Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 269: 267: Not Admitting Defeat?

Translator: 549690339

Casual clothes or doll skin suits?

This is not just a matter of clothing.

In terms of comfort, of course, it’s better to wear casual clothes. However, compared to casual clothes, doll skin suits have very obvious advantages:

The most obvious one is that as part of the competition rewards, various skin suit appearances, colors, and outfits can greatly enrich the depth of rewards.

In order to get a desired appearance, players can repeatedly enter the competition venue, striving for a good-looking appearance.

Once they successfully get the appearance, they will also enter the competition venue to show off to strangers and inspire them to work harder for it.

This forms a virtuous circle.

Even a pay-to-win element can be added if necessary.

The second point is that having all players wear thick one-piece skin suits can greatly narrow the gap in athletic ability, further promoting fair competition.

There is no doubt that even with the same physical quality, differences in athletic nerve and body coordination will make a huge difference in the players’ actual performance.

It might be difficult to make players who are not good at sports stronger, but it is very easy to prevent players with top-level sports nerves from performing well!

This will also greatly reduce the seriousness of the competition, add more entertainment, and greatly reduce the frustration of the players after being eliminated.

If, in the beginning, Lincoln thought players should wear casual clothes, by now, his heart’s balance has begun to tilt towards doll skin suits.

Even better, he immediately thought: this also solves the problem of physical contact between players!

Unless male and female competition venues are separated, the physical collisions between players on the crowded race track will always be a problem that needs to be taken seriously.

—Lincoln is not willing to set up transparent barriers between players.

In games like “Assassins’ Alliance” where players do not touch each other often, it’s not a problem, but in games like Fall Guys where people are constantly squeezed together, the air wall is too immersive!

Everyone is playing water games, and suddenly they are bounced away by the AT field. Isn’t that absurd?

Moreover, even if the male and female competition venues are separated, what about lesbian and homosexual players?

How can you be sure that there are no sex maniacs among lesbian and homosexual players?

And the solution to all this is so simple—just put all the players in thick doll skin suits!

Every problem is solved with ease.

“OK! Mavis, let’s get moving!” Once the idea is set, it’s time to get started.

Lincoln and Mavis begin to work on the game with enthusiasm.

Mavis starts constructing the race track, enlarging Lincoln’s memory of the miniature cartoon race tracks to the appropriate proportion, adjusting to the size suitable for real people to play.

Lincoln, on the other hand, first perfects the rules, such as matching mechanism, elimination mechanism, and reward mechanism, etc.

After doing this, they both work together to adjust the difficulty of the race track.

With the division of labor, progress is remarkably fast!

If all goes well, by the end of the day, a closed beta version can be made and sent for approval right away!

The next day, let the employees take half a day off from work, run the race track together, test the effect, and give suggestions.

On the third day, invite some players for a small-scale closed beta.

With his always-green super channel for reviews, the game’s review and rating should be completed within the day.

On Thursday, release a trailer to remind the players.

By Friday, the game can be launched directly!

This is the efficiency when Lincoln and Mavis combine their powers!

Of course, the later operation and maintenance, and more appearance design, will need employees to take over.

Neither Lincoln nor Mavis is particularly good at this aspect…

Mavis can instantly generate countless different appearances, which are mostly modifications and adjustments to some existing templates.

Original designs are not impossible, but Mavis’ understanding of aesthetics might be a bit advanced…

And not quite suitable for direct use in the game.

At the same time, players are paying attention to when “Old Man Talks About Games” will admit defeat.

In the players’ simple view, admitting defeat to Lincoln is just a matter of time.

As an uploader on the same website, “Roooooobert” as the only one who was removed from Lincoln’s blacklist, even specifically opened a voting event, asking fans to guess when this person will admit defeat. 90% of the netizens cast their votes for option one: [12 hours]

6% of the netizens chose option two: [one day]

3% of the netizens chose option three: [three days]

And as for the last option four: [Real men fight to the end], only 1% of netizens chose that.

It’s just that most of the onlookers underestimated people’s luck mentality, especially when facing a strong financial temptation.

Lawrence, the owner of the “Old Man Talks About Games” account, sat in his rental house, facing the computer monitor with bloodshot eyes, still staring at the account’s backend and refreshing it from time to time.

He was still stuck in a fierce psychological struggle.

After being blacklisted by Cloud Dream yesterday, he was so panicked that he almost took down the video directly.

But after hesitating for only a few minutes, he saw tens of thousands of new paid records appearing in the background in a short time, which meant more than 100,000 in sales!

This made his hand that was about to delete the video suddenly stall in place.

This pause was fatal, as the number of paying users for the video surged, and every minute, dozens or even hundreds of new users paid and clicked on the video to watch.

Take down the video?

At this point, Lawrence had no heart to do it!

When Cloud Dream sent the lawyer’s letter, he was indeed panicked.

But looking at the skyrocketing views due to the lawyer’s letter and the sales that spiked up to 5 million in a short period, he really couldn’t bear to let go!

Every time he thought about taking down the video and giving up the subsequent potential income of a few million, Lawrence felt a painful twitch in his heart.

He had never seen so much easy money in his life!

And he asked himself: if he missed this opportunity to make a fortune in one fell swoop, would there be a second chance in his life?

As for the risks…

Aren’t these kinds of videos made by countless accounts all over the internet?

Thousands of accounts all over the web are using your video material, but you don’t sue them, you’re just suing me?!

I think you’re just targeting me!

In Lawrence’s shallow legal understanding, it was just “quoting” some publicly available video material, so it shouldn’t be a big deal.

You’ve published it publicly, so why can’t I use it?

Similar issues on Bilibili have never been rare, especially for video uploaders who haven’t reached the top, many of whom have no copyright protection awareness at all.

If no one comes to find fault, then everything will be fine.

If their luck isn’t good and someone finds fault, they just need to post an apology and pay for it with a few thousand at most.

If Cloud Dream really wants to sue, it’s just a matter of compensation, right?

Then pay for it!

Anyway, this wave can earn a few million, even if he has to pay up to a few hundred thousand, he can still bear the cost, considering it as protection money!

He did not consider the situation of “confiscation of illegal gains” after being sued, simply because he had never seen such a precedent before.

In the complex mood of ecstasy and worry, Lawrence had no sleepiness at all, staring at the backend data for a whole night without sleep, and spent most of Monday morning in entanglement.

So netizens were quite surprised to find out: he’s not backing down?

This guy is really stubborn!

12 hours had long passed! The video was even heading towards one million views!

But even with Cloud Dream’s warning, he didn’t take down the video, he didn’t even respond!

It wasn’t until a certain moment in the afternoon that Lawrence suddenly noticed that the data in the backend had ceased to change.

After a brief confusion, he noticed that the account had received an official message.

He opened the highlighted system message with unease and found that it was a long “violation reminder.”

The format was rigorous, the language polite, and it was full of meaningless courtesies.

But if translated into plain language, it could be summarized in a few sentences:

“Many viewers have reported that your video infringes their rights, and when we checked, we found that it indeed infringes rights! It’s really careless! But

since the matter has become so big, we have no choice but to deal with it seriously – the video is removed, and the illegal income will be refunded in full to the users’ accounts.”

Lawrence read each word and sentence, and the illusion of getting rich overnight in his heart burst like a soap bubble.

He suddenly felt exhausted all over.

So he stood up without a word, didn’t turn off the computer, walked to the bed and lay down, turning over and curling up in the blanket, falling asleep in exhaustion.

At the same time, the players who had been paying attention to the situation soon found the official announcement.

And the video had already been taken down by the authorities.

Roooooobert immediately made a post to celebrate:

‘Who’d have thought, the uploader didn’t back down, but the platform gave in first!’

But before the netizens could comment, the post suddenly disappeared…