"Good morning, everyone!"
"Welcome to the livestream, and thanks for tuning in to this [Hunt the Dev Team] event!"
Xu Meng sat on the dark green sofa, smiling and greeting the audience in front of the camera.
The viewers in the livestream also responded to him:
"Good morning, good morning!"
"Good morning, Boss Xu!"
"Long live the Digital Emperor!"
"Eternal life to the Binary Emperor!"
"Hail Emperor!"
"Long live the Son of Internet!"
……
This is also part of the aftermath of the Internet War.
Netizens gave Xu Meng all sorts of nicknames, and crazily memed on social networks.
The influence of this trend was ridiculously wide.
Many programmers now pray to Xu Meng instead of Yongzheng and Von Neumann to prevent bugs in their code.
Xu Meng even saw a 3D-printed cartoon figurine of himself in the Monster Hunter development team's office.
Xu Meng was speechless for a long time, and only said, "Don't be superstitious, don't engage in personality cults."
He was so tolerant of his own employees, so of course he wouldn't take the meme-loving netizens in the livestream to heart.
He just pretended not to see it and continued to read his lines:
"First of all, I want to tell you all a piece of good news - the total sales of Monster Hunter across all platforms have exceeded 30 million."
But that's just how it is.
While Zhumeng was violently beating up tech and internet giants, and showing off its strength to the world, Monster Hunter, as the origin of the incident, also gained amazing exposure.
Especially when the battle was at its fiercest and had the highest global attention, the Monster Hunter development team pulled off a bold move—
They released a video of Xu Meng taking the lead in apologizing.
This had an explosive effect on attracting traffic to Monster Hunter.
Before the server was attacked, Monster Hunter's sales across all platforms were 16 million copies.
After the Internet War ended, that number had doubled to 32 million copies!
The original sales target for a quarter was completed in less than a week.
The Monster Hunter development team has already started arranging a celebration party.
——By the way, Xu Meng's [Gentlemen, I like war] declaration of war also brought huge exposure to War Lord.
Plus the War Lord's subsequent apology video.
This game also蹭ed a wave of traffic, and sales also soared.
Only Frost Snow Project didn't get the boss's heat. The traffic蹭ed from just an apology video was a bit too little, and the data increase was not so exaggerated.
But it was still better than nothing.
As a result, when players saw the sales increase of Monster Hunter and War Lord and the change in the revenue data of Frost Snow Project on third-party statistics platforms, they couldn't help but complain:
"No wonder you're all in such a hurry to jump out!"
"So you're not apologizing at all, but蹭ing the heat!"
The development teams remained silent, and all ran to Xu Meng's office to ask the boss for an apology video, just in case.
Especially the Frost Snow Project team.
This time, Xu Meng didn't attend their apology video, and they suffered a great loss.
This time, they moved collectively and ran to Jinghu to find Xu Meng, just to record an apology video.
Xu Meng found it a little funny.
But he still cooperated and recorded it.
……
"Thank you again for your love for Zhumeng."
"Next, regarding the abnormal server fluctuations, the compensation that the development team promised to everyone has now been completed."
"By the time I say this, it should have been sent to everyone in the background."
On the first day after the end of the Internet War, the operation teams of the three games and Mansheng Metropolitan explained the compensation for players.
Mansheng Metropolitan compensated users with credit points and a set of Victorian-style classical furniture.
Frost Snow Project was simple and crude, directly giving away 20 consecutive draws.
In order to send things with confidence, War Lord even released a trailer for the large DLC [Tank War] in advance, and announced that to compensate players for their losses, this large DLC will be converted into a free update.
Only Monster Hunter was more troublesome.
Unlike the other project teams, who had ready-made things to compensate with, Monster Hunter had been busy with the game's release and had not foreseen this accident.
So they didn't have anything to immediately take out to compensate the players.
They could only issue an announcement first, explaining the compensation content:
A gorgeous cloak that supports custom patterns, and an exclusive golden crown for the [Eternal Hunting Ground] mode.
At this moment, both of these items appeared on the small table in front of Xu Meng.
Xu Meng got up from the sofa and picked up the cloak to show everyone.
——
The Brave Sniper, who was also broadcasting live, also took out the items from the email at the same time.
The initial shape was a cloak with a black background and a golden dragon embroidered on it. He just glanced at it a few times and put it away.
The great battle with the development team was about to begin, so it was better not to wear this kind of ornament that hindered movement.
The crown was different.
The Brave Sniper held it in his hand and examined it for a long time.
The viewers were almost out of patience before he said uncertainly, "This is actually not compensation, but a souvenir of [Bit Storm], right?"
The Brave Sniper showed the viewers the system introduction of this golden crown——
[Crown of Storms]: Commemorates a grand and invisible storm.
(Exclusive item for [Eternal Hunting Ground] mode)
……
"This storm is referring to [Bit Storm], right?"
"Boss Xu is really... generous!"
"He just became the Digital Emperor and turned around and sent out 30 million crowns."
"What is this? This is [My glory is also yours]!"
The Brave Sniper said as he put on the golden crown for himself.
Golden light immediately radiated from the crown, and a straight beam of light went straight into the sky!
The Brave Sniper was bathed in the golden light, adding a bit of majesty and holiness.
But the problem is——
"Is the development team sick?!"
"This is an exclusive item for the [Eternal Hunting Ground] mode!"
"What is the Eternal Hunting Ground? It's a place where everyone ambushes each other and kills each other!"
"You put on such a big pillar of light, are you afraid that others won't come to besiege you???"
The Brave Sniper complained frantically, feeling that this item was too outrageous.
The viewers in the livestream laughed:
"The development team of [Eternal Hunting Ground] is sick, did you only find out about this today?"
"I knew it on the first day this mode was opened! Can you imagine how I felt when the first weapon I picked up was [黯然销魂掌]?"
"What's so strange about that? I also picked up a set of legendary armor called [The Emperor's Holy Armor]. Guess what? After putting it on, the character only had underwear left!"
"There's also [Rocket Boots]! They're also very outrageous. I thought I could use Dragon Piercer combo without thinking, but who knew I couldn't control the direction at all when I flew up!"
"It would be strange if a development team that added emoticons to the chat channel was normal!"
……
In the official livestream, Xu Meng knew very well how outrageous this crown was.
So he didn't show it at all.
After introducing how to customize the pattern on the back of the cloak, he skipped the crown and entered the next segment——
"Next, is the long-awaited [Hunt the Dev Team]!"
"It will last from 9 am to 5 pm."
"All members of the development team will join the game wearing haptic suits, and the current stimulation intensity will not be less than 60%!"
"And all players who kill a member of the development team will receive a surprise!"
"I can guarantee you, absolutely a surprise!"
"Players who want to spar with the development team, don't miss this opportunity."
"Oh, right, there's one more thing I haven't explained——"
"Everyone may be worried: what if you can't recognize the members of the development team?"
"Regarding this point, I can also guarantee to everyone: don't worry, the members of the development team are all wearing special costumes, which are very conspicuous!"
"As long as they appear in your sight, you will definitely find them at the first time!"
"Now, I'm going to start the countdown."
"At the moment the countdown ends, the members of the development team will start matching at the same time."
"Players who want to match together, be prepared!"
The viewers in the livestream were itching to try, and couldn't wait.
Xu Meng didn't dawdle at all, and quickly completed the countdown: "5! 4! 3! 2! 1!"
"Start!"
The speed was so fast that it caught many players off guard.
After being stunned for a moment, they quickly pressed the [Match] option.
At this moment, as many as millions of players were [Matching] at the same time!
And the matching of these millions of people was completed in just a few seconds.
Nearly 300 employees of the entire Monster Hunter development team were scattered like celestial maidens scattering flowers on the competition maps.
The players who had been preparing for a long time immediately took action the moment the teleportation was completed, scavenging for all resources such as weapons, armor, potions, and Wirebugs.
The Brave Sniper was no exception, rushing at full speed to the nearest house.
The moment he entered the door, another person jumped in through the window.
If it were normal times, he would have kicked him up with a flying kick.
But not this time.
This time, he was stunned.
He instantly understood: why Xu Meng said that you could recognize the development team as soon as you saw them.
Because what appeared in front of him was a person wearing a one-piece frog suit.
After that person came in, he didn't even see him, and started looking for supplies, completely oblivious to his surroundings.
The Brave Sniper watched for a few seconds before he couldn't help but ask, "Are you from the development team?"
The frog suit person was startled and slowly turned his head, revealing a round frog face that was both silly and funny.
"No! Of course not!" The frog suit person shook his head frantically.
The Brave Sniper raised his head slightly and glanced at the name on the frog person's head.
"Ge Ming?"
The frog person Ge Ming ran away!
"Don't run!" The Brave Sniper chased after him!
"I won't hit you! Let's talk! Let's talk!"
"Talk your ass!" Ge Ming buried his head and ran wildly, refusing to stop no matter what the Brave Sniper said.
Being killed by a player once is not a big deal.
But being the first to be killed would be too embarrassing!
If he was still hammered to death with fists, then it would be even more embarrassing to the Pacific Ocean!
