Overgeared

Chapter 133

Thanks to the great success of Satisfy, the S.A. Group became the world’s best group. They had two billion loyal customers and hundreds of affiliated companies, so there was no group with more influence and wealth in history.

And South Korea was very dependent on the S.A. Group. South Korea had a small land mass and limited natural resources, so the jobs that the S.A. Group created and the numerous charitable projects were like a ray of light.

Just yesterday, South Korea’s government brought a new request to the S.A. Group. It was to invite Satisfy’s rankers to South Korea, where a national competition would be hosted.

“The opinion of the government is as follows. Users of the top 100 ranking will be invited to South Korea in teams for each country, where a competition consisting of raids, pet marathons and other contests will be held. It will be organized by the Korean government, and they hope that the planning, public relations and sponsorships will be handled by the S.A. Group.”

A meeting room in S.A. Group’s headquarters in Seoul.

Some people showed negative reactions.

“I don’t know if we can continue to do favors for the Korean government. Are we a charity? I don’t like their attitude of always asking us for things.”

“A Satisfy competition can be hosted by companies and broadcasting stations in various countries. Why should we invest our money and manpower?”

“And why should we invite rankers to South Korea when it can be done online? What do they think the top 100 rankers are? The rankers are too busy raising their level and won’t move for a small amount of money. Hundreds of billions of won would be needed to bring 100 people here.”

Yoon Sangmin was watching the executives giving negative comments and finally opened his mouth.

“You should note that it will be a national competition. Competitions that pit countries against each other such as the Olympics and World Cup have always gained popularity around the world. More than one-third of the world’s population is interested in Satisfy, so the popularity of various sports has fallen, yet the ratings for the Olympics and World Cup are still high. A national contest involving Satisfy… It is content that can become a global issue.”

Kim Jiyoung, the branch manager of the South Korean branch, also gave a positive opinion.

“It’s a good idea to invite rankers offline. If there are events such as stage greetings or an awards ceremony at Seoul Olympic Stadium in front of many spectators, it will give interest to the middle-aged people who think that Satisfy is just a game, and give them a real feeling of immersion.”

President Lee Hoonyi was smiling.

“The rankers are stars and will attract crowds, so we don’t need to worry about selling tickets. If they can see many famous rankers in one place, many tourists will come from all over the world. We can also sell the broadcasting rights to each country at a high price, so the profit will be good. This is the aim of the South Korean government.”

Lim Cheolho was proud.

“If we compete by ranking each country, the people of each country will support their rankings and inspire patriotism. It’s very desirable to build patriotism through Satisfy.”

The expressions of the executives giving negative opinions changed. The decision seemed to have been made.

Kim Jiyoung drove in the wedge.

“Starting this year, we should hold a Satisfy national competition every year. We can think of unique events that can only be carried out within Satisfy and gradually expand the number of participants, so that the Satisfy national competition will someday become a prestigious event like the Olympics and the World Cup.”

Lee Hoonyi clapped.

“Good, good. We won’t receive any damages, no matter how much money we invest.”

Now everyone’s attention focused on Lim Cheolho, the top decision maker. Lim Cheolho nodded.

“Tell the South Korean government that we will approve their request.”

At that moment, Yoon Nahee, the head of the operations team, quietly raised a hand. She didn’t shrink back under the gazes of all the executives and expressed concern.

“We need some improvements because we approved the government’s request.”

Yoon Nahee was Yoon Sangmin’s younger sister. Yoon Sangmin knew how meticulous and competent she was, so he listened to her words.

“Tell us.”

Yoon Nahee explained, “First of all, if we divide the top 100 rankers by country, it won’t be balanced. For example, there are 23 Americans in the top 100 ranking and only 2 Koreans. Since it’s a national competition, the number of participating players must be raised, but the gap between countries is too big.”

“What if we limit the participants to the top 30 instead of the top 100?”

“It is an extreme situation that will reduce the number of participating countries. Then it will be too small to be a competition that the world will enjoy.”

The executives were agitated.

“I don’t want the competition to be limited to rankers. Rather, those who stand out in each event should be selected, just like sports…”

much we need to do. Won’t it take a long time to divide the two billion users into countries and examine their

addition, inviting the rankers to the first competition will help it succeed. Who will be interested if the representatives

confusion,

yesterday at 23:55,

“Hah…”

the top rankers really

in the unified rankings have gone above level

rewarding. Yura’s achievement will be good news for Koreans who have

gaming competitions were held and

isn’t pleasing. Isn’t the level up

reference materials in front of you.

“Really. This is serious…”

210, 240 and

called the ‘hell sections’ by users because the amount of experience required to level up increased exponentially. Nevertheless, it was surprisingly that this didn’t limit the level up speed of the

began, a number of Morpheus’ predictions

a

head while the executives were feeling

than expected. If we take this into account and reset

How terrific are the

particular, the abilities of the users in the top 30 are excellent. Their understanding of skills and battle comprehension are different from ordinary people. They hunt close to impossible monsters relatively easily and level up efficiently. Even the user called ‘Regas’ has a fast level up speed and is in the top 30, despite the fact that he doesn’t use weapons and

Yoon Sangmin frowned.

Master Regas? Is he still doing

than other classes. By default, their skills had a high attack power and passive skills that could penetrate the defense

matter what, wearing knuckles was a few times better than fighting with bare hands. Regas had a record of not using weapons since starting Satisfy. Therefore,

“He is Taekwondo obsessed…”

as an Olympic Taekwondo gold medalist and was so obsessed with Taekwondo that he combined skills with Taekwondo in

weapons violates the spirit of Taekwondo…

are you suddenly talking

after stating that Yura reached

did you suddenly talk

Yoon

is maintained as they are, they will reach level 300 in the

second advanced five months ago. In other words, out of the two billion users, there weren’t even 100 users

second advancement and the users in the top 5 were almost at level 300. This would lead to a major disruption in the

host country, it will take at least three months

executives finally realized the

held

advancement and third advancement users is so big that the games

the third advancement class are far superior to the

If a level 99 user was

that. The third advancement classes had a skill tree that was comparable to a few hidden classes. The

asked, “Can’t we accelerate the timeline of the contest? Do we have to hold it in three

and hire more manpower, we can shorten the preparation period. But there must be a minimum of three months publicity period in order to sufficiently promote it to the

Nahee spoke awkwardly, then Branch

the number of participants in the national contest to only rankers, so I would rather give quests

Manager Kim Jiyoung’s

informed about the national competition. This

of the national competition through the quests. The progress of the users’ quests would be monitored and they would select competent people suitable to be

of the selection of participants. It is also suitable for raising the interest of users and making

who disagreed. All of them were in favor of Kim

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people. He would select from one of the followers to receive the god’s blessing once

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Church. In addition, he has a letter of

“Hrmm…”

The religious leader was interested and rose from his spot. Then he met the man who came to