Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 342

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 2 Episode 62
23. The Greatest Among Wanderers (1)
Juhyeok’s post shot straight to the top of the community’s trending issues.
1st) Breaking News) Zombie School Revived Like Crazy lol
Community users were initially confused. The reality was far different from what they’d expected.
-?So dying to zombies is the actual ending?lol
-Why is this…?
-??I don’t understand….
But it was an undeniably clear truth.
Eventually, public opinion began to shift.
-Wow actually revived
-If that’s real then nothing to say lol
-All those trash talkers are gonna disappear lol
As opinion shifted, those who had been attacking before lost their footing and denied reality.
-Stop spouting nonsense lol
└Check Almond’s Trivia announcement. The manager posted the email he received.
└If the manager says it, it’s all true? Dog-level intelligence class~~~ Their owner’s just like them Hodu’s getting destroyed~~~
└…? What are you saying, the manager received an email from Redhat, you brain-pickled lunatic in this crazy community
└???: Oh with official emails and all, the famous named user ‘Gurapadeok’ who likes Goodstage said Zombie School is a garbage game!!!!
└└lololololololol
Like most arguments, once one side stubbornly denies the facts, the tide of victory has already turned.
-That guy above is so pathetic lol
-That reality-denying bastard is hilarious lol
-???: Don’t like Almond! Don’t let Almond make money! Don’t let Almond be handsome! (crying)
└lololololololololol
With this, public sentiment returned once more.
The trending issues began to change gradually.
2nd) Disgusting how people got manipulated and hit 1-star like idiots, downvote if you’re sick of it lol
6th) Complete list of haters Almond has beaten down so far
8th) Admiration for Redhat’s craftsmanship
10th) Why Almond is actually insane
The game’s review ratings began to rise as well.
Some people who had given it one star changed their scores back, and those who purchased the game following this incident were giving it high ratings.
“Actually, this is good. Is this when you use that phrase?”
WePlug’s office.
Iseok Kim scratched his head and muttered.
“Somehow it’s turned into something like noise marketing.”
“That’s true. Redhat really picked a good advertising model in the end.”
“Ugh.”
Iseok Kim had been on the side that disapproved of Almond’s advertisement. He’d thought he wouldn’t be worth the investment.
However, upon monitoring the sales graph in real-time right now, the results were clear.
“That’s right.”
Almond was indeed the perfect person to advertise Redhat’s game.
“So this bastard didn’t revive that garbage game Kingdom for nothing.”
Since nearly all of Almond’s actions exceeded my expectations, I’d actually harbored some doubt about whether the game’s success was truly due to his advertising prowess.
But I’m a results-oriented person.
When the results are good, I don’t quibble—I simply accept them.
I glanced briefly at one corner of my monitor.
[The New Zombie Game Causing an Uproar in Public Opinion Right Now]
A video uploaded to the AllTube channel “Sonnald” was playing.
The audio from the video flowed through my speakers.
[…Public opinion was certainly shaken. But I simply cannot help but praise Redhat’s work this time! Where can you find a game with this much freedom these days? Think about Headpunk 3017! All talk about open-world. Freedom. This nonsense~! Ugh…]

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“What? When did this video go up?”
Juhyeok watches a video and plays it.
It was the video currently ranked first in real-time trending videos.
[The New Zombie Game Causing an Uproar in Public Opinion Right Now]
[Views: 389,000]
It had climbed to nearly 400,000 views just three hours after being uploaded, securing the top spot.
[…The gameplay of Balloon Gum and Almond is clearly different. The gameplay of other streamers is also completely different, and the NPCs’ reactions vary accordingly~! This is the freedom we wanted…]
The channel owner, Sonnald, praised the game throughout the video to such an extent that I wondered if she’d been paid by Weplug.
[…The Community Garden folks threw a fit again. But do we really need to fall for such manipulation? The final zombie was actually a killing machine created by the developers to eliminate the original player. Even with such a deus ex machina element, Redhat deserves admiration for introducing variables…]
Sonnald is a gaming issues channel with over a million subscribers.
True to her channel’s status, she defended Zombie School with eloquent arguments.
‘Either she was paid, or she genuinely loved it. One of the two.’
For someone like me, who’d only recently become interested in games, her defense seemed suspiciously pure in intent.
Regardless, the comment reactions were positive.
-For real, those Zombie School garden bastards spreading propaganda is seriously disgusting lol
You really hit on the last point well. The production team could have actually made the mutant zombies invincible, but they intentionally left room for it. Don’t you think that shows the production team’s true will toward freedom?
└Redhat really has craftsmanship
Yeah, that’s what I thought too.
Redhat began receiving high praise for creating a weakness in the zombie designed for the ending.
-This game’s immersion is insane. Seriously, time flies when you’re playing. If you go the Balloon Gum route, it’s not that difficult.
└Oh, the difficulty changes too?
└Yeah, if you play recklessly like Almond does, the difficulty gets progressively harder lol
-Having watched both Balloon Gum and Almond’s streams, Zombie School’s freedom is seriously insane. They’re basically playing completely different games.
Testimonies about freedom and immersion poured in endlessly.
Was it because of that?
The next day, sales skyrocketed.
Not only that, but the game also began receiving attention from various media outlets.
[Zombie School. Climbing the Top Rankings of Package Games Despite Early Access Status]
[When Wiplug Touches It, Even Package Games Find Hope in Korea…?]
[Redhat’s Stock Price Continues to Rise Following Zombie School’s Success]
Articles like these were pouring out in droves.
Setting aside the fact that journalists always employed sensational wording, it was undeniable that Zombie School had achieved remarkable results among package games.
With the situation developing this way, the Zombie School community—which had been the spark for all of this—now showed a completely reversed public sentiment.
-“The community tears it down, and it thrives”
-That’s Redhat for you lol
What’s with the record lol
-Wow. My heart swells with pride.
-This thing really took off lol
-Koreans secretly love zombie games
Sanghyeon watched the now somewhat peaceful reactions in the Zombie School community.
Crunch. Crunch.
He tossed a handful of almonds into his mouth, then suddenly remembered something and asked Juhyeok.
“Oh. Did we book the chicken restaurant reservation?”
“Yeah. This coming weekend.”
Juhyeok adjusted his glasses and praised his choice of fan meeting venue.
“It really does seem like a good idea. Chicken and beer is something everyone loves, and it has that casual, fun vibe of hanging out with friends, so it should feel much more approachable. And….”
He pointed to a game logo displayed on one side of the monitor.
“…shouldn’t we move on to this now?”
[Civil Empire]
The next game they had decided on.
A game decided after consultation with Juhyeok during a day off to celebrate the end of Zombie School.
I was planning to start it today.
“Sure.”
Crunch.
Sanghyeon answered while munching on almonds.
“I liked it.”
While Zombie School was inherently a niche game, Civil Empire had considerable scale and was beginning to gain popularity.
However, it wasn’t particularly popular in Korea, with the Chinese and American markets being much larger.
Most players attribute the lack of popularity in Korea to the poor balance of the Korean civilization within the game.
“It’s a bit disappointing that the Korean civilization is set to be weak.”
“Unless it’s a nation versus nation competition, you can just pick whatever civilization you want. No need to worry about it. You don’t even need to do it later.”
In fact, as Juhyeok said, it didn’t matter unless you were a hardcore player participating in nation versus nation competitions.
There was no rule saying that just because you’re Korean, you must play the Korean civilization.
“No. If it’s Korea, you have to play the Korean civilization. We’re going to participate in nation versus nation competitions anyway.”
Crunch.
Sanghyeon chewed on almonds and steeled his resolve.
“A national championship? That eats up a ridiculous amount of time.”
The national championship was content notorious for its murderous schedule that only hardcore players could endure.
The reason it wasn’t popular in Korea wasn’t just because Korean civilization was weak, but because there weren’t many people willing to invest that much time into gaming in a country with poor work-life balance.
Juhyeok made his quip, but Sanghyeon opened his eyes wide and spoke as if stating the obvious.
“Korea’s getting crushed, you know. If you’re Korean, you have to participate!?”
“Anyone hearing this would think the Korean War just broke out….”
Juhyeok, bewildered, stopped mid-sentence.
‘Ah… right. This bastard’s dream was to be a national representative.’
Strangely, he had a strong attachment to his country.
Probably because he admired national representatives.
“…Yeah. Well, we can do the national championship when the time comes. For now, it’s still far off.”
Juhyeok just let it slide.
Sang-hyun Yu’s stubbornness was absolutely unbreakable. He’d known that since the beginning when he poured all his money into the capsule.
Above all, he didn’t want to say it wouldn’t work, that his body condition made it impossible.
He didn’t want to define Sanghyeon like that.

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3 PM.
Almond’s broadcast went live.
-hey hey
-wow he’s streaming!
-what game today bro?
Since it was a broadcast after taking one day off, people were especially excited.
I’ve been waiting for a year…
-you abandoning us zombies?!
-huh? the title lol
The quick-witted viewers already reacted after seeing the title.
[Zombie School… Cut! Next!]
The title perfectly captured his ambition to finish Zombie School and move on to the next game.
Hahaha, next!
-titles are fire lately
There was a time at first when it was cute, with auto-generated titles and all… haha
Next! LOL
-naver!
“Today’s game is….”
Almond switched categories along with his opening remarks.
[Now Playing: Civil Empire]
“Civil Empire!”
-civil empire?
Damn… M…? Shaking.
-Mom, that’s too harsh!
-What is this?
As if sending greetings, donations started pouring in with casual messages.
[Rubisword donated 10,000 won.]
[They barely do this in our country. Can you explain? haha]
[Neobam donated 1,000 won.]
[Wow! Civ… M uh uh…!]
Hahahahahaha
Voice chat lol
You’re banned. Show me your nick value lol
“Rubisword, thank you. I think most people might not know about this. Neobam, you’re temporarily banned.”
[ActuallyLikeIt donated 5,000 won.]
[Those types love industry awards~]
[Hihit donated 10,000 won.]
[Almond~ Almond~ It’s my birthday today!]
“ActuallyLike, thank you. Hihit, happy birthday!”
Happy birthday to [name] and Almond ㅠ
-So jealous…
Rather, lol lol lol lol lol
After the casual donations ended.
Almond began explaining the game in earnest.
“So, as one of you viewers suggested earlier, let me give you an explanation. Everyone, do you know what RTS is?”
-Yeah
-Yeah
-Isn’t that like StarCraft?
-Real-time strategy sim
-Isn’t RTS the one you play with a mouse??
“Yes, that’s the one you play with a mouse.”
RTS (Real Time Strategy).
An abbreviation for real-time strategy games.
Once upon a time, long ago, it was a game genre that swept across our country.
In RTS games, the Player commands battles and production from a top-down perspective of all situations.
It requires highly intelligent play and psychological warfare, and since it progresses in real-time rather than turn-based, if there were a ranking of game difficulty by genre, this one would undoubtedly occupy the top position.
-Could it actually be RTS??
Suddenly a spicy numbing flavor broadcast lol
“Almond, that’s impossible with walnuts ㅠ”
-Almond’s strategy game…? I’m drooling.
Your mouth’s on fire, lol.
Simply put, the RTS genre has absolutely nothing that Almond excels at.
He was honestly someone far removed from intelligent play, and RTS was a quintessential game of intellect.
If I were to play it, I’d be absolutely terrible at it.
“Ah, but… when you look at RTS games, there are units in those, right?”
But would Juhyeok really have deliberately chosen a game I’m so hopelessly bad at?
“In this game, I’m not the one commanding—I become the unit being commanded. At least at first, anyway.”
-Whoa
-Scary scary scary
-No way
-What?
-Then who’s commanding?
-This is gonna be so fun lol
“It’s a game where you play as just one soldier in a massive war, apparently.”
[Rubisword donated 10,000 won.]
[One Day I Became a Marine!?]
“Rubisword, thank you for the donation. A Marine… yes, that’s a good comparison to something like StarCraft.”
[Gaji-bokkeun donated 1,000 won.]
[So who’s doing the commanding?]
“Ah. That’s the special part… well… let’s see once the game starts.”
-Fact) He doesn’t know either lol
-Just leftover script that Hodu gave him lol
-Let’s go!
“Civil Empire. Let’s dive in!”
And so a new genre, a new world, and a new game began.

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