A real cheat was blocked, and the game industry was rectified with a backhand

The live broadcast ends.

Lin Mo underestimated the players' enthusiasm.

I knew this would have a significant impact, but I didn't expect it to be so big.

But it makes sense when you think about it.

The gaming industry in this world sucks.

Baofeng Entertainment is one of the few companies that has created high-quality games from the garbage dump.

Therefore, he was able to gain a large number of high-quality fans in that era.

As these fans get older, they don’t spend that much time playing games each year.

No matter how good Naughty Cat’s games are, I don’t have time to try them.

When I see that Baofeng Entertainment has released a new game, or a new expansion pack for Cosmic Rift, I will buy a copy on a whim, but after playing for a few days, I will give up the game and return to the hard real life.

After all, it is paying for childhood and feelings.

What you buy is not the game, but the happy time when you can play games freely without any worries.

Not having time to play games doesn’t mean you are isolated from information.

This move by Storm Entertainment made countless players feel betrayed.

This is destroying one's own Great Wall and the foundation of one's own company's survival.

Today's Storm Entertainment is no longer the company that can produce high-quality games.

Even Lin Mo was thinking about it.

"If I were West, I would be expecting Baofeng Entertainment to die suddenly and the acquisition to fail."

Diablo is popular before it is sold.

Since fans have been promised that it is a spiritual sequel, there must be some tribute in terms of content.

Therefore, the production team that traveled to the UK and the branch in China that assisted in the production began a new round of overtime work.

It does not affect the game framework, gameplay, background settings and story content.

But some easter eggs were added.

For example, some classic NPC names from the Road to Heaven IP were made into passers-by who were irrelevant to the plot and placed near teleportation points that everyone would pass by.

For example, some funny and entertaining equipment could be given a name related to the road to heaven.

The legendary and dark gold equipment in the Diablo series all have equipment descriptions. You can add an equipment description that old fans of Heaven’s Road can barely understand the general meaning of.

And that’s it.

Anything more and it wouldn’t be a spiritual sequel or a homage.

Baofeng Entertainment is about to cause trouble.

"Ah, it's a bit hard to be surrounded by enemies on all sides. Things keep happening one after another."

Lin Mo sighed.

The Diablo project has been finalized, and another round of competition with Giant Studios and Baofeng Entertainment is about to decide the outcome.

As of now, it still has the upper hand.

But one thing leads to another.

On the other side, Souni obviously didn't intend to let Naughty Cat live too comfortably.

I mentioned before that I wanted to co-develop a role-playing doomsday survival game with Naughty Cat, and it has been heavily promoted recently.

At this time, the news page on the computer was filled with advertisements for the game.

The name of the game is "Seven Days Later". The game cover and promotional poster both show a man with a woman who seems to be turning into a zombie.

It can be seen from the promotional video and the soft advertisement content that this is not a farming game with the theme of survival in the apocalypse, nor is it a fun game of killing zombies.

This is a game that explores the human nature and emotions in the end times.

It can be said that they are coming with great force and ambition.

The target is directly aimed at Naughty Cat and Switch, and Playsquare wants to return to the throne of consoles.

Players in this world did not give Breath of the Wild the title of the best in the world, but they also gave it a very meaningful title.

The king of exclusive games.

Many videos or news about Breath of the Wild on the Internet have recommendations from fans.

[If you buy a console for a game, Switch and Breath of the Wild are the most worthwhile ones]

Countless tap water is also the key to the Switch's huge sales.

Obviously, Soni wants to grab this title with an excellent game.

But role-playing, doomsday, survival, humanity, emotions.

With the support of these BUFFs, there is a game that is almost invincible, but the sequel is extremely poor.

It's time for it to enter the world.

It’s August now, and there are only a few days left until the release of Diablo.

"Brother Hao, what are you busy with?"

Liu Hao was driving, with his cell phone on the passenger seat and connected to the car via Bluetooth, waiting for a red light in the 35-degree outdoor temperature.

"I just got off work and was about to go home. What made you think of calling me? Tell me how much you want to borrow."

The person on the other end of the phone was Shen Zijun, one year younger than him.

The two have been friends since childhood.

When I was a child, I stole things in the village. When I was in middle school, I moved to the city with my parents and became addicted to playing games.

Fortunately, I came to my senses when I was in high school, my college entrance examination results were not too bad, and I had a good income after I started working.

Now, I am already thirty years old.

"Brother Hao, you have seen through me now, right? Am I that kind of person? Ahem, lend me 3000."

"Okay, I'll turn you around in a minute."

"You still have no sense of humor. I'm just kidding. Are you busy lately? Do you want to play games for a few days?"

"A new version of Cosmic Rift? Forget it. I spent all my money on the new version from the year before last, but I didn't have time to log in after playing it for less than a week. Besides, is it that fast?"

"Of course not. Play the spiritual sequel to Road to Heaven."

Road to Heaven?

Liu Hao suddenly became dazed.

I haven't heard this name for a long time.

The last work dates back eight years.

At that time, he had just graduated, and there was no name like Naughty Cat that all game players knew.

At that time, he could still pee three meters away against the wind. At that time, his girlfriend still begged him to take a break. At that time, he didn't know what the drug sildenafil was. At that time, staying up all night would not affect his work the next day.

"Oh, forget it. I really don't have much time. I'm trying to get pregnant and I'm under a lot of pressure at work. The client has rejected my proposal many times."

Then Shen Zijun's somewhat depressed voice came: "Well, okay. I was just thinking, we are in the same city, and we haven't been together for almost three years. It's okay, there will be plenty of opportunities in the future."

There was silence on the phone for a long time.

No one hung up the phone.

Liu Hao suddenly felt a little blocked in his heart.

Since graduation, I have been either making money or on the way to make money. I have fewer and fewer friends and the pressure is increasing.

His girlfriend at that time, now his wife, didn't understand him, and they often quarreled.

Things haven't been going well at work lately.

How long has it been since you played games and relaxed like you did in the past?

I don’t have any hobbies. I don’t smoke, drink, or play with women.

It's just a game, what's wrong?

Suddenly I felt an impulse in my heart.

Screw the job, screw the marriage, screw the money.

I need to relax.

"Okay, brother Hao, you go ahead and do your work, I..."

"how much is it?"

"Ok?"

"I said, "Road to Heaven 4", how much is it?"

On the phone, Shen Zijun asked in a voice full of surprise: "Brother Hao, are you going to buy it? It's like this"

He listened in silence for several minutes.

From hearing about Giant Studios' acquisition of Baofeng Entertainment, to the antitrust review and the splitting and selling of the IP, to Naughty Cat deciding to make a spiritual sequel.

"So, this thing called Diablo is going to be released five days early, right? OK, I'll play that first. I'll buy a copy of Road to Heaven 4 after it comes out, just to keep in mind."

"Row!"

The car has already entered the community basement and the phone has been hung up.

There is still some time before the game is released, but after entering the elevator, I can see from the mirror-like smooth metal surface that my face is smiling.

Just thinking about going home

A face fell.

That night, as expected, there was another quarrel.

Once the decision is made, the curiosity cannot be stopped.

Every day when I go to work, the game content introduced by the UP host is placed on my phone.

Introducing each profession one by one: Barbarian, Necromancer, Druid.

Angels, Demons, Nephalem.

Diablo, Lilith, Mephisto, Andariel

Imperius, Tyrael, Ethiril.

At the same time, I have filled out the leave application form with the company.

I thought for a long time about the reason for taking leave.

I don’t want to write that a family member is sick, so I’ll just tell the truth.

When he handed the leave application to the department head.

This leader, who used to have a gloomy face and was unkind all the time, looked at the reason for leave with a strange expression.

"Heavenly fire? What a lousy excuse! You still want to save Sanctuary."

"what?"

"nothing."

As he said this, he took another leave application, signed his name without saying a word, and threw the blank leave application over.

"Please rewrite the reason for your leave. I'll approve it. You can figure out the remaining signatures yourself."

Liu Hao glanced at the department head with some surprise, silently kept some harsh words in his stomach, and then walked out of the office.

As for home, I also asked for leave in advance on the grounds of working overtime.

The time came to the tenth.

E-sports hotel.

"Brother Hao! Long time no see!"

The two people who hadn't seen each other for several years patted each other on the shoulders.

Shen Zijun was carrying a big plastic bag containing instant noodles, beer, snacks, and three packs of Liqun cigarettes.

Without further ado, enter the room.

Open up!

Naughty Cat’s new game was naturally downloaded by the system as soon as possible, and only a first-day patch was needed.

"Brother Hao, you haven't registered an Origin account? You are a little behind the times."

"I don't have time. I'm helpless too. This naughty cat seems to be quite powerful?"

"It must be the world's number one gaming company."

"I think it's still inferior to Baofeng Entertainment. Three Big Mountains, what a classic game. People were crazy about it back then."

"Well, times have changed. Besides, the three big mountains will soon be reduced to two."

"It's a pity, it would be better if it was Road to Heaven 10 that was released on the 4th. On the th, I can only play it for one day, and then I have to go back to work."

"The deadline hasn't arrived yet?"

"On the 20th, there's still time."

After a short chat, the first day patch was downloaded.

Enter!

The game begins with an opening CG.

Different from Naughty Cat’s previous style, this CG scene looks like a mural drawn with charcoal on parchment.

Combined with the voice of the narrator, it tells the story of this place called Sanctuary.

When the natural enemy was in chaos, a creator god named Anu was born.

In order to maintain his purity, he separated his evil side, but it turned into a seven-headed dragon, and the two fought a long battle.

In the end, both of them died.

The corpse of the seven-headed dragon turned into hell, and the dragon heads turned into seven demon kings.

Anu incarnated the highest heaven, gave birth to angels, and his eyes turned into the world stone with infinite power.

For the Worldstone, angels and demons fought an extremely cruel and eternal war.

As the souls of angels and demons cannot be destroyed, they can only be transformed into another form.

Over time, Lilith, the daughter of the angel Inarius and the demon Mephisto, became tired of the war. They stole the Worldstone and led a group of angels and demons who were also tired of the war to create Sanctuary.

In the process, angels and demons combined to give birth to the half-blood Nephalem, who possessed more powerful powers than angels and demons.

From then on, angels and demons began to use humans to start a proxy war.

In Sanctuary, the power of demons is suppressed.

The angel of justice Tyrael gathered powerful warriors, scholars, and mages to form the Horadrim, defeated the three great demons and sealed them in the Soul Stone.

The dreadlord Diablo was sealed underground in a small town called Tristram in Khanduras.

The Horadrim built a church on it to guard the seal of Diablo.

Hundreds of years passed.

The Horadrim's heirs are becoming increasingly rare.

The power of the seal also gradually weakened.

After CG ends, enter the character creation interface.

A bonfire was lit in the darkness, and there were shadows around it. There were many people sitting around it, but I couldn't see what they looked like.

On the left side of the screen, many career options appear.

I clicked on the barbarian first.

In the darkness beside the campfire, a strong man with arms as thick as a normal man's waist walked into the light.

He has a rough face and some ornaments made of animal and demon bones on his body. Just by looking at him, you can feel the brutal power beneath his muscles.

Click on the Necromancer again.

The Savage sat down again in the shadow of the fire.

One of them was obviously a head shorter, with a slender figure, unnaturally gray skin, and gray hair. There seemed to be several skeletons behind him with murderous eyes, staring at the player on the other side of the screen.

"One, two, three, six? When the CG introduced the Nephalem, it was clear that there were more than one profession."

"Maybe it's because other professions will be released later? For example, the monk, witch doctor, demon hunter, Amazon, etc. that appeared in the CG."

"Which one do you choose?"

Liu Hao thought about it and chose the barbarian who was full of masculinity.

Shen Zijun chose the mysterious and elegant mystic.

Games start.

Today's Tristram is no longer as peaceful and tranquil as it appears in the CG.

A weird atmosphere filled the air, with corpses and broken houses everywhere, crows cawing ominously, and skeletons and demons coming out of the church from time to time to slaughter the villagers.

The barbarian and the mystic had just taken a few steps when they encountered several skeleton monsters. After easily upgrading, they gained skill points.

After clicking on the skills, the Barbarian gained Hammer of the Ancients and the Mystic gained Frostbolt.

After walking a few more steps, the sound of fighting came from the front.

He was a prince, wearing gorgeous armor and exquisite weapons.

His name is Aidan, and he is the son of King Leoric of the Kingdom of Khanduras.

He had been traveling abroad before, but because of the unexpected disappearance of his father and brother, he rushed back to investigate the matter.

Unexpectedly, they encountered a group of skeleton monsters and were involved in a fierce battle. All of their servants were killed or injured.

As the protagonist of the Nephalem, he traveled with Aidan and entered Tristram.

A place where a nightmare begins.