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This also affected the entire Honor of Kings team, from the game development studio in Chengdu to the operations department in Beijing, and all the Honor of Kings staff.

They tend to be conservative in their approach to Honor of Kings and the game's operation.

Only when creating new projects through fission.

To deceive... no, to secure internal capital, they will undertake some "innovations."

Most of these "innovations" simply involve using the Honor of Kings IP to add elements from already successful games.

For example, it plagiarized "Star Dawn" from "Naraka: Age of Extinction".

This is ridiculous! It's a game that was announced later than "Honor of Kings World", yet it entered closed beta earlier.

In short.

Under these circumstances, why is Chen Zheyuan bringing up the threat theory of "Dimensional Battlefield" here...?

What I received was nothing but perfunctory treatment.

"This kind of game can threaten Honor of Kings? You're kidding..."

Although no one said it.

But Chen Zheyuan could clearly feel this atmosphere.

This atmosphere even influenced Chen Zheyuan.

He was thinking about it himself.

Am I being a bit of an overreacter?

Until this weekend.

Chen Zheyuan went back to his hometown, which is in Sichuan.

He went home this time partly because he really missed home and wanted to come back to visit, and partly because he wanted to see his old colleagues.

Let's talk about it.

On Saturday morning, Chen Zheyuan got off the plane.

I took a taxi home.

After having lunch with his family, Chen Zheyuan went for a walk as usual.

There's a park right downstairs from his apartment.

When he was still in high school in Tianfu, he would often encounter students playing games in the park.

Chapter 440 is a bit too worrying

Playing a game or two on the way home from school is a way for many students to relax.

In Tianfu, the pressure is relatively low, so there are quite a lot of people playing games in this park.

Even though it's the weekend.

There were also quite a few students gathered here, playing games.

Based on Chen Zheyuan's previous experience, in high school circles like this, Honor of Kings is absolutely the core game.

But today.

As he passed by, Chen Zheyuan heard a strange shout.

"Hey, why did you choose this in One-Punch Man? You should choose the second ultimate move!!"

"You don't know anything! The enemy mid laner is Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha! I'm a squishy character, and so is she. My first skill doesn't provide any mobility, and if I don't level up my second skill, I can't even get close to her."

Besides the two kids playing games on their phones, there were some even younger children watching them from behind.

In addition, some people who were further away and holding their phones couldn't help but run over to see what was going on, seeing the two shouting so loudly.

Chen Zheyuan glanced at it.

Isn't this just "Dimension Battlegrounds"?

What game are you playing?

Chen Zheyuan asked the question knowing the answer already.

The two high school students instinctively put their phones away when they saw Chen Zheyuan.

"I'm not a teacher, I work in the game development industry over there."

Hearing this, the two high school students finally lowered their guard.

"This game? This game is 'Dimension Battlegrounds,' a new game. Aren't you in the game industry? You don't even know this? Your information is way out of touch."

Chen Zheyuan felt a little embarrassed after being mocked by the high school students.

After being away from school for so long, are all high school students these days so aggressive in their speech?

"Is it fun?"

"Of course, why would I download it if it wasn't fun?"

How does it compare to Honor of Kings?

At this moment, before the high school student who had been mocking Chen Zheyuan could speak, another high school student spoke up.

"It's much better than Honor of Kings, you know? This game is a fair game."

"Fair game?"

"Yeah, let me tell you, the reason I couldn't reach the King rank in Honor of Kings before wasn't because I was bad at it, it was because of Honor of Kings. I heard from others that the difference in runes is huge, and there's also that EO matchmaking system, you know?"

"ELO?"

"Yes, yes, that's it."

"Hey! Stop chatting!!! Someone's coming! Look at the map, look at the minimap!"

The high school students who were chatting were not paying attention when a beautiful white figure suddenly appeared from the edge of the map, unleashing a combo and a continuous beam of light.

High school students' cell phones have become black and white.

"I'm telling you, someone's coming! Don't you even look at the minimap? Sigh..."

A tone of disappointment and frustration.

"Nanoha's burst damage on the other side is too strong."

"Bullshit, that's because you didn't look at the map. I marked the points for you."

"However, it's good that you're dead now. Go home, get some gear, and then we'll raid later..."

The two high school students continued using their phones.

Chen Zheyuan, standing to the side, was lost in thought.

He didn't think that it was a big deal that two high school students were playing "Dimension Battlegrounds".

This is just a probabilistic event.

He was actually thinking about something else entirely.

The "fair game" that Spark promotes is a really good point of attack, as long as Honor of Kings doesn't remove runes or skin attributes.

This pain point will continue to be exploited by Xinghuo. Even high school students think that "Dimension Battlefield" is a fair game, while "Honor of Kings" is not.

This shows that its influence is indeed not small.

In addition, Chen Zheyuan also noticed another thing: the appeal of the characters in "Dimensional Battlefield" is no less than that of the heroes in "Honor of Kings".

Honor of Kings aims to lower the barrier to entry for players.

It uses a large number of historical figures' names.

"Dimension Battlefield" uses anime characters, but Xinghuo is very clever; they often add titles to the names of the anime characters.

Even if you don't know the origins of these characters, you'll become familiar with them after playing a few rounds.

Tencent may be able to continue to support the revenue of Honor of Kings with its massive user base, but Tencent's tit-for-tat marketing approach will definitely have an impact on Honor of Kings.

For penguins.

The appearance of "Dimensional Battlefield" at present seems like a newly lit campfire; you can feel the heat, but you can't see any flames yet.

But for another company...

"Dimensional Battlefield" is not a bonfire that has been lit.

It was an asteroid that hit Earth.

~~~

Magic City.

Jumping networks.

Zhao Liqin stared blankly at the monitor, which displayed various data reports for "300 Heroes" over the past few days.

"This is too tragic."

As the company's boss, Zhao Liqin had been paying attention to Xinghuo since "Dimensional Battlefield" was still in the promotional stage.

However, he wasn't concerned about Xinghuo's games, but rather whether Xinghuo would use copyright as a weapon against them.

Zhao Liqin did a lot of work in this regard.

This included meeting with leaders, assembling a dedicated legal team, and even being prepared to pay money to avoid trouble.

It can be said that this was during the time when Tencent and Spark were competing in terms of publicity and marketing.

He's the busiest one.

But unexpectedly...

From the initial announcement of "Dimensional Battlefield" to the start of the first test, Xinghuo never contacted them, and no one brought up the copyright issue of 300 Heroes.

It was as if, in Xinghuo's eyes, they didn't exist at all.

This result made Zhao Liqin both happy and somewhat unhappy.

He was happy because without Xinghuo's copyright attacks, he could save a lot of copyright fees. He was unhappy because he felt that the other party was disrespectful to the current influence of "300 Heroes".

It's worth noting that before "Dimension Battlegrounds" appeared, "300 Heroes" was the top product in the anime star brawler genre, with annual revenue exceeding 100 million!

But today...

Zhao Liqin now understands why Xinghuo hasn't used copyright as a weapon.

because..

It's simply not necessary.

Since yesterday.

The jump network seemed to have triggered some strange signal, and the company's executives began lining up to report to his office.

Under normal circumstances.

In the workplace, people tend to report only good news and not bad.

But this time.

But they are completely different.

The reports from the Jump Network executives were increasingly worse than the last.

This proves that they abandoned the fine tradition of reporting only good news and not bad news.

It's because of this worry, this worry is a bit too much.

They were finding it difficult to cope, so they had no choice but to report it to their superiors.

"The number of online players has decreased by nearly 70% year-on-year."

Daily recharge volume decreased by 80%.

"Daily active players dropped by 77%, and the average playtime for active players decreased from one and a half hours to 30 minutes."

"The data is still dropping..."

Listening to these data.