You said you were going to make games, how did you become the richest man without doing anything?

Chapter 479: Colleagues are shocked: Mr. Lu, are you kidding me? (2 in 1 order)

Soon, the three official studios of Taoyuan Township produced and released a promotional video for the game.

In the promotional video, it is shown that in the new work in Taoyuan Township, the player will play the role of a fat otaku who lies at home and plays games. His activity is to constantly spend money in the game, basically saying goodbye to social interaction in the real world and living a decadent life.

The scene opens in a small, dark room, the only light coming from a monitor in the corner. A shirtless young man stares blankly at the screen, fiddling with a game controller.

The camera zooms in, and we see a level battle in an action-packed game taking place on screen. A young man controls a character with extremely high combat power, battling a ferocious boss monster.

At that moment, a small rotating clock appeared faintly in the corner of the screen, with the words "Increase Combat Power" written beside it. As if bewitched, the young man mechanically clicked on it.

Immediately afterwards, a holographic projection popped up on the screen, detailing the various gaming equipment and items available for purchase. From monster-killing artifacts to life-recharge pods, the variety was extensive, and the prices were astronomical.

Without hesitation, the young man pulled out a loan card and swiped it across the screen. In just a few minutes, the number on the screen had rapidly decreased by over a hundred thousand. Meanwhile, his in-game character had also acquired several extremely rare pieces of top-tier equipment, and his power instantly skyrocketed several times.

The once difficult boss battle, with the help of the equipment, instantly became a piece of cake. The young character Shi Shiran killed the once extremely powerful monster and received a very high score and rewards.

During this process, the young man himself had no expression on his face and was as focused as a machine giving orders. He did not show any joy from beginning to end.

The rest of the story repeats this cycle. The young man is either fighting monsters or spending money relentlessly on more gaming gear. Day after day, year after year, his life seems to be nothing more than this endless loop.

Once or twice, he seemed to be away from his computer, but only to open the refrigerator and eat some leftover food, or to go to the bathroom for a quick shower. Apart from that, he had no other life.

Thus, the young man immersed himself almost completely in the game. To improve his character's combat power, he had spent all his savings and income, even taking out a significant overdraft. In the end, he felt like a puppet deprived of reality, his sole purpose of existence being to live for the virtual world.

The final scene is a close-up from behind the young man, his hunched back visible. Empty bottles, takeout containers, and bills are scattered on the floor in front of him, while on the screen, his game character is grabbing glory and treasures one by one.
Then, the camera goes black, and the trailer ends. We don't hear any text or narration; the entire clip uses short, vivid images to showcase the core gameplay of the game: "crazy consumption for combat power."

……

After seeing the poster, players expressed shock and confusion. They didn't understand why Taoyuanxiang, whose previous games were all full of a sense of struggle, would come up with the idea of ​​making a game that looked so boring.

"Taoyuanxiang's games have always been challenging and rewarding, but this time they've made a game that encourages players to do nothing, which is really unexpected."

"I don't understand the development team's intention. Aren't games meant to be fun? How can this kind of idle gameplay be fun?"

"After watching the promotional video, I felt terrible. This lifestyle is so decadent and completely contrary to the values ​​I usually pursue."

"As a veteran player, I certainly understand the importance of relaxation, but using 'doing nothing' as a selling point seems a bit much."

“I wonder if the development team has considered the market prospects of this kind of work? I really doubt how many people will like it.”

"People with money and time might enjoy this experience, but for most office workers, this kind of game would be offensive."

"Although the concept is a bit avant-garde, using 'tanking' as the core selling point sounds too dangerous."

“Perhaps this is just an experimental attempt by the development team? I hope the next game won’t be so ‘extreme’.”

"Having said that, I'm still curious about what this peculiar game is like. Maybe it's worth a try?"

“It’s nice to do nothing, but if I did nothing all day, I think I’d go crazy from boredom.”

……

Yokoi Gunpei sipped his Blue Mountain coffee while browsing the online reviews of Taoyuanxiang's new work with great interest. A smug smile appeared on his face, and his eyes shone with a hint of pride.

"Hmph, just as I expected, these guys overestimated their 'bold innovation'," Yokoi muttered to himself, his tone filled with disdain. "They should be thankful that their only competitor is Sony. If it were any other company, this game would have been ridiculed long ago."

He stretched and sank into the comfortable chair. On his desk, a laptop loaded with the latest version of The Last of Us Part III's engineering files sat idle. Yokoi glanced at the screen, a smug smile playing on his face again.

"If it had gone according to the original plan, these two products should have competed on the same stage this winter. But it seems that our "The Last of Us 3" can avoid another opponent." Yokoi crossed his arms in front of his chest, his face looking even more proud.

He then opened his laptop and clicked on the game file. On the screen, he saw a scene of snowy mountains and dense forests. A group of heavily armed brutal men swarmed over, surrounding a group of unarmed refugees. Women and children trembled in fear under their iron hooves.

"This is a true masterpiece, the experience players truly need." Yokoi grinned confidently. "Only by fully displaying the ugliness and distortion of human nature can we immerse players in it, and only by experiencing that fear and despair can the game truly shock and impact them!"

With that, he mercilessly pressed the "PLAY" button on the development tool. The scene instantly switched to a third-person perspective from behind a heavily armed, brutal criminal. Yokoi controlled the character, raised his bazooka, and aimed it at the trembling civilians.

"Kill! Kill! Kill!" he shouted excitedly. As soon as the words fell, the bazooka in the character's hand was fired, and the fire cut a dazzling arc in the air and smashed into the crowd. The horrifying explosions and screams echoed in the quiet office, but they could not cover up the pride and joy in Yokoi's heart. "Hahaha, this is the ultimate in violent aesthetics! How can those guys in Taoyuan Township compare to us?" He laughed happily, squatting on the chair and proudly making a habit pose, "As long as we have this "The Last of Us 3", their boring products will not pose any threat at all. I have the final say on this winter's blockbuster, and everything is under control!"

In this way, Yokoi Gunpei immersed himself in his own world of violence and desire for conquest. He only had endless contempt and arrogance for those unique games that explored new aesthetic power.
……

Pei Shengnan sat in the spacious, bright office at Longteng Group's headquarters, looking down at the surging traffic outside the window. His gaze, through the floor-to-ceiling glass, crossed the steel jungle, crossed the distant skyline, as if gazing into the future.

This business tycoon, now over fifty, was in exceptionally high spirits today. He lifted the glass of red wine and took a sip, a look of satisfaction on his face. This was a fine, aged wine from a prestigious Bordeaux château in France, and it wasn't cheap.

"Hmph, it seems we've completely surpassed those so-called competitors." Pei Shengnan snorted disdainfully, his tone full of arrogance. He picked up a magazine spread out on his desk. The cover of the magazine was the "Taoyuan Township Bad Game" that had been hotly discussed in the entertainment industry recently.

"What innovation and exploration? They're just a bunch of pretentious people." He flipped through the magazine, a smug smile gradually appearing on his face. "Look at what these guys are saying. They're completely useless and bringing shame upon themselves!"

Pei Shengnan roughly tossed the magazine aside, leaned back, and sank into the comfortable chair. He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and a confident smile appeared on the corner of his lips.

Soon, he opened his eyes again and his gaze fell on a large curved monitor in the center of his desk. On the screen was a promotional video for Longteng Group's latest masterpiece, "SimCity: Infinite Worlds."

A vibrant cityscape unfolds in the camera. High-rise buildings, flashing neon lights, and bustling traffic fill the air. All the material opulence and crowded functions of a modern city are visible. Yet, high above the city, a whole new world lies superimposed. The buildings of the once-thriving metropolis are gradually crumbling, replaced by an ethereal, towering wonder: rolling hills, gurgling streams, and scattered ruins, all imbued with the elegance and tranquility of a paradise.

Two completely different worlds, one is the extravagant pre-modern urban luxury, the other is the magnificent pastoral poetry. They coexist and complement each other in this game in a magical way, like a huge "metaverse" painting slowly unfolding.

"This is true gaming innovation, not some useless consumer product." Pei Shengnan stared at the screen intently, his eyes radiating confidence. "Perfectly blending two seemingly contradictory worlds, allowing players to find endless joy in endless imagination and exploration, this is the ultimate value of gaming."

He bent down and pulled out the latest pair of Longteng's in-house AR glasses from a drawer, carefully placing them on his head. Immediately, the entire office scene suddenly distorted and warped, replaced by a vast sea of ​​flowing pixels. Before his eyes, the once majestic "metaverse" cityscape suddenly magnified and materialized, transforming into an illusory giant composed of countless pixels, completely enveloping him.

Pei Shengnan slowly raised his arm and lightly tapped the empty space before him. Instantly, the illusory city giant underwent subtle changes. Countless pixels began to reorganize and flow, and a brand-new landscape, the player's dream, was born.

"This is the future," Pei Shengnan muttered to himself, a fanatical expression on his face. "The omnipotent and omnipresent metaverse world will open up an unprecedented new era for players! And Longteng is the best force to lead this era!"

He waved his arm, and the pixel world shifted dramatically. Everything seemed to be under his control, and everything was gradually changing towards his desired appearance.

"Haha, listen up, those pedantic colleagues! You are just living in the past, but we, Longteng, have already seen the future!" Pei Shengnan laughed loudly, and his voice echoed in the illusory pixel space and resounded through the sky.

Pei Shengnan was completely absorbed in the ideal of his own "metaverse." He treated his peers working on traditional game creation with nothing but disdain and endless arrogance.
……

Cai Yuhao from Mileyou also disdained Lu Yu's new game. He couldn't help but think of the EASTJOY exhibition two years ago when Lu Yu had confronted him. But it didn't matter now, because Mileyou's game "Monkey God" was bound to be a huge success.

Cai Yuhao sat bored in his office chair, his arms folded behind his head, his footsteps tapping the floor. His gaze slid absentmindedly out the French window. Downstairs, a constant stream of cars and horses rustled by. In the distance, the lights of Mile City, once a small fishing village and now a major gaming hub, shone brightly.

This young man, in his early thirties, wasn't the most famous among his peers, but thanks to his family's gaming company connections and his own unwavering passion for game production, he had already risen to the top of the industry. However, today, he seemed particularly irritable and restless.

"That stinky old man really takes himself seriously!" Cai Yuhao suddenly muttered in dissatisfaction, remembering Lu Yu's contemptuous words to him at the EASTJOY exhibition two years ago.

He immediately got angry, slammed his hands on the armrests of the chair, and sat up straight. Just as he was about to continue complaining, his eyes accidentally swept across a magazine on the desk.

It was a gaming magazine that had just been published this month, and the cover featured a promotional image for a new game released by Lu Yu's gaming company, Taoyuan Township. Upon seeing the cover, Cai Yuhao immediately smiled with a malicious smile.

"Hey, isn't this the new game you released, old man?" He picked up the magazine and looked at the scantily clad, skinny female character on the cover. "What do you think? This game is really 'daring'!"

As he spoke, he flipped open the magazine and began to browse through the game's introduction and reviews page by page. As he read, Cai Yuhao's expression gradually changed from initial curiosity to a look of disdain and ridicule.

"Huh? This game is all about taking stimulants, piling up troops, and then fighting and killing? It's just the same old routine over and over again? It's so boring!" He sneered and slammed the magazine down on the table. "No wonder those nerds gave it such a bad review. This kind of game is even worse than the modded gameplay of our "Ape God"!"

Cai Yuhao's expression brightened with pride when he spoke of the game, "Ape God." His hands frantically tapped away at the keyboard, and then the actual gameplay footage of "Ape God" appeared on the large screen in his office.

The screen depicts a tribe of barbarians dressed in primitive grass clothing, armed with stone tools and spears, locked in a desperate battle with a group of medieval knights in steel armor. The visuals of the two sides are strikingly different, as is the battlefield setting—the barbarians are in a modern office setting!
The scene suddenly shifted, revealing a completely new scene: a devastated Earth, littered with nuclear radiation zones and architectural ruins. A group of centaurs were fighting against a horde of robots. Above them, several alien spaceships were bombing the ground!
"See? This is a truly open world with infinite possibilities! As long as the player's imagination is rich enough, Monkey God will allow you to create any fantasy scene in the game world!" Cai Yuhao said proudly, with a look of confidence on his face. "Every scene and every plot can be freely combined, developed, and realized by the player using the game's modular system! An unprecedented creative experience, this is our unique skill!"

He reached out and tapped a few more keys on the keyboard, and the game scene suddenly changed again: this time, the screen showed Cai Yuhao himself in 3D. He was holding a lightsaber and controlling a gorilla warrior, fighting against a group of AI robots from the Future Fortress!
"Haha, this is a module I developed for this game myself! It has a brand new storyline in which I personally act out the role, and players will be invincible!" He laughed proudly and fiddled with the keyboard.

Cai Yuhao in the picture suddenly jumped up, facing a burst of gorgeous special effects, raised his lightsaber, and slashed at the row of AI enemies in front of him! None of the enemies were spared, and they were all cut into pieces by him, as if they were the most vulnerable little monsters in the game.

"Hahaha! Who says we at Mileyou can't do this? This is our strength! This is true game innovation!" Cai Yuhao was very proud and laughed wildly, venting all his worries and anger. "Old man Lu Yu, what's your stuff worth? 'Ape God' will become the standard-bearer of the new generation of open world games. Your 'bold innovation' is only this capable. It can't stand up to us!"

As soon as the words fell, Cai Yuhao on the screen raised a victory sign, and this scene was frozen in an impressive picture.
(End of this chapter)