Chapter 360 Two-Level Reversal

Countless similar examples appear in various cities in China.

There are children who can finally play games during the Spring Festival, students who have free time during the Spring Festival, and working people who have finally had a break from work.

Since a new game with online play is needed, it is natural to choose from the most popular games recently.

There are not many options.

It is nothing more than "Raiden Heroes" and "League of Legends".

However, the latter is not based on various fancy publicity, but is conscientiously balancing and launching new content.

Guaranteed to make the game more fun!

"Raiden Heroes" did not release many patches during the test period, but released one set of skins after another.

Such a greedy appearance made many fans a little dissatisfied.

[I'm really convinced. I didn't believe how high the production capacity or level of Naughty Cat was before, but now I believe it. All the bugs submitted will be fixed within a week, and it will not affect the launch of new heroes and balance patches. As for "Raiden Heroes", the bug of the Fallen Knight animation effect has not been fixed for a month, and you know how to release skins, right? 】

[If you have time to release skins, can't you optimize this stupid matching mechanism? Select the hero first, and then take a look at the lineup after entering the game to know whether to give up or play or win]

[I give up, since the large-scale release of accounts, there have been almost no wins. As long as there is one person who can't play, others have no game experience at all. Don't release your broken skin, can't you make some changes? 】

The condemnation on the Internet is getting more and more intense, and countless pressures are given to the game production team.

However, at this time, the members of the production team feel that they are really wronged.

This game was made by listening to Director Liu!

All the required functions have been realized, and the development direction has been determined.

Now that there is a problem, you start looking for someone to take the blame?

Today is the day before New Year's Eve.

Many people in the company are not interested in work.

This one looks at the family members sending pictures of their hometown decorated with lights and colors, and the other one looks at the family members sending a table of delicious food, and they complain even more.

As for Liu Hu, he was hiding in the office at this time.

Looking at a phone call on his mobile phone, he hesitated for a long time and chose to call it.

After six or seven rings, the phone was finally connected.

"Hello? Lao Ma, it's me, Liu Hu."

The other side of the phone hesitated for a few seconds before asking: "Director Liu, what's the matter?"

When he heard this somewhat unfamiliar address, the smile on Liu Hu's face froze.

This was very different from the way Lao Ma wanted to change jobs, came to him to say good things, and gave him gifts and dinner.

So he quickly changed the address and said: "Manager Ma, didn't you call me last time to talk about changing jobs? It's like this"

"Did I say that? Director Liu remembered the wrong person, a company like Naughty Cat is hard to find even with a lantern, how could I think about changing jobs?"

Liu Hu smiled bitterly.

This was not the first call he made.

Some employees who felt that Naughty Cat was about to collapse had contacted him before and expressed their willingness to change jobs.

However, these people did not have time to make a decision.

The reputation of the game "Raiden Heroes" suddenly collapsed.

Then, many people avoided it like a plague.

Either they could not be contacted, or they refused to admit that they had thought of changing jobs.

It was completely opposite to the previous gift-giving and good-talking, and even a two-level reversal.

The person on the other side was lucky, at least he answered the phone.

He didn't really want to call like this, but things had reached a point where he had no choice.

The game began to be fully promoted, but the number of daily active players increased slowly.

This is an extremely dangerous signal. A free game with no threshold for full promotion cannot have only this number of new players.

The number of daily active players is growing slowly, which means that a large number of players have persisted for less than a month, or even started to quit in large numbers in a week.

I want to change it, but there are many different opinions on the Internet, and I don't know how to change it for a while.

If you want to say which company in the industry has the most vicious vision, it must be the old boss Naughty Cat.

So, there was this phone call.

Liu Hu felt sad, but still said in a flattering tone: "It's like this. There have been some rumors online recently, saying that our "Raiden Heroes" project has all kinds of bad rumors. I want to ask, what is the internal comment of Naughty Cat?"

For competing products, almost most game companies will conduct research.

In other words, they will study which ones are well done and can be copied.

Which ones are not well done and cannot be copied.

Liu Hu doesn't trust other companies' judgments on games, but if it is from his old employer, the gold content is still very high.

"Comment? No comment."

Hearing this answer, I thought the question was not asked clearly, so Liu Hu reorganized his language and said it more bluntly.

"I mean, when discussing the competing product "Raiden Heroes" at the meeting, what did Mr. Lin, Zuo Xuming, and Zhang Chengbo say?"

I asked the question with great expectations, but the answer I got was a direct cold water.

"Discussed at the meeting? It was never discussed at the meeting. Zhang Chengbo did mention whether to discuss the competing product "Raiden Heroes", but it was rejected."

"Rejected, rejected? Why?"

Lao Ma on the other side was silent for a long time, then he said: "It doesn't involve any secrets, so it's okay to tell you. Mr. Lin said that there is no need to study a work that is doomed to fail, which will interfere with the important design ideas in the early stage. After the design ideas are mature, some good ideas of "Raiden Heroes" can be borrowed as a temporary opening of the game anniversary or event map."

This remark was like a bolt from the blue.

It directly stopped Liu Hu in his tracks.

The design that he was proud of was so unbearable in Mr. Lin's eyes?

Just one sentence made Liu Hu's face flushed and his breathing became heavier.

"Then, what else did you say."

When he opened his mouth again, he found that his voice was a little hoarse.

Lao Ma sighed and said: "Mr. Lin said that it is a good thing to plan to innovate, but "Raiden Heroes" is a bit innovative for the sake of innovation, completely ignoring the hidden dangers behind the innovation and the acceptance of players. The most important thing is that these innovations are not fun."

For game practitioners, the most insulting thing is three words.

Not fun.

Liu Hu suddenly felt that the air conditioner in the office seemed to have stopped, and the cold air in February seeped in from his heels to the top of his head.

He wanted to ask something else, but the old Ma on the other side spoke first: "That's all I have to say. It's because of our previous friendship. Don't hurt me. Think about it carefully. Since the establishment of Naughty Cat, why have the most talented geniuses been willing to stay in Naughty Cat, and no one can be poached."

"Because... they don't have such big ambitions?"

"No, because only mediocre people will worry about themselves. They all know their talents, and only on the platform of Naughty Cat can they fully display their talents. Only mediocre people will complain in Naughty Cat that their abilities are not being used with their arrogance outside."

A flat attack with a critical hit.

Liu Hu felt his blood pressure rise, and regardless of friendship, he said coldly: "A mediocre person? Oh, if I am a mediocre person, then what about you who wanted to change jobs by relying on connections before? If it weren't for good luck, you would have resigned long ago."

"Me?" Lao Ma on the other side of the conversation said with a smile, "I am a very lucky mediocre person. I joined the company when it was short of people, and I didn't leave at the critical moment. As long as the company doesn't fire me in the future, I will stay here for the rest of my life."

After that, he hung up the phone without hesitation.

Liu Hu listened to the busy tone on his phone, and his words just now echoed in his ears.

"Damn, mediocre person?! I will prove myself, Raiden Hero is not dead yet!!"

The game may not be dead at the first time, but the related anchors feel that they are dying.

The current situation cannot be described by the sudden change of the situation.

Originally, a group of small anchors who bet on "Raiden Hero" were still celebrating, thinking that the overwhelming wealth and glory had finally come to them.

They thought that League of Legends was good, and that it was launched a month later, and there were so many Naughty Cat anchors, and the track was crowded, so it might not be more profitable to broadcast "Raiden Heroes".

But reality slapped them in the face.

With the platform's efforts to promote the flow, it has been about a week since the large-scale release of test qualifications.

The popularity of the live broadcast room has hardly changed.

Some people's live broadcast rooms have even shown a slight decline.

Now they are facing another situation.

League of Legends has also been launched.

In the past, the better partners who have cooperated with Naughty Cat have spared no effort to help promote it.

The wind direction on the Internet has changed immediately.

As an anchor, the amount of games is much stronger than more than 95% of the players, and they have a better understanding of the game.

The more you play, the more you understand the problems of the game Raiden Heroes better than anyone else.

Natasha Shasha, a male anchor jokingly called Sister Na by players.

It was already time for him to start broadcasting, but today he didn't want to click that button for a long time.

For the sake of his career, he also did not go home this year, in order to better consolidate his popularity.

Let those players who came in because of the push traffic become his real fans.

However, the effect is not very good.

"Damn, damn Baofeng Entertainment China Branch, you do something! Are you going to let the game die slowly like this?!"

Sister Na was a little anxious.

Originally thought that he had a chance to become a million-popular anchor, but unexpectedly, he was stuck at 600,000 and could not go up.

It is true that he is a top streamer in some unpopular sub-regions, but his expectations are not just the level of top streamers in unpopular sub-regions.

Look at the popularity trend after the recent collapse of word-of-mouth.

It is already very good if it does not fall.

Hesitated for a while, opened the live broadcast platform, and took a look at Teacher Ma's live broadcast room.

Then, he widened his eyes and looked incredible.

"Twenty-one thousand popularity?! How could this be? This, this increase is too fast? This is only the second day of the test?"

Sister Na's eyes were green with envy.

Previously, the group name was changed to the 200,000 Popularity Club. Although I don’t want to admit it, a large part of the reason was because I was jealous of Mr. Ma’s stable fan base in this small anchor group.

The group name was changed with a little thought and a little irony.

But I didn’t expect that Mr. Ma would really reach this point so quickly.

The traffic of Naughty Cat games has always been large, but it is also very competitive, very competitive.

For example, the top anchors who used to broadcast shooting games such as CSGO, Apex, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, Overwatch, and Call of Duty have also tried this game in addition to their own live broadcast tasks in the past two days.

It is very difficult to snatch traffic from them.

"Hehe, let you be proud for a while." Sister Na muttered sourly, "Your live broadcast room is only 300,000 popular. Can you reach millions?"

Thinking about it, he turned on the live broadcast.

But today, the number of players pouring in after the broadcast was obviously not as good as before.

I didn't care, I opened the settings of the live broadcast room and changed the name.

[Tomorrow I will draw ten fruit mobile phones, and the Thunder Heroes Water Friends Tournament]

Looking at the fans, he smiled and said: "Brothers, tomorrow is the New Year. This year I will accompany the brothers in the live broadcast room. In order to thank the brothers for their companionship this year, I will play a water friend match tomorrow and draw ten mobile phones, plus 20 100 yuan red envelopes."

[Fuck, so generous? 】

【Sister Na 6666666】

【Let me say in advance, he doesn't want it anymore! 】

Sure enough, nothing can impress players more than money.

As soon as these words came out, the barrage in the live broadcast room suddenly increased.

Seeing the audience's response was so intense, Sister Na was relieved.

It looks like the popularity of the live broadcast room today should be around 600,000, and there won't be much fluctuation.

Tomorrow, New Year's Eve.

We must hit a new peak in popularity!

The next day.

New Year's Eve.

It may be the most lively night of the year.

On this day, every household hangs red lanterns and posts new couplets.

It's just that in Zhonghai, it's impossible to set off fireworks and firecrackers, which is ultimately missing a bit of the New Year flavor.

But these are not problems in Sister Na's eyes.

His goal is to break through the new peak of popularity in the past month by throwing coins today.

Break through 600,000 and move towards 700,000.

Start live broadcast at the announced time.

"Brothers, although it's not past midnight yet, I'd like to wish you a happy new year in advance!"

[Happy New Year, Sister Na]

[Go, go, go, I'm going to order a phone today]

But.

Unlike what I imagined, the number of people pouring into the live broadcast room didn't seem to be as many as expected?

Sister Na's originally bright smile became a little unnatural.

No, why?

There's a lottery today!

Where are the people? !

I kept reminding myself in my heart.

No, stay calm, follow the planned schedule.

It must be because I was too busy on New Year's Eve to have time. I'll be fine after eating the New Year's Eve dinner and welcoming the gods.

According to the planned schedule, after the warm-up, I drew a phone first, and then two red envelopes.

Let's start today's game!

This round, Cursed Valley.

After the game started, the popularity was about the same as expected, and I felt relieved.

Then I focused on the game.

In this round, the battle between the two sides was very tense. Both sides were very good at playing and played very well.

However, in the last wave of team battles that determined the outcome, teammates made a fatal mistake.

The Fallen Knight's ultimate move, the Ice Dragon, was misplaced!

Seeing the Ice Dragon flying in the air, spitting out frost breath and flying in an uncontrollable direction.

It's over, we're going to lose.

Many viewers had this feeling in their hearts.

At this moment, Sister Na, who was playing the butcher, made a wonderful operation.

From the crowd, a hook successfully hooked the opponent's C position, just in time to be sprayed by the Ice Dragon!

The extremely high damage instantly knocked off a section of blood, and there was also a critical freezing control.

"Fuck!!! Brothers, what do you think of this operation? Is it cool? Who said that only League of Legends can show off!!"

A big victory, easily won the game.

"Awesome!"

Sister Na let out a long breath refreshed and glanced at the barrage.

Just this look made him completely stunned.

[Damn, it looks like a Ma's triangle kill? 】

[It's so funny, he learned from Mr. Ma, right? Anyone can learn it except Mr. Ma]

[Sister Na used to play with Mr. Ma, but I don't know why she doesn't play with him anymore]

Sister Na is totally confused.

What are you talking about?

Ma's Triangle Kill?

What the hell is this?

Wasn't it me who made the wonderful move? (End of this chapter)