Chapter 146 All of Them!

After treating Ma Yang to a hearty meal, Pei Qian had not only arranged the future direction of Rabbit Tail Live, but also found a good home for Hu Xianbin, allowing Tenda Games to retain a good designer like Yu Fei. It could be said that he had killed three birds with one stone.

After the meal, Ma Yang said that he was going back to digest everything, both the food and the work direction that Brother Qian had arranged for him.

It was obvious that Old Ma was very concerned about this matter, but Pei Qian wasn't worried, because whether Ma Yang was concerned or not wasn't positively correlated with the success of the matter.

Pei Qian strolled around for a bit, planning to find a nearby Moyu Internet Cafe to have a coffee and relax for a while.

It had been almost two months since the DoubtVR glasses were released.

From the initial complete explosion of Moyu Internet Cafes to now, the heat had finally subsided a bit.

After all, it had been two months, and even the greatest addiction should have calmed down a little.

Many people had already bought VR glasses, so they didn't need to run to internet cafes every day, and those who frequented internet cafes had basically completed the games here.

Therefore, the overall traffic of the internet cafe gradually returned to a normal state, especially in some relatively remote branches, where there were often empty seats in the coffee area.

However, even so, the traffic in the VR experience area was still about the same as in the regular computer area, and the heat was still not low. It was unknown how long it would take to completely cool down.

It could only be blamed on *Animal Island VR* being too replayable…

Pei Qian sat down in the coffee area and sighed silently.

Well, now that things had come to this, there was no need to dwell on it too much.

After ordering a free coffee, Pei Qian took out his phone and, as expected, saw that Min Jingchao had already sent the activity data for the day.

Pei Qian placed his phone on the table, raised the coffee cup to his lips with one hand, and swiped the screen with the other to view the data.

"Huh?"

Pei Qian had just raised the coffee cup to his lips when he put it down again.

Because he saw that the data sent today seemed a bit off?

For the past two days, the data on the GOG side had been declining significantly, but today's data, although still declining, seemed to be declining less noticeably?

Pei Qian picked up the coffee cup again and brought it to his lips.

"Hmm… there are many reasonable explanations for this kind of data change."

"For example, players who are more sensitive to reward incentives probably went to play IOI as soon as the event started. There were more people participating on the first and second days, and the number of new players participating in the event must be gradually declining."

"Or, for example, players who participated in the IOI event on the first day might have gotten a little tired after playing for two days and wanted to go back to GOG to take a look. This might also cause the decline in data on the GOG side to slow down."

"In the middle stage of the holiday, from the third day to the sixth day, players have the most game time. They don't need to go out or visit relatives and friends, so many players who hadn't played before have also logged in, or played GOG with friends… Although players are still constantly being diverted to IOI, because the overall number of online players has increased, the downward trend in data has slowed down…"

"If it was the IOI side's data, the increase should be even more obvious."

The coffee was a bit hot. Pei Qian held the coffee cup and quickly thought of many possible explanations.

But then, he put the coffee cup down again.

"Something's not right, I can't think like that!"

"Although these explanations all make sense, what if the real reason isn't this? Wouldn't I be deceiving myself again?"

"I must take this seriously and first assume that there's a problem with the event, and then conduct a serious analysis and investigation!"

"If I'm worrying too much, then of course that's the best; but if there really is a problem, I can know about it immediately!"

Thinking of this, Pei Qian immediately picked up the phone on the table and began to browse various game forums, checking the discussions of players, especially IOI players.

After all, Pei Qian was actually on the IOI side.

It didn't matter what happened to GOG, as long as IOI didn't have any problems, everything would be fine!

"The matchmaking has indeed been much faster these past two days, but… what about the promised influx of newbies? I'm getting hammered to pieces!"

"Ranked is completely unplayable, this placement match is completely based on luck, seeing which side's big shot kills faster… what's going on, it's not the end of the season, why are there so many boosters?"

"Nothing to do, former IOI beta player, now GOG King player, streaming from scratch to climb the ranks, until the end of the event, wherever I climb to, that's where I'll stop, welcome to watch!"

"I feel like the IOI players here are okay in terms of mechanics, but their awareness is a bit lacking, the support is obviously half a beat slow, and they all like to farm, what's going on? Solo queue isn't obvious, but if you have a good friend to duo queue with, it's easy to climb the ranks."

Seeing this, Pei Qian couldn't help but shudder.

Good heavens, the GOG players seemed to be coming with bad intentions!

In fact, this was completely predictable, after all, IOI required a certain amount of game time, you couldn't just claim the reward and run. Many GOG players were tired of playing matches all the time, and would always consider playing ranked to climb the ranks.

And that's where the problem arose.

Although there were subtle differences between the game mechanics of GOG and IOI, after many revisions before, the complex mechanics of IOI that were different from GOG had been simplified a lot, allowing many GOG players to adapt quickly.

What's more, many old GOG players had played IOI before, but just stopped playing halfway through.

So many GOG high-elo players all plunged into the IOI placement matches at once, competing with the original IOI players in the fish pond, how could this not be a mess?

Many noob players also had no choice, they could only see which side had more big shots, and even often there would be situations where gods fought, with one or two well-fed carries on each side, and everyone else could only shiver on the sidelines and watch, acting as ATMs, which was really a terrible gaming experience.

The idea that many IOI players were looking forward to, that a large number of newbie players would emerge and improve the game environment, simply did not materialize.

Because this event was simply not attractive to GOG's newbie players!

Although the event was open to all players, only hardcore players with a lot of game time were willing to put in the time and effort to pursue these rewards.

For many newbie players and casual players, it was good enough to play a couple of games of GOG with friends during the holidays. Happiness was the most important thing, and they were too lazy to bother.

This led to most of those who ran to IOI being core GOG players.

It couldn't be said that there were absolutely no newbie players, but the number was relatively small.

And GOG's overall faster pace and more intense competitive atmosphere made these GOG players have a more sensitive game sense and a more bloody game rhythm, stirring up the low-elo fish pond of IOI, making many low-elo IOI players begin to doubt their lives.

Pei Qian was also very helpless, who could have imagined that the GOG players would be so powerful?

Logically speaking, when switching to a new game, there should be an adaptation period, right? During the adaptation period, they should be about the same, with similar levels, as the fish pond players in the original game.

But now it seemed that this was not the case at all!

"Calm down, calm down."

"This shouldn't be too big of a problem, after all, IOI's ranking mechanism is similar to GOG's. Players who wreak havoc in the fish pond will definitely have their hidden MMR rise very quickly, and they will soon be matched with Diamond or even higher-ranked enemies, and the environment of the entire fish pond will slowly recover."

Pei Qian comforted himself for a couple of sentences and continued reading.

"This event is quite generous, so generous that I feel like it's a bit fake."

"It must be because they're doing an event with GOG and they're embarrassed to not be generous, right? After all, they're giving so many rewards over there, if IOI doesn't show anything, wouldn't the contrast be too obvious?"

"But I've calculated it over and over, and we're still missing a reward! The reward for playing GOG is too trash, right?"

"Didn't they make up for it with other events?"

"Long Yu Corporation is so cunning, won't Tenda sue them? Others are doing their best to create events and give rewards, guiding players to your side, but you're giving this kind of trash reward, obviously not wanting your players to go over."

"It's just a business practice, there's nothing to criticize, you can only blame Tenda for being too honest."

"That's not right, I think other events are other events, and linked events are linked events, how can this reward be replaced? It should be all of them!"

"I found a good way! Actually, everyone can do this: first register a GOG account, play it casually, then find the event page, and then link your IOI main account. In this way, the system will judge you as an old player who has flowed from IOI to GOG, and your IOI main account will be able to receive generous rewards!"

"WTF? Really? You're a genius!"

Pei Qian was holding his coffee, ready to drink, and had almost brought it to his mouth, but he put it back down again after seeing this post.

There was even this kind of operation?!

He quickly clicked on this post and studied it carefully.

After reading a few replies, Pei Qian understood.

There was a very painful loophole in this rule!

Of course, the Dayak Corporation and the Long Yu Corporation had also guarded against this special situation of "eating from both sides repeatedly" when writing the detailed rules. How players specifically receive rewards depends on which game's entrance they enter from.

For example, binding an IOI account on the GOG side will treat this person as a player primarily from GOG. Regardless of whether the IOI account is a new or old account, it will issue rewards to them according to the "GOG to IOI" rule.

This was in order to give GOG players enough reason to stay after transferring to IOI.

The same is true for binding a GOG account on the IOI side, which will issue rewards to them according to the "IOI to GOG" rule. Since the Dayak Corporation and the Long Yu Corporation don't want IOI players to run around, the reward is very low.

But instead, they have very generous rewards in other events, just to eliminate the feeling of psychological imbalance that IOI players may have.

They thought there was nothing wrong with this rule, but they didn't expect that the players' attitude was "I want all of them!"