Chapter 48: The Foundation Shakes
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“If there was only one game you could y in your lifetime, I hope you’d choose this one!”
Has it reached the level of being the one and only game of a lifetime?
Lincoln feels a bit embarrassed while reading this, but looking at thements fromizens, most of them seem to agree.
“A week ago, I thought ‘Game Base’ was also bribed, giving high praise to ‘Traveler of the Wind’ when no one else was. I apologize!”
“Shouldn’t an apology involve showing your belly? Isn’t thismon knowledge?”
“Shouldn’t an apology involve showing your chest? Isn’t thismon knowledge?”
“Are you guys too desperate? At least check the gender of the ID on the profile page! It’s a guy!”
“Isn’t that better?”
“I often feel out of ce with you guys because I’m not twisted enough…
“Don’t derail the topic! Repeat after me: What is professionalism? What is attitude? What is media conscience?”
Excludingments fromizens who are just fooling around, the remainingments are almost unanimously praising ‘Game Base’.
This is because a week ago, almost the entire inte was filled with unfavorable opinions.
In this world of game media, there has always been a “pre-scoring” mechanism. Before a game’s official release, the game’s development team, whether it’s a sequel, the time invested, disclosed information, trailers, and demo versions, etc., will be taken into ount for a preliminary score.
Nominally, it is to provide a reference for yers’ purchase in advance and prevent them from being deceived by developers and buying games that are good on the outside but rotten on the inside.
However, Lincoln has always suspected that this pre-scoring mechanism was influenced by some big corporations. It’s just that as more and more game media joined, the big corporations could no longer monopolize the sky.
But as long as you’re willing to pay, you can still influence many scoring media to a certain extent.
This time, Lincoln’s ‘Traveler of the Wind’ received an average pre-score of less than 5 points, with arge number of media giving it 2 or 3 points.
Moreover, due to the ambivalent attitude of online yers, these media gave even lower scores without any scruples.
However, amidst this storm of low scores, ‘Game Base’ stood out by giving it a “10 points” rating, and their article also unreservedly praised the game.
They even receivedints from manyizens and sarcasticments from other media, but this never changed their attitude.
Now, with the overnight change of ratings on the inte, it is even more evident that ‘Game Base’ disyed amendable persistence in the face of a
massive wave of doubts and pressure from public opinion.
Receiving praise and apuse like mountains and seas now is considered a return for their persistence.
“But…” Lincoln’s doubts lie in, “It’s only the second day since the game’s release. Are you guys already so excited from ying it?”
“Mavis knows what’s going on!”
For any question Lincoln has about the Inte, Mavis always seems to have the answer.
“Super Tomato, a top anchor on P Video Station, also bought the game The console was delivered to Magic City in the middle of the night yestk and he rushed to the delivery station to pick up the package while live streaming. And after taking it home, he started live streaming the gam didn’t rest at all except for a few short breaks for eating and drinking.”
P Video Station, also known as Bilibili or Little Video Station, is a video
Although it is best known for video uploads, their live streaming tform has also gained poprity, with the top anchors having huge influence.
“Huh? Is the live streaming industry really thatpetitive? How far has he yed?” Lincoln is curious.
He thought that “not ending the stream until finishing the game” was something small anchors did for attention, or something like what “Yi” fromst night did out of necessity due to his unique style.
He didn’t expect top anchors to do so too?
“Mavis also thinks it’s amazing!” Mavis nodded in agreement with Lincoln’s words, “He’s already passed it, and hasn’t gone offline yet. He’s already working on collecting all the runes in his second ythrough.” “Were there many people staying upte to watchst night?”
“Very-many-!” Mavis elongated her voice to emphasize her affirmation, “The live broadcast room’s heat set a record, with the real number of viewers possibly reaching a million.”
“So, there were millions of people staying up all night to watch his live stream of the game’spletion!? Don’t these people sleep?!”
“Mavis doesn’t know. But Mavis knows that this anchor directly scored a perfect score on the ‘RANK-Popr Game Rating’ list for ‘Traveler of the Wind’. His audience and fans rushed to this website to vote, and the score has already been pushed up to 9.8 points, which is an unprecedented high score since the establishment of the website!”
“How does this website calcte its scores?” Lincoln was curious about this.
“Real-name user ratings, with a longer ount activity time, carry more weight when rating. In addition, users who have yed the game, after providing proof, will have a significantly higher weight bonus for their ratings.”
“What was the score before?”
“Only 3-5, but the number of ratings was less than one percent of what it is now.” Mavis whispered the answer to him.
“Wow, a jump of 6.3 points all at once? Is this the legendary opinion leader?”
“Basically, all anchors who have yed the game have called on their fans and audiences to give high scores!” Mavis said proudly. “It’s all thanks to Mavis’ help!”
“Hehe!” Mavis giggled happily upon hearing the praise.
Unlike Lincoln and Mavis’s leisurely happiness,
Richard felt like he was about to explode, sitting in the meeting room with a icy cold expression.
“Can someone exin to me, why, after spending over a million in the past week on hiring Water Armies and stuffing money into the media, everything was wasted in just one day? Was this money meant to be thrown into the water for a bubble show?”
“A bubble show would at least make a sound!”
Henry, who finally managed to secure the main nning position for “ze 3”, was also furious. But at the same time, he was somewhat panicked.
He started to worry that thisst opportunity would be messed up as well.
If that happens, let alone adding a feather to his cap, he might even have to share the me, especially since he is the Chief nner now. It was his suggestion for “ze 3” to take advantage of the publicity from “Traveler of the Wind”, which led to the current situation.
Now, with the reputation of “Traveler of the Wind” taking a drastic turn for the better, being praised as heaven on earth, the pressure suddenly shifted to “ze 3″?
When “ze 3” is released, if the score isn’t as high as “Traveler of the Wind”, yers will almost certainlysh out at the game.
But how can they win? How can they surpass a 9.8 score?’
Can humans achieve that score?
If Lincoln were to make another game, would he be able to reach that score again?
If Lincoln were present, he would definitely tell him: I can’t do it either.
“Assassins’ Alliance” was not made in pursuit of high scores in the first ce.
However, since the situation was already like this, despite all the grievances and frustrations in Henry’s heart, he couldn’t voice them. He could only join the others, quietly listening to the boss’ rage.
“Speed up the progress of ‘ze 3’!” David said finally, “We can’t let the reputation of ‘Traveler of the Wind’ continue to ferment. Try tounch it before Cloud Dream’s second batch of consoles go on sale. We must shift yers’ attention as soon as possible! Make them take their attention away from the new consoles!”
“Everyone! Buck up! For each new console Cloud Dream sells now, we might sell one less ‘Flying Dragon’ in the future! The console’s ownership represents our strong foundation!”
“And now, our foundation is shaking!”