Douyin, currently the hottest short video app in Dragon Country, with a daily traffic of 2 billion.
This is also the only case in Dragon Country where a company has successfully broken through Tencent's traffic monopoly and established itself in the internet industry.
Douyin APP's promotion method is usually targeted promotion, which is commonly known as "killing familiar customers". It will record your personal preferences and recommend videos that are similar to your preferences.
This day, a brand new game advertisement was seen by a large group of young people.
Zhang Ming is a game enthusiast. Although he's not a true otaku, he loves watching anime.
After work every day, he plays games, watches anime, and browses Douyin.
Today was no different. After returning home from work, he turned on his computer and opened a Tencent online game.
This was the only game he was currently playing, but... the game's operation was getting more and more outrageous, and many players were already complaining.
“Well… let's see what new content has been updated”
While updating, he also clicked on the game's announcement board.
After looking at it for a while, his brows furrowed deeply.
He closed the webpage and clicked on the game group.
The first thing he saw in the group was a chorus of complaints from his gaming friends.
“What the hell is this! The new event only gives out useless materials, the rest are all game packages!”
“2nd Anniversary Gratitude Package? This is a TM gratitude for revenge package!!”
“Spend 50 yuan, buy a bunch of useless materials, the only box worth looking at, you can only open a chance of getting good stuff.”
“Haha~ I thought Tencent would improve, but it’s still about money”
“It’s about money, but it’s called a [Gratitude Package] makes me want to laugh.”
“Hahaha, someone on Douyin posted a video, a streamer spent 5000 yuan, bought 100 Gratitude Packages, and only got a +10 Enhancement Voucher, angrily lost 4990 yuan.”
“You know what, the materials from 100 packages can save him 10 days of dungeon runs, don't you think it's funny?”
“Gegege~~ I wouldn't even spend 5000 yuan on a proxy.”
“This game is getting more and more disappointing…”
“Tencent is still Tencent, it’s brainwashing players, saying [Support Domestic Games], how are we supposed to support them like this?”
“Hey, forget it, I'll go find games to play on STM, at least I won't be treated like a leek and harvested.”
Seeing these comments, Zhang Ming nodded secretly.
Tencent, relying on its large traffic, not only engaged in traffic monopoly, but also blatantly plagiarized.
Even if a small studio manages to create a good game, within a month, the game will become a Tencent game, and then, the game's flavor changes.
No money, no game.
If the small studio refuses to be acquired, Tencent will release a similar game in a very short period of time, and use its absolute traffic to crush the small studio.
Domestic players are also helpless about this. They can only curse Tencent while playing their games.
But does Tencent care? You curse on the street, I make my money.
What's wrong with being cursed a few times, making money is not embarrassing~
Thinking about this, Zhang Ming also sighed silently.
Just as he was about to close the chat, a link suddenly popped up.
“Everyone, take a look at this, Douyin has been promoting this game for the past two days, I’ve seen it several times, the graphics are just too good for me!!”
Zhang Ming clicked on it curiously.
The player opened, and a line of small characters appeared in the middle: [mihuyo].
“mihuyo Studio?” Zhang Ming pondered for a moment: “I’ve never heard of it.”
But before he could think further, a very beautiful female voice came from his earphones.
【Helios, this is Hyperion, reporting mission status.】
As soon as this voice came out, Zhang Ming immediately imagined a tall and alluring older sister image in his mind.
Then, another female voice echoed through the video, and several lines of text slowly appeared on the screen: “Third Collapse Outbreak, 2 years, 5 months, 16 days, 2 hours, 34 minutes, 22 seconds.”
【Report Captain, Windhole detection target not visible, risk increased to A-level, request confirmation.】
The uplifting music that slowly rose, and the slight static of the microphone, within seconds, created a tense atmosphere of preparation for battle, drawing all of Zhang Ming's attention.
【Close the hatch safety protection, manually open the hatch…】
【…Observer single confirmation complete, waiting for Valkyrie to dock.】
At this point, the image in the video finally fully unfolded.
A hatch slowly opened, and then, the sound of high heels tapping on the ground slowly echoed. The camera moved from bottom to top, long legs, slender waist, mountain peaks… the high altitude airflow blew two white braids up, and the girl’s exquisite face finally appeared.
“Wow~ a very cute girl, the graphics are also very beautiful”
Before Zhang Ming could finish his admiration, he saw the girl in the video jump from the air.
The scene switched again, in the twilight, the girl descended like a meteor, a giant warship in the distance looked incredibly domineering…
And the combination of these three elements, coupled with the uplifting music…
Zhang Ming felt a shiver run down his spine, goosebumps appeared on his arms.
“Crap… is this a new anime?”
By this point, the video had completely hooked Zhang Ming's interest.
Only a few seconds had passed, and not much information was revealed.
Only the three keywords: [Warship], [Valkyrie], [Combat], but… it really hit Zhang Ming’s heart.
“Is it a show about girls fighting with guns?”
As soon as this thought came out, the scene of the video switched again.
The white-haired girl from the video was now standing on the back of a small unmanned drone.
Through a brief conversation, Zhang Ming learned that the mature older sister voice belonged to Theresa Apocalypse, and the white-haired cute girl wielding dual guns was named Kiana Kaslana.
A few small characters in the lower right corner also told Zhang Ming that this was not an anime, but a game.
【Game Gameplay Recording】
“This is actually a game?!!! And it’s 3D?!!!”
Zhang Ming was truly shocked.
It wasn't that he was shocked by the 3D perspective game, but the game’s elements and graphics were just too beautiful.
The 3D games on the market have characters that are basically modeled after real life. Although the graphics are realistic, they don’t appeal to his otaku aesthetics.
But Honkai Impact 3rd’s 3D anime rendering technology is just too much in line with his otaku XP.
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