Chapter 249 You love glory, does glory love you?
"Um, please show your ID card." Chen Guo looked at the boy in front of him who looked obviously very young. He had a strange expression on his face, but he still went through the process seriously.

There are quite a lot of kids coming today.

Since the Xingxin Club was officially established, Chen Guo's time in the Internet cafe has gradually decreased.

But sometimes, on a whim, I still want to stay for half a day.

Today is a busy day because I need to refurbish the card reader.

Ever since Honor's market share in Internet cafes was mostly swallowed up by League of Legends, except for a small piece of land reserved for Honor players, the card readers that come with other machines have been gathering dust.

But tonight, the new version of Honor was launched, and the number of players who wanted to play Honor increased significantly, so Internet cafes had to clean up these card readers again.

Due to the shortage of staff, Chen Guo, who was relatively idle in the club, returned to his old job.

However, the composition of today's customers really made Chen Guo, who has been a boss for many years, a little overwhelmed.

There seem to be a little too many kids today.

Many of them look very immature, probably no more than ten years old, and they want to sneak in with just an account card.

Chen Guo ruthlessly drove them all out one by one.

Xingxin is a formal Internet cafe. After the establishment of the club, all its previous irregular defects were corrected in order to avoid causing trouble for the club in terms of public opinion.

How is it possible to earn money from the kid at this time?
Of course, Chen Guo has seen a lot of kids flocking to Internet cafes over the years.

Every time an important exam is over or a long holiday comes, there will always be some daring kids trying to break in.

But it is rare to see a group of kids rushing in with Honor account cards.

Today, Chen Guo kicked out more than a dozen kids, all of whom wanted to play Honor of Kings.

This totally piqued her curiosity.

The man in front of him was a little older, about eighteen years old. After hearing what Chen Guo said, he quickly lowered his head and reached into his trouser pocket.

After taking out his ID card and looking up, he saw that the boss was such a beautiful woman. His face immediately turned red and he handed it over timidly.

Chen Guo took it with amusement, and after a look, thought, well, this one is finally eighteen years old.

Nodding, Chen Guo asked while entering the information: "Why did you suddenly think of coming to the Internet cafe?"

The child has a shaved head and wears thick glasses. Although he is not wearing a school uniform, his clothing style is quite conservative. Combined with his temperament, he looks like a good student.

People like this don't often come to smoky and dirty places like Internet cafes.

When a pretty girl spoke to him, the kid's face turned even redder. He didn't dare to look in Chen Guo's direction, and his voice was as soft as a mosquito's hum: "The computer configuration at home can't keep up."

Configuration can't keep up? Chen Guo understood what this kid was doing when he heard this.

The pursuit of League of Legends' operation so far seems to be extreme optimization. Unless his parents are still using an old computer from fifteen years ago, there will be no such thing as not being able to support it.

"Come here to play Glory?"

"……Um."

Chen Guo's curiosity was piqued again, and she asked casually, "Why did you think of playing Honor of Kings? Don't young people nowadays prefer League of Legends?"

Who would have thought that as soon as the word "League of Legends" was mentioned, the timid kid suddenly became excited, and his voice suddenly rose eight octaves: "Who wants to play that kind of garbage!"

The sudden outburst startled Chen Guo.

"Calm down, calm down. I'm not making fun of you." Chen Guo waved her hands quickly.

The child reacted after his outburst. His momentum immediately died down and he apologized repeatedly.

This made Chen Guo even more suspicious.

No matter how you look at it, this kid is the kind of person who is usually introverted, studies hard, and has a calm personality. He probably doesn't even have much social experience.

He doesn't seem like the type to get angry with others easily.

But when it comes to Honor and League of Legends, he looks like a cat whose tail has been stepped on, and his fur immediately stands up.

Chen Guo, who was confused, waited for the kid to calm down and asked in a calm tone, "But most of the people who come to our Internet cafe to surf the Internet recently are League of Legends players!"

This is because this is Xingxin Internet Cafe, a former gathering place for loyal Excellent Era fans, and it is able to still maintain a certain scale of Glory players.

Internet cafes that don't have this location advantage, and creatures like Honor players, are almost extinct.

After saying this, the kid didn't explode like he did just now, but his voice got louder again: "It's just a thief who took advantage of the situation!"

Then the little boy started talking nonstop.

He began to enumerate the shortcomings of League of Legends, and his arguments sounded quite logical and plausible.

The graphics of League of Legends are poor, the models are crude, and there is no artistic sense at all.

What a serious krypton gold problem, skins are released every week, it's ugly.

What a boring map!

A lot of them.

Then, it was some black-hearted capitalist named Tenghai who wanted to monopolize the market and deliberately suppressed Honor of Kings to support its own rubbish games. This is why we are in this situation. Supporting Honor of Kings is to clear the source...

Everything he said made Chen Guo feel a little overwhelmed.

As a five-year veteran player of Glory and a member of the management of a professional League of Legends club, even though Chen Guo's talent in gaming is far from high, her understanding of the game has reached an extremely deep level.

The so-called shortcomings of League of Legends that Xiaohaige "complained" were not the case at all in Chen Guo's opinion.

The poor picture quality is because people are focused on lowering the threshold for playing games, so that players' gaming experience will not be affected by device performance as much as possible.

There are only a few maps, and that’s because the gameplay is focused on competitive games, which is completely different from RPG open world games.

It is true that krypton gold is a serious problem, but LOL has fulfilled its promise very well, and so far no payment point has been able to affect any value in the game.

There was even a skin that was previously reported to have skill special effects that were too dark and difficult to dodge in a game. Tencent and Hai officials quickly made corrections and replaced them with more obvious special effects.

This is a game that truly does not require in-game purchases and will not affect any gaming experience.

Moreover, is it really a good thing if the game does not require pay-to-win?

Honor of Kings does not have an official krypton gold channel, but various studios and material suppliers are everywhere, and various resources are sold at sky-high prices, making the experience of ordinary players even worse.

Chen Guo glanced at the account card in the kid's hand and asked meaningfully, "Then what is the account card in your hand?"

The kid's enthusiasm for talking was suddenly choked, and he immediately returned to a timid state.

After a long while, he quietly replied, "I bought it online for 400 yuan."

Sure enough, Chen Guo sighed softly inwardly.

When Honor officially announced some general details of the new mode, especially when it was announced that all equipment in the new mode would start from white equipment,
Honor’s pricing system has entered a state of “collapse, but not completely collapse”.

It is said to have collapsed because the high-end materials market that originally relied on the professional league officially fell apart from this day on, and no club would spend so much money to purchase materials in Honor.

The reason why it didn’t completely collapse is that these studio businessmen unexpectedly found a new way to make money:
Cloud players.

The new version of Honor has attracted a large number of new fans under the viral promotion. Although some of them are pure cloud fans, there are also many who really want to play this game.

After all, Honor’s mechanisms are many and complex, and pure cloud players can easily be exposed when bragging.

The new mode promoted in the news combines multiple elements such as melees, boss challenges, etc., and only players with the maximum level are eligible to sign up for it.

For ordinary new players, it would take them half a year to build a level 70 account.

It just so happens that the fans that Honor has attracted this time are shallow players or even non-players like this kid.

This type of people usually have very limited knowledge of the gaming field. They are simply interested in it after seeing it on social media and want to give it a try.

They don't understand the process of playing the game, nor do they know the pricing system in the industry, and they don't even have the patience to learn from scratch.

In Pei Yunteng's previous life, these people were fooled by the Steam manager, but in this life, they can be harvested like leeks by the number dealers.

An account without any advanced equipment or skill points, which can only meet the basic gaming needs, can be sold for hundreds of dollars.

You know, even in the era when materials and accounts were the most valuable, this kind of pure white account has never been sold for such a high price.

Because of this, the merchant market of Glory has strangely maintained a certain degree of balance, which is also a wonder.

Chen Guo pointed at the card and said with a half-smile: "Don't you think this is called krypton gold?"

After hearing this, the kid's brain was obviously overloaded. After a long while, he stammered and replied, "I didn't give any money to the government..."

"So your money can't contribute to the gaming environment..." Chen Guo sighed. She had basically figured out the way this kid thought.

For some reason, this child developed a deep empathy with the Glory game. He always considered Glory's perspective and the interests of Glory.

If you want to persuade him, you have to start from the interests of glory, so that this kid can listen.

"If your money is earned by the official, the developers of Honor will have more income, and will have more motivation to make the game better and have more financial resources to develop more and better content."

"But if your money is taken away by account scalpers, it won't have any positive effect on the gaming environment. It will also be more difficult to operate the game."

Although this is just a lie to fool the little kid, it is the truth.

In Chen Guo's opinion, if the payment model of Honor could be more diverse, and the entire game could only rely on the income from the professional league to make money, Honor would definitely not be like this.

It's not a buyout game, so what qualifications do you have to completely reject in-app purchases?
Sure enough, after hearing this, the kid’s face turned visibly ugly.

If you tell him that "being able to make money is a skill", the kid will probably still use some kind of honor and nobleness, and disdain to cheat dirty money and other words to paralyze himself.

But if you tell him directly that Glory will destroy himself, he will start to get angry.

He really loves glory...

"Um, boss, are you telling the truth?" the kid asked at a loss.

"I've been a player for six years, why would I lie to you?" Chen Guo sighed and turned the screen of the computer next to him where he was slacking off.

During this year, taking advantage of the sharp drop in prices in the equipment and material markets, Chen Guo also took the opportunity to make a small upgrade to Zhu Yanxia's equipment.

At this moment, the orange and purple equipment suddenly blinded the little boy's eyes.

"How awesome!" The kid said with admiration on his face.

It was obvious that he lacked social experience, and facing a beautiful older sister like Chen Guo who had a cheerful temperament, his defense was basically zero.

Chen Guo only needed to ask a random question and he would tell him exactly what he had eaten last night.

Chen Guo thought about it, recorded his message first, and then personally took him to the computer.

When passing the smoking area on the road, the lingering second-hand smoke rushed into the kid's nose uncontrollably. He coughed violently twice, obviously not used to the smell.

This must be a good boy.

Then why do we worship glory so much?
When they got to the kid's camera, Chen Guo tried to slow down her tone as much as possible and asked, "Can you tell me how you came to like Glory?"

I just showed off my account in front of Brother Xiaohai. In Brother Xiaohai’s mind, Chen Guo is a veteran of this game and a close friend of mine.

The last bit of defense was completely removed, and the kid confessed the reason why he fell in love with Glory.

The process was almost exactly as Chen Guo had guessed.

The kid is not very sociable on weekdays. He is the traditional hard-working student and rarely plays games.

To the extent that when his classmates were talking about League of Legends or something like that, he often couldn't get a word in.

This made him often feel lonely and friendless, and also formed his introverted and socially anxious personality.

At the same time, if you don’t understand, you don’t have the right to speak, and the child’s presence in the school’s extracurricular life is not high.

Whenever he saw his classmates who were good at playing League of Legends talking and getting a lot of praise, he felt bad. Until he came into contact with Honor of Kings.

The game of Glory was tailor-made for him.

It has the qualifications, the skills, the few players, and there have been such exciting updates recently.

Next time when his classmates ask him why he doesn’t play League of Legends, he can proudly say, I play Honor of Kings.

Moreover, due to the need to combat anti-black fan groups, Honor's fan base is quite close-knit, with a large number of active fan groups and other communities.

After joining, Xiao Hai Ge felt an unprecedented sense of belonging, which made him fall into it tenfold and a hundredfold.

Follow the main force to fight against various black fans, engage in team building, and enjoy the pleasure of overwhelming the opponent with the strength of numbers.

Now, the new version of Honor is about to be launched. Although he has never played Honor, as a self-proclaimed die-hard fan of Honor, he thinks he should still support it.

After all, it is really hard to understand the game of Honor purely through cloud.

So I gritted my teeth and used the pocket money I had saved for a long time to buy an account card, and then sneaked into the Internet cafe when the final exams were approaching, just to not miss this "event".

Chen Guo couldn't remember how many times he had sighed.

As a club that is closely related to both teams, Xingxin-Jia Shi also discussed the reasons for this situation when the Glory fans and League of Legends were fighting.

The most important one is that Honor serves as a vehicle for marginalized groups to fight for the right to speak.

These groups, which usually cannot squeeze into the so-called "mainstream circles", need something that sounds powerful to unite them and serve as their weapon.

Just like Xiaohaige, he "liked" Honor of Kings at first just to fight back against those classmates who ignored him and played League of Legends.

In this process, they were gradually conquered by their own propaganda campaigns and became die-hard fans of Glory.

Chen Guo instinctively disliked this model, but she was not Pei Yunteng after all, so she couldn't find any fault with it.

Seeing that the kid was very excited to experience the only true God in his mind, Chen Guo felt embarrassed to spoil his fun.

However, whether it was Lao Ye, Mu Mu or Xiao Tang, their evaluation of it was not very high after experiencing it.

I hope this child won’t be defeated by this gap.

The kid got on the plane with shining eyes. Chen Guo was in no hurry to leave, but just stood behind him and watched him play.

To be precise, this really can't be called playing.

The threshold for glory has not been improved much in the version update. In order to experience the new mode, Xiaohaige even bought a maximum level account.

More importantly, he didn’t understand the characteristics of each profession and bought a mage scholar account that required extremely high operation skills.

Seeing that this kid couldn't even move properly after riding on the broom, and his various skills were not smooth at all,
Chen Guo seemed to have seen the fate that this kid would encounter next.

Sure enough, after trying hard for a long time, the kid could only barely control the character's movement and use a few skills, and he couldn't wait to rush to the entrance of the peak showdown mode and start calling people.

The new version had just come out and there were so many people coming, he quickly put together a team of six.

However, this configuration made Chen Guo's eyes twitch.

Putting aside questions like whether the professional combination is reasonable, the fact that these six guys are all using fully equipped white finished products is enough to explain the problem.

A newbie who can't even figure out the six basic operations challenges a new mode that even professional players are at a loss for?
Chen Guo just watched as Brother Xiao and his convoy charged into the Dark Forest with great momentum, attacked the Dark Night Cat Demon with great momentum, and then were sent home cleanly by a few claws.

Well, Xiaohaige was killed instantly by one claw of Cat God, and Zhang Jiale was also killed instantly by one claw of Cat God, so Xiaohaige is equal to Zhang Jiale, there is nothing wrong with that.

After his first failure, Xiaohaige was able to adjust his mindset. After all, in his opinion, Honor of Kings is a high-threshold game.

But the second time...

the third time……

the fourth time……

With the level of this group of youngsters, even if they fight a hundred times, they cannot escape the claw of the cat demon when they first saw it.

If they continue to be stubborn, what awaits them is endless despair.

Amidst these repeated failures, the originally happy atmosphere among the group quietly changed.

The kids started arguing with each other about the reasons for their failure, accusing each other of being bad players.

By the end of the argument, everyone was so angry that they just disbanded and went their separate ways.

Brother Xiaohai is not good at speaking, his mouth is sharp but his tongue is not sharp, even when he is arguing with haters he uses copy-and-paste rhetoric.

In this conflict, he was the one who suffered the most, and was blamed and ridiculed by several of his "partners".

At this moment, his eyes were empty and he just sat there in a daze.

When the team was just formed, everyone had a very good relationship and shared with each other their feelings about fighting side by side against the evil forces during this period of time. They were inseparable.

But why did it become a situation where they hurt each other now?
And Chen Guo saw all of this.

Seeing the kid's eyes gradually turn red, the always kind girl finally took out her phone:

"Abin, you're not training, right? Come with your friends and help me."

……

The kid felt like the sky was falling.

I finally found the game I "liked" and the belonging I wanted, but why did it fall apart in just a few dozen minutes after I actually encountered it?
He had clearly spent so much time and energy on the revival of glory, but why couldn't he gain even a little bit of happiness from it?
He just felt like he was going to collapse.

Just when he was about to pull out the account card that was now filled with despair, he suddenly heard a clear voice beside him: "Do you need to form a team?"

The little boy looked up in confusion, only to see that the five seats on both sides of him were already filled with people, all of them were children in their teens, some even looked younger than him.

The one closest to him was smiling at him.

"You are……"

"My name is Qiu Fei, and I used to be in the youth training camp of a professional team." Qiu Fei demonstrated his battle form. His account, which was much more luxurious than Chen Guo's, immediately dazzled the little brother.

"I... am a sucker." The kid's confidence was completely shattered.

"It's okay, noobs also have the right to enjoy the fun of the game!" Qiu Fei smiled brightly.

The five members of Jia Shi only heard that Chen Guo met a crazy kid in the Internet cafe, so they insisted on joining in the fun.

Seeing that the kid was about to collapse from being beaten, he decided to use his style to help him.

Xiao Haige obviously didn't know that these people were the professional players of League of Legends that he hated the most. He was dazed and was pulled together by the five people from Jia Shi to form a team, and then regrouped and attacked the Dark Night Cat Demon.

The rest of the night was spent in chaos.

Although Qiu Fei and his friends had asked Ye Xiu and his friends for strategies on how to defeat the cat demon in advance, it was still extremely difficult to defeat a strengthened cat demon when there was a burden involved.

Even though Jia Shi had three young trainees and two geniuses, it still took them a whole afternoon to finally defeat the cat demon.

Even though five people were killed, Qiu Fei completed the final blow when the opponent was almost at the bottom of his health.

After defeating the cat demon, the six people collapsed in their chairs, feeling relieved.

At this time, the word "Glory" was already displayed on the screen. Their opponents were killed by the BOSS, so there was no need for a PVP stage at all.

"Finally passed!" Abin breathed a sigh of relief.

This honest kid really came here with the intention of watching a joke at first, but who knew that he would end up helping his boss gain points.

The little brother was already moved to tears.

After fighting for half a night, he felt very clearly how weak he was and how difficult the cat demon was.

A few strangers were actually willing to take me out for half a night.

At this moment, all his cynical and negative emotions disappeared.

"Thank you for taking me through!"

"It's a small matter." Qiu Fei smiled.

Having been the leader of Excellent Era for such a long time, his personal charisma has become more and more sufficient.

"By the way, you just said that you are a professional player, right? Then you should be on the court in the Glory rematch, right? I will definitely come to watch it live then!" The kid said excitedly.

Qiu Fei's eyes narrowed, and he was about to laugh it off.

But Abin blurted out, "But we are not professional players of Honor, we are from LSPL."

"What is LSPL?"

"League of Legends Professional Minor League..."

All I can say is that Chen Zebin is like this. He will never learn to think before speaking or doing anything in his life.

The kid was dumbfounded again.

The good brother who guides me to play the new mode...is he a player from the next LOL, or did he switch from Honor to LOL?
Then...the kid suddenly felt a little ashamed.

When he was facing off against Heizi, he often cursed these players as traitors and spineless.

But now, those whom he usually regarded as comrades and partners had scattered like birds and beasts after a few fights, leaving only curses.

The one he usually regarded as his enemy actually led him to defeat the cat demon that had left him with psychological trauma, allowing him to finally grab a trace of happiness in this stingy game.

That’s right, now, Xiaohaige’s only evaluation of Honor is stinginess.

He had thought the threshold for this "Brahmin game" would be high, but never imagined it would be this high.

So much so that there is no room for survival for players of their level.

This is because he hasn't met those real old players, otherwise he would experience several times more "fun"

For a moment, the brilliant image that Rong Yao had built up bit by bit in his mind over the past few months was completely destroyed by this trip to the Internet cafe.

Seeing that the kid seemed to be shaken, Chen Guo stepped forward and patted the kid on the shoulder, imitating Lao Ye's behavior. "Now that you have experienced it, does the experience of Honor meet your expectations?"

"I understand your desire to find a place to rely on and a group that can bring a sense of belonging."

"But when you are looking for someone, it is best to go through a series of screening and self-judgment and not just believe everything others say."

The term "independent thinking" has been played up by public intellectuals. But in many cases, it is the simplest solution to many unnecessary contradictions.

Think independently, don't be led by the rhythm, and don't follow the crowd. If you can do this, you will be immune to more than 90% of boring rhythms.

But it is easier said than done.

"If the game of Glory is really as perfect as you imagine, how could there be such a big incident that almost destroyed the entire alliance?"

"How is it possible that the League of Legends is suppressing them so much before the new version comes out?"

……

Under normal circumstances, such persuasion would only result in the kid’s response of “I’m so anxious to pet my dog”.

But the person who was speaking was Chen Guo, a senior of Glory, and Xiao Hai Ge had just experienced a beating from Glory.

He took these words to heart.

He nodded repeatedly while skillfully logging into the social media he usually used. In the Honor section, which was already abuzz with comments, he posted a message without hesitation:
"Rubbish glory! We've been fooled!"

　I updated 7,000 points. It’s a bit late today, sorry.

　　Good night everyone.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)