Chapter 280 Reverse Operation
The stir caused by this update announcement was predictable.
The players' reactions were also very intense.
Of course, the players did not cheer and celebrate. On the contrary, on the official forum of "Alien World", many players who were not online yet or had used up their game time for the day were already blasting excitedly:
"Fuck! It's been so long since I updated, and now you give me this?!"
"When will the planner be a decent person? Can't you just organize some welfare activities during the New Year? Even if you open a mall, it's better than doing this hellish thing!"
"The production team, I kneel down to your whole family, please sell the new account in the mall, don't mess with your father's liver!"
"Rankings, damn it, can you give some earthly standards, like how many territory reputations are needed to get a new account? Can a normal person compare with a rich guy like La Hong, or a jerk like Ji Tang? They can't even see the exhaust of a car, brother!"
…Obviously, the players are not stupid…
This patch for version 1.09 seems to have opened up new content, as well as a great benefit of "playing games to redeem a new account." But after a little thought, no normal player can applaud - only the top three in territory reputation in the entire game can guarantee the position of mayor, which is really not something that ordinary people can afford.
As for the update that seems to give ordinary players great hope and allows them to apply for functional NPC positions if they rank in the top 100 in territory reputation in the entire game, it's all a trick - they are just eligible to apply, not 100% sure to pass. Who is this word game trying to fool!
To sum it up with the title of an angry post by a player: "They want to force players to gain reputation again, but they don't even give them any useful information!"
This so-called New Year welfare activity, which tried to crush the players' IQ and was a complete mess, caused collective dissatisfaction among the majority of players, but at least it gave hope to some cloud players who had been waiting for the third test in vain.
Posts full of dirty words asking for new accounts, such as "Change to new account for XXX out-of-print Gundam, looking for a modeler PY", "Young man in his twenties, can be both top and bottom", "Change account for the civil service establishment in Province X", "Change account for competition-level puppet with pictures", etc., stubbornly squeeze into the gaps between the rapidly refreshing posts.
The game "Alien World" has not been officially promoted since its second beta test was launched more than three months ago and 3,000 player accounts were released. However, its popularity on the Internet is not small at all, and its presence is even stronger than that of a global online game that spent countless amounts of money on marketing during the same period of public beta.
The reason is those screenshots of game videos that are leaked from time to time by 3,000 players, which have poor camera sense but no traces of PS.
When players were fighting against the Solari, hundreds of them recorded videos from their own perspectives and uploaded them to the Internet, where they circulated in every corner of the Internet.
The scene of the battle between the undead army and the knights riding on lizard horses and wearing sophisticated armor first went viral as "Bibo Man Legend", and was then compared by those with medieval battlefield scenes in Western movies, and was even edited into a passionate video with various background music.
Once players enter the "main city" of Innadili, all kinds of short videos of action and scenery are flying all over the place. Parkour videos of countless skeletons running on the rooftops of a medieval city in different editing styles have even been uploaded to the Internet and mistaken by foreign friends for movie promotions, game CG promotions, etc.
In short... although the official "Otherworld" has always insisted that it is a VR game, the people on Earth have narrowed the entry threshold to a touching and mysterious game with a mysterious production team that never shows up. It is generally recognized as a holographic masterpiece that is ahead of its time and has only appeared in novels and movies.
Some foreign friends with wild imaginations even thought that this was a "second world" technology secretly developed by the Chinese government, and even found various arguments to prove it...
Chinese people are not as keen on conspiracy theories as foreigners. Their attitude is very direct - they want to play!
I really want to play!
I really want to play!
Many people who didn't get an account during the second test, or who applied but didn't pass, have used all their tricks to find acquaintances who have accounts in the game, using both soft and hard methods to ask for accounts...
Even Yang Qiu's elder sister Yang Ying was asked to help her.
"No, listen to me, it's very difficult to gain territory reputation in this game. You can't just get into the top 100 whenever you want. I've been playing for so long, and I've never been in the top 500. I'm not making excuses, I just can't get in!"
Yang Ying hung up the phone feeling extremely tired and looked at her mother with melancholy: "Doesn't Fourth Aunt always dislike young people playing games? Why did she call me and ask me to get a number for my cousin?"
My mother, who was crossing one leg on the sofa and playing with her cell phone, turned her head guiltily and looked to the side.
Yang Ying was very familiar with her mother, and her expression became serious at that time: "Mom, did you say something outside? Did you tell others about Xiao Yang Qiu?"
"How can your mother be that stupid!" Mom frowned and scolded, "Xiao Yangqiu's work unit must be kept secret. He told me so himself the last time he came back. I definitely won't tell anyone!"
The last time Yang Qiu controlled the alchemy puppet to come home to see his family, he had already taken precautions against this. Yang's mother was just an ordinary woman, but the good thing was that she was willing to listen to her children's advice. She would take the eldest daughter and the youngest son's words to heart as long as they made sense.
Yang Ying suddenly realized, "If you didn't mention Xiao Yang Qiu, then you were talking about me?"
The Yang siblings inherited their stubbornness from their mother. At this moment, the Yang mother was very stubborn: "I didn't say anything. Your fourth aunt said that you are an adult but you stay at home every day without going to work and rely on your parents. I said that you actually make money in the game and earn twice as much as his son. I am just standing up for you, a dead girl!"
Yang Ying didn't know whether to laugh or cry...
In an 18th-tier city like City A, the average salary for young people is only three to four thousand. Yang Ying works hard to make money in the game and manages her boss. Her total monthly income is more than ten thousand. No wonder her mother couldn't help showing off her.
After thinking for a while, Yang Ying seriously told her mother: "I'll forget it. You must not tell anyone about Xiao Yangqiu's affairs. His game company is very powerful. He helped to plan this game. Now the people who are openly calling for numbers in the market are offering more than 30,000 yuan. 30,000 yuan for one number."
"What? A game account costs 30,000?" Yang's mother almost threw her phone away.
"That's it. It's priceless." Yang Ying said seriously, "I've never told anyone about this account that Xiao Yangqiu secretly got for me. This matter must never be disclosed."
The mother nodded vigorously and wiped the sweat off her forehead...It was indeed not glorious that her son stole a gaming account worth tens of thousands of dollars for his sister.
"Then you must never agree to help others get an account." The mother also reminded Yang Ying, "If you can make money in the game, you should return the account to Xiao Yangqiu first, so that his boss won't find out that he secretly gave you the account in the future."
Yang Ying nodded seriously: "That's what I planned, so I didn't agree to my fourth aunt just now. This time, you have to be in the top 100 to have a chance of winning this event, I'll try my best first."
When brother Yang Qiu gave her the number, she didn't think it was that serious. After the first test, the whole network was asking for the number, and during the second test, millions of people competed for 3,000 new numbers. Only then did she realize that this matter was much more serious than she had imagined.
There are many players like Yang Ying who are willing to give it a try.
Some want to get an account for their relatives and friends, some want to make some extra money - the crappy planners have already created so many accounts and allowed so many people who are obviously not normal players to enter the game. Is it really necessary to prohibit ordinary people from buying and selling new accounts?
On the one hand, they are eager to get a new account, and on the other hand, they are concerned about the territory reputation ranking in the Battle of the Gods . As a result, the players' scolding on the forum is becoming more and more intense, and they hope to scold the official to break down the mentality and lower the requirements. It would be best to directly issue a new account to each player who has an account, so that it would look like a New Year welfare activity.
But obviously... this kind of reverse operation is useless, because the people who use fancy operations to show off to the players have already guessed what the reaction of these players will be.
Yang Qiu's attitude was very calm. The players were attacking the game planner. What did it have to do with him, the ordinary black magician Yang?
Besides, he is indeed giving benefits this time... Originally, it was only open to the national team, giving the national team the opportunity to expand the activities of teammates (tools), and now the scope of opening is radiated to ordinary players, so that players with professional expertise can also get the same treatment as the national team. Who dares to say that this is not a benefit?
Even though people are cursing all the time on the forum, everyone online in the game is rushing to gain territory reputation... This is what smart people do!
As for whether ordinary players will bring too many people of varying quality into the game, Yang Qiu is not worried at all - even if three thousand players are grouped together, their efficiency in brushing "service time" is definitely not a match for the national team.
To put it bluntly, this group of players is the epitome of laxity, casualness, and willfulness. They repeat one thing at a high frequency in a short period of time. For the sake of rewards, the players will be very active, but if it is made like punching in at work, the players will change sides with curses.
Even activities like killing monsters, which are both exciting and relaxing, will get boring after a while, and players will have to go to the market, play parkour, or chat with people to change their mood.
It’s not that players lack perseverance, but that playing games is like going to work, so what exactly are players trying to achieve by playing games?
Haven’t you seen that many fixed teams in online games cannot last more than a month or two, and there will be frequent personnel replacements, or even the entire team will disband. Isn’t it because they can’t stand the constraints of the fixed team’s scheduled gatherings?
Even my elder sister Yang Ying's boss group, which only organizes activities on weekends, has changed several times except for the girls Jialuo and Tang Jia...
Among the three thousand players, there are only ten or so who can stick to the "tool man" style of play like the national team. This shows that the quality of this generation of players is very good!
The studio is likely to persevere, but Yang Qiu will not give it a chance... He is too familiar with behind-the-scenes operations.
After handing over the materials transferred to the other world to Rex and Tattle, Yang Qiu took inventory of his own small treasury and calculated the funds needed to ...
"——That's almost enough." Yang Qiu's eyes sparkled.
Yang Qiu, who had been staying in the City Lord's Mansion for several months (in another world time), put the space ring that he used as a small treasury firmly on his finger and walked out of the door in high spirits.
The building materials for the Mage Tower were not a problem. The original warehouse, stable, and servants' room in the City Lord's Mansion were turned into building materials warehouses by Yang Qiu and were filled with steel bars and cement.
Manpower is not a problem either. The several thousand young and strong contract workers from the city hall who went to the countryside to help farmers can be borrowed after they finish spring plowing. Yang Qiu can afford to pay their salaries.
The core is not a problem either, the seal has been prepared long ago.
The real place where money needs to be spent is the magic materials needed to build a regional magic network, which is the biggest expense.
Spellcasters who pursue the wizard tower often start saving materials from the moment they "graduate" - leaving their teacher's wizard tower.
Or you can travel around to collect materials, or "sell yourself" to a great lord as a worker, or join a certain country's magic group to get salary and benefits; most spellcasters do not rely on potions to advance, and if you are careful with your money and can successfully be promoted to a high-level spellcaster, you can probably save up some materials.
If you have a good relationship with your teacher and get support from him/her, that should be enough.
Yang Qiu was not so lucky. The old man who picked him up was very poor himself. He was afraid that Yang Qiu would ask for things when he went out on his journey, so he sneaked out to travel in advance and did not leave him a penny.
Yang Qiu left the Mage Tower empty-handed. After traveling for a few years, he didn't save any money or materials, but his reputation as the Nightmare Butcher became more and more famous...
How miserable it is.
Fortunately, all the hard work was worth it, and he finally saved enough money!
