Chapter 617: Anti-Political Correctness

"My goodness, is this really a domestic game?" Xi Hongshi had only just finished the first wave of monsters in the first level of the prologue, and he was almost having an orgasm on the spot.

"This image quality, this action, this sound effect, just…… I don't know how to describe it to everyone; even those 3A masterpieces abroad aren't this outrageous!" Xi Hongshi said while controlling Cloud to perform various cool combos.

Clearly only having one big sword, he played it out like a flower; if he learned more advanced moves later, wouldn't the scene just explode?

"Brothers, everyone has seen the quality of this game; although the heroine hasn't been seen yet, I think just what is shown now already has the foundation of a masterpiece. As long as the plot doesn't collapse, it will absolutely become a hot game of the year!"

As a Xi Hongshi who had played single-player games for more than ten years, he felt an extraordinary refreshment in "Final Fantasy," so he made such an evaluation.

There was basically no rebuttal in the barrage; it was all "I'll buy it to death," "GKD, I want to see Tifa," and so on.

Xi Hongshi didn't talk nonsense and immediately pushed the plot.

But what he didn't expect was that the first female character to appear wasn't Tifa, but Yuffie.

Like Aerith, although Yuffie wasn't the heroine, because the modeling was beautiful and cute, she had gained quite a lot of popularity before the game was released.

And Yuffie in the real game scene added a lot of vitality compared to the plain modeling, looking full of energy.

And after killing the first BOSS of the game, the heroine Tifa, whom everyone had been thinking about for a long time, finally appeared.

She was sitting behind the bar counter wiping the bar; although it was only a back view, the charm had already made people lose their minds.

"Hehe…… Tifa, my Tifa." Xi Hongshi stretched out half his tongue, smiling until his eyes couldn't be seen, looking like a lovesick man.

"Against the sky!"

"You are not allowed to look; Tifa is mine…… wuwuwu."

"Go, were all the lovesick men blown out today?"

"Everyone had a sudden evil disease; it's too scary."

"Hurry up and talk to trigger the plot!"

………………

Under the urging of the barrage, Xi Hongshi stepped forward to talk to Tifa.

Tifa turned her head, her eyes clear and gentle, her face beautiful and quiet; that delicate skin like a real person had a sense of reality that all previous female game characters had never possessed.

"Ah, I'm dead!" Xi Hongshi looked as if he had been struck by Cupid's arrow, collapsing directly onto his chair.

And the barrage also became a large-scale "Ah Wei" death scene, with the whole screen full of "awsl."

Tonight, for countless game players, it was destined to be a sleepless night.

On Steam, "Final Fantasy" topped the list as the game with the most online players, historically breaking three million!

Although there were tens of thousands of refund applications, the number of new users buying the game was far more than the refunds.

The game's evaluation came out quickly, with rave reviews; 97.3% of users expressed appreciation for the game "Final Fantasy."

Undoubtedly, "Final Fantasy" succeeded; it achieved satisfaction for the vast majority of people and also realized the achievement of "acclaim and sales," which was extremely difficult to achieve in any industry.

Twelve hours after the game's release, the heat exploded in the domestic and foreign game circles; all game media were almost reporting the success of "Final Fantasy," and even used "a work that spans the era!"

Indeed, the image quality of "Final Fantasy" led the industry by a whole era, pulling the distance between virtual and reality to the closest.

Perhaps it wasn't the first game to start production using a next-generation engine, but it was the first to be released and succeed.

In this regard, "Final Fantasy" was equivalent to a pioneering existence, setting a benchmark for all latecomers; in the future, when next-generation games were released, they would inevitably have to compare with it.

In the future, those big intestines wanting to cut players' leeks through shoddy production or cold-frying might not be so easy.

However, these were problems that game practitioners needed to worry about.

Players didn't care about these at all now; they just wanted to devote themselves to the game.

Of course, there were also many people who didn't want to fight monsters or do side quests at all, just wanting to be with the beautiful Tifa.

The entry "Tifa" quickly hit the Twitter hot search trend; compared to the previous concept pictures, there were too many angles to observe Tifa in the game.

And the deluxe version could also provide quite a lot of clothing for replacement, and there was a photo mode; a group of players forcibly completed the JRPG as a dating game.

However, the huge heat also attracted the attention of many outsiders.

People with ulterior motives immediately began to act.

It had been said before that European and American games were the hardest-hit areas for political correctness; black people, feminism, LGBT—as long as one group wasn't taken care of, or they felt that this game offended them, they would immediately strike.

Lightly, the game would be rectified, and the main creator would apologize.

Heavily, it would be directly taken down, and even have to bear legal responsibility.

There were black people in the protagonist group of "Final Fantasy," and they were positive characters, so there was no problem.

As for LGBT, the plot didn't mention any relevant information, so it also passed safely.

However, it didn't pass safely with feminism.

The American Feminist Alliance accused "Final Fantasy" with reasons such as "objectifying women," "disrespecting women," and "creating appearance and body anxiety," demanding immediate adjustments to the game characters and the issuance of an apology announcement.

This was their common practice for foreign games; the well-known netizen League of Legends was messed up by this organization, so that the female heroes released later were either black or orcs; except for Seraphine, there wasn't a single sexy sweet girl.

As for other single-player games, they were even more deeply poisoned; the newly released female characters were almost all aunt faces, looking distressing, and were a world of difference from those female characters in Japan.

It was precisely because of such a long drought that players in Europe and America were not an exaggeration to say they were grateful when they saw the female characters in "Final Fantasy."

Because they hadn't seen female characters with normal beauty for a long, long time, not to mention that now Tifa and Aerith, girls who looked like fairies, came out?

However, because girls were happy with their appearance and figure, feminists weren't happy, thinking this was exploitation and inequality.

Correcting things by going too far and making trouble without reason were the biggest characteristics of this group of people.

Although they weren't as extreme as domestic "female fists" who scolded people when they saw them or made reasons to scold when there were no reasons.

However, because of the bias of foreign laws, the destructive power these feminists could cause was even greater.

Several game companies were fined a huge amount of money because of this, which was why no European or American company dared to make beauties now.

Riot Games belonged to backing Tencent, coupled with the influence of League of Legends, so they could occasionally taste something fresh, but they didn't dare to go too far.

Like "Final Fantasy," it was simply defying the world, belonging to a provocation to feminist organizations, so it immediately welcomed an attack.

The related topic had already hit the first place on Twitter hot search; more than sixty thousand tweets were almost all men and women scolding each other, and Miss Luo Quan, as the game producer and company boss, was @ed many times.

A small number of boys publicly stated that if the game was really rectified because of being scolded, they would take an AK to the organization's headquarters in New York and shoot; you destroy my girl, I will slaughter your heaven!

Although this statement was folded and shielded because of the suspicion of inciting violence, more and more boys came out to speak, making promises of similar preparation for revenge.

If the female characters in "Final Fantasy" really changed from goddesses to aunt faces, maybe desperate male players would really go berserk on the spot.

Seeing that the situation was developing in a direction of losing control, Miss Luo Quan immediately released a dynamic:

"Here, I first appeal to the players of 'Final Fantasy': no matter what, please keep calm; life is very precious, whether it is your own or someone else's."

"In addition, here I also respond to the accusations of a certain organization."

"First, 'Final Fantasy' will not make any unnecessary adjustments, and I have not objectified women."

"Because the face model and body model of the heroine Tifa Lockhart in 'Final Fantasy' are myself; this is equivalent to me performing in the game."

"If this is objectifying women to please men, then do I myself have to go to a plastic surgery hospital for adjustments?"

"I was born looking like this; is it illegal for me to create a game character according to my own appearance?"

"If this also violates your taboos, then I think this is the greatest oppression of women."

Actually, some of Miss Luo Quan's thoughts weren't particularly impeccable, but generally, there was no problem.

A set of combination punches came down, and it also stunned those feminist organizations.

The most beautiful in the world used herself as a model to make a game character, and making it very beautiful—wasn't that a matter of course?

Just as Miss Luo Quan said, if this couldn't be accepted, then she herself was an unreasonable existence and needed plastic surgery.

If this were said, people all over the world would spray them with dog blood.

At the same time, TCC also came out to post a dynamic to stand for the "leading actress" Miss Luo Quan:

"No matter what, beauty is not a sin."

As an authoritative website for selecting beauties and handsome men, TCC hadn't been attacked less by these organizations; now that they had caught the opportunity, they certainly had to come out and step on it.

Soon, the trend of public opinion began to stand on Miss Luo Quan's side.

The melon-eating masses felt:

People performed in their own games; what does it have to do with you monsters and ghosts? It's simply making trouble out of nothing.

This time, the foreign feminists who had always been invincible suffered a big loss at Miss Luo Quan's place.

However, speaking of which, these people weren't actually serious feminists, just hanging sheep heads to sell dog meat.

Saying they were fighting for benefits for women, they were just using this excuse to seek profit.

True feminists weren't like this; those women who fought for equal rights were worthy of respect.

As for these people, saying they were scum in society was elevating them.

In short, after Miss Luo Quan responded, these people immediately subsided.

On one hand, they really didn't know how to refute, and on the other hand, they were probably afraid that their headquarters would be shot by game fans with AKs.

The United States could be said to be fierce in this regard of gunfights; saying online that you were going to shoot somewhere, there was a high probability that you would really go; it wasn't joking with you.

For the sake of their little lives, these people didn't dare to publish any attacking remarks against "Final Fantasy" again.

Miss Luo Quan was also relieved on this side.

She had guessed very early on that there would be such a disaster; political correctness, after all, couldn't be avoided abroad.

However, others had Zhang Liang's plan, and she had a wall-climbing ladder.

You say I objectify women, then I objectify myself; you can't replace me in law enforcement, right?

Through this way, Miss Luo Quan finally turned danger into safety.

And "Final Fantasy," in the 72-hour statistics after release, also happily won the proud result of global full-platform sales breaking 5 million.

This wasn't the best in game history, but considering it came from China and wasn't a big IP adaptation, nor did it come from any big factory, having such a result could already be called a miracle.

And now the game's reputation could be called the best of 2018, with the positive rate consistently maintained above 95%; if it continued to ferment like this, sales showing reverse growth would be a matter of time.

IGN estimated that the sales of "Final Fantasy" would be over 20 million, and entering the game's platinum hall would be a matter of time.

As a milestone work, it had extraordinary symbolic significance; as for sales and the like, they were actually not important anymore.

"Final Fantasy" could be considered to have made a name for Springwater Entertainment and truly established a priceless hot IP; even if the next work was a pile of dog shit, it could at least sell millions.

Of course, Miss Luo Quan certainly wouldn't squander her hard-won reputation like that.

And since her debut, she had never made up the numbers; all works were produced by her with heart.

At the same time, in the company of Springwater Entertainment in Shanghai, a team of hundreds of people was celebrating.

The big sale of "Final Fantasy" this time didn't exceed everyone's expectations, but after all, it was their own painstaking work.

To ensure quality and speed, they didn't know how many nights this team of hundreds of people had stayed up and how much hair they had lost.

Now that the effort had been rewarded, it wasn't in vain for so many days and nights of hard work.

"Boss Luo has already said that 'Final Fantasy' sold very well this time, so she decided to give everyone two months' salary as a reward, and there will be extra rewards at the end of the year!" Li Jiang had just finished talking to Miss Luo Quan on the phone and now couldn't wait to tell the employees the good news.

The salary Miss Luo Quan gave to the employees under her was basically at the top level in the industry; two months' salary was tens of thousands, which was really a huge sum of money.

"Boss Luo is generous!"

Soon, enthusiastic cheers rang out in the whole company, all singing praises to Miss Luo Quan.

At the same time, Miss Luo Quan was also playing games in the live broadcast room.

But it wasn't playing "Final Fantasy," but the popular role-playing game "Legendary World."

After winning the S8 League of Legends championship, although she was very happy, she also temporarily entered a period of fatigue for this game; under the recommendation of fans, she began to enter the pit of a new game.

Anyway, it was live streaming; whatever everyone liked to watch, she would broadcast. ===== CHAPTER 618 =====