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【18:00】

Yunmeng game platform, "My World" game division.

[Purchase game] The option finally lights up, and the price is officially announced - 200 yuan.

As in the past, Yunmeng continued to adopt the outrageous integer pricing in the game industry, no, not only in the game industry, but also in many industries.

Not 198, not 199, or a neat 200 yuan.

The game was also sold before: 500 yuan.

Monthly card: 30 yuan.

It's all integers anyway.

Because of this, many people firmly believe that: Lin You definitely has obsessive-compulsive disorder!

But in the eyes of players, as long as you lower the price, everyone is a good friend.

Even if there is obsessive-compulsive disorder, it is a good obsessive-compulsive disorder!

In the VR era, seven or eight hundred yuan for games has become the norm. Lin You Mingming came up with an epoch-making virtual reality game, but not only did not increase the price, but also lowered the price to 500 yuan. Everyone is very happy.

Now it is directly lowered to 200 yuan, so thank Dade directly, okay?

But while the players were happy, many game practitioners directly broke their defenses——

Your virtual reality masterpieces all sell for 200 yuan. How can you let us sell games on PCs and home consoles for 400 to 500 yuan?

Is it too much? !

Immediately, there were many complaints and strange voices on the Internet.

Some people even started sending emails to Yunmeng and writing short essays, urging them to think twice.

But this time they were simply overthinking.

In order to expand the number of users as much as possible and explore the age of users, Lin You did take the initiative to lower the price.

But this does not mean that he has not considered the issue of income—whether it is considering the healthy development of the industry or the income of the company's development team members, it is destined that he cannot act recklessly.

Fortunately, "My World" has a natural way to generate income.

Although "Minecraft" itself can be played by one person, in essence, this game has extremely strong social attributes.

In the previous games, everyone's online activities were basically realized in the official server provided by Yunmeng.

Only in this way has hundreds of thousands of people easily connected online.

So much so that most players have overlooked one thing-the mirage host has a limit.

If you don't open the public online mode, use your own host as a server, and invite friends to play, the upper limit is actually very low.

Many people have probably forgotten: In the earliest release of "League of Assassins", the upper limit of the number of players online is only 10 people.

This is not the limit of Mirage, but it is the most suitable number to ensure a perfect gaming experience.

Now after a round of host upgrades, coupled with a surge in the total number of players, the fuzzy computing power provided has also increased rapidly, which has raised the upper limit a lot, but even so, 50 people will approach the danger line.

Considering that this is still the data of healthy adults, Lin You has always controlled the number of local online players to be no more than 10.

The recently released "Hunter: Call of the Wild" still maintains a maximum of 8 players.

If you think about it more, you can only enter the online server.

But in the future, in the "Minecraft" game, many people will not be satisfied with playing with a dozen or so people.

Especially after unlocking [Creative Mode], players can set up their own world as they like, but after setting up the world, they must invite people to play, right?

At this time, Yunmeng generously provided a free server with a capacity of up to 50 players.

For ordinary players, it is definitely enough!

As for the uncommon players who think they are not enough?

Then... I'm sorry.

100-person server configuration, 100 yuan a year.

1000 server configuration, 1000 yuan a year.

10,000-person server configuration, 10,000 yuan a year!

The price is clearly marked, no one is cheating, and... it's really a bargain!

For a little money, you can play God in your world!

Obviously, the higher the specification package, the less the actual usage will be. But to make up for the reduced price, Lin You felt that the possibility was still very high.

If you want to make money, make money from kryptonites! People don't care about these three melons and two dates.

——Are you right, Chasing the Wind?

However, outsiders naturally don't know about this kind of mid-to-late period.

The players just shouted Yunmeng's conscience while rushing into the game.

After purchasing "My World", not only the player's personal login space, but also a new login option - "My World".

At the same time, in the playground of "Paradise", next to the candy-style portal of [Candy Track], there is also a block-style portal.

Countless players selected [My World] without hesitation and started to log in.

But the closed beta players immediately discovered that they did not enter the game world immediately, but were floating in the air, and the edges of the flowing clouds far and near were square.

Two options presented themselves to them:

【Personal World】【Public World】

Obviously, you have to choose one of the two to log into the game.

Super Tomato looked at this new process and was not in a hurry to choose. Instead, out of habit, he first read the system prompts for the two options.

[Personal World]: The player's main world, running locally on the Mirage host, currently only [Survival Mode] can be selected.

[Creative Mode] Unlocking, unlock countdown: 71 hours and 58 minutes.

In [Creative Mode], players can obtain game administrator privileges, unlock more game modes, or deeply customize their personal game world.

Lin You packaged and integrated the Adventure Mode and Extreme Mode into the [Creative Mode], and it is up to the player to choose whether to enable it or not.

Super Tomato looked at the words "deeply customize the personal game world", and his imagination ran wild.

But looking at the time, it will only be unlocked next Monday, so I looked at another option——

[Public World]: The server automatically generates a map that can accommodate 100,000 players to play together. If the number of players exceeds 100,000, the next public world will be automatically opened.

(Current number of public worlds: 31)

The optional [Public World] function is being unlocked, and the countdown to unlocking is 71 hours and 58 minutes. (Currently, cross-world games can only be played through the friend invitation or team invitation function.)

Remarks: The public world of "Minecraft" is not a safe mode, the system does not provide security, you may encounter anything here! Be sure to mentally prepare yourself before entering.

Super Tomato looked at the big and bold [Remarks], as if it had already smelled a bloody storm that was coming.

To be fair, Super Tomato's original live broadcast plan was to attract some fans and divide them into the Forbidden City.

But when I saw this excitement, I was immediately moved.

He asked the audience in the live broadcast room: "Why don't we join in the fun?"

This is completely superfluous!

"Must go! Hurry up!"

"It's not human if you don't go!"

"I don't know what this game is about, and I don't know what to do, I just know that I want to kill!"

...

So Super Tomato threw away all the psychological burdens and simply chose [Public World].

This is by no means an isolated case. In fact, almost all anchors have chosen [Public World].

After all, with the level of "100,000 people", it is easy to create program effects at a glance.

In order to join in the fun, most players also flocked to the [Public World], resulting in a rapid increase in the number of public worlds.

By the time Super Tomato successfully logged in, the number had already reached [61].

In other words, in just ten minutes, more than 6.1 million players have purchased and logged into the game!

Looking at [Number 61] on the panel, Super Tomato was quite shocked: "In just ten minutes, 6 million copies were sold?!"

"It's terrible!"

After landing, he didn't care about anything else, and immediately started pulling people.

Originally, I planned to wait for half an hour until the fans were familiar with the game before playing together.

It can't work now - he is afraid that if he takes a step too late, everyone will not be able to squeeze in!

Just like that, he began to pull people, but as he pulled, Super Tomato felt wrong again: "Why isn't it full yet?"

According to the growth rate of the public world number when he logged in, he thought that with five or six people at most, the world would be full.

But now, he has pulled in number 20 in a row, but he can still continue to pull people in, this is wrong!

"What world number were you before you came?" He turned his head and asked the team members.

"18."

"71."

"82!"

...

Fans responded enthusiastically.

But Super Tomatoes was completely lost: "So [100,000] is just the standard for dividing the server, not the upper limit of the number of servers?"

"How many people does Yunmeng plan to put into a server?"

"Also..." Super Tomato looked around, "It is clearly agreed that there are 100,000 people, why no matter which direction I look, there is no one else?"

"How big is this world??"

The answer is: super invincible big.

Anyway, it is randomly generated by algorithm according to specific rules, and Yunmeng employees don't need to build it themselves, and there is no pressure for everyone to set the scale.

Super Tomato divided the rights of the group members, and after everyone pulled 107 people in, Super Tomato quickly stopped.

With himself, there are now a total of 108 people, which is already a lot.

The next thing is-

"Brothers, it's time to roll the tree!"

108 players lined up in a long line, facing one direction, and began to pluck trees like a carpet.

He quickly synthesized an ax through the game panel and upgraded it to chopping trees.

Going forward, a wooden pickaxe appears.

Continue to move forward and upgrade to stone axes and stone picks one after another.

There are more than one hundred people walking without turning at all. They cut down the trees when they encounter forests, hollow out rocks when they encounter hills, and push them across the road like locusts passing through.

Many people here have not participated in the internal test, and they don't know what materials are useful and what materials are temporarily useless.

In addition, it is the first time to own a system backpack, and the materials can be superimposed casually, so naturally you can collect what you have. Not to mention rocks, even dirt has to be stuffed into the backpack, and I don't dislike it at all.

It is too polite to describe it as not even a blade of grass grows. It is clear that even the land has to be scraped three layers!

In the Super Tomato live broadcast room, the audience was also amazed at the momentum of moving mountains and filling seas:

"If Yugong had them as his helpers, it would only take one week to travel to Wangwu and Taihang, so how could it take 60 years to move?!"