Why the bug I wrote became a core gameplay mechanic?!
Chapter 587 - 570: This is the Discipline of Other Manufacturers

Chapter 587: Chapter 570: This is the Discipline of Other Manufacturers

While Lilith was searching for related content, she inevitably stumbled upon Zhuge Jun’s video.

After watching it, Lilith was as if facing a formidable enemy, her brows deeply furrowed.

"What? He even predicted my predictions?

"This guy is terrifyingly cunning; he must not be overlooked!

"Gu Fan, hurry up and check if he has any connections with our internal staff, whether someone leaked insider information to him!"

Gu Fan was startled: "Ah? President Li, how am I supposed to check that? I’m not a Jinyiwei.

"But I do know this person; he’s just an ordinary college student from Capital City, and also a loyal player of our game. He often visited our offline experience store.

"However, President Li, you can rest assured that I guarantee no staff at the experience store have leaked any insider information to him! After all, the employees there don’t even know themselves."

Lilith’s expression grew serious as she watched the video from beginning to end again.

Then, she nodded slightly: "Hmm... It does seem he didn’t get any insider tips, but figured it out on his own.

"At least from his wording and tone, it doesn’t sound certain."

Gu Fan was amazed: "You can even tell that, President Li? Truly wise and mighty, insightful and discerning, with eyes like torches..."

Lilith coughed dryly: "Ahem, alright, that’s enough! I know all that; no need to stress it further.

"This Zhuge Jun, I’m not sure if he’s just lucky, or if he actually caught onto our tactics, but his video is kind of risky.

"Fortunately, though, he doesn’t have many fans, and not many people believed him when he released the video.

"Otherwise, his video could have caused us significant losses.

"Now, it’s actually not bad, as this video has attracted even more players to curse us.

"Heh, could this be considered a blessing in disguise of sorts?"

Lilith wasn’t very angry because, objectively speaking, the video had served to gather negative sentiments.

If Zhuge Jun was a big influencer with clout, then his prediction would have spread far, and even if players were skeptical, some would have tried to pull for Ningyun Monarch.

Wouldn’t that have messed up all our plans?

But now, since Zhuge Jun has no significant following, no one believes him, so naturally, no one tried to pull for Ningyun Monarch.

Missing out often breeds more negative emotions than mere ignorance.

If there was no video, players would be mad about being played, but not as regretful; with the video, they’d be frustrated, wondering, "Why didn’t I see it earlier?" "Why didn’t I believe it at the time?"

Objectively, it acted as a sort of amplifier.

Therefore, after weighing everything, Lilith felt the video wasn’t too much of a problem, especially since she found the barrage of comments cursing Nitiandang in the video’s comment section quite pleasing.

"Not bad, as long as you’re willing to curse at Nitiandang, then we can be friends.

"But speaking of which, this video is already more than two weeks old; I wonder if he has uploaded any new ones.

"If he’s smart, he’ll know that dining on the backlash against Nitiandang can be quite profitable, and he should quickly make a new video to pander to the angry crowd in the comments.

"In that case, I’d even be willing to sponsor him, since it’s only logical for a game publisher to support a few media personalities, ohoho."

Lilith eagerly opened Zhuge Jun’s video channel details.

According to the thought process of an average person, now would be the best time to critique Nitiandang.

The general consensus among players was to curse the company.

And Zhuge Jun was the most qualified to curse them since he had predicted Nitiandang’s moves in advance, helping some players to avoid losses.

By doing so, not only would his criticism be justified, but he would also be aligning with public opinion, capitalizing on the trend, and garnering major traffic to significantly increase his fanbase.

Thinking logically, this would be the most beneficial course of action.

For Lilith, this would also be the most advantageous behavior; hence, she wouldn’t mind long-term cooperation.

However, after glancing at Zhuge Jun’s latest video, Lilith’s brows furrowed, her expression complex.

Clearly, things were a little off from what she had anticipated?

Indeed, Zhuge Jun had released a new video in the past two days, and from what the data showed, it was fairly popular.

After all, his previous video had attracted some traffic.

But... why was the title of this video somewhat different from what Lilith had expected?

Clickbait? Sensational headlines?

Her brows furrowed as she watched the video and pondered deeply.

...

At the start of the video, Zhuge Jun briefly recapped the background and outcomes of his previous video, confirming the accuracy of his predictions.

To put it simply, the prophecy was a huge success!

He had almost perfectly predicted Nitiandang’s subsequent update plans, except for "Ningyun Monarch’s Special Training," which he did not foresee; the rest he pretty much got right.

Before the whole network anchors were saying to go for Glacier General instead of Xing Ying, and to go for Echio instead of Ningyun Monarch.

Zhuge Jun’s advice was the exact opposite of that, which triggered a lot of ridicule from the player community.

What was the result? Zhuge Jun was absolutely right.

And what made this prediction even more valuable was that he made it right when the Ningyun Monarch’s UP pool just came out.

In any case, at the beginning of the video, Zhuge Jun essentially reminded all viewers of his own track record, making the video seem a bit more convincing.

Next, as long as he, like the players, fiercely criticizes Nitiandang for messing around, inflating the Gold Coins of old characters, and intentionally disgusts players with the Earth Element shield mechanism, then this wave of negative publicity will surely feast fat.

Nitiandang never cares about these negative scripts, so this negative publicity comes with virtually no risk.

However, an unexpected scenario occurred for Lilith, as Zhuge Jun suddenly changed his tune, heading in a completely different direction!

"Maybe a lot of friends think I’m also about to bash Nitiandang now, but on the contrary, I actually think what Nitiandang is doing is fine, and even deserving of encouragement.

"Don’t rush to condemn me yet, thinking that I’m whitewashing for Nitiandang.

"Please first consider a key issue: are these bad experiences that you’ve gotten from Endless Fantasy Legend 2 version 2.0 the fault of Nitiandang, or is it the problem of other game developers?"

This question confused both the viewers watching the video’s live comments and Lilith who was outside watching.

What does that mean?

How can they have the audacity to shift the blame to other game developers?

Have some shame, what does this have to do with them?

Maybe Zhuge Jun has lost his mind.

Yet, the words Zhuge Jun said next offered a completely new perspective that made people unconsciously start to think.

"Let’s organize our thoughts, what are the main issues that Nitiandang’s operations in version 2.0 have caused for everyone?

"It’s nothing more than the Earth Element shield, the card pools of Ningyun Monarch and Jiye, the Hero protagonist obtaining the Time Element causing an explosion in Jiye Gold Coins, and the increasing trend of gacha pulls being unfair.

"Regarding the card pool issue, since there is no conclusion yet, let’s not discuss it for now.

"The key is the arrangement of the Earth Element shield and the gacha planning surrounding it.

"I know what everyone wants to curse about:

"Firstly, the Earth Element shield is a compulsory mechanism, only with Xing Ying and Ningyun Monarch can one enjoy playing it, pushing this mechanism has suspicions of tricking into spending money;

"Secondly, Xing Ying and Ningyun Monarch entered the UP pool before version 2.0, so when everyone discovered they were exceptionally effective against the Earth Element shield, the pool had already passed, and it was too late to act;

"Thirdly, after many players drew Jiye, the officials arranged for the Hero to obtain the Time Element ability, which essentially meant a free Four Stars character blew up the Gold Coins of the Five-star UP pool character.

"These three points are what everyone is complaining about, did I get that right?"

Lilith silently nodded, which is also the main way her series of combinations collected negative sentiments.

The Hero, which is the character played by the players, although it doesn’t have a specific star level setting, can roughly be seen as a Four Stars character template, which is evident to everyone.

The Hero’s star upgrade is done using items that progress the main story missions, and all sorts of training materials are given for free.

In essence, as long as players keep on playing, they can max out all the Hero’s stats.

And when he’s maxed out, he’s also four stars, so treating him as a Four Stars character is no problem.

A free, given Four Stars character turns out to be more useful than the current five-star UP pool character Jiye in version 2.0, which is indeed a bit revolutionary.

This is obviously great for the zero-spending players who did not draw Jiye, but doesn’t that mean those who did are now greatly wronged?

In short, the timings and sequence of Xing Ying, Ningyun Monarch, Jiye, and Hero, these four characters almost account for ninety percent of Nitiandang’s harvest of negative sentiments.

If they had simply adjusted the sequence, releasing Xing Ying and Ningyun Monarch in version 2.0, players wouldn’t have had so much negative sentiment.

So the question is, with such malicious design, how does Zhuge Jun plan to whitewash?

Even Lilith herself had a hard time imagining it.

But then, Zhuge Jun changed his tone again: "From a habitual way of thinking, everyone’s criticisms are justified.

"Including when Qing Lin’s special training task began during the previous beta version, it blew up the Gold Coins of Lei Tu and Cold Frost, transforming previously ignored and unpopular characters into the most popular ones in the Permanent Pool now.

"There are quite a few people condemning Nitiandang for messing around.

"But let’s think about it, is the ’five-star characters not being enhanced’ a rule of thumb, or a mindset imprint? Is it really the players’ own choice, or some form of indoctrination from other game developers?"

Upon saying this, indeed, many people were left speechless.

Is the enhancement of Qing Lin a good thing?

Of course, it is.

Because essentially, Endless Fantasy Legend 2 is actually a single-player game.

Although it also allows connecting online to farm dungeons together or explore the large world, there are no real conflicts of interest when players are online; when old players enter a new player’s world, it is purely voluntary help and they can’t gain any profit from it.

As for PVP activities, there are even less.

Players can completely choose not to connect online, play by themselves, and still experience all the game content.

Since Endless Fantasy Legend 2 is a single-player game, then the characters players pull are naturally the stronger the better, the stronger the characters, the easier it is to get through the story.

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