This commercial failure was destined to have many people pay the price.
But big companies value procedure.
Johnson only received advance warning from a friend, telling him to prepare himself mentally and consider which employees to let go and which to keep.
The real storm of layoffs would take some time to arrive.
Before that, there was still a chance to struggle.
The publisher had to find a way to recover the losses, and Ember Studio had to find a way to turn the situation around.
Johnson immediately shut up and stopped adding fuel to the fire.
Ember Studio also released an announcement, stating that they would seriously listen to player feedback and continue to provide players with excellent content updates to make the game better and better.
Afterward, "Nebula Commando" also released questionnaires online and in the game, asking players for their opinions on the game.
But in reality, the game's real-time online player count had already fallen below 500!
The questionnaire sent to players in the game only received less than 20 responses.
As for outside the game...
Expecting cloud players who had never even entered the game or watched the livestream to fill out the questionnaire...
That was really delusional!
As for buying the game specifically for this questionnaire, trying out this pile of garbage, and then offering constructive suggestions...
"Who has that much free time?!"
Niiiko, already enraged by having her good intentions taken for granted, started ranting directly in the livestream.
"If you really want to play a hero shooter game, why not play [Dragon Palace Treasure Heist]?"
"Filling out the questionnaire gives game tokens?"
"Who wants your useless points?!"
"You might as well go to the new mode in [King of War] and hunt the Dream Weavers boss!"
"At least that one gives real money! Cash!"
Xu Meng was undoubtedly a billionaire—by the standards of any country and any currency.
And now, this billionaire was not only playing games with everyone, but everyone also had the chance to kill him in the game.
Successfully killing him even gave a reward!
The attention this matter itself attracted in the gaming circle was no less than the epic joke of "Nebula Commando"'s disastrous launch.
It was just one negative and one positive.
The [Hunt the Billionaire] event had also already begun.
Moreover, this was an event for global players, and the number of players participating was also astonishing.
Half an hour before the opening of the [Chaotic Era] mode, countless players around the world were simultaneously mocking "Nebula Commando" and preparing to hunt Xu Meng.
The valiant Sniper J was, of course, not going to miss the opportunity to hunt the Dream Weavers boss.
To ensure everything went smoothly, he also held a teammate recruitment at the forward camp's shooting range.
He seriously pulled together a 10-person sharpshooter squad.
Now they were already in the voice channel, ready to set off.
…
Huan Yue, on the other hand, had his eye on the [Hunting Master] title—he still remembered the special effect collectibles given by the [Card Player] and [Card Emperor] titles!
He instinctively felt that: Xu Meng should be difficult to kill.
Survival was too broad and too long, so after careful consideration, he chose the goal of "Hunting the Strongest Behemoth."
For this goal, he also pulled together a team.
And before the event started, he carefully studied how to set up traps, how to find beasts based on drinking water and feces, and the physical weaknesses of various large beasts.
He hadn't been this serious even for his university final exams!
Until 20 minutes before the opening of the [Chaotic Era], he was still watching documentaries about African natives hunting elephants.
— Hunting elephants is now illegal in all countries, and this documentary was not easy to find.
…
Qi Huahua was about to transform from a "virtual idol streamer" into a game streamer.
During the lullaby singing segment early this morning, she simply transformed into the skirt-wearing Xiao Ningxi in the [Dragon Palace Treasure Heist] staging area to sing and chat with everyone.
As a result...
Her popularity exploded!
The livestream's popularity directly created a new high, and the number of gifts received broke records.
A group of people howled and asked Qi Huahua to imitate Xiao Ningxi's lines, frantically sending gifts to make her call them "brother" and "Oni-chan," imitating Xiao Ningxi's lines.
The fans' desire was too strong, and they were really generous with their money.
Qi Huahua couldn't refuse their enthusiasm, so she squeaked a few times—as a qualified virtual streamer, voice imitation was a basic skill.
The fans' response was extremely strong!
Overnight, Qi Huahua gained a full 40,000 new fans!
She felt that she had discovered the secret to traffic.
But when she woke up the next day and searched on various livestreaming platforms, she found that this type of streamer had already sprung up in droves.
One after another, [Frost Snow Project] characters appeared on the livestreaming platform, and each one spoke in a sweeter voice than the last.
After visiting a few of them, Qi Huahua discovered:
This track was crowded with not only female streamers!
Some male streamers had actually bravely stepped onto this track as well!
— When she discovered that one of the top 32 contestants in the [Ultimate Death Bluff Tournament] had turned into Fei Yun and was ostentatiously performing fancy shuffling in the livestream, she was simply thunderstruck.
Qi Huahua quickly realized:
In the few hours she had been sleeping, the blue ocean had completely turned into a red ocean.
This made her quickly abandon her pre-sleep thoughts and honestly assemble a team according to the original plan to prepare for the [Global Survival Competition].
She wasn't as combative as the male streamers; whether it was hunting Xu Meng or hunting the strongest behemoth, she felt it was too difficult.
At that time, the opponents would probably not only be Xu Meng and the behemoth, but different player teams would probably also fight to the death.
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So Qi Huahua wisely chose to avoid the fierce competition and switch to the "survival" track.
She also had advantages in this area!
In the demo stage before the release of [King of War], others were either playing cards or fighting back and forth in [Narrow Encounter] to unlock weapons and earn bonds.
Only in her livestreaming room did she assemble people every day to build houses in the forest.
— The game engine of [King of War] was made too well, and the interactivity and plasticity of various props and scenery were astonishingly strong.
Qi Huahua and a few die-hard fans in the livestreaming room teamed up to cut down trees and build houses in the forest, and they really built a delicate little cabin in the woods.
With this experience, she felt that she had a good chance of competing for the [Survival Master] title.
In order to increase her chances, she also pulled out a 100-person team from the fan group.
And she promised that if they successfully survived to the end, she would not take a penny of the bonus and would distribute it all to everyone.
10 minutes before the opening of the [Chaotic Era], she was still discussing with everyone in the group, telling them to go south on the map after entering the game and gather at the edge of the map.
If they encountered each other on the road, they would use a password to distinguish between friend and foe.
…
5 minutes before the opening of the [Chaotic Era], the online player rate of [King of War] reached an astonishing peak of million!
8:00 AM, Xiajing Time.
The [Chaotic Era] officially opened.
At the top of the server list, the [Global Survival Competition] competition server was prominently listed.
Players from all over the world chose this server and joined the competition.
But only 5 seconds later, the server was already full!
[This server is full. Please select another server to play the game.]
Qi Huahua was dumbfounded when she saw this prompt.
She opened the group chat and asked, "Did you all get in?"
"Got in."
"Didn't get in."
"Too slow."
"That's outrageous! It's only been a few seconds?"
…
After a brief count, only 16 people out of the 100-person group got in…
Qi Huahua opened her mouth, wanting to curse a little.
Similar tragedies were happening in every corner of the world.
Millions of players looked at the system prompt in confusion, all wanting to say a bellyful of dirty words.
Mengjin, social networks, and even the [King of War] discussion groups were immediately filled with the players' bursting anger:
"Hardware can't be bought, games can't be entered, are you a makeshift team?"
"I set a full 8 alarms and started waiting 1 hour in advance, and then you tell me I can't get in?"
"Knowing that you also have difficulties, I can promote the style of not competing with others for positions, you can make up for the bonus for me, and that's the end of the matter."
"You didn't deliberately set the capacity very low to create an atmosphere that the game is very popular, did you? Wake up a little! There's no need at all!!!"
"@Xu Meng, @Dream Weavers, @King of War, expand the capacity quickly! What are you waiting for?!"
…
Everyone waited for a minute, but didn't wait for an expansion announcement.
But they waited for Xu Meng's post:
[That what... Why don't one of you withdraw first? The server is full, and I can't get in.]
The players, who were originally angry, couldn't help but laugh out loud when they saw Xu Meng's post.
A string of question marks immediately popped up in the comments section.
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