Is There Inside Information?

Chapter 12: Is There Something Shady Going On?

Wu Guoyi's suggestion was simple, but hiring someone to compose music and write songs cost money, and hiring big stars was even more expensive, which Lu Wu couldn't afford with his current strength.

So Lu Wu temporarily gave up on this idea. He would consider the theme song and CG battle scene BGM after the game developed in scale and he had sufficient funds.

Hearing that Lu Wu didn't plan to produce a theme song and CG battle scene BGM for the time being, Wu Guoyi was very surprised, but Lu Wu's reason was that he wanted players to experience the original flavor of the game.

Wu Guoyi had nothing to say about this, but felt that Lu Wu's idea was unique. He never would have thought that Lu Wu was just short on money.

After all, in his opinion, a game development team that could produce a game of this scale wouldn't be short of money for a theme song, even if they weren't rich.

After hanging up the phone, Wu Guoyi logged into the Platform173's management page and looked at the fifteen games with ratings above 8 that the reviewers had selected.

Among them, 3 games were given high scores of 9 or more by the reviewers.

They were Battle Online - 10 points, Natural Evolutionary Calamity - 9.2 points, and The Rise of Protoss - 9.1 points.

Seeing Battle Online ranked first, Wu Guoyi showed an "as expected" expression. All eight reviewers gave it full marks and were unanimously optimistic about the game's potential.

Now that the reviews were out, Wu Guoyi immediately decided that the PK list for these fifteen games would start tomorrow, with players voting and scoring.

The promotion on the first day would naturally start with the three highest-rated games, and the promotion of the fifteen games would be completed within five days, followed by a half-month wait for the final evaluation.

Wu Guoyi naturally informed Lu Wu of this news in advance, which made Lu Wu and Bei Li excited. They believed that with the quality of this game, a group of die-hard players would definitely emerge.

At the same time, in the city center of Shenkai City, inside the headquarters of Tamron Game Studios.

"Boss, look, the Platform173's game reviews are out!" A thin man with glasses stared at a message on the Platform173 account and said excitedly.

"Damn, boss, we got 9.2 points!"

Hearing this, the man known as the boss quickly walked to the screen, looked at the large number 9.2, and a smile appeared on his face.

It should be known that the production of the game Natural Evolutionary Calamity took them a full seven years and consumed a lot of energy.

Behind this score was the hard work they put in day and night.

"It looks like this first place..." The man was about to say that the first place was stable, but suddenly found that there was a game above his game.

"Battle Online, ten points!" Li Tianxia's smile suddenly froze.

He dismissed his subordinates, sat in front of the computer, his face uncertain.

In Li Tianxia's opinion, his studio's game should have been firmly in first place, but there was actually a game with a perfect score, which Li Tianxia couldn't accept for a while. He even suspected that there was something shady going on in this event. He didn't believe that his game would lose to others.

He opened the game page of Battle Online and saw that the game introduction of this perfect score game actually said that the realism was nearly 100%, which made Li Tianxia more convinced of his suspicion of inside dealing.

He immediately took out his mobile phone, flipped through his contacts, found Wu Guoyi's phone number, and dialed it.

Beep~ Beep~

After a while, the phone was connected.

"Brother Li, it's been a long time. Why do you have time to call me today?" Wu Guoyi's cheerful voice came from the phone.

"Brother Wu, I treat you as a brother and participate in the game evaluation event you planned, but you're rigging it against me. Are you looking down on me too much!" Li Tianxia said in a deep voice, suppressing his anger that was about to erupt.

Hearing this, Wu Guoyi was stunned for a moment, and then a fire rose in his heart. He thought that someone in charge of the event he planned was operating in the dark, which was something he absolutely wouldn't allow:

"Tell me what's going on. If there's a problem on my side, I'll definitely give you an explanation!"

Wu Guoyi's guarantee reduced the anger in Li Tianxia's heart a lot, and then he said, "You should know about Natural Evolutionary Calamity, which our team spent 7 years developing, right?"

"Of course I know. How can I not know about the treasure sword that your Tenglong Studio has been honing for 7 years? I remember that your game was in the top ten on the new game expectation list last time."

"Since you know, can you explain what's going on with this Battle Online game!"

Hearing this, Wu Guoyi suddenly understood why Li Tianxia had come, and couldn't help but laugh a little: "Brother Li, do you mean that you feel aggrieved and unconvinced that Battle Online got first place?"

"If the game is well made, why would I be unconvinced? But you put a game that is 800MB in size in first place, and the introduction says it's nearly 100% realistic, and you shamelessly gave it a 10-point rating. I just want to know how much benefit this broken game gave you. Aren't you afraid of tarnishing the authority of your game platform by promoting it like this?"

Li Tianxia blurted out everything he wanted to say in one breath.

Wu Guoyi laughed loudly at this time: "Brother Li, I understand why you are so angry. How about this, anyway, your top three games will be added to the platform's homepage for promotion tomorrow. You download it and try it out. If you think this game is not worth ten points, then I will personally take it down and replace your game with the first place, how about that?"

"I'll give you the right to make this decision. I think I'm being sincere enough by saying that." At the end, Wu Guoyi said with a smile again.

This left Li Tianxia, who had intended to demand an explanation, completely bewildered: "Brother Wu, what do you mean by that?"

"You won't believe me no matter how much I say. The game will be available on the platform tomorrow. Experience it yourself and then give me a reply. That's all, I have something to do, so I'm hanging up."

After Wu Guoyi hung up the phone, Li Tianxia frowned deeply.

From Wu Guoyi's words, he could tell that he seemed to have no doubts about this ranking, and the fact that he asked him to experience the game Battle Online clearly showed that he was full of confidence in the game, which made him a little confused.

But even so, Li Tianxia didn't believe that the game made by his team would lose.

If he lost to the The Rise of Protoss made by the Magic Wolf Studio, he would feel better, after all, many players had been looking forward to this game since its development, and public opinion often compared the two games that would be released at the same time to see who was better.

But to lose to a game he had never heard of, and whose introduction content seemed extremely unrealistic, Li Tianxia didn't believe it at all, because what big-budget game wouldn't have some publicity before its release?

"It's going online tomorrow, huh? I'll have to see just how excellent this game really is!"