The virtual empire starts from the game

Chapter 153 XP-based cyber blind date!
When Xu Meng's plane landed at Ningzhou Airport, his exclusive interview also arrived at the editorial office of [Game Observation].

After Huodao interviewed Xu Meng in the hotel, he stayed up all night and worked day and night to finish the manuscript and edit the film. He finally finished the work while the film was still popular and sent it to the editor-in-chief's email.

——Huodao and the editorial department of [Game Observation] both attach great importance to this interview opportunity, so it is naturally impossible for them to deal with it with simple text manuscripts.

Editor-in-chief Gu Chen reviewed it from beginning to end and quickly published it.

Now that the Cologne Expo has just ended, the trend created by the "Lord of War" Demo and the Dream Building Game Experience Center is still continuing.

Xu Meng, the person who created all of this, is still the hottest topic in the gaming circle.

Moreover, he rarely appears in public - except for appearing in players' photos at the Cologne Expo, there were only a few times when he burned programmers and bowed and apologized with employees.

Therefore, the value of this interview is self-evident!
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In a private room of a restaurant by Jinghu Lake, Brave Sniper, Orange Juice, and Qihuahua are having a dinner together.

Of course, they are here because of the Dream Building Game Experience Center.

——The experience center has been extremely popular since the moment it officially opened.

To this day, the heat has not only not decreased at all, but has become even more intense.

A large number of game users rushed to Ningzhou to check in and take advantage of the popularity.

It is impossible not to have second-hand game up-loaders, especially those who mainly play "Frost and Snow Project".

Orange juice and seven flowers are not immune to this.

As the "host" who arrived two days earlier, the brave sniper naturally took on the reception work.

This was the first time that the three of them met in real life, but after all, they often played [Dragon Palace Treasure Hunt] online, so they were already quite familiar with each other.

After a few words, the atmosphere quickly became familiar and everyone began to talk enthusiastically about the new technology of dream building.

When the conversation got excited, the Brave Sniper took out his mobile phone and wanted to show Orange Juice and Qihuahua the footage he had shot in the experience center.

But when he unlocked his phone, he saw that the fans in the group were enthusiastically chatting about things like "Xu Meng" and "Interview".

He was surprised to click on the link and was directly redirected to the APP, which started playing a video interview.

The title of the interview is --

[Xu Meng: What Dream Building hopes to provide players is a more interesting lifestyle]
"?!"

The video started playing automatically, but the brave sniper quickly closed the page.

It's not that he doesn't want to see it.

——He wants to see it so much!

But if you just watch it like this, it would be a waste of precious video materials.

This is not possible!

"Aki, what are you daydreaming about?" Orange Juice asked, "Are you looking at the pornographic pictures in the group? Be more restrained, Huahua is still here."

In real life, Qihuahua looks gentle and polite, but her words are fierce and ruthless: "It's okay, don't pay attention to me, just watch! If you have any high-quality ones, remember to forward them to me."

"First of all, my name is not Aki!" the heroic sniper loudly retorted, "Secondly, I'm not looking at pornographic pictures!"

"I'm watching an interview video with the boss of Dream Building. Xu Meng is not a pervert at all!"

“???” Orange Juice widened his eyes in surprise.

"No, why would you use the standard of 'whether she is lewd or not' to judge Xu Meng?"

"Wake up! Your name is Brave Sniper Gay Man, and you are the man who is destined to snipe gays! AKA - BraveShotGayMan!"

"shotgayman? The man who shoots gays?" Qihuahua repeated the name.

Then he thought of something dirty and suddenly fanned his face with his palms to cool it down. He also took a sip of juice to cover it up.

Orange Juice and Brave Sniper didn't notice Qihuahua's change and were still bickering.

The sniper didn't react until his phone vibrated again.

"Stop talking nonsense! Let's get down to business!"

"Dream Builder boss Xu Meng accepted an interview with [Game Observer], a video interview! I want to make a reaction video, do you want to join?"

"Xu Meng's interview?" Orange Juice was surprised. "Okay! Together?"

But soon the two of them reacted: "Huahua, you seem to be inconvenienced?"

Qihuahua is a virtual anchor who always uses a catgirl costume during live broadcasts and has never shown her real face.

After the intensive live broadcast of "Frost and Snow Plan", he was chased by a group of first-level small accounts and scolded as a seducer. He even rarely shared updates about his life, for fear that someday he would accidentally leak information and be opened by others.

The heroic sniper was a little embarrassed: "Forget it, let's eat first and watch it later in the evening."

——Anyway, it’s impossible to just watch it now.

As a full-time up-master, no material can be wasted!
After hesitating for a moment, Qihuahua took the initiative to say, "Okay, I want to watch it too, let's watch it together!"

"But wait for me first."

She wiped the remaining sauce on her mouth, put on her mask and sunglasses again, and simply tidied her hair.

"OK!"

The brave sniper with oil all over his mouth looked at Orange Juice, pursed his lips and licked it casually as if it was wiped off, and then began to rummage through his backpacks and set up cameras and stabilizers.

A moment later, three cameras were set up together, and the three people sat in a row to start the live broadcast.

The three of them have nearly 300 million fans in total. Now that they are broadcasting at the same time, a large number of viewers immediately flock to the live broadcast room.

"Hello everyone!"

"Hello everyone!"

"Hello everyone!"

The three of them greeted their fans at the same time.

Orange Juice has switched to live streaming, and said enthusiastically: "Today is the dream collaboration episode! Live streaming outdoors with Sniper and Qihuahua!"

The Heroic Sniper explained the reason: "I just saw the video of Xu Meng being interviewed. We happened to be having dinner together, so I thought of doing a live broadcast together to watch this interview with everyone." But the fans ignored them at all, and rushed to Qihuahua's live broadcast room one by one, crying and howling.

"Nanaha! My Nanaha! You finally appear in person!"

"Why are you wearing a mask? It's so formal!"

"Forget about the mask, at least show your eyes, right?"

"That's right, who wears sunglasses while working?"

"Who would have thought that Nanahuahua is actually such a cute girl!"

"Isn't this really a cross-dressing guy using a voice changer?"

……

Qihuahua hesitated for a moment and took off her sunglasses.

"Okay, now that it's taken off, stop making a fuss and let's watch the video."

Orange Juice contributed its own live broadcast perspective to broadcast the interview footage, and the brave sniper clicked play.

The still picture moves——

Huo Dao and Xu Meng sat opposite each other in front of a huge floor-to-ceiling window, outside of which was the bustling night view of Cologne.

After Huodao exchanged a few pleasantries and let Xu Meng greet the readers and viewers of Game Observation, he couldn't wait to get to the point.

The first question was about the special development direction of Project Frost and Snow, and it was also a question that puzzled him for a long time:
"I don't know if it's right or not, but based on my observation, ACG games, especially ACG games that focus on card drawing and cultivation, tend to be lightweight in design."

“Except when the server is just launched or the version is updated, the content available to players is very limited at other times.”

"Daily online clocking in and completing tasks are usually controlled within an hour, and the shortest can even be completed in 10 minutes. This caters to the fragmented gaming needs of players, making it easy and casual without causing pressure on players."

“But the way we build dreams is very different from our peers.”

Huo Dao had confusion written all over his face:

“Whether it’s the high-intensity confrontation and long online time of the Dragon Palace Treasure Hunt gameplay, or the game content and supporting hardware of the VR version, they all seem to be moving in a more “heavy” direction.”

“Players are encouraged to play longer and put in more effort.”

"Can I ask why you did this?"

After hearing these words, Huo Dao, Orange Juice and Qi Hua Hua were all a little stunned.

They didn't think about these things at all.

Opposite Huo Dao, Xu Meng also blinked, thought for a few seconds and organized his words:

“I think [mild] and [severe] are just superficial symptoms.”

“The gameplay of the second game is mostly weak, and the novelty is hard to maintain for a long time.”

"So most second-tier games - more precisely, most second-tier games that focus on character development - actually provide players with [companionship]."

“Whether it is portable or casual, it is designed to facilitate players to open the game anytime and anywhere, and feel the company of the game - or the characters - in their fragmented daily lives.”

"But [accompanying] also has the difference between 'quality' and 'quantity'."

"The common practice in the industry is to pile on more - more characters, more missions, more levels, more activities."

“But the direction chosen by Project Frost and Snow is more about [quality].”

“We hope to provide players with higher quality and deeper companionship, until a deeper emotional connection is established.”

"So we set up the favorability level, added rings and wedding dresses, more clothes, invitation tasks and interactive scenes..."

“Even now, it allows players to have more direct physical contact with the characters.”

“All of this is about building a more authentic, deeper emotional connection.”

Xu Meng's explanation made perfect sense.

The three members of Orange Juice and the viewers in the live broadcast room fell into deep thought, feeling awe-inspiring.

But Huo Dao was not so easily fooled: "But... aren't you guys always releasing new characters?"

"There's going to be a new... big sister Shu Shu coming out in September?"

Huo Dao pronounced the nickname of this new character with a bit of shame.

"Isn't this 'quantity'?"

"No, no, no." Xu Meng shook his head. "You have to realize one thing - people's XP varies."

"Ah?" Huodao obviously didn't expect that Xu Meng would openly start talking to him about XP during a formal interview. He was completely stunned.

But Xu Meng didn't take it seriously at all and continued calmly:
"All deep companionship and sincere emotional building must be built on a solid XP foundation."

"With an unstable foundation, emotional connection cannot be established, and the effect of companionship will be half the effort with twice the results."

"How does that saying go - for someone who doesn't love you, everything they do is just a nuisance."

"In the second game, it's like [A character who doesn't gain XP, no matter how sexy or straightforward he is, won't win the hearts of the players.]"

“???” Huodao’s thoughts were so confused by Xu Meng’s XP theory that his brain was a little fuzzy.

"So… how does this relate to my question?"

"Of course!" Xu Meng replied, "We need to continuously launch characters with different XP levels to help players find the character that best matches their XP level, and then build an emotional connection based on this, so that we can achieve twice the result with half the effort!"

"This...this..." Huodao was speechless.

Xu Meng sympathetically gave him an analogy to help him understand: "You can simply understand it as: this is a cyber blind date."

"Cyber...blind date?"

The Fire Knife in the camera was visibly in a state of confusion.

(End of this chapter)