Chapter 75 Folk Masters
All donations from Blue Star Studio have gone through formal channels and have been approved by the Chaoyang government, just like the money that was originally promised to be donated to Blue Star Research Institute.
The donation certificate will eventually be issued as a form with an authentic electronic seal.
Anyone can scan the QR code in the video and immediately see the details of every donation, including who it came from, who it was donated to, and when it was made.
Once Varian's donation record was made public, all the rumors and gossip were dispelled.
The players were completely unfazed; some even felt a little amused!
—What do you mean by using donations to scam money? Is it just to swindle hundreds of thousands of yuan from players' donations?
—If he openly stated that he donated 880,000 yuan by himself, wouldn't he be at a huge loss?
What kind of scammer could pull off something like this? I hope there are more scammers like this in the world!
[Cult Leader, sob sob sob! Ling Lingqi, sob sob sob! You both deserve to live to a ripe old age!]
[Blue Star Studio has so many games; their daily revenue probably exceeds one million. Would the cult leader really break the law for such a small amount of money? The person who said that is probably brainless.]
Within Blue Star, there's a general feeling that this year's online trolls are of poor quality!
The Black man's approach was correct, but he was too careless about the details; the amount was probably just something he came up with on a whim.
Mingyan said that he decided on a strategy after having a meal with their long-term legal team.
We'll definitely sue them. First, we'll charge them with "defamation," then we'll send out lawyer's letters widely to stir up public opinion online.
Although a person is bitten by a dog, they certainly cannot bite back.
But you could just take a stick and beat the dog to death.
Meanwhile, at Cruise Capital, Zhu Wenshu was throwing a tantrum.
"What kind of trashy online trolls did you hire?! They told us to exaggerate the amount of money involved, and they said millions?!"
His contact was also annoyed and said dismissively, "The previous online army was working with Li Sheng, but Li Sheng was directly imprisoned by Lan Xing and sentenced to a full fifteen years. Do you know what that means? Now nobody here wants to take on the business of dealing with Lan Xing, and this online army is even from outside."
Zhu Wenshu's lips trembled with anger as he said, "Don't think I don't know how much of the funding approved by the higher-ups has been siphoned off by you. You promised five yuan per online troll, but you turned it into fifty cents—don't you know what kind of trash you've managed to hire?"
This incident was indeed caused by the people at the cruise line capital pocketing a significant amount of "publicity funds."
This is the prevailing attitude in the company, from top to bottom: anyone can do anything to make money.
If the upper beam is crooked, the lower beam will be crooked too; of course, no one will honestly help Zhu Wenshu with his work.
Who can blame them when the latter has no background whatsoever, just the chief designer of an acquired studio?
With the budget cut, they could only hire the lowest-level online trolls.
There are people behind the online trolls, and some can make five yuan per post; that's high-level trolling.
But most people only get 50 cents per post, that's low-level trolling, mostly done by people who haven't received much education...
Even worse, they might be low-level intelligent life forms from other races who smuggled themselves into the Sixth Star Province and are doing this dirty and tiring work.
That's all their knowledge is limited to; in their minds, millions is already an enormous sum.
—I never expected that Blue Star Studio would have such a large daily revenue!
What does this mean?
This is something that some people simply cannot imagine.
Similarly, this group of low-quality online trolls is incapable of creating good promotional copy.
When Tingxi Studio's latest work, "Beast Vanguard," was released, all the promotional copy was reviewed by Zhu Wenshu. Although not every piece was meticulously crafted, at least there were no mistakes.
But even this group of online trolls made mistakes just by repeating what they said!
They made a series of basic mistakes, which can no longer be described as poor work, but rather as perfunctory.
A post that had been painstakingly made popular was found to have a basic error by players: the content in parentheses had not been deleted.
The parentheses directly state: (The following four floors use a player's tone to praise the combat aspect, the first floor is worth two cents)
It was pasted into the post by online trolls, causing a huge blunder.
The last four floors weren't filled with paid promoters; they were all just players coming to watch.
Because the mistake was so bizarre, it became a running joke related to Tingxi Studio.
Players expressed their opinions:
[Beast Horde Vanguard is such a great game (50 cents per post, please delete after reading)]
[Hahahaha, Chief Designer is so amazing! The new game is so much fun! He really cares about the fate of Empire's Grip (vomiting emoji)]
Moreover, due to Zhu Wenshu's ambition, their promotional materials showed signs of comparison with Blue Star Studio.
It was roughly an interview with Tingxi in a magazine, in which he was asked what his views were on the current state of the industry in the Sixth Star Province.
Zhu Wenshu said "modestly": "The Sixth Star Province is still full of talents. There are many folk masters who should not be underestimated. For example, Chief Engineer Ming from Blue Star, who was on the judging panel of the Star Show Competition with me back then."
To be honest, if Zhu Wenshu and Mingyan were truly evenly matched, then there's nothing wrong with what they said, except that the tone was a bit fake.
But reality wasn't what he expected!