Passionate Microtransactions

Song Zhicheng noticed this sudden accident at the very first moment.

While reporting to the boss, he had already swiftly contacted the P Station staff to resolve the issue.

Xu Meng wore a blank expression when he received the news.

He had some psychological expectations that the trailer might be blocked by the platform; after all, the content boundary-pushed quite a bit.

But the problem was—his mental preparation was for Weiguang!! When uploading the video to Weiguang, they did not make any censorship at all, and whatever the original animation and real machine footage were, that was what they uploaded.

One hundred percent original flavor!

In view of this, he felt it wouldn't be surprising if the video was blocked by Weiguang and sent back for revisions.

Yet, as it happened, Weiguang didn't pay any attention to them at all.

Not only did they not block it, but they also fiercely pushed traffic to help promote it, and by this time it had even climbed to the homepage trending topics list.

It really highlighted that as long as there was traffic, anything went.

On the contrary, P Station, which was a partner...

Clearly, what Dream Builder uploaded was already a censored version with the "White Mist" added. Just because the White Mist was relatively thin and didn't cover things strictly enough, they blocked it directly?

Come on, bro...

Making money! Do you hate money this much? [Content involves borderline behavior and revealing attire issues, violating the community philosophy of advocating positive energy] [Reported by multiple users] Looking at these two blocking reasons in the backend, Xu Meng was a bit overwhelmed.

While Song Zhicheng went to contact P Station to resolve the issue, in the livestream rooms of these up-hosts, the friends were getting anxious to death: "What are you doing, what are you doing, why did it suddenly cut off at this moment?"

"Forget blocking, Weiguang didn't even have the White Mist. This crappy Bilibili station is doomed sooner or later!"

"??"

"Stop talking nonsense, hurry up and go to Weiguang to keep watching!"

A fierce battle of celestial beings was taking place in the heart of Orange Juice.

A video with White Mist was still blocked and taken down, so if he played the trailer without even the White Mist in his livestream room, could this livestream room still survive?

He shouldn't end up getting his own livestream room banned too; that would be completely screwed.

The other anchors were facing the exact same situation.

The friends urged ceaselessly, full of grievances and complaints.

In the end, Orange Juice, whose heart easily softened, chose a compromise method—

He opened the homepage of Frost Snow Project on Weiguang, found the trailer, and continued playing it.

However, he shrunk the trailer window very small, almost the size of a mobile phone screen, and then continued watching it together with the friends.

Other up-hosts also made their own choices one after another:

Some firmly refused to restream, taking out their phones outside the livestream screen to appreciate it from afar with the friends.

Some were stubborn and directly restreamed in full screen—"Watch as much as you can!"

Although some anchors restreamed it, they dragged a shielding sign with their mouse, ready at any time to execute "manual mosaics".

Fortunately, the subsequent footage was still relatively safe—

Xiao Ningxi's real machine design was probably the most harmonious among all the debut characters.

From her final finalized image, it could be seen that even though Dream Builder's art staff later let loose and could openly discuss the shape of characters' boobs in the office, they still showed mercy toward children.

The current real machine demonstration was the same.

After her rework, Xiao Ningxi's role positioning became a healer.

Holding a pink-and-white candy handgun in her hand, she shot candies one by one towards the injured teammates with a da-da-da-da.

The characters hit by the candies had a pink little heart pop up on their heads and began recovering health.

Passerby netizens and players didn't feel much about this scene, merely acting like echoes as they continuously spammed "so cute" and "so obedient, so obedient."

However, players who had played Frost Snow Project were a bit stunned: "Wait! Pure healer?"

"New role positioning?!"

"No, wait a minute, does Frost Snow Project need such high-frequency healing?"

Veteran players were extremely puzzled.

In the previous Frost Snow Project, character positioning was very vague, basically determined by the type of firearm.

Stable output for those using rifles and submachine guns.

Burst output for those using shotguns and sniper rifles.

Auxiliary output for those using pistols.

Logistical output for those using stun guns.

Healers were included in logistical output. There were previously two such characters who healed using skills involving throwing medical kits and injecting syringes respectively.

Their basic attacks were still damage output.

The reason was very simple: Frost Snow Project did not need high-frequency healing methods like "using basic attacks to recover health".

A health recovery skill once every dozen seconds or so was already enough for fighting BOSSes.

Veteran players with flexible brains had already generated a bold idea in their hearts—

New gameplay! But to their regret, Dream Builder didn't mention this part.

After Xiao Ningxi made her appearance and fired a cute, chaotic da-da-da barrage, a brand-new character stepped onto the stage—

A round butt suddenly blocked the entire camera.

Orange Juice and the friends were simply dumbfounded from watching.

Taking advantage of this dazed moment, the camera shifted to the front, giving the character a frontal close-up.

Then a prompt popped up in the livestream room—

[Content involves borderline behavior and revealing attire issues. Your livestream room will be blocked for 10 minutes] [Please cherish your livestream room, anchor] "NO!!!!!" Orange Juice snapped back to reality, his miserable scream echoing in all directions.

This was also the last image seen by the more than 40,000 viewers in the livestream room.

The next second, the livestream room went dark, and everyone was kicked out.

Orange Juice was not the only unlucky one. At the same time, at least a dozen unprepared anchors had their livestream rooms banned.

The friends with nowhere to go laughed hysterically, leaving comments to mock the anchor while searching everywhere for a livestream room that hadn't been hit yet.

After Xiao Ningxi, 4 more wildly and boldly dressed real machine characters took the stage one after another, which also included Fei Yun after her gender swap.

After showcasing a full 8 real machine characters, the trailer finally ushered in its ending.

The monster siege was defeated, and all characters gathered together to take a group photo to celebrate victory.

Across everyone's smiling faces, two lines of large characters emerged—

Old friends meet, just like the initial encounter.

June 1st, see you again in Silver City.

The trailer ended.

At the same time, Frost Snow Project released a detailed update announcement, which included not only specific update sizes, downtime maintenance times, and update precautions, but also a series of contents such as events, welfare, and compensation.

However, only the veteran players of Frost Snow Project cared about those latter contents.

Passerby netizens and gaming media outlets who had been attracted by the trailer to come watch the commotion merely stole a moment of leisure to glance at the update time, and immediately returned to the trailer to click "replay".

Countless people began watching this 4-minute-and-58-second trailer a second and third time.

The trailer's view count rose steadily.

One after another, low-boundary, lustful, and exquisite character real-machine GIFs spread rapidly through the ACG game circle at an unimaginable speed, sweeping through every forum and every chat group like a virus...

The keyword popularity of Frost Snow Project rose straight up!

The official website of Frost Snow Project and the game download volume climbed step by step! And even more magically—

Song Zhicheng widened his eyes in disbelief, looking at the player microtransaction figures in the backend that were soaring almost in a straight line.

There were actually tens of thousands of users who began passionate microtransactions after watching the trailer! Asking for monthly passes, pursuit reads, and recommendations.