[Streamer, streamer, I don’t know if you’ve been following an FPS multiplayer tactical-competitive game. It’s going online on the twenty-third of this month.]
Seeing this bullet comment, Li Fan’s eyes immediately narrowed.
An FPS multiplayer tactical-competitive game was going online on the twenty-third.
In his memory, in 2017, the only one that had truly exploded in popularity was actually PUBG.
Even League of Legends wasn’t a match for PUBG, let alone Overwatch or CS:GO.
Wei Shen had even switched straight to PUBG after the spring split ended, becoming a professional PUBG player.
And retired League pros like PDD would start playing PUBG every day as soon as they finished streaming League of Legends.
Moreover… both of them were especially good with guns, getting twenty-plus or even thirty kills every match.
Under those circumstances, everyone began suspecting them of using cheats.
Sure, you were a professional player, but you were a League professional. There was no reason you should be that good at shooter games too.
So those who already had seeds of suspicion in their hearts really did watch with magnifying glasses.
Then came all kinds of analysis…
And they even released clips they believed were hard evidence.
PDD was still very smart about this matter.
If he used them, he used them. In any case, you could say whatever you wanted; there was no need for him to come out.
As long as he didn’t come out and admit it, nothing could be proven.
But xxx stood up, and even wanted to hold a fan meeting to prove his innocence.
But he forgot the most important thing.
Instigating fans to curse people out… the impact of that was simply too great, planting the seed for his later ban.
PDD directly became the biggest beneficiary of the whole affair.
Originally, the two of them had still been fighting over who was the top streamer of Douyu’s section. It really could be said that they were battling until blood ran, and the smell of gunpowder was extremely thick. But now, there was no need to fight anymore.
PDD directly became the number one streamer of Douyu’s League of Legends section.
Because aside from him, no one else had that qualification at all.
Here, PDD really had to be mentioned again.
No matter what happened, it seemed he was involved, yet it also seemed he wasn’t.
First was YM failing to enter the LPL after seven attempts.
Many people felt there was suspicion of match-fixing, and that he had made a fortune from it.
After all, all seven series went the full distance…
But then again, the teams they ran into back then were all relegation emperors.
Sima Laozei, Wei Shen, Doinb.
Looking at it that way, it also seemed like there wasn’t much of a problem.
But the rumors that he had organized match-fixing had always existed. The secondary league was absolutely the hardest-hit area.
The officials even issued five or six Weibo posts about rectification within just a few short years.
And every time such voices appeared, PDD would lay low and stop streaming for a very long time.
Because match-fixing had gone completely wild. Even the top league had exposed quite a few cases. With all kinds of revelations coming out, the officials really couldn’t stand it anymore, and began sweeping reforms.
Later on, they directly changed the secondary league into the LDL.
It was divided into different regions, with only four teams in each region, making it much easier to manage.
Only under those circumstances did news of match-fixing gradually disappear.
What made PDD vanish completely from sight was still Douyu’s huge gambling incident.
This guy somehow received the news in advance again and ran off to Japan. After paying the fine, he wasn’t arrested afterward…
But Li Fan himself streamed on Huya, so he had nothing to do with those people from Douyu.
He had been wondering all this time when PUBG would go online. Since it was going online on the twenty-third, he had to seize this wave of popularity and earn more learning points and free points.
Although it was only popular for two and a half years, those two and a half years were truly absurd.
Steam still had not surpassed that record to this day: 3.23 million concurrent players.
Because of PUBG’s popularity, the contract Miss signed with Huya was as a PUBG streamer.
Then… when she streamed, she directly abandoned League of Legends. From that perspective, there was indeed no problem, but it couldn’t be put that way.
After all, her basic audience was from League of Legends.
The fact that she could sign with Huya for thirty million over three years was also because she was a League of Legends streamer.
So her later decline was something she brought upon herself.
But she was a rich woman anyway, so she probably didn’t care about that bit of money.
So whether they were students or office workers, the thing everyone discussed in their free time was PUBG.
Especially that line: good luck and great fortune, chicken dinner tonight.
To the point that when people met back then, the first thing they asked in greeting was: “Did you eat chicken last night?”
Once, when Li Fan was playing a four-person match, there was a girl who got told by a male teammate that she was playing badly, and that they definitely weren’t getting any chicken today.
The girl might have gotten angry because of what he said, and directly replied, “I can eat cock.”
At the time, Li Fan truly felt as if he had witnessed a heavenly being.
He had imagined all kinds of possible replies…
Maybe a huge fight would break out, and they would curse each other from beginning to end.
In the end, because of that one sentence, the team voice chat went silent on the spot.
As for the guy who had called the girl bad… he didn’t say another word afterward.
When he was knocked down, he didn’t even wait for his teammates to come save him. He just quit the game.
Indeed… no matter who it was in that situation, it seemed rather hard to find a rebuttal, unless you were one of Chengdu’s fine men.
The moment he thought of PUBG, Li Fan felt his hands itch a little.
He wished he could start a match immediately.
“PUBG, right? I’ve been following this game the whole time.”
As he spoke, he opened Steam.
Then, very skillfully, he typed in PLAY… followed by the long string of English for PUBG.
This was the game’s preview page.
“Let me tell you, this streamer is very strong at this game. I’m unmatched when it comes to shooters.”
This was a lie… Whether it was CrossFire or CS:GO, Li Fan did know how to play them, but he only knew how to play. He couldn’t be considered any kind of expert.
But after transmigrating to a parallel world, his reaction speed was many times faster than in his previous life.
And he also had the system’s stat allocation…
His current attributes might not count for much among professional players, but sooner or later, he would become a top-tier existence.
So in this state, there shouldn’t be too big of a problem playing FPS shooter games.
After all, this kind of game relied most on reaction speed and hand speed. It could truly be said that neither could be lacking.
Even if he wasn’t good at first, there definitely wouldn’t be a problem after some practice.
[Bragging again? Unreal just loves bragging. Everything else about him is fine.]
[Aren’t we here precisely because he brags all day? We all want to see him get slapped in the face.]
[But then again, up until now, we still haven’t seen Unreal get slapped in the face. He actually stomped Zitai in League of Legends too.]
[True. It feels like he can play any game so far. He even knows QQ Speed… I feel like he should be pretty good at CrossFire too.]
[If you put it that way, he really might be pretty good at FPS games.]
After all, back then, CrossFire had occupied half the market. There was no reason someone who played QQ Speed wouldn’t play CrossFire.
“Then let’s do it. Since you all don’t believe me, let’s have a pleasant round of CrossFire.”
As he spoke, he opened TGP, searched for CrossFire directly, then clicked download.
As a result, at that moment, a message popped up saying there wasn’t enough space on the C drive.
“Hm?”
The main thing was that there were four versions of League of Legends on the computer.
The NA server, Korean server, Chinese server, and tournament server.
Add to that QQ Speed, which he had downloaded earlier, along with all kinds of other games, and 256GB really was a little insufficient.
“This computer still needs an upgrade. But before that… I’ll have to clear out the hard drive first.”
As he spoke, he directly uninstalled the Chinese server version.