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Chapter 370: [Tech Invasion], Ocean Survival Competition Begins! (Seeking Monthly Tickets)

While Xu Meng and the US President were having a "childish squabble" across half the globe, their counterparts in the gaming industry were in a frenzy over a sudden incident!

As Xu Meng had set it, the [Civilization Sprayer]失效on April 1st at midnight, right on schedule.

[Hardware Duel], [Client Explosion], and [Trash Talk Showdown] all exited the stage of history.

Players who hadn't had enough were filled with regret.

Everyone thought that this matter had come to an end.

But they were wrong—

Just two days later, the [Civilization Sprayer] reappeared!

But this time, it was no longer an equal playing field for everyone!

Tech-savvy players clutched their modified plugins, rampaging and invincible in the chat channels of all of Dream Architect's competitive games.

Moreover, without opponents, trash-talking battles were almost always victorious.

—Using "almost" because there was a very low chance of encountering other "techies" using the [Modified Civilization Sprayer].

Once this happened, it would once again evolve into a hardware war of "winner takes all, life or death."

However, the number of these techies was just a drop in the ocean compared to Dream Architect's overall player base.

Such things had an extremely low probability of occurring.

At the same time, due to Xu Meng's intimidating "super grudge-holding" reputation, these people didn't dare to cause too much trouble after breaking through Dream Architect's restrictions.

Not only did no one dare to sell it for money, but they didn't even dare to spread it widely.

At most, they would couldn't help but provoke their teammates and opponents while playing games.

Hoping that others would scold them, triggering the [Civilization Sprayer] to fire back.

In this process, what really made them feel satisfied was not winning the trash talk battle, but the surprised and envious reaction of others when they saw that he could still use the [Civilization Sprayer].

Overall, the destructiveness was very small.

After that, Xu Meng stopped paying attention and continued to busy himself with his own affairs.

Thus, Xiao Meng had one more daily mini-game.

But at the same time, there was another group of people who made a completely different choice—

After studying the [Civilization Sprayer] thoroughly, to be on the safe side, they didn't continue to use it in Dream Architect's games, but modified it and used it in other games.

Because it wasn't being used in Dream Architect's games, their modifications to the plugin became even more reckless—

They quickly changed the plugin from "passive defense" to "active offense," and some people even integrated AI voice into the plugin.

The modified [Civilization Sprayer] had greatly increased power!

With just one button press, it could automatically spray swear words!

Whether domestic or overseas, PVP games were the most popular type of game.

Language conflicts occurred every moment!

And the [Civilization Sprayer] was born for this!

These people used the plugin, seamlessly embedding it into the game environment.

Without the slightest bit of incompatibility!

When it was first used in the MOBA game "League of Warriors," it was even mistaken for a real person with godlike hand speed.

—In "League of Warriors," there really were people who could farm minions, fight, harvest heads, and frantically trash talk at the same time with godlike hand speed.

It wasn't until the player had been frantically trash-talking for half an hour that his teammates and opponents finally determined—"He must be using hacks!"

Because hand speed could be godlike, but fingers couldn't break through physiological limits.

Outputting at this speed for half an hour would cripple your hand.

What awaited the player next was naturally a report.

After that, the official banned the player's account with extreme efficiency.

But the player didn't care.

Please, Dream Architect's games were already too much to play, and now the Dream Machine was about to come out, who would still want to play your old game?

Ban it then.

Not only "League of Warriors," but "FireWire Confrontation," "Special Elite," "Ace Squad," etc., etc., all encountered "tech invasion!"

Especially those games that support voice communication.

Once this kind of technology was installed, it was simply an explosive experience—

Suddenly, a woman in her fifties or sixties popped up in the headset or speaker, frantically cursing in the team channel!

And once she started cursing, she wouldn't stop, cursing so that no one could interrupt.

The effect was extremely explosive.

Not to mention the unlucky ones who were cursed, even the teammates listening in were mentally collapsing!

Everyone opened the report without saying a word, summoning the official to sanction them.

The officials of these games, whether quickly or slowly, noticed this problem.

Banning accounts was very simple, just follow the existing process.

But banning accounts alone was obviously not enough.

Only by finding a way to plug this loophole and prevent the plugin from continuing to be used could the problem be completely solved.

But while they were studying how to plug the loophole, an even more troublesome thing happened—

Some players with a stronger spirit of sharing freely shared the [Modified Civilization Sprayer] that could not be used in Dream Architect's games.

(Everyone knew very well: daring to charge would almost certainly result in Xu Meng hanging them up and whipping them.)

As a result, this thing quickly spread, seriously polluting the gaming environment of many friendly companies.

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Everyone had to work overtime urgently to plug the loopholes.

Large companies were fine, after all, they had sufficient manpower and strong enough technology.

Although they were caught off guard by the sudden incident, they quickly plugged the loopholes and solved the problem.

But those small companies were miserable—

Programmers were frantically losing hair, and the operations team was almost crying their eyes out.

They even collapsed and ran to Xu Meng's account to cry about their experiences.

And Xu Meng didn't know about this until three days later.

It was his little assistant Chen Mengling who told him.

—The complaints from these friendly companies were simply too low in absolute numbers, far from touching the boundary set by Xu Meng, and therefore did not trigger Xiao Meng's alarm mechanism.

As a result, Xiao Meng not only didn't report this matter to Xu Meng, but had been eating popcorn and watching the fun from the sidelines…

Xu Meng tapped her pink head, and besides sighing that he hadn't set a good example and had raised his daughter crookedly, he didn't say much.

—He himself was a fun-loving person, and now that he had raised a little fun-loving person, he himself thought it was too normal…

After shaking his head, Xu Meng told Xiao Meng to take action, contact all domestic counterparts in the name of Dream Architect, provide free technical support, and help completely plug the loophole.

Those who had privately messaged Xu Meng to "complain" were shocked, and then overjoyed.

Companies that hadn't looked for Xu Meng received an unexpected surprise and thanked him repeatedly.

At this point, the storm caused by this "tech spillover" slowly subsided.

Although the friendly companies were tossed around a bit miserably, against the backdrop of the conflict between Xu Meng and the US President, the attention to this matter could be said to be negligible.

It only caused some ripples in the player community.

But the impact of this matter in the industry was not small at all!

Dream Architect, such an industry behemoth, was able to notice the difficulties encountered by friendly companies, and took the initiative to contact and help them for free, even teaching technology without compensation…

This reliable big brother style immediately conquered many game companies and development teams.

Especially smaller teams, who flocked to Dream Architect, wanting to board the big ship of the Dream Architect gaming platform.

—Not only to gain global users and strive for more technical support, but also because they had more trust in Dream Architect.

This small accident allowed the Dream Architect gaming platform to take another important step on the road to unifying the domestic gaming market.

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Players were not very sensitive to the undercurrents in the industry and were unaware of these changes.

Everyone's focus was already on the [Ocean Survival Competition].

Dream Architect specially created a page to display the total number of survivors on that sea in real time.

At the beginning of the competition, this number was extremely alarming—

[48,217,736 people]

This number dropped another bombshell on the global gaming industry!

—Before Dream Architect, no game event held by any company had ever reached such an astonishing scale of participation!

However, less than 10 minutes after the start of the competition, this number began to decline rapidly!