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"Is there something wrong with the equipment? Why is the data kept dropping?"

The assistant glanced at the tour guide in surprise. He was in charge of the microphone, so why was he asking me this question?

However, he could actually answer this question, and casually pointed to the bullet screen machine.

"Hey director, the comments say that Destiny's Path and Dimensional Battlefield have started a crossover beta test. Tell them to stop watching... Destiny's Path is officially launched."

"Director, what is this trajectory of fate?"

The assistant made no mistake when saying that.

It was just an on-site communication.

But he forgot that he was still holding a microphone.

So his conversation with the director was overheard by both of them.

The company's guests also heard it.

He Shen, who was happily bragging, was suddenly stunned by the blow.

"!!!"

"What did you say!?"

Chapter Sixty-Eight: I Want to Play!

Destiny's Path DEMO is now online!

This news came as a complete surprise to the penguins.

He Shen was so disinterested in doing a live broadcast that he lost interest in the broadcast altogether.

After hastily finishing the recording, I quickly confirmed the news.

Unlike the large-scale promotion of "Dimension: Clash of Glory".

Spark released the demo of "Destiny's Path" with virtually no promotion; in fact, it was quite low-key, with only an announcement on the official website.

At the same time, information about the DEMO launch test was sent to all players who had previously pre-registered for "Destiny's Path".

In addition, Lin Li, the producer, posted a video on the official website, mainly apologizing to the players in a meme-like way, saying that the players had been kept waiting for a long time due to development reasons.

After the apology, the second half of the video featured a demonstration of the test version, as well as a comparison of the evolution between the initial demo from 16 and the current version.

The changes in image quality shown in this evolution video are quite impressive.

After the video was released, the servers for "Dimension Battlefield" and "Destiny's Path" were launched immediately.

Many people saw the last sentence in the video.

The server is now operational. You can experience the demo for free at any time during the period from November 25th to December 5th.

That statement was like throwing a bomb into the water.

Especially in Japan.

Social media erupted almost instantly.

As players gradually received the information...

News of the demo of "Destiny's Path" began to spread.

First and foremost are the world's broadcasters.

There is only this one group of people.

While waiting for the Destiny Trails demo to download, they sent messages to various streamers' live broadcast rooms one by one.

Then watch the streamer's reaction.

Because the opening of the closed beta test for this collaboration between Spark and [another organization] was so sudden, there was no publicity whatsoever, it just went straight on.

Even many streamers were unaware of the news.

Therefore, I encountered many particularly interesting reactions.

"Huh? Really?"

"Hey, you're a scammer, I won't fall for it."

"Is today April Fool's Day?"

Holy crap! It's real!

This is the reaction of most domestic livestreamers upon receiving this news.

"Really? Bro, don't lie to me, I'm just going through the story."

"WTF, it's actually true!?"

"OMG!!"

This is the reaction of most European and American broadcasters.

The Japanese news anchors, however, had an even more outrageous reaction.

"Waaah, my eyes, I can't stop the tears! Really, I can actually play this game?"

"It's been two years! They said it would launch in October 2016, and now we can finally play it!"

"Long live President Lin!!!"

"Spark is number one in the world!!"

"You can play it now! Hey!!!! You can play it now!?"

"Where, where!? The Spark Platform?"

"This isn't a black-box test!? You can log in just by having FGO play history or Dimensional Battlefield history?"

Some of the streamers didn't believe it at first.

In the blink of an eye, Twitter and LINE were flooded with Spark-style friend invitation links.

What is a Spark-style friend invitation?

It means sending gifts when you invite a certain number of people.

The invitation reward for this Destiny Trail event is a limited-edition Destiny Trail Saber skin.

You could say it was a winning hand right from the start.

Anyone who has played Spark Games knows one thing: the earlier you do this invitation reward, the easier it is to complete.

Especially one's own friends.

This is because a player can select a maximum of three assists.

We must be the first to act!

If you don't act, someone else will.

Therefore, it happened almost instantly.

The invitation link for that destiny's trajectory spread throughout the country.

The comment section of the Spark platform's "Fate Trajectory" section has become a major disaster area.

Many streamers only realized that this was not a dream because of the overwhelming number of promotional links.

Destiny's Path has actually released a demo!

In addition, many players only realized what was happening after seeing a large group of voice actors and FATE-related content creators' tweets on Twitter.

It's true, the game has really launched.

Because Lin Li's attack was so sudden, the incident itself became a running joke.

Moreover, the incident occurred half an hour later.

Some memes started circulating online.

One of the most widely circulated memes features a series of chibi-style characters standing in front of players.

I have a surprise for you.

I wouldn't be surprised at all by the players' chibi-style responses.

Then Lin Li pulled out the Destiny Track.

The player jumped up!

Such derivative works quickly spread in Japan and then to China.

Videos of overseas players' shocked reactions to Spark's news quickly spread across China.

Everyone hates Vova.

But what people dislike is Vova's empty boasting.

Instead of hating foreign players who praise them.

The two are completely different now.

The latter is really addictive, just like how every time a video of Black Myth: Wukong comes out, people go to see the reactions of foreigners, it's the same principle.

Especially under the concentrated bombing this month.

Many domestic gamers have become increasingly accepting that Spark is a global game company.

It's not just great in the country.

They're even more impressive abroad.

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Let's integrate all these messages.

He Shen and a group of Tencent executives were completely dumbfounded.

"How could they be so fast!"

"Why!?"

"Was it a deliberate attack on us?"

"What to do?"

The meeting room was in complete chaos.

In Penguin's eyes, this was yet another deliberate targeting by Spark.

But actually.

Lin Li's actions this time were indeed targeted, but not intentional.

Because the project was initiated at almost the same time as Galaxy Park, it had already reached the testing phase, and the original plan was to conduct the test in early December.

As it happened, the penguin came along and insisted on giving away a kill at the very end of November.

Lin Li naturally went along with it.

As for why not invest more publicity resources in this "Fate Track" event?

It's actually very simple.

In short, it's unnecessary.

The Destiny Trails IP already had a lot of brand recognition, plus Lin Li had been making grand promises for two years, and FGO had the inherent appeal of attracting new players.

There's really no need for another big marketing campaign like Tencent did.

Compared to the promotion of Destiny's Path, Lin Li actually focused more on the period after the Destiny's Path DEMO was launched.

Leveraging the positive reputation of the game's trajectory, and further investing in resources, they're building a massive "Dimensional Battlefield" synergy.

In terms of specific actions, they will use the collaboration between Destiny's Trajectory and Dimensional Battlefield, combined with promotional activities, to try to seize market share from Honor of Kings.

However, at this moment, whether it's penguins or gamers...

I didn't think that much about it at all.

All they wanted to do was play games!