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Chapter 57 This game is so fun
Inside a duplex in Los Angeles.

Johnny was lying on the bed with headphones on, listening to music, flipping through comic books boredly, thinking about how to spend this weekend.

The phone rang, and my mother's voice came from downstairs, "Johnny, it's Matt's phone."

"I got it." Johnny rolled out of bed lazily and picked up the phone receiver, "Hey, Matt, what's the matter?"

"Hey, Johnny, do you want to go swimming? I heard that some of the hot girls from school have gone." Matt's lewd voice came.

"Sorry, I don't want to go out today." Johnny is not interested in swimming. "I have to wait for news on the steam platform."

"Hey, okay." Matt thought for a moment, "I'll go to your house to look for you first, and then we'll figure out where to go."

"OK, come here."

Johnny hung up the phone casually, then sat in front of the computer and refreshed the platform page.

He is a die-hard fan of Half-Life and Valve. He spends most of his time playing games. He can be said to be a die-hard gamer.

Johnny was eager to wait for the release date of "Half-Life 2" in September, but the game was delayed.

Due to hacker leaks, the release of "Half-Life 2" had to be postponed, which made Johnny very angry and dissatisfied.

But in the end, he calmed down. It was all the fault of the damn hackers, otherwise he would have been able to play "Half-Life 2" earlier.

But what comforts him is that the steam platform has been optimized, which is an unexpected surprise for him.

When Steam first launched, it was pretty bad. Johnny once sent an angry email to Valve, saying that this was a piece of shit.

What makes him most unhappy is that not to mention the poor platform of Valve, Valve announced that "Half-Life 2" will be sold exclusively on the platform and will no longer issue physical discs.

Johnny couldn't even imagine how bad the gaming experience would be after "Half-Life 2" was launched.

Unexpectedly, Steam soon underwent a major modification and update, and the entire platform became beautiful and smooth.

Problems such as numerous bugs and disconnections have been solved. He can even play CS online with his friends on the platform, something he never dared to think about before.

When "Half-Life 2" went on pre-sale and gave away T-shirts, Johnny bought it immediately without hesitation.

It’s only five dollars, and you get a T-shirt for free. How can you miss such a good thing?
Not only did Johnny click on the reservation himself, he also registered accounts for his parents and sister and ordered a few more items.

Because the styles of T-shirts sent by Valve are random, he wants to collect a few more.

Unfortunately, after the number of reservations reached 2 million, V closed the reservations and did not say when it would open again.

Johnny stayed in front of the computer, checking every day to see if there was any new news on Steam.

As soon as he opened Steam, he found a new game on the homepage with a line of large fonts written on it.

“Try it for free!”

"Hey, you can try games for free on Steam?!" Johnny immediately clicked on the page excitedly.

Q version style mini-game, tower defense?

"Plants vs. Zombies?" Although Johnny is not a fan of small games, this is a free game presented by V Agency. If you don't play it, you won't play it!
He clicked download, but he didn't expect that the game was unexpectedly small. It downloaded in a few seconds, and he almost didn't even react.

Johnny's heart skipped a beat. Isn't this a shoddy game? It's only so big?
Click the button and the game starts!
Then Johnny found a prompt box popping up in the game, "To ensure the player experience, we will enable the simultaneous play function for you. During your play, the background will continue to download subsequent game content."

I bought it. Is this a new feature of V Club? !
Great, you no longer have to worry about long waits and updates.

Johnny was enthusiastically experiencing the free trial game and advancing step by step according to the teaching content. This little game, hey, don’t say anything.

That's a bit interesting.

Soon, with Johnny's careful strategy, he played all the way to levels 2-10.

Just when he was still not satisfied and ready to continue playing, the game popped up a prompt again, "The free trial content has ended. If you want to continue the experience, please purchase the official version."

Johnny took a look and saw that the game was priced at $15, but it was on sale today, so you could buy it for only $10.

buy!
Isn’t it only 10 US dollars? I don’t know, I thought we couldn’t afford the game.

Johnny paid quickly and began to slowly become addicted.

The subsequent games became more and more difficult. Pole vaulting zombies and balloon zombies could only be considered elite monsters. The Dance King Zombie and the Giant Zombie kept him in a hurry and he failed accidentally.

"Hollyshit!" Johnny cursed unwillingly, "These guys are too difficult to deal with. I have to improve my defense strategy."

While Johnny was distressed, his friend Matt walked into his room.

"Hey, Johnny, what are you doing?!" Matt came over and suddenly laughed, "So you are playing this too."

"This game is great, very special." Johnny excitedly introduced it to his friends, "It requires very superb skills and defense strategies."

"Come on Johnny, there's no way you can pass the level with plants like yours now." Matt mocked, "It doesn't need a very sophisticated strategy, it just needs a simple DLC?"

"DLC?" Johnny was full of surprise, "An expansion pack will be released so soon?"

"It's five dollars each. There are very powerful plants inside." Matt made a gesture. "I watched my sister play until dawn last night. The corn cannon in the expansion pack is so beautiful!"

"Fake, why didn't you tell me earlier!" Johnny immediately quit the game and quickly paid for the powerful plant expansion pack on the steam platform.

Soon, the room could be heard arguing between Johnny and Matt.

"You idiot, don't put up the cherry bomb!"

"Hey, we need Gatling peas, why are you buying frozen peas?"

"Shut up, freezing slows down zombies."

"Fool, we need something more powerful!"

Until noon, Johnny's mother couldn't help but get very angry when she saw that the two people were still refusing to go downstairs for lunch.

"My dear, go up and catch those two little guys, otherwise they will starve to death in front of the computer."

Johnny's father agreed, put down the newspaper, and reluctantly went upstairs to chase people away.

But more than ten minutes later, Johnny's father was nowhere to be seen.

The angry mother went upstairs in person to find out what was going on. As soon as she opened the door, she saw Johnny's father sitting in front of the computer playing games with his two children.

"Buyers, what are you doing?"

Johnny's father paused the game in embarrassment and said to his wife sheepishly, "I'm sorry, honey, this game is so fun."

(End of this chapter)