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Chapter 1547 The virtual world also has capital operations

Chapter 1547 The virtual world also has capital operations
Like a salesman, Zhou Buqi said carefully: "Bitcoin can be traded, just like stocks. I am planning to build an online bitcoin exchange. As long as Bitcoin is established, there will definitely be Other virtual cryptocurrencies to follow suit. According to my judgment on the Internet market and the trend of decentralization, this trend will definitely rise.”

"Virtual currency... encrypted currency..." Zhang Chaoyang tried to savor his words, "You mean... this encrypted currency is like a game, Changyou can launch its own encrypted currency?"

Zhou Buqi said: "Changyou's business is all in China, and the main games are all domestic. Even if DOTA2 is released in Europe and the United States, it will be represented by Blizzard. For many players, they will only think that this It’s Blizzard’s game. If Changyou wants to become a game giant as famous as EA and Blizzard, it needs to find another way! Well, take a shortcut! Take the hype route of a new concept!”

The risk of cryptocurrency is too great, Ziweixing is not suitable for entering the market.

The main reason is that Ziwei Star already has a relatively stable business overseas and has established a basic market, which cannot be allowed to bear the huge risks of cryptocurrency.

But traveling is different.

Changyou abroad is a new company with no foundation.

The competition in the game industry is very fierce, far more intense than the social, e-commerce, and cloud computing industries.The Internet industry is winner-take-all, but there is no winner-take-all mechanism in the game industry. Even start-ups and small companies have the possibility of competing with giant companies.

So that in order to ensure its own status, EA often has to acquire some small companies.After the acquisition, it is not to develop the small company, but to close the business of the small company and let them die.

It is too difficult for Changyou to develop in the overseas game industry and stand out from the crowd by taking the conventional route. The giants are like tigers.

If it is bundled with the super concept of blockchain and cryptocurrency, it is really possible to stand out!

If one day the Ponzi scheme nature of cryptocurrency is exposed, the cryptocurrency industry will be completely finished, and Changyou will not die.Because Changyou still has a domestic market.If the foreign market can’t go on, it’s good to be honest in the domestic market. Anyway, the domestic policy is very strict on the supervision of cryptocurrency, and it is not allowed to play this thing.

Zhou Buqi further explained to him, "Cryptocoins need to be mined, just like Bitcoin... The logic of mining Bitcoin is actually the process of creating blocks through calculation. Creating a block and obtaining Bitcoin rewards is Mining is successful. Connecting these blocks is the blockchain..."

Zhang Chaoyang was confused, "What does this have to do with the game?"

Zhou Buqi said: "The traditional mining method is to create blocks by cracking software. Can you change the way of thinking and change the mode of cracking through software to create blocks by doing tasks in the game and downloading copies?" ? Games are also software."

"I go!"

Zhang Chaoyang was stunned, he was lazily lying on the armchair, but now he sat up directly.

Zhou Buqi said: "From an economic point of view, all social labor should create value. Playing games can also be regarded as a kind of labor, but the games in the public impression are more about spending money than spending money. make money."

Zhang Chaoyang said: "There are still some players who can make money by playing games. In "Tian Long Ba Bu", there are many players who keep doing tasks to accumulate gold coins and ingots, and then sell them for money."

"That's a small number." Zhou Buqi knew that a small number of high-level players could make money through games, "I don't believe that any game allows transactions outside the game."

Zhang Chaoyang nodded, "Indeed, off-market transactions will affect the revenue of the game."

Zhou Buqi said: "But any paid game is inseparable from OTC trading, which is a rigid demand of players. In this case, it is better to launch a unified OTC trading platform."

"Unified platform?" Zhang Chaoyang looked surprised, and understood what he meant, "Design an encrypted currency to replace game coins such as gold coins, silver coins, and ingots in the game. This encrypted currency can be used in In-game consumption can also be traded on trading platforms outside the game.”

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "Yes, that's what it means. You can design a unified wallet in the game, just like Ziweixing's gold coin wallet. It is of a middle-level nature and can be connected to many games. The encrypted coins earned in the game can be transferred to other games for consumption, or transferred to the trading platform to sell.”

"Wait a minute, there are too many problems here, let's sort them out." Zhang Chaoyang was very interested in this, but he also felt that this idea was a bit big, "You mean the encrypted currency earned in "Tian Long Ba Bu" , can be withdrawn to the wallet. Then when the player is playing "The Deer and Ding Tale", the encrypted currency can be withdrawn from the wallet to buy game props."

"Correct."

"What about balance? The design of the game cannot be absolutely balanced. If the copy of "Dragon Babu" is simple, it is easier to earn cryptocurrency, but "The Deer and Ding Ji" is difficult. Then players will choose to start from "Dragon Babu" Do tasks in "The Ministry", and then transfer the encrypted currency to "The Deer and Ding Tale" to spend?"

"The tax rate can be set. The easier it is for a business to make money, the higher the tax rate. The environmental protection industry may only have a 5% tax rate, and the tobacco industry may have a tax rate of 80%. Adjust the tax rate. To withdraw the cryptocurrency into the wallet, you need to pay Tax."

Zhang Chaoyang nodded, and then said: "What about the income? If it is designed in this way, there must be a lot of free players, and most of the players are mining for quests, and then go to the exchange to sell to make money."

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "How can it be so absolute? "Tian Long Ba Bu" can also make money through off-site trading of missions. How many people will work hard to do missions? For games, the vast majority of players still focus on entertainment. Master. Things that cannot be done in the real world should be realized in the virtual world one by one to achieve a great personal career. The more free players, the better the game experience for those paying players who are willing to spend money. The stronger the sense of superiority and accomplishment."

Zhang Chaoyang shook his head, "This reason is not convincing."

Zhou Buqi's reaction was quick, and he immediately said: "It's also simple, you can grade it in the game. Ordinary accounts can't download dungeons for mining, and you have to upgrade to a certain level. And mining is also difficult. Every time you dig There is also a difference in the number of mines. The better the equipment, the stronger the combat power, and the more mines will be dug out. This can encourage players to spend and buy equipment. Different levels of mining areas can also be designed, and each mining area can be set at most every day. The number that comes out...is the design, the right of interpretation rests with the game side, is it not easy to hold the players firmly?"

Zhang Chaoyang was silent for a long time, "So, this cryptocurrency is unlimited."

"Correct."

"How can the value be guaranteed? As the number of encrypted coins increases, the price on the trading platform will decrease. If the price is low, the attractiveness will decrease, which may lead to a decrease in players' interest in the game."

"Oh, old Zhang!"

Zhou Buqi was a little speechless.

Zhang Chaoyang did not understand the true meaning of this business model, and asked, "What's wrong?"

Zhou Buqi said: "Old Zhang, all your questions are based on your narrow understanding of this business model. Don't treat this business as a game business, it is based on the game industry... a banking business!"

"hiss!"

Zhang Chaoyang took a breath in shock, goosebumps rose on his back.

Zhou Buqi said indifferently: "You can regard the currency issuance system controlled by Changyou as the central bank in the virtual world. The games in Changyou are all companies and organizations in the virtual society. The society is short of money. The central bank distributes money and water. There is a lot of money in the society, and there is a danger of inflation, so they try to get the money back to solve the problem of inflation. This is a bank in the virtual world, and the social structure is also very simple. The small and small economic dilemmas in the world, according to the economic principles of solving super complex socioeconomic problems in the real society, are too simple."

Then, he explained it again in detail.

For example, Changyou launched a "Changyou Coin". If players dig up too many Changyou coins in various games, the number of Changyou coins on the Changyou trading platform will increase from 1000 million to 2000 million, causing the price to continue to fall. How to do?
very simple!
As the central bank of virtual currency, Changyou has to play a regulating role.

There are too many Changyou coins on the platform, and the price is low, so I spent 1 million yuan to buy 200 million coins at a low price.To keep Changyou Coin attractive and competitive to players.Continuous buying can violently increase the price of Changyou Coin, attracting retail investors to follow suit and catch up.

Changyou can sell 100 million pieces at a high point, and earn a total of 1 million yuan.

That is to say, Changyou’s virtual central bank managed to balance its balance of payments during this wave of holding the bank, but it got the benefit of 100 million Changyou coins in vain.

Repeating this several times, the virtual central bank can effectively adjust the quantity and value of Changyou coins in the market.This is much crueler than in the real world, it is purely harvesting retail investors, without any value creation at all, it is a pure capital game.

As for what Zhang Chaoyang said about worrying about the decline in the income of this type of game... Please!Under this model, Changyou has become a virtual central bank, so what games do you rely on to make money?
Relying on tax collection, relying on capital regulation, and relying on printing money, is there any more profitable business in the world than this?
Half of Zhang Chaoyang's body was numb, and he was startled by this bastard's nonsense, "You are not playing a game at all, you are... you are playing a virtual capital operation!"

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "Basically, the game is a virtual world, and currency is also needed in the virtual world. Virtual currency is also currency. If there is currency, capital operation is indispensable."

"Is this legal?"

"The financial markets in Europe and the United States are very developed, so there must be no problem. Don't do it in China. The country is the basic platform for Changyou, so let's just play games honestly."

(End of this chapter)

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