The virtual empire starts from the game

Chapter 212 is released and it will be a sudden death! (Please vote for it at the end of the month)

The office group of Kashima Games is very quiet.

This is not because the employees are on break - ten minutes ago, the boss Yu Rongrong was still sending red envelopes in the group.

They have been doing outsourcing for "Nebula Assault" for a long time. Now that the game is finally released, Kashima Game Studio will also appear in the production credits, and everyone is naturally concerned about the sales of the game.

——It is almost impossible for them to get business in China. Their only hope now is that "Nebula Special Forces" will become a hit, and they can use this resume to get more overseas outsourcing business.

At this moment, almost everyone in the company is nervously watching the game sales.

Especially Yang Hui.

This not only concerns her job, but also her last chance to turn things around in the public opinion field.

She cannot see the data from Sony Game Station, but a lot of data from the Vapour gaming platform is public, so she can roughly estimate game sales.

Especially the best-selling list, which is updated every half hour.

When "Lord of War" was released, it ranked first in the domestic market half an hour later.

Starting from 0:20, Yang Hui couldn't help but refresh the list continuously, hoping to see "Nebula Special Forces" appear at the top of the list.

She brushed and brushed, but nothing came out.

“Is there something wrong with the network?”

As she thought about this, she checked her network.

But the network is working fine.

Time gradually came to one o'clock in the morning.

There is still no trace of "Nebula Special Forces" on the list.

The company group is still so quiet.

Yang Hui became a little uneasy and suddenly realized that something seemed to be wrong.

“Are the reviews for the game really bad?”

She clicked on the game page of "Nebula Assault" to check the game reviews.

But the player evaluation data is:

0.

"It's normal that players don't care about reviewing the game since it was released."

Yang Hui muttered to herself and switched back to the sales list.

After thinking for a while, she switched regions from the Xia country area to the global ranking.

——Xiaguo is indeed not tolerant of diversity, so it is possible that the sales data is not good. It would be better to change the region, right?

she thought.

But it is still nowhere to be found on the list.

She reluctantly switched to the US list.

I scrolled down from No. 1 to No. 100 at the end of the list, but still couldn’t see “Nebula Special Forces.”

Yang Hui frowned and clicked [More] to fully expand the sales list and look at the games one by one.

I kept reading until the 500th one at the end, but still couldn’t find it!
She couldn't believe it and thought she must have missed it.

So I checked from bottom to top and from top to bottom.

I watched it three times in a row, but still couldn't find "Nebula Special Forces".

She had no choice but to accept the reality - "Nebula Special Forces" was indeed not on the list, whether in Xia Country, the United States, or the world.

But how is this possible?
This is Sony's first-party masterpiece, how come it didn't make it to the charts on the first day of its release?
In Yang Hui's opinion, even if a game is poorly made and criticized by players all over the world, it will not fail to make the list!
What's more, "Nebula Special Forces" is obviously very well-made!

She tried to contact Johnson, the project manager of Duhuo, to ask if there was a problem with the data statistics of the Vapour platform.

But Johnson, as always, ignored her.

Yang Hui was anxious and wanted to know more and more what went wrong.

Far away in the United States, Johnson and the studio management were also thinking about the same question:
"What went wrong?"

……

The media in the global gaming circle - whether overseas media or Xiaguo media, like Yang Hui, have been flipping through the best-selling lists over and over again, trying to find the position of "Nebula Special Forces".

The Fire Knife is no exception.

This time, he also prepared two manuscripts:

A response to "Nebula Special Forces" topped the list, and was on par with "Lord of War".

The other article dealt with the poor sales figures of Nebula Assault, which ranked much lower than Lord of War.

But he never thought that "Nebula Special Forces" would not be on the list! !
This is not just a matter of being too low. This could lead to violent death!
……

Under the attention of the global gaming community, another half hour passed.

At 1:30 a.m., Xu Meng posted in Pilipili and Mengjin:

[Warm reminder: Vapour gaming platform supports two-hour refunds, and there is still half an hour left.]
He didn't mention Nebula Assault by name.

But by releasing this content at this time, anyone who is not a fool would know that he is hinting at players to refund their money.

Shark Dawei immediately posted a screenshot of the refund under the post and replied:

"I have already received a refund, but I think it is not enough. The developer should compensate me for my mental damages!"

After him, several more refund screenshots appeared.

But that's not much else.

Just a bunch of people responded saying "I didn't buy it at all", "Only a fool would buy it", "Why should I buy it if I'm not LGBT?"

……

Taking this point in time as the dividing line, Duhuo Studio saw that Vapour's sales, which had finally broken through four digits, suddenly collapsed and fell back to three digits.

They searched social networks relentlessly, trying to figure out what went wrong.

But all I saw were bad reviews:

"I can't believe that the so-called epoch-making masterpiece is actually a plagiarized work!"

“It can’t be considered plagiarism. After all, the essence of the game is not copied. It can be considered a Frost-like game at best.”

"There are 16 characters, and none of them makes people want to control them."

"That's great. Such a good game should be played by LGBT people."

"Stop talking nonsense, this game is clearly insulting us, the sexual minority community!"

"3 million dollars! Why don't you just divide it up? Why bother serving this to disgust everyone?"

……

Two o'clock in the morning.

The few anchors who are still broadcasting "Nebula Special Forces" are no longer able to get any more people on the air.

Only 10 people are needed for a game, but even with such a low requirement, a game still takes more than ten minutes to queue!
Kabo, an anti-SBI pioneer who has become a well-known opinion leader in the gaming community, noticed this situation and quickly realized what was happening.

He quickly went to the Vapour community center for Nebula Assault to check the game's real-time online population.

——You can’t find “Nebula Assault” on the [Most Popular Game List], so you can only look at the data here.

At this time, the real-time number of online users of "Nebula Special Forces" has fallen below 500!
"Hahahaha!"

Kabo couldn't help but burst out laughing, and took a screenshot to spread the news, shocking everyone.

Players around the world joined in the celebration and mocked SBI and Duhuo Studio.

The players from Xia country have to work harder, as they also have to go to Weiguang and Hongshu to whip Yang Hui's corpse.

But everyone enjoyed it and didn’t feel tired at all!

……

In Lingzhou Studio, Li Yunchuan was originally facing a formidable enemy.

After all, in a week, "It's Over! I'm Surrounded by Demons!" will be released. If "Nebula Assault" becomes a big hit, it will compete with "Lord of War" for players, and the battle will be so fierce that the sky will be dark and the sun and moon will not shine.

Then their game sales must be greatly affected!
but now……

"Nebula Special Forces", Duhuo Studio, SBI, and Sony Games Station are destined to become the laughing stock of the entire gaming community!
Li Yunchuan and Zhou Ning each opened a can of beer, clinked their glasses and drank it down with laughter.

Even the worried Fei Zhiyuan, Gong Feng and Lu Ming couldn't help laughing when they saw this big fun worth more than 3 million US dollars.

——Finally, someone is worse off than us!
Industry insiders are experienced and don’t need to wait a few days to see the aftermath. This opening alone is enough to sentence “Nebula Special Forces” to death—

It’s a foregone conclusion that it will fail as soon as it is released!

At the same time, everyone in the industry is aware that it is still too early for this matter to be settled.

Because the storm of reckoning is still on the way!
An investment of more than 3 million dollars has been lost, and someone must bear this responsibility!

And this is the opportunity Xu Meng has been waiting for.

The network of interpersonal relationships and interest chains in his hands can just explain the flow of part of the money.

This time, Duhuo Studio must die.

SBI’s reputation must also be completely ruined.

Only in this way can other game companies realize the serious harm that DEI and SBI cause to games and companies, and stay away from these cancers and parasites!
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(End of this chapter)