Game development begins with destroying Girls' Frontline.

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Yu Zhong was truly relieved.

His mindset quickly shifted from one extreme to the other.

"It seems that Lin Li isn't very capable after all; he doesn't even dare to challenge me."

"What a coward, what a wimp."

After making a few casual remarks...

Yu Zhong finally stopped refreshing the official Xinghuo Games website and instead pulled up the data for his own game.

Visible to the naked eye.

The number of players in the background began to surge rapidly after the new version was launched.

The number of online users quickly broke the previous few days' limit, soaring to 60, and this number is still slowly climbing with Tencent and its paid promotional channels.

"This time it's really secure."

Chapter Fifty-Seven: A Thunderclap

Yu Zhong was completely relieved, but then felt that the increase was still slightly lower than he had expected.

Now, what he wants is no longer to catch up with Xinghuo Games, but to shatter Xinghuo in one fell swoop, just as he said online.

So the company invested the last portion of its reserved loan into marketing and promotion.

Increase the quantity!!

Add a lot more!

Even if it means going bankrupt, I'll reach 100 million online viewers today!!

With this belief.

Yu Zhong spent the entire morning contacting publicity companies, both to request additional publicity funds and to urge various publicity channels to increase their investment.

"Help me increase the volume first, promote it more, and I will settle the payment with you later."

"Don't worry, how could I possibly owe you anything?"

"When I woke up this morning, there were already 60 people online at the same time. Do you know what 60 people online at the same time means? Do you know how much revenue 60 people online at the same time can bring?"

As Yu Zhong made each call, he felt refreshed and relaxed while working.

If you were to go to Red Romance for a bubble bath at this time...

Hmm... I'll go tonight.

Anyway, once the revenue figures come out tomorrow, it will definitely exceed one million, and this month's revenue might even break twenty million.

At that time, we will be able to successfully acquire Tencent's investment.

He still has complete control over the company.

Making a bet with Tencent was a brilliant move.

Yu Zhong is having a great time.

The cell phone rings.

[Caller: Zhao Ming, Tencent]

Yes, this is Tencent's investment manager.

They're calling now, probably to celebrate.

Ha ha.

Usually, I'm the one who calls you to ask you for money.

Now that the game is popular, they know to call me to celebrate.

Capital.

Just cheap.

Yu was secretly pleased, then adjusted his mindset and answered the phone. This time, he was going to give the other side a good talking-to.

"Yu Zhong!!! What the hell are you doing?! How did you review today's update content?!"

A furious curse left Yu Zhong speechless.

"The new version works perfectly, it's a success, what's wrong?"

"A great success!? You actually say the new version is a success!? Do you know what the approval rating is in the game's version survey right now? Only 21%!"

"Go check the forums again. How are you managing the community? Players are cursing you out. Where are your people?! We spent so much money on marketing and promotion to buy traffic, and you're just wasting it like this?"

"Impossible! I have confidence in the quality of the product content; there were already 60 concurrent users this morning!"

"You know it was 60 in the morning, now take a look?"

"Let me tell you, Yu Zhong, if we fail this time, neither of us will escape!!!"

Yu Zhong opened the backend and found that, just as Zhao Ming had said, the number of online users had actually decreased instead of increased after the promotion was intensified.

At this point, it had dropped to around 40.

"Something must have gone wrong!!!"

"Alright, stop nagging and go see for yourself in the community."

After hanging up the phone, Yu Zhong was completely dejected.

He felt a splitting headache.

He racked his brains but still couldn't figure out why this was happening.

I forced myself to endure the headache.

Yu Zhong started browsing the community and found that things were just as the Tencent investment manager had said: the entire community had completely exploded.

Even those who previously defended Yu Zhong in various online communities have now stepped forward and begun attacking the official channels.

originally.

The public opinion environment for Girls' Frontline was already bad, and now, even those who previously supported the official stance have turned against it.

The entire community has become one-sided.

The central issue of the discussion is the existence of Del.

Scrolling down, there are still quite a few people bringing up old grievances, dredging up past skin problems again.

They cited evidence in turn that the player's actions were inhumane, showed contempt for players, and mocked players.

The two most popular articles were from the NGA forum.

A comprehensive analysis demonstrates that Del is the true protagonist of the game.

"Immersing yourself in Del's world is even more exciting than reading erotic novels."

The two articles provide a comprehensive interpretation of Del's existence, with detailed illustrations and compelling arguments.

More to come.

"The Amazing Moves of Scatterbang."

Anyone can look at this outfit, but you can't.

"SX's planning is terrible; the numbers are all over the place. Is this rabbit hole game even playable? Is it really fun?"

These posts can be said to have unearthed all of Yu Zhongmai's personal opinions from Girls' Frontline.

Many veteran Girls' Frontline players initially thought it was nothing special, but after seeing these, they reflected on details they hadn't noticed before.

They came to their senses.

They began to denounce the authorities.

In fact, although the situation has reached this point and seems critical, it has not caused any serious damage.

Most real Girls' Frontline players are currently just following along and launching attacks.

If Yu Zhong were to issue a statement acknowledging his mistake, the current public opinion environment would improve by at least half.

Then delete what needs to be deleted and change what needs to be changed.

Although there will still be some impact, it won't be too significant, at least not enough to cause serious damage.

Most players will continue playing.

However, if that were actually done...

Then Yu Zhong would no longer be Yu Zhong.

Seeing the chaos in the community, his first reaction was to call in the operations team.

"Go contact these forums, Bilibili, and Weibo, and ask them to delete these posts."

It's actually quite normal for game developers to face public opinion crises.

Moreover, since Girls' Frontline was launched, there have always been two opposing voices in the community.

Yu Zhong was also aware of this matter.

"We contacted them this morning...and they said they couldn't delete it."

What do you mean by "cannot be deleted"?

To be honest, while the Girls' Frontline team as a whole is somewhat lacking, the community operations department, due to years of high pressure, actually has a few people who actually do the work.

Faced with Yu Zhong's question, this person also gave his own answer.

"NGA's response was that these posts were paid promotions by other people, while Bilibili and Weibo's responses were that they were user comments based on facts, and they did not have the authority to delete them."

Upon hearing this, Yu Zhong immediately realized what was going on.

"Is this dirt sold by Xinghuo Games?! Fine, fine, Lin Li, you can't do it openly, so you're resorting to underhanded tactics this time, huh?"

Yu Zhong originally had little experience in publicity and promotion, but he has spent a lot of money recently and has figured out some tricks of the trade.

Not to mention, the people on NGA are also very straightforward. They don't even pretend; they're practically saying outright that these are paid smear articles that can't be deleted.

Yu Zhong was furious.

He picked up the phone and immediately called Zhao Ming of Tencent.

no way.

Despite his anger, he couldn't resolve the issue himself and had to turn to Tencent.

After explaining the situation.

Zhao Ming was also confused.

What happened to your previous PR team?

Yu Zhong said, rather speechless, "President Zhao, I've explained this many times. I really don't have a public relations team. Why don't you trust me?"

There was silence on the other end of the phone.

"So, you've never hired online trolls or used public relations before?"

"Yes..."

Yu Zhong thought to himself, "This person finally understands."

However, the answer Yu Zhong was hoping for did not appear.

After a long silence, Zhao Ming only said one sentence.

"If what you're saying is true, then I can only say that your enemy is stronger than you think... I will communicate with the higher-ups about this matter, but for now, you should try to suppress public opinion yourself. If that doesn't work, issue an apology first."

Yu Zhong didn't react much to the first part, but when he heard Zhao Ming ask him to issue an apology, he was quite surprised.

He broke his guard.

"Mr. Zhao, get this straight, I'm the one who's been framed, and you expect me to apologize?"

"Don't get so emotional. In business, anything not prohibited by law is permitted. Besides, your storyline is indeed problematic. If you lost this battle, you lost. After apologizing..."

Before Zhao Ming could finish speaking, Yu Zhong hung up the phone.