Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 958: Chapter 894: What’s it to Me If They’re Mute?

(Two in One)_3 Chapter 958: Chapter 894: What’s it to Me If They’re Mute?

(Two in One)_3 But the same slogan didn’t work so well overseas.

– Although there were quite a few applicants, they were very few compared to the total number of players.

The most common phrase in related discussion posts by overseas players was not “give the people a chance to speak,” but rather: “Why should I care if others are silenced?”

There really was no response to this.

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Realizing the vast differences in thinking and perspective, Journey Prosthetics promptly shifted their promotional emphasis from “helping those who cannot speak” to “the rewards for participating in the plan.”

Of course, the reward was the same as in Daxia.

It had to be fair; just because Cloud Dream and Journey Prosthetics was wealthier, they shouldn’t give more rewards to overseas users.

That would be self-destructive and absolutely out of the question.

But here was the problem:

Daxia users saw the plan as a benevolent act to help their compatriots, with the rewards merely a bonus, hence they felt they weren’t lacking anything.

But for many overseas users, they argued – you’re collecting so much of my private data, even modifying my console firmware, just for this little money?

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Only financially strapped users like Brazilian Giselle didn’t hesitate to participate in the program.

— This was also a common phenomenon after the shift in the promotional focus: the more economically backward a country or area and the lower the average income, the more people participated in the plan.

Because the purchasing power of the same amount of Cloud Dream Points differed in different countries.

For ordinary people in poor countries and for poor people in wealthy countries, this value was significant.

But for most users in regions such as Europe, Australia, and North America, these subsidies could hardly make up for their unease about their privacy being collected and studied.

There was not much Journey Prosthetics could do about this, and Kyle reported the situation to Lincoln.

Lincoln thought that if they made the Pacific Rim project public at this time and told them that participating in the plan was also for their own game experience, it might strongly help push the overseas Rehabilitation Plan.

But he had previously promised Henry to keep this plan secret for now.

Henry had been quite active lately, increasing cover-ups and security, and he even made the factory security personnel increase confidentiality education for workers.

He coordinated with national security to add a few bait in advance, hoping to catch some fish.

The most outrageous thing was that he actually successfully communicated with the Aerospace Academy, getting three synchronous satellites to change orbits and mimicking the posture of searching for American spy satellites.

This added tons of work to the Lincoln Countermeasures Group stationed far away in America.

It also made the Countermeasures Group and Mr.

President firmly believe in their own judgement and even the Army Department, which has mistrusted the project due to combat power issues, began to waver and speed up the plan.

After all, it didn’t use up regular military funding, and could get access to even more military funding, so why not?

Given these circumstances, Lincoln could do little.

The concept formed over several decades or even a century in the West couldn’t be easily changed, nor was it his job to do so.

He straightforwardly told Kyle: Just let it be.

In the worst case, Pacific Rim would be released a little later overseas.

Of course, he didn’t actually slack off, but made a small adjustment: The entity responsible for the Rehabilitation Plan was changed from Journey Prosthetics to Cloud Dream.

In Daxia, the distinction between the two entities is very small, and even after the release of “Pokémon,” they were almost viewed as the same entity.

But overseas, due to the differences in fame and business operations, the two were not closely linked.

It was this adjustment that resulted in a noticeable increase in discussions of the Rehabilitation Plan overseas.

But…

Trending was one thing, but discussion was another: actions were nowhere to be seen.

The situation left overseas language-impaired individuals and their families extremely anxious, pleading online every day for others to join the plan.

This succeeded in persuading some more people.

But the gap was still large compared to the number of participants needed for the Rehabilitation Plan.

Based on this trend, overseas players estimated they might only get a shot at the full version of Pacific Rim later in the year…..