Ch. 10 - When It Comes to Being Devious, It's Still Got to Be You
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【Boss of Polar Star Games CompanyShockingly Appears on Sky Shark Gaming Livestreams, Furiously Spending Millions of Federation Coins in Two Hours—But Why?!]】
【”Wasteland Future: 2100” Suspected of Plagiarism?!】
【Polar Star's New Game, Coming Soon to All Platforms.】
【Regarding Game Plagiarism, Polar Star Games Company Boss Speaks Out...】
It was already late into the night, yet Emperor Penguin Group was still brightly lit, especially the company’s Games Department. Supervisor Xu Huan looked at trending topic after trending topic with an ugly expression.
What he feared most had come to pass. He was afraid that Polar Star Games Company's boss was a tough nut to crack, and it turned out that he really was. Every sentence avoided mentioning Emperor Penguin Group directly, but every sentence was inseparable from Emperor Penguin Group.
Xu Huan could already imagine how many trending topics this guy would create to attract attention before the competition even started. Moreover, the other party had spent several million Federation coins on gifts in one night. The entire streaming community in the Great Xia Federation was going crazy.
From this, he could see that Polar Star Games Company wasn't short on money. From Xu Huan's understanding, Polar Star Games had assets of sixty million Federation coins, most of which had been consumed. The sudden appearance of millions of Federation coins could only mean that their business partner was fully supporting Zhao Ming.
“Cyber Blue Star: 2077” was already finished. Only the mysterious new game on Polar Star Games Company's official website remained. This made Xu Huan frown deeply. What kind of game could it be to have such confidence to continue competing with them? He couldn't figure it out.
Xu Huan felt irritated and agitated inside. Damn it. He just hated the eccentric genius type. Everything they did was unpredictable, completely impossible to know what to expect.
Xu Huan stood up and walked out of his office. Looking at the still-busy crowd, he asked, "How's the investigation going? Any new information?"
His secretary stood up to report. "Supervisor, there's no useful information at all. Polar Star Games Company's official website hasn't updated either, just added a countdown timer. We collected his statements from when he was giving gifts on various streaming platforms this afternoon. Also no useful information. We only know that the game will go online after the competition starts."
Xu Huan shouted impatiently, "Isn't that stating the obvious?! What about the people sent to approach Polar Star Games Company's employees? Any news from them?"
The secretary shook her head. "Nothing either. We contacted all of them, but everyone knows Hao Wen was arrested, so no one dares reveal information. What’s more is that according to information learned from Hao Wen's side, this game was supposedly made in one day. Because after learning that the game was plagiarized, Zhao Ming locked himself in his office for a day. When their company's business partner arrived, the game seemed to already be finished. But that's about all we learned. Hao Wen was already beaten half to death by that point."
Hearing this, Xu Huan got a massive headache. One day? One day?!! What the hell— a game made in one day dared to compete with their game that cost five hundred million Federation coins to imitate? Just how confident could someone be?!
"Keep investigating! Based on their website's game title! Add a new DLC to ‘Wasteland Future: 2100’—something about the world falling into a second war. Get it done before noon tomorrow! Roll out the publicity!
’Wasteland Future: 2100’ had five hundred million invested in it. If Polar Star Games takes us down, everyone can prepare to get fired!"
Spending five hundred million Federation coins to copy someone else's game, only to get beaten by them in the [Anti-War Competition]—not only would his reputation be ruined, but Emperor Penguin Group's reputation would be finished too. He didn't dare imagine the consequences if Polar Star Games Company won awards. His position as the company’s Games Department supervisor would likely be terminated.
"Also, go find some paparazzi and buy some celebrity scandal news. Push those to the top. Sacrificing a few minor celebrities is better than letting Polar Star Games Company gain attention. Hurry up!"
Zhao Ming had no idea how Emperor Penguin Group was frantically handling public relations. But the buzz was steadily climbing. Watching the constantly rising Emotion Points in his system, Zhao Ming couldn't stop smiling.
With Emotion Points, he could continue improving things. Zhao Ming unlocked another batch of World War II data and optimized the “Normandy Landing” battlefield once again.
Dying one hundred times to be promoted to landing craft commander remained unchanged. But the condition of killing ten people in one battle for promotion was changed to five people, slightly lowering the difficulty.
After all, if no one ever got promoted, players would definitely direct their anger at him. But if he lowered the difficulty a bit, there would always be exceptionally talented players who could get promoted to landing craft commander earlier. When the game launched and assignments were distributed, ten regular players would be assigned to this commander player's boat.
The player who became commander would definitely want to show off, but the game's difficulty remained what it was. No matter how they commanded, they were still destined to be cannon fodder.
But with the landing craft commander player taking the blame, Zhao Ming could already imagine what those ten regular players would say.
[What the hell!!]
[Do you even know how to command?!]
[What kind of tactics are these?!]
[Your brain working bro?!]
[This commander is trash!!!]
Shifting the conflict onto the players themselves. Tsk... I really am a genius.
If Shen Qinghan knew what Zhao Ming was thinking, she would definitely give him a thumbs up. When it comes to being devious, it's still got to be you.
Although Zhao Ming had never played games before, he had tried quite a few Blue Star games these past two days and downloaded data from some gunfight games that had exploded in popularity on Earth.
So he had gained a considerable amount of understanding of games.
Therefore, he was confident about his “World War II: Rise of Empire.”
However, there was a slight problem with the game review.
The next day, at Polar Star Games Company, Zhao Ming looked through the documents Shen Qinghan handed over, then signed and passed them back.
These were contracts for the game's launch.
Once signed, as long as other issues were resolved, they could go online anytime.
The current problem was the game's opening CG.
Shen Qinghan said, "After packaging and presenting your twisted logic, the game itself passed review. However, the game's opening CG was rejected and needs to be remade. The reason given was that the CG excessively promotes war and imperialism. You need to add something. Or rather, make it less promotional of... that Empire's Führer."
Shen Qinghan had also watched Zhao Ming's game opening CG several times. It started with the Third Reich's Propaganda Minister in a grand hall with tens of thousands of people, stirring up and promoting war to the masses, creating that speech where everyone was influenced and stirred up—obviously that wouldn't work.
Although under that dark color scheme, it could indeed convey the oppressive feeling of this Third Reich and how terrifying that Empire was.
However...it somewhat violated the current anti-war ideology of the Six Major Federations.