"As early as the beginning of the game, Darvish complained that his attributes in the game were not realistic enough. Later, he actually contacted KONAMI and personally "supervised" it, which greatly improved his attributes. "
1. Game broadcaster·Darvish
Since 2018, the popular baseball mobile game "Professional Baseball Soul A" has launched the "Professional Baseball Players Play Game" event every year. The game official invites each team from the Japan Professional Baseball League 2 players compete in the game. Subsequently, players participating in the event will appear in the game in a limited card pool. For players, it is fun to watch real-life stars control themselves in the game to compete, but the shortcoming is that most of these players are not real players, and their game level in the activity videos is often unsatisfactory.
The game "Soul of Professional Baseball A" is linked with professional stars
However, this situation is changing with the addition of a new player. He's almost single-handedly changed the entire climate of the game over the past year.
This player's name is Darvish You. On the court, he is a multiple MVP winner in the professional football circles of Japan and the United States. Affected by the epidemic, he had nothing to do at home. He opened the YouTube channel "Darvish's Game Channel" in January last year, and then started his career as a game broadcaster for "Soul of Professional Baseball A".
Darvish pitcher is famous for his varied pitches in reality. If you overlap the videos of him throwing various pitches, it will be easier to find out what is great about him - his postures for throwing various pitches are almost the same, which makes the batter Indistinguishable
The first video posted by Dabixiu is called "Drawing cards with Ishikawa and Chiga-kun - none of the three of us understand the card drawing system, hahaha". In the video, he had just created a game account and invited two other friends to select players in the game to form a lineup. The video of the three people is full of ignorant and ignorant comments such as "Which one should I draw?" and "Why can't I draw the S card...ah, it seems that if I draw more than 4 times and ten consecutive times, there is no guarantee."
The card pool that Darby repaired initially was not very cost-effective in the game. It was actually a "poisonous pool" that newcomers should avoid.
In fact, these two friends were not veteran players who always guide new players, but Japanese professional players. Ace pitchers Ayumu Ishikawa and Kodai Chiga of the Chiba Rhodes Marines and Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks. Their only experience with this game is that Chiga once participated in a "Professional Baseball Players Play Game" event.
Although Darvish's first video seems to be clueless, as the high praise comment pointed out: "Most people can't say this kind of thing..."Ah! I got myself."", it doesn't seem to be a superficial taste. , but Darvish, who devoted himself seriously to it, quickly attracted a large number of followers. When he asked in the video, "Hey? Why aren't you there?", some players happily replied: "You are not in the pool now, you won't come out no matter how much you smoke, haha..."
2.氪金大Mr. Darvish
Soon, the long-awaited opportunity for Darvish to "puff himself" arrived. At the end of February last year, the game launched the annual limited card pool "World Star", which consists of Japanese players active in the Major League Baseball, including Darvish himself.
Darby commented on himself in the game first, and expressed his opinion about the ball path designed for him by the game "Sinking Fast Ball (シンキングファ)"スト)" said he was very confused: "What kind of ball is a sinking fastball... Also, my slider (スライダー) has more than just D... It should be a little more powerful... and I can also throw a curveball. , no."
In the game, Darvish's three main parameters "ball power/ball control/stamina" totaled 245, ranking 8th among the 229 starting pitchers launched that year.
What makes players "loved to see" is that Darvish I put all the resources I had accumulated so far into the card pool and drew 11 times in a row, but I still didn't draw myself.
Darby said with emotion, "I can't smoke now, I can't help it...", and then made a comeback the next day with the account after the krypton gold. However, the titles of his videos have gradually changed from "I want to draw me" to "I want to draw me but I draw another number 11...", "I want to draw myself", "Can't draw myself" ” and “I’ll never draw cards again. Definitely not smoking anymore. I don't play anymore. 》The channel’s single video playback volume also exceeded 1 million times.
Dabixiu simply used the photo of himself crying after defeat in Koshien as the cover of the video of drawing cards and sinking the ship. The majority of players called him an expert.
By the time of the last video, he had already spent more than 100 yuan in total. 100,000 yen (approximately 6,000 RMB), and he drew more than 500 draws in total. He drew all his friends and juniors who also played in the United States, but he never got his S player card (Note: There is no such card in this card pool. The setting of superimposed shipping probability after cumulative failure to draw, the probability of drawing Darbysh in a single draw and in 10 consecutive draws is the same, both are 1.5625‰). When he smiled bitterly in the video and said, "I won't play anymore, I won't play this game anymore." At the moment, Darvish You became Darvish None in the hearts of players.
Of course, for Darvish, who has an annual salary of US$20 million (approximately 130 million RMB, approximately equivalent to 6.5 million draws in the game), this setback is not insurmountable. He finally got what he wanted after adding an additional 130,000 yen, and the total cost was about 13,000 RMB.
When the card draw finally succeeded, Darvish seemed to have returned to the moment when he won the world championship for the national team.
In this short week, the player Darvish completed the transformation from zero krypton gold to waste krypton gold. Metamorphosis. Four months later, when he was targeting the "Overlord Alliance", the highest level of in-game battles, showing off his lineup and soliciting team formation suggestions from netizens, an unsuspecting player asked him, "Are you a free player?" ” message, Darvish proudly replied: “I am a baseball soul YouTuber with unlimited money.”
"No gold? No (limited) gold."
3. Battle celebrity · Darvish
Darvish, who has always been happy to spend money, temporarily hit the ceiling six months after he started playing. He reached 3rd place in the entire server in the "Strongest Decisive Battle" where the player sets the lineup and the computer automatically battles. The people before and after him also spent a lot of money, but Darvish's account level was more than 150 levels lower than them. Considering that he achieved this result in just a few months after setting up his account, he calls himself the "Kryptonian King of Professional Baseball." His fame is by no means in vain. (Note: The author has been online continuously for three years in the game and has never spent money to buy physical strength. He is currently level 229.)
Darvish’s strongest decisive battle result
Before getting this result, Darvish was already dissatisfied. Instead of man-machine battle activities in the game, they hope to challenge real players with themselves in the game. He started from the "Newcomer 3" level at the bottom of the qualifying competition in early April. In just three weeks, he passed the bronze, silver and reached the "Gold 5" level.
Dabi Xiu ushered in the promotion battle
In this game, the promotion of "Gold 5" to "Platinum 1" is like a carp leaping through the dragon's gate. To advance to the Platinum level, which allows the accumulation of qualifying points, Gold 5 players need to win 4 out of 5 games to advance. At this time, Da Bixiu accumulated 56 wins and 43 losses, with a winning rate of only 56.6%. Facing the battle of Tianwangshan with 3 wins and 1 loss, Darvish made desperate words, "If you can really reach platinum, you can get out of this trap!"
In the last half of overtime, the scoreboard showed that each side scored 1 point (R). Darvish, who led the attack, had a total of 5 hits (H), while the opponent only had 2 hits.
The actual game process was also quite exciting. Darvish first lost, then tied, and wasted an offense that extended the game. In this game, if the game ends in a draw, the winner will be determined based on the performance of the game. At this time, Darvish, who has a total of 5 hits, will win. In other words, Darvish must defend the opponent's last attack and not lose a single point.
Darvish unexpectedly won. At the end of the game, Darvish won the game with great difficulty due to his opponent's tactical mistakes that "sent him to death". Happiness came so suddenly that even he himself didn't react.
After reaching the Platinum Division, Darvish earned his first scoring star in the points competition. And happily said, "This game is really fun, I am very happy, and I will continue to play it."
After that, Darvish studied hard and even asked fellow Youtuber gamers and "Professional Baseball" Soul A》2018 season all-Japan champion 〓V.I.P〓 asked for advice online, and his level improved rapidly. In the blink of an eye, by the end of 2020, he not only bought an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil for the game, but his record also jumped to a 75.9% winning rate of 208 wins and 66 losses in the second half of the new season. At this time, Darvish has reached the "Celebrity" level, above which there are only four levels: Football Saint, Football King, Football King and Football God. This means that even if he meets those semi-professional players participating in the All-Japan Finals, he can still play well.
4. Game planner · Darvish
Although Darvish initially started playing "Soul of Professional Baseball A" purely as a passerby, with the launch of his official cooperation with the game, he won and lost in the game. It also began to touch the hearts of every player. From May 2nd to May 11th last year, every time Darvish hit a home run and won a victory in a game, the official will send rewards to all players in the server. The award of this reward is not an invitation to Darvish to figuratively spin the roulette wheel to win a prize, but to actually win points one by one. In the end, Darvish's performance was gratifying, and the players also received the largest benefits since the launch of the game. Everyone was happy.
Darvish's first cooperation with the official website
Not only that, as early as the beginning of the game, Darvish complained that his attributes in the game were not realistic enough. After the first cooperation ended successfully, he actually contacted the game production company KONAMI, personally "supervised" it, and launched a limited card pool in August. As an experienced player, he has greatly improved his attributes within reasonable limits, making himself a "human rights card" in the game.
In the new year's national competition at the end of 2020, 9 of the 40 players who entered the finals placed Darvish in the starting lineup for the single-elimination game, making him the starting pitcher with the highest frequency of appearances.
The lineup of players was announced on the big screen at the national competition, and supervisor Darvish was on the list.
By the way, he was not the only one to be introduced into the supervisor card pool by Darvish, but he was the one in all 12 professional teams. Each team selects a player who impressed him, and redesigns the values based on the peak years of these players' careers. Every player selected by Darvish has the ability to be worthy of entering the player lineup. It can be said that there is almost no thunder in the dream card pool.
However, including Darvish himself, the card pool of the total 13 players has almost no guarantee. This time, Darvish himself spent another 100,000 yen to draw himself. As for those non-Krypton and micro-Krypton players who can’t get what they want, I really don’t know how many there are.
(Note: The random S shipment rate of this card pool is 2.5%. Since it is a mixed pool of 13 players, the probability of drawing the designated player is only 1.923‰. Under the weak guarantee mechanism of the game, the reasonable expectation is about 190 consecutive games. It is equivalent to half a year of free card drawing resources accumulated in the game, which is too far away for Wu Krypton and Micro Krypton. )
5. King of Amway·Darvish
With Darvish’s active performance in and outside the game, more and more professional baseball players have added the status of “part-time game anchor” to themselves. Among them are major league pitcher Kenta Maeda, who was directly led by Darvish, as well as former Japanese national team catcher Tomoya Nakazaki who has retired and serves as a ball commentator, and three-time winner of the Most Outstanding Pitcher Award, Kazumi Saito.
Rizaki said in an interview that his YouTube channel was originally focused on professional football evaluation, and the age group of the audience was mostly viewers around 30-40 years old. However, after he started broadcasting game content, the channel’s audience was under 30 years old. The audience has increased significantly. Saito Kazumi even started a unique game plan of "ranking without krypton gold".
In the video, Rizaki solemnly listed his achievements in international competitions. He hopes that KONAMI will take a good reference and make himself stronger.
Game officials are also increasingly aware of the vitality that the participation of professional players brings to the game. At the All-Japan Finals at the end of 2020, the "Professional Baseball Soul A·Retired Players Championship" was also held at the same time, and a total of 14 former professional stars were invited to participate, including even a retired foreign player. In the end, Rizaki, who started practicing early, won the first retired players championship among many elderly people. It can be said that his hard work paid off. All of this now stems from the "tap water" that Darvish was in isolation at home at the beginning of the year.
While other players were in full swing creating accounts and drawing cards, Darvish, the instigator, suddenly issued a "declaration to quit the game" in February this year. He claimed that he could no longer guarantee sleep time because he was addicted to games. However, the 35-year-old himself does not know how many years it will take before he bids farewell to the field. In order not to leave any regrets, he will temporarily give up his beloved "Soul of Professional Baseball A" and devote himself to the spring training of the new season.
However, a month later, the game simultaneously launched the new year's card pool when the new season was about to open in reality -
As you can imagine, one day later, Darby Xiu returned to the pit. In the game, he only dropped one spot from the championship of the "Overlord" category. I hope that in the new year, he can continue to work hard to become the double king of the major leagues and "Baseball Soul A".
Darby broke the law after less than two months of training and was attracted by the new card pool.
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