Chapter 404 Why did Shaowan Games.com take the blame?
Seeing that the contract had been signed, the deposit had been paid, and the figure manufacturer had promised to start mass production immediately, Lilith finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Now, the dust should have settled, right?
"Heartbeat Dreamland" has received mixed reviews online so far. Although the progress of collecting negative emotions has obviously slowed down compared to the initial stage, there are still some.
A little bit adds up to a lot. Compared with the previous games, it is already very good.
She flipped through the Internet casually. So far, there are indeed some players who have spoken well of "Heartbeat Dreamland", but it is obvious that these praises are not enough to reverse public opinion.
Even Lilith was a little surprised. There are actually people who like this kind of game?
But on second thought, this is normal. After all, although the game "Heartbeat Dreamland" is a lot of stitching, the love game part and the horror game part are very solid. The quality itself is here, and it is inevitable that some viewers with unique tastes will like it.
This little bit of praise will not ruin the overall situation.
Lilith was happily flipping through the reviews, and suddenly, her hand that was scrolling the mouse wheel stopped.
Her body tensed up instantly, as if she had seen something terrifying!
Gu Fan secretly glanced at the computer screen. At this time, Lilith was reading the review of the game "Heartbeat Dream" on the official platform. She deliberately selected all the bad reviews in the label and read them all at once.
I have to say that Li always knows how to enjoy herself.
But there is a striking line of fonts on the review interface: There is a new connoisseur review recently!
On the official platform, in addition to the players who have purchased the game and can freely post reviews, there are also some special reviews, which are the so-called "connoisseur reviews".
Connoisseurs may be some players who have received more positive reviews, or some professional game media. In short, the official has certain rules to give players the identity of connoisseurs.
These connoisseur reviews will have some special benefits, such as default labels, so that players can quickly filter out all connoisseur reviews;
Connoisseur reviews will be displayed before all other reviews;
There will even be special formats in terms of font color and font size, which will have a more eye-catching effect.
Of course, the status of a connoisseur is not static. If there is no high-value review for a long time, this status may be revoked by the official.
And the account for publishing the connoisseur reviews this time is also an old face: Shaowan Games!
As a relatively large domestic game media that also claims to be professional, Shaowan Games not only publishes various game reviews on its own website regularly, but also attaches great importance to other media.
For example, live broadcast platforms and video platforms, Shaowan Games also operate seriously and will regularly forward their excellent manuscripts or excellent reviews.
Even some large-scale manuscripts are directly published on all platforms simultaneously.
On the official platform, Shaowan Games naturally also has its own connoisseur account.
This time, Shaowan Games' review of "Heartbeat Dreamland" was late, at least one or two days later than other game review media.
Lilith originally thought it didn't matter, after all, these game media don't review every game, and it's not a big problem if one or two less game media criticize "Heartbeat Dreamland".
However, after seeing the evaluation of this connoisseur's review, Lilith couldn't hold it anymore.
It turned out to be "very good"!
Lilith inadvertently showed a hot murderous aura, and she decisively moved the mouse to click in to check!
This review was just published not long ago, but Shaowan Games is a relatively influential platform after all, so many players have not had time to read the entire content of this review carefully, and have already grabbed the sofa in the comment area.
"Front row!"
"I heard that if you come early, you can become popular!"
"It's finally out? I thought Shaowan Games was going to play dead this time!"
"I haven't settled accounts with you for misleading players before, you still have the nerve to publish a review!"
"That's right, I just remembered that I haven't explained the last review yet!"
Originally, Shaowan Games's pretending to be dead was almost successful. Internet popularity comes and goes quickly, and everyone almost forgot about the previous interview.
As a result, when this review came out, the players' memories were strengthened again.
Everyone was very curious. Shaowan Games' previous interview can be said to be a sure thing to mislead players, right? As a game media, how to explain such a bad behavior?
Blame it on Nitiantang?
Or keep silent?
Obviously, these two possibilities are the most likely.
In fact, the players all know that Shaowan Games is more realistic than other game media. The contents in the manuscripts are not necessarily their deliberate deception of players. They may not have played the game at that time, but were fooled by the people of Nitiantang and were inadvertently used as guns.
Therefore, Shaowan Games now has only these two choices.
But these two choices are not good in essence. If you put the blame on Nitiantang and push all the responsibility of the interview, on the one hand, Nitiantang and its fans will be dissatisfied. After all, Nitiantang accepted your interview with good intentions, so why are you putting the blame on it now?
If you do this, will there be any game media willing to accept your interview in the future?
But the more they keep silent, the more concerned and cared the players will be. They will even mention this matter repeatedly under every report of Shaowan Games.
If the players don't forget, the impact will be more far-reaching and worse.
Obviously, Shaowan Games chose to publish the game review at this critical juncture, which is indeed a bit difficult to do. Whether it admits or denies, it will further expand the adverse impact.
Unless...
Lilith looked at the text of the review with her eyes wide open.
"Gu Fan! What's going on!!"
The beginning of this review almost burned her CPU.
Shaowan Games actually mentioned the previous interview right at the beginning!
And what no one expected was that Shaowan Games neither blamed Nitiantang nor denied the matter outright.
Their response surprised everyone.
"First of all, as the main writer of the interview with the internal staff of Against the Heaven before the launch of "Heartbeat Dreamland", the author deeply apologizes to all netizens, players, and readers!
"In fact, the producer of Against the Heaven had already made many hints during the interview, and the author roughly guessed that this game would not be as simple as everyone thought.
"However, if the actual content of the game is introduced in detail in this interview, it is equivalent to spoiling all the audience before the movie is released, which is a very inappropriate behavior.
"Therefore, in order to take care of the game experience of all players, the author considered again and again, and finally decided to keep the suspense until the last moment. We deeply apologize for the trouble caused to everyone!
"But I believe that after everyone deeply experiences "Heartbeat Dreamland", especially after playing the true ending of this game and understanding the plot content hidden deep in the game, they will definitely have a new understanding of this game!"
This beginning made Lilith dizzy.
She looked at Gu Fan in confusion: "Huh? Strange, Shaowan Game Network is... taking the blame for us? ?
"Are you sick! "
Lilith actually had a general idea about the interview with Zhou Yang by Shaowan Games. To be precise, the misleading information this interview caused to the players had nothing to do with Shaowan Games. It was all because Zhou Yang was talking nonsense to keep the game secret and deliberately used some ambiguous statements when answering questions, which caused the misunderstanding of the players.
But in this review, after being beautified by the Spring and Autumn style, the meaning has become different!
According to Shaowan Games, they actually heard something wrong during the interview.
As for whether they heard it or the employees of Nitiantang hinted at it? This was not directly stated, but the players would obviously tend to think that it was both.
In other words, the employees of Nitiantang gave them some information out of good intentions, but Shaowan Games deliberately concealed this information out of the idea of "not spoiling the plot" and only used those ambiguous statements.
This is equivalent to Helped Ni Tian Tang to take all the blame.
If it were any other company, they might be touched.
The game media took the initiative to help share the firepower, how loyal!
But for Lilith, this is not necessary at all. After all, the louder the players scold, the more negative emotions they will generate. If the players don't scold me, they will scold you. Then who will give me the negative emotions I lack?
The key is why Shao Wan Games Network should take the initiative to take the blame?
Ni Tian Tang is not to the point where all the game media should lick their knees, right?
Lilith felt that her CPU was a little burned. As a demon, she could not understand these twists and turns in the world at all. She always felt that there must be something wrong.
She could only turn back to ask Gu Fan for help.
Gu Fan also frowned and didn't understand for a while.
Although he knew the game itself very well, he didn't know the situation inside Shao Wan Games Network. This review was also the first time he saw it.
"Wait a minute, Mr. Li, let me make a simple inference. ”
Gu Fan frowned and thought for a moment, then continued: "Boss Li, I think after excluding other possibilities, the only possibility is...
"The editor of Shaowan Games thinks that it is profitable to take the blame for us."
Lilith was a little confused: "Ah? Profitable?
"What is the specific profit? This is impossible!"
Gu Fan explained: "In fact, Shaowan Games can completely clarify or ignore it. We, Nitiantang Games, do not have the status of letting all game media take the blame for us, so Shaowan Games must have some special purpose in doing this.
"As for what is the specific profit...
"I think it should be the 'plot'. Shaowan Games seems to think that starting from the plot of this game can not only offset the negative impact of the previous interview, but also may bring more traffic to the website.
"This should be the only possibility."
Lilith looked at the previous paragraph carefully again, and instantly realized that Gu Fan's words made sense.
"If we report it truthfully, it would be like spoiling the movie before it is released, which is irresponsible to the players."
"I believe that after everyone deeply experiences "Doki Doki Dreamland", especially after playing the true ending of this game and understanding the plot content hidden deep in the game, they will definitely have a new understanding of this game."
From these two sentences, it can be seen that the emphasis of Shaowan Game Network is indeed "plot".
But this makes Lilith even more confused. Plot? Does the game "Heartbeat Dream" have such a thing?
The horror content of this game basically has no plot. The whole process is about chasing each other. Players are exhausted. After passing the level, they return to the real world and then continue the next horror plot.
There are some plots in the love content, but they are basically written by fake-AI. The employees of Nitiantang have screened them, but compared with normal love games, there is nothing special.
Maybe the girls in it will feel like a science fiction movie after taking the initiative, but this kind of thing is not worth bragging about, right?
Lilith couldn't help but continue to read on. She really wanted to know who the Shaowan Game Network was. They dared to brag about something that didn't exist at all.
"After the game was officially released, I also experienced the game in depth and found that this game actually has quite complex meta elements..."
In the subsequent review content, this article detailed various operations for the character files in the root directory folder, including deletion, copy and paste, renaming, etc.
Although most players have also discovered that the files here can be modified, there are not many people who have conducted comprehensive experiments like Zhang Qifeng.
Seeing this review, it really feels like a sudden enlightenment.
With these operations, players can actually complete many functions that the game originally does not support.
For example, you can transform a certain archive into an exclusive archive for a certain character, and then you can chat, train and transform AI continuously after entering;
You can delete the file of Elliot like Zhang Qifeng, and then skip the horror content in a short time to quickly experience the love part of the game;
You can also finally keep only Elliot and turn on various modification options built into the game, modify the content of the game at will, and repeatedly experience the details of the game like a multi-week game.
Although the game's own save function is not particularly perfect, the special mechanism of the meta game can easily do some things that were originally impossible.
But obviously, this is just the appearance, not the whole story of this game.
"I guess everyone is guessing, who is the savior?
"Is it the female characters who left the Garden of Eden? Or the players?
"Why is the apocalyptic background of the game set up?
"These questions do not seem to be given clear answers in the game.
"But as long as we continue to collect texts in the game, infer these fragmented plots, and combine them with meta elements to infer, we will find that the plot of this game is far less simple than everyone imagined!"