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Chapter 581: Live Proxy and Account Purchase

Everyone came to the barbecue buffet next to the school, ready to have a big meal.

"You can make money by playing games. It makes me want to join in." Zhang Yuan said while eating barbecue.

Hou Ji nodded in agreement: "It's true, there are quite a few people who make money from Endless Fantasy Legend 2.

“Let’s not talk about the studios, many individuals who work on behalf of others can expect to make money from it.

“For shows like Seventy-Seven Living Fathers, Night Parade of One Hundred Demons, and story recaps, there are many people who want to find someone to play for them.

"If you are skilled, you can earn one or two hundred yuan in ten hours, which is quite cost-effective."

Zhang Yuan asked, "Isn't the standard time 20 hours? How skilled do you have to be? Under the most skilled conditions, how short can this time be compressed?"

Hou Ji explained: "The standard time is the time you spend on your first visit, including the time you spend on plot, puzzle solving, and taking detours. If you do it a second time by yourself, and you have a certain impression of it and skip the plot quickly, fifteen hours is about right.

“If you can remember the entire route and plan ahead to avoid unnecessary detours, the time can be further shortened, even to eight hours.

"Of course, this is just like speedrunning, it requires a certain amount of practice, and practice makes perfect.

"When it comes to things like liver replacement, it all depends on efficiency. The fee for completing a version of a fantasy book is about 100 to 150. The faster you complete it, the more cost-effective it is."

Zhang Yuan did a simple calculation: "Assuming it takes eight hours to complete, that's 100 yuan, and there are 30 days in a month, that's 3000 yuan. It's not much."

Hou Ji was shocked: "Yuan, you are a rich second generation, you can't use your income and consumption level to calculate the income of liver replacement.

"Who works only eight hours a day as a liver replacement? After all, this is a game, not a physical job. You have to sleep and eat, and the rest of the time can be spent on liver work. Some people work fourteen or sixteen hours a day.

"If I continue to work this hard, I can earn 5,000 to 6,000 yuan a month. How can I get such a good deal by playing other games for others?
"Besides, the business of farming for others is not just about farming fantasy books. There are also daily commissions or large map exploration.

"Other businesses are not as troublesome as fantasy books. They are just things that come with the side job. When the prices of various things are added up, the profits are even more substantial."

Zhuge Jun nodded and said, "Well, from the perspective of a substitute, Endless Fantasy Legend 2 is indeed a blue ocean, with many new players, high popularity, and great market demand, so it is naturally profitable.

"But personally, I still don't understand why you need to find a proxy to play this kind of game.

"This is a stand-alone game. The main content is the plot and the world exploration. Everything is left to the proxy. What do you play yourself? Is it really just for drawing cards?"

Hou Ji glanced at Zhang Yuan, the richest guy in the dormitory, and said, "You don't understand the world of rich people, so don't speculate."

Zhang Yuan seemed to be thinking about something: "So, it's not easy to make money by doing liver transplants. It's basically a physical job. Relatively speaking, it's more comfortable for you to do it. You can make 2,000 just by making videos."

Hou Ji was a little speechless: "It's not that simple! Those videos just happened to be predictive, so they have such a high number of views. But it's impossible to always guess the train of thought of Ni Tian Tang."

Zhang Yuan nodded: "That's right.

"So is it appropriate for me to join the game now? I checked the official trading platform and found that the price of Endless Fantasy Tales 2 accounts is still relatively strong. A full-star Greylin and full-star Firefly account basically costs more than yuan.

“This retention rate is quite outrageous.”

Zhuge Jun was drinking a drink and almost spit it out.

"Ah? So this is how you're going to get into this trap?

"I just said I don't understand the point of hiring a proxy player for this game, and now you're asking me to buy an account."

Zhang Yuan was a little confused: "Are there any connections between playing for others and buying accounts?"

Zhuge Jun shook his head slightly: "Of course there is a connection!
“As I said before, although Endless Fantasy Legend 2 has online gameplay, it is essentially a single-player game, and the main gameplay lies in the plot and large map puzzles.

“There is one essential similarity between playing for others and buying an account: you are giving the most interesting part of the game to others. So what are you playing for?
"Could it be that we just team up with a few full-star characters and take on high-difficulty challenges?"

Hou Ji also nodded in agreement: "Although the official trading platform can ensure the fairness of the transaction, there is no need to worry about being cheated, and the current Endless Fantasy Legend 2 account is also relatively valuable, but... I agree with my godfather's statement."

According to the relevant regulations of the official platform, game accounts are also the player’s personal virtual property, so players also have the right to trade.

If someone steals an account or cheats someone when buying or selling an account, and the amount involved is huge, it will also trigger the crime of theft.

Guided by this idea, the official platform also has a special account trading function, which is guaranteed by the official. After the transaction is completed, all relevant data of the game account will be transferred to the buyer's account.

The official platform will charge a certain amount of handling fees, part of which will be returned to the game manufacturers.

Even so, when this regulation was first released, it was protested and boycotted by many game manufacturers, because the small amount of feedback could not make up for the manufacturers' losses.

But now that it has been implemented, most manufacturers have been forced to accept it.

However, although the official rules are the same, the value retention rates of different game accounts are still very different.

If it is some online games, especially online games with PVP and GVG gameplay, the account retention rate will generally be relatively high, reaching 10% or even higher.

As for the lower limit, there is no lower limit. There are games whose value retention rate is less than 1%.

For example, it is not uncommon for a kryptonian to top up 100,000 yuan and only be able to sell it for 1,000 yuan. Although many manufacturers are forced to cooperate with official platforms to trade accounts, they also have many ways to resist in disguise, such as speeding up the expansion of game values, so that players' items will never retain their value and they will always have to top up to buy the latest equipment or characters.

As a result, the account value preservation rate plummeted and fell below 1%, which is normal.

In comparison, the current value retention rate of "Endless Fantasy Legend 2" is still quite considerable.

The account Zhang Yuan was looking at required a full-star Greylin and a full-star Firefly.

Among them, Greylin is undoubtedly the biggest beneficiary of this version, being simple, crude and brainless, while Firefly is very versatile due to its powerful wood element attribute.

If these two characters are fully starred, based on the normal card drawing expectations, it will cost nearly 15,000 yuan.

And since Greylin is a character in the permanent pool, if you want to max it out or draw it out, there must be many other five-star characters as well. Adding them all together, it would not be surprising if the owner of the account doubles the money invested in this account.

Deposit 16 and sell for , with a value retention rate of up to %. This is already the upper limit of account transactions on the entire official platform, and is even higher than the account value retention rate of many national war online games.

It's quite outrageous that a single-player game can be turned out like this.

Zhang Yuan explained: "I think it is indeed more cost-effective to buy an account. You see, if I want to get full stars for Greylin and Starfire, it is very difficult.

"Starfirefly will not be reprinted in the short term, and the permanent pool for Greylin is a bottomless pit. It's hard to get a full pool even if you spend 30,000 or 40,000.

“If you buy this account for 5,000 yuan now and maintain it for a while, even if it depreciates in the future, you can still sell it for 3,000 or 4,000 yuan to get your money back. Isn’t this much more cost-effective than spending money on it yourself?

“As for the plot and the puzzle-solving issues you mentioned, this is indeed a problem.

“But I’m not really interested in big-world puzzles, and I don’t want to spend so much time hoeing the land.

"I just want to read the story, play it casually, and then study the team building of high-star characters and take on high-difficulty challenges.

"As for the plot, don't we have the functions of 'Plot Restoration' and 'Plot Review' now? It won't delay us at all."

Zhuge Jun was stunned for a moment: "Oh?"

He frowned slightly and thought about it, and found that what Zhang Yuan said actually made some sense.

The two sides have different ideas and methods of playing the game, so naturally they will have different views on the issue of "buying an account".

For ordinary players like Zhuge Jun and Hou Ji, the main fun of the game lies in the plot and exploration of the big world, and the strength of the team is not that important.

No matter how strong a full-star character is, it's just that the fight is faster; and the characters you draw randomly, whether they are four-star or permanent five-star, or some weaker UP pool five-star, can still go through the plot and explore the world if they are matched well, it's just that they are slower.

If you like to delve deeper, it will be more satisfying to defeat a strong enemy with a weak team.

So in their opinion, buying an account is definitely not cost-effective.

Because the purchased account has already played most of the plot and world exploration, so there is no time for you to play; and the purchased account does not have much sense of belonging, so it is easy to fall into the cycle of constantly buying and selling accounts.

This is also why they would rather do the work themselves than spend money to have someone else do it or buy an account.

Because this is the core fun of the game.

But some players may not like exploring the big world.

They may think that these puzzles are simple and uninteresting, and prefer to play some powerful characters. Or when they come across some XP characters that they particularly like, they want to draw full stars.

The fun of playing this kind of character is far greater than the fun of solving puzzles or exploring.

At this time, it would be very unprofitable for them to spend money on it themselves.

Even for an ordinary full-star UP pool character, if you are lucky, you will have to spend more than 5,000 yuan to get it.

Or you can just rely on the free benefits in the game to save up for a year or two and then draw a full star.

No matter what, the demand for buying and selling accounts objectively exists.

Those who sell accounts want to make back their money, and those who buy accounts want to buy powerful characters with full stars at low prices. This is just like many second-hand discs of games. Game manufacturers certainly want to ban it, but for players, having a standardized trading market and stable prices is 100% a good thing.

Therefore, if Zhang Yuan is determined to buy an account to play, it is not a bad way to play.

In addition, there is another very important point, that is, "Endless Fantasy Tales 2" is fundamentally different from other games: its plot content can be experienced repeatedly!
If it is any other game, and the original owner of the account has already completed all the plots, then the purchased account will not be able to complete the plots, which will be a huge deduction.

However, "Endless Fantasy Tales 2" itself has a restored plot, and you can use the powerful characters on the account to re-play the main storyline.

Some important side plots can also be experienced through “Plot Review” every month.

The gaming experience may be much better than your new account.

Of course, there is no way to reset the large map puzzle, so whether it is cost-effective to buy an account depends on personal preferences and choices.

(End of this chapter)