In their imagination, Chief Designer Ming, who is omnipotent in design, is definitely a king-level master!
However, the facts revealed by Varian were quite surprising.
"The boss was placed in Silver II in his placement matches and never climbed any higher," Varian quipped.
The people around him were also amused, adding, "Our boss doesn't usually have much time to play on his own account, so he just stays at his current rank. Our placement match system dictates that the first placement will not exceed Gold 5."
The game's creator, Master Ming, is only at Silver II!
It was truly unexpected, yet perfectly reasonable.
Some eager players immediately shared this news on the official forum.
Because the official live stream showed that Mingyan had just stepped down, this post immediately became lively.
[Hahahaha, I shed tears of sympathy]
[You guys actually look down on Silver? You know, in the first season, Silver was a rank above Challenger, we called it the "Master" rank... I can't keep making this up, let's just laugh for now.]
[It seems like we can already see a future where the role-playing system will be drastically changed in Season 3...]
Because Mingyan is usually too low-key and never reveals any information about his personal life.
So it's rare to have such an official channel to learn about the workaholic side of CEO Ming, which players are very interested in.
—What?! I heard that Blue Star Studio also has a legendary League of Legends team?!
—What? I heard that Earth has its own Minecraft server, and all employees have their own little houses on it?
This was the first time players had discovered that Blue Star Studio was truly fascinating.
When they're not working, they're a really fun group of people—and perhaps only people with such creativity and talent could create such great games.
The meet-and-greet finally reached the point where the designers exposed each other's shortcomings!
What does it mean if Chief Designer Ming is only at Silver II rank?
When Varian played Minecraft, he was once killed by a small zombie while wearing a full set of diamond armor.
When Vivian was writing songs, she was once so excited by a melody that she became so absorbed in it that she collapsed onto the office floor and rolled around in a daze.
One night after working overtime, Ling Lingqi had a brain fart and created a ridiculous mod that allowed players to throw poop at each other.
When Kevin was working on the storyline for the apocalypse of Earth, he came up with a side story about Coster. But when he thought about it, he was overcome with grief and couldn't help but hug his golden retriever, Xixi, and burst into tears, his eyes swollen from crying.
Schrödinger once accidentally pasted his treasured website URL into the code, and the entire programming team witnessed it...
...
These guys have done so many ridiculous things that they're enough to make players laugh uncontrollably.
They suddenly realized that the employees of Blue Star were ordinary people who were very close to real life—well, no, they were geniuses who were very close to real life.
It turns out that even geniuses have a silly side, and they can be silly in a witty and humorous way.
The joyful time was still too short. The meeting between Blue Star and the players had been extended to an hour and a half, but everyone still felt that it was not enough.
At the end of the meet-and-greet, Vivian picked up her electronic keyboard and sang a song for the players as a farewell.
The players all stood up, raised their hands, and cheered the loudest they could.
Someone shouted, "Blue Star is awesome! Long live Blue Star!!"
"we love you!!!"
After the online meeting, Bluestar employees no longer had any mandatory projects to participate in.
They were given the same holiday as the adults, and were allowed to go to the offline venue and do whatever they wanted at the carnival, regardless of whether they wanted to reveal their identities.
Designer Kevin, who seems to really enjoy playing with players, went straight to the League of Legends 3.3 experience center and reportedly played 5v5 matches with players...
He played for an entire afternoon, and those games were even made into videos and uploaded online, where they surprisingly became quite popular.
Mingyan wore a mask offline and even strolled around the carnival, a rare occurrence for him.
He ended up standing in the player exhibition hall for an entire afternoon.
The hall is filled with large electronic screens displaying screenshots, comments, and other content uploaded by various players, scrolling based on the number of likes received.
As Mingyan observed, players have spontaneously created many popular tags.
For example, there is a tag #MinecraftThreeYearsSaves#, which is where Minecraft players showcase their save files from the past three years.
The save file with the most likes actually took tens of thousands of minutes over three years to build two bases from scratch all by himself, and the main base even had very high walls and a moat.
I really don't know how much effort was put into it.
The other archives, while perhaps not as beautiful as those videos dedicated to architecture, are exceptionally warm and easily evoke memories of one's own little home.
In the blink of an eye, this game has been running for more than three years, and everyone has many wonderful memories of it.
Seeing that other people's homes were just as messy as their own, with furniture that they didn't quite know how to arrange, and boxes containing their savings accumulated over the years of adventure... it really made them feel a lot of emotions.
Inside the venue, there were also many people showing off their pentakills in League of Legends, as well as speedrun videos of Blue Star Doomsday... there was everything.
Mingyan was sitting on a bench, watching with great enjoyment.
A man sat down next to me and said proudly, "Look, the house ranked thirteenth is the one I built."