When encountering something incomprehensible, naturally, one must find a way to figure out what's going on.
After all, DreamForge's game giveaways aren't without cost.
Especially with Xu Meng's requirements, the games DreamForge gives away are all of excellent quality and have great player reviews.
Even if they are all games from two or three years ago, the cost is still not low.
The employees of the operations department carefully selected and busily negotiated for a long time before settling the matter.
What they craved was the comprehensive success of this game giveaway event, not just a small splash after the giveaway.
So, using the reason of "understanding user needs to better serve users," they passed the upper-level review and released a questionnaire to the users.
It covered a series of questions such as "What do you think of the game giveaway event?", "Have you claimed it?", "Have you played it?", "Why haven't you played it?", and "What suggestions do you have?".
To increase users' willingness to participate in this questionnaire survey, they also provided a participation reward of 800 credit points.
Perhaps the players were being cooperative, or perhaps the 800 credit points were more attractive; they successfully recovered over 46 million questionnaires.
After throwing them to the intelligent office assistant for reprocessing, the results quickly appeared before their eyes—
10% of players chose [Already Played]
13% of players chose: [No time for now, will play later]
62% of players chose: [Not planning to play]
The remaining 15% chose [Other]
Under the [Not planning to play] and [Other] options, there were more detailed sub-options, also supporting players to input their own reasons.
The intelligent office assistant had already screened and summarized the most frequently occurring reasons with similar meanings:
[Want to play DreamForge's games, not interested in old games.]
[Farming gold guns, doing daily quests, nurturing spirit souls, are much more interesting than old games.]
[Doesn't even support holographic display, not fun to play.]
[I can buy a gun in Verdant Heights, hold it in my hand, put it in my house, use it in battle, it's tangible and real, old games can't give that feeling.]
[Used to game worlds that can be seen and touched, the textures and code of old games always feel like they're missing something.]
[Can't touch the girls.]
[Can't transform into a frog.]
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These reasons seem a bit messy at first glance, but if everyone spends a little effort analyzing them, they will find that it is actually one thing—
DreamForge's brand-new game interaction format has raised the players' perception threshold.
Having become accustomed to immersive game worlds that are visible to the naked eye and highly realistic, it is difficult to tolerate the blocky game screens on the monitor.
Having become accustomed to the free interaction of somatosensory synchronization suits and haptic gloves, it is difficult to be interested in the interaction methods of mouse and keyboard.
Not to mention the core players who use the Phantasmagoria gaming set, even players who still use PCs or even mobile phones to play games have the same attitude—
Although there are no somatosensory synchronization suits and holographic display devices now, DreamForge's data is interconnected.
The character affinity of "Frostwind Project", the 10,000-kill gold gun skin of "War King", the high-level spirit souls of "Monster Hunter", the credit points under the Verdant Heights account that are farmed now using a PC…
These things will not disappear.
In the future, when somatosensory synchronization suits and holographic display devices are changed, they can always be picked up and used.
Since this is the case, just treat it as pre-farming.
Moreover, DreamForge's games are equally fun to play even with traditional devices.
Plus the advantages of new games over old games.
They really have no reason to play old games.
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After the analysis, the office was silent for a while.
Finally, the supervisor sighed and said, "Forget it, let's just leave it at that."
"It's not a bad thing either."
The reactions of other employees were similar—from being high-spirited at the beginning to becoming uninterested, and boredly teasing their intelligent partners.
—There's no way they, the platform operation department, are going to compete with DreamForge's most powerful game development department?
Don't be ridiculous.
They quickly resigned themselves to fate, accepting the identity of "game-giving tool person."
They began to follow the steps, while looking for more game companies to negotiate cooperation and buy games, while giving them to players one after another.
In this process, a large number of old DreamForge game platform accounts were activated, and new registered users continued to rise.
Correspondingly, the active user scale of NewForce Game Station continued to shrink.
The [NewForce Game Station] section in DreamJin—yes, there is indeed such a section in DreamJin, and its activity is also declining.
The number of newly added discussion posts per day has plummeted from a peak of tens of thousands per day to below 200.
The glory is no more.
A large number of employees and executives in NewForce's Xia Country branch have begun to update their resumes, ready to jump ship.
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While DreamForge was busy targeting NewForce, gradually eroding NewForce's users and market, the players were not idle either.
The information presented in the questionnaire was not false at all.
Players have indeed been very busy recently.
After the end of the S-level conscription mission, all the players who participated in it have received quite generous rewards.
The battlefield contributions gained from killing the Wild Hunt Legion and the Ice Dragon have been transformed into points.
The most ⊥ new ⊥ small ⊥ say ⊥ at ⊥ six ⊥ 9 ⊥ ⊥ book ⊥ ⊥ bar ⊥ ⊥ first ⊥ hair!
You can find the quartermaster at the investigation outposts to redeem special rewards.
Not only are there various weapons and equipment materials, rare spirit soul rations, Frost Hound spirit souls, and other props.
There is also a set of "Demon Hunter" themed armor transmogrification and a limited weapon—
[White Frost and烈焰]
This is a pair of dual blades with ice and fire attributes, not only does one look like it is covered in frost, and the other is burning with flames.
Once waved, frost and flames take off!
Coupled with the extremely high attack frequency of dual blades, the frost and flames are sprinkled when fighting, and the special effects are amazingly gorgeous.
All dual blade players who got this weapon were overjoyed!
Players who prefer other weapons went to leave messages for the development team, saying that the development team was partial, only making such gorgeous weapons for dual blades, and not for other weapons.
The official did not reply.
Because on the third day, someone triggered this hidden task again.
—Fire Blade shared all the mission information after closing the World Gate and ending this hidden task.
A considerable number of players found that they had missed this beginning, and started new accounts to come back and pick up this missed easter egg.
The conscription mission triggered this time still rewarded ice and fire attribute weapons.
But this time it was no longer dual blades, but a greatsword—
[Frostfire]
Now that's good, players immediately realized the development team's sinister intentions—
This is obviously an entire series of weapons!
And each time a conscription mission is triggered, only one of them will appear.
If players want to collect all 16 weapons, they will need 16 corresponding conscriptions, smashing the Wild Hunt Legion 16 times!
And they must win!
After all, there is no weapon reward if you lose.
It just so happens that this conscription mission is not a periodic trigger set by the official, but is decided by one of Little Xili's "cyber foster fathers" when to trigger it.
This greatly increases the difficulty of collecting a complete set of weapons.
But for collection parties, difficulty is never a reason to give up!
Just farm it?
Farm it damn it!
… …
A large number of players opened new accounts, emptying their credit points to support Little Xili, this super foodie.
The most direct impact of this is helping DreamForge recover a large number of credit points.
—Even if you have a good relationship with Xili, even after fighting the hidden BOSS and completing the mission, you will often invite her to dinner afterwards, which means a continuous stream of credit point recovery…
Players have not yet realized DreamForge's sinister intentions.
Not only are they not angry, but they are also a little happy about it, taking this silver-haired girl to stroll around and spend money in Verdant Heights and Silver City every day.
And these consumptions naturally become hidden favorability improvements.
Little Xili also proposed a choice of three rewards to each player: "Secret", "Travel", and "Ability".
"Secret" has already been revealed by Fire Blade.
How can players restrain their curiosity about "Travel" and "Ability"?
Before the second Wild Hunt Legion invasion was triggered.
The game content behind the two options of "Ocean World Travel" and "Organ Mutation Ability" have all been dug out by the players!
