The virtual empire starts from the game

Chapter 580 The server that changed the world! Genesis! (Two in one)

Xu Meng’s press conference naturally attracted a lot of attention.

But there are still a large number of netizens who want to find out:

What on earth happened in the previous few hours that almost paralyzed half of the South City area?
Especially the players who logged off in South City District the day before.

When they first came online, they thought they had traveled to a war zone—

The skyrail system was completely paralyzed, the building turned into a torch, the NPCs fled in panic, and the shrill sirens of fire trucks rang out from all directions.

Such a big change would happen without their knowledge, so of course they wanted to find out what was going on.

It’s okay for domestic players, as there is never a shortage of characters like “historians” on the Internet.

It didn't take much effort to figure out what had happened.

A big thumbs up to the players who participated in defending the monuments.

For overseas players, it is a bit more troublesome.

Because Indian netizens are making efforts:

"The players from the United States and Xia country are using their numbers to bully the minority, and they are teaming up to bully others!"

"US players backstabbed our allies, you should be ashamed of yourself!"

"You will regret betraying us! Wait, you will soon understand the price of angering us!"

……

From the start of the war to the ceasefire, Indian players and netizens have been cursing.

At the beginning, it was because the battle with the Xia country players was not going well - whether it was a large-scale melee or a small-scale conflict, they were all at a great disadvantage!
I would feel suffocated if I didn't curse a few times.

Later, it was suddenly sold out by American players, and it was caught in a pincer attack, which made it even more upset.

On the overseas Internet, people cursed their "former allies".

They create a lot of junk information, which seriously pollutes the content of the topic.

This caused huge trouble for overseas netizens who were slow to realize the situation and wanted to understand it clearly.

It soon turned into a war of words between netizens from many countries and Indian netizens...

But the Indian guys were fearless and fought against many enemies alone!

Extremely powerful!
It was not until Xu Meng showed up at Mansheng and the press conference was about to begin that this unprecedented war of words finally came to an end.
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The place where Xu Meng appeared was the Dream Building Game Company in the Sprawling City.

Initially, Xu Meng and the development team did intend to use this place as an office.

But unfortunately——

This building has been occupied by players since the day it was completed.

There was no arson or sabotage.

But there is a constant stream of players coming here to visit, punch in, play with the employees, eat and drink for free, and there are no conditions for working at all.

In the end, this place became a "tourist attraction" where "employee NPCs" were randomly refreshed.

Only on special days will this place be closed and become a temporary office location.

Just like today.

It was not until 8 o'clock that the impenetrable company door was reopened.

After players enter the company, they cannot walk around freely - most places are blocked by a light blue barrier, and they can only walk along the only open passage to the press conference hall.

The conference hall is of average size and appears to be able to accommodate only 300 people.

But in reality, no matter how many players come in and sit down, this press conference hall will never be full.

Soon, the number of players sitting in the hall exceeded 10 million!

In the past, even if DreamWorks used the most advanced dynamic mirroring technology, it would not be able to accommodate so many users in such a small space.

But now, the epoch-making topological photonic chips and the new server architecture have made many things that were previously impossible possible.

This is also the core content of today's press conference.

……

……

1 hours later.

At 8:1 am on August 9st, the official live broadcast of Dream Building will start.

Xu Meng, wearing a simple white shirt, walked onto the podium and greeted all the audience:

"Good morning, everyone at the press conference and in the live broadcast room!"

The audience gave a round of applause, and the live broadcast room was filled with comments such as [Good morning, Boss Xu].

Xu Meng raised her hand to signal, and the applause from the audience soon stopped.

“Before the press conference officially begins, I would like to express my gratitude to some players.”

"In order to allow this press conference to proceed smoothly, they chose to stop the war and restore peace to Mansheng City."

"Thank you so much!"

The players give you face, and you should also give the players face.

What comes and goes!
The players and media sitting in the audience, except for the Indian users, all chuckled.

Those players who had participated in the battle before and now stopped fighting and came to the scene also responded in a humorous way: "It's my duty! You're welcome, Boss Xu!"

When the scene calmed down again, Xu Meng finally got to the point:

"Next, the press conference officially begins."

"First, let me announce a piece of news that many players have already guessed - Dream Building has completed the full acquisition of all gaming businesses under the Sofort Group!"

"All current game development and distribution work will not be affected this year."

"In the next three years, all online service businesses will not be affected."

"However, the development of new consoles and related hardware production will be stopped immediately, and only the needs for after-sales service for existing users will be retained."

……

Everyone has indeed guessed this news.

After Softoft's games were fully launched on the Dream Building Game platform, various media and self-media have already written their articles, waiting for the official announcement from Dream Building Games and Softoft Group.

But this wait lasted for more than half a month.

Neither side has released any news yet.

So much so that rumors began to circulate in the gaming circle that "the talks between DreamCraft and Soford Group broke down again."

Now that Xu Meng has officially announced it, the matter has finally been put to rest.

Now, there is only one thing that everyone is most concerned about -

"Boss Xu! How much did it cost?" someone in the audience asked loudly.

Xu Meng paused slightly: "You got to the point!"

Why did it take more than half a month to make the official announcement?
It’s because the two parties have differences on the acquisition price!

On the DreamZhu side, assistant Chen Mengling and Zhang Baiquan from the marketing department offered a price of [99 summer yuan].

This is by no means taking advantage of the situation.

Today, the entire gaming industry is striding into the virtual age, and the traditional gaming market is shrinking rapidly.

If we wait another year or two, only some nostalgic players will be left to consume.

In other words-

Traditional gaming formats have no future.

The users that they have invested huge costs to acquire in the past will become a heavy burden, turning from "assets" that generate revenue into "liabilities" that devour funds.

Zhumeng is willing to take over these debts and help deal with the "afterlife", which is already a great deed.

This transaction price is purely a formality, intended to add some substance to the boss' nickname of "investment genius".

The Soford Group acknowledges that the transaction price is just a formality.

But they didn’t agree with the price of [99 summer dollars].

It’s not that he is unwilling to give Xu Meng face, but he is simply unhappy with Sony!

"Sony sells it for 100 yuan, and we sell it for 99 yuan?"

"What do you mean? Are we not as good as Sony?"

——Although we may indeed be inferior, we just refuse to admit it!

We also have to save face!
"We don't want much, 101 is enough."

"As long as you are 1 yuan more expensive than Sony, we will sign a contract immediately and give you all the promotional channels and connections for the game box!"

One costs 99 yuan to buy and the other costs 101 yuan to sell.

This ridiculous question has been stuck for more than two weeks.

After Xu Meng learned about it, this problem was solved——

"This transaction cost a little more money than the last time."

"101 yuan!"

——After all, they were former partners, so Xu Meng was willing to give him this face.

The audience burst into laughter.

The live broadcast room also burst into laughter:
“Hahaha awesome!”

"Fuck, 101 Xia Yuan! You can't even afford a game box console, but you bought the entire game box company?"

"More than that! The game disc costs more than 101 yuan!"

"Sell it to me! I'll give you 200 bucks!"

"Game Box President: Feel proud!"

"Hahaha, in the end, we finally beat Sony! Even if the CEO of Game Box dies suddenly now, he can still rest in peace!"

"Hurry up and get some reporters to interview Herman about his mood, hahaha!"

……

No need for reporters to interview.

Herman, former CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, was sitting in the audience at that time.

Surrounded by a group of laughing players.

His face was as dark as water and he said nothing.

Xu Meng patiently waited for the audience to finish laughing before continuing:

“After the appetizers, comes the real big news!”

Xu Meng was satisfied to see——

The audience immediately quieted down.

Especially the media from all over the world, not only did they listen attentively to every word of Xu Meng, some veteran reporters even subconsciously clenched the paper and pen in their hands.

“Once the topological photonic chip is successfully developed, what can it be used for?”

"The latest holographic belt!" "Yes, of course."

“But we’re not going to stop there, are we?”

"Just the day before yesterday!"

"The world's first [large-scale photonic topology server array] that fully adopts topological photonic chips and a new topological architecture has been officially completed!"

"According to calculations, the computing power of this server center is equivalent to the total of all commercial servers in Xia Country!"

Audiences all over the world were shocked and speechless.

Everyone knows that topological photonic chips are very powerful, and the new servers built with topological photonic chips must be very powerful too.

But I actually have no idea how powerful it is.

But now, Xu Meng personally described this concept for them——

The computing power of a server.

Equal to the sum of all commercial servers in Xia Country!

Although we don’t know the total computing power of all commercial servers in Xia Country, we can definitely feel the “awesome” feeling!
Xu Meng did not leave time for everyone to sigh and continued:

"Unfortunately, I have to keep the location of the server construction a secret from you."

"But I can give you a little bit of information—"

"That is: it is very safe!"

"Safe enough to withstand a high-yield nuclear bomb attack."

A large number of question marks instantly filled the entire screen:

"???"

"Did I hear that correctly? A nuclear bomb?"

"If it wasn't for my brother, who would dare to come to Xia Country and bomb your server?"

"Who are you guarding against???"

……

Xu Meng remained unmoved and continued:
"In addition to defense against external attacks, the internal maintenance facilities are also very complete."

“We are developing and deploying a robotic maintenance system so that this large server center can be self-sustaining.”

"Our goal is to be able to keep the system running even if the outside world falls into a nuclear winter and there are no humans to help with maintenance."

"Of course, there are still some missing conditions."

"But if all goes well, by the end of this year we should be able to achieve self-sustainability within five years."

"We will continue to invest and gradually extend it to 10, 20, 50 years..."

“And even the ultimate goal – to achieve sustainable operation of the entire project!”

……

Xu Meng became more and more excited as he spoke.

But the audiences around the world felt something was not right the more they listened.

"No buddy, wait a minute! What are you guarding against?"

"You're defending against nuclear bombs. I can understand that you're afraid that your server will be too powerful and others will be jealous and drop nuclear bombs on it, but what does it mean that you're defending against nuclear winter?"

"Rich and powerful people have more sources of information than ordinary people. Could it be that..."

"Wait! The [Digital Emperor] is starting to defend against a nuclear winter? Holy shit! Are we really going to start a war?"

"Mom, I'm scared!"

……

The live broadcast room was flooded with comments.

The audience below the stage were also whispering to each other.

Everyone couldn't help feeling nervous.

Xu Meng was still calmly showing off her newest baby:
"I can say without any modesty: this server has the power to change the world!"

"But today, let's not talk about its long-term impact on the real world. Let's first look at the most intuitive--"

“This large server center can accommodate at least 10 billion users online at the same time in the form of ‘dreams’ or ‘brain-computers’.”

"Note that this is still the most conservative estimate."

"We don't have an accurate number right now on how many people can actually be accommodated."

"After all, DreamCraft currently doesn't have that many users. The number of users who log in using DreamMaker and brain-computer login is close to 1 million. The amount of data from other ways of logging into the game is completely different from that of dream login and brain-computer login. There is almost no pressure on our new server."

Having said that, Xu Meng couldn't help but pause slightly.

With some expectation:

“I don’t know if we’ll have the opportunity to challenge the 10 billion limit in the future.”

The audience, who were just worried about nuclear war and nuclear winter, were quickly captured by Xu Meng's grand vision.

One billion people around the world are traveling in the same dream.

What a magnificent scene it would be?
That is a "civilization" level achievement!

This grand fantasy greatly dilutes the shadow of war and nuclear winter.

"In addition to the huge increase in user capacity, the number of intelligent NPCs in the virtual world and their intelligence will also increase again!"

Xu Meng added.

“This is also due to the new architecture.”

“However, I would like to advise some users not to try too many or too extreme fetishes on intelligent NPCs.”

“After this press conference, I will officially launch [Intelligent NPC Moral Firewall 1.0].”

"We have no objection to people building deeper emotional connections with virtual characters."

"But the concepts and habits that some users have implanted in intelligent NPCs are no longer just a question of morality or immorality."

"——They have made me start to worry: Will they reversely contaminate the intelligence core and cause widespread personality distortion of highly intelligent virtual characters?"

Most players believe that the "personality" of intelligent NPCs is completely independent.

The virtual character you develop yourself has nothing to do with anyone else's.

But actually, that's not the case.

Except for a few special characters - such as the collaborative characters in Silver City and the if-line characters in "Frost and Snow Project", the "intelligence" of most of the remaining characters comes from one or several shared intelligence cores.

This shared intelligence core constitutes the basic intelligence framework of the character.

The tens of millions of clones separated from the core, with long-term interaction with players, develop different [memories] and [personalities].

Although at the system level, these thousands and thousands of clones have been isolated.

Before, Xu Meng had never worried about this matter.

But because of the [Big Data Blind Date] incident, after learning that users’ XP was getting worse and worse, he found it difficult to suppress his anxiety.

——What if the intelligent core is really "contaminated", causing tens of millions of virtual characters to have incredible XP...

When the player was being affectionate and heartfelt with his virtual wife, the virtual wife suddenly said something outrageous.

Wouldn’t the user explode on the spot? !

The audience had polarized attitudes towards Xu Meng's measures.

Some people praised:

"Well done! Purifying the virtual space is everyone's responsibility!"

Some people feel like they have lost their parents:

"No! Are you going to wipe out even our little love affair?!"

But no matter what everyone says, this matter is inevitable.

However, Xu Meng does not want to be a moral guardian, and the players' little interests are not his target.

He even prepared some adjustment space in advance——

This firewall has the suffix [1.0], which implies that it can be upgraded and adjusted later.

While the audience was still discussing, Xu Meng had already jumped to the next topic:
“The server with a new architecture will also bring a more powerful game engine.”

"We named it - [Genesis Engine]!"

“We hope to use this brand new engine to achieve the great feat of [creation] in the digital world!”

“The Genesis Engine can not only make the virtual world more like the real world, but also make the extraordinary powers that do not exist in reality more expressive.”

“With the Genesis Engine, the power of ‘fantasy’ and the ‘real’ world can coexist harmoniously.”

“This will provide all creators with more open and freer creative conditions.”

The Dream Building game engine is also a hot topic in the global gaming industry.

Especially after the release of "Sail in the Big Blue Sea", players used the game's sub-profession system to create various things that did not originally exist in the game.

Not only did it make players exclaim "awesome", it also shocked developers around the world.

A while ago, during the battle against Enelu on Sky Island, I saw a player using the boss's skills in the game and real-life physics theory to make 30 electromagnetic cannons to severely damage the boss...

The industry went wild that day!

Almost everyone is asking: What engine does DreamBuild use?
Li Xingyun, who had completely fallen silent and was almost forgotten by the industry after the release of "Lord of War", became famous overnight!
In one fell swoop, it has become one of the world's top game engine developers!
Given that the existing engine is already so powerful, Xu Meng actually came up with an even more powerful engine!

The impact of this on developers around the world is so great that it is simply beyond words.

But unfortunately:
The number of developers is limited and accounts for a very small proportion of the total audience.

At present, mainstream audiences have not given a strong reaction to this big news.

——Unless someone in the industry explains it in simple and easy-to-understand language afterwards, it will be difficult for ordinary players to understand how awesome this thing is.

Xu Meng didn't care about it.

Players just need to have fun and don’t need to know too much about the development process.

That's not the players' responsibility.

After thanking the engine development team, which has now expanded to 800 people, Xu Meng immediately entered the last stage -

“The new server architecture is not only more suitable for the ‘brain’ of intelligent NPCs, but also more suitable for the human brain.”

"Less stress on your nerves, more stable dreams, more immersive experience..."

“In short – this will be an all-around upgrade!”

"But words are too pale."

"So I decided not to talk nonsense and let everyone experience this change for themselves."

"Everyone!"

"Next, what you are about to witness is——"

"[Genesis]!"

"——Of course, it's the virtual world version."

(End of this chapter)