Chapter 449 - 278: Dark Duel

"President Chen, it’s exploded!"

"What exploded?"

Chen Ba had just arrived at the Mirage Electronics headquarters when he heard someone say it exploded, which made him very curious. What exploded?

"Of course, the sales exploded!"

Xiong Hongping, the general manager of Mirage Electronics, said excitedly, "The sales of the Galaxy Set have taken off, and just the existing orders are enough for our factory to work overtime until February next year."

"Just this?"

Chen Ba was indifferent, walking while saying, "I thought it was something else; didn’t we already know yesterday that the Galaxy Set was selling well?"

"No, no, no!"

Upon hearing this, Xiong Hongping waved his hands repeatedly and said, "The sales growth yesterday was exaggerated, but today it’s even more absurd. Tens of thousands of consumers came today, specifically asking to buy our Galaxy Set."

"How... how many people?"

Initially, Chen Ba wasn’t very serious, after all, in his view, Mirage Electronics’ basic market was only so big, selling tens of thousands of Galaxy Peripherals wasn’t that surprising.

But when he heard that tens of thousands of people came to rush purchase the Galaxy Set, he was shocked.

Where... where did so many people come from?

After the announcement yesterday, the sales of the Galaxy Set didn’t decrease but increased, and it could be explained by players liking the "Minotaur."

But these tens of thousands of people were really beyond Chen Ba’s expectations; after all, the total number of active players in the game "Star Emperor 2" wasn’t this high!

"You must’ve made a mistake?"

"No mistake, there’s really that many, more than the current total number of players in ’Star Emperor 2’!"

Guessing what Ba wanted to say, Xiong Hongping explained proactively before he could speak, "Just as you think, these customers who came to buy the Galaxy Set are not players of ’Star Emperor 2’."

"Then where did they come from?"

Chen Ba was even more confused.

The Galaxy Set was specially made for the game "Star Emperor 2." If you don’t play "Star Emperor 2," why buy this thing?

They couldn’t have bought it to play other games, right?

Considering this possibility, Chen Ba couldn’t help but quip, "Although our Galaxy Set supports other games, its operation logic and compatibility are very average. Only playing ’Star Emperor 2’ provides a relatively good experience..."

Impossible, absolutely impossible!

Chen Ba couldn’t believe these people came to buy the Galaxy Set just to play other games; that would be too unworthy.

There must be another reason.

"You’re right, our Galaxy Set has very low compatibility with other games. Playing other games with it is really not as good as using general equipment like controllers or keyboards."

Xiong Hongping couldn’t help but chuckle, "But is there a possibility that these people are buying the Galaxy Set not to play games?"

Chen Ba: "..."

What did he hear?

Not using the Galaxy Set to play games? A peripheral specifically designed for games not used to play games, then what can it be used for?

"Here’s the thing..."

Xiong Hongping quickly explained, "Our Galaxy Set has a driver Bug, right? This Bug causes players to unusually intervene in the operations of other players’ characters. You’ve also issued an announcement explaining the situation."

"So what?"

"After that, we prepared a normal driver for replacing the old, faulty driver, available for download and update on the website."

Xiong Hongping spread his hands, "Although most users from the first batch of purchases chose to retain the original setup and not update the driver, a few did update..."

This update caused trouble!

It was unclear which part went wrong, but players who updated the driver found, to their amazement, that this driver update updated to loneliness.

It’s still the same old problem, isn’t it?

Not only did it not replace the old driver, but even after updating, the Galaxy Set in their hands had even more issues.

Previously, it was okay; they could play "Star Emperor 2" normally. As long as they didn’t get hit to crash the game and cause a restart, it was hard to trigger the so-called "possession" Bug.

But now, as long as the computer or console connects to the Galaxy Set and opens the game "Star Emperor 2," the Galaxy Set starts acting up.

"Acting up?"

Hearing this description, Chen Ba raised his eyebrows and asked, "What’s the specific way it’s acting up?"

"Um..."

Xiong Hongping scratched his head, braced himself, and explained to Chen Ba, "I’m not very familiar with the game, but I’ve played ’Star Emperor 2’ and its predecessor, and there is a spectator mode in the game, right?"

Spectator mode?

Chen Ba thought carefully and remembered that there really was this feature.

In "Star Emperor 2" and its predecessor, players could go to the "square" to spectate other players’ matches when they had nothing to do, to learn and observe the operations of top players and experts.

This is a built-in function module in many games, and almost all competitive games, even many casual games, have this kind of spectator mode.

So what’s the connection between these?

"There’s a big connection!"

Xiong Hongping covered his face and smiled wryly, "After the new and old driver updates, nobody knows where the problem occurred, but players can use this spectator mode to forcibly interact with other players."

"Ah? Forcibly interact?"

Chen Ba’s eyes widened, his face full of disbelief, "The forcibly interact you’re talking about is the one I’m thinking of?"

"Yes, exactly that forcibly!"

"And this interaction doesn’t happen within ’Star Emperor 2’ game battles, but... how to say, you’ll understand by watching this video."

Probably not knowing how to describe it to Chen Ba, an out-of-words Xiong Hongping took out a recently uploaded video from last night, which had reached over five million views today, a popular video on Thunderbolt.