Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Sorry, but players are just that realistic.

You can’t possibly expect players to foot the bill for your failure, right?

So, the live stream room of various game streamers was suddenly filled with soaring enthusiasm.

Streamers, seeing the increasing number of viewers, naturally continue to livestream with fervor. Even if they could only stream for 3 hours a day before, they now had to aim for at least 6 hours.

Yi, known as the marathon streamer, was naturally among the best, contentedly enjoying the surge in traffic.

It was exhilarating, like celebrating the New Year in advance.

But he knew that everyone was here to watch the game, so he didn’t chat absent-mindedly, and instead, he seriously began to push the storyline.

He quickly got immersed in the world of the storyline.

The story of “Blaze 3” has no direct connection with the first two parts, and the story starts in a remote village.

With his hunting hound and following his grandfather, who is an old hunter, he greeted the villagers on his way to the forest. From time to time, little kids chased each other around him.

What follows is a relatively calm hunting plot, which serves as the tutorial stage teaching players various operations.

Yi, playing the protagonist, successfully hunted a deer and returned to the village with his grandfather, but the hunting hound started to howl from a distance. They looked from afar and found that the village was ablaze.

“What’s going on?” He hurriedly dropped the prey and ran towards the village with his grandfather, trying to put out the fire.

At first glance, he saw his own house engulfed in flames and subconsciously cursed, ‘My house! Damn it!”

However, he was immediately pushed to the ground and hidden by the old hunter.

Only then did he notice a group of fully armed people in camouflage searching for something. If they found any living people, they would kill them outright.

This included all the elderly, weak, women, and children; the entire village was wiped out, leaving behind only blood, flames, and wreckage.

Hot-headed, Yi wanted to charge out but was held down by his grandfather.

The auxiliary pulling component of the Omnidirectional Treadmill efficiently transmitted enormous force, holding him firmly in place.

He could only watch the scene unfold before his eyes.

“Damn it, you guys are as good as dead. I mean it!” Yi’s anger was lit.

But with only an old-fashioned hunting gun in his hand, it was clearly suicidal to go out now.

It wasn’t until these mysterious assailants left that they climbed out from their hiding spot.

Not only Yi but also the audience was filled with anger at this scene.

In the following period, the protagonist and his grandfather make weapons together, follow the traces, try to figure out what these people are looking for, and look for opportunities to assassinate the thugs on their own.

But the journey was extremely tough.

They were once attacked by a black bear and the grandfather, fearing to expose their identity, prevented him from firing the gun. He fought the black bear with cold weapons and the hunting hound courageously pounced and bit the bear.

Finally, they successfully killed the black bear, but the grandfather’s left leg was seriously injured, making the subsequent pursuit even more difficult.

Then they accidentally ran into a scout of the enemy and had to fire back, alerting the main force of the enemy and being chased.

The grandfather with an injured left leg couldn’t run fast. In the end, with teary eyes, he pushed the protagonist away, stayed behind to block the chasers, and bought the protagonist some time to escape.

Yi didn’t want to go and stubbornly stayed, confronting the enemy with his grandfather.

But against the fierce firepower and fully equipped enemy, they were no match and were shot and killed on the spot time and time again. Death after death, followed by repeated save loading.

Then more deaths, and more save loading.

This stubborn effort lasted nearly two hours. The intense exercise left him exhausted and his clothes soaked in sweat.

“Forget it, Yi.”

“Yeah, it’s obviously a plot setting. There’s nothing you can do.”

“You’ve tried hard enough, don’t push it.”

“Yes, you have tried your best,”

Yi felt an increasing sense of anger and humiliation welling up in his chest, but no matter how reluctant he was, in the end, he had to turn around and leave, dragging the dog behind him.

In the story that followed, Yi’s anger and repression grew more and more. He kept witnessing the mysterious unit attacking and burning impoverished villages.

And in an assassination plot, he lost his last companion—the hunting hound he had brought all the way with him.

The only good news was that he had determined those were a group of mercenaries hired to look for a pre-war military depot reportedly storing not only a range of armaments but also several tens of tons of gold they had pilfered. The key to accessing the depot was hidden in a small local village.

Yi, filled with rage, tracked down the mercenaries to their base outside the underground armory.

By this time, his level had already reached over 60, and he filled his backpack with all types of guns, ammunition, armor, and healing potions—not to mention countless weapons and supplies were still available in the armory underneath.

Fully armed and with bloodlust, he stormed into the base.

For once, he could finally fight without any limitation and nobody could stop him!

Hand grenades, explosives, submachine guns… Yi unhesitatingly unleashed his firepower. There weren’t many enemies left at this base, they clearly couldn’t resist his attack, and were quickly eliminated.

Having leveled up twice more, he now had even more abundant supplies, and even got higher-tech additions like drones, foot combat robots, and night vision devices.

With great momentum, Yi headed toward the entrance to the underground armory, where many enemies had already entered.

“Now is the time for the final showdown!”

Regrettably, as soon as he set foot in the entrance to the armory, he noticed that his field of view had left the protagonist and began to rise.

He could only watch as the protaconist slowly walked into the armory.

Then the screen gradually darkened and the game producers’ credits began to roll.

“What the hell?! ” Yi couldn’t believe what was happening.

He was filled with rage and murderous intent, ready to have a life-and-death fight with the enemy he had been chasing for more than ten hours to end their feud.

But the game just ended like this??

He couldn’t hold back his anger anymore and suddenly became furious.

“Motherfucker! After all that buildup! My fucking home got burned down! I lost my parents! Even my grandpa died! Even the fucking dog is gone! With my muscles aching and teeth gritting, I chased them all the way here, just for revenge! What the fuck! You ended the game just like this!!”

A string of swear words burst out of the streamer’s mouth non-stop, the intense anger bursting out from every word, simply shocking.

But none of the audiences were trying to stop him from swearing.

Because they were also feeling the same way, even finding it absurd: is this really how it’s ended??

Is the game developer brain-dead?

Do they really not get it? But the high standard of storytelling in the earlier parts of the game doesn’t seem to suggest that.

Were they intentionally messing with the players then?

This is the latest installment in the highly acclaimed “Blaze” series?

That’s it? Really?

I’m so glad I didn’t buy it!

If I had bought and played it only to find that there is no ending, even if I blew up with anger, it would be no use—it’s already past the refund deadline.

Just like Yi now, who felt like he’d been fed shit by this abrupt ending. All he could do to vent his frustration was to swear and give low ratings. He couldn’t possibly get a refund, so he had to swallow the bitterness.

As a result, following the dissatisfaction from new players yesterday, the core player group also started expressing widespread dissatisfaction.

All the highlights of the game were wiped out by this abrupt ending. The better the earlier buildup, the angrier they felt about this sudden ending!

A retaliatory surge of low ratings began to rapidly pull down the game score of “Blaze 3”.

“RANK-Public Game Rating List”

The game rating of “Blaze 3”, started at 9 points, now taking a nosedive!