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On July 22, the State Administration of Press and Publication released the approval information of domestic online games in July. There are 105 games that have passed the review, among which the mobile version of "Tales of Immortal" is prominently listed. As the former light of domestic games, the creators have been waiting for this day for too long.

In January 2021, the EA version of "Tales of Immortal" was launched on Steam. This Chinese-style casual simulator game based on the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" has been highly praised by players since its release. Although it is only in the testing phase, its popularity is not bad at all. Its popularity is so high that it has even attracted many foreign players to come.

In that year, the little-known game "Tales of Immortal" sold 3.9 million copies. Although there is a big gap with the 7 million sales of "Naraka: Bladepoint" which ranked first, as an independent game, this achievement is already quite outstanding. It was not until the mod production tool updated in 2022 that all the reputation accumulated by this game in the early stage was ruined.

At that time, "Tales of Immortal" updated a third-party mod creation tool instead of using Steam's own creative workshop. This move was a bit "superfluous", but players could accept it. But when they actually used it, they found that the situation was completely different from what they imagined.

This third-party mod creation tool is not easy to use on the one hand, and the pressure on the other hand comes from the rules and restrictions of this tool. In the user agreement of this tool, it is shown that they have the right to check, modify and/or delete the content imported by the mod author without prior notice.

This rule quickly caused dissatisfaction among players, and it also meant that the creation of mods would be restricted. For a time, the community was in turmoil and negative reviews began to emerge. Zhang San, the main creator of the game, later responded through a live broadcast, but his personal attitude caused even greater resistance. The subsequent bombardment of negative reviews caused the praise rate of "Tales of Immortal" to plummet.

As the situation became more and more serious, the official finally issued an apology, but the actual effect was not significant. During that period, the negative review rate of "Three Kingdoms" was even lower than that of "Tales of Immortal".

There have been many different opinions on the Internet about why such a mod creation tool was launched. Some people think that this is to attract traffic to third-party tools, and some people think that this is to sell players' mods. However, the greater possibility is that it is actually for the continued operation of the game.

The gameplay of "Tales of Immortal" is not complicated, and it is not that difficult to make it compatible with mobile devices. However, some of the game content still has scale issues. If it cannot be supervised and reviewed, it will not be easy to move to a new platform. Fortunately, the development team held on, and after two years, the mobile game "Tales of Immortal" finally received the news of approval.

Nowadays, the reputation of "Tales of Immortal" has fallen. Although the aftermath of the previous negative review bombing incident is still there, causing the overall evaluation of the game to still be at the level of "mixed", but the evaluation in the past 30 days has been "mostly positive". Perhaps one day, "Tales of Immortal" will be able to regain the recognition of players.

So what are your expectations for the mobile game "Ghost Valley and Eight Wildernesses"?