You said you were going to make games, how did you become the richest man without doing anything?

Chapter 335: The Wandering Game is a Hit! Competitors are once again defeated, and the final showdown is imminent! (2 in 1)

The game starts playing a cutscene.

The leader of Xinshenghe, upon hearing how badly his brothers had been beaten at the headquarters, and recalling the hatred of his wife being taken away from him, was so angry that his whole body was shaking:
"Is there still the king's law? Is there still law?"

When the live broadcast was concluded that day, Wang Hanzhe's survival score had reached 596th in the world!
He yawned and said:

"Brothers, our game goals are now clear: continue to strengthen the Beggars' Sect and explore new cities and unknown areas. Everyone is welcome to visit my live studio from time to time."

Wang Hanzhe paused, but did not immediately end the broadcast. Instead, he summarized his thoughts on the game over the past week:

“Before the end of today’s live broadcast, I want to share with you my feelings about the game “Dead End Simulator”.

First of all, I want to say that this game is quite exciting and is the most popular game for me recently!
The graphics design, sound effects and game scene design in the game are all very careful.
Moreover, from the initial wandering in the city to the later gang fights, every link is full of challenges and fun.

For example, although activities such as robbing trash cans and begging on the streets seem simple, they actually involve a lot of skills and require observation, analysis and luck.

Every time you rummage through a trash can, the randomness and uncertainty it brings makes you unable to stop!

The process of building a shelter is also quite interesting. It is full of challenges, from finding a suitable location to collecting building materials.
Moreover, various factors need to be taken into consideration, such as defense capabilities, survival comfort, etc. The feeling of building a shelter by yourself is really great!
In addition, the Beggars' Sect system is also a part that I like very much.

It feels so great to be able to create your own beggars' gang, recruit homeless people, and grow your own power!
Finally, I would like to thank Taoyuan Township for bringing me happiness this week!"

At this time, the audience in the live broadcast room also filled the screen with amazement, praising Taoyuan Township for being awesome:
"Taoyuan Township's game planning skills are incredible! Just watching Wang Hanzhe's livestream gives me a completely immersive experience!"

"Ah, indeed. A homeless game can be so entertaining. There really isn't anything that can stump this game company, right?"

"How should I put it? Although Taoyuanxiang may not be the strongest among the top three domestic console companies, I feel that being a player in Taoyuanxiang is quite a blessing. Playing games is such a pleasure. Taoyuanxiang is awesome!"

After the live broadcast ended that day, clips of Wang Hanzhe's live broadcasts from the past few days began to circulate, and more secondary creations and strategy videos appeared on major video websites. Players across the Internet were obsessed with being a homeless person:

【Handwritten Animation】The daily life of a homeless man begging for food, every frame is a program effect

【Fan Song】"Song of the Wanderer" pays tribute to everyone who wanders in a foreign land

【Funny Commentary】Start your adventure by creating a file in a border city, and have endless fun!

【Game Short】A newbie's diary of building a shelter, starting the life of a beggar gang from scratch.

【Crazy Ghost】Highlights of Wang Hanzhe’s Car Crash on “The Fugitive Simulator”!

As various game anchors play the game to the middle and late stages, a crazy buying craze has set off in the market.

Online channels such as the official website were quickly sold out, and many players resorted to various means such as scheduled purchases and script purchases, trying their best to buy the physical version of the game.

Within just a few minutes of the rush to buy, the website server was overwhelmed and crashed frequently, causing many players who were eager to buy the game to say that they were "unwilling to accept" and rushed to the official Weibo to curse and demand restocking.

Not only that, many big guys even buy multiple sets of games at one time to give as gifts to others.

Subsequently, peripheral products quickly became the objects of snap-up.

Various products such as The Fugitive-themed T-shirts with deliberately old-fashioned designs, trash can figurines, and peripheral stationery have been sold out. Some limited edition products have even doubled in price in the second-hand market after being snapped up in large quantities!

As the game sales increased, many media outlets that had previously refrained from publishing reviews due to the awkward promotional videos for the game suddenly became interested, and various reviews of the game sprang up like mushrooms after rain:

GameVoice:
[The Desperate Man Simulator: A brand-new experience that breaks the boundaries of gaming]

This game, with its innovative gameplay and open city design, successfully breaks the boundaries of traditional travel simulation games and brings a new immersive experience to players.

The game's meticulous survival elements, rich and diverse interactive content, and gang-building mechanisms allow players to immerse themselves in a real and fun experience.

Player's Realm:
The Desperate Man: A Game-Reinventing Gameplay

This game has a very high degree of freedom, and in every randomly refreshed city, there are NPCs of different styles that players can encounter.
I have reason to believe that Taoyuan Township's Taoyuan Kaiwu Engine will bring the VR gaming experience to unprecedented new heights!

We look forward to Taoyuanxiang's engine technology bringing more interesting games!
IGN:

[From the perspective of a homeless person, composing the spirit of anti-involution]

"The Dead Man Simulator" successfully creates a vibrant urban sandbox. The game's graphics performance, sound design, and design details of various stores are impressive and highly playable.

But this time, I want to talk about the people in this game.

In Wang Hanzhe's live broadcast, the protagonist of the game is a person who failed in stock trading with leverage.

Around him, there gradually gathered companions who were forced to wander due to various reasons.

For example, the cook who was forced to take the blame, the student whose place as a poor student was snatched away, the worker who was left with nowhere to go due to unpaid wages, and the art student who was betrayed by his mentor...

Although their first half of life can be described as a failure, they rekindled their hope in life in the Beggars' Gang called New Utopia.

As the saying goes, when you are surrounded by mountains and rivers and think there is no way out, you will find another village when you look up.

This undoubtedly highlights the spiritual core of Taoyuan Township's game works: anti-involution!

……

As the popularity grew, clips of the game live broadcast also flowed overseas and soon attracted the attention of some overseas celebrities.

A celebrity named Jack Robinson, who has 200 million followers, tweeted praise for The Dead Simulator.

His personal homepage has a background introduction:

Jack is a wilderness survival expert with many years of experience in zero-dollar wilderness survival challenges and outdoor teaching experience.

He has survived in all kinds of harsh environments and filmed a documentary that recorded his journey across the U.S. As a professional outdoor survival instructor, his advice is highly trusted.

His tweet reads:

“Recently, I was recommended to watch a live stream of this game.

As an expert in wild wandering, I was pleasantly surprised by the realism and challenges of wandering life presented in The Dead Man Simulator.

This game is quite good at simulating the challenge of zero-dollar survival, and it almost perfectly reproduces the various tests I encountered at the time.

From searching for food in trash cans to building shelters to avoid danger and dealing with the threat of invasion, the game's environmental details and survival mechanisms are exceptionally well designed.
I believe this game will attract more people to the sport of extreme outdoor wandering, and I hope that this game can be released in multiple languages ​​as soon as possible."

As public opinion continues to heat up, the sales of "The Dead Simulator" have soared!
Sales in the first week exceeded 1250 million copies, breaking the mini-game sales record set by "The Strongest Crosstalk Master" not long ago!
At the same time, the game continued to drive the hardware sales of Taoyuan Shenyou, bringing the total sales of this console to 3000 million sets!

……

Because the Northern Swordsman in the "Central Plains Five" had released a video mocking the new short film of "The Outlaws Simulator",
Therefore, a large number of proud Taoyuanxiang fans went to the original video to build a team:

"Just based on a spoof commercial, you're jumping to conclusions, Jianfeng. Who are you looking down on?"

"I've been a fan for ten years and I'm so disappointed in you. You speak without thinking. Have you been too arrogant lately?" "Hey, Master Jianfeng, why are you deleting comments like crazy? Are you crazy? The little awkward drama you mentioned has become the most popular one. Are you angry? Are you angry?!"

"I don't understand Taoyuan Township's promotional strategy at all, yet they claim to be professional game editors. It seems their professional ability is questionable."

"Bensfeng, stop talking nonsense. If you have the guts, ask your sponsor to release a cool game based on a low-quality short film. See if you can be even slightly better than Taoyuan Township's Fugitive Simulator."

In a rental apartment in a hutong in Dongcheng District, the capital.

Jianfeng looked at the computer screen, and the heart-wrenching comments from the players were almost enough to break his defense.

He closed his eyes, the veins on his forehead popping out as he tried his best to control the emotional turmoil within him.

Originally, the player's sarcasm made him extremely angry.

Just as I was about to refute, I thought about it carefully and realized that what the player said was not wrong at all.
Hi, I’m even more angry!
His eyes were filled with fatigue and frustration, his brows were furrowed.

I kept struggling in my mind: Should I delete the video? Should I delete the video?

He paced back and forth in the room in a panic, sometimes stopping to rub his temples, sometimes rubbing his palms.

Finally, he was so angry at himself for being so useless that he threw the teacup in his hand to the ground.
After a period of impotent rage, he lowered his head, placed his hands weakly on his legs, and looked listless.

Just then, Thomas called.

After Jianfeng answered the call, he smiled bitterly and said, "Brother Thomas, I've been defeated by Taoyuan Township twice. Frankly speaking, the impact on my reputation over the years has been too great."

Thomas: "It's okay, hold on! We are the five branches of the Central Plains. We prosper together and suffer together.

We still have two editors who haven’t made a move yet!
Boss Daji and I are already studying how to attack "Codename Shinkansen".

"I will definitely give Taoyuan Township a big boost later! We will make up for our loss and our loss!"

……

Jianghai City, Longteng Group Building, Fan Langtao’s office.

Seeing the cumulative sales of more than 1200 million copies of various versions of The Outlaw Simulator on the screen,
He stood up suddenly, his eyes wide open, and his face was full of doubts about life!
Holding a cup of coffee in my hand, but forgetting to drink it, I stared blankly at the computer screen.

Fan Langtao lowered his head and closed his eyes, trying to calm his emotions, but his face kept twitching.

He couldn't figure it out, he couldn't figure it out no matter what!
This guy clearly posted a seemingly ordinary city hiking VLOG.

Who would have thought that this new game, apart from seeming to have a slight connection with the theme of travel, actually has its own set of core gameplay!
He initially thought that since the game had a bug that prevented him from getting paid at the start, his reputation must have been ruined.

Unexpectedly, just like the previous "The Strongest Crosstalk Master", Taoyuan Township actually packaged this BUG into a game feature.
The underlying mechanisms and art resources of the entire game were also reconstructed around this BUG, ​​and the result was surprisingly good!
He even had a hunch that this buggy version of the game was several times more interesting than the bug-free version originally envisioned by Taoyuan Township!
"Who the hell would believe this?!"

After doubting his life for a moment, Fan Langtao suddenly shuddered!
Could it be that... this brat Lu Yu did all this on purpose? !

Strange, why did I say again?

Fan Langtao became alert.

Thinking about it carefully, it seems that this kid has indeed used a series of tricks.

First of all, the purpose of Taoyuanxiang Company's hiking team building is probably not pure. It may be to develop materials under the name of team building.
Secondly, the reason why Lu Yu allowed his employees to edit the travel vlog into a game promotional video was because Lu Yu had already foreseen the popularity of this game.
Extreme disappointment in the early stage and extreme surprise in the later stage can bring about a greater contrast!

So, he released this bad Vlog on purpose.

He even cut a clip of him and Liu Mengyuan showing affection in the promotional PV. Wasn't this done on purpose to piss off Fan Langtao?
Haha, great job, Lu Yu, you play with human nature so thoroughly!

I admit that I was misjudged by the two small games you made before.

After taking a sip of coffee, Fan Langtao sat back in his chair and calmed down again.

Could the awkward little drama in "Codename Shinkansen" also be a trick of Lu Yu, this hidden guy?

However, since this game is said to be Taoyuan Township’s latest main project, it shouldn’t adopt such a bad promotional strategy, right?
After thinking about it, he still felt uncertain.

In that case, don't blame him for using tricks!
Without further ado, he decided to immediately send company hackers to launch a sneak attack on Taoyuan Township's development server to see if he could get any useful development intelligence.

It would be even better if we could destroy the game's engineering files and make things difficult for Lu Yu's game development!
Thinking of this, he felt a little relieved: Lu Yu, what's the big deal about being able to make small games? Let's compete on the flagship masterpiece!

Afterwards, he immediately called the company's chief network expert Jiang Lei and ordered him to launch an attack.

Jiang Lei frowned after hearing this:

"Manager Fan, forgive me for being blunt. Regardless of the level of Taoyuan Township's network firewall, for a company of this size like ours to engage in such petty theft is truly..."

Fan Langtao suddenly became serious:
"Mr. Jiang, please be careful with your words!

We are just helping our competitors improve their firewalls out of concern for them. How can that be considered chicken-stealing or dog-stealing?
Besides, I'm reporting directly to President Pei now, and I believe President Pei wouldn't want to see any obstruction to my orders, right?"

Jiang Lei sneered in his heart: He is taking chicken feathers as a token of authority.

"Since Manager Fan represents President Pei, I have nothing to say. As long as you promise that all this is done at President Pei's instruction, I will naturally do it."

Fan Langtao hesitated for a few seconds and nodded decisively.

After Jiang Lei left the office, Fan Langtao narrowed his eyes slightly:

In this battle, he gambled almost all the reputation he had accumulated in his career, and he had no way out!
……

At the same time, Youyi Company’s headquarters building.

Wu Liang had dark circles under his eyes. After browsing through a few pages of the analysis report on this game, he almost crumpled the document into a ball.
In recent days, he couldn't even sleep well, because ever since the major anchors tried to play The Outlaw Simulator, the popularity of this game has been unexpectedly high these days, and it is impossible not to pay attention to it.

Sitting back on the sofa in the office, he crossed his arms over his chest, frowned, and looked very serious.

He couldn't figure out what Mr. Lu was talking about...

Since you are making a wandering simulation, why should you just promote it honestly? Why do you need to make a team-building Vlog?

Thinking about it,

Wu Liang suddenly had an idea in his mind!
Is there a possibility that Mr. Lu deliberately chose this special marketing strategy to make the game full of flaws in the early stage of its release in order to attract more attention and discussion?
In this way, Mr. Lu can arouse players' curiosity and desire for verification by deliberately creating a negative image of the game, thereby increasing the game's attention and exposure. Then, when players start playing the game, they will be surprised by the high quality of the game, thus generating a contrasting emotion of surprise!

But he was fooled by Mr. Lu and used Youyi's publicity resources to help promote this vlog.

On the surface, they were trying to flatter Mr. Lu, but unexpectedly, they were actually willing to make wedding dresses for Mr. Lu!
Huh...strange, why did I say "again"?
"Great job, Mr. Lu..." Wu Liang exclaimed with genuine admiration.

In that case, don't blame him for using tricks!
It's time to obtain Taoyuan Township's core technology of "Extra-Dimensional Tactile Belt" in the name of technical cooperation!

(End of this chapter)