Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 971: Chapter 905: The Competition That Ends As Soon As It Begins_1 Chapter 971: Chapter 905: The Competition That Ends As Soon As It Begins_1 Not just Ivan, every holder of the [White Rainbow], whether they came to take the sword after the update or had already obtained the sword before the update, would receive the [Sword Thief] achievement as long as they carried the [White Rainbow].

At the same time, they would face the risk of being hunted by assassins.

“To be hunted once exposed,” was Lincoln’s last act of mercy for the casual and collector players.

As for the “assassins”, currently there are only NPCs.

However, as players start to undertake the series of missions of [Assassin’s Way], they will find that before graduation they will be given a task called “Seek the Sword”.

As for the content of the task –

Of course, find a [Sword Thief] and slay him!

The player circle was quite agitated, cursing Lincoln as a miser.

But everyone has known Lincoln was stingy for a long time, so it didn’t come as a complete surprise.

Besides, all were aware of Lincoln’s style: he would upset you a bit but would never go too far.

The targets were mostly limited, so people kept picking up accordingly.

And the instigator of it all, Wu Di, was also a bit upset.

Lincoln didn’t punish him for causing trouble; instead, he personally wrote him a letter of thanks –

[Dear player,

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Thank you for reporting the issue of the forgotten sword at the top of the Meditation Temple Tower – even though you were the one who left the sword there, we indeed overlooked it, leading to this issue.

This issue could have caused serious impacts, and you reported this severe bug to us in the first place.

According to the regulations, we will reward you as follows:

1.

1000 Cloud Dream Points.

2.

Priority experience right for the next game and the next chapter of “Chang’an”.

3.

One piece of real estate in Chang’an City.

4.

A one-day tour of Cloud Dream Headquarters.

5.

Entry into the Honorary Player Candidate List.

(If you’ve already obtained the Honorary Player title, this shall become a nomination right)

…]

With the list of benefits, Wu Di was thrilled.

But –

[However, since you consciously and intentionally spread this bug while reporting it, causing a wide range of impacts, we regretfully inform you:

The above rewards have been revoked.

Thank you again for your support towards the work of Cloud Dream.

– Lincoln]

“Ward Fa!!”

After reading the letter, Wu Di had an itch in his teeth from anger.

“Did you do this on purpose?!” He immediately sent Lincoln a private message – he had Lincoln on his friends list!

And Lincoln seemed to always be waiting for his response, he replied in a second with two words –

“Guess?”

“How the hell should I know?!” Wu Di was outraged!

But he didn’t really reply that way.

— He felt he was in the wrong, he couldn’t complain about Lincoln playing mind games.

He could only open the post to see the overwhelming “good person OP” from players, to soothe his injured soul.

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That night, after some players experienced the strength of the assassins firsthand and gave a “just so-so” evaluation, the last concern in the players’ minds was dispelled.

This sword soon became the sword with the highest holding number among the players of “Chang’an”, and Wu Di earned the title of “World’s Best Person”.

After this storm, the players began to seriously experience the plot of the second chapter of “Chang’an”.

*

With the passing of the Lantern Festival, students started school one after another.

The last atmosphere of the New Year completely dispersed, and Daxia returned to its normal rhythm.

The pace of the virtual world also changed accordingly.

The players’ online time returned to the usual pace and became more regular.

Of course, this didn’t affect professional anchors.

They were still online intensively all day, working endlessly in the virtual world.

Hank was an extreme example of this.

On one hand, he didn’t want to miss the new plot of “Chang’an” Chapter Two.

On the other hand, he was always pursuing the global ranking of [Endurance Race], so he worked particularly hard.

His current progress was –

[Difficulty (Racing)] Endurance Race, Global Ranking between 500 and 550, [Extreme · (Racing)] Global Ranking between 12 and 15.

His biggest competition, isn’t some professional racer in reality, but purely an ordinary player.

Hank couldn’t understand why there are so many outrageous people.

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He could understand the [Difficulty] level-this difficulty is his favorite, it’s challenging, but it’s not messing with people for the sake of making things difficult, and often provides a great experience after completing the race track.

But [Extreme] is outrageous.

Most of the race tracks seem to be to torment people, testing not speeding, but extremely harsh control ability.

Stunt driving tilted with two wheels of the car, can only be considered a basic skill.

Things like driving through fire rings, flying cars, guessing on elevated bridges, car skiing, ball moving…all sorts of outrageous requirements are endless.

It seems not to select racing drivers at all, but to train stunt drivers!

Despite Hank and many streamers mobilizing their viewers, to “dislike” these kind of tracks, trying to use this method to eliminate those ridiculous tracks through Cloud Dream.

This is not a futile effort, under [Race Track Editing Mode], if there are too many negative reviews, they’ll indeed remove this map from [Endurance Race] and [Matching Race] to reduce the “toxic map” and improve overall player game experience.

This effort can’t be said to be completely ineffective – indeed some extremely torturous maps have been removed, but compared to the never-ending flow of new toxic maps created by players worldwide, it’s just a drop in the ocean!

Hank didn’t feel any changes.

Being tormented for a long time, he inevitably had a thought: simply give up on [Extreme], and focus on [Difficult] tracks.

This is not giving up, compared to [Extreme], [Difficult] is where the [World’s No.

1 Racer] is truly contested.

As for [Extreme], it should be the place where [World’s No.

1 Stunt Driver] is contested!

So why is he over 500 now in [Difficult] mode and within the top few in [Extreme]?

——Because the viewers wouldn’t allow it!

Hank felt [Extreme] very torturous, but the viewers liked watching him being tortured!

His initiated [Difficult or Extreme] voting, [Extreme] completely overwhelmed [Difficult] with 82% of the votes!

Hank almost performed curling up in tears for the audience.

The worst part is: after days of hard work, he suddenly found out that he seemed to truly have some gift as a stunt driver!

He actually rushed up to 10 plus rank, about to enter the top 10!

Facing this reality, Hank didn’t know whether to cry or laugh…

*

When players were eagerly playing, all Cloud Dream did was quiet down and fully commit to developing new games.

With the simultaneous advancement of “Chang’an” Chapter Three, “Pacific Rim”, and “Gravity”, there was indeed no time for other hustles.

——In fact, there was still hustle, but it was all in the new games, so naturally it couldn’t be announced now.

During the period when Cloud Dream quieted down, the Global Professional League was in full swing, Flying Fox seized this excellent opportunity and officially launched “The Last Moment”.

This is the first fully-fledged, non-Cloud Dream-developed virtual reality game, which attracted considerable attention from both players and media.

After successfully getting massive attention, Flying Fox turned this attention into sales with the high-quality game they’ve painstakingly polished.

Then, they truly experienced at the rate which Cloud Dream was “printing money”!

The boss of Flying Fox, Lü Hui, personally came to Cloud Dream the next day, hoping to continue their cooperation.

As long as they could cooperate, they’re willing to allow even more profit-sharing.

——Instead of the seven-three ratio with Cloud Dream, they’re fine even if it’s reversed to be three-seven, it’s still more profitable than making it themselves!

The two sides are not on the same order of magnitude at all!

*

During this time, inside the Xiajing Third Mechanical Manufacturing Factory, the manufacturing progress of the mech sped up quickly, eyeing that they’ve passed halfway.

Whereas in America, in order to make up for (in their assumption) the falling behind progress, they invested heavily to simultaneously start four project teams to promote the mech project.

One of them is designed and manufactured according to the parameters of the Blueprints leaked by Lincoln, another one is being redesigned and produced in an enlarged version based on the “reality” height of 28 meters obtained from the “successful” spy information from the mechanical manufacturing factory.

The other two, on the other hand, are completely self-developed and produced by American engineers, only they’ve chosen the two different driving ways of fuel and electricity.

Although they also believe that their mech may not be as advanced as Lincoln’s mech filled with (assumed) black technology, Imitation and practice have always been the express lane to success, but even if the mechs they’re building are outdated, this part of the investment is inevitable.

Anyway, with government funding, the military isn’t short of money, so not only do they have to build, but all the materials used must be the most expensive and best!

——At least on paper, they’re the most expensive and best.

Under this wildly rapid progress, by the end of February, Lincoln finally received a phone call from Henry –

“You can announce your mech game now.”

In his voice, was a whole lot of schadenfreude.