novelODS Chapter 429 The Butterfly Effect
Chapter 429 The Butterfly Effect
ASUS's official operations team quickly responded.
The official Weibo account urgently issued an additional official announcement:
[Starting immediately, all pre-registration slots, including the first batch and all subsequent slots, will be mandatory and linked to the player's real-name registration account! The same ID card, the same Delta account, and the same payment account can only be used for one purchase in a lifetime! Anyone found maliciously reselling, bulk purchasing, or using scripts to place orders will have their eligibility revoked and their associated account banned!]
Delta's official account also shared the news.
Fairness extends beyond games.
Upon hearing this, the player instantly felt relieved.
[Okay, that was handled quickly.]
[Anti-cheating motherboards: First, crack down on scalpers.]
[It tastes just right.]
[The Delta officials are finally listening to advice.]
After the first batch of goods sold out, ASUS urgently announced additional production capacity.
The second batch of reservation channels opened that evening.
The third batch of inventory preparation plans has been brought forward.
The Delta Electronics co-branded anti-cheating motherboard set a new record for the fastest pre-order sell-out by ROG in recent years.
The co-branded magnetic switch keyboard saw a record number of pre-orders in a single day.
Inquiries about co-branded monitors and graphics cards also surged to the top of the hardware category.
This unprecedented "motherboard rush" quickly swept across the headlines of major media outlets.
That evening, major portal websites, technology media, and gaming news platforms across the internet were flooded with in-depth reports about the press conference.
Even the entertainment section, which usually only focuses on celebrity gossip, is frantically reposting Jiang Feng's stunning "flawless photos in a suit" from the offline press conference, a truly overwhelming sight.
This was an absolute frenzy. Traffic and sales both achieved an epic win-win situation.
All capital and media have come to a profound realization of one thing.
With the addition of Jiang Feng, Operation Delta Force is no longer just a game and a streamer.
It is becoming a super cultural phenomenon sweeping across the entire hardware, live streaming, and e-sports industries in an extremely aggressive and unstoppable manner!
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"Participate in the lucky bag in the top left corner, and you'll get a ROG Delta co-branded motherboard! The X870E HERO originally cost 4899, and you know how expensive it is now on the secondhand market."
On February 19th, Jiang Feng was live-streaming, unusually getting up at noon.
They first sent out a lucky bag, and the number of participants immediately soared to 20.
Many viewers in the live chat lamented:
[Can't get it! Absolutely impossible to get one!]
[Please let me win, Fengshen!]
I'd trade ten years of my teammate's lifespan for a motherboard!
[Yesterday it was motherboard rush, today it's lucky bag rush; Delta players are always searching and fighting.]
Jiang Feng looked at the comments and couldn't help but chuckle.
The aftershocks of the release on the 15th have not yet subsided.
No.
To be precise, it's getting worse.
the reason is simple.
The first batch of players who managed to snag the anti-cheat motherboard have already started assembling their machines.
The pure match pool in Delta has also been officially launched.
This group of people finally entered the "clean pool" that everyone had been looking forward to.
Then, they soon discovered something.
There was nothing strange.
There really is nothing strange.
Being shot in the head twice and killed instantly, the first reaction is no longer:
"Should I hang up?"
"How did this person know I was here?"
"Isn't this pre-aiming a bit too outrageous?"
Instead, it became:
"Damn, they even managed to get me two gun barrels?"
"What incredible luck!"
"Okay, he's definitely stronger than me."
There is no reason to blame everything on cheating anymore.
If you can't beat them, it's because you're not as skilled.
Bad luck means getting blown up by someone.
Most importantly, that feeling of internal friction disappeared.
In the past, when I played a game that would give me a high score, I would always wonder what would happen after I died.
I suspect the other side is leaking information.
I suspect it might be a lock.
In the end, the doubts escalated to the point where even one began to distrust the game environment.
But things are different now.
In the pure pool, everyone at least had a common premise.
The people here are undoubtedly pure green!
Everyone is willing to believe in their own death replays again.
This extremely healthy and pure esports experience is incredibly precious and addictive for high-scoring players who have long suffered from cheating!
As the first batch of players shared their amazing feedback on the "cheat-free experience" on various forums, those who hadn't managed to snag a motherboard went completely crazy.
[The Pure Pool is truly different; I didn't even get a red temperature after getting headshot today.]
[Before, when someone died, they would blame the cheater; now, they blame themselves for being bad at the game.]
Damn, this game has suddenly become healthy.
Please, ASUS, restock! I want to get my hands on a cleanroom too.
These feedbacks, instead of decreasing, actually boosted the motherboard's popularity.
Many people initially thought that buying an anti-cheat motherboard costing several thousand yuan just to play a game was a waste of money.
But now, after seeing the feedback from the Pure Pool, everyone immediately wavered.
This motherboard is no longer just a piece of hardware.
It became the only pass to the Delta Pure Match Pool!
Watching the rapidly scrolling barrage of comments, Jiang Feng, while distributing the second lucky bag, earnestly advised:
"I'll say it again."
"Buy it at the original price if you can, and wait for it to be restocked if you can't get it."
"Don't be a victim of injustice at the small yellow croaker market."
"If you spend thousands more to buy a second-hand product, the scalpers make money, and ASUS and Delta will get criticized."
"There's no need."
"Furthermore, according to my sources, Gigabyte and MSI are so eager to see ASUS making a fortune that they're practically eyeing the profits. They're already in frantic negotiations with Delta Electronics. Once they have more partners and production ramps up, they'll have plenty of motherboards to choose from."
That's right, other motherboard manufacturers are also eager to approach Delta Electronics for collaborations.
However, the terms for negotiating now are completely different from the initial conditions when ASUS was the first to take the plunge.
If manufacturers like Gigabyte and MSI want to obtain the "Pure Pool" certification interface, they must give the Delta project team a certain percentage of hardware profits!
Even after ASUS's exclusivity period ends, ASUS will have to pay this licensing fee for its subsequent mass-produced motherboards!
This ingenious business loop directly opened up an unprecedented path to revenue generation for Operation Delta.
Game developers no longer need to obsessively target players' wallets, devising new ways to release pay-to-win skins and sell in-game items. Now, they can directly target the hardware giants!
They improved the environment, made a fortune, and even earned a good reputation while standing tall!
A triple win, a true business miracle!
Inside the Penguin building, people are in high spirits when they have something to celebrate.
Yifeng was summoned directly to the president's office by senior management to share his successful experience at a meeting of all project directors.
He was singled out for praise at the meeting.
It's not just because of the Delta's daily active users and revenue.
Furthermore, this anti-cheating motherboard has provided a completely new approach for the entire Tencent gaming ecosystem.
Meanwhile, the heads of other games under Tencent's umbrella were green with envy at Delta's reputation and player feedback.
They all started frantically trying to chat with Yifeng, since they were all from Tencent's games and could also join the anti-cheating board.
There's nothing wrong with that, but it's okay to use the anti-cheating function, but it's impossible to get a share of the profits from a joint venture.
In no time, the concept of anti-cheating motherboards became incredibly popular outside the Delta region.
Instead, it has subtly become a new direction for the entire gaming industry.
The butterfly effect originating from the delta is finally beginning to spread to even more distant places.