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Chapter 419 - 417: The Unsolved Mystery After Unpacking

Chapter 419: Chapter 417: The Unsolved Mystery After Unpacking

"Oh? A video about unpacking the game has appeared so soon?"

"These people are quite fast."

Gu Fan was indeed a bit surprised.

In fact, hot games are likely to be unpacked; it’s just a matter of how quickly it happens. Like the previously popular "Ascension," which was unpacked a month after release, there was even a tech-oriented content creator who specifically analyzed the game’s mechanics of switching between two worlds.

But generally speaking, the hotter the game, the faster it tends to be unpacked.

After all, there are only a few top-level players with the capability to unpack a game; it has to be popular enough to catch their attention and get them to invest time and effort into it.

But strictly speaking, the buzz around "Heartbeat Dream" fell short when compared to "Ascension" at its release.

Surprisingly, the unpacking video arrived even faster.

Gu Fan looked at the UP (Upload) artist of the video; his name was "Master Dongsheng." According to his previous videos, he seemed to specialize in unpacking games.

Of course, if we’re talking strict legal terms, unpacking a game’s program is actually an infringement. If the game developers decided to pursue the matter, and if unpacking the game resulted in the leak of commercial secrets—such as revealing the content of the next versions’ campaigns or updates in advance—it could lead to a lawsuit.

However, most game companies don’t particularly mind this, nor are they likely to take players to court over unpacking.

If it were an online game and a player leaked major updates of the next version through unpacking, it could annoy the developers. But if it’s a single-player game, unpacking usually doesn’t do much harm; it might even help players understand game mechanics better or incidentally boost the game’s popularity.

So most single-player game developers tend to turn a blind eye to such unpacking.

These UP artists are smart too; they mostly unpack foreign games, especially single-player ones, and if they tackle domestic mobile or online games, they avoid revealing any content related to the upcoming version in their videos.

Overall, such unpacking videos have always existed on the internet and have a pretty stable audience.

Frankly, many players have this deep curiosity, and for content creators, it’s quite a unique niche.

But looking at the release dates of these videos, Gu Fan keenly noticed a peculiar issue.

Clearly, this UP artist’s previous unpacking videos were mostly released between three to six months after a game’s launch.

Why choose this timing?

On one hand, the UP artist needs to build up momentum, waiting until after the game’s release when players have beaten it or even grown tired of it. Watching unpacking videos then has a stronger effect and avoids spoilers. On the other hand, it’s naturally to minimize legal risks as much as possible.

However, the unpacking video for "Heartbeat Dream" clearly didn’t follow this timeline—it was much sooner.

In fact, so far, let alone the so-called "true ending," many players haven’t even gotten the second female character to full favor in the third stage, much less unlocked the full bestiary for all characters.

Releasing an unpacking video at this time doesn’t fit with the UP artist’s usual pattern.

But this could simply be a minor anomaly and might not mean much. Maybe the UP artist just really liked "Heartbeat Dream" and didn’t think too much before unpacking it. That’s not impossible.

From previous videos, it seems that Master Dongsheng, the UP artist, should have a good level of technical skill, having unpacked some major developer’s classic games, and even managed to unpack some console games.

He delved pretty deeply into many of the details after unpacking.

For such a tech wizard, unpacking is not especially difficult; the three to six months’ delay previously wasn’t due to technical problems but other considerations.

But regardless, we’ll have to see how things develop to understand why he was in such a rush to unpack "Heartbeat Dream" this time.

Zhou Yang clicked on the video and watched it while eating.

Meanwhile, Gu Fan’s phone pinged twice, signaling a message from the collaborator on the figurine production.

"President Gu, if there’s no problem, we can launch the promotional page today, and then it goes straight into production! We expect to mass-produce in stock within this week."

Gu Fan looked at the new promotional page for the Elios figurine sent by the collaborator.

Compared to the previous promotional page, there were significant changes, mainly highlighting elements like "Gen 2," "Upgraded Model" with eye-catching phrases, and the page’s lavishness had clearly improved, using more opulent decorative elements.

But clearly, it was all a sham.

In fact, the second-generation Elios figurines were marked "increase in price, not quantity," with a significant price increase while the content was basically unchanged.

The size, the material, and such had not been updated. They had merely changed a few design elements, added a color variation, and introduced a rechargeable port.

For the manufacturers, such changes were incredibly simple, which is why they could be mass-produced and sold so quickly.