Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 884

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 4 Episode 15
5. Touring Performance (3)
About a month had passed.
Almond’s viewers were suffering greatly.
After all, a game streamer who couldn’t play games was hardly worth watching.
So posts like this frequently appeared on gaming communities.
[When will Almond be able to game again?]
These were posts waiting for Almond’s gameplay.
-But he’s gaming right now?
In truth, whenever I turned on my stream, I did play games.
Light, varied games played with keyboard and mouse.
However, this wasn’t the kind of gaming people were waiting for.
└Sounds like Ssuni was asking when I’d get good at gaming.
Haha, that’s too much.
That seems right lol
└Almond, stop gaming!
What they were waiting for was the ‘Capsule Game.’
My keyboard and mouse gaming skills were, frankly, abysmal.
Not only was my right-hand reaction speed slow, but I deliberately—or perhaps unintentionally—only played detective games and adventure games packed with puzzle elements.
Everything was the complete opposite of my strengths.
Lol the almond mystery game is so funny, I’m craving chestnuts haha
Is almond doing this on purpose?ㅋㅋㅋ
[If he’d debuted as a streamer without the Capsule, he would’ve been a talent to succeed Balloon Gum]
Almond’s fans voiced their tremendous suffering.
They weren’t accustomed to this flavor.
[This is way too spicy, Shop Owner]
Haha, at this point you should have a showdown with bubble gum.
What really gets me is that he calls himself “Almondoil” instead of anything else, no joke lol
[I had a rough time today. Pretty sure it’s because of Almond’s detective games]
The hottest reaction came from my detective game streams.
“You’re the culprit!”
Dun-dun-dun~ Dun-dun-dun~
I always played the BGM from a famous detective manga, convinced I’d nearly caught the culprit, and pointed them out.
But I always ended up pointing to the completely wrong culprit.
Even worse, in urgent situations, this game didn’t just let you deduce and arrest—there was also the option to shoot and kill.
If I chose wrong, there was no going back.
Regardless, I always chose to shoot.
“Chiki-cha!”
Bang!
Hahahahahaha
-Hahahahahaha
-Is that Almond!?
-Kyaa hahahaha
-The background music is insane
-Crunch. Crunch.
-My teeth are grinding…
-Chiki-cha is total garbage hahahaha
-I’m losing it hahahaha
This video was reproduced endlessly on Shorts, and the so-called “brilliant detective streamer” Almond had to endure tremendous humiliation.
[Shorts) Almond: The culprit is me!]
-The culprit is me hahahaha
-Almond: I’m heading to the next crime scene right away~ ???: Where is that? Almond: Here.
└hahahaha
└ahahaha
└???:The culprit is me!
└hahahaha Oh so that’s it hahahaha the culprit was himself hahahaha
-Creative young man
In truth, Almond had never properly watched a detective movie or read a detective novel, so he was quite disadvantaged in this game… or so he earnestly made excuses everywhere.
Regardless, the Shorts spread far and wide.
And his deductive mechanism became immortalized in the community.
Big) Examining Almond’s deductive method here
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1. First, pick someone who looks suspicious to you.
2. Examine the crime scene.
3. Examine the evidence.
4. Shoot them.
*Steps 2 and 3 are frequently skipped.
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-hahahahahaha
-Shoot them hahahaha
-ahahaha where’s the deduction hahahaha
-Fact).
-Deduction? Almond.
-Such a clever young man…
-The person streaming right now is not Almond but Amontwo. Almond will return in a few days.
-Isn’t that a targeting method like in team fights rather than a deductive method hahahaha
-The meme is hilarious
-Shoot them lol hahahaha
-If you fail it’s murder! If you succeed it’s deduction, isn’t it!?
After that, stories about Almond became a direct ticket to Big.
Big) Unknown: I’m not going to die. I’m going to check if you’re still alive.
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Bang.
(Photo)
“You.”
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The main material was a black-and-white photo taken when Almond did an interview with some magazine. It was quite a stylish shot of him firing a finger gun.
All I had to do was post it and scribble “Bang” underneath.
Hahahahaha no way haha
Ah, so you were checking whether I was dead or alive… ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-The subject wasn’t mentioned ^^
This is so funny lol
-Oppa I’m dying!
You’re killing me haha
-Spike sensei…
-Unknown: The culprit is me!
-Bang.
Hahahahaha lol hahahaha
The photo is so cool lolol
Big) Want to date me? Want to die with me!
This post followed a similar pattern.
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Unknown: Pick between 1 or 2!
(Photo)
Bang.
“4. Shoots.”
==== ====
Hahahahahahaha
I’m dying of laughter 4 real
└ lol that’s real
-So cool
-A true man of this era
Hahahahaha
-Better be careful when confessing to Miho
└What confession is Miho even talking about, watch the broadcast, she’s a total loser
“This isn’t something I’m saying after watching the broadcast lol what broadcast do I need to watch lol”
└Is Miho a fan? Her outbursts are hilarious
-Haha
Almond’s computer gaming skills were truly abysmal.
Yet somehow the fans still seemed to be enjoying it all the same.
[Wow, Almond’s returning to capsule games today!]
So some fans even expressed disappointment that Almond was restarting capsule games.
-Ah, those good days are gone
Hahahahaha, this is hilarious
Then who’s going to be “Taan” now? ㅠㅠ
-Almond’s game poll 1. Kingdom Age. 2. Ril Survival. 3. Dam World
└4. Shoots.
hahahahahaha
That bastard shoots ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-So this era’s “Taang” is leaving.
└Yeah I’m Taang. I don’t know anything.
That’s not translatable – it’s a Korean emoticon/text art representing a person lying down or falling over (often used to express exhaustion, shock, or finding something hilarious).
Still, most fans cheered that the “gaming prodigy” era’s dominance had finally ended.
And finally ㅠㅠㅠ
[But what’s he gonna do?]
Almond capsule game comeback ㄷㄷ Will they re-release it??
[The tour finally ended?]
Please make Almond a kingdom ㅠㅠㅠ
Big one’s coming ㄷㄷ
And so with all that anticipation, Almond’s broadcast went live.
It was content no one had expected.
[Gaming prodigy returns! Ghostbusters (feat. Balloon Gum)]
-???
-What? A collab??
-Is it a new game?
-Oh this just came out
-Out of nowhere?
-Ooh
-He came with the genre already decided
-Wow
-Finally

* * *
Ghost Busters.
This game was a new release launched as a two-player cooperative game.
Given the times, whenever a new game releases, advertisements naturally flow to streamers.
Major development companies blast advertisements to multiple streamers simultaneously, but Ghost Busters was different.
This game was a B-grade title made by a domestic development company, and the developer itself was mid-tier rather than large-scale.
Therefore, their advertising strategy was selective concentration.
‘Just one person, but with a hefty budget!’
The first target on their radar was Balloon Gum.
As a comprehensive game streamer with solid standing, he was an early adopter who always jumped at the chance to try out novel new games.
But there was a problem.
“…How am I supposed to advertise a game that requires two people playing it alone? Having someone play with me feels awkward.”
Balloon Gum refused with those words.
That’s right.
The game’s concept from the start was designed for two players.
So the advertising cost would be double!
But what could they do? They’d made such a game themselves.
The production company, determined to scrape together funds and run the advertisement somehow, asked Balloon Gum again.
“We’ll provide the budget for two people. Who would you like to play with? The budget would be… this much.”
“Hmm. Let me think about that.”
Balloon Gum’s first thought was Takoyaki, who came from the same company.
They tried playing this game cooperatively as a test run.
“…Kyaaaaaaah!”
“B-brother!”
[you die]
“Ugh!”
“Brother?!”
[you die]
“…Sorry.”
“Ugh! Brother!!”
[you die]
It was too heavy a burden for Takoyaki to carry.
Rather, he couldn’t even carry it at all.
After all, in Ghost Busters where two-player cooperation was the motto, “carrying” was absolutely impossible.
“No, damn it. This is basically a souls-like dual game, isn’t it?”
On top of that, the game’s difficulty was considerable.
“I was fooled by the cute-looking design.”
“Why would you give me a game like this….”
“I have no idea. Me neither….”
Usually, difficult games like this are entrusted to streamers who are skilled at gaming.
When something feels too difficult, people often don’t even attempt it.
“Ah. Hey, what are the ad conditions for this? Like, how many hours do I need to stream it?”
“They want you to reach the ending.”
“….”
That was it.
The reason they’d entrusted the ad to just one person—Balloon Gum—became clear.
“They were really trying to squeeze value out of this ad.”
“Huh?”
“It’ll take over a month to reach the ending. Looks like they were trying to milk it for all it’s worth.”
“Ah… seriously? So that’s why the price was higher?”
It had happened before.
Balloon Gum frowned, remembering the worst month of his life when he’d been stuck with an ad game for an entire month.
“Should we just pass on this?”
The payment was too good to waste.
Takoyaki smacked his lips before finally speaking up.
“Hey. Let’s put this off until Almond comes back.”
His thinking was simple—if he couldn’t eat, at least Balloon Gum could.
“…what?”
“Al~~~mond! Yeah.”
“No, I get that it’s Almond….”
Balloon Gum scratched his head.
It would be nice to work with Almond, sure.
“But he’s way too expensive.”
I couldn’t even imagine what Almond’s asking price would be.
Currently, it was definitely higher than mine.
The production company’s proposed budget was only about half of mine.
Almond was completely out of the question.
“So, so you’re saying you picked me just because I was cheap!?”
“Yeah.”
“Damn it.”
It was common knowledge, so there was no point hiding it.
“Well. Still….”
Takoyaki swept his hair back and offered a solution.
“Let’s talk to the manager. I heard that manager accepts ads pretty easily if he thinks the game will help the broadcast.”
That was true.
When streamers chose ads, they didn’t only consider the payment.
“Oh. You, you think so?”

* * *
Was it the doubles match against Balloon Gum that had piqued Juhyeok’s interest?
Things progressed at lightning speed.
[GameSkills Returns! Ghost Busters (feat. Balloon Gum)]
Before I knew it, Balloon Gum had started a collaboration broadcast with Almond.
-Wow lol
-Collab legend
-Let’s goooo
-Is day one sand bag training?
-lololol Struggling already seems inevitable
‘Is this… really right?’
But Balloon Gum was confused.
‘Is this really how advertising fees are supposed to work?’
Juhyeok had talked with the game company, and things had progressed smoothly.
One of those things was a change in the advertising fee payment terms.
‘Getting paid based on sales numbers? How am I supposed to know if the game will do well or not?’
They’d adopted a royalty-based payment structure.
The fee would be paid based on the increase in purchases that occurred during the two quarters after the advertisement aired.
‘Usually isn’t it based on something like link clicks?’
Even when using a royalty system, the conditions were typically based on things like link clicks.
It was rare to stake it on actual game sales.
Of course, because of that, the per-unit price was incomparably higher than something like link clicks.
Whether people would buy that game or not was honestly a variable with too many factors.
‘When I did this with Takoyaki… I couldn’t even get past stage 2 properly. No matter how funny it looks when I’m bad at it, will people really buy the game just because I’m eating Goguma?’
There’s a basic rule to game advertising.
For games that look light and easy, you show yourself struggling so people think “This is frustrating, I’ll do it myself!” and buy it.
For games that are made difficult, you show yourself doing well so people think “Seems doable?” and try it out.
‘But this is clearly a difficult game.’
Based on my experience playing Ghost Busters, it’s a game designed to be difficult.
When I played with Takoyaki, I couldn’t even get past 30% of the game properly.
‘What if I can’t even beat it with Almond?’
I’d never tried a collaboration with Almond.
Almond had insisted that if he played through it first before starting, the broadcast wouldn’t be fun.
‘Anyway, it’s good that he’s so confident… but isn’t he overestimating me? Mond?’
The worst month incident came to mind, but I just agreed and followed along.
And so I’d arrived at this moment.
The day of the broadcast.
“Hyung. Can you hear me?”
“Oh, yeah yeah. I can hear you.”
“You’ve started the broadcast, right?”
“We’re almost done now.”
Ting.
The chat window appeared beside me.
-Hey what’s up
-Wow a collaboration
-With Almond? Nice
-The weight class just flipped lol
-Another spicy game like this lol
-Wait is this an ad?
The game launched.
[Ghost Busters]

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