I Just Want Players to Save Money, They Insist on Giving Me!
Chapter 143 - 72: Ban Implemented! Lu Long: Steady! Ke Jin: Steady! Players: WTF, let’s get started!_1

Chapter 143: Chapter 72: Ban Implemented! Lu Long: Steady! Ke Jin: Steady! Players: WTF, let’s get started!_1

"Da, da, da."

At the Netcom Operations Department, in the general manager’s office.

Lu Long was gently massaging his temples with his left hand while rhythmically shaking a pen in his right, making clicking sounds on the writing pad.

His eyes were fixed on the computer screen.

On it was the real-time feedback of active player numbers for Pubg, captured by the data department.

Today marked the fifth day since Pubg went online.

The game had sold a total of 730,000 copies in five days.

The current daily active users were stable at around 300,000.

Although this figure still fell far short of their own games,

it was even far above the daily active users of "Tintin Tornado," ranked 10th in revenue for their company.

But one must realize, this was after just five days since release.

What about after 50 days?

Or 500 days?

Lu Long didn’t dare to imagine.

Moreover, the production and marketing costs of "War Annihilation" had all been spent.

Now, it was being completely blocked by Pubg, unable to dare to launch.

Netcom’s fans, before the release of Pubg, would often urge "War Annihilation" to hurry up and launch, money in hand.

But in the past two days, no one had been urging them anymore, as if the fans had vanished into thin air.

Even another big FPS game under their own banner, "Fierce Battle: Scorching Sun Gunfire," had suffered a severe shock to its daily active users.

"This game’s potential is even more terrifying than I had imagined," Lu Long murmured to himself before tossing away his pen.

He reached for the desk phone.

He made two calls.

The first was to start developing a game of the same genre, demanding it must be ready to launch within three months.

The second call was to implement a ban across all live streaming platforms.

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"Hello, everyone, this is the official live stream channel of the Number One Player, and I am the Chief Beauty and commentator for this live stream, Raindrop Yu."

On the afternoon of the fifth day, after brushing up on some gaming jargon and understanding, Ke Yu started her three roles and took charge.

As soon as she began streaming on the Shark Platform, she instantly attracted several hundred viewers.

The title "Official Channel of Number One Player" was still very appealing.

"Damn! The Chief Beauty from Number One Official is here?"

"What the heck? Those wallpapers from Wind Traveler... did you draw all those???"

"The Arknights character portraits, too? Were those also your work??"

"The art god is so terrifying! Every single portrait tramples over my XP! I kneel!"

[User ’Baby Ke Charge!’ has sent 100 fish balls!]

[User ’Black Stockings Sugar Water’ has sent a membership card!]

[User ’Take a Look Here’ has sent a 520 love heart!]

The small gifts started flooding in.

Facing so many viewers all at once, Ke Yu felt a bit embarrassed and scratched her clean forehead, "Er, this, well, actually the concept art was given by our boss, which is Designer Ke, and then there was the effort of our entire art department, I’m just the Chief Beauty in name ha..."

"Chief Beauty sister, you’re too modest!"

"Chief Beauty is beautiful and sweet-voiced, and speaks so calmly and quietly, love it!"

"Chief Beauty’s dedicated fan of ten years, here uninvited!"

"Speaking of which, what content is our official channel streaming this time? Are we going to show the gameplay of some high-level players to open everyone’s eyes?" Some viewers steered the conversation back to the main topic.

"Uh... I’m not sure if they’re high-level, but it should definitely be eye-opening..." Before going live, her older brother had reminded her to avoid using terms like ’cheat’ as much as possible in formal situations, especially when representing the official channel, so she spoke vaguely.

"Not sure if they’re high-level but can still be eye-opening? What does that mean? It sounds a bit confusing."

"Oh! Is Chief Beauty sister implying that some players have a very unique and creative way of playing, and she wants to showcase that to everyone?"

"Perfect, I’ve been playing this game for two days and still haven’t got the hang of it, I’ll learn some skills!"

Luckily, the camera feed soon connected, sparing Ke Yu the embarrassment of her lack of live streaming experience.

Now her task was simply to try to avoid words like ’cheat,’ ’plug-in,’ ’assistance,’ and roughly explain the content presented in the game.

"Okay, we can see that in the new round of the game, the plane has already started, and yes... this time it’s once again loaded with 100 people, uh... then our player number 3, uh..." Ke Yu stared at the screen, words failing her as she witnessed the scene unfold before her, her pretty mouth twitching slightly.

In her view, player number 3 had already jumped out of the plane right after its takeoff...

"This, this... seems to be a bit of an accident, player number 3 seems to have joined the battleground prematurely... Looks like they’re a bit too eager, alright, let’s look forward to their spectacular performance..." Ke Yu tried her best to deflect.

But the viewers were dumbfounded by the chat.

"Huh?"

"This..."

"You can parachute right after the plane takes off? Is this a bug?"

And before they could finish expressing their thoughts,

a heavy, muffled gunshot rang out from the vast airplane.

Soon after, a kill notification popped up in the upper right corner.

[Player ’I Can’t Wait Anymore!’ has killed Player ’Just Starting a Bit’ with a kar98K]

The chat was completely flabbergasted.

"Huh???"

"Hold on, there’s a 98K in the airplane cabin?"

"There’s your damn 98K, that’s definitely a cheat!" Some viewers finally caught on.

"Dude, I come here all excited to learn some techniques, and you show me magic tricks?"