Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 265: 263: Expanding Overseas

Translator: 549690339

Undoubtedly, players were dumbfounded the moment they saw this trailer disguised as a tourist advertisement for the new game!

Originally, everyone was watching the Metropolitan News, focusing only on the news related to the game.

It was just at the end of the program, due to the somewhat ambiguous “City Traffic” news, everyone started to speculate about its meaning.

But before they could guess much, they were hit in the face out of nowhere by this bombshell from Cloud Dream!

They were not prepared at all!

Shortly after their moment of shock, the players immediately got excited!

And it wasn’t just ordinary excitement, they were so excited that they felt their blood boiling, as if there was a fire burning in their hearts, eager to know more!

This fervor quickly spread to the comments and the comment section.

The players kept rewinding the progress bar, watching this “promotional clip” over and over again, unable to suppress the excitement and desire in their hearts.

“A new city! A new map! Completely different style!”

“New game! I don’t care! No matter what, it’s a new game today!”

“Yeah! Didn’t the Pure Gentleman go to the bar for some insights too! It must be for this!”

“I don’t care! I want to know all the news about this game today!”

“Where is the know-it-all guy?! Where is the uncle?! Come and analyze! Come and spoil it!”

As with all the commotion, players started to have fun with it:

“Uncle is here! Let me share an absolutely accurate message: in the new game, there is a dog with a very important role!”

“That’s obvious? Do you think we didn’t know that?!”

“It’s all connected! Everything is connected! The new game must let us play a wanderer in Citv, who finds a Strav doz and is healed. He chooses to leave his past decadent life and uses his savings to open a dog café, healing the lost and lonely souls in Night City!”

“So, the new game is a warm and healing game incorporating simulation management, pet grooming and episodic narrative elements?”

“Yes, yes, yes!”

“I almost believed it, really!”

In an instant, the discussion about the new game completely overshadowed the discussion about the match.

All kinds of wild guesses were flying around.

The marketing channels on various platforms immediately followed up, posting a few screenshots and starting to speculate.

Video marketing channels were no exception. They downloaded clips about Night City, played them on a loop while talking nonsense to fill up the time, and then submitted them as homemade drafts to make a quick buck from the traffic.

That would have been fine, and Lincoln didn’t bother to care.

But what was even more outrageous was a marketing channel called “Old Man Talks About Games”. Without obtaining any authorization from Cloud Dream, they uploaded the video and made it a paid video, charging their fans for access.

It cost 10 dollars to watch!

What’s even more outrageous is that the video, taking advantage of the hype, reached 30,000 views in a very short time!

This means that in just a short time, this video generated a whopping 300,000 in sales!

Even after the platform’s cut, there was no doubt that this was a huge profit.

Of course, as the old saying goes, for every gift that fate gives you, it secretly marks a price.

Lincoln doesn’t know what price fate has marked for this marketing channel, but whatever it is, he thinks it’s too slow and plans to ask Lawyer Luke to expedite it for him.

“Mavis! Time for work! We can now update our blacklist!”

“Yay!”Mavis was overjoyed and immediately updated the blacklist.

This is just the beginning, the owner of this account will receive a lawyer’s letter from Cloud Dream tomorrow morning.

And then, depending on his residence address and the administrative process of the relevant department, a court subpoena will also be delivered within two to three days.

After Lincoln’s original incident of “sending a lawyer’s letter to 10 million people”, sending lawyer’s letters on the Internet has truly lost its deterrent power.

But it also depends on the person!

Lincoln’s fiery temper, along with his track record of battling with the media, was well known to all.

The lawyers’ letters he sent seriously, were completely different in their deterrent power.

—Because everyone knew that Lincoln always followed through on his word!

Players enthusiastically discussed for most of the night. Just when they were about to take a break, Lincoln once again updated his media blacklist, exciting the players once more.

Especially when the players noticed that the media outlet “Old Man Talks

About Games”, which had made it onto the blacklist, had been blacklisted by Lincoln for creating a paid video that “predicted the new game from Cloud Dream”.

This was big news!

You should know, players are a group of individuals with extremely strong curiosity, especially at this point in time, they are craving for any news about the new game.

This led to an even crazier incident: countless players, even though they knew it was probably nonsense from a marketing channel, still couldn’t help but spend 10 dollars, wanting to see what was said, whether they were blacklisted by Lincoln because they correctly guessed the key content of the new game. Anyway, 10 dollars isn’t a lot, just enough to satisfy their curiosity!

This resulted in the video’s views soaring.

By the time Mavis noticed this issue, the paid video had already surpassed 200,000 views.

Lincoln had no choice but to contact Luke in the middle of the night, not waiting for the workday, he urgently sent out the lawyer’s letter.

He made it clear to everyone that the reason for the blacklist was because this marketing channel unauthorizedly used Cloud Dream’s video to profit, infringing on Cloud Dream’s intellectual property rights.

Seeing this lawyer’s letter, the players with normal thinking calmed down naturally.

But players with unusual ways of thinking were different, they thought: Cloud Dream must be feeling guilty! The next step would be to contact the platform to delete this “inside info” video, I need to hurry up and watch it! Not only do I have to watch it, but I also have to download it!

As a result, Lincoln, sitting on his bed in his pajamas, watched as the number of people buying this video kept soaring, rising toward the 500,000 mark, suddenly feeling a bit tired.

“Forget it, let it ruin everything.” Lincoln tossed his phone away, turned over and fell asleep.

And he slept soundly until daybreak.

During the process of washing and cleaning, Mavis, as always full of energy, happily told him: last night, the news about Cloud Dream successfully dominated the hot search list.

Counting the matter of the marketing channel, at the peak time, Cloud Dream occupied a full five of the top ten hot searches.

Even the steady sales curve of the Mirage Console had suddenly surged a lot.

At the same time, she couldn’t help but ask: “Master, should we expand our production line?”

Lincoln thought about it, the money saved for buying the building was temporarily not needed.

The cost of assembling a team for Kyle to research and develop prosthetics, as well as to expand the production line of prosthetics, was being spent at a rate far less than the speed at which he was making money.

Looking at it this way, it is possible to expand the production line.

Moreover, after the team expands, the output of content will increase again, hence making it the right time to venture into overseas channels.

“Let Zhou Jingzheng know, prepare to expand our production scale.” Lincoln began to instruct Mavis, “Also, Mavis, check our emails again, filter out emails from the vassal states of Izumo and Baekje, see if there are any we can cooperate with. ”

Izumo and Baekje, being vassal states of Daxia, have history dating back several hundred years.

Not only is their cultural origin deeply influenced by Daxia, more importantly, their national communications, industry, internet and other infrastructure, were basically developed with the help of Daxia.

They are adhering to Daxia’s standards in full.

For players from Izumo and Baekje, it is much easier to enter Cloud Dream’s server to play games compared to players from America and Europe!

At least the internet standards are the same, there are no distinct barriers keeping them out.

In other words, if Cloud Dream wants to set up servers there, there will be virtually no obstacles.

Lincoln’s goal is to select a distributor to help sell consoles.

As for vital aspects such as servers and player data, Lincoln would never allow any foreign companies to get involved!

Not even if it’s a vassal state! No matter how obedient they are!