Chapter 462 Prizes
These days, the game forum is even more popular than the day the public beta was launched.
In the two months of the public beta of Horror Paradise, the number of registered players has exceeded three million. Once the server was shut down, these players naturally gathered in the forum.
Of course, at least 60% of them are pure casual players. These people just play casually after work and study, and they only browse the forum for more than ten minutes before closing it.
Another 30% are hardcore players who are more enthusiastic about this game. They usually go online when they have time, and are very interested in game-related information and intelligence. The active people on the forum are basically these people.
And the last 10% are naturally industry insiders. For example, studio players, individual professional players, studio employees, online water army, etc. These people are generally the leaders of topics and trends on the forum.
For them, this forum is a battlefield without gunpowder smoke, language is their bullet, and information is their gun barrel. The battle here is far more dangerous than in the game...
"Hype", "public opinion guidance", etc., it is difficult to say, it is not difficult to say% ... It is not too difficult.
Some classic cases include:
A and B cursed each other, but the essence was to praise each other.
A kept praising B, and then was quickly slapped in the face by C. In fact, A and C were blackening B together.
A seemed to have lost both his IQ and face and cursed B crazily, but in fact, he was slapped in the face by C with actual actions.
A deliberately provoked C, a fan of B, and was finally slapped in the face by C with actual actions, but in fact, A and C may both be fans of B, and the three of them were just performing together.
In short, the methods are varied and each has its own merits. Some can achieve the purpose, and some cannot. Some are so clever that you still help count the money after being fooled, and some are so low-end that passers-by can see through them at a glance and are speechless.
There is no doubt that Internet water army is also a science, a very thick and deep science.
This is a game between one group of people and another group of people. IQ and EQ game. And those they want to win over and influence are those who follow public opinion, have no ability to think for themselves or are too naive.
"[Vote! Who do you think is the real champion!]..." Feng Bujue looked at a voting post with the word "hot" in the prefix and laughed, "Hehe... After all, you are the ones who eat this bowl of rice, you are really hard-working..."
This kind of post is obviously the work of the studio staff, and it is probably done by "Order" or "Gods". Anyway, "Xingchen" will definitely not post this kind of post. At most, they will let their people rush into the post and everyone will vote for Tianma Xingkong...
There is also another hot post with the title: [Dream Company tampered with the rules midway, and the peak hegemony is full of shady dealings. A rematch is imperative! ] This looks very much like the style of Corpse Knife.
It is worth mentioning that there are signs that [Corpse Knife is the King], the top master of Corpse Knife, seems to have left Corpse Knife Studio. His photos and information have been removed from Corpse Knife's official website. In Horror Paradise, the character "Corpse Knife is the King" has also been deleted.
This incident caused a lot of repercussions among people in the circle. In addition to being interested in the reasons for his resignation, people are more concerned about his whereabouts. If he didn't retire or change careers, where would he go? Would he join another studio or become a professional player? In the contract that Corpse Blade terminated with him, was there a clause similar to "non-compete"?
Although he had worked in Corpse Blade and had a bad reputation, business was business, and if he was really capable, other studios would definitely not reject him. At that time, he could be repackaged with words such as "abandoning darkness and joining the light" and "the prodigal son returns", and he would still be a star player, and he could also blacken Corpse Blade by the way...kill two birds with one stone.
"Well... although there are a lot of posts, the gunpowder smell is not very strong." Feng Bujue flipped through the posts for a while. He soon found that the hot topics related to the game were basically all the water armies singing against each other. And the focus of most players has long been shifted to the "new version".
It seems that Woody's method of pretending to attack Guo and secretly crossing Chencang really worked. Using the major changes in this version update, the sequelae left by the game and the secrets of the existence of derivatives were all revealed.
"But... 90% of the posts are still nonsense..." Feng Bujue continued to browse and saw a lot of interesting things.
Many posts are funny just by looking at the titles, such as [My opinion on the free exploration mode], [Is it really that difficult to kill a derivative? Let me teach you! ] and so on... Even if you are a novice, you can't believe this kind of pure YY strategy.
There are also some regret posts, such as [I should have sold a certain piece of equipment earlier], [It seems that the price of equipment will not fall down]. These people are still relatively reliable, at least they have seen the impact of the "equipment binding" setting. In the future, there will be no more "a piece of equipment is used from level 1 to level 10, and it can be put on the auction house for money after use".
Obviously, the "sudden" version update of Horror Paradise this time objectively killed the "pre-update trend" that is common in many other online games in the cradle.
After reading the posts aimlessly for a while, Feng Bujue began to deal with the short messages on the forum.
The number of messages he received in his forum account would definitely not be less than that in his game mailbox... After all, he is a celebrity...
Fortunately, the forum message box and the mailbox in the game have the "smart association" function, and the blocking list is interoperable. In other words, those who are blocked by Brother Jue in the game will also be blocked in the forum.
However, even so... Feng Bujue's message box still accumulated tens of thousands of messages. He scanned and deleted, flipped through hundreds of pages, and finally saw the message that Xu Huaishang sent to him a few days ago. Now that the finals are over, these words are meaningless, but at least it shows that Goddess Xu has a good character.
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On the morning of June 2, Dream Company finally gave the latest announcement on the official website: [The server will be opened again at midnight on June 3, and the updated version is v1.10-derivative invasion. 】
As soon as this news came out, the online water army announced that they would go off work. The major game studios immediately turned their attention back to the game... The opening of the new version means that there is still a lot of work to be done, and they have no energy to dwell on the battle for supremacy that has passed.
Anyway, after these two months, from big companies like Order and Gods to small companies like Ice Emperor and individual players... all organizations or individuals in the gaming industry have seen it all... The attitude of "Dream Company" towards the outside world can be basically summarized in three sentences: First, a dead pig is not afraid of boiling water; second, you can play or not, it's useless to black me; third, if you dare to go against me, I will kill you.
In front of such an operator, all unconventional means... are nothing.
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June 3, midnight.
Feng Bujue logged into the game in sleep mode.
Recently, in order to exercise, he adjusted his biological clock and began to pay attention to his diet, so. By now it was twelve o'clock in the evening, he must have gone to bed...
"The players ranked tenth to fourth will randomly receive three skill cards corresponding to their highest level of specialization, four random skill cards of other specializations, and 5,000 skill points..." Feng Bujue muttered as he entered the login space, "Humph... I have come to this day!"
As a man abandoned, forsaken and spurned by the God of Luck, it was such a pleasure to get seven skill cards at once...
He couldn't wait to open his mailbox, and sure enough. The prize email was highlighted and pinned to the top of the mailbox interface.
[Congratulations on your excellent result of ranking tenth in the Peak Contest] The title of this email was also very pleasing to the eye.
The attachment of the email. It was seven skill cards. As for the 5,000 skill points, Feng Bujue had already opened the menu and looked at it just now, and it was added when he entered the login space.
At present, Feng Bujue's strongest specialization is fighting. After the Peak Contest, his fighting specialization has reached level A. Therefore, he got three fighting skill cards at once. But... his bad luck was reflected again at this moment. Because his other four skill cards were two reconnaissance and two medical.
Apart from the combat specialization, Brother Jue's specializations were 1b, 4c, and 2d, and he happened to draw the skills of the two relatively weakest specializations...
Fortunately, these skill cards are not bound, so he can give them to his teammates on the Hell Front to use. If no one wants to use them, he can sell them. Otherwise, half of his prize is waste...
"Hmm... an ominous premonition." Feng Bujue just glanced at the specialization category of the skills and felt bad at the time.
He is a person who will make the worst plan for everything, so he has considered several worse situations before. For example... all the skills drawn are F-level.
This is not impossible... The prize terms say "randomly obtain three skill cards corresponding to the highest level of 'specialization' and four random skill cards of other specializations." The key point of this sentence is... corresponding to 'specialization', not corresponding to 'highest level'.
Therefore, theoretically, a player may draw seven skill cards of all S-level, or... all seven of them are F-level skills...
This reward related to character is really interesting. If someone really gets seven S-level skills at once, then the improvement he gets may be greater than the top three. Even if four of these seven cards can never be learned, he can exchange them for money or give them to teammates in the same club.
But if someone has extremely bad character and gets seven F-level skills... then this reward is really pitiful, and it can even be said that it is not as good as the rewards for 100-51st place... The total value of their ten double experience cards, 20,000 game coins, and limited edition T-shirts is definitely higher than ten F-level skills. Fortunately, the top ten can still get 5,000 skill points. At least this thing is hard currency and will never depreciate.
"No way..." Feng Bujue put aside the four cards of medical and reconnaissance specializations and began to look at the first of the three combat skill cards:
[Name: Gangjiao]
[Skill card attribute: active skill, permanent mastery]
[Skill category: Combat]
[Effect: send out a weak long-range slash (cooling time of 15 seconds)]
[Consumption: physical value 15]
[Learning conditions: Combat specialization f]
[Remarks: The strong wind generated by high-speed kicking evolves into a vacuum slash. ps: This skill really has nothing to do with Lanjiao! ]
"It would be strange if it didn't have it!" Feng Bujue roared and complained, "This is a complete copycat! The consumption is one-tenth of Lanjiao, and the power is estimated to be less than one-tenth! And it has a fucking cooling time of 15 seconds?"
This skill can indeed be abandoned without any consideration...
Brother Jue is an A-level combat expert and has the genuine Lanjiao. There is no need for him to learn this copycat Gangjiao. Besides... players only have twelve skill slots in total, and Feng Bujue has equipped eleven skills now, so there is no way he can bring this one.
"Good! You have guts! One seventh of the prize is wasted..." Feng Bujue muttered, "In a sense... it's one third." He raised his head and didn't know who he was talking to, "Ah~ I thought someone was protecting me... It seems that I misunderstood? You don't want to win the bet, right?"
Of course... No one would care about his rogue behavior.
"Well..." Feng Bujue waited for a few seconds, and seeing no response, he had to give up. Anyway, he was just trying it out.
His eyes turned again, and he picked up the second fighting skill card...
[Name: Naughty Child's Whip Kick]
[Skill card attribute: Active skill, permanent mastery]
[Skill category: Fighting]
[Effect: Ignore the level of expertise, 100% trip all monsters that can theoretically fall down, and provoke the opponent to attack you (no cooldown)]
[Consumption: 500 physical value]
[Learning conditions: Fighting expertise A]
[Note: You are using the Blue Cat's Naughty Three Thousand Kicks! ]
"Ha! Ha! Ha! Heaven... Oh no... The underworld has eyes!" Feng Bujue laughed three times, it seems that he is still very satisfied with this skill.
Yes, this is the permanent version of the [Naughty Child's Whip Kick] that can be learned at F level and can only be used three times. This is a typical "strategic" skill, with an A-level rating and a consumption of up to 500 physical value, which is enough to illustrate its value.
"Hmm..." Feng Bujue quickly stopped smiling, "Be calm...be calm...don't lose your composure because of extreme sadness or joy, I never show my emotions..."
It's strange to say, when in front of others, Feng Bujue can naturally perform well...but when he is alone, he will occasionally show his middle school second-year side, which may be the sequelae of him living alone at home and cooking "middle school second-year food" for a long time.
"Okay...as long as the third card is not a rip-off..." Feng Bujue finally picked up the last card of fighting expertise and put it in front of him.
[Name: Baseball Punch lv1]
[Skill card attribute: Active skill, permanent master]
[Skill category: Fighting]
[Effect: Use both fists to launch a melee attack on the enemy in front (can be launched at will without a target, with a cooldown of one hour; limited to three times in each scenario, unlimited use in free exploration mode)]
[Consumption: Physical value 3]
[Learning conditions: Fighting Specialization F]
[Note: This skill will be upgraded as the number of times it is used increases. It can be upgraded by one level every sixty punches, for a total of ten levels. ](To be continued...)