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Chapter 434 - 152: Hacky, Basic, Clever Hand, a Divine Wind Guides His Hand!_5

Chapter 434: Chapter 152: Hacky, Basic, Clever Hand, a Divine Wind Guides His Hand!_5

"????"

"Jaguar? What are you doing?"

"Damn it! Such a great game, and you played it to lose?"

"When everyone gets knocked away, it’s like no one did? Are you dabbling in electronic relativity theory here?"

"Lux: No, if you blasted away everyone, whom the hell am I supposed to shoot at?"

"If only you had replaced Lingfeng with a hat for Lux, blowing one less enemy into the air, and killing Katarina right from the start, wouldn’t we have won easily?"

"Geneva! End the stream!"

"Watching this makes my blood pressure max out! Can Jaguar refund the plane I just sent, thanks a lot!"

"Jaguar? Exit!"

"Mr. Ke, I feel like I play better than you, could it be that I’m also a world champion?/Give Heart"

"Fast forward to the exclusive AI for Cloud Top appearing, Jaguar fought for 3 rounds and lost narrowly, shedding tears on the stage and claiming ’It doesn’t seem like Cloud Top makes any difference anymore’"

Of course.

Be it teasing,

or cursing until your blood pressure bursts,

in the end, all of it transformed into the heat of the live stream.

This live stream, titled ’Only Go’,

also started with an impressive momentum, beating a series of major broadcasters and strongly surged to first place in Thunderbolt’s hot hourly broadcast chart!

This triggered a snowball effect.

In the following few hours,

an increasing number of casual players swarmed into the live stream.

When they saw that the host was Ke Jie, a renowned Go prodigy,

they were pushed by a barrage of comments, trying to teach the champion how to play.

Many passersby initially wanted to sarcastically remark, ’What kind of champion are you? You dare to teach Ke Jie how to play?’

However, after witnessing Ke Jie’s various poor and unbelievable moves,

they realized that this guy might be good at Go, but his skills in Cloud Top were...

limited, to say the least.

So they couldn’t hold back any longer.

Blood pressure soared uncontrollably,

unable to contain their emotions, they joined the army of trolls.

As a result, the entire live stream presented a very abstract déjà vu.

On one side was the eight-time crowned genius brimming with talent,

and on the other was a crowd who might not even have played the game, yet were frantically giving pointers.

This sharp contrast continued to strike every new viewer who joined.

But if you watched for a little longer,

you would realize—

the viewers were right in their criticism!

And during the live stream, it was accompanied by all sorts of joyful comments and mind-blowing SCs.

With Cloud Top’s constantly evolving gameplay and high entertainment value,

Ke Jie continued to stream until past eight o’clock that evening.

He even broke the record for the highest average number of comments per minute ever in the history of Thunderbolt’s live streams!

Ke Jie nearly single-handedly,

on the launch day of Cloud Top, when many other major broadcasters couldn’t stream this game,

took ’Cloud Top’ to a very high level of popularity!

This incited many small game broadcasters who hadn’t received promotional resources to see how effective the broadcasting of this game was,

so they all began to try it out.

...

At this time, Zhu Yue began to feel uncomfortable.

Although in this month’s new release sales chart,

his ’Bursting Cuteness’ was very strong, having already achieved nearly 70 million in revenue, towering above the rest.

Yet on another NAA popularity ranking that didn’t rely on sales,

’Cloud Top’ was just one step behind ’Bursting Cuteness’!

This was quite nuanced.

Yes, ’Bursting Cuteness’, your sales are so good.

Why is your popularity still not as high as ’Cloud Top’, which doesn’t have major broadcasters backing it?

Could it be that your game isn’t up to par?

Could it be that the revenue numbers were inflated?

Especially if your own inflated popularity data can’t beat the competition,

then your game might suffer a severe hit in this market.

"No good! There’s still a chance to turn this around!" Zhu Yue made an immediate decision, instructing the PR department to start mobilizing the paid posters.

They had only one task.

To boost the popularity of ’Bursting Cuteness’!

After all, there were still four hours left before the first day was over.

The all-network discussion heat for ’Cloud Top’ was still trailing by more than 10 million.

Let the paid posters infiltrate everywhere and leave comments, snagging anyone they could.

Additionally, step up the marketing and promotion.

Last but not least, let’s have all the major video content creators take advantage of these final hours and make more videos related to "Bursting Cuteness."

On Thunderbolt, TikTone, and Chopstick Hand—these platforms—make a strong push, and then based on a certain ratio of views, find our own way to get paid.

Zhu Yue had a clear plan.

He needed only the first day!

If he won the first day, no matter what "Cloud Top" came up with afterwards, it wouldn’t matter.

A complete victory in terms of turnover and popularity on the first day would be the best proof that the quality of "Bursting Cuteness" surpassed "Cloud Top"!

The second day, he could then flaunt this dazzling achievement and begin an all-out, aggressive promotion campaign!

And this time, all he had to do was cut off the top player’s offensive into the mobile realm.

The days that followed would be smooth sailing.

Before long, Silver Brilliance’s paid posters sprang into action.

The real-time popularity rankings on NAA also began to shift in response.

In just 10 minutes.

The overall online discussion heat for "Bursting Cuteness" and "Cloud Top."

Went from an initial difference of 10 million to a gap of 12 million!

And it was still growing.

Faced with such rapid growth.

Zhu Yue finally took a deep breath.

Ke Jie, the streamer, was an unexpected variable he hadn’t anticipated.

He’d never imagined that "Cloud Top" would have such a strong chemistry with a Go player like Ke Jie.

But fair’s fair.

The butterfly effect caused by this streamer, who was initially inconspicuous in the gaming world.

Couldn’t possibly produce a second or third one, right?

There were just four hours left in total.

What can you do, top player?

Steady is the word.

I’ll only say it once!

After these thoughts, and just to be safe—to avoid being embarrassed later—

Zhu Yue started meticulously searching live broadcast rooms across major platforms again.

He looked for any medium-scale streamers who had been overlooked but were promising, broadcast "Cloud Top," and were having a good effect.

If he found any, he’d have his people contact them right away to switch to streaming "Bursting Cuteness."

In this way, by diminishing one and strengthening the other, Silver Brilliance would be the real winner!

"Huff..."

After scanning through.

Zhu Yue finally breathed a sigh of relief.

There were no more.

It was over.

There were no more rivals!

Whether "Cloud Top" is a good game or not, Zhu Yue hadn’t looked into it.

But for a streamer to take off, it’s not a one-day effort.

The recent gap-filling search revealed that, indeed, there were medium-scale streamers broadcasting "Cloud Top."

And indeed, they attracted a portion of players.

But their scale wasn’t huge, and their streaming impact wasn’t that great either.

Either they weren’t as abstract as Ke Jie.

Or their identity and background didn’t match Ke Jie’s, lacking the strong contrast that could draw in the audience.

You, a champion?

Do you think you’re worthy of our viewers nitpicking?

Although we viewers may not be of the highest quality, we can’t be sprayed by just anyone!

For some streamers without much highlight, even trolling them feels like a waste of effort, so naturally, no interaction can form.

Plus, the game "Cloud Top" had only been out for less than half a day, many aspects weren’t developed yet, and even streamers themselves didn’t fully understand it.

How then can they drive the audience?

"Now, it’s really in the bag," Zhu Yue thought to himself contentedly.

And casually turned off the last stream, which he deemed completely non-threatening, of the small broadcaster.

That stream was also broadcasting "Cloud Top," barely mustering some heat.

And the comments were filled with inscrutable stuff like ’twin ponytails’ and ’inhuman.’

He didn’t quite understand.

But Zhu Yue didn’t think it was a big issue.

This broadcaster at first glance did not seem to have the potential to drive "Cloud Top’s" popularity.

No need to bother with him!

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Yesterday I had a blast playing the 2077 DLC, the quality is indeed there

It’s just this one Chapter for today.

words in a big Chapter, a two-in-one awe!

I’m going back to that big spider, couldn’t beat it on hard mode after half a day yesterday, I’ll figure it out.