Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 485: 468 Update! Update!

“My World” had a silent cold start, and “Hunter: Call of the Wilderness” started its closed beta without any preheating.

Even the hotly contested “Card King” and “Mahjong God” preliminaries just let the heat ferment freely without spending too much effort on promoting and publicizing.

With so many talents in Cloud Dream, can’t they think of any publicity schemes?

How could that be possible!

It’s just that Lincoln deliberately delayed it.

Giving Flying Fox so much time to develop is no matter how you look at it, being more than generous.

Fortunately, Flying Fox turned in a perfect answer sheet – “The Last Moment” did live up to Lincoln’s good intentions.

Furthermore, after Lincoln arrived at the company, he immediately arranged a task for Jerome –

“Ask Flying Fox if they’re selling the copyright for ‘The Last Moment’, if not, buying the authorization for a remake version is fine too.”

Lincoln sincerely feels that this game being played by only a few players is a real shame.

Mavis helped him compile the data, and the total number of players who played “The Last Moment” through Mirage on the first day exceeded 1 million, with subsequent growth in the next two days reaching close to 5 million.

The enormous online volume is due to too many players “clearing the game in the cloud.”

5 million might not seem like a small number, but when it comes to Cloud Dream’s data of tens of millions, even 20 or 30 million, it’s not enough.

It’s better to have a backup of a classic game in the virtual world.

So that future players won’t only know through video footage that there was such a classic game, which would be too much of a pity!

After arranging this matter, Lincoln naturally continued with the other large-scale publicity work.

“My World”, “Hunter: Call of the Wilderness”, “Battlefield: Early Access Version”, trailers should be released one after another.

To avoid competing with their own heat, they had to stagger the release times.

In addition to promotional trailers that were already prepared and waiting to be released, there are also two major updates to be carried out today-

[1. Jurassic Park is officially open.]

[2. The large chess and card room of Night City is officially separated from Paradise Casino.]

Players have been clamoring about the former for a long time.

From the discovery of Jurassic Park by Hu to now, the park’s scenic area has actually been no longer a secret.

Although players’ attempts to collectively break through have met with successive failures, leading to a temporary withdrawal,

they have not given up on finding out what’s inside.

William quickly organized a group of audiences, and they put on wing suits, breaking through the obstacles of pterosaurs in the sky, swiftly flying over the Jurassic Park, and taking aerial photos of the park.

To get clearer angles and images, they even continued to lower their altitude, with many fans even making mistakes that resulted in crashing to their deaths in the park.

With these efforts, they have figured out the general layout and exteriors of the park areas.

However, these discoveries have not been able to arouse more exploratory zeal from the players.

Because they feel that there is nothing special about the scenery in the park.

Architecture?

Haven’t they seen enough buildings in Metropolis and Night City? There are even constant updates if they still haven’t seen enough!

Dinosaurs?

On Dinosaur Island, there are dinosaurs frolicking everywhere, and you can even capture and raise them yourself.

Why bother going inside the park to see them?

As a result, players’ enthusiasm decreases and they no longer obsess over finding a breakthrough to enter the park early.

This is the key to why the park has not yet been broken through by players, rather than the park’s defenses truly being flawless.

However, Lincoln is very confident in the appeal of Jurassic Park after it opens.

Because there are really many well-domesticated dinosaurs in Jurassic Park!

Close interactions with dinosaurs, special dinosaur performances, more convenient transparent observation vehicles, close-up views of deep-sea behemoths…

Which one isn’t a top-notch attraction?

There is also a crucial update: a brand new dock and luxury ferry!

Not far from the earliest cave, an entire mountain will be leveled, wide roads will lead directly to the seaside, and a new dock will be built at the end, facing the dock that was created by the players.

In the amusement park, players can take the shuttle bus directly to the dock and then board the luxury ferry to Jurassic Park.

It can be foreseen that after Jurassic Park opens, it will usher in far more visitors than before.

After all, those who previously set foot on Dinosaur Island were the ones who could take pictures with dinosaurs.

There were almost no family tourists, let alone children coming here — just the “rope path” from the cliffs is not suitable for those with weak nerves.

Now with the ferry, this area will become a real leisure area — as long as you don’t leave the park gates, you won’t encounter any “wild” dinosaur attacks.

As for the second point, it is an update provided for deep card-playing users, especially middle-aged and elderly users.

The response to this card game competition is too good, with an exaggerated number of participating players.

Particularly, the statistical backstage showed that the proportion of users over 50 who participated in the competition had exceeded 97%!

However, soon a new problem emerged: too many people remained playing cards in the casino every day, even after their scores had exceeded the threshold. They weren’t playing for higher scores and rewards, but simply to have fun with a group of card friends.

They even felt that the strong sense of competition in the contests interfered with the fun of playing cards.

Constantly changing tables and opponents also affected their chances of making friends.

This was very detrimental to the socialization and retention of middle-aged and older users.

So, chess and card rooms made a dazzling entrance!

And it’s not just a single room; there are large-scale and small-scale, outdoor open-air, and indoor private rooms, with a very diverse range of facilities to meet various needs.

[King of the Ocean], Xu Shenghan is live-streaming shipbuilding by the sea. This ship took more than a week of laborious work to finally complete.

He tried to explain to viewers why the first ship was made in two or three days, but this one took more than a week:

“For your viewing experience, I can only build it during live streaming, even working late into the night is not allowed!”

“Plus, without the urgent need to log in to Dinosaur Island, there aren’t many players available to help, so human resources are inevitably insufficient!”

Unfortunately, his reasons only earned two words of feedback – “Bullshit!”

Viewers’ comments were ruthless:

“What were you doing yesterday morning? You were smelling shit!”

“What were you doing the night before yesterday? You were hunting dinosaurs!”

“Those two days were fine since at least you worked half the day. How about the day before that? You were smelling shit all day!”

The barrage of comments relentlessly exposed his excuses, occasionally mixed with sarcastic remarks like “not doing the right thing.”

Xu Shenghan could only awkwardly smile, pretending not to see.

In this embarrassing atmosphere, a water portal suddenly appeared in front of him.

Following that, a little girl with pink hair jumped out of the teleportation gate.

“Mavis!?”

Xu Shenghan and the live streaming audiences were all taken aback.

Xu Shenghan even had a moment of guilt: Surely they weren’t fed up with me slacking off and sent a representative from Cloud Dream to urge me…

But soon, Mavis dispelled his concerns: “Hello~ I came to help.”

“Help?” Xu Shenghan wasn’t guilty anymore, just confused: “Help with what?”

It couldn’t be about building the ship, could it?

Just looking at her tiny arms and legs, she didn’t seem like someone capable of heavy work, right?

“This ship.” Mavis pointed to the ship they just completed, and then at the other ship on the sea, “And that ship will be yours from now on!”

“Huh? What do you mean?” Xu Shenghan didn’t understand.

Mavis spoke clearly, but because she was so direct, it only confused Xu Shenghan more.

However, the next moment, both ships lit up with a hazy white light, and then two beams of light shot directly into Xu Shenghan’s body.

“Now they are yours. Even if you just leave them here unattended, they won’t be refreshed!” Mavis reminded.

Before this, both ships were temporary player creations, just like the “cableway” that players made for rappelling. Once there was no interaction for 24 hours, they would be refreshed by the system at midnight.

But now, after officially belonging to players, they became the players’ “assets” and would no longer be refreshed by the game mechanics.

This was because Lincoln thought that after the official opening of Jurassic Park, with the existence of luxury ferries, the value of the Ming Wheel Ship would decrease significantly and might soon become unwanted.

However, it would be a pity to refresh them away since they were the result of the efforts of many players. So Lincoln had Mavis come over and help tag the two ships, assigning them to the “captains” who made the most significant contributions.

“Oh, I see. Thank you.” After thanking Mavis, Xu Shenghan continued to ask: “But why do it this way?”

Mavis pointed her finger towards the distance again-

“Because, that!”

Xu Shenghan looked in the direction Mavis pointed, but apart from the calm cliffs and the sea, he didn’t see anything.

“What…” He wanted to continue asking, but the words suddenly got stuck in his throat.

Right before his eyes, the entire cliff suddenly began to collapse!

Huge rocks and soil fell into the sea with a momentum like the collapse of mountains and earth!

But there was no earthquake or thunderous noise. The rocks and soil disappeared as soon as they plunged into the sea.

It’s more accurate to say they sank into another space, rather than the seabed. The sea waves flowed towards the shore as usual, without even a splash, as if nothing had happened.

In almost an instant, the entire cliff disappeared, and then an entire dock, like a mirage, slowly emerged in front of everyone.

At first, it was foggy and a bit unclear, but it quickly materialized, becoming a genuine dock.

A luxurious ferry appeared on the sea level somehow and slowly sailed towards the newly born dock.

Xu Shenghan and a few helpful players simultaneously heard the system notification in their ears:

‘Jurassic Park is now officially open. All tourists are welcome to visit!’