Chapter 352: Chapter 341 Don’t You Have Wallets? (First Release) Chapter 352: Chapter 341 Don’t You Have Wallets? (First Release) When Jiang Qiao arrived at the backstage lounge, Zhao Mingwei was already surrounded by three doctors in white coats. His consciousness was very clear, but his physical condition was sowhat poor.
Now Zhao Mingwei lacked the strength to even stand, and it was with the doctors’ help that he was seated in a wheelchair, with the worst being his left arm, which appeared to be broken based on the doctors’ examination.
“Doctor, can you wait a mont?” Zhao Mingwei lifted his other, still functioning, hand and opened and closed it, indicating he really wasn’t badly hurt.
The sound on stage was very loud… even in the backstage lounge, they could hear Queen i’s voice, and the first sentence she said imdiately caught Zhao Mingwei’s attention.
“Once again, thank you, dear Spirits. Next, I have a very important announcent to make.”
“Player Zhao, I suggest you go to the hospital. You can watch the recorded broadcast of this Spirit’s official press conference later, or follow it live on your mobile,” Mr. Yin suggested, glancing at the VR device Zhao Mingwei had used earlier. Although the doctors determined that Zhao Mingwei’s fracture was caused by excessive movents while playing the VR ga, and his general weakness was due to lack of rest.
But Mr. Yin always felt that sothing wasn’t quite right.
“Let’s bring him to our spectator area,” Mo Shigui, who had been silent until now, suddenly said. “Even if we sent this guy in an ambulance now, he would likely find a way to jump out.”
“I wouldn’t do sothing so horrifying,” Zhao Mingwei muttered in response.
In the end, with the doctors’ permission, Jiang Qiao pushed the wheelchair that Zhao Mingwei sat in to a special viewing area in Shangcheng Gymnasium prepared for Spirit players.
“Eh, why is Mr. Laugher sitting up there?”
“Quiet! Queen i seems to have sothing major to announce!”
Players who had participated in the Black Ash Knight’s campaign, and many special invitees among the Spirit players, were all discussing what major news Queen i might announce.
Jiang Qiao took this opportunity to also check his phone, but this ti, the live stream room he watched wasn’t the official holographic projection of the event, but Shen ng’s personal live stream.
The majority in Shen ng’s live stream were Spirit players, and those who have been following Spirits for a long while, crazily snagging play tis day and night…
So the barrage in Shen ng’s live stream had comnts like “Queen i’s woman never admits defeat, my kid is so adorable.”
“Are they going to announce open beta? I am so excited! I am so excited! This broken ga has been testing for half a year, my late-night scrambling for spots almost gave dark circles!”
“Open beta! Open beta! Open beta GOGOGO!”
The most common barrage Jiang Qiao saw in Shen ng’s live stream was the hope for Spirits to start an unrestricted public test, which was the news all fans following Spirits wanted to hear.
Regrettably, Jiang Qiao also wanted a public test, but alas, Hai Lan’s semi-proficient ga system of Devouring God simply couldn’t handle so many players. Therefore, Spirits would probably never truly be open to public testing in a real sense. The number of players could only increase slowly as they overca one strong enemy after another in the ga.
However, the news Queen i announced today was still sothing that would excite all Spirit players and those who wished to be one, which was…
“Dear Spirits, starting today…” Queen i paused here, and Jiang Qiao could faintly hear the audience unanimously shouting ‘Open beta! Open beta! Open beta!’
But the next words from Queen i turned the passion ignited among all Spirit players into bone-chilling frost.
“The Spirit ga store will officially launch today!” Queen i even used an extrely excited and anticipatory tone.
But the mont the audience heard ‘Spirit ga store,’ those who were raising their hands to cheer and jumped up excitedly, as well as the barrage of comnts crazily brushing the word ‘open beta,’ encountered an eerie silence.
Jiang Qiao saw a series of ‘?’ in the live stream chat.
Queen i stood there stunned as the players shifted from a high excitent to a deep, monk-like tranquility.
She thought she might have read sothing wrong, but as far as Queen i recalled, she was reading from the script given to her by Jiang Qiao…but the reaction from the players was just too terrible.
The silence was so profound it almost made Queen i uneasy; logically, there should have been thunderous applause here.
Luckily, Queen i saw Jiang Qiao at the very back of the audience. She looked at him, asking with her eyes if she had said sothing wrong.
Jiang Qiao really wanted to ask Spirit players one thing… ‘Don’t you have wallets?’
But Jiang Qiao still managed not to react rashly; this response was within his expectations, so he gestured to Queen i to continue according to the plan.
As for the Spirit players’ reaction to the unveiling of this ga store system, Jiang Qiao could tell rely by looking at Mo Shigui’s, Caral’s, and Black Ash’s unanimously identical expressions of disappointnt… how disappointing this decision was in the eyes of Spirit players.
“All online gas have a store system now, it shouldn’t be a problem for Spirits to launch a store, right? Haven’t you all been complaining that Spirits was too benevolent and feared that the developers might go bankrupt?” Black Ash quietly complained at this mont.
“It’s not wrong for a ga company to make money, the key is to see how this ga store is managed, that’s my worry.”
Mo Shigui did not dislike the idea of the Holy Spirit’s open gold coin system, where players were already spending real money to buy in-ga Gold Coins. Mo Shigui was worried that the officials of Holy Spirit were finally going to start making real money.
The downfall of an online ga’s reputation, where players feel the ga design is a scam, has really just one root cause: the need for the ga company to make money and the designers to et revenue targets set by higher-ups. Once these capital maneuvers began, especially with an MMORPG, it started becoming a “scam”.
Mo Shigui also knew that so foreign gas were very conscientious, but that simply wasn’t the case with dostic online gas. Conflict is just a simple example.
Although Conflict was a foreign ga, the dostic operators were quite restrained in the first year of service. The ga’s store only sold so costics without attributes, along with mounts and the like.
Later on, it beca more and more of a scam. There were attributes-laden costus, various holiday packages, excessively powerful titles, and even weapon crafting began requiring gold coins.
No problem if you don’t spend money, you would just always be slightly weaker than the top players.
Conflict was already very restrained, which also ca from the extraordinary success of the Conflict League competitions, making it hugely popular worldwide.
This ant that the revenue targets for Conflict’s designers could be t just by capitalizing on the sheer number of players, without needing to introduce any obnoxious items that force monetary spending and potentially damage the ga’s reputation.
But what about Holy Spirit?
That was where Mo Shigui truly worried. Holy Spirit’s technological capabilities were at least ten tis greater than those of Conflict. He truly did not believe that the ga was created solely with artificial intelligence.
The ga needed massive funds to cover the costs of early production and mid-term operational updates, and currently, Holy Spirit only had 130,000 players.
Even if server expansions doubled the number of Holy Spirit players, this number was still not enough to recuperate the developntal costs, let alone mid-term operations. Maybe it could be achieved if Holy Spirit went to open beta, but… Queen i apparently had no intention of announcing an open beta.
So, the real reason Mo Shigui was anxious was… how would the Holy Spirit ga company break even and then make money?
During this half-year of closed beta, if it weren’t for Holy Spirit’s Gold Coin transactions being taxed and the introduction of the Holy Spirit Fund, Mo Shigui even suspected that the shadowy ga company behind Holy Spirit might have gone bankrupt.
As for all of Mo Shigui’s questions, Jiang Qiao’s answer was that they didn’t need to break even.
Because the cost of financing the production of Holy Spirit was zero, the server maintenance costs were around three thousand a month, not enough to cover the monthly expenses of Hai Lan and Queen i plus the five Knights, which totaled around twelve thousand.
It was indeed expensive, causing Jiang Qiao to trend toward bankruptcy, but he personally could afford this expense.
Then, the question arose… how much money could Holy Spirit make after officially launching the store system? Jiang Qiao was certain it would be millions. If the server population increased again, it would definitely reach tens of millions!
All that money, was Jiang Qiao going to hoard it all? No! Of course not…
President Yin was right, Holy Spirit had big ambitions, as did Jiang Qiao, and the advent of the Holy Spirit Fund was to create a system of financial interaction between Holy Spirit and the real world!
As for the specifics…
“Ladies and gentlen of the Holy Spirit, please do not worry. Regarding the launch of this Holy Spirit store system, we assure…” Queen i paused briefly here.
But this pause elicited teasing from the players around Jiang Qiao, especially Black Pot Cooking at, who, mimicking soone’s tone and using a weird expression, said,
“We guarantee we will absolutely not sell any unbalanced items that increase ga values in the ga store.” Black Pot Cooking at said.
“Pfft, haha, that’s the line from Conflict’s public beta, right? Black, you’re too much.” Caral rarely laughed out this ti.
As old players of Conflict, they all knew what gag Black Pot Cooking at was playing.
Most online gas, when launching their ga stores, almost always make this promise—that they’ll only sell costics and mounts and the like.
But everyone knows how it ends.
So, these veteran online ga players thought Queen i was going to say the sa.
But… Queen i’s next line once again plunged all the joking players into a creepy silence.
“All the money earned will be completely returned to the Holy Spirits!” This statent from Queen i not only silenced the audience.
The planners from other gas and their developnt teams were also stunned, and their first reactions were “this AI is insane!” or “this character’s player is insane!” or “this is just a marketing ploy from Holy Spirit!”
What a joke! Gas are made to make money. The gold coin system is also for making money. No ga in the world takes the money earned from players’ pockets and gives it back to the players.
But Holy Spirit.. can.
Because if Holy Spirit were to be nominated for any awards, it could take ho “Best Free Play Ga.”
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