It is perfectly normal in the history of human cities for once-prosperous cities to gradually disappear due to objective reasons.
However, Huanyu Pengcheng should be the first virtual city to disappear.
After all, it has the longest history.
Wu Yong experienced the peak period of Huanyu Pengcheng. During that peak period, almost all startups that hoped to gain a foothold in the consumer brand market had to make their name under Huanyu Pengcheng's dazzling brand.
Back then, Tencent's advertising revenue on the Universal Pengcheng platform exceeded that of all other Tencent businesses.
Virtual real estate transaction prices in Huanyu Pengcheng have also reached their peak.
As an industry professional, Wu Yong is well aware that the gradual decline of Universe Pengcheng is not a problem of Tencent's excessive commercialization. Tencent's excessive commercialization of virtual cities only gives competitors an opportunity to take advantage of the situation.
This is not enough to cause the entire city to collapse.
What caused the entire virtual city to collapse was the dimensional reduction attack of the virtual world.
Nokia's feature phone operating system was utterly powerless against Android.
The same applies to Tencent's virtual cities.
Wu Yong is very familiar with the executives of Tencent's Interactive Entertainment Group, and they usually have dinner together every month.
The construction, management, and operation of virtual cities are all under the Interactive Entertainment Business Group. Tencent executives described Tencent's grand blueprint for virtual cities to him.
With the iteration of brain-computer interface technology, Huanyu Pengcheng will gradually transform from a VR city into a truly virtual world.
Even in the virtual world, the virtual real estate they own will still be recognized by Tencent.
Wu Yong was convinced of this back then, especially after Kechuang Bio released its brain-computer interface VR technology that could induce dizziness.
Everyone believes that, under the leadership of Kechuang Biotechnology, the virtual world will be realized sooner or later.
Real estate in virtual cities will have the same value as, or even surpass the value of, real estate in the real world.
The virtual world has indeed been realized, and it has indeed been realized under the leadership of Kechuang Biotechnology.
It was achieved much earlier than even the most optimistic executives within Tencent.
However, all of this has absolutely nothing to do with Tencent.
After Kechuang Bio released a trailer for its virtual reality device at the beginning of the year, Wu Yong could clearly feel that Huanyu Pengcheng's update speed had slowed down.
Later, he heard from a friend who was a senior executive at Tencent that Tencent had significantly reduced its investment in VR software and hardware.
We are adopting a comprehensive contraction strategy in this direction, focusing on operation without updates.
However, there are still many active users in Huanyu Pengcheng. Wu Yong just doesn't know if there will still be so many users after virtual reality devices are widely deployed.
"It will probably slowly fade from everyone's memory."
Wu Yong now hopes that Tencent can be more ethical.
Tencent can help them negotiate the virtual real estate ownership of Pengcheng within Blue Star II.
After the specific plan and implementation path of Blue Star 2 were announced, major internet giants began large-scale recruitment.
For a company the size of Tencent, the sheer number of memories held by its employees is astonishing.
It's more than enough to cover the entire city of Shenzhen.
They are now mainly recruiting people who sell their memories, which is similar to the concept of sperm donation, except that what is donated here is memory.
Tencent leverages its advantage in traffic to push out a large number of similar ads.
It roughly means selling your memories to contribute to the virtual world of Earth.
Of course, this is what's said publicly, and naturally, it's presented in a grand and respectable way.
On the surface, the main approach is still to set high prices.
The memory was acquired for several thousand yuan, and the average price over three days was around five thousand yuan.
Memories from some travel enthusiasts can fetch higher prices.
For ordinary people, the highest price is for memories from those aged forty to fifty.
This is because the brains of this group are still in an active phase, and they also have more life experience compared to young people.
Even if they haven't been to many places, their memories are more detailed.
The virtual real estate holders hope that after Blue Star II goes online, they will be able to directly or at a very low cost acquire the virtual real estate ownership of Pengcheng in Blue Star II.
Wu Yong knew this was wishful thinking, as the companies involved included all internet companies, both well-known and unknown, both in China and abroad.
It includes almost all first- and second-tier internet companies. How could Tencent possibly make so many companies compromise?
More importantly, Tencent needs to get Sci-Tech Biotech to compromise and transfer the operating rights of Pengcheng in Blue Star II to them.
Even if Tencent succeeds, how could it possibly transfer the profits it has gained through such great effort to these people?
Having lived in China for so many years, Wu Yong knew well how to deal with groups whose interests were harmed: divide and conquer them.
The bigwigs who own virtual real estate are being compensated by Tencent, while those outside the bigwigs are being treated as if they don't exist.
There are absolutely no legal means to restrain Tencent in this regard.
Not to mention that Nanshan has no legal basis to sue Nanshan Pizza Hut.
After Wu Yong switched to driving mode, there was only one anti-gravity car in the sky above the vast city, and only him.
In the virtual world, you can make the world make way for you, and you can do the same in the real world. However, compared to what you can do with a single thought in the virtual world, it takes a lot of effort in the real world.
The VR world is also a virtual world, but it's not as realistic.
While driving, Wu Yong kept an eye on the time in the upper right corner, as grabbing the "Future" shares available for sale on the Kechuang Bio website on time was the most important thing for him today.
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