In the game, Zhou Changqing had no time to think about the audience's opinions. He was very nervous.
He had never received any formal combat training, and even learned how to wield a sword from other players.
Letting such people go to the battlefield is like sending them to war, isn't that sending them to war?
But Zhou Changqing is also looking forward to exploring the Black Forest. If you ask why, it’s because the forest is there.
Entering this game and walking in the Kingdom of Night, no one can say that they don’t have the slightest curiosity about the depths of the forest.
Now, Zhou Changqing must be very excited to participate in the world mission and defeat the iron lizard.
But at the same time, Zhou Changqing is also afraid of death.
When playing other games, Zhou Changqing must have died many times, but that would just be the screen going black and a sentence popping up saying "Victory and defeat are common in the military. Please try again, hero." Unless it was a hardcore mode game where there was no rebirth after death, it would at most only bring Zhou Changqing some frustration.
But in this game, everything is so real, the pain seems to be really blooming on your skin. In this situation, death is very scary.
Some experts have said before that games promote violence. Various situations of fighting and killing in real life are the norm in games, which will lower players' threshold for violence and lead them to commit violent acts in the real world.
Some players also said that satisfying their desire for destruction in the game will make them calmer in the real world.
But according to Zhou Changqing, if dying in a game was so painful, everyone would probably be more cautious and would not pursue unnecessary violence.
The reason why naughty children are naughty is because no one educates or punishes them.
Of course, the fact that this game is too real also makes Zhou Changqing think that there might be people who cannot distinguish between reality and fantasy, and who would think they are playing a game in the real world and thus do some bad things, but that is too far away.
Turning his thoughts back to reality, Zhou Changqing even had the idea that maybe he could just rush in with his eyes closed and be done with it, the sooner he died the sooner he would be reborn.
They advanced in the forest for two in-game days. Since they already knew the coordinates and did not need to explore, they were much faster than the previous survey team.
The second group of players are in the center of the queue, a protected position, while the veteran players are scattered around, alert to danger.
What Zhou Changqing didn't know was that the scene he was seeing at this moment had already been broadcast to the real world.
In the real world, in the live broadcast room, the barrage of comments finally broke out as if they had breathed a sigh of relief.
[This is a real shot, how can the picture quality be so realistic? ]
[Is Lu Ban pretending to be playing games for everyone, but actually tricking people into watching a movie? 】
[This light, this water, this person, the picture quality explodes! ]
[My eyesight is not very good, isn't this a real shot? ]
[This picture is too awesome, I guess even a 3080TI can’t handle it]
[Wake up, this is exclusive to Morningstar, it may be a bit difficult to launch on PC]
[There are so many people here, almost all the players are here, is there a big battle going on? ]
[Fuck, I know the guy in the camera just now. He’s my college classmate. I’ll give him a call and see what happens]
[Making a fuss, sitting down, these are all basic operations of Director Lu]
[I thought this device was awesome when I was playing The Conjuring, and now it seems beyond imagination]
At the same time, in addition to ordinary audiences, some industry leaders also watched the live broadcast.
For example, an executive at a large image processing hardware manufacturer.
He and the key members of his department were watching the live broadcast in the conference room. The more he watched, the more solemn his expression became.
"This image is far beyond our current limit. Although we can reach this level by exhausting all our computing power, the cost is too high."
A backbone member murmured to himself.
The hardware they make is essentially a commodity rather than a technological product, and the key is to pay attention to the price-performance ratio.
Infinitely piling up materials can indeed achieve very good results, but with the corresponding cost increase, the selling price will also rise accordingly. When customers can no longer afford it, and the profits brought by sales cannot make up for the R&D costs, then the product is a failure.
They estimated that for equipment like Morning Star, each unit would cost at least $50,000. Even if the cost was spread out by shipping in large volumes, there would be very little room for price reduction.
But Lu Ban only sells it for a few thousand yuan, which is a complete loss-making business.
In the past, game console manufacturers have also used similar strategies. For example, they would sell devices with a cost price of three or four thousand yuan at a loss of several hundred yuan, engage in price wars to seize the market, and then recoup their investment by selling games after they have occupied a favorable share.
But every time Lu Ban sold one, he would lose tens of thousands. Now that he has sold tens of millions of units, he has no idea how many villas he has lost.
"Lu Ban doesn't use current display technology at all, and we can't analyze it. If this continues, our market share will be gradually eroded."
Another backbone member sighed.
In their line of work, the biggest fear is that others have better technology than their own and their prices are similar to theirs. What's more, at present, Morningstar's technological advantage is almost overwhelming, and there is no room for a comeback.
"No, do you really think this is a game scene and not a real shot? We are all technical people, ask yourself, is this kind of scene possible with current computer technology?"
One person raised his voice a little. He still believed that this was a real scene. He was half skeptical and half unacceptable.
"Lu Ban is broadcasting live around the world, do you dare to do this?"
Another person retorted.
The executive glanced casually at his company's stock price.
After Morningstar was released, the corresponding industry stocks had a brief uptrend, because investors initially believed that the emergence of this technology would lead to another upgrade in the industry, and other manufacturers would quickly follow suit.
But after a while, they realized that they couldn't keep up with this technology.
Other manufacturers can't even get the same exhaust fumes as Luban, the experience of [Morning Star] is unique.
By this time, the stock had begun to plummet.
His company's stock alone has shrunk by 80 percent, and some game console companies have only one-tenth left. With the live broadcast, the stock price has completely collapsed and it seems that there is no way to save it.
At this moment, the executive also hopes that Lu Ban will think that this is a real movie rather than a game.
But soon, the players in the live broadcast camera encountered a large open space.
From a player's first-person perspective, it can be seen that it is a deep pit and the surrounding land seems to have been plowed and is full of traces of devastation.
And in the center of the pit, there was a huge monster.
The monster, which was several stories tall, had a metallic luster and looked like a steel mechanical creation. It did not notice the players at first and was still resting. The players scattered and laid out offensive weapons and equipment, preparing to launch a general attack on it.
“Is this also a special effect?”
Some people sighed subconsciously.
If the previous scenes were all real shots, then this scene definitely cannot be real shots, it must be at least synthesized CG.
But this is too real!
The executive felt a sense of despair, and he deeply felt that his era was over.
Now is Lu Ban's era.