Xu Meng stopped and began to eavesdrop without making a sound.
After a while, he pieced together the general situation from the players' conversations:
This was an offline organization centered around the Dream Building Game Experience Center.
They were all players who frequently came to the Experience Center, and they were particularly obsessed with the most hardcore [Infernal Purgatory] mode in 《Kings of War》.
Meeting every day, they quickly became familiar with each other.
Creating a group chat, coming up with a group name, and expanding the group were all natural progressions.
Thus, the 【Iron Blood Legion】 was born.
After Dream Building officially announced the Global Confrontation Tournament, this group started preparing early, determined to win a place.
They were intensely playing team battles almost every day, improving their teamwork while selecting commanders and squad leaders in battle.
The competition seemed to be very fierce.
Xu Meng even heard about amazing operations such as "private vote-buying", "buying skins for group members", "treating teammates to dinner as bribes", and "hiring professional players to snipe competitors in the game".
The more he listened, the more interested he became.
It wasn't until the people chatting got up to change into their sensory synchronization suits that Xu Meng left with lingering interest.
This reminded him of one thing:
After the rules of the 《Kings of War》 Global Confrontation Tournament were announced, he originally thought that a team of 50 people was too large, and players would look for organizations and recruit members online.
Now it seemed that the establishment of offline teams might not be as convenient and fast as online teams, but in terms of overall combat effectiveness and the tightness of team member connections, it far exceeded online teams!
— Although the members of this 【Iron Blood Legion】 were "openly fighting and secretly scheming" for the positions of commander and squad leader, doing all kinds of outrageous things.
But after everyone knew about it, they still laughed when they talked about it.
Obviously, it wasn't real infighting, just using this matter to create fun and amusement.
The team atmosphere was excellent.
This situation also made Xu Meng determined—
The Experience Center model could be liberalized.
Since Dream Building opened game experience centers in various provinces across the country and overseas, it had successively received a large number of cooperation applications.
Especially after the Global Confrontation Tournament was confirmed, the number of similar applications had expanded several times over.
Whether in China or overseas, there were many companies and individuals inquiring, wanting to "join" the Dream Building Game Experience Center.
They all realized the business opportunity:
A full set of Illusionary Scenery game equipment was relatively expensive and required enough space, which meant that many players could not afford it.
This was an obvious user demand.
Dream Building's Experience Centers didn't make money because Xu Meng didn't want to make this money, but that didn't mean that opening this kind of store couldn't make money.
Moreover, with the Global Confrontation Tournament, players had an extremely strong social need in addition to "experiencing the game".
This was obviously an excellent opportunity to acquire original customers!
Previously, Xu Meng had been hesitant.
He was worried that a bunch of people would use Dream Building's name, and if something happened, the negative impact would be too great.
But today's events changed his mind.
Franchising was unnecessary.
But supporting the opening of Experience Centers was entirely possible.
After returning to the company from the Experience Store, he began planning to establish a special team to connect with these companies and individuals who planned to open Experience Centers.
On the one hand, to provide them with support in terms of supply and maintenance, and on the other hand, to provide training in terms of technology and software.
By the way, Xu Meng also paid attention to the progress of the Global Confrontation Tournament.
If the competition received a good response, it would not be impossible to continue holding the second and third tournaments in the future.
At that time, this event alone could support at least a thousand Experience Centers around the world.
When holographic displays and dream-making machines were mass-produced in the future, and these Experience Centers were guided to do some mixed reality transformations, this number would be even more exaggerated.
At that time, these merchants who relied on Dream Building for their livelihood, and the players who were accustomed to social entertainment in the Experience Centers, would become Dream Building's most steadfast supporters!
Xu Meng ran to the newly established event department and greatly encouraged the employees.
Early the next morning, he ran to the Lingzhou Studio.
Congratulations to Li Yunchuan and Zhou Ning, their studio's first work—《Evil Ghost!》 had achieved great success.
But when he arrived on the scene, there was not much joy in the office.
Instead, everyone was sitting in front of the computer working with a bitter and resentful look.
"What's wrong with you guys...?" Xu Meng asked in confusion.
Li Yunchuan smiled bitterly: "Fixing game bugs..."
"Game bugs?" Xu Meng was a little surprised, "Are there many?"
Lingzhou Studio made games very seriously, and the player reputation was also very good, so it shouldn't be full of bugs.
Li Yunchuan smiled even more bitterly: "It can't be completely said to be bugs..."
"It's mainly due to lack of experience. When developing the VR version of the game, we directly used Dream Building's engine, which led to too much freedom for the players."
In order to achieve the ultra-high degree of freedom and interactive props of 《Kings of War》, the Dream Building development team, led by the genius programmer Li Xingyun, conducted in-depth engine optimization.
In the end, relying on the amazing work efficiency of the intelligent partners, they almost rewrote the entire engine.
When 《Evil Ghost!》 was VR-ized, it used this engine.
When they used it, they almost couldn't help but exclaim, this engine was too powerful and too convenient!
But now, when they saw that players could freely control every finger and every part of their limbs, easily breaking through the system framework they had set, they realized that this convenience and power came at a price.
Players using PC to play the game had a fixed movement speed and no combat ability at all.
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It was impossible to suddenly accelerate and sprint like Longcheng Flying General, wielding a hammer to fight the evil ghost for three hundred rounds.
— The development team didn't design a combat system at all.
But Dream Building's deeply modified engine, combined with the body dynamic capture of the Illusionary Scenery game equipment, naturally gave players a very high degree of freedom.
Allowing players to bring many abilities from reality into the game.
This caused many unexpected situations to occur.
Even the fact that players could pat the female ghost's butt or touch the female ghost's body was considered a bug by Li Yunchuan and the others—
The female ghost materialized at the moment of attack, which was to hurt the player, not to be molested by the player!!
For players, this kind of thing was popular and very interesting.
But for the development team, it was a headache that they were about to explode.
They didn't even bother to celebrate and started working overtime frantically, wanting to correct these problems.
But Xu Meng had a different opinion: "Since they are not malicious bugs and players like them, why change them?"
"Huh?" Li Yunchuan didn't expect Xu Meng to react this way.
"What's so surprising about this?" Xu Meng said unexpectedly, "Don't you know that even now, in the 【Dragon Palace Treasure】 gameplay, Huo Huo may still get stuck in the wall?"
"If players like it, then let them play it."
"Making players happy is not a bad thing."
Li Yunchuan was stunned.
After a moment, he blinked, as if waking up from a dream:
"Seems like... yes?"
He valued this game too much!
So much so that he was confused by concern and fell into a mindset.
Seeing that the way players played the game was completely different from what the development team expected, he subconsciously felt that there was a problem and should be corrected quickly.
After Xu Meng reminded him, he realized:
Why must players play the game in the way they have set up?
It was enough for the players to be willing to buy and play!
The way they play it doesn't matter at all!
Li Yunchuan took a deep breath in place, and his tense spirit suddenly relaxed.
His frowning brows loosened, and he no longer spoke anxiously: "I'll call a meeting later to re-evaluate which problems need to be changed and which don't need to be addressed."
"Speaking of which, is Boss Xu here to congratulate us?"
"Of course." Xu Meng nodded, but immediately added, "But in addition to congratulations, there is also another thing I want to ask if you are interested in."
"What's the matter?" Li Yunchuan was of course interested.
Standing in front of him was an investor and platform provider, and Li Yunchuan was very aware—no matter what Xu Meng wanted to say, he had to be interested.
"Do you know about the virtual city?"
"Of course I know!" Li Yunchuan's eyes lit up.
"Then are you interested in opening a haunted house in the virtual city?" Xu Meng went straight to the point.
"??" Li Yunchuan never expected the topic to develop in this direction.
But after a brief moment of shock, he agreed without hesitation:
"Interested! Of course I'm interested! Super interested!!!"
Which game producer doesn't look forward to the first truly meaningful virtual city?
Doesn't yearn to leave their creation in this virtual world?!
After Li Yunchuan nodded frantically, he couldn't help but ask: "Is the virtual city about to open?"
Xu Meng nodded: "If there are no accidents, it will be on the first of next month."
"If it doesn't open again, players will rush in themselves."
