Chapter 1106: Chapter 1016 [Happy April Fool’s Day!]_1 Chapter 1106: Chapter 1016 [Happy April Fool’s Day!]_1 Every time Cloud Dream releases a new game, it feels like a festival within the player community.
This atmosphere even overflows from the player circle, triggering quite a stir on the Internet, and even in reality.
In some companies with a relatively young average age, the [Cloud Dream New Game Release Date] is quite distressing as it almost equates to [Employee Collective Leave Day].
Of course, correspondingly, some companies have already laid out plans, directly implementing a matching off-duty system –
Once the release date of the new Cloud Dream game is confirmed, employees can decide independently if they want to swap this day with the nearest rest day.
Even some younger small companies, where the boss is an avid Cloud Dream fan, grant an unconditional day off on the new game release day.
This kind of system even became a recruitment benefit.
Chasing Wind’s company is like this: Those who want to take leave, do so directly, while those who want to work are considered overtime and are given extra wages.
This mentality isn’t exclusive to Daxia, but mirrors the attitude across various countries overseas.
And all of this is just a small side effect of the virtual world impacting reality.
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Ordinary players are this way, and professional streamers are no exception.
No matter what the previous schedule was, since a new Cloud Dream game has been released, they would certainly live stream the new game.
Even before 8 o’clock, looking at the gaming zones across all the major live streaming platforms by 7:30, everyone was chatting and waiting for the release of “Dark Soul”.
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What’s even more interesting: the Cloud Dream Live Streaming Platform was never limited to domestic Daxia from the start, now almost all broadcasters from countries around the world have gathered.
And many people will choose to set the clock of the virtual house to match the time in their own country.
This means: though they are all live streaming at the same time with the same content, some of them have broad daylight outside the window, while for some others, it’s night.
If you are careful enough, you can even find streamers from all 24 time zones across the globe.
Of course, only Leander would be delighted about this, anxious players waiting for the new game don’t have the desire to leisurely explore this feature.
— -At least not right now.
Now, everyone is excitedly fixed on the grey [Buy] button on the “Dark Soul” release page, eagerly waiting for it to turn red.
During the final 10 seconds, Yi even started a high-pitched countdown in the live broadcast room –
“10!”
“9!”
“8!”
He couldn’t endure his anticipation and wanted to install it right away.
Under his enthusiastic influence, the live-streamer community also started joining in, posting comments in tandem:
“3!”
“2!”
“1!”
“Charge!” Yi clicked frantically on the panel, wanting to hit the [Buy] button as soon as possible.
But after tapping the grayed-out button more than 30 times in 5 seconds with the fastest hand speed, nothing changed on the screen in front of him.
“What’s up?” Yi was very surprised, insistently clicking the gray button a few more times, “Is the Cloud Dream server lagging?”
This was also the first reaction of global players.
Despite Cloud Dream never having this issue before, server lag was the most intuitive explanation.
However, after Yi had been clicking madly for a minute with no response, and none of the more than 8 million viewers in the broadcast room reported successful purchase, it was clear the situation couldn’t be explained by simply “server delay”.
A question mark slowly appeared above Yi’s head.
He finally realized that something was going wrong.
While opening Spiritual Rhinoceros, he asked his viewers in the broadcast room:
“What’s up?
Does anyone know what’s going on?”
“Has Cloud Dream’s server exploded?”
“Or has Lincoln gone mad?”
…
The huge audience of the broadcast room quickly found the reason for him –
“Go check out the dynamic of Chang’an’s official account!”
“Damn!
It’s April Fool’s Day?”
“Shit, I have to go to work now!”
…
Yi didn’t even need to check the homepage of the official account of “Chang’an”.
When he opened Spiritual Rhinoceros, his own homepage feed was filled with statuses forwarding the “Chang’an” official account’s post, and expressing their sentiments with elegant national curses.
The post issued by “Chang’an” official account was pretty simple, only five words –
[Happy April Fool’s Day!]
In comparison, the reposts and comments from the players were much more colorful:
“April Fool’s Day?
April Fool’s Day?
April Fool’s Day?
April Fool’s Day?!!”
“Damn you!
I even took my annual leave!”
“This is outrageous, I’m glad it’s only 8 o’clock, I still have time to go to work, I’m off.”
…
“Cloud Dream, you’ve betrayed my trust!”
“Emergency order: [Ziri Art Knife]*3, Delivery address: Cloud Dream Headquarters!”
“This is obviously Lincoln’s bastard doing!
You wait for me!
I am coming to your house now!”
“What the hell?!
Are you kidding me?”
“cyka blyat!”
“Merde alors!”
…
At first, it was the Daxia players who were voicing various curses, but soon internet users from America, Mexico, United Kingdom, Russia, and France started to voice their criticism against Lincoln and the “Chang’an” project team in the comment section.
Obviously, their April Fool’s Day wasn’t joyful at all!
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The developers were sweating bullets watching the torrent-like public opinion, fearing that their boss might have gone off the rails.
Quentina was speechless about Lincoln’s risky behavior, sighed and returned to the front desk, telling everyone to be ready.
Possibly, they would receive a continuous stream of packages from the same city an hour later.
These packages might be filled with knives along with offensive letters, there might even be substitutes for cussing at them in person.
Everyone should be prepared mentally.
Then she phoned the property management and the security of the garden area to be on their guard.
Finding Cheryl, she had her post a status [oh, the boss is skipping work again today], telling players: Lincoln isn’t at the company today, if you want to find Lincoln, go directly to his house, do not come to the company…
Anyway, nobody knows where Lincoln’s house is.
Of course, not everyone is clueless.
Yi knows it.
But at the moment, he was too shocked to notice, entirely unexpected that Cloud Dream would make such a move.
After regaining his composure, he did not heed the streamer community’s goading to immediately contact Lincoln and engage in a verbal fight – since he’s not a fool.
He merely sent Lincoln a series of question marks – After the end of the “Metropolitan News,” Lincoln stopped rejecting his messages.
Lincoln shamelessly replied to him: [Surprised?
Did you expect that?]
“Surprise your grandpa!” Yi ranted.
However, he, of course, would not say such words directly to Lincoln.
He just texted Lincoln grudgingly, asking: [So when is “Dark Soul” going to be released?]
Lincoln once again immediately replied:
[Guess?]
Yi was left speechless, he tossed his cell phone aside and said, “What a waste of my early waking up!
I’m going to sleep, see you in the afternoon, everyone.”
“Goodbye, goodbye.”
After finishing, he truly ended the stream quickly, disappearing from the camera.
As for those players in other time zones where it’s supposed to be the sleeping hours, they didn’t even bother to comment; they fell asleep right away.
Ivan Ivanov, who woke up at three in the morning, is one of them.
He turned off the live stream utterly speechless, crawled into his bed and went straight to sleep.
As for Daxia—
Players who asked for a leave wailed about wasting their leave.
At Chasing Wind’s corporation, the HR Manager mass texted the entire staff: [Special holiday cancelled, regular work day today.]
The internet was full of lament.
The “headline” that Lincoln anticipated was undoubtedly achieved—
[Cloud Dream new game release date was an April Fool’s Day joke!]
[The release date for “Dark Soul” was false, still no confirmed release date!]
[Unbelievable joke!]
…
Various game media, finance media, gossip media, and even social media are forwarding this news, effortlessly turning the [player’s circle] event into a trending gossip that the entire internet is paying attention to.
What Lincoln did generated even more buzz than a regular new game release.
The only downside is: after this maneuver, the resentment from the players is quite high…
However, Lincoln didn’t think it was a problem.
Because the phrase [Happy April Fool’s Day] is the actual [April Fool’s Day joke].
And the release of “Dark Soul” is indeed today!
As long as the players get engrossed in the new game, they probably won’t worry about this resentment much.
— Probably…
Lincoln sat on a small sofa, chuckling as he watched the players rant hysterically and the seconds ticked by.
Two hours slipped by slowly in this manner.
Then, it was 10 o’clock.
The gray [Purchase] button on the “Dark Soul” release page silently turned red.
Afterward, without any notice from Cloud Dream, the sales data in the backend suddenly started jumping!
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