Chapter 507 The More You "Love" People, the More the Beasts "Love" You (4520)
"Thank you very much, Sister Mi."
Yu Dan smiled politely at Da Mimi, took a few steps forward, and escorted Da Mimi off the stage.
"I'm really at a loss this time. I challenged a higher-level opponent. My Linhu will need three days to recover. Mr. Yu, you have to give me the rewards during the public beta. Oh, and how about signing me up as the game endorsement agent?"
Da Mimi put away her phone with a pout, and under the guidance of the etiquette, she walked off the stage and took a seat in the first row of VIP seats.
Liang Chaowei and Liu Jialing, a couple in the audience, looked so gloomy that water seemed to be dripping from their faces.
I originally wanted to start a fight with Dami and Da Mimi on Weibo after returning to Xingang, but looking at the current atmosphere, there is no hope.
If you want to tear apart Da Mimi, you must first tear apart Da Mi, otherwise you will have no reason to do so. But is Da Mi's current situation really suitable for a tear?
There is a high probability of backlash from public opinion!
Liang Chaowei felt like he was sitting on pins and needles, like a thorn in his back and a fishbone stuck in his throat. He glanced in the direction of Da Mimi with a look of grief.
Da Mimi seemed to have sensed something. She turned around with her hand on her dress and greeted the audience in the back row while also glancing at Liang Chaowei.
Their eyes met, and Liang Chaowei instantly looked away, the muscles on his face trembling constantly.
whispering sound.
A look of disdain appeared in Da Mimi's eyes.
What a three-time Golden Horse Award winner, he only knows how to hide behind his wife and pretend to be a good guy, what a coward.
Yu Dan walked back to the center of the stage, flipped a page of the PPT, and looked indifferent.
“Maybe many players are interested in how this game was made and what new technologies were used.”
"But we only asked Mr. Lei for twenty minutes. Time is limited. After the meeting, we will put the information on the official website of Youguo Games so that everyone can learn about it on their own."
"Besides, technical issues are not the focus of our discussion today."
Having said that, Yu Dan paused and looked up at the audience.
When people heard Yu Dan's words, there was a commotion at the scene.
Technical issues are not the focus?
Is there any other explanation for this game?
After taking a quick look around, Yu Dan pointed to the settlement screen on the big screen.
"Someone may have already noticed that Taihuang Mountain and Sea Realm is a mobile game, but it has set higher rewards for the face-to-face mode."
"In fact, this is a decision that requires a lot of courage."
“AR and VR games are new, and because of the nature of the games, retention rates are very low.”
"Nowadays, large-scale mobile games are almost all online. There is no doubt that special rewards specifically for 'offline mode' will further reduce the retention of this game."
Yu Dan flipped a page of the PPT, and four bright red percentage numbers appeared on the big screen.
79.31%, 35.28%, 5.59%, 2.87%.
Above each number, there are labels such as "next day", "one week", "one month", and "three months".
And below, there are four white percentage numbers as a comparison.
45%, 20%, 10%, 5%.
"Red represents Taihuang Mountain and Sea Realm's predicted retention rate, and white is the reference benchmark for outstanding products in the industry."
"As you can see, Taihuang Mountain and Sea Realm's next-day retention rate is very high, far exceeding the industry's excellent baseline of 45%. The one-week retention rate also exceeds the industry's excellent baseline of 20%."
"This shows that most people are indeed very curious about the AR+AI gaming model and are willing to try it out."
"But after 30 days, many players will drop out due to the threshold of the offline mechanism and inconsistent sinking time. This is a typical 'high entry, low sedimentation' retention fault."
As soon as Yu Dan finished speaking, there was a burst of puzzled noise at the scene.
Exposing his shortcomings at the press conference?
This is very rare.
But why?
To produce the same picture, the modeling quality and computing power required by AR far exceed those of ordinary games, and the cost is dozens of times higher.
Your graphics are enough for a AAA game, so why are you working on AR? And why are you working on face-to-face games?
Are you afraid that making money is too easy?
Yu Dan read the script expressionlessly:
“Why do we insist on promoting face-to-face marketing when we know there will be loss and activity will decrease?”
"Because what we make is not just a game designed to make money."
A game that's not just about making money?
Why not for making money?
For the gaming dream?
It was okay in the venue, since it was a press conference after all, and no one started to boo. However, many viewers watching the live broadcast had already started to boo.
"Well, another big liar."
"The second Luo Taijun who claims to be an idealist."
"Don't say that about Mr. Dan! I declare that from now on, he is my idol! Ahhh, he looked up, so handsome!"
Yu Dan raised his head, his eyes half blocked by his long hair, and he actually had the temperament of a melancholy prince.
"John Donne said in 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' 'No man is an island, entire of itself.'"
“But in the digital age, we are becoming more and more like isolated islands.”
“Fiber optic cables and high-frequency radio waves appear to connect us all, but what they connect are signals and each person’s internet account, not each other’s hearts.
“Our information has never been so accessible, yet our loneliness has never been so consistent.”
“In the age of algorithms, numbers have become four walls that lock each of us in tightly.”
"We are trapped in the content we like, in the opinions we agree with, and in the algorithmic choices we believe to be the truth."
"Regardless of opinions or facts, everyone can only see what they want to see. Even this 'want' is the perception instilled in everyone by various platforms."
“It seems that the advancement of technology has not brought more happiness and tolerance to people. Everyone is trapped in a digital prison.”
"Numbers have become armor, and even more so, thorns on everyone's body, making everyone an inaccessible individual."
"We no longer have gatherings, only guilds; we no longer have playmates, only teammates; we shout 'brother' and 'old iron' into the camera, turn off the screen, but no one cares about each other's life or death."
“We accept all this calmly, as if this is the price we have to pay for the convenience brought by numbers and algorithms.”
Yu Dan shook her hair, revealing her sparkling eyes.
“But is this reasonable?”
Yu Dan asked back softly, his eyes sweeping over the audience.
Some people are worried, some are focused, and some don't care.
Is it reasonable? Why not? Doesn't development come at a cost?
Isn’t this how human beings have come this far? Modern life is much better than before, so why be so pretentious?
If you miss the past, go to those countries that don’t even have the Internet and see if you will starve to death.
There's a high probability that when you received your cell phones in your senior year of high school, you handed in model phones. What the hell are you talking about here?
Yu Dan shook his head slightly. "Whether it's the Internet or AI, technological advancements should make humans happier, not more miserable."
"No, we believe that technology never brings misfortune. What truly brings misfortune is human beings' misuse of technology!"
“The Internet should be a bridge, not a wall. AI should be a key, not a cage.”
"The intimacy on the screen can never replace a real eye contact and touch in real life."
"Digital companionship ultimately cannot touch the warmth of skin or the sensitivity of eyes."
"Virtual intimacy can never bridge the real distance, nor can it fill the loneliness in our hearts."
Yu Dan's tone was no longer calm, and his words took on a sharp edge.
"That's the real reason we insist on giving extra bonuses for 'Face-to-Face Games'!"
"A good game shouldn't make people stare at the screen for more than ten hours a day, shouldn't make them unable to see the sun for days—and certainly shouldn't make people indulge in virtual reality and ignore reality."
"A good game should allow people to get out of their homes, stand in the sunshine, make more friends, embrace more differences, experience more cultures, and see a bigger world."
"Therefore, in future public beta versions, in addition to the reward coefficients for face-to-face games, we will also add more exotic beasts and props that can only be obtained through real-life and offline interactions."
Almost everyone was shocked.
Damn, this guy can’t be really idealistic, right?
Would you rather lose money than make a contribution to humanity?
No matter how much money you have, you can’t afford to waste it like this!
Not only the audience was surprised, but Cai Hao and other employees of Mile Games in the Alishia conference room were also shocked speechless.
Liu Wei couldn't help but glance at Cai Hao.
This guy always talks about "philosophy", "temperature", "cage of cognition", "eternity"...
“True idealism isn’t about shouting slogans, but about creating a system that is simple enough and can provide a closed-loop feedback loop in an unknown field.”
Cai Hao seemed to see what others were thinking and said lightly, his tone as calm as if he was talking about the weather.
"No matter how touching the words are, their system has not completed the closed loop."
“Innovation – application – retention – market – profitability – further innovation. This closed loop is broken at the retention step.”
"Yu Dan didn't provide a clear user retention mechanism, nor did he provide a clear mid- to long-term structure for profitability."
“Even if Youzi Technology can afford the losses and continue to operate, but can’t retain its players, this kind of idealism will have no impact on the real world.”
Liu Wei nodded slightly and was about to agree when he heard Yu Dan in the video speak.
“Any great goal, if it cannot be realized, is just the self-satisfaction of an idealist.”
“Setting goals requires idealism, while achieving them requires rationalism.”
"Similarly, for a game like Taihuang: Mountain and Sea Realm to survive, improve retention, and stick to our gameplay model, it's not enough to just rely on touching people."
"We have to find a way to keep players coming back for more."
"Fortunately, we finally found this solution."
Hearing this, Liu Wei couldn't help but twitch his mouth.
This Youguo game is really evil. I even suspect that Yu Dan’s remarks were made just to slap Lao Cai in the face.
Lao Cai just said that the other party’s idealism is useless, the model has no closed loop, and there are no measures to improve retention rate.
The next second, Youguo Games said it had found a way to make players stay willingly.
Isn't this just a slap in the face?
Liu Wei looked back at Cai Hao, only to find that Cai Hao was concentrating on looking at the screen.
Yu Dan took a deep breath and pressed the page turner.
The word "Taiyi" composed of chains slowly appeared on the screen.
“Taiyi Chain.”
Yu Dan paused for a moment. A few people in the stands had already reacted and exclaimed loudly, "Blockchain!?"
Yu Dan nodded, exhaled, and brought out the real trump card of this press conference.
“Yes, blockchain.”
"In addition to the NPCs and exotic beasts using independent AI, every rare object and exotic beast in Taihuang: Mountain and Sea Realm uses blockchain technology."
"In other words, in this game, whether you catch or hatch a beast, it's all unique. There are no copies!"
Two moving ear mice appeared on the big screen. They looked exactly the same, but with a little observation, there were some differences in their colors, behavior patterns, and even expressions.
!!! ...
Cai Hao's face changed drastically and he clenched his fists instantly.
Not only Cai Hao, but everyone else in Mile Games, whether it was Liu Wei or the chief planner of Disintegration 3, Yu Chengwei, and even the chief programmer Chen Zhihao who had been lying on the table half asleep, stood up involuntarily after hearing what Yu Dan had just said.
Holy crap! Holy crap! Holy crap!
NFT?
How is it possible!?
How long has this concept been around?
Two months?
If it is really done, the "collectibility" brought by blockchain will indeed greatly improve player retention, but is it possible?
If all the beasts were unique, there could be millions of players interacting online every second! If this game really took off, millions of players would be possible!
Even if it is only on the chain during the "title confirmation stage", how many minting requests will be processed during the instantaneous transaction peak?
100,000 or 1 million TPS?
How many of the most powerful Ethereum houses are there now?
How is network consensus synchronized? What type of virtual machine is used? EVM? WASM? How many layers of parallel execution architecture are used?
How much computing power do you need to support this level of throughput?
Most importantly, isn’t this just cryptocurrency trading?!
All new models claiming to be based on blockchain technology seem to ultimately lead to cryptocurrency speculation.
Ultimately, by turning gaming assets into real assets, introducing transactions and speculation, can we still control its ecology?
Yu Dan just spoke so righteously, but in the end, he was just trying to issue a coin!?
This is ridiculous!
Crazy about rice?
Let alone whether they can achieve it technically, even if they can, how could they possibly agree to hold a press conference for such a game?!
If something goes wrong, rice will be infamous forever!
“Blockchain is not just digital currency. Bitcoin is exactly what I just said about the misuse of technology!”
Faced with the uproar from the audience, Yu Dan adjusted the microphone to his lips and spoke calmly.
“Youguo Games will not issue or speculate on cryptocurrencies. At the same time, we will not allow anyone to deliberately speculate on game assets!”
Yu Dan's face was as gloomy as water.
"I just mentioned to everyone that due to time constraints, we won't discuss technical issues today. We'll just explain the game mechanics."
"The Taiyi Chain does not generate currency, but rather is proof of the survival of every exotic beast in this world."
"Similarly, each person's account will be bound for life, with each person having a single account. Identity authentication information will use biometric technology. Currently available identification technologies include fingerprint and pupil recognition."
“At the same time, Taiyi Chain does not support any third-party custody, and it is even more impossible to engage in over-the-counter leasing arbitrage.”
"The battle system only supports a maximum of three beasts on the battlefield at the same time. The higher the intimacy level of the beast, the better the compatibility with the player in battle."
"Furthermore, the intimacy of each exotic beast cannot be replicated, so the new owner cannot inherit the original compatibility advantage."
"The system will determine whether the beast will accept its new owner based on its 'mental stability' and personality settings."
"When some exotic beasts are involuntarily transferred, they may experience a decline in combat capability, flee, engage in passive behavior, or even enter a permanent 'disconnected state'."
"Most importantly, we will not prohibit in-game transactions, but every transaction must be conducted offline 'face to face', and three levels of identity verification are required during the transaction process."
"Similarly, if they're people they know in real life and have frequent offline interactions with, the likelihood that the beast will agree to transfer the item or temporarily go to their friend's place to 'help' is higher."
"Here's a tip: don't forget, each beast is a separate AI. The more you 'love humans,' the more your beast will 'love you.'"
After saying that, Yu Dan winked at the audience.
Cai Hao in the Alicia conference room took a few deep breaths.
The loop is closed.
(End of this chapter)
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