This Is Not a Bug bu Chapter 379 - 240: Merit White List

Chapter 379: Chapter 240: rit White List

Nobug Platform has a real-ti online player rankings that shows the actual number of online players for each ga on the platform.

Ranked first is "Don’t Go Ho: Marbles Storm," occasionally exceeding one million players.

Second place is "Cultivation Fantasy."

Although the number of concurrent players can reach over 500,000 during peak hours around eight or nine in the evening.

But everyone who knows the truth would find this number laughable. To have 100,000 players actually playing "Cultivation Fantasy" out of those 500,000 is already quite good.

The remaining 400,000 are just running the ga’s process in the background while playing other gas!

The third, fourth, and fifth ranked gas are "Space-Ti Reconnaissance," "Star Emperor," and "Global Evolution," respectively.

Among these, "Space-Ti Reconnaissance" has rapidly climbed the ranks compared to last month, with its online player numbers increasing significantly.

This is thanks to its cheat-free environnt; as the world’s first FPS online ga claiming "100% cheat-free," "Space-Ti Reconnaissance" has attracted many FPS ga enthusiasts.

Although after playing, most people find themselves puzzled by the quirky ga features like bullet bending and bullet ti, it doesn’t affect normal gaplay.

The other two gas have seen varying degrees of player loss, especially "Star Emperor."

Once a hugely successful ga that shattered stereotypes about fighting gas, "Star Emperor" has been struggling since the release of the 60-series graphics cards.

The Other-Transformation Freedom Technique was just a brief revival, maintaining the ga for a while, and the fact that it managed to survive through a round of updates was beyond Chen Ba’s expectations.

With the sudden arrival of 70-series graphics cards and the release of the Dream Building 7 Engine, the ga’s decline was inevitable.

There was no helping it—as a ga from the 30-series graphics card era utilizing the Dream Building 5 Engine, it was a great complint to still be praised by players for its "outstanding graphics and effects."

Rember the graphics card crisis of the past? It shocked everyone when released, but two years later, it faded into obscurity.

Gas that focused on graphics and effects indeed couldn’t last long; they couldn’t maintain popularity like "Fantasy Westward Journey," which remained popular for two or three decades.

"From a different perspective, ’Star Emperor’ has been pretty decent."

Huang Qing comnted, "Gas from the sa era have mostly chilled out now, but ’Star Emperor,’ thanks to the GAL League’s popularity, is still a relatively mainstream ga."

"Exactly!"

"Divine Grace Continent was also quite popular back then, but now, the individual version is hardly sold. Only the professional and personalized custom versions have buyers."

Yang Dong explained, "Back in the day, ’Divine Grace Continent’ was criticized for its crude graphics, and now it’s even more embarrassing, so no one’s playing the ordinary version anymore."

Ga developnt is too fast!

Take mobile gas for example; in earlier days, mobile ga graphics were generally simpler, primarily adopting a Q-version cartoon style, lacking detail in lighting and textures.

But now, outstanding mobile gas can rival many PC gas in lighting and texture details.

Ray tracing?

The mobile platform uses it now too!

Due to the rapid developnt of the ga industry, gas from earlier years are being phased out by players. It’s not that there’s a problem with the gaplay chanism, but rather that the graphics look too dated and painful to view.

The Tianba Community has a question thread that attracted over fifty thousand votes and replies.

The question is simple.

The poster uploaded two ga screenshots, one from "Cold Window Study Simulator" and one from "Global Evolution" with 4K extre rendering, and asked: Which of the following gas is made by Ba?

Over 72% of players chose "Global Evolution," while only 13% opted for "Both."

When the correct answer was revealed, other players expressed disbelief: they couldn’t believe these two gas were created by the sa person!

The two ga screenshots felt like they spanned across a century, seeming like gas from entirely different eras, yet they were both from the sa creator.

This sense of incongruity is a bit like soone telling you "Snake" and "Red Dead Redemption" are from the sa ga developer, equally absurd.

"The graphics are becoming more realistic!"

Chen Ba sighed, "In the past, even though ga developers tried their best to enhance imrsion and integration, the ga graphics weren’t realistic enough."

"It’s different now. It’s hard to distinguish reality from virtuality on a computer screen, and playing VR gas might truly blur the line between real and virtual."

"You’re exaggerating too much."

Yang Dong shook his head, "No matter how you look at it, the boundary between virtual and reality is clear, so it’s still distinguishable."

"But the ga’s graphics are becoming more detailed and exquisite, and that is true; the Dream Building 7 Engine is extrely strong in this regard..."

The Tianba Studio’s Tianba Engine has now been updated to version 4.0.

But the strength of the Tianba Engine isn’t in ga graphics and texture details, but rather its ease-of-use and automation, so there’s still a considerable gap with the Dream Building Engine in this aspect.

"So let’s practice!"

Chen Ba thought that since the Dream Building 7 Engine was so powerful, it could be used as a reference.

Not because having a great engine ans dismissing or disdaining other engines.

In the company of three, one can always learn from soone.

There’s no need to deliberately belittle the good aspects, what should be admitted should be admitted, and what should be learned should be learned humbly.

The new ga will be developed using the Dream Building 7 Engine, focusing on ga graphics!

This was the decision Chen Ba made after hearing Yang Dong’s report and reflecting for a mont.

"Is the new ga a horror ga?"

Recalling what Ba had once said, Yang Dong mused, "I agree with the sche in principle, but would using the Dream Building 7 Engine for a horror ga..."

What exactly are you planning?

Using the Dream Building 7 Engine for a horror ga, you’re not worried about scaring people to death, are you? Do you know how realistic the graphics can be when the Dream Building 7 is unleashed?

"It’s pretty good, don’t you think?"

Chen Ba said calmly, "Horror gas inherently pursue imrsion and integration; the more realistic the graphics and richer the details, the more enjoyable the ga will be."

Whether it will be enjoyable is unknown, but it will certainly be frightening!

After all, gaming graphics determine the scare factor of a horror ga. Would you prefer the pixelated, mosaic-like Zhenzi, or the 8K extre lighting and color Zhenzi?

"A horror ga is heavily dependent on the storyline, isn’t it?"

Having been a silent listener, Huang Qing couldn’t help asking, "What are your plans for the storyline?"

"Planning to customize a script!"

"Who to specifically customize for, and how to customize, we’ll talk about later," Chen Ba waved his hand and said.

"Cultivation Fantasy" is only in public beta, and there are still a lot of issues unresolved. The script customization for a new ga will definitely be scheduled after the New Year.

At this point, Chen Ba suddenly beca curious about sothing.

As a conscientious MMO, after nearly half a month of public beta, how much recharge revenue does "Cultivation Fantasy" actually make? Can it support eight servers?

"The revenue stream is pretty average."

Yang Dong smiled bitterly and said, "Because of our conscientious operation, and not wanting to drive away players, the ga’s pay-to-win extent is very low, and zero-cost players don’t have a much worse experience than heavy payers, so not many people spend money."

This was not unexpected.

After all, it was Chen Ba himself who set the plan of conscientious operation for the first half year, so it’s normal that there are not many people spending and the revenue is low.

But how low is it really?

"Put it this way, the ga is currently running at a loss! With hundreds of thousands of players soaking in the ga every day, the cost of maintaining servers is higher than the revenue stream from player charges."

At this, Yang Dong was quite helpless: "If we want to maintain it for half a year, the cost would be quite substantial, and even then there’s no guarantee of recouping the initial investnt."

"So I suggest opening up new sources of inco, at least to ensure the ga isn’t running at a loss."

New sources of inco?

Chen Ba was in full agreent with Yang Dong’s suggestion. While "Cultivation Fantasy" operates conscientiously, no matter how conscientious, it can’t be a losing business!

Therefore, expanding new inco sources is imperative. But from what angle should we start?

Launch new pay-to-win activities?

This isn’t good; it could scare players away by appearing greedy. The ga is still in its early public beta "fattening" stage, so we can’t afford to scare away the players.

If not taking money directly from players’ pockets, then we have to find another way to make money from elsewhere.

"Why not just put up ads then!"

Seeing Ba in deep thought and silent for a long ti, Yang Dong suggested, "Didn’t ’Don’t Leave After School’ rely on ads to make money hand over fist? Adding so ads shouldn’t be much of a problem for us."

"No, no, no, not ads."

"The environnt of ’Cultivation Fantasy’ and ’Don’t Leave After School’ isn’t the sa, so we can’t use the sa plan."

Chen Ba shook his head, and suddenly sothing seed to flash in his mind as he muttered thoughtfully, "What do you think about starting from rit?"

"rit?!"

Yang Dong and Huang Qing glanced at each other, both seeing the shock in each other’s eyes. Yang Dong was the first to ask, "Are you planning to sell rit?"

Isn’t this inappropriate?

rit being the core system of "Cultivation Fantasy," if it can be bought with money, then the ga would completely lose its flavor and essence.

Yang Dong was puzzled; Ba just said we have to operate conscientiously and retain players without scaring them away. Why would he now turn around and start selling rit?

"You’re mistaken!"

Chen Ba explained, "It’s not about selling rit in the store. What I an is to find a way to make money through the channels of acquiring rit."

"Cultivation Fantasy" is an amazing ga with its magic being that players don’t usually play this ga; instead, they go play other gas.

Why is that?

Because playing other gas not only brings joy but also rewards rit points conveniently, killing two birds with one stone!

This is also why competitors are generally not opposed to or hostile toward "Cultivation Fantasy."

Why would you be hostile towards it?

"Cultivation Fantasy" doesn’t steal your players; it even encourages players to play your gas. It’s so noble and selfless that it’s hard to dislike, let alone be hostile towards it.

Chen Ba decided to start from this direction.

With the hundreds of thousands of players in "Cultivation Fantasy," especially the high proportion of rit players, they are his bargaining chips.

As everyone knows, the players follow the rit!

Since they follow rit, then with so minor maneuvers to guide them to play a certain ga, isn’t it quite easy?

After all, while farming rit, if playing ga A for an hour nets 5 points but playing ga B for an hour nets 20 points, why wouldn’t I play ga B?

Let’s extend this further!

When players find out they can get rit points normally playing ga A, but even going all out and treating cheats like dogs in ga B nets them zero rit points, which ga do you think they will choose?

"Protection fee?"

Huang Qing imdiately grasped the idea, his eyes lighting up as he said, "Using rit to divert the hundreds of thousands of players in ’Cultivation Fantasy’ and earn money from competitors?"

"Protection fee, why use such a harsh term?"

Chen Ba said speechlessly, "We’re legitimate people. What kind of protection fee? This is called a white list, do you understand?"

"Ah, right, right, the white list!"

Huang Qing grinned and said, "So how do you plan to operate this white list?"

"Does it need operating?"

Chen Ba turned to look at him, feeling that Huang Qing is wasting his years asking such a naive question.

With over 500,000 concurrent players and millions of active players, this is a vast resource!

With such leverage, what kind of operation is needed? Just knock on the door and ask: Brother Pig/Goose, do you want players?

Who would refuse such a bounty of players?

If soone can truly refuse, then Chen Ba respects them as a real man. As for himself, he admits he couldn’t refuse such an offer.

If the other party agrees, then it’s simple!

The other party gets players, Chen Ba gets money, and players get both rit and joy. A win-win-win situation forms, creating a world where nobody gets hurt.

As for whether the players will be diverted to that ga and how effective the diversion will be?

There’s no need to worry!

Never underestimate the players of "Cultivation Fantasy" and their obsession with rit. They’ll do anything to beco immortals...