"Era Dominators" forum, a gathering place for all ga players, had beco incredibly lively ever since the ga officially launched.
In the beginning, players shared tips on how to survive the early stages of the ga, how to craft rudintary weapons, and how to hunt edible animals.
Latter on, they shared thods of building towns and constructing structures.
The ga afforded players a high degree of freedom and involved many scientific principles. Without so basic knowledge, many aspects of the ga would have been impossible to advance.
To build more complex items, blueprints were required, and these beca a ans of trade and mutual developnt among the different gaming regions.
In the second week of the ga, a server called Shepherd Continent actually tried to launch a tentative attack on the land of Dragon Continent!
This was the gaming guild of the Shepherd Continent's nation, which had only 27 mbers, but they were skilled and experienced. After so ti in the ga, they had honed their strategies and thodologies.
They collected fire sources generated by random lightning to drive away wild beasts, hunted using homade tools, and had tad a herd of very strong horses.
Then, ard with wooden and stone-crafted armor and weapons, these 27 people charged into Dragon Continent's territory.
But it was important to realize that Huaxia players were highly concentrated in developed areas in the southeast and north, while the west had a smaller population and a lower base of players.
Most crucially, due to a half-month boycott of the ga, the local players' developnt was at a very low level. While others had already begun epic hunts, they were still gathering materials and struggling for survival.
The 27-man cavalry swept into Dragon Continent like wolves among sheep, effortlessly trampling one player settlent after another, slaughtering Dragon Continent players and plundering their resources.
But Dragon Continent's players had no power to resist. It wasn't a matter of skill or strength, but a disparity between eras!
In just a few days, this group of 27 had seized land equivalent to an entire city in Dragon Continent, marking the area with Shepherd Continent's flag.
The proud players of Shepherd Continent began to openly mock those from Dragon Continent on the internet.
"Hahaha, Dragon Continent players are just too weak. Just 27 of us sent you running for your lives. You guys really aren't up to it!"
"Such vast primitive land, such rich resources, and you just wasted them. What a pity."
"Huaxia people should stick to their low-level esports. When it cos to grand strategy war gas, they're like useless trash."
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The players from Huaxia were furious.
With so many gas in the world, which one didn't have a place for Huaxia players? The esports level of Shepherd Continent's nation was so poor that many gas didn't even bother to set up a separate server for them.
Yet in this ga, they had the audacity to publicly ridicule Huaxia's players.
But what could they do? Being behind ant getting beaten; this was a truth deeply understood by the people of Huaxia through history. The gap between eras sotis couldn't be bridged rely by numbers and wisdom.
They were already far behind the players from other countries in the ga. To catch up, they would have to put in much more effort.
Alright then, you've unilaterally handed over our land to others? No problem, we'll take it back ourselves!
More and more players joined the ga, not just for the thrill of victory but for a matter of pride.
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"How about that? Didn't I tell you that Huaxia people care too much about face? They would never allow themselves to be bullied without fighting back. Even if they know that we're doing this on purpose and want to boycott our ga, how long can they hold out?" Michel said in his office like he had the situation completely under control.
"You indeed have a long-term vision, boss!" The head of the marketing departnt was now holding those statistical data in his hands.
During the first week of the ga's release, Huaxia had only tens of thousands of players, which was laughably small compared to the vast player base of Huaxia. If any ga reached such levels in the Huaxia market share, it could essentially be declared dead on arrival.
But half a month later, the number of players skyrocketed from tens of thousands to several million, with the peak concurrent online number exceeding 5 million, and that figure was still climbing crazily.
The reason was simple; the initial disparity in the ga led Huaxia players to lose a significant amount of territory.
After Shepherd Continent's probing, the surrounding players found that Dragon Continent's players were too weak, and there were not just a few servers stronger than Shepherd Continent. If those weaklings from Shepherd Continent could invade and expand their territory, why couldn't they?
Therefore, the surrounding servers launched a coordinated attack plan on Dragon Continent—the ti to expand their territory was now, as once the Huaxia players flooded in, there wouldn't be so many easy pickings left.
Gaming is all about community; when everyone heard that the Huaxia players were being bullied, how could they tolerate that? So they joined the ga, one after another, in droves.
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"Look at these people; they said they were going to boycott the ga at first, and now there are millions of players. It's embarrassing!" Wang Ling said angrily, "They have no spine."
"That's not entirely true," Zhang nglong said with a smile, "On the contrary, our Huaxia players have too much spine. They don't want to lose in any domain, which is why we're seeing this kind of situation."
"But you know, as the ga progresses, the gap between the different servers will only grow wider, and the half-month we missed at the beginning has already dood us. We won't be able to survive till the end of this season."
This was also a lesson from history. Early-developing countries and late-developing countries beca today's developed and underdeveloped nations. Moreover, the developnt environnt in the ga is nothing like reality. If you want to catch up, you need a relatively stable environnt for growth.
This ga is designed as a war ga; expecting a stable developnt environnt is utterly impossible!
"I think I understand the purpose of Thunder and Lightning now," Zhang nglong said, "In recent years, the Esports atmosphere in Huaxia has been excellent. They first undermine our players' morale with the map issue, slowing our developnt a step behind. By the ti we realize it, it's already too late, and then our Dragon Continent will be carved up by the major servers, leaving our Huaxia players utterly humiliated."
"They've played their cards well," Wang Ling said coldly, "and it seems they've succeeded."
"This matter won't just end like this."
"Do you have a plan?" Zhang nglong's tone told Wang Ling that he was gearing up for action again.
"Simple. Make them restart the service, wipe all the previous data, change the map back, and issue a public apology to us!"
"If they'd agree to that, I'd directly call you daddy!" Wang Ling certainly wished it could be so.
But let's not even talk about restarting the servers and wiping the data, which would significantly affect players from other servers. It would undoubtedly impact the ga's reputation and cause a massive loss of players.
And as for them issuing a public apology, that's likely an impossible task as well.
"They must do it," Zhang nglong's lips curved slightly upward, "or else I will show them what cruelty ans."
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