The virtual empire starts from the game

Chapter 199: Word of mouth and sales are both great! But the system thinks you are losing money

"No, I can't fight anymore!"

The brave sniper got off the omnidirectional treadmill and drank a large glass of water while gasping for breath.

But the fans asked him to play another game.

The brave sniper quickly refused and apologized to his fans: "Another day, another day, I have to get off the air, and I have to catch a plane tomorrow."

"Besides, I can't run anymore."

Netizens were dissatisfied: "If it doesn't work anymore, change your computer!"

……

Half an hour later, the brave sniper took off his tactile gloves and VR glasses and drank another glass of water.

"No, no, no, I really can't do it this time."

The fans still disagree:

"How can a real man say no?!"

"I'm enjoying the show, don't stop playing around now!"

"Open one more round, just one! I'll give you a plane!"

……

Under the persuasion of the fans, the brave sniper had to turn on the computer...

They kept saying it was not possible, but in fact they tried everything, from omnidirectional treadmills to tactile gloves, and from tactile gloves to computers, one after another.

The brave sniper continued fighting until dawn.

Until the room manager asked, "Aki, what time is your flight?"

The heroic sniper just came back to his senses from the battlefield, and switched out of the game to check the time.

[06: 20]
"Fuck!" he exclaimed, "My flight is at 7:!"

[War Zone] The pace of this mode is too fast. If you are not careful, you will get too addicted and forget about time.

"I'm getting off. I have to wash up and catch the plane. See you all at the game tonight!"

The brave sniper hurriedly ended the live broadcast and ran to wash up and catch the plane.

——He is going to fly to Ningzhou to participate in tonight’s entertainment match and tomorrow’s exhibition match.

He was supposed to attend an event on the platform yesterday, so he was delayed until the last day.

As he got on the plane with his suitcase, he once again thought about moving.

He is a nostalgic person and had never thought of moving before. But after visiting Ningzhou twice, he couldn't help but have the idea of ​​moving.

Because many of the small actions of building dreams are often not posted online.

Only locals or even people living nearby will know.

The last time he went to the experience hall to live broadcast the battle between the "Frost and Snow Project" team and the "Lord of War" team, and used the victory or defeat to determine the scenery of the first floor lobby of the Dream Building Experience Hall, he saw something completely unexpected -

Pure white somatosensory synchronization suit and silver-white force feedback tactile gloves.

There is absolutely no information about these things on the Internet, but local players said:

Dream building has been out for a long time!

Even after the competition ended that day, Xu Meng presented special prizes to the winning members of the "Frost and Snow Project" project team:

A pair of custom-made tactile gloves called Dragon Scales.

The design style of bronze flowing flame is extremely eye-catching!
The brave sniper couldn't help himself and ran over to ask Xu Meng: Why didn't Zhu Meng put this glove on the shelves?

There will be no worries about sales!

But Xu Meng replied: "This is hand-made by [Neuromancer] engineers. The process is relatively complicated and there is no plan for mass production for the time being."

"So... you designed a brand new custom hardware, but you don't plan to sell it, just give it to your employees to play with?" The brave sniper couldn't understand.

"No." Xu Meng shook her head. "The Experience Center will hold small competitions on weekends, and sometimes give away a few pairs."

——No wonder there is no news on the Internet!
The English sniper reacted quickly: The local players are afraid that if the news leaks out, netizens will come to snatch the game from them?
He was speechless.

At the same time, we also obtained another important information: Dream Building is cultivating an offline player community.

He didn't understand why Zhumeng did this.

You already have tens of millions of online users around the world, so what’s the point of having these thousand or eight hundred people offline?

But that didn't stop him from wanting to join in.

From then on, he began to think about moving, but because of his nostalgia, he still couldn't make up his mind.

This time was the same. After getting on the plane, he quickly caught up on some sleep and temporarily put the matter behind him.

……

On the other side, Huo Dao, who was sitting in front of the computer, was also startled by his wife's hand on his shoulder.

"What's wrong?" He was a little confused. "Did I disturb your sleep?"

My wife shook her head and said, "Wash up and have breakfast first before playing."

Huodao's wife never minded him playing games.

Because my wife knows very well that the profession of Fire Blade is inseparable from games.

"Breakfast?" Huodao looked out the window and found that it was already bright outside.

"Oops!"

"What's wrong?" My wife didn't understand. Of course, the manuscript was too late!
He followed the commander, General Long Chengfei, and the quickly formed fixed team, and fought in "Hell on Earth" for a whole night, completely forgetting about the manuscript.

Just as I was thinking about this, the phone on the table vibrated. Editor-in-chief Gu Chen sent me a message.

"Thank you for your hard work. How's the manuscript going?"

Huo Dao hesitated and replied, "I just came down from the battlefield."

The editor-in-chief immediately asked a series of question marks.

"You played games all night?"

"I spent the whole night collecting materials!" Huodao retorted quickly.

"So what are the results of your research?"

"..." Huo Dao was silent, "Well, I played games all night."

After saying that, he couldn't help but add: "Dream building is awesome!"

The editor was silent for two seconds, and suddenly sent several loud voice messages.

"Do you still need to tell me that Dream Building is awesome!?"

"Lord of War is selling like hotcakes. A third-party agency predicts that it has sold over 300 million copies on Vapour alone! Let alone consoles, Dreamcast's own platform will probably sell even more!"

“It’s only the first day!”

"No, it's only a quarter of the day, their first-day sales figures must be amazing!"

"That's amazing." Huo Dao was excited. "It looks like we're going to create a new record for Xia Country's buyout games?"

"So! Where is your manuscript?!" asked the editor-in-chief.

"I'll write it now!" Huo Dao patted his chest and promised, "Don't worry, it will be quick!"

"How fast?" the editor asked skeptically.

"I wrote two manuscripts half a month ago, one for the situation of good sales and the other for the situation of poor sales." Huo Dao said with a smile, "Now the game is not only selling well, but also of top quality! I just need to make some changes."

"Today is Saturday, and the players haven't even gotten up yet."

"Give me two hours. It will definitely be finished by the time the players get up!"

"Okay, okay, then hurry up." The editor-in-chief didn't want to waste any more of his time and quickly hung up the phone.

Huodao got up, washed his face, quickly stuffed the breakfast prepared by his wife, then went back to the computer and opened the folder on the desktop.

There are only two manuscripts in the folder:

[Lord of War: A great counterattack by a loser!]
[Cheers to the never-ending dream chaser! Lord of War is defeated with honor!]
Huodao opened the first article without hesitation and began to revise the manuscript and fill in the details.

……

……

It's getting brighter and brighter.

The success of Lord of War is becoming more and more certain.

Sales volume firmly ranks first in Vapour China and third in the world.

The Vapour product page received more than 8 reviews overnight, with an overall favorable rating of 91%! Very favorable reviews!
The number of real-time online game players is also an astonishing 58.

These are just the data from the Vapour platform!

As for how the Dream Building’s base camp, the Dream Building game platform, is selling, one can’t doubt its popularity by just taking a look at the public opinion trends on domestic social networks and major player communities.

In a word:

On the first day of the launch of "Lord of War", the momentum is very good!
So one after another game media and self-media sent "congratulatory messages" -

[Lord of War tops the Vapour sales chart, creating a sales miracle!]
[Record-breaking! A new record for Xiaguo’s buyout game is about to be born!]
[The long-awaited flagship VR game is finally here!]
[Rave a rave review! Zhumeng's new game "Lord of War" has achieved great success in both word of mouth and sales!]
……

The "Lord of War" project team was just like celebrating the New Year. People kept forwarding these blog posts, updates, and short videos to the work group early in the morning to share the joy with everyone.

Xu Meng, who slept very late, was also woken up by the vibration of her cell phone.

The first thing he did after waking up was to check whether the system tasks of [Game No Life] had been completed.

What confused him was that -

The mission is still not accomplished.

Not only did they fail to "exceed the target", they didn't even achieve the basic goal of "completing the task"!

"What's going on?" Xu Meng couldn't understand.

"Lord of War was developed in just four months, with a team of more than 100 people. Their salary for four months was less than 3000 million, plus the publishing costs, technical costs, and server costs..."

"After deducting the various tax incentives and support policies given by the Ningzhou government, the total would only be around 1 million, right?"

After he had enough money, Xu Meng no longer calculated so carefully. Xiao Meng helped to keep an eye on the company's financial situation, and he only checked it about once a month. He was not very clear about the exact figures.

But anyway——

"Now that Lord of War has sold 780 million copies, the sales have reached 10 billion. We have definitely made a lot of money!"

Mission objective: [Develop and launch the second game of Dream Building and achieve profitability], why was it not completed?
“Do we have to wait for the payment?”

Or--

A terrible thought came to Xu Meng's mind:

"This idiotic system wouldn't have included the production cost of the Fantasy game kit into the game's promotion, right?!"

　Please give me a monthly ticket.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)