The development team's new post set off an uproar among players as soon as it appeared on the forum. The main draw was its promise to distribute no fewer than 2,000 additional slots over the next half month—a prospect that was simply too tempting to resist.
Although veteran players knew that the current rate of headset distribution was vastly better than before, with allocations of hundreds or even thousands at a time—a level of abundance they could never have imagined during the closed beta—the number of available slots was gradually showing signs of "inflation."
Compared with the rapidly growing number of people on the forum desperate to join, so few slots were a mere drop in the bucket. They could never satisfy the entertainment needs of the masses. It was undoubtedly a case of "bad civilization."
As a result, a rather strange and exasperating trend had taken shape on the forum. Whenever someone desperate to join posted an angry rant accusing the Alpha company of "hunger marketing," it immediately set off a wave of criticism. In the feedback section managed by Triss, eight out of every ten new daily posts were requests for headsets or complaints about the development team. One demanded investment, and the last tried to fish for information by beating around the bush and asking about inside scoops.
Goodness, the ranks of the headset-starved were getting more and more diverse.
This time, however, the post had managed to ease their restless longing to return to Transia. The head of the testing team—the players' beloved "thoughtful guy," the "legendary figure" rumored to take a knife to the evil programmers every day on the players' behalf—Brother Fa had made a promise with what little hair he had left!
Both hardware production lines were now up and running smoothly, and