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132: Section 132Many Weibo users who had just come online, if the first trending search they clicked on was for Honor of Kings.

They would naturally and clearly feel that although Honor of Kings had over sixty million daily active users, Dota Mobile was still at the top of the daily active user list.

Otherwise, the corresponding relationship between the names of the two trending searches couldn’t be explained.

However.

Only after they clicked into the trending search for Dota Mobile did they discover.

The number of daily active users announced by Dota Mobile as being at the top of the list was far less than Honor of Kings.

More importantly.

Dota Mobile’s Weibo post was even published before Honor of Kings’.

In other words.

Initially, Dota Mobile actually looked down on Honor of Kings, not believing that Honor of Kings’ achievements could compare to theirs.

But in reality.

Honor of Kings’ daily active users far exceeded theirs by over ten million!

This dramatic comparison instantly subjected Dota Mobile to countless taunts.

”I’m dying of laughter, Dota Mobile got slapped in the face this time, they wanted to mock Honor of Kings in the same way, now they know how to regret it, right?”

”Honor of Kings doesn’t want your marketing achievements, they genuinely look down on you, and you actually played it this way too, now you’ve played yourselves, haven’t you?”

”If you had released your numbers after Honor of Kings, it would have been fine, but you had to be so confident, even saying you returned to the top of mobile game daily active users.”

”This is Honor of Kings’ confidence! I don’t care about your marketing achievements because I know your achievements can’t compare to ours. I don’t care what events you launch because I know your daily active users can’t beat ours either!”

”Tsk tsk, you shot yourselves in the foot, didn’t you?”

”I don’t know which great person said this, ’A face is something you offer up to be lost.’”

”Combat Night couldn’t even beat Honor of Kings’ regular playtime, they deserved to lose.”

For a time.

The number of comments mocking Dota Mobile under this Weibo post even surpassed the number of comments congratulating Honor of Kings.

Because the current situation was indeed too dramatic.

If Dota Mobile hadn’t disclosed their daily active users so early, and hadn’t directly announced themselves as the top, they probably wouldn’t have been so embarrassed.

But the key was.

Dota Mobile not only didn’t wait for Honor of Kings to release its numbers, but also presumptuously announced that it had returned to the top of daily active users.

And.

It was severely slapped in the face half an hour later.

This situation truly made many players unable to help but laugh.

And shortly after Honor of Kings publicly released its daily active user information.

Dota Mobile deleted the Weibo post announcing its return to the top of daily active users, which once again caused no small amount of laughter.

All players understood.

This time, in every aspect.

The new Dota Mobile was thoroughly trampled underfoot by Honor of Kings.

A normal Saturday’s active users, without any events, could surpass Penguin Group’s largest event ever, Combat Night.

The difference between the two could simply be described as a world apart.

Combat Night, for which Penguin Group had put in all its effort and started preheating a month ago, couldn’t even beat a regular Saturday for Honor of Kings.

This comparison.

Instantly caused many players who supported Dota Mobile to lose confidence.

At the same time.

Due to the popularity of this incident, Honor of Kings once again attracted a group of new players.

Because these players discovered in the trending search comments that among Honor of Kings’ sixty million online users, a large portion were actually people who had never played mobile games, yet they were still engrossed in Honor of Kings.

This indicated that the game was indeed quite friendly to pure new players like them.

Many who were still observing, and had never played mobile games before, also began to download Honor of Kings to try it out.

In the following few days.

Honor of Kings’ daily active users climbed even higher.

As for Dota Mobile.

Because its 47 million daily active users basically all came from Combat Night.

So after Combat Night passed, the players’ daily active users inevitably decreased significantly.

The gap between the two widened again.

However.

After three days.

Penguin Group’s internal team, through various investigations and through various clues from Honor of Kings’ promotion and publicity.

Finally figured out where Honor of Kings’ sixty million users came from.

They finally discovered that Yan Country indeed still had a large number of potential mobile game players.

And after discovering this.

Penguin Group’s next step was very easy to guess.

At this time.

Inside Penguin Group.

The third day after Honor of Kings publicly released its daily active users.

”It’s decided.”

”Moving forward, Penguin Group will put all its efforts into promoting Dota Mobile.”

”However, this time the promotion will be for the entire internet market, no longer limited to game users.”

”Honor of Kings has only been tapping into Yan Country’s potential mobile game community for a few months, and it already has tens of millions of new players.”

”And we, Penguin Group, are after all the true leader in Yan Country’s internet publicity and distribution field. When we make a move, Honor of Kings simply cannot compare to us.”

Inside a certain conference room.

Ma’s voice was sounding from the main seat.

”The combined player base of Honor of Kings and Dota Mobile has already exceeded one hundred million.”

”And after our internal estimation, we initially deduce that Yan Country’s potential mobile game users should still be at least fifty million or more!”

”Of these fifty million potential players, I want at least forty million of them to belong to our new Dota Mobile!”

”If you fail to achieve that, everyone here can start looking for a new job.”

At this moment, Ma even issued a military order.

After being successively defeated by Honor of Kings, he truly could not tolerate any more failures.

And listening to Ma’s voice, Li Wenqiu spoke with some concern.

”Mr. Ma.”

”Before the Combat Night event was launched.”

”Our internal plan for Dota Mobile’s next step was actually to start copying several new modes and high-intensity AI that Honor of Kings recently launched.”

”Some departments have even invested in early-stage development.”

”Should this part of the workforce still be invested in unearthing potential mobile game users?”

Facing Li Wenqiu’s question, Ma nodded very seriously.

”Compared to the large number of potential mobile game players in Yan Country, a few new modes and new maps are nothing.”

”These new modes and new maps don’t have much significance; Wang Mo just wanted to increase the diversity of game modes.”

”Our next focus must be to compete with Honor of Kings for the remaining potential mobile game users.”

”Only this way can the new Dota Mobile have a chance at survival!”

Listening to Ma’s voice, Li Wenqiu didn’t say much and also nodded.

After all, when it came to a few new maps and new modes.

It was indeed more important to attract more users.

If there were no new users, launching more maps and modes would be meaningless.

Therefore.