30: Chapter 30 Peng Rizhao starts selling Xiaomi 5

During this period of time,

Tencent was getting absolutely roasted.

Mainly because Tencent had taken too big a stride,

and ended up overextending themselves.

honor of kings, following its epic update from heroic battle records,

clearly showed that a lot of effort had been put into its production,

and it added a lot of new content.

Many heroes were reworked,

new heroes were released,

the map was changed,

and while integrating several types of gameplay,

they also made optimizations better suited for mobile controls.

However, the one thing they failed to consider was,

whether the players' devices could actually handle such a heavily modified game.

At this moment, on various gaming forums,

people were cursing Tencent everywhere.

"If these Tencent bastards don't know how to make a game, then don't make one!

If all else fails, let's just bring back the old heroic battle records.

Making some stupid honor of kings—

it's completely unplayable!"

"Currently, there isn't a single phone that can run this game smoothly.

Don't you think releasing a game like this is just a scam?"

"Exactly! A lot of streamers are out of a job now.

Tencent, are you actually putting effort into making games?!

Didn't you play it yourselves after finishing internal development?

What kind of phones do you use?

Can you even log in?"

"That night, I stayed up so late waiting,

I waited all damn night,

and after the download finished, I couldn't even log in.

Whoever wants to play this shitty game can play it,

I'm done!

I'm seriously fed up!"

Players were full of grievances,

and many were complaining about Tencent.

Many other games of the same genre had already been cancelled,

leaving Tencent with only this one MOBA competitive game,

but for this one game,

most players couldn't even log in.

Who else would they curse if not them?

Some players even began calling for

honor of kings to be taken down

and for heroic battle records to be put back up,

along with other games of the same genre like We MOBA, Vainglory, Eternal Fate, Fight for Freedom, and Chaos Combat Haoyou.

Of course, Tencent couldn't do that.

The entire studio was currently working overtime

to optimize and adapt the game.

This was Tencent's S-rank project;

how could they just pull it?

And right at this time,

Peng Rizhao had already started putting up posters at the entrance of his phone shop.

"New Arrival!

xiaomi 5!

Featuring the high-end snapdragon 820 processor!

Play honor of kings smoothly!

Above 30 FPS,

up to 60 FPS!

Welcome to come in and experience it!"

Peng Rizhao felt he was very lucky

to have met someone like Boss Bai.

Before, he had felt like he was being played for a fool,

but ever since he got the xiaomi 4,

he had been so happy he was practically walking on air,

because the sales of the xiaomi 4 were simply too good.

He had ordered 100 units from Boss Bai,

and in less than a week,

he had already sold fifty or sixty units.

Moreover, he sold them with a slight markup;

of course, he didn't add too much,

at most a hundred or two hundred extra,

because he was also moved by Boss Bai's philosophy

of letting everyone enjoy the fun brought by technology,

so he didn't increase the price by much.

But he had to eat, after all,

and still needed to make some profit.

So, he still added one or two hundred yuan per machine.

As for the xiaomi 5 he had just received,

he had experienced it personally;

playing honor of kings at over 30 FPS was truly effortless.

While it couldn't maintain a steady 60 FPS,

the frame rate basically never dropped below 30.

Although the xiaomi 4 hadn't sold out yet,

it didn't affect the sales of the xiaomi 5,

since these two phones weren't in the same lane.

If someone liked playing games,

he would recommend the xiaomi 5 to them;

for those who didn't have such high demands for gaming,

he would recommend the xiaomi 4.

The two didn't conflict.

With such a divine device anchoring his shop,

he believed his phone shop business would get better and better.

After posting the poster,

he sat behind the counter,

waiting for customers to come in.

Being located in a university town,

the foot traffic was quite high,

so there was no worry about lacking customers.

At that moment, three university students happened to be passing by,

on their way to a nearby restaurant for a meal.

As they walked, they were complaining about Tencent's optimization of honor of kings.

"Sigh, I don't know how long it'll take Tencent to fix this.

Not being able to play games is really boring."

One person beside him said, "Why don't you just buy a computer and play league of legends?"

"If I knew how to play league of legends,

would I be playing this?!

I just like playing heroic battle records.

league of legends is too complicated,

and it requires a computer."

"But now Tencent has pulled all their other projects,

leaving only honor of kings,

and this honor of kings optimization is like a pile of shit.

You might as well take this chance to get into LOL."

The person walking in the middle shook his head.

He really had no interest in LOL.

"Stop playing games,

read your books,

and study.

If you keep playing, you'll really be ruined;

you'll actually fail your classes."

"Stop talking nonsense.

Just playing games occasionally,

how could I fail?

I can pass easily just by reviewing for two days at the end of the term!"

The three of them chatted

as they walked toward the small restaurant ahead.

At that moment,

someone suddenly noticed the sign on the phone shop.

"Look!"

He quickly raised his hand to point at the sign.

Following his gaze,

the other two also looked at the sign at the shop entrance.

"Holy shit! When did a phone shop open here?

I didn't even notice."

"This shop has quite the mouth on it—

'Play honor of kings smoothly.'

Is the boss living in the Stone Age?

Doesn't he know that currently, no machine can guarantee smooth play for honor of kings?"

"It's probably just a gimmick to attract people to come in and try the phones.

Let's go, let's go, don't look,

it's likely a scam."

However, as if possessed,

the student in the middle really wanted to go in and take a look.

He said, "Forget it, let's go in and see.

We're not in a hurry anyway,

it's not mealtime yet,

so it shouldn't be very crowded.

Let's go in and see if it can really run honor of kings smoothly."

"Don't even think about it!

Even the iPhone 6 Plus used by big streamers like Sao Hei can't play honor of kings;

it overheats as soon as you play.

Do you really think this shop can sell some high-end phone?"

"Didn't it say there?

The phone's name is xiaomi 5,

and it uses some high-end snapdragon 820 processor.

Ever heard of it?

I've never heard of it at all!"

"I haven't heard of it either,

neither the processor nor the phone.

It's probably some knock-off brand."

"Exactly, don't waste time,

let's hurry up and eat!

This is definitely a lie!"

However, no matter how the two guys on either side tried to persuade him,

the one in the middle clearly loved playing honor of kings very much.

He still didn't believe it

and dragged the other two into the phone shop.

Seeing customers arrive,

Peng Rizhao quickly stood up to greet them.

"Hello, students,

what kind of phone are you looking for?"

At this point, that student pointed to the poster outside and said, "Boss,

is what you said outside about that phone being able to play honor of kings smoothly true?"