Chapter 1

# 1

1. An article on a webzine

There is a game called Pick me up.

It is a mobile game launched by Mobius Co., Ltd. two years ago and has a subtitle called Hyper Roguelike Summoning RPG.

Today, in celebration of the 2nd anniversary of Pick Me Up and the 100 million DL breakthrough, I am writing a glorious special article. I wish you well.

Pick Me Up is already a popular game that boasts 100 million users worldwide, but I would like to introduce the game once again for those who may not know.

When the game called Pick Me Up first appeared on the storefront, many people questioned it.

Isn’t this a common mass-produced star game?

However, Pick Me Up gradually started to gain popularity through word of mouth, and now it has become a national mobile game enjoyed not only in Korea but also around the world.

What is the reason that Pick Me Up was able to become the world’s No. 1 mobile game? Let’s look at the attractive points.

The first Moebius Summon.

It is a key point system that was completed after about 5 years of development. The point of the system is to randomly mix thousands of patterns to create infinite heroes.

In other words, whether Pick Me Up is picked hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of times, the possibility of duplicate heroes is almost zero. It doesn’t make sense in terms of common sense, but Pick Me Up broke that common sense and appeared.

However, a revolutionary system was waiting to the extent that this was nothing more than a minor change.

The second Quantum AI.

A few years ago, a match between a world-class Go player and artificial intelligence drew attention. The battle of the century ended with the victory of artificial intelligence.

The reporter also imagined while watching the historical scene. Isn’t it the appearance of super-high artificial intelligence that we only saw in future movies?

Ironically, such an artificial intelligence revolution started with a game company.

The secret to cultivating tens of millions of pick-mees (short for pick-me-up) is right there. Mobius, the developer, applied ultra-high artificial intelligence, which was thought to be a decades later, to a mere mobile game.

The heroes of Pick Me Up each feel and think. When each hero is put on the stage, a hundred out of a hundred different reactions come out. Heroes demand and assert their masters, sometimes refusing or obeying orders.

When it comes to the battle, which is the core of the game, it shows even more astonishing results. Even if the master does not give orders, the heroes take their own effective tactics and use different tactics and formations for each battle.

Also, even though they had the same training, the growth value was different, and even though they were the same level and grade, the process and outcome of the battle were different.

Therefore, there are no hero rating tables and fixed training methods that are common in other games. This is because each of the thousands and hundreds of millions of heroes in Pick Me Up reminds us of a single human being.

This is the biggest reason why Pick Me Up is called ‘the devil’s game’.

Because it’s too realistic. The heroes in the game are just products of data, but they are so real.

Still, the developer, Mobius, has not revealed the detailed algorithm.

Not long ago, a Chinese giant tried to acquire a developer by spending hundreds of billions of dollars, but it failed.

Third Roguelike.

Oh, I have nothing to do.

content is lacking

The above two sentences are a lament representing the feelings of hard users who exist in any game. This also proves that the development speed of most games cannot keep up with the speed of content consumption.

A Moebius employee said in an interview.

‘A super hard user who spends tens of millions of won on nuclear billing and only games all day? Give it a try.’

When the above interview first came out, many users snorted. However, until now, two years after its release, not a single user has reached the end of the main dungeon of Pick Me Up.

In the current situation, there are many users who pour hundreds of millions of won, let alone tens of millions of won, and users who invest more than 18 hours every day in Pick Me Up.

Pick Me Up adopted a rule called hardcore.

When it was first released, users reacted somewhat absurdly. Hardcore meant that when a hero died, it would disappear as it was.

A hero who spent millions of dollars and invested hundreds of hours disappears in just one battle? In the early days of Pick Me Up, this was pointed out as the biggest drawback of the game, and it also bought the complaints of many users.

Of course, Moebius did not revise this rule at all, and rather, as time passed, more and more people began to regard it as an attractive point.

One enthusiast claims.

The heroes of Pick Me Up are programming puppets with precision enough to be mistaken for humans.

– Among the reporters on this site, there is an excellent member of Ragnaroki. What does the boss do without firing him?

[Lv.21] Diorama

Agree 11 Disagree 13

– To be honest, I don’t know if Loki deserves so much praise. Isn’t it just a common biller 1?

[Lv.76] Become a dragon

Empathy 3 Dislike 5

– What else is Ragnaroki?

[Lv.31]

Agree 0 Disagree 0

– This is a Loki fan site. They say you need a signature to be promoted as an excellent member.

└[Lv. 76] Become a dragon

Empathy 4 Dislike 3

– It’s absurd.

[Lv.7] I agree with Siris-Jang

1132 I don’t agree with you 2564

[This is a blinded comment.]

– I want to lick Siris-Jang’s ass! Licking!

[Lv.22] Wallet King Kim and Geum

Agree 811 Disagree 532

– Aside from fairness as a knight, the influence Loki had on Pick Me cannot be ignored. Before Loki’s account was released, wasn’t it just a common pay-to-win no matter how good the game was? It’s not an exaggeration to say that the meta has changed since then.

└[Lv.15] From the ancestors to the generations, the scholars

sympathize 4 dislike 9

– Here again the Rockistance!

[Lv.22] Wallet King Kim and Geum

Agree 321 Disagree 157

– Did I say something wrong?

Seriously, didn’t you hit all the foreign rankers except for Loki last time? Right now, the only Korean ranker left is Loki. Korean Pixie is Rocky, and Loki is Korean Pixie.

To put it bluntly, even if Loki only had 7 stars, it would have been worth aiming for world number 1.

[Lv.7] Sirius-jang

agree 325 Dislike 1132

[This is a blinded comment.]

– I want to lick Siris-jang’s armpit!

Licking!

└[Lv. 15] Electronic anklets

Agree 913 Disagree 132

– This idiot is saying shit in every article about Pick Me, but why doesn’t he get stopped?

[Lv.1] Isel0479

Empathize 13 Dislike 11

– All High Loki!

All roads lead to Loki!

... (abridged).