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"Are you listening to me?" Wu Di asked suddenly.

"Ah?" Lin You froze for a moment, "Of course! I've been listening."

"Then what did I say?" Wu Di's eyes were filled with suspicion.

"You said... Well, you said the pace is too slow, [Assassin's Way] requires a month to complete the entry-level mission, and impatient players may be very irritable. Also, the world is too peaceful, and force is useless. The transportation is not very convenient, and you have to run everywhere by yourself..." Lin You followed Xiaomeng's voice next to his ear, and repeated it unhurriedly.

Wu Di was a little surprised, but he didn't say much. He nodded and said, "Yes, I can understand the rest. The game is not finished after all. But is this quest line too outrageous? I stayed for seven days, stunned. One-third of the progress has not been completed."

"Don't worry, don't worry." Lin You comforted: "This task line and ability improvement curve are only done by a few staff members in their spare time. Because they have borrowed a lot of opinions from real martial arts masters, it will be cumbersome. Wait for the game After the official release, there will definitely be major changes.”

"When will the game be released?" Wu Di asked expectantly.

"Hmm... well..." Lin You was a little speechless, "I can only say, soon, soon..."

Then, without waiting for Wu Di to ask, he immediately changed the topic: "As for the traffic problem, it will definitely improve in due time. I have a suggestion for you: when "Battlefield" is released, you can try cavalry and practice horseback riding more."

""Battlefield"?" Wu Di immediately asked the exact same question: "When will "Battlefield" be released?"

Lin You was silent for a few seconds, "... soon, soon."

Wu Di was speechless: "Anyway, everything is coming soon, right..."

But he also knew that the release date of the game was a major event, and it was normal not to say it casually.

So he took the initiative to change the topic, and then talked about his game experience in the previous week.

After chatting for a full half an hour, and saying everything I could think of, I went offline and left.

In another hour, he will lead a group of aunties to aerobics, and he has to prepare in advance.

*

On Lin You's side, he also made a memo about what he talked about with Wu Di.

The entry schedule that should be done by myself, and those that should be given to the [Virtual Chang'an] team, are also sent.

After that, I went back to the small sofa of the space carrier to find Xiaomeng.

At this moment, Xiaomeng is huddled on the sofa, with more than a dozen large and small screens densely gathered in front of her, obviously still eating melons at a high intensity.

Seeing Lin You's appearance, the speed of the changes on the screen suddenly slowed down so that he could see it clearly.

Lin You also sat down and looked at these screens——

[NetDragon's headquarters and R\u0026D center were blocked at the same time! A large number of special police were dispatched at the scene, suspected to be involved in major criminal crimes! ]

[The dust settles! The grievances and hatred between Lin You and NetDragon will finally come to an end today? ! ]

[burst! Zhao Yucheng, the boss of NetDragon, went to jail. The former leader of the game company finally ushered in the end of the road! ? ]

...

Under each report, there are a large number of netizens eating melons and watching the excitement.

The scene of NetDragon's headquarters surrounded by special police and a cordon, the video of Zhao Yucheng being escorted out of the company, the panicked expressions of a large number of NetDragon employees leaving the company... These on-site records are spread everywhere.

In particular, the photo of Zhao Yucheng's pale face, like a lost dog, has already rushed to the second place in the hot search.

Why isn't it the number one hot search?

Because the number one in the hot search is even more outrageous!

It was a picture of Lin You sitting on the co-pilot of a van, wearing a hat and poking his head out of the car window, looking at NetDragon headquarters.

——Originally, this was to convey a clearer picture of the excitement to Xiaomeng, but later there were more people, especially after the reporter appeared, Lin You had obediently retreated into the car.

It was still photographed.

But he was also mentally prepared for this, and he was not very surprised.

What really surprised him was the outrageous title of this photo——

[The contemporary Internet is the first person to hold grudges! ]

For this outrageous title, the comment area is also highly recognized——

“[Stealing home moment]!”

"[Bodhisattva's heart, thunderbolt means]!"

"Since Lin You debuted on the Internet, I have never seen him suffer a loss! Those who apologize, lose money, or go to jail, the opponents have no good end! I am also surprised that NetDragon has been stubbornly refusing to admit it, what will happen in the end? In the end, the house was directly ransacked! Awesome! Lin You did not disappoint me!"

"The most ruthless person on the contemporary Internet! Have fun!"

"Happy kindness and hatred, a role model for my generation!"

...

Because Yunmeng has always had a very high reputation, coupled with a large number of basic user disks, it has a huge advantage in the Internet public opinion war.

After reading a bunch of comments from netizens, Lin You only saw a few people criticizing him for "too much", "Things that can be solved with an apology, you have to send people to prison", "Being so cruel to people shows that it is not Any good person should pretend to do charity."

But the moment these comments came out, they were sprayed back by tens of times and hundreds of times of netizens.

Now the focus of everyone's discussion has shifted to "Will Lin You buy NetDragon?"

Seeing this, Lin You directly shook his head: He is not interested in NetDragon, why buy a company that is already behind the times?

He bought NetDragon only if he was mentally ill.

But... the IP of the "Raging Flames" series can be considered.

At that time, when there is free time, Qin Songyun, Fan Rui, and the staff of the original Lie Yan project team can work together to create "Lie Flame 4".

This is the sequel to "Flame" created by the original crew, with pure blood and original taste!

It's just that NetDragon may not be willing to sell such the most famous and valuable IP.

Probably have to wait until the company is really unable to survive and the company is about to go bankrupt before being willing to sell it.

"Then wait."

Lin You was not in a hurry. He felt that after NetDragon had endured this blow, it was not far away from the day of bankruptcy.

As for the large number of netizens who ran into his comment area, crazy about @him, I hope he will come out and say something...

Lin You pretended not to see it.

NetDragon was in bad luck, he was indeed very happy, but he had to be happy, there was no need to be aggressive on the Internet.

And he has more important things to do - the release of the early access version of "Battlefield".

Although whether it is [Chang'an] or "Battlefield", the time Lin You told Wu Di was "soon, soon."

But the meaning of "soon" these two times is actually completely different!

[Chang'an] is about to "create a new folder", and "Battlefield" is really about to be released!

To be more precise: the day after tomorrow, this Friday!

It once again followed Yunmeng's fine tradition of "testing or releasing a trailer a week later".

Just to take care of the sales of "Minecraft", this time was not announced before.

After two consecutive weeks of delays, the shortcomings in the single-player campaign have been completely made up for, and even the arsenals of various arms have been expanded to a certain extent.

In addition to work, the members of the development team have already conducted a lot of trials—the development team of "Battlefield" is currently the largest team in Yunmeng, whether it is [30 vs 30], [60 vs 60], or [ 100 versus 100] battlefields can be easily assembled.

This kind of "internal testing" did help them find some small problems.

But because I am a developer myself, there are many times when there are blind spots, and this kind of test cannot replace the real player test.

In particular, it is impossible to replace large-scale, long-term, and tactical player testing.

You must know that the gameplay imagined by developers and the gameplay that players will actually choose are not always the same, and sometimes they even run completely opposite.

*

At the end of the lunch break, Lin You logged into the virtual office and found Shen Ping.

He needs Shen Ping to evaluate whether the news of the early access version of "Battlefield" released on Thursday will be affected by NetDragon.

If it's only sold domestically, then Lin You has complete confidence and doesn't need to care about it at all.

However, NetDragon has relatively complete cross-border sales channels. In other words, it also has a certain base of players overseas.

However, Yunmeng has only just started for two or three weeks in many European countries. In the absence of a confirmed partner company, it may not be as big as NetDragon's player base.

Just now when he was on the small sofa, he saw the content of Xiaomeng eating melons, and some of the pages were not Chinese characters-obviously, the scope of influence of this incident has quickly spread overseas.

Almost 100% of the grievances between Yunmeng and NetDragon will be discovered and reported.

In this case, it is really hard to predict what impact the release of new games, or "unfinished" new games, will have.

If the players over there feel that they choose to disregard the player experience and the integrity of the game and forcefully launch the game at this time in order to "step on the opponent", that would be too bad.

——The impact on sales is a trivial matter, but the impact on Yunmeng's word of mouth is a major issue!

Therefore, Shen Ping needs to make an assessment in advance.

If there is really a negative impact, then you can consider the early access version of "Battlefield", which will only be released in the Chinese-speaking region first, and postponed for other regions for a week.

After explaining the mission to Shen Ping clearly, Lin You came to the development world of "Battlefield".

But before he checked the development log of the past two days, Fan Rui suddenly walked over and said, "Boss, are you interested in poaching some people from NetDragon?"