These little dragons are, in a sense, their children, partners, and comrades-in-arms.
Hunters and dragons fight side by side, grow together, win unparalleled honor, and leave their names on the Hunter's Scroll.
There is no better sentiment than this.
The popularity of Dragon Hunter is similar to that of League of Legends back in the day, showing a continuous growth against the trend, and even an exponential growth.
Unlike League of Legends, the former has a more universal theme, and players of all ages can appreciate its charm—after all, no one can resist a little dragon whimpering at their feet.
Currently, the most popular peripheral industry chain of Blue Star Studio is the merchandise industry of "Dragon Hunter".
Firstly, regarding the film and television IP of "Dragon Hunter," a collaboration with Golden Ring Pictures of Central Star Province has already been agreed upon. It is planned to create a continuous animated series with three seasons and a total of 120 episodes. The first season is now ready for release.
Secondly, there are physical merchandise items, including traditional plush toys, figurines, keychains, and other items, as well as some non-traditional AR devices—including AR bracelets, glasses, and a variety of furniture for the little dragon, such as dragon nests, food boxes, dragon toys, and so on.
Last but not least, there's the virtual network periphery.
Players are no longer satisfied with the trading system that comes with Hunter Scrolls.
Nowadays, a large number of peripheral websites have emerged around "Dragon Hunter", including several core "trading markets" that trade dragon eggs and related products.
In addition, there are "employment centers" that hire players to incubate their characters;
Of course, there are also forums and real-time chat rooms for friendly communication;
The "Arena," which allows players to schedule online matches, also offers a paid live streaming function, which indirectly contributed to the development of the Dragon Hunter live streaming section...
This industrial chain has provided a large number of jobs and capital flows.
Countless people are hoping that Dragon Hunter will become even more popular, and that its popularity will last even longer...
In June, while the excitement of the Hunter Tournament was still lingering, players on the Dragon Hunter Forum held offline gatherings.
Yes, they are not satisfied with the official annual large-scale competition, and they also hold their own competitions on the ground!
The main reason is that after last year's update, Dragon Hunter added a "Gym" setting to the AR map, allowing players to occupy and govern a Gym, and the Gym Leader can obtain some extra resources.
At the same time, players can challenge the gym leaders at any time and take their place.
This adds another avenue for real-time competition to Dragon Hunter, eliminating the need to simply raise your own dragons.
On live streaming platforms, you can see streamers busy almost every day. Apart from a few PvE streamers who are busy building their own lineages, most PvP streamers are "challenging" other streamers and presenting viewers with spectacular battle scenes.
At the offline gatherings for Dragon Hunter, all the players were wearing AR glasses.
At first glance, some people have the heads of horses and the bodies of snakes, while others wear ghost masks. In short, chaos reigns, as if a hundred ghosts are walking at night.
But the most amazing thing is the little dragons that follow them, some with ferocious postures, some glowing with light, all of them strange and wonderful.
These aren't necessarily all bred baby dragons; some are artificially styled to be the most dazzling ones tonight.
The videos of the amateur competition later went viral after being uploaded.
After getting off work, Mingyan took a look and found a lot of inspiration. He was also surprised to see an old acquaintance in the quarterfinals...
Kriri.
This old classmate hasn't appeared in Mingyan's sight for a long time.
It is said that five years ago, Kerry ended his entrepreneurial period and returned home to take over the family business, thus becoming a domineering CEO.
He was quite "domineering" in his early years, which his classmates all knew; he liked to be the one to have the final say in the class.
Over the years, that naivety has disappeared, but that narcissistic, self-centered temperament has remained.
However, nowadays when he appears on TV, girls are shouting "Ahhhhhh, so handsome!"
Kerry admitted he hadn't expected to play Dragon Hunter.
However, it seems that Kerry bought some decent dragon cubs from the market and just wanted to play with them.
After seeing this match, there were suddenly new messages in the class group chat that hadn't been updated in many years.
[Strawberry Tart: Was that quarterfinalist in the Dragon Hunting Martial Arts Tournament the same day?]
[Lightly Dancing in the Air: Wow, long time no see, I almost didn't recognize you.]
[Salted Fish: It's been such a long time! Is Kerry still in Sixth Star Province? I think their main business now is defense-grade network security engineering...]
[Strawberry Egg Tart: It's been over ten years since we graduated, and Kerry didn't come to our last reunion.]
[Salted Fish's comment: Maybe he's just too busy with work. But for a lazy bum like me, it's different; I'm happiest when I have an excuse to take time off...]
[Kriri: I saw it. Let's get together in three days if you're free. I'll still be at the usual place.]
Strawberry Egg Tart: !!!!!!!!!
The appearance of Kriri himself startled everyone else in the group.
As expected of Kerry, even his online name is his real name, so straightforward...
The so-called "old place" refers to the place where he often treated the whole class to meals during his student days.
[Keli: (Restaurant Positioning)]
[froot: I was so scared I almost came back to life!! But is this restaurant still open?]
[Creary: I bought it; I'm only doing private sales now.]