Genshin Impact creator: Alicia, please endorse me.

Seeing Eden lost in thought, Alicia was a little curious, so she waved her hand in front of her: "Eden is right next to Alicia, how come he's still spacing out~"

"Is it because Alicia isn't attractive enough to you? Hehe~"

Eden rolled her eyes at her: "Ellie, stop messing around, I'm analyzing this song~"

"Huh? Alicia isn't even as appealing to Eden as a song~" Alicia sighed deliberately, "How sad~"

The next second, Alicia giggled and said, "Just kidding~"

"Eden, is this song really that good?"

“It’s really impressive,” Eden nodded and smiled. “Weren’t you also shocked by this song and shouting?”

"No way~ I was just trying to liven things up... Okay, I was genuinely surprised~ But I was truly awestruck by the Queen's aura~"

"This song deserves a lot of credit for why you were so amazed..."

Upon hearing Eden's words, Alicia's eyes lit up as if she had thought of something.

"Hehe~ I get it now. Just like me and Eden, if Eden weren't there, Alicia wouldn't be so dazzling, right?"

"I suppose so," Eden said, looking at Alicia with affection. "It's getting late, let's go have dinner~"

"Okay~" Alicia replied, then waved at the live stream camera: "Alicia's helpful tip—"

"Eat on time and sleep on time, and you'll become as beautiful and charming as Alicia!"

After saying that, "snap!" the live stream went black.

At the moment the broadcast ended, the number of viewers in the upper right corner was 200 million.

…………

Alicia ended her live stream at around 7 p.m.

After an afternoon of live streaming, the news of Eden appearing in Alicia's live stream had already become a trending topic.

Of the top ten trending topics, a full five were about Eden.

Honkai Impact 3rd also benefited from Eden's influence, with three of its topics making it into the top 10.

In other words, eight out of the top ten trending topics on Weibo were brought up by Eden.

Eden is incredibly popular in this world.

Chapter 20 Imitating the Master Judge—Penguin

Penguin Games Department, Zhao Yi's studio.

Since being rejected by miHoYo half a month ago, Zhao Yi has been accelerating his game progress.

As for the game made by the new owner of miHoYo, he didn't care at all.

In his view, a small workshop like Mihoyo could never achieve anything significant.

So what if the boss changes?

In the domestic game industry, only Tencent and NetEase are truly top-tier; all other game studios are trash and only deserve a scrap.

Therefore, he was very angry and disdainful of Durandal's rejection.

After returning, he was secretly annoyed for more than half a month and vowed in his heart that once his game was launched, he would make Durandal and the others regret it.

He plans to wait for miHoYo's new owner to go bankrupt, then take over, save miHoYo from its predicament, and finally win the heart of his beloved.

Hehehe... This plot is amazing.

Even if something goes wrong, even if Honkai Impact 3 doesn't flop, he can still use Tencent's backing to completely ruin Honkai Impact 3.

In his calculations, miHoYo's new game was absolutely no match for him, and the new owner's bankruptcy was inevitable.

however……

To his utter surprise, miHoYo's "Honkai Impact 3" was released on the same day as his game, which was quite a coincidence!

Not only that, miHoYo's new game also crushed the popularity of his previous game to rock bottom.

A whole day has passed, and I haven't seen a single piece of news about Tencent's new game.

The trending topics were completely dominated by Eden and Honkai Impact 3.

On the TapTap new game chart, Honkai Impact 3rd is far ahead of all other new games, leaving them far behind.

In the first 24 hours, it garnered a staggering 5000 million downloads…

The second-ranked game only has a mere 1000 million downloads, while the game that Zhao Yi was responsible for developing... ranked a full 8th.

Such data is not even comparable to the number one game, Honkai Impact 3, let alone the number two game.

This result directly attracted the attention of those above.

After all, since Tencent entered the gaming industry, it has never suffered such a defeat.

Even if we lose, we can't lose so badly, can we? Especially not to an unknown little workshop.

However, considering that Eden had taken away most of the traffic and that his uncle had helped him out, Zhao Yi was not punished by Tencent's management.

He only got a scolding from his uncle.

"Damn it...you're lucky," Zhao Yi gritted his teeth, feeling extremely irritated.

"But I won't give up so easily..."

Although he has an uncle, his position isn't something you can just easily get by having an uncle; you definitely need to have some ability to hold onto it.

Zhao Yi is capable and not stupid.

Seeing that Honkai Impact 3rd achieved such results on its first day, he naturally wanted to analyze it.

After a full day of playing and analyzing the game, Zhao Yi had to admit that the new boss of miHoYo was very smart and could be described as an operational genius.

Honkai Impact 3's success is not entirely due to Eden's efforts.

First of all, this game has a very clear target audience.

That is "2D".

Coincidentally, the games released by Tencent and NetEase have absolutely no anime/manga style whatsoever.

The fact that miHoYo's new boss was able to accurately grasp this point and act swiftly, taking a large chunk of the pie from Tencent and NetEase... just from this point of view, the other party is definitely worthy of the attention of people in the gaming industry.

"Anime... How come I never thought of that before..."

Thinking of this, Zhao Yi suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

Aside from its anime style, Honkai Impact 3's biggest advantages are... its storyline, beautiful girls, and art style.

He doesn't need to worry about the art style at all. With Penguin's capabilities, as long as they want to do it well, it will definitely not be bad.

The rest of the "plot" and the pretty girls...

"If we directly partner with famous anime studios and adapt them into games..."

Zhao Yi suddenly stood up, his face beaming with joy.

He hurriedly picked up his phone and dialed his uncle's number.

"Xiao Yi, what's up?"

"Uncle, I've thought of a great idea..."

Immediately afterwards, Zhao Yi explained his thoughts in detail.

On the other end of the phone, a middle-aged man nodded subtly: "It seems you do have some ability, but this approach doesn't work at Tencent."

"Huh? Why?" Zhao Yi was a little confused.

"Over the years, the criticisms of our penguin on the internet have been known to the higher-ups, and they have even considered making changes..." The middle-aged man paused here:

"And the game you made is the one mentioned in the test above. The results are obvious: originality is still not as good as imitation."

“We have a huge user base, so there’s no need to risk creating original content. Besides, your idea requires spending money to buy the animation adaptation rights, which is too much of an upfront investment.”

"The task has already been given: just keep an eye on 'Honkai Impact 3rd' and imitate it."

"No need to use your brain, and miHoYo has already paved the way for us. What we need to do now is to finish Honkai Impact 4 as soon as possible, understand?"

Zhao Yi slapped his thigh: "That's right! How come I didn't think of that..."

"I understand, Uncle. Now, what should I do next..."

"From now on, everyone in your studio will come and help me. You can hand over the operation of the game you're in charge of to someone else."

After hanging up the phone, Zhao Yi smirked: "Mihoyo... your good days are coming to an end!"

Although miHoYo has successfully carved out a large chunk of market share from Tencent and NetEase by leveraging its anime and manga audience.

But what do penguins do?

The notorious copycat game, given just half a month, can successfully "imitate" a "similar" game thanks to its powerful team.

Then, relying on Tencent's massive user base, wouldn't it be a piece of cake to wipe out a small workshop?

"It seems the higher-ups have already contacted that boss of miHoYo."