This game is awesome

Now Baldur's Gate is about to be released.

Although DND has not gone viral, it has become an emerging subculture.

It looks quite like when the "back room" first emerged.

If there are social science students who want to do field research, this is definitely a good topic. Gu Qingshi can even come up with a good title:

Research on the Formation Context and Interaction Ritual Chain Model of Internet Subculture Groups

dong dong!

dong dong!

There was a knock on the door. Li Xiaomeng opened the door and stuck her head out, sandwiched between the door and the wall, sipping the milk tea in her hand, "Boss, are you free?"

"No time, go play somewhere else."

Gu Qingshi turned her head and checked her phone, not wanting to pay attention to this guy.

"Boss, when you're being perfunctory to me, please don't be so perfunctory!"

"If you have something to say, tell me now, or I'll spank you!"

Li Xiaomeng touched her butt and felt nervous for a moment, then walked in, took a cup of mango sago from the plastic bag and placed it on Gu Qingshi's table.

Gu Qingshi was stunned for a moment, and asked in confusion: "Why is the weasel wishing a happy new year to the chicken?"

"I'm here to honor you..." Li Xiaomeng tiptoed behind Gu Qingshi.

Gu Qingshi picked up the milk tea, but before she drank it, she became slightly alert and asked, "You didn't drug me, did you?"

"How can there be aphrodisiacs in real life? Boss, have you read too many pornographic books?!"

"That's right..." Gu Qingshi inserted the straw and took two sips, then suddenly asked in confusion, "That's not right, I didn't ask if it was an aphrodisiac?"

"I....."

Li Xiaomeng was speechless. "Anyway, don't worry about it. Boss, I have good news and bad news. Which one do you want to hear?"

"Then you should say it first."

"We already have media outlets helping us promote Baldur's Gate."

"That's good. I like such honest media. What about the bad news?"

“It’s negative publicity.”

puff!

Gu Qingshi was sipping on mango sago and almost sprayed Li Xiaomeng with a mouthful of mango and grapefruit.

"Unscrupulous media! Our game hasn't even been officially tested yet, how dare they make predictions!"

"This is slander!"

Gu Qingshi expressed dissatisfaction with this group of unscrupulous media, then turned on the computer and started searching for information about "Baldur's Gate" in the search bar.

Sure enough, as Li Xiaomeng said, all kinds of self-media are very good at catching hot spots. Before the EA test even started, they had already analyzed the success or failure of "Baldur's Gate" from various angles.

But considering that Fanxing has never released any actual gameplay footage before, and has not even released a few promotional posters for the game, the correctness of their analysis is questionable.

Gu Qingshi read a few analytical articles and suddenly realized that something was wrong.

"Another milestone in the history of video games - Baldur's Gate", "The sunset of the RPG genre? Where did the rumor come from", "Another masterpiece of the new generation of the industry, a new game review from the stars", "The light of domestic RPG, another masterpiece from the stars".......

All seven articles, without exception, are praising Baldur's Gate!

This is not normal!

Looking at the comment section again, Gu Qingshi was holding her chest, in unbearable pain.

"Is this the game that's on the recommended list on the NGI homepage? I heard it's competing with Among the Gods, and it looks like it's of good quality."

"It's more than just good quality. You know Fanxing's previous work Battlefield? It was even shown at the World Peace Summit! This time Xu Qiusheng joined the team to make Baldur's Gate, which is definitely another AAA masterpiece."

"It's been recommended by NGI, how could it be any worse? And it's even ranked ahead of Lexington. This is called absolute confidence! Do you understand the strength?"

"Expectation.jpg"

Don't expect it, don't expect it...

The child is scared to death.

Gu Qingshi only felt a myocardial infarction. She held her small chest and rubbed it, tears welling up in her eyes, and then——

The little hand was slapped away by Li Xiaomeng's paw.

"Boss, remember to rub yourself next time."

Li Xiaomeng muttered as he protected the tablet, and rubbed it himself with a strange look on his face.

Why, it seems a little bigger?

“It hurts!!!”

Gu Qingshi cried out, leaned back in her chair, and questioned her life.

No wonder Li Xiaomeng said it was negative publicity... To be precise, this is not "negative" publicity, but "overpraising" publicity!

Normally, she has been quiet during this period and hasn't done anything. Baldur's Gate is not very popular, and it probably doesn't attract much attention except from CRPG players and Fanxing fans.

So what are these “China’s pride”, “masterpiece” and “milestone in video games” all about?

Isn’t this evaluation too outrageous?

Remember, this is an EA test!

Not an official version!

There are quite a lot of bugs in the game. Although there are no serious bugs that hinder the gameplay, its quality is simply not worthy of such an honor.

It was for this reason that Gu Qingshi did not promote the film as vigorously as she did Victoria and Battlefield. But unexpectedly, what was coming still came...

Gu Qingshi took a deep breath and pushed her already developed chest forward slightly.

"Li Xiaomeng, listen to my orders!"

"exist!"

Li Xiaomeng straightened up suddenly.

"Immediately contact the Internet trolls to help guide public opinion!"

"Ok!"

"Remember, if you give the game to the trolls for free, you must ask them to rate and post based on their first impressions of the game. They should give good reviews with discretion and bad reviews with reason and evidence."

"what?"

"What the hell? Go quickly,"

Li Xiaomeng widened his eyes and scratched his head.

Chapter 140 [We, the stars, must also have our own navy]

In business competition, what should you do if your rival hires internet trolls to flatter you?

Just buy some navy to rush back.

Otherwise, what is the meaning of the existence of water army?

But you can't rush in randomly, otherwise you'll end up flattering the horse and end up hitting its leg, which will cause big trouble.

Faced with a dead end of flattery, you must think twice before hiring a water army. You must not let the water army attack in a rush just to suppress the flattery. Otherwise, it is easy to "hurt the enemy a thousand and hurt yourself eight hundred", and ruin the reputation of your own product.

So the word "appropriate" is quite important.

Li Xiaomeng returned to the tea room, opened Pilipala, found a UP with only more than 2,000 fans - "Stone Hammer Review", and sent a message.

"Are you interested in business cooperation?"

Not long after, Shichui Review sent a message.

"We do not accept unauthorized reviews. Please contact us by checking the green bubble signature."

Wow, it’s quite serious.

Still not accepting free black-hearted reviews......

Li Xiaomeng grinned, turned to the video released by Shichui Review, and took a look.

We are all thousand-year-old foxes, so why play Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio?

Li Xiaomeng was not vague and asked directly: "50 cents per piece, manuscripts start at 33,000 per thousand words, videos start at 80 per minute, and labor costs are extra. Add me on Green Bubble to discuss in detail."

A message “The other party is typing” is displayed on the dialog box.

Within a few seconds, Shichui Evaluation sent an OK, and then Li Xiaomeng’s green bubble received a friend request.

The application was approved and Shichui Evaluation sent a message.

"Boss, you are very open-minded. You gave me the market price. So I will not hesitate to give you a 20% discount. Do you want to continue the construction?"

"All platforms. Mainly reviewing and evaluating games. The budget is about 300,000 yuan. What can I do?"

Three hundred thousand! ?

Big list!

Ji Hongye's eyes lit up, and he immediately replied to the sponsor:

"We can do it. Leave it to us. We are professionals in this field!"

A big order of three hundred thousand is rare!

Since the emergence of AI, many large companies have started to use AI as their hidden soldiers. Their traditional industries are becoming increasingly difficult to operate in, and orders worth three hundred thousand are super large orders that are only seen a few times a year.

I just don’t know who the financial sponsor on the other side is and why he spent so much money to hire water army.

Seeing that the other party agreed immediately, Li Xiaomeng typed: "The name of the game is "Baldur's Gate". You can pre-order the game after it is open for testing, then roughly play through the first chapter of the game, and then leave a comment on the platform."

"Our boss has asked us to review the game based on our feelings after playing it once. We need to be cautious when giving good reviews, and we need to have reasons and evidence when giving bad reviews."

"The pre-order money will be calculated separately and will be paid together with the construction fee when the time comes."

Ji Hongye: “???”