Mysterious Industry Insider 'Guan Sheng' Leaks High-Profile ACT Game Intel — But Is He a Former NetEase Employee or a Paid Shill? Community Divided

A single screenshot and a familiar name are enough to set the Chinese gaming community ablaze — such is the mystique of 'Guan Sheng' (观圣), one of the most talked-about industry insiders in the gacha gaming sphere. Recently, this enigmatic figure dropped new intel about an 'extremely popular ACT game,' and the comment section immediately turned into a battlefield. But this time, the real drama wasn't about the leak itself — it was the age-old question that never gets old: Who exactly is Guan Sheng?

According to the leaked screenshot, Guan Sheng mentioned that a 'high-popularity ACT game' is about to have some major news, while hinting that the game's IP originates from Japan and that someone is 'waiting for payment' before finalizing revenue coefficients. These keywords immediately sent the comment section into detective mode. Some guessed it was Zenless Zone Zero (ZZZ) — HoYoverse's upcoming ACT title that's reportedly overdue for its third beta test. Others pointed to Gui Long Chao (归龙潮), which had already teased paid testing plans.

But the real spectacle wasn't about guessing the game — it was about dissecting Guan Sheng's identity. One commenter claimed he was a 'former NetEase Da Shen APP employee' whose revenue statistics had historically been quite accurate, earning him widespread trust among industry watchers. The counterattack was swift: another user fired back that the 'former NetEase employee' label was only slapped onto him after MiHoYo fans (often derisively called 'Mi Xue Zhang' / 米学长) started hyping him up. Someone else was even more blunt: 'You'd have better luck believing I'm the official Chinese distributor for Novel AI than believing he actually worked at NetEase.'

The debate over Guan Sheng's credibility is nothing new. One user pointed out that his revenue data became widely cited not because of its inherent accuracy, but because certain segments of the community (specifically, hardcore MiHoYo fans) started championing him after a Guangming Daily report on game revenues partially aligned with his figures. In other words, the trust came from confirmation bias, not methodology. Another commenter delivered an even more devastating critique: 'People have been using his charts for revenue comparisons since 2019, and nobody thinks that's absurd?'

The most savage takedown came from a user who summarized Guan Sheng's business model with surgical precision: 'This guy is basically running the Ya Shi Ren (亚食人) playbook — taking commissions, accepting paid gigs to set revenue coefficients, then packaging it all into revenue analysis videos for cash.' For context, Ya Shi Ren is a well-known gaming content creator whose business model allegedly involves producing 'objective industry analysis' that conveniently aligns with whoever is paying the bills. If this accusation holds any water, then every Guan Sheng 'leak' might not be neutral industry intel at all — it could be a carefully orchestrated marketing play.

As for Guan Sheng's social life, every time someone screenshots his activity, he's apparently always 'having dinner with people' (有局). One wag quipped: 'If he's always at these dinners, he must be the dinner captain (局长).' Whether these gatherings are innocent industry meetups or networking events with financial undertones, only the man himself knows.

Back to the games themselves, Gui Long Chao's timeline is raising eyebrows for entirely different reasons. Commenters noted that the game wrapped its second closed beta in January and announced paid testing by March — a pace that can only be described as desperate. In an era where small and mid-sized studios are struggling to survive, is this rush to monetize a survival strategy or a suicide mission? As one user put it coldly: 'All I see is mid-tier studios barely staying alive. The only word for it is a slow death.'

As of now, none of Guan Sheng's claims have been officially confirmed by any game publisher, and his alleged 'former NetEase employee' status remains nothing more than unverified hearsay. In an industry where 'if you can't see the actual financial reports, you're still just running software estimates,' the true weight of any insider's 'intel' is ultimately up to each individual's judgment. After all, when a content creator always seems to be networking at mysterious 'dinners,' can you really trust that their revenue data is 'purely objective'?