Polestar Game Company.
Inside the office.
Zhao Ming has already exited the game, still looking somewhat unsatisfied. His psychological endurance is so poor that he logged off after dying twice.
Well, when I copy your game, you'll be so furious.
Seeing that the account Xu Huan logged into has gone offline, Zhao Ming has lost interest in continuing to play.
Mainly because the game has already been released, and the downloads have surged with too many players.
Everyone was playing for the first time.
So no one cared about how the anti-aircraft gun on the beach was flattened.
Now that there are more people, we can't do it so openly.
Get up from the Virtual Body Sensing Pod and walk out.
Shen Qinghan just finished a round, seeing the game was hot, she directly left to go back to her own company to keep spending money on promotions, while Zhao Ming arranged for people to gather online comments and then started another round.
He bombed Xu Huan again and stopped only when he went offline.
Back at the computer, Zhao Ming began scrolling through the trending searches.
The top three headlines were all occupied by their company.
#Download amount for "World War II: Empire's Rise" surpasses 200,000 in five minutes!#
#Parents reject Polestar Games, claiming its bloodiness harms teenagers' physical and mental health.#
#Unavoidable stories of Polestar Games and Emperor Penguin Group....#
#Celestial Shark Live top gaming gods are just like this?#
#I can do it too~#
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The bloodiness of the opening [Normandy Battlefield] in "World War II: Empire's Rise" and its Hell Level difficulty stunned the entire internet. Many streamers who play horror games saw this scene and directly downloaded it for their own promotion.
The key is that the opening is too harsh.
Yu Feng, a sniper god with millions of fans, and Fang Ming, an FPS omnipotent assault player with millions of fans, both couldn't survive more than five minutes in this game.
Eventually, a trending term emerged.
[I can do it too~]
This term's main firepower was focused on Fang Ming's side.
After all, this guy usually has a foul mouth, and this time being so humiliated, many haters flocked to his homepage to spam [I can do it too~], which infuriated Fang Ming in his streaming room, and he got Yu Feng and others to start a new session.
Knock knock knock!
The sound of knocking echoed, Zhao Ming looked toward the door:
"Enter."
Chi Xue from customer service, a recently graduated energetic girl, walked in, holding a projection tablet, and approached Zhao Ming's desk, tapping it to reveal three-dimensional comments projected above the tablet:
"Boss, the statistics are out."
"Currently, online comments fall into three main categories."
"One is from 'parents' opposing our game, claiming it's too bloody and violent; however, many accounts are actually troll accounts against us, not even deleting previous comments, should be from the Emperor Penguin Group's trolls."
"Another is from people watching for fun, mainly those FPS streamers' haters mocking them, along with bystanders, bringing quite a bit of traffic."
"And the third type is from accounts of war-enthusiastic radicals online, all hyping up our game, which might bring a bad influence."
Zhao Ming thought for a moment and said:
"Don't bother with the first type. Shen can handle the trolls from her side."
"For the second type... get some trolls to open small accounts, pretend to be haters of other FPS game streamers, go and mock them for not daring to play Polestar Company's movie game, stir up the buzz."
Currently, the main target of online haters is streamers for whom Zhao Ming has gifted generously. They are now streaming "World War II: Empire's Rise" while others have received money from the Emperor Penguin Company and are streaming updates for "Ruins of the Future: 2100".
"As for the third type..."
Zhao Ming leaned back in the boss chair and said:
"We're just a company making games, unrelated to politics. Let them shout if they want. Our game is legal and compliant, approved by the Federation with qualified credentials."
"Besides... they can't just shout, they have to play it too."
"There are quite a few of these people, and they can bring a substantial number of downloads to the game. What else can they do apart from shouting? The battlefield in the game is there, and whoever goes enters as cannon fodder."
"Equal abuse... ahem, handling each player equally is the principle of our company."
Chi Xue's face turned strange, did she hear it wrong?
Did the boss say... abuse?!
Anyway, she would just follow the boss's decision, seeing as jobs are hard to come by nowadays:
"Okay."
This is also related to the environment of Blue Star, with fast technological updates and continuous exploration of new energy in earlier years, many aspects of the society have an excess of resources, like the computing power of supercomputers being long oversupplied.
For a game company like Zhao Ming's, investing sixty million Federation Coins on Earth would require dozens or even hundreds of people to operate.
But on Blue Star.
Just one role, one professional, along with the computing power of photon supercomputer clusters.
One person can do the work of ten people, which leads to many industries requiring only a few hires, which puzzled Zhao Ming initially, why hasn't an AI been spawned amidst this overflow of supercomputer power.
Later, he checked and found out that it has long been banned.
For the common people of the Federation, holding a job is like a gift from heaven, with almost no hope for advancement unless you work, and given the excess resources, the Federation can support you for a lifetime, just enough for daily life needs.
Those online who hype up war-monger radicals.
Are essentially using society's reshuffle, conditions to become high officials, those above others, and agitating the people to initiate wars.
Some want to remain idle lifelong, while others want to be in control of power, hence these war-monger radicals are hard to catch completely.
The "Anti-War Competition" aims to soothe the populace, offering hope and promotion space.
Various categories in the annual tournament, as long as you have enough creativity and imagination, winning awards will earn you support and reward from the Federation, much more stable than war.
In this situation.
If they create AI that further squeezes the living space of the populace, that'd be even worse.
There's hardly any info online, just a few notices from over a hundred years ago prohibiting the large-scale use of AI. If it weren't for Zhao Ming being from Earth, he probably wouldn't even think of AI.
I guess only the Six Major Federations have AI now.
Zhao Ming plans to exchange Emotion Value from the [Database] to get an AI, to conveniently cover the increasingly massive game background as updates roll out.
After all, setting backgrounds for exclusive NPCs is one thing; but in your World War II: Empire's Rise, even a common civilian NPC has a complete life story. Can you handle that all on your own?
Zhao Ming needs a reasonable cover, and AI is the best choice for that.
Moreover...
As long as the company doesn't lay off employees, even if the Federation investigates, it won't be a problem. The company has had the same number of people since its inception, before using AI, and after using AI.
There's no such thing as squeezing the populace's living space.
But Zhao Ming also doesn't plan to let these people idle around. Cyber Blue Star: 2077 is, after all, the company's pride and joy. How could they let Emperor Penguin snatch it away for free?
Zhao Ming looks at Chi Xue:
"What's the situation with the new DLC update for Ruins of the Future: 2100? Have all the materials been collected?"
Chi Xue's mouth twitches and after a moment of thought, says:
"Emperor Penguin's new DLC seems to be betting on the content of our new game. They've updated a background where, after another war in Ruins of the Future: 2100, a faction called the Empire rises against the Federation."
"And they've opened a Hellfire battlefield for players to explore and seek treasures."
"The materials have been sorted out."
"Are we going to sue them?"
Chi Xue asks with curiosity. After all, given the momentum of the company's new game, suing Emperor Penguin Group might actually succeed, which would be unprecedented.
Many game developers have been crushed by Emperor Penguin Group's tactics, but the company certainly wouldn't go under now, maybe even win an award. According to Chi Xue's idea, they definitely should sue them in the Federation court to exact revenge and vent some anger.
Zhao Ming looks a bit puzzled:
"Sue?"
"Why sue?"
Chi Xue is somewhat baffled:
"We hold the copyright for the game mechanics, shouldn't we sue them?"
Zhao Ming is surprised and says:
"Exactly."
"So, why sue?"
"You all throw the collected Ruins of the Future: 2100 materials into the calculation software in the photonic supercomputing cluster. With the five billion worth of data and content they've done, we've saved billions."
"Once everything's done, release Cyber Blue Star: 2077 overnight."
"They release new DLC, we update DLC."
"They release premium weapons, we copy them over and offer them for free."
"From now on, this game will live off Emperor Penguin Group."
"If they sue us."
"We hold the copyright for the game mechanics."
"I'm already lenient not to sue him, how could he dare sue me?"
Chi Xue is left bewildered.
What kind of reverse exploitation is this?
The boss really knows his stuff!
Chi Xue's voice couldn't suppress excitement:
"Got it!"
"I'll tell them to copy... Oh no, to borrow our ideas!!!"
Zhao Ming nods with satisfaction.
Good, good, this kid can be taught.
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At this moment.
Celestial Shark Live, Games Section.
Within Mo Xiaomo's streaming room.
Already immersed in the game storyline experience.
After finishing the beginner's tutorial and introduction, Mo Xiaomo appears in the Prime Minister's office, feeling ecstatic.
Checking here for a while, checking there for a while.
Looking at the huge world map and annotations at the center of the office, Mo Xiaomo excitedly says:
"Folks!"
"Although Normandy Landing is tough."
"This immersive storyline is great!"
"I'm actually the Prime Minister! And the Prime Minister of such a large Federation like the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, isn't this amazing?!"
"Look at this map!"
"The Empire has just 470,000 square kilometers, and my Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth has 385,000 square kilometers, that's not much difference, right?"
"Oh my?! Look at these defenses and annotations!"
"My Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth has 39 infantry divisions... 11 cavalry brigades... totaling a million troops, along with over a thousand tanks and more than four hundred aircraft?!!!"
"Could it really be blitzed?"
"How incompetent was the NPC Prime Minister of the original Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth?!"
"Watch me do some micro-management!"
"Now that we know, I must blitz the Empire!!!"