On the night of Fengyun's "final battle," the number of players online was at least in the tens of millions. However, due to system crashes and lag, Fengyun faced questions and insults from millions of online players.
As a technician, Liu Guoping immediately returned to Fengyun, urgently summoned all the technical staff, and even spent a high price to hire outside help, and finally solved the system crash problem within three hours.
At 5:00 AM, the 'Final Battle' system returned to normal, and the official statement was quickly released, implying that the major system crash was caused by a data attack by hackers sent by competitors.
Those who believe it also know that the competitor that Fengyun's official team is referring to is undoubtedly Rimu. They have started criticizing Rimu online for using any means necessary and have expressed their support for Fengyun's new game.
However, most ordinary players don't take sides; for them, the most important thing is that the game is stable and fun.
"Why don't you hire hackers when others do? How come 'Contending for the Central Plains' data has never crashed?"
"I've already maxed out my 'Conquer the Central Plains' ranking points, and I'm only thinking about playing 'Final Battle' when the season resets next time. Honestly, I think 'Final Battle' is basically an unfinished product. How can a game crash halfway through?"
"Me too. I suspect that 'Final Battle' is just trying to take advantage of 'Conquer the Central Plains' bad reputation to steal players. They haven't even made a proper game."
Fengyun spent tens of millions of yuan on marketing to suppress such comments, and then hired online trolls to praise the "Final Battle". With the help of its financial power, the daily active users of the "Final Battle" barely managed to stay afloat in the following days.
But the situation was completely different from what they had imagined...
Damn it! Those players are lying. They clearly said they would uninstall 'Zhu Lu' and never play it again, so why is 'Zhu Lu Zhong Yuan' still ranked first in daily active users, and it's even trending higher?
When the incident was exposed before, didn't they say that if Bai Yan wasn't fired, they would never play this game again?
Under the official title "Contending for the Central Plains," comments like these appear:
"Damn it, you made me lose seventeen ranked games in a row, I'm permanently uninstalling!"
"Upstairs, I've seen you at least twelve times!"
"My girlfriend asked me which game I should choose between her and me. I was in a ranked match selecting a hero at the time, and without thinking, I picked 'Li Shimin'. Now my girlfriend has broken up with me..."
Although they were all insults, you could tell they were from real players, while the official account for "Final Battle" was full of fake comments created by paid trolls.
As more and more real players join in, the comments under the official 'Final Battle' account seem somewhat ridiculous.
"Although the overall design of 'Final Battle' is very similar to 'Contending for the Central Plains,' the hero skills are vastly different. To put it simply, one is designed by a college student, and the other is at a kindergarten level. They are incomparable."
"No way, no way? You said someone stole your idea for free, and all you come up with is this childish 'decisive battle'?"
"Seriously, did the data analysts create these skills with their feet? Don't you guys even know how unbalanced your game is?"
Zheng Dong and others believed that the success of 'Zhu Lu' proved the reliability of Bai Yan's design. After obtaining the game data and character skills, they did not give Liu Guoping any time to expand the game and quickly launched it. Therefore, what the players said was not wrong. 'Jue Zhan' was a half-finished product.
At least in terms of 'competitiveness,' it can't compare to 'Conquering the Central Plains,' which has meticulously designed numerical values.
Fengyun's "Final Battle" not only failed to steal players from "Conquer the Central Plains," but its expensive promotion and the comparison of strengths unexpectedly made "Conquer the Central Plains" a game with nationwide popularity.
The revenue from "Contending for the Central Plains" has reached a new high, and the official account immediately issued a statement thanking players for their support.
Seeing this situation, Chairman Zheng and Father Chu vaguely realized that the 'decisive battle' might not reach the grand scale they had envisioned.
Especially Chu's father, he invested too much in the early stages, and now he has essentially staked most of his fortune on 'Fengyun'. If the 'Final Battle' fails, he will also suffer heavy losses.
Under such pressure, just half a month after its launch, the "Final Battle" store page launched a skin sale event for popular heroes, and "Final Battle" spared no expense on hero skins.
The food was exquisite, and with strong pre-sales marketing, the first day's sales were decent, barely covering some of the losses.
However, the very next day, "I Have a Date with My Crush," which had been relatively unknown for the previous two weeks, suddenly became a sensation.
No one expected that a female-oriented, single-player online game could achieve such success, quietly occupying a top position on the profit charts in just half a month after its launch.
Meanwhile, the four male god characters in "I Have a Date with My Idol" frequently topped the trending searches, leaving non-gamers completely confused, thinking they were the latest male idols in the entertainment industry.
However, the four male god characters do seem to be trending towards idols, especially their fan groups, who are all incredibly enthusiastic and arguing fiercely in various places to compete for the most popular male lead.
A certain platform, with its keen eye, recognized the game's potential and immediately created a "vote ranking" for it. The "vote ranking" for the "male god character" became a fierce battleground where players spent real money.
Besides these, there's also the rich woman, let's call her A, who spends a fortune to quickly complete the weekly challenge and go on a date with the aloof male god.
A wealthy woman, let's call her B, who has a card collecting obsession and can't stand having less than one SSR card in her card slot.
All sorts of male gods want to embrace her, and Ding, a rich woman who spent hundreds of thousands to buy combat power a month in order to advance the level...
The power of paying players is undeniable, but the combined spending of daily players and those who only spend a little on weekly cards should not be underestimated.
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