EBE Chapter 20 Coins
Chapter 20 Coins
Steel Coin is a professional player for the Fantasy Alliance.
His team has recently suffered ten consecutive losses. Each replay doesn't reveal any major problems; if anything, it's that this team, with an average age approaching twenty-five, is getting old.
Their skills can't keep up with those young people.
But they were not satisfied and wanted to steam it again.
However, this also caused a lot of pressure on this group of people, and their emotions were unstable. The same was true for Gang Beng.
Because of the professionalization of esports, professional players not only have to train and compete daily, but also stream in their spare time.
Gangbeng is currently streaming the high-ranking matches of Huanmeng.
However, like all games, the higher the rank, the fewer players there are. And active professional players like Gangbeng are naturally among the top tier in the ranked ladder.
This means that it usually takes him more than ten minutes to find a match. During this time, he usually takes the time to play some mini-games. Recently, he's been playing Plants vs. Zombies.
Because he was busy with training, he was unaware of the online discussions. It wasn't that no one in the livestream had mentioned problems with the game, but at the time he didn't have any other games to play, so he just kept playing. He was currently playing a hybrid version of Endless Treasure, the same version Lao Xian had played before, and had been playing it for two days. He had never encountered the crashing issues mentioned in the chat.
"Why is Brother Chen still playing this trash game?"
"Oh, it's just to kill some time when I'm bored, I can understand."
In the live chat, Steel Coin, already somewhat annoyed from being sent off by the Bentley team, became even more annoyed upon seeing the comments and instinctively retorted, "What's wrong with this game?"
Some fans offered explanations: "Yeah, what's so bad about this game? On the console gaming platform, since they started streaming this game, their viewership has been more than double what it was in the previous two or three months. I don't understand the mentality of those who constantly criticize this game online as trash."
"This game isn't trash? Bro, let's make money together!"
"Holy crap, this trash game is selling for 58 yuan and they can still brag about it? That's unbelievable!"
Steel Coin was also a little embarrassed when he heard this. Based on his understanding of games, 58 yuan wasn't expensive, so he bluntly said, "What's expensive about a clearly marked price? When you play those games from Sakurajima that have ridiculously inflated prices, you don't complain about how expensive they are."
These words were like igniting a powder keg. The previously quiet live stream room was instantly flooded with people criticizing him: "66666, you don't play professionally, you spend all your time studying other games, and you even rebel when others say something to you."
"Now I understand why domestic esports has always been so bad. They just play other games during training every day."
"I don't know what's so great about pretending."
"Haha, professional players are naturally superior, of course they can beat you bunch of lousy gamers."
"I'm speechless. How come there are fandoms everywhere? It's disgusting."
At this point, Steel Coin seemed to realize he had said the wrong thing. However, perhaps because he was in a really bad mood lately, he truly rebelled and shouted at the camera:
"What's wrong with this game? It's a bit pricey at 58 yuan, but it's a main game plus four DLCs, so it's not expensive at all."
And those people who come in every day complaining, "Ah, why can't I play other versions?" Is it some kind of rare feature that the game is fully unlocked in the second playthrough?
Most people are spoiled these days, spending all their time playing those mindless games. The moment a game requires even a little self-control, they start yelling and complaining that the game is no good.
Seriously, can they even understand how to play a game? If they can't, why don't they go home and play a simple connect-the-dots game? No, wait, with their intelligence, they probably can't even understand a simple connect-the-dots game.
The live chat exploded instantly. It was always them attacking others, never the other way around. All sorts of personal attacks flooded the screen.
Since Gangbeng had chosen to go head-to-head with the comments, he was naturally prepared to fight to the end. But before he could say anything, the screen in the live stream went black instantly.
A notification popped up on his screen indicating that he had been banned by the super admin.
"Depend on!"
Gangbeng angrily slammed the mouse in his hand onto the table. At the same time, the game matchmaking was successful, and he was waiting to join.
"Play XX!"
Still angry, Gangbeng cursed and quit the game. His teammates in the same training room noticed his abnormality. One of them, a man wearing glasses, saw him slamming the table and throwing the mouse and took the initiative to ask him what was wrong.
Old Chen? What's wrong?
Upon hearing his teammate's question, Gangbeng breathed a sigh of relief, shook his head to indicate that it was nothing, and then walked out of the training room.
The bespectacled man noticed his strange expression and followed him outside. The two walked to the outside of the training base, where Gangbeng lit a cigarette, took a deep drag, and then lit one for the person next to him.
The bespectacled man took the cigarette, took a deep drag himself, and spoke first:
"I know you're not convinced, and neither am I. If I were eighteen this year, I could easily crush those bastards with one hand. But so what? I'm old, twenty-eight. Everyone has to accept getting old."
"Captain, how can you expect me to admit I'm getting old? Lin Hui, that good-for-nothing, was so badly beaten by you back then that he didn't even dare to leave his tower. Now he's the world's number one mid laner. How can you expect me to accept that?"
The bespectacled man gave a wry smile, looked up at the starry sky, and said nothing more.
Although Gangbeng was criticizing the chat during his live stream today, what really bothered him was the team's increasingly poor performance.
However, the comments in the live stream didn't think so.
Gangbeng's ending of the live stream was like a declaration of victory for them. A group of people celebrated in the black screen live stream room, and all kinds of insulting comments were still being spammed.
Many slicers and audience members naturally wouldn't miss this opportunity, and in the time it takes to smoke a cigarette, it seems the whole internet knows about it.
Most people sided with the comments section, while countless others, feeling a sense of pride, went to Gangbeng's live stream for a "pilgrimage."
A minority of people thought Gangbeng'er's point was valid, given the popularity of Plants vs. Zombies and the significant increase in viewership for several streamers who broadcast the game.
So they also came to Gangbeng's live stream and started arguing with those people.
An incomprehensible online flame war unfolded in a black-screen live stream room.
The live streaming platform quickly took notice, and the news was reported up the chain of command, soon reaching Ren Wei's cousin.
Having just put his daughter to sleep, he tapped his fingers rhythmically on the table. He recalled his uncle's instructions, his brow furrowed, and he fell into deep thought.