Recaps

After Minecraft’s CCTV feature drove its popularity and creator economy higher, Qisheng Game Company faced collapsing player numbers and mounting pressure. Liu Nong quit after confronting Teng Hua, while Qisheng’s future looked bleak.

• CCTV featured Minecraft creations, and the game’s reputation and player count continued to rise as creators and players benefited.
• Teng Hua brooded over Starfield’s lawsuit, Mini World’s shutdown, and the sharp decline in Qisheng’s other games.
• Teng Hua summoned Liu Nong and blamed him for the company’s troubles, ordering him to keep players from leaving.
• Liu Nong threw documents at Teng Hua, declared that he quit, and berated Teng Hua for copying games and using dirty tricks.
• Teng Hua smashed objects in his office as Liu Nong returned to his workstation, convinced that Qisheng had no future.

After Starfield won its plagiarism lawsuit against Qisheng, Liu Jiameng and several other companies sued Qisheng over copied games, drawing widespread condemnation. Xiao Dingdang then saw Starfield’s PUBG video and felt compelled to play it.

• Starfield won its lawsuit against Qisheng, and its video about the verdict sparked widespread criticism of Qisheng.
• Liu Jiameng reviewed Mengjia Game Company’s old evidence and decided to sue Qisheng again.
• Mengjia posted its lawsuit against Qisheng, and several other companies soon followed with claims of plagiarism and unfair competition.
• Xiao Dingdang saw the growing backlash against Qisheng but returned to browsing videos.
• Xiao Dingdang watched Starfield’s PUBG video and felt an irresistible urge to play the game.

Xiao Dingdang watched Starfield Game Company's PUBG promotional video and became eager to play the free game launching November 29. At Starfield, Su Ye raised employee salaries and urged Luan Le'an to ensure PUBG was ready on schedule, though he was willing to delay the launch if needed.

• Xiao Dingdang watched PUBG's promotional video, saw that it would launch free on the Xingye Gaming Platform on November 29, and commented that he looked forward to gunfights.
• Su Ye visited the development area after Deng Jiajia posted the promotional video and decided to reward the hardworking employees with raises.
• Su Ye announced that monthly salaries would rise by 3,000 yuan and management salaries by 5,000 yuan, prompting the employees to cheer.
• Su Ye told Luan Le'an to prioritize PUBG's quality over its launch date, and Luan Le'an assured him the team could finish in two months and launch on schedule.

After Qisheng lost several copyright lawsuits and its plagiarized games were shut down or reworked, Teng Hua gambled the company’s remaining money on a rushed game modeled after Starfield’s trailer. Qisheng released a trailer for Shooting Simulator, while game reviewers mysteriously went silent.

• The court ordered Qisheng to pay Mengjia Game Company 50 million, and Liu Jiameng laughed through his tears as Teng Hua faced the verdict.
• Qisheng’s lawsuits drained its cash reserves, and Teng Hua found that Liu Nong had resigned before deciding to make a game himself.
• Teng Hua ordered Qin Shou to create Shooting Simulator within one month, based on Starfield’s trailer, and authorized spending the company’s remaining money on it.
• Qin Shou agreed to the deadline, and Teng Hua told him to offer small raises while avoiding overtime pay where possible.
• Qisheng released a Shooting Simulator trailer, prompting players to debate it against Starfield’s PUBG.
• Game review bloggers stopped posting and livestreaming for two days, leaving players wondering why they had all gone silent.

Galiang and Pan Jiangming tried to make quick money by selling counterfeit liquor while facing Starfield’s lawsuit, as Su Ye arranged production and management for Minecraft building blocks. The chapter ended with Minecraft surpassing fifty million players and Starfield gaining widespread public attention.

• After receiving a court summons from Starfield, Galiang agreed to Pan Jiangming’s plan to sell counterfeit Xiaomao liquor.
• Su Ye approved the Minecraft-style building blocks, ordered an initial batch, and arranged to launch them as Leshi Building Blocks under a new company.
• Su Ye watched Qisheng’s game trailer and doubted that the company understood PUBG.
• Starfield sued dozens of game review bloggers, and the bloggers posted apology videos as some faced account closures and compensation.
• Galiang and Pan Jiangming were exposed for selling counterfeit liquor and faced another lawsuit, this time from Xiaomao.
• Minecraft surpassed fifty million players, with more than twenty million online that day, while its servers and creator economy continued to grow.

Li Geng and his roommates celebrated their success making Minecraft resources, then discovered that a surge in the game's popularity had boosted their studio's daily earnings to over 750,000 yuan. They agreed to expand their team by recruiting eight more people while preparing for increased competition.

• Li Geng, Qin Jiadong, and their roommates celebrated their studio's financial success and discussed Starfield's upcoming PUBG and Qisheng's shooting simulator.
• Li Geng checked the Xingye Gaming Platform and found that the studio had earned 752,329 yuan the previous day.
• Li Geng saw that Minecraft had gained ten million players in a day, reaching 60 million downloads after several trending searches.
• Qin Jiadong proposed increasing resource production to take advantage of the growing player base.
• Li Geng recommended recruiting eight more people, and the four roommates agreed to expand the team to around twenty.

Su Ye reviewed Qisheng’s Shooting Simulator and checked on PUBG, Minecraft’s overseas release, and Leshi Building Blocks. Meanwhile, players complained about a misleading paid event on a Xingye Gaming Platform server, and Zhang Jiadong decided to alert Su Ye.

• Deng Jiajia told Su Ye that Qisheng’s Shooting Simulator differed from their game, and Su Ye criticized its stationary shooting gameplay and paid gun unlocks.
• Deng Jiajia reported that PUBG’s basic content was finished and being tested, while Manager Liu had gone to Eagle Country to discuss an overseas Minecraft partnership.
• Su Ye asked about Leshi Building Blocks, and Deng Jiajia explained that the project was under Starfield Industries and she did not know its status.
• Fei Wu angered players in the Holy Sword Bearer server by dismissing complaints about an event that promised Heavenly Sword equipment for six yuan but awarded only raffle tickets.
• Zhang Ansheng submitted a complaint to the Xingye Gaming Platform, alleging the server event misled players into spending more than a hundred yuan for the promised skins.
• Zhang Jiadong read the complaint, photographed it, and hurried to report the issue to Su Ye.

Su Ye ordered Starfield to punish a creator who had deceived players, then left with Deng Jiajia for Starfield Industries. The platform shut down Fei Wu’s server, froze his funds, and demanded repayment, prompting players and creators to praise its strict enforcement.

• Zhang Jiadong told Su Ye that a creator had been reported, and Su Ye ordered the platform to preserve evidence, freeze the creator’s funds, recover his earnings, and blacklist him.
• Su Ye reminded Zhang Jiadong that platform rules had to be enforced without exceptions, then told Deng Jiajia to accompany him to Starfield Industries.
• Fei Wu insulted players who complained about his misleading top-up offer, and Starfield announced that his Holy Sword Bearer server would be shut down and his balances frozen.
• Fei Wu tried to withdraw his money but found his account frozen, then received a demand to repay 862,387.9 yuan by November 2 or face a lawsuit.
• Starfield publicized Fei Wu’s punishment, and players and creators reacted with surprise and praised the platform’s oversight.

Su Ye funded Leshi’s expansion into physical stores and proposed Minecraft-themed blind boxes. Xiao Dingdang and Pipi later visited a Starfield Art Toys store, where Pipi opened a collector’s edition axolotl blind box while Xiao Dingdang got only standard figures.

• Su Ye inspected Leshi’s production and learned it had sold tens of thousands of sets for about 3.7 million yuan in profit.
• Su Ye gave Zhang Zhisheng 100 million yuan to establish quality physical stores, starting in first-tier cities, and suggested producing blind boxes with limited collector’s editions.
• On November 28, Xiao Dingdang and Pipi spotted a Starfield Art Toys store at the mall and went inside to browse its Minecraft merchandise.
• Xiao Dingdang and Pipi each bought five blind boxes and opened them in the mall’s rest area.
• Xiao Dingdang got five standard figures, while Pipi revealed a collector’s edition axolotl and left him stunned.

As Starfield prepared to release PUBG, Qisheng’s Teng Hua and Qin Shou watched for a chance to sue the company, while Xiao Dingdang showed off Starfield merchandise on his stream. The chapter ended with PUBG becoming available for pre-download, leaving Xiao Dingdang eager to try it.

• Teng Hua told Qin Shou to prepare to sue Starfield if PUBG appeared to copy Shooting Simulator.
• Xiao Dingdang and Pipi returned home so he could stream before PUBG’s release.
• Xiao Dingdang showed viewers his Minecraft creeper figure and explained that Starfield sold official art toys in a physical store.
• Pipi reluctantly lent Xiao Dingdang her collector’s-edition axolotl, then took it back after he showed it to his viewers.
• Xiao Dingdang saw the announcement that PUBG pre-downloads were available and opened the new game’s icon on the platform.

As Starfield prepared PUBG for launch, Su Ye tested its VR gameplay and planned to build a major esports scene around the company’s games. The countdown ended, players began downloading PUBG, and Su Ye watched the city as gaming’s new era began.

• Su Ye checked the pre-download numbers with Luan Le'an and learned that sign-ups were climbing rapidly.
• Su Ye tested PUBG in VR, experiencing its plane drop, parachute landing, and weapon recoil, while Luan Le'an monitored the data.
• Su Ye praised the server preparations and promised the staff a five-hundred-yuan bonus for working overtime.
• Su Ye imagined expanding Starfield’s game lineup and creating tournaments and a dedicated venue for gaming competitions.
• Xiao Dingdang and other streamers counted down to PUBG’s release, after which the download button and Starfield Games announcement appeared on the Xingye Gaming Platform.

Xiao Dingdang tried Starfield's PUBG and discovered its hundred-player team battle, then landed with his teammates in Georgopol. He left the chapter having knocked down an opponent with a SCAR-L and gathered his team to regroup.

• Xiao Dingdang launched the game, explored its extensive interface, and started a match as the player count rose to one hundred.
• Xiao Dingdang met his three teammates aboard the plane, and Grandpa Niu accidentally jumped early before the team followed him toward Georgopol.
• Xiao Dingdang explained that players needed to find guns and eliminate opponents as the team parachuted into Georgopol.
• Grandpa Niu found a gun but had no ammunition, while Xiao Dingdang and his teammates landed amid nearby players.
• Dance at the Rooster's Crow fought an opponent barehanded as Xiao Dingdang picked up a SCAR-L and knocked the opponent down.
• Xiao Dingdang told his three teammates to go inside and regroup.

Xiao Dingdang and his teammates looted Georgopol and fought off a motorcycle rider, who crashed and died. The rider turned out to be Da Sima, whose failed stunt ended with him quitting the game and leaving behind a loot box.

• Xiao Dingdang’s team gathered their weapons and supplies, agreed to loot together, and avoided starting a fight with the other squads in Georgopol.
• Xiao Dingdang practiced controlling his gun’s recoil while Dadi fired his scoped VSS at a distant enemy.
• A motorcycle rider charged toward the team’s house, launched off a dirt slope, and died after jumping from the bike and crashing onto the roof.
• Da Sima rode a motorcycle toward Xiao Dingdang’s team, attempted to land on their roof, and fell there after running out of health.
• Xiao Dingdang recognized Da Sima over the proximity mic, and Da Sima quit the game, leaving a loot box behind.

Xiao Dingdang’s astonishing reflex shot won a house fight in Georgopol, and the excitement drove him to seek out more battles. He led his teammates through Rozhok and, as they followed behind to loot, threw a timed grenade through a window at gunfire inside.

• Xiao Dingdang spun around and knocked down the enemy who had ambushed him, wiping out the opposing team with his three teammates.
• Xiao Dingdang revived his teammates, while the livestream viewers praised his seemingly superhuman reaction shot.
• After the poison zone began shrinking, Xiao Dingdang drove his team toward the safe zone and fought aggressively in Rozhok.
• When Grandpa Niu said the three teammates were holding him back, Xiao Dingdang told them to follow him and handle the looting.
• Xiao Dingdang crept under a window, timed a grenade, and threw it inside as gunfire sounded above.

Zuo Zixuan won a battle royale match after wiping out a squad and outmaneuvering the other teams in the final circle. The match ended with him as the last player standing.

• Xiao Dingdang threw explosives into a house, knocked down two enemies, and helped his teammates eliminate the remaining players.
• Zuo Zixuan led his squad around the zone and eliminated several teams before reaching the final circle.
• After his teammates fell, Zuo Zixuan used smoke and explosives to provoke the two opposing teams into fighting each other.
• Zuo Zixuan knocked down a player with his Kar98k, then rushed the rock and eliminated the last enemy to win the match.

After winning his first match, Xiao Dingdang bought a deluxe pass, opened weapon crates, and equipped new clothes. Da Sima, frustrated by five quick defeats, joined Xiao Dingdang for a duo match, hoping to use his advice and skill to win.

• Xiao Dingdang checked the pass, bought the deluxe version for 39.9, and received five weapon crates and a character name card.
• Xiao Dingdang opened the crates, received 2,800 BP Coins and a pair of pants, then equipped the pants and his pass jacket.
• Da Sima wondered why he kept dying soon after landing, while viewers teased him about finishing five matches so quickly.
• Da Sima explained what he had learned about shooting after jumping from vehicles and aiming while dropping between floors.
• Da Sima accepted Xiao Dingdang's invitation, and the two agreed to play a duo match without random teammates.

Da Sima accidentally knocked down Xiao Dingdang during a PUBG fight, and both players became death crates. At Starfield Game Company, Su Ye saw PUBG’s strong launch and asked Deng Jiajia to investigate whether the platform could legally add a marketplace for players to trade items.

• Da Sima rushed in to help Xiao Dingdang, but mistook him for an enemy and knocked him down before an opponent eliminated them both.
• Livestream viewers laughed at Da Sima’s chaotic gameplay, and he apologized to Xiao Dingdang before they queued for another match.
• Su Ye and Luan Le'an checked PUBG’s first-hour figures, which showed over a million downloads and more than 14 million yuan in top-ups.
• Su Ye asked Luan Le'an whether the gaming platform could open a marketplace for player-to-player item sales, and Luan Le'an referred him to Deng Jiajia.
• Deng Jiajia said she would consult law students and professors, and Su Ye asked her to investigate the marketplace’s compliance and promised a reward.

After PUBG became a hit, Su Ye learned that someone was trying to tamper with its game data and organized Starfield to develop cheat detection and manual reviews. Meanwhile, Teng Hua ordered Qin Shou to make cheats to sabotage PUBG, and Su Ye decided to hire more staff.

• Su Ye saw PUBG trending and considered the game’s success incomplete until Starfield held its first tournament.
• Luan Le'an told Su Ye that someone had tried to modify PUBG’s data, so Su Ye called a company meeting.
• Teng Hua ordered Qin Shou to create a PUBG cheat program within the week after Shooting Simulator’s failure left Qisheng heavily indebted.
• Su Ye directed Luan Le'an to split the design team between game optimization and cheat detection, and ordered Starfield to add player reports and manual reviews.
• Su Ye assigned Deng Jiajia to recruit reviewers and told the publicity department to monitor cheat-related discussions.
• Luan Le'an warned that Starfield lacked enough development staff, and Su Ye ordered the company to recruit capable people.

Su Ye decided to build a company headquarters and asked Deng Jiajia to find land in Shencheng. Meanwhile, Da Sima won a PUBG chicken dinner after using smoke to misdirect his opponents, then claimed that experts sometimes had to go prone.

• Su Ye calculated that the company could afford to build a headquarters and decided to pursue the project.
• Su Ye told Deng Jiajia to look for plots of land in Shencheng, and she agreed to investigate.
• Da Sima played PUBG during a livestream and accidentally discovered a prone player beneath his feet before knocking him down.
• As the final circle closed, Da Sima threw a smoke grenade to draw gunfire while he crawled toward the circle.
• Da Sima defeated the last opponent from a prone position, won the chicken dinner, and joked that experts sometimes had to go prone.

Su Ye chose a huge tract of industrial research-and-development land beside Guangming Lake for Starfield Game Company’s future headquarters and asked the district to let him buy it all. Director Zhang Zhiguo was stunned when Deng Jiajia showed him the company’s daily revenue, which exceeded 200 million yuan.

• Deng Jiajia brought Su Ye information on available plots, and he chose the large tract beside Guangming Lake.
• Su Ye and Deng Jiajia went to the Guangming District Planning and Natural Resources Administration, where a staff member said the land could only be obtained through auction.
• Su Ye told the staff member he wanted to buy the entire tract, and Director Zhang Zhiguo came over to ask about his request.
• Su Ye introduced Starfield Game Company, and the staff member recognized it as the maker of Minecraft and PUBG.
• Deng Jiajia showed Zhang Zhiguo the company’s figures, and he was shocked to see daily revenue above 200 million yuan.

Su Ye negotiated with Zhang Zhiguo to secure 240 mu of land near Guangming Lake for Starfield Game Company's future headquarters, proposing to buy it in stages. He left Zhang to pursue district approval and learned that a marketplace for Xingye Gaming Platform transactions appeared legally permissible.

• Zhang Zhiguo was astonished by Starfield Game Company's financial records and agreed to discuss Su Ye's needs.
• Su Ye asked to acquire all 240 mu of reserved industrial land by paying one billion yuan upfront and buying more land each month.
• Zhang Zhiguo explained that reserving the land required district-level coordination for a key industrial project and approval from the city.
• After Su Ye left, Zhang Zhiguo called someone to investigate Starfield Game Company.
• Su Ye asked Deng Jiajia to coordinate the land work with Zhang Zhiguo and learned that a marketplace for gaming-platform transactions had no legal restrictions.

Xiao Dingdang discovered Starfield's new trading market and teamed up with Mai Senpai to climb PUBG's ranked ladder. After they took high ground on a mountain, one enemy squad attacked them, leaving the two fighting to hold their position.

• Xiao Dingdang explored the new trading market and saw PUBG skins listed at prices ranging from a few cents to hundreds of yuan.
• Xiao Dingdang reached diamond rank in PUBG and invited his friend Mai Senpai to play ranked with him.
• Xiao Dingdang and Mai Senpai cleared Pochinki, drove to a mountaintop, and took positions with their Kar98ks.
• Xiao Dingdang spotted a squad near the school, knocked one enemy, and then heard Mai Senpai warn that another team was approaching their position.
• Xiao Dingdang rushed to support Mai Senpai as the attacking team took cover behind a rock and threw grenades at them.

Xiao Dingdang and Mai Senpai were eliminated after being overwhelmed by two squads, prompting them to consider finding regular teammates and wondering whether Starfield would hold a PUBG tournament. Meanwhile, Chen Ze came up with a plan to organize his own Minecraft tournament and began drafting a proposal.

• Xiao Dingdang and Mai Senpai tried to retreat from two converging squads, but the school team ran them down and eliminated them.
• Back in the lobby, Xiao Dingdang and Mai Senpai agreed that recruiting two skilled regular teammates would help them compete against full squads.
• Xiao Dingdang wondered whether Starfield would hold a PUBG tournament, while Su Ye had already decided to wait until the game's player base and rankings matured.
• Chen Ze returned to Minecraft after finding PUBG unsuited to him, then remembered that the Starfield Building Cup had brought his livestream its biggest audience.
• Chen Ze decided to organize a Minecraft tournament and began writing a proposal to invite streamers including Muyu, Zimin, and Jianan.

Su Ye approved a streamer-run Minecraft tournament, launched plans to promote Minecraft overseas, and designed a distinctive cyberpunk-style headquarters for Xingye Company. When the construction team balked at the unusual design, Deng Jiajia raised the budget, and Wang Qiang agreed to find a way to build it.

• Deng Jiajia told Su Ye that streamer Chen Ze wanted to hold a Minecraft tournament, and Su Ye approved the plan.
• Su Ye told Deng Jiajia to start overseas promotion with Minecraft and learned the company had acquired ten mu of land in Guangming District.
• Su Ye designed a glowing, pixel-inspired cyberpunk headquarters and told Deng Jiajia to have it built according to his drawing.
• Deng Jiajia sent the design to Wang Qiang, who asked her to reconsider because his construction team lacked experience with such a building.
• Deng Jiajia offered to raise the construction budget to one billion, and Wang Qiang promised to hire experts and complete the project.

Chen Ze planned a Minecraft tournament featuring a Hundred Days of Mutation team survival challenge and a final PvP showdown, while Starfield prepared legal action against cheat makers. The tournament preparations continued, and the company delayed its cheat-detection update until after lawsuits were filed.

• Chen Ze told his livestream viewers he would hold a Minecraft streamer tournament the following week and kept its format and participants secret.
• Chen Ze planned a Hundred Days of Mutation competition with two teams, undercover agents, and a final sky-island PvP battle, then notified the streamers who had agreed to join.
• Da Sima said he would not participate because he was focused on PUBG rank points, while other streamers gave no clear answers about joining.
• News of Chen Ze's tournament reached trending searches, and he began having the server prepared.
• Luan Le'an told Su Ye that Starfield had gathered evidence implicating Qisheng and individual cheat makers, and Su Ye ordered the legal department to sue them.
• Su Ye told Luan Le'an to delay releasing cheat detection until after the lawsuits, and the legal department eagerly took up the cases.