Chapter 108 Someone is coming to steal business! (Second update)
Obviously, this was an unexpected surprise for Lilith.
It has been more than half a year since the game "Hell Tracks" was released, and sales have basically seen no significant growth, and the popularity of online discussions has also been very low.
Lilith is always busy with new games, and she has almost forgotten about this heaven-defying pioneering work.
Unexpectedly, the negative emotions collected could actually rebound?
However, Gu Fan had already expected this.
The reason is simple, there are no subsequent updates for this game!
"Hell Tracks" seems to be a high-end FPS game, but in fact, strictly speaking, it is just a fun little game with "bullet turning" as its selling point, and it will not have as long a life as those large-scale FPS games.
What's more, due to the special nature of the Hell Contract, the game cannot be changed once it is released, otherwise it will cause serious consequences of "violating the contract". Therefore, although Lilith cannot fix the bugs in the game, Gu Fan cannot fix them either. Gameplay will be updated later.
Therefore, after the initial popularity of "Hell Tracks" passed, the players who were still in the game at this time, as well as the new players, gradually began to experience more negative emotions.
This seems to be an unsolvable problem, but Gu Fan has actually already thought of a solution.
It's just that this solution can't be done by himself. He has to find a way to create a suitable opportunity, and he has to have an unrelated person take action in order to clear himself of the suspicion.
So Gu Fan is still waiting.
"What about the bad news?" Gu Fan asked.
Lilith's expression instantly became serious, even ferocious: "Someone is coming to steal business from me!"
Gu Fan raised his eyebrows: "Oh? You mean, there are other hell demons coming to the human world to open companies to collect negative emotions?"
Lilith nodded fiercely: "Yes!
"Lao Lu specially called me over and told me about this matter. Although he said it tactfully, his attitude was very firm. Obviously this was a notice, not a discussion!
"He believed that Nitian's work of collecting negative emotions in the human world was very unsatisfactory. This may be due to the lack of competition. So he decided to start a new business and appointed another hell demon Azazel to establish a new company called "Hell" "Frontline", develop the game at the same time as us and collect negative emotions!"
Gu Fan was a little embarrassed. Lucifer and Lilith really seemed to be carved from the same mold, both were equally fickle.
Lilith thanked Gu Fan for his contribution, and then started to accuse Gu Fan of the bug.
What about Lucifer? As soon as the front foot praised Lilith for her outstanding contribution in publicity, the back foot sent another demon to collect negative emotions.
Lilith's face became even more gloomy: "Half of my art group and music group in hell were robbed, and what's even worse is that Azazel even tried to steal my ideas!"
Gu Fan was a little surprised: "Stealing your idea?"
Lilith nodded and said fiercely: "That's right! I have obtained the game they want to produce through internal relations.
"Isn't this my idea?"
Lilith said, taking out a design plan and handing it over.
Gu Fan reached out to take it, and after just glancing at it, he couldn't help but feel in awe.
This Azazel...is really well prepared!
The first game to be developed by this company called "Hell Front" is called "Hell Lemurs".
The gameplay of this game is quite simple. Players need to play as a hell lemure and climb up the flaming hell volcano.
During this time, players can climb, jump, and sneak past patrolling angels, and eventually scale the volcano to summon the mighty legions of Hell.
During this process, this hell lemure may continue to fall off the mountain or die, and most of these situations may directly lead to starting all over again.
"This is plagiarism! This is plagiarism!
"This is obviously my idea in "Sisyphus"!!"
Lilith was obviously a little angry.
Gu Fan carefully checked the gameplay: "Unfortunately, according to human laws, this probably does not constitute plagiarism.
“Human laws only protect expression, not creativity.
“Because in the game industry, if this level of gameplay similarity is considered plagiarism, then there will only be one FPS game in the world, and all other games with first-person shooting elements will be judged as plagiarism. , which is obviously unreasonable.
“As for ‘expression’, I think they won’t be stupid enough to directly use the art resources and materials of ‘Sisyphus’, but will make another one.
"So the laws of the world cannot punish them. Can your contract from hell have some effect?"
Lilith was instantly discouraged: "This matter was approved by Lao Lu, what do you think?"
Gu Fan was silent for a moment: "Then we can only think of other ways."
No wonder Lilith was so angry. Suddenly a devil from hell came out to pick fruits and eat them. How could she not be angry?
Objective analysis shows that the situation at this time is really unfavorable for Lilith.
Judging from the design of the game "Lemurs", there is no doubt that it is an electronic waste and cyber defense. Anyone who plays this game can probably only use four words to describe it, that is " Butterfly swimming in a septic tank!
Obviously, this Azazel is very cunning, and he is crossing the river by feeling for the stones.
"Sisyphus" was only one step away from success, but in the end it fell short due to bugs in "Rolling Stone Acceleration" and "Dragon Wings".
So for Azazel, as long as all the elements in this game that may lead to success can be removed, wouldn't an excellent work that collects negative emotions be born?
So he simply deleted the setting of "Pushing Stones", and also deleted every layer of theme in Purgatory, and also completely deleted the factors that may induce bugs, such as the Hell Dragon.
As a result, the game "Hell Lemur" has a boring scene and a single gameplay. Players can only control an ugly Hell Lemur, climbing and jumping repeatedly, and finally reach the top of the volcano.
There is no doubt that Azazel will be like Lilith, spending a lot of money to promote the game, tricking as many players as possible into the game, and then harvesting a lot of negative emotions in a short period of time.
Lilith was wronged. What they said were all my words!
If Azazel succeeds in this trick, it will definitely be a devastating blow to Lilith.
And what about Gu Fan?
That’s certainly not good news either!
Because after Lilith is severely stimulated, the games she designs may become more extreme, and she may even learn from Azazel's "successful experience".
Moreover, her suspicion of Gu Fan will further intensify.
The current delicate balance of Nitiantian Game will be broken and gradually deviate from the direction planned by Gu Fan...
This is absolutely intolerable!
Therefore, Gu Fan must help Lilith this time. At least he must first make a concerted effort to kill Azazel who appears out of nowhere!
But the question is...how to do it?
Gu Fan pondered for a moment: "Don't panic, Mr. Li, I am here. As your number one think tank, how could I let others use your creativity for free? They must pay a heavy price!"
“But before that, I need some information about my opponent.
"What does Azazel lack the most right now?"
Lilith thought for a while: "Of course, what they lack most is the same as us, negative emotions! Secondly, they should also be short of money.
"In terms of financial resources in the world, of course Azazel, a younger generation, can't compare with me."
Lilith said, subconsciously proudly placing her hands on her hips.
Gu Fan nodded slightly, probably understanding.
For demons, money is of course not important. What they want is human negative emotions, which is the hard currency of hell, comparable to gold on earth.
But that doesn't mean money isn't important at all.
Because if you want to collect negative emotions by making games in the human world, it still requires money, and it requires a lot of money.
Not to mention anything else, the devil’s current style of play is to specialize in making defense games and then spend crazy money to promote them. If you want to squeeze the negative emotions of players to the maximum extent, then the publicity cost of each game must be at least thousands. Ten thousand.
Lilith doesn't care because she has always had the position of "Director of the Negative Emotion Collection Office of Hell in the Human World". Many of the properties of Hell Demons in the human world are more or less related to her.
So she doesn't care at all no matter how much money a game loses.
But Azazel was different. He originally had no status in hell, but because of some outstanding achievements, he was valued by Lucifer and came to the human world to start a new business.
Start-up capital should be in short supply.
And since he has chosen the same route as Lilith, it is definitely unlikely that he will make money from a garbage game like "Hell of Hell". Where will subsequent development funds come from? This is very problematic.
If you can grasp this weakness, you may be able to give the opponent a heavy blow!
Gu Fan quickly made a plan: "I have a plan here, but I need your cooperation."
Lilith nodded: "Okay, just say it, I will fully cooperate!
"As long as I can keep my status as the 'number one game producer in hell', everything else is easy to talk about!"