The person from Meteorite Technology coughed awkwardly and said, "Uhm, Mr Chen Mo, you might not know much about publishing overseas, let me explain it to you …"
Chen Mo waved his hand, "No need to explain, I know what you do very well. I also know that Meteorite Technology is one of the top three overseas publishing companies in China, especially in the European and US market. They've done a lot of research into what European players like."
The person from Meteorite Technology was surprised, Chen Mo wasn't the type of person who would ask for too much without knowing anything.
Chen Mo changed the topic and continued, "But it's also because of this reason that I believe you'll accept my offer."
The person from Meteorite Technology was shocked.
Chen Mo continued, "It's because you know what western players like, and have a good understanding of the western market that you should be able to see the huge potential of Warcraft."
"Let's put it this way, Warcraft might be even more popular in the European and US market than in China. This game is aimed at the entire world, and will eventually replace Legion Conquest as the most popular RTS game in the world.
"I believe that you can see this clearly, so I won't explain too much. It's fine if you don't accept my offer, there are other overseas publishing companies in China.
"Even if the domestic companies don't accept it, there are still overseas publishing companies that will. As for whether you want to turn down this opportunity to make money off of it, that's up to you. "
The person from Meteorite Technology didn't say anything else.
Chen Mo's intentions couldn't be clearer. He was obviously too confident in Warcraft, and there was no point in trying to bargain with him.
Chen Mo's attitude was firm. Take it or leave it, there would be other companies waiting in line.
The person from Meteorite Technology went silent for a bit before replying, "Alright, Mr Chen Mo, I understand what you're trying to say. But I can't make a decision right now, I'll need to hold a meeting to discuss it."
Chen Mo nodded, "Alright, I'll give you two days. Just to emphasize, I don't accept any bargaining, I hope you can pass that on to the others in the meeting. "
…
Chen Mo continued playing ranked matches after sending off the person from the overseas publishing company.
There were all sorts of posts on the Warcraft forums, including analysis of tactics, sharing of battle reports, statistics, feedback and so on.
Chen Mo told Su Jinyu to keep an eye on the forums, mainly to collect feedback from the players, as well as some of the more popular tactics. Every once in a while, Chen Mo would make a report for everyone to see.
Qian Kun, on the other hand, was in charge of some adjustments. Of course, since the general framework was set, many of the adjustments were made to the decimal point. Even after the adjustments were made, the players wouldn't be able to tell.
However, Chen Mo still told Qian Kun to optimize the data regularly, balancing the power of the various races and units. Once it was confirmed, it would be released to the players.
Zheng Hongxi, on the other hand, had to update the World of Azeroth's entries every day, mainly to complete the background story based on the simple entries Chen Mo gave him.
Now that all the work had been given out, Chen Mo became the most idle person, playing ranked matches all day.
The players at the top of the ladder were suffering as they had never been tortured like this before.
As long as Chen Mo wanted to end the matches as quickly as possible, no one could last more than twenty minutes. Even if Chen Mo wanted to play around a bit, or play around with fire and ice, the opponents wouldn't last more than thirty minutes.
In the end, Chen Mo was so annoyed that he almost wanted to change his ranking to four thousand points. But he decided against it, as the players at the top of the ladder were always paying attention to the statistics. If someone they didn't know popped up out of nowhere, wouldn't that be exposing themselves?
Luckily, Chen Mo added extra points for winning streaks. He estimated that he would be able to reach three hundred and five hundred points in a day and fight against the experts.
…
Chen Mo felt that beating noobs was quite boring, but noobs were in for the worst.
Many players were happily playing ranked matches, eating hotpot and singing, when they bumped into a player who liked to play random races.
In the beginning, they thought they were here to give up points, but they started to doubt their lives in less than five minutes.
They were beaten to the point of breaking down by the three Orc Sword Saints.
They were beaten to death by the three Undead Heroes.
They were humiliated to death by the human race building towers in their own homes.
The most infuriating part was when a human player was kidnapped by a Dark Ranger recruited by the Elves, and made a Human Altar, which was then blocked by a Human Mage and a Bloodmage.
At the same time, it was unknown how many internet-addicted teenagers had successfully kicked their addiction during this period of time.
The most infuriating part was that when these players complained on the forums, they realised that they weren't the only one. There were many others who had the same experience, from those who were at one thousand points to those who were at three thousand points!
And their opponent was the same person, a random race player with the ID Silent!
This opponent was as silent as his name suggested. He didn't speak much other than typing "GG" at the end of the match. Even when the opponent asked him questions, he wouldn't respond. It made people wonder if this was a new AI developed by some big company …
Soon, posts about "random god Silent" started to appear on the forums, and "guess who is Silent" became a hot topic every day.
"I can't believe I met Silent today. I didn't believe that someone with three thousand points couldn't even last twenty-five minutes, but now I realize that I really can't!"
"I was beaten by his Undead."
"Previous poster, I've been beaten by his humans before."
"My goodness, how does this guy know every race? Every race has three thousand points? What kind of monster is this? "
"Hey, it's not that every race has three thousand points, it's that every race has three thousand points. That's not even the same thing …"
"Do you think there are four people behind this ID? Are the gods of four different races joking with us? "
"Wow, do you think the gods are that bored? Four people against one? You can't believe you came up with something like that. "
Everyone had their own opinions, and no one could come to a conclusion.
Moreover, many of the recordings of Silent's matches were shared on the forums, attracting a lot of attention.
The conclusion was: This guy isn't human at all!
Chen Mo's Warcraft didn't have an APM function, but some passionate players and tech nerds created a plugin to do so.
APM was the number of times a player made a move per minute (including keyboard and mouse). The higher the APM, the faster the player's hands were, which gave them an advantage in RTS games.
Generally speaking, an expert player with an effective APM of around one hundred and forty would be able to play Warcraft well. This meant that the player had to make one hundred and forty mouse clicks per minute, and it had to be effective, and not repetitive clicks.
For professional players, this requirement would be even higher, with an average of one hundred and eighty to two hundred and seventy. Players like Sky had an APM of around three hundred, which was pretty good.
In this world, even a pro player like Kaiser had a hand speed of around two hundred, which was pretty good.
But what was Silent's APM?
His highest APM was at four hundred and sixty-six!
In a game like Warcraft, a player with an APM of over five hundred would have a lot of useless moves. Usually, three hundred APM was more than enough.
But Silent had an APM of four hundred and sixty-six, and there weren't many useless moves, most of them were effective moves!
You could only say that this was the limit of human hand speed.
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