It was not important. Beautiful skin was the most important! ¡°A week after King of Glory¡¯s release, the game immediately overtook moon God¡¯s prophecy and took first ce on the mobile game best selling leaderboard. It had been firmly at first ce since then, never to be shaken again. ¡± ¡°In order to maintain its poprity, the moon god¡¯s prophecy had alsounched many activities, including activities to increase activity and top-up. ¡± ¡°But no matter how hard they tried, moon God¡¯s prophecy could only rank second on the bestselling list. They couldn¡¯t even touch King¡¯s glory! ¡± Qiu bin was shocked. How much money did King of Glory make? ¡°The other video game designers were shocked as well, because the situation was developing in apletely uncontroble direction ... Many of them had already realized that mobile MOBA games might be popr, but no one dared to guess how popr it would be. ¡± ¡°This was because there were some mobile MOBA games that were not bad, such as ancient catastrophe, but they were worlds apart from the PC version of League of Legends. ¡± Many people thought that mobile MOBA games were just for the sake of ying on the edge and drinking the leftovers from League of Legends. ¡°However, the appearance of mobile glory had shocked many mobile game designers. Could mobile glory replicate the glory of League of Legends on the PC? ¡± But the problem was that King of Glory was just a mobile game that Chen Mo had made while developing Dark Souls! ...... ¡°In Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, King of Glory was extremely popr. Whether one admitted it or not, whether one was willing to ept it or not, it existed objectively. ¡± ¡°In terms of data, the daily active value of King of Glory exceeded 50 million, and the peak value exceeded 80 million, with an average monthly revenue of more than 2 billion. In may of 2017, he topped the all-round games revenue Championship without counting Google y. ¡± ¡°If it was in daily life, then this impression would be more intuitive. Even at the dinner table of many ss reunions, most people would take out their mobile phones and make a few calls. ¡± ¡°Of course, to be fair, Mobile Legends was a good game, but it was not a great game. There was nothing to argue about this, probably even the designer himself thought so. ¡± Was King of Glory so popr because of how well it was done? ¡°Strictly speaking, glory of kings did have a lot of advantages in terms of game development. However, these were only the reasons why glory of kings was better than all the otherpetitors, not the reason why it could be a phenomenal product. ¡± ¡°The reason why mobile Legends was so popr was that MOBA games were one of the most popr video games ever since human video games were created. In terms of gamey,petition, team cooperation, concentration, and sense of achievement, they had achieved a delicate and harmonious bnce. ¡± ¡°Would there be a new type of game that would surpass MOBA games in the future? Maybe, but from the current situation, MOBA games were still one of the most popr genres in the world, even if VR games were taken into ount. ¡± ¡°Rather than calling it the sess of Mobile Legends, it was more urate to call it the sess of MOBA games. ¡± ¡°Of course, the game industry was all about results. Designers didn¡¯t consider many emotional factors when making games, and all the designs had very clear design intentions. ¡± ¡°Many people might have their opinions or suggestions on Mobile Legends. They might be good, but if the game¡¯s revenue dropped by three percent after the changes, would you still think that they were good? ¡± ¡°The reason why mobile Legends was popr was that it satisfied the yers who liked Mobile Legends, not the yers who liked League of Legends. ¡± ¡°Many yers would think that King of Glory was a low-level game when they looked at it from the perspective of other games, but this consideration was wrong from the beginning. ¡± ¡°This was because they were not the same group of yers as the target yers of King of Glory, and there was not much possibility of them being converted. ¡± ¡°The reason why King of Glory was able to achieve aeback on the mobile side, other than being more simplified and easier to get started with, was that it had a very important feature, which was its strong social attribute. ¡± ¡°If you don¡¯t y, but your girlfriend does, then will you y? ¡± ¡°If you don¡¯t y, but your ssmates do, then will you y? ¡± ¡°In Mobile Legends, many systems had subtly strengthened this strong social attribute. ¡± ¡°For example, the leaderboard, the title of ¡°¡±the third in the imperial capital, Li Bai,¡±¡± the master-disciple system, the yers nearby, and so on. ¡± ¡°Many of your ssmates and friends who were ying Mobile Legends would even flood your moments, bing part of your social circle. ¡± ¡°When the number of yers reached a critical point, it would be like a snowball that could not stop rolling until it reached its maximum. ¡± ¡°After reaching this peak, it might slowly begin to slide down. This peak was already a number that no game designer could look up to. ¡± ...... ¡°And in the parallel world, Chen Mo¡¯s introduction of Mobile Legends and the question-answering system had actually helped in some unexpected ways ... ¡± Many primary school teachers were surprised to find that primary school students were starting to like reciting Li Bai¡¯s poems. ¡°Things like ¡°¡±killing a person in ten steps, not leaving a trace for a thousand miles,¡±¡±¡±¡±I hope I¡¯ll be drunk for a long time,¡±¡±¡±¡±I¡¯ll get drunk today if I have wine ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°After asking around, he found out that primary school students liked to recite Li Bai¡¯s poems because they loved the house and its Crow. They felt that Li Bai in ¡°¡±glory of kings¡±¡± was very handsome, so he became the idol of primary school students ... ¡± ¡°A junior high school student said that everyone in his ss liked Li Bai. Many people werepeting to see who could recite more of Li Bai¡¯s poems, no longer limited to the few sentences in the game. ¡± ¡°Another middle school teacher was surprised to find out that his student could recognize the Chinese character ¡°¡±.¡±¡± After asking, he found out that in Mobile Legends, there was ... ¡± ¡°Many jealous mobile game designers were still thinking of reporting King of Glory for changing history and teaching children the wrong things, but now, they couldn¡¯t find an excuse ... ¡± ¡°Before buying a hero, he had to read the person¡¯s life and answer the questions. This was simply spreading historical knowledge! ¡± ¡°¡®He¡¯s really a gardener, serente?¡¯ ¡± Chapter 587 ? ¡°Chapter 587 Prequel to Dark Souls, the death-facing version!¡± Trantor 549690339 ¡°In the experience store, zou Zhuo was ying Mobile Legends with full concentration. ¡± ¡°Suddenly, his expression changed,¡±¡±F * ck, is this Arthur a fool?¡±¡± We¡¯ve been signaling him to retreat, why did he still go up?¡±¡± ¡± Chen Zhao smiled. Zou Zhuo looked at his phone screen in frustration. One of his stars had shattered and his rank had dropped from diamond to tinum. ¡°Zou Zhuo was speechless,¡±¡±there are so many primary school students in this game!¡±¡± We were supposed to win this round, but Arthur kept on giving us free money. We were fighting four against five in thete game, and we lost to reckless!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Zhao smiled,¡±¡±this is normal. Speaking of which, why are you ying solo? are you not bringing any girls?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Of course,¡±¡± zou Zhuo replied,¡±¡±but she onlyes online at night.¡±¡± When I¡¯m free, I¡¯ll secretly y a few rounds. But then again, why do I feel like the elementary school students in Mobile Legends are even scarier than those in League of Legends? I¡¯m really going to cry from this!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Moughed,¡±¡±it¡¯s all your illusion.¡±¡± The elementary school students in Mobile Legends and those in League of Legends are obviously the same group of people. Don¡¯t you feel that the ranking environment in League of Legends has improved a lot recently?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo thought for a moment and said,¡±¡±it seems like it.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Even though zou Zhuo had been ying Mobile Legends with the girls every day, he had notpletely given up on League of Legends. He would still y two to three hours a day. ¡± ¡°Indeed, zou Zhuo felt that the number of primary school students in the ranked matches of League of Legends had decreased significantly. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Did they alle to y mobile Legends?¡±¡± zou Zhuo asked. ¡± ¡°But then he thought,¡±¡±but, I¡¯m also ying Mobile Legends!¡±¡± In other words, I still can¡¯t get rid of primary school students?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo was in a bad mood. Heined to Chen Mo that there were too many primary school students in League of Legends, and Chen Mo promised to make a game for them, so that there would be fewer primary school students in League of Legends. ¡± ¡°In the end, after mobile Legends was made! It was indeed loved by primary school students. Many of the scammers from League of Legends were transferred to Mobile Legends, but zou Zhuo never thought that he would fall into the same trap as Mobile Legends! ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I¡¯ve been switching, but I still can¡¯t get rid of those primary school students! And why do I feel like there are more primary school students in this game?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo was speechless,¡±¡±forget it, I¡¯ve given up. I¡¯m just ying this game to keep the girlspany.¡±¡± If I¡¯m scammed by an elementary school student, then so be it. They¡¯re the ones who scammed me with their own abilities, what can I do?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Mo smiled and patted his shoulder,¡±¡±¡±¡±That¡¯s the right attitude. Anyway, the only purpose of ying this game was to show off to the girls. As long as the girls thought you were good, it was fine. Winning or losing was not particrly important. By the way, don¡¯t forget that you still have to finish the prequel to Dark Souls. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo smiled awkwardly but politely,¡±¡±¡±¡±Manager, you still remember this? I thought you had forgotten. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±How could I forget such a fun thing?¡±¡± Chen Mo smiled. ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo coughed.¡±¡±Alright, manager. When will the prequel of Dark Souls bepleted?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±It¡¯s pretty much done,¡±¡± Chen Mo said.¡±¡±We¡¯ll be able to try it out in the experience store in two days, and then go live in a week.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo eximed,¡±¡±wow, manager, you¡¯re so fast! You developed it at the same time as Mobile Legends, and you¡¯re still so fast. Can you guarantee the quality?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Mo¡¯s lips curled up.¡±¡±I can¡¯t say for sure about the other qualities. But I¡¯m sure it¡¯s better in terms of torturing people.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Ah?¡±¡± Zou Zhuo was shocked,¡±¡±why do I feel a chill down my spine ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Oh yeah,¡±¡± Chen Mo suddenly thought of something.¡±¡±Come to think of it, it¡¯s time to release the trailer to warm up.¡±¡± ¡± ...... ¡°The prequel of Dark Souls and glory of kings were developed at the same time. Glory of kings was developed faster, so it was released earlier. The prequel of Dark Souls was also progressing quite quickly, and it was almost done. ¡± ¡°During this time, although King of Glory had taken over the mobile game¡¯s best selling leaderboard, the poprity of Dark Souls had not subsided. Instead, it had spread to a wider audience. ¡± ¡°Because Dark Souls itself was a very longsting game, most of the yers who had already yed it would try it out for the second or third time, and then y it when they had nothing to do. ¡± It was true that suffering could be addictive. ¡°In the past few months, the ways to y Dark Souls had been discovered, and arge number of high-end yers had emerged. Videos of bosses being killed without getting injured or killing them quickly had be amon sight. ¡± ¡°On the inte, many live streamers ¡®game-clearing strategies and suffering highlights had a high number of views. Videos rted to Dark Souls often appeared on the leaderboards in the game zone. ¡± There were still many live streamers who streamed Dark Souls every day on the major live streaming tforms. Even the big live streamers who yed mobile and PC games were basically crushed by Dark Souls ... Many yers were looking forward to the release of Dark Souls prequel. ¡°After all, Dark Souls¡¯s treatment was too special. Many yers had mocked Chen Mo for not being good at it, because Chen Mo didn¡¯t release a sequel even for a big ip like Warcraft. ¡± ¡°It seemed like all of Chen Mo¡¯s games had their own system, and there had never been a situation where he had to rely on an ip address. As for Dark Souls? Chen Mo was actually going to y a prequel! ¡± ¡°In fact, this was equivalent to a sequel. ¡± What kind of work would be able to break Chen Mo¡¯s curse of number two? ¡°On the dark Souls official forum, many yers were refreshing new posts out of boredom. ¡± ¡°At this moment, a new pinned post appeared on the forum. ¡± ¡°[The opening cinematics of Dark Souls ¡®prequel have been revealed,e and take a look!] ¡± The yers were invigorated and started to watch the video. ¡°¡±¡±He¡¯s out! The cinematics of the prequel!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Hurry up and see what¡¯s inside. I¡¯ve waited too long!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±The CG is out, so the game should be released soon, right?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Many yers were watching the cinematics attentively, especially those ¡®soul schrs¡¯ who were interested in the plot. They wanted to y it in slow motion by 0.5 times so that they could see every frame clearly. ¡± It was a scene of thick fog. A deep voice began to narrate the events of the ancient times. ¡°¡±¡±In ancient times, the world had yet to split and was shrouded in fog. There are gray rocks, tall trees, and undying ancient dragons everywhere. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±But one day, the first fire was lit, and all the differences were born.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Cold and hot.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Life and death.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Light and darkness.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°The camera went through the hole in a towering ancient tree and went deep underground. The mes were burning in the distance, illuminating the dark cave. ¡± Many ck shadows stood up from the ground and looked in the direction of the mes. ¡°¡±¡±A few species born from the darkness were attracted by the fire and found the king¡¯s soul around the fire.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±The first victim, NEET.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°The witch of y ¡®zaris and the Daughter of Chaos.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±The king of sunlight, Gwyn, and his Knights.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Also, the dwarves that no one has seen before.¡±¡± ¡± The camera quickly switched to show their appearance. ¡°NEET looked like a monster made of bones, while the witch of y ¡®zaris was a mage with a hood. ¡± ¡°Gwyn, the Helios King, had a crown on his head, and behind him was an Army of Knights. ¡± Only this so-called dwarf didn¡¯t have a face. He only had a silhouette. ¡°He slowly stood up from the ground, holding something in his hands. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±They obtained the king¡¯s power and challenged the ancient dragon.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±GE Wen¡¯s Lightning Spear pierced through the ancient Dragon¡¯s Rock-like scales.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±The witch¡¯s mes have formed a storm.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±NEET released the death miasma.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±And the scale-less white Dragon, Heath, betrayed the ancient dragon, causing the ancient dragon to be defeated.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°The scene changed again. Gwyn, the witch, and NEET all appeared on the screen and released their divine power to attack the dragons. ¡± ¡°At the end of the scene, White Dragon Heath was on a mountain of dragon bones, roaring towards the sky. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±The era of fire has begun.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°The camera zoomed in, and there was a huge city on the screen. Even from a distance, one could imagine how grand and prosperous this city must be. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±However, the fire will eventually be extinguished, and only darkness will be left.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Now, the fire is about to be extinguished, the light can not shine on the world, and the night continues endlessly. The cursed Halo of darkness began to appear in the crowd ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°In the nameless graveyard, the Firekeeper held the scattered sparks in her hands and lowered her head, as if she was praying for the dead Knight. ¡± ¡°The Halo of darkness appeared in the middle of the screen, like a pitch-ck hole. At the edge, there were mes burning fiercely ... ¡± ¡°The final scene was fixed on the Ring of Darkness, and then the familiar game name appeared on the screen. ¡± Dark Souls! ¡°The only difference was that there was a small word ¡°¡±prequel¡±¡± next to Dark Souls, as well as a line of notes The death version! ¡± Chapter 588 ? Chapter 588 Trying out the game Trantor 549690339 ¡°After watching the video, the dark Souls yers exploded! ¡± ¡°Although the length of the video was not long, only less than four minutes, the information contained in it was very sufficient. ¡± ¡°In the previous cinematic of Dark Souls, there was a slight mention of the story of first fire. In that cinematic, it simply mentioned that people found the king Soul and defeated the ancient dragon who ruled the world with the power of fire. However, the details of the battle were not clearly described. ¡± ¡°And in this new cinematic, many mysteries were revealed. ¡± ¡°The one who had defeated the ancient dragon was not just Sun King Gwyn, but three people, including Tomb King NEET and the witch of y ¡®zaris. ¡± ¡°There was also a dwarf whose face could not be seen. He had not appeared in this battle from the beginning to the end, but it was clear that he also had a King Soul, and was definitely a very important figure. ¡± ¡°In other words, this cinematic was the first official description of the battle between the God and the ancient dragon, and it also introduced that there were actually four King souls. ¡± ¡°In addition, many people had also inferred more things from this cinematic. ¡± ¡°Since the first me brought order to the world, what kind of world was it before the first me? ¡± ¡°Many yers suspected that souls had existed since the birth of the world, but they were disorderly. The order and differences brought about by fire differentiated souls ording to their different nature. ¡± ¡°Arge number of souls gathered and appeared in a certain form, forming a powerful King Soul. ¡± And the creatures that obtained the king Soul near the initial me wereter known as gods. They had also changed their forms because they had obtained the king¡¯s soul. They had be existences that possessed divine power and were simr to gods. ¡°As for the dwarf, many yers were puzzled because there was no such thing as dwarves in the world of Dark Souls. ¡± ¡°Some ¡°¡±spirit schrs¡±¡± deduced that dwarves might refer to ordinary humans. This was because in Dark Souls, both gods and giants were very tall, and humans were the shortest. ¡± ¡°As this was a legend from ancient times, the dwarves were most likely referring to the ancestors of mankind. ¡± ¡°Of course, these were just the yers ¡®guesses. Chen Mo didn¡¯t n on exining the whole story as an official. ¡± ¡°The mysteries of the entire world were scattered throughout the game, and yers had to slowly explore and deduce on their own. ¡± ¡°However, from these main gods, the yers could still see the shadow of someter settings. For example, the power of magic came from the White Dragon, Heath; The power of faith came from the gods, who were the owners of King souls led by GE Wen. The power of the spell came from the witch of y ¡®zaris. ¡± It was obvious that this was a highlypleted series. Chen Mo didn¡¯t want to do a prequel because he saw Dark Souls¡¯s good results. The prequel¡¯s plot was already in his mind. ¡°Although there was a lot of information in the video, it only revealed some details of the ancient war. Many yers spected that the prequel to Dark Souls should have happened much longer than the timeline of Dark Souls, but how long ago was it exactly, and what happened in it? These were unknown. ¡± ¡°Furthermore, the entire video did not mention the Lord of Cinder. Could it be that they were not going to fight the Lord of Cinder in this battle? ¡± ¡°If he didn¡¯t hit the Lord of Cinder, what should he hit? A chaos monster? Or ancient gods? ¡± ¡°This video piqued the interest of countless yers. Obviously, the prequel to Dark Souls was more epic than the main story, and it was closer to the truth of the ancient war. ¡± Many of the unsolved plots in Dark Souls could be found in the prequel! ¡°This time, the local and foreign yers had reached an agreement, but the way they expressed it was different. ¡± ¡°The Chinese yers said,¡±¡±stop it, I¡¯ll F * cking buy it!¡±¡± ¡± The foreign yers Shut up and take my money! ...... ¡°In the experience store, Chen Mo looked at zou Zhuo with a half-smile. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Manager, can I y it after it¡¯s officially online?¡±¡± zou Zhuo said, his face pained. ¡± ¡°Chen Mo smiled,¡±¡±everyone else is fighting to y the new game, why are you rejecting them?¡±¡± Isn¡¯t it a great honor to y the prequel of Dark Souls before the others?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo wiped the cold sweat off his forehead,¡±¡±¡±¡±Manager, don¡¯t lie to me. I knew that the first batch of yers would die miserably! The yers at the back can still look at the guides, but the yers at the front are just courting death!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Isn¡¯t that the fun part of Dark Souls?¡±¡±Chen Moughed. ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo,¡±¡±alright, I¡¯ll be the firstb rat!¡±¡± I might even be the one who wrote the first guide for Dark Souls. ¡°¡± ¡± Zou Zhuo entered the game cabin with a lot of difficulty and became the first yer of the prequel to Dark Souls. ¡°This was the only gaming pod in the experience store that had the prequel of Dark Souls installed. The other gaming pods wouldn¡¯t be installed until the next day, and ording to Chen Mo, this was a special treatment for zou Zhuo ... ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo was a little scared, but he felt honored to be the first yer in the world to y the prequel of Dark Souls. He could brag about it in the future. ¡± ¡°After entering the game cabin, zou Zhuo quickly found the icon of the prequel of Dark Souls and started the game. ¡± ¡°The opening cinematics were the same as Chen Mo¡¯s cinematics, and they quickly reached the title. ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo was a little nervous. After all, this was the prequel to Dark Souls! ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo had suffered a lot in Dark Souls, and it was said that the prequel was even more difficult. How difficult was it? ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Calm down, calm down. We¡¯ve already cleared Dark Souls, let alone the prequels. With the foundation of Dark Souls, it¡¯ll be easy to y the prequel without any pain!¡±¡± Zhou Zhuo consoled himself,¡±¡±besides, I¡¯ve already yed oust. What¡¯s there to be afraid of?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°After entering the game, Zhou Zhuo found himself in a pure ck environment. At this time, he had a free perspective and could observe the character in front of him from all directions. ¡± The person in front of him should be his character image. ¡°Creating a character was no different from Dark Souls. It was basically the same. You could choose the gender, origin, supplementary props, and even the face. ¡± ¡°Moreover, zou Zhuo was using his own Thunderbolt Game Pass to log in, so he could directly import the face-molding data of Dark Souls into the prequel, which saved him a lot of trouble. ¡± Zou Zhuo entered the image of the prettydy he had created and started the game without any owner. ¡°In this way, he sessfully created a little sister in ragged clothes. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Hmph, I¡¯m an old yer after all. Only cowards would choose to start with a Knight. A high-end yer like me would definitely choose to start with something that has nothing!¡±¡± Zou Zhuo thought. ¡± Chapter 589 ? Chapter 589 Unreasonable advice to quit Trantor 549690339 ¡°After the character was created, the game officially started. ¡± The first part was a rtively simple introductory cinematic. ¡°Zou Zhuo was in a dark dungeon, and the rat quickly passed through the camera. There were torches on both sides of the wall, but they could only light up a small area, which added a bit of strangeness to the scene. ¡± ¡°At the foot of the wall under the torch, there was a skeleton-like living corpse sitting on the ground. It was unknown whether it was alive or dead. ¡± Zou Zhuo was reminded of oust. ¡°¡±¡±Is this a mental hospital?¡±¡± Zou Zhuo thought to himself. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±The Halo of darkness represents the curse of immortality,¡±¡± the low voice said.¡±¡±So in the kingdom, all the undead are captured, sent to the North, and locked up in prison until the end of the world.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±And this is your fate.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°The camera turned to a prison cell. Zou Zhuo¡¯s character was in the corner of the cell, hidden in the dark. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Wait a minute, what the hell is this? Howe my little sister is a zombie?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo was shocked. He had created a prettydy, but when he entered the game, she turned into a skinny corpse ... ¡± ¡°There were also zombified creatures in Dark Souls, but they would only zombize into ugly skeletons after they had made a deal with Rondor¡¯s Pilgrim and obtained the dark cave. ¡± ¡°In the end, the prequel was actually a living corpse? ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo¡¯s wish to see the naked body of ady in tattered clothes had been dashed ... However, he thought about it and realized that this was probably a requirement of the plot. There must be a way to get out of zombifiedter. ¡± ¡°Suddenly, the protagonist raised his head. ¡± ¡°With a ¡°¡±plop¡±¡±, a skeleton-like corpse fell in front of the protagonist, and a white light floated out of the corpse. ¡± ¡°Obviously, there were props on the body. ¡± The protagonist looked up and saw a Knight on the skylight of the cell. The Knight turned and left. ¡°The protagonist stood up, and the camera moved to the first-person perspective. Zou Zhuo seemed to have possessed the protagonist as he slowly stood up. ¡± Zou Zhuo walked to the body and picked up the key. ¡°Zou Zhuo familiarized himself with the basic controls, including rolling, attacking, etc. It was basically the same as Dark Souls, so he picked it up quickly. ¡± ¡°However, the scene of her birth seemed to be even darker than the scene in the previous game ... ¡± ¡°At the very least, Dark Souls was born in the ashes Cemetery, which was rtively bright. The prequel, on the other hand, was born in a prison cell. It was quite a tragedy. ¡± And the most infuriating thing was that zou Zhuo only had a Broken Sword! ¡°The broken sword was also in Dark Souls, but no one used it. Just by looking at its attributes, one could tell that it was a scam. ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo was shocked again,¡±¡±what happened?¡±¡± Shouldn¡¯t I be given a chicken leg and a wooden shield? Why don¡¯t you have any chicken legs?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°ording to the game experience from the previous game, there should be a default weapon at the beginning. The default weapon without an owner was a stick, also known as chicken leg. ¡± ¡°However, zou Zhuo only had a Broken Sword in his hand. Where was the chicken leg? ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo didn¡¯t want to give up. He looked at the nearby cells, but there was nothing. He could only bite the bullet and walk out of the cell. ¡± ¡°It was a small monster as soon as he stepped out, and zou Zhuo rushed up and shed it a few times with his Broken Sword before killing it. ¡± Zou Zhuo felt the earth shaking to his right. ¡°He turned his head and saw a tall demon behind the Iron fence on the right. He looked like the Lord of the Abyss in Warcraft,monly known as big ass. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±F * ck, this guy can¡¯t be the first boss, right ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo was panicking. He could still remember the time when he was taught a lesson by Gundam, but this boss seemed to be even more insane than Gundam! ¡± He continued to walk forward. ¡°Zou Zhuo felt like he was ying oust because it was too dark, and his vision was severely limited! ¡± ¡°In the first-person perspective, the scattered monsters were all curled up in the dark corners. They had no health bars and were easy to miss if one did not look carefully. ¡± ¡°Fortunately, there was no danger along the way. ¡± Zou Zhuo climbed up thedder and arrived at the first bonfire. ¡°¡±¡±Alright, it looks like a boss is about to appear ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo had been through dark Souls before, so he knew that there would be a guard boss like Gundam after the first bonfire. ¡± ¡°If there were only small monsters along the way, it didn¡¯t fit Chen Mo¡¯s character! ¡± ¡°But when he looked at the broken sword in his hand, he felt a pain in the ass. ¡± ¡°He was going to use this to fight the first boss? If it took so much effort to even kill small monsters, then fighting a boss was no different from a slow suicide! ¡± Zou Zhuo pushed open the rusty metal door and walked into the room. ¡°¡±¡±Eh? There¡¯s no boss?¡±¡± ¡± Zou Zhuo was a little surprised as there was nothing in the room. There was no sign of a boss at all. ¡°However, just as zou Zhuo was about to search the room ... ¡± ¡°Suddenly, he saw a huge object sh past in his vision! ¡± ¡°¡±¡±F * ck, What is this?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Before zou Zhuo could react, a giant demon jumped down from the sky andnded in front of him! ¡± ¡°¡±¡±F * ck, where did this thinge from?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo was shocked.¡±¡±That¡¯s the way it is! This guy is the first boss!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°The big ass zou Zhuo saw earlier was not the same as this one, but it didn¡¯t matter, because he couldn¡¯t beat either of them ... ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Alright, I feel like you¡¯re only at the level of a guda. I can do it!¡±¡± ¡± Zou Zhuo encouraged himself. ¡°To be honest, this demon was even scarier than gundyr, mainly because of his body shape. His size was basically the same as the stray demon on the bridge of Fn fortress, but his skin was healthier, probably because he took better care of it. ¡± Zou Zhuo charged forward and swung his Broken Sword at big-ass ¡®body! ¡°However, the demon¡¯s health bar only dropped by a tiny bit ... ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo was dumbfounded,¡±¡±are you kidding me?¡±¡± Isn¡¯t that too low?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo had also used [nothingness] against Gundam before, and the chicken leg had at least reduced Gundam¡¯s HP significantly, and it was very effective. ¡± ¡°However, when the broken sword hit the demon, it didn¡¯t seem like it lost any HP at all! ¡± How many months and years would it take for him to kill them? Zou Zhuo was still in pain when the demon raised his hammer and mmed it down! ¡°¡±¡±Not good!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo¡¯s attack on the demon had stunned him, so he was distracted and didn¡¯t manage to Dodge the hammer. ¡± ¡°With a loud bang, the entire scene started shaking. The hammer fell from the sky and mmed zou Zhuo to the ground. At the same time, zou Zhuo¡¯s health bar was emptied! ¡± Three bright red words appeared on the interface you¡¯re dead! Zou Zhuo¡¯s screen turned ck and he was back at the campfire. Zou Zhuo stood by the bonfire for a minute before he realized that this was way more difficult than Dark Souls. ¡°It was fine if his weapon was broken, but he did not even have an elemental bottle on hand. There was no way for him to recover his health! ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Don¡¯t tell me that I have to kill this boss without drinking its HP and use the broken sword to grind it to death? The difficulty is indeed much higher!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo tried to calm himself down.¡±¡±It¡¯s normal to be killed by the first boss. Calm down.¡±¡± ¡± He raised the broken sword in his hand again and rushed toward the devil. ¡°Ten secondster, zou Zhuo was back at the campfire. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±That¡¯s not right. There¡¯s a problem with the difficulty! It¡¯s impossible to win! At this rate of blood loss, he might not even die in ten minutes, and he has to make no mistakes throughout the game?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo was shocked. Although there were some God-level yers in Dark Souls who used their initial weapons to fight Nameless King, they were all God-level yers. How could ordinary people do that? ¡± Wasn¡¯t this big ass a little too strong? Chapter 590 ? Chapter 590 The Living Corpse of the sword Saint! Trantor 549690339 ¡°After dying four times, zou Zhuo finally realized that there was something wrong with the difficulty! ¡± There was no problem with the monster¡¯s damage. Zou Zhuo had already foreseen this result when he chose to start the game without any owner. It was normal to be killed in an instant since you didn¡¯t wear armor. ¡°The main problem was that the yers ¡®own damage was too low! At this rate, would it really take more than ten minutes to defeat the boss? ¡± It was obvious that this was just a gatekeeper boss. There was no need to make it so difficult for a new yer. ¡°Zou Zhuo also knew that Chen Mo¡¯s games all had their own logic, and weren¡¯t meant to be cruel. ¡± ¡°Although Dark Souls was difficult, it was not difficult in terms of numbers. It was more about the yer¡¯s practice of backstabbing and control. It was impossible for a boss to take more than ten minutes to fight. ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo entered the room again. This time, he realized that there was a message on the floor that he had overlooked. Quickly run! ¡± Zou Zhuo was shocked. What the hell? Was this an official hint? Could it be that this big ass wasn¡¯t the monster that he should be hitting now? Zou Zhuo searched around the house and found a torch-lit entrance on the left. The door was quite obvious because the entire room was very dark and only this ce had light. ¡°But zou Zhuo didn¡¯t expect this! ording to the usual logic, they would havee here to fight the boss, but in the end, they had to find a way to escape, just like in oust? ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo wanted to die, he should have thought of this earlier! ¡± ¡°In fact, there was a simr design in Dark Souls. For example, the squat giant in the church first encountered a giant on a tform. It would be in so much pain that it would wish it were dead. It had to be avoided first, and then slowly fixed its feet before it could be killed. ¡± ¡°However, in the prequel of Dark Souls, this was a sensitive spot where the first boss would appear. Who would have thought that the yers would have to run away first? ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo didn¡¯t know what was going on, so he ended up suffering a few times ... ¡± ¡°Once he was in the tunnel, the door closed and zou Zhuo was safe for the time being. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±As expected, the plot is like this ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo cursed in his heart,¡±¡±¡±¡±The store manager¡¯s deceptive skills have reached another level!¡±¡± ¡± Zou Zhuo picked up a wooden shield and a stick as he walked further in. ¡°¡±¡±Damn it, so he was waiting for me here? You can only pick up your starter weapon after you escape the first big ass ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°This was obviously Chen Mo¡¯s undisguised evil intentions, but zou Zhuo was already used to it. After all, he had been through dark Souls before ... ¡± ¡°As he yed, zou Zhuo realized the differences between the prequel and the first one. ¡± ¡°First, there were some details. There were many white mist doors in the prequel. At first, zou Zhuo thought that he would be facing the boss after passing through the White mist doors. He was so nervous because he didn¡¯t even have an elemental bottle. ¡± ¡°However, zou Zhuo realized that he was in apletely different scenario. ¡± ¡°It was obvious that the White mist gate was no longer a symbol of a boss battle. It was just something Chen Mo used to block the yers ¡®line of sight, and he would consider putting it in if the scene ahead was a little too much. ¡± ¡°In addition, the entire setting was very dark, even darker than many of the very dark scenes in the previous game. Zou Zhuo¡¯s vision was limited to three to five meters in the cell. It felt like he was ying a horror game. With the zombies that came out of nowhere, the gaming experience was terrible! ¡± ¡°Other than that, the tricky part was exactly the same as the previous game. For example, the big iron ball that suddenly rolled down the steps reminded him of the big rolling ball made of bones in the underground tomb of carthus. He was hit by it when he was not paying attention. ¡± Zou Zhuo wandered around in the dark for a long time before he realized that he was lost. The metal ball had broken one of the walls ... Zou Zhuo walked through the hole in the wall and saw a man sitting inside. ¡°He was wearing a knight¡¯s armor, and he was the one who gave zou Zhuo the key. ¡± Zou Zhuo approached carefully and realized that the person wasn¡¯t a monster. It looked like an NPC. ¡°¡±¡±Oh, you¡¯re not a living corpse. Thank God. I¡¯m Astar¡¯s Oscar. I was beaten down from the roof by that demon, but it¡¯s not a big deal. I just need to rest for a while. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I want to ask you for a favor. We are both undead, so please ept my request and listen to me.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±As expected, this should be the main storyline, right?¡±¡± Zou Zhuo chose ¡°¡±yes.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±This is my mission,¡±¡± Oscar continued.¡±¡±But I¡¯m willing to share it with you, because you¡¯re also an undead like me.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±There is a saying in my family The undead represents the mission. With this kind of undying body, you have to go to thend of the ancient kings from the undead yard, ring the bell of awakening, and learn about the mission of the undead. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Let¡¯s work hard for this goal together. We¡¯re all undead who shoulder a mission.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Also, take this. This is an undead treasure, the elemental bottle. And ... This key. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Well, I¡¯m going to rest here for a while. You can continue your journey. Maybe we can escape from the undead yard together.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°After saying these words, Oscar sat in ce, motionless. ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo wanted to kill him and see if he would drop the armor and shield. After all, zou Zhuo¡¯s clothes were in tatters, and with his equipment, he wouldn¡¯t even be able to greet the zombies ... ¡± ¡°After all, the zombie soldiers had armor and shields! ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo thought for a while. From Oscar¡¯s lines, this NPC should have some follow-up plot, so zou Zhuo decided to hold back. ¡± ¡°After getting the weapon and the elemental bottle, zou Zhuo started his new ount. ¡± ¡°To be honest, zou Zhuo was starting to regret not starting the game. He was a zombie, so he couldn¡¯t see any cute girls in ragged clothes. Also, it was really painful to be attacked by monsters without clothes on! ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo couldn¡¯t help but think,¡±¡±if I had chosen to start as a Knight, wouldn¡¯t I have suffered a lot less? is it toote to delete my ount and start over?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo went up the stairs and turned a corner. Suddenly, two longsword-wielding zombies appeared in front of him. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±You gave me a fright. Two living corpses dare to be rash? I¡¯m already in myplete form now. Next, I should be able to deal with that big ass and those small monsters ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Before zou Zhuo could finish his sentence, the two zombies had already rushed over from the corner and started dancing at zou Zhuo! ¡± Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh! ¡°The two longsword-wielding zombies shed at zou Zhuo six times in a row, rendering him immobile and instantly dead! ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo was shocked,¡±¡±what the f * ck, what¡¯s going on?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°In the first-person perspective, zou Zhuo was seriously traumatized. The speed of the two zombies ¡®swords was insane. They rushed out from the corner of the wall and immediately used six consecutive shes! ¡± Zou Zhuo didn¡¯t even have time to react ... Chapter 591 ? Chapter 591 Exploring the ronde junior ruins! Trantor 549690339 ¡°¡±¡±F * ck your Grandpa! If this living corpse is so good and you¡¯re so awesome, why don¡¯t you pass on the fire? You¡¯re even more F * cking awesome than a Sword Saint!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Previously, in the Catbs of Carthus, there were also some little skeletons that had very fast attack movements, so the yers jokingly called them skeleton sword Saints. However,pared to these two living corpses, it was simply a world of difference! ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo was highly suspicious. Even if the Lord of Cinder was here, he would be either dead or crippled, let alone a little girl in ragged clothes ... ¡± ¡°After reviving, zou Zhuo carefully lured the monsters and finally cleared all the monsters on the second floor. ¡± ¡°There was another door of white mist in front of him. After entering, zou Zhuo realized that he was on the roof of the previous room, and below him was the big ass that had made him suffer so many times. There was also a notification in front of the White mist gate,[you can attack from the ground.] ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I see! The design of this level is awesome. After going around a few times, it actually came back?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Obviously, this was going to be a boss fight. Zou Zhuo had already gotten his full set of equipment, so he wasn¡¯t as nervous. He changed his staff to a dual-wielding state. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Hmm, so if we go down, it¡¯ll be a plot kill? As expected, this is a learning stage, and you have to use a falling attack. Where should I jump from ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo¡¯s mind wandered as he thought about it. Suddenly, the big ass turned around, jumped up, and smashed the hammer down on zou Zhuo¡¯s head! ¡± ¡°¡±¡±F * ck!¡±¡± ¡± The hammer directly smashed the tform zou Zhuo was standing on. Zou Zhuo fell to the ground and was hit twice by the big ass. He died ... ¡°¡±¡±F * ck ... So it¡¯s because I¡¯ve waited too long and didn¡¯t jump that it found me? Your mother!¡±¡± ¡± Zou Zhuo felt his balls hurting. It was unbelievable that he would die in such a way ... ¡°Soon, zou Zhuo ran back and jumped down! ¡± ¡°After all, the Wyvern he had fought before was a cliff-jumping plot kill. To zou Zhuo, jumping sh wasn¡¯t thatplicated. ¡± Zou Zhuonded on the ground and hit the demon¡¯s head with his club. The demon¡¯s HP was reduced by half! ¡°¡±¡±F * ck, so this is the normal way of ying!¡±¡± ¡± Zou Zhuo was overjoyed by the skill. ¡°Zou Zhuo fought quickly against big ass. After all, he had suffered a lot before, so he was familiar with the boss¡¯s skills. He carefully dodged the skills and kept reminding himself not to be greedy. Finally, he sessfully killed the demon of the immortal yard. ¡± ¡°¡±nice! You still want me to suffer? This is rubbish!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo let out a long breath, took the key from big butt, and pushed open the door. ¡± ¡°In front of him was a pile of ruins, and a message appeared on the ground ¡°¡±Well done, please go straight.¡±¡± ¡± Zou Zhuo¡¯s mouth twitched. Was this serente¡¯s encouragement? ¡°It felt like when he wrote this message, he had already anticipated what kind of setbacks the yers would suffer here ... ¡± ¡°When he reached the highest point of the cliff, he triggered the cutscene again. ¡± ¡°[ording to ancient legends, a small number of selected undead can leave the undead Academy and go on a distant pilgrimage.] ¡± ¡°The plot was still going on when suddenly, a huge ck Crow flew up from the bottom of the cliff. It reached out its two ws and grabbed zou Zhuo! ¡± ¡°¡±¡±What the hell!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°It was a terrifying scene in first person, especially when the Raven was flying at an incredible speed. Zou Zhuo was caught by it before he could react, leaving only a few ck feathers. ¡± ¡°The ck Crows whizzed past, flying towards the mountains in the distance. ¡± [That¡¯s thend of the ancient kings ... Rodnd.] ¡°Zou Zhuo was so scared that he almost peed his pants. This was how the game worked, why did he have to scare the yers when he couldn¡¯t just tell a good story ... ¡± ¡°However, it was simr to the skill that Lothric had used at the little ring g, so zou Zhuo was only shocked for a moment before he regained hisposure. ¡± ¡°The crow flew in the sky with zou Zhuo in its arms. In the distance, there was a huge city, but the crow didn¡¯t put him on the city. Instead, it swooped down and threw him next to a ruin on the edge of a cliff. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Phew, I was scared to death.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo¡¯s heart started to race. The trip in the air made him feel weightless, but it was still exciting. ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo was overjoyed when he saw the words ¡°¡±Firelink sacrificial grounds¡±¡± on the screen. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I¡¯m finally back to the ce where my dream started!¡±¡± Zou Zhuo said. ¡± ¡°However,pared to the Firelink sacrificial grounds from before, the one from before was much simpler. There was a bonfire in the middle, and the surroundings were filled with copsed walls. It was an open-air scene, and it made people very worried about what would happen if it rained. ¡± ¡°There was no Lord of Cinder¡¯s throne in the surroundings, and all that could be seen was sadness. ¡± Zou Zhuo sat down by the campfire and walked towards the only npc. ¡°¡±¡±You came at the right time. I haven¡¯t seen a neer in a long time. I think you¡¯re probably here for those things, right? The mission of the undead?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±It¡¯s the same for everyone. In fact, everything is over when you¡¯re cursed. It¡¯s a wise choice to stay in the undead Academy. You¡¯re going to suffer.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±But it doesn¡¯t matter. I¡¯m free anyway, so I¡¯ll teach you.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±There are two bells of awakening mentioned in the undead¡¯s mission. One of them is ced above this ce, the bell tower of the church of the undead. The other one is deep below this ce, in the ancient ruins beneath the sick vige. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±It is said that as long as these two bells are sounded, something will happen. However, no one knows whether it is true or not. At least as far as I am concerned, I have never heard of anyone ringing these two bells.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±But it doesn¡¯t matter. Let¡¯s go. Didn¡¯t youe to this cursednd of the undead for this? Hehehehehe ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo only exchanged a few words with him, but they were all sarcastic. Obviously, this guy was my ¡°¡±brother gray heart¡±¡± and ¡°¡±brother dissuading¡±¡±. ¡± ¡°After all, zou Zhuo had already experienced it in the pregame. When you entered the Firelink sacrificial grounds, there would be a loser who would tell you how difficult it was to pass on fire. It was a suicidal journey and they would want you to quit the game and refund it. ¡± ¡°However, in this game, brother dissuasion didn¡¯t seem to have as many cards as in the previous game. In the previous game, brother dissuasion was a member of Fand¡¯s undead team and could still make a strong appearance in the end. In contrast, this one was a true loser ... ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo continued to look around after expressing his disdain towards the npc. However, he was shocked to find out where the fire girl was. ¡± ¡°More than half of the yers in the game were here for the pretty firegirls, but zou Zhuo found out that the firegirls were not on this floor. ¡± Could it be that the fire prevention woman had been canceled for this work? ¡°Zou Zhuo had a bad feeling about this. After all, he had noticed that it was possible to level up by the bonfire. Did the Firekeeper lose her ability to level up by using the bonfire? ¡± Zou Zhuo first walked around the Firelink sacrificial grounds. ¡°Obviously, there were still many props around. Many hidden bottles and cans had special props in them, and many were in the distance, which could only be reached through skilled parkour and jumping. ¡± ¡°However, salent¡¯s scheme was still hidden in the graveyard. Zou Zhuo saw a lot of good things in the graveyard and rushed over to pick them up. However, he was beaten up by the skeletons in the graveyard and couldn¡¯t fight back at all ... ¡± ¡°¡±¡±F * ck, I feel like this is a monster that can only be defeated in theter stages!¡±¡± Zou Zhuo was speechless. He thought that the skeletons were weak, but he was the weak one ... ¡± ¡°There were many boxes around the fire-passing sacrificial grounds. Zou zhuokai had carefully observed them one by one, thinking that there would definitely be treasure box monsters inside. However, unexpectedly, there were none. ¡± ¡°The chests were all real, and zou Zhuo was extremely grateful ... ¡± ¡°After being tortured by the treasure chest monster in the previous game, zou Zhuo had a habit of rejecting all treasure chests. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Oh my God! The manager has a conscience!¡±¡± Zou Zhuo said. ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo also found the Firekeeper down there, but she was locked up and didn¡¯t talk to him, which pissed him off. ¡± ¡°Soon, zou Zhuo was faced with a new problem-he was lost! ¡± ¡°The entire Firelink sacrificial grounds was huge,pletely different from the previous game. The Firelink sacrificial grounds of the prequel to Dark Souls was a very wide area, and there were many hidden paths. ¡± Zou Zhuo wandered around the ce and finally found an elevator. He went down and into a dark ce. ¡°The words ¡°¡±ronde junior ruins¡±¡± appeared on the screen. ¡± Zou Zhuo was a little scared. Why was this ce so dark? ¡°¡±¡±Although we¡¯re underground, is it more suitable than the immortal court? Alright, I feel that the nature of this ce should be simr to the High Wall of Lothric. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I¡¯ming! I¡¯ll show you what an outstanding old man looks like!¡±¡± ¡± Chapter 592 ? Chapter 592 Crazy suffering Trantor 549690339 Zou Zhuo arrived at the ronde Jr. Ruins with great ambition. ¡°There were a few living corpses on the side of the road, all crouching in the corner with their hands on their heads, giving off the same feeling as the High Wall of Lothric. ¡± Zou Zhuo even went up and killed two zombies to practice his skills. He was very proud of his strength. ¡°¡±¡±It¡¯s the newbie area after all. I feel like the difficulty should be about the same as the Lothric high wall? It¡¯s just that it¡¯s a little too dark here, I¡¯m really not used to it. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo mumbled to himself. He didn¡¯t have a torch, so the visibility was very low. Once he was more than five or six meters away, he couldn¡¯t see clearly. It was all dark. ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo continued forward and crossed a wooden bridge into the ruins. There was a lot of water around the ruins, and he didn¡¯t know where it came from. Zou Zhuo had no idea what this ce was in the plot, so he could only keep walking. ¡± ¡°After crossing the wooden bridge, a transparent spirit monster appeared in front of them. The monster looked like a ghost. It held two Sickles in its hands and pounced at zou Zhuo! ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo raised his small stick to meet the attack, but it missed ... ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Hmm? What¡¯s the situation?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo didn¡¯t even have time to react before the spirit appeared in front of him, its two scythes slowly shing toward zou Zhuo! ¡± ¡°Then, zou Zhuo died ... ¡± ¡°¡±¡±What¡¯s this? What¡¯s the situation?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo was shocked. The monster¡¯s attack looked like it was just scratching an itch, but it was really painful when it hit his body. His health was instantly emptied! ¡± The scariest thing was that these monsters could go through walls and fly ... And the scariest thing was that zou Zhuo couldn¡¯t even touch them with his weapon! ¡°Zou Zhuo felt that something was wrong, but he still didn¡¯t want to give up. He thought that there was something wrong with the way he opened it. ¡± ¡°After reviving at the Firelink sacrificial grounds, zou Zhuo made another trip to the ronde Jr. Ruins, only to find out that he couldn¡¯t defeat these monsters! ¡± ¡°The ghosts in other games were all just for show, and could also be cut with weapons. However, the spirits here were real spirits and couldn¡¯t be touched at all! ¡± Zou Zhuo had no choice but to return to the Firelink sacrificial grounds. ¡°At this time, he remembered that he had told him something when he tried to persuade his brother to leave. He had to ring two bells, and one of them was in the church of the undead? ¡± This ce doesn¡¯t look like a church at all. Did Ie to the wrong ce? Zou Zhuo was suspicious. ¡°It was obvious that the Firelink sacrificial grounds was surrounded by danger, and it was essible from all directions. If they were not careful, they would run into ces they should not go ... ¡± ¡°If this was any other game, zou Zhuo¡¯s first reaction would be to look for a strategy guide. However, he was the first yer in this game, where would he find one ... ¡± Zou Zhuo wandered around the Firelink sacrificial grounds for another ten minutes and killed a few skeleton monsters. He finally found a new path and arrived at the undead town outside the city. ¡°¡±¡±This is indeed the right path. What was I doing before ...?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo was speechless. The monsters here were a bunch of living corpses, so it was much easier to fight them than the spirits. This was the right way! ¡± ¡°But since that¡¯s the case, can¡¯t you give me some road signs or hints? Or maybe he could put a warning sign at the entrance of the ronde junior ruins! ¡± This was clearly Chen Mo¡¯s intention. He purposely set up a few high-level maps next to the spawn point to trick you ... ...... Zou Zhuo¡¯s Dark Souls prequel was finally on the right track after he arrived at the undead town. ¡°Even so, zou Zhuo had a feeling that this game was indeed more difficult than the previous game! ¡± ¡°On one hand, the monsters ¡®ATK seemed to have increased, and they had more skills. For example, The Living Corpse Grand Swordmaster in undying town outside the city could execute six consecutive shes at the slightest disagreement. If one was not careful, they would be hacked to death ... ¡± ¡°The most annoying thing was that some of the sword Saints were even holding shields. They immediately raised their shields after a set of attacks, even better than zou Zhuo ... ¡± Zou Zhuo had also encountered a Dark Knight. ¡°Zou Zhuo was shocked, there was a Dark Knight in the first newbie scenario? ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo recalled that The Dark Knight in the previous game only appeared in the Fn fortress map, which was almost mid-game! ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Hmm ... This guy¡¯s status is probably the same as Knight Lothric ¡®s? I¡¯ll try. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo approached carefully and checked his own weight. Since The Dark Knight¡¯s back was facing him, he should be able to get close without being noticed. ¡± ¡°However, just as zou Zhuo was about to backstab The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight suddenly turned around! ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo shivered in fear. He hit The Dark Knight with his staff and a small number appeared above his head,¡±¡± 7! As for the ck Knight¡¯s health bar, it basically did not change ... ¡± The Dark Knight waved his sword and shed three times. ¡°Zou Zhuo, dead. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±...There¡¯s no other way. Let¡¯s take a detour.¡±¡± Zou Zhuo backed off. ¡± ...... ¡°After passing through the White mist gate, zou Zhuo reached the top of the city wall. ¡± ¡°It was a very long wall, and it didn¡¯t seem too dangerous, so zou Zhuo walked forward with ease. ¡± ¡°However, there were two skeleton soldiers shooting at him from the tower behind him. Zou Zhuo wanted to kill them, but he felt that it would be too troublesome, so he continued forward. ¡± ¡°At that moment, a giant bull-headed demon fell from the sky and smashed into zou Zhuo¡¯s face! ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo was shocked,¡±¡±F * ck, where did this guye from?¡±¡± Why do the monsters in the prequel like to fall from the sky?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo wanted to try to fight the demon, but he was suddenly hit by two arrows from behind. The two monsters on the tower were still shooting at him ... ¡± ¡°¡±¡±F * ck, this shooting range is too much!¡±¡± ¡± Zou Zhuo¡¯s balls were about to explode. He was being attacked from the front and back. There was no way he could defeat the boss while the two monsters were shooting arrows at him. He could only run back. ¡°Zou Zhuo slithered toward the tower and the door, but he realized that he could not enter the White mist door. ¡± ¡°He could only climb up thedder in a panic. There were two zombie soldiers on it, and they immediately drew their swords to cut him. ¡± Zou Zhuo killed two monsters in a hurry and let out a long breath. ¡°¡±¡±Phew, you scared me ... Luckily, I reacted quickly. I can finally drink the medicine now, right?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo looked at the bull-headed demon from the side of the tower, who was standing there in a daze. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Hehe, once I drink the potion and recover my HP, I¡¯ll finish you off with a falling sh ...¡±¡± ¡± Zou Zhuo took out his elemental bottle and was about to drink when the bull-headed demon jumped up from the tower! ¡°Yes, such a huge demon jumped up from the ground, sat in front of zou Zhuo, and stepped on him, sending him flying! ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo got up from the ground, dumbfounded. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Wait a minute, this guy can actually jump up? You¡¯re a cheater, right?¡±¡± ¡± The bull-headed demon didn¡¯t waste any more time and mmed zou Zhuo to the ground with his hammer! There were three bright red words on the screen-you¡¯re dead! ¡°¡±¡±F * ck, you¡¯re messing with me, right, big brother!!!¡±¡± ¡± Zou Zhuo left the game in despair. Chapter 593 ? Chapter 593 I never exaggerate Trantor 549690339 ¡°Zou Zhuo went back to the living room and ordered a cup of milk tea from the front desk, trying to ease the trauma in his heart. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±How was it? did you have fun? Aren¡¯t you happy?¡±¡± Chen Mo asked with a smile. ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo¡¯s mouth twitched,¡±¡±happy my ass!¡±¡± Manager, this game seems to be more op than the previous game, right? Aren¡¯t you afraid of dying in the game?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Mo chuckled,¡±¡±I told you that I¡¯ll make it harder than before. I never lie or exaggerate. If I say that it¡¯s harder than before, I¡¯ll make you feel it!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo facepalmed.¡±¡±Manager, are you being honest in the wrong ce?!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Where are you?¡±¡± Chen Zhao asked.¡±¡±Where are you?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo thought for a moment,¡±¡±uh, on a bridge, I met a bull-headed demon and was told to leave.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Oh, that¡¯s still early.¡±¡± Chen Mo said,¡±¡±you haven¡¯t left the novice vige yet, but you¡¯ve found the way to the undead town outside the city.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo narrowed his eyes.¡±¡±So, manager, you purposely connected all the high-level scenarios around Firelink sacrificial grounds just to trick me?¡±¡± At first, I ran to an area called the ronde Junior¡¯s ruins, and was tortured to death by the spirits there ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Yeah,¡±¡± Chen Moughed,¡±¡±that¡¯s right. It¡¯s a map that¡¯s only avable in theter stages of the game.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo was shocked,¡¯a map that only goes in the middle andte stages? I was wondering why I was instantly killed ... Manager, you¡¯re too unkind. Can¡¯t you mark a ce that you only go to in the middle andte stages? Or you can lock the door and get the key before you can go. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Aiya, how can I do that?¡±¡± Chen Mo shrugged.¡±¡±That¡¯s what the game is about. The ronde ruins is connected to the Firelink sacrificial grounds, so I can¡¯t just change the plot.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo was confused,¡±¡±manager, don¡¯t you know who wrote the plot?¡±¡± That¡¯s all up to you, you can change it however you want!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Of course not.¡±¡± Chen Mo shook his head. It¡¯s just like how many authors rely on their characters to push the plot forward when they¡¯re writing. It¡¯s not up to the author to write whatever he wants. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±It¡¯s the same with making games. When designing the game¡¯s background, the designer has to treat the game world as a real world and let the various characters in the game push the development of the plot. This way, the game¡¯s plot will appear more real ... So, I don¡¯t have the final say in the game¡¯s plot, you still have to ask the characters in the game. Helios Gwyn has decided that the ronde Jr. Remains are right below Firelink¡¯s sacrificial grounds. There¡¯s nothing I can do. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo¡¯s mouth twitched,¡±¡±you¡¯re right, manager, I almost believed you ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Mo chuckled and continued,¡±¡±¡±¡±Besides, we have to give the yers a lot of choices. Maybe some yers just like to start from the ronde junior ruins? Maybe they feel that the undying town outside the city is too weak and there¡¯s no challenge at all, so they want to challenge the high-level maps directly. We should also provide these yers with the corresponding convenience. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo was frustrated,¡±¡±manager, I¡¯m afraid that these yers don¡¯t even make up 1% of the game?!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Mo said righteously,¡±¡±are you looking down on this 1%?¡±¡± So what, 1% of the yers weren¡¯t yers? We also have to consider their thoughts, right?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo thought for a long time and finally said,¡±¡±¡±¡±What you said makes so much sense, I actually can¡¯t refute it ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Mo chuckled and said in a low voice,¡±¡±¡±¡±Of course, I¡¯ve been trained. My mouth is not smooth, how can I trick those programmers to obediently help you with the functions?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo was stunned,¡±¡±what did you say, manager?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Zhao smiled. Take a break, you still have to clear the prequel of Dark Souls. ¡°¡± ¡± Zou Zhuo¡¯s face was bitter. He felt like he had just jumped into a fire pit ... Why did he raise a g when he had nothing to do? He was really pushing himself into the fire pit! ...... ¡°The news that the prequel of Dark Souls had been developed had spread, and many Dark Souls fans hade to the experience store to try out the game. ¡± ¡°However, Chen Mo only gave zou Zhuo the green light to try it out, while the others would only be able to try it out tomorrow. ¡± ¡°That was why many yers were itching to y; they had thought that the prequel to Dark Souls was still far away; so they did not look forward to it. But now that he heard that it was done, he still had to wait for a day before he could y. It was simply torture waiting. ¡± ¡°These people surrounded zou Zhuo because they knew that zou Zhuo had already tried the game, so they wanted to get some useful information from him. ¡± ¡°As for why zou Zhuo could y first? Well, everyone was highly suspicious that he might have made an unspeakable deal with the store manager! ¡± Zou Zhuo seemed to have be a celebrity all of a sudden. Many old yers of Dark Souls came over and asked him questions. ¡°¡±¡±How is it? Is the prequel of Dark Souls fun?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I heard that there are a lot of big shots in the plot, such as Tomb King NEET and the witch of y ¡®zaris. Have you seen these bosses?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±By the way, what is the so-called dark soul? Did the prequel mention it?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±What are the bosses in the prequel? Are there any Lords of Cinder left?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo felt a little embarrassed. Even though he had yed for a long time today, most of the time was spent on corpse running. He really didn¡¯t know how to answer these questions. ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo didn¡¯t know what to say, especially when he asked if the prequel to Dark Souls was fun. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Yes, to be honest, I haven¡¯t yed for long. I just passed the first gatekeeper boss and haven¡¯t even seen the shadow of the second boss yet.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±The difficulty ... It¡¯s still the same, but in the manager¡¯s own words, the level design seems to have improved again ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±As for the plot ... It seems that the plot this time is much grander than the previous game. The plot says that after ringing two bells, one will know the truth of the undead¡¯s fate. It might be about some major settings, but this game is too long. I haven¡¯t even seen the shadow of the bell ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±You¡¯re asking me if the prequel was fun? Yes, it¡¯s very fun, I can¡¯t stop!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°These people were Dark Souls ¡®loyal fans and had been itching to y for a long time. After hearing zou Zhuo¡¯s words, they couldn¡¯t wait to get into the game cabin and y. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I knew that the manager¡¯s level was so high, the prequel must be fun! I¡¯ll definitelye to the experience store early tomorrow!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Me too. There will definitely be a lot of people tomorrow. I might not even be able to get a seat in the game cabin.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Dark Souls ¡®fans gathered together and discussed it. Moreover, they were all very interested in the prequel of Dark Souls, which would be released in the experience store tomorrow. ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo was the only one who made a cross in front of his chest,¡±¡±¡±¡±Amitabha, I wish you sess in your tribtion ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°However, zou Zhuo didn¡¯t expect that his malicious words would bring him an unexpected disaster ... ¡± Chapter 594 ? Chapter 594 Don¡¯t the people who y this gamee to suffer? Trantor 549690339 ¡°A Dark Souls fan suddenly reacted.¡±¡±¡±¡±By the way, little fatty, didn¡¯t you say that the prequel to Dark Souls was especially fun? Then why don¡¯t you hurry up and continue ying? When the timees, we¡¯ll still be waiting for you toe up with a strategy!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Another yer chimed in.¡±¡±That¡¯s right, hurry back to the game cabin and continue ying. You¡¯re the only one who can y now, so why are you cking outside instead of cherishing it?!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo ¡°¡±???¡±¡± ¡± He was almost surrounded by a group of Dark Souls fans and pushed back to the game cabin. ¡°Zou Zhuo wanted to beat himself up. Why did he have to say ¡°¡±Dark Souls prequel is fun¡±¡±? wasn¡¯t he just digging his own grave ... ¡± ¡°Now, with a group of people blocking the door of the game cabin, he would not be able toe out until he had spent all his time in the game cabin ... ¡± ...... ¡°As for the prequel to Dark Souls, the main part was based on Dark Souls 1 in Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, mainly in terms of the story and level design. ¡± ¡°In thebat system, Chen Mo retained some of the special weapons and spells from the first generation. He also made some adjustments to the two-handed greatsword and Crescent de. ¡± ¡°At the same time, he also considered that it was closer to the weapon system in Dark Souls III so that the yers could get used to it easily. ¡± ¡°In addition, since they were going to make the scene and model into a VR version, the art resources were basically remade. While maintaining the art style of Dark Souls, the model precision, movement, and physical collision had all taken a qualitative leap. ¡± ¡°In the VR prequel of Dark Souls, the capital would be a huge city. When yers walked in the capital, they would feel as if they had been in a different world. ¡± ¡°In addition, the most praiseworthy thing about Dark Souls 1 was the excellent level design. Not only were the checkpoints filled with mystery-solving factors, but there were also traps and conspiracies everywhere. ¡± ¡°The most important thing was that the entire map had been made into a huge, perfect whole, divided into Nyers. Firelink sacrificial grounds happened to be in the center of the whole map, and it was essible in all directions. ¡± ¡°Chen Mo didn¡¯t make any changes to the cannonfire, since Dark Souls 1¡¯s ystyle was already mature and anything he did would cause problems. ¡± The bonfires in Dark Souls 1 could not be teleported. Only after entering the Imperial City and obtaining the Royal weapon could one freely teleport between the bonfires. ¡°If it were in Dark Souls 3, this would be a pain in the ass as the yers would have to take a lot of unnecessary routes. However, Dark Souls 1 didn¡¯t have such a serious problem, all because of the excellent level design. ¡± The entire map was filled with many shortcuts. The Firelink sacrificial grounds was located in the center of the map. It was well-connected and convenient to travel to many ces. ¡°In addition, the bonfire could be leveled up, repaired weapons, and other settings. In Dark Souls 3, yers could do anything that needed to be done in the Firelink sacrificial grounds next to the bonfire. ¡± ¡°In addition, yers could only be teleported after obtaining the king equipment. This was a very crucial and satisfying point for the yers in the middle of the game. ¡± ¡°As such, even though not being able to teleport was a pain in the ass, there was still some logic to this design. If it could be changed to teleport, it would affect the entire gamey, which was why Chen Mo chose to continue with this design. ¡± ¡°For experts, it didn¡¯t make much of a difference whether they could teleport or not, because they would calcte the best route. As for the newbies ... Alright, let¡¯s move on to the next topic. ¡± ¡°In addition, in his previous life, Dark Souls was limited by funding problems, so many plots had not been produced, such as the Oscar plot. In the original design, Oscar and the protagonist would escape from the immortal courtyard and grow up together, and eventuallye to the initial furnace together. ¡± ¡°However, due to ack of funds, this line was cut offpletely. After Oscar gave the yers the key, he was knocked down by the demon. Before he died, he handed the elemental bottle and the key to the yers and became a guiding NPC. ¡± ¡°When the yers returned to the undead yard, Oscar had already turned into a zombie and epted the lunchbox. ¡± ¡°As for Chen Mo, money wasn¡¯t a problem at all, and the story line wasn¡¯t too difficult to make either, so he made up for it ording to his own ideas. ¡± ¡°Of course, the biggest difference between Dark Souls 1 and Dark Souls 3 was the atmosphere. ¡± ¡°All the yers who had yed Dark Souls 1 had the same feeling, which was that Dark Souls 1 was more depressing than Dark Souls 3. ¡± ¡°The pressure came from many aspects. The atmosphere was more lonely, the environment was darker, and the monsters were more and more powerful. Strictly speaking, Dark Souls 1 was indeed very difficult, and in terms of design, it wasn¡¯t a very pleasing design. ¡± ¡°Many of the designs of Dark Souls 3 had tried to reduce the difficulty, but there were still so many yers who chose to give up. It was enough to show that it was a hardcore game. It was obvious that Miyazaki Hidetaka also hoped that Dark Souls could be a more mainstream game, allowing more neers to enter. ¡± ¡°Strictly speaking, Chen Mo¡¯s doing Dark Souls 1¡¯s content was like reversing the car. Obviously, making games easier to master was the general trend of this era. Hardcore games that required a lot of practice and back-up were inevitably reduced to a minority. ¡± ¡°But Chen Zhao didn¡¯t care. To him, the prequel to Dark Souls wasn¡¯t for sales, but toplete Dark Souls and make it a ssic game in the world of VR games. In other words, he wanted to maximize the characteristics of Dark Souls. ¡± ¡°Dark Souls 1 was like a perfect work of art. Even though it was overpowered, its level design, difficulty, and story were all ssics. Chen Mo was determined to make the essence of the game, even if it meant sacrificing some sales. ¡± As for whether the yers would suffer ... ¡°What a joke, didn¡¯t the yers y this game to suffer? ¡± ...... Three dayster. The topic of Dark Souls ¡®prequel had already been hyped up on the inte. Many yers were extremely excited on the eve of the release of the prequel. ¡°In the past three days, many old yers had tried the prequel to Dark Souls in Chen Mo¡¯s Experience Store, and many of them were big shots who could clear most of the bosses in Dark Souls without getting hurt. ¡± ¡°However, in these three days, Chen Mo¡¯s Experience Store was filled with wailing people ... ¡± ¡°Most of the yers who had tried out the prequel to Dark Souls had already yed Dark Souls. They thought that with their level, they would be able to clear dark Souls with ease, so it would be easy for them to try out the prequels. ¡± ¡°However, they soon realized that they were wrong, and they were terribly wrong. The yers who felt good about themselves were all tortured to death in the game ... ¡± ¡°In addition to the malevolent levels, the moreplicated maps, and the more powerful monsters, there were other reasons for the settings, such as human nature and the fact that bonfires could not be teleported, which almost made many Dark Souls yers copse. ¡± Chapter 595 ? Chapter 595 Fancy abuse Trantor 549690339 The scenes of the yers being tortured werebined into a fanciful suffering movie ... Flying dragon Valley. ¡°A yer mistakenly entered and ran around in a panic. He was chased by a group of Dragons and beaten up, his head almost smashed. ¡± ¡°Suddenly, he saw a dead Dragon lying in front of him, and there were two glowing items between the dragon¡¯s ws. ¡± ¡°The yers happily ran over to pick up the item, but at that moment, the Dragon¡¯s corpse suddenly moved! ¡± The huge Dragon swung its head and the yer¡¯s health bar was emptied! ¡°¡±¡±F * ck, what the hell? Wasn¡¯t this a F * cking dead Dragon? Even monsters can y dead?¡±¡± ¡± At the surveince tower. ¡°A yer was walking down in high spirits when suddenly, a man in heavy armor appeared below. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±F * ck, isn¡¯t that Javier?!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°The yers were all shocked. Having yed Dark Souls, he obviously recognized that this was Javier, who was carrying the iconic big Dragon¡¯s Tooth on his shoulder. ¡± ¡°Javier ran directly toward the yers, raised hisrge Dragontooth with both hands, and smashed it into the ground! ¡± The yer died. ¡°At the moment of death, the yers would see their own death from God¡¯s perspective. They would see Javier¡¯s big Dragontooth smashing the light armor yer from top to bottom, breaking all the bones in his body and distorting it in an unscientific way ... ¡± ¡°Under the Pangu attraction, the effect of the attack was very real. The yers felt a headache, and they could almost hear the sound of their bones breaking ... ¡± ¡°¡±¡±F * ck, why would Javier be in the surveince tower? Aren¡¯t you supposed to be a monster that only appears in theter stages?¡±¡± The yers were dumbfounded. ¡± On the ceiling of the pce. A yer was walking carefully. ¡°After taking out the capital¡¯s twin archers with much difficulty, he was extremely afraid of high ground. ¡± ¡°In Dark Souls, it was one thing to be dominated by the archers in the capital. However, in the prequel, he still could not escape the fate of being shot down ... ¡± ¡°The ceiling of the hall was very narrow, with only a thin pir, which could be called a single-log bridge. The distance between the ceiling and the ground was very high, so falling down would mean certain death. ¡± ¡°However, just as he was carefully moving forward, a female artist suddenly rushed over and shed at him! Then, the two of them fell down and died together ... ¡± ¡°The yers were on the verge of a mental breakdown. In the first-person perspective, the feeling of being beaten down was like falling from a high altitude. They even felt their three legs go soft ... ¡± ¡°In fact, there were simr levels in Dark Souls, but it was obvious that the ceiling in the prequel was even more despairing because it was too narrow ... ¡± In the big tree hole. ¡°A yer was walking carefully with his shield raised. Suddenly, a burly Mushroom Man appeared in front of him. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Eh, this mushroom monster is so cute. It doesn¡¯t look fierce at all ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°In the end, before he could finish his sentence, mushroom had already raised his right fist and smashed it directly into his body! ¡± ¡°With the Pangu attraction activated, the yer¡¯s entire body was sent flying like a kite, crashing heavily into the wall beside him! ¡± ¡°Then, he fell to the ground, and his health bar was instantly emptied ... ¡± ¡°One punch, instant kill! ¡± ¡°The yers were all shocked,¡¯teacher Saitama? Is that you, teacher Saitama? I¡¯m wearing heavy armor!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°At this time, they should give a close-up and add the words ¡®justice execution¡¯! ¡± ¡°It was clearly a mushroom, and it looked harmless and cute, but it was killed with one punch? ¡± ¡°You can kill a giant dragon with one punch, right? ¡± ¡°Other than that, there were also a few crazy scenes that even made some yers who had long adapted to Dark Souls doubt their lives ... ¡± ¡°Sick vige, for example, was a vige buried deep underground. Its vertical span was veryrge, and the visibility was very low. yers had to get sunworm, a special lighting equipment, before they could go there. ¡± ¡°Furthermore, this ce was filled with all sorts of unreasonable terrain-killing and disgusting monsters, such as vigers who could blow poison arrows, fat men who could sh * t out while holdingrge clubs, and Mad Dogs who could instantly kill people if they attacked together ... ¡± ¡°Furthermore, the monsters in the sick vige, no matter if they were cats or dogs, were all highly toxic. As long as they were poisoned, their HP would drop like a roller coaster. Without the spider Shield and enough antidote,ing here was basically waiting for death. ¡± ¡°The scariest thing was that after the yers beat the sick vige, they only managed to ring the second bell. It could be said that the game had just begun ... ¡± ¡°There was also the killing machine in Cheyenne city, the wooden bridge of the giant axe clock, the killing elevator ... Countless yers were on the verge of copsing here. ¡± ¡°The giant basketball court in the skeleton graveyard, the rolling wheels ... The yers experienced the thrill of being hit by the giant skeletons and being hit by the wheels repeatedly ... ¡± ¡°The invisible sky path in the cave of crystals was a very long wooden bridge. One had to use a bow or a rainbow stone to explore the way. If one identally fell down, they would die without a burial ce ... ¡± ¡°The most difficult part of a boss battle in the hotbed of chaos was not to avoid the boss¡¯s skills, but to avoid all kinds of inexplicable terrain attacks ... The ground was full of cracks, and if you were not careful, you would die. ¡± Even a newbie area like the undying town outside the city was filled with malicious intent. ¡°For example, there was the zombie Sword Saint 48 who held a secret meeting in the hall, arge group of zombie sword Saints who could kill people with just three of them, and an Archbishop who gave them buffs. ¡± ¡°It was originally an ordinary path, but when they walked past it, three living corpse vigers suddenly kicked the door open and rushed out. The most infuriating thing was that two dogs rushed out of the path in front of them and surrounded them from all directions ... ¡± ¡°There was also the most insane flying dragon Bridge. Every time a yer crossed the bridge, they would be instakilled by the dragon¡¯s fire. The only correct solution was to run as soon as he got on the bridge, and when the fire burned his butt, he would immediately turn right and jump into a hole in the bridge to escape. ¡± ¡°And the most insane thing was that in the prequel to Dark Souls, bonfires couldn¡¯t be teleported before the Royal artifact was obtained! ¡± Items like the bone piece could only return yers to the bonfire they had previously sat on. They could not return directly to the Firelink sacrificial grounds. ¡°Many yers were on the verge of a mental breakdown from this setting. After all, it was a pain in the ass to run back to the Firelink sacrificial grounds from Kg¡¯s residence and sick vige. Furthermore, if they identally died once in the process, they would have to run back from the beginning ... ¡± ¡°Of course, it wasn¡¯t a big problem for some experts, but it was simply a torture for ordinary people. Therefore, in the same three days, the yers ¡®progress was very far apart. Many experts had begun to kill famous bosses like Tomb King NEET and the bed of chaos, while most yers were still being tortured to death in order to ring two bells ... ¡± Even many yers who were used to being masochists began to have doubts about this matter ... Chapter 596 ? Chapter 596 The theme song? Trantor 549690339 ¡°After the three-day trip to hell, even many of the old men who had been through hundreds of battles in Dark Souls had been tortured to the point where their consciousness was blurry. ¡± ¡°However, a portion of the yers were triggered by the masochism. Not only did they not back off, but they also felt an inexplicable excitement! ¡± ¡°After all, wasn¡¯t this the feeling of suffering that everyone was looking forward to the prequel to Dark Souls? ¡± ¡°Many yers had studied Dark Souls thoroughly, and even many multi-game veterans could parkour through the entire game. To them, Dark Souls had lost the sense of copse and fun they had when they first saw it. ¡± ¡°After ying the game as if it was a hack-and-sh game, he actually missed the newbie who hid behind a shield and shivered. ¡± ¡°But now, the pre-introduction of Dark Souls had brought back this heart-racing feeling! ¡± ¡°Therefore, many masochist yers showed extraordinary enthusiasm for the prequel of Dark Souls! ¡± ¡°As for the yers who had been forced to retreat, they were all emotionally stable. ¡± ¡°After all, the yers who yed the prequel of Dark Souls had a solid foundation, and it was not the first time they had been abused. Their threshold for suffering was constantly rising ... ¡± ...... ¡°Many of the white mice that had tried the game in the experience store also posted online, sharing their experiences with the yers that couldn ¡®t. ¡± ¡°There were also some streamers, like Lin Xue, who came to experience the game. However, these streamers didn¡¯t stream in the experience store, nor did they record anything. ¡± ¡°This was amon rule among the dark Souls yers, which was to preserve the game¡¯s first-sight pleasure to the maximum. ¡± ¡°No one knew when these rules came into being, but they had now be the rules that most of the dark Souls veteran yers had to follow. ¡± There were two main points to these rules. The newbies had to rely on their own efforts to clear the game before they could ask the old yers for help. ¡°In other words, in a week, new yers could only challenge bosses by recruiting NPCs (this was allowed by the game¡¯s mechanics), and they couldn¡¯t ask for items such as souls, embers, and good weapons from old yers. ¡± ¡°As long as he posted a screenshot of his achievements after one round of the game, he could happily engage in PY transactions with the big shots. ¡± ¡°In addition, all anchors and video authors were not allowed to disclose too much information about the prequel of Dark Souls before the release of the new game, just like how spoilers were not allowed on the first day of many dramas. ¡± ¡°Of course, after the game was officially released, these streamers would have no problem livestreaming or making strategy videos. ¡± ¡°In fact, these two rules had the same purpose, which was to avoid spoilers, to prevent new yers from skipping sses, and to preserve the core fun of the game as much as possible. ¡± ¡°Although many people said that ying Dark Souls was suffering, suffering itself was the essence of the game. It was just like attending sses. sses were indeed boring, but one could indeed learn something. Skipping sses might seem like a shortcut, but in fact, he would lose many things sooner orter. ¡± ¡°Therefore, even though many people had already tried the prequel to Dark Souls, some details of the game had not been leaked. ¡± ¡°On the official forum, only a few words were revealed, and they were deliberately vague, making the onlookers a little impatient. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±These people who have tried out the prequel of Dark Souls are quite patient! Why hasn¡¯t anyone posted a video yet?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Yeah, let¡¯s not talk about the video. Everyone¡¯s so secretive. Did Chen Mo use a spell on them?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±And what the hell are so manypletely opposite statements? some say it¡¯s hard, some say it¡¯s especially easy??¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±It¡¯s easy? I don¡¯t believe it ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±That¡¯s hard to say, maybe Chen Mo lowered the difficulty to expand his yer base?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Hehe, do you believe me?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°......¡± ¡°The more and more information there was on the inte, the more curious people were about the prequel of Dark Souls ... ¡± There were many posts that deliberately pretended to be innocent in order to deliberately lead everyone¡¯s attention in the opposite direction. It was unknown what kind of mentality these people had. ¡°However, the effect was indeed quite good. Many old yers did not believe that the prequel of Dark Souls would be simple, but after the tireless brainwashing of many trial yers, some of them actually believed it ... ¡± ¡°Many of the yers who had never been to the experience store were running their mouths off, and it was hard to tell the difference between real and fake news ... ¡± ¡°However, it wasn¡¯t a big deal. The game was going to be released soon anyway, and the curious yers could go into the game and experience it for themselves. ¡± ¡°However, to the surprise of many yers, Chen Mo updated his Weibo a day before the game was released! ¡± ¡°A lot of people felt that it was quite strange. It was going to be released tomorrow, so what was the point of posting it on Weibo now? ¡± Warm-up? It¡¯s a little toote. ¡°It was awkward to post at this time, and the purpose was unknown ... ¡± Many yers opened Chen Mo¡¯s Weibo out of curiosity. ¡°¡±¡±Thetest theme song for the prequel of Dark Souls has been released! [Poke here] let¡¯s listen first!¡±¡± ¡± The yers were shocked when they saw this Weibo post. What the hell? The theme song for the prequel of Dark Souls? Why did this game need a theme song? ¡°Chen Mo had released theme songs for some games before, such as Wulin legend¡¯s sword is like a dream, Onmyoji¡¯s Gokuraku Jodo, etc., But they were released in advance to increase the poprity of the game, and the game itself was very suitable for such a theme song to promote. ¡± ¡°But for a theme like dark Souls, what kind of theme song did it need? This kind of game usually had a more sacred or sad background music, and the lyrics would destroy the mood of the game. ¡± ¡°Moreover, if the theme song was released, it would have been released a long time ago. Why wait until the day before the prequel of Dark Souls was released? ¡± Many yers clicked on the link on Chen Mo¡¯s Weibo with suspicion. ¡°It was just audio, and the singer was obviously not a big star, but a not-so-famous second-rate singer named Zhao Zhang. Although her singing was good, she had never had any particrly good songs to sing, so she was a singer with a very small audience. ¡± ¡°Then, he looked at the lyrics and melody, yes, it was all Chen Mo, nothing wrong ... ¡± ¡°Many yers were still confused. Chen Mo¡¯s songposition was within expectations, but they were mainly confused as to why he had a small group of singers sing it. ¡± ¡°Chen Mo had worked with big name singers like Zhou Yifeng before, and with Thunderbolt Entertainment¡¯s current wealth and fame in the gaming industry, what kind of big name singer couldn¡¯t they find? ¡± ¡°Furthermore, this song was actually sung by a Chinese citizen? In other words, it shouldn¡¯t be an English song? ¡± Dark Souls was a Western fantasy theme! Using a Chinese song sung by a niche singer as the theme song was simply a mismatch! ¡°Eh, something seemed to be wrong, but that wasn¡¯t important. The key was, would this song be good? Would it fit the theme of the prequel to Dark Souls? ¡± Chapter 597 ? Chapter 597 Three hundred and sixty-five miles Trantor 549690339 ¡°The prelude sounded, and many yers were already frowning. ¡± ¡°He felt that the melody and apaniment of this song were a little traditional, and there was no Western fantasy style at all. The soundtrack did not match at all! ¡± ¡°When the singer started singing, everyone was left kneeling. ¡± What the hell is this? ¡°A lot of people even suspected that they had yed it incorrectly, and even closed the interface and clicked on the link again. There was nothing wrong with it, this was the theme song for the prequel of Dark Souls that Chen Mo was talking about! ¡± ¡°¡±¡±The stars with hazy eyes can¡¯t stop my journey. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Years of wandering, eating wind and sleeping in the open¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I¡¯d rather endure loneliness for my ideals. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Drink up that loneliness¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Shake off the dust of the foreignnd, and embark on the long journey.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Pursue my dream with passion.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Three hundred and sixty-five days passed year after year.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±A journey every day.¡±¡± ¡± ...... Many yers were dumbfounded. Did Chen Mo post the wrong link? ¡°Whether it was the melody or the lyrics, this waspletely different from Dark Souls! ¡± ¡°The lyrics were clearly describing a traveler who was wandering in a foreignnd, chasing after his dreams with passion, reminiscing about his hometown, and at the same time, constantly moving forward ... ¡± ¡°However, stop! What the hell did this have to do with Dark Souls? ¡± ¡°Could it be that he was insinuating that these undead had left their hometown for thousands of miles toplete their mission and be Lords of Cinder, and that they had been fighting with their dreams? ¡± ... It seemed like he had overthought it! ¡°The singer was still singing, and it was clear that he had reached the chorus. The singer¡¯s voice suddenly became more passionate and emotional. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Three hundred and sixty-five miles from home to a foreignnd.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Three hundred and sixty-five li, from youth to white hair¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±How many three hundred and sixty-five miles? past spring, summer, autumn, and winter?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Three hundred and sixty-five li, how can we let it be wasted?¡±¡± ¡± ...... ¡°The chorus at the end was an endless loop of these lyrics. It was nice, but the yers were all dumbfounded. ¡± ¡°Even after listening to the entire song, many yers still couldn¡¯t believe that this was the theme song for the prequel of Dark Souls ... ¡± Many yers were puzzled. This didn¡¯t make any sense! Why did Chen Mo get a Chinese song for the theme song of Dark Souls? ¡°The Chinese songs were fine, but there was no mention of Dark Souls, not even a hint of Western fantasy! ¡± He felt that this song would be more suitable for the New Year¡¯s party ... ¡°After repeatedly confirming that Chen Mo¡¯s ount wasn¡¯t hacked and that the song ¡® 365 miles¡¯ was the theme song for Dark Souls ¡®prequel, the yers started to use their imagination to figure out Chen Mo¡¯s intentions. ¡± There must be a reason why Chen Mo chose this song as the theme song for the prequel to Dark Souls. ¡°After all, Chen Mo knew music and had a deep understanding of Western fantasy, so he wouldn¡¯t make such a low-level mistake. ¡± The only exnation was that Chen Zhao did it on purpose ... Many of the yers had their imagination running wild as they tried to guess the meaning behind the song. ¡°¡±¡±I think this song is Chen Mo¡¯s way of encouraging us! As undead, we have the mission of passing on the fire. The journey of passing on the fire is to leave our homes and travel 365 miles. Chen Zhao is praising our spirit!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Hehe, Chen Mo is so positive? You¡¯re not a fake fan, are you?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I think Chen Mo was just being stubborn for a bit, and this song is probably how he really feels. You see, he wasn¡¯t originally from the capital, and he could be considered to have drifted North before. It¡¯s not easy for him to leave his hometown to pursue his dream!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±You think it¡¯s not easy for Chen Zhao? He¡¯s going to be the richest man in the world ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I think this song really describes the mentality of us young people! Look at all The Drifters in Beijing, and not all of them came to Beijing. Some of them came to other big cities too. Young people nowadays are all bravely pursuing their dreams ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Maybe it¡¯s nostalgia? Or was it a sign of goodwill to the game Committee? Don¡¯t you guys think that this song is very traditional and suits the taste of the leaders?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°The number ofments under Chen Mo¡¯s Weibo quickly exceeded a thousand, and the yers were all trying to guess the song¡¯s purpose, trying to solve Chen Mo¡¯s riddle. ¡± ¡°There were also a fewments that seemed very philosophical, and they were pushed to the top and liked by hundreds of people. ¡± ¡°As if they were doing readingprehension, the yers tried their best to unearth every word of the song, every meaning, and many people began to analyze the emotions contained in the song from the music style and melody. ¡± Some people even thought that Chen Mo was nning to quit after finishing the prequel to Dark Souls. ¡°However, the yers who had tried out the prequel of Dark Souls in the experience store immediately understood the meaning of the song. ¡± They could only smile bitterly. Chen Zhao really had a bad taste! He even specially wrote a song? ¡°Even though these people wanted to tell the yers the truth, most of them held back. After all, it would be meaningless to spoil such a fun thing. The yers had to experience it for themselves to better understand the emotions contained in the song ... ¡± ¡°Moreover, even if some yers wanted to hint at it, no one would listen, because the top few hotments had long been upied by those philosophicalments that overinterpreted the meaning of the lyrics. Those yers who wanted to expose the truth could not cause a ssh ... ¡± ...... ¡°With endless longing for the prequel of Dark Souls and doubts about the song, three hundred and sixty-five miles, the yers had finally waited for the release of Dark Souls! ¡± ¡°Just like dark Souls, the prequel was also released worldwide, with multiplenguages and built-in voices in both Chinese and English. ¡± ¡°Obviously, with the huge influence of Dark Souls, the prequel¡¯s poprity was obvious, because all the dark Souls fans around the world were eagerly looking forward to the release of the prequel! ¡± The mystery that was still hanging. Superb level design. It was abat system created using the Pangu engine. The gaming experience made one¡¯s heart beat faster. ¡°All of these factors made Dark Souls a unique game, and the prequel of Dark Souls gained more and more attention! ¡± ¡°Moreover, Dark Souls and the prequel to Dark Souls had alsounched the Switch version. yers who bought the Switch but couldn¡¯t afford the gaming pod could also buy the Switch version of Dark Souls for only 98 Yuan. ¡± ¡°Although the handheld version was far less immersive than the VR version, it was cheap and could be yed anytime, anywhere. So, it was obvious that most yers who bought the Switch would choose to try it out. ¡± Chapter 598 ? Chapter 598 Officially on sale! Trantor 549690339 ¡°yers all over the world were looking forward to the prequel of Dark Souls, hoping to recreate the full picture of the game. ¡± Many people couldn¡¯t wait to experience everything about the ancient war and uncover the secrets behind Dark Souls. ¡°He even fantasized about being able to fight legendary figures like sun King Gwyn and the witch of y ¡®zaris, and reach the peak of his undead life. ¡± ¡°However, they were soon tortured to death ... ¡± ¡°On the official forum of Dark Souls, countless posts appeared on the day of release, and the theme was very unified ¡°¡±This difficulty level is insane!!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Many yers came to y after they were mentally prepared. They thought that they could be indifferent to the ¡°¡±suffering¡±¡±. However, after entering the game, they found that they were still too fragile ... ¡± ¡°Just like many yers had experienced in the experience store, these yers had also experienced Chen Mo¡¯s malice in the prequel to Dark Souls, and it was even more so than in Dark Souls! ¡± ¡°Many yers thought that they had gotten used to Chen Mo¡¯s tactics, but after ying the prequel, they realized that the old tactics were nothing. ¡± This was the true version 2.0 of the game! He was persuaded to retreat by big butt. Lost in the Firelink sacrificial grounds. He was taught a lesson by The Living Corpse Sword Saint. ...... ¡°Many yers had cleared Dark Souls before and hade to challenge the prequel with great ambition. However, less than an hour after entering the game, they were doused with a bucket of cold water ... ¡± The most infuriating part was that the yers finally understood the theme song for the prequel to Dark Souls that Chen Mo had decided on. ¡°Those who over-interpreted the song were all wrong. In fact,¡±¡±three hundred and sixty-five miles¡±¡± had nothing to do with the background story of ¡°¡±Dark Souls¡±¡± itself. The only thing they had inmon was the lyrics. ¡± ¡°Why did you choose this song as the theme song? When ying the prequel of Dark Souls, most of the yers ¡®time was spent on the run! ¡± ¡°The terrain of the entire Dark Souls prequel extended in all directions, and the scene was veryrge. It was not an exaggeration to say that it was aplete small world. ording to the prequel, yers were not allowed to teleport through the bonfire before they obtained the king equipment. There were also no mounts avable. Therefore, the only way for yers to travel between two ces that were far away was to run! ¡± ¡°Moreover, in Dark Souls, as long as the yers sat on the bonfire, the monsters would bepletely resurrected. For the yers, it was a waste of time to farm all the way, but it was too risky to go parkour ... ¡± ¡°Often, if they identally died, they would have to start all over again ... ¡± Many yers yed and suddenly understood the meaning of the theme song. ¡°¡±¡±Three hundred and sixty-five miles from home to a foreignnd.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Three hundred and sixty-five li, from youth to white hair¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±How many three hundred and sixty-five miles? past spring, summer, autumn, and winter?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Three hundred and sixty-five li, how can we let it be wasted?¡±¡± ¡± Many yersined that the song was really appropriate! ¡°He had indeed run for 365 miles, from a teenager to a white-haired teenager. There was nothing wrong with that! ¡± Many yers even took the initiative to y this song while they were running because they felt that it was very appropriate and could express their feelings at that moment ... ¡°And a song like ¡°¡± 365 miles¡±¡± had actually made it to the top of the search list by many yers. It had shot all the way to third ce on the top Chinese music chart, making the singer Zhao Zhang feel overwhelmed by the unexpected favor ... ¡± ¡°He did not understand. Although the song was good, the style was a little too traditional. How could it be so popr? ¡± ¡°If he knew the truth, he would probably want to hit himself to death with a piece of tofu ... ¡± ¡°As expected, the design of the bonfire not being able to teleport was ridiculed by countless yers. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±So why can¡¯t the bonfire teleport? Is Chen Zhao just trying to disgust us?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Chen Zhao probably expected this to happen, right? He even specially came out with a theme song to mock us. Who can tolerate this?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Let¡¯s just change the name of this game to ¡°¡±running soul¡±¡±!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Obviously, most yers couldn¡¯t ept such a design, especially after ying Dark Souls. Many yers had epted the setting of ¡°¡±bonfire = teleportation point¡±¡±. It was easy to imagine the psychological gap when they were suddenly not allowed to teleport. ¡± ¡°Chen Mo didn¡¯t exin, but some of the older yers did. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Everyone, calm down. I¡¯ll share my opinion on the bonfire.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±When I first found out that I couldn¡¯t teleport through the bonfire, I was just as devastated as everyone else. However, after thinking about it, I could guess Chen Zhao¡¯s intentions. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Let¡¯spare the level designs of Dark Souls and the prequel. In contrast, the levels in Dark Souls are more linear. Although yers can only choose two to three paths at the same time, such as choosing the dancer as the third boss, the overall difficulty increases continuously, so there¡¯s a better and best process. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±However, the prequel to Dark Souls is different. The routes are more essible, such as Firelink sacrificial grounds, which is connected to the undead town outside the city, the ronde Jr. Ruins, Wyvern Valley, and many other ces. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I think that on one hand, this shows the extraordinary level design of the game. Itbined so many levels into a huge whole, and it was seamless. On the other hand, it encourages yers to explore freely through various routes, rather than ying the game on a single linear route. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Some of the big shots have alreadye up with a way to y parkour. They¡¯ll start off with a thief or a master key, then go to Firelink sacrificial grounds to run around high-level maps and loot a lot of good stuff before exploring. It¡¯s also very effective.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Moreover, if you put your heart into it, you¡¯ll feel that the level design of this game is really awesome! It could be said that the level design of Dark Souls was excellent, but the level design of the prequel was even better! I feel that if the bonfire could teleport at will, the beauty of this level design would be severely diluted. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±By the way, there¡¯s one more thing. When everyone reaches the capital and sees the big-breasted Princess, they¡¯ll get the Royal weapon. That feeling, tsk tsk, was simply so good that it exploded! So, you don¡¯t have to be in such a hurry to criticize him. Chen Mo has his reasons for doing this, so I hope everyone can feel it. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°The post did have some effect, as many yers started to calm down and expressed that they would like to experience Chen Mo¡¯s level design. ¡± ¡°However, more yers expressed,¡±¡±A big-breasted Princess? Where was he? ¡± Chapter 599 ? Chapter 599 Switch version Trantor 549690339 ¡°Unsurprisingly, the prequel of Dark Souls had set off a wave of masochists among the yers. After all, the game was a hot topic and the live stream effect was explosive. ¡± ¡°From all aspects, the prequel of Dark Souls had continued the sess of Dark Souls. Even with such a ridiculous difficulty, the sales of the prequels were higher than the prequels in the first few days! ¡± ¡°To the yers ¡®surprise, the Switch version of Dark Souls was selling very well, and even the sales of the console had increased. ¡± In the dormitory of world No. 1 University. A few boys from the game design major were watching a boy y Dark Souls on the Switch. ¡°Basically, yers who bought the Switch would choose to buy Dark Souls. After all, Dark Souls was the best-selling and highest-quality rpg game since the Switch was released. The price was also very affordable, so there was no reason not to buy it. ¡± ¡°Many people had even heard that this game was very torturous, but they still chose to buy it and y it. After all, if they were forced to refund it, they would just refund it. ¡± ¡°It wasn¡¯t just because Dark Souls was highly rated, but also because it was the first game made using Pangu. Even though it was migrated from vr to Switch, it was still better than other games. ¡± ¡°A few boys were discussing while watching from behind, their faces full of eagerness. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±You don¡¯t say, but I think this image is quite good. Although it¡¯s far from VR, the rity of the image is very high! And the physics engine is good too, this quality is much higher than many PC games!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Of course, it¡¯s a VR game! Even if some of the content is simplified, the core is still there. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±And I feel that the operation mode is great too. The entirebat system of Dark Souls can be replicated!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Yes, I¡¯ve yed it in the VR gaming pod at home before. The content of the game isn¡¯t much different from that of a handheld game. The biggest difference might be the sense of immersion, the operating mode, and other rtively minor details.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Wow, I feel like it¡¯s still very difficult to transnt the game onto a handheld device. The difficulty hasn¡¯t decreased at all! How did I die again?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Can you do it? Noobie, if you can¡¯t do it, hurry up and get someone else!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Sigh, don¡¯t mention it. The two joysticks aren¡¯t very convenient to use. It¡¯s not asfortable as the VR gaming pod.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Hehe, that¡¯s because you don¡¯t know how to use it, let me do it! I¡¯ve already gotten used to this mode when I yed super Mali Odyssey. In fact, it¡¯s easier to y this game on a handheld device than in VR, and it¡¯s less tiring. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±You don¡¯t say. I feel that the effects of this image are quite good. I¡¯m even thinking about whether I should buy a TV!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Isn¡¯t the handheld device working fine? Besides ... If we buy the TV, where can we put it in our dormitory ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±The television screen is so big! The resolution of the TV and the handheld phone were different. Besides, the TV was not expensive. It could be bought for just over 1000 Yuan. I¡¯ll put it in my dormitory and use it to y Dark Souls ... Tsk, tsk, tsk, it¡¯s a beautiful painting!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±That makes sense ... But I¡¯ve already called the police for this semester¡¯s living expenses!¡±¡± He said. I¡¯m just short of spending all of it on the game ... I¡¯ll take it easy for now and wait for another two months ...¡±¡± ¡± The students in the dormitory had all listened to Chen Mo¡¯s ss and were the first to buy the Switch. ¡°At that time, the four of them pooled their funds to buy the handheld console. Now, Dark Souls and the prequel were sold on the Switch together. Although they couldn¡¯t y the VR version, they could still have some fun on the Switch. ¡± ¡°However, some yers who had juste into contact with the Switch operation mode were still not used to this unique operation method. ¡± ¡°In the end, there was no such thing as a console in this world, so the yers were not familiar with the operation mode of the controller. ¡± ¡°They were most familiar with the operation modes of mobile phones, PC, and VR, which were either touch screens, mouse and keyboard, or mind. ¡± It was just like how many PC yers would feel ufortable and awkward when they first touched the game controller. It would take some time before they could experience thefort of the game controller. ¡°On one hand, it was the position of the buttons. Many people found it inconvenient to press the L and R keys at the top, especially with R1 as the main attack key. Many PC yers were not used to it. ¡± ¡°On the other hand, controlling the character¡¯s movement and perspective through the joystick was a bit ufortable, especially when using the right joystick to control the perspective. Many yers would be flustered as soon as they started ying. ¡± ¡°However, the yers who had been familiar with the game through super Mali Odyssey did not reject this mode at all. Instead, they felt that it was very convenient. ¡± Some people even felt that it was morefortable to y like this than ying in VR gaming pods. ¡°On the one hand, he had a weak sense of immersion, so the scary atmosphere in the game was not that scary. He had more space to think and operate calmly, and there was no risk of a heart attack at any time. ¡± ¡°On the other hand, Switch¡¯s operation mode was a very mature operation mode, so it could perfectly replicate the entirebat system of Dark Souls. ¡± ¡°Of course, there were still differences between the two versions. For example, in the VR version, yers could choose to backstab the specific parts of the monster. The damage and results would be different ording to the different parts being attacked. ¡± ¡°Some backstabs in fixed positions would cause an execution effect, while some backstabs were only equivalent to a normal attack with high damage. These all depended on the Pangu system¡¯s physical operation results. ¡± ¡°The Switch was closer to the original dark Souls in Chen Mo¡¯s previous life. Backstab only had two oues, triggered or not. As long as it was triggered, it would be given a value based on the weapon, which was a simplified version. ¡± ¡°However, even after simplification, Dark Souls on the Switch tform was still a very fun game. ¡± ¡°After ying the Switch version of Dark Souls, many people were surprised to find that this small handheld console could achieve so manyplicated functions. It could even perfectly replicate a perfectbat system like dark Souls! ¡± ¡°The buttons on the controller seemed to be few, but they had their own rules and were arranged in a very reasonable way. ¡± ¡°Little did they know that this design was the best design in the console industry in Chen Mo¡¯s previous life. It included the left and right joysticks and a few function buttons, perfectly fitting the operating requirements of most games. ¡± It was a very convenient and highly concentrated operation mode. ¡°In Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, this game controller design was already perfect for some experienced console yers. Many manufacturers couldn¡¯t evene up with something new even if they wanted to, because there was no room for improvement. ¡± ¡°However, to the people of this world, the design of this controller was still very new because they had never seen it before. ¡± ¡°On the other hand, the release of the Switch version for Dark Souls was a win-win situation. For Dark Souls, it further expanded the yer base to those without VR gaming pods. As for Switch, it also used the fame of Dark Souls to increase its sales. ¡± ¡°Of course, no matter what, Chen Zhao would win. ¡± Chapter 600 ? Chapter 600 The plot of Dark Souls ispleted Trantor 549690339 ¡°After the release, the prequel to Dark Souls swept through most of the domestic live streaming tforms and video streaming sites. After all, with the support of the prequel, the higher level design, and the more difficult the game was, it was hard not to be popr. ¡± ¡°Of course, the poprity was more in poprity than sales. After all, the game was too difficult to make, and it would definitely affect sales on VR. ¡± ¡°After all, there were only a few masochist yers in this world. Compared to being abused in the game, everyone would prefer to see the streamer being abused ... ¡± ¡°However, the hardcore yers had a good time because the prequel to Dark Souls met their requirements perfectly. ¡± ¡°Although everyone was in despair due to the constant suffering, the prequel to Dark Souls brought them back the long-lost pleasure. It allowed them to find the joy of being a newbie who carefully raised a shield and constantly explored the unknown world. ¡± ¡°Even after ying Dark Souls, many people would find other simple action games boring. ¡± ¡°After ying Dark Souls, the yers had grown up. Whether it was their consciousness, reaction, or game intelligence, they had all been trained to a certain extent. Therefore, the simple action games had be unchallenging. ¡± ¡°To many soul scientists, the greatest significance of the prequel to Dark Souls was that itpleted the world view of Dark Souls to a certain extent and provided official answers to many of the previously unsolved questions. ¡± ¡°Of course, although the framework of this world view had beenpleted, it was actually not perfect. It could even be said to be riddled with holes. ¡± ¡°This was because when the game was designed, there was a lot of nk content for the yers to fill in on their own. It could be said that everyone had a Dark Souls in their mind, and different people would have different interpretations. ¡± ¡°However, after building a solid framework, it not only expressed the spirit of the game but also left a lot of space for the yers to explore and imagine. ¡± ¡°As the pioneers progressed in the game, many of the clouds of doubt that had previously shrouded everyone dispersed. ¡± ¡°The biggest question was, what exactly was the so-called ¡®dark soul¡¯? What kind of story was this? was the yer¡¯s mission to spread fire or to be the King of Darkness? ¡± ¡°In the prequel to Dark Souls, yers would encounter the abyss serpent and learn the truth about this world. ¡± ¡°Previously, it was mentioned in the opening animation that there were four characters who had obtained King souls. In addition to the three famous gods, Sun King Gwyn, the witch of y ¡®zaris, and Tomb King NEET, there was also an unknown dwarf. ¡± ¡°It was obvious that this dwarf was the ancestor of the humans, and the king Soul he obtained was the Dark Soul. The dark Souls were distributed to many humans, which meant that every undead had more or less Dark Souls. ¡± ¡°Many of the subsequent settings seemed to make sense. In fact, fire represented the will of God, and the era of fire was the era of God. ¡± The fire era symbolized the era when gods like sun King Gwyn ruled. That was why Gwyn passed on the fire at all costs and was even willing to sacrifice himself so that the fire era could continue forever. ¡°Passing fire was actually a scam. The yers yed the role of undead and went through great pains to ring two bells to prove that they had the qualifications to pass fire. After that, he had to help GE Wen retrieve the power of the king¡¯s soul from the gods and continue the first me. ¡± ¡°The protagonist in Dark Souls was even worse off. As the ashes of a fire, he was obviously an undead who could not be a Xin, but he had to be awakened from his coffin to challenge the powerful lords of Xin and continue the era of fire for the gods. ¡± ¡°During this process, the yers would battle many legendary characters, such as White Dragon Heath, the bed of chaos, Sun King Gwyn, and so on. ¡± ¡°Although the yers had a great sense of aplishment in the process of challenging these heroes, they also began to doubt the whole world. ¡± ¡°These legendary gods had already be like walking corpses, so what was the point of the Age of Fire that they had to maintain at all costs? ¡± ¡°In the final ending of Dark Souls ¡®prequel, yers could choose between passing fire or extinguishing the fire. If they chose to pass fire, the entire starter stove would turn into a sea of fire. ¡± ¡°On the other hand, in Dark Souls¡¯s fire-passing ending, only a small me burned on the yer¡¯s body. The two types of mes were not on the same level at all. ¡± ¡°Therefore, this proved that the power of fire was inevitably declining, and would be extinguished sooner orter. The yers ¡®efforts to spread the fire were only to dy time, which was actually meaningless. ¡± ¡°As for what the world would look like after the fire was extinguished, no one knew. ¡± ¡°The reason why people were afraid of the fire going out was because legend had it that after the fire went out, they would fall into eternal night. ¡± ¡°Many people mistakenly thought that this represented the end of the world, but in fact, these words were spread by the Sun King GE Wen and his children. These people were nothing more than trying to continue the era of gods and their rule over mankind. ¡± ¡°Therefore, the predetermined ending of the prequel to Dark Souls should be the fire-spreading ending, which was to continue this reincarnation. Otherwise, there would be no more story of Dark Souls. On the other hand, the predetermined ending of Dark Souls should be the end of the fire, which represented the arrival of a new era. ¡± ¡°At this point, the main mystery was finally solved, and the yers finally understood the meaning of the title of Dark Souls. ¡± ¡°Through the prequel, Chen Mo finally exined the entire story of Dark Souls. ¡± ¡°At the same time, the fates of many characters in the prequel to Dark Souls had also moved many yers. ¡± ¡°He was fighting against the abyssal Wanderer artrus, who was in the abyss alone. ¡± Brother onion and sun Knight Sri. The Golden shimmers who killed the firewoman. The dissuasion brother who had embarked on a new journey but had be a living corpse. ¡°There were also white Spider, cksmith, big hat Logan, gwendelin, and other colorful supporting characters. There were NPCs and bosses, but everyone had a wonderful story and a sad ending. ¡± Some people even re-yed Dark Souls because of nostalgia and found many traces of connection with the prequel of Dark Souls. ¡°Although there was a long time gap between the two works, and the prequel was producedter than the main one, people were surprised to find many Easter eggs about the prequel of Dark Souls. ¡± ¡°After ying Dark Souls again, it felt like a lifetime had passed. ¡± ¡°The white spider and na were finally reunited, and there were no longer any demons in the demonic ruins. The mes of chaos had already been extinguished. ¡± They passed through the fairy tale lengxiao Valley and the room with the portrait of Princess sunshine. There were several Knights guarding the room. ¡°He saw a familiar rotating mechanism in the capital, and as he went up, he saw the words ¡®Arnold ronde¡¯. ¡± ¡°It was still the same majestic city, the same tall and straight Knights, but the dead giant cksmith, the empty Princess ¡®boudoir, and Aldrich, who had eaten the cross-dressing Big Boss gwendelin, were all reminding the yers. ¡± The world of Dark Souls had changed. ¡°This feeling of vicissitudes made many yers sad, but it also made them believe that the firefight ending was the real end of Dark Souls. ¡± Chapter 601 ? Chapter 601 Death mode Trantor 549690339 ¡°In addition to the handheld game mode and story, the yers were most concerned about the two new ystyles. One was the death mode, and the other was the random item mode. ¡± ¡°When the prequel of Dark Souls was first released, most people were still in the first round of the plot, so they didn¡¯t have much time to experience the two new modes. ¡± ¡°After many yers hadpleted the first round of the prequel, they began to pursue higher-difficulty challenges. ¡± ¡°At this moment, in a certain Dark Souls group chat, many people were making an appointment to fight the death mode of Dark Souls. ¡± ¡°The organizer was a veteran of Dark Souls in the group, old Qin. The condition to participate was to pass eight rounds of Dark Souls and one round of the prequel. ¡± ¡°This requirement was actually very strict, because the eight rounds of Dark Souls was basically the maximum difficulty. Those who could pass this difficulty were all big shots among big shots. ¡± ¡°As for the first week of Dark Souls ¡®prequel, it was also a rtively difficult achievement. After all, it had not been long since it was released. To be able to understand the entire map and clear all kinds of disgusting levels in such a short time was enough to prove that these people were veteran yers. ¡± ¡°The reason why the requirements were so high was mainly because a few senior yers in the group, including old Qin, had experienced the death mode in advance. ¡± ¡°After trying it out, they came to the conclusion that the current mode was a death mode, and if they were not experienced yers, they would only drag them down. ¡± ¡°Chen Mo had exined in his Weibo post that dying bosses ¡®HP, attack power, and AI would all be increased, but he didn¡¯t say how exactly. ¡± ¡°After going online, old Qin went to the game Dark Souls to experiment and found that he couldn¡¯t beat it at all! ¡± ¡°On one hand, the boss had a lot of HP. Although it would be adjusted ording to the number of yers, the HP of a single yer was two to three times higher than the HP of the Lord of Cinder. As for teams of five or ten, their HP would probably be even higher. ¡± ¡°On the other hand, the boss¡¯s attack power, health points, toughness, and other characteristics had all been enhanced. Even the swaying motion of the attack had been changed. ¡± ¡°In the past, he could tank the boss¡¯s skills with his shield, but now, if he tried to tank the boss¡¯s skills, he would be killed by the boss¡¯s two shes after a hit recovery. It was also difficult topletely roll to avoid it because bosses could use more fancybos. For example, the undead team boss could directly use a set of street dance after the sprint, which was truly a Mad Dog mode. ¡± ¡°As a result, it became more difficult for yers to grasp the timing of the boss¡¯s hit recovery. On the other hand, it was even more difficult to achieve the boss¡¯s execution effect. ¡± ¡°In addition, the boss¡¯s AI had been fully enhanced. The previous bosses would take the initiative to attack, so the yers could raise their shields and observe the boss¡¯s movements first, then carefully deal with the boss. ¡± ¡°But now, the boss would even wait and see, slowly approach, and seize the yer¡¯s weakness before making a decisive move. This gave old Qin the feeling that he was fighting in the arena. It was as if the other party was a living person who could judge the characteristics of his weapon and adopt a targeted battle strategy. ¡± ¡°After some experiments, old Qin had basically determined the difficulty rules of the death mode. Although the boss¡¯s HP and attributes were rtively low when it was alone, it was the most difficult. ¡± ¡°Obviously, the more people there were, the more chaotic the scene would be. The boss¡¯s attack targets would be more varied, and the yers might make some operational mistakes due tomunication and cooperation problems. ¡± ¡°If they didn¡¯t have a certain level of tacit understanding, it would be easy for the boss to wipe out the team with one skill. ¡± ¡°However, in team mode, each yer had their own role, and they could even coordinate long-ranged and short-range attacks, so it would be easier to fight. Of course, the premise was that these ten people had to be very good at ying. As long as one of them dragged them down, it might ruin the good situation. ¡± ¡°However, if it was a single yer challenge in death mode, the scene would be very wide, and there would be no problems with coordination. Therefore, Chen Mo must have purposely increased the difficulty of this mode. ¡± ¡°In other words, in a situation where everyone was good at ying and had good cooperation, the more people the better. If he could gather ten big bosses who were very good at ying, the probability of clearing death mode would be rtively higher. ¡± ¡°Of course, the death mode was a death mode that lived up to its name. No matter how many people there were, it would be difficult to pass. ¡± ¡°At the moment, most of the yers who were exploring the death mode were still killing the bosses in Dark Souls. No one had tried the prequel of Dark Souls. Since most of the yers in Dark Souls had already graduated with their equipment, they had a higher chance of passing the challenge. ¡± ¡°There was no time limit for challenging the boss, but once you died, you would not be able to revive. You could only lie on the spot and wait for others to finish the battle. ¡± ¡°Moreover, with every death, the boss would enter a temporary berserk state for a short period of time, which would greatly increase its desire to attack and greatly reduce the hit recovery state when being attacked. ¡± ¡°Once they died, there would be a chain reaction. If two people died in a short time, the boss¡¯s berserk state would stack, which was basically equivalent to a team wipe. ¡± ¡°This was a very strict condition. All yers who participated in the death mode had to be experts. As long as there was one who was a burden, then it was better not to bring them. ¡± ¡°Old Qin also spent a lot of effort in the group to find eight more suitable candidates, and they could only form a nine-person group. ¡± It couldn¡¯t be helped. His requirements were indeed a little too high. It wasn¡¯t easy to find all these people. ¡°This nine-man team was also full of talents. There was the sun Knight, Wangji, a loyal follower of the great sword sect, Gu Shaan, who was good at research and was known as a walking guide, and the rest of the yers were all elite yers who hadpleted eight rounds. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I¡¯m shocked, guys, we can actually gather a nine-man team. This time, we¡¯re going to fight Farron¡¯s undead team in death mode. It feels so mysterious. Now, everyone, please follow my arrangements and assign your tasks. ¡°¡± ¡± Old Qin first arranged the boss strategy and everyone¡¯s division ofbor in the group. ¡°This time, they were going to challenge Fran¡¯s undead team. The reason why they chose this boss was because old Qin had tested it before and it seemed to be one of the easiest bosses to fight ... ¡± ¡°All of gundyr¡¯s attributes were greatly enhanced in death mode, and it would be extremely difficult for him to Parry. Moreover, in the second stage, he would transform into a human¡¯s pus state, and his attack movements would be particrly strange. Moreover, the damage was very high, and if he was not careful, he would be instantly killed. ¡± ¡°The ice Dog was no longer the noob who could pass the test without being injured by crawling between his legs. When the ice Dog was frequently attacked in the crotch, it would randomly move around the entire map in arge area. It would also choose to jump around in crowded ces, apanied by the frost ssh damage caused by the sledgehammer. ¡± ¡°After much thought, old Qin still chose Farron¡¯s undead team as the first boss. Because in death mode, Farron¡¯s undead team wasn¡¯t as overpowered, and there weren¡¯t many changes in their moves. They were also a rtively easy boss to beat. ¡± ¡°Of course, this was all just a guess. After all, up until now, there had not been a single death mode boss that had been killed. ¡± Chapter 602 ? Chapter 602 The suffering big shots Trantor 549690339 ¡°After the death mode was released, every boss would have a special record, ranked ording to the number of people and the time taken to kill it. ¡± ¡°Death mode didn¡¯t have any special rewards. It was just a random drop of some rare items in the game. For these big shots who had cleared the game eight times, they had basically obtained most of the items in the game. Fighting this thing was entirely for the sake of showing off and getting a ranking. ¡± ¡°However, ranking was much more important than the items. The first kill of each boss and the record-keeping list would be recorded in a special area of the fire-passing sacrificial grounds. ¡± ¡°It meant that all Dark Souls yers could look up to these names. For many old yers, it was a Supreme honor. ¡± Old Qin and the others went to the entrance of Farron¡¯s undead team boss battle. ¡°As the organizer, old Qin drew a special summoning talisman on the ground. This summoning talisman could only be seen after the death mode was turned on. The team members could send a team application through this summoning talisman. After touching it, you must go through the team leader¡¯s review before you can join the team. ¡± ¡°Soon, the other eight members touched the summoning talismans left behind by old Qin and entered the origin world. ¡± These yers also had their own duties and wore different equipment ording to their habits. Old Qin¡¯s own equipment was a medium shield and a Dark Sword. Sun Knight Kingji was the same as before. He ran naked with the face of an ancient God and carried a two-handed sword on his back. Gu San was wearing a full set of Javier armor. ¡°The others were all wearing different equipment. Some were running naked, some were wearing heavy armor and holdingrge shields, and some were wearing light armor and holding daggers. ¡± ¡°If it was a quick kill, the best way was to wear red tears ¡®ring, y until your health was low, and then use your two-handed big sword to kill the boss. However, this was death mode, and they were in the pioneering stage. These big shots didn¡¯t dare to court death by running around naked. ¡± ¡°Everyone only had one life. If they wore heavy armor, they might be able to take one more stab, but if they ran naked, they would probably be instantly killed. ¡± ¡°What¡¯s more, there was no time limit, which meant that there was no pressure to deal damage. The key was to grind. ¡± ¡°Old Qin said,¡±¡±alright, everyone, hurry up and enchant. Use the Buffs and make yourself gay. Do a movement after you¡¯re done.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Soon, the nine of them began to enchant their weapons and then take potions. The whole process was quite long. After all, they were on a first clear, and they had to gather all the Buffs that could be used. ¡± ¡°When everything was ready, these people all made a gesture of praising the sun. ¡± ¡°After making sure that everyone was ready, old Qin entered the White fog gate, and the other yers also entered automatically at the same time. ¡± ¡°It was still that familiar cutscene, where the members of the break-up dance team were killing each other. But this time, the big bosses who had alreadypleted n rounds felt a little nervous. They even recalled the scene when they were taught a lesson by the street dance team when they were still novices. ¡± ¡°In Dark Souls, the boss battles were designed to cover arge area. In death mode, the area seemed to be evenrger. Therefore, after the nine people entered the area, although it looked lively, it was not as crowded as it seemed when they were separated. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Coming,ing. Everyone, don¡¯t ck off, don¡¯t be greedy, and don¡¯t lose face. This boss will probably kill you in two hits, and we¡¯re facing a 9 man team. ¡°¡± Old Qin reminded. ¡± ¡°Gu San, who was wearing a set of Javier armor, took the lead to meet the boss. Although the bosses here did not have the concept of aggro value and attacked whoever they wanted, they would still prioritize the targets closest to them. Only in rare cases would it use a jump or a special skill to attack a distant target. ¡± ¡°It wasn¡¯t that these yers didn¡¯t think of rolling without their shields, but after some analysis, they felt that this n was too risky. Because in death mode, it was likely that they wouldn¡¯t be able to escape the boss¡¯s attack range even if they used up all their energy. ¡± It was better for each of them to do their own thing and be more stable. ¡°Gu San raised his Javier shield and rushed forward, while the others scattered around, waiting for the opportunity to move. ¡± ¡°Unlike the normal mode, the boss did not immediately roll over and rush towards the yers. Instead, it slowly moved forward. ¡± ¡°Wangji was speechless as he carried his two-handed sword.¡±¡±¡±¡±I¡¯m shocked, this is a Buddha-type boss? You¡¯re quite calm and not reckless at all. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°The boss¡¯s unhurried attitude made the yers feel very annoyed. Everyone knew that in the game Dark Souls, it was better to y it safe. ¡± ¡°Gu San raised his Javier shield and took the lead to meet the boss. However, the boss did not charge straight at him. Instead, it began to circle around Gu San. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±F * ck, is this boss that smart? I¡¯m shocked. ¡°¡± ¡± The others were a little dumbfounded. It was as if someone was controlling the boss. ¡°In the end, it was the yers who couldn¡¯t hold it in. Gu Shaan raised his big shield and went forward to force the boss to move. At the same time, old Qin went around to the back of the boss and wanted to directly stab it with a backstab. ¡± ¡°As a result, the moment old Qin¡¯s Dark Sword was swung, the boss suddenly jumped into the air and smashed his big sword towards the two yers standing on the other side! ¡± ¡°The two yers were holding a sword and a greatsword. When they saw the bossing towards them, their first reaction was to roll to the side and avoid the sword. ¡± ¡°After the boss hit the ground, there was a short straight hit. The surrounding people quickly went around the boss¡¯s back and tried to use backstab. However, before the backstab could be used, the boss rolled forward and smashed the ground with his big sword! ¡± ¡°Although the yers dodged the boss¡¯s attack again, they could feel that the boss¡¯s attack frequency and attack speed seemed to have increased significantly. The skills that could be easily dodged in the past were now difficult to Dodge. ¡± ¡°At this moment, more undead members stood up. ¡± ¡°In team mode, these team members had much less HP than the boss, but it was enough to give the yers a headache. ording to the normal mode, the red-eyed members would have to pull the boss¡¯s aggro first, then the yers would attack the boss and enter the second stage. ¡± ¡°In the blink of an eye, there were two more normal undead members in the field. These party members were the same as bosses, they would only attack yers and not kill each other. Only the party members with red eyes would attack indiscriminately. ¡± ¡°Old Qin was dumbfounded.¡±¡±I¡¯m shocked. Where¡¯s the red-eyed member?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Logically speaking, the normal order should be that a red-eyed member would appear after a normal member, but what did it mean by not showing a red-eyed member? ¡± ¡°The BOSS and the two normal members wouldn¡¯t attack each other, so the scene was extremely chaotic. These big shots who were casually killing the boss in the regr mode were actually being chased around by a few members of the undead team ... ¡± Chapter 603 ? Chapter 603 The boss has be a spirit! Trantor 549690339 ¡°The main thing was that the boss¡¯s attack patterns andbinations werepletely different from the normal mode. A lot of yers wanted to sneak up on the boss when the boss had hit recovery skills, but because the boss ¡®movements were very irregr, many yers were at a disadvantage. As long as they were touched by the boss, they would instantly lose arge amount of health. ¡± ¡°Therefore, these people did not dare to act rashly and could only patiently observe the boss¡¯s movements. ¡± ¡°However, everyone soon found a pattern. The person who attacked the boss the most would have an easier time gaining the boss¡¯s aggro and be the main target. Therefore, Gu Shaan, old Qin, and the other two had rtively heavy armor, and the person holding the shield naturally became the main tank. ¡± ¡°Finally, after a moment of chaos, a red-eyed undead member appeared. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Quick, avoid this traitor and let him fight the boss.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Before old Qin could finish his sentence, the red-eyed undead member had already charged at him with a set of street dance moves! ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Evil beast, how can this traitor cut me! Bridge bean sack!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I¡¯m a dog!¡±¡± ¡± Old Qin quickly rolled three times on the ground and finally dodged the red-eyed undead. ¡°Seeing the red-eyed Monster Rush into the crowd and fight with the white-eyes members, the yers could only stand aside and cheer. ¡± ¡°It wasn¡¯t that these people didn¡¯t want to interfere, but the situation of four people doing a breakdance was too chaotic. Whoever¡¯s sword touched a yer would either die or be crippled. Only Tanisha, who was holding arge shield, dared to take a look. However, this damage wasn¡¯t as much as the red-eyed monster ¡®s. ¡± ¡°Old Qin sighed,¡±¡±sigh, I touched it.¡±¡± Don¡¯t you swear?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°These people had no choice but to sit back and watch. After all, they were still in the early stages of the dungeon. They didn¡¯t even know the boss¡¯s movement patterns. If they rushed into the crowd of monsters like this, they wouldn¡¯t be able to survive even if they had several lives. ¡± ¡°These people felt as if they had returned to the time when they first faced the street dance troupe, experiencing the feeling of a newbie shivering behind a shield ... ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Hurry up and throw the spells that everyone brought. However, don¡¯t throw them all away. Leave a few key skills for the second stage. ¡°¡± Old Qin reminded. ¡± ¡°For a moment, all kinds of fireballs were thrown at the boss. After all, these were all bosses who had cleared the game many times. They had all the spells they could use and were all throwing fireballs from a distance. ¡± ¡°However, the uracy of the spells was indeed worrying, especially in the situation where the undead were fighting. Some spells even hit the red eyes, while some spells missed. ¡± ¡°However, big sword yers like Wangji still shouted ¡°¡±RUA¡±¡± while waiting for an opportunity to steal damage from the edge. The attributes of these bosses should have been adjusted. The damage of long-range spells was not particrly obvious, and the output efficiency was lower than that of melee weapons. ¡± ¡°Moreover, considering the limited number of spells that yers could bring, Chen Mo obviously didn¡¯t want to see the boss die by throwing fireballs at everyone. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Aiya, F * ck, another red-eyed monster!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°No one knew who shouted, but everyone realized that it was another red-eyed yer who had spawned behind them! ¡± ¡°Originally, the more members red eyes had, the better. This was because these monsters would be the boss¡¯s first target, and they could help everyone share the damage. However, the situation was already very chaotic. These monsters had rtively high HP, so they wouldn¡¯t die for a while. In other words, there were four undead members doing breakdance on the field at the same time. Many yers were already having a hard time dodging ... ¡± The greatsword flew up and down as the undead members charged forward. It was simply arge-scale dance battle scene ... ¡°One of the yers who was holding a sword was obviously unlucky. After dodging thebo attack of one of the red-eyed members, the boss happened to pass by and thest strike of the breakdance hit the air, directly emptying the yer¡¯s health. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Instant kill? Don¡¯t be so cruel!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°This yer was smart. In fact, there was nothing wrong with his operation, but because the situation was too chaotic, his character was not very good ... ¡± ¡°The Boss¡¯s body suddenly emitted a red light, and its body size also slightly increased. With a big sword in hand, it rushed towards the group! ¡± He went berserk after killing someone! ¡°Everyone clearly saw the yer¡¯s death, and the scene was a little chaotic. ¡± ¡°Old Qin quickly replied in the voice chat,¡±¡±it¡¯s fine, he¡¯s gay.¡±¡± Everyone else, stay calm and spread out. We¡¯ll fight after the boss has gone berserk!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Fortunately, with the red-eyed monster¡¯s help and the others being extremely cautious, there were no more casualties. ¡± ¡°Very quickly, the boss¡¯s berserk time was over, and everyone let out a sigh of relief. ¡± ¡°Obviously, the respawn of the undead team was no longer fixed in number and location like before. It was very random. ¡± ¡°It was even possible that he would kill a few normal yers and not the red-eyed yers. If that was the case, he could only pray for good luck ... ¡± ¡°Everyone was trying their best to deal as much damage as possible to the boss. Whether they were using long weapons to rub damage or casting curses from a distance, the boss¡¯s health was steadily decreasing. ¡± ¡°However, the main damage output was still from the red-eyed monster ... ¡± ¡°Under the attack of the two red-eyed monsters, the boss¡¯s health was dropping quite quickly. After 10 minutes of fighting, it was finally almost empty. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Get ready, we¡¯re about to enter the second stage.¡±¡± Old Qin reminded. ¡± ¡°Just like in normal mode, the first stage caused some small setbacks for these people, but it did not cause a total wipe. After all, the game¡¯s mechanism was like this, and the yers could ck off. ¡± However ... It was hard to say for the second stage. ¡°As the wolf blood gathered on one of the undead members, the boss sessfully entered the second stage. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Alright, everyone, get ready ... F * ck!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°The others were still puzzled. What was ¡°¡±ready to F * ck¡±¡±? We¡¯re not horses. ¡± ¡°Before old Qin could finish his sentence, the boss had already rushed towards him. The big sword cut across the ground, and a Rising me appeared! ¡± ¡°Old Qin quickly rolled to the side. Obviously, this wall of fire had arger range and was faster than in normal mode. If it wasn¡¯t for old Qin¡¯s quick reaction, he might have really been hit. ¡± ¡°The rest of the yers were also rolling to the side. However, just as they stood up, the boss immediately followed up with a set of breakdance! ¡± Buzzzzzz! Buzzzzzz! Buzzzzzz! ¡°The Boss¡¯s big sword instantly shed across with mes! The three yers did not manage to Dodge in time, and they were instantly dealt two damage points by the greatsword. ¡± ¡°Old Qin and the others reacted quickly and rolled continuously. They were not cut by the big sword, but their blood still dropped by 1/4 ... ¡± ¡°¡±¡±What is this? I¡¯m shocked. I didn¡¯t hit him, but why did he lose blood? F * ck, it¡¯s fire!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Old Qin reacted. It turned out that the fire from the boss¡¯s sword had burned these people. If it was in the previous game, these mes would be nothing more than a cool special effect. It would be fine to touch it, and it would not cause any damage. ¡± ¡°However, in Dark Souls, with the help of the Pangu attraction, these mes were real mes. Obviously, the system thought that these yers had been burned by the mes, so it had damaged their HP. ¡± Chapter 604 ? Chapter 604 The soul of Africa Trantor 549690339 Old Qin was shocked. He had only been hit by the fire and he had lost 1/4 of his blood! And this was under the premise that he was wearing fire resistance equipment! ¡°Everyone hurriedly distanced themselves from the boss and prepared to drink their elemental bottles. However, just as they took out their elemental bottles, the boss suddenly jumped high into the air and smashed his big sword on the ground! ¡± ¡°With a bang, another yer was smacked to the ground, and his health bar was instantly emptied! ¡± ¡°At that moment, a yer happened to be at the side of the boss. Seeing the boss¡¯s attack, he felt that he could not miss the opportunity and wanted to stab the boss in the back. However, the boss rolled nimbly. Not only did he Dodge the attack, but he also dodged a few curses. ¡± ¡°Wangji¡¯s double-handed sword also missed, so he could only roll away immediately. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±F * ck! This boss is a demon!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Previously, with the help of the two red-eyed brothers, everyone did not think that the boss was that difficult to deal with. However, once they entered the second stage, the Pangu system¡¯s AI instantly showed its brilliance ... ¡± ¡°The Boss would roll to avoid the skill after the attack, consciously prevent yers from backstabbing, and would also use all kinds of fancy sprinting and street dancing to charge into the crowd, hitting everyone so hard that they would rather die ... ¡± ¡°Although they were all big shots here, they found that their previous experience seemed to bepletely meaningless. ¡± ¡°Originally, the boss would do a smashing action after a gorgeous set of street dance moves. This was the best time to use backstab. Basically, any veteran yer couldplete the backstab. ¡± ¡°However, just as Wangji and old Qin were waiting for the boss to use hisst move, the boss actually retracted his sword ... ¡± ¡°Not only did the boss not give the yers any chance to backstab him, but he also charged into the distance. His greatsword swept across the ground and created a sea of fire, instantly burning two yers to death and three yers to death! ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I¡¯m shocked. It¡¯s okay if the boss can change its moves?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Just now, many people were waiting to backstab the boss. Who would have thought that the boss would suddenly withdraw his sword and then charge forward? Furthermore, the boss had chosen the best route and had actually burned five people! ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Old Qin, be careful!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Before old Qin could react, the boss¡¯s big sword had already shed over. He raised his shield in a hurry, but the boss¡¯s [street dance] hit the shield hard. Not only did it drain all his energy, but it also added two more strikes to kill him directly! ¡± ¡°After killing old Qin, the boss went into berserk mode again! ¡± ¡°This time, he was not as lucky as thest time. Without Red-Eyes pulling aggro, the boss was like a tiger in a flock of sheep. Every time he killed a yer, the berserk buff on him would stack up by oneyer. In the end, he could kill a child with one sh. There was no room for him to control ... ¡± ¡°A minuteter, they were all wiped out. ¡± ¡°The atmosphere was a little low. When had these big shots ever suffered like this? Oh, they had eaten it before, but that was when Dark Souls had just been released. At that time, they were still newbies, not big shots. ¡± ¡°However, after clearing N rounds, they had not suffered like this for a long time. ¡± ¡°Old Qinforted him,¡±¡±Aiya, it¡¯s okay. Everyone hasn¡¯t suffered in a long time.¡±¡± Cheer up, let¡¯s try toplete thend remation today!¡±¡± ¡± ...... Four hourster. ¡°Gu sanguang was thest surviving yer, but he was still killed by the boss in one hit. Looking at the boss¡¯s HP, he still had more than half of it left ... ¡± ¡°Everyone had the illusion that they could pass it if they did it again, but this illusion had already appeared more than a dozen times ... ¡± ¡°These big shots had found the feeling they had when they first started ying Dark Souls. It was very difficult, very exciting, very painful, as if he would die if he was not careful. However, there was always a glimmer of hope. Every time he suffered, he felt that he was closer to that glimmer of light. ¡± ¡°However, this was only an illusion ... ¡± ¡°Old Qin coughed twice.¡±¡±Let¡¯s call it a day. ying VR games for too long is bad for the brain. We¡¯ll continue tomorrow ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°It was almost time for the game to end, and everyone was a little tired. If they lost focus, they would be killed by the boss, so there was no point in continuing. ¡± It was better to conserve his energy and save it for tomorrow. Wangji climbed out of the game cabin and washed his face. ¡°Although it was a littlete, he wasn¡¯t tired. After a short rest, he picked up some vegetables in the soothing mode of the VR gaming pod and could y again. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Yeah, What are you ying?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Wangji opened Dark Souls out of habit and found that Gu Shaan was also there. Obviously, this guy was also a night owl. ¡± ¡°Wangji sent a message,[shall we continue exploring the death mode?] ¡± ¡°Gu San quickly replied,¡±¡±no, I¡¯m too tired.¡±¡± Let¡¯s y the random mode and get ready to go offline. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Random mode? Alright, I¡¯ll try too. ¡°¡± ¡± The two of them each opened a new save file and yed the random mode. ¡°After all, they had been ying in death mode for an entire night and had been abused for an entire night. Even oldass could not hold back anymore. ying the normal difficulty in the random mode was equivalent to rxing ... ¡± ¡°After using his ¡°¡±most unlike¡±¡± technique to create the face of an ancient God, Wangji entered the game. ¡± ¡°They were still ying Dark Souls. Although they had cleared the prequel, it was obviously more difficult. They had to put it aside for the night to rx. ¡± ¡°After easily killing the small monsters in the ash graveyard, Wangji picked up the item in front of him. Elemental gray bottle. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Eh? This thing isn¡¯t random. ¡°¡± Wangji asked curiously. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Yes, some key props were not random, otherwise the game would be stuck,¡±¡± said Gu San. If you can¡¯t pick up the elemental gray bottle, how are you going to y with those mages ...¡±¡± ¡± The two of them chatted as they fought the monsters. It was a way to rx. ¡°Soon, Wangji came to the first prop. He deliberately walked around a few times and prayed for a good prop to drop. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Please let me leave Africa and enter Europe! Give me a big sword! Or the exiles ¡°¡±big knife will do too!¡±¡± ¡± Wangji picked up his props. Shit! ¡°Wangji ¡°¡±...F * ck you. What¡¯s the meaning of giving me a piece of sh * t?!¡±¡± ¡± Wangji was speechless. The first item was a piece of sh * t. How could this game be yed? ¡°It seemed that the random mode really depended on luck. This mode was too unfriendly to Africans, right? ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Scattered light, what did you pick up?¡±¡± Wangji asked. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Oh, it¡¯s the ring of the greedy golden snake,¡±¡± Gu San replied. ¡± ¡°Wangji was confused.¡±¡±...???¡±¡± ¡± Was this the F * cking difference between Europeans and Africans? ¡°Wangji was not convinced. After the first bonfire, there was another item that could be picked up. ¡± Wangji jumped onto the coffin and turned around a few times. ¡°¡±¡±I have a premonition that it¡¯ll be a good prop this time! Superrge sword!¡±¡± ¡± Wangji picked it up and took a look. A soul that was about to dissipate! ¡°¡±¡±Alright, it¡¯s better than a piece of sh * t.¡±¡± Wangji replied. What did you pick up this time?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Oh, it¡¯s the soul of Pope Shali van,¡±¡± Gu San said. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±...You y first, I¡¯m going offline,¡±¡± Wangji said. ¡± Chapter 605 ? Chapter 605 NZX? Trantor 549690339 ¡°The death mode and random mode gave many yers a whole new gaming experience, and many old yers who had lost some of their challenges in Dark Souls gained new fun in the game. ¡± ¡°In the death mode, the boss¡¯s abilities, including AI, were all enhanced. In a sense, the boss in this mode was even smarter than the average yer. It even knew how to attack in advance, roll to avoid the yer¡¯s spells, and so on. ¡± ¡°In the entire process, the yers not only had to be extremely familiar with the boss¡¯s skills, but they also had to have some advanced PVPbat knowledge. They also had to have zero mistakes and a little bit of luck to pass. ¡± ¡°Of course, the inevitable result was that only a handful of top-tier yers would be able to clear death mode and leave their names on the Firelink sacrificial grounds. ¡± ¡°However, this was also Chen Mo¡¯s intention when he designed the death mode, to give the big bosses who had alreadypleted N rounds some fun. As for the ordinary yers of Dark Souls, the death mode was not prepared for them. ¡± The random mode was the entertainment mode for most yers. ¡°In the random mode, other than some key props (such as keys or plot props), the other props would all be random. ¡± ¡°In other words, the Europeans could pick up the soul of the Lord of Cinder or a high-quality weapon at the beginning of the game, while the Africans could go to a ce that would drop good things and pick up a piece of sh * t ... ¡± ¡°However, there was an advantage to this game. It forced all yers to collect all the items, because every item that was left out could be a good item. ¡± ¡°If he were to y the random mode in the prequel of Dark Souls, it would be even more awesome. In the prequel, weapons could only be enhanced by +5 or +10 with arge piece of Ember and a superrge piece of Ember. If these two Ember could not be found ... ¡± ¡°In addition, in the random mode, every time a yer picked up an item, they would have the pleasure of winning a prize because no one knew what the item was. ¡± ¡°The random mode also gave many yers the motivation to re-y, because every re-y was equivalent to a whole new journey. It was impossible to guess what kind of items would drop, and it was very fun for many yers to choose different ways to y ording to the different opening items. ¡± ¡°After these two modes were released, not only did Dark Souls ¡®prequel¡¯s sales increase, even dark Souls¡¯s sales continued to increase. There were still many new yers who came to Chen Mo¡¯s trap. ¡± ¡°In addition, the Switch version of Dark Souls and the prequel were also selling well, and even the sales of the Switch for the month increased. ¡± Many yers who couldn¡¯t afford a VR gaming pod also went for the second best and bought the Switch version of Dark Souls to experience it. Many young people even bought a TV to y morefortably ... ¡°Although the Switch+ TVbination was quite expensive, it only cost 4000 Yuan. Even for many college students, this was not an uneptable price. At least, they could pool their money together to buy it. ¡± ¡°Come to think of it, the Switch¡¯s price was only equivalent to the price of a VR game ... ¡± ¡°At this point, Chen Mo¡¯s development of Dark Souls hade to an end. He would then develop the downloadable content that would be either cheap or free to supplement the game¡¯s content. ¡± ¡°The story of Dark Souls had beenpleted, and they could consider developing the next game. ¡± ¡°For the yers, the game content of Dark Souls and the prequel, as well as the special modes and downloadable content, were enough for them to y for a long time. However, everyone was focused on one thing. When would the big shots in the countryplete the first kill of a boss in Dark Souls ¡®hardcore mode? ¡± ...... ¡°Since Dark Souls was released at the same time around the world, the subsequent updates were basically released at the same time. The foreign servers were released at most a weekter than the domestic server. Therefore, many foreign yers of Dark Souls were also trying hard to pass the death mode. ¡± ¡°In Europe and the United States, Dark Souls and the prequel were very popr. Of course, because there were fewer yers, the sales were not as good as in China, but the poprity was not any worse. ¡± There were also many big shots overseas who were discussing about clearing the death mode of Dark Souls. ¡°After experiencing countless failures, yers at home and abroad had analyzed and figured out some tricks to the death mode. ¡± ¡°That was, the more people there were, the lower the difficulty. ¡± The easiest to clear should be the ten-man mode. ¡°Actually, it was quite reasonable. The more people there were, the more chaotic it would be and the easier it would be to make mistakes. Therefore, the difficulty of the boss should be slightly reduced to bnce the difficulty. ¡± ¡°For yers at home and abroad, the first kill of Dark Souls in death mode was a Supreme honor, and the first global kill meant that they could show off on a global scale. How could the big shots miss such an opportunity? ¡± ¡°Therefore, many elite yers were holding their breath and wanted to be the first toplete the first kill in death mode. ¡± ...... ¡°At the entrance of Fand¡¯s undead team, old Qin summoned all the members over and used the buff together. Then, they all made a gesture of praising the sun. ¡± ¡°However, it was different from before. This time, it was a group of ten. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Old Qin, is this guy reliable?¡±¡± Wangji asked. ¡± ¡°In addition to the nine people from thest time, there was also a yer called ¡°¡±NZX¡±¡±, who was temporarily pulled over by old Qin. ¡± ¡°In fact, before this, these people had already sessfully brought the boss¡¯s HP down to 13%, but they were just a little bit away and couldn¡¯t pass. ¡± Old Qin and a few others discussed it and felt that the main problem was the difficulty. ¡°The ten-man mode had the lowest difficulty, and if another yer formed a ten-man team, the chances of getting the first clear would increase a lot. Of course, the premise was that this person didn¡¯t cheat. ¡± ¡°Therefore, old Qin also posted some recruitment posts in the group and on the forum, trying to find another person to form a ten-person team. The requirements were very strict. They had toplete eight rounds of Dark Souls and one round of Dark Souls ¡®prequel, and they had to have a PK with old Qin. ¡± ¡°In the end, this ¡°¡±lzx¡±¡± was dragged into the mix. ¡± ¡°However, Wangji and the others were a little worried because the high-end yer circle of Dark Souls was rtively closed. Several big shots often shared their insights in the group and knew each other well. ¡± ¡°However, he had never heard of this NZX. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Don¡¯t worry, he¡¯s a Big Boss, very mysterious ...¡±¡±Old Qin said. ¡± ¡°Old Qin was too embarrassed to say that no one was watching when he pked with NZX. The real situation was that NZX deliberately let him sh it twice, and only counterattacked after it was severely injured, and then killed him in one hit ... ¡± ¡°Obviously, a yer with such superb PK skills couldn¡¯t be a noob. At least, he knew the entirebat style of Dark Souls like the back of his hand, and his reaction and awareness were very good. ¡± ¡°Even if these yers were not familiar with dying mode, they would only need to observe for a while and die a few more times before they would understand. They would not be a burden. ¡± Chapter 606 ? Chapter 606 Chapter 605-touched! Trantor 549690339 ¡°Before entering the White mist gate, old Qin reminded him again and again. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±The 10-man mode boss only has a bit more HP than the 9-man mode boss, but the rest should be the same. Even if you make mistakes, try your best to persist. It¡¯s definitely impossible to clear it in one go, so let¡¯s practice more. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±That, NZX, you can touch the boss first. If you have any spells, just throw them at the boss. Prioritize self-protection. When you feel that you are familiar with the boss¡¯s movements, then attack. Try to make sure you don¡¯t die.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Old Qin¡¯s idea was to let NZX familiarize with it as much as possible and prioritize his life. This was because the boss in dying mode would enter a berserk state once it killed someone, which was likely to cause a chain reaction that would lead to a team wipe. ¡± ¡°If two or three yers died in a row, the first clear would basically be over. ¡± lzx made a gesture of pointing forward. ¡°¡±¡±That¡¯s enough,¡±¡± old Qin said.¡±¡±Everyone, let¡¯s go. We¡¯ll y like before.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°open the gay!¡± ¡°After passing through the White mist gate, everyone entered the boss battle field. ¡± ¡°They had been wiped at least dozens of times by Farron¡¯s undead party, so they were familiar with the boss¡¯s routine. In the first stage, they mainly focused on staying alive and letting the red-eyed members attract aggro to ensure that everyone could enter the second stage in their best condition. ¡± ¡°Now, old Qin and the others were rushing for the first kill, not the quick kill, so they were not so pressed for time. The key was to be stable. ¡± ¡°The first kill list would always be disyed in Firelink sacrificial grounds, but the quick kill list only recorded the top three teams. Even if they were one or two minutes faster, they would still be overtaken by the others. ¡± ¡°He would first get the first clear, then slowly figure out how to get a quick kill. ¡± ¡°Everyone surrounded the boss and carefully preserved its HP. They only dared to sneak over and touch it, not daring to do more than that. ¡± He had no choice. He had been scared by the boss in seconds. It was already not easy to get a hit and then retreat safely. Why would he need a bicycle ... ¡°Only then did old Qin notice that Wangji was no longer holding a big sword. Instead, he had changed to a shield. ¡± ¡°Old Qin nced at him.¡±¡±Laji,¡±¡± he said.¡±¡±Why did you betray the sect again?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Wangji expressed his dissatisfaction.¡±¡±Betrayal ... What betrayal? can the matter of the sun Knight be called betrayal?¡±¡± I¡¯m making a sacrifice for the sake of clearing the instance!¡±¡± ¡± The first phase went rtively smoothly. The red-eyed party member appeared in the second phase. The others threw magic from a distance and took damage. They sessfully entered the second phase. ¡°However, no one was relieved because they all knew that the second stage boss was just the beginning ... ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Dodge the boss¡¯s charge! Keep a distance and be careful of the street dance!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Don¡¯t stand on the side for thest set of breakdance. Spread out and be careful of the boss¡¯s sprint!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Try to attack as early as possible and locate the boss¡¯s rolling position!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Old Qinmanded in the voice chat. Everyone had their own duties and surrounded the boss, waiting for the opportunity to move. ¡± ¡°After a long period of exploration, everyone had a certain grasp of the boss¡¯s movement patterns. Although the intelligence of the boss in death mode was high, it was impossible for it to fully unleash the potential of its AI. Otherwise, the yers would not be able to defeat it. ¡± ¡°Chen Mo had taken this into consideration when he designed the game, so he only gave a portion of the AI¡¯s authority to make the bosses suffer, but also to give them the chance to defeat the boss. ¡± Old Qin nced at it. NZX was really cking off. It only asionally threw spells from a distance and always maintained a safe distance from the boss ... ¡°Even though NZX had not lost any HP up until now, the damage he dealt to the boss was negligible. Just a few curses were equivalent to scratching an itch for the boss in the 10-man mode ... ¡± ¡°However, old Qin couldn¡¯t say too much. After all, his instructions to NZX were to protect their lives first and not die. Therefore, now that cdx was having a great time touching it, old Qin was helpless. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Hey, you¡¯re running out of your carbamide bottle, aren¡¯t you? You retreat for a moment. The rest of you, change your equipment. ¡°¡± Old Qinmanded. ¡± ¡°In the second stage, the team would take turns wearing the Javier equipment set and the skull ring to attract the boss ¡®aggro, while the others would take the opportunity to attack. When the main tank¡¯s elemental bottles were almost finished, they would retreat and the others would change their equipment. ¡± ¡°This way, he could maximize the use of the potion bottles, and it would be more efficient to fight. If they all swarmed up, the boss might kill several of them with a set of skills, and the situation would be beyond cleaning up. ¡± Gu San quickly took off his Javier armor and quickly changed into his equipment. The other yer changed into his full set of Javier armor and faced the boss. ¡°The others were not idle either. Although the main tank was pulling the aggro, the boss¡¯s attack pattern in this mode was very strange. It was not unusual for it to suddenly attack anyone. Therefore, the others had to be highly focused, or they would be killed instantly if they were not careful. ¡± ¡°Fortunately, these yers were all big shots who had cleared the dungeon N times and had been wiped out so many times, so they hadn¡¯t lost any members. Some yers were burned by the boss¡¯s fire, but they had drunk elemental bottles to make up for it. ¡± The Boss¡¯s HP began to drop slowly. 50%! 30%! 15%! ¡°Seeing that the boss¡¯s HP was close to 10%, everyone was very excited. This was the closest they had evere to victory! ¡± ¡°However, at this stage, the main tank had already changed four times, and everyone had almost finished their elemental bottles. Moreover, the boss ¡®attack frequency was getting faster and faster, and all kinds of dangers were lurking around. ¡± ¡°All of a sudden, the boss jumped up after performing a series of street dance moves. He directly smashed old Qin, who was holding a shield, to the ground with his sword! ¡± ¡°This sword cut off more than half of old Qin¡¯s health, but it didn¡¯t kill him. The Boss didn¡¯t continue to pursue them. Instead, it rolled and chased after the others. ¡± ¡°Old Qin heaved a sigh of relief. Just as he stood up and was about to drink the bottle of essence, the boss suddenly returned! It was another set of street dance. Old Qin only had time to raise his shield, and as a result, all his energy was depleted by this set of moves, and he was directly killed. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±F * ck! Spread out, the boss is about to go berserk!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Although old Qin was dead, he could still watch from the side. He hurriedlymanded everyone to spread out through the voice chat. The Boss only had 10% HP left, and there were 9 yers left. As long as they avoided the berserk stage, they had a high chance of passing the stage. ¡± ¡°However, the boss obviously did not want to give the yers this opportunity. The Farron greatsword danced wildly withyers of mes. The boss shuttled through the entire field as if it was whizzing. In therge area of mes, the yers had no time to Dodge, and their HP dropped rapidly. ¡± ¡°A lot of yers wanted to drink the bottles of essence to recover their health, but the boss¡¯s attack frequency was very fast. They might be hit if they drank blood, and many of them had already finished their bottles of essence! ¡± ¡°In an instant, two more people fell! ¡± ¡°The situation became even more out of control. The boss, who had three stacks of berserk state, could kill anyone that stood in its way. Many yers could not avoid the boss¡¯s attacks even if they ran for their lives. ¡± ¡°Seeing his team members fall one by one, old Qin sighed in his heart. ¡°¡±It¡¯s over, I¡¯m gay!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Old Qin couldn¡¯t help but feel a little regretful. If this NZX could deal more damage, the boss¡¯s health might be reduced to less than 5% by now. Then, they could directly pile on the heads and fight it out with a little hope. ¡± ¡°However, the boss¡¯s HP had only dropped by 10%. There was no point in fighting it head-on! ¡± Chapter 607 ? Chapter 607 An idol beating up a fan! Trantor 549690339 ¡°Seeing everyone fall one by one, old Qin said helplessly,¡±¡±¡±¡±It¡¯s okay, it¡¯s possible that NZX is still not familiar with the boss¡¯s skills. Let¡¯s try again. We¡¯ll definitely pass the next time. Everyone ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Only NZX was left on the scene, and it was standing still, obviously nning to give up and start all over again. ¡± Old Qin also felt that it was a bit of a pity. It was already quite impressive that this NZX survived to the end on its first try in death mode and didn¡¯t drag them down. The only pity was that their damage output was a little low. If only they could deal more damage. ¡°¡±¡±Woof!!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°The Boss¡¯s [breakdance greatsword] instantly shed across, and NZX was directly sent flying into the sky, with only a sliver of health left. ¡± ¡°But at this moment, old Qin, Wangji, and a few others realized that NZX¡¯s equipment had changed? ¡± ¡°Initially, lzx was wearing a set of very ordinary fire resistance equipment, but the moment he was lifted into the air, his entire set of equipment seemed to have changed in an instant. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±This is ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Old Qin was shocked. After being picked up into the sky, EZX had actually changed into arterus¡¯s entire equipment set! ¡± ¡°Artoris was a boss in the prequel to Dark Souls, but yers could buy his equipment in Dark Souls. (The fireless sacrificial grounds behind Gundar the hero) ¡± ¡°Before the prequel of Dark Souls was released, many yers were wondering who alterus was. However, after the prequelpleted the plot, alterus became an idol-level character in the eyes of many yers, and was also respectfully called A University. ¡± ¡°On the one hand, artius was a tragic hero who fought against the abyss alone; On the other hand, he was ... Handsome! ¡± ¡°The Farron undead Legion was jokingly called artrus ¡®fan club because their duty was to protect old wolf heve and fight against the abyss. From their clothing to their weapons, they were all inherited from artrus. ¡± ¡°Not only did NZX change into artrus¡¯s clothes in an instant, but afternding, it even applied lightning cream and solemnly performed the undead team¡¯s etiquette ... ¡± Old Qin and the others were dumbfounded. What was he doing? ¡°Obviously, the boss did not fall for this trick at all. Now that cdx was the only living person left, the boss brandished his greatsword and charged straight at NZX! ¡± NZX rolled to the side and dodged the attack. ¡°After Farron¡¯s undead boss used charge, the tip of his sword drew a semi-circr arc on the ground. This move was originally meant to attack close-range enemies and was an AoE attack. However, NZX actually took a step forward and the tip of his sword almost brushed past his body. ¡± ¡°At this moment, the wolf rider greatsword in EZX¡¯s hand ruthlessly shed into the boss¡¯s back. ¡± Backstab! ¡°With a backstab, his HP dropped by 2%! ¡± ¡°Wangji was dumbfounded,¡±¡±I¡¯m shocked!¡±¡± This damage!¡±¡± ¡± The others were also surprised. ¡°¡±¡±Why is the damage so high?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Backstab! The backstab in death mode was very difficult to trigger. It only had less than 0.5 seconds to activate because the boss knew that you would roll to avoid it from behind. Moreover, the position where you stand and the position where you cut are very particr. We rarely trigger backstab!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±He¡¯s definitely wearing the red tears ring! I feel like this should be a set of quick-kill equipment!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°To y safe, the others fought with full health, so no one dared to wear the red tears ring. However, it was obvious that NZX had brought it along. Moreover, the reason why it was beaten to a critical state by the boss previously was to trigger the effect of the ring of red tears! ¡± ¡°¡±¡±He wants to ... Solo a boss??¡±¡± everyone was dumbfounded. ¡± ¡°After the backstab, the boss was kicked to the ground. However, it was still a boss, so it quickly got up and rolled to the side. ¡± ¡°However, NZX took two steps forward and began to charge up before the boss could get up. After the boss rolled away, he shed his sword at the boss¡¯s body! ¡± ¡°The Boss rolled three times and used three shes from the EZX, but none of them missed! ¡± Old Qin was shocked. How could this be? ¡°Indeed, rolling wasn¡¯t invincible. It onlysted for a very short period of time, and he would still be hit at other times. However, the boss was constantly moving when it rolled. Could it have reacted the moment the boss rolled? Wasn¡¯t this NZX¡¯s reaction speed a little too heaven-defying? ¡± ¡°With such little health left, the boss was still able to hold its own against the boss, and it had not even been touched once ... ¡± ¡°The fire on the boss ¡®sword also dealt damage. With the HP of NZX, it was possible for it to die if it was touched by the fire. ¡± The other nine yers could only watch helplessly. They realized that this NZX was using a quick kill strategy to fight to its death! ¡°Although these people all knew how to y fast kill, that was only in normal mode. In hardcore mode, the boss¡¯s skills, AI, and other aspects werepletely different. These yers had been trying to figure out the boss¡¯s strategy for so many days, but they still could not figure out the boss¡¯s strategy. In the end, this NZX was actually able to take out 10% of the boss¡¯s HP by himself? ¡± ¡°With another dash, NZX shed behind the boss again and activated backstab! ¡± ¡°This time, the backstab directly emptied the boss¡¯s HP and it fell to the ground. ¡± Everyone was speechless. A line of words appeared on the screen. [Death mode the Lord of Cinder has fallen!] ¡°[Congrattions on obtaining the First World kill of Farron¡¯s undead team in death mode! [Your name will be engraved on the Firelink sacrificial grounds, and countless undead will look up to you forever!] ¡± ¡°Old Qin could not believe his eyes.¡±¡±Passed? It¡¯s passed?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°The others were in disbelief as well. That was a boss in death mode, and it had severalyers of berserk buffs stacked up! He was actually killed by EZX with low HP? ¡± ¡°What the f * ck, soloing a boss and grinding for equipment? ¡± ¡°Dragon ying saber ... Cough, cough, I¡¯vee to the wrong set. ¡± It could only be said that this NZX¡¯s control was too good. Every sh was as beautiful as a painting. The boss¡¯s attacks had brushed past him many times. It was as if he was dancing on the tip of the de! ¡°Moreover, NZX had specially changed into a set of arterus¡¯s clothes, giving the impression that arterus was personally fighting the undead ... ¡± ¡°¡±¡±This ... Is an idol beating up a fan??¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Old Qin held it in for a long time and said!¡±¡±This is ... Grass powder!!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Wangji sighed,¡±¡±damn! This is a real boss! He¡¯s using a fast farming method to kill a boss in death mode!¡±¡± Quick, old Qin, invite him into our group!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°In the end, while everyone was still discussing, they saw NZX make an undead team salute and then go offline ... ¡± ¡°Old Qin ¡°¡±... Running away after acting tough? how exciting!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Old Qin, we¡¯re actually pretty strong. Even if we don¡¯t make it this time, we¡¯ll definitely make it through tonight,¡±¡± said a member. Why don¡¯t we go and challenge the nine-person mode again?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°In fact, this NZX had been cking in the beginning, so the game time had been dragged out a lot. If old Qin didn¡¯t rely on him, and found another big Boss who also yed, at most, he would die a few more times, but he would probably be able to pass today. ¡± ¡°However, NZX¡¯s actions were just a kind joke. Even if it could solo the boss, it still had to give the others enough space to perform, right? ¡± ¡°After all, this was the first kill for a boss in the near-death mode. These yers were all qualified to be on the first kill list, so he did not mind giving them a little help. ¡± Chapter 608 ? Chapter 608 Theyout of the Switch Trantor 549690339 Chen Mo exited the game cabin. ¡°He just had to secretly leave his name on the first clear list as an Easter egg, and it didn¡¯t matter if the yers couldn¡¯t see it. As for the first kills of other bosses in the future, he had no intention of getting involved. ¡± He went to the hall on the first floor of the experience store and sat down on the sofa. ¡°Zou Zhuo and Shuyi were sitting on the opposite sofa, ying Mobile Legends. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Quick, little fatty,e and save me!¡±¡± Shuyi was ying very seriously. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I¡¯ming, I¡¯ming!¡±¡±Zou Zhuo said. ¡± He was quite engrossed. ¡°¡±¡±What?¡±¡± Chen Mo opened a can of Coke.¡±¡±Are you two addicted?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo shook his head violently. He felt that ¡°¡±addicted to Mobile Legends¡±¡± didn¡¯t fit his image. ¡°¡±She¡¯s addicted to it, but I¡¯m not. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Nonsense, you clearly yed for a longer time!¡±¡± Shuyi was unconvinced. ¡± ¡°Chen Zhao was amused.¡±¡±Alright, stop fighting. Let me ask you a question.¡±¡± So, if zou Zhuo gets sick one day and mobile Legends starts, who do you choose?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Shuyi thought for a moment.¡±¡±I¡¯ll choose Li Bai. I¡¯m Li Bai.¡±¡± ¡± Zou Zhuo was speechless. ¡°Chen Mo chuckled,¡±¡±that¡¯s right!¡±¡± Of course, we have to choose the one that can carry!¡±¡± ¡± Zou Zhuo was speechless. ¡°Shuyi suddenly thought of something and raised her head.¡±¡±¡±¡±By the way, manager, I feel that the virtual joystick for King of Glory is a little rough. Can you make some improvements to it?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Before Chen Mo could say anything, zou Zhuo said,¡±¡±¡±¡±That¡¯s because of the screen. After all, it was just a virtual joystick. The hand movements in your impression were slightly different from the hand movements in actual contact with the phone. In addition, there was sweat and the screen was covered with film, which led to such an illusion. This shouldn¡¯t be a design problem, it¡¯s limited by the hardware. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°Shuyi nodded in disappointment.¡±¡±¡±¡±Oh, I see. Every time I y it for a long time, I feel that it¡¯s a little strange. What a pity. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±It can be optimized,¡±¡± Chen Mo said. ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo ¡°¡±...Manager, it¡¯s not easy for me toe across a problem that I understand. I just wanted to show off a little. Do you have to do this so quickly?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Shuyi¡¯s face revealed a happy expression.¡±¡±¡±¡±Oh, really? But didn¡¯t little fatty say that it was a problem with the hardware?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Mo nodded,¡±¡±it¡¯s indeed a problem with the hardware. I can just fix it.¡±¡± However, you may have to pay an extra four to five hundred Yuan. ¡°¡± ¡± Zou Zhuo was speechless. ¡°¡±¡±This fee ... Is a little too high, right?¡±¡± Shuyi thought for a moment. ¡± ¡°Chen Mo smiled,¡±¡±it¡¯s not just for Mobile Legends, it can be used for other things.¡±¡± Forget it, you¡¯ll know when the timees. ¡°¡± ¡± Chen Mo stood up and returned to the studio. ¡°Chen Mo didn¡¯t have any ns for a new game yet, but there were two main things he had to do. ¡± ¡°On one hand, he wanted to create the DLC for Dark Souls and its prequel for future updates. However, these downloadable content were basically half-buy, half-free, and there was nothing particrly worth paying attention to. ¡± ¡°It was just toplete the dark Souls game series, and he could keep itter. ¡± ¡°On the other hand, it was to port King of Glory to Switch. ¡± ¡°In fact, the problem that Shuyi had mentioned did exist, and that was that he didn¡¯t feel the best when ying Mobile Legends on his phone. ¡± ¡°Of course, most yers didn¡¯t care about this, because that was the characteristic of mobile yers. It was convenient to y the game, and it didn¡¯t matter if there were any problems with the experience. ¡± Hardcore gamers would update their hardware and spend more money than the game to ensure their gaming experience. ¡°To give a simple example, some yers could y PUBG with the lowest configuration on their ownputers. Some yers had to change everything from the host, monitor, to the mouse and keyboard to ensure the best effect. There were also some yers who couldn¡¯t y on theputer, so they yed mobile games to win chicken dinner. It didn¡¯t matter if the picture quality was bad or there were many bugs, as long as they could y. ¡± ¡°In other words, different yers had different requirements for the gaming experience. ¡± ¡°As for yers who yed Mobile Legends, most of them didn¡¯t care much about the hardware. As long as the phone ran smoothly and didn¡¯tg, it was enough. It was also because of this that King of Glory had deliberately made the game¡¯s graphics lower so that it could run smoothly on the thousand Yuan machine. ¡± ¡°The operational problems in Mobile Legends were there. In the end, a virtual joystick was still a virtual joystick. No matter how much it was improved, it couldn¡¯t bepared to a real joystick. ¡± ¡°It wasn¡¯t just King of Glory, even Minecraft and PUBG, which had virtual joysticks, would be difficult to y on the phone. ¡± ¡°Although most yers didn¡¯t mind, there were still a small number of yers who did. If there was a professional controller that they could use, they would be very happy to buy one. Unfortunately, there was none. ¡± ¡°In Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, when Mobile Legends was extremely popr, there were a few hardwarepanies that saw this opportunity and wanted to release peripherals that were specifically designed for mobile Legends. ¡± ¡°But basically, none of them were very sessful. Although some brands had also made some money, they were not very useful and were still niche. ¡± ¡°There were also many types of peripherals. There were independent controllers that were connected to the phone, as well as physical joysticks that were attached to the screen. However, in general, they were all crudely made, and there were more or less dys andg after connecting to the phone. ¡± Chen Mo¡¯s solution to this problem was simple Switch. ¡°The best way to improve the hand sensitivity of the virtual joysticks and virtual buttons was to rece them with real joysticks and real buttons. The manufacturers in Chen Mo¡¯s previous life didn¡¯t make it because their technology was terrible, and there were problems with the connection between the game controller and the phone. ¡± ¡°However, after porting to Switch, these problems would be solved. ¡± ¡°In his previous life, the overseas version of Mobile Legends was really moved to the Switch, and the operation was much smoother than on the mobile phone. ¡± ¡°The left handle controlled the hero¡¯s movement, and the right handle controlled the camera to move. ¡± ¡°Up, down, left, and right were the scoreboard, shop, recall, and recovery. ¡± ¡°The three skills were L, R, and ZZ. The summoner¡¯s skill was ZZ. ¡± ¡°Pressing X to learn skills and Y to purchase equipment. On certain interfaces, the four buttons ABXY had other functions, such as A for selection and B for closing. ¡± ¡°After pressing down on the skill, he used the right joystick to choose the direction of the skill release. ¡± ¡°Moreover, after migrating to the Switch tform, the picture resolution would be higher, the screen would berger, and the position of the virtual joystick and virtual buttons could be saved. The UIyout on the interface could be further optimized. ¡± ¡°Of course, transnting King of Glory to Switch was just the beginning. It was just a test. When the conditions were right, Chen Mo would consider porting most of the popr mobile games to Switch. ¡± ¡°The Switch couldn¡¯t rece the position of mobile phones, but it could slowly nibble away at the yer base. As more and more games were avable on the Switch, more yers who paid more attention to the gaming experience would buy the Switch. ¡± ¡°Thinking about the performance of the PUBG Mobile game on mobile and Switch, the operating modes of the two tforms were simply worlds apart. ¡± ¡°When ying PUBG on a mobile phone, all kinds of buttons were squeezed together, and one could touch it by mistake. Moreover, adjusting the field of view, moving the character, aiming, and other operations were very troublesome. ¡± ¡°However, when ying Legend of Zelda with the Switch, there were archery elements. There were also arge number of shooting games on the console. Although it was not as convenient as the keyboard and mouse, as long as one was familiar with it, coupled with some automatic aiming, the experience was definitely better than that of the mobile phone. ¡± ¡°To Chen Mo, this was a pre-nned n. He wasn¡¯t satisfied with the Switch being just a niche model, he wanted topete with popr mobile phones and mobile games on arger scale. ¡± ¡°Other than that, it was time to start developing the next game. ¡± Chapter 609 ? Chapter 609 Lottery draw Trantor 549690339 ¡°In the experience store, Chen Mo was checking his happiness and resentment ie. ¡± ¡°With the two ultimate weapons of Dark Souls and the prequel, the number of resentments had indeed skyrocketed. So far, he had umted more than 270 resentments. ¡± ¡°Before dark Souls, Chen Mo had only umted around 20 enmity points, which showed how quickly Dark Souls had umted enmity points ... ¡± ¡°However, he did not have enough happiness points. ¡± Chen Mo¡¯s main source of happiness points was from super Mali Odyssey. He had umted 118 happiness points so far. ¡°Moreover, the current rate of gaining resentment points was much higher than that of gaining happiness points. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Lottery draw 118 times ... Or use the key to the mall.¡±¡± Chen Mo muttered. ¡± ¡°Last time, Chen Mo had gotten a special item by chance, the key to the Emporium. Using this key, you can open the mall to shop. The mall includes the third stage enhanced version of all the items that you have already drawn, which also requires you to pay happiness points and resentment points to purchase. ¡± ¡°Moreover, there was no limit to the total amount of purchases, and the mall would be closed after the purchase. ¡± ¡°It didn¡¯t workst time because Chen Zhao didn¡¯t have many happiness points and resentment points. Opening it was a waste of keys. But now that Chen Mo had saved up more than a hundred lottery chances, he felt like he could go to the merchant shop and have some fun. ¡± ¡°Recently, he had made a fewrge-scale games in a row, and he had used up a lot of items like memory yback potions. After all, the lottery was very troublesome now, and he could only rely on the stock he had saved up. ¡± Chen Mo was thinking about buying some special equipment. ¡°On the virtual screen, Chen Mo chose to use [special item store key]. ¡± ¡°A Golden Key was inserted into the whirlpool in the center of the virtual screen. The whirlpool started spinning, and a dazzling shopping mall appeared in front of Chen Mo. ¡± ¡°This interface was simr to the merchant interface of many games. It looked like a shelf filled with all kinds of goods. There were names and limited quantities above the goods, and you could also check the description of the goods. ¡± Chen Mo missed the special items. ¡°There were very early items such as the Super focuser and the fury jammer. There were also very practical daily items such as the memory yback potion, luck capsule, Super elerator, and speed regtor. There were also special items such as reaction speed serums and hand speed enhancing potions. There were also ridiculous items such as the poison milk charm, good luck generator, fear block, and intelligence-reducing Halo. ¡± ¡°There were all kinds of props, but they were all props that Chen Mo had used before. There were no new ones. ¡± ¡°Chen Mo wasn¡¯t sure if there would be any new items in the third stage, but even if there were, he would probably have to get them first before he could buy them from the system store. ¡± ¡°Chen Mo scanned the items and saw that they all had different prices. Obviously, the rarity of these items was different, so the purchase limit and price were naturally different. ¡± ¡°There was no limit to the total amount of items he could buy this time. In other words, as long as he had enough happiness points and resentment points, he could buy all the items in the entire mall. However, there was a limited number of each item. ¡± ¡°Chen Zhao first eliminated the Super focuser, Fury jammer, Super elerator, and speed regtor. This was because these were rtively early props, and they would only be used when there was ack of publicity, no one paid attention to the game, or when the development efficiency was low. ¡± ¡°Moreover, these props were quite expensive, and it was a heartache to buy them. ¡± ¡°After that, the reaction speed serums and hand speed potions could be ced as thest priority, because Chen Mo¡¯s hand speed and reaction speed were already higher than the top professional yers. Any higher and it would be beyond human limits, so it would be meaningless. ¡± ¡°As for the good luck generator ... It was too hard to control. Chen Zhao had been trickedst time. He didn¡¯t want to take the risk. After all, everything had been going smoothly for Chen Zhao. He was too bored to make things difficult for his own people. ¡± He had to prepare a few intelligence-reducing halos to fool the gamemittee leaders so that his future games could pass the vetting process ... It didn¡¯t seem like he could use the fear shrouding tool at the moment. He had to prepare more memory yback potions. ¡°He would definitely buy the lucky capsule if he could. This item only had benefits and no disadvantages. In the future, he would have to rely on it for the lottery. ¡± ¡°After making up his mind, Chen Zhao started buying. ¡± ¡°The first item was the lucky capsule. There were two of them in the store, each costing 20 happiness points and 20 resentment points. Chen Zhao bought both. ¡± ¡°It was indeed expensive, but it was still an advanced version of the third stage, so Chen Mo was more than happy to try it out. ¡± ¡°Next was the advanced version of the memory yback potion, priced at 1 happiness point and 1 resentment point each. Chen Mo bought all 30 of them in stock. ¡± ¡°There were 5 intelligence-reducing halos, each costing 10 happiness points and 10 resentment points. Chen Mo thought about it and bought three first. After all, only some special games would have the pressure of being approved, and he didn¡¯t have to use them all the time. ¡± ¡°In the blink of an eye, he had spent 100 happiness points and 100 resentment points. ¡± ¡°Chen Mo decided to keep the remaining 18 happiness points for the lucky draw, since these items were usually quite expensive and he didn¡¯t really need them. ¡± ¡°Closing the store, Chen Mo used up the remaining 18 lottery chances. This time, he didn¡¯t use the lucky capsule. After all, he didn¡¯t have many lottery chances, and it would be a waste to use a lucky capsule. ¡± ¡°The screen shed, and a new skill book appeared on the interface. ¡± [Professional knowledge modern weapon knowledge skill book (beginner)]! ¡°¡±¡±Eh? I don¡¯t think I¡¯ve seen this before. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Mo was quite happy at first, but when he saw the word ¡°¡±basic¡±¡± in the brackets, he felt his balls hurt. ¡± ¡°¡®System, you¡¯re already in the third stage, and you¡¯re still giving me a basic skill book? ¡± ¡°Previously, when he was working on Dark Souls, he had obtained the cold weapon knowledge skill book in one go ... ¡± ¡°However, after using the skill book, Chen Mo understood why the number of skill books for modern weapons and cold weapons were different. It was because the amount of knowledge they had was on a different level. ¡± ¡°There was actually very little knowledge about cold weapons. There were only a few types of weapons. However, the range of modern weapons was too wide. Everything from guns to tanks, even intercontinental missiles and fighter jets could be included in this range. ¡± ¡°Therefore, this book was only at the beginner level. It only had a simple introduction to modern weapons and did not go deep into the internal parts of various weapons. ¡± ¡°After 18 draws, Chen Mo got a total of 5 modern weaponry skill books (beginner), 4 human structure skill books (advanced), 3 modern architecture skill books, and 6 parkour skill books. ¡± ¡°Even though he didn¡¯t get anything that he liked, they were all useful, so Chen Mo wasn¡¯t unhappy and used all of them. ¡± ¡°He still didn¡¯t get a skill book about European history, so he felt that Assassin¡¯s Creed was still far away ... ¡± ¡°Chen Mo thought about it. He¡¯ll definitely get it the next time he uses the lucky capsule, right? ¡± ¡°In that case, he should first think about how to make good use of these new skill books. ¡± Chapter 610 ? Chapter 610 Another difficult-to-interrogate game Trantor 549690339 Chen Mo already had a better choice for the new game. ¡°Chen Mo nned to finish the game before the new year, and instead nned to release it before the Spring Festival. ¡± ¡°Looking back on the past year, Chen Mo had created quite a few ssic works. ¡± ¡°After bing an S-grade videogame designerst year and winning the annual game Award through Overwatch, Chen Mo¡¯s vision had already expanded overseas. ¡± ¡°In addition, the in-game pay-to-win system no longer used in-game money. Instead, it used happiness points and resentment points. ¡± ¡°Apart from human crushing defeat and normal big adventures, which were released during the spring Festival to test out the new paywall system, Chen Mo¡¯s next projects were all big productions. ¡± ¡°Switch was an epoch-making mobile phone. Although its influence was still limited to China and was rtively niche, it still had very broad development prospects. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Super Mali Odyssey¡±¡± was a ssic that yed a protective role for the release of the Switch and was also sought after by countless yers. Of course, since this game wasn¡¯t a VR game, it wasn¡¯t as influential as the game in his previous life. However, it was undeniable that it had won over many game designers and game reviewers with its collection, puzzle-solving, and perfect level design. It had even received an extremely high score that was close to full. ¡± ¡°Next up was the highlight of the year, Dark Souls. The VR version of Dark Souls, which was made with Pangu physics, could be said to have swept through the VR gaming industry at home and abroad, and also made yers at home and abroad suffer. ¡± ¡°However, Dark Souls had also won countless praises for its uniquebat system and level design, which pointed out the direction for the subsequent action games and cold weaponbat system. ¡± ¡°He had also created King of Glory, and the time to reap the benefits of the mobile game market was approaching. ¡± Releasing so many ssic games within a year was already a high yield. ¡°Chen Mo wasn¡¯t nning on making a mega-ssic for this year¡¯s finale. On one hand, he didn¡¯t have enough time, and on the other hand, he had already made the Dark Souls series this year, so there was no need to rush into another ssic. ¡± The next game Chen Mo wanted to make was more or less like that. The game size was moderate. Let the yers feel good. He tried to use the items and skill books he had obtained before. ¡°Dark Souls had already made the yers suffer so much, so it was time to give them some benefits. ¡± ¡°It was not that salent felt pity for him, but ... He did not have enough happiness points. ¡± ¡°Of course, the game was going to be hard to review, so Chen Mo still had to go to the game Committee with the intelligence-reducing Halo. ¡± ¡°To be honest, the intelligence-reducing Halo was very useful. At the very least, he had sessfully created oust thest time, and there were no problems with it. ¡± ¡°After all, parallel world was different from his previous life. The game Committee was much more rxed when it came to game reviews, and with the grading system, it was much easier to pass the reviews. Even if there were projects that were harder to review, it would be fine to use a mind-reducing Halo. ¡± Chen Mo finished the design draft in advance and went to the game Committee to find Qiao Hua and Chairman Zhang Zhongxiang. ...... ¡°Just as he entered the building, Chen Zhao Ran into someone he knew. ¡± ¡°Tianji¡¯s gaming channel reporter, Han Lu. ¡± ¡°That¡¯s right, it was the Han Lu who was tricked by Chen Mo many times into ¡°¡±using money to create happiness¡±¡±. ¡± ¡°Seeing Chen Mo walk in, Han Lu was also very surprised,¡±¡±¡±¡±Eh? Chief Chen!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Oh?¡±¡± Chen Mo smiled,¡±¡±why are you here?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Yes, I had an interview. I just finished it.¡±¡± Han Lu looked at the document in Chen Mo¡¯s hand,¡±¡±you ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Oh, it¡¯s just a review for a new game,¡±¡± Chen Mo said. ¡± ¡°Han Lu¡¯s eyes lit up. Her reporter¡¯s instinct yed a crucial role at this time,¡±¡±¡±¡±New game! You¡¯ve decided on your next game?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Mo nodded.¡±¡±It¡¯s almost done. It¡¯s fine as long as we pass the review.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Han Lu was very excited,¡±¡±then, do you mind taking five minutes out for a simple interview?¡±¡± Can you reveal a little about this new game?¡±¡± ¡± Chen Zhao looked at his phone. It was still early. ¡°¡±¡±Sure, but you didn¡¯t bring any equipment.¡±¡± Chen Zhao said. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±It¡¯s nothing,¡±¡± Han Lu said.¡±¡±It¡¯s just a simple interview. I have a recording pen with me, so I¡¯ll just ask a few simple questions.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Alright.¡±¡± Chen Zhao nodded.¡±¡±Okay.¡±¡± ¡± The two of them found an empty seat in the game Committee building. ¡°Although it was an interview, it was actually just Han Lu asking a few questions and Chen Mo answering them. He would record it down and then organize it into a text. ¡± ¡°Han Lu was very excited, she didn¡¯t expect to run into Chen Mo while doing an interview with the game Committee, this was like first-hand information on a new game! ¡± ¡°Han Lu said,¡±¡±President Chen, I know your time is precious, so I¡¯ll try my best.¡±¡± First of all, can you reveal what type of game the new game is?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Oh, it¡¯s a hack-and-sh game,¡±¡± Chen Mo said. ¡± ¡°Han Lu was stunned for a moment, and three big question marks appeared above her head,¡±¡±¡±¡±A grass-cutting game?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Mo nodded with certainty,¡±¡±yes, a grass cutting game.¡±¡± ¡± Han Lu blinked. She really couldn¡¯t tell if Chen Zhao was telling the truth from his expression ... Chen Mo¡¯sst hack-and-sh game was dark Souls ... ¡°Obviously, Chen Mo¡¯s understanding of the ¡°¡±grass-cutting game¡±¡± was a little different from the yers ¡®. In his ¡°¡±grass-cutting game¡±¡±, the yers were the grass! ¡± ¡°Han Lu asked,¡±¡±so, since the Dark Souls series is over, is it a spiritual sequel of the game?¡±¡± Will it continue thebat system of Dark Souls?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Mo shook his head.¡±¡±No, no, no. It¡¯s a real hack game this time. It¡¯s a modern war game.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Really?¡±¡± Han Lu scratched her head.¡±¡±A real hack-and-sh game?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±It¡¯s true. ¡°¡± Chen Zhao¡¯s expression was serious. ¡± ¡°Han Lu¡¯s expression said,¡±¡±as long as you¡¯re happy¡±¡±, obviously she didn¡¯t believe it ... ¡± ¡°After all, she had been tricked by Chen Zhao a few times. She knew that Chen Zhao¡¯s words couldn¡¯t be trusted, not even a single punctuation mark! ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Then,¡±¡± Han Lu asked again,¡±¡±can you roughly reveal some of the features of this new game?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Mo thought for a moment,¡¯hmm...I can¡¯t go into the details because the game hasn¡¯t passed the vetting process yet. However, there are a few things that I¡¯m certain of. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±First of all, this is a hack-and-sh game that is dedicated to providing the yers with an extremely enjoyable gaming experience. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Secondly, this is a very profound game. It reveals the truth of the crimes of foreign consortiums. These big consortiums ignored the life and death of civilians for their own interests, willfully trampling on thew, and even had upper-ss figures acting as their umbre. At the same time, the game is full of questions about human nature, and every yer¡¯s spirit will be sublimated ...¡±¡± ¡± Han Lu blinked her eyes and was stunned. Was it really that incredible? A modern war theme that mercilessly revealed reality and interrogated human nature ... A hack-and-sh game? Chapter 611 ? Chapter 611 Outstanding effect of the intelligence-reducing Halo Trantor 549690339 ¡°After the interview, Han Lu bade Chen Mo farewell with a confused face. ¡± ¡°It was obvious that the game hadn¡¯t been developed yet, and Chen Mo didn¡¯t want to reveal too much of his thoughts, so he didn¡¯t say much. ¡± This made it difficult for Han Lu to understand. She couldn¡¯t even imagine what kind of game it was ... ¡°However, Han Lu wasn¡¯t someone to be trifled with. She had encountered this situation many times and the solution was simple I¡¯ll write whatever Chen Mo says! ¡± ¡°He just had to write out Chen Mo¡¯s exact words. Even if the yers were tricked, it would be Chen Mo who tricked them ... ¡± The most important thing now was to release news of Chen Mo¡¯s new game and grab the headlines for Tianji. ...... ¡°As for Chen Mo, he didn¡¯t care about this and continued to look for Qiao Hua. ¡± ¡°In any case, whether it was to dupe reporters or yers, he was already used to it. Or rather, it had be an instinct. He would let the yers guess what was real and what was fake, and it would bring more poprity to the game. ¡± ¡°Chen Mo was now an S-grade videogame designer, and quite a few people in the game Committee knew him, so many people greeted him when he walked over. ¡± ¡°When she arrived at Qiao Hua¡¯s office, Qiao Hua was still busy. ¡± ¡°It was almost the end of the year, and the designers were rtively free. Other than a few designers who needed to catch up, the others were basically in a half-cking state. ¡± ¡°But for a Department like the game Committee, their year-end tasks were more important, and they had to prepare all kinds of year-end summary and reports in advance. It was clear that Qiao Hua was also tormented. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Chen Zhao, you¡¯re here. Have a seat.¡±¡± Qiao Hua pointed at the sofa across the desk.¡±¡±What kind of game is it this time?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Oh?¡±¡± Chen Moughed.¡±¡±Minister Qiao, you¡¯re really good at calcting.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Qiao Huaughed,¡±¡±do you think I don¡¯t know you?¡±¡± You¡¯re here for the game Committee?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I¡¯m here!¡±¡± Chen Mo handed the document over,¡±¡±take a look at the new game design.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Qiao Hua took the document and read through it. Then, he frowned.¡±¡±Kill the original form?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°From this name, he read a bad sign ... ¡± ¡°He quickly looked through the design draft from beginning to end, then said with some difficulty,¡±¡±¡±¡±Chen Zhao, you¡¯re getting more and more overboard ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Zhao pretended not to know what he was talking about.¡±¡±¡±¡±Ah?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Qiao Hua¡¯s face hurt.¡±¡±Oust was already too muchst time. It was only approved by the chairman himself. You¡¯vee up with something even more outrageous this time?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±More bloody and violent scenes? More corpses and deformed monsters? Moreover, the protagonist is no longer a weak ordinary person, but a person who can ughter as he wishes in the city?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±And this is a VR game! If the Pangu engine is used, isn¡¯t the degree of realism a little too high?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Mo chuckled,¡±¡±I wouldn¡¯t havee if the game was easy to review.¡±¡± Besides, this game isn¡¯t much different from oust. There¡¯s no need to monitor the yer¡¯s physiological indicators, because the yers won¡¯t be scared at all. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°Qiao Hua waved his hand helplessly.¡±¡±Fine. Just go directly to Chairman Zhang. It¡¯s fine as long as he agrees ...¡±¡± ¡± It was the same script again. ¡°Qiao Hua knew that he didn¡¯t have the final say on whether the game would pass the vetting process. The key was still Zhang Zhongxiang¡¯s decision, so he didn¡¯t bother and let Chen Mo do it. ¡± ¡°After all, with oust¡¯s experience, there was a good chance that ughter prototype would pass the trial ... ¡± ¡°Half an hourter, Qiao Hua brought Chen Mo to Zhang Zhongxiang¡¯s office. ¡± ¡°Zhang Zhongxiang had already finished looking at Chen Mo¡¯s design draft. Seeing that Chen Mo had arrived, she asked him to sit down on the sofa. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Chen Mo, your new game ... Seems to be even more out of the ordinary than oust. Most importantly, oust¡¯s goal is to expose the evil acts of major corporations and to expose the seemingly beautiful and fake scenes of foreign countries, but what about killing the original form?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Zhao touched his bracelet and said,¡±¡±¡±¡±There¡¯s also¡¯ sadistic killing of original form ¡®. Take a closer look?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Oh? Is that so?¡±¡± Zhang Zhongxiang watched it again. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Chairman, let me exin,¡±¡± Chen Zhao exined. First of all, the targets of this game are still the major corporations. These major corporations are conducting terrifying virus experiments andpletely ignore the safety of ordinary people. They even tried to solve the problem by throwing nuclear bombs. This is simply a wanton trampling of freedom and human rights!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Secondly, unlike oust, the main character of yers¡¯s original form has the ability to crush everything. On one side was the evil virus, and on the other side was GENTEC, which disregarded human life. The main character is no longer a human, but at the end of the game, he risked his life to transport the nuclear bomb away to save the entire city. This shows the spirit of sacrifice of the main character even more. ¡°¡± ¡± Zhang Zhongxiang blinked her eyes and thought about it. ¡°Chen Mo continued,¡±¡±there¡¯s also a lot of details about human nature in the game.¡±¡± For example, the conversation between a ck watchman and his officer ¡°¡±Sir, why should we work with these useless Marines?¡±¡± ¡°¡±We need them to face the public,¡±¡± the officer replied.¡±¡±They¡¯ll be the scapegoat if New York is scorched.¡±¡± This is a cruel revtion of human nature. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±As for the gory and violent scenes in the game ... They¡¯re only on the same level as oust. Since oust passed the vetting process, this game should be about the same. ¡± Zhang Zhongxiang frowned and touched her chin with her right hand. It felt like ... It made sense. ¡°Zhang Zhongxiang was a little shaken, because Chen Zhao was smart enough to put the background of the story abroad. It was not a big deal to defame a foreign Financial Group and Army ... ¡± ¡°As for the gory and violent scenes, it was true that the level of gory in this game was about 50 ¨C 50pared to oust. There was a rating system to begin with, so it wasn¡¯t a big problem for adults to y these games. ¡± ¡°Moreover, this game was better than oust in that it had no safety risks, and the yers wouldn¡¯t be scared. At most, the images were too real and triggered some yers ¡®violent emotions, but ... They were already adults, so it was no big deal to be exposed to some bloody and violent elements. ¡± ¡°After all, there were so many bloody and violent movies and books in the world every year, but he had never heard of anyone bing a crazy murderer because of a game. ¡± ¡°Chen Mo had also written in his design concept that he would weaken the sense of reality, allowing the yers to differentiate the game from reality. ¡± ¡°Zhang Zhongxiang nodded and said,¡±¡±alright, this game has passed the review.¡±¡± However, you still have to pay attention to whether the game will affect the mental health of the yers, especially not to create antisocial and inhuman personalities, understand?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Zhao nodded.¡±¡±Don¡¯t worry, Chairman. I definitely won ¡®t.¡±¡± ¡± Chapter 612 ? ¡°Chapter 612 Another ¡°¡±mowing game¡±¡±?¡± Trantor 549690339 Chen Mo was in a good mood after the original form passed the trial. Chen Mo chose this game as thest VR game before the Spring Festival mainly because of a few other considerations. ¡°On the one hand, it was the capacity problem. The game content of yers was just right, not too much, not too little, and it was rtively easy to make. ¡± ¡°On the other hand, he could use this game to make the yers feel good and collect more happiness points. ¡± ¡°He could also use the intelligence-reducing Halo, modern weapons knowledge skill books, and parkour knowledge skill books. ¡± Killing prototype was a hot topic in Chen Mo¡¯s previous life. ¡°Of course, this game had many ws. It could not bepared to some of the ssics in the history of games. The sudden death of the prototype 2 even dragged down the developmentpany and made it GG. There was no more prototype series after that, and the original prototype 3 was also stillborn. ¡± ¡°However, this was also a game with distinctive features and outstanding advantages, and the protagonist Alex had be a memorable representative figure in the eyes of many yers. ¡± ¡°If there was only one word to describe killing prototype, it would be ¡°¡±awesome¡±¡±! ¡± ¡°Although the game had many ws, it was extremely ¡®cool¡¯. It was like an ordinary popcorn movie. Although it couldn¡¯t stand the scrutiny of many yers and didn¡¯t have much motivation to clear the game for many rounds, it was enough to let every yer enjoy the thrill of standing at the top of the food chain when they first saw it. ¡± ¡°In Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, the game was released in 2009, and it did attract the envy of many yers. ¡± ¡°Before ying ¡°¡±ughter prototype,¡±¡± the so-called ¡°¡±freedom¡±¡± in the minds of many yers was nothing more than moving freely in the city like the GTA series, snatching cars and shooting without restraint. ¡± ¡°However, after the release of the game, the concept of ¡®freedom¡¯ in the minds of many yers waspletely subverted. ¡± ¡°In the steel jungle, in the world of the infected that was filled with monsters, the protagonist was omnipotent. He could run on the ground, climb any building, glide in the air, and fall from a high altitude without being injured. ¡± ¡°The protagonist had all kinds of bug-like superpowers. All kinds of modern weapons were vulnerable in front of the protagonist. Even a tank could not withstand the protagonist¡¯s heavy hammer. In addition to his handsome appearance and fashion design, he was so cool that he had no friends. ¡± ¡°What if the game¡¯s graphics were refined, models were remade, and physics werepletely renewed, and transnted to the VR tform? ¡± What if every yer could experience the protagonist¡¯s incredible powers in VR? ¡°Chen Mo was very pleased to have yers as thest game of the year. After making the yers suffer for so long, it was time to give them some benefits. ¡± This was ... Salent¡¯s pity! ...... ¡°During this time, Switch also began to be sold overseas, and the response was good. ¡± ¡°After Denise brought the Switch back to tgnn, this brand new handheld console caused quite a stir in tgnn. ¡± ¡°At first, Denise thought that this was just a little toy that Chen Mo had given her and wasn¡¯t worth paying attention to. However, after trying super Mali Odyssey on it, she was immediately amazed by the phone! ¡± ¡°Moreover, with the release of the Switch version of ¡°¡±Dark Souls,¡±¡± Denise had also gone through a lot of trouble to get her hands on the ¡°¡±Dark Souls¡±¡± cassette. She had suffered once in the Switch version. ¡± What shocked her was that this handheld device was very easy to use! It could recreate most of the fun in Dark Souls. It had a unique sense of touch and vibration technology. ¡°It was cheap, cost-effective, and adaptable. ¡± ¡°Not only was it portable, but it was also connected to the TV in the living room. The experience was very good! ¡± ¡°Tgnn released an article to introduce the new phone and even released a review video, which caused a strong response abroad. ¡± ¡°Since then, Switch¡¯s multinguage version was officially released overseas. With tgnn¡¯s reviews and the poprity of Dark Souls, Switch¡¯s overseas sales kept rising! ¡± ¡°In contrast, foreign yers had better spending habits and more hardcore yers, so Switch¡¯s development momentum in foreign countries was even better than in China. ¡± ¡°Moreover, many foreign yers also liked Switch¡¯s two-person mode and sensory games, including ¡°¡±cowboy duel¡±¡± and so on. Many people brought the Switch to parties, and the mutual promotion between friends provided more buyers for the Switch. ¡± ...... ¡°In China, the poprity of Dark Souls had notpletely subsided, and there was still a lot of content to look forward to for the yers. ¡± ¡°For example, downloadable content. ¡± ¡°For example, the world¡¯s first kill for the various bosses in hardcore mode. ¡± ¡°For example, the random mode that could be yed for a lifetime. ¡± ¡°However, an article in the Tianji game channel attracted the attention of the yers at this time. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Exclusive reveal of Chen Mo¡¯s new game!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°It had to be said that the title was quite eye-catching, with just the words ¡°¡±Chen Mo¡¯s new game¡±¡± being enough for many yers to click into it. ¡± ¡°The draft was empty since Han Lu didn¡¯t get much information from Chen Mo, but she still faithfully wrote down Chen Mo¡¯s words. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Chen Mo said that the new game will be a hack-and-sh game that will provide the yers with the most enjoyable gaming experience.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±In addition, this game has a deep meaning and is full of questions about human nature. Every yer will be sublimated spiritually ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°These were basically Chen Mo¡¯s original words, and Han Lu had faithfully recorded them. ¡± ¡°But in the yers ¡®eyes, it had a different meaning ... ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Bridge bean sack, a grass cutting game? We¡¯re dedicated to providing the yers with the most enjoyable gaming experience?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Extremely pleasurable? It¡¯s F * cking extreme!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±What kind of hack-and-sh game is this? Chen Mo¡¯s understanding of hack-and-sh games is like dark Souls!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Hehe, it¡¯s the samest time. It¡¯s said to be a hack-and-sh game, but it turns out that the yers are the ones who are the weeds!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±The game has deep meaning? Full of questions about human nature? The yers ¡®spirit would be elevated? Isn¡¯t ... Isn¡¯t this just Dark Souls?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Dark Souls is indeed a test of human nature. After ying it, one¡¯s spirit will rise. There¡¯s nothing wrong with it!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Indeed, after ying Dark Souls, I feel that my temper has improved and I¡¯m more patient. Fortunately, my VR gaming pod is bigger and stronger, so it won¡¯t be broken ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Looks like Chen Mo¡¯s addicted to torturing yers, but that¡¯s good too, it means the new game will still follow the style of Dark Souls!¡±¡± ¡± Most of the yers naturally interpreted it in the opposite way after seeing this. ¡°It was no wonder. Thest time Chen Mo had duped the yers, it had left a serious trauma in their hearts. Even now, when they saw keywords like ¡°¡±mowing game¡±¡± and ¡°¡±level design¡±¡±, the yers would shiver ... ¡± Chapter 613 ? Chapter 613 Chapter 612-optimization Trantor 549690339 ¡°After returning to the experience store, Chen Mo started to refine the design concept for the prototype and decided on a few details to exin to the rest of the project team. ¡± ¡°The VR version of ¡°¡±ughter Prototype 1¡å¡± would be based on the story of ¡°¡±ughter Prototype 1¡å¡± and would bepletely remade. There was no n to release ¡°¡±ughter Prototype 2¡å¡±. ¡± ¡°This was because, in terms of sales and reputation,¡±¡±killing the prototype 2¡å¡± was not a sessful work. It could not even be considered a qualified sequel. ¡± ¡°In terms of sales, kill the prototype 2 had sold less than half of the sales of kill the prototype 1. Its reputation was even worse, whether it was the reviews from yers or major video game media. ¡± There were many reasons. ¡°As for the protagonists, not only did the original protagonist change, but the popr protagonist Alex was also arranged to be killed as a viin, which caused arge number of dissatisfaction among the old yers. ¡± ¡°It could be said that this was a low-level mistake that even third-rate web novel writers would not make, but the production team of ¡°¡±killing Prototype 2¡å¡± had made it ... ¡± ¡°There was no need to argue whether the plot was reasonable or not. A simple fact was that Heller¡¯s personal charm was much worse than Alex ¡®s, and the character creation failed. ¡± ¡°As a result, when most yers mentioned the ¡°¡±ughter prototype¡±¡± series, their first reaction was Alex, not Heller. ¡± ¡°In terms of style, Alex was handsome. The shirt, sweater, leather jacket, and jeans were also handsome, especially the design of the hood, which was simr to Assassin¡¯s Creed. ¡± ¡°As for Heller ... Well, this topic was too much to talk about, especially in country of hope. Some people might talk about skin color again, but the fact was that Heller was neither handsome nor charming enough. In many plots, he was impulsive, reckless, and full of vulgarities, which was obviously a sharp contrast to Alex, who was ¡°¡±ruthless and didn¡¯t talk much.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°In fact, it didn¡¯t matter if he was ugly. The key was that he had to be charming. Just like Lao Chui in GTA5, didn¡¯t many yers like him? ¡± ¡°Online novel readers all knew that if the main character was not well shaped, a novel would basically be GG [ 1] for more than half of the time, let alone a game that required a stronger sense of immersion. ¡± ¡°Of course, this was the fault of the production team. From the perspective of the character image of Heller, if it was handled well, it would be a rather likable character, but the production team did not handle it well. ¡± ¡°In terms of gamey,¡±¡±ughter Prototype 2¡å¡± had a few new ystyles, but the yers did not buy them. This series was meant to highlight ¡°¡±ughter.¡±¡± The yers wanted to experience the thrill of destroying everything. Who would want to y infiltration with you? ¡± ¡°It was obviously a fast food game, so it was enough to make the fast food good and let the yers feel good. It was Shi Lezhi who wanted the yers to use their brains. ¡± ¡°In terms of the core battles that showed how satisfying it was, there were not many innovations in kill the original form 2. ¡± ¡°Many yers thought that the game was just arge-scale DLC, and some of the skills had even been removed, which greatly reduced the satisfaction that yers got from the game. ¡± ¡°Some people spected that ¡°¡±ughter the prototype 3¡å¡± was likely to resurrect Alex, but ... The production team had gone too far, so there was no afterward. The sudden death of the game could only be med on their own fault. ¡± ¡°Therefore, Chen Mo¡¯s n was simple. He didn¡¯t n on making it a ssic, as it wasn¡¯t realistic, since the game itself was a fast food game. ¡± It was enough to make this game into a satisfying fast food game. ¡°It was almost the end of the year, and the yers had suffered for so long, it was time for them to taste some sweetness ... ¡± ...... It wasn¡¯t difficult for Chen Mo to make the prototype. ¡°In Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, the game was released in 2009, and after removing the memory animation, it was only 3G, which was very economical. ¡± ¡°The entire map of the game was a super miniature version of New York, and the capacity was far worse than that of GTA 5. Moreover, the buildings in the game were only made for the outer shell, and there was no space inside. ¡± ¡°Of course, the game didn¡¯t need to make the contents of the building as the main story took ce in an open area. The yers wanted to run on the roof and walls of the building. They wanted to fight with nes, tanks, and all kinds of monsters in open areas. It didn¡¯t matter whether they entered the building or not. ¡± ¡°It was easy for Chen Mo to learn the main character¡¯s moves and skills. After creating Dark Souls, Chen Mo was very familiar with thebat system in the game. He could even recreate parkour in the building with the help of the skill book. ¡± ¡°Other than that, the game also had modern weapons such as guns, tanks, and helicopters. These could also be made with modern weapon skill books. Moreover, these modern weapons in the game did not have suchplicated differences in performance. They could bepleted with the most basic skill books. ¡± Chen Mo also nned to improve on some of the parts that were criticized by others. ¡°The first was the monster AI. In general, the monster AI in ¡°¡±sadistic killing of prototype¡±¡± was rtively simple. The specific performance was as follows. ¡± ¡°The protagonist rushed into the military base, grabbed themander, and absorbed him. ¡± ¡°Soldier (wireless),¡±¡±he¡¯s here!¡±¡± Ourmander has been killed, fire! ¡± The protagonist would go out to clear the aggro and then return as themander. ¡°The soldier said,¡±¡±good day, Sir!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°And as an Esper, the protagonist swaggered around in the sky without alerting the Army. This was too mysterious, making people wonder if the soldiers of the ck Watch were all retarded ... ¡± ¡°Of course, part of the reason for this setting was due to game considerations. If the main character was recognized by the Army every time he did parkour on the building and then chased after him, it would greatly affect the gaming experience of some yers. ¡± ¡°But no matter what, this setting did indeed affect the game¡¯s realism and sense of immersion to a certain extent. ¡± ¡°Chen Mo was thinking that the easy difficulty would still have the same settings so that all yers could have fun, but the hard difficulty would increase the AI of the enemies, so the yers would have to be more careful. ¡± ¡°In addition, the overall game content of yers was rtively monotonous. After all, it was a game from 2009, and there was not much content. Whether it was the virus, human soldiers, or modern weapons, there were not many types. ¡± ¡°In terms of setting, there were basically only three styles in the entire game There were normal Urban area, infected urban areas, and transitional urban areas. There should be a serious reuse of buildings, so after ying for a long time, one would get tired of aesthetics. ¡± ¡°Chen Mo wanted to add more game content, adding more buildings, pedestrians, cars, and other elements to make the city feel more real. At the same time, he added some special weapons, equipment, and enemies. He no longer had to fight the same target back and forth. ¡± ¡°Chen Mo was also considering adding a weather system in the game. The weather of the entire city would change automatically, allowing yers to experience fighting in any weather. ¡± Chapter 614 ? Chapter 614 Top of the food chain! Trantor 549690339 ¡°After deciding on the design concept for yers prototype, Chen Mo called the key members of his studio for a meeting to exin the design concept of the game. ¡± ¡°The design concept for ¡°¡±ughter prototype¡±¡± did not raise any doubts. How could this pass the F * cking interrogation? ¡± ¡°He felt that the game¡¯s bloody elements had gone up another level. Thinking of the protagonist using his sharp ws to cut the soldiers into pieces ... Tsk, tsk, tsk, how awesome! ¡± ¡°However, since Chen Mo had already made a deal with the game Committee, there was nothing more to say ... ¡± ¡°The development time of the original form was not long, only slightly more than two months. However, with the current strength of the entire production team, this time was more than enough. ¡± ¡°After all, ughter prototype was a fast-food game. Many scenes could be reused, and the process was not too long. ¡± ¡°As long as this feeling could be transferred to the VR tform, it would be a great sess. ¡± ¡°Chen Mo didn¡¯t expect the game to create a sales miracle or get high ratings from the video game media, he just wanted to let his favorite yers have a good time. ¡± Just treat it as making up for the yers who had been tortured by Dark Souls hundreds of times ... ...... ¡°On the inte, the topic of ¡®Chen Mo¡¯s new game¡¯ was a hot topic among yers. ¡± ¡°Ever since he entered the industry, Chen Mo¡¯s games had always been widely spread before development, yet they were still able to fool the yers ... ¡± ¡°Although the entire Dark Souls series had ended, the impact it had on the game was far-reaching. ¡± ¡°One of the more significant effects was that the style of Dark Souls had influenced almost all the other RPG games on the market, forcing them to learn thebat system and level design of Dark Souls. ¡± ¡°It wasn¡¯t that these games wanted to copy, but that the yers were all shouting,¡±¡±¡±¡±We want soul-typebat!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°The biggest feature of soul-type battles was that, in order to create a realistic battle atmosphere, both the protagonist and the enemy were designed to be rtively fragile. If they attacked each other, it was either you die or I die. Therefore, it was necessary to think of a reasonable battle strategy. The timing of the attack must also be carefully chosen. Don¡¯t go up and randomly sh at the enemy when you see them. ¡± ¡°The Soul series also had an energy bar setting. After exhausting one¡¯s energy, one would be unable to do anything for a short period of time, and in this state, it was easy to be attacked by the enemy. Therefore, if they couldn¡¯t kill the enemy after one round of attacks, they would immediately use thest bit of energy to escape and put some distance between them. They would wait for their energy to recover before fighting. ¡± ¡°This kind of battle mode required a rtively long time to adapt. He couldn¡¯t be impatient, and he had to fight steadily to obtain victory. ¡± ¡°Someone had once defined the Soul series as a ¡°¡±strategy action game,¡±¡± which was a more urate way of saying it in some ways. ¡± ¡°After ying thebat rules of Dark Souls, many yers were unable to adapt to thebat rules of other ArbG games. ¡± ¡°No energy setting, unlimited swings? Trash! ¡± ¡°The attack movements of different weapons were not clearly distinguished, and the design of the hit rate was unreasonable? Trash! ¡± Can¡¯t roll to dodge? Can¡¯t show off? Trash! The weapon system was not rich enough? No specialbat skills? Poor sense of impact? Trash! ¡°Many of the RPG games were targeted. Helplessly, they could only adopt the design of Dark Souls to some extent. ¡± ¡°Because Dark Souls had such a far-reaching impact, many people would believe that Chen Mo¡¯s new game was a soul-based game when they mentioned it. ¡± ¡°Even though the Soul series had ended, the yers still thought that Chen Mo¡¯s next work would continue with Soul series battles. ¡± ¡°As such, the first reaction of the yers when they heard Chen Mo say that it was a hack-and-sh game was to surround him and smile. ¡± ¡°The general meaning was,¡±¡±you don¡¯t have to say anymore, we understand!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°There were even a lot of people who posted on the forum ¡°¡±I¡¯ll tell you a joke. Chen Mo said that the next game will be a hack-and-sh game.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°In the minds of many yers, Chen Mo¡¯s ¡°¡±grass-cutting game¡±¡± had already be synonymous with ¡°¡±soul-based games¡±¡±... ¡± ¡°However, just when everyone was certain that Chen Mo¡¯s next game would continue with soul-based battles, Chen Mo released a Weibo post, releasing the opening cinematics of the new game ahead of time. ¡± The message on Weibo was very simple. There was only one sentence. Wee to the top of the food chain! ¡°Many yers were dumbfounded when they saw this, some even wondered if Chen Mo was making a wilderness survival game. ¡± ¡°There were some survival TV shows in foreign countries. In the shows, adventurers had to eat everything they could in order to survive in the wilderness, so some people jokingly called him the man standing at the top of the food chain. ¡± Was Chen Mo¡¯s new game inspired by this? ¡°With heavy doubts, the yers opened the opening cinematics of the new game. ¡± ¡°The first thing that appeared on the screen was a yellow taxi in the ruins. There was a ¡°¡±N.Y.C TAXI¡±¡± logo on the car, indicating that it was a New York Taxi. ¡± ¡°In the close-up shot, it was a messy ruin, with vague signs of messy construction waste and towering steel bars. ¡± ¡°The camera panned over, and a string of rusty red unknown substances climbed up the roof of the car and suddenly tightened. ¡± ¡°A few fully armed soldiers with loaded guns passed by, and one of them said into the walkie-talkie,¡±¡±¡±¡±Danger eliminated.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°The camera continued to Zoom out, and the soldiers let down their guard and continued to search. ¡± ¡°It was only then that he could see the distant view of the picture. Broken buildings, fallen road signs, monotonous shing traffic lights, and debris of cars forming a long line. It was just like the end of the world. ¡± The camera zoomed up to the top of a building on the side of the street. A figure wearing a ck leather jacket and a gray hood appeared in the camera. ¡°¡±¡±I¡¯m Alex mler. ¡°¡± (Alex Moses) ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I¡¯m the reason for all of this. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±People call me an assassin, a monster, and a terrorist.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±That¡¯s right, that¡¯s me. ¡°¡±(I am all these things.) ¡± ¡°When the camera was pulled up, Alex directly jumped off the roof of the building and fell straight to the ground! ¡± ¡°¡±¡±BOOM!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Alex fell to the ground like a cannonball, raising arge amount of dust, and the surrounding two car wreckages were also shaken and rolled around. ¡± ¡°However, Alex stood up as if nothing had happened and ran away. ¡± The crows were pecking at the corpses on the side of the road. ¡°Alex ran quickly, easily crossed the car wreckage in the way, and then gently jumped. ¡± He jumped over the nearly ten-meter high wall! ¡°In order to better show the height of Alex¡¯s leap, the camera deliberately switched to the side. The jump was very beautiful, but both the height and distance had gone beyond the scope of human beings! ¡± ¡°Afternding on the ground, Alex nimbly rolled and then continued to run forward. ¡± ¡°However, a shallow pit was formed on the hard ground, and countless cracks appeared on the ground. ¡± ¡°Alex continued to run, and the voice-over continued to narrate indifferently. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Three weeks ago, someone released a deadly virus.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I woke up in the mortuary.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Now, I¡¯m hunting, killing, destroying, and changing them.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Alex rushed straight towards a building, stepping on the side wall of the building and running up vertically with ease! ¡± ¡°Between countless skyscrapers, Alex flew up and down as if it were walking on t ground. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I want to find out the truth.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I¡¯ll make them ... Pay the price!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Alex¡¯s figure quickly disappeared into the distance, leaving behind only the distant view of the city, which looked like a wastnd. ¡± Chapter 615 ? Chapter 615 Two cinematics Trantor 549690339 The video ended there. ¡°There was still a long part to the end of the video, but...Chen Mo didn¡¯t have much time, so he hadn¡¯t finished yet. ¡± ¡°However, the two parts of the story were rtively separated, so it was not a big deal to split them up. It would not affect the yers ¡®understanding of the game content. ¡± The opening cinematics caused a hugemotion and quickly became a hot topic among the yers! ¡°¡±¡±What the f * ck? Did they change the theme to Modern Warfare this time? Serente¡¯s change is a bit big!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Yeah, I don¡¯t remember him doing modern war themes. Is this a test?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±The courage to surpass oneself, good, I like it! However, the background of the story seemed to take ce abroad? Uh, it looks like it¡¯s about doomsday and zombies? And the Army ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Hehe, if it happened in China, it would definitely not pass the trial. Even if it¡¯s an Honorary Committee member, it would be shot ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±But I still don¡¯t really understand. How do you cut grass with a modern war theme??¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±This main character obviously has superpowers! Look at how he jumped down from such a high building, and he¡¯s still fine. He even rolled on the ground and made a hole!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±That¡¯s right, and the scene of him running vertically from the side of the building really shocked me. Even Newton¡¯s coffin can¡¯t hold him down!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Haha, Chen Zhao has already nailed Newton¡¯s coffin to death. Thank you.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±He looks like a superhero? Mutant? But why do I feel like he¡¯s neither good nor evil? he doesn¡¯t seem like a proper superhero. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Now that¡¯s handsome! This set of clothes matched really well. Where could they sell it ... Would they sell the merchandise? I¡¯ll reserve a set of this!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±The feeling of leaping onto roofs and vaulting over walls is awesome! It¡¯s a little like parkour ... Wait, this is a VR game, right? If we can really replicate the wall-climbing effect in the video, this is so cool ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I feel so awesome! Chen Mo, hurry up and work overtime, we¡¯re ying next month!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°This video instantly ignited the anticipation of a group of yers towards Chen Mo¡¯s video. On one hand, the theme was quite likable, and on the other hand ... It was so cool! ¡± ¡°This video did not reveal any of Alex¡¯sbat ability, but only highlighted his strength from the side. Other than that, there were also thrilling parkour scenes. ¡± Just imagining traversing through steel buildings in VR and even climbing up all kinds of skyscrapers made the yers feel excited. ¡°After all, they had yed Dark Souls for so long that the undead¡¯s knees had long be a joke. ¡± ¡°Not only were they unable to climb up the knee-high steps, but they would also lose HP or even fall to their deaths if they jumped down from slightly higher ces. All kinds of inexplicable terrains had be an important source of suffering for yers ... ¡± But look at this main character! Wall climbing? Climb as you wish! Fall to death? It didn¡¯t exist! ¡°Many yers started to believe that Chen Mo really made a hack-and-sh game, at least from the mechanics of the game, there were many elements that made the yers feel good. ¡± ¡°However, there were also many yers who poured cold water on the situation at the right time. ¡°¡±That¡¯s right. This time, we¡¯re going to y the role of a modern city immortal who can bend his knees and won¡¯t fall to his death!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Hehe, just by releasing a video, you guys believe that this is a hack-and-sh game? Do you still remember the demo of Dark Souls? Salent is very smart. He tricked you guys intoing in first, and then he will decide how to increase the difficulty of the monsterster on ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°The yers who were happy before felt their hearts sink again. Yes, no matter how good it looked in the video, it would be embarrassing if they actually fought the enemy tank, San Pao, and a little kid! ¡± ¡°The yers were divided into two factions and argued endlessly, but soon, the second video was out! ¡± ¡°And this time, the content of the video left all the yers dumbfounded! ¡± ...... ¡°The city was shrouded in darkness. The military had set up a blockade line, and the soldiers seemed to be searching for something. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Ghost39 to ground level, have you found the target? Over. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±No, I didn ¡®t,¡±¡± ¡± ¡°The soldiers searched around, but it was quiet. ¡± ¡°At that moment, a woman stumbled out of the ruins not far away.¡±¡±¡±¡±Help! Help me!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Behind her, many mutated zombies smelled the scent of living people and rushed towards the soldiers! ¡± ¡°The appearance of these zombies was different from ordinary zombies. Although their clothes were ragged, their muscles were strong and their skin was grayish white. They moved quickly and their strength should be much stronger than ordinary humans. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Zombies! Fire!¡±¡± ¡± The heavily armed soldiers quickly built a defense line and urately shot at the zombies that were rushing over. ¡°The bullets rained down and the zombies all let out fierce howls, but they soon fell in front of the soldiers ¡®blockade line. ¡± ¡°Thest zombie got up from the pile of corpses and wanted to continue moving forward, but it was also shot in the head. ¡± ¡°After confirming that all the zombies had been eliminated, themander put down his gun.¡±¡±¡±¡±Target eliminated, advance! You,e with me. ¡°¡± ¡± Themander and a soldier stayed behind and came to the beautiful woman who had escaped earlier. ¡°¡±¡±She¡¯s also been infected. ¡°¡± Themander said. ¡± ¡°The soldier next to her raised his pistol and pulled the trigger at the woman, who was frightened and confused. ¡± The woman fell to the ground with a loud thud. ¡°But at this moment, the soldier suddenly noticed that there was an additional person beside him. It was a man wearing a hooded jacket. ¡± Alex! ¡°¡±¡±It¡¯s him!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°The two soldiers raised their guns at Alex as if they were facing a great enemy. Their voices were full of fear, and they kept retreating. ¡± ¡°Alex¡¯s face was expressionless. He opened his hands, and a burst of rusty red smoke spread from his arms, while his hands instantly turned into steel ws that were shing with cold light! ¡± ¡°Alex moved like a ghost, and before the soldier could shoot, its sharp ws had already deeply pierced into the soldier¡¯s lower abdomen. ¡± ¡°The surrounding soldiers began to aim at Alex and fire rapidly, but in the rain of bullets, Alex killed in all directions as if it was taking a stroll in the garden, and its sharp ws easily tore the surrounding soldiers into pieces! ¡± ¡°A soldier was thrown high into the air, and his sharp ws shed from top to bottom, directly cutting him in two! ¡± ¡°Although the camera only shed by, many yers still felt shocked and couldn¡¯t help but shout,¡±¡±F * ck!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°The soldier next to Alex fired a rocket at Alex with a single bazooka on his shoulder, but Alex¡¯s right arm instantly turned into a wide, sharp de, easily blocking the rocket like a shield. ¡± ¡°Rushing through the smoke, Alex jumped high, and the sharp de on its right arm shed from top to bottom, as if it had directly cut the soldier in half! ¡± ¡°¡±¡±BOOM!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Another rocket was fired, and this time it hit Alex directly, sending it flying into the ruins, stirring up a cloud of dust. ¡± ¡°The soldiers searched privately and found a living soldier lying on the ground, his fingers still twitching slightly. ¡± The soldiers quickly ran over to help him up. ¡°¡±¡±Where¡¯s themander?¡±¡± The soldier on the ground asked. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I¡¯m in Times Square,¡±¡± the soldier replied.¡±¡±I¡¯m here to call for reinforcements ... Ugh!!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°The soldier¡¯s words came to an abrupt end as the steel-like ws pierced through his body from the bottom to the top, turning the second half of his sentence into a whimper with unknown meaning. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±There¡¯s no need to. ¡°¡± The soldier on the ground said gloomily. ¡± ¡°The soldier on the ground raised his right hand, and after confirming the soldier¡¯s death, he casually threw it to the side. ¡± The rusty red substance shed across the soldier¡¯s body and restored Alex¡¯s appearance. ¡°He lowered his head and left, his hood covering his face, leaving only a mess. ¡± Chapter 616 ? Chapter 616 How handsome! Trantor 549690339 The content of the second video was much richer and cooler than the first video. ¡°If the first video was an opening show with cool and parkour, the second video was a killing show. The sttering blood and broken limbs were all well marked with the ¡°¡± 18+¡±¡± symbol at the beginning of the video. ¡± ¡°When the video was released, the yers were all excited because the whole video was filled with one word,¡±¡±awesome!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Moreover, the video revealed the abilities of the protagonist Alex in more ways. ¡± ¡°His body was impervious to guns, and even a tank-killing weapon like a single rocketuncher was useless against him. ¡± ¡°His arms could be transformed into weapons, such as sharp ws, sharp des, and so on. They could easily tear a human¡¯s bones and muscles, and cut iron as if it were mud. ¡± ¡°He could alsopletely transform into the appearance of others and imitate the other party¡¯s voice. He could even perfectly imitate the other party¡¯s clothes, movements, expressions, and other things! ¡± ¡°From the frequent appearance of the rusty red substance, his ability should be rted to viruses. ¡± Many yers eximed that the protagonist Alex was the standard male protagonist temte in urban superpower novels! ¡°Obviously, this golden finger¡¯s opening was big enough! Not only could a single soldier kill all humans in seconds, but he could also fight against many modern weapons. He could also change his form freely and had the ability to sneak in! ¡± One could imagine what kind of bloody storm would be set off if such a monster was thrown into a city that was on the verge of losing control due to an outbreak of a virus! ¡°And most importantly, the protagonist had a high standard! ¡± ¡°He had a handsome face, cool clothes, powerful abilities, and even the way he did the parkour on the wall was so handsome! ¡± ¡°After watching the second video, many yers expressed that their wallets were hungry! ¡± ¡°¡±¡±F * ck, I¡¯m starting to believe that this is a hack-and-sh game! As long as I can kill everyone like I did in the video, I¡¯ll definitely buy it!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Just don¡¯t make it into a buyer¡¯s show or a seller¡¯s show! However, I¡¯ll be satisfied as long as I can restore half of the content in the promotional video!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±As expected of Chen Mo, how exciting! Wasn¡¯t this unique in Modern Warfare? You dare to use such a huge cheat, awesome!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Chen Zhao actually found his conscience? I still can¡¯t believe it!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Indeed, I don¡¯t think it¡¯s appropriate to make this a soul-type battle. I hope Chen Mo can change it ... To be honest, it¡¯s enough to experience soul-type battles in ck souls. My heart can¡¯t take it if I keep ying it!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Like a spark falling into a barrel of gunpowder, the two videos instantly ignited the hormones of the yers, making them a little impatient to experience this unique modern war game! ¡± ¡°ording to Chen Mo, this wasn¡¯t a modern war game, but a hack-and-sh game, because the main character was a cheater! ¡± Many yers couldn¡¯t wait to experience the feeling of being an omnipotent super yer in VR! ...... ¡°Back in the experience store, the development of yers was still in full swing. ¡± ¡°Everything else was going well, except for the physics engine, which had a little trouble. ¡± ¡°In the game, Alex¡¯s behavior was not in line with thews of physics. If Newton¡¯s coffin in Assassin¡¯s Creed was pressed down, then Newton¡¯s coffin in killing prototype should bepletely nailed to death. ¡± ¡°The protagonist¡¯s body was heavy and hard. He could smash a shallow crack in the city¡¯s road. However, he could also glide in the air and run vertically on the buildings at a 90¡ã angle ... ¡± ¡°Obviously, some of the details did not conform to thews of physics and were difficult to exin ... It was very unreasonable for such arge cluster of virus tissue to be able to glide with open hands. ¡± ¡°Since the game also used the Pangu engine, these parameters were contradictory in the physical system of the Pangu engine. ¡± ¡°However, this was only a small problem. Chen Mo¡¯s method was to set rules for these special settings in the Pangu system. ¡± ¡°In other words, the entire world of ¡°¡±ughter prototype¡±¡± was a game world operated by the physicalws of the Pangu system, and the protagonist Alex was ... A guy with a modifier. ¡± ¡°Chen Mo had given him the ability to change thews of physics, and everything could be perfectly replicated. ¡± ¡°In fact, one of the key contents of the development process of ¡°¡±sadistic killing prototype¡±¡± was the entirebat system and parkour system. In other words, everything around the protagonist had to be perfect and outstanding in all aspects. ¡± ¡°A satisfying game had something inmon with a satisfying novel, which was that all the writing and focus were ced on the main character. As for the surrounding environment and enemies, they were not important. ¡± ¡°Afterpleting the main character¡¯s actions, Chen Mo went to the gaming pod to try it out, and it was extremely effective! ¡± ¡°Running between skyscrapers, waving its sharp ws to tear apart the enemies in front of it, or driving a tank and helicopter ... The effect was good in VR mode. Not only did it perfectly reproduce the feeling of the original work, but it also had an obvious advantage in terms of immersion. ¡± ¡°There were a lot of memory cinematics in the game, which took up arge part of the game¡¯s capacity. All of them had to be converted to VR mode to give the yers the feeling that these were some real memories. ¡± ¡°Chen Mo outsourced all of this. The memory fragments were quite blurry and didn¡¯t need to be detailed, as long as he could piece together the general plot. ¡± ...... ¡°During the development of the original form, an incident happened. ¡± King of Glory officially logged into the Switch tform. ¡°This not only meant that yers who owned the Switch could y mobile Legends on it, but it also meant that many mobile yers could buy the Switch¡¯s controller to experience the game. ¡± ¡°To Chen Mo, he was going to open up VR, PC, mobile, and handheld tforms sooner orter, and migrate all the games that he could. ¡± ¡°For example, Dark Souls was sold on both VR and mobile tforms. ¡± ¡°Games like Diablo and Overwatch could also be transnted to Swtich, controlled by a controller. Moreover, these designs were already very mature in his previous life, and there were no risks or difficulties. ¡± ¡°Chen Zhao didn¡¯t n to ask about these things himself. He just needed someone in thepany to do it. These games were more to enrich the game library, so that yers could buy the Switch more firmly. ¡± ¡°King of Glory¡¯s game characteristics determined that it could only be a mobile game. Of course, it had now been migrated to the mobile tform. ¡± ¡°Moreover, for a better gaming experience, mobile gamers could purchase Swtich¡¯s dedicated game controller and connect it to their phones to y mobile Legends. This would effectively improve the touch of the virtual joystick and virtual buttons. ¡± ¡°It was also quite convenient to adapt. Mobile Legends had a special setting option that allowed one to adjust the input device to a Swtich controller. After that, the UIyout of the interface would change, and one could y with the controller. ¡± ¡°However, the controller and the phone were not natural matching facilities, and there would asionally be slight operation dys. Therefore, the choice of controller + phone was slightly higher than the phone in terms of operation and slightly lower than the Switch. ¡± ¡°Clearly, this was another way for Chen Mo to lure everyone into buying the Switch ... ¡± Chapter 617 ? Chapter 617 Rmended games for this season! Trantor 549690339 ¡°While the yers were scrolling through Chen Mo¡¯s Weibo every day, anticipating the follow-up to kill the original form, Chen Mo unexpectedly posted a Short Video. ¡± ¡°Moreover, this Short Video had nothing to do with killing original form. Instead, it was an advertisement for King of Glory. ¡± ¡°However, the yers soon understood that this video was actually to cooperate with Mobile Legends¡¯s login to the Switch tform. Even though this mobile game was looked down upon by many PC and VR gamers, it was undeniable that this game had been the number one best selling mobile game for the past few weeks, and there was no sign of it being reced. ¡± ¡°A mobile game was nothing much, but a mobile game that could dominate the best selling leaderboard for a long time ... That was impressive. ¡± ¡°Moreover, although many PC and VR yers could not experience the rapid spread of Mobile Legends, many mobile yers and yers from second-and third-tier cities had truly experienced its horror. ¡± ¡°Migrant workers, deliverymen, deliverymen, hairdressers, restaurant waiters, soldiers, physical store owners ... ¡± ¡°In fact, even in a barbershop in a second or third-tier city, young customers could be heard discussing Mobile Legends when they were waiting in line for their hair to be cut. The most interesting thing was that the barber was able to get along with them very well. ¡± All of this was enough to prove that King of Glory was spreading to certain groups at an unbelievable speed. The society in the country was divided. ¡°It was not only the economic separation between developed areas and underdeveloped areas, but also the cultural separation between different regions. This separation existed in many fields and aspects. ¡± It was the same in the gaming industry. ¡°As a videogame designer, Chen Mo wasn¡¯t one to bemoan the state of the universe and pity the people. He wouldn¡¯t teach others what games they should y. He had always tried his best to provide a specific group of yers with a game they liked, and never tried to change their taste. ¡± This video was quickly reposted by Kings of Glory yers. Even yers who didn¡¯t y Kings of Glory were attracted to watch it out of curiosity. ...... ¡°The video started. Chen Mo didn¡¯t appear on the screen, but his voice was the voice-over. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±This week¡¯s game rmendation Mobile Legends!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±This game is also known as ¡®the world¡¯s first 1V9 online mobile game, Miyamoto anipop¡¯. If you download it now, you can receive an exquisite gift package such as ¡® 460 for everyone¡¯,¡¯a skin that¡¯s cool¡¯,¡¯two hours a day¡¯, and more. You can even interact intimately with primary school students when youe online!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±This is a game that can make you look younger in an instant. When you y this game, people praise you as a primary school student. How can you not look young?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±This is a game with clear rules. Whoever is matched with the least trash will win. It¡¯s very fair.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±The game has created and is still creating an amazing game influence. ording to statistics, more than 54% of the yers of Mobile Legends are cute girls, and there are many teenagers under the age of 12. The age of the youngest yer has also been refreshed to four years old.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±This game has yed an important role in the poprization of cultural knowledge. So far, the game has triggered more than 300 million question-and-answer sessions by purchasing heroes in the game. Its contribution to the poprization of historical knowledge is undeniable, and it has even received a notice ofmendation from the game Committee!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±This game is also slowly developing into thergest mobile dating tform, and countless yers have found their other half here! You¡¯re still single, are you moved?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±The number of active yers in this game is outrageous. From kindergarteners to 60 ¨C 70 years old grandmasters, you will never know whether your teammates are men or women, humans or dogs. This greatly enriched the matching experience of the game!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±This is a MOBA game with rich hero mechanisms. In the eyes of different heroes, the game can be changed into different forms, allowing you to experience a variety of game content!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±In the eyes of the idol Li Bai and Han Xin, it¡¯s the best fate of the century, and if you are the one, you can have it. This effect can also be triggered by using the Joker skin of the monkey!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±In the eyes of the cheater, it¡¯s a parkour game. If you can catch me, I¡¯ll let you hehehe!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±In Guan Yu¡¯s eyes, it¡¯s a tenebrous inmmation-inducing device. It can train your left hand¡¯s special ability of not leaving the phone for a long time!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±In Zhong Yuan¡¯s eyes, it ¡®s¡±¡± the gold miner. ¡°¡±If you can y Zhong Yuan well, all the other small games in the future will be a piece of cake!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±In the eyes of Huang Zhong, it¡¯s a tower defense game. It¡¯s a game that will let you experience the unforgettable pleasure of disgusting others!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±King of Glory is also a game of boundless virtue. It speeds up the breaking of rtionships between couples who aren¡¯t in a stable rtionship, causing old friends who haven¡¯t seen each other for many years to disappear, and making it impossible for strangers who have never met on the inte to ever meet again!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±And every girl who likes Mobile Legends, please cherish them. They don¡¯t cry, don¡¯t make a fuss, don¡¯t shop, and don¡¯t buy bags. All they want is a pretty skin. Tell me, is this too much?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±If you really love your other half, then give them the skin of Feng qiuhuang, the flight of the phoenixes, Zhi Zun Bao, Zixia fairy, and the gardener Zhou gongjin!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±The operation team of Mobile Legends has always ced great importance on the yers ¡®gaming experience. They have also provided the yers with a perfect reporting system and rich reasons for reporting. In the future versions, we will add a new reason for reporting It will affect the mood to top up, which is an important weight condition for whether the punishment is good or bad. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Are you guys still feeling bad about your hand slipping and making a mistake? Are you still worried about theck of sensitivity of the virtual joystick? Are you still frustrated that your phone is heating up and that it¡¯s stuck, which will affect your super god-like status?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±If the game isn¡¯t for posturing, it¡¯s meaningless!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±A free game will allow you to experience what countless paid games can only experience. What are you waiting for? Hurry up and download it, it¡¯s a good deal if you buy it!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Now, glory of kings has officially logged into the Switch tform. All your problems will be solved!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±From now on, every customer who buys the Switch will receive a free King of Glory! Every Switch yer who downloaded Mobile Legends will get a free chance to y with other Switch yers!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±What are you waiting for with such a huge discount? Log in to the official website immediately and order!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°The narration of the video was done in the tone of a shopping show on television, and with the game scene from Mobile Legends, it was exactly like a shopping show on television. ¡± But why did the content feel like it was self-deprecating? ¡°Many yersughed out loud. Not only did they not think that the advertisement was stiff, but they even thought that it was quite interesting! ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Hahahaha, Chen Mo is so good at this, he¡¯s even worse at self-deprecating than the yers!¡±¡± ¡± [The official retorts are the most fatal!] ¡°¡±¡±Aiyo, you¡¯re just trying to trick me into buying skins. Get lost, I won¡¯t be fooled! Unless you get a discount on all your skins!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±What the hell is the gardener Zhou gongjin! Wasn¡¯t it true love above all else? Chen Mo, is this your exclusive skin? Then I must buy one!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I have to add the condition that it will affect my mood when I top up! Support the wall crack!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Buy Switch and get King of Glory for free? Did Switch yers download mobile Legends for free and get the chance to y with other yers? Wait a minute, what kind of preferential treatment is this? it¡¯s F * cking free to begin with!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Hehe, it¡¯s obviously a huge discount. Don¡¯t say anymore, I¡¯ll download it now! (Funny face)¡±¡± ¡± Chapter 618 ? Chapter 618 The release date is confirmed Trantor 549690339 ¡°The effect of the video was very good. While it caused yers to repost it crazily, it also promoted the sales of Switch and the download count of glory of kings. ¡± ¡°It was almost the end of the year, and many gamepanies had a lot of internal affairs to deal with. They had to be busy with year-end summary and annual meetings. Many games didn¡¯t have to rush to release before the new year, and many were dyed until after the new year. ¡± ¡°On the one hand, yers were busy before the Spring Festival, so the publicity effect of releasing a new game might not be good. It would be good to release it during the spring Festival, but this meant that a group of people would have to work overtime during the spring Festival, which was generally done by smallpanies. ¡± ¡°On the other hand, after being taught a lesson by Chen Mo for two consecutive years, these video gamepanies had basically reached a consensus to avoid Chen Mo during the spring Festival ... ¡± ¡°Since any game released during the spring Festival would sh with Chen Mo ¡®s, it would be better to avoid it and spend the new year in peace. After the new year, Chen Mo¡¯s new game would be less popr, then he would release his own game. Wouldn¡¯t that be great ... ¡± ¡°As for the period before and during the spring Festival, Chen Mo would have to perform on his own. ¡± ¡°As for this year¡¯s game of the year, although there was still some time before the awards ceremony, there was no suspense. It was most likely the Dark Souls series. ¡± ¡°There were too many reasons for this. The game had an excellentbat system and level design, a unique world setting, rich game content, and it was the first and most sessful game made by the Pangu system. With so many things added to it, it would be unreasonable if it didn¡¯t get the best of the year. ¡± ¡°Moreover, this game represented the Pangu system in a head-on confrontation with foreign games, and it was very sessful, so it was reasonable to get extra points. ¡± ¡°In fact, the Dark Souls series had won many awards in Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, especially in Europe and America. The game was recognized as a godly game. Furthermore, in the parallel world, Dark Souls could be considered the founding work of a new school of thought, which directly affected the design concept of arge number of subsequent ArbG games. ¡± ¡°Many industry insiders knew that there was no doubt that Dark Souls would win the Game of the Year award ceremony. The only question was, what kind of waves would it set off in the foreign gaming circles? ¡± ...... ¡°At the same time, Chen Mo finally announced the release date of yers, February 2nd! ¡± ¡°The yers didn¡¯t have the time toin about this stupid day. Anyway, they knew that the release date was earlier than they had expected, much earlier! ¡± ¡°While they werementing about Chen Mo¡¯s high yield, many yers were also guessing that the game capacity of sadomasochism wouldn¡¯t be that big, probably not on the same level as Dark Souls. ¡± ¡°But thinking about it, Chen Mo had put most of his energy into dark Souls this year. If it was any other videogame designer, they might as well take a break before the new year and make a new game after. ¡± ¡°The ¡®model worker¡¯ Chen Mo wouldn¡¯t be idle, but he probably didn¡¯t have the energy to make a masterpiece on the same level as Dark Souls, so sadomasochism should be a VR game with an average capacity. ¡± ¡°However, the yers didn¡¯t mind because there was only one thought in their minds,¡¯I want to y now! I¡¯m going to leap onto roofs and vault over walls now!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Even though it was almost the end of the year, there were still many yers gathered in Chen Mo¡¯s Experience Store, ready to try out the new game. ¡± ...... The atmosphere in the experience store was rxed and lively. ¡°After finishing the development of the original form, the entire project team was on a half-holiday, allowing all the employees who wanted to go home toplete their work at home to have an early spring Festival. ¡± ¡°There were also some employees who didn¡¯t need to go home so early. They just yed games in the experience store and chatted with the yers, so they didn¡¯t have much work pressure. ¡± ¡°Up until now, Thunderbolt entertainment had many games that were officially released online, like League of Legends, Overwatch, and glory of kings. There was still a lot of work to be done on these online games. ¡± ¡°Even though otherpanies were in charge of customer service and server maintenance, the project team still had to be responsible for the daily updates, operating activities, and the development of future versions of the game. ¡± ¡°As the Spring Festival approached, all of Thunderbolt Entertainment¡¯s games in operation were preparing for the Spring Festival event. Even though there wasn¡¯t much content, there was still a lot of work to be done. ¡± ¡°For example, New Year limited skins, New Year Special gift bags, New Year top-up activities, New Year spending activities, New Year lucky draws, New Year promotions, and so on. ¡± ¡°All in all, the new year was a good day to cheat for year-end bonuses and New Year¡¯s money, Keke. ¡± ¡°With so many top-up activities, there would definitely be yers who would ask,¡±¡±¡±¡±Serente, it¡¯s the new year and you only know how to cheat yers of their money. Doesn¡¯t your conscience hurt?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Zhao had already thought of an excuse.¡±¡±¡±¡±I don¡¯t think so. Look at all my activities, other than new skins and gift packs, there are only discounts and promotions. I¡¯m losing money, why do I have to feel guilty?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Well, it was reasonable and there was no problem! Salent had worked so hard to do so many events and create so many beautiful skins. If the yers did not buy them, would they still be human? ¡± ...... Many yers greeted Chen Mo in the lobby. ¡°¡±¡±Good Morning, manager!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Manager, can we try out the original form?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Manager, can you tell me the truth? is this game a soul-based battle game?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Mo actually didn¡¯t know many of the yers here. After all, there were so many people in the experience store, it was impossible for Chen Mo to remember every single one of them. ¡± ¡°But it didn¡¯t matter. Even if Chen Mo tried to remember it, he might not be able to remember it, so he was relieved. He could chat with anyone anyway. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Hey,¡±¡± Chen Zhao looked at the guy who asked,¡±¡±you¡¯re not ying if it¡¯s not a soul-type battle?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Of course not, I¡¯ll definitely y any type of game!¡±¡± The man who asked the question quickly waved his hand. I¡¯m just saying that if this game is a soul-type battle, I¡¯lle back to y in a month, at least until the strategy is out ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Young man,¡±¡± Chen Zhao said earnestly.¡±¡±You have to have a challenging spirit!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°The man shook his head like a rattle.¡±¡±No, no, no, I¡¯m just a salted fish. I just want to wait for the guide toe out before I try it out ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Don¡¯t worry, this game doesn¡¯t need a strategy,¡±¡±Chen Moughed. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Really? Then I¡¯ll go and try!¡±¡± This guy went up to the third floor in joy. ¡± ¡°The yers in the experience store had beenb rats for a long time, so they weren¡¯t as impulsive as before when they heard about the new game. They were all more cautious. ¡± ¡°After experiencing the double blow of Dark Souls and its prequel, these yers knew that trying out Chen Mo¡¯s new game had its risks, and it was better to wait and see ... ¡± Chapter 619 ? Chapter 619 Chapter 618-trial Trantor 549690339 ¡°On the first floor of the experience store, zou Zhuo and Shuyi were ying Mobile Legends. ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo had been drifting away from League of Legends recently in order to pick up girls, so it seemed like his betrayal was only a matter of time ... ¡± ¡°After all, after ying Mobile Legends for a long time, they would realize that they had be noobs in League of Legends. They would even feel ufortable when ying the purple team. ¡± ¡°Speaking of which, it was quite funny. Other couples would go to shopping malls, cinemas, high-end restaurants, or Express Hotels for their dates, but this couple was going to Experience Stores to y mobile Legends together ... ¡± ¡°Oh, it wasn¡¯t really a date, because the two of them hadn¡¯t confirmed their rtionship yet. The little fatty still needed to work harder. ¡± He finished another round. ¡°¡±¡±Fatty, aren¡¯t you going to try out the new game?¡±¡± Chen Mo asked. ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo shivered,¡±¡±uh, manager, I haven¡¯t fully recovered from the trauma of the prequel to Dark Souls ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±That¡¯s great!¡±¡± Chen Moughed.¡±¡±Let¡¯s y kill the original to heal.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo didn¡¯t believe him at all,¡±¡±manager, you¡¯re not talking about the breakdown therapy, are you?¡±¡± I think based on Dark Souls¡¯s character, ughter in its original form should be a game where a virus kills the main character?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Mo shook his head.¡±¡±That¡¯s impossible. I told you it¡¯s a hack-and-sh game. When have I ever lied to anyone?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Manager, aren¡¯t you afraid of being struck by lightning?¡±¡± zou Zhuo narrowed his eyes. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Don¡¯t worry, my Experience Store has lightning protection needles. ¡°¡±Chen Moughed. ¡± Zou Zhuo was speechless. ¡°Shuyi jabbed him.¡±¡±Why don¡¯t you go and y? you¡¯ve been bragging about how good you are at gaming every day. Now, you¡¯re giving up?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo,¡±¡±alright, I¡¯ll go have some fun.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°As expected, showing off in front of girls was the first motivation for many boys to y games. ¡± ¡°Shuyi said,¡±¡±by the way, remember to turn on your livestream. I just applied for a livestream room for youst time. In the end, you¡¯ve been cking off for three days and basking in the inte for two days. It¡¯s not very urate, so there haven¡¯t been many people watching you until now.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo scratched his head in embarrassment,¡±¡±¡±¡±That ... That ... Alright.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo¡¯s family was from Imperial, and he had just graduated from college. He didn¡¯t have much pressure to find a job, so he spent his days in Chen Mo¡¯s Experience Store, living a carefree life. ¡± ¡°It was obvious that his family did not have much pressure, and they did not have any requirements for their son as long as he did not break thew ... ¡± ¡°However, sister Shuyi still felt that it wasn¡¯t appropriate for him to only y games every day, so she applied for a livestream room for him, hoping that he would do some livestreaming when he had nothing to do. ¡± ¡°Even if there were two pigeons every three days, it was still better than having nothing to do all day. ¡± ¡°From this point of view, sister Shuyi was still quite good to little fatty. At least, she was still worried about his matters. ¡± ¡°Shuyi patted zou Zhuo¡¯s arm,¡±¡±¡±¡±Go ahead. Remember to turn on your livestream. I¡¯ll be downstairs watching your livestream on my phone.¡±¡± ¡± Zou Zhuo nodded and went up to the third floor. ...... Zou Zhuo went to the VR experience area and found an empty VR gaming pod. ¡°Perhaps it was because it was still morning, but the VR gaming pods weren¡¯t full yet. Moreover, after the double release of Dark Souls, the yers were even more cautious about Chen Mo¡¯s new game. After all, the first yers to y Dark Souls were the ones who suffered the most. ¡± ¡°After entering the game cabin, the little fatty opened the live streaming software and then opened ¡°¡±sadistic killing of original form.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Dark Souls didn¡¯t allow livestreaming during the trial period, but killing prototype didn¡¯t have this restriction. The chubby boy wasn¡¯t sure why, but since he could livestream, he might as well. ¡± ¡°Soon, the interface of the VR gaming pod appeared in the little Fatty¡¯s live broadcast room. ¡± ¡°There weren¡¯t many viewers, but most of them were chubby boy¡¯s acquaintances from ying Warcraft and other games. Many of them came over to support him. ¡± ¡°The chubby boy started his live stream and dozens of people came over, but the poprity was not very high. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Eh, the little fatty who¡¯s known for his two pigeons in three days is actually livestreaming?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Little fatty, are you ying Warcraft or League of Legends today?¡±¡± ¡± Zou Zhuo was also chatting with these people. ¡°¡±¡±Hello everyone, I¡¯m a salted fish and I¡¯m streaming again today. Today, I¡¯m in the manager¡¯s Experience Store, and I¡¯m going to stream his new game, kill the original. ¡°¡± ¡± Zou Zhuo started the game as he changed the title of his stream. ¡°He had not officially signed a contract with fish-catching live streaming tform, so it did not matter what he broadcasted. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Eh? ¡°¡±Killing original form¡±¡±? Isn¡¯t that Chen Mo¡¯s new game? Sure, let¡¯s go into the game and take a look!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°When the viewers heard that zou Zhuo was going to broadcast ¡°¡±killing prototype,¡±¡± they were all excited and urged the chubby boy to start the game. ¡± Zou Zhuo¡¯s current problem was the same as many other smaller streamers. He didn¡¯t have his own unique characteristics. ¡°Zou Zhuo was good at gaming, but he was only at Diamond level. He wasn¡¯t at the level of a top yer, so it wasn¡¯t realistic for him to be a skilled streamer. ¡± ¡°In terms of looks and eloquence, he was nothingpared to zou Zhuo. There was no way to improve his looks. He could practice his eloquence, but that would also take some time and opportunity. ¡± ¡°Of course, zou Zhuo didn¡¯t think too much about it. He just streamed it day by day. ¡± Zou Zhuo entered the game and went to the starting space. ¡°Like most VR games, the starting space of yers was an independent setting. This was a model of a city scene, surrounded by skyscrapers, but many of the buildings had red rust marks, like cracks. ¡± ¡°The ground was covered in construction waste, and the abandoned vehicles formed a long line, blocking the road tightly and extending into the distance. ¡± ¡°In the distance, he could vaguely see soldiers building a blockade line and firing fiercely at the distance from time to time. Further away, there seemed to be arge number of zombies and unknown flesh monsters attacking the defense line of the soldiers. ¡± ¡°There were some controble elements in the scene, namely [new game],[save],[options], and [exit]. ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo chose the new game. To his surprise, he could adjust the difficulty! ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo chose the easy difficulty without hesitation. After being tortured by Dark Souls so many times, zou Zhuo was so grateful when he saw the difficulty option! ¡± ¡°The executioner, Chen Zhao, who always liked to kill people, was actually letting her live? Zou Zhuo was in disbelief. ¡± ¡°Even though the easy difficulty didn¡¯t seem that cool, zou Zhuo didn¡¯t want to experience the torture of Dark Souls any longer ... ¡± ¡°The game loaded very quickly. It was obvious that the game did not require a lot of space and configurations. After two tips notifications, the game officially started. ¡± ¡°The game started with a cutscene, which was the two cinematics that Chen Mo had released. However, in VR, the immersion of the whole CG was a few levels higher. Zou Zhuo watched everything happen like a bystander, and the camera switched just right, making the whole CG to a very high level! ¡± Chapter 620 ? Chapter 620 The real mowing Trantor 549690339 The cinematics ended. ¡°After a short vision, the protagonist Alex descended from the sky andnded on the road next to Times Square. ¡± The Army in Times Square noticed him immediately and turned their guns on him. ¡°Alex, on the other hand, looked calm and even moved its shoulders. ¡± ¡°The camera zoomed in, and zou Zhuo appeared in Alex¡¯s perspective as if he had been possessed. ¡± ¡°At the same time, the current mission target appeared on the interface Eliminate all military personnel! ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo was shocked,¡±¡±we¡¯re starting?¡±¡± I¡¯m not ready yet!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Unlike the opening scene of Dark Souls, the protagonist was faced with several armed soldiers at the beginning of the game. Before the yers could react, these soldiers had already pulled the trigger and fired! ¡± ¡°The screen¡¯s edge constantly reminded zou Zhuo of his avable options, including sprint, jump, attack, and so on. ¡± ¡°The soldiers ¡®guns fired, and zou Zhuo felt like his body was being hit by countless bullets. In VR mode, there would be a clear vibration every time the yer was hit, which was used to remind the yer where the hit was, and also to achieve a more realistic effect. ¡± ¡°The vibration was very light, just like an itch. It was much lighter than the shock of being hit in most games. However, zou Zhuo was still nervous and jumped into the air. ¡± ¡°In VR, the yer¡¯s senses would be sharper. After all, it was a gunshot. Under the triple stimtion of sight, hearing, and touch, zou Zhuo¡¯s subconsciousness had already recognized it as a gunshot, so he couldn¡¯t help but feel nervous. ¡± The destructive power of firearms against ordinary people was still deeply rooted in the minds of most yers. Zou Zhuo was shocked when he jumped. ¡°¡±¡±F * ck, he actually jumped so high?¡±¡± ¡± Zou Zhuo jumped at least four to five meters into the air. He had a bird¡¯s eye view of the soldiers and could see the crossfire covering the ce where he had been standing. Zou Zhuo nced at the top left corner of his vision and was surprised to see that his health bar had only dropped a little! ¡°The health bar had three colors. Red represented the current health points, and orange represented the damage received. Zou Zhuo hadn¡¯t unlocked his skills yet, so when he did, there would be a blue bar that represented extra health. ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo¡¯s health was only a little orange, not even one-tenth of his total health. That meant that he had only lost a little bit of health after being shot at so many times. ¡± Zou Zhuonded beside a soldier and threw a punch! ¡°The punchnded directly on the soldier¡¯s chest, and the soldier was sent flying like a broken bag. The automatic rifle in his hand was also thrown to the side. ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo continued to attack. Alex¡¯s punching speed was very fast, and a set ofbination punches waspleted almost in an instant. The soldier¡¯s bones were broken and he fell to the ground. ¡± ¡°Under the Pangu¡¯s physics system, this scene was very real. Zou Zhuo couldn¡¯t help but sigh,¡±¡±¡±¡±F * ck, that¡¯s awesome!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Punches, kicks, flying kicks ... Although Alex did not have many empty-handed fighting methods, they were all very practical, and its fighting posture was very smooth and handsome. ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo felt like he was an expert fighter, and the soldiers couldn¡¯t even fight back as he knocked them down! ¡± ¡°Although it had been shot many times, Alex¡¯s blood volume was still rtively healthy, and it was not in any danger at all. ¡± ¡°Moreover, yers could change to third person mode at any time in the game. ¡± ¡°The third person perspective was the perspective of many AAA games in Chen Mo¡¯s previous life. The camera was behind the main character¡¯s head, following the main character¡¯s movements. It could see the main character¡¯s field of view, his back, and his movements. ¡± ¡°This perspective was verymon on the PC side, and dark Souls also used this perspective on the Switch. There were many advantages to this perspective. It could expand the yer¡¯s field of view, increase the sense of blending in with the scene, and also clearly see the movements of the character. ¡± ¡°However, since the yers ¡®vision in VR was the same as the human¡¯ s, the first-person perspective was the most immersive and mainstream perspective. In the first-person perspective, the yer seemed to have ¡°¡±possessed¡±¡± the game character, which was more advantageous than the third-person perspective. ¡± 1 ¡°However, ughter prototype was a bit special. The main character Alex was very handsome in both clothing and movements, so Chen Mo provided yers with the ability to switch perspectives at any time, allowing them to y the game from any angle they liked. ¡± ¡°Most yers would probably choose to experience the game in the first-person perspective, and watch the cool movements of the protagonist Alex in the third-person perspective when climbing walls or releasing special skills. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Phew ... Let¡¯s continue forward!¡±¡± ¡± Zou Zhuo followed the system notification and started running! ¡°The scenery around him started to blur, and zou Zhuo could even hear the sound of the wind. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±So ... So fast!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo was shocked, Alex¡¯s running speed was as fast as his jumping ability! This kind of running speed wasparable to car racing. In VR mode, it simply made people¡¯s legs weak. ¡± ¡°In the beginning, zou Zhuo was afraid that Alex would hit the car, because the whole city was in a mess, with scrapped vehicles and building debris everywhere. But when Alex came in front of these obstacles, it automatically jumped to avoid them, and its movements were very elegant, like parkour. ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo tried to jump a few more times. It was still very high, and the jump didn¡¯t affect his running speed at all. The only difference was that the ground would crack when hended. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Cool!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo ran like a mad man, he felt like a tank that was charging forward. He wasn¡¯t just reckless, he was agile too, as if no one could stop him! ¡± ¡°When they arrived at the next save point, it was another simple cutscene. Alex clenched its hands, and with a sh of rusty red smoke, its hands turned into sharp ws, shining with a cold light! ¡± ¡°¡±¡±F * ck, awesome! Wasn¡¯t this an ability from the CG? There¡¯s really one!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo jumped down from the building, his sharp ws shing the soldiers in half, blood sttering and limbs flying! ¡± ¡°Although Chen Mo had already adjusted the gory scene so that the blood would quickly disappear and the broken limbs wouldn¡¯t stay in the scene for too long, the moment the de entered the body was still extremely impressive! ¡± The killing this time was even more exhrating than using his fists and legs. Zou Zhuo waved his sharp ws excitedly as he found the feeling of cutting grass in this game! Chapter 621 ? ¡°Chapter 621 Tens of thousands of tentacles, end everything!¡± Trantor 549690339 ¡°Not only that, but his ws also had many special abilities. Zou Zhuo found out that he could stab his ws into the ground, and huge spikes would burst out of the ground, piercing through enemies from far away and lifting them into the air! ¡± ¡°This feeling was a bit simr to the crypt Lord¡¯s earth spike, but the actual visual impact was stronger. The earth spike broke out of the ground, pierced through the soldiers, and instantly exploded the vehicles. Only the remains of the vehicles were lifted into the air and then fell heavily to the ground! ¡± ¡°¡±¡±It¡¯s really cutting grass!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo finally believed that yers was a hack-and-sh game, and it was much more satisfying than the other hack-and-sh games! ¡± ¡°At the next checkpoint, a few tanks came in! ¡± ¡°At this time, Alex¡¯s form changed again, its hands changed from sharp ws to heavy hammers, and it rushed straight at three or four tanks! ¡± ¡°¡±¡±BOOM!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°A heavy Cannonball hit Alex directly, sending him flying backward for a distance. Zou Zhuo felt a rtively strong vibration in his chest. He nced at his HP bar on the upper left corner. Luckily, he didn¡¯t lose much HP. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±This main character is really awesome, he¡¯s a cheater and the manager¡¯s son! It can withstand tank bombardment?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo charged towards the tank again, the heavy hammer in his hands smashing down on the tank in front of him! ¡± ¡°One, two, three! ¡± ¡°With three strikes, the tank was directly scrapped! ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo could even feel the vibration from his hands. It wasn¡¯t from the impact, but from the recoil from the punch. Under the Pangu engine¡¯s performance, the process of the tank¡¯s damage and explosion was very realistic. Zou Zhuo could feel that every strike he made was hitting the steel of the tank! ¡± ¡°However, tanks were as fragile as paper in the face of Alex¡¯s heavy fists. Alex could also abuse these tanks in various ways. The most exaggerated scene was that he could even directly grab the gun barrel and lift the entire turret, then swing it in a circle and smash it directly on the tank¡¯s chassis like forging iron! ¡± ¡°Of course, these weren¡¯t fixed movements, but killing skills that were triggered under special circumstances. Even so, the visual impact of these moves was very strong! ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo realized that he could jump into the air and elbow a tank. With the help of gravity and eleration, the damage of the elbow was even more terrifying. It could even blow up a tank! ¡± ¡°Although the tank¡¯s fire never stopped, zou Zhuo found that Alex was very mobile, and could easily Dodge the fire with its super high speed. ¡± ¡°After taking out all the tanks, zou Zhuo continued to move forward. ¡± ¡°This time, zou Zhuo¡¯s enemies were a group of terrifying flesh monsters. These monsters looked like humans, but they were huge, at least three meters tall, and were simr to Alex when standing upright on all four limbs. ¡± ¡°These flesh monsters were huge and ugly. Their muscles were as strong as steel, and they could let out terrifying roars. They looked like low-ss creatures that only knew how to kill. ¡± ¡°They were known as hunters. They had low intelligence, but they were deadly enough! ¡± ¡°This time, Alex¡¯s right hand turned into a sharp de, which had also appeared in the CG before. Obviously, this was to let the yers be familiar with Alex¡¯s powerful abilities step by step. ¡± ¡°These hunters had terrifying speed and jumping ability, and their attack power and attack speed were also very fast. Zou Zhuo was not careful and was hit by one of the hunters, losing a lot of HP. ¡± Zou Zhuo was shocked and quickly dodged. ¡°Obviously, these hunters were a bigger threat than the tanks and soldiers. ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo jumped up high and used [downward sh] on a Hunter. The de¡¯s effect didn¡¯t disappoint zou Zhuo. The falling sh immediately reduced the Hunter¡¯s HP to a sliver, and a ¡°¡±can be absorbed¡±¡± sign appeared on its head. ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo was overjoyed and immediately rushed up to absorb it. Countless tentacles extended from Alex¡¯s body and pierced into the Hunter¡¯s body. Countless Scarlet virus tissues entered Alex¡¯s body through the many tentacles, and his blood volume was instantly restored! ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Strong! F * ck, wouldn¡¯t I be invincible?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo was a little worried at first, but after seeing the increase in HP from feeding on the Hunter, he realized that all the living creatures on the map were his blood bags! ¡± ¡°He didn¡¯t have to worry about dying at all. When he was about to die, he could just eat a zombie or a Hunter with low health and directly revive with full health! ¡± This is different from Dark Souls. Mom doesn¡¯t have to worry about me running out of elemental bottles anymore! ¡°After taking care of all the hunters, the camera turned to the ck Watch Commander for a close-up shot. ¡± ¡°This should be themander that Alex had been looking for in the opening CG animation. Under hismand, arge number of armed helicopters and tanks also came over, forming a dense fire. ¡± ¡°The main mission was also refreshed at this time ¡°¡±Absorb the ck Watch Commander!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°After the previous battle, zou Zhuo¡¯s confidence was at its peak. He charged towards themander of the ck Watch! ¡± ¡°The sky was filled with artillery fire. There were helicopters in the air and tanks on the ground, but zou Zhuo didn¡¯t care, because he knew that the artillery fire was of no threat to him. ¡± He grabbed themander and absorbed him! ¡°The camera turned and Alex clenched its fists, as if it was gathering power. A momentter, countless tentacles burst out from its body and swept across the entire Times Square! ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo was shocked.¡±¡±F * ck! A full-screen move?!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°The tentacles pierced through the tanks, assault helicopters, and all living creatures. The camera zoomed in, allowing zou Zhuo to see what the tentacles were piercing. ¡± ¡°After a series of explosions, everything around Alex was not spared. They were all turned into steel wreckage and pieces of flesh under the attack of thousands of tentacles! ¡± Tens of thousands of tentacles to end everything! ¡°A momentter, the thousands of tentacles retracted and returned to Alex¡¯s body, and times Square had returned to peace. ¡± ¡°There were only countless attack helicopters falling from the sky, letting out a series of explosions! ¡± They instantly cleared the area! ¡°Before zou Zhuo could recover from the shock, the scene had already cut into another cutscene. ¡± ¡°Alex seemed to be talking to an unknown person, and the camera did not show the person¡¯s face, only his voice. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±We only have less than an hour. What should we do next?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Alex ¡°¡±the person responsible for all this will die tonight.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±If we seed ... Do you think you¡¯re ready?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Alex said,¡±¡±I exist for this moment.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°At the end of the cinematic, zou Zhuo¡¯s vision went dark. A momentter, the game LOGO with a light red background appeared in the center of his vision. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Killing original form type¡±¡±! ¡± Chapter 622 ? Chapter 622 The morgue¡¯s opening Trantor 549690339 ¡°¡±¡±So what happened earlier was just a prologue? The game is only officially starting now?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°After the opening, zou Zhuo only had two words in his mind ¡°¡±Awesome!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo wasn¡¯t the only one who was shocked. Even though they couldn¡¯t experience it in VR, the first-person perspective was still a strong visual impact, and it made them excited! ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Cool, this is so cool!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±F * ck, Chen Mo said this is a hack-and-sh game, it¡¯s really a hack-and-sh game!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Awesome, all the superpowers in the cinematic are replicated and even stronger? This main character is simply a bug, he¡¯s invincible!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±It¡¯s not just the Army¡¯s tanks and nes, there are also all sorts of virus monsters? But the main character is the most abnormal!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Quick, little fatty, continue ying. I¡¯ve already recorded it. I¡¯ll put it up on the inteter!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Although the audience could not personally experience the pleasure of killing prototype, they could feel the satisfaction of the game just by watching the little fatty y it! ¡± ¡°The screen turned ck, and a line of small words appeared in the lower left corner.¡±¡± 18 days ago.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Obviously, this was a way of telling the story backwards. First, they would cut out a part of theter part of the story for the yers to experience, and then they would tell the cause and effect of everything from the beginning, and finally reveal the truth. ¡± ¡°This was a verymon, or even overused, narrative technique, especially in games. However, this method was simple and crude, and very effective. ¡± Many Chinese mobile card games used this method to let the yers experience the battle of top cards at the start. ¡°For example, in the Three Kingdoms game, Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, and Zhuge Liang would be given a total of five yers to fight against Lu Bu, Dong Zhuo, and the others. Moreover, these cards were all top-tier cards with rich moves and gorgeous special effects. The number of attacks each time was arge number, forming a strong visual impact. ¡± ¡°After that, the yers would start from Level 1 and slowly develop. ¡± ¡°The reason was simple. ording to the normal process, the yers would have to go from weak to strong in the game and slowly experience the feeling of leveling up. However, the yers in the early stages were weak, had a single attack method, and low attack power. It looked very low, and the effects were not gorgeous enough. It was easy to have the effect of dissuasion for many yers. ¡± ¡°On one hand, the yers could preview the game¡¯s most powerful battles in advance by using such a Rewind Technique, so that the yers could retain their memories with the gorgeous battle scenes. On the other hand, it was also a way to give the yers a hint and expectation that as long as they yed hard (with money), they could also achieve the same effect! ¡± ¡°It could be said that this was amon method used by all games with pleasure as their goal. Although it was simple and crude, it was extremely effective. ¡± ¡°It was the same for ¡°¡±ughter of original form¡±¡±. The way of shbacks not only made the yers enigmatic, but also made the yers look forward to the story more about the identity of the mysterious man, Alex¡¯s purpose, the truth of the event, and so on. At the same time, it also allowed the yers to directly experience the power of Alex at its maximum level, and make them look forward to the future upgrades. Moreover, he had also gone through a beginner¡¯s tutorial, which was killing three birds with one stone. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Sadomasochism¡±¡± was a fast-food game that made people feel extremely good. The best way to make yers stay was to show them all the best parts of the game at the beginning. ¡± ¡°Obviously, after the opening, little fatty and the audience in the live streaming room could not wait to see how this heaven-defying protagonist would perform in the game! ¡± [ 18 days ago] ¡°[Gentek mortuary building, Street Park] ¡± ¡°The Chinese name for GENTEC was Jantec, which was roughly equivalent to the umbrepany in Resident Evil. This name was actually an abbreviation for gic technology. Thispany was the main ce for biochemical experiments and the source of the virus. ¡± Zou Zhuo was stunned. Mortuary? ¡°On the screen, two doctors in full istion suits were observing a body, which was Alex. ¡± The two doctors chatted as they looked at the files. ¡°¡±¡±I know this guy. He¡¯s a member of the ck light.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±That¡¯s right. He¡¯s now a ¡®former¡¯ member of the cklight.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±He¡¯s ... Alex mercerer. He has a rtive, Dana mercerer.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Do you think he¡¯s rted to the subject on the 51st floor?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I don¡¯t know, and I don¡¯t want to know. Give me the No. 8 knife. ¡°¡± ¡± A medical staff took a scalpel and was ready to dissect Alex for a routine autopsy. ¡°¡±¡±Let¡¯s start from the torso. ¡°¡± ¡± The medical staff said and prepared to cut open Alex¡¯s chest with a sharp scalpel. ¡°But at this moment, Alex suddenly opened its eyes, woke up, and sat up abruptly! ¡± ¡°The two doctors were dumbfounded. They were so frightened that they retreated.¡±¡±Hurry up and F * cking leave this ce! Quickly run! Inform the ck Watch!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°The two doctors ran out in a panic, while Alex stumbled down from the operating table and ran all the way to the gate of the GENTEC building. Obviously, he was in poor physical condition. ¡± ¡°At this time, Alex, who was hiding in the dark, saw an armed helicopternd in front of the gate of GENTECpany, and several ck Watchmen with loaded guns quickly got off the helicopter. ¡± ¡°The two medical staff seemed to be arguing with the soldiers, but they were shot dead in the blink of an eye. ¡± Alex:¡±FxxK......¡± The little fatty was also shocked. What the hell? these two medical staff had been killed without doing anything? Weren¡¯t these troops too cruel? But ... I like it! ¡°At this moment, several soldiers found Alex hiding in the dark, and countless muzzles were instantly turned around. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±All personnel, the main target has been discovered! Fire!¡±¡± ¡± The four soldiers fired at Alex at the same time! ¡°Obviously, these soldiers had no intention of leaving Alex alive. The automatic rifles spat out tongues of fire, and countless bullets hit Alex in an instant, causing it to wail in pain! ¡± ¡°If it was a normal human being, such a concentrated firing would have been enough to turn him into a sieve. ¡± ¡°Alex fell to its knees, but the next second, it stood up again! ¡± ¡°¡±¡±W-what¡¯s wrong with me?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Obviously, even Alex was a little confused. It didn¡¯t die, and seemed to be safe and sound! ¡± Alex stepped on the garbage can next to it and easily crossed the four or five-meter high wall with barbed wire! ¡°Looking back at the height of the wall, Alex¡¯s own eyes showed an incredulous look. ¡± ¡°The cinematic ended, and zou Zhuo officially gained control of Alex. The screen switched to a first-person perspective, and the current mission target appeared on the screen. ¡± ¡°[Escape from GENTEC, escape the current area!] ¡± There was a small map at the bottom left corner of his vision. Zou Zhuo started running! ¡°Obviously, his body was very weak now, and he didn¡¯t have much blood left. It wouldn¡¯t end well for him to fight the Army head-on. To zou Zhuo¡¯s surprise, Alex¡¯s movements were not hindered at all despite its heavy injuries. ¡± ¡°He ran and jumped! Zou Zhuo once again experienced Alex¡¯s incredible running speed and jumping power, the seemingly distant target location was reached in a short time! ¡± Chapter 623 ? Chapter 623 VR view building parkour! Trantor 549690339 ¡°There were many vehicles and pedestrians on the road, but Alex ignored all of them. In the sprint mode, Alex would automatically climb over vehicles, walls, and obstacles. ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo¡¯s mad dash caused a huge mess in the traffic. The car horns were loud and the pedestrians were screaming. However, zou Zhuo didn¡¯t feel any sense of danger. Instead, he felt a sense of satisfaction! ¡± ¡°In real life, it was impossible to do so, but it was possible in the game, and there were no restrictions! ¡± ¡°In the air, an armed helicopter was still in hot pursuit, and directly fired a missile at Alex! ¡± ¡°¡±¡±BOOM!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Alex was flipped over by the aftermath of the explosion, and a taxi happened to fly into the air, which he caught firmly. ¡± Zou Zhuo followed the system¡¯s instructions and locked onto the helicopter. He then threw the car away! ¡°¡±¡±BOOM!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°The helicopter collided with the taxi in the air, causing a violent explosion and then falling rapidly. ¡± ¡°In most games, the air support was a great killing weapon, but it was easily killed by Alex. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I can¡¯t believe it, I actually ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Obviously, Alex couldn¡¯t believe that it could do so many incredible things. ¡± He was shot by an automatic rifle and was unscathed? Easily jump over a wall that was a few meters high? Lift up a car and smash the armed helicopters in the sky? ¡°Obviously, this was not something that a normal human could do! ¡± The mission target was refreshed again. The camera turned and zoomed in on the roof of the tallest building in the vicinity. [Mission refresh go to a higher ce. Run along the wall to the top of the building.] ¡°¡±¡±It¡¯s here, it¡¯s here. Wall parkour?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo was excited. In the opening CG, Alex could step on the wall of a building and climb it vertically, but he had not experienced this feeling in the game. ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo ran towards the building in the distance, and just as he was about to hit the wall, he started running vertically along the wall! ¡± ¡°In the first-person perspective, Alex continued to run up at a super high speed on the t ground as if it was walking on t ground, even though it was clearly a vertical wall of a building! ¡± ¡°In other games, there were also many heroes who could climb walls, such as Genji and Hanzo in Overwatch. But they were all climbing walls, which looked more like geckoes, while Alex was running on the wall! ¡± ¡°The little fatty sneaked a nce down, and his legs went weak. ¡± ¡°In just a few seconds, he had climbed to a very high point, and he was still climbing. In VR mode, his vision and even the sound of the wind in his ears were so real that zou Zhuo felt a little dizzy from the fear of heights! ¡± ¡°Although the little fatty kept telling himself that ¡°¡±this is a game¡±¡±, his legs still couldn¡¯t help but go soft. ¡± ¡°Moreover, there was a line of small text at the edge of the field of vision, reminding yers that they could change the perspective at will and observe the protagonist¡¯s movements from a third-person perspective. ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo switched to the third-person perspective, and the camera was automatically pulled to the position behind Alex. ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo could clearly see that Alex¡¯s legs were covered with a rusty red unknown substance. Alex¡¯s feet were like steel, deeply piercing into the hard walls of the building, leaving shallow pits on it. Alex was using this extremely rough method to keep charging upward! ¡± ¡°In the process of running, Alex could also keep jumping up to increase its speed! ¡± ¡°In addition, Alex could also run wildly on the side of the building, and its posture would also change ordingly. Its feet stepped on the side wall of the building, and its right hand held the wall to prevent itself from falling. It could move freely on the outer wall of the building in an extremely handsome way! ¡± ¡°Soon, zou Zhuo arrived at the roof of the building opposite the target. He spread his arms andnded on the roof. ¡± ¡°In the third person perspective, Alex¡¯s every move and action was perfect, even more handsome than those professional parkour yers, which made zou Zhuo excited. ¡± ¡°After all, Alex was a cheater. Those parkour Masters needed to consider gravity and the real physical rules on earth, but Alex didn ¡®T. He only needed to consider how handsome he was ... ¡± ¡°Alex was still a Street away from the target building, so zou Zhuo jumped forward! ¡± ¡°Obviously, it was unrealistic to jump directly from this position, because zou Zhuo¡¯s ount was a new one, and most of Alex¡¯s abilities were still locked on. It could not stab in the air or glide, and it could not jump over an entire Street. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Oh! Exciting!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°In the first-person perspective, zou Zhuo felt like he was falling from a building. He was free-falling from more than ten floors high. In any other game, the main character would be dead no matter how much health he had. Even a Demon Hunter would die if he jumped from the second floor ... ¡± ¡°But Alex was different. Zou Zhuo knew very well that Alex was omnipotent in this world. Even if it lost blood from this height, it would not die! ¡± ¡°The wind whistled past his ears as zou Zhuo was free-falling towards the ground. It was like bungee jumping, extremely exciting! ¡± ¡°Or to be more precise, this was the feeling of jumping off a building! ¡± ¡°¡±¡±BOOM!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo fell heavily to the ground. His feet left huge cracks on the ground, and the cracks spread like a spider web. The surrounding vehicles and pedestrians were sent flying into the sky by the powerful force, and the nearest vehicle even exploded on the spot! ¡± ¡°And the initiator of all this, Alex, or zou Zhuo, was safe and sound, and his blood volume had not decreased at all! ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Awesome!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo climbed up the building again, and once he reached the roof, he threw another three helicopters down, entering the scene. ¡± ¡°Alex stumbled and ran away, and seemed to have finally exhausted its strength, falling in the corner. ¡± One of The ck Watchmen noticed him and reported to themander. ¡°But at this moment, Alex suddenly stood up, and countless rusty red tentacles appeared on its body, all of which pierced into the soldier¡¯s body and absorbed himpletely! ¡± ¡°When the virus receded, Alex had turned into a soldier, and there was no trace of any soldier in the scene at this time. ¡± He had truly disappeared from the face of the earth! ¡°Themander rushed over after receiving the report, but he didn¡¯t notice the soldier¡¯s strange appearance at all, because Alex was a soldier from the outside, and it was impossible to distinguish the difference between the two with the naked eye. ¡± ¡°Before themander could react, Alex had already grabbed his neck and absorbed him again! ¡± ¡°Memories flooded zou Zhuo¡¯s mind, and he saw manyplicated images. They were all broken fragments, and he could hear countless voices whispering in his ears. ¡± ¡°Finally, zou Zhuo heard an address, a key address that would allow the plot to continue, the residence of Alex¡¯s sister, Dana. ¡± Chapter 624 ? Chapter 624 The explosive experience Trantor 549690339 ¡°Zou Zhuo was still ying the game, he didn¡¯t even want to leave the VR gaming pod to rest. ¡± ¡°This was different from Dark Souls. When zou Zhuo yed Dark Souls, he felt like he was in ss. Every second was exhausting because he had to keep remembering things in the game to keep moving forward. ¡± ¡°However,¡±¡±killing original form¡±¡± was different, especially in the easy difficulty. The protagonist was basically invincible. He could cut grass in the city and do whatever he wanted! ¡± ¡°The game didn¡¯t set any obstacles for the yers, and they basically wouldn¡¯t get stuck, let alone get abused by monsters. ¡± ¡°While he was experiencing the power of a superhuman, the plot was also one of the things that kept him going. ¡± ¡°The story of ¡°¡±killing prototype¡±¡± was notplicated. In fact, it could be said to be rtively simple. yers who did not understand the story would not be affected by thepletion of the game. However, because the story of ¡°¡±killing prototype¡±¡± was more sophisticated, it covered up the weak points of the plot very well. ¡± ¡°From the beginning of the morgue, a mystery ran through the game Who was Alex? How did he obtain such a heaven-defying ability? ¡± ¡°As the plot progressed, Alex woulde into contact with all kinds of characters, including the military and the virus Elizabeth. It would constantly absorb all kinds of characters, absorb their memories, and learn the truth little by little like solving a puzzle. ¡± ¡°As the story progressed, Alex was also slowly unlocking more skills, including ws, shields, armor, hammers, tentacles, des, and so on. ¡± ¡°There was an extremely rich skill tree system in ¡°¡±sadomasochism¡±¡±. Whether it wasbat, assassination, movement, driving, or other abilities, they could all be upgraded. Throughout the entire game, the yers were constantly experiencing the feeling of bing stronger. ¡± ¡°In the end, the yers would defeat the final boss and obtain all the memories. The truth was finally revealed, and the plot reached its climax in the final cutscene animation. The final ending drew a perfect ending to the game. ¡± ¡°For a fast-food game, to be able to achieve this level was already considered to have fulfilled the merit. ¡± ¡°Even though the game in Chen Mo¡¯s previous life didn¡¯t be a famous game, it was undeniable that the game had quite a bit of influence in China. It was even a long-term game in inte cafes, and was amon memory for many inte-addicted teenagers. ¡± ¡°From this point of view, although killing prototype was a fast food game, it was also an excellent fast food game. ¡± ...... ¡°Unknowingly, zou Zhuo¡¯s stream had more and more viewers. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±What game are you ying? It felt so exciting! Please give me your in-game name!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Isn¡¯t Chen Mo¡¯s new game ¡®killing prototype¡¯ already on the screen? If you haven¡¯t seen it, go to the Ophthalmology Department!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Awesome, the game hasn¡¯t even been released yet, right? Did the host go to the experience store?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±The host just ... Ate a passerby? I¡¯m following the man-eating streamer!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Brother, climb the wall again. I still want to see you climb the wall. You¡¯re so handsome!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I can¡¯t wait. Hurry up and release this game. I¡¯m itching to watch it!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°The bulletments were getting more and more lively, as many yers were paying attention to Chen Mo¡¯s new game. While zou Zhuo was streaming yers, many viewers went to Thunderbolt gaming¡¯s official forums to advertise it, while others searched for it with the keyword ¡®yers¡¯. Slowly, the number of viewers increased. ¡± ¡°After watching zou Zhuo¡¯s stream, many yers couldn¡¯t wait to post on the official forum.¡±¡±Chen Mo isn¡¯t lying this time, it¡¯s really a hack-and-sh game, it¡¯s super cool!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Many of the yers were still skeptical. They didn¡¯t believe that Chen Mo would be so kind, so they all came to zou Zhuo¡¯s stream to watch him try the game. ¡± ¡°Sadomasochism could only be yed in the experience store, so not many people were actually livestreaming the game. Zou Zhuo had made it in time, and with the poprity of sadomasochism, the number of people in zou Zhuo¡¯s stream kept growing. Soon, he had thousands of people! ¡± ¡°Not only that, but some free gifts also began to appear. With so many people watching, the little fatty yed more and more diligently, and he even interacted with the bulletments as he yed. ¡± The VR game experience section of the experience store was soon full! ¡°In the beginning, many yers were still waiting and watching, afraid that ughter prototype would be a game that would be cut down like dark Souls. However, after some greedy people tried the game first, the VR experience area was immediately full! ¡± ¡°Many of the yers who had entered were unwilling toe out again. After the game cabin was full, many yers outside could only wait in line! ¡± ¡°Soon, the entire VR experience area was filled with people, and there was a queue next to each VR gaming pod. The gamers were chatting and watching the livestream on their phones while lining up. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±F * ck, it¡¯s so cool to watch little fatty y kill the original form! It was just like the video. The main character was a Superman. It¡¯s already so good to watch it live, how good would it be to y it personally?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Damn it, if I had known, I would havee in to y! After hesitating for a moment, thest gaming pod was also upied by someone else! I¡¯m so regretful!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±There¡¯s no other way, just wait! Anyway, I¡¯ll definitely buy as many as I can when the game is released! It¡¯s such a great game, you can y it in the VR gaming pod at any time, and when you¡¯re in a bad mood, you can go in and have some fun. It¡¯s so good!¡±¡± ¡± ...... ¡°Soon, all sorts of videos about sadomasochism appeared on major video websites, and more and more streamers came to the experience store to broadcast it live. ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo, who was the first to start streaming, had also gained a lot of attention. The number of viewers in his stream room had skyrocketed in the past few days. From the initial unknown, he now had more than 20000 followers. Although he couldn¡¯t bepared to the big streamers, he had gained a lot of attention in just a few days. ¡± ¡°Moreover, due to the continued poprity of zou Zhuo¡¯s stream, fish-catching streaming tform also expressed their intention to sign a contract with him and promised to give him some rmended resources after signing the contract. ¡± ¡°After the release of the game, its poprity suddenly soared. The speed of its poprity even left many designers dumbfounded! ¡± ¡°Chen Mo didn¡¯t stay idle during this time either. He ced advertisements on video and gaming sites, as well as negotiating partnerships with various VR inte cafes. ¡± ¡°Although ¡°¡±hype¡±¡± was something that many people despised, they had to admit that it was very effective. ¡± ¡°Just like in Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, sword spirit wasn¡¯t the best in terms of world structure,bat system, story design, and other aspects, but the art was amazing! ¡± ¡°yers could create all kinds of buxies with slim waists, fat butts, long legs, and even ouppees that would shake when they ran. This unique style was its biggest selling point. ¡± ¡°The game¡¯s operations personnel took advantage of this point to hype up the game and magnified the advantages of sword spirits infinitely, thus creating a bubble poprity that far exceeded the quality of the game. ¡± ¡°When sword spirits was at its peak, it had also swept through all major video websites. It was even hard to get a single yard. Many yers who had specially bought membership realized that the waiting time for members was even longer than the waiting time for ordinary members ... ¡± ¡°Of course, after the game was officially released, its poprity would naturally fall to a reasonable level. This was a naturalw. But in any case, the crazy hype in the early stages had indeed made it a lot of money, and it had already earned a profit far beyond its quality. ¡± Chapter 625 ? Chapter 625 VR inte cafe cooperation strategy Trantor 549690339 ¡°Chen Mo was well aware of this. In a sense, yers was a simr type of game. Its levels, story, andbat system weren¡¯t the best, but the ¡®coolness¡¯ part was the best. ¡± This kind of game that was particrly outstanding in one aspect was the most suitable for hype. ¡°With arge number of advertisements, killing prototype had almost wiped out most of the video websites and live streaming tforms, and it was spreading to a wider and wider group of yers. ¡± ¡°Chen Mo set the price of yers at 998, which was half the price of Dark Souls ¡®VR version. On one hand, the game had a limited capacity and the investment wasn¡¯t that high, so it was cheaper. On the other hand, it was also to make small profits but quick sales, and to expand the consumer group as much as possible. ¡± ¡°In fact, in Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, he had tried to make the game free to expand the yer base, but it didn¡¯t work well. The reason was that it was better to get a discount than to get it free. ¡± This was because yers was a fast-food game. ¡°For the core yers of Dark Souls, the main fun was in the multiple rounds of challenges and the more difficult levels in theter stages. The game content was very rich. However, the main fun of yers was in the early and mid stages of the game, and yers were not particrly interested in multiple rounds and high-difficulty challenges. ¡± ¡°Imagine, if the game was free, and the yers had already entered the sage period after the free period, how many people would choose to buy the ticket? ¡± ¡°After all, he had already experienced the best part of the game, so what was the point of buying more? ¡± ¡°Therefore, Chen Mo¡¯s strategy was very clear. He would give a discount, but not free. ¡± ¡°In terms of pricing, 998 was already a rtively cheap price for a VR game. It would be meaningless to lower it to 400 or 500 yuan, because the game¡¯s future profitability would be zero, and it would be difficult to add additional fees. ¡± This price was the best price to expand the yer base as much as possible while ensuring profits. ¡°Other than that, Chen Mo also arranged for people to contact the big VR inte cafes in China, especially chain ones, to discuss cooperation with them on sadomasso. ¡± ¡°The specific content was very simple, which was to release a VR inte cafe exclusive version of kill the original form, and at the same time, fight for some publicity for it in the inte cafe. ¡± The so-called exclusive version of the game meant that all the inte cafes would purchase the game from Chen Mo and install it in their VR gaming pods for the yers to experience. ¡°The price was based on the number of VR gaming pods. The more VR gaming pods were activated, the more expensive the price would be. The price of 1998 Yuan for a VR gaming pod in an inte cafe to permanently activate the game was equivalent to officially allowing the ount to be used. Of course, the price would also double. ¡± ¡°For example, if a certain inte cafe had thirty VR gaming pods to activate sadomasochism, the inte cafe would have to Pay Chen Mo 59940 RMB to activate the game. ¡± ¡°yers spent 50 to 200 yuan per hour in the VR inte cafe, and the price varied depending on the VR gaming pod¡¯s configuration. ¡± ¡°The optimization of ¡°¡±sadomasochism¡±¡± was better, so it could run well in some low-configuration VR gaming pods, so it was calcted at the lowest price of 50 yuan per hour. ¡± ¡°The original price of VR inte cafes was 50 yuan per hour, but if yers wanted to y sadomasochism, they would have to pay extra, and the price would be raised to 80 yuan per hour, or even 100 yuan per hour. ¡± The specific amount of money was set by the VR inte cafe and could be adjusted freely. ¡°For yers, 100 yuan per hour was an eptable numberpared to VR gaming pods that cost hundreds of thousands and games that cost more than 1000 Yuan. Some games with smaller capacity only took seven to eight hours toplete a round, and it was a good deal after some calction. ¡± ¡°As for the games that lost interest after ying for an hour or two, it was more worth it to y at a VR inte cafe. ¡± ¡°For VR inte cafes, even though the price of the inte cafe version was twice that of the normal version, they could break even very quickly. The price of 1998 Yuan for each gaming pod meant that as long as the yers yed the game for 40 hours, they would be able to earn back their money. ¡± ¡°For such a fun game, it wouldn¡¯t be too much for all the yers on this gaming pod to y it for 40 hours, right? ¡± ¡°Moreover, this would tie the profits of the inte cafe to Chen Mo¡¯s business. In order to make more money, the inte cafe would definitely try to promote the game. ¡± ¡°For example, they could put up promotional posters on the outer walls of inte cafes, ce the game icon of yers in an eye-catching position on the desktop of the VR gaming pods, orunch a special bundle top-up campaign where one could experience yers for as many hours as they wanted for free by topping up xxx amount at once. ¡± ¡°This was a three win situation. The yers could spend less to experience the game, the inte cafe could make money, and so could Chen Mo. ¡± ¡°Of course, he could y it this way because ¡°¡±ughter the original¡±¡± was an extremely refreshing fast food game. ¡± ¡°In Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, the inte caf¨¦s yed a huge part in the poprity of yers. ¡± Although they were all pirated. ¡°One had to admit that inte cafes and these fast food games were a perfect match. Many yers would go to inte cafes to y other games when they were tired. They would choose to open ¡°¡±ughter the original form¡±¡±. There was no need for any exquisite operation, no need to level up, and no need to do missions. They could enjoy the game from the beginning to the end! ¡± ¡°As such, in Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, yers was the most popr single yer game in inte caf¨¦s, and many people woulde into contact with it in inte caf¨¦s. ¡± ¡°In the parallel world, as the developer of the game, Chen Mo had to make good use of this. There was no way he would let the game die for free. ¡± ¡°After Chen Mo sent out his intentions to coborate with the various inte cafes, they all expressed their willingness to work with him. Some bought more, some bought less, but no matter how much it was, they were all willing to use the game to enrich their inte cafe¡¯s game library. ¡± These inte cafe bosses were all very smart. They could sense that this game was very suitable for a VR inte cafe. ¡°If it was dark Souls, the effect would not have been so good ... ¡± ¡°After these VR inte cafes received the proposal for sadomasochism, they immediately hung up signs and even banners, advertising in striking font You can directly experience Chen Mo¡¯s new game ¡°¡±killing the original¡±¡±! ¡± ¡°Chen Mo also made some cool posters and merchandise of Alex, giving them to inte cafes that had ordered a lot of games as a way to promote it. ¡± ¡°On top of that, Thunderbolt gaming tform had added a new ¡®kill prototype cooperative VR inte cafe list¡¯. yers could search for the nearest cooperative VR inte cafe to experience the game! ¡± Chapter 626 ? Chapter 626 Chapter 625-release! Trantor 549690339 ¡°On February 2nd,¡±¡±sadistic killing¡±¡± was officially released! ¡± ¡°After a few days of trial and hype, the game¡¯s poprity was unparalleled, thanks to the game¡¯s special feature and Chen Mo¡¯s marketing efforts. ¡± ¡°On various video websites, killing prototype had be a hot topic in the VR gaming area, with arge number of one-week plot introduction videos appearing. On various livestreaming tforms, many livestreamers of League of Legends, Overwatch, and single yer games were also looking forward to the release of the game. And on Weibo,#wee to the top of the food chain #had be a hot topic! ¡± ¡°On video websites, many UP Masters had mixed clips of Alex, the protagonist of ¡°¡±kill the original form,¡±¡± and had also gained a high number of views. ¡± ¡°Even though many UP Masters and live streamers had tried the game in Chen Mo¡¯s Experience Store, and many videos had been uploaded online, it didn¡¯t affect the passion of the yers for the game. ¡± ¡°The reason was very simple, watching others y was not as good as ying it himself! ¡± ¡°In games like Dark Souls, many yers would choose to clear the game through video because it was too difficult. If they were tortured by it, they might not be able tost one round before they threw it aside. However, killing prototype was different. Anyone could kill monsters in this game, and there was no threshold at all! ¡± ¡°Moreover, the yers were also itching to see the streamers flying on the roofs and walls of buildings, transforming into various forms to kill enemies at will, because they knew that these cool moves did not require any high-level operations at all, and anyone could do it. ¡± ¡°Not to mention, the experience in VR waspletely different from watching a video! ¡± ¡°Many yers were even more excited after watching the demo. If they were to climb walls in VR, what would it feel like? Wouldn¡¯t that be great? ¡± ¡°Moreover, the price of the game was considered very cheap in VR games, and yers were all expressing their desire to buy it! ¡± ...... ¡°Imperial, at the entrance of ku le inte cafe. ¡± ¡°Ku le inte cafe was one of the more well-known chain inte cafes in China. It was located in all of the major first and second-tier cities. The environment was better, and the VR gaming pods were more advanced. The price was also affordable, so it was very popr with yers. ¡± ¡°At the moment, VR inte cafes were quite popr because many people couldn¡¯t afford VR gaming pods. Spending two to three hundred Yuan to experience thetest VR games in a VR inte cafe was considered a good deal. ¡± A few yers made an appointment to arrive at the entrance of ku le inte cafe. ¡°VR inte cafes were more expensive. For example, kule inte cafe, which was more affordable, cost 60 Yuan per hour for a normal VR pod. ying four hours a day would cost more than 200 yuan, so the yers couldn¡¯t stay there every day. ¡± ¡°However, ying online together in a VR inte caf¨¦ on the weekend was a good choice for many yers. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Eh? Why is there a new banner? A coboration with the original form inte cafe?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±What the f * ck? Is that true? Isn¡¯t that Chen Mo¡¯s new game?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°A few young people walked up curiously and saw the banner and sign at the entrance of the shop. It clearly said ¡°¡±We can try Chen Mo¡¯s new game ¡®killing the original¡¯, no purchase required!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±We can directly y ¡®killing original form¡¯? F * ck, then let¡¯s not y Overwatch today. Let¡¯s y yers!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Why? I still want to show off my Yuan n!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Why are you showing off the yuan n? Didn¡¯t you see that killing original form was all over the inte recently? This game is much better than your Yuan n!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Really? How good is it?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Hehehe, you¡¯ll know when you go in. It¡¯s beyond your imagination! Hurry up, go in and ask the boss. Isn¡¯t this game selling for 998? how can he experience it directly in an inte cafe? Is this some kind of cooperation with the R & D?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°A few young people came to the front desk of kule inte cafe. As they swiped their ID cards, they asked the prettydy at the front desk,¡±¡±¡±¡±I can y ¡®killing prototype¡¯ in the inte cafe? Is that true?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Thedy smiled and nodded.¡±¡±That¡¯s right. Our inte cafe is in a partnership with Thunderbolt entertainment. We bought a lot of inte cafe versions of kill the original form. You guys can try it out in the VR gaming pods there. However, the price is 100 yuan per hour.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Can I y all the content of the game?¡±¡± a yer asked.¡±¡±Or are you only allowed to y the first part?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±You can y all the content,¡±¡± the youngdy replied.¡±¡±You can charge by the time you y.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°NICE!¡±¡± A few young people couldn¡¯t wait to swipe their ID cards and each upied a VR gaming pod. ¡± ¡°Some VR gamepanies had done simr events before, but they were all limited by game content. In other words, you could experience the game directly in the early stages of the trial, but as the game progressed to a certain stage, you had to pay to buy the game. ¡± These trial versions of the game were provided to the VR inte cafe for free by the game developers. The purpose was to let yers experience the beginning of the game and be attracted to payter. ¡°At the moment, most yers went to VR inte cafes to yrge scale online games, such as moon God¡¯s prophecy. The entry fee was very low, and the main source of ie was additional value-added services. ¡± ¡°Many yers had been tricked by these ¡°¡±experience games¡±¡± before. Some standalone games were put up in VR inte cafes under the banner of ¡°¡±experience¡±¡±. They were good at the beginning, but they could not be yed halfway and had to pay for them. ¡± ¡°It stood to reason that this charging strategy was quite reasonable, but the problem was that no one was willing to buy it! ¡± ¡°On the other hand, sadomasochism used a different strategy, which was equivalent to shifting the risk to the VR inte cafe. Therefore, to yers, this kind of charging strategy was much more friendly. ¡± ¡°There wasn¡¯t anything new about this strategy, other developers had thought of it before, but it wasn¡¯t popr because they didn¡¯t have the same characteristics as ughter prototype, and also because they didn¡¯t have Chen Mo¡¯s reputation! ¡± ¡°It was precisely because Chen Mo had so many of his ssic games, and almost every one of them had achieved a certain level of sess, that the owners of these VR inte cafes were able to work with Thunderbolt entertainment without worrying about losing money. ¡± ¡°Soon, several young people turned on the voice function in the VR gaming cabin and shared their gaming experience with each other. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±F * ck, experiencing the opening CG in the VR gaming pod is awesome! It feels like Alex jumped down right in front of me, it¡¯s so exciting!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Wow, Times Square is exactly the same as the video! And only when you y it yourself do you realize the difference between VR and watching videos!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±F * ck, I¡¯m running on the building! He could climb all kinds of buildings! I¡¯m a little afraid of heights, so I fell down!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Tanks and helicopters are all trash! He¡¯s invincible!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±F * ck, this game actually passed the vetting process? Can you believe that this is a domestically produced game!¡±¡± ¡± Chapter 627 ? Chapter 627 The eternal AlexMercer Trantor 549690339 ¡°After the official release, posts about yers began to upy the discussion zones of major VR games. In the yer chat groups, arge number of yers were promoting the game. ¡± ¡°The yers had the same attitude towards the game ¡°¡±Cool!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°In fact, the previous Dark Souls had already tortured many yers to the point that they began to doubt their lives. Now, after ying sadistic killing prototype, these yers ¡®suppressed emotions were perfectly released. ¡± ¡°There were many discussions about killing prototype on the forum, but it waspletely different from Dark Souls. ¡± ¡°There were posts about Dark Souls thatined about the difficulty, shared their experience in the game,mented on the level design, and analyzed the story ... ¡± ¡°However, in ¡°¡±killing prototype,¡±¡± there was no such post. There was only one kind of post This game is awesome! ¡± ¡°It was true that the difficulty, ystyle, and level design weren¡¯t much to analyze because they were verymon. As for the plot, only thest scene was more interesting, so no one gave any spoilers. ¡± ¡°Everyone had the same feeling, but this game was very cool! ¡± ¡°Furthermore, most people couldn¡¯t exin how it felt, so they had to experience it themselves. ¡± ¡°Many yers were addicted to it because in VR mode, whether it was parkour on the building or fighting with the Army in Times Square, it was a very exciting experience! ¡± ¡°At first, many yers were not used to parkour on a building. They would scream in shock when they fell from a high altitude. However, after falling a few times, everyone got used to it and even had an inexplicable sense of anticipation! ¡± ¡°After all, very few people in the real world had experienced the feeling of falling from a high altitude. Those who had experienced it were either bungee jumping or the grass on their graves was already a few meters high. ¡± ¡°Although the experience in VR games couldn¡¯t bepared to real life, it was very close. ¡± ¡°Especially with the continuous unlocking of the yer¡¯s abilities, more mobile abilities could be obtained, such as air stabbing, gliding, fast rolling, and so on. When those skilled Masters controlled Alex, they could really experience the feeling of flying in the air at will! ¡± ¡°On the other hand, after the release of ¡°¡±killing the original form,¡±¡± Alex¡¯s poprity also soared, and it became one of the most representative game characters! ¡± ¡°And ¡°¡±wee to the top of the food chain¡±¡± and ¡°¡±brother A¡±¡± became two very important keywords. ¡± ¡°Some well-known UP Masters had also taken advantage of the poprity of ¡°¡±ughter prototype¡±¡± and released Alex¡¯s character album. ¡± ¡°All of this meant that Alex was not only the protagonist of a game, but also an iconic character in the game, or even a virtual idol! ¡± ¡°It could be said that the sess of ¡°¡±killing the original form¡±¡± was inseparable from the image of Alex, and many people specifically analyzed the sess of Alex¡¯s image. ¡± ¡°First of all, Alex¡¯s poprity was mainly due to its good looks. Its face was only a part of it, but the most important part was its clothes. ¡± ¡°He was wearing threeyers of clothes, a white shirt, a hooded sweater, and a ck jacket. He was wearing jeans and ck leather shoes. ¡± The ck jacket guy had two white rings on each of his arms and a Red Wing-like pattern on his back. ¡°The most eye-catching thing was that the zipper of the sweater had to be pulled down slightly below the chest, and the top two buttons of the shirt had to be unbuttoned. The shirt must not be stuffed into the pants. It had to be slightly exposed outside. ¡± ¡°This kind of outfit highlighted the freedom and rebellion of the young group, but at the same time it was cool, it was not too exaggerated, and seemed very deep. In addition, the hood covered most of Alex¡¯s face very well, which made it more mysterious while in line with the aesthetics of young people. ¡± It highlighted Alex¡¯s characteristic of being ruthless and not talkative. ¡°It could be said that Alex¡¯s clothes were still very handsome even in today¡¯s aesthetic sense. Even Alex¡¯s clothes could be found on major shopping websites, and they sold well. ¡± ¡°Secondly, Alex¡¯s ability design was perfect. This powerful cheat not only did not make the plot copse, but it also gave the yers an extreme sense of pleasure. ¡± ¡°Alex could climb walls, use all kinds of weapons, obtain other people¡¯s memories, and be anyone it ate. He had super speed, attack power, and defense power at the same time. He was the perfect model. ¡± ¡°Moreover, these abilities were all under the same package, and they all originated from viruses. The yers did not think that there was anything wrong with so many superpowers being ced on the same person. Instead, they would think that it was F * cking awesome! ¡± ¡°Even in Chen Zhao¡¯s previous life, Alex¡¯s ability had influenced arge number of web novelists. Alex¡¯s virus ability had appeared in many modern urban themes, superpower themes, and apocalypse themes. ¡± ¡°It could perfectly fit the setting of the Golden finger in web novels, and also show the rationality of Alex¡¯s ability design from another angle. ¡± ¡°Finally, Alex¡¯s personal charm was the most wonderful part of the game plot. ¡± ¡°From the very beginning, both the beginner¡¯s lesson in Times Square and the opening of the mortuary had created a suspenseful atmosphere to make the yers guess Who was Alex? Who was he going to take revenge on? And why did he wake up in the mortuary? ¡± ¡°As the plot continued to progress, Alex encountered more and more powerful enemies, unlocked many different abilities, and solved all kinds of mysteries. ¡± ¡°However, the truth surprised both Alex and the yers in front of the screen. ¡± ¡°Alex had a cruel childhood, so he didn¡¯t trust anyone, had no friends, and didn¡¯t care what others thought of him. He was hired by GENTEC as a research and development personnel. However, due to his personality, he was already a marginal person with the potential to be anti-social. ¡± ¡°Although GENTEC was a research institution under ck Watch, the experiments had gradually gone out of control. ck Watch had begun to eliminate GENTEC staff and silence them one after another. If there were no idents, Alex would also be unable to escape the fate of dying in the dark alley. ¡± ¡°In order to protect itself, Alex escaped and brought a sample of the cklight virus as a bargaining chip. However, at the train station, Alex was surrounded by ck Watch. At his wits ¡®end, he shattered the virus with a mentality of taking revenge on society and infected everyone in the station. ¡± ¡°The virus entered his body and was sent back to GENTEC in a body bag. However, at the same time, the virus was also transforming his cells. ¡± ¡°In other words, Alex had been looking for the person who released the virus and mutated it, but that person was itself. ¡± ¡°Moreover, strictly speaking, Alex was no longer the Alex it used to be, and it was not even a human. ¡± ¡°Alex was now the prototype of the cklight virus, which was the name of the game PROTOTYPE?The protagonist controlled by the yer was a life form with Alex¡¯s appearance and part of its memory as its preset value. It was the cklight virus that had its own consciousness after Elizabeth. ¡± ¡°After learning the truth, most yers, like Alex itself, werepletely dumbfounded. It was because Alex had been busy all this time to stop the ck light virus, and deep in its heart, it had always regarded itself as a human being. ¡± ¡°In other words, the source of all sins seemed toe from himself, the human Alex. ¡± Chapter 628 ? Chapter 628 nning New Year¡¯s activities Trantor 549690339 ¡°At this time, the military decided to use nuclear bombs to blow up the alreadypletely infected Manhattan to stop the virus from spreading. ¡± Alex chose to step forward and use a helicopter to carry the nuclear bomb out of New York and sink it to the bottom of the water. ¡°The explosion of the nuclear bomb had torn Alex to pieces. At this point, everyone¡¯s heart was in their mouth. They knew very well that as a viral body, Alex, as an existence that truly stood at the top of the food chain, was not allowed to exist in human society, which was likely to be a tragic ending. But everyone was also looking forward to Alex surviving the terrible nuclear explosion. ¡± ¡°Just when everyone was in despair, a Crow flew onto a piece of garbage and was absorbed by Alex. At the end of the story, Alex was sessfully resurrected! ¡± ¡°This ending was beyond the expectations of many yers, and the hidden meaning of the story was also very profound. ¡± ¡°As a human being, Alex had decided to take all the people new York with it, but Alex, a virus that was only 18 days old, risked its life to transport the nuclear bomb away in order to save others. ¡± ¡°Alex was already standing at the top of the food chain, and it would never die as long as its brain wasn¡¯t out of order. In order to save these human beings who had nothing to do with it, it was even willing to risk being melted by a nuclear bomb, which formed a strong contrast, and also made Alex¡¯s image plump and fresh in an instant. ¡± ¡°Alex¡¯s character in ¡°¡±ughter the original form 2¡å¡± copsed because this setting was abandoned. Alex should have the image of a lone assassin, which was ¡°¡±NO ONE CAN PROTECT YOU FROM ME¡±¡± and ¡°¡±as long as I want to kill you, you will die without a doubt.¡±¡± At the same time, Alex had its own values and persistence. Obviously, he shouldn¡¯t be an ambitious man who wanted to rule the world, and he shouldn¡¯t be a viin who talked a lot of nonsense. ¡± ¡°Of course, Chen Zhao would not allow this to happen. Alex¡¯s image was nowplete. He would be an iconic character in the game, forever fixed in the moment when the nuclear bomb was transported away and he was resurrected by the crow. ¡± ...... ¡°After a round of the game, many video game media had also reviewed the game. The ratings were not high, around 8 points. ¡± ¡°This was determined by the game¡¯s quality, but these reviewers had also clearly written down the strong points of the game. ¡± ¡°On the one hand, the image of the protagonist Alex was very sessful. It could be said that the whole plot story, battle arrangements, level unlocking, and other aspects of ¡°¡±ughter the original form¡±¡± were all carried out around Alex. Therefore, although the other characters had no sense of existence, Alex had undoubtedly be a ssic game character. ¡± ¡°On the other hand, the game was extremely pleasurable. Every yer could experience things that couldn¡¯t be done in the real world in the game. As a character who was both good and evil, they could kill many people in the game world. ¡± ¡°In terms of sales,¡±¡±sadomasochism¡±¡± had obviously achieved sales and poprity that far exceeded its actual quality, bing a highly-discussed work before the new year! ¡± ¡°Of course, judging from the figures, although the original form¡¯s sales were even close to Dark Souls ¡®at the beginning, it was not as good as Dark Souls. ¡± ¡°However, even so, the sales and poprity of ¡°¡±killing prototype¡±¡± were enough to make arge number of domestic R & Dpanies jealous. Moreover, the inte cafe version also contributed arge portion of the original form¡¯s ie, which was a unique way. ¡± ...... In the experience store. ¡°The VR experience area was still full, and this situation would probablyst until the Spring Festival. ¡± ¡°Even though yers didn¡¯t have a high rating on major video game media, it didn¡¯t affect yers ¡®love for it. ¡± ¡°Especially the yers around the imperial capital, who all came to the experience store from afar to try out the game. The craze would probablyst for a long time. ¡± ¡°Meanwhile, Chen Mo was already nning the Spring Festival activities with Qian Kun. ¡± ¡°As the Spring Festival approached, various online games that were still in operation would definitely take this opportunity tounch some activities. On one hand, it was to increase the game¡¯s poprity, and on the other hand, it was to generate revenue. ¡± ¡°For many games, it wasn¡¯t a matter of whether or not you wanted to have an event. It was a matter of whether or not the yers would rebel if you didn¡¯t have an event. ¡± ¡°Many yers hoped that developers woulde up with beautiful skins and clothes during the spring Festival to cheat them of their paywalls. If they didn ¡®t, they would feel ufortable. ¡± ¡°Chen Mo had a lot of games under his belt, so he had to take care of all of them when he was doing operations. ¡± ¡°He didn¡¯t consider long-term standalone games, but mainly online games that were still in operation. ¡± ¡°In terms of PC games, League of Legends was the main game. ¡± ¡°As for mobile games, there were Thunderbolt tabletop, Onmyoji, leadingnd, and King of Glory. ¡± ¡°Even though Onmyoji had been going downhill for a long time, there were still a bunch of die-hard yers who were still working hard for it. ¡± ¡°In terms of VR games, Minecraft had a long lifespan and Overwatch had a huge yer base. ¡± ¡°Other than that, games like super Mali Odyssey and dark Souls could also take advantage of the Spring Festival to sell their downloadable content or release some free updates. ¡± ¡°On top of that, Chen Mo didn¡¯t forget to continue selling his [Switch]. He was still wondering if he should release a new version of the [switch], with a Chinese style packaging, some China Style graphics, a suitable discount, or give away some games or something? ¡± ¡°Well, the yers would definitely buy, buy, buy! ¡± ¡°The operation of League of Legends was the simplest. This year¡¯s S2 World Championship was still held in Shanghai, but the champion was not IF or NRG, but EU team. ¡± ¡°Of course, the twists and turns didn¡¯t need to be exined one by one. In season 1, League of Legends was still in its early stages. The teams that could win the championship relied on their strong individual strength on one hand, and on the other hand, they relied on their brilliant tactics. ¡± ¡°However, starting from Season 2, as the clubs became more and more professional, the strength of the teams was no longer dependent on just a few high-scoring yers, but on the management of the club, team coordination, tactical research, version adaptability, yer hero pool, and so on. ¡± ¡°The domestic league was full of ups and downs, and in the end, it was the old team, EU, that caught up from behind and won the championship of S2 as a Dark Horse. ¡± ¡°Fortunately, the championship trophy was still in China. ¡± ¡°In the parallel world, the domestic professional league of League of Legends could be said to be one step ahead, and one step ahead. ¡± ¡°With Chen Mo¡¯s help, League of Legends had the most yers in the country, and was the first Division to establish the league. Under the intensepetition, the clubs were constantly changing to be more professional, leading Europe, the United States, and South Korea in this aspect. ¡± ¡°Besides, since League of Legends was a domestic game, and the championship trophy of S1 was still in China, the yers had high expectations for the major teams. They would be med if they couldn¡¯t win the championship. ¡± ¡°For example, IF was an old powerhouse with several popr yers, but if they couldn¡¯t win the championship, they would still be criticized by their fans until they doubted their lives. ¡± ¡°In such an environment, the domestic teams were under a lot of pressure, but it also made the domestic league of Legends professional circle work harder to achieve results. ¡± ¡°E-sports was ever-changing, and if you cked off for a month, you might be surpassed by countless people. Chinese yers weren¡¯t any weaker than foreign yers. Even in the LPL in Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, he had defeated the arrogant Korea team in the International League and the All-Starpetition. This fully showed that the professional yers of the Chinese server had the potential to do so, but theycked the spirit and the rules. ¡± ¡°In the parallel world, Chen Mo had been trying his best to avoid all of this from the start, and now he was finally seeing some results. ¡± Chapter 629 ? Chapter 629 Year-end party Trantor 549690339 ¡°Qian Kun went through all the new year events with Chen Mo, then asked,¡±¡±¡±¡±Then we¡¯ll go with this, manager?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Mo nodded.¡±¡±MMM, let¡¯s do it. It¡¯s about time to spread the news. After all, the yers need to be prepared.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Prepare what?¡±¡± Qian Kun was stunned. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Of course!¡±¡± Chen Zhao looked at him.¡±¡±I¡¯m preparing my red packet.¡±¡± ¡± Qian Kun was speechless. Qian Kun thought about it and realized that it was true. He wanted to inform the yers earlier so that they could keep their New Year¡¯s money and year-end bonus well and not spend it on other games ... ¡°After everything was arranged, Chen Mo stood up and said to the rest of the studio,¡±¡±¡±¡±Well, the work before the new year has almost been arranged. Everyone, finish your work and take a break. Come back on the eighth day of the Spring Festival. If it¡¯s a job that can be brought home, then bring it home to do. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°As soon as Chen Mo finished speaking, there was already a round of cheers. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Wow, the store manager is so awesome! Long live the store manager!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I can go home early!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Wow, it¡¯s good to have a willful boss. I got an extra week of vacation for nothing.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°The experience store had employees from Imperial, but they were a minority. As for the others, they came from all over the country, and it was troublesome to buy tickets to go home during the spring Festival. Chen Zhao gave them an early holiday. Not only did it extend their holiday, but it also made it easier for them to go home. ¡± ¡°Lin Xiao reminded everyone,¡±¡±don¡¯t forget about the annual meeting. Let me remind everyone that the store manager has prepared a lot of prizes for everyone this year. The grand prize is a red packet of 18888 Yuan. Whoever doesn¡¯t go will lose money. Don¡¯t me me for not reminding you.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±How can I forget?¡±¡± everyone said. We¡¯re still waiting to get the grand prize! By the way, what¡¯s the grand prize?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Lin Xiao smiled and said,¡±¡±this ... Is a secret!¡±¡± You¡¯ll know when the timees. I¡¯ll definitely satisfy you!¡±¡± ¡± There was another round of cheers. ¡°Every year at the end of the year, there would be a party. ¡± ¡°Thunderbolt entertainment was getting bigger and bigger, with more and more profits, and Chen Mo was spending more and more. This year¡¯s Annual Meeting was held at a five-star hotel. The show had invited a professional performing team, and the prizes were even more generous. ¡± ¡°As a game developer, the prize for the annual meeting was definitely closely rted to the game. Everyone who was present at the annual meeting would receive a red packet of 18888 Yuan as a sun¡¯s glory award. In addition, there were various high-end cell phones, high-endptops, rare skins in various games, game currency conversion, VR game gift bags, and so on. ¡± ¡°At the same time, because Thunderbolt entertainment didn¡¯t have that many employees, everyone would definitely be able to get something else other than the radiance of the sun award. As for what they would get, it would depend on their luck. ¡± ¡°The grand prize was the highest configuration VR gaming pod on the market, and its price was basically the same as a luxury car. ¡± ¡°These were the additional prizes from the annual meeting. As for the year-end bonuses for each project team, they had already been distributed. Thunderbolt Entertainment¡¯s year-end bonus this year was just as simple and brutal as it had been in previous years. And because all of the projects had strong profitability, there wasn¡¯t much of a difference between the year-end bonuses for different project teams. ¡± ¡°In general, most of the core members should have received more than 20 months of bonus. Even some neers who had just joined recently had a lot of year-end bonuses. ¡± ¡°The new year was something to be happy about for most of Thunderbolt Entertainment¡¯s employees, but Chen Mo didn¡¯t feel anything special about it. ¡± ¡°To him, the awards ceremony, Annual Meeting, and the Spring Festival were all just for show. Chen Mo wasn¡¯t interested in such a formal event. ¡± ¡°At this time, he was thinking more about how to arrange the research and development n after the new year. ¡± ...... ¡°After finishing another round of Warcraft, li jingsi stood up and stretched. ¡± ¡°More than 90% of the yers in the PC experience area were ying League of Legends, and it was rare to see an anomaly like li jingsi. ¡± ¡°Even though li jingsi was one of the prettiest yers in the experience store, not many people tried to hit on her. On one hand, they knew about her rtionship with Chen Mo, and on the other ... A girl who could beat 99% of the male yers in games was destined to give off an unattainable feeling ... ¡± ¡°Li jingsi¡¯s personality was actually quite easy-going, but she was too good at ying games, so it was natural for her to create a sense of alienation from others. ¡± ¡°If he went to flirt with the other girls, he would say,¡±¡±girls,e y together. I¡¯m a diamond God, I¡¯ll take you flying!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°But for li jingsi, diamond was basically the equivalent of a beginner ... ¡± This was F * cking awkward! Li jingsi looked at the time and went to the main hall. ¡°Seeing that li jingsi had arrived, Chen Mo put down the book in his hand.¡±¡±¡±¡±I¡¯ll give you a heads up, don¡¯t forget to attend the Annual Meeting. You¡¯re now a full-time employee of Thunderbolt entertainment.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Alright,¡±¡± li jingsi nodded. By the way, my cousin is here for inspection today, so don¡¯t let the cat out of the bag. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Inspection?¡±¡± Chen Mo was taken aback.¡±¡±How? don¡¯t expose yourself?¡±¡± Do we still need to receive them?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±No, no, no, of course not.¡±¡± Li jingsi shook her head hurriedly. You¡¯re the boss, is it appropriate for you to personally receive the family of your employee ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Oh, that¡¯s true.¡±¡± Chen Zhao nodded.¡±¡±Then I¡¯ll just pretend nothing happened.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Yes, it¡¯s fine if you don¡¯t show your face. I¡¯ll get goldfish or Qian Kun to trick her. Besides, I¡¯m not fooling you. I¡¯m working here now. ¡°¡± Li jingsi exined,¡±¡±it¡¯s mainly because my sister¡¯s suspicious. She kept urging me to find a job, but she didn¡¯t believe me even after I found a job ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Yeah,¡±¡± Chen Mo said,¡±¡±you found a job in the experience store where you y games every day. It doesn¡¯t sound very trustworthy ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Thest time li Jingwan had forced her to go for an interview at Emperor dynasty entertainment, li jingsi had been a little annoyed. ¡± ¡°Therefore, Chen Mo decided to give her a job in Thunderbolt entertainment. The full title was ¡°¡±Thunderbolt Entertainment¡¯s chief gaming experience¡±¡±. Well, this position was obviously made up by Chen Mo. To put it simply, it was a yer who yed games in the experience store every day ... ¡± ¡°Needless to say, li jingsi¡¯s family would definitely be very satisfied with her sry and other benefits. However, it was precisely because she was so satisfied with all the benefits that li jingshu was suspicious. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Could he have been brainwashed by some multi-level marketing organization? Or is she just lying?¡±¡± That was li Jingwan¡¯s first reaction ... ¡± ¡°After all, li Jingwan had been working in the workce for three to four years before she could earn her current sry. Every day, she was as tired as a dog. Yet, li jingsi¡¯s first job after graduation earned more than her. Moreover, her daily job was to y games, and she had very free time between work and work. This was very hard to ept! ¡± That was why li jingshu wanted toe to the experience store to check on li jingsi¡¯s working condition. ¡°¡±¡±Oh right,¡±¡± Chen Mo suddenly thought of something.¡±¡±There¡¯ll be a few new employees after the new year. You¡¯ll be interested.¡±¡± ¡± Li jingsi was taken aback. ¡°¡±¡±Jia Peng, Chang xiuya, Wen Lingwei, and a few others were all poached by me,¡±¡± Chen Mo said. ¡± Chapter 630 ? Chapter 630 Thunderbolt games ¡®Spring Festival event Trantor 549690339 ¡°¡±¡±Senior and the others areing?¡±¡± li jingsi asked in surprise. That¡¯s good. You can happily hack with five people in the future?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Oh?¡±¡± Chen Mo facepalmed.¡±¡±Is that your first reaction?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±What else?¡±¡± li jingsi asked. ¡± ¡°Chen Zhao thought for a moment.¡±¡±Yeah, I can do five. That¡¯s right ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Wen Lingwei, Jia Peng, and a few others had been regr customers of the experience store before, but after graduating from university, they went their own ways to look for jobs. After they got busy, they didn¡¯te to the experience store as often. ¡± ¡°Chen Mo didn¡¯t invite them to Thunderbolt entertainment before because thepany was still in development, and they didn¡¯tck people in the art department. Besides, other than Wen Lingwei, Jia Peng and Chang xiuya¡¯s original arts were only at the level of normal fresh graduates, not up to thepany¡¯s standards. ¡± ¡°The hiring process still had to be done ording to the proper procedure. Although Chen Mo could afford to hire idlers, it was a bad influence on the working atmosphere of the entire project team, and it would also make Jia Peng and the others feel ufortable. ¡± ¡°However, things were different now. The three of them had been working in the outside world for two to three years, and their professional standards were not bad. Chen Mo¡¯s development was also on track, with an art team and suitable positions for them. ¡± ¡°As for Jia Peng and the others, wasn¡¯t it a job? Without a doubt, Chen Zhao¡¯s ce offered the highest sry in the industry. ¡± ¡°So, when Chen Mo went to find them, they agreed to jump ship after getting their year-end bonus. ¡± ...... ¡°Li jingsi sat on the sofa for a while, then stood up.¡±¡±¡±¡±Alright, I¡¯m going to continue ying games. I don¡¯t want my cousin toe over and see me sitting on the sofa and saying that I¡¯m not doing my job. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Mo said,¡±¡±so she was doing her job when she saw you ying?.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Li jingsi chuckled.¡±¡±After all, I¡¯m the chief game tester now. My main job during work hours is to y games. There¡¯s nothing wrong with that.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Oh?¡±¡± Chen Mo smiled.¡±¡±This job really suits you.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Li jingsi suddenly thought of something.¡±¡±Oh, right. I saw it just now. You¡¯re preparing to release a New Year¡¯s event?¡±¡± And all sorts of promotion ns for the Spring Festival?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Yeah,¡±¡± Chen Mo nodded.¡±¡±Do you have the urge to buy?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Not at all,¡±¡± li jingsi replied. You can y anything you want in the experience store. ¡°¡± ¡± Chen Zhao was speechless. ...... ¡°Qian Kun acted quickly. After he had confirmed the Spring Festival event, he posted it online very quickly. ¡± The Spring Festival events of the various games had also invigorated the yers! ¡°First of all, all the online games that were currently in operation had new activities for the Spring Festival. ¡± ¡°Thunderbolt tabletop once again offered free gaming pods during the new year, and yers could even receive random red packets during the game. Even though these red packets were all taken from the yers, and the amount wasn¡¯t high, it was still a good gimmick to get cash from the game. ¡± ¡°At the same time, Thunderbolt tabletop¡¯s physical prizes were all on sale, clearly to clear out all the beans the yers had. ¡± ¡°Onmyoji, King of Glory, League of Legends, and Overwatch were going to release a bunch of crazy theme skins for the new year, and there would be a link between these games. ¡± ¡°Chen Mo released a ¡®Spring Festival skin super gift package¡¯ that included all the new skins for the four games, and it was a crazy 50% discount! ¡± ¡°Of course, there were many new skins in the game and they were very expensive. Even with a 50% discount, the price of the gift bag still reached a crazy 3288 Yuan. ¡± ¡°However, this price did not deter the yers. On the contrary, many rich yers expressed that this price was F * cking good-hearted and that they would buy a lot! ¡± ¡°No matter what, a skin with a clearly marked price was much more reliable than a lottery! ¡± ¡°It didn¡¯t matter if he didn¡¯t buy the gift bag. There were many other ways to obtain skins in the game. For example, the points and diamond treasure hunt in Mobile Legends, the loot box in Overwatch, and the mysterious store in League of Legends ... ¡± ¡°In short, all the pay-to-win events were open. Chen Mo didn¡¯t care if he was scammed, he just had to close his eyes and give a discount. ¡± It was that simple and crude! ¡°Moreover, these games had also updated the new year-rted scenes. For example, League of Legends, Overwatch, and glory of kings had all updated the new year Special maps. The surface of the ground had been turned into snow, and some suitable scenes hadnterns and window decorations. asionally, fireworks would also be set off. ¡± ¡°The login scene, themed UI, and all sorts of in-game interfaces were changed to a China Style. Just like the log-in interface of League of Legends, there was a golden ink painting, a Chinese fecus skin, and two cool door Gods. In any case, he was so handsome that no one couldpare to him. ¡± ¡°There were not many good skins for ¡°¡±leading thend¡±¡±, but the scene map could be changed, and there would be a special New Year server. During the new year, the rare cards ¡®drop rate would be increased by 1%, and the yers would still be full. ¡± ¡°Other than that, there were various VR single yer games, such as Minecraft, super Mali Odyssey, Dark Souls, and so on. ¡± ¡°Minecraft had a strong connection to the Inte, so Chen Mo arranged for some special props, such as fireworks during the spring Festival and characters in traditional cheongsam. ¡± Many yers were still nning to have a special fireworks show in Minecraft and post a video on the inte during the new year. ¡°Super Mali Odyssey, on the other hand, had a very cheap DLC. It was a China-style new Year scene, and the squares in the air were gift boxes. After collecting the scene currency, one could even buy Chinese-style themed clothes. ¡± ¡°As for Dark Souls ¡®Spring Festival event, it was a little more of a hassle. Apart from the usual DLC, Chen Mo had two Easter eggs. ¡± ¡°After all, the overall atmosphere of Dark Souls was quite deep. If they really made it particrly festive, it wouldn¡¯t match the characteristics of the game. ¡± ¡°The bell of the new year had rung, and it was a good day to pass on the fire. This time, Chen Mo had changed the onion Knight equipment in the game to a festive red, and the Knight helmet was a beautiful red Lantern. ¡± ¡°Moreover, the characters ¡°¡±fortune¡±¡± and ¡°¡±door God¡±¡± were pasted on the equipment doors in the DLC, making it particrly festive. ¡± ¡°Of course, the New Year¡¯s atmosphere wouldn¡¯t be felt if they didn¡¯t wear this set, but it was obvious that the yers couldn¡¯t not wear it ... ¡± ¡°The Switch released a New Year Special Set with a red package and a red handle. It was full of excitement and joy. Moreover, the special set included super Mali Odyssey, Dark Souls, and a bunch of digital games from Thunderbolt gaming tform. It only cost $2222, showing off its conscience. ¡± And the most insane of all were the games on Thunderbolt gaming tform ... All! Troops! Hit! Fold! ¡°The other designers ¡®designs were all up to them, so Chen Mo didn¡¯t care even if they had a 10% discount. As for Chen Mo¡¯s own games, thetest VR game this year was at a 20% discount, and all other games were at a 50% discount. ¡± ¡°At first nce, Thunderbolt gaming tform was covered in greenbels It was a spectacr sight to see a 50% increase, a 20% increase, and some games even had a 90% increase. ¡± Would there be a nouveau riche who would take this opportunity to clear Thunderbolt games ¡®game library? ¡°Yes, Chen Zhao was looking forward to it. ¡± Chapter 631 ? Chapter 631 Li Jingwan¡¯s inspection Trantor 549690339 ¡°When the yers saw Thunderbolt gaming¡¯s spring Festival event, they were shocked. This was ... Daylight robbery! ¡± ¡°The new year hadn¡¯t arrived yet, but the yers on the official forums were already talking about it like crazy. yers of various games were discussing the unique New Year activities of the game, and the most discussed topic was obviously the ¡®New Year-themed skin gift bag¡¯. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Have you guys seen the promotional video for the new skin? I feel like I¡¯m about to lose my wallet!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±The new Chinese style is so beautiful! Besides, he still wanted to buy League of Legends, Overwatch, and King of Glory! Don¡¯t even think about running away from PC and VR!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Hehe, you can just buy a New Year-themed skin gift bag. You don¡¯t need to draw a prize, and you can get a 50% discount on the entire skin set.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±F * ck, 3288 ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Hehe, this is just a small amount of money for the rich. 3000 Yuan is just a drop in the bucket.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±It seems like everything is on discount! Even Thunderbolt tabletop¡¯s items are on sale? I¡¯m going to clear all the beans now ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±What the f * ck, other than spending money for the Spring Festival activities, there¡¯s nothing else? Chen Zhao, where¡¯s your conscience?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Conscience? Since when did Chen Zhao have a conscience? It¡¯s really fresh ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±The two above, aren¡¯t you being a little too objective? With so many new skins and such a strong discount, he still didn¡¯t have a conscience? All the games are either 50% or 20% off, and you guys are still not satisfied!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±That¡¯s right, it¡¯s not just pay-to-win events. Didn¡¯t they change the setting of the games to the Spring Festival theme? Minecraft even released fireworks, Keke.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±The Dark Soul yers are shocked. I thought there wouldn¡¯t be Dark Souls in this event, but Chen Mo ... Got a red outfit and two doors with the word¡±¡± fortune ¡°¡±on them ... F * ck, he¡¯s good at this!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±F * ck, Switch¡¯s price, 2222 ... Who is he mocking? But there are a bunch of games on it ... Uh, no, I have to resist the temptation ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°The yers were going crazy, Chen Mo wasn¡¯t going to let them enjoy the new year! ¡± ¡°It¡¯s fine that your skin is so good, but you even gave such a low discount! ¡± ¡°The game even had aplete discount, and the discounts were simply irresistible! ¡± ¡°What should I do? I don¡¯t want to buy my wallet, but this temptation is hard to resist! ¡± Many yers struggled for a long time before they realized that Chen Mo was giving them a warning to keep their year-end bonus and New Year¡¯s money! ¡°If he informed them in advance, he wouldn¡¯t be able to spend the money on other things ... ¡± ¡°There was still a long time before the new year, which was enough for the yers to have a mental struggle. ¡± ...... ¡°¡±¡±Hello? Jingsi, I¡¯m at the door. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°In the experience store¡¯s lobby, li jingshu put her phone back into her bag. After waiting for two minutes, li jingsi came to the lobby to wee her. ¡± ¡°In fact, li jingshu had visited the experience store many times before, but most of the time, she was there to catch li jingsi. It was like a parent going to an inte cafe to catch their son ... ¡± ¡°However, the situation this time was different. After all, li jingsi was now a full-time employee of Thunderbolt entertainment, and it was equivalent to an inspection of the workce. ¡± ¡°His son, who had been skipping sses to surf the inte, suddenly became an inte cafe employee with a high sry ... This kind of change was hard for most people to ept. ¡± Li Jingwan was also full of suspicion. ¡°It was mainly because li jingsi had casually mentioned that her monthly sry was more than 20000 Yuan, as well as her year-end bonus. This made li jingshu feel very dumbfounded. How could he earn more than an elite like him ... ¡± ¡°Although li jingsi was quite good at ying games, she had never heard of a fresh graduate receiving so many as soon as she started! ¡± ¡°Moreover, the position was very strange.¡±¡±Thunderbolt gaming¡¯s chief experience yer¡±¡±? it seemed to be made up! ¡± ¡°Hence, li jingshu could not trust him and wanted toe and observe him. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±What do you want to see?¡±¡± li jingsi asked with a smile. ¡± ¡°Li Jingwan thought for a moment.¡±¡±Hmm ... Let¡¯s take a look at your desk first. Where is it?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Li jingsi pointed at the sofa in the living room.¡±¡±Oh, when you¡¯re free, you can sit on the sofa and rest. When you need to experience the game, you can go to the various experience areas to try it out.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±...I¡¯m not well-educated. Don¡¯t lie to me. There¡¯s such a formal employee?!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Li jingsiughed and said,¡±¡±ah, the nature of our work is different.¡±¡± You¡¯ve never been the ¡®chief game experimenter¡¯, so how do you know that this position requires a workstation?¡±¡± ¡± Li Jingwan was speechless. ¡°Li jingsi saw that she clearly didn¡¯t believe her, so she suggested,¡±¡±¡±¡±How about this, I¡¯ll show you my contract, and youe with me.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Contract? That¡¯s not appropriate, is it?¡±¡± Li jingshu was a little puzzled. By right, the contract should be in the hands of the individual and thepany, but from li jingsi¡¯s reaction, was she nning to bring her directly to thepany¡¯s copy? ¡± ¡°Li jingsi led her all the way to the fourth floor and sat down in the conference room. She then looked for su Jinyu and asked,¡±¡±¡±¡±Goldfish, can you help me get my contract?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Su Jinyu nodded.¡±¡±Sure! Wait a moment.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±This is ...¡±¡± Li jingshu narrowed her eyes. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Oh, he¡¯s our Vice President,¡±¡± li jingsi replied.¡±¡±He¡¯s the oldest employee. He¡¯s now in charge of the overall development of all projects.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±What did you call her just now?¡±¡± li jingshu frowned. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Goldfish,¡±¡± li jingsi replied. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Shouldn¡¯t he be called CEO Jin or something?¡±¡±li jingshu whispered. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±No, the gamepany doesn¡¯t have that many rules,¡±¡± li jingsi replied with a smile. Besides, herst name is su, not Jin. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°While li Jingwan was still suspicious, su Jinyu had already brought the contract over. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Come, take a look.¡±¡± Su Jinyu said. ¡± ¡°Li Jingwan received it with both hands, overwhelmed by the unexpected favor, thinking to herself that this Vice President really didn¡¯t put on any airs at all ... ¡± ¡°Thunderbolt entertainment was one of the top video game developers and operators in the country. The Vice President must be worth at least hundreds of millions, why did he look like a student council member ... ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Maybe it¡¯s because I don¡¯t understand the world of the rich!¡±¡± ¡± Li jingshu sighed with emotion as she flipped open thebor contract. ¡°Well, there was no problem with the position, the sry, and the various messy terms. This was a very formalbor contract, and there was nothing fishy about it ... ¡± ¡°However, it was the sry figure and various terms written in the contract that made li Jingwan a little dumbfounded. This was not reasonable at all! ¡± ¡°However, he really couldn¡¯t see anything suspicious. Could it be that this cousin of his had really fallen into a trap and picked up a good job? ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Sis, is there anything else you want to ask?¡±¡± li jingsi asked. Do you want me to call the boss over?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±No, no, no, there¡¯s no need for that.¡±¡± Li Jingwan hurriedly waved her hand. It¡¯s not right to rm President Chen about this. I can¡¯t let you leave a bad impression in front of President Chen. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Alright, I¡¯m just here to confirm this so that your parents can rest assured. It¡¯s a good thing to find a good job. You have to work hard. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Alright, sis, I got it.¡±¡± Li jingsi pursed her lips into a smile. ¡± Chapter 632 ? Chapter 632 Chen Mo¡¯s first song Trantor 549690339 ¡°After returning the contract, li jingsi sent li jingshu out of the experience store. ¡± ¡°At the entrance of the shop, li jingshu was still worried.¡±¡±¡±¡±Jingsi, as the saying goes, there must be a trap when a pie falls from the sky. ¡°¡±Although you graduated from a famous university and are good at gaming, I still think that your sry is a little too high. You have to pay attention to whether there are any traps or the like. Please don¡¯t hide anything from me. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Sis, why don¡¯t I just tell you the truth?¡±¡± li jingsi asked. Actually, this job was arranged by Chen Mo. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±You mean, Mr. Chen is interested in you?¡±¡± li jingshu raised her eyebrows. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Uh ...¡±¡± Li jingsi said. ¡± ¡°Li Jingwanughed as if she had heard a joke.¡±¡±¡±¡±Alright, alright, you¡¯re dreaming. Let me tell you, work hard and watch less of those overbearing CEO dramas. Did you really think that there would be such a good thing?¡±¡± ¡± Li jingsi was at a loss for words. ¡°Li Jingwan smiled.¡±¡±I understand how you feel. When I was young, I also liked to dream like you.¡±¡± Alright, I¡¯ll be leaving first. Remember to work hard!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±See youter, sis ...¡±¡± Li jingsi said. ¡± ...... ¡°In the experience store, Chen Mo was daydreaming. ¡± ¡°The main game project after the new year was still undecided, so he hadn¡¯t really thought about which game to develop. ¡± King of Glory and League of Legends had already dominated the mobile and PC games respectively. Only the VR games had not dominated the online games yet. ¡°Although Dark Souls had done well, it was a single-yer game after all. ¡± ¡°Although there was no hurry to cut the leeks, there was no point in leaving them all ... ¡± ¡°As Chen Mo was thinking about it, su Jinyu said with a smile,¡±¡±¡±¡±Manager, go online and take a look. Someone made a video of you!¡±¡± ¡± Chen Zhao was shocked. What the hell? ¡°Wasn¡¯t that the treatment that only inte big shots, inte celebrities, and big live streamers had? Howe I¡¯ve been arranged to join? ¡± Chen Mo took the phone from su Jinyu and saw that it was really...The title was Chen Mo¡¯s version of happy poverty! ¡°Chen Mo had heard this song before in his previous life, and it was also a popr song for guishu. Even though the singer had changed in parallel world, and the lyrics and tune were slightly different, the difference wasn¡¯t that big. ¡± Chen Mo¡¯s mouth twitched as he opened his video. ...... ¡°¡±¡±Tiny lightning.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Only a few tens of billions.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±You can only eat husks and drink water every day.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±The game is on sale again.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I¡¯ve lost everything. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Xixi, hahaha, can only make poor happy.¡±¡± ¡± ...... ¡°¡±¡±I¡¯m just a designer. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Your game is trash.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±It¡¯s currently the period of fighting. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I¡¯m not interested in money. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I don¡¯t have a house or a car.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I can only make games.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I don¡¯t like money at all¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I¡¯m not interested in money. ¡°¡± ¡± ...... ¡°¡±¡±1v10¡å¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Because you haven¡¯t paid for it yet.¡±¡± ¡± [I¡¯ve bought all the skins and games] ¡°¡±¡±Hurry up and go out and show off!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±This game is on sale again.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I¡¯ll let you guys earn all the way again. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±To say who suffered the most in the end ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Chen Mo became the number one in the world¡±¡± ¡± ...... ¡°¡±¡±Tiny lightning.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Only a few tens of billions.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I don¡¯t have money to give to the cleaner.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±The skin is broken again.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I¡¯ve lost everything. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Hehe, we¡¯re poor and happy.¡±¡± ¡± ...... ¡°¡±¡±Who the F * ck did this? isn¡¯t he too talented?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Mo couldn¡¯t help butugh, and even pulled the video to the beginning to watch it again. ¡± These bosses in the demonic beast District were all talents! ¡°Obviously, the yers weren¡¯t going to just sit around and wait for Chen Mo¡¯s crazy spending spree, they were going to fight back ... ¡± And the method of counterattack was ... Devilish. ¡°Although Chen Mo kept a low profile and didn¡¯t appear on camera, he was still highly regarded by the yers. Video Game Awards ceremonies, various interviews, and interviews from the battle against the AI had all been recorded. ¡± ¡°Obviously, these big shots of the ghost District had used these videos as materials to make a ghost video. ¡± ¡°This video went viral very quickly. In just a few hours, it swept through the ghost and beast area and was even rmended on the home page. Many yers also expressed in the bullet screen We¡¯re going to dere war on the music District! ¡± ¡°It was true that this was the work of hundreds of millions of tuning Masters. Chen Mo¡¯s voice was calm, and his Mandarin was standard, without too many fluctuations, making it perfect for making a video. ¡± ¡°The most talented part was the author¡¯s writing skills. Not only did they all rhyme, but they also used all of Chen Mo¡¯s pretentious lines! ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I¡¯m just a videogame designer¡±¡±,¡±¡±I¡¯m trash at games¡±¡±,¡±¡±I¡¯m in the middle of a fight¡±¡±,¡±¡±I¡¯m not interested in money¡±¡±, and so on, these were all things that Chen Mo had said in his interview! ¡± ¡°There were also manyments in the video, such as ¡°¡±do you really think Chen Mo won¡¯t go on the show¡±¡±,¡±¡±wee serente to the All-Star¡±¡±,¡±¡±believe it or not, serente will buy the website tomorrow¡±¡±, and so on. ¡± ¡°While Chen Mo was watching his own video, it had gained 50000 views in three minutes. It was clearly on fire ... ¡± The worst part was that there were even bulletments urging Chen Mo to start streaming! ¡°Chen Mo could only sigh, it seems like the yers really love me. I¡¯ll have more discounts after the new year. ¡°¡± ¡± ...... ¡°The in-game pay-to-win events for various games had been arranged, and there was no work before the new year. ¡± ¡°However, Chen Mo still had two more important awards ceremonies to attend. ¡± ¡°One was an award ceremony in China, the one Chen Mo attended every year. Obviously, Dark Souls was definitely going to be the game of the year. ¡± ¡°Not only dark Souls, but this year¡¯s newly developed super Mali Odyssey, prototype ughter, and even King¡¯s glory all had a chance of winning. ¡± ¡°However, Chen Mo had already received so many small awardsst year that he wasn¡¯t in a rush. ¡± ¡°Other designers would struggle to win any award, but Chen Mo won a few without even panting ... ¡± ¡°On top of that, tgnn had also sent out an invitation to Chen Mo, hoping that he could fly across the ocean to attend the awards ceremony. Dark Souls had been nominated for best game of the year, while super Mali Odyssey had been nominated for best tform game. ¡± ¡°Obviously, tgnn¡¯s nomination carried more weight. ¡± ¡°Even though tgnn was only a video game mediapany, it was still an authoritative video game mediapany in the world. Moreover, the games that were being reviewed were all masterpieces of the year. The fact that they were shortlisted for the best game Award was enough to prove the weight of these two games. ¡± ¡°Chen Zhao was initially against going abroad, but this was a special case, so he had to make the trip. ¡± ¡°As for the awards ceremony in China, Chen Mo didn¡¯t n on going because of the time constraint. When the time came, he would just tell Qiao Hua to let Qian Kun or su Jinyu collect the trophy on his behalf. ¡± After all ... It would be embarrassing if he took the annual game prize himself! Chapter 633 ? Chapter 633 TGN awards ceremony Trantor 549690339 In the experience store. ¡°A lot of people were gathered in the hall, watching tgnn¡¯s annual Gaming Awards ceremony on TV. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Hey, didn¡¯t you say that the manager is here? where is he?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±How are we going to watch with so many people? these foreigners wouldn¡¯t give the manager a special shot, would they?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±What¡¯s there to be afraid of? when he goes on stage to receive the award, won¡¯t there be any cameras?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±This ce is so big and magnificent! Even the host feels empty on stage. Luckily, the camera is close enough!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Which award is it now? Manager, did you win an award before?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Yes, Dark Souls has already won best RPG, best operation, Best Family Game, and best e-sports team from League of Legends.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Only a few?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±...F * ck, that¡¯s tgnn. There aren¡¯t many awards in total. Do you think you¡¯re selling cabbages? wholesale by catties?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Although there are many awards, they¡¯re all within reason. Dark Souls is to the liking of the Western audience, it¡¯s not too much to get the best RPG. This year¡¯s Season 2 of League of Legends is even more Grand, and the number of yers and revenue has reached a new level. It¡¯s not too much to get the best operation award. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±That¡¯s right. The most important part is the game of the year!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Is anyone watching the gamemittee¡¯s awards ceremony? How many awards has sister goldfish won?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Game Committee awards ceremony? No matter whether we watch it or not, the manager will take over, there¡¯s no suspense!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°The television in the experience store¡¯s lobby was broadcasting TGN¡¯s awards ceremony. Many Thunderbolt Entertainment¡¯s employees and yers were gathered in front of the television, waiting for the final game of the year. ¡± ¡°Coincidentally, the gamemittee¡¯s awards ceremony this year was almost the same as tgnn ¡®s, so Chen Mo didn¡¯t go and let su Jinyu go instead. ¡± ¡°However, most people didn¡¯t pay attention to it, because to Chen Mo, it was already the best game in Chinast year, and dark Souls this year was even more so. There was no point in paying attention to it, so he just let su Jinyu go on stage and show off. ¡± The key was still TGN. ¡°As one of the most authoritative video game media in the world, TGN¡¯s ratings were basically objective, fair, and just. There wasn¡¯t an official organization like the game Committee in the world that could manage all the video gamepanies, so the world¡¯s annual video game could only be judged by these authoritative video game media. ¡± And none of the designers in the country had ever won a global Game of the Year award. ¡°¡±¡±It¡¯s here, it¡¯s here! The main event is about to reveal game of the year!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Tgnn¡¯s stage was huge, and they had been waiting for a while. Thetest promotional videos of several games were shown on the big screen, including the New Year¡¯s special DLC of super Mali Odyssey, which caused the audience to cheer. ¡± ¡°After the preparations were done, the host went on stage again. ¡± The tgnn host was a handsome young man who had been hosting tgnn awards ceremonies for many years. He was a familiar face to many of the overseas audience. ¡°The host came to the front of the stage and the entire ce was silent. Inside the experience store, the people in front of the TV were not even breathing heavily. ¡± Everyone was clear that it was time for the most important annual Gaming Awards! ¡°The host sneered solemnly and said in a very solemn tone,¡±¡±¡±¡±This year is a special year. It¡¯s also a year of rapid development for the game industry. There have been many revolutionary works in the gaming industry, and thepetition for the best of the year award is very intense. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±The most surprising thing this year is the sudden rise of the Chinese gamingmunity. In fact, Thunderbolt games was already nominated for the best esports awardst year with League of Legends, but we have to admit that they were still a very young gamepany and couldn¡¯t qualify for the game of the yearpetition. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±But this year, Thunderbolt games has entered our field of vision through two games, Dark Souls and super Mali Odyssey. They¡¯re also going topete with the world¡¯s top video gamepanies for the honor of game of the year. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±This is a very good sign for tgnn. We look forward to the rise of more video gamepanies and add fuel to the fire for the development of the game industry around the world. Now, let¡¯s invite TGN to perform a song for all the nominated games!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°The camera switched, and because it had been a close-up of the host, the people in front of the TV didn¡¯t notice that an entire Orchestra was ready on the stage. ¡± ¡°First, it was a close-up of the violinist. Then, the camera was pulled away so that everyone could see the whole scene. ¡± ¡°On the huge stage, an entire band was ying the game¡¯s theme music, and the big screen began to y the game. ¡± ¡°These games were all ssics of the year, and the music in each game was about one minute long. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Oh, the blood Coast!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Dawn of gods 4!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Critical speed 3!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Oh my God, TGN¡¯s game of the year has this kind of yer, it¡¯s too scary! These are all godly works that we could only look up to in the past!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±It¡¯sing, it¡¯sing! Dark Souls! It seems like they¡¯re treating this and prequel as a game series!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Yeah, it¡¯s released in the same year after all. It¡¯s basically arge-scale DLC.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±To be honest, I¡¯m a little scared. Dark Souls has already won best RPG, can it still win game of the year?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I don¡¯t know. Let¡¯s continue watching.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Oh? Knight¡¯s glory? Wow, there must be something shady going on. How can a yer of this level be nominated for the annual video gamepetition?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±...Save some face for him. It¡¯s a product of GA, and it even used thetest Origin. You don¡¯t even want him to be your partner, isn¡¯t that a little overbearing?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Eh, there¡¯s an Odyssey!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Wow,¡¯super Mali Odyssey¡¯ has a good reputation. Other people are ying the game music, but this one is singing the theme song!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I remember that we got European and American singers to sing for us, so it was quite convenient for us to invite them to the venue ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Many people in front of the TV were a little surprised. It was reasonable for Dark Souls to be nominated, but the nomination of super Mali Odyssey was a little unexpected. ¡± ¡°Although this game was also good, its influence in the country was far less than that of Dark Souls. Strictly speaking, it was not even as influential as kill prototype. ¡± ¡°For many yers,¡±¡±super Mali Odyssey¡±¡± onlypleted the task of protecting Switch, and did not have that much influence. ¡± ¡°However, in the eyes of the tgnn judges, it was fully capable ofpeting for the honor of game of the year. ¡± The big screen began to disy the game graphics of super Mali Odyssey. Many yers who had been ying on the Switch realized that the game¡¯s graphics quality was so high. Chapter 634 ? Chapter 634 Game of the year! Trantor 549690339 ¡°He sang the theme song of Dushi country live. Not only that, but there were also many audience members in red hats in the audience. They were obviously fans of ¡°¡±super Mali Odyssey¡±¡± and were cheering on their own ord. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I didn¡¯t expect that there would be so many people who like the Odyssey overseas.¡±¡± Even Qian Kun was speechless. ¡± This surprised many Chinese yers. Many people thought that super Mali Odyssey would never be nominated for tgnn¡¯s game of the year. ¡°On this point, it could only be said that this was the difference in understanding between domestic yers, game enthusiasts, and professional game review media. ¡± ¡°In Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, Nintendo¡¯s games were considered to be a niche in China, but it would be a lie to say that Nintendo was a niche game in the world. ¡± ¡°The reasons for this were moreplicated, including domestic policy reasons (host ban), game characteristics, yer tastes, consumption habits, game aesthetics, and many other reasons. ¡± ¡°In the parallel world, even though there was no longer any reason for policies, there was still a huge difference in the taste of the game between local and foreign yers. ¡± ¡°A very obvious difference was that the yers in China were driven by goals, while many Western yers were driven by fun. ¡± ¡°In other words, most yers in China had to have a very clear goal when ying games. The clearer the goal, the more fun they would have. For example, the goal of MOBA games was to kill people, push turrets, and win; The goal of winning the chicken dinner was to search for resources, kill people, and live to the end. ¡± ¡°As long as the game had a clear goal, as long as the quality was good, the way it was yed was new, and it was an online game, it could be a big sess if it was hyped up and became a hot topic. ¡± ¡°On the other hand, many Western yers were driven by fun. That meant that they paid more attention to the fun in the game than the fastest way to clear the game. Even in League of Legends, which had a clear goal, many foreigners tried this kind of trick and were often featured in special game highlights. ¡± ¡°Of course, this saying did not apply to all yers. There were yers in China who were driven by fun, and there were yers overseas who were driven by goals. It was just that there were more yers overseas who could experience the fun of this game. ¡± ¡°Chen Mo had considered this when he made super Mali Odyssey, hoping that the game would expand its yer base and even gain influence overseas. ¡± ¡°The candidate games had all been revealed, and next up was the extremely intense and exciting final award ceremony. ¡± The host came back to the stage with the trophy in his hand. ¡°¡±¡±This year is the year of games. There are all kinds of excellent games, but there¡¯s only one title for best game.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Next, please allow me to once again introduce the shortlisted games of the year.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°The host once again officially announced the list of games that had been shortlisted for the game of the year, and every time he read out the name list, the audience burst into cheers. ¡± ¡°When Dark Souls and super Mali Odyssey were read, the cheers from the audience were even more enthusiastic than those from other games! ¡± ¡°Obviously, these two games had also gained great influence in Europe and the United States, and they were not inferior to the ssic IP sequels of big manufacturers. ¡± ¡°The host paused, and after the cheers and apuse died down, he solemnly said,¡±¡±¡±¡±Now, I¡¯m very happy to announce that the winner of the game of the year, chosen by 47 media outlets and fans around the world, is ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Thunderbolt games ¡®Dark Souls!!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°As soon as the host finished speaking, thunderous apuse and cheers erupted from the venue! ¡± ¡°¡±¡±This is the first time Thunderbolt games has won the best Game of the Year award, and tonight, Dark Souls has won the best RPG and best Game of the Year awards!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°The camera turned to Chen Mo, who was sitting in the audience. Chen Mo stood up and elegantly hugged the designer next to him. Then he waved to the audience as he walked up the stage. ¡± The experience store was also in a jubnt mood. ¡°¡±¡±Awesome! The manager really won game of the year!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Hahaha, there should be other designers in the country paying attention to tgnn, right? The manager is so awesome that he¡¯s going abroad!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±But the manager is so calm. I¡¯m convinced!¡±¡± ¡± The award ceremony continued while the audience cheered on and off the television. Chen Zhao and Denise walked onto the stage one after another. Chen Zhao¡¯s face was full of smiles. The host held the trophy with both hands and handed it over to Chen Mo. The apuse and cheerssted for a long time. Chen Mo walked over to the microphone and looked at the tgnn gaming trophy in satisfaction. ¡°¡±¡±Thank you to all the tgnn judges and all the yers who love Thunderbolt games around the world.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±On behalf of the entire production team, I would like to thank all the yers for their long-term support.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Congrattions to all the selected games as well. Everyone is working towards the same goal-to allow the game industry to develop better, and to allow yers to enjoy the best spiritual entertainment. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Once again, thank you for your support. Thunderbolt games will repay you with even better games. Thank you!¡±¡± ¡± Every sentence Chen Zhao said was tranted by Denise. The crowd¡¯s apuse and cheers rang out again and again. ¡°With Chen Mo¡¯s level of English, it wasn¡¯t a problem for him to say a few simple words, but he was here to represent China¡¯s gaming industry, so he had to say it in Chinese. ¡± ¡°In the end, the audience erupted into thunderous apuse and cheers. As Chen Mo held the trophy in one hand and waved to the audience with the other, TGN came to a perfect end! ¡± ¡°In the experience store, Qian Kun and the others were already popping champagne to celebrate. Many yers were also celebrating, and the entire Experience Store was filled with a joyous atmosphere. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Amazing! This time, he really can hold his head high!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±When will the manager be back?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Let¡¯s celebrate first! Dark Souls is invincible! The manager is invincible!¡±¡± ¡± ...... ¡°The tgnn awards ceremony had ended, but the discussion about the awards ceremony continued. ¡± ¡°The Chinese yers didn¡¯t think much of this award, but many overseas yers were wondering why the game of the year wasn¡¯t given to super Mali Odyssey. ¡± ¡°Even though they were both Chen Mo¡¯s games, they were twopletely different genres, and had different core yers. ¡± ¡°From Chen Mo¡¯s experience in his previous life, these two games were on par with each other in the eyes of professional video game reviewers, with perhaps Odyssey being slightly better. ¡± The reason why Dark Souls 3 was not as good as Odyssey was that Dark Souls 3 was not as creative as Dark Souls 1. Chapter 635 ? Chapter 635 What kind of trash palm can y mobile Legends? Trantor 549690339 ¡°In 2017 in Chen Zhao¡¯s previous life, if it wasn¡¯t for The Legend of Zelda With the appearance of Breath of the Wild, the game of the year would most likely go to Odyssey, while games like horizon and yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground could only be considered side-by-side. ¡± ¡°However, the situation was different in a parallel world. ¡± ¡°In the parallel world, there were two Dark Souls series released at once. It was the pioneer of soul-based games and was the most popr VR tform. It even used thetest artificial intelligence. ¡± ¡°And ¡°¡±super Mali Odyssey¡±¡± relied on Switch. In his previous life, Switch was on the same level as the major servers, but in the parallel world, it was obviously inferior to VR in all aspects. ¡± ¡°It was because of this consideration that the tgnn judges gave Dark Souls the Game of the Year award. However, one thing was for sure. Even without Dark Souls, the Game of the Year award would most likely go to super Mali Odyssey. ¡± ¡°After getting off the ne, Chen Mo couldn¡¯t help but tighten his down jacket. ¡± ¡°No matter how pretentious a person was, they would still feel cold. ¡± ¡°Even though Chen Mo was able to show off in front of yers all over the world during this trip, it was still quite a torture for him. It was going to be Chinese New Year in a few days, and he had to take the high-speed train back home to see his parents. ¡± ¡°Perhaps because of the time difference, Chen Zhao still felt a little dizzy. However, he couldn¡¯t sleep. He still had to take the shuttle bus back to the airport. ¡± ¡°There were quite a lot of passengers on the shuttle bus, and they were all travel-worn. Chen Mo happened to have a seat. Seeing that the shuttle bus still had a long way to go, he took out the Switch from his bag to kill some time. ¡± Sitting next to Chen Zhao was a young man in his early 20s. He was wearing a bunch of branded clothes and was clearly a rich kid. No one would believe him if he said he was rich at this age. ¡°The guy saw Chen Mo take out the Switch and came over curiously,¡±¡±¡±¡±A handheld device?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Yeah,¡±¡± Chen Mo nodded.¡±¡±Haven¡¯t you heard of Switch?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I¡¯ve never heard of it. Who¡¯s still using a handphone in this day and age?¡±¡± The guy¡¯s face was full of disdain. He had obviously never heard of Switch, nor did he know Chen Mo. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±What¡¯s wrong with a handheld device?¡±¡±Chen Mo smiled. ¡± ¡°The young man snorted and said,¡±¡±brother, you look like you¡¯re only four or five years older than me. Why are you still ying games so retro?¡±¡± The handheld devices have long been eliminated. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Mo was amused,¡¯you¡¯ve decided that it¡¯s eliminated? As far as I know, the Switch is selling well. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°The young man frowned, clearly thinking that Chen Zhao was being sarcastic.¡±¡±¡±¡±It¡¯s not fun to argue with logic. Let me ask you this, can you y mobile Legends on this broken phone? You can¡¯t even y the most popr mobile game now, so tell me, what¡¯s the point of spending money on it?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Oh ...¡±¡± Chen Zhao muttered to himself.¡±¡±I¡¯m sorry, you really can.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Ah?¡±¡± The young man was dumbfounded. ¡± Chen Mo turned off Dark Souls and opened Mobile Legends. The young man was stunned. He felt that his three views had been subverted. It really was King of Glory! ¡°The young man looked at the Switch screen in disbelief. On it was the familiar game screen of Mobile Legends, and the screen was really big! ¡± ¡°Not only that, but the entire UIyout seemed to have been changed. After removing the messy virtual buttons, the entire screen looked much more refreshing andfortable. ¡± ¡°The big screen, HD disy, and even the modeling seemed to be much more detailed ... ¡± ¡°The young man scratched his head, wondering if he had opened it the wrong way ... ¡± ¡°Chen Mo handed the Switch to him,¡±¡±¡±¡±Come and try?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°The little brother took the Switch in fear and trepidation. Obviously, the way he looked at the console was a little different ... ¡± ¡°Chen Mo turned on theputer for him to y, and the guy immediately started ying. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Aiyo, this solid joystick feels really good!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±The screen is so big? It¡¯s much morefortable than the small screen of the mobile phone ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Moving and casting skills are pretty useful, eh? It¡¯s surprisingly good!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°The young man felt that his worldview had been subverted again. Why did ying Mobile Legends on the Switch feel so much morefortable than ying on the phone? You wouldn¡¯t know if you didn¡¯t try it, but the physical joystick improved the gaming experience by a lot! ¡± ¡°¡±¡±How much is this?¡±¡± the young man asked curiously. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Oh,¡±¡± Chen Zhao said.¡±¡±It¡¯s not expensive. It¡¯s two thousand.¡±¡± There¡¯s still an event during the spring Festival, and the Spring Festival version of 2000 is also free with a bunch of games. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°The young man was shocked,¡¯ 2000 Yuan? So cheap? Now, 2000 Yuan is only enough to buy a low to mid-configuration mobile phone, right? Any high-end cell phone would cost four to five thousand, or even tens of thousands!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Yes, it¡¯s that cheap.¡±¡± Chen Mo chuckled. ¡± ¡°As if he had discovered a new world, the young man began to check the other interfaces of Mobile Legends. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Brother, you ... You have all the heroes and skins?!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°The young man was shocked. This ount had all the heroes and skins, even the heroes and skins from the diamond and point-based treasure hunt. The rare skins were not bad at all! ¡± ¡°However, from the game history of this ount, it was obvious that he didn¡¯t y much ... ¡± ¡°The guy looked at Chen Zhao in a different light.¡±¡±¡±¡±Brother, you have such a good machine and all-hero and all-skin ounts, but you don¡¯t y much? You¡¯re a real nouveau riche!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Mo chuckled,¡±¡±ah, he¡¯s not rich at all. This is a problem of consumption.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Why do you say that?¡±¡± the young man was stunned. ¡± ¡°Chen Zhao exined,¡±¡±say, if you buy a piece of clothing, it¡¯ll cost a few thousand. If you buy a pair of shoes, it¡¯ll cost tens of thousands. If you buy a bag, it¡¯ll probably cost tens of thousands.¡±¡± But who do you want to show it to? Am I right?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Show off to the rich people in your circle? They were all dressed in branded goods. Showing it to people without money? She doesn¡¯t even know the brand of your clothes. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±But the skin is different. Just say that this ount has all heroes and skins. No matter where you go, no matter who you¡¯re ying with, as long as you¡¯re ying Mobile Legends, tell me, with all heroes and skins on this ount, won¡¯t I be able to kill everyone in an instant?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±This is much better than buying some branded clothes, right?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°The young man¡¯s eyes lit up,¡±¡±that¡¯s right!¡±¡± What you said makes a lot of sense, brother!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Mo chuckled,¡±¡±plus, how much does all heroes and skins cost?¡±¡± Why don¡¯t you guess?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°The young man was dumbfounded.¡±¡±This ...¡±¡± He said,¡±¡±I really haven¡¯t calcted this problem.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Moughed,¡±¡±you¡¯re unprofessional, I¡¯ve calcted it ..¡±¡± ¡± ¡°The young man was invigorated and asked,¡±¡±you¡¯ve calcted it?¡±¡± Then tell me, how much is it?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Zhao exined,¡±¡±Let¡¯s Go Higher, okay?¡±¡± All the heroes cost about 3800 Yuan, Wu Zetian is 6000 Yuan, Han Xin is 1000 Yuan, so basically, it¡¯s within 11000. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±All skins cost about 15000 Yuan. All runes are more expensive, 50000 Yuan. But in fact, you don¡¯t need all the inscriptions, because some inscriptions are garbage and can¡¯t be used at all. Usually, you just need to save up, and two sets of general inscriptions will be enough. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±If you calcte it this way, all the heroes and skins are only worth about 20000 Yuan, and this is even a higher price. If you have a better face and save up your own money, you might not even need this much money.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±That¡¯s cheap!¡±¡±The young man eximed in realization. ¡± Chapter 636 ? Chapter 636 The Spring Festival couplets of the experience store! Trantor 549690339 ¡°Chen Mo nodded,¡±¡±that¡¯s right, it¡¯s this cheap!¡±¡± Are you surprised? It¡¯s just a branded bag, right? However, with all Champions and skins, the effect of this is a hundred times better than a bag!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°The young man pped his thigh and said,¡±¡±not just a hundred times, it¡¯s more than a thousand times!¡±¡± I really didn¡¯t calcte how much all the heroes and skins cost, but they¡¯re so cheap! No, I¡¯ll do one now! I¡¯ll buy a Switchter, the full set must beplete. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°Seeing that the shuttle bus was about to stop, Chen Mo put away the Switch with a smile. ¡± ¡°The young man said goodbye to Chen Zhao at the airport. As he walked, he said,¡±¡±¡±¡±Thanks, brother! I¡¯ll go back and buy a full skin!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±No need to thank me, please call me Lei Feng!¡±¡± Chen Mo smiled. ¡± ...... There was still a bit of traffic on the way back to the experience store. ¡°It was almost the new year, so there were fewer yers in the experience store. After the annual meeting, most of the employees had gone home. Only Qian Kun and a few other senior employees were still making arrangements for the Spring Festival. ¡± A few local Imperial employees requested to be on duty. Chen Zhao agreed after some thought and gave them more holiday pay. ¡°The experience store would be closed until the third day of the new year, and the experience could be opened as usual from the third day of the new year. However, the official start of the project team was on the seventh day of the new year. ¡± ¡°After all, for many of the locals in the imperial capital, it was an important form of entertainment for a few friends to go out and y games together during the new year. ¡± Qian Yong had already arranged for most of the shifts during the spring. Everyone was happy to see Chen Zhao. ¡°¡±¡±Manager, hurry up! Where¡¯s TGN¡¯s trophy?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Manager, I watched the award ceremony, it was so cool! By the way, didn¡¯t tgnn invite you to dinner or something?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Moughed,¡±¡±what¡¯s there to eat? foreign countries don¡¯t like that.¡±¡± The trophy is in my box. Wait for me to take it out and put it with the other trophies. ¡°¡± ¡± They took out the tgnn trophy and yed with it for a long time before they put it in the cab with the other trophies. ¡°¡±¡±Oh, that¡¯s right.¡±¡± Qian Kun suddenly remembered something,¡±¡±manager, a yer gave us a Spring Festival couplets.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Mo was shocked,¡±¡±couplets?¡±¡± Where? let me see. ¡°¡± ¡± There were so many enthusiastic yers. There were even people who gave out couplets? Qian Kun took a Spring Festival couplets from the shelf and unfurled it in the hall with Chen Mo. ¡°The quality of the couplets was not bad, and the words were quite big and looked very stylish. ¡± ¡°However, Chen Mo almostughed out loud when he saw the couplets. ¡± ¡°The first part was,¡±¡±rich or not, even if there is money, why is it expensive?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°The second part was,¡±¡±poor but intoxicating, but arrogant despite not having any achievements or fame.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°The horizontalment was,¡±¡±it¡¯s glorious to be able to spend so much effort.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Mo looked at it again. The couplets were neat and well-arranged, and they were quite suitable ... ¡± The most coquettish thing is the meaning of this couplet. It¡¯s simply a fancy way of cheating for paywalls. Isn¡¯t this really a prop invited by our ownpany? ¡°Chen Mo held back hisughter,¡¯which yer wrote this? You¡¯re quite talented. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Yeah,¡±¡± Qian Kun said,¡±¡±I think it was sent by a passionate reader. He even included his Thunderbolt Game Pass ID.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Sure,¡±¡± Chen Mo said.¡±¡±Give him a New Year skin super gift bag and thank him.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Sure,¡±¡± Qian Kun nodded. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±This couplet is pretty good,¡±¡± Chen Mo said.¡±¡±Why don¡¯t you hang it on the experience store¡¯s door?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Qian Kun was stunned,¡±¡±ah? Is it appropriate?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Why not?¡±¡± Chen Mo said,¡±¡±look at how this couplet is written. It¡¯s neat and has a deep meaning. This is a good couplet! It also shows the essence of Thunderbolt gaming. Listen to me, stick it on!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Alright,¡±¡± he said. Qian Kun nodded and called a few of his employees,¡±¡±you guys,e with me and put up the couplets.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°The Spring Festival was approaching, so the experience store was already decorated with all kinds of window decorations and the word ¡°¡±fortune¡±¡±. There were also a few rednterns hanging at the entrance of the experience store, giving it a Spring Festival vibe. ¡± ¡°The moment this couplet was pasted on, it instantly came to life. ¡± ¡°Chen Zhao looked at the door and was very satisfied. The door to the experience store wasn¡¯t size, but the couplets were big enough to make it look Grand instead of shabby. ¡± ¡°He took out his phone and took a picture of the front door of the experience store, including the couplets. ¡± [Thunderbolt games wishes everyone a Happy New Year!] ¡°The moment this Weibo post was posted, countless people were fighting for the sofa. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Wow, Chen Mo¡¯s Weibo is hot again!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Aiya, I thought it was a new game trailer. How boring!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Alright, it¡¯s the new year. Don¡¯t you think Chen Zhao needs to rest? Is this an Experience Store? it¡¯s so festive!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Yes, these rednterns are really beautiful. Eh? There are even couplets?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±This Spring Festival couple...Holy shit!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Hahaha, I¡¯m dying ofughter. Is Chen Mo doing this on purpose? This Spring Festival couple...This is f * cking asking for a beating!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I¡¯m illiterate. Can anyone exin the meaning of these couplets?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±It means that no matter if you¡¯re rich or poor, as long as you top up, you¡¯ll be glorious. If you don¡¯t top up, you won¡¯t be rich no matter how rich you are!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±This is a provocation! Beat this bastard to death!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Oh my God, the officials are forcing people to pay in-app purchases? That¡¯s too much!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Eh, the author of the couplet just posted on Weibo that he just received a gift bag for the Spring Festival skin from Chen Mo!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±F * ck! We have a traitor among us!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Who is the author of this Spring Festival couplet? I¡¯m going to snipe him in the game!¡±¡± ¡± There was a wave ofughter on Weibo. The employees also said their goodbyes to Chen Mo and went home to pack their things. They had basically bought their tickets in the next few days. ¡°Chen Zhao¡¯s ticket was at noon tomorrow, so he was not in a hurry. ¡± ¡°After having dinner with li jingsi that night, the two of them strolled slowly in the direction of the experience store. ¡± ¡°The experience store was near the third ring Road, and it was still brightly lit on both sides. There weren¡¯t any particrly tall buildings nearby, but it was still lively. ¡± All of a sudden. ¡°In the distance, a string of fireworks shot up into the sky and instantly scattered, making the originally somewhat inconspicuous stars even dimmer. ¡± ¡°After some time, the sound of fireworks could be heard. ¡± ¡°Not long after, a few more fireworks bloomed, but they were all far away, obviously outside the fifth ring. ¡± It was already not easy to see fireworks here. ¡°Chen Zhao looked at the sky in the distance and said,¡±¡±¡±¡±There are even fireworks, not bad.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±It¡¯s quite beautiful,¡±¡±li jingsi said as she looked into the distance. ¡± ¡°Fireworks and firecrackers were forbidden in the fifth ring of the imperial capital, so even though it was almost the new year, the sound of firecrackers could not be heard. ¡± ¡°Fortunately, it was possible to set off fireworks outside the Fifth Ring Road. Although they could only see it from a distance, it still had some New Year¡¯s vor. ¡± ¡°The night breeze was a little chilly, and Li jingsi¡¯s little face was red from the cold, but her face was brimming with a smile. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Happy New Year!¡±¡± Li jingsi said with a smile. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Yup,¡±¡± Chen Mo smiled.¡±¡±Happy New Year!¡±¡± ¡± Chapter 637 ? Chapter 637 New mission Trantor 549690339 ¡°Chinese New Year, the first day of the Lunar New Year. ¡± ¡°This year, Chen Mo didn¡¯t y any more games and instead stayed at home. ¡± ¡°Although Chen Zhao¡¯s family was rtively simple and didn¡¯t have many rtives to visit, this Spring Festival was still quite busy. ¡± ¡°However, there was one good thing now. Everyone was usingmunication software to wish them a Happy New Year, which saved them a lot of trouble. Rather than running all the way to meet him, it was better to send him a red packet in the group or private chat. ¡± ¡°Chen Mo also sent out a bunch of red packets, three in the designer Chat group, five in Thunderbolt gaming¡¯s staff chat group, and ten in the yers chat group. ¡± ¡°At the same time, Thunderbolt gaming¡¯s official identity had organized a lottery on Weibo. Everyone was having a great time with all kinds of bright sunshine and lucky draws. ¡± ¡°Chen Mo didn¡¯t think it was a lot of money, since it was the new year and he wanted to have fun, especially those that he sent to the group chat. ¡± ¡°Cough, cough, it didn¡¯t seem appropriate to say that. It should be said that the wool came from the sheep. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Sigh,¡±¡± Chen Mo sighed,¡±¡±it¡¯s rare to see a designer as good as me. I¡¯m losing money again by giving yers so many red packets during the new year.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Of course, the game Committee also had to show some courtesy. Chen Mo gave Qiao Hua, Zhang Zhongxiang, and a few other familiar gamemittee leaders a red packet. It wasn¡¯t much, only 666 Yuan. ¡± ¡°In the end, all of them were rejected. ¡± ¡°Qiao Hua replied,¡±¡±I appreciate President Chen¡¯s kind intentions. However, I can¡¯t ept this money. They¡¯ve been very strict with their checks.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Zhao was speechless. He didn¡¯t give her too much money, but there was a risk of bribery with only 666 dors? ¡± ¡°In the end, Qiao Hua sent him a red packet.¡±¡±¡±¡±This is a gift for President Chen. Happy New Year.¡±¡± ¡± Chen Zhao opened it. It was 6.66 Yuan. Chen Zhao was speechless. ¡°He suddenly felt like he had returned to his rtives ¡®group chat. Red packets were usually given out in three digits, but unfortunately, there was often a decimal point behind the first digit. ¡± ¡°The two of them chatted for a while before Qiao Hua said,¡±¡±¡±¡±By the way, there might be a special mission for you after the new year. Do you want to prepare in advance?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Special mission?¡±¡± Chen Zhao was stunned. ¡± ¡°The previous Dark Souls mission was actually a special mission, and it was mainly tailored for Pangu yinqing. As for thepletion of the game, the game Committee was quite satisfied with it. Even though it was a bit of a scam at the start, it was enough to prove how amazing the game was to be able to win tgnn¡¯s game of the year. ¡± ¡°Qiao Hua sent a voice message,¡±¡±it¡¯s like this, you know that VR games are closely rted to military exercises and training.¡±¡± In fact, after Pangu yinqing was developed, the higher-ups had already been pressing for this matter. Now that everyone has seen the effect of Pangu attraction, it¡¯s very good, so I feel that we must bring up this matter again after the new year. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±VR games are actually used in various industries, especially in the military field. There are already some VR FPS games that are specially designed for military training overseas. There are also some in China, but they are rtively backward and not particrly satisfactory. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±So, we might be making an FPS game. Are you interested in that? If we¡¯re talking about FPS games, you¡¯ve made Overwatch before. Even though it¡¯s a futuristic theme, it¡¯s still one of the top three FPS games in the country. It shouldn¡¯t be a problem to make another one, right?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Mo thought about it and replied,¡±¡±¡±¡±I can do it, but I¡¯m not clear about the specific requirements. As long as they weren¡¯t dancing in shackles, it was fine. To be honest, I¡¯m good at making a game that the yers like, but I¡¯m not sure if I can make a game that will satisfy the leaders. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Don¡¯t worry,¡±¡± Qiao Hua replied.¡±¡±Most of the higher-ups in the game Committee still have high hopes for you. After all, with Dark Souls, even though they don¡¯t really like the game, winning TGN¡¯s Game of the Year award is enough to prove that.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±The FPS game this time won¡¯t impose too many restrictions on you. However, you must remember that this is a game for yers and also for military exercises. At the very least, it has to be useful for the training of the soldiers. For example, a game like Overwatch isn¡¯t that meaningful.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Indeed, no army could y Yuan¡¯s gilded sh in a VR game. ¡± ¡°Chen Mo replied,¡¯okay, I understand. Then, department head Qiao, send me the specific requirements when you get back. I¡¯ll consider it. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°The two of them chatted for a while, and Chen Mo used his S-grade videogame designer ess to look up some information. ¡± ¡°Chen Mo already knew that VR games were widely used in many different fields in the parallel world. It was also because of the importance of VR games that they were so highly valued by the various countries, causing the status of the game industry to rise, and even setting up a game Committee to manage them. ¡± ¡°FPS games, also known as shooting games, had always been a very popr genre in VR games, closely rted to the military field. ¡± ¡°In fact, all countries had simr projects. They specifically organized soldiers to carry outbat training in VR games. Through the simtion of VR games, soldiers could be ced in more dangerous environments without worrying about any casualties. ¡± ¡°Of course, there was still a big gap between the VR in the parallel world and the real world, but this gap was gradually shrinking. ¡± This was especially true in the field of FPS. ¡°Compared to other game genres, FPS games required fewer actions from the characters, so it was much more realistic. ¡± ¡°Currently, the other two popr FPS games in the country, fire assault and Wolf Soul, actually had a lot of game content that was specially customized by the troops toplete special training activities. ¡± ¡°Although the marksmanship in VR games and in real life were not exactly the same, the soldiers could still train many things in the game, such as reaction, awareness, teamwork, and so on. ¡± ¡°However, these two games had been around for quite some time. After Pangu attraction waspleted, they would need a better FPS game. ¡± ¡°Of course, there wasn¡¯t a clear and unified standard for this type of game. ¡± ¡°If it was only for military exercises, it would definitely be made into arge-scale real gunfight simtor to ensure the best training effect. ¡± ¡°But the problem was that a VR game¡¯s research and development funds could easily exceed 100 million, and the game Committee wouldn¡¯t fork out that money for the gamepany ... ¡± ¡°Therefore, the first priority for a gamepany was to make an FPS game that gamers liked. They had to ensure that the investment in the game could be recouped. They couldn¡¯t lose money to please their leaders. The cost would be too high, not to mention that the results might not be good. ¡± ¡°On the premise of ensuring that the game was profitable, it was enough to make the game as real as possible and help the soldiers train in the way they yed it. ¡± ¡°Of course, Chen Mo wasn¡¯t the only one who was assigned this task. The designer of Wolf Soul, Qin Xiao, and the designer of fire assault, ran he, also received this task. ¡± ¡°After all, the three of them were the top FPS game designers in the country. ¡± ¡°However, it was hard to say if the two of them would ept it. After all, they were designers under Emperor dynasty entertainment and ZEN Entertainment, and it wasn¡¯t entirely up to them to decide what projects they wanted to develop. ¡± Chapter 638 ? Chapter 638 Emperor dynasty¡¯s FPS conference Trantor 549690339 As for the current state of FPS games ... The FPS games in China were still not as good as those overseas. ¡°Simr to his previous life, the domestic FPS games were mostly online games, while arge portion of the overseas FPS games were single yer games. ¡± ¡°It was still very difficult to make arge-scale FPS game. Not only did it require professional knowledge of various firearms, but it also required a Grand modern battlefield structure, professional military knowledge, historical knowledge, and advanced knowledge of various modern weapons. ¡± ¡°If possible, Chen Zhao would like to do arge scale modern battlefield like the COD and BFR, but it was too difficult ... ¡± ¡°If it was just the most basic FPS game, it would be fine. It was nothing more than a few maps with some guns and some character movements. But the problem was that the yers of those kinds of FPS games had long been tired of it. Wolf Soul, fire assault, and a few other foreign FPS games had long left this stage. ¡± ¡°As an S-grade videogame designer, Chen Mo could ess all sorts of databases and some confidential military knowledge through his connections with the game Committee, but he didn¡¯t have the time. ¡± ¡°Moreover, Chen Mo didn¡¯t like to create a game that he wasn¡¯t good at or wasn¡¯t prepared for. ¡± ¡°He had indeed drawn a modern weapon skill book before, but those were all beginner level and rtively simple. It was still okay to make nes and tanks like the ¡°¡±sadistic killing prototype¡±¡±, but it was nothing more than an empty shell. If it were to be moreplicated, it would be a little difficult to do it. ¡± ¡°For Chen Mo, it was better to choose a game with a smaller capacity, simpler production, and more popr among yers. ¡± ...... ¡°The seventh day of the new year, the first day of work. ¡± ¡°To Chen Mo, every year¡¯s spring Festival was almost the same. It was boring. ¡± ¡°Perhaps it was the same for most modern young people. The new year was not like a happy Festival, but more like a ceremony, and it made people feel ufortable. ¡± ¡°The new year was unavoidable. If he really didn¡¯t go home, he would definitely be very lonely. But if he went home, he would have to face some things that he didn¡¯t like. ¡± ¡°It was a bit of a dilemma. Even for some young people, they hoped that there would be no spring Festival. ¡± ¡°Chen Mo wasn¡¯t in the mood to stay at his parents ¡®ce for long. After all, he was the happiest when he was making games. ¡± ¡°Moreover, he had free time now. If he just wanted to go home to see his parents, he could go back at any time. It didn¡¯t have to be the Spring Festival. ¡± Most of the experience store¡¯s employees were already there. Only a few employees who were further away had taken leave and hadn¡¯t returned yet. ¡°There weren¡¯t many yers in the experience store either. After all, it was their first day of work, and there weren¡¯t many people who had nothing better to do. ¡± ¡°However, there were three familiar faces today-Jia Peng, Wen Lingwei, and Chang xiuya. ¡± ¡°Su Jinyu and Qian Kun had already made the arrangements. It had been a long time since theyst saw each other, and everyone was happy. To celebrate, Chen Mo even invited everyone for lunch to wee the three back. ¡± ¡°It was the first day of the new year, and most of the people were still in the same state as before. Chen Mo didn¡¯t give them any special tasks, but just told them to finish up their work and get ready. ¡± It just so happened that Chen Mo wanted to use this time to finish the design concept for the new game. ...... ¡°Emperor dynasty entertainment headquarters, meeting room. ¡± ¡°Lin chaoxu sat in the middle, looking at the meeting materials in front of him and listening to the discussions of the other designers. ¡± ¡°There weren¡¯t many video game designers present, but they were all important figures in Emperor dynasty entertainment, and most of them had experience in designing FPS games. ¡± ¡°He was the designer of one of the top three FPS games in the country, Wolf Soul. ¡± ¡°Jin jieguang, the Operations Manager who had participated in gunfire. ¡± ¡°She was Sun Bing, the main designer of gunfire. ¡± ¡°In addition, there was also the operation Director of Wolf Soul, the designer of core functions, professional knowledge consultants, and the core creative staff of gunfire, etc. ¡± ¡°Although the domestic FPS game industry could notpare to Westernpanies, Emperor dynasty entertainment had basically gathered the majority of the domestic FPS gaming talents. ¡± ¡°In terms of the domestic market, FPS games were one of Emperor dynasty Entertainment¡¯s strong genres. ¡± ¡°At least for now, the FPS gaming industry was still dominated by Emperor dynasty entertainment, ZEN Entertainment, and Thunderbolt entertainment. ¡± ¡°As for Emperor dynasty Entertainment¡¯s meeting, it was to discuss the new FPS game project. ¡± ¡°Obviously, Emperor dynasty entertainment had also received notice from the game Committee and was considering making a new FPS game. ¡± ¡°However, Lin chaoxu still could not decide whether or not to do it, and how to do it. Hence, he had this meeting to gather the more experienced FPS game designers in Emperor dynasty for a discussion. ¡± ¡°Jin jieguang cleared his throat and said,¡±¡±Let me first briefly talk about the main point of the discussion. This time, the gamemittee¡¯s intention was clear. They wanted us to use thetest Pangu engine to make an FPS game, partly for the sake of training the troops in VR. The main point of our discussion today is whether it can be done, and if it can be done, which direction should we go in. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°Lin chaoxu looked at Sun Bing and said,¡±¡±you tell me first.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Sun Bing nodded and organized the information in front of him. Then, he said,¡±¡±¡±¡±Regarding this issue, with President Lin and President Qin around, my opinion can only be considered as throwing bricks to guide the Jade. I can¡¯t say for sure if I¡¯ll do it or not, but I¡¯m just sharing some of my views on the current state of FPS games in the country. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°Sun Bing was the main designer of ¡°¡±history of gunfire¡±¡±. Although ¡°¡±history of gunfire¡±¡± was simr to ¡°¡±ancient catastrophe¡±¡± and was basically a failed project, it was still slightly better than ¡°¡±ancient catastrophe¡±¡± overall, and it was still running. ¡± ¡°And strictly speaking, gunfire died in the rankingpetition. In terms of game quality alone, it was above average in China. As the main designer of gunfire, Sun Bing had a wealth of experience in making FPS games, so his opinion was rather important to Lin chaoxu. ¡± ¡°Sun Bing had clearly done her homework beforeing here, as she spoke in a clear and logical manner. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Currently, Wolf Soul, raging inferno assault, and Overwatch are the top three FPS games in the country. In terms of ystyle, Wolf Soul and raging inferno assault are slightly more traditional, while Overwatch is considered a rtively innovative FPS game. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Before this, everyone thought that Overwatch would represent the direction of FPS games because it was indeed popr for a while and even won game of the year. However, from the looks of it, the development of Overwatch has stabilized and there might not be any room for further improvement. ¡°¡± ¡± Chapter 639 ? Chapter 639 An innovative point of FPS y? Trantor 549690339 ¡°Sun Bing paused for a moment before continuing.¡±¡±Actually, strictly speaking, the rankingpetition was indeed one of the reasons for gunfight¡¯s failure. It¡¯s probably because of this that Overwatch didn¡¯t start a rankingpetition.¡±¡± However, the root of the problem is not the rankingpetition, but the game¡¯s capacity. This is already a consensus within our project. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Due to the limited capacity, even if Overwatch doesn¡¯t have a rankingpetition, it will only extend the lifespan of the game. It can¡¯t continue to develop until it dominates the entire domestic FPS scene. Although Wolf Soul and raging inferno assault are older, they obviously have a longer lifespan than Overwatch. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±From this point of view, I don¡¯t think our new project should follow the path of Overwatch. An FPS game with skills won¡¯t work, and an FPS game with a ranking mode won¡¯t work either.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Qin Xiao lightly nodded his head, indicating his agreement. ¡± ¡°Previously, there were indeed arge number of games that mimicked Overwatch. In the end, all of them were pretty much done for. It even affected the entire FPS scene and caused them to be in low spirits. ¡± ¡°If there were still designers who wanted to copy Overwatch, they would beughed at. ¡± ¡°Sun Bing continued,¡±¡±if we¡¯re going to make a new project, the most crucial question is what¡¯s the corepetitive point of this new projectpared to the three major FPS games on the market? I think that¡¯s the main issue we need to consider today. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±From the big FPS games from the Western manufacturers, they¡¯re basically moving towards a more realistic and grander content. Moreplicated firearms, essories, more epic storylines, richerbat vehicles, and so on ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±But all of these require a huge investment and arge number of professionals. ¡± Sun Bing was done. ¡°He had only described the current situation of the domestic and foreign FPS games market, but his meaning was actually quite clear. The key to this project depended on whether they coulde up with a new game method. ¡± ¡°How should he make a new game? Based on the experience of the big manufacturers in Europe and the United States, it was to increase the investment and make a bigger scene. ¡± Lin chaoxu¡¯s fingers rapped lightly on the table as he furrowed his brows. It was clear that he did not agree with Sun Bing¡¯s train of thought. ¡°Lin chaoxu said,¡±¡±that¡¯s one way of thinking.¡±¡± However, the problem was not only in terms of money, but also in the foundation and umtion. Although Wolf Soul had also dabbled in some major war scenes, it was still far from beingparable to the big manufacturers in Europe and the United States. Even if we make it, we have to consider the taste of the local yers. We can¡¯t go to the overseas market if the local yers don¡¯t buy it, right? And even if it¡¯s in the overseas market, it can¡¯t beat those European and American manufacturers. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±What do you think?¡±¡± he looked at Qin Xiao. ¡± ¡°Qin Xiao was silent for a moment before he spread out the documents in front of him,¡±¡±¡±¡±To be honest, I don¡¯t really want to do a new FPS project. The reason is simple. There hasn¡¯t been any revolutionary technological progress yet.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±The Pangu engine is indeed an epoch-making physical engine, but it might not be able to stand out in an FPS game. It¡¯s just to make the force of being shot more realistic, and the effect of being shot more realistic. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±The yers don¡¯t really feel that much. That¡¯s why Chen Zhao chose to fight with cold weapons. It¡¯s more intuitive to fight with cold weapons. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±On the other hand, there hasn¡¯t been any revolutionary new ways to y FPS games. There are still some other modes like ¡®safe and unboxing¡¯,¡¯mindlessly attacking¡¯,¡¯special firearms¡¯, and ¡®fighting zombies¡¯. Although the cart and spot-upying ystyle of ¡®Overwatch¡¯ looks rather new, it¡¯s only interesting when it¡¯s paired with the hero characteristics of ¡®Overwatch¡¯. If it¡¯s forcefully put into a normal FPS game, it won¡¯t be that fun. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±You mean to try not to do it?¡±¡± Lin chaoxu muttered. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±It¡¯s possible, but there¡¯ll be some risk involved,¡±¡±Qin Xiao replied. ¡± ¡°Lin chaoxu smiled.¡±¡±The risk is fine. Tell me your thoughts.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Qin Xiao considered for a moment before he replied in a serious tone,¡±¡±¡±¡±My thoughts are actually simr to Sun Bing¡¯s to a certain extent, which is to add more Grand scenes and modern weapons into a more traditional FPS game like Wolf Soul, such as more artillery, tanks, and nes.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Of course, there are risks in doing so, but our goal isn¡¯t topare with European and American manufacturers. Our main goal is still domestic. As long as you add a few nes, tanks, and cannons to make it better than fire assault, it¡¯ll be fine. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±In addition, these modern weapons can actually better reflect the role of Pangu engine. For example, if a shell explodes on the ground, it will leave a hole in the ground, and at the same time, the shock wave will send yers flying, or the shell fragments will cause damage to yers. All of these can be used as gimmicks of the game. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°Lin chaoxu thought for a moment and said,¡±¡±hmm ... Sounds good.¡±¡± In other words, they¡¯re only making improvements and updates to the current traditional game modes, adding new content, and at the same time focusing on the effects of physical appeal, notpletely copying the Western manufacturers. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°Qin Xiao nodded,¡±¡±yes.¡±¡± It¡¯s not practical to learn from the big factories in Europe and America. On one hand, we¡¯re not capable enough, and on the other hand, the Chinese yers might not fall for it. At least for now, most of the yers in Wolf souls only want to have fun with Tutu Tutu. There¡¯s basically no need for a story in an FPS game. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°Lin chaoxu nodded, clearly agreeing with Qin Xiao¡¯s statement. ¡± ¡°Qin Xiao¡¯s n was equivalent to apromise. With Wolf Soul as the foundation, he added arger map, more abundant firearms, vehicles, and modern weapons. At the same time, he still mainly yed online battles, trying to suit the taste of the domestic yers as much as possible. ¡± ¡°Although there was still a little risk, it was worth a try. ¡± ¡°Lin chaoxu thought for a moment and said,¡±¡±alright, this is the n for now.¡±¡± Qin Xiao, you¡¯ll be in charge of this. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±No problem.¡±¡± Qin Xiao nodded. ¡± ¡°Lin chaoxu was clear that even though Qin Xiao¡¯s n had some risks, it waspletely within control. Even if the game didn¡¯t be popr, it shouldn¡¯t be hard to guarantee profits. ¡± ¡°After all, they were mainly considering the domestic market, and theirpetitors were fire assault and Overwatch. ¡± ¡°Lin chaoxu looked at Jin jieguang and said,¡±¡±also, pay more attention to ZEN Entertainment and Thunderbolt Entertainment¡¯s movements. They should have received the notice from the game Committee.¡±¡± Especially Chen Mo, pay more attention to him. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Don¡¯t worry, Mr. Lin!¡±¡±Jin jieguang nodded. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±It¡¯s alright, there¡¯s no need to be too worried. ¡°¡±Qin Xiao replied. In terms of funding and Foundation in the field of FPS games, we¡¯re clearly better. Furthermore, Overwatch wasn¡¯t very sessful, which meant that it was difficult to innovate in the FPS field. In the field of traditional FPS games, we have the data of arge number of Wolf Soul yers, so we have an absolute advantage in this aspect. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±That¡¯s right,¡±¡± Sun Bing nodded.¡±¡±I think Chen Mo¡¯s Overwatch is an important attempt in the FPS scene, but the results aren¡¯t looking good.¡±¡± He won¡¯t be able toe up with any new ideas in the short term, right?¡±¡± ¡± Chapter 640 ? Chapter 640 yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground The big escape Trantor 549690339 ¡°In the experience store, Chen Mo was still working on the design concept. ¡± ¡°To Chen Mo, there were a lot of choices in FPS games, and many of the top FPS games in his previous life had their own advantages. ¡± ¡°However, with Chen Mo¡¯s current abilities and the requirements of the game, there weren¡¯t many options. ¡± ¡°First of all, he could pass onrge-scale Modern Warfare themes. On one hand, he didn¡¯t have enough Foundation and ability, and on the other hand, the yers in the country didn¡¯t really buy it. ¡± ¡°If such a game was really made, it was likely that the main market would be in Europe and the United States. It wouldn¡¯t have much of an advantage over Wolf soul and fire assault in China. ¡± ¡°Secondly, although it would be used for the training of the troops, it was mainly for the taste of the domestic yers. This was a game, not a modern war simtor specially provided for the troops. ¡± ¡°If it was just for war simtion, the best choice would be ¡°¡±armed assault¡±¡±. However, as a game, it required too many machines and the operations were tooplicated. It was infinitely close to the real situation of Modern Warfare. It might not be a loss, but it might not be popr. ¡± ¡°Plus, with Chen Zhao¡¯s current abilities, it was very difficult to do it. ¡± ¡°Moreover, giving it to the troops did not mean that it was reserved for the Special Forces. There were so many ordinary soldiers and police in the country, but how many Special Forces were there? If it was only for the Special Forces, it would be even more extravagant. ¡± ¡°If the Special Forces wanted to train, they could use real scenes, real people acting as hostages, and so on. After all, the Special Forces were all elites. No matter how realistic a VR game was, it couldn¡¯t bepared to a real training scene. ¡± ¡°Therefore, the game had to be more universal. For example, the ystyle in Wolf Soul and raging inferno assault, which was designed for military use, was actually just the ¡°¡±tututu¡±¡± in special map scenes. ¡± ¡°At the current stage, there were two main functions of FPS games on VR. ¡± ¡°On the one hand, it was to cultivate reaction, awareness, team cooperation, andbat skills in individualbat to deal with a variety ofplex battles. The game not only applied to soldiers, but also armed police, police, and so on. ¡± Letting the police learn the high-end operations that only the Special Forces needed to do was not useful for most people. ¡°On the other hand, he wanted to find some fun in the boring training. No matter how realistic VR games were, they couldn¡¯t rece the daily training of the Army. This thing yed a role of adjustment and rxation. ¡± ¡°Moreover, a VR game was still a game. Chen Mo¡¯s main goal was to make a good FPS game and take over the market, and bing a VR training program for the troops was only his secondary goal. ¡± ¡°Just like when Emperor dynasty entertainment was in discussion, the first thing they thought about was how to make the game more original and make the yers like it, not how to better meet the gamemittee¡¯s requirements. ¡± ¡°Once Chen Mo had a lot of experience in making FPS games, and the conditions were right, the ultimate goal of VR FPS games would be to create a modern war simtor like armed assault. ¡± ¡°However, even if it was made, not many people would y it. After all, the closer it was to reality, the moreplicated it was, and the moreplicated it was, the smaller the audience. At that point, they would no longer be making games for the sake of profit, but for the sake of historical status. ¡± ¡°Of course, that was a gradual process. Not to mention Chen Mo, even video game designers around the world weren¡¯t able to do that, and the VR technology wasn¡¯t up to par yet, so that was a story for the future. ¡± ¡°It was the same for other simr single yer games. Even though these games had their own advantages in the eyes of hardcore gamers, the most important thing for Chen Mo was the price-performance ratio. ¡± ¡°Using the least amount of resources to achieve the best results, there was no need to simplify things. ¡± ¡°For Chen Mo, there was a shortcut. ¡± yerUnknown¡¯s Battlegrounds escape. ¡°The reason why this was a more ingenious choice was that although it waspletely different from the traditional FPS game, it was not difficult to create. ¡± ¡°As a game, yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground could be considered very sessful. It was extremely popr both domestically and overseas, and it had even extended its poprity to yers who did not y FPS games much. ¡± ¡°It had been two years since League of Legends was released, but Chen Mo still hadn¡¯t released a phenomenal game that could dominate the VR tform. It was the perfect time to release yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground at this critical moment. ¡± ¡°Of course, releasing yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground did not mean that it could sweep the entire VR tform, nor did it mean that it could end all FPS games. It was a very novel way of ying, but there was still a lot of room for development in the FPS category. ¡± ¡°To Chen Mo, there would be more content-rich FPS games after yerUnknown¡¯s Battlegrounds, but they would all have different goals. ¡± ...... ¡°When it came to yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground, this game was aplete victory in terms of design concept. ¡± ¡°In fact, yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground¡¯s technological level wasn¡¯t particrly high. Many FPS games that were much older than yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground could have achieved this, but because the design concept wasn¡¯t there, no game had been able to perfect a simr ¡°¡±Battle Royale¡±¡± mode. ¡± ¡°From DAYZ to H1Z1, and then to yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground, simr modes were constantly evolving. ¡± ¡°In Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, DAYZ was just a part of Armed Assault 2, which was a game that was released in 2009. ¡± ¡°In ¡°¡±Armed Assault 2¡å¡±, it was already possible for multiple yers to survive and fight on a superrge map. However, yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground, which had truly perfected this mode, only became popr in 2017. There was a gap of eight years between the two. ¡± ¡°In terms of technological progress, there was definitely some, but it was far from the point where it could decide the life and death of a game. ¡± ¡°From the DAYZ module¡¯s appearance in 2012 to H1Z1 in 2015, and then to ¡°¡±yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground¡±¡± in 2017, the model had been constantly developing and improving. It was also inseparable from the continuous efforts of the ¡°¡±father of yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground¡±¡±, Brandon. ¡± ¡°To some extent, Brandon was also worthy of being the top designer. This was because the entire escape game mode was created and perfected by him. ¡± ¡°Of course, the idea of the ¡°¡±big escape game¡±¡± originated from nihong¡¯s movie ¡°¡±big escape¡±¡±. However, there was still a huge gap between a movie and a real game. Out of the billions of people in the world, only Brandon was able to turn the idea into reality. ¡± ¡°In Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, yerUnknown¡¯s Battlegrounds wasn¡¯t the best FPS game in terms of quality, as many hardcore FPS yers could belittle the game in many ways. ¡± ¡°However, it was undeniable that Brandon, as the designer, got full marks for his ideas. As for whether the game was good or not, it was the technical staff¡¯s fault, not the designer ¡®s. ¡± It¡¯s not like the designer could just write a n and get rid of all the bugs and cheats in the game. Chapter 641 ? Chapter 641 A moreplete action system Trantor 549690339 ¡°As for many people who felt that the ¡°¡±battle royale mode¡±¡± was unpresentable, and manyrge FPS manufacturers would not do it ... It was obviously nonsense. ¡± ¡°It wasn¡¯t just domestic game manufacturers that werepeting to imitate this model, but foreign game manufacturers were also learning the big escape model. ¡± ¡°EA¡¯s CEO, Andrew, praised yerUnknown¡¯s Battlegrounds for injecting fresh blood into the industry. He was very impressed with the R & D team. He also expressed that the future ¡°¡±battlefield¡±¡± might have a simr escape mode. ¡± ¡°In response to the questions during thepany¡¯s financial conference call, the CEO of Ubisoft, yvus Guillemot, also said that the big escape game was currently a very interesting game mode, and they might alsounch such a mode in future game downloadable content. ¡± ¡°If even these ssic FPS yers ced so much importance on yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground, it was clear that this model was an unprecedented sess. ¡± ...... ¡°To Chen Mo, yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground was the most cost-effective game, especially since it was a VR game, and its resources were controble. ¡± ¡°In terms of game mechanics, yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground was a game where 100 yers parachuted to every corner of an isted ind, found weapons, vehicles, and supplies with their bare hands, and survived to the end. ¡± ¡°There were nearly thirty types of guns in yerUnknown¡¯s Battlegrounds, but they were still within Chen Mo¡¯s eptable range. ¡± ¡°As for the various props and vehicles, they had already been made in many FPS games, just for the sake of adding some more variations. ¡± The most difficult part was the replication of the entire map. ¡°Unlike League of Legends, yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground¡¯s maps were not something that could be memorized. The size of the entire map was 64 square kilometers, and there were variousplex terrains and buildings on the map. It could be said that most of the work was done on this map. ¡± ¡°Luckily, Chen Mo had done some research on this game in his previous life. Some websites like SNF VR had the full picture of the map, so he should be able to restore it with memory yback potions. ¡± ¡°It didn¡¯t matter if there were some deviations, as Chen Mo could make up for them with his level abilities. ¡± ¡°Of course, it didn¡¯t matter even if he couldn¡¯t remember it at all. Level design was something that could be polished over time. With the design ideas and basic rules already clear, it was nothing more than a matter of how the terrain was divided, how the houses were ced, and how the resources were farmed. ¡± The second was about the basic settings of the game. ¡°In terms of actions, yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground had a certain survival aspect to it. Therefore, the actions were definitely richer than those in traditional FPS games. It even included actions such as tilting one¡¯s head to the left and right, jumping over walls, and so on. ¡± Chen Mo was considering adding more actions to a VR game to make the experience more realistic. ¡°On one hand, it was to add the ¡®find cover¡¯ operation. At this time, the yers would lean their backs against the cover and could shoot out of the cover at any time. After shooting, they would automatically return to the ¡®close to the cover¡¯ state. ¡± (There is a simr operation mode in GTA 5 and mysterious sea.) ¡°On the other hand, it was to add in the ¡°¡±blind shooting¡±¡± operation. When the yer was hiding behind cover and was unwilling to reveal his head to shoot urately, blind shooting could be used, which meant that the gun could be extended outside the cover to shoot. Of course, under such circumstances, the uracy of shooting would be greatly reduced. ¡± ¡°In addition, it could also add a ¡°¡±butt attack¡±¡± operation. When the yer was very close to the enemy, he could use the butt to hit the enemy, causing a rtively short hit recovery effect and a small amount of damage to the enemy. ¡± ¡°In terms of movement, the ¡°¡±climbing system¡±¡± was further enhanced, allowing yers to climb steep slopes or walls of houses. However, during the process of climbing the system, the yer would be in a state of withdrawal, and when falling, they would receive damage ording to their height. There would also be physical limitations when climbing, and once one¡¯s physical strength was exhausted, they would fall. ¡± ¡°Moreover, not all ces could be climbed. Only a few Hills with rtively soft soil and walls of houses where the climbing force was present could be climbed. ¡± ¡°Obviously, this climbing system was to allow yers to choose more routes. It was a high-risk, high-reward behavior. ¡± ¡°In addition, yers would receive more tactical movements, such as rolls, pounces, and so on. These movements would also consume the yer¡¯s stamina system, and they had a certain cooldown that could only be used at critical moments. ¡± ¡°These actions could bebined with physical triggers. For example, when a yer was sent flying by a fragment grenade, or when they fell from a high ce, they could roll to avoid falling damage while adjusting their position. ¡± ¡°Jumping down from a vehicle and rolling could also avoid some damage, but if the speed was too fast, he would still die. ¡± ¡°In addition, the game would also use some ssic settings, such as the different recoil force of the gun when the yer adopted different postures (standing, squatting, lying), and the drop of the bullet when flying, etc. ¡± ¡°In the end, there were two main purposes for the changes. ¡± ¡°The first was to make the battle situation in the game moreplicated, so that the yers who liked to use their brains had more winning strategies. In addition, it made the whole game closer to realbat. At least, when the enemy found you first, you could roll for cover and wait for an opportunity to counterattack. ¡± ¡°In terms of the audit, there was actually no big problem. ¡± ¡°Not only were the policies in this world different from his previous life, they were also morex in their checks. Chen Mo was also an honorary member of themittee, and even killing prototype had passed the checks, let alone yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground. On the other hand, even if the card was approved, it was nothing more than a change of packaging. The background of the story would be changed to a simted military training, and at the beginning of the game, it would be exined that the game was virtual and people would not die. ¡± ¡°If it really did not work out, they could also pull out a banner in the game and write slogans like ¡°¡±train hard, protect the country, strive for excellence, keep improving¡±¡±. They could do whatever they wanted to do. Anyway, it would highlight positive energy ... ¡± ¡°Of course, Chen Mo didn¡¯t have to purposely set up mines. yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground was still set on an isted ind, and the character models had features of different races and regions, trying to reduce the game¡¯s background as much as possible. ¡± ...... ¡°Very quickly, the design concept for the game waspleted, and the meeting began. ¡± ¡°It was obvious that everyone was looking forward to it. After all, this was Chen Mo¡¯s first game for the new year, and no one could guess what Chen Mo was going to do. ¡± ¡°Most people would have guessed that Chen Mo would continue with Dark Souls and super Mali Odyssey, focusing on bigger ssics. After all, Chen Mo had just won TGN¡¯s Game of the Year award, and his goal was the sea of stars, so making money was his secondary goal. ¡± ¡°Chen Mo smiled at everyone. The projection screen hadn¡¯t shown the concept draft yet,¡±¡±¡±¡±Our next main research and development mission is yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground.¡±¡± ¡± Everyone present was stunned. ¡°Qian Kun asked weakly,¡±¡±uh, manager, didn¡¯t we already do¡±¡± excavating the earth for Ascension ¡°¡±?¡±¡± You¡¯re going to release a sequel?¡±¡± ¡± Chapter 642 ? Chapter 642 The charm of winning the chicken dinner Trantor 549690339 ¡°It wasn¡¯t everyone¡¯s fault for misunderstanding it. After all, the name ¡°¡±excavating the earth for Ascension¡±¡± left a deep impression on everyone. Not to mention the people on the organizingmittee, most of the yers and live streamers would shiver when they heard the name. ¡± ¡°Chen Moughed,¡±¡±no, no, no. This is another game. It¡¯s not the same as the hammer-wielding Man Mountain climbing game.¡±¡± Let¡¯s take a look at the concept draft. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°When they saw the title of the concept draft on the projection screen, everyone came to a sudden realization. ¡± ¡°Oh, it¡¯s this ¡°¡±PUBG¡±¡±! ¡± ¡°Looking at the basic concept of the game, it did fit the name ¡°¡±yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground¡±¡± quite well. 100 peoplended on a deserted ind, and only one person could survive to the end, so it was indeed a yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground. ¡± Chen Mo started exining the basic concepts and settings of the game. The core fun of the game. Map mechanism. The character¡¯s movements. Gun system and essories. Item system and refresh mechanism. Vehicle-rted content. ...... ¡°yerUnknown¡¯s Battlegrounds ¡®game mode was notplicated. Although the details wereplicated, the basic settings were easy to understand. ¡± ¡°In short, it was to throw 100 yers on an isted ind, search for resources on their own, and kill each other until only one was left. At the same time, in order to control the game time and drive the yers to concentrate, the concept of ¡®blue circle¡¯ was added. ¡± ¡°As for the rest, they were all added in details to make the game richer and more fun. ¡± ¡°After he finished, Chen Mo looked at everyone,¡±¡±¡±¡±So, do you all understand?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°No one raised any questions, because Chen Mo exined it very clearly, and the mechanics of the game weren¡¯t hard to understand. ¡± Perhaps the only question was ... Just like that? ¡°Obviously, it was far from the kind of novel that many people imagined. It wasn¡¯t as shocking as when Dark Souls was first released. ¡± ¡°From the design concept alone, yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground was only innovative in terms of ystyle, and there was nothing particrly praiseworthy about other aspects. ¡± ¡°Even if he used the Pangu engine ... This was a battle of firearms, after all. The main damage came from the bullets, so the effect would not be as outstanding as that of Dark Souls. ¡± ¡°Maybe ... Because it was the first event of the year, he wanted to do a simple event to practice first? ¡± Many people had the same thought. ¡°¡±¡±Alright,¡±¡± Chen Zhao smiled.¡±¡±Since there¡¯s no problem, meeting adjourned.¡±¡± ¡± ...... Many people would look down on yerUnknown¡¯s Battlegrounds when they first came into contact with the game¡¯s concept. The reason was simple-the game¡¯s ystyle did not seem cool. ¡°Clearly, many people in the task force had the same doubts. ¡± ¡°Maps, firearms, vehicles, essories, props, actions, and other aspects were more or less avable in otherrge-scale FPS games. There was not much innovation. ¡± ¡°The only thing worth bragging about was the game mode, but would the yers really ept it? He still had doubts. ¡± ¡°In fact, there had been some survival games in other countries in the parallel world. For example, there was a survival game called ¡°¡±zombie siege¡±¡± that appeared two years ago. The yer would y the role of a soldier in the apocalypse and had to defend against the zombies ¡®attacks in the base while constantly searching for resources to survive. ¡± ¡°It had indeed received a certain response, and the sales were not bad, but it was far from reaching the point of ¡°¡±poprity.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Mo obviously wasn¡¯t the type to be content with a small fortune. Even if he was making mobile games, he would definitely aim for the top of the best selling leaderboard. ¡± yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground looked like an FPS game that was mixed with survival elements. Could a simple idea win against traditional FPS games? Chen Zhao¡¯s answer was yes. ¡°When analyzing yerUnknown¡¯s Battlegrounds, many people tend to think of the problem as simple. ¡°¡±It¡¯s just an idea!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°However, in reality, MOBA was an idea, and so was arge MMORPG. The prototype of most ssic games was also an idea. ¡± ¡°The key was whether you could perfect this idea into a rich game, and whether you could make this idea fit the preferences of most yers. ¡± ¡°To the general public, yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground was better than all the other FPS games on the market (in terms of the game¡¯s yability). This was not a coincidence, but an inevitable result of the game¡¯s philosophy. ¡± The magic of yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground mainlyy in five aspects. The first was the strong randomness and the constant freshness. The second was the potential for growth. The third was the rxed game rhythm. The fourth was moderate team cooperation with high tolerance for mistakes. The fifth was rich fun and exciting points. ¡°If one were to take these five advantages andpare them with other FPS games on the market, one would be able to clearly see how awesome PUBG was. ¡± ¡°If yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground¡¯s score was 100 points, it could be used to grade the other games. ¡± Traditional FPS games (PvP) 50 100 30 70 70 [FPS (single-yer) 30 100 100 ¨C 100] [The Overwatch Council 60 80 30 30 80] League of Legends 100 100 100 80 100 ¡°Of course, it did not mean that yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground had defeated these games. The other games had their own strengths and were not included in the evaluation. ¡± It could only be said that yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground had a very clear advantage in these five points. ¡°In terms of high randomness and novelty, this was the root of ensuring the lifespan of the game. Simply put, yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground was simr to League of Legends in that they both had a new experience with every round. ¡± ¡°Solo FPS games were good in all aspects, but in this aspect, they could not provide yers with a highly random gaming experience. No matter how fun it was, it would be boring after a few rounds. ¡± ¡°In traditional FPS games, the battles would usually break out at a few key points. After ying for a long time, one would feel a sense of deja vu. ¡± ¡°Even though the Overwatch could change the hero to dilute this feeling, the sense of deja vu from the battle site was still an unresolved problem. ¡± ¡°For example, in push maps, there would be a wave at every corner. In addition, there was the problem of a rigid lineup. After ying for more than a dozen games, the feeling would be very simr, and the expectations for the next game would drop significantly. ¡± ¡°This was one of yerUnknown¡¯s Battlegrounds ¡®trump cards. Due to the size of the map, the different flight routes, the different blue circles, the different number of people flying to a certain area, and the different items picked up, yers would always be able to experience different games. ¡± ¡°As for the potential for growth in mechanics, it was whether or not the yer could continuously improve their skills through repeated training. ¡± ¡°This was the traditional advantage of FPS games, and it went without saying. The only thing worth mentioning was that due to the serious restraint of the lineup in ¡°¡±Overwatch¡±¡±, sometimes marksmanship didn¡¯t guarantee a win, so points were deducted. ¡± Chapter 643 ? Chapter 643 An Artificial Intelligence Law enforcer? Trantor 549690339 A rxed game rhythm was the key factor that allowed yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground to stand out from all the other FPS games. The biggest problem faced by traditional FPS games and Overwatch was exhaustion. ¡°They were tunneling at any moment, and they could discover the enemy at any time, so the yers ¡®minds were always on high alert. Only when they died could they rest for a few seconds, and then they had to continue fighting. ¡± ¡°Although yers in the Overwatch might not be instantly killed, they still had to maintain a high level of concentration. Number 76 was either Tutu Tutu or running. ¡± ¡°In yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground, searching for resources, running away from the blue circle, and shooting were all ovepping tasks. The yers were very rxed during the search for resources and the running of the blue circle. This kind of rxation made it less likely for the yers to get tired. ¡± ¡°It was for this reason that yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground became one of the games with the best livestreaming effects. The streamer had more time to chat with the audience when they were searching for things or running away, unlike other FPS games where the streamer would not have time to say anything when he was ying. ¡± Team cooperation with moderate intensity referred to the role of an individual in the battle. ¡°In other words, there had to be a good bnce between an individual and a team. The team should provide convenience for the individual, while the individual should not be dragged down by the team. Instead, he could rely on his strong individual ability to lead the team to victory. This was a good rtionship. ¡± ¡°On the other hand, the reason why Overwatch was not friendly to individuals was because the teampletely crushed the individual. ¡± ¡°In traditional FPS games, if you had good marksmanship, you could take on five people at once. ¡± ¡°In League of Legends, if you had good skills, you could snowball and fight one against five. ¡± ¡°However, in Overwatch, you could not fight against five people at once under any circumstances, unless the opponents were five retards. ¡± ¡°The more important the party¡¯s role was, the less tolerance the yers had for their teammates. Just like in ¡°¡±Overwatch¡±¡±, once they were beaten up by a pair of yers, everyone¡¯s first reaction would be to immediately curse at 76. ¡± ¡°In traditional FPS games, although teammates were more important, it was not to the extent that the game would bepletely lost just because there was one less yer. ¡± ¡°In yerUnknown¡¯s Battlegrounds, the requirements for teammates had been greatly reduced, and it had never been so easy to carry a teammate. In League of Legends, bringing a noob might end up killing too many enemies. But in yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground, as long as the noob followed you obediently and avoided crowded areas, it was not a problem to survive for a while. ¡± ¡°To put it simply, the Overwatch Vanguard was a game that could not be yed with more idiots, but the game of PUBG was a game that became more fun with more idiots. ¡± ¡°Therefore, the atmosphere in yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground was rtively good. There was not much hostility in the game, and there were basically noints about teammates. Because even if your teammates died on the ground, you could still win the chicken dinner alone. ¡± ¡°As for the rich excitement and enjoyment points, it meant that yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground had more exciting aspectspared to other games. ¡± ¡°Picking up good items, living long, finding the right vehicle, killing someone, sessfully entering the safe zone, picking up an airdrop, helping his teammates, winning the chicken dinner ... ¡± They were all pleasurable points. The fun apanied the game from beginning to end. Just the process of picking up a fully equipped car was enough for yers to have fun four to five times. ¡°As for getting a chicken dinner, it was enough for most new yers to enjoy it for three to four days. ¡± ¡°Other than that, another important point was that yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground had bnced the needs of hardcore yers and fringe yers. ¡± Hardcore yers loved guns and liked to win by improving their marksmanship. ¡°The fringe yers were afraid of guns and wanted to win in other ways, such as hiding. ¡± ¡°Therefore, traditional FPS games were a paradise for hardcore yers. It was difficult for the yer base to spread because yers on the fringe did not want to practice their marksmanship day in and day out. It was also difficult for them to experience the fun of FPS games. ¡± ¡°One of the problems of Overwatch was that the gaming experience of hardcore yers was not necessarily good, because sometimes, the restraint of the lineup would make marksmanship useless. ¡± yerUnknown¡¯s Battlegrounds was different. The designer¡¯s idea from the very beginning was to allow most yers to win in a way that they were good at. ¡°They could use guns, they could LYB, they could arrogantly try to stop a fight, they could also hide in the house and note out. ¡± ¡°Different yers could adopt different strategies in the game. yers with good marksmanship naturally had a great advantage, and yers with bad marksmanship also had a great chance of winning. ¡± It was also because of this and the team rtionship that was mentioned before that yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground was able to spread very quickly. The yer base continued to expand and the fish pond became deeper and deeper. This ensured that most yers could enjoy the fun of the game. ¡°As for PUBG Mobile games, adding robots into the game was actually a way to expand the fish pond. ¡± ¡°In addition, yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground was a game with very little negative feedback. ¡± ¡°In other FPS games, if you were a noob, you might die very frequently. In st mode, once you died, you could only be an observer throughout the game. ¡± ¡°In Overwatch, it was even easier for one¡¯s mentality to explode when one was blocked at the door. ¡± ¡°However, yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground was different. Novices would usually jump to ces with fewer people to avoid battle and search for items. Even if they were killed, the survival time of the items they searched for was also very interesting. ¡± ¡°Of course, there were also many noobs who would die on the ground, but the more they died, the lower their points would be, and they would be matched with weaker opponents. ¡± ¡°After dying, they could immediately restart a game. Most yers would quickly forget the previous unhappiness and think that they would definitely y better this round. ¡± ...... ¡°After deciding on the development n for yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground, Chen Mo still had some details to improve on. ¡± The Pangu system was a very powerful physical catalyst and also a very powerful game AI. ¡°Making robots in the game and determining the level of the robots based on their performance was obviously a way to increase the depth of the game, but it was too low-end for Chen Mo and wasn¡¯t interesting at all. ¡± Chen Mo was thinking about something else. ¡°All FPS games were gued by external hacks, and it was the same in parallel world. ¡± ¡°Previously, there had been arge-scale hacking incident in ¡®Overwatch¡¯. Although it had subsided for the time being, it was clear that hacking was not something that could be stopped despite repeated prohibitions. ¡± ¡°In fact, cheats were equivalent to a battle of wits and courage between programming gods. Nowadays, many big live streamers were more or less suspected of cheating. It was just that they used high-end custom-made versions, which cost sky-high prices, and updated very frequently, so it was difficult to find out. ¡± ¡°Even though Chen Mo used a brutal method to ban all low-end cheats, there were always some high-end cheats that could fool the VR gaming pod¡¯s detection. ¡± ¡°If yerUnknown¡¯s Battlegrounds was as popr as in his previous life, would the problem of cheating appear again? ¡± ¡°If arge number of cheats appeared, it would be unrealistic to count on manual verification. In that case, could artificial intelligence rece the GM and be thew enforcer in the game? ¡± Chapter 644 ? Chapter 644 The artificial intelligence anti-cheat system Trantor 549690339 ¡°The problem of hacking in FPS games had always been one of the biggest headaches for designers, even in VR. ¡± ¡°This was mainly because of the game type. In order to ensure the smoothness of the game, FPS games used many solutions that relied on localputing. This was equivalent to giving the external software space to modify the data. ¡± ¡°Even though the VR tform had been reinvented, it was still very difficult topletely remove the influence of cheats, especially in the shooting game field. ¡± ¡°The majority of gamepanies ¡®way of solving cheats was still from the technical aspect. For example, they could reduce the number of loopholes in the game itself through technical standards, making it more difficult to be hacked, and easier to discover cheats disguised as normal programs. They could then detect and stop them. ¡± ¡°However, after all, the higher the Dao was, the more devilish it would be. The creator of the cheat would have an advantage as the attacker. Just like in many games, it was much easier to find bugs than to fix them. ¡± ¡°Moreover, the profit of developing a marksmanship-type game was too great. Therefore, under the temptation of profit, countless cheating game producers would rush like ducks for the profit. ¡± ¡°In other games, even if the other party used cheats, they would still be limited by the character¡¯s attributes. However, FPS games werepletely different. Life and death could be determined in a few milliseconds, and using cheats could reap the greatest benefits. ¡± ¡°As for Chen Mo¡¯s previous life¡¯s famous NAC system, it wasn¡¯t a cheat and could only be used as a support. ¡± ¡°In reality, when it detected an abnormality in a user¡¯s memory or other hardware, it would ban the user for a period of time, making it difficult for the cheat creator to determine which code had triggered the VAC. ¡± ¡°Although the uracy of this system was rtively high, the biggest problem was that it was not timely. Obviously, for a lot of professional yers, this level of ban was nothing. ¡± ¡°After all, the majority of professional cheaters had many ounts, and they could just ban one and change to another. ¡± ¡°As for using program detection to identify cheats, it was a difficult thing to do in Chen Mo¡¯s previous life. ¡± ¡°Many anti-cheating systems were indeed based on the yer¡¯s data, but because the level of artificial intelligence was not high, there was not enough data. It was impossible to urately determine whether this person was cheating or if he was an expert. ¡± ¡°After all, the difference in stats between an expert and a noob was like the difference between heaven and earth. ¡± ¡°Therefore, some people jokingly called Battlefield 1 ¡°¡±s fair fight system the official anti-Pro system. This system was too unfriendly to pro yers and often made mistakes. ¡± ¡°So far, the most effective way was to release the testing system, which was what Chen Mo did in Overwatch. ¡± ¡°This kind of detection system had extremely high authority and would be activated before entering the game. It would collect all kinds of data, monitor the progress of the equipment, and hide the game memory. Once it detected that a program was trying to interfere with the game data, it would take the corresponding measures. When it detected some unsolvable situation, it would even shut down the game directly. ¡± ¡°Of course, in principle, this kind of high authority was no different from the so-called rogue plug-ins. The price was that the user¡¯s every move would be seen. ¡± ¡°On the one hand, it might constitute an invasion of the user¡¯s privacy, and on the other hand, it would reduce the game¡¯s flow to a certain extent. ¡± ¡°But no matter what, this was the most effective method at the moment. ¡± ¡°Chen Mo was well aware of this, so when Overwatch was flooded with cheats, he decisively used this detection program to ban the low-end cheats. ¡± ¡°In times of chaos, using heavy punishment was sometimes a form of harm to the yers if they were overly cautious. ¡± ¡°What¡¯s more, VR gaming pods were different from PC, their main function was to y games. ¡± ¡°However, this system wasn¡¯t omnipotent, just like the PC games in his previous life had things like a mouse Hong. ¡± ¡°In the VR games of the parallel world, there were simr auxiliary input devices that could deceive detection programs and modify the yers ¡®consciousness signals, allowing yers who were originally bad at shooting to greatly improve their uracy. ¡± Chen Mo¡¯s thoughts went back to the beginning. Was it possible to judge whether a yer was an expert or a cheater through artificial intelligence? The previous games couldn¡¯t do it because the level of artificial intelligence was too low. There was often a huge error in judging the yers ¡®true level through various data. ¡°However, the Pangu system¡¯s artificial intelligence was already advanced enough. By screening and detecting the real data of arge number of yers, it could better determine which operations were simr to those of human beings and distinguish between cheaters and experts. ¡± ¡°In a sense, the Pangu system and Origin were the world¡¯s top external hacks. They could even fully simte human operations to the extent that they could pass off as real. ¡± ¡°Therefore, their judgment on ¡°¡±whether a certain operation was done by a human¡±¡± was certainly more clear than most humans. ¡± ¡°Therefore, Chen Mo¡¯s n was to first provide the Pangu system with the appropriate review criteria through arge amount of data, so that the AI could grasp the habits and performance of humans in the game, as well as the corresponding probability data. ¡± ¡°Secondly, at certain points in the game, such as killing more than eight people or winning a chicken dinner, the detection would be triggered. At this time, the system would detect if there was anything abnormal with the data transmitted by the yer throughout the game. If there was anything abnormal, it would be considered a suspect. ¡± ¡°Of course, the yers who were frequently reported would also be investigated. ¡± ¡°Moreover, when the data in the game appeared under special circumstances, it would also trigger the artificial intelligence¡¯s rm. For example, if a yer¡¯s aim was always locked on the enemy¡¯s neck or waist, and the data was significantly higher than the normal value, it would also trigger the detection. ¡± ¡°For yers who had confirmed that they had cheated, the punishment would be different ording to the type of cheat. ¡± ¡°As for special cheats such as health lock, x-ray vision, ne explosion, and sucking people, they would be permanently banned. These cheats had no acting skills or confusion at all. They were too low-end and there was no need to keep them. ¡± ¡°Other than that, Chen Mo had a malicious joke waiting for the yers who used micro-sight or assisted aim. ¡± ¡°First of all, these yers would be directly punished in this game. The game will directly refresh an Artificial Intelligence Law enforcer in a hidden location and kill the yer on the spot. ¡± ¡°After that, the yer would have a hidden cheater tag in the system. After another match, he could only be matched with other cheaters, which was a special cheating server. ¡± ¡°The plug-in suit looked exactly the same as a normal server, but it was full of yers who used plug-ins, and arge number of artificial intelligence were mixed in. ¡± ¡°Since these yers were all good at acting, they would not quickly realize that they had entered the cheat-like server. ¡± Chapter 645 ? Chapter 645 What is Chen Mo¡¯s new game? Trantor 549690339 There were three types of characters in this type of server. ¡°One was a rtively weak artificial intelligence, one was a cheater, and the other was a very strong artificial intelligence. ¡± ¡°In the beginning, these cheaters might happily kill two or three people (including ordinaryputers and other cheaters), but they would soon be punished by other cheaters. And even the strongest cheater would eventually be ughtered by the strongest artificial intelligence. ¡± ¡°In other words, even if the strongest gods could survive to the final circle, they would still be ughtered by the artificial intelligence and never get to eat chicken. ¡± ¡°All of this waspletely hidden. Although the cheater yers would slowly understand this fact, many of the cheater yers would still be deceived for a long time. They would be tortured for a long time in this illusionary Battle of the Gods server before they finally woke up. ¡± ¡°After that, they could either give up on the ount and stop ying, which would have the same effect as seizing the cheat. The other option was to continue using this type of hack and continue to improve his level of hacking in this server, eventually bing the king of hacking. ¡± ¡°Of course, even if they became the king of cheats, the chances of them defeating the artificial intelligence were almost non-existent. ¡± Chen Mo had thought of a better name for the AI system. ¡°God¡¯s eye, GODEYE. ¡± ...... ¡°While yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground was still in development, news of Emperor dynasty entertainment and ZEN Entertainment¡¯s new FPS games began to spread. ¡± ¡°As Pangu engine was extremely powerful, many of the contents in FPS games could bepleted with real physical engines. Furthermore, these threepanies had experience in making FPS games, so their development speed was very fast. ¡± ¡°Emperor dynasty Entertainment¡¯s idea was to expand the map area. On a rtivelyrge map, a variety ofbat methods, such as vehicles, machine guns, cannons, trenches, and so on, were arranged. The yers would fight at most 16 ¨C 16. The name of this project was ¡°¡±Wolf Soul Modern battlefield.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°ZEN Entertainment¡¯s idea was to develop a standalone game that leaned towards Western games, named fire Assault 2. That meant adding a standalone story mode into normal shooting and PVP battles to improve the story and appeal of the game. ¡± ¡°Obviously, these twopanies more or less had the idea of continuing their IP, which was to use the IP of sessful games to transfer all the core yers. ¡± ¡°At the same time, some fans of his uncle had also started to reveal on the website that many gamingpanies were developing new FPS games and that there might be a trend of FPS games in the country in the first half of the year. ¡± ¡°To many FPS yers, this was a form of revelry. This was because everyone had already gotten tired of ying the three major FPS games in the country. ¡± ¡°Even though Overwatch had gained a lot of attention and poprity when it was first released, it was not a game that was meant for hardcore FPS yers. Its yer base was notpletely the same as traditional FPS games. ¡± ¡°Moreover, after such a long time, the yers who liked to try out the Overwatch had all yed it before, so they had developed a certain sense ofziness. ¡± ¡°As for the other two games, they were traditional games that had been in operation for a long time. In terms of quality, they were far from thetest FPS games produced by European and American manufacturers. ¡± Many yers were discussing it and had high expectations for the new FPS game. ¡°¡±¡±What do you think of Wolf Soul modern battlefields?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±It should be quite fun. From the leaked information, this game has added a lot of modern war props, and yers can y different roles. They can no longer simply use assault rifles or sniper guns to fight, but can throw grenades or control heavy machine guns in the trenches to kill the enemy. The tactical cooperation should also be more abundant.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Yes, and from the looks of it, this game supports 16v16 multi-yer battles, and the entire battlefield isrger. It should be said that it¡¯s more advanced than Wolf Soul.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I think fire Assault 2 is not bad either. There¡¯s no FPS game in the country that has a single-yer story, and this is the weakness of domestic video gamepanies. I think it¡¯s very encouraging for fire Assault 2 to be the first to do this. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Yes, and from the basic information that has been leaked, it seems that the focus is on the Special Forces in the country. I think this should be a good gimmick. After all, we¡¯ve rarely seen modern war games with Chinese people as the main characters. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Aiya, I¡¯m really looking forward to both games ... But it¡¯s a pity that my wallet can only afford one game. I¡¯ll wait for the game to be released and watch the demo before deciding which one to buy.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±By the way, aren¡¯t there three big FPS games in the country? What was Chen Zhao doing? Don¡¯t you want to y Overwatch 2?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Isn¡¯t Overwatch 2 a little too unrealistic? If he wanted to add something, he could just add it to the Overwatch. Why do you have to make a 2?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Besides, I don¡¯t think there¡¯s anything that can be improved on after the release of Overwatch 2, right? After all, the content of the game itself is there. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Also, I think that¡¯s the limit for Overwatch. It¡¯s been released for so long, but it still hasn¡¯t been able to dominate the entire FPS market. I¡¯m sure Chen Mo knows this as well. There¡¯s no more potential for Overwatch.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Chen Zhao¡¯s not doing it anymore? I don¡¯t think it makes sense. So far, we haven¡¯t heard any news of Thunderbolt Entertainment¡¯s new game, unlike the other twopanies, who have already released information to hype it up. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Indeed, I heard that the development time of the game has been shortened because of the innovation of Pangu engine. These twopanies have a solid foundation, so they¡¯ll probably be able to develop the game in two to three months.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Times are really different now. In the past, it would take a year or two to make a big work. Now, the time has been shortened by many times. ck technology is so good.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°There were also many yers who left messages or private messages to Chen Mo, asking him if he had any ns to join the other twopanies in making an FPS game. ¡± ¡°After all, the yers knew Chen Mo¡¯s personality, and he would never miss out on following the trend. ¡± ¡°Just like before, when everyone was working on a game that was suitable for Pangu, Chen Mo took out Dark Souls without hesitation. ¡± ¡°Now that the game Committee was encouraging everyone to make an fps game, Chen Mo would definitely not be willing to be left behind, right? ¡± ¡°The more the yers discussed, the more curious they became, especially since they all knew that even though Chen Mo hadn¡¯t announced his ns for a new game after the new year, he would¡¯ve already started. ¡± ¡°At this moment, a yer on the forum gave a very constructive suggestion.¡±¡±You guys can ask Chen Mo on Weibo!¡±¡± ¡± Chapter 646 ? ¡°Chapter 646 Three words, 370 thousand¡± Trantor 549690339 The so-called Weibo Q & A was a function that Weibounchedst year. Anyone could pay a certain fee to ask the blogger on Weibo to answer their questions. ¡°However, he was not sure how much he would have to pay and whether he would be able to get a satisfactory answer in the end. ¡± ¡°The rule of asking questions was that the questioner had to ask the blogger for a price between 1 ¨C 9999 Yuan. If the blogger didn¡¯t answer, the amount would be refunded. If he answered, he would get the money. And the content of his voice reply would be permanently retained on Weibo for others to see. ¡± ¡°Later on, if people wanted to watch and listen to the question, they only needed to spend one Yuan. ¡± ¡°Of course, 10% of the money spent during the whole process would be deducted from the tform¡¯s service fee, and the subsequent fees for watching would be divided equally between the blogger and the questioner. ¡± ¡°Previously, someone had spent 3000 Yuan to ask a big name inte celebrity a question, and this big name had done his best to answer it. In the end, this answer received more than 8000 views. In other words, not only did the person who asked the question not lose money, but he even earned some. ¡± ¡°The highest price for this question-and-answer mode was 9999 Yuan. There were also some questions that were priced at this number, but most of them were used by internal staff as gimmicks. In fact, there weren¡¯t many people who used this function. Most of them were just onlookers. ¡± ¡°It was one of the options to ask Chen Mo on Weibo, but many yers didn¡¯t support it. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Bro, how much are you paying for Chen Mo to answer your question? He¡¯ll give you double the amount, okay?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Exactly, Chen Mo is so rich. Do you think he¡¯llck the money to answer the questions?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±If Chen Zhao is talking nonsense, then won¡¯t the money be wasted? Many people used this method to cheat money during this question and answer session. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°However, some people felt that this method was feasible. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I don¡¯t think that¡¯s necessarily the case. If he could get a few thousand for just answering one question, why would Chen Mo go against money? Chen Mo was originally nning to interact with the yers on Weibo, but now that he can interact with them and get paid, isn¡¯t that great?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Chen Mo isn¡¯t an idiot, what¡¯s the harm in getting a few thousand more with his mouth? I think the rich can give it a try. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°This post quickly attracted a lot of people¡¯s attention, and there were many rich people who were eager to try. ¡± ¡°After all, Thunderbolt entertainment was one of the top Chinese game manufacturers. They had arge number of yers in the country, and there were definitely a lot of rich yers. ¡± ¡°In the end, a rich guy really did ask Chen Mo a question on Weibo, and the highest price was 9999 Yuan! ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Chen Mo, what¡¯s your next game?¡±¡± the question was. ¡± ¡°While everyone wasmenting about how rich a person was, they were also curious if Chen Mo would answer this question. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I can get 10000 Yuan just by saying a few words. Wow, this money is simply blown by the wind. I¡¯m so envious!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Many people said that rich people were stupid and had a lot of money, but in fact, rich people had their own ns. This was because this question would definitely be watched by many people. As long as there were more than 20000 people watching, this rich person would be able to earn back his capital. If there were more people watching, he would be making a profit. ¡± ¡°With Chen Mo¡¯s influence, 20000 spectators were more than enough. ¡± ...... ¡°After waiting for a day, there was still no movement. ¡± Many people were disappointed. Did Chen Mo really not care about the ten thousand? Why did he seempletely unmoved? ¡°But the next day, Chen Mo really did answer, and from the duration of the voice message, it only took two seconds! ¡± ¡°Many yers were stunned. What the hell, Chen Mo actually answered! ¡± But why was it only two seconds? Wasn¡¯t this too perfunctory? You should at least say a few more words and introduce your game so that the money spent by the tycoon would be worth it! ¡°After the news was released, many yers paid to see it, waiting for Chen Mo¡¯s answer. After all, it wasn¡¯t expensive to watch. It only cost one Yuan. ¡± ¡°In the end, the two-second answer was very simple, only four words. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±PUBG.¡±¡± ¡± Many yers ¡®faces turned green when they heard this ... This F * cking reminded him of the trauma from before! ¡°The moment this answer came out, the yer forums exploded! ¡± ¡°¡±¡±What the hell, Chen Mo wants to make excavating for Ascension? Isn¡¯t that the hammer game?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±What¡¯s the meaning of this? you want to make a sequel to excavating the earth for Ascension? Could it be that this is a VR version of the hammer?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Oh my God, just imagine this scene in my head. It¡¯s simply a beautiful painting! It¡¯s a full 3D scene, and you can climb the mountain from any direction. There are different paths to choose from. If you fail once, you¡¯ll fall from the foot of the mountain, and you¡¯ll have to start all over again ... This is too magical!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±What do you mean? It wasn¡¯t enough to torture the yers once, and he wanted to torture them a second time? Did Chen Mo have sadist OCD? First, it was dark Souls, and now, it was the sequel to excavating the earth for Ascension! Why don¡¯t you juste up with a game that¡¯s as satisfying as ¡°¡±killing prototype¡±¡±!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°The yers exploded. After all, the name excavating the earth for Ascension had left too many yers with a trauma, and now that they heard that Chen Mo was going to make a sequel, they were all going crazy. ¡± ¡°If it was any other game, it would be fine. What was the point of making such a F * cking game? Besides, it was still far from April Fool¡¯s Day! ¡± ¡°There were also many who doubted the authenticity of this reply, but it was Chen Mo¡¯s Weibo reply, and from the sound, it was Chen Mo¡¯s voice. ¡± ¡°As for whether or not Chen Mo was lying, most yers didn¡¯t think it was possible. Chen Mo was considered a top videogame designer in the country, why would he lie to the yers? ¡± ¡°Moreover, the person who asked the question had spent money! ¡± ¡°Many yers were on the verge of a mental breakdown. After waiting for so long, they thought that it was some awesome great work. In the end, it turned out to be a sequel to ¡°¡±excavating the earth for Ascension¡±¡±, a sadistic and ridiculous game! ¡± The difference was so great that most of the yers were wailing ... ¡°Although everyone already knew the answer, this answer was still constantly being watched by people. ¡± ¡°In just two days, this post had been reposted more than 5000 times, with more than 32000ments and 65000 likes. The total number of people watching the post had reached 370000 times! ¡± ¡°The yers were all shocked. F * ck, how much money was that? ¡± ¡°The tycoon who asked the question was shocked. He had thought that if his answer could be viewed 20000 times, he would be able to earn back his investment. But now, it had been viewed 370000 times? ¡± This also meant that this rich man had earned a profit of more than 100000 Yuan without doing anything ... ¡°Many yers were beating their chests and stamping their feet.¡±¡±Aiya, if only I had paid ten thousand for Chen Mo¡¯s answer, I¡¯d have made a profit of a hundred thousand!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°However, it was toote to regret it now, because there were already rich people who had asked questions. The first question would be interesting to watch, but there was no need for people to spend money to look at theter questions. ¡± Chapter 647 ? Chapter 647 The battle royale¡¯s promotional CG! Trantor 549690339 ¡°This was actually a crowd effect. On one hand, many yers were interested in Chen Mo¡¯s new game; On the other hand, the discussion on the forum about this question and the answer had also increased in poprity. In addition, this Weibo post was reposted andmented like crazy, and many yers had the mentality of just looking at it casually, which led to this question being viewed 370000 times. ¡± ¡°A lot of people calcted Chen Mo¡¯s profit from this answer, and it was close to two hundred thousand, and he only said four words ... ¡± That was 50000 Yuan for a word! ...... ¡°Chen Mo¡¯s answer made many yers feel despair, as this wasn¡¯t the game they wanted, but some yers were still consoling each other. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±It¡¯s fine, it¡¯s easy to make a VR game like excavating for Ascension anyway. Chen Mo will be able to make it in a month at most, and he¡¯ll definitely be making FPS games after that, so let¡¯s just wait patiently. Besides, when the VR version of excavating thend for Ascension is out, we can use it to disgust the streamers. Isn¡¯t that great?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Even though they could console themselves, most of the yers were still rather disappointed. This news also spread to Emperor dynasty entertainment and ZEN Entertainment. Although many people didn¡¯t believe it, it did be a hot topic and brought a small interlude to the game industry¡¯s silence after the new year. ¡± ¡°After all, during this period of time, the bigpanies were all focused on developing new games, so there was very little talk in the game industry. ¡± ¡°Very quickly, as the development of the three games continued, Emperor dynasty entertainment and ZEN Entertainment started to release more promotional materials for the new games, including some live game clips. ¡± ¡°In the promotional film,¡±¡±Wolf Soul modern battlefield¡±¡±, the focus was on special vehicles and battle scenes on the battlefield. The sound of artillery fire filled the sky and made people¡¯s blood boil. ¡± ¡°Fire assault, on the other hand, focused on the construction of the game¡¯s plot. Some segments of the main plot were cut out, causing the yers to have heavy doubts and eager anticipation. ¡± ¡°As for Chen Mo, many yers were already asking,¡±¡±¡±¡±Why hasn ¡®t¡¯ excavating the earth for Ascension ¡®been released yet? It¡¯s been a month, Chen Mo, you¡¯re not that efficient!¡±¡± ¡± Many yers joked that Chen Mo was the only one making the hammer while the otherpanies were all doing gun wars. It was indeed different! But what the yers didn¡¯t expect was that Chen Mo actually posted a Weibo with a video of the game! ¡°Many yers were stunned,¡¯cinematics? Chen Mo even did a promotional cinematic for excavating the earth for Ascension?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Obviously, Chen Mo¡¯s video was a promotional video for his game. He couldn¡¯t have done a Hot Dance with a pretty girl for nothing! ¡± ¡°However, did a game like excavating the earth for Ascension need to have cinematics? ¡± To promote how to use a sledgehammer to climb a mountain? ¡°With heavy doubts, the yers opened the CG. ¡± ¡°The first was a distant view. Below was the sparkling sea, the sky was covered with white clouds, and the sun was rising. An Ind covered with lush vegetation appeared in the distance. ¡± ¡°In the rhythmical and intense background music, the camera began to Zoom in quickly, passing the water surface and moving quickly towards the ind in the distance. ¡± An Air Force-exclusive ne flew across the sky. ¡°In the cabin, characters with different appearances sat neatly in two rows. At the same time, the sound from the horn exined to everyone. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Today¡¯s flight is fully booked, a total of 100 passengers. We are currently heading to your terminal, but you will find that this number will gradually decrease. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±We suggest you read the safety profile card. After yound, you will find vehicles, equipment, and weapons. You will also see the activation of the fatal blue curtain wall.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Regardless of whether you¡¯re a passenger on our flight for the first time or a regr customer, here¡¯s a warm reminder If you¡¯re not first ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Then you¡¯re dead!¡±¡± ¡± Countless ck figures carrying parachutes jumped out of the ne and opened their parachutes in the air. ¡°The camera zoomed out, and dozens of parachutes could be seen floating in the air below the ne. It was a spectacr scene. ¡± ¡°The camera swept through the scenes. In an empty room, an AK rifle was lying quietly on the table. Light shone through the window and onto the gun. ¡± ¡°After that, there was a series of short shots. Many different characters were running on a deserted ind. The clothes on these characters were very simple. They were usually a tank top and long pants. Some didn¡¯t even wear shoes. ¡± ¡°A beautiful barefoot girl was running forward with a pistol in her hand, and in the house in front of her, a fierce-looking man was loading bullets into the gun. ¡± ¡°Each character bent their bodies, carefully moving behind cover, on guard against enemies who were out of sight. ¡± ¡°The military jeep drove past at high speed and leaped high on a slope beforending steadily on the ground. Behind the Jeep, an orange car and a three-wheeled motorcycle were in hot pursuit! ¡± ¡°The people in the Jeep stuck their heads out of the window and started shooting at the Jeep. In the intense chase, the Jeep exploded, leaving only arge ball of fire behind. ¡± ¡°A motorcycle suddenly leaped over a steep slope, somersaulted in the air, andnded safely. Next to it, the enemy was constantly shooting, but the motorcycle was very fast and shed past the camera. ¡± ¡°The blue circle was approaching. A yer was crawling forward with all his might, while his teammate was charging in front,unching an attack on the enemy inside a small building. ¡± ¡°At a high point, a sniper with an AWM aimed into the distance. Through the scope, he shot the driver of the vehicle! ¡± ¡°What followed was a series of exciting scenes. Different locations, different people, and different guns. It was a chaotic battle. Everyone was firing wildly at each other, and they were also throwing grenades and Molotov cocktails. The scene was extremely chaotic. ¡± ¡°In the series of chaotic scenes, the background music became more and more rapid, and finally came to an abrupt end. The screen also suddenly turned ck! ¡± ¡°But soon, the screen lit up again. On a small hill, a character holding a sniper rifle was aiming into the distance, ready to pull the trigger at any time. ¡± ¡°But at this moment, a character wearing ghillie suit sneaked up from behind him, raised the pan, and hit his head hard! ¡± ¡°¡±¡±ng!¡±¡± With a crisp sound, the character in front spat out blood and fell to the ground. ¡± ¡°However, the video was not over yet. ¡± ¡°The camera once again panned to a character who was parachuting from the sky. As he passed through the clouds and continued to fall, rows and rows of words began to appear in the air. ¡± [Trial time April 1st.] Official release date April 8th. ¡°At the end of the screen, the moment the characternded, the game name appeared. ¡± yerUnknown¡¯s Battlegrounds escape! Chapter 648 ? Chapter 648 Chapter 647-trial Trantor 549690339 Many yers were stunned when they saw the game name. ¡°¡±¡±P-p-p-p-survival? I¡¯m not digging the ground to ascend!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±What¡¯s going on? where¡¯s the promised VR version of Macho Man Mountain climbing? This ... This looks like an FPS game!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±The new game will be called yerUnknown¡¯s Battlegrounds, Chen Mo isn¡¯t lying!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±F * ck, I¡¯m impressed by Chen Mo¡¯s trickery. Now he can even trick people with a mouth full of truth. I can¡¯t help but be impressed!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Chen DA¡¯s ability to Bluff has evolved from the first stage of ¡®talking nonsense with a straight face¡¯ to the second stage of ¡®no one will believe the truth¡¯!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Moreover, this cinematic looks rich in content! Who can exin how this game is yed?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Once the video was released, the yers ¡®enthusiasm was instantly ignited! ¡± ¡°After all the rumors, most of the yers subconsciously thought that Chen Mo was really making the VR version of excavating thend for Ascension. However, when the CG came out, the yers realized that they werepletely wrong. The name of the game had the same pronunciation as muscle man climbs mountain, but it had nothing to do with the game! ¡± ¡°This cinematic took a long time, but since it was recorded in the game, it wasn¡¯t too troublesome to do. The rich content in the cinematics triggered the yers ¡®fervent spections. ¡± ¡°Obviously, ording to the content of the cinematic, the ne carried 100 yers to an isted ind, and the ind was scattered with weapons, props, and vehicles. ¡± ¡°These yers would parachute to the ind, pick up weapons, and kill each other until only one person would be left. ¡± ¡°The evidence was the sentence he had said on the ne ¡°¡±If you¡¯re not first, then you¡¯re dead!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Under the framework of this game, the yers could do a lot of things. They could hide themselves, assassinate enemies, and drive to chase. ¡± ¡°At the same time, the yers could also get a variety of different firearms. From the situation in the video, there were at least ten different firearms in the video, from the rtively weak pistol to the extremely deadly sniper rifle. ¡± There was even a very nonsensical frying pan. ¡°As for the term ¡®Battle Royale¡¯, it did not exist in the parallel world. This was because there was no movie of the same name by director Shinji in this world, nor was there any novel of the same name by Hiroshi Hiroshi. ¡± ¡°However, the literal meaning of the words ¡°¡±big escape¡±¡± was easy to understand. It was arge-scale mass ughter and escape ... ¡± ¡°The yers had a rough idea of how the game was yed, but their reactions were very different. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±What¡¯s the difference between this and a traditional shooting game? There¡¯s nothing special about the gun or the car, so you just changed the game mode?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I was a little excited when I heard that Chen Mo made an FPS game, but now I¡¯m a little disappointed. It doesn¡¯t feel like there¡¯s anything new?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±There doesn¡¯t seem to be any technological innovation? Even though they used Pangu engines, they¡¯re still traditional firearms. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Also, this mode feels very unbnced! If I didn¡¯t pick up a gun after parachuting, wouldn¡¯t I be dead if someone else did? What if I¡¯m unlucky?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±The gunfight game just started, and you won¡¯t give me a gun? Can I get it by myself? Wait a minute, don¡¯t tell me there¡¯s a ¡°¡±pay-to-win¡±¡± operation?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I think this mode is very fun and creative! In this way, there will definitely be more strategies to be adopted, and they will no longer be brainless like before. People who are too high-profile will die very quickly even if their marksmanship is good. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±That makes sense, but the name of the game sounds a little scary. Is it a horror game?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±It feels like ... Will it develop an antisocial personality?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°There were many different opinions, but in general, most yers didn¡¯t pay much attention to this new game. The reason was simple-it wasn¡¯t gimmicky enough. ¡± ¡°For example, in Wolf Soul modern war, all kinds ofrge vehicles and violent explosions could be created through the promotional film to create a very exciting scene, which waspletely different from the traditional way of ying Wolf Soul. ¡± ¡°On the other hand, fire Assault 2 focused on a certain atmosphere and described the main character¡¯s emotions. No matter what the plot was, it gave people a deep feeling. ¡± ¡°As for yerUnknown¡¯s Battlegrounds ... Strictly speaking, this promotional video only suggested a new ystyle. The other aspects were not new. ¡± It was just like how many people in Chen Mo¡¯s previous life reacted when they first heard about the movie So brutal? The Mudman really knew how to y! This is interesting! ¡°However, after all was said and done, most people still felt that this was a niche ystyle and would be regarded as a ssic by a small group of hardcore yers. It would be difficult to spread to the vast majority of mainstream yers. ¡± ¡°Many game reviewers said that even though yerUnknown¡¯s Battlegrounds could make use of Chen Mo¡¯s domestic and international influence, it was still an FPS game meant for a small portion of the yers. ¡± ¡°No matter what, with the information released, the smokescreen had dispersed. All yers now knew that the three major domestic gamepanies were rushing to make new FPS games. The rumor that there was a wave of FPS games before the new year was not without reason. ¡± The yers were also very clear that the threepanies were ambitious. The three major FPS games had been fighting for a long time without a winner. Version 2.0 of the FPS war would definitely be more intense. ...... ¡°1st of April, Experience Store. ¡± ¡°Today was the opening day of yerUnknown¡¯s Battlegrounds that Chen Mo announced in the cinematics, but many yers were still doubtful about it, since it was April Fool¡¯s Day ... ¡± She didn¡¯t know if Chen Mo had chosen this day on purpose. ¡°Many yers hade early in the morning to try out yerUnknown¡¯s Battlegrounds first. After all, Pangu¡¯s system would release three FPS games after the new year, and Pangu survival was the first to be yable. ¡± Many fans of FPS games were also curious to see if Pangu system could be invented in Pangu PUBG. ¡°Prusley, Li Bai, was also one of the most popr streamers of Overwatch. He hade all the way to the experience store to see how Chen Mo¡¯s new FPS game was doing. ¡± ¡°Old P was a slightly famous live streamer in the domestic FPS gaming circle. His marksmanship was not bad, and he had a good attitude and a lot of obscenities. He was considered one of the earliest yers to livestream Overwatch in the country. He was also an expert in using the yuan family and had more than a million permanent users in his livestream room. ¡± ¡°However, old P could also feel that the poprity of his live stream was declining. At the peak of Overwatch¡¯s poprity, the number of people in his live stream had reached 1.39 million at most, but now it was only seven or eight hundred thousand. ¡± ¡°Old P was still alright. After all, he was a big streamer. Many small streamers of ¡°¡±Overwatch¡±¡± were even worse off. The number of people in the live stream room might not even be one-fifth of the peak. ¡± ¡°Currently, the three major FPS games were being suppressed in the livestreaming tforms. Some of them were from single-yer games such as Dark Souls and sadomasochism, which had explosive livestreaming effects, and some were from new mobile games such as King of Glory. On the other hand, the major streamers of League of Legends were as stable as rocks, and the livestreaming of thepetition was still popr. ¡± There were also some internal and external troubles. Old P was also a little worried. He hoped that there would be a new breakthrough in the three new FPS games that were released in the country this year. Chapter 649 ? Chapter 649 Game guide Trantor 549690339 ¡°This was old P¡¯s first time in Chen Mo¡¯s Experience Store, and like many other yers, he was curious. ¡± ¡°However, it was only to look at the murals and sculptures. After all, old P had to hurry to the VR experience area and grab a seat. He wouldn¡¯t be able to y if he went there. ¡± ¡°He went to the front desk and asked the prettydy. Old P swiped his ID card and charged money in one go, then went directly to the VR game experience area. ¡± ¡°It was a good thing that he came early, and there were still empty VR game pods in the VR experience area. If he hade anyter, the experience store¡¯s regr customers might have taken up all the game pods. ¡± Old P entered the game cabin and logged into the game while wondering. ¡°¡±¡±This game requires 100 people to y, right? But the entire VR experience area only has 80 game pods. I don¡¯t know how to fill the remaining 20. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°Obviously, when yerUnknown¡¯s Battlegrounds was about to be released, most of the 80 game pods would choose to try yerUnknown¡¯s Battlegrounds. After all, it was a new game. However, it was hard to say what would happen to the remaining 20 yers. ¡± ¡°It could be an artificial intelligence robot, or it could be empty. Anyway, there was not much difference. ¡± ¡°Before entering the game, a notification popped up on the interface of the game cabin ¡°¡±To ensure your gaming experience, 10 yerUnknown¡¯s Battlegrounds will begin on 15th sharp. yers, please get ready and enter together. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°The yers who entered the VR gaming pods came in early andte. Obviously, there would be a time difference when the system matched all these people to the same game, so they simply arranged a time. ¡± ¡°Old P looked at the system time. There were still ten minutes left. However, this was also good. He could enter the game and take a look at the various basic settings. ¡± ¡°Very quickly, the game loaded. ¡± ¡°At this time, old P was in the ruins of a building. It looked like a Western-style building simr to a church. It was very old, and the walls were full of stains. The ground was also a mess. ¡± ¡°In addition to the broken stones on the ground, there were all kinds of overturned cabs, benches, and all kinds of firearms, grenades, boxes, and bullets scattered all over. ¡± ¡°At this moment, the game¡¯s background music started ying. ¡± ¡°Chen Mo used the old version of the BGM. Due to his personal preference, he felt that the background music was more in line with the character of the game. ¡± ¡°The new version of the BGM was more Grand and smooth, while the old version was full of tension and mystery. ¡± ¡°First, there was a very strong sense of rhythm, mixed with some crisp knocking sounds, and then there was a low and slightly soothing piano sound. A variety of instruments mixed together, giving people a veryplicated feeling, both tragic and exciting, and also a little bit of a sense of fate. ¡± Old P couldn¡¯t help but listen for another two minutes. He first lowered his head to look at his hands and body. He was a male character wearing a simple tank top and jeans. He had probably chosen his identity ording to the personal information on the Thunderbolt Game Pass. ¡°Then, old P tried to move around. He could punch, squat, lie down, and perform some moreplicated movements, such as turning left and right, leaning back against the cover, and so on. ¡± There was a slightlyrger cab in front of him with an operation manual on it. ¡°It was a booklet. Old P opened it and found that it detailed the actions that yers could perform in the game, as well as the specific rules of the game. ¡± ¡°Other than that, there was also information on the various guns in the game, but it was notplete. Only some of the more basic guns had specific data, while the more high-end guns only had a vague outline. It seemed that the specific data could only be unlocked after obtaining them in the game. ¡± ¡°Old P simply flipped through it. There was a lot of content in this booklet, but it was mainly basic knowledge. It was a beginner¡¯s guide to help yers better integrate into the game. ¡± ¡°There was a lot of content in the manual, and he couldn¡¯t finish reading it in a short time, so old P just flipped through it briefly and put it down. ¡± ¡°There was a weapon rack in the corner of the ruins with a few basic weapons on it, such as P18C pistols, UZI submachine guns, AKM automatic rifles, and so on. ¡± ¡°There weren¡¯t many guns, and there was still a lot of space on the weapon rack, which should be able to put more guns. However, he still didn¡¯t know how to obtain it. It would probably be unlocked after he obtained it from the game. ¡± ¡°In addition, there was a simple wardrobe, which was empty. ¡± ¡°There was a separate area next to the wardrobe, where a small supply box was ced. It was slightly bright and prompted the yer to open it. ¡± ¡°Old P opened the supply box, took out a pair of leather boots, and automatically entered the wardrobe. ¡± Old P came to the closet and put on his leather boots. ¡°He looked down and saw that old P¡¯s game character was no longer barefooted. Instead, he was wearing a pair of leather boots, which made old P feel a lot morefortable. At least, the illusionary prickling feeling in his mind had been eliminated. ¡± ¡°There was a broken mirror next to the wardrobe, which he could use to change his character¡¯s image. ¡± ¡°There was still a face-molding system, and it had aplete set of functions. After all, Chen Mo had already created a powerful face-molding system when he was making Dark Souls, so he could just use it now. ¡± The system also provided several default identity forms and different races. Old P randomly chose a middle-aged handsome Chinese man and then slightly adjusted his facial structure. ¡°He could change his gender, but old P didn ¡®t. ¡± ¡°This was different from yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground in Chen Mo¡¯s previous life. In his previous life, yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground used a third person game perspective, so arge number of male yers chose to create a prettydy. This way, they could look at thedy¡¯s butt and back throughout the game. It was a beautiful sight to behold. ¡± ¡°However, there was still a difference in the VR tform because all yers were in first person, and it was a very immersive first person perspective, which gave people the feeling that their souls had transmigrated into the game. ¡± ¡°On the PC side, it wasn¡¯t a problem for a character to not wear shoes, but on the VR side, if a character didn¡¯t wear shoes, you would be able to see yourself running barefoot on the gravel, and you would always have the illusion that the soles of your feet hurt. ¡± This was probably a type of Phantom Pain ... If she changed her gender and lowered her head to see two towering peaks ... It was likely that she would have the wrong understanding of her gender ... ¡°Of course, it was a different story for some cross-dressing bosses. Most male yers would still choose male characters. After all, the VR version was more immersive, and they didn¡¯t want to bring it into female characters. ¡± ¡°Old P confirmed his yer name, Prusley. No problem. ¡± ¡°He walked around the ruins. There was a door in the ruins, but it was closed. There was a window, and some sunlight shone in through the window, but it was blocked by long wooden boards and couldn¡¯t jump out. ¡± ¡°Through the gap between the wooden boards, old P nced out of the window. He could vaguely see that the outside was also in ruins, but it was not clear. ¡± Chapter 650 ? Chapter 650 Where should I jump? Trantor 549690339 ¡°At the door, old P wanted to open the door and go out, but the system prompted ¡°¡±To ensure your gaming experience, 10 yerUnknown¡¯s Battlegrounds will begin on 15th sharp. yers, please get ready and enter together. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°Obviously, opening this door meant entering the matching queue. However, since the game was still in the experience stage, they had to wait for the game to start at the same time. ¡± ¡°Old P walked around the ruins twice, picked up the AKM on the Armory, and checked the magazine. It was full. ¡± ¡°He walked a little further away, then fired a few shots at the wall of the ruins to familiarize himself with the feeling. ¡± ¡°AKM was an improved version of the AK-47, and was amon sight in various shooting games. As a hardcore yer of FPS games, old P had also been specially trained in the AK series guns. ¡± ¡°ording to the instructions on the manual, old P familiarized himself with the movements of the characters and the trajectory of the AKM. ¡± ¡°The character¡¯s movements were very diverse, including waist shooting, mechanical sight, left and right side turning, looking for cover, blind shooting, rolling, pouncing, and so on. Moreover, the recoil from squatting, standing, and instant shooting were different. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Hmm ... It seems like the trajectory has be more realistic. Is it because of the physics?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°While shooting, old P could feel the vibration of the gun on his shoulder. It was not the same feeling, but it matched the vibration of the gun in the game perfectly. ¡± ¡°At the same time, the shaking of the gun and the trajectory of the bullet on the wall became more realistic. It was almost simr to the shooting of real guns in many foreign videos. ¡± The yer character¡¯s body temte was obviously made ording to the standard of a normal soldier. They rolled very quickly and their shooting uracy was rtively high. This was especially true for the machine-sight shooting while lying down. It was almost as if it would shoot wherever the target was pointed. ¡°Of course, this was also because old P was a senior FPS yer. If he was a newbie, he would still need practice to reach this state. ¡± ¡°In addition, there were some things rted to the system settings, which yers could customize ording to their personal habits. ¡± ¡°However, the VR gaming pod was different from the PC, and there weren¡¯t many settings that could be adjusted. Old P took a nce and didn¡¯t see any big problems. ¡± ¡°He wanted to read the operation manual again, but at this time, the system¡¯s voice came. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground trial is about to begin. Please be prepared. You will enter the battleground in 30 seconds ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Since it was about to start, old P stopped wandering around and waited quietly. ¡± ¡°30 secondster, the screen in front of old P turned ck, and they arrived at another scene. ¡± ¡°This was arge square, and the surrounding view was very wide. The stone floor was overgrown with weeds, and there were containers, caves, and various buildings in the distance. ¡± ¡°It could be seen that this was a small ind, and also an abandoned ce. The trees were lush and the weeds were overgrown, indicating that no one had visited this ce for a long time. ¡± ¡°In front of him was arge group of yers. Most of them were wearing white tank tops and jeans, which seemed to be the default attire. There were also some who wore other clothes, such as small suits, shorts, windbreakers, and so on. They were probably special clothes from the initial supply box. ¡± ¡°There were men and women among these yers, and they all had different appearances. They were scattered across the entire square, and all of them were looking around curiously. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Eh, has the game started? Where¡¯s the parachuting?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Where is this ce?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Eh? This Ind is so small. Are we going to fight here? It doesn¡¯t seem like he¡¯s losing health at all. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±There seems to be a gun here!¡±¡± ¡± This was the famous spawn area. It was called the spawn area because it exposed one¡¯s spawn points ... ¡°Old P noticed that different voice modes could be switched in the game. He could turn on the public voice so that all yers within a certain range could hear him. Or, he could turn on the party voice chat so that only the yers in the party could hear him. ¡± The yers in front of him were running and jumping in a very novel way to familiarize themselves with the operation of the game. Some of them were even happily punching other yers and watching them get beaten up like sandbags. ¡°The craziest thing was that some people ran to the female characters and squatted down, trying to peek under their skirts ... ¡± ¡°Old P found that he also carried the manual with him and could read it at any time. There was also a map in the manual, which was the entrance to the map in the game. ¡± ¡°ording to the instructions on the manual, this was the preparation area for the start of the game. The yers would not be injured, and the guns could not be brought out. ¡± ¡°A countdown timer appeared on the top right corner of his view, 1 minute. There were also the number of yers in the game, which had reached 79. ¡± ¡°Obviously, all the yers in the VR experience area of the experience store had joined the battle. ¡± ¡°However, it was also because they were in the preparation stage that many yers began to stir up trouble without restraint. There were all sorts of in-game guns on the table beside them. Some quick-witted yers had already run over and picked up all sorts of guns to shoot at the crowd. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±It¡¯s really boring. ¡°¡± Old P was very speechless as he was being chased by an idiot with a gun. He wasn¡¯t afraid of being beaten up, he just wanted to look around. However, the idiot behind him thought that he was afraid and chased him more and more enthusiastically. ¡± Old P observed the surrounding environment a little. ¡°This Ind was located at the top right corner of the map, and it was probably used as a beginner¡¯s area. Afterparing the area on the map, old P sighed. The map was huge! ¡± ¡°It was no wonder that they had to use all kinds of vehicles. If they wanted to run from one end to the other on the Big Ind, they would probably break their legs. ¡± ¡°At that moment, the countdown on the top right corner ended, and the number of yers was still fixed at 79. He didn¡¯t know why that guy didn¡¯te in, or was he ying another VR game. ¡± ¡°The scene changed, and old P entered the perspective of the ne. ¡± ¡°By default, everyone was in the cabin, sitting in two rows neatly, and could read the manual in their hands or look at the map at will. ¡± ¡°On the map, old P saw that the ne was flying from the South to the North, but the specific flight route was not marked, so the yers had to decide for themselves. ¡± ¡°You can switch to third-person follow mode. At this time, the view will be shifted to the top of the ne, and you can use the bird ¡®s-eye view to observe every corner of the entire Ind. ¡± ¡°As marked on the map, the ind wasrge and rich in elements. There was an airport, a logging field, a prison, a farm, a school, a hospital, a town, a shooting range, a port, and other ces. ¡± ¡°ording to the manual, different locations had different levels of resources. It was clear that the richer the resources, the more intense the battle would be. ¡± ¡°However, the manual didn¡¯t say which ces had more resources and which ces had less. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Hmm ... That is to say, guns won¡¯t appear in the wilderness. That is, you must go to a town, but you can¡¯t choose a town with too many people, or else there will be frequent battles in the early stages. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°Old P was considering. Although he was very confident in his marksmanship, this was the first game after all, so he should y safe. If someone else picked up the gun before hended, it would be useless no matter how good his marksmanship was. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Where should I jump ...¡±¡± Old P looked at the map and frowned. ¡± Chapter 651 ? Chapter 651 Plundering Trantor 549690339 ¡°Before old P could make a decision, he saw the yers start to jump down one by one. From airne¡¯s perspective, these yers soon became ck dots in the sky. ¡± ¡°Most of the yers quickly disappeared through the clouds, but there were one or two yers who directly opened their umbres. ¡± ¡°Obviously, parachuting in VR mode was quite scary. The two of them must have not read the manual carefully and opened their parachutes as soon as they jumped out of the ne for fear of falling to their deaths. ¡± ¡°After all, this was everyone¡¯s first round of the game, and only a few people would really read the guide seriously. ¡± ¡°The number of yers instantly increased to 64, and 15 of them had jumped towards the Sosnovka Military Base. Some of these people probably knew that the Sosnovka Military Base was rich in supplies, while the others might have simply thought that it was an advantage to jump early. ¡± ¡°Some people jumped into the wilderness. For these people, they might want to experience the feeling of hiking ... ¡± ¡°Old P looked at the map and roughly estimated the ne¡¯s route. It would go from the South to the North and eventually fly to the upper right of the ind. The few ces they passed by were the airport, school, Yasnaya Polyana, holy mountain, and K city. ¡± ¡°Old P noticed that Pochinki and Rozhok were slightly off the flight route, but they were notpletely unreachable. ¡± ¡°It was written in the manual that one could float a distance in the air when parachuting, so these two cities should be possible to reach. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Perfect, let¡¯s drop at Pochinki then.¡±¡± ¡± Old P marked a point on the map and waited patiently. ¡°Pochinki was considered a location that was rtively far away from the flight route. On one hand, old P chose this ce because he felt that there were more houses here and fewer people. If there were more resources here, it would be easier to plunder. On the other hand, he felt that since he was called old P, Pochinki was his city, right? ¡± ¡°Not long after flying over the Sosnovka Military Base, old P saw that the distance was about right and directly parachuted. ¡± ¡°Jumping down from the ne, old P felt like he was in a state of rapid descent. The wind whistled in his ears as he constantly passed through the thin clouds. ¡± ¡°With great difficulty, he turned his head to look in the direction of the ne. It seemed that there were not many yers who wouldnd in Pochinki with him. Most of them were probably concentrated in the Sosnovka Military Base, school, Rozhok, and Yasnaya Polyana, the main areas along the ne¡¯s route. ¡± ¡°However, there were still three other people who chose Pochinki like him. ¡± ¡°Old P¡¯s heart calmed down a little. If it was just three people, they probably wouldn¡¯t have met when they justnded. From the sky, there were more than 40 houses in Pochinki. The three of them would definitely avoid them, and it was likely that they would not even bump into them when they left. ¡± Old P rapidly descended and opened his umbre. ¡°He chose a house with a green roof that was rtively further away. After hended, he looked back at the other three people. ¡± ¡°Onended outside the city, onended on the northeast side, and thest one was closer to him, only two buildings away. ¡± ¡°After old P took a nce, he immediately pushed the door open and entered the house to search for supplies. ¡± ¡°He was very clear that everyone was unarmed now, so they would definitely search for their own guns first. Only when they had a good gun would they dare to go out and fight with others. ¡± ¡°At this moment, all sorts of messages started appearing on the bottom left corner of his vision. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±DEADfire killed remaining 78 yers of Nightman peaks with SKS.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±DEADfire killed Liu Lai and the remaining 77 yers with SKS.¡±¡± ¡± ...... It was obvious that the first group of yers tond at the Sosnovka Military Base had already started fighting. The yer called DEADfire was lucky. He picked up an SKS afternding and killed two unlucky yers who did not pick up a gun. ¡°In addition to him, there were other kill notifications flooding the screen. Obviously, in this game, jumping to a ce with many people was indeed risky, but the benefits were also high. As long as he could pick up a gun first, he could kill those bare-handed people at will. ¡± ¡°Old P only nced at them and stopped paying attention, because these people basically wouldn¡¯t meet him in the short term. ¡± He came to the room and began to search around. ¡°The rooms here were basically civilian houses. Although the houses were somewhat dpidated, there were still various tables, cabs, and furniture. As soon as he entered, old P found a grapeshot gun on the table, an S686. ¡± Old P quickly picked it up. He also picked up a grapeshot and a can of energy drink from the table. ¡°There was also a red T-shirt, but old P felt that the color was too eye-catching and was courting death, so he didn¡¯t pick it up. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±A troll. I don¡¯t really like it, but I¡¯ll make do with it for now.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°After loading the bullets, old P continued to search with his S686. ¡± ¡°The prototype of this gun was the Beretta 686 ¡°¡±Silver Pigeon¡±¡±. It was a double-barrel double-shot gun with a fast firing rate, but it had to be reloaded after two shots. The advantage was that if he had good marksmanship, he would definitely be able to kill the enemy with two shots. The disadvantage was that if his marksmanship was bad, he would basically be GG if the enemy did not die after two shots. ¡± ¡°Old P didn¡¯t really like to y with trolls, but in yerUnknown¡¯s Battlegrounds, it wasn¡¯t as if you could y with any gun you wanted. The key was what you found. ¡± ¡°At the very least, this shot had been very effective in the early urban and room battles. ¡± ¡°After searching the second floor, old P started to search the house next to it. He found a level 1 helmet, level 1 armor, Level 2 Backpack, and some random loose parts, including sports drinks, bandages, fuel, and so on. ¡± ¡°Although fuel took up a lot of space, old P felt that he might have to drive awayter, so it was better to bring it just in case. ¡± ¡°As for the guns, there was still no automatic rifle. There was only a Thompson submachine gun. However, these two guns were more than enough for urbanbat. ¡± ¡°The process of piging was quitefortable. In fact, it was a process of growing from nothing. From the bare ground at the beginning to the excellent equipmentter on, piging things could give people the illusion of leveling up. It was also an important fun in the early stages of the game. ¡± ¡°After searching the three houses nearby, old P didn¡¯t dare to run around anymore. ¡± ¡°This was because he knew that there were three other people in Pochinki. If he were to run around and run into them, he would be done for. In this game, everyone only had one life, and only one person could live to the end. No one without a brain could be the lucky one. ¡± ¡°Therefore, old P had an idea. He closed the door and went to the second floor, ready to observe the surrounding situation. ¡± ¡°At that moment, the blue circle appeared. ¡± ¡°Old P was shocked and stopped for a while, ready to open the map to study the blue circle. ¡± ¡°The guide said that the blue circle was also one of the important settings of the game. yers had to reach the safe zone within a limited time, otherwise they would continue to lose HP outside the blue circle. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Fortunately, it¡¯s at the bottom of the map ... I¡¯m in the safe zone, so I don¡¯t have to move.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Old P continued to hide on the second floor, carefully observing every move around him through the window. ¡± ...... ¡°At the same time, many yers had alreadye out of their gaming pods in the VR experience area of the experience store. ¡± ¡°There were also many yers who were watching from outside the game cabin, and they all came over. ¡± ¡°The yers who came out of the game cabin quickly exined that they had died in the game, so they came out to take a breath and wait for the second match. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±How was it? was the game fun?¡±¡± Someone asked. ¡± ¡°The man who came out of the game cabin shook his head.¡±¡±¡±¡±Not fun! I bumped into a guy with an SKS as soon as Inded. I didn¡¯t even take two steps before I turned into a crate!¡±¡± ¡± Chapter 652 ? Chapter 652 Delivery man Trantor 549690339 ¡°Soon, yers came out of the game cabins one after another. Most of them were dumbfounded and had no idea what had happened. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±What¡¯s going on? I haven¡¯t even found my gun and I¡¯m already dead! This is not fair!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Me too. I opened my parachute as soon as I jumped off the ne. By the time I floated to the ground, they were already waiting for me with guns ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±F * ck, I was sneaked up from behind and hit to death with a pan!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±How¡¯s the game going? we want to see it!¡±¡± ¡± All the yers in the VR experience area were curious. How did the game go? The yers who were eliminated didn¡¯t even understand the mechanism of the game before they were GG. Those who didn¡¯t even y the game were even more confused and didn¡¯t know how to y it. ¡°At this moment, Qian Kun came to the VR experience area and pped his hands,¡±¡±¡±¡±Everyone, please take note that you can continue to watch the battle through the VR gaming pod. Other yers cane to the holographic projection area to watch.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Oh? The holographic projection is on? Let¡¯s go take a look!¡±¡± ¡± The yers immediately followed Qian Kun to the holographic projection viewing area on the second floor. ¡°There were quite a lot of people here as well, and the yers who came from behind had filled up the entire holographic projection area. This kind of Grand asion would only happen in the past when there was a major LOLpetition. ¡± ¡°Qian Kun went to test the equipment and connected the current battlefield data of yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground to the holographic projection device. At the same time, the game¡¯s scene appeared on the big screen. ¡± ¡°Chen Mo had already considered the future tournament and spectator system when he made the game, so he added a full set of functions. Even though yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground¡¯spetition system was not as easy to promote as League of Legends, the game was still one of the more professional games. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Oh, awesome, we can watch the battle now!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±The holographic projection ... Is a little small. I can¡¯t even see the little person clearly.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Look at the big screen. Eh? Was this the blue circle? It¡¯s already shrinking. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±There¡¯s only about 50 people left. They¡¯re dying so quickly.¡±¡± ¡± The yers gathered around the holographic projection and discussed. Those who couldn¡¯t see the holographic projection could only look at the big screen. ¡°The big screen still used the traditional way of observing, with a third person perspective as the main point of view, mainly to observe yers who had killed more people. The holographic projection kept shrinking ording to the blue circle. It would have been fun to watch it shrink to the final circle, but the first circle was too small, and the view was affected. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Wow, awesome, they¡¯re fighting! I killed one!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±But there¡¯s another person next to him. He was killed when he went to search the box! He¡¯s like an Oriole behind the scenes!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±F * ck, this guy¡¯s really rich. Just now, he was wearing trash, but now he¡¯s wearing all kinds of good equipment and even changed his gun!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°The yers all looked at the big screen and discussed animatedly. Now that they could watch the battle, they finally put themselves into the game. ¡± ¡°From the holographic projection, the yers were basically concentrated in a few towns, and everyone was carefully searching for them, afraid of being exposed to others. ¡± ¡°There were quite a few yers who had poor equipment, but they had managed to survive until now by hiding on the second floor of the house and pointing their guns at the stairs. ¡± ¡°Obviously, the yers who didn¡¯t understand the game¡¯s mechanics, were impulsive, and had bad marksmanship had all be crates. Those who survived were either good marksmen, lucky, or good at hiding. ¡± ...... ¡°Old P waited carefully on the second floor, observing the situation outside through the window, but he did not see any other yers. ¡± ¡°There had been two intense gunshots outside as well. The first time, a kill notification had appeared at the bottom left corner of his vision. The second time, two notifications had appeared at the same time. He did not know if the person had died in Pochinki or other areas. ¡± ¡°Old P really wanted to go out and take a look with his submachine gun, but he resisted the urge. ¡± He looked at the blue circle and saw that the second blue circle had appeared. Pochinki was still in the safe zone. Old P was a little conflicted because his equipment wasn¡¯t very good and he didn¡¯t have many potions. ¡°Just as he was hesitating whether he should go out and search again, he suddenly heard footstepsing from downstairs. Then, the door opened with a creak. ¡± ¡°Old P was suddenly invigorated. Before he went upstairs, he had deliberately closed the door and disguised the house as if no one had been here before. Of course, the items had all been taken away, but everyone was a newbie now, so the guy down there probably wouldn¡¯t notice such details. ¡± ¡°The footsteps were very clear, and old P could even urately sense the specific location of the person who came. He should be wandering around the first floor. ¡± ¡°Old P quietly walked to the side of the stairs, switched out his S686, and then rushed out! ¡± ¡°The guys on the first floor had pretty good equipment. They looked like they were of good quality. They had AKM on their backs and a car in their hands. They were wandering around the first floor, probably wondering why there were so few supplies in the house. ¡± ¡°Hearing the movement behind him, the man was obviously shocked. He quickly turned around, but old P had already arrived on the first floor and fired two shots with his S686! ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Bang Bang!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Two rapid shots were fired without any interval between them. The two of them were on the first floor, which meant that they were only three or four meters apart. The S686¡¯s grapeshot shot sent the man flying into the air. Even the level two bulletproof vest he was wearing could not save him. He crashed into the wall on the side, smashing the debris on the table. ¡± ¡°Old P heard a voice from a VR gaming pod next to him.¡±¡±¡±¡±F * ck!!!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Obviously, this guy was scared out of his wits. ¡± Old P was secretly happy. He looked around while reloading. There should be no one else. The S686¡¯s close-rangebat ability was indeed very powerful. Two shots were enough to take him down. ¡°Old P came to the side of the box.¡±¡±Damn, so many things!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°A level two Spetsnaz Helmet, a level two Military Vest, a level three backpack, two guns, an Pascal and an AKM. There were also other essories, a scope, bandages, a first aid kit, a drink, and so on ... ¡± ¡°Old P was happy. This was simply a courier! He had spent so much effort to find so many good things, and then he couldn¡¯t wait to send them all to him. ¡± ¡°He didn¡¯t know if this guy was very angry. His equipment was obviously so good, but he was tricked by him. ¡± ¡°After changing into a full set of equipment, old P¡¯s level three backpack was almost full. There were a lot of useless things in there, such as submachine guns, grapeshot bullets, and so on. Old P packed up his backpack and threw them all away. ¡± ¡°There was no ce to put fuel, so old P hesitated for a moment and threw it away. ¡± ¡°The SCAR in old P¡¯s hand was almost full, and he was just short of a magazine, so it didn¡¯t affect him much. The only problem was that there weren¡¯t many bullets, less than 90. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Let¡¯s go out for a walk. ¡°¡± ¡± Chapter 653 ? Chapter 653 Chasing after your dream? Trantor 549690339 ¡°With his equipment ready, old P was more confident. He had been given the S686 to shoot in the open field for free. Now that he had a car with a red dot scope, old P was more confident. ¡± He highly suspected that he was the only one left in Pochinki. His previous friend had killed the other two and then delivered the package to him. ¡°However, it was not necessarily safe outside because Pochinki was already outside the safe zone. There was no guarantee that people from the school, Rozhok, or Yasnaya Polyana from the northeast would note over. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Eh? I think there¡¯s a caring from the east. ¡°¡± ¡± Old P carefully hid behind a low wall and checked the direction of the sound. ¡°Old P found that the sounds in the game were very obvious, especially the footsteps, which seemed to be deliberately strengthened. As long as one was highly focused and had good hearing, they could urately judge the enemy¡¯s position, behavior, and number of people. ¡± ¡°It was a Jeep with a convertible. Through the windshield, one could see that the driver was wearing a level three helmet. This guy obviously did not n to stop at Pochinki. It seemed like he was going to drive straight to the center of the safe zone. ¡± ¡°Old P was a little hesitant to shoot. This person was a little far from him, and he had a level 3 helmet. He might not be able to kill him. ¡± ¡°At that moment, old P heard concentrated gunfire from behind a rock in the distance! ¡± The Jeep¡¯s windshield shattered instantly. It was obvious that the shooter had aimed at the driver and had no intention of hitting the car. The driver was obviously shocked. He jumped out of the car and turned into a box ... Old P was speechless. ¡°When a vehicle was traveling at a speed higher than 30, jumping off would cause a loss of HP. This Jeep was previously traveling at high speed, so jumping off directly would cause a lot of damage even if it rolled over. ¡± ¡°This guy had been shot twice before and lost some HP. Then, he jumped out of the car and died. ¡± ¡°The guy who fired the shot ran over happily, wanting to loot the box. Old P took advantage of the moment he ran out of cover and set up his car with a red dot scope to shoot! ¡± ¡°It was hard to hit the driver in the car, but it was easy to hit the people running around on the road. Old P¡¯s shooting skills were very good, and he fired at this guy. ¡± This guy was obviously panicking. He was in the middle of nowhere and had no cover. He directlyy down on the spot ... ¡°Obviously, this was simr to an ostrich¡¯s behavior, and it was also one of themon mistakes made by novices. Old P did not hold back and directly followed up with a few shots to kill him. ¡± ¡°After the gunshots stopped, old P waited for a while, but no one appeared. ¡± ¡°After these two incidents, old P had learned his lesson. After killing someone, he should not rush up to loot the loot. After all, no one knew if there were other tybs nearby waiting to reap the benefits. ¡± ¡°Very soon, the blue circle was about to refresh. This time, the safe zone had refreshed to a location below Pochinki, which included the West Bridge of Sosnovka Military Base, the farm, and a stretch of wilderness. ¡± ¡°Old P cautiously ran to the Jeep and took the supplies from the two bags. There was a level three Spetsnaz Helmet, some random bullets, medicine, and so on. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I¡¯ve struck it rich! It seems that killing people is the fastest way to earn money. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°Old P sighed and wondered, why haven¡¯t I seen a sniper rifle for so long? ¡± ...... ¡°In fact, there were quite a few sniper rifles on the map, but most of these yers were newbies and felt that a 98K was not practical, so they did not take it. ¡± ¡°Another group of eliminated yers came out of their gaming pods, but this time, their reaction waspletely different from the previous yers. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Aiya, what a pity! I panicked when I was hit, why did I jump out of the car ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±The one who jumped out of the car was you? I¡¯m the one who beat you up, but I was also set up by someone else, F ** K!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±When does the next round start? I want to y another round!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°These yers were different from the first batch of yers who turned into crates afternding. Most of them had killed people in the game and found many good things, so they wanted to try again. ¡± ¡°Meanwhile, in the holographic projection area, the yers were also eximing in shock. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±F * ck! The Sandpiper and m are fighting again, and the third party benefits!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Eh, isn¡¯t that the name of the streamer old P? Was it the real person? He¡¯s really cunning!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±It seems that I have to stay calm while ying this game. I can¡¯t be impatient. Look at those guys who think that they have good shooting skills and are rushing out to kill people. They¡¯ve already sent their packages ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Yeah, it¡¯s useless no matter how good your equipment is. If someone ambushed you, you¡¯d be dead in a burst of bullets.¡±¡± ¡± The yers in the holographic projection area were also excited. This game mode was indeed different from the traditional FPS game mode. It was several levels more exciting! ¡°In traditional FPS games, regardless of whether it was explosive mode or Assault mode, the pace was usually very fast. However, the oue of each round was not very obvious. This was because a few small rounds were enough to determine the strength of both sides. The more one yed, the less suspenseful one would be. ¡± ¡°However, yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground was different. The game was full of suspense from the beginning to the end, and no one knew which yer would win until the end. Moreover, there were a lot of factors in IQ games. How to put himself in a more advantageous position through the use of KYB means was obviously also a skill. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±F * ck, there are only 18 yers left. The blue circle is getting smaller and smaller!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Is half of the blue circle in the sea?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Eh, a guy jumped into the sea from the bridge. Is he nning to stay in the water?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°The yers in the game didn¡¯t know what the others were doing, but the audience could see it clearly. ¡± ¡°There were only 18 yers left on the battlefield, and these yers were more cautious. The yers in the wilderness were basically on the ground the entire time, and one yer even jumped into the water and stayed close to the shore, hiding himself. It seemed like he was going to be thest one. ¡± Old P drove the Jeep to a Hill and carefully observed the situation around him. ¡°At this moment, a ne flew past in the sky, making a rumbling sound. ¡± ¡°When they passed by the farm and the bridge, an airdropnded. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Airdrop?!¡±¡± ¡± Old P was shocked. This position was quite close to him. ¡°In fact, he had seen a few airdrops from afar before, but they were all a little far away, so old P did not dare to go over and get them. Although the manual said that there were good things here, old P felt that there would definitely be a lot of people snatching it, so he didn¡¯t dare to try it. ¡± ¡°But now, the airdrop was about tond very close to him. Although it wasn¡¯t a direct hit to his face, it was almost there. If old P drove over, he could even reach the airdrop before itnded. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Are you going or not?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Old P was a little conflicted. This airdrop would definitely attract the attention of many yers. Even if these people didn¡¯t fight for it, they would definitely be watching from a distance, ready to shoot at the person who went to get the airdrop. ¡± ¡°After thinking for a moment, old P gritted his teeth and said,¡±¡±go!¡±¡± If a person doesn¡¯t have a dream, what¡¯s the difference between them and a salted fish?¡±¡± ¡± Chapter 654 ? Chapter 654 The airdrop¡¯s AWM Trantor 549690339 ¡°Old P, who didn¡¯t want to be a salted fish, rushed over in his Jeep. Since he had already decided to go and see, he had to move quickly. Otherwise, he would take such a big risk. If the airdrop was picked up by someone else first, it would be a huge loss. ¡± ¡°The sound of concentrated gunfire rang out. Old P¡¯s movement in the Jeep was too conspicuous, and all kinds of bullets were fired at him. Along the way, at least three people fired at old P, but because old P was driving faster, he only lost a little health to the man and the car, and it was not a big deal. ¡± ¡°When they arrived at the airdrop, the airdropnded. Old P mmed on the brakes to stop the Jeep. After pulling on the handbrake, he quickly got out of the Jeep and crouched down, starting to search for things in the airdrop. ¡± (Chen Mo added a handbrake to the car so that the car wouldn¡¯t slide down the slope as long as the yer pulled the handbrake.) ¡°Gunshots were stilling from the surroundings. The Jeep and the supply box were both shot, but old P relied on these two covers and didn¡¯t get shot again. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±F * ck, this is ... An AWM?!¡±¡± ¡± Old P was shocked. He was too familiar with this green sniper rifle because this thing was a regr in most gun battle games. It was a well-deserved big killing weapon! Old P hurriedly reced the AKM he was wearing with an AWM and equipped it with an 8x scope. ¡°Needless to say, this gun was definitely a good one, but it had a little less bullets. ¡± ¡°In addition, there was a level 3 Military Vest and a first aid kit in the box. Old P was overjoyed. It was worth the risk! ¡± ¡°Old P was still wearing a level 2 armor, and its durability was very worrying. After changing into a level 3 armor, he had a full set. In addition to the fact that he had a SCAR and an AWM, this was basically a very luxurious piece of equipment. ¡± ¡°However, just as old P was about to leave, he realized that things were bad. ¡± ¡°The Jeep was already smoking, and it didn¡¯t look like it couldst much longer. If they drove away and left by force, it would be GG if the Jeep was blown up. ¡± ¡°Moreover, those people from before had already surrounded him. Old P had countless people staring at this airdrop. He could be considered as the target of public criticism now. If he rushed out rashly, he would probably die without a burial ce ... ¡± ¡°Sporadic gunshots were still ringing out, and sparks flew as they hit the airdrop supply boxes and Jeeps from time to time. ¡± ¡°Old P didn¡¯t dare to get up. Hey on the ground and drank potions, waiting for his HP to slowly recover. He could not act rashly now. He could only rely on the Jeep and the airdrop supply box as cover and take one step at a time. ¡± ...... ¡°In the holographic projection area, many yers were also very nervous, all staring at the big screen. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±A few more died! There are only 9 people left!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Isn¡¯t this airdrop a little too exciting? There are at least five people fighting for this airdrop. Old P got it, but he¡¯s already being targeted by four people!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Where are the other four people? Oh, two of them were hiding by the sea, one was Voldemort, and the other was hiding in the grass ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I feel like old P is going to die. The four yers in the airdrop are obviously targeting him.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Who asked him to get the airdrop?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±It¡¯s not certain yet. We can only see which side has better marksmanship!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±This game is getting more and more exciting!¡±¡± ¡± ...... ¡°¡±¡±BOOM!¡±¡± The Jeep burst into mes and turned into a pile of scrap metal in the violent explosion. ¡± ¡°These few people were also very cunning. They wanted to hit the Jeep until it had a little health and wait for old P to get in the car before blowing it up. In the end, old P did not fall for it at all and simply blew up the Jeep himself. ¡± ¡°Old P had roughly determined the enemy¡¯s location. There were three to four people, all hiding behind cover. After all, these people knew that old P had a gun in his hand. No one dared to rush out rashly, or they would be live targets. ¡± The two sides were in an awkward stalemate ... ¡°¡±¡±If you guys aren¡¯t going to do it, then I¡¯ll do it.¡±¡± ¡± Old P was about to try out his new AWM. He first hid behind the supply box and poked his head out to confirm the target¡¯s location. Behind a tree in the southeast. Old P adjusted his angle and aimed his 8x scope at the yer¡¯s level two helmet. ¡°After all, a cover like a tree was too unreliable. This yer not only had to be wary of old P but also of the other three yers, so he unconsciously revealed a little. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Bang!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°A crisp gunshot was heard, and there was a continuous echo in the surroundings. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±You headshotted Zzz with an AWM sniper rifle!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°The gaming pod next to him let out another ¡°¡±F * ck¡±¡±, clearly shocked by the scene. ¡± ¡°Old P immediately retracted his head after firing a shot. The concentrated sound of gunfire rang out, and a few more bullet holes appeared in the supply box. ¡± ¡°At this time, the advantage of the sniper rifle was fully revealed. Although the three of them were scattered in a fan shape in front of old P, they were not far away from each other. The 8x scope of the AMV could shoot wherever he pointed. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Bang!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Another gunshot, another kill! ¡± ¡°One of the guys felt that the situation was not good and wanted to run, but old P decisively gave chase. The first shot from the AWM missed, but the second shot was still a headshot! ¡± ¡°However, at this time, concentrated gunfire suddenly burst out from behind a big rock. Thest yer also fired madly at old P, and old P quickly rolled back behind cover. ¡± ¡°He then looked at his own health, which was already very low. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±This person¡¯s shooting is so urate!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Old P was shocked as he used the first aid kit. If he wasn¡¯t wearing a level three armor, he might have been dead by now. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Then let¡¯s have a match. I have an AWM anyway. It doesn¡¯t matter if you shoot me a few times, but I just have to shoot you in the head and you¡¯ll be dead!¡±¡± ¡± ...... ¡°¡±¡±The circle is shrinking again!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±The safe zone is still with old P and DEADfire. I feel like they¡¯re going to have a showdown? An SKS on one side and an AWM on the other?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Two of our guys have sneaked past the DEADfire from behind!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±F * ck, these two guys were both killed by the DEADfire ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Only two people are left so quickly? Your mother!¡±¡± ¡± The yers in the holographic projection area were also excited. The pace of theter stages of the game was still so fast! ¡°At this stage, the safe zone had shrunk to a very small size. It was a vast in with a few small hills, trees, and rocks. There was very little cover. ¡± ¡°At this moment, the yers with high magnification scopes and good marksmanship were at an advantage. DEADfire was originally fighting with old P, but when he heard gunshots from behind him, he turned around immediately and killed the two yers who were trying to sneak up on him. ¡± ¡°The final circle turned into a battle between old P and DEADfire. Old P had killed five yers, while Deadfire had killed seven. This was enough to show that these two yers were not only lucky, but also capable! ¡± ¡°¡±¡±DEADfire was the lucky one who made it out of the airport, right? That¡¯s awesome, your marksmanship is really stable. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Old P¡¯s not bad either!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±But ... Old P is outside the safe zone now!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°On the big screen, the two of them were throwing grenades like crazy. Old P had already drunk all the energy drinks he had and threw a few high-explosive grenades to block the road. Then, he threw a few smoke bombs and rushed out! ¡± ¡°The SKS kept firing. DEADfire must have been hit by a frag grenade, but he did not have the time to bandage himself up. He wanted to kill old P! ¡± ¡°In the smoke, ol ¡®P ran quickly and did a roll. The SCAR shot wildly at deadfury, who was behind the stone cover! ¡± Chapter 655 ? Chapter 655 The store manager is abusing theputer? Trantor 549690339 ¡°¡±¡±Great luck! We¡¯ll have chicken dinner tonight!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°The image on the big screen froze, and the iconic scene of yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground appeared! ¡± The holographic projection audience instantly burst into cheers! ¡°Everyone saw it clearly. In the end, old P used a smoke grenade to block his vision and then rushed out directly. The two sides met with force and force. In the end, old P won when he had less than a quarter of his health left. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±That¡¯s awesome! Old P really got first ce!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I have a question. Why do you want to win the chicken dinner?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I¡¯m not sure ... But I think it¡¯s fun to say it like this!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Is this the streamer old P? He¡¯s in the experience store? Quickly call him over to share his thoughts!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±As expected, good marksmanship is still the key. In the final circle, there¡¯s no point in hiding anymore. It¡¯s still up to your real ability!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°After the game ended, the screen showed a countdown to the next game, 15 minutes. It was equivalent to giving the yers a little rest. ¡± ¡°In the VR experience area, old P came out of the game cabin and the yers around him immediately surrounded him. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±How did it go? who won?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±What¡¯s the result? Who¡¯s first?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°These people were all waiting for the final result in the VR experience area on the third floor, so they didn¡¯t know the final oue. Out of all the gaming cabins, only three were left with their doors closed. Old P and DEADfire opened their gaming cabins at almost the same time. ¡± ¡°DEADfire was a young man with dyed blonde hair. He gave old P a thumbs up and said,¡±¡±¡±¡±Brother, thest wave was really awesome.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Luck, luck.¡±¡± Old P smiled. ¡± ¡°The next match would start in 15 minutes, and the yers in the VR experience area were all discussing how to y the game. Old P, DEADfire, and a few other yers who had been around for a long time naturally became popr, and many people surrounded them with questions. ¡± ¡°However, old P noticed that there was still one game cabin door that had not been opened. ¡± What was going on? Wasn¡¯t the game already over? Old P was secretly puzzled. ¡°Two minutester, the cabin door opened. Chen Mo came out of the game cabin and stretched. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Manager?¡±¡± the other yers were stunned. ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo¡¯s eyes lit up,¡±¡±eh, manager, were you in the game just now?¡±¡± Which one is you?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Mo smiled.¡±¡±I¡¯m not ying the same game as you guys. I¡¯m ying on theputer. I¡¯m just testing the game.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Old P couldn¡¯t help but take a few more nces at Chen Mo, since it was his first time seeing him in person. ¡± ¡°No wonder there were always 79 people in the game, it was because Chen Mo had taken one of the gaming pods to test the game. ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo¡¯s face was full of contempt,¡±¡±wow! Manager, you¡¯re actually abusing theputer in the game? I¡¯m looking down on you!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I¡¯m fine,¡±¡± Chen Zhaoughed.¡±¡±If you don¡¯t like it, you can go and beat it up.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Really? Then I won¡¯t be polite! If you can¡¯t win a chicken dinner with a yer, you can definitely win it with aputer!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo quickly got into the game cabin, as if he was afraid someone would snatch it from him. ¡± ¡°Chen Mo said to everyone,¡±¡±when you guys leave, you can go to the front desk and get a free ¡®chicken dinner tonight¡¯ T-shirt. It¡¯s a free gift. It¡¯s a limited edition. Don¡¯t forget.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±A limited edition T-shirt? You¡¯re amazing, manager!¡±¡± Many yers were very happy. Although a T-shirt was nothing, a limited edition was different. This item had collectible value! ¡± ¡°Many yers couldn¡¯t wait for the next match to begin. Zou Zhuo was also in the game, and he died quite miserably, getting shot in the head by old P¡¯s AWM ... So after he entered Chen Mo¡¯s gaming pod, it was immediately upied by other yers. ¡± ...... Zou Zhuo entered the VR gaming pod and quickly connected to the various signals. ¡°Thest scene of Chen Mo killing the enemy was still in his field of vision, with a line of striking words on the screen ¡°¡±Great luck! We¡¯ll have chicken dinner tonight!¡±¡± In addition, there was also data such as the number of yers killed in the game. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±So this is what it really looks like to get first ce. He killed 17? Tsk, tsk, tsk, the manager is having a good time abusingputers. ¡°¡± ¡± Zou Zhuo started the next game happily. ¡°The gaming pod was connected to another server, and its in-game functions had been modified. Chen Mo was using it to test the game, since he would be ying with theputer when he entered the game. ¡± Zou Zhuo was ted. He wanted to experience the thrill of beating theputer and getting 17 kills in one game of PUBG. ¡°¡±¡±Manager, you¡¯re good at this. Isn¡¯t this the costume for the main character in the game poster?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo realized that Chen Mo¡¯s character was dressed like the character in the middle of a cosy game poster, with a Hooded Windbreaker, a id mask, sunsses, and white casual pants. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Manager, you know how to y. I¡¯m impressed.¡±¡± ¡± Zou Zhuo was quite satisfied with his image and entered the next game. ¡°He directly entered the spawn area. The countdown was still 1 minute, but the 100 people were instantly filled. ¡± The other 99 people stood still in the spawn area. This scene was a little scary ... ¡°Zou Zhuo mumbled,¡±¡±the manager¡¯s AI is too simple.¡±¡± It¡¯s aputer, but why isn¡¯t it moving?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Since zou Zhuo had nothing to do, he started shooting crazily at theputers around him. Even though he couldn¡¯t kill anyone in the spawn area, zou Zhuo still felt good. ¡± ¡°The countdown ended, and the game officially began. ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo had yed the game once before and made it into the top 20, so he had a good understanding of the game¡¯s mechanics. He looked at the ne¡¯s route. This time, it was still flying from south to north, but it was from Southeast to Northwest, and finally passed by the port. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Let¡¯s jump to Sosnovka Military Base! It¡¯ll be a great time to kill!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo thought happily. Obviously, if one wanted to kill and have fun in this map, the best choice was to jump to the Sosnovka Military Base. There were many good guns here, and there were often many people. As long as onended and got a gun, it would be a killing spree. ¡± Zou Zhuo picked a good spot and left the ne. Zou Zhuo opened his umbre and looked at the sky around him. There were more than 20 people! ¡°Although the airport was a good ce, theputer was not stupid and did not jump there. ¡± Zou Zhuo aimed at the top of a building. He was lucky to pick up a submachine gun! ¡°Zou Zhuo wanted tough out loud. There were two otherputers on the same roof as him, and there was one on the roof next to him. The otherputers were scattered across the military base. ¡± Zou Zhuo looked at the twoputers on the same floor as if they were two boxes. ¡°However, just as zou Zhuo finished reloading his gun, one of theputers raised his 98K. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Bang!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°There was a clear gunshot, and a cloud of blood appeared in zou Zhuo¡¯s field of vision. He felt a slight vibration in between his eyebrows, and then the screen went ck ... ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo was dumbfounded.¡±¡±I ... I was shot in the head by a kar97k??¡±¡± ¡± Chapter 656 ? ¡°Chapter 656 Show some respect, this is artificial intelligence¡± Trantor 549690339 ¡°Zou Zhuo was a little dumbfounded. From the death scene, theputer had picked up the 98K and aimed at zou Zhuo¡¯s head before killing him in one shot ... ¡± Zou Zhuo came out of the gaming pod and scratched his head. ¡°¡±¡±What¡¯s the matter, little fatty?¡±¡±a yer asked. ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo looked around, Chen Mo was no longer on this floor. He smacked his lips,¡±¡±¡±¡±It¡¯s fine. I just wanted to ask the manager a question about the game¡¯s settings. Forget it.¡±¡± ¡± He was too embarrassed to tell others that he had been tortured by theputer ... Zou Zhuo returned to the game cabin and wondered if he had opened it the wrong way. Wasn¡¯t thisputer¡¯s marksmanship a little too urate? Was this a standard or normal operation? ¡°Zou Zhuo wasn¡¯t sure, so he started another round. ¡± ¡°It was the same scenario at the beginning, but this time, the ne was going from east to west through the middle part of the ind, and zou Zhuo decided to jump to Pochinki. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Why don¡¯t we y it safe for now? it seems like evenputers have their own tricks. We can¡¯t underestimate them!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuonded quickly and looked around. Luckily, only seven or eightputers hadnded in Pochinki, which was better than the military base. ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo didn¡¯t dare to be careless. He quickly went into the house to search for guns. He was lucky to find an M16, a level 1 helmet, and a Level 2 Backpack. ¡± Zou Zhuo loaded the magazine with great familiarity and left the room happily. He rushed to the room where one of theputers was. ¡°The two houses were very close to each other. Zou Zhuo was thinking that he had an M16, so no matter what gun theputer had, he would have an advantage. ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo didn¡¯t rush in immediately after he opened the door. He was afraid that theputer would ambush him. However, after some observation, he realized that there was no one on the first floor. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Eh? Where is he?¡±¡± ¡± Zou Zhuo suddenly heard footstepsing from above him! ¡°He quickly turned around, but as the ss shattered, a ck shadow jumped down from the second floor and fired two shots at zou Zhuo with an S1897! ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Bang Bang!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo felt a strong vibration in his chest, and his vision turned grey. ¡± Zou Zhuo fell to the ground with a loud thud. He watched as he turned into a crate. Theptop stepped on his head and took away his level two backpack and M16 ... ¡°¡±¡±This ... What¡¯s the situation?!¡±¡± ¡± Zou Zhuo was shocked. He couldn¡¯t even kill aputer? ¡°If the previous headshot from the 98k was a coincidence, it couldn¡¯t be the same this time, right? ¡± ¡°Theputer jumped from the second floor to zou Zhuo¡¯s back and took it away with two grapeshot shots. It was obviously premeditated. If zou Zhuo didn¡¯t know that it was aputer, he would have thought that it was a high-level yer! ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I ... The way I opened the door was wrong??¡±¡± ¡± Zou Zhuo started the next round. ...... Five minutester. Zou Zhuo exited the game cabin with a dark face. ¡°In a total of eight minutes, zou Zhuo had turned into a crate on the ground, not killing a single yer ... ¡± Zou Zhuo started to question his life. ¡°Theputers here were not only good at shooting, but they also had good awareness! He could hear footsteps, observe carefully when entering an unfamiliar room, roll to find cover when he was attacked, and he could even circle around ording to the enemy¡¯s position! ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo racked his brain trying to kill someone, but he couldn ¡®t! ¡± ¡°This was too despairing, zou Zhuo felt like his life was dark, he even started to doubt himself ... ¡± ¡°Chen Mo went to the VR experience area again.¡±¡±¡±¡±Everyone, please pay attention. The next match will begin in five minutes. Be prepared.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°The second round hadn¡¯t even started yet, and zou Zhuo had already died a few times ... ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo called out to Chen Mo with a bitter face,¡±¡±manager, can you change this gaming pod to a normal tournament mode?¡±¡± I don¡¯t want to y on theputer anymore ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Mo smiled,¡±¡±it¡¯s so cool to yputer games, you don¡¯t like it¡±¡± ¡± The surrounding yers all looked at zou Zhuo with confusion in their eyes. ¡°Zou Zhuo¡¯s mouth twitched and he said,¡±¡±¡±¡±I ... I still prefer to y with people!¡±¡± ¡± ...... ¡°The second game, 80 people! ¡± ¡°There was not much change in the number of yers and the first time. Only two or three yers gave up the game because of the box-like experience, but soon more interested yers took their ces. ¡± ¡°Not only that, but the number of people in the holographic projection area had increased! ¡± ¡°The entire viewing gallery was filled with spectators, and many of them were standing on tiptoes in the back row. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Quick, quick, quick, the second round is starting. ce your bets!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I¡¯m optimistic about old P. He¡¯s a man who coexists between being tough and being tough. He just won a chicken dinner in thest round, so he¡¯s feeling hot!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I think DEADfire is the lucky one at the airport. He¡¯s the real king of killers!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Hehe, don¡¯t be so sure. That was the first round. No one knew how to y. The second round will definitely be different!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Although the audience couldn¡¯t participate, just watching was very interesting. ¡± ¡°Of course, there were also a group of viewers who were itching to find a VR gaming pod to experience it, but they had no choice. The entire VR experience area was full. ¡± ...... ¡°In the second round, zou zhuogou made it to the top ten. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Is it my illusion? Why do I feel like I¡¯ve be stronger after being abused by theputer so many times? It¡¯s so easy to beat people up!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo came out of the game cabin and stretched his back, not nning to continue ying. The guys who had been waiting in line quickly entered the game cabin, as if they were afraid that the little fatty would go back on his words. ¡± Zou Zhuo really wanted to ask Chen Mo a question. He looked around and finally found Chen Mo in the crowd. ¡°Manager, I have a question to ask you.¡±¡± Zou Zhuo said. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±What¡¯s the problem?¡±¡± Chen Zhao looked at him. ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo coughed dryly,¡±¡±well, I don¡¯t know if I¡¯m seeing things, but it seems likeputers are more powerful than yers?¡±¡± I¡¯ve yed a few rounds, and it seems like I turned into a box every time Inded ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±You¡¯re right. ¡°¡±Chen Mo chuckled. ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo ¡°¡±???¡±¡± ¡± He actually shamelessly admitted it! ¡°Zou Zhuo¡¯s mouth twitched,¡±¡±manager, this doesn¡¯t make sense!¡±¡± Why areputers more powerful than yers?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Why mustputers be weaker than yers?¡±¡± Chen Mo asked. ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo was dumbfounded,¡±puters are for yers to practice!¡±¡± Theputers in League of Legends and Warcraft are weaker. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Oh,¡±¡± Chen Mo replied,¡±¡±where¡¯s the boss in Dark Souls ¡®dying mode?¡±¡± ¡± Zou Zhuo was speechless. ¡°Chen Zhao patted his shoulder.¡±¡±Be more respectful in the future. Call it an AI. It¡¯s as if you can beat origin.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo,¡±¡±manager, you¡¯re the one who called her aputer first!¡±¡± You said you were ying on theputer, testing the game!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Chen Mo chuckled.¡±¡±It¡¯s aputer to me. It¡¯s an artificial intelligence to you. There¡¯s nothing wrong with it.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo,¡±¡±I don¡¯t believe you!¡±¡± ¡± ...... ¡°Ever since yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground was released, it was rare for the entire VR experience Zone to be filled with yers. Furthermore, it was always full! ¡± Even the holographic projection viewing area was full. Many yers who wanted to y but couldn¡¯t could only watch the operation of the gods. ¡°Many yers realized that even though the game looked ordinary at first nce, it was really fun to y! ¡± ¡°Many yers could not tell what was so fun about it, but they just felt that it waspletely different from traditional FPS games! ¡± Chapter 657 ? Chapter 657 Chapter 656-no in-game purchases Trantor 549690339 ¡°Many yers in the experience store had uploaded their videos online. Some streamers even started streaming in their gaming pods. Even the chubby zou Zhuo, who was known for being two pigeons in three days, started streaming as well. He was happily ying while flirting. ¡± ¡°As for yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground, there were more and more discussions about it on the inte. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Did anyone watch the yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground demo? This game is surprisingly interesting!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I watched old P¡¯s live broadcast and even won the chicken dinner sessfully! What a great sense of aplishment!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±What do you mean by chicken dinner?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±You don¡¯t even know this? It means that if you survive to thest ce in the game, a sentence will appear on the screen,¡¯great luck, chicken dinner tonight¡¯, indicating that you are thest survivor of the game!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Why did you eat chicken and not duck??¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Oh, it seems that this sentencees from a saying called¡±¡± winner winner,¡±¡±¡±¡± very clever dinner!¡±¡± It was said to be a saying from the casinos in Europe and America, which was quite in line with the background of the game. But I think it¡¯s just Chen Zhao¡¯s bad taste. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Chen Mo wouldn¡¯t dare to make the background of the story Chinese, right? otherwise, it wouldn¡¯t pass the review ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I also think that the video is very interesting, but the yers who have really yed it have more intense reactions. They all say that this game is very fun!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±It¡¯s strange. They can¡¯t tell what¡¯s so fun about this game. They just think it¡¯s really fresh!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I can¡¯t wait for the game to be released. I¡¯m going to line up at the experience store tomorrow!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Wake up, you won¡¯t be able to get in unless you go two hours before the shop opens in the morning ... Because these B * stards basically won¡¯t log out once they start ying!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°To the surprise of many yers, yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground seemed to be unexpectedly popr! ¡± ¡°In the beginning, many yers thought that the game was just a little new and had nothing to boast about. However, after ying and watching the game videos, they realized that it was not the case! ¡± It was really fun to y with! ¡°The most intuitive feeling was that this game was veryfortable to y. There was something to do every second, and the feeling of each round waspletely different! ¡± ¡°The entire map was veryrge, and even if yers flew to a different ce every round, they would get apletely different gaming experience. ¡± ¡°Moreover, the experience store¡¯s game mode wasn¡¯t the official mode. Due to the limited number of yers, only 80 people could y the game, and they had to wait until the end of one game before they could start the next. The yers who had turned into crates afternding could only wait. ¡± ¡°However, since these people were all at the scene, even if they turned into crates afternding, they could stille out of the game cabin and chat with others, so the impact was not big. ¡± ¡°After the game was officially released, yers could immediately start the next round after dying in the game, and the sense of defeat would be further weakened. ¡± ...... ¡°On the 8th of April, yerUnknown¡¯s Battlegrounds the escape officially went on sale! ¡± ¡°In the week from 1st to 8th of April, yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground became a hot topic every day. At first, yers were just curious, but as the experience store continued to grow, there were new topics about yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground on the inte every day! ¡± ¡°The experience store became the gathering ce for the first batch of yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground yers. Every day, the yers would discuss the new ystyles, strategies, and new experiences of yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground. ¡± ¡°As for the yers who couldn¡¯t get a VR gaming pod, they went to the holographic projection viewing area to watch the game. Even though they couldn¡¯t y, they were still very engrossed and happy. ¡± ¡°Various game videos and live broadcasts were uploaded to the inte, and many yers had a strong interest in the game after watching it. But the problem was that they could not y it! ¡± Many yers were scratching their ears and cheeks in anticipation. ¡°yerUnknown¡¯s Battlegrounds preliminaries had already started. The official version of the game was sold for 980 Yuan, while the preliminaries were sold for 780 yuan, which was a 200 yuan discount. ¡± ¡°Other than that, yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground was the same as sadistic killing of prototype. There was also an inte cafe version, but it was more expensive. Each VR gaming pod that could be activated in the inte cafe cost 2680 Yuan, which was much more expensive than sadistic killing of prototype. ¡± As for why it was so expensive ... That was obvious. How could this game be on the same level as killing prototype? ¡°Selling it at 980 Yuan per unit was in hopes that more yers would lose their hands. If the inte cafe version was sold at a lower price, Chen Mo would suffer a loss. ¡± ¡°Up until now, domestic VR inte cafes weren¡¯t particrly enthusiastic about this game. After all, this game was different from sadomasochism. Many inte cafe bosses still had some doubts about whether this new shooting game would be popr. ¡± ¡°After all, ording to the price of traditional domestic FPS games, 980 RMB was not considered expensive, but it did not have any obviouspetitive advantage. After all, Chen Mo¡¯s Overwatch was now free, which had a huge impact on the FPS market. ¡± ¡°Wolf Soul and raging inferno assault had also been on discount and reduced in price, but since these two games had in-game purchases, the impact on the profits was not particrly big. ¡± ¡°Chen Mo didn¡¯t n on adding any in-game content to yerUnknown¡¯s Battlegrounds, nor did he n on spending money to open chests. ¡± ¡°In addition to the buy-off system, there was only one point of collectionter on, and that was the transaction tax. ¡± ¡°yers could obtain gold coins when ying the game. The gold coins could be opened, and the items obtained from opening the boxes could be freely traded. There was no price limit, but every trade had to pay a 10% trade tax to the official. ¡± ¡°If a dress was sold for 2500 Yuan, there would be a 250 Yuan transaction tax, which would be directly deducted from the seller¡¯s hands. In other words, the seller¡¯s price was 2500, but the actual amount was 2250. ¡± ¡°Of course, there would definitely be yers who wanted to trade in private. The solution to this was actually very simple. For example, the game could only put the items up for auction in the general store, one-on-one transactions could not be done, buyers and sellers could not check each other¡¯s names, the items would be dyed after being put up in the store, rare goods would be automatically released at a fixed time, and so on. ¡± ¡°Even though there were policies and countermeasures, as long as they used strict rules to seal up all the loopholes in the trade, the yers could only follow Chen Mo¡¯s requests and trade. ¡± ¡°After all, it was a matter of profit. How could there be a loophole? This was a matter of the designer¡¯s professionalism. ¡± ¡°Many yers were already impatient. Since the pre-sale version was so much cheaper, they naturally bought it without hesitation! ¡± ¡°Chen Mo also emphasized that the game wouldst forever if you paid for it once. There would be no charge for future updates, and there were no in-game purchases! ¡± ¡°The ¡®no in-game purchases¡¯ rule made many yers swear at their conscience, especially when it came out of Chen Mo¡¯s mouth. ¡± Who didn¡¯t know Chen Mo? he almost became the richest person in the world by selling skins ... ¡°The idea of ¡°¡±free games with expensive skins¡±¡± was something that Chen Mo had started from League of Legends. As such, free games had be the mainstream on mobile games, and even the VR Overwatch was using the same strategy, and the results were pretty good. ¡± ¡°The yers were already familiar with ¡°¡±free games¡±¡±. Although they were free, they were more of a scam than paid games! ¡± ¡°But now, Chen Mo said that yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground didn¡¯t have any in-game purchases, which was unbelievable to the yers! ¡± Could salent be so kind? This was not scientific at all! Chapter 658 ? Chapter 658 The three games team up and fight Trantor 549690339 ¡°After yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground officially went on sale, the sales volume rose steadily! ¡± ¡°This time, the domestic and overseas versions were released almost at the same time, and the sales figures were also calcted directly in the global sales. ¡± ¡°Sixty thousand copies of the pre-sale version were sold, and more than eight thousand copies would be sold every day after that. This meant that yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground had brought in more than forty million in revenue! ¡± ¡°Of course, it didn¡¯t seem like a lot. If Chen Mo calcted ording to the numbers in his previous life, yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground had sold more than four million copies in March 2017 in June, with an average of more than forty thousand daily. ¡± ¡°However, yerUnknown¡¯s Battlegrounds was a VR game in the parallel world, after all. There were only a few people who could afford a gaming pod and were willing to spend money on VR games. ¡± ¡°Since the VR version of yerUnknown¡¯s Battlegrounds was ten times more expensive than the PC version in Chen Mo¡¯s previous life, Chen Mo¡¯s ie was even higher than Bluehole¡¯s in his previous life, and he had a better start. ¡± ¡°Moreover, this did not include the ie from the inte cafe version. ¡± ¡°Now, many yers and VR inte cafes were still in a wait-and-see state. For inte cafes, the price of the inte cafe version of yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground was higher, so they had to consider it. As for the yers, most of them could only afford one FPS game with their financial conditions. ¡± ¡°Now, it was yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground and Wolf Soul Modern battlefield and raging inferno Assault 2 appeared together, and none of them were cheap. For the yers, they could only pick one that they liked the most in the short term. ¡± Emperor dynasty entertainment and ZEN Entertainment couldn¡¯t sit still after the pre-sales figures of yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground came out. ¡°This was because the three games were in apetitive rtionship. It was obvious that there were zero-sum games. If yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground sold more, it would definitely empty the wallets of some yers, affecting the sales of the other two games. ¡± ¡°It was just like how some popr movies would seriously affect the box office of the subsequent stages of the movie, just like how it would suck away the poprity of the movie. ¡± ¡°At first, thepletion rates of Wolf Soul modern battlefields and raging inferno Assault 2 weren¡¯t particrly high, and they wanted to dy the release of the games. However, under the strong performance of yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground, the senior management of these twopanies couldn¡¯t sit still. Lin chaoxu and Liu Yuanfeng began to pressure the two games ¡®working teams, urging them to test the games as soon as possible! ¡± ¡°The release and release of the game could be dyed, but the testing had to be done quickly. He had to try his best to hype it up and attract the attention of the yers. Otherwise, he would only be more and more passive. ¡± ¡°The staff of the two teams were forced to work overtime more frequently, but everyone knew that this was the most critical stage for all three games. They couldn¡¯t afford to drop the ball at this time! ¡± ¡°Very quickly, a series of bombshell news was released. ¡± ¡°Wolf Soul modern battlefield and burning Assault 2 announced their testing and release dates. Modern battlefields was released earlier, and fire Assault 2 was thetest. ¡± ¡°But sooner orter, the two project teams began to disclose a lot of game content in the hope of attracting the attention of yers. ¡± ...... ¡°On the 12th of April,¡±¡±Wolf Soul modern battlefield¡±¡± began its testing. ¡± ¡°On the 17th of April, the testing of fire Assault 2 began. ¡± ¡°Even though there were still some minor problems in the game, Qin Xiao and ran he could not wait any longer. They were in urgent need of feedback from the yers before they could make further changes. ¡± ¡°At this time, although yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground had been released earlier, the other two games were also trying their best to make the game popr. All kinds of public rtions and anti-publicity drafts were also fiercely fought over, both overtly and covertly. The yers of the three games were arguing endlessly. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Don¡¯t say anything. The PUBG expert is invincible. If you don¡¯t ept it, you can¡¯t argue!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Hehe, it¡¯s just a game! I¡¯m really impressed by Chen Mo¡¯s fangirls, only the game¡¯s design is new, but they¡¯re still bragging about how invincible the game is?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Wolf Soul modern battlefields is better. It¡¯s fast-paced and very cool! With all sorts of modern weapons on the battlefield, this game would be more exciting!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±That¡¯s right, Wolf Soul is a game that can stimte your hormones, what¡¯s the point of winning chicken dinner? To cultivate the spirit of a coward? He he he!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±That¡¯s right! Games that don¡¯t use guns should leave the group!¡±¡± ¡± [yers of fire Assault 2 areughing at you two dogs biting each other. These two shallow games should just stand aside. The future is still fire assault!] ¡°¡±¡±F * ck off, fire Assault 2 was just a game that adopted the Western FPS game¡¯s ystyle and changed its Chinese background. You¡¯re the one with the least face, why are you acting like a Wolf with a big tail?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±How does a domestic background have no cards? This is the first FPS game in the country that has a deep story. You morons who grew up eating fast food games know nothing!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°The three groups of fans gathered together and fought, quarreling with each other ... ¡± ¡°If two games werepeting with each other, it would be fine. It was nothing more than trampling on each other. But now that three games werepeting with each other, the scene instantly became particrly chaotic, and it became extremely difficult to judge the nature of a yer ... ¡± ¡°Not to mention, there were many people who took advantage of the situation and watched the drama. They did all kinds of cross-dressing, which was the biggest show of the year. ¡± It had to be said that the yers from Emperor dynasty entertainment were the strongest. ¡°Fire Assault 2 was thetest to be released, and it was a standalone game that was rtively aloof from the rest of the world, so its conflict with the other two games wasn¡¯t that intense. ¡± ¡°The advantage of a single-yer game was that as long as the game¡¯s quality was up to standard, the game wouldn¡¯t die out if there weren¡¯t any idents, and he could earn some money. Of course, it wasn¡¯t easy to have a particrly domineering hit. ¡± ¡°In this sense,¡±¡±Wolf Soul Modern battlefield and yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground were the fiercestpetitors, so the smell of gunpowder was more intense. ¡± ¡°The main point of criticism from yers of ¡°¡±Wolf Soul modern battlefield¡±¡± was that there was basically nothing new in ¡°¡±yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground¡±¡± other than the game¡¯s mode innovation, and the big escape mode was not a sessful model that had been tested by the market. It was definitely just a short-lived one. ¡± ¡°The yers were having a good time now, but once this enthusiasm passed, the game would be over. ¡± ¡°Of course, there were also people who picked on other aspects. For example, some people felt that PUBG could only have one person win the chicken dinner, and that the experience of most ordinary yers was not guaranteed. ¡± ¡°yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground yers were also retaliating, but they could not find a good way to break through. In a war of words like this, not only did one have to emphasize their own advantages, but they also had to seize the other party¡¯s shorings and counterattack. ¡± ¡°To put it bluntly, this kind of war of words wasn¡¯t just a battle of emotions between yers. The gamepany¡¯s public rtions team and marketing team were also behind this. ¡± ¡°This kind of war of words would more or less affect the yers ¡®impression of these two games. If a game had a one-sided bad review on the inte, many passerby yers might not consider buying the game. ¡± What happened after that infuriated the yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground yers! Chapter 659 ? Chapter 659 If yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground bes like some other games Trantor 549690339 ¡°The official Weibo ount of ¡°¡±Wolf Soul modern battlefield¡±¡± reposted a video by a fan. On the surface, the video was praising ¡°¡±Wolf Soul¡±¡±, but in fact, it had been insinuating ¡°¡±yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground¡±¡±. ¡± ¡°The video¡¯s producer listed ¡°¡±Wolf Soul Modern battlefield had many advantages, such as fast pace, fairness, rich modes, and various mechanisms. However, after each advantage, there were innuendos to ¡°¡±certain games.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°For example,¡±¡±¡±¡± Wolf Soul modern battlefield ¡°¡±has a fast pace, unlike some games where you don¡¯t even know what to do when yound. You wander around such a big map and waste most of your time doing nothing.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Another example was,¡¯Wolf Soul modern battlefield has rich modes, with many ssic and innovative ways of ying. It can be said to be the master of traditional FPS games. It¡¯s not like some games, where the whole game only has one picture and one way to y, which is really boring. ¡°¡± ¡± And so on. ¡°Obviously, anyone with a discerning eye could tell that the so-called ¡°¡±certain games¡±¡± in the video were actually ¡°¡±yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground¡±¡±. However, the video did not name any of them. This kind of enigmatic argument was really infuriating. ¡± ¡°Moreover, the official Weibo of ¡°¡±Wolf Soul modern battlefields¡±¡± had directly reposted the video, which made many yers of ¡°¡±PUBG¡±¡± feel even more uneptable. ¡± ¡°Many yers leftments on the official Weibo of Wolf Soul, arguing with the yers of Wolf Soul. This Weibo post quickly gained poprity, causing the yers to repost andment crazily. ¡± ¡°But after all, this was the home of Wolf Soul. ¡± ¡°Thements of yers who supported Wolf Soul were pushed to the top, while manyments of yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground yers were maliciously deleted. ¡± ¡°There were even a lot of Wolf Soul yers who said sarcastically,¡±¡±¡±¡±The video only mentioned ¡®some games¡¯, and there was no mention of names. Was there a need to jump out and add scenes for yourself?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Many yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground yers were furious, but they had no choice. ¡± ¡°Obviously, this was a premeditated hype. Wolf soul¡¯s official Weibo was not afraid of being scolded at all, and even couldn¡¯t wait to be scolded. ¡± ¡°Even if the criticism was too harsh, the official Weibo could just delete the post and say that it was created at thest minute, the audit was not strict, and so on. Then they could shirk the responsibility. Not to mention that this little criticism had no effect at all. Instead, it would only create poprity for Wolf Soul. ¡± ¡°Many yers of yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground were asking each other not to add poprity to Wolf Soul, but there was still a group of yers who expressed that they were really angry! ¡± ...... ¡°The next day, a lot of yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground yers were still holding back their anger and wanted to continue fighting Wolf Soul yers, but at noon, many yers found out that Chen Mo had posted a Weibo! ¡± ¡°There was a video attached to the Weibo post, and the content was ¡°¡±If yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground bes like some other games ...¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Many yers took a look and thought,¡±¡±isn¡¯t this the tone of the video that was forwarded by the official Weibo of Wolf Soul?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Some games? ¡± yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground yers were all interested and started watching the video. ¡°The video was very simple, only a little more than a minute long. It was very likely that he had stayed up all night yesterday to make it. ¡± ¡°At the beginning of the video, there was a ck screen with a line of words on it ¡°¡±What would happen if yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground became like some other games?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±The official website should be like this.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°An official website appeared on the screen. There was the game background, original art of the characters, andrge art words. Everything was exactly the same as the official website. The only difference was that the main part of the official website had all kinds ofrge art words, and the content was even more dazzling. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground escape, officiallyunched today!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°(Large font)¡±¡±top up gold coins, new out-of-print weapons are waiting for you!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Download in 30 seconds. Golden AKM (fragment X5) will be given when you log in!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°(Large characters)¡±¡±first charge, enjoy a good gift!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°(In small font)¡±¡±advancedbat preparation pack free. You can randomly draw ssic weapons such as 98K and SCAR (2¡Á8 fragments)!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±umte 100 fragments to exchange for a permanent reward!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°(In small print)¡±¡±to open a high-ss VIP in yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground, only 680 Yuan/month!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°(In super small font)¡±¡±free 98K uponnding.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±yer¡¯s death weapon and backpack will not be dropped. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°(In super small font)¡±¡±you can revive on the spot if you are knocked down (limited to three times per week)¡±¡± ¡± ¡°There was also a huge bright red button on the lower right corner,[top up membership]! ¡± ¡°¡±¡±And the recharge interface is like this.¡±¡± ¡± He clicked on top-up membership. ¡°It was a new interface with a line of striking words on it,¡±¡±top-up and draw privilege,nding on 98K! There are also all kinds of rare props waiting for you!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°This was a lottery interface that was simr to a wheel. The interface was filled with all kinds of game items, such as the signature 98K, AWM, first aid kit, first aid kit, level 3 helmet, Level 3 armor, Level 3 bag, and so on. ¡± There was also a huge red button at the bottom [Top-up membership (one lucky draw ticket)] ¡°He clicked on the top-up button with his mouse, and a screen started to roll through the various prizes. Finally, it locked onto the AWM, and a huge prompt box popped up on the interface. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Congrattions on obtaining the right to use the AWM for three days. Please check and receive it in-game. You can purchase the AWM in-game by paying the price difference!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±The exclusive interface for members is like this. ¡± ¡°The screen of the video changed again, and it came to the exclusive interface of the members. On it was a line of striking words ¡°¡±The order for the chicken-eating gathering!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°There was also a line of small text at the bottom.¡±¡±Now, top-up members can get a new golden AWM (30 days) for free. Inviting friends to top up members can also get exclusive rewards!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°In the ¡°¡±member privileges¡±¡± column, there were all kinds of strange privileges, including shopping discounts, blocking yers ments, elerated healing speed, exclusive emotes, unique clothing, exclusive vehicles, special firearms, and so on. ¡± ¡°The screen changed again, this time to the game. ¡± ¡°A member yer was parachuting down, but for some reason, his speed was much slower than the others. However, this yer did not panic at all. He spread out two pairs of golden wings in the air, not only elerating thending, but also killing all the yers below him! ¡± ¡°A yer was driving a Jeep to outrun the blue circle. Suddenly, a golden Bumblebee sped past the Jeep and disappeared from the yer¡¯s sight at the speed of a ne taking off, leaving only the exhaust of the car and the dumbfounded yer in the Jeep. ¡± ¡°At the end of the video was the usual routine of the game¡¯s promotional video. At the end, there was a line of striking words ¡°¡±What are you waiting for?e to yerUnknown¡¯s Battlegrounds and top up your ount!¡±¡± ¡± Chapter 660 ? Chapter 660 Future profitability? Trantor 549690339 ¡°After watching the video, the yers allughed. ¡± ¡°¡±¡±What the hell is this? isn¡¯t this the same routine as Wolf Soul? It seems like there are a few websites that were directly modified from Wolf soul¡¯s website!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Hahaha, I¡¯m dying ofughter. This is obviously insinuating that the top-up members of Wolf Soul will give all kinds of props!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Extracting weapon fragments? Draw a 98K onnding? Hahaha, so ck!¡±¡± ¡± Many yers reacted when they saw this video. This was clearly a reference to Wolf Soul! ¡°As the representative of traditional FPS games in China, Wolf Soul basically followed the traditional operation route of ¡°¡±buy out¡±¡± and ¡°¡±in-game value-added services¡±¡±. In order to expand the yer base, the prices of these games were often lower, but if they were lower, they would not be able to recover the cost. Therefore, they could only add various kinds of value-added services in the game. ¡± ¡°For example, the first top-up would give props, the sale of guns, the sale of characters, the lucky draw to get shards, the privilege of buying members, and so on. These were basically the usual routines of this game. ¡± ¡°Of course, the actual membership privileges in Wolf Soul were not that exaggerated, but they still existed. ¡± Chen Mo¡¯s video obviously took advantage of Wolf soul¡¯s weakness and made a big deal of it. ¡°Actually, this kind of in-game value-added service model also existed in fire assault, but it was not as obvious as in Wolf Soul. On the other hand, yerUnknown¡¯s Battlegrounds was clearly at an absolute advantage in this aspect. This was because yerUnknown¡¯s Battlegrounds was sold out in one go and was permanently free! ¡± It could be said that Chen Zhao was now standing on the moral high ground and beating up a drowning dog ... ¡°Didn¡¯t wolf Soul criticize yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground for itsck of modes? There was no use in retorting, he had to hack it back! ¡± The biggest disadvantage of Wolf Soul and yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground was the in-game value-added services! ¡°Hehe, there¡¯s a price to pay for using the video to point at someone else. Come on, let¡¯s hurt each other! ¡± ¡°Many yerUnknown¡¯s Battlegrounds yers reposted this Weibo post like crazy, and Soul Modern battlefield¡¯s official Weibo was apanied by all kinds of ¡°¡±funny¡±¡± emojis. ¡± ¡°Many Wolf Soul yers were angry, but they had no way to refute it! ¡± ¡°This was because Chen Mo¡¯s video was the same as the previous ones, without any specific names, and he was right on point. Wolf soul¡¯s in-app Service was a ck mark that wasn¡¯t easy to clear ... ¡± A lot of Wolf Soul yers weren¡¯t convinced either. Did Chen Mo have the nerve to use others of selling value-added services in the game? Wasn¡¯t he the one selling the most value-added services? ¡°Who was the one who developed the ¡®free game, expensive skins¡¯ routine? ¡± Who¡¯s the one who¡¯s been giving skin discounts? he¡¯s almost the richest man in the world! ¡°However, yerUnknown¡¯s Battlegrounds didn¡¯t have any ws ... The price wasn¡¯t expensive, and Chen Mo emphasized that there weren¡¯t any value-added services in the game. It was just a box that was opened with game currency! ¡± ¡°The public opinion on the inte was reversed in an instant. No matter what the yers of Wolf Soul said, the yers of yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground just smiled and replied with a ¡°¡±smiling¡±¡± emoji and then replied,¡±¡±¡±¡±Oh, Wolf Soul is selling membership? Did you get an AWM with a 30-day deadline recently? How¡¯s the exclusive privilege of a member?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°This had be a universal reply. Anyway, no matter what the yers of Wolf Soul said, the yers of yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground would use this reply to refute, making the yers of Wolf Soul so angry that they almost suffocated to death! ¡± ...... ¡°The war of words between the three games continued throughout the game, and it was unknown where the yers found the time to argue online every day ... ¡± ¡°Wolf Soul modern battlefields and raging inferno Assault 2 were also officially released after the beta testing, and all three games were very popr. After all, whether it was Emperor dynasty entertainment or ZEN Entertainment, they had never cked in their publicity. ¡± ¡°yerUnknown¡¯s Battlegrounds had received a very good response. Many yers felt that the game was toxic. Even though they often died afternding on the ground at the beginning, they still enjoyed ying it again and again, even turning the game into a parachute simtor ... ¡± ¡°On the other hand,¡±¡±Wolf Soul modern battlefields¡±¡± was extremely popr. Whether it was the game media or the yers ¡®reputation, there was a wave of good reviews. On all major video and live streaming sites,¡±¡±Wolf Soul¡±¡± and ¡°¡±yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground¡±¡± were basically in a state of rivalry. ¡± ¡°There was definitely hype involved in this. The poprity was high and there was a bubble, but at least on the surface, this was a game on the same level as yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground. ¡± ¡°As for fire Assault 2, the yers gave it a high rating, butpared to the previous two games, it was rtively unpopr. It only received a good response from yers who preferred single-yer games. ¡± The video game designers were also trying to predict the future development of these three games. ¡°Needless to say, fire Assault 2 was of good quality, had a good plot, and had a good reputation among the hardcore gamers. Its sales would not be bad, but it was unrealistic to say that it could beat the other two games. ¡± ¡°Wolf Soul modern battlefields was still mainly about slight innovation, and whether it could take over the entire market was not up to itself, but up to the extent of yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground. ¡± ¡°After much discussion, the main focus was still on yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground¡¯s game mode. The key was whether this game mode could be like League of Legends, where one picture could be used for a lifetime? ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I think PUBG¡¯s poprity will drop. The mode is too monotonous, and the expansion isn¡¯t good! For example, you can add new game modes in Wolf Soul, but you can¡¯t do that in PUBG!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I think this game might end up failing because of its future profitability!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Why do you say that? The sales of the PUBG section are very good. Why are you worried about the profitability?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±It¡¯s different. This game doesn¡¯t have any in-game value-added services. After the yers spend the entry fee, they don¡¯t have to pay a single cent anymore. When the profit falls, will Chen Mo still have the energy and mood to maintain it?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Eh, that makes sense.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±That¡¯s right. After the profitability drops, the frequency of updates will definitely drop. By then, there won¡¯t be any new blood joining the game. It¡¯ll be a dead game sooner orter.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±You¡¯re right. League of Legends has been updating continuously because they can sell skins and earn a continuous ie, but what¡¯s the point of winning PUBG? Chen Mo was standing on the moral high ground, but he ended up getting himself into trouble!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I think the people above are a bit dramatic. Are you worried that Chen Mo¡¯s game won¡¯t make money? I¡¯m almostughing out loud ...¡±¡± ¡± Chapter 661 ? Chapter 661 The hidden high-end technique for winning the chicken dinner! Trantor 549690339 Qin Xiao felt like he had been F * cked too. Emperor dynasty entertainment had spent so much money on Wolf Soul Why did it feel like modern battlefield¡¯s publicity was still not as popr as yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground? ¡°The most infuriating part was that Chen Mo didn¡¯t seem to have spent much money, he just posted on Weibo and the game became so popr ... ¡± Wolf Soul had racked their brains to hire a celebrity live streamer from an FPS game to be their spokesperson. They wanted to use this celebrity¡¯s poprity to boost their poprity and fight for a spot on Weibo¡¯s hot search. ¡°And Chen Mo? He only posted one Weibo post, a little trick from yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground ... ¡± ¡°¡±¡± 90% of yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground¡¯s yers don¡¯t even know about this high-end hidden technique. As long as you master it, you can also get 27 kills in one game!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±When you¡¯re driving, you can shift gears when you open the door and roll. Especially when you¡¯re driving at a fast speed, the effect of shifting gears is particrly obvious.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±The person in the back seat takes out a frying pan and waves it. It can effectively block stray bullets flying over and has a higher chance of changing the driver.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±After pulling the pin, you can switch to the gun and not throw it out. The sound of the pull ring can make the enemy think that you¡¯ve thrown the grenade.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±You can float over the spawn area in the upper right corner of the map with an umbre. There¡¯s a 100% chance of spawning rare weapons and all kinds of rare items.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Lying on the ground and not moving while being hit can make the enemy mistake you for a corpse.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±When your teammate falls to the ground, you can save him while waving a melee weapon to speed up the rescue.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±When you go to pick up the airdrop, remember to throw away all your guns in advance. This way, you can save time to change your guns.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±If you don¡¯t open your umbre when you reach the warning line, you¡¯ll fall to your death, so you must open your umbre as soon as possible. The earlier you open your umbre, the safer you will be!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±The gas mask is immune to poison damage. It¡¯s one of the most precious items in the game!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Lying t in the air when jumping down from a high ce can effectively reduce the damage from falling. After all, therger the surface area, the safer it is. ¡°¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±After knocking down a yer wearing a level three helmet, you can use a melee weapon to headshot them. There¡¯s a certain chance that you can recreate the durability of the level three helmet.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°When the yers saw ¡°¡±yerUnknown¡¯s Battlegrounds techniques,¡±¡±they were overjoyed, thinking that Chen Mo hade up with an official strategy. But upon closer inspection, they realized what the hell was this? ¡± ¡°This was clearly a scam, alright? ¡± ¡°If the yers really yed ording to the official guide, the grass on their graves would probably be a few meters long! ¡± ¡°¡±¡±F * ck, great hoodwinker Chen is out to swindle people again!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Second Battalionmander, stop cooking the noodles. Bring out your Italy cannon!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±F * ck, I can¡¯t even listen to your New Year!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°However, the hotments under this Weibo post were all praises ... ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I just went to test it out. I really did get the chicken. Thank you, Chen Mo-sama!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Thank you very much. These little tricks were effective. I almost won the chicken dinner!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±I¡¯ll trante these little tricks into variousnguages and forward them to servers in other regions to benefit the people of the world!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Those who say that these techniques are not useful, it¡¯s obvious that the way you open it is wrong!¡±¡± Comical!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°It was just a few tricks, but this Weibo post was reposted in various ways. It was even more popr than the celebrity FPS game hosts invited by Wolf Soul! ¡± ¡°This live streamer¡¯s endorsement Weibo was basically ignored. Although many yers reposted it under the temptation of the lucky draw, no one discussed it at all, and its sense of existence was almost zero ... ¡± ¡°On the other hand, in yerUnknown¡¯s Battlegrounds, a few simple sentences had already caused a huge reaction from the yers. Many yers had spontaneously reposted these ¡°¡±little tricks¡±¡± to various forums, Tieba, and websites, causing waves of lies and criticism ... ¡± ¡°Even so,#chicken dinner tips #became a hot search on Weibo, and its poprity even exceeded that of ¡°¡±Wolf Soul A famous FPS streamer of modern battlefield ... ¡± ¡°Qin Xiao was speechless, just what kind of yer was Chen Mo? ¡± ...... ¡°Fish-catching live streaming tform, zou Zhuo¡¯s live streaming room. ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo was holding an M4, searching for props in the room while chatting with the audience. ¡± Many old viewers were quite puzzled. How did little Fatty¡¯s live broadcast room be so popr in just a few days? ¡°In the beginning, no one was interested in it, and only a few dozen old yers were watching it. In the end, there were thousands of people watching it these days! ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Little fatty, you¡¯ve been working hard these days. You¡¯ve been streaming for seven to eight hours a day? Where did The Two Pigeons in three days go?¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±Honestly, I think that little Fatty¡¯s yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground is quite fun. No wonder he¡¯s getting more and more popr.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±The effects of the duo-mode with old P yesterday were pretty good. It helped him gain a lot of poprity.¡±¡± ¡± ¡°¡±¡±It¡¯s mainly because little Fatty¡¯s gaming talent is pretty good. He¡¯s already ying it quite well now, and he often gets chicken dinners!¡±¡± ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo had been working really hard these past few days,pletely unlike his ¡°¡±two pigeons in three days¡±¡± persona. It wasn¡¯t because he found his conscience, it was because his poprity had been growing rapidly, which gave him more motivation to stream! ¡± ¡°Originally, zou Zhuo was just following sister Shuyi¡¯s request to livestream every day toplete his mission, but after broadcasting yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground, his poprity was getting higher and higher! ¡± ¡°Especially after ying a few games with old P, his poprity had made an explosive leap, from a few hundred people in the past to a few thousand now. ¡± ¡°Zou Zhuo was even more motivated now. At the beginning, his marksmanship was average and he didn¡¯t like tomunicate with bulletments, but after a few days of self-improvement, his marksmanship had improved and the show¡¯s effect had improved. ¡± Zou Zhuo wasn¡¯t the only one who felt it. Even a famous streamer like old P could feel his poprity rising after he started streaming yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground! ¡°Old P¡¯s livestreaming time was usually from the afternoon to midnight. He mainly broadcasted Overwatch and only started broadcasting yerUnknown¡¯s Battlegrounds after 10 p.m. In the end, he realized that yerUnknown¡¯s Battlegrounds actually had more viewers than Overwatch! ¡± ¡°There were even a lot of bulletments during the day, asking old P to stop streaming Overwatch. They were already tired of watching it. It was so fun to win chicken dinner! ¡± ¡°After a period of livestreaming, although old P¡¯s poprity had not returned to the peak stage of his previous livestream of Overwatch, it was almost there. Moreover, from the density of the bulletments, it might have even exceeded that! ¡± ¡°In the circle of streamers, many streamers of FPS games had also realized this and began to stream yerUnknown¡¯s Battleground. ¡± ¡°These people actually didn¡¯t know what was so good about this game. In their opinion,