Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 245 - 245: 243: Real Estate and Gold Rush

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Fred’s assurance left Lincoln a little stunned.

“No, you got it wrong,” Lincoln quickly shook his head, “I’m not telling you

guys to work overtime, overtime is not an option.”

“Then the schedule might be a bit tight, ” Fred frowned slightly.

Lincoln was speechless. “I just wanted to show you a ridiculous guess from a player for fun. Development plans don’t need to be changed, just stick to the original pace, we’re already fast enough.”

“In that case, should we refute the rumor? So that players’ expectations won’t be raised too high, and when they can’t wait for one month, they’ll urge us again,” Fred asked Lincoln.

Lincoln looked at Fred puzzledly. What’s there to refute about this wild guess from a player?

However, Lincoln blinked and realized that this was Fred’s first time being the main person in charge of a game project, so it was normal for him to feel pressured.

So he didn’t object, but left the choice to Fred.

After all, Fred was bound to take on major responsibilities sooner or later, and the “Speed Chase” project was just the beginning.

“You’re the person in charge; you decide,” Lincoln said.

Leaving a troubled Fred behind, Lincoln began working on the Continental

Hotel in “Speed Chase.”

It had to both be in line with the Continental Hotel from “Assassin’s Creed” and bring out some new ideas.

These new ideas had to be reflected not only in decoration and layout, but also in adding some explorable content, allowing players to have more fun in the game.

That made the situation much more complicated.

Decoration and layout required the involvement of beauticians.

In fact, the beauticians at Dream Cloud Studio had already become somewhat different from traditional ones.

Many beauticians’ daily learning and improvement were no longer focused on drawing, but on architecture design, interior decoration, and display arrangement.

Even Little Chun led the recruitment of several architectural designers, senior decoration designers, and interns from related fields for the beauticians.

The birth of virtual reality games was having a lasting and profound impact on many professions.

The employees of Dream Cloud Studio were also constantly adjusting their direction of self-improvement based on their work experience, enhancing their abilities in various aspects to meet the needs of their work.

Fortunately, the daily work hours at Dream Cloud weren’t too long, leaving everyone with ample personal time.

As long as you were willing, you could allocate some time to learning knowledge you were interested in and venture into unfamiliar fields.

As for the design of explorable content, it required the involvement of game system planners and level designers.

Unsurprisingly, these people were also studying architectural design…

It was because the once-common game mechanism designs now seemed very unreasonable in the virtual world.

For example, a common design from the past: a thick stone gate hidden in a basement that would automatically open.

It wasn’t difficult to create, but it was challenging to create it in a reasonable, non-abrupt way that players wouldn’t find ridiculous when they encountered it…

After all, being immersed in the environment and viewing through a display felt very different.

In a highly realistic environment, suddenly encountering an intuitive, unreasonable design could easily break a player’s immersion.

The traps and mechanisms had to consider their basis for realization. They didn’t have to be 100% realistic, but at least players shouldn’t easily spot their flaws.

On Monday, the number of players participating in the Freedom Day event and fighting in the virtual battlefield of Metropolis was much lower than during the weekend.

One reason for this was the influence of the first day of the workweek, but another factor was that today was the first day of the dynamic real estate system being online.

Many players didn’t even care about the competition and eagerly entered Metropolis to check whether the prices of their houses rose or fell.

Of course, even on the day with the fewest players, there were still a whopping

1.4 million players participating.

There were also quite a few players who tried to use “reverse thinking” and specifically signed up on this day.

Xu Chun and Roger also participated in the competition today.

Xu Chun, with his high artistic skill and fearless attitude, chose to randomly match with teammates.

On the other hand, Roger contacted some retired players who still had enthusiasm for the competition, and they formed a team called the “Returning Warriors” to make a comeback.

Unlike Xu Chun’s easygoing attitude, this team had high expectations for their performance and even underwent intense training to improve their coordination.

This veteran team was quickly marked as a key focus by Mavis and recommended to the director team.

The director team immediately switched to the main screen of their live broadcast room to show them.

Ren Jian took a look and thought, ‘This is it!’

He had felt very embarrassed before by Cloud Dream’s tactics. He was seen as an unprofessional outsider, but now things were different!

As a professional commentator, he could recognize these retired players just by their faces, not to mention their IDs!

He could even list their classic competitions, records, and personalities for the audience!

It was time to show the professionalism of an expert commentator!

Ren Jian and Zara took turns introducing the players to the audience.

Many familiar viewers continuously sent comments like “The return of the king” in the chatroom, looking forward to their resurgence and their dominance in the competition.

Contrary to the fierce competition in the virtual battlefield, the Metropolis outside of the event enjoyed a rare moment of peace.

Players were studying the “dynamic real estate investment system”.

They were surprised to find that after the system update, not only could they directly buy, sell, and rent properties through the panel, but even previously inaccessible commercial locations could now be purchased!

The openness of the gameplay increased, bringing them one step closer to owning the Metropolis.

As for the price fluctuations, there wasn’t much change – the areas around the Central Park in the city have always been prime locations, and the housing prices remained strong, even experiencing small increases.

It must be added that the Central Park in the Metropolis is not like the one in reality, which is a standard rectangular shape in New York.

Instead, the Central Park in the Metropolis is an irregular ellipse with a gap.

The gap extends inwards, forming the Central Square, which is almost enclosed by Central Park.

Players dressed in camouflage clothes hiding in the woods, waiting to ambush others, were a common sight during the previous two days of the competition. There were even exciting scenes where hidden players were stalking each other, using cold weapons in a thrilling game of hunting and counter-hunting in the woods.

It’s almost reminiscent of the movie “First Blood”.

Back to the topic, the real estate investment system greatly increased players’ desire to buy more properties.

As a result, the practice of “buying gold” – which never really took off in “Assassin’s Alliance” – finally appeared on a large scale!

Previously, players could easily earn virtual currency in the Metropolis by robbing a bank and getting millions of virtual coins, but there were few places to spend it.

So, there wasn’t much of a gold-buying trend.

Now that the real estate investment system was released, the demand for “buying gold” skyrocketed!

This led to the emergence of “gold farming” players, and soon there might be a large number of “gold farming” studios.

The only limitation is that Mirage consoles are limited, with each person only being allowed to buy one. Studios wanting to gather equipment would need to let their employees use their own consoles and even purchase them using their own IDs, making it quite troublesome.

Moreover, since each person can only log in using one account, the best way to improve gold farming efficiency is toImprove their gaming skills!

The higher the skill, the faster you can rob a bank!