My Players Are So Fierce

For three days without internet, it wasn’t just Cheche and his mates experiencing withdrawal; practically all players felt an inexplicable sense of “emptiness” after being forced back into reality.

In Transylvania, they were warriors, heroes, village chiefs, great artisans, and respected individuals.

But in the real world, they could only stay at home, hoping for the damn pandemic to end soon, enduring the discomfort of throat swabs daily, and even any physical activity could only be done indoors.

It felt like being trapped.

But everyone was reasonable; even though life was inconvenient, they wouldn’t easily complain or slander, after all, happiness has always been a matter of comparison.

New posts appeared on the forum almost every few minutes, and on the first night while waiting for the server to restart, good news was spreading: a third-party platform “Transia Tavern,” funded by some Brother Fu and Sister Fu, was about to go online, potentially connecting with forum data by tomorrow.

This meant that besides the forum, everyone would soon have another place to share and have fun.

The forum of “Real Different World” was eventually just a place to exchange information and communicate with the developers; though it was great, it indeed lacked many entertainment features.

In this era, browsing forums has become an outdated pastime for uncles who can’t keep up with the trend.

Of course, the Transia Tavern app is not just for players and the Appetite Relief Party to enter.

It’s open to all “potential players” who have filled out game applications; essentially, it’s a tool to attract users to “Real Different World,” so many players expressed concerns about the social environment of this app on the forum.

Any circle is the same; once people grow numerous, it loses purity, but for a small circle to grow, it’s destined to stagnate without attracting new members.

Previously, it was Brother Fa’s testing group selecting new players to join the game.

Now, with this app going live, every guild can recruit more members through it, which is evidently an opportunity but also a challenge.

Since the development team allowed players to create third-party apps, it shows their intention to delegate the right to select new members to the players themselves.

If the influx of newcomers causes a sudden deterioration in the game environment, the blame cannot fall on the development team.

Little Brother Fu, Old Huo, Lady Shui, and Little Wei Ming, all investors, could feel the heavy responsibility.

They privately discussed, and when handing over the management rights of the app to Loyal Brother, they repeatedly stressed the need to set a threshold, not to discriminate against the player community, but mainly because the hard-won game environment in Transylvania must be well-maintained.

If a bunch of unruly trolls come in, not to mention the NPCs’ safety, the series of outrageous actions from the Black Disaster alone could severely weaken the player community’s combat power.

Loyal Brother agreed wholeheartedly, so on the day before the app’s launch, a group of “professional personnel” entered the platform undergoing the final tests and skillfully began management work.

At Loyal Brother’s workplace, his members were performing their normal duties.

Everyone wore masks and had to undergo PCR tests before work.

Under the nationwide lockdown, public officials still had to shoulder responsibilities to ensure the system’s operation.

Worse still, they had to work overtime to complete the app’s security tests today.

Mustard Micro-Fool and Brother Prodigal brainstormed there, adding more entries to the original 199 test questions to ensure all those entering the app had some understanding of “Real Different World” and inclined towards the Camp of Order.

At least neutral.

As for Loyal Brother himself, he was in his office participating in a high-level video conference.

Lord Qin was also present.

He was the convenor of the meeting, but it wasn’t an internal meeting; representatives from other brother units were also listening to Loyal Brother’s report.

“According to our current understanding and calculations, the number of potential players for ‘Real Different World’ has exceeded one hundred thousand, and this is even with our information control measures.

By ‘potential players’, we mean those who have heard the rumors, actively search for information, and remain engaged.

Besides the current player and reserve group of about 5,000, there are over two hundred large and small social groups centered on discussing this game.

These groups are under our surveillance.

But Alpha Company hasn’t actively recruited more players for the operation codenamed ‘Different World’.

Instead, they’ve maintained a rather passive strategy, deliberately controlling the speed and number of players entering the game.

According to our team’s actuary, the player-to-resident ratio in Transylvania is maintained at a standard 1:100 ratio, which hasn’t changed since the beginning.

Thus, it’s certain that the ratio of warriors to residents, as the development team declared in a previous announcement, is true.

This might explain Alpha Company’s player recruitment strategy.”

Wearing a mask, Loyal Brother flipped to the next page of the files in his hand, looking at the screen filled with attentive bigshots, and continued his report: