Overall, the game experience is pretty good.
Hou Yu and his team were not greedy and did not create a lot of maps. Instead, they focused on improving the freedom of exploration based on the existing maps and hoped that players would add to them themselves.
Games are games, after all. It's impossible to achieve complete freedom. Players can build houses directly in the game with wood, tools, and blueprints, but reality is never that simple and is much more difficult.
Chen Yang felt that the greatest fun in this game lay in building the camp.
A player will feel a strong sense of honor when they can build a camp and carefully help more people in the world to develop the camp step by step.
However, even the best games need promotion, and Yin Weilin has been a great help in this regard, as he knows a lot of media outlets.
The documentary "The World You Don't Know" was released soon after. Yin Weilin is indeed professional and top-notch. The video edited by his team is more than a level above the original.
The documentary's most appealing aspects are its stunning scenery and unique, primitive development model. However, what truly propelled the documentary to fame was public opinion; its origins remain unclear. Was it filmed on location, or did it utilize special effects?
After Yin Weilin took over, he released and edited the content for free, and even provided the channels for free, but he still gained popularity.
Everything else about the documentary is kept secret, but it was released by Yin Weilin's company.
The third season of "The World You Don't Know" immediately sparked a viewing frenzy, reaching a billion views across the internet and still rising. International netizens have also joined in.
The accompanying videos explaining the production process of each product also convinced people that everything in the documentary was built by themselves.
This is like building a city from scratch, truly starting from zero, because it also includes the making and display of grass skirts and underwear.
The accompanying product creation videos also garnered a high number of views, with many people creating their own products based on the videos and finding that the finished products were indeed usable.
The documentary also sparked interest in the game among many people. The documentary concludes with a website address and QR code, allowing viewers to learn about game updates and effectively promote the game's release.
This can be considered the most cost-effective form of publicity. The documentary itself was already very popular, and under the operation of Yin Weilin's company, it reached its peak.
He deliberately guided public opinion, bringing the controversy surrounding the documentary to its peak and even sparking numerous online battles.
After trying the closed beta, Chen Yang and others also planned to buy the official version to support Chen Yang. When they were creating their own worlds, they all unanimously decided to join Chen Yang's world.
Chen Yang followed the rules and did not ask Hou Yu for any special privileges.
This game is semi-online; you can play it alone, but it's definitely more fun playing with others.
It is foreseeable that these individual worlds will soon form a circle, and may even become a source of pride.
The progress of the camp's construction, the number of inhabitants, and what resources have been developed can all serve as indicators.
Many game streamers are already itching to get started; this is the perfect platform for game streaming.
It has a long development cycle, making it extremely suitable for creating strategies, and it is very easy to form a community, with core fans being recruited into the community.
However, Hou Yu and his team were under a lot of pressure. They started working on the next map almost non-stop and began researching new game products.
We can't always rely on players to do research; they need to do research themselves too.
The greatest appeal of this game lies in its terrifyingly high degree of freedom, which places extremely high demands on game developers. If it weren't for the prototype provided by MicroWorld, Hou Yu doesn't know if he could have made it.
For this reason, Hou Yu and Mo Xi insisted on contributing their share of the shares to fill the public fund treasury of the micro-world, and the account of this public fund treasury naturally belonged to Chen Yang.
The people of the realm would have no objections at all. Chen Yang was originally the realm master, and he had already donated more than 10 billion. What was a little money to him?
After thorough pre-release publicity and internal testing, the game was finally released to the public.
Meanwhile, online players are preparing to snap up registration serial numbers. Everyone has already downloaded the game and is just waiting for their serial numbers.
"Hey everyone, I'll create an account right away. Everyone can join for free. Let's try to fill up the account right away. I'll cover the cost."
"Brothers, those who join my micro-world later can join the group for free. Of course, you will need to pay for your own entry fee. Early birds get a discount. You can start making reservations now."
The streamers are already gearing up in front of their computers, while many gamers are preparing to snap up the items.
The game's basic information has already been introduced on the official website, and with the addition of the original documentary, it has attracted a lot of interest.
In the first hour of its release, it sold a million units, and the number continues to grow.
Players are much more aware of the importance of using legitimate copies than before, and games aren't expensive, so many people don't mind buying one. However, some people are waiting, hoping that some genius will release a crack.
Hou Yu and his team had already made preparations for this. Chen Yang didn't know the specifics of how they did it, but judging from Hou Yu's confident demeanor, it should be fine.
Chen Yang and his team officially entered the game. Because they had participated in a closed beta test and gained experience, their progress was relatively fast.
Chen Yang immediately used the invitation code and purchased ten slots to bring most of the game's players into the game.
The number of players has just exceeded one hundred. We need to deduct all the elderly and a few very young children like Chen Liu. In addition, many girls are not interested. Guo Zifeng and Yun Hu played the beta test for a while and then quit. So, there are only about twenty people actually planning to play. They can all join next month.
While Chen Yang and his friends were playing, other players also joined the game.
"Holy crap, where are the NPCs?"
"I thought I was playing an RPG. How come this game has NPCs? Did you even check the official website, you idiot."
"Oh no! I got tangled in the seaweed when I went into the water!"
"Hahaha, I finally got a fire going! Damn, I'm out of energy! Where's the food? Can a kind buddy tell me?"
"Again, they didn't check the official website. The location of the plants is fixed, but the species are randomly generated based on their natural distribution, meaning they are not fixed."
"Hey, look, I just stepped on a lizard. Once you remove its head, you can eat it. It has many times more protein than beef."
"With my awesomeness, I can start a fire in an hour, and I even found a bamboo forest to make bamboo tubes for boiling water. Drinking lake water during those tough times reduces the disease rate by 10%. By the way, I even caught a fish, haha."
"The person upstairs is awesome. I'm still trying to start a fire. I've been drilling wood for an hour. I'm so frustrated."
"People of the realm, let's work hard! We must build a village within three days!"
"Three days? It might not even be possible in a week."
The game's reception was unexpected. While its slow pace and complex controls deterred many players, it also impressed many others.
This type of game isn't unavailable online, but this is the first one with such a high degree of freedom and so close to reality.
Some players didn't follow the tutorial and ran around aimlessly, only to be killed by a tiger. At first, they thought they had encountered a monster and tried to fight, but in just a few moves, only the corpse remained, and the tiger on screen was still eating the corpse.
This unprecedented experience also caused a sensation in the gaming industry.
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