Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales
Translated by Coldtaco
Edited by Aelryinth
At that mont, Chen Mo’s phone rang. The caller was a buddy from uni, Zhao Zihao.
“Hello?”
Zhao Zihao replied in a casual tone, “Chen Mo, you’re pretty good! First place in a video ga designing competition? How could you leave your brothers so out of the loop?”
Chen Mo laughed, “I just settled down, there’s been too much doing on recently. How did you know?”
Zhao Zihao said, “You’re asking how I know? You’re going viral! The negative comnts towards the judge during the competition are all over the internet!”
Chen Mo was speechless. “Huh?”
Zhao Zihao said, “You can check it out yourself. Also, are you free tonight? Us three haven’t really t up since we graduated. Coincidentally, you just got your identity as a videoga designer, and earned yourself an experience store. You better be buying us dinner!”
Chen Mo laughed, “Sure, I’ll buy us dinner. Could you get Lin Mao too?”
Zhao Zhao replied, “Sure, it’s decided then! How about this: I’ll pick up Lin Mao, then we’ll head right over to your experience store, then grab so food. Let’s do 4pm. We’ll see you there.”
Chen Mo said, “Alright, I’ll see you then.”
In his mory in this parallel world, Chen Mo had two close buddies from university. Although the three of them were studying different areas, sohow they all entered the video ga industry.
Zhao Zihao had rich parents, his family was probably involved in traditional businesses. Chen Mo wasn’t too sure about the details, all that mattered was that Zhao Zihao didn’t lack money.
However, Zhao Zihao wasn’t a video ga designer. He acquired a studio for a video ga guild, providing services such as boosting, gold grinding, promoting video gas, and so forth.
The company wasn’t big, but the pay wasn’t low, either. Every single hire were elite gars, they had a no pay policy if they didn’t do a good job.
These workers could also be viewed as people who were hired to play gas with Zhao Zihao, the other tasks can be viewed as extra work. Nobody cared if the company was losing money, as in the end it was sothing Zhao Zihao had started for fun.
Chen Mo had previously heard that Zhao Zihao was considering starting a clubbing business. However, as it was a considerable investnt, he had yet to decide.
Zhao Zihao didn’t give off the usual vibes of soone born with a silver spoon, as he wasn’t arrogant, spending most of his ti playing video gas. He would often join Chen Mo and the others at the internet cafe, and was commonly referred to as having the body of a noble, the heart of a peasant by Lin Mao, another one of Chen Mo’s buddies.
As for the other buddy, Lin Mao, he was also a video ga designer like Chen Mo. He got his D-grade video ga designer as soon as he graduated and was now focusing full ti on designing his own gas.
Among the three of them, Chen Mo studied languages, Zhao Zihao studied finances, and Lin Mao was the only one who actually graduated studying video ga design.
The three of them t in the video ga society in their first year and had been friends ever since. This gang was the few in this world whom Chen Mo viewed as close friends.
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When the afternoon ca, Chen Mo went out to familiarize himself with the environnt around the experience store. After finding a restaurant, he went inside to grab a al.
Casually taking out his phone, he checked the news.
Indeed, many news outlets had written about what had happened at the video ga design competition in their gaming section. Furthermore, there were many who participated in the discussion.
“Video ga design competition concluded, the three hundred thousand prize money experience store belongs to?”
“A mysterious bird takes the crown at a video ga designing competition!”
“Live audience: This is the most torturous ga in history!”
“Seven hundred people three hundred and fifty hours playti, this ga is infectious!”
“Judge criticizes: Is this even a ga?!”
“Flappybird designer: Judge incapable of objectivity.”
“Founder of strongly promotes this ga.”
Chen Mo looked through the news articles, basically recounting the scene at the competition, putting emphasis on the confrontation between Shi Huazhe and Chen Mo. Obviously the journalists were trying to clickbait the article in an attempt to make it a hot topic.
There was also a video of when it happened. Shi Huazhe’s review and Chen Mo’s final remarks were being played again and again, becoming quite the hot topic.
Chen Mo didn’t mind; to him, any publicity was good publicity. More gars will now recognize him, cutting down the cost per user of his future gas, and saving on advertising, too!
In this day and age, the attention economy was hugely prevalent, which was also applicable to the video ga industry.
As information increased, the attention of the user base beca more valuable. If there were two similar gas, one with no attention and one with plenty before the ga was released, even if the latter wasn’t as good as the forr, the profits of the latter would be much higher than the forr.
If you had a fanbase of five thousand people and everyone of them listened to everything you say, you could reliably depend on your livelihood on the fans, be it through an online store, promoting gas, or any other form of monetization.
At this point, Chen Mo noticed a video ga dia company released an interview with Shi Huazhe.
On the video Shi Huazhe was visibly upset, looking into the caras and said, “What I said to contestant Chen Mo was advice based on my past. But he took it as an insult, it’s really quite saddening.
“I still maintain my stance, the video ga industry is a profession that requires sincerity and richness. Contestant Chen Mo isn’t going to make it far. I think his next ga isn’t going to make it pass a hundred thousand sales in the first month.”
Chen Mo laughed. Shi Huazhe was as stubborn as a mule, unwilling to surrender after so many attacks.
Chen Mo quietly opened Weibo.
His Weibo was now verified, updating his information after becoming a D-grade video ga designer and the champion of the video ga design competition.
Chen Mo reposted the interview, adding, “Aren’t you gonna eat sothing?” after tagging the pages of several video ga dia.
-You wanna ss with ? Sure, I’ll be here till the end!-
After a short while, Chen Mo’s Weibo exploded!
The video ga dias reposted after noticing that Chen Mo replied and sensed the opportunity of so breaking news.
Video Ga Info Network, , Wechat gaming channel... even a higher-up of Emperor Dynasty Entertainnt reposted!
After creating such a scene, a large number of gars now had their attention on Chen Mo’s Weibo!
“Chen Mo? Is this the video ga design champion?”
“Is this account real?”
“Must be, it’s verified.”
“Wow, really? Did you have to create such a scene? Why didn’t you just give in?”
“This kid has personality, I like this guy!”
“What did you an by your last reply? What do you want Shi Huazhe to eat?”
“Previous comnt, did your village just receive internet access?”
The gars were having a heated discussion right on Chen Mo’s Weibo.
Chen Mo’s “Aren’t you hungry?” was ant to be a joke. There are many who try to make predictions on the internet, and they always end it with,” If I’m wrong, I’ll eat my own sock” or “If I’m wrong, I’ll eat my mouse”, eating all sorts of weird things. Therefore next ti soone encounters a prediction, many would reply with, “Aren’t you gonna eat sothing?”
The aning behind Chen Mo’s reply was clear: Shi Huazhe, you said I’m not going to sell more than a hundred thousand copies in the first month for my next ga. What if I do? Aren’t you gonna eat sothing?
Soon, the replies and reposts under this post started to explode, a hundred, three hundred, five hundred!
Moreover, the friendly internet users were helping by tagging Shi Huazhe, probably just joining in the crowds, not considering the consequences.
Chen Mo was much calr than Shi Huazhe, matters like this weren’t a concern for him. Moreover, Chen Mo didn’t feel bad about this publicity stunt. If it brought more attention to his next ga, why not?
Soon thereafter, Shi Huazhe replied, “Get a life!”
Chen Mo was happy, seeing Shi Huazhe didn’t dare take the bet.
The discussions under the post were full of disappointnt. There were still people trying to start sothing, encouraging Shi Huazhe to take the bet and eat a keyboard or mouse.
Shi Huazhe decided to not reply, as if pretending he died.
After laughing, Chen Mo put his phone away. This was no more than a small interlude, no need to take it to heart.
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