Almighty Video Game Designer

Chapter 115: Chapter 114: Ultimate Tentacle Monster!

The representative let out a few awkward coughs and said, “Uhh, Mr Chen Mo, perhaps you don’t quite understand how this works. Here’s how it works…”

Chen Mo waved his hand, “You don’t need to, I fully understand what you do. I also know that Meteorite Technology is the top three overseas porting companies, especially in the western market. And you guys also have deep knowledge in the western market.

The representative from Meteorite Technology was shocked, Chen Mo obviously wasn’t someone to talk without doing her research.

Chen Mo continued, “And it’s also because of that reason that I would believe that you would accept my offer.

The Meteorite Technology representative was stunned.

Chen Mo continued, “You should understand the potential of a game like Warcraft because you understand the western market as well as the behaviour of western players.

“Let’s put it this way, Warcraft could be even more popular in western countries than in China. The objective of the game was to replace Legion Conquest and become the most popular RTS game in the world.

“I believe that you also understand this, so I’m not going to delve any deeper. If you aren’t willing to accept these terms, I’ll just move onto the next company.

“Even if Chinese companies aren’t going to take this deal, there are overseas companies that would for consideration as well. The decision is yours if you want to reject the opportunity to make big bucks.”

The representative was silent.

Chen Mo’s intentions were clear as day. He was obviously incredibly confident in Warcraft, and there was no point baiting him or trying to haggle.

Chen Mo’s attitude towards this was also incredibly stern, take it or leave it, there were many other companies in line.

After a few moments, the representative said, “Alright, I understand your intentions Mr Chen Mo. But I can’t make this decision now, I’ll have to consult and discuss with my colleagues.”

Chen Mo nodded, “Alright, I’ll give you two days. I want to emphasise that there will be no changing of terms, I hope you let the others know too.

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After sending the representative away, Chen Mo continued playing ranked games.

There were various different types of new posts everyday on the Warcraft forums, including strategies, victories, number analysis, and feedback.

Chen Mo had Su Jinyu monitor the forums to gather the feedback from the players. She was also ordered to gather the popular strategies and produce a short report every few days.

Qian Kun on the other hand was responsible for balancing. Of course, as the foundations were already laid down, the only balancing changes required were small changes in the decimal places, the players might not even be able to feel the difference.

However, Chen Mo still allowed Qian Kun to periodically make changes to the stats of units, and would be ordered to release after they were confirmed as a patch.

Zheng Hongxi on the other hand was responsible for writing posts of the World of Azeroth. He was provided a few simple entries by Chen Mo to fill in and polish.

After giving out work to everyone, Chen Mo became the person who had the most free time, playing ranked games everyday.

The people playing ranked also suffered the torture handed out by Chen Mo.

If Chen Mo wanted it to end, nobody was able to last over twenty minutes. Barely anyone would last over thirty minutes even if Chen Mo was messing around trying some other strategies.

Eventually Chen Mo couldn’t be bothered and even considered setting his elo to four thousand. But he declined to do so upon considering the fact that high ranked players would always have an eye on the leaderboard, and if some unknown player with a suspicious game history came out of nowhere, wouldn’t he just expose himself?

Luckily, Chen Mo made it so more points would be awarded for consecutive wins. According to his calculations, it should only take another day to reach over thirty-five hundred and would finally be able to play with the pros.

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Chen Mo felt that it was boring bullying noobs, but the noobs were incredibly unlucky.

There were many players minding their own business having fun in ranked, but would meet this freak who’d play random out of nowhere.

At the start they would think that it was free points, but it wouldn’t take more than five minutes to realise their mistake.

Destroyed by Blademaster +2.

Stepped on by three Undead Heroes.

Bullied by Humans building towers in their base.

One time there was a human player who had their peasants charmed by Dark Ranger which was used against them by building an ALtar of Kings, then summoning a Blood Mage and Archmage to box them in their base…

Who knows how many addicted teenagers were cured of their addiction during this time.

The worst thing was that a bunch of players complained on the forum, only to realise they weren’t the only ones to suffer the fate. There were players that experienced it from one thousand all the way to three thousand points!

And it was the same person, someone with the ID Silent playing random race!

The player was also known to be incredibly quiet and would never say anything other than a GG at the end of the game. They would never talk trash or respond to any questions, some even theorised that it might be some artificial intelligence developed by some large company.

It didn’t take long before posts regarding ‘Random God Silent’ started appearing, and guessing who Silent was became a common occurrence.

“I met that Silent guy today, I didn’t believe before that someone above three thousand couldn’t last more than twenty-five minutes, but I’ve experienced it first hand today!”

“I was destroyed by his Undead.”

“Previous poster, I was destroyed by his Humans.”

“How can he be able to play every single race? Are all of them at a level of three thousand points? What kind of monster is this guy?”

“Previous OP, it’s not that they are played at a skill level of three thousand points, but they destroy three thousand point players with every race. It’s a completely different ball game…”

“Do you think the ID is actually managed by four different people? Four different pros who play different races pranking us?”

“Wow, do you think the pros are that bored? Four people pretending to be one? I’m amazed you managed to come up with that.”

The discussion went nowhere.

Moreover, many replays against Silent were sent to the forum, gaining the attention of many.

The conclusion was that it was inhuman!

Chen Mo’s Warcraft didn’t come with an APM functionality, but some fans and technological geeks made an APM plugin.

APM stands for Actions Per Minute (including mouse and keyboard. A higher APM meant that the player’s hand was moving faster, meaning that they would have an advantage in RTS games.

Normally someone with an effective APM around one hundred and forty was more than enough to play a game like Warcraft at a relatively high level. This meant that they would have to click their meaningfully (no repetitive, useless clicks)mouse one hundred and forty times a minute.

Professionals players would have an effective APM from one hundred and eight to two hundred and seven. A player like sky who had an APM of three hundred was pretty good.

In this world, even a god like Kaiser had an APM of two hundred, which was already considered peak performance.

But what was Silent’s APM?

Four hundred and sixty-six at the highest!

Usually in Warcraft, an APM of above five hundred must include a lot of useless actions, three hundred would usually be more than enough.

But Silent’s APM was four hundred and sixty-six, with very few useless actions!

This meant that he was reaching the limits of the human hand.

When the APM stats were released, there were even more who believed that Silent was an artificial intelligence, and even gave it a new nickname: Ultimate Tentacle Monster!