Chapter 537 - Found a way to Backstab Ruan Guangjian! (2/2)

Mm, that’s good. This Management Trainee is truly a planner in Deposit Fitness. He could process all the gym’s data and analyze the situation so clearly and thoroughly!

After all the Management Trainees had made their reports, Pei Qian nodded in satisfaction.

“Good job, everyone. I want to especially praise Deposit Fitness’s Management Trainee. You’ve analyzed the situation based on objective data, and your entire report was built on the foundation of facts and figures. That’s more pragmatic than offering idealistic judgments.

“Everyone else, learn from him and use figures in your observations. After all, numbers will never lie. Alright, our meeting will end here. Thank you for your hard work. Goodbye!”

After the meeting, Pei Qian left the office, intending to go to the Fish-Catching Internet Cafe for a while.

When he arrived, he ordered a cup of coffee as usual. Then, he retrieved the laptop that he left at Fish-Catching Internet Cafe and continued working on the mind map of inter-departmental relationships.

Half an hour later, Pei Qian decided to take a break by surfing the web. All of a sudden, he noticed an exciting piece of news.

GOG’s new hero-Literary Genius of the Winds, Ruan-had been released!

This piece of news had been posted in the games section. The hero was to be released today, almost immediately after the Traveler Bao Xu. Pei Qian had to admit that the team was very efficient.

They were just as fast as IOI’s designers in terms of updating the game’s content.

Pei Qian scrolled down. This piece of news did more than introduce the Literary Genius of the Winds, Ruan’s concept art, model, background story, and skills. It also gave readers a preview of the hero’s gameplay and commented on the ‘arms race’ between GOG and IOI.

“Literary Genius of the Winds, Ruan is a calligrapher, an artist, and a knight filled with romanticism. The artist’s lifelong mission is to inject life in his work and chase after breakthroughs.

“As a lofty and unorthodox genius with painting skills that are way ahead of his times, he is the target of dissatisfaction and exclusion by other painters. Thus, he chooses to wander around the world, letting his paintings remain on tall mountains and in coursing rivers instead of trying to blend in among mediocrities.

“Fortunately, along the way, he became best friends with Modest. They are both lofty, upright, brave, and humble; allowing them to quickly trust each other. Even in battle, they are able to turn their backs to each other and fight side by side!”

Pei Qian: “…”

Why did the hero’s introduction look so strange? He and Modest trusted each other and left their backs to each other during battle?

It seems like it’s just me turning my back to him while he maniacally stabs me in the back every time, right? When can I stab him in the back once?!

Pei Qian was filled with resentment. Ever since he got to know Ruan Guangjian, Pei Qian had carefully plotted his revenge plan a couple of times. He had planned to send Ruan Guangjian to pendulum rides and the Thriller Hostel, and he had even tried playing the unreasonable client.

Yet, each time, Ruan Guangjian would escape from his clutches like a grandmaster, leaving Pei Qian utterly helpless.

Pei Qian kept scrolling down to read the preview of the hero’s gameplay and the comments on the ‘arms race’ between GOG and IOI.

“From the looks of the current mechanism, Yasuo would be a fighter that deals continuous damage, with high mobility and high versatility. Although his damage would be low in the early stages, the longer he survives in battle, the higher his damage would become.

“At the same time, the hero seems to have an extremely high upper limit as well as an extremely low bottom line. His skills don’t look that complicated at first glance, but it would take great skill to play this hero well.” Pei Qian missed such retro introductions of heroes’ mechanisms.

Obviously, many terms used here were neither standard nor mature, but they were generally correct.

Pei Qian knew very well that this hero had an extremely high upper limit and an extremely low bottom line. In fact, most players would be closer to the bottom line. “In the past month or so, the ‘arms race’ between GOG and IOI seems to be intensifying. What’s more, neither game is showing signs of stopping. This ‘arms race’ started with IOI updating its international and local servers at the same time. Its plan to introduce two new heroes each month shocked all players.

“However, GOG followed very closely behind. It even employed an unprecedented ‘crowdsourcing’ method. In the beginning, the method did not look promising. However, from the looks of the current situation, the strategy has been very successful.

“The event has ignited a passion in players, causing huge numbers of GOG’s players to pay close attention to the game. Even when no new heroes were being introduced in GOG, they do not get drawn away by IOI.

“On top of that, the new heroes that were produced from GOG’s ‘crowdsourcing’ have outstanding skills and a variety of gameplay. Both Traveler Bao Xu and Literary Genius of the Winds, Ruan have been getting good reviews. Does that prove that gamers know their games better than designers?

“Currently, it looks like GOG has found the perfect counter-attack to maintain-and even increase-its dominance. What challenge would IOI pose to GOG next, then? Let’s keep our eyes peeled!” The words ‘maintain-and even increase-its dominance’ physically hurt Pei Qian.

He had to admit that Min Jingchao was a genius; he had successfully crowdsourced the game!

Still, Pei Qian could not be bothered about that now. He was more concerned about when he would receive the profits from the sale of the new hero’s skins.

Now, Traveler Bao Xu and Literary Genius of the Winds, Ruan only had their default skins. New skins were still being developed.

That was because time was too tight. The production team was already being kept busy with developing new heroes and models. To steal IOI’s thunder, the production team had to quickly release the new heroes after testing them.

On the other hand, they could afford to take their time developing skins and balancing the game out.

However, Pei Qian expected new skins to be out in a month or so. In two months, he would probably receive the additional income.

Skins for heroes that had been crowdsourced would be sold at greatly discounted prices, but he could still expect to make a lot from the rapid turnover, right? Pei Qian was not in urgent need of money, but he still felt hopeful about the additional income.

After reading the hero’s introduction again, Pei Qian noticed something else. It seemed like… he had found a way to backstab Ruan Guangjian!

He would invite Ruan Guangjian to play GOG. Then, they would each use the character that represented them!

Ruan Guangjian had never played that hero before, and he would probably be bad at it. What’s more, the hero had a low bottom line. For all Pei Qian knew, Ruan Guangjian would be picked on by other players. Then, he would finally experience true ‘joy’, and Pei Qian would finally get his revenge!

I might not be able to deal with you, but passers-by would be able to deal with your Yasuo!