A new version of Infinite World?
He really hadn’t seen any news about that ga for a long ti.
He rembered that back then he had even deliberately set aside ti to play it.
In the end he discovered it was trash. He was so furious that he ranted and cursed for ages on the discussion forums.
Because earlier, that ga had belonged under Mikfo, and Mikfo’s gas didn’t have any system that allowed players to freely leave reviews.
From that alone, he felt Mikfo’s platform couldn’t compare to Battle.
On Battle, you could openly criticize gas you didn’t like. You could also happily share, through comnts, the gas you enjoyed. Those reviews could even be shared to the Facebook social network, making it easy for more people to see what gas you liked and what gas you hated.
Later, when the ga ca to Battle and officially announced it had joined Gastar Electronic Entertainnt, quite a few players who still clung to a sliver of hope began to look forward to it.
But that had been a long ti ago.
He still hadn’t bought the ga on Battle, because he felt it simply wasn’t worth it.
It wasn’t worth spending another few dozen dollars on it.
That kind of ga was just an ordinary indie title that had been forcibly pushed up into a class where it didn’t belong.
It made people mistakenly think it was so top-tier AAA blockbuster—so huge-budget, heavy-capital developnt project.
But in reality, it was a ga made by a team that started with barely a dozen people, and even at release only had around a hundred at most—and it still took two or three years.
That alone ant a ga like this could never be massive in scale.
All you could say was that the team’s ambition had been a little too big at the start.
He closed the pop-up ad and prepared to look at other gas.
But suddenly he noticed there was a very eye-catching label beneath the recomnded banner.
A green discount tag.
75% OFF.
On Battle, Infinite World had an original price of $29.9.
Now it was $7.5.
That price...
Hiss...
Why did he suddenly want to buy it?
His hand moved involuntarily toward the "Add to Cart" option.
But he quickly shook his head. A ga like that wasn’t worth him spending too much effort on.
He didn’t want to waste too much ti on garbage like this.
$7.5 sounded cheap.
But if he didn’t spend it, he could buy two bottles of beer with $7.5. Wouldn’t that be better than this trash ga?
So he decided to close the ad anyway.
After closing it, he chose to forget the ga and check out others.
Christmas was approaching, and Battle’s winter sale was about to begin as well.
This winter sale was a bit later than previous ones.
And during this sale, there were so many high-quality gas waiting for him.
There was no need to waste money on a ga already dood to be trash.
However—perhaps because he’d seen the promotion in advance—he found that he spent the entire day thinking about Infinite World.
Should he... buy it?
No, no. Don’t buy it. Spending the money is one thing—making yourself miserable is the worst part.
He threw the thought out of his head again, completely forgetting about it.
Two days later, the winter sale arrived as scheduled. Every major ga company was rubbing their hands together, eager to boost revenue hard during the promotion.
Many gas offered very decent discounts.
For players, it was naturally a very happy day. They had saved up money for ages, just waiting to spend it properly today.
It was also a way of rewarding themselves for the whole year.
But for veteran players, sales like this were tempting—and also frustrating.
If you’re called a "veteran player," you usually have one trait: you’ve played a lot of gas.
And the types you’ve played are also extrely diverse.
So veteran players have several hundred gas in their libraries.
And most of those are the currently popular genres.
So veteran players might even own every hot ga on the market.
And once you own all the hot gas... what are you supposed to buy during a sale?
Nothing. You can’t buy anything.
As a ga critic, this veteran player was the sa.
He had prepared several hundred dollars this year for buying gas.
But when he opened Battle, he realized there were barely any gas he actually wanted to buy or play.
And any that he did want were already in his library.
It was ridiculous—who would’ve thought you could end up with money in hand and nowhere to spend it?
Miserable!
And then, right at that mont, he finally rembered Infinite World again.
Sotis people are really strange.
If you can’t spend your money, you should feel happy—because that ans you’re saving.
But right now, he felt awful precisely because he couldn’t spend it. He wanted to at least buy sothing that made him happy.
He didn’t drink much, didn’t smoke, didn’t gamble, and definitely didn’t do anything illegal—so sotis, even with money, he truly didn’t know what to do with it.
Fine. Didn’t Infinite World say it had released the latest version? He might as well take a look and see what this new version actually looked like.
With that mindset, he clicked into Infinite World’s store page.
On the product page, he noticed the ga’s cover art had changed this ti.
The previous cover had looked very rough and low-quality.
He hated that style—it felt careless. And also, because the ga had hurt him back then, he’d co to loathe that cover even more.
Now the cover looked completely different—much more refined.
The main composition was a portal right in the center.
Beside the portal, a fully armored person reached a hand into the unknown other world.
Through a sliver of visible gaze behind the helt, you could see a pair of curious eyes.
As if wondering what the world beyond might be like.
If he’d only given the old cover a 3 out of 10...
Then the beauty and artistry of this new cover deserved a 7 out of 10.
It was pleasant to look at.
Just from the "face" of the cover alone, he felt the dev team had been more sincere this ti.
But a cover alone wouldn’t change his opinion.
Then he clicked the promotional screenshots.
This ti, the screenshots had changed drastically too.
Previously, the screenshots were all in-ga landscapes from Infinite World.
Those scenes looked dreamy and beautiful.
Players who hadn’t played would marvel: Are these worlds really that pretty? Does that an every randomly generated world looks like this?
But players who had actually played the ga would only sneer when they saw those old screenshots.
A scam.
A total scam.
And not even a subtle one.
To trick more players into buying Infinite World, all the promotional screenshots had been pre-rendered. They weren’t randomly generated worlds at all.
So players were so furious that they later tried to sue the ga for fraud—but it ended up going nowhere.
That kind of lawsuit is very hard to win unless you have tens of thousands of people filing together.
Most buyers just felt like they’d swallowed a fly—disgusted for a while—and didn’t want to waste any more ti on the ga.
No refund? Fine. It’s just a few dozen dollars. That was how many people thought. Not everyone was the type to stubbornly pursue justice to the bitter end.
And Mikfo had exploited exactly that weakness in human nature, shalessly scamming players.
But now, on Battle’s Infinite World page, the promotional screenshots were no longer those scam-like landscape shots.
Instead, huge text highlighted brand-new features.
"All-new building system: work hard to build an entire planet-world of your own. The whole world is yours—create whatever kind of world you want."
"Online co-op: support up to four friends adventuring, building, and exploring together in the sa world."
"Huh? Co-op and building?"
As a seasoned "farming/sandbox" type player, the building feature instantly caught his attention.
What attracted him even more were the dozen-plus images of buildings in different styles—each one beautiful.
These buildings weren’t made from developer-made static models.
They were built entirely by players, piece by piece, using construction materials inside the ga.
Build your own house from scratch? Your own city?
A fla deep inside this veteran builder-player imdiately ignited.
As for multiplayer, he didn’t care much. He wasn’t the type who loved playing online.
He especially disliked co-op in farming/building gas.
Because he felt it would be boring, and everyone has different building tastes. When people with different styles try to build together, it’s pointless—worse, it could even cause conflicts.
So he ignored that part completely.
Building... and only $7.5.
Now, he was genuinely tempted.
Even though he’d been emotionally cheated once before, he found himself thinking: What if I believe one more ti?
Anyway, he hadn’t spent his budget. He might as well buy it.
Finally, he made up his mind: add to cart, purchase in one smooth flow, and start downloading.
Wait.
He suddenly rembered—he already owned the ga on Mikfo’s PC platform.
If Battle had the new version, wouldn’t Mikfo update too? Then there was no need to waste money buying it again. He could just play on Mikfo’s platform.
But he quickly thought of everything about Mikfo’s platform that annoyed him.
For example, the network lagged all the ti. Even downloading a ga required a lot of hassle before it would succeed. And the platform lacked all kinds of incentive systems.
No achievents. No level rewards for achievents. And none of Battle’s unique item-and-card trading features either.
Those features were basically part of Battle’s soul. He truly couldn’t understand why other platforms didn’t learn from them.
After all, those features should be able to attract new players in a big way.
Forget it. He’d already bought it—he’d just play on Battle with peace of mind.
And playing on Battle also gave account experience. His account was just about to level up.
Plus, Battle had achievents too—those were fun.
So he stopped considering Mikfo’s platform.
If he did go back to Mikfo, he would discover that Mikfo hadn’t even updated yet.
Because it was right after work hours, and when Mikfo’s U.S. platform received the new version data from the Infinite World dev team... they actually forgot to upload the patch.
On the official store page they had already swapped in the new cover and promotional images, but the new build hadn’t been uploaded at all.
Maybe they simply no longer cared about this "defector" ga.
At the sa ti, there was no discount on Mikfo’s platform—it was still sold at full price.
And just like that, anyone who had still been considering buying it through Mikfo imdiately lost interest and switched to Battle.
On Battle, after buying the ga you could play across multiple platforms: Mikfo’s ho console, Facebook mobile cloud gaming, and even a low-graphics handheld version—anyti, anywhere.
But Mikfo? Only PC.
The difference was obvious.
As a veteran player and ga reviewer, he spent a little over an hour downloading the ga, then entered the ga.
"Welco. You can choose to log into your Infinite World account for multi-platform connectivity, so that even on platforms outside Battle you can still experience Infinite World’s content in real ti."
He had registered an Infinite World account before. He typed in his login smoothly, and then a new screen appeared.
"Hi—long ti no see. Thank you very much for visiting again."
On the pitch-black screen, those words appeared.
The tone was warm and friendly, making people feel comfortable—like an old friend catching up.
The veteran player nodded, strongly approving of this presentation. It looked like they were finally treating players like their own people, unlike before when they didn’t treat players like people at all.
Looks like after joining Gastar Electronic Entertainnt, they had indeed made many changes.
That alone deserved praise.
"Here, we also want to apologize. We are very sorry that this world was not perfect before."
"But we did not give up."
"And so this world has been reborn. We hope you can spare a little ti to enter this world and experience the reborn Infinite World once again—and we also hope you can find enjoynt in this reborn Infinite World."
The ssage ended, and the main nu appeared.
On the main nu was a doorway with an open spatial passage. With just one click on the door, the ga would officially begin.
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