Finally, after all the hyping, Minecraft and Thousand Hells announced their release dates.
Both gas were released on the first of August. Thousand Hells was priced at 1288 RMB, whereas Minecraft was priced at 128, a tenth of Thousand Hells.
Based on its pricing, Thousand Hells looked to be a middle of the road VR ga, but in reality, its quality was below average.
Because it had a monotonous playstyle just like Diablo. There werent many microtransactions in the ga either, aning that most of the profits would co from selling actual copies of the ga. The ga was actually relatively cheap compared to other VR gas when taking into account the fact that players wouldnt have to spend a simple penny after buying the ga.
Of course this didnt an that Emperor Dynasty Entertainnt had a change of heart. It was just that Thousand Hells didnt take up a lot of resources and many of the maps were reused, significantly reducing developnt costs.
Emperor Dynasty Entertainnt also priced it lower in hopes of selling more copies.
Minecraft on the other hand
Many were surprised at how low Minecraft was priced. It was almost a freebie charging one hundred and twenty eight RMB for a VR ga.
(Normally, a VR ga is ten tis the price of PC gas, that ans Minecraft was priced equivalently as a PC ga at twelve RMB.)
But in reality, Chen Mo was still highballing it.
Minecraft didnt require much investnt during its developnt at all. The costs in the PC version were basically negligible, and all the improvent and changes in the VR version cost around ten million RMB.
And ten million RMB wasnt much at all for Chen Mo, the main cost of the developnt of Minecraft was the tisink.
Therefore Chen Mo priced it lower to sell more copies. Only when the number of players go up will Minecrafts true potential be realised.
Chen Mo wanted Minecraft to be installed on every VR gaming pod in China.
First of August, Minecraft and Thousand Hells was officially released!
The players who had their eyes on the gas downloaded as soon as they could as they couldnt wait to experience the gas in VR.
On Lin Xues stream on Moyu.
The screen was still dark and a lot of discussion was happening among the viewers.
Is Xue changing over to VR? Is she streaming a VR ga today?
Yeah, I heard Thousand Hells was released today, shed probably be playing the official release. Xue was Diablos diehard fan after all.
Uhh Shouldnt a diehard Diablo fan play Chen Mos new ga?
As if, who would want to watch a building ga.
Hmm? I think the VR gaming pod is now connected.
The scene from the VR gaming pod was now on the stream.
VR gas can be stread in this world, requiring the signals from the gaming pod to be translated into a stream friendly signal.
For example, a first person RPG like Thousand Hells that have their players playing in first person mode with a 124 field of view, but after the conversion the signal will beco a third person view (similar to a cara behind the player), and the field of view will be converted to the normal 90.
A direct stream from a first person view would be too jittery and cause nausea in many of the viewers.
On the screen was more or less the VR version of the Desktop. There were many gas displayed, with Thousand Hells in a more obvious position.
Before the chat could start celebrating, Lin Xue launched Minecraft.
The chat was shocking.
Huh? Minecraft? Actually playing Minecraft?
What happened to Xue? When did she start playing these types of building gas?
My goodness, I really dont wanna watch this!
If you dont wanna watch, feel free to leave. Well watch anything Xue plays
Well try out Minecraft today, which was developed by Chen Mo. Lets just start playing rather than going through all the explanations, said Lin Xue.
Lin Xues sowhat vague remarks caused a lot of chatter in the chat.
What is this Xue, what do you an no explanations?
I feel like Xue trusts Chen Mo a lot
Why do I sll sothing different!
The screen swapped over to Minecraft among all the chatter.
Lin Xue was in the middle of a plains with a rising sun in the background.
There were a few clouds in the air that spelled out Minecraft.
Lin Xue also had a little hut on her left with the words Minecraft written on it.
Further left was a path that led into a dense forest and many buildings could be made out, with a sign saying Sobody Elses World.
On her right was a huge observatory with a huge globe on top, with the text Everybodys World.
There was a small teleporter to the right of the observatory that said Chen Mos World.
There was also a building that looked like a shed next to the hut that said Resource Centre.
Of course, all these buildings were built by blocks that give off strong pixelated feels.
This was probably the main nu.
Lin Xue walked around before looking downwards and realising she was a toy person in ga.
The third person perspective of the audience could see that even clearer. Lin Xue looked like a toy from the Frozen Leggo set. Quite cute, 3:1 ratio of body :head, blonde with a white dress and stockings. She had a really cute walking animation too.
The ga would collect data of the player from the gaming pod once the player starts the ga to decide the gender of the character the player played as.
A cute dog with a sign in its mouth walked in front of Lin Xue.
Weve picked a random character based on your gender provided from the gaming pod, would you like to customise?
Lin Xue clicked yes with no histation.
She wouldve been fine if there was no way of customising, but why wouldnt she customise if she could?
Lin Xues perspective changed from first to third person as if her soul jumped out of her body.
At the sa ti, two UIs popped up allowing Lin Xue to customize her looks.
There seems to be quite a lot of options.
Lin Mo looked through the nus. She found that although this ga looked simple, everything was quite well developed. Take this customisation nu for example, she could change her face, hat, top, pants, and shoes. She could even change her height within a certain range.
Lin Xue finally settled with sothing she was happy with after half an hour.
Hmm Which should we start with?
Lets try the ga out in single player first, itd be terrible if we dragged others down in multiplayer, said Lin Xue after a few monts.
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