Just as the star-chasing boy expected, a whirlwind called "Pokémon" blew throughout the entire Eastern Federation in just one day.
Even though players in the Eastern Federation are separated across the country, 80% of the players were able to play Pokémon, a real-life offline battle game, immediately thanks to Lu Li's grand layout that was so exaggerated that other players could hardly imagine it.
On the day the game was released, dozens of cities with Pokémon were deserted.
Moreover, among the huge crowds of people crowded at the entrances of major forest parks, there are not only ordinary players, but also many unknown passers-by who go out to play on weekends.
I have to say that there is always something called "following the trend" hidden in human DNA.
Just like in Nanhai City.
Liu, an ordinary citizen, put on his flip-flops and got up early to go out as usual. He wanted to walk his dog in Nanhai Park, which is a few hundred meters away from his house.
When he walked near the park, he saw a group of young people traveling with "star beasts" passing by in a mighty manner.
The scene is quite spectacular.
"Why are all the star card masters gathered here in a swarm? Could it be that some treasure was born in Nanhai Park?" Mr. Liu, who read a lot of online articles, was a little confused and subconsciously rubbed his eyes.
However, what I saw before me was not an illusion.
Apart from the huge crowds, Mr. Liu could also see a group of blue turtles, carrying red turtle shells on their backs and looking innocent in their eyes, running quickly beside everyone.
Among the large blue "star beasts", you can occasionally see a few orange-red creatures, or creatures carrying huge flower seeds on their backs.
Obviously, as Nanhai City is the southernmost coastal city of the Eastern Federation, players prefer water Pokémon.
Curious Mr. Liu only found out after stopping a young man and asking about it.
——What caused such a grand occasion was actually a game!
"Game...what's going on?" Mr. Liu stood there blankly, a little confused.
In his perception, games should be something played while sitting in front of a computer or using a handheld console. The "game" in front of him simply subverted his perception!
Are all games nowadays this outrageous?
Mr. Liu stood on the side of the road, looking at the extraordinary creature that could spit fire and water following others, and then looked at the dog in front of him, raising his leg to send a signal to the telephone pole.
Why do I suddenly feel that ordinary pets are not fragrant enough...
Without realizing it, Mr. Liu dragged his pet dog to the end of the queue of players in front of the Pokémon Center and joined the Pokémon trainers.
The situation is similar throughout the federation.
In the early morning, countless players gathered in front of the Pokémon Center; in the morning, countless players transformed into trainers and led an "extraordinary creature" through the city, attracting the attention of others.
As a result, countless passers-by joined the team of Pokémon trainers out of curiosity.
It has to be said that players who play Pokémon are themselves walking promotional posters.
They led various Pokémon in front of the crowd and swaggered around. They were so eye-catching that the people who were interested in Pokémon were like a snowball, growing bigger and bigger inadvertently.
From early morning to dusk, the number of players in front of the Pokémon Center did not decrease as time went by, but instead continued to increase.
Pokémon dealers in all cities are going crazy
Equally crazy is the public opinion on StarNet.
The two groups of players, "Star Wars" and Pokémon, seem to be fighting a turn-based battle.
Last night, because "Star Wars" took the lead and was released first, all game forums were full of it without any mention of Pokémon.
But during the day, the players who had been playing "Star Wars" all night went to catch up on their sleep, while the Pokémon players became active again, and the situation instantly reversed.
Game posts sprung up on the forum homepage like mushrooms after a spring rain. Only at ten o'clock in the morning, two hours after the release of Pokémon, the massacre was successfully completed.
At the same time, gaming forums are not the only places where Pokemon are slaughtered.
On major short video websites, videos about Pokémon are popping up all at once.
There is no other reason than that the "traffic attribute" of the Pokémon game itself is so excellent.
Videos of other regular games may just be simple screen recordings.
However, Pokémon, a game that breaks the dimensional wall, is completely different.
Carrying Pokémon through cities, Pokémon battles, catching Pokémon in the forest park... Various game scenes integrated into reality are excellent short video materials.
There are even many self-media that specialize in shooting short videos. After smelling this craze, they also joined the trainer industry.
They may not be playing games attentively, but they are shooting videos attentively.
After various staged renderings, the weird and wonderful characters of Pikachu and other Pokémon are displayed in front of everyone.
These self-media people who wanted to gain popularity by riding on the popularity inadvertently helped Lu Li promote a new wave of games for the second time, making this wind called Pokémon blow even further.
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Video website Xingli Xingli.
As a cooperative ally of Carp Star Card House, Xiaolan Station has already tasted the benefits during the Mario era.
Therefore, as soon as Pokémon was released, the website increased its traffic subsidies for Pokémon.
——As long as the video contains Pokémon entries, it will be pushed first.
With such high-intensity support, the entry [Pokémon] immediately dropped to the second place on the list as soon as the hot word list was updated, second only to the first place [Star Card].
According to Xiaolanzhan users, when an entry breaks into the top twenty positions, it means that it is "out of the circle".
For example, Carp Star Card House's last game, "Mario Brothers", climbed to the 17th position step by step after being brewed for a few days.
In the gaming industry, being able to break out of the industry was already an absolute miracle.
But compared to today's Pokémon, the Mario Brothers' level of success seems to be far behind.
Of course, there is another phenomenon that is also very interesting.
The third entry on the hot word list is "Star Card Computer".
In other words, except for the Star Card entry that always occupies the top spot, Lu Li alone directly occupies the top three spots.
At the same time, a very interesting video appeared on the Xiaolan website’s soaring list.
The title is "Brothers, I caught Brother Eye playing Pokémon!" 》.
Compared with other videos called "I Caught a Pokémon," the name of this soaring video only has a few more words, but it has a different meaning.
Brother Eye...
Naturally, I set up a flag in the game area before the game is released to consult the up owner, and the game is clairvoyant.
