Chapter 66: This Looks Bad!
The group leaders who had the sa experience as Chen Sha were no longer in the minority.
After Lin Wan approached them and asked them to test the ga, most of them imdiately objected.
Are you thinking of making us test the ga without paying us?
Are you trying to get it for free?
However, because of their own pride, many people still decided to download the ga and play it.
Once they started, they could not stop!
Ocean Stronghold had simplified operations. To newbies, this made the ga much more satisfying to play. However, for experts—especially elite gars in Counter Strike; these simplified operations invoked feelings of contempt and discomfort.
Still, the story mode in Ocean Stronghold resolved these issues!
Once this group of people entered the ga, most of them beca absorbed by the story mode of the ga. After playing for just a few hours, they slowly got used to the unique hand sensitivity and achieved perfect transitions.
What’s more—once they got used to the hand sensitivity, many people beca uncomfortable going back to playing Counter Strike!
Why did it take so long to fire?
Why was it so difficult to resist the recoil?
The reaction was so slow!
Suddenly, it felt so painful to play the ga!
Counter Strike was an excellent, competitive ga. There were bound to be many restrictions on the chanisms.
For example, allowing such a high firing speed would probably allow experts to beco too strong. On a certain level, this would ruin the balance in the ga. That was probably why the creators of the ga reduced the firing speed.
However, Ocean Stronghold did not need to pay attention to these things. All it was concerned with was allowing the gars to have as much fun as possible!
Balance?
I’ve already made the Red Kilin; are you really still talking to
about balance?
These elite gars of Counter Strike seed to have been let loose all of a sudden. The gaming experience was extrely smooth so playing the ga felt incredibly simple and relaxing!
In the end—when they went back to playing Counter Strike, they could not get used to it.
It was easy to go from frugality to extravagance. Once one got used to playing gas with simplified operations, going back to gas with complex ones would feel incredibly difficult!
What’s more, Ocean Stronghold did not only have a story mode. There were also all kinds of PVP modes!
Compared to Bullet Hole and Counter Strike, Ocean Stronghold’s apparition mode and biochemical mode were all new thods of playing. This made most of the players feel a sense of novelty!
Of course, these new modes were thought of by Bao Xu and Huang Sibo while they were creating the story mode. The original intention was for them to make good use of the leftovers from the story mode, such as the zombie models and various other art resources. From the perspective of gaplay, these modes were not considered mature. Their balance was still quite bad, and there was much to be improved.
Still, the most important thing was that there was no other ga in the market that had similar modes as theirs; there was no competition to speak of!
Thus, many players preferred the apparition mode and biochemical mode to the actual PVP mode, even though they were less fair. Although the balance was horrible, they were purely for the sake of fun. Nobody cared too much. Instead, it made everything much more exciting!
In just a few days, news of Ocean Stronghold spread as quickly as a pandemic in many FPS gaming groups.
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Friday.
After completing her last professional course, Pei Qian finally had ti to relax.
He had already decided to go into the office and accept painful news that Ocean Stronghold had failed rapidly.
In the few days since Ocean Stronghold was published, Pei Qian had been focusing very hard on the exams for his professional course. He seed to have disappeared from the face of the earth.
He was afraid that Huang Sibo would rush him to do proper marketing for the ga once he saw how badly received it was. Thus, he quickly instructed Assistant Xin to turn down anyone who ca looking for him by telling them that he was not free!
He went on a full week without looking at the figures on the back end.
Ocean Stronghold should have settled down in the market by now, right?
Pei Qian was in charge of all the money in the company’s account. Basically, he had more or less been completely defeated. There was no way he was going to spend a single cent on marketing.
Even if others wanted to market Ocean Stronghold, there was no way they would be able to!
It was just pure bad luck on Pei Qian’s part, dealing with Ruan Guangjian for Ghost General back then. How could it be so easy to et such a talented artist who just happened to be in the artist circle as well?
This ti, there was no such artist for Ocean Stronghold!
What’s more, the ga had vastly different hand sensitivities compared to Counter Strike and the 888-yuan paywall equipnt.
There were multiple layers of assurance that it would fail completely!
Pei Qian specially waited for so long before showing his face in the company again, mainly because he did not want to laugh uncontrollably while people were still coming to terms with their failure.
Now, Ocean Stronghold’s fall should have been more or less complete. As the boss of the company, Pei Qian needed to make a trip down to comfort his employees. He had to express his deepest regrets for Ocean Stronghold and tell them not to feel discouraged or to give up. They had to quickly collect themselves and prepare to et the next target.
The inco that Ghost General was still raking in could maintain the company’s business for so ti. Then, Pei Qian would be able to get five hundred thousand yuan and spend more System Funds provided for the next phase.
Perfect! Too perfect!
He arrived at the bottom of Shenhua View.
Pei Qian rubbed his cheeks and then forced the corners of his mouth—which subconsciously curled upwards—down. He looked up at a 45-degree angle to the sky and tried to invoke sadness that ti was passing so quickly. Then, he forced this expression to remain on his face.
He took his phone out and saw himself in the mirror. His acting skills were passable.
Pei Qian walked into the lift and arrived at the office.
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The mont he arrived in the office, Pei Qian distinctly felt that sothing was amiss in the atmosphere!
Huang Sibo was staring at his computer screen, refreshing every second. He was practically seated at the edge of his chair.
Xiao Lu also looked quite restless. He kept shaking his leg and scratching his head as if he had contracted ADHD.
Bao Xu was not playing gas. Instead, he was looking at the plants next to the window and the view outside the window. Pei Qian had no clue what he was thinking about.
At this point, Pei Qian suddenly felt guilty.
He felt like he had let all of them down!
They were a group of slackers who could not co up with any good gas. What’s more, they had been spending a lot of ti eating and traveling during this period so they didn’t have much ti to develop new gas.
However, everyone still invested so of their emotions into the gas they developed together.
Now, seeing that nobody cared about their ga and that it was failing so thoroughly, it was only normal that they would feel terrible.
Huang Sibo must have been stumped by the terrible figures he was seeing on his screen.
Xiao Lu must have been at a loss as to what to do next.
How about Bao Xu? He must have been doubting his existence.
Pei Qian sighed softly.
At that mont, they needed him to comfort and counsel them as their boss. After all, he had to take ninety percent of the bla now that the ga had failed so badly.
Pei Qian quickly pondered about what he should say.
However, at that mont, the two twin girls at the front desk noticed Pei Qian.
“Boss Pei is here!”
The two girls suddenly began to clap their hands!
The entire office imdiately burst into action. There were rounds of applause and cheers, which scared Pei Qian half to death.
What the hell was happening?
Pei Qian noticed that everyone’s faces had lit up with bright smiles. They were not even faking it; these smiles were genuine and from the heart!
This imdiately gave Pei Qian a horrible feeling!
Huang Sibo stood up and walked briskly towards Pei Qian before bowing down low.
“Boss Pei, I have learned my lesson! Before this, I did not know why you did not market Ocean Stronghold. I even began to suspect your actions. However, now, I finally understand!
“In fact, you were telling
that good gas did not need to be marketed! Based on the word-of-mouth of the players alone, the competition in the market would be squeezed out!
“Boss Pei, I greatly admire your self-confidence!”
Pei Qian’s heart imdiately turned cold.
He nearly cried out loud. He tried so hard to control his facial muscles as he put on a serious expression.
“My ga... beca popular?” Pei Qian asked, feeling like he had just fallen into a deep pit.
Huang Sibo nodded profusely. “It’s very popular!”
“I kept refreshing the platform because I could not believe my own eyes! Even though we have not done any marketing for the ga—in terms of popularity, number of active players, or profits; this ga completely trashed Bullet Hole!”
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