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"The best operation must be Frontline Girls, right? It's been so many years."

"And for Best Mobile Game, Spark has two games nominated, and I feel that Destiny Track has a better chance of winning than Galaxy Paradise..."

At the very beginning of TGA.

Everyone was very talkative, and the comments section was flooded with messages as everyone discussed the final outcome of Spark.

It's not just players.

Many Chinese media outlets are also paying attention to TGA, and they even have prepared press releases in hand. For example, Shen Wansan has several drafts in his hand right now.

This corresponds to the award given to Xinghuo after winning the corresponding award.

Besides these, almost all domestic media outlets prepared news articles about the first time a Chinese game had won a TGA award, which was posted almost before this year's TGA awards ceremony.

The consensus among all domestic media outlets is that Xinghuo will definitely win a TGA award this year.

Therefore, for things that are almost 100% certain, many media outlets prepare their articles in advance in order to be the first to publish them.

However, as the TGA live broadcast proceeded...

Players gradually sensed something was wrong. Giving the Best Operations award to Fortnite was somewhat understandable, but the Best Art Direction? It went to Control? Huh? What kind of game is Control?

However, this feeling remained relatively calm until the game was considered the best mobile game.

After all, whether or not these awards should be given to Xinghuo is indeed ambiguous.

Many streamers even said that the reason TGA didn't give those awards to Spark was so that they could award the Best Mobile Game award to Spark.

then.

They heard it.

The host stood on stage, smiling.

"I declare this year's best mobile game to be Call of Duty Mobile (CODM) from Tencent Games!!!"

As soon as these words were uttered, the screen was filled with question marks. Not only the commenters, but also the guests and audience members present were all confused.

There was not even applause after the announcement.

It was only after being urged by the staff on site that applause broke out.

To be honest, this answer was unexpected by everyone.

This is quite different from the later Black Myth, which did not win Best of the Year. After all, there was a Best Action award before the Best of the Year award, and Black Myth was competing with Final Fantasy Remake, which can also be considered a major work.

However, Spark's current dominance in both PC and mobile games is something that all manufacturers worldwide are aware of.

In other words, in the global mobile game, or rather, dual-platform game sector, when TGA awards Spark, it's actually TGA riding on Spark's popularity, not Spark riding on TGA's popularity.

But surprisingly, they really didn't give it to them?

Instead, they gave us a Call of Duty mobile game developed by Tencent Games?

What kind of garbage is that? The Call of Duty base game has never even been awarded at the TGA, yet a mobile version can win an award.

What does this have to do with anything?

However, after the award was presented, many overseas manufacturers became even more nervous because Spark's Galaxy Paradise had been nominated for the Best Game award.

At this point, many viewers, including those in the live chat, domestic bloggers, and even overseas bloggers, were struggling with this question.

"Holy crap, is TGA going to award Best Game to Galaxy Paradise? Ah, this, this... are they putting Galaxy Paradise on the fire?"

Chapter 485 Don't panic, everything is under control

Xinghuo's "Galaxy Paradise" is not a single-player game after all. In the TGA, an award that mainly focuses on single-player games, there has never been a precedent of an online game winning the best award.

However, the TGA did not award Spark the Best Mobile Game award, and Spark had not won a single award by the time it was almost over, which inevitably makes people wonder.

Fortunately, TGA did not do that.

Ultimately, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice won the Best Game award, and then the TGA awards ceremony ended, leaving the Chinese audience, especially the fans of Spark Entertainment, completely bewildered.

They realized with surprise.

"Holy crap, Spark didn't win a single award!?"

"Huh? What's going on? Is this rigged? Best Mobile Game, Spark had 3 nominations, and it ended up going to Call of Duty Mobile???"

"no??"

"ah????"

Soon, this doubt was not only expressed domestically, but also overseas, with a large number of comments flooding into TGA.

After more than two years of operation, Xinghuo's reputation is not limited to China; it also has a large number of fans overseas.

Moreover, this year's TGA had previously held a "Most Anticipated Game Award" during the summer gaming season, which crowned Bao Si's Marvel Alliance as the most anticipated game.

It has already lost some public trust.

So even though TGA piled up a huge amount of armor before each award ceremony, they were still criticized, and not just in a simple way.

The anger wasn't limited to Chinese players; it also extended to players from Japan and Europe.

Especially Galaxy Park.

This IP is incredibly popular in the European and American indie scene, and even now, the popularity of "Stargazer: Discovery" remains high.

The game's popularity frequently climbs into the Spark platform's charts, and it consistently ranks in the top 10 in the North American region.

Originally, Spark players in Europe and America, Japan, and China actually supported slightly different games.

If TGA doesn't give them any, then they'll unite.

Within just half an hour of the event ending, TGA's official website was overwhelmed with messages, and its official Twitter account received thousands of comments instantly.

TGA staff finally managed to fix the website, only to have it attacked by an unknown hacker, who left behind the classic North American swear word, "Fuck TGA."

The overwhelming public outcry was something TGA had never anticipated.

Prior to this, Spark had always been relatively low-profile in Europe and America. Even when confronting the media, they adopted a silent approach. So, subtly, people didn't realize that Spark was very popular.

This is especially true for the single-player game community.

They knew that Xinghuo had made a lot of money from its dual-platform games, but it was precisely because Xinghuo had made so much money from both platforms that they overlooked the fact that even if Xinghuo's dual-platform online games were completely disregarded...

Even looking at single-player games alone, Spark's influence is considerable, with both "The Wandering Earth" and "Star Core Paradise" having a large core fanbase.

However, these things were completely ignored by TGA.

The saying goes, "A tiger that doesn't roar is a sick cat."

Spark's long-term low-key operation overseas has indeed led many people to misjudge the situation.

Furthermore, since TGA uses a media rating system, after the previous round of media clashes, no game media dares to openly mock Spark anymore.

But the initial confrontation felt like a thorn in my flesh.

If the penguins hadn't exerted their efforts, they might have just accepted it reluctantly. But as the penguins did, the situation changed, allowing them to not only get paid but also retaliate against Spark.

Especially in the anonymous media rating system of TGA, even if a low score is given, who would know that it was me who gave it?

Can Spark come after me for what I say? As for the organizer, TGA, it also received money from Tencent. TGA's consistent approach is that as long as you dare to pay, I dare to give out awards.

So the TGA already knew about this result long before the draw.

They had anticipated that this might cause a public relations crisis, because the essence of doing so was to treat the elephant in the room as if it didn't exist.

It's somewhat understandable that Spark wasn't given other awards, but not giving him the Best Mobile award is just ridiculous.

However, even though TGA had anticipated long ago that this might cause a public relations crisis for the awards, even Lee Wei-hee, who was sending the money, was worried that TGA might not dare to accept it.

But in the end, TGA decided to take the money!

TGA felt that as an established brand, it should be able to handle the situation, so it ultimately agreed to Tencent's suggestion.

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"This is bad!! There's been too much feedback from players."

A villa in the United States.

Jeff, who had just taken off his evening gown and was soaking in the heated swimming pool, frowned as his assistant hurriedly walked in.

"What's the rush? We can talk about it tomorrow."

He gave a reprimand, but the assistant remained unmoved; clearly, this matter had to be discussed today.

Jeff looked at the blonde, busty women in the pool with a hint of helplessness. After hesitating for a few minutes, he waved his hand and told the women to go to their rooms first.

Jeff spoke sternly after everyone had left.

"Go ahead and say it. If it's nothing important, you know what I mean."

The assistant nodded quickly, then said anxiously.

"Players are very dissatisfied with our awards this year."

Jeff interrupted him as soon as the assistant finished speaking.

"That's it? Didn't I just say that if the official website is attacked, it's attacked? Don't worry about it. The next day, the media will use this to gain sympathy."

"As for the players' crazy comments, didn't I already tell you to close the comment section?"

In Jeff's view, the public opinion crisis that occurred after the TGA awards ceremony was nothing serious.

In fact, he thought it was a good thing. Negative traffic is still traffic. He wasn't completely heartless. Before calling for prostitutes, he had considered the current situation.

Everything is still under control. The number of Spark's fans is indeed unexpectedly large, and the players are indeed unexpectedly angry.

But so what?

The TGA is an awards organization, so it doesn't need to explain to players why the award should be given to whom. Besides, look at the Oscars, people criticize them every year, but people still watch them every year, right?

Don't film companies still spend huge sums of money every year trying to become the best film?

Oh, so you can accept Oscars, but I can't?

This is business, and business is business. Since it's business, it's understandable that some players are dissatisfied.

So when Jeff heard his assistant's question, his first reaction was that the guy was just making trouble for no reason, but the next second he couldn't laugh anymore.

Because the assistant said something else.

"No, it's not that. The Sekiro development team posted on their social media that this year's TGA didn't showcase the level expected of mobile games..."

"What?! Have they gone mad?"

"Contact them immediately!!!"

Chapter 486 Pressure

Have the Sekiro developers gone mad? They won Best Game at the TGA, yet they're standing up for Spark?

Of course he's not crazy.

As the saying goes, "Everyone is busy with their own interests."

The media wanted to teach Spark a lesson anonymously, arguing that TGA had taken money from Tencent but wouldn't award Spark.

However, they naturally had their own reasons for standing up to support Xinghuo.

Sekiro was developed by From Software, a subsidiary of the Kadokawa Group.

As a Japanese company, Kadokawa Group's core business is the anime and manga industry, from light novels to animation, and it owns a large number of anime and manga IPs.

Moreover, Kadokawa is a rare company in Japan that has relatively more ideas.

Although niconico was poorly managed after its founding, the site experienced a complete collapse in users after its peak in 12 and 13, turning from tens of millions of monthly active users into a dead site with only a few hundred thousand monthly active users.

However, it cannot be denied that niconico itself does have some innovations.

In this timeline, Kadokawa and Spark collaborated extensively, launching several interactive animation and game projects, and also acquiring a large number of IP licenses.

TGA only saw Xinghuo as a game developer. According to TGA's past practices, even if these game developers had grievances, they wouldn't dare to do anything.

This is not arrogance, but based on facts.

For example, in 03, among many games such as GTA3, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, and Star Wars, the best game award was given to Madden NFL.

For example, in 10, Mario Galaxy 2 didn't even get a Best Award nomination. After that, basically whenever a Sony game was nominated, it would win Best Award.