Chapter 1627: What Is This Clothing Brand About?
Qiao Liang did not know that Slow Movement Studio had been paying attention to the public opinion online.
How could he give up on the game that had gathered the hard work of all the staff in Slow Movement Studio?
Whether it was the lack of publicity in the early stages or the current storm on the internet, they remained silent only because Slow Movement Studio’s Lin Wan, Cai Jiadong, and the others were preparing for a bigger storm.
At that moment, Lin Wan, Cai Jiadong, and a few other staff had arrived in Slow Movement Studio’s conference room. They were in a meeting.
Lin Wan handed the meeting information to Cai Jiadong, who distributed it to everyone.
“The preparatory work for the establishment of the luxury clothing brand has been completed.”
“We have contacted the best clothing and processing factory in the country. They are using the best materials, especially the high-quality materials produced in China, such as long as they are made of cotton.”
“On top of that, we have also contacted a group of outstanding designers to join the ‘quant.i.tative clothing’ and the luxury clothing brand to become our official clothing designer.”
“As for the game, the designers that we hired during the closed beta testing had designed many good game costumes. Some outstanding designs have surfaced after the game was released over the past few days.”
“Combining the designs of these players and the official designers would be able to release the first series of clothing of our luxury brand.”
“It’s time to announce the cooperation plan between ‘Tailoring’ and the luxury brand!”
Everyone nodded, their expressions filled with excitement and antic.i.p.ation.
The day had finally arrived!
Lin Wan was not around when Pei Qian came to Slow Movement Studio to check on the progress of the game. Cai Jiadong was the one who received him.
At that time, Lin Wan went to the south to discuss cooperation with these clothing manufacturers.
There was no large-scale publicity after the release of the game this time. There was also no announcement of the cooperation plan with the luxury clothing brand. It was to let the bullets fly for a while and acc.u.mulate popularity.
In fact, the worst situation for Slow Movement Studio was not being defamed or scolded, but that no one cared.
If this game was released, it would not be able to cause any waves without any publicity. It would not be popular at all. Then, the game would really fail!
However, there was a lot of discussion online now. Whether the fake reviewers were hatching or the players were arguing, it was always good to have some discussion.
Only then would Slow Movement Studio’s next plan be successful.
Lin Wan paused for a moment and continued. “On top of that, I noticed an international news hot topic recently. We won’t take the initiative to ride on the hot topic, but if the hot topic has already reached our faces, it wouldn’t make sense if we don’t make use of it!”
Cai Jiadong was stunned for a moment and immediately understood what Lin Wan meant.
“Boss Lin, are you saying that many foreign clothing brands are joining forces to resist the news of our country’s cotton?”
Lin Wan nodded. “Yes!”
“Actually, I’ve disliked these foreign clothing brands for a long time! It’s a pity that many of our country’s clothing brands are too disappointing. consumers don’t have much choice at all.”
“However, it’s different now. Since we’ve decided to make a luxury brand, we will have to fight these foreign clothing brands sooner or later.”
“This incident is the perfect opportunity.”
“We have to make use of this opportunity to make a bang and try to gain a foothold in the domestic clothing brand market.”
“We’ll first create a reputation online model. Once the sales volume rises, we’ll quickly expand to the offline, to the large shopping malls of all cities, and squeeze out the share of the foreign clothing brands.”
“Are you confident?”
Everyone replied in unison. “Yes!”
Under such circ.u.mstances, he had to be confident even if he did not have confidence!
Foreign clothing brands were indeed very powerful. Many outstanding domestic brands had been working on it for so long but had never been able to defeat them, let alone newly born luxury brands.
However, this battle was not just between clothing brands, but also between domestically-produced brands and foreign brands.
How could he retreat in such a battle? How could he admit defeat?
What’s more, the brand of Luxury carried Boss Pei’s Tengda spirit. It was Boss Pei’s deep criticism of foreign brands and luxury brands. How could they lower their heads to foreign brands with such a strong theoretical weapon in hand?
Everyone could not help but feel motivated and expressed that they were determined to win this public opinion battle.
…
August 8th, Thursday.
Qiao Liang sat in front of his computer, scratching his head and sighing. He felt very frustrated.
He thought for an entire day but could not think of a way to refute this review.
Not only that, he had also seen many posts criticizing the game ‘Tailoring’ while looking for inspiration and material online. That made him so angry.
“Fake reviewers! These are definitely fake reviewers!”
“The signs of fake reviewers this time are too obvious!”
“These fake reviewers are so rampant. It’s ridiculous!”
Qiao Liang was even angrier now.
Teacher Qiao’s account’s history could be regarded as a struggle with the fake reviewers.
The fake reviewers’ activities had not stopped since Tengda’s earliest games. As a loyal gamer of Tengda Games, Qiao Liang would always be at the frontline of the fake reviewers.
Objectively speaking, the fake reviewers had scolded Tengda Games online and created such a huge popularity. Qiao Liang’s heroism in refuting these fake reviewers had indeed made huge contributions to his popularity.
However, this did not affect Qiao Liang’s hatred for these fake reviewers.
How infuriating!
The key was that the fake reviewers were relatively restrained previously. They knew how to hide among players and secretly lead the way when they were defaming Tengda Games.
However, he stopped pretending this time.
The game ‘Tailoring’ had just been released. Before the official platform had the time to publicize it on a large scale, fake reviewers had already started to run wild. They gave the game bad reviews on various forums and websites and even tried their best to instill the concept of ‘the game is very boring and not fun’ into players.
It might have been more obvious because they attacked too quickly and attracted the unanimous criticism of netizens. However, after the popularity of these two days gradually fermented, these fake reviewers still did not know how to restrain themselves and even intensified.
It was unbearable!
Qiao Liang was very angry. The consequences were very serious!
However, he could not think of a way to refute that game review. He had a stomach full of anger and could only vent it all on the fake reviewers.
“We cannot allow this to continue. I think we have to go all out now and call for a wave of justice!”
“I’ve decided to report him using my real name.”
“It doesn’t matter if it’s useless or not. I have to do my best. I can’t watch these fake reviewers continue to run wild and discredit Tengda’s good games.”
At that thought, Qiao Liang decided to report the case to the cyber-police. At the same time, he listed all the evidence that he had gathered.
He had to admit that there was a lot of evidence.
Qiao Liang searched carefully. Many games and movies in Tengda showed signs of fake reviewers at the beginning of their release. What’s more, he located the accounts of a few fake reviewers.
Of course, many fake reviewers had the habit of changing their accounts. They would not catch a certain account and use it continuously. They would often change places. However, these were basically low-level fake reviewers.
Many high-end fake reviewers had to support their own accounts because their accounts had to have some fans and a certain amount of weightage to play the corresponding role. Raising these accounts was not something that happened overnight. As long as they followed this account and dug deeper, they would be able to find some clues.
As for how the cyber-police determined whether the accounts’ statements formed fake reviewers’ activities and whether they would continue to pursue the matter, that was not something Qiao Liang could control.
However, no matter what, he felt that he had to seriously reflect on this situation.
What if it worked?
Qiao Liang believed that as long as the light-hearted could persevere and fight, justice would one day be extended.
…
It was already past 9 PM when Qiao Liang returned home from work.
After settling one of his worries, Qiao Liang felt very refreshed. He switched on his computer and continued to scan the discussions about the game ‘Quant.i.ty Dress’ online. He wanted to continue looking for a breakthrough in the game review that could refute it.
At that moment, his eyes lit up.
“Slow Movement Studio’s realistic cooperation department is actually going to create a new clothing brand with this game, Talent. Luxury?”
“What’s more, the official website has been released. All sorts of publicity activities have been launched!”
“Alright, is this a new local clothing brand?”
“Wait, isn’t that the name of the clothing brand in Struggle?”
Qiao Liang was elated at first but then lost when he saw Slow Movement Studio announce the establishment of a new clothing brand.
The reason why he was elated was because he seemed to be seeing the rise of a new domestic product!
There were some good domestically-produced clothing brands domestically but there was still a gap compared to the top foreign brands.
What’s more, for some reason, some brands would always do strange things. When netizens had just developed a good impression of him because of their patriotism, they would completely destroy this good impression.
Recently, Qiao Liang had also noticed the international news: some foreign brands were boycotting against domestic cotton. This news also made Qiao Liang indignant!
Actually, Qiao Liang had had enough of these foreign brands.
Clothing and shoes were becoming more and more expensive, and the workmans.h.i.+p was getting worse. The key was that the IQ tax was getting higher and higher, and there were always some cultural export private goods.
Some shoes even became futures that could be hyped up. Many young people ate dirt and fried shoes and experienced the first explosion of the young.
Clothing and shoes were obviously daily consumables, but these foreign “genius” brands had man-made scarcity and turned them into financial products.
He could only say that the city had deeper schemes, and the overseas ones had deeper schemes.
Under such circ.u.mstances, many people were looking forward to seeing a batch of quality and cheap domestic products in the country.
If there was such a brand, many people would definitely turn to the arms of domestic products because they could not tolerate foreign brands.
However, many of the local brands did not do well previously because of their own problems. Thus, even if consumers wanted real money, they could not spend it.
However, it was different now. Slow Movement Studio’s brand had already given the design style, price, and material on the official website.
Not only did they use high-quality domestically-produced materials like long cotton, but the design, style, and aesthetics were also very cheap.
Coupled with the reputation of Slow Movement Studio and Tengda Corporation, once this product was released, it would naturally attract widespread attention.
Not only that, the official platform had also announced that the luxury clothing brand would be collaborating with the game ‘ma.s.s-produced’. The outstanding design in ‘ma.s.s-produced’ could be promoted in the luxury brand and the designer would obtain generous returns.
All of these were necessary factors for success. They could be said to be in the right place at the right time!
However, the question was, what was the name of this clothing brand?
In Struggle, the luxury clothing brand represented consumerism and pleasureism. It was a tool for the rich to harvest the poor.
Was it really appropriate to create a new clothing brand in reality?
Qiao Liang could not help but wonder if the person-in-charge of Slow Movement Studio had not played Struggle before or did not understand Struggle correctly. That was why he made such a ridiculous decision?
No, that was impossible!
That was because Boss Pei probably knew about such a huge matter. What’s more, Lin Wan was in charge of Slow Movement Studio. It had a close relations.h.i.+p with Tengda, and his understanding of Tengda Games was much higher than Qiao Liang.
How could he not know what the luxury clothing brand meant in the game?
There was only one explanation for this: the designer had intended it!
Qiao Liang could not help but feel excited. He seemed to have found a critical entry point that could refute that game review!