Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 988: Chapter 918: The Long-Awaited Release Date_1 Chapter 988: Chapter 918: The Long-Awaited Release Date_1 The users of America, after a hard-fought battle, reclaimed their right to return to the virtual world.

Of course, this was a victory worth commemorating.

But upon returning to the virtual world, they were greeted first by several bad news – due to the inevitable network outage for five to seven days, they missed out on a lot of events.

The last few rounds of [Freedom Day], especially the final battle, they undeniably missed.

As for [The World’s No.1 Martial Arts Competition – Testing the Sword], it was not too bad, because there were not any contestants or teams from America who made it into the top 64.

At most, they only missed the chance to watch it live, they could only watch the broadcast – Cloud Dream’s grand event, broadcast rights are sold everywhere, it’s not hard to watch.

However, whether this is a good thing or a bad thing, is not easily determined.

Because during the semi-finals of Testing the Sword, the second nuclear explosion occurred –

The host and the commentator were passionately commenting when suddenly, a flash of blue light, all surveillance cameras lost their visuals at the same time.

But the director, having had experience, reacted quickly after only two seconds of brief confusion, immediately shifting the camera to a distant view.

In the live broadcast room, the host and commentator also fell silent, quietly, with the audience, admiring the enormous mushroom cloud slowly rising and then gently dispersing in the center of Chang’an City.

One-third of Chang’an City was turned into ruins from this nuclear explosion.

As for the audience…

Whether it was the fortunate ones who managed to snatch up front-row spots, or the less fortunate ones who could only stand on top of buildings and watch from afar, all became ashes in that nuclear explosion.

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Even because too many people died at the same time, too close together, a rare resurrection special effect was successfully triggered –

Players were no longer quickly extinguished into rays of light, but instead morphed into thin beams of light, streaming vertically like golden quicksand into the sky.

It looked like a rain of light reversed in time, which was beautiful and even a bit dreamy.

Of course, this was the feeling of the audience in the broadcast room.

The feelings of the live audience weren’t so wonderful…

They were having a good time watching the competition when suddenly a nuclear explosion hit them right in the face.

Who could bear such a thing!

What’s more fun is: because both contestants died together, that “Beyond Limit Warfare”, which cost two Swords of Heaven and claimed one-third of Chang’an City, ended up in a draw.

In other words, all for nothing.

The two competitors – one who had signed the [Virtual World Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty], and the other who had never shown himself before, were both somewhat depressed.

The only good news is: The event of a “nuclear explosion happening during the competition” was actually anticipated by Lincoln and the development team, so there was a contingency plan.

The development team acted quickly and erected a brand new “Wasteland-style” arena over the crater.

The competition proceeded smoothly.

It wasn’t until midnight that Chang’an City automatically recovered, returning to the state before the nuclear explosion.

But when the users from America ended their protests and returned to the virtual world, [Testing the Sword] had already ended.

The top three teams and individuals had been determined, even the Sword Casting process had begun.

– In accordance with tradition, Cloud Dream not only forges these swords in the virtual world for the players but also forges an identical sword in reality and delivers it to the players’ hands.

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Apart from this, the [Global Professional League] is not over, and there originally was a team from the American division that made it into the top 8.

But the problem was, this team unluckily chose a network proxy without any background, resulting in a network outage for a full six days, they directly absented from their match.

The [Global Professional League] has been fully formalized – although Lincoln still insists on retaining the preliminary selection stage, allowing all player teams to have the opportunity to participate, it is almost impossible for civil teams to compete with professional players who train every day.

As a result, players quickly autonomously divided the [Global Professional League] into two stages, known as [preliminary warm-up] and [main race].

The schedule and various systems of the [main race] are very rigorous, involving not only players and audiences from many countries but also a large number of commercial cooperations – broadcasting, advertising, sponsorship…

It’s impossible to easily change the schedule for a single team due to the intricacies of each aspect.

Regrettably for this reason: the America team was defeated without a fight due to their absence.

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Of course, there is also good news.

Cloud Dream officially announced the establishment of a new department: [Esports Competition Division].

This department will absorb a large number of talents and coordinate all of Cloud Dream’s esports events.

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All esports clubs congratulated the establishment of this department at the earliest opportunity.

Because this signifies that Cloud Dream genuinely starts to attach importance to game competitions; and with the attention of Cloud Dream, a systematic, stable, and long-lasting sports event environment will soon be established!

Those professional clubs that have survived the impact of game format transformation can finally board the big ship of Cloud Dream, transitioning from the old system to the new one, no longer needing to worry about being eliminated by this wave.

After the establishment of this department, the first announcement it released was: [We are carefully considering contacting the Battlefield development team to design a smaller battlefield mode and include it in the professional competition arrangements.]

[Small Battlefield] has always been a demand among players, and now it finally sees the dawn of realization.

Players worldwide are happy about this news, and the America players who just returned were no exception.

Another good news: a special project group has also been established for the [track editing gameplay], simply named – [Track Group].

Although the number of people in the group is nothing compared to the Esports Competition Division, what they have to do is huge –

Starting from March, they will recreate the world’s most famous tracks, one by one, in the virtual world, and add these [official tracks] for players to experience.

Not only endurance races, rallies, off-road races, and types of car tracks, but also classic road cycling races, motorcycle races, and even skateboarding, skiing …

All kinds of classic scenes and tracks in reality will be gradually added to the virtual world.

Not only this, but this project has also inspired Lincoln –

Why just recreate virtual cities?

There are so many beautiful landscapes and unique sceneries in the world: Victoria Falls, Great Blue Hole of Belize, Colorado Canyon, Yunnan Stone Forest, Lake Baikal Ice Lake, Sky Terrace, Fluorescent Beach …

Why not recreate them in the virtual world?

Just these landscapes alone can make the Mirage sell tens of millions more units!

There’s no doubting Lincoln’s action – especially when all he needs to do is talk, he quickly let Quentina issue a new recruitment requirement and started to form such a department specifically responsible for collecting natural scenery and reproducing it in the virtual world.

In the process, collecting natural scenes is far easier than recreating city views, with far fewer applications and points-to-be-negotiated involved part.

In terms of reappearing in the virtual world, the relatively single natural elements are far easier to deal with than the extremely complex modern cities.

Lincoln was even a bit puzzled: why did he just think of this now?

With his support, this department rapidly took shape and by him was “banished” to all parts of the country, and even the world, to start recording natural scenes.

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This was the last major move by Cloud Dream before the launch of Pacific Rim in the eyes of the players.

Afterwards, there were no more new information leaks, even the small scale player test that lasted for three days was also quietly completed.

Then, the release date arrived.