I Just Want Players to Save Money, They Insist on Giving Me!
Chapter 723 - 224: Thank you, it’s all been printed out!_2

Chapter 723: Chapter 224: Thank you, it’s all been printed out!_2

"After all, it’s the Principle of Regression, so the Fading One is the bumblebee,"

"Got it, got it. Now it all makes sense! Ansel River is the lake above City of Tears, connected to the city below. That’s logical,"

"Now I can play both of my favorite games at once, how could I not be crazy lucky? /Dog Head with flower in mouth"

"Baby Ke better behave! If no new games come out, I’m literally going to complete Elden Ring with all four locks and five gates, argh!"

Apart from the idle gamers who had started to create a frenzy of secondary creations,

what troubled Ke Jin even more was.

Because the top player hadn’t released a new game in half a year,

a group of players, after realizing that their urging had no effect,

even started to mock Ke Jin himself...

At first it was only including Ke Jin as one of Thunderbolt’s remixed superstars, casually dragging him into various goofy remixes.

And the material for the videos, Ke Jin had never imagined...

was actually his damn... that brief live broadcast footage from when he was first strapped for funds, short-handed, and had to promote his first game Origin of Species himself...

Back then, he looked so naive, the live broadcast room was so rudimentary, and the promotional words were simply typed out in black and white regular script using WPS.

How the hell was this dug up?

Who on earth has so much free time, to record someone who was a completely unknown small-time streamer and game designer four years ago?

And beneath various remix videos, there were a bunch of comments from fans of the top player.

"Baby Ke, see this? This is what happens when you don’t release a new game for half a year!"

"If you don’t release a new game, next time it won’t just be remixes you’ll be on, argh!"

"Wait, did any of you notice... that Baby Ke’s face... looks a bit like the top player’s Chief Beauty?"

"Hiss!! Now that you mention it... it does seem so! In recent years, Baby Ke has grown more mature and it’s hard to tell on camera, but looking back at his fresh and handsome appearance four years ago, he really resembles Chief Beauty... The charm between the eyebrows is something that can’t be imitated."

"Could it be... could it be??"

"My goodness! Is Chief Beauty actually Baby Ke’s little sister?"

"Alright, alright! Baby Yu, just give the word, and we’ll immediately surround you and crown you the new Baby Ke!"

"The new Baby Ke? The real Baby Ke!"

Ke Jin had thought those preposterous secondary creations,

and the fact that he was moved to the remix area to join the all-stars,

and even Ke Yu’s identity had been dug up and the gamers joked about pushing Ke Yu to take the lead in the company if no new game came out,

would just go away if he stayed silent, expressed no opinion, and simply waited for the players’ wild party to end.

After all, Zelda can’t be rushed; it needs to be carefully crafted to present the finest quality.

The top player is now not short of money, and the runaway players have just begun to establish themselves in Europe and America; there’s absolutely no rush.

But...

You can never anticipate what absurd things players desperate for new games might do while waiting...

When Ke Jin found out, he nearly fainted.

These rascals had even audaciously applied his likeness to AI deepfake technology.

And the type they chose was even more outrageous...

The good news, they put Ke Jin’s face into adult films.

The bad news, it was onto the female lead...

Once the censored footage was cut out, leaving only the edited clips of facial close-ups uploaded online,

the entire gaming community erupted!

"?????"

"What the heck??? Who would do such a thing??? That’s just damn explosive! Whose brilliant tech is this?"

"Good, good, good! That’s what you get for not releasing Song of Silk! That’s what you get for not releasing the Shadow of the Golden Tree! That’s what designers get for not working on their games properly! Now the players have really stuck it to you (ecstatic)"

"You know, you really shouldn’t say that! How come when Baby Ke’s face is swapped onto the female lead, it looks so undeniably seamless...?"

"Thanks, Baby Ke, it was a bit tough... but I’ve finished it all. /Shy /Shy"

"Honestly, I really don’t think you should mess with Baby Ke like this, because I’ve never played. /Smirk /Smirk"

"Where’s the Hope Flute? Hope Flute, save the day!"

"Please, just pressure Baby Ke a little, without a little push he won’t budge, and has no thought of making a new game at all! Sobs sobs sobs!"

"Still waiting for the Hope Flute? The Hope Flute has developed a Pavlovian response, now as soon as Baby Ke rings the bell, Hope Flute starts to leak water, ah, the water of sweat pouring down."

"The last time something like this happened, it was Pavlov and his dog /sideways smirk"

No matter how the players pressured Ke Jin,

Ke Jin remained calm as an old dog, unshakable by the storm.

On the other side of the ocean, however, Blizzard seemed to be struggling to hold back.

Half a year ago, they decided to design an open-world game.

With Blizzard’s full company effort and development,

the project was approaching its final stages.

And fearing that the top player might get ahead,

they initiated a wave of promotion to plant an early concept in the players’ minds.

Blizzard’s current CEO Mide’s thoughts were quite straightforward.

In total, there were just three possibilities.

If their game was superior, they’d win.

If the top player’s game was superior, the top player would win.

But if the quality was nearly the same...