Chapter 362: Farewell, Anti-liquidation
Honor of Kings is going to shut down its services. Within less than an hour after the news was released, it had already set off a global gaming sensation.

That day, almost all the executives of Tenghai's ongoing projects gathered together to quarrel. If Pei Yunteng had not stepped in to mediate, at least a few people would have been carried out of Tenghai Building that night.

Even though they argued like this, these geniuses still couldn't reach a consensus that everyone could accept about what Honor should be like in the future.

But there is one thing that everyone agrees on:
No matter how you change it, you can't change it based on the existing framework.

Although directly making some modifications to the existing Honor can retain those old players with feelings to the greatest extent, thereby ensuring the popularity and revenue of the game.

But the outside world may not believe it, but the most discussed point within Tencent is whether or not to simply change the name of Honor to avoid worrying about it among old players.

"Why keep them? Can the little profit they make up for the negative impact they have on new players?" This was what a radical said at the meeting.

For Tencent, the popularity and sentiment brought by Honor are completely insignificant compared to Honor itself, and Tencent does not lack this traffic and popularity.

Even if they use the Honor system to create MetaDream Star, they can make it the next phenomenal game.

In comparison, the troubles brought to the environment by those "old players and guides" seem particularly unacceptable.

Those who put forward similar views are basically emerging designers within Tenghai who are known for their creativity and imaginative ideas.

For them, having a group of old players whispering around them things like "the game has changed" and "it's not the XXX I'm familiar with" is better off just killing them.

Coupled with the already chaotic environment and a lot of public opinion before the shutdown of Honor of Kings, they all felt that keeping this iP was purely a side effect.

But in the end, Pei Yunteng made the decision to retain the "Glory" series title, which can be regarded as the last thought left for future Glory players.

But before that, we have to clean up Honor’s existing gaming community.

then--

"Quick! I've given the order!"

"Suspension notice? Make it more ambiguous! Quick! Ask the public relations department to implement it immediately!"

"This is the first job we have done for this department!"

Although it was just a matter of issuing an announcement, at this moment, the entire Honor company began to operate at high speed with a strong fighting spirit.

If we were to ask which company in the gaming industry has the most insensitive employees, it would probably be Honor.

After all, the entire core technology development team disappeared for no reason, and was then taken down and turned into a pure tool for making money.

There's a boring event every few months, and a routine open level update every one or two years. This level of work intensity is no different from giving up.

Originally, he could make money without doing anything, and he could fill the spiritual emptiness with material things, but since Glory began to decline, even this material security is no longer so stable.

People came and went, and the company's core layer was replaced one after another, but no one could lead them out of the quagmire.

Until they were transferred to Tenghai as bargaining chips.

When this news reached every employee through the above, their only regret was that it was a sunny day and it didn't rain outside.

Otherwise, they would all rush out together to pay tribute to The Shawshank Redemption.

If you don't mind, I would like to be your adoptive father!
So, with these people's 200% work enthusiasm, the service suspension announcement was issued simultaneously around the world.

……

For the real core players of Honor, the first feeling after seeing the announcement was not shock, but melancholy.

After all, the Honor Pill is an unspoken consensus among Honor’s core circle.

Unlike a certain 2D survival king mobile game that recently celebrated its tenth anniversary, the operating costs of Honor of Kings are not bad at all.

After all, the size of the game is there.

With the current revenue of the game, without financial support, it is only a matter of time before it fails.

It's just that this speed is just a little bit faster.

After all, it has only been a little over a year since the shutdown of Honor of Kings, but Honor has fallen from the top of the gaming world to its current miserable state.

Stunning.

However, this group of truly old Honor players are basically not young anymore, and the youngest ones are basically about to enter society.

So even though he felt sad that another mark of his youth had been erased by time, he would not do anything extreme.

However, outside this core circle, the situation was in chaos.

"Rongyao, what's wrong with you? Do you want me to play a suona for you to send you off happily?"

"No, didn't we have to reshuffle the gaming industry in the past few months? Didn't we still have to be gaming Brahmins?"

"Open the champagne! Sprint! Sprint!"

Honor’s previous promotional activities have finally come to a head.

In order to maximize the hype for the new version at the time, Honor used every possible means to stir up trouble.

Therefore, it attracted a group of crystal players with extremely terrifying numbers and purity.

Although there was already a large-scale liquidation when the Glory New League suffered a Waterloo.

But if crystalline powder is so easy to crush, it can no longer be called crystalline powder.

Since popularization and e-sports development were hindered, they immediately turned to the position of "gaming Brahmins" and arbitrarily defined Honor of Kings as a niche but high-end game.

Although the MMO category is the least likely to be associated with high-end.

Relying on this positioning, Crystal Fans were able to maintain a certain arrogance and organizational ability even though Honor's operations were bleak and the league was completely over.

But now the situation is a little different.

It’s like glory, it really is like glory.

This is an official announcement. You can't say this time that it was the LugouGO, the Zhendaoxia, the Mozhengbao, the Baitenghai, and the navy that were deliberately smearing you, right?

Uh... although it seems that it was really Teng Hai who did it.

In any case, the liquidation battle against the Honor of Kings fan club has finally begun at this time.

Suddenly, the Internet was in chaos again.

Although the Glory Crystal fans still want to fight back, this time, they will no longer have anything to rely on.

The outside world has been united by their various attacks and slanders during this period, forming a murderous anti-Glory army.

Internally, those old players are still reminiscing about the glorious old days. They hope that these guys who appeared out of nowhere will flee as soon as possible to avoid bringing them bad luck.

Originally, the social managers hired by Honor Company could have tried their best to protect them.

But after news came from Tenghai expressing dissatisfaction with the current public opinion environment of Honor, for the social management, these former "Honor loyalists" suddenly became sticky hooks that could not be shaken off.

Without the covert intervention of social management and the authorities, the relatively tight organization of the Crystal Powder group fell apart in an instant.

The most ridiculous one is a certain high-end blue forum.

Dozens or even hundreds of negative articles popped up overnight, analyzing the inevitability of Glory's demise from various angles, and each one was written with considerable reasoning and evidence.

As one of the platforms that originally supported Honor the most, it chose to defect faster than anyone else.

Even if you check the background of the authors of those negative articles, you can find many loyal followers who boasted about their glory in the past.

All I can say is, magical.

……

"I didn't spend money to buy negative articles on a certain website..." Pei Yunteng muttered. "What are you talking about?" Ye Xiu on the other end of the phone was stunned.

"It's okay." Pei Yunteng smiled. "Xiao Ye, I understand what you mean, but to be honest, regarding the Honor project, at least in my personal opinion, Teng Hai is not willing to get involved in this muddy water."

"...Well, I just mentioned it casually. Thank you for clearing up my confusion." Ye Xiu took a deep breath and then smiled bitterly.

"It's just that after all, it's such a big deal, and I feel a sense of disillusionment."

The news of Glory's server suspension was undoubtedly a huge shock to Ye Xiu.

Although he was considered one of the first Glory rebels, as a true Glory ten-year veteran, his feelings for the game were undoubtedly extremely deep.

To a certain extent, Glory also holds a part of Ye Xiu's self-awareness.

After running away from the Ye family, Ye Xiu dedicated all of his ten years of youth to the e-sports career.

All the honors he has won so far, whether personal or team, except for the midfielder in the LPL's spring and summer first teams, are all with Glory.

Now that the server of Honor of Kings has been shut down, he couldn't help but feel a little empty.

For someone with Ye Xiu's level of intelligence and EQ, he was confused, and there were not many people in Happy who could help him solve his doubts.

So, just like when a series of storms were about to arise in Honor, he called Pei Yunteng again.

In addition to some exchanges and answering questions, Ye Xiu also had a sudden idea and asked Pei Yunteng if he was willing to take over the Glory project.

After all, in his opinion, if there is anyone who can bring Rong Yao back to life, it can only be Pei Yunteng, who buried Rong Yao in the grave with his own hands.

But even though the Glory project had in fact fallen into his hands, Pei Yunteng had no intention of revealing a single detail to Ye Xiu.

In other words, he has revealed his solution to glory, which is cutting.

In the new Glory, perhaps some traces left by professional players like Ye Xiu, or those legendary guilds during their original battles, will be retained, but other than that, it will definitely be a brand new game.

Whether it is Ye Xiu or other "old guards of the Glory Era", they all have to accept the reality that:

The glory they expect will never come back.

"The past cannot be changed, but the future can still be pursued." Pei Yunteng has been particularly fond of repeating this sentence recently.

"Since the past is irreversible, why not win a few more championships while I'm still at my peak?"

"I have always prepared what you want, just waiting for you to exchange it for your championship."

"……Um."

……

"Boss, are you okay?" Baozi was the first to speak when he saw Ye Xiu coming back from the phone call, and the other team members also pricked up their ears.

Everyone saw how Ye Xiu reacted after learning about the Glory server shutdown.

Don't let anything go wrong...

"I'm fine." Unexpectedly, Ye Xiu seemed quite relaxed, with a hint of a smile on his face.

"Come to think of it, we are now on the same starting line." He suddenly said something out of the blue.

"In the past, Mu Cheng and I were professional players of Glory. We had the qualifications and honors, and we could even call you seniors."

"But now, the era of glory has completely ended. It is meaningless to mention those previous honors again."

He looked around, and finally his eyes stopped on Su Mucheng, and he looked into her eyes.

"So, we are now considered rookies in e-sports, right?" Su Mucheng took over the conversation with a faint smile.

"I understand! So in order for Brother Ye to have something to brag about in the future, we have to win a championship for Brother Ye!"

Otherwise, why is it said that Yu Wenbo is sweet-talking and has high emotional intelligence? Before Su Mucheng finished speaking, he understood what Ye Xiu meant and immediately took on the responsibility of twisting the rope.

"That's right! Win the championship and come back!" Baozi immediately responded with confidence, but then he remembered something and started to shut himself up again: "But what about Huang Shaotian?"

Ever since he was crushed by Fanhua and then by Lanyu, Baozi has been in a Schrodinger's bag state, sometimes confident and sometimes autistic.

Fortunately, no matter what kind of emotion it is, it won't stay on him for too long. In essence, he is still the optimist who is not afraid of anything.

"I will try my best to assist you, Brother Bao." Qiao Yifan smiled and comforted him.

Since taking on the role of commander, Qiao Yifan's personality has become much more outgoing and his communication skills have also improved rapidly.

In Ye Xiu's opinion, after he retires, apart from Qiu Fei, the most suitable person to take over as the captain of Xingxin might be this kid.

"Don't worry about the top lane. I will beat the enemy." Tang Rou thought for a moment and raised her hand to signal.

Although she was saying the most arrogant words, her expression was still calm, as if she had just said something insignificant.

"A bunch of little bastards... they make an old guy like me get excited." Mingkai concluded with a smile.

"In that case, let's go crazy and win the championship!"

"Oh!!!!"

……

"The glory is over, what do you say?"

"What's there to say? Are there any successful people in Glory? Aren't we all just stray dogs who were kicked out?"

"...But, isn't this a good opportunity for us to say goodbye to the past?"

"So...how about winning a championship to commemorate your glorious youth?"

……

"It seems the club made the right choice, as Glory couldn't hold on for just a few years."

"But even so, I still have to use the championship to prove something to the fans."

"It proves that Blue Rain is still at the forefront of the times!"

……

"Wow! Glory is finally gone. Now there won't be so many people talking about the skill point championship anymore."

"Cut it off! It can be cut off! Win another championship and completely solidify our image for the new generation of fans! We won't lose in terms of glory or anything like that!"

"...Boss, today Xiao Zhou and his team are playing against WNV."

“…Oh my god! Why don’t you hurry up and get ready? We can’t let them chew up even one map this time! They’ve been hyped up as the reincarnation killers.”

"understand!"

……

On that day, in countless clubs and games, some old guys had an inexplicable gleam in their eyes.

Even outsiders could sense a fierce aura from their every move.

The rain is about to come, and the wind is full...

　updated.

　　Because I was busy with the activities for the 10th anniversary of KanR, I'm late.

　　Slide on your knees.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)