The virtual empire starts from the game

Chapter 410: Battle for the Throne, progress 25%! (asking for monthly votes)
Kabo’s movements gave Xu Meng goosebumps.

He quickly sent a private message to Kabo: "Delete it, delete it quickly! Please do me a favor."

Forget about the previous nickname of "Digital Emperor". After all, it was only after sacrificing tens of billions of dollars and bringing down so many large multinational companies that it was hyped up by the nosy media.

Although the media also seeks to exaggerate and attract attention, the record is still there and has some value.

Today we are just firing a few hundred employees to clean up the gaming environment.

What kind of gaming emperor is this?

Xu Meng couldn't accept it at all.

And games and computer technology are different.

There is indeed an absolute computing power and technological gap in computer technology, and there is indeed a breeding ground for the "absolutely strong".

But how can there be such standards in games?
The gaming world doesn't need such tyrants.

——Only with openness, freedom and competition can we continuously generate good ideas and create fun games.

Kabo, a Brazilian guy who is passionate and hates DEI to the core, deleted the post in a depressed mood.

However, his deletion of the post did not affect the spread of his two nicknames [Game Emperor] and [Game Tyrant] by a large number of unscrupulous tabloids, self-media, and marketing accounts.

Although it is completely incomparable to the influence of the [Digital Emperor], it has quickly become a label for Xu Meng.

Kabo did not stop because of the deletion of the post.

Instead, he immediately released more updates and continued to fight with those who attacked Xu Meng!
We have to give face to Xu Meng, but we don’t need to give face to these people!

……

……

Xu Meng no longer cared about the subsequent impact.

After clearing out a large number of parasites, we spent some time checking the progress of the platform operation department's takeover of Sony's gaming business.

——The game store and user data of Sony Game Station will all be integrated into the Dream Game Platform.

Unfortunately, this cannot increase the number of users of the Dream Building Game Platform from 4 million to 5 million.

Because many players are "multi-habitat" users, they are both users of Sony Game Station and users of Dream Game Platform.

If you want to merge smoothly, you need to go through an account migration and merging procedure.

In addition, Xu Meng also agreed to take over the online services of Sony Game Station for another three years.

So that current users of Sony Game Station can still play games normally.

Anyway, once the photon topology server array is completed, this computing power will become insignificant to Dream Building.

This kind of large acquisition takes considerable time to process.

Song Zhicheng was so busy that he was almost angry.

Xu Meng nodded and closed the office software contentedly.

He thought that if [No Game No Life Development System] also had voice prompts, he should hear one sentence now:
[Ding~ Sony Game Station acquisition completed, Battle for the Throne mission progress: 25%]
After Sony Game Station was acquired by Dreamcast, the only large-scale gaming platforms with global influence in the world are Softo Game Box, Nintendo Game Console and Vapour Game Platform.

Apart from these three, there are some small and medium-sized gaming platforms that have no impact on the overall situation.

and so--

Who to deal with next?

Should we swallow up a big one? Or should we swallow up a few small ones first?
"No, no."

Xu Meng shook his head vigorously to correct his habitual thinking.

Direct acquisition is a wrong approach. We should improve the community ecology, enhance player services, produce high-quality games, and provide novel experiences... This is the right path!

Speaking of new experiences, "The Ocean" has been officially named "The Ocean", and its release date is getting closer.

This name was chosen because the main content of this game was greatly expanded during the development process.

The original plot outline given by Xu Meng was a single-threaded narrative.

It is basically based on the storyline of "Pirates of the Caribbean", incorporating the naval battles of "Sea of ​​Thieves", the survival and construction of "Raft Survival", and the original "Birds of Prey" development team's skillful "island-building" ability to create a large number of islands for players to explore and decipher.

Therefore, most of the names Xu Meng gave were related to "pirates".

However, with the continuous upgrading and evolution of intelligent development tools and developer-exclusive office partners, the work efficiency of development teams has increased too quickly.

It’s almost to the point where the Black Flag development team feels they have enough capacity to double the size of the game!
They thought so, tried so, and then they actually did it!
The current plot no longer has only one storyline about pirates, but has three main stories:

Players can start as a pirate.

He traveled across the seas, plundered merchant ships, gained fame, and finally unified the world to become the "Pirate King".

You can also join the navy.

Protect shipping routes, hunt pirates, and rise through the ranks until you become "Admiral of the Navy."
You can choose to start as a civilian and take the commercial route.

Gain wealth from the perilous sea and become a famous businessman!

In addition to these three lines, the development team also spent a lot of effort to enrich the career system.

I hope that even if players don’t go out to sea, they can still get enough gaming experience in Royal Port.

This is no longer a simple "pirate story".

So in the end, after voting and with Xu Meng's consent, they changed one word from "Blue Sea and Black Sails" to "Blue Sea and Sailing" and decided to use it as the name of the new game.

In order to accomplish this, they became more and more outrageous——

Lu Ming directly set up a "sensory team" to be responsible for collecting various sensory data.

Employees in this group rarely stay in the company.

Some people went to learn ancient forging methods, some went to learn winemaking, some stayed in the police station to study flintlock rifles, and some went fishing at sea every day at public expense.

Some people even used the channels of Zhan Xiangwen's fellow countryman to experience smuggling and illegal immigration.

I didn’t get a visa and went to Izumo for a stroll with a big pack of cigarettes.

He is a complete outlaw.

This enthusiasm eventually turned into detailed sensory data and was loaded into the dream database.

It has become an extremely easily overlooked but extremely important component of "Sailing in the Blue Sea".

Small-scale internal testing has also begun quietly.

It’s just that when Lu Ming was managing “The Divine Bird” before, he had enough of the pain of being spoiled by insiders.

Now that he is in charge of a large-scale project like "Sail in the Blue Sea" for the first time, which is destined to go down in the history of gaming, his vigilance is fully raised.

With the extremely high authority given by Xu Meng, he signed a super strict confidentiality agreement with the internal test players——

Not only can the game content not be disclosed to the public, even internal test players are not allowed to communicate freely with each other.

The most exaggerated thing is that he even changed the test format.

Lu Ming divided the various gameplays of "Sailing in the Blue Sea" into dozens of parts and gave them to different players to experience.

This results in huge differences in the game content played by beta test players.

Many people have fallen into deep confusion because of this.

For example, Orange Juice, unfortunately, drew the [Fishing] gameplay.

After asking for leave from his friends, he excitedly entered the new game "Sail in the Blue Sea", but he was unable to start any story missions, and instead appeared directly at the dock of Port Royal.

Looking back is the bustling and lively Royal Port.

But he couldn't get in—he was trapped on the dock by a wall of air, unable to do anything except fish.

Don't want to fish from the pier?
Well, you can also choose to go to [Shipwreck Bay Fishing Spot], [Pirate Ship Fishing Spot], [Navy Warship Fishing Spot], [Governor's Mansion Fountain Fishing Spot], [Legend Fishing Spot], [Island No. 1 Fishing Spot], [Island No. 2 Fishing Spot]...

Orange Juice was stunned when he looked at these fishing spots.

Especially the series of island fishing spots from No. 1 to No. 22.

"You can't even say the name of the island?!"

He was indignant.

But he still went online every day, fishing at different fishing spots, and then sold the caught fish to fishmongers in exchange for better bait and fishing rods.

After fishing for a week, Orange Juice was tired of it.

He began to doubt deeply: What exactly does this new game Dream Building want players to play?
"Could it be that the core gameplay of the new game is that a large group of fishermen drive warships and compete for fishing spots on the vast ocean?"

"Whoever can catch the rarest fish will become the fishing king?"

(End of this chapter)