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Last year, Spark had to rely on a lot of activities to sound the horn of attack, but this year, things have been relatively stable.

On the contrary, it's the penguins.

They've been incredibly arrogant lately.

Thanks to the integration of the Steam library, WEGAME, with its traffic advantage, has finally entered a period of rapid development, although it did not win against Spark in the handheld console battle.

However, this is a key traffic driver during the Spring Festival.

Penguin Games, however, showed no mercy.

Not only did they organize an event similar to the Spark New Year Festival, but they also had their own Spring Festival special sale and even brought together many game companies to create a special event.

In addition, regarding Spark's upcoming games *Fall Guys* and *Starfield: Survival*...

Penguin Games has also released a corresponding title.

For example, they announced "Star Dawn," which is a game based on the Honor of Kings IP that plagiarizes the gameplay of "Naraka: Bladepoint."

For example, the game Final Fantasy XIV: Crystal Worlds, developed by Photon Studios, was announced.

Besides promoting its own games, Tencent probably feels that with the added advantage of its Steam library, it can once again compete with Spark.

When promoting their own games, they frequently mocked Spark for not releasing any major titles this Chinese New Year.

Some media outlets affiliated with Tencent even made sarcastic comparisons between the success of last year's Spark Spring Festival game and the current situation.

"It seems that Spark is planning to let a casual game take the lead."

"I wonder how far a model that has forgotten its original intention can go."

"Will the casual game Fall Guys satisfy expectant players? That is the question."

Such news is clearly a provocation against Spark Entertainment for focusing its promotional resources on Fall Guys during this period.

but.

Lin Li didn't pay much attention to what the penguins were doing. For Spark now, competition is no longer a bad thing; the real problem is when there is no competition.

Judging from the results.

Although Penguin's event this time was quite large, its influence and popularity were not actually very high, because the whole internet was speculating whether Spark would hold another "anything goes" event during the Spring Festival.

Of course not.

While Xinghuo is capable of doing so in terms of strength, it is not necessary from a realistic point of view, as the afterglow of the last New Year's Eve event has not yet faded.

They'll immediately start the next event, which is basically just giving away money.

Chapter 523 The price rose too fast

Since it's purely about giving money and red envelopes, why not spend it on Xinghuo's own New Year's Festival? For example, Xinghuo's New Year's Festival has prepared many lucky draw activities this time.

Of course, those things have already been finalized.

It has nothing to do with the current Linli.

"It's not bad to respond to the national call and have a quiet New Year, is it?"

Su Shanshan turned her head to the side, a smile playing on her lips.

"Of course, but I guess you'll still watch the online show later."

Lin Li chuckled softly.

"That's for tomorrow, today isn't New Year's Eve yet. But we should hurry up."

Su Shanshan was somewhat puzzled.

"Hurry up with what?"

She quickly understood what Lin Li meant by "seizing the time"...

~~~

While Lin Li was making the most of his time.

The real test for Yin Yingjie has only just begun.

He is the newly recruited operations manager in the Spark platform's operations department, and he is also the person in charge of monitoring the data of the entire Spark platform today.

Although the staff are on holiday, the Xinghuo platform, which has already started its Spring Festival activities, still needs people to monitor the platform data 24 hours a day to ensure the normal operation of the activities.

Yin Yingjie is the person on duty today.

So even though he's at home right now, his work is still very busy.

The computer screen in front of me displays the background data of the Spark platform.

Online users, active users, game downloads... every metric is climbing at an astonishing rate.

Every surge in data points illustrates one thing: the popularity of the Spark platform is growing rapidly.

The surge in popularity of the platform was actually within the operational expectations of the Spark platform.

The reason is actually very simple: today is the first day of home quarantine during the Spring Festival.

Since they can't go out and nothing is open outside, staying at home is boring, so gaming naturally becomes the first choice for young people.

However, it is still an increase.

But the rapid increase is a bit alarming.

As the backend data skyrocketed, more and more Spark employees began logging on from home.

Yin Yingjie's fingers flew across the keyboard, and he would occasionally pick up his phone to answer calls from various departments.

"Brother Jay!! Fall Guys is overloaded!! The server is under too much pressure! Can you contact them and ask them to issue a fluctuation announcement? If this continues, it might crash!"

The phone call from the technical department made Yin Yingjie frown and make a quick decision.

"We can't crash right now! I know Fall Guys is overloaded. I'll call the boss right away and have you guys start the backup server! Just hold up during peak login times."

"Okay, I'll take care of it right away!"

The head of the technical department gave a reply, and without even hanging up, turned around and started yelling into the phone.

This is because several people in the Xinghuo platform's technology department received high subsidies for the Spring Festival and lived at the company, just to deal with such emergencies.

Yin Yingjie rubbed his temples, feeling both excited and nervous.

Fall Guys was a huge hit, something no one expected.

No, to be precise, they had guessed that Fall Guys might be a hit, but they didn't expect it to be this big.

Consider the game Fall Guys, whose concurrent online player count has grown from 0 to 480 million.

Yin Yingjie felt his heart racing.

Moreover, it wasn't just Fall Guys that saw an increase in online players; the entire Spark platform experienced explosive growth in user numbers during this Spring Festival holiday.

This is definitely a great thing.

This proves that the home quarantine policy has indeed benefited the platform's development, but the pressure that comes with it is also making him feel a bit overwhelmed.

Just then, his phone rang again.

It's the phone number for the publicity department.

"You want to take this opportunity to promote your new game and platform?"

"You guys are incredibly bold..."

"No, what I mean is, there's no problem with our operations. You guys can do it. The server won't crash."

After hanging up the phone, Yin Yingjie took a deep breath.

That's why he likes working at Xinghuo.

Just like that phone call from the publicity department.

Xinghuo is currently on holiday, but with the surge in various data on the platform, almost everyone became excited instantly.

They weren't even at the company.

Yet they are still able to carry out their work using communication software.

Even so, Xinghuo had already started the process of working from home last year due to office renovations.

But without a doubt, everyone also has a strong sense of responsibility towards Xinghuo itself.

So far, when Yin Yingjie made the calls, no one said they were on holiday and therefore wouldn't take action.

Almost everyone's first reaction upon hearing Yin Yingjie say that the platform's popularity was exploding and it needed assistance was one of overwhelming excitement.

In fact, not only others, but even Yin Yingjie himself couldn't help but get excited as he looked at the data that was still soaring on the computer screen.

~~~

at the same time.

Zhou Shenlin was playing games like crazy at home.

Originally, his game company was supposed to have him working overtime during the Spring Festival holiday.

However, with the emergence of national policies, society entered an eerie silence, and Zhou Shenlin was able to go home to rest.

What's even better is that, because of home quarantine, he didn't have to see any relatives this Spring Festival.

You have plenty of time to play games.

Zhou Shenlin was wearing headphones, staring intently at the screen, his fingers flying across the keyboard.

His character dashed left and right in the game world, seemingly about to achieve a perfect kill.

Just then, the door was suddenly pushed open, and his older sister Zhou Shenyue's voice boomed like a thunderclap.

"Hey bro!! Come play Honor of Kings!!"

Zhou Shenlin's hand trembled, and his character was instantly killed by the enemy.

He reluctantly took off his headphones. He was so excited that he almost forgot that besides his parents, his older sister had also avoided working overtime at the research institute and returned home.

Zhou Shenlin and his older sister have a good relationship, but since his sister started working at the research institute, the two of them have spent significantly less time together.

"Sis, could you knock first? I'm in the middle of a team fight! And who plays King of Glory these days?"

"Huh? You young people don't play Honor of Kings anymore? What do you play?"

"This is the Fall Guys project that Spark just launched."

Zhou Shenlin pointed to his screen.

"Fall Guys?"

Zhou Shenyue raised an eyebrow, her tone tinged with curiosity.

Are all the games you play these days so childish?

Zhou Shenlin rolled his eyes and brought up the game interface.

"What do you know? This is the hottest game on the Spark platform, only free to play for three days during the Spring Festival, after which it will be charged! If you don't get it for free now, when will you?"

Hearing her younger brother say that, Zhou Shenyue also came over.

Chapter 524 Fall Guys Holy Grail War

She doesn't actually play games much, but she does watch anime, so she's quite familiar with the Spark logo, which appears before almost every anime episode.

It's not that I know nothing about games.

I glanced at the screen and saw a group of round, jelly-like little people running wildly on a colorful track.

Some were jumping on trampolines, some were climbing rotating ladders, and others were being chased all over the place by a giant rolling ball, with upbeat and catchy background music.

How do we determine a win?

"It's simple, the one in first place on the track wins."

"That's it?"

"That's it?"

Zhou Shenlin scoffed.