Chubby Bai glanced at his friends list and found that there were quite a few friends whose statuses were displayed as "Playing Terraria". It seems that he is not the only one who has been captured by the charm of this game.

"'Terraria' is so fun, it should be selling well. I hope that Terracotta Entertainment will be able to make more money and make more good games. ”

With such expectations, Chubby Bai went to bed.

The next day, he went to work with bloodshot eyes that he had slept for less than four hours.

Seeing his decadent face, colleagues asked one after another.

"What's wrong, Chubby White? Could it be that on Christmas Eve, I managed to get out of the place, and I didn't sleep well all night of excitement? ”

"I think it's because I'm single for the holidays again, and I feel heartbroken, so I want to vent my anger and hurt my vitality."

"Go, go, I played Terraria yesterday and went to bed a little late, a bunch of guys who can't speak." Fat Bai waved his hand and sent away his colleague who was full of meaty words.

But soon, he couldn't help but ask: "Have you chopped your hands on the Steam Christmas special that started early this morning?" ”

This topic immediately attracted heated discussions.

"Chop, of course chop. The old man was originally a thousand hands, and now there are only left and right second-hand, do you say the old man has chopped? ”

"This Christmas special discount is so big, I gritted my teeth and spent all the game budget for the Spring Festival in advance."

"Yes, I really didn't expect that this Christmas, the major manufacturers are like taking medicine, the discount is unprecedented, if you don't buy it, is it worthy of G Fat's smile?"

Fat Bai listened to the generosity of his colleagues last night to contribute to G Fat's career, and continued to ask: "Then did any of you buy "Terraria"? I'm telling you, this game is amazing! ”

However, this time, not many people gave an affirmative answer.

"Didn't buy it. "Terraria" is new, right? A second-tier game, the price is about the same as those discounted triple-A masterpieces, and the cost performance is too low. ”

"I was planning to get Terraria for the first time, but the price wasn't competitive. Moreover, there are too many games that I have hoarded and haven't played yet, so I can only put them first. ”

In the studio, not everyone is a loyal fan of Terracotta Entertainment and Qin Han, and they are willing to buy "Terraria" at the first time, no matter what the cost.

"A significant number of my Steam friends are from the time I used to play Oriental Gensokyo Story, and like me, they are all big fans of Terracotta Entertainment, so they will buy Terraria as soon as possible. It seems that I am overly optimistic about the sales estimate of Terraria. Because of the impact of the Christmas special, many floating consumer groups have changed or postponed their plans to buy "Terraria" because of this...... "Fat Bai thought to himself.

When Chubby Bai was working in the morning, he was a little restless, and from time to time he took the time to follow various social networks to check the news about "Terraria" and the players' feelings after playing.

Although there are many players like him who bought "Terraria" in the first place, the discussion is not as hot as expected.

You know, this is a work that was fully advertised before the release and won the TGA's "Most Anticipated Game" award!

After eating at noon, I took the opportunity of the lunch break to browse the major game websites at home and abroad.

The scores given to "Terraria" by various game media are still relatively fair, and when converted into a ten-point system, they are basically above nine points. But on the Metacritic website, the user rating of "Terraria" is only fifty-six.

Metacritic is a website that collects reviews of movies, TV shows, music, and games, and has a considerable influence around the world, especially in Europe and the United States.

The rating of this website is divided into two parts: media rating and user rating.

"Terraria" has a decent media rating on Metacritic, with a score of 92. However, the user rating shows a huge gap.

"What's going on?" Chubby Bai skimmed through the user reviews and comments of Terraria. He found that the game's ratings were now extremely polarized, with the highest score of 100 and the lowest score of 1.

Moreover, most of the comments made by those users who give a score of 1 are the same, and they are copied and pasted at first glance, and the usernames are not distracted at all, they are just random letter arrangements.

Clearly, Terraria was maliciously brushed up.

As a fan of Terracotta Warriors Entertainment, Fat White is naturally very angry about this malicious competition against "Terraria". But as a media staff - well, self-media is also a media person, there is nothing wrong with it, he smells big news from it.

Chubby White quickly tells his boss Stan what he has discovered.

"Due to the impact of the Steam Christmas Sale, the digital version of Terraria may not be able to meet expectations. At the same time, on major rating websites, there have been malicious scoring of this game......"

After hearing Chubby's report, Stan recorded the information he had collected so far, and said, "Let's continue to follow up on this matter." This week's newsletter has a head......"

Chubby Bai nodded and returned to his seat.

By the end of the afternoon, the scores of "Terraria" on all the major websites with user rating mechanisms had dropped miserably, in stark contrast to the high media scores.

It was at this point in time that some unknown pheasant game media, as well as some social media accounts, began to publish negative news about Terraria.

"Terraria sales were well below expectations. The fundamental reason for this is that the quality of the game is a big disappointment for players. ”

"Terraria, which has received praise in major game media, has not been recognized by the majority of players."

"What is behind the polarization of Terraria's media ratings and player ratings?"

"Terraria Looks at the Loss of Credibility in the Game Media ......"

These articles, in addition to exaggerating the poor sales of "Terraria" and the low quality of the game, are pointing the finger at well-known game media such as IGN and gamespot.

In fact, these media are really wronged this time.

Although this kind of thing is not uncommon in the critics' circles, it is often criticized by players. But this time, the major game media did not get a penny from Terracotta Warriors Entertainment.

They were scoring completely on the basis of their conscience, thinking that the quality of "Terraria" was good enough to deserve high scores, but who knows, they were put on a set by a planned malicious attack.