Build a game empire from scratch

Rene Brie, the founder of Kelibri Game Company, soon met Lin You.

This blond-haired old man has no entrepreneurial arrogance, but a humble face, especially when negotiating and making demands, he pays special attention to wording.

But this does not change his request - to share the data of German players, and the two sides jointly manage the server center.

But Lin You didn't intend to agree.

Not only would he not agree, but he also looked at Zhong Chang strangely: "Yunmeng has never backed down on data, is there anyone who doesn't know about this?"

Seeing Lin You's reaction, René Brie immediately understood Lin You's meaning, and tried to use "being able to negotiate with the government and let the server land smoothly" as a bargaining chip.

But after hearing this, Lin You couldn't help but look at Zhong Chang again: Does this person treat us as fools?

He thought that this person was the founder of a game company after all, and the size of the company seemed to be okay, so he specially came to meet this overseas colleague.

Bree disappointed him in the end.

No wonder the game market in Germany is so big, and the strongest game companies are all from abroad—the local game companies are too impressive!

Well, the sample of René Brie does not represent all.

But Bree accepted the government's suggestion that the first company approached, not to mention representing all, should at least be a typical example!

Thinking about it this way, Lin You's desire to communicate was greatly reduced.

The words of refusal were already on his lips, but before he spoke, he paused and changed his words: "Precedents cannot be set indiscriminately, but we also attach great importance to the German market, so let's think about it before we talk."

After finishing speaking, Lin You looked at Zhong Chang: "Let's talk about it later, I have something urgent."

Then I got up and wanted to leave.

Bri still wanted to fight, but Lin You was too lazy to listen, "Sorry, you didn't make an appointment in advance, I really have something urgent, let's talk again when we have a chance."

After saying goodbye politely, Lin You immediately turned into fine sand and disappeared in place.

This operation caught René Brie in a daze.

And Yunmeng's employees, who are used to the boss's occasional flashy operations in the virtual world, all said: Small scenes are not surprising.

Although Lin Youren left, he did not forget to send a message to Zhong Chang: "The other party made a request, neither agreeing nor denying it, and delaying it for a few days."

Anyway, it's not that German players can't play now, it's just a little delay.

Compared to quickly building a server, eliminating these delays, allowing players from all over the world to gather around the same topic for discussion, and promoting cross-border communication between players in the virtual world is obviously more valuable.

——It's definitely not Lin You just to watch the excitement.

In addition, although Lin You's "urgent matter" was an excuse, he did have something to do.

Not only the player's reaction after the module sharing platform went online, but also a survey of the status quo of "completely disabled" players.

Before, he asked Xiaomeng to collect the users who spent 16 hours online every day, and tried to exclude those players who were overly addicted to the game, and screened out those who were completely disabled due to frostbite, paralysis, severe disability or other special reasons. Users who can only stay in bed and rely on others to take care of them all year round, so they have to stay in the virtual world every day.

This part of the players, in the overall players, the proportion is naturally very small.

However, with the huge base of Yunmeng's global users breaking through 300 million, the absolute number is quite large. In the past few days, Xiaomeng has screened out more than 30,000 people—and this is obviously not all.

But the interesting thing is: among these players, the proportion of masters is not low, and there are 17 of them with the title of [Honorary Player].

Sufficient online time and a stronger sense of belonging to the virtual world make them more willing to study their favorite games in depth, which makes them more skilled than ordinary players in many cases, and it is easier to develop interesting gameplay.

In fact, if you think about it carefully, there are 24 hours in a human day, and it takes only 6 to 8 hours to get rid of sleep, leaving a total of 16 to 18 hours for free use.

Players who spend 16 hours a day in the virtual world are already more like residents of the virtual world than the real world.

But even for most of these people, their hearts are still in reality, and the virtual world is just a place for novel and interesting games.

But for people who have completely lost their ability to move in reality, they have shifted to the virtual world regardless of their online time or their inner belongings.

This difference in inner sense of belonging is not only reflected in the exploration of game skills and gameplay, but also in mentality.

For many of these players, their mentality in the virtual world is not simply "playing games", but a real "life".

Because they are bedridden all the year round in reality, not only themselves suffer a lot, but their family members are also often physically and mentally exhausted.

Putting aside the physical and psychological aspects, the cost of living and treatment is an unavoidable problem.

But as the virtual world continues to expand and the ecology becomes richer and richer, they are not only liberated physically and mentally, but also improved materially—they can earn money in the virtual world!

It's not like Splash who is lucky enough to make a fortune occasionally.

Instead, there is a way to earn money steadily, which can continuously subsidize the family.

Among them, the most common and simplest one is no different from ordinary gamers: "playing gold".

Metropolis is the earliest place to make gold. Although there are new players from various countries pouring in, it is too easy to rob banks to make money. On the contrary, the price of gold is very low, and you can only earn a coolie.

Especially as local tyrants get the golden keys one after another, the market shrinks further.

until now. There are fewer and fewer players who continue to stick to making gold here.

However, because there is no threshold, it is easy to get started, and at least it can guarantee the bottom line. There are also people who like stability to stay here.

In contrast, Night City, which has attached great importance to the economic system from the very beginning, is much more stable.

Even because more and more players are pouring in, the places where gold coins are consumed are constantly updated, and the price of gold is getting higher and higher!

And don't worry about selling it at all!

There has been a stable middleman for a long time, as long as the player wants to sell, someone will accept it at any time, which is very popular.

It's just that Yunmeng's economic system is controlled too much, in the words of the players - "the stingy ones will die", and it is not easy to earn a lot of virtual currency.

Basically, the better the technology, the easier it is to make money.

And most of these people who "lose" reality and passively "permanently live" in the virtual world have indeed surpassed the level of ordinary players.

"Fighting gold" to make money is naturally more efficient.

In addition to playing gold, the proportion of them who make money by "leveling" is higher than ordinary players.

Relying on stronger technology and richer knowledge reserves, you can make money by leading tasks, achievements, and points.

Of course, because you can't register for other people, this method is not so much a "power leveling", but a "high-end companionship".

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In short, without Yunmeng knowing it, the huge ecology of the virtual world already has a group that completely relies on it for survival.

Lin You and Xiao Meng shuttled back and forth in the virtual world, observing one virtual world permanent resident after another.

Some of them rob banks in the metropolis, some do missions in Night City, some lead their bosses to race on the [Candy Track], some team up with their bosses to fight in "Battlefield", and some guide their novice bosses to hunt for prey ...

Of course, there are also people who have nothing to do in the public world, shopping, tasting food and coffee.

No matter how you look at it, they are no different from ordinary players.

If it wasn't for the evidence carefully screened by Xiaomeng, Lin You wouldn't be able to see anything special about these people.

But thinking that it is precisely because of the birth of the virtual world that these people have something to do again, they can run around every day, contact different people, make friends, have jobs, and life becomes meaningful again.

This made Lin You feel sincerely happy.

After thinking about it, he decided to send an announcement to all players, changing the "removal of anti-addiction restrictions" to an application system.

——In the case of limited information, Xiaomeng's screening cannot be foolproof.

Of course, before making the announcement, he had to improve the smart customer service first, so as not to put too much pressure on the employees.

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Lin You's announcement briefly attracted the players' attention.

Everyone blew rainbow farts for 10 minutes in the comment area, praising Lin You for taking care of special groups.

But quickly changed the subject, and began to call on Lin You to relax the restrictions, so that ordinary players can also apply for lifting the anti-addiction restrictions.

Just like this for another 10 minutes, after finding that Lin You was unmoved, everyone quickly dispersed and went back to find the mods to play.

Throughout the afternoon, players have been exploring various free mods and paid mods that can be experienced for free, looking for interesting content.

Compared with these mainstream players, the number of completely disabled players who really benefited is too small.

Even if you come to leave a message to thank you intermittently, it is just a tiny wave compared to the netizens who come to join in the fun.

But it doesn't matter, Lin You and Xiao Meng are already satisfied after looking at the submitted applications one by one.

Of course, it's not that Lin You really didn't see the demands of those ordinary players.

He has been thinking about the modification of the "game cabin" recently.

Compared with Mirage mainframe, the "game compartment" is much larger. Not only can the performance of the mainframe—especially the "capacity" that Lin You thought about before, be greatly increased, but there is also a lot of room for modification. .

Theoretically, a simple [Survival Support Device] can also be added.

To put it more bluntly, it is the enteral nutrition suspension injection device and the urine and feces discharge device.

Coupled with the original bioelectric muscle stimulation technology, it is actually completely possible for ordinary players to lie down from morning to night every day without being cared for.

The only question is: is this really necessary?

For the mysterious grand prize of the "Terraria" Survival Challenge, Lin You arranged the game cabin.

But until now, he hadn't thought about it, what kind of remodeling the game cabin would be?

The second is to wait a little longer.