Chapter 282: This World is Different

"Huh? Where's my pet?"

After walking for a distance and preparing to attack the monster, Ouyang Xiao suddenly reacted and looked around in confusion.

The pet pig that was supposed to be with her disappeared at some point, leaving her as the lone hunter.

"This is weird. He was clearly next to me after defeating the boss just now. Could he still be up there?"

Ouyang Xiao turned around and looked at the platform that was already very far away, but did not see his pet pig. He immediately pressed the pet summoning skill several times.

[The number of pets has reached the upper limit. 】

[Number of pets...]

A series of prompts popped up, indicating that her pet was still alive and there was no way to summon a second one.

"Is there a bug?"

The teammate's voice sounded in the voice chat.

"It could be that he got stuck in the terrain and didn't jump down with us."

"It's really rare to find a bug in a prehistoric game."

"It's normal to have some problems just after the public beta test. It's good that only one problem appeared after such a long time."

"How about dismissing them and trying again?"

Oh yes!

Dismiss and recall!

After being reminded by them, Ouyang Xiao's eyes lit up and he prepared to send his pets away.

But at this moment.

A pink figure appeared in the distance, running towards them with cheerful hooves and grunting.

Ouyang Xiao took a closer look.

Isn’t this the pet that disappeared?

I was immediately overjoyed.

"pig……"

Before she could finish her words, she froze.

Then, it turned pale instantly.

Because behind her Pig No. 2, there was a large group of monsters, densely packed together, and approaching them rapidly.

"Hiss! So many monsters!"

"What's going on? Is it a copy mechanism?"

"This is too much. I'm afraid that half of the monsters in the dungeon have been pulled here?"

"No, it doesn't seem to be the mechanism. It's because the pet can't jump over the platform, so it took a detour and ended up in the monster pile!"

"Hahaha...the pet has pulled all the monsters along the way here."

"I am dying of laughter. They are pulling a train here."

"I would like to call you a train... No, Fire Pig King!"

"Pig No. 2: Master, look at the gift I brought you."

"It's over, it's over, Barbie Q."

After a moment of stunned silence, the audience in the live broadcast room quickly reacted and burst into laughter.

Ouyang Xiao and the other four teammates' faces turned green as they looked at the surging army of monsters in horror.

"Don't just stand there, run!"

The teammate who reacted first shouted, ran, and headed straight for the entrance of the dungeon.

Seeing this, the others woke up and hurried to follow.

However.

Their speed is no match for the monsters.

When Ouyang Xiao was escaping, he looked back and saw that Pig No. 2 and the army of monsters behind him were right behind him. He was almost scared to death.

"ah--"

"No! Don't follow me, go away!"

Screams continued to echo in the live broadcast room.

No matter how she shouted, Pig No. 2 stuck to her like a dog-skin plaster and circled around her as if to seek credit.

final.

Except for the orc warrior who ran away first.

The remaining four people were all overwhelmed by the monsters, and their health dropped to the bottom in an instant.

[You are dead, do you want to release your soul to the nearest cemetery? ]

Ouyang Xiao stared blankly at the screen that turned gray and white, his face turning blue and purple, and he cursed wildly through the screen.

See this scene.

The audience laughed so hard.

“That’s fucking bullshit.”

"A murder caused by a pet."

"Honghuang's game really didn't disappoint me."

"Pig No. 2 gets a quad kill!"

“The show was explosive.”

"Just saying you're not fit to play hunter, right?"

After this wave of operations, the popularity of the live broadcast room completely exploded.

There were even quite a few viewers who uploaded the screen recordings to the internet and to gaming groups, adding fuel to the fire of the game.

…

“Two million are online?”

Penguin and Shengqu headquarters.

The senior executives of the game department, who had been paying close attention to the trends in the MMO market, soon learned the online rate of World of Warcraft players through various means.

In just one week, the number of online players exceeded two million.

Its momentum is even catching up with "Oracle", which has a good reputation abroad, and it has directly surpassed Penguin's "Swords and Swords" and other PC games released by other manufacturers.

Much higher than they initially expected.

But it's okay.

With two million people online, at most we can just end up in a tug-of-war with them.

The final victory or failure will still depend on each other's long-term operational capabilities and ability to respond to emergencies.

This is just the beginning.

It all depends on who can’t hold on first.

"In this stalemate, what is most needed is publicity and promotion resources and manpower. Whoever runs out of resources first, or whose manpower can't keep up with the maintenance speed, will definitely lose popularity and be slowly eaten away by other games."

"When it comes to competing for resources, we penguins are not afraid of anyone."

After this period of vigorous promotion, the online rate of "Sword and Sword" has increased to more than 1.5 million.

Coupled with several other recently released PC games, there is a subtle trend of competition among the games, with no single game showing an absolute advantage.

One wrong step.

It is possible that everything will be lost.

This has also led to major manufacturers making great efforts to increase promotional resources as much as possible in order to occupy as much MMO market share as possible.

to this end.

Old Song, who had been paying attention to this matter, quickly found Chen Lin .

"I just checked and found that many manufacturers have increased their investment in publicity and promotion. Should we follow suit?"

This is the situation that Lao Song fears the most.

Although Honghuang has accumulated a lot of funds, it is still a drop in the bucket compared to Penguin, Shanda, and JuQing, which are large conglomerates with more than ten years of history.

Once you get into a long tug of war.

They are afraid that they will even have to invest the capital.

By then, even if we succeed in occupying the market, it will not be worth it.

But they were reluctant to give up the situation they had worked so hard to maintain.

"Just double the publicity and promotion funds. There's no need to compete with them in assets." Chen Lin said after thinking for a while while sitting in his seat.

He is not confident enough to compete with big companies like Penguin in terms of assets.

After all, they have countless capitals behind them, while they are just a lonely group.

Old Song obviously knew this too, and nodded, "That's the only way for now."

After saying that, he turned around and left to arrange work outside.

…

In a blink of an eye.

Another two days passed.

After this period of brewing and fermentation, it has finally arrived at the weekend when players are most active.

Major manufacturers have stepped up their publicity and promotion efforts, with overwhelming game advertisements all over the internet and various big anchors live streaming trial play of the game.

Even the major short video platforms are filled with various videos about MMO games.

What is this all about praising and disparaging? First, disparage this game by saying how rubbish it is to gain players' approval, and then take the opportunity to say how good a certain game is.

Or they just start praising it, with all sorts of groundbreaking new gameplay and big-engine MMO, and they almost praise the game to the point where it's nothing but heaven and earth.

In short, there is nothing they can't do, as long as you can't think of it.

In order to promote, they will do anything.

Even though the means are somewhat despicable, that's how the market works.

With such extensive and vigorous publicity, the popularity of games from several major companies such as Penguin Shengqu has soared, and the online rates have all soared to over two million.

The first one released, "Oracle", has even approached five million!

It leaves the ancient "World of Warcraft" far behind.

This situation immediately made these manufacturers proud.

"Sure enough, when it comes to the resources of the wild, they are still a little too young. They can't hold on so soon."

"I saw many people online saying that their game was too difficult and they went to play other games after playing it for less than half an hour."

"How can it not be difficult? I tried it out, and the monster stats in the novice period are seriously overflowing, affecting the player experience. It's strange that anyone would play this kind of game."

"It just so happens that we ."

There is no mercy in business competition.

Seeing that the momentum of the Honghuang PC game is not up to par, other manufacturers can't help but step in to highlight the excellence of their own games.

The Penguin executives who had suffered losses at the hands of Honghuang laughed triumphantly.

However.

Are things really as they imagined?

"What's going on? This game is so boring."

Inside the rental house.

A corporate slave who just got on vacation was mumbling doubtfully to the "Oracle" in front of his computer.

He had just been discouraged by the difficulty of World of Warcraft and immediately switched to this game.

But the strange thing is.

No matter how he plays, it's not fun.

Even though you have all kinds of fancy skills and can capture a large movie in one second, you can't feel the joy of it at all.

It was as if the thing that was killed in seconds was not a monster.

But they are like a group of wooden people.

after.

He tried several new PC games that were highly praised online, but the result was the same: tasteless.

"Am I electronically ED?"

The young man picked up his phone and turned on the front camera, doubting himself.

But the problem is that he is less than 30 years old, which is the time when he has the most energy, and he likes this kind of game the most.

How could it be ED?

Just thinking about it.

A game group message suddenly popped up on the phone.

"Brothers, I'm back to playing World of Warcraft. Anyone want to join me?"

The young man took a look at the originator of the message, and it was the MMO boss in the group.

And like him, I was just discouraged by the difficulty of "World of Warcraft", and even cursed the game as a rubbish in the group, and then switched to another game.

Only half a day has passed.

Why did you run back again?

"My goodness, are you having a seizure?"

"Who was there ranting about this crap game this morning?"

"Haha, did you go back to play World of Warcraft too?"

"Also? You're playing World of Warcraft now, idiot?"

"Well, I don't know why, but after playing other games for a while, I suddenly found World of Warcraft very interesting. Now my teammates and I are fighting with the monsters."

"Damn it, I felt the same way. I was just about to say it."

"What the hell? So you all feel this way?"

The originally quiet gaming group suddenly became lively.

Then they were shocked to find that the reason they couldn’t play other games was because they were discouraged by World of Warcraft!

Although this game is a bit difficult.

But there is a real feeling of fighting monsters and adventuring everywhere.

Unlike some other games where you just keep pressing seconds all the way, then frantically press the space bar to hand over the task, and then continue pressing seconds. You will feel sleepy after playing for a long time.

The most important point.

It’s the chat and social attribute of this game!

Because the game is difficult, many players go to the chat channel to find teammates to level up together, or create various hilarious incidents of being chased by monsters, getting equipment when killing elite monsters, sharing mission strategies, etc.

The entire chat channel was extremely lively.

All kinds of bragging, chatting and talking nonsense.

And several other competing products.

However, because the upgrade pace was too fast and the task process was simple and did not require discussion, the chat channel only had some game announcements and sporadic messages, which looked lifeless.

Game atmosphere!

The game atmosphere is different!

The office worker who was checking group chat messages suddenly had an epiphany and finally understood why he had no interest in playing other games.

Surprised, he quickly closed the game and returned to the desktop.

I finally breathed a sigh of relief when I saw the circular icon with a W in the middle.

“Fortunately, it was not uninstalled.”

Double-click the icon to open the game.

For some reason, his mood this time when he logged into the game was a little different from before.

There seems to be a little bit of... anticipation?

Just thinking about it.

The game lights up.

The necromancer he had created earlier came into view.