The office group of Lushima Games was very quiet.
This wasn't because the employees were all resting—ten minutes ago, the boss, Yu Rongrong, had even sent out red envelopes in the group.
They had been outsourcing for "Nebula Commando" for a long time, and now that the game was finally released, Lushima Games Studio would also appear in the production staff list. Naturally, everyone was concerned about the game's sales.
They were almost impossible to get business in China. Now, the only hope was that "Nebula Commando" would be a hit, and they could use this experience to get more overseas outsourcing business.
At this moment, almost everyone in the company was nervously watching the game's sales.
Especially Yang Hui.
This was not only related to her work, but also her last chance to turn things around in the public opinion arena.
She couldn't see the data from Xinnuo Games Station, but many data on the Vapour game platform were public, allowing her to roughly estimate the game's sales.
Especially the bestseller list, which was updated every half hour.
Previously, when "King of War" was released, it immediately topped the national chart after half an hour.
Yang Hui started refreshing the list non-stop from 0:20, hoping to see "Nebula Commando" also appear at the top of the list.
She refreshed and refreshed, but couldn't refresh it no matter what.
"Is there a problem with the network?"
Thinking this, she also checked her network.
But the network was working normally.
Time also gradually came to one o'clock in the morning.
The shadow of "Nebula Commando" was still not seen on the list.
"The game has just been released, and it's normal for players not to bother with reviews," Yang Hui muttered to herself, switching back to the sales chart again.
After thinking for a while, she switched regions from the Xia Country region to the global total list.
—Xia Country is indeed not inclusive enough of diversity. It's possible that the sales data is not good. It would be better to change the region, right?
She thought so.
But the game was still nowhere to be found on the list.
Unwilling, she switched to the M Country list.
Pulling down from the 1st place, she looked at the end of the list, the 100th place, but still didn't see "Nebula Commando".
Yang Hui frowned, clicked [More] to fully expand the sales list, and looked at the games one by one.
She looked all the way to the 500th place at the end, but still couldn't find it!
She couldn't believe it and thought she must have missed it.
So she checked back and forth from bottom to top and from top to bottom.
After looking at it three times in a row, she still couldn't find "Nebula Commando".
Only then did she have to accept the reality—"Nebula Commando" was indeed not on the list, whether in Xia Country, M Country, or globally.
But how could this be possible?
This was Xinnuo Games Station's first-party masterpiece, how could it not be on the list on the first day of release?
In Yang Hui's cognition, even if the game was very bad and scolded by players all over the world, it was impossible not to be on the list!
What's more, "Nebula Commando" was obviously very well made!
She tried to contact Johnson, the project manager of Du Huo, to ask if there was a problem with the Vapour platform's data statistics.
But Johnson, as always, ignored her.
Yang Hui was anxious and increasingly eager to know what was wrong.
Far away in the M Country's Du Huo Studio, Johnson and the studio management were also thinking about the same question:
"What exactly went wrong?"
… …
The global game media—whether overseas media or Xia Country media—were also like Yang Hui, flipping through the bestseller list again and again, trying to find the position of "Nebula Commando".
Huo Dao was no exception.
This time, he also prepared two drafts—
One was to respond to "Nebula Commando" topping the list, on par with "King of War".
The other was to respond to "Nebula Commando"'s poor sales data, with a ranking far lower than "King of War".
But he never expected that "Nebula Commando" would not be able to get on the list!!
This was not a question of being far lower.
This might be a complete flop!
… …
Under the attention of the global game circle, another half hour passed.
At 1:30 in the morning, Xu Meng posted on Pilipili and Mengjin—
[Friendly reminder: The Vapour game platform supports refunds within two hours, and there is only half an hour left.]
He did not name "Nebula Commando".
But posting this content at this time, anyone who wasn't a fool would know that he was implying that players should refund.
Sha Dawei immediately posted a screenshot of the refund under the dynamic and replied:
"I've already refunded, but I don't think it's enough. The developers should compensate me for my mental damage!"
After him, a few more refund screenshots popped up.
But there were no more than that.
Just a group of people replying "Didn't buy it at all", "Only a fool would buy it", "Why should I buy it if I'm not LGBT?"
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… …
Taking this point in time as a dividing line, Du Huo Studio saw that the sales on the Vapour backend, which had barely broken four digits, plummeted again and fell back to three digits.
They were unwilling and desperately searched social networks, trying to figure out what went wrong.
But all they saw were bad reviews:
"Can't believe that the so-called epoch-making masterpiece, the escort work, is actually a plagiarized work!"
"It can't be considered plagiarism, after all, it didn't even copy the essence. At most, it's a [Frost Snow like] game."
"16 characters, none of them make people want to control them."
"Great, let the LGBT play such a good game."
"Stop talking nonsense, this game is clearly insulting our sexual minority groups!"
"300 million dollars! You might as well divide it directly, why bother bringing out such a thing to disgust everyone?"
… …
Two o'clock in the morning.
The few streamers who were still broadcasting "Nebula Commando" could no longer find anyone to play with.
A match only required 10 people, but even with such a low requirement, a match took more than ten minutes to queue up!
The anti-SBI pioneer—Kabo, who had become a well-known opinion leader in the game circle—noticed this situation and quickly realized what had happened.
He quickly entered the Vapour community center of "Nebula Commando" to check the real-time online player count of the game.
—"Nebula Commando" couldn't be found on the [Hottest Games List], so he could only come here to see the data.
And at this time, the real-time online player count of "Nebula Commando" had fallen below 500!
"Hahahaha!"
Kabo couldn't help laughing out loud and screenshotted the news to spread it widely, shocking everyone.
Global players joined in the grand event, mocking SBI and Du Huo Studio.
The players in Xia Country worked harder and went to Weiguang and Hongshu to whip Yang Hui's corpse.
But everyone enjoyed it and didn't feel tired at all!
… …
In Lingzhou Studio, Li Yunchuan was originally facing a formidable enemy.
After all, in another week, it would be the day of the release of "Damn! I'm Surrounded by Evil Ghosts!" If "Nebula Commando" became a big hit and competed with "King of War" for players, fighting to the point of darkness and chaos.
Then their game sales would definitely be greatly affected!
But now… …
"Nebula Commando", Du Huo Studio, SBI, and Xinnuo Games Station were destined to become the laughing stock of the entire game circle!
Li Yunchuan and Zhou Ning each opened a can of beer, laughed loudly, clinked glasses, and drank it down.
Even Fei Zhiyuan, Gong Feng, and Lu Ming, who were in a state of utter exhaustion, couldn't help but laugh when they saw this big joke worth more than 300 million US dollars.
—Finally, someone is more miserable than us!
Industry insiders were experienced and didn't need to wait a few days to see the after-effects. This start alone sentenced "Nebula Commando" to death—
Release is a complete flop, it's a foregone conclusion!
At the same time, everyone in the industry also knew that this matter was far from being settled.
Because the storm of liquidation was still on the way!
An investment of more than 300 million dollars was completely lost, and someone had to bear the responsibility!
And this was the opportunity that Xu Meng was waiting for.
The network of interpersonal relationships and interest chains in his hand could just explain the flow of some of the money.
This time, Du Huo Studio must die.
SBI's reputation must also be completely ruined.
Only in this way can other game companies realize the serious harm of DEI and SBI to games and companies, and stay away from these tumors and moths!
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