Chapter 255: Bad Money Drives Out Good Money
"Is he gone already?"
In the office, Chen Lin received the news that the old man had been there, and he was not too surprised.
"Well, he said he didn't want to disturb us at work and asked me to come over when I'm free. He also asked me to tell you that there is bus service in the town where I grew up." Old Li said with a strange look on his face.
I came all this way just to inform you of this.
He really couldn't understand the old man's way of thinking.
But this is easy to say.
At least the old man can come to the studio more often to brag to them in the future.
"Is it done yet? Then forget about him. He's probably going out to drink with some old friend again."
Chen Lin smiled and put the banner on the table back into the drawer.
Faintly, you can see the words "Thank you Mr. Chen Lin for your contribution to the public transportation industry", and next to it is a photo of the new bus route.
I also briefly talked about work.
Lao Li left the office and rushed back to the team.
From a distance, you could hear the employees exclaiming.
"What's wrong? What happened?"
Old Li's heart skipped a beat. Could it be that he missed some crucial plot?
"Old Li, come and have a look! Your wife and daughter have been kidnapped by people from other teams!"
Seeing him come back, A Guang and the others who were surrounding him immediately spoke out hurriedly.
Old Li took two steps at a time and hurried to the computer.
In the footage, their family encountered several other criminals at a power plant. Not only were their supplies robbed, but even their wife was kidnapped and forced to surrender.
[Go! You must survive! ! ]
The wife yelled resolutely, suddenly stood up and rushed towards one of the criminals.
Obviously, she also knew that if she stayed, she would only become a burden to her husband, so she went straight to her death.
Bang!
A gunshot rang out.
Vibrating everyone's eardrums.
It also shocked all the audience.
Bright red blood burst out in my wife's abdomen and she fell straight to the ground.
Before she died, she glanced at the position of her husband and daughter, full of attachment and reluctance.
Old Li gritted his teeth and his lips were almost bleeding.
But in the end, he was not blinded by hatred and drove away with his daughter in his arms.
The roar of cars, accompanied by the crying of my daughter, faded further and further away outside the abandoned power plant.
The wife lying on the ground also closed her eyes completely.
And this.
It's just a microcosm of the entire island.
As the scenes switch, battlefields appear.
Countless figures, armed with looted guns, were fighting all over the island, all wanting to be the last one alive.
In the face of life and death, trust between people is as thin as a piece of thin paper.
They were brothers and killing enemies together just a second ago.
The next second, they became enemies just for a weapon.
There were even those who were willing to expose the positions of their companions in order to survive, and they all died tragically in the flames of war between the two sides.
Not to mention Old Li who was with his daughter.
They could only hide everywhere and look for guns and supplies to survive with difficulty.
Fortunately, I was lucky enough to meet a survival team who were also prisoners. I temporarily worked with them to defeat the enemy.
final.
They encountered the old man's team in an abandoned factory and were ambushed by Xiaoli and her team.
A fierce gun battle ensued.
The audience in front of the camera was thrilled.
“So fucking handsome!”
“This gunfight is so cool to watch!”
"Honghuang's special effects are really amazing."
"It's mainly because you're on edge the whole time. You never know when an enemy will pop up or aim a sniper rifle at you."
“It makes me a little nervous.”
“This is what it feels like to be on the battlefield!”
"If the game could be this good, I would play it!"
The number of comments at this moment is more than ten times more than at the beginning.
Originally they just regarded it as a normal game promotional CG, but who would have thought that the production level was in no way inferior to those blockbuster movies.
Especially in terms of special effects and atmosphere rendering, Honghuang can be said to have achieved the ultimate, making people nervous unconsciously.
It was as if I was one of those hundred people.
Do whatever it takes to survive.
What surprised them even more was that the plot was full of ups and downs.
It is impossible to guess who will die next and how they will die.
Following the perspective of the protagonist father and daughter, they experienced an ambush at the bridgehead, a standoff at the observation station, a fight for supplies at the military base, bomber coverage, and even the spread of poison gas caused by a change in wind direction, and they drove away for their lives.
Even on the way to escape, they encountered roadblocks. It was full of dangers and extremely exciting.
[Look! A hole has been blown open by the poisonous gas on the sea surface! ]
After several escapes, they arrived at the southwest shore.
The protagonist team suddenly discovered that the poison gas was slowly dissipating on the sea level in the distance.
Within half an hour, a road leading to the outside will appear, which is also their only chance to escape from Devil's Island.
However.
Just when they went to the nearby port to look for a ship, they encountered a gang of criminals entrenched there.
A fierce confrontation.
At the tragic cost of sacrificing all his teammates, he finally got on the boat with his daughter and started the engine.
And those teammates who stayed behind because of serious injuries also died together with the criminal gang in the explosion with flames shooting up into the sky.
It was this explosion that stopped the soldiers from chasing them and bought enough time for the father and daughter to successfully break out of the island.
As the island got farther and farther away, the poisonous gas slowly dissipated.
The audience's tense expressions finally relaxed, and they just felt that this journey was really not easy.
【Dad, what's wrong with you? 】
But at this moment, a childish cry of surprise rang out.
The protagonist, who was struggling to control the direction of the boat with one hand, loosened his hand that was covering his abdomen, revealing that it was covered with blood.
But he was not sad. Instead, he grinned, revealing his bloody teeth, and reached out to touch his daughter's head.
【You survived well. 】
Bang!
As soon as he finished speaking, he fell heavily onto the boat.
【dad!】
A shrill cry, accompanied by the sound of the boat's turbines, quickly faded away on the boundless sea.
The poisonous gas that had been spreading out suddenly gathered together again, leaving only a terrifying, deep green color. The entire live broadcast room fell silent in an instant.
[Twenty years later…]
The classic transition occurs.
The scene switched to a desolate battlefield.
A group of prisoners of war were being taken to the abandoned square.
Among the prisoners of war, there was a heroic figure with his head lowered, looking at the old photo of his father in the pocket watch, with a cold light flashing in his eyes.
Finally, the picture moved up and landed on the island surrounded by green poisonous gas in the distant sea. Several large words slowly appeared in the center of the screen.
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
So far.
New game CG, playback completed!
"Ah? Is that all?"
"He died. I can't accept it!"
"Brother Big Hammer..."
"It's so tragic. I ran away for so long but still couldn't escape."
"So the last one was the grown-up daughter coming here for revenge?"
"PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, is that the name of the game?"
"Can you believe this? This is a CG performed by a player!"
“I didn’t think much of it at first, but after watching the CG, I suddenly wanted to play this kind of battle royale game.”
"Honghuang, I advise you not to be ungrateful and bring up the game immediately!"
After watching the entire promotional CG, players’ expectations for this new game Honghuang were instantly raised to the maximum.
Especially the exciting gunfights and the intrigues between teams, it is completely impossible to tell that it was performed by a group of players.
It completely refreshed their understanding of shooting games.
Without a doubt.
The emergence of this gameplay has completely overturned players' inherent concepts about competitive shooting games!
With its unstoppable momentum, it has caused a huge impact on the entire FPS competitive market and even rewritten the direction of this major game category.
The live broadcast rooms of all major platforms exploded!
The internet was in an uproar!
Less than half an hour after the promotional CG of Honghuang was released, the new gameplay of "Battle Royale" swept the gaming community.
The players exclaimed.
The manufacturers were shocked.
They have always thought that Honghuang would make a faction battle game similar to CF. Even if it is not, it should not be too different.
But I didn't expect it at all.
Honghuang simply turned the table over and even abandoned its own biochemical theme and developed a unique game.
Hundreds of people compete on the same stage to survive.
Anyone who knows something about FPS games can imagine the subtleties within them, which almost raises the competitive attributes to an unprecedented level.
This way of playing.
Has great potential!
Even the penguins, who felt they were superior, felt threatened and held another emergency meeting.
…
"Although I don't want to admit it, this new game from Honghuang has already posed a threat to us."
At this moment, the operations director sitting in the seat finally lost his initial contempt and became serious.
"What should we do then? Should the major update still be launched as originally planned?" someone asked below.
"Of course we have to launch it, but we have to change our plans. If we continue with our current gameplay, it will be difficult to retain players. We must launch a similar competing product as soon as possible."
Launching competing products to seize the market and using bad money to drive out good money are the most common tactics used by the Penguins.
The huge player base allows them to be fearless and not be afraid of any similar games.
No matter how much they hate the targeted manufacturers, they can only watch their game market being gradually eroded and eventually go bankrupt due to the inability to continue operating.
now.
They wanted to use the same method against Honghuang.
Prepare to take over the spotlight, seize the popularity that should belong to Honghuang, and eat up the "Battle Royale" cake alone!
Thinking of the exciting part, someone immediately suggested: "It just so happens that we have a shelved project called Ace Battlefield. The structure is similar to this type of game. We only need to change the basic gameplay and it can be quickly launched."
"There is such a thing? Why have I never heard of it?" the director asked puzzledly.
"That's the project we brought over from Huanhai." Zeng Fuming said in the corner.
"I see. Then this game will be handed over to the Huanhai project team. I will dispatch some more people there and try to get it online before Honghuang releases a new game."
"Make sure to complete the mission!"
Zeng Fuming was shocked and responded quickly.
At the same time, a gleam of light flashed in his eyes.
Ever since Huanhai was acquired, the original team has been basically neglected and can only do some insignificant small projects every day.
Now that the opportunity has finally come, he naturally has to do well and let everyone know their strength.
It can also suppress Honghuang at the same time.
It’s like killing two birds with one stone!
"Okay, let's adjourn the meeting. Remember to release an announcement to promote the new game first."
The director stood up and left the meeting room.
The others were doing their own jobs and preparing for the next plan.
Not long after.
A new message was updated below the Penguin account.
[Penguin Games (official): The new FPS battle royale competitive game "Ace Battlefield" is now open for reservations. Welcome all players to participate in the reservation to win exclusive costumes and massive gifts! ]
I have to say.
The timing chosen by Penguin to release this news was very appropriate.
The players who were heatedly discussing the Battle Royale gameplay were suddenly caught in an uproar.
"What's going on? Penguin also made a battle royale game?"
"Isn't this too fast? Honghuang just released the CG in the morning, and they announced it in the afternoon."
"It appears! Penguin's forte, borrowing (plagiarism)!"
"This is really popular."
“It seems like this genre is really going to be popular.”
This time, Penguin was very smart and did not hire any internet trolls to clean up the mess, saying that they were the first to come up with this tactic.
After all, anyone with a discerning eye could see that Honghuang was very well prepared and had even shot a large-scale CG film, whereas they only produced a few promotional pictures of the game.
They are not stupid enough to do something stupid that would ruin their reputation.
Although Penguin's reputation is running out.
So they thought of a compromise and began to publicize that this was a newly designed battle royale gameplay, using all kinds of high-end terms such as the next-generation and innovative engine to distinguish it from the original one.
Coupled with Penguin's huge publicity channels, it really attracted a large number of players to pay attention and start looking forward to their game.
