This is the ninth art

Chapter 85
Recently, something happened that confuses outsiders.

A game called Hearthstone was on the hot search just because it was temporarily suspended due to the end of the closed beta.

# When will Hearthstone open the server? #

#I'm going to die without playing Hearthstone! #

#Open the door!I want to recharge! #
Many other topics have rushed to the hot searches of major media and social platforms one after another.

When outsiders learned about this, they all had black question marks on their faces.

What is Hearthstone?
What the hell is it that it was not on the trending searches during the closed beta, but it was on the trending searches after the service was stopped?

Under a topic that was hotly searched in Hearthstone, netizens who eat melons talked about it one after another.

"What the hell? Why is the game on the hot search again?"

"It took a long time to stop for two months, and it's coming again? My brother's trending searches have been squeezed out, how annoying!"

"It's just you called Hearthstone, the hot searches are quite rampant recently, aren't you?"

"In the past few years, I haven't been able to play a hot search game. In the past three or four months, I have been rushing up frequently? Brothers, you are a bit of a monster!"

"@火石官博, what is the purpose behind your purchase of hot searches? Who instigated it? What is the motive? What do you want to subvert? What is destroyed? What is mapped?/狗头"

"I just sneaked into the largest game forum in China and found that they all praised this game, but I don't believe it! I think it's all navy! Brothers, let me search for Hearthstone-related videos, wait for me When I come back, I will give you a real hammer on this game and buy the hot search!"

After half an hour.

"Where's the brother who went to search for Hearthstone-related videos just now? Why is he missing?"

"Come out and make a sound, everyone is waiting."

"Hiss... Could it be that the background behind Hearthstone is too big? He has already been knocked on the door at home?"

"I know? What era is it now, and you still want to check the water meter? I don't believe in this evil! I will also search and watch Hearthstone videos! Brothers, wait for me for 10 minutes! I will come back triumphantly and tell everyone about the furnace Stone's situation."

10 minute later.

"It's broken, it's broken! The warrior just now disappeared again!"

"Damn it! Is it real? Isn't this too evil? I'll go check it out too!"

As netizens searched for information about Hearthstone one after another, these IDs have not been on Weibo again today.

It aroused the curiosity of more people and searched for relevant content one after another.

As soon as I found it, I was immediately attracted by the interesting gameplay of the Hearthstone video and the highly ornamental game, so I didn't bother to switch the number to respond, and just fell silent in the ocean of Hearthstone.

Many netizens have ridiculed that these strong men have been involved in some top secrets and have been invited to drink tea by relevant departments.

Of course, ridicule is ridicule, and few people take it seriously.

If things end like this, forget it.

But there are always some netizens who don't think it's a big deal to eat melons, and they are very playful.

Add fuel and vinegar to the whole incident, and then spread it out.

After several version changes, it became more and more evil.

From "hot search for buying Hearthstone" to "explaining the capital power behind Hearthstone"

Then it’s okay to play Hearthstone, remember not to investigate its unknown secrets, big things will happen! '

Eventually became the "Hearthstone Confidentiality Agreement"

It was even listed as an important level with the '1999 Confidentiality Agreement' by good people.

After this non-disclosure agreement rushed into the hot search, its nature is also quietly changing.

Words like confidentiality agreements are undoubtedly more attractive than hot searches on games.

More and more people are paying attention to this matter.

Many people clicked into this topic with a full face.

Then I saw that the comment area was full of 'I can only say that I understand everything, and I don't explain too much if I don't understand. After all, I just know it. Let's taste it carefully.You don't come to ask me what's wrong, the interests are too involved, it's not good for you or me if you say it, just pretend you don't know, for the rest, I can only say that the water is very deep and many things are involved.It is difficult for you to find the detailed information by yourself, and most of the Internet has been deleted, so I can only say that I understand everything. '

He clicked out again with a confused face.

Meow meow meow?
what happened?
Of course, netizens are playing tricks.

Among them, the biggest beneficiary is Hearthstone.

During the period when the server was shut down for maintenance, the heat of Hearthstone increased instead of decreasing due to the superposition of various buffs.

Even raising the level of hot discussion in the game industry to a height that does not belong to it.

Even Chu Jun couldn't laugh or cry when he knew about it.

Sand sculpture netizens can always give me some unexpected tricks...

Although I know that Hearthstone will take off sooner or later with its high-quality playability and ornamental value.

Didn't expect it to launch in this way.

After optimization and bug fixes in all aspects of Hearthstone.

Mr. Chu once again convened a meeting of various departments, and finalized the date of the official public beta, which was scheduled to start the public beta in early August.

At that time, the three challenge dungeons of Naxxramas, Black Rock Mountain, and Explorers' League will be released simultaneously in one go.

As well as two new expansion card packs, Goblin vs Gnome and Champion's Trial.

Three copies, two new expansion card packs!
Unlock a new card attribute: Deathrattle system!

Unlock new card attributes: discover the system!

Unlock a new card attribute: universe system!

When the relevant news was released, it directly caused an epic earthquake in the card circle!

"????"

"Jiang Zigeng?"

"Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

"Good guy, other game companies burn money for making games, but your Junyue company burns employees' longevity for making games, right?"

"Behind the development of every game of Junyue, countless programmers have to pay their lives. If there is no business, there will be no harm."

"Just ask if you don't understand, do the designers of Hearthstone really have a creative bottleneck period?"

"Oh, the chief designer is brother Chu Zi, that's fine."

"Players who have just entered the game circle, want to ask what happened to Designer Chu? Why is the game designed by him all right?"

"You ask him? It's nothing special, but just a few months ago he created the fighting genre, then the tower defense genre, and then the puzzle game, and then the audio game, and now he made an episode. It’s just a swap card, nothing special.”

"..."

For the first time, the newcomers pay respect from the bottom of their hearts to the profession of game designers who have never paid attention to it.

This kind of pioneering maniac, thrown into any cultural field, is a world-class celebrity...

"It's a pity that I chose the wrong industry, but I chose games. The upper limit has been locked." Many people also regretted it.

And more players are amazed by Hearthstone's "frenzied version with three consecutive bigger broadcasts".

Now, the pressure has come to the major peers.

"@幻想西游, learn how to update Hearthstone, do you know how long you haven't updated the version?"

"@宝oke梦华夏, where are you? When will the new game be released? Has this month's KPI been completed? Why don't you hurry up and steal Hearthstone's card draw system? Do you want our players to teach you how to play the game?"

"@武侠暗舞, anyway, I have already stitched Brother Chuzi's fighting + tower defense + puzzle + audio game, how about sewing a card into it? I want to see the version update within three days, understand?"

Among them, the worst one criticized by the players is the troubled times.

From the beginning of the rhythm, Hearthstone plagiarized the troubled times.

Although the official personnel of Troubled Times have repeatedly denied it in public, saying that this statement is purely a rumor from netizens and has nothing to do with the company.

However, according to Tianyun's urgency, all the old players who have played the game for several years are tacitly aware of this wave of operations.

Before, the torrent of public opinion was too great, and Hearthstone had no interest in them.

So they all fell silent.

But now the quality of Hearthstone's internal beta is here, and judging from the disclosed public beta information.

The updated content of this version alone is so diverse that players who "always want to be the father of a game company" can't wait to give Junyue a knock.

Comparing it with not being able to play new jobs and developing into today's troubled times purely relying on one's own dominance.

Which is strong and which is weak, the player knows at a glance.

They rushed to the bottom of the official blog in troubled times to start the blasting plan.

"Tian Yun comes out and gets beaten!"

"@悲世英雄伝, what did Hearthstone copy yours? Did it copy your three-month update rhythm?"

"I'll come first. Hearthstone was inexplicably suspended not long after the public beta test, and was sued in court by an official document for allegedly plagiarizing the Chaos World card game, and then paid Tianyun Company huge compensation. If you guess correctly, Pure coincidence, I don't know anything /beautiful/beautiful"

"Guarding Hearthstone starts with me! I will never allow such a good game to be persecuted by Tianyun Company!"

"Brothers, put protection in the comment area!"

……

"Extremely arrogant! How dare a company with only 200 employees export our Tianyun?"

Tianyun Game Company.

General manager.

Qi Hu looked away from the comment section under his official blog, slapped the table hard, and said angrily.

The subordinates in front of them were silent.

As the general manager of Tianyun Company, he had heard of Junyue Company before, and he had also heard of such a number one person as Chu Jun.

However, Junyue was too small at that time, with only a team of 50 people.

There are more than this number of customer service staff in any game division under the company's own company.

As for Chu Jun, the game designer, he tried to win him over, but after being rejected, he has been prejudiced against this person.

He did develop several creative games before.

But adding one piece to the revenue of these games is not enough to create a high value for the game Heroes in Troubled Times.

How about being creative?

What about the mountain monster?

No matter how novel your game type is, can you stop others from following suit?
No matter how good you are, but in the next second, aren't all of you in the same industry?

In this day and age, to put it bluntly, it is still bigger than anyone else's company.

Qi Hu really didn't pay attention to such a small company.

When Jiang Lang's talents are exhausted, whoever laughs last is the father.

Only.

Since the closed beta of the Hearthstone game, the card market has experienced violent turmoil.

Half a month into the closed beta, more and more players are leaning towards Hearthstone in troubled times.

In troubled times, the online rate of players keeps dropping every day.

This made Qi Hu very anxious.

Especially recently, even when the game is temporarily suspended, it can become a hot search topic, and there is even more than one topic.

For the first time, Qi Hu felt flustered because of the explosive potential of a small game company.

Sanctions must be taken!

"Xiao Liu, contact the legal department." Qi Hu snorted and said to the secretary beside him.

"President Qi, I firmly believe that Hearthstone is different from the card games we used to deal with." Chen Pingjie couldn't help but said.

He wanted to seize the last chance of the second spring in troubled times.

"Hearthstone is a very vital! Creative card game! Its rich gameplay breaks our rigid thinking about traditional card games. And the most important point is that Hearthstone brings The influence of the peripheral industry is not possessed by any of our company's games! The most valuable part of this game is that even passers-by who know nothing about the game can also have a high viewing value. This is to attract outsiders to join The key to the market!"

He tried his best to take out his mobile phone, click on the live broadcast platform, and randomly found a popular anchor with 300 million people.

This anchor started broadcasting Hearthstone, even if Hearthstone has recently stopped serving, the number of simultaneous viewers of the anchor's recording and broadcast has reached nearly [-]!

This is the best proof that Hearthstone can expand the card market!
"Did I tell you?" Qi Hu stared at Chen Pingjie: "I copied all Hearthstone's routines to our company, don't you understand human language?"

After a harsh word was uttered, the temperature in the entire office dropped sharply.

The other subordinates looked at the nose with their eyes and their hearts with their noses, and did not dare to say a word.

"The reason why his Hearthstone is so popular is because he plays these routines well. In troubled times, as long as we bring all these routines over, with the background of our Tianyun Company, we can only do better than Hearthstone!" Qi Hu said vigorously. He patted the desktop and glared at Chen Pingjie: "We only need to reproduce the content of Junyue Company, how many times do I need to emphasize this to you?"

Chen Pingjie gritted his teeth, clenched his fists and said loudly: "Mr. Qi, our Troubled Times department can't achieve this effect! At least in the short term, it is impossible to achieve the update frequency and deck compatibility of Hearthstone!"

"Then get the hell out of here!!" Qi Hu was already annoyed by Hearthstone's recent upsurge, and now seeing his subordinate talking back in front of so many people, he couldn't help but yelled.

Originally, it is very common for a boss to reprimand his subordinates in various companies.

Qi Hu didn't take it too seriously.

Unexpectedly, this time was completely different.

Chen Pingjie and Qi Hu stared straight at each other for a few seconds, angrily squeezed out a stiff smile from the corners of their mouths, and tore off the work badge around his neck and threw it on the table: "I quit! I have nothing to do with anything after the troubled times!"

With that said, he turned around and strode away.

"You..." Qi Hu moved his lips, subconsciously wanting to stop him.

However, due to the face of the leader, Qi Hu couldn't help it, so he had to bite the bullet and say: "You have to think clearly, you have a lot of options in troubled times, if you leave now, the company will take back your options. "

"Don't worry about it, I will hand over the work." Chen Pingjie slammed the door and left.

Only Qi Hu was left with complicated eyes, and his heart was throbbing.

Immediately, this anger was blamed on Hearthstone.

"Xiao Liu! Contact the legal department immediately, draft a complaint, and file a lawsuit with the court!"

Since Tianyun Company is very skilled in this area, especially the Troubled Times branch has rich experience in prosecution.

A paper of complaint was drafted quickly and submitted to the local authorities by mail.

But not long after.

The phone on Qi Hu's desk rang suddenly.

After answering the phone, after listening to a few sentences, Qi Hu's expression froze on his face.

This call was made by the Director of the Cultural Affairs Bureau himself.

Although they exchanged polite greetings on the surface, they mentioned Junyue's company in a tactful and veiled way.

"Xiaoqi, we are all in the same industry, so we are brothers and sisters. If there is any small trouble, you can solve it in private. If it goes out, it will make others laugh, which is not good for the development of the game industry." The other end of the phone seemed to be dissuading, but also like beating, and said meaningfully: "Mr. Chu, I am still very optimistic. You Tianyun will be the big brother, take care of him."

"Yes, yes, I will strictly discipline my subordinates when I look back, and rectify the legal department. I don't know what happened if you don't call me, director... Yes, yes, of course, Junyue Company can get rid of it like that The small scale develops in a short period of time, and I, the big brother in the industry, of course am also happy... Yes, what you said, the director, is a win-win cooperation...Okay, okay, let's hang up first, don't bother you, director rest."

After hanging up the phone, a trace of complexity and surprise flashed in Qi Hu's eyes.

It was no accident that the Cultural Bureau found out that he had sent the court to file a complaint.

The local political system is integrated, and if there is any disturbance, it is an unwritten rule to communicate with the relevant departments first to avoid accidental injury.

What's more, his complaint this time is purely bullying.

What shocked Qi Hu was why the Bureau of Culture, which had always turned a blind eye to it, would suddenly intervene in this matter?

He even made a phone call in person, wanting to keep Junyue's company.

However, the phone calls have come.

It doesn't matter what Qi Hu thinks anymore.

The Cultural Bureau has issued a statement, so naturally this paper of complaint can only be dismissed.

Qi Hu frowned deeply, glanced over the crowd, and said in a deep voice.

"Chen Pingjie quit, who among you here wants to take over his position?"

In the past, many people coveted Chen Pingjie's position.

But now everyone knows that this position is a hot potato, and no one dares to answer.

According to the current posture.

The rise of Hearthstone is inevitable. In troubled times, we must either maintain the status quo or follow the path of Hearthstone.

The former is obviously unrealistic. The quality of Hearthstone has been disrupted in all aspects. If the status quo remains unchanged, it will be a matter of time before it withdraws from the market competition.

And the second option...

The person in charge who is most familiar with the troubled times has left, and they think that even if they take over the troubled times, it may be difficult to do better and hide the decline.

Seeing this, Qi Hu's anger turned into a sigh.

The palm that was about to slap the table was finally weak and pressed slowly on the table.

"It's a crime." Qi Hu sat lightly on the chair and sighed.

Troubled Times has maintained the top card position for several years, and it seems that it will eventually be replaced by a new game that has just been released for less than a month.

And now, the only expectation.

We can only hope that Hearthstone will play with fire and set itself on fire.

After all, the current battle is so big.

It can be said that the expectations of all players have been pulled to a peak.

But how long has Hearthstone been from internal beta to public beta?

Across three major versions in a row, two sets of value-added services were added to the card draw mall.

Can Junyue company do what other companies can do in a year in half a month?
No matter how you think about it, it is impossible!

At present, it looks more like a gimmick that attracts attention.

Once the public beta version was released, it did not show such satisfactory results.

I'm afraid it will cause a violent rebound from the players!

The so-called how hard it was blowing at that time is how hard it is spraying now.

"They may not be able to withstand this wave of pressure! The position on the cusp of the storm is not so easy to sit in!" Qi Hu's eyes flashed a glimmer of hope again.

　No, I can't finish a chapter...

　　This chapter has more than 8000 words. I found that if I want to control the ending to about [-] words, many things cannot be written.

　　So send [-] words first.

　　Allow me to write another day...

　　Tomorrow must be the perfect ending to this plot!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)