Chapter 1643 Their Hearts Deserve to Be Punished

After hearing Lu Xiaoping's words, the other bosses all nodded in understanding.

Indeed, it made perfect sense.

Previously, the biggest question in these bosses' minds was: what got into Tengda Corporation? Why would they sabotage themselves in such an important game?

Lu Xiaoping's explanation, which was ostensibly critical but actually complimentary, perfectly answered everyone's doubts.

On one hand, they gained traffic and a good reputation by self-deprecating. On the other hand, they subconsciously established in everyone's mind that Tengda was better than other companies.

And in the specific implementation, they also used the opportunity to trick the Anti-Tengda Alliance.

It was a triple-win.

That's why it was said to be a poisonous scheme. Only someone like President Pei could come up with such a sinister plan.

Cultural talents are the most terrifying; they can insult you without using dirty words, and you might not even realize you've been insulted.

Fortunately, Lu Xiaoping had been making movies for so many years and had a precise grasp of the unspoken meanings in art, so he successfully analyzed President Pei's intentions.

Nie Yunsheng said, "So, we should seize this weakness and launch a fierce attack."

"We must expose Tengda Corporation's sinister intentions. We must point out that the core problem is that this game is ostensibly a cyberpunk theme, but it completely violates the core of a cyberpunk theme. It doesn't really oppose those autocratic and dictatorial corporations. Instead, it uses this method to seek legitimacy for its own company's monopoly and subtly induce all viewers and players."

"This is simply unforgivable!"

"As long as we can create this public opinion, our film will definitely be able to seize the high ground when it's released."

"Because the theme of our movie, *My Property*, is clearly superior to the theme of *A Choice of Future*."

At this point, everyone present nodded in agreement.

"After all, we are a classic work of science fiction, truly tested by time. President Pei is, after all, a young man. Producing so many excellent games and movies for a long time, he will eventually run out of ideas."

"I agree. Although we haven't grasped the details of *A Choice of Future*, judging from the game, the theme of the movie shouldn't be much higher. At least, I think our movie, *My Property*, has a very good chance."

"By the way, how exactly are the release dates for these two movies arranged?"

Lu Xiaoping said, "The same day. We didn't participate in the Venice Film Festival this time in order to stick closely to Fei Huang Workshop. I'm afraid President Pei has some special off-court tactics waiting for us if we release it a day earlier or later."

Everyone gave a thumbs up. "Good, head-to-head, that's tough."

Everyone present agreed with Lu Xiaoping's decision.

Because if their movie was released earlier, President Pei might make some targeted arrangements to greatly reduce their success. And if it was released later, *A Choice of Future* might steal the spotlight, after all, President Pei's marketing skills are unparalleled.

So, it's best to release them on the same day. The two sides will compete openly, and it's best if the reviewers on the internet discuss both movies together, so that a clear winner can be determined.

Previously, these people were always used to secretly using small tricks to gain an advantage when competing with President Pei, but it eventually proved that these methods were all shooting themselves in the foot.

Now they finally understood that if they wanted to defeat President Pei, they couldn't be timid and must face him head-on.

This time, everyone was full of confidence in the movie *My Property*!

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Friday, September 20th.

Qiao Liang stretched and breathed a sigh of relief as he watched the video being uploaded for review.

"Finally finished!"

"I miss it so much. It's been a long time since I had this kind of hearty feeling. As expected, playing President Pei's games is like reading a thick philosophical book. It always makes you suddenly understand and gives you profound inspiration."

"The only difference is that the words in philosophical books are obscure and difficult to understand. Someone uncultured like me would just fall asleep. But President Pei's games are full of fun. They unknowingly broadened my horizons and showed me completely different things."

As someone who claimed to understand President Pei the most, Qiao Liang had always been very confident in his ability to understand.

While playing this game, Qiao Liang felt many familiar things. He seemed to have faintly felt them in previous Tengda games, but this time it was more obvious.

Moreover, the puzzles in *A Choice of Future* were of moderate difficulty and arranged just right. But after digging deeper, he felt that the connotation was constantly emerging, making it very suitable for video interpretation.

Qiao Liang had been in seclusion for two whole days. It could be said that he had racked his brains and dug out all his accumulation and foundation regarding Tengda, and only then did he have this review video.

He was very sure that President Pei was using this unique game to convey some very crucial information to all players.

And for Tengda Corporation, which had been winning steadily and was about to completely defeat the Anti-Tengda Alliance, this crucial information was likely to be President Pei's next stage of goals, plans, and crisis warnings.

Qiao Liang had already regarded this game as an epoch-making milestone in Tengda games.

While patiently waiting for the video to be reviewed, he prepared to check the online reviews of this game.

When creating the video, Qiao Liang had always been in a state of being disconnected from the internet, mainly because he didn't want the online reviews to interfere with his own ideas.

Now that the video was finished, he could almost take a look at the game reviews outside.

However, after browsing through Weibo and some forums, Qiao Liang couldn't help but frown.

"What's going on? So many people are finding fault with such a fun game."

"Saying that the game's gameplay is monotonous, and the content isn't rich enough. Also saying that the game is ostensibly self-deprecating, but actually just putting on a show, and is a means of praising oneself while belittling other companies?"

"This is simply outrageous. This interpretation is completely wrong. And so many people choose to support it. It's really ridiculous!"

Qiao Liang was getting more and more angry as he read, filled with righteous indignation.

Every time something like this happened, he was more anxious than the staff at Tengda Corporation.

The negative reviews of this game online were mainly focused on two aspects.

First, the gameplay was monotonous and the content wasn't rich enough. Because from beginning to end, Captain Luther, the protagonist, seemed to be just an outsider. Although he was constantly unlocking various combat abilities, the game content was just constantly fighting against endless enemies. This didn't seem to be fundamentally different from some brainless games that just shot from beginning to end.

And the game's elements such as team member supplies, equipment, money, etc., all seemed to fall from the sky. Someone would rescue the protagonist if he failed, and the cybernetic doctor would replace him with the latest cybernetic limb. A new battle would start, and reinforcements would come from all directions. It could even be said that there was never any worry about falling into a desperate situation.

This made players feel that the whole process was relatively simple, without more complex and interesting gameplay. The whole process was just shooting, and the whole plot was confusing.

Second, there was condemnation that this game was actually a form of praising oneself while ostensibly criticizing oneself, not truly self-deprecating, but trying to gain fame.

What is true self-deprecation? It's making yourself a completely negative character, depicting your own ugly state in the game, and finally being defeated. That's true self-deprecation.

But Tengda's approach in this game was obviously reserved. On the surface, it seemed like they had arranged themselves as the villains and criticized themselves, but in fact, in the later stages of the game, it would be discovered that Tengda Corporation seemed to be a company with principles and ideals, and there was a tendency to whitewash themselves. And the protagonist, Captain Luther of the resistance army, seemed to think that he was wrong in that confused scene on the rooftop. This deepened the players' impression even more.

From this point of view, the story of this game didn't seem to be particularly outstanding in terms of ideological height and theme. To some extent, it had become a work of self-praise.

If a company uses a work to describe its theme, but it's not criticism, but praise, can this work still be called an excellent work? A question mark needs to be placed on this.

These two statements had stirred up some discussion on the internet, and many people agreed with them.

The first statement was very popular among players, because most players didn't care about the game's connotation, but they could empathize with whether the game was fun or not.

The second statement attracted some armchair players. Although these players didn't have a very deep experience of the game, they liked to discuss the game's content and plot and give their own subjective evaluations.

The fact that this game was not so popular among both players and armchair players showed that this public opinion offensive was fierce.

After reading these discussions, Qiao Liang breathed a sigh of relief instead.

"Fortunately, I didn't read these online game reviews before making the video, otherwise I would have been angered to death by these people. My creative ideas would definitely have been affected."

"But fortunately, whether my video comes out first or later doesn't affect the outcome. After all, I'm the one who truly holds the key to the truth."

"As long as I make the correct interpretation of the game, then no matter when the video is released, these wrong opinions will naturally disappear."

"Maybe President Pei has prepared a backup plan, after all, the movie hasn't been officially released yet."

"But in this situation, I don't think there's any need for a backup plan at all. As long as I, Qiao Laoshi, take action, it will be enough to cut these shady villains under my horse!"

Qiao Liang was not flustered at all, because he had already noticed the two problems that were being hotly discussed online, and he had also analyzed them in his video. However, the reasons he analyzed were completely opposite to these online opinions.