FV Team's champion skin this time was a little strange.
Take the jungler for example. Last year's champion skin was the Storm Swordsman, and this year's champion skin was the Storm Swordsman-Void Hermit!
The Storm Swordsman was a normal human. He wore armor that surged with storms and held a long sword in his hand. The Void Hermit was a Void Zerg that looked more like a humanoid. Its weapon was two front claws.
These two images were quite different. There was not much to compare, but they were still forcefully put together.
The completed Storm Swordsman-Void Hermit skin still had the original module of the Void Hermit. However, he had put on the Storm Swordsman armor. The original Zerg claws had become two short swords, and his entire body still had the special effect of surging storms.
His movements, attack movements, and skill movements still retained the characteristics of the Void Hermit as much as possible, but his appearance was closer to the Storm Swordsman.
It was very reasonable not to change the action module. After all, players had to be able to tell which hero it was.
Apart from that, there was the Return City animation: The armor on the Storm Swordsman's body shattered, and the long sword was thrown to the ground. The Void Hermit crawled out and escaped into the void.
The other four people's skins were the same.
In fact, this method was quite common. IOI had also released skins with the theme of 'elemental swap' before, which was to swap the elements of the Beast Tamer and the pet. The response at that time was not bad.
However, after this skin appeared, they realized that it was not the case at all.
The players were all too imaginative and had completely gone astray!
Players guessed that there were at least three meanings in this champion skin.
First of all, this meant that compared to the Void Hermit, the Storm Swordsman was the player's true love. They had no choice but to choose the Void Hermit as the skin. The official platform had forcefully strengthened the Void Hermit so that they could only use it in the finals. What else could they do?
However, no matter what, the hero in their hearts would always be the Storm Swordsman.
Secondly, the Storm Swordsman was already dead. His armor was shattered, and his long sword was thrown to the ground. Was he killed by the Void Hermit? Of course not. He was killed by Finger Games. Finger Games crippled the Storm Swordsman with one slash, making it meaningless for him to continue living. They forcefully replaced him with the Void Hermit.
Finally, was the Void Hermit the end? Perhaps this time, the Void Hermit would emerge from the Swordsman of the Storm's body. Next time, another hero would emerge from the Void Hermit's body. This time, Finger Games had targeted the balance of the game and killed the Void Hermit. In fact, they had already predicted such an ending.
In conclusion, this skin was to remind everyone of the good things that Finger Games had done during the two World Competitions. Anyway, every player had their own way of interpreting it. Everything was understood without words.
Think about the scene of FV Team killing everyone in IOI's first global finals with their own heroes.
Then, he thought about the scene of FV Team winning the championship with a powerful hero that they had painstakingly trained in the second edition of IOI's global finals.
Behind all of this, it was all because of Finger Games' dirty tricks!
Pei Qian had mixed feelings as he read the players' discussions.
He also wanted to cry out for Finger Games!
Actually, could all the blame be placed on Finger Games? That was not possible either. Some things might not have been Finger Games' original intention. It might have been due to some objective restrictions, or it might have simply been misunderstood by gamers.
However, the problem now was that gamers no longer had any trust in Finger Games!
This was the so-called "Tacitus Trap": Once the emperor became the object of disgust, he would cause people to disgust him regardless of whether he did good or bad things.
In other words, once an organization lost credibility, everyone would think that it was lying regardless of whether it was telling the truth or lying. No matter if it did something out of good or bad intentions, everyone would think that it was doing it out of malice.
Take this event for example. What would happen if GOG were to hold the same event?
Nothing much would happen. Everyone would happily spend money on the Spring Festival skin, Valentine's Day skin, and champion skin.
As for the champion skin, everyone would definitely not interpret and speculate so maliciously. Instead, they would simply treat it as a performance.
There was no choice. This difference in treatment was the result of the accumulation of previous reputation. It was useless no matter what they did.
All in all, the comparison between GOG and IOI's Spring Festival activities made Pei Qian feel that something was wrong.
"Wait, something's not right. This ten million yuan … why does it seem like I personally gave it to GOG? "
Pei Qian felt that this Lunar New Year red packet event was a little familiar. On further thought, wasn't this the ten million yuan?
At that time, Pei Qian had even asked each department to submit a report to explain how they would use the ten million yuan. In the end, GOG did not submit an application. It felt like they did not need the ten million yuan.
Thus, Pei Qian forced the ten million yuan over.
He had not expected it to be used here!
In fact, IOI's Lunar New Year event would not have been so badly scolded without GOG's red packet event. Compared to GOG, IOI's gamers could not take it anymore and ran away.
It could be said that GOG's ten million yuan had the effect of adding fuel to the fire!
However, could Eric and Zhao Xuming be blamed? It seemed like … they could not be blamed.
Pei Qian had already given them the ten million yuan. What else could they do with it? Organizing a Lunar New Year event and giving out red packets seemed to be a reasonable choice …
"What should we do? Can IOI still hold on …"
"Let me take a look at Long Yu Corporation's official website. Brothers, don't lose confidence. I'm still hoping that you guys can help me …"
Pei Qian opened the official website of Long Yu Games. However, he was dumbfounded when he saw the front page.
The huge banner on the official website's front page was basically the various games that Long Yu Corporation represented. Previously, IOI had always been the first and had been promoted as a key game.
However, the most important game on the front page had changed owners!
Finger Games' IOI had been pushed to the back. The first game had become Bullet Hole 2!
"What's going on? Even IOI's recommendation spot has been removed? "
"The tea cools when the people are gone! Long Yu Corporation is too disloyal. Isn't that adding insult to injury to IOI? "
"This is too much! Condemn, we have to condemn! "
"Er … something's not right. Wait a minute."
"They're promoting Bullet Hole 2 now? This game has already been developed? "
"I have a share of the money earned by Bullet Hole 2 … That's fine, please work harder!"
Pei Qian had been protesting for IOI at first. He had high hopes for IOI after all. If IOI could not stop GOG, it would really unify the MOBA circle. That was something Pei Qian did not want to see.
GOG would really be able to earn money lying down if it lost its final opponent!
There would be no match for it to burn money and fight a price war!
Skins might be cheap but there were many players! What's more, apart from skin fees, various derivative industries, including the E-Sports industry, were also making money. This was a very complicated chemical reaction that Pei Qian could not bear.
IOI's recommendation spot on Long Yu Games' official website was not the only one that had been changed.
That was because this showed Long Yu Corporation's attitude. The subsequent publicity resources would naturally be reduced!
Wouldn't that be a shocking piece of news?
However, on further thought, Pei Qian realized that that was not right. Long Yu Games was promoting Bullet Hole 2. As the designer of Bullet Hole 2, he could get 4% of the bonus from this game!
Of course, this 4% referred to 4% of Sun Strike Studios' net profit from this game, but that was not a small amount!
When Pei Qian first started developing Bullet Hole 2, he was aiming to incur losses. He mainly wanted to test the waters. If he could summarize the failure experience, Tengda might be able to use it.
However, Pei Qian had completely changed his mind after knowing that he would also get a share of the bonus.
If this game were to incur losses, the money would be paid by Sun Strike Studios and Long Yu Corporation. Tengda would not be able to get a share of the losses. However, if it were to earn, it would be a real bonus!
The key was that as a direct competitor of Ocean Stronghold, it might be able to reduce Ocean Stronghold's income. That was quite good.
"Make it popular! The more popular, the better!
"Tengda might get a 30% share of the profits, but I can accept it! I'm willing to spend more brain cells to think about how to spend the money for the sake of the bonus! "
Pei Qian instantly forgot about the unhappiness from before and clicked on Bullet Hole 2 to play.
"Min Jingchao, I've placed all my hopes on you. You'd better design this game well. If you don't get the bonus, you'll have to suffer in the VIP class!"
…
At the same time, news of Bullet Hole 2's official release spread like wildfire in many FPS gamers' groups.
Many people were discussing it in Chen Sha's fan group.
Chen Sha's online nickname was' Broken Halberd Sinks Into Sand '. He was a very experienced FPS gamer and had good skills. He was originally a famous figure in the Counter Strike circle.
Previously, when Sun Strike Studios was developing Bullet Hole, they had invited him to be the opinion leader of the gamers to experience the game. Later on, through Lin Wan's matchmaking, he had contributed greatly to the publicity and promotion of Ocean Stronghold.
Of course, he slowly stopped playing Counter Strike and Bullet Hole. Instead, he focused on Ocean Stronghold.
With the rise of live-streams, Chen Sha also signed a contract with Wolf Fang Live-Stream. He was now one of the top live-streamers in Ocean Stronghold.
In fact, Chen Sha had considered Bunny Tail Live-Stream at the beginning. However, he had no choice. Wolf Fang Live-Stream had given him a huge contract. It was better to earn money.
His fan group was basically made up of loyal FPS gamers. Apart from playing games together every day, they would chat in the group.
What's more, everyone's gaming time had obviously been shortened recently.
This was mainly because Ocean Stronghold was indeed a little old. After all, it was a game from 2009. It was now 13 years old. Although the downloadable content and daily updates were not bad, and there were also some new epic weapons, it was inevitable that people's interest in the game would drop.
However, the gamers in the group had obviously found a new focus of discussion in the past two days.
That was because Chen Sha was an old friend of Sun Strike Studios and Tengda Corporation. He was also a veteran FPS gamer. He had participated in the internal test of this new FPS project some time ago!
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