Over the course of the week, Chen Xu had met with NetDragon and Tenghua several times.
Basically, there was only one word for it: stalling.
The other side had expressed interest in acquiring Nebula Games.
He had arranged meetings with the representatives they sent to discuss the acquisition.
From their offers and various terms,
Chen Xu had gotten a fairly clear picture.
They were interested, but they did not take it all that seriously.
After several rounds of negotiations, they stopped contacting Chen Xu, clearly having given up on the idea.
And so, the acquisition matter temporarily came to an end.
Meanwhile, a new version of Overcooked officially went live.
This update came exactly two and a half weeks after the game launched.
Its main addition was the opening of the Workshop.
There were also several new official maps, themes, and recipe combinations.
As the new version of Overcooked went live, players quickly discovered that the game had received an update package.
They promptly downloaded it.
"Huh? Overcooked actually got an update?!"
"It's free? New maps and levels, plus this Workshop thing—shouldn't that be DLC content? That's incredibly generous!"
"I looked over the update notes. It seems players can create their own levels!"
"Holy shit, it's that awesome? Let me take a look!"
Quite a few players updated the game at once.
At the same time, discussions erupted across Overcooked-related player communities.
After all, this update had caught everyone somewhat by surprise.
Generally speaking, this kind of content update would have been DLC—in other words, paid content.
But this Overcooked update was entirely free.
Furthermore, Overcooked had only been out for a little over half a month.
Compared with before, the popularity of all those "Breakup Kitchen" and "Friendship Ending Kitchen" jokes had fallen a little, but they were still