As a game developer, the last thing I want to see is conflict outside of the game itself; as a team leader, my greatest wish is to create a fair, open, and equitable creative environment where pure game developers can create pure games.
This incident was caused by my lax management of my subordinates, and I hereby formally apologize to Blue Star Studio. You may release this information publicly; the other team will take full responsibility.
In addition, our new game, *Voice of the Sky*, will be competing for this year's Game of the Year award, and we have absolute confidence in ourselves. We look forward to seeing you on the awards stage again!
—From the Beyond Team, Zhuo Yu
Zhuo Yu's idea coincided with Ming Yan's.
Although they were separated by thousands of light-years and had only met once, Mingyan felt as if he had found a kindred spirit at that moment.
He immediately replied with an email, stating that these few online trolls hadn't caused any trouble—in fact, even the most sensitive media outlets didn't care about it.
In the letter, Mingyan also jokingly replied:
I also have absolute confidence in our new game, "Assassin's Way." It seems the League of Assassins is going to have a headache again this year. Looking forward to seeing you at the end of the year!
—Blue Star Studio, Mingyan
By the way.
That evening, when Mingyan opened his social media account, he discovered a very popular blog post about "The Way of the Assassin".
It's Zhuo Yu's account from another province.
[@Zhuo Buyi: Blue Star's new game, "Assassin's Way," main story progress 2%. It's so much fun I didn't do anything this afternoon. By the way, our team's attendance rate today was 2%, only me and my cat were there. (Facepalm emoji)]
The comments below were all laughing:
What a coincidence! Probably only about 1% of the people in our office came today...
[Wait for more updates! Wait for more updates! Where do you find the time to play other people's games? The Wind's Voice is finished, where's the next game? (Devilish emoji)]
Ah! I just got here too! I wonder when I'll get to see the Great Demon King, sob sob sob.
Mingyan was also stunned when he saw this.
Zhuo Yu has a considerable number of fans. As a chief designer who has won the highest award, his personal promotion of his competitor's game naturally generates buzz.
No wonder this blog post topped the trending charts.
Mingyan smiled and gave him a thumbs up.
Then, after thinking about it, I simply forwarded this post:
[@TinyWork: It's different on our Blue Star. Last year, when "Armor Rush" launched in the Sixth Star Province, I got a whole day off. (Attached is an emoji: Learn from me.jpg)]
Then the comments below were:
[Please update! Please update! Please update! Assassin's Way is finished, but where's the next game? Will you still have time-space interaction with me?!]
[What's going on here? Are all the top designers starting to brag about their vacations? Shouldn't you be urging each other to finish their work?!]
【Aaaaaah, I'm so sorry everyone, I've strayed into a new cult...】
...
This is so true.
As soon as a game is released, players immediately start eyeing the next one, eager for more...
Every designer has to go through this!
Mingyan shut down the blog with a look of utter exasperation.
Subsequently, Blue Star Studio did not issue any statement explaining this online troll incident.
Because really, almost no one noticed!
The reason for this is that another achievement of "The Way of the Assassin" is too eye-catching.
— Within 12 hours of its release, Assassin's Way officially broke the 12-hour sales record of the Sixth Star Province!
— Within 24 hours of its release, it broke the record for the 24-hour chart!
The previous record was 1.81 billion copies.
Now, "The Way of the Assassin" has managed to push its sales to 1.92 billion copies.
Of course, this is internal statistical data from BlueStar, and outsiders can only see non-real-time data statistics from various sales channels for the time being.
It is foreseeable that as time extends to a week, a month, or even a year after its release, Way of the Assassin will continue to break more records.
The gaming media in the Sixth Star Province were overjoyed.
Everyone is reporting this huge news and competing with each other—nobody is paying attention to other data right now; everyone is desperately trying to get more accurate sales figures.
They racked their brains to collect peripheral data from various channels for analysis and calculation, and many of the figures are now very close to the truth.
The previous record holder has already posted a congratulatory blog post, accompanied by a cartoon: a little figure handing the trophy symbolizing honor to another little figure—a little figure with the Blue Star logo painted on its forehead.
Fans of Blue Star and followers of the Ming Cult are celebrating as if it were the Lunar New Year.
Even the usually low-key Rainy Day Cult felt honored and happily mingled among them, becoming one of them.
Many people paid for the lottery themselves, which spread the good news to more netizens.
Seeing everyone so happy, Blue Star's marketing team reacted quickly, discussing and releasing a newly drawn poster by Varian on Blue Star's official website, happily announcing the good news in an official tone.