Poverty alleviation variety show goes to the countryside, my talent can no longer be hidden

Chapter 671: Damn, it’s him again? !
To everyone’s surprise, the first phenomenal news of the Lunar New Year actually came from the gaming circle.

Not only did it cause a sensation in the country, it also made a huge splash overseas.

Facts have proved that popularity has a siphon effect. Once the general trend takes shape, the speed at which the popularity grows will only become more and more alarming, sucking up all the traffic under the butt.

After topping Weibo's hot searches, Black Myth's hot searches not only did not show signs of being a flash in the pan, but instead intensified, showing signs of dominating the list!

The TOP10 occupies a full half of the market, and in the TOP20 there are 12 entries related to "Black Myth"!

The momentum was so fierce that it not only stunned the gaming industry, but also amazed the entire entertainment field.

Even during last year’s fierce National Day battle, such an outrageous phenomenon did not occur!
A big part of the reason for this is that it became popular overseas.

Previously, Xu Lingyue’s album only sold well in Japan, but it had already caused quite a stir in China. This time, "Black Myth" is even more awesome. After all, Europe and the United States are regions where gaming is highly developed.

With millet and rifles, we directly counterattacked the enemy's capital!
As a number of overseas internet celebrities began to join the ranks of riding on the popularity, the popularity of "Black Myth" began to be exported and then sold domestically. Domestic netizens began to happily watch foreigners' reaction videos, which gave birth to a new track - cyber barbecue.

A group of UP hosts who knew English did the translation themselves, while those who didn't know English used machine translation... Anyway, they just wanted to grab the popularity and translated the video of foreigners being shocked by the black monkey and brought it back to China.

Facts have proved that this track is indeed very promising. Many unknown small UP hosts have successfully caught this wave of traffic, and their score growth rate has taken off.

And in these barbecue videos, almost everywhere is filled with all kinds of proud comments and barrages.

"Finally, our 3A products have gone abroad and amazed the foreigners!"

"In my lifetime, there is finally a college student in my family!"

"I've been playing foreign stand-alone games for twenty years, and I've always dreamed of counterattacking one day. I have no regrets!"

“Hahahaha, this UP host can’t understand the NPC’s dialogue at all. You guys have come to this day too?!”

"Someone next door is asking fellow international students to help with translation, hehehe."

"No need to go through the settings to switch to Chinese anymore, tears welling up..."

Of course, there are still some big-breeders and patriots who are singing the opposite tune, either belittling the game or advocating "independent thinking and rational praise"...

Unfortunately, in front of the mighty torrent, the voices of these jumping clowns were completely useless and were drowned in the torrent in minutes.

With the explosion of this trailer, the production company behind it, Naughty Cat, has finally come into the sight of more people.

Although there have been two successful small works, "The End" and "Stardew Valley", they were small works after all and did not cause any phenomenal social heat, so not many people cared about the producers behind them.

But this time it’s different, the popularity of Black Monkey is no longer just about a game, and the naughty cat behind it can no longer be hidden.

From colleagues in the gaming circle to ordinary netizens, everyone began to dig up information about this unknown "small workshop".

However, this digging made some people feel numb.

On the highest column of Naughty Cat, the man’s name was clearly written!
Zhou Hao, it’s Zhou Hao again!
This game studio is actually his business?!
"What the hell, am I seeing things?!"

"This studio actually belongs to Teacher Zhou?!"

"Nimma, when did he enter the gaming industry?"

"I knew it. Why did Xu Lingyue promote Stardew Valley so hard last year? It turns out it's her husband's business!"

"Your uncle, you're just quietly doing great things, right?" "Has anyone counted how many industries this guy has been involved in? TV series, movies, online articles, games...anything else?"

“And there are variety shows!”

"In fact, it can also be considered calligraphy. The Slender Gold Style has become the most popular newcomer in the calligraphy circle in the past two years..."

"Okay, okay, I was originally worried about whether there would be problems with the plot of Black Myth, but now I can put my mind at ease."

"Indeed, Zhou Hao personally wrote the script, which is very stable."

"Damn it, no wonder this guy stopped writing books, it seems he is busy with this!"

"If you had told me earlier that you were making games, I wouldn't have scolded you. Just keep working on it. Compared to the online literature industry, the gaming industry needs you more!"

"Indeed, the market for domestic orders is much more severe than that for online articles. I hope Zhou Hao can really find a way out..."

Ordinary netizens are sending their blessings, and colleagues are also not idle.

However, their actions were not blessings or congratulations, but... poaching!
This is an old rule in the industry. Instead of working hard to innovate and make good games, it is better to poach the production teams of your peers.

As long as the opponent collapses, I will be the only one in the market. Even if I lie down and feed shit to the players, the players have no choice but to eat it obediently!
The emergence of Black Myth this time has made a number of large mobile game companies that make money without doing anything feel uneasy.

Players’ time and energy are limited. If they are forced to play some 3A masterpiece, who would still spend money on mobile games?
Cutting off someone's source of wealth is like killing his parents.

Can you tolerate this?

dig!
In just two days, almost everyone from top to bottom at Naughty Cat received offers from major companies in the industry, and the salary promises they offered were more exaggerated than the last.

Many of the salary offers were at levels they had never dared to imagine before!

In the past, they might have been tempted, but this time, no one took it seriously.

I just took a quick look at it, deleted the email and continued to work.

Anyone with a sound mind knows where these offers came from. Without the existence of Black Myth, those high-ranking companies would not even look at them.

Moreover, after being in the circle for so many years, he has long been familiar with some of the shady and unspoken rules in the circle.

If you accept the premium and switch jobs at this time, you will be beaten back to your original state in no time. Sitting on the bench is the least serious, but you may be bought out and laid off...

The work characteristics are different, so what can you do?
Isn't he just a tool used in internal fighting?
Instead of doing this, it would be better to continue to work hard on the Black Monkey in hand. As long as this game can be successful, isn’t it a hundred times better than those premium contracts?
Although their attempts to poach talent failed, these large companies did not give up and immediately resorted to their second tactic – spreading rumors.

"Naughty Cat employees revealed that the studio is short of funds and development may be terminated at any time"

"Industry insiders analyzed that the probability of Black Myth scamming investors is high, so be cautious"

"Black Myth" may have in-app purchases

"Naughty Cat has a bad working environment, and a large number of employees have already quit their jobs"

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(End of this chapter)