This Is a Cultivation Game, But the Devs Screwed It Up

Jiang Liu woke up one day to find he’d transmigrated to a parallel world, where a game called Cultivation Era was about to launch. The Earth was about to undergo cultivationization! Game characters and real life would be fully integrated! A nationwide era of cultivation was dawning! The free content in the game was pretty generous, including but not limited to: open world exploration, main storyline quests, the Tower of Heaven, leaderboards, arena battles, and exciting events. As for the pay-to-play content, it was absolutely massive, including but not limited to: top-up 648 yuan to get giant wings and luxury outfits, draw from a limited-time card pool for maxed sword spirit roots and supreme celestial bodies, invest spirit stones to get a perfect Foundation Establishment and Nine-Turn Golden Core, unlock one-click auto-cultivation at VIP5, and romance 100 gorgeous immortal companions with special relationship items. Free-to-play players had to s*ave away for three years just to reach Foundation Establishment! Meanwhile, rich whales could auto-cultivate all the way to Ascension! “This game could’ve been great, but the devs screwed it up, and there are still tons of bugs!” “I’ve been cultivating for three years, and I lost my house, my wife left me—what did I do wrong? All I wanted was to cultivate!” “Nationwide cultivation? If you don’t have money, how the h*ll are you supposed to cultivate?” “Come on, take out a microloan to boost your cultivation! Don’t you want that perfect Foundation Establishment?” Jiang Liu: “Pay-to-win cultivation? With my 90% off cracked client, I’m about to have the time of my life!”