Chapter 71-1: Forum Battle (1) |
The Dark Land held extraordinary significance in the eyes of Li Zheng and the other players in the Grind Kings group.
This game had brought back the joy of teaming up to play together as they once did, and it had also resolved their material needs in the real world.
One could say that this game had given them a brand-new future.
Upon learning that a player was spreading rumors and slandering the game in the Dark Land section of the Humanity Rising forum, the Grind Kings players were immediately enraged.
Family-Sharing Stepdad: After seeing Brother Li’s screenshots, I’m so mad my liver hurts. Spreading rumors isn’t taxed, huh? It’s complete nonsense from start to finish.
Dirt Poor: I’m dying of laughter. Is this player mentally ill? They even mentioned loading lag in their post. I’ve been playing for nearly a month and have never encountered such an issue. Pure brain-dead nonsense, just fishing for attention.
Murderous Intent Rising: Since he’s spreading rumors, he must be prepared to get flamed. I’m logging into my forum account right now to roast him.
Leopard-Headed F2P: Disgusting. What benefit does he get from lying? Not a single thing he mentioned in the post is true. Feedback delay, modeling details, scene bugs… If these issues actually existed, I’d understand his complaints. But there aren’t any! Brothers, let’s swarm him and roast him hard.
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With simple trash talk, they achieved peak satisfaction while inflicting mental damage on their target.
Very quickly, they had left over a hundred comments under the post.
Tianding City.
After finishing his work for the day, Dong Wei returned to his room. After changing clothes and having a quick dinner, he eagerly sat down at his desk and turned on his computer.
As usual, before starting the game, he intended to check the forum updates first.
That was when he noticed a red notification with 99+ replies flashing in the top-right corner of his forum account.
Realizing that his post from yesterday had triggered heated discussion among forum users, Dong Wei immediately clicked the exclamation mark to see what kind of replies he had received.
But as he read through the artistry of the language in the replies, his expression became quite colorful.
He discovered that he was being ganged up on by a group of game players.
The reason was that, in their eyes, his post had turned into slanderous remarks, which made Dong Wei extremely angry.
From the very first day Dark Land launched, he had been lucky enough to snag a purchase slot and join the game as one of its first players.
He genuinely loved this game from the bottom of his heart.
He even believed that for the next ten or even twenty years, there would be no game better than Dark Land.
However, a series of optimization issues in the game did affect the gameplay experience.
He had listed these issues on the forum in hopes that the problems present at launch could be improved, allowing players to enjoy a better experience.
Every point he made had been based on his own rather objective gameplay experience.
Though he stated in the post that Dark Land might not qualify as a groundbreaking masterpiece, he still firmly believed it was the strongest virtual game of its era, without question.
Yet, unexpectedly, his discussion post had attracted a flood of hostile comments.
“Dog of the Lunar Eclipse race!”
Scrolling further down, Dong Wei was so angry he started laughing.
He figured that he must have provoked a group of colonialists.
This type of crowd couldn’t stand hearing anything negative about the Lunar Eclipse race. Whenever they saw such viewpoints on Starnet, they would jump out to defend their masters, even when the statements were factual. Though they were part of the Human Federation, they were spiritually aligned with the Lunar Eclipse race on Starnet, yearning for their advanced technology and welfare system.
Perhaps many players had been misled by this group and joined the attack on him.
Feeling stifled, he immediately began typing a reply:
Birth Certificate: Are you guys brain-dead? Which part of what I said is wrong? Yes, it includes my own feelings, but it’s still a relatively objective assessment. Is it necessary to start flaming me right away? You’re just internet trolls. Get a life!
Not long after his comment was posted, replies started pouring in.
Murderous Intent Rising replied to Birth Certificate: A stinky loach touches a bit of seawater and really thinks it’s seafood? Your definition of ‘objective’ isn’t the same as ours? So-called objectivity means fabricating false content and spreading slander at will?
Game Gold-Farmer replied to Birth Certificate: A toad jumps off a cliff and pretends to be Batman? Objective evaluation, my ass. Every single thing you listed is complete nonsense. Just because you were lucky enough to snag a game purchase slot, you think you can make up rumors and deceive players who didn’t get in?
Leopard-Headed F2P replied to Birth Certificate: The feedback delay issue you mentioned obviously isn’t a problem with the Lunar Eclipse servers’ processing speed. It’s your brain that’s like an old computer, insufficient memory, frequent crashes. You’re blaming the game for your own shortcomings. Trash.
Dirt Poor replied to Birth Certificate: Your brain is like an old WiFi signal, sometimes strong, mostly weak, often disconnected. Your thinking loads slower than the game itself. Everything looks laggy to you. You’re not worthy of playing such an advanced game. Go play some low-end games that match your low-functioning brain. Guaranteed no lag.
Fun Without Spending replied to Birth Certificate: Bowing down to Erlang Shen as your master, look how amazing you think you are. So-called objective evaluation? If everyone was as ‘objective’ as you, anything in the world could be described however they pleased. After all, spreading rumors isn’t taxed, and bragging isn’t illegal.
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Under this barrage of comments, Dong Wei’s hand trembled as he held his water cup.
These online attackers hadn’t used a single curse word, yet their replies made his blood pressure skyrocket.
Even though he was stating facts, it was useless against these internet trolls who twisted right and wrong.
It felt like punching into cotton, he had strength but nowhere to release it. Explaining was completely pointless.
After a brief silence, he stood up and walked toward the game pod.
Since these trolls had chosen to attack him with superior numbers, then he would fight back in the same way.
Before posting this thread, he had already discussed these issues with many players on the in-game forum, and had received unanimous support.
Now he decided to seek reinforcements from the in-game forum.
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