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Section 23 The Gatekeeper Incident

"The War of the Insect" became popular, and it became completely popular - from videos to live broadcasts, from friends to Weibo... For a moment, news about "The War of the Insect" seemed to be everywhere.

The previous stand-alone version of "War of the Insect" has many advantages - such as the graphics algorithm is extremely advanced, and it can even reduce the number of polygons to reduce configuration requirements; for example, the image quality when running at high configurations greatly exceeds its status as an independent game, which is completely worthy of its price of more than $30...

However, the stand-alone version of "War of the Insect" still has many problems with independent games, such as the game time is relatively short, the repetition content is more, and there is basically no worldview... etc.

Although there is no plot for players to dig deep, and there are no complex systems for players to study. Overall, the stand-alone version of "War of the Insect" performed very well. Although there are shortcomings, the flaws do not conceal the merits. This is why such a game with no publicity was sold directly at nearly ten million.

However, when the online version of "War of the Insect" was officially opened, everything changed.

Rich experience tutorials allow players who have not played before and who have played it to easily get started with this game.

Countless story lines available for mining and a full worldview have allowed traditional stand-alone RPG players to find a new world.

And with free character customization system (face-pinching) to personalized power armor coating, even gun transformation system and rich vehicle transformation content, all the parts that can be sold as DLC are provided to players for free!

That’s right, as long as you have purchased the stand-alone version of "War of the Insects", you will automatically get all the online versions of the experience content!

There is no more conscientious game developer than this - can all be customized for fashion and painting? It instantly cut off the possibility of selling various skins and boxes in the future!

The price of the new "War of the Insect" online version remains unchanged, while the price of the old "War of the Insect" stand-alone version has become 1 yuan - whether it is denominated in Euro US dollars or RMB, it is 1 yuan.

The reason why the price of the stand-alone version of "War of the Insect" is greatly reduced is mainly to attract pirated players to the genuine version. Only by expanding the audience can more pilot seeds be screened out.

That's right... Even with the support of alien technology, there is still piracy on the stand-alone version of "War of the Insect" and this is impossible. As for the same sentence, as long as the Earth technology is still used, it is impossible to eliminate piracy and plug-ins from the software.

After the sharp price reduction, the players who originally purchased the stand-alone version of "War of the Insect" naturally had no complaints because they had received the greatest compensation. Potential players who once thought it was too expensive and did not buy it were also attracted by the extremely low price - it was just one dollar, just buy it and try it.

It is precisely because of this that not only has the online version of "War of the Insect" purchased soared, but also millions of copies sold on the stand-alone version!

Even if the stand-alone version after the price reduction is not counted, the normal price of "War of the Insect" has exceeded 25 million copies in just over half a month! And this number is still growing!

This sales also means more than 500 million US dollars in revenue! Although 30% of it is still shared with the steam platform, plus development costs and maintenance costs... But even after deducting various costs, Bluestar's profit still exceeds 300 million US dollars!!

Calculated at the current exchange rate, it is a net income of nearly 2 billion yuan! Note that this is pure cash income!!

No wonder some people say that another industry with profits in the new century that is comparable to military fire and drug trafficking is the entertainment industry... Even financial geniuses who make money by making money are almost impossible to earn such a huge amount of cash in just one year with little capital!

At this moment, it was originally just a technically innovative independent game, but at this time it could compete with "Breath of the Wild" and "Odyssey". It can be said that one of the recognized games of the year should have been produced in these three games.

Compared with the unknown Blue Star Company, the developers of "Breath of the Wild" and "Odyssey" are Nintendo, the industry leader!

...

The huge cash inflow made Bluestar a newcomer in the game circle in one fell swoop, and the tax departments of several countries also set their sights on this huge amount of cash...

...However, neither the United States, the European Union nor South Korea have found any such game company called Blue Star.

At the same time, countless large companies have extended olive branches to it: some people who request technical support, some who cooperate with movies, some who want agency and acquisitions... and even companies related to artificial intelligence want to contact Blue Star.

However, whether it is a country or an individual, if everyone wants to contact Blue Star, they can only use the email address it left on the neat platform...

...Is there any more irritating company than this?

However, at this moment... some other information appeared on the Internet.

For example, Blue Star does not evade taxes, Blue Star has an unregistered training base in South Korea... There are even rumors that Blue Star has a Chinese military background behind it.

...

"Have you found it?" Chen Zheng asked Dong Jie opposite the screen of the notebook.

"Yeah, I found it." Dong Jie sent a document.

"The other party's IP is in Japan!" Chen Zheng was stunned.

"...Yes." Dong Jie nodded, "But this has nothing to do with the players. Through IP address query, this location is a game-related department under Sony."

"Through comprehensive intelligence comparison, these people are called "gatekeepers" (GK), specializing in some public opinion guidance and slandering competitors."

"We don't even have a Japanese version, right? This can be regarded as a competitor of Sony?" Chen Zheng was a little amused and crying.

"It seems that Sony's GK department thinks so, and almost all the negative news about Blue Star on the Internet can eventually track down this IP address. And it's more than that..."

As he said that, Dong Jie sent Chen Zheng a copy of news that had not been published yet.

“…”

Seeing the title of the news, Chen Zheng was silent - "Blue Star Illegal Hypothesis Server in Jeju, South Korea".

"Can you find this?" Chen Zheng's eyes turned cold.

"It seems that we found our IP address through some technical means..." Dong Jie didn't know much about this. The information she got was learned from the hired hackers.

"Notify the steam platform to block purchases in Japan." Chen Zheng sneered, "Anyway, I never thought about recruiting pilots in Japan..."

"Okay." Dong Jie nodded, "That's the matter with Sony GK department... don't care about them?"
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