Chapter 19 A Dark War Silently Ends

In the early hours of November 19th, the Peak Tournament S2 came to an end.

In the end, a team composed entirely of non-professional players – [Hell Front] – won the S2 championship.

Although only two members of their team clashed with members of other teams, this did not prevent them from winning the championship. Because when the members of the other teams were either wiped out or forcibly removed from the script, Hell Front still had three members safe and sound in the main universe.

In this competition, Feng Bujue fully demonstrated how much "borrowing momentum" could do. Looking at the "competition" part alone... he had obviously been laying out his plans for a long time before "Ragnarok." On the day of the competition, when the members of Order, Warring States, and the Useless Alliance were still clueless, Feng Bujue had already included them all in his plan, using various forces... to deal with his opponents one by one.

As for the part outside the competition, that is, the "Hyperdimensional Invasion," Dream Inc. still used the old trick – "This is a major event before the version update" – to fool everyone.

That night, all the players who "died" in the disaster regained consciousness in the early morning and safely returned to the real world.

The Council made slight modifications to their memories, preventing them from noticing that "real-time had been suspended," and letting them sleep for a little while after time resumed flowing.

Until 12:37 a.m., when the game's servers suddenly shut down, all players were forcibly disconnected.

At this time, the awakened players would not question the time, because according to the 1:10 conversion rate, thirty-seven minutes was about six hours, and they all felt that it was not much different from the time they had "just" experienced.

However, after the competition, many people still expressed doubts about the various settings of this S2 final. And Order Studio was undoubtedly one of them...

Although the members of Order's first team expressed their willingness to admit defeat, the studio's senior management was very dissatisfied.

The management originally thought... that the championship of this competition was already in their grasp. After all, their biggest competitor, the Gods, had already withdrawn from the competition, and their dream team lineup had no reason to lose.

Unexpectedly, they still didn't get the championship...

Moreover, there was no recording of this final, and the studio had no idea what exactly happened in the script. To put it bluntly... even if Dream Inc. had some inside dealings in the competition, they had no evidence and could only stare blankly.

Of course, even if there were doubts and dissatisfaction, Order was still Order, not Corpse Blade.

If it were Corpse Blade, after encountering this kind of thing, they would definitely first launch a large number of internet trolls on the internet to carry out all kinds of unwarranted slanders and abuse of Dream Inc. from afar, posing as righteous fighters and tearing apart Dream Inc.

But if Order wanted to tear apart Dream Inc., they would never use some insignificant, shrew-like methods. Order's approach was... to directly send people from the public relations and legal departments to find the relevant personnel of Dream Inc. for private negotiations.

In the past few years, Order had used this method to win a lot of benefits for itself.

In fact, many domestic game agency companies are essentially very weak. Most of them operate with the mentality of "making quick money." The most common practice is usually to import or copy some kimchi online games to do, or to independently develop some games with clumsy gameplay and purely money-grabbing mobile games and web games, relying on various vulgar publicity hype to attract users... They do this for a few years, and when they see that the profit rate is about to decline, they make a golden cicada escape and start anew.

Game companies like this can be said to be everywhere. If you go to the Administration for Industry and Commerce to check their establishment time, nine times out of ten they are shell companies that have only been operating for less than half a year. A little investigation will reveal that there are many violations.

Therefore, when a large company like Order adopts an attitude of "getting serious with you" and goes to negotiate with them, most of the time, they will choose to compromise. And those who do not compromise are mostly the type who are not afraid of boiling water even when they are dead pigs, that is, the kind of companies that cannot even wait a few years and may run away at any time.

However, Dream Inc.... is very different from the opponents Order has encountered before.

Their attitude can basically be summarized as – we will not negotiate with you even if the government negotiates with terrorists.

You are not satisfied with the results of the competition? What does it matter to us? Too bad for you.

Hire internet trolls to spray us? Come on, just don't go too far. If you go too far, we will use the optical brain to make a smart troll program and刷 you for the rest of your life.

Threaten to withdraw the entire studio from the game? Oh, goodbye, we won't see you off.

Launch hackers to attack our servers? Believe it or not, we will let those hackers be炸死 in front of the computer screen?

Go through legal procedures to sue us? Okay, if you win, our boss's name will be written upside down from now on.

What? You have people above you? It's okay, the people above us can make the people above you disappear from the earth.

The above are all the negotiation processes personally confirmed by Dream Inc.'s total Boss, that is, Woody himself. This is only a part... the complete version can be printed out as thick as a booklet, covering almost all the problems that may be encountered in negotiations.

Not only that, Woody once personally went to the company's security department to teach the company's security guards how to beat others to the maximum extent without leaving any detectable injuries. This is to prevent some "low-quality" visitors from taking excessive actions after the negotiations fail.

In short, many studios, led by Order, went to Dream Inc. to "talk" after the competition, and all of them were invariably rebuffed...

Even though they were full of resentment, they could do nothing.

As for words like "withdrawal," they were just saying it, and no one would really do it.

Everyone understood that after this competition, Thriller Paradise was even more popular than before. The ever-increasing player base and extremely high player payment rate both meant huge business opportunities. As the saying goes, business is business. For this reason alone, the major studios had to swallow their anger... In the end, what they were pursuing was not "fairness in the competition," but profit. As long as everyone can make money, this matter... they will endure it.

As of the afternoon of November 20th, various reports, discussions, and吐槽 on the Peak Tournament were still in full swing on the Internet and in the major media.

However, no one knew... a dark war between the game studios and the game company had quietly and quickly ended.

Anyway, for Dream Inc., dealing with those bigwigs in the game industry was just a small matter. The company's attention had already been focused on matters related to the "new version"...