Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch - Chapter 765

Chapter 765: Chapter 725: Hard to Refuse the Hospitality

Ivan forcefully exited the game.

If he didn’t exit, he was worried about his chastity being violated.

Rationally, he knew that Cloud Dream would never let something like that happen.

But emotionally, he couldn’t accept being so close to such a face, especially in front of audiences all over the world.

With the netizens around, even if nothing actually happened when they got that close, he could say goodbye to his innocence.

– The mouths of modern netizens are just too terrifying.

*

After returning to the game cabin, Ivan didn’t immediately start the next game but started summarizing his experience.

Although the game had only played two matches, the gameplay was already quite clear –

Among the five players, one acts as the Iron-Blooded Warrior, and the others act as hunters.

After entering the game, they can all look for supplies from different corners of the battlefield to enhance themselves or aid in finding enemies.

However, at the beginning of the game, the Iron-Blooded Warrior is weaker, while the hunters have the advantage.

This is[Stage One]- hunters hunting the Iron-Blooded Warrior.

If this stage fails and the Iron-Blooded Warrior gets stronger, the game enters[Stage Two]-

Both sides hunt each other.

At this stage, the outcome will be influenced by a combination of[Skills], [Tactics], [Luck], [Items], and so on.

Full of uncertainty.

Just like the last game, even though the opponents were lucky enough to have invisibility, a shield, and the initiative.

If it weren’t for Ivan being too nervous and not noticing the trap under his feet, the final victory would still belong to the hunters.

– After this mistake, Ivan would definitely pay more attention to his footwork in the future.

[Stage Two]is full of chance and competition, making it the most interesting part of the game and the best stage for live streaming.

Because if it drags on to[Stage Three], it becomes a great advantage for the Iron-Blooded Warrior.

Even if the hunters can find various items to enhance their firepower and set traps, it’s extremely difficult to confront a fully equipped Iron-Blooded Warrior.

Of course, it’s just extremely difficult, not impossible.

Ivan believes that there must be some big shots who can do such a thing, but he himself definitely can’t.

“So, in this game,[Time],[Luck], and[Skills]are all very important!”

Ivan summarized for the audience.

However, the audience didn’t want to listen to this at all. They kept urging Ivan to add the Iron-Blooded Warrior player from the previous game as a friend.

Everyone was curious about who this amazing person was and how they managed to pull off such an outrageous move.

– Although it was mentioned before in the comments, no one ever imagined someone would actually do it.

It’s truly…astonishing!

Ivan didn’t really want to get close to such a pervert.

But he couldn’t resist the constant requests from so many people, especially when some started sending money to convince him. Finally, he gave in.

He opened the game record, found the Iron-Blooded Warrior, added him as a friend – the name appeared as a string of gibberish.

Ivan could completely understand this.

If it were him doing something so outrageous, he would also want to remain anonymous.

The other side quickly accepted his request and sent a message:

“?”

Ivan immediately asked the most concerning question: “Why do you want to kiss the hunters?”

“No, you can’t kiss in the game if you’re not a couple, not even same-sex. Isn’t that common sense?”

‘Is that common sense?’ Ivan was confused for a moment, as he wasn’t too clear about the detailed rules of this aspect…

But that wasn’t important, Ivan asked again: “Then why did you do that? You almost scared my teammate into madness.”

“It’s fun!” The guy replied immediately, “Don’t you think it’s fun?”

Ivan was at a loss for words.

Everyone was playing games for fun, and the reason “for the sake of fun” was simply justifiable and impeccable.

Moreover, if it wasn’t for the risk of being “kissed” himself, it would indeed be quite amusing.

– Didn’t the audience almost laugh their heads off?

Just as Ivan was speechless, the guy on the other end sent another message: “I strongly suggest you try it too. As long as you get close enough, you can scare people into distorting their faces and going insane. It’s super fun!”

“Is that being scared? That’s being angry and disgusted, right?!”

Instead of replying to him, Ivan vented his frustrations in the live broadcast room.

He, Ivan Ivanov, an upright and honest tough guy, would never engage in such vulgar, tasteless, disgusting, and immoral activities!

Seeing that Ivan didn’t respond, the guy on the other end sent another message, seemingly as an explanation, seemingly for encouragement: “I want to try if I can scare someone into disconnecting. If successful, it would be an important game loophole to report to Cloud Dream! Cloud Dream has always been very generous with rewards for such important feedback, maybe they’ll let me buy a real game cabin. Don’t you want to give it a try?”

For a moment, Ivan wavered.

But in the end, he shook his head and refused: “I don’t want to.”

The problem was, he refused, but his audience didn’t want to refuse. They were all madly urging him to try it:

“Just try it! You won’t get pregnant from trying!”

“Didn’t you say you’re a real man? Only sissies like kissing girls, real men do iron-blooded warriors!”

“Others dare, but you don’t? Do you even have the face to call yourself a tough guy?”

“Maybe you can even kiss some female hunters! Why hold back?”

“No bullshitting, 20 euros for kissing one person! No cap! Kissing an iron-blooded warrior as a hunter gets 300 euros! An extra 500 if you kiss a tusks!”

“I’ll add 10 euros!”

“I’ll add 200 rubles!”

“I’ll add 300 Xia dollars!”

“I’ll add 20 dollars!”

“I’ll add 35 krona!”

“I’ll add 8 British pounds!”

“I’ll add 50 Cloud Dream points!”

…

And that’s how Cloud Dream’s games promote globalization.

Just in Ivan’s live broadcast room, there were currencies from more than a dozen countries.

Listening to the tsunami-like cries of the audience, Ivan felt…

it was hard to resist!

It’s not about the money.

As a professional anchor, his basic responsibility is to make the audience happy and provide emotional value.

Now that the audience was so enthusiastic in urging him to disgust… scare people, how could he disappoint them?

So…

“Start the match!”

…

…

This activity without an official name, as more and more players completed the [Cross-Border Pursuit], and more and more anchors streamed, it became hotter and hotter.

Players also found that virtual world game cabins would change as the game progressed:

After obtaining the first victory, the variant oracle bone script would become familiar native language text.

After obtaining the second victory, you can choose your identity before starting the match, whether to play as a hunter or an iron-blooded warrior.

After winning once as both a hunter and an iron-blooded warrior, you can get the permission to open a separate room for a custom game.

After obtaining 10 victories, the game cabin would prompt players: [You have been included in the Cloud Dream game cabin’s daily raffle list.]

These measures, from both gameplay and reward aspects, further aroused the players’ gaming desires.

…

Not only players were studying the game, but also a large number of game practitioners.

In the old days, there was a basic principle in game developer’s mind: to ensure fairness, the number of players on both sides must be the same.

This is self-evident.

Because this rule is too simple and correct, it became almost an axiom of game design.

Who would think of breaking axioms?

So when Cloud Dream came up with this 1V4 gameplay, it shocked the practitioners even more than the players.

For players, it’s just new and fun, but for practitioners, it’s…

“You can make games like this?”

One by one, game developers put down their work and ran to the virtual world to “get enlightened.”

But “getting enlightened” is not an easy thing.

[Extraordinary Battlefield 30 wins]-[Armament Box]-[Cross-border Pursuit]-[Spaceship], every step is troublesome.

But even so, it can’t hinder their footsteps.

*

While many game practitioners were rushing into the game with an almost “pilgrimage” mentality, Lincoln was instructing the “Hunter” operation team to pay attention to players’ feedback.

In his view, this gameplay system was far from perfect.

Launching it now was just to give players a taste of it and accumulate some experience for Cloud Dream to be used in the real big events in the future.

The event’s name is:

Pacific Rim.