Lin Bai suddenly turned on the Beggar Gang players, sparking a heated discussion in the scrolling comments.
Most viewers gloated over their misfortune.
After all.
Everyone had long envied the Beggar Gang and wanted nothing more than to take their place.
The players present finally began to grow nervous. They suddenly realized that Lin Bai was right: all their usual heckling and spectating could just as easily be done by level-one alts.
He did not even need players. Natives could replace them.
The comments scrolling across the screen filled them with a profound sense of crisis. Lin Bai could find replacements for them at any moment, but without Lin Bai, they were nothing...
"Lone Elder, what do we do? Lin Bai's serious this time." [Bai Yin] was still running a Private Livestream and asked Lone Elder for a solution.
"We're screwed," [Lone Elder] replied.
"What?" [Bai Yin] asked in confusion.
"The Beggar Gang expanded haphazardly in Lin Bai's footsteps. Something like this was bound to happen sooner or later. Players are used to doing whatever they please. When they work in reality, laws and company regulations constrain them, and most people follow those rules and laws. But expecting them to obey rules in a game? Easier said than done. It's just a game. Playing is playing, no matter how you do it. If they're unhappy, they can just go somewhere else! Unless they take a really nasty tumble, their way of thinking won't change."
[Lone Elder] temporarily set aside his thoughts about Lin Bai's identity and analyzed the situation for Bai Yin in the scrolling comments. "We brought the Beggar Gang players together with money. For money's sake, they might obey our orders for a while.
"But what if we start losing money one day? What if the Large