Tuesday, January 23rd.
At this time, the internal atmosphere of Studio 404 was a little bit depressing.
After a lot of hard work yesterday, I successfully changed the release date with the official. At 10 o'clock this morning, "Walking with Darkness" was officially released.
Of course, we have also made some related publicity arrangements, such as changing the final release date of the previously submitted promotional video to the 23rd, and releasing a new trailer for reverse bounce on the official Weibo of 404 Studio.
But unfortunately, it has little effect!
404 Studio is not a big company now, and the popularity of "Ordinary Life" has also dissipated. In addition, "Walking with Darkness" is a horror game, and it didn't have much popularity before.
The studio's official Weibo only has a few hundred thousand fans in total. How many people can see a reverse bounce notice?
As for the promotional video, no one even paid attention to it.
Because changing the video content will not send new push messages to the viewers.
As a result, everyone stared eagerly at the sales data after the game was released, from 10 o'clock to 12 o'clock, and after lunch until two or three o'clock in the afternoon.
The game's sales still failed to break triple digits.
This is too miserable!
To put it bluntly, this is not the only first order for a popular book on the website!
Everyone was hit hard and felt more and more that reverse bounce was not a good decision.
Lu Zhixing was still comforting everyone: "Don't worry about it, you should think in a more optimistic direction.
“The popularity of the game is relatively low now, and it’s not necessarily because of our reverse bounce. Maybe it’s because it’s already very low?
"A few days earlier and a few days later are basically the same."
Liu Bo was stunned: "Brother Lu, your words have no comfort effect at all!"
Zhao Haoyan sighed melancholy: "Should our company go bankrupt? We don't want that kind of thing! We just started our business not long ago!"
Lu Yixiao looked at Lu Zhixing: "Brother Lu, stop hiding. Where is the feeling of strategizing that you had in "Ordinary Life" before? Come on, come up with any backup plans!"
Lu Zhixing spread his hands and said: "There is really no last resort. Our plan is to impress players with the quality of the game."
Li Rushan was secretly happy, what was he thinking? The road is always on my side!
He took out his cell phone and operated it quickly.
"Okay, everyone, stop looking so sad and be optimistic like me and Mr. Lu, do you understand?
"I have already ordered a big cake and various takeaways. After all, it is working time now. It is not good to go out to eat directly and it is not in compliance with company regulations. But adding an afternoon tea is totally fine!
"Let's all be happy and go play games and collect information!"
With Li Rushan's efforts to liven up the atmosphere, the gloomy situation in Studio 404 finally improved.
Soon, everyone began to find ways to divert their attention, some using food, some using TV series, some using games...
Some people even climbed up the wall in anger.
Li Rushan looked at the scene in front of him and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, what a great company!
It's a pity that such a good company cannot continue to invest directly.
However, he has been studying the loopholes in the contract during this time, and he can definitely think of other ways to reincarnate Studio 404, and then he should be able to continue investing money.
It just requires a little special operation...
Just as he was thinking happily, he suddenly heard Yao Wenyang shouting in surprise: "Fuck! Fuck, Fuck!"
This shout startled the employees who were anesthetizing themselves.
Liu Bo was stuffing a large piece of cake into his mouth when he heard this and stopped: "What's wrong?"
Yao Wenyang had an expression of surprise on his face, and he looked at Lu Zhixing: "Mr. Lu, you still said you have no backup plan?"
He looked at Li Rushan again: "Mr. Li, I understand. You and Mr. Lu will sing in harmony. This has been discussed a long time ago, right?"
Li Rushan was confused: "What has been discussed? What are you talking about?"
Yao Wenyang pointed to the computer screen: "The official has arranged a special recommendation for our game! Special recommendation! The kind that will be directly displayed on the homepage for a month!"
"puff!"
Li Rushan almost spit out a mouthful of old blood, what the hell?
Recommendation for a month?
I don’t read much, don’t lie to me, can the official recommend this kind of thing?
Others were also shocked. Have they never heard that there is such an official recommendation position? In the past, the best recommendations were only posted on the home page for a week, while other recommendations were either only posted for two or three days, or were promoted on a rolling basis for several games.
Do you have any recommendations for hanging up for a month?
Even his own son cannot do this!
Everyone came closer.
I saw that what Yao Wenyang opened was indeed the official game platform, and several large characters were displayed prominently on the homepage.
"Warmly congratulate the Jinghai Municipal Research Institute for its significant achievements in combating hacker crimes in the 'Taiqing' deep virtual space!"
Everyone looked at Yao Wenyang with some confusion: "Old Yao, are you awake? This is indeed posted on the homepage, but this is news. What does it have to do with our game?"
Yao Wenyang explained: "Didn't you realize that the background image of this news uses the resources of our game? This is the material in the promotional image of "Walking with Darkness"!"
Everyone stared at it, it was true.
It can be clearly seen from the base map that this is a darker background, with skyscrapers covered with plants vaguely visible, and dark clouds in the sky... It is indeed a resource for "Walking with Darkness".
"Officially... put the wrong picture?"
Everyone was confused and could only think of this explanation.
The official platform is full of pictures of various games, so even if there is any big news or information to be posted, game-style base pictures or artistic calligraphy will usually be used to make it less obtrusive. But the problem is that these resources are generally produced by the official themselves. How can we directly use the resources of other games?
Yao Wenyang clicked in: "Then what do you think is inside?"
Liu Bo shook his head slightly: "What else could it be? It's just a press release... Damn it! What's going on?"
This is indeed a press release, but in between the articles, there is a recommended link to Walking with Darkness!
The game's promotional resources are placed directly at the front of the manuscript, which is very conspicuous.
Although the press release below mainly introduces the major achievements made by Jinghai in combating hackers, if you look closely, you will find that it is also inseparable from "Walking with Darkness"!
Everyone gathered in front of the computer and read the press release word for word with excitement.
The general idea is that this time the Jinghai Research Institute has achieved significant results in combating the "Taiqing" deep virtual world hackers, destroying several virtual spaces that were used as broilers for foreign hackers in one fell swoop, and also captured many domestic hackers for these foreign hackers. The criminal gang that provided springboards and support captured more than 20 criminals in total!
These people all belong to a notorious hacker organization ATE. Their main business is to steal our country's security information, spread bad ideas, and undermine network security. This time, their domestic organizations suffered heavy losses, and one of their lines was even Uprooted.
This undoubtedly makes all virtual spaces in the country safer.
But the point is not here, but that the reason why this operation was successful was because the virtual space built by a designer from Jinghai based on the game blueprint created great difficulties for these hackers during the intrusion process, so the official Only then can we track them down and uproot them without alerting them!
It can be said that at least a small part of the success of this operation must be attributed to this game.
And what is this game?
It is the new work developed by 404 Studio, "Walking with Darkness"!
Of course, there is no explanation of how "Walking with Darkness" "creates great difficulties for these hackers during the invasion process."
After all, these details are relatively sensitive information.
But no matter what, the official arrangement of "Walking with Darkness" in the press release and a very special recommendation position is enough to show the great role of this game.
The influence of this press release should not be underestimated. Although similar articles on the official platform will not show the number of reads, if you think about it with your own feet, everyone who enters the official platform will see it at first glance. The amount is absolutely an astronomical figure!
Sure enough, everyone clicked on the major forums to check and found that discussions about the game "Walking with Darkness" had exploded in an instant!
(End of chapter)
