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A gust of cold wind made me feel much more refreshed. The whole town was pitch black, with only a few scattered lights dotting the landscape.

Since her hometown banned fireworks and firecrackers, the festive atmosphere of the New Year has been fading.

I initially thought my cousin was calling to wish each other a happy New Year's Eve.

When the call was answered, it turned out to be a bizarre question.

Do I have any photos? What photos?

Guo Qingqing looked completely bewildered.

"Ah, I didn't watch Xinghuo's New Year's Eve Gala. I'm with my mom. Dad went out to play cards, but my mom insisted that I stay with her."

Okay, okay, let's not talk about this.

"Hmm, you mean the Spark survey on January 1st?"

"I did it."

"I really did it."

"What? What event? What rocket... a photo with Earth?"

Guo Qingqing discovered that she could understand every word Guo Jiayi said.

But when put together, it's incomprehensible.

After a long while, just as her brain was about to overheat and become overloaded, she finally understood that her cousin had called to ask her to download a photo from the Xinghuo website.

Then post it on your social media.

They said it was to ride the wave of trending topics.

Guo Qingqing was a little confused. On New Year's Eve, when everyone is celebrating, why are they trying to ride the wave of popularity?

Whose trend are they trying to piggyback on?

But she still followed her cousin's advice, opened the Spark platform mobile app, and found the event.

"Starfire Earth?"

She quickly found her picture.

That was a screenshot of the homepage of her mobile app, Spark Platform.

I just randomly picked a screenshot and uploaded it.

The message was, "I hope everything goes well in 2019."

The screenshot itself isn't particularly noteworthy; perhaps the only notable thing is that her profile picture is her own photo.

But it's just an ordinary screenshot.

When it appears in the universe.

When it appears in the same world as the magnificent Earth, when you see the specific latitude and longitude, and when you see the time of shooting.

Don't say it, really don't say it.

It really felt very ceremonial.

Furthermore, Spark has prepared many image templates in advance. In addition to the default Spark logo with the message "Happy New Year" in the bottom right corner, there are also many other images.

In other areas, players can make their own modifications.

Each image has its own unique number, and the best part is that you only need to collect 5 shares and likes to receive a certificate sent directly from Xinghuo.

Guo Qingqing glanced at the certificate template.

The front features several exquisite gold-stamped Chinese characters: "[Special Event for the Chinese New Year - Spark Earth]".

The two pages inside show a photo of a rocket launch and a 3D exploded view of a satellite on the left. Although I couldn't understand them, they seemed very impressive.

On the right is actually a picture of Guo Qingqing herself, which clearly indicates that this template display section is automatically generated exclusive content.

This judgment can also be seen in the blessing message from Xinghuo on the left.

【Dear Sunny Baby】

As the New Year approaches, at this special moment, we are delighted to send you this blessing from the sparks of Earth.

Your photo, along with countless other players' images, forms our shared memory, becoming a fleeting moment of eternity in the universe.

May your 2019 be filled with success, shining brightly under this starry sky.

May your life be full of color, like the vibrant images on the Spark platform, each frame a microcosm of your wonderful life.

[Spark Earth Initiator: Lin Li]

To be honest, even if you can tell at a glance that this preview image was generated in batches from a template.

But Xinghuo can do this.

I was genuinely touched.

Most importantly, the blessing also includes Lin Li's autograph.

Guo Qingqing felt her eyes inexplicably become moist.

This was something she hadn't expected at all before opening the app.

She then chose to share.

Start editing your own status update.

She quickly finished writing and then discovered that it could be shared to several platforms, including Xinghuo, Weibo, and Douyin, by default.

"Huh? Why aren't there WeChat and QQ?"

"Forget it, let's go with Weibo. We should be able to gather five people on Weibo already."

The Weibo posts you send out come with three tags by default:

#HappyNewYear #SparkEarth #SparkNewYearCarnival

After posting on Weibo, Guo Qingqing casually checked the Weibo trending topics. Wow, five of the top trending topics were related to the Spark New Year Carnival.

The remaining trending topics are things like #LiSisiFluorescentLipstick# and #WasTheSpringFestivalGalaGood?#.

To be honest, it's a bit outrageous.

Can the Spark New Year Carnival rival the Spring Festival Gala in terms of influence?

Anyone with a modicum of common sense would be unable to say or even imagine this, but if we look at it from a global perspective...

It seems a little different now.

Xinghuo really knows how to create a sense of ceremony.

For most people, sharing five likes is not a difficult thing.

You can receive a personalized blessing just by sharing it.

This matter itself is very valuable.

Therefore, not only domestically, but also overseas, a large number of players are participating.

This is just the feedback from outside the gaming industry.

Within the gaming community.

The influence of the [Ring of Oath] also began to expand rapidly. On that very night, more than 1400 million people made reservations and received their virtual bracelets on the Spark platform.

Moreover, this number is increasing over time.

In addition, since both mobile and PC platforms, [Ring of Oath] has introduced a simulated component building function, which means that players can simulate component building even if they do not have character components.

It can simulate the effect of assembly.

This tool was originally intended to help players plan their event collection activities, but after its release, a group of players haven't even started participating in the events yet.

They've already started sharing their outfit combinations.

Among these, the placement of the gold components and the selection of the character became the key points.

Many people have already started making guides, telling everyone how to choose and how to assemble it as quickly as possible.

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Chapter 192 First Day Reaction

Overall, this year's Spark New Year Carnival was a success.

It can be said to have been a great success.

On the second day.

Internally, over 2000 million players on the Spark platform have already pre-registered for the [Oath Bracelet] event.

what does this mean?

This means that more than 2000 million players are already ready to start the event and experience the various games on the Spark platform.

Externally, the [Spark Earth] event generated an unexpectedly wide-ranging promotional video worldwide, partly because approximately ten million players participated in the event on January 1st.

More than 60% of the players participated in the sharing.

The next day, players could start uploading New Year's greetings.

Even though Xinghuo has already issued a reminder, this batch of blessings will be delayed due to satellite bandwidth limitations.

But it still attracted countless players around the world.

That noon, the first batch of dozens of photos returned.

A second wave of sharing and celebration has arrived.

Starting with the second wave, globally, participants in this event were no longer limited to gamers on the Spark platform.

It's more of a trend among young people, and many don't even know what Xinghuo does.

I thought it was a space technology company participating in this event.

Based on their sharing.

The "Spark Earth" event.

It has been turned into a global event, similar to the Ice Bucket Challenge.

Tell the truth.

Lin Li underestimated the allure of the universe, rockets, starry skies, and the power of photos to attract people.

They also underestimated the sense of ritual that Xinghuo's greeting cards brought.

Su Shanshan, however, was not surprised at all.

"What's so surprising? Look how much we spent..."

"Leaving aside the cost of the rocket launch, the tens of millions of greeting cards we're sending out will cost a lot of money."

"With a company paying for people to have a sense of ritual, how could no one participate, and the sense of ritual is so strong?"

"I saw a lot of photos that weren't really about celebrating the New Year; there were more couple photos than family portraits..."

In fact.

Su Shanshan was right. By the next morning, the Spark platform even experienced server lag due to the large number of visitors.

The photos they uploaded, given the current satellite transmission bandwidth, will not be available for several months.

But people keep uploading and sharing.

Now, for most people, whether or not they receive a greeting card is no longer important; what matters is the wonderful feeling of nationwide participation.

No..

To be precise, it's the wonderful feeling of global participation.

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The next day, the United States.

Supergiant Games Studio.

"exaggerate."