In just five minutes.
The number of sign-ups on the official website for "Awakening of the Old Gods" skyrocketed past one million!
Even plenty of overseas players who had hopped the firewall joined the frenzy, using clumsy translation software as they frantically clicked the sign-up button.
Two hundred slots, over a million people competing for them.
The odds of getting picked were a hundred times worse than landing a civil service job!
The servers for the "Ninth Art" forum crashed three times within just ten minutes under the sheer volume of traffic!
Countless posts flooded the boards like a blizzard.
[Hot post]: "Absolutely insane! This is the most badass cinematic I've ever seen in my life! Nothing else even comes close!"
Posted by: [Midnight Cultivator]
"Guys! I just watched that video with my fucking VR headset on! When those three mushroom clouds exploded, I felt like the entire room was shaking! And that spear thrust when the white-haired dude leaped up to stab the monster at the end? So fucking cool it gave me goosebumps! Those epic battle scenes, that incredibly dynamic camerawork! The art teams at all the big domestic studios might as well fucking resign!"
The replies piled up in an instant:
Doesn't Eat Cilantro: "+1! When I saw that blindfolded, weeping apparition of the Madonna at the end, I started crying too! The storytelling was incredible!"
Cat Woken Up by a Midnight Urge: "See that?! That black-robed dude who jumped out to throw a bomb was one of our first closed beta legends! That suicidal playstyle is so fucking on-brand for us, the fourth catastrophe!"
Grind King 001: "I hereby declare! From this day forward, God Lu is my one and only idol! When the third closed beta opens tomorrow, nobody fight me over it. I'm joining