Game development begins with destroying Girls' Frontline.

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"Indeed, look at the comments below, they're all in agreement."

"The power of the 'Spark' that controls the narrative is terrifying; once this article is published..."

Lin Li's article is not just a simple article.

There's a term on the internet called KOL, which stands for "opinion leader."

In layman's terms, it means a mouth substitute.

He says what players want to say, and he criticizes what players want to criticize, which is why he's called an opinion leader.

however.

When facing manufacturers, most opinion leaders tend to have little influence.

Because all opinion leaders, to varying degrees, eventually become targets for recruitment by manufacturers.

no way.

We need to make a living, after all.

However, this phenomenon also has another consequence.

When players actually experience anger, they have no way to express it.

Whether it's Girls' Frontline 2 or Goddess of Destruction.

It can be observed that none of the major content creators, those who regularly post strategy guides, have stood up to express the players' anger.

On the contrary, it's some small content creators who have nothing to do with games and have no vested interest in them.

They'll come out and say a couple of comments.

To some extent, it is precisely because the player community lacks true opinion leaders that players don't have a good way to express their anger when widespread negative emotions arise.

At worst, I'll just rant in the official comments section; I won't play the game.

That's all.

Take, for example, the farce involving the floating cat.

Aside from players angrily venting on Fu Mao's Weibo, in the broader gaming community, no one has really commented on this matter. Even when it's mentioned, it's mostly in terms of the game itself.

Regarding the person Fu Mao.

They basically never mention it.

However, Lin Li is different.

Although he did not mention any specific person in his article, he argued a conclusion from multiple perspectives, including the game development team and the game's scriptwriters.

That is.

The writers and producers of "The God of Destruction" are nobody.

Chapter 316 The Clown

Lin Li's Weibo post immediately topped the trending searches.

This allowed a large number of players whose comments had been deleted from the Floating Cat comment section to finally vent their anger.

"exactly!"

"I knew it! Now I understand why watching the plot of The God of Destruction is so infuriating."

"Old Man Lin is truly insightful!"

"I'll forward this to that damn floating cat. See what professionalism looks like!"

This has put the official team of the game "The God of Destruction" in the eye of the storm.

Li Weixi's call went directly to Fu Mao's cell phone.

In a commanding tone, she was ordered to immediately delete her previous Weibo posts and issue an apology.

If it were a normal human being.

Even Yu Zhong, at this point, knows that he should at least play the coward and pretend to be dead.

however.

The cat that hung up the phone immediately bristled.

"What right does he have to say that to me?!"

"What did I say wrong on Weibo? Why should I apologize just because an outsider makes a few comments?"

"Isn't this the worst kind of business competition?!"

The floating cat paced back and forth in its room.

He kept cursing under his breath.

A whole bunch of lines that would be censored if played aloud came out of her mouth.

It's not just Floating Cat who's cursing.

Several of the women in the office were cursing.

"That's right, that's right! Mr. Li has no idea how much effort I've put in!"

"Yeah, why should we apologize just because Xinghuo posts something on Weibo?"

"This is the pressure from the industry."

"I think this is because Spark is afraid. They can't beat us in the gaming field, so they want to use underhanded tactics to crush us."

Among this large group of people who were also cursing, there were some who were a little more level-headed.

"Sister Cat, now is not the time to talk about these things. We need to think of a way to solve the problem."

The floating cat stopped and took a deep breath.

She glanced at the person trying to persuade her.

"what do you mean?"

The young lady trying to persuade the floating cat was also puzzled.

"what do you mean?"

The floating cat shook its hand.

"You are fired!"

"what?"

Floating Cat's logic is simple: at this moment, instead of joining me in cursing, you're talking to Xinghuo, what do you mean by that?

Her actions left the young woman trying to persuade her speechless.

Although she knew that Floating Cat didn't really want to fire her.

According to the procedure, she should then cry and say that she was wrong, and then beg for Fu Mao's forgiveness. Fu Mao should then say a few polite words, and finally add that this will not happen again.

That's the end of that.

This whole thing sounds like some kind of initiation ceremony, something she'd done before for work and a paycheck.

But this time.

She really didn't want to go through this again.

Previously, I had been coaxing this young lady for the sake of so-called profit sharing, but now it seems that even under these circumstances, Fu Mao's mind is still full of those nonsensical things.

How could this project possibly succeed?

I used to be blinded by my own desires.

Thinking of this, the only person in the entire conference room who tried to persuade Fu Mao to solve the problem also turned around and left.

I saw her really turn around and leave.

The cat was even more embarrassed.

"What a ungrateful wretch! Li Wanqiu!! I gave you this job!! You heartless ingrate!!!"

Floating Cat cursed a few times.

After realizing it was useless, he turned back and continued to berate Lin Li amidst the crowd.

You can criticize as you please.

The problem itself will not resolve itself.

And just then, Li Weixi called her again.

"What are you doing?! Why haven't you posted an apology announcement yet?!"

In the production team of "The God of Destruction".

At this moment, Floating Cat is the true "Queen," able to do whatever she wants.

It can be found throughout the entire Penguin Games ecosystem.

Floating Cat is just a minor character.

So, after receiving Li Weixi's call for the second time, Fu Mao had to tuck his tail between his legs.

Provide an explanation.

"President Li! We can't let public opinion control us."

“Look at Lin Li’s article, it’s written in such detail, it’s obvious he was prepared in advance.”

"They're deliberately smearing us. He's the boss of Xinghuo. He posted on Weibo to disrupt our game release."

“If we apologize as soon as Lin Li posts on Weibo, how can we compete in the future? We might as well just merge into Xinghuo.”

"Furthermore, I just checked the game reviews, and there are a lot of real users who have given it positive reviews."

There was a brief silence on the other end of the phone.

Floating Cat's concept transformation is quite clever.

The reputation problem was clearly caused by the poor quality of the game, but her words made it sound like Xinghuo was attacking them, which caused the reputation to collapse.

Such an excuse.

Anyone with even a basic understanding of game development, even someone like Yao Xiaodong, could see through it at a glance.

Unfortunately, Lee Wei-hee is a master at marketing.

I really have no idea whether a game is fun or not.

So Floating Cat struck while the iron was hot.

"Mr. Li, don't you find it strange? Our reputation was so good during the last closed beta test, how could there be such a big difference?"

"It's obvious that Xinghuo is behind this!"

Don't tell me.

This rhetoric really worked on Li Weixi.

After thinking for a while, Li Weixi decided to let Fu Mao go for the time being.

This time.

The floating cat became even more arrogant.

Not only did he not delete the Weibo post, he also posted a new one.

On Weibo.

He directly mocked Lin Li face-to-face.

"Some people's prejudice against female producers is really obvious."

"Who gave you the power, the courage, to define other companies' games?! Was it Fish Leong?"

"We have already prepared a lawyer's letter."

As someone with extensive experience in online flame wars, Fu Mao started with two moves: feminism plus a lawyer's letter.

It's as if something, once it's accompanied by a lawyer's letter...