450 Discrediting is easy to deal with, sales are the key
The Internet advocates freedom and naturally has anti-authority characteristics.
So when the media scores and player scores have a huge difference, many players are like conditioned reflexes and stand opposite to major game media, believing that the other party's rating of "Terraria" is hugely different from the public score, so they must have collected money.
For a time, whether in China, Japan, Europe and the United States, on major social networks, the discussion topics about Terracotta Warriors and Horses entertainment sucked money to major game media, allowing "Terraria" to get high scores became popular.
In fact, 99% of these netizens who criticize authoritative game media and Terracotta Warriors Entertainment have never played "Terraria" and are just following the trend. They want to gain a sense of presence by participating in popular online events, or to gain a sense of superiority by criticizing authoritative game companies and media.
Originally, if the sales of "Terraria" were not affected by this wave of steam Christmas promotions and more players bought and played the game as soon as possible, then the malicious slander rumors on the Internet would not be so easy to form a climate.
Now, players who have played Terraria and know the true quality of this game are too small in the face of overwhelming criticism and attacks.
Sometimes, once the rhythm is brought up, it is very difficult to reverse it.
Pangbai was paying attention to the direction of public opinion on the Internet, and was very anxious.
As a game media worker, he wants to record these news information one by one and use them as program material. However, as a fan of Terracotta Warriors and Horses Entertainment, Qin Han and a loyal player of "Terraria", Pang Bai hopes that he can do something to reverse the current adverse public opinion situation for this game.
After returning home from get off work, Pang Bai will collect evidence of "Terraria" being maliciously scored on major scoring websites led by Metacritic, and then take screenshots one by one.
On the "Donghu", the largest knowledge question and answer platform in China, the topic of "Terraria" stuffing money on game media was also discussed very enthusiastically.
One of the hot topics: "How to evaluate the common phenomenon of media rating fraud in the gaming industry now", attracting many gamers and game practitioners to participate in the discussion.
Pangbai immediately pasted the screenshots he collected and accompanied them with text instructions.
"Although game manufacturers are no longer new to get money from the media for their games to get good reviews. But this time, it is obvious that there are competitors of Terracotta Warriors Entertainment who are deliberately manipulating public opinion and slandering them."
Yangyang, a large post with reasonable and evidence, pictures and truth at the end, Pangbai wrote: "As a rational and objective player who only speaks for good games, I am very puzzled by the series of events that happened today. Is the anti-intellectualization of the Internet so serious? Many people can criticize a game that has never been played and do not understand it, just to show off their speed. Maintaining the atmosphere of the game industry requires not only manufacturers, but also players to practice it. If players always let rumors be at will, and make the manufacturers who really devote themselves to making good games suffer losses, then what awaits us will be a bad currency and chasing good coins. No one is willing to make games with heart, but they will only promote and hype, and engage in vicious competition..."
Although Pangbai's final lyricism did not receive much recognition from netizens, the evidence he brought out still won a lot of praise.
Many netizens have also begun to spontaneously collect information and sort out the whole story, hoping that more people will know the truth.
"I have tried my best. I hope that Terracotta Warriors and the Qin and Han dynasties can survive this level." Fat Bai thought to himself.
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On the other hand, Qin Han didn't know that he was worried by Chinese fans who were far away from the ocean. Although he was a little surprised by the sudden outbreak on the Internet today, he was not panicked.
He had long been accustomed to asking the navy army and bribing the media, and these smearing methods were used to it, so he quickly took countermeasures.
With the relationship between CEO Fumitsu Shimazu, Terracotta Warriors Entertainment contacted a very famous "Internet media marketing company" in the industry.
Since some people want to deliberately slander, there will be no guilt when they use the same means to fight back.
Of course, Qin Han would not adopt the idiot method of "If you ask the navy to get 1 point, I will ask the navy to get 100 points" which can be seen through at a glance.
His advantage is that the "facts" are on his side, but they are blinded by lies for a while.
Affected by unprecedented Christmas promotions, the first-day sales of the Steam version of Terraria are far lower than expected. Moreover, there are probably a considerable number of players who have really played this game now. They are immersed in the game world and have no idea of the sudden changes on the Internet.
So, sometimes it is not a good thing to do the game too much and make players too addicted.
Although Qin Han believed that even if he did nothing, as time went by, the reputation of "Terraria" would eventually reverse and get the fair evaluation it deserved, it would be too late to miss the golden sales window when the game was first launched.
No matter how good your reputation is, what's the use of not making money?
The task Qin Han assigned to his "water army" was to spread the truth that someone maliciously scored low points against "Terraria".
Let the majority of players who have not had time to get in touch with this game understand its true quality.
This is not a very difficult thing. After all, Fat White can easily find evidence of Metacritic's malicious low scores, and others can do it too.
Moreover, on steam, the total reviews of "Terraria" that are now "received" are not decorations.
These are all the evaluations given by players who spent real money to buy the game, and the authenticity and persuasiveness of the game are beyond doubt.
Among the majority of netizens, there are people who like to blindly follow the trend and are easily misled by fake news, and naturally there are people who claim to be "rational, objective, and neutral".
After the evidence of someone deliberately slandering "Terraria" is released, more and more people will naturally appear.
Although whether it is a brainless troll or the so-called Like, most of them just want to gain a sense of satisfaction and superiority from such hot online events, it does not prevent Qin and Han from using and guiding these online public opinion forces.
Malicious smear on the Internet is not a headache for Qin Han.
He knew that the real challenge facing Terracotta Entertainment is how to sell more "Terraria", which was hit by the Christmas promotion and sales volume lower than expected.
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