Chapter 24: The Glory of Arrogance (Thanks for the tip!)

Zhang Yuanfang left a report and left the office.

Pei Yunteng was left waiting there leisurely.

Not long after, the phone rang.

It was Ye Xiu who called.

Pei Yunteng raised the corner of his mouth slightly, picked up the phone and answered it, his voice suddenly became cheerful.

"Hey, Xiaoye! Congratulations! Your live broadcast debut was perfect, with a turnover of 45 million!"

"Well, thank you, Mr. Pei." Ye Xiu was obviously in a bad mood.

Pei Yunteng pretended to be dumbfounded: "What's wrong, are you unhappy?"

Ye Xiu laid out all the problems he encountered.

“If they don’t play Honor of Kings, why would they become my fans?” Ye Xiu’s tone sounded a little tired.

"Let's start the video."

When the video was connected, Pei Yunteng put away his smile and asked, "Do you want to hear the truth or a lie?"

Ye Xiu was stunned: "Let's listen to the lies first."

"The lie is that as a live broadcast room highly recommended on the homepage, many of your viewers are passers-by who are attracted to the live broadcast room, and the proportion of players among them will be lower."

“It seems to make sense?” Ye Xiu was stunned. He had not expected this angle, and it was quite reasonable.

"That makes sense," Pei Yunteng sighed, "but it's not the main reason."

“Believe me, even if we only count your old fans, the percentage of players who have played Honor of Kings is definitely not high.”

"Moreover, a large part of this ratio is the result of your personal fan effect."

Ye Xiu was silent for a long time before asking: "But, why?"

"Ye Xiu," Pei Yunteng looked directly into Ye Xiu's eyes, "For you, Glory is probably a very fun and great game."

“It has a very high skill ceiling and is very challenging to play, which is very suitable for players like you who pursue excellence.”

"But, that's you. You have the skills, the talent, and the support of the club."

"So, have you ever thought about what it would be like for an ordinary person with nothing to play Honor of Kings?"

What is the experience of ordinary people playing Honor of Kings like? Ye Xiu was stunned.

This involves his blind spot in knowledge.

Pei Yunteng knew at a glance that this guy had never thought about this before, so he turned on screen sharing.

"We at Tenghai conducted a special investigation on this when we were researching the game Honor of Kings."

"We even made an animated short film for this purpose, called "Glory, from Understanding to Abandonment"."

"Take a look." Pei Yunteng clicked on the video.

The video begins with the scene of Ye Xiu defeating Baihua in the third season and holding up the trophy. The video was widely reported by the media and became the talk of the town for a while.

Suddenly, many people saw the news and became interested in Honor.

I was interested and wanted to give it a try. However, things were not as smooth as I imagined.

The first thing is the configuration required to play Honor.

As a first-person MMORPG online game with only ten zones in total and 30 years of leading technology, the configuration requirements of this game can be imagined.

Tenghai has specially calculated the configuration. Even now, a computer that can run Honor and is equipped with a special card reader will cost more than 10,000 yuan.

How many people can be eliminated with a computer costing more than 10,000 yuan?
Seeing this, Ye Xiu subconsciously retorted: "Aren't there still internet cafes?"

Pei Yunteng smiled mysteriously: "Yes, there is also an Internet cafe."

"Keep reading."

Sure enough, an Internet cafe specially adapted for Honor configuration soon appeared in the video.

However, not everyone has the conditions to go to an Internet cafe.

College students who concentrate on their studies, white-collar workers who work all day, workers who travel from place to place...

For various reasons, these people are unwilling to go to Internet cafes, a place that is often associated with smoke and chaos.

“Look, more than half have been screened out, and most of them are elites.” Pei Yunteng looked at Ye Xiu with a smile.

Ye Xiu said nothing.

Video continues.

The rest of the group either had computers or went to Internet cafes, and finally played Honor of Kings. Then, some people began to get 3D sickness.

"Many people get dizzy from 3D games, not to mention RPGs," Pei Yunteng explained.

"You know better than me how shaky the camera is in this game, especially when melee characters use their skills."

“This is not something that everyone can bear.”

Ye Xiu’s expression became increasingly ugly.

He, who always boasted, "I will never get tired of playing Glory even if I play it for another ten years," discovered for the first time that this game was not as perfect as he had imagined.

Yet the video continues, becoming increasingly edgy.

Those who can adapt to the first-person perspective finally enter the game and start playing, and then...

I started to squeeze in the human biscuits in the Novice Village.

Several hours passed, but I only killed a few insignificant monsters and completed a few unchallenging tasks.

Look at the players next door, who started playing Tencent's open world game at about the same time. By this time, they have already left the novice village and started enjoying the fun of the game.

"What a rubbish game, what a waste of time!" Another group of people who lacked patience left.

But there are players who hold on to the end, and finally, they can enjoy...

The fun of working illegally for a big guild.

The major guilds control the vast majority of high-level resources in the game. Either join them or lose the game content.

After joining them, they had to do all kinds of dirty and tiring work for the guild all day long, but all they got were low-end equipment discarded by the higher-ups.

"I'm here to play games and relax, not to work like a grandson!" Another group of people left.

At this time, there were only a few people left.

……

Ye Xiu's sweat broke out like a floodgate.

"…Is it that exaggerated?" He finally spoke, his voice clearly lacking in confidence.

"Yes." Pei Yunteng nodded firmly.

"You should have some experience with this yourself."

"What experience?" Ye Xiu shook his head in confusion.

"Chen Guo, you are familiar with your boss's wife, right?" Pei Yunteng grinned.

"Boss lady? What happened to her?" Ye Xiu didn't understand why Pei Yunteng mentioned Chen Guo at this time.

"Chen Guo, who runs an internet cafe, has plenty of time to play games every day. She has been playing Honor of Kings for five years, making her a veteran among veterans."

"Besides, as the owner of an Internet cafe, I am financially independent at a young age, making hundreds of thousands of dollars a month, so I have no shortage of money."

"What's even more outrageous is that it's a female player, and she's a very good-looking female player."

Pei Yunteng was a little jealous when he said this: "It's hard for us game developers to find high-quality players of this level even with a lantern. Once we find them, we will definitely worship them."

He even shouted a slogan in a rather servile manner: "We must not let our users suffer any injustice!"

But these jokes soon faded into a kind of ironic indifference: "But what about the reality?"

"Let alone anything else, the best equipment for a player like this is just a crappy purple weapon."

"Purple weapon! There are three levels above it: orange, pink and silver!" Pei Yunteng was very disappointed.

"To be honest, if a game under Tenghai had a situation like Chen Guo who played for five years but still couldn't graduate, the person in charge would have to go under the overpass and beg for food the next day."

"However, when it comes to glory, they don't care at all."

Finally, Pei Yunteng slapped the table sarcastically: "This is glory, the glory of arrogance!"

"The honor of treating players as grandchildren!"

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