Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 207 - 207: 205: Release Approaching

For example, what Lincoln considered the biggest selling point of “Bullet Curving” was indeed enjoyed by players, but in terms of attention and discussion, it was not as popular as the virtual girlfriend taking a bath in the bathroom at the beginning of the game.

Take “Light Encounter” for example.

Lincoln created this game primarily to deal with public opinion, while also slapping NetDragon people in charge of creating hype. It was his least time-consuming production, even less so than when he first created “Traveler of the Wind”.

After handing it over to Little Chun, he would only look at it occasionally when he remembered or when Little Chun proactively reported it.

However, the game sparked a very enthusiastic discussion among players.

The newly created “Light Encounter” official account was gaining tens of thousands of fans every day!

Every time after Samuel and Little Chun consulted, any bits of information released online would cause a frenzy among players.

Even different colored cloaks, a group of uniquely shaped hats, a small concert by several little characters, or even a character’s failed flight that turned into a constantly spinning top in mid-air, would excite thousands of players and trigger discussions.

All their posts had no less than 50,000 likes! Appearing on the 24-hour hot topic list was simply an everyday occurrence.

It wasn’t just on Spiritual Rhinoceros; on the night the “Light Encounter” trailer was released, the Vortex Forum opened a separate game zone.

Whenever “Light Encounter” official account released content, the forum would generate thousands of discussion posts, with numerous big forum names trying to analyze more clues from the pictures and screens.

Some even made a ten-minute video based on a few pictures, explaining it with confidence.

What was even more outrageous was that these “prediction” videos even garnered extremely high view counts, and even made it onto the daily hot search list on Little Video Station once!

As for the accuracy of the predictions…while not entirely unfounded, they were largely hit or miss.

Anyway, Lincoln watched them with the same disinterest as an old man on the subway.

Now, seeing “Light Encounter” on the hot topic list again, Lincoln was completely indifferent, not even bothering to click to see.

He would rather watch gossip!

The next day, Lincoln politely waited until work hours to call Lorin about acquiring a top-level commercial supercomputing channel.

Lorin, being a Doraemon-like character, indeed found a supercomputing center with poor performance.

According to Lorin’s somewhat cryptic introduction, this supercomputing center used to mainly undertake tasks assigned by higher research departments, but after the higher department built a new generation of supercomputing centers last year, this center lost its stable source of business.

It was increasingly difficult to support purely commercial tasks, so they considered selling.

According to Lorin, if Lincoln only wanted the supercomputing center and not the researchers working there, he would need to participate in the negotiations himself and allow at least one month for the existing staff to find new jobs.

However, if Lincoln were to take it over as he did the Unmanned Factory, the acquisition process could be completed in less than a week.

Lincoln went to see it in person and performed a simple test – actually letting Mavis go in and walk around.

Amid Mavis’ clamoring of “Moving! Moving! Mavis wants to move!” , Lincoln signed the contract that day.

The next day, the payment was completed, and all staff were given new contracts. Cloud Dream Supercomputing Center was established at lightning speed.

By the third day, also known as Friday, the center’s employees had already begun adjusting the supercomputing hardware and software according to Mavis’ plan.

Although supercomputing is essentially high-performance servers, specialized optimization and adaptation are still needed to achieve the best results.

However, all of this was right up Mavis’ alley, as she eagerly renovated her new home.

Another thing happened that day: Sanwen Media, Omnipotent Strategy Group, and Player Tribe, three online media outlets, issued public apologies simultaneously for their previous rumor- mongering and defamation.

Lincoln was disappointed about this.

He was looking forward to a media outlet being stubborn and waiting until the official court date, when he would reveal the license of “Daxia Awesome Law Firm” and show the seal to everyone on social media.

At that time, the media and netizens involved would definitely find it very interesting.

Unfortunately, all three conceded without a fight, showing no backbone.

This left Lincoln feeling deflated, as all the preparations were wasted, and netizens missed out on a good show.

Players probably took it for granted, and even their scolding seemed lackluster, so the apology statement had fewer than a hundred comments.

Xu Wen breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this: it seemed that players don’t care about this news, and might even forget it in a few days.

However, he quickly became alarmed when he discovered that the number of people following his account’s fans started to plummet, losing three to five thousand with each refresh, giving him great anxiety!

After all, your follower count does not represent your true fan number, and there might be a large number of zombie fans or even bots here.

But those who un-followed you – they must be real people!

Originally, being blacklisted by Cloud Dream already questioned their professionalism and reliability. As Cloud Dream keeps developing and gaining fame, the status of the blacklist in netizens’ minds continues to rise.

Now they are nailed for spreading rumors and defaming, having even apologized for it, this has shattered fans’ last bit of hope with them.

Removing them from the follow list is naturally not an unexpected event.

This situation didn’t just happen with Xu Wen’s “Three Questions Media”, the other two faced the same issue as they began losing fans rapidly.

It really validated the saying: when people are about to leave, they won’t even say a goodbye!

The person in charge of the three media outlets was utterly helpless, just watching this happen and being in despair.

Players, of course, couldn’t care less about their feelings.

In the eyes of most players now, there’s only one thing – the imminent release of “Light Encounter”!

After Lincoln adjusted the schedule, only Console Mirage remained on schedule for release on Saturday at 8 am.

The game’s launch and news releases were set for working days, and “Light Encounter” was no exception.

At 2:30 pm on Friday, which is – this afternoon.

The three online media outlets created by Xu Wen and others are bound to be silently eliminated in this unnoticed situation..