As the old saying goes, the first month is the new year.
Of course, that was an old saying. For most people, the new year was equivalent to a holiday. And the holiday … would probably end on the third day of the new year. At most, it would allow you to rest until the eighth day of the new year. Even the students who were on winter break would have to start school again around the Lantern Festival.
Therefore, in the eyes of modern people, the second half of the first month was a very normal day for people to do whatever they needed to do.
However, the seven people from Underworld Frontline did not need to consider that.
They either did not have fixed working hours or did not work at all. There was also a professional player who had not signed a contract. His job was to play games …
In short, these people … had plenty of time to be online.
In order to prepare for S3, everyone was quite serious. Even Miss An, who had to work in the company during the day, thought of a way to adjust her working hours (actually, she just told her family that she would only work half a day from tomorrow onwards. She could decide her working hours by herself) so that she could play games with her teammates during the day and improve their teamwork.
According to the announcement released by the Dream Company, the registration time for S3 was one month. The registration time was the moment S3's competition format was announced, which was midnight on February 21, 2056. At midnight on March 20, 2056, the registration system would close. At that time, the system would immediately randomly match all the registered teams and generate a list of opponents for the first round of S3. Twenty-four hours after the list was announced, the first round of the competition would officially begin.
Just like the previous two competitions, this one month registration time was no doubt the game company's scheme to make money …
Needless to say, the upper-class players who were definitely going to participate in the competition would definitely invest more. When everyone was throwing money to increase their strength, if you still maintained your usual pace, it would be equivalent to regressing.
With this trend, the trade volume of the official market and the auction house would definitely soar. Not only could the Dream Company recover a large amount of game coins from the players, but it could also earn a large percentage of transaction taxes and service fees during this period of time when the prices of the auction house were increasing.
In addition, the income from the "extra top-up" of casual players was also the focus of this operation.
In the current Thriller Paradise, most of the players were casual players who were between level 45 and 50 and had Hidden Points between 55 and 75. This group of players usually played the game for the sake of 'relaxation, excitement, fun, and friendship'. They entered the game early, and their online time was fixed, but … they did not have a strong desire to increase their in-game character's power.
Since Thriller Paradise would generate scenarios that were suitable for the hidden segments based on the player's skill level, dedication, and personality, whether the player was above average or not would not affect their gaming experience (with the exception of people like Snow who had to rely on others to level up until level 40).
But now, the situation was different … S3's completely random matchmaking rules greatly increased the chances of normal players advancing. Theoretically speaking, if there was an extreme phenomenon of "all the professional players' advancement paths converging before the semi-finals", then it wasn't impossible for a "commoner team" to become the runner-up.
With this kind of stimulation, the casual players' enthusiasm for S3 was at an all-time high. However, everyone understood that this kind of "theory" was just a theory. It was similar to "after the World Cup qualifier groups were completed, the football fans first did some mental calculations and then felt that the national football team could theoretically qualify this time." That kind of mentality …
But no matter what, humans had dreams.
Furthermore, Thriller Paradise did not require registration fees, so there was nothing to lose by participating. If they lost, they would just be kicked out of the game, and if they won, they could brag about it for half a year.
The Dream Company grasped this mentality and purposely set aside this' one month 'to allow those players who did not have enough Hidden Points to increase their points.
As long as the casual players stayed in the game longer and 'got serious', changing their mentality, their Hidden Points could indeed increase in a short period of time. And once they started to 'play the game seriously', it was normal to invest some money into it. After all, Thriller Paradise was a game with a financial and age threshold. Most of the players in this kind of game had the ability to spend money. It was just a matter of how much money they had.
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If there was a book, it would be long; if there was no book, it would be short.
In the following month, nothing special happened. The members of Underworld Frontline steadily increased their strength.
During this period, Feng Bujue still played solo most of the time because the other six members could form a team. Furthermore, it had to be said that Brother Jue was indeed a cancer to the team. When he was in the team, increasing the difficulty of the scenario was one thing, but the key was that many of his strategies and strategies would affect the normal flow of the scenario.
Therefore, Feng Bujue still played solo for most of the time.
Of course, be it solo or in a team, Brother Jue did not mind. He could handle any mode, any scenario, but … there was one situation that made him feel strange.
And that was … as mentioned earlier, 'nothing special happened.'
For Feng Bujue … this was the strangest thing that had ever happened.
Just as the end of this' gamble 'was coming, at the end of this' Candidate Game ', everything was so peaceful.
Woody himself did not come to contact him, and he did not send Molly Kui (Arthas) to tell him anything. Vincent, Simon, and the rest did not come to contact him. The people from heaven did not do anything either.
Not only in the real world, even in the game world, it was the same.
Ever since the Battle to Protect the Monster Kingdom, in the past month, including the other members of Underworld Frontline, Feng Bujue and the rest did not queue for a scenario set in the main universe of Thriller Paradise. But from the reaction on the forum, the system did not stop generating scenarios set in the main universe because other players had participated in them.
Brother Jue tried to team up with players outside his guild and queued for various scenarios on Nightmare difficulty, but he could not get any.
There was no way for him to enter the main universe, and there was no chance for him to enter the inner world. He had not even run into a single Anomaly. The Thriller Paradise that Feng Bujue had played this month was so 'normal' that it made him wonder if he had opened it the wrong way.
And this phenomenon made Feng Bujue understand that this time … something big was going to happen.
There was no need to mention the existences in the game world, but even Woody and the other Gods and Demons could not send a message … This meant that there was an even more powerful force that had intervened and taken control of the situation.
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