The virtual empire starts from the game

Chapter 452: How can sugar trading be as profitable as transporting black slaves? (asking for monthly votes)

As we all know, if the player base of a game is large enough and the mechanism allows it, there will definitely be people who rely on this game for their survival.

——This group is quite large, far more than just a small group of professional e-sports players.

Various types of live-playing agents, proxy players, companion players, and gold-making studios...

Often emerge in endlessly.

It’s just that the commercialization path of Dream Building within the game was too high-end from the beginning.

——At the very beginning, arms companies and various international brands will open virtual flagship stores, which have a very high standard.

In comparison, these individuals and small studios seem very inconspicuous.

The games before Dream Building were not very friendly to these stragglers.

Not only is there almost no gold farming environment, the survival environment for other players who play for others is also quite bad -

After the characters in "Frost and Snow Project" could really be touched, the liver-playing business suffered a nearly devastating blow.

The number of players willing to hand over their accounts to others to manage has dropped precipitously.

——When a virtual wife is no longer just a paper figure on the monitor or mobile phone, but can be seen and touched, who would be willing to hand over a virtual wife to someone else?

The subsequent "Lord of War" and "Monster Hunter" either focus on teamwork or personal experience.

There is no soil for people to play games on behalf of others.

Only the 10000 kills golden weapon in "Lord of War" can be considered a stable business.

But it’s also pure physical work.

In this situation, the best business to develop is playing games with others.

But among the playmates, the most popular project is [Sweet Date in the Mansheng City].

Rather than calling it a "playmate", it would be more accurate to say that this thing is Izumo's "rental girlfriend".

It is completely different from the traditional "game playing companion".

The most outrageous thing is that this kind of "rental girlfriend" type of companionship does not have the highest average customer spending.

The companionship business, which has the highest average order value, is a subcategory of the companionship business in "Sprawling City".

Specifically, it means playing games together as a group of three with the boss and his virtual wife.

Then compete for favor with the boss's virtual wife.

It gives the boss a wonderful sense of satisfaction that "both real and virtual girls love me" and "I am super popular."

This kind of business satisfies the boss's vanity to the extreme, and one order often lasts 2 to 3 hours, with the starting price being 800 yuan per hour!

Corresponding to the high returns is the high threshold.

Exquisite character models, hairstyles and makeup, a sweet voice, a likable personality, and extremely high emotional intelligence are all basic requirements.

The advanced requirement is that you must understand the virtual characters of "Frost and Snow Project".

[Mind Cube] will greatly improve the character's intelligence, but it will not deviate from the personality framework originally set by the development team.

Only by fully understanding the personalities of these characters can you get the right amount of jealousy when it comes to acting in a competitive way.

It neither scratches the surface nor uses too much force.

Only in this way can we bring a perfect gaming experience to the boss.

At this point in time, they are like a group of AI training masters, using specific language and actions to make the bosses' virtual wives say what they want to say and react as they want.

This operation is of great value!

It was so expensive that several members of the Dream Development Team placed orders anonymously and found the young lady with the best reputation and the highest price to experience and learn up close.

After completing the study, I asked the company to reimburse the money in the name of "broadening my horizons and learning special AI tuning skills."

The finance department really reported it with a pinched nose...

……

Of course, this is all open business.

The sprawling city has such a high degree of freedom and such a large player base.

It is hard to say whether there are any businesses with more outrageous prices but which cannot be made public and can only be introduced privately.

[Pacemaker] Players who work part-time as strippers have begun to appear in strip clubs!
——Before the performance, put the payment code in front of the stage for the audience to tip you.

Considering that players can create much more refined figures and faces in the virtual world than in reality, this part-time job can make a lot of money!
With this as a reference, various private businesses that are not disclosed to outsiders probably also exist.

Compared with these fancy jobs, the life of the "old and traditional" gold farmers is quite miserable.

There are more and more people, but credit points are becoming less and less valuable.

……

It was not until the release of "Sailing in the Blue Sea" that it brought them hope and dawn.

This is an open world role-playing game with a mature currency trading system, as well as a large number of advanced equipment and rare items!
This is a game where you can sell the skeleton for thousands of dollars!
This is a game that does not require any technical skills. You can earn hundreds of dollars a day by planting sugarcane, picking coffee beans, supervising serfs... on the plantation!

——Of course they also know that this is because the game has just been launched and currency is in short supply, so the "gold price" is so high.

Over time, prices are bound to fall rapidly.

Of course, there will naturally be more ways to "make money by making gold" by then, and they are not anxious about it.

What is outrageous is:
The price of gold, which should have fallen rapidly, is rising against the trend!

This is partly because everyone is poor.

There are also super money-consuming items such as "sailboats" which are almost a necessity.

Considering that ships will be sunk in future naval battles...the gold price of "Sail in the Blue Sea" will be quite resistant to declines in the future.

On the other hand, the gold-making studio, which was full of fighting spirit and had just started working 24 hours a day, was hit in the face by a meteorite from the [Digital Emperor]!
Everyone was stunned.

The studio boss cancelled the night shift without saying a word.

Even if they are willing to increase salaries and invest more costs before generating profits, they want to stay out of the spotlight first.

At least for the last few days, they have all decided to stay put.

No matter what, they don't want to appear in the sight of the Dream Building officials, especially Xu Meng.

Affected by this, wealthy players can’t buy much even if they want to collect gold.

Even after searching the entire market, it is still a long way to go before you can buy a new ship from Nelson Shipyard!
They could only try harder to collect.

As a result, not only did the price of gold not fall over time, but it kept rising higher and higher, becoming more outrageous every day!
The British pound in the game is almost equivalent to the real British pound!

But even so, with so many wealthy people competing for it, no one could raise enough money.

The ship from Nelson Shipyard finally fell into the hands of the crowdfunding players!
The joke that was made on the Caribbean Lookout program came true beyond everyone’s expectations!

The key to all this lies in the emergence of an APP——

An old man posted in Mengjin:

[Raising funds to buy a ship, those who are willing to join, type 1, current progress (1/1000000)]
This frivolous post received 12 replies from players within 43 hours.

So that afternoon, the players who left messages received private messages from the forum one after another:

[Welcome to join Treasure Island! ]
At the end of the private message, there is a download link.

The brave guy clicked on it and found that it was a download link for an APP called [Treasure Island].

After the test showed no virus, it was announced widely.

After everyone downloaded and tried it, they found that this APP is indeed an application used to raise funds and do business in the game.

Players can create and join crowdfunding projects on their own, set how much game currency they want to invest, and then enter the game to trade.

If the project fails to materialize, the investment will be fully refunded.

If the project is successful, corresponding benefits will be obtained based on the agreed project returns.

At this moment, 43 of them have joined the same project——

[Buy a ship (pending name change)]
……

It only took the players 5 minutes to figure out that this APP was % made by Zhumeng - or maybe even Xu Meng.

Otherwise, it is unlikely that someone said it yesterday and then did it today.

Only the government can do something like “refund the money if the project is not completed”.

After ensuring safety, they spent another afternoon deciding on the name and management system of the entire organization.

Afterwards, I used this APP to spend a whole day forming a team and raising funds in the game.

——In this process, more and more players joined in and the scale continued to expand.

The amount of money invested was no longer the originally expected "1 shilling per person".

Many players have spent all their money to support this project called [Golden Compass].

By the time the fundraising was completed and we rushed to the shipyard in Antigua to buy one of the large sailboats and completed the registration, the number of players who had joined the [Golden Compass] project had reached 68!
They all became shareholders of the ship.

According to the proportion of investment, they can share the right to dividends from the profits generated by the ship.

However, because there are so many shareholders, the shareholding ratio of a single player is less than one ten-thousandth when divided equally.

The project is extremely stressful and has no prospect of making a profit.

Therefore, after purchasing the ship, the dozens of players in charge of organization and management immediately began to study the first large-scale sea mission.

At first, they planned to transport sugar and sell it according to the information provided by the Caribbean Lookout.

But soon someone raised an objection.

Happy is Superman: "It's not impossible, but the income is too little."

"The base is too low. Even if the sugar price fluctuates and increases by 20% or 30%, it is still too little."

He quickly came up with a more profitable business:

"I think it's better to transport black slaves!"

“Isn’t the price of sugar going to go up?”

"The sugarcane plantation must be in great need of serfs!"

"We can make 10 times more money by shipping a shipload of slaves than by selling sugar!"

The idea was somewhat sensitive and some people objected to it on the spot.

The response of Happy is Superman is also very simple: "Isn't this app a voting app? Let's decide by democratic voting!"

As a result, Happy is Superman's suggestion successfully won the vote with an absolute advantage of [88:12].

The first large-scale commercial activity of [Golden Compass] was thus confirmed.

……

With so many people voting, it's impossible to keep this news secret.

It didn't take long for the success to spread throughout the player circle.

The leader of the Black Slave Liberation Front, ShaDow, was furious when he saw the news and said on the spot:
"We must make them pay the price!"

Under the watchful eyes of the public, the [Golden Compass] officially sets sail!
(End of this chapter)