I Just Want Players to Save Money, They Insist on Giving Me!
Chapter 155 - 76: A Victory for the Players! Pubg Unbanned Across All Platforms! Pubg Live Streams Galore!_1

Chapter 155: Chapter 76: A Victory for the Players! Pubg Unbanned Across All Platforms! Pubg Live Streams Galore!_1

"Outrageous!"

"Our company, Netcom, is so huge, yet we’re going to let players topple us over?"

"Recruit people overnight! Even temp workers will do, just find a way to block this breach!"

That very night, Lu Long, upon learning the latest developments of Pubg, was instantly unable to sit still.

This game had been forcefully suppressed for three days, and then suddenly it surged back to life!

And it was the kind of resurgence that was almost uncontrollable.

Moreover, War Annihilation had seized the opportunity to launch during these three days, but the performance feedback was extremely poor.

Normally, based on past situations.

The estimated turnover on the first day alone should have broken a hundred million.

After all, the total investment cost was only five hundred million, and it was normal that it couldn’t compare with those blockbuster hits of the year, but a hundred million in turnover on the first day was definitely not low.

But now what?

The first day, a total of 380 thousand were sold.

The second day, it directly plummeted below ten thousand.

On the third day, it didn’t even make ten thousand yuan.

If we talk about the previous generation of FPS games that were operated, players may have some nostalgic feelings or have sunk costs into them, making it hard to abandon the game, and even if they were hit by Pubg, they wouldn’t be utterly destroyed.

Then the performance of War Annihilation during these three days was undoubtedly a catastrophe.

No matter how stable Lu Long was, the revival of Pubg + the disastrous performance of War Annihilation

caused his blood pressure to instantly shoot up to 180.

What was even more fatal was that

Netcom had already approved Pubg-like gameplay for Soul Survivor, and it seemed that the board of directors was very receptive to this new gameplay; with a wave of their hand, they immediately allocated an investment of one billion yuan.

Soul Survivor had already started to move forward vigorously, and nearly 70% of the specialized staff had been recruited.

They couldn’t allow Pubg to rise up.

Lu Long once again pressured the higher-ups at Shark Platform, demanding that they recruit people overnight, insisting that they put out the sparks of this resurgence by any means necessary.

Netcom held a 20% stake in Shark Platform, second only to Tengjing’s 25% and therefore was the second-largest shareholder; Shark Platform itself only held an 8% stake, leaving almost no room for resistance.

This time, Tengjing and Silver Brilliance unexpectedly remained silent, perhaps also sensing the terrifying momentum of Pubg and not daring to interfere casually.

Opening a new bottle of vitamin C, Lu Long swallowed several pills at once, and only when the cool, sweet sensation spread through his mouth did he slowly calm his emotions.

"A small game company, coupled with a bunch of trivial players, think they can rebel against the heavens?"

"I’d like to see what else you can do."

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Following Lu Long’s demands, the higher-ups at Shark Platform began recruiting employees from other departments overnight, forming a temporary super moderator squad.

To counter the players’ iterative ’Hermit Style’ tactics.

The reason they hadn’t been able to keep down the popularity of Pubg was due to being understaffed.

Now that they’ve bolstered manpower, it was almost as easy as lifting a finger.

The moderators felt a boost in confidence the moment they saw their increased numbers.

To everyone’s surprise,

overnight,

the players’ tactics had freaking evolved again!

The previous version hadn’t even phased out, and the new one was already updating and taking over.

Following the pioneering tactics of the first-generation Little Clip, which gained widespread acceptance among players,

Zhang Heng, heralded as the second-generation leader, refined the tactics and achieved certain success. He boosted the morale of the chicken-eaters, expanded their influence even further,

and the head-on confrontation with capital without backing down indeed allowed many players to vent their frustration.

And that very night, on the NAA forum,

a newly created user by the ID ’Little Kitten Doesn’t Want to be a Psychologist’ published an article of ten-thousand words, tantamount to a thesis.

The article analyzed the current flaws in the chicken-eaters’ tactics from multiple angles, such as ’psychology,’ ’tactical theory,’ ’social effect,’ ’sustained influence,’ and also pointed out many potential hazards that might follow.

The article’s logic and professional depth were close to flawless.

Even the moderators of NAA’s various sections were all impressed and admitted defeat.

It pointed out incisively that the reason the players came together and sparked such a massive mobilization wasn’t just because of chicken-eating being a trigger.

More importantly, it was because the players desperately wanted the right to choose, rather than being forced to accept.

Furthermore, if this battle ultimately failed, it would inflict a profound and indelible blow on the player community.

Afterwards, it would be very difficult to see a force similar to the vibrant one before.

Therefore, if they wanted to fight this battle well, they needed to reinforce their methods.

In the last part, the article put forth a series of recommendations.

It said that the current tactics were still superficial, and if the other side increased their support troops, it could very likely lead to a stalemate.

But the opponents had military pay, and just doing their job would earn them their rewards.

Players, on the other hand, were purely motivated by passion.

A stalemate would only cause the enthusiasm of the players to gradually wane and then lead to utter defeat.

The key to killing the game required arming a more elite force of players.

Put simply, make the live-streaming more obscure.

It was best to stream in a way that ’not only the moderators couldn’t understand what the streamers were broadcasting, but even fans couldn’t figure it out’ — the more abstract, the better.

The ingenuity of this plan lay in the fact that

when fans encounter an incomprehensible live stream, they can treat it as ’streaming chicken-eating’ by default.

But the moderators couldn’t do that; as a live-streaming platform that needs to continuously recruit new streamers,