Build a gaming empire from scratch

The mysterious guest of the indiscriminate death racing competition—Boss Lin, is still tirelessly playing the DLC of his deadly rival.

It is really "indefatigable", after all, he is playing in the virtual world.

Outside of the virtual world, players, the media, and even many netizens who eat melons are discussing the information that broke out in the program.

"Sales of John Wick exceeded 3200 million."

"League of Assassins lost 1700 million online players."

"Summary of the selection criteria for Yunmeng honorary players."

"The relationship between the two show hosts changes."

"The No. 1 speed run of the main storyline of "John Wick" finally revealed."

"The prediction of the mysterious guest in the death race competition."

"Will it be more difficult to rob casinos in the future?"

...Wait, wait, the related topics are surprisingly hot.

Especially those who were the first to receive the title of Honorary Player, happily posting the title they just got on the Internet.

Not everyone was happy that night.

At least NetDragon's people are very unhappy.

Yu Gu stared at the ever-decreasing online rate of players and frowned.

At night, when the players officially entered the rhythm of the weekend, a large number of fresh troops were free and joined the game again, so that the online data of the players did not look so ugly.

At the same time, Yu Gu was also very pleased to see: On the [Rank-Public Rating List], the ratings of "Blame 3" also began to rise slowly.

The previous score of "Flame 3" has dropped to 3.2 outrageously. Compared with the general scores of 8 points and above in the previous work, it is extremely eye-catching!
But after today's word-of-mouth recovery, it has climbed to 4.4 points.

Yu Gu adjusted the display method and arranged it in a timeline. The latest comments were all high-scoring praise.

As for the DLC score alone, "Flame 3 Red Flame" even got a high score of 8.6.

This made him feel extremely gratified.

Because no matter what the result is, this player's reputation has already proved that his efforts were not in vain.

Next, it depends on whether Zhang Heying can grasp the word-of-mouth counterattack and start marketing.

At this time, Zhang Heying was still sighing because of the loss of public opinion.

He still doesn't know that in the next few days, there will be many things for him to moan about.

*
When Lin You returned home, he immediately bought several copies of the classic VR games of Desert Island and Flying Fox, intending to try them out as well.

Through NetDragon's DLC this time, Lin You found that even if the role of equipment in exercising is excluded, VR games alone have merits.

So I plan to let Zhong Chang go to Desert Island and Feihu to talk about cooperation, so that their previous classic games can be put on the Yunmeng game platform.

With Yunmeng's current user base, it is absolutely possible to bring them huge traffic.

Although playing VR games in the virtual world, the effect of exercise is completely lost...

Moreover, under this intuitive comparison, the sense of immersion and experience that VR games used to rely on is undoubtedly directly crushed by virtual reality games, which also has some damage to the future potential.

But everything has gains and losses. While weakening the advantage, it is also an expansion of the player group. The final result must be much better than the situation they are facing now.

At least it can last for a few more months.

And this kind of cooperation, the cost that Yunmeng needs to pay is really very low, or to be more frank - almost no cost.

As long as the game is on the shelves and the data interface is connected, the rest is waiting for the money.

A lot of money.

Even if this goes well, we can go a step further, for example: compatibility with PC and console games.

Although, it is somewhat strange to put on the mirage, log in to the virtual world, and then use the mirage to control the real computer and play games on the computer without using the computer on the table.

But, um, players should have this demand, right?
Lin You pondered——

At least in the virtual world, no matter how long you play, players will not be short-sighted, tired, herniated discs, and will not be troubled by wrist pain, tendon inflammation and other problems.

Thinking about it this way, not only is there a need, it is just a need!
It's not even just the needs of gamers, many occupations that use computers to work, all of them are just needs, okay?

Moreover, the openness of the computer itself also determines that it is very simple to connect the computer and Mirage, and use the Mirage to control the computer, and there is no need to discuss cooperation with anyone, just be directly compatible!

It can be done!
*
Saturday.

Unshakable, Yunmeng once again launched a batch of [Mirage 2.0] consoles.

The number remains the same as last week: 2500 million units.

And there is a small change: the opening of cross-border purchasing rights in many countries in Southeast Asia.

This choice is because Yunmeng's supercomputing center in Yangcheng has been put into operation and can provide high-quality network services for players in Southeast Asian countries.

However, the efficiency of Southeast Asian countries is obviously not as good as Yunmeng, and the large-scale rollout of the mainframe will take at least mid-November.

So Lin You made an opening in advance to facilitate the impatient players to get in the car in advance.

Of course, buying a host through this channel is actually not cost-effective.

Waiting for the partners in their own country to collect the goods from Yunmeng, distribute the goods and sell them, the price will be lower.

——Especially the large number of first-generation mirage hosts that Daxia players took back by trade-in. After changing to the second-generation, basically all of them will be transferred here at a discount. It is very reasonable to be cheaper.

Whether to spend less money, or buy the latest console and play it quickly, they need to make their own choice.

Of course, in addition to the above reasons, there is another reason——

Lin You already clearly felt that the speed of new users in Daxia's country had slowed down considerably.

Although last week's hosts were still sold out smoothly, the 2500 million hosts only brought in 1500 million new users, and the rest were old hosts replaced with new ones.

According to Xiaomeng's calculations, if there are no unexpected circumstances, the number of users in Daxia's country may hit the ceiling at 2 million.

After all, no matter how good Mirage is, no matter how epoch-making, it is only an entertainment product, not a necessity of life like a mobile phone, or even a productivity tool like a computer.

Not everyone has to have it.

Under such circumstances, there are only two ways to maintain the growth rate.

One is to move itself from purely "entertainment equipment" to "productivity tools" and strive to swallow more office computer markets.

In this regard, "cloud computing" is just the beginning.

To truly build a "virtual computer" that can compare or even replace the effects of real computers is the goal that needs to be achieved in the future.

Another way is to explore foreign countries and open up more overseas player markets.

In this regard, Lin You was as cautious as ever, even a little cautious.

He plans to expand further after the expansion in Southeast Asia.

And this step of expansion will only build servers as much as possible, and will not build local production plants.

Of course, Lin You also knew very well that this might not be easy.

Some less powerful countries may not be difficult to do.

But for those with strong strength, even America and some powerful countries in Europe, if you don’t come to build factories, your equipment will not be allowed to enter the market at all.

After all, anyone with a discerning eye can see that compared with the existing game market, Mirage's advantages are completely destructive.

This is also the reason why Lin You often behaves more cautiously in Daxia.

——He is sure that what he brings is good, but he is not sure whether this thing can bring good influence from beginning to end, every link.

In this case, it is certainly better to be cautious than to make a big problem and then try to fix it.

Even so, it is impossible to make mistakes every step of the way.

Just like now, a large number of anchors who broadcast VR games before have experienced a significant decline in physical fitness just because they have played virtual reality games for several months.

Such an obvious contrast, of course, cannot be ignored by netizens.

It is even more impossible to be ignored by the media with a keen sense of smell.

During the day yesterday, "the body is weak", it was just the audience teasing the anchor's playful behavior.

At night, it has become a social issue that the media is vying for attention and discussing seriously.

Up to now, the scale of the discussion has expanded to the point where it cannot be ignored.