“Hello, friends who are watching the live broadcast. I am Paul, who loves reviews the most. I am committed to bringing you the latest, most cutting-edge and most authentic game reviews and commentaries!”
Paul opened the live broadcast software and spoke skillfully to the camera.
“Those of you watching the live broadcast and seeing the environment around me might find it strange. Why is this evaluation being conducted outdoors?”
“Perhaps careful viewers have already noticed that the evaluation this time isn’t only outdoors, but it is obviously not in my own country. That’s right, please enjoy the live evaluation brought to you by Paul in China!”
As he spoke, Paul pointed the camera at the surrounding scenery, taking in the buildings full of Chinese characteristics. Of course, there were also the various pedestrians coming and going on the streets.
Due to the booming live broadcast industry, his behavior didn’t attract much attention. There were even many peers around him. Passersby looked away after one or two glances.
Paul continued, “So I guess everyone knows which game I am going to review today!”
“That’s right. It is the virtual reality online game that China calls epoch-making and 99.9% realistic—Starry Sky Era!”
He pointed the camera at the sign of the Starry Sky Age experience store. “I am now standing outside a Starry Sky Age experience store in the capital of China!”
That’s right. Paul was a game review blogger from County S. In order to review Starry Sky Age, he made a special trip from abroad to the experience store to try it out.
He had quite a few fans from all over the world. Seeing that he went all the way to China just to review a highly controversial game, they all admired his professionalism.
[Paul, you are working too hard!]
[Brother, you are the most dedicated game review streamer I have ever seen.]
[I have heard some streamers introduce it before, but I haven’t seen the review yet. I’ll wait and see.]
[This game seems to have been released in China for a year or two already, and has been praised to the skies by the Chinese people. In any case, I don’t believe in the 99.9% authenticity claim. Just think about it and you will know it is false advertising. How could someone believe it?]
[I have also heard of this game called Starry Sky Age, which is only released in China and has no overseas version. I heard it is also difficult to buy the gaming equipment in China.]
[This Chinese company is very exclusive. It doesn’t open overseas servers, and even its forum doesn’t have a foreign language model However, I have watched some videos and the game graphics are really amazing.]
[In any case, I don’t believe that a Chinese company can make any good games, especially virtual holographic online games with such advanced technology.]
Many viewers had already started discussing it on the barrage, and the popularity was still rising.
Paul was very satisfied with the current data. He looked at the content of the barrage and picked out a few points to talk about.
“Thank you for your support! This Starry Sky Age is indeed the world’s first virtual reality game. I learned about it half a year ago and wanted to play it very much at that time.”
“It is a pity. As some people have said, Starry Sky Age has been open for two years but it still hasn’t opened overseas servers. I specially asked some people in the industry. In fact, many well-known overseas agents have tried to find this company to cooperate with, but they were all rejected.”
“The reason is that the production capacity of the gaming equipment can’t keep up. Currently, they can’t even meet the needs of the Chinese market, so they don’t have the ability to open overseas servers.”
Paul talked freely and moved the camera down to focus on the long line in front of the Starry Sky Age experience store.
“I personally still believe this statement. As you can see, this is a Starry Sky Age experience store that I randomly found. There is already a long line outside the store. There are Chinese players who can’t buy equipment and can only try it out in the experience store.”
[Isn’t this a bit exaggerated?]
[Hahaha, a bunch of Chinese people who have never seen the world! Speaking of virtual reality games, the Hegemony released by SB at the beginning of the year must be counted. This is the most advanced virtual holographic online game in the world! It was also supposed to be the world’s first virtual holographic online game!]
[That’s right. Starry Sky Age was released a year in advance just to attract attention. Cunning Chinese people.]
[Hahaha, I’ve played Hegemony before. Compared to Starry Sky Age, it is just a half-finished product, okay?]
There was endless debate in the live broadcast room. In the midst of the questioning, voices of defense soon emerged.
[Does anyone still now know that Hegemony was a competitor launched by SB to suck the blood of Starry Sky Age? They originally wanted to take advantage of the shortage of Starry Sky Age equipment to seize the market. In the end, due to the good example before, Chinese players simply don’t buy it!]
[Finally, they withdrew from the Chinese market in disgrace. How can anyone still praise such a defective product?]
In the two years since the release of Starry Sky Age, there were indeed many products on the market that claim to be virtual holographic games, but none of them could compare with Starry Sky Age.
Among them, Hegemony released by the famous game company SB wasn’t entirely due to Starry Sky Age.
This was a project that had been approved for development a long time ago, but it just happened to collide with each other. There was indeed a very unbridgeable gap in technology between the two.
As a result, Hegemony caused a violent shock in the game field overseas but it was unpopular in China.
Starry Sky Age didn’t have overseas servers and didn’t focus on overseas publicity, so not many foreign players knew about it.
If it wasn’t for the previous Starry Sky Cup projection being so popular, many people probably wouldn’t have paid attention to such a holographic game produced in China with particularly fake and exaggerated advertising.
[Haha, I heard that there are some Internet celebrity stores in China that pay people to queue up, making them seem very popular. Don’t be fooled, Paul!]
[Please stop your slanderous behavior. Starry Sky Age is really the best game in the world. Anyone who plays it will know it!]
[The Chinese water army is coming, run!]
Seeing that a quarrel was about to break out, Paul had to silence some people making radical remarks.
Of course, he had also played the virtual holographic game Hegemony. It could even be said that, except for Starry Sky Age, he had purchased all the virtual games available on the market, including Chinese games that had opened overseas servers.
To be honest, in his heart, Hegemony was the undisputed number one, but he was reluctant to make a conclusion before playing Starry Sky Age.
“Okay, everyone, stop arguing. There is a live broadcast of the first Starry Sky Age e-sports competition over there. Let’s go and take a look first.”
“I’ve seen it on the Internet before. The projection was so realistic that it was mistakenly believed that a magician had appeared in China. Now I am going to take you to see it for yourself!”
The audience’s attention was diverted, but Paul didn’t leave immediately after he finished speaking. Instead, he waited for a while. A young man from China came over. After the two of them exchanged a few words, Paul left with peace of mind.
“Hey, I just ordered a queue service. Now I can go watch the live game without worry. Once it is almost my turn, that brother will call me.”
Paul didn’t know that his live broadcast was seen by Chinese people and forwarded to the forum. This immediately attracted many players to climb over the wall to watch, and they frantically posted under it.
[This streamer is amazing! I didn’t even know that there was a queue service!]
[I have been following this Paul. His reviews are pretty authentic. I wonder if he can still live broadcast after entering the game? I really want to see his reaction after playing Starry Sky Age!]
[Starry Sky Age can only connect to the live broadcast room of the Starry Sky Age Forum. It seems that external platforms can’t be used.]
A group of Starry Sky players were worried about whether Paul’s subsequent live broadcast would go smoothly, but Paul had already squeezed through the crowd and came to the periphery of the projection area.
He had just squeezed to the front row and adjusted the camera to aim at the projection area when he saw a fire dragon rushing at him head-on!
The whistling sound that broke through the air and the extremely realistic scene frightened him so much that he stepped back repeatedly and called for help.
He was barely able to calm down after discovering that the fire dragon only existed for three seconds before disappearing. However, the shocking and dangerous scene just now was still lingering in his eyes, causing his heart to beat violently.
His camera also clearly captured the scene that had just happened, and the quarrel in the live broadcast room stopped for a while.
Paul soon noticed that everyone around him was looking at him strangely. That fire dragon was actually a skill released by a player in the game.
“……”
He forced himself to control his expression and focused his attention on the projection area, but his excitement could be seen from the shaking live camera.
[Oh my god, what was that? I thought Paul was attacked.]
[Help! The camera is shaking!]
[The camera is shaking so much that I can’t see anything clearly.]
Paul also noticed it and quickly said, “Sorry, I really can’t control myself. That scene just now was too thrilling! In fact, standing here and watching the battle on the stage, I can’t believe that it was actually a projection!”
“In my opinion, it is clearly two real magicians fighting. Is this really a projection? Why does it feel like something the magic world is saying to confuse the public?”
Paul watched with great interest. Finally, he couldn’t help running to find a staff member, hoping to touch it during the halftime break to see if it was a projection or real.
When the projection first came out, the staff member would encounter several people like him every day. The company has also provided a solution long ago. Later, people gradually accepted this novelty and he rarely encountered people who questioned the projection.
Unexpectedly, he encountered another one today. Looking at the foreigner who had been shouting just now, the staff member muttered in his heart but still responded according to the regulations.
So at the end of the game, Paul was allowed to walk on the stage, but he had to come down before the second game started.
Paul was overjoyed to get permission.
He knew that he might not be able to uncover the truth about the magic world, but it was still a great experience to have close contact with magicians!
He watched the game with great interest. The tense battle lasted for around half an hour before it ended.
The player didn’t take a stand immediately and there was a one minute countdown before teleporting away.
After being reminded by the staff, Paul quickly ran on stage with the camera.
He wanted to interview the two magicians, but when he rushed over to stop one of them, a man with blond hair, green eyes, a high noise and deep eyes, who could speak a foreign language at a glance, the man simply ignored him and his questions.
Paul reached out anxiously to grab the man, but found that he grabbed nothing!
“Everyone, did you see that? I couldn’t even catch him! He must’ve cast a spell that made him untouchable. It is amazing! I am going to tell my mom that I met a real magician today!”
Paul was speaking a foreign language, but many of the people watching below could still understand him and couldn’t help looking at him with concern.
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