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Chapter 625 - 608: "Reverse Heaven" Released

Chapter 625: Chapter 608: "Reverse Heaven" Released

Three months later.

"Reverse Heaven" is officially released!

Instructor Ding and the other streamers, of course, started their live streams immediately. After all, this game is another major work by Nitiandang following "Endless Fantasy Legend 2". Whether it fits the taste or not, you definitely have to ride this first wave of hype.

And ride it hard!

Didn’t you see that Zhuge Jun, an ordinary college student, just by riding the wave of "Endless Fantasy Legend 2" became the top streamer in this field? Everyone’s envious of that traffic.

But what surprised the audience was that a completely unexpected face appeared on the watch list.

Gan Di!

Gan Di, who had been missing for more than a year, suddenly started streaming!

Soon, this news spread rapidly, and audiences flocked to Gan Di’s stream through livestreaming platforms and forums after hearing other players’ discussions.

Before working at Nitiandang, Gan Di was just an average small streamer with not much popularity, supported mainly by a dedicated group of modding enthusiasts.

But this time, the hype was almost sky-high.

The name of the chief planner of "Endless Fantasy Legend 2" was just too sensational!

Moreover, this was the first time an employee from Nitiandang was streaming. The audiences were already bursting with questions.

What exactly is the internal structure of Nitiandang?

Is the urban legend about Nitiandang circulating as rumors true?

Are those bugs actually bugs or special mechanics?

Before, all employees at Nitiandang cut themselves off from the network, and there was no way for internet users to verify any facts.

But now that Gan Di was streaming, as the chief planner, he must be well-informed about the internal state of Nitiandang.

Like a hero returning safely from a foreign battlefield, any story he tells is something that everyone loves to hear.

"What’s the situation, why so many people!

"There are so many gifts, I can’t keep up, thank you all for the gifts.

"What is Nitiandang really like?

"This...sorry, folks, I signed a confidentiality agreement, I really can’t say.

"I’m just here to try out the new game this time; about ’Endless Fantasy Legend 2’ and the internal secrets of Nitiandang, there’s nothing much I can share, please understand."

Gan Di was straightforward and didn’t indulge in falsehoods to maintain the audience in the live stream.

So, is there a confidentiality agreement?

Yes, and no.

Saying yes is because, indeed, there was a confidentiality agreement signed when the contract was first made, but the content stipulated in this agreement is actually quite limited, and the consequences of breaching the contract aren’t too severe.

If Gan Di really wanted to reveal some internal situations about Nitiandang, he could still disclose them subtly.

Like the "urban legends of Nitiandang", which Lilith herself doesn’t know about, so it certainly can’t be included in the confidentiality agreement.

But the problem was, Gan Di himself didn’t want to reveal anything.

More precisely, he felt that revealing such things would do more harm than good. Because people wouldn’t believe him!

Though he was the chief planner of Nitiandang, he had been there for just over a year, and he only knew the ’whats’ without the ’whys’ regarding many of the rules and tales.

Whenever he asked old employees like Zhou Yang, Feng Hui, and Zhao Haiquan, they all were vague, secretive, and couldn’t give a particularly clear answer.

Including the bugs and mechanisms...is this something to talk about?

Thinking back and forth, even if he hints at these things subtly, the audience might just suspect him of making up stories.

The key is he couldn’t prove himself either, because he wasn’t completely clear about what was going on himself.

After much thought, maintaining a sense of mystery seemed better.

Seeing that Gan Di really didn’t intend to reveal anything about Nitiandang, many of the audience who came because of the rumors inevitably felt disappointed and left one after another.

However, even so, the traffic in Gan Di’s stream remained at a very high level.

Most of the audience who stayed were the ones who loved "Endless Fantasy Legend 2" and consequently grew to like its creator, also because they held some hope that Gan Di was just keeping quiet due to the current crowd and would eventually slip up and release some explosive news while getting carried away with gameplay.

Just like that, Gan Di started the stream.

At this moment, there was still some time before the official activation of "Reverse Heaven", so he first checked the current status of "Endless Fantasy Legend 2".

This game had now completed almost all of its storyline and was entering the long-standing stagnant phase.

If other companies were operating this game, this definitely wouldn’t happen. Because other companies wouldn’t abandon such a cash cow, they would keep updating versions and continuing the storyline.

They could securely earn a few months of income just by adding a Chapter or creating a few characters. Why not?

But Nitiandang was different; when the game was done, they wouldn’t update it further.

Entering the stagnant phase was inevitable, but "Endless Fantasy Legend 2" hadn’t experienced any significant player drop-off, inherently different from those single-player games.

This brings us to many long-term mechanisms in "Endless Fantasy Legend 2".

What are the players sticking around for?

The first reason is to collect full-star characters.

The second reason is that the game, after entering its final version, has updated some long-term gameplay.

Collecting full-star characters is very different from similar games.

Similar games continuously update; generally, every one or two months, a new character is introduced, but the resources that players can earn during this period aren’t enough to draw a character.

So, in other similar games, though players could choose to save up resources for a year to draw a full-star character, it also meant strategically giving up on ten-or-so new characters during that year.

The longer one plays, the more the account lacks characters.

And to maintain a complete Bestiary, with all characters, requires continuous recharging, which feels like a big sucker move.

Worse still, if a player is a hardcore fan of a specific character and wants to draw that character to full-star, it would take until the second or third time that character is re-released for a free-to-play player to achieve it. By then, this character might have already fallen out of the meta.

It’s been utterly outdone by new characters in terms of stats and mechanics.

So, although character collection is considered a long-term gameplay in similar games, it honestly isn’t very satisfying for players.

"Endless Fantasy Legend 2" is completely different.

This game has reached its final version, meaning no new characters will be introduced; it will only occasionally bring old characters back for UP pool reruns.

Meanwhile, players can continue to acquire resources, whether through daily rewards or monthly card benefits.

This means that as long as players continue to play, they are bound to activate the complete Bestiary, even reaching all full-star characters.

Whale players can spend money to get all full-star characters early, while free-to-play players can earn them through prolonged gameplay.

In the final version, "Endless Fantasy Legend 2" will still conduct character balance adjustments from time to time.

This balancing isn’t manually controlled but done automatically through a backend algorithm.

When a character’s usage rate falls too low, this mechanism automatically triggers, enhancing the character’s stats according to a certain algorithm.

Players who are devoted fans of a specific character never need to worry about their character falling out of the meta or getting weaker, because even if they become the weakest, they’ll inevitably see substantial improvements later on.

This gives enthusiastic players more reason to continue playing.

First, collect that full-star character; then gather gear and items for them, later recruit strong teammates for them and get those teammates to full-star too.

This process can support lengthy gameplay.

Even when all of this is accomplished, they can choose their second favorite character and continue this cycle.

Players also aren’t left idle except for collecting rewards; although the game’s final version doesn’t update large map gameplay and mission lines anymore, there are still plenty of long-term gameplay modes.

For instance, story revisits and story restoration allow players to re-experience the previous storyline at any time.

Once all Hero abilities are unlocked, they can experiment with a variety of things using the complex element reaction mechanism on the large map, also unlocking a new gameplay mode.

Beyond this, various challenge stages are provided in the game’s final version. These stages are highly random and will gradually open new deep-level stages over time.

Even if a free-to-play player can’t clear the hardest stages at first, it doesn’t matter, because as time goes by and their roster and character enhancements grow, they’ll eventually clear them.

Such a relaxed endgame atmosphere further facilitates new players starting the game.

Online, you can always see posts from new players asking: Is it a good time to start "Endless Fantasy Legend 2" now? Should I buy an account or start a new one?

Most veteran players’ responses are: It’s a good time! Start a new account!

Of course, buying an account is also worthwhile.

If it was other similar games, veterans would definitely dissuade new players.

But "Endless Fantasy Legend 2" is different; it leans more towards a single-player experience. Like buying a single-player game during a sale, new players will get a similar experience no matter when they play.

Moreover, new players can gradually save characters, experiencing game content from the start, and even drawing Permanent Pool characters multiple times will result in a good experience.

Trading accounts is also not a problem; although with an increasing departure of players, the depreciation rate of accounts is rising, most players still have emotional attachments to their accounts and choose to keep them.

Also, a well-established account trading market provides full protection for buying and selling accounts.

All in all, the success of "Endless Fantasy Legend 2" further heightened the players’ anticipation for "Reverse Heaven".

Although "Reverse Heaven" has been kept under excellent confidentiality measures with virtually no playtest content leaked, players feel certain that Nitiandang will certainly achieve brilliance with this game.

Otherwise, it would waste a name so closely tied to the company!

Considering Nitiandang’s train of thought, don’t ask what kind of game the new one is; no matter what type, it will definitely dazzle!

But as an insider, Gan Di actually knew quite well what kind of game "Reverse Heaven" truly was.

Though he wasn’t responsible for the latter part of the game’s development, he fully participated in the game design and the development of the first part.

"Next, let’s see the final effect of Nitiandang’s mad creation!"

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