The virtual empire starts from the game

Chapter 355: The "evil" intentions of the development team! More easter eggs!

When you encounter something you can't understand, of course you have to find a way to figure out what's going on.

After all, giving away games as a dream comes with costs.

Especially at Xu Meng's request, Zhumeng has provided games with high quality and excellent reputation among players.

——Even if they are games from two or three years ago, the cost is still not low.

The employees of the operations department carefully selected and negotiated for a long time before they got this done.

What they hope for is that this game giveaway activity can be an all-round success, rather than just a small splash after the event.

So they used the reason of "understanding user needs in order to better serve users" and issued a questionnaire to users after it was reviewed by their superiors.

It covers a series of questions such as "What do you think about the game giveaway activity", "Have you ever received one", "Have you ever played it", "Why not play it", and "What suggestions do you have", etc.

In order to increase users' willingness to participate in this survey, they also provided a participation reward of 800 credit points.

Maybe it was because the players gave them face, or maybe 800 credit points were more attractive, they successfully collected more than 4600 million questionnaires.

After sending it to the smart office partners for further processing, the results were quickly presented to them.

10% of players chose [Already played]

13% of players chose: [I don’t have time for now, I’ll play later]

62% of players chose: [Not planning to play]

The remaining 15% is [Others]

There are more detailed sub-options under the options of [Not planning to play] and [Others], and players are also supported to enter their own reasons.

Smart Office Partners has screened and summarized the reasons with similar meanings and the most frequent occurrences:
[I want to play the dream-building game. I am not interested in the old games.]
[Grinding for gold guns, completing daily tasks, and maintaining spirits are much more interesting than the old games.]
[It doesn’t even support holographic display, so it’s not fun to play.]
[I will buy a gun in Mansheng, I can hold it in my hand, I can put it at home, I can use it in battle, it is real, this feeling can't be given by old games.]
[I’m used to seeing and touching the game world, but the textures and code of old games always feel like something is missing.]
[Girls can’t be touched.]
[Cannot transform into a frog.]
……

These reasons may seem a bit confusing at first glance, but if you spend a little time analyzing them, you will find that they are actually one thing:

Dream Building’s new form of game interaction raises players’ perception threshold.

Once you get used to the immersive gaming world that is visible to the naked eye and highly realistic, it is difficult to tolerate the square-sized gaming screen on the monitor.

Once you get used to the free interaction of the somatosensory synchronization suit and tactile gloves, it is difficult to be interested in the interaction method of mouse and keyboard.

On one side are things that can be held in the hand and admired in front of the eyes.

On the other side, there is something made up of several stickers on the monitor.

There is no suspense as to which one the players will choose.

Not to mention the core players who use the Fantasy Game Suite, even those who still use PCs or even mobile phones to play games have the same attitude -

Although there are no somatosensory synchronization suits and holographic display devices yet, the dream-building data are interoperable.

Now I use PC to brush up the character favorability of "Frost Project", the golden gun skin of "Lord of War" with 10000 heads, the high-level spirit of "Monster Hunter", and the credit points under the account of Overgrowth...

None of these things are going to go away.

In the future, when you change to somatosensory synchronization clothing and holographic display equipment, you can always pick it up and use it.

In that case, just brush it in advance.

Moreover, the dream-building game is equally fun even if you play it with traditional equipment.

Plus the advantages that new games have over old games.

There's really no reason for them to play the old games.

……

After the analysis was completed, there was silence in the office for a long time.

Finally, the supervisor sighed and said, "Forget it, let's leave it at that."

"It's not a bad thing."

The other employees had similar reactions - from being high-spirited at the beginning, they became uninterested and just played with their smart friends out of boredom.

——There is no other way. Let their platform operation department compete with the most powerful game development department of DreamCraft?
Stop kidding me.

Go take a shower and rest early.

They quickly resigned themselves to their fate and accepted the identity of “game publishing tools”.

We started to proceed step by step, looking for more game companies to discuss cooperation and buy games, and then releasing them to players one after another.

During this process, a large number of old accounts on the Dream Building Game Platform were activated and the number of new registered users continued to increase.

Correspondingly, the number of active users of Sony Game Station continues to shrink.

The [Sony Game Station] section in Mengjin - yes, there is indeed such a section in Mengjin, and its activity has continued to decline. The number of new discussion posts per day has dropped from tens of thousands per day at its peak to less than 200.

The glory is gone.

A large number of employees and executives of Sony's Xiaguo branch have begun updating their resumes and are ready to jump ship.

……

……

While DreamHub was busy targeting Sony and gradually eroding its users and market, the players were not idle either.

The information presented in the questionnaire is absolutely true.

Players have been really busy lately.

After the S-level recruitment mission was completed, all players who participated in it received very generous rewards.

The battlefield contributions gained from killing the Wild Hunt Legion and the Ice Dragon were all converted into points.

You can exchange special rewards with the quartermaster at the investigation base.

There are not only various weapons and equipment materials, but also rare spirit rations, frost hound spirits and other props.

There is also a set of "Demon Hunter" themed armor and a limited weapon——

【Frost and Flame】

This is a pair of swords with dual attributes of ice and fire. Not only does one look covered with ice, but the other one also looks like it’s burning with flames.

Once it is swung, ice and flames will take off!
Combined with the extremely high attack frequency of the dual swords, when fighting, frost and flames are spread, and the special effects are gorgeous and amazing.

The dual-sword warriors who got this weapon were all ecstatic!
Players who prefer other weapons left messages to the development team, saying that the development team was biased and only made such gorgeous weapons for the dual swords but not for other weapons.

There was no official response.

Because on the third day, someone triggered this hidden mission again.

——After closing the World Gate and completing this hidden mission, Huo Dao shared all the mission information.

Many players found that they had missed this beginning, so they created new accounts and started over to pick up the missed Easter egg.

The conscription mission triggered this time still rewards weapons with dual attributes of ice and fire.

But this time it was no longer a pair of swords, but a large sword.

Frostfire

Now, the players immediately realized the sinister intentions of the development team -

This is clearly a whole series of weapons!
And each time the conscription mission is triggered, only one of them will appear.

If players want to collect all 16 weapons, they need to recruit 16 times and destroy the Wild Hunt Legion 16 times!
And we have to win!
After all, there are no weapons rewards for losing.

Unfortunately, this conscription mission is not triggered periodically as set by the official, but is decided by Ciri's "cyber foster fathers" to decide when to trigger it.

This greatly increases the difficulty of collecting a full set of weapons.

But for collectors, difficulty is never a reason to give up!

Isn’t it just brushing?

Brush the fuck!

……

A large number of players opened new accounts and emptied their credit points to support Xiao Xili, a super foodie.

The most direct impact of this was that it helped Zhumeng recover a large amount of credit points.

——He even had a good relationship with Ciri. Even after defeating the hidden boss and completing the mission, he would often treat her to a meal, which meant a steady stream of credit points to be recycled...

The players have not yet realized the sinister intentions of Dream Building.

Not only was he not angry, he even enjoyed it. He took the silver-haired girl shopping in the Mansheng Metropolis and the Silver City every day.

And these consumptions naturally become hidden increases in favorability.

Xiao Xili also gave each player a choice between "secret", "travel" and "ability".

The "secret" has been revealed by Fire Knife.

How can players restrain their curiosity about "travel" and "abilities"?
They didn't even wait until the second Wild Hunt invasion was triggered.

The game content behind the two options "Travel to the Ocean World" and "Organ Mutation Ability" has all been dug out by the players!
(End of this chapter)