The virtual empire starts from the game

Chapter 237 Open a haunted house in the virtual city!

Xu Meng stopped and began to eavesdrop quietly.

It took a while to piece together the general situation from the players' conversations:
This is an offline organization established around the Dream Building Game Experience Center.

They are all players who frequently come to the experience center to play, and are particularly addicted to the most hardcore [Hell on Earth] mode in "Lord of War".

Seeing each other every day, we soon became familiar with each other.

Creating a group, naming it, and expanding it by adding people are all natural things.

The [Iron Blood Company] was born.

After DreamBuild officially announced the global competition, this group of people began preparing early, vowing to win a place.

We fight high-intensity team battles almost every day, improving our tacit understanding and selecting commanders and team leaders in battle.

The competition seems to be still fierce.

Xu Meng even heard of magical operations such as "canvassing for votes privately", "buying skins for group members", "treating teammates to a meal", and "hiring top players to snipe competitors in the game".

The more he listened, the more interested he became.

It was not until the people who were chatting got up to change into the motion-sensing synchronized clothes that Xu Meng left with a sense of unfulfilled desire.

This reminded him of something:

After the rules of the "Lord of War" global competition were announced, he thought that a team of 50 people was too large and that players would probably look for organizations online to recruit soldiers.

Now it seems that forming an offline team may not be as convenient and quick as online one, but in terms of comprehensive combat effectiveness and the close connection between team members, it far exceeds online!

——Although the members of this [Iron Blood Company] were "fighting openly and secretly" for the positions of commander and team leader, and did all kinds of outrageous things.

But after everyone knew about it, they still laughed when they talked about it.

Obviously, there is no real intrigue, they are just using this matter for fun.

The team atmosphere is excellent.

This situation also made Xu Meng determined——

The experience center model can be liberalized.

Since Dreaming opened game experience centers in various provinces across the country and overseas countries, it has received a large number of cooperation applications.

Especially after the global competition was confirmed, the number of similar applications increased several times.

Whether at home or abroad, there are many companies and individuals who have consulted and want to "join" the Dream Building Game Experience Center.

They all realized the business opportunity:
The price of the complete Fantasy game kit is relatively high and it also requires sufficient space, which makes it unaffordable for many players.

This is an obvious user demand.

The Dream Building Experience Center does not make money because Xu Meng does not want to make it, but it does not mean that opening this store cannot make money.

Moreover, with the global competition, players have a strong need for social interaction besides "experiencing the game".

This is obviously a great opportunity to acquire original customers!

Before, Xu Meng couldn't make up her mind.

I am worried that if something happens to a bunch of people who are using the name of Dream Builder, the negative impact will be too great.

But what happened today changed his mind.

There is no need to join.

However, we can fully support opening experience centers.

After returning to the company from the experience store, he began to plan to set up a special team to connect with companies and individuals who planned to open experience stores.

On the one hand, we provide them with support in terms of supply and maintenance, and on the other hand, we also provide them with technical and software training.

By the way, Xu Meng also paid attention to the progress of the global competition.

If the response to the competition is good enough, it is not a bad idea to hold the second and third sessions in the future.

By then, this event alone will be able to support at least thousands of experience centers around the world.

When holographic displays and dream machines are mass-produced in the future, and these experience centers are guided to make mixed reality transformations, this number will be even more exaggerated.

By then, those businesses that rely on Dream Building for their livelihood, and the players who are accustomed to socializing and entertaining in the experience center, will all become Dream Building’s most staunch supporters!
Xu Meng went to the event department which had just been established and encouraged the employees.

Just when everyone thought that the boss took it so seriously that he was going to take charge himself, Xu Meng promised a reward, then just walked away.

After that, he didn't ask much about it and just became a hands-off boss.

——There is no way. Xu Meng knows that this matter is important, but he really doesn’t like doing these boring things.

Compared to these, he would rather spend his time on more interesting things, such as -

Get ready for the full opening of your virtual city!

The next morning, he ran to Lingzhou Studio.

Congratulations to Li Yunchuan and Zhou Ning on the huge success of their studio's first title, Evil Ghost!

But when he arrived at the scene, there was not much joyful atmosphere in the office.

Instead, everyone was sitting in front of their computers, working with a look of deep resentment and hopelessness. "What's wrong with you?" Xu Meng was puzzled.

Li Yunchuan smiled bitterly: "Fix the game bug..."

"Game bugs?" Xu Meng was a little surprised. "Are there a lot of them?"

Lingzhou Studio made the game very seriously and it has a very good reputation among players, so it shouldn't be full of bugs.

Li Yunchuan smiled even more bitterly: "It can't be completely said to be a bug..."

“The main reason is lack of experience. When developing the VR version of the game, we directly used the Dream Engine, which gave players too much room for free play.”

In order to achieve the extremely high degree of freedom and interactivity of props in "Lord of War", the Dream Building development team, led by the talented programmer Li Xingyun, conducted in-depth engine optimization.

In the end, thanks to the amazing work efficiency of the intelligent partners, almost the entire engine was rewritten.

This engine was used when Akuma! was adapted into VR.

When using it, they could hardly help exclaiming that this engine was so powerful and so convenient!
But now, as they watch players freely control every finger and every part of their limbs and easily break through the system framework they set, they realize that this convenience and power also comes at a price.

Players who play the game on PC have a fixed movement speed and have no combat capabilities at all.

It is impossible for him to suddenly accelerate and sprint like the Flying General of Dragon City, swinging a hammer and fighting evil spirits for three hundred rounds.

——The development team didn’t design a combat system at all.

However, the deeply modified engine of Dream Building, combined with the body motion capture of the Fantasy Game Kit, naturally gives players a high degree of freedom.

Allow players to bring many real-life abilities into the game.

This resulted in many unexpected situations.

Even the fact that players can pat the ghost girl's buttocks and touch her body is considered a bug in the eyes of Li Yunchuan and his team.

The female ghost materializes at the moment of attack, this is to hurt the player, not to be molested by the player!!

For players, this kind of thing is welcome and very interesting.

But for the development team, it was really a headache.

Without even having time to celebrate, they started working overtime like crazy to correct these problems.

But Xu Meng has a different view: "Since it is not a serious bug and players like it, why should we change it?"

"Ah?" Li Yunchuan didn't expect Xu Meng to react like this.

"What's so surprising about this?" Xu Meng said in surprise, "You know that even in the game of [Dragon Palace Treasure Hunt], Huo Huo may still get stuck in the wall, right?"

"If the players like it, then let them play it."

“It’s not a bad thing to make the players happy.”

Li Yunchuan was stunned.

After a moment, he blinked, as if waking up from a dream:
"It seems... so?"

He takes this game too seriously!
To the point that we become confused due to concern and fall into a fixed mindset.

Seeing that the way players played the game was completely different from what the development team expected, I subconsciously felt that there was a problem and it should be corrected quickly.

After Xu Meng's reminder, I finally realized:
Why do players have to play the game in the way they set?

Players are willing to buy and play, that’s enough!

It doesn’t matter how you play!
Li Yunchuan took a deep breath on the spot, and his tense spirit suddenly relaxed.

His frown relaxed, and he spoke less anxiously: "We'll have a meeting later to re-evaluate which issues need to be corrected and which ones can be ignored."

"Come to think of it, is Boss Xu here to congratulate us?"

"Of course." Xu Meng nodded, but immediately added, "But besides congratulations, there is another thing I want to ask if you are interested."

"What's the matter?" Li Yunchuan was of course interested.

Standing in front of him were investors and platform owners, so Li Yunchuan was very aware that no matter what Xu Meng had to say, he must be interested.

"Do you know about virtual cities?"

"Of course I know!" Li Yunchuan's eyes lit up.

"Are you interested in opening a haunted house in a virtual city?" Xu Meng went straight to the point.

“???” Li Yunchuan had never expected that the topic would develop in this direction.

But after a brief moment of shock, he agreed without hesitation:

"Interested! Of course I'm interested!! Super interested!!!"

Which game producer doesn’t look forward to the first truly virtual city?
Don’t you want to leave your own creation in this virtual world? !

After Li Yunchuan nodded frantically, he couldn't help but ask: "Is the virtual city about to be opened?"

Xu Meng nodded: "If nothing unexpected happens, it will be on the first of next month."

"If it's not opened up, the players will rush in on their own."

(End of this chapter)