The door to the North American market had opened.
But Xu Meng ignored it.
The supply of holographic equipment to the North American market was already prioritized after Europe. This was a decided plan and would not be easily changed.
Otherwise, if I rushed in as soon as you opened the door, wouldn't it make me seem too easy and without principles?
You want holographic equipment? Yes, you can have it.
But you'll have to wait a while.
After Xu Meng expressed his gratitude to his partners, he shifted his attention to two other matters:
The closed beta of "Monster Hunter" was coming to an end, and its release was just around the corner.
—Xu Meng loathed most European and American game media and didn't allow Chen Junyi to send money to those disgusting vampires at all.
This resulted in Dream Building still not receiving any good words from the European and American game media, even though it was now a far cry from what it used to be, with the number of players and its technical strength having advanced by leaps and bounds.
At last year's Game of the Year awards ceremony, "Frost and Snow Project" didn't even get a single nomination.
"King of War" did get a nomination for a technical award—but it didn't win in the end, ending with nothing.
Xu Meng had expected this and didn't bother with the invitation to the award ceremony at all.
The players, however, cursed and raged, denouncing the award ceremony for being shameless and only knowing how to lick New Force Game Station's balls.
Even the number of followers of this award on various social platforms experienced a serious decline.
Some well-meaning players had roughly calculated that, due to this award ceremony, the award had lost at least 500,000 real player followers worldwide.
This number was already a quarter of the total number of followers of this award on all platforms worldwide.
There was no doubt that its credibility had been greatly lost.
But the loss of credibility of the award ceremony had nothing to do with Dream Building.
It was a foregone conclusion that Dream Building would not get any awards.
Xu Meng didn't care about this kind of wild chicken award, but the players were very disappointed.
This time with "Monster Hunter", Xu Meng had already prepared himself for the same thing to happen again.
But SoftWare Game Box stood up and planned to have a good fight with New Force.
That situation was naturally very different!
New Force Game Station had already lost hundreds of millions of dollars because of "Nebula Commando", and its player reputation and public image had also been greatly damaged.
Now was the time to take advantage of the victory and pursue!
Losing one of these major projects would not be enough to hurt New Force Game Station's foundations.
But if there were two, it would hurt a lot!
If there were three, then all development strategies would be seriously affected, and everyone from top to bottom would have to live a hard life.
In SoftWare's judgment, as long as "Wolf of Fear" also suffered serious losses, then New Force Game Station's entire first-party studio camp would be seriously affected.
The development funds and marketing funds that could be obtained in the future would be rapidly tightened.
And once the game market contracted, the contraction of the hardware market would not be far away.
At that time, New Force Game Station's market share would decline, and the vacated console market share would naturally belong to SoftWare and Dream Building!
And so, the two sides hit it off!
SoftWare had already launched a publicity offensive overseas.
Dream Building's publicity offensive in the country had also been launched long ago, almost squeezing out the domestic promotion of "Wolf of Fear".
Even though the closed beta of "Monster Hunter" was kept completely secret, and netizens could only guess the content of the game based on some insider players' revelations and vague descriptions of the game content, its popularity far exceeded that of "Wolf of Fear".
Moreover, as the New Year holiday ended and most workers started work, the popularity of "Monster Hunter" was still rising step by step.
On the 27th, Dream Building also sent out some closed beta qualifications to some game media and single-player game video producers with larger audiences on a small scale.
The old friend Fire Knife also got the qualification in this link.
However, at this time, there were only the last three days left until the end of the closed beta on the 29th.
With limited time, in order to experience every aspect of the game as completely as possible, so as to give the game as fair an evaluation as possible, Fire Knife used his connections to successfully find and join a closed beta player group.
The group name was: [Great Sword Hero Global Friendship Association].
Fire Knife was puzzled: "Why is the group name Great Sword Hero Global Friendship Association?"
This group was not large, counting Fire Knife who had just joined, there were only 108 people.
But it was extremely active.
As soon as Fire Knife asked the question, a large group of people immediately popped up to reply to him:
"Of course, it's because the great sword is the coolest! And cool people only play with cool people!"
"Are you new here? No wonder you have this question."
"Go play the game, choose the great sword, hunt, and then you'll understand."
"Choose the great sword, choose success!"
"Playing 'Monster Hunter' but not playing the great sword is destined to only live a relatively failed life."
… …
"? ? ?"
Fire Knife's head was full of question marks.
Based on his many years of gaming experience, he guessed: "Is it because the great sword is stronger than other weapons in the closed beta, and the damage is particularly high?"
However, what he didn't expect was that this reasonable guess caused the group chat to be quiet for a moment.
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The group members who were still playing memes frantically just now suddenly fell silent and didn't say a word for several seconds.
But soon, the group members became active again:
"Absolutely correct! You are truly a genius of this game!"
"That's right! The great sword has super fast attack frequency and explosive damage, it's invincible!"
"A completely unbalanced weapon, who can play if it's not nerfed??"
… …
[Fire Knife]: "Okay! Then I'll play the great sword!"
The group members praised him and praised him for making the right decision.
—
Fire Knife entered the game.
However, he did not rush to push the progress, but carefully paid attention to every detail of the game.
In the tavern, he did not rush to respond to the mission of the adventurer lady, or give himself a name.
Instead, he ignored the input box and wandered around the tavern, talking to people.
He was surprised to find that—
All the NPCs here can talk, and they can all give some different information.
Some are adventurer information, some are worldview information, and some are weapon use and maintenance.
But the most magical thing is the silver-white-haired girl.
The steel sword in her hand is considered miniature compared to the weapons of other people in the tavern.
Even the style is not quite the same.
And the information she gave was—White Frost is not a natural disaster, but an ecological weapon driven by a terrifying race.
Fire Knife immediately thought of the ancient dragon.
There was even a surprise that he had discovered Dream Building's ingenuity and unearthed hidden easter eggs.
He walked around the tavern until he found that the door of the tavern could not be pushed open from the inside, then he turned back to enter his nickname and continued to advance the plot.
Then came the sudden attack.
The Serpent King Dragon easily tore apart this bar, along with the entire airship.
But at the critical moment before he began to fall, the plot took a turn—
The silver-haired girl holding the steel sword suddenly rushed over and grabbed his arm!
After a dazzling flash, he and the girl disappeared from the broken tavern.
… …
After the loading bar ended.
Fire Knife looked around and found that he had returned to the ground.
Just as he was about to say something, the silver-haired girl let go of his arm and disappeared again in a flash.
Leaving him alone here.
Fire Knife thought this was a normal mission process, so he patiently stood in place and waited.
This wait lasted a full 10 minutes.
The silver-haired girl never came back.
He finally realized belatedly—
It seems like something is wrong?
