Game development begins with destroying Girls' Frontline.

After hanging up the phone, Yu Zhong swore.

"Damn it, before Tencent came, I had to act like a pushover, but now that Tencent is here, I have to apologize? What the hell was I supposed to gain by seeking your investment?"

Chapter Fifty-Eight: Yu Zhong's Doubts

After swearing, Yu Zhong slammed his phone heavily onto the table.

He sat down on the sofa.

They just kept quiet and didn't say anything.

The members of the scattershot operations team standing to the side were caught in a dilemma: whether to leave or stay.

After standing there for a while, I had no choice but to make small talk.

"Spark Games is really underhanded, resorting to such petty tricks."

He should have kept quiet.

Upon hearing this, Yu Zhong, who had already sat down, stood up again.

He picked up his phone and slammed it onto the table.

"Yeah, you've reminded me. I'll just expose all of Spark Games' dirty tricks, won't that solve the problem?"

"..."

Yu Zhong's sudden outburst startled the operations team.

The operations team was completely at a loss for words when faced with the boss's new idea. Should they just smile?

Is this the focus right now?

Faced with players' questions about the storyline, instead of apologizing, you actually plan to stand up and say that the current situation is being orchestrated by others?

This is clearly telling the players about this plot issue.

The appearance of the character Del in the plot, and the character design, was not an unintentional mistake at all. It was exactly the plot you wanted to express, and it even conveyed that you felt there was nothing wrong with the plot.

Isn't this pure idiocy?

Even playing dead would be better than this solution, wouldn't it?

At this point, the operations team had no idea how public opinion would react if Yu Zhong actually did that.

He tried to persuade him, but found that Yu Zhong was already completely excited and looked agitated.

So the operations team thought about their predecessors.

It seems that he was dismissed from his post because he persuaded Yu Zhong.

Forget it.

Anyway, it's not my company, so do whatever you want.

With that in mind, the operations team remained silent.

However, the operations team remained silent.

Yu Zhong showed no sign of stopping. He quickly stood up, gesturing wildly, and the more he thought about it, the more ingenious he felt his idea was.

"I'll contact the media and content creators right now, and also find Stan, and while I'm at it, get the scriptwriter and cameraman. I need to record a video."

Sometimes, promotional activities require recording videos.

Like many game companies, Sunburst also has its own recording equipment, although it's not very professional, it's still usable.

Seeing Yu Zhong's decisiveness, the operations team stopped trying to persuade him and went to carry out his orders, while also wondering if they should ask the senior about the benefits at Xinghuo Games, where he had switched jobs.

~~~

"Spark Games is utterly incompetent and immoral; all they know is sneak attacks."

That afternoon, Yu Zhong used this sentence as the opening line of his video.

"When it comes to games, we need to focus on the games themselves. Some companies don't care about their own content production, but instead maliciously incite public opinion while other companies are working hard to create content. This is pure malicious competition!"

"Is there any point in doing this? Where is the moral bottom line for people???"

"We're both in the game industry, can't we just go head-to-head with product quality? Is Xinghuo Games scared? Or is Lin Li scared?"

The video accurately captures the anger of the developers of the game, Sunburst.

But in the end, the operations department and Tencent employees threatened suicide.

The video was not released through an official account.

At that moment, Yu Zhong, with the last vestiges of his reason, still made a relatively correct decision.

He handed the video, along with some materials, to TouchArcade.

A website that had previously helped him write a whitewashing article.

Actually, from the very beginning.

TouchArcade does not intend to take this order.

After all, given the current public opinion environment, with Yu Zhong's inaction and lack of response, the public opinion crisis caused by the Del incident is intensifying almost every hour.

However, this is only the first day.

In addition, the requirements for Yu Zhong are also very simple.

I'm not trying to clear my name, I just want to drag Xinghuo Games down with me.

Give me back the money.

That means it's not impossible to do.

So that night.

One article.

Reports titled "Fighting for Love in the Name of Love" began to circulate.

Yu Zhong's words and videos were also edited into the video.

Subsequently, Tencent continued to increase its investment.

This report was reposted on Tencent News, and the title became more straightforward.

Scattered Feathers angrily denounced Spark Games for malicious slander.

Following closely behind, 17173 and Duowan also began to delve into related reports, briefly discussing the love-hate relationship between Scattershot and Spark Games.

In an instant, the prevailing public opinion seemed to have changed.

have to say.

It has to be Tencent. After all this fuss, the conflict has shifted from between players and game developers to between Spark Games and Sunfire Games.

However, what happened next left both Yu Zhong and Tencent dumbfounded.

The emergence of these news items.

This did not alleviate the pressure from public opinion.

Instead, it fueled public opinion, causing more conflict among people, and more and more players began to criticize the Scatter Explosion.

This left Tencent's public relations department completely bewildered.

What's happening here?

~~~

The people in Tencent's public relations department didn't know what was going on, but Lin Li knew very well what had happened.

From the very beginning, Lin Li was waiting for Tencent to make its move.

As soon as Tencent made its move, a large number of online trolls began to guide public opinion, analyzing previous news about Tencent's investment in SunBlast.

Based on Tencent's reputation among gamers.

Lin Li easily explained Tencent's actions as capital's disregard for players and Yu Zhong's arrogance towards them.

Furthermore, despite all this media coverage, they have consistently failed to address Del's questions.

The word "apology" was never mentioned in any of the articles.

Even without Lin Li's intervention, Girls' Frontline players wouldn't be convinced.

He was simply going with the flow.

However, Lin Li has not made any statement publicly.

The attack will still be carried out by Yu Zhong.

Yu Zhong saw that Xinghuo Game did not react.

On the one hand, his anger had not subsided, and on the other hand, he was even more confident in his own judgment, in addition to the failure of the first wave of public opinion offensive.

Tencent did not give up during this period and continued to buy users, but the number of online players continued to decline, and the decline was getting faster and faster.

Yu Zhong did not believe it was his problem, nor did he believe there was anything wrong with his game.

Therefore, he chose to launch another attack on Spark Games.

This time, Yu Zhong approached Stan, expressing his desire to conduct a live interview.

Stan didn't want to take the job.

But he is, after all, a businessman, and Tencent is rich and powerful. In addition, Yu Zhong promised to respond to Del's question on the show and issue a statement on subsequent changes.

These words convinced Stan.

After all, in his view, if there are problems with the game, and he can use the interview as a pretext to stir up trouble, then the pressure from public opinion won't be so great for him.

He eventually accepted the live stream.

then.

Seven days after the Girls' Frontline Del Incident.

Faced with rapid user churn and a sharp decline in sales performance.

Yu Zhong finally stepped forward.

This live stream attracted a lot of people, including countless Girls' Frontline players and casual viewers, who all flocked to the live stream room.

Chapter 59 Zhou Shenlin's New Experience in QQ Groups

The barrage of bullets flew by like a hail of bullets.

Due to insufficient preparation, the number of people flooding into the live stream caused it to lag at one point.

At first, Stan, as the host, felt okay.

The overall pace is still under control.

But soon, after the opening remarks, Yu Zhong spoke.

The situation began to get out of control.

"There must be a basic principle in business competition."

"Spark Games is a company that's not too big or too small, yet its methods are so crude."

"The plot of a game is just like a novel. Just as there are online novels, there are also literary novels."

“Players have discerning eyes. Some people think they can make money by having their characters shout ‘Commander’ a few more times, but in my opinion, that’s a completely wrong path.”

Yu Zhong became more and more excited as he spoke.

However, he still remembered what Tencent Games had told him before the event started.

So the conversation shifted to games.

"Many players have never actually played Girls' Frontline; they've only heard rumors and then blown out of proportion."

"How many people have played the game? And how many people have seriously read our storyline?"

"Is it really that difficult to make a game seriously in China?"

"I, Yu Zhong, will say this last thing: Spark Games, if you're so capable, show us your product and compete. Don't hide in the background and fan the flames!"