The game forum is a place for Pinnacle players to exchange game insights. Although the server had only been open for a few hours, the forum already had over a million posts!
Jiang Yan casually opened a post by a player named All Beings Are Equal, complaining about the crowded Novice Village with too many people and too few monsters. After half a day, he had only managed to snag experience from three goats, barely reaching level 1.
A flood of complaints followed the post, all lamenting the lack of monsters and hoping the developers would open more and larger maps!
Jiang Yan then opened a highlighted post, which was a recruitment notice from the Three-legged Golden Crow guild.
Di Jun: I am the Guild Leader of the Three-legged Golden Crow. We sincerely invite all players in the Huaguo Region with A-rank talent or above to join, regardless of class. Once accepted, A-rank talents will receive a monthly subsidy of five thousand yuan! S-rank talents, fifty thousand! SS-rank talents, two hundred thousand! SSS-rank talents, five hundred thousand!
The post was extremely popular because the Three-legged Golden Crow is one of the five T0-tier super guilds in the country, having dominated multiple virtual games. After Pinnacle was released, they mobilized all their players into the game and are now recruiting on a large scale, clearly intending to make a big impact in Pinnacle!
Thanks to the reputation of the Three-legged Golden Crow, the post had garnered over a hundred thousand comments!
Little Tyke: Passing by as a street-sweeping monk, with a monthly salary of eighteen hundred. Can I join with a B-rank talent? I only ask for three thousand; I don't want to sweep streets anymore!
I'm a Great Detective: I have a C-rank talent, gaining an extra free attribute point with each level up. I want to know what the attributes are for talents above A-rank.
Real Bros Come Slash Me: I have a B-rank talent with +30% magic penetration, but I chose to be a warrior. I want to delete my character, but it takes seven days to create a new one after deletion.
I'm a Big Star: Is there really an SSS-rank talent? I've asked all my friends, and none of them have anything above A-rank!
A World Without Thieves: There are at least a hundred million players in the Huaguo Region now, and in the next seven days, it will grow to at least five hundred million. Even if A-rank talents are one in a hundred, a thousand, or even ten thousand, with such a large base, there will surely be tens of thousands of talented players. I wonder, does the Three-legged Golden Crow have such a robust funding chain?
Playing the Lute to a Cow: Although the Three-legged Golden Crow is a guild, it has investments from multiple capital sources. They might lack many things, but money isn't one of them.
Phoenix Dances How Many Days: The Three-legged Golden Crow is strong, but it seems a bit weaker than Ragnarok. If you're going to join, join the Ragnarok guild!
Xiu Dou: To the one above, you can't even get into the Three-legged Golden Crow, and you want to join Ragnarok?
Reading through the comments, Jiang Yan was amazed.
Although he knew the SSS talent was precious, he didn't expect a guild to offer a monthly subsidy of five hundred thousand on the first day!
"Should I join the Three-legged Golden Crow and use their influence to crush that bitch couple in the game?"
After thinking it over, Jiang Yan slowly shook his head. While leveraging influence is fine, it must not come at the cost of selling oneself!
Next, Jiang Yan searched for the keyword "drop rate," and tens of thousands of posts appeared instantly.
Almost all the posts complained about the low drop rate!
But there were exceptions.
Jiang Yan clicked into a post by someone named Good Luck Comes, who had drawn an S-rank talent: five times the drop rate!
While others could only get one copper coin from a goat, he not only got five but also occasionally found common gear!
In the post, Good Luck Comes displayed his equipment, making Jiang Yan feel frustrated.
Despite his hard work fighting boars and tigers beyond his level, he only got one piece of bronze gear and two pieces of common gear. This guy, just by fighting goats, was fully equipped.
Goat Armguards, Goat Armor, Goat Boots, Goat Blade, Goat Helm, Goat Cloak, Goat Ring, Goat Necklace... The more Jiang Yan looked, the angrier he got. Damn it, were you part of the goat family in your past life?!
And this was just what Good Luck Comes was wearing. There were probably more in his backpack!
Jiang Yan looked at the tens of thousands of comments below the post, which could be divided into three parts!
One group of players was envious and resentful, hoping the developers would punish this show-off.
Another group called him "godfather," hoping to get free stuff and curry favor.
The last group was trying to recruit him.
Even the Guild Leader of the Three-legged Golden Crow, Di Jun, personally commented, hoping to recruit him and offering a monthly subsidy of a million!
Besides the Three-legged Golden Crow, the other four T0-tier super guilds in the country also joined the recruitment: Ragnarok, Drunken Beauties, White Jade Capital, and Stardust!
The prices offered by these super guilds were all around a million, with little fluctuation.
Below the five major guilds, there were over a dozen T1-tier large guilds, like Prosperous Dynasty and Dark Empire, offering even more exaggerated prices, exceeding two million per month!
Additionally, many new guilds backed by financial conglomerates offered outrageous prices, with the Dragon Tiger Gate guild offering a monthly salary of five million!!
"There really are a lot of rich people." Jiang Yan looked at the prices offered by these guilds, realizing that the future of this game would be limitless. Otherwise, why would these wealthy people throw money into the game like crazy?
Jiang Yan was invigorated. With his current hidden class and SSS-rank talent, his future was destined to be brilliant, making him a cut above the rest!
Just as Jiang Yan was about to close the forum, he suddenly saw a pinned post!
In the Pinnacle forum, a highlighted post costs a million, while a pinned post costs ten million!
Ten million just to post, and it's only valid for 24 hours!
Even Jiang Yan couldn't help but open it to see who was so extravagant!
Wealth From All Sides: Hello, Guild Leaders of every guild. My name is Wealth From All Sides. I have a large amount of gold coins for sale. Interested parties, please contact me privately!
The post's content was simple, just one sentence without any context.
The comments below were increasing at a rate of over ten thousand per second!
East Heretic West Venom: Which guild pushed this guy out?
Big Ben: If he's willing to spend ten million on such a post, he must have a large amount of gold coins. I'm curious about how he got them.
Psycho: Is there a hack?
Buried Love-Purple: It must be related to talent! Like that Good Luck Comes with the five times drop rate!
Buried Love-Blue: Could it be the developers, moving money from one hand to the other, trying to fleece the players?
Big-Head Son: Maybe it's a scammer. Everyone, be cautious!
The comments were filled with conspiracy theories, and Jiang Yan closed the post without looking further.
Judging by the few hours of gameplay, Pinnacle's production was absolutely top-notch, with endorsements from various countries, making the likelihood of hacks nearly zero!
Fleecing players was even less likely, as it would be like killing the goose that lays the golden eggs!
So Wealth From All Sides must have drawn a talent related to gold coins, and it's likely above S-rank, possibly even SSS like Jiang Yan!
After all, daring to directly @ the Guild Leaders of the major guilds to sell gold coins would be self-humiliating without enough gold coin stock!
Closing the forum, Jiang Yan quickly composed himself and continued hunting tigers!