Game development begins with destroying Girls' Frontline.

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After a live stream, Stan was drenched in sweat.

This money is really hot to handle; who knows what kind of storm it will cause after the live stream.

As a media professional.

Stan knew very well.

For viewers, the feeling evoked by different people saying different things is completely different.

For example, if a passerby criticizes Spark Games and Scattershot, the audience will only say a few words in response, but that's all; it won't cause any public outrage.

But Yu Zhong's identity is different.

He is the producer of Girls' Frontline. For a producer to come out and criticize a competitor, especially in such a blatant way, is inherently offensive.

Not to mention that in the entire gaming industry, Spark Games has one of the best reputations, as evidenced by its 9.5 rating from Bilibili gamers and 9.6 rating from TapTap gamers.

Yu Zhong's outburst was like saying that the producer of Naruto was trash when he came out of Genshin Impact.

Aside from offending a large number of the other party's fans, there were absolutely no benefits.

Moreover, Stan really didn't understand.

Why would a game developer like you deliberately stand up and provoke hatred? Isn't that just plain stupid?

Indeed, just as Stan had predicted.

Yu Zhong's remarks during the live stream were edited and quickly circulated.

Then came a deluge of public condemnation.

It's important to understand that the current Spark Games is not the same Spark Games that was launched in February.

After several months of build-up, the popularity of Battlefront Girls has remained high. Although the game has relatively little in-game monetization and its revenue is stable at 30 million RMB per month, it is not particularly outstanding in the overall mobile game market.

However, Battlefront Girls has a large player base, with nearly 20 million registered users and monthly active users that are among the top in the anime-style mobile game market.

said with no exaggeration.

This is one of the most popular anime-style mobile games right now.

In addition, Linli has built a reputation for ethical operation based on the principle of low profit and high sales volume.

Chapter Fifty-Five: The Power of Del

One sentence in Yu Zhong.

"Vulgar and Pleasant Tour"

One sentence

"One shot would shatter it."

These two sentences have effectively fueled the hatred between them.

As the storm of public opinion began to rage, countless players started mocking Yu Zhong's ignorant remarks on various social media platforms.

Let alone outsiders, even many Girls' Frontline players think that Yu Zhong is stupid for mocking others for no reason.

So, what did Yu Zhong do at this point, realizing he had caused trouble?

What else could it be?

Of course, we should play the coward.

Whether in the past life or the present.

When faced with a public opinion crisis, Yu Zhong always only knows this one trick.

The players of Girls Frontline cursed for a while, but then Yu Zhong buried his head and pretended to be dead, and the matter gradually died down.

But secretly.

In a fit of anger, Yu Zhong made another bet with Tencent, investing the money into the upcoming major storyline of Girls' Frontline.

At this moment, he was like a gambler who had lost his mind, betting everything on this major update to Girls' Frontline.

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have to say.

Money is indeed a useful thing.

With Tencent and Yuzhong investing huge sums of real money.

The number of registered users and daily active players in Girls' Frontline also increased rapidly, reaching its peak on June 25, two days before the major update of Girls' Frontline.

900 million registered users and 110 million daily active users.

This data is something to be very proud of.

Let's make a comparison.

Honkai Impact 2, which has been in operation for two years, has only registered less than 2000 million users and has around one million daily active users.

While Starfire Games' Battlefront Girls has slightly more registered and daily active users than Honkai Impact 2, it hasn't formed a significant tier.

therefore.

In June 2016.

The fact that Sunburst achieved this data has already made Tencent's investment department very pleased.

Although this data was achieved by spending tens of millions on marketing and promotion, how many games have spent money but still failed to reach this level?

Although this data is only temporary, it will drop quickly without supporting content.

However, with the major update on the 27th, as long as the content can hold up, this data may continue to explode.

Therefore, on the evening of the 25th.

Yu Zhong once again invited Tencent Games' investment department and the employees of Sanbao to have a Japanese meal.

It is said that several bottles of champagne were opened along the way.

In their view, once they have this data, coupled with a major version update, it's impossible to lose.

~~~

Just as Yu Zhong was opening the champagne.

Lin Lizheng strode quickly toward the operations office of Spark Games.

He walked quickly, his shoes making a rapid clattering sound on the ground. He bypassed the group of people in the marketing department and went straight to the operations department by the window, calling out directly, "Li Qi!"

Li Qi, the employee for whom Lin Li personally signed the marriage agreement.

After six months of training and taking advantage of the rapid expansion of Spark Games, he has now been promoted to the position of deputy operations manager.

Several new people have joined his team.

However, Li Qi did not become arrogant after his promotion.

They continue to work diligently.

Hearing Lin Li's call, he immediately stood up.

"President Lin! I'm here."

At the same time, his henchmen followed suit and stood up abruptly, assuming a standing-at-attention posture.

"Hey, what are you guys doing? Sit down, the company doesn't have such strict rules, we're not the mafia."

Lin Li waved his hand as he walked up to Li Qi: "I heard that someone in your group has datamined the upcoming Girls' Frontline game update?"

Li Qi paused for a moment, then nodded.

"Yes, this... we didn't do it on purpose. Xiaobai just noticed how... simple and honest their packing method was, and instinctively started unpacking."

As Spark Games' revenue became more stable, starting last month, Lin Li assigned them a dedicated development team to develop some small games for web-based promotion.

This newcomer named Xiaobai is Li Qi's top programmer.

Lin Li nodded.

"Who is Xiaobai? Take me to him."

"Did... Xiaobai get into some trouble? Mr. Lin, Xiaobai didn't do it on purpose, I can help you with anything."

Seeing Li Qi's hesitant manner, Lin Li realized that he had not yet explained the purpose of his visit.

Li Qi may have misunderstood.

"It's just unpacking a file, what could be wrong with that? It's not illegal, and it's even a meritorious deed. Take me there quickly, I want to see what's inside the file."

Hear this.

Li Qicai was overjoyed and quickly led the way.

"President Lin, over here, President Lin."

soon.

Lin Li walked up behind the employee named Xiao Bai, a young employee wearing a plaid shirt who appeared visibly nervous upon seeing Lin Li's arrival.

"Don't be nervous, open the unpacked contents, let me take a look."

Lin Li patted Xiao Bai on the shoulder, then sat down next to Xiao Bai.

"Okay, okay, Mr. Lin, look... this is the content that was unpacked."

Xiao Bai is the typical tech-savvy employee. If you chat with him, you might not get a single thing out for half a day, but if you talk to him about technology...

Then he was like a completely different person.

soon.

Xiaobai then explained the whole story clearly.

"Didn't they release a PC emulator version this morning? I remembered that Brother Qi mentioned before that we might be releasing a PC version soon, so I downloaded their game package. Then I looked through their file package and found that their game packaging method was very outdated, with no encryption at all."

"This kind of packaging method usually only appears in single-player games. Online game practitioners who understand a little bit of basic logic will not encounter this problem."

Lin Li nodded, not at all surprised by the matter.

"Is this the storyline for their next major update?"

Actually, Xiaobai didn't need to explain; he had already seen the technical flaws in the spread bomb technique, because Xiaobai's entire unpacking operation basically didn't use any hacking methods.

Aside from the initial unpacking of games, other times you can simply find the software corresponding to the file extension and open it.

Moreover, it's perfectly normal for a company that can format players' hard drives when uninstalling a game at launch to do something like this.

More than any of these, he was more concerned with the content.

"Yes."

Lin Li's interest instantly increased significantly.

He stopped talking and began reading the plot written by Yu Zhong.

to be frank.

Before the unpacked files are generated.

Lin Li had already made preparations to deal with Yu Zhong's surprise attack.

His plan was the same as last time: to release the second major update for Battlefront Girls the day before the major update for Yu Zhong.

Although this trick has already been used once.

But Yu Zhong isn't some kind of Saint Seiya.

Use it again, and you can hit him just the same way.

Moreover, using a major version update to offset the risk is an open strategy, unless Yu Zhong doesn't promote it or announce the major version update time.

Otherwise, Lin Li's move would definitely have worked.

Of course, this only works if there is a significant advantage in quality.

Lin Li was confident about this.

However, with the release of this unpacked file, Lin Li had a new idea.

He spent about half an hour skimming through Yu Zhong's new storyline.