This man knows how to hype

Chapter 651: Breaking History in Two Directions

When the number "1000 million" from the assistant's reply appeared in my ears.

The green-haired man with the nose ring's eyes suddenly widened and his head slowly tilted.

Then, it unconsciously loosened its grip on the assistant's hand and stumbled back a few steps. It asked again in a hoarse voice with disbelief, "How much did you say?"

"1000 million." The assistant repeated through gritted teeth.

“Huh? Ha, hahahahahahaha…” The green-haired man with a nose ring laughed. His laughter was so unpleasant that it gave goosebumps to the people around him.

It laughed and backed away until it bumped into an office desk and stopped.

next second...

It turned around like a madman, picked up a desk lamp on the desk, and started smashing the computer, folders, and everything it could see.

Even though this was not the DI's office area, and even though the things on the table were the property of the "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets" project team, it couldn't control its urge to smash things.

"F**K!!"

"F**K!!!!"

Swear words and the sounds of smashing and destroying things in a frenzy of impotence continued to ring out in the office.

On the other hand, the anchors who were broadcasting the game also noticed something was wrong.

They found that after playing for more than an hour, their teammates and opponents were always the same people.

This made several of the anchors unable to help but check the number of people online on Steam.

It’s better not to look at it.

At first glance, it was a huge sensation.

Because at this time, there were only [439] people online in "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets".

In this situation, an entry called #The number of people online simultaneously exceeded 400 within one hour of the launch of "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets"# appeared on the Internet.

It must be said that "breaking the 400 mark" was originally a sarcastic way of writing.

But because of those people praising "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets" online, they actually don't pay attention to this game at all.

Therefore, a funny scene occurred.

As soon as they saw the key words "breaking the 400 mark", they misunderstood the meaning and started celebrating.

[Dan Xiaozi said, the number of online users of "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets" exceeded 1 million in one hour, what can "Journey to the West: The Sequel" do? 】

[With 400 million online users, the sales volume is at least three times higher, which means 1200 million copies were sold in one hour. I just want to ask if "Journey to the West: The Sequel" can sell even a fraction of this number? ]

[What is the foundation of a big company? Some gaps cannot be made up by taking shortcuts. I still advise some people to be more humble.]

dumbfounded.

Seeing these people celebrating their "victory" wantonly, all the netizens who were watching the scene were dumbfounded.

[No, was it me who stayed up late and had hallucinations, or were you all hallucinating? It was the fucking 400-person mark, not 400 million. Are blind people also coming online? ]

[Is it a good idea to celebrate funerals? ]

[Wake up, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is dead, only 400 people are online within an hour of going online! ]

[Correction, now there are 327 people (dog head)]

[Don't celebrate. If you support Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets so much, just go buy it. Even if only 10 people buy a copy, you are just giving verbal support without spending a cent.]

[I am dying of laughter. I finally know what kind of people are those who support Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets]

Those who were originally celebrating "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets" are now really confused.

Although they have been slapped in the face many times after making various remarks on the Internet in recent years, none of them was as painful as it is now, it was so painful.

Good man, to be fair, they had anticipated that the sales of "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets" might not be as good as expected, but they never expected it to be this bad.

Hundreds digit?

With a cost of 4 million US dollars, the unit of sales is actually “hundred”?
If you bastards are of this level, you might as well give the money to me!

Out of shame and annoyance, he became furious.

I was a little sleepy in the middle of the night, but was completely awakened by anger.

Of course, my mind was also confused.

They retorted: [I don’t know what you are mocking. Don’t you see what time it is now? It’s already 3 a.m. Isn’t it normal that there are few people online? ]

[Trivia: It’s afternoon in the US now. You don’t think that Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is a game that’s only aimed at the Chinese market, do you?]

“……” The person who made this comment couldn’t type any more with his hands on the keyboard.

[How do you say it? Have you thought of a better and more reasonable way to clean the floor? How about I teach you, just say this is a Sony game, so the big head is on the PS console? ]

[In my opinion, instead of trying to whitewash it, you might as well spend money to support "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets". You won't be reluctant to spend the money, right? ]

[Maybe they are willing to spend the money, but they don’t have a PS5, and they don’t know how to download Steam. Even if they have the money, they don’t know where to spend it? (dog head)]

[It’s impossible. When the big brothers criticized “Journey to the West: The Sequel”, they were very reasonable, but they all looked like experienced players. How could they not even download Steam? ]

Every comment was like a slap in the face to those who supported Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.

Many of them, just as the comments said, one, don't have a Sony console; two, don't know how to download Steam; and even don't have a computer that can run games.

However, the slap in their faces is far from over.

4 points in the early hours.

The official accounts of "Journey to the West: The Sequel", which have not been active in recent days, on domestic and foreign platforms finally released a poster at the same time.

The poster is based on the cover of "Journey to the West: The Sequel" and it reads [Congratulations to "Journey to the West: The Sequel" for breaking 1000 million pre-sales.] Once the poster was released, official accounts such as Ivy, Little Moss, Xuejian, Binary Shadow, Parallel Heavy Color, as well as personal accounts of Xu Xiyu and others reposted it simultaneously.

At this time, night owls have actually almost finished sleeping.

But even so.

This poster instantly attracted explosive attention.

First, there are those netizens who responded to the news that "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets" had broken the 400 mark.

They never expected that "Journey to the West: The Sequel" would reveal such news to everyone at this moment.

【What the hell? ! 】

[1000 million pre-sale? I told you not to stay up late, I must be hallucinating]

[It’s a hallucination. It’s really a hallucination. The 400 people online for Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is outrageous enough. The 1000 million pre-sales for Journey to the West: The Sequel is even more outrageous. I really should go to sleep.]

[Since you are all asleep, I will go to sleep too]

I can’t believe it. People in the comment section totally can’t believe it.

But soon, you had to believe it even if you didn't believe it.

Because Steam officially also forwarded this poster.

And the post reads: [As you can see, this is an extremely excellent and highly anticipated game. Congratulations to "Journey to the West: The Sequel" for achieving the first place in game pre-sale sales in history. This is worth commemorating.]

If we say that the release of the pre-sale performance poster of "Journey to the West: The Sequel" in the middle of the night still made some people feel doubtful and they were reluctant to believe it for a while.

This news from Steam adds a layer of certification to the pre-sale data of "Journey to the West: The Sequel".

It is this certification that makes those who are shouting "It's time to go to bed" completely unable to sleep.

[Kuroko is talking, let’s not compete anymore!!]

[Just the results of brushing]

[Yes, yes, you are right. The standard edition is 268 yuan per copy. They spent 26 billion to get 37 million pre-sales, and then paid 3.5% of the commission to Steam, and % of the royalties to Unreal Engine . Ah Dan is a philanthropist with a lot of money but nowhere to spend it.]

[Another possibility is that Ah Dan was afraid that the guy who said he would stand upside down and eat shit if the sales exceeded 100 million would be hungry, so he deliberately increased the sales so that he could eat his fill.]

This comment can be regarded as a reminder to everyone. As the saying goes, liquidate advantages and play dead when at a disadvantage.

The guy who shouted "eat shit while standing upside down" has shouted more than one or two things these days.

He is the type who is constantly in confrontation with others.

Now, the pre-sale of "Journey to the West: The Sequel" is 1000 million. If we don't outsell it, we will be unworthy of this data.

In an instant, countless netizens flocked to this person's account.

[If you have 1 more, you will eat one ton. Now you have 900 million more, so you have to eat 900 tons.]

[180 million kilograms of shit. Luckily you are in China. If you were in any other smaller country, they really wouldn’t be able to afford you.]

[You will have no worries about food and clothing in this life]

[It's "Yi Shi Wu You"]

["Rebirth: I am a septic tank in China"? ]

Comments, one after another;
Time passes by minute by minute.

More and more people know about the pre-sale sales of "Journey to the West: The Sequel".

At around 6 o'clock, the entry #“Journey to the West: The Sequel” pre-sales exceeded million copies, breaking history# and topped the hot search list of major platforms.

"Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets" did not embarrass itself either, with the entry following closely behind and ranking second in the hot searches.

However, the content of the entry is not very nice, it is called #The number of online players of "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets" drops to 26, breaking the record#
When these two entries are put together, the comedic effect is maximized.

[Everyone is breaking history, and everyone has a bright future]

【Who says that history that breaks the worst record is no longer history? 】

In such a situation, both the relevant members of DI and the project team of "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets" felt like they were about to have a heart attack.

On the first day of going online, the peak number of people was over 26, and then it dropped rapidly all the way, and now there are only people left.

what is this?
Even violent death is not the way to die!

"Who came up with the idea to compare us with Journey to the West: The Sequel? We are not the same type of game as Journey to the West: The Sequel. Why should we compare?!"

The chief planner's angry roar echoed throughout the office area.

But no one dared to answer his question.

Everyone was just thinking in their hearts: Wasn't this idea yours? Wasn't it you who said that "Journey to the West: The Sequel" was very popular and we could take advantage of it at a very low price?
Obviously, the main planner is laying the groundwork for finding someone to take the blame for himself.

Coincidentally, in the United States, some people also want to use this to lay the groundwork for future events.

It’s 7 o’clock Beijing time, 6 o’clock in the afternoon US time.

Tru, who is competing for the position of supreme leader, and his top general "Mas", who is also the new boss of PushX, suddenly forwarded the sales poster of "Journey to the West: The Sequel" and the screenshot of the number of online users of "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets".

And the post said [Games against DI vs. games that support DI, this is the choice of the market, this is the most authentic voice of the public (spreading hands)]

At the same time, on the domestic side, CCTV's "Morning News" also reported news related to "Journey to the West: The Sequel".

"It is reported that the global pre-sale sales of the large-scale stand-alone game "Journey to the West: The Sequel", adapted from "Journey to the West" by the domestic game company Pingxing Chongcai, reached 4 million copies at 1000 a.m. today.

This sales volume broke the best pre-sale record of similar games internationally. Previously, the game won the Best Visual Elements Award at the Cologne International Games Show in Germany..."

(End of this chapter)