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Chapter 172: "The Tao of Strange Immortals" has the top award of the year, does Gu Meng have it?

Crash—the glass door of the meeting room of the department responsible for the promotion of "Darkest Dungeon 3" was pushed open, and the meeting minutes were scattered all over the floor.

The employees left the meeting room dejected.

They were just confronted by their boss, Wu Mengyou.

Assistant Xiao Wang followed the boss with documents in his arms. He noticed that Xiao Li, a young leader from the third generation of Youxuan Youxuan, was spinning his pen so hard that sparks were almost coming out. He finally couldn't help but speak:
"Is this public opinion situation serious?"

"It's not serious, but a very special..."

Xiao Li's words sound a bit like Deng Chao in The Mermaid calling the police to report a mermaid.

"I don't understand. Wasn't it quite popular in the beginning? I watched the live broadcast and it was quite effective. The quantity was quite large, and it was sold at a low price. The sales volume was very high. Even if the product wasn't that good at this price, it should be praised. What's more, it's only 100 yuan."

"Because this is the Dragon King's game, it's different from others, and it's also the first work after returning to Youxuan."

Someone reminded me.

"But didn't we only work on this game for a little over two months? Isn't Black Myth our company's flagship project? When our publicity and promotion department received the assignment, we didn't say we'd allocate additional resources to Darkest Dungeon 3. We've been preparing for Black Myth the entire time. Darkest Dungeon 3 is a medium-sized project."

"But this is the boss's project. Even if we don't mention it, we should still give it special attention. Besides, we didn't actually contribute much to the release of Black Myth PV."

"Stop talking." Xiao Li had a headache. He had been with the hanging man for too long. After being transferred to do publicity and promotion, he sometimes felt that the people around him were not so capable and he was not used to it.

Especially when facing newcomers, I feel so stupid, but everyone was a newcomer once.

Mr. Gu has returned, and in just a while, everyone will become awesome.

"Public opinion is fermenting much faster than expected," Xiao Li suddenly stopped and clicked his pen on the elevator button. "Someone must be stirring up trouble, organizing a group to post negative reviews."

"Huh?" Xiao Wang was a little surprised. "Haven't our competitors been defeated by us? Some dared to do that before, but now they're all flat on their backs, right?"

Another veteran employee reminded, "It's not just competitors. This time, it's also because ordinary players outside have too high expectations of Mr. Gu. And the person causing this trouble is probably not someone we know well."

"Isn't it an old acquaintance in China? Could it be a foreign force? They're just making games, so that's not the case."

Xiao Li didn't say anything and walked straight into his office to retrieve intelligence and data.

There are also highly praised reviews from various websites such as Youxuan Platform and Steam Platform. The scarlet negative review banners made Xiao Wang gasp. The Dragon King actually has negative reviews?

Newcomers feel very strange, but in fact, old employees have long been accustomed to it, especially those who stayed from the Maodou era. Maodou games used to have many negative reviews, including Pure Love Warrior, which was a failure, but it’s just that they haven’t encountered it for too long.

——(Bad review) The numerical planner should be replaced with a street lamp! The distortion monsters in the new mod are simply unbeatable!

(Bad review) The plot was supposed to be completed by the Riddler, and You Xuan has also started to sell fragmented narrative and bad plots?
(Bad review) From "Dragon Snake Romance" to "Dungeon 3", it is obvious to the naked eye that Gu Meng's talent has run out.

(Bad review) I strongly recommend that this film be remade and the dark and residual elements that were deleted from the previous work be added back!

(Medium review) Nostalgic players are very disappointed. Why did you sew it all up?
The page, which originally had 92% very positive reviews, has seen a recent drop in positive reviews, falling below 78% mostly positive.

"It's trending, which is not a good thing."

Xiao Li turned the notebook over.

Xiao Wang saw "Darkest Dungeon 3 Failed" and the headline of the press release that popped up made him gasp.

A Famous IP Ruined! A Live Record of You Xuan's Fall from Fame

Is the Dragon King at his wit's end? Players jointly request a reset

High difficulty ≠ good game, arrogant producers will eventually suffer backlash

The illustrations for the article "From a pioneer in multiple fields, the godfather of meat pigeons to a master of tanking, Gu Meng's road to decline" are all GIFs of players throwing their controllers in anger, and the comment section is full of "refund the money" formations.

"This is not right!" Xiao Wang pointed at a popular comment. "They said we cut out Cthulhu elements? But we clearly didn't. They obviously dug up more plot points. Has this editor ever played the game?"

"Troll army rhetoric." Xiao Li suddenly sneered. "No major media outlet would dare to say that. They probably take the money and run away, and it's fine. They have no value anyway."

"There are also negative reviews and data issues. Newly registered accounts are mixed in with passers-by who have too high expectations."

I clicked on the homepage of a certain three-no account, and saw nothing but copied and pasted negative reviews, many of which were registered three days ago.

"Are business tactics so classical?"

"This is too crude, who doesn't know this is fake?"

"Public users don't care, and once the hype builds, players who already have high expectations of Mr. Gu will be willing to criticize him."

"Who did it?"

"Do I need to tell you all this?" Xiao Li felt that some newcomers who had not been developed were really stupid.

"You mean"

"Renny's new game, 'Star Wars', has already started promoting it. He's trying to step on us to get ahead. He's going to make 'Darkest Dungeon 3' a hit first, and then try to take advantage of us."

……

The discussion about "Gu Mengjiang's lack of talent" is forming the eye of a hurricane.

Among the spectators watching this storm, there are two types of people.

One group is waiting for the house to collapse, and the other group is also waiting for the house to collapse.

It's not a collapse, just a small setback. No matter whether it's a confrontation of equal strength or not, no matter how many things there are, as long as I can win head-on once, it's considered a win.

Apart from the interested competitors, even passersby with no interest in the matter don't mind if Gu Meng suffers a small loss.

Anyone with a discerning eye knows that apart from the lack of innovation, Gu Meng's work is actually very conscientious. If a new company could produce such a third work, it would have been praised to the sky long ago. However, just because this is Gu Meng's comeback work, it seems not to be of sufficient weight, and passers-by also think that being criticized is a good thing.

Once upon a time, Gu Meng didn't understand why Liuzi in "Let the Bullets Fly" had to undergo a caesarean section to prove his loyalty.

At this moment, he suddenly realized.

Netizens are keen on creating gods and also keen on destroying gods.

Of course, he doesn't have so many negative emotions. It's human nature. He posted a "Lanshou Xianggu" emoticon on Pilipi to make fun of himself.

There are a lot of criticisms below for not making progress. Instead of posting pictures, it is better to make the game better. The new work Darkest Dungeon 3 is far worse than Dao Weird Immortal.

Some are water armies and some are just following the trend.

Maybe there are some people who are trying to sow discord or have fun.

"That's definitely not as good as Dao Weird Immortal. Xiaozhi is much better at making games than me. I also like to slack off at work (dog head)."

Gu Mengzhen gave a sharp review, but felt it was not good, so he deleted the comment, but the picture had already started circulating on the Internet.

"Just to tell you a joke, Gu Meng himself thinks making games is not as good as making wisdom."

"Ah? Gu Meng is slacking off at work too?"

"I admit that 'The Dao of Strange Immortals' is very strong, but it's still far behind the epic masterpiece 'Captain of China'. Besides, the gameplay of stealth games has almost been developed by Gu Meng. A lot of the level design of 'The Dao of Strange Immortals' was also learned from Gu Meng, so it can't be counted as such."

"'The Dao of Strange Immortals' won the top award of the year, does Gu Meng have one?"

The storm got even bigger.

(End of this chapter)