Chapter 33 The Dark Secrets of "Old Soil

Hearing what Jiu Jianxian said, Xiao Jie almost laughed out loud.

Who would have thought that he, the guild leader of Wuji Studio, a professional gamer who had once claimed world-first kills, would be asked to play a dead boss one day...

The so-called "dead boss" is actually a term in online gaming.

In the early days of online games, equipment could be freely traded. Experts who looted equipment from bosses would sell it to bosses for money, which is why bosses didn't need to participate in combat.

However, since the rise of games like World of Warcraft, the concept of loot being "bind on pickup" became popular.

Top-tier gear becomes untradeable once picked up, and only players who participated in the boss fight qualify to loot it, which ended the early profit model where gamers sold equipment to bosses.

Bosses had to join the fight, but since bosses usually didn't play well, the concept of the "dead boss" emerged.