Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

The first person to enter the company was dumbfounded by the continuous ringing of the phones.

“Ding—-ding—-ding—-”

“Ding—-ding—-ding—-”

…

At the office desks, almost every phone was ringing non-stop.

Apparently, the influx of calls was so massive that the customer service management system determined there was an emergency, which needed to be addressed immediately. So, it lifted the restrictions, causing all the phones to ring, alerting the staff at once.

However, for the customer service worker Ling Sisi, who had just started her shift, this scene was quite spectacular.

Even though she had mentally prepared herself last night, she was still shocked by this scene.

Without bothering to turn on the computer and log in to the software, she picked up a phone first.

At the next moment, she heard a long string of foreign language in her ear.

And it wasn’t even English!

She didn’t know which language it was – if she could understand several foreign languages, why would she be working as a customer service representative?

“Sorry, I can’t understand, can you speak English or Mandarin?”

Ling Sisi tried to communicate.

“Ji li gu la, ji li gu la ji li gu la – ji li~gu la!”

The other party was very emotional.

Unfortunately, all Ling Sisi heard were various tones of gibberish, completely incomprehensible.

She didn’t understand anything the caller said until they angrily hung up the phone.

Helplessly, she put the phone back, intending to start the computer and manually add the missed call record.

However, as soon as the phone was put down, it rang again like a death sentence.

“Alright …” Ling Sisi’s shoulders drooped, and she slumped down in her chair, “Looks like it’s going to be a hard day.”

She initially wanted to slack off for a bit and see what magical creations were submitted for the “Redstone Challenge” and “National Construction Competition.”

But now, it seems that she will be answering calls all day long.

“Oh, I’ll be scolded, my life is so miserable.”

*

Today is Sunday, the last day of voting for the “Redstone Challenge” and “National Construction Competition.”

After the “Peak War” concluded, players stayed up half the night discussing the event.

Some counted their gains and losses, others analyzed lessons learned, others called for the Cloud Dream official to explain, while others carried notices from overseas players, some made overnight highlight reels, and still others captured scenes of the nuclear explosion and tsunami and posted them on short video platforms to attract attention …

In short, players spent a lively and busy evening.

When they got up today, the atmosphere of the contests still lingered but had faded a lot.

Players’ attention was no longer focused on one point, and they began to pay attention to their interests one by one.

The player votes from the “Redstone Challenge” and “National Construction Competition” naturally appeared in everyone’s view.

Voting had been going on for a day and a night, with many astounding builds and exaggerated redstone designs receiving a significant number of votes – “My World” players have been steadily increasing in number, with an extremely stable curve and a particularly harmonious community atmosphere.

This is reflected in the events as high loyalty among permanent players and a strong desire to participate in activities.

Even the massive attention drawn by yesterday’s “Peak War” didn’t stop them from coming to cast their votes.

After all, the half-month-long registration period had many player teams hyping their entries early on to get the netizens to know them first.

Registration closed at 0 o’clock on Friday, and the moment voting began, they sent out their entry numbers and started their campaign for votes vigorously.

Streamers and video uploaders fully utilized the convenience of their profession, introducing their works to their fans, hoping they’d vote for them.

However, there is an exception here.

After successfully signing up, Super Tomato never actively sought votes.

In the beginning, his fans thought that he wanted to concentrate on the[Peak War], so they didn’t ask more.

But now that the[Peak War]is over, he still hasn’t sought votes.

This made many fans puzzled. Once Super Tomato started live streaming, they asked about it in the live broadcast room.

Super Tomato’s answer was, “I can’t post it.”

Facing countless question marks in the live broadcast room, he directly opened the notification bar of the website, and saw 5 messages saying [This post contains illegal content, failed to send].

“Now do you know how difficult it is to sign up successfully?”

“Sometimes I wonder, it seems that Cloud Dream’s audit system is not the same as other domestic platforms.”

“Of course, if Cloud Dream goes to work tomorrow and immediately refuses our submission, then I’m just talking nonsense.”

Super Tomato hasn’t stopped worrying about it.

After all, he is a content creator, and avoiding audit risks is almost an instinct.

The moment he found out that the picture was being audited by the platform, he didn’t dare to seek votes aggressively.

—Not making a big deal out of it can effectively avoid public opinion risks.

As a public figure, submitting such a borderline-suspicious… No, not suspicious… It’s not even borderline, it’s an outright erotic work!

He has to take risks too.

It’s just that he doesn’t want to break faith with his fans, and Cloud Dream has always been tolerant, which is why he has come this far.

Super Tomato no longer hopes to win any awards.

As long as things go smoothly, that’s a great success for him!

But of course, things won’t pass by so simply.

Creating erotic content has always been pleasing to the masses. Even if Super Tomato doesn’t seek votes, his submission that has both serious[Forbidden City Building Group]and unserious[Erotic Redstone Figure], has still managed to break through the competition, with votes steadily rising.

In Super Tomato’s original expectations, many people should question, “This thing has no redstone technology at all, why does it participate in the Redstone Challenge?”

But to his surprise, so far, he has not received any such questions.

On the contrary, a well-known Redstone expert showed up and commented under his submission, “Amazing! Creating erotic content next to the Forbidden City is so performance art!”

This comment immediately received a lot of likes.

[Thank you, good person upstairs.][So erotic, I’m dizzy!][Can I go on a pilgrimage to the sacred place?] Comments like these have been quickly surpassed, even reaching the top of the hot-comments list.

By the time Super Tomato noticed, he was almost horrified.

Ordinary people might think this is just a simple joke or “perverts think alike”, but for Super Tomato who is highly sensitive to audits, it’s too dangerous.

That’s the Forbidden City!

Creating erotic content at this place? It’s too easy to be accused!

The problem is that he didn’t realize this before. It was just something everyone played around with, not performance art!

There was really no special idea to express…

Super Tomato really wanted to delete the comment!

But he doesn’t have the permission.

He even couldn’t help but doubt the intention of this Redstone expert.

Could it be that he’s doing this on purpose?

He reported to Cloud Dream, applying to delete the comment, while privately messaging the Redstone expert, hoping to communicate and ask him to delete the comment himself.

But before he could finish this series of actions, another heavyweight comment popped up-

[Lincoln]: Is this art? Love it.

“???” Super Tomato was directly dumbfounded.