After a brief, deathly silence, traffic on the entire Ninth Art gaming forum exploded.
The servers even lagged for a full five seconds!
Red-highlighted threads poured down the screen like a waterfall.
In less than a minute, the hot thread originally discussing the Battle of Fog Town had grown to tens of thousands of replies. Newly posted comments vanished under the flood almost instantly.
Everyone was spamming "Please give me a Third Closed Beta slot!" and "Notice me, dev daddy!" Every previously quiet section descended into utter chaos.
[Hot thread] "Urgent, urgent, urgent! How many Third Closed Beta slots are there?! I'd go vegetarian for life for an activation code!"
Posted by: [Melancholy Bitter Melon King]
"Ji God said there's a Third Closed Beta! Aaaaaah! You damn devs, say something already! How many people are getting in this time? Fifty? A hundred? Stop doling them out a drop at a time! I want to get into Fog Town and see my wife Ilyena! Just give me a slot, and I'll work twelve hours a day in-game for nothing!"
Below the post, replies refreshed at a frantic rate of over a hundred per second:
I'm Really Struggling: "I'd trade fifty years of my bottom-bunk roommate being single for a closed beta slot!"
Doesn't Eat Cilantro (Big Boss edition): "Please, just send me a code! I'm dying of envy here!"
Pure-Love Warrior's Underling: "Tone it down, buddy. Ilyena is my wife! Draw your sword!"
Did You Stay Disciplined Today?: "Send me 50, and tomorrow I'll teach you how to build a nuke barehanded in the Wasteland. For realsies or fakesies? Fake, obviously, because I don't have a closed beta slot either. Boohoo..."
[Hot thread] "In-depth analysis: the new class [Weeping Priest] and [Guild System] will completely reshape the Wasteland!"
Posted by: [Ninth