However, an hour passed...
A day passed...
Two days passed...
There was still no word from the game's official team.
Only then did the players waiting online for further developments...
Realize that the event really was over...
This sudden move by the "official team" naturally upset many players.
For a while, complaints and grumbling filled the game's built-in chat channels.
The official team had been quite generous with rewards in previous events.
Thus, the players merely grumbled together, and few outright cursed the official team.
On the official forum, however, it was a different story.
As Hidden Jun Ninja grew increasingly popular, more and more internet users poured into its official forum.
With more users came a more mixed crowd.
Most of those users could be considered die-hard fans of Hidden Jun Ninja.
Some users with ulterior motives, however, were Hidden Jun Ninja haters.
The proportion of haters was especially large among users who had only just encountered the game.
Perhaps this was the price of fame.
Yet no matter how chaotic opinions on the official forum became, the Hidden Jun Ninja team remained utterly mysterious and never stepped in.
Those users with ulterior motives never received a response and gradually dispersed.
This "Chunin Tournament" event, however, became an excuse for Hidden Jun Ninja's haters to collectively run wild.
Not long after the event ended, countless posts predicting its downfall, criticizing it, and even condemning it sprang up "right on cue."
As time gradually passed, more and more posts with such obviously ulterior motives appeared.
Watching the atmosphere on the official forum grow increasingly strange, Hidden Jun Ninja's die-hard fans could no longer sit still.
In their eyes, Hidden Jun Ninja was a sacred masterpiece of absolute perfection, the likes of which came along once in a thousand years.
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