Chapter 71: Forum War (Third Update)

The Dark Lands held extraordinary significance in the eyes of Li Zheng and the other hardcore players.

This game restored the joy of teaming up and playing together they once had, and also solved their material needs in the real world.

It can be said that this game gave them a brand new future.

Learning that players on the "Rise of the Human Race" forum's Dark Lands section were spreading rumors and slandering the game instantly ignited the anger of the hardcore player group.

Family Sharing Godfather: Seeing Li Zheng's screenshot made my liver ache with rage; spreading rumors isn't taxed, is it? It's all pure fabrication from start to finish.

So Poor I Eat Dirt: Hah, this player is sick; he even mentioned loading lag in the post. I've played for nearly a month and never encountered such a situation. He's a pure retard; he's just saying this to farm traffic.

Killing Intent Stirs: Since he dares to spread rumors, he clearly prepared himself to be roasted; I'm logging into my forum account right now to roast him.

Leopard Head Zero Recharge: It's too disgusting; what benefit does spreading rumors bring him? Not a single word in the post is true. Delayed feedback, modeling details, scene bugs—these problems do exist, and I wouldn't say his claims are wrong, but the problem is there isn't a single one of them! Brothers, charge at him and roast him hard.

After exchanging words, the hardcore players logged into their "Rise of the Human Race" forum accounts and entered the post to unleash a frenzy of roasting.

Through simple insults, they achieved ultimate enjoyment and inflicted mental devastation damage on the target.

Soon, they flooded the post with over a hundred comments.

Tianding City.

After finishing a day's work, Dong Wei returned to his room, changed clothes, and had a simple dinner before eagerly rushing to his desk to turn on his computer.

Before starting the game, as usual, he intended to check the forum messages first.

At that moment, he noticed a red reply notification with "99+" popping up in the top right corner of his forum account.

Realizing that the post he published yesterday had sparked heated discussion among forum players, Dong Wei immediately clicked the exclamation mark to see what the players had actually replied.

But upon seeing the performance of linguistic artistry in the reply section, Dong Wei's expression became extremely dramatic.

He discovered he was being besieged by a group of game players.

The cause was that the post he published had become slanderous remarks in the eyes of this group of players, which made Dong Wei extremely angry.

On the first day the game "Dark Lands" launched, he was very lucky to snatch a qualification and participate in the game experience as one of the first batch of players.

He liked this game from the bottom of his heart.

He even believed that in the next ten years, or even twenty, no game superior to Dark Lands would appear.

However, a series of optimization problems existing in the game did indeed affect the gaming experience.

He listed these problems on the forum for publication, mostly hoping the game would improve the issues existing at launch to give players a better gaming experience.

Every item he published was evaluated from a relatively objective experiential perspective.

Although he stated in the post that the game Dark Lands could not be called a groundbreaking masterpiece, he also believed from the bottom of his heart that this game was the strongest virtual game in the world, without exception.

He never expected the discussion post he published would attract all kinds of malicious comments.

"Dog of the Eclipse Clan!"

Scrolling down to read the content, Dong Wei laughed in anger.

He felt he must have provoked a group of colonizers.

The characteristic of this group is that they cannot bear to hear anyone speak ill of the Eclipse Clan; upon seeing such views on the Star Network, they jump out to protect their master. Even if someone's remarks are the truth, although they are members of the Human Federation, they are spiritually Eclipse Clan people on the Star Network, yearning for the Eclipse Clan's advanced technology and welfare system.

Perhaps many players among them were led astray by this group of colonizers and joined the condemnation against him.

Feeling aggrieved, he immediately typed a reply:

Birth Certificate: Are you all sick in the head? Which sentence in the views I expressed has a problem? Although it carries my own emotions, they are relatively objective evaluations; is it necessary to roast me immediately? Internet trolls, are you sick!

His comment had just been posted when he received a reply:

Killing Intent Stirs replied to Birth Certificate: A stinky loach gets a bit of seawater and actually thinks itself seafood? Is your definition of "objective" different from ours? So-called objective is just fabricating false content and slandering at will?

Game Grinders replied to Birth Certificate: A toad jumping off a cliff, pretending to be Batman for me. Objective comment, my ass! Everything you listed is completely fake. Don't think that just because you were lucky enough to snatch a game purchase qualification you can randomly fabricate rumors and deceive players who didn't get game qualifications.

Leopard Head Zero Recharge replied to Birth Certificate: The delayed feedback problem you mentioned in the post is obviously not an issue with the Eclipse Clan server's processing speed, but rather your thinking is like an old computer with insufficient memory that frequently crashes; you blame the game for your own problems, you trash.

So Poor I Eat Dirt replied to Birth Certificate: Your brain is like an old Wi-Fi signal, sometimes strong, sometimes weak, and mostly disconnected; your brain's loading speed is slower than the game, making everything look laggy. You don't deserve to play such an advanced game; play some low-IQ games adapted to your brain instead, guaranteed zero lag.

Fun Without Paying replied to Birth Certificate: You adopted Erlang Shen as your master, making you so proud; still claiming objective evaluation. If everyone were as "objective" as you, all things in this world could be described at will, after all, spreading rumors isn't taxed and bragging isn't illegal.

Under the continuous bombardment in the comment section, Dong Wei's hand holding the water cup trembled with rage.

This group of online thugs attacking him didn't use a single dirty word in their replies, but the text of the replies made his blood pressure skyrocket.

Even though everything he said was fact, in front of this group of online thugs who turned black into white, it was completely useless.

It felt like punching cotton; he had strength but nowhere to release it, and explaining simply didn't work.

After a brief silence, he stood up and walked toward the game pod.

Since the online thugs chose to attack him using numerical superiority, he would use the same method to counterattack.

Before publishing this post, he had discussed these problems with many players in the game's built-in forum and received consistent agreement.

Now he decided to seek help from the game's built-in forum.

One hour later.

Real world, Rise of the Human Race forum.

The number of replies to the post published by Dong Wei kept climbing, and a large number of players who purchased Dark Lands joined the battlefield.

They targeted Li Zheng and other players, launching a reply bombardment mode.

The replies were filled with remarks such as: stupid dog, Eclipse colonizer, turning black into white, loyal dog protecting its master, and so on.

These replies also greatly stimulated Li Zheng and others.

Hardcore Chat Group:

Game Grinders: Good lord, did we give him too much face? He spreads rumors and refuses to admit it, and after stubbornly acting like a dead duck, he brings in water army to besiege us; I'm so angry.

So Poor I Eat Dirt: Online rumor-mongering nowadays is too crazy; a post that is purely fabricated actually received so many netizens' approval. This obviously fake post even has people following the trend to scold us. If what they said were all true, I would just shut up and take the scolding, but the problem is everything we said is fact; how come all the idiot netizens are standing on our opposite side?

Leopard Head Zero Recharge: The most ridiculous thing is that many voices say "Birth Certificate's" remarks are not wrong, and claim they all bought the game and personally experienced the game content, confirming that some problems mentioned in the post do exist and indeed affect the game body... I feel that all such remarks are water army bought by the OP.

Family Shared Godfather: Indeed, how could players who have truly experienced the game not know whether it is good or not? The main issue is that the Eclipse Clan released far too few game qualifications, resulting in a massive surge of cloud players online. They take any offhand opinion from others as absolute truth; it is utterly brainless.

Fun Without Paying: Let's go to the in-game forum and rally people. I'm furious. I was @'d in over 200 replies, and the insults were extremely vicious. I cannot swallow this indignity.

Game Grinders: Let's go, enter the game forum and rally people. Everyone on the in-game forum are real players. They love the game Dark Lands just as much as we do; surely many players will speak up to help.

Ten minutes later, a new post appeared on the Monster World in-game forum.

The poster was none other than Seeing Li Zheng. As one of the first batch of players, he had posted numerous newbie guides on the forum, gaining the attention of many players.

The post he published received a massive number of replies from players in a short time.

【Let me tell everyone about something infuriating. I've been cyberbullied...】

Poster: Game Grinders.

Content: The cause was that while browsing the Rise of the Human Race forum - Dark Lands section, I saw a post. The poster slandered and spread rumors about the Dark Lands game experience, citing issues such as game information feedback, modeling details, scene bugs, and a series of other problems.

The brothers on the forum are players who have truly experienced the game content; naturally, they understand these remarks are fabricated out of thin air, purely invented to slander, with not a single fact in them. So, in anger, I took a few brothers to give the OP a warm greeting. Who would have thought the other party actually paid for water army trolls, and a huge number of players who haven't purchased the game followed suit to reply...

Nightfall Approaches: Just hearing about it is infuriating. I'm logging off right now to lend a hand to the Grinders brother.

Dark Lands is Truly Fun: After reading the post content, my fists are already clenched. To claim in the post description that the game Dark Lands is not a game of its era is simply Wang Ba behavior. I'm logging off right now to march out and punish these traitors!

Explorer: Although this game gave me quite a bit of painful experience, the game freedom is absolutely undeniable. Using this as a point for slander and attack is simply nonsense. I request to join the battle.

Wo Si Ni Die: Big brother, sell me some more Shou Shou Jili. I haven't seen you selling for several days. You said you were a Grinders player, yet you've switched to the Power Player route. However, I support you on this matter. I'm mobilizing the guild brothers to join the fight immediately.

The heat of the post published by Seeing Li Zheng continued to climb. More and more players applied to join the battle, logging off one after another to head to the Rise of the Human Race forum to fight.

The post published by Dong Wei thus became the battlefield for verbal sparring between players of both sides.

The heat of the post also climbed in a straight line, quickly being pinned to the top of the forum's homepage in the hot discussion section.

This also attracted more onlookers to join in.

After seeing the viewpoints of both sides arguing, many players who hadn't bought the game felt completely confused.

Fishing Guy's Leisurely Life: Your viewpoints have left me baffled. You are all players of the same game, so how are your viewpoints completely different? Although every player's experience and feeling of the game differs, your differing viewpoints are too extreme. One side claims there is lag, while the other side claims there is absolutely no lag. The viewpoints you are discussing are very intuitive experience contents; how can such different experience differences exist? I now suspect that one side of you players consists entirely of cloud players.

Artificial Stupidity: Tsk tsk, watching all the way through, the mutual cursing between both sides is truly wonderful. It feels like returning to the ancient era. Various arts of language are sublimated in this post. I love watching it. You two continue to argue; you must determine a winner (Go for it. jpg).

Sunflower: Hah, you guys are hilarious. If the viewpoints you are arguing about were about the pros and cons of game play modes, I could understand it. After all, a game fun to some players isn't necessarily suitable for others. But the viewpoints you are arguing about are issues regarding game optimization; that is simply ridiculous. Is there even a need to argue about this? Can't it be distinguished at a glance?

Wo Si Ni Die replied to Sunflower: Isn't that exactly the case? If they were attacking the game play modes, I wouldn't even bother cursing them. After all, everyone has different thoughts; even the most delicious food has people who think it tastes bad. Differing viewpoints are understandable. But what they are attacking is content that can be distinguished as true or false at a glance. Fabricating rumors and slandering is utterly detestable.

Dark Hunter replied to Wo Si Ni Die: I only saw this because the post was pinned as a hot topic. I am not a friend or relative of either side. As a player who purchased game qualifications in the second batch, I stand on the side of truth. I think you indeed have problems. I even suspect you are cloud players. If you had truly played the game, you wouldn't say such things. The game is good, yes, but the optimization issues do exist. Yet you are still arguing and making excuses in various ways; it is truly disgusting.

Is This Beaver? replied to Dark Hunter: Who is being disgusting? You claim to stand on the side of truth? Don't get your wires crossed. You are the other side's water army. Claiming to have snatched qualifications in the second batch? If you had truly played the game, you wouldn't say such disgusting things.

More Dazzling Than the Sun replied to Is This Beaver?: Cloud players, stop making a scene. How much money are you earning? Working so hard to whitewash for them?

Divine Wing replied to More Dazzling Than the Sun: (Bank Card Balance. jpg) Take this to verify if it's a real image. I also want to ask you: how much money are you earning? Working so hard to whitewash? Does earning money by publishing various slanderous remarks not burn your hands?

The content of the mutual cursing in the comment section increased in intensity as time passed, causing more and more players to join the battlefield.

From initially cursing each other for slandering and smearing, it gradually escalated to personal insults. Players on both sides even posted their bank card deposit balances to prove their financial strength, believing the other side was purely a disruptive water army.

The high-intensity mutual cursing also attracted the attention of the forum officials.

The mutual cursing between players of pirated games and players of legitimate games finally came to an end at 1 AM.

The post with over 100,000 floors of cursing was banned and deleted by the Rise of the Human Race forum officials. All players who had posted content in the thread received a 24-hour mute.

However, neither side of players admitted defeat. They still firmly believed that the opposing side was a water army and not real players at all.

After all, for an issue distinguishable at a glance, the other side is still making excuses. What else could this be but water army behavior?

The only thing that left players on both sides puzzled was where the other side hired such a massive number of water army trolls from, not to mention they all appeared to be quite wealthy.

This point can be seen from the subsequent posting of bank card balances, property deeds, and other content.

These images were verified by AI; it can be confirmed there are no Photoshop traces. They are all real images.

After returning to Dark Lands and Monster World, players on both sides discussed this matter again on their respective in-game forums.

However, on their own turf, their viewpoints received approval from other players of the same game, and no voices of opposition or refutation appeared anymore.

The first dramatic battle between the two sides of players thus came to a close.

(End of Chapter)