118: Chapter 118 Design of Hero-level Weapons

In the days that followed, the popularity of crossfire remained sky-high across the entire gaming landscape.

Ten days after the Zombie Mode update, the official crossfire Weibo account released the latest announcement, stating that crossfire's daily active users had reached 10 million.

This figure, among all games globally, was second only to the daily active user data of league of legends.

If not for league of legends, this figure for crossfire would be more than three times that of the second-place dota 2.

After the announcement was released, the comment section was quickly flooded. It even surged to the number one spot on the trending search list at lightning speed.

"Ten million daily active users, and all achieved in a single domestic market; the current momentum of crossfire is already not much worse than league of legends back in the day."

"What about alliance of valiant arms? Why is there no sound? Didn't they say they were going to redefine shooting games?"

"Don't ask, the guy above; alliance of valiant arms now has 500,000 daily active users, it can't even beat CSGO."

"Tencent spent a high price to license alliance of valiant arms, only to be crushed by the discarded product they rejected themselves. I can laugh at this joke for a year."

At the same time, on the very same day that the trending search for crossfire breaking ten million daily active users reached the top of major platforms' trending lists, another entry related to Langchao Group also made it onto the trending search list.

However, the ranking of this entry was not high; it was even in the thirties on the Weibo trending list.

Those who noticed this entry were some league of legends players. And this entry was: 'The first phase of the league of legends esports tournament has ended, and the second phase will begin in three days.'

The entry's popularity was not high, nor was the level of discussion. In fact, many league of legends players who clicked on this trending search did not expect that the popularity of this entry would be so low.

At the beginning, the ten-million-dollar championship prize for the league of legends esports tournament did indeed attract a lot of player attention.

Before the esports tournament officially started, many players also paid attention, after all, everyone wanted to see if it was real, if league of legends was really going to do esports, and if Langchao Group was really willing to fork out ten million dollars to give the champion a prize.

Soon, the first round of the tournament began, and players confirmed that Langchao Group was not messing around or joking.

However, after the tournament actually started, the popularity of league of legends esports was actually worse than before.

But this was also because, for most ordinary players, league of legends esports was quite distant to them; most people could not reach the threshold of Master or Grandmaster.

Furthermore, for the first round of the tournament, apart from some high-rank streamers broadcasting the matches, many other team matches didn't even have a viewing channel. The official league of legends side also didn't do any promotion. So as time passed, the popularity of the tournament became less and less.

When the first phase of the tournament ended, it only just managed to climb into the dozens on the Weibo trending list. The comment section was all saying that with such low popularity, it was unknown if the offline tournament could continue.

"Nobody paid much attention to the first round, and the second round will probably be about the same, not to mention the third round."

"Is the ten-million-dollar prize just a pie in the sky? If nobody watches the offline tournament, will Langchao Group just cancel the third round?"

"Probably not, President Qin always keeps his word, but the popularity is indeed too low."

"Let's wait until the offline tournament starts to see, but I also feel that it's hard to say whether this third round of the offline tournament will even happen."

Even many teams that passed the first round were worried about whether there would be a third round. After all, the early popularity of this league of legends esports tournament was simply too, too low.

However, no matter what, the second round would only last for two months. How the league of legends esports tournament would end up, whether Langchao Group would continue to host it, and whether they would start the third round of the offline tournament, would be revealed in two months.

...

Meanwhile, inside Langchao Group, in the largest conference room. A circular mahogany table occupied most of the space, and a huge screen was placed in the corner.

In the conference room at this moment, most seats were occupied, the atmosphere was relaxed, and everyone was chatting with each other.

Qin Mo was at the head of the table, with Kim Seok-jin beside him, looking at the new crossfire weapon plan provided by Qin Mo, with quite a bit of surprise in his eyes. He couldn't help but speak up.

"Hero-Grade Weapons, so expensive for one, will anyone really buy them?"

On the tablet in front of Qin Mo were several new crossfire weapons he had designed. These weapons were weapon designs that had never appeared in other shooting games before, and the name Qin Mo gave them was simple and direct: 'Hero-Grade Weapons.'

On the first page of the tablet was the Fire Kirin. The price was 888, clearly marked.

In this lifetime, apart from retaining the properties of the Fire Kirin that added benefits and extra bullets to matches, in the competitive mode, Qin Mo cut out the attribute bonuses except for the extra bullets, ensuring fairness.

He only retained some attribute bonuses like damage penetration in Zombie Mode and future challenge modes.

Although in his past life, many players said that Hero Weapons ruined crossfire, in fact, the popularity of crossfire in his past life actually reached its peak when Hero Weapons were launched.

However, in his past life, Hero-Grade Weapons with attribute bonuses did indeed have a significant impact on competitive matches at the beginning.

So, having gained experience, Qin Mo was much more restrained in this world. Competitive mode had absolutely no attribute bonuses other than extra bullets, and bonuses in other modes were also restrained.

The eventual decline of crossfire in his past life was due to the evolution of the era and being surpassed by more shooting games; the Hero-Grade Weapons themselves were not as unbearable as the outside world claimed.

Facing Kim Seok-jin's concern, Qin Mo nodded slowly.

"crossfire is inherently a game that focuses on entertainment. You've seen the popularity of the Golden Nepal before; what players want is this kind of flashy stuff."

"Players might even think that a shooting game releasing a golden weapon is already quite exaggerated, but we want to let them know that there are also Hero-Grade Weapons."

"You don't need to worry about this pricing; many people will buy it."

He paused. "But the game has just been launched, so there is no need to release Hero-Grade Weapons so early; we can wait a bit."

"I just wanted to show you my design approach first; I won't interfere with the designs of other Hero-Grade Weapons later on."

"But remember one thing: in competitive mode, these weapons should not have attribute bonuses like damage penetration."

Kim Seok-jin nodded, committing these words to memory.

Meanwhile, Lin Xiao finally pushed open the conference room door and walked in quickly. Everyone had arrived.

Lin Xiao nodded at Qin Mo and sat down in his seat.

Kim Seok-jin, being very tactful, immediately got up and left. He was not a high-level executive at Langchao Group and was not qualified to attend this meeting today.

As the conference room door closed, everyone sat in their respective seats.

Lin Xiao spoke up. "President Qin, we can begin."