The First Domestic Large-scale 3A Game 'Black Myth Wukong' Goes Viral with Employee Poaching Issue

TapTechNews August 21st news, the first domestic large-scale 3A game 'Black Myth: Wukong' was officially released yesterday. The highest number of concurrent players on Steam at the start exceeded 2 million, ranking second in history, only next to 'PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds', which can be said to be a global hit.

'Black Myth: Wukong' developer Game Science was founded in June 2014, and the founding team members were from Tencent's 'Fighting God' project team, and later various developers joined. With the explosion of the game, the Financial Network Technology reported today that its employees are currently being poached crazily on recruitment websites, which triggered heated discussions among netizens and once topped the Weibo hot search list.

TapTechNews found on the recruitment platform Maimai that there were indeed Game Science employees directly posting words like not looking for a job and no recruitment please.

Actually, as early as when the first trailer of 'Black Myth: Wukong' was released in 2020, there were rumors on the internet that Game Science employees were being poached. No matter how the personnel changes were, the game was finally released smoothly and achieved both sales and reputation success, with a very positive reputation on Steam.