In the Marketing Manager's Office, Mr. Taka, who watched the Punch streaming website, noticed a spike in rcenary Quest's viewers. It was one of the gas with different genres that was released at the sa ti as Knight's Journey.
Before, he probably wouldn't care as much as now because he was only a marketing team leader responsible for Knight's Journey's success.
But now, after assuming the manager position, he needed to care about all sales of new gas released in the late Q1 of this year.
"What happened?" He wondered as he looked at the sudden spike around two hours ago.
Curious, he clicked on the ga section to filter the strears who played this ga. Unlike Knight's Journey, this ga had many people streaming it. The number of strears who live-stread this ga alone reached more than 5 thousand.
This ga's concurrent viewers on Punch lately only reached 200 thousand to 300 thousand. It was an exciting ga; that much was already clear because many people stread and watched it. But the problem was that playing it directly over watching a stream was more fun.
Hence, this led to fewer concurrent viewers than it was supposed to, even with so many strears. Players preferred playing the ga themselves and only watched streaming in their spare ti.
A change in its number, especially a sudden change with more than 20 thousand more, was quite noticeable. The top strear of this ga, one who focused only on streaming this ga since its release, only had around 10K total viewers.
He was soone called Hardat.
But Hardat's total viewers were pushed to number two now. The number one was soone Mr. Taka knew very well. That soone had over 15K viewers, reaching a new height of this ga's stream since the release date.
A smile appeared on the Marketing Manager's face. His eyes were never wrong. He was glad he did everything he could to keep the strear under him. He even offered contracts and offers that usually only be offered to a veteran strear to that newbie, risking his position.
'It's worth it. He's probably the only newbie strear that grew this fast, thanks to his decision to agree to a contract I gave him. And he's the only smart one for thinking of the long run, not really caring for monetary reward because he knew his place.'
How wrong could Mr. Taka be? He didn't know that Breeze cared about money a lot. But more than that, he cared about building his reputation more so he could earn more when he got many viewers. And that worked.
"Grow more, Breeze." He said as he pressed the stream.
On the screen, Breeze's figure could be seen eating a large tomahawk happily. He seed to enjoy the at with all he had, making all his viewers suddenly crave it.
Even without being there, Mr. Taka felt like he could sll a at aroma. He gulped audibly, roused by a hunger he didn't feel before. His stomach grumbled loudly, and he got a little bit embarrassed even though there was no one but him in the office.
"Maybe I will order a tomahawk." He muttered.
On that day, the sales of tomahawk steak skyrocketed. No one knew what happened, but many restaurants were happy that they made a lot of profit.
***
The next day, Max did his morning routine and imdiately hopped into his VR capsule to stream his grind to reach Tier 2 in Midnight Heist. And the result was… a little satisfactory.
It was a week before the tournant, and he was close to getting promoted to Tier 2 with 38 RP left to grind. Previously, he wanted to get to Tier 1, but he realized it was just impossible to reach that Tier without spending many hours in just one ga.
"Phew…"
However, he wasn't in a hurry. He found out that if he was desperate to climb Tier, he would only fail, and his hard work would turn null. It had happened once before, resetting his RP from 75 back to 27 just because he couldn't take a loss like a champ.
"5 wins and 2 losses… It's a good day. I also got a lot of donations this morning."
Stepping out of his VR capsule, he noticed that he wasn't as sweaty as before. His body, now lean and toned with muscle, was getting used to playing VR gas after 38 days. In fact, his performance was also better than before.
"Talk about ti… I can play four to five hours with full concentration without a problem now. A nutritional supplent is really a magical wonder of science."
Without it, having his body get used to the VR capsule and match his SR would take more ti. Based on his estimation, it would be at least three to four months.
Just a single B-Grade and three C-Grade nutritional supplents were enough to shorten that ti to a month. Truly… a miracle. He needed to secure more C-Grade supplent soon because he already ran out of it.
'Now, what should I do this morning? Should I visit Nina's restaurant or what? But we have promised to go to the aquarium in two days, and I have lunch already.'
Visiting a restaurant without buying a al would be awkward. Besides… Nina also said not to et her yet before their aquarium visit for so reason.
'Yeah, let's not visit her for now. She's also probably busy with her shift at this ti.'
Should he just continue his grind? Or should he just play rcenary Quest ahead of the ti of his usual livestream? Hunting large monsters was proven to be fun and pretty exciting. It was a blood pumping adventure.
Just as he wondered, he got a new ssage. It wasn't an important ssage because it didn't automatically pop the ssage screen and only gave him a notification from his smartwatch.
But since he was bored, he looked at the ssage anyway.
"MadLad?"
The sender was soone unexpected. He looked at the na for a while before opening the ssage.
[MadLad: Dude, I saw you playing various gas lately. There will be a gathering of new strears to play a custom ga together tonight. Want to join? I hate to admit it, but you're good. So I invited you.]
'New strear gathering?'
That sounded interesting.
For people in the streaming industry, everyone was considered new if they were still in their first year of streaming. So even if he had more than 400K followers and an average of 12K viewers, he was still a new strear.
This classification followed the strear award that was usually held once a year at the end of the year.
Thus, the new strears gathering that MadLad talked about was probably the strears who just debuted this year or in Q3 and Q4 last year.
'Tonight, huh? I have finished my grind quota today, so I might as well attend it.'
eting other strears seed interesting. Who knew if he could get sothing new from them?
And this was a rare opportunity to expand his circle of friends. eting and playing with other strears would prove to be good for the long run later.
[Breeze: Sounds interesting. I am in.]
[MadLad: I know you won't refuse. This is the code to the Lobby where we will et tonight. Don't be late, it's at 7 o'clock. Code: XXXXXXXXX.]
[Breeze: Got it, see you tonight.]
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