Agreeing to Create Bad Games, What the Hell Is ‘Titanfall’? Chapter 305: Overwatch! Brilliant Launch!

320,000 copies in a single week! 620,000 copies in two weeks!

".....A total of 810,000 copies in 19 days!"

Hiss—

Such terrible pre-sale numbers!

That night.

Shen Miaomiao curled up on the sofa, staring at the China Digital Entertainnt Association’s statistics dashboard, ntally calculating the current pre-sale situation.

Judging by the joint ga release from Golden Wind and Yiyou XunTeng, and factoring in a 25% revenue cut, their ga—with a total investnt of 138 million dollars—needs to recoup 184 million dollars within seven days to break even as per contract requirents.

As for the ga’s price, Shen Miaomiao stuck to the system’s bottom-line pricing of 60 dollars per copy.

By that calculation, 184 million dollars ans that including pre-sales, Overwatch must reach global sales of 3.06 million copies within the first week of release!

But now!

After 19 days of pre-sale!

Overwatch’s pre-sale achievent is only 810,000 copies!

225,000 copies in a single week?

That’s kind of a joke.

Done calculating!

Shen Miaomiao’s eyes suddenly lit up!

Hey—?

Wait, why do I get the feeling of being at the end of the road, only to find a new path ahead?

Keep in mind!

This ti, she launched the contract with a 1018x rebate!

aning, even if she loses a bit, she stands to gain a huge rebate from this wave!

Thinking this, Shen Miaomiao’s lips curled slightly as she looked at Gu Sheng walking over:

“President Gu, I don’t think our pre-sale results look very promising, do they?”

“Yeah,"

Gu Sheng nodded, handed her so potato chips, and sat beside her, leaning against the sofa armrest:

“Expected.”

“Ah?” Shen Miaomiao was stunned.

Impossible! This was expected by you too? You mouthy king!

Seeing Shen Miaomiao’s skeptical expression, Gu Sheng smiled and shrugged casually:

“Although this ti our timing to strike was perfect, and the revelation of the design docunt completely shut down CloudPower’s previous accusations of plagiarism, causing them even more backlash,”

“it also ans players’ enthusiasm for pre-ordering naturally dropped,”

“after all... Apex Pri is just so awful, it inevitably left a psychological shadow on the players.”

Gu Sheng was right.

Indeed!

Up to now, whether it was character modeling, project refinent, promotional scale, or the ga’s form, Overwatch looked nearly flawless and very attractive.

But!

It was the object of Apex Pri’s plagiarism.

Those dazzling pay-to-win pop-ups? The completely unfair pay-to-win system? The nerve-wracking ELO matchmaking? The extrely rigid 222 team setup? The awkward second-generation FPS design?

Weren’t all of these copied straight from Overwatch by Apex Pri?

Players have already developed psychological scars.

Although Golden Wind is known for high-quality gas and seems never to have released a heavily pay-to-win garbage ga,

CloudPower’s shadow is enough to remind players not to blindly pre-order before seeing the official ga quality.

“...So,”

Gu Sheng took a sip of iced cola, calm as ever:

“these pre-sale numbers are very normal. I just feel a bit sorry for those players who didn’t pre-order, because the pre-order rewards are actually pretty good,”

“and after seeing the launch quality, they’ll have to buy it anyway, so they might as well pre-order.”

“Yay—yay—”

Seeing Gu Sheng’s confident and carefree attitude, Shen Miaomiao almost rolled her eyes to the sky:

“Look at you acting all steady and cool, but you’re actually panicking inside. Enough pretending, Old Gu, 800,000 copies in nearly 20 days? You really expect the sales to explode after launch?”

“Of course,”

Gu Sheng nodded with certainty:

“And I’ll bet that tonight, in every livestream chat room, soone will say, ‘If only I had pre-ordered.’ Every single one.”

“Bet on what?”

Shen Miaomiao curled her lips, clearly not believing him.

“You’ve never won before, how are you so bad yet so addicted to playing?”

Gu Sheng felt helpless, like playing chess against a terrible opponent.

“Will you bet or not?”

Shen Miaomiao lifted her leg and lightly kicked Gu Sheng.

“Of course I will. Let think about what kind of service I want...”

Gu Sheng thought for a mont:

“Let’s bet on a massage. Don’t let your skills go to waste.”

“Hah! You’re so full of yourself!”

At these words, Shen Miaomiao scrunched her nose and made a teasing face at Gu Sheng:

“Don’t be impatient. When the ti cos, I’ll teach you how to massage. You’d better make sure Grandma is comfortable!”

It went online, it went online! Damn, this is probably the last ti I’m a sucker today!

8 p.m.

XTT’s livestream chat room was packed!

After Apex Pri’s top-tier hilariously abstract live-stream effect, the audience had been even more eager for Overwatch’s launch than XTT himself.

“Today’s main event is pure entertainnt.”

No matter what quality Little Yellow’s Overwatch is, it always delivers entertainnt on this genius kid’s stream.

“Whatever it is, hurry and bring it on!”

To be honest, so worried it might be a Little Yellow version of top-tier supre dog poop.

It shouldn’t be... right?

But since Apex Pri almost copied Overwatch wholesale, I figure no matter how unlucky, it’s impossible to avoid all the correct answers and step on the biggest mines.

I just hope Little Yellow’s Overwatch doesn’t have ELO and pay-to-win ruining balance.

True, if those two are removed, guaranteeing skill-based rank progression and continuing Apex’s loot box system, even with pop-ups, LGBT thes, and 222 team setup, I could tolerate it.

That just shows how deeply Apex Pri scarred everyone...

Please, Overwatch, please, Little Yellow...

Here it cos...

As the ultimate promotional video’s cutscene ended!

Overwatch’s logo flashed.

Then.

A strange scream echoed from the livestream chat: “Oh damn! Don’t ss with !”

Bang! A pop-up!

XTT almost died on the spot.

Damn!

Could it be that all those heart attack settings really were created by Golden Wind first, then copied entirely by Apex?

However,

Just as the audience prepared to burst out laughing and mock XTT for always falling for the sa trap,

XTT was stunned:

“Huh?”

It stopped.

Only one pop-up.

It read [Pre-order Reward Claim].

Carefully moving the virtual cursor, nothing else unusual appeared.

XTT finally breathed a sigh of relief:

“Ah—scared to death! I thought it was coming again, turns out it’s just the pre-order reward... damn!”

Before he finished speaking!

XTT casually clicked open the pre-order rewards.

This kind of thing isn’t rare.

In the industry, other pre-order gas usually just offer tokens, emotes, decorations, avatars, and a few similar items—three to five pieces, nothing much, mostly just for show.

But!

Opening Overwatch’s pre-order reward!

The dazzling array of items knocked XTT off his feet!

So many!!!

And looking closer!

XTT felt his scalp tingle and let out a sharp scream:

“Damn it! Who didn’t pre-order? Hahaha, say it so I can enjoy it! Call a sucker? Damn, look at all this!!!”

[Pre-order Exclusive - Leo & Vincent Pendants (All Heroes)]

[Pre-order Exclusive - ‘Anya’ Pendant (All Heroes)]

[Pre-order Exclusive - ‘Groom’ Pendant (All Heroes)]

[Pre-order Exclusive - Undying Severer (Genji)]

[Pre-order Exclusive - BT7274 (DVA)]

[Pre-order Exclusive - Parallel Rifle (Soldier: 76)]

[Pre-order Exclusive - Gargantuan Street Lamp (Reinhardt)]

[Pre-order Exclusive....]

Boom!!!

The chat barrage exploded instantly!

“Ah???”

“I swear on your grandpa!!!”

“Genji’s sword, DVA’s ch, 76’s rifle, Hamr’s hamr... damn!!!”

“Hey! Why is it even playing like this?”

“All these crossovers?”

“Wait! Is pre-order still available now?”

“No! Buying now doesn’t count as pre-order! Damn Old Thief!”

“Hey! Why didn’t you put these things in the pre-order package description earlier?”

“Hahahahaha! Don’t you understand what loyal player rewards an?

Woohoo! I damn well bought the pre-order! Loyal!”

“Damn, if I’d known I would have bought the pre-order version! Damn it!!!”

......

anwhile!

On the sofa, Gu Sheng raised his glass to Little Nezha and leisurely took a sip of sparkling water:

“One down.”

Shen Miaomiao: ?

Are you a dog?!

No wonder this crafty bastard is so confident!

Turns out this bastard linked all of Golden Wind’s previous gas into Overwatch for a crossover event!

Even—

【Golden Glory Unleashed!!!】

Snap!

As Qiezi drew his sword in the training ground, a black and red translucent ink dragon suddenly flashed along the blade!

Ding!

Ding!

Ding!

Each strike cut down a robot, and the black and red Undying Severer blade effect twisted and warped the space.

Qiezi’s wild roar echoed through the livestream chat:

“Damn it! This is just too cool! Seriously too damn cool, I’m blown away!!!”

At this mont, Qiezi’s livestream audience went wild!

Comnts of “I regret not buying” nearly covered the entire screen!

They were crazy.

Players were going insane.

Pre-order players tested one exclusive pre-order reward after another in the training ground.

Those who didn’t pre-order cursed bitterly.

Jealous to the point of bloodshot eyes, they vowed never to miss any future Little Yellow pre-orders again!

Even if they hated the ga, they’d return it later. Better to have it than drool over others’ rewards!

Starting strong!

Clean interface, pleasing characters, rich rewards!

Opening the store page, no stat-changing skins, classic selectable loot boxes, even upgraded battle passes with unlimited refills!

It’s back, it’s back!

The feeling players wanted has all returned!

Opening the match list, even more surprises ca!

Payload! Control Point!

No collision with Apex’s the as many feared!

This ti, Golden Wind’s competitive modes actually continued the highly praised Payload and Control Point best-of-three mode from Garden Warfare!

And!

They actively incorporated player feedback. Considering characters like Winston’s electric gun don’t even need aiming, they decisively abandoned their proud second-generation FPS design!

Instead, they adopted the almost market-abandoned virtual crosshair!

Playing the retro card hard, emphasizing “no design hierarchy, balanced matchmaking is what matters”!

But!

That’s not all!

When Qiezi invited a few pre-order brothers to jump into a match,

Sothing even better ca!

No team composition lock, no 222 restrictions!

Golden Wind upheld their promise—never to teach players how to play!

Everything must be explored by the players themselves.

After all, with hero counters and nurical balance, no matter how invincible you think your lineup is, others will always find your weak spots—

“Bullshit! Our lineup has no flaws!”

Hollywood Avenue!

Payload!

Qiezi, now transford into the machine gun Peashooter Bastion, crouched atop the slowly advancing vehicle.

Bastion: A robot once abandoned in the forest, awakened to peace mode after eting the little bird Nini. Its normal form is a robot wielding a machine gun. Upon activating its main skill, it transforms in place into a rotating machine gun turret with extrely fast attack speed and explosive power but cannot move. Its ultimate is turning into a small tank to blast enemies.

Honestly, this hero is pretty dumb.

Although the burst is huge when stationary, it also becos a target. But for beginners, it’s a killer weapon.

And now!

There are two such beginner killer weapons.

Qiezi, Donggua, Liu Di.

Gentlen and bastions.

They all sat on the vehicle!

In front and behind them!

Were Xiao Bo and little dark inmate holding shields and Reinhardt with the giant hamr!

Among them stood Soldier: 76, who specialized in healing sticks.

Perhaps years later, when they look back at this footage, they’ll think this lineup was extrely stupid.

But for now—

Rat-a-tat-tat-tat...!

Rat-a-tat-tat...!

Rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat...!

The terrifying gunfire of the spinning machine gun sounded repeatedly, killing Genji instantly, then a lonely rcy, and even the revived DVA who just rushed over fell almost imdiately!

Several bad guys in the livestream laughed evilly.

The chat barrage went wild with laughter—

“Queued for execution?”

“‘Pea-Tank Coordination’”

“What the hell is this vehicle? This is a self-propelled artillery hahaha!”

“Damn I’m gonna die laughing.”

“You guys really have no sha.”

“Ultimate iron shell bastards!”

Right? Is this thing really that strong? How do you fight it, opponent?

Yeah, the enemy T side can’t hold for two seconds, and damage dealers are instantly dead.

This team already won three rounds with this lineup, and the fourth looks like a win too?

Right? Isn’t there anyone to bring so justice to them?”

“You guys are really jerks!”

“Co up with a plan for the other side!”

“It’s over! The payload is about to reach the point! I’m really pissed off watching you jerks win!”

“Hey—”

The livestream was full of laughter and joy!

However!

Just as everyone thought these six jerks would easily take another victory with their invincible iron turtle lineup!

Suddenly!

A wild shout rang out above their heads not far away—

[Fire in the hole—!!!]

All six looked up!

Buzz!

With the explosive roar of a motor!

A huge wheel dropped from the sky, perfectly landing right in the middle of the six!

“Damn it...”

Qiezi was stunned:

“What the hell is this—?”